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I: ing jmrely vegetable, their ai ii..ii is prompt ami their effect always beneficial. They are an admirable I. a r ami After-dinner pill. aul every where en-l-.rscil l.y the profession. " Ayer'i TUU aro highly anil univer- rillv sk"n of by the x.-i.pli about l.rc. 1 niakn daily use of theui in my pia. tie.-." lr. l.'E. Fowler, Britlge- 'i t . "!in. ' I ran recommend Ayer's Tills above p.!l others, having long proved their value as a rat hart ic for myself and family." J. T. Jtess, Leilhs ville, "Fit several years Ayer's Tills have l.eeu used iu uiy" family. We find theui au Effective Remedy for constipation ami indigestion, and n:e never without them in the bouse." - M.,ses Ureiner, Jewell, Mass. ' I have used Ayer's Tills, for liver troubles ami indigestion, during many rars, an. I have always fouml theui prompt ami ell'n ient iu I heir action." I-. N. Siniili, I lira, N. Y. " I suffered f ri -m constipation which assumed such an obstinate form that I feavr.l it would causo a stoppage of the l'owels. Two boxes of Ayer's l'ills f feeted a complete cure." 1. Uurke, fciac... Me. ' I have used Ayer's Tills for the past tl.ii 1 v years ami consider them alt in Valuable family medicine. I know of b.tt.r ivimoIv for liver troubles, and hae alwavs'foiind t hem a prompt ire fi.r il spepsia. " - James Ijuinu, M Mi.ldle st.; Ilaitfoi'.l. C I. " llav ing l' n troubled with costive ncss. s.-.-ms ineviialile with per il. .us of sedeiilarv habits, 1 have triel Am i s Pills, hoping for relief. I am el:,. I to sa that they have served lua l..r.r than anv other metlicine. I arrne at tins eoiielusloii only after S f.tiiidul t it., i of ili.-u merits " Sauiuol X. Jones, .iti St., Itoalon. Mass. Ayer's Pills, i-i;ki-akki rt Or. J C. Ayer Sc Co.. Lowell, Mas Bold by a Dealer o Medicine. Steei Picket Fence. CHEAPER i i n i. ., i i. ; ti niiii 1 r rmi w m Th.ahor. cot .how Plrtrt F-tk with 0t. fTM nttm ft rr q I ud I run r t4 .hmI 1...ia. Wh-o wrtlliiK for pru-'-w iv- o.utilr. liumM i.b-, Fkoobl. n J Sli-c 1. W ...tl. Wr ti. n'uur-rurv hy lr.. K.nrlnff. Hul,lr lltn.. M.ult.r I4 H UK ISI'jrfS. C-ll.r K.ilini. r.l in J !.. (ItilU, IR U."U.1 imiu t'k ns. n., n k. wikk wukk. TAYLOR A DEAN. ,0I. 203 A 205 Market St. Pittsburgh, Pa. tnli tfi tim. AfJTED AGENTS .. represent the MiiS ti llll e ;-u.-..7i in Am. ri. :u t-li K widely .lvertlwt lllty- f..'ir vmr: kiiiiwti iiihI iie.l l.y eery i.lni.ler. Thai h- lM-emner hI '; ' , n.rnrnrol Arut double I heir .air. n.l inrume. N" " l"e nine lo sl.ru wre ELLWANGER A.BARRV, Mt. IUr Aarwrin, Kfkrlr, N. . THAN W000 A A...-i"J ip'ij A PKLMITIVE HACE. The North American Indiana and ' Civilization. AlthouKb the AlxiriKlne Have Heeu Kd ucated Notuewtiat. They Sllil Ketaio Their lid and ll.rb.roiu lUMtiuctn. There has always heen a pood deal of discussion whether the North Amer ican Indian could civilized. It was admitted that he could he "converted;" it w as demonstrated, iu individual cases, that he c.uld he educated. ltut could he lie civilized? In our ,hsTVation. the process. ,f civilization is u very slow one in a race. It must pass through a IlUni Iht of U.ntr statres of development, ami the process cannot ! hastened l.y arti ficial means. In our day. w rites t'harles Ihidley Warner in Harper's Maraziue. we have seen a iiiimlier of races brought into suilden contact with civilization shrivel and shrink away before it tothe .int of disuppearauee. The physical development .seemed to ! arrested, and the moral nature to he set from a savage non-moral Condition into au immoral condition. We have, in our day. a belief in the omnipotent power of education, of the W iichVent effect of the hot-house system applied to bar barians. ,,r semi-barbarians. When we come in contact with a race like that in the Sandwich islands, or iu Tahiti, or the Africans, we fancy that all we need to do is to teach them our knowledge in order to put them at once in the line of civilized peoples. It seems to 'us that by this forcing- process we can cut short the slow natural phases of develop ment. And we are surprised when the race thus lieiiijf oM-rated on does not resoiid to our treattrent, but fades away under it, and. in faet, finds civili zation fatal to its life. We ";o ujxn the assumption that every race is capable of as high a civili zation as we have attained, and that it is only a quest ioa of means and time that is, that nature has no failures iu its plan, and is not satisfied, in many instances, with a very limited develop ment. The careful ami intimate study of the hairy Aiuoo. on the Japanese island of Yezo. made recently by Mr. A. H. Savage Landor the grandson of Walter Savage Landor throws some light u Kn this subject. The Ainoo were once supposed to be the aboriginal Japanese, for they overran the islands; but they are a distinct and, so far as we know, a unique race. They are w holly savages, but gentle savages, like the more amiable of the wild ani mals, and as filthy in their habits as animals usually are not. They are ideally near the conception of our sup posititious ancestors, whose habits were chiefly arboreal. They are cov ered with hair like monkeys: but they are distinctly human, and not monkeys. They have no social organization, no laws, no religion, though many of the suiH-rst it ions which are common iu civilized communities, a meager vo cabulary, and no written language. They show susceptibility to kindness, and form attachments as animals do. Here is no cast of defeneration. They have never been civilized; they have never Wen in any higher intellectual or moral condition than they are now, and they never can In civilized. Thcv arc in process of slow extinction in con tact with the Japanese. There is nine!, evidence to show that here is a race a near primeval conditions as any wc have found, who ages ago advanced to a certain staire and there stopped. The advance that they have made is thai they wear clothes ill the win ter weather, that they dwell in huts, that certain communities adhere together, that they intermarry in the community, and that there is a certain sketchy outline of family life. If one could say that they live without crime it would lie liecause they live without law. The monkey has the advantage of them in having a tail and a mischievous and malignant disMsitiou. lSut hairy ami savage as the Aim mi is. he is just as far from a monkey as is a Frenchman or a senator of the I'uited States. Kven to the capacity of being insane, he is distinctly a human Iwing. and yet apparent ly the end of a chain of de velopment, incapable of ever going a step further. He seems to have lieen preceded in Yezo by a race of pit dwell ers, savages who lived in pits excavated in the ground, in the bottom of which fires were built, and which were prob ably roofed over in inclement weather. These would seem to be a lower order of beings than cave dwellers. IIav. w e. in theui, another race that was only capable of a certain degree of develop ment; and must these perish, without handing anything on or contributing' anything to the progress of the human race? We-never can tell. They.may have been cut off in their excriiiient by too early a contact w ith a higher grade oi development. It is possible that the North American Indian would hav, grown into civilization in time, if hi had not been prematurely discovered, and confronted with our wither-in;? in fluence. It is jMissilde that Africa, which has so many distinct tytH-s. might have evolved something worth' in hiij- cycles of time. Hut we shai never know. In applying" our -ivili-!a tion to Afi i.a we probably doornail til tribes. We shall get their lands, and we shall try to speedily educate them out of existence. The lirternc In ?. A "solar day" is measured by the ro tation of the earth upon its axis, and is of different lengths, owing to the ellip ticity of the earth's orbit, and other causes. Au "astronomical dav" com mences at noon anil is counted from the first to the twenty-four hours. A "civil day" commences at midnight ami is counted from the first to the twelfth hour, and then again from the first hour of the day till the twelfth at night. The ' 'nautical day" used by ship captains, explorers and some few others is counted as a "civil day," only that the reckoning is lieguii at noon, as with the "astronomical day." Au I riceut landlady. An aged lady complained to a Lon don magistrate that Wcause she was a little liehind w ith her rent her landlady followed her to church and asked for it there. The landlady come into the pew alongside her. and when she was joining- in the responses was constantly whisH-riiig to her about the rent. When it came to the response: "lucliue our hearts," the landlady would add: "To pay our rent." The magistrate said it was very annoying-, but there was nothing- illegal Ln it. I The Proline Auinial Hatttea Law and Science. A rabbit parliament was held in Aus tralia. This was not a convention of the animals, but a great gathering of gentlemen who are engaged iu titeir extermination. For four days, says the Philadelphia Kecord. representatives from every part of the colony held high debate over the animal's performances. 15ut acts of parliament seem vain in this matter and science itself bankrupt. The New South Wales government at one eriod hail more than three thou sand men employed in killing rabbits. It has erected fifteen thousand miles of rabbit-proof fencing. It once offered twenty-five thousand pounds sterling for a sH-citic against rabbits, and though it received two thousand schemes, the to prolific bunny has triumphed over them all. and at the present moment the land department of New South Wales has one million acres of abandoned laud, thrown up in consequence of the reckless march of the rabbit. The rabbit parliament seems to have failed to produce any clear and strik ing results. A score of "infallible"' specifics, ranging from fej-rets to tank slaughter, hail their advocates, but alxuit these doleful exjwrience made the delegates shake their heads. If the rabbit could be turned into a profit able export the question would be solved, but this seems out of the ques tion. The policy favored by the con ference is that of 'grid-ironing" the col ony with rabbit-proof fences, .transfer ring the duty of suppressing the rab bit from the state to private land-owners, and giving the land-owner every xissihle help iu carrying on the cam paign against his furry and four-legged foe." WILD GOOSE AND GOSLINGS. The Mother Hlrd Carrie Her Young- lu Her Hill. I had to make a trip from our claim on the Columbia to Spokane falls. It was much nearer to go through the mountains on a cay use than around by Davenport on the stage, says a writer in Forest and Stream. 1 started quite early one morning and was along up the Spokane river when, as I came over a small rocky iioiiit, I noticed a very large bird soar down from a tree and .-arry something iu its mouth. At first I thought it was an eagle, but as s,oii as I climbed a little higher I could see it was au old gray goose, and that it had deitositcd its burden in the water, where 1 could see several small ones stvimiuiug arouud. I slopped, got on" from my cayuse and watched the performance. I had waited but a few moments when one of the geese rose out of the water aud llew straight to a cotton wood tree, alighted on a limb near a big nest, then took a lew steps toward the nest, and reach ing over into the nest took a yuuui? gos ling out and sailed down to her com panions. When she let the youngster touch the water it cut all kinds of capers. She asrain returned to the nest and got another, w hich was the last. After watching them for quite awhile I mounted my cayuse and rode on. When I came into plain view of the family the old ones fluttered away and the young sters disappeared. There were seven little tines, as near as I could eouut. 1 have watched the wood duck carry her young from a tree, but this was the only time I ever saw a tfoose make the transfer. WEATHER AND HEALTH. Weakly I'rnou, Mont Su.ceptll.le to t'll uuttle t'hanicra. You know the weather affects your health, but have you ever satisfied your self as to how it does it? 15y observ ing the barometer for a few months and comparing your feelings with its readings you will discover that they fluctuate iu harmony. Then, says the Pittsburgh I'ommerciaM iazette. just a little plain thinking w ill make it clear. When the barometer is low the atmos phere is light and the air pressure on the liody is considerably lessened. When this pressure is removed the blood is forced to the surface and dis tends the vessels. Weak or diseased parts are congested, sensitive nerves submitted to unusual pressure aud a sense of fullness, a sort of stuffy feel ing, pervades the w hole ldy. The blottd does not How freely on account of loss tif nerve tone, the brain becomes sluggish and mental acuteiiess is iui jwtired. The barometer is not respon sible for ail this, but it explaius how it all happens. Healthy, vigorous persons are not af fected by the changing pressure and moisture of the atmosphere like those w ho are diseased or have weak sMits. Th-y have sufficient vital energy to re sist the tendency to congestion of the small blood vessels and of the mucous membranes to throw off more moisture than the atmosphere will absorb. It is for this reason that children and young people in good health do not suffer to any extent from atmospheric changes. THE RAILROADS. Tuk North ltrilish Railway company is building a station at Edinburgh at a cost of t L'JOO.OUO. Thk pay rolls show that the IJig Four has in all departments 10.5UO men. Of this uuinlier T.Jiuu are connected with the transportation department. OKKKKrt have beeu received at Ta eoiua. Wash., to distribute 4,1HH among the 50 Northern Pacific brakemen and engineers who served as deputy mar shals during the strike last year. ArruiiXKr Iiexkiial Cuilim, of Min nesota, has rendered an opinion on the taxation of railroad lands, holding that the state is under no contract with the railroad companies and that the roads can be taxed on their gross earnings aud their lands at the same time. Mont Hlanc is threatened, like the Yung Frau. with an interior railroad. A Swiss eng-ineer proposes to run a tun nel 7,400 meters long into the monarch of mountains, starting at St. Gcrvais. and then to build a vertical shaft 2. sou meters high to the top. His estimate is that it can be done in ten years for 9.0OO.O0O francs. Thk Southern railway has decided to put tlown double tracks all the way to the gates of the Atlanta exposition, aud w ill run as many trains to the exposi tion as the demand warrants. The cars used for this traffic will be similar to those used by the Illinois Central during- the world's fair. A RABBIT PARLIAMENT. TELEPHONING THE MOON. Kloctrlt-lau Hold That It Will He Arrau pllnlied by Kihrr I brat ton. l'.oth LMisoii iii America ami Treece in England have long maintained that it is ossible to establish on the earth a record of the electrical disturbances that take place on the sun. An elec trician now holds that it is easily feasi ble to telephone to the moon. J,. bases his belief iu the possibility of this com munication on the well-known laws of ether vibration. The ocean of ether quivers to every touch. It binds the planets together with au iron hand, flexible yet firm, solid yet iutiiiitely elastic. It is the ideal medium for the transmission of signals. When it moves, even to an extent inconceivably small, our sight is affected; we see. These ether waves are eight minutes coming to us from the sun, traveling at the enormous velocity of one hundred and ninety-two thousand miles a second It is possible to produce waves moving at this terrific sccd by electrical means, as. for instance, in the tele phone, which is actuated by iiitinitely small pulsations. W hen au iron mass is in the vicinity of these electrical vi brations a buzz or hum is given out. This noise may be distinctly heard in some systems of street lighting appa ratus, where the current is trans formed from a high to a low pressure, ln accordance with this principle it i.-. )iroMscd to send electrical pulsations far out into the ether and haetl.i ni act uon any metallic mass like iron with sufficient force to produce sound If the moon contains Iron, and there is reason to Wlieve that it docs, tin striking upon it of these marvelous vi brations would give rise to a murmur of sound. It Is suggested that t his dar ing cxiM-riment could lie carried out by means of a gigantic coil mounted ver tically with its axis in line with the moon. A SACRED STONE. It itorved the OueM.t Indian a a Nac rirlelal Altar. It is a well-known fact in history that the lueidas. one of the confederation of the five nations, were the allies of the English, and rendered valuable as sistance to the ltrilish troops in their numerous encounters w ith the French. They were recognized, says he l.'tiea (.N. Y. Herald, by the various names of Oueiadils. Oneides, Oueid. "iicya dcrs. Oucyders, Oney ties. Oucycdas. Inueydes. Onueydoes. I inyades. iivc dauiis and Micidav From time imme morial it has always been their custom to regard w ith great solemn it y a cer tain huge bowlder which went with them from one place to auot her when ever they changed their habitations. The Oncidas were re ferret! to l.y lite other Indians as the people with tin stone, and they called it ouia. oinotu meaning a man who had spiling from a stone, it was Used by tlio,.- red men as a kind of sacrificial altar, and in front of it the sa "he-Ills held their c.mn eil tires, celebrated the feasts of the tlead. and wonted themselves into a frenzy of excitemeut with their war dances. The stone stood on the summit of a foothill overlooking the valley of the Oneida creek, aud there it remained unmolested after the Oneidas joined the federation and lour after the last 1m ld warrior had gone to his happy hunting ground iu the unknown world Wyoud this mundane sphere. The stone was readily identified, for the le ire-lids of the triln- made known its history, and Dr. M M It ti'. t he li brarian of the Oneida 1 1 ist ..ri.-.t I soci ety, had it removed many carsagoto the Forest Hill cemetery, when- it cau yet le seen. A LUCKY ACCIDENT. W hy a Jaekatoue Maker Turned III Al t rill lou to I'uzzle. As an example of how a remunerative specialty in hardware forced ilself oil a receptive and appreciative Vaiikt-t-the following incident wiil be of in terest: Among manufacturers, says tin- Iron Age. small castings are often put in re volving cylinders with pickers or stars uiade of cast iron, having usually six points, the extremes of which are aln it an inch apart. They are also fauiili. i to toy dealers, who sell them to chil dren as "jackstoncs." The pickers, tog-ether with small castings, arc put into the tumbling barrels so that any particles of sand adhering may Ik- re moved aud a better tinish givrti the castings. A large aud well-known New England concern, which, in addition to other lines, manufactures screw wreuches largely, formerly used a peculiarly shaped malleable iron fer rule with irregular opening, at the two euds weighing aliout au ounce. Some of these ferrules chanced to be a part of the contents iii one of the tum bling barrels. When the barrel was opened the at tendant noticed, what to him seemed almost incredible, that the picker with all its prongs was inside the ferrule, the openings of which were compara tively small. The observant mc.-hanic logically concluded that as it had got ten iu it could le gotten out ag.ti.i. The phenomenon was brought to the attention of parties who decided t- apply the idea iu a puzzle, and the re sult has been that the original manu facturers are now making the two part under contract in ton lots, while the first order is said to have netted, a profit to the promoters of seventeen hundred dollars. This is know n on the streets as the Trilby puzzle. Course of the MltMouri. Michael Vincent, a professional en gineer and draughtsman of lliur. a. I:t.. has had the happy thought to plot the course of the Missouri in l"-uM. as laid down in the manuscript j uirn.ils of Lewis and Clark, at least for the low.i portion of the river. A few blue print-, of this map are in private circulation. The plotting possesses an extraordinary interest and no small hydro:Taphic value, inasmuch as it includes the L'nited States survey of and the county survey of April. W4. and thus exhibits the changes in the stream at two intervals of approximately forty five years. The autics of this mighty river in alluvial soil are almost incred ible, tne who should attempt to follow literally iu the track of Lewis and Clark in their ascent of the Missouri would have frequently to convert his pirogue into a "prairie schooner." The teudt-ncy of the river on the w hole at this particular point has lieen to straighten insel, and Iowa has Wen the gainer of the operation at the ex pense of Nebraska. ALL PRIZE WINNERS. The Joy of a Jiiaiinr Mother at a Itahy Nbuw a I'aeilie steaundiip. Dr. A. Nelson Peach, surgeon of the steamship China, when last hf re. told the story of the most remarkable baby show and of the most remarkable prize w inning family that has yet Wen put on record, says the San Francisco Ex aminer. The China on the last trip to the ori ent took on loMrd at Honolulu four him. lied and ten Japanese, all home ward hound after having worked out their contracts on the Hawaiian islands. Many of t he Japanese had their wives and children with them, and there were eighty-three babies under four years -fifty-three girls and thirt y ln.ys. The eight v-three almond eyed youngs ters furnished amusement for tin-cabin passengers for a time. When there is no view save the broad horizon eighty three Japanese babies arc great at tractions. Somebody suggested a baby show. The mothers had I. ever heard of a baby show, but the eagle of an American dollar is a great interpreter, and t he J apanese commissioner of im migration to the Hawaiian islands, who was a passenger on the steamer, aroused the maternal pride of the little mothers in the steerage. lly contribu tion of the cabin passengers a purse was made up and prizes w ere offered forthe three handsomest girls and the Ihree finest loys under four Years. The eighty-three little Japs in gor geous kimonos were placed on exhibi tion one afternoon, ami then the judges awarded the prizes. After the prizes were awarded a startling discovery was made. The lit tle girls who took first ami second prizes were sisters, and t lu- little Inivs who tiwiU first an.l second prizes were brothers. Put when the passenger found that t he prize-wiiiiiing lit t le Im.v and t he prize-winning lit t !e girls were brothers a ml sisters, all children of the same parents, there was astonishment unbounded, ami tin- passenger made up a purse of five dollars for t he mot d.-r of the prie-w inning family, in addi tion tothe prize money bestowed on t he children. "If there had been more in the fami ly they would have had the lest of the prizes. I siipMse." said Dr. lieaeh. "hut the award of four prizes to four chil dren of the same family, t he oldest of the children four years of age. was suf ficient glory forthe mother, who was the proudest parent 1 ever saw. The awards were fairly made, and none of the judges knew that the children were brothers and sisters." WOMEN IN OFFICE. The w Kngland t.lrl and the Widow Are the Oii-a ho Ki-uiain. In the offices in Washington the principal rival of the widow is the New England oiiug woman, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. Then are Massachuset I girls who taught school twenty and thirty years ago who got into t he depart ineuls and anther,-yet. lu the tirst place, the New England girl has hct-u educated to 1 he idea of making her ow n living aud to regard marriage as very improbable. She is. first of all. a scholar, and a scholar of natural capacity and breadth of character. She can il.iany thing any man can do except. ossiblv. climb a tree. Put she call climb a civil service examination, which is infinitely of more imMrtauce to the government and to herself. She may a widow, but she gets t here, and she stays to a ripe old age. lu fart, there is no rec ord of any widow or New England girl ! , ing or get t ing married from a gov ernment office. Any one of them would s out the idea of leaving a salary of f I .mm or 1 1 ..iH or 1 1 .tUMi or i I.mhi a ear to do housework for some null who can't earn as mm h himself. So the New England girl and the widow stick to a salary and leave romance to cal low fools. As the civil service record shows that alxuit one woman out of every sixth clerk is called for by bureau officials, nothing but superior adaptability and staving xiwers will account for the steady increase of women in all the de partments. Perhaps the permanent removal of the sulxirdiuatc places under the government from the polit ical influences which once controlled theui has done more for every class of employes who can rely umii their own merits than anything else has done. I'rlnia omit aim leri; j in., . In the "Life of Karl von liernk." a man di.st ingiiishc d as a jxK-t ami as a minister of t he i;osk-1. an incident is given which illustrates not only his kindly spirit but his quick wit: lie was one dav walking in Stuttgart, carrying an umbrella. At t he same time the prima donna of the Stuttgart opera ti-oujM- was tripping along the sidewalk. without that protection against the weather. Suddenly -aiii ttcgaii to fall, and llerr von ll.-rok offered the lady the shelter of his umbrella. Though entire strangers to each other, they had a pleasant chat. After awhile the reverend gentleman remarked: "May I venture to ask your name?" "It is plain to sec that you never g-o to the opera." answered the lady; "every -Ixtdy knows that i am the leading singer at the Court theater. Now it is my turn to ask to whom I am indebted for the protection of an umbrella." ""Your question clearly proves that you never go to church." was the reply, "for all religious x-ople know that I am the chief pastor of this town." HeK-gry I'refatrble to Slavery. m Henry Fisher, the earliest licensed pilot in 1 Delaware, was a man of sub stance w hen the war for iiiilex-iiileii,-e broke out, and Wsides serving as a major iu the continental army he freely gave his Wealth to aid the cause. When alxuit to part with his savings he was interrupted bv his w ife, who I . . 1 i : - r . - .... Mini, according to traiiiiion: iieiirv Fisher, will you make lx-ggars of your children?"' and the pilot's answer was: "Itetter le lieggars than slaves." In a 1- Ish's Stomach. An extraordinary discovery was made in the stomach of a fish of the ling species at Liverpool wholesale market the other dav. The fish Weiirlnsl fifteen ' pounds, and in its stomach were two smooth cobblestones weighing over live jxiumls. which had evidently lx-eii used as sinkers for a deep sea fishing line. The fish, so far as could be seen, did not appear to have suffered from the presence of such a weight in itstom-ach. STUPID SUPERSTITION. Still Kife In Kural ll.triet of KntUuil and in Spanish Tow nt. In Somersetshire the jx-asants have no doubt as to the play of maleficent iiitiueiiee. says the Academy. The pig that falls ill and dies was "overlooked." A murrain "afflicts a farmer's cattle." and off he goes to the "white witch." that is. to the old w itch finder, to learn w ho has "overlooked his t hings." and to ascertain the lst antidote. "Iieeause they there farriers can't no f.xxl." A child pines away with some mys terious, wasting sickness, which the Tipj-rary peasants, as shown in the recent falsely called "witch burning" case, lx-licve to !x" the work of fairies in substituting a "changeling." but which the Somerset woman refers, to the action of a witch who has cast a fatal glance tix n the victim. Often sin- gives up not only hope, but all effort to save the child, the conse quent neglect, of course, hastens the cxiceted result and then it is: "h! I know'd very well he wouldn't never get tlo better. "Tidll" bo g.xxl for to strive vor to go agin' it." This is no fancy, no isolated case, but here in the last decade of the nineteenth century one of the commonest of everyday facts. While in England thelx-lief is mostly confined to rural districtsin morelack war.l count ries. as Siiain and Italy, it flourishes iu the large towns. In Na ples the appearance of a jx-son having the ill-repute of a jettatore is the signal for a general stampede, and Mr. EI worthy amusingly relates the fright which he unwittingly gave a second hand lxxikscllcr in Venice when asking alxuit a copy of Valletto's "Cicalata sul laseino." (in hearing the last words of the title "the man aetnally turiied and Ixilted into his inner room, leaving the customer in full possession of his cut ire stix-k." Pio Nono was Ih liev. d to have l he jettatore and the faithful, when seeking his blessing, protectively ixiiiitcd two fingers at him. TREES AND HEALTH. W ftoda-d Countries re CiiiuiNtrat I ely r r-r-froin ti-MMe. It lias Ix-ell noted that the first set t lers in lu-a vil y-w ixxled sections of the country have generally le-n healthy, despite their inaiiv privation. The reason for t his is. say s Hall's Journal of Health, that trees and plants of all kinds jxisses the power of absorbing xiom-d air from decaying vegetation. lN-ides which the emanations from evergreens and t he smoke from burn ing resinous wixxls are noted for the re lief they give to thoe suffering from pu! in. mary disease. New. heat ily-w ixxlfsl countries, a already n.I-l. are the most healthy for set tier, and they continue so for many year, a only a mall tortioii of I he forest can be cleared away each year. Af tcr I he for-t i i . in. .vol and sunlight i admitted the soil till rap i.ily with cgcta I li- mold, which ile con i x scs more rapidly than i cau ahsorhr.l by tin- scant vegctat i-n. and as it reu It t In- al Unisphere is rendered impure and malaria lxs-onn-s a e 1111111011 complaint. I u view of thc--c facts. x-op!,- ar." Ix-ginnitig to understand the value of trees ;i dicasc-ahor'iing and health-giving agents. Naturally this leads to the question a t what tnvs are lx-st for protect ion aga'nM disease. On Long Island and in New Jersey there are l.x-alities surrounded and hemmed in w ith pitch pine w hich art famed for their curative qualities in consumption, and the pines arc thus indicated as valuable surroundings in pulmonary complaints. It would seem reasonable to siipxse that trees having the largest leaves and the most of tlu-ni would be the lx-st for this purpose, as such t ri-i-s would undoubtedly have the im-st a lis .1 biiig p. n ,r. We have seen the em-aly p. us tn-e mentioned as ,.f special value as a purifier of the at mosphere. A TERRIBLE GUN. New Cauuon That tan llettroy a ship leu Mile l-i-luiil. Maxim the giiuuiakcr. ami Dr. Schupphaiis. tin" gunpowder -XxTt. have invented a new cannon and tor pedo -towdcr wlll. ll will kllo 'k all mnl rrn war vessels to pieces I ike eggshell This big gun will throw a huge cannon ball full of explosive ten miles, and when it strike it will smash into kind ling wood everything within hundreds of feet. In fact, this new terror d.x-su't even have to hit a warship to do this. If the shot lands in the water nearby it will sink the ship and stun every -Ixtdy 011 I oard from tin.- force of tin-explosion. The discovery is called "the Maxiiu Schiipphau system of throw ing aerial torX"dix-s from guns by means of a sx-cia! jxiwilcr which starts the pro jectile with a low pressure and in creases its vehx-ity by keeping- tin pressures well Up throughout t he w hoi. length of the gun." Patents oulh. systciii have Ih-i-ii taken out iu the I nited States and Enro-x-an countries. The special louder employed is al most pure gun-cotton, compounded with such a small ix-r rent, of nitro glycerine as t (Hisses none of tin- dis advantages of nitroglycerine powders, and preserved from deoouqx .it ion through a slight admixture of urea. It is perfectly safe to handle, and can be beaten with a heavy hammer oil a 11 anvil without exphxliug. I M- for Condemned Camion. Some tim,- ago the Lebanon (Pa. 1 Holt and Nut eoiiitny received two car load of cannon from the I nited States. It was the purKse to break them up and use the metal for mercan tile purix-scs. Since then the firm has received inquiries from all over the state from grand army jxists. asking the privilege of buying the guns for dcb-orat ion purxises. The demand from this source treated considerable surprise, and the firm has decided to let the grand army people have them rather than melt up the metal. Startliui; Announcement. An English literary man who was on the verge of bringing out a lx.k at the Pitt press ordered his proofs to lx- sent to him ut a house where he was en gaged to dine out. intending to look theui over ill the half hour after din ner. The printer's Ixiy. however, was late in bringing them, and the gentle men had already rejoined the ladies iu the drawing-room, w heu the comiiany w as electrified by hearing t he sonorous voice of the butler announcing: "The devil from the l'itt has come fvr Mr. Jones'."' PHILOSOPHY FOR SMOKERS. A Man Known l.y Ills Clears and the Way lie Siuokea Thru. As a test of character tolac-o is use ful. A man may Ik known by the cigars he keeps as well as by the way he smokes them. No man of retiu.-d taste will s-iioke a bad cigar. The philosophic smoker takes hi comfort in a leisurely way . amid projn-r surround ing, ami i able to shut himself out from the worid and all its petty annoy ances as he follows the curling wreath into the dreamland of reverie. The man who allows his cigar to go out a great many times and relights it in successive siasms of fidgetiness may usually lx- set down as ati incoheient character, quite prone to get off his trolley, so to -x-ak. and certainly lack ing in tenacity of purjxise. T-c- mau who fumbles hi cigar a gixxl deal and manages to get the wrapjx-r unraveled and the fire all on one side may Ik- dis missed as a liervous jx-rson. with a pro clivity for uiicoinfortablciicss. says the P.altimore Sun. Men who chew their cigars, lraving their teeth priuts on them, and do this for a long time l--f..re lighting theui. are quite likely to l stern, drtcrmined men. full of grit and resolution, lien. Orant used to handle a cigar in that way. and l.ismarck is said to do likewise. As an index of gem-rosity or mean ness of soul, the cigar is quite trust worthy. The generous man. if he smokes at all. is sure to indulge himself and his friends, when tney call on him. w it h a g.xl cigar. The man w ho. w ith abundant means to smoke the lx.-st. de-lilx-ratcly buys the worst cigars, and pretends to eiijoythem. is capable of almost any conceivable meanness. Per contra, the man who can rind solace and refreshment from a cigar of gxxi quality, or a iix" filled wit li choice to bacco, and w ho is alw ays ready to open his heart wide and let his tongue w ag I he most merrily w hen he take his friend intothe hospitalities of a iin'tual s ke talk, is pretty sure to 1 one whose instincts and impulses are iu the main holiest, genial and right. THE SECRET OF G LA MIS. lhr Hidden haulier In the Ancient Cas tle of Macbeth. Ilia certain draw ing-riMtm the other afti-i -niton we were talking of some well-known siqx-rst it ions, aud among others of that secret r.iu in the castle of tilami. which Sir Walter Scott trl! u is known only to the earl of St rat huiorr. his heir aparnit. and otte ot Iter xtsou to whom the -arl mav ch-xise to confide. One of our party told Us. says a writer iu the Chicag.s Ti'ibii-..-. a.i ai'iii .ing - t,.ry concerning this ,-i-ri-t i-iiauil-iT of (iiamis. tinee. w In n stooping at t he cast le ii autumn, a curious and iu.iiscr.-et visitor tx.k ad vantage -f the host s absence to sug-gi-t a pian by which the w hcrcalxmls f the hidden iliaiulH-r should be re veal. -.1. 'I fi-castle was full, and it was pro (ocd that each guest should hasten t. his or her room and hang his ur her pillow out of tin- window, while oue visitor was told to mark off such win iow as displayed no white signal. In t he middle of carrying- nut thisiretty plan the master .f the easUe returned unexpectedly, anil great was his wrath at t his unseemly curiosity. Never had the owiirr of Claiuis apix-ared iu so towering a Mission. The display of tcuix-r is hardly to lx woiniervd at. for :hctilauiis v'i-,i t is regard,;! with ais cxl raordinary seriousness bv the St rat h 111. .re family, and w heu iiiqiarted tothe? heir ha U i-n known to till him with a. gloom hard toilisfiel. A MONKEY'S REVENGE. 1 he Animal's Kisruluirst of Another Monkey Trt k In the Central park monkey house. New York, the ring-tailed monkey and t he chiiiip.inz.-e one day recently had no end of a row. Some woman visitor had given the ring-tailed monkey a liat iii. It interested him very much. 1 1 tried its oint on himself and it hurt. He thought it might interest thw? t bought f ul chiuipalii-e. Creeping; u Ix-hind his simian friend. In- jahlx-.t it, into the animal's back anil left it txang--ing there. Then the visitors saw the most ani mated controversy it has ever leei their lot to sis. The getitle-spirittsl chimpanzee t,k hold of the riug-tailetl monkey's tail and wound it three times, around his right hand. Then he jerked t he monkey into the air and began to swing him around his head. AIkiuL every second whirl the monkey's head struck the iron bars of the cage. The little fellow screeched with all his. might, but the chiiupauzee was relent less. He merely changed his method of torture. He stopjied hi whirliiiir; tactics, sat himself quietly down, an.l, placing hi fixd on the monkey's back, lay ba.k with all his might iu an effort to pull out his victim's tail. Failing in this, he tix.k hold of t he monkey's ear, juiii'K-d up in the swing and. swinging as high as hecoiild. let the p. sir fellow drop with a thud. T his satisfied the thought f ul chimpanzee. VIRGINIAS SWELLING TOAD. A Jueer Hatraehiaa That stroujcly ke wmt.lri. a r b-U. The wou.icr tif the genus 1-atrachia and the greatest natural history ldkv to lx" found along the Atlantic roast f the l'nited States is the swelling tun 1. a sa-mi-aqiiat ic ereal nee known to nat uralists as hufotuachalatus. It is occa sionally met with from New York ciiy to Jarksoiiv ille. I la., but is most co..i 111011 along tU'." coasts of Virginia. Mai v laml au.I North Carolina. heu iu is. natural state the '"swell toad " i- al-out the size of a large bullfrog, but hx.ks more like a fish than it docs like either a frog or a toad. He is alxuit six incites in length and ha the curious faculty of Ix-ing aide to swell to the size of :t Yale f.x.tball. ill w hich state his legs, tail and head are scarcely Visible. Irri tation appears to le the chief factor iu causing these curious creatures to i.i hale air until they swell almost tit bursting. The bellies of Ix.th I ho mah's and females are ucaily puro white and are covered with spines which give that xrtioii of their an atomy the appearance of a well-rip -ncd "jimpson" burr. Persons who under stand the ""swell toad." and know what an irritable li? t le rascal he i. catch L i 111 and rub the spine oil his Ix-lly un til he swells up until he is utteily help less. Another curious point alxjut the creature is that as long as he is kepi oil his ltck he is unable to expel the air, so as to reduce the swelling.
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