rs I it-re" f i i5l J At H ASS 05. ;efJ ,-ir,-uUt!on. 1,200 Ml . 1 ."v brrlH Ha'" a.Kanre within 3 Rioniny. "' . V ... .ithin the year.. SM , -. r,i.i of trie connty re.;lin "'. .ariIJ to year w.i. v " a no even will K 10"- . Je rnr---Wan r 4 !u-ala the atxve term? be 3e 1 f -i,.p lV ...... - - - n l . " , ,cnct must not es . t-j "' , ...iinnig tbotewho ! ,,T1 " , ,i. nniierstood froc IIMI'H .J :e .! W III P )& I w JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and Proprietor. 'ES 18 A FRKKMAN WHOM THE TROTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABB SLAVES BESIDE. 81. SO and postage per year In advance. .oryoaFtnplt.lfMorl-CrT- TTAFT? YYY VJ-i U U.TA.-JUJ .L li - EBENSBUKG, PA., Fill DAY, JANUARY 10, 1S90. NUMBEU2. Thelanre-Dd vli. circulation ol tbeCV- ikia Kkkmav vii .neoii It to th faTorab e mdderatlon t : ."It .rtiMr vboM ltron ill te inserted at the ,io"iag low rtie: 1 Incb. S lme ...........I .hu 1 Inch, s dodi'.i ...... tM 1 iDcb, Dooiri- ....................... . 1 lncii . 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I 1 ,r 1 . x' women inir tlie i OMKX suflering from any form of female weakness rcijuested to communicate promptly with Mrs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can frooK- tnlk- of lior nrivate illness to a woman; thus - i has been established the eternal confidence be tween Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America. This confidence has induced more than 100,000 ..ni r 1 1 to write Mrs. Pmlcliam lor auvice uui last few months. Think what a volume of experience she has to aw from! No physician living ever treated so many cases of female ills, and from this vast experience surely it is more than possible she lias gained the very knowl edge that will help your case. She is glad to have you write or call upon her. You will find her a woman full of sympathy and a great desire to assist those who are sick. If her medicine is not what you need, she will frankly tell you so, and there are nine chances out of ten that she will tell you exactly what to do for relief. She asks nothing in return except your good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surelv any ailing woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if does not take advantage of this generous offer of assis- a . Read the following illustration: Dear Mk. Pinkham: In Mar. li 1 wr.-t.- von the folluwinir Liter, asking you if your remedies woul.l aid me: " I am twenty- k'M years ol.l, and l.avc tlirve chiidr.-is. I sutler terribly' with pain i the small of the hack, dizziness, kidney tr .ui.U-, nervousness. buniiiii: sensation in my stomach, and I am unable to do anything." I received a reply, a very kind h-!pfnl letter. I followed your advice. To-day, I am glad to he able to write that I am a well woman. 1 wish all women in my way a til ic ted would do as I did. and they will find relief. I think any wo man who will coi.tinue to suffer with Any .,f these trying diseases peculiar to our sex after hearing what Lydia E. I'inkham s Vegetable Compound has done in so many cases, is responsible for her own sufferings. Mrs. James J. Hagan, 3S42 Clinton St., Nice-town. I'hila., Pa. & - fa 'A ' tit LITERARY The IMvlne LUNATICS. to Mrntfti I AfHataa Contlacea I rrcgralarll lee. Are literary men more prone to in sanity than others? Dr. Toulouse, the eclebrated Paris alieuist, answered thi question after the suicide of HippolyU Jiav iiionds, the French writer of com edy. "Mental disorders among men of letters," says Mr. Toulouse, "ala s ap Hal more forcibly to the imagination than ordinary eases of insanity. I5ut we must not coneluile that madness is more frequent among' them than in any other walks of life. The English have a saying that great geniuses are all mailmen, but it would 1m going too far to assert that a man goes insati- liecause he becomes a iKissionate fol lower of art or literature. There is no secial form of insanity which at tacks arlists or writers, but the celeb rity which the successful ones achieve fascinates a great many men who have talent, but who also have abnormally cmat ional temperaments. "The active brain work, the feverish impatience with which they seek to gain fame, and often the privations that they endure all these favor the development of the germs of madness which lie dormant in many brains, and which would never have made them selves manifest if these ersons had adopted a calm and more vegetative motle of existence. It is my opinion that the life led by most artists and writers is of a sort that is especially favorable to the bringing out in full force of any tendencies to insanity which may exist in embryo in the brain. The slightest thing may then unbalance the mind, and it is that which too often hapieiis." MOTTOES ON BOTH SIDES. WOMEN The PROFESSIONS. ;l'; tx.i- 'fy. ll 'U- a . A ,1 ?" ,r ST she tana 7. ii 1 1 . ii 1 a 1 it f 1 4b A' 4b 4b 4b Mer- Three Books Worth (iettins-" tiuiJe to Health," Woman's Beauty, Peril, Duty," Woman's Triumph."-These are FREE Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. P- I , . :.c .-t - i ir.-i ..i i.i i. ii ixi x .- '- ' 'AX 'i' '" JS ' x ' x IHlHatlventore of an llonet Ohio chant at the National Capital. There is a merchant in an Ohio town whom to name would be adding insult to injury after his exerienee in Wash ington a few days ago. lie is locally known at his home, says the Washing ton Star, as "Old Honesty," liecause he is constantly repeating the maxim: "Honesty is the liest iolicy." In fact, it appears uoii his business cards and wrapping paer, w hile he carries it out in al! his business transactions. 1I' visited Washington this week and, go ing to a hotel, chuuged his clothing. 1 hen he starteil out to view the citv. and. it occurring to him he had not ieen shaved for a week, he entered a b:;rber shop and took a chair. One check hail leeii deprived of the hirsute growth. when it dawned ujton the mer chant that he hail left his money in his other clot lies. "My friend," he said, "I have just dis-covi-red that I have changed my trous ers and left my HK-ket book at the hotel. You ill have to trust me until I go and get the money when you get through." The barler did not say a word. He washed the lather off the unshaven side of t he man's face, Hiintel to a sign : "No credit," and the honest man created a sciisttion as he walked down the btWvt. ir-at I ncr -- the t'nltcl Klnc- dom -Some Stat it leu. The advance made by women in the professions is strikingly brought out by this new census pacr. In the civil servh-e the numlter of women officers and clerks had risen from less than 3. IKH) in 1ST1 to S.j-jr, in the last census year. In the local government of the country, to. women are much more freely employed. There was evident ly o return of women doctors in 1S71; they v.ere awaiting their degrees, or hail de grees which the census did int recog nize: in lssi they were ret urned as 5 in imiiiWr. but in ls;t they were in r.ngland and Wales. Women vctci'i nary surgeons apMared for the first time in the census of 1M1. There were then two tif them. lU-sides over 5."5.oi sick nurses, there are SS7 women cn gaged in "sulordinate medical s-r i-e." I'mler the somewhat -oiiiprch-nsie heading of "aul hor, -litor. journalist," we find I'iC.d women in 1'.I. ascompareil with 4.". ten years lM-fire and in 1S71. Women rcMirters were rare in lsM. Fifteen was the total iniinlx-r for Kngland and Wales, but in Wl there were 127. In the arts the invasion of the ladies is most conspicuous. In lssl there were I. '.Mill of their sex who returned themselves as painters, en gravers or sculptors: in the 1111111 lnr had risen to :i.o;:2. For the first tMiie in ls'Jl there were lady architects on the census. They numlx-red 19. I-iidv miisieians and music mistresses liuml.ered over 1!).HI(I in IV.il. Thcy were 11.IMHI t-n y-ars iM'lore. instead of 2,:;f..1 actress's. as in lsl, there wen i:i lsoi .I.C.'.lO. In the commercial class the increase of women workers is not so striking, the apparently great aug mentation of commercial clerks 1 icing explained by the transfer to this class of hundreds prciously descrilx-d as ac countants. lyondon New s. ALL UNCLE JIM SPORT AND PASTIME NOTES. PARIS The Uerm USES LOTS OF ICE. Ice Con- A HANDFUL OF DiRT MAY BE A HOUSE FUL OF SHAME." CLEAN HOUSE WITH 1 A BRIOCHE. FARMERS! llw to Knit the srt Kfot t oshlon That Were Once lpular. There seems to lie a renewed interest in brioches, the soft foot cushions t hat were one.' twinular. 1 lirire that they iiir to enjoy a revival, like many Olll OOESS in the out 01.1 nothing When v.m want GOOD FLOUR take your jrrain to OLD SHENKLE MILL i" Kbcnsburg. The FULL ROLLER PF f'T the iii.inufaKtiire of Flour has been put Sh. nkle Grit Mill in Ebensburg :ml turns but FIRST CLASS WORK. lrin in your rain and give U3 a trial. Each man's frrrtin in ground pejiarately unl you get the Flour of your own wlicitt. If farmers wish to exchange grain for Flour they fan ,1,, So. The Mill is running every day with the OF POWER. COMr-LSED WITH THE an r.ye 10 im- 'elor l&lin.liie... OriDER. Kiiimlned LUDWB, PROPRIETOR. J F. X. FEES1 having Parlor, Near Fost Office I: I '- I't la W 'ri ... 1 'Vflre to Inform the pir-'lin-"'l hitvinic i.ar or on r "--r i.rt c.ttine wr.era Lrtirln itl Iks curneo on Id ttta Clean. " ' .ii-ite.l luxuries, anil think that readers may Ik- glad of a rule for knitting them which has the merit of being an oft t ricd one. The foundation for the foot stool is a leaf her-ctwercd disk of mill Ix.ard alMiut nine inches in diameter: to this the knitted strijie is sewed, ami stuffed with hair.and pulled down to make a deep depression by taking some stitches through Ihe Imard bottom with cariH-t thread and a sailor's needle. A large furniture button or a short coril and tassel tied in a 1kw is sow ed over t he gat hering. The brioche, which originally won its name from its resemblance in the shape to the French eak.i of that name, is knitted of double zephyr wool in stripes. IGof them being narrow and Hi wide, the latter narrow -ii.y to a point at the center of the cushion. Cast on 4(1 stitches in black w ool and knit seven rows of the narrow stripe; then with an old gold color knit Iwo stitches and turn, knitting back to the end of the row; continue to knit l ack and forth with the old gold, tak ing each time two more stitches of the black until within two stitches ol'the top. Then knit down and commence arrain w ith black, making another nar row stripe, knitting in the two black stitches at t he top in t heir t urn. W hen the last strie is finished it should in sewed or knitted to the first Klrijw. These directions are contributed by a knitter who has had an exjicriciice of over sixty-five years, and they ought to lie reliable, l'.ut I should advise anyone who thinks them complicated to cut a pat tern of the-v ide or gi ired st ri n mak ing the top like melon piece, and, in knitting narrow, by taking up two stitches together till the shae corre sMinds with the pal tern. I f t he brioche is to lie stuffed with down it must be made w ith an interlining of ticking or stout unbleached muslin, else the fill ing w ill cont inuaily lie escaping: flutTy particles. Harper's l'.azar. STATE WEALTH. lie Korwartlcil f It is reMiiliil that a short time ago :.n order was isi.cd oil one of the fines of the I'cnnsvhania company for all i-cctioii men lo come to the office oil a 4 ,1-1 :ti ii tlay and have their eyes exam--,.-. 1 Tl.e follow inir dav. savs the Pittsburgh Dispatch, a number of men appeared and passed the examination, .lust lie fore the man who had charge of the tests left t he ollice a iiiescsliger lioy . :;nic hurrying in with a small package neatly tied up and addrcsed to the eye insM-ctor. Tiie latter oiciied it. and was surprised to fi nd a glasseye w rapped in tissue j.umt, anil also an old-fashioned silver watch. The conu-ntsof the package proved a puzzle to the inspect or imlil he unfolded a hastily folded scribbled note, which, on U-ing deciph 1 red, was found to read as follows: "live inspector: Dear Sir The day before yestcrdr v at mine I got word to um dow n and have me ise looked after lor ciilur blindness as ye call it. I had . , 1.1 ties and ten rails to puniow n neyonu I he sand cut as jerry Sullivan anil lom- ;iek Coolly weie laid 11 p since t he wake hat wuz iioided over Danny Doherty nv hands war too short to spare me. Twas I uck v that the rite oye t hat was lii-st in niv head was put out with a blow of a pik and me glass oye that is a H-rfcct figger of the eye that was not put out is sent to you t uget her w it 11 my watch for the hexainination. 1 cuui pare the glass oye tiettcr liian the oye .,",..!...: 1... u;,.,i 'I in tlie Head aim 11 sue is emm on.... .-et one that aint. Yures Truely, An f lion v Driseoll." " ..jr having Parlor .!"rs It I w.n.l. rfuily tn.cm-lou In all imjiiftil ili-'4-. puch a llba-iinali".. 1a"Hmr I .larrh. 1 ol fcm-).. !Wra!Kla. Ha.-Ua.-ae .n.l oth.-r ilir-..tB wb. - Iln i """' int. Trr It. Al H17W ,! ,1 WINKELMANN & BROWN DRUG CO.. IE mI 1 1 w.rr. Hl., I . S. A. CO 17 '.ISI. '4ti-i ft... .... ... ... r h "I enire ami rm;uo ti -". mir uiiinic and Miauijxio- fcc,. imi I .eel manlier. A - f'roiiave .iriie,l. Ki lUKKT t'ASSlUY. GaNGtzBi r. Rnil Tno o.r.i- - " SAMPt.EFI.B Vara ta9 TllK state of Ohio comes very close to Pennsylvania in the matter of wealth. having an assess'd value of f I,5:!4,:uU). 50S. The growth of wealth between lxs,) and 1sHl was more steady and uniform than during any other period of our history. I.N PS'.iO the census reports estimated that tlie wealtli or the country was aliout c;i,fiKMKK),(MMI, or nearly 1.0 jmt head. TllK District of Columbia, not includ ing the government buildings and pub lie works, has an assessed valuation of '.!. 4I1;7S7. Kiiouk Isi.ani, in proportion to size and population, is among the richest of our commonwealths, being assessed at$J.-e,5::i,C73. QUEER NAMES IN KEN1UUKT. furt-ntH Were Hani ITecl When They ;uv.- Ilit-ir It illicit llesiiint i.inK. You will not have to leave your own Kt.ite of Kentnekv if you want to find ,.'.in..M that are as oild as they are curious, says the Hazel Creen Herald. For instance, Letcher county has fami lies in which these names are found: lloirtr. Horn, Happy, Holiday, Profit. ltemocrat. Ilockhouse, Hittenwelter, Walkin and Watergate. Some iiecul- iar iMst otVices found in these count ics are: Smooth Creek, Millstone, Paper weight. Kockhouse. Katterhard and Solomon. They lielieve in long names up that wav. and one poor child struggles under the cognomen of Kol crt S. Samuel T. Xelson R. P.enjamin P. Hester. In Knott county there is one family which has ten meinliers nicknamed thus: Stick. P.urch. Ham. Hardup, P.uok, Iol, Sal, Let, Pol. P.at and Do-em. Leslie county has a Mad ioir. Cut shin and Hell-for-Sartin post offices, and the last named is on Hell-for-Sartin creek, which is said to have lieen named by early settlers who en countered many tribulations while ex ploring this locality and named the ..T-....L neeonlincrlv. Pike county comes next with Dass." IU-atrice, Heefhide. Canada, lookout, l'aw-Paw and Praise jist offices. F.lliott has Hackbone. :indet. Mink, Ordinary and Wyett post offices. Sharp Say Natural tain Itarllll. Among the first of the many curious things that impress the American sum mer isitor to Paris is the way the French have of doling out ice as if it were diamonds, and the horror which Parisians profess for the American custom of icing t heir drinks and t here by impairing their digestions, says the New York World. Notwithstanding all Ihis the consumption of ice in Paris. esK-cially for domestic uses, has in i.iivkwI r.-oiidlv duriiiir the last few cars. and if it continues at the same rate it will not lie long ln-fore it sui nasses that of New York. The last twelve mouths show a total consump tion of over UO.OOO.ono pounds. Most of the natural ice used in Paris is taken from the lakes in the environs at Chaille, in tlie woods anout cr- suiU.-s and St. Cloud, and even from sheets of water in the IUiisde P.oulogne mil Yinceniies. lee is made artifi cially in large quantities, however, and is sold at a much higher price than tlie natural article. Natural ice, indeed, the Academy of Medicine says, is full of bacilli in a state of susieiidcil anima tion, and the doctors recommend that only artificial ice lie usee, for domes! ie pui-K)ses. The highest-priced ice comes from Norway and from Switzerland, where it is gathered from the glaciers ami from the mountain tops. This costs from '-'S to 30 francs a ton. Artificial ice costs but a triHe less, but that w hich is gathered in and about Paris is sold from nine to ten francs a ton. The city of Paris harvests the ice in the lakes in the Hois de P.oulogne and Yinceniies, and sells the crop, safely packed in the municipal ice houses, for .-.j.UOO francs.or aliont $1 1.IMK1, annually. WHY FROST EXPANDS WATER. Scientists Are Still I'unled Over the Well Known Phenomenon. One of the most curious natural phe nomena, and one which has never yet lieen explained by the philosiphers. is that, in reference to the expansion of freezing water. The case of water, says the St. Louis Republic, is a singu lar exception to all natural laws or expansion by heat and contraction by cold, which apply in cases of all other known liquids. When water is inn-zing it contracts in bulk down to the point where the mercury reaches tin? reading of 39 degrees, or " de grees above freezing, from which ioint it slowly expands according to the intensity of cold. No other liquid is known to possess this remarkable prop erty, except that certain metalsexpand slightly in passing from a liquid to a solid state. Hut if heat lie applied to water after iv has cooled down to :t tenierature of 31U2 degrees (the point w here it is ready to liegin expandinc should a greater degree of cold lie aiv plied) it will immediately expand by the universal law. Put should we low er the temierature to 32 degrees it w ill exiiand by its own special law. An other curious jioint to lie noted here is this: That the amount of exjiansion is as great in water lowered from 39's degrees down to 32 degrees as it is i: water that has been heated no that the temperature runs up from 39',i to 47 degrees. These points are certainly odd and curious and worthy of atter. j tion and experiment. From the fact that during the first -week of the 0H-u season fines aggregat ing $.i(iu were imposed in southern New Hampshire 011 ocr-cnt husiast ie s(Mirs inen. it is inferred that the hunters are having lots of fun up there. A larire liear entered a barn belong ing to William P.ciiniiigtoii at Cki:ih. Cal.. dropping through a hole in the roof. Ilefore it could recover from the fall the liear was attacked by a cow. and shockingly mangled and killed. Two Frenchmen with a woman, t he wife of one of them, have started to go round the world with a wheelbarrow. The barrow is large enough for one jM-rson to sleep in at a time, and all three will take turns in shoving it along. P.lackburn'.i two members of parlia ment have announced that they will not suhscrilie to any more football clubs. They hae sent checks to near ly -no clubs in a month, and there iu;i iiot Ik' another eleclion for six years yet. The largest moose killed in the Moosehead lake region of Maine in sev eral years was shot recently by an K:ig lishman, who came across the Atlantic solely to .hunt, and who is naturaiiy greatly elated over his luck. The an tlers had a spread of within a few in ches of six f-et. The rising generation of the new woman is rapidly coming to the front in the west. One week ri-cently the girls at the high school in Pontiae. Mich., organized a football "learn, and alwnit the same time the girls in Ihe Helena (Mont.) high school organized a military company. W'omf 11 bicyclists of Heidi ng. On-., wear bloomers and a short skirt while riding through the streets of the town. but as soon as thev strike the city line they doff the skirt, strap it to the hand Ie bar. and ride tiinncunilien'd through the country districts. When thcy reaeh the city line on their return they dou the skirt airain. 'ew Kahion of Ikreawin; fhe Hair antl the l.atet Ornament. The women who have lni-n fond of dressing their hair v illi feathers and aigrct tcs will have to g i ve t hem n ji 1 his winter or Ik- hoia-lcsslv out of date, for the feathers must pn. Combs of all sizes and shaM-s are the correct head ornaments, so the fashionable jewelers ind hair-drcssers say. and they conn in ml less variety, so far as material and ilesiirn arc concerned. Tin-re seems to lie a very different wav of arranging the hair for every face, and yet all are stylish. The woman with dark, glistening locks must wear her hair in 1 he even ing a ft er th style of Km press .losephilie if she has the face to stand it. and the dia mond and M-arl tiara which gives the linishinir touch lot his very fetching ar rangement of her locks. If she can't :iiTonl the latter two or three strands of imitation pearls look wcM wounTl in and out among the dark puffs. Ihirk iiair does not Iik veil too much lc frizzlcd. Crimping causes it to lose its luster, which is brought out by light oianmci:ts. On the other hand, the woman with yellow or reddish Hair should wave it on all sides and pulT it up in a f'ulTy mass. Medium-sized tortoise shell combs ornamented with applied silver are more piilar than anything else just now. but they really show ofT l-tter in light hair than in any other. P.lack -arm-t and mat jet combs and hair-pins are licing "miioi-tcd from Paris and arc -1 1 ready very jiopular. Many of tlu-m come in crescent and butterfly shajn-s. and are thickly studded with Hone st ones. The side couths match, and t he effect of these novelties in blonde hair is gorgeous and striking. The silversmiths reiort a big run on t he enameled and jew e led I mm ics of but lerflies. The ornaments have an ar rangement at the back which permits of rilUMin wings of the color of the gown. The demure maid who clings to her crimpless part and coils her hair very high on her head may thrust one of these butterflies in at the back of the part and so relieve its severity. She mav even go further and fill her hair with very small enameled and jeweled butt.-rlly and llower pins and so obtain an elTcet al toget her .la panc.se. Few women can afford lo dress their hair low :i their necks, even with the aid of crini-.s and putTs. but those who do must not fail to set olT t lie knot vv it h an immense tortoise-shell back comb curv ing almost from car to car. if t hey vvi.di to be in the very latest style Toledo P.lade. A MUSICAL WHITESTONE. M ner of The Iaw.inc of a Kepecterf the Limekiln Club. Ilrother tlardner arose and said it was his sorrow ful duty to announ.-c the death of I'ncle .lini Whitcstone. which tiNk place only on the previous day, and continued: "You know him to W old an feeble an sort o wait in to go. an yet de i:cws surprises you. A week ago lie sot lienh w id us. to-night he am ly in in his coffin. Sieh am de nnsai taint ics of life. I has kiiovv.il I'ncle .1 i m since we was chiU'cn togeder in de faraway flays. When he ii-alizid flat de summons was draw in nigh he sent fur inc. an' I sot lside him when de angel tiMk his sM-erit an" flew away. "I'ncle .lim was a mmi old nlaek man. liiilcltcred. unlariicd. an lookin liack only to y'ars of tf.il an" privashnn an sorrow. He saw Mverty . woe an' mis fortune in alums elery month of his life, an y it how did he die? "liar was sunthin grand in that dcath-licd scene." continued P.rothcr Cardner in a whisM-r. "Kiglity y'ars of toil an anxiety an sulTcrin was draw in to a close. A life in which dar had bin many clouds an leet le sunshine was atmut to end. "I see him as de sinkin summer snn crept inter fie winder an turned his white h'ar to de color oh silver. He woke from his soft sleep, an dar was sieh happiness in his eyes an sieh glory in his faif as I tidier saw Wfo. He listened like fine who h'ars de far-ott sounds of sweet music, an fie glory dcecned as he reached out his hands to me and w hisjN-red: " 1 kin see my ole wife an de chiflen up ilar! 1 kin see glory an' rest an peace! I kin l.nik across de dark valley an" see sieh happiness as I iu-Imt dreamed of! "An" he passed away like a bale fallin" asleep, an" you who go up dar 10-morrcr will fin flat same glorious smile light in" up de face of de dead. He has suffered an' la-lieved an had faith an gone to his reward. He has bin dispised fur his color, ridiculed fur his ignerance, an" scorned fur his faith in de hereafter, an" y it no king cIhT died w id sieh a smile on his fa-e an" wid sieh happiness in his heart. Peace to his ashes! While we mourn fur him we shall st ill rejoice dat he has gone to his reward. I-ct us break de nicctin" in two an' go home." Detroit Free Press. DEATH BY TCFJRIFIC NOISE. Ho to MOUSE. Home in the A nice Iilll Nature Nolo est ing quest 1 fondness for Mkr Hi li:mi. animal story is given in 1. which raises the inter on whether mice have a music. It is cont ributeil AN ISLE OF GREECE. Where Hecay anil Neglect Have Mafle Sad Havoc A stranger visiting the island of Cor fu, writes a corresjKiiident. cannot but lie struck with the cv idciice of vv hat the country must have 1m-cii l-fore 1st;:!, when it was presented, with the oilier islands of the group, to King I ieorge on his advent to the throne. The very verdure with which il is clad that is to say, the olive trees were planted by the knglish. Now. where a tr lies, its place is not tilled, but I here remains a gap. On Hie hillsides those gaps are growing larger and more numerous cverv year. The condition on the streets of the capital is bad enough; that, of the smaller towns and of 1 he il lages is w orse. The roads are neglect ed, and so full of holes that the pleasure of atlrive in the country is sadly marred by the formidable jolting. As for the oid and new forts of Corfu, which were real strongholds when the Knglish hs ressed the land, they have Im-ch allowed to go to ruin, so that they are now absolutely worthless as a means of defense. by :i musician, who says: "One evening 1 was souicw hal startled at hearing inv piano suddenly giving forth sweet sou nils, apparently of its ovv 11 accord. A mouse, so it proved, had got inside the instrument, and was making music on the wires. Whether this was inten tional fin uiousic's part or not. I cannot s.iy; jierhaps he was try ing to make a nest for himself there. Some years ai'o. however, while a piano was l-ing laved in the dining-room of my old home, several mice c:.i.ie out Uon tlie hearthrug and l-gan lo jump alMiut. apparently wilh delight at the sou ml f the music, and one allowed himself to le carried awav 111 a tongs iv 1 uc housemaid."' After this, ladies ought to lose their antipathy to mice: indeed. we may soon exH-ct some humanitarian dame to commence musical iirlu-s for their delectation, ll would lie amus ing to sec them fiance, and form a real ly humane met hod of catching t hem. pus MuhIc antl Molar. There is a dentist in San Francisco who is noted for his musical tastes and his high charges. His ordinary fee is S13 er hour; his extraordinary fee is unknown. Some time ago a lady was in his chair, and the dentist was con versing with her while her mouth was filled with rubber flams and things. Carried away by his enthusiasm while talking of a certain song, he offered to sing it for her. Takingan inarticulate. rublKT-intercepted sound for an af firmative, he ski p-icd lightly to the piano, which stofnl in one corner of tlie o'leratiiig-room. There he toyed wilh Polyhymnia, the muse of music, doubtless much to his satisfaction, and. turning to his patient, asked how she liked it. "Very much indeed, doctor. came the reply in muffled tones, "but it would have la-en cheaper at a con cert, for here it has cost me $3.75." To Treat a Sprain. Most successful treatment is use of hot foot baths foe fifteen minutes three times a day; foltow each bath with mas sage for fifteen minutes, then apply snugly a rublier bandage from the tfMs up as high as ankle and have patient walk. Hailet dancers use this methfMl with such success that they are seldom ineaiMicitated for work longer than a week. Medical Record. HOW HE FELLED A TREE. Scorned to I jf 1 k r with Hi Hands v nerr lirctin Work Would Count. The man in the country has not the h of ihe man in the city, but lie Knows more aliont necessity as a lalwir- saving machine than thecity man. An ordinary ( hieagoan fell into this line o! thought the other day as he was re turning to tiie city on a railroad train. An accident detained the train out in the woods. The Chicago man. says the Chronicle of that city, had time to stay and he roamed alwvut in the leaves. In doing so his attention was attracted to a man and a horse. The horse was harnessed to one end of a long ron". The animal was led tint the length of the roe. The man walked back to a tree. The fit her end of the rope wa tied around his waist. He climln-d I he tree until he reached the topmost branch. Then he untied the end of the rojie from his waist and made it secure on a limb. Then he descended, took off his coat, spat uon his hands, laid hold of an ax handle in the usual way and U-gan chopping at the tree. After he had made quite a gash he chucked to the horse at the far end of the roiM-. The man resumed chopping. find, succeeding every half dozen chops, he started up the horse. At each start of the horse the top of the tree, and the 'runli as well, inclined by degrees lo the horse. P.y the time the man had cut half into the tree, with the horse still pulling on the rojM the tree broke where the cutting had In-en made and fell. The man had saved himself half the usual lalnir. The Chicago man grunted. "Well. I'll ! darned." he f-aid. "Now. if a city man had under taken to fell a tree he would have chopped all the way through. The hayseed can give us M-iints on a good many things." PAST THE CENTURY MARK. Mary Ann W illiams died a few days ago at Findlay, .. aged 103. Aunt Kllth .lane Iiciisley. of Ash land. Ky.. H'j years, is dying at her home of old age. Koine. O., has an old gentleman named ieorge Sweaningen w ho has U4 year-; lo his credit. Crandi a P.laekburn. of Fond duLac. Wis., is just 1, ami saw tjuccn Vic toria when she was but three y ears old. Very old people are usually marriifl ones." Miss Peggy Castle. 100 years old, of Ik-aver Station, Pa., is an cxeep t ion. Perhaps the oldest married couple in the country are Ixmisautl Amelia Dar win, of Hlack Falls, Wis., 105 and 101 years old resiiectivelv. Ileroie Self-Iestruet ion Chosen hy Stoker of Slcatner. Readers of Capt. tirilfiifs article on battleships in war in China, and his deseript ions of the terrors of thelKiiler room, where men's heads bled from the sh.K-k of noise, will like to hear from 'an Knglishmaii that when a man comes to grief and has to disapn-ar for rea sons of any sort he often chooses the living death of a stoker on a steam lwiat. say s the New York Press. "I was once taken over the engine rooms of a big Uat while we were go ing through the straits of Gibraltar." he says. "ami. having endured an almost tropical sun for some weeks, I felt well flisposcf 1 to see the furnaces. I tried them for aliut ten seconds and came out b-Iii.g more dead than alive. The chief engineer told me afterward that the men employed to attend to the fires were the very dregs of humanity, but i-cpi-".--cnted many social conditions. He saiil that in his jo y ears cxjict lence he had found inemlM-rs of learned profes sions side by side with men who had served time. "The main object of such comers was to exist away from the sight of the rest of humanity , and for this purjse they iK-canie inured to the liorrilile atmos phere and surroundings of tie: furnace 1-iM.m. It was pretty bad down there just now-, he confessed: "but imagine the Red sea in August, and then think what they must endure.' Sailors who have sjM iit years in the tropics cannot long stand stoking, so great is the heat, yet there are men in t he v itals of great iiners that never left tenqierate climes men who used to go to cimiI jilaees in summer until their faults or misfor tunes drove them to the Injilcrs. Fancy what the work is vv hen accomianied by concussions of shot that crack the flesh ojm'ii!" A NOVELIST'S BLUNDER. Forrut He Had Killed OfT a Character Had to Ke.u.-itate Him. A great master of the art of throwing ofT stories by daily installments was Ponsou du Terrail. W hen he was at the height of his vogue, he kept three running at the same time in different jiajM-rs. His fertile imagination was never at a loss, but his memory fre quency was. He was apt to forget to day " liat ' w ' ' a ""'ro or ,','oi,1, v cstcrday . To liclji his memory . says a Paris letter to the Iloston Transcrijit. he at first noted down briefly in cojiy ImmiI.s what hap neil to his men and women, but finding that often hecoul l not read his own writing, he invented a new sy stem. He j.roeured little leaden figures on which he gummed the names of his characters as they were lirn. Supjiosiiig there were three stories run ning, there wete three sets of figures in different drawers. When a character was sett led otT. thelittle manor woman in lead was taken away from its com ptinions and laid aside. One day when Ponson du Terrail was all 1m hind in his work, he set himself to his task w ithout examining the slain. His bad memory led him into a terrible blunder, lie had forgotten that lie liau killed Kocamlo!e the still famous Ro camU.le in the previous feuilleton, and. to the great surjirise of the reader, he made him talk again as if nothing ( ut of the common had 1fallen him. This resuscitation of RwamlKle is tine of the most curious things in the his tory of the nonians-feuilleton. flehind the 1 Imea. What's the latest news of the war? was the surprising quest ior. that stag gered the customs oificer w ho Warded the ship William II. Connor as she sailed into Portland, Me, one flay recently. The query was put by the captain, and the officer eyed him susjiieifiusly until he exjilaintfl that when he Bailed from Kohi. Japan, on May S last, the China ,1 a pa n war was in full swing, and he wanted to know how the fighters were getting along. The war had len over so long the customs officer had for- gotten all about it.
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