i FACTS AND COMMENTS, | The mayor of Quincy, Illinois, is very | | f.nd of filteen-ball pool ; and his sister | is trying to wean him from the game, She went to the bi lisrd sa'oon when he was engaged in it, the other day, and gave him her opinion of him, of the game and of the company in which she fou q him, and, this proving ineffectual, she dropped upon ber knees in prayer for hgr sinful brother, whereupon the mayor fled throu gh the back door. Even MAYOrs are Mors ul An ig ehion farmer, sticking a few nails into a ol Othes ine to keep his weighbor's cattle out of his pasture, went about his other thinking no more of the m A sharp fellow came along, saw the rope and began to think about it. He evolved the “ barbed wire” fence, and the very farmer from whom the fellow got the idea has to Pay him a tribute for an article whic himself originally designed. And t income of the monopoly is estimated a $100,000 per month, business ater, 'h he I @ industrial toward obtain The novemen world now seems to be ing substitutes for wood. The disap pearance of our forests is feared to be an event of the near future, so that any Substance that can take the place of wood is welcome. 1t is proposed t¢ ) re ¥ lac & Ww anden slee pers with stee i]: slate already has large ly usurped the place of cotton refuse Iding blocks; § 18 compresae d ram is made in black walnut; sh ginal e fleet with CIOS, profita } SUITOX i ou name & { I Was acce ted or not does not any rate they Proc eed ed . To y kow also where d, and whe ther they are . Perhaps with g ns will suffic that one was a paper of pins of tacks, Inge ¢ thevar daily 0 i be A Quiet Boarding House, iaave “] ] come in answer tisement for boar lady to a pert -miss o latter showed he comforts Henry street. to your adver- nervous old 4 the “‘And I won't com unless your house is perfectly now remember that” “Quiet | well, you may smile,” re plied Miss. “That noise you hear now is the dentist in the basement, pulling out a tooth, but he'll get it out, if 1t takes him a month. How much ean you af- ford to pay ? “I think I hear some one npstairs shouting,” said the old lady, “That's only a young lawyer practic- ing a case. Youll gét used to him. Nobody liked it at first, but we've all got used to it and don’t mind it now. Got any children? We don’t take chil- dren, because our babies fight em s0.” “No, I haven't. Who's that yelling in the next room ¥” “That's the landlord trying to collect the rent. You know pa is very de af, and you've got to howl at him. You'll have to pay in advance if you come here.” “Good gracions! What's that ?” ejac- ulated the old lady, as a furious din swept through the lower regions. “‘I guess the cook is driving grandma out of the kitchen with the clothespole. She often does that. Have you got | much baggage ?” “Sakes alive! Bomebody is being murdered upstairs! Who is it?” “Oh! that's a literary fellow on the top floor. Whenever Le writes any- thing he squeals like a pig. But he generally writes, at . night, and you needn't pay any attention to him.” “What are your terms ?—good heaven, the roof has fallen in |” “No, it hasn't ; that's a college pro- fessor, and that’ s. the way he goes up and down stairs. If you listen you may hear him break lis neck! Can you give any references ? Anybody know you?’ “Certainly ; if I—was that a gun?” “I gness so. Mywcousin has gota prairie down cellar where he hunts In- dians and buffaloes and things. Some- times he's a road agent, and then he robs us on the stairs. We always allow for it in she board, so it evens up. Got any money of your own ?” “Never mind whether I have t not ; I don’t think I want a room hers 3, an y- way. Let me out, please.” *Couldn’t let you have one, anyhow;"” retorted miss, preparing to slide down the balustrade. “There’s only ore empty one, and that's too high-priced for you ; besides, you don’t wear very good clothes, and we prefer not to have You around.” And down the slide sho | went with a whiz-z, while the old lady pattéred off after another home-like | ~house.— Brooklyn Eagle, { ” FARM, GARDE N AND HOUSEHOLD. | Expelling Hots, if I remember right, Ih stated that bots fix ; horses decoction of sage, well sweetened had the effect ] supposed, when | toa acted as bots were of expelli Was § a ¢atiiarty was RI the § lot go to take 1.1 wounia 1 relieve d. A few ash I write from experi about ii. Spare the Caly As RIN age ort sprin cant ninata be kikened man who killed n lo |RIASS 101 elic Acid tor Ih to roll. for seasoning. Ea cups sugar, level cups one teaspooniul fal cinng ed Tiros cup su and one-half t teaspoonful and nutmeg: ] ful soda, Stir in flour drop from the spoon. Saur Rising Breap. the morning it is set th | convendent hour is 6 o'c lok pint of wate r, one-half salt and one stir ter. The warm as the vessel contain of the te and let I that time a pater will ari face; then thicken with batter is as thick mencement. Let it long er when it will ¢ total standing of six | what flour you need for your scald about one pint of ih, and afte | cool mix the rising together with wy a | water and mix to a sti jethel to knead on | & warm board. A great deal of knead- ing is required. Place the dough in your baking pan, set aside until it rises to twice its original 1 size and then bake in a quick oven. If you are asful. and a careful following of the direc tions will make you so, vou have the most delicious bread that has ever en- | tered mortal’s mouth. If yon have large baking the ingredients are to proportionately increased. LESS non, Cake. zar ; one-half h han d can in or this hat of $y stan - UTS. BUCO @ 1) a be es AI The Poetry of Farming, It isin strict accordance with the na- ture of things that Will Carleton, who { has written such sweet ballads of farms, farm life and families, never owned a farm, never lived on one, and never had any wife or family, No man who ever lived and worked on a farm could ex- tract poetry from breaking your back with a scythe, wearing out your running gear behind a plow, breaking unruly steers, milking dirty COWS with the mer- | eury be low zero, picking dead sheep in winter, and sleeping in the barn in sum- mer to get rid of the mosnyiton There is no poetry about it. I'll leave that to any farmer. The only people who can get poetry out of farm life are those who never saw it, and the imagination of such would extract an epic from the life of a car drive 3 Mrs. Bis card Taylors to pa) ish her husband's TD hy. SUNDAY READING, A Comparison, Religious News ane — honld have no fine h Or sweet ¢o AROS, Paul, marry, and Love ly dre give me, when I i " “Yo 3, I was, I -1 was [—er—thongl ) : them ere thing forgive ni false in uld su I forgive re — ——— under a YOu co Raising the Wind, n of Hilliard, a mining town on the Union Pacific railroad, were spoiling for a spree, but lacked the money to pay forit. At thi juncture the passenge rs on a train were horrified at the sight ofa rough-looking man bound fast to a tele graph while 4 a party of miners were susp ndi ing a noose from a branch of a tree. The prisoner begged the travelers to rescue him, but the miners said that he was a thief, and had justly been condémned to death. It was intimated, lLioweve r, that the ent of $100, the a he had would sceure his ation. The was hastily tribut ed, and the train went on, ing tl resened man ale jumped off at the next station, back to Hilliard in time to (ake The in o small W VOI pole, mount lib I con CArry- but he money THE WEEPING WILLOW, How a Product of the Gavden of Eden Emi grated to this Country. work np ol i 1+} 1% such vivid ital utter 1di ent, has is too little activity and too little of the activity, dleness without ment and pleasure of work, i depressing. The vital forces droop and decay. On the other hand, t worker rest and ion double relish. No holiday i freshing as that in which Le from his labors, and enjoys ite a different EONS BIC H81¢ y of en to the ha BO busy recreat ve i re run away himself in If his life were it would s00n { £3. a nm of holidays, grow burdensome, ———— LL A naturalist has satisfied himself be- yond a doubt that the ave rage cat travels a distance of eighty miles every y night, when there is no earthly re ason for Ler 1oving a rod. NEWS EPITOME. Ener and Middle West and South, From Washing.on. { i The greatly dissatis been killed and 400 since t be % forbid them from punisl them m have rioting an, ing their Large nuhbers of hile ol tled to the retiring allowance, are resigning, | | A srpciat dispateh fom Quebes to the Now \ ay f #i his those dest tive C—O — LTH HINTS, mortality this d OF to whieh t ready con t11 al prone, ned ¢ ful wter i i Onr muscles the rest nsceptible of ut purpose that in danger, ited to do « very. to remove them aken notion that ex- inds and under all cirenn i Unless it h ficial, adapted to the condition of the muscles death of « bodiea, pain, No the bi may know that | we they are UR M OX( power mist is it will ive agent of not the giver of nnd health, ——— Mischic fin the Alr, A GREAT REVELATION, Some Yalunble Thoughts Concerning Hue manu Happloess and Timely Suggos. tions About securing It, i DELIVERED BY DA. | | METRO { WIATIONS i in In. { wiht day the speakers « ox what prom nt day uperiors of the Dr. Tyng, of | ant, supplied | hile poser of the pri # which "dre ilk | while the | l said sip ived of the ire thom. Hey 8 1h al stud ahr { Lury never af the Yas are i eduais Wii, aid i afl net an aged « lores i over go tw bo ar the | ! 3 i age mod opis slate proven 0 Ix of mental power secs | other department of life, | if the ¥ are ¢ anti fry in sll Selds | truth unted | ase of » shady of ingu BILE, g and pdvancin help them md his is specially everything which the poy ie are BOI 3 MW peg were 1 with the presont od from a few illus wriler preg wad iy and which ast fifty iv Eh YOAls rant amred an i His pam by the pain in the back 16 Te WH 5 th al Hl AWAY i that only many pos ar trou bios to wl % \ ng as to those who de. Ww I ' As well they n pinoss, nth \ ep the joys HRBOKS, Gloomy Weather, WW 1y force the “ to do that which they islike 1 It is seldom the at any good i gained by such a course. Why your little boy be made to eat the his meat if he it, no m Or why make a chi "we ‘ Ing it loathes or anything, iid mise rable by fore. to wear articles of clothing which its taste does not approve or at which other children langh? I think that little girls suffer more from this than thing. Almost all of us such memory. I know a lady whose childish life was made wretche d for a Your by an obsolete old bag in which she was foreed to carry her books and snother whose mother forced her to wear some old lac e, whic h, though costly, was laughed at by the ignorant chile iren who made her world, and declared that she ac tually wishe ad | from any en have som ot to school, A Telescope Story, The Ban Francisco Call tells an extra. te lescope made by Professors Lefevre French scientists, and The lenses are twenty feet in diameter, and this is what happened when the astronomers and their friends turned the instrmment the heavens: M. Dufrere was the the telescope, For fully five minutes | then, without a word, turned away to | hide his emotion. One by one the gen- tlemen present tested the lone, The planet which happened to was Mars, and the revelation is too won- derful for credit, The eyepiece of the | lowest magnifying power was first placed The powerful lens | brought the surface of the planet nearer | than that of the moon hus ever been | brought by the most powerful telescope, | The green of the sea was brought out in color, and one could There before rama of hill and dale, dark patches that must be eovered by forests, great yel- lowish patches that looked like autumn fields, silvery threads that must be and several unmistakable vel in section. —————————— } Canoes A Wise Dencen, ley, 1 want you to tell me how f well the past ue have been sick tors ransing Ww and rest thie God JY nswer is very easy, 1 snd kept my family Three dol- is ail well and able to I will warrant it has cost eighlaors one 0 two han § BCE the same Lime, ine horeafler.” Bee IY Bods t is prophesied that a new artist, Mrs, Laker, of Seadushy, 0., will soon out- toss Bonheur in animal painting. been quietly studying in Pans Van Marcke, and has ito this country, rival Sh nder the master, only lately return: Jin teh at Straws, Drowning Men May ( > bat sensit HH i ck take Warner's Mel ted butter is like # a bold militis- man only when it is dropped from the fevers, the Fern ¥F Catasaya Bax mead Rid a ang A OFK, tn beast Ladies, Attention. > ¥ nt 5t, enereeti WAGNER & (O., Chi SEC It extends its inf gence i510 every { i i { { ; i : i i A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY FOR Rheumatism, Cramps, FOR SALE RY ALL DRUGGISTS, KYX OC ——— HOP BITTERS. {A Medicine, not a Drisk.) 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