An Apple Memory, Tha white hot dusty road, The fleld so green and still, The twittering of 2 bird, The tinkling of a rill, And spreading grandly, wide and free, The shadow of an apple-tree. # Come rest,” it seemed to say, “Out of the dust and heat; The grasses round my roots Are long and cool and sweet,” Bo free, so gracious was the tree, 1 took the offer thankfully. Upon the grass 1 lay, Green whispering leaves o'erhead; 1 ato the juicy fruit, _ Pale gold, flecked through with red, Then lay in slumber deep and sweet, Till full of rest from head to feet. Until the sun sank low, And shades of evening fell; Then, roasted and refreshed, “My host,” 1said, “farewell ! Farewell and thanks, oh gracious tres | Thy guest will long remember thee.” I thought the rustling leaves A pleasant ** farewell ’ sent; I thought the loaded boughs Unto my greeting bent, Oh, apple-tree, so kind and free, May sun and rain long nourish thee! Harper's Weekly in Kansas; she was not born there, for the State has not been long enough set- tied, and’ 1 will not mention the place of her nativity, but lest the excusable State pride of Ohio people be hurt. 1 will say it was not Ohio; and yet she that position. She was able-bodied, and in her why strong-minded, even to ob stinacy. . Though she “didn’t Db'lieve in them ‘wimmin's had heeril tell of,” she always voted in school-mecting—the Kansas law gives they mean to money oh too much schoolin’ and high pervent iy)” that prevailed when she first put on one year's in a little round knot and pinned on top of the back of her head. ‘The tashions Kin come round to me when fhey want to, I've no time, and ain't t goin’ to rup round after 'em,” was ber invariable reply when some friend dared to suggest an improving change. finest-colored striped rag-carpets, the nicest drawn-in rugs of impossible roses and improbable cats; clothes and lightest bread housekeeper. She carried on of any yielded most to the acre, and never lost a chicken or turkey by pip or cholera. She could scarcely read or write, despised “booklarnin’ as no 'esunt toward gittin® along,” and took no interest in the world outside yond the prices of her crops and the groceries she had to buy, Mrs. Prudence Volney, for the last four years Polly's nearest neighbor, also living on a farm—1I may fearlessly add that she was from Ohio—was a re- fined, intelligent woman, very fond of reading, and Polly was always ing her on her expensive tastes. “1 do think its so foolish in you to waste your money that way, an’ spend your time too. You pay out enough hard cash every year for such trash as would buy two or three fat calves; if you'd ‘a done that way, countin’ the nateral increase’ you'd "a had a herd o cattle by this time, instid litter of books an’ papers; an’ you might 'o drawn in a dozen rugs just like mine” Mrs. Volney took this advice from | Polly in good part, for the maiden lady was really kind-hearted and well- disposed, and teo ignorant of etiquette and propriety, or the most common things belonging to cultured, and 1 might add civilized life, to be aware of | the impertinence of her suggestions. So great was her prejudice against | newspapers and books, as wholly use- less, that, while to the lightning-rod, sewing-machine and patent pump man she would give a not altogether impa- tient heari ng and examination of hi paper agent, with chromo attachments, Was sure to receive a severe, “ No, sir, you need not trouble yourself to take a step inside! I've no time to look at such trash, an’ no money to throw my mind I'll tell you you'd better pitch into hard work than to go round in such low business!” and she always gave a call to the dog, who stood by grinning with white teeth that added to the effect of Polly's remarks, the agent mildly said, “Good morning,’ and retired, crab-wise, with meek side glances in the dog's direction, and never came again, But Polly was human and a woman, and in a State where men do so much sho had secretly 80 many substantial farm stock, wondered why, with attractions of fall cribs and fat turkeys, sought in ma atrimony. As she grew | older and accumulated more, she often things, but she was entirely ignorant of the value or use of a newspaper in ving her the information wanted. sides, she wearied of tending her stock and holding the plow; and it | vexed her still more to pay her hard- | earned cash to some indifferent hired man, when she feared or slighted his work, or in some way cheated her. plow, she noticed on the premium list | of the coming county fair, “ Best loa of wheat bread, five dollars, and Kan- sas Farmer for one year ear the farmer was well worth trying or, and he might be so well suited he would be willing to stay a life-time. Mrs. Volney came in 4 day or two after. ‘“ Have you heerd tell of the Premiums yit for the fair?” “Yes, I have a list.” “Will they truly give five dollars and a Kansas farmer for the best loaf of light bread ?” “] presume so, and 1 am half in- clined to send ina loaf.” “Ishould think you'd most be ashamed to say so and let folks know im.” Mrs. Volney never dreamed of Polly’s mistaken notion in regard to the “farmer,” and thought she meant she took so many papers she ought not to be so extravagant as to want an- other ; and she was greatly astonished at the blush that crawled up over Polly's freckled face and lost itself in the roots of her scanty, tightly-drawn hair, as she hesitatingly went on. “Well, to tell the truth I'd like both mighty well myself ; money's always handy, and the farmer’d be convenient in the house and out of doors too. There's some goa about farming I don't know, and being just alone by myself, 1 can’t look after everything, and go around too and find out about things, and so I get taken in. Do you s’pose I could have the farmer longer if it suited all round ?” she asked, anxiously. . # Of course, the publisher would be glad for you to have it all the rest of Your life, if you wanted it.” to Polly, but she had a dim recollection | of hearing in her early youth about! called “publishing the’ A BS bans” that was connected with matn. mony; and that Mrs. Volney spoke of the * Farmer” as “it” soothed her maidenly modesty, for, as said “ farmer” was only a supposable case, she could not yet bring en to the familiarity of the “he” and “him’ | whic h the assured wife of several | years gives to the husband of her youth, if there were but one masculine in the world, Mrs, Volney was delighted that after all her invectives and declarations Polly had become reconciled to the idea of even having a paper in her house, and in trying to steer clear of any dis- cussion she led poor Polly further astray by saving, © Oh, ves, the Farmer would be so much help to you about giving the prevailing prices all over | the State; in that way you know when { corn, butter, stock and poultry are ad- vancing, and the best time to sell, | Otherwise we women, tied to the house, not able to get out and learn about things as men do, are at the mercy of speculators who come round, and tak ing advantage of our ignorance, buy our things and take all the profits themselves” “That's said Polly, sold some of my corn last cents on a bushel too low.” { If you had had the Farmer you | would have known that corn was fast { advancing and held on. 1 Knew itand SO Was saved.” “Do you s'pose if 1 get the premium in time for tall "] five 80, n sadly ' WEEK {I'll have the farmer plowing 7 Mrs. Volney did not see the connec. tion, and was greatly puzzled to under stand Polly's agitation, but attribyted it to her embarrassment for this sud- den conversion and afession of faith in newspapers, and answered: “Oh yes, you will get the money and Farmer as soon as the fair is over.” There were only two weeks ti fair, and they were very ones to who cleaned house from garret to cel ar, and made many changes to suit the tastes of the po ssible comit ili iii the t busy 8 many ties was her pet cat driven off newly-covered cushion in the big rocking chair that she grew anxious, gray and thin. She also bought fifteen yards of green alpaca at a bargain, and going over to Mrs. Volnev's, with po 10« naise and overskirt patterns, “1 shall want suit after 1 gil ae * she expi } to the uncompr Ars. Veo “and 1 rn gh hole fig for this on et ‘The very idea paper is an educt be that shall break up and let a flood of light Mrs. Vo Iney sald to her after Polly had gone with the patterns and full instructions how to use to which she had listened as atten- tively as any devotee of fashion, She “set” four “sponges” for her prize loaf, and made two loaves from each “settin,” and at the appointed day, arrayed in her most extraordinary just right 3 wl ic Y, ule farmear" 3 farmer ain in ger News. remium wedge 10rANee soul,” A he § Polly's ig on her yp daughter 3. them, riy rimun ed with three caref ] loaves, she hastened to the fair. ticketing them she anxiously the polite official, “Will I and five dollars to draw the first premium *” “Without the slightest doubt, | madame; I have all the premiums here on hand to be given as soon called Polly gazed earnestly at the men who were in a office, feeling that if her “farmer” was as am as tol fate as she was in regard to him looks would betray him, But she might as well have studied the Sphinx as their fact she fi lowed her loaves, and when once in place around them as § hen near her br listening to every word that as if from the.general public opinion she might get a clew to her fate. She passed a sleepless night and next day, with carefully curried horse, newly- washed buggy and herself in her best array, she drove in. At noon the com. mittee came, smelled, tasted and dis- cussed, while she suffered agonies as if running the gauntlet, but at last the blue ribbon was put on one of her loaves and the red on another Regardless of the latter | the blue ribbon leaf, and hu rying to the office she accosted the same suave at her breath- d the loaf up and said, “ Are both your prizes here?” “Yes, madame.” “Do you see that blue rib ily selected Ww hile asked git the onct if 1 as ous AS hi ils $3 ti S80 i hovered od, Was said, Ki he S¢ ized bon. 1 my farmer.” “Here they are,” and he extended the bill and a copy of the Farmer “ When would you like to begin with the Farmer, madame ?” “I'mall ready, for I come prepared to take him home. Which one is it?” and she looked inquiringly at a group of gentlemen who, noticing her excited manner as she came in, had stopped their conversation and were observing her. “This is it,” said the superintendent, putting it in her hand, “date of Sep- tember 6, 18" “ Why this is'a newspaper—I want | my farmer.’ “Well, see, The Kansas Farmer, and he displayed the title-page. “ Was that what you meant by the farmer you was goin’ to give for the * Yes, madame. Oh, not one copy, | certainly, but a year's subscription,” he added hastily, thinking he had discov- ered the cause of her trouble, “That paper!” she answered with a8 she sniffed with her upturned, freckled nose. * Is this you take to deceive a lone woman like myself? I wish I | had words to speak out my mind to you and tell just what I think about “What did you expect? It was so “Why a farmer—a man, of course!” The unfortunate official tried to ex- { plain, and the other gentlemen as- | sisted him, each assuring her that self for the vacancy, Polly, not at all appeased, went off leaving her Farmer and loaf of bread, but she did not for- get the crisp five dollar bill] In that dark hour of disappointment it was a source of comfort to her, and kept her from utter despair as she unhitched her horse and drove home single and alone. * At first she thought she would hunt up Mrs. Volney and speak her mind to her, but the ride home, and the sooth- ing purr of the old cat who lay in the no longer tabooed arm-chair, calmed vailed. kept her at home three weeks, and when next she met Mrs. Volney, who had heard of her disappointment through the superintendent, neither of them made any reference to the Kansas Farmer. But as the Farmer came to her for it and felt a new have some mail for her at the postoffice. notes and prospects of crops, she began office with another loaf, smiling superintendent's “Miss Gor- don, if you get the blue ribbon, re- member it is only the Weekly Kansas give you,’ a return smile ; other. This However, in Mrs. Volney's house, the inquiry is made weekly: ‘Polly's educator’ come yet?’ and it FEMALE FARM HANDS, —— Astonishing Evidence Elickted nt an Parlin mentary Inguiry, Americans visiting some parts of Europe are apt to be shocked by the labor imposed upon women, Who work in the fields, load carts and some- times harnessed with a dog help to draw their produce to market, But very often “things are not what they seem ” in this matter more than any other, A remarkable iHustration of the attraction that field labor has was afforded some years ago in England, A contractor for various Kinds of HET cultural work formed a gang of young women whom he took from place go place in the eastern countries to per form hedging, ditching and draining for farmers. his went on for several years, until length the rumors of the evils from it assumed so serious a character LQ) how in a parliamentary inquiry. The evidence was remark: Able It all went to sh that the wi y positively delighted in this free, bering nomadic life, of its ehief charms was the aston hing health and strength th tained F heir limbs became muscular, they had the d } stion of ostriches, and act wid pains were unknown tw them, They, in fact, enjoyed the most exquisite of all human sensations perfect health, lo American indies enjoy that for even years of their lives after fifteen? The other ide iG $i Was that noral well agricul the tural ama HA Wy Own Hi and ay at i HRnY ive A no moans hey bore egarded as an in. inasmuch’ iO work 5. 3 ascertained, put these HS Constquentiy, volume of evidenc wit te nurse most children favorite, the prime feat Irny urug ure in th Ry anacandod UALLY SUCHEN ques the reir a ladi os who now piazza be all the bet of garden work, uarter of sl t almost too vy hone il Boul at the clos 4 find Longevity. Can man reach 100 yaars ¥ which opinion h in France of ths extreme life. In his « adult at sixteen that age, or to ing been ealled the phenomenal Bible to the patri archs, following as an explanation the flood the earth was li com pact than it i wad ac cle for and pass the age of pint Ppl iy n ROW, ble of ext for a Jon quen i The Garrgun Heusler on the same point that did not div time vious to the age of Abrah among { tl ide some people o only three months, or they had a year of spring, « mer, of fall and The year was extend of eight months after of twelve months after taire rejected tl to the pat riarchs cepted Ww out the great in India, rare to The eminen! Flourens, opment teaches five times him to become cording to this of a complet ted « ) recognized by the fact of the junction of their bones ‘with their apopyses, This junction takes place in horses at five years; and does not live beyond twenty-five years; with the ox at’ four years, and it not live over twenty vears, with the cat at eighteen months, and that animal rarely lives over ten y When it is effected at twenty years he only ex- ceptionally lives beyond 100 years, The same physiologist admits, however, that human life may be exceptionally prolonged under certain conditions of comfort, freedom from care, regularity its and observance of the rules giene; and he termi- nates his uninteresting study of the last point w ith the aphorism: “Man kills himself rather than "Pop- ular Science Month ly. 4d Sens one lie Of as to consist Abral Joseph. al 80 am and Vol- assigned ut ac question the storie if Some men not ith ages attain where, he says, t 138 old of 120 h phy complete twenty uld it 5" Se men Years Frenc 3 ixit tg the at siologist, de vel - man that as long Years, live takes Ac- as nul deve lopn i ent the horse does Ears, sobriety, of hi 1h of hiv ir te ales, ———— Poisonous Leaves, Some of our most admired flowers | which we would least wil banish from cultivation, are associated with green leaves of a very poisonous charac- ter. The narrow long leaves of the daffodil act as an irritant poison ; the delicate compound leaves of laburnum have a narcotic and acrid juice which causes purging, vomiting, and has not unfrequently led to death, The nar- row leaves of the meadow saffron, or autumn crocus, give rise to the utmost irritation of the throat, thirst, dilated pupils, with vomiting and purging, The dangerous character of aconite, or monkshood leaves, is doubtless well known, but each generation of chil- dren requires instruction to avoid aboveall things those large, palm-shaped 1 ung Leaves of coarse wet provide an abundant quota of danger, but fre. quently their strong scent and bitter or nauseous taste give timely warning against their being consumed. Of all jritish orders of plants ds our tributes the rankest and most wide- spread elements of danger. The water dropwort, too, a flourishing ditch plant; the water hemlock, fool's prrsiey, must be ranked among our most dangerous belliferous order. The fool's parsley uine parsley, but their and darker leaves should prevent this, The nightshade order is another, with dangerous and often extremely poison- Indeed, no nightshade can be regarded as safe; while the deadly nightshade, with its oval, un- cut le: aves, soft, smooth and stalked, | | among the young folks, Springfield | (Mass, ) ‘Republican. Henbane and thornapple again, with their large and much indented leaves, gerous class.” Holly leaves contain a juice which is both narcotic and acrid, ausing vomiting, pain and purging. elder leaves and privet leaves may produce active and injurious irri- tation when eaten, Lang ond Water. Tosi the ghlmhey- sweep play th itt f'EEIC NEIEEWS, Bastern and Middle Statea Mass,, destroyed a large hotel, The gueats A ri the Qoean House, all aseaped with their effects, at Bwampsoeott, Pax second annual exhibition fair of the New England Manufacturers and Mechanios' institute was Kxhibi tion building of a ari Pi i " sil oity officials, army and formally opencd at the i ton, in the presence ¢ audience, embracing Governor Long, swninent members of the clergy, State and navy offer thio A VILLAGE Ginnious r BOCUritic Tie books ¢ bank Baker, app ports a defaleation of § fanltino faulting ngs CRAIN miited for that purpo (00 South ana west ui in $5,006), Ge AT damage to property has be by storms and floods in the south of ; maker, of failed for Sasmuven Crave, Long Eaton, $1,000,000, It is asserted purposely OPrQer railway carriage ns + : England, has that the Turkis INGE a government 18 on with Greece in ublio opinion f Faaxors Hyves was hanged at Ireland, for the murder of John a herder near Ennis. Doloughty tinned in loyment fro had been evicted. under before a special jury. Hynes met his death ealmnly. A large or jail. A ws, and to divert Tur Kish Pp rom Egypt. Lx Dolo had n which Hyn ixhiy, OO - the emg M 8 he tri al was the first the crimes act wd ALY TOO oxira was presont outside the milit guard was held in readine policemen from northern counties drafted to Limerick, in view of the possibil ity of a disturbance. Prayers were offered for Hynes in many of the Catholie churches in counties Limerick and Clare. In many towns business places were closed on acoount of the hang ing. A sronx in F and grea fon ¢t were n PrOSUIR + AL iv el i, all wolored, wert 1 done ille, twen , the se and We the section Ww to property, ty house of five miles west of Jad the Florida Cent ksonville ral nown to pieces, family y adjoining house, ction tern escaping with a few containing a to blown two or three through the fearfully killed. Five other 8 injured by the At Tallahassee the new hotel and other of colored laborers, Samuoel White was hundred mangled, number vas blown ntoms, yards air, and instantly ‘ wind and hall IR Were were more or les flying timber. Giallie’s building roofed, and the new Episcopal church was badly damaged. The the severest in twenty years, A rine at Denver, Col., d« tent mills mated loss of £225,000, Tue chiefs of the several fire of the United States and Canada have three days’ convention at Cincinnati, Ture Richmond (Va.) d Insur ance company The about un cyclone was and elevator, ontail der Lt lanking nn saspende | amount of deposits was slated to be $000,000, which includes £100,000 belonging to the State of Virginia, the State depository, down at £607,000, payment bank being the The Habilities were put From Washington In the star route trial, after Attorney-Gen eral Brewster had closed his argument for the prosecution, the jury were about to leave the box when they were stopped by Judge Wylie, the presiding justice, who stated that he wished to devote n moment to a matter foreign to the trial proper. Judge Wylie stated that he had been informed by several of the jurymen that they had been approached improperly, and that, upon learning that within the last twenty-four hours ‘these wolves have be- much indignation that he was almost ready to advise the jarymen to shoot the men on the spot. Judge Wylic used very strong Jounsel on both sides demanded an investigation and one was or- The announcement. by the court caused much excitement, and many rumors resulted from it. parts of the country have recently been authorized by the comptroller of the ourrenocy to begin business, A call has represantiatives Health Health, Health, Cetober 18, to con hoon of association, and the to be held sued for a meeting of the American Publie the National Board of various Blate Boards of Ind. question af hold at Indianapolis, on iwder the ing a national medical and sanitary exhibl tion in the year 1883 Tue September eran the agy repo royYeilnoemn i the 1 of the colt \ North Pennes wl Texas, and deterio Carolina, # and of the Oh very state exoept I hy 100 or high ts of the bouth Foreign News for complicity in y Ssnus Cong, nitted for ¥: Dear damaged, but no lives 8 Wale They wer: vend nr Dickson re of the other nine wl Bates Sen Al W arder n ten {1 Brady, ¢ he : 10 oth r General with t Jd. Dorsey's g fter the rdiet the jury, made a sts ride o 0 bribe ‘the bier Appr i or upon the subject Mr. Dickson, foreman of itement as to the attpmpts jury. He said that fie had hed wit h an offer of 25,000 by in officer connected with the department of ustice, who produced hatte re of appointment a special ag of that department, and fed that he was authorized to act in the tter, if he would vote for the eomviction Brady and Stephen W. Dorsey. That statement would be corroborated by witness und ry circumstantial evidence, There re others of the jury who had been ap hed from different directions, but the ed wore small—from $XX to $AX), in who approached him told him that or esented the attorney-general, but he Diek kaon) did not believe thas, He concluded that the man took him for a fool or a knave, and that his only tection was to notify Judge Wylie of the matter. He suggested to Judge Wylie that he should coax the man on, lve Wylie remarked that that was too y duty, and had advised him about the matter, but to keep The following day man sent in a card asking for an interview and appointing the time and place. He made no reply, and had not seen the man or his companion (who was also an officer of the dhe partment of justice) from that day to this, He made inquiries a fow days lator and learnod that the man had left the city upon the following day. He did not believe that the man had Swenty five dollars in his ion, much less £25,000, and it was his n that the man fe wd been employed to nwary to commit themselves, He not slow the matter to drop, but id see the thing through. Vi vesty ent mn of § oiler nan. the POSE Opn got tho 1 would won WO I In an alleyway behind a storein New Orleans a eat planned to eateh a pigeon picking up grain. - As Puss wriggled up within distance to spring, the bird flew ten feet away and resumed his meal. The cat repeated the attempt with the same result several times, un- til the end of the alleyway was reached, she now approached her intended vie- tim with even more than usual caution, But the seemingly careless bird knew his business and picked away as though nothing was the matter. This time Puss succeeded in making her spring, and landed just where she intended to. But the pigeon wasn’t there. He went into the air at exactly theright moment, and, flying over the cat’s head, alighted ou the very spot from which she had just sprung. look, disappeared through a broken cel- lar window, leaving Mr. Pigeon to fin- ish his dinner, The Trouble in rey pt. Arabi Pasha's cavalry advaneed near Kas. Aniin look and exchanged fire with the British, The enemy, who showed increasing boldness, were driven back An English train of nearly 500 mules wos attacked near Ramses by Hedouins, The es cort of the train repulsed the Bodoulns, Arabs have thrown earcasses of horses and other foul matter into the Ismailia canal, and it is feared the water will become unfit for drinking It is thought that the Egyptian ministry will try to settle the for damages growing out of ipeendiarism and pillage in Alexandria by ff Colnmiinsion spprointed by the powers i fit olaling sultan of Tarkey that the main and prestige of the y fieoessnry, amd that tify his be ing proclamation of the t Arabi Pasha deolares tenance of the autho khedive is lndigpensal the designs of Arabi Past dis i Again i ju eribed as 4 rebel An artillery duel was foun British and The ie between the ght at Ki BR PRIZE YOry ad meanin WHra graphed to his « aptured and that Lis “reported that the unided a wer the entire p the lune a ei Close the # Ww winder an \d Krupy gun il laced, shelling a There 1s also a twenty ! off pla ive Lhe ying ye rl ed yards We h ener Ad here wore only that most of ny wer daosirous reibly prevented 1 Wot as a4 Wholesale Instrument of Death, Poison hundred wo Hun Lands GAT ‘ $e 3 wrricd won geting courts in than Lynd it is impossible LO) Jud gre Nad found were wore About the judgments were well en or Ww of streets, Oy m women and scores through thi there as a similar poisoning in France whic controlled until over one hun oners, chiefly women, had the stake gallows, | in eighteenth century a woman in Naple carried on a large trade poisons is supposed to have been concerned in bringit about the deaths of over six hundred persons, She was tortured to strangled. In poisoning, Hungary, of ing others time outbreak ch was fred Pp iS been sent to or arly HT { nad in s M1341 Ig confession, and then mnstance such as that reported from there has been f poisons responsible alike means and the The poisons were acting, frequently administered gradually undermined the health of the that their deaths excited until the aggregate grew so cause investigation,—Lon- every of wholesale ound some seller for tion of supply murder. sl and so Sree HM used always WW victims 10 suspicion large as to don Lancet, EE ——— Money Value of Crops, Perhaps may give readers some idea of the influence a great crop has Swan the national prosperity to show the difference in money value between a large and a moderate crop. The figures are taken from an oflicial pub. lication of the United States govern ment, {i rticle. Value of Crop, 187K, 1880, £441, 155,400 $679,714,490 326,406,424 474,201,850 « 285,048,752 a7, 811, 084 ata 101, S4n,55) 244 Potatoes « T3,055.125 Tobacco . MM, 136.000 Corn Wheat Hay 0), 600.000 Total... 1,202,884, 556 #1, R07,603,219 The difference on these be- tween the two years amounts to nearly five hundred and fifty million dollars. Add cotton, fruit, vegetables and small crops, and the difference would be be- tween eight hundred and one thousand million dollars.— Youth's Companion, C—O It takes 800 full blown roses to make a single teaspoonful of the famous perfume, and you can get enough per- fume out of an onion to drive a dog on the gallop out of the slaughter | house. And yet we admire the rose | Crops Sand for Flue Glassware, The sand from which the finest glass. | ware, crown-glass, French plate and | the like, Is made, is seldom found in lurge deposits, in accessible places and | 11 other Ame | by Eetppee V. Pieros's in California, which yields five dollars of gold to the ton, is called in miners’ Inuguage * pay-rock,” and yet glass is made, is livered in the city market, sand-glass was discovered over years ago near MeVeytown, county, Pa, and is now being sively worked, The sand-rock oceurs, for the most part, in {irregular formation, with an occasional proach toward a stratified condition, I'he rock hard and dry, yielding with difficulty to the drill, except where wiler penetrates it, crevices, These soft veins, made thi much dreaded miners, A mass of this soft rock may fall at moment and crush or bury the hapless workman, An old miner yo the Tribune forrespondent. ud no lents sinee I've hat is, there hain't One fella sot down blast than was safe, i up to the Lop of the ind got the bark peeled off’'n his | and a piece cut out'n his ear, n all, Onst when 1 was a round the to see if the wis burnin thing ith i n black in by water, are ny Hei iu no- Wis Corner the Ww peekin’ fist id bungoed Do yo ner is eye, il iy Yes ther point the memento of his un giant Jow- i Re specks?" i wk is mined by what is | r,’ or excavating in 1013, feet extendas a drift is high and twenty about 500 feet from the mouth a force of sixty foot of rock ean 1 4 year, An analysis WS it pure gilica, it impurities of cobalt, shale Under the mieros Ope | yalals in the sand are seen, in the m sof a marble- | ie wide, and no different dire of the mi With n only ab fifty fot tions fie, it 1 11 Bilt alos ine the drift pure Lie to] + of about ne, win- in by ry i 08 rey alls in ummer. RS ——— To Avold Drowning, fact, ii Known J any person of BAYER and themselves in i 1 Has ind soroam means of Pi auple alld He intl 430d lize that the deen water under and the mouth will g Superstition in China, 3 tious 1orror are Dr. 1. J. of Wen- ®76 there wa HASOG Ie £ ural clipping theory that assession of hen wiort the soul of the 3 § y 8 3 super {1 109] of ROP. ined po {hese hair, al id will rit. The F 10 cut only cure off an 3 Unrivaled in bilions disorders, impare bi and consumption, which isserofulous | of the lungs, : Tur largest diamond. cutting house is in Amstordsm, employing 400 persons, where the Kob-i-noor was cut. The trade is diffi- cult and the wages are from §7 to 12 or even 814 a day. Dr. Plerce's Gi, fhe. riage. “Little Yiver Pills" (sugar-conted }—oure sick and bilious headache, sour stomach and bilious silacks, By druggists, Escrian capitalists own about §20,000, 0 | of the Boer canal shares, and five English companies in Egypt possess a capital of 15,110,000, Young men or midal ones, sutlering from nervous debility or kindred weakn: should send theese stamps for Part VIL o World's Dispensary Dime Series of books, Address Wonro's Dmrmsany Mepicir As soorarion, Buflslo, N. ¥, Tue are prospering. About Binns own nearly 200,000 acres, Don’t Pls, in the House, “Rough ou Ha Clesrs out rats, mios, | roaclion, Dai flies, ants, moles, chip. monks, gophers, 150, The Solence of Tite, or Belf-Preservation, a medical work for every man-—young, middle. aged or old. 125 invaluable prescrip AY JENS BRAIN FOOD {Mast reliable tosis | for the Brain and (ie parative Or, nu. a | Nervous Debilty end Fle 4 by druggists oh | Fiee br ms eipt ef pric Jo fe: doll 3: | ALLE N, t Wemist, 31h Fim First A Sais, Now %4 Cents will Bay a Treaties upon the upon the | Horse and Lis Dissssos Book of 10 pages, Valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken, Bent | cures avers. the mysterious head possession severing between his hair in During g the of the i ors th a charm or amules. It seoverad that the members of a revolutionary society cut off the was di secret quences, A Quee r Model of Self-Defense, Oddes all defensive that of snapping off the lind or slow-worm, like lizard common in the Ww hen als in such n its tail off at cons end. But how ean The detached tail then very lively, holding the the offender, while the slinks away. And fx time the tail retains tail. is a snake rot} it wmnner and degree as to break aid about this dances attention ir a considerable its THE MARKETS, = NEW YORK. Beef osttie, good loprime, lw Calves, com'n to prime veals Bhe #1 Lami Hogs 13 a PN. Maen SE Live ie Dressed, city... il , good to fancy 4 40 good to choipe 5 28 Flour w» a Rye Male . Barley—Two.rowed Blate Corn—Ungrad. West, mized, Ye 13 Ow Mo uthern Date White Bate, Mived Western Hay Prime T Na sistas, 1881, el hoioe Moss, new, forexport 21 MW Lard-City 8 12 25 12: a ihy W al 53. Re fined Petroleum- ~Lr ? -ftate Creamery y ¢ t. lm. Creamery. Yaclory Cheese Hate te Factor) State ar TL, Eggs— Potatoes Rieers Light to fair. Lambs Western Weslern, ’ Hogs Good 1 choles Yorks, Flour y ground 5. process, i, Hard Haluth . Mixed * Mixed Western. rowed Biate BOETON, we and family — ge. K O00 de Tham hest~No Corn—XNo. 2, Oats—No, 2 Barley—Twe Boef— Ex. pl 18 00 Hogs Live. . san E City Dressed 103d Pork- Fx. Prime, per bbl 2000 Fi - Spring Wheat patents 7 25 High Mix a3 Extra White il 3 Wool - “ oe Wed deomb & ¢ delsine Unwashed ne WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET, Extra qu ual ty ~1 Ave weigl rithern, 4. w PHILADEILYOIA. . ox Tamily, gol d. Re Floor—Pen Wheat No. ) 2 Hye—Btate 0 Lorn -Htate Yellow, ists~Mived . Butler. Cronm ery Exira , Pa. 3 3 Fu all Cream... eam—Cr ™m grade reann Dotter] Petrol for homan, fowl ds first epared ae pencki sd When we make Tr ment we do so withou! fear of contrls diction, notwithstanding we are sware there gre msny who sre more or less prejadiced againet proprietary remedies sepecially on scoount of the many home bugs on the market; however, we am pleased to state that suoh does € ao nok calm wonders or miracles Tor our liniment, bet we ties of three sizes, for all diseases of the human, foul and animal Snake well before using, Cannot be Disputed, One of the principal ressons of the wonderful H pre © erties by swing | Inferior half 8 century Merchants Gangs Hog OF hes been a synonym Sue hopesty, snd will continue to be $4, Ong & time sae by all respectable nited Siates and other countries, $F Our testimonials date from 1838 #o the present Try Merchants wrgling OR Linimest for A in . and external ase, sod tell neighbor whist good ine Don't fall 10 follow directions. Keep the botlle Sprain and Bry! Chiltilatos, Frost Bites, Chasyed Hands, Band Cracks, Poll Evil, He roorhoie oF . Tus ait aces, Rhu Flesh on ds. haat. eT dn, 1,000 REWARD tor sof of the exist a ence beter liniment them Jou HODCE, Sec'y. "RYND—38 “HAINES” PIANOS WORLD, MARIMON! LABLACHE! RAVELLI! BTISTE IX TH GERSTER! KELLOGG! GALLASSI! ABBOTT! MARIE ROZE! PEASE ! CASTLE! WAREROOMS: ” FIFTH AVENUE, Hou 53 PS MAT D FREE DY Ch Cita VALLERIA! CAMPANINI! NEW YORK. oan. CATA Reureigia, Sciatica, ia Backache, Sorensss of the Chest, Geut, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell- ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Heecdache, Frosted Feot and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. Ko Preparation on earth equals Sv. Jacoms Onn will then be There are other simiar power, lizard to The ail struck, another andther adventure. lizards which have a though in less degree M 41.7 . KO As hi RLEELEE A A Half Dellar Trial, Mr. Ernest King, editor of the Fall River eee of 8t. Jacob's Oil: “Suffering with rheumatic pains | was Didymaus as to remedies 1 read dollar trial gone and troubled me no longer.” I 5 Whitney ually maintains drying Professor the earth is grad up—a times, The increasing the historical period, of the countries around the Pe rsia, Arabia, » Aral and 0 pian, by abundant facts, S05 - Col. C. W. Herbert, of the Forest Park Restaurant, St. Louis, Mo cured of rheumstism by St. Jacobs Oil, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. office savings banks, and finds it to of the vear jas ended more than the previous year. ‘ ned Doctor Saves, Oo Hiotowis avo P RATE STREETS, } Barri , Aug. 5, 1881, H. H. Wanxx appeared in months ago, pu & Hele oriing among other things tosct rth the i. articulars of my eure from Bright's disease by the ute of your Safe Kid. noy snd Liver cure. That card rep resented only an outline of the facts in the case. ¥. A. MoManvus, M. D. i at Coumareinl, New Mexico. tritious properties. It contaiusbl ood-making, force-generating and life- sustaining proper. ties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nor- vous prostration, and all forms of gene ral de- bility;also,in all enfeebloes d conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute ditease, particularly if re- sulting from pulmonary vy complaints, Caswell, Hazard & Co. prop ‘re, N.Y. Sold by druggis's 25 Cents Will Buy a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages, Valuable to every owner of horses, Postage siamps taken. Sent postpaid by New York Newspaper Uuion, 150 Vorth Street, New York. Murder will oui, so will the fact that Carbo- line, a d leodorized extract of petroleum, the natural hair revewer and restorer, is the best re yaration and excells all other hair dressings ousands of genuine certificates prove. Remedy A trial entails but the ocomparstively trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one suffering with paic can have cheap and positive proof of in claima 18 Directions in Eleven Lang SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE, A. VOCELIR & CO, Baltimore, Md, U.8 A ” ETE TTT hat terrible scourge fover and ague, and TEITE its congener, bilious remittent, bessdes af. fections of the stom. sch, liver and bowels, produced by misma’ tie mir and water, are | bath eradicated and prevented hy the use of Hostetter's Stom. sch Bitters, a purely vegetable elixir, in dorsed by physicians, and more extensively veed 2s a remedy for the above clams of dis orders, ss well as fer many others than say medicine of the sage, For sale by all "Drag. gwiyand Dealers gen erally, sundance~~3 Mi tion pounds i isat yoar~Prices | ever Agents wanted. ~Dos\ ste Lie. ~Send for cirenlar, or Mixed, for 81, or Mixed, Yor 82. ck or Hitxod, for $3. . RQ i=. lhe, Good lock iba, Fine Blot x 1 ba. Choloo 3 t 3 samy Xe i - 1 » 0. Dox 1287. i Pur utive Pills make New Rich F - snge the blood in the en. | : re erste | in i! yee ¥ . An y person who will take | one pill sa plight from 1 to 13 weeks may be restored : tx ud hoa Jth i witha Kd g be possible, Bold every. } st by mall at 1 letter stamps, ", TOTINSON & ¢ 0. Boston, merly Bangor, Me, one hy, or Phaustic Shorthand, L Sate h iy 8 Apah J acnograpiic alphabet snd of at reons’ sd. and i Mass. for- begin 101, sent on application, aati, O, YOUNG MER \.ois iret feos tion, address Valentine Bros. Jamesville, Wis HOW O MAKE A FORTUNE, enly 10 THURBER, Box 41, Bay Shore, . Th 25 CENTS, Reliable, Durable and Eoomomissl, will fursish « ig lowe Fuel and water as sop ph Engine built, mot Sted wilh an Aptuinalic Cut of. A Wantraied Catalogue J" PaYsE & Sons, Bon x, (shy og, X.¥. "FRAZER AXLE GREASE Bost ia the world. Het Bet the t waning. Hoary Ev | Fraser ae r iradecarark sua a rapper's, SOLD EY va HERE COOD NEWS T.ADIES: Cat up Clubs for ear OELB BXATED TRAD, sud secure & beautifed “Rass Rove er 0cif Band Tes Sot," {92 piso, O87 08 Imperiation. = ®f These beasii’al Tes Dols given o @ tus party senting a Hab Sr $35.00. Beware of Gn TUREAY TRAST thal ave being adveitised they ave dangerous snd detrimental te beg lf slow poieoh. Deal only with reiiohie Eouvees and with Bret bende If possitia. No bumbag. The S Great American Tea Co, Im ro 6&5 VESEY IN, New 5 'X WaRTE WoNiY! , | : Touny wae ow il, BF you want 2 Lasuriant Seathaia, og oi - Raney grawh wt ec Ken, Sak! REN wed oe nt be b Span memes vi Yaieh tna NATPR ONLY MX CENTS » fe 1. GO) Bern, Maw Bowrre of of SAW Be: : Lela Lm prin THE AULTMAN & Ta 1LOR OO, MasaSeld, Okie, * 3 lovely Ad, rdssnds sda Nose 128550 hol Ls Bani ord. 8 XE KNOWLEDGE 15 POWER THE SCIEXRCE OF LIFE: OR, SELF. PRESERVATION, Is a madical treatise on Exhausted Vitality, Nervous snd Physical Debility, Premstore Declioe in Man; is an indispensable treatises for every man, whether young, middie sged or aid. FENCE OF LIFE: © THE SC} A PRY ARTON. R, SELPR. yond all ri th t Re Ro Sen, hn pun Up whatever that the married or ge oan el sh to koow but what is Th ily explai PRESERYATIO the wtaing one hv ° a first aoute and chromie diseases, for each of which ENCE 0 LIFE Lh THE scl FICSERY ATION, OR, SE = a boaeed, full git. BS : marvel of art and bess ity, warranted tains 300 where for double the price, or the money will be ed in every instance, — Author, OF LIFE: OR, SELF. SERYATION, Is so much superior to all | tise trestises on medies subjects that comparison solutely i - Boston Herald, THE SCIENCE OF LIFE: 0 ELF. ev TUN, OR. SELP- price, cnly 31.35 (new edition). Small illustrated samples, Ge. Send now, The author oan be consulted on all ‘diseases requiring skill and experience. Address | PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, or W. lH. PARKER, M.D, 4 Balfinch Street, Containing an Index of Diseases, which Table giving all tho principal drugs used a poi A Table with an Engravi or the Horse, {00-PAGE BOOK pth nd ic Viet 25 CENTS. e ordinary dose, effécts, ages, with rules TEN COPIES.......onarssnsasnssnnsas 170 00 ONE HUNDRED ow IER. .cssnrrasinne \ : ‘ 5
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