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At all druggists and dealers, 25¢, or sent by mail, if your dealer will not supply Fou. Address, John D. Langham, Holley, N. Y. Forsale by J. Prank Smith, Centre Hall, Pa. » “Corkage” Not Now Meeded. There is one enduring tradition of the hotel business in the United States, and its outward symbol is the printed line on country hotel bill ‘Corkage.” At an earlier period, when wine drinking at meals was less common, it was custom of hotel patrons to bring ir own wines. As every hotel keeper had, or was supposed to have, wine for sale at a profit, it was to the hotel keeper's in- terest to discourage the bringing of wine to table by guests, and therefore the practice originated of a charge for corkage, usually one dollar, which was In excess of the wine at the hotel. The effect was to compel wine drinkers to buy from the hotsl. In these days there is little roason why hotel patrons should “bring their own wines,” and the fact is that few do 80. Though the reason for the line “corkage” on hotel bills of fare is passed, the line Ralf has xot. Longest Bridge Span. The longest span of any bridge yet erected will be placed in the canti- lever bridge now under construction across the St. Lawrence river at Que- bee, This bridge is being constructed with two approach spans of 210 feet cach, two shore arms 500 feet in length, and a great central span of 1,800 feet, which is the longest yet bullt by 90 feet. the the $y ae HARD TO SELL STOLEN GEMS THIEVES OF BIG STONES MUST TURN TO THE FAR EAST. Diamonds of Ten Carats or More Must be Cut to Find a Buyer Here or in Europe—in India the Rich Na- tives Buy and Store Away Their Valuable Purchases. a dim. if the is al- large Disposing of stolen lewels is cult undertaking, particularly Jewels are of great value It most impossible to get rid of stones in this country and harder still to dispose of them in England and France if they are stolen. The only way to do it with safety to cut the stone up, and when a stone is cut it decreases greatly value, is large iu numer- of Large diamonds are not so cannot he kept large diamond later finds diamond which whose o track found way a is 10 in Pers its market the is London ns hands =a eful well as its def roe JLOne are car good | { i i i ! i | i } : i i i i diamond over a large one icular note Ever | he andles nute des such a st cription of it tone the more attentio persons who handle is hard Hapo of any account, every the is Ww hy in diamonds one is world description of stolen hears of ae the y an hardly linary stoler e The or way pawnshops are jewelers in ion to reputat mona greater els that have way to th prince I their dian 8 wil questions The high cl remarkable preci ass nat judge stones, of ous count form Diamond in moat dealers an have a8 SOON a8 a pr the Orient and his Is p his the civilized world that e its way to its buyer vided among tives The find dies rar an] operly + wives or his reia- large precious st general their way into The Orloff, carats, is In the Russian That stone formed one an idol in the Brahman ple on the island of Srirangam Kaveri River, near Trichinopoli it that in the eight by a French { found ita way English ship captain Europe It turned up In Amsterdam in ind for a time it was called sterdam diamonds It got of Orloff Prince Orloff 1,400,000 Dutch florins and to the Empreas Catherine This jewel | ones ly the er Wns which welg crown of 194% jewels the eves of tem- fee in the The story has it was stolen N wily a . # I i there early eenth i b soldier. Fr into the and 1761 the Am its name when bought for nro n head tad it 11 f Rouse of the ta ner Three possession the al scepter other famous jewel: of the Russian the Moon of Polar Star--the yf the second of 120 and carats. The Shah is famond, of engraved All white Catherine [1 bought Moon of Mountains for 450 an annuity 4.000 ru} ters of royalty These in the crown are Mountains, firat of 8% Shar, and the carats, third of 40 engraved fow the an one the large Hammon istonce are perfect stones 000 rubles of lot les and are nok hy any means the known stones in existence, but are among the moat because of thelr purity largest dlamonds on record tillan but Jdoubt alwavs i been cast on thelr genuinenoas raganza is a Brazilian stone as a hen's egg and weighing carats It is preserved in the Por tuguese crown jewels, hut there alwavs been doubt ad ness, If it is genuine, diamond perts say, it is worth $224.000,000 Another large stone on which there has been a good deal of speculation as to its genuineness is owned by the Rajah of Matiang, Borneo, It weighs 167 carats Of the large diamonds that have been found In recent years, the Ex colslor is the largest. It was un: earthed in the Jagersfontein mine, in the Orange River Colony, South Af rica. It measured 2% Inches In length, 2 Inches In breath and 1 inch in thickness, The Excelsior was found in June, 18903. There was a flaw in it, how. ever, and it had to be cut. The larg er section of it found its way to Tif: valuable Some of the Bra. has are stones, AR to Its genuine ox fany & Co., where It stil waiting a purchaser. When fany robbery first became known f(t was thought that it was the Excel sior had been stolen -—New York Sun the Tit AURORAS AND THUNDERSTORMS, Both Due to Disturbances of the At. mosphere's Electricity. eloctrical is the The aurora is nomenon, and {ts phere. Possibly it an elevation of many miles. The flickering character and the difficulty of securing simultaneous observations of any streamer at two or more separate points make a computation of its exact a difficult How the electricity 13 exclied Causes an display fully determined A dozen theories alned on an geat may phe atmos reach up to one matter which not yet different the heal; Six AA is enter! 1 tific and are sud feet have not yet ehoice thun in and scile final them men unanimous with the electrical Franklin a hal 1i¢ ch nade a 4 storm amon der nature i CAURE the local ; at 5% fan is not which of in any Broce ¥ either eral The fact freque ney tha evening 1p mm, that th are q that a su earth 14on in auroras, fergtorms in an tf thun ay etirrenta oc aver a large Atla the same ch as E America of t ura region, st irons. the and North either or must oither 3 this emanating © WO CARuses 5 inflyene represent 5 je © Aan a from the sun and sffecting vi part of the earth, or it repres ry important widespread terrestrial influence, Hi oh Class. kno York had long it the need of a firm spoaal tk wn New qer, A who well comp e- undertak AKO putable the di ympositions, read rocently 16 h offered reaun which and other Their an 4 the adver only worl 0 k was hand! burean composer was bean given Entering the found sitting manuscripts ers charges highest ybably the opi ng for in the advert offices of oncern, manager, in his shirt at a typewriter “1 understand tet ht the lookl SOUR ne isement > the he the gleaves, usic in you place m compositions for a commission?” quired the composer That's right,” was the but we only handle first “Do you suppose,” continued composer ‘vou could place Sanctus’ of mine?” Sure!” replied the manager confi “Why. last season we placed Bink’'s ‘Mother's With the Angels’ and he made over $2,000 on L."-