PEARLS Of THOUGHT.
Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to
all who work and wish.
To meaßnro one with his own yard-stick
may be hard, but it is fair.
The evil cannot brook delay. Tho
good can well afford to wait.
When alone, one can moro perfoctly
lose himself in tho lifo universal.
* Lot a man do his work ; tho fruit of
it is tho caro of another than he.
No one ought to complain if tho world
measures him as he measures others.
Happiness is perfume that one cannot
shed over another without a few drops
falling on one's self.
How pcoplo deceive thomselvos when
they think those around thorn do not
know their real character.
The way for an orator to avoid
making heavy speeches is to weigh his
words well before speaking.
Gold can buy pretty nearly every
thing in this world except that which
a man wants most—viz., happiness.
He is a very ordinary man who never
finds fault with himself, and a very ex
traordinary ono who never has reasyv to
do so.
Men are naturally charitable, but
they have a bad habit of feeling every
where for the poor except in their
pocketbooks.
Kindness is stowed nwav in the heart
like rose leaves in a drawor to sweeten
every object about them ; and to bring
hope to the weary-hearted.
More hearts pine away in secret an
guish from tho want of kindness from
those who should bo their comfort than
from any other calamities in life.
Killed by a Tame Bear.
In theThiergarten, at Pesth, has livod
for as many as fifteen years a fine spec
imen of the bear species, dear to nur
sery maids and children in England and
to all sections of the population in
Central Europe. For the whole time of
his abode in captivity at Pesth this ani
mal had been attended by a man called j
Stephen, who seems to have reduced it
—as well he might in so long a time—
to a condition of apparent helplessness.
About a week ago the attendant went
into the bear's pit to administer to his
friend a ration of uncooked beef, and to
the delight of the spectators above, ca
ressed the beast according to his cus
tom. Nothing could be more mild and
conciliatory than the conduct of the
bear until, in leaving him, the man by
accident trod on one of its feet. But
the moment this supposed attack upon
him was made the animal raised a sav
age roar and rushed upon its warder,
knocking him down in a moment, be
fore the man had time to fully recover '
from his surprise. Ho was, however, .
able to get up again; and then ensued a
struggle which must have had a horn- j
ble fascination for all within sight. The |
man, unarmed as he was, contended j
hand to band with his foe, and for a
considerable time maintained the nn- i
equal oomlwt, while bis clothes were
gradnally torn to rags, and hisarmsand
flesh were fearfully lacerated. The
spectators, with what speed they could, )
came to the rescue with bars of iron
and other weapons, but there seems to
have been no firearms available, nor,
indeed, any efficient means of delivering j
the victim from his horrible fate. Be
fore the bear could be beaten off he had
received such injuries in the arms, feet
and body as to make his recovery hope
less, and he died shortly afterward
~ This is the second or third example of
death in a barfut within the last few
years. London Globe.
An Indian's Pretest.
Address of a big chief when invited
to take a walk : When the white father
starts the mnsic we waltz to it. Wehavo
been asked to irrigate the country here
and hoe corn like the white man. Our
hearts are heavy; we will do what is
right, bat we cannot work. The Indian
cannot lmnt the potato bug when the
deer and antftlojie are ripe. He cannot
dig post-holes in the hot sun when the
chance calls npon him to go forth into
the forest. Here, where we have roamed
through the tall grass and banted the
baffalo, the paleface asks na to dig irri
gation ditches and plow the green earth
with a mnle. They come to ns and tell
us to go to school and wear pants. They
ask na to learn the language and go to
Congress. They send men to ns who
want ns to learn to spell and wear sus
penders. We cannot do this. Oar cus
toms are aa old as the universe. We
eannot change. We can leave our land,
bnt we cannot change our socka every
apring and do as the white man does.
We can go away from oar liomee and live
ln& strange land, but wo cannot wear
|l open back shirts- Warriors, we will
go to the land our white father has given
us. W® will take our squaws, our dogs,
and our wigwams. We will go to our
new home beyond the river now, and
I when the autumn comes we will take a
tour back to this country. This is all. I
am dsso. ______
jjt A very MI.H!I b<>y can get outside <>f a
CLIPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS.
A big mushroom, weighing sometimes
twenty-flve pounds, is fonnd in Italy.
Cocoa trees produce nothing for ton
or twelve years, and thon boar fruit an
nually for fifty years.
A criminal who has robbed the public
treasury in Siarn has melted metal
poured down his throat.
According to Aristotle largo oars are
an indication of imbecility, while small
ones announce madness.
Tho ancients beliovod that tho blood
could be stanched by repeating incanta
tions or by tho use of charms.
Among the Indians near tho Amazon
there are no words for numbers, and a
similar want of arithmetical power.
A kind of rat in Kamscliatka makes
spacious apartments under ground and
fills them with food for tho winter.
Frogs have been kept torpid in an ice
house for three years and a half, and
have revived when brought out into tho
sun.
It was onco believed that tho houso
leek, if grown upon tho roof, would
protect tho house from being struck by
lightning.
The invention of tho harness is
ascribed to Erectheua, king of Athens,
who lived three or four hundred years
before Christ.
Tho earliest company for insnring
against firo was instituted in London in
1690, and was called the " Hand in
Hand Firo Offico."
A single pound of cotton has been
spun into a thread seventy-six miles in
length; the samo quantity of wool,
ninety-five miles long.
There is a weekly sale in Paris of
toads, which aro brought in casks filled
with damp moss. Ono hundred good
toads aro worth from §ls to 817. These
are bought for gardens.
Pawnbrokery was established in Eng
land by Northburg, Bishop of London,
and if redemption of any snm borrowed
was not made at the year's end, the
preacher at St. Paul's Cross was to de
clare that the pledge was to be sold in
fourteen days if it was not forthwith re
deemed.
Bachelor's Homes.
New York is a pretty good place for
bachelors, anyway. It would not be
easy to find a place where they could
fare better, if they are adequately sup- I
plied with tho essential commodity of
cash. And it may bo said that their
social condition improves right along. I
Up to a few years ago they had to put
up with hotels and lioarding-houses, or
accommodate themselves to tho fur
nished room plan, hut now they can do
better. Homes for bachelor* are
among the now features of New York
life. The unmarried men need no
longer wander disconsolate about a
hotel, or poke himself away in a musty
room in a boarding or lodging house.
If his purse affords it he can set up
bachelor's quarters in good stylo in a
bouse specially designed for his class.
Four or five handsome houses of this
kind have been „ built within a few
years, and they seem to pay very well.
They are called apartment houses for
bachelors, anil they aro arranged much
like French flats, the chief difference
Iteing that the number of rooms ia leas.
In some cases the bachelor's apartment
consists of two rooms, in other* of
three, and in no cases of more than
four. The cost of living in thi* way is
considerable, bnt the life itself i* com
fortable and pleasant. That there is a
demand for snch houses is shown pretty
forcibly by the fact that among the
present building projects is a bachelor's
apartment houao that is intended to
cover four lots and will cost about 8110,-
000. Its location is on Forty-first street
near Broadway. This house is by far
the largest bachelor a ball yet projected.
—.Vein York iMter.
Uurlons Inquiries.
Tho postmaster at Boston receives a
good many curious epistles asking for
instruction, advice, or information. An
Ohio correspondent desires to be in
farmed about the honesty of a firm that
advertised organs for salo for 85 each.
Two Western young men, very occi
dental indeed in their notions of mat
rimony, requested the postmaster to
pick them out " a con pi o of good-look
ing, healthy, stroug girls" for wives.
A Virginia mother wishes to have her
son fonnd. A New Hampshire woman
preferred the samo request on account
of her wayward daughter. An Ohio
girl commissioned the postmaster to
purchase for her " some spotted sea
shells." A Long Islander, who wrote a
good letter, desired full particulars
about rents and health in all the
suburbs of Boston. A Mobile dancing-
I master asked the postmaster to intro
{ dace two of his dances in the city. A
New Hampshire rag gatherer wished to
heoome acquainted with a dealer in old
jnuk ; and a young man asked for the
names of all the Boston lawyers on one
postal card. The postmaster is said to
receive two hundred letters a day, and
many of them contain inquiries that
might be addressed to the police or to
About Advertising,
If you have goods to soil, adverliso.
Hire a man with lampblack kettlo
and a brush to paint your name and
number on all the railroad fences. Tho
cars go whizzing by no fast that no one
can read them, to bo sure, bnt perhaps
the obliging conductor woald stop the
train to accommodate an inquisitive
passenger.
Hemomber the fences by tho road
side as well. Nothing is so attractive
to tho passerby as a well painted sign:
" Millington's medical mixture for
mumps."
Have your card in tho hotel register
by all means. Htrangcrs stopping at tho
hotels for a night generally buy a cigar
or two beforo they leave town, and they
need some inspiriting literary food be
sides.
If an advertising agent wants your
business advertised in a fancy frame at
tho depot, pay him abont 200 per cent,
more than it is worth, and let hira put
it thoro. When a man has three-quar
ters of a second in which to catch a
train, ho invariublv stops to road depot
advertisement:", and your card might
take his eye.
Of courso tho street thermometer
dodge is excellent. When a man's
fingers and ears are freezing, or ho is
puffing and "phewing " a the heat, is
the timo above all others when ho reads
an advertisement.
Print in the blackest ink a great !
sprawling card on all your wrapping \
paper. Ladies returning from a shop- j
ping toar like to bo walking bulletins, !
and if the ink rubs off and spoils some I
of their finc-ry, no matter. They never I
will stop at your store again.
Don't fail to advertise in every circus
programme. It will help the circus to
pay its bills, and visitors can relievo the
tedium of the clown's jokes by looking
over your interesting remarks abont
" twenty per cent, below cost," etc.
A boy with a big pla*ard on a JKJIC is
an interesting object on the f.treet, and
lends a dignified air to your establish
ment. Hire abont two
Patronize every ogeui ihai shows yon
au advertising tablet, card, directory,
dictionary or even au advertising Bible
if one is offered at a reasonable price.
Tbo man must make a living.
But don't think of advertising in a
well-established, legitimate ncwH|per.
Not for a moment Your advertisement
would be nicely printed and would find
its way into all tho thrifty households
of the region, whero tho farmer, the
mechanic, the tradesman in other lines
and into the families of tho wealthy and
refined, all who have articles to buy and
money with which to bny them, and in
the quiet of the evening after the news
of the day had l>een digested, it would
be read and pondered, and next day
people would como down to your store
and patronize yon, and keep coming in
increasing numbers, and yon might
have to hire an extra clerk or two, move
into a larger block and more favorable
location and do a bigger business, but
of course it would be moro expensive—
and bring greater profits.
Two Thousand Hen Looking for Hold.
There are at this time scattered
| tbrongh the mountains of California
! two thousand prospectors. Their lives
are spent in looking for signs of gold.
They are poor, and their dress proclaims
it. They live on hope and scanty food,
and never refuse to " take something."
Pick in hand, their sharp eyes are quick
to spy a speck of gold in tho fragment
of quartz turned up. The country is
corered with their little trial shafts and
with stakes marking their pre-emption
claims, always 1,200 feet along the sup
posed outcrop of tho vein. Of 1,000 so
marked perhaps one or two may amount
to something, and one in 1,000 of these
adventurers, after a life of privations,
may succeed in realizing a small com
petency. Bnt they average happier
lives than most people. They imagine
themselves prospective millionaires. A
bit of quartz with three specks of gold
seen through a magnifying glass sets
them wild. There's millions in it. But
their gypsy life end its happier excite
ment unfit them for quiet enjoyment.
In age some give it up and go t>ack to
the wilderness and to tho excitement of
prospecting adventure.— San hVancitco
LeVer.
Where Hosts sre Plentiful.
Tho island of Cyprus is overrun with
goats. It is estimated that thero are
230,000 of these animals on the island,
and planting is almost useless on ac
count of their ravages. " They carry
no wool," says the St. James' Gaz/Ute,
"furnish only s bad meat, and hardly
give more milk than tbo sheep, to which,
however, they .aro preferred on aeconat
of their feeding on ligneous vegetation,
which the sheep reject. They are fed,
therefore, almost entirely at the exponas
of the woods, and not only, it is stated,
does the goat destroy the yonng frethly
growu plants bnt it browses on the
yonng branches of olJer trees. On the
southern mountains, also, where the
•oil is loose, the goat i< accused of in
creasing this looseness by scrambling
about, and thus injuring yonng plants,
which are dragged down and torn away
by the falling of broken stones."
ItadfirAi. j,:, ?! i j
Ferocity of the Creek Brigands.
j One or two stories, oh related by tbo
gang of Greek brigands to Mr. Sutor
(the Englishman who was recently lib
erated on payment of 875,000), round
their evening meal, show not only their
utter beartlessness and brutality, but
also the prido they take in displaying
these qualities. Ar in tides one day came
across an old Turk, out shooting, who
had with him his pioco of forked stick,
which is used in order to obtain a better
aim by resting on the barrel of the gun.
Without the slightest provocation,
and simply for amusement, as he termed
it, the brigand chief strangled the man,
after placing him in a kneeling position,
putting hia fowling-piece to his
shoulder, and resting the barrel on the
crutch in the most natural position, so
that tho passerby would never suspect
but that it was a peasant s|>ortaman in
stead of a corpse. Another anecdote
was told with great gnsto. Niko, the
chief of the band that took Colonel
Hynge, caught a man near a sawmill
whom ho thought ho resign ized. The
conversation commenced thus: "Did
yon not onco spy for me?" "Yep."
" Did I not pay you five liras for so do
ing?" " Yes." "Did you not tell the
soldiers in such-and-such a village that
you had seen me?" "Yes." "Then,"
said Niko, "tuko a bit of paper and jx-n
--cil and write as I tell you—' This is the
way Niko treats traitors.'" After this
was done he first sawod off the man's
right hand, so that he could never write
anything against him; next he deprived
him of his ears, so that ho could hear
no more questions about the band; and
finally cut his tongue out, to prevent
him from telling tales. Then, wrap
ping all these fragments into ahandker
ehief, he bade him walk to the
village, to present them with the note to
tho pasha. The poor man, not daring
to refuse, struggled on until he dropped
down and died from loss of blood. I
could enumerate several other outrages
just as bad, and of which I can guaran
tee the truth, but I think these will
suffice.
Beggar*.
In some instances begging is a profit
able business. A California million
aire says that twenty years ago ho and
his wife eaino to New York. They had
one hundred dollars. He was taken
ill and had to be sent to a hos
pital. When he came out his funds
were gone and he was a wreck, while
his wifo was but skin and bono. He
walked the streets in search of work,
but to no purpose. Utterly exhausted
he sank to the pavement, and fell into a
deep sleep. Hnddenly waking he
stretched his hand to hia hnt, which hnd
fallen from his head. He was surprised
to hear tho rattle of coins. In it wore
twenty-seven pennies, which the pnblic
had thrown in while he slept- Over
joyed be went home, and with his wife
had the first sqnare meal of the week.
•'I determined then," said he, "that
the public which would not pay me for
work, should give me a living for noth
ing " He disguised himself somewhat,
and for three years followed, in differ
ent sections of the city, a system of
lagging. At the end of that time he
had ten thousand dollars in bank and
had lived moderately all the time. He
and his wifo went to Chicago. Lnck
attended hia ventures, anil subsequently
with twenty-flvc thousand dollars they
wer.t to California, where to-day they
lire bappy, respected and rich. The
story is true and carries its moral on its
face. It's not proliahlc that all beggars
aro well off, bnt it is probable that they
arc better off than they appear, while
maDy are thorough shams and hum
bugs.
Language of the llair.
Each of onr features is supposed to
have a language -eyes, nose and month.
Bnt the language of the bair has been
formulated in the following manner:
Straight lank, stringy-looking hair in
dicates weakness and cowardice. Curly
hair denotes a quick temper. Frizzy
hair set on one's head as if each indi
vidual hair were ready to fight its neigh
bor, denotes coarseness. Black bair in
dicates persistent resolution in accom
plishing an object, also a strong predis
position to avenge wrongs and insnlts
real or fancied. Brown hair denotes
fondness for life, a friendly disposition,
ambition, earnestness of purpose, ca
pacity for business, reliability in friend
ship in proportion as tho hair is fine
Very fine hair indicates an even disposi
tion, a readiness to forgive, with a desire
to add to the happiness of others. Per
sons with very fine light brown or au
burn h lir, inclined io cnrl or frizz, are
quick tempered, and are given to resent
ment and revenge.
Old, but good: "Mr. Smith, father
would like to borrow yonr paper; be
only wants to read it." " Well, go back
and tell yonr father to send me his sup
per. • Tell him I only want to eat it."
The Blackfeei Indians call journalists
Cbeetahmoahkaniteharomahgs.yet even
this does not deter collage graduates
from playing like moths around the
journalistic candle. -Detroit Frm Fru*.
TOPICS OF THE DAV.
It was recently stated by Hocretary
Blaine that thero aro 1,500,000 applica
tions on file In the various departments
in Washington for appointments in the
government service.
The prize fiend of the year is tho
man who tied a boy to a railroad track
in Illinois when a train was approach
ing. By some strange feat of twisting
the boy escaped with tho breaking of his
ribs and foot.
It is only a few years ago that petro
leum was discovered in this country.
The export of tbet article last year
amonnted to $10,315,500 against $31,-
'218,G25 in 1880; yet this is but a small
part of tho production.
To-co-bo, the chief of tho Hhoshone
Indians, would astonish his ancestors if
they could see him driving his hand
some Bpan of trotters before a glisten
ing carriage, bis pockets stuffed out
with profitable mining sliarcs. Besides
being largely interested in mines, he
is an extensive breeder of cattle.
California has boon in American pos
session] but thirty-four years, and its ex
ports aro this year moro than twice as
great as those of tho twenty-seven
States and two Territories which com
pose the Mexican republic, though
California's population is less than one
twelfth and its area not more than one
fifth of hers.
England, according to the latest ad
vices, will need at least 128,000,000
bushels of wheat over what has been
produced in tho British islands this
(season. France's product is short, and
ltussia's wheat crop will not much more
than supply the heme demand. There
fore England will have to look to this
country for its anpply.
Believing that lie who makes two
blade* of grass grow where but one
grew ln-foro is a benefactor, B. F. New
comer, ot Baltimore, lias offered a prize
of s'-tOO to l>e divided among the five
farmer bors of his nativecounty (Wash
ington) who sliall next \ear produce the
best yield of corn from lire quarter
acres of ground, 'lho farmer of the
lcst quarter acre will get SIOO, the sec
ond H'Mi, the third $25, the fourth <llO
and the fifth 1? 10.
From Cairo it is learned that in asingle
catacomb in upper Egypt thirty-six
well-preserved sarcophagi of ancient
royal personages hate been brought to
light. They represent almost all the
kings and queens of the earlier Thcban
dynasty, and besides the mummies eon
tain parchment rolls, statues of Osiris,
ornaments, and other funeral articles.
Among the names of Pharaohs on these
coffins are Kaskenen, A men op his 1.,
Ahtne*, Nofretsri. Aahotep. Th trm-s
11. and 111., and Barneses XII.
The prosperity of Georgia is at once
| illustrated and augmented by the diver
sity of industries which are springing
into being in the Htate. Two compa
! nies have recently been organized for
the purpose of working the river leds
of Northern Georgia for gold. Dr.
Little, the State geologist, expresses
the opinion that there is more guhl at
the bottom of the rivers of Northern
Georgia than has been taken out of that
region since gold-mining l>egan there.
These accumulations are due to tailings
and sluicing* from imperfect mining, to
washings from the rich bank* and to
original ore veins in the river beds.
The Yorktown Centennial association
estimates that there will lie present at
the Octol>er celebration not less than
00,000 Masons. There have already been
10,000 troops announced as preparing to
come, and most of those have already
arranged for their transportation. The
Heventh regiment of New York will be
present, and the governors of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu
setts, Rhode Island, tVuinesticnt, NsW
York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Michi
gan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Mississippi
and Georgia have announced their ac
ceptance of the invitations to be present,
and will be accompanied by their re
spective staffs.
For the first month of the President's
illness his food was prepared entirely
by one of the most famnnn nurses in
the world, known as Jim Werni'.ey, pro
prietor now of Wortnley's hotel. A half
century ago he was a jockey, and mvur
a hard ruoo did the little mulatto boy
ride. Worm ley became a nurse and
cook, and in course of time also became
famous in thia capacity. He nursed
Webster and Sumner and Douglas, and
a score of other great men in their last
days. He used to practically manage
Sumner's house. Nothing was pur
chased for it, except a book or picture,
perhaps, that was not bought by Worm
ley. Bo popular did Wormley become
that some wealthy Bostonian* advanced
him the money to start hta hotel, and to
day it is a favorite resort of the capital.
After all, there is said to he away by
which the habit of smoking can be
broken. " One day while crowing the
ocean," (mid Judge Tyner, the assistant
po*tmastor-gencrsl, "I had * severe
P|l of seasickness. I went np on
doc* in the hope tlutt the fresh air
would act M a reviver. Mechanically,
as wan roy habit, I took out a cigar and
lit it. Before it was half consumed the
sickness came on again. Ugh lit make*
me pale to think of it even now. Any
how, overboard went the cigar, and
from lhat day to thin a couple of whiff*
are enough to turn me n pride down. If
you happen to know anybody who waste
to let up on the habit, junt ad vim him
to take a weed and a done of K< wrick
neen together, and I'll warrant you he
wiil he an anti-tolmcco man ever after
ward."
Much han been said in the newspaper*
of Mr. Dorney'n marvelous New Mexican
estate. It embrace* 12,000 to 15,000
acres, and in no located that it com
mandn the water nnpply to tenaof tbou
sandn of acren that he does not own.
The grand jury at Hants Fe ban recently
investigated the mean* by which the
title to lands in that vicinity wan pro
cured. It han found that within the
last three yearn a large number of fraudu
lent entries have been made. Per
sona interested have caused the nec
essary pap-TH to bo filed by Mexicans
unable to speak English, who have
falsely sworn to the period of residenoe
required by law. In many instances the
names of Mexicans long since dead have
been used. The fraudulent title* so ob
tained have been bought up for trifling
sums and consolidated in vast estates.
According to statistics presented at
the recent congress of European brew
ers at Vienna, Europe has about 40,000
breweries, producing nearly 2.500,000,-
000 gallons of malt liquor, threat Brit
ain produces nearly a third, then comes
Prussia, Bavaria and Austria. Bavaria
consume* fifty-four gallons per head;
Belgium (whose beer is chiefly made at
Iouvain, where, too, is her chief uni
versity), thirty; England, twenty-nine.
Outside of Bavaria, u here the verv bathes
lap beer, the average consumption in
Germany is nineteen gallons. In Soot
land it is nine; Ireland, eight and one
quarter; France, four, but steadily in
creasing. The past twenty-five years
have seen an extraordinary increase in
the beer production of Scotland and
Ireland, whore formerly whisky was the
prevailing drink.
Bound ta Bet Married.
The story of a romantic chase, in
which two young lovers and an irate
pursuer figure c in*pie;iou*ly, comes
from Kentucky. Joseph CarpenWr s:,d
Ollic Brown, a las* of fourteen, have
made ono or two attempt* to elope, the
girl's parent*, who live in BootUvilie,
about flfieen miles from the T< unc-see
line, having oppose 1 the marrisge of
the young people. A few days age,
however, thir love affair* reached s
climax. Young Carpenter drove to the
home of bis sweetheart in a boggy, and
pleaded as only an anxious lover can,
with the mother of the girl, who proved
as obdurate as ever. Nothing daunted,
he asked the girl to choose between
himself and her mother. Her answer
was all be could desire, and "catching
her in his arms," as the chronicler re
ports, he leaped into the carriage and
drove oflT. The alarm was raised and a
young j ustice of a police court, mounted
on a fleet thoroughbred, started off in
pursuit of the runaway pair. The race
] was a hot one, and now fortune seemed
to favor the lover* and now the arm of
the law. The Western Icbinvar had
provided himself with s good bone,
aud be reached the Tennessee line a few
minntes before the justice. A town
was reached. '.Squire Fikes was hastily
summoned; the knot was almost tied,
when, alas, up rode the horseman, hot
and angry, and forbade the marriage.
The prudent 'squire hesitated, and
while he was pondering over the
the young people slipped away and
started in hot haste for Gallatin. The
justice was after them with equal speed
bnt his horse threw a shoe snd he suc
cumbed to fate. He arrived, howver,
in season to congratulate the couple
with the best grace possible a few min
utes after they were married at the prin
cipal hotel of the villg\ in the pres
ence of some " specially invited gusts."
Mosquitoes.
Mr. Irers W. Adams writes from Bath
nrst, N. 8., to Fbrgst and Str+nm, that be
tried a dozen proscriptions for repelling
mosquitoes, flies, and similar pests, and
found none of them effective until be
came across the following, which are
dead sure every time:
Three OK. sweet oil, one o*. R*rl>olio
acid. Let it be thoroughly applied upon
bauds, face, and all exposed parts (care
fully avoiding the eye") <""" tr *l
hour, when the flies are troublesome, or
for the first two or three days, until the
•kin is filled with it, snd after this it
application will he necessary only occa
sionally. Another receipt, equally eifc, -
carious. is: Six parts sweet oil, one fart
creosote, one part pennyroyal. Either
of these is agreeable to we, and in no
way injurious to the skin. W* have
both of those in our oump with us, and
U fikm keep a safe distance.