TASH FOR OLD LETTERS, The Market Value of Answers Written te Quack Cure-Alls. [Detroit News, | “How do these people who pretend to five advice and send medicine for noth- ng make it pay?” Yr trange as it may seem, ” replied a phy- gisian, “the part of the business which taese quacks advertise to do for the good of humanity pays them nothing at all They are like the Irishman who sold egus at a loss. He said that it was the guin- tity that paid him. The same way with these people. It's the quantity that pays them It isnt the amount of medicine they send cut, either, but merely the pumber of letters received, thut makes that kind of business profitable flow Listen, and 1'11 tell you. Take one case. It is typical! of thousands. A person writes to one of those firms whose adver. tisements appears in every country paper in the union. He may have liver com. plaint, or kidney trouble. Perhaps he is dyspeptic, or suffering from some other kind of disease lie resolves to write to oue of the ‘philanthropists "and thats | precisely what they want They are not after your custom, but they do want your letter. for that is the only merchantable arti le in the whole transaction “There are houses in New York,” he continued, “where they make it a busi ness to simply trade in these letters. Many from a certain house and received a little box of worth ess ground herbs, valued at about 1 cent, has been surprised a short time after to receive circulars avd letters from all sorts of people about everything conceivab'e that can be purchased with money. He wonders how people down east have learned his address. It was that fatal letter he wro'e to the medicine house, As soon as that especial firm had done with the young man his and | thousands of other letters were sold jor a good round sum. The price varies ac cording to the supply and demand | have known a bundle of letters numbering 1.000 to have been sold for 3300, A lew years ago there wasa firm for t' ecure of everything that tlesh is heir to doing busi ness in Detroit. It became bankrnpt and a receiver was appointed, and, upon an order from one of the judges he disposed of about 3,000 letters, receiving therefor nearly $2,000. “You see now why it is to the interest of such men to advertise so liberally in small papers and invite correspondence All these people lay particular stress on the idea that it is not necessary for the patient to make visits. Years of practice in cer tain branches of medicine they claim enables them to proj erly diagnose a case from the letter written. A diagnosis is very easy when the same remedy is ap lied to everyting The writer gets a yox of herb. or a little bottle, or a box of sills, and the sharp gets the leiter, which i of much more value to him than the worthless stuff he sends its writer, Nor are these letters destroyed when once sol i They are passed on and on sold and r sold, till the victim absolutely refu es any more circulars or removes to some other city. His name is then stricken off the list of “greeneys, " and he obtains peace once more, ” How Sympathy Depends on Appearance Chronicle "Underton = I have come to the conclusion that human sympathy, like human respect, oes entirely on appearances. A man may Eo suffering agony from some hidden trouble of the bra n or the body, b will not get half as much sympathy as the it he man whose eyes are watery and whose nose is inLamed from a cold in the head Une fellow wiil have a headache that is split ting that portion of his anatomy open, but the fellow with the hollow couga will di vert every atom of humaa feeling in the vicinity. I don't know anything more ex asperating than to have some one te'l you how well you are looking when you're dying of indigestion. It's like watching a fellow crack ruts with his teeth when youve got the toothache It | is much more bearable to be told you look sick when you are well than to be con gra ulated upon your healthy appearance wh 'n you are sick. The average human being will not be lieve a man 8 starving unless he can see his ribs A man never gets much sympathy | for a broken leg until it is all done up in splints. A carbune le on the back of a fellow's neck will inspire more pity than a hidden spinal compls nt. A man may travel around with an asoeurism of the sorta and the fellow who has the shrewd. ness io go 10 bed with a sick headache will get all the ellies and stuff Lis lady friends can send him. This is a queer world “ Everybody tells me I'm looking we pL" said a cynical fellow the other night “ast week | had a cold io my head and everybody sympathized with me Now that it has gone down and tackled my bronch al tubes, I feel as if 1 were in for consumption, 1 don’t get any sympathy at all.” The Term “Chestant. (Chicago Times | It Is with genuine satisfaction we learn that the term “chestnut, "as applied in the colloquial slang of the day to a stale joke, implies no re ection upon the charac ter of the chestnut of commerce and the Italian roasting machine. A gentleman writing to the New ) ork Sun asserts, with every appearance of authority, that “chestnut, " as opprobriously applied to a joke, was first concerning some hoary witticisms in the performance of a min strel esanpany st the Chestnut Street theater, | hiladelpbia. One of these was repeated in the lobby of the Continental hotel in that city, and the relater was tly reprimanded on the ground that estnut Street theatre had a copy: right om it From this actors came to ap ply the single word “chestnut” to every they heard frequently repeated ithout this los the public niga have gone on using the term “e ut, " supposing all the time that it derived its slang significane: from the very unpleasant sensation occasioned by biting into a “most seeming fair™ nut of the custanes vulgaris only to fill the mouth with the bitterness of its mold ‘or the dustiness of its must, prom the C Cattle Shrinking by Shipment. (National Brockman. | Those not conversant with the sub ect would hardly suppose that cattle will shrink more in process of shipment in severe cold than in severely hot weather, yet such is the case Indeel, nothing will so quickly reduce the weight of a ri animal as to subject it Lo a long ride in a stock ear with the thermometer below zero. Animal life is sustained by combustion, and the bullock or pig in transit through an icy stmosphere is being slowly burned up in tesh and Death for One Blunder. Among the 1,200 laws wgalating the Freach press is one ue dp rig ned threatens the proof reader with death for even one blunder, Japanese girls, it is said, use their fingep- a Ae : The "Curse of Seotland.' fotloago News) A popular theory is that the nine of diamonds is called “the curse of Scot land” because the duke of Cumberland wrote an order on it before Culloden, This is disproved by the fact that the card was known by that name some time be fore—and, en passant, it may be remarked that exactly the same story is told of the duke of Monmouth before the battle of Bothwell Brig Other explanation are: Firt, the arms of the detested earl ol Siar, who promoted the union, re | motely resemble the nine of diamonds. second, “curse” is a corruption of “cross,” nud the nine pips on ca ds were in the form of a St. Andrew's cross | third, every ninth King of Scotland has been “a tyrant and a curse to that coun try:" fourth, a thief in (ucen Mary's reign attempted to steal the crown jewels he got away with the opine dinmonds, and all Scotland was taxed for the theft fifth, King James IV. before | lodden, spent time searching for a missing card the nice of d amond which time would | have been better spent in preparing for the fight on the morrow; sixth, Mary of Lorraine others say . aines duke of york introduced the game of “comette™ inl Scotland, the nine of diamoods is the win | ning card, and many of the Scottish | nobility lost sums they could iil afford at | the game; seventh, the Scots held in ut most detestation the pope At the game a man, after having written for medicine | of 10, e Joan, the nine of dismonds is pope therefore the nine of diamonds is | the “curse of Scotland. ™ With al these | | theories, one will do well dot to believe { too obstinately In the story of the “Rough on Coughs." Ask for “Rowmga on Coughs" for Coughs, ( ‘lds, Sore Throat, Hoursen oss, I'roches, 10e Liquid, Lhe, “Rough on Rata” Clears out inls, “hee, ronches, flies, ante, bed Yugx, skunk chipmunk gophers. 1bc. Druggists, "Heart Paine.” Palp'tation, Dicpeical, Swellings, Diz | ziness, Indigestior, Headache, Nee) le | noes, cured by CWell's Health Renews “Rough on Corns’ Quick complete cure Hird or sof corns warts, buniens, “Rough on Paln’' Poroused Plas'er; Strengthening, improv d, the hed or backache, pRins in the chestor side, rheumatism, neuralgia, ‘Thin People “Wall's Henitt Henewer' restore | health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, | Headache, Nerveousness, Debility, $100 Whooping Cough, | and the many Turoat Affections of | children, promptly, plessantly aud «nfe ly relieved by “Rough on Coughs Tro 1] | shes : Balsam, 279 “Mothers” and nervous, use “Well's Health | Renewer."”” £1. Druggiste, “butcher's dis atch,” as Cumberland's | message “Spare none, ” alleged to have been written on the nine of diamonds, is | termed Experiencs in a Cyclone. (Macon Telegraph and Mess gor Capt. Thomas T. Roach thus describes | his experience in the ¢_ clone: “1 heard a noise outside and ran out to see what it was, I saw at some d stance off a heavy black cloud, funnel shaped and twisted at the bottom like a screw. It seemed whirl ing with immense rapidity and was com | ing through the woods itke a wild animal it was just awful. People began to cry out and run around distracted and 1 felt very queer, | saw that big black thing com ouncing aloug like a great cannon ball and | concluded I was about to away with it and be ao angel. The cloud did not lie close to the ground, but bounded up and down, jumping clear over the tops of some of the trees and tearing others to pieces “1 thought | would lie down awhile | selected a spot that wa ful of wat | dont know why 1 chos uch a pla may be it was because | wa ina and did not have time to choose well It was a soft place. however, and had its at tractions at that moment fter | had got myself well settle! in the mud | saw that the cycloce was givinz me the goby It passed about 206 vards to my left and tore things up terribly There was a tree standing there in full view Tue cyclom struck it about forty feet from the groand turned the branches and all around a half a dozen times like lightn' ng, and the snatched the whole wu; per portion kindling wood and carried it off an awe inspiring «ight andl, although glad I saw it, | don't want to see it agai ~—not $0 close, anyhow. ” Curing a “Masher.” Minasaplis Baz came into the sanctum selling letter and patent bill holders. She was wind sweet, and somewhat talkative y life is hard, <he said, "but I have a jolly lot of fun Wien | was att Paul I stop] ed at the Science hotel "Yy husband ‘s a traveling man and was | town at the same time. [| happened to meet a bible agent, who was determined i should go to work for him-—got mashed a little, 1 think. Anyway, he followed me about until I got rather tired of it He wanted to call and see me at the hotel, and I let him come’ “Now, my husband stands six feet two | and is built like John L. Sullivan, aod | when that little Bible ped ler got into our room the sweet, sunny sm'le died out of | his face, and when my husband took him lon his knee and told him sweet litle stories about good little children that had | | gone to heaven and had their pictures pre | served tn Sunda; school books 1 thought | he wou!d die. My husband told him he was ren) glad to find such a nice little fel jow, and was so glad be liked me, and him but [ must go fools of themselves,” and gathering uj | her samples she went away. “Rover Cattle” In Florida. Book Reviewer | In an interesting sketch of “Life in Florida," in one of the chapters of her book Mary Treat says “Lage herds of cattle have ther foudiog grounds in the rivers and streams n coves of the St .ohas are acres ~f ‘U3 volisneria spiralis which g. ows ws nuk as grass upon the barrens. The grass like leaves are from one to three feel long and the slender spiral fHowering s'ems are often five feet. Somctimes hunlreds of cattle may seen together feeding upon water, they 611 their mouths, then ele natives call them river eattle, and say » true river animal will not feed on the bar rena With this plant the cattle eat a large quan of animal food. Thickly adhering to the leaves are coun less small cocoons holding the larve of a chronom ous fly. This kind of diet and manner of feeding ought in time, ac orling to I'ar win's theory, to evolve a new species of bos, ” A New od of Powder {Chicago Tribune It is said that Krupp, the gunmaker, has introduced a new Kind of power. It is known as brown powder, owing to ils pecul ar color, which resembles that of chocolate, and owes its discovery to a mere accident. The brown powder ap pons to have a decided advantage over the sack in producing a greater velocity with an o ual | ressure of gas, and Is applicable to guns of every caliber. The remarkable fact about it is that it explodes only in a tightly closed ap e, while in the open air or ina powder-box it ignites slowly ani without explosion, although it is sald to consist of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, like the black powder, the difference con. sisting in the relative proportions of these ingredients Ontoenl snd Dyspepsia [Chieago Tim s The fact that Carlyle did not «scape dys by oatmenl las atiracted general sitention to that srticleof food. A *rench | hygiciam has pointed out that the Bootch, eat more Stim than say tude people, are preeminently a p people so long as | romain Thane and adhere to their diet, and he | rightly argues from tis fact that ontmes) | is exeoptionnlly didicult to digews that when we got rich we would adopt “No, 1 don't nirt: but it is Impossible to | keep some conceited puppies from making | the bays and | this plant, standing up tw their backs | in water With ends en'‘rely under | vate them to chew sud swallow, The | Life Preserver lf you are losing your grip o° bife try | Wells" Health Renewer.' Goes direct | towenk spots Rouch on Toothache” . 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