DOG-DAYS IN RUSSIA. FAIRY PLAYS AND OTHER ST. PET* ERSLUHRG FRIVOLITIES. OMmeial Cost Merry the Publi Finland Junketing 1rips at Visit to The Cenr's Ly Petersburgers — Lively Compelt.tive Contests. | ‘or, New York Fun.) The activity of the Russian officials, to all appearances, reaches its highest point fn dog uays vow, a8 In former years there aie scores of different commissiogs and commitices, sub commissions aud subs commitices traveling in all the parts of the country, presumably for the public ends They seem to revise various brane! of the administration, wl te study « n the spot different questions of nat onsl wportance, such as epidemics, ey izunnivs, the aying of new rallwavs the d i f new canals, the improve men! of | he protection | industries truggle against per bt aud he ™ ris ou sul « $ to see his earning their brea | sweat of their brows oui thie ouble 18 that thev (the sub ects know very well that that insea ed display of oi cial activity merely dog days unketing at public cost ryery year as tl vacatiorg approach the tehivrovniks here vie with each ot venting ther inin that Le stand unket ng sented in as | A capital a ina d C8 SOIMe new ¢ shot grasshop marmotis, tin the opening sid of other big y gratilying sectarians of new 3, ' 13 the czars anid 0 Ix Dott pot hb to i" 1 onicials 1s ie ith | ( questions Lhey w, fur ri 1 Willn mude up | the 2° cf Rin SON the to W m day abi up the bere a play of FT, J i at the suc TUE YMe asi suid, “have no se N “Tense 'Y Novoe \ remya Tense at all! 8) graceful mon mimes that tired of ser of stew) ~ oon a Ne ] ever me such is Mme Hike she g Now the other dog see charm they will and not wonderful tive pantomime Competition in Ru lively The czar's Vladimir, 's watch compe titi In apd he d itr prices of silver sp money. Then the Puke Nicholas, over a distance of 100 versts between the cavalry train, the former wi une’e, Grand Duke which of seve demolish its the neighborlio T good crop. It is known here the residents of several village Krasunoe Selo, where the big mancuvers take place, live exclusively on the bullets, cannonballs and bombshells they pick up om their ficlds. A fow days ago, near Cromstadt, there was a race between Hus sine and Finnish yachts, which competed a los rn road MACS 8 noting juicker peasants of God f n batteries i the tare d are well for the prize of the ministry of marine, a | A Hussian yacht won the | six ton yacht prize. As for horse races, we have them almost every day. Kind Hearted Rochefort, th en go It is said of Henrl Rochefort, the Paris. fan editor of Intransigeant, and who has fn its columns advocated the sacking of the British embassy with all the emphasis the French Yous can afford, and who prociaims that Jules Ferry is a criminal the guillotine Is too good for, has really a kindly heart and a sensitive disposition, and that recently, when one of his serv Tribune.) ants was injured. he dashed around bare. | bended until be bad called up half the doctors in the neighborhood Fibor of Bik. of is the longest con known, An ordinary cocoon fod silk worm will often reel and Count Doudole gives an coon yielding nearly 1,800 The thnuous of of na we 1,000 a srrount o yada silk oy “hend al New Yorkers spend me fesa th Win summer recre ation eve f th 8 51.000 000 goes to No I soother 51,000,000 te Lowy Iti answered { brings CIArs | TO MAKF TOBACCO SWEAT. The Process Explained by sm Warehouse Clerk Results Obtained, [Baltimore Hera d.| “Sweating and resweating tobacco," sald a yvouug man in the top story of a South Charles street warchouse “are very interesting and curious industries, ” “What does the term sweating mean?” asked the reporter. “Drying out the rankness and the gum, " the young man, “It also out the dark colors I will ex plain the process to you briefly, It is applied only to the leaf wbacco which is used for cigar wrappers. After the to bacco is cut it is put oa bulk that is. in large piles, where it remains during the winter hen, following summer, after being closely packed it Is put through the first wat It is put on | bulk in lnrge warchouscs like huge bun dies of Lay, and there it stays during the | summer, The natural heat generated | to do the sweating Senet ies mes rent that a pile is set hy spontaneous combust { f n i [ the sufhice the heat be on fire though LoL a AL I 1 le On X Wrap t alter © nthic umes Howmop Fx Ang uies be incomprehensibly The must can not imagive their smallness said that musx goes absolutely no diminution in weight A single drop of the oil of thyme, ground down with a plece of sugar and a little alcohol, will communicate its odor to ! twenty five gallons of water Haller keg t for forty years papers perfumed with one grain of Ambergris. After this the odor WAS AS strong as ever Bordenave has evaluated a molecule of camphor sensible to the smell to 2,262 584 000th of a grain | Boyle has observed that one dram of | asafortida exposed to the open alr had lost | In six days the eighth part of one grain, from which Kelll concludes that in one | minute it had lost one 60, 120th of a grain odoriferous mols musk Wie LL] under smal ns i the same grain of The Apparent Gain Accounted fer ] [Frank Leslie's Niustrated. | According to President Warren, of Boston university, the apparent gain in numbers of the black race over the south Is largely due to the fact that the white is credited by the census simply with fis own white offspring, while the negro is | credited with fis own proper descendants, as well as with all the » rease of the en tire mixed population of the country, and over and above this, with all the children of white men by negro or mixed mothers, and with all the children of white women by negro or mixed fathers | Ganleo Homan None { eago Herald | Twelve mounds of Inelnerated human bones have been dug up in France, st & point which makes it likely that they are the remains of Gaulo Homan warriors whe, in the time of Hannibal, fell In de fending the Rhone nguinet that general's passa ja —-_. | — | BUIner | we imitations of English Swelldom. {Cor Kansas City Times) Newport {s to the rest of America much what Louis X1V is to Benjamin Frank. lin! When one sees a fair lady driven shout in a carriage with four horses, the leaders ridden by postillions, and with two footmen standing up behind, one rubs one s eyes and looks again to see if we are not somewhere else, anywhere else than in republican Ameriean And when one bears a ser ant address a very common place looking young man with: “Yes, my lord, " one hesitates to believe in the per- manence of democratic institutions, ot ton is one thing, New York is another, and | hiladelphia is another, but Newport is the essence of ull Like tne French cook who wanted fifty hams in order 10 get puce enough for one salad Newport takes many cities get the es is juice to make dressing, in 0 order to frivolity, I went to Newport with a man who was very much irritated by all he saw The flunkeys and vants, the parade of alth on every hand struck him as in The appearance a young nsino dressed ul np nk pink neck nk ribbon sround his ha ad § K lov i 5 butte n throw Litt scence of CONEZruous man at the tii q vl snd fitting s y AUCK n a& beaut with shirt and whit lar, a light K CIOL or 8) pear I i ha to ne of i | and women and bear greal l r nt I A If are 31] ‘a } “°n rt Ping waul An English * Cooper's” Success Tid Pita Jack Sparrow, the English “coper,' I pretty well known In the trade, and aly a dealer his wits end to antl A nag for a customer has beth known 0 consult him general with success though they have 19 kap both eyes very wide open to avoid beisk done up. Matching pairs is his forte, a the secret of his success in this line is we wonderful way in which he can carry lu his mind's eye the make, shape, size, aid color of the horsa to be matched, so (RL if, when driving about in his high bred. or in the country, he soos a horse in a db or elsewhere that he thinks likely to sgit Mr. Dash's Wack, bay or brown, which | he has been commissioned to match, he pever leaves it until a deal is brought off, and in ninety nine cases out of 100, when the two are put together, they are found 10 be as like as two peas, and Jack parts with Lis new purchase st a large profit atl Memorining. f I'l ng A professor at the university in Berlin, having tried 11, says that it takes ten times as long 10 commit to memory eighty meaningless syllables as It does to master olghty that have meaning Harald A Hinds Loom. A Hindoo loom complete conte, and weal s shawls silks and mus line, which our most cxpousive apparatus sannot e jus fs worth 68 | THE BLOW-GUN OF THE DYAKS, The “Sampitan” and Js Polsoned Aw row-=A Weapon Silent and Deadly. Cor. American Welt) A peculiar weapon, and one lke we Lave not yet seen, is the * tau” or blow gun of the Dyaks This weapon is a long, straight, and polish od tube of heavy wood, about eight feet long and an inch or two in diameter, bored out with the utmost care, customarily or namented with tweed patterns, and often surrounded at the end with metal At the end, lashed to the side in such a way as not to interfere with the main use of the weapon, is often found a spesr head, giviog the sumpitau a two fold use, and showing us that it was alter casinn who first invented the bayonet The sumpitau shoots a poisoned arrow Thi boul six or eight Lies long, and as thick heavy ng needle, belog fre only thorn At its hase of with which i whose sumpl all no Cau i darn 8 ony Ir nl uently ecret blown -—-it tle wad or bal { pith, which caliber | RIT Rev Lhe h mma has 1 nf | ¥ ished a | A Borax Field in Nevada | Teel Frank Leslie's Mnstrated s marsh, in Nevada, is the most yroduct borax field on the 'scific coast ts deposit covers ten square miles of sur face, and it is sald to include chemically ive soda and carbonate of soda it I» situ sulphate of The basin of Nevada, In which eM orescent salta, washed in course of ages from the soda feldspar of the voleahie rocks and ridges of yellow lava which cover the country for milea The waters of the lnkes are heavy, appear like thin oil, smell like soap, possess great detorsive saponify Somelhing New In Boots Vachange. | Recently a new boot has been introduc ed by a Bristol manufacturer, In which a single spring is placed at the back of the boot, in the space above the heel. The elastic is said to be safer there from fric. tion, and therefore loss Hable to wear oul and to give the ankles more freedom te move Twenty Seven Rillions, England does one third of all the bank ing business of the world The Hank of England holds one seventeenth of all the oposite of Great Britain, The total | amount held fe, In round numbers, $37, 000, 0 H L, OU, pure common salt, borax in three forms, ated, is covered in many parts with dry, | qualities, are caustic as potash, and easily | SECHLER & CO, Groceries, Provisions FOREIGN FRUITS and CONTECTIONERY. MARKET in Connection ETONEW best MEAT ARE «Inalle aalit { AKross ware factory goods io the market OREIGN rewhest VRUITE Ors ahg nods 1 A NEW FIRM. MeCalmont € Co. ete sl Ralls hy asain Ww v n ekviiaL LY. - > " PRE BETTS 1. Va ddedavvivw lal a. taken al cess is certain ANS CELEBRATED STUDIO, TINE for children teeth- 2nd floor Bush Arcade, |'"¢ ieiates oe oO ALI ana Is ie gums, ill allay action, wels. Depend PAINTING, I give red ts PORTRAITS L.A Hey Pra 1 Medicine | r ves truth THAT INSTANCE URE when timely ever known of dissatisfact \ ne who ased it, on the contrary v delighted with its operations, and s speak in terms of beighest commends C. DP. J€ilder. tion of its magical effects and Medical virtue in almost every instance when the infant is suffering from pain and WE WANT 000 MORE BOOK AGENTS A SINGLE are exkaustion, relief will be found in fif teen or twenty minutes after the car MINATIVE i8 This valuable Medicine has been used by Moser EXPERIENCED and SKILFUL NURSES with never-failing success. It not only | relieves the child from pain, but in | vigoiates the stomache and bowels, corrects acidity and gives tone and | and energy to the whole system. It | will almost instantly relieve GRIPING IX THE BOWELS AXD cOLIC and over come convulsions, which, if not speed- ily remedied, end in death. We believe it is the mest and sUREST REMEDY 1% THE woRLD in all cases of Dysentery and Diarrhoea whether it arises from teething or from any other cause, aud say to every mother who has a child suffering from any of the fore-going complaints, do not let your prejadica, mor the prejudices of others, sand between your suffer ing child and relief, that will sure to follow the use of Rymax’'s CARMINA. rive. Full directisos for using will [ accompany each bottle. : | par A trial of the Carminative will recommend it. Price 25 cents per Bottle. Sold by Druggiste and Country Merchants generally. 11. A. Moore'& Co.,proprs. HOWARD, PA. given 1 Summit Poultry Yard.” 8 C exclusively, last MNsOnN Brown ‘Leghorns a speciality, | | bred prize winning birds All are from prise | winner Special n given to | mating to produce the be L results, Sats | isfaction guaranteed, Send stamp for | eireu Lddrers : -—— IX. Tu. Buorinet, Ciearfield Co, Pa | ' 1 my nens itent) Ars, Curwinsville, »
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