A Tlnv Nhiy a lop.
1'nrinft CBptftin AVliito'n trnvi'l in
Oorliin China tho tlien Viceroy pnvo
Inm ft niORnitioont tiRross tivo loot
loiifr mui llirco fret high.
On rrnrliiiiff Haipoii, whorplie found
tiop; dirt rhonp, lie tisrd to give bis
jrt ono of those uninisl every tlnv.
Tho clop wns thrown nlivo into lirt
ORgc. Who wonlil jilny with it nwhilo
rb R cnt phiTs with n niousr, then lior
vrn would begin to glisten nnd her
tnil to qnivor; bIio seized her prey 1v
the neck Riid in n minute or two it
wan all up with poor "bow-wow."
One tiny, however, a puppy, peem
ingly in no wrj- different from tho
common herd of puppien, insteRd of
tBiuely nubmittinp to liin fnte, hhowed
fight. It miRp)ed Rt the tiprenn'H hobo
Rnd bit it till the blood cfline. Tho
tigreHs, fRr from repenting the attack,
accrued to treat it rs n joke, Rnd when
the Rpirited little dog grew tired of tho
fun the tigress patted it bh if it lud
been r cub of her own. Then the two
lay down Riid had n eonifortRble imp.
Thenceforth they wero tho bent of
friends, Rnd to humor this queer
friendship Captain White IiriI R sihrII
hole, cnt in the tigress's CRge, thut the
puppy might po and conio rr it
j)leaHcd. It often took a trot abroad,
but it always returned to its dog-devouring
friend.
To test the extent of the tigress's
affection a strange dog was offered to
it one dny at dinner time, and was
then hastily snatched from its hungry
jaws and the puppy friend thrown
into tho cape. But friendship tri
umphed over tho pangs of hunger
and not on this occasion only, but
whenever tho Captain's crew thought
tit to repeat tho experiment. St.
Louis Kepublie.
Hlstm of Ktahtom Sine tylnnr.
Tho olil saving : "A proon Christmas
makes r fat graveyard" Is often verified, ami
it further says, that the year will bring forth
much sickness, wherein pains and aches,
rheumatic complaints, sorenoss of joints and
limits will abound. In the olden times thero
were few preventives for pain, few euros for
complaints, tt is not so now. Even old
fctiuita t'laus has learned a thing or two. In
many a Christmas stocking was found a bot
tle of St. Jacobs Oil, tho best known, surest
remedy for all such troubles. All years have
their prophesies, and no year Is without Its
record of surprising cures wrought by this
wonderful medicine.
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any raw of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
ilall's Catarrh Cure.
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footly honorable In all business transactions
snd financially abta to carry out any obliga
tion mode by their firm.
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Ohio.
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This remarkable, almost unheard-of, yiel.l
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ern Oats, carefully tilled and IrriRated samp,
and believes that In lrtiH he can crow from one
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Hniiuhlai Truchct." Sold only in four. l'riceS
ecu is.
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A won?erlil stomach corrector Beecham'f
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After Diphtheria
His life bung as by a thread, Hrvnpth fuiltwl
litin and hla tleh bloaUU. Hood's Sarsaparilla
purl fled bis blood, built up hi syntem, (rave
bitn streiitfth aud alho benefited bU catarrhal
trouble." Must. l W. Smith, Tunbridxe, Vt.
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I have given it to my baby for Croup
with the most satisfactory results.
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writ lr yfeV??J
TEMPERANCE.
A rASTEU
My friend was a (junst ot tbe morning triln ,
And once, as n prospentis town it noared,
He Idly glanced through the wlndow-p ine,
And'this Is the picture that appeared :
A nood-face.l man in a fiendish plight :
His cheeks were bloated and stains I with
rod :
He slept the day of a sin-cursed night,
A pillow of stones bene.it h his hea 1.
By lilm the midnight's revelling slorm
Kent stains to the morning's balniv breath,
And manhood's towering, godlike form
Lay low In tho tomb ot n druukard-dcith.
And close by his side a woman stood.
Ami brooded this wreck of a man above,
Her brow was a glimpse of all things goo 1 ;
Her eyes were symbDls of borne and love
Stood close by bis side, an I yet apart,
A motionless gesture ot despair.
As If she would elasp him to her heart,
If only tho man himself were there.
She stood as maybe, if she had known
What marks the one sho bad found there
lore,
She had prayed to Coil with a bitter moan
To keep her searching for evermore.
She stood like one who had felt the touch
Of needless worry and senseless strife :
Who early In years had learned how much
Of denth there Is in a woman's life.
She stood like one who had set n goal :
Who ne'er by her Ood would be denied,
Tntil He had helped her lend that soul
Safe up to the hill-lops by her side.
All this appeared in a moment's glauee
This tliish-liglit pictureof grief and wrong
The train made sudden nnd swift advance.
But carried tho husband aud wifo along.
For ever after, my friend eontossed.
Went with him that sueno of crime nnd
pain :
Through days of striving and nights of rest
It bung in the halls of his heart and brain.
And other pictures are wont to throng :
Ot sleeping children and waking wives
Wnitingand waiting the whole night long
For one they love as they love their lives
Of praying for him till night is o'er ,
Ot listening for his step in vain ;
Then searching as it on Ileitis of gore.
And finding him almost worse! bun mIuIii.
Dut sometimes these will vanish nw.iy :
And Faith is painting a promise bright
That Ood, nnd Woman, and Home, soma
day,
Will draw Mankind to the hills of right.
Will Carloton. in Harper's Weekly.
rnOHIBITIOH IM INDIA.
The Nawab of Junagad, India, lias lsstf.l
the following prohibition proclamation :
"Whereas it is opposed to the tenets ot tho
Mohammedan religion to denveany revenue
whatsoever by letting out contracts for
liquor. It is hereby proclaimed by His Hign
ness the Nawab Sahib ot Junagad. that the
practice of farming out contracts for spirits
shall be no longer permitted in His Higii
ness'sterritories from this day forward. It is
further proclaimed that it is His HighnessV
wish that ail existing Abkaricoutraclsshoul l
forthwith be brought to a speedy termination
by un amicable settlement of their claims.
FEARFUL TO COHTEUPLili.
Archbishop Ireland says : "It is fea:'ulfi
think of it, but In this Nation of the Vnita.i
States over f 1.000.000,000 annually are spout
in the direct traffic in iutoxicating liuuoie.
besides Its being the cause of the waste .
much more money. Men are uuublc to wor'i
beoause of Injury done to tholr nppotites by
drink. Time Is absorbed in drinking ; thi
country's resources are scattered totbc winii.
It would be much bolter if the money given
to drink were taken and cast Into the lake ;
at least, it would then leave behind it no
harm."
piNciEnocs occrrvrioss.
Doctor Abbott stiys, in tho Indcpcn lent,
that those businesses whose mentuers die
youngest are just those wliicliolTcrthoKrcut
ost temptations to the, use, of intoxicating
liquors. The death rate among bnrkuepuni
and workmen in breweries Is frightfully high.
If a man wants to live long he must avoid
such a business It fs more' ilruivrous to
one's hewtth to tend a bar than it is to breathe
the sharp, metalio dust to which one is ex
posed wno grinds cutlery. Wliisky is more
poisonous and dangerous than the white lead
with which painters stain their hands. Put
ting the mortality of clergymen at 100, the
mortality of those who attend a bar runs up
to 8'J7, nearly four times as many deaths, and
no amount ot sanitary conditions can uiaur
thelr business heultby.
A rATHETIC WIf.
Tha Heading Times calls attention to the
fac: that the will of tho great brewer, Henry
Clausen, ot New York, just tiled, has a
pathetic censure of n dissipated son, to
whom he leaves the interest ot 20.000, with
similar bequest to lus sons wile, rne
claise in the will relating to the son, aftei
re. erring to the testator a repeated failures
to reclaim him from habits of dissipation,
says "I deem it wis? to limit my provision
for nim auJ bis lamity to tne bequests nere
iu made for him and his wife, to the end that
they may be seeurel Itorn absolute want,
bu. i nave been convinces ot tne lutuuy ot
making any other or further provision foi
bi n by liia persistent refusal to adopt such
methods ot living as would indicate any
ability for the useful application ot any
greater income than I have herein pro
vided." It is pathetic, and yet It might be re
marked, which is even more pathetic, that
but for the similar dissipation aul ruin o(
thousands of sous of other parents, llrewer
L'iausen would possibly not bave had tbe
immense lortuue to distribje of which the
handsome "provision" o( the interest of
iO.OOO to his son nnd wife, is considered
tucb a "limited" bequest.
The doal brewer's foresight in trying to
'..Hep his dissipate! son from "absolute
want," is commendable for the fatherly
ftcling aud interest which it Bhows, but it
i. pleasantly culls attention to the other side
i the picture.
lirewer Clausen grew fat nnd flourished
c;i dissipated sous, and the woe of broken
hearted parents, aud neither in commercial
tv any other seuse did be give au equivalent
cr bis fortune. Trenton (N. J.) True
I merican.
TEMPERANCE, 1.WS AND NOTES.
General Herbert has banished the "can
teen" from the militia department of Canada.
The National Temperance Hospital has
treated twenty-four Iree patients during the
year lately closed.
The revenue statistics show that less than
I'Ue-fonrth as much liquor is used in Maine
i.s is the average in our country.
The quantity of fermented liquor con
sumed last year in this couutry equals near
ly one-half barrel for each man, woman and
ihild ot our population.
In forty-four Mates aud Territories 13,000,-
00O children now receive scientific instruction
ln the physical and mental effects of the use
of alcoholic liquors. All ba.l to the w. . T.
i . for tins couutnuiatloQ.
Jly a very moderate estimate it is shown
that the coit of caring lor the paupers,
criiiiiuuls and insane caused by tbe drink
trallic amounts to uu average of twelve dol
lars u year for every family ir the United
Mates.
The money now spent for drink gives env
t'lovuteut nllou'cthcr to less than half a mil'
iiou men; it this same amount ot money
were expended in other lines of business it
would give employment to nearly two mil
lion men at two dollars a day.
Hon. O. V. ltw, Minister of Education
for Ontario, regards it essential that tbe
scieutiile aspect id the temperance que
lion bhould be placed In tbe lorclrunt
all puoiie s,'boo!, an I a deilnite place given
to tbe Mioject ou tliescliool tluie-table.
The V. V. C. T. I'., ot Providence, It. I
sustains a tea room, which is lurgcly pat
ronix.'d : lias a library of seven hundred vol
nines ; u summer rest cottage for working
girls completed and well luruished ; and an
ice wilier fouuluiu ready fur use on tbe great
bridge next summer.
Mis Willur l s:ivs . "Woman' patient
steadtastnes iu lollowiug the enemies ol
tni?,w sue luves 'tbrttiili every laue ot lite,
has ied her lo anluoiti.e the liquor hubil
and t be bq lor tiarti : right where they are,
1 f jUe doe. ibi. -m a they are everywUefC
AN AUTHORITY ON SNA MS,
VH. WTETH BATS THK RATTLER IS
A NOBLE ANIMAL,
Popular Misinformation IIrmlfs
Itrptllcs With Hail Rrputntlons
Oenrrrs of Venom.
WHEN every one. knows as
much nbont anakea as
Dr. John A. Wyetta there
will not be anch a general
dread of them, particularly of rattle
snakes, "Tho rBtllesnnke," said the Doctor
to a Snu reporter who asked him to
tell BomethinK about unnkca, and
assured him, iu answer to the Doctor's
question, that it, was snakes out of
boots, not in them, lie wan after,
"the rattlesnake is the king of
reptiles. He is as brave as he is
powerful, never attacks without
provocation, and then never without
a warning. I should never kill one
unless 1 wanted it to dissect or unless,"
and here it was the father, uot the
scientist, who spoke, "I found one
near whera my children happened to
bo vhtying."
The Doctor's opinion of tho rattle
snake is based entirely upon hiB ob
servations of ita personal courage and
fairness in battle; he does not seek to
deprive it of auy of its reputation as a
particularly venotuous serpent. Its
venom is the most poisonous of any
American reptile, and is second only,
so far as is known, to the cobra. The
order of "toxicity" in serpent venom
that is, the comparative deadli
ness is cobra, rattlesnake, Ameri
can copperhead, moccasin, and
spreading adder. The chemists
have been experimenting with the
venom of rattlesnakes until they are
able to talk about it like au expert
witness in a poison murder trial. Dr.
Wycth, in the second edition of his
work on surgery, in considering tho
subject poison, quotes Dr. Weir
Mitchell as saying that rattlesnake
venom is from greenish to a st raw tint
in color, and there have been chemi
cally isolated from it three proteids
venom peptone, venom globuline and
venom albumen. It is the globuline
that is intensely poisonous, and its
toxio properties are destroyed by
bromine, iodine, sodium and potas
sium permanganate. If you do not
happen to have any of these in your
vest pocket. Dr. Wyeth gives the eqnnl
weight of his authority in pronouncing
whisky (or alcohol in some other form)
as the best physiological antidote.
Dr. Wyeth is an Alabamian and
lived in his native State for many
years when, as ho says, snakes wore
very plentiful.
"There it was, he said to the Snn
reporter, "that I learned to know and
respect the maDy virtues of the rattle
snake. I also observed many physi
cal traits of that and other snakes
which disprove many popular beliefs
concerning them. The belief seems
quite general, for example, that the
rattlesnake coils itself in preparing to
spring. Now the facts happen to be
that it neither coils before delivering
a blow nor springs, so that it leaves
the ground entirely, in its delivery.
"When a rattler has made up its
mind that it ia time to strike it raises
the forward half of its body, the pos
terior half, or about that proportion,
remaining on the ground, sometimes
in a loop. The forward part is drawn
back upon this fixed portion in the
shape of a letter . The stroke is
made by a quick straightening out of
the forward half in a straight lino,
but the part of the body on the
ground remains in one spot, as does
the rear foot of an expert boxer as be
straightens out his body and arm to
deliver a blow. The rattler can re
peat that blow with surprising rapidity.
If you hold a stick at a distance where
the snake can strike it the poison is
emitted. It has a peculiar sweetish
and quite unpleasant odor.
"I saw an account, recently iu a sci
entific paper, written by a scientist, of
'Suicide of Kattlesnakes. I very much
doubt both the intention and the pos
sibility. It is a well established sci
entific; fact that serpent venom pro
duces no poisonous effect in the tis
sues of the reptile which produces it,
or in the tissues of any venom-pro
ducing reptile. That snakes do bite
themselves sometimes I know from ob
servation, for I have seen them do so
when striking at a stick with which
they have been pinioned. It is possi
ble too, that they may bite themselves
when enraged from any other cause,
but I doubt the suicidal intent."
Dr. Wyeth is inclined to dis
count much of the belief in the dead-
lincss of reptile poisoning.
"Ihe venom of the scorpion in the
Orient does sometimes produce
death," he says, "but the sting of the
Aorth American scorpion is not dan
gerous. I have failed to hear of a
single death from scorpion bite, al
though I have made personal inquiry
of numorous physicians practicing in
the south and West. Once in xsortb
Carolina I was out surveying, and in
steadying myself while fixing an in
strument I placed my hand on a decay
ing stump of a tree, and was bitten on
the palm by a scorpion, which clung
to my hand when I raised it. I shook
off the reptile, expressed the wound,
and sucked it, too, I believe. No in
convenience, whatever, resultod from
the wound.
"The tarantula is also considered
very poisonous. This is also an error,
I believe. Dr. Thomas A. Popo,
of Texas, who has had great exper
ience iu this matter, wrote to me thut
iu all his practice he knew of but one
death resulting from tarantula bite. In
thut cauo death was not produced from
the direct effect of tho poison, but by
choking, caused by swelling of" the
iieck, where the man had beeu bitteu.
"To return to my pet, the rattler.
He is as fearless a fighter among
snakes us he is with his natural en
emies, men and dogs. I have never
seen him whipped by auy other kind
of snake, although one witness, whom
I know to be a careful observer, told
me that ho once saw a rattlesnake half
swallowed by a oonstrictor. lie may
have been mistaken iu the half snake
he saw. I believe as 1 ouco wrote :
The rattlesnake is too proud and
brave to run, is a fighter every inch of
him, although never first to attack,
aud always notifies his antagonist that
he is there before delivering his blow.
He is iu truta a noble animal.' "
Dr. Wyeth said thut he proposed to
uiuke uuniliel of dissections of snakes
wheu next vinitvd. lu old Louie, us
there is much about their anatomy
conrewiing which present knowledge
is very vagn. Here is a very curio
thing about the Doctor. He cannot
endure to see a snake in captivity, and
would suffer much to be obliged to see
them as they are exhibited iu cages.
More curious yet, he says that he
starts as nervously as a woman at a
mouse if ho even chances to open a
book or paper in which there la a
snake picture. New York Sun.
SELECT SIFT1NUS.
The world's coffee output is 650,000
tons.
Tho Tartars take a man by the ear
to invite him to cat or drink with
them.
Trout, culture has been successfully
undertaken iu South Africa, the eggs
having been carried there from Eng
land. During tho last century an original
copy of Magna Charta, seals, signa
tures and all, was found in the hands
of a tailor who was about to cut it up
for patterns.
There is a bold ridge of gray vol
canic mountains in the Cape Verde
Islands, the crest of which is said to
form an exact likeness of George
Washington.
There is at Oxford, England, a por
trait of Charles I. composed of minute
letters. The head and ruff contain the
book of I'salms, the apostles' creed
and the Lord's prayer.
Tho diamond is not among the earli
est gems known to man. It has not
been found in the ruins of Nineveh, in
the Etruscan sepulchres nor in the
tombs of the Phoenicians.
At a recent sale in England of Shet
land ponies from tho stud of the Mar
quis of Londonderry, a diminutive
animal, only thirty-four inches high,
brought the top price, forty guineas,
or two hundred and ten dollars.
A curious animal captured on the
African coast in IS51 was called the
"talking fish," though it waa really
a species ol soau Among other in
numerable tricks it was taught to
articulate the words "mamma,"
papa" aud "John."
Mohammed was vastly more con
siderate to cats than he was to infidels.
He possessed a largo number of pur
ring pets, aud it is said that on one oc
casion wheu a pet cat was lying asleep
upon his slecvo ho cut tho sleeve off
rather than awaken pussy.
In Vienna, Austria, tho servant girl
is not permittod to climb out on a
window sill to clean windows without
safety belt and rope attached to it
which fastens to the building, so that
n case she should slip or lose her
balance she is suspended in safety and
can be drawn back into tho window.
The citizen of Dijon, France, have
just voted a tax for pu'Ung a railing
around a tree which riands within the
city limits. The treo bears a label
which informs tbe sightseer that it is
the oldest poplar iu France. The
Town Council has a record trading
the history of the tret since the year
722 A. D. It is 122 feet in height and
forty-five feet iu circumference at the
base.
An Old Idol.
A letter in the Philadelphia Times
describes a curious old idol reoently
discovered on tho banks of the Sabine
River in Texas. The image was nearly
four feet high aud was of a three
headed man, with the scales of a tur
tle coveriug tho entire body. The
idol is hollow and contained the skele
ton of a young child placed in it in an
upright position, the head fitting into
that of the god. Whether the child
was thus sacrificed to the god or the
image merely used as a repository of
the dead body cannot be decided. The
carving on the idol shows a degree of
skill uncommon among the Indians as
existing now or as found here by the
early settlers, and as the banks of this
vicinity were evidently erected by a
people antedating these, it is probable
that the image was of their religion
also. It is of stone, and is composed
of four or five pieces neatly cemented
together with a substance not recog
nized by any mason who has seen it.
The union of the several stones em
ployed in it is so cunningly done that
only a close examination reveals it at
all. The eyes are of agate, and cut
with the skill of a finished lapidary ;
and, by some contrivance, are bo ar
ranged as to move in the head from
side to side and to close by the shut
ting down of lids of silver. The
panther claws are also of silver, and
the foet are of obsidian highly pol
ished. One of the three heads wears
a benign expression, while another
grins maliciously, and the third
frowns heavily and shows clenched
teeth of obsidian ; doubtlessly the
three countenances showing the vari
ous attributes of the god represented.
Ice Skippers Must Have Nerve.
"Let her go! Whoop! Whoopee I"
The rest of this ebullition of hilarity
emanating from a gentleman who was
one of a party of five enjoying the
glorious excitement of iceboating on
Lake Pewaukee, was lost in the roar
of the blizzard. The aforesaid young
mau kept his mouth shut for a few
seconds, for the all-suffliuent reason of
keeping his teeth from being blown
dowu his throat. With three men on
the runner ou the windward side, to
hold her dowu, the boat lay over so
that the windward runner was five feet
iu the air, with tho three men cling
ing to the wire stay like monkeys to
a buuyau tree. The hardy skipper was
holding the tiller with both hands and
tho weight of his body thrown as much
as possible to thu windward sido.
The boat was at its highest speed
when within fifty yards of the shore,
and the thought that flashed like
lightning through the minds of those
aboard was "will he be able to bring
her to?" Everything depended upou
him, and a glance at him as he sat
there with a look of grim determina
tion depicted upon his bronzed fea
tures wan such as to inspire implicit
confidence. Had anything broken, a
block or stay giveu way, the party
would have beeu stuck up among the
branches of the pine trees thut lined
the shore. HUo was beautifully
brought about, however, within twenty-five
feet of tho shore. The run was
a good mile and a half, and it was
made in the wonderful time of one
minute and thirty seconds, Milwau
kee (Wis,) HentiueU
ttf w - -r ic-s 4"n T tt--t,
1
The Young Orator Squelched.
Senator Voorheee often entertains
his friends with reminiscences of his
early law practico, says the Household,
when he was struggling laboriously to
make a reputation aud to get on in the
world. He was employed at one time
in tho defense of a murderer. It was
a desperate case. Tho evidence of the
crime was direct and positive. His
client's reputation was bad, and there
seemed to bo no extcnuatiug circum
stances. The young lawyer's only
available resotirco was oratory in sum
ming up the caso. Ho threw himself
into his work with characteristic ardor.
The Kentucky court room andienoe
was profoundly affected by his elo
quence. Tho jury in tho box were
overcome with emotion, and sevia'
members of the panel were wi in ;
their eyes suspiciously when the orato.
took his seat.
The prosecuting attorney was an old
man, gruff in manner, and with a shrill,
piping voice. . He had listened to the
appeal of young oorhecs without a
sign of sensibility. He had not, how
ever, overlooked the effect which had
been produced upon the susceptible
jury. He rose slowly from his seat
and took a pinch of suuff with great
deliberation. He looked at the bench
and then glanced sharply in tho direc
tion of the jury- Then ho remarked
with a strong nasal twang :
"Gentlemen of tho jury, you might
as well understand from tho very be
ginning that I am not boring for
water 1"
There was an instant's pause, and
then tho audience was convulsed with
merriment. A single dry sentence from
tho shrewd old prosecutor sufliced to
overwhelm with ridicule the eloquent
pleadings of his ambitious opponent,
who bad no case, yet had nearly suc
ceeded by his eloquence and pathos in
securing the acquittal of tho prisoner.
Then, taking a second pinch of snuff,
and paying no further attention to the
argument for the defense, the prose
cutor summed up the evidence iu a
plain, business-like way, and compelled
the jury, by sheer force of reason and
common sense, to convict the mur
derer. To Toll Around the World.
The travels of tho Columbian Lib
erty Bell will bo far more extensive
than have hitherto been mentioned.
Not only did it leave the Grand Cen
tral Palace iu New York to go to Nash
ville, New Orleans, Mexico and the
Mid-winter Fair at San Francisco, but
J. D. Prince, under whose manage
ment its extended tour will be made,
announces that the bell will be taken
to the continent of Europe for a stay
of at least a year.
First it will go to England, to be
ruug on the historic meadow of Kunny
mede on June 15, 18i4, in a celebra
tion by the English -speaking world of
the anniversary of tho signing of the
Magna Charta. After that it will be
taken to France to participate in anni
versaries connected with political
freedom, and to Germany for the same
purpose, its next destination being St.
Petersburg, where it will bo rung on
the anniversary of the emancipation
of the serfs.
Next it will go to Italy aud thence
to Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo
aud thence through Australia, India,
China and Japan, back to the Pacific
coast, making virtually a circuit of the
world. G. 8. Knapp, custodian for
tho Liberty Hell Committee of the
Hons and Daughters of tho American
Revolution, accompanied by his wifo
uml sou, George M. Knupp, assistant
custodian, will go along with the note
worthy relic of the Chit-ago Exposi
tion. Washington Star.
motheiis
and thoM soon to ba
coui mothers, should
know that Doctor
PmriWi Favorita Pr-
. eripUon robs child
l birth of itM tnrtnrML
terrors and dangers
to uoia uioioar iiiu
child, by aiding; nat
ure in preparing th
(gystem for par-
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shortened. It also promoted the secretion of
aa abundant of nourishment for the child.
Mrs. Dora A. OuTHSts, of OaMtv, Overton
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to stand on my feet without suSt-rius almoet
death. Now 1 do all my housework, waehms,
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of eisbt. 1 am aiouter bow than I bave been
In til yean. Vour ' Favorite Prescription It
the beat to take before contlnrinent, or at least
It proved io with me. I never entteml as hula
with any of my children, a I did with my but,
aud the ia the healtblret we've got. Have in
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URING hard times
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It is only reasonable to suppoV
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That such accidents do occasionally
occur is evidenced by tho fact that
some fish, which are now known to bo
true doep-sea forms, wero discovered
dend and floating on the surface of the
ocean long lief ore our modern investi
gations were commenced. Popular
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