i Invratmn of GnnpAwoVr. OnnpowiTTir w invented by Berth olilns or Mii'liKPl Seliwarta, ft Cordelier monk of Ooslar, Mouth of Brnnnwirk, in Gorman y, almnt 1320. But come tiiftintnin 1 lint it known earlier. Homo uny the Chinese and Hindoo? posnessed it centuries before. The annual conmimption of sugnt per hend of the population in eighteen pounds in Germany, twenty-six in France and Switzerland, forty-four in the United States and sixty in Eng land. r-tmke Into Your Minrfl Allr-n Foft-Kpe. a powder for tin fort- It curi's painful, swollen, .martini? feet, and In .tnntly tflkr. the .tltiR out of corn, anil bun Inn. 'It's the (rrrntest comfort discovery of the brp. Allen'. Koot-Kaso make. tlKht-flt-tin- or new .hoe. feel easy. It Is a rprtiiln cure for mrrallnif, mllou. and hot, tired, arli I n fret. Try It ti-dny. Sold by all ilrinrei.t? and shoe stores. Hv innll for 2.V-. Iti stamps. 1 rial nark aire KRKK. Atldriss, Allen S. Olm tnt, l.e Hoy, N. Y. Fits permanent ly cured. No fits or nervous ness after llrst ilny. use of Ir. Kline's threat Nerve Kcstnrcr. J t ri n 1 bottle and trentise f re 1H. H. II. Ki.iNr, Ltd.. Itll Arch St..riilla..l'a. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Prrnp forchlldren leethlnff, wif tens the Kums.reflnfinK innmnniA lion, Aliays pAln, cures wind colic. 2.c.a bottle. After phy-lclans had triven me up, I was saed hy I'lsn's t'lire. ItAl.l'll Kill KM, Wil. lianisport, la Nov. !, 1811. f . K. Cohurn. Mpr. Clnrie Sentx. writes: "I find Hall's t'atarrli I'ure a valuable remedy." Druggists sell it, "t'n Pt. Vitus' Dance. One botlle, Dr. FcnnerV Fiecillc cures, t'ircnlnr. Kredonia. N. Y. If affllctedwltb sorpeypsiscTr.TaacThomr-Aon'sK.ye-wAU'r.ltnitftfistsspll at 2.V. per bottle. Is the basis of good health, " U TG steady nervea, mental, phys- Bi j leal and digestive strength. lOOQ If you are nervous, enrich and purify your blood with Hood's Sarsa parllla. If you are weak, have no appetite and desire to be strong, healthy and vigor ous, take Hood's Sarsaparllla, which will tone your stomach, create an appetite and build you up. Get only Hood's because HOOd'S Tarn-la Is the best In fact the OueTrue Blood Puriflor. Iamp!' Dill easy to take, easy to buy, nUOO 5 rlllS easy to operate. 2.V. Fish With Legs Found In Colorado. Much consternation and still more wonder was created in the State House yesterday morning by the discovery iu the office of Mrs. Martha A. Shnte, Secretary of the State Board of Agri culture, of an axolotl, or fish with legs, which had become metamorphosed in to a salamander. All kinds of theories to account for its presence there were broached during the day. Of these theories the strangest appears to be the most tenable. This is that the evolut ed axolotl was taken up by evapora tion from a mountain lake near the City of Mexico, where its species is abundant, to come to earth again in Denver with Thursday afternoon's ab normally heavy rainfall. Yesterday morning, when Janitor Smith opened the windows in order to nir the office against the arrival of Mrs. Shute, he beheld au object on the sill outside which caused him to spring back in horror. Squatted on the sill was hideous, dirty-hued green and yellow reptile, about ten inches in length, with a head like that of a bulldog, ac enormous mouth, wide open, eix web footed paws and a tail that tapered to a lash and was curled at the end. Denver Republican. or Farms In Practice. It is not generally known, perhaps, that the Salvation Army has, iu Contra Costa county, not very far from Oak land, a 325-acre furm maintained for discharged convicts. Fifteen ex-convicts are now laboring on this farm, and they have plowed 125 acres, have pruned fruit trees and vines and have poisoned 10,000 squirrels. It is said in the official report that the men are working faithfully. AtCotati, in Son oma county, the Salvation Army is maintaining thirty men, who are chop ping wood, .which will be offered for sale next year, and a farm colony is about to be started. These efforts to solve the problem of the unemployed by giving permanent employment oc cupy a plane higher than the mere giv ing of temporary employment, like the boulevard work in San Francisco, com mendable as that is in its way. Oak land (Cal.) Enquirer. Criminal Fingers and Toe. Dr. V. Peutu has studied the fingers and toes of 4500 criminals, and finds a deficiency in the size or number of toes quite frequent among them, al though very rare among ordinary men. He has also observed that prehensile toes, marked by a wide space between the great toe and the second toe, is a condition quite common among crimi nals; also a webbed condition of the toes. The little toes are rudimentary in many cases, showing a tendency toward the four-toed animal foot; but the most common of all the abnormali ties was the webbed condition. Sci entific American. In l'urls and London. In Talis the houses are very high and the streets narrow. In Loudon the houses art low and the streets broad. The Paris cabman turns to the right and the London cabby to the left. The former sits always on the box in front of his vehicle. 1'he lattei is often perched behind it. ! There is a I Class of People Who are Injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has bean placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pura grains, that takes theplateof coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it tvoia coffee. It does not cost over as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 5 cents per packaRe. Try it. Ask fur GRAIN-O. Try Grain0! The In Rnimner. Iu wnrm weather sows and pigs should be given wider rane. When grass starts, the peu should be open upon a yard where fresh grass and ac cess to fresh soil can be had as freely as the pigs desire. There is nothing like rooting, and the roots and grubs that pigs get thereby, to keep them iu (rood health, and if well fed they will not do more rooting than is best for the soil to clear it of insect ene mies to all crops, either in the orchard or in the pasture field. Negligent Cultivation and Weeds. Negligent cultivation returns to the defaulting farmer a high per cent, of the product of his land in the shape of worthless weeds. With the present improved farm machinery, there is a great improvement iu the cultivation of farms; and yet, iu the face of this, there is much very imperfectly done, much of which could be, with a will and an effort, even with only ordinary machinery, much better done. Take a corn-field, for instance, that has been poorly plowed and harrowed, then planted, and as is often the case wet weather or neglect gives opportun ity for weeds and grass to get a vigor ous start, it then becomes a great task to rid the field of them; and should wet weather follow, the work would hardly justify the labor bestowed. There are few farmers who, having thus finished a hard job at plowing and hoeing would be at all willing to turn almut and go over all again, but this must be done in such cases to rid the field of the grass Bud weeds. The proper and better way, then, is to begin cultivation as soon after planting as practicable, doing more work with the cultivator and less with the hoe. However, work that needs be done with the hoe, were better not done immediately after the cultivator, and likewise, it is better not hastily repeat the work of the cultivator, givo time for the uprooted weeds either to die or to take root-hold again. Then, after two or three days of sun, if the cultivator be run again the effect agaiust the weeds will be more effica cious. Let this method be followed, which is much easier than hoeing, and soon every green thing between the rows will be destroyed. Then go through and with hand and hoe rid the hill of all weeds left iu them, cast ing them between the rows, where, if they take root-hold, they will be torn up by the cultivator when it follows. Such hoeing may be done any time when not too wet for stirring the soil; for, of course, hoeiug when the soil is wet or fresh stirred, weeds are apt to take a new start, so let a few days of sunshine intervene if practicable. If the hand hoe be used at all iu the field, it should be to kill weeds rather than to cultivate the soil. The horse hoe and cultivator can do this better and iu much less time. But if farmers would break and cul tivate their fields better before plant ing, and then begin cultivating so soon as the plants are up, but few weeds would get a start, and these so small that the cultivator would quite effectu ally cover up. A good horse-hoe, one than can be adjusted to Bnit wide or narrow rows, and tj turu the soil to or from the hill, may be safely run as soon as the plants are up, or even before; and it may be ran through continuously, if desired, until every sprig of grass or woods be destroyed. On many farms, however, on account of trees and stumps, this kind of cultivator can not be used; here the hand-hoe will have to be accepted. James I. Baird, of Kentucky, in The Epitomist. An Old Garden. Time and agaiu we get letters from people who are fond of their gardens and who write that for some reason or other the garden is losiug its former productiveness. The soil seems very rich and black, and they put ou the stable manure heavily, but while there is a great growth there is not the productiveness in vegetables of many sorts that there formerly was. l'eas that the cata logues put down as dwarf grow to a tall stature, but fail utterly to give the crop that is to be expected. The radishes run to large tups and the squashes to vines, and they want to know what to do to remedy this state of affairs and got better crops out of the garden. Most of these people ate engaged in other work and are nut fanners, but they take a pride iu having tiue vege table g.irdeus. They know nothing iilamt the chemistry of the soil and of fertilizers, not near as much as the in telligent farmers of today have learned, and they imagine that the only w ay is to pile on more manure, and they ask how much more should they put on to make the crops. These sa'ue people would not be at all surprised if a person who persist ently ate nothing but sweetmeats should get the dyspepsia from the ill-baluuc-ed ration he was feeding upon. Even some fa 'meis, who can talk in telligently about their farm crops aud their fertilization, ate just as badly at sea when it co;ues to the garden. It took a lung time fur the market gal leuers about the great cities to learn that soils need rotation of man ures as well as rotation of croos. The late Peter Henderson tells of the way in which he aud other gardeners looked askance at the use of commercial fer tilizers in the growing of garden crops, ami asumed that the closelv cropped gul dens near the city could be run only with stable manure, and that llie man w ho attempted to get along w ithout stable manure was ignorant of the first priuciole of tuu gardeners' art. We remember, too, how Mi. Hend erson iu his off-hand way ridiculed the idea that special formulas would be better adapted for certain crops, and insisted that a fairly complete manure was as good for one crop as another. He was disposed to denounce as em piricism the practice getting into vogue of offering different kinds of fertilizer mixtures for different crops. But Mr. Henderson lived long enough to outgrow his uotions in re gard to the advisability of the use of artificial fertilizers in the market gar den, and was one of the first practical gardeners who advocated their use, but it took him a long timo to outgrow the idea that we must look at the food requirements of tho various crops themselves iu making fertilizer mix tures for them. W. F. Massey, of the North Carolina Experiment Station. Farm and Garden Kotea. Don't let sprouts grow around the trees. A lick iu time saves nine in the gardeu. Trees should not be trimmed with an ax; a fine saw makes a smooth cut which heals over quickly. After pouring water around nowly set plants cover the wet places w ith some dry earth to prevent baking. A sprinkle of air-slaked lime and tobacco dust ou melon and cucumber hills is said to keep tho striped beetle away. If a young tree is leaned by the wind get it back iu line at once, for never agaiu w ill it be so easily done. Stake, if necessary. It is a pleasure to visit some peo ple's hen-roosts with their permission while a neighbor's roost is an eye sore aud nose-sore as well. More fruit aud less grease should be the order of living on many farms. The health of the Nation would aver age much better if more fruit were con sumed. Many a lost tree might have been saved by mulching, thus keeping the roots cool aud moist, whereas, without it they became hot and dry, aud the young tree died. The spray pump is just the thing to whitewash with. Strain the whitewash first, so as not to clog up the spray pump. All cracks and crevices should receive an extra squirt Burning sulphur will kill everything that breathes. Sulphur candles can be purchased at nearly every drug store, or the loose sulphur can be poured ou a shovelful of live coals. There are farmers who grow much fine fruit aud sell their surplus at a good profit to neighboring farmers, whose opportunities for fruit-growing are quite as good as their own. A word to the wise . If the leaf-roller appears on the strawberry plants mix one ounce freBh pulverized white hellebore in three gallons of water and apply at once with force-pump or sprinkling pot. Thus advises Board Bulletin No. 2, Maine. It is especially necessary to keep the roost clean aud sweet during warm weather, or disease will follow. The droppings should be removed at least once a week daily is better aud every month give the inside a good coat of whitewash. During dry weather au excellent dust bath can be provided by digging or turning over the ground near the roost. The fowls enjoy this moist, fresh earth, aud will be able to keep the body lice down if they have access to such a bath daily. The garden was, of course, well pre pared before planting; now follow up with frequent light-stirring of the soil, being particular to run over it as soon after showers as the surface becomes dry; this method will save moisture for the use of the crop, iustead of permit ting it to be stolen by wind and weeds. Some men think they can not afford to "putter" with "garden-sass" and small fruits, because they are not to be sold for cash like corn aud hogs. Well, it is iu the bringing up, largely; farmers enjoy these things as well as other people, they know they save cash aud preserve the health of the family, but some were not properly taught when young and it is hard to take hold now. Heed the lesson, and teach the boys aud girls to take an in terest in the "small things" of the farm. Epitomist. England's Food Supply. An address on "The Food Supply in Case of War," was delivered recently by Stanley Maehiu, before a meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce, which was held at Botolph House, Eastcheap, says the London Times, iu which he stated that "iu 1850 the acre age under cultivation of wheat iu the United Kingdom was 4,213,Gol acres, capable of producing iu au average season nearly 10,000,000 quarters, or four-fifths of the total consumption of the country at that time. The acreage decreased iu lHiiO to 3.U9,f81. iulH7t! to 3,114,555, in 18H0 to 2,350,451, while lust year only 1,G'J3,U57 acres were under cultivation for wheat, which might bo expected to produce between 5,000,000 and C.000,000 quar ters, or less thau a quarter of what w as now consumed. "If this country were at war with France aud Bussia, one of the first acts of the enemy would be to declare coal aud wheat contraband of war. Estimating our consumption of wheat to be nearly 000,000 quarters a week, and allowing for existing stocks, we should require 10,000,000 quarters to carry us over the time between now aud the ingathering of tho next har vest. Iu the event of the United States aud Bussia joining hands against this country we should bo confronted by the two powers who between them controlled 75 percent, of the total corn supplies required by importing coun tries throughout the civilized world; and iu the event of these powers jointly prohibiting theexportof wheat, he did nut hesitate to say that starvation would compel this country to sue for au unconditional peaoe within three mouths without a gun being fired." To btavt au ostrich farm iu Cali fornia one needs u capital of at least 815.0UU A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Batnn'a Want.. Intemperane lino Not neet Man' I'llyslrat Nallirn Alone, Milt llestroys Ketf-Hespret ami All RenaenfPerannnl If onor llrlnk'a Slave Johnson, the drunkard. Is dying to-day, With trnees of sin on his face; llo'll Im inKsod at tho clul, at the bar, at tho play. Wanted a hoy in his place. Kitnmonds, the Ramble, was killed In a fight, Ho died without pardon or graee; o;no one must train for his burJou aaJ Might. Wanted -a boy in his place. The sooner, tho convict, the. Idler, the thief, Are lost, and without any noise, Make It known, that there 'come to my In stant relief Some thousand or more of tho boys. Boys from tho fireside, boys from tho farm, Hoys from tho homo and tho school, Come, leave your misgiving, thero can be no harm Where "drink and bo merry" is the rule. Wanted, for every lost servnnt of mine, Some one to live without grace. Some one to din without pardon divine, Will you bo tho boy for tho place? C'onspqticnee or Intoxleatlnn. Dlil tho ruinous effects of Intemperance pertain only tothn physical nature, it would be sulllejently sad, but the blighting powers stop not here. To trust, to revero, to prnv, to asplro to bo pnlritl, benevolent, eh'i valrle, to love home and children and fel low men -all these pure-ami noble emotions are movements of the soul. Ami thero Is not one of them which the lust of Intemper ance does not war against. Maddening liquor devours tho cltinen's patriotism. The stars and the stripes signify nothing to him: the National songs cease,' to stir his spirits. Intoxication destroys all sense of truthfulness. No reliance Is' placed on the word of an Intoxicated individual. Pre varication, pretence, all falsehood, not only in reference to the appetite which en chains, hut forthosake of its gratification who has not seen much of this? Kindly Instincts are blunted, sensibilities of sympa thy ami affection will dry up, and tlie suf ferings of others, even I lie family's destitu tion will make no controlling impression. Whatever benevolence of Dative disposi tion may have been enthroned becomes en crusted, overlaid, buried. Appearances aud appeals which otherwise could have reached the heart meet no response. This ruling passion destroys self-respect and all sense of personnl honor, drlviug tho being whithersoever it will, bringing him to the lowest practices and sinking him to tho lowest condition. Intoxication obliterates, or at least puts aside, family affection and bIbvs the inner most citadel of nature, until there Is aceas Ing of tenderness and considerateness as a helpmeet, or kindness or atTectionateness or diitifulness as a child. Only too frequent nre the cases where tho want, the sickness and suffering of an In temperate man's family make not the slight est Impression on his callous heart. That part of his nature seems deadened. Shakespeare describes drunkenness, a devil put in the mouth. It inflames all other passions, stirs up strifeand anger, ex cites pugnacity, breeds fights and brawls, and It is the direct occasion of many a homicide. I'rofnuity seems to go naturally with It, even though In sober lntervnls the poor drunkard is not given to swearing. How easily, too, It links on with obscene speech, and with the practices of Impurity. But even though all this brood of vice should not follow every instance, the practice Is sure to foster a readiness for low and wicked associations. Drunkenness hardens tho Individual against the appeals and claims of the Uos pel. Sacred Heart lieview. One of nrink'a Slave. The fact that "things are not always what they seem." Is well Illustrated bv tho falso freedom which many assert in refus ing to bind themselves to aeourseof action, however noble or praiseworthy, which would limit their own desires or passions. The following true Incident is to the point : Joel B. was at one time one of the most prominent aud respected citizens of a town in New York Mate. He had been eminently successful in business and was financially Interested In the leading industries of his community. Ho had, however, become addicted to tho uso of liquors to excess, and when on a "spree" would spend larg sums of money recklessly. This continued until his resources were so diminished that he was obliged to appeal to a brother for assistance. This was promised on the con dition thnt he sign the pledge, A few days later he was talking of his affairs to another man. "Sign the pledge?" he exclaimed. "Egad, I'll not do it. I'll be a free man." Borne time later one of the friends of his earlier days chanced to drive into a neigh boring town. As he stopped at the hotel the hostler came forward with tottering steps to take his team. Ho could scarcely believes his eyos, for that poor wretch was none other than Joel II. In a few years he had ruined not only himself, but his family, and died a poor, degraded sot one of that vast armv of 80 - 000 souls which annually goes dowu to tho uruntaru g grave. No one would be a slave. Ko it behooves each to "stand fast, therefore, lu the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us freo, and be not entangled again with tho yoke of bondage." Alcohol and Heir-Murder. At the recent international concross of Esychology Dr. Muiler gave an Interesting istorieal sketch of tho etiology of self murder, and. bv means of au elaborate series of stutisticB, traced to alcohol the primary cause o its marked Increase of late years. Tho author estimates tho number of suicides in Europe nt 60 000 a vear. thus showing that tha evil is increasing at a greater rate man the population. Tho largest number of suicides take plaeo iu June, the smallest in Uoceiijbor. Early morning is chosen iu preference to the night, wniio me mechanic class furnishes the largest number of subjects and the peasant the least. Dr. Mullcr considers brandy the most pernicious form of alcohol, aud traces to its Inllueuee the blunting of those weapons which iu the struggle for life are the most necessary to susluiu the conflict. A Mediral Kxpel-t on Alcohol. Dr. A.Buer. a royal medical counsellor aud admittedly "the best informed inaa on alcohol," says: "Alcohol Is not a food iu the sense that it gives one the power o! endurance or preserves strength uud health." Instead of being a preventive of malaria, cholera, and other diseases, alco hol actually predisposes one to those evils. The mental and moral emtcts of alcoholism are beyond description terrible. "Alcohol llestroys tho Individuality of men, para lyzes energy ami makes the individual a slave of his passions". A Iruitimer's Testimony. One of the highest-salaried traveling men making Kansas was talking with a Wichita reporter the other day of the prohibition law of Kansas, anil said: "I make all the towns in eastern Kansas and western Missouri, and 1 wunt to suy that all this talk of prohibition hurting busi ness is all farce. 1 sell mom goods and u Letter quality lu Kansas towns than I du lu Missouri, and my patrons are butter pay. They need uot tell ma that thu peo plu of a town have to gu.,lo bm-r in ordci to have pro.-M-rous business. When Un people of a town spend their money foi boer, they don t havo so much to spend lu my line. ' Temperance New anil Note. The saloon Is sin's chief agent, tho devil's head servant. Tlio licensed itquor-acllcr ia a legalized disturls-r of the public caco. The butcher kills meat for food, but tho saioouist sells (inns to Kin mau. Drink is tlio great curso of modern civiliiuitioii. It blin k tho way of every tiling that is good. haloon-k"fiug is a leading industry. It leads Its victims to the grave and to hell, aud their wives aud children to disgrace, poverty auu innn-ry. The grog-stiop is tho piruto of commerce tho destroyer of Industry, the robber of every legitimate, business, aud should bo opposea by every worker. An Electric Fire Trnrk. The new eloctrio fire truck which has been made for Springfield,. Mass., has been given a practical test and was iu every way a success. It required one and a half minutes to load and one and a quarter minutes to unload a steamer from the truck and it is expected that this time will be improved upon. It was in 1747 that a Ocrman chem ist named Marggraf discovered that sugar could bo made from beets; but tho beet sugar industry did not begin till half a century later. Summer Care of Hlnnket. blankets after tho winter nso nro never clenu, and should not be put away without being washed. Many housekeepers, In view of the shrinking aud discoloring caused by washing, sntlsfv themselves with airing and shaking their blankets, but this is a great mistake, for if tho work Is prop erly dono the soft nppenrnnco and white ness may bo retalnid for years. Tho most Importnnt eonsblerntio'ii in washing blankets Is to havo plenty ol soft water nnil good soap. An Inferior cheap sonp Is reallv tho cnuso of the Injury doin woolen gooiis In washing, as it hardens and yellows tho llbre. When ready to begin the work, shako tho blankets free of dust, fill a tub nenrly full of soft hot water, and ills, solve a third of a cake of Ivory soap in it. Put one blanket in at a timo and dip tip and down, gently washing with tho linnds, Never rub sonp on blankets, or wnslj on tho washboard. After the blankclt are clean, rinse them in warm water until free of suds. Add a little bluing to the Inst wnter. Shako and squeeze rather thnn wring, and hung ou the line until dry. Then fold and pack away in a box securely to exclude the moth. 'Blankets washed inthli way will keep their original freshness and wear very much longer than if put awaj soiled year after year. Ki.iz& It. I'abkjsb. Just Like Wing. Lonis Tierre Monillard, a French residout of Cairo, has invented a flying machine, comprising an aeroplane of concave surfaces, attached to the body of the aviator and arranged to permit movement of the planes iu a horizontal directiou only with reference to the body of the aviator, the apparatus de pending for support solely upon wind pressure, and not upon any downward thrust upon tho nir, either by flapping wings or revolving propeller wheels. To a breastplate, provided with au artificial sternum, aro hinged wings, each on a vertical axis, so as to be capable of forwarder backward motion, the wing frames of aluminum tubing being covered with silk or other suit able fabric. When the planes are thrust forward the aerodrome rises; when they are pulled back it descends. The wings are controlled by a spring, upon which, the inventor says, "the life of the aviator depends," and which mnst be strong enough to hold the two wings with their edges on a straight line at a speed of twenty-two miles an hour. The aeroplano can glido upon the air by a fall from a height suf ficient to procure a speed which shall cause the air to support the apparatus, or, by a skillful utilization of the force of the wind, which must blow at least ten miles an hour. The weight of the apparatus should not exceed fifty-five pounds, and it is intended to sail with winds varyitig between ten and twenty five miles an hour. Philadelphia Iteo ord. Intrlcato Humanity. The human body is an epitome in nature of all mechanics, all hydraulics, all architecture, all machiuory of every kind. Thero nre moro than 310 mechanical movements known to mechanics to-day, and all of these nre but modifications of those found in the human body. Here are found nil tho bars, levers, joints, pulleys, pumps, pipes, wheels and axles, ball and socket movements, beams. girders, trusses, buffers, arches, col umns, cables and supports known to science. At every point man's best mechanical work can be shown to bo lut adaptations of processess of the human body, a revelation of first principles used in nature. Ladies' Home Journal. Weapon of OflVnae The natives iu the Buchercani dis trict of Bengal have been deprived of their guns, and since thou they have resorted to the native bamboo in their hunt for defensive weapons, They hollow out tho bamboo, load it with an ounce or two of native powder aud a handful of iron slugs and touch it off in the immediate neighborhood of the offending person. Another way is to employ the bamboo as a fork with a cobra pinned to tho far end. An ap plication of the cobra is all that is ueccssary to the sleeping body of au enemy. BUCKINGHAM'S DYE For the Whiskers, B Mustache, and fcyebrows. In ono preparation. Easy to apply at homo. Colors brown or black. Tho Gentlemen's favorite, because satisfactory. 0 B. i. UaLL ft Co., PmprtHnra, Nubut, t Suld by all Orui.u. Making and health making are included in the rnuking .of IIIUKS Koothecr. The prepa ration of this great tcm- prrunce drink is au event of importance in a million well regulated uomcs. HIRES Rootbeer is full of good hculth. Invigorating, appetiz ing, satisfying. Put suine up to-iluy and have it ready to put down whenever you're thirsty. Made ouly by The Charles E. Hires Co., Philadelphia, A pack age makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. DRW Altlis (-u lie avi-d with 'lit tilrir ftuuuletluu l,y Anti-Ja,;, lli tiuu-i I'luittf ciim for the drink lml.lt. Write heiiovs I'bi-inu-al Full UifunuAtloa (Ui luUi wrui'por) msilud Uvv'. 11 tlF..Ll.-iu It V r l .IS. tit ! M v A Graduate In Paint, and Feather. Seymour Foose, an ohl Kansan who resides in Blaino County, Oklahoma, gives the Wichita Knglo au interesting account of how difficult it is to make civilization stick with tho Indian. A number cf Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians have been sent from Blaine County to be educated in the white man's ways, most of them to the school at Carlisle. On their return they carry all of the evidonces of civ ilization dress in white man's clothes and speak English well. A few weeks' contact with the tribe works wonders. The first, indication of their return to savagery is the manner in which they let their hair grow long. Next they become reticent, and a few months puts them into blnnkets and leggings. Tho fact is the wild Indians Inugh at the educated ones and shame them in to returning to the savage state. Bed Bird, a chief of the Cheyennes, is a graduate of Harvard, but ho wears blankets and paints his face willi ver milion. Kansns City Journal. We liny Lots of Diamond. Since 18(18 the United Slntes has im ported $'200,000,000 worth of cut din motu'iH, with a duty of ten per cont. Tho rough Btoties could not have cost more than ono-half, aud had the cut ting been done in this country 5000 men could havo been employed nt n yearly salary of $1000. It may be noted that the United States is the ulti mnto home of from one-third to one balf the world's product of gems. An Italian peddler from whom a Kew York policeman demanded a li cense showed confidently a certificate nf discharge from Sing Sing Trison, rhich ho said he bought, believing it KM a license. THE HEAT PLAGUE OF AUGUST, 180C Mrs. rinkham's Explanation of tho Unusual Number of Doatlia and Prostrations Among Women. The great neat plague of August, 1890, was not without Its . sson. One could not fail to notice in tho lonp; lists of ,M , .1., .l l 1 4 ill. 4 , , . 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A wet season is predicted by many, based on tho action of the robins in selecting a covered or sheltered place for building their nests. Tho birds have sought localities under piazzas, eaves and in buildings rather than in trees this spring, nud people who havo watched such things iu tho past assert thnt the birds make no mistake, and that overy year when they havo built nosts in covered locations thero ha been an excess of wet weather. riue Hill Optic. Dog.Wblps an Alligator, Thnt a dog may best an alligntor ap pears by tho experience of Hon. 1. B. Stuart, of Victoria, Flo. His dog was swimming in a lake there, when Mr. Stuart, seeing a 'g"hr coming, called to the dog to come ashore. The dog started, but the alligator was gaining, when the dog turned and seized it. Both went down, bnt the dog camo up unharmed,, and tho alligator with a laoerated lower jaw. so many of IW 1 ' ana 1 It to vr fi-i'v itching at following letter what terrible sufferinir . , ... . 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