Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, August 27, 1884, Image 4
I Cailftn Conrbec Jfestled In a grassy val!ey, almost in the shadow of th Jura, is the village of Ormans, the birthplace of Gustave Courbet, whoso tiubuieut spirit and re alstic opinions wort- so iittl in harinoay with the picture j. anrrouadinss in which he was rea'.Tl The village of stone cottases, nulled in by (rrasiy banks and through whieh a little stream meanders, borders on Switzerland and lies in an inland region of wonderful beauty in the department of theDoubs, formerly a part of Franche Comte. Courbet pere was a well to do farmer, awning one of the largest stone houses of this hamlet, and here, in June 1819, scenes which might have fostered a noct or painter as imaginative us a Shelley or a Claude, was born the caricaturist and rude communist, U jstave Courbet. His career was a remarkable one; as a pa. later he is little known out of France, and there ho is celebrated more for his originality than distinguish ed for his genius. As an agitator and communist he is execrated by his countrymen for his vandalism in de stroying works or art, and the over throw of the Vendomo Column com pleted his infamy in their eyes. In his obstinate and headstrong boyhood young Curbet was noted at school for his caricatures; the Abbo Goussett, now a cardinal, was his first teacher. He was sent to college at Eesancon, where the faculty, teachers and students were subject of his jiencil. K is college life ended, there was little scope for his turbulent spirit m the quiet shade of Ormans, and his father sent him to Paris to study iaw; but legal studies were soon alandonea ior more con zenial pursuits, and he gave up all his time to painting and the pleasures of. Paris. His nat ure was in spite 01 ins genius a coarse one. and his tastes were ill with his inferiors. It is remarkable that be seldom had as companions his superiors or even bis equals; he was an Intense radical, especially in religion; nis best and most telling caricatures, because the mast truthful, are of the priests, upon whose foibles and sliort somings he bad no mercy. Courbet 's pictures have little beauty, but are full of truth and force. Several are now In the gallery of the Louvre, and though they have no delicacy of execution show his peculiar and Ijold genius. He boasted that he followed no school but his own. His biographers say he created '-types of ugliness." At 30 years of age Courbet was the talk of the critics and gave a public exhibition of his pictures in several cites of France and Germany. He caused much excitement and dismay in the world of art, which condemned him as a narrow realist, but Courbet s self-esteem was indomitable; his genius was sufficient for him to hold a place even among artists, and he was always satisfied with his own work. He was rough and uncouth in ap pearance and took a positive pride in being carelessly and shabbily dressed; though never at any time poor he seldom had more than one suit of clothes, two shirts and two pairs of socks, he would reair his clothing him self witli twine, and it is said that one winter he bought a bedquilt of a Jew, cut a hole in the middle for his head, and wore this unique covering for an overcoat. It could hardly be compared to a Koinan toga if its wearer was an artist. Couibet had associated with the German students and acquired a taste for beer. The habitues of a small cafe in Paris which he frequented said be would drink foity glasses at a sit ting. When Paris was invaded by the Prussian troops Courbet studio was taken possession of by the soldiers, who kicked hiles in his pictures and stabled their mules in it. At this time Iih was a most pestilent communist aud tf.e instigator of a succession of revolutionaty jalaeards specially direct ed toward the destruction of the Ven dome Column, which he argued was a preventive of European good-fellowship, as it kept alive bad feeling by commemorating the victories of France over the other countries of the continent. He was not actually a member of the Communistic Com mittee when the act of vandalism was li formed, but nevertheless be was its chief instigator. Strange that an artist should letd his influence to such iconoclasin! But his was a strange and rude nature, an offshoot, as it were, of the time in which he acted his part on the stage of human events, and born of a nation which has produced quaint anomalies of character. Courbet s critics say he was bent upon notoriety and as he could not achieve it by his paintings, he took an opposite course and became a destroyer of art. Whatever his motives he stems to have decided upon the de struction of the Vendome Column, and on May 10, 1S71. after it had been undermined by masons and great force used, it came down with a crash, and the statue of Napoleon rolled headless in the debris. An immense crowd witnessed its downfall, and the streets and squares in the vicinity were filled with dust and echoed with the threats and groans of thousands of spectators. The ruthless deed had been accomplish ed aud with it ended the artist's pros perity. The commune waa suppressed, and the leaders who escaped with life were tried and imprisoned. Gustave Courbet was sentenced to six months Imprisonment and to restore the column at his own expense. This he undertook at a heavy cost, servmg out his sentence also, but he was nnable before his death to complete it, and his sister pro ceeded with the work of which she was finally relieved by the French Govern ment. After his release from prison Courbet was neglected by his family and doubly abased by bis enemies. His prosperity was a thing of the past, and even his self-esteem was not proof against the bitter obloquy heaped upon him by his countrymen. He went into voluntary exile in Switzerland and died at a little ptaoe called Tour de Peil in December, 1877. Courbet was a strange character; 4is own countrymen are his most merciless critics, and many motives have been attributed to him for his act of vandalism. Some even say be wish ed to appropriate the bronze of the !olumn and sell It at a large profit, and others that he did it for historic fame, like the firer of the Epbesian temple of old. But he had ' genius enough to make a name in spite of opposition. Imaglnatloa mod Scotch TChlaky. The lite Allan Pmkertoo bad a compa ny of gentlemen at his country feat, near Chicago, one cold winter day a few yean ago. For an hour he took them about bti place, showing them this, that and the other, and when at length they arrived at the house they were thoroughly chilled. 'Now, gentlemen,' be said, 'I want you to try torn of tbn old Scotch whisky, 'and his guests partook quite freely of hia hos pitality. Then he invited them into the library, where there was a large stove, of the type known as the gas burner, appar ently glowingly hot, and the party seated themselves about it, holding out their be numbed hands to catch the warmth. Hera they chatted for a tune, when suddenly Mr. Piakerton remarked: 'It strike! me that stove doesn't lead out much beat How do yon feelf And each and every one replied that he felt delightfully warm, too warm in fact, and suggested that the stove door be open ed, tir. Piokerton acted on the suggest ion and, to the astonishment of his guests, revealed two lighted candles resting upon huge block of iee as the only content. See, gentlemen', said he, whata vivid Imfgnnt). and a littla Sootck whisky will do AGRICULTURE. Puxaew Stumps. Stumpa are far more easily extracted after soaking rain have left the ground loose ana yieiuiug, than alter the packing and baking of a season of drouth. For. small stumps, especially on ground too wet and son to admit the use of teams, simple and effective arrangement may be used. A strong axle, say six inches square, is fitted to any a tout pair ot wneeia, as thoae of a truck, to which a triangular lever is firmly bolted. It project six teen inches behind and sixteen feet In front and Is made of tough bard wood, the pieces aix inches square. To the end piece, wnicn la moroaea ana secu rely bolted to the others, a chain with two stont hasps is attached. In using it, a broad plank is plaoed under each wheel to prevent sinking into the earth, and the wheels are blocked. The hooks are grappled into a root, and when raised as far as possible by depressing the lever it is blocked and a new bitch taken lower down. Two can move the implement from stump to stump. The leverage would be nearly twelve to one. giving three thousand six hundred pounds pow er if the men weighed one hundred ani fifty ponnds each, and could both put their weight upon the extrme end of the lever a power that would start small stamps. Thosi butter-makers who are troubled and annoyed by atreakineas of their but ter may rent aasnred that it is due to over-careful working out the water from the butter preparatory to salting. The salt is in solution, and is so evenly dif fused through the bntter that not a drop of water even can be detected, but only a very finely granulated and fibrous ap pearance. Every grain and fibre is sur roundsd by a film of brine olear and transparent. This cannot occur unless there is water enongh lett in the butter to dissolve the salt completely. In the first worting ol tne butter the groat point is to get rid of every particle of milk and the next point is to leave enough clear water in the bntter to dissolve every grain of salt in the 12 hours before the next working. To effect this the salt should be very finely ground. Tobacco raisers and producers of other plants whose dried and curled leaves are of value in the market, will be interest ed in the latent explanation of (he cause of the brown discoloration-spots of small diameter, in wtich the tissue is nearly destroyed that so often impair the value of their products. It appears that rain-drops alter a shower of a hot sum mer day, act as condensing prisma to the nearly vertical beams of the sun, con centrating the ray upon the surface of the leaf just beneath the centre of the drop, thus producing a burnt spot of di ameter corresponding with that of the drop itself and of depth proportionate to the intensity of the heat, A KEM.iKKABLK effect of muriate of pilocarpine employed as medicine, and adminstered hypodennically, has lately been reported by Dr. Prentiss, of Phila delphia. The use of the drug was com menced on Djcember 16 and ended on Feburary 22. On the twelfth day it was noticed that the patient's hair origi nally of a light golden hue, was growing dark. The darkening continued al though the medicine waa suspended, and on May I the man's hair was nearly jet black, and extremly luxuriant. His eves, originally light blue, were, at the aame date of the darkest shade of that color. The cause of these phenomenas was the inoreased deposit of pigments due to the action of medicine. Horn Horseshoes. -A new horseshoe has lato'v been experimented with at .Lyons, France. It is made entirely of sheep's horn, and is found particularly adapted to horses employed in towns and known not to have a steady foot on the pavement. The results of the ex periments have proved very satisfactory as horses thus sLod have been driven at a rapid pace on the pavement with out slipping. Besides this advantage, the new shoe is very durable. Seeds. An Engl sh scientific jour nal says that oxalic acid promotes the sprouting of seeds,so that seeds forty years old will germinate by its applica tion. The method is to soak the seeds cne or two days in a solution of oxalie acid till they commence to open ont, when they are taken out and planted. Will one of our readers try It on some old seeds and report? Insects. In using kerosene it has been found that a cheap grade of yellow bar soap containing ro-iu makes the best emulsion four pounds of soap to one gallon of kerosene. One gallon of this emulsion incorporated in forty nine gallons of water (or relatively less quantities of each) makes an effective solution destroying the insect, both in the larval and potent stages. Tbebb is no need of bothering about a cow's pulse to fiud ont if she is well or not; simply look at her nose. If well, it will be moist and cold; if feverish, dry and hot. She is like a dog in this respect. A staring coat or hollow eye are alio symptoms, indicating trouble and as sy mptoms.of disease they are more to be dreaded tuan the dry u jse. Tnosa a ho complain of having " no luck" with flowers, should understand, that the having thrifty, luxuriant plants the year throngli depends upon care and judgement, and not " luck at all. It is not outright labor or expense that is wanted, but a daily regard for the little things of watering, light soil, pruning, etc Spbuck bntter tubs are the best; hem look makes a sweet tub: acids from the oak color the butter and injure its ap pearance, while ash gives the butter a strong flavor if kept long and increases the liability to mold: maple smells and cracks badly. Soak all tubs four or six days in brine before using. SrDDEK and extreme changes in milk, cream or butter injure keebing. The same is true of iced meat. If two pieces of meat are taken from the same animal, and one plaoed in air at GO degrees and the other on ice for three honrs, and then placed by the side of the first, the iced piece will spoil long before the one which has been kept at 60 degrees. The very best treament for lice on bogs is carbolic soap applied liberally two or three times, at intervals of as many days. That will takeoff all scurf and destroy all parasites. The way to uho it is to make a strong suds and scrub it well into the hair. Camphob on horses and cattle will keep niea away, so we are Informal, A de coction of walnut leaves rubbed on the animal's hair is good, also, for the same purpose. It is hard to be poor, but to be ashamed of it, is putting salt on a sore. Some interesting experiments to de termine the return of projectiles fired at various angles have jist been under taken on the banks of the Connecticut River, at Hartford, with a gatling gun carrying balls of 44-calibre. Fired at an angle of 15 degrees, the return occupied 59 teoonds; while, when fired vertically in to the air, the interval was onley 51 seconds. The penetrating power of a bullet on its return, as com' pared with that exhibited on leaving I tns muzzle of the gun, was not ealeu- la ted. Tin soda water man has a grin on his phis and ohuokles and smiles at the boom la "bla." DOMESTIC Thw Whowsomrxibs of Bbkao. Mm. Julint Corson, treats the bread .n..t,nn oa all nthar rlatalla of OOOkerV. JUCD.VU, ". - 1 . from the practioal point of Tiew. She says a good woru ior aerateu oreu. made of donga, into wnicn rairuuuio m U (nmkl. and baked before the bubbles have a chance to escape. The .. . . i . i 3 . . main objection to iresn yeast ureau ior dvspeptios is that it is soft, and there fore too easily swollen, whereas the "stale" bread requires muoh mastica tion. If sufferers who have been avoid ing new bread will take the same trouble in chewing it as they are com pelled to do with the old, they will gat all the' advantage of their patience in the more palatable article. The fresh bread eater really taxes hia digestion with a much larger mass of spongy quality than the stale bread eater, and one which has not been as well broken up by the action of the saliva. If dys peptics were careful to take the small est mouthfnla st a time they would find eyen fresh bread more manageable, with sufficient chewing, than is sup posed. In the choice of flours, that made from hard winter wheat is the richest in gluten; in Europe it is used for making the different varieties of macaroni; the brown bread of Europe is made from this wheat ground entire. Soft spring wheat yields a white flour rich in starch. Bran bread may be very irritating to some invalids, so "Graham bread" and the "whole meal" fashion should only be adopted when it is proved to be satisfactory. The particles of bran may cause an ir ritation of the alimentary canal and produce diarrhea is. Undoubtedly this irritation or stimulus may be exactly what is needed by some constitutions. Xica Best Stkw. To make an appe tizing beef stew, take out the bone and bind the pieces of beef tightly, putting a lemon, pared ani out in two, and some herbs in before binding. Place it in as small a stew-pan or kettle as will allow of its being covered with water. Let it cool slowly and gently; do not add any water unless absolutely necessary. Slice a large onion and fry it brown, and add to the water also any sliced vegetables you choose, or cook the vegetables in a kettle by themselves and serve on a platter with the beef. If you do not add any water you will have a very rich gravy, and a portion of it may be reserved for soup stock. Codfish with Cbiaic Pick out care fully in flakes all the flesh from the remnants of some boiled codfish; melt a piece of bntter in a saucepan, and add to it a large pinch of flsur and a gill of milk or cream, with pepper, salt and grated nntmeg to taste, also the least bit of cayenne; stir well, put in the fish, and gently shake it in this sauce until quite warm. If the compo sition be too dry, add a little milk or cream: then add, off the fire, the yolks of two eggs beaten up with a little milk, and serve. If one objects to wet toast, the edges only of the slices may bo dipped in boiling water before the toast is buttered, and it will then be more tempting and eatable than if perfectly dry. , Tcbkish Rich. Pnt into a saucepan six cui'f ala of stock or broth in which you have previously dissolved a good allowance either of tomato paste, to ma to sauce or the pulp of fresh tomatoes passed through a sieve, pepper and salt to taste. When it boils throw in, for every cupful of stock, half a cupful of fine rice, well washed, and dried be fore the h re. Let the whole remain on the fire until the rice has absorbed all the stock, then melt a large tablespoon- ful of butter, and pour it over the nee At the time of serving, and not before. stir lightlv to separate the graiia. but do this off the fire. Coas Loaf. Four eggs, whites and yolks beaten as light as possible, sepa rately; one quart of com meal; quar ter of a pound of butter; two quarto of boilin? milk: a teaapoonfal of salt mixed well with the oorn meal. Melt the bntter in the milk and scald .the corn meal until it becomes perfectly smooth: then add the light yolks, and lastly the Bt my beaten whites. J5aae in a quick oven, nail tne quantity will make a good sized loat. Bekf Soup. Take four pounds of fresh beef, or what is better and mora economical, a nice beef shank or 'soup bone;" put it in to four or five quarts of water, salt it, let it boil slowly uve or six hours, skim well. Hall an Hour before you wish to take it up, put in a enp partly fall of rice, a small quantity of potatoes, carrots, onions ana ceiery, cut in small pieces. Mutton soup can be made in the same manner. CfitTLLEBS. One pint of sweet milk. one pint of sugar, quarter ot a pound of butter, threa or four eggs well beat eu separately, two tables poonfula of cream tartar, about two pounds of flour, or just enongh to make a very soft douih, rose water and grated nut meg to taste, itoii out turn; mace the cakes small and round with a hole in the center. Fry in boiling lard, and after draining them well roll them in powdered sugar flavored with cinna mon. MmoERBREiD. One cup of molasses. one onp of brown sugar, four cups of flfiur ona tablesnoenf nl of ginger, the same of cinnamon, one small teaspoon- fnl nt it nim. nna small enr or butter. melted; three well-beaten eggs, one mall even tablesDOonful of soda. Mix these ingredients together, and just be fore putting into the baking dish stir in one cud of boiling water. Bake twenty minutes. A Nice Bbkafast Dish. Remove the skins from dozen tomatoes; out them up in a sauoepan; add a little bntter. penpei and salt; wnen sum ciently boiled beat up five or aix eggs. and just before you serve turn them into the sauoepan with the tomatoes and stir one way for two minutes, al lowing, them time to be done thor oughly. Macaroni Au G raits. Boil half a pound of macaroni in a pint of milk until tender, then m x in the atewpan with the macaroni pepper and salt, four ounoes grated cheese and two ounces bntter: place in a deep dish or shallow pie pan, grate a little nntmeg over it and ligtly cover tne top wun Dreaa crumbs; place in a hot oven to brown and serve immediately. Cxova Cask. One onp of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, three cups of flour, half a cup ot sour milk, four eggs, one tesspoonful of soda, two teaspoonus oi cmnamon, on6 teaspoonf ul of coves. Tin-lined copper pipes for the dis tribution ot water, and for all purposes in plumbing, are coming into popular favor In Boston. The manufacture is very simple. The copper is tinned in the sheet before being formed into pipe, and the interior is subseqently coated with tin by a very easy process. The cost is no greater than that of lead pipe, strength for strength, while the tin lining is not subject to decomposiao by carbonic acid, oxygen, or other cor rosives, to the same extent as lead. Whet the old world gets to fighting, this country will atUnd to the feeding. Boootausad, Doya, HUMOROUS. a ..tts'a Ytnnk.keaninff "50. sir." ;.j . risMTittnn.k ot barber to a suspicious-looking transient customer, who affably remarked as the lather was being laid on that bs supposed were were a good many men who failed to pay their shavinR scon. "2fo, sir. I used to gie CTedit, rrai l never ao now in fact, nobody ever asks for tick m "How's that?" "Well. you see," aaid tne barber, trying the edge of his rszw on nis tnnmo nan. t hai ut nf atiffa who nsed to ask me to chalk it down. I got tired of keeping books, and i aaoptea a new system. Whenever I shaved one of these old standbys I put a little nick in his nose with my razor, and kept tally in that way. They got so they didn"t want to rnn bills." There waa s tremor in the customer's voice, as he asked from beneath the lather: "Do you ob ject to being paid in advance? ' important. i. i Vm. nt .. .a nrn J(JU visit w nrm .,w " ' BaftM Exprewage sad Carriage Hire, and stop at me Urauil Union tluiel, opposite Orand Ceo ml Depot. Klfg&nt room, atied ap at a cost of one million dollar, reduced to tl and upwards per . . tn .'.. .v .. tiru ii r supplied with l he lie. Hume cars, stage and elete 1 railroad to all depota. Kainliea can lire . . . . .... j'Hn.l I . U.iljd ih.n aur otlier nra-claa hotel in the cut. Ths Salvation Army in England has invented a new wrinkle in prayer, ap parently for the benefit of "the boys" .k. .i.. Ani l.i. in "UIoa " Tnvita- WUW amj vul ...w D - bona sre issued to come to the meeting at 11 o'olock, .nl half an hour later the doors are closed upon brotner and sister, saint and sinner, not to be opened until 5 in the morning. What goes on indoors is not disclosed to pro fane eves, bnt it is safe to say that the wife of the period will not accept this as a valid excuse for inserting the latchkey at sunrise or afterwards. The Conflict Between disease and health Is often brief and fatal. It is better to be provided with cheap and simple remedies for such common disorders as cuugha, cold:), etc., tnau to run the risk ofcontractlDga fatal disease through neglect Dr. Win. Hall's Balsam la a sure and safe remedy for all tlii-eases or me lungs and chest. If taken in season it is certain to core, and may save yoa from that terrible disease, consumption. It has been known and used for many years, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the best remedy in the world for coughs, etc Tn mil.h l1a -mine- A VOtUMT Centle- man nf Anatin. of the lackadaisical Oscar Wilde type of idiot, hung to a auntlower, went mw an Austin avenue restaurant one day recently to get aome hrAakfaat. and. bv the wav. he has the appetite of a Missouri journalist on an excursion aau is guiea wun tne diges tive organs of a boa-constrictor. "How do you waut your eggs biled?" ssked lha waitar "T want them Soft " "HOW soft?" "Very soft I want them to match my voice. Roogh an DentlM" Tooth Powder. Smooth, refreshing, harmless, elemnt. cleans ing, preseiralive and fr&graul 16c Druggisla. Bbilmaxt prospects: leeterday we met Bill Beattv.with a grip-sack swing ing to one of his hands, going down Austin avenue. "Where are you bound for?" "I'm going to Leadville to open an undertaker's establishment. There's millions in it." "You don't say so?" "Tee. my brother has just graduated as doctor. He is going to practice in Leadville, and if I open an undertaker's establishment he will give me all his custom. Good-bye, take care of yourself." The Beat for Butter. There is bnt one beet color for butter, and that is Wells R iohardson & Go's. Improved Butter Color, no candid inves tigator doubts. It ia the best butter color in the world; is free from sediment or impurity, always ready for instant use, and it imparts to bntter that rich dan delion yellow, without a tinge of red, which is the acme of desirability in any bntter color. A sudden impulse: "But why did you leave her so hastily?" asked a sym pathizing friend who was trying to console a lover for his separation from the object of his idolatry. "Oh, it was a sudden impulse." "What sort of an impulse?" "I don't know exactly," returned the sufferer, thoughtfully, "but it must have been at least a No. 12." Thin reopla. "Wells' Health Kenewer" restores taealtn and vigor, enres tljspepsta, sexual dettuiiy. SL "NoTHixa " said an impatient hus band, "so remmds me of Bal iam aud his ass as two women stopping in church and obstructing the way, to indulge in their everlasting talk." "But you forgot, my dear," retorted hia wife, meekly, "that it waa the angel who stopped in the way, and Balaam and his ass who complained of it." Carbo-line. He winl at last who builds his trust In loving words and actions just. Who's head, who's walk, his very meln, Proclaim the use of Carboline. A Bevt of little children were telling their father what they got at school The eldest, "Reading spelling and definitions." "And what do you get, my little one?" said the father to a rosy-cheeked little fellow, who was at that time slyly driving a tenjienny nail into the dour panel. "Me? O, I gets readin', spellin' and span kins " Be4-Boca, File. Files, rotchev ants, hetl bnirs, rat, mice, chip. munas. cleared out or "Itouan on Kau." 15c "MET.rsrt, I don't like that lover of yours." "Why, papa, dear?" "I don't think he's possessed of Btaying quali ties." "Papa, then his looks deceive you awfully. He's superabundantly blessed with staying qualities. Why, he'd stay to breakfast if I'd let him. Piso's Remedy tor Catarrh is a certain cure for that very obnoxious disease. "Tccxa men," said a tiresome and instructive old muff to a group of ap prentices, you should begin at the bot tom of your business aud work up." "I cant, said one of them, "why? asked the old muff. ''I am a well-digger." answered the apprentice. Da, K Lives ureal Nerve Restorer U) tne Diairel ol the age I s all nerve diseases. All fits stopped free. Send to il Arch btnet, railadelphia, I k "In Russia only one liquor saloon is allowed in each village. The youth of that country can never become experts in the absorbing game of dominoes. A moody moralist mutters: "Those who are thoughtless are already dead." Then the Summer resorts must teem with lively corpses. The thirty-third meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment cf Science, which opens in Phila delphia on September 4. and eloses on September 10, promises to be an occa sion of social as well as Intellectual eclat. Delegates from the British Asso elation, which meets st Montreal this year, will attend the Philadelphia meeting; the botanical section of the National Academy of Science has arra nged for a series of excursions, and receptions sre also to be given at the Academy of Music The programme of papers is not yet announced. California complains of a supera bundance of frogs. That was always a great country ia ths spring. Ha was a small boy, with dirt on his nose aud a faded straw hat on hia head, aad feet long unwashed. He walked ho LI I nn tha lum nnlleid the belL and when the lady cams to the door he said: "Sav nan von lend ma TOUT tele phone for a few minits?" "Why, I canll" she gasped out. 'Well bring it back in half an hour." "Rut T nan't lend it child. You don't seem to know what a telephone is. Who are you?" "We live srouna tne corner just moved in, and we want to be neigborly. I triaA ti linrmv vonr wheelbarrow and shovel, bnt your boy wouldn't lend 'em, and our nireu giri nas oeen over w hnrmw ta anil inir&r and couldn't get any. We kinder thought we might borrow your telephone or something, and ma would bring it back and get a chance to see your style, and ask you to run in with your old clothes on!' Haw to Sara Bfonev. and we might also say time and pain as ..11 tn nn ailvif. trt 0wwl hAUMkMMni and ladies generally. The great necessity existing always w nave a pcnc-unj remedy convenient for the relief and prompt cure of the ailments peculiar to woman iuncxionai irregularity, cuuawiui pains, and all the symptoms attendant HMin..li,nldnimlitijc 11 1 tit re- UKJU '"u ............... - commend strongly and unqualifiedly Dr. rierce s r avorite rrewiifiuuu u umwu a beat triend. It will save money. riir vm " Mid Mr. Brown, as she v t j - surveyed with evident pleasure her little parlor sideboard, covered with old china and decorated with highly colored tiles. "Mr. B. remarked last niotit ihat T waa hnoomuiir amte an atheist," and the old lady's counte nance fairly beamed witn aeiignt as her eyes rested on a sixteen-oent Jap anese teapot. l.oaa uf FlMh and Strenattl. : tl. Mu,. ..... i ... n n .1 twrli am alicrht .liu yrryr I pmh, wuu - I r cough in morning, or on first dying aown at mcnt, snoum oeiooawi w m 1'ersons amictd wun consumption are proverbially unconscious of their real siate. Most cases commence with disordered liver, leading to bail digestion and imperfect as similation cf food hence the emaciation, or wasting of the flesh. It Is a form of scrofulous disease, and is curable by the .... . i . 1 use ot mat greatest ot an uiuou-;i5iu"k, ..; I. : 1 ; .... . -n, invionrallnv nnlll TU Itinil. knnwn as Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." "Is there any opening here tor an Intellectual writer?" asked a seedy, red nosed individual of an editor. "Yes, my friend," replied the man of quills. A considerate carpenter, lorseeing your visit, left an opening for you. Turn the knob to the right." Many imitators, but no equal, has Dr. Sage's Catarrh Kcmedy. . The latest medical dictum as to smoking is that it Is a prolific cause of nasal and nasopharyngeal catarrh: and produces necrosis of the teeth, instesd ot preserving them, but is an excellent remedy in the incipient stages of in sanity. Mother If yon sr falling: bniken, worn out snd ner vous, oae "Wells' Health toeer." fl. Drgt. The Slavs. The Slavonic race is fond of moving about. The late Emperor traversed an enormous amount of spa ?e during the course of his reign. The nobility in Russia is more migratory than those in other parts of Europe: and the peas ants travel hundreds of miles, or even thousands, in search of work, or on pil grimages. The railways now afford them facilities which were wauting six and twenty years ago, and every spring trains arrive at be. Petersburg and Moscow with the third-class carri ages crammed with workmen from the provinces, who leave their wives aud children to attend to the pig, :ow, and the plot of land which belongs to each peasant proprietor, and act as wood cutters, porters, carpenters, white washers, and hi almost every mechan ical capacity, in the two capitals dur ing the summer. They live out of doors, and work day aud night taking a well-earned sleep at any odd nioiueut when it is convenient. In the autumn they return with their wages to their villages; and to save lights many sleep all the dark hours, which in a Russian winter gives them at most a day not much longer than from nine to thre. The virtue of ensilage has lone been understood in many of the Russian provinces. A tourist passing through the Russian towns in the Summer sees the men waiting with the change of horses for the tram cars, fast asleep on mats on the ground, the horses bending over them, and the bridle held firmly in their hands. He goes cway with the impression that the Russian peasant is ai lazy as a Neapolitan mendicanbut, on the contrary, these men are sleeping when they have time for it, to enable them to do without sleep during the sun-lighted night; for the street is their only lodging. If they perform any ab lutions at all, it is in the Neva, the Moskva, or one of the canals; their prayers, which seem never to be omit ted, morning and evening, are said in public before one of the many chapels, in an open church, or before an image of the V'irgin and Holy Child; a street fountain supplies them with beverage; the itinerant dealers in fried bacon, tish, squares of minced pork, fruit, cakes, bread, and all kinds of food, carried about on trays or a cheap traktir, sup plies their meals. The dealers who are attired in clean white aprons and cuffs, know all the fast days, and adjust their wares to suit them. On Saturday night when washing is obligatory if the peas ant is to assist at mass the next day, a Russian workman usually goes to one of the cheap vapor baths, at least in cold weather; but in summer he can often get a bath in a river for nothing; and in summer his clothing is of tne lightest. This is no worse a life than that cf many of the lowest class in our large towns; and sleep in the open air under a hot sun is undoubtedly health ier than In a stifling night lodging. In this way food is their only expense, ex cept two or three kopecks weekly for the vapor bath, and the small contribu tion all respectable Russian woikmen put into an alms-box. Tea. large jugs of iced lemonade and milk are sola in the streets, and the sight of a review or a public procession, particularly if the Emperor is present, would reward a provincial Russian for many weeks of hard work. Even in winter some of the Russian workmen contrive to sleep out of doors, kept alive by the warmth they obtain at the large fires which are lighted in the streets for public conven ience and for the droshky drivers, when the weather is very severe, A Bis Organ. The largest organ in the world has just been completed by Walck of Lud wigsburg, and placed in the cathedral church ot Riga. The instrument measures thirty-six feet in width.thirty two feet from back to front, and is sixty-five feet high. It contains 6.820 pipes, distributed among124 sounding stops. Recent analyses of the gray matter of the human brain have shed some light upon the hitherto unsolved qnes'ion of oatmeal as a more potent restorative of nervous energy than wheaten meal which is more abundant in phosphates. It appears that the fatty substance of the brain as not composed of glycer ine, as was formerly taught, bat of pal matin an element of which oatmeal con tail ee a very tags percentage; hence its extraordinary value as a oer. bral nutrient. Discovered, by a In 1S6I a young man stopped at n inn in the little town of Aixentiere, near the foot of the Cevennes moun tains in France. The first nigW ; white sleeping there he dreamed a dream mat made a strong impression on mm. "I thought I haxl arrived in the same town," so he related, but in the middle of the evening ; that I had put up at the same inn, and gone out immediate ly In order to see whatever was worthy of observation in the place. I reached a miserable cottage, in front of which was a garden covered with weeds. I had no great difficulty in getting into the garden, for tne hedge had several wide gaps in it, l ap proached an old well that stood solitary and gloomy in a distant corner, ana looking down into it, beheld, without any possibility of mistake, a corpse which had been stabbed in several places. I counted the deep wounds and wide gashes. There were six At this moment he awoke with his hair on end, trembling in every limb, and cold drops of perspiration bedew ing his forehead. He sprang from his bed, dressed himself, and, as it was yet early sought an appetite for his break fast by a morning walk. He went ac cordingly into the street and strolled along. The farther he went the strong er became the confused recollection of the objects that presented themselves to his view. He hurried forward, no longer doubting that the next moment would bring him to the cottage ; and this was really the case. In all its ex terior appearances it corresponded with what he had seen in his dream. lie entered the garden, and went directly to the spot where he had seen the well; but here the resemblance failed ; there was none. He looked in every direc tion, examined the whole garden and even went round the cottage, which seemed to be inhabited ; but nowheie could be find any signs of a well. He then hastened back to the inn in a state of excitement hard to describe. He went to the landlord, and asked him directly to whom the cottage belonged that was on the by-road. Said be: "It is inhabited by an old man and his wife, who have the char acter of being very unsocial. They scarce'y ever leave the house, see nobody, and nobody goes to see them. Of late, their very existence has been forgotten, and I believe that you are the first who for years, has turned your steps to the lonely spot." Hastening to the nearest magistrate, he related the whole circumstance briefly and clearly. "It is very strange," said the officer. "I will place two of the police at yo;ir commaud ; you can then go once more to the hovel and search every part of it." He allowed but a very few minutes to escape before he was on his way, accompanied by two officers. Th9 old man received them somewhat uncivilly but showed no ma'k of suspicion when they told hira they wiahed to search the hou.se. "Very well ; as fast and as soon as you please, " was the reply. "Have you a well here ?" "Xo, sir ; we are obliged to get our water from a spring about a quarter of a mile distant." They searched the house but discov ered nothing of any consequence. They, however, resolved to inspect the gar den. By this time a number of persons had collected together outside, having been drawn to tire spot by the sight of a stringer with two policemen. They were nkpd if they knew anything of a well in those parts. They replied that they did not; the idea seemed to per plex them. At length an old woaiau came forward leaning on a crutclu "A well ?" said she, "Is it a well you are looking for r" That has been gone these thirty years. I remember as if it were yesterday ; how I use i to throw stones into it just to hear the splash of the water." 'Do you remember where that well used to be ?" asked the gentleman. "As near as I can recollect," replied the woman, "it is on the very spjt where you now stand. " He suddenly started as if he had trodden upon a serpent. They at once commenced digging up the ground. At about twenty inches deep they came upon a layer of bricks, which, being broken up, revealed some rotten board-. These were easily removed, when they beheld the mouth of the well. "I was quite certain that this was the spot," said the old woman. What fools they were to stop it up, and then have to travel so far for water !" A "sounding line furnished with hooks, was now let down Into the well, the crowd hard pressing around them breathlessly bending over the black and fetid hole, the secrets of which seemed hidden in Impenetrable obscurity. This was repeated several times with out any result. At length, inetrating below the mud, the hooks caught in something of considerable weight, and after much time and effort they suc ceeded in raising it. It was an old chest. The sides and lid were decayed, and it needed no blacksmith to open it. Within it they found what they weie sure they would fiud, and which filled the spectators with horror the remains of a human body I The police officers now rushed into the house and secured the old man. As to his wife she at first could not be found. But, after a fatiguing search, she was discovered beneath a pile of wood, being much bruised by the heavy lo?3 above her. By this time nearly the whole population of the town had collected around the spot. The old couple were brought before the proper authorities and separately ex amined. The man persisted in his de nial most obstinately ; but his wife at at once confessed that she and her hus band, a very long time azo had mur dered a pedlar who possessed a large sum of money. He bad passed the night at their house, and they, tak ing advantage of the heavy sleep that encompassed him, had strangled him, after which they had placed his body in a cbest. The chest waa thrown into the well, and the well stopped up. Terrified by the deposition of his wife, the old man at length made a similar confession ; and six weeks after the guilty couple expired ou the scaffold. The latest theory of malaria is that the principal source of the fever and exhaustion is to be sought in the slowly but cumulatively poisonous influence of the relatively large amount of car bonic acid in the atmosphere of mala ricus districts, generated by vegetable decay, by evaporation of soil and moist ure laden with it, or by upturning of earth saturated with that compound. Recent measurements of the carbonic acid in the soil, as compared with the amount present in normal atmosphere, have shawn that their relative propor tions are as 259 to 1. Somebody recently stated before the Societe d'Hygiene that be had preserved water potable for mor titan three years adding to it half a grain of salicylic acid for each quart It is recommend ed for use in expeditions in warm cli mates. W infer from Shakespeare's remark about Cio-ar turning to clay that be subsequently became a brick. Cvm INSTANT M.IEF. and ia an ISi'ALLIBLK PILES CUBE for PItES. Pile SI. st drnmciets. or Bnt prepaid by man. Hampwa FHEK. Addraav "aNAKLSIN" Makers, aox aats, asw .ou. tka Scientijic A merican photography m lo"ive. and after finishing i 7'' w.waBhasofthecolors fa then tinted by flat wasnes desireiwhharedduted albumen lmOead of water ilTtJ so treated w next !aoed under grain bath, dried and plaoea the negative, care JgXM sure Its proper '"J Another ot the operations are m uai. method consists in ' P-'enU let Vroot with water grp,, a, then down wim . . r(VVAted who .led with and salted lbumeD. floated oa lbed finished as usual as just aeecr pump attained by M, c",e'"'' ntly method of liquifying " V exhibited Ktwcted ftysical Society of P" mre m universal attentiorex progress to devdopj. new mc P- serving fruits. .TTosphere in state, by exhausting the & closed Jar, and l 'fed forms of vital 11 upon tllat by adopting a l. the complete, or nearly wu'1' , ' mmatio'fo oxygen, salmon nd other fish of delicate navur, . i- -subject, even as nving amniala, tbe . ' i.innfnnn. can oe development ot tue preserved without tortmg W the processes now in vegue, which S" Impair their flavor and nutrient value. A recent invented a novel feature a seamless brass reaer voir running entirely around the inside which is filled with oil in the top, which w covered by cap which screws on. pa each side oftn npper part of the oil tube is Plaoada roT-iimilar to those Crinkling canw that when the Me buoy is hung upon the vessel . stern no oil can escape; but the moment it w placed horizontally the "qff." escape and covers the sea with , thin film of oil, spreading out rapidly ob every side until a large circle formed within which the person who has fallen overboard may rest until rescued by the boat. Dru pocket-glue is made of twelve parts' of good glue and five parts of sugar. The glue is boiled until it is entirely dissolved, the sugar is-then pnt into the glue, and the mass is eva ported until it hardens on cooling. Lukewarm water nielts it very readily, and it is excellent for use in causing paper to adhere firmly, cleanly, and without producing any disagreeable odor. CAIN Health and Happiness. OTHERS DOHL CfBCUf C HAVE Are your Kidneys disordered? Kunwy ort Hia'" irom ray i--". -rr.. altar load r lrt'- up t.J 13 t dir IB Uanu." 3L W.lxntram. llaclianir. Inula, Mica, Are your nerves weak? "Ki ln--J Wort eurw-1 a. rrni arrwu ti- n--r I waa not t-iwt-! to lira.- lira H. a. a. MjoJwm, fcd. (ArUtuta Mihjr CbTeiaad, O. Have you Erijht's Disease? "aj-lneT W'r rirtd ma wbaa my waiar waajaat lb. .. .I. n.1 ....... UltM Kliirvt Frank Wlfcwott, Pfmbody. mUssv Suf f erincr from Diabetes ? Ki Jo -y-Wort Ui most -ofwful realty tb rrr nstni. liivw tlm'Mt irnm.mt rr'U- Dr. rtJillp C Umiiem, If onkUaaW TL Have you Liver Complaint? "Kuliir-T-Wort rurrsJ 110 of chrvoW LiTtsr bUtmm A. ..' yi l. X t MrhHal fartavs-H ?C T I? your Back lame and aching? KiUm-T -Wort.a bottle cared turn wkksM I -mm laUUtt 1 Lafel wU XWtl UUt Of hvi" C. V. T.daJUft, !tf UwtuikM, Wit. Have you Kidney Disease? "kidfxT-Wort fnsvfo nt' found in lrr aivl aUdinrT-ft'-r jeirm t utwurvfui di tortile. If worth tu tL"-aui. . ijodtff. Wilmmsfown. Wat Va, Are you Constipated? "fl n-7-Wort cause Msf tvacuatitstin aodcorad aw afler 14 feaxa u.e ot uther mU-iiMsfl.'' IVelaon FatixWkl, ftc. .Ubtaa, Tt. Have you Malaria? Ti fneT-Woit hut done better taaa any other raiuatuj I h.a aer a -1 in u-.r prrUr " Dr. li- sv. Clark, bvutii iiaro, Ti. Are vou Bilious? TCiinT Wort ha- oVa Die mora good thmn any ouarr rvtusxlj 1 r ivp ever tuen, - j.ra 1. t.aUK7 aas unijL Are you tormented with Piles? "Kt!n.'y ffi'rt ivmniiitifis mri me of Wewimg pila lr. W. Kl.nt re mimem,--! tt to mr." tivu. U. Hor, taali .-r M. Caitk, Hyemvjwn, Pa. Are you Rheumatism racked? k rln- r-Wort fnrta iw, tuf 1 t I wit irlwa to tie vj piajMciann ana 1 nm iifTnu imrrv ye fcltnJe UisJcolm, We Bath, Ladies, are vou suf ferine? "Ki Jn T-Wort fir-4 m of jH-ctilUr trx-ai4r of WTenu jssaraTtitn a any rrwrxis tia aiwi prai- IU" iira. iL Luiuafwaux. iUe La MoU., V L If you would Banish Disease 1 ana (rain ileal tn. Take THB BLOOD CLEANSKR. DR. LINDSEY'S BLOOD SEARCHER The Great Reme, rare Boll-, PlmplM. mm .ua-., aim aii Btoou iftae; R. E. SELLERS & CO., Prop's, PITTSBURG PA. Catarrh trriru. 1 hare Benxl aa. iverelj for tke last ten n from tlaj-FSTer n ear. j and nud-anm. 'ner aad In tha tall I deslra In tha Into. V 'aV" wtO -st of my lellow-aur- ers to MMtfr In 'st. r of Elj-s Cream Bllm. Mf short naa w . . arc t f tt demnnataated it mcarT.-J.MirDHor Wl Broalwaj, S. T. i'-iimiy i-iui.W.1 a 'on-rwt dlaraoda nf tht iliwaMaad can KAY-FEVER - , , aa -in i.. i alum inc. dra tab. v hr unit Katipw bretta hr mill iuu F.LT UU 'S . Dru ad ta. 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It earn m 1 H-Hwiaf-tir-H. y.ronj r -a ration. euretj T"-'- p.nr-W'ti ana abu. r-nnaaixa. a -- - ?ri"Ti'r ''' . K-':-JalZl ti Fraiiea. Prompt r-fira i,wa ,.uiJliie,S.li U Azanov.161 f Jit u SC..V " 3HARP) Cm-k,3pAtiu,Wraiicle- Kiiwts asaiAuii. eurlpA, Sciatica, fieuriT Pain, ftlit-ll in tit A: 4e, backac he. Swollen Joi o ra. PAINS s 1 il -- s-Jrs nav-, a.-tathCbedUiu aiul a. hr eitr.ar local or SiZtiT r. n-TrM aad -pdUy enr-d by KJiiltialaJee.1 IK " pa.o-kilUn. at.aulatinir. rfCfTaoU auanlnir.i P ,ro. I'Lur e maJa. aTmnLur, mr, auld bf U lm.i-- ntrj dm - ' .-lUlorUAl S a P gaUed on ro.il "t I II J a PLASTER Proprietor) od u aactarcn, Burtoa-Haa TTuJr.r ijsaai arialia. imj1 stonaaci. auu i.e 6s!m, -nrr tir HurW tomch t'i T.tw H1'. &ry BUST TItLXS EVI.lt lfcl. Trrprored F! ntlo TrtiavL Vborn nltfiu miiii (Uy Pnait T-iy curv I;u;mrv. Sait by mai X. T. .44 hr-a-iway, e ior. lVt- on P' T,i it Ju ttas-a, sen. 5 ton WAGON SCAX.ES. a -am Pnx. Tara Boon Pilflil Paid. 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S. : Or d"jTila et E2S2ISIaalatxS2r4 " aitterica.v "ia j ...4 t,atw. mourns II I ' aAl :i WTgSTw! lre at otacn, oriear.w'1 jiSla " 1 't - 1 11 1 t ll t tl 1 e . fc , ft u g id ct te bt fit th ch ue ca to. thi all ha dis bl ' lnt life a ma a tru trei cen tt ii few poii Will otv rj thin look twei alon brea touc ttst by, guilt "1 whis - "1 best; ' cbapi , this when ' ly. brlgn this, , said (. choly not hi and li But ' from v face a; her Li; one i ' tuth After, . Coyne 'i much -' set." ; lately c son's c "1 "Any t SHppo.s wer th , you i do not , - cnrlous Prise to d ; ami 1 w gl;i ber and "Pecteti ; . "Pap.i her ham; suppress change nd he n Any one i as anxi, "larry hi; 4Then, wrong truth alw a falae p,. best; au- . roolish n think ot lt-i 0i,i 7iiu,h