Hi 111; ; r i Mi t ,1 ; I ; - J I - ; i RURAL. LIFE IX CfcYLOX. &. Planter' Rxperlenee Jfot Hard Work The Bothersome " Porcupine. A young planter from the slope of The Knuckles" lately gave s the Measure of his company. The Knuckles, ; 1,000 feet high, are thus named because from a distant poiut, my verandah, for .nstance. the ridge appears to be a row ' )f . refrukir peaks which shape the hori zon like the knuckles of a human fist. This plantar has been in Ceylon eight . rears and four months. The four xumths elapsed immediately after his nitranee Into a world or experiment; Uien he passid eighteen years in Lng- and, and the next eight years on these mountains. This embodiment of British , Drain and brainy energy has charge of ' 1.000 cultivated acres. 1 hev he up and " Iowa rather tlian across his '"Knuckle:" iherefore at different heights he raises the different sorts of plants adapted to ihe locality, tea being largely the chief. indforits prolit it is just at this mo ment the plant of the future, all outlay ind no income, lie is putting up large Machinery, and when the estates are working properly ana nouristiingiy, ihree or four years hence, his 1,000 icres which now require 400 laborers U'iU employ two persons to each acre, i. e.. ,(AH) men, women and children. Children can pick tea leaves, and the loddling tot minds the creeping baly i creation which exists in every Tamil Eamily. The Tamils are not dying out, though Ihey are of the Dravidian, the oldest of aid peoples; from a hardy antiquity they survive in very vital condition. Look ing at their slender figures and little feet, who would suppose that they were io bear the heavy burdens of life! But ;he farming here is not so muscular a work as it is in Illinois. It is more a rardening a plant culture. But Tamile shoulders the planter's "liox" (trunk) with the lifting strength of an Italian porter, and more than of the weakened Irishman on Mav-tlav in Xew York, who groans under luggage and bangs it iown at the new residence, and de lands extra mouev for the weight. The heathen do not do so. They give i smile instead of a groan, and are glad it the opiortunity to work. Tamils ire neither Aryan nor African, but seem to have as much vital vim as Uie Arvau; black as negroes they have none Df the African physiognomy except the ?olor. hile we were eating banana fritters and the other good things that form the festive tropic dinner, the planter told how his uppermost field, made of virgin earth, run up into the ariginal jungle that never had been mo lested since Adam and Buddha left their trt-ad marks on this classic island. Buddha's on tlie Alu Wiliar boulders that fell to the foot of the Matale hills, the leading ioiiits in the landscape now before my eye, while the foot-print of Dur gardener-jvarent is (said to be) on :hat "Adams l'eak,"' whence, i mined i itely after the fall and the curse in deep meditation he looked over this blossom ing island. The planter told what an amazing in cursion of porcupines he is ju now contending with. The hungry little liog having fierce and frightful quills from ears to tail, with only an unde fended noe, roots up and devours all the vegetable food that lies in his way, and has admirable tastd in the selection Df garden stuff. The planter's adjoin ing neighbor, i. e., the next knuckle of of the range, is not only a planter, but a loving student of botany and zoology, which he has in that situation excellent opportunities of pursuing. Too good, he thought, when lately confusion and broken pottery reigued over the length and breadth of his verandah. The por- supine knocked over his choice flower-! pots, the bliissoms which diffused frag-,' ranee through his bungalo, the tender ' leaves he had nursed into development, were snipped of as fine edibles by this ravaging and gustatory beast, l'orcu. pork; pme, spine or prickle a hog of thorns. ' The jungle-coc k was a creature which the planter discoursed enthusiastically.' The domestic bird that supplies Europe1 and America with eggs, the barn-yard fowl, is in his native country and orig inal state in Ceylon. He breeds no im provement by crossing. The jungle-' cock the planter described as being a prince in his way, admirable, beautiful. '. The icacock is here also in his native ; land. At Anurajapura, a famous city of Ceylon's ancient ruins, a peacock's feathored skin, from beak to tail inclu sive, can lje bought for S10 (20 rupees). Anurajapura more than 1,000 years ago was the center of civilization. Xow it is the center of jungle. A Talk "With a Plater. "I gold, silver or nickel plate any thing from a lady's pin to a brass watch," said a plating mechanic to a reporter. "Gold plating is cheap nowa days, as compared with former years. What are the principal articles plated? Watches, rings and other articles of jewelry. I will put a gold plate on a watch, guaranteed for a year, for $3.00, and not so good a plate for J2. Kings cost 25, .15 and 50 cents each to plate with golil. If you will step this way I will show how plating is done." The reporter's informant led the way to a rear room containing a dozen elec tric batteries, to which were attached thin steel wires. On a bench were small cups containing liquid gold, silver and uickeL The gold used is twenty four karats fine. To illustrate the pro cess the oicrator took a silver ring, and, after washing it in a preparation, twined one of the wires attached to the batter ies around it. The electricity was then turned on and the ring dipped in the liquid gold. Instantly the ring assumed a bright red color, and this was suc ceeded by a golden hue. In less than two minutes the ring was taken out witi a sufficient gold plate to last a year, ft at least so said the operator. Spoons, knives and forks, and in.fact everything imaginable, are plated in the manner described. There is big money in the business, as but little gold is used in the plating process. "I can so heavily plate a watch that acid won't touch it," said the plater. "Bogus or heavily gold plated watches are frequently palmed off by unscrupu lous jewelers on customers. Confidence men often find a plated watch a meis of earning a dollar when times are dull. Recently I plated a silver watch, proba bly originally worth 510, for a customer, and charged him 5 for the job. l!e cently he called on me and said that he had pawned that identical watch in a Brooklyn pawnshop for $40. Xo doubt the watch was plated heavier in some places than in others, and in case the pawnbroker tested the watch, which is unlikely, he did so on the heavily plated parts." Is making a large hole in a cork with a cork-borer or any other instru ment the danger of splitting can be aToided by wrapping the cork tightly with twine. Xew camel's bair cloths, new chev iots and suitings are seen in herring bone and chevron weaves to form the vertical stripes. Cu t glass is prod uced by first grinding the surface with weeels of stone, then with wheels of Iron, covered with sharp sand and emery, finally with brush Wheels covered with putty, a small stream of water in each instance being kept running on the ciass to reduce fceat of friction. I liOUSXHOXJX Okikoe Salad. (1) Peel half a dozen oranges, cut them in slices a quarter of an Inch thick, remove the pip and the pith in the centre of each slice; put them Into a deep dish with juice produced in the process of peel ing; and the thin yellow rind of one orange; strew plenty of powdered loaf sugar over, and keep them covered till wanted. At the time of serving ar range the slices in a glass dish in a cir cle and overlapping each other; add a wlneglassful of Cognac or of rum to the sirup left in the other dish, strain the whole over the salad and serve. Any kind of liquor, such as Maraschino, Curacoa, etc., may be substituted for the Cognac, or sherry may be used in stead. (2) l'eel and core some oranges, and keep them whole; strew them plen tifully with sugar and keep them cov ered over; take the thin rind of one orange, and inruse it in the juice of another with brandy or liquor.as above; at the time of serving strain over the oranges piled up on a glass dish. Blanquette of Veal. (1) Take three or tour pounds of breast of veal. cut It up into pieces two inches long and put them into a saucepan with a couple of carrots, an onion ana a neaa of celery cut into small pieces; add parsley, thyme bay leaves, cloves, pep per and salt to taste and sufficient stock of water to cover the meat. Sim mer about an hour: or until quite ten' der. Take out the piece of veal and strain the gravy through a eolanuer. Melt in a saucepan one ounce of but ter, add ounce of floor; mix well, and put In as much liquor trom tne veai. well freed from fat. as will mane sui- Gclent sauce: let it get quite hot, then stir in (off the fire), the yelks of two eggs beaten up with a little lemon Juice and strained, rut in tne pieces or veai; when quite hot add a little chopped pars ley and a few mushrooms and serve. Chickex Ceeam Cremede Volatile.) l'ound the white flesh of a fowl Into a pulp.rass it through a horsehair sieve, put it back Into the mortar, and work Into it the yelks of three eggs or four eggs and a gill of cream; flavor with pepper, salt and grated nutmeg, and, if liked, a suspicion of shallot. when the mixture, is perfectly amalgamated butter a plain moid, arrange thin slices of truffles at the bottom and sides of it by pressing them on the butter, then put in the mixture, which should only half Gil the mold. Tie a piece of pa per on the top, place the mold into a saucepan half filled with hot water, and steam it for an hour and a half. Serve with truffle sauce. Truffles may be omitted altogether, and the dish served with tomato sauce. Fried Calf's Brains. Soak them in cold water tour or five hours, then lay them in boiling hot water for an hour, take toem out. skin them and cut them Into cork-like pieces. Flour them well, dip them in egg beaten up w th a little ccld water, pepper and salt. and frv them a golden color in plenty of oi! or lard in a deep pan. so that the puces may fairly swim in it. VY hen done sprinkle them with very fine salt and serve up piled on a napkin and garnished with lemon cut in quarters and fried parsley. Chamois skin may be cleaned by rubbing into it plenty of soft soap and then laying it for two hours In a weak solution of soda and warm water. At the end of this time rub it until It is quite clean, rinsing it in clean, warm water, in which soda and yellow soap have been dissolved. It should then be wrung dry in a rough towel pulled and brushed. This process makes the leather soft and pliable. It should nev er be rinsed in clear water. The soapy water causes It to become soft. Stewed Aitles with Bice. Scoop out the cores and peel some fine russet apples, and stew them in clari fied sugar. Boil some rice in milk with a pinch of salt, a few strips of lem on peel and sugar enough to sweeten. Leave cn the fire until the rice is quite soft and has absorbed neatly all the milk, remove the lemon peel and place in a dishysxrange the stewed apples on the rice and put in the oven until It is! of a pretty golden color. A Spaxish Fisn Dish. It is better' in this weather to freshen the salted; codfish by putting it on early in the) morning in cold water to boil, cbang-, ing the water two or three times as it reaches the boiling point. Lay it aside when tender. Slice a couple of onions,' fry them in dripping or salad oil till brown, add a pint of cooked tomato and plcked-up fish; shake the saucepan oc casionally and cook for two hours slow ly. This is a good dish for either wash day or ironing day, when the fire is kept going all day. Cream Sherbet. One quart cream, three eggs, one teaspoonful orange flower water and six ounces pulverized sugar. Take the yolks of the eggs, beat them and mix them with the cream, adding the orange-flower water. Tut the mixture over a gentle fire, and as soon as it commences to thicken re move it, pour it out and stir in the sug ar. Then set it aside, and when cool freeze the same as ice cream. A Luxcueox Dish. Take four eggs, boil them hard, when cold shell them and cut them in half lengthwise, take out the yelks, beat into a smooth paste. To each allow a good slice of butter, half a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, and cayenne pepper to taste. This should all be thoroughly mixed with the yelks, then fill the white with halves with this paste. Serve on a nap kin and garnish with parsley. Batteii Cakes. Make a batter of one quart each of flour and sour milk, three beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of butter; pul verize the soda very fine before meas uring and thoroughly mix with the dry flour. Baked Potatoes. Peel and slice1 very thin and then let stand in cold wa ter half an hour, which hardens them; put them In a pudding-dish, with salt, pepper and one-half pint of milk; bake for an hour, then add a piece of butter the size of an egg. Herr 2. Krebs, Dr. So royal geolo gist and curator of the Provincial Mu seum at Konlgsberg, Prussia, sends to the Chicago IIcraM an account of a new protective varnish, "melted amber," which he says is destined to prove val uable in the industry of varnish by its cheapness and surpassing in quality the Zanzibar copal. This substance is pro duced by carefully heating the amber to 400 degrees C and separating all the vapors of tar, acid and oil thus pro duced. It is made economically enough to be used for varnishing ships, wagons, buildings, etc Experiments made with melted amber show that varnished planed surfaces under a changing tem perature of minus 12 degrees C. up to dIus 25 detrreos C. hum hpon mil nra. served during the ten months of the ' test, and that varnished iron parts of cbipwivuvicu iUUllCDU lUUULUil 111 luc Baltic have successfully resisted the effects of the sea water and waves. By these results it is therefore proved that the melted amber is sure to have a very large future. The makers of var nish have already taken possession of the substance, as the whole proceeding for the nroductlon of thi flmhor van. 1 ntsh is extremely simple. FARU NOTES. Packivo Fecit fob SnirStKNT. Apples should be packed tightly, so as to prevent damage from moving about in the barrel. The barrels should be sound and clean, and are best to be new ones made for the purpose. The filling should be done on a floor or a platform of boards, and never on the ground. All wormy and bruised fruit should be rejected. The barrels should be filled from the bottom so that when the bead is opened a full surface is presented. The fruit should be evenly assorted and uniform in size and quality throughout, as good at the middle and bottom as at the top. The first layer of apples should be uniform in stze ana piaoea in tne barrel stem down. AVhen the bar rel appears full it should be well but not roughly shaken and more apples placed on top projecting at least half the thickness of the apple above the chime of the barrel, the bead placed on these apples and with a screw or lever press gently forced into the barrels. The barrels should be well nailed, and lining hoops nailed around both the heads to keep them in place. In regard to packing there is much room for Im provement. The fruit must be placed tight in the barrel and the package must not be "stuffed," i ., the mid dle of the barrels containing inferior and trashy fruit topped off with a few layers of good apples. Closely graded and honestly packed fruit soon estab lishes a reputation for the producer, and bis fruit will be taken while that of a tricky dishonest party will be left. How to Bcild a Cheap Silo. Whatever cheapens the cost of the silo, or lessens the expense of filling it, will hasten the Introduction of the method, especially upon the farms of those of moderate means. The important ex periments of ensilage conducted at the Massachusetts Agricultural College have shown that a ballon frame of scantling of suitable size covered on the outside with matched boards, with a layer of tarred paper between them, thus securing a partially air-tight in closure, surrounded by a dead-air space as a protection against frost, is the best and cheapest form of construction. It the boards and timbers are lightly sat urated with hot coal tar, which can readily be done with trifling expense and a little labor, the duration of the silo will be much increased. Silos are, in these respects, similar to ice-houses, their usefulness does not increase with the ratio of their cost. It is a too common practice In many farmers' families to burn the feathers of fowls killed for the table, under the idea that they are not worth saving. Chicken feathers are quite valuable. Thev do not make so soft a bed as those of the goose or duck, but are superior for pillows where too much elasticity is not healthful or comfortable. They have, besides, too much manurial value to be wasted, being very rich in am monia. The coarse feathers should be thrown into the manure heap, where their decomposition will add largely to its value. The rule that young animals gain more rapidly In proportion to the food consumed has an apparent exception in young pigs. As soon as old enough to be fed they are given a diet so plenti ful and nch that their weak digestive organs are heavily overtasked. This is especially true whereorn is the staple feed, as it is in large sections of the country. Corn, as a mam feed should be tabooed until they are a year old. By this time their digestive organs will acquire power to digest even the rich est food. If fed while young with oats or barley meal In summer and a little I U,UMU VfCObUd at)'! UWUV.. the pig's health will be unimpaired and his largest gain made while young. In laying down eges for winter use see to it it that the shell is entirely clean. The shell is porous, and if any filth is attached to it, no matter how carefully it is bandied otherwise the egg will spoil. ADy means that will ex clude the air Is sufficient. Packing in salt does not leave the eggs so good for winter as keeping in lime water or coat ing with varnish, but is a good way, be cause so easy, when eggs are to be kept only a short time. It is possible by putting potatoes in a cool place to keep a few over until the second year, but it will not pay nor be practicable on a large scale. Even II potatoes are kept from sprouting there is considerable loss of weight from dry ing out, and the second spring, if left so long, they are scarcely fit for either planting or eating. We are practically dependent each year for our seed pota toes on the crop grown the previous year. It is cheaper to olean out the poultry- house every day than to allow the drop pings to accumulate, for the reason that it requires but a short time for the volatile elements of the manure to es cape. What is saved by not frequently cleaning out the bouse, as labor, is lost in the depreciation of the droppings. It is a singular fact that gypsum or plaster of paris is so little used. The cheapest of all mineral fertilizers, and the one best adapted to clover, its use rarely extends far beyond the locality where it is dug and ground. There its cheapness insures a large use by neigh boring farmers, who find it very profit able. A late cultivation of strawberries. with the application of a bag of super phosphate per acre, scattered in the rows near the roots of the plants, will give good results next spring. All the runners between the rows should be removed, the grass boed away between the plants, and the ground made as clean as possible. A New York farmer claims that an acre of Hubbard squashes will fatten several more bogs than an acre of corn. This may be true, but many farmers who can raise corn successfully might not suceed with squashes, which, ow ing to insects and bugs, are a much more uncertain crop than the former Ax excellent practical farmer re marked a year or two ago that he con sidered a good clover seeding worth from 111 to $15 an acre. This is more than the profit of any grain crop, and It can be had when grain Is sown by the outlay of $1.55 to $1.60 for clover seed. Here is a profit of 1,000 per cent in six months without interfering with other crops. Leo weakness in young birds comes from high feeding and forced growth. Bone meal and oyster shells will aid in preventing such weakness. We prefer to feed these articles dry, supplying them in boxes and allowing the chick to help themselves. JoriMaciurers are beginning to see that children's labor in factories is un profitable to employer because hurtful to the child. The health of the latter is overtaxed at the most critical period of its growth, and its opportunities for education are abridged, thereby impair ing its future usefulness as a laborer. They see that the humblest worker, who works with brains as well as hands, helps himself to overcome obstacles where the ignorant has to summon an intelligent man from better work. Glaiti mav lw cut. with on. J - mj UA1U MJUt. a chisel, for instance, if kept constantly V?E!2pb0' dlSBOlTed m Wta To V01' a 8t0V8 nib with a news of turpentine. I nanoi inafAa . . ntM-u"' wwwmuvv, ia a&CL-tj VUUDU1UL1V i of turpentine. . Mountain of Ice Jewels. "Within the memory of the last three generations the Muir glacier nueu me bay for miles below our anchorage, and while it recedes it Is creeping slowly .iiinit tlm mountains, minding UUWU, olrfil""& a all the sharp edges into powder or wav ing a polished surrace Deaiou u. gathers rock dust and the wreck . isin thin and miTM them It of up DYtMJ . , anH fv Thtfe comreal again, or are compressed into soft filthy monumental masses, waiuna uhjm to topple Into the waves at last. The wash of the sea undermines the glacier; the sharp sunbeams oiasi it. " ever sinking, settling, crushing in upon itself and splitting from end to end, with fearful and prolonged Intestinal reverberations that remind one of the hattia thnnriara anrl murder and sudden death. There was hardly a moment during the day free from a rumble, a crash, or a splash. The front elevation might almost rH tn th Falls of Nhurara winter, but here is a spectacular effect not often visible at Niagara. At in tervals large fragments of lcecliffs fall, rarrvincr with them torrents of BnOW and slush. Heaven only knows iow many hundred thousand ons of this debris plunged into the sea under our very eyes, it was it all debris. There were masses of solid ice so lustrous they looked like gigantic emeralds or sapphires, and these were nrty or even a nunareu times the size of our ship. When they fell they seemed to descend with I utmndt rinllliAratlnn for thAV fall much greater distance than we could , realize, as their duik was ai most, oeyona conception, so that a fall of 200 or SOO feet seemed to us a tenth-part oi that distance. With this deliberate descent, as thev floated down, thev also save an impression of vast weight, as when they struck the sea the foam new two thirds of the way up the cliff again a fountain 300 feet in hekrbt and of mon strons volume. Then after a lone time a very long time it seemed to us the ice would rise slowly from the deep and climb the face of the cliff as if it were about to take its old place again; but it sank and rose, sand and rose, until it naa touna its level, wnen it slowly joined the long procession drifting southward to warmer waves and dissolution. What is that glacier like? Well, just a little like the whitewashed crater of an active volcano. At any rate. It is the glorious companion piece to Kil auea in Hawaii. In these wonders of nature you behold the extremes, fire ana ice, having it all their own way. buu a w 01 iu oi auamauii auau uut pre vail against them. On the eastern coast of the Caspian sea a curious phenomenon is in progress. The Kara Bobhaz is an estuary nearly separated from the main body of the sea by a bank through which there is an Inlet, The evaporation from this gulf is so great that a current coutinually sets in from the Caspian; and as there is no return current the water of the gulf becomes more anl more salirerous. and a deposit of salt is in course of for mrtion In time this gulf will be cut off fiom the Caspian, and will then be dried up and become an extensive salt-bed. Save all the manure. A quarter of a century ago many Western fanners dumped their manure into rivers, not supposing that manure or fertilizers w.iuld ever be required, but the ques tion of fertilizers is now being discussed as well as the best methods of re storing fertility. Combmatins of silk with light Vool stuffs are popular for first autumn frocks. Important. Wliti ytm Tistt or rre N Tort Cltr. un bitmpmapu'l (3 camacalilra, aod r.ttie onod I'aloa tlutel, opposite Unuid Ces miixpob X tjttuA room. Sited op it a cant if 009 millloD dollar, fl taA npvanla par da J. European PU& E.etaUir. KMaaraot applied wlta lira be-C Uorrc can, Kaga aoJ cerate I raUroad 10 aa depMa, rami lea caa Ira teller for )tm mooer at U.e tiraad l.ahoa HaUk laanat aor olier arsweiaM kowi la Uie ait. If a word sroken in time is worth one piece of money, silence in b time is wortn two. Oriental. CAS TO L One night, the poor disconsolate YonDg heireu in her boudoir sate. "Would I were beautiful, or dead I" "Wby ao?" asked Jenny. "Don't 70a see De Smyth won't fall in love with me I What's gold tome? What '(jewels? What The splendid mansion I have cot? With half my wealth I'd gladly part, If I could win my Alfred's heart." Give me a thousand dollars. Miss, And yon shall have that much prized bliti." 'One thousandl Jennjl" Julia said, "I'll double that the day we're teed!" " 'tis done I" exclaimed the lady's maid, "And don't co back from what yon' ve said." CAXTO IL That night, the magic rites beln, With a mysterious compound which Made ber complexion white and rich; Freckles and r imples faded away. Like darkness, at the smile of day. "How was it done?" now fair Julia cries. "I'll tell yon how," the maid replies; ' That peerlnns skin's bright snowy gleam Yon owe to Oriental Crtain. " To close the story, let me say The pair were married yesterday. And sent, for darling Cupid's sake, (Gouraud T. Felix) a mighty slice of cake. It isn't so much what a man has that makes him so happy as it is what be doesn't want. A Oolck Keeovery. It gives ns great pleasure to state that the merchant who was reported being at the point of death from an attack of Pneumo nia, has entirely recovered by the osa of DR. WM. HALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. Naturally he feels grateful for the benefits derived from using this reme dy for the lungs and throat; and In giving publicity to this statement we are actuated by motives of public benefaction, trusting that others may be benefitted in a similar manner. To remove ink stains soak in sour milk over night. The Indians have at last made a rapid and gigantic stride towards civil ization. They advocate the use of Car bollne. the ereat Petroleum TTar tint. ducer; it gives them an additional chance to collect scalps. To brighten and clean old alpaca, wash with coffee. A Hard Fat it is indeed, to a wars remain in novartv and obscurity; be enterprising reader and avoid this. No matter in what part yon are located, yoa should write to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, and receive free, full particulars about work that yoa can do and live at home, at a profit of at least f5 to f 25 and upwards daily. Some have earned over 850 in a day. All is new. Capital not required. You ore started free. Either sex. All ages. Better not deiay. MlX StOVe 1Olish With vlnamr anil a teaspoonful of sugar. Fraser Axle Orease. Tll Prayer A vl n 1 j . at the Centennial, North Carolina State Fair, Paris Exposition, American Insti tute, New York, and others. When cooking beans add nna-hair teispoon of saleratus. . . , The beat routrh mmllrina 1. t: - o " a. uu n cure ujr consumption. Sold everywhere. 23c. A CLOCK THAT IS WATCHED. One Chronometer Cased at by 7.0OO. OOO People every Year. -"Do you see that chronometer?' asked one of Broadway's well-known watchmakers, pointing to a small, bur nished face, boxed-up timepiece which sat in his show window ticking as com placently as if the world wasn't rushing iround in space at break-neck speed. "Well, do you see anything peculiar about it?" "No." replied the reporter. "Right. There are hundreds like it. Some better, more worse, but there are few that have 7,500,000 eyes stare at it every year," said the watchmaker. Crowds passed by the window. IJere and there one of these number stopped, edged up to the glass, pulled out his gold, silver or nickel timepiece and scowled, smiled or looked thought ful as the methodical face of the chro nometer criticised or approved of their time. The jeweler mued. "It's strange," said he, "but by act ual count more people consult that chronometer every year than there are inhabitants in New York state." Correcting himself, the jeweler ex plained that he counted a man every time he came to look, and not each in dividual "This is how I arrive at my figures," said he, "I stand at the window, ami take one minute. The average of a dozen trials, counting the faces that appear, is 43u Yes, over two score faces on an average glance at the chronometer every minute for ten hours a day." "As the proof of the pudding is the eating thereof," so the liroad way jew eler's figuring is the proof of his state ment Here it is: Forty-three a min ute is 2,580 an hour; multiplied by 10 for a day, it makes 2.H00. Now, the chronometer is only visible, accord ing to his count, for Gdays in the week; again, the result of a day was multiplied by 6, giving a total of 134,800, the number that view the chronometer every week. Multiplying it by the 52 weeks which constitute a year, with a liberal allowance for holidays, the jew eler held up the result triumphantly 7,500,000 people. "Yes," said he, "there you have it 7,500,000 people; and figures are noted for telling the truth." Of these he estimated fully 6,000,000 were men. "Aren't women as curious about the time of day as men?" "No. I have found it otherwise. Few women care if their watches are within ten seconds or ten minutes of the time. In fact, I don't believe that the female mind really comprehends the flight of time. It's something they don't care to think of, but with men it's different they watch every mo ment." The "Little Lady" at the Cirrus. She was a little lady of very tender years, but of great dignity and exces sively dainty tastes. he was asked if she would like to go to the circus bv a gentleman who thought he'd like to do a good and pure action just for once in his life. She accepted with some hauteur. This great big man wanted to do the correct thing. Ho had no ac quaintance with children, and he thought of course he must unbend. he sat very austerely all through. Once she burst into a loud laugh, but she Immediately blushed and bridled up, and every now and again she'd turn with a dignified look of astonishmeut at the grown-np man who was howling with laughter at the clown. She did not like it "Will you have some peanuts?'' he aaked her. "Peanuts!" she said, with an air as if she had been deeply insulted. "1 wouldn't eat peanuts here for any thing." That shut him up. "What did you think of it? It was very funny, wasn't it?" said the grown-up man, desiring to be genial and pleasant with the young child, as he wrapped the little thing up in her cloak. "l'es, it was very good," she said quietly. "I liked everything in it ex cept the clown. There was nothing refined about him. I do not think that clown Is a gentleman. Tiro members of the Society of Thy slcs and Natural History of Geneva, Switzerland, have been experimenting by means of photographic processes as to the depth of water which light from the surface will penetrate. A trial in the clear waters of Lake Geneva showed that light penetrated there sufficiently to affect very sensitive photographic plates at depths of 55S feet, and at that depth the light at midday was about as strong as that of a clear, moonless n ight. Similar experiments carried on in the Mediterranean led to the conclusion that "In the month of March In the middle of the day and in bright sunlight, the last glimmer of light comes at 1300 feet below the surface. Horses ought to have as great com fort In the stable as it is possible to give them. Do not construct stables carelessly. Look to the comfort of the animals in every particular in the mat ter of construction. Tinsel shot Madras lace curtains are pretty novelties In window draperies. Sick nea&acKc Thousands who have suffered Intensely with nek headache say that Hood's Sar ssparula has completely cored them. One gentle man thus relieved, writes: "Hood's Sarsaparllla Is worth lu weight tn gold. Sold by all drug gtats, 10 doses U To remove tea stains from cups and sauceis scour with ashes. FITS: AH Fits stopped free. Treatise and ti trial botiieot Or. fcUlne'sureat Nerve Kestorer, free t In cases, beoUuDr.fcUine,Hl ArcUst, lhUa.,Pa. For burns applv flour wet with cold water, as it quickly gives relief. . Ladies I Those dull, Hred looks and feellnc sneak volumes! Dr. Kilmer's Finale Rzvrur correctaall eonditioas,mtorM vigor and vitali ty ana onnp nacx youtnrtu bloom and beauty. When sponge cake becomes dry It is nice tacut in thin slices and toast. You will get more comfort for 25c ta. In Lyon's Heel Stifleners than in any other article yoa bay. To remove mildew soak in butter milk and spread on grass In the sun. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Iaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 2jc. per bottle If nutmegs are good when pricked with a pin oil will Instantly ooze out. ST. BERNARD VEGETABLE PILLS. Waulaktxd Purely Tkgitarlk. Th bet ear for Lrrar and Bilioua Complaint. CostiTonoss, Hesdach, Disz.DOM mad Dy-ipepaia. Aa a Blood Purifier and Lira- KejralaUrr, tbay hav bo equal. No Kami if ahoald b without box of the 8t. Bernard Vetble Pill in the house. Price. 29 eenta at Dnunnata, or by mail. Aamnlsia Bksrnt run A Im.. P. HUSTAmiJ. CO 83 Mercer &t 2Sw York; COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For liver. Bile. Indlreatlon. etc. Free from ir. eurr; contain ouy Pan Veritable Inrretiientn, atcenl.C .N. t KITTfcNToTs, ew Jerk. . WANTED GOOD .IAN ennrtie worker; batne in his aectlon. Ralarr S7Q. aenrtlsCt m auuucHinai uoav im Mrciajr jiu. I . $3 ELECTRIC BELT for KIDNEYS, Pals, Nervous & vssk. Booftfroo. FLETCHECOvCIreHLnd,Q, Hood's Sarsaparifa rvunhiiux In a manner neenllar to Itself, tha best blood-part fytnr; and strengthening' reme dies of ths vegetable kingdom, xoawmnnd this wonderful remedy effective where other mriirlnp have failed. Trv it now. It Will purify your blood, regulate the digestion, and glre new me aaa Tigor to me enure ooaj. Rnnd'a RarianarUla did me creat rood. I was tired out from overwork, and it toned me up." Mas. O. E. SnrxoKa, Coboes, N. T. M I snffered three years from blood poison. I took Hood's Sarsaparllla and think I ant cured." Has. U. J. Davis, Brockport, M. Purifies the Blood 7 Hood's Sarsaparllla Is characterized three Deeullarlties : 1st. the combination remedial agents ; 2d, the proportion; 3d, the of securliiE the active medicinal snallties. The result Is a medicine of unusual yrength, effecting cures hitherto unknown, fiend for book containing additional evidence. Hood's Barsaparilla tones up my system, rjurines rav Mood, sharpens my appetite, and ems to make me oer." J. 1. TuiJtrs IWi..trr of Deed. Lowell. Mass. Hood's Saruparilla beats all others, and Is worth it wright in eld." I. BAJUUHKiTOM, JJU Bonk Street, tew lork City. Hood's Sarsaparllla Sold by all drueitlsts. $1 ; six for as. Mads only by a 1. HOOD fit cu., lowcii, mass. IOO Doses One Dollar. It is never well to use big words when small ones will express toe same meaning. A lady who was making a call on some acquaintance observed mac the furniture bad been change, and remarked to the lady: ' You have been metamorphosed; haven't you?" "Y-e-s." said the other, hesitatingly. "You mean re papered, I suppose; it looks much better, doesnt it?" Another lady was showing a visitor around her grounds, which were under the care or a landscape gardener, anu she Inquired of her friend how she liked the work. "Why, I think," she said, 'that you like symmetry." "Why." said the other, "we don't in tend to bury any one here. There is a good cemetery quite near." "IIow is that old family fend of yours with the Smith family coming on 7" asked one Kentucky citizen oi an other. "It's all ffoin' our way. I'm left, you see, and part of brother Jim is still on earth, but it goes about on crutcnes. Father, you know, petered out over three weeks ago with a hole in his heart, and uncle Robert is up at the hospital, doin' as well as can be expect ed for a man who hasn't got any nose, Where have vou been lately?" "Out of town. And the Smiths?" "Well, 1 dont want to brag about myself and my relations. You just go up to the graveyard and turn to the right." First Londoner "I don't see how all these lawyers are to make a living, Seems to me every young man I know is studying for the bar. Second Londoner "Oh, don't worry about them. They will have their hands full in six months, rrospects never looked brighter so far as the legal fraternity is concerned." "Ah! what's happened?" "A new witness for the Tichborne claimant has been discovered." Joses "Now, isn't this nonsense?' Smith "What's nonsense?" "This paper says that Bismarck be lieves in bald-headed men, and always selects them for his assistants?" "Well. I don't see any nonsense about that. Bismarck wants wide awake men around him, and be needs them, too." "Wide-awake men?" "Yes, bald-headed men never get drowsy, especially In fly time." A SnitiT of accommodation evident ly ruled the Court of Justice Duffy in New York, the other day, when an old man, "all broke up" over disappoint ments arising from his second marriage, applied for relief. "1 will send you to the island for two months till the warm weather sets in." said his Honor. "Oh! that won't do at all, Judge," replied O'Sullivan. "I want to be com mitted for life. It's life or nothing for me. Send me for life." "All right," said Judge Duffy. "Mr. Brown commit this man for life, aDd if that don t suit him we will give him a few years more." Kiaoaka Falls Visitor "What are all these things you are putting op?" Enterprising .Native "J. hey are ton gates." "Toll gates! Why, they are scat tered in all directions, and are close to houses." "Yes. That's so it will be handy to run out and take toll." "But there is no road through them." "No; we'll build the road after wards." Jinks "IIow is your new paper get ting along?" Great Editor "Blooming, my dear sir; just blooming." Jinks "You surprise me. I did not know it was such a success." Great Editor "Success? Great Cwsarl Why, we've had to drop the Sunday edition and evening edition and morning edition, in order to give our whole attention to the semi-weekly." Mb. De Boston "I see there has been another mine explosion in Fenn- Mrs. De Boston "IIow did it hap pen?" Mr. De Boston "It seems that the gas had collected in an unused part or the mine, and the miners entered it carrying a naked lamp." "Dear me! Where was Anthony Comstock?" "No," said Mrs. Frank, "I didnt like that minister at all; he made me so nervous that I couldn't sleep a wink all church time. IIow different from our own pastorl I always enjoy Mr. Jones's preaching, he has such a nice way of speaking, you know. Why. when he begins to speak he soothes my nerves so that I doze off before he has spoken twenty words, and I neyer wake until he gets through." "I'M a director In the company," said the devil in a newspaper office, "You dont say so?" "Yea, it's true." "What are a director's duties?" "To direct wrappers, ot course." It is said a thing of beauty is a joy forever," but sometimes when a fellow marries a girl because she's pretty, he finds "a thing of beauty is annoy for ever." Gen. Butler wants to enter his yacht America in the international yacht race. If his '"canvass" is as bad ly managed as it was last fall, he will not win by a large majority." It is said that the Russians have ad vanced no nearer to Penjdeh than Ful-i-Khatnn. 'Tis well; the British have still room to Swing-i-Khatun. Though the Mugwumps do not want anything, it is noticeable that their noses are protruding over Uie fence about as far as anybody else's. Adam was the only man who could get off a joke without some galoot say ing he bad beard it before. tsnperstttlon Pertaining o Clotblu. An old superstition pertaining to clothing is that before putting on new clothes a sum of money must be placed in the right-hand pocket which will in sure its always being full. If by mis take, however, it is put in the left-hand pocket, the wearer will never have a penny as long a3 the clothes last. If an article of dress is put on inside out it is good luck. It is said of the cast-off clothes of the dead that they never last very long, but that as the body decays so do the garments. In Ieninark a corpse is never allowed to be buried iu the clothes of a living person, lest as the clothes rot in the grave that person to whom they belonged should waste away and perish. So in the Netherlands even the rings of the dead are never given away. The apron is not without its super stitions. Women turn them before the new moon to insure good luck for the ensuing month. In Yorkshire, a town in England, when a married woman's apron falls off it is a sign that some thing is coming to vex tier; when, how ever, the apron of an unmarried girl drops down she is frequently the subject of laughter, as it is a sure sign that she is thinking of her sweetlienrt. If a young woman's ietticoaU are longer than ber dress it is proof that l.cr mother does not love her as much as her father, a notion which extends as far as Scotland. If the stocking is put on wrong side out, it is lucky, but un lucky to turn it. To clothe the left foot before the right one is a siirn of misfortune. 2Ae following beverage is soothing if taken just before going to bed by the person troubled with a cough. It is an old French recipe, and is called "lait de poule:" Mix the yelk of one egg thor oughly with a teaspoonful of sugar and add a few drops of orange-flower water. Four a gill of boiling water by degrees upon the mixture, stirring constantly, and drink very warm. A nniform and natural color of the whis kers is produce! by nsing Buckingham's Dye. We have used Ayer's Cuerrjr Pectoral, iu our family, for cold.-, with perfect aucceia. J. Ltssene, at a meeting of the Soci ety Mdicale d'Amiens indicated a cer tain sign of death, simple and trust worthy. After pricking the skin with a needle, the puncture remains open, Just as when a piece of leather is pricked. On the living body even if the blood does not come to the surface, as would happen if the person were hys terical, the pin prick closes at once and does not leave the si ghtest trace. Love may be blind, but man. when your Boston girl put3 on "specs," then yon had better look out and not fool yourself. The craze for lace is on the increase. and is creating a genuine revival of old points Flemish, Aleneon, Bruges ana English, along with Venetian and old point coupe. Nearly all plants require more water when in bloom than at any other time: they require more in a warm tempera ture than in a cold; more when in a state of active growth than when at rest. THE BEST TONIC. This mMicine. combinlnK Imn ith pnr T?re.blt bintii, qiikTv an-l vrrr!et!y Cure Dysprptla. Imi'Krfftton Veak.- KMm, Impure U!ood Malaria. Chill And Fever, anil mrali;ta. It is an unim w-.t rviac'ly lur Ineiucs of the Kldnejr and Liver. It 14 iavaitiai'.e for rOtW pfcu'iar to Women, and all who 1- a i MMrnt iry lives. itloesnot injiirv theietth,caiieheai.ache.'r produce ctn.jtr:t.n r,:Vr Iron m"liciw .. It n riches and parities the blood, rti mutates the apiftite. m-ls t;n a..iniiiututn of fiod, rvht-res ilVanhurri and IVkhliig.aiid treugtrten the nmscl niM iktv. For Intermittent Ftvrn. Lassitude, Lark, of Knerrjr. etc., it lias no equal. HT" The eenu:ne has arvre trni! mark arl Crossed red iiut-s on wrapper. Take no ttlu-r. as nil far HOW CatE3Xt AL .OwlULTiaoKZ. SOL PR9F.S AMORAL KILMER BINSHAMTON. N.V. THE INVALIDS BENEFACTOR. Distfoveivr of Dr. Kilmrr's Complete fEMALE Remedy ijonvr in.mt Jrfo'mrvt Nprrlat and Fpceirlu treatment f.;r all Complaint anil iMsraws .ttuiiar tv lwmrhter. Wivraaml Mothers, fearhparkaa contain. 3 battle.. t v Kara km1 ill) gii tomrti-!v: Pmal Hemrdr, (Uioudand Sjaum Anlnmn-Lraf Kit., MTmtmi . 17 A n Anointment, tTTl " ' .so s7Or the threu ui une I'atkacJj.tA.. Recovers the "run-'lnwn:" nej.rtil.li n'' or "abandnmHl.w It Kl.minntfs Humor? and Wood Impurities that -.!.: S-rlula, lancer, T'lrorr. pimwle and lilot hrs. Th. ar 'or I'Msan. aii.t fctrstir t. raft waman Hjth aiu usefuljit a .;n rot.-rrrf. Ir. Kiltnertrvai internal Tumor, t ancer. Taa cantfforJ unclrt eart aMtr'orra l.At?prs ot inniiirv nmmntlv iiitwi...l , Pt KlIaMr Ffnal Iitpenarr. tunc;hmt.n. N. T. I -jnrnii'!- '.iiuie t tir,irn ( rnt Vrrt). 9tti.ii zs m al). urn ibivrs, ELY'S CatarrH Cream Balm when apf,l,l ntn tha nmirrli-',will beslnttrb e4letTrciiisJlr rttainir Uie of citarrtia, virus, caiuiofr tiesltriy ectvt'ous. It aiisv4 inflammatirA, protxt4 tk metiihrmw of um naaal fmattm trvm syii.ttit-msl cnM, enu r4te. r hsl ttm soiv an1 rttorat a rjao of taste mod tnU, A Qnick Eelief k rosltire Care. i HAY-FEVER A rarticielt sp?M into eich nTiI an ! ts sar-v able to una. Pnce &o cvl bv u o- t driiirnrt4. kwkI for circular. fXV BUOTHElU. Irui-rf Oweoo, N. Y. lATCHTS11""! senlvopfje IH I Cll I O iQvniil .ri" Uiu U u llmaRiv. FsMat Lsirrar. Wuliattaj. IX !- 49 THDRSTOFS STCO'IIPOWDER Keeat Teeth Perfect aad Hen It hjr, mt!V Dill Crea! English Gout and Ulall S rlllSc Rheumatic Remedy. Ual B. l.ttwi rsnad, ." ria. II Dill II Hab,t Cured. Treatment eotoo trial. UrlUM U ll a BJlalDT CO-. Lai'ajelt. lad. crtw lb Ur Midi. Bnikf trade-Mark. (pi y i it i !pi fl . M.O. f I - E Ho'fe -eumt; PAIN Spy That limranriv ;hther of tbe Un sJ tgj No matter D.,w nr,:Mt','. th Ktiu ruay tuffer. gc.orpr l2 Thirty w ,, .!, . wi.i, in a lew m out- . r .r.T Mean ntnm, Hrn,,lr& J all Internal raL e I m i u u a remain Itiat wia rare Keveranj Tr? ay. .annuo. H' :oa-t. tl i otW U WA V HILLS . , ,r t 7!" '"' If rroprl-tori ,f ; iw,,., - NO LATIY II um, . u thout,.- t'iienfrSiC' u "e-J.:, an c he.i'.MHn a ltirwwk . . . T plea, F'ect::-, tint B;- Hraks?? ODbam, Cnatwl linn im ik. "aaaassl t run.!,;, a r,'M t... d ..... '."fa- ----- ----- ..v K , w. aats m ot the k n from the :s;-:r -km ofZZ and cosmetic Wi-es i-.in-diuior tt-UaesitJ beu::3M t . ,m. g t.2 u tiai s-ta, snl t.jutnful pejraa-' nn4?J ootun tj ant '.l..-r in- ia--. It I. tfn.S nol-neura n th rt t w :&e mc ug mti tfler:uf wj:.J evr pro a L For i.le b bmrr . ,.! KwryOaiiiw S.?ni f.-ir cu-i-uiir w.:u Toi ju-ju luilZ. ttlui Ficture, 1rr. W. 51. 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"--..(-:. lir. r il"M-'i Hwdlan.l'i BloxtSJain aal N r;yi f - etc CXI or write -in I tie cure I '"wEvyt en. e. li jurs-i A. M. w J 1". M., 4 Closed fuu.lavi , 9 f. PENSIONS . ii Si.e.i.i-iTjLNa Best .!! ..T-:t'. ' AFFLICTED ISO INrOll "rlNATK l't"SH- DR. LOBB. r.MTi..'i!lW mS. nta St.. betotr tt.o i a) Krrar of Youth a p-vi.t.i t. --u ' r.wrwn,-?. A.lfl' ' ,r-"- 1 11 '., a. t..i.t' Tf..irrn.nftT Mill. UJi' : U till V. M. and T to Id rveai1'- S5 ta 9S a dir. Fxwfm "TfJi AM- fin,, a. u.idT th ' '5$lf Ccal kwarof!cillat;ao. f'''"' IllttatrmtaKl rL-.'oftj jvMl. Try II sr. w i i't it i. ' v-' ... lit B 'Bk' Bk a