HADN'T FORCOTTEN HOW.
Am OK Connrtloot Tcohr Btnadly
Thrash ft K.ntfuJ Yoaaf Mam.
When William Sturges taught
school in the little red school-house
on the hill Id this town, over forty
years ai;o, ho was considered a strict
disciplinarian among his pupils, says
a Wilton Conn.) correspondent of
th! y-w York Sun. One of them
was Lorenzo Olmstcad. whom Mr.
Sturpos had occasion to trash soundly
one term for a bit of deviltry. Tho
affair caused some talk at the timo,
according to the Wiltouitos, but they
all upheld Mr. Sturges. Tho other
day when Mr. Sturges, now man
approaching his seventieth year, went
to the pobtofhee for hisdaiiy ruall be
met a son of his former pupil named
Harry Olmstea-1, who is jut 21 years
old. Young Olmstead stepped up to
the old man and remarked:
"Mr. Sturges, many years ago you
gave my father, Lorenzo by name,
who was one of your students, a ter
rible thrashing. Do you remember
It?"
The schoolmaster replied in the
affirmative, and added that he do
se rved it.
"Well," said young Olmstcad, "I
am goin? to lick you, my dear sir, and
pay up that old score with compound
Interest."
"If you thin a you can do it you can
bocin now," said Mr. Sturges.
Some further words were exchanged
and it was proposed that tbe? rut
some money on tho rosulU Olmstea
borrowed 50 cents and placed it In'
Louis Verlln's bands, which amount
Mr. Sturges promptly covered from
an old sh(v:pskin poekcthook. A ring
was formed and the old man put up
his lists. Young Olmstcad. who had
considerable confidence in himself,
because he had taken lessons la box
ing from a orwalk sport, sailed In.
H.i cannot tell to-day exactly how
It happened. Mr. Sturges warded off
his blows, seizing him by his coat
collar and the soat of his trousers,
and shook him until his teeth rattled.
Tiion ho motioned for more room and
;an to plow up the ground with
young Olmstead's nose. After get
ting quite a furrow he harrowed it
with the youngster's legs, and finally
let him up. Tho young man was now
thoroughly mad, and, formatting the
old score, witn interest, he was go
ing to pay on his father's account,
started in to pay off the present one.
Again the old man took hold of him,
but this time he lo6t his footing and
came down on top of his youthful an
tagonist. He seized Olmstead's neclc
between his toeth and bit him se
verely. Then he lot go there and got
hold of an ear. and he was chewing
away on that with great vigor when
the bystanders lnterferred and separ
ated the fighters. -
Olmstead was a sorry sight. Hi j
clothing was useless, even for a corn
Hold s :arecrow, and his face and ear,
was bleeding freely. Tho old man
was excit'd and his collar wa9 awry, !
with the oid-fnshioned stock twisted ,
around under one ear. !Not a mark
of the affray was on him. Claiming
the stakes, which were handod over
to him, he went home, while Olm
stcad sought a secluded spot to make
repairs to his wardrobe. Ihe affair,
has created much talk here, bscause
Mr. Sturges is a school vistor, town
Auditor, and a pillar of tho Ohurch.
But the provocation was great.
Centenary of the OulUotlne.
Murderers and cutpurses from th
dangerous districts about the Pan
theon and Pore Lachalse have been
known to compose and sing grimly
humorous ballads in honor of tha
guillotine when in their cups. TheM
poople will hardly, however, go so far
as to celebrate the hundredth anni
versary of tbs Hrst execution in Paris
by the inftruitient of decapitutlon
which the "Oonstituante" adopted on
the motion of Docteur Gulllotln, who
had seen the machine at work in
Italy. The doctor's idea ih introduc
ing the boix de Justice was purely phil
anthropic, for he wanted to do away
with tho slow tortures inflicted upon
criminals. On May 27, 1792 the flrst
criminal, a highwayman, was exe
outed on the Placo de Greve. now the
Place de 1'HotoI oe Vlllo. This is the
date given by Larousse. but otherau
thorities state that Monday, April 25,
was the hundredth anniversary of the
first execution by tho guillotine in
Paris. In ay case tha terrible in
strument was desttntd to be busy
during 1793 on the heads of persons
more illustrious than the common
highwayman named Peletier. For
this reason some of tho modorn sym
pathizers with the Terrorists, suppos
ing them to have the bloodthirsty in
tention of celebrating the centenary
of tho guillotine, would be inclined
to fix the date of their commemora
tive ceremony on January 21 next.
There can be no doubt about that
day, as it would be the 100th anni
versary of the execution of Louis
XVI. on the spot marked by the obe
lisk in the Tlace de la Concorde, as
the spacious plot of ground ones
termed the Place Louis XV., and af
terwaids the Placo de la Revolution,
is nowadays known. Paris letter to
London Telegraph.
As a rule, a man who has a mustache
he can tw ist, or whiskers he can stroke,
is three times as long making np his
mind as one w'id hasn't.
Api-ear-inces not deceptive: Priscilla
"When Ciiarlie proposed to me the
poor fellow did look silly."
Trunella ' Well no wonder.'
There's plenty of room at the top,
bnt you shouldn't tell an ambitious
artist so just as he is on the point of
sending his picture to the exhibition.
Mr. New "Un the stage they always
have 8iicri dolt wo3deny actors to rep
resent dukes and kings."
Mr. Know "Yes; that's so to have
them true to lfe."
Boggs "Hello there, Joggs. what
are you going to do with that keg of
powder?"
Jocgs "I am going to try to blow
imstlfiiway from the porous plaster
that Is on my back."
Admiring Neighbor "Do you think
the preity pi t is going to be like his
father?"'
Fond Mother "I shouldn't be at all
smpnued. He keeps me up every
night, as it Ih, and is fractious in the
morning."
Mr. Cronsor. ' Did you have an
iiiter-stltig fulveet presented for your
cotieidiTaiiou hit nr-rninj at church?
Mis. ll'i n on '-Very. But I
ci-uUlii't n ake out whetlier the lace
1 1 In rulmis were real or imitation."
New York
Recount for
Hue bet uewt
Cliic.ig . D;
ClilCKlM. sir,
taste 1 ille
Tl.e F.nrir
jon at tied a
Drummer "How do you
the r.tdual decrease In
New York and Chicago?"
unuuer disdainfully
U rap'tl y growing iu bp
ti.'u."
Up pin, In old Englano.
doz-n live froir", that
he fable when the cover
leaiied over I
vti removed.
THE BIQ LAGOON.
Aa latarwatlnf; Vim ttj tk tha
Cavlfornl UMt
Ob the northern coast of California,
ionie thirty miles below the mouth ot
the Klamath Biver, is one of the most
interesting natural formations to bo
found in this country, known as the
Big Lagoon. Here the coast, which
runs north and south up to this point,
takes a sharp turn inland, bordered
by hii;h bills, running toa distance of
about three miles, then turning out
again makes a sharp bay, almost V
shaped, and forages past a sand ar
has been washing itself up across this
bay until the bar has raised up out of
the water some ten or twelve feet,
having a width of about 100 feet and
a length of four miles, reaching across
',he entire bay.
This bar is in the shape of a roof.
When there is a storm the breaker?
will roll up one side of it, break
over and run down into the bay in
side, and it is a novel sight to stand
there and watch the waters, mount
ain hijfh on one s:!e and perfectly
calm on the other, the line between
tha two at intervals hidden alto
gether. This bar is a sort of short cut
and can be traversed on horseback.
In a storm the horseman will one
minute be high and dry on land, the
next minute a large wave will roll up
and, running under the horse's feet to
the depth of a foot or more, tho rider
will be, for an instant, four miles or
so at sea on horseback, with no land
nearer than the high bluffs of the
mainland in sight.
Moss agates may be found in abun
dance on the pebbly beach, and when
the sun shines they glitter with daz
zling brightness.
The wild duck that frequents thu,
part of the coast literally till this in
land bay, and the passing hunter,
should he take a shot at them, will
raise such a cloud and such a quack
ing that he will think all the ducks
of the earth have gathered there. Oc
casionally some wild beast, like a hear
or a panther, will be found crossing
this bar, and the Indians have much
sport when such a thing happens, the
animal rarely escaping capture or
death.
Here the Digger Indians abound,
living on the shell fish, which they
catch along the beach, seldom going
over the ricge of hills to capture a
deer, which are plentiful. It would
astonish a Yale or Harvard fot-ball
team to come upon this scene some
bright morning at low tide and sec
the squaws and children playing la
crosse on the beach. They get so ex
cited with their sport that they keep
it up until the tide drives them from
the beach, often staying there until
they have to chase the ball down into
the surf. Detroit Free Press.
( ood mannera.
Looking over the list of things om
may or may not do in society, we And
the authority of the Golden Itule be
hind all good manners. The best
bred people are those who never for
get what is due to others; the laws
by which they are governed have
sprung into existence to answer a
need, to spare people's feelings, preju
dices or exertions. That one must
not break an engagement to dine,
says Bazar, is not simply because one
must never break any promise, Lut
because doing so wLl disarrange the
whole affair, and make awkwardness
and inconvenience for those that have
been so kind as to ak one to their
table. That on calling ceremoniously
on one member of a household, who is
so either temporarily or permanently,
the visitor should leave his card, or
ask for the lady who is at the head of
the house, even if quite indifferent as
to whether she sees her or not, is not
the command of an idle piece of hypoc
risy, but is to be done both because
the courtesy is due to the person
whose threshola is crossed, and be
cause it makes the circumstances
easy for the person on whom the call
is really made, avoiding any disturl
aace or jealousy. That she may not
refuse an invitation from one and ac
cept it from another is not a rule for
the arbitrary curtailment of her lib
erty and pleasure, but is made for the
sake of sparing tlu-sotisibilities of tho
one whose invitation is not accepted.
And so on to the end. The es-ential
requirements of etiquette may be met
by any one who remembers under all
circumstances to do and say that
which Is most agreeable to others,
even if some minor points are neg
lected. Bow Abyssinian Woman Tattoow
Painting Is temporary and needs
frequent renewal. In many parts of
the world we find color designs,
elaborate, curious, sometimes beauti
ful, made permanent by tattooing.
The pattern and the method vary
greatly with locality. In some regions
men only tattoo, in others both sexes.
Here it is confined to the nobles; there
to the servile. In Abyssinia women
chiefly tattoo. The whole body is
covoed; even the gums are picked
blue. An old woman operator's tools
were a pot of blacking (charred herbs),
a large iron pin, bits of hollow cane,
and pieces of straw these last for
pencils. She marks out the design,
pricks dots with the pin loaded with
the dye, and goes over it repeatedly.
To allay the subsequent irritation it
is plastered over with a green poul
ice: the scab must not be picked off.
Uulnlna.
One of the latest triumphs In
chemical science is represented by the
production of artificial quinine. The
new substance is absolutely identical
with the natural products of the cin
chona tree, and the discovery which
is due to two French scientists, is
likely to bring down the price
of that valuable drug consider
aMy. It is believed, too, that this
manufacture may lead to the discov
ery of new bodies analogous to qui
nine which may have great therapeu
tical value.
A Slow Grower.
Prof. Marshall tells us that the
ak requires to grow from 120 to 200
lears before it is fit to cut for large
'lmber.
'German
lyrup"
My niece, Emeline Hawley, was,
taken with spitting blood, and she
became very much alarmed, fearing
tiiat dreaded disease, Consumption
:he tried nearly all kinds of medi
cine but nothing did her any good.
Finally she took. German Syrup and
she told me it did her more good
than anything she ever tried. It
stopped the blood, gave her strength i
and ease, and a good appetite. I
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn.
Honor to German Syrup. fl
Mil. I B. UAULKM,
Of Aneiista, Me.. Says: "I do n.it rerrmmbrr
when I bt-xnn to Mite llro l'i Sarsaparllla; It
was a. ve al years apo, anil I flu 1 It does n.e a
great deal nf good in my dcclimns years.
I Am 9! Years
i months and 36 days oM. and my he Itn is per
fect')' gixxlr 1 have no act) s or palm.
rood's Sarsaparilla
ffiriil itM mv b iwls, s'linu'ati my ai -elite,
mi '-eipft ine to al? we I. 1 deutit if a rep
naMou vrr as maJ s eil sni'el li l lie
n.li t oiil iea.e." 1.. IS. lliVLt.s. Elm St,
Auuuta, Me.
IIODIis FILLS cure sick headache, blll.ms
less. sit digestion, me best after dmoer pills.
Do Not Be
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hanjs. Inlure the Iron anil hum red.
The Rllnir Sun stoe Polish Is Brilliant. Odor
less. Durable, and the consumer pars fur Do tin
or triads pacaaee wun every purchaee.
R. R.
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Sims, allays all pnm, cures wind colic, and
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Columbian Exposition, descriptive ot Buildings and
Grounds, beauutully illustrated, in water color eflects, will
oe sent to any address upon receipt ot lOe. in postage
tamps by THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.,
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HUMOUOUi
TOO GOOD AX FAR,
VM'or dmlrlng new piano "Yf 8,
K'a very pretty, dear. And you play it
already, do jou? Can you play by
note? '
i i.t'eQirl "Oh, 'ear no! Bnt papa
can, I 'specU I ho r' him tell ma he
was going to pay lor It by note."
THE PKOUABLE ItKSULT.
First Lawyer "Yes; I ma'e a pow
erful plea irr t':e prisoner. Talked five
hours and will you lI eve it the jury
gave him six u.oMh. 1 wish I had
tried pnot .er bout's speaking."
Scoud Lawyer "Why you don't
want tl e mau acquitted, do you?"
JfVT TAKING THIFLES.
Highwayman "Yer money or your
lif V
Traveler "I haven't any money.
But you can take my life if you want
to. I'm tired of living.'
Highwayman putti g up his pi t 1
".No, thauks. It ls-'t, worth wuile,"
NO CHANCE TO TRY IT.
Mrs. Cawker Iliven't you got a
heaiache, I5en?"
Mr. Cawker -"No, my dear. Why?"
Mts. Cawker 'Jh, 1 am so sorry
that you have not. 1 bought a new
headaci e cure to-day at a bargain, and
I w ante J you to try it."
THE INSATIATE TAfLOR.
Two friends meeting; the following
colloquy ensued.
"Where have you been?"
"To my tailor, and I h id hard work
to make him accept a Ii tie money."
"You astonish ruel Why?''-
VKecaus ' he wanted more."
A LIGHTNING CHANGE ABTIST.
Ileli n Ayler "But, I don't see how
you could stay in love with a man long
enough to marry him. Didn't you evtr
cl.a.ige your iniul after you aujeptet
Charley?"
Mrs. Lovey " Mercy, jes! I
changed It four times while we weie
walking up the ohurch aisle."
A DBES4 BARGAIN.
Wife "Oh. .such a bargalnl I
rvached Uicg, Drive &'. o.'s ahtad tf
the crowd this mornh.g, and goteuougn
stuff for a perfectly o;egunt dress tor
one dollar mid ninety cent'."
Uusl'snd lltopl 1 You're an angel!
"What will it cost to gel it m ,) up?"
"Wife "'Bout tl:iity dollars."
SUKK TO GO.
Little Dot" Mamma is poiug to
take me .nh her whe:i she visits Aun.
Jennv."
Little Dick "She's going to lake
me, U o. "
"Did blie say so?"
"No."
"Then bow do you know?"
"She'll never leave me with that
closet full t f j im."
There Is no article ntatle, that purity Is as Im
portaot In as soap. Thousand however, buy
cheap adulterated soaps, to save a few centa
anil lose ilollars in rotti d clotluiiie. loliblns'
hlcctri.' Soap, perfectly pure, suits dollars.
The turkey was domesticate 1 by the
Indians before the arrival of the pale
face. 10O Reward. ClOO.
The readers of this paper will he p'eased to
learn that there Is at least one drea led disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
staees, BM, tli:t is Catarrh. lla'.Ts Catarrh Cure
1st i, eon iv positive cure now known 'o the
medical fi"iierniy. t alarm brim; a consiUu
tioual 1 sense, requires a co;isiitutlo!iai treat
ineiit. Hail's Catanh Cure Is taken Internally,
acting directly upon tie blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereov destroying I lie
fotiiidatlnn of the disease, and plvm the a
tieut strengih building up the constitution and
iissistluK nature iu doina its work. The pro
prietors h ,ve so iniirh faith In Its curative
powers, that thi-y Liter One Ilu idred linllars
for any e.ie that It lulls to cure. Send for list
ol tes iiiuiirals
Address. K. .1. CHKNEr It CO.. Toledo, O.
T-Sold by Drugglna, 75c.
Carpets were usel In Nineveh' and.
Babylon, as shown In paintings, B. C.
1500.
Plsease Is unnatural and Is but tho proof
that we are abusing Nature- It Is claimed th.it
lardeld Tea. a simple h-fi b remedy, helps Na
ture to overcome tuts abuse.
Chris Schilling of St. Louis ate a
gallon of oysters in one hour on a bet
of 75 cents.
Nantahala. $100 per share. Every 2 shares se
cures a town lot. rortunes In the South. r.end
be. for prospectus. A. J. Mcllride, Atlanta, Ua,
In the reign of Henry the II. of
England monks were alio we 1 thirteen
courses at dinner.
ChiiiVm Xiltinev Cure for
Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Brlght's,
Heart, Urinary or Liver Liiseases, Nerv
Dusness, Ac. Cure guaranteed. 331
Arch Street, I'lillad'a. )l a bottle, 8
for f 5, or druggist. 1000 certificates of
cores. Try It.
Mrs. Lewis Washington of Charles
ton, W. Va., owns the fasdly Uihle
which formerly hflonged to General
Wa-hlngton's motlier.
Rnptiire cute enaraaieed by
Dr. J. B. Mayer, 831 Arch St., Phll'a,
Pa. Ease at once, no operation or de
lay from business, attested by thou
lands of cures after others fall, advice
!re, send for circular.
A family in Heading, England, C'0
prove by If ed records that they and
ihe'.r ancestors have p iid rent for their
house no less than 400 years.
Evert Testimonial in behalf of Hood's Sar
saparilla will bear the closest Investiiratlon.
No matter where it may be from, it is as reli
able and worthy your confidence as If it came
from your most respected neighbor.
Hood's Pills cure Sick Headache.
There is a woman in Montreal,
Canada, who writes to a newspaper to
say that during the period of four years
and two mont'is she has picked up iu
the street, one Ht Utvp, 11,000 plus.
TJae Brown's Hrii.:.,ii lYochc, for Concha.
Colds and all other lliroat Tioubles "fre
emlren ly the best." Jlev. Henry Ward
eeeher.
Mrs. Hannah Harmon, a Brocton
(Mass ) woman, bursts that she has
lived under theadmlnisi,rat:on of every
President of the United State. She
was born the day before Waahintton
retired from office.
(mm
POLITICAL LANDSLIDES.
Omly Three In Amerlea, and Two ArTeetetf
Harrisons.
The great Democratic victory In
the election of 1S92 was called a land
slide by politicians. Such landslides
are peculiar to American politics.
They do not occur often. There have
been only three such events since the
foundation of the government, says
the New York Sun.
When Democrats get tired of re
joicing over the groat victory won
Tues lay, and Republicans get tired
of wondering how it all happened,
they can find rest and amusement in
comparing it with similar events that
took place tlfty-two aud forty years ,
ago respectively.
They will find many interesting j
coincidences wncn iney come to pre
pare the three great evcuts in Amer
ican politics.
One of the flrst they w'll notice is
that Benjamin Harrison's grand
father. William Henry Hai rison. was
elected President In 1840 bv a land-
slide as big as the one that defeated I
the grandson In 1892.
a weive years later tne second great
landslide occurred.
Martin Van fiuren, who was re
garded as something of a politician in
his day, was on the wrong side of tbe
slide that carried Grandfather Har
rison into tbe White House. He
afterward became a sort of standing
candidate for President, but never
again got an electoral vote. He was
nominated by the free soil party four
years later, and by the knownothing,
or American, party eight years after
ward, but failed to carry a single
Statn eithpr timr
Gcn. Winfleld Scott went down un-
der the great Democratic landslide of i
1852 along with the Whig party.
The political landslides of 1840 and
1852 ditTer from the one this year in j
that the successful candidates in those
elections got comparatively small ma- !
joritics of the popular vote, while :
they had four-fifths of the votes in ;
the electoralcollege. i
The political leaders of 1840 ana
1852 were surprised as much at the 1
result-in those years as Chairman Car- j
ter was when he heard that Ohio had '
gone Democratic.
There were 138 votes in the flrst '
electoral college, the one that elected
George Washington President the flrst
time. Twelve candidates for PresI-!
dent were voted for, and Washington j
got 69 votes on tbe tlrst ballot. j
In some of the States the electors
were elected by the legislatures, i
There is no record of the popular i
vote. i
In 1792 there were no conventions, j
platforms, or nomitiatlona Wash- j
ington got 132 of the electoral votes )
that year.
The election of a President was,
without special interest until 1800,
when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron
Burr received an equal number of
electoral votes and the election was
thrown into the House of Represen
tatives, whtoh elected Jefferson after
thirty-six ballots.
In 1804-Thomas Jefferson got 162
of the 176 electorial ballots. This
could not be called a landslide, be
cause his opponent was a Federalist
and that party was then very weak,
and erectors were chosen by the Legis
lature In six States.
In 1820 the Federalist party had
practically ceased to exist, and James
Monroe had no opposition. He got
every electorial vote except one,
which was cast for John Qulncv
Adams.
Tbe first political conventions to
nominate candidates for President
were held in 1S32. The Democratio
convention met in Baltimore on
March 22 of that year and nominated
Andrew Jackson. The platform con
tained Just three brief paragraphs,
the first declaring in favor of protec
tion to American industries; the
second in favur of Internal improve-
ments, and the third iu favor of civil
service reform.
The National Republican, or Whig,
party convention nominated Henry
Clay, but adopted no platform. The
party was then in its infancy, and
Jackson received 219 of the eletorlal
votes.
In 1836 tbe Whigs held no conven-.
tion and bad three candidates for
President. The Democrats nomi
nated Martin Van Buren, but adopted
no p'latforru. Van Buren got 170
electorial votes and was elected, but
his majority of the popular vote over
TV. H. Harrison was less than 25,000.
Four years later, in 1840, came the
first real landslide in American jk1 i
tics. The Whigs had grown much
stronger by that time. They nomi
nated William Henry Harrison, who
had commanded the American afaif
in the Indian wars. John Tyler of
Virginia, was the candidate for Vice
President. The Whigs again adopted
no platform.
The Democrats nominated Martin
Van Buren for President and adopted
a platform directly contrary to the
one on which Andrew Jackson had
lieen elected in 1832. The 1840 plat
form declared against internal im
provements, against national banks,
and in favor of a tariff for reveuue
only.
The famous "Tippecanoe and Tyler
too" or log cabin campaign that fol
lowed is within the memory of many
men now living. But the result was
a surprise to the politicians.
Harrison swept the country, get
ting 234 of the 294 electorial votes.
ur tne popular vote, nowever, ne re-!
ceived only 1,275,017 Van Buren i
getting 1,128,702.
Four years later James K. Polk and j
Heniy Clay were the opposing caudi- ;
dates for President Polk git 170
electoral votes and Clay 105. In the '
popular vote Polk's plurality over
Clay was only 40,000. This was ;
largely due to the great personal '
popularity of Clay.
In 1848 tha Whigs elected Zachary ,
Taylor by a small majority, because '
be had made a splendiu record In the j
Mexican war.
Four years later came the second .
pre.it landslide in American politics.
The l)emocratic and whig parties i
were supposed to be about evenly dl-
yided. I
The Democratic convention met itr 1
Baltimore on June 1, 1852. nnd after j
a session lasting four days nominated i
Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire I
for Presideut and W. R. King of Ala- f
bania for Vice-President. Both candi- '
dates were obscure men. They wer j.
comparatively unknown in polities or
nubile life, and their greatest recom-
mendatlons appeared to bo that no
one knew anything against thern. anclent Greeks and Roman rev
Thewhls nominated Gen. Winfleld ' ed lQ roseg. tney wer0 U8ed Ut.
Scott, who was Commander in Chief ; . . f In the tme cf
of the American army in tne .Mexican
wiir.
Both parties adopted long plat
forms. The only essential difference
in the platforms was that the Demo
crats again opposed internal improve
ments and protection, while the whig
platform favored notn.
The free soil party entered the fight
that vear and nominated John P.
Hale of New Hampshire, for Presi
dent, The campaign was without special
features, but when the
e returns from
the election came in it was found
a nn,,rra.t
mat a greater muusnuu iiau uu,iim.'i
than the one in 1840. There wore
then thirty-one States in the Union
and 298 votes in the electoral college.
Of these Pierce received 254 and
Scott 42.
That was the greatest landslide or,
cord, and ,t proved the death blow
re
tt the whig party.
But great as' was Pierce's majority
In the electoral college in the popular
vote he ran only a little more than
200,000 votes ahead of Gen. Scott.
The popular vote of the two candi
dates was: Pierce, 1,601,474; Scott,
1,386,578.
Four years later Millard Fillmore,
the whig candidate for President, got
only eight electoral votes. In that
year the Republican party developed
unexpected strength and gave John
C Fremont, Its candidate for Presi
dent, 114 electoral votes.
Owing to the peculiar political con
ditions existing in this country in
1868 and 1872, the large majority of
the votes of the electoral college re
ceived by Grant can not be cla-ed
s landslides or political revolutions.
The recent landslide is in every
way the greatest one on record.
While the returns from the popular
vote are not all in the indications are
that Cleveland got a greater plural
ity of this vote than any other candi-
date when the voters of the country
were divided into two great political
parties.
Some of the interesting features 01
this landslide are that he Democrats
carried every state that was classed
as doubtful, and carried some of the
strongest Republican States in the
"xmutry.
Divide the States into the usual ge
ographical divisions, Eastern or New
England, Northern, Middle, South
ern, and Western States, and it will
be found that the Democratic ticket
has a majority of the electoral votes
of every section except the Eastern
States.
The Democratic ticket has a gooo
plurality of the electoral votos of all
the States North of Mason and
Dixon's line.
The greatest changes in the popu
lar vote in tho recent election oc
curred In the Northwestern States,
and to show how sweeping was the
landslide in that section some figures
re interesting:
In 1888 Harrison carried Illinois by
22.000 plurality over Cleveland and
had a majority of all the votes cast in
.he State.
Blaine's plurality in the same State
in 1884 was 25,000. Hayes carried
the State Ty 20,000 in 1876 and1
Grant carried it by 60,000 in
The landslide there this year shows a
change of more than 32,000 votes
from the vote four years ago.
In Kansas Harrison's plurality foui
years ago was 80,000. The repuhll
can pluralities in the State in 1880
and 1834 averaged 60,000.
The landslide in Ohio was almost
as great as Illinois. Harrison's plu
rality in the Buckeye 6tate four years
ago was 19,000, wuile Blaine cairied
the State eight years ago by 32,000.
In Wisconsin the republican phi- j
rality four years ago was 21,000 and
eight years ago 2,000.
If the Deuioc ats h:l iost the foui
states of New York, Indiana, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, which were
regarded as the real battle ground of
the campaign aud have heretofore
been classed as doubtful Slates,
Cleveland and Stevenson would still
have 233 electoral votes, or ten more
than enough to elect.
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If you want the best food, you will be interested
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and most wholesome food, and why its use has
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baking powders combined.
The Koyal Kaking Powder SKVER fails.
It is absolutely pure and wholesome.
It is combined frmn the most approved
and lioaltbful ingredients.
It makes the finest flavored, most tender,
delicious and wholesome food.
It lias greater leavening strength than
any other baking- powder, and is therefore
-tbe cheapest. .
It never loses its strength, but will keep
' fresh and of full leavening power until
used.
It acts slowly in the dough, so that none
of its strength is lost before the baking is
completed.
It makes food that w ill keep sweet, moist
and fresh longer, or that may be eaten hot
and fresh with impunity.
The reasons why the Royal Baking Powder is
superior to all others in these respects are easily
""stated. One is because it is made from chemically
pure materials; another is because it is made with
greater care and accuracy than any other. It is
always uniform in composition and leavening
power. It has been the standaid baking powder
since its introduction. The founder and con
ductor of its business ever since is still at
the bead of its management. Thus all the
VYiiht coat of arms is that on the
pi Del of your carriage?"
"G.ve It up. ITad to have It stuck
on before we could engage a footm an."
Men are a good deal better collec
tively than they are lndividnmii
Many man will do that privately
whlch be will denounce la a crowd.
ftoisi.
Old as the history of the world it
..ii. ihif ths Onw.n of Flowers.
thft'Rpnubil0 tne T
th Rpnubllo the people bad tneir
cups of Falernian Wine swimming
with blooms; and .the Spartan sold
iers after the battle of Cirrha refused
to drink any wine that was not pe'
fumed with roses; while at the re
gatta of Balse, the whole surface of
. i T- ...inA int.. arm ituvn with the
,owent NerQ t hla oanqUeting3
showered rose-water upon nis guests,
from an opening in the celling: and
when honoring the house of a noble
with bis presence, the host was com-
-" " -Prr7. 7;-""
1 v T .i, .an ,;t itif mM
rose-water, xu nio n.v --
fiin! nlHca in the form of arose pud-
Thi Svharites sleot on beds
stuffed with rose leaves; the tyrant
I Dionyslus had his couch filled with
j them; Veru9 would travel with a gar-
j litter he had a thin net
llatertrrlnei. Antio-
chus luxuriated upon a bed or blooms
even in the winter days and nights;
and when Cleopatra entertained An
thony, she had roses covering tho
floor to the depth, it is said of an ell.
We are told that Heliogabal us sup
plied so many of them at one of his
banquets that several of his guests
were suffocated in the endeavor to ex
tricate themselves from the abun
dancevictims of a surfeit of Sweet
odors. Doubtless the immoderate use
of roses by the ancients led in after
days to their being relegated to their
proper sphere in the garden; for al
though we have had the wars of the
roses in our modern times, the flowers
were only plucked as a symbol. First
and last, the rose has been the theme
of countless poems, there is no poet
worthy of the name who has not cou
aecrated it to verse.
Remarkable Stone-Throwlnp.
The old saying that "Practice
makes perfect" must be taken with a
! grain of allowance. Perfection is a
j rare commodity; but one meets here
and there, even In the most unex-
' pected places, men who have attained
! to the most astonishing proficiency
in some one thing to which they have
devoted themselves. The Rural New
Yorker reports a striking instance of
this kind:
A man died recently in Pennsyl
vania who was mentally deficient,
but a giant physically, and who could
throw stones with an aim as unerring
as that of the most skilful handler of
J the n he. lie naa a large learner
t pouch at tached to one side of his coat,
In which he always carried a good
1 supply of these carefully-selected
I missiles. witn tnesc ne oaggeu
every year no small quantity of game
grouse, quail, rabbits, and squirrels,
lie could kill a bird on the wing or a
rabbit at full speed almost as easily
as at rest.
A favorite method of displaying
his skill was to set up a scythe blade,
edge toward him, and at a distance
of 100 feet cut apples in halves by
throwing them against the edge of
j the blade. He could amost exactly
halve two out of every three apples
i he threw.
When' they are engaged, they act
ashamed to show how much they
think of each other, and after they
aie married, they are ashamed to
slmw how much they don"U
A i:ed-headed girl does not seem
to carrot-all how much fun is made of
her.
j Mr?. Modish after a shopping tour
I "Oh, I l-.ave ju-t struck the loveliest
1 larsiain!"
j Mi. Moiir.li afUr a hard day on
I t'l antrt-J "Why dHn't you strike
toon -tiling that can s rike back?"
Mr.. Modisli ' Wait till you get the
lil'."
WniBE HE MADE A MISTAKE.
"Yes, he married her supposing she
owned estates, but he was mistaken;
sh bad nothing."
"What led him to suppose she owned
estates?''
"When anything surprised her, she
wn in the habit of exclaiming "My
go.id lands!"
The Egyptian is taxed SO cents on
the palm trje that grows in 1 is garden.
1
'These are Facts
which
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or that follow changes of proprietorship or manu
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certain and equal in its work; a teaspoon ful does
the same perfect work to-day that it did yesterday,
or last week or month, or last year.
While the last teaspoonful in a can of Royal is
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strength after being made a short time, and par
ticularly after the can is opened.
. The exactness with which the active principle
of each ingredient prior to mixing is ascertained
by expert chemists; the actual prohibition enforced
I against the receipt
gredient; tne care with which the materials are
dried, coated and prepared before their combina
tion, and the precision in packing the powder so
that it shall be delivered to the consumer in the
perfect condition in which it leaves the factory,
are some of the details which go to make the
perfect " Royal."
The same means are not employed by other
manufacturers. There havebeen a great many
imitations of the Royal, but no equals. 'Pine
materials are not employed, care is not taken in
their preparation and combination, while in the
great majority of baking powders alum is added o
give them strength, while cheapening their cost.
The great popularity and general use of the'
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