VPs, XXVIII. © WALL PAPER! Believing that it is best to cloeo out each Benson's s'jlps before th > cDSaing' s sson begins, evrn at t; great Mcr'fice, I have marked oyer two-thirds of my eutire stock of pa p r banging?, the largest and' beet delected line in Butler, AT HALF PRICE The balance of the paper was mark ed so low before that half price would he civirg them away. These y<-u will get c«'Si EOtwithstarding T • thiir fortiier cheapnt ffl. Just lmagioe BrowDa o» 8p r. double bolt, Whiter.; 11 10 and l£e, Gii:s 15 acd upward. I Buy nou . r your full papering, jou v, '!l Lot tet such bargains iheu. My V i.'i P;.ii« r, Stationery and Art S t ore is easy to find. W. A. OSBORNE, I Jefi'trson A., next to Lowry Houee, Butler, Pa. Wir Bj;rerhen auch DeuUch. t Dry Goods AT LOWEST PRICES AT THE NEW STORE OF I). E. JACKSON. We are new comers, but heve come tj Pt&y. Wo bt;j <;tr goods at lowe*» taeh prices and 83 we sell for canh only. We are enabled to sell goods : at the smallest possible margins We could qa(KC en clean, new J goods, no Irafh, from all parts of our ! BW>re, especially c-n the following j gcodp. Drtsr, Goods, White Goods, ; Pints, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mus lins, Lace Curtains and Curtain > Poles, Corsets and Corset Waists, , Ladies", Children's and Gents' Under-" wear, Hosiery, Gloves and Mita, Kid j Gloves, Ribbons, Silk aud Velvet, Black and Colored Silks, Cloth Capes, Lead Wraps, Jerseys and Jersey ; Jackets, Table Linens, Napkins. Towels, &.i*, ation, although snbjcct e 1 to clt/.-e M-ruticy and comparison r iih the foods offered by others. V; e solicit your patronage, and will, lowest as we save the consumer the middle profit. WE Mark all goods in plain fig ures and have one price for all. COLBERT & DALE, 242 S. Main street, Butler, Pi*. Pull Again. we me m our wall paper de j -irtment. lull and overflowing i with our immense and choice fc ock of paper hangings. You must help us out. we haven't room f r lut'i our goods, until you relieve us of some of them. We have tin- choicest selec tion of j .uternsiu every grade li'om Brow i Blanks at 10 cts to Gilt> -t from 20 cts to $1 j r douhiu >< a. Kxatiiine our Stock. t. i 1 % jjo ti glass, I-ar a ' P< :c 1 SBut'er^Pa. Q f : ►— tl S iv'l E TSJ LOOr LOf T AV iUNG. To sol our n' i • ,• ,i (t - Jury, expenses and feWdUy tn p].. ( i; i-u.ir .itr.-o. <: a 1 i-c.ntiKßs roHPASV. i;.- • luster. X. Y. OUCAN FIND Ape,, C ft HITT , - f . . i ■:■ v:,,: KBMIIGTOK EROS. J Wiifhift i»X ttiivttitiaiog ui io* Cit r. Uvi, THE BUTLLR CITIZEN. PROFESSIONAL CARD- L. ELACK, PBWICU* /LSD I K No. 3M, X. Mittn St.—Cutler, l i j Dr. A. A. Keliy, Offievat R<> * I'i int. U.nrc» • o.mty. Pa. E. X. LE.VTCK. M. D. J- C. MANN. M. D. ! S|h- Spt cialttes: ! Ovna-coif!£-> n rl.l Uuttci, t'a. J. J. n Dentist. Buller, Penn'a. Arm .ill . • 'i. i til io i!«f latest im prov.il p!an < < ;-l - Uty. OtTtce— over S»'baul'B c ioUiioji suire. • DR. S. A. JCIiNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTL R, PA. All v.urk p,-r: Lnlr.t. to ttiv pix . . v.i- u e\e;-ni r.d I*l tlit >HHI -et. »! ,-:.<• i liiCSi I-.x tltM-tloD Ot TftU', \i! rlliZt, Air ; ~ lV!JliStt*'l:'!. Olßcf OB JcSfrson Stl .t, oiif l.atit *.t t'p Ktairn. OflU'e opo: dailv. except W«di«»-s . Office on x , -J Uoor ot Attdcrt-Jti builuti.j, jit-jr Court, House. ButVr, Pa. J. t. BRITTAIN. Att'yat Law-< --r ». u>r M ■. at. •. a t'iiuiloiid, Butirr, l',t. NEWTQN BLACK. Att'y at Law—office on South si :o ot IMam<>ad Butler. Ha. L. fc S. McJUXKLN, Insurance and Real Ag't 17 ft AST JEFFERSON ST. BUTf.KR, - PA. % E E. ABEAMS &CC Fire and Life INSUR A X C E Inouraoc -. C<. of North America, incor porated capita, .i3,OCO,C"j' and other urong cotupsuiei reprtssented. New York Life Ir' utan.'r Co., ..-sets o£,ce New £us«l; n l uiidiDK near > u. (louse. UKt SNOBr. ERIK, P.^.. All stock piarantcc.l ;o Li ;.i good cou litioii when delivered. \Ve rep!aci> 11 tree that > grow. KiIFEKKNCE.S IN BTTLEIt: J. F. Low. W. T. • . .Tauie ■Jhsnor, Jr.. J. IC. Forsyth- ■>. Shaffner 3. Walker, E.-.q., F. rd Keil 1 •■;. aud 1) J. Clei-land. G. F. KING, \GT. ElTE. v *tILLKtt I!o I- -r:, lit-XL' PA. BI3TLER COUNTY «;stta» Co. JfficeCcr. C aaiS^s. fj_ KOESSINQ i'H '.cnx H. • . i ~ ■ - '.ls. .. ■ , tii AUT. DIHECXOiIS: I.C. I; < situi", 1; 11 t■: v• r, I. L Purvis, .)amen sir henson, . V Trm ■ ' ui, Vlti-ed it. W. : ■ ■ uch, f. W. 1 ••• . rt, i, , . LOY.IL IV'JU.: " , G F IN. Ae'l i->u- 'f ■ a-■><, IFA.. ' —Advertise iu tl)e i r rf- f.r>' il % \ * i .i . ( i U v r■ V- ■ T r*"'- -T e " " V»' V^-' >' «'» f 'I-* "r T r-T?- v 9 j -A ! jj. Li * ' IT -'**•- * 4 - i 30 S.MAIN ST. pi *J , . 4 CAUGHT OK THE FIX i/AR/ / And caught on the fly, 0' \ Just above the eye. \! aM v/ ) ; - ! A 'rTfCatching a sucker is an easy thin?. \ e are not a^ter t ' )at £ ame< • The fact is we've got no bait for suckers " __ in our store. We are after whales. Our r - - Juoß bait is bargains; genuine bargnius, re *(■ member; real bargains. We don't uEe U artificial bait, got up just to catch cus w ,om About one man in ten does not * -<• trade with us. We're after that then ~~ About one in ten does not kuow that an. 'i r'ze of hia fellow mortals have come to ibe conclusion that it is !v - -r 'est to trade with Hick. We are after that man. Aboot one man • - not know that his neighbors are saving money, btcause they af ,.. v • * Peek We are after that man with a big stock, big bargains, ■ i.\ t V v trie* P. with fair deaiing, ted we esptct to eet his trade Are you n We r.re after you. We lave got the strongest line of first :,r - u <, "t vrr cStrtd for sole- in this market. It is this fact and our extra r rr,tits cur { lescnf bargain offer the great event of the sea v., 1 ( n Mt Vujcrp, sensible people to drop in on us and see us, ,rd '•* ' f (f'((k we aie Let dliLg, lcck at the goods ard get our prices, Sro wli.t v. cents, a 35-fteut article marked only 49 cents. These are called bai's i-vd io they are Vut only sucker l>i- and near. Of coarse, once in a while a concern started up •hat w'io going to txterniiuale and obliterate us from the face of clothing vkirn. Whrre are t!:ey now! They have g«>ne to joiu pterodactyl, ictbyoi ursip, niti.-auraus ei.d the rest of tli.i family, anch we are h--re now root : irig. not like a i."g, but like a tree that irives back iu the air what it takes :;oru the soil. Yes, bero we are with P stock that can't be surpassed, and •uai' : . ;>.!! c.ntpetition ui> the score of goods and prices. We're no dodos iut v.e -j. r. • «'i we say every time. Please give is a chance and when you rill !r . c rd, aod">L- uld you desire one sooner just drop us a posta • iirci v.. ' vein name an;! address, and we will send it by mail. Yery respectfully, u. jl. u a: c Jv, C'l ini)iori Olotliier, Tiatter and Furnisher. M . . U. Main St. Duffy's Block, Butler, Pa. EST END GROCERY. F. W. LIMBERG, PROP. i Pros;, ; kof teas, coffees, canned goods, country produce and ; \ \ in» utuall} kept in a first class grocery, tobacco and ( ;..so dry goods, notions, etc. We make a specialty ot H ur and leed. A Full Line of Fall Dry Goods Just Received ( i oocls Delivered Free to any part of Town —.A the" ""** ( rO^M^BAKING \ v - A\^)pqwder £attsfaction Guaranteeda ' A" } CAN OF THE COOKS BAKING POWDER IS GUARANTEED JLL STRENGTH, FULL WEIGHT, AND IS SOLD ON ITS RiTS AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE CONSISTENT I .TH QUALITY. ~ —— QUARTERS,RETAIL AT 5 CTS. HALVES, RETAIL AT 10 CTB. P'_.P?OS,___ RR RSM KIT AT 20 CT9. . Sold by al >und Can. in——— i 'very WATEffP.ROOF COLLAR or CUFF ——■—— ; THAT CAN BE RELIED ON nr JP \ TSZOT, to •v w, - | to X>iscolor! —i BE/ IS THIS TPJADE i^feELwt.oiD MARK. •"> LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. HE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. = . - #SOON WEbf I.Uc w u O oSI QUICKLY MARRIED' 6APOLIO is oue of the best known city luxuries and each time a cake i 3 usod an hour is saved. On floors, tables and painted work it acts like a. charm. For scouring pots, pans and metals it has no equal. If your store-keeper does not keep it you should insist upon his doing so, as it :iiway*. |.-ivc3 satisfaction and its immense sale all over the United States ;n?'' >n almost necessary article to any well supplied store. Every tfc-': , i P.WUT its use, and evon the children delight in using it in | 'heir att mpts to help around the house. H ! IL'R. PA FRIDAY. NOV MKER7. 'S 0 Mr. Bowser's Last Pig. Mrs. Bowser in Detroit Free Tress A wagon from a lumber yard delivered ! some boards aud scantling at the barn the | other day. and, suspecting that Mr. Bow -er had some plot on foot, I went out and i asked I he man if he hadn't a mistake, j ••This i» Mr. Bowser's place, isn't it!" he i asked. "Yes." ••Fat man, with a bald head?" •Yes. ••Walks around as if he knew it all, and ; nobody else knew anything?" •'I am Mrs. Bowser, sir! i "Ob! Excuse me, ma'aui. es, lam sure this is the right place. "What did he buy the lumber for?" "Said he was going to uiake an addition ; to the barn." "Very well. - ' When Mr. Bow.»r came home he avoid ed me for half au hour, and, when 1 finally cornered hiin aud demanded to know what sort of an addition he was going to make, and for what reason, he replied: "Be sensible, now. Do you know that pork has gone up two cents a pound?" What of it? We don't eat a pound of | pork a month." j "And it is bound to go higher." j "Mr Bowser, have you gone and got ! another pig?" "Don't go off the handle now. If I can save $4 on our stock of winter pork it is my duty to do it." "Mr. Bowser, I'm astonished. You got a pig last year, and I thought you had troi.ble enough to last you a lifetime." "The wrong breed, my dear. The man lied to me. lie was a Galloway instead of a Durham. I've struck the right kind of a one this time, and I got him cheap." "How much?" "Only $8 " •'Mr. Bowser, I protest. If anything happens don't blame me." "Blame you? Bow could I? Of course not. But nothing will happen—nothing but getting a barrel of pork at about half price." Next morning a carpenter came and worked all day to make a pen. I saw a bill of all the lumber and nails, and it was over SO, and the man charged $2.50 lor his day's work. "That's almost #l7 for your pig to begin with," I said to Mr. Bowser when he came home. "That's all right, Mrs. Bowser. That ends the expense, and the pr.ifits will soon | begin to come in. What is nicer than to i tio out into your own back yard and see | your own hog in a pen! When we eat our ; own pork we sha'n't worry about trichina | or anything else." Next day the pig came. That is, they ' j called it a pig. It was in a wagon, and ' two men were sitting on it to hold it down. 1 heard of the pjg three blocks away. He j bit one of the men while they were getting him into the pen, and, as they started to go, the bitten party said to me: "Any man as will buy and keep a hyena in his back yard is no gentleman!" The beast was no sooner in the pen than he began dashing from side to side like a wild beast, and at the same time uttering sueu "lull's," and "hoofs," that a servant girl hanging out clothes in a yard across the alley ran into the house and tried to call the patrol wagon. The beast finally bumped his head with such force as to stun him, and for the next two hours he looked careworn and sleepy. "This is something like living!" exclaim ed Mr. Bowser as he stood beside the pen at noon and rubbed his hands. "If we only had a cow and a few hens we'd be almost like farmers." "What breed do you call this pigt" I asked. "Let's see! It has slipped my mind. No matter, however. He's of the right sort, and that's enough. Be's as content as a kitten in an old shoe." At that moment the pig rushed across the pen, and made a spring which almost lifted him out, and it was accompanied by a sort of roar that made Mr. Bowser dodge. "Are you sure it's a pig?" I asked. "Sure it's a pig? Are you going crazy agaiu? Give him a show. You'd proba bly act just as bad if taken nine miles from home and shut up in a strange house." The pig behaved fairly well for the next hour, but no sooner had Mr. Bowser gone than he grunted, growled, screamed, shrieked and raved until the racket brought half a dozen peddlers into the alley. I didn't hear what they said—only what one of them said. He came to the side door in very respectful way and said: "We have a dispute, ma'am, as to what that thing is out in the pen. The potato man says it's a cundurango, while the apple man says it is a hudag." "It's a pig," I replied. "Thanks, ma'am. I won't ask you to write it down. I think I can remember it." He went back and told the crowd that it was a pig. and the convention broke up in a row just as Mr. Bowser got home. For the next two hours the beast was very quiet, being thoroughly tired out, I sup pose, and Mr. Bowser took advantage o ;he fact to rub his hands and say: "You wait, aud in about a week I'll show you how to farm." At 8 o'clock that evening, just as some •riends had come in, that pig uttered a iong, loud wail that made the cook drop a platter. The wail was followed by a series of barks and squeals, aud something crash ed against the back gate and carried it into the allej-. "Good heavens, Bowser, but your lion has escaped!" called one of the geutlemen, and all of us rushed to the back door. The pig was gone. He had cleared the pen, crashed through the gate, and we heard shrieks afar oil' to prove that he had come ju contact with something as he fled. "You'd better hire a place down town and put your animals in cages," observed one of the men. "I shouldn't want no half-tamed beasts around my hous-e." Mr. Bowser tried to laugh aud joke it off, and we got through the eveni.ug very pleasantly. The door had only closed on our company, however, when .he turned on me with: "Now, then, we'll settle our little mat ter!" "What?" "What! What! About that-log!" "But the hog has escaped." "Of course he has! You intended he should! You were down on him and de-. termined he shouldn't stay.,, and you laid your plans accordingly! * Bowser, you aud I can't " "I had nothing to do vvith the hog." "Don't interrupt me! You can go to bed. I have a little busines s on hand. I want to arrange certain pa p Prs to be acted on in the morning!" I was sound p .sleep when he crawled into bed, and u<.*st morning he hadn't a word to say. L'ren when the girl began splitting up tljo boards of the pig-pen for kindling he didn't seem to notice it. —Dr. Fenp.er's Golden Be lief is warrant ed to relieve toothac'he, hr**lacbe, neural gia, or any other pain in 2 to 8 minutes. Also bruises, wounds, wire outs, swellings, lutes burns, suuiuier complaints, colic, (also in horses), ('.iarrha'B, d ysentery and flux. If not given money 1 returned. The Columbus Tower. The construction o f the Eiffel tower has awakened the pride of the nations. It is said that North America proposes to con struct an iron tower which .-hall be highe/ than the one in Pari England also de sires to have a monumental tower. When North America proposed a com petition for the construction of a tower to be erected at the Universal Exposition of 1892. a Spanish architect, a native of Bil boa, Mr. M. Alberto de I'alacio. drew au original design. Mr. De Palacio has conceived a most perfect form, the sphere, which could not have been used prior to the knowledge of iron as a building material, because only by modern methods of uniting the various parts, of which this material is suscepti ble, could a sphere be produced with a diameter of nearly 1,000 feet, that is, equal to the height of the Eiffel tower. This idea symbolizes the geographical completion of the earth, which was real ized by Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World. The following is a description of the mag" nificent design: The colossal sphere is mounted on a base which is 262 feet high, and is crowned at its North Pole by the caravel which carried Columbus to the New World. The* monument is brilliant with the colors of the continents, oceans and islands of the terrestrial sphere. The sphere will be encircled at the equa tor by a platform 3,280 feet, or more than half a mile, long. An exterior spiral run ning around the northern heini>phere will form a track nearly two miles long, lead ing from the equator to the North Pole. At night the sphere will be illuminated by the lines of light which will form the out lines of the continents and islands, thus casting over the city torrents of refulgent brilliancy. The great pyramids of Egypt, the Sphinx, and the Colossus could lie in the hollow interior like jewels in their case. So much for the exterior aspect. Au interior track runs around the south em hemisphere from the South Pole to the Equator, where it joins the exterior spiral. The total length of the spiral is nearly four miles, over which the sight-seer can travel on a tramway. In the base ar.d under the majestic cen tral rotunda will be pi fed a gigantic statue of the great discoverer surrounded by the navigators and iries who rendered his discovery fruitful In the semicircle around this Olympus of heroes, inclosing the amphitheater, in be allegorical sta tutes representing a.'l the Spanish nations. In the remaining .-paces of the compart ments in the lase a forge Columbus library will be distributed; auditorium for the cul tivation of the natural sciences, museums • of zoology, minern' y and botany of America, rooms for the Spanish Geograph ical Society, a great • val museum iu the ! interior central comportment, «t meteoro- | logical observatory iu the hull of the cara vel. All this is independent of the prom enades, cafes and restaurants for the public. In the interior the celestial sphere can be exactly reproduced. It cau also be used for magnificent panoramas, because the spherical form is the best for obtaining illusions of perspective. There will be a place for public entertainments. This astonishing monument can serve as a perennial remembrance of the first Span ish-American and Colonial Exposition. Mr. Palacio secures the stability of this immense mass by means of a simple method similar to that used for equestrian statues, so that the sphere will be able, to resist winds of greater force than a cyclone. From a business point of view Mr. Pal acio makes the following calculation: One hundred thousand spectators pav ing an entrance fee of $1 will bring SIOO,- 000. This will replace the capital in 62 days, without counting the profits of the cafes, entertainments, etc. The estimated total cost is $6.000,000. — Scientific Ameri can. The Benefit of Newspaper Train ing. I believe I have done everything which an editor or published ever has to do, from directing wrappers up to writing the biog raphy of a President within uu hour alter his death. This means, if the training be continued through many years of life, and if one be under the direction of a good chief, that one gaii , of necessity, the ready use at least ol his own language. We newspaper men may write English very ill, but we write it easily and quickly. So that to us who ba* e been in this busi ness there is something amazing to bear a clergyman say that he occupied a week iu composing a sermon v hich was at the out side thirty-live hundrt 1 words in length. One can understand absolute inability to do it at all; but no ne\ .paper man can un derstand how a man vuo cau do It can spend thirty-six hours n doing it. If you have to send "copy" i.stairs hour after hour with the boy ta ing slips from you one by one as they c * written and you Unow you are never t- soe what you write until you read it then U day in the paper, your copy will be i .cluated carefully, written carefully, ana will be easily ruad. That is one thing. Another thing goes with it. You will for i the habit of deter mining what yon mea to say before you -ay it, how far you v nt to go and where your want to stop. And this will bring to you a valuable hab of life—to stand by •vbat has been decid< 1. Napoleon gave the Same advice whi i he said, "If you set out to take Yi na, take Vienna." For these reasons, 1 am apt to recom mend young men to write for the press early in life, being well aware that the habit of doing this has been of use to me. —Edicurd Everett llale. in the -Yer i'ork Forum. A Celestial Compliment. One of the secretaries of the Chinese Embassy in Washington has shown him self apt in the art of compliment. He was introduced to a lady, who,among other questions, asked him, "What virtue do you most highly prize iu your women?" "The virtue of domesticity," was the reply. "Then you do not like your women to move in society much?" she questioned. "Not at all. Our law even recognires cause for divorce when a woman—pardon me, madame —is inquisitive and talkative." "Then I should be in danger of being divorced if I lived in China?" smilingly asked the lady. "The very day that my country would have the luck to possess a womanly being like you," replied the gallant son of the heavenly realm, "every cause of divorce would be removetl from the world." —lf a box six feet deep were filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun, there would be two inches of salt on the bottom. Takiug the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feet thick on the bed of the Atlantic. —Begin the work of stopping up the cracks of the barn anil out-houses. The wind aud fine snow will find all those that you overlook, aud on cold days more food will be required, because more cold gets in. A Western Trip. GLADE MILLS. Oct 27, 1390 ED. CrrtZßjt:—My companion in life an! myself having just returned from a Very pleasant visit to st-me of the West - a .States, and presuming that some of 'i f readers of your valuable paper may feel some interest in at least some of our West ern friends we propose with your per mission to jot down a few incidents of our trip. We visited friends near the cities Oska loosa, Iowa; Sutawa and Emporia. Kansas; aud from reports expected to see our friends wearing long faces on account of short crops, but were happy to find them all well aud rejoicing in the fact that their crops were generally good, excepting corn, and it is u good half crop, and also that they have lirge quantities of the old crops ou bands, and were receiving good prices for all their productions. Corn brings 40 cents a bushel and oats 35 cents. Ho|»- bring $4 per hundred. Kansas seems to have the pre-eminence, lioth in stock raising and in variety of er.-ps, many of the farmers having large crops of flax seed, millet aud castor beans. Flax seed brings $1.30 per bushel. As an evidence of how cheaply stock can be wintered in Kansas, some of the ranchmen have let out their stock to be wintered at $1 per month per head. They also have tine fruit in Kansas, and -apples bring 50 to 00 cents per bushel in the orchards, and peaches were only 20 to 25 cents per bushel. Although times are good in Eastern Kansas and Nebraska we heard the report and saw the evidence of great destitution 1 in the western parts. #ud as one case • among many we met a man from one of the western counties who had been living there for eleven years, but was forced to leave. He was driving one wagon with his effects, his wife and children were in another, and what I supposed a 14 year old boy was ou horse-back driving up the young horses and colts, of which he hail 18 head, lie was trying to tin A a place where j he could get work for his teams and feed to keep his stock until the grass conies 1 next spring. We also visited friends in Chicago, one : of them Charlie Crumpe. formerly of Sar- i versville, Pa., who we found enjoying all j .he luxuries of life that ar< sure to follow J r.ard work, good judginenl and industry, and having a son only nineteen years i t j uge engaged at steady employment at $27 | per week. Mr. Crumpe and his estimable j lady took us in their carriage and gave us j about a fifteen mile drive through the city We had the pleasure of viewing South ' Park and Jackson Park and the site for the 1 World's Fair. The flowers in the parks are magnificent, representing many manu faetared articles, and animals. One is called the calender, and on any day you ' pass along you can sen fhe day of the week aud of the month in plain figures; and one j is called the sol's clock, and on any day ; v hen the sun is shining you can see t.ie time of da}. Chicago is undoubttdly hav ing a boom in building, both in her sub urbs aud in her business centres. We ob served places where they were taking down fine large buildings eight and nine stories high to build greater ones. Main of the new buildings are fourteen stories high. We also visited friend iu Uricksville, Ohio, one hundred miles from Pittsburg, on the Panhaudle route. The parts of Indiana and Ohio we passed through in the day time did not compare favorably with Pennsylvania. The improvements and the general appearance of the country were rather poor, only in one respect were they alike, and that was no fruit. We left home on the 22d of September aud returned on the 15th of October very thankful to our Heavenly Father for his kind providence surrounding us, having made twelve visits and several calls, aud in all traveled about 2400 miles. JOHN B. MAIIAS. Read Before Signing. Among the pithy sayings of a well-known German philosopher and reader occurs the following: "Sign no paper without read ing it." In these days of education, en lightenment. and progress, such a caution would hardly seem necessary to any j son iu the full possession of his l'aeulti>' ; yet it is astonishing how many peo; • there are, including good busiuess men. Aho attach their .-iguaturei to papers or documents whose contents may have a -erious bearing upon themselves or their affairs, with scarcely a glance at their con tents. Carelessness iu failing to ;:equaii t themselves with the contents of a pap< • before signing it has worked incalculable harm to thousands of well intentions! people. It is a good tiling, ther. tore, to bear iti mind continuously the abo\e quotation, particularly with respei t to sue:: papers as express or imply anything in the nature of a contract, or a legal obligation —'J roller Jierieir. The Prevention ol Phihsis. The announcemeut.altnost simultaneoti • 'v, of two methods of preventing the d' . elopment of tuberculosis has apparently made very little stir iu the medical world. The medical world, in fact, is getting apathetic ou the subject of cures for phthisis. Still the present claims come roiu the two chief bacteriological labora " iriesof Germany and France respectively, t nd are put forth by Dr. It. Koch uud bj Dr. Grancher, both of whom are men to !::■ r-usted. I>r. Koch assorts, as we undc- - s aud him, that he has found a cheinicsl substance which, when given to animal . prevents the development of tuberculosis n them. Dr. Grancher has obtained by cultivation a fluid with which he vacci nates animals and thereby prevents also the subsequent development of tuber culosis. — Med. Keeord. A Substitute for Tobacco. Many different vegetable substances used as stimulating beverages in widely distant part parts of the world have been shown to contain caffeine as their active principle. Only one substitute for tobacco has, however, as yet been discovered. This s the leaves of the Duboisia hopwooiUi, a j shrub growing in Australia, the leaves of which are chewed by the blacks in the same way aud for the same purpose as to bacco is chewed. The leaves contain an r'kaloid, piturine, which is said by cer tain chemists to be identical with nicotine, but more probably is only closely allied to it. Messrs. Langley and Dickinson have recently shown that the actions of nicotine aud piturine are iu every respect identical. —British Medical Journal. Something to Take. One of our intelligent citizens, who, like most of us, is not up in doctors' Latin, re ceived a prescription from his physician which wound up with the following mon grel injunction: "Sig. teaspoonful t. i. d.'» "T. i. d —what's that?" queried the patient—"ah. I see, till I die. No, doctor, you can keep your prescription —I wnnt ' something to take t. i. g. w.—till I get I well." ' The physician righted things by explain , ing that t. i. d." was short for "ter in die'- ■ which means three times a day. For Office Seekers. The following story is related of Presi dent Lincoln: A local politician went to Washington seekiur an office, but in a fort uigkt came back without it. ''What was the trouble*" asked one of his friends. •■Didn't you see the Presidcntf" "Yes, of course," said the politician. •'Well, then, why didn't you get an office?" "Well," said the disappointed applicant, ••we went in and stated our errand. The 1 President heard our statements patiently, and then said, "Gentlemen, I am sorry that I have no office for Mr. , but if 1 | can't give you that I can tell you a story." Then he went on: "Once there was a certain king who kept an astrologer to forewarn him of coming 1 events, and especially to tell him whether it was going to rain when he wished to go jon huntiug expeditions. One day he bad started for the forest with his train of lords , and ladies when he met a farmer. "Good morning, farmer,? said tbe king. "Good morning, king," said the farmer. "Where are you folks goiugT" "Hunting," said tha king "Hunting! You'll all get wet," said the farmer. The king trusted his astrologer and kept on, but at midday there was a tremendous rain that drenched the king and all his party. On getting back to the palace the king had the astrologer decapitated, and sent for the farmer to take his place. " 'Law's sakes,' said the farmer when he arrived, 'it ain't me that knows when it's going to rain, it's my donkey. When it is going to be fair weather he always carries his ears forward, so. When it's going ,o , rain he puts 'eui backward, so ' "Make tbe donkey the court astrologer!" , shouted the king. " 'lt was done, hut the king always de- ' dared that that appointment was the greatest mistake he ever made in his i life.' "Mr. Lincoln stopped there," said the j office seeker. " 'Why did he call it a mis take?' we asked him. "Didn't the donkey lo his dutyf' " 'Yes,' said the president, but after hat even donkey in the country wanted an office." A Point of Pariiitsrsbij.. Law. In the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, Judge; Cullen has rendered a decision that will in teres! business men everywhere. Enoch Ruuler and George W. Blake had I been for five years partuers iu the steam I heating business on Center street in this j city. The co partnership was recently dis solved, and Blake started in the same busi ness in Wooster street. He then moved to enjoin Rutzier from continuing the busi ness at the old stand or anywhere else in New York in connection with the firm name. Judge Cullen lays down the law as f. Hows: "The authorities are plain that in the Ois.-olntion of a partnership or the sale of a business with its good will, in tbe absence of any covenant to the contrarj-, either partner or vender may prosecute the same business at any location, oven next door to the premises occupied by the firm. In such cases the good will amounts to noth ing more than the probability of the cus tomers resorting to trade at the old stand. Defendant RuU'er, therefore, has the right to carry on his business at the premises he has hired for that purpose." The court goes on to explain that Ru'z ler may not describe himself as the suc cessor of the late firm, nor put out any sign or publish any advertisement caleu lated to mislead the public to believe that he is the successor oi is continuing tbe business of the old concern. He ma>, however, describe himself as "lately a partner in tbe firm," or as being "formerly with it." WOMAN'S INTUITION. Nearly Always Right In her Judgment in Regard to Com mon Things. An old gentleman over seventy, came into the city frolm his farm, without his overcoat. The day turned chilly and lie ' as obliged to forego his visit to the fair To a friend who remonstrated with him or going awny from home thus unprep ir - i. he said: "I thought if was going to lie varui; my wife told me to take my ov :r coat, but I wouldn't Women have more .■use than men anyway." A frank admission. Worn, u'.- good sense is said to co ; e urn intuition; may it not be that they are toi e clsi >e observers ot little things. Oue ntig is certain, they are apt to strike the ni on the head, in all the ordinary pro m'iiis of life, more frequently than tbe ir- Eaten iu small quantiti-s w itn other food it is very nourishing, and | favors the cure of pulmonary diseases and I colds. NO I- Too Good Not to Tell. Four of us hat! (rone to Europe together in 1883—Dr t McYicar, of Philadelphia, Phillips Brooks aud Mr. Robinson. the builder of Rot-ton*B Trinity church. Bob j inson stands six feet two inch** in bit ! stockings; l)r. Me Vicar measures «UhL • feet four inches, acd Brooks exceeds six , feet in height. Robinson is sensitive about Ibis length. auf the Great Repablic. they i went to the hull. They entered separate |ly and took seats apart. The lecturer, af | ter some uninteresting remarks, said that Americans, as a rule, were short, and sel | dom il ever rose to the height of five feet | leu inches. He did not know to what ! cause he could attribute this fact, but he wished he could present examples to the audience. Phillips Rrooks rose to bis feet and said: ' I aiu an American, and, as you see, about six lcet in height, and sincerely hope that if there be any other representative of my country present he will rise." Alter a moment's interval Mr. Robinson rose and said: "I utn from America, in which country my height—six feet two— is the subject of no remark. If there be auy other American here, I hope that he will rise." The house was in a jolly humor. Wait ing uutil the excitement could abate in some degree, aud the lecturer gain control of his shattered nerves. Dr. McYicar slow ly ir.-w his majestic form to its full height, and exclaimed: "I aui an—" But he got l." farther. The uudience roared, anfl the lecturer said no more on the subject. How to Cure Felons. To the Editor of the Scientific America*: 1 i.otice in a recent issue a cure for fel ons. I will give you one that I discovered accidentally, when a young man. I was engaged in marking iron with white lead a d turpentine, aud having a elon coming on my finger, dipped it fre quently into the mixture. As the iron was quite warm I was marking at the time. I found the next morning that there was a small yellow spot where I felt the felon: I opened this, and had no more trouble from it. The next time I felt one coming I procured some turpentine and I'athcd the part affected frequently and held it near a warm surface to dry, with the same result as the first. Since then I - ' ave used it several times, always with the •me result. I also have had others try it, stnong them some of our men who work in he rolling mill, whose bands are covered .rith a very hard skin, and every one of ■ hem who tried it met with the same re sults, saving them a great deal of time, money and pain. 1 asked an eminent physician why the turpentine should produce *uch a result, ■lis answer was. '-It is a counter-irritant." J AMKS MALLEN. —A priest in St. Louis has inaugurated a temperance crusade that is unique. Every man in his congregation will be watched strictly in future, and those who are in the habit of frequenting drinking saloons will be reported to the pastor. He will give their names to a committee of isce in the Roman Catholic and Protest it churches. —ln gathering squashes in October be *• ire severe frost, bear in inind that their nepitig well rests very largely in the ■ tanner they i.re handled. Any which • identalh become brnised should be kept •.it for first use. and not put in with others, - the_\ will r t oul i iuse the others to < raj- a- a ell A cool, dry location is best • >r preserving over the winter. Those people who hold it a virtue to •>peak their minds," and on the pretense ~ honest frankness say mean and insulting :iugs, should remember that they have r.i right to wound another's feelings. Be cause your mind is full of bitterness and saarp words is no more reason for inflict iig them upon your acquaintances than fiat you should bit somebody because you ; >el strong. It is everybody's duty to try to make everybody else as happy as f.ocstyle in this world, and instead bfstudy i-j up aggravating things to do and say, . e should be constantly on tbe watch to rut a little sunshine into somebody's life. —Germany sent to the United States last fear beet-root sugar to the value of $16,- i(K),000. Two years ago the amount was U.-.S than $1,50*1.000. —How long to keep a cow depends on :,ow well %be is doing. Age should be i vtn no consideration as long at the old •;ow does duty equal tJ the younger ones and gives a profit. —Husk your corn and get it under its over as soon as you can do 80. Every >torin does more or less damage. It wiH i .so pay to put the fodder under shelter. I he loss of fodder that stands in tbe fields | ory winter is a large one if the amonnt •j calculated for the whole country. —To enjoy one's self thoroughly under all circumstances, one must enjoy perfect health. Catarrl. a much prevailing dis ease can be readily cured by using Old Saul's Catarrh Cure. Parents will get rest and the baby will be relieved from pain by using Dr. Bull's Baby .Syrup, a harmless but reliable reme dy. Price 25 cents. —Plans for numbering farm bouses and others iu the country are being triad in some States. thorough cleaning occasionally it it the water trough. —Dire dyspepsia's dreadful distress is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the peouliar medicine. —The season for shooting rabbits opened or, Saturday. —A in in's be irt is lOatned for lots of p* tor which his liver is responsible. —T:.«re are aoine thing* harder to keep • nail',, . A $3 pocket knife, for in t' a that iiave Lail a littlu touch of i dd weatb' r, it makes us begin to pine for e good old fa»hi»te;l winter. —After am.-'* ■* 4 r,, r'ain amount i money bi*B''igubors .»egin to bear he \ d ancestor*. —Dr. tenner's Kidney and Backache Cure 1» warranted to give satisfaction in eveiy case or money returned.