Telling the Age of Horned Cattle. G. L. Hamilton, of South Bend, lod., who is an extensive breeder of Short horn cattle, in conversation wiui a Star- Sayinga reporter said: "The ages of horned cattle may generally be known by the rings on the horn till their tenth year, but after that time they give no indication of age further than that the animal has passed its tenth year. The first ring appears on the horn after tho animal is two years old—soon after, as a general rule, though sometime before that age. During the third year the ring gradu ally increases, and at three yeurs of age it is completely formed. The second ring appears during the fourth year, and at tho end of tho fifth year it is com plete. After this period an additional ring is formed each year. This rule is sufficiently plain, and even a young farmer needs but little practice to enable him to read a cow's age on her horn?. The cow with three rings is six years old, with four rings she is seven years old. No new ring are formed after the tenth year, the deeper rings, however, and the worn appearance of the horns arc pretty sure indication of old age."— St. Louis Star Sayings. Tho Poor Flower Makers. Flower making is one of the starving industries of New York City. It takes from two to six years to learn the busi ness. Roses, leaves, violets and clusters like lilacs are the popular branches and all are paid by the piece. The first year the learner averages §1 a week; the sec ond year $2.50; the third $3; the fourth $4, and after that eighty cents a day is considered fair pay, for the reason that first class work is not abundant, the buyers preferring imported flowers for the same money to the home product. Strong chemicals are used in the work and have a deleterious influence on the health of the girls. These rose-makers and loliage-branchers are very nice girls as a class. Taste is required in the work, which has a refining influence on the i called upon to exert it.— New York World. It has been estimated that the recent Australian strikes cost the colonics there over $6,250,000. India, it is estimated, will produce 110,000,000 pounds of tea during the coming season. Too large —the old-fashioned pill. Too reckless in its way of doing business, too. It cleans you out, but it uses you up, and your outraged system rises up against it. Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Pellets have a better way. They do just what is needed —no more. Nothing can be more thorough—nothing is as mild and gentle. They're the smallest, cheapest, the easiest to take. One tiny, sugar coated granule's a gentle lax ative—three to four are ca thartic. Sick Headache, Constipation, Indigestion, Bil ious Attacks, and all derange ments of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels are promptly re lieved and permanently cured. For Internal and Internal I BP. Stops Pain, (Tramp*, Inflammation In body or Ifmb, like maorir. Cure* Croup. Asthma, Colds, Catarrh, Chol era Morbus. 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Bch't School. 887 Btdford AT., Brwklyii M, Y. ilMslssP al reau! ■ 3yralniMt war, 15adjudicatingclaims, attynmco HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. HOW TO BOIL, AN BOG. "Isn't it strange," said a short, foreign looking man the other day to some com panions, while lunehing together at one of the restaurants, "that not one cook io fifty, nor housekeeper either, knows how to boil an egg? And yet most pcoplo think they know this simple matter. They will tell you to drop it into boiling water and let it remain threo minutes, and to be sure the water is boiling. Hero is where the mistake is made. An egg so prepared is indigestible and hardly fit for a well person, let alone one who is sick, to eat. Tho moment it is plunged into boiling water tho white hardens and toughens. To boil an egg properly, put it in a vessel, cover with cold water, place over the fire and the second the water begins to boil your egg.is dons. The white is as delicate as a jelly and as easily digested and nutritious as it should be. Try it."— Chica>jo Tribune. THE WAY TO COOK KANAKAS. If the banana is taken just after its rind has begun to grow golden but is still streaked with green it will contain a great deal of Starch, which will mako it palatable when cooked, while tho small amount of sugar which has been formed will give it a sweetness like a sweet po tato, says a writer in Harper 't Young People. Strip the rind off and boil it until soft, and it will make one of the nicest vege tables you ever ate. If you live in the country, whero you are blessed with tho luxury of an open wood tire, try roasting some peeled half ripened bananas in the ashes, as you do potatoes, and see how savory a morsel they make. It is one of the commonest sights along the Amazon to see groups of half-clad In dian men and women squatting around little camp fires roasting bananas and having endless mirth trying to pick them out ot the hot without burning their fingers. We are all used to fried bananas, but we are prone to forget that for this pur pose they should not be fully ripe, as that makes them too soft and too sweet. Above all, a banana rousted or fried should be served hot, for as soon as it becomes cold it grows tough and unpala table. "THE STAFF OF LIFE." Bread has been truly called the stall of life, says the New York Obterter, and as it is one of the principal articles of out food, it is not to bo wondered at that the health of a family depends largely upon the kind of bread they eat and how it is made. To make first-class bread requires common sense, judgment and care, from the time the yeast is started until it comes out of the oven a well shaped, golden-brown loaf. The best of recipes will not make good bread unless the flour is good and tho cook careful. The longer bread is kueaded tho better it is and the whiter. Wheat Bread—One quart of warm water, a pinch of salt, one cupful of soft yeast, and flour to make a still batter. Beat thoroughly and let it stand ovei night. In the morning stir down and add sufficient flour to mix it well, knean a long time and let it rise; then put it into your tins, handling as little as possi ble. When light place it in a moderate oven ond bake a hour, watching it care fully. If the crust is too crisp, wet with a little sponge or cloth dipped in milk. Brown Joe Bread—Two cupfuls ol cornmeal, two cupfuls of white flour, one cupful of molasses, one cupful ol sour milk, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of soda. Steam three or four hours and bake half an hour. Graham Bread—One quart of warm water, one teaspoonful of salt, a small cupful of brown sugar, one teacupful of soft yeast, a small teaspoonful of soda, and enough graham flour to make it still enough so it will drop readily from a spoon. Grease your tins and pour it in. Let it rise until quite light, and bake three-quarters of uu hour iu a moderate oven. Rolls—One pint of boiling milk, one tablespoonful of butter, one tablcspoon ful of sugar, half a cup of soft yeast, and flour to make a soft sponge. Let ii rise over night, then knead hard, let it rise again and roll out, cut with biscuit cutter and fold half over. Bake in a quick oven a golden brown. Oatmeal Bolls—To a vegetable d:'sh ol cold oatmeal left from breakfast add a tablcspooful of melted butter, one well beaten egg, a pint of hot milk, two tea spoonfuls of baking powder aud flouf to make quite still so it can be dropped from a spoon. Bake in gem irons iu a Lot oven. Muffins, Number One—Half a cup ot butter, two-thirds cup of sugar, a little salt, one egg well beaten, one pint ol boiled milk, half a cup of yeast and flout to make thick. iLet it rise over night, and bake in irons from twenty minutes to half an hour. Rico Muffins—lTalf a pint of sweet milk, one pint of Hour, half a pint ot cold boiled rice, two C£gs, one and a half tablespoonfuls of sugar, one table spoonful of butter, a little salt, two tea spoonfuls of baking powder; melt the butter, add the sugar and eggs, beat well, then add the flour. When smooth add the rice. Bake in muffin rings. This will make a dozen and a half. Muffins, Number Two—Oue egg, on« pint of boiled milk, ono tablespoonful of melted butter, one tablespoonful ol sugar, half a cup of yeast, aud flour to stir os still as bread sponge. Bet at night, and in the morning stir down aud bake in muffin rings. Muffins, Number Three—Two tablo spoonfuls of butter, oue tablespoonful of sugar, ono egg, half a pint of milk, twe teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and floul to make as stiff as cake. Bake immedi ately in muffin rings. Graham Muffins—One tablespoonful ol butter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one egg, one cupful of sweet inilk, three tea spoonful of baking powder, and graham flour to make a stiff batter. We have 200 women preachers. Greenland lee Salllagu Dr. Nansen, tho Intrepid \ explorer,/ ia his account of his adventurous* joiuuney across Greenland, tells how* !>is party carried all their stores onj (two light sledges drawn by hand. Each-sledge with its load weighed about I2QQ pounds. On tho inland ice, when (thuywind was favorable, they could, by rlagging up. sails for tho sledgbs out of the wall-pieces and roofs of their tents, .get their loads transported without labor and toometunea/ with great swiftness. The explorer speaks withynoch (enthu siasm of the Norwegian "*jkis,"»which; ho wore on all his snow joiorneys. The "ski" is a wooden footgcarteigjht feet long, three and three-fitiurth inches wide at its broadest part, cuqving upward i toward the front. The "sl.ilober" puts his toes into a leather receptacle like the fore part of a boot, and buckles a Btcap/ round the back of the hcel,#allowing the heel to rise freely. With a pair of "skis"*hc can sJcid over moderately firm snowiat tho speedi of seven, eight or nine miles'.an hour on level ground, and fears not to rushjdfown steep hills with amazing swiftness or to. perform amazing leaps.— New< YorktJour nal. Florida Pliosplwteißeds. "The phosphate beds of (Florida have since their discovery about one year ago giveu employment to thiily-two-millions of capital. And," continued Commis sioner It. Turnbull, aguesttof the Palmer House from that Stutc, "many more millions will be iuvestcd thare -before tho close of the present year. Moreover, good, substantial returns are being had on the money. Phosphate mining is not like gold and silver mining)—you don't have to spend thousands of dollars be fore you learn where there is (anything in the ground worth digging for. The phosphate in flat, beds, the top of which is only a few feet under ground, and one man can in u short time figure pretty close to the actual amount of phos phate obtainable from any particular plot of ground. Bo that an investor can put in his money and be sure ol getting it and something beside back. That is the kind of a State Florida is."— Chicago Post. Brazil, a country a laigc as the United States, has but six thousand miles of railroads, and a population of 12,000,- 000. There are 3955 paper mills in the world. Spring Medicine Is so important that great care should be used to get THE BEST. Hood's Sarsaparilla has proven its superior merit by its many remarkable cures, and the fact that Hood's Sarsaparilla has a larger sale than any other sarsaparilla or blood purifier shows the great confidence the people have in it. In fact The Standard Spring Medicine Is now generally admitted to be Hood's Sarsa parilla. It speedily cures all blood diseases and imparts such strength to the whole system that, as one lady puts it,"l seem to be made anew." Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla Fold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only I Sold by all druggist*. $1; six for $3. l*repareo M A?/ 100 i»er month and expense* to sell Nursery Slock. , ) Rustlers wanted now, O, D. GREEK, Syracuse, N Y. BTATB or OHIO, CITT or TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTT, Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum off 100 for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CBENCT. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this oth day of December, A. D., 18t#S. < —*— i A. W. ULKASON, ■J SEAL > ' —r—' Notary Pnbtic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F, J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. tW" Sold by Druggists. 78c. CALIFORNIA'S gold production last year was $10,000,000. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.lsaac Thomp son's Eye-wator.Druggists sell at 25c.per bottlp |||| ' ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys Liver and Bowels, cleanses thesys tern effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its Kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste ana ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial In its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable its many excellent qualities oom mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup or Figs is for sale in 500 and $1 bottles by all leading? drug* gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL MmVtUB. KY NEW YONK. Nr. -VASELINE FOR A ONE-DOLLAIt 111 IJL« sent us by mall we will ilellvor, Tree oC ail charges, to any per*3& I & tlie United stales, ail of iuj folio *riui arcuioj, luJly paokoi: One two-ounoe bottle of Pure Vaseline lOoti One two-ounce bottio or Vaseline PomaJ* 13 * One Jar of Vaseline Cold Creain, 13 •• One Cake of Vaseline Campnorlco, • • - 1J '• One Cake of Vasellno soap, unscented, - • III" OneCakeof Vaseline Soap, exlfg. Co., *44 state e*t. 9 N. V. ED. L.HUNTLEY'S sß* «■«! grlro universal satisfaction Why should you pay mid dlemen's profits when you can buy direct from us, the manufacturers 112 Send us $lO and the following measures and wo will guarantee to lit and please you or refund your money. Rules for measurement: breast measure, over vest, close up under arms, waist measure over punts at waist, and inside leg measure from crotch to heel. Solid Six Onts for 12 samples of our tie Men's Suits, fashion plate and tape measure. Boys' Suits, |.VSOt Children's Suits. $3. KD. 1,. HUNTLEY & CO. Wfcnlraalr TalUra, 1M Ka»l HadUon Street, Chleayo, 111. STAY KHANvjiffl&fo fMEW-DEWRTURE MY_ "y$L Cleanliness is always fashionaole and the use of or the neglect to use SAPOLIO marks a wide difference in the social scale. The best classes are always the most scrupulous in matters of cleanliness —and the best classes use SAPOLIO. ■ DISO'S REMEDY FOR CATARRH.—Best. Easiest to use. JT cheapest. Relief is immediate. A cure Is certain. i?or Cold Iu the Head It has no equal. Ointment, of which a small particle Is applied to the nostrils, i'rlce, 80c. Hold by druggists or sent t>y mall. |B Address. K. T. HA-ZBLTINK, Warren, Pa. ■■ CHICHEBTER 8 ENGUo.t, RED CROS6 DIAMOND BRAHD A\ PehiwroNM» * ?\\iViS m ORIGINAL AND GtNUINC. Tbr Nire, udriMsMr Pill l»r nle \Vy l»dlr«. Mk DrugffiM ft»r rkickftm-, /UfUsh IHnmonJ Brand 1 Q Hed nu I Gold IJIIHI,, W TlHlfS "* • tller M nd - ***•<• Mttitution* and l.nitnUcn*. V All pill* In pasteboard boxca, pink wrapper*, are 4«Kfcpun« couwterfrlta. Ai PrutsUt* m tend •• ft- fcr .2f tto 2 ">4 "Heffcf for Utter, STjUJaSTISiC - iu*m »**£% »tl4 k/ »U Uml mi|ina FUXUADEI PHIaTV" . THE POINT. ' ££ V I ■ ■ Jfc From a Catholic Arch* r £\ bishop down to the Poorest of tho Poor 111 all testify, not only to the virtues of ST. JACOBS OIL, 1 The Great Remedy For Pain, , but to Its superiority oyer all other remedies, ixpreastd thus: It Cores Promptly, Permanently; , which means strictly, that the pahvstriclcen ' seek a prompt relief with no return of the pain, and this, they say, St. Jacobs Oil will . give. Thills its excellence. "August i Flower" I had been troubled five months with Dyspepsia. The doctors told tne it was chronic. I had a fullness after eating and a heavy load in the pit of my stomach. I suffered fre quently from a Water Brash of clear matter. Sometimes a deathly Sick ness at the Stomach would overtake me. Then again I would have the terrible pains of Wind Colic. At such times I would try to belch and could not. I was working then for Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cor. Irwin and Western Ave., Allegheny City, Pa., in whose employ I had been for seven years. Finally I used August Flower, and after using just one bottle for two weeks, was en tirely relieved of all the trouble. I can now eat things I dared not touch before. I would like to refer you to Mr. McHenry, for whom I worked, who knows all about my condition, and from whom I bought the medi cine. I live with my wife and family at 39 James St., Allegheny City, Pa. Signed, John D. Cox. ® G. G. GREEN Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. 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