gpii
B\V KKT COHN.
Sweet corn has many uses besides fit
ness as a table tlelicucy. Animals like
it much better thau field corn, ovon us
men and womon do. Sweet corn will
be useful to feed cows when tho grass
begins to fail in tho late summer, and will
make milk and buttercqual to that pro
duced by June grass. It is also the next
thing to milk for fattening young pigs.
Chickens are very fond of it and do woll
on it. But it will not do for tho silo.—
American Farmer.
MANURING MEADOWS.
Meadows will be much helped by a
liberal dressing of manure immediately
after getting off the hay. The sudden
chauge from denso shade and ample
moisture to bright hotsuu and scorching
dryness by the inowiug is very trying to
the grass roots, and undoubtedly is one
reason why our meadows are so short
lived. To top dress the grass with ma
nure is thus a most effective help, and
without it is hardly possible to maintain
tho grass in permanent good condition.
The innnuro should bo lino aud well
rotJed, so that it may not choke the
grass.—New York Times.
* OOOD Oil APE CATTLE.
Between the well bred grado cattle
nnd the übiquitous scrub is a great gulf
fixed. It is by no means necessary that
an animal should bo thoroughbred to be
profitable, but it is necessary that he
should have good blood and that a
reasonable amount of care should bo
taken in his breeding. If this is done
you will be well repaid. If not,
tho chances are against you. Any
calf of whatever breed ought to have a
good sire, and with a good grado dam,
weigh lrom 700 to 1000 at a yearling.
Blood tells, aud tlirro is plenty of de
mand for primely bred cattle, calvos or
beeves. A well known breeder of Here
ford cattle recently sold a lot of year
lings of that breed, weighing over 1000
pounds per head, at s'l per hundred.
Why can't every fanner do as well?—
Farm, Field and Stockman.
* WHKIIE THE THEE* 00.
There are many things which seem to
hnvc had their influence in preventing an
overproduction of good fruit. Iu the
first place uol one-half the trees planted
ever reach a bearing age, aud of those
that do live and thrive not moro than
half bear fruit of any special value to
the owner, because the varieties are not
adapted to the climate or other condi
tions under which they r|e grown.
Blight, noxious insects, and 112 moral neg
lect all contribute to keep the supply
of good fruit down to or a little below
the demand. Thousands may sow where
but few reap is as true to-day as in any
age of the world, audit is well that it is
so, else the truly deserving would have
less to show lor their skill aud industry.
The immense increase in population has,
of course, given a proportionate increase
in consumption, while the modern facili
ties for transportation of fruit from one
part of the country to another, as well as
to foreign ports, has helped enormously
in providing good markets. In addition
to all of these, the drying or evaporation
of the perishable fruits of late years has
stimulated the production of such kinds,
and it is likely tocontiuue, because there
are many foreign Nations who waut our
dried fruits iu immense quantities.
Under present conditions we tluuk there
is little danger of overptoduction of
choice fruits of any kind in this coun
try, at least not until all who attempt
its cultivation know more about I lie
busiucss than they do ul the present day.
—New York Suu.
WHOLE ANI) riECE HOOT ORAFTING.
A study of whole nud piece root graft
ing hat been begun at the Illinois Station.
Fur thit purpose more than 2000 grafts
were put up and set, though many of
them failed to grow. Advocates of the
whole root method claim as its greatest
advantage that the graft is tut ou the
collar of the needling tree, that there
alone is the natural place for uuioii be
tween the trunk of the tree and the root,
uiul that to put the graft ou any other j
pert of the root must uecoatarily make .1
lent perfect union aud consequently a
pooier trie iu the nursery and u less en
during aud perfect orchard tree. Many
of theiu do uot advocate the use of the j
whole root, as one would naturally be
led to suppose, but what It 11*11 ally |
called the upper cut, live to six inches
loug, fiout the collar ilowu.
A» tepoilcd by Me.-.srs. Hurt ill aud
MiCluet, sialiuu horticulturists, they have
uted roott in various forms, from whole I
roots ten inches long, to roots cut iuto j
plecet ol different lengths, with cious
tet two inches above the cof'ar, ou the j
collar and two inches below the collar.
The conclusions from one year's work
are; the whole foot las uu advantage
over a piece loot of the taiue site. (Size
1 tiers to both length and thickness.) I
Knots with tuiall siWc blanches left on '
gave bettor results thau routs of the saim- '
tie with the rootlets cut away.
Hoots live niche-, 'oug gave better r>
suits thau roott four inches, two iuciia*
or oue tuck loug.
itoota five luetics long, uot trimmed,
gave nuaiiy as good results as molt leu
itttdit* oug.-- .Vw York iS ofld.
PSell IIINo MkAllows,
Whi lhu 01 nut the quantity of feed
secured by paaieniig lhu meadows aftci
itsnopol hat has been haivested will
Make up lot the Imuege done is, lu say
tbe least, question tide This is et 1
iie< islly thu ease when the tumuiet it
lot and dljl, aill tlo pottoict !
ate cropped lowo and Ihe icaodoitt
lu touocqiicuce furnishing marly 01
quite all ol pasimage are eaten down '
(does.
A I*ll glow lh ol top In summer pro '
(eels (tie 100U lu uwmhi a> well as iu
winter, aud this le taken away, dune by
patiiiiiug.
imiiii f> od It, ul eouite, tec ired and
tfce stock topi Mtiiflv when oil., two.
they would tie almost tcilam to ion
duwu In turns caset, when Hie mta
•lowt naie '*eett cut re<t«ou«blj[ early,
Uieie le uu
tftlt Uv t! ill! - j, if I |M
lafcett Mvt lt< aitwn ilt« flvyfc tv vf lh« {
grass down too close. In most cases it
will bo better to cut and feed somo green
crop at this time rather than allow the
meadows to be eaten down close.
Of courso, in many cases the meadows
are pastured one season aud a fair crop
of hay is harvested, but this is not proof
that tho moadows were not damaged or
that a larger and more profitable crop
would not have been secured if the stock
hail been kept out. With hay, as with
all other crops grown ou the farm, a
large yield of good quality means a pay
ing crop, while a light yield will baroly
pay expenses. In many localities it is
quite an item to keep a meadow as long
as a good growth aud yield can bo had,
and to do this care must be taken of it.
if pastured too closely in hot, dry wea
ther more or less of the plants will bo
killed out, nnd if this is kept up a nsr
seeding will be necessary.
Extremes should be avoided. In a
favorable season, when a good growth
has been made, some pasturing can often
bo done with bonollt. But again, when
hot weather sets in, as is often the case
immediately after hay harvost, pasturing
is frequently a serious injury, and in any
season considerable damage will be done
if tho stock is allowed to eat the grass
down too close.—St. Louis Kcpublic.
FA KM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Perennial phloxes aro growing in pop
ularity.
Lilacs may be propagated by means of
grafting.
If you waut fine specimens thin out
severely the tree fruits.
Over-crowding animals is tho surest
way of inviting disease.
Bran comes nearer being a complete
stock food than anything else.
If flies infest the stable scatter some
chloride of lime aud observo its effect.
For pear scab, spray the affected tree
repeatedly with the Bordeaux mixture.
High-priced clothes and low-priced
cattle will not pay the mortgage on the
farm.
Corn silage, with gluten meal and
bran, is an excellent ration for feeding
beeves.
The California privet may be propo
gated by cuttings planted iu the open
giound.
Stock owners should bo moro inter
ested in preventing disease than iu seek
ing cures.
Those who took thoir boes out of
winter quarters latest this year did best.
May 20 proved to be the bost time.
Recently a mare foaled unattended in
a freight car aud got along all right.
The train was running thirty miles uu
hour.
A horse's memory is as long as his
life, and this makes the lessons he first
learns of thn utmost importance, us he
never forgets them.
For young animals, wheat bran is a
good food, as it combines all the ele
ments of hay aud corn, and the sugar
it contains renders it easily digestible.
To prevent bees from stealing tho
wax from grafts wrap thin paper around
the wax when it is first put on. By
having the paper white the wax will be
cooler.
It is to the apiatists' interest to build
up a market at home, eveu if lie only
gets the price at which honey is sold in
the large cities he saves the cost of
transportation.
Those who plant strawberrios in July
or August can expect a small crop of
very fiue berries next spring. But they
should be well cared for during the sum
mer aud fall and well manured as winter
sets iu.
It is all right to plan work ahead for
a rainy day, but if it ought to be done
at once; do not put it oil. A needed re
pair ou tool or machine may be but a
small job now, but use will soou make it
a big job.
Clover or grass land newly plowed
is not good for strawberries. i'lu red
headed grub is abundant iu such laud,
aud he is no aid to strawberry culture.
Wait till the sod is well rooted before
puttiug out strawberry plants.
The French have touud that the
Jersey aud Devon cattle are less liable to
disease thau the Durhituis, and this may
account in part for the lact that there is
an apparent increase iu the number of
these cattle used iu I'aris dairies.
Buckwheat it au excellent food,
euabliug the cows to produce a superior
quality of milk. Ileiug very rich iu
uitrugeu, many farmers prafer the bran
of it tu that of wheat. The kernel is
kuowu to be more valuable thau that of
wheat or oats.
The Intelligent dairyman mutt study
incessantly, livery cow hat her |*cdll
unities, which must be considered, aud
adaptations made iu fuel aud treatiuuni.
Success in almost everything it won by
attention to details, aud this it particu
larly true of dairyiug.
At a recent flower festival given for
charily, iu thu grounds of the Villa
llorghete, just outside of the wall* of
Itome, the womeu tludeuti of the Hoinau
I niveisity were present wearing the col
oied csp* of their colleges, like Iheir
men fellow student*.
An Meet lie. ll,a Polisher.
'the electric hat polisher is the latest
innovation in the lield of applied elec
tricity. Iu the lower corridor of the
Produce Ktchaugc Building may be even
in dally lite a practical illustration of
lhi» proem I'iie upcialiou is as simple
a* it It effective. The hat it tllpped
over a clutch, which holdtil (iuuiy, aud
the clutch ie attached Iu the end of the
•hall of a sin ill motor. The curreut ie
twiii lied uu, aud at the haltpius aiound
al lhu rate of tylitiu le-voiuimnt a minute,
a blush moistened with beusine, of souse
more lujtleiioi. fluid, it applied. AlUsi
this i iMtuslng »tiip> of til* or plush lake
lhu to u«h, and Ihu hit 1 pulltUed oil,
li iiiiug It iendei«d uuuecet*ary, a*
the he.l developed by lhu friction
•igeiutl the rapidly moving tuflace an*
• weft eyefy putpute of a heated iron.
•Noi only it much lime saved ovui the old
muthod, but lot latum are taid to lis
tupeimr. Nik, derby ui straw hats are
l< novated with wjutl IMWUMi
FIEBCE WOMEN WARKIOKS.
DAHOMEY'S AR.MV OF 2000 WAR
LIKE AMAZONS.
They Erlnoe the Most Bmperate
Courage in Battle—Their Unitorm
and Weapons—Human Sacrifices.
IN ordinary times the army of Da
homey is composod of 2000 Am
azons and 4000 to 5000 men war
riors. This is the well drilled
standing army, which, in poaee, is kept
at or near tlio capital, ready to march
anywhere at a moment's notice. When
an important war is on hand tho King
calls out the reserve, which increases tho
strength of his army to 12,000 or 15,000.
The most unique features of Dahomey
aro its largo force of womon warriors
and its terrible system of religious sacri
fices, in which hundreds of human vic
tims aro butcherod at the capital every
year. Dahomey is tho only country in
tho world which makes wQinen a part
of its military system. In tho year 1729
the King, hard pressed by enemies,
placod a large number of women upon
his fortitications to dcc.eivc the besieging
army with regard to his military
strength. These women acted with such
unexpected gallantry and engaged with
such abandon and lerocity in the battle
which brought victory to Dahomey that
they were organized into a permanent
regiment, and women have ever since
been among the bravest sPJiers of tho
land. The flower of tho fair sex is likely
to get into tho army as well as nearly all
tho strong minded women, the viragos.
Now and then the King takos a consort
from his women regiments, but no other
man can marry them.
The women aro taught that they arc
not weak, but strong. Evory womanly
sentiment is suppressed, and they become
unsexed and unnaturally ferocious. But
after all, the systom of women soldiers
is a source of weakness as well as of
streugth to the country. Dahoiuey is
rich in soil and in resources, but its pop
ulation is not large and is decreasing.
It has less than .'500,000 people. The
country cannot afford to keep a
number of celibate women in its gar
risons. In the natural order of things
these women would bo the mothers of
thousands of children; but not only arc
the additions they make to the popula
tion most insignificant, but also most of
the women captured in war becomo mero
ly the camp followers and servants of the
Amazons, and are under the same re
strictions as to celibacy.
Two Englishmen, Messrs. Skertchly
and Burton, made a very careful study
of the Amazons. Burtou said they
showed the most desperate
reckless daring, and are very formidable
enemies. Skertchly said that Amazons
delight in nothing more thau polishing
their gun barrels, which gleam like sil
ver in the suu. The French gaine 1 a
vivid idea of their ferocity in battle dur
ing the late war, when, under deadly
lire from the French fortifications, they
made charge after chargo up to the
works. When at last put to flight and
pursued, dying women on the ground
caught some of the French trortps by tho
legs and tried to throw them down and
stab thom with their swords. All
Daliouieyaii soldiers, men and women,
liave a ration of intoxicating liquor
before thoy go into battle. The French"
say that in the war of 1889-00 the per
fect recklessness of the Amazons was
doubtless increased by liberal potatio is
of gin. The women had just enough
liquor to make them devilish without
interfering with their powers of locomo
tion.
Their sleeveless tunics of blue and
white native cloth, their skirts falling to
the knoe, and their short trousers make
it easy to distinguish thcin from the male
warriors. On parade in the capital they
wear a head ornament of horn tips which,
however, is not worn to battle. Neither
do they, when advancing toward the
enemy wear the bells which are always
hung around their necks in time of
peace. The well-known tinkle of the
Amazon bell makes proclamation to all
the male creation that it is high time to
scurry down tho byways or get out of
sight souiewhere to avoid meeting the
King's soldiers; for the man who dares
to keep the road when an Amazon ap
proaches pays for his temerity with his
life. On all the highways these women
are mote isolated from the other sex
than any nun. Skertchly said it made
his blood boil to be compelled to siiit k
out of view like a thief whenever he
heard that odious bell. •
Their weapons are blunderbmcs, flint
locks, and bows and arioivs. Their plat
of warfaro is always to take the euemy
by surprise. They usually march to the
attack in the gray of tho morning and
before the enemy is awake they are up >n
him with their impetuous war cry and
tierce onslaught, Mr. Chaudouiu say*
he saw 4000 Amazons in 18V.1 grouped
arcuiidthc King, perfectly mot ionic. < as
they Mend in line but ready to hound at
a signal from their master. Old or you i j,
hoiuely or haudsome, they were a re.
markshlu spectacle. They up pen red
every whit as muscular as the male
warriors ami their bearing w.i« military.
The crowd of people approached too
uear ami a half dozen Amazons walked
aloug the liuu flourishing their glint an 1
crying with imperious gesture, "Hack,
back,'' whereupon the crowd made haste
to retire to a safe distance.
After the late war Iviug ilehaiixiti
caused a number of Amazons to bo be
headed ou tlie chaige of cowardice. He
endeavors in every way to make them
perfectly fearless and liidiffeiciit to pain.
Air. llorghero describes a sham light that
he witnessed at the i apita! a few years
ago. Thousuuds of bundle* of thorny
cactus bushes ma le an obstruction I .'Mi l
feet long, twenty-live feet broad, an 1
seven feet high. Beyond this obstruc
liuu rose the framework of a house of
thu tame length and sixteen feet ht'oa I
and high, the two slopet ul its roof cov
ered with a bed of thorns- The hare- j
fouled Mouieu lluee times tdrmuuule I
the heap of thorns, scaled the house, and
then appeal" I befoie the King, their 1
feet an I legs covered with blood, an I !
their facts wreathed with smiles of tu
uiuph. Three thousand women I <k
part in this astounding spectacle.
Human sacrifices am 4 icaiure of the
religious customs. In Ahomey, duriu (
the animal ea'rificei, '»>>) or more vie
Unit are put to death to appease the godi
and carry messages u> thu Kiug't amies- •
tois iu the olhci world. These saeiirtcc-s
are Ve|jf elaborate. Thu victims, tied
y*nd and foot, an-- fs>isus4 into basket*
tud 1 all lt d to the lup of a iilatfuim
twenty feel from the gfogud. Here the '
King, un ler his umbrai'l* of slate, iui 1
uail* (twin »#.:• laurel lm ridim !
♦e ia*« te W.* elite* »sd*4. e*e I
then raised aloft and dabbed to tue
ground where, a crowd of Amazons and
common people rush with the greatest
fury upon the poor wretches, cut off
their heads, and often divide their bod
ies into many pieces. Governor Bayol,
while in Attorney in 1890, was a specta
tor of this scene. He says that he MW
an Amazon about nineteen years old rush
upon one of (he victims. She was a
new recruit, aud had not yet killed any
body, and it was desired to put her to
the test. With her sharp-edged sabre,
held in both hands, she struck the vic
tim tbrce blows on the neck, theu
chopped off the last pieces of ilesh that
still held the head to the trunk, after
which she carefully wiped her sabre and
retired to the ranks. Alligators, cats,
and other animals arc also sacriliced to
carry messages to their kind. If Behan
zin makes the French too much trouble
during the coming campaign, they may
possibly send htm himself to interview
his ancestors.
The victims are invariably criminals or
captives of war collected to make a na
tive holiday. When Europeans protest
to tho Kings of Daliomey against these
terrible sacrifices, they are told that not
only does this slaughter give groat satis
faction to the gods, but also it is the
only way to maKe a great jail delivery.
If they did not kilt their criminals, they
say, it would take too many soldiers to
suppress evil doers. And yet Dahomey
is not a people of savages. Under ordi
nary circumstances tho populace are
gentlo and easy to influence. Most of
them obey implicitly all the laws and
regulations of their King. They are
fairly industiious and have attained a
sort of scmi-civilization. They represent
one of the liuest types of the black race,
are above medium stature, have bright,
intelligent faces and powerful physique,
and it is only in war or in the practice
of their religious customs that they dis
play remarkable ferocity and fanaticism.
The King is aided in his Government
by a council composed of his principal
chiefs; but in spite of his ministers and
his own nearly absolute authority, he is
still submissive to the occult power of
fetich. Tho people to-day would rise en
masse agniust their Kiug if he undertook
to suppress their fetich doctors and
abolish the timc-hunored sacrifices. One
curious religious law imposed upon the
King by the fetich priests forbids him to
look upon tho sea. This law was doubt
less made to prevent the King from
coming too much under the influence of
the white men who might persuade him
to forget the customs cf his country and
overthrow fetichisiu.—New York Sun.
WISE WORDS.
Promises 6eem to languish, they can
j not die.
Truth is not cherished where sin is
nourished.
! The breath of prayer comes from the
. | life of faith.
• | Flying birds are r.evcr taken in a
fowler's snare.
Every man defines cowardice in his
j own case as discretion.
Nature has sometimes made a fool;
j but a coxcomb is always of a man's owa
I j making.
You cannot dream yourself into a
charactei; you must hammer and forgo
. yourself one.
We all want a little more than we
i have, and it is for the good of our souls
: that we don't get il.
It is better to give while you are liv
■ | ing than to leave your money to be di
vided among lawyers.
| The time spent in brooding over
1 troubles if properly employed would en
> able you to surmount them.
A woman might as well propose; her
' i husband never ad in ito after marriage
that he was the one who did it.
r j A girl will cry with a loud bawling
, | noise until she is ten years old, when
, ' she begins to cultivate the art of weep
r:
The primal duties shine aloft, like
stars; the charitiis that soothe and Leal
, and bless are scattered at the feet of man,
[ | like Mowers.
If wo would read the secret history of
1 our enemies, we would find, in each
man's life, sorrow and suffering enough
; to disarm all hostility.
The law of the harvest is to reap more
. than you sow. Sow an act and you reap
a habit; sow a habit and you reap a
charactei; sow a character and you reap
destiny.
LL'htnliig'N tjueer rranks.
"Lightning p!a_v* some queer pranks,"
. - aid \\ illiain Cathead, at the Lindell.
' "I was traveling through Coles County,
I Illinois, some year* ago, and sought
' shelter from a thunder storm in a farm*
house. Tim farmer undertook to build
a lire in the kitchen stove to dry iny
damp garments. Ho was down on his
knees blowing the coals vigorously when
there was a terrific clap of thunder, and
a bolt of blue lire shot out of the stovo
into hi# lin*. lie fp|i buck limp as a
wet newspaper, the lightning tore all
Ins clothiu;,' »>»I with the exception of
one boot and trousers |pjr, Then' was a
i -streak down through his beard, across
his breast and down one leg n* though
made by i re.i li»t poker, i suppoted
he .vat dead at a door nail. His wife
picked u;> a largo crock of milk that
stood oa the table aud dashed It over
him, and in le>x than t'u'oe mlnuto* he
sat up, surveyed himself sad mournfully
remarked: Marier, ju.i oughteu to treat
me that erway afore strangeri.'"—St.
i l.oui; tilobc.Democrat.
Ilni nln,' el the Air.
A mysterious electric phenomenon hat
j lately been explained by Professor
l mokes, When an arc is former by an
alternating current 0ff.0,000 la l'K',ooo
vo'ts and high frequency, two atsidlly
burning litmus— unlike the veil-known
eh ' " brush— tleam out from the elec
tro les. | hi! electrodes, ho a ever, are
not cousuinud. The explanation is that
the ilamet are due to an aelual combina
tion of the nitrogim old oxygen ul the
air, with the formation ut nitric and ui*
trout acids iu products. This suggests
startling | (Msiliilitie*, but we are assured
that the at morphine is prevented from
Inking liiu aud burning up completely,
deluging the earl ii in a tea of nitric acid,
by the fuel tha> the iguit.iiij point of
| mlrogcu is higher than the Uuuperature
t il iu ■ em'iustiou, the tlanie being, (hire
fore, in t hot euough to set tire tu the
itdjoluiUg giii I'leutou J.) Auteri
utu.
fne loeo weed, ahull i» abundant In
SV>»i■ 111 K tn»a», ha* a peculiar f*s«ina-
Hun fm i iltli upon *,UiwU U exert* ail
Capes are the present fad.
Women druggists are Increasing.
Leghorn hats are now holding sway.
Arrangements of the hair are nctably
simple.
Tho wearing of green veils is said to
be injurious.
In Harlem, New York City, Mary
Evans, is licensed captain of a ship.
In New York City, Mrs. Elizabeth
Gill, pursues the craft of a cobbler.
Women of every rank go bareheaded
in Mexico aud the fashions never change.
There have been patents granted to
G4G women from New YJrk State since
1809.
Fashion dictate? how to hang lace
curtains straight, so as to show their full
design.
In China small, round eyes are liked.
But the great beauty of a Chinese lady
is in her feet.
Six of the most successful business
stores in Machias, Me., are owned and
run by women.
In Brooklyn, Miss Cornelia K. Ilood,
President of the Kempiu Club, is lawyer,
lecturer and writer.
Mrs. J. G. Satley, of Traor, lona, la.,
owns 1040 acres of fine prairie land and
docs her own farming.
The modern Persians have a strong
aversion to red hair. The Turks, on the
contrary, are warm admirers of it.
"Cricketing teams" of ladies are tho
fashion in England now. Lidy Brassey
is responsible for introducing thcin.
The Province of Bhopal, India, is cele
brated for the unusually great adminis
trative powers of its female sovereigns.
The fashion in bridesmaids' bouquets
lately has been the horseshoe, with the
nails worked out in contrasting blossoms.
Last year's gowns may be lengthened
by a band of cloth about the skirt,
while tho waist is enlarged with vest aud
falliug collar.
A college for girls is to bo opened next
autumn at Buda Pesth, Hungary, which
is to bo chiefly for the study of medicine
and philosophy.
Patiols of black and some light tone
may be inserted in street frooks, together
with a jaunty addition in the way of a
stimulated jacket.
Nothing so rejuvenates a gotvn that is
beginning to bear evidences of wear as a
pointed belt of ribbon from which de
pend jet pendants.
Tea cloths that imitate not only tho
Dresden china pottery, but also lioynl
Worcester, Coalport aud other wares ate
used with services to match.
Mr. Jollivct declares that American
women are welcome in Parisian society
because so many of them are pretty,
clever aud exquisitely dressed.
Tho long-train skirt which is now in
fashiou among women is said to date
back to the time of Queen Auue, the
wife of Richard 111., of England.
An artist's rule as to color is:
"Choose carefully only those tints of
which a duplicate may bo found iu the
hair, tho eyes or tho complexion."
The late Mrs. W. T. Sherman, and
Miss Alary Gweudolen Caldwell have
giyeu more money to the Catholic Church
than auy other women in America.
Miss Florence Nightingale is seventy
two years of age. Her health is very
poor, but she still continues to do a lot
of writing for the nursing journals.
Kice flour wafers, which are slightly
swell, are tho correct thing to serve
with 5 o'clock tea. They are t > bt) ha I
at tho Japanese shops iu pound tins.
The first International club for wo non
has beeu founded. Tho incorporators
are a group of American, French aud
Germau women in residence in Nice.
The Prussian Minister of Education
has decided that from uow on the con
tracts with all women teachers shall be
cancelled by their marriage at the cud of
the school year.
There has just died in Poland a once
celebrated beauty, who refused the hand
of Napoleon HI. She was the Princess
Helene Sagousko, and died uuunrricd
at the ago of fifty-scveu.
Mr. Peter Mario, of Now York, ii said
to have the liuest collection in existeaco
of the miuiatures of pietty women, uu
lfss there is excepted the collection of
the late King Ludwig of Uuvaria.
The ladies of Arabia staiu their Augers
and toes red aud their lips blue. Iu
Persia they paiut a black streak around
their eyes aud ornameut their faces with
representations of various figures.
In making clover pillow* only the
blossoms should be used, aud they must
be ptu'ked first in slips of stout muslin
An overslip of clever-blossomed cretonne
is pretty aud suitable if one had neither
titue, skill nor inclination to embroider
on some art cloth sprays of piuk ami
white clover, than which few needlework
designs are prettier.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the llonanza
Kiug, never wears auy jewelry at her
owu entertaiuiueuts. At her last paity
in London, which was u concert for the
youug Italian royalty, the Duo d'Aosta,
she wore pale piuk, without oruaiueut.
Her guesu were jeweled to the point of
barbarity. One wemau wore diamond
Ivy leaves aud a diamond sun iu her
hair, throe rows of diamonds aud
pearls arouud her ueck aud a colossal
rivers.
Kowetl County, Kausas, has an ox
whit h measure* fourteen feet iu length,
six feci and a half high, aud, wbeu Ul,
weighs 4300 pouuds.
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King
W* or MvitieUma
J pfllU. far tl yssrs
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IUISI.
Urn. «. I.rbt. ««> arsal Joy.
y»«sii I l-«»» «HI. IIOIMI'N N A IIM At' A it
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work, «u.l «.V» iU« l»s»s in.i i.»i uti tU> »ii
aemitul ti4 •tecum* I sin M«l| SI. I
for-JXrUfenfe L •
UOMCI'I PIIU 'tK Mi" »«•*•! ftftrr 4ftn**f Hit*,
Sharing Off Scores.
There is an old merchant inn thriv
ing little town near Minneapolis who
scorns a paper ledger and insists on
keeping a piuo board account with his
customers. He planes this board off
once every five months and starts afresh.
Some time ago a customer dropped into
tbe old merchant's store to pay a bal
ance of forty cents of si* mouths' stand
ing. "I guess you don't owe me noth
ing" replied the old trader to a ques
tion about the debt. The questioner
protested that he did owe the debt; in
fact, he remembered buying the goods
some six months ago. "Oh, well, live
months alters the case," said the
weigher of Bugar and molasses. "You
may owe me forty cents for all I know.
You see? I've up aud started a new
board since you got your stuff and 1
don't remember your debt. You may
pay mo if you want to, but if you don't
it's all O. civ., as I'vo shaved your ac
count out." The trader got his forty
cents. —Minneapolis Bulletin.
On ilie Yernndn.
How pleasant, but how dangerous, unless Or.
Iloxsie's Certain Croun Cure in at, band. This
great remedy is the only specific known that is
an tilmotvtf a* ire./ <i< * \trt of Croup,
Pneumonia, Diphtheria, Bronchitis and Con
sumption. Sold by prominent druggists. GOc.
Manufactured by A. I*. Hoxsie, Hultalo, N. Y.
A blonde is said to have about ten
years the ad vantage of a brunette.
l'ure and Wholesome Quality
Commends to public approval tho California
liquid laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs. It i*
pleasant to tbe taste and by acting gently on
the kidney", liver and bowels to cleau*e the
system effectually, it promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it, and with millions it
is the best and only remedy.
M. L. Thompson & Co., Druggists, Coudcrs
port, l'a„ say flail's Catarrh i ure is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell it, 75c.
THE evils of malarial disorders, fever, weak
ness. lasMtudc and debility ami prostration are
avoided by taking Meceham's l'ills.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.lsaac Thomp
son'stye-water. Druggists sell at £">e.per bottle.
EtfRVftfoTHER
Should Have it 2n The Xlonne*
Dropped on &Uffar f Children Juovc
to take JOHNSON'S ANODYXF. LIMIMENT tor CroimColds,
Sore Throat, TonsllltU, Collo. Cramp* and I'ains. Uo
lteres all Summer Complaints, futsand limine* like
magic. Sold every where. l'rlee Bfie. hy mall; 6bottles
Kxi>re*s paid. i. S. JOHNSON & CO.. BOSTON.MASS,
_ DR. KILMER'S
MP
Kidney,Live<-and BiadderCure.
Rheumatism,
Lumbago, pain in joints or back, brick dust in
urine, frequent eitlls. irritation, intlamatiou,
gravel, ulceration or catarrh of bladder.
Disordered Liver,
Impaired digestion, gout, billlous.heivuiche.
SU % tll»-HOOT cure* kidney diftleultieH,
IrtUf ipitCi urinary trouble, bright's disease.
Impure Itloori,
Scrofula, maiarla, (reri'l weakness ordotiillty.
!■ uarnntre ' '«• intents of Ono pottle, il n ■ I»»MV
#1U«*«1, i>rug|fistii will refund toyou lUo price fuiul,
A»
"Invalids' OuMe to Ilea Ith "free Consultation frea
I >ll. KILMLtt Co., lIINOHAMTON, N- ¥.
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Pimples
AND
Blotches
EVIDENCE That the blood is
wrong, and that nature is endeav
oring to throw off the impurities.
Nothing it so beneficial in assisting
nature as Swift's Specific (S. S. Sj
It is a simple vegetable compound. Js
harmless to the most delicate child, yet
it forces the poison to the surface and
eliminates it from the blood.
I contracted a severe care of blood poison
that unfitted me for business for four years. A
few bottles of Swift's Sialic (S. S. S.) cured
***£• J. C.JON us, City Marshal,
Fulton, Arkansas,
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
fit*. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, cia.
"August
Flower"
My wife suffered with indigestion
.nd dyspepsia for years. Life be
came a burden to lier. Physicians
failed to give relief. After reading
one of your books, I purchased a
jottle of August Flower. It worked
I ike a charm. My wife received im
mediate relief alter taking the first
'jnse. She was completely cured —
;ow weighs 165 pounds, and can eat
uny'liing she desires without any
deleterious results as was formerly
the case. C. 11. Dear, Prop'r Wash
ington House, Washington, Va. <2>
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