Jlrolorn FnifiienU anil S»ltm.
Various elegant preparations have
superseded the coarse unguent* and
salves of former tiroes. Tt would he
impossible iu our limited space to
give a just idea of the wonderful im
provements that have been made in
this branch of pharmacy. Perhaps
one of the most notable improvements
. is the preparation of an animal fat,
called Innoline, which is now used as
the basis of a large number of oint
ments.
Unlike lard, which has generally
been employed for this purpose, it
never turns rancid; and it lias the
valuable property of being readily
absorbed by the skin, and penetrating
with friction to its deeper layers;
therefore, it becomes a most efficient
vehicle for conveying medicines
through the skfu. When mixed with
mercury and rubbed into the pores, it
has caused the peculiar metallic taste
of the drug to be perceptible in the
mouth three minutes after its applica
tion. Tn its impure crude form, this
fat was known to the ancient Greeks,
and employed by them in medicine,
being extracted from the wool of
sheep. The chemist has now purified
it, and made it one of the most useful
agents that we possess for applying
medicines to the skin.—Chambers's
Journal.
Aluminum Watches.
The latest fad of the Parisian swells
is the aluminum timepiece. They are
very light in weight, but a trifle more
than the works. The cases are in a
dull black color—very effectivf;. Some
are open faced, some are open in a
small three-quarter-inch disk in the
center, with small gilt hands on the
black face of the watch, but they are
in all sorts of inlaid decoration in
colorings, and the best of it is they
are very reasonable in price.
It is the custom at the gay capital
for the gentry to carry this timepiece
in the right hand trousers pocket
along with the keys, coin, matchbox
and other paraphernalia of the mascu
line pocket. It is, moreover, the wont
of the owners to rush the hand down
in the pocket with great show of im
perturbability and bring forth the
watch, of which the material is un
scratchable, from among the other
articles, glance at the time and care
lessly replace it with an air of cer
tainty in its infallibility.—Clothier
and Furnisher.
A NO-TO-BAC MIRACLE.
PHYSICAL PERFECTION PREVENTED
IIY THE USE OF TOBACCO.
Ail Old Timor nt Twcntj-thrcc Yonrn'To
liaceo f'ilewliiu antl ritnokinn Curcil, and
Oaing Twenty I'ountlH In Thirty Oayn.
LAKE GENEVA, Wis., Jul}* 21 —Special.—
The ladles of our beautiful little town are
making ail interesting and exoiting time for
tobacco-using husbands, since the Injurious
effects of tobacco and the ease with which
it can be cured by a preparation called No-
To-Bac. have been so plainly demonstrated
by the euro of Mr. F C. Waite. In a written
statement he says : "I smoked and chewed
tobacco for twenty-three years, and I am
sure that my case was one of the worst In
this part ofthe country. Even aftor I went
to bed at night, if I woke up I wonld want
to ehe r . or smoke. It was not ouly killing
me but my wifo was also ailing from the in
jurious effects. Two boxes of No-To-Bac
cured me, and I have no more desire for to
bacco than I have to jump out of the win
dow. I have gained twenty pounds in thirty
days, my wifo is well, and we are Indeed
both happy to say that No-To-Bac is truly
'worth its weight in gold' to us."
The cure and improvement in Mr. Waite's
case is looked upon as a miraole—ln fact, it
is the talk of the town and county, and it Is
estimated that over a thousand tobacco
users will be using No-To-Bac within a few
weeks. The peculiarity about No-To-Bac as
a patent medicine is that the makers, the
Sterling Remedy Company. No. 45 Randolph
street, Chicago, absolutely guarantee the
use of three boxes to cure or refund the
money, and the cost. *2.50, is so trilling as
compared with the expensive and unneces
sary use of tobacco that tobacco-using hus
bands havo no good excuse to offer when
their wives insist upon taking No-To-Bao
and getting results in the way of pure, sweet
breath, wonderful improvement in their
mental and physical condition, with a prac
tical revitallzation of their nlcotized nerves.
WYOMING sheep and wool are being ex
ported to England.
r>r. Kilmer's SWAMP -It OOT cures
nil Kidney unil Illadder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Bißxhamtoa, N. Y.
WATEKMF.LONS lately sold for sixteen cents
a hundred iu N«w Orleans .
Tlie Lnilifi.
The pleasant effect and perfect safety wltt
which indies may use the California liquid lax
ntlve, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions
makes it their favorite remedy. To get the
1 rue and genuine article, look for the name of
the California Kig Syrup Co.. printed near the
hoftoui of the package.
The <'ailfnrnia Mid-Winter Exposition has
iu-i given the John I'. Lovell Arm« Co., of
11.»-t.»ii, the highest award and (told Medal foi'
bicycles.
I'r. Ilmair'a Certain Crimp t are
Should bo iu every medicine closet. It cares
the worst of coughs and colds, aud does not
cause nausea. Mata
Hull'* Catarrh Care
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
llALfc's lltiuey of 11..rein,11 ml anil Tar re
lieves * lumping cough.
Ilki - 1 sii bai m Props < 'ore In owe Minnie
Karl's > lover Itisii. the great blood purifier,
give- fi* -.liuess and clearnoas to ihu complex
ion Hid I ill. - toiMlipation. 3ft els.. *1 eta., »1
If alttn 1 eil w 11 h inreeyes use Dr. Isauc Thump
mil'- I < - wuler. 1 iruggUls sell al per tsuife
In Hot Weather
S > .1- llitiiK' i» ttiwtlwl t«» keep up the uppttttt**,
HKnl st l->ll Mint KlV* rfOOtJ, healthful
For purp«»«* Hood's s«r»>ti»n
rilln is peculiarly <i<iMptt*|. At m par-
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HATVnCR FOR HORSES THAT ROLL.
A horse that is addicted to rolling
and getting cast should wear a halter
with a ring fastened to the top be
tween the ears. Snap a rope or strap
in this so he cannot lay his head down
tlat, and thus tied there will be no
further trouble.—American Agricul
turist.
STIMULANTS FOR FLOWERS.
One of the best stimulants that can
be given to pot plants, especially
palms and ferns, is soot water. Tie a
quantity of soot iu a course muslin
bag, attaching a heavy stone to it, so
that it will sink; let this soak for sev
eral days iu a tub of water and then
let it stand a day or two until quite
clear. One quart of soot to seven gal
lons of water is quite sufficient. It
renders the foliage more vivid, as well
as stimulating growth. Detroit Faee
Press.
EXPERIMENTS IN KEEPING EGIiS.
The New York experiment station
has been experimenting in keeping
eggs. The eggs were all wiped when
fresh, with a rag saturated with some
antiseptic and packed tightly in salt,
bran, eto. Eggs packed during April
and May with salt, and which had
been wiped out with cottonseed oil, to
which had been added boric acid, kept
from four to five months with a loss
of nearly one-third, the quality of
those saved not being good. Those
packed in bran, after the same pre
liminary handling, were all spoiled
after four months. Eggs packed in
salt during March and April, after
wiping with vaseline, to which salicy
lic acid had been added, kept four or
five months without loss, the quality
after four months being mueh superior
to ordinary. Temperature of each
box varied little from sixty degrees
Fahrenheit, and each box was turned
over once every two days. Little dif
ference was observed in the keeping
of the fertile and unfertile eggs, and
no difference was noticeable in the
keeping qualities of eggs from different
fowls or from those on different rations.
—Orange Judd Farmer.
THE MILK TEST.
11l practice it is found that the Bab
cock test must be expanded in applica
tion so as to cover five things : The
apparatus, the acid, the sample the
manipulation, the operator. These
five things include everything pertain
ing to the test as a machine, the test
as an operation, and the tester. lowa
leads her sister States in enacting a
law requiring those who buy milk by
the test to make sure that the test bot
tles are correctly calibrated and grad
uated. As the invention is not patent
ed anyone can make the apparatus,
and the test bottles have been thrown
upon the market with no guarantee
that they are correct. Patrons have
been condemned for selling inferior
milk with no evidence against them but
the test bottle and no guarantee that
the test bottle itself was correct.
The new law makes it imperative
that each creameryman and all persons
testing milk for others, shall procure
of the Dairy Commissioner a certified
test bottle and the Dairy Commissioner
is required to furnish one bottie cer
tified to be correct, at cost price. In
case of controversy, the one who makes
the test has the burden of proof. He
must prove his test to be correct, and
cannot secure conviction otherwise.
This is right. Before this it was a
one-sided affair. One party did all the
testing; the other was helpless unless
he could prove fraud. Now the per
son making the charge must support
it with evidence and if the evideuce is
the milk test he must substantiate the
accuracy of his test. —Orange Judd
Farmer.
HOW TO MAKE A SELF-CLE A VIVO CISTERN.
Soft water for washing purposes is
a necessity. To meet this necessity
cisterns of various kinds are built,
but the ilust lodging on the roof, to
gether with dead leaves, and various
substances whirled about by tho wind,
will be carried by the water into the
cistern. Unless it is frequently
cleaned, this l'ouls the water and gives
it a bad odor. The following is a de
scription of a plan for a cistern so ar
ranged as to avoid thisdifficulty. The
overflow pipe, instead of simply
entering the cistern at the sur
face of tho water iu the usual way,
contiuues down the inner surface and
opens near the bottom. Then, when
ever the cistern tills with water ami
overflows, the surplus enters the dis
charge pipe at the bottom, thus carry
ing off whatever sediment may have
beeii deposited. As the substances
that are washed from the roof iuto
the cistern always settle gradually to
the bottom, each hard raiu that fills it
to overflowing forces them into the
discharge pip" and carrion them off to
the drain Such foul sediment forms
a good Ucst for disease geriin. Where
the ground is of tlrm texture it is not
liecossarv to brick Up the sides, but
the cement may be laid directly on
the earth, Begin bv laying out a fir
cle about a foot larger across than the
inteuded size of the cistern. I>lg this
Size down thr<■>' feet, tueli dig the
cistern sit niches smaller on all sides,
thn« leaving a shelf on which to plifC*
the Covering stouea three leet below
the surface to In out of the way of the
lost. Cutir it by layiug ou opposite
1 sides of this shelf two long rt it stoues,
eighteen inches apart. I'heu lay
two other stouc* acr<w» the enda
of thus*. and a mau hole eighteen
llichen «|iiari a til Iw left It l> now
ready lor planii RUIU I'M* portlau I
rtiiii lit. on I- I'Hft of oe I m 111 to U<i of
Due, cl. an ml, giVtUg ihu side* a
don. l lave I ell al lip t" lilt cover, the
liHskil from lliu roof lit> 1114 in- ii iu
»i r( linolif si the top Sll* illy |
drain from NIMH- imufcuieut point of
disuhatge, an I I.v Hie o«i flow plp» by
twgiHiiiil at lb. bott «IM of il»«r eisivru,
Itg It out I, II III' top It IU«V
I U 1 : H 1 .111 I la., iit.li
, itlalll Mil b*. lli.«t fall vU*k il
1 in lit* tielefn **ll uv*«u 1 Willi ss
ment. When all is complete place a
crib of plank over tho man-hole,
through which it may be entered by
means of a small ladder; then cover
with earth, rounding it well up.
If a pump is used tho suction
should be furnished with a strainer,
and should reach to within a foot of
the bottom of oistern. Where a cis
tern can be built directly under the
kitchen it is very convenient to con
nect it with a pump ovor the kitchen
sink. The capaoity of a citern may
be approximately ascertained by al
lowing seven gallons to the cubic foot.
Or, if it is round, multiply the diame
ter by the average depth, in feet, and
the product by five and one-half.
The result will be the capacity in gal
lons.—American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Slow milking is injurious to the cow.
Milk rapidly.
The Pekin is generally esteemed
the most profitable variety of duck.
Lead a cow rather than drive her.
Gentleness should be the watchword
to the dairy stable.
The aim in breeding should be to
wards a higher standard in order to
compensate for the deterioration in
prices.
Make up your mind to have better
roads thiß summer between your farm
and the station from which you do
your shipping.
It is very certain that the butter
must come from the food and that the
better the food the more butter a cow
will give. Experience has shown that
corn meal is the best food for rich
milk.
The man who makes it a rule to
milk his cows in the stable is the one
who has the least trouble with them.
It takes but a minute to put them in
and turn them out, and this time is
well spent.
Turkeys, as a rule, do best to have
their own way in nesting, setting and
caring for their young, but the older
ones are likely to become so gentle
and obedient as to conform cheerfully
to the feeder's plan.
The cracking of the fruit of pears,
observed oftentimes in the Flemish
Beauty and the White Doyenne, is
caused by a fungus. Spraying, asnow
generally practiced, will make an end
of this fungus, no doubt.
For a small lawn the best invigor
ator is a gill of nitrate of soda once a
week in a pail of water, app'ied with
a watering pot, over an area of 100
square feet. The grass will quickly
respond to such treatment.
When the sheep goto pasture, a
place should be provided for the lambs
in which they can enter and get a lit
tle grain food. This helps them very
much and will add fully a fourth to
their growth during the summer.
Don't overload young horses. If
there is a heavy load to be hauled use
the older animals, remembering that
the bono and muscle are not properly
developed and set until after the
horse has attained his sixth year.
The head of the gander is somewhat
coarser than that of the goose and his
cry is harsher. There is no difference
in the form or plumage of the two
sexes, and, as u rule, the gander is
distinguished only by his pugnacity.
By hurdling and letting the stock
eat down a portion of the field at a
time, pasture can be made togo further
than by tho common method. This
plan can be followed with sheep and
hogs without very much extra labor.
When a mare refuses to dry or
caress her offspring a little flour or
meal sprinkled upon it will sometimes
attract her kindly to it, but should
thiß fail the foal must be dried by rub
bing with soft flannel and induce! to
take milk.
In raising turkeys this year remem
ber that the big ones are 110 longer iu
demand, and can only be sold at a re
duction Birds ranging from ten to
fifteeu pounds, at five months, are the
kind wanted. Twelve pounds is a
good weight and a popular size.
If you have not a sufficient number
of sows, or cows or mares to pay for
keepiug a thoroughbred male yourself,
get Home of your neighbors to join you
in the purchase of one. A joint owner
ship of this sort is better than to be all
the time paying out large service fees.
The meal of whole ears of corn is
quite as digestible as that of the
ground grain if it is tiucly ground and
fed with cut hay. About si* quarts a
day of this meal is sufficient for an or
dinary cow, but that may be increased
as the cow may be found to eat and
digest it usefully.
There is no farm so small but that
live stock of some sort could add to
the profit derived from it. If you
c.iu do uothing more, try a single
dairy cow as an experiment. Very
often on - cow well kept pays much
better than a half iloZeu indiffereutly
fed and cared for.
The stockman who feeds a ton if
brau to his work horse* will, if all his
manure, solid anil liquid, is saved,
have Bl'J 4"i worth of fertility m the
manure. If the sauie is fed to grow
ing stock ha will have about uinety
per cent, of the fertility, aud to a
dairy cow more thau seventy-five per
c.'llt
If you are growing clover for seed,
you can predispose the plant toward
seed production bv pasturing sheep
upon the field. 'I hey Will keep It
cropped close to the ground, aud if
Ihu is done thr 111411 the earlier part
of tiie seftsou, th< seed crop will be
heavier frotu tin later growth thau by
auy other Mel ho I of handling It.
\ll solla contain ell if u uli quanti
ties of plaul foil.l, eveli III" most lilt
ptodllUtlVe, and croj s require but lit
ll. Ill' la iwiii a lit »>>uie soils are *.<
barren is that in« e*< iiitiel elements,
often abundant in lb»m, are nut m
such form aa to *•« available Ity
thorough working of lb* so.I io a g< >4
>te|ilh the feituM I'SM do much to tut
pfwve ilia ;un<tili»n of lUinga.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
WATOINO AND fILBANTWa GLOVES.
The so-called washing gloves are an
excellen, choice for utility purposes
all summer, as they can be cleaned
once and again by washing them in
water that is more than warm, but not
scalding hot, rising a bit of pure white
soap in the process. It is best to wash
them upon the hands, as the chamois
is less likely to shrink in drying. Wash
and then rinse in clear water, and dry
by rubbing with a Turkish or other
soft, rough towel. For kid gloves of
light color, that nre but slightly
soiled, but not stained, there is no
better mode of freshening than to wind
a bit of oiled silk around the finger,
rubbing vigorously to remove nil
traces of the mar. Any woman who
tests this easy way of cleaning kid
gloves will be sure to keep thereafter
a strip of silk in her possession. A
quarter or even an eighth of a yard is
enough to purchase at once, as in
fancy dry goods houses, where it is
sold, it is kept moist in a large roll
and is thus very pliable. Moisten the
silk, however, when using. —New York
Evening Post.
APRONS.
Much may bo said of tho indispens
able article known as apron, viewing
it from the ornamental as well as use
ful point. The scope of the latter is
great, inoluding the honsokeeper,
nurse, waitress, dressmaker and the
olerk, the various styles of each being
unique and pretty.
The housekeeper's apron is generally
of lawn, nainsook or dimity, of two
thirds length and trimmed with a hem
four inches deep, surmounted by
tucks. Feather stitching may be
added either in tlax or cotton, or the
ready-made may be bought by the
pieco of twelve yards. The belt may
be feather stitohed. A square pocket
laid in a double box-plait on the right
side is indispensable, and may be
finished by a dainty little bow of the
same material.
For the nurse and waitress, the
aprons are usually of lawn or cambric,
and the plainer the better. Both aie
sufficiently full to almost meet at tho
back, and in length reach nearly to
the bottom of the skirt. Sometimes
embroidery is put between the tucks
that surmount the hem.
Striped and checked ginghams are
relegated to the kitchen. These are
made up in two breadths, simply
hemmed and with a belt and string of
tho goods. Those trimmed with a
bias band of the goods are a little
more ornamental. Aprons of this
sort are excellent for wear when sew
ing. The sewing apron proper has a
gored front and side pieces in one
piece style, the latter meeting at tha
back after forming a curve below the
waist line, and fastening with one
button. The waist or bib is fitted
with two darts and the gored side
seam, with two long tabs passing to
the back of the neck, where they but
ton. The large pocket is placed at a
convenient distance for the hands in
the outer front, ami stitched down the
middle to form two divisions.—Home
and Farm.
RECIPES.
Lobster Cutlets—Mince a pound of
lobster small (the canned may be
used), season with salt, white pepper,
two ounces of melted butter, two
beaten eggs and enough fine, sifted
breadcrumbs to make it cling togeth
er. Shape in the form of cutlets; dip
in crumbs, then in egg and again in
crumbs, and fry in hot drippings.
These are very palatable with green
peas or tomato sauce.
Chopped Omelet and Egg—Havo
your round steak chopped very fino
and freed from skin aud sinews; sea
son with salt, cayenne and minoed
parsley aud onion (a teaspoonful of
each of the two latter to a pound of
steak), add the beaten yolk of an egg,
and make iuto small flat cakes. Fry
in drippings uutil cooked through and
browned on both sides; pour over the
gravy, and crown each with a poached
eg*?-
Potato Omelet—Take a pint of cold
mashed potatoes aud heat over the
Are with two tablespoousful of sweet
cream, beating with a fork until
smooth aud light. Add four beaten
egg?, pepper, salt aud a little nutmeg,
ami press through a sieve ; beat one
tablespoonful of butter iu a saucepan
and cook half of this mixture like an
omelet. It is delightful with bacon
or ham cut iu thin rashers aud fried
crisp.
Spanish Ragout—Fry in butter a
minced Spanish onion or au equal
amount of white onions; add a green
pepper minced line without the seeds,
and sprinkle these over six large to
matoes that have been sliced aud fried.
Put a poached egg for each person on
top aud pour around a cream sauce,
made by adding cream or milk thick- i
eued with flour to the butter, iu the j
pan iu which the tomatoes were fried.
There is no uiore delightful hot-weath
er appetizer thau this.
Shrimp Salad—Shrimp salad is a j
useful aud pretty dish. Shell a suffi
cient quantity of freshly broiled
prawns, taking caro to preserve the
coral, which put aside for garnishing I
preseutly. Pile up the prawns in the j
ceutre of a dish, pour over them a j
thick mayouuaisM sauce iu which a ]
sheet of gelatine has been dissolved.
This causes it tu adhere better. Round
the base of the pyramid, arrange a |
ring of capers, next these a riug of
yolk of egg which has beeu rubbed
through a sieve, theu a riug of
chopped white of egg. Garnish with
■prays of chervil aud spriukle the top
of the pyramid with the coral.
Shrimp, lobster or remains of eold
■allium cau be utilued iu this way.
A Vrrjr Curious Discovery.
A colored boy made a very curion*
discovery a few da.vs ago outhe baulta
of a creek near Hay Uity, t'«nu. He
observed a larg.t frog carrying a piece
of paper iu its mouth dt»app»ar iu a
hole. The boy dug after him, aud
was surprised to tiud a circular uest
tilled with pi.p> r ItalU.
•UoUgh, each of these piece* of ptt|wr
was a UeVspaper clipping tu l uoti
ta>u»d poetry I'howi who understand
the habbil* of Itiu (roK say this is Sim
ply a coitietdeitcr V « lotk Mall
aud fcUprt'sa.
Ihe I'rtueeas ot V%elee has staffed
agaiu Ihu svbsililv ls*!it -u u| atal.uf
t«e bitttw« 4iw«« lei tmmmt- •
nSMBMEM
Dresses are sold by weight in Japan.
Belva Lookwood is sixty-three years
old.
Tiny pooketbooks are now the prop
er oaper.
Oirton (England) College girls have
a bioycle club.
Mrs. Kate Myrick has boon appoint
ed river observer at Girard, La.
There are 10,000 more womeu than
men in the District of Columbia.
Miss Laura Creighton has been re
appointad State Librarian in lowa.
The plain swivel silks in light tints
are used for lining diaphanous toilets.
Snowflake crepon has a very attrac
tive sound for a midsummer fabric, as
it is.
Miss Balfour, sister of the English
Conservative leader, is now traveling
in Africa.
In Victoria, women have been sub
stituted for men nt no fewer than 200
railway station.
The Chicago Woman's Club has ad
ded a woman suffrage section to its
other departments.
There are now 797 prisoners in the
Kansas State Prison, and of that num
ber fourteen are women.
Miss Willard and Lady Henry Som
erset are two celebrities in the Cat
skills, of New York, this season.
Many ladies find the ready-made
ruffles quite too expensive, and there
fore buy taffeta silk and make their
own.
A young lady named Johnson is
sixth wrangler in tho senior mathe
matical class at Cambridge University,
England.
Of the 1100 persons who patronized
a fortune-teller in Chicago during tho
progress of the World's Fair 920 were
women.
In England and Ireland women
writers number 600, while tho num
ber of men engaged in this kind of
work is 5111.
Royalties have, as a body, defeotive
eyesight. Princess Maud, of Wales,
is the only royal lady who wears a
single eyeglass.
Husband and wife as law partners
is something unknown in Groat Brit
ain. There are no less than twenty
one such firms in the United States.
The grandmother of the German
Kaiser was, in early life, a musician
of marked ability, and composed
many marches for the Prussian army.
The Association for the Advance
ment of Women will hold its next an
nual meeting in Atlanta, Ga., with the
supplementary congress at Tuskegee.
There is a demand for tho old fash
ioned taffeta ribbon of our foremoth
ers. It is made in three or four-inch
widths, and is used for skirt ruchings.
English papers say that Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward has made SBO,OOO from
"David Grieve," §BO,OOO from "Mar
cella," and $40,000 from "Robert
Elsmere."
One of the ways of telling whether
the temperature is rising it to watoh
a girl's front hair. When it begins
to lose its curl ancl grow straight it is
a sure sign of a change of temperature.
Very lovely are the open fronted
Parisian tea gowns in Diroctoire style,
made of flowered tafTeta or China silk, i
and worn over petticoats and blouse I
vests of white or yollow guipure lace.
Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore, !
Md., has founded a European fellow- I
ship scholarship, of a value of SSOO a j
year, and live graduate, scholarships,
worth S2OO a year, at Bryn Mawr '
College, Pennsylvania.
The most heavily insured woman in
the United States is the widow of Sen
ator Hearst, or California. The poli
cies on her life aggregate 8300,000.
Mrs. E. B. Crocker, of Eluiir.t, N. Y.,
probably couics next with $130,000.
Mrs. Henry Irving is au Irish
woman, whose maiden name, O'Calla
han, effectually proves it. She lives
very quietly in London with her two
sons on the ssoooayo:ir which her dis
tinguished actor-husbaud •allows her. !
An extreme stylo of the sailor bat
shows a brim of mottled brown and
white patent leather, and a white j
crown of the same shinv material.
This mode is a trifle too outre to com
mend itself to women of fastidious |
tastes.
Miss Herbert, daughter of Secretary
Herbert, has been selected by the
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association as
Vice-Regent for the State of Alabama,
which position was in i le vaoaut sever
al years ago by the death of her
mother. .
Mrs. Williau Waldorf Astor wore at
the recent drawing room in London
the historic diamond coronet comb, of
which she has lately beooiue possessed.
It is the one that Louis XIV. gave to
Mine, de Moutspau, aud our wealthy
eouutrywoiuau, it is said, paid £IOO,-
000 for it.
It is said there are '213.! women
writers iu Franco. When thi« was re
peated to the editor of a N'nw York
magazine he s.tid he thought Frauoo
was iu luck; that there were not loss
thau two millions in the United
States and he had the manuscripts ot
a million of them.
Chicago has Mtcceisfully established
• new idea for workiugwouteu. It i*
a lunching plane kuowu as "l'h*
Noonday Beat." They pt > t wnuty-five
cents a mouth for uteiutiership, may
bring their lunches with tlioiu, or buy
It at the rate of eleven cent's and have
the of library, lavatory,
reeepliou r >oui and plea*ant associa
tion be it Its l'h-re are already three
hundred members.
Mrs. Jaai<>* Miller, of tttatilou,
Mtuu., is a p» >sp<-roiis farmer au I
bustu«u woman, au I, in addition tu
taktug care of her faru, purchase*
poultry au I ship* it to mark-1 l>ur
llltf the last Sikiy days she liw shlppod
tu Ksdeit uitrk l< I '-' • HI |«niudi el
poultry, ant u i pail o*it l* tUe lar
intra over #«mi in e«eh tb«refor
Mrs. Miller has i»- u in t» tsiaesa for
herself tor Us U I All u /wars.
A M n liiafaii 1«»>4 pl.l » u IHHt .iter
ut« TIL his Ksl'l* "111 |WII(M are
w*t >. t «., !*| li t» i MvU w ktu t
hftU *« this ia*t-i-"
I The Best Things I
I to Eat |
Are made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER—
g bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, muffins, crusts, and the va-i &
rious pastries requiring a leavening or raising agent 1 Z
/ Risen with ROYAL BAKING POWDER, all these $
things are superlatively light, sweet, tender, delicious
and wholesome.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER is the greatest of g
time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it p
economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes &
the food more digestible and healthful. W
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
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Theory ol American Storms.
Professor Colbert explains the origin
of great storms that move across our \
country from the Rocky Mountains to
the Atlantic seaboord on this theory:
The moist air from the Pacific,
driven up the west slope of the Rock
ies by the rotation of the earth, ie
suddenly deprived of its moisture in
cooler altitude. This drying of th«
air causes a change in specific gravity,
and the disturbance produced at ouc«
results in a slight rotary current.
The revolving mass of air moves on
ward toward the east, its motion ami '
size constantly increased by the suck
ing in of warm south winds on its for
ward edge. These currents from the
south drop their moisture from con
tact with the colder revolving storm,
and the sudden lightening of the ail
by the dropping of its moisture works
like a stream on a mill wheel.
Thus the real cann» of our great
storms lie in the conditions met by
these traveling whirlwinds in theii
regular journey across the country.
If they are cold enough and meet witb
enough moist, hot air in their cotirst
they are set spinning with a velocity
that makes a cyclonic storm. —Chicago
Journal.
Men and Women With Horns.
Horny excrescences arising from tli<
human head have not only occurred
in this country, but have been fre
quently reported by English surgeons
as well as those from several parts of
continental Europe. In the Imperial
Museum at Vienna, the British Mu
seum at London and the Vatican col
lection at Rome there are tine single
specimens or whole collections of these
curiosities. In an English local his
tory (History of Cheshire) a woman is
mentioned who had been afflicted with
a tumor on her head for thirty-two
years. Finally it became greatly en
larged and two horns grew out of it
after she was past seventy years old.
These wonderful horns, which are
each within a fraction of eleven inches
long and nearly two inches across at
the base, are now in the famous Lons
dale collection in the British Museum.
In the annals of the French Academy
there is an account of one "Piotro le
Diblo," who had three fully developed
horns on his head; two as large as
those of a good-sized ram, one
behind each ear, and one straight one,
nine and a half inches long, growing!
from his forehead.—St. Louis Repub
lic.
BEECHAM'S PILLS
(Vegetable)
What They Are For
Biliousness indigestion sallow skin
dyspepsia bad taste in the iriouth pimples
sick headache foul breath torpid liver
bilious headache loss of appetite depression of spirits
when these conditions are caused by constipation : and con
stipation is the most frequent cause of all of them.
One of the most important things for everybody to
learn is that constipation causes more than half the sick
ness in the world; and it can all be prevented. Go by
the book.
Write to B. F. Allen Company, 365 Canal street. New
York, for the little book on CONSTIPATION- (its causes con
sequences and correction); sent free. If you an* not within
reach of a druggist, the pills will be sent by mail, 2 5 cents.
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Sources ol the Diamond Supply.
Until the early part of the eight
eenth century, the famous Golconda
and other mines of India furnished
the world's diamonds, but after that
time for a long period the mines of
Brazil became the great producers.
Both localities are now nearly ex
hausted. Since the discovery of dia
monds in South Africa in 1867, that
region has produced more diamonds
than the whole world during the two
centuries preceding, the total yield of
these mines being estimated at some
40,000,000 carats or about eight tons,
the aggregate value of the uncut
stones being more than 82i>0,000,000.
In single years the African yield has
exceeded 3,000,000 carats. Not more
than eight per cent, of this product it
is stated can be considered of the first
water; about twelve per cent, is of
thr second water and twenty -ftve per
cent, is of V,Y»c Vuhd water, while the
remainder is boart which is crusted
to powder and used for cutting hard
substances. This boart is distinct from
the uncrystalline carbonado which is
a cutting agent several times more
valuable as obtained from the Brazil
ian mines. Diamonds have been found
also in the Urals and in Australia
while a few small crystals have been
picked up in different parts of the
United States. A locality in New
South Wales is reported to have yield
ed 12,000 diamonds of which the
largest have been cut into gems,
weighing 3J- and three carats respec
tively.—Atlanta Constitution.
A ASSIST NATURE
®SL a little now and then,
with a gentle, cleans-
BgR Ing laxative, thereby
removing offending
matter from the stom
_ 112 ach and bowels, and
BbSM toning up and invigo-
JVg BBS rating the liver and
l&lactioi.. anl you there
yp Kjg|jH|hy remove the cause
we Wfcjigr o jf a multitude of dis
tressing diseases, such as headaches, indiges
tion, biliousness, skin diseases, boils, carbun
cles, piles, fistulas and maladies too numerous
to mention.
If people would pay more attention to
properly regulating the action of their bow
els, they would havo less frequent occasion
to call for their doctor's services to subdue
attacks of dangerous diseases.
That, of all known agents to accomplish
' this purpose. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pelleta
are unequalled, is proven by the that
once used, they are alwavs in favor. Their
secondary effect is to keep the bowels open
and regular, not to further constipate, as is
the case with other pills. Hence, their great
popularity with sufferers from habitual con
stipation, piles and indigestion.
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