Maryland's Melon Territory.
t Of the entire melon-prodneing ter
ritory Maryland heads the lilt. The
adaptability of the soil and the fact
tluit the art of geoponioa is un
derstood is attested by the myr
iads which are raised. When the ar
rivals begin to pour in freely, Light
street wharf is a packed mass of
green. Tho balk of the consignments
are received at the foot of Light
street. Thoy are brought on sloops,
schooners, pungies and bngeyes.
Wagon trains from Anne Arundel
County are constantly coming in with
large quantities. The boats, as a rule,
make two trips a week. The con
sumption hero is enormous. Prioes,
as a rifle, range from S4O to $5 per
100 in_ a wholesale way, according to
condition, these figures representing
the extreme highest and lowest during
the season. —Baltimore News.
THANK THE LOT ELLS!
To Tliem More Than to Othera Is Due (ho
Fair Play Accorded to Wheelmen.
From tho beginning of cycling in this
country tho makers have been its strongest
bulwarks, and to them is duo the orodit for the
proud position riders of tho blcyole hold. To
tho members of tho trado, therefore, we owe
much, as it was thoir pluck and their money
that iiave made for us our position.
COT.. BESJ. S. LOVELI*
Among tho men who early felt tho benefits
of cycling, and did not hesitate to expend
money, is Colonel Bon. 8. Lovoll, of Boston,
Treasurer of tho John P. Lovoll Arms Com
pany, of that city. Thoir Arm namo has
been a familiar one for over II fly years, hav
ing been established in 1840. doing a sport
ing goods and gun business. Belnir in a
kindred trade, it was but natural that thoy
should engage in the making and selling of
bloycles. Their success has been unbounded,
as they have made a name for the Lovell
Diamond Cycles that is a familiar house
hold one in every hamlet in tho land. It is
not possible to have dono that without cost,
and a considerable one, too, as readers of
current literature will admit, for have not
all of us encountered the symbolic words
"Lovell Diamonds?" To ostimate the gross
amount that has been expended for advertis
ing would boadiillcult task, but it is said that
considerably over *IOI.OOO was spent by
them during 1894. All tho big Eastern dailies
had entire pages, which cost lots of money,
and the magazines filled many pages exploit
ing Lovell Diamond Cycles.
Can it be wondered at, then, that cycling
has become popular, when men like Colonel
Lovell spend Such sitlns to make it so?
Colonel Lovell is Treasurer of the John I'.
Lovell Arms Company, and is a man of r.iro
business attainments, acquired by long ex
feriene'e and an aptitude possessed by fow.
n private life bo has won the respoct and es
teem of every one ho has been brought in
contact with, while his public record is
equally good, on live different occasions rep
resenting his town in the Legislature, sorvlng
in both branches, lie sorvod on the staff of
Governor Long for three consecutive years,
and Is now a member of Governor Qreenhalge s
staff. lie lias been a delegate to four Nutional
conventions, and there is not an office in tho
gift of his townsmen which would not bo at
his disposal were it not for his great business
responsibilities. Thoro Is no man In tho
bleyclo business more respected than Colonel
Benj. 8. Lovell, and no better bicycle is made
in the world than the Lovoll Diamond.
Miss Jessie Ciray, a young Scotch woman,
has boon appointed sanitary yjspeetor of
women's workshops in Islington, London.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- li oot cures
nil Kidney and Bladder troubles,
Pamphlet and Consultation froo.
Laboratory Bingliatnton. N. Y.
Japanese workmen wear on thoir backs an
inscription describing their businoss.
Tobacco Stinking Breath.
Not pleasant to always carry around, but
it don't compare with the nerve-destroying
powor that tobacco keeps at work night and
day to make you weak and impotent. Dull
eyes, loss of interest in sweet words and
looks tell tho story. Brace up—quit. No
To-Bae is a sure quick cure. Guaranteed
by Druggistseverywliere. Book, titled"Don't
Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away,'
free. Ad. Sterling Iteinedy Co., New York
City or Chicago.
Tlie I.adieu.
The pleasant effect and perfect safety with
which ladies may use tho California liquid lax
ative, Syrup of Figs, under all condition!
makes it thoir favorite remedy. To got tho
truoand genuino article, loo'-i for the name of
tho California Fig Syrup Co., printed near tha
bottom of the package.
You Think It In Soitirtlilng Else.
The "why" of the bad feeling H what puz- :
zles you. It is easy to imagine so many onuses,
when the re:il one is Indigestion. You think
it's something else. Tho cure is Klpain Tab
ule->. A Magic tabu'.o gives relief. Ask ihe '
druggist.
E. A. Rood, Toledo, Oliio, says : " Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure curod my wife of catarrh fifteen
years ago and she has had no return of it. It'.-
a sure cure." Sol Iby Druggists, 7c.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childrer
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamina
Hon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26c. a bottl'
I believe I'lso's Cure for Consumption Baved
my boy's life last summer.—.Mrs. Ai.MB Douu
lass, Leltoy, Mich., Oct. 1894.
If afflicted with soreeyts me Or. IsaacThomi»
son's Eye-water. Uru^uistssellataSoperbottlo
Always Tired
Describes a dangerous condition, because it
means that tho vitality is becoming exhaust
ed by roifon of impoverished blool. Give
new life to tho vital fluid and the nerves and
muscles will grow stronger. Hood's Sarsa
parillu gives strength, because it mukes
pure, rich blood, llemembiv
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is tho only truo blood purifier prominently
in the public eyo today. $1; six for $5.
Unnrl'e Dalle the itfter-dinnpr i 111 and
nUUU b r*Jllo family cathartic. *5 .
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TRANSPLANTING.
It is best not to be in too great a
Lurry to transplant fxom the hotbed
or cold frame into the open ground.
Take your time abont it; harden- off
the plants well first by exposing them
for a short time naeb day to the air
and sunlight, gradually prolonging the
period until they will be able to en
duro the change without experiencing
a setback. The soil will then have be
come warmed and the danger of frost
will be past.—New York World.
PIG RAISING.
Fig raising is the natural comple
ment of dairying, as by its means all
refuse milk is utilized to produce
meat of the best quality. Dairy fed
pork is far superior to pork fed on
any other kind of feed. It is au
article of moro valu-3 in the world's
market when converted into bacon.
Skim milk, fed in conjunction with
wheat middlings and a little oil meal
will produce twice the amount of lean
pork to be obtained from cornmeal
and water, independent of the better
health and larger growth obtained by
keeping the digestion of the pigs in
good working order.
rOUIiTRI FOR HOME CSE.
There is not a great deal of differ
ence in tho price of meats, and poul
try, which is easily digested, ought to
be more on farmers' tables than it is.
The staple meat product used on the
farm is pork. That is always hard to
digest, and if more of the vital energy
expended in digesting pork were used
in pushing farm work and planning
better methods farming would pay
better thsn it does. The poultry yard
should not be regarded as only a
means to make more money. If it
helps to make farm life more attrac
tive it will be uo less profitable than
if it added directly to the bank ac
count. —Boston Cultivator.
TIIE SILENT SUBSOILER.
There ore some silent subsoilers'that
(to their work with ease, and, in thoir
way, as effectually as any team or
plow ever hitched, though on some
laiulx the use of a subsoil plow is es
sential to the best beginning of such
work. The clover plant is rightly
famed as ono of these, and alfalfa is
its superior. Its roots work Sunday as
well as Saturday ; night and day ; they
strike five, ten, fifteen or twenty feet
deep, mnking innumerable perfora
tions, whilo storing up nitrogen, and
when these roots decay they leave not
only a generous crop, but millions of
openings into which the air and rains
of heaven find their way, and help to
constitute an unfailing reservoir of
wealth, upon which the husbandman
can draw with little fear of protest or
overdraft.—New England Homestead,
THE LAND IS "SICK OF CORN."
Sandy loam soil, hoavily dressed
with manure from milking cows,
yielded increasing crops of ensilage
corn for seven years, but tho yield has
fallen off steadily the past three sea
sons and tho corn is more liable to
smut, is tho complaint of a Massa
chusetts dairyman. This land is sick
of corn and needs a change. Tho smut
gorms havo gono into the manure and
back to the soil yearly until the earth
is charged with them and the smut
thrives if weathor pormits. Tho man
ure probably supplied as much nitro
gen, potash and phosphoric acid as a
good crop would require, but the soil
has evidently got in such a condition
that the com can't avail itself freely
of this food. Sow to grass or grain,
or putin potatoes and vegetables, ap
plying only a good dose of unloached
wood ashes, ami in '96 or better in '97
it will probably bo as good as ovor for
core.—American Agriculturist.
A YOUNG CALF THAT WILL NOT DRINK.
Calves appear stupid and willful
sometimes, but ia tho majority of
oases it is the person who is trying to
feed them that Ehould be blamed for
the same failing. The young things
are led by instinot to suck tho cow
and to hold up the hoad for this pur
pose, and tc tench them the reverse
calls for patience and kiudness.
Doubtless some are more stubborn
than others, but tho right way will bo
successful with tho worst of them in a
short time. If tho calf does not un
derstand its business at fiT6t, tho milk
should be poured into its mouth by
tho scooped hand until it finds it is
getting its food, then by gently press
ing its head down to the milk in tho
pail, raised for the purpose as high as
may be, aud putting the two forefin
gors, spread a little apart, into its
mouth, the cilf will soon begin to
drink, if it does not, tho best way is
not to try to force it, or beat it, but
to leave it until it is hungry, when it
will very qaiakly find a way to gtt tho
milk. Mmy times p. calf a duy or less
old will drinl-. at the first attempt,
when its head is gently pressed down
to the milk, fresh and warm from the
cow. It. is woitti while to take this
trouble, for when it is once over, a lot
of unpleasant work it avoided in the
future.—American Farmer.
THtf DTViSION FENCE.
The division fence between adjoin
ing farms is too often a source of dis
pute ai»d ill feeling. liecently a farm
er, disputing over the dividing fence
with a neighbor wui led by aggrava
tion to commit murder by shooting
his of pi -jout. OfV'.urse, this in not
to bo taken as un example of tho dif
ficulty, or its natural results goner
ally, but it is n frequent rource of
disputes cut l «nn>ity between neigh
bors *lio '.honl.l bi friendf.
'l'he Connecticut Legislature has
made an effort to avoid difficulties of
this k'nii by citJclfng a law to the ef
j'eut that, in ai--h disputes, tho party
who suppose" h.m>-elf to be aggrieved
may tall on tho Selectmen (any other
ofhser iaigb'. do where this particular
kind do not txi. t) to investigate tho
Ktd to order tho one in fault
to make the foj.ee good, under certain
msomible peiinliijs. This may do,
bat it would be better than to invoke
the law for the one who feels himself
to be aggrieved to ask permission of
his neighbor to fix the fence himself, a
much less expensive way of settlement
than to refer to any legal proceedings.
This way of settling disputes aosords
with one of the golden rales —if thine
enemy smite thee on one cheek, tarn
to him the other also. It may be a
hard thing to do, but it is only resist
ing the devil, whioh, to some extent,
still abides in human nature. There
never has been a resort to the law by
neighbors but it has been a costly and
exasperating blunder.—New York
Times.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
See that the fowls are provided
with shade.
Turkeys should be carefully watched
and kept in very dry, sunny coops.
Don't trust the hired man or boy
to look after the chickens. They will
neglect them. If you want the poultry
attended to properly, do it yourself.
Only a careful account will tell how
maDy groceries the egg supply pur
chases on the farm. Keep an aocoant
for a while, and then the hens will be
more appreciated.
Do not let the chioks roost on small
roosts while they are young. If they
roost before their breasts become firm
and hardened they will be sure to
have crooked breast bones.
It is a good sign to see so many
women interested in raising poultry.
They arc generally more successful
than the men, because they are more
careful and thorough in feeding and
making the flocks comfortable.
Each month brings its special work
in poultry raising, samo as other
crops on the farm. The work of the
present month is supplementary to
the coming one. Success hiuges on
getting tho flock in readiness for the
season to come.
Experience is a great school in
poultry raising, and the mistakes are
guide posts to keep every ono in lino.
Got all the experience yon can and
avoid making the same mistake twice,
and then you will be on the road to a
profitable success.
Tho success of many a man in the
poultry business, both commercially
and from a fancier's standpoint in
show records, is duo to women, who
get no credit. They hnvo been the
power behind the throne many a time
when inen havo received the honors.
Nothing is more delicate than a
young turkey and more ready to give
up its life, so that if you attompt to
raise them make up your mind to
properly attend to them. The Bronze
are the best,though the White Holland
are considered excellent, and pretty
fowls to havo about.
The question of when a hen lays
daily has been often discussed. Some
lay in tho forenoon and others as late
as 3 p. m. I think, as a rule, you
will find more lay between 10 and 1
o'clook than later hours of tho day.
A close observer of his flock will notico
more closely tho habits of his favorite
layers and in this way answer the
question to his own satisfaction.
Bread that is stale is cxoellent if
soalded with hot water, mixing it with
middlings and chopped feed, in the
morning. It can be bought at any
bakery, at fifty cents per barrel, and
is good for young chicks as well as old
fowls when not fed too much and only
as a mixture with other soft feeds.
Some crumble it up aud throw it on
the floor; this is all right in moderate
quantities. What poultry require to
do well is variety of food and moder
ation in kinds of grain or mesa that
you give to them.
A Curiosity in Canes.
E. R. Waito has recently become
the owner of a cane that is a gem in
its way, and a veritable curiosity. It
is made from the stock of a young
orango tree, and tho portion of the
root which forms tho handlo is carved
to represent a shoe, and so perfect is
it in every detail that one's first im
pression is that a miniature piece of
footgear ha 3 been slipped over the
head of the cane.
On a closer inspection, howover, it
is seen that the whole thing is made
from a single pieco of wood, and so
carefully has every line been drawn,
and the parts of tho shoe stained to
represent tho real article, that tho de
ception is almost perfect.
The heel is worn off at a corner, a
heavy patch is pegged over one side of
tho sole, while two "invisible" patches
decorate the sides of the shoe, where
it would naturally be worn. Even
the eyelets are perfect, while the
tongue looks wrinkled euough to have
seen service for at least six months.
Tho shoe shines like a piece of patent
leather, while tho inside and the soles
look to havo stolen their tints from
tho real material. All in all it is a
very ingeniously wrought piece of
work. Mr. Waito does not know by
whom the oauo was made, it having
passed through several bauds before
it became his property. —San Bernard
iuoJCal.) Sun.
Auimals That Commit Suicide.
Intelligent observers havo testified
to facts whioh appear to show that in
certain cirouiastances the snake,
scorpion, and oven somo quadrupeds,
commit suicide. M. Henry, a clock
manufacturer of Londguyon, Franoe,
has recently desoribed an experiment
of the kind which he made with a wasp.
The wasp was imprisoned under a
glass, and, knowing that benzine as
phyxiates insoots, he put some paper
eoaked in it beside the captive. The
wasp became unoomfortible, then an
grily attacked tho paper, bnt, finding
all its efforts unavailing, it finally lay
down on its back, aud, folding up its
abdomen, plantoit its sting thrioe into
its body. M. Henry was so ourions.
to contirm tho fact that, in spite of
liis humane feelings, ho repeated the
experiment on three wasps with the
like result.—London Globe.
[ HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS*
800 9HUU CLEAN BORW
Powdered egg shells are recom
mended for cleaning water bottle* and
removing the lime that gather* on the
inside. Mix the sheila with a little of
the white of the egg with strong soap
suds and shake thoroughly. Rinse in
clear water, and if possible dry the in
side with a linen oloth. Fine shot mixed
with the shells and water will some
times be necessary in order to reaoh
every spot on the inside of the bottle.
—New York Post
TO HOLD SCRAPS.
A scrap bag is an aotual necessity
in every room, but not at all an addi
tion to its furniture. Yet. one must
have some plase in which to deposit
spent matches, bits of paper, etc.,
near at hand. A large waste-paper
basket may have have a yard of silk
set inside the top, which is gathered
up with a shoestring. Or a large rase,
that is never used for flowers, and
that stands too high for the inside to
show, may be thus utilized.—St.
Louis Star-Sayings.
TO BEMOVE STAINS.
To Remove Stains From Marble-
Mix well together an equal quantity
of lemon juioe and oil of vitriol; wet
the stains with the mixture, and after
a few minutes rub with a soft oloth.
.Be careful not to let the vitriol come
in contact with any article of your
dress, or it will burn it.
To Bleach Ivory—Wash in water,
thoroughly rinse and dry, then rub
peroxide of hydrogen over the article,
and stand in the dry.
To Remove Grease from Boards or
Kitchen Furniture—Buy some fullers'
earth; you can get a good deal for a
penny; make a paste of it with cold
water, spread it thickly on the grease
spots. Wash off after a few hours,
and repeat il any grease remains.
] Washing oiloloth with soap and soda
and leaving the surface wet is ruinous
to it.
Another simple and useful mode is
to rub the oilcloth with a rag dipped
in paraffin.—Now York Dispatch.
RUST ON COTTON AND LINEN.
To remove iron mould or rust from
auy white cotton, linen or vegetable
fibre, the following process is the
best, and it does not injure the fabric:
The spots are stretched over an
earthen pinto and moistened; salts of
lemon ' are then strewed over the
marks, and rubbed in with a bone or
wooden spatula 'until the stain is re
moved, afterward thoroughly rinsing
in warm water to remove the acid.
Nearly all stains and dyes will be dis
charged by oxalic acid, therefore care
ful usage is necessary. Salts of lemon,
salts or sorrel, oxalic acid, etc., are
very dangerous poisons, and should
be used with duo caution. Mildew is
removed by first brushing off any
loose mildew; thon a little common
salt should be rubbed in, afterward
liberally sprinkling with powdered
chalk, and thoroughly moistening
with clean cold water. After this the
articles should be Blowly dried in tho
open air, and then rinsed; and if tho
marks are not removed, the treatment
should be repeated, possibly several
times, bnt m the end tho mildew will
be removed.—New York Telograin.
RECIPES.
Turkish Pilaf—Boil one cup of rice,
drain, add tomatoes left from the
soup, three-quarters of a can. Add
salt, a pinch of cayenne, onion mincod
fine—Bermuda preferred. Cook twen
ty minutes.
Cheese Pudding—Ono pound of
grated cheese, four eggs well beaten,
four tablespoonfuls of cream, four
ounces of butter melted. Beat all to
gether, put into a butter dish and
bake fifteen minutes. Turn out and
serve.
Broiled Sardines on Toast—Select
fine, firm sardines; arrange them in a
double broiler and broil for two min
utes on each side over a very brisk
tire. Place on fresh toast, pour ovor
a little maitre d'hotel sauce, garnish
with lemon and parsloy.
Lettuce Salad—One hard-boiled egg,
half a cup of viuegar, salt and pepper.
Chop the lettuce the last thing be
fore dinner. Chop the white and
yolk of egg separately. Mix tho let
tuce, viuegar, salt, pepper and white
of egg together and sprinkle the yolk
over the top.
Breakfast Rolls—Small, light Vienna
rolls may be procured at the baker's.
Dip them quickly in water, place
them in a pau so that they do not
touch ono another. Put the pan in a
hot oven for a few moments and they
will come out light and fresh, as
though just made. ,
Chicken-Tomato Soup—Clean and
cut up the chicken, place onto cook
in a deep kettlo with a gallon of
water. Stew slowly till the meat will
readily separate from the bones. Take
out the chicken and put away to cool.
To the stock add a third of a can of
tomatoes, an onion sliced tine, pepper
and salt; thickeuwith a tablespoonful
of cornstarch mixed with a little cold
water; let it boil slowly an hour and
a half.
Spanish Cream—Ono quarter of a
box of gelatine, one-quarter of a cup
of oold water, the yolks of four eggs,
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half
a ealtspoonful of salt, one pint of milk,
the whites of three eggs, one teaspoon
ful of vanilla. Soak the gelatine in
cold water until soft, then dissolve it
in boiling water. Make a custard
with the yolks of the eggs beaten and
mixed with the sugar and salt. Pour
on the hot milk and oook in the dou
ble boiler until it thickens. Add the
strained gelatine, water, vanilla and
tho whites of the eggs beaten stiff.
Mix all well aud turn into molds wet
in cold water. Place in ice chest.
When hard serve.
Tho Cocoanut Pearls.
Among the curiosities of tropioal
plant life are the pearls found occa
sionally in the oocoanut palm of the
Philippine Islands pearls which,
like those of the ooean, are composed
of oaronate of lime. The bamboo,
too, yields another preoious product
in the shape of true opals, which are
found in its joints. In eaoh case this
mineral matter is, of course, obtained
from the soil. The natives of the
Celebes nse these vegetable opals as
amulets and charms against disease.
New York Dispatch.
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Another victim from tight laeing is
reported from Liverpool.
The Qneen of the Belgians keeps a
stud of 150 thoroughbred horses.
There nre 8,586,000 grown women
in France, while Austria has 9,680,-
000.
A lady athlete is preparing to make
an attempt to swim across the English
Channel.
Queen Victoria's continental trip
last spring only cost 952,000, as against
$70,000 last year.
Bine serge suits are made with box
plaited bodices, the plaits edged with
detachable needlework frills.
Lady Wilde is said to be dying of a
broken heart, and her friends say that
she see will never see her son again.
Senator Brice's daughters, are plan
ning a tour through France mounted
on bicycles and provided with kodaks.
The best bicyclo shoo for women is
a broad-soled, low-heoled affair having
a seam along the middle of the front.
A woman's column writer advises
the girls to pick ont a husband by the
condition of his linen and his finger
nails.
Rev. Anna Shaw, of Boston, is out
with a declaration in favor of the ap
pointment of women as Polios Com
missioners.
The Woman's Club as an organ of
womanhood, nonpartisan, nonpoli
tical, nonproscriptive in civil affairs,
is a Chicago idea.
W. C. Stivers, of Lancaster, Ky., is
sning Miss Catherine West, a hand
some school teacher, for SSOO for
breach of promiso.
Lady Mary Wortly Montague was
large and masculine, both in appear
ance and demeanor. She could not
be termed a beauty.
Mrs. Nancy Rider, of Albion, Mo.,
recently calcbrated nor ninety-fifth
birthday by spining two knots of
yarn and piocing some patchwork.
It is estimated that of the total sum
raised for tho support of the Protest
ant churches of this country over one
third is now procured by the efforts
or labors of women.
Miss Myra Reynolds and Miss W. C.
France received tho degree of Ph. D.
at the commencement of Chicago Uni
versity. They are the first ladies to
take tho dcgrcee there.
Miss Mary Cary Thomas was nomi
nated for one of the alumnae trus
tees of Cornell University. She is the
first woman to be so honored in any
of tho great universities.
Dr. Mary Harris Thompson, who
died suddenly in Chicago a few days
since, was a surgeon of remarkable
ability, and was the founder of the
Chicago hospital for women and chil
dren.
A Brooklyn woman fell out of a
fourth-story window the other day.
She was not much hurt, and her first
.question when she rocovered her
breath was whether her bonnot was
on straight.
Mrs. Harlan is said to be almost as
large physically as her husband, the
Supreme Court Justice, who is six
feet two inches tall, and whentogother
in public they naturally attraot a
great deal of attention.
Miss Nellie Temple, who graduated
at Vassar in 1892, has been engaged
by the University of Leipsig to assist
Dr. Raize!, its American professor of
history, in tho preparation of a his
tory of tho United States.
A memorial to the late Christin a
Rossett is to be sot up in Christ
Church, Woburn Square, London,
which she attended for nearly twenty
years. Tho form of the memorial has
not been determined on.
Mrs. Sarah Stephan, an aged widow,
of Kingston, N. Y., has fallen heir to
by tho death of her brother
Michael Haven, in England. He ran
away from home at the ago of sixteen,
wont to Australia and amassed this im
mense fortune.
Girls omployed in the crepe manu
facture aro under a curious contraot
not to engago in auy housework after
their hourß of labor. The reason is
least their hands become coarso and
unfitted for tho deliogte nature of
their employment.
Julia Ward Howa thinks the woman's
club is tho distinctive feature of con
temporary intellectual development.
She says: "Onco it was tho oooentric
woman who belonged to a club, now
it is the eccontric woman who does
not belong to a club."
Frau Marie Harder, a Danish lady,
has published a volume called "Yule
Star-" In this thero is nothing won
derful, but the publication becomes
somewhat interesting when one hears
that it is her debut, and that Fru
Harder is seventy years old.
Mme. Rowstowskn, of Lille, Franee,
is 112 yeurs old. She served as the
cantiniero of a Polish rogiment dur
ing the Russiau campaign, was twelve
times under fire, reoeived three
wounds aud was deoorated with the
silver cross. She has survived her fif
teen ohildren.
General Spinner, when Treasurer of
the United States, was the first to
nomiuato women to positions in a
Government Department. He ap
pointed seven women to olerkships iu
1862. It is proposed to ereet a monu
ment to him with the contributions of
the women clerks in the departments
at Washington.
On her way back from Cape Martin
to Farnborough the ex-Empress
Eugene, of France, stayed for a time
in Paris and drove through the Tul
leries Gardens. No one recognized
the pale-faced lady dressing in mourn
ing as she drove by the site of what
was once the royal abode where she
entertained nearly overy sovereign in
Europe.
Miss Francis Willard's example in
learning to ride the bieyole bids fair
'to be imitated by many other women
of mature years. The Rev. Phoebe A.
'Hanaford, of New York, who has left
pier first youth some distance behind
pier, is practicing with the wheel, and
iMme. Hanna Korany, of Syria, has
become so far infected with Occiden
tal ideas that she, too, is taking bi
cycle lessons.
A DUeaie That la Ualaiay Groan d.
One terrible form of brain dlaeaae,
with mental »ymptom«, ia certainly
increasing, write* Dr. O. 8. Cloaaton,
of the Moringside Asylum. That
malady may be described as a break
down of the great oentre of mind and
motion in the brain; it always goes
on from bad to worse till it renders its
viotim utterly helpless in mind and
body, and kills him in a few years.
No cure, and scaroely any mitigation
of this later-day curse, has yet been
devised. It is a disease of cities, of
restless lives, of aotive brains in their
primes; sometimes of dissipation, of
life at high pressure commonly.
Daring the past year the asylums of
Scotland received 150 new oases;
those of England 1400, and those in
Ireland fifty-two. The asylum sta
tistics of this country show an even
greater number.
In a single asylum of New York
State, for example, that at Ogdens
burg, there were among the 659 ad
missions thirty-one cases of general
paresis. This would make the pro
portion of general paresis over four
per cent.
Among seven State asylums, to
which 1942 patients were admitted in
1890, there were sixty-six oases of
general paresis, or a little over three
per cent. If four per cent be the
general ratio for this disease in the
State of New York, then the total
number of paretics among the 16,000
insane would bo about 640. As a
matter of fact the number is much
greater, because the proportion of
this diseaso is largor in the New York
and Kings County Asylums than in
those of the State at large. But even
if there were but 4000 cases of general
paresis among the 100,000 insane of
this country, it would bo an extraor
dinary evidence of the development
of the disease which in the last cen
tury was certainly not known, ovon if
it did exist.
Tho South Park Commissioners of
Chicago have decided not to removo
the row of trees along Grand boule
vard to make room for a bridle path
until tho growth of the other trees
along the grass plot requiroa their re
moval. This docision is a viotory for
the citizens of tho district against
equestrians.
A parrot only costs ten cents in
some pprts of South America.
Absolutely pure
Old Heads in Urcat Britain.
The great age of ninety-seven at
tained by Sir James Bacon reminds us
that in the present century two Lord
Chancellors of England, Lords Lynd
hurst null Brougham, and ono Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Plunkett,
have been nonagenarians. Lord Lynd
hurst attained his ninety-third year,
and Lords Brougham and Plnnket
were ninety.
A Lord Chief Justico of Ireland,
the late Hon. Thomas Lcfoy, who
died in 1869, aged ninety-three, pro
sided in the Queen's Bonch in Ireland
in 18GG, when ho was over ninety
years of ago. It is somewhat remark
able that the late Sir Jaraos Bacon
was raised to the judicial Dench in the
same year (1870) as Dr. Durnford, the
nonagenarian Bishop of Chichester,
who was born in 1802, WBS raised to
the Episcopal bonch.—Westminster
Gazette.
An Untortunato Similarity.
Harry Hipwel), a bellboy in a St.
Louis hotel, has had tronblo through
the fellow that looked like hiin. The
other fellow was named Powers. He
is so mueh like liipwell, even to a bad
tooth in his mouth, that the two were
often mistaken for each other while
they were both employed in the same
place. Powers went to Chicago,
where he took Hipwell's name, and
got employment in a hotel. Pretty
soon a guest was robbed, and Poweis
disappeared. The smart Chicago do
teotives learned that "Hipwell" was
in St. Louis, and they gathered him
in and took him to Chicago, where he
was put to no little trouble in pioving
that he was not the person wanted.—
New Orleans Picayune.
One Snake Kills the Other.
The oft-told tale that the bite of ono
snake doos not inconvenience another
snake may now be] relegated where it
belongs. At the aquarium in Berlin,
Germany—perhaps the most wonder
ful collection of live reptiles, fishes
and saurians in the world—a splendid
specimen of American rattle-snake was
bitten last week by an Australian sis
ter—or brother; I don't know which.
The result was the sudden death of
the rattler. —Chicago Record.
f>N THE ROAD
.to recovery, the
young woman
who is taking
Doctor Pierce's
Pavorite Pre
scription. In
maidenhood, wo
manhood. wife
hood ana moth
erhood the " Pre
scription " is a
supporting tonic
ana nervine
that's peculiarly
adapted to her
needs, regulat
ing, and strength
/ ufj enlng the systeni
112 I and curing the
derangements of the sex. Why is it so
many women owe their beauty to Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because
beauty of form and nee radiate from the
common center —health. The best bodily
condition results from good food, fresh air
and exercise coupled with the judicious
use of the "Prescription."
It reaches the origin of the trouble and
corrects it
"I Fair Fact lay Pma a Fanl Bargain." Barry a
Plata tlrl H Ska Uaaa
SAPOLIO
Throat Paralysis.
(#Vom the Courier- Her all, Saginaw, Mich.)
It watt publioly talked nil over Clara
County, Michigan, tor some time iiefore tho
Courier-Herald sent a repoiter to Dover te
fully investigate tho Coulter matter. Ho
Anally went, an<l wo publish to-day his full
report. Tho Coulters aro prominent poople,
though Mr*. C. iu response to tho question
whethor she objected to being interviewed,
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'•About It years ago we decided to tako
up our abode in Dover and everything went
along smoothly for several yearn, business
progressed, and being of a .saving tempera
ment we accumulated quite an amount. Our
family increase i.as tho years rolled by and
we now have 5 children living, tho oldest 15,
youngest 3, but sickness made its way into
our household, and doctors' bills floode 1
upon us, until wo have nothing left but our
home and these sweet children. Everything
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"About three yoars ago I had a miserable
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my head and eyes, sometimes for days I
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lifeless as it were, my nose was drawn to one
side, and I presented a pitiable appearance
and nevor expecting to regain my natural
facial expressions. I employodthe best phy
sicians that could be procured, expending
thousands of dollars for their services, but
could not obtain relief. At last, they stated my
case was beyond the roach of medical skill,
and It would bo but a short time until thoend
would come. This certainly was not very
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hope. In connection with receiving the at
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medicine known to the apothecary but nevor
received any relief until Dr. Williams' Pink
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