THE QUESTION. When on hi bo 1 ho qnlst Ue, w"tih pulsdcM hvirt nn 1 "tk'litloM Ills ktn-1rnl nsk, with anxious mlrnl, 'What tronsures hn hn loft behind?" Hut nmjli-d opon ffl lo the book, Anil for the don 1 man's rewsrd look An I ixnt, n now thy sonn It o'er, "What treasures tins ho sent heforo?" Ooorgo lilrdseye. PRAYING FOR WEALTH. m edmcnd s. itocne. T was nfter sunset buforo Calkins succeeded in re capturing tho two experienced old burros, who, do siring a break in their laborious journey toward ihn desert, had withdrawn dur ing tho night, and found rent ful seclusion in tlio dense pin-oak brush on a neigh boring bill-side. Thus it cntiio about Hint the ruddy light of Cnlkius's camp- fire again nttrnct cil us. The ciiii- afi- vernation toox a wide range nt first, but approached afo run when nuo of our party, tlio old lady with black mitts, referred to tlu generally r!Tiiiiinrf drought. She mentioned, iu this connection, a recent newspaper report of a church meeting in aoniu nrid section of tho Northwest, where general prayers for ruin wero offered with (inch itumodiuto effect that tho congregation, who were un provided with umbrellas, wero drenched on their way home. "Purely a coincidence," II ippnnt ly suggested Mautou, a recent importa tion from tho effete Kust. "I regard it an a most striking illus tration of tho eflieacy of nil sincere and earnest prayer," reprovingly ro marked thn old lady with thn mitts. "What do you sny, Mr. Calkins?" inquired Mituton, unabashed. "I'm buro you'll agree with me!" Our host stirred np the fire before expressing himself. "You're dead riant, ma'am !" ho at length replied, ignoring Manton. "There's nothiu' prayer won't do, if you're iu earnest nud pray hard enough, and don't pray for too much nor too little, mi l stop right thero. lint you cau handicap a good, strong, williu' prayer, Fame as you can anything else, and then it's bound to balk ami make trouble." "I fear I do not quito grasp your meaning, Mr. Calkins," said the old lady with tho mitts, laying down hor knitting and regarding Calkins with a look of puzzled inquiry. but I haA in mind a queer experience of my own in tho earnest prayer liue, some years ago, 'way up north iu Trinity, which'll illustrate my mean in' better'n any explanation I cau give.' Calkins settled himself aruiu out of the lino of the sparks and smoke, which his late attention to tho lire hud provoked, aud began : "It was in the winter of '7", nn 1 1 was earryiu' mail from Gorman'.-: over to tho llrowa Dear and llonudout camps and made tho round trip once a week on snow-shoes. When I was at (ionium's, which was four days in the week, I stopped with a Frenchman named Pirot, who worked a drift claim ou tho river. We bunked in a hake ealiiu, back of tho hotel corral, and got along mi ldiin' well for the lir-t month wo was together. Kviuin's We'd generally turn up at the hotel, nud aiter sittin' by tlio lire with the reft iu the saloon for a while, we'd tiually drop luto old man (ionium's private parlor uud lii-tcn to Kitty Gor man pinvin' (in the parlor organ. I always Hu d music, but 1 hadn't no faculty at produein' it, so I'd just sit and listen whilu Kitty'dplny ana l'irot, who had a big, throaty voice, would Uow and then biug to Kitty's uccom puillliieut. "This was all well enough at first, but, after two or three weeks, I found it dull and uui'iterestiu', just siltiu' there by myself ou tho eo!::, slippery, black hair-cloth sola, with never a word nor a chance for oui with Kilty, who seemed ail look up with l'irot and tho music, nud oiily's speak to me when she wautj.l another idlel; on tho I'.re. Then, alter a whih', 1 Mopped foiu' into the parlor, and would sit in the saloon till hcd-timc, leelin' mad nil through to hear l'irot siiigiu' uud Kitty plavm' uway for dear life to l.epupiUh him on the gaspin' old or.-an in the next room. Then I grew bitter, because I knew that while, naturally, Kitty li'.c I mo lust of the two, at tho sumo time she was win Idly minded like her father, old man Gor man, nud felt 1'irut was a better match uii account of his river claim, while I wasn't lunch account, from a ready money point of view. Then, of course, I had a faliin' out with l'irot uhniit nothiu' iu partie'lar ou tho sur face, as 1 can recollect of. I did pretty much all tho quarreliu', I'm tree to uliow, for l'irot s ;id nothin', but just laughed in a way that made me madder, uud 1 moved out of the hi. Hue cVoiti to an old -i'lobo hi - her up the, hill. "Next day I started oft beToro sun up in my regular trip w ith tho mail lor Di ou ii Jieur and I'.oiindout. 1 ul way got the best start 1 could, Bo's to j.,ei well no tho raiirf hilo the crust wa hsrd hlhI lieioro tho sun had beeu i:p l"iig enough to mellow things up nud luuko it uwi.ward for me, for 1 wuiii't very lmudy even yet with tbum loir,- Norwegiau suovvshoes. 1 never hto,iped on the trip for uothin', bo'iu ' u.u.iys nioro auxiouv to get througti 1L.ju tur-jat; but this paitio'Ur uturu. . 11 :.i.Y(lU In I'm tollin' of, Fit started ont, twl in' languid aud dispirited, and by the summit I felt sort of dead bent out. My feet was cold and cramped from too tight bucklin' of the shoes, and, altogether, 1 mado np my mind to sit down for a minute or two and get pulled together again before I started "There wasn't much wind and tho snn was out worm and comfortable, ami the idea of strotchin' out there on tho snow for ten minutes' rest just suited me. I sat down with my back rcstin' against an old dead stump that camo tip through tho snow, nnbncklcd tho shoes, uuslung the mail pouch from my shoulder, and took out Yhe littlo snack of bread and meat I'd brought along and which I generally eat on tho way without making any special stop for it. "Whilo 1 was catin, lookin o.l down the slope, I'd just climbed up and thinkin' what bad luck I'd struck all along tho last few months, my eyo caught on to somo lines in the news paper I'd wrapped round tho lunch, and which was lyiu' spread out on tny leg under tho second pieco of bread just within good readin' distance. I don't recollect just now how tho words read, but tho drift of it was that lots of men failed iu gittin' what they wanted in this world just because they didn't want it hard enough and didn't keep up askiu' aud prayiu' for it un til they got it. ,ThoHO lines somehow hit my cae, it seemed td me. I ha in't had much early roligious traiu in', and tho idea of just prayin' hard for whst you wanted and gcttin' it, truck mo us somethin' new and sim ple and very satisfactory. Thero was no eud of things 1 wanted, aud want ed bad, nud if they was to be had by jiiHt wantin' them bad enough and nskin' for 'em violent enough I was goin' to get 'em sure I "Then I says to myself, why not start iu right now with a silent prayer? So I set nt it. I closed my eyes and squeezed my lids together hard I was so dead in earnest? It wp.s a terriblo sweepin', vigorous prayer I handed in. First, I wanted good luck in a general way, and asked for it hard. Then I got more down to purtic'lars, aud asked to be rich and prosperous, and wound up with a sort of side-handed suggestiou that it would suit mo down to tho ground to have l'irot full olT his luci and get poor, whilo I grew rich. All thin wasn't right, of course, as I see now, ma'am, lint 1 wasn't so much prayiu' for bad luck to Pirot for its own sake, as for tho effect of it all on my gettiu' on with Kitty Gorman. "When I prayed for the blight on Tirot, I was so sorter wrought up by tho whole business that just, I sup pose, to give things a pnriic'lar point I fired out my right leg so vigorous like, aud struck the snow-shoo to which I'd buckled tho mail-pouch so hard that zip! whizz I like a shot it was on its way down the hill. It made a clear shoot lor about five hun dred feoV. every nov.pd tn spinin' botit,- d m -a' er-l woV"ttr"iiArv suag, until it brought up short against a ledge that cropped out across its track, sending splinters of stones nil about wheu it struck, for with tho mail-pouch buckled ou to it, it picked up considerable speed and hit hard. It bounded up and turned claim over, nud then stopped altogether, held from slidiu' any further by tho crop pin's. "Well, ma'am, whilo that snow-shoo was pirouettiu' down tho slope, I was that surprised nud mad 'ill through that, although I'd just beou writhiu' iu prayer, us you might say, I let looso a lino of liiugiiago which was that strong aud pointed that if thcre'd been any itoji or l'eelin' to that snow-slu e, it would have brought up within lifty feet! I mention this with regret, ma'am, because, I see now that if 1 hadn't been moved to make them re marks,, just fresh ou top of the prayer, tilings would have turned out dill'er ent. Hut beiu' young, and hot headed, and thoughtless then, of course I didn't look nhcud for consequences. "There wa. nothiu' to do but go down to tho ledge where the snow shoo lay, pick up it uud tho mail pouch, and get ou my way again. The ledge was rotten with tho weather and pretty well broke up already, and asido from tho small pieces just knocked out of it, thero'd been one big chuuk loosened up, which h id rolled just uway from tho ledge, nud lay with tho fresh break turned up to the sun, uud duzzliti' mo with its brightness. "No, younor man" this to aknowing suggestion from Manton "it wasn't 'mien, of course,' iior 'mica' at nil. That piece of rock wus just criss crossed ull over uud through with eoar-o vire-;;ol 1. I stood btariu' nt it a full miuuto beforo I could get it through my head that I was lookin' nt rock that would go over live thousand dollars to tho ton J that I was tho dis coverer uud owner of that ledge; and that tludin' it just meant to mo every thing worth haviu'. iucludin', of course, tirst nud loremost, riches uud Kitty Gorman. "SV'hilo I stood there, I recollected, with a start, that riches, and pros perity, aud Kitty Gorman was what I'd been prayiu' for hard five minutes iiefore, and hero it ull was within reach in uuswer to that prayer, just as if it had beeu ou tup, so to speak, all the time, and I'd just turned the spig got. Naturally 1 was some excited, but I kept cool enough to put up monuments aud a locution notice nil right, and christened the claim the Heavenly Snow-Shoe,' as bem' some how appropriate to tho situation. "Voit can inuiiue, ma'am, I wusn't iu no state of mind alter this to keep ou with the mail to Drown Dear uud Kotliidout. I ju t wanted to (ret back to Gorman's, uud let 'em know about tho strike. So I climbed up the hill again for tho other shoe, pounded olT some good speoiiueus to show what I'd found, aud wus ba.sk ngaiu at Gir uuu's a little after suntet. "When I went down to the hotel after I'd cooked supper and cleaned up at the abode, I eonld hear l'irot singin and Kitty playin' accompani ments as usual ; but instead of rilin me, as it had all along, I just laughed to myself when I thought of the Hoavenly Snow-Shoe,' aud of how quick this would all be knocked in the head when Kitty and old man Oorman losmed of my good luck. I wont into the raloon first, where I could gen erally count on findin' the old man of nn eveniu' ; but they said he was in the parlor with l'irot and Kitty takin' in the music. "When I went in sftcr knockin, they all looked surprised, and didn't seciu very hearty ; but I knew what hsd come to me, and whnt was comin to Pirot, and didn't mind, but started iu right awny and told 'em what I'd fo in 1, and opened up the flour-sack I'd brought ray specimens down in, find laid 'em all out on tho table under the light of the hnngin' lamp, where they showed up richer'n any speci mens ever I Bee. They all got 'round tho tiblo and admirod 'em, aud Kitty was very friendly aud old man Gor man got very much interested and ex cited over it all, although he was gen erally pretty cold-blooded about most things. "There wasn't any more singin' or playin' that eveniu'. and pretty quick l'irot said good-night and left us, not lookin' cheerful. Old man Gorman nskod me all kinds of questions about the sizo and dip of the ledge and tho nntnro of the croppin's, and Kitty sat by tho tnble, and was brighter nnd chattier than I'd seen her iu a mouth. When I told tho old man I'd located him iu with me on tho claim, he was pleased all through, and we arranged to meet next mornin' and talk up the best way of handlin' tho property. Then at last we said good-night all 'round, and I went up to tho adobe fecliu' all toned up with satisfaction at tho style in which my prayer was workin'. "Next day old man Gorman and ran had our talk out, and it was settled between us that we was to locato ex tensions of tho '.Snow-Shoe,' start in developing and incorporate tho whole business right away, settin' aside part of tho stock for whut old mau Gorman called a 'working' capital,' and mean time tho old man was to put up for expenses. Things went on almost too smooth for the next month. Tho ledge opened up very promisin', Kitty was more friendly every day, and us for Pirot, he never turned up nowa days anyhow when I was 'round. "Now my folks back in Missouri'.l been writ in' on an average once every six months for the last rive years,' urin' me to como home aud see 'em before they all died off; but I'd never hud no means to go or uny way to get auy up to now. But when another letter came about this time, still nnggin' mo to oonie on, I showed it to old man Gorman, for ho and I'd got to bo very thick, and he ,snid J'd ougLtor'go.'auJ? He'd "lend inelne" money to go with and look after things while I was gone. The old mau kept his word; he did look afUr things, as you'll see, ma'am. "Well, this wus in April. I pot buck and saw tho folks, took a little geueral pnssear all round, and it wus way into August beforo I fetched up one evening on tho stage nt Gorman's again. At the tirst glance, before I got down, I see thcre'd been somo considerable changes in tho hotel since I'd been gone. Tho main build in'd been repainted, and thero was a completo new outlit of red settees ou tho trout porch. A struugo man, with tho air of owniu' the whole plant, camo out from the ollioe, and there was no sign of old mau Gorman or Kitty standiu' in the front door, us was usuul with 'em wheu tho blao camo iu. "I felt a sort of sinkin' at tho beirt at all this, as though somethiu' bad was goiu' to happen to me. I wasn't kept long iu doulit, though, about tho stute of things. I hadu't been off tho stago five minutes wheu I learned it all. (juick us I'd left, old man Gor man sold l'irot all tho 'workin' capi tal' as a starter. Then between 'em they worked up a scheme to sell mo out on a delinquent assessment. Then they struck an Fuglish syndicate and sold out tho property at a big figure. Next thiug Kitty became Mrs. l'irot, old man Gorman closed out tho hotel, uud tho three of 'em lit out for no one knew where. "Well, ma'am, I won't dwell on my fecJin's, or how I expressed 'em wheu, 1 heard nil this aud iouu I it true, for that's neither hero nor there. I could ee, after I'd cooled dowu aud re tleeted, just how it all came about. I'd 'hoodoud' everything up thereon the summit by nskiug for bad luck to strike Pirot by usin' tho pointed isn gii'tgo l'vo referred to so close ou top of my prayer when tho snow shoo went v.nltziu' down the bill. "This, I think, ma'um," concluded Culkius, us he rose uud stirred up the camp tire, "will illustrate my remark that while there's uothin' prayer won't do, if you're dead iu earnest and pray hard enough, nt the sumo time it's jnst as true that if you overload your prayer, or pack a lot of truck on it that don't belong to the load, or show temper while it's truvodn', it's jnt bound to go balky, aud make trouble for you." Argonaut. A Dig Dure. Tho Ivanhoo tunnel, now nearly completed, from Dusk, near Lesdville, to ivanhoo, Col., will be tha third iu length in tho United States, beiug sur passed only by the Uoosae tunnel uud hy tho Doulder tunnel, iu Montana. It is 'J 10') feet long, uud owing to tho great altitude 10,8110 feet doors will bo pluoed at euch end to exclmlo snow, aud tho tunnel for several hundred feet from cither end is to bo heated by steam. Work was begun iu lb'JO.-Kew York Dispatch, AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AM) GARDEN. rr.EMso rrMPKiNs to rows, rum I kins are more nutritious than is commonly thought, and the high color of tho flesh adds to the color of the butter of cows fod reasonably on them. A singlo pumpkin of twenty pounds, chopped into slices with a sharp-edged spado in a shallow box, will not bo too much for a cow in milk. It is not worth while borrowing trouble about tho seeds; they are doubtless a goo I remedy for tape worm, and if the cow is so troubled, a pumpkin with the seeds once a day may bo useful, but tho seeds will not hnrt a cow if she has no tapeworms to trouble her. The seeds and stringy stuff about them are very rich in fat. New York Times. NOTlttNO nn.vrs plain oraptino wax. A tree healer (so called) is a good thing for the man who sells it at a large profit, writes J. W. Kerr. I have used various preparations for covering wounds uud bruises on trees, and have settled down to plain graft ing wax, believin?, from comparative test, that it is tho equal ot tho best. Why cover a wound or bruise? Simply to excludo air and water. This done, a little extra feed and careful culture for a year or two, seldom fail to ovcrcomo such injuries. The prepa rations that are "always ready for use," such ns shellac, paint, etc., have to be repeatedly applied to effect the same purposo that a good coating of grafting wax does. In order thor oughly to rid peach, plum, quince abd other trees of borers, tho earth must bo removed from the collar of tho t ree to a depth of thrco to four inches ; beforo this is returned (and it should not bo left too late in spring), I some times apply a wash of lime, with eight to ten pounds of muriate of potash to ench hulf barrel of wash, and enough carbolic acid to give it the odor. This applied with cheap fiber brushes, lib erally from the bottom of the basin made by the removal of tho earth from about tho tree, to a height of a foot above tho surface love!, helps to heal the borer- wounds, only by ex cluding air therefrom. That the car bolic acid odor has any merit as a re pellent to the insect when seeking places to deposit its eggs, is a badly strained belief. Hereafter, I shall use lime nlono for this purposo. With borers, as with other vermin, preven tion is better and easier than cure, all things considered. It is scarcely practical to prevent tho deposit of eggs at the collars of trees in large orchards, but it is practical to remove tho "grubs" hatched thorefrom, be fore they do much injury ; this is all that is implied by prevention as used above. liural New Yorker. WILD LETTUCE. This weed has a wido distribution, nnd in many sections of tho country threatens to become a serious pest. It has already spread so greatly iu Ohio, Iowa aud Illinois, that tho agri cultural sections of thoso States huvo WILD LETTUCE. issued bulletins, warning farmers of its presence and advising thorn to de stroy, mow or otherwise cut out the plants before they ripen the seods, which aro produced in largo numbers and uro readily carried by the wind. As many us 2o,0(H seed may bo pro duced on a square foot of ground. Tho w ild or prickly lettuce (luctnea Scariolu) is one of the most oouspiou ous weeds, baviug a single stem of from ono to four feet or more high. Tho leaves of the plant are six to eight inches long aud an iuch nnd a half wido, with irregular prickly edges, resembling some varieties of culti vated lettuce. Cutting before tho seeds form, or bettor, cutting its blos soms, will prevent spread. Twice cutting will be sufficient.- As the plant is either annual or bienuual, its destruction would be easy wero not its seeds carriod long distaucee by tho wind. In localities were tho plunt is still rare its spread can be prevented with littlo effort. New York World. A QUICKLY MADE HTABLK PEN. It frequently huppcus that ono do sires to make use, for au emergency, of a stall or pen in the stable which is not at hund, and for which thoro may not bo convenient room as a per manent structure Our illustration shows ho such a pen may bo made iu a momout's time, in a corner that or dinarily may be used for other pur poses. Two gates are made and hinged against the walls in the manner shown. Ordinarily they are folded back snugly aguiust either wall, but when a pen or "box stall" is suddenly needed the two ends are swunir toe other and MM locked with hooks, and the noodod ac commodation is secured. Such gates should havo slats quite near together, CTIEAP BTABLB PEN, and should be of good height to ac commodate both largo and small ani mals. American Agriculturist. rRTELTT OP BAM) WIRE. We aro aware that there aro a few stockmen who by some fortuitous concourso of circumstance have cs capod having their animals mutilated by the barbs. One correspondent even wrote ns taking tho position that a colt that hadn't sense enough to keep out of tho wiro hadn't sense enough to live and ought to be killed in the fence. Dut we could never ap preciate tho force of suoh logic. Tho best of colts and young folks aro sometimes a bit foolish under stress of excitement. It conies not far from being a characteristic of tho adolescent age. Dut they outgrow it. The point is merely to keep ns far from thorn as oan be tho temptations and possi bilities for bad when they aro at that age. When an animal once learns what barb wire is thero is compara tively little danger of injury from it except in the dark, but tho trouble is that it comes away from its first lotson on tho subjoot a wiser but not handsomer auimal. It may bo "still in tho ring," but it is ordinarily more than "somewhat disfigured." Of course a barb wire fence that ii kept perfectly tight at all times is far less harmful than one iu which the wires are looso or brokon away from tho posts. A looso barb wire fence on a farm with live stock is simply an offense against humaneness. It is a wicked trap. Wo havo never wasted a bit of sympathy ou tho men we have seen caught in the wires of a fence which their indoleuco or ignorance or neglect had permitted to get looso. Carelessness in fence buildiug aud re pairing is doubtless the cause of much of the dam a go done to livo stock by the cruel barbs, but a barb per se is dangerous. Somo farmers carefully round off with jaok-plano the edges uud corners of stalls and boxes in tho barn lest an animal should accidentally como to brief by . a bump against thorn, and then fonco their paddocks ith barb wire I This is very lik-j raining at a gnat and swallowing mel. Tho record tho I' bs havi vrifteK' YorWuJmmu vaWoirf over the country is' too patent to be laughod or argued out of court. Au ounce of such experience is worth several tons of theory. Drcedcrs' Gazette. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Clover is a food for hens which one must not overlook. High bred auimnls give better ro turns for feedcousumod than ordinary or scrub stock. Even an extra amount fed to poor cattle will fail to bring that superior quality which is desirable. Only cultivated crops should be al lowed in orchards early iu the soason. Grein and hay should never bo grown. The tillage should bo repeated as often as once in ten days throughout the growing season, which extends from spring until July or August. Clover is abundant, bulk y, and rich in lime aud nitrogen. Cut, scald and mix with a little ground grass for the poultry in tho morning, and save more expensive material, as clover is very wholesome. . Fall plowing may be advisable for farm crops, but it should generally be discouraged in orchard. The land in orchards should bo left compact iu the fall, aud it is advisable to cover it with somo closo herbage. The very day you hear of a garbage cromutory near you, go and see what you can get tho ashes for. Send a sample te the Stato exoeriment station foranalybis. lou never will have a better chance to obtain a cheap fertili zer. Unless you livo too far North plant onion sets in tho garden now for early use next spring, sow lettuce uud radish sood for early vegetables and punsy for early bloomiug. Protect theso bods by heavy mulching with manure as soon as tho ground be gins to froozo. Late cultivation may bo injurious by- inducing a Into growth. At all events, it cau bo of small utility wheu the begins to mature and rains beoomo frequent. This season of respite gives the grower the opportunity of raising a green manure, and of adding fertil ity to his land at trifling expuuse and with no harm to his trees. Garden soils that aro inclined to be heavy will bo greatly improved by ridging so as to expose them t front in winter. Throw two furrows to gether as in making sweet potato ridges, leaving narrow uud deep dead furrows. This system gives thorough surface draiuage aud admit of early cultivation iu the spring. If the currant bushes aro not pro ductive try a littlo heroio treatment. Cut out ull the old wood and prima tho roots down thoroughly, then spade up the sou all about and woUk in a liberal allowauoo of rich manure. Put sand about the stools to keep the weeds down and encourage tha growth of from lour to six of the now canes. Some Id-Fashlonr-d Medicine, Venomous serpents played a part in the medicines of olden timn Their poison was not used for iiL pnrpose, but a strong broth was ttm. vi men uenus uumcu Willi anil no spices, mixed with a hundred othq leiuuuim, kiiu lorming an eiectiinr. which, under the name of Tliori!.' was nsed as a cure for every cntictir able disease. As such tidbits jwKHu iiou wuu suspicion hy t tinhlic. thn nlil nlirnininna mln.'i. i ' I J - '"! itn sly method : hungry geese and hen, wure leu wivu snases cuopped fijj. ana mese were maae into broth 1 1. .. . : a rri.. i.i , iua imuuijii xiia oioou OI a was also used, if this animal hi neen ica lor fourteen days on fr greens. It went hard with black cats whn mey were wanted to ncip an I i : Tl. . i l . -i. . . ti .. it-itiu. iue mucK xuoiuas ti then tormented to the point of dvr. cut inup, nun mien uin ma I Ii. was stabbed tinder tho third i counting from the head. Three dr, . .v . t i 1 r .i . ui i no oioou uownig iron, mn Won was then given to the sufferer linden-blossom tea. The cnt ut then escape, and nightly on the r . .1 m compiatn io ino ueavens ot man' cruelty. This revenge still remain t him. In the oldest medical book no,' known, composed in Ileliopolis, win once Joseph served in tho botuo Potipbar, wo find "A mean for iucr. ing tho growth of hair, prepared Scbesch, the mother of Teta, the kit of Lpper ami Lower Lgypt:" !. teeth, over-ripo dates, and asses Ii were carofully cooked in oil nnd th grated. Now, as Teta lived Kfo Cheops, builder of tho great pyrin.: at Gizeh, tuis recipe for hnir-uil older than this wonder of tho wr! and if, as is supposed, Teta lived 4 D. C, this prescription is over CO years old. - Nearly everything in tho anitJ kingdom was used in tho healing a;; bven now animal preparations a: officially used, as sperm, wax, tull- i swine-fat, pepsin, musk, cochnui, leeches, etc. irom nasty luixtm 1 T- 1 . nowevcr, we are ireen. r.ven lei'c. are used much more sparingly th formerly. When bleeding and c-. ping were still considered imperii (to-day thero uro young doctors have never seen a vein opened), le: held the third placo for this purK,J In tuo Parts hospitals, at tuat time : greatest iu the world, between 1 and 183G, from tlvo to six lui!!; leeches were used annually, wL drew out 1700 hundred-weight blood. linprossL'l by the Czar' Lotki, To demonstrate the Russian Czi: appreciation of kindness, the foil, ing incident was related by a maai: heard it from llallam Tennyson, London some time ago. While on one of his visit; to Co;1 hagen, the Czar and the King of hi mark went hunting and became nj orated froiii tao robi of f qs'iiukY vtawfrtr TIiav tnrnAil thai h.fl homeward and on the way stoppt.i a peasant's hut, whoro the King o the peasant woman for a drink j himself and nts companion, lutjn man looked at the big man and, f ing pleasantly, said to the Ki whom, of course, sno did not kn "He looks so good and kind, he k. have a glass of the best wo have. Tho Czar did not understand a w and wheu ou their roturu the K laughingly told him of the goo l pression he hud made on the wei; tho Czar said eerious! y, almost iu fully: "What would I not giv. see such kiuduess among my pee; New York Tribune. Indian Land Pretty Well Paid Fo- Some idea of how much it co-t- keep a family of able-bodied lui. may bo gained from a perusal et depredation claims paid and to 1 -- ; J by the United Mates (iovernmeiii. I mlilitioti to the vast sums suiiniu H this purpose since tho uct ot l'XU ratilied by various ucts of Cou. j since that tune it is somewnat sur;: ing to hear thnt 11,000 cluims beeu filed since 18D1, aggregutin:! value about 810,000,000. AU tL considered the lands taken from Indians in one wny and another Columbus lauded and about wax mniiv tears have been shod have pretty well paid for. Chicago T-A Electricity lor Hay Fever. It is now claimed that no viet i the perennial "hay fever" or " cold ' need suller uo louder. trieitv does the business every i by killing certuin nerves iocs. tho nose. To think that a cold ' head is a matter ot nerves, wrM little nerves that bubuiergo the boincr in tho most ignominious n. known iu ih vsiolo ' v I Special crobsure ever on the watch fr susceptible organs, and their rer is certainly a triumph of m science, though perhaps the im'- j win not view it in mut iigui. i Herald. Gingerbread lor the Kaiser's During the German Emperor to Thorn he received a Ueputut. the confectioners ot the towu in picturesquo costumes, who pi d him with a house made of H bread, which was so heavy tliut to be carried by four men. Tli is four feet high and seven leet and weighed three hundred The walls, roof nud windows : tirely of cringerbrend .nud srs tho Emperor wan no delight's, his present that be at oueo orJ to be sent to bis sons at l'oti- Loudou Sunday Times. Tho Tiov. J. T. Brook, of C!- Ky., claims to havo inveuted ing press ttiut costs ' tad will priut 20.01)0 uheots m COLO WEr 1 ,yTO ' '' ui ui
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