THE LAVA FLOW.
It found a valley young and fair
And virgin of regret;
That laughed away the amorous air,
Nor dreamed of love as yet.
It left a valley wan and old
And outcast of desire,
When through hot maiden heart had rolled
Its passion flood of fire.
Her springs are dry; and dry between
Is ifcll her flowery jwiss,
Save one wee strip of faithful green—
The friendship of the grass.
And black across her beauty's wreck—
Poor wreck, that may not die!
Lies dead tho flame she could not check,
Nor can revivify.
So, wan aud writheu in despair.
So, frozen bluck in stone.
They lie -the awful semblance there
Of lives that I have known.
—Charles F. Luminis in Frank Leslie'#.
A Startling Prophecy.
Nothing in tho future appears more
probable than that within the lifetime of
persons now living the industrial su
premacy of Great Britain will pass away
with the exhaustion of her coal fields.
Switzerland, Italy and the Scandinavian
peninsula are destined to become the
great manufacturing districts of Europe.
This extraordinary industrial revolution
will he brought about by tho transmis
sion and distribution by electrical means
of the inexhaustible and permanent wa
ter power in those countries. More than
a year ago in Switzerland a woolen man
ufactory with 36,000 spindles, with the
usual complement of auxiliary machin
ery, was operated wholly by electric
power conveyed from a distant stream,
deriving its never failing supply of wa
ter from the melting of Alpine snows.
In the new era the Swiss republic may
not improbably become the foremost in
dustrial nation of Europe,—Electrical
Engineer.
CoiicUtlon of Ifayti.
The country is naturally rich, but not
rich enough to support the hordes of
shameless, self seeking politicians anx
ious for their own enrichment. The
cause for their appearance in such num
bers is easily explained. The many revo
lutions. with their concomitant murders,
pillages and conflagrations, have de
stroyed industry and labor, and have
closed all the avenues to the attainment
of a eouqietencc by honorable pursuits.
Of what use is it to the peasant to plant
cane or to cultivate coffee when at any
moment the general of the arrondisse
ment may force him to abandon his crops
to bear arms in support of some one who,
111 tho set terms of tho usual proclama
tion, has "raised the standard of revolu
tion against the most odious of tyrants?"
—Cor. New York Post.
How Stanley I'liiiMteri Traitor.
One anecdote told by Mr. Stevens of
the way in which Stanley disposed of the
Egyptian officer who was convicted of
having plotted (<> hand the expedition
over to the Mahdi, is worth repeating.
Stanley, who was suffering with acute
gastritis, had himself carried in a chair
outside the tent. Turning to the incrim
inated officer lie said:
"We have come through a thousand
difficulties to save you and yours. Mean
while you have been plotting to destroy
us. Depart to God."
Saying these words, he pointed to a
bough of a tree, where justice was done
after the fashion of Judge Lynch.—Pail
Mall Gazette.
Circumstance. Alter Case..
Northern Man (down in Florida) —
What's the price of that orange grove?
Native—Ten thousand dollars, mister.
Had the consumption long?
"Consumption! I haven't consump
tion."
"Just weak lungs, maybe?"
"My lungs are sound as a dollar. I
am merely looking for a good place to
locate; doesn't matter to me whether it's
north or south, cast or west."
"Oh! Well, I'll let you have that
grove for s23o."— New York Weekly.
Wliat Fog. Signify.
Night or morning fogs, or in winter
persistent fogs, often signify a calm and
settled condition of the air and tlie prev
alence of fair weather. Heavy dews,
especially in the autumn, likewise por
tend line weather, but usually of shorter
duration. Fogs appear usually in one of
two conditions—either the air is nearly
saturated up to a considerable height, or
else is unusually dry, except in a stratum
immediately above the ground.—Ex
change.
Adulteration or Food.
l'he total food consumption per year
in the United States amounts to $4,500,-
000,000. It is estimated that !' per cent,
of this is adulterated, or $90,000,000, of
which 00 per cent, is harmlessly doctor
ed. If the estimate be true, then there
is an annual output of food containing
poisonous adulteration to the amount of
$9,000,000, while the portion that is
harmless reaches a total of $81,000.000, —
American Grocer.
Weed. That Travel.
Tho thistle and some other weeds have
winged seeds, and these not unfrequently
travel .'IOO miles in a day in a passenger
ear and by rail, are swept out at the end
of tho journey, find a suitable habitat,
take root and grow. There are plants
I growing in Kirk wood between the rail
road tracks which are only found iu
Kansas, the seeds being brought on the
railway trains.—St. Louis Republic.
A Good Memory.
"How far back can you remember,
Bobby?" asked his uncle.
•Well," said Bob, "I can remember
when 1 didn't know how to play mar
bles."
"No further back than that?"
"Oh, yes; I can remember when I
couldn't remember at all."—Harper's
Bazar.
A Frog That Die. of Old Age.
A frog in Nicaragua, colored red and
blue, fearlessly hops about in the day
time, it has perfect faith in its warning
color. No snake or bird will touch it,
for it is disgusting to the taste, and the
sooner it is recognized the better.—Cath
tilic World.
THE BROADVvAY PARADE.
% I'fivv Much About the Shopping District
and the shopper?*.
The Broadway of the proinenaders is
divided into three parts.
The fin; t part, the shopping district,
readies from Eighth street north to
Twenty-first, the second part stretches
from Twenty-first to Thirty-third, and
is the widely known "Tenderloin or Hoff
man House district," and from Thirty
third to Forty-second stretches the "sou
brettes' parade."
There is no other walk in this country
to compare with Broadway on a sunny
day.
It begins to fill up with shoppers as
early as 11, but it is in the afternoon that
it is ati brightest and best.
The shopping district is the least inter
esting to the men. The women*who go
there are in a hurry. They are preoccu
pied; lliey have a mission to perform.
They have heard that there is a place
where they can get a piece of surah silk
to match the stuff they bought last week
at another place for fully three cents a
yard cheaper; and they are looking for
that place.
They take time in their haste to look
at each other, or rather at each other's
garments. They also take time to look
at what they themselves have on as they
pass the impromptu mirrors of the plato
glass windows. If the reflection is a
strong one they will stop and walk up to
it, keeping up an appearance of deep in
terest in what is displayed in the shop
window, but in reality seeing only their
own pretty faces and bonnets.
They are just as busy and earnest over
their gloves and trimmings as are their
husbands and big brothers over their
"puts" and "calls" down town.
You see very few men in the shopping
district. They leave it to the enjoyment
of their feminine relatives and walk fur
ther up.
From 3 to 5 o'clock the real prome
nade begins on Broadway. It is a genu
ine promenade, for the pedestrians are
not there by accident; they walk there
for the pleasure of walking and of see
ing each other and being seen. Perhaps
it would Ire more correct to say to be
seen, and then incidentally to see others.
You will see everybody who is any
body on Broadway sometime if you wait
long enough. But you will see very few
of the swagger set, either men or women.
They keep to Fifth avenue, and only strike
Broadway where the avenue crosses it.
Broadway is only for the less fashiona
ble and perhaps less select citizens of
Gotham. The women who are seen there
are just a little too conspicuously dressed,
and the men who saunter there stare at
them more than is quite proper. This
may bo because all the actors and ac
tresses in New York walk on Broadway
in the afternoon, and the non-profcssion
als are always on the lookout for them.
They are frequently rewarded by the
sight of Sara Jewett, who dresses over
much on the street and looks, for some
reason, shorter and broader than she
does on the stage, and Pauline Hall in
sealskin and diamonds, Cora Tinnie in
black, with a black boa, and generally
accompanied by her mother, who is said
to be a real mother and not a hired
"stage mother," and sweet Annie Rus
sell, who sees no one, but keeps straight
ahead with eyes "front."
The men who haunt Broadway are as
well known by sight as the Worth mon
ument or the clock in front of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, and they are quite as
hardened to the curious glances of the
pedestrians.—New York Evening Sun.
Slight Preparation.
A young man well known in the city
lately departed for Europe with the
shortest notice on record. A few hours
before the train left Buffalo that made
connection with the steamer at New-
York lie determined to join some
friends on their European tour. He
went home, told his family of his inten
tion, and, of course, was met by the sur
prised queries: "How can you get
ready? You have got to prepare for an
ocean voyage. What are you going to
do?" "Nothing, hut black my boots,"
was the laconic reply. Who will assert
that woman is superior to man after
such an incident?— Buffalo Express.
Pillars from Pompeii.
Delmonico's old Beaver street building
is probably the only one in America par
tially erected from material found in the
ruins of ancient Pompeii. The marble
pillars of the portico over the entrance,
and, in fact, nearly all the marble of
which the porch is composed, were im
ported from Pompeii in 1834.
So well authenticated is the history of
these marble pillars and slabs that the
Metropolitan Museum of Art is making
efforts to obtain them.—New York Tele
gram.
Different from Her Treatment.
Bobby (looking out of the window) —
What's the matter with that horse,
mamma?
Mother—The horse is balky, Bobby; he
won't obey his driver.
Bobby—Well, what's the man patting
him for?
Mother—lie is coaxing him.
Bobby (with an injured air)— That ain't
the way you treat me when I'm balky.
—London Tit-Bits.
Decorated with Drown Taper.
When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
built his summer residence at Hartford
at an expense of over SIOO,OOO the deco
rators covered the walls of his dining
room with ordinary brown paper, sucli
as is used by butchers to wrap meat in.
There was a cherry wood dado anil a
rich frescoed frieze. This room was con
sidered one of the handsomest in the
wealthy town. —New York Sun.
A Hew Way to Do It.
An Indianapolis bookkeeper made some
changes in figures to look suspicious,
asked for and got a week's leave, and
after the linn Iriad published him as an
embezzler ho returned, proved that he
was O. K. and got $5,000 to poultice his
wounded feelings with. There is more
than one way for an honest bookkeeper
to make mom v.—Detroit Free Press.
OLDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD.
A NogreB Who Han Documents .Showing
That She Wiw Born in 1745.
In the northeastern portion of Dallas,
Tex., between Bryan and Live Oak
streets, and fronting the Houston and
Texas Central railway, lives Aunt July
Cole, who has but recently grown too
old to take in washing. The cabin in
which she lives is a rude hovel, and yet
it is kept as neat as a pin. It is sur
rounded by a dozen huts of the same
kind, though not so well kept, all hud
dled together in an irregular colony.
The railway people have forced their
right of way with barbed wire to keep
the horde of pickaninnies off the track,
hut in vain. Tiiey crawl through the
fangs of the fence and gather upon the
road in such numbers that the cautious
engineer finds it necessary on passing
through Freedmantown to use both hell
and whistle.
After the train had passed tile other
day The Republic man crawled through
the wire fence, and with difficulty found
the cabin of the "Ole Furginny Aunty."
She sat in a low chair andsmoked a blue
clay pipe. As she raised her face slowly
and her wrinkled features were first
seen the writer involuntarily asked him
self: "Is it alive?" When she spoke her
tremulous and cracked voice increased
his astonishment. But it was not only
alive, but it smoked and talked.
"My name is July Cole," she said. "I
belonged to Col. Cole in Furginny, and
he (it de Britishers wid Ger,. Washing
ton. Norfolk was my home, sir; right
on de sea. My mammy come from de
Cape in Afriky, and my daddy went
back dere. My mammy was named
Lucretia, and was give to Col. Cole by
Gen. Washington's lady, who had many
servants. I was brought to Henry
county, Tennessee, and sold to Thomas
Waters. 1 had great-grandchillun don.
After I helped to settle Tennessee I was
sold to William Ralih for lan'. Mars
Jef come to take me home to Tennessee,
but ole mail Rabb wouldn't let me go
wid him. Den 1 lived on Rabb's Creek,
below La Grange, Tex. I was took away
from my husband and two chillun in
Tennessee, and my ole man he run away
and followed me till dey caught him wid
dogs right on de banks of do Mississippi
river. Yes, sir, right dar in de bed of
de river, wliar de hill is and de high
trees, and right down by de boat in de
dark—fur he was ruiinin' to git on de
boat wid me. But dey caught 'im and I
never saw 'im any more'"
On being asked her age the old woman
began to rise slowly, holding, in the
meantime, to the chair for support.
"I doesn't know by de iiggers, but I
knows by happeniu's," she said. She
moved to ail old trunk, which was cov
ered with rawhide with the hair on and
tacked with big headed brass tacks.
From this she drew an old letter on bluo
paper, which she says was "de paper"
given to Mars Waters by Mars Cole when
she was sold. Only the lower half of the
sheet remains, theother having evidently
been taken off by time, and the only legi
ble portion of the writing purports to give
the date of Aunt July's birth. The only
words are "was born Dec. 10, 1745."
The writer had heard that she was 145
years old. hut of course lie believed noth
ing of the kind. The appearance of the
old negro and t lie evidence produced by
her to prove her age were astonishing.
"Dey says 1 is or hundred and forty
five year ole, an", honey, I spec' it is so."
| "What is your earliest; remembrance,
aunty? l)o you remember Gen. Wash
ton?"
"I never seed liitn," she said, "but I
knows when lie was general, and I knows
when he was president, too. I heerd
Mars Cole say when de tea was tlung
outen de Boston ship. I lias seed do
Tories, an' my brother was wid Mars
Cole when he went intode war wid de
Britishers. Dat war was seven years,
and Mars Cole he got shot in de arm. I
'members when dey lit de French an' In
juns. too, sir."
It took quite a while to get all this out
of the aged creature, who is very feeble.
She laid only one want—smoking tobacco
—and that was supplied, after which the
writer left her at her low, hairy trunk
putting aw y her documents. —Cor. St.
Louis Republic.
Love for Hornet*.
Once in the horse business always in
the horse business might be put down us
a proverb. I have known a good many
men to get tired of race horses and sell
out, lint unless they sold out on account
of age or infirmity they have always
gone back to it. Look at Will Barnes.
He sold bis stables a few years ago and
swore lie would never own another horse.
He is now in the market buying a lot of
yearlings, showing that lie means tostay
in the business. I could name a num
ber of others who have done just what
Barnes has done. There is a fascination
about racing that sticks to a man through
life.—lnterview in St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
Social Opportunities Arc Kcpia!.
There is no good reason why the me
chanic should not play the piano or the
banjo if he is so inclined; none why he
should not keep himself clean and re- j
speotable and go into society; none why
tin) doors of mansions should not open
as wide to him as to the salesman in a
store. If the daughters of Squire Tinsel
look down upon a mechanic and smile
upon a counter jumper, the former may
console himself that he is no lospr by the
preference, and that lie may save the
money tlm latter expends upon concert
tickets and carriages.—Oliver Optic's
Letter.
A Peculiar Ballot ISox.
Probably the most extraordinary sys
tem of voting was in Hungary, where
the ballot boxes were immense casks and '
tin) ballot poles from four to six feet j
long, which the citizen carried and de- 1
posited for his favorite candidate with
peculiar pride.—Detroit News.
Ralph Disraeli, a brother of Lord |
Beacons field, retired at the age of 80, :
after fifty years of public service, from I
the office of deputy clerk of the parlia- j
ments, to whom he was appointed by |
Lord Beaconsfield.
Ofottiii f I'Hlcoti inland.
In 1867 11. I. S. Falcon reported a
shoal in a position about thirty miles
west of Nttmuku island, of the Friendly
or Tonga group. Ten years later smoke
was reported by H. M. S. Sappho to he
rising frotn the sea at this spot, and eight
later, in 1885, a volcanic island was re
ported by a passing steaiuer, the Janet
Nicliol, to have risen from the sea. In
1886 the United States -steamer Mohican
visited the new islands—which had
emerged from the ocean during a sub
marine) eruption on Oct. 14 of the previ
ous year—when its length was found to
ho one and four-tenths of a mile and its
height 165 feet.
In 1889 the island was thoroughly ex
amined, and the surrounding sea sounded
by her majesty's surveying ship Egeria,
when it was found to be one and one
tenth of a mile long and nine-tenths of a
mile wide. •
A little steam issuing from cracks in
the southern cliff was tiic sole sign of ac
tivity, but there were mauy proofs ex
isting that the island still retains consid
erable heat near the surface. From the
condition of the fiat, it is apparent that
it has neither risen nor subsided during
the past two or three years. Unless there
be a hard core it seems probable that its
existence as an island will be short. It
has been named Falcon island, and sound
ings between it and Namuka show that
they are separated by a valley 6,000 feet
deep.—Newcastle Chronicle.
Tlio Colon* in Stiver*.
The colors of rivers differ widely. The
Rhone is blue, and so is the Danube,
while the Rhine is green. Anybody who
has traversed the wonderful Adirondack
region and fished in its waters must.liave
noticed the remarkable difference in the
color of its rivers and smaller streams
which radiate in every direction from tho
central group of mountains. The waters
of tho Saeondaga are yellowish, while
those of the Canada creeks and of the
Mohawk are clear, with perhaps a bluish
tint in deep holes. Fish creek is black or
deep brown, and its neighbor, Salmon
river, is colorless. Next comes the Black
river, whose color is indicated by its
name, but between it and the Grasse,
which is also black or brown, is the Os
wegatchie, with clear white waters. The
St. Regis, again, is black, but the Ra
quette is white. The St. Lawrence is
blue. —Nature.
Ancient Voting Methods.
The Syracusans used at one time olive
leaves for ballots. Rome, at an early
day after democracy was introduced,
borrowed the ballot box system of the
Greeks, but never took kindly to it. The
Australian system of today is a revival
of the practice in Rome 2,000 years ago.
Tho voting classification in Greece in
olden times was both social and terri
torial, not unlike the arrangement in
this country in presidential elections.
Many of the ancient systems of voting
were corrupted by extravagant favorit
ism and bribery was not uncommon.—
Detroit News.
Many .)u<lu* Israriols Sacrificed.
The inhabitants of many of the Med
iterranean sea islands hang or burn a
figure of Judas on each recurring Good
Friday. One remarkable part of the
ceremony consists in decking the head
and face of the figure with red dyed
wool, which may be accounted for by
the fact that there is a tradition that
Judas was red haired. Shakspeare calls
red hair "Judas colored hair," and many
foremost writers have spoken of it as
"the flaming brand of infidelity."—St.
Louis Republic.
Servd the (ioveriimcnt Seventy-one Years.
Judge James Lawrenson entered the
postal service when lie was 16 years old,
and has been in it continuously for sev
enty-one years. He is said to have sworn
in every postmaster general since the
administration of President Andrew
Jackson. When Sir. Vilas was sworn in
Mr. Lawrenson was overlooked, and
when the postmaster general heard of his
record lie sent for Sir. Lawrenson and
was sworn in again.—New York Sun.
111-Ink lllltlt'l'luilk.
Lactic acid, which is not far off from
the beverage commonly termed butter
milk, lias been doing the peptic wonders,
it is announced. A good many people
who are "out of sorts" witli liver trou
bles might try the buttermilk cure di
rect, without waiting for an illness to
have it prescribed for them. Especially
old and feeble peoplederive benefit from
the churn's surplus.—New York Tele
gram.
lu u Cheap Hating House.
Diner —Here, waiter! what in thunder
have you given me here? I called for
tripe: but this is the stringiest stuff I
ever encountered.
Waiter (after critical examination! —
Just as I expected. That cook of ours
is awfully nearsighted, and instead of
honeycomb tripe, she's served up a piece
of Turkish towel. Perhaps you'd like
something else?— Boston Traseript.
But rat ms of Christ Create* I.
When the ceremony of washing the
feet is performed in the Greek church at
Smyrna, the priest represents Christ, the
twelve apostles being acted by as many
priests. He who personates Judas must
be well paid for it, and such is the feel
ing of the people that whosoever accepts
this odious part commonly retains the
name of Judas through life.—St. Louis
Republic.
Jonathan in Switzerland.
1 There is something exquisitely cool in
j the following reply of a Yankee to a Eu
j ropcan traveler when the traveler asked
| if he had just crossed the Alps:
"Wall, now you call my attention to
I the fact, I guess I did pass risin' ground."
I —New York Ledger.
Italian editors have tried hard lotraus
} late the words Buffalo Bill. One of them
j makes it: "Compagnia Americana di
i Guglielmo Bufalo Occidentale Selvaggio"
I ("the troupe of William Buffalo Savage
| West!"). Another paper says: "Suocapo
| e Guglielmo il bufalo" ("its chief is Will
; iani tho buffalo!")
THE VOICE Cv THE VOID.
1 warn, like the one drop of rain
On your face, ere the storm;
< r tremble in whispered refrain
With your blood, beating warm.
I am the presence that ever
Baffles your touch's endeavor—
Qone like the glimmer of dust
Dispersed by a gust.
1 nm the absence that taunts you.
The fancy that haunts you;
The ever unsatisfied guess
That, questioning emptiness,
Wins a sigh for reply.
Nay; nothing am I,
But the flight of a breath—
For I am death!
—George Parsons Luthrop in Century.
I'oiiticiuus in Hayti.
Hayti suffers from a superiluity of
politicians; the supply largely exceeds
the demand. The offices to which per
quisites are attached are too few to sat
isfy the hordes of rapacious time servers,
eacli anxious for an opportunity to steal
enough from the public funds to support
himself the remainder of his life in ease,
be it in France, if the sum be large
enough, otherwiso in Jamaica or some
other neighboring island, or even in
Hayti. But once successful, lie gener
ally prefers to leave the count ry than to
remain and run the risk of being com
pelled to disgorge the fortune won at the
expense of his fellow citizens and his own
honesty.—Cor. New York Post.
Tlio Kccentric Hoy at School.
The eccentric hoy at a public school is
unable to take a kick kindly; lie resents
having his hat knocked into the gutter,
or being asked why his tie is like a tele
scope, or being made the victim of booby
traps; and the ability to take these little
attentions with good temper is half the
battle with a new boy at a great school
who wishes to lead a happy existence.
The average schoolboy, of course, does
not mind these tilings, and, being neither
a positive dunce nor a genius, gets
through his school days fairly well, and
neither needs nor desires the exceptional
treatment which ought to be given to ex
ceptional youths.—London Telegraph.
Insects in Drugs.
At a meeting of the Chemists' Assist
ants' association some rather disquieting
specimens were exhibited, demonstrat
ing the existence of "insects and germs"
in sundry pharmaceutical preparations
and drugs. The first was a fair looking
sample of crushed linseed, recently ob
tained from a large wholesale firm, and
kept in a wooden cask witli a wooden
cover. The exhibitor gravely asked what
would be the effect of applying a poul
tice containing "thousands of insects"
to an open wound, especially if the poul
tice he made from hot instead of boiling
water? —London Lancet.
Tin? Cliickcm Crop.
Government statistics show that $560,-
000,000 are required to represent ttie an
nual expenditure for the chicken crop of
the United States, and that 15,000,000
dozen of eggs, worth $0,677,000, are im
ported to this country per year. Show
me a wheat crop result that can touch
those figures.
The expenditure in this country each
year for poultry and eggs will amount to
a much larger sum than that which
comes to the credit of either the wheat
crop, the cotton crop or the dairy pro
duct.—lnterview in New York Star.
The Age of the .Spinster.
There is no period of life that deter
mines old maidhood; the habit of each
individual is to move the figure along
the scale of years as time goes on so that
a girl of 16, wiio considers 25 a cold and
hopeless age for a spinster, is certain to
change tier mind and fix upon 27 as the
year of desolation when 25 lias been
reached. Thus, by degrees, 67 is come
upon with some color of complacency
and hope.—Chatter.
Where Sponges Come From.
The Bahama group of islands is the
world's supply source for the cheaper
grades of sponges. The industry brings
to the islanders an annual revenue ap
proximating $300,000, and is constantly
increasing. Nearly 6,000,000 of the slimy
protozoa, so "i, yielding and clean in
their evolved commercial state, hut so
revolting in their habitat, arc taken
yearly from the Bahama waters. —Cor.
Providence Journal.
The Kiglit Kind of Man.
Women like a man who knows their
innocent weaknesses and caters to them;
who will bring home a box of candy, the
last new magazine or the latest puzzle
sold on the street, that will do more than
its duty in entertaining everybody for
the whole evening.—Ladies'Home Jour
nal.
Not So Hlack an Painted.
"I was agreeably surprised, Mr. Brief,
at your hill."
"I'm very glad, sir."
"Yes; I was told you were a consum
mate swindler, hut I don't think you are
any worse than the ordinary bunco
man."—Harper's Bazar.
A New Fx plosive.
Experiments with a now explosive
called ocrasite, which is to dynamite as
100 to 70, have recently been made in
Austria, and are said to have succeeded
so well that the invention lias been pur
chased for military purposes exclusively.
—Christian at Work.
Ho Was in Luck.
"Have you got $5 in your vest?" asked
a constituent of a congressman.
"No, I must confess that I haven't,"
and lie turned away and felt happy be
cause ho always carries his money in his
trousers pockets.—Washington Post.
•
The Lust Straw.
Hitherto Patient Boarder—Mrs. Starv
em, I can stand hash every day in the
week, but when on Sunday you put
raisins in it and call it mince pie I draw
the line.—Harvard Lampoon.
It is said of Richard Watson Gilder,
the editor of The Century, that ho can
reject a manuscript so gently that the
disappointed author travels 300 miles to
see him—and stay to dinner.
E>. & 13.
Ar. Advantageous Trade.
It is to your advantage to trade with
us. You may not have thought so here
tofore. But here arc n few points for
your consideration:
The assortments in the tifty-two depart
ments of these large stores is the largest.
The qualities are the best, as we handle
no low grade, trashy goods, and
The prices are reliable, just and lowest
—always the lowest.
We want, you to hold us to a strict ac
counting for all these claims.
SILKS.
At 90 cents, 24 inch, extra quality Black
Gros Grain Dress Silks. You may think
it strange that we claim these Silks are
equal in quality to most .$1.15 and $1.38
ones. But compare them.
At 75 cents
100 pieces Colored I'cgcnceSilks, the
new and most popular weave in all the
new Spring colors. We claim the in
trinsic value of this special bargain is
$•1 35 per yard. Get a sample of it also.
Colored Silk Wrap Cashmers, 40 inches
wide, in large range of colors, at 75 cents
—dollar quality.
100 pieces 40 inch Colored Mohairs, the
most desirable fabric at present, 50 cents
a yard. All colors, and grey ana brown
mixtures. None better sold anywhere at
05 cents.
It interested at all in Silks, write for a
sample of our special value 34 inch Black
Surahs at 75 cents. We had to buy a very
large lot to get them to sell at this price,
but will sell you as many or few yards as
you like.
Catalogue free. Mail order business
given very best attention.
HOGGS & BUHL,
115 to 111* Federal St.,
ALLEGHENY, PA
SILKS.
If you want a handsome, wearable
Silk Dress for Spring and Summer, buy
the material of us. Samples cheerfully
furnished upon request.
SURAHS.
COLORED:
19 inch at 50c a yard.
19 inch at 05c a yard.
30 ineb at 75c a yard.
24 inch Standard at SI.OO.
24 inch at $1.20.
BLACK :
19 inch at 50 cents.
31 inch at 75 cents.
20 inch at 75 cents.
.5 .neb at 85 cents.
211 inch at SI.OO.
25 incli at SI.OO.
24 inch at $1.20.
These are leaders—selected from dozens
of grades ot Surahs, also Gros Grains,
Failles, Armures, etc., etc., colored and
black, the best values we ever offered.
Dress Goods.
Our complete new Spring stock is now
complete. This means the grandest array
of beautiful goods shown in this country.
Goods and prices are all on Hie buyer's
side of the bargain.
Send for samples.
CURTAINS.
Complete new Spring stock. VV rite for
Curtain Circular.
Our 1800 Spring Catalogue will be ready
in March. Send your name and you will
receive it.
JOS. HORNE it CO.,
()OiM!2l Penn Avenue,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
n U TIi'MTC obtained lor mccuanl ui ae
rii I toll I>3 vices, medical orotbcr'com
pounds, ornamental designs, trade-marks and
labels. Caveats, Assignments, Interferences
Appeals, Suits for Infringement, and all eases
arising under the PAThiWT LAWS, promp
ly attended to.
INVENTIONS TEAT HAVE BEEN
DC icnnricn by the Patent OQlce may
XIHIJHI# 1 Hl# still.lnmost eases, be pat
ented by us. Being opposite the Patent Office,
we can make closer searches, and secure Patent s
mero promptly, and with broader claims, than
ihoso who are remote from Washington.
TUUC'LUTNOD send us a model or
ill V Hll I Utla sketch of your device ;
we make examinations free ufcttmv/e, and advise
as to patentability. All correspondence strictly
confidential. Prices low, and NO CHARGE UN
LESS PATENT IS SECURED.
We refer to officials in I lie Patent office, to our
clients In every Stale of the Union, and to your
senator and Representative In congress, special
references given when desired. Address,
C. A. SNOW X CO.,
Opposite Patent Office. Washington, 11, c.
B WAffil) i SALARY
To reliable men we will give steady employment
and a LIBERAL SALARY paying their traveling
expenses. We grow our own stock exclusively
and GUARANTEE It to lie strictly first-class In
every particular, true to name as ordered. Full
Instructions furnished. Experience unnecessan.
Apply at once, stulina </>'. Address K. c. PEI i(-
SON ,v CO., Maple Grove Nurseries. Waterloo,
N. v. (Established over cii years. i
BONE
Reef Scraps, semi for new jiHco* n*t. YORK
CIIKMICAL WORKS. YORK. I'A.