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Burned. er visited Seventeen resulting urance is public inding of ate: No, ZRed.............:.» 59 3 CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear... 51 52 High Mixed ear......... . 48 49 No. 2 Yellow Shelled se 49 50 _ Shelled Mixed..... oiszose 47 48 OQATS—No. 1 White........ 33 34 No.2 White........ ah. 33 33% No. 3 White.. or 32 323% Mixed........ “ 29 30 RYE—No. 1 ............. . 52 53 No. 2 Western, New..... 3 48 50 FLOUR—Fancy winter pat’ 00 425 / _ APPLES—Fancy, $ bbl... 225 PENNSYLVANIA DAY The Observance at Chicag> to be Sign’ cant. Gov. Pattison Issues a Proclamation. Governor Pattison issued a proclama. tion notifying the people of the State that Thursd y, September 7. will be ‘“*Pennsyl- wvania Day” at the Columbian exposition, ' and inviting the citizens of Pennsylvania and the representatives of all her interests participating in this exposition, and the’ officials of all the municipalities and other political sub divisions of the state, to join in making this occasion worthy of the com- monwealth in whose honor it has been de- vised. He recommends and requests the people of Pennsylvania to visit the world's fair at that time, and to assemble at the Penn- sylvania state building to participate in the commemorative exercises. He espe: cially invites the people of other states, formerly citizens of Pennsylvania or kindred with our people in blood.sympathy or interest, to join with the residents of our commonwealth in this celebration, and invokes for it the interest and hearty co- operation of all who honorand rejoice in the prosperity of Pennsylvania. The governor feforsio the magnificence of the fair and adds: . ‘“The different states of the federal union represented in a national association and each through its own commission and executive officer, have united in friendly rivalry tod:splay the best Zits of their material wealth, their mechanical progress, their natural resources and their moral ei- evation. 1he great commonwealth of Penn sylvania,second to none in all elements that ma-e amighty state is represented in this magnificent celzbration of our country’s discovery and its history by a fit and imposing exhibition of its mines and its mills, its transportation and commercial interests, the products of its fields its forests its oil well, and its workshops, by the hand- 1work of artisans and the creations and the splendid showing of its advanced education: al institutions and 1's humane charities, all combiningto elevate our citizenship and to ennoble our statehood. “Pennsylvania has contributed tens of thousands to the citizenship of other states, and the sons and daughters of her soil &cattered throughout the realm of the great west and northwest feel a filial and patriotic interest in all that makes for her greatness. The board of world's fair managers of Penn- syvlvania bave appointed Thursday, Septem- ber 7, as ‘Pennsylvania day” and the executive commissioner for this common- wealth bas received the pledge and hearty assurance of the world's fair authorities and representatives that they will cc-operate to make the exercises and celebration that day imposing and signficant.” | { MARKETS. PITTSBURG. THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEN BELOW. WHEAT—No. 1 Red Fancy Spring patents..... Fancy Straight winter.... XXX Bakers...... Rye Flour.... LOLS Bb ao ou w © < einai hia 0 5 HAY—Baled No. 1 Tim’y.. 1450 1500 Baled No. 2 Timothy..... 13 50 14 00 Mixed Clover. .... sesiseer 1500. 12400 Timothy from country... 18 00 2) 00 STRAW — Wheat.......... 600 » 650 Oats........... eeveisnesa3 650- 700 FEED—No.1 WhMd® T 17 ‘0 18 00 No. 2 White Middlings..... 15 50 16 00 Brown Middlings.... 15 00 00 Bran, bulk........... ws 475 1500 DAIRY PRODUCTS. BUTTER—EIgin Creamery 21 29 Fancy Creamery......... 23 24 Fancy country roll....... 20 21 Low grade & cooking.... 14 15 CHEESE—Ohio fall make.. 9} 93 New York Goshen........ 10% 10% Wisconsin Swiss....... .. 13 144 Limburger (Fall make)... 12 12% FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. PEACHES, per bu—. ... 7 PEARS perbbl............. 450 BEANS— NY & M(new)Beans@bbl 2 00 210 2 Fair to choice, ® bbl.... 175 2 50 : 5 Lima 'Beans,........... : 44 POTATOES— . . Fancy Rose. © bbl...... ie 2.20 2 50: Ordinary Rose @ bbl. . 150 2 00} Sweet, per bbl.... .... S375 4 00] POULTRY ETC. DRESSED CHICKENS— Spring chickens # lb..... 15 16 Dressed ducks Bib ..... 5! 10 11 Dressed turkeys # b..... 15 16 11VE CHICKENS— : Spring chickens........... 30 40 live chickens @ pr....... 70 75 Live Trucks @ pr......... 40 50 Live Turkeys ##th........ 6 7 EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh. ... 2 13 FEATHERS— : Extra live Geese ® ..... 55 60 Nol Extra live geese 48 50 Mixed. ..........0 0.4 HB 35 MISCELLANIOUS. TALLOW—Country, 1b... 4 4 Clify.......... sez aiene or 4% 5 SEEDS—Clover... 8 00 8 25 Timothy prime.. 1 90 195 Blue grass. .......c.c.e. «140 170 RAGS—Country mixed.... 1} 14 JONEY—White clover.... 7 18 Buckwheat. ..oooieeienns 10 12 MAPLE SYRUP, new crop. 60 100 CIDER—country sweet@bbl 5 00 5 50 BERRIES—per quart Blackberries ......... 9 10 Huckleberries ....... 10 11 CINCINNATI. FLOUB— .....ccc.:00 sen $2 00@%$2 75 WHEAT—No. 2 Red........ 5 RYE-—No. 2......... vison 49% 50 CORN—Mixed.. 3 42 42 OATS . / 28% 284 EGGS ...... 7 9% 1B BUTTER TREE 18 25 FLOUR... c.vcsnezersres $2 65@$4 10 WHEAT—No. 653 6 CORN—No. 2, Mixed....... 49 494 OATS—No. 2, White........ 32 34 8UTTER—Creamery Extra. 2 2 NEW YORK. FTOUR—Patents...cec. oven. 2 = 4 2 { WHEAT—No 2Red........ 3 0 RYE—Western..... . ses 55 56 ORN—NoO. 2...cc0iiennnns . 47% 48% OQATS—Mixed Western..... 30 304 BUTTER—Creamery..... . 14% 19 LGGS—State and Penn...... 15% 163 LIVE-STOCK "REPORT. EAST LIBERTY, PITTSBURG STOCK YARDS. CATTLE. Prime Steers..... sr. aenesassS 4 8000 5 15 Good butcher .......... 3 75to 410 COMMON: caves oie ius 3 25to0 3 65 Bulls and dry cows... 2 00to 3 50 Yeal Calves........... 50 to 6 50 Fresh cows, per head SHE: Prime 95 to 100-1 sheep....$ 3 60to 3 75 SOLDIERS COLUMN. If you're wakin’ mudder darlin’, please tump upon me door, For termorrer [ must hie me to de lake's grass ciad shore. It's only once a year, you know, that we have to go to camp, ; And learn toactlike sojers while we tramp, tramp, tramp. I've got the daisy uniform, with gilt and brass bedight And 1 tell yer, mudder darlin’, that your sorny's out ot sight. Bo when the mornin’ comes round, just tump with might and main, or I must meet the other boys and mosey to de train. An' mudder, wnen the time is up an’ [ come back a wrec , Don’t be unkind to sonny an’ biff him in de neck. For sojers has to work you know, that is, throughout the day, An’ so the night's the only time he has for fun or play. We has to work so hard all day, an’ nights we p cks up chips, Which makes us all so awfully dry,we has to wet our lips. So mudder, if you're wakin' tump hard upon me door, For I must go to camp to learn how can- nons boom and roar. An' mudder. when vour son comes back, please have prepared his bed, An' some lemons lyin’ handy and an ice bag for his head. Seettle Express-Times. WOUNDED KNEE HEROES. ne osm The Handsome Monument Ereciwa by Their Comrades. ———e Recognition of deeds of bravery has often found vx- pression in shafts of gran- ite and marble, but never until now have the soldiers of the United States unaided by government or civilians, erect- ed a monument to fallen com-- That was what was done by rades A Pet the enlisted men and officers of the : ys medical department and Seventh Cav: alry of Fort Raley, Kansas. In the presence of severel thousand visitors from all parts of the sunflower state the memorial was unveiled and amid the solemn booming of the canpor dedicated to its duty of honoring the memory of those who fell at Wounded Knee and Drexel Mission, December 29 and 80, 1890. The story of those battles 1s one of cruelty and disaster. The ghost dance had roused the Sioux of the uorth- west into a frenzied anticipation of the coming of the Indian Messiah, who was to sweep the whites from the face of the earth. Under the leadership of Big Foot, they went upon the war- path armed with the best of guns and wearing the canvas ‘ghost shirts.” which were to prove impenetrable to the bullets of the white man. Custer’s old regiment, the Seventh Cavalry, under Col. J. W. Forsyth, an Indian fighter of two decades exper- jence was ordered to the icy plains of South Dakota to put down the trouble. Big Foot was wily. At the first meet- ing he surrendered, and tle soldiers found themselves with 350 women and children and half as many bucks to care for. On the morning of December 29 the order was given to disarm the bucks. A half dozen guns were tak- en and then, at a signal, the Indians began firing. There, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek, near Pine Ridge Agency, two officers and twenty-four enlisted men were killed and thirty-two were wounded. The Indians lost 146 killed and 30 wounded. At Drexel Mission the following morning one officer and one enlisted man were killed in an attack on a wagon train, 'These disas- ters are the last in the list of Indian battles, and it is to be hoped that his- tory will never show another to rival them. To the memory of these comrades the surviving members ef the Seventh Cavalry at once set about erecting a monument, The result of a subscrip- tion paper showed over $3,000 raised for the purpose among the troops. On an eminence overlooking the Smoky Hill, the Republican and Kansas riv- ers which stretch away across the plains, visible for miles, the shaft was built. It is of Vermont and Massa- chusetts granite and rests on a native limestone foundation fifteen feet square with a flight of steps on one side. The top of the shaft is twenty five feet from the ground, and the whole Jeffect 1s imposing. On one face of the mon- ument appears this inscription: To the Soldiers Who were killed in battle with J Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee and Drexel Mission, South Dakota, December 29 and 30, 1890. Erected as a tribute of affection by their comrades of the Medical Depart- ment and Seventh Cavalry, U.S. A, A. D. 1893. The remaining faces bear the names of the soldiers who died in the two engagements, The monument is in the most prominent part of ‘he post, a short distance from the principal buildings and officers’ quarters. The Seventh Cavalry, which had made its home at Fort Riley for over thirty years, is one of the most noted in the service. It was from this divi- sion that General Custer took his troops to the battle of the Little Big Horn. Comanche, the horse ridden by Custer, and the only survivor of that fearful massacre, was cared for at the post until his death a year ago. Gen. Forsyth, the commander, was with Sheridan during the civil war and is one of the picturesque figures of the American army. He was suspended from command after the battle of Goad MIXER eee as 32to 3 50 Lommon 70to75 Bb sheep... 1 00to 275 Choice Lambs - 2 50 to 4 50 word Yorkers........ “ena 6 25t0 6 35 Medium... oo... Seixas 6 10to 6 15 F1enVy .cveeeienseaiccscee. 5 60to 5 90 RBonghs.....oovvineieiannn 4 00to 5 00 Wounded Knee by Gen. Miles for or- dering his soldiers to shoot Indian women and children. An investiga- tion showed that such action was a ne- cessity of the situation forced upon the soldiers by the Indians, and For- syth was reinstated an«d-recommended for promotion. It is considered proba- ble that he will receive the single star of the major general before long. Among the memorials to brave men of the nation’s history, none is more deserved than the Wounded Knee monument. Although a large portion of the n.en engaged in the battle were new recruits, not one faltered or show- ed signs of weakness. Their comrades have worthily honored worthy soldiers by their generous and impressive act. The Wounded Knee monument will be one of the most noted features of the ple..as.—C. M. HARGER, in Detroit Free Press. KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS. PENNSYLVANIA FARMS. THE NUMBER IN EACH COUNTY ‘ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS oF 1890. HarrisUrG.—Secretary Edge of the state board of agriculture received from the cen- sus bureau at Washington a tabulated statement showing the number of farms by counties according to the census of 1890. Lancaster county heads the list with 9,440, while the smallest number is in Cameron, which has but 339. The number in the other counties of the State are given as fol- lows: Adams 3,336; Allegheny 5,343; Armstrong 4.127; Beaver 3,672; Bedford, 3.220; Berks 6 952; Blair 1,490; Bradford 6,415; Bucks 6,364; Butler 5.364; Cambria 2.241; Carbon 932: Center 2.180; Chester 6,119;Clarion3.115; Clearfield 2812; Clinton 1,162; Columbia 2.13; Crawford 7,786; Cumberiand 2,914; Dauphin 2,677; Delaware 1469; Elk 759; Krie 5,483: Fayette 3,320; Forest 9il; Franklin 3.295; Fulton 1,304: Greene 2.926; Hunting- don 2,394; Indiana 4.614; Jefferson 2.531; Juniata 1,609; Lackawanna 1,579; Lawrence 3.583; Lebanon 2,101: Lehigh 3,378: Luzerne 2.850; Lycoming 3,372; McKean 1,460; Mercer 5,021; Mifflin 1,143; Monroe 1,767; Montego n- ery 5,361; Montour 714; Northhampton 3.396; Northumberland 2.361; Perry 2.314; Phila- delphiz 801: Pike 95); Potter 2,128; Scuhlkill Snyder 1,067; Somerset 6,471; Sullivan 958; Susquehanna 4,716; Tioga 4,535; Union 1.224; Venango 3,054, Warren 2.831; Wash- ington 4.514; Wayne 3.659; Westmoreland 9,339: Wyoming 1,732; Yorx 7,730. Ce PENNSYLVANIA CROPS. DROUTH REDUCES THE YIELD OF CORN, POTA- TOES, APPLES AND PREACHES. HARrrISBURG—Secretary Hidge, of the State Board of Agriculture, says of the crops: “The crops of corn and late potatoes are sufficiently advanced to show conclusively that the recent drouth will greatly reduce their yieldings. The same cause has de- creased the yield and size of apples and peaches. The crop of blac.berries was practically cut down 75 per cent, and the few that were picked were inferior in quali ty and size. “In many places the grape crop has been very much decreased. In Southeastern Pennsylvania dairymen have been com- pelled to feed hay and grain to their cows to make up for the great decresse in the amount of pasture,’ CROPS BURNED UP BY THE DROUTH THAT I1AS PREVAILED IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Jouxstow~N—Reports to crop canvassers for Government information are that the country in this section of Pennsylvania is in worse condition as the result of prolong- ¢d drouth, than it has been from the same cause in 14 years. There are large areas in this and adjacent counties where crops ma- turing in these latitudes early in August and until the middle of September will yie'd only 40 per cent of the average pro- duction. = These crops have been literally burned up and rains now would not serve to restore them, although it would check the damage to growths maturing later. The corn grown in the North can stand more drouth and higher temperatures than most other of the native crops, and tue yield will be next to nothing. The oat crop was not caught for so long a siege, but it will be light and inferior. Potatoes have stopped growing in fields aggregating many thousand acres, and those that escape the dry rot will scarcely be fit for seed purposes. Late berries have dried on the stalks, and in nearly the whole area of the State west of the mountains the blackberry crop is a failure. . The prospects are that the fruit growers will fare no better than the grain growers. Apples and pears at this time are not grow- ing. They are simp'y ripening at much less than their normal size. The crop promised six weeks ago has been reduced already fully 40 per cent, ‘The aggregate of losses can only be approximated by comparison of returns from widely se:arated districts, but it will run into the millions of dollars in the adjoining sections of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Many farmers, according to the reports of agents in a po- sition to know, will be so crippled financially that they will not recover for years. Anovxa the pensions issned at Washing. ton, last week were the folllowing for Penn- sylvanians: Original, Andrew L. Swa of Albion, Erie county, Original, widows, etc, Leah Frazel of Lone Pine, Washing- ton county, and Eva Z. Clark, of Bradford, McKean county Increase.—John MM. Kough, Mt. Pleasant. Original widows, etc.—Sarah Shearer of Leechburg, Rachel Taylor, of Leeraysville, Martha J. Horton of Altoona, Haster A. Bradley, of Elbridge, Mary Moore of Erie, Christina ;Scheiterloin of Pittsburg and minor children of Chas. L. Butterfield in Crawford county. Tue 11 year old son of J. H. Simmons Rochester, while plaving on a large log on a slope near the Tumbler works, started the log rolling. He fell off and the log caught him and crushed the life out of him, re- ducing his body almost to a pulp. A GASOLINE stove exp'oded at the residence of J. N. Purdy, Meadville. Mrs. Purdy and a yonng daughter were frightfnlly burned. It'is believed the former will die. Ar Meadville, the Farmers’ Co-operative Bank has closed its doors. The stockhold- ers, who are individually liable, are able to pay all liabilities. SwArMS of grasshoppers are destroying the crops and even eating up the fences and agricultural implements of Lawrence county farmers. By the discovery of tools in W. J. Kline's cell, the authorities of the Washington county jail discovered a big plot to escape. A cairp of Frank Gill, of Trauger,-West- moreland county, was crushed to death un- der the wheels of a neighbor's wagon. OwInG to the drouth the water company at Waynesburg has announced its inability to supply its patrons. gt Frox reliable advices in regardto the coms ing apple crop, it looks now as if the Eastern States, New York, Northern Ohio, Illinois and Michigan would have a short crop this year. The yield in the South seems to bw up to the average. SUNDAY SCHOOL, iri LESSON FORSUNDAY, AUGUST 27. CIEE “Paul Before Agrippa,” Acts xxvi., 10 32. Golden Text: ICor.i., 24. Commentary. rire 19. ‘Whereupon, O King Agrippa. I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.” Some two years after the last lesson Felix was succeeded by Festus, and Paul was still a prisoner. The high priest and the Jews soon made mention of Paul, the prisoner, and asked that he might be brought to Jeru- salem for trial, hoping to kill him on the way (xxv., 2, 3). They were compelled, how- ever, to appear against kim at Cwesarea, and it was then that Paul appealed to Cesar, which necessitated his being sent to Rome. Meantime King Agrippa and Bernice visited Festus, and he tells them of Paul and of his appeal to Cesar, but that he has no definite accusation against him, upon which Agrippa desires to hear him. Paul is now before Agrippa and Festus and the chief captain and principal men of the city, and has gotten as far in his story as his conversation the way to Damascus and his consequent readiness to obey his new Master's orders. See II Sam xv.. 15; Isa. i., 19, and take heed. 20. ‘‘That they should repent and turn to God and do works meet for repentance.’ He began at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and so on in all the world, preaching these things. Compare I Thess. i., 9, 10; Titusii., 11-13, and see how he insisted on these things. We are all by nature against God. 21. ‘““For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple and went about to kill me.” It does not seem possible that people would hate a man and even try to kill him just for being good, but the hatred of Joseph by his brethren, and of Daniel by his fellows, and of Paul by the Jews simply prove the enmity of man against God, and it was fully shown out in the persecution and erucifixion of the Lord Jesus. 22. ‘‘Saying none other thinzs than thos: which the prophe‘s of Moses did say should come.” By the help of God he continued witnessing to small and great, reasoning out of the Old Testament, as we call it, concern- ing Jesus (chapters xvii., 2, 3; xxviii., 23). Jesus Himself taught that ail Seripture re- ferred to Him (Luke xxiv., 27, 44). Philip preached Jesus to the Ethiopian from Isa. Liii. 23. That Christ should suffer, and that He should be the first that should rise irom the dead and should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles.” The suffering and death of Christ are seen in Gen. iii., 15: xxii, 2, with Gal. iii.. 16;Ps. xxii.. 7, 16; Isa. liii, 5. 6, and elsewhere. His resurrection is referred to in Ps. xvi., 10, with Aects iii., 15 ; Isa. liii., 10; Hos. vi., 2, ete., while His being a light to the nations is seen in Isa. xlii.,, 6; xlix., 6, etc. Although all was so plainly foretold, the Jews shut their eyes to the true significance of these things and would not hear of a suffering Messiah (John xii., 32-34). 24, *And as he thus spake for himself Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself ; much learning doth make thee mad.” He that departeth from evil is accounted mad (Isa. lix., 15, margin). The prophet is a fool; the spiritual man is mad (Hos. ix., 7). Jesus Himself was repeatedly told that He had a devil (John vii., 20; viii., 48). If we make Christ our center, we must of necessity be eccentric in the eyes of oth- ers and seem to them to be beside ourselves. 25. ‘But he said, I am not mad, most no- ble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.” Paul knew whereof he affirmed and realized that he was speak- ing in the hearing of a greater than Festus or Agrippa. He had no ambition to please men (Gal. i.. 10; I Thess. ii., 4), but he did desire to please Him who had called him. (II Cor. v., 9, and II Tim. ii., 15). And he had a great ambition to win men to Christ (I Cor. ix., 22) and to magnify Christ in his body whether by life or death (Phil. i., 20). 26. “For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely, for this thing was not done in a corner.” When the high priest asked Jesus of His doctrine, He said, ‘‘I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort, aud in secret have I said nothing” (John xviii., 20.) The story of ‘Jesus of Nazareth was known far and wide, but it was to the great majority simply a story of ‘‘one Jesus, who was dead, whom some affirmed to be alive,” (Acts xxv., 19). It is not much more to most people even now. 27. “King Agrippa, believes¢ thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.” One of Paul's mottoes was, ‘‘Believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets” (xxiv. 14). Jesus's rebuke tothe two disciples was, **O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets havespoken'’ (Luke xxiv., 25). Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets (Amos iii, 7): therefore if we care anything about theseecrsat of the Lord we will surely study prophecy. 98. “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Al- most thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” The R. V. makes Agrippa say, “With but little persuasion thou wouldst fain make me a Christian ” Herod heard John the Bap- tist gladly and did many things ; Felix trem- bled under the Spirit’s words through Paul, and now Agrippa is moved, but nothing lasting ever came of it in either case as far as we know. The word preached docs not profit unless mixed with faith in those who hear it (Heb. iv., 2). We have great nced to take heed of the evil heart of unbelief, and to take heed how we hear (Heb. iii., 12: Luke viii., 18). 29. ‘And Paul said, I would to God that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.” It was not liberty that Paul sought, nor personal com- fort, except as he could use these for the glory of God, but he did always and every- where seek to win men to Christ. Whether they were rulers like Agrippa, Festus or Felix, or public servants like the jailer at Philippi, or slaves like Onesimus, he re- garded not their circumstances. sought not their favor, despised not their poverty, but most earnestly coveted their eternal welfare, 380-32. “This man doeth nothing worthy of aeath or of bonds. This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed unto Caesar.” These three verses of our les- son tell of the private conference of the king, the governor, Bernice and they that sat with them when they had retired from the publ assembly after Paul had finished his te mony. The two sentences I have quoted give their decision, and as we read them we feel like wishing that Paul had not appea unto Caesar. But when we read chapter xxiii., 11, “The night following the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou has testified of Mein Jeru salem so must thou bear witness alsp at Rome,” we are compelled to be still and” see God working out His own purposes in His own way.—Lesson Helper, led The Law of Postal Cards. It is a mistake to suppose that any card with handwriting upon it bear- ing a1 cent stamp can be lawluliy transmitted by mail as if it were an official postal card. The first para- graph of the 273d section of the pos- tal laws and regulations runs thus: “Postal cards cannot be issued by private parties. All cards, other than those issued by the department, containing any writing are subject to letter postage; but if cards con- tain printed matter only, so das ta constitute a circular, but 1 cent is re- quired on each of them.” When this regulation is not prop- erly complied with, there is very sure to be a tedious delay in the transmis- sion of the card by the postofiice de- partment.-—Boston Times. POPULAR SCIENCE: Nutmegs are very strong narcotics. An Arkansas man exiracts saltpeter . from cotton seed. Perfectly whit= eats, ii they have lue eyes, are nearly always deaf. There are four unique mountains in Lower California, two of alum, one of alum and sulphur mixed, and one of pure sulphur. A Western geologist says that Kansas can raise wheat for another 1000 years before exhausting the necessary properties of the soil. Bean leaves bruised and applied will afford instant relief and arrest ivy poison. leaves is quite as satisfactory. The breaking weight of one foot of cast iron one inch square is 5871 pounds; the breaking weight of a piece of hickory of the same dimensions is 270 pounds. The crab when living near the ocean’s surface has well-developed eyes; in deeper water only eyestalks are present—no eyes; while in speci- mens from still deeper water the eye- stalks have joined, forming a pointed beak. The frizzled glass threads from which cotton is woven are said to snr- pass in fineness not only the finest cotton, but even the threads of the silkworm’s cocoon, their softness and elasticity being even greater than that of manufactured silk ‘‘lint.” With the aid of the great Lick tele- scope astronomers have made the startling discovery that one of the satellites of Jupiter is donble---in other words that what has heretofore been taken for a single moon is, indeed. two moons, a larze and a small one, the lesser slowly revolving around the greater. Extensive drought will cause the gneil to close its doors, to prevent the evaporation of its bodily moisture and dry up. These little animals are pos- sessed of astonishing vitality, regain- ing activity aiter having been frozen in solid blocks of ice, and enduring a degree of heat for weeks which daily crisps vegetation. A Belgian inventor has devised an ingenious little instrument for emitting the sound of a hiss. Itisa tiny bel- lows with a whistle for a mouthpiece, which the spectator puts under his foot. Its object is to obviate the risk of expulsion that may attend indul- gence in the practice of hissing at public entertainments. Generally speaking, the slope of rivers flowing into the Mississippi from the east is on an average about three inches per mile; those entering it from the west have an average de- scent of about six inches per mile. The average descent per mile of the Missouri after it leaves the monntains is reckoned at about a foot; the Des Moines, from its source to its conjunc- tion with the Mississippi, about 7.3 inches. The entire length of the Ohio shows a fall of even five inches. The Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf, has a fall of but two and one-half inches. HS Milk Instead of Medicine, Wise physicians always prescribe a diet instead of a drug for a patient whenever his illness can be cured by food alone. The food is ome of the most important factors in molding the life of an individual; both the mind and the bodyrequire it for their best development. We too seldom realize that much of our bodily discomforts arise from having had an insufficiency of nourishing food. We stoutly deny being nunderfed when our doctor says, ‘“You need more food.” Six meals a day would barely supply fuel enough to keep the fire burning in the average American woman or man of to-day! The breadwinner of the family comes home from his business at night too tired, too nervous to eat. Very possi- bly he has not tasted food all day since he ate a hasty breakfast of a roll and a cup of coffee. Isit any wonder such a man is irritable and soon becomes a sufferer from nervous prostration? The lack of and insufficiency of nutri- tious food puts a human being in a condition to die of any complaint. It is not the well-fed that die of con- sumption---it is they that have no time for eating and resting. The healthiest and longest lived are those that have leisure enough to eat their meals and do eat them. Food keeps the blood vessels full of good blood---disease germs floating about cannot {find a lodging place in well-nourished per- SONS. Tempting, choice viands are not within the reach of every purse, but good, simple, wholesome food is. The poorest man can afford to drink milk, and milk contains every essential need- fuffor the sustenance of vitality and the restoration of lost powers. There are so many ways of preparing milk, either alone or in combination with eggs, fresh vegetables, asin soups, ete., that one cannot exelaim at the monot- ony. First of all, try boiled milk, bearing in mind that milk may be con- taminated, and that boiling effectually ends the possibility of danger from it. It cold milk is more grateful than hot, drink it cold, taking care to have no ice in direct contact with it. Put the milk in bottles or kettles, and let these be in contact with the ice. Cultivate the habit of drinking eight or ten glass of milk every day. «If this is done, it will be safe enough to omit meals oc- casionally. Milk does not seem to agree with some few persons, and for them three or four ounces daily of cream will prove a most excellent food. Hot milk is more effective in relieving nervousness and fatigue than any aleo- holic preparation, and is far less ex- pensive. Many ‘‘incurable” maladies may be put to flight by living on milk diet. In ten days one will be improved, and a few months will find health fully restored.---Philadelphia Record. A decoction of dried bean’ LOUSEIIOLD IIATTELS. TO MEND LINEN. The best thing with which fo darm’ table linen and towels is thread drawn: from them in their early days and: kept wound on a spool against the day of rents and tears. When these threads have not been saved, embroidery cot- ton or floss is the best thing to use. TO CLEAN AND BLZACT. Here is a never failing removal of mildew from white goods: Dissolve chloride of lime in hot water and strain it through a fine cloth. Dilute it with cold water. This will also bleach unbleached cotton or under- wear which has grown yeilow from poor washing or lack of use. Wet the goods thoroughly before putting it into the solution. Allow it to remain in the solution over night. A BATH APROY. Any little schoolgirl who can sew can ensily make a pretty present to her mother for nursery use to be worn when the small toddlers of the house- hold have their baths. One yard of canton flannel should have a two-inch hem on either raw edge. The selvage sides need not be tonched. The hems should leave the woolly side of the flannel at the right side. Around three sides of the apron, about an inch from the edge, work a feather stitch in pale pink or blue washing silk or flax thread. Extra or- namentation in chain stitch may be added in the word ‘‘splash” across one corner, and if the younz needlewoman can embroider, a little flight of birds or a duck with her ducklings may be worked in outline or chain stitch across the other corner. A yard and a quarter of ribbon, 1% inches wide, may be slipped throagh the hem at the top; tie the aprom about the waist. This not only makes & good protec- tive covering for mammm’s dress, inex- pensive and easy to wash, but it serves as a soft, warm wrap for baby fresh from his dip.—St. Louis Republic. TO RESTOR: SILTS. If you want to be always prepared ww deal with grease spots on your silk gowns, keep the following preparation at hand: Powdered French chalk web with soap suds, pressed into cakes and dried in the sun. Then when your at- tentive escort drops a cup of chocolate down the front breath, smile amiably and go home happy in the conscious- ness that you eanrepair the damage. Lay the stained piece on clean coti- ton cloth, the right side down. Scrape your soap on the spot. Cover with guveral folds of tissue paper and press with a hot iron for a minnte or so. Raise the paper. Scrape off the chalk. Rub the place with a torn piece of pasteboard to restore the gloss. An excellent wash for dark silk dresses is made of a cup of cold water, a half teaspoon of honey, a half tea- spoon of soft soap and half a wine glass of alconol. The silks that are sponged with this preparation should be rinsed in clear. cold water and pressed on the wrong side while damp. To restore its pristine smoothness to wrinkled silk, sponge it on theright side with a very weak solution of gum arabic and press on the other side.— New York World. WASHDAY HINTS. Even washday may be robbed of some of its terrors by a little fore- thought. Removeall stains from linen before putting it to soak. Rub the soiled spots with soap. Soak in soft, cold water, but not in suds or with washing powders. Wring the clothes out of the soaking water into the rub- bing water, a few at a time. Rub the coarse articles on the board and the fine ones with the hands. Wring and turn into the second rubbing water. In both ase tubs the water should be warm. To every two pails of water for boil- ing add a tablespoonful of kerosene and to the whole boiler a half bar of soap scraped and melted in hot water. Put in the clothes and note the time when the boiling begins. Let them boil about seven minutes and then re- move, preparing rn new boiler {ull of water for the nexi lot of clothes. Let each lot ns it comes out be put into a tnb with the water from the boiler Do not boil colored goods. When all have been boiled, rinse in clear tepid water, then in cooler clear water, and then in blue water. Starch very lightly those things which re- quire starching and dry. Colored cot- tons, if dried out of doors at all,should be tzken in as soon as possible, for the sun fades them.-—-New York World. over it. RICIPES. Custard Toast--Bring a onart of milk to the boiling point. season and add two egzs well beaten. Boil one minute and pour over six siices of buttered toast. Pub in tine oven until the custard is set. Fruit Blanc Mange-—--Stew siraw- berries, raspberries or currants and strain of the juice and sv mn. Placa over the fire and when 1t boils stir in wine to ons tablespoonful oi moss ft every pint of juice. boil and pour in a pint of milk. Set on theiece to cool and serve with whipped cream and sugar. Steamad Bread Pundding—Take ones half cup of sugar, one-third cap of buiter, one-half cup of milk, one tea- spoon of sam tarcar, one-nali tea- spoon of soda, one tablespoon cf mo- lasses, one-half cup of 1 sins, and one- fourth teaspoon of cinnamon. allspice and clove. To these { one cup of milk, with all tha bread erambs or stale cake it absorb, and flour enough to mal Stitt as soft ginger- bread. Steam in n vne-guart tin pail, three to four hours, vered tightly. To be eaten with ligunid sauce. nul ait es A REESE 3 ond Ema i un ¥ i i
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