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BLOATED WITH DROPSY.,
The Heart Was Badly Affected When
the Patient Began Using
ic Doan’s Kidney Pills.
' Mrs. Elizabeth Maxweli, of 415
West Fourth St, Olympia, Wash,
_ ~2ys: “For over
EY three years 1
suffered with a
dropsical condi-
... tion without be-
i. ing aware that
it was due to
kidney + trouble.
"he early stages
were prineipally
backache and
& bearing down
z pain, but I went
along without worrying much until
dropsy set in. My feet and ankles
swelled fp, my hands puffed and be-
came so tense I could hardly close
them. 1 had great difficulty in breath-
« ing, and my heart would flutter with
the least exertion. I could not walk
far without stopping again and again
to rest. Since using four boxes of
Doan’s Kidney Pills the bloating has
gone down and the feelings of dis-
tress have disappeared.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N.Y.
Breeding Chinese Pheasants.
Present indications are that in a
few years Minnesota will contain a
good stock of Chinese pheasants as a
result of the introduction of that
gamy bird of beautiful plumage by the
State Game and Fish Commission.
The commission has 312 young birds
ready for distribution in small quan-
tities to points in the State where
they can be guaranteed protection
{from hunters for 10 years, which the
law allows them.
Beware of Ointments For Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tem when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on preseriptions from Lopate phy-
sicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Chener, & Co., Toledo, O., contains
no mercury. and is taken internally, acting
directly upon t 'e blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Inbuying Hall's Catarrh Cure
be sure to get the genuine. It is taken in-
ternally and made. in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
J. Cheney & Co. Te-timonials free.
Bold by Drugeists: price, 75¢c. per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Killing Game in Mexico.
A remarkable hunt which took
place in the northern part of Coahui-
la a few days ago is reported from
Monclova, in that state. A party, of
which about 75 were hunters, went on
a deer hunt, through the mountains,
being out eight days. The 75 hunters
killed 800 deer, an average of 100 a
day, or more than one deer a man a
day. There has been some criticism
on the part of many about this
wholesale slaughter of deer, and it is
urged that a game law should be
passed in this country like those in
other ccuntries whicn expressly pro-
hibit the wholesale giaughter of
game.—Mexican Herald.
Queer Way to Catch Fish.
The idea of catching fish by means
of a beehive with a hole in the top
of it is a strange enough one. Yet
this, says the Country Gentleman, not
inadequately describes the method em-
ployed by fishermen in the Philijyine
islands, who clap their apparatus down
over the sluggish bottom-feeding fish
and then, putting their hands through
the hole in the top, extract their vic-
tims.
Battleship Models.
By the English Admiralty’s orders
perfect models are made in paraffin
wax of every new battleship, before it
is laid down, and these models are
tested in a tank, being 400 feet long
and 20 feet wide. They are made of
wax because it is a material which
does not absorb water or change its
weight, so that alterations can be
easily made and the material can be
melted up and used again.
NEVER TIRES
Of the Food. That Restored Her to
5 Health.
k
“My food was killing me and I
didn’t know the cause,” writes a Colo.
young lady: “For two years I was
thin and sickly, suffering from indi-
gestion and inflammatory rheuma-
tism.
“I had tried different kinds of diet,
plain living and many of the reme-
dies recommended, but got no better.
“Finally, about five weeks ago,
mother suggested that I try Grape-
Nuts, and I began at once, eating it
with a little cream or milk. A
change for the better began at once.
“To-day I am weil and am gaining
weight and strength all the time.
I've gained 10 lbs. in the last five
weeks, and do not suffer any more
from indigestion and the rheumatism
is all gone.
“I know it is to Grape-Nuts alone
that I owe my restored health. I
still eat the food twice a day and
never tire of it.”” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
The flavor of Grape-Nuts is pecu-
fiar to itself. It is neutral, not too
sweet and has an agreeable, healthful
quality that never grows tiresome.
One of Llie sources of rheumatism
Is from overloading the system with
acid material, the result of imperfect
digestion and assimilation.
As soon as improper food is aban-
doned and Grape-Nuts is takén regu-
larly, digestion is made strong, the
organs do their work of building up
good red blood cells and of carrying
away the excess of disecase-making
material from the system.
The result is a certain and steady
return to normal health and mental
activity. ‘“‘There’s a reason.” Read
the little book, “The Road to Well-
ville,” in pkgs.
Lenenhock and Humboldt both say
that a single pound of the finest;
spider webs would reach around the
world.
During the nineteenth century fifty-
two new islands rose from the sea by
volcanic action and sixteen disap-
peared.
M. Santos-Dumont, gratified with
the successful flight of the aeroplane
the Bird of Prey, talks enthusiastical-
ly of the day when flying machines
will be as common as automobiles.
A reinforced concrete standpipe, 50
feet in diameter, 106 feet high from the
inside of the bottom of the tank to
the top of the cornice, and with a
capacity of 1,500,000 gallons, has been
completed and is in service in the
waterworks system of Attleboro, Mass.
It has often been observed that a
district where all vegetation has been
destroyed by ashes from Mount Ve-
suvius soon looms afresh with greater
luxuriance than ever. Since the re-
cent great eruption the volcano ash
has been examined by scientists for
an explanation of this fact, resulting
in the discovery that the ash is rich
in phosphates to a remarkable degree.
An electric lamp inclosed in a
pretty little cage formed of fine metal-
lic chains almost touching each other,
and held rigid by metallic rings above
and below, is the very latest thing in
lethal chambers. Its destined victim
is the mosquito, explains the London
News. By this invention—recently
shown to the savants of the Paris
Academy by Mr. Chauilin—the insect
is pleasantly attracted to its doom.
An unseen alternating current passing
through the chains does its business
as it endeavors to investigate the at-
tractive luminous object inside.
In the opinion of the council of the
Royal Astronomical Society of Eng-
land the proposed erection of a large
electric generating plant near the
Greenwich Observatory would have
serious effects upon the accuracy of
the magnetic instruments employed
in that observatory. In view of the
world-wide importance of the Green-
wich observations, which form the
basis for time and longitude calcula-
tions all over the earth, the council,
by a unanimous vote at its June meet-
ing, called the attention of the British
Admiralty to the desirability of pre-
venting the threatened injurious in-
vasion of precincts so long devoted to
scientific work of practical interest
to all mankind.
A WOMAN’S INVENTION.
How the Wife of n English Manu-
facturer Discovered Blue Paper.
“A woman,” said a paper maker,
“invented blue paper. It was by ac-
cident that she did it, though. Before
her time all paper was white,
“She was the. wife of William Eas-
tes, one of the leading paper makers
of England in the eighteenth century.
In passing through the paper plant
one day she dropped a big blue bag in-
to a vat of pulp. Eastes was a stern
chap, and so, since no one had seen
the accident, Mrs. Eastes decided to
say nothing about it.
“The paper in the vat, which should
have been white, came out blue. The
workmen were mystified, Eastes en-
raged, while Mrs. Eastes kept quiet.
The upshot was that the paper was
sent to London, marked “damaged,”
to be sold for whatever it would bring.
“The selling agent in London was
shrewd. He saw that this blue tinted
paper was attractive. He declared it
to be a wonderful new intvention,
and he sold it off like hot cakes at
double the white paper's price.
“Eastes soon received an order for
more of the blue paper—an order
that he and his men wasted several
days trying vainly te fill.
“Then Mrs. Eastes came forward
and told the story of the blue cloth
bag. There was no difficulty after
that in making the blue paper. This
paper’s price remained very high.
Eastes having a monopoly in making
it.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Pine Trees Made Into Silk.
About five tons of artificial silk are
now manufactured daily in Europe, and
the demand far exceeds the supply.
This is cone of the many modern prod-
ucts of cellulose, that wonderful sub-
stance of which the microscopic cells
of plants are made, and which com-
poses about one-third of all the vege-
table and animal matter in the vrorld.
Robert Kennedy Duncan now profes-
sor of industrial chemistry Yin the
University of Kansas, writing of “The
Wonders of Cellulose” in Harper's Mag-
azine, points out its possibilities for
the manufacturer. For instance, he
‘writes: “A pine tree is worth $10 a
ton; cut and stripped it is worth $15;
boiled into pulp it is worth $34; bleach-
ed it is worth $55; which, turned into
viscose and spun into silk is worth
$5500.” Professor Duncan argues tor
a closer working relation between the
technical departments of the univer-
ignerantly at the door of great indus-
trial developments whick can only ar-
rive by the aid of modern chemistry.
Now for Simplified Talk.
Nervous porter (in single breath to
- stolid janitor) :S’pose yer don’t ’ap-
pen ter know nobody wot ain't stop-
pin’ ’ere wot ain’t sent for no one not
to move no luggage nor nothink, do
yer?
Janitor: Nope.— London
Sketch.
sities and the manufacturer who stands |
FINANCE AND TRADE REVIEW
NEW YEAR PROMISES MUCH
No Excessive Stocks Carried Over
and Results of Inventories Equal
Sanguine Anticipations.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Trade’ says:
“The New Year opens bright with
promise in business circles no ex-
cessive stocks being carried over, and
results of inventories fully equal san-
guine anticipations. It is especially
noticeable in dispatches from . the
West that there was less than the
customary lull in business during the
holiday season, while bargain sales
are rapidly disposing of the moderate
supplies remaining on hand.
“In the leading industries contracts
on ‘the books are very large and plants
operate full time, except where ma-
terials or fuel cannot be secured or
finished products cannot be forwarded
to consumers. here is much com-
plaint from the Northwestern flour
mills on this point and export trade
is also restricted because grain and
other merchandise fail to reach the
seaboard promptly. This delay may
be attributed part of the decrease of
$1,749,665 in exports from the port of
New York for the last week as com-
pared with the movement a year ago,
while imports exceeded the very heavy
total for the previous year by $1,-
581,590.
«Many new contracts for a large
tonnage of steel appeared during the
past ' year, notably structural mater-
ial for San Francisco. Railway re-
quirements show no abatement, few
contracts being considered, however,
except for delivery in the last half of
this year. ,
«Prices of pig iron have risen close
to the position of 1900, but finished
products are still much lower as’ to
standard figures. :
“Meanwhile the railroads do not
move the pig iron as desired and many
mills are running on light stocks. Tin
plate mills have small stocks and large
orders, making prices strong, but tin
was depressed by large statistics of
visible supply.
“Business in the primary market
for textiles has been interrupted by
the holidays and inventories, but work
is progressing in preparation of new
lines for the coming season. A few
sales of sheetings have been made
to China, the first export business
from that quarter for a long time, and
more orders could have been secured
by the making of moderate conces-
sions. >
“Review of
MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Ry .
Corne=No. 2 yellow, ear........
a's’s 55 57
No. 2 yellow, shelled.......... - 55 56
Mixed 08r..... 5. .v tc ouats o 51 BY
Qats—No. 2 white 38 a’
0. 3 white....... 37 33
Flour—Winter patent....... 395 0)
Fancy straight winters.. 4 00 419
Hay—No. 1 Timothy....... BT WR
over No,1............ Wah: 117
Feed—No. 1 white mid. ton.. 2300 235)
Brown middlings.... 2100 205)
Bran, bulk....... 2150 220)
Btraw—Wheat.. EW 85)
0B... crease nrsrnarnianes rr. crest 8 00 830
Dairy Products.
Butter—Elgin creamery........... $§ 20 29
Ohio creamery....... . 25 s
Fancy country roll. - 19 20
Cheese—Ohio, new... . 13 14
New York, new sue 14 15
Poultry, Etc.
Hens—per lb...... 3 11 15
Chickens—dressed.. 16 12
Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, 23 32
Frults and Vegetables.
Potatoes—Fancy white per bu.... 40 55
Cabbage—per ton............ view 900 10 1)
Onions—per barrel.... Hi 2 2
BALTIMORE.
Flour—Winter Patent $ 39% 400
Wheat—No. 2 red... 3 75
46 47
23 23
31 oR
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Winter Patent............. $ 36) 38
Wheat—No. 2 red..... wes 77 3
Corn—No. 2 mixed.. . 48 49
Oats—No. 2 white. 83 40
Butter—Creamery......... <7 £5
Eggs—Pennsylvania firsts....... . 26 23
.
NEW YORK.
Flour—Patents.. g 370 3
Oats—No. 2 white.
Butter -Creamery
Kggs-—State and Pen
LIVE STOCK.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
Extra, 1,480 10 1,600 1bs $65 3600
‘1In.e, 1,800 to 1,400 tbs, 0 6J 63
Goou, 1,400 to 1,50v 1bs 5 20 25
Tidy. 1,080 10 1.150 lbs.
Fair, £00 10 1,100 lbs. .
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Common, 700 10 400 lbs 3 0 a0
Common to good 1at oxen 275 ou
Common to good iat bulls.. 2 50 85
Common to good tat cows........ 150 37
Beiters, 700 101, 1001bs............ 250 4.2)
‘Fiesh cows and springers........ 16 00 50 40
Hogs,
irimeheavy hogs............ $65 $70
Lime medium weights. . 675
Les: heavy Yorkers....,. 6 75
Good light Yorkers. . 6 75
Figs, as 10 quality......... 6 5
Cominon to good roughs.. 5 40 6 00
Siags......... ores secennne 4 0) 45)
Sheep.
Prime Wothars. .......ciseen: os snes $530 5 40
ood mixed.l. 00... 0000. 500 52
Lair mixed ewes and wethers.... 425 © 5 (0
Lullsana common.... 2 (0 25)
Culls 10 choice lambs... 00 73
Calves.
Yeal Calves, ....................... $65) 9 5)
Heavy snd thin calves. .............. $ oJ a 10
Sammy,
Teacher—*So I’ve caught you chew-
ing gum, have I?”
Sammy—*“No, mum; I wasn't chew-
in’. I was jest keepin’ it there instead
of in my pocket. It's so sticky.”-
NMoaest.
“1 came to ask you for your daugh-
ter.”
“But she is the only one I have.”
“Well, I don’t want but one. I hope
you don’t take me for a bigamist.”"—
HUMAN RACE DYING OUT.
Dr. Meslier Finds the Birth Rate
Decreasing Rapidly in Nearly
Every Land.
The statistics just published by Dr.
Meslier on the depopulation of the
whele world are startling.
Dr. Meslier says that this is not
only caused by artificial means, but
also because the whole human race
is gradually dying out. Taking the
years of 1881 to 1503 he says that fer
every thousand married women from
15 to 55 years of age taken from diff-
erent countries the births have de-
creased in England 18 per cent, 10
ver cent in Scotland, 10 per ceat in
Bavaria, 7 per cent in Italy, 7 per
cent in Sweden, 11 per cent in Rus-
sia, 17 per cent in France, 17 per cent
in Denmark, 18 per cent in New Zea-
land, 24 per cent in Saxony, 25 per
cent in the state of Victoria and 33
per cent in New Scuth Wales.
Smokeless Powder.
The color of the modern smokeless
powder has the shade cf dark amber.
In the sense of a powder being a fine-
ly divided solid, smokeless powder is
no powder at all. It consists of a
waxlike compecsition, the size of the
‘grains’ varying according to the
calibres of the guns. For use in re-
volvers, rifles and sporting guns, the
grains resemble the tiny perforated
glass beads of the sort used in old-
time needlework. For the machine
guns, the rapid-fire guns and the heavy
rifles of battleships and forts, the
grains are cylindrical in shape, vary-
ing in size from a third of an inch in
diameter and half an inch in length
to three-fourths of an inch in dia-
meter and about two inches in length
—each grain, in order to increase the
area exposed to ignition, being per-
forated equi-distantly and longitudin-
ally with from one to six holes, big
as knitting needles, depending upon
the size of the grain.
Snake Woership in India.
Snakes, the objects of terror to
most Europeans in eastern lands, are
worshiped in many parts of India. In
some districts. there are from 15,000
to 20,000 shrines dedicated exclusive-
ly to the worship of snakes. These
shrines, which are invariably in hon-
or of one of the miner divinities of
the country, possess, in some instan-
ces, valuable properties for their
maintenance and for the cost of the
numerous cercmonies which their
keepers have to perform. In these
shrines the Hindus set up fantastic
idols of serpents. The devotees of
this strange religion make periodical
offerings of dough and milk and coolk-
ed rice to the serpents living in the
shrine in order to receive their fav-
or.— Kansas City Journal
The Englich
Our English idiom is perhaps no
worse than that of other people's
languages, but it sometimes leads even
the native into strange sayings, which
he does nct realize until it is point-
ed out to him “Can you tell me
where I can take an omnibus to
Islington?” asksd the countryman of
a policeman. “I can tell where there
is an omnibus that will take you,”
answered that precize official. Leav-
ing this to sini: in he then added more
kindly: “Want tc go to Islington?”
“I don’t want to go to Islington, but
I have to go.”’-—Londoen Chronicle.
FITS, St. Vitus’Dance: Nervous Diseases per-
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. &2 trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Idiem.
Horseflesh is growing in favor in
Belgium. It selis for about half the
price of beef or mutton, which are
seldom handied by the butchers who
sell horse meat. :
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething,softens thegums,reducesinflamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle
An epidemic of mararial fever ex-
ists at Tananarive, Madagascar, a city
of 60,000, which has resulted in the
death rate averaging S00 a month.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Sure Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E. W. Grove'ssignature ison each box. 252.
Nome Means ¢‘Home.”
It is said that the name of Nome
was the result of an error made by
some Englishman in writing a letter.
He evidently intended to write the
word “home,” but the makers of the
maps read it Neme, and thus the
name of Nome belongs to history and
the great district of Alaska. Some
authorities claim that the word Nome
is a corruption of the Indian phrase or
word knoma, meaning something like
“1 know it.”’—National Magazine.
ALMOST A SOLID SORE.
Skin Disease From Birth—Fortune
Spent on Her Without Benefit—
Doctor Cured Her With Cuticura.
“I have a cousin in Rockingham Co. who
once had a skin disease from her birth un-
til she was six years of age. Her father
had spent a fortune on her to get her
cured and none of the treatments did her
any good. Old Dr. G—— suggested that
he try the Cuticura Remedies, which he
did. When he commenced to use it the
child was almost in a solid scab. He had
used it about two months and the child
was well. 1 was there when they com-
menced to use your Cuticura Remedizs.
I stayed that week and then returned
home and stayed two weeks and then went
back and stayed with them two weeks
longer and when 1 went home I could
hardly believe she was the same child.
Her skin was as soft as a baby’s without
a scar on it. 1 have not seen her in seven-
teen years. but 1 have heard from her and
the last time I heard from her she was
well. Mrs. W. P. Inzle, Burlington, N. C,,
June 16, 190% 7
The Mexicans claim to have the
;finest harbor on the Pacific Coast at
Manzanillo. About $3,500,000 (gold)
has been spent on it, and $2,500,000
more is to be spent in perfecting it.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
Color more goods brighter and taster colors than any other dye.
dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for gree bookl
or is it
Some people call Peruna a great
great catarrh remedy.
Which of these people are right?
catarrh remedy than to call it a tonic?
Our reply is, that Peruna is both
deed, there can be no effectual catarrh
tarrh, but it must have a general tonic
dition of some mucous membrane.
stages and locations in the body.
over enthusiastic.
What is Pe=-ru=-na?
— nr ta J
is it a Catarrh Remedy, or a Tonic,
Both?
tonic. Others refer to Peruna as a
Is it more proper to call Peruna a
a tonic and a catarrh remedy. In<
remedy that is not also a tonic.
In order to thoroughly relieve any case of catarrh, a remedy must not
only have a specific action on the mucous membranes affected by the ca-
action on the nervous system.
Catarrh, even in persons who are otherwise strong, is a weakened cons=
There must be something to strengthen
the circulation, to give tone to the arteries, and to raise the vital forces.
Perhaps no vegetable remedy in the world has attracted so much at-
tention from medical writers as HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS.
ful efficacy of this herb has been recognized many years, and is growing in
its hold upon the medical profession.
COPA1BA a trio of medical agents is formed in Peruna which constitutes a
specific remedy for catarrh that in the present state of medical progress,
cannot be improved upon.. This action, reinforced by such renowned tonics
as COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS, CORYDALIS FORMOSA and CEDRON
SEED, ought to make this compound an ideal remedy for catarrh in all its
The wonder-
When joined with CUBEBS and
From a theoretical standpoint, therefore, Peruna is beyond criticism.
The use of Peruna confirms this opinion.
every quarter of the earth furnish ample evidence that this judgment is not
When practical experience confirms a well-grounded the=
ory the result is a truth that cannot be shaken.
Numberless testimonials from
BY HIS WIFE
AGENTS WANTE Outfit and Contract for
Big B
ock, 7x10, Price $2.50
Circulars Free.
SAM JONES’
LIFE AND SAYINGS
Agents are coining money. Send 50e for Canvassing
J. B. NICHOLS & C0., AT&aNT
territory.
Enterprise That Counts.
The windstorm the other day blew
off the door of James T. Proctor’s
barn, but within 10 hours he had a
man at work fixing it on again, and
teid him to never mind the cost. It is
such enterprise that has made Mid-
napore what it is today and makes
her such a formidable rival to
Okotoka.—Midnapore (Alberta) Ga-
zette.
Safe, Save and Speedy.
No external remedy ever yet devised
has so fully and unquestionably met these
three prime conditions as successfully as
Allcock’s Plasters. They are safe because
they contain no deleterious drugs and .are
manufactured upon scientific principles oi
medicine. They arc sure because nothing
goes into them except ingredients which
are exactly adapted to the purposes for
which a plaster is required. They are
speedy in their action becaus2 their medic
inal qualities go right to their work of
relieving pain and restoring the natural
and healthy performance of the functions
of muscles, nerves and skin.
Allcock’s Plasters ave the original and
genuine porous plasters and like most
meritoricus articles have been extensively
imitated, therefore always make sure and
get the genuine Allcock’s.
Animal Thieves of Africa.
The northwestern district of
Rhodesia in particular abounds in
every description of big game—ele-
phant, hippotamus, giraffe, zebra, lion,
buffalo, rhinoceros and antelope, with
other members of the deer family too
numerous to mention. (Even from the
railway great herds of game can be
seen and are in some cases quite a
nuisance. .
The elephants, for instance, have
some rooted and unaccountable ob-
jections to the mile pegs by the rail-
way line, and cause endless annoy-
ance by their habit of pulling them
out of the ground with their trunks.
The babcons, too being expert
thieves, and even burglars, are a
considerable nuisance, particularly to
storekeepers, of whose goods they
manage to filch a surprising quan-
tity.
Baboon hunting
lar sport, and the
ant—so abundant,
is a very popu-
quarry is abund-
in fact, as to be
dangerous on occasion. No single
man, even though armed with a
rifle, will venture to molest a troop
of babecons on the raid. Another
nuisance to farmers is the tebi cat,
a little tigerish beast which causes
great havoc in unprotected fowl
houses and is ruthlessly killed on
sight.—From the Country Gentleman.
Barbers of Long Ago.
The first barbers of whom there is
any record plied their trade in Greece
in the fifth century B. C. In Rome
the first barbers operated in the third
century B. C. In olden times in Eng-
land the barbers and the physician
were identical. Thus, a king's bar-
ber was alsc his chief medical ad-
viser. In the time of Henry VIII of
England laws were made concerning
barbers, of which the following is an
extract: ** No person occupying a shav-
ing or 1 ery in I.ondon shall use
any surgery, letting the blood or other
matter, except the drawing of
teeth.”
Y. M, C. A. In Mexico.
Mexico City is to have a Young
Men‘s Christian association building.
At a dinner tendered John R. Mott at
the Sanz hotel, which was attended by
the vice president of the republic and
the leading Mexican and foreign busi-
ness men, the international commit-
tee, through Mr. Mott, offered $50,000
for the building and the local sup-
porters of the Young Men’s Christian
association ar4 ondeavoring to raise
$300,000 additional.
London's Foggy Month.
November is London's worst month
for fogs. During a ‘‘good” year the
Londoner may have to breathe only
KO fogs. ‘In a very “bad’’ year he
may have to endure as many as 80.
J.ondon’s countless coal fires, ming-
lng soot with mist, concoct the Lon-
doner’s fog for him. The great ma-
jority of fogs in the metropolis begin
to forma between 7 and 8 in the morn-
ing, just when most fires are being
lighted.
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How Bird Was Named.
The secretary bird is so called be-
cause it has upon its head feathers
which suggest a pen behind the ear.
Indigenous: to South Africa, it is a
British subject now, and is represent-
ed in the London Zoo.
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Pilesin6to 14 days or money refunded. 50c.
Earth's Interior Iron.
Frequent earthquakes of late have
enormously increased scientific curi-
osity about the earth’s interior. On
this subject Sir Oliver Lodge obser-
ves in Nature that “it has long been
suspected that the earth is an iron
planet, and now, threcugh the work of
Strutt and others, the evidence hoth
fer and against is intensifying. It is
just worth noting, as a matter of sim-
ple arithmetic, that a core of ‘metal-
lic iron of density 7, covered with a
crust of rock 500 miles thick, of den-
sity 2.5, together make up average
terrestrial density 5.6, but recent evi-
dence points to a crust much thinner
than the above. It is to be hoped
that the ‘boring’ proposals cf the Hon.
Charles Parsons will before long ate
tract the attention they deserve.”
Consumpticn of Matches.
It is estimated that the United King-
dcm alone manages to consume 500,-
000,000 matches a day, which comes
out at about 12 for every man, wo-
man and child. Smokers probably
account for tie greater number, so
that they will be interested to know
that about 90 tons of wood are used
up in the form of matches every day,
or about 30,000 tons a year. If one
day’s consumption of matches were
placed end to end they would extend
for a distance of about 15,000 miles.
Sweden and Norway, where matches
are made in enormous quantities, ex-
port over 25,000 tons of wooden
matches every year. In France, where
the tax on matches averages 8 cents
an inhabitant, the consumption is
comparatively small.
“The Blood is The Life.”
Science has never gone beyond the
above simple statement of scripture. But
it has illuminated that statement and
given it a meaning ever broadening with
the increasing breadth of knowledge.
When the blood is “bad” or impure it
is not alone the body which suffers
through disease. The brain is also
clouded, We mind and judgement are
cted, an d
Foul, impure blood
can ! nre bv the nse ®f Dr,
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It
curiches and purifies the_blood thereby
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other cutancous affections, as eczema,
tetter, or salt-rhcum. hives and other
manifestations of impure blood. -
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don’t happen to have the “All-Healing
Salve” in stock, you can easily procure it
by inclosing fifty-four cents in postage
stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierce, 663 Main St.,
Buffalo, N. Y., and it will come to you by
return post. Most druggists keep it as
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