Tlio latent project of Hie Danish government In to introduce no income tax of 1 1-4 per font, it year, thoso having less tlmn 7011 clowns of in1 come being free. Onln form one of tliu principal Bel gian crops, with it n average iiiitntiil value of about 000,000. Yet quantities nre imported from the, United Htulcs, Canada, llussi.1 nud southeastern V. n rope. Train robbing appears to lmve be come n permanent anil pronpprous in dustry in the Transvaal, the lust ven ture in that directum having nctteil tho perpertrutors upward of t0, 000. Thus, even in fnr-nwny Month Africn, the w ilit western method of tnonev getting u making steady progress. The price of rice lint risen ho high in various parts of China tlnit the natives me growing to like corn meal. There is n ehnnce for American corn in the Orient on the score of cheap ness which the Middle West emi profit ly when the Nicaragua vaunt is Imilt. It will then bo possible to ship corn from there to China through u (inlf port at a price, which w ill compete w ith rice at average market rates ami afford onr farmers a steady und fairly uniform revenue. Bays the Hartford Post: Now York has expended 85,01)0,000 for a speed way for fast horses, and now it is prepared to spend $80,000 for a speed way for bicycles. Plans have been drawn for such a speedway along the road connecting the Bronx and Pel bam parks. 'Wheelmen number fiOO,. 000 in New Y'ork, or one-fifth of the the entire population. Carriage riders number about ouo per cent, of the population. . The w heelmen should have their speedway. There seems to be no question about prosperity in Chicago. Accord ing to the Inter-Ocean, tho number of people in tho poorhouso is less by 300 than it was a yo.ir a so. Tho num ber of applications for outdoor relief in November w ns the lowest on record for many years. The estimates of the conuty agent for tho poor fund are 810,001) less for 1S0H ttiau in 1807. Xo public, appeal is likely to be made by tho A-soeiated Charities. These facts go to show, as tho Titter-Ocean nays, that theve has been a general re vival of work. Money is tho truo king, exclaims the Philadelphia Kceord. The smart scheme of the German Kaiser to sell the Sultan of Turkey guns and build him w ar ships to be paid for out of the Greek indemnity thus enabling the porta to build up its independ ence of European control on the basis of late victories in war and diplomacy has l)cen nipped in the bud by Bus sin and .Austria. lluHsiit has de manded payment of tho war debt of 1878, and Austria has put in a claim for indemnification for later indebted ness which tho Bultnu has beeu forced to comply with. Thus Ger many loses fat contracts and diplo matic prestige, and the Tilt hs flndhuir legs tied by debt. The reported extension for. fifty years of the concession to the Casino company at Monto Carlo is a matter of considerable interest to the world at large. "It means," explains the New York Mail and Express, "the farther enrichment of stockholders al ready inordinately wealthy through the profit of the gaming table. But it also means which is of more im portance the impoverishment of men and women born to luxury, the squandering of millions not the prop erty of the men who squander them, broken hearts galore, and incidentally the self-murder of a goodly number of fools made desperate by ill luck. It's great place, this Monte Carlo. Tho devil is extremely fond of it." , Apropos of a stateuieut touching the ' manner in which this country has per formed its duty towards Spain in the matter of preventing filibustering, we have made iuquiry for the exact de tails from the navy department, states Harper's Weekly. The government baa maintained patrol fleet on the coast of Florida for the lust two years, consisting of the following vessels: Raleigh, Ciucinnati,Atupbitrite,Maiuel Montgomery, Newark, Dolphiu, Mar blehead, Vesuvius, Wilmington, Helena, Nashville, Annapolis, and De troit. Most of the time three vessels, have been on duty, and the cost of the service has laaged from $10,000 to 100,000 a mouth. The best witnesses to the effectiveness of this patrol ser. vioe are the filibusters themselves. If Spanish troops and warships had been as efficient against the insurgouU M onr navy has been againg filibus ters, the insurrection would have been ooaquerad long ago. WHAT SKINS AKEWOUTII ACTIVE DEMAND FOR THE PELTS OF FUR-BEARING ANIMALS. A Shin !' Through Man Manila -lllllll-a r the "f-nllrrlnr" Tim llliM-k Kin's IV It Vetches hh Mttrli as SVIIMI -Tin ViiIiip nf Various Other Miln. A phase of the fur business that dealers say promises w ell for the trade is the nctive market for skins. There's a lot of dill'eronce between fur mid skins. To the uninitiated it seems moro of a difference of terms. Gen erally speaking, one could describe the skin side of tho fur business as the wholesale end and the fur side ns tho retail end. Btrietly speaking, that would not be true, of course. Most of the houses in New York that sell furs do buy skins, as a rule, from the trappers or from tho "ship pers," who deal with the trappers. Several of the liest known houses in tlm trade go to London for most nil of their skins even for American skins. Their reason for this, one of their representatives told a Press reporter the other day, is that, as London is the clearing house of the world for furs, the pick of skins caught every where go to London for fancy prices. With tho world's supply at their command the London skin merchants eon supply a thonsnnd skins, or per haps ten thousand skins, of any grade or any shade, of any animal whose fin is brought to market. Prom the time thnt the animal is caught or shot until its skill appears on the person of a grand dumn it passes through many hands. The trapper and hunter do not ns a rule ship their products. Most of them prefer to sell to the "collector," an individual who pnys cash and makes a business of traveling through the sec tions where wild animals abound, picking up all sorts of quantities, from a half dozen skins to a thousand or even more. He ships direct to the commission merchant, who is his ngeut nud w ho may be doing business either iu New York, Boston or Lou don. ' When the skins reach New Y'ork they are sorted for color nud size and sold to the manufacturer iu lots ns wanted. Most skins come hero dried, but some, such as racoons and beaver, come with tho fat on. These either have to bo disposed of soon or dried. The treatment of the skins to make them rendy for the manufacturer is a business by itself. ' Tho most valuable skin that comes into the market "raw'' is the black fox. The quotation on this skill this fall ranges from $200 down to 1. Y'et some black fox skins have been known to bring as much as $100. There is a big drop in prices in other kinds of fox skins. Those next to tho black ones fetch from 80 nil the way down to 20 cents. The 88 and 81 kind are found in Canada and Labrador. The New Y'ork state and New England fox skins bring from 81.30 to 81.85. Marten, mink, inuskrat and skunk are the best sellers. Marten from Quebec and Labrador fetch 810, 88, 84 down to 82.50. New York ami Canada skins run all the way from 83.50 to 81.40. Iu the latter class size determines the price more than color. Mink is variously quoted irom 82.20 for Halifax, Labrador and Nova Heotia skins to 25o. and 30c. for the inferior qualities caught in New York. For prime mink in Now York and New England of ehdiee colors the prices are 81.85 and $1.75. There seems to be a big demand for skunks. The black ones fetch the best prices ;theu come the half-striped. The quotations are $1 and 90c. for the black oues, and 05c. and 60c. to 12c. The 12c, ones are the common white fellows that most of ns fear on a dark night in the country. Racoons, many of which are caught in this section, fetch from 75c. down to 25o. and 30c. A trapper must catch a good many muskrat to earn a living, for the best of these skins, although there always is a deiuaud for them, fetch only COc. and 21c. For the smaller ones only from Co. to Co., and even less, is paid. When you recall that for the smallest good fur scarf one has to pay from $5 to 815 it makes you think that there must be an enormous profit some where, or else the process of niuking the skins ready for wear muBt be ter ribly expensive. . Bear, beaver and otter come chiefly from Canada and the Provinces. A fine, large, dark otter skin is easily worth 89 to 810. Even the seooud and third best fetch from $7.50 and 83-50. Beaver, while not much iu de mand of late years, sells readily at from $3.50 to 85 for the best and from $3 to $1 for the other grades. Bear skins have been more active than usual this year, and one manu facturer accounts for it by the num ber of men who are fitting out for the Klondike. Fine black bear skins fetch $20 and $22; medium are quoted at 812 to $14.- Fisher are pretty good things to trap, for prime skins fetch $9 and $10, while other grades sell for them 86.C0 down to $4. flarmoa Army's Colored Bandmaster. Babao el Cher is the only colored bandmaster in the German army. He is at the head of the musio corps of the Royal Prussian regiment of gren adiers, King Frederick III (No. 1 EaBt Prussiau), which garrisons Koenigs berg, Prussia. Baboo el Cher is aaid to be remarkably handsome. His father was born in lower Egypt. Priuoe Albrecht cf Prussia found him at the court of the kedive and brought him to Berlin. Ha married German woman. Babao el Cher played the violin when he was eight years old and received an excellent musical edu cation. The band is in great de mand, Chicago Chronicle, BREAD TH WORLD OVER. Tal linn forms nflhn HtnlTiif Mr In Ml feri'iit Counlrlrs ofthn f-lnrth. "It Is a enrious nml ftiterestfnp study," says the superintendent of the baking department in a certain in dustrial school, "to compare the vari ous materials w Inch serve the different nations of the world ns the basis ol tlutr bread, in this country,' where good bread, made from spring and all wheat Hour, is w ithin the reach of nil. Barely a thought is given to the fact that, after all, the inhabitants of only a small portion of tho earth's surface enjoy such a food, "In the remoter parts of Bwedcn the poor people make nud bake theii rye bread twice a year, nud store the loaves away so thnt eventually they nre as hard as bricks. Further north still bread is made from barley and oats. In Lapland, oats, with the in ner bark of the pine, are used. The tw'o, together, w-ell ground and mixed, are made into large flat rakes, cooked in a pan over the fire. In drenry Kamchatka, piuo or birch bark by it self, well macerated, pounded and baked,- frequently constitutes the whole oi the native bread food. lite Icelander scrapes the Iceland moss' off the rocks and grinds it into fine flour, which serves both for bread anil puddings. In some parts of (Siberia, China, and other rnstorn countries n fairly palatablo bread is made from buckw heat. In parts of Italy chest nuts are cooked, ground into meal and used for making bread. Durre, variety of the millet, is much used in the countries of India, Egypt, Arabia, nud Asia Minor for making bread. Itiee bread is the staple food of the Chinese, Japanese, and a Inrge portiou of the inhabitants of India. In Persia the bread is made from rice flour and milk; it is called 'Law-ash.' "The Persian oven is built iu the ground, about the size of a barrel. The sides are smooth mason work. The tire is built nt the bottom and kept burning until the wall or sides of tho oven nro thoroughly boated. Enough dough to form a sheet about a foot wide nud about two feet long is thrown on the bench nud rolled until about ns thin ns sole leather, then it is taken up and tossed and rolled from one arm to the other and flung on a board and slapped oil the sido of tho oven. It takes only a few moments to bake, nud when baked it is spreud out to cool. This bread is cheap (one cent a sheet); it is sweet and nourish ing. A specimen of the 'hungry bread' from Armenia is made of clover seed flux or linseed meal, mixed v, ith edible grass. In the Molucca islands tho starchy pith of the sago palm furnishes ii white floury meul. This is made up' into flat, oblong loaves, which are baked iu curious little ovens, each oven being divided into oblong cells to receive the loaves. Bread is also made of roots iu some parts of Africa nud Bouth America. It is mndo from manioc tubers. These roots nro a deadly poison if eaten in the raw state, but make a good food if properly pre pared. To prepare it for bread, the roots are soaked for several days in water, thus washing out the poison; the fibers are picked out, dried and ground into flour. This is mixed with milk if obtainable, if not, water is used, Tho dough is formed into little round loaves, and bnkod iu hot ashes or dried iu tho sun." Good House keeping. - A Motinluln (Tlmhlnu; 'ut. The Dent du Midi in the Vnlnis possesses a strange specimen of the feline. This is a cat which bus lately joined the Alpiue club, and whose mountaiueering exploits are a theme for the sparse columns of Bwiss news papers. The cut of the mountains came upon the scene suddenly, and no one knows from where. It had already reached mouths of discretion when it took up its habitation and profession in the mountain hospice, and it is now to be seen most duys ut the foot of tho Pent du Midi, not fat from Balnnfe. Here this remarkable tabby comes to meet the mountain eers on their start, and follows them iu their ascent like a dog only dogs do not as a rule show any fancy for the high Alps. It accompanies them to the very summit, and shares the climbers' frugal fare. Indeed, it is supposed to be for the sakes of the broken fragments that the Alpiue cat makes its ascent. Times have been bad for man and boast in the ponring rains which have very much dampened the autumn joy of the Bwiss tourist in the Valais. Perhaps even the cats find it hard to make an honest living, but surely to make a daily ascent of 3185 metres for the sake of a scanty lunch is to take life too seriously. Or Ih it that in lordly contempt of the runiue race the ani mal means one day to emulate the faithful hound of Bt. Bernard' The cat it has been said, has never been able to forget that onoe it was wor shipped in ancient Egypt. Here is a feline which means to equal the no blest traditions of a glorious past. Something Now In Barbara, The traveling barber is something new iu the way of mnkiug a living. Equipped with full set of tools and all the necessary material, he goes from door to door soliciting "shaves" and hair-cuts. Not only does he at tend to the wants of men, but ladies also receive careful attention at the hands of this wandering tonsorial art ist. He has the custom of some bf the best families, aud sometimes apeuds an entire day at one house, be ginning by cutting the hair of the smallest tot and ending his day's work by dressing my ludy'H hair. One of these professional "lock changers" ia also an expert linguist, having mastered French, German, Italian, Bpanisb, and, of course, Eng lish, He has his own ideas about style and always wears a white suit and cap, AI5M ('Hi-enrtlm (Ini-ilen. If the garden is thoroughly nndor ilrnined, ns it always ought to be, it should bo full plowed iu ridges nud tho surface left rough, so ns to expose the soil ns much as possible to freezing. This is the more necessary because the garden is always a shel tered spot, w here snow lies much of tho winter.sn thnt there are few times when the soil freezes very deeply, Tho garden is always the richest spot on tho farm. It often is what the Beotch furmers cnll "much midden" or heavy with manure. It needs the winter's freezing to lighten the soil and make its fertility available. I.nto drown Turnlis There is no crop grown so easily and with so little cost as lnte-growii turnips iu n field of well-cultivated corn. The shndo of the corn will keep the turnips from growing much until tho corn is rut. Possibly also their growth will be cheeked by the demand of the corn roots for plant food. But in the Indian summer thnt follows the first frost the turnips will make rapid growth, ns they will then have all the land for their own use. The turnip will endure n pretty heavy frost, nud grow again if warm weather follows it. Hut in our climate turnips cannot bo left iu tho ground all win ter as they are in England. American Cultivator. I'lierry Trrea Htiuitllng III flriins. Our experience with cherry trees is that they do not require cultivation. Those w e had in the garden wero al ways more liable to rot nml to be nf fected by insects than the trees that stood in dry places nml surrounded by grass. It may be that it is tho extra moisture in thn cultivated soil that predisposes cherries to rot, or it may lie tho manure annually applied to tho garden and to which the cherry tree roots helped themselves freely. The cherry tree does not do well with wet feet. Ou high, dry land its roots will run deeply enough to find all the moisture it needs, and ou such land iu grass is the best to plan cherries for profitable fruiting. YnluooMfng Manure. Hog manure is popularly supposed so be very rich, partly because hogs are always fed on grain or other very concentrated food, nud also because they ure so neat that they always de posit thoir excrement by itself un mixed with bedding, as .will nnimals thnt nro genernlly supposed to be much more cleanly thnu the hog. Y'et hog mauuro is generally slow to beat, though after fermeutatiou has once beguu it progresses very rapidly. One reason why mauuro from the hog is richer thnu from other animals is beeuuso the hog uses more of the car bon iu his food to turn into fat, and less of tho phosphate and nitrogen to change into bono and lean meat. No domestio auiuinl when fattened has so large a proportion of bone as compared with its total weight as has the hog. Apple I'ntllneo Feed. There is considerable nutriment in poniuco ns it comes from the mill. Btock will eat it quite rendily if fed before it begins to ferment. This, however, it doos very soon if exposed to the air. Consequently it is best to place the pomace in air-tight burrels or hogsheads, so ns to keep air from it, and cover the pomnce with some thing thnt will hold dow n the carbonic acid gns aud prevent its escape as it forms. This is really ensilaging it. The pomace itself has not nutritive value to mnke this worth while. Its chief value is its succuleuey, and it should bo fed with grain, hay or meal, so as to give the proper proportion of nutrition. When put up iu air-tight barrels und kept slightly below freez ing temperutnro there will be no more fermentation in the pomace than thero is iu tho silo, aud it can bo used till lute in tho winter. Ityo Aftur Turnips. Turnips are the latest crop to be harvested, and as they continue to grow alter light frosts, there is uot much chance to put iu a later crop after them. Of course nothing can be grown and mature the same season after turnips are oft'. But winter rye will boar to be sown very Into if the laud is ouly rich enough. We have knowu rye to be sown lute in Novem ber and barely peep above the surface the same year. But it grew a little more during the January thaw,' aud the next year made as good a crop, and us early also, as rye sown two mouths earlier, which made a growth that covered the ground in the full. Iu each cuse all the spring growth had to be made from the root. Where thnt is established the richness of the soil has more to do iu making full-sown grain ripen early thnu does its growth tho preceding full. I.lnsvoil v. t'utlon-RWod Meal, While fully grown nnimals with strong digestive orguns ran eat cotton-seed meal properly diluted with tiaw or hay without serious injury, v it is doubtful whether it is advisable to mako this part of their ration. Liu seed meal can bo purchased nt about the same price ns cotton-seed meal, and has equal nutritivn value. The new process meal is the kind geuor ally used. It is not so fattening ns tho old process meal, because more of its oil has been expressed. Flaxseed whole is a very rich feed, and if boilod so ns to swelUt out nil that hot water ran do it may be given to cnttle.shoep or horses with safety. Only a very little should be given at a time, ns the oil in it makes it very laxative, nud n small amount dally is better than more. There is nothing better for an animal's hair than a little flaxseed daily. It will insure the shiny coat which iu either cow or horse is always a sign of thrift. American Cultivator. llnnkltiK Knrlh Arnnml Trees. As it is often done, the banking of soil around trees in fall to prevent mice from barking them does more harm than good. If any sod, w eeds or other rubbish nro included in bank ing up the tree, the object is not only defeated, but the liability to injury is increased. The purpose should be to oblige the mice to climb up above the snow line and expose themsolves to their enemies while gnawing the tree. This they will rnrely do, for much of this work is done at night wheu their natural enemy, the owl is most watch ful. But if the mice find vncaut spaces around the tree, as they surely can if sod or rubbish are used, thoy ran work tinder this protection with grenter safety than if the tree were not banked at nil. Btill it is better to bank young apple trees, at least as high ns the snow line usually conies. The warmth from the tree makes a vacant space in the snow all around it, nud it is under this protection thnt most of the destructive work is done. Warning to Dnlrymen. The Country Gentleman, under the bending, "Boware of Auiliuo Butter Color," publishes a column of affida vits to prove that n little child about two years old got hold of a bottle of one of the fashionables makes of but ter color, got some of it in its mouth, nud iu a few hours died from plain symptoms of poisoning. Later ft healthy grown cat was made to swal low ii spoonful of the coloring matter, and was a dead cat in twenty-four hours, w ith all the signs of poisoning. The Country Gentleman says this brand of coloring matter was con demned by the Pennsylvania experi ment station, but does not name it. I suppose the best one can do under the circumstances, says a writer iu Home and Farm, is to require a writ ten statement from the maker that there is uo uniline iu the article of fered for sale. There are some brands free from this objectionable article, aud the makers should make haste to lot the but termakers know who they are. Would it really make much dif ference to the makers of 11 uo butter if coloring matter was forbidden by law? I think it would be a good thing. It ia a horrid stuff at best. Ilrhornril C.'nttlo Nell llrttcr. A circular issued by a cnttlo com mission company that is in no way supposed to be prejudiced on the sub ject beyond making more money for both buyer and seller says: "Dehorned cnttle sell better than horned cuttle for all purposes. They are preferred by shippers, feeders and packers. They look better, feed better, sell hotter, kill out hotter. The man who feeds horned cattle is handicapped from 10 to 25 cents per hundred weight in most cases." This is all iu relation to beef cattle, and wheu we come to consider the dairy the man who cultivates horns is still further on the wrong side of the fence. Why a herd of cows should be ever and eternally ou the move, each cow trying to get behind the other oow to get awuy from those ever pres ent spikes on a cow's head, surpasses human comprehension, wheu an hour's work would take them off and give each cow in the herd a lifetime of rest. That is oue objection to handling thoroughbred Jerseys; the fashion requires horns ou their heads, but I have seen quite a number of dehorned Jersey cows of late, to say nothing of lots of bulls. Home aud Farm. Tho Church Bell. The church bell is another one of the relics of barbarism with which civili zation could readily dispense. Biuce the general introduction of olocks aud watches) tho bell has really lost its significance. Certainly it can be classed among the "needless noises." In the days of Paulus of Nola, in the A. 1. 400, when the custom first had its origin, the ringing of bells may have been necessary to call people to places of worship and this was the sole purpose of the first church bell but iu this present year, so near the beginning of the tweutieth century, there is surely no noed of such an alarm as is sometimes sounded from the iron throat of the average church bell to summon people well supplied with timepieces to their chosen place of worship. American Medical Month- A Dublin lawyer, writing of an es tate he has just bought, said : "There is a chapel upou it, iu which my wife and I wish to be buried if God spares our lives." THE "NEGATIVE" EAR. Strange Inslillllr of Some Proilo to I'n tlorntiiml Human Lnngnngft. Mrs. Lounsbnry of Chicago, who for ten years has been training pupils of a deaf-mute asvluin, has decided to devote herself to the education of the "negative" ear. While nt the asylum she discovered thnt one of her pupils, could hear, but could not appreciate the different shn les of tone. Hhe studied and experimented, with tho result that she found children classed is deaf-mutes who wero afflicted only with n sort of "color blindness of the ear," that prevented them from dis tinguishing the different tones of the sounds they heard. Bhe called tide affliction "the negative car." Says the Chicago Tribune: In n California institution for deaf mutes Mrs. Lounsbnry discovered nine children possessed of the "negative" ear. They could hear as well as any 5iie, hear even a whisper, but they acre utterly unable to discern shades .if tone, and so could not understand language. in an eastern school she once fun ml l young woman who had spent almost her whole life in the institution, ahnd learned the sign language and lip rending, and yet could hear perfectly. Had this fact been discovered early in life, six months' or a year's twin ing would have fitted her to enter tlm public schools nud obtain an education with other children ;but she had never made a sound, and her parents thitnght her deaf and mute. Among the pupils afflicted in this way now receiving instruction in ipeeeli there nre two particularly in teresting cases. One is that of a nnsll boy of twelve years, whose psr ?nts thought him an idiot, and whose language is so twisted and filled with lubstitutioiis of incorrect sounds that so one who has not made a study of ais attempts can understand what he lays. Yet he is bright, nctive and talka tive, and thinks he can talk a com mon delusion among persons so troubled. He has been studying now nly tw o weeks, but already his speech Is becoming better, and one or two words spoken in every sentence are .-ICItl lJf tqiOKCU. Tho other caso is that of a young man, who had grown to manhood q enking a language wholly unintelli gible to others, but without finding ut what was tho matter with him. Iu i month he has learned to tulk fairly (veil, and in a few months more will bo in n position to enter upon activo business life. Tho method of curing the "nega livo" ear is no less stia-ige than the 'rouble itself. It is, of course, im possible to tench the child through words spoken by others, or it would lave learned in the natural manner. Instead, the process is reversed. The ;hild is taught to speak correctly by instructing it in the positions of the uouth and tongue, and the words ipokett nre mnde to teach the ear. Tho child s own tongue cultivates its :ar. No other tongue can do it. DISLIKE RESTRAINT. Mrlnl-Cnttlng llrf-tles und How The.v Work -A YnrAtnn rroflitrllon, F. W. Devoe presented nn interest ing subject for the considorat tn of the Now York Microscopical society. As a result of long study of bet-tie linbits ho brought before the society qmciinens of the metal-cutting beetles nid of their wonderful work. The first metal-cutting beetle which Mr. Devoe became possessed of was one sent to him from Yucatan. He inclosed the specimen in a cardboard box. The next morning thn be, Hie was found enjoying his ease about the room, und a hole in tho side of the box showed the manner of his exit. He was then placed iu a glass jar with s black walnut cover. That he cut through tho next night. He was re placed iu thejur,andn metaleover, per forated with a few oirboles.was placed over it. The bottle did not begin work on this cover for abont a week, but at the end of that time, witltin tho space of forty-eight hours, be had cut an opening between two of the holes large enough to get part of his body through. With more time he would have enlarged the opening sufficiently to admit of his escape. Mr. Devoe has had several speci mens of the metal-cutting beetle since. They measure in length from four and a half to five centimeters, ntul iu breadth from one and a half to two centimeters. Their backs are covered with little knobs, in lines, and their sides with yellowish scales. Their aut-snnie have from nine to eleven joints. They nre very slow, deliber ate walkers, aud are chiefly active i the darkness. Mr. Devoe had several specimen ou exhibition, with samples of their cutting powers. He also exhibited plutes representing in magnified form the beetle's dissected head - and jaws and the jar covers which had been cut. New York Tribune. ' A Mortgaged Cat. There are very few articles that can not be mortgaged, but wheu the clerks iu the county clerk's office recently took a chattel mortgage to file, and, looking over the list of articles, they found a cat, they were perfeotly duni fouuded. They say they have seen many a strange thing ntortgagod, but uever before saw a cat. The mort gage was given by Charles Arnold to J. Claus, aud it ia hard to aay what would be done if the cat ran away. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. liittuvneo of li's oo Our Volros. Bays Dr. H. L. Hastings, iu The Journal of Medicine and Bcieuce: "Women go with their necks bare, aud men keep theirs swathed and baud aged; aud ten womeu have sweet voices to oue man. A man's voice should be as pure as a woman's. Why is it not? He is choked aud shaved."
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