BITTEN BY A SCORPION. A Doctor's 1 orriblo Experience in the Wilds of Mexico, Dr. George Mullet, of Brooklyn City, wlio is on his way to the mining camps of the interior of Mexico, writes from Las Yedras the following story of his journey and his experience with a scor pion : "I started across country on mule back with a dangerous-looking guide, whom I feared at any moment might out my thr. at while a'deep for the little money I had; fortunately, he did noth ing of the kind and turned out to be a very goad man. The third night out I had an experience that I would not re peat for all the wealth of Mexico. It was just dark, about 7.30, when I discov ered a light by the side of a mountain and thought it would be a good time tc camp, as we had been in the saddle al most constantly since 3 o'clock that morning. We made for it and found n little slmiity inhabited by two horrible looking specimens of humanity in the most abbrevia'ed of costumes. "The guide told them we wanted tc stop all night, and the female prepared a c rncake for me. As they of course Lid no chairs, 1 sat ou a low stool in front of the tire to eat it. I was scarce ly seated before I felt something on my neck, and putting my hand up, felt an excee iingly severe sting on my left in dex finger. It almost made me howl. I immediately tied my handkerchief about it ami stopped the circulation and thou sucked it, and the old woman parted with a chow of tobacco for it. In about ten minutes the stinging ceased and ] thought it was all over, when intense vertigo came on with much vomiting and retching, then a sense of great weakness ami collapse, accompanied by a profuse cold perspiration, then a sharp tingling began in the bitten finger, ex tending over the hand and up the arm, then the other arm and hand, then both feet they tingled and stung like au elec trical current, and yet they were com pletely dead to all external impressions, and I could scarcely move them; then my face began to feel the same way. I called for water and was terrified to find that I had lost all sense of taste and my jaw wa3 getting still' and I could scarce ly articulate at all. "Just imagine my feelings— 110 one near but those ulmo t savages, ami they understanding not a word 1 said, and the horrible sense impending death due to the depression caused by the poison. I tried to ask if there was a doctor anywhe o near, but could not even speak English now, and of course they did not understand me. It was pimply horrible, and I thought surely I was dying, for the dead feeling seemed to be extending, and I could scarcely move a muscle. With a great effort I made signs for a bottle of clnret that I happened to have in my bag, to use in case of bad water. Most of this I drank, and it braced mo up some so that I made them understand that I wanted hot water, and it seemed almost a year before they got any. When it came, although they could not bear their hands in it, I put both hands and feet into it without feeling it. Then I made them rub hard, And this they did all night, ?hd by morning I slept for about two hours, being perfe ;tly exhausted. On awaking I felt much better; my limbs tingled just as though they were asleep, but I could use them; by mov ing about the sonsution began to return. "As soon as I could got up I got into tl:.s saddle again, hoping to reach some civilization in enso I should get worse. The journey was just half over, so I pushed on for Yedras and soon found that the exercise was of benefit; the tin gling ceased, and by that night I could taste the food. I ate the next morning and had no of the previous night's experience, except a loss of sensibility in my left arm and hand and a feeling of great weakness. Now, five days after, I am entirely well, oxeept that I have no feeling at all iu my left index finger and half of back of forearm up to the elbow. I was told here that it was a scorpion that bit me ami that I was lucky in get ting out of it so easily. I am all right now and apprehend no further trouble." The Dairying Business. Chatting recently with ex-Senator Warner Miller, lie told mo that the dairying business was the largest single industry in the United States, 'lho facts ore simply stupendous, when they tiro considered, as I found by question ing ?, leading merchant in the produeo line to day. He told me that there are over#2,ooo,ooo,oooinvested in dairying, nil amount almost double the money iuvosted in banking and commercial industries. It is estimated that it re unites 15,000,000 cows to supply the demand for milk and its products in the United States. To feed those cows 00,000,000 acres of land are under cul tivation. The agriculture and dairy machinery and implements in use are worth over $200,000,000. The men em ployed in the business number 750,000 una the horses over 1,000,000. The cows uml horses eousumo annually 30,- 0(10,01X1 tons of hay, nearly 00,000,000 bushels eornmeal, about the same jimount of oatmeal, 275,001,000 bushels ot oat), 2,000,000 bushels of bran, and 30,fk.0,000 bushels of corn, to say noth ing of the brewery grain, sprouts and other questionable feed of various kinds that are used to a great extent. It costs $450,(100,000 to feed these cows and horses. The average price paid to the labor necessary in the dairy business is probably S2O a month, amounting to $1 H0,000,00 ) a year. The average cow yields about 450 gallons of milk a year, which gives a total product of G,750,- 000,000 gallons. Twelve cents a gallon is a fair price to estimate the value of this milk at a tolal return to the dairy funnel's of $810,000,000, if they sold all their milk as milk. But 50 per cent, of the milk is made into cheese and butter. It takes 27 pounds of milk to make 1 pound of butter, and about 10 pounds to make lof cheese. There is the samo amount of nutrition in 8 1-2 pounds of milk lliat there is in 1 pound of beef. A fat steer furnishes 50 per cent, of boneless beef, but it would require about 24,000,000 steers, weighing 1,500 pounds each, to produce the same amount of nutrition as the annual milk product does.—[New York Graphic. FornTEP.N years ago Joseph Buteliel saw a little fellow knocked down by the liorsc drawing a street oar oil which ho was riding in Portland, Oregon. The driver's head was turned, and Butcliel, grabbing the re.'ns with one hand, wheeled the horse away from the child, and with the other grasped him just as ll, ( i wheel was about to urush him. The lather, W. C. Johnson, was profuso in thanks, and then the afl'air was appa rently forgotten. The child grew, and on his eighteenth birthday Mr. Butchel was invited to Mr. Johnson's office, where he foaml the family assembled. The boy made a nont speech, and hand ed his surprised rescuer a gold-headed cane, inscribed, "From W. C'arey John soil, Juno '27, 188!', in memory of a brave deed, 1875. I owe you my boy's life." The acknowledgment was a lit tle slow in coming, but it got there just the awe, Deadly Arrow Poison. Most of the arrow poisons of Africa hitherto known have been of vegetable origin, indeed, all the famous poisons are of this nature. Mr. H. M. Stanley lias added one poison to the list which does not appear to he a product of the vegetable kingdom. In the Lower Con go district Mr. Stanley's force was as sailed by a tribe of dwarfs, who used poisoned arrows. Five members of tiie expedition were hit by these arrows, four (black men) dying very shortly after, their sufferings having been in tense. The fifth man, Lieutenant Stairs, had a narrow escape. The poison of the arrow which hit him had been dry, and so ho did not experience the full toxicity of tho barb. It was afterward found that the poison is manufactured from he dried bodies of red ants, or pismires, ground into powder, cooked in palm oil and smeared over tho wooden points of tho arrows. What is the nature of tho poison which causes death ? Tho Lancet says it is formic acid, which exists in the free state in red ants, and is in the pure state so cor rosive, that it produces blistors on tho skin. Hence there is little ground, says our contemporary, for doubting that it was the "deadly irritant by which so many men had been lost with such ter rible suffering." Tho multitude of curious insects encountered, which ren dered their lives "as miserable as they could well be," bears out Mr. Stanley's idea, that many similar poisons could bo prepared from insects. It certainly is strango that, with tiie exception of cantharides, and perhaps of blatta ori entalis, the insect world is so little used for active therapeutics. Not forgetting the fact that homoeopaths have long had that respect for tho insoct kingdom which tlio Lancet desires, we may men tion that ptomaines as a source of toxicity are more likely than formic acid to have produced the paralytic symptoms which were oxhihitod by the dying men.—(New England Druggist. The Corean Embassy Enjoys Itself. The Coreans certainly appear to en joy life in Washington to the full, and they seom determined to " catch on" witli all the latest fads and amusements of the day. At a handsome billiard table in tlicir commodious mansion in lowa Circle they hugely enjoy their initiation into the recondite mysteries of tho "carom," while on hot summer evenings recently they were seen strol ling in tho garden, nay, ovou sitting on the front door steps in approved Wash ington stylo, and taking a kindly inter est in tho various babies of tho neigh borhood whoso mammas ami nurses passed with them along the sidewalk. The Coreans, moreovor, appear to have become passionately fond of the intri cate and mysterious game of croquet, for thoy havo hud an adjoining vacant lot fenced in, which makes an excellent crcouet ground. Here the gentlemen of tlio legation, with their wives, used to play during the early summer with great onjoymeut; and even upon occa sion, would greet a lucky hit with hearty laughter and loud cries of "Lothor g-o!" "G-o-o-d 8-h-o-t!" "L-eth-e-r w e-n-t!"and like expressions so dear to tho American heart, while their pecu liar patriotic methods of resting upon their mallets—somewhat after the soden tary*nannor of tho " tailors of Tooley street"—merely added a rare Eastern flavor to tho kindly scene. Possibly it is this genial bonhomie which has led the members of tho Chinese Embassy to abate somewhat of tho hauteur born of claims to suzerainty, and to call often on tho legation in lowa Circle. In any case our Corean visitors have evidently somo counterpart in their "Celestial" language for the old proverb : " When you are iu Rome do as tho Romans do." —| New York Tribune. Two of "Old Hickory's" Slaves. Two of General Jackson's old slaves are still living at tho Hermitage. One is "old Alfred," who has convinced himself, and would like to convince all who visit the placo, that he was tho body servant of his master. The truth of history coiiqiels tho statement that this is a figment of his imagination. Hannah's claims aro, however, beyond all doubt or controversy. Thoy rest on the solid foundation of fact. She was a trusted, confidential household servant long before General Jackson became President, and it was in her arms that Mrs. Jackson died in 1828. Her ago is at least ninety-five. When James Par ton visited the Hermitage, about 1800, ho was struck by tho great number of vigorous old people whom ho met, and this sentence occurs in his '• Life of Jackson" : "Old Hannah, for example, whose care of tlio children at tho Her mitage Jackson extols, is now sixty seven years of age, and she appears to be still in tho very prime of her vigor. She strode about the Hermitage with us ou a chilly, wet day in February, bare headed, with a spring in her stop that belongs to thirty five. When informed of her age I stared incredulous." Nine and-tweuty anniversaries of that chilly, wet morning in February huve come and gone and Hannah, says Mrs. Dorris, "is so well preserved to day as to load to doubts as to her age, and is as bright, animated and spry as a woman of forty, and much inoro so than many of that age." " I'se a sassy nigger, I is, and I be longed to a sassy white man," is the way she puts it. To observe her drop one of her old fashioned curtsies is worth going miles to see. " How old are you, Aunt Hannah ?" " I'se ninety-five yoars old, an' ef you don't believe it, jes you go up here and look at Jeemes K. Polk's tomb, an' I'se jes one year older deu he is." —[New York World. A Strange Place for a Bomb. The death of Signer Bottesini, the great double-bass plaver, gives rise to many interesting reminiscences. In one curious incident of his life. Count Bsc. ciocchi, Master of Ceremonies to Napo leon 111. was concerned. Bottesini had been commanded to play at tlio Tuilor ies, and iu the antechamber he was ac costed by the Count with tho astonish ing inquiry whether his double bass was "empty or full." It was not until the Court functionary had made a minute inspection of tho instrument that the explanation was afforded. The Orsini attempt to blow up the Emperor with a bomb, it seems, had scared the otfieials, tho 'gh how au explosive could have been smuggled into a contra basso is uot quite clear.—[New York Tribuno. Why He Retired Prematurely. It was the absent-minded man who said: "I went home and lighted my candle, but beforo going to bed I thought I would smoke a cigar. I look ed everywhere for a match, but as I could not find one I blew out my candle and went to bed," Why didn't youtako a light from tliooandle /" was the query. "I never thought of it," was the reply. —[Boston Journal, A RULING PASSION. Strange Bet Made by Two Dying Consumptive Gamblers. That the rilling passion asserts itself even in the very face of the grim de stroyer is an axiom old as the hilLs. Its truth was evidenced by an incident which recently occurred at the San Francisco City and County Hospital, and which was related to a Chronicle reporter. Some months ago two consumptives in the last stages of the disease lay dying on cots in close proximity to each other. Both victims were sports, who by dissi pation had contracted phthisis in its most aggravated form. One was known as Bill Cunningham, a young gambler who had enjoyed the reputation among his class of being a reckless bottcr on the turn of a card. The other was an English sailor named Staples, whose sole passion was to wager whatever lie possessed in support of any opinion which he might express. The nature of the men, in this particular at least, was identical, and both recognized each other in a sense as brothers in misfor tune. As they lay on their cots, hag gard and hollow-eyed and gasping for hrcuth, they daily wasted the remnant, of their vital forces in bantering one another about their appearance. "I say, Staples," said Cunningham one morning in a voice scarcely above a hoarse whisper, "you're looking blue. Better brace up, old man." Staples, who really reemed to bo a dead man as lie lay almost breathless witli his glazed eyes half onen and mouth widely distended, pullca himself together with an indignant jerk and made a vain attempt to raise himself upon his arm, "Billy:" said he, "you're wrong. To prove it I'll bet you a dollar, the size of my pot, that I'll outlive ye." "I'll sec that bet," replied Billy with a faint smile. An attendant was chosen as stake holder and the money (all they possess ed) was p'aced in his hands. Then bo gun the struggle of these men to see who could retain the spark of life longest. At a distance of five feet the two dying men glanced at one uuothor, each eager to show the other that his stock of vital ity was the greater. Cunningham l>at tied bravely, but he \\ns the first to show signs of weakening. He finally resum ed his old position, but it could bo seen that bis respiratory aotion was failing. Suddenly l|e gave one great gasp, and with that sigh the spark of his life, pre maturely cut of)', was extinguished. "I've won the bet," said Staples, as he took the stake money with a gratified smile. Cunningham's body was at once re moved to the hospital morgue. The at tendant had followed tho cortege to the door and returned immediately to Stapl es' cot. Scarcely live minutes had passed since Cunningham had expired, but when tho attendant glanced at Staples he saw that lie, too, was dead. The last pot which ho had raked in was clasped in his right hand. T1 o grip was viso liko and an instrument was employed to remove tho silver from the stiffened, unwilling fingers of the corpse. Imitation Antique Furniture. This is the way in which tho manu factureis of imitation antique furniture produce tho goods they sell. If a desk is the • iclo to be disposed of they have out: final touch to add that exeitos unqualified admiration for its ingenui ty. To cover up an artificial crack in one of tho drawers they paste over it a portion of a real letter,properly smoked, ro i Uohert Morris or some other revo lt t onary person whoso epistolary mis- K.V A come cheap at fifty cents apiece or so, in the autographic market at this day. One letter U3ed in this manner will servo for several escritoires, and thus tho purposes both of economy and chronological vosoinh'anco are satisfac torily served. Candlesticks and and irons in biass are done ad infinitum in the same fashion as tho knobs above spoken of. The audi ions, however, arc first done intowcod for models, and then cast from the latter, with applications of pumice and gunpowder to follow. A special branch of the work has to do with clocks of the ancient upright pat tern, which aro copied in every detail from tho really old ones. Even the metal faces, with their curious numer als, are imitated, and the works of modorn pattern a:o permitted to lio in a dusty oornor and oxi dize comfortably while tho framework is in process of construction. There is nothing, the makors say, in tho lino of back-number furniture that cannot bo reproduced at a few days' notice from brand new materials, and yet so like tho old that no ordinary person could pos sibly tell the difference.—[Washington Star. The Peanut Crop. According to a correspondent of tho New York Post, 3,200,000 bushels of peanuts are consumed in this country every year. They eomo chiefly from Virginia and North Carolina, although Tennessee also produces a small crop. "Peanuts are planted at corn-planting time. Each kernel produces a running vine, like crab grass, and each root produces about twenty pods. When ripe, the plow is run through the loamy soil, on a dry day, just before frost. Tho nuts aro dried and shocked up like corn to keep dry before housing. When marketed they go to a cleaner, whore thoy are put through steam power machines and polished, alter which thoy are graded according to sizo and variety. This year there is but two thirds of a crop, and thoy aro high er in price than since 1881. The crop begins to come into tho market about tho first of September. The Virginia nut is the largest and finest. The Wil mington is a smaller sort, and the Span ish nut, a still smaller variety, is one whoi-e kernels peel perfectly clean, thus making it valuable for confectionery." The Hottest Weather Known. "What is the hottest weather ever known in the United States?" The question is answered in the bulletin of the Kentucky Statistical Weather Sor vice. The h ghost temperature record ed by tho United States Signal Service was at Plioouix and Fort McDowell, Ariz., in June, 1883. Tho thermometer marked 119 degrees. However, unoffi cial observers report temperature as high as 128 degrees ami 122 degrees at Mammoth Tank and Humboldt, Cal. Tho coldest weather rocorded by tho service was CD degrees below zero at Poplar River, Mon. But this is a warm place compared with Wend oj in.sk, Si beria, the coldest inhabited ip it on tho face of the globe. The thermometer there lias been us low as 1)0 degroes bo low zero. In vielv of these figures let jas not complain of a paltry 90 degrees ibove zero,—[Louisville Post, NOTES AND COMMENTS. AN association composed of ex Con- ! federate soldiers is attempting to raise j a fnnd to erect a monument over the graves of 7,000 soldiers of the Confeder ! ate Army, who died while prisoners of ' war at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, j "and who now lie in unmarked and ne glected graves at Oak wood Cemetery, near that city." A BODY of five female sanitary police ' is now established in Chicago, under the appointment of the Commissioner of Health, according to an ordinance of the City Council. The duty of the new female sanitary police is to inspect fac tories and tenements for the protection of the health of working women. There 1 will probably be an effort to secure a I ' body of the same kind in New York. | 1 I THE immigration from Italy to New 1 York continues to be heavy, and almost 1 every day of the week swarms of the 1 sturdy children of the various Ita'iau { provinces may bo seen at Castle Garden. | All Americans who visit Castle Garden are surprised by the muscularity, solidi- j 1 ty, and strength of many of tlie olive 1 complexioned Italian women who are to ' be seen there. ' I THE Sunday closing movement is 1 < spreading from trade to tia le in Phila- ' i delphia. From the barbers and the i laundry men it has now extended to the bakers, most of whom now do consider able work upon Sunday. The bakers i have determined to appeal to the Legis lature of Pennsylvania to pass a law prohibiting the opening of bakeries on Sunday. Tan Campbell air-ship, an ingenious ! combination of gas bags and rotary lans, : lias gone the way of ail flying-machines, j says Dr. Oswald in the Cincinnati Fn- ' quirer. The art of flying in a calm will no doubt continue to improve with the evolution of Y'ankee inventiveness, but !' the ideal of aerial navigation will always encounter the horns of an inevitable dilemma: Wind-resisting strength at the mercy of gravitation; or buoyancy at the mercy of the winds. ELECTIONS are to be held this year in j fifteen States. The four new ones, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are to choose their Con gressmen, as well as State officers and ! legislators. Kentucky votes for a State Treasurer. Ohio, Virginia, New Jersey, j Massachusetts, lowa, and Mississippi j will elect Governors. In New York, i the Secretary of State is the highest of- j fleer ohoson ;in Pennsylvania, the State • Treasurer; in Nebraska, a judge of the j I Supreme Court, and in Maryland, the j Comptroller. THE generally accepted theory that a 1 warm suminor follows a cold winter, and 1 vice-versa,lias been examined by London 1 Science with the aid of temperature f records made in the same place, under j the same conditions, twice a day for ' forty years. Science cannot find any * rule on the subject and conies to the j conclusion that no estimate can be ' formed in regard to the character of a coming season merely by knowing the character of the past season of any greater value than could bo gained by more guessing. , THE fearful menace to life by elec tricity in new applictions to commercial needs is strikingly illustrated by the re port of the deaths from accidental causes in New York City in 1888. Though electrical appliances arc used for almost every purpose and electrical wires inter lace the city, yet of 1,258 deaths only five were caused by electrical wires. This, declares the Commercial Ad- j vertiser, conclusively shows that the facts and figures are against the con stant howl about the dangers from elec tricity. TIIE London Pall Mall Gazette says the heads of the Danish police have in troduced away of suppressing intern- ; perance which is both simple and origi- i nal. If a man is found drunk in tho ■ streets or at public places a cab is hired and he is taken home. If he is | too intoxicated to be communicated with he is taken to a police station and kept till he is able to give his address, when | ho is taken home by cab, and the pub lican who has given the last glass of drink to the victim is made responsible for tho cab fares, which sometimes j amount to a considerable sum. THE future of Australia for tho next thirty years will rest with the engineers. : Tho recent discoveries of underground ' rivers in tho most arid portions of the continent have given those words a great er significance. The dilliculty of Aus tralia has always been tho fear that tho land will not support a large population. These discoveries of water dispel that fear. It now appears that tho volumes \ of rain which fall about once in five 1 years over tho greater part of the Au- j stralian continent, covering with floods the plains which for four years previous-1 ly have not known more mo'sture than might be given in England by a good | fall of dew, find their way through the porous soil into channels ami chambers beneath tho surface, where, at a depth of one or two thousand fee., they pro vide an inexhaustible store of the most pre iious commodity known to the Au stralian splatter. THE investment of foreign capital in American industries is increasing at a rapid rate. Aside from the 850,000,00.) or more which English capitalists are reported as having expended in the purchase of breweries in tho leading cities, many millions of English capital have been used to establish and develop entirely new enterprises—for instance, to open mines, build railroads, con struct iron furnaces and steel works, lay out cattle ranches, develop timber re sources and so on adJinitum . Home of these investments have been very heavy; in tho vicinity of ( umberland Gap, on the line between southeastern Kentucky and east Tennessee, $1,000,000 has al ready lie 311 spent by the American As sociation, limited, of London, in devel oping an iron, steel and railroad centre, and $5,000,000 additional has been sub scribed for the further prosecution of the work. Even on the Pacific coast large manufacturing enterprises are bo ing put under way bv foreign capital. NATURAL gas lias been discovered in Sonoma County, Cal., and in view of this cheap fuel the people of San Fran cisco see "in their mind's eye" that city developing into a great manufactur ing centre. Tho San Francisco Chron icle says that if there is abundance of the gas the fact "moans more to San Francihco than half a dozen mw trans continental railroads." Cable curs are rim at tho rule o. fourteen miles un buur in parts ol Chicago Skin Grafting. When large areas of the skin are de | stroyed, as happens in the case of severe burns or extensive injuries, it is soiue j times months before the surface is again 1 covered with epidermis, ltepair may have gone on till the surface is on a ! level with the surrounding parts, and all that remains is for the skin to creep in from the edges ; but this process, | especially in persons weakened by long confinement in bed, is very slow, and | the constant discharge of matter from | the open surface causes irritation, as ' well as weakness. It has been known for many years that a flap of skin might be lifted from : its p'ace and made to adhere in an ad | joining spot, provided its connection j with the surrounding skin were not cut j off. But now we can go farther than i tliis. In 1869 a French physician dis covered that small bits of sound skin I might be snipped off and applied to the surface of the sore, and that under cer- l tain conditions they would adhere anil form new centres from which the pro cess of healing might go on. I In order to have the grafts "take" i well, the surface of the ulcer must be in | a suitable condition. If it is rough, or j | discharges too freely, or proje.-ts too far i ! above the surrounding level, there is j j danger that the small bits of skin will ! i fall off. The process is as follows: The surface j ; of the ulcer, as well as that of the sound j skin from which the grafts are to bo : taken, having been carefully o loan set] j with carbolic acid, or other solution j that serves the same purpose, the hit of j suin is picked up in a small pair of I forceps or on the point of a noodle, and is snipped off with a pair of sharp scissors ! or a small knife. Only the superficial j layer of skin is taken, and if this is j i properly done there is no bice ling. I 'lho bit of skin, which is generally ; not larger than the head of a pin, is | j then placed firmly upon the nicer, with ! the cut side down, and preferably about j a quarter of an inch from the free bor- ' tier. A line of grafts may be placed at I , equal distances completely across the \ denuded surface, and thus a bridge of j skin is soon formed, for the grafts spread j < and unite, and thus convert the original ulcer into two smaller ones. By a aim | ilar process these two parts may bo again divided, and the process coutiu uod till the whole surface is covorod. In a few instances larger portions of skin have been made to grow to the j ulcerated surface, but in general the I smaller bits cause repair t<> go on as lapidly, and are more easily applied ■ and eared for.—| Youth's Com pan ion. Jefferson's Tree. j Did you oversee Jefferson's tree in any of your strolls down the avenue near the Capitol < asks the Washington Crit ; ie. Of course overyone knows the trudi- j tion of how the third President rode to ' | his in nimu ration on horseback, and, : reaching Tiber Crock, ho found it too ' muddy to ford, for the bridge had for Bomo reason been removed or swept j away. So he tied his horse to a tiee on tlio bank and walked across the little ' footway that had boon temporarily erect | od. Few have seon this tree, though nearly everyone in the city has passed | beneath its spreading boughs. , It stands close to the fence just inside 1 of the Botanical Gardens, and its branch- | es ox tend over into the streot. It is a ; stunted old affair, not much to look at j as a tiling of beauty, but it goes as a i ' relic. Mr. Smith makes a sort of pet of j the tiling. He says it is over 200 years j old, the patriarch of the Washington | treo world. It is the father of hundreds ; of trees scattered over the city, and its | children do not consider themselves I above their neighbors because the Fatli j or of Democracy happened to tie his I horse to 0119 of the branches of their j parent a fow months before lie was made President. A NOVEL use is made of the electric | light 011 the St. Lawrence Biver, near j the Thousand Islands resorts. One of I the lights has been placed at the end of I a yard arm 011 I ho steamer St. Lawrence, j which has a dynamo aboard. The light j stands in front of a powerful reflector;] and as tho boat steams about at night ' among the islands the search light is east upon them, revealing with startl ing distinctness their beauty ami the beauty of the landscape. I Have you tried "Tniisill's Punch" t'igur? | l'jX-l'icHidcait Mot'onli, of I'riiieolnn College, ' 1H spi'iiiliug I In- TIN in IIMT in Miiinc. j All Run Down i l'.-om tho woakoulng effects of warm weather, by hard work, or from 0 long Illness, you need a good tonic and blood purUWr. Hood's Snrsupnrllla give* ! r. good appetite, strengthens tho whole system, purl has tho blood, regulates tho digestlou. "It affords mo much pleasure to recomm ntJ Hood's Bursaparilla. My health two years ago was 1 vory poor. My friends though'# I was going with consumption. I conunencod using Hood's S/isa parUla, took flvo bottles of It, and to-day I can do as bard a day's work as I over could. It saved we from tho grave and put me on my feot a sound, healthy man."- WIIJ. It. D. TIUBBHT, 141 East Main tit., Wiggonsvlllo, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla Hold by all druggists. 91; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. I IQO Poses One Dollar ■ PISO'h Remedy for Catarrh Is the SHj Best, Easiest to Use, and C heapest | M ■ Hold by druggists or sent by mall. 50c. K. T. Hart-It Inc. Warren, l'u. Kg THE EDWARD UARRISOK JUt XXs Xj CO., und dura Ity . responsible parties. JLow I*rlees. ' or issue end montion this neper. The Xdwerd lliirrlsou Mill Co., New Savon. Oonu. " " olUr When Vfievfinxi blows your f i re. itis useless to Kre yaujfseljl" WSKmf HbouV hedf ofyour toifc&n b® by the .use ofS%polla It doesn't nuke us tired to tell about the merits of SAPOLIO. Thousands of women in the United States thank us every hour of their lives for having told them of SAPOLIO. Its use saves many weary hours of toil in house-cleaning. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Grocers often substitute cheaper goods for SAPOLIO to make a better profit Send back such articles, and insist upon having just what you ordered. ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO.. NEW YORK. Gradations in Authority. Authority on board of a atoaniboat is nu interesting study. It runs on a slid ing sca'e, but unlike tho gamut it only slidos one way. This is bad for lower "C" on the stcambout, but ho has to stand it. A good illustration of how the thing works was given the other afternoon just above Madison street bridge. The cap fain of a steamer was trying to make a landing at tho dock, but the operation was attended with some ditti- ; • culty. A line from the bow had been run out and made fust to a post, but the I vessel's stern was swung oil into the ' stream. The skipper with a scowl on his I brow stood 011 the bridge film ft- tho wheel ; house and stared at the first mute, who j was hustling around 011 tho hurricane roof amidships. Down below 011 the quarter deck the second mate was help- j ing tho third mate and a dock hand to take the turns out of tho stern lino, which was snarled up 011 deck instead of being fast 011 tho dock. "Mr. Olsen," said tho captain in 11 j ; gentlemanly tone of voice to the tirst mate, "why in thunder don't you get that line o it, you long, lean, lank, ' j knock-kneed, tar-tuinte l wreck of return I ing reason ( Don't you see we're > swinging oil'?" "Aye, aye, sir," Mr. Olson replied, re I spectfully touching his cap to the skip per. Then Mr. Olson leaned far over tho : rail, and raising his voice he called the j second male's attention to a matter of ! great importance. j "Mr. f'oterson," ho yelled, "what's j eating you, tow headed, block eyed luh | k;' r 'Do you want toehoko tho stream < , del a move on you, and bo quick about it." I "Aye, aye, sir," was Mr. Peterson's | response to this delicate attention 10 ; eeived from his superior, lie then gave | the third mate some instructions. "Swanson," lut gently but firmly re i mat ke.l, "I'll crack your blooming skull J it you don't hump yourself, you gaunt eyed, bow-legged, stock fish feeder! Hear a hand tlioro. Lively, uow, and j get that lino out !*' ! "Aye, ayo, sir," said Swanson in a humble voice. Then Swanson gave the deck hand, who gets Sl'2 per month, a clout on the side of the bend which knocked him down. Then he jumped on him with b .til feet ami shouted: "Why don't you pay out that slern lino, you low-lived, white-livered, mule eared, hog baeked, slab sided, bench-logged molli giubber ! What nro we paying you for if" And lie finished on tho poor man with a kick in the l ibs, I The deck hand ran tho lino out and : made the boat fust. Then ho wont down in the hold, where he anointed his per , i son and clubbed himself with a hand j spike. —[Chicago Times. If Dobbins'* Elect rlo Soap is what so many tnsiat that It is, y.u cannot afford to g.> without * .45 9 rocer ha -? It, or cuu got ft, ami you can aeculc for yourself very aoon. Don't let an other Monday pass without trying it. j Lobster catchers along the rouM "( ; Netvlouiiilluud arc having N very MU<- tWiil | If afflicted witli nm eyes use Or Isaac 'I Uotup : lon'a Eye Water- Druggist* scH'JSc imr buttle ' ' ( It is said that the hair of the Empress Car- i lotta, Iho widow of Maximilian, is now snow i white. (J l\:\ USE Nthcofe 2? OiL P AX3XT . AT DttuaoisTa AND DBALXM. ! TNI CHARLII A. VOGELER CO.. taitlmara. Hi. GALIFORHIA. Extra inducements ore now offered to the man of limited menus. A colony of the best people Is now being formed for the "rentrutin Colony" In the Sunlit Anna Valley. I. OH Auvrlei County, California. CENTRALIA Str.tlou, on South ern Pocinc It. It., l on those lands. Only ton miles from the ocean, Boat lands In tho State ut $45 to gOO per acre. 1 lirce crops por j oar (first two with I out Irrigation). The second crop will pay for tho land, will guarantee one hundred bushels of corn i and 350 bushels of potatoes per acre. Will grow tho ! I orange, lonion, fig, peach, plum, prune, olive, cher- • ricH, pears, grapes, raisins, walnuts, small fruits, ' alfalfa, groin, and all vegetables to pcrfootton. Kino ' perpetual-flowing artesian wells. No winter, no I storms, no sudden changes, no lightning, no sun- i strokes, no blizzards, no lee, no snow, no oxcesftlve . heat tu the summer. Cool nights, and with all a perfect climate. Only '43 miles front Los Angeles (A city of 80,000 people). Throe miles from Anaheim 1 (a town of 2600). The entire valley fairly settled with prosperous farmers and fruit growers. A SBSOO school house on the laud. Free Transport atlou to all I.aud Buyers. Two Grauu Ex cuvalnna lu Pullman Tourist Cars, August I 20 and September 3. 'B9. Fare (N. T. to L Angoloa), JM.75. Correspondence invited. Call or address , F. PIUTCHAKD, l'roi.'r, 317 Broadway, N. Y. UKKfIitKNCE. ANUKUUI NOAIID or TOADS, ) ; Los AXUULKH, CAU, May 27, 1889. J | To W/iom it Mau Oonoern—Tbe bearer, Mr. U. F. I Prltchard, of Los Angeles; California, Is the owner of two thousand acres of land In tho Souta Anus Vallsy, 22 miles southeast of Loa Angeles and Is visiting the cast for thu purposo of colonising tlu sumu. Having soeu tho land myself I can testify or to Its good quality, etc., and heartily recommend Mr. I'rltehord as o thoroughly trustworthy man, i and know that he la aide to and will fulfill any eon ' tracu he may make. U. W. VAN ALBTINE, fmml gratlon Agent, Los Angeles Tloard of Trade. Es*- LATEST IMPROVED HORSEPOWER Machine* for Til It EHiUNC; At I.KANINO (•ruin, also .11 Mcbiiicw turNAWIMJ U OOU an with Circular and Croaa- Aeknowledfed Cut Draff Nuns, regarding EASY DRAFT. DURASILIT* t QUANTITY OF WORK feT'SMSS ft.W. GRAY'S SONS. PATKNTKKG AND SOI.G MAXUVAOTI'HKHS. JHDBLKTOHN NI'KIMGb, Vt JOSEPH H. HUN tftter® lfl a man in our town And ho ig very wlae, sir, When e'er he doesn't feel just light 1 One remedy he tries, sir. It's juat tho thing to take in spring The b'ood (o purify, c tells his friends, and nothing else Is ho induced to try , Decause, having taken Dr. Pierce's Guidon Medical Discovery to cleanse his system, bine It up and enrich the blood, and finding that ifc ahvavs pioduces thu desired result, he consid ers that ho would \w> foolish to experiment with anything use. lib motto is: "Prove all nil! il i h () hl fnst to that which is good." That a why ho pins bis faith to tho "Golden Medical Discovery." Walking odvorttsomenta for Dr. Sago's Ca tarrh licmody aro tho thousands it has cured. A company is being Conned in llio Argcn -1 tine Itcpuhlic lor tlm purpose of holding a | world s exhibition at. Ihicnos Ay res. WHAT CALIFORNIA OFFKICM. A free ride to California lu Pullman Ton rial Cars •",,r --i The question of leprosy in India is assuiu ! ing a scriioiK cherneler. It is reported Mint a British brigadier-general has been sent home Willi H,e disease. PEERLESS DIES SOLD BY Ia: 11 (ultra AiSd^Z"^ 1 . i SPS *■ HOUR the' iifc.'pEKii'lnl; >| KDICAL CO., Richmond. Vt,. AP> to 98 a day. Samples worth * J. 1J Free, .feffl Linea not under horses' feet. Write Brew- Wv HlerSnlci v It .-in Holder Co.. Holly,Mich FARMS LANDS I nil IIIU Curat it HuffeU, 933 Hroadway, y. Y. P~~ ENSIONS rAMWttSffR sertoiH telieved. Laws free A. \v. ItlcCor mieli A .S4ii-.,Cinciim;t i. (> . A Washington, DO CALIFORNIA FREE EXCURSIONS. A Grand Excursion to California. Free ride to lanil buyers. Extra inducements offerod. Keo Mr. Pritchard'sadvertisement, "CALIFORNIA." m'i'O 9*sJo A MONTH can be made working for UN. Agents preferrod who cau furuisn a horse aud give their whole time to the business. Spare moments may be profitably employed also. A fow vacancies In towns and cities. It. F. JOHN SON * CO., 1000 Main St.. ltlchmoud, Va. N. 11. Please state ay and business experience. Nuf mind about tendi.ijj stamp for reply. D. F. J. 11 Co, OFjOl !w*(X)LI.K?U AX StißntSTOttTomce 06,'y \VUiioU4U fifr _ CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PjLLS. CLlvliuli r Vhcmicl! t: u .) t JONES" P A JONES'" OF 'bingham' ton. UINUIIAIUTON. N. V. #DUTC H E R'S FLY KILLER Makes a clean swoop. F.vory sheet >VHI kill a quart of tiles. Stops buz/lug around ears, diving ut eyos, tickling your noao, skips hard words and se cures peace at trifling expenao. Soud •2.1 ceutH for 3 sheets to F. DUTCH Kit, St. Albans, Vt. j 1 pre *p r,b fj a° d fully sii "■ Ua-NrnfAIIAM, M I|, rahutichi'm'tiioe. "b. h'DYCHE* co.. 91.00. Bold Uy Drufgliti, j 1 BptgFOMLOO. How If y tb in king of bulldhig AbeJUSO >' o u ough I to buy the new boo*, I'ullleer'H Ainerlrun Arch* Itcci are. ur every man a complete builder.prepared by Palllßcr, FalllserA Co,, tlje well known erohlteota There it not a builder or any one intending tg fculld or otherwise interested thut can afford to be without Jt. It Is a practical work and everybody buys U. The beat, cheapest and must nopular work eve* latuedou Building. Nourly four hundred drawings. A $6 book liik-lrc and atyle.but wo have determined to make It meet the popular demand, to anit the timea. ao that it can be easily reached by all. This book contains U4 pages llxlt Inches In size, and consists of large oxl2 plate pages, giving plans, elevations, perspective views, descriptions, ownorr ■anus, actual cost of eonstiui-tlcTi.uo UIICHM work. ALi instructions Itovv t Build 70 CoUßges, Villas, Jiouble Houses. Brick Block Houbos, suitable fol city suburbs, town aud country, bouses for the farm sua worklugiueu's homos for ull sctlous of the country, anacosttDtr from t"*X) to tc.600; also Barns. StLbles, School Ha-USO, Town Hall. Churches sut! otner public buildincs. together wltn ape clfl cat ions, form ot contract, und a Ur.u amount of luformntloj on the erection '/ buildingp, selection of site, cin> Cloyment of Architects, ft Is worth $6 to any one ut we will send it In paper cover by mail, postpaid, on receipt of $1.00; bound lu cloth $2.00. ABCIHTKCT CQ„ 13 Vsiid#water St.. New York New looks! JUST OUT! Pleasures of Life. - 25e. IlyHir John Lubbock Just for Fun, - - 10c. Hand Shadows on Wall, 10c. Silver, oi l oi 2 omit poßtago Hi&nipa. A llil I QhH, r PARAGON BOOK CO., No, 15 Vaiidcwat or St root, NEW YOUR, N. Y. M fl | a arter ALL others Dr. Lobb,™ Twenty ycors' continuous prnctlon In the Irene went and cure of the utvlul elTnnl, of envly I.?""'. 1 ;* both 11 " n ' 1 l>n ' l '"'