SECRETS OF THE SKIN.I HOW A YOUNG LADY MAY KEEP A FINE COMPLEXION. Exercise Freely, Eat Properly, Keep Clean, and Don't Kalsomine Dis ease Over. Exercise and again exorcise! This is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of exhortation. Exere'se! Ho shall your eyes be bright and your skin clear, soft, satin smooth and healthy. It is as easy to have a fine complexion as a good education, and the means are just as certain, if you w ill but discipline the body with liaif the care bestowed 011 the mind. What does the average girl of your acquaintance do if she finds a pimply blotch 011 her forehead ? She smears her face with chalk and carmine, covers the dirty paste with a dotted veil and saunters t >ward the confectioner's to buy bon-bons to secure a new growth of block heads in full bloom to morrow morning. What is the line of action of the girl who freckles ? She lies on a sofa in a dark parlor and no er ventures out of doors before sunset without powder ing he: self a quarter of an inch thick and voting the summer months one long speckled horror. If your skin is faded in color, sallow, and will not catch the delicious pink glow of the last novel you rend,exercise. If it is losing the elasticity it had when you were younger, if it looks flabby,and pallid and old, exercise. If it lias be come coarse in texture and full of min ute holes, if it is sickly, blotchy and ir ritable, exercise till it smiles and gra. e, freshness and fairness make it dimple and beam once more. Wash it first. It is shocking to think how many an exquisite skin is ruined lor the lack of fre pieut and thorough bathing. The damage done by such neglect can never bo remedied by all the unguents, lotions and cosmetics ever invented. The hue and cry raised against the use of soap an.l water 011 tho face is the veriest stuff and nonsense. Nothing is better lor the skin of any part of the body than warm water and imported castilo soap, unperfuraod, made of clear olive o land acknowledged by chemists to be absolutely pure. Let I'atti wash her fan e with cold cream and actresses innumerab'e wipe away dust and stage make up and perspiration with vaseline only ; between you and me, to clog tlie skin indefinitely with sour milk or grease is a filthy trick unworthy of common intelligence. Did it over occur to you that the skin wants exercise and gets very little ? Nothing is a better tonic for the com plexion than a brisk cold sponge bath <•11 rising, followed by a vigorous rubbing with si dry towel not too coarse, tho face and neck receiving their full sharo of the friction unless the skin bo very sensitive, in which case the bare hands may be tho instrument instead of linen. This sets the blood to moving briskly and e!o trifles the system. At bedtime n warm bath may be taken and tho face should be washed slowly, carefully and thoroughly with warm w ator and castilo soap. The oily matter exuding from the skin catches minute particles of dust which cannot be removed in any other way, and many eruptions on the face arc caused by nothing else than neglect of this simple precaution. After this wholesomo cleansing dip the face into a basin of clear, cold water, opening and shutting the eyes under the s irfaoe, and the flesh will be left lb in and healthy. This entire process will take barely ten minutes in the morning and twenty at night, and can if needful be taken from the regular sleep, the bath being quite as restful and refreshing. After such u cleaning t-lio skin is ready to bo taken out of doors, l>nt it must, bo fed before going. A simple nutritious diet is just as no essary to a lino completion as rain and sunshine nvo to llowers. A taste for wholesome food often hecnis to need us much caro ful cultivation as a taste for good read- j ing instead of trashy novels. Will the j woman who makes herself bilious with strong coffee be sallow ? Slio will. Will ( the giil who pro few pickles and pink iee cream to roast beef or juicy beefsteak j hate blackheads ? Most assuredly she will. Let the woman whose skin is dull, thick, yellowo I with moth patches ami suggisli, eschew chocolate, gravy | and grease, salads end sweetmeats, or; eat them in small quantities and under ; the most favorable conditions. Let her . eat good beefsteak, the soft part of fresh ' clams scalded in their juice, broiled fresh fish, fresh apples or peaches with cream, and 11 give the face a color un- j fermented grape juice or malt extract nil-1 brown bread. If the digestion is bad, and a poor skin is traceable to this 1 cause, let her eat toasted crackers with I fruit juice, beefsteak chopped raw and browned, clam broth, grape juice, soft ■ boiled eggs and whole wheat bread. If j she is thin and wishes to gain at once flesh and color let her eat only what J satisfies hunger and eat very slowly, but j eat vegetables and fruits of all kinds, c mrsc bread and simply eookod meats ii\o or six times a day if slio craves them, and drink a pint of milk just be- 1 fore going to sleep. If she is fleshy and yet anaemic let her reduce her weight i ami make blood by eating good beef-! steak, lettuce, tomatoes, string beans, I cabbage and cauliflower. Let her eat j whole wheat bread and abjure cuke and i pastry. And what to do with a skin which after bathing and after dieting still looks languid and unhealthy like a plant grown in a cellar? Why. exer cise. We women stitch our trials and our losses and crosses into scarfs, cur tails and doyleys when we should take our woes out into sunshine; they need air and light. We should i ouml down our pa : ns, walk our quick. Arm foot steps, and as the tired heart all uncon scious beats an accompanymont to the flying feet, and the soft air gently touches the (lushed cheek in sympathy and the g ad warm sunshine rests on the face in loving benediction, the paiu will bo hushed and the now strength and the new vigor will add new graces. There is one glory of the sun and an other of the moon, and one star differs from another star in beauty. Women are not horn e p'.al in personal uttrac tiveness, hut any girl, not positively de formed, call bo bred to be lovely as our gilds are bred to hold their arm down at their sides, to bo "ladylike" and to "graduate." To begin with, it ought to be part of every girl's education to learn to run. Running is as natural to a healthy girl as breathing, but it is carefully trained out of her at as early uu age as possible, and who over saw a grown woman who possessed that su preme grace of motion ? To see a woman run is to see a goose waddling. Did yoji over look at a frieze of Greek girls run ning in any c'assic collection ? Did it not nnpress you with i s beauty, hea'th and sweetness, its joy in living? Could you look at the round, supple limbs, in htinct with grace and freedom, the short tunics, the lightness and poise of the figures without feeling that those large eyed, sound lunge.l creatures were what woman was meant to be ? Many dis orders of the complexion come from functional difficulties, and to be able to run is to possess strong liips which bear life's burdens early. Find a woman who has made a stir in the beauty market or on the stage and you tiiul a girl who was a hoyden, a Peg Wellington who sold oranges, the Gun nings who were madcaps, a Jersey Lily who ran wild with her brothers, a Mary Anderson who got her matchless com plexion from tliebluegrass of Kentucky. It is seldom anything more than a se •- ond rate beauty which is developed in city drawing rooms. The pose of the archer as the arrow is loosed is said to be the most graceful a woman can as sume. To paddle a canoe—not row a boat which is a very different mutter — is a wonderful specific to round the arms and fill out the chest developing a deep-bosomed Diaua. To throw u stone stretches the muscles, and to climb and jump and swim and fence the box and i run races trains ddwn the figure, makes firm the muscles and gi\es the ease and lightness of varied motion, of force and good staying power to the whole body, j All these exercises aerate the blood and make a living woman, not a creature in petticoats with mush in her skull where she should have bra ns. To be able to walk is a grand thing for the com plexion, really to walk three, four or five miles at a quick, brisk pace, instead of leisurely strolling through the park or stupefying one's self with half a day's shopping in crowded, heated stores. Exercise, and in order that you may exercise, breathe. Take yourself out of doors and stand with your weight rest ing on the balls of both feet, not on the heels. Draw in the chin, hold the head erect, throw the chest out so that a lino dropped perpendicularly from it would touch the toes, let your shoulders alone, draw in the abdomen, then forci bly fill and employ the lungs, compel ling the vital breathing organs to work to their utmost capacity. Do this for ten or twenty minutes every day. No tonic will be found more beneficial to impure blood and a general condition of lassitude. This of itself ought sensibly to freshen the complexion if practiced for six months persistently. A bad skin means bad blood, and bad blood culls aloud for exercise. And if one sunburns ? If one objects to sunburn, or if it becomes painful, there is always hot wator or steam. Wash the face half-a dozen times a day j with u soit sponge, in wator as liot as you can endure without screaming. Mop the skin dry and lepeat the opera tion. This will whiten the face, and sometimes it will dim the lustre of a • chronically rol nose. Steam the face over a kett'e of hot water ten ■minutes I daily. This is another perfectly inno cent bleach, good for moth patches and sallow nets as well as tan. It has a i somewhat persuasive effect on wrinkles. I And if one fieckles? If you eat coarse i bread and grits and attend to the bath ing dire -tions, you will bo less likely to be troubled, but powdered sulphur mixed into a paste with lemon juice and spread 011 the face at bed time, will be found a good preventive after a dav in the sun and wind. And 110 powder? Skin diseases don't want to bo kalso mined over in their unoleanness, lmS cured by food, cleanliness and exercise. I —[Courier-Journal. Courtship in Australia. 1 44 How did vou manage to win her af -1 fectionsso quickly, Dan ? The recoipe's j worth knowing." "Oh, that was simple enough," re plied he. 44 The first night that I ar rived at the lodging house in Auckland I found myself sitting next to a young woman at supper, who I soon found was one of the newly arrived emigrants. I looked her over and saw she was a round, strong, clieery-looking lass, with a laughing face, and thought she'd do. I : didn't know how to go fooliu' around her (as I am certain you would have done, sir; no offense to you), but just spoke a word or two with her, an 1 when out in the passage gave her a squeeze and a kiss. Says she, 4 How dare you ?' 44 Says I, 4 1 want to marry you, my i dear.' | 44 4 Marry me!' cries she, laughing; j 4 Why I don't know you.' ! 44 4 No m re do I you, my dear,' says I, 1 4 so that makes it all fair and e jual.' 44 She didn't know how to put a olap j per 011 that, so she only laughed, and s lid she couldn't think of it." 4 4 4 Not think of it,' says 1, artful-like, 'not when you have come all these thousands of miles for the purpose ? " I 44 4 What do you mean?' siys she, slaring. | 44 'C< me now,' says I, 4 don't tell me. I know what's wha . When a man im ; migrationiz.es it's to get work ; when a j woman innnigrationizes it's to get mar -1 lied. You may as well do it at once.' 44 Well, she g'ggled a bit and we wcro j splico l two days uf erward." The Regular Way. | One evening, a few years ago, the late j Elijah M. Haines, of Illinois, was called i upon to preside at a meeting of lawyers | assembled in Springfield for the purpose I of considering the bo t means of 1 assing a bill then pending in the Legislature. ! Mr. Ha ues, on taking the chair, ex -1 plained the put-noses of the meeting and suggested what lie thought would be the best way to insure the bill's passage. In terrupting him, a gentleman in one of j the rear seats rose, and said: I 44 8y the way, Mr. Chairman, if I may j make a suggestion right here" 44 The gentleman's suggestion is a very g.HKI one,"sa d the keen chairman. 4 'How do you know?" asked the gen tlomnn a little miffed. "I have'ntmade it yet." "Oh," replied Mr. Haines, 44 1 thought you said 'buy the way,' and I am sure that is the quickest and easiest means of obtaining away to pass a bill." They Were All Cynics. "Good morning, gentlemen," said the new comer as he joined a group this morning. "It isn't a good morning," responded one of those greeted. "I mean I hope you have had a good morning," said number one. "But we haven't," came the unani mous leply. "What I meant," said the new comer, "was that I hope you would have hud a good morning if it had been a good morning." "We would, but as it wasn't, we didn't." was the reply. "Well, then, good afternoon," said the new comer, mid off he walked.— [Providence Telegram. Perils of Aeronautism. A Chicago paper says that "during the last twenty-five years, 110 loss than 300 aeronauts, amateur and professional, have been killed or drownea during as censions." The Times is mistaken about this. The aeronauts were killed or drowned just aVr their ascensions. An Irish friend of ours, who received u broken arm while being thrashed about in an apple tree by a balloon, saya ''There's not so much danger, ye know, in goin' up in a balloon as comin' down in that sarno, D'ye wind ?" SIOUX AS NEIGHBORS.' WHAT SETTLERS WILL FIND IN THE NEW TERRITORY. The Prospective Price of the Land and the Indian's Future. The Great Sioux Reservation, bound ed by the Missouri River 011 the east, extending to the South Dakota line on the west and south, and embracing the ' lands west of the Missouri and south of the Cannon Rail River, except the Black Hills terr tory, contains nearly j twenty-one million acres of laud. Of • this the Indians have by recent treaty I consented to cede to the Government i nearly one-half, or, according to the best computation, about nine million acres. The lands will bo most easily accessible from the points where the railroads touch the Missouri River, and from far-out districts along the Elkhoru Vallev Railroad 011 the Black Hills. The nearest approaches to tho reser vation by rail arc at Chamberlain and Pierre, in Dakota. Crossing the river at Chamberlain < ne finds himself in the midst of u fine grove of cottonwood tim ber, extending in a narrow fringe along the stream in either direction. The soil here and, in fact, in all bluffs alone tho Missouri River in this region is what is known as gumbo, and a stickier, nastier, more disagreeable substance 011 a wet day cannot be found. Where there is a sufficient amount of sand mingled with this gumbo lino crops of corn, oats and wheat can be produced. Six miles south from the crossing of tho Missouri is tho mouth of the White River, which forms tho south boundary of the land ceded, The character of the soil here is differ ent from that in the vicinity of the Mis souri River, being sandy loam and less susceptible to droughts, which have been the rule there for several years. The valloy of the White River, for about ten miles from the mouth is quite wide, and so far as cultivated it has been found very fertile, even under 1 such careless, liaplia/ard cultivation as an Indian or squatter gives the land. This valley of the White perhaps offers as good opportunities for fanning as any part of tho reservation, being far enough south to lie within the corn-producing belt, and having a warm, rich soil, with open sub soil, retaining moisture well. Continuing up the White River for j nearly a hundred milos above the forks, where the Little White River joins with the river from the south, tho oountry is found to be adapted solely to grazing purposes, being much broken by abrupt hills, covered with a short, but nutri tious giass called by the stockmen who have grazed their herds upon it alkali, or bunch grass. Cattle grazing upon this grass fatten very rapidly, being ready for market in August or Septem ber. The same general description ap plies to Bad River which has been given of the White River. To summarize all descriptions of these lands and givo them in the form of a manual for tho homeseeker is a difficult task. Differences of opinion will exist in individuals, and tho country which pleases one may cause another to feel disgusted. The bottom lands along the stroams affords tho best facilities for general agriculture, the soil being in nearly all eases deeper, richer, and less ( susceptible to droughts. For stock rais- 1 ingand grazing the region lying in tho j extreme western part ami at the head waters of the White and Bad Rivers ! will bo found most available. The tim- j ber will be found along the rivers and creoks, and very little in any other j place. Home of thodoei>cr gulches have scraggy pines, oaks and cedars grow ing j in them, but not enough for any practi cal purposes. Two railroads now ter minate at the Missouri River and will extend their lines across the territory now thrown open for sett'emeut. In conclusion, let it be understood that this territory is not a paradise, where industry, economy and shrewd j ness arc not necessary for success. There is 110 more certainty of a full re j turn from seed sown iu this region than j in any other, but it is equally ns sure. The homeseeker who conies hero must docide to undergo and forego. There j will attach to this region all the disc >lll- | forts which are the usual uecompuni j monts of every first settlement. According t< the act of Congress 1111- | dor which tho agreement was made, the | unrelinquished portion of the Sioux | Reservation is divided into six ro-ervu ! tions, as follows: Standing Rock, Cliey- ■ onne River, Lower Brule, Crow Creek, | Pino Ridge, and Rosebud, so seperated that a largo portion of I lie relinquished part of tho reservation dividos them in- | to sets of two, one sot being on the nor ' thern end of the reservation, another 011 tho eastern, and the third 011 the s >uth ern. The land thrown open to settle , ment will aggregate about 11,000,000] acres, and will be disposed of by the j United States to actual settlers only at the following rates: One dollar and j twenty-fivo cents per acre for all lands taken within the first thioo years after ; tho act takes effect, 75 cents per acre for all lands disposed of within the succeed j ing two years, and 50 cents per acre, for the residue of tho lands then undis- ' posed of. All lands still open to settle- j ment under the agroement at the end of j ton years from the taking effect of the act shall be accepted by the United States at 50 cents per acre, which i amount shall bo added to and credited to tho Indiuns as part of their perma-: nent fund. The act provides for furnishing the necessary seed to tho Indians for two years, for which adequate appropriation is made. 111 addition thereto t' e:e is to be set apart tho sum of &3, (XX),()(.'(), which is to be deposited in the United States Tronsury to tho credit of the Sioux Nation of Indians as a permanent fund, the interest of which, at 5 per cunt, per annum, is to be appropriated under the direction of the Secretary of tho Interior to the use of tho Indians. After the Government has been reim bursed for the money expended for tho Indians under the provisions of tho act, the Secretary of the Interior may iu Ins discretion exp nd, in addition to the in terest of the permanent fund, not to ex ceed 10 per cent, per annum of the prin cipal of the fund 111 the employment of farmers and in tho purchase of agricul tural implements, teams, Arc., necessary to assist tho Indians in agricultural pur suits. At the end of fifty ye rs the fund is to be expended for the purpose of pro moting education, civilization, and self support among tho Indians, or otherwise distributed among them as Congress may determine. All the new reserva tions include the land in the vicinity of the agencies where the Indians are now living. The land to be thrown open to settlement is not occupied at present by the Indians. Tho number of Indians on the reservation is 22,567. Tho act provides that tho agreement as now entered into must be submitted to Congress at its next sossion for ratifi cation. 111 the event that the agreement is approved and 110 further legislation is enacted, tho Secretary of the Interior will proceed to carry into effect tho pro visions of the law. Mr. A. T. Lea, an agent of the Inter ior Department, is now in Dakota and has been ordered to proceed to take a census of the Indians with a view of as- ' certain in pf how many of them are able | to support themselves and in their phys ; ical capacity to work the lan i owned or | occupied by them, either individually I or colleeiively, the value of the land, its I nearness to market, its general produe i tiveness, and sucli other facts and cir cumstances as will assist Congress in de'erminiug how many of the Indians are capable of self-support. COWS SERENADED THEM. How an Ohio Couple Were Greeted on Their Marriage Eve. There was great fun out in Delaware township the other lrght. Merle Hours, sixty-live years old, married a girl of about seventeen summers, and the boys in the noighbo -hood determined to give them something out of the ordinary in the way of a charivari. The mis hief makers came to this city and purchased two pailltils of blood, Iresli front a slaughter house, and c arried it out where the nowly-married couple were to spend the night. As soon as December and May had retired these boys slipped into the* yard surrounding the house and poured a stream entirely around the premises. Having accomplished this without detection tlicy drove half a doz en cows into the yard and then conceal ed themselves to await developments. The fun began at once. The rows no sooner sniffed the blood than tliev com menced hollowing frantically and could ea-i'y be heard a mile away. Other cows "caught on" and soon there came a procession of b vinos from nearly every farm in tho township, all bellow ing in tho most vehement manner. They fought and stampod and pawed the ground and bellowo I in chorus un til the bridal couple fairly wont wild from the annoyance. When the tumult was at its height the bride groom, envoi oped in are I llannel garment, w us seen !o emerge from thedoor with a huge club in his hand, but his appearance in such a co.-jtnmo only added fuel lo tho llamo, and what follows cannot be truthfully described. Tho maddened rattle charged at tho red figure, and the yld man made one run around the house, which would have beaten the world's sprinting rec ord, and just managed to get hack within the door as tho horns of the fore most animal in tho peoression tore a generous piece out of his red flannol garment, tho bride in the meantime screaming at the top of her voieo. Again and again during the night did Decern bor attempt to dispose of his unique ohnmari party, but without avail, as often would they return to their bloody trail. All this tilfto tho cows were augmenting in number until not less than 200 cattle surrounded tho house, while from every direction came the answering bellow of new recruits, has tening to the bridal demonstration which was so freely being bestowed upon old man Sours and his youthful wife. Not a wink of sleep eaine to the couple that night, but by early morning tho cattle had so cfl'aocd all trace of the blood by their pawing an I tramping that it no longer acted as an attraction, and 0110 by one they left the old man and his bride in their glory. It was the strang est and most successful charivari ou reoord, Lean Pork the Best. The cheapest foods mako tho best pork, says a writer. The reason is, it is tho leanest. Lean pork, then, being the best, wo should try to make it. Con finement in ] ens tends to increase tho fat. Exeiciso develops the muscles. The muscular part is the best food. Tho fat is largely waste. We make fat to throw it away. People buy bams not for the fat, but for the lean. When tho fat is wasted it makes tho lean cost just so much more. Recluoe the fat and in crease the lean. Cnn this be done? Cortainly. In this way: Keep the pigs nil their lives in the pasture. 1 eed skim-milk and bran. Keep corn away from thorn, (live them vegeta bles and apples with the bran. When tlio bodies or frames are grown, give them oatmeal or rye, ground entire, mixed with bran, putting in twice as much bran as rye. Keep up the vegetable and apple diet and allow them during this time to eat all the grass they will. A little corn may be fed toward the end. Pork fed in this way will have more loan and will be tender and juicy. At Kirhv homestead, with our breed of hogs, and using turnips we have produced ham 75 percent lean. The fat is something more than mere lard—animal oil. It is moat, with the substance and grain of meat. To get such pork is worth trying for, as it is in demand. The sausage and the other food products made from such pig meat are superior in quality and taste. There is a tenderness and flavor which enhances the value. Pigs should not be fed so much or gorged to such an extent that they will not go out to pasture, Belgium's Hatless Monarch. Leopold, king of the Belgians, is a sworn foe of tobacco and an ardent sup porter of the Belgian Anti-Tobacco League. He is, as well, a man of 44 sim ph and severe way of life." He rises ear'.v, breakfasts sparingly, and a rare thing on the continent—takes his morn ing tub with a I an Englishman's fervor. His wide sympathies embrace vegetar ianism in their sco; o, and his mos not able j fission, perha - s, is forgoing about without a hat. Whenever the weather I is Biitub'o King Leopold goes abroad in ! his garden as hatless as Adam, exulting in his free lorn from the conventionality of a headpiece. Ho has some strange craze about the wind's action on the brain, and he puts his craze in practice whenever possible. In fact, eccentric ity of the intelligent kin 1 marke I him for her own. He is a linguist of rare acquisitions and is always deep in the study of some lio.v language or other. Music is one of his aversions, but tin sister art of painting finds in him an ap reeiative and en husinstio amateur. His face is s'r ng and intelligent with out being hund-onio, and a bo ml of ap pro] riately regal long h swoops his chest A Dainty Florida Fruit. Ono of the daintest of all the dainty fruits that grow under the Florida sun is the rose apple, or jambosade, or, as tlio botanists cull it, Eugenia* jumbos. A rose apple tree, full of tlio interesting fruit, is now growing in the grounds of L. P. Westcott, of this city. The foliage is small, pointed and seining and quite beautiful. The fruit looks like a small, oblong guava, creamy white, with a perfect odor of a full-blown rose. The ilesh consists only of a thin, crisp shell, inside of which the largo, brown seed lies looso. The flavor is sweet and the strong rose odor is all through it. It is a'to getlier too light and airy for eating raw, but makes a jelly that is unsurpassed for delicacy of flavor. Tlio rose apple is quite tropical and w ill not stand any more cold t lan a guava, but everybody ought to have at least erne treo as an ornament and curiosity. TO THROW DYNAMITE. A Rival of the Mefford-Zalinski Gun Invented. Another form of pueumat c gun has appeared in the field, having been pat ented by Dana Dudley, af Lynn, Mass., ttud sold to an English ordnance com pany. Tne essential difference between the new system and the Zalinski gun is to be found in the methods of compressing and using tho air that propels the shut. In the Zalinski gun the air is com pressed by very powerful air pumps, and is stored in reservoirs sufficient to provide for about twenty shots, the air being admitted to the gun from tho reservoir at each lire by a specially coa st ructe 1 valve. In the new system there is to be 110 storage of a r, but a charge of powder acting upon a moving piston compresses tho air at each dis charge, and at the same time drives the shell from tho b >xe of :lie gun. It ap pears that the system is to be applied to both la'go and small guns to bo used in batteries afloat ami ashore, as well as for field artillery. The patent is upon the combination of a chamber adapted to contain an explosive; a piston located theiein; an explosive in the chamber in rear of the piston , a projectile, a gun barrel, a head piece, connecting tho gun barrel 1 with the air compressing chamber in front of tho piston; means for loading tho barrel; a breooh pie e; the explosive chamber, and the means for loading and exploding the charge. The action will be substantially as fol lows: The charge of powder, bcingplac ed in position in the small chamber, ! with the heavy piston at the bottom or ' rear of the chamber, ami tho projectiles inserted; tho charge of powder is ox ploded by tho ordinary means, impell ing the piston forward in the chamber, rapidly compressing the air between the piston and the projectile and starting the latter in its flight. The larger tho volume of the chamber in proportion lo the volume of the gun barrel tho great er will be the velocity of the shot. How far this weapon may compete with tho Zalinski gun is a matter of con jecture, but it would not appear that such heavy charges can be thrown, and the range will probably bo much less. The system has the great merit of ex treme simplicity. As 110 air compress ing machinery is required, a number of such guns could be mounted like pow der guns 011 board ship for using small charges of high explosives at short ranges. The Mofi'ord-Zulinski dyna mite gun, whicli throws immense oharges at all distances up to two miles, and aims primarily to secure torpedo action by projecting a torpedo through the air instead of through the water, still it re mains a distinct type. For field artillery the system is some what changed, though the governing principle remains the same. The Za linski gun is not intended nor could it be used for artillery service, owing to the necessity for reservoirs and pumps. The now weapon offers an ontiroly novel means of throwing high explosives m army operations. lii tlio field gun there Is no piston to compress the air, tlio expansion of tho powder gases performing Hint function, and the air being allowed to oscapo from the powder tube to tlio rear of (lie pro jeotilo in a separate tube. Safety is so ourod by a diiiphiagm pluto at end of powder tube, which is thinner than the breech piece or than the walls of tho gun, and will therefore givo way first, a circular opening being left for its frag ments in a front clamp or cap. Tho projectile is put in at tho breech end of the gun barrel by removing the breech piece. The charge in tlio chamber is put in from tiie rear by romoving tho breech piece. The gun can bo elevated like any other field piece. J3y making the air chamber very strong and the gun barrel of small calibre, it would appear that a considerable range should be at tained. Triflo3 Light as Air. The warm, sultry days are now upon us, and the small boy and tlio garden lioo lie down undo!" the shade together and dre.im of a world where all there is to be done is to eat chicken-pie and go fishing. The best hymn for a candidate for of fice—"Let's scatter seeds of kindness for our reaping byo and b.yo." A missionary accosted a cannibal Rhortly after the latter had dined 011 tho former's wife, and tried to move him to repentance; but the hardened brute only said he was gladiator. Misers love their money most, and wise men lovo their money leased. A printer may not licod the "golden rule; " that is not much his fault. All his rules are made of brass. A man who does not know anything will be sure to tell it tho very first timo lie gets a chance to lie beard. An ordinary mail will not admit to his girl that money is any consideration with him, but the same chap will walk twelve blocks to get rid of a nickel with a hole in it. -[St. Louis Magazine. Osit of Sorts IK O fueling peculiar to (tortious of dyspeptic tendon cy, or It may be caused by change of climate, sensor or life. Tho stomach Is out of order, the heat: aehes or does uot feel right, appetite Is capricious | the nerves seem overworked, tho mind is confused I and Irritable. This condition flnds an cxcollcm 1 corrective in Hood's SnrHQparllla, which, by Its rcg : (dating and toning (towers, soon restores harmom | to tho system, and glvcH that strength of miud. 1 nerves and body which makes ono feol perfect)} i well. N. B.—Be sure to ge Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared oub by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowoll, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar To clean tombstonos. To renew 011-olotli. • •. To renovate paint. To brighten motafci. To polish knives. To scrub floors. To wash out sinks. -•': To scour bath-tuba. To whiten marble. To oleun dishes, To scour kettles. To roiuove rust. EVERYBODY USES IT. EVERY ONE EXNDS A NEW USE. Dentins to clean falao teeth. Engineers to clean parts of machines. Housemaids to scrub the marble floors, Burgodna to polish their instruments. Ministers to renovate old chapels. Chemists to lemove some stains. Confectioners to scour tholr pans. Heltons to clean the tombstones. Carvers to sharpen their knives. Meohautos to brighten their tools. Hostlers on brasses and white horses, Bhrewd ones to scour old si raw hats, Painters t> clean off surfaoes. Soldiers to brighten their arms. Artists to clean their palettes. Cooks to mean the kitchou eiuk. Wheelmen to clean bicycles, flono valors to oioau carpets* Who Was "Jack Robinson P" Once upon a time there was a farmer named Robinson, who was much an noyed by the bad habit a certain wolf had of eating his sheep. The fanner reasoned with him, and even offered to pay for having him sentto a private asy lum where they cured such bad habits. But the wolf said ho preferred to re main a s'ave to the sheep appetite; for he suspected that the farmer (who was of a miserly disposition) might refuse to pay the bills after ho had become | cured of his appetite for sheep. Farmer Robinson then tried to over come by means of traps, pitfalls, poi soned meat aud other snares, but the wolf was a wary old beast, and for a ! long time the only way John Robinson knew that his enemy was alive was by the death of his sheep. You can imag ine the joy, then, when one morning ho came upon the wolf securely caught by the tail in a trap. The farmer ap proached the wolf and upbraided him. He then raised his slick to beat liiui to death. But the wolf, who had borne all his reproaches meekly, stopped him by an imperious wave of his paw, aud said, "Prithee lot mo say a word." The wolf, as the discerning reader j doubtless notices, was a wolf of the old school, and used a certain stately courtesy even in addressing a farmer , about to kill him. But since the narra tor's old wolf English is a tritlo rusty, ho will translate the remainder of the talk into the language used by tho common Americans. j "I am," continued the wolf, "caught by the tail in your trap, but with one backward spring—about, as backward as tho spring of INKS —I can bo free. It is true my tail will be in your power, but your sheep will bo in mine, and I assure you they shall sutler for it. Now, though my tail be au old one, I am fond of it, and am willing to restrain my lovo of sheep somewhat if you will let 1110 go tailfuUy." Worthy John Robinson was deeply moved by the words of tho wolf, and cogitated long, wondering what hard terms he might propose without bring ing 011 a backward spring. At length he said: "I will let you go on condition that you agree henceforth to eat 110 sheep of mine." "But," exclaimed tho wolf, "in that caso 1 shall starve." " Not at all," said tho farmer. " You may eat my neighbors' sheep." Now, the farmer knew very well that his neighbors had 110 sheep. The wolf also knew it, hut from earliest infancy ho liad been renowned for his great acuteness, so he merely said : "llow shall I be able to tell your sheep from your neighbors'*" " You can ask them to whom they belong, ami if they answer, '.Jack Rob inson,' you must leave them in peace." " Well," said tho wolf, "your terms are pretty hard, but I will do as you say. Whonever 1 wish to cat a sheep 1 will ask her to whom she belongs, and if sho answers 'Jack Robinson' I will let 11 or go in peace." Thereupon tho farmer freed tho wolf's j tail from tho trap and went homo re joicing. But his joy was of short dura- I tion, lor the wolf developed a remark- I able quickness of eating, and whenever ho met a shoep he asked her to whom sho belonged and then ate her up before j she could say "Jack Robinson."—[Har per's Young People. Half of tho proceeds from a two days' ox liihilion ol l.lie Angelas, 'J.OOO franes, has l.cen sent to Mrs Millet, jiist L'OO francs more than Millet Hold the picture for. The Congo district appeals to 1.0 develop ing as a producer oi I ohncio. Brussels to hnccouistHKny I lint its leaves nro ren.arkahly well adapted lor cigars, tiring of exceedingly good lluvor ami very supple. Dobbins's Ktcctrlc --oap Is cheaper for you to use, if you follow directions, than any other soaps would be if given to you, for by its uso clot rue are saved. Clothes coat more than son]). Ask your grocer for Dobbins's. Take no other It is stated that the roadside fences nre being rapidly removed in the vicinity of Bos ton, adding much lo the rural beuuty of the suburbs. U 35 '.EAowii moAcHgSciATIM AT Driggistß and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. VUQELEK CO., BalUmort. Md. tin TO 9*250 A MONTHcau bo mode working ylu for ua. Agoiita preferred who can furnlHli a horse and give their whole lime to the bualnoaa. Spare momenta may be profitably employed aUo. A few vocancteatn towns and olUea. B. V. JOHN SON A CO.. 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. N. /. Pleaee state aw "<' busbiraa experience. Never mindubout sending afai>/or reply. li. r. J. it co. Lii'iKST IMPROVED HORSE FOWEB Machlnps fur Til It I. SUING A< LEANING t.'ruln, aUo Alar bines lor SA\V INt^VVOOD MSY DRIFT. DURABILITY £ QUAN f ITY OF WORK te'Tlff A.W. GRAY'S SONS, FATKNTfciiS AND SOLF. MAMUFACTtmEHd, kIiL)I)LKTOWN M'UINGS, VL JOSEPH H. HUI Confidence ncfrot of Success. So con Aden I are the manufacturers of that World-fumed remedy. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, that it will do all that they represent, in the cure o: liver, blood and lung diseases, that, after witueosi ik its thousands of cures for many years post, they now feel warranted in selling it (as they aro doing, through druggim*) under a positive guarantee . of Us giving satisfaction in overy cose, or I money puid for it will be refunded. No medi eiueof ordinary merit ooti d be sold under such sovore condition with profit to its pro prietors, and no other me i icino for tho dis eases fur wtiich it is recommended was over before sold under a giia: antee of a cure or no pay. In all hi od taints and impurities of I whatever nnine or nature, it is most positive iu its curative effects. Pimples, blotches, eruptions and all skin and sculp discuses aro radically cured by 1 his wonderful medicine. .Scrofulous disease may affect tho glauds, causing swellings or tumors; the bones caus ing ,; fcvvJ-soreF," "whfte swellings" 01 "hip-Joint disease;" or the tissues of tho lungs, causing pulmonary consumption. No matter in which one of its inyrald forms it crops out, or manifests itself, "Golden Medical DLseov cry" wiil euro it if used peraeveringly ami in time. Its thousands of cures are tho best advertise ments for Dr. Sage's Catarrh itemedy. The Bombay Guardian says that although the number of consumers of intoxicating liquors in India, under the fostering policy of the government, line doubled in ten years, the drinkers nro as yet not wore than iifteen per cent, of the population. If afflicted Willi noro ryea use Dr. Isaac Tbomp. •oil's Eyo Water- Druggista aull 2&c .per bottle i The richest man in Australia is said to Im> Mr. James T.vsou. lie is credited with being the possessor of four million pounds, and ■ lias never tasted wine or spirits, nor bus he smoked one ounce of tobacco. Smoke the best—'"Tansill's Punch" Cigar. A Western dairyman thinks that dairy j fanners as a class do not. fully appreciate the importance of the speedy withdrawal of the , animal heat from fresh milk. Agents wanted.sl an hour renew varietios.Ont'l'giie and sample, in c. C. K. Mausiiai.i.. Luckport.N.Y PEERLESS DYES SoldSX buuouiaza kX HOUR iM{. w PKKKiNs MEDICAL CO., Richmond, Vn. FARKK z°j:lands I ftlllllO Curds dt JJuffett, *23:1 Broadway, X. Y. PENSIONS sorters relieved. Laws free. A. \V. AlcGor micli Y Non*,Cincinnati,o.,& Washington,DC Eg W 3113 BQ and "Whiskey Hat BaM lia ■ ■ ■ Mflg ltocurod at horns with BR rrJO iH pain. Book of par- EH H 9 9wv 111 tlcularr. aont FREE. B. M.WOOLLEY, M.D. WBW (JBICO MX WUltChOli bt, f'A CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH & PENNYROYAL PILLS, V.-'J lied Cross Diamond Grand. *oo. Bold by Druggists. THE EDWARD HARRISOH Mllili 00., New Uarou. Conn. ' JONES jjj|jp P^ YSTHE^FR ElC HT. figk r 6^o^ * f ° r^ [jy JONES "OF lllNGll A ItlTO.N* N. ma a ■ ■ After ALL ornera Dr. Lobb,'.! Twenty years' continuous practice In the treat ment and cure of the nwlul effect* of early vice, destroying Inith mind and body. MetUclno and treatment for one month, Five Dollars, sent •ecurely scaled from observation to auy address. llooli on Special Diaeuscs free. JFOR How If you nrn thiTil i'mh of luilldiiiK * hunse yououghl to buy the nawliook, I'ulllscr's Aiuertcun Arc ta ll en are, or every man a compl.de builder,prepared by Palliser. l'alliserw Co., the well known architect*. M here la not a Builder or any one Intending to build or otherwise interested that can afford to be without It. It is u practical work and everybody buys It. Tho best, cheapest and moat popular workevef Issued on Building. Nearly four hundred drawiinra. A *6 book iu si/ennd style, but we hove determined t make it meet the popular demand, to suit tto times, go that itcau be • aslly reaeh-d bj- all. This book contsiiiH 1-4 pages 11*14 Inolies In wl/e, ami consists of liuveUxl-' piate pages, idling plans, elevations, perspective \ iews. doscliptloiis, ownciw • hiii. n, a<"tniil cost of o-insti uction.no uiicmh work, an 1 iustruction llow to Itutld lOt'ott. ges, villas, Double lloiiHfs. Brick Block Houses, aidtable fot city suburbs, town miul country, houses for the faiuS and workliigmen's home* f.>r nil aectious of tha country, ami coating from to t,B0O; also Barna, M.lkk.l Hi, use, Town Hall, uimrchw. ft her public buihliiiKH. together with specification#, -rmoi ii.i, tract, and a lar.e amount of In formation on the erection of buildings, selection ot Bite, euv ployment of Architects. It Is worth f&to any on 2 but we will aeuu it in paper cover by mail, postpaid! on raceint of $1.00; bound In cloth s.'.(*). JIBCJUILCT CQ.t 15 Vsndewater Ht.. h*ew fork 1 r TT?T> ATTOHKKY. WANIII Nf.TD.V. \l I Pj rt, >. e., wii.i. ;kt voi/ii A V t i KNPSiO.N ..illioiit 1)11.At.