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
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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.
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WBW (JBICO MX WUltChOli bt,
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ff (imu|.s) fur particulars and "Uellef lor
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Chlcli calcr t'licuikul Co., Mudlaoii ., I'lilludu. I'a.
#DUTC H E R'S
FLY KILLER
Makes a clean sweep. Every
shoot will kill a quart of flies.
Stops bur./.liiß around ears,
cures peace at trifling expenae.
Send '2.5 cenin for 5 olivets
V. DUTCH Kit, St. Albana, Vi.
T fully en.
Mrd only t y th We have Bold ltlg (j for
Ohio. D- It. DYCnE A CO..
Tr&<k^9H^lartlSl>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!
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