A SCOURGE OF INDIA. THE LARGEST, STRONGEST AND MOST FEROCIOUS OF BEASTS. Tigers and Thoir Made of Attack— Their Preference for Human Fle9h —Many People Killed by Them Annually. In liis art-ic'e in the Nineteenth Cen tury, 011 the number of human lives do H rnyod by animals, Mr. J. Fayrer says: The animal lirsfc in size, strength and ferocity is the tiger. It is confined en tirely to Asia, and is most common in India. Its muscular development is enormous. The tiger cannot only strike down a cow with a blow of its forearm and hold it with its fangs, but can laiso it from the ground and drag or carry it to his lair, where it is devoured at leisure. The tiger attains its greatest size in the jungles of Tudia. Blytli says truly that the largest tiger exceeds in size the largest lion. The statements as to length are conflicting and s mietimes exaggerated, errors arising "from meas urements of the skin being taken after it lias be n removed from the body and undergone stretching. The animal should he measured from the nose along the spine as he lies dead where ho fell. One that is ten feet by this measurement D large, and the full-grown males sel dom exceed this, though it is certain that they do oeca ion ally attain to a greater length. I have been present at tlie death of tigers ten feet eight inches and ten feet six inches, accu rately measured where they fell, and there are examples on record where the length ex ended twelve feet; so that, while fully agreeing with derdon and others that the average si/e of the male tiger is from nine feet to nine and one half feet or ten, I am able to assert, from indisputable evidence, that they do s' metimcs attain the length of eleven or twelve feet, or even two or three inches more. The tigress seldom ex ceeds nine feet, the average being be tween eight feet and eight and one-half feet, or oecasiona'ly nine feet, and per haps in exceptional cases even up to ten teet. The tigress is smaller; the head, j neck, and body are liner and lighter ; she is move active, and, especially when accompanied by her young, more ag gressive than the tiger. The geograph ical distribution is confined to Asia, front Ararat and Caucasus 011 the west, it extends 10 Kaghulien 011 the east; and l'rom Capo Coniorin to the Himalayas; us high us (>,O M) feet or 8,000 feet. * In sorno places it is becoming rare, though the number are still sufficient to cause serious loss of life, it is also found among the hil s and rocky country of Central and Southern India, and locali ties remote from population and culti\ 11 tion are most frequented ; but when pressed by hunger the tiger visits clear ed and cultivated places, and 1 eooines iho villigevs' dread, who are in constant fear for their own or thoir cattle's lives. During tlio cold and wet seasons ho is restless, wandering from place to plu-o with no fixed abode, though keeping within a certain range of country. In the months of March, April, and May he is more res'ric ed in his movement 9, tlio grass jungle baring been burned to a great extent and the water dried up, leasing only swamps and pools. The shelter becomes less extensive, and with the increasing heat, he becomes less in clined for exertion; 110 now seeks the patches of grass or other shelter 011 tlio edges of the forest and in the swamps, where, lying a rest during tlio heat of the day, lie steals out at night in search of prey, and it is during these months that lie is often hunted and destroyed, either from elephants, maclians, or 011 foot. It has been said that when a tiger has j tasted human flesh he prefers it toother food. I cannot say how this may he, but there is no doubt that whoa ho has overcome the national dread of the hu man form he readily kills men, and bo comes the tevr< rof a whole district. At Nyneotal a tiger prowled within a circle of twenty miles, and for three years killed, 011 an average, eighty men per annum. It sometimes happens that a road is closed for weeks by a single tiger; not only pedestrians, hut even those traveling in bullock carts, are attacked and carried off; and yet it is remarkable ■with what apathy the danger is some times regarded, for natives will carry on thoir usual vocations as herdsmen < r woodcutters close to the cover in which the tiger is concealed. On the other hand, they will often not pass along a certain road or path without turns-torns or torches to scare the tiger away, while in other cases tlio beatcis will readily go on foot and heat him out, though should lie break back he is pretty certain to strike s une one down, inflict ing a dangerous, often a mortal wound, but is less likely to do this if un wounded. I have repeatedly seen herdsmen who were willing to a company you on foot | to the jungle in which the tiger was ly-1 ing, hut who could not he persuaded to 1 mount an elephant for that purpose. It is a popular belief, not confined to j the ignorant, that the wounds inflicted by a tiger are of a poisonous character. It is possible that the teeth and claws may be contaminated by septic matter, but this is the exception rather than the rule. The real fact is that the wounds are dangerous because they are deep punctured and lacerated; otherwise they nave 110 peculiarity, and often heal rapidly, though they sometimes sunpu rate and induce blood-poisoning. I nave seen severe injures recovered from rapidly, while others have caused such suppuration and destruction of tissue as ultimately to prove fatal. The tiger does not roar like the lion, though he can do so occasionally. There is a peculiar grunting, bark, or growl when ho is disturbed or frightened, and this is repeated loudly when he charges. When calling to each other at night, tigers make a prolonged wailing howl, which is very imposing and makes the hearer g ad to feel the protection of a camp about him. A wounded tiger, with his ears laid hack, his eyes glaring, his fangs displayed, and his hair ere t as he charges with repeated angry growls, is a most trying ordeal and very difficult to meet unmoved. The tiger general'}' seizes his prey at night; ho watches the catt o or what ever it may be until lie creeps within reach, ami then with a rush or bound lie grips it by to throat, drags ors:rikes it to the ground, twis iug it so as some times to dis'oca e or break the neck; the fangs are driven in so as to hold the struggling creature until dead, when it is dragged off lo Iho jungle to bo oaten at leisure. His lair is near, and from this ho proceeds, as appetite prompts him, to tlie "kill," until it is eaten and oven tbo bones gnawed, by which time, owing to the heat of the weather, it is far advanced in decomposition. The place is revealed by the vultures, kites, crows, and udjuJunta soaring over it or settling on the branches around about it, and by prowling jackals. The vul tures sit with a gorged or sleepy aspect on the trees or on the ground near tlio "kill." They endeavor to make a meal when the tiger has left it for a time, and even try to sna'ch amorse 1 while he is feeding, a termeritv for which they often pay with their lives. The tiger is fre quently found and slain near the "kill." It appears that during the eight years 1880-87 inclusive, 7,301 human beings, or a yearly average of 912 persons, and 158,845 cattle, or a yearly a\erage of 19,855 head, have been killed by tigers. In the ease of human beings the figures do not vary much; they were 872 in 1880, 831 in 1884, 928 in 1880, and 1,003 in 1887, showing, at all events, there was no diminution; oven eleven years previously, in 1870, 917 persons were killed. In the case of cattle the varia tion was considerable, from 15,339 in 1880, 14,490 in 1881, gradually increas ing to 27,517 in 1887. In 1870 the cattle destroyed were 12,110, which shows a groat increase for 1887, if the returns can be relied on. The number of tigers destroyed dur ing the year 1887 was 1,408, and the total amount of rewards paid for thorn was 40,090 rupees, or an average of about 28 rupees for each. A WOMAN COBBLER. A Daughter of St. Crispin Working at the Bench. Can you tell me whore Mrs. Gill lives, litt'o girl ?" was the question a New York Press reporter asked yesterday of a flaxen-haired urchin in Mulberry street, after lie had spent a fruitless hour in search for that lady. 44 You mean Mrs. Gill, the shoemaker, do you i" replied the urchin, and when the reporter said that was the very per sonage he was looking for, the child pointed down the street, indicating where the only woman shoemaker in Now York was to be found. The reporter had little difficulty in touching Mrs. Gill's little cobbler's shop in 0110 of the tenements in the rear of old St. Patrick's Cathedral. There was little to distinguish it from the ordinary cobbler's rtall, except, perhaps, an 1111 wonted tidiness and a pretty ornament hero and there that at once bespoke a woman's taste. Mrs. Gill herself rose from her cobbler's bench, where she was busily engaged in mending a pair of child's slices, to greet the reporter, and when 110 said ho only dropped in to have a quiet chat with her she wiped a stool with the corner of her apron and asked him to bo seated. He saw in this one brief moment that Mrs. Gill was a woman tlmt might bo possibly 50 years of ago, gray-haired and p'easant faced. She was evidently quite reaiy for a chat, and began by say ing that she had been told she was tlio only woman shoemaker of the old school in New York, or perhaps, the whole United Statos. She said she wouldn't vouch for this being absolutely true, hut, however, she had never heard of any other woman following the trade at the bench. 14 Of course," she glibly taked on, with very little prompting, 44 there are hun dreds of women working in tlio modern shoe factories, but any of them would be insulted if they were called slioe niakeis. Now, I glory in being a mem -1 e.- of St. Crispin's 'gentle craft,' and, though tlio shoemaker of the olden time has long since been pushed to the wall by modern inventions, I propose to stick to the bench to the end.' 44 Were you regularly apprenticed to the trader 5 ' ventured the reporter. "I was born to it," proudly replied the old woman. "My father was a shoe maker of Northampton, England, when it was the great shoe emporium of the old country, and I learned tho trade as naturally as a duck takes to the water. I watched my father by the hour, and when ho saw what a taste I had for leather ho fostered it more to humor mo than in any hope that I would ever mas ter the craft. But I did, and before I was 14 years of ago I made a pair of shoes for my mother that I don't think I could better now. When I was old enough I went to work in a factory in Northampton at shoo fitting, and I worked in Massachusetts factories after my father came to this country in 18(18. I have been working here nearly ten years and have all that I can do, as you may see,," and tho old woman swept tho little shop with a wave of her sturdy arm. "My work is tho ordinary run of work done in any cobbler's shop. I repair men's women's and children's shoes, and may say I have tho entire mending of tho neighborhood to do. Sometimes, perhaps from curiousity, I have a trail from a fine lady to mend her own or her children's fine shoes, and I have novel* had any one to find fault with my work." How tho Young Coreans Dress. In describing tho dress of Coroan children, a writer in tho Washington Btar says: The best holiday dress of a little boy cons sts of a very gaudy coat, tho body of which is made of light green silk faced with blue, with sleeves made in bands of nine bright shades of silk, ami the "folding articles" or trousers, which are a baggy garment of pongee silk lined with white cotton. Queer little socks, with turned up toes, projecting heels and tying tapes half way lip the back, are called po-syou. Tho haing-tjon, or leggins, tio on above tho stockings and aro of red cotton. A curious robe of red cotton with blue sleeves is thrown over tho coat, and a short sleeved waist of blue silk, lined with red cotton, goes on over the robe. Across tho back of this is a stripe of silk, brocaded, 011 which are printed in gilt characters that signify such prov erbs and admonitions as "Have oon- I sideration for others," "Be just." "Be 1 moderate in your desires," Ac. Over all tins goes a loose-sleeved outer gar meet of blue brocaded silk, with little slashes up tho sides, and at tho back a long slash extending to the cross-band 1 between tho armholcs. Qn this baud I aro hung throe little bags, embroidered and dressed witli tassels, which aro | worn in honor of three good spirits that are supposed by tho Coreans to come j into tho world with every child. An other article of child's dress is tho hail* ; ribbon of purple gronadine, folded to : form a point at the top and sewed to gether part of the way down. 011 this are characters in gilt signifying " Long life, riches Vie bequeathed. A circular device contains seven dots representing tho seven stars of the "dipper." They arc supposed to insuro tho wearers having many children. Tho ribbon is made fast to the end of tho plait into whioh tho hair is done up. A sort of head dress is worn over the head and | sides of tho face, tied down under the chin. This is very fanciful, being made 1 of bands of various colored silks and I ornamented with embroidery and other | ornamentation. The shoes are male of red loithcr, bound with green and gold. A R.ANK abounding in codfish of ex cellent size and quality has been dis covered about eight miles off the Oregon coast ami sixty-live miles south of the Columbia Itiver. Heretofore tho truo cod has not been found in the Paoifio south of Alaskan shores. AN INDIGO FACTORY. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIGO-MAKING. Visit to the Beating-Vats—Natives Waist-Deep in Liquid Indigo—A Curious Experiment. In relating some of his experiences during a fourteen-liundred-milo bicycle ride from Lahore to Calcutta, India, Thomas Stevens, in Youth's Companion, says: 44 One morning I arrived at a great indigo factory situated near the road. Not far from the factory was the commodious bungalow of tlio planter, an English gentleman, Mr. T , who had had many years' experience as an indigo-planter. As I dismounted Mr. T came out and promptly invited me to remain witli him as long as I saw fit. Tlio heat was terrific, and as I was curious to see something of indigo-mak ing, 1 readily accepted his hospitality for the day. We tirst visited tlio beat ing-vats, 111 each of which about twenty naked natives stood wa'st-deep in the liquid indigo. These were the beaters. Each man was armed with a loug wooden spade, and they were Hinging into the air streams of indigo, which dashed overhead, and splashed about the vat and over the beaters in showers of foam and spray. This brings about a chemical transformation. The fluid, as it conies from the stalks and leaves of the plant, is of a greenish color. The wild work of the beaters changes the tint into a beautiful deep blue by oxy genation. At tlio same time that it changes in color the dve stuff held in solution granulates anu settles to tlio bottom of the vats. When the beaters have thoroughly performed their work they climb out of the vat and allow the contents to settle. 44 Mr. T led the way to the farther end of the row of beating-vats and showed me one of them which had been settling for nil hour. 4 4 4 Here, you see,' lie said, 'now it is settleJ, the liquid has changed color again from blue to a smoky green. Except that it is somewhat clearer, it looks about as it did before the beaters began to work 011 it.' 44 The foreman now came and removed a plug from a hole in the wall. The green liquid gradually ran to waste, and there was revealed at. the bottom of the vat a thick, pu'py sediment of blue. This was the indigo. Men now came with earthenware jars, which they filled and carried off to the boiling-room. Hero the indigo was strained through wire sieves of fin& mesli, to remove all impurities. After it lias been strained, the soft blue mass is poured into big iron kettles and boiled for two or three hours to evaporate the moisture and further granulate the indigo. It is then dumped into presses and subjected to heavy pressure by means of lever and screw. The presses are square iron boxes, perforated like a colander and lined with press-clotlis. By this process all the remaining water is forced out that can be removed by pressure. The indigo is turned out of the presses in dark blue cakes, which are of about the consistency of a bar of soap. Then it is cut up into commercial squares and im pressed with the stamp of the factory. The cakes are then removed to the dry ing house, a largo, airy shod, provided with tiers of open shelves. Here they remain for two or three months until they are thoroughly dry, and are then packed in boxes and shipped to market. Tlio chief Indian emporium for indigo is Calcutta, whence it is shipped to for eign markets. 44 4 Now come this way,' said Mr. T——, alter we had visited the boiling and drying-houses. 4 1 want to show you something interesting.' Saying this, the indigo-plauter led the way to a sot of vats similar to those wo had already seen, but elevated so that the liquor could bo drained from them into the beating-vats. 44 4 These,'ho said, 4 aro the ferment ing-vats. Now see!' 44 Mr. T produced a match from his pocket, and lighting a stalk of dead in digo plant, he cast it, flaming, into one of the vats. The gases that wore escap ing from the fermenting mass of leaves and stalks ignited with a sharp report, and for an inst mt a bluish flame spread all over the vat. The experiment was repeated at the next vat with similar results. In these feimenting-vats the indigo-plants are packed tighly in lay ers, as they arrive in the bullock-ghar ries from the farms. Porous frames are laid 011 top, and the mass is pressed or weighed down. Water is then pumped in with a Persian wheel, and the plants are allowed to steep. 44 Fermentation soon commences, and in a few hours the vats are bubbling and seething to the rim. This continues for twelve or fourteen hours, when the fermentation gradually subsides. The water is then run off into the boating vats, to bo manipulated in the manner I have described. 44 Of late years many improvements have been introduced into the manu facture of indigo. Much of tlio beating is now done by machinery, which does tlio work more thoroughly tliuii it can bo done by men. A speoial kind of yeast-powder is used to stimulate and increase tlio fermentation, and another preparation aids in the precipitation of the indigo after beating." The Harmonigraph. An invention hails from Now Orleans for which very remarkable powers are claimed. This device embodies mechan ism by means of which music, as it is played 011 the piano or similar instru ment, may be indicated 011 paper so that it may he reproduced as desired, thus enabling one improvising music to have the music written as it is played in such a manner that it may be read and trans 1 a ted into the characters ordinarily employed in writing music. The inven tion is said to consist in the combina tion in the harmonigraph of the mark ers and connecting rods arranged for engagement by tlio keys of the piono or other similar instrument, and by which the movement 011 the key may he trans* mittcd to the marker. In the combina tion is also embodied a tone marker and a measure marker. Homo of the finest ideas of the impromptu player 011 the piano appear to be the most evanescent. What composer, while abandoning him self to the flow of happy extemporiza tion, has not longed for some means of catching the exquisite melody or the su perb orchestral effect, and recording it before its form and beauty have becomo impaired and lost? If tlio harmoni graph can do this, it is truly a wonder ful invention, and one which will be re ceived with gratitude by the whole mu sical world. E. S. STAMPEII, near Elmer, Ore., cut down a fir, tree on his farm. Ho got it 12 for the bark. From the lumber ho built a house 14x20, eight feet high, a shed-kitchen H feet wide and 20 feet long, a wooil-slied 14x20, nnd had 000 boards G inches wide and two feet long. Ho also cut 334 railroad ties and 15 cords of wood—all this from one tree. SINGULAR VISITATION. . Winged Ants Swarm and Cover Ten Miles of a Lake's Surface. About 5.30 o'clock 011 a recent after j noon fishermen 011 Lake Keuka began to ho annoyed by hosts of minute in sects, which they at first supposed were some spe -ies of black My. The insects came upon tlio lake from the southern and eastern shores, and in such immense 1 swarms that within a few minutes after their appearance the; surface of tlio Jake was covered so thickly with them that ; for long distances they concealed the; water completely from view. The 1 phenomenon wae the more surprising , iiecausc insect posts of any kind 011 Keuka Lake had never been known be fore, even the übiquitous mosquito being comparatively rare. These winged visitors drove many fishermen from tho lake, as they made it difficult to either see or breathe, so thick did they settle and fill the air. It was soon discovered that among tho myriads of the nimble insects wore larger ones, less in number, but apparently of tho same family, except that their bodies were brown 1 while the others were black, and that their abdomens were swollen in- | ordinately. Tho wings of both species ! were nearly white. Closer inspection ! of the insects showed that they were not ! flies at all, but winged ants. The bodies of the smaller kind were jet black ami glistened like polished ebony. The brown ants, whose bodies were a quarter of au inch long, were found to be dis- I tended with eggs, apparently hundreds being in each nut. As tho insects struggled on tho surface of the water it was noticed that they gathered in large bunches, and it was discovered that in the centre of each i group was one of the large brown ants, | which the small black ones seemed to lu; j struggling to rescue or protect. 111 ro.ving through this vast collection of insects tlio wake of the boat would leave ■ a line on the e.lges of which tho ants | were heaped together as a plough throws j up the earth from a furrow. From Hammondsport tho lake was covered in ill's way by the insects from i shore to shore for a distance of ten i miles, and where the rays of the setting 1 sun slanted upon them, thoy appeared 011 tho lake in great patches of delicate purple forming a most rem arable pic ture in combination with the surround ing scenery. When tho insects first began to drop down upon the lake black bass wore biting freely along tho rocky shores and bottoms, but, as tho water be aino alive with the struggling winged ants, no bait the fishermen tried could tempt the bass further, but the constant breaking of tho water all along the shores showed plainly that this strange \isitation of insect life exactly suited ' the epicurean palates of the fish. Now j and then, where the ants had gathered in thick patches 011 the surface, some times an inch or more in depth and a ! rod or more in area, some immense and i eager black bass would shoot from his ; lurking place and sweep upward and i through tlio troubled group of in- j sects, leaping into aggravating sight in liis sweep, with his great mouth open, and leas ing a wide and sharp-cut space in tho mass to mark his predaceous course. 0110 of these writhing groups of ants brought groat luck to Major Gardner of tho Sunny Slope and Inglehook vine- j yards. He and a New York Sun repor- j tor were bass fishing oil' Twomilo Point, 011 tho west shore of the lake. When ! tho plague of ants bore down upon them to such an extent that it forced them to pull for escape from tho anno ance, I reeling in their linos as they fled, tho I Major's hook and minnow, at tho end of , 200 feet of lino came in conta t with one of the masses of ants. At tho same in- i stant a big bass shot from the bottom and struck in the midst of tho ants, seeking a liberal mouthful of the apparently luscious food. Ho took tho Major's bait and liook in tho haul. After | a struggle of ten minutes or moro, during j tho excitement of which even the swarm ing ant pests were forgotten, tho fish was lunded. He weighed a plump fro I pounds and a half, the biggest single ; bass catch of tho season thereabout. It may be that the skilful handling of the i minnow might have called that finny I prize from his lair, but the weight of ! probability is that lie only included the minnow incidently in his grab of ants. This singular flight of ants is reported to have extended as far south as Hath, | eight miloß. People driving between the two places were forced to muttlo j their faces at much discomfort to escape tho still greater annoyance of the in- 1 sects. Tho air was filled with tlio ants j when tho last person went to bed in I Hammondsport. The next morning, j with tlio exception of dead ones 011 the i lake and about tho shores, not 0110 of j the insects was to be seen. Thoy had disappeared as suddenly and mysteri ously as they had come. Operations of Lightning. All those who sutler from fright dur ing thunder storm should regard the lot of an English woman living in a largo town as peculiarly on viable, for, according to Mr. Marriott, the Secre tary of tho Rovnl Meteorological Society, these aro tho beings who ot all are most i exempt from the danger of being struck by lightning. Mr. Marriott tells ns that 011 an average less than one per.-011 in a million is annually killed by light ning in England, while in France nearly two, in Prussia nearly four and in Russia and Switzerland more than live out of every million perish thus an- i 1111 ally. The returns also show thai of those who die in this manner in Eng land 81 percent, aro males and 011 y It) per cent, females, thy striking ditt'er enco, 110 doubt, being attributed to the grea'.er number of males engaged in outdoor occupations. Deaths front lightning Hle also much rarer in towns than in the country. The many light ning rods and high buildings serve t:> diffuse tho electricity. The Eiffel Tower is said of itself to form a perfect electrical conductor, and in the caso of one very bla k thunder cloud which passed over Paris and was observed t< • emit constant Hashes, the lightning stopped as soon ns it c uno within t ! io influence of the tower, and recommenced when it had passed beyond.—(New York Star. One Way to Catch Rats. T. A. Wimbish, Jr., was in town I Friday from La Crosro, Sehloy coun ty. He said that his place was just overrun with rats, and 110 had tried every way to get rid of them. "A few days ago 1 took a ten-gallon wasli pot, tilled it two-thirds with water, ami covered the water with cotton seed. The next morning I went there, and the cotton seeds were all 011 top of the water, and I had 011 a big disgust, and thought it best to let the rats have tho place, and move otf. My wife took a stick, dipped into the pot, and said. 'lt'R full of rats.' I took out a half bushel of great big fat fellows. The next morning it was the same way, and now I have but few rats."—[Americas (Go.) Republican, A DEER HUNTER'S CHAT, Still Hunting-—Why the Antlers ot Bucks Disappear. "I regard still hunting as the only fair and decent way to hunt deer," said an old Lehigh (Penn.) wood-man tin other day. "The hunter pits his inte!- ligeiu-e and skill against the sharp sight, quick hearing, keen scent and re markable instinct of the noble deer, and, if he shoots with a single barrelled ritle, as I have always done, the game lias some chance for its 1 if. The experi enced hunter knows a great deal about the deer's habits, and, of course, the more he knows about their ways, where they like to feed and what scares them, the more game he'll get. There is a strange thing about the young of these very wild and timid animals. I have picked up many a little fawn when it was all of a tremble from fright, and, by patting it, treating it kindly and carry ing it a short dishni'-e in the woods, have made it so contented that it would follow me as far as 1 would lot it. When a hunter comes pat upon a doe with a very young fawn by her side, his sudden appearance frightens the mother deer and sends her bounding, away as fast as she can go, and the tender little fawn, being unable t > run as last as its mother, is e isily captured. As soon ;is a fawn sees that the hunter is not going to harm it, it will lick his hand and quickly get over being ul'rn'd of him. Then he can take it homo if lie e.ues to. "Bucks and does run together for only a short time in the fall. The does , flock together and house in shcl'ered j places, while the bucks r am l>y them selves. I have often seen an old and a ; young buck keeping one nno'.lier com pany in the woods. It made me think I of a man and a boy going around to- I gether, so closelv do tliev keep to each other through thick and thin. One hot August day I saw an old doe, her two ! fawns and a yearling doe standing knee i deep in a pond cooling their slim legs. I watched them from the edge of the woods. By-nml-by the old dee got scent of mo, threw up her head, gave ; to alarm and started for the forest on a wild run, her fu nis and the yearling! doo following her. ft was a line sight. " 1 have hoard men declare that no one ever finds the millers of bucks in i tlio woo Is. I have found them many a ' time lie ir the swam; s?*ftnd once ] ran I across a pair in the opon woods. They ' were within two feet of each other, and it looked as though the buck bad stop pod there, given his he id a shake and dropped them. The bucks generally: loosen their antlers by nibbing them j against trees when they are ready to j shed them. The r. ason why the horns j are seldom found is becauso the bucks • go into gloomy places when they slits I i their antlers. The action of the weather decays them in a season or so. 1 once shot t a buck just as ho raised his head, and my bullet hit his left antler. It popped up from tl.o pith, and awn th 4 buck dashed. I got the liorn, but not the buck." Graveyards in London. A return has just been issued from the Homo Oilice, dea'iug with the sub- j ject of metropolian cemeteries. Of the I twenty-three oases which have fallen wihin the scope of this inquiry, it ap pears that tlio City of London -and Tower Hamlets Cemo'ery, Mile-end, leads off with a ghastly tenantry of some 247,000 bodies, while All Souls', Kensal Green, occupies the largest area, com prising some sixty-nine acres, and also enjoys tlio priority in l-espect of age. As regards the space allotted for each grave, some disparity is ob ervnblo, nine feet by six I'co six inches being tlio maximum limit. The common inter mcnt system is very genera', it being, for instance, the practice in some dis tricts to bury as many as eight to ten adults, or twelve children ami grown up pel-sons mixed, in a common resting place. —[London Telegraph. To Insure Good Vinegar. The recent law to prevent deception in the sale of vinegar is being cdled to the notice of dealers, and the New York State Dairy Commissioner proposes to enforce tlio statute. According to the law as passed by tlio Legislature, no person shall manufacture, sell, or otter for sale any vinegar which shall not have an acidity equivalent to t he presence of a least 4 i per cent, by weight of absolute acetic acid. No one is al lowed to soli any vinegar in imitation or semblance of cider vinegar which is not cider vinegar, or vinegar o mtniniug any preparation of lead, copper, sul phuric acid, or other ingredients in jurious to health. Every manufacturer is required to label kegs or barre's of vinegar with his name and place of business. A fine of SIOO is the penalty for violation of tlio law.—[New York Times. Salt Rheum Orton catuoft groat agony with Ita lutenftc itching and burning. Hood's Nnrsnpnrllln, tho great blood puriilor, ouros suit rhouin and all skin diseases. It thoroughly cleanses, renovates and enriches tlio b >od. Qlvo It a trial. "After tho failure of tlireo skillful physicians to euro my boy of salt rhnum, I tried Hood's Sarsapa i'l a and Olive Ointment. I liavo now used four boxes of Ointment and una and a half bottles of Karsapurilla, and tho boy Is to all appearances com pletely cured. 110 is now four years old, and lias been afflicted since ho was six months of age." MRS. B. SANDERSON, 56 Nowhall Street, Lowell, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Propnrcd only by O. I. noOL) & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Moss. 100 Doses One Dollar ' . H ' COPVRIGM^ fkil'lhe mosHoving husband will see the difference in his home if you use Sftpotlo* IVsaves labor in house-w tf Cleanliness and neatness about a house are necessary to insure comfort. M? !u:es comfort, and if he can't find it at homo, ho will seek elsewhere for it. Good housowives know that SAPOLIO makes a houso clean and keeps it bright. Kappinoss always dwoHs in a comfortable home. Do you want cleanliness, comfort and happ Try SAPOLIO. A PARTY of fossil hunters arc having good luck in the North Fork country of Oregon. They have found the bones of sma'l horses, with ihree toes on each foot; rhinoceros skulls and other bones that show, as they think, that Oregon had a tropical c imate before the gla ciers caino down from the north and covered the 'and miles deep with ice. 100 Indies Wanted, Ynd 100 men to call daily on any druggist for \ free trial package or Lane's Family Modi nlo each nostril. | I.LY DUOS., so Warren St ,JS. Y.HFI\TFOR 50 D Glf! TO A MONTH can he made working 3l U for us. Agents preferred who can furnish a horse anil give'their whole time to the business, spare moments may bo profitably employed a'*m A fow vacancies In towns and cities. H. F. JOIIN : SON ft CO., 10011 Moln St., Richmond, Vn. E.B~ ; I'l rase state ag■ and business experience. Never 1 mind about vending stamp for reply• B. J'. J. it Co. *l' "I- 4 -1+ >l* 'I - " *1" *■}* ►W* "I" V *l* *l* *l* A _ho innll u lui liuh invested i'i-i >iu thrco AJI Wo oiler ino nmti who wnuta service to live doliurs in n Rubber Coat, ami lf\A (not style) a garment that will keep at his tlr>t halt hour's experience hi mu m ukui tSOSM him dry in tlie hardest storm. It is a storm rinds to his sorrow that it is nAff L> ■ called TOWKk'S FISII BRAND hardly a better protection than a inns- WW B " SLICK Kit," a name familiar to every Quit" netting, imt only feels chagrined **"" H Cow-boy all over the land. With them I at being so badly taken in, hut ulso B I BP* BI tlie only perfect Wind and Waterproof Vols Li lie does not look exactly liko Hmmi llfl Coat Is "Tower's Fish Itrand Slicker." Ask tor thu '* FISII ItliAN l>" Si.ukku B BkMI cl and take no other. If your storekeeper <1 ics not have the iisn imvsn, semi tor descriptive catalogue. A. J. Tow Kit,'JO Simmon* St., Huston. Mass. JOSEPH H. The Best Testimonial * Yet published for any blood medicine la tho I printed guarantee ot the manufactures of Dr. i. 1 ie, ce'a Golden Medical Discovery, which uarrantu that wonder(ul medicine to benefit •s or cure in all eases of those diseases for which II [t is recommended, or money paid for it will be returned. It cures all diseases arising * from torpid liver and impure blood and their 1 names ore byiMN. All Skin, Scalp and iScrof j ulous aireetions. Eruption•, iSores and Swell ings Salt-r.:cuni, Teit r. Erysipelas and kin dred diseases, are among those in which th? "Discovery" effected marveio'.'S cures. When everytb in : <1 ruiD, Dr. Sage's Ca tarrh Remedy onrea. 60 cents, b. druggists. PEERLESS DYES E OLD BY DOUOOIM* SSS HOUR TIIE MKDIC'AL CO., Klchmend, Vs. aiftAAE 8TI'1)Y. Book-keeping,Business Form*. gIUME Penmanship. Arbhnu-tic.short-hand.etc.. 1 Ik thoroughly taught by MAIL Circulars free, Bryant's relieve. 457 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. Agents wanted, $1 an hour.BO new varleties.Cat'l'gao and Humple free. O. E. MARSHALL. Lock port, N.Y PFMQIOMQ 1,1 E AhhsoMffßtts LIsOIUINO il disabled; pay. etc. D* sorters relieved. Laws free. A. \\ . MoLor -111 irL A SOIIS,< 'iiniiiiiat i. < >., .V\\ ashing toll, DO TliflTJ TIITT ('IIAI)WI('K'N MANUAL, BASE BALL 7 sv;.iux.Mr- SENT FREE M'llXfflSfcSß!,?" Theodore Holland, P. <>. Box 12, IMnin.l'u. r"fi niRO Do you want to bay or lell? BANDS f A H M \ rr so send stamp foroirc'l r to " nl '* I Rn I*lo Curtis & Buff eat, 333 Broadway, N. Y. BEST IN THE WORLD Ull kM il II |y Qot. the Qeuulnc. Bold Everywhere. r+L JONES 17'y Wv PAYS THE FREICH ' lyijL j 3 Ton Wii^on^Scales, JONES "OF 'BINGHAMTOV * ItINUiIAHTO.V. N. V TSTLATEST LIVIPROVE" HORSE POWER Mm hiiies for TH KEMIIINf* ftLLBANINU Grain, aluo Jl.u l.iiie^for^sAWl.Nl^WOOD EASY DRAFT, DURABILITY & QUANTITY OF WORN [ terli. W. GRftY'S SONS, PATENTEKS AND SOLK MAMUVAOTUKKBS, MIDDLi TOWN 8 Pit IN US, Yfc THE EDWARD IIARRISOH <^l3^ as. XJ 00., | FOR W HOT If are th 1 nklng of bullding a house yououghl lo buy the new book. PullJ-er;* Amrrlcn Arclw inn lire, or every man ft complete builder, prepara® l.y PiilWr. Palllser ft Co.. the well known aichiteota. There is not a Builder or any ono Intending td build or otherwise interested tluit can afford t6 be without It. It is a practical work and overybodybuye It. The best, cheapest and roost popular work eve* Issued on Building. Nearly four hundred drawing* A *5 hook in size and style, but Wc have determined t make It rneut the puiuilur demand, to suit tho time* so that it can bo aslly reached by all. , , This hook coiitnlna U4 pages 11x14 inches in size, and consists of largo oxl3 plate pages, glvlug plan* elevations, perspoctivo views. doscriptlonH, ownerr iauics, actual cost of oonHtruction.no guewt worn. knl Instructions Ibm to Build 70 Cottagea, VllW I'ouhlo lloiiHi s. Brick Block IIOURGR, suitable fol cit> suburbs, town olid country, houses for the fan and workiiirmen's homes for nit sections of the country, and costing from ftlX) to FO.BOO: also Borne. BtA)lep. School House, Town Hall. Churches and I etficr public buildingn, togotliur with BPcclftcotione, I Luin ol contract, anil a lurce amount of information on tho erection vf buildings, selection of site, oia ' ployment of Architects. It Is worth to any on* j but we will send It In paper cover bv mail, postpaid ' on receipt of $1.00; bound in cloth jfcv.oo. j AIiCUriKCT CO.. 15 Vndewater St., New Tork ° ntpain * E* ■ra fin a After ALL otTirtl Or. Lo!)b, 3 ™ 1 i Twenty years' contimtous prnctJco In tho treat ment and cure of the uh (ul rfleds of early vice, destroying both mlml and lo