NYE'S SOCIETY HINTS. WILLIAM TELLS HOW ONE MAY SKINS IN A FAKLOK. Dill Coaches a Young Man Who Has Fatty Degeneration or the Think Wastes and Regurgitation of the Idea—Table Eti quette. Bill Nye, in answer to a correspond ent who asked him for "some good table rules of etiquette," writes as follows: You speak of your parents us never hav ing hud any advantages and rather cast some slurs on the old gentleman who is shoveling dirt that you may shine in soci ety. Do not do that. Edmund. The weak point in your father's place is that he puts his hard earned money on a youth witn fatty degeneration of the think wastes and regurgitation of tho idea. Still, us you say, you might shine in so ciety. Such things are common. The only que.-tion Is. how ure you going to get your scheme loundod? I foar you will not suc ceed. You s.iy your manner is pleasing, and you don't know how glad I am to hoar you say that over your own signature. Many others would have coneealed it. Yet you say you have a soared appearance while in society. Do not lot that trouble you. If you knew how much society was scared when you enter it you would pluck up courage. Jf you had never led in prayer before, ac cording to the strict*, st lules of etiquetto. which I looked into while abroad, you could not be expected to oblige. The men who can make a pleasing and grammatical prayer in public are vory rure. indeed. Just say when called upon that you are not a good social prayer, but only trying to lead a Christian lifo, like ltev. Myron W. Reed, of Denver. Ho was a very bright and orig inal preacher, and many curious people came to hear him. Once ho wus making a low but earnest prayer, when a gentleman from tho Ounnison country, who was visit ing Denver, mado the remark, "Louder 1" Mr. Reed ceased for a moment, and, look ing at the gentleman fioin over tho range, said soltly and in a meek, Christian spirit, "I was not speaking to you, my friend. I was addressing Clod." Ho then resumed his prayer. Do not take your bag with you when invited to dine. You can do up u few little articles in a newspaper and put them into your overcoat pocket so as to be tuken more by surprise when prossed to remain. On the saink principle do not take your trunk with you to make a party oali. A shawl strap is ample, I think. You should not wear a straw hat whilst taking a high ride, nor a high hat whilst faking a straw ride. To bo appropriately dressed whilst taking a straw ride, one should wear a Donman Thompson hat,faced with gingham, a bluo denim jumper, with suspen iers showing through sumo, a pair ot' brown canvas overalls and hoavy kip boots slightly tinctuied with a rich, nut brown flavor of tho quiet country life. Pillow-shams may be thrown aside at night. Thoy nro mostly for day wear. Some roll them up in a napkin-ring at night, whilst others hang them on seed corn or dried-applo drapery of tho room. Pillow- I shams go very far toward sweetening tho home atmosphere and beautifying the home host. Show me whoro thoy have no pillow shums and I will show you a desolate house. Show mo whore thoreare no pillow shams and I will show you no picturo of George Washington in tho act of crossing tho Delaware. Show mo a pllfow-shamless homo and 1 will show you a homo whore there is no conch-sheil on the bureau, no dried grass or everlasting flowers on the contcr-tablo, no four o'olocks in tho front yard or tansy in the back yard, no soft vo'ocd guinea liens in tho barn lot, or low born bleating calf in tho stable. In drinking wine at table you should not drain the gla s at once, or exclaim as you take it up: "Well, hero we gol" or, after emptying your glass, look anxiously for your chock or ask the waiter "to make it tho same again fo: all hands." Thislsoourse and smacks of tho common liord. Watch your host and koep your wine lowered to about tho same notch as his. Then you will be all right. That is tho way they do iu Paris. If you are afraid to trust yourself to drink any more wino while your host con tinues to dally with the sparkling you may ask lor Yiohy wntor. which I llna is a good drink to stick to. especially for those whose ininds cannot successfully grapple with other beverages. Do not hang your eyes out on your chooks while drinking wino, or drink too fast and got it up your nose. Jf you drink coiToo after your dinner do not. if you desire more than one cup, pound on your saucer with the spoon or look around and oxclaim. "Hi!" Bo gentle and la yliice in your demeanor, telling some i fresh little nuecdote to tho guests while you eat a saiicerful of olives or pin afjrosk sprig of oolery on your ooat. When you got anything hot in your mouth do not got mad and swear, for tho otuer guests will only laugh at you; but take it out carefully and usk tho hired girl to put it on ice a little while for you, or make some other bright temuik in Fronch or English, as tho mood may strike you. Iu Loii on I notioo, also, that it is no longer de. trap or sachet for a guest at table to ro move his teeth when he gets a blockborry under tho upper plate. Only in extreme cases is it allowable for privileged guests, for instance, who get olive see.ls or oyster shells under th-* plate of thoir! artificial teeth, to remove them without being ex ouf-od from table. This custom also obtains in Paris, where thoy are oven moro finicky than at the courts of Europe, it soeinod to mo. It is now considered perfoetly proper to itako tho last of anything on the plute, for it is presumed that thoro is more down cellar, or. it not. tho host onn put on ids ha: and go down-town for another supply. Much laughter may ba produced and gen eral good fool ng engendered by little sallies of wit taken Irom a joke-book. I have an English book of josla which has holped me to nay for many a m -al. Home of these jokes are real good. Tho host English jokes I have seen were mado in Philadel phia. No. I do not approve of tho custom of hiding a hunk of bread, us you so happily express it. in a rolled up napklu for tho guest to jerk loose over tho floor. Whon the custom of footling people with Canton flannel cakes at breakfast on the first day of April la iibandoned, this reprehon.siblo practice also will coaso. You may cut radishes witli the shuck on. Pounded glass will also be furnished if you B- oak about it in time. Do the seeds of apricots or poaches. Take them homo and plant thorn. Do the same with watermelon seeds. When the "igara ure passed around take one for smoking pur poses and one to put In your pocket. You will then convince the host, if you have not already done so. that tho sociul circle in which you should move may bo found within tho narrow confines of tho pound. THE MUSIC OF THE FIRESIDE. BY EVA KATIIARINE CLAPP. /HTfayobite dis /n\ cussion, of late, / \ the critics of / f~~\ \ tho day, has been J \the music of the it! 1 www Whether the gwj: J? Wf¥ forceful intellectu / lw l alit 7 °* Wagner's / Hi $L sublime harmonies / shall lead us out / Jflfflfj kmk &n( t up to the Alp / mPw' wWvM summits of an f Jmk W iTOyw ® n tirely novel ex ivi VlVPi'iw > perience in music, a new school of SkSfisound, springing phoenix-like from the old, as chemistry arose from alchemy, or not, remains to be seen. This may be the result; or, slipping back into the grooves of conventional ism, we may resign ourselves to lotus eating dreams, lulled by the sensuous strains of less complex compositions. The question is one that is fraught with interest, to the high priests and priest esses of art and sesthetioism chiefly. In the meantime, the vast army of us, the rank and file of humanity, as we march along, time our steady foot steps to the cheery music of the fire side. It is a low-toned, unobtrusive and comfortable melody, scarcely noticed amidst earth's more turbulent noises. Yet, what a dread aud awful stillness would it leave in our lives should it suddenly go out and forever cease to be. JjL.tko morning, this fireside mosio is a kind of choral hymn, wherein are blended the voices of the children, raised in affectionate morning greeting; the silvery ripple of their happy laugh ter ripples through all the composi tion. It is the variation, played in flute-like tones upon the sober theme of breakfast table, household conversa tion. And now, the canary bird, hearing the joyous stir about him, concludes that it is high time for him to strike in with his part, and he pipes up, with spirit, giving us a pleasing variety of trills, shakes, runs and roulades; while the pet dog contributes a few staccato yelps, purely from a spirit of emulation. The coffee urn makes no noise, only offers up a fragrant iucense of steam, as its skate of the performance; but at evening, when the family shall gather around the cheerful fire, where snap ping and crackling coals, like the tam bourine in an orchestra, are more for looks than for sound, then the boiling teakettle will siug melodiously, a dreamy soft alto, and (if our fireside happens to be in an old country house) the cricket, sweet minstrel of domestic peace, will emerge from his secret nook, and tuning his violin to a high and res onant pitch he will pipe in pleasant accord to the kettle's low drone. And now, perhaps, leading this de lightful orchestra of quaint aud origi nal if humble musicians, softly rises toward heaven the voice of the mother, as with a tender lullaby she gently rocks her nestling off into slumber land. And call you not this harmony ? It is the harmony of home, the blessed music of the fireside. The mother's slumber song, the chil dren's laughter, the cricket's carol— this is music that inspires the man ly heart to renewed efforts each day, in the paths of houorable toil. It is music like this that softens the heart toward our fellow strugglers through life's vicissitudes. It is the music of sweet and wholesome home affections, bubbling up incessantly from the deep heart of life and chant ing praise to the giver of all good. It is not the result of any painful drill nor acquired by weary years of study. It solaces the cottage even more freely than it does tho mansion. Sweet as the thrushes' matin call, when the June sunrise flushes the east, and the wild rose exhales in fra grance the secret of her dreams, it is heartfelt and full of ministering grace for our fainting souls as the song of angels, and cheerful as tho first day in Eden, when Eve, in the joyousness of innocence, laughed aloud as she gazed upon the beauty around her. Here's a health to the shade of the glorious master, Wagner, a health to all artists and composers in the divine art of music; but after all, the music that we should miss tho most, the musio that makes life endurable, that sounds sweetly, even to tho ears of the cherubim and seraphim, is the cheer ful yet holy music of the fireside. — Chicago Ledger. What 9 * the Matter with Pork? A pious and prosperous old deacon of Portsmouth, N. H., has lately been Speculating in pork on a "margin," and for some months was very successful In his ventures, so that he saw visions of great wealth in tho near future. But after a time pork did not pay so Well, and still he kept speculating un til a few weeks ago, when a sudden jpanio in pork caused him to lose neavily, and to square himself he placed S.n attachment to the amount he had ost on his brokers, and sought to re cover by law what he had lost by luck. This sudden catastrophe, of course, noised the secret of the deacon's specu lations abroad, and his uusccmly haste for wealth became the talk of the town. But the deacon braved it down aud went about the stroets with his head as high as ever. One evening last week he attended prayer meeting as his church, and the pastor called on him to lead the exer icises by asking divine guidance. The invocation was after the deacon's usual style. Beginning with the President and his Cabinet, he besought pros perity for all the rulers of the nation, State and city in order. Then branch ing off into lesser affairs he was praying eloquently for the financial suooess of all Portsmouth, enumerating every trade and calling iu succession, when a sinful, mirth-loving boy in tho back part of tho church called out: " What's the matter with pork?" A largo-sized hush fell on tho con gregation then and there, during which the good deacon made haste to "boil down" his remarks and take his seat. *Next to having his investments pan out properly tho deaoon has an ardent yearning to find that wioked boy. He wants to talk with him. In a Paris Hotel. For bed-room use you are expected to provide your own soap and matches. Lights, a very nioe candle, by the way, that does not drip, and in showy silver plated candle-sticks, aro charged for a franc each. You cannot burn too many for a hotel-keeper, who would keep you in a great state of brilliancy all night long. Women, especially those who are vain, must revel in the Paris ian bed-rooms, for they abound in mirrors on every side. The wardrobe door is a full-length mirror; there is a mirror over the mantel, another over the dressing table, and a fourth some where elso. And they are the real French plate, too, which never make you fancy you are cross-eyed or facial ly crooked, and sometimes, the ugly women think, really make you look handsome. A Sympathetic Employer. Old Gent—And so that is your em* nloyer going to the funeral of one of his clerks ? Young Clerk—Not a clerk, but a dis tant relative of one of the clerks. "My! my! I'm sure that is very thoughtful." "Yes, 'most too thoughful. When ever any of us loses a relative and tells him about it, he always goes to the funeral, consarn him!" "Eh? And do you object to such kindness of heart ?" " 'Tisn't kindness of heart, sir. Hd goes to make sure that the funeral isn't an excuse for a day off."— New York Weekly. A Shameless Trick. In one Maine town is a very heavy girl. She is quite sensitive about her weight and it is not generally known, but two mischievous young men want ing to know it, one of them persuaded her to stop and speak with him on the hay scales. The owner of the scales was in the plot and quickly weighed them. Tho weight of the man being subtracted, left the amount of HOI pounds for tho girl.— Lewieton Jour nal. ♦ SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Ad ventures 'Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. # ROCHESTER (N.Y.)lady, who was a guest la t sum mer ut the Grove Spring House, on Luki Kcuka, had a pet Maltese kitten, only a few weeks old. It wore a ribbon mound its neek, to which was i.t tucked a gold locket, 011 which wa-i engraved llieword "Flossie," the kitte.i's name. Ore day the lady wis out rowing on the lake with her little daughter, who had the pet kitten in her lap. The kitten, iu a playful momen , sprang at som thing tha v . attracted it attention, and limde 1 in the lake. It sank, and its reappearam e was anxious ly availed by its mistn s , so that it could be rescued. Rut the kitt >ll never came to the surface, a fa t that d no little wonder and puzzled coiimu nt. One day re-c ntiya fisherman named Railey, of Fen Yun, was fishing for bl irk bass off Bluff Point, using a gang baiti d with a dead gol len shiner, in sixty feet of water. R sponding to a tremendous j strike, he succeeded in landing, af'er a long and livoly struggle, as 'ven-po.nd ! glass-eyed pike. As a fish of this kind, abundant, ai they are in the Ink ', is taken scarcely one o in a yea *, the catch caused no little excitement among tl:e fishermen aio ind the Bluff. But the wonder of the catch become still greater wlun the fisli was dress >d, and in th so nach of the p'ke was found a goll I look t. The word "Flossie" was on the locket. The story of the mysterious' los i of the kitten at Grove String was j well known along the lake, and this dis- | covery of the locket in the pike's atom- ■ ach at once solved that mystery. The! locket has been forwarded to the lady i who owned the kitten. THE following strange history lias! been whispered about concerning one of i the principal dressmakers of Paris, a j woman whose taste and elegano * of de- | sign in certain details of feminine cos tume are well known. It upj ea s that there exists iu Paris a law forbidding any house that employe work-people from forcing them to work after a stipu ulat 'd hour, which is 10 o'clock. The pressure of orders inevitable to the ex hibition season temple 1 Madame X to break this law. Hr wo k-rooms were in full tide of op nation one even ing, near midnight, when an ominoi s summons sounded at the door, followed i by the die .do 1 mandate: "Oj en, in tl e name of the la.vj" In an instant the I goods and sewing implementl were J whisked out of s'glit, the lights were ex tinguish d, and the work women wue hidden away here, there and every where. One girl, a delicate little crea ture, was hurriedly tlnust into a great wardrobe hung with dresses, the d or closed and locked upon her, and tin? key removed. The visit of inspection of th • police revealed nothing, and as sum aii they had taken their departure the girls j were release 1 from their hiding-pla -e-. ' But when the wardrobe door was un- j looked the corpse of the unhappy child ' who had been eonocaled there, feil upon I the floor. She had died of suffocation. This story lias been hushed up, not a I hint of it appearing iu the Faiis papers. ! TnE Queen of Italy has always been passionately fond of pearls, as befittel one whose name is Murgt evit\ and t-li; has made u fashion ti nt is clntim'ng enough to please anv woman, but likely to bo followed only by thote who ;e liul buuds are English dukes or Am roan millionaires. On li rwe lding day 1 e husb ind give her as his bridal gfa row of tho finest pe ills to 1 e found i i Italy, having beeu informed of lie.- pen chant for that partioul; r gem. \\ hi n the first anni\e sui'v of Her wedding d.iy arrived ho a;k d what she wis' o I for a gift, and she Fa'.d "another stii ig of pearls," and the : econd year she a i swere lin the same way. After tl:a'; ho asked lie:- no more, but always gave the same gift. As she has a sun, who is quite a big toy, sho has been married more years than it is gall nit to count, and her necklace of pearls count * l> this timo enough strings to quite c v V lior throat with a collar of g ens and hang down far over the cor. a je. Of eour e the lower strings ore nui li longer than tho original one to ohisp the throat, but King Huml ort always gives exatly the tame number of pear's on each anniversary, and s > she has of late to wait tw > ye ars b fore adding a now string. Many superstitious women aro afraid of pearls as a wedding gift, and say it me.u a tears. A STRANGE and horrible no ident is re ported from a plantation in Nonconnah bottom, six miles from Mi mph s, 'J'onn. The two year-old child of William (colore 1) was killed and par tially d von red by a hog. Tho paren s left the child in their cabin and wen to the fields to pick cotton. A half-starved our dog was left on guard, h'oon after reaching the oolton patch the mo.her of the ohild heard an uproar at the cabin and re urned there. Hie found a fero cious boar s auding over her infant will bloody tusks The child hail been dis emboweled and ha f of its face torn a a ay The frantic mother pick d up an ax and dealt the animal a territio blow n ill • ba k as it fasti ned i's tusks in i s prey to make oft' to the woods. Tin child was res ued aud carried into the house, where it breathed i s las : in thre min u'es af er being mo.ed. The fa her ond son were summoned homo by a blast from the horn. Within thirty minutes the boar was found and killi d The dog had defended the child, and paid the penalty wilh his life. Ho lay near the child, with both legs broken and his body ripped open. No ROMANTIC talo ever had so many in cidents as that of a young woman of Bukowino. She was very bountiful, and all the young men who were in the dis trict fell in love with her. She had a hundred otters of marriage before she was 20 and before she accepted the 101 st. Then her troubles Ijogan. Her first fiance died suddenly from an accident; the second was taken away with the army, likewise the third and fourth ; the fifth and sixth were drowned ; the sev enth and eighth broke oft' on learning of tlio smallness of her fortune ; the ninth got diunk on his betrothal day, and tried to beat the young woman, so she broke it off; the tenth seemed promising in every way, but as the marriage was about to take place it was learned that he had a wifo and children in Bessarabia. The wedding was fixed for the eleventh, but he decamped for some unknown rea son, and thereupon the young woman gave it up and poisoned herself. A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Journal of Commerce says that the cus tom of preserving coffin-plates, instead of burying them with the dead, bus lo ig prevailed in partß of New England. He says: "I once stopped for dinner at a farm-house and inn iu a village in West ern Connecticut, Wo waited a while in, the little parlor, which was filled with the family treasures, in the way of curious and pretty things 011 shelves and pic ures on the walls. Among the latt T, framed separately under glass and hanging in different parts of the room, vere three plain silver coftlii plate-, engraved in the usual way, with iiium b, ag< fl, and d it >s of death of mem- Is rs of the family. This was tha first iuKt uiee of my experience of this cus tom, which, I Win, was common in the neighborhood. Afterwa d I mot with the same custom in various parts of other New England States." JOHN HENRY BUCKW ALTER, owner of a fine old country seat near Plianixville- I Penn., has a p'gthat hasdisgnu e I him, i self aid his relatives. Gaining a act ss | to t'.ie cellar in some way as yet unex- I plained, the animal was attracted by its bouquet to a 1 arret of pa ticula' lv fine cider, the bunghole of which had b 'en oirelessly stepped, and knocking the plug 1 ack and forth with his snout in prying after the cider, he manage 1 to g. tit out. The n chir within instantly poured forth in u puddle, and the pig j drank till he was helplesflv drunk lie ! wi s finally seized by lils legsand hauled | away, whei o he slept oil' the effects of his dissipation. ON Saturday afternoon, says a Vienna correspondent of the London News, the son of a hospital porter was walking with his mother, for whom ho w is carry ing a bag which they were to deliver to a pro'essor in anatomy. A tall man followed them, and suddenly seized the bag and disappe tred with it. The thief w ill have had an u .-pleasant surj rise on opening the hag. as it contained the head of a corpse, which had been de t ate lied for a post mortem examination of the brain, and which the boy was carrying to the Anat rnical Institute. The big and its contents have not been recovered yet. A NOVEL combat, witnessed by several persons, to >k place on the farm of a man named Hough am, near Shelby ville, Ind., be,ween a large chicken-hawk and an old sow which had a troop of little pigs at her heels, one of which the Lawk sw oped down upon and was abo .t to carry off when the mother came t- the rescue. Instead of fiying away the hawk turned on the sow, striv ing to sink i s talons into her eyes and striking her heavy blows over the bead w th its powerful wings until the brute was bewildered. The hawk was rapidly g tting the 1) st of the fight when one of the spectators, a McC ain, slipped up and captured it. MRS. MICHAEL 0, FITZGERALD, the wife of a laborer at the works of the Pullman Palu e Car Company in Wil mington, Del., favo birth to a child which had two li ads and two hearts. It had only one st uracil and two arms and two legs. Othe wise a'l its parts were dual. One head restel or each shoulder, and where the head should have lested there was a round eoveiing of flesh. The heads were both well forme 1 and wore covered with hair. The child died soon after birth. The j birth is termed by physi inns "Go-! rcgvme," and is a phenomenon for i which they cannot account. AN Ital'nn organ grinder with a mon l.oy, visited Ive no, N. H., re ently. One day t' o monkey was missing and a week's search fail d to find him. At the end of tl at time the animal rushed up to its ow or will e.ery manifesta tion of delight. The monkey looked e i ac ute I au 1 showed signs of brutal i Ire tmenh Live tigat on showed that it had b en stolen by two boys niul kept in a (.arr. t, win n e it had e ap d by feigning do ith. For hours ho did not mo o a nui co, and the tap tors think ing it d- ad tlr.e viton an ash heap. It locovt re 1 imm* d a'ely and bv good for tune soon found its master. JAMES BLUNDELL, of Ilivorton, Mich., j met with a peculiar acc'dent a few .lays ago. He hud shot a squirrel, and was holding it up for his dog to admire, hut the latter wanted to bite it, and in his j offer s to do so hit the l amm- r o; the gun, upon which Mr. El ndell w? s eaa- , ing, with his paw. The gun went off, ind Mr. Blundell k d a bloody ditch plowed a TOSS lis oliest. The wound v as not quite fa al, but it mukt s him 1 dizzy every time liis min i rev. r s, like Marnl Muller's, to what might lia\e been. THE execution last month of a man for murder, in An lalusin, Spain, ( w uty four hours after a reprieve had been : otrally signed by the Queen and for warded, hso cash ned so much excite in Spain i hat the government has drawn up a bill t > gp.e to a tel graphic me - s go in such ca o> the f ace of a formal wiitten odo •. In this case the authori ties ch rged with the elocution wore no'ille I by telegraph tint the reprieve had b en signed and was ihen o.i its way, but they insisted tl.at they w. re powerless to delay the execution in the ribs nee of the formal documents. MARTIN MAORAMRAT, of Mississippi, had u light with nit alligator in a swamp. Ho kille I h m alter 11 long struggle, bat in trying to get it home lie w.,s< audit in a quagnire. He sink to his wa st, ami wou il have gone further lut l e clasp, d his a as nrouiitl tlie nbgitor's tail. Ten bays Inter he vat found dead, having made desperate efforts to h 11 through the 'gat it's hide and get fleth enough to sustain life. AMERICAN wild turkeys have been suc cessfully acclimatized in Austria on that portion of the estate of C< unt Breuner which is known as tho Danubian mead ows, and great .Hooks of them arc to bo seen in his forests. It is said that a brown Norfolk turkey in England may be made to resemble tho American wild bird in color and flavor by cramming it with walnuts, soaked ill water, a week before it is killed. JHow Deep Does the Earth Quake P California and the Faoiflo coast has recently experienced ono of the mo t severo earthquake shocks known ill that region in yea s, an incident whioli re viles interest in the question: How deeply does tho earth quake when con vulsive nature sl akoi her crust like a circus lent in a cyolonei At Virginia City, Nev., the earthquake of 187!) was not noticed by the miners in the great Gonistock mines, b it only by pi op e on tho turf ae. The famous earthquake nt the simephi e in 1871 or 1875, wiiich shook down ohimneys, Are w.tllt ami cracked every briok building in (lie town, was merely noticed by some of tiie mine s working in Ihe upper love's, but it did them 110 damage, not oveu shaking down 100 o rocks and earth. The station men in the various shaftt folt it the strongest, a id tlio deepest point wlieie it was noticed was by the station tender nt the 900-feet level of the Imperinl Empiio shaft, 900 feet b ■- low tho surface. He said it felt like a faint throb or pulsation of air, as though a blast had been tiie t above, below or in son ein lelinite direction. In sme of the mints the shock was not felt at all, ev< n by station men in tlio shafls —[St, Louis Ilepublio, WWt Women Can Do. Every wife or daughter living near a vil lage or large market, can make many dollars each year raising eggs. Just as surely as that a woman can tend a baby better than a man, just so certainly can she care for any animal 1 )etter. For example, Mrs. Eunice Goodwin, East Livermore, Me., says: "In four weeks, last autumn, my thirty hens laid 131 eggs. I then fed them Sheridan's Condition Power, advertised to make hens lay; and in eight weeks they laid 478. Having sold twelve, the remainder laid 815 eggs in eight weeks, by i feeding Slieridau's Powder. 1 soJd the eggs I for $15.03, making clear $13.38 from only i eighteen hens in eight weeks. One of my Polish hens which I could not buy for $2.00 would have died but for Sheridan's Powder. I.S. Johnson & Co., 22 Custom House street, i | boston, Mass. (the only makers of Sheri dan's Condition Powder), will send, postpaid, two 35 cent packs of Powder and a Poultry Guide, for 60 cents. For SI.OO, five packs and a book; lor $1.20, a largo 2% pound can and book; six cans, $5.00, express prepaid. Bend stamps or cash. Interesting testimo nials free, ror live cents a copy of the best Poultry paper sent. j A hundred Paris mothers-in-law of the highest fashion lmve sent M. Surdou an ad dress in grateful recognition of the justice lie has done them as a class in his play, the i "fielle-Mainuu." Orruon. the Paradlne of Farmen. Mild, equable climat-, certain and abundant Wops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun-. try in the world. Full information free. Ad- Iress Oregon Ira'igrat'n Board, Portland. Ore. I Experience shows that a majority of the girls who find employment in stores are un | willing to be known ns work people. They ' sniff nt the term wages, and refuse to be re cognized UN saleswomen, preferring Hie idiotic j expression "saleslady." | Physicians recommend "Tansill's Punch." I English syndicates have invaded the Aus trian empire, and are buying up breweries in Bohemia and printing offices in Vienna. A Few Pointer*. The recent statistics of the number of deaths Show that the large majority die with con sumption. This disease may commence with an apparently harmless cough which can be | Cured instantly by Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lung--.which is giiAruntued to cur ami relieve all cases. Price 50c. and sl. Ti I*l size free. For salo by all druggists* A writer says that whipping a boy may make hi in stupid. Perhaps that is true; but we think it is more likely to make him smart. | One of the results of the French Exhibition j has been to make the London hunwom cab ' very popular in Paris where it lius heretofore | been iu no special favor. If afflicted Willi *ore eyes use Dr. Isaac I hemp | IOU'B Eye Water- Druggist# sell 250. per bottle ! There are 693 fresh men In Oxford, England, I this year, against 044 last year. Mediocrity ctlieaga copies superiority. Dob bins's Electric Soap, first made in 1805, ! as ( been imitated more than any soup made. Ask your gio or for Dobbin*'* Electric Soap, all other Electrics, Electricity, Magnetics, etc., are imitations. ! Tho London Truth is positive that the Scotch aro in favor of a Scotch local Par lament-. Dangerous Tendencies ' Characterize that very common complaint, catarrh. { Tho foul muttor dropping from the head Into the I bronchial tubes or lungs may brlug on bronchitis or ' consumption, which reaps an immense harvest of deaths anuuully. Hence the necessity of giving ca | tarrli imniedluto attention. Hood's Sarsaparllla cures catarrh by purifying and enriching tho blood, restoring and toning the diseased organs. Try tho peculiar medicine. "Hood's Sarsaparllla cured me of catarrh, soreness of the bronchial tubes aud terrible headache."—R. : GIBBONS, Hamilton, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Moss. 100 Doses One Dollar j ELY'S CREAM BALM WH.L CURE CATARRH.F"i I t Apply BtlQl uto each nostril. ELY LUCKS. i Warren St, fl. I.Wli Y.-' I ■ muc -.TIDY'. Book'krepiDK,fom. UuMfc Penmanship. Ari hni-tic. Short hand,etc.. M thoroughly taught by MAIL Cireulars irsu llrvaul's College. 457 Main St, Buffalo, N. Y FllZlßAgft ■Z9T IN THE WORLD U Bl E.MO b tJT* Dot the Genuine. Cold Evct j-whsre. j JOSEPH H. HUN jjj Pto use. CheajKMst. Relief immediate. A euro is KtM It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied figgl K451 to the nostrils. Trice, 50c. Hold by druggists or sent regH BUI by mail. Address, iL T. Warren, Ta. 808 Oimple homes made bright 1 with Sa>polio are better than tawdry palaces.'S3?®3kfQ js a solid cake ofscouing soap, Try ]t-*&-* Do you live in grease? As a true patriot and citizen you should naturalize yourself by using the best inventions ov the day for removing such a charge. To live in grease is utterly unnecessary when SAPOLIO is sold bv all Grocers and abolishes .grease and dirt. TH^p^fSCOrtPAMION ( ' COMES STORIES H SCIENCE PA . —W \ EVERY t, READIN f BYTHE I 1000 ITRAVEL ! AND WEEKLY : rrr-7-7 ONLY 4 jjU igj See the larpc advertisement in a previous issue of this paper. Send for Colored Announcement and Specimen Copies, free. TUIQ ~~ FREE TO JAN. I, 1890. I£??TPJ | nijj To any Wow Subscriber who will cut out and send u this slip, with name ami Post fff j J Office address nuil St.*ll, wo will Bcnil The Toutli' Companion lIIEK to .lan. 1, o I in I Kilo, ami for a full year from that date. This offer Includes Hi" FOUR DdlillLE rt I -31- QI IH HOLIDAY NUMUIORS, and all the ILLUSTRATED lIIEKI.Y SFUPLKMBHTS. VI ISj I s Alhiras, THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, Boston, Mass. | A New Kind oflnHuruuco HM been pat la operation by tho manufactur er,* <t Dr. Pierce's modic mes. His "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescrip tion ' are sold by druggists under the manu facturers' p.#itivr, guarantee. Either benefit or fc complete cure is thus attained, or money paid for these medicine* is returned. The eer lifjcato of guarantee given 111 connection w th sale of these medicine* m equivalent to a ?>olicy of insurance. The "Golden Medical Discov ery cures alt hnmors and blood taints, from whatever cause arising, skin and scalp dis eases. sorofu.ou* sores and swellings. The "Favorite Proscription" cures a 1 those de r&ngooi nts and weaknesses po. ullar to wo- Dou't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, disiMis'- in; everybody, but uso Dr. Sage's Catarrh Komedy. Zoln, the novelist, is a candidate forthe va cant chair in the French Academy. Only a few years ago he denounced the institution in the columns of Figaro. Beware of Ointments Tor ratnrrli That Contaiii Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sen-e of smell and complet ly derange the whole sys tem when ontoring it tlirough the mucous sur faces. Such art : cles should never be used ex cept on prescrip ions fro n reputable plus - (dans, as the damage they will do is ton fold to th- good you ean possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh (Jure, manufactuued by F..). Cheney Co., Toledo, ()., contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, and acts dire t ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho Hystem. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be • uro you get the genuine. It is takeu internally, and male in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & I£T Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. Tt is fortunate that a man learns the "rule of three when a child, for Inter in life he never gets beyond the rule of one. L' 47. r?jAcoßson W TRADE EMf MARKV| REMedy^PAIISI CURES PERNANENTLY I SOLD BY **| Druggists and Dealers. I THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. B.lllmora. Md. JOHN F. STRATTON & SON, 43 and 45 Walker St. NEW YORK. Tmnnrter* and Whotoonle Denlero In MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, f ioliiis, Guitars, llaiiios, Accordions, ilur. ■loulcan, iVc, All kinds ol Strings, etc., etc. JsEND FOB CATALOGUE. z- 5 * JONES Every sir® 7\Wlir JONES" OF ' BINGHVMTON, f BINGHAM TON. N. Y. 1 i Waterproof f isu br^ v 'L,SL. Send for lllmtratrrt Catalogue. JG-. A- J- Tower. Ronton. FORTHE HOLIDAYS. At very considerable expense we have placed our selves in the UNIQUE POSITION of being able to iur- i ui.-b a series of 8--JUTENILE VOLDIES-8 each consisting of thirty-two well printed pages, bound in handsome lithograph covers, Printed in Twelve Colors, i at tho extraordinary low price, mailed to any ad dress, of 15 CENTS PER COPY. The following is the list. There are eight kinds, each clitic rent lrom the other: BKIGIIT FLOWERS, I.ITTLi; SUNSHINE. SWEET Git APES. Bit IG IIT DAISIES. ItlEltltY WINTER STORIES. GOOD NIGHT STORIES. TIIE IH'TTEItFIiY STORIES. YOUNG AMERICA STORIES. Pemember, these will be sent by mail to any ad dress for I lie. per Copy; or we will send the whol • EIGHT FOR SI.OO. Seud iostal note or one or two cent stamps. '1 hey arc now ready. PARAGON BOOK CO., 13 Yandewater St., NEW YORK. nnT7X> ATTORNEY. WASHINGTON. I til rv l>. C„ WILL GET YOU It PENSION witneut DEL A Y. HURRAH, BOYS! A New and Accurate SHOOTER. PERFECTLY HARMLESS AND SAFE. The above te an illustration of tho VACUUM TIPPED ARROW PISTOL While perfectly harm less. yet it is as accurate as a revolver, and although we do not advertise it for children to shoot ut each other's eyes, yet we can safely say that should such an accident happen it would not hurni the iuo.it deli cate child. PRICE, Snfely Packed and Forwarded by Mail, Pistol, Arrow nnd Target, Com plete, ONGY 75 CENTS. REMIT BY POSTAL NOTE, OR lc. or 2c. STAMPS. AH a parlor amusement (for young and old> it has no equal, and for outdo.,r sjiort it i- t n-Miiperio. * any Toy (inn or Pistol ever placed o:i the market 'I he cut which you see is an exact pu tu . f the l'is. tol in full size taken from a photograph. I hede ign is entirely new, having been made especially for us. To suit the demands of all our customers we have decided to make two grades of Pistols—< tie being made of bronze with polished barn l, the other buy ing a nickel barrel and nickel handle. The Paragon Co., 15 VANDKWATKR ST., NKW VllliK, ! r :0 j McCormiik & Sons, Washington, D.C. A: Cincinnati. O BASE SENT FREE 3SSI3K™ Theodore llollnnd, P. O. Box I s£O t Pliiin,Pn. nnillll HABIT. Only Certain and IIHIIIM easy CURE In the World. Dr. VI lUlfl J. 1,. STEPHEN'S, LebaoonJ) THE EDWARD HARRISOM MILL CO., I Harrlnin'i HUiul.tri) Tlnrr | Stone rl 1 , 1 , l | ,n Hew HSTOU. Conn. ' (RTHE WONDERFUL I-^ A,.- YCOMOININGSANTICLCS2 1 "SSIFSIBI'SSS \ LTFUO" UL P&KB LLUIHU UFO. CO.. 14a X. MB Btj'ri'llai.'ifc NORTHERN PACIFIC. 81 LOW PRICE RAILROAD LANDS * FREE Government LANDS. 511 la I, I DNS OF ACHES in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington ami Oregon. CEUn CflD publications with maps describing the Oil fill rUn best Agricultural. Grazing and Tim ber Lauds now open to Settlers. >eni free. Address CBAS. B. LAMBORN, OPIUM liffi BJ . M. WOOLLEY, it D.; ATLANTA. Ga. Oilico 65Jtf Whitehall St. HOI If you are thinking of buildings house you ought to buy the new book. Pulll-er's Amey eun Arch* Item lire, or • vary man u complete builder, prepared by Palllner. Psllleer k Co., the we 1 known architect* 'lhero is not a Builder or any one intending te fculld or otherwise bit created that can ufford to DO without it. It ia a practical work and everybody buyo It. The best, cheapest and moat popular work eve# Issued on Building. >early four hundred drawings. A $6 book in size and style, but we have determined to make It meet the popular demand, to suit tho timet, ■o that it can be < ualJy reached In all. This book ountninß IU pages lixll luchea in slza, and consists of large 9x12 plate pages, giving plana, elevations, perspective views, descriptions, owner# Kmes, actual cost of OOllH truction.no aiinw work, i Instructions llow ip Build 70 Cott Res, Villa*. Double Houses, Brick Block Rousea, an *.able fol city suburbs, town and country, houses for the farm and woikingiuen's homos for all s- etions of the country, and costing froiu trico to $6,800: also Barua. 6t_bles, HL-IIUOI House, Town Hall. Churches and t her public buildings, together with specification,, rmot contract, and a tar e amount of in fori; atioo on the erection of buildings, selection ot aite, wro ployinent of Architects. It is worth $6 to any but we will aend It in paper cover by mail, postpaid, aasMW. b frf AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL CONSULT OR. LOBB North Fil'tetMiili ?St., Philadelphia, Pa., fo> Uio treatment of Blol Poisons, Sklu Eruptions Nervous Complaints, Blight's Disease, Strictures Impotency nnd kindred diseases, uo matter of how long standing or from what cause originating B**~Teu days' medicines furnished by mail rnr r Send f..r -n SULCI V I. Di-.i-ice-.. rnCC* and Mf'd only by tha We have sold Rig G for CABJTHII CbOdlcAl Co many years, and it has PacUon * beßt ° f BaUB - D. R. DYCHF, & CO.. ■ 81.00. Bold i.> Druggist^
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