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,
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Every wife or daughter living near a vil
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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
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Guide, for 60 cents. For SI.OO, five packs and
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book; six cans, $5.00, express prepaid.
Bend stamps or cash. Interesting testimo
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j A hundred Paris mothers-in-law of the
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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.
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j JOSEPH H. HUN
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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.
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A New Kind oflnHuruuco
HM been pat la operation by tho manufactur
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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.
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