j KING OF COUNTERFEITERS. His Wonderful Ability in "Raising" Bills and Numerous Escapes. In tho annuls of Treasury crime there is no more noted counterfeiter than Pete McCartney, and his wife has been his chief assistant. His last arrest was for raising $1 bills to 50's. He took the "50" figures from a tobacco stamp, and by pasting these over the "l's" was able to make them look for all the world like SSO \ bills. He passed a number of these, uud he also raised bills to 20 , 5.' He has been a counterfeiter all his life, and he has had a career which would make a dozen dime novels. He has reformed a number of times, and his wife, who was engaged with him in counterfeiting for a long time, pleaded with him to give up the business. lie would not do so, however, and she went in with him. It was through her that he often escaped from prison. In 1866, , when he was in jail at Springfield, 111., she appeared on the scene with $2,000 in her pocket. A week later McCartney's cell door was found open and both he and his wife had disap peared. It was supposed that the sheriff had been bribed. After this McCartney became a photographer, and later on opened a livery stable at Mattoon, 111. One day a secret-service agent came to hire a team and McCartney recognized him. He made some excuse, and taking all the money from the cash drawer skipped out of the back door of the livery stable aud escaped. At another time he was running a counterfeit work shop in an old log cabin in the little town of Osgood, Ind., and Mrs. McCartney was helping him. There were two other women connected with the gang, and among its members wore Fred Biebusch. a German capitalist of St. Louis, and an old man named Levi and his son. These two latter were determined coun terfeiters, and the whole Levi fam ily engaged in counterfeiting. When the old man died one of the girls presided over the establishment. She was robust and handsome, and a daring manipulator of bogus money. She was very ladylike, I am told, and her bright blue ayes gave no evidence of the secrets which she carried. With this gang Pete McCartney and his wife staid for some time, and in 1870 he was arrested with a lot of bogus mouey on his person, lie escaped again, and shortly after this he was again arrested und taken into the same Spriifglield jail from which he had escaped. While he was here one of the chief dectctives of the secret ser vice called upon him and had an interview with him. During the interview McCartney said: "You don't intend to leave me here, do 1 you?" "Yes, I do," said the detective. "Well," replied McCartney, "leanget out of here easy enough. I have done it before and can do it again." At this the detective laughed, but Mc- Cartney inquired his hotel and room aud said he would return the call that even ing. At 10 o'clock that night the de tective, it is said, heard a quiet rap at the door. "Come in," he called, and j McCartney entered. The detective sprang to his feet and covered his visitor with | his revolver, but McCartney quietly said: "I merely called to pay my respects, and lam going back. You do not need to shoot me." The greatest caution had to be exercised in the care of McCartney at this time, and he was usually searched after his wife had paid him a visit. At one timo, after she left, a small bar of lead was found upon liim, and he would ; probably have escaped had this not j been discovered. One of his former es- j capes he had made by moans of the tin- j foil which was wrapped around his chew ing tobacco. He had pressed it into i shape, and in some way had managed to ! get out by means of it. At another time \ he disguised himself as nu old man. and a third time he escaped while in the keep-1 ing of two United States marshals. He was captured in Indiana some years ; ago and put into the penitentiary, and it was here that lie had to serve out his sen tence. His term was fifteen years, but he got something oIT for good behavior. During his imprisonment he offered the marshal $1,700 for a steel saw, but the official was honest and would not give it to him. McCartney at one time lectured on counterfeiting and he acted the part of tho reformed counterfeiter. He an nounced that he had abandoned his trade and was going to be a good boy for the rest of his lifo. He passed out counter feit bills to the people who bought his tickets, however, and lie supplied other counterfeiters with plates which he en graved on the sly. lie was a man of wonderful parts and during his life acted as an artist, a miner, a livery-stable keeper, practiced medicine, and acted as a commercial traveler. Bismarck's Candid Doctor. Professor Schwenninger owes his post as the permanent doctor of Prince Bis marck to his extremely frank fidelity. He is n second Abernotliy in the brusqueness with which he treats his patients. The great statesman was plagued for years by is incurable nervous excitement and his ever-recurriug gout, though it permitted him to cat well, drink well, work prodi giously smoke amazingly. No cioctor could help him until he had the good fortune to get into the hands of the Ba varian Proft ssor, the only man, it is said, who has ever had power enough over Bismarck to compel nim to obey. At his first visit Dr. Schwenninger found tho patient in his gloomiest and most hope less mood. The physician began to cat echise the Chansellor about his past life. "That is no matter of yours," said Bis marck, "I want you to deal with my present condition." "If that is the case," said the bold Bavarian, "you had better send for a cattle doctor; he would not be in the habit of putting questions to his patients." He took up his hat and made for the door, but Bismarck, suddenly laughing in the mids of his groanings, laid hold of the independent doctor and said. "I believe, after all, you are my man." lie has never lost faith in that doctor from that day till now. —[New York Telegram. Feeding a Big Snake. Three corpulent rabbits of Belgian breed were cagcd in a soap box quietly awaiting their fate. They were the meal r f 4 which the snake was anxiously await ing, says a writer in the Chicago Inter- Occtin. He had not tasted meat in four months and his voracious maw yawned like a bottomless pit for the unfortunate trio in the soap box. Manager Bell ap y peared and drew forth one of the rabbits. \ After stroking "bunny" on the back for I a moment he opened the door to the snake's den and thrust him in. The huge ' |>°a had coiled himself up in a corner, but p once roused himself for action, lie 1 was fully twelve feet long, and having recently shed his winter coat, his skin glistened and shone like satin. He raised "I* head a foot or so from the floor and viewed i] ie first course of his quadri-annual meal. ph e rabbit showed no signs of fear, but rather seemed to enjoy his new quarters. The snake slowly lowered his head and cautiously began to stretch him self along the side of the den. He never once took his eyes off the rabbit, which was still uncousciaus of his danger. Suddenly the rabbit began to act strange ly and to cut all sorts of ridiculous ca pers. lie would leap back and forth over the snake, and rub up against it. and appeared to be fascinated. Slowly and stealthily the snake turned his head about until it was within a foot of the rabbit's haunches. Then, quick us a flash, he darted forward, seized the rab bit in his mouth, aud in another instant there was nothing to be seen of the little animal save the tips of his ears, which protruded from between the folds of the snake. The huge serpent then raised his head full two feet from the floor, darted out his forked tongue and hissed horribly at the motley group watching him. If there was any struggle on the part of the rab bit it was not visible. The snake had him in his awful coils. Then the coils slowly, but with a strength which was terrible to look at, began to tighten till every bone in the poor rabbit's body must have been broken. This done the coils relaxed, and the limp, lifeless body of the sportive rabbit of a few moments before lay ready to be swallowed. First the serpent nosed his victim all over. The eyeballs of the dead rabbit were j protruding from their sockets, and by ' way of beginning the boa licked them with his tongue. Once more he coiled about his victim, leaving its head and shoulders free. Then he opened his mon strous jaws and, taking "bunny's" head therein, began to swallow. Soon the head and shoulders were out of sight, and in less than fifteen minutes the hind legs followed. Dodges of London Beggars. The barefoot dodge is a favorite one with beggars in Loudon. During the Christmas season I saw one lusty knave take off his shoes and stockings, leaving them iu a barroom, aud then pick his way over the cold cobblestones of the street, sing ing a melancholy ditty and holding out his cap pleadingly for pence. Every English beggar that accosts you reminds you that he is a "poor" fellow. "Oh, please give a penny to a poor devil," "Please help a poor old man," "Please remember a poor lad," "Please buy a box of matches of a poor old woman"—these are the entreaties which come to you from every side. The alleged poverty of these people is their stock in trade. Then, again, the most hideous monstros ities are to be met with upon the street corners—maimed, scarred, and deformed creatures who seek to profit by their hideousuess. Many of these creatures are well-to-do. At the corner of Totten ham Court road aud Oxford street sits a woman as fat as butter, com fortably clad, and wearing a cheerful expression. A placard suspended from her neck infhrms the passer-by that "this poor woman is blind," that she "is afflicted with fits," and that she is trying to earn money enough to pay for being "tapped for the dropsy." This professional rides to and from her place of business in a cab. Oxford street is patrolled by several blind men who affect dogs and lugubrious songs and dismal countenances. These fellows have entered into a sort of business part nership, and they are rich. Suggest to a London beggar that he apply for admis sion to one of the numerous homes or asylums for the indigent and afflicted, and see how quick he is to resent the idea. The street-sweepers are a prosper ous class, aud an impertinent. A young lady of my acquaintance (she is now in Chicago) handed one of these fellows a penny with the apologetic explanation that is was all the small change she had. Seizing the coin the fellow retorted, insolently: 44 You ought to be ashamed of yourself for uot haviug more." The real cunning beggars are the gamins who ply their trade in Holborn and in the city proper. These are the little chaps who accost you with: "Please buy a paper, me lord," and, "Let me help you to a cab, your ladyship." This shrewd flattery seldom fails of its purpose; it is particularly effective with Ameri cans.—[Chicago News. Hot Summers Long Ago. A German writer, dealing with certain prognostications (usually heard at this time of the year) of great summer heat, goes back for precedents. In 627, lie says, the springs were dried up and men fainted with the heat. In 879 it was im possible to work in the open fields. In the year 993 the nuts ou the trees were "roasted" as if in a baker's oven. In 1000 the rivers in France dried up, and the stench from the dead fish and other matter brought a pestilence into the land. The heat in the year 1014 dried up the rivers and the brooks in Alsace-Lorraine. The Rhine was dried up in the year 1132. In the year 1152 the heat was so great that eggs could be cooked in the sand. In 1227 it is recorded that many men and animals came by their death through the intense heat. In the year 1303 the waters of the Rhine and the Danube were par tially dried up, and people passed over on foot. The crops were burned up in the year 1324, and in 1538 the Seine and the Loire were as dry land. In 1556 a great drought swept through Europe. In 1694 iu France and even in Switzer land the brooks and the ditches were dried up. Not less hot were the years 1646, 1679 and 1701. In the year 1715, from the month of March till October, not a drop of rain fell; the temperature rose to 38 degrees Reaumur, and in favored places the fruit trees blossomed a second time. Extraordinarily hot were the years 1724, 1846, 1756 and 1810, The summer of 1815 was so hot (the thermometer standing at 40 degrees Reaumur) that the places of amusement had to be closed.— [Loudon News. Cure for Sea Sickness. CharlesW. Hamilton, a naval surgeon, publishes this plan for curing sea sick ness : The successful treatment of sea sick ness, which surgeons atioat have so much to do with, and which generully they are unable effectively to alleviate, must prove my eqcuse for bringing before the pro fession the curative effect of kola. In the few cases which I have lately had to deal with I have found the internal ad ministration of the seed of the kola a most successful remedy. Half to one drachm of the seed chewed slowly was followed, in about forty minutes, by complete cessation of the various symptoms of mal de mer; the de pression, vomiting and giddiness disap peared; the heart's action was regulated and strengthened, and a confidence was felt in heavy weather that my cases never before experienced during the many years that they served in the Royal Navy, and had tried the usual remedies pre scribed by their advisers. At present no means ef preventing seasickness in those susceptible of it is known; aud I venture to believe that in the kola, or its alkaloid, we have one, and that a larger trial of this drug{wil! tend to support my opin ion. From its well known sustaining and invigorating properties during fatigue, for which it is doily used by tho natiyes ou west coast of Africa and the Soudan, its action in sea-sickness seems to be the giving tone to the nervous system, proving a stimulant—acting gen erally and locally."—[Detroit Free Press. Old Advice for New Writers. Take for your motto: "Whoever can think and speak well can also write well." Make crisp, concise sentences. " Sim plicity is the first charm of good style." Iu rewriting cut out all the "fine" or "flowery" passages. Use short, every-day words, if they will clearly express your meaning. Do not say : "She.attempted to attract the attention of an assembly of juveniles by the recital of a small collection of anec dotes," when you mean that " She tried to amuse the children by telling them stories." Be careful of the arrangement of youi sentences and the words in them, and thus avoid ridiculous, and often serious, mistakes. Do not say, for instance, "Wanted, an experienced nurse to take care of a child thirty or forty years of age." Cultivate the habit of writing as you would talk. Call red 44 red," not' 4 ruby;" speak of "the green fields," not "tho emerald fields." Avoid tautology. Do not write: "The traveler, tired and weary with his jour ney, lay down to rest." Avoid redundancy. Do not say: "An other old veteran has departed." Avoid the unnecessary use of connect ives. Only a bad writer would say: "I went to see her and spend the aftoruoon, and stay to tea and spend the evening, and have her go home with me and stay all night." In regard to subjects, write of some thing with which you are familiar, or with which you cau become familiar by careful study. For instance, you may tell of your success with pansies, or read up the subject "Sponges," to make uu interesting account for children. It is said: "A man's best things lie nearest him." You arc apt to imagine that nothing less than a trip to the Pacific coast will furnish suitable material for a good article. Tho four-leaved clover grows at your doorstep. Make the most of your small opportunities while you are ou the lookout for larger openings. After selection, plunge at once into your subject; be sure you strike a keynote at the outset to which you may return at the close, and thus secure a complete, harmonious whole. Be interested in your topic if you ex pect to interest others. Become thorough ly saturated with your subject before put ting pen to paper. Fully half of the work may be doue iu the mind before produc ing visible results. With the subject held iu mind even desultory reading will dis close similar ideas that would otherwise bo unnoted. Throughout your article show a reserve strengtji indicating that you could say more if you would. A study of good literature will show how this can be done. An earnest writer anxious to succeed cannot afford to read trashy literature, even for recreation. Spend all surplus moments in the study of noted authors, and not alone to cultivate style. The so ciety of cultivated people will also prove beneficial. To enlarge your vocabulary look up the definition of every unfamiliar word you may chance upon in your reading. Avoid exuberance in writing. Reinem ber to be natural. Have au object iu your essay. Give the reader fun or information or help in some way; especially something that is alive. Do not attempt too much in one article. Never appear to preach. Be practical, even commonplace. There is very little demand for abstract or flowery literature. Finally, be brief. Condense, cut out every superfluous word or sentence.— Mona Farghar Purdy, in The Writer. He Owns an Island. The Colonies and India says: "J, J, Francis, Q. C., of Hong Kong, can be, like Defoe's immortal creation, monarch of all he surveys when he lauds upon the island of Bulambangan, off the coast of North Borneo, The island was conceded to Mr. Francis during a holiday visit which that gentleman paid to Borneo last year, and is described .-is being close upon fifty miles in circumference and ly ing about ten or eleven miles off the extreme northern point of Borneo. It is 150 miles from the port of Sandukan, and has no inhabitants nor any trace of any. The northern half of the island is a sandy plain, well suited for pasturing cattle, or forcocoannt planting. The other side consists of a dcnsejungleof large trees, something after the style of the dark forest which so impeded Mr. Stauley in his last journey across Africa. The shore, as is common in the tropics, is fringed with mangroves. There is an abundance of fine limestone on the hills, the highest of which reaches over 400 feet, and in the valleys is soil evidently very suitable for coffee-planting. There arc two good harbors. Wild cattle are apparently abundant, and there are three species of deer, and plenty of wild pigs, but no crockedilos. So far Mr. Francis has formed no definite idea as to what he shall do with Bulambangan, but he in tends to send a competent man down to examine and report upon tho place." Dudes Who Darken Their Eyebrows. A strange fad of the young men of the present day is darkening the eyebrows and eyelashes. They imagine this pro cess gives an expression of strength tc the face which is otherwise lacking, says the Globe-Democrat. The stuff used foi the purpose comes iu a tiny box, aud is u black powder. In the box is a little kid pencil, simi lar in form to the stump of a blendei used by a crayon orpastelle artist. This tiny kid instrument is dipped iu the black powder and applied in a dexterous manner, first to trace the eyebrows darker and into the desired shape. Aftei this the eyelashes are touched, and then a slight line is drawn under the eyes on the lower lid. At each corner is put the final touch, a little dash of the dark powder, which gives a languid look pre sumed to be captivating The Royal Palace at Toffa. The kingdom of Porto Novo on the West African coast, which has lately been placed under French protection, will in time prove to be an important Colonial possession for the French people. Toffa, the capital of the kingdom, a city ol about 20,000 inhabitants, is the com mercial centre of the surrounding coun try, and already there are established o number of French commission houses. Tho royal palaco is one of the note worthy buildings, a stone structure, pro vided with glass windows, which arc considered a great luxury in these parts. The inner courtyard is triangular in shape. It contains the throne of the king, and serves as the reception-room.— [Frank Leslie's. ! NOTES AND COMMENTS. | SAYS an American lady: "V'HL'i in i Canada recently, I went into a candy, i store to make a purchase, and, as I had. always done at home, sampled one of the varieties piled on the counter. And what do y®u think I found? Cayenne pepper! At first I supposed it was some candy made for April fool's day, hut when I j sampled two other piles that looked tempting and from which, had they pleased me, I should have purchased, I found that cayenne pepper was in each piece. 'ln order to stop customers eat ing candy they don't pay for,' said my companion. I tell you 1 was mad; and when I thought of the way in this country, where one is asked to sample i everything unknown before buying, I i told the clerk I didn't want the cara ! mels. I understand some one is trying i to annex Canada to the United States. Wall, my unole is a United States Sena tor, and I shall toll him that unless he prevents 9uoh a thing I shall go to Europe and marry a French prinoe. I under stand that they are cheap now." ALL New York has nothing mere for eign than the toa wharves of South street. Tea oomes in &t these wharves in great full-rigged ships, and is unloaded for days by dozens of active men. It comes out of the holds in the familiar cubical tea boxes, covered with coarse matting, and wound about with strips of tough cane. The matting is lettered iu English, but evory tenth box is damaged, and the teamsters refuse to tuke it until it has been repaired. Two or throe carpenters are on hand to make repairs, snd to them the damaged boxes are turned over. When the English-lettered matting is stripped off one sfes the queer figures and gay colors of Oliina or Japan. The repairing means merely a deft nailing up of the broken boxes. Each box with its 1 contents weighs about sixty pounds. Of j this from forty-eight to fifty pounds is I tea and the remainder packing, which I includos matting, box and tea load. The j whole wharf is redolent of tea, and stand ; ing about among the workmen are the tea importers, their black worsted con coaled by lo*g, cool, cleau linen dusters, j THE Siberian Cossack, Dmotree Pjesh koff, who started November ?th to ride j from Blagovjechensk, iu Eastern Siberia i to St. Petersburg, a distance of 5,400 j miles, on the same horse, has successfully l accomplished his remarkable feat. Cap j tain Pjeshkoff belongs to a Cossack ; regiment, and his horse is of the rough I Cossack breed, thirteen years old, light I gray in color and rather under-sized, j Neither horse nor rider seems to have | suffered seriously from the long trip, | which was attended by no very unusual i adventures, considering the wild section |of country traversed. The horse sub j sisted on oats and hay, and quenched liis I thirst with snow. It was noted that the | animal's appetite increased with the journey, and that he ate nearly three times as much toward the close of the trip as he did at the start. ELECTRICITY is now used to reduce the dangers of professional target shoot ing. lu such sport the man who remains out in the fiold, and with a "brush" daubed with white paint indicates how far each shooter has missed the bull's eye, occupies a post of danger. He has often been bored through the body with a shot as accurate as a cowboy's by some excited amateur who couldn't ordinarily come within a rod of the target. The electric target dispenses with his services. It is so arrangod with batteries and elec tric wires that the position of each bul let as it strikes the target is registered on a similar board at the firing end of the range. Electricity is invading every line of human activity. TIIE law, making it a misdemeanor for a person to attempt to take his or her own life, went into effect in Now York September, 1881. Prior to that time the average number of suicides in New York city was 100. It is now at the rate of 215 per year, but the number of unsuc cessful attempts has fallen off. The law was not, it should be explained, directed against those who commit suicide, but rather against those who attempt suicide and fail in the endeavor. The average rate of suicide is higher in Berlin, St. Petersburg, Psris, and Stockholm than it is in New York city. It is smaller in New York than in London, Home, Dub lin, Madrid, Liverpool, and Naples. THERE has been a strike of children employed in the sugar beet fields of Sax ony. The children near Brachwitz quit work because their employers refused to raise their wages from twelve to twenty five cents per day. In Langenbogen the children demanded an advance from five to ten cents per day. All the children were accustomed to attending school from 8 o'clock in the morning till noon, and to working without cessation from 1 to 7 o'clock in the afternoon. They were compelled to be in the fields, rain or shine, throughout the six hours. TiiEcamp-mcetiug seems to flourish in India. At a recent one held in Chan dousi, northern India, it is said there were 2,200 people in camp on the ground, beside the people who came and went. On the last day, in the afternoon, the congregation numbered from 3,000 to 4,000 people, who remained for two hours while four preachers spoke, beside the singing. These religious meetings surpassed anything ever seen in this part of India beforo. In one day 230 differ ent persons were forward for prayers. ILLUSTRATIVE of the growth of the co operative idea, the Carpenters' Brother hood of Philadelphia have projected an extensive co-operation scheme. Theii plan is said to be an arraugeinent by which the building trades, including everything from stone-masons to fres coers, shall form one grand organization employing thirty thousand men. This organization will make contracts, erect buildings, employ workmen and divide the profits among themselves. THE largest railway system in th( world is in England. The London and Northwestern Railway Company is cap italized at $528,000,000, and has an an nual income of $51,500,000, with ex penses of $20,500,000 in running and other expenses. The road employs GO -000 men on the 2,500 miles of track ope rated by this system. They have 16,00 C locomotives, carry annually 57,000,00 C of passengers and about 30,000,000 tons of freight. EDWARD ATKINSON, the famous rnanu facturer, food-reformer and political economist, of Boston, is working a new lead. llis latest idea is the production of new, cheap and wholesome food from such cereals as oat and corn-meal, raw wheat, barley and rye. The material ii cleaned, steam-cooked and pressed intc blocks. Out of these he proposes tc make dishes that will enable a man tc live well at a cost of a dime a day. MR. STANLEY snid at the meeting ol j the London Chamber of Commerce re | cently, that the director of a Dutch firrr i called on him, and told him that they now have thirty steamers on the Uppei | Congo, in Africa, and that their hous< j alone had bought $1,500,000 worth 0' I I ivory in the last two years. LIGHT AND BRIGHT. ON the fence—sneak thieves. NEVER place so much confidence in your minister as to sleep during the sermon. IT must have been a wheelwright who was first put in as spokesman by his felloes. Booos—Stanlev reminds one of a poker. Fogg—lndeed? Boggs—Yes; a grate explorer, you know. "I HAVE never read Shakspeare's works," said a pretentious woman, "but I always entertained the highest opin ion of him as a man." IN a street car just before 6 o'clock: He—l am very sorry to crowd you, Miss DeWitt, but—— Miss DeWitt—Don't speak of it. There is really no room j for apology. "WHAT a nice portmanteau you have, 1 Henry." "Yes t my wife gave it to mo on my birthday." "Oh! Was there anything iu it? "Why, yes, the bill for the portmanteau." THREE THOUSAND Austrian bakers aro on the strike for an increase of i wages. They knead bread, but are willing to loaf rather than work for their present pay. PROFESSOR in psychology—Can't we conceive of anything as being out of time, and still occupying space ? Musi- j cal student (thoughtfully)— Yes, sir; a bad singer in a ohorus. How TO elevate the masses is still ' the burden of a good deal of speculation. ' We thought the introduction of ele- j v a tor a a number of years since had solv- , ed that problem for all time. THREW him in again: Rescuer (who j has pulled a man out of the water) —Gracious! Your head is bleeding. How did you cut it ? Rescued man— | On the water's edge, I guess. SHE would like to: He (at midnight) j —Funny custom the Chinese have. The hostess is expected to notify the caller when it is time to go. She (with a sigh)— Rut we are in America, you know. "YOUR papa and mamma know what is best for you, Tommy," said his mother. Tommy rolled about a good deal on the rug and then said: "Ma, do you know sometimes 1 feel like beiug an orphan." "HOLD on, my friend, don't shoot; I I'm a judge." "Wall, s'posing ye are; judges ain't no move count dan de law is nowadays. Ye can't bang a feller, ye can't 'lectrify liim, and my lawyer kin appeal's fast as you kin sentence. Shell out." AN old negro who had some business in a lawyer's office was asked if lie could sign his name. "How is dat, sail?" "I ask," the lawyer answered, "if yon can write your name ?" "Well, no, sail. I never write my name—jes' dictates it, sail." MANAGING editor—What's this, Mr. Scooper? Ten dollars for a magnifying glass ? I sent you to tho beach to write up the ladies' bathing dresses —not to study natural history: Reporter—l know it, sir; but I had to get tho mag nifying glass to see the bathing dresses Early Rising. Early rising is synonymous in long life histories with short sleeping, which means rapid recovery from fatigue, a sign of bodily strength. These scien- i titie facts iu no wise contradict the al- j leged value of early rising as a prac tice to be cultivated by all persons in good health. It is excellent as moral discipline, and eminently healthy as a matter of fact. Most persons will eat three meals daily. When a man gets up late those meals will probably fol- : low each other at too short intervals to be wholesome. When he is an early riser it will probably be otherwise. Ho can enjoy a good breakfast, and by the time for his lunch or mid-dav dinner he will have an honest appetite again. —British Medical Journal. A irieu turo tor insomnia. Every night, at an early bed-time, take a live-grain pill of asafetida; be careful to take no strong medicine after three o'clock in the afternoon; half an hour before getting into bed take a hot foot bath. Lot the water bo as hot as can be borne at first, and add a little very hot water as it cools. Be suro to keep well covered up, and to have the feet in the water for a full half-hour. A month of this treatment under tho most adverse ciroumstances completely cured the insomnia of a friend, who had run tho entire gamut of narcotics, stimulants, eating before retiring, and tiring himself out.— T.fulinsr TTnm.p. Jru.rrmL Beeohnm's Tills euro Bilious and Nervous Ills Tho total Indian population is estimated to bo loss than 250,000. Of these, 21,282 livo in houses and 9,012 aro engaged in agriculture. There are 28,008 church mem bers among them. .T. S. Parker, Fredonin, N. Y., says: "Shall not call on you for the SIOO reward, for 1 be lieve Hull's Catarrh Cure will cure any case of catarrh. Was very bad." Write him for par. ticulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. A big English manufacturing firm has of fered a reward to its firemen who save the most fuel. The firm is convinced improper tiring is responsible for great waste. FITS stopped free by Da. KI.INK'S Gnr.Al NERVE RESTORES. NO Fits after first day'i use. Marvelous euros. Treatise and trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., ThUa., Ta In four years the Lutherms have erected 1,582 churches iu this country. Oftheso 880 were Gorman, 847 English, 178 Swedish, 189 Norwegian, 83 Danish. 8 Finnish, 2 Slavo nian, 3 Icelandic. Six NnveU Free, will bo sent by Cragin A Co., Phlla.. Pa., to any one in U. S. or (.'anada, post ago paid, ui>on reeelpt Of 25 Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels ou circulars around each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers. The oldest Baptist church in the South is the First Baptist Church in Charleston. South Carolina, tho bicentennial of which was ob served Nov. 21-25, 1888. An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption* When death was hourly expected from , CoHHiimi'tl'iii, all remedies having failed and Dr. Il.James wasexperiraenting, he accidental ly made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which cured his only child, and now gives this recipe , free on receipt of two stamps to pay expense*. Hemp also cures night sweats, nausea at the 1 Stomach, and will break a fresh cold in twen ty-four hours. Address Crnddock V Co., 10ti ltuco St., Philadelphia, Tu„ naming this paper. In cases where there has he n excessive vi bration noticed with engines bolted to beams or girders of the upper stories of buildings, hanging heavy weights from the bottom of the engines has overcome the vibration nl most entirely. 1- - (i Oil " (M fessa^ BALL W'* HURTS, S SPRAINS, 2 JR BRUISES, * A Boston Episode. This time, Miss Reader, we will not try a spinner; there are no in front of the Vendome. Let us take the more decorous and slower horse ear. And will you tell me, Miss Reader, how the ladies behave whom yon meet in horse-ears in Fort Wron i gel ? There is rather a curious ob | nervation made as to the breeding of Boston women. Just read those lines, which I received yesterday from one of the most charming women whom I have the pleasure of knowing . "My ex ' periences with Boston women to whom j I have been introduced have been very i I charming in most oases; but my expe ; rience in shops, cars and streets have been otherwise, and would till a vol ume. I have been a stranger in New | York, San Francisco and Boston, and j have lived in the three cities. In the j 1 first two I have asked for information, I and offered small courtesies to total strangers—women—with the pleasant est results, in no case meeting with discourtesy. But in Boston my ex perience lias taught me never to ask a question, or try to help a well-: dressed woman, even when I know her to belong to 'ono of the best fam- j ; ilies!'" I have these lines in my pocket, as you see, and I read them to you be cause the last time I was on this line !an interesting thing happened. A \ ! young woman, a little over-dressed, if ! you please, stopped the car that she j | might leave it. She dropped the par cel that she had been down town to | buy. I saw it fall and touched her I and told her that she had dropped ! her parcel. But, unfortunately, I had j | never been presented to her; we had i not danced together at Papanti's, nor | were we members of the same club. She, therefore, looked at me with the vigorous manner to which our friend alludes in the letter, a good deal as it' i I had struck her in the face, and in this way expressed her indignation that any man should have addressed her who had aot the honor of her ac i quaintance, I am, however, sixtv ] eight years old. and I stand such things better than a boy does. So I I said, very pleasantly, "You have dropped your parcel, and it is under your feet." Again she resented the insult with a look—not with a word, i observe—and swung out of the car, 1 dragging the parcel after her by lier dress, so that it fell in the mud in the street. There the uext horse that came along trod upon it, I suppose, and I suppose what is left of it is there now. lam free to say I think it | was good enough for her.— Rev. E. F t i Hale, in the New England Magazine. Before Marengo. Boujrienne tell us how the First Consul, in his Cabinet in Paris, traced the march to Marengo and laid his finger on the spot in the map where ho would fight and defeat the Austrian army—a prodigy of calculation, if we recollect the circumstances: "When he had stationed the enemy's corps and drawn up the pins with red heads on the points where ho hoped to bring his own- troops, he said to me, •Where do you think I shall beat Melas ?' 'How the devil do I know ?' 'Why, look here, you fool! Melas is i at Alessandria with his headquarters. 1 There he will remain until Genoa sur : renders. He has in Alessandria his magazines, his hospitals, his artillery, ! and his reserves. Crossing the Alps here' (pointing to the Great Mont St. Bernard), T shall fall upon Melas, cut off his communication with Austria, and meet him here on the jjlains of Bolivia'."— Temple Bar. Health and Strength Soon replace weakness and languor If that reliable medicine, Hood's S&rsnpnrllla, is fairly and faithfully tried. It Ih the best medfeiue to keep the blood pure and to cxi>el the germs of scrofula, salt rheum aud other poluoDß which cause so much sulTering, and sooner or later undermlno tho general health. By Its peculiar curative power Hood's Sarsaparllla strengthens the system while it eradicates disease, i "I think Hood's Sarsaparllla is Just the medicine for women or anyone who has bad bIood."— JKNNIK , E. SMITH, East Broad Top, Pa. , ( Hood's Sarsaoarilla Bold by all druggists. £1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. I OO Doses One Dollar SOUTHERN IMMIGRATION BUREAU, Itnleiuh. N. C., furnishes Information about the South. Maps and pamphlets furnished free of charge. PENsioNsr; I are entitled to IS | JI month. Fee gin when vou RI.£VK,.? 10, L e J\ free. JOSEPH 11. IIUNTEIt, All y, Washington. 11. C. . Nfir j EWIS' 98 S LYE £& L Powdered and Perfumed. Tho stronnest and purest Lye . j Will make the beat per •fumed Hnrcl Soap in 20 min utes without boiling. It is tin; vwmi best for disinfecting sinks, ■ fIV closets, drains, washing bottles, Wig? barrels, paints, otc. PENNA.SALT M'FO CO. : ©irt fliWhe king- JRjH M"the old proverb be true* itflOCyftlOKTf SAPOLIO is greyer bhan royal ly ihsel/*: Try it- i n you r riex h house-cle&nirtg: Grocers keep ih DO YOU LIVE IN GREASE? As a true patriot and citizen you should naturalize yourself by using the best inventions of the day for removing such a charge To live in Grease is utterly unnecessary when SAPOLIO is sold in all the stores, and abolishes grease and dirt. COLLAR OR CUFF —————l THAT CAN BE RELIED ON BE UP -fco emxit; 2 TO '•*! THE MARK 3>3"Ot tO DlSCOlOg! BEARS THIS MARK. NEEDB NO LAUNDERINC. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. ONK BJVJOY® Both the method and results ■when Syrup of Pigs is taken; it is pleasant and refilling to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt In , its action and truly beneficial in its (effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 500 and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it- Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL teUISVIUF FY NEW YORK, NY. HOIiBKMKN, I guarantee tostopauy cribbing horsa Write M, L. ARNOLD, Worcester, Mas*. Box la f*nillM) HA HIT. Only Certain en# OPIUM TIWW&SSXLM PATENTS—PENSIOKStKuM,!^ digest of Pension aud Bounty laws. Send for Itto Teuton' Guide or How to Get a l'ntent. PATHIOm O'FAitßßtx. Attorney at Law, Washington, D. C. FRAZERn^fM BEST IN TUB WOULD H2 61 E E C2 y Get tho Geuulno. Sold Everywhere. DETECTIVES Urauntn Detective nuren.iCc. ii lrcad(,Clsimtl,£ Be m s i o ssi Successfully Prosecutes Claims. ,atd Principal KxanPiior U. S Pension Bureau. fPlso's Remedy for Catarrh 1b the |H Best, EosleHt to Use, and Cheapest. EH The Old and Reliable ! DR. TOBIAS' VENETIAN LINIMENT IS WHAT YOU NEED, Because it ACTS LlKl! JIAGIC for PAINS and ACHES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. "Johu Gill, of the Methodist Home, New York City, says: \'II my opiiiiou there is notlilug equal to Dlt. TOBIAS' VENETIAN LINIMENT for pains aud i aches of every sort; ills the KING. I consider uq I family or stublo safe without . bottle of your invaK : uoble remedies.' " J All Druggists sell it. Price 25 aud 50 ecu is. DEPOT 40 ItlUllllAY ST. NEW YORK. WALL PAPER BARGAINS! We will guarantee nil these clcuu new goods Just made, and full length—3 yards to the roll. An 8-yd. roll White buck Paper, 3 (06;. An 8-yd. roll (Hit Paper. 5 to 10c. \n 8-yd. roll Embossed fJllt Paper, Bto I.lc. (Hit llorder*, 4 to 18 inches wide, 'J and 3c. per yard. Ilorderff without (.Jit, '4 to 0 Inches lc. per yn rd. Send 4c. In stampß for sample® of the best and great, Bt bargains in the couutry. F. XX. CADY, 301 II Mill STREET, Mention this paper. Providence, It. I. CH ICHESTER'SI ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND fv'isbje.^Ladlea, r| Vr dangerous counterfeits. Send 4c. j& letdles," in Utter, by r<lnra -T VU*k'uUr~ChJl P C4„ OadUoo Sc.. pSH Mf®*nly Vy iha We have sold Big G for t/uie*'be" "'of' sat" Ohio. "S Sl DYCTTF A- CO.. Bold
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