A WAVE EGO. Novel Means of Pumping Water at a New Jersey Keeort. Underneath the pier of the Bond Wave Power Company at Ocean Grove, N. J., ft mammoth iron egg floats upon the top of the waves. In mild weatner the egg bobs up serenely, rising to a height of about 14 inches above the dead level of the sea, but when the weather is rough and great rollers come rushing in, the egg rises forcefully upward 5 feet or more. It cannot get loose, for it is made fast to the pier by long, strong arms of iron. Up from the top of the mammoth egg a rope runs, and after it has passed over a pully, it stretches on shoreward and at last enters a wooden building sit uated upou the beach. In the building is a pump, and the rope is in connection with it. The pump is lifting about 8,000 gallons of water a minute, raising it dis tances equivalent to the height of the waves. The explanation of the apparatus and the Work it is doing is that Mr. N. O. Bond, whose namesake the Bond Wave Power Company is, has successsully com pleted an experiment undertaken primar ily to determine if it were possible to make the ocean, by the motion of its waves, pump enough of itself into Wes ley Lake to make that lake a body of salt water. There are people living in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove who, considering that the sources of the waters of Wesley Lake are in swamp lands, judge that the lake is to some extent a health-menacing body of water, and they have for some time wished that it might be salted. Mr. Bond says that he will nave no difficulty in making Lake Wesley salt, and he ex pects to uo It this summer. He suys that he is perfectly satisfied that his new wave machine will not only do the work which it was especially devised to do, but he is also assured that it will be found a valuable machine for doiug other things which need to be done economi cally. He says that the machine is strong enough to work comfortably in the roughest weather, and that it is built with an especial view to making it run with very little supervision. He says that the wave egg which is in use as the motive power of the street-sprinkling system at Ocean Park ran all through the winter of 1889-90 without getting out of order, and that its operations were not in the slight est interfered with by the great storm of last September, which, it will be recalled, was spoken of as "the greatest storm for thirty years." The wave egg, Mr. Bond says, will be as little liable to disarrange ment by heavy weather as the wave gate was. The new machine may be used where ever waves rise and fall, and there need not necessarily be a pier to hold it to its work. It may be kept in place by piles quite as w ell as by a pier, for, while the force of a great wave is immense, it is not so exerted upon the egg as to give a shock, such, for example, as the shock of a cannon ball. The wave egg may be made as its uses may demand. The one in operation at Ocean Grove has a major diameter of 10 feet, a minor diameter of 7 feet, and its weight, conjoined with the arms by which it is fastened to the pier, is about two tons. The length of the arms is 33 feet. —[NewYork Times. Recovered from the Deep. Dredging operations now being carried out at Santander, Spain, have resulted in the discovery of the well-preserved wreck of a warship of the fifteenth or sixteenth century. She must have been in her present place for 400 years and was partly covered by a deposit of sand and mud. Divers have brought up guns which bear the united arms of Castile and Aragon, the scroll of Isabella or the i crown and initial of Ferdinand. This ship would appear to have been employed as a transport, and inasmuch as some of the arms are of French and Italian make it is supposed that she formed part of the fortunate expedition against Naples under Gon/alo dc Cordoba. She probably foundered while entering the port of Santanclar on her return from Italy laden with trophies and plunder. Among the coin recovered are some bearing the im age and superscription of Charles VIII. of France, and others issued by various contemporary Italian States.—[Cham bers's Journal. Filling Nail-Holes. Carpenters and painters have frequent occasion to fill up nail-holes and other defects in the woodwork of houses. Putty is the substance relied upon to do this work, but there arc objections to its use. The Scientific American recommends this substitute: Take fine sawdust and mix into a thick paste with glue, pound it into the hole, and when dry it will make the wood as good as now. Oue correspondent says he has followed this for thirty years with unvarying suc cess in repaniug bellows, which is the most severe test known. Often by frequent attachment of new leather to old bellows frames the wood becomes so perforated that there is no space to drive the nails, and even if there was the re maining holes would allow the air to escape. A treatment with glue and saw dust paste invariably does the work, while lead, putty and other remedies always fail. The Czar and His Titles. The Czar of all the Russias has a title that would make him uncomfortable were there no visions of Nihilists, dyna mite and other scary thiugs to disturb his slumbers. In recent legal document bo appears as: "Alexander 111., by the grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat Panrussiau, Muscovite, Kievian, Vlad vinirian, Novgorodian, Czar of Kasan, Czar of Astrachan, Polish Czar, Siberian Czar, Czar of Chersonesus, Georgian Zar, Gosudor of Pskoff and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Vollhynia, Peodo lia and Finland. Prince of Esthonia, Leivonia and Courtlandt. Grand Com mander of the Whole Northern Country, Gosudar of Iberia, Kartalinia, Armenian Territory and Kabardian land. Heredi tary Gosudar of Carcassia and the Hilan gida provinces; Norwegian heir apparent; Duke of Schleswig-Holstcin and Olden berg, Ac. A Curious Antipathy. Did you ever come across a man with an aversion to prime numbess? For the benefit of those who have forgotten their mathematics, I will say that prime num bers are those that cannot be produced by the multiplication together of two or more whole numbers. A man of my ac quaintance confesses that he has a bitter dislike to the number 41, for example. Tho prime digits he finds less open to ob jection, but 81) he dislikes nearly as much as 41, and ho has a like repugnance to 17, 87, 07, and in a less degree he dislikes those numbers that aro obtained only by tike multiplication together of prime numbers. For example, 91 is obtained by multiplying together the prime num bers 7 and 18, and to a person of his temperament, 91 is an unpleasant number. I have little doubt that persons so con stituted object to living in a house bear ing a prime number. The unlucky 18 is, of course, such a number. Persoi s who nourish this strange antipathy art* do ibt lesg of a strong mathematical turn. They probably get an unconscious pleasure from contemplating numbers that easily separate themselves into whole factors, and of course mis 9 that pleasure in prime numbers. To the ordinary man it does not occur that 80 is four times 9, but to the man of mathematical turn this fact is ever present. To the unmathematical all numbers, when casually considered, are primes, so that true prime numbers pre sent to their minds nothing anomalous.— [New York Star. An Ingenious Indicator of Speed. An ingenious contrivance for indicat ing the speed of railway trains is a French invention. The apparatus consists of simply putting in play a cord giving a normal musical note. Connected with this is an arm carrying a stylus which marks its vibration upon a piece of paper covering a cylinder, which turns by its own weight. All this mechanism is in a small box, which can easily be placed among the ballast between the sleepers, and which begins to register the moment a train readies it, and begins to pass over it. Additional features consist of tubes secured to three wooden pedals placed along the outside of one of the rails. When the wheels passes a pedal, a little cork button placed in a hole in the pedal is forced down, and the air which is compressed raises a valve and 9ets a spring vibrating. The wheel act 9 sim ilarly upon the other pedals, and the re sult Is that three marks are made upon the cylinder, which indicate the begin ning, the middle and the end of the operation. The three pedals are two metres apart, so that there is a space of six metres covered by the system. The speed of the train is then determined bv the number of vibrations indicated, which, through the known number of vibrations per second given by the musi cal note, can be readily ascertained, us the more rapidly the train runs over the distance between the pedals the smaller will be the number of vibrations traced on the cylinder. Convenient tables are prepared, showing to the practical ob server the exact relation the readings have to the speed.—[Commercial Adver tiser. It Takes Deftness to Mend Gloves. Every one who has attempted the task knows that it requires a particularly deft touch to mend a rent in a glove success fully. In the picture of Hilda, the hero ine of the Marble Faun, engaged in mending her gloves, Hawthorne draws uttention to the grace of this peculiarly feminine task. The best glove menders in the world, unfortunately for this senti ment, are men, "professional glove-sew ers," who handle the kid and needle with methodical dexterity. A rip is a simple matter with them; it is in mending a tear in the kid that they show their skill. The color of the glove is carefully matched in silk taffeta or any silk good 9 of firm, light quality, and in sewing silk. A piece of the silk is run on the inside carefully under the rent so as to bring tho edges together, but not so as to show on the outside of the glove, and the edges of the kid are then drawn together by almost invisible stitches, as a cloth mender mends cloth. Properly rubbed with the finger, the rent hurdly shows if it is not in a place where the stitches arc stretched when the glove is worn. Even this the silk be neath tends to prevent. After a little perseverance any one can catch un this art of glove mending and learn to do the work with something of the skill of an ex pert. A rip in the stitching even may be "stayed" with a bit of silk, where it is caused by a special strain, and may be kept in tiiis way from breaking out again. —[New York Tribune. Growth of American Cities. It is clear that tlic cities of the United States have grown fust enough, although the larger of them have scarcely equaled the general rate of increase throughout the country. No other nation on earth has more than one city containing a mil lion inhabitants, not even the great llritisli Empire with its ;!00,000,000 peo ple and one-sixth of the land surface of the globe. The estimates which give other Chinese cities than Canton 1,000,- 000 inhabitants or upward are unreliable, and not to be placed beside census figures. There are now certainly two cities in the United States which have more than one million inhabitants, and Chicago, thanks to the annexation of great snburbun dis tricts, will probably either pass Phila delphia or be l ight on the heels of the Quaker City, making three Ainerieun cities above the million line. New York, Philadelphia and Chicago together have more people than there were in the United States at the close of the Revolu tion. Ten cities of the Great Republic have nearly 7,000,000 inhabitants, and a baker's dozen can be picked out with about as many people as there are in Ireland and Scotland together, or in Switzerland, Greece and Denmark com bined.—[Cleveland Leader. The Most Offensive Odor. Some researches by two German chem ists have been brought to a close in a somewhat ludicrous manner. Among several products obtained by them from the reaction of sulphureted hydrogen on acetone was a small quantity of an ex tremely volatile body, which seemed to be monoßulphuretcd acetone, or thioke tone. It was impossible, however, to ob tain the substance pure on account of its odor, which makes all other foul smells sweet by comparison, and entitles this compound—whatever it is—to rank as the worst smelling substance known. In the attempts made to purify the product,with every precaution to prevent its escape, the atmosphere about the laboratory was so infected to a distance of at least a ouar ter of a mile that a storm of complaint from the citizens of the town made it necessary to abandon the investigation. [Trenton (N. J.) American. Long-sightedness of a Detective. IVhitely, the former Chief of the United States Secret Service, had a most invalu able gift. He was long-sighted, and could accurately read a written letter at a distance of thirty feet. I have recently heard of a man who has cultivated an equally valuable accomplishment. He can sit in a room at some distance from a person writing at a desk and tell by the motion of the hand and pen what the person is writing. Most any hotel clerk of experience can read writing upside down. This will explain the readiness of the greeting you receive at the hands of the hotel clerk, whom you have never seen before,—[Sun Francisco Chronicle. NOTES AND COMMENTS. A STATISTICIAN writes: "At every tick of the clock somebody somewhere in the world is dying. Deaths among the whole human fumlly average over sixty a minute. To a man contemplating life insurance such a fact is apt to strike home with startling force. Or, viewed in another light, it may shake his con fidence in the idea that long life is a com mon thing, to know that out of every one hundred men only six reach the age of sixty-five, and not more than one in five hundred lives to see his eighty-fifth year. Right in this connection comes the interesting fact that there is enough life insurance now in force in the regular American companies to give every man, woman and child in the entire world two dollars apiece. The world's population is about 1,500,000,000, and the companies in question carry over $3,000,000,000 in surance, only it happens to be on selected lives, averaging $3,000 each to one mil lion policy holders. Facts like these ought to be full of fructifying thought to the insured and bestir them to help make up the second million policy owners." WHEN the United States Supreme Court rendered its now famous opinion in the lowa prohibition case, it announced that liquor in original packages was be yond the reach of State control, but it did not define an original package. The Ehrase has ju6t been judicially construed y United States Judge Foster, at Topeka, Kan. He holds that when bottles of whiskey put up in a pasteboard covering are packed and shipped in a wooden box, the original package is the box and not the bottles. Consequently, while the agout is froe under the aecision of the Supreme Court to sell the box with its contents, he cannot, without becom ing liable to the State law, break the packages and sell the liquor by the bottle. That, in the opinion of the New York Herald, seems to be a logical distinction, but it cannot suppress the bottle traffic. To make original pack ages of bottled liquors it is only necessary to ship in bottles not packed in boxes, cases or other coverings. THE 83 industries which figure in the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics Re port for 1890 are carried on by 28,294 partners, of which 20,521 are males and 1,700 are females, 13 being estates. The percentage of female partnership is 0.22. In round numbers oue out of sixteen partners engaged in Bay State manufac turing and mechanical industries is a woman. Iler partnership is limited to 40 industries. The two industries in which woman partnership exceeds 40 per cent, arc clothing and hair work. Of the whole number of stockholders in the 83 indus tries of the State 30,783 are male and 11,572 are female, 420 corporations, trus tees, etc. Thus it is seen that whilo women are not numerous as partners they are as stockholders. Perhaps the do. mestic partnership suffices in most cases. Iu GO of the 83 industries tho male stock holders predominate. In polishing and dresses —as might be expected—the woman stockholder is in the ascendency. A COMPANY has been established in New York City to guarantee depositors in national, State and savings banks and trust companies against loss by reason of the suspension or failure of such institu tions in which those guaranteed may have their deposits. In case of the sus pension or failure of such an institution in which the party guaranteed has money on deposit, the compauy upon receiving evidence of that fact and a trausfer of the claim with power of attorucv to col lect, pays the full amount due the guaranteed by the insolvent institution. The rates are as follows: For any amount not exceeding S3OO, $t per year; for any amount not exceeding SSOO, $1.50 per year; for any amount not exceediug i SI,OOO, $2.50 per year; and $2.50 for every additional SI,OOO guaranteed. It is a New Jersey institution and has been incorporated less than a year. IT is the habit of naval officers to rep resent carelessly that the common sailor on United States ships is a hapless wretch, whose time is divided between debauches ashore and the dungeon on shipboard. When pinned down to the facts, however, those officers who come most closely in contact with Jack freely admit that he has vastly improved within tho last twenty years. In earlier days many an executive officer made it a rule to grant "liberty" to the sailors only once in six months. On these occasions they went ashore iu droves, and most of them Came back in sorry plight to lake their punishment. Now scores of sailors get as much liberty as the officers, and abuse it no more than the latter. The sailor who comes back from his outing "drunk and dirty," as the plain-spoken tar puts it, is the exception rather than the rule. IK tho stories of missionaries be true we may expect soon to hear of as ghastly horrors of starvation in Japan as were reported from North China last year. The rice crop lias been a failure in many parts of Japan, and as this is the sole stay of a large part of the rural popula tion the result is misery of which a for eigner cau form little idea. The great trouble in all Oriental countries is that no arrangements are made to meet 1 famine, the people with full stomachs having precious little sympathy with those whose stomachs are empty. Then, too, the Japanese, like the Chinese, pre fer to see huropeans supply their starving i poor rather than to contribute from their own abundance. Both races are firm believers in the adage that charity begins ! and ends at home. BY the wonderful discovery of an Italian ' astronomer, Schiaparelli, it seems that both Venus and Mercury turn but once on their axes during a revolution around the sun. In the case of the former this fact means that in the beautiful planet the people —if there be people there—are either in perpetual sunshine or eternal midnight. It is supposed that the long equatorial day is more tolerable by the heavy clouds that cover the face of the planet. The atmosphere is known to be ope-third denser than that of the earth. The poles themselves and a small tract adjacent arc intensely cold, but an equable, or at least approximately equable, climate exists between the equator and the poles. THE fact that New Jersey has 3,748 miles of railroad lends special interest to ; the statistics of the number of accidents for the last year which have been re ported to the State Controller. By acci dents of all sorts 749 persons were in jured, 203 of them fatally. Two-thirds of those injured, but less than one-third of those killed, were employees. This seeming anomaly is explained by the fact that many tramps walking along the tracks were killed by trains. The sum mary of the reports does not give the fig ures showing the fatalities due to grade crossings, which must be a considerable proporuon of the whole. A LAUGE part of the bananas in the New York market comes from the little island of Jamaica in the West Indies. A number of small steamers, specially adapted for this trade, make frequent t#ips between Now York and this Eng lish colony, and it is not unusual for one of these ships to unload from 8,000 to 10,000 bunches at the docks in the lower portion of the city. Jamaica also pro- duces some fine oranges, pineapples, and cocoanuts, but little attention is given to the raising of these fruits, and ship ments are small and infrequent. A CITIZEN ofSelma, Cal., who had two lazy boys on his hands, inducod them to plant a vineyard and cultivato it with their own labor for three years, with the promise that he would pay them a bonus of $1 for every pound of raisins that were produced in that length of time. The boys went to work with a zeal that nearly took the old gentleman's breath away, and from present indications this yfear's crop will cost him $2,000. ADVICES from Japan state that there is a growing animosity against foreigners in that country, and that several have been attacked in an unjustifiable manner in the streets of Tokio aud Yokohama. The native press is aiding in stirring up tho prejudices of the people against strangers. THE most densely populated square mile in the world is in the city of New York. It is inhabited by 270,000 peo ple, the larger part of whom are Italians, who speak only their native language. ACCORDING to a correspondent of a French paper, cannibalism prevails to a horrible extent in the Congo. Women arid children, he says, arc frequently sac rificed. We Are Seven. The 44 sacred number" seven plays a conspicuous part iu Masonry, theology, history, astronomy and mythology. Seven is required to make a perfect lodge, with seven officers, aud the sum mit of Ancient Craft Masonry is said to be reached when the three lodge and four chapter degrees are taken and the august mysteries are discovered. The first temple, or Temple of Solomon, was seven years in building and the second was built by Zerubbabel after 10x7 years captivity. The theological ladder of the Entered Apprentice has seven rounds, referring to tho four cardinal and three theological virtues. Among the ancients the mystical num ber seven was highly revered, because it was derived from four, signifying the natural, uud three, the spiritual, world. Pythagoreans deemed seven the perfect number, because it was made up of three and four—the triangle aud the square— which are two perfect figures. God added seven days to his promised patience toward the old world; clean beasts and birds were taken into the ark by sevens. The ark rested in the seventh month, and doves were sent out at inter vals of seven days. The years of plenty and famine in Egypt and their emblems were by sevens. The seventh day was blessed and made holy by the Creator, and the seventh year was ordained a Sabbath of rest to the land; the seventh time seventh year was the jubilee. The great feasts were observed for seven days. Seven priests with seven trumpets sur rounded Jericho for seven days, and seven times seven on the seventh day. In Revelations we find the seven churches, seven candlesticks, seven stars, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven thun- i ders, seven vials, seven plagues, 6even angels, seven-headed monster. The Hebrew shabang (seven), says | Park hurst, is sufficiency or fullness. Seven in Scripture often signifies a great, a complete number: I Samuel ii: j5; Job v: Ift; Proverbs xxiv: 16-25; Isaiah iv: 1, etc. "Wisdom has hewn out herseveu pillars."—Proverbs ix: 1. Jacob served seven years for Leah and seven more for Rachel. A leprous person, house or garment ' I was made clean by dipping or sprinkling seven times.—Leviticus xiv: 51-55. Seven years was the period of repent ance, and the prophet pruised God seven times a day. Samson kept his nuptials seven days, seven locks were shaven from him and he was hound by seven withes. Forgiveness of a brother is not to be withheld, according to Christ's teaching, "till seven times seven, but until seventy times seven;" or, if he trespass seven times a day, and ask forgiveness, it is tc be granted. There were "seven Champions of Christendom," "seven Wise Men of Greece," "seven Wonders of the World," "seven sleepers," and Rome was called the "seven-hilled city." Among the planets are the seven Plei ades and seven Hyades. Seven altars burned before the god Mithras, and the Hindoos supposed the world to be inclosed within seven penin sulas. In the Persian mysteries were seven caverns, in the Gothic seven obstructions were culled the "road of tho seven stages." The names of our seven week days came from the seven deities of the Goths, viz.: The Sun (Sunday),the Moon (Mon day), Tuisco (Tuesday), Woden (Wednes day), Thor (Thursday), Friga (Friday), Seatur (Saturday). The subject is inexhaustible.— j [Masonic Home Journal. Chinese Justice. Iu China acts of homicide or murdei I committed by lunatics are rare in the ex -1 treme. Iu that country the iron hand ol | Justice works inexorably, and the pies ( of insanity is not admitted as a mitiga tion of punishment. In the last Imperial Gazette a laborer was sentenced to death j in the usual manner appointed for the | crime of parricide, while the relatives, • whohad neglected to inform the district i authorities that the man was insane, wen each sentenced to receive a huudrec blows with a stick. According to west ern ideus, this punishment of a lunatic ii cruel; but there can be little doubt thai the severity adds largely to the protection of the public, as it is evinced by th< rarity of crime by lunatics in China There are few lunatics so mad as to be altogether deficient of self-control, anc the knowledge possessed by nil Chinese that, whether mad or sane, they will be punished for any crimes they may com mit, acts upon all alike us a deterrent.— [London Standard. Rain-Making. | In certain villages in the Indian een trul provinces a learned traveler tells ue thut Besides the village blacksmith, the village watchman, and the like, there is an official termed the Gapogari, whose duty it is to make rain. As long as the seasons are good and the rain aescendt with due frequency, his office is a pleas ant and lucrative one. It is not labor ions, and it is obviously the interest o'. all to keep him in good humor. But if. as sometimes happens, the hot dri weather of April and May is prolongec through June and July, and week aftei week the ryot sees his young sproutiug crops withering beneath the pitiless hoi winds, public feeling is wont to be roused against the sinning rain-makor, and h< is led forth and periodically beaten until he mends his ways and brings down th< much-needed showers. —[New York Post. A OYPSV ON DRBAM9. BWD This, TH.ii QO BOM MOD EAT To* Muoh t'lmto According to the Gypsy, to dream lhat yon batbe in oloar water is a sign diet you will enjoy good health; if muddy, the death of relative* or friends. To see a bath, soger; to take a warm bath denotes happiness; if you take one either too hot or teo cold, domestic troubles. If you undress without go ing into the water yon may expect trouble, but it will soon pees away ; a tea bath is a sign of honor anil an in- 1 crease of fortune- If any on* dream that he or she is ascending to heaven, or is already en joying its delight*, it shows that some t>yful event is to happen, suoh as the irth of an heir to ohildlese people, good fortune to those who are poor, aistiaotion to the wealthy and high honors to the ambitious. If lovers have suoh a dream it foretells an early marriage under the most auspicious cir cumstances, and that their wedding will be attended with troops of con gratulating friends, who will shower presents upon them. On the other band, to dream of seeing hell denotes that the dreamer's life is a bad one, ' and is an intimation to him of reforma tion. | To see a ooffln in your dreams signi -1 Bes that you will soon be married and own a house of your own. This is a dream girla are always wishing for, says the gypsy book. | If any one Bbould be so unfortunate as to dream that he or she was present j at a happy and jolly wedding it denotes that they will attend a funeral > it will cot necessarily be at the burial of either of the persons you dreamed you BBW I married, but you will undoubtedly be called to mourn some friend or rotative, j To go to weddings when one ie wide awake is exceedingly pleasant, but wo , ihould be careful how we dream about j thorn. To dream of being married yourself foretells your death. For a girl to uream of raking tiswly mown hay is a sign she will be married before the hay is eaten. Young fel , tows who drenm of raking hay with their sweethearts had better get ready their neoks for tho matrimonial noose, is they are past praying for. If a man Sreams ho is confined in a prison or jail it shows that ho will have honors <Jt dignities conferred upon him, as suoh dreams go oontrnrywise; if hiH ar rest and imprisonment worries him it Dnly shows that ho wijl be tho more delighted with bis new dignities. This is an excellent dream for politicians and | office-holders, as the jail is what they Would naturally dreanr of. | For a girl to dream that she was so lleepy in churoh as to upd toward tho minister, is a sign sho wifl hare a young parson for her husband; If a young man dreams this, he will beapt to make up to the minister's daughter, provided his | position warrants it. and if not, that he •ill marry a girl noted for her piety. : To dream of a widow signifies a reward; I to dream you are a widow portends death or disappointment To dream of a widower denotes strife or quarrels. ' A fox is a sign of thieves; to dream of fighting with thorn, shows that you will have to deal with some cunning enemy; to keop a tame fox signifies that you will love a lewd woman, or have a bad servant who will rob you. A number of foxes, false friends. If vou dream that your mouth is stopped by a gag, it denotes that you Will soon thereafter bo kissed by a pretty girl. To a young girl suoh a dream predicts that she will see some gentleman who takes her fancy, and perhaps will fall in love with him. If you dream you are pleased with a pretty chambermaid, milkmaid, or any clean or nice-looking young girl wbose occupation carries with it tl\o title of maid, it is a good omen, for it predicts an excellent match, and plenty ot ' children. It also foretells, in many cases, that the dreamer will marry u rich wife. For a married woman to dream this is a sign she will have trouble with servants. Butter lllr** at <>rat Heights. A correspondent of the Scientific American, writing from California, gives interesting observations upon the occurrence of butterflies at elevations much above any noted in Europe. It is something remarkable that these creatures of a summer day can fly sc far, aud can boar such a degree of cold as they do iu crossing our mountain ranges. Last summer, while on a peak of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at an alti tude of thirteen thousand feet, I saw butterflies sailing leisurely about in the air above me, with no more ado than il it had been a lowland garden. That was above the line of perpetual snow. In climbing that peak I had passed over snow ten feet deep. At another time, in the summer of 1877, I saw but terflies at an altitude of eleven thous and feet, ou a mountain of British Co lumbia, near the southeastern frontier , of Alaska. There was a pass, although a high one, on the mountaiu, and the butter flies were going through it to the east and seemed to be migrating. Although they were not so high as those seen on the Sierra Nevada, yet in a latitude sc far north it was more surprising to se€ ' them —practically almost under the arctic circle. The butterflies were several thousand feet above the line of perpetual snow. As I said, they seemed to be crossing the mountain, all going in the same di- j rection. Those on the Sierra Nevada, on the other hand, appearod to be flying about for their own pleasure, not goiug any where in nartioular. A Warrior Hold. I A lawyer gave a dinner party, aftei which the gentlemen retired to smoke tnd chat. All at once he got up, took lown a sword which formed part of e fcrophy, and, brandishing it in the air, exclaimed: "Ah, gentlemen, I shall I oever forget tho day when I drew this blade for the first time 1" I "Pray, where did you draw it?" saic *n inquiring guest, j "At a raffle," was the lawyer's re j joinder.— Summit (N. Y.) Record. | THE American rniRS who marries a ; foreign count hopes to become a "Coun tess So-aud-so," but usually ends with being a Miss-Fit.— The Merchant Traveler. CURES PROMPTLY AND PERMANENTLY LUM BAGO, ; Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache, SPRAINS, Neuralgia, Swellings, Frost-bites, BRUISES. VIE CHARLE9 A. VOGELER C&„ Baltlmors. ML On Good Tarn, Vie. Dying Million air© —I havs been much * in litigation, always successful, too, and i I feel that I owe everything to the law vers. I want them to have all my prop erty. Attorney—Ah! You wish me to j make a will, then, bequeathing— * , Dying Millionaire—Cutting off all ! my relations, and bequeathing the i mouey to charitable institutions, — Ntxo \ . | York Weekly. . j If a woman tind as many rights n wrongs. the world would KOOII appem to whirl a good I deal faster than it does. i If afflicted with sore eyes uae Dr. laaao Thomp •en's tre-water. Druggiste tell at26c.per bottle 1 ' The Irish potato lias probably done more 1 to make this a greut and glorious country j than the average Congressman. 1 E. A. Rood, Toledo, Onio, says: "Hall's Co- i tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen I years ago and she ha* Liul no return of it. It's ' r a sure cure." Sold by Druggists, 76c. | j Greek is the language for poetry; French • ' for love, and Italian for music; but a man 1 ■ with a shirt collar that doesn't fit is the • same helpless being in all. , No soap in the world has ever been imitated as ranch as Dobbins'H Electric Heap. The mar ket is.full of imitations. lie careful that you are not (Jecotood. "J. B. Dobbiugu, Philadel phia and New York," is stamped on everv hx. " 1 A means of putting down curpets without the use of tacks lias been invented. And yet gome people think that the earth is cooling I down und losing motion. FITS stopped free by DR. KLIN®'! GfiKAl NKRVK KBSTOUKB. No Fits after llrst d4F* use. Marvelous euros. Treatise and 12 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, ftll Arch St., Phfla.. Pa j A special detail of troops have completed ; the work of setting headstones over the 1 irraves of Uenernl Custer's brave hand who in the battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 187. _ Children Enjoy The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a lax ative and if the father or mother be costive or bilious tho most gratifying results follow its ' use.Ho that it Is the best family remedy known and every family should have a bottle. iin r are said t<> be t least a hundred j ! thousand acres of phosphate rock scattered through the western part of Florida. The deposits av rage 'en feet in depth, and are rich in phosphate of lime. A Fact Worth Knowing. No horse need die of colic if Dr. Tobias's Venetian Liniment is on hand when tirst the I animal is attacked; a single doso revives an overheated horse, and puts now life into him. j It quite cures galls, sprains, old sores, ; ' scratches, sore throat, etc. The Derby Condition Powders are used also by the best horsemen in the country. They are no cheap article, hut manufactured from the best Ingredients that can lie purchased, uud ( are perfectly innocent. No one has over used > them but continues their use anil recoin , mends them to his frionds. 1 • All druggists and saddlers. 1 Dakota has a 1,500-foot well <1 inches in , diamete , throwing 4,000 gallons of water i in /i minute. There aro in that region wells | 8,000 feet deep. ÜBl Don't read ! Don't think ! Don't believe ! Now. are you . better ? You women who think that patent medicines are a hum bug, and Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription the biggest humbug of the whole (because it's best known of all) —does , your lack-of-faith cure come ? It's very easy to " don't " in this world. Suspicion always comes more easily than con : fidence. But doubt little :. faith never made a sick j woman well and the "Fa r vorite Prescription " has cured 1 thousands of delicate, weak I women, which makes us think | that our " Prescription" is better than your don't believe, i, We're both honest. Let us c come together. You try Dr. t Pierce's Favorite Prescription, e If it doesn't do as represented, you get your money again, u Where proof's so easy, can c you afford to doubt ? i- i IV e Little but active—are Dr. 'j Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. ! Best Liver Pills made ; gen !l tie, yet thorough. They regu late and invigorate the liver, i- stomach and bowels. ■ PENSIONS f°* 3 Claim Attorney. 1317 F St., Washtngtou. P. v. nnillAJ HABIT. Oalr Certnla am lIPIIOM ••ay CI' RE In tbe World. Dr. 3 W IVITI J. L. STEPHENS. Lebanon 0 tedVivea -a,ir in bhe lighho/- ieir works, especially if* hey use 3"A P0LI0: ris Asolid cAke ofscouring >OAp used j-or AII cleAning* purposes. All grocers keepiV. LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST to please her household and works herself to death in the effort. II the house does not look as bright as a pin, sha gets the blame—it things are upturned while house-oleanlng goes on—why blame her again. One remedy is within her reach. II she uses SAPOLIO everything will look clean, and the reiqn ot house-clcaninq disorder will be quickly over. EVERY WATERPROOF COLLAR "> CUFF —————l THAT CAN BH RELIED ON 3>rot to StpUt! THE MARK 3>TOt tO DISCOIOPI I———J BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE ELluiotD ** mark. NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. OAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. <1 Summer Weakness Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, Quickly Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla THE DREAT ENGLISH REMEDY, BEECHAM'S PILLS for Billons and Nervons Disorders. 'Worth a Gains* a Box" but sold for 25 Cents, PENSIONS QENSION W ei wh I ntiUm" D.'S ■ -vrslu last war. 15adiudicatiugclaiins. utAv ilnsO UOIAP *TL'IV. BooA-ktoping. roreia, M Umt I'enmsnihlp, AtHhmetje. Short hand, etc.. II thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars tte% Bryant' ■ College, 497 Mala L, Buffalo, f. PENSIONS!#SIH McCormlck A Son*. Washington D 0 , 4 Cincinnati, O. f f TON SCALES \ OF \ ( S6O BINGHAMTOH] \ Beam Box Tar. Beam I N. Y. \ J V, AU.m ♦/ XX *jy i DCkIOIOHO OT'MU PENSION Bin iLliolUliuis Passed.;',;:;.^ titled to sl2 a mo. Fee tl<) wh*n you get your money. I Blanks free. JOaKI'U 11. lil'3T£tt, Ay, Wu.blngion, V. L FRAZER^ BEST IN Tit K WORLD U It E. AOB tW Get the Genuine. Sold Krerxwhera. WM. FITCH & CO., 1 o*4 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. PENSION ATTORNEYS or over '25 years' experience. Successfully prose* cute |K?nstmiß and elaitus of nil kinds la shorten! possible time. ?y.N'o I' KK UNLESS sfccEsgrtFL. CALIFORNIA EXC'I'RSIONB Weekly. Lowest rat. s and beat accoinmoditioiH to all points West. L..M.WAL'rKBSACO.,;n7 Broadway, XcwYorkClty ;PENSIONSIiSIi ' ery soldier Included who served days and is now 1 dlsnblcd, no matter what the cause; or In ense of his death his widow aud minor children. Dependent I parents also benefited. Write at once for blanks und ndvlee to GEO. I). MITC HELL, Sollciter of Pe alous aud Patents, Box 25.1. Washington. D. C.. Clerk Committee on l'ensious of the U. S. Senate for the last seven years. 7°lo to 8°l 'njebest !§ 100 attd upwards. Securities f.rst-cluss, and la terest guarantooa. References furnished on appll cation. CorreiroondeTioe solicit.-d. Address, FIRST STATE BANK, BRUMKQ, NKBL rClldllllld plication. Employ the old reliable firm, J. D. ( HA 1.1.E A. CO.. Washington, P. o. LI 'if S EF AILS DEPENDENT PENSION BILL has become a law. gig PER MONTH to a3 ! honorably discharged Soldiers and Sudors of the late war, who are Incapacitated from earning u supports Widows the same, without regard to cause of death. | Dependent Parents and Minor Children also inter. . jested. Over 20 years'experience. Deferences In all parts of the country. No charge If imsuccesiiftiL ; Write at once for "Copy of Law." blanks and full Ok- Hru.tlou.ALi. HIKE to It. 31 <■ A 1.1.1 T Kit .V t'O. : .vu.-L-fb.or. to Will. CouarU Co.fc I*. O. Bm : 71."). W uukluiilun, I). C. IfTHE WONDERFUI If- Lo°. _ W > Lll BIIR G.V c H AIR! ferA COMBININGSAnTICLES)2 , ud'ihtp'f UAUU Lt-utuu Mr Li. co.. 14a v. BU , ■."LullL'ik. '• THE DEPENDENT PENSION BILL Grants pensions to Soldier**, Sailors and tholr Widows and < liildrcn. Pi. ei.t Pent*iona L " InereuHtMl. Write im icedlately, stuttug your eaaa. J. libit 11111)1. Att'yut-Law, Chaunct 'y Pudding. WASHINGTON, 1). t, j JM T preirribe and fully a --1 . ' 1 d.H.IKHRAHAM.MD.. > Amsterdam, N. Y. J Mr* only by iba We hare sold Big G for I m*£&lTiDi Chemical Co. many years, and it hag HM given the best of ul WA Faction j D. R. DYCHE4 CXXJ I ' wffl.OO. Sold by Drugglstg,
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