MOTES AND COMMENTS. THE Washington Post makes the sug gestion that the Census Office should be made a permanent Government bureau. GERMANY lias just celebrated the 500 th anniversary of the introduction of the manufacture of paper into that country. The founder of the industry which has since proved so profitable to the Father land was Ulman Stromer, of Nuremburg. THE town of Gilroy, Cal., which is in the heart of n rich country, has added only twelve to its population in ten years. This is because the land is held by large owners in ranches of many thousand acres, and small farmers cannot net a foothold. B ACCORDING to a recent decision of the Russian Senate, tjie wives of such exiles to Siberia as have served their time, but have not been restored to their civil rights, have a right not only to take out passports and to travel or live wherever they please without the consent of their husbands, but even to get married to other men. THE Dominion Government is sending out an expedition far north into the frozen regions, where there is said to be evidence of immence deposits of oil. It is said that the largest oil bearing dis trict in the world is in Northern British America, and covers 150,000 square miles. Some of the lakes and rivers in the North are covered with this oil to a depth of several inches. A WARNING against undue physical exer tion by those not accustomed to it is con tained in a remark of the chief surgeon Of the National Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio. This physician said that of the ,000 soldiers in the Dayton home "fully 80 per cent, arc suffering from heart dis ease in some form or another, due to the forced physical exertion ol their cam paigns." Bv the English law heirlooms are ex empt from probate duty, so the Duke of Hamilton paid nothing on the treasures of his palace when he Ckme into possession in 1803. But when he sold them they ceased to be heirlooms, it appears, and the board of inland revenue has shocked his grace withasudden demand for £'lß.ooo, or 8 per cent, on the £OOO,OOO realized from the Hamilton palace sale. TIIE new oridge to be built over the Hudson River between New York and Jersey City will eclipse the monster Brooklyn structure. The great central span will be 2,800 feet long, nearly twice the length of the span over the East River. There are to be five towers rising to a height ot 500 feet above the water. It is one of the most daring feats of en gineering undertaken in this or any other Couutry. THE Indians on the Montana reserva tions are greatly excited over the com ing of another Messiah. An Indian bearing the prickly name of porcupine, now at Fort Custer, states that he recently met the Messiah at Walker's Lake. He describes him as a large man, with a tawny ! skin and a noble face and carriage, and j says that he began talking after sunrise, j and did not end his speech until after j sunset. AN expedition has been sent out by the Commercial and Industrial Company of the Congo to solve the problem of the sources of the Congo in Africa. It is knowu that the Congo originates in three rivers, which, say the Arab tradcis, form a great lake called Lakg Laudji. The ex pedition, comprising seven Europeaus and 150 Congo soldiers, is expected to reveal to the world a district of great wealth. TIIE fad of collecting old postage stamps might not strike all great minds as an intellectual and exciting pursuit, but it is evidently not a thing to be treated with contempt. The stamp collectors of this country are numerous enough to have an organization of their own. The American Philatelic Association contains over 1,000 active members from all parts of the United States and many cor responding members at various points all over the civilized world. Its president is a prominent lawyer, and its other offi cers are men of standing and ability. It will soon hold a national convention in New York, and show to the country that collecting old postage stamps is a worthy and dignified pursuit. A MANUFACTURER of one of the stan dard typewriters on the market says that there are 75,000 women who make a liv ing in this country by thrumming the keys of writing machines. "Wo are not able to give you absolutely accurate infor mation," lie said, 44 as to the number of women who make a living by the type writer. But we are probably in a better position to estimate the approximate number, as we know more nearly than anybody else how many machines of all makes are in use, and the proportion of male and female operators. We think it not far out of the way to say that there are about 75,000 women whose support is derived from the use of writing machines, and 25,000 men of whom the same may be said. These figures do not iucludc the men who use the typewriter them selves in their own business or profession, but merely those who use the machine as employees of other people." Another manufacturer says that from 20,000 to 30,- 000 women are using the machines which he is makiug. CAIIDINAI. MANNING is eighty two years old. Though ho retains his vigor woudcr fuKy, he is almost as flesliless as a skel eton. John Morley In descrihnig him as he appeared in the pulpit on a recent occasion says: "It was as if wrinkled parchment was stretched across a flesh less skull, out of which, however, kindly blue oyes gleamed brightly, while a pleas aut smile gave life and human humor to the features of the ascetic." Nothing can approach the simple sauvity with which the great cardinal approaches and greets people. Wm. Stead, the London journalist (a radical Protestant by the way), says in speaking of Cardinal Manning: "In a long journalistic life of nearly twenty yenrs I have met many men of all sorts and conditions, and I have knowu intimately some of the foremost of our time. Among all those I have never met any who was more tolerant of differences of opinion, more charitable in his construction of motives, and more stanch and true when you needed help , of any kind, that was within his power to render, than Cardinal Manning." NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that, through the recent collapse of other occupations and industries, fully two hundred mill ions of the population of India, according to the American Agriculturist, are de pendent on agriculture alone, this oc cupation is inan extremely depressed state. The soil is so exhausted that the out turn therefrom is miserably small, one acre of grain yielding on an average not more than ten bushels. Then, too, on account of the annual loss of over twelve millions of cattle from diseaseand starvation, and * the slaughter of some three millions to supply beef, hides and skins, plow bull ocks are so scarce (averaging hardly one pair for thirteen cropped acres in all India) that thousands of acres of land all over the country lie uncultivated for thi rsason alone. To remedy this condition of affairs, a strong society for the preser vation of horned cattle has been organ ized. But this immense annual loss of rattle has a more serious effect in the fact that Indiu is thus obliged to import dairy produce trom Asiatic countries for her domestic consumption, thus raising the price of such produce beyond the meags of the poorer classes. To this cause is attributed the high annual death rate among young children, which constitutes | fully one-half the total mortality | throughout all India. SITTING BULL. He was not the Leader in the Sioux Victory Over Custer. Sitting Bull, says Captain King in Harper's Magazine, was not the inspira tion of the great victory won by the Sioux. Up to this time he had no real claims as a war chief. Eleven days before I the fight there was a "sun dance." His own people has since told us these particulars, and the best story-teller among them was the bright-faced squaw of Tatonka-he-gle-ska (Spotted Horn Bull) who accompanied the party on their Eastern trip. She is own cousin to Sit ting Bull, who knows whereof she speaks. The chief had a trance and vision. Solemnly he assured his people that with in a few days they would be attacked by a vast force of white soldiers, but that the Sioux should triumph over them; and when the Crows and Crook's com mand appeared on the 17th, it was a partial redemption of his promise. Wary scouts saw Reno's column turning back down the Rosebud after discovering the trail, and nothing, they judged, would come from that quarter. All around Crook's camp on Goose Creek the indications were that the "Gray Fox" was simply waiting for more soldiers before he would again venture forth. Sitting Bull had no thought of a new attack for days to come, wnen, early on the morning of the 25th, two Cheyenne Indians who had started eastward at dawn came dashing back to the bluffs, and waving their blankets, signalled, 44 White soldiers—heaps—coming quick." Instantly all was uproar and confusion. Of course women and children had to be hurried away, the great herds of ponies gathered in, and the warriors assembled to meet the coming foe. Even as the chiefs were hastening to the council lodge | there came a crash of rapid volleys from ! the south. It was Reno's attack —an at tack from a new and utterly unexpected quarter—and this, with the news that j Long Hair wus thundering down the I ravine across the stream, was too much for Sitting Bull. Hurriedly gathering his household about him, he lashed his pony to the top ot his speed, and fled westward for safety. Miles he galloped before he dare stop for breath. Behind ' him he could hear the roar of battle, and ! on he would have sped but for the sudden j discovery that one of his twin children I was missiug. Turning, he was surprised j to find the firing dying away, soon ceas- j ing altogether. In half an hour more he ' managed to get back to camp, where the j missing child was found, but the battle i had been won without him. Without j him the Blackfeet and Uncapapas had j repelled Reno and penned him on the i bluffs. Without him the Ogalallas, j Brules and Cheyennes had turned back Custer's daring assault, then rushed forth and completed the death-gripping circle j in which he was held. Again had Crazy ! Horse been foremost in the fray, riding in and braining the bewildered soldiers i with his heavy war club. Fully had his j vision been realized, but—Sitting Bull j was not there. For a long time it was claimed for him by certain sycophantic followers that ' from the council lodge he directed the battle; but it would not do. When the old sinner was finally starved out of her j Majesty's territory, and came in to accept ! the terms accorded him, even his own i people could not keep straight faces ! when questioned as to the cause of the odd names given those twins—"The-Ouo- j that-was taken" and " The-One-that was- j lift." Finally it all leaked out, and now 44 none so poor as to do him reverence." ()f course it was his role to assume all the i airs of a conqueror, to be insolent and defiant to the "High Joint Commission," | sent the following winter to beg him to ; come home and be good; but the claims of Tatonka-e-Yotanka to the leadership in the greatest victory his people ever won are mere vaporings, to be classed with the boastings of dozens of chiefs who were scattered over the Northern reser vations during the next few years. Rain in-thc-Face used to brag by the hour that he killed Custer with his own hand, but the other Indians laughed at him. Gall, of the Uncapapas, Spotted Eagle, Kill Eagle, Lame Deer, Lone Wolf, and i all the varieties of Bears and Bulls were probably leading spirits in the battle, but the man who more than all others seems to have won the admiration of his fellows for skill and daring throughout that stir ring campaign, and especially on that bloody day, is he who so soon after met his death in desperate effort to escape from Crook's guards, the warrior Crazy Horse. England's Hot Wednesday. July 13, 1808, continued to be remem bered for more than a half century through the rural districts of England as the Hot Wednesday. Men were overcome, and horses and other animals died under the oppression of a temperature so unusual in England. Among the reported tem peratures are the subjoined, as to which it is objected that they were not made under conditions assuring scientific accu racy: At Hayes, in Middlesex, ninety degrees at noon; at St. James' Park, London, ninety-four degrees; and in a shop on the shady side of the Strand in or near the window, one hundred and one degrees; at Gainsborough, Lincoln shire, ninety-four degrees at 1 n. m. Registers so remarkable rendered the in struments used objects of attention, and many of the records specify the makers' names, as Ramsden, Cary, Nairne and Blunt; and in two instances, at least, a second instrument was hung beside the first to confirm the record. —[New York Sun. A Wonderful Stono. Mr. John McCraney, living near King ston, Ga., has found a most wonderful stone. While plowing on a sandbar in j the Etowah river, he saw something shin- ; ing with the most brilliant of lights just ! to one side of him. He stopped his plow j and went to pick it up. It was a clear j white stone, the size of an egg, reflecting in one way all the colors of the rainbow. I Turning it over, the colors took on the charactei of a spirit level, following each other up through the centre of the rock j till all were gathered in one end. Mr. ' McCraney has been offered SI,OOO for it but refused it. He will take it to At- I lanta to have it tested. It may be a dia- i mond. It emits a perfectly white light in the dark. —[Atlanta Constitution. J A FOUR YEAR OLD SMOKER. Began Using Tobacco When He Waß Seven Months Old. Winfield Doran is known as the smok ing baby of Trenton. He was 4 years ola last May, and he has been using the weed for over three years and a half. He is a bright boy, with big black eyes and round rosy cheeks. His picture could be used to adorn a juvenile maga zine as a good specimen of a happy and healthy American boy. His mother is a buxom, good-natured woman. The father, W. T. Doran, is a small, thin man, and for many years he has been an in veterate smoker. The taste for tobacco was imparted to the baby, Winfield, and he began puffing tobacco smoke when only seven months old. The Dorans re side at 303 South Warren street, and keep boarders. The baby was the pet of the household and the pride of the bachelor boarders, who devoted each evening to •nursing him. While listening to the nursery songs he learned to smoke. The men would allow him to puff on their pipes and were astonished to find it did not make him sick. When he was 8 mouths old he smoked a rank pipe full of tobacco and never as | much as made a face. At ten mouths he was an accomplished smoker of the pipe. His appetite for tobacco was found to be a normal one. He had every appearance of thriving under it. The neighbors were shocked and many of them indignant, and Dr. Elmer Rogers was called. He discovered no traces of nicotine poison iug, and found that the tobacco had a soothing effect on the child, who was weaned early, but never denied a pipe full of tobacco every day. Now he tips the bourn at forty-five pounds. Both mother and father are proud of this precocious youngster, and they never tire reciting reminiscences of their boy's j career as a smoker. During the last two j years they have encouraged him to smoke ; cigars in preference to the pipe. This j is a precaution that they have taken at j the renucstof the physician, who thought j that tne nicotine deposits in old pipes ' might eventually be hurtful. The boy j evidently craves the effect of the poison, 1 because the boy will not smoke a new j clay pipe or a new brier pipe, preferring ' to get one that has been well saturated with nicotine. He prefers strong cigars, 1 and is a fine judge of them. He attracted , much atteution when he was pushed about in a baby coach with a black pipe in his mouth, smoking and puffing like a veteran. He can now be frequently seen sitting on the steps of his father's house ; smoking a cigar. The baby smoker differs from the ma- | jority of the prodigious smokers in so much that he has never smoked a cigar- | ette. The odor of the paper is distaste- j ful to him, and ho has been constantly , instructed to avoid the cigarette as he would so much poison. The boy has never been known to bo sick, and Dr. E. Rogers is of the opinion that it is only a matter of a few years j when he will have his appetite for tobacco [ appeased and will give up smoking, j Since the boy has been smoking he has watched liim almost daily, with a view j of discovering the first symptom of nico- ' tine poisoning, and has found nothing. ' —[Philadelphia Press. Activity In London Stroets. The thing that most astonished me ' about London, and that I had been least \ prepared to see there, says Julian Ralph in Harper's Weekly, was the amazing I activity in the streets. A New Yorker I born and bred, who has seen the prin cipal American cities, fancies that there 1 can be nothing in the world like Fulton ! street and Broadway. But, after one • hour on foot in London, he will regard that heart of New York's traffic much as a turbulent old sailor I heard of regarded , a twenty-two calibre revolver. 44 What ! are you going to do with that pea shooter?" he asked. 44 Nobody would be afraid of that. Stand off a bit and tire at me a few times till I see what it will do. Now, if you happened to have . a knife about you and felt sassy, I'd feel ' afraid of you." London is full of Fulton streets and ] Broadways, and at them and in all the 1 other streets the cabs and hansoms Hy . about in such a hot and apparently reck- | less way that I always felt while I was there that the only reason I did not read of a hundred thousand 4 4 run-over" acci dents every morning in the papers was, that it would be doing violeuce to the i organic principles of tne London press ! to print the news. I confess I was more ' than half afraid to cross the crowded j streets, and with a fear which is en- | gendered in New York in few places and on few occasions. I was assured by the citizens, that they are all so accustomed to project their coat tails at right angles to their bodies, and to invoke divine aid between the flying hoofs of horses, when ever they need to cross a street, that they | are as adept at it as an American light- j ning-rod man is at dodging missiles. Yet I observed that Dickens, in his Die. tionary of London, thinks it worth while to suggest that the only way to go from curb to curb, is to make up your mind what course you will take and then stick to it, because then the Loudon cabbies will divine your intentions. To change your mind while en route is to confuse the cabmen, and cause you to make your return journey to America in the form of freight. Then, again, I found that in the western end of the Strand—that is, down by Temple Bar and the Law Courts—2oo more or less mangled bodies are sent to the Charing Cross Hospital every year. Two Moods of an Emperor. When he is in Berlin Emperor William is as democratic as you could wish; ho drives, rides, and walks about as freely as old Haroun Alraschid ever did, and he doesn't at all mind stopping now and again to oliat with common folk. ■ But when he retires to Potsdam, where his private residence is, he is quite a differ ent person. At Potsdam he is as exclu sive as a scared turtle. The doors of his palace—yes, and the gates of his park are closed against everybody and he shuns that recognition which he else where invites. It is hard, however to keep the small boy out of what he ought not to be in. Three or four urchins made a practice of climbing the wall in closing the imperial park and of playing at soldiers under the splendid trees. As luck would have it, the Emperor and Empress rode one morning in that partic ular part of the park and suddenly came upon the little ragamuffins. Instead of throwing away their broomsticks and skedaddling, the urchins wheeled into line, presented arms, and saluted the im perial couple. William was simply de - lighted nnd he told the boys that he would remember them. So he did. As certaining who they were and that they were children of poor people, he has sent thorn to a military school and will have them eduoated at his private cost.— [Chicago News. Prosperity anj prudence are spelled differ- ' ently, hat tlioy generally mean about the same thing. DEBT-PAYING IN CHINA. Ourioua Results of a Practice of the Country. A writer in the North China Herald M Shanghai, lately takes for his theme the peculiar Chinese practice of settling debts just before New Year's Day, which has often been praised by Western observers, but which he does not applaud so much. The custom has, he says, its roots in three causes: First, that everybody owes some thing; secondly, that a great necessity ex ists for short settlements; and thirdly, that no one will pay a debt until he is forced to do so. Tyrannical custom com pels most persons to live beyond their means. Marriagesand funerals are the ruin of the people. The farming classes arc in | perpetual difficulties, while the small tra | ders work on such a narrow margin that frequent "accommodation" is essential. On the other hand, the balances in the hands of creditors are so small that no one can afford to leave his money out of call formore than a few months. Finally the quiversal habit as to avoid discharging I liabilities if possible. So at New Year's time there is a perpetual sequence of flight and pursuit. Creditors hunting rc- I luctant debtors are hunted themselves by j hungry creditors of their own. The na tion, in short, revolves in a vicious circle, : and its only period of brief pause is New | Year s Day. The double anxiety of a Ohi- J uesc in the twelfth moon is to find some j one else and not to be found himself. Any particular creditor hunting any particular I debtor will find that he is himself antici | pated by a swarm of other creditors hunt | ing the same game. It is greatly to the j interest of all parties that no claim for I debt should get into the courts of law, | for this would mean that not only the amount in dispute, but all the rest of the property of both parties, would be in j danger of being wasted. I For these reasons it is the role of the debtor to represent that he is harassed by importunate creditors to such an extent ; that he knows not which way to turn. In ninty-nine cases out of one hundred | the creditor is compelled to call again, j then the debtor sets his wits to work to ! invent new occasions for begging for a | ifrrit nolle prossequi. If the creditor were to relax his hold and cease his claims, that would be the end of them for an in ' definite period, perhaps forever, and this he knows as Well as any one. Therefore, once having taken hold, he keeps liis grip, like the jaw of a bulldog, till he gets his pound of flesh. Eternal vigilance is the price at which this is to be won; eternal vigilance is what the Chinese crcd i itor has a large supply of. I To avoid the creditor altogether is a prime object of many debtors during the | trying period which follows the winter | solstice. Many are the individuals who feign sickness, and who cannot, therefore, be seen; who do not venture on the streot for many days before the close of the year. Then they emerge from their ob scurity in time to get their heads shaved for the new year, and have the keen joy of knowing that they have eluded the vigilance of their remorseless foes. The Chinese debtor who succeeds in evading or parrying the claims of his creditors at this critical epoch finds 44 a city of refuge in which for the time he is safe. On New Year's Day or one soon after, he may pos sibly call upon his creditor, or his creditor may cull upon him. Each is arrayed in his best, and each is full of polite phrases. The creditor may be inwardly swelling with wrath and fury at the thought that this cunning wretch did, after all the pains taken to prevent it, make his escape. The debtor may be full of smiling self complacency to think how well he played some of the numerous tricks of the season. But neither the one nor the other would ever dream of alluding to such affairs at this festive time. Business i 9 taboo, contraband of war, interdicted by the law of the realm, and so the debtor i 6 out upon another stadium of his existence, the fangs of the adversary whetted in secret are re strained from the flesh for the time, and he walks the earth with a sense of in constraint to which he has long been a stranger. A Thrifty Postmaster. The Bowling Green (Ivy.) Times tells how tho postmaster at Rochester, Ky., who kept a small grocery, made a smart speculation with postage stamps several j years ago, when the keepers of small of ! fices were allowed 00 per cent, of the re- ! coipts for their services. "The old man concluded he would increase his stock, so he boarded a train for Louisville, and going to the wholesale grocery house of Cowles & Co., said to Fleas Cowles: 4 1 | want to buy SI,OOO worth of goods and i pay cash fo# them, provided you will let | me pav in stamps.' The grocery kiug rc- I fleeted, and concluded that stamps were j equivalent to the cash, and, besides, he I wanted the postmaster's trade, so he i agreed to sell the goods and take in : payment SI,OOO worth of stamps. The j postmaster at once ordered the stamps j from Washington, sending S4OO for tne | I payment of them, of course having I ' deducted his GO per cent. The Postmns- I ter General made a kick, but the stamps ; had to come under the contract which the Rochester postmaster had with the I government. The old man made SGOO ! and Mr. Cowles sold SI,OOO worth of : goods." Condensed Facts About Cotton. The following items from Statistician Dodge's report to the Secretary of Ag ! riculture will be of general interest: Cot j ton can be grown in almost every section I of the world lying within the parallels of 35 degrees of latitude, and this belt in cludes the greater part of the laud surface of the globe. It is more or less growu by almost every people inhabiting this ! portion of the earth's surface, though in | the districts between twenty degrees and ■ thirty-five degrees north latitude its cul | tivation now seems most profitable. The area on which it may be produced i 9 practically limited only by the require ' mcuts for the product. It is the fibre ! which is adapted for use under the j widest conditions of climate and civiliza tion, and it is the only fibre known i which is and can be produced in such I quantities and so cheaply that the per manent demand cannot possibly exceed the supply. This country produces more than one-half of the product of the world. We now consume in our own mills about 33 1-3 per cent, of our annual crop, and the proportion is slowly but steadily increasing. A Trapeze Episode. In Geneva, Switzerland, at a circus, a female trapeze performer, Mile. Mathilde, astonished the natives every night by her j performances with a youth of uhout seventeen high up in the air. One even- j ing this youtli, by his own carelessness, ! slipped from the hands of the girl, who hung by her knees. A cry of horror arose from the audience, when she luckily caught him with her teeth by the em broidery over the breast of his tights. She pulled him up into a sitting position I on the trapeze, then boxed his ears vigor ' ously and made him go through the per formance again—this time without fault. ' —[Chicago Herald. OROUP OF TINTYPE OIRLS. ffhey HTH Lot* of Fun, but Thqr Worry tho Poor Photographer. They oome in late in the afternoon, all talking at once. "We want our tintypes taken." "Yes, all together." "In a group." "Any particular style you'd like?" "Oh, we want something picturesque. Yes, we want it artistic, an Out-doors scene, you know." The photographer quiokiy wheels np a mountain view fur background, waltzes a wooden-looking "rock" into the foreground, props up a rustic fence •t one side, and throws down a shaggy £ rasa-suggesting mat before it. While e is oompoßing this medley from the inexhaustible beauties of nature the girls discourse on the subject in hand. "Belle, you sit on the rock aud I will stand beside you; Graco can lean on the fence, and May, you sit on the floor. We ought to have a book to be looking at. All, here's an album: that, will do. Dora, which Ride of my face would be the best to have taken ?" "The outside," said Dora promptly. "I wish we bad a parasol, says Grace. "Be quipk as you oan," interrupts the photographer, realizing how precious is every moment of the Set fading light. Dora bsatows upon him a look which plainly says "with intent to annihilate." "We pay you by the job, not by the hour. Do not presume to hurry us." At last they locate themselves ac cording to the dictates of their own sweet fancies. "Ah, my I" exclaims Belle from the rook, "what an awfully unoomfortable thing this is to Bit on." "Put your hand on my shoulder, Grace." Finally all seem In readiness, when just as the photographer is about to remove the cap. May suddenly exclaims from the floor: "Hold on a minute, Grace, you ought not to be standing; you are too tall. Change places with me." Then ensues a general scrambling and re-arranging, Belle improving the , Opportunity to try for a softer spot on , the rook. "Am I looking at the right place," May anxiously asks of the photogra pher, as if the sun would fail to do its desired work if her head was not turned at just the most becoming angle. "Y'es," replied the much-harassed personage addressed, heroically ohok- Ing back unholv utterances. "Bit per fectly still now." He removes the oap, and a brief and blessed silence ensues. When he re places the cap for a moment the chorus breaks out: "Oh, my goodness—dear me—l Dever —why I was just—" "Keep just as you are," says the pho tographer, authoritatively, unexpect edly removing the cap agaiu, and thus effectually shutting off the threatened deluge of remarks. The poor light necessarily made the exposure unusually long, and when at last It is over a volley of deep and re vengeful groans oomes from the girls as the photographer disappears with his plate. Then their tongues are loosed. "My, I feel all tied up in a bow knot." "Goodness, but I'm tired standing so long." "I never knew any one to be so long taking a tintype." "Oh. I feel as if I had juat had a tooth pulled—so thankful it is over." "Oh, see this picture of some girls in a boat. Why didn't he say he had a boat ?" "I don't think he is very agreeable anyway. All he thinks of is to get it over with." "Oh, herc"-.e oomes with the pic tures." Now they gather round tne man with the piotures, all talking excitedly. "Oh, oh, just look at me." "Just see the way my eyes look." "My head is held too high, and I asked you—" "Oh, see how my dress looks," etc., etc., till at last they relinquish the ar tistio treasures long enough to have them put in envelopes. Then they pay for them and go out, leaving the long-Buftering photographer free to relieve his overwrought nerves in any form of speech he thinks wi'l be most soothing to his feelings aud ex pressive of his seutiments. The velocity of light hns been pretty closely measured, but the lliglitof u skipping cashier still remains u problem of unknown flee tn ess. Hood's Sarsapariffa Is Peculiar To Itself 100 Doses One Dollar PENSIONS FOR Au-sssKkSSrs! 1 Ll vlUl*U charge. New Uw. Application , blank* sent free. 11. TANNER, Patent and ! Claim Attorney. 1 17 P St.. Washington. D. C. F|ENSIOIiK.^B?& "Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. 3 vr* in lust wur. 15ud|udlcatliurclaims, att.v auica. CARRIAGE JACKft ORINDINO MI 1.1 Jit, Ac. HKAPK.ST AND HKST. Send for Circulars. F. B. MALLUKY, M'f'g, Flemlngtua, N. J. MT I EWIS' 98 r LYE L Powdered and Perfumed. The strongest ami purest Lye Ainade. Will mako the best pr '•fumed Hard Hoap in 20 tnin- AKI utes without boiling. It is tlio best for disinfecting sinks, ■V closets, drains, washing bottles, mm barrels, paints, etc. WW!. FITCH & CO., 1 o*2 Corcoran Building. Wnshiugton. D. C. PENSION ATTORNEYS of over 'i!i years' experience. Successfully onto pcnaloun mid claims of nil k.nds In shortest possible tlmo. ?y**No !• EE CMI.KSS SIICCKSBKUL. CANNABIS INDICA, Tho Great East India Remedy. Imported by CRADDOCK & Co., 11-32 Knee street Philadelphia, Pa. Is warranted to cure ' Consumpt on, Bronchitis, Asthma and Masai Catarrh. And will break up a fresh Told In 24 hours. Rkoptlo. ask your druggist for It. One bottle w.ll sat nry vou of its merits. SB.BO per pint bottle, or three bottles $6.60. Send for circular. PENSIONS ■°A PENSION? 1 1 m valid, Widow's or Minor's, or are you drawing kws than 12.00 per month ? *tave you a claim pending but want relief—note t W*ite us and receive by return mall appropriate blank full Instructions for v"'"'ca c, with a copy of tho new and liberal LAW. LONOBHAW ft HA I LARD, References given. Box 46, Washington, D. C. The Largest Leather Belt in the World. The Leather Trades Circular and Re view of London, by publishing a para graph from the New York Sun describ ing) as supposed, the largest leather belt in the world— -iGO feet long and 72 inches wide—now being made by CharlOs Schleren & Co. of "New York, of two thick uesses of hide and to contain the I hides of 175 animals, induces Sampson <fc ! Co. of Stroud, England, to write to the Sun that in December, 1881, they sup- j plied a leather belt 75 inches wide and j 153| feet long, of double thickness, without cross joints, cut out of 200 se lected hides. The work was done by hand. For a Disordered Liver try Beecham's Pills, j The greatest electric railroad which has been pi .lined is the one proposed in Russia, between Bt. Petersburg and Archangel, a dis tance of 600 miles. The plan is to erect sta tions along the route for the generation of electricity. The estimated cost is onlv about 1 *15,000 a mile. Conductor E. D. Loomis, Detroit, Mich.,say*: "The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cure is wonder ful." Write him ttbout it. Sold by Druggists, T6c. The newest use which lias been made of lu minous paint is its application to harness. By this means the position of the horse is plainly seen at night, and the unimal is not alarmed by its bright equipment. KITS stopped free by Dr. K LINK'S GRKAI NKUVH KKOTOKKR. NO Fits aftor first Uay'i use. Marvelous euros. Treatise and |2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. Ml Arch St., Pbfla., Pa You may find ecstatic joy in the dream of hope, but it takes money to go to market. A soap that is soft is full of water, half or | two-thirds its weight probably, thus you pay seven or eight cents per pound for water. Dob bins';* Electric Soap is cut soup and no adul teration, therefore the cheapest and best. Try Dobbins'*. Shrouds had no pockets, and they went j out of style. ÜB2 | S I Too long j deluded the unhappy victim of catarrh in the head. He's been told that it can't be cured. Don't you believe it. It can be, and it is—no matter how bad or of how long standing. It has been done for thousands —by Dr. Sage's Ca tarrh Remedy. Other so - called remedies may palliate for a time ; this cures for all time. By its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties, it conquers the worst cases. Its makers offer, in good 1 faith, a reward of SSOO for a case of catarrh which they cannot cure. They are able to pay it. Are you able to take it ? The symptoms of catarrh are, headache, obstruction of nose, dis charges falling into throat, some times profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody, putrid and offen sive ; eyes weak, ringing in ears, deafness; offensive breath; smell and taste impaired, and general debility. Only a few of these symptoms likely to be present at once. Thousands of cases termi nate in Consumption and end in the grave, without ever having mani fested all these symptoms. Dr. Sage's Remedy cures the worst cases. 50 cents, by druggists. DROPSY TREATED FHEE. Positively Cured with Vegetable Iteiuedies, Have cured thousand* of case*. Cure patient# pro nounced hopeless by best physicians. From first dose symptoms disappear; In ten days at least two-thirds all symptoms removed. Semi for froo book testimo nial* of miraculous cures. Ten days' treatment Tree by mail. If you order trial, send 100. in stumps i Jo pay postage. Du. H. U. Urkks A so*s, Atlanta, O* 44 HAD AND SWEATY VKBT." Thin remedy will atop Hie sweating and remove bad I odor immediately. Wear hosiery u week and there will lie no bud odor from them. Sent postpaid for#!. One pack age will do the business. Send P. O Order to R. i 11. k O. .1. CHAIN. Spring Valley. Minn., Fillmore Co. I WALL PAPER BAtvCAIiUS! We will guarant-.ta all these clean new goods just j made, and full length—B yards to the roll. An 8-yd. roll While buck Paper, 3 to (i •. An S-yd. roll Gilt Paper, 5 to 10c. An 8-yd. roil Embossed Gilt Paper, Sto 15c. Gilt Borders, 1 to 18 IUCIIVH wide, i| und , 3c. per yard. Borders without Gilt. '£ to 9 Inches lc. per yard. j Rend 40. In stamps for samples of the best and . great, st bargains in the country. F. 11. CADY, 305 11 Kill KTItEET. Mention this paper. Providence, K. I. Strange indeed Hi —• !~%D TRB,ke everything so bright, but "A needle cloThes others,&nd is itself. n&ked'.'Try itin you r next house-cleaning What folly it would be to cut grass with a pair of scissors! Yet peo ple do equally silly things every day. Modern progress has grown up from the hooked sickle to the swinging scythe and thence to the lawn mower. So don't use scissors! But do you use SAPOLIO ? If you don't you are as much behind the age as if you cut grass with a dinner knife. Once there were no soaps. Then one soap served all purposes. Now the sensible folks uho one soup in the toilet, another in the tub, one soap in the stables, and SAPOLIO for all scouring and house-clear ug. EVERY WATERPROOF COLLAR OR CUFF THAT CAN BE RELIED ON BE UP Wot to STOII-tZ THE T MARK 3>arot; to Discolor; —————J BEARS THIS MARK. NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAV IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. 18 03VU BNJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gentlyyetpromptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrun of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in ite 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 knows. Svrup of Figs is for sale in 500 •nd $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. SAM ERAMCISOO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. AY. MEAL YORK. M.Y. j WHAT EVERYBODY SATS. That Dr. Tobias' Venetian Liniment is the greatest pain reliever in the world, while for sfin?s of insects and mosauifo Lites it is infallible. Truth, and nothing but the trutlu All druggists. Price 25 and 50 cents. Depot, 40 Murray St., N. Y. *7C TO 9250 A MONTI! can he made working w■ w for u*. Person* preferred who can fumiso a horse and give their whole time to the bufdueM. Spare moment* may be profitably employed ulsd. A few vacancies it: towns aud rifle*. H. F. JOHN tU.N ft CO.. IW9 -Main -St.. Richmond. Va. PENSIONS I L.HUIUIIU soldiers .Widows, Parents, send for blank applications and Information. PATRICK O'VABBKUL, Pension Agent, Washington, D. a I CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS Weekly. Lowest rates and best accommodations to all points West. 1 M W Al.TKl;s\< '• .,;*4? Proud v. ;• v, NewYorkCity I PENSIONS SSI I titled to sl2 u mo. Fee 110 when you g.d vour money. Blanks free. JOSKI'H 11. HOT Kit, Ally,Whli.gtoo, U.J. PATENTS DFUCMUP NEW LAW CLAIMS. rtlloluno A r ; Miioß. stereos&Co. Attorneys. 1419 F St., Washington, D. C. Drnnrli Oflic69, Clevelnnd, Oct roil.Chicago. ftE Plso's Remedy for Catarrh is the Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. cgl ■ Bold by druggists or sent by mail. m 60c. E. T. Huzeltine, Warren. I'u. PENSIONSHMI plication. Employ the old roliabie firm, J. 11. C'ltA 1.1.K & CO., Washington, D. a ft till IAJ HABIT. Only Certain ant fiIHIIIMI enay ('('lt F. In tbe World. Dr. w ■ IWIVI J. 8.. STi:i'HENB. Lebanon. 0 FRAZEIAffII BEST IN TIIE WORLD UIIS, H C Uraet iho Qeuulna. Sold Everrvrhara. 7°l to 8°l "fIBBF 8 100 and upward". Securities first-close, and In terest guaranteed. References furnished on awll cation. Correspondence solicited. Address, FIKBT STATE BANK, Bntmnfd, NKB. Cbl CHESTt R'S ENGLISH t'hlrhiwlrr < ht-n'l Co.. Sa lUoo Bq.. PkiU., P .offlggy ff- U J Efow M T prescribe and fully an- 1 G * H lN XmstsAm' M D '' E9 the We have sold Big G tor KMSKSV&U CKialokl Os. many years, and It has WC CiSn"" bMI D ' U DYCI J F * <y>.. Ift f_. on. 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