NOTES AND COMMENTS.
IN its record of moving incidents by
flood and field, 1890 has far outstripped
its memorable predecessor. This year,
however, Europe seems to be principal
sufferer; in other words, calamities have
traveled eastwardly.
PBCAN nut farming is one of the grow
ing industries of the Gulf States. After
the trees have begun to bear, they in
volve no labor or expense, and yield,
it is said, an income of from SSOO to
SI,OOO an acre, according to the quality
of the nuts.
ACCORDING to statistics contained in a
recent report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, 704,743 persons were em
ployed on all the railways in the United
States during the present fiscal year. Of
these, 1,972 were killed while on duty,
and 20,080 maimed.
ACCORDING to the returns of the new
census for 1890, the existing gross in
debtedness of the several counties of the
various States of the Union is $145,093,-
840, toward which the amounts held in
sinking funds, cash, and other resouroes
are $30,408,955, leaving $115,224,885 as
the actual debts not provided for. The
annual interest charge is $7,318,374.
A YOUNG woman holds the position of
conductor on one of the railroads in Col
orado, and gives entire satisfaction. She
collects lares and punches tickets like a
man; but when it comes to putting some
fellow off because of his failure to comply
with tho requirements of the railroad
company, it is her custom to tall on a
man to do the work, and brakesmen and
passengers are equally willing to assist
her.
FOLLOWING the extermination of the
buffalo, another American character is
about to tnke to its heels through the
dust of the dead ages. In July only
80,000 sealskins had been taken, and the
seal rookeries were almost abandoned.
Poachers are killing off the females of all
ages, and an authority predicts that un
less Behring Sea is closed for three
months the seal will have become ex
tinct.
BKHRING SEA is swarming with seal
pirates, says Mr. William Palmer, of the
National Museum, who has returned
from a special mission to that sea. The
poachers shoot the seals in the water and
succeed in getting only one out of 'every
four they kill. Their victims are mostly
females, and the result is still more un
favorable to the continued existence of
the seal. The pirates have killed about
80,000 this year, he thinks—an enormous
waste of a valuable animal.
A CO-OPERATIVE community of a dozen
families is to be founded by business
men of Chicago at Kvanston on the lake
shore. Twelve houses are to be built
around a court, and a club-house at one
end of the court which shall contain a
complete kitchen and laundry, aud all
the buildings will be lighted and heated
from the same plant. The work of all
sorts is to be done in common; each per
son investing SB,OOO becomes a partner
and equal owner, besides having his
own lot.
THE Canadian experimental farms are
said not to be very helpful to agricultur
ists. On the contrary, they have a dis
couraging effect. When a farmer of
moderate menus visits one of these farms
ho sees a large number of dwelling
houses, barns, stables, etc., erected at
enormous cost. He sees valuable horses,
a large staff of men and "fancy farming"
on a largo scale. Ho concludes that if
such costly luxuries are necessary in
order to make farming pay he cannot af
ford them, and he gives up agriculture
to try something else.
A RECENT number of the New York
Independent contains letters from a large
number of the most prominent railway
officials of this country describing the
rules of the several companies respecting
the drinking habits of their employees.
From these letters it appears that on
nearly all first class railways it is agonist
the rule for a man to tnke liquor while
on duty. If a man is known to be intox
ioated when oil duty, he is liable to dis
charge. In general those men have the
preference who are reputed to be uon
arinkers.
OK the great civilized nations the
United Kingdom heads tlio list in den
sity of population, having illO inhabi
tants to the square mile. Taking the
three divisions of the kingdom separately,
"the account stands thus: England and
Wales, 402 to the square mile; Ireland,
147; Scotland, 135. The other great
countries follow the United Kingdom in
this order: Italy, 204 to the square mile;
Germany, 221; France, 187; Austio
Hungary,.lo7; Spain, 88; Russia in Eu
rope, 42; the United States, 17. If the
smaller civilized nations be taken into
the account the United Kingdom loses
Its primacy in this direction. Belgium
has 520 inhabitants to the square mile,
and the Netherlands 852.
HKHK. is a pretty lively collection to
have In one jail at the same time: Tho
Cincinnati jail now contuins eight mur
derers who are awaiting trial. They are:
William Frey, for having shot and killed
his nephew, Harry Strasscn, on August
20. while fooling with a gun; Charles
White (colored), who fatally stabbed
Bob Burley, another colored man, dur
ing a quarrel, on the night of August 33;
Henry Pritchard, for chopping off the
heads of two colored men on the 28tli of
last November; William Peebles, for
stabbing to death Blatchford March, a
popular young Cincinnati artist, on
August 20; John Halin, who killed
Jerry Day, a newspaper carrier, on the
9th of last August; Gustavo Raabe, who
shot George G. Godeu, Sunday, August
84; William Mara, who three years ago
killed Cocky Smith, and Ed. McCarthy,
who killed Charles Hefferinan, August
38.
ACCORDING to Loudon authority, those
who make interesting calculations its to
the future population of the globe should
be cautious in dealing with existing rates
of interest. The register-general returns
for last year show that the multiplication
of the people of England aud Wales has
fallen off—that is, the excess of births
over deaths was 307,224, the difference
having steadily declined for the last, five
years. According to the results of the
last two census years, the increase in 1889
should have been 389,423, a number
more than greater than the actual
fact. The birth rate was unprecedent
edly low, beingno less tlmu 2.5 per 1,000
below the average of the previous de
cade. Meanwhile the marriage rate has
responded to the increased prosperity of
the country, except in certain portions
where the population is interested in
mining; and the death rate is slightly
higher than in 1888, having risen from
17.8 to 17.9. This is, however, very low
compared with a few years back. In
deed, the registrar-general points out that
there are now something like 000,000
people alive in England and Wales
whose death would have been registered
if the rate of mortality had continued as
it was between 1871 and 1881.
CURES BY HYPNOTISM.
Two Remarkable Cases Reported by
a German Doctor.
Professor L. Hirt, of Breslau, has re
cently effected two rather romarkable
cures by means of hypnotism. Eckhard
Klein, the twelve-year-old son of Privy
Councillor Klein, in Breslau, had suffered
since January, 1881), from a severe and
painful cough. At first the fits of cough
ing were comparatively infrequent.
After six or seven months they came upon
the boy daily, and were exceedingly
violent. As winter approached they be
came so exhausting that the boy could do
no work of any kind, often lay in bed all
day, breathed with the greatest difficulty,
and often spit blood. Persons through
out the neighborhood were kept awake
nights by his paroxysms, and in the
Klein household sleep was almost impos
sible. Privy Councillor Klein resolved
to take his ailing son to an Italian resort
for consumptives, and incidentally men
tioned his plan to Dr. Hirt, who asked
whether hypnotism had been among the
dozens of remedies already tried, and,
having received a negative answer,
offered his services. Privy Councillor
Klein and his son went to Dr. Hirt's
office the next day. The boy was weak,
white and painfully thin. 44 1 hypnotized
him by the usual method," writes Dr.
Hirt. 44 Tlien I suggested to him
that he had had a bad throat, but
that it had just become well, and
he would sleep soundly during the com
ing night. I said this repeatedly, in a
clear, decided tone, and rubbed and
pressed gently the larynx as I spoke.
4 You cannot cough now, it is impossible,'
I said finally. 'When you go to bed you
will fall asleep at once, and will not wake
up till morning. Do you understand?'
4 Yes,' he answered. 'You are entirely
well, and you must say, 4 I am ontirely
well.' He said it. I tapped him lightly
on the forehead, and he awoke. That
was last February 4. On the next day
father and son came to me. 'He is all
right,' said the father, 'and you need not
treat him again.' The boy stayed at
home, went to studying as usual, slept
without any interruption, and in three
months was thoroughly healthy and
healthy looking."
The other cure is described thus by
Dr. Hirt: "Franz \Y., 18-year-old son of
a widow in Schweiduitz, was brought to
me on February 10. Since the preceding
November he had been quite voiceless in
consequence of a development of a
hoarseness that had begun some weeks be
fore. The examination of his throat re
vealed no cause for the trouble, nor was
the boy otherwise diseased. 1 then
treated him according to the method of
Mesmer-Bernheim. 1 brought him un
der my inlluenco and told him his throat
was all well. I j-aid to him decidedly
several times that his lack of voice had
been only imagination, and that he could
speak us loudly as anyone. These sug
gestions I accompanied with a stroking
and slight kuealliug of the throat. After
one vain effort he spoke a little. As he
continued talking he gradually recovered
his voice till, in three minutes, he was
able to speak as clearly and as strongly
as ever. The boy left the city the next
day. A colleague in his native town
tells me the cure was perfect and per
manent."
Youthful Travelers.
A small boy, who did not appear to be
over seven years of age, was the cyuosure
of all eyes on board an Erie ferryboat
from Jersey City a few mornings ago. He
was in the charge of a railroad employe.
Sewed on the back of the little fellow's
jacket was a piece of heavy paper, on
which was written "Victor Flaack, No.
550 First avenue, New York city." On
the right sleeve of his coat was another
piece of paper bearing the same inscrip
tion, while a third was sewed to his cap.
On his shirt bosom was firmly sewed a
trunk tag. The little chap had traveled
all alone from Los Angeles, Cal., and was
bound for the home of friends in this
city. He had been put on a train by his
father, who had intrusted him to the con
ductor, asking him to look after the boy.
The man had discharged his trust, and at
every change of cars to this city the con
ductors passed the word to one another
to keep an eye on the youthful traveler.
The little fellow could not speak a word
of English, and attempts to engage him j
in conversation in French, German and
Italian failed. He seemed happy and
not nt all worried over his ramblings.
Later in the day, speaking to an official
at the Barge Office on the matter, ho
said: "It is not at all an uncommon oc
currence for small children to cross the
ocean alone. Their parents consign them
to the care of a stewardess on board the
steamer, and they land hero right side
up. Frequently on arriving here they
have to be put on a train for the far West,
where they go to meet their parents.
They are surer to reach their destination
safely than a great many of tho older
people who pass through these gates.
You sec, everybody on the steamer or car
seems to feel that they have a particular
responsibility attaching to them in look
ing out for the safety and the comfort of
these children. Thus the little ones aro
well taken care of. The youngest child
which has arrived here alone was a two
year-old boy, who was landed just three
weeks ago.—[New York Star.
Beneath the Sea.
During the last three years, Dr. 11. Fol
has beeu making excursions into a region
little frequented by man —that lying be
neath the surface of the Mediterranean
—and has gained a larger experience of
a subaqueous existence than any other
person has enjoyed. After a short time
his diving dress became not at all dis
agreeable, though he found it advisable
not to continue a "dive" beyond a quar
ter of an hour. He found a charm in the
unfamiliar sights of the sea. and was able
to make unexpectedly good natural his
tory collections. He declares that the
notion of walking upright is a false one,
as it is necessary to incline the body for
ward at least forty-five degrees. After
the first few yards down all the light is
so blue that even red objects cease to ap
pear red. The limits of vision are greatly
shortened, and at a depth of 100 feet it
is possible to see in a horizontal direction
only about twenty-feet under a clouded
sky to perhaps eighty feet under the most
favorable conditions. This difficulty of
seeing through the water is mentioned as
likely to prove a serious obstacle in the
way of submarine navigation.
A Combination of Fiddles.
A new invention in musical instru
ments has been brought ou by a German
which is causing a good deal of interest.
This is called a bowed piano, but is really
a case resembling a pianoforte frame, and
containing six violins, two violas and two
violoncellos, the strings of which aro
tuned to different notes. The instru
ments are connected by circular bands,
which are brought into contact with the
strings by means of the keyboard, tho
hammers of which bear upon the bands
with varying pressure.
Velvet saddles look ill on donkeys.
j SALTED SUNFLOWER SEED.
: They Play a Great Part in Russian
j Life—A Big Field of Sunflowers.
All Russia, writes Thomas Stevens in
the New York World, nibbles salted
sunflower seeds in its moments of
leisure. Imagine half the citizens of
the United States carrying, habitually,
! a supply of peanuts around in their
pockets and nibbling them continual!/,
and you have a hardly exaggerated idea
of the übiquitous part played by the
salted sunllower-scea in Russian life. In
I the circus, in the theatre, in the offices,
the shops, the tea-houses, the city streets,
the village door-stoop, inen, women, girls,
and boyß, peasants, nobles, merchants,
soldiers, —everybody, everywhere, eats
1 salted suuflower-seeds.
People who have seen the big sunflower
as agarden ornament can have only a dim '
conception of the magnificent sight af
forded by a forty-acre field of these
gorgeous yellow blossoms. I first saw a
field of them in the morning, when every
big round goldon face, without an excep
{ tion in all myriads, was looking toward
the east. The scene was striking, i
and suggested a vast multitude of floral |
Aztecs worshiping the morning sun. '
! Not being aquaiuted with the habits of j
1 the sunflower I wondered all the morning
whether all those worshipful faces would,
in the evening, be turned towards tho
I west. 8o I watched other fields as we
rode along and learned, what every other
! reader of the World very likely knows
already, that the sunflower always turns
! its face to the east.
There was, I believe, a short time ago,
1 a (piostion regarding the propriety of
choosing a National flower for the United
States, and considerable sentiment was
disclosed in favor of the sunflower.
Could Americans see one of those broad
fields in full and radiant blossom the sun
flower undoubtedly would carry the day.
The sunflower crop is one of the best
j paying in Russia. A good crop is worth,
! as it stands in the field, 100 rubles a des
siative, or about, twenty-five dollars an
! acre. The seeds are sold by the farmer
for one and a half to two rubles a pood.
Then the merchants salt them and retail
i them for four rubles a pood, and at about
! every street croosing in Russian pro
vincial cities are stands and peddlers with
baskets, selling to the passers-by the salt
ed product of the bigsuuflower. In the
field the suuflowers are sowed in rows like
the "drilled corn" of the Kausaa farmer,
and, like corn, are cultivated and hilled
up with shovel ploughs.
The Doctor Did Not Say a Word.
A prominent surgeon at a recent ban
quet told the following story on a well
known young physician who was present.
Calling the attention of all present to the
young man, he said: "I have a good joke
on John. He had a very bail case of
pneumonia which he had treated very
well. His patient pulled along very well,
and was finally nearly well. John told
him so, but said that in three days ho
would call again to see if anything fur
ther was needed. In three days he
called. His patient's brother met him
at the door with a long face and said, 'I
have sad news for you, doctor; brother
is dead.' John stood there for a minute
and thought, 'Well, how am I going to
get out of this? I have got to let myself
down easy.' Ho began to run over in j
his mind all the causes that might pro- '
duce a sudden death, and finally decided
on one that he thought would do. He
said: 'Such things happen now and then.
Sometimes one cause and sometimes an
other brings it on. Now, I expect that
with your brother a clot of blood sud
denly formed in the heart und killed
him.' He rattled this off and kept talk- j
ing for several minutes without giving
his listener time to say a word. He stood
with his mouth open and gazed at the
doctor as he fired technical terms at him.
Finally, as John stopped to take a breath,
he said in the most serious tone: 'No, |
doctor, that ain't what killed brother.
He went down to the canal and fell in
and was drowned.' John did not say a
word, but left, as the 'horse was on him,'
and has never had the heart to send in j
his bill."—[Louisville Commercial.
A South American Beverage.
I can testify from experience, says
Fannie B. Ward in the Washington
Star, that the civilized chicha of Peru and
Bolivia, flic universal beverage of the
lower classes, is good enough for any
body. There are mauy ways of making
it in different paits of South America.
That most common in the two countries I
above mentioned is from shelled corn,
well washed and bruised, then tied up in j
leaves and boiled ten or twelve hours
until quite soft. This pulpy matter is
then run through coarse sieves and put
into barrels, which are filled up with
water. Miehl (honey) or sugar-cane
syrup is then added in varying degrees
to suit the taste of the chicha maker,
and after a few days of fermentation it
is ready to drink.
Another and perhaps more common
method is to put the shelled corn, un
cooked, into large, square holes dug in
the ground not deeper than six or eight
inches, the top and bottom being well
covered with a layer of clean straw.
Water is then poured on several times j
every day aud iu the course of a week or j
j two the corn begins to sprout. When
I these shoots have grown about an inch
long the corn is taken out, crushed be- j
, tween stones, put into barrels and fer- j
| men ted with water and honey as before.
Chicha is not intoxicatiug unless taken
in ino r dinate quantities, but is mildly ex
hilarating, and among the poorer classes
in a measure takes the place of food. It
is the fashion among los ricos and the
foreigners to treat one another to picante
luncheon—meaning native dishes made
very hot with peppers aud aji, cooled by
goblets of chicha.
Severe Seasons.
Among facts collected by M. Villard, i
of Valence, concerning unusual soasons I
of Europe in past centuries, are the foi- 1
, lowing: The winter of 1282 was so mild
that corn-flowers were sold in Paris in
February, and new wine was drunk at
Liege on August 24. In 1408 the cold
was so severe that nearly all the Paris
bridges were carried away by tho ice,
ink froze in the pen near a fire, and the
sea between Norway and Denmark was
entirely covered with ice. The summers
. of 1473 and 1474 were disastrously hot.
In the winter of 1544-45 wine froze in
I barrels all over France, and was sold in
cakes by thq pound. The Rhone and
nearly all other rivers froze in 1572-78
so that carriages might cross. In 1585
the winter was so mild that corn was in
ear at Easter, but part of May was ex
tremely cold.
In an out-of-the-way corner of nn out
of-the-way Boston graveyard stands a
battered tombstone, bearing the follow
ing epitaph: "Sacred to the memory of
Eben Ilarvey, who departed this life sud
denly and unexpectedly by a cow kick
ing him onthe 14th of September,
1858. Well done, good and faithful
servant."
A Diminutive Millionaire.
Jacob Seligman is the smallest million
aire in the world. lie is hardly more
than four feet high, and he strikes you
comically as having just stepped out of
a museum collection. Pardon me, but
he will not be offended. Nobody gets
mere fun out of his size, or rather want
of size, than he does himself. Even
when people, who intend to make him
I feel good, remark that if he were stand
ing on his money he would be as big as
the late lamented Irish giant, he smiles
and says, "My littleness is what made
| me my money." And so it did truly, in
a degree, at least. In fact, he realized
the market value of his diminutive size
so thoroughly that he had it copyrighted
years ago. In the collection of
quaint and curious trade-marks at
Washington you can find his "Little
Jake." He is reputed to be worth about
$15,000,000. He came from Germany
| when a boy, and went out to Michigan
twenty-nine years ago without a dollar.
! He grew up with the country, and man
! ageu to seize a pretty big slice of it while
the process was taking place. He owns
a railroad, a private bunk, the greater
part of a national bank, and only he
knows what all besides. lie is giving
himself entirely to this sort of thing
nowadays. It was in a mercantile pur
suit, however, that he got his big start.
He ran eleven clothing stores at once at
Saginaw. It was in that business that his
own trade-mark, "Little Jake," did him
so much good.—[Philadelphia Press.
The World's Diamonds.
The world's stock of diamonds has in
creased enormously in the last fifteen
years. In 187(1 the output of the African
mines was about 1,500,000 carats, last
year it was over 4,000,000, and the great
"trust" which controls all the principal
mines assert that they have 10,000,000
carats "in sight" at the present time.
Meantime the demand for diamonds has
wonderfully increased, and they arc
higher to-day—partly because of the
"trust," but also because of increased
demands—than they were a year or two
ago. In one respect the diamond indus
try is different from almost all others.
Its product—that is, of gems—is never
"consumed." Of gold and silver a much
larger amount than most people would
believe is literally consumed in the urts
past recovery, but a diamond once cut
goes into the world's great stock, and it
is liable to come upon the market at any
time. Hence the world's annual taking
of diamonds, which appears to be stead
ily increasing, even at advancing prices,
is an index of how much of its surplus
earnings it can afford to spend yearly in
this particular form of luxury. * The ro
mance of diamond mining is all gone. It
is now a matter of excavating vast beds
of blue clay by machinery, washing it
and sifting out the diamonds, which,
after being roughly sorted for size, are
sold in bulk by w eight. The men who
do the actuiil work are mere laborers,
and their pay is proportionately small.—
[Boston Post.
Do the Babies Remember P
"My mother went to visit my grand
father," writes a reader of the Racket,
taking with her a little brother of mine
who was eleven months old, and his
nurse, who waited on her as a maid.
One day this nurse brought the baby in
to my mother's room and put him on the
floor, which was carpeted all over.
There he crept about and amused him
self as he felt inclined. When my
mother was dressed a certain ring that
she generally wore was not to be found.
Great search was made, but it was never
produced, and the visit over they all
went away and it was almost forgotten.
"Exactly a year after they again went
to visit the grandfather. This baby was
now a year and eleven months old. The
same nurse took him into the same room
and my mother saw him, after looking
about him, deliberately walk up to a cer
tain corner, turn a bit of carpet back and
produce the ring. He in r gave any
account of the matter, nor uid he, so far
I know, remember it afterward. It seems
most likely that he found the ring on the
floor and hid it, as in a safe place, under
the corner of the brussels carpet where
it was not nailed. He probably forgot
nil about it until lie saw the place again,
and he was far too infantile at the time
it was missed to understand what the
talk that went on was about, or to know
what the search which, perhaps, he did
not notice, was for."
Cast Iron Bricks.
What are termed hollow cast iron
bricks form the subject of a recent Ger
man patent described in the technical
journals, the article being the invention
of an Erfurt mechanic. As the name in
dicates, they are made of regular brick
form and size, the walls being 0.12
inches thick, but no mortar or other
binding material is intended to enter in
to their use, the method of fastening
adopted being as follows: The upper
and lower sides of the bricks are pro
vided with grooves and protecting ribs,
which lit into one another easily and per
fectly, so as to make a uniform and com
plete union or combination.
There are in addition two large circu
lar openings in the upper side of each
brick, arranged to receive suitably
formed projections on the lower side of
the brick above, one of these projections
being also hooked shape, thus securing a
more secure hold; and in order that the
joints be made and remain air and water
tight, a fluid is applied to the surface of
the bricks with a brush. The non-con
ducting air spaces in the bricks, and the
case with which they may be put to
gether and taken apart without injuring
them, are cited as special advantages in
their favor as a substitute for ordinary
bricks and brick construction.—[Chicago
Journal of Commerce.
Preservation of Harness.
The best preservative of harness is
occasional washing with warm water and
saturation with some oily substance, by
which the leather is preserved from the
alternating damp ana dryness and from
the destructive effects of the prevalent
impure air of the stables. The harness
should be taken apart and wiped with a
sponge moistened with warm water and
eastile soap. While damp it is then
thoroughly dressed with a mixture of
two parts of tallow and one part of castor
oil, mixed when melted; to this is added
sufficient lamp-black to restore the color
to the leather. This is thoroughly rubbed
into the harness with a bunch of oakum
or a brush. The surplus is then removed
by means of rubbing with a cloth. Fi
nally castor oil with a small quantity of
carbolic acid, to give it a perceptible
odor, is rubbed into the leather as long
as it will be absorbed. This preserves
the harness from rats and mice, which
are apt to gnaw it whore it has been
moistened by the perspiration of the
horses. It is a wise thing to have a close
oloset in some convenient place to hang
the harness in.—[New York Times.
An Imprisoned Pish.
The following was related in the Chat
tanooga (TennJ News by one of its cor
respondents residing near that city:
"My cousin owns a watermill, and in
removing some obstructions found an
immense log imbedded in the stream
which must have been submerged for a
number of years. The log had to be cut
in two to remove it, and much to our
surprise we found it hollow, although it
had every appearance of being solid. I
One of the negroes while examining the
log looked into the hollow and thought |
he saw something moving. He began
using his axe, and soon had the log cut
into in another place.
"Imagine our amazement when wedis
-1 covered a live catfish which had grown
I to an enormous size and length, and was
so completely wedged in the hollow as
to be unable to move except to open its
| mouth and wiggle its tail. The fish was
I very lively and apparently in the enjoy
ment of excellent health.
, 'The question is how did the fish get
I into the log, as the only means of in
gress or egress we could discover was a
j small round hole not more than two in
[ ches in diameter. We surmised that lie
must have entered the little opening
when no larger than a minnow, and
grown great in his solitary confine
ment."
Statistics of Tornadoes.
The tornado, with hardly an exeep- I
tion, occurs in the afternoon, just after !
the hottest part of the day. The time of
greatest frequency is from 3.30 to 5
o'clock. The tornado season includes
March, April, May, June, July, August
| aud September, but storms of this nature
may occur in any pai t of the year. The
! months of greatest frequency, as deter
| mined from a record of 208 years, are
| April, May, June and July. The single
month of greatest frequency is May, April
following next in order. The State in
which the greatest number of tornadoes
has occurred is Missouri, followed next in
order by Kansas and Georgia. A record
of more than 500 tornadoes and "wind
falls" (i. e,, paths of tornadoes through
forests) in Wisconsin considerably ex
ceeds the number from any other State,
but little weight can be given this com
parison owing to the want of thorough
investigation of the subject of windfalls
in other States. From a careful investi
gation of the origin of tornadoes and
their geographical distribution, there is
every reason to believe that these storms
were as frequent and violent 200 years
| ago as now. Moreover, there appears to
I be no cause for any uuusual change in
the annual frequency of tornadoes for a
like period to come.—[The Forum.
The Tomb of Eve.
At Jiddah, the seaport of Mecca, there
is a tcmnle with a palm growing out of
the soliu stone roof, which the Arabs
assert marks the last resting-place of our
common mother. Eve's tomb, in an in
closure within the temple, surrounded by
high white walls, is the shrine of thou
sands of devoted Ishmaelites, who make
a pilgrimage to the spot once every seven
years. According to the Arabian le
gends, on tho anniversary of the death
of Abel, said to be June 3, the doors of
the temple which forms a canopy over
this supposed tomb of tho first woman
remain open all night, in spite of the
keeper's efforts to close them, and ter
rible cries of anguish are said to issue
from them, as if the memory of the first
tragedy still haunted the remains which
are supcrstitiously believed to be depos
ited there. The Arabian tradition has
it that Eve was over two hundred feet
tall, which coincides, somewhat remark
ably, with an account of the tenants of
the Garden of Eden written by a member
. of the French Academy of Sciences, a few
years ago, who also estimated the first
pair to have been over two hundred feet
in height.—[Demorest.
Substitute for Beef Tea.
Dr. Ris, of- Kloteu, emphatically re
commends pea sou]) as a most serviceable
substitute for beef tea in the ease of in
valids convalescents, and more especially
for patiens suffering from canccv of the
stomach, or diabetes mellitus. The
method he devises is to take peas, water
and a sufficient amount of some soil]) veg
itables, add one half per cent, of carbon
ate of soda, boiling the whole until the
peas are completely disintegrated, the
soup to stand until sedimentation is com
plete, and finally decant the fairly clear,
thin fluid above the deposit. The pro
duct is stated to resemble a good meat
souj) in its taste, to be at least equally di
gestible, and at the same time, to surpass
the very best meat soup in nutritive value.
Dr. Ris states in his explanation that peas
—as well as peas or lentils, either of
which may be used instead of peas—con
tain a considerable portion of iegumen,
that is a vegetable albumen, easy soluble
in a faintly akaline water, not eoagulated
by heat, readily absorbed and equal to
the albumen of egg in nutritiousness.
M. L. Thompson Sr Co., Druggists, Con
dersport, Pa., say Hull's Catarrh Cure is the
best aud only sure cure for catarrh they ever
sold. Druggists sell it, 75c.
HBnsy-boJies are always busy with doing mis
chief.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaao Thomp
son's Eye-water. Druggists mU at ;so.per bottle
Bad eyes BCO 110 good.
Oklahoma Guide Book and Map sent any where
on receipt of fiOcta.Tyler fe Co.,Kunsaß City, Mo.
Rule children with love, It comes from
I above.
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in Missouri, Kaunas, Texas aud Arkansas,
! bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Haste and passion lead to foolish acti >n.
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that rote them. Try the good old-faehi .ncd
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Beauty hath made wise men fools.
Judicious Musculation.
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weekly or monthly will make you a rortuno.
Write for inf rmation. BonJ. Lewis & Uu„ Se
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Children arc certain oares and careful com
forts.
f Keep alfalfa closely cropped if the weeds
are growing among it. In this manner the
weeds will be killed, while tlio alfalfa becomes
stronger.
I-iee Wa's Chinese Headac he Cure. Harm
i less in effect, quick and positive in action.
Kent prepaid on receipt of SI per bottle.
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Put the sadulo on the right horse.
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Money invested in choice one hundred dol
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You can't have your cake, and eat it too.
Gratifying to All.
The high position attained and the universal
acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid
fruit remedy. Syrup of Figs, as the moat oxcel
| lent laxative known, illustrate the value of
the qualities on which its success is based and
are abundantly gratifying to the California
Fig Syrup Company.
Keep your hands clean if you can't get
them full.
An Argument That Will Not Fatigue Von.
When an article has stood the test of public
trial upward of forty years, like l>r. Tobias's
Venetian Liniment, can there be any doubt
about Its possessing real merit?
Ask any druggist and ho will tell you that
this valuable preparation is looked upon as
one of the standard articles of his trade; while
tho enormous sale and rapidly Increasing de
mand from year to year is at once the surest
evidence of its usefulness and popularity.
Pain yields immediately to its wonderful
curative properties, therefore no family
should be without a bottle of it in the house.
Hundreds of dollars and many hours of suf
fering may bo saved by Its timely use. No
matter if you have no confidence in patent
medicines try this and you will bo sure to
buy again and recommend it to your friends.
May dew and morning air will make your
faces bright and fair. U 39
Copyright, 1890,
A departure
from ordinary methods has long
been adopted by tho makers of Or.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
They know what it can do and
they guarantee it. Your money
is promptly returned, if it fails to
benefit or cure in all diseases arising
from torpid liver or impure blood.
No better terms could be asked for. I
No better remedy can be had. |
Nothing else that claims to be a
blood-purifier is sold in this way—
because nothing else is like the
" G. M. D."
So positively certain is it in its
curative effects as to warrant its i
makers in selling it, as they are do
ing, through druggists, on trial I
It's especially potent in curing
Tetter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Ery
sipelas, lloils, Carbuncles, Sore
Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and
Enlarged Glands, Tumors and
Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers
rapidly heal under its benign in
fluence. World's Dispensary Med
ical Association, C 63 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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and, although it costs a trill*' more its durability makes it
outlast two cakes of chem makes. It is therefore the
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reasonable price
Distress
After Eating
Indigestion
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Are Cured by
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