TIIE growth of most of tho Germanl cities, according to the census lately! complete, is nothing short of marvel-; ous. It rivals, and in several cases ex-! ceeds, the increase of population of the chief cities of the United States, and it j leaves all recent European precedents j far behind. SENATOR GORMAN is a most method!-) cal man. He rises at just 6 o'clock! every morning, sits just sixty minutes, at dinner, and never on any pretext j permits an interruption of his meals.) He takes a walk of a fixed length! every day, bathes at the same hour, and never uses tobacco or liquors. J SOME smokers have an idea that "tc baooo heartburn" can bo oured by swallowing the white ashes from the end of a cigar, Chemists say that it is merely faith cure. IN Paris, out of 2,700,000 residents, it is calculated that one in eighteen, or 150,000, live on charity with a ten dency toward crime. In London the proportion is one in thirty. Water at Aeala. ' Opinions differ as to the effect of the free ingestion of water at meal times, but the view most generally received is probably that it dilutes the gastric juice and so retards digestion. Apart from the fact that a moderate delay in the process is by no means a disadvantage, as Sir William Roberts has shown in his explanation of the popularity of tea and coffee, it is more than doubtful whether any such effect is in reality produced. When ingested during meals, water may do good by washing out the digested food and by exposing the undigested part more thoroughly to the action of the digestive ferments. Pepsm is a catalytic body, and a given quantity will work almost indefinetly, provided the peptones aro removed as they are formed. The good effect of water drank freely before meals has, however, another beneficial result—it washes away the musus which is se creted by the mucous membrane during the intervals of repose, and favors peristalsis of the whole alimentary , tract. The membrane thus cleansed is iu a much better condition to receivo food and convert it into soluble com pounds. _____ Certainly. If you remember how much easier it is to remember what you would rather forget than remember, than remember what you would rather remember than forget, than you can't forget how much easier it is to forget what you would rather remember than forget, than for-' get what you would rather forget than remember.— Elmira Gazette. FITS stoppei free by Do. Kniica's OasAT SERVE RBSTOIIKH. NO ftta after flrat day's use. arvelouti cures. Treatise and |2 trial bottle free. Dr. iUiue, 931 Arch St. t Phihu. Pa. A new lace manufacturing establishment is to be started on Long Island. Too large —the old-fashioned pill. Too reckless in its way of doing business, too. It cleans you out, but it uses you up, and your outraged system rises up against it. Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Pellets have a better way. They do just what is needed • —no more. 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Agents wuuted. BI.Y'S CRKAVI BALM Applied Into Nostril* Is Quickly Absorbed, Cleanses tbo flood, Heals the Bores and Cures CATARRH.MI Restores Taste and Smell, quick ly Relieves Cold In Head and Headache. 50c. at Druggists. ELY BROS.. 56 Warren St.. N. Y. PROF. LOISETTE'S NEW MEMORY BOOKS. Criticisms on two reeent Memory Systems. Ready about April Ist. Full Tables of Contents forwarded only to those who send stumped directed envelope. Also Prospectus POST FREE or the Lolacttlau Alt Of Never Forgetting. Address Prof. I.OIRETTE, 237 Fifth Ave., New \ork. •MMFTMH.V* ■teUCI AN' 0 "' 1 w.noßKis, llbllblUN WmlUngton, D.C. llmlnlMtm liwUnilcttosclii™, wtrtinc. DISEASE GERMS. The Appearance and Prodigious Growth of Bacteria. Our systematic knowledge of the bac teria is still so meagre, so many speaics and doubtless so many families of them have never yet come into tho range of human vision, and our glimpses of their life powers have been so fragmentary, that as yet we can only try to bring a little temporary order out of the chaos by grouping them according to their shapes. We find, when we muster all the forms which have as yet been seen, that they all fall into one of three classes: spheroidal, rod-like, or spiral. Further subdivisions of these classes have been made, and generic and speci fic names attached to many hundreds of forms; but over these details we need not linger now. llow they look and what they do is here of more importance than what we call them. Although with the ordinary micro scopic powers the bacteria look like little balls or straight or spiral rods, we find, when wc use the most powerful or per fect lenses, that they consist of a minute mass of granular protoplasm surrounded by a thin structureless membrane. When we put them under favorable conditions for growth, and give them food enough, they may be seen to divide across the middle, each portion soon be coming larger and again dividing, so that it has been calculated that a single germ, if kept under favorable condi tions, might at the end of two days have added to the number of the world's liv ing beings 281,500,000,000 new individ ual bacteria. In fact, if this sort of thin" went on for a few weeks unhindered there would be very little room left on the earth's surface for any other forms of life, and pretty much all the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen which is available for life purposes in the world would be used up. There would be a corner in life stuff, and even the master, man, would be forced to the wall, and become the victim of his insatiable fel low-worldcr, the bacterium. But, as it happens, this sort of thing does not go on; the food grows scanty; or the tem perature becomes unfavorable; or the sun shines hot—and the sun is a sore enemy of your growiug bacterium; or, as it grows and feeds, the germ gives off various chemical substances which often soon poison itself, or its fellows, or both together. So the proportion is preserved by such a line balance of the natural forces that, prolific as they are, the bac teria in the long run are held closely within bounds the world over.— rHar per's Magazine. Marriage in Frigid Climes. In Iceland a bride is known by lier dress, which is finer and more costly than that of her sisters, and she wears around the head dress, close toiler face, a silver gilt crown ; chains are suspended from her neck, and to one is attached a tiny heart, a present from the groom, in which some kind of perfumes are put. This last is a very pretty sentiment, and one worthy of our civilization. In Lapland the lover, wheu going to propose to the girl of his choice, arms nimSclf with two bottles of brandy. One he presents to her father; the other he drinks himsclt. No business is discussed till the bottles arc finished, when, both being in a happy, social state of mind, it is presumed the consent is gained without much difficulty. After the betrothal the groom must bring a bottle of brandy to bis prospective father in-law every time lie calls upon the daughter, which accounts, perhaps, for the long time which a Lapland father often keeps the lover waiting. After perhaps years of this he is obliged to serve the father for a whole year after his mar riage, while the mother-in-law, if she be the object of terror, the fact is carefully concealed, and she is waited upon most! assiduously by lier son-in law. She holds the reins in her own hands, I usually lives with lier daughter, and has the power to divorce her by simply pack ing his things and throwing them out of the house. The husband then follows them, and both arc free to look for other companions. Sometimes, too, the would be brides are very shv, and have to be brought into the room by two women, where tlicy crouch in a corner with their faces covered.—[New York Press. Long Distance Signaling at Sea. At a meeting of the pilot commis sioners the other day in New York city, J. W. I lay ward exhibited a new device for communication between ships at sea. It is called the lucigraph and is intend ed to enable ships to communicate long messages to each other at night. With j this machine, somewhat like a magic lantern, letters six to twelve feet long | can be thrown on a screen or piece of j canvas visible to the naked eye at live j miles. By pressing the keys as on a typewriter, the stenciled plates bearing the letters arc thrown within the rays of the lens, and which will cast enlarged characters. It is available for any light. It signals in any desired language or letter code, such as the international 1 code 011 every ship, lighthouse and j coastguard. Ordinary domestic kcro- | sene 11 akes the signals readable to tho j naked eye nt a mile. Its principal value i is in giving a simple and ready means of! speaking to a stranded or sinking ship j and to the coast guard or lightship. ' The signals can also be thrown 011 the ! clouds.—[New Orleans Picayune. Web of tho House Spidor. The web of tho house spider differs from that of the garden variety in two points—its mesh is much finer, and it is composed of one kind of silk only, says the Cornliill Magazine. The fiics'which • find their way into it arc detained by j the entanglement of their claws in the j fine meshes. The house spider, as a rule, makes its 1 snare in the corner of the room. Its first operation is to press its spinners against' the wall, thus securing threads in a par j ticular spot; then it goes to the opposite • side and fastens the other end of the j thread. The primary line is strengthened I by two or three others being run along i beside it, threads are drawn from it in i various directions, and the interstices are filled by the spider's running back- j ward and forward, always leaving a line j behind it. In one corner of the completed web a j tube is made, in which the spider con - ceals itself and waits for the appearance i of unwary flies. The Doctor's Secret. A San Francisco lady applied to her physician in that city for advice and a prescription. He had attended her and j her family, and on this occnsion he rcc- ! ommended that she go to a popular j watering place in that part of the j country, giving her a letter of introduc- j tiou to" a physician who resided at the I springs. On the way there the lady rc- j I marked to her daughter that as long aa her doctor had been treating her he had never stated just what was her ailment. "I've a good mind to open this letter and see what lie says of my ease to the other doctor." Acting 011 the impulse she tore open the envelope and, taking out the letter, read: "Dear Doctor— Keep the old lady four weeks and theu send her back to me."—[Detroit Free Press. A Queer Medical Case. There is a qiteer case at Gouvcrneur Hospital. It is that of a man who at noon yesterday weighed about 120 pounds and for a person his size was much emaciated. At 0 o'clock last night he was so puffed up that he looked as if he weighed twice as much. It took the hospital surgeons over an hour to con vince his daughters that the man was really their father. Air is the cause of this transformation. The victim of this inflation in size is Paul Shonebein, a German laborer forty years old, of No 157 West Sixty-secoud-st. While at woik yesterday afternoon on a pile of timber, it was said at the hospital, some of the boards fell upon him, breaking his ribs, One of the broken ribs pene trated his lungs letting the air out and into the tissues under the skin. This caused a general putting out of the skin all over his body irom head to heels,un til he was totally unrecognizable. At Gouvcrneur Hospital, where he was taken directly after tlie accident hap pened, the doctors say they have only had one case like it before. The man after a few days resumed normal shape aud size and got well. But Shonebein nas swe lied out of nil proportions. His daughters were informed of the accident to their father, and went to the hospital to see him. But when the attendants pointed out the man as their parent they were in search of, they refused to bcleive what was told them. "That thing our father? Do the doc tors think we don't know our papa? Our father was a tall thin man," they said. As to Shoncbcin's chances for recovery, the doctors say if lie does uot have con gestion of the lungs he will recover and gradually grow smaller until lie gets down to his natural size. They consider the case a most interesting one.—[New York Tribune. The Resurrection Bono. It is said in the bncf details of Emma Abbott's cremation litcs, that the sweet singer was reduced to two or three pounds of ashes, which were preserved m a silver vase. Now, it is well known that a two, or even four, hours' incineration docs not totally consume the bones, aud there is always a muss of these left, which are thrown away as refuse. Among these human bones is one which is believed to be impervious to death or decay. It is a small bone, part of the backbone, and is called "Luz." It is said that a learned rabbi demonstrated to the Emperor Adrian that water would not steep it, lire would not burn it, a mill could uot grind it, nor could auy hammer break it. This resurrection bone is supposed by many to be the nucleus of the immortal body, lludibras wrote: "All ih' other members shall, they say, Spring out of this as from a seed." The question arises, would not it be more in keeping with the importance of mortuary rights to have the bones buried in the cemetery lot, while the ashes find their repose in the silver urn, and may be retained in the household? Even a superstition has weight in favor of au idea.—[Detroit Free Press. Gas Fuel. London engineers discuss the plan of turning the coal of the north countries into gas and conducting it by pipes to the chief centres of population. The scheme is advocated on the ground that it would greatly moderate the smoke nuisance and reduce the expenses of many industrial operations. Gas has been profitably employed in all sorts of factories, but its substitution for coal in the homes of the poor would not fail to rivet the chain of their bondage to mon opoly, and they would probably prefer to evade the smoke by-laws by the use of coal-oil stoves. It has been repeatedly predicted that the invention of a home apparatus for the generation of electric light currents would ruin nine out of ten gas companies. -[New York Voice. The American Mother Abroad. 011 their return to America, a lady who was calling on Mrs. X. began to ask about the different ports which the ship had visited, but soon found that she could elicit little information. "I can't say that I noticed much," Mrs. X. would reply. "1 don't seem to remember much about all those places." "But at least you must remember St. Petersburg," the caller said. "You were there a week, your husband told me." "Oh, yes, I remember St. Petersburg," was the reply. "It was there that Sadie and I finished our satin quilt. We just worked liko beavers all the time we were in port, so that, we could begin a new one when we started for home."— [Boston Courier. An Exhumed Bible. A family Bible, which was buried un der the bead of Su-anna Bandall, who died in 1800, has been dug up and ic moved, the Eastern town authorities granting a liccuse. It was not seriously decayed. The family records in it es tablished the right of Lewis Bundall to the property of Isaac Phillips, who died in 1834, leaving a large fortune, most of which is still 011 deposit in the Manhat . tan Bank, New York city. Phillips has j no immediate family, and Bandall and t other relatives now lay claim to his prop erty in the Manhattan Bank ana St. Stephcus, Ala. Tho latter property is lioid by a man whose title to it is very imperfect, it is said. —[ Boston Transcript. The Agile Kangaroo. 111 some parts of Victoria they for merly outnumbered the sheep as two to one, and old shepherds have told me that it was not an uncommon thing to see the sheep and the kangaroos feeding together upon the plains as many as 2,000 or 3,000 kangaroos frequently ac companying iiliock of 1,000 sheep. Thus it will be seen that a "station" which, in 1850 could barely graze 5,000 slieep, can now be made to carry 40,000 with out any danger of overstocking. I Scrib ncr's Magazine. A Baby on Wheels. "Baby" Sherman is the youngest bicycle rider in the city, She docs not ride alone, however, but on the 'cycle of her uncle, William Ilonig. Mr. Ilonig recently purchased a chair which he allixcs to the handle of his 'cycle. As lie rolls through the street with his young passenger miuh com ment is called forth.---[Albany Journal. OLDER THAN SYRIAN CEDARS. the Oldest Tree on Earth Will See Earth's loimgeft City. Among the remarkable natural pro ducts of tho United States which will be sent to the World's Fair, the section of one of the giant trees of California which is promised from that State should excel in interest all the other ex hibits combined. What does this exhibit mean ? Let us think of it What are the clear money. I am charmed with tho business. I bought mv Plater from tho Lake Electric Co.,Enulowood, ill., for SB, and fool confident If people knew how cheap thoy coui l net a Plater, and how much money they could make, wo would seo many more happy homes, it is surprising tho amount of tableware nud jewelry there is to plate; and If persons now idle woul I get a Plater, they would soon have light hearts and plenty monpv. Micliignn has a Farmers' Telegraph Com pany. Tlie Isndie* DdiKhtcil. Tlio pleasant efftct and the perfect safety with which Indies may me the liquid fruit lax ative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, livor and bowels. German schoolhouses have gymnasiums. For a disorder!d liver mo HEECUAM'S PILLS. About $15,000,000 is invested in electric lighting enterprises in London. There are people using Dobbins's Electric Boap to-day who commenced its uso in lHfis. Would this be tho case were it not the purest and most coiwmical soap made? Ask your gro cer for it. Look out for imitations. DobblnS*. More than 200.000 people are confirmed in the English Church every yenr. IJ 10 Drafufftg Can't be Cured I By local applications, us they cannot reach the I diseased portion of the ear. There is oulv one I way to cure deafness, and that i* by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in flamed you have, a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can bo taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an iu liamed condition of the mucous surfaces. VN e will give One Hundred Dollars for any case or deafness (caused by catarrh) that we u T e H y Hall's Catarrh Cure, bond for circulars, free. i. • , F -J. C'IIENKY & Co., Toledo, 0. bold by druggist 76 cents. Every year raoro fanners believe that moderate weights in pork pay best. The Mother's Delight. A remedy that will cure croup in a few mo ment?, prevent pneumonia and dlfriilhoiia like. l)r. Hnxsie's Certain Croup Cure. No oplntu. Sold by druggists or mailed for W cts. Address A. P. lioxie, Buffalo, N. Y. In 1836 only 109 patents were issued in the United States. BEWARE OF THEM. Cheap j S. S. S. 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