WILL CO WER OVER ALL.
Hi# Nw York Btats Monument at Gettys
burg.
The New York State monument on
the field of Gettysburg, to commem
orate the deeds of the soldiery the
Empire State on that eventful battle
ground, ia fast nearing completion. The
monument, the loftiest and most im
posing that will mark the field of
Gettysburg, is ninety-six feet high from
THE NEW YORK STATE MONUMENT.
[Tho Bpleudid shaft t hat will commemorate the
deeds of Now York's soldiers on the famous
battlefield of Gettysburg.]
the base line to the apex of the sur
mounting figure, while the national
monument only rises to a a! height of
lixty-five feet. The base line is twenty
loven and one-half feet square nnd the
diameter of tho oronze drum, orna
mented iu emblematic figures and com
positions, lis nine feet nine inches in
height and five feet three inches in di
ameter. Higher up is a polished
granite shaft thirty-three feet in the
perpendicular, and surmounted by an
Drnate capital and above all is the com
manding female figure of victory, with
outstretched palm and laurel. On the
four sides of the square pedestal are
byonze penels, telling in raised letters,
of the heroism of New York's sons.
The appropriation for the monument is
fe50.000.
Was It Hypnotism.
As I was coming down town a few
days ago I met Grizzly in the car, and
as we were old chummies and bad not
seen each other for a few weeks, I
greeted him very cordially.
What's new in the papers this morn
ing?" I inquired, to set the conversa
tional ball comfortably rolling.
"Paper isn't out yet this week. Say,
I hear they have discovered gold in Cali
fornia."
I looked at him a little curioasly, and
before I could make up my mind what
ho was driving at, ho said:
"No use talking. Gen. Taylor is our
man for president."
Then I looked at him rather oloselv
to see if lie showed any symptoms of in
sanity in his eye; but lie was in appear
ance as calm and rational as ever.
"Now that we've got the Mexican war
closed ui) in good shape and the Oregon
question sottled, it is time we "
"Say I" said I breaking in upon liim,
"Are you erazy or just giving me a
whirl of some kind ?"
He looked at me blankly for half a
minute, and then a smile began to
spread over his face.
"I beg your pardon, old man, I be
lieve lam getting a trifle off. You Bee,
[ pot one of those forty-year-old dic
tionaries as a premium the other day
for subscribing to a newspaper that is
of no earthly good itself, and it just
keeps my mind working about forty
fears behind the times. Let's get o0
tod take somethinp." West Shore.
On u SuppoMtlon.
"What's the matter here?" asked an
officer as he came along to the house of
a colored man on Beaubien street to
And the man at the gate with a olub in
bis hand at midnight
"Reckon somebody was a-trying' to
git in, salt," was the reply.
"Of oo'se dey was!" added bis wife
from the shelter of the doorway.
"Robbers?"
"Yes, sab!"
"Rut, man, what on earth have yon
got iui the house to tempt robbers?"
asked the officer.
"It hain't what we lias dun got in
iar', but what de robbers '.pose dey'll
Bud."
"But what could tbev suppose?"
"Wall, sail, I was down at de bank
to-day to see 'bout hlttin' a job. P'raps
■ome robber seed me. P'raps be dun
got de ideah dat I drnwed out a thou
■and dollars in cosh. Wouldn't dat
bring him up hear mighty sartin ?"
"You'd better go in and go to bed,"
advised the officer as he sauntered on.
"Yes, sail; but not now, sail. We
beard sunthin' go woosb-biff-squashl
right by de front doah, sah, an' we
hain't gwine to lie still an' let dem rob
bers git no bulge on us I Good-night,
lah, but I'll circle aroun' a bit wid dls
Dlub an' let 'em know I'ze prepared fur
bizness." — Detroit Free Press.
1. 1. .11 ifninw.
In tbeoaseof a South Carolina negro,
charged with stealing chiokens, an en
tire colored jury was put on, and they
found him guilty in two minutes after
being sent out Heretofore South Caro
lina chickens have hardly been con
sidered property, and their IOBS was
considered mjet rd Pjavidence.
Keep 1 hie to YonrMii,
A Western agency advertises to send
"150 articles of everyday oonvenienoe
about the household" for the sum of
thirty cents. If you bite, and if the ar
ticles turn out to be 150 pins, don't let
your neighbor know it The more
gudgeons the better for trade.
Good Blood
Is absolutely
Essential to
Good Health
You may have
both by taking the
best Blood Purifier.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
A CITY OF PERFUMES.
THE FOLKS OF GRASSE LIVE
AMID SWEET ODORS.
Great Fields of Flowers Along the
Roads Peeling and Cleaning
Flowers for Conversion Into Per
fumery.
Back of Cannes, though not very far,
the town of Grasse lies iu a land of
flowers, writes Ilenry Hayuie, in the
Picayune. Held in place by a wnistbelt
of orange groves on the abrupt declivi
ties of the last counter-fort of the mighty
Alps, the city of perfumes looks like a
gigantic agave hung on the rocks, in
front of arduous peaks which shelter
the nymph of the crystal urn in the
mystery of grottoes. Up thero is the
route followed by imperial eagles, the
very road which Napoleon followed
when he made rapid flight from Elba to
Paris. Silver-leafed olive trees veil the
hills, cactus empurples them, and date
trees balance their crowns of leaves in
the morning breezes. Here, there, every
where, innumerable country houses dot
the verdure with white points that glit
ter and sparkle in golden sunlight. On
the right a long blue line ot sea, out of
whose enchanting, cerulean waves
Venus Anadyomeue stepped forth in
days of mythology. This sea forms a j
curve beneath the fret work of Esterel, i
while on the left the last streak of coast j
sinks at the end of one of the Lerin i
isles, a sort of sacred prow floating eter
nally at anchor.
Grasse has a position manifestly in
different to lines laid down by modern
surveyors. There is a disdain of hori
zontal so as to take advantage of perpen
diculars. The squares arc crossings ;
merely, the streets cleft, and the upper
stories of the dim-looking buildings
would surely run into each other were
they not kept in good order by arched
buttresses. Ground floors have rude I
bossage that are distant imitations of ,
those in Florence. There aro old j
sculptured doors, under ogives, that are
openings to the windings of stone stair- 1
cases. The shops remind one of the '
apothecary's stall where ltomeo got his i
poison, and a sombre church with soimt- |
tish pillars and square towers that nave \
their foundations in darkness, and whose
frontage is high up in a provencal sky, '
is placed on two crypts where ghosts |
abound. It is these sort of things that j
stamp the old Roman station with a per
sonal character which, in the perpetual
opposition of light and shade, unex
pected contrasts collide, cause the quali
ties of both to become evident, and will
assist mine ho9t, Host, in giving sensa - i
tions of pleasure to her most gracious
majesty.
You ride from Cannes on a narrow j
streak of railway that runs through olive |
orchards and fields of roses, and when
you reach Grasse you arc in a country of j
odoriferous essences. Where others |
would sow potatoes, Grasso folks plant j
ros a, and heliotrope takes the place of !
green peas. Carpets of geraniums, i
mignonettes, jonquils, tuberoses ami j
violets diaper the country. When I last I
saw that part of France the perfumery !
establishments at Grasse were in full,
operation. The winding and seep streets ;
of the town were encumbered with !
wagons, carts and beasts of burden
transporting flowers from fields to fac- i
torics. Shepherds returning from the 1
mountains brought with them thyme and !
wild lavcuder, fennel, mint and rose
mary. It snowed petals; stamens and
pistils came down in showers, the streams j
ran bcrgamot for all 1 know, and the i
dust of the road may have been put in
scent bags.
I entered one of the houses where an
industrial kitchen manipulated and con- i
verted into extracts and pomades the
petals of sweet flowers. Hoses and or
ange blossoms were being distilled, aud
the head of tho firm showed me every- \
thing. It seemed to me that there was
not enough handkerchiefs in all the ;
world to soak up the contents of the !
many bottles I saw down there, or suffi
cient heads of hair in the two hemis
pheres to absorb the varied pomades that
were being packed into large cases. Of
necessity the utmost celerity must attend
these manipulations, seeing that the per
fection of the products is due, first of all,
to the impeccable freshness of the raw
material. You should see the activity
displayed by women as they peel aud
cleanse flowers that were collected before
dawn, and which now are in immense
heaps in workrooms, free from sunlight.
The one I visited was the crypt of what
was once a Franciscan monastery, and
the bones from sepulchres which had
previously paved the sanctuary had not
all been carried away. As country wag
oners brought in large bundles of per
fumed spoils from rose fields and or
angeries, town carts carried oIT plaster 1
rubbish that was mixed up with
the remains of ten human genera
tions.
Nowadays the essence of roses is gath
ered less poetically than it used to be,
but there is, however, just as much care
taken in distilling the water that comes
from the alembic. The perfume once
cost as much as $l4O per ounce, but it [
does not fetch that amount nt present. ■
The price fluctuates between S4OO nnd
SSOO the litre, when the year is a fair
one, and has increased at 'least a third
since the rigorous winter of 1883. It
takes nearly 13,500 pounds of roses to
produce a single pound of essence. That
made in Grasse is of a dark green, aud
congeals natural ly. It is considered far
superior to the oil of the Balkans, which
is easily recognizable by its weak, yellow
color, and is more often than not falsi
fied. As for ncroli, or essential oil of
orange blossoms, it is obtained by the
same processes. The price per litre
varies between SIOO and $l2O, and some
times goes up as high as S2OO. A kilo
gramme of flowers collected about the
middle of the harvest produces a gramme
of essence, that is to say, one-hundredth
part of the flowers gathered, even much
less than that if it he the commencement
of the season. The city of Cologne
although itself the possessor of no odors
except tho exhalations from its fetid
gutters, which are plentiful, purchases
more than $120,000 worth of neroli an
nually from the Grasse country. Besides
its perfumery, and independently of its
essence of orange blossoms, of which it
exports more than 1,000,000 litres every
year, Grasse also possesses many wells of
fine oils, the best in Provence.
All the floral varieties are not gath
ered in at the same time of the year, how
ever. Violets are harvested from the
15th of January to April 15, the Grasse
country alone handling from 290,000 lo
325,000 pounds of them. Jonquils
bloom in February nnd March, then
come the orange blossoms and the rose-',
lasting from April 20 until the 31st of
May. The territory of Grasso produces
3,800,000 pounds of orange blossoms and
1,800,000 pounds of rose leaves. Mig
nonette is collected from May 15 till the
end of June, and gives 50,000 pounds.
Jasmines yield 294.000 pounds, aud
tuberoses over 145,000. Finally comes
cassia, which gives a concentrated per
fume, and which begins to flower in Oc
tober and finishes when the roses com
mence aguin. Such is the annual cycle
of the principal flowers with which the
chief industry of Grasse is fed, though iu
this nomenclature I do not mention lav
ender aud rosemary, both greatly used in
perfumery, but which is done by nomad
ic distillers who take their alembics
about with them from department to de
partment.
A Lucky Man.
Colonel Samuel Daskam, first Select
man of Norwalk, Conu., and one of its
most prominent citizens, paid a visit to
New York recently and returned #2,000
richer than when he left home. In 1852
Mr. Daskain was engaged in the jewelry
business in Troy, N. Y., aud had as an
apprentice, a young man named Peter
Sheridan. Iu 1855 Mr. Dasknm sold out
| and went to New York and shortly there
j after opened a store in Maiden Lane.
| Sheridan accompanied him to the me
tropolis and through .Mr. Daskam's in
fluence secured a good position.
Being desirous of starting in business
for himself, Sheridan induced Daskam
to lease a store at the corner of Sixth
Avenue and Twelfth Street and stock it
I with goods, putting Sheridan in full j
possession. One morning the store was
not opened a9 usual, and it was dis- *
covered thai Sheridan had decamped, !
taking almost all the stock. The police '
were notified, but nothing was heard of |
Sheridan for six months, when it was
reported that he was dead.
Sheridan had a half brother who went
to California, where he acquired a mod- j
crate fortune, and a short time ago rc- '
turned to New York, lie learned from
Sheridan's sister of his scurvy treatment j
of ; Daskam. The girl was dying of
consumption and said that she could i
not die in peace until the wrong had :
been righted.
Joseph Sheridan, the half brother,
went to Norwalk and had a talk with Mr. !
Daskain, and arranged a meeting at the
Astor House iu New York. The meeting
occurred, but previous to leaving Nor
walk Mr. Daskam deposited all the
valuables usually carried about his per- •
son in the Norwalk Town Clerk's safe, j
as he was somewhat afraid of being j
bunkoed. He then proceeded to New j
York, and before ho bad been five |
minutes iu Mr. Sheridan's company j
twenty one-hundred-dollar bills were !
handed him by that gentleman. Even
then Mr. Daskam thought the bills were
counterfeits until he walked into a bank |
and secured a certificate of deposit for !
$2,000. —[New Y'ork Times.
An Ancient Egyptian Lock.
Among recent discoveries in Egypt
was that of a lock supposed to have been
in use p more than 4,000 years ago, by
which reckoning it would considerably
antedate the Pharaohs of the Exodus, of
the days of Moses, and even of Joseph,
and would reach back well towards the
rcigu of Cheops and the building of the
Great Pyramid. Relative to its con
struction, the European Trade Mail says
that the old Egyptian lock was not made |
of metal like those we use nowadays, j
but of wood, and the key tli.it opened it
was wooden, too.
On one side of the door to which it |
was fastened there was a staple, nnd into
this staple fitted a wooden bolt that was
fixed to the door itself. When thi9 bolt
was pushed into the staple as far as it I
would go, three pins iu the upper part
of the staple dropped into holes in the
bolt anil held it iu its place, so that it
could not be moved back again until the
pins were lifted. The key was a straight
piece of wood, at the end of which were 1
three pegs the same distance apart as the j
pins which held the boat firm. When |
the key was pushed into the bolt through ;
a hole made to receive it, the pegs came
into such a position that they were able
to lift the pins that fixed the bolt, aud
when these were lifted the bolt could be ;
lifted out of the staple.—[Mechanical :
News.
A Rabbit That Climbs Rocks.
In the Small Mammals' House in the
Zoological Gardens is an interesting little 1
quadruped—the Cape Ilyrax, of the same
genus as the coney of Scripture. This
genus, which contains very few species,
constitutes an order, for though some
what resembling rabbits in appearance,
these animals approach the rhinoceros in
the structure of the skull and in the
molar teeth, the elephant in the number
of ribs, and the tapir in the number of
the toes, which are covered with rounded
hoof-like nails. The hyrax not only
"makes its house in the rocks," but is
also able to run lip nnd down smooth i
surfaces that arc almost perpendicular, i
aud to cling tenaciously to horizontal
surfaces.
Dr. Schweinfurth, who was one of the
I first to record this fact, which had es
| caped general notice, saw that the foot
of the animal hud several indented cush
ions, and thought that 4 'by opening and
closing the centre cleft it could throw a
part of its weight and gain a firm foot- j
ltig on a smooth stone surface." The
true explanation is much more simple.
: By elevating the solo, while the soft
| elastic sides and heel arc in contact with
i the ground, the animal- converts each
foot into a natural sucker.
But moisture is a necessary condition
to the successful working of a sucker;
consequently the sweat glands in the
foot of the by rax are very numerous—
about 40,000 to the square inch, or fif
teen times as many as in the same space
on the humau foot. To enable the ani
mal to run with impunity over hard,
angular surfaces, the sole is protected
by a deep layer of epithelium, and the
importance of the sweat glands is again
apparent, for this layer would very soon
become horny from continual pressure if
it were not constantly kept moist by
abundant secretion.—[Cassell's Magazine.
Hoarded Gold of India.
j "Very few people know what an enor
mous amount of gold is stored up in In
dia," said Samuel W. Clinton, of Bom
bay, at the Hotel Imperial. "As fast as
gold is brought into India it is bought
up by the banks and banking houses and
stored up as just so much capital. You
see that after they get the gold it is not
used in circulation, but bills of exchange
are issued with the gold as security, and
with the silver money of India these bills
of exchange form the currency. You
would hardly believe that India has
stored up in her vaults over $070,250,-
000 in gold, and the troublesome part of
it is that the Western Hemisphere or
European countries never will get any of
it back again. That is not the way the
j Hindoos do business. They have great
j faith in gold and get all of it they can.—
[New York Telegram.
The Shark of Sharks.
The 6hark of sharks, the real "mnn
oater," nud the one most dreaded, is the
white shark. This variety reaches a
length of thirty-five feet and a weight of
2000 pounds. Its head is long and fiat,
and the snout far overhangs the mouth.
Its six rows of teeth are sharp as lancetn.
and notched like saws. Its mouth is very
large, so that one has been known to cut
a man's body completely in two at a sin
gle snap of its cruel jaws, aud another to
swallow one at a gulp. Near Calcutta,
one of these sharks,was seen to swallow a
bullock's head, horns and all. From the
stomach of another a bull's hide was
taken entire, and the sailor who made
the discovery insisted that the bull had
been swallowed whole, and all except
the hide been digested.—[London Tid-
Bits.
CARE OF CUT FLOWERS.
How to Keep Them Fresh a Long
While—Timely Hints.
The care of cut llowers is something
few women seem to understand. Hun
dreds of dollars are spent in purchasing
I lovely flowers that are allowed to perish
| all too soon, just for the want of a little
attention. The delight of having one's
room brightened by fresh flowers is so
great that more time and care would
readily be bestowed upon the perishable
beauties if those who cared for them
knew the great difference it would make
whether they were merely put in water
or whether they were 4 'nursed" and
"petted" a little.
Hoses should always have the end of
the stem clipped off with a pair of sharp
scissors and some of the pretty green
leaves taken off. Do not crowd your
vases. Give the flowers plenty of water
and chauge the water daily. At night
put all the stems neatly together and roll
a newspaper about the upper part of the
bunch, leaving no open space for the air
to get in. Then plunge the flowers into
a deep pitcher or jar full of water nearly
up to their heads aud put them in the
ice-box, if you have ice, or in any cool
place where they will rest all night.
Very drooping roses will thus come
out fresh and stiff-stemmed iu the morn
ing. Some varieties of roses will keep a
week if put to bed in this way each
night. Another good way is to shut
them up in a high pail with water to
come up to their heads, the cover care
fully closed and the pail put in an ice
chest or some other cool place.
Lilies are more easily kept. They
only need plenty of fiesh water, a good
light and to have the ends of the stalks
clipped slightly from day to day. The
writer has never failed to make a lily-bud
open (bloom), no matter how green and
small it may have been, aud has several
times had a bud open after three weeks
of waiting.
Poppies are a joy if you can buy the
buds, they open so perfectly in water,
with the same rich colors and dainty
texture of petals.
Forget-nie nots will last from two to
four weeks if once well started, but the
pretty leaves must nearly all be cutaway
and the stems put deep in the water;
then the stalks will grow and every tiny
bud blossom beautifully. A clear glass
is the best to put them in.
A bunch of "Wnudering Jew" cut
in late October is a joy and comfort
through all the long, dreary winter if
put iu a pretty clear glass and kept on a
sunny window-ledge. Just keep the glass
tilled with water and occasionally drench
the vines; they will grow fast. You
may have to cut them off from time to
time, or you can train them to twine
around cords, etc., but you have a cheer
ful bit of green with so little of expense
or trouble.
Pansics, marguerites and violets all
freshen up wonderfully, even after they
have bsen worn or carried until but a
little withered heap, if they receive the
proper attention. And it is the same old
story of loosening the cluster, clipping
each little stem and plunging up to the
dainty little heads iu fresh, cool water.
Almost invariably after a bath and rest
they arc as fresh as tired human flowers
after the same treatment.
In our small city houses growing
plants take too much room. Cut flowers
are easily obtained, but very expensive,
therefore it pays to take good care of
them and learn how to keep them fresh
and sweet. Most flowers keep better
with very little foliage. You must use
separate stems for the gr en effects.
Some rose leaves can usually bo kept if
care is taken to cut off some part nnd
watch the first day or so that the flower
does not droop.— [Chicago News.
Sisal Hemp in Florida.
"The people of this country pay
$5,000,000 each year for sisal hemp fibre
grown in Yucatan, wherewith to make
c ordage, binding twine, and so forth,"
said a government official to a Star re
porter. 4 'lt is a great waste of money,
because the same material can be pro
duced just as well in Southern Florida
aud of better quality. Capitalists are
interesting themselves in the matter, and
a new industry of extensive proportions
is to be developed on the peninsula."
Sisal, besides being one of the most
admirable fibers in the world for the pur
: poses mentioned, is a most interesting
j plant. It is a growth of huge green bay
onet-shaped leaves, each one from four
■ aud a half to six feet in length aud
varying from one and one-half inches
thick at the base to half an inch thick at
the center. When it is from six to
eight years old and quite mature it
sends up from its middle with great ra
pidityja huge central stalk or mast twen
ty-five feet high nnd three inches in
diameter. From the upper half of this
stalk small branches grow out, each
branch bearing tulip-shaped blossoms.
Presently the blossoms wither, the petals
drop off and in their place leaves ap
pear. Within a few days where each
flower has been a complete little sisal
plant has developed, attached to an ex
tremity of the parent stem. When it is
mature it drops upon the ground, nnd,
if it manages to come in contact with
the mother earth, proceeds to take root
and become a growth likes its progeni
tor.
This is a method of reproduction
found in no other plant save the sisal
aud a few of its near relatives. In the
ordinary course of nature very few of the
young ones succeed iu striking root
through the thick grass that covers the
ground; but as many as 1,000 of them
may be got nnd planted from a singlo stalk
as they ripen from day to day. The sisal
reproduces itself also from suckers
thrown out by the roots, thus having
two distinct ways of perpetuating its
species. Many authorities consider that
the suckers produce the hardier bushes
and that they are preferable on this ac
count for cultivating purposes, but this
is disputed.—[Washington Star.
A New Kind of Metal.
A new kind of metal is reported from
Birmingham, England, which is said to
be non-corrosive, and will adncre to
other metals of all kinds when properly
applied. Its greatest use will probably
be found in marine engineering, for
coating iron and steel for propellers to
prevent their pitting.
At Anaheim, Cal , a few flays ngo, IC2
ostriches were sold for 000.
THE INVENTOR.
Fields for Future Work, nnd Rrqutre
■n en tit to lie Observed.
A writer in one of the Boston papers
asserts that of all men the successful in
ventor has the best light to be called a
self-made man. "He must," savs the
same write, "possess three general
characteristics j eculiar to all men who
achieve success in life, but in more full
development than most others, to wit,
ingenuity, enthusiasm and persever
ance." Like the true poet, his soul is
in his work; but his is the poetry of
substantial achievement, which gives
wealth, as woll as happiness, to man
kind. If it be desired to harness the
forces of nature for human benetit, the
inventor devises the harness in the
shape of machinery to operate with.
Every comfort which wo enjoy in civili
zation bears the sign manual of the in
vontor's skill. Our clothing, furniture,
the houso we live in, our means of travel,
the carriages and ships we own and em
ploy, the books and papers we use, even
the luxuries we can command, are all
largely due—at least their best utility
and excellence are—to the genius of the
inventor.
The first success of the inventor, nc
matter how insignificant it may be, is
usually the first step iu a new life of the
most absorbing interest to himself, and
of satisfaction also; but it is likewise the
first step in the treadmill of unceasing
effort and thought—a treadmill that
never stops for him. while life remains.
Go where ho will, he cannot escape its
operation. Every piece of machinery
he sees suggests something to his busy
brain, and in fact, everything that he
observes suggests an improving device
to him. But it is rarely or never plain
sailing with him in anything he under
takes. One of the things that troubles
him a great doal is the improvements
he is all the time making of his own
work; and often, when he has secured a
patont on some machine, his mind has
so far advanced in improved devices for
it that what he has secured is practically
valueless to him. One of the main
things for an inventor to learn iu the in
vention of machinery is to have in every
machine as few parts as possible, to
mako them direct acting, and have the
machitie or thing, as a whole, easily
operated.
v The new fields of invention are most
promising for the inventor. One of
these is electrioity. The best inventions
in this field lurte mostly been made in
the lost fifteen years—largely indeed,
inside of the past decade. Here the field
is opening out and widening all the '
I time, as new applications of the electrio
current or electrio energy are being con
stantly discovered. Already the in- I
ventors in this field can be counted by
the hundred, aud there are, perhaps,
more successful ones among them- that
is, the ratio is greater than in any otner
field of invention. Just for a moment
look at the prospect here presented. In
the electric current we have an element
of power that is more easily controlled
and handled, more easily diffused over
largo areas, more adaptable to a greater
variety of purposes, than any other of
the forces of nature within our control.
It will heat our houses, do our cooking,
furnish us with light, and convey power
anywhere that we may desire it to aud
in any proportion we may call for. This
covers a wide range of application, but
it by no means exhausts the uses and
purposes to which electricity can be ap
plied, and this field, it will bo seen, is
therefore a most promising ono to the
young inventor.
A Home-Made Bicycle.
There is a genius in Hartwell, whose
name is Sloan Heeder. lie is a colored
lad who is about sixteen years old, aud
is nu apprentice in a blacksmith shop.
Sloan has constructed a bicycle out of
raw material. The wheels are made of
tire iron and steel rods, the beam of an
old iron pipe and the saddle of scrap
iron. It is very strong, and while not
quite as light runuiug as the factory
machines, answers the purpose admira
bly. Sloan rides his bicycle with skill.
He is at work upon another inventiou,
but will not divulge the nature of it. —
[Atlanta Constitution.
BEECHAM'S PILLS cure Bick-HeadacLe.
The German Emperor wants ninety-four
ships to command the Baltic and North Seas.
FITS stopped five by DR. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE
KKSTORKR. NO tit* after rtrst day's use. Murvelous
cures. Treatise and ift'i tiial bottle free.
lilt. KLINE. 113 I Arch St. Pliila., I'a.
Kansas appropriates SOO,OOO lor seed for
needy settlers.
Talk's cheap, but when it's
backed up by a pledge of the
hard cash of a financially re
sponsible firm, or company, of
world-wide reputation for fair
and honorable dealing, it
means business /
Now, there are scores of
sarsaparillas and other blood
purifiers, all cracked up to be
the best, purest, most peculiar
and wonderful, but bear in
mind (for your own sake),
there's only one guaranteed
blood-purifier and remedy for
torpid liver and all diseases
that come from bad blood.
That one —standing solitary
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Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
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If it don't do good in skin,
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-—and pulmonary consumption
is only lung-scrofula—just let
its makers know and get your
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Talk's cheap, but to back a
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one, by selling it on trial, as
" Golden Medical Discovery "
is sold, would bankrupt the
largest fortune.
Talk's cheap, but only " Dis
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on their religious worship.
If you are doubtful as to the use of Dobbine's
Electric Soap, and cannot uccept the experi
ence of million* who use it, after the 24 years it
lias been on the market, out trial will convince
you. Ask your grocer for it. Take no imita
tion.
Henry George soys that tbo bicycle is the
best thing ever invented for man.
TO OINI'EI. COI.DH,
Headaches and Fevers, to cleanße the system
effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to
permanently cure habitual constipation, to
awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy
activity, without irritating or weakening them,
use Syrup of Figs.
Tho once mighty Indian population of the
United States has dwindled to 244,075.
A man who has practiced medicine for 4" ■
years ought to know salt from sugar; read
what he sayß:
„ TOLEDO, 0., January 10. 1887.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.—Gentlemen: I
have been in the general practice of medicine
for most 40 years, and would say that in all iuv
practice and experience have never seen a
preparation that 1 could prescribe with as
much confidence of success us I can Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre
scribed it a great many times and its effect is
wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I
have yet to find a case of catarrh that it would I
not cure, if they would take it according io di- i
rections.
Yours truly,
L. L. GORSurn, M. D.,
Office, 215 Summit St.
We will give SIOO for any case of catarrh
that cannot bo cured with Hall's Catarrh j
Curo. Taken internally
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I Lady Dufterin, in the sweet old song,
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"Tho poor make no now friends,
But oh! tboy lovo tlio hotter far,
The few their father sends."
A touching "local" in the Detroit
Free Press shows vividly enough the
lender pity which the lowly feel for
each other in sorrow aud suffering. A
passer through Clinton street one day i
observed a little Irish boy hiding in u
ioor-way and crying. A sympathetic
inquiry brought to light one of the most
beautiful stories ever recorded of the
lick poor.
In a wretched cellar, a little girl 10
jrears old lay. very ill The window
panes were broken—it was March, by
the way—aud variously stuffed. For |
one pane the supply of upholstery had
given out. The wiud and tho boys
looked in easily. Just within range of
curious eyfs the cot of the sick child
was stretched.
The gamins of Clinton street dis
covered her plight. One little fellow
dropped an orange through tho glass;
a plaintive voice thanked the unseen
giver. Such acts of mercy became the
fashion in that poor neighborhood.
Everv day saw the cubs of the street
cuddling like cossets'outside the win
dow.
Wisps of evergreen, swept out of
florists' doors, broken flowors thrown
fcway, offerings of fruit with the de
cayed part cut out—every delicacy for
the sick that the resources of Clinton
street afforded, went through that
broken pane. One little fellow bogged
A bunch of frozen Malaga grapes from a
dealer, to whom he offered his ragged
cap in payment.
One day the boys said, "Gertie is
dead," and the street-boys became the
mourners behind tho hearse of the
itarved and frozen child.
Tlie Kottber, Traveler, unci Manclnrln:
One time as a Peasant was Traveling
along the Highway, he Encountered a
Robber who bad been lying in Ambush.
When a Demand was Made for his mon
ey he Wept and lamented and Bosought
the Kobbor to at least spare him half.
"Come down with Every Stiver or off
comes the top of your Head 1" shouted
the Robber; and bo loft the Peasaut
Qot one Copper Coin.
An hour later, as the Robber was tak
ing things Easy aloug the Road, ho was
met by a Mandarin and Escort, and the
big man ordered that ho be Seized and
Searched. Wheu his cash was brought
to light the Mandarin exclaimed:
"Ah Ihe has too much money for an
honest man 1 Take it away from him
and give him sixty strokos of tho Ham
boo!"
Next day the sore and limping Robber
agAiu encountered tho Peasant, and
lie at once fell upou liim in Auger, cry
iugout:
"Ah, if you had not yielded up your
cash to me I should not have been Ham
booed !"
"And if I had not yielded you would
have cut my Throat 1" replied the Peas
ant.
Moral—Some men are bound to be in
the soup, anyhow. — Free Press.
indeed th&t*
SAP6UO should
HSKVri&ke everything so bright, but
'A needle cloThes others,&nd is itselj:
n&ked"Try ihin your next house-cleajiin^
What folly it would be to cut grass with a pair of scissorsl 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 scissorsl
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 folk 3 use one soap
in the toilet, another in the tub, one soap in the stables, and SAPOLIO
for all scouring and house-cleaning.
"August
Flower"
I There is a gentle-
Dyspepsia. man at Malden-on
the-Hudson, N. Y.,
named Captain A. G. Pareis, who
has written us a letter in which it
is evident that he has made up his
mind concerning some things, and
this is what he says:
'' I have used your preparation
[ called August Flower in my family
for seven or eight years. It is con
stantly in my house, and we consider
| it the best remedy for Indigestion,
and Constipation we
Indigestion, have ever used or
known. My wife is
troubled with Dyspepsia, and at
times suffers very much after eating.
The August Flower, however, re
j lieves the difficulty. My wife fre
i quently says to me when I am going
to town, 'We are out
| Constipation of August Flower,
and I think you had
better get another bottle.' lam also
troubled with Indigestion, and when
ever I am, I take one or two tea
spoonfuls before eating, for a day or
i two, and all trouble is removed." @
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