SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY DIPS. Queer Episodes and Thrilling; Adven tures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than fiction. THE workings of Russian bureaucracy are well illustisited by the story of a ruble told by Vildomosti, of St. Peters burg. A litigant of the St. Petersburg Circuit Court attached an internal revenue stamp of one ruble to a docu ment which did not require such an ap pendix. The judge ordered the ruble to be refunded to him. As lie had gone to Moscow eight kopecks was deducted for postage and the sum of 1)2 kopecks was forwarded to him. Rut in the meantime the owner of the sum had left for Tver. The money was sent to that city for him, with a new deduction for • postage, which left a balance of 8G kopecks. From Tver the man had gone j back to St. Petersburg before his money 1 arrived. The message followed him' further in the shape of 72 1 kopecks. But iho man had left for Tliarkov, whence he went to Moscow, theuce to Tver again. In brief, he was always on the move and his money was sent after him to nil the places of his wauderiug, until at last, for I the deductions of postage, the sum of one kopeck was left of the fateful ruble. As this sum could not be transferred by post it was deposited in the Imperial Bank for its owner to call for. "Imag ine," says theNovosti, I 'themany official inquiries that had to be made, the amount of writing that was done, the number of documents that were filed by the authorities of the various places who received and forwarded the ever decreas ing sum of that ono unfortunate ruble. D. P. LOVELAND, a Northern Vermont farmer, recently bought a farm in Bhel ton, Conn., and in removing from his Green Mountain home he displayed great economy, if not ingenuity, and contrived to get the worth of his money from the 1 railroads. To sell his live stock, farming i utensils, and household effects in Ver- ■ mont would have meant a great sacrifice, j and the money realized by the sale would go a very little way toward replacing the goods in Conneticut. So Mr. Lovc- land decided to move everything but the ■ * rocky land itself, and to do so without j the usual expense, lie hired a freight | car at the nearest village, and into that he crowded all his movable possessions, I like Noah filling the Ark. lie first put j into one side of the car his household 1 effects, a farm-wagon and a horse-rake j in sections, a plow and various farming ! utensils, 500 pounds of butter which he was holding for a rise in prices, fifty bushels of potatoes, and two barrels of buckwheat. Then he erected board partitions in the other side of the car and put in three horses, five cows, two pigs, and eleven sheop. On a ioft above these animals he placed sixty chickens and three turkeys. In the centre of the car he had a little space left, and there he slung a hammock for himself and put up a stove with the pipe extending out at the top of the door. For the stock ho carried a bale of hay and plenty of grain, and put in a stock of canned goods for himself, and so he traveled. The trip occupied five days, during which the farmer enjoyed his travel, with nothing j to do but to take care of his stock and j obtain water twice a day when the train ; stopped. SOME time ago the household of a j gentleman well known in tiravenhurst, Canada, was very much upset by the loss ; of a valuable diamoud ring belonging to ! a guest—a lady from New York. Sus picion at once fell on a servant, who was employed as housemaid, but upon her continued and earnest denial of the theft she was retained, as the gentleman, from a sense of justice, did not wish to dis charge her on mere suspicion. A few days after the rin" disappeared it was found under the lady's window with the solitaire stone, however, missing, having been pried out of the setting. It was supposed that the thief had removed the diamond to keep it from being identified. The mystery was solved, however, re cently in a most unexpected manner, for in cleaning a chicken for dinner the cook discovered a small round object in its craw, which, on being cleaned, was found to be the missing diamond. THIS is how Auburndale, Wis., got its name. When it was first settled its lead ing citizen was an old miller named King. The peoplo wanted to call it King's Mills, but the old gentleman objected, lie said he didn't want his name tacked onto anyone-horse or two-horse village. Now the old man was the happy father of seven bouncing daughters, and the vil lagers suggested that the name of one of them should bo given to the new town. The idea pleased the father as much as it pleased the seven daughters, but which one of the seven fair ones should be hon ored above her six sisters! Tho town could not be handicapped with all the seven names. Finally a happy thought | struck tho old man. Every one of his j seven daughters was redheaded. lie de cided to honor them all by christening the town Auburndale, and Auburndale it remains to this day. TIIE theory that man can feel pain in an amputated limb is still a subject of coutroverßy. A physician who believes it says: "Many of the nerves that furnish communication between the brain are not injured in their activity by the amputation of their lower portion, and convey sen sation as readily as ever. The brain fails to recognize the fact that the func tion of the nerve has changed, and that tho part in which it formerly terminated exists no longer. Therefore, when a sensation is felt conveyed by a nerve that in the unmanned body led to the foot, the feeling is the same as if the foot were still in place. If certain nerves in an amputated leg be touched the feeling is exactly the same as if the foot were touched, and the seusation of pain is felt not where it is applied, but where the mind has been in the habit of receiving communications from the nerve iu ques tion." A wniTEU in a scientific journal re ports having recently heard a young girl of 14 warble after the fashion of a bird. She kept her mouth slightly open, and the lips merely trembled, the notes being formed in the throat, the centre of it working as a bird's does when singing, and the sounds produced were exactly like those of blackbirds and thrushes. She warbled suveral airs to pianoforte accompaniments faultlessly, and most beautifully modulated; and so powerful were the notes that her grandmother, who was excessively deaf, could catch every one without the slightest eirort in another room a little distauce oil. In the same room some notes were deafening when she poured them out at the forte parts. She had been self-taught entirely from "whistling" to her dog and sitting in the window to "warblo" to the birds. llf.ui: is n cat bird story told by the Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat; Tho mother was killed by a cat while her young were still untledged. At first the husband and father was dazed, but after a time flew away and wus absent for a day and | a night. Then he re-appeared with a female catbird, who at once assumed all the carea of the establishment, fed the young and conducted herself generally j as though she understood perfectly what ! was expected of her. Where the wid ! ower found his new wife, und how the ! bereaved husband communicated to her the state of his affairs at home, are ques tions for the philosophers to determine, but the moral seemed to be that a widower is able to look out for himself whether he wears feathers or a Prince Albert. DANIEL W. ADAMS, a deat mute, went fishing at Notchaway creek, one mile from Barnett's mills, Ga., and caught a strange fish. It was an eight-pound trout, with two heads, two sets of gills, four eyes, two mouths, and but one body. The heads unite just back of the gills. Each head works independently of the other. If meat be placed before the creature both heads proceed to devour it, the two mouths taking food at one and the same time. All of the gills are in good working order. The little pisca torial rarity seems as lively and healthy as any of his single-headed brethren. A SINGULAR cause for the death of an Indiunapolis girl is reported by the Sen tinel of that city. She was Mi s Clara Meredith, cashier and bookkeeper in a business house. "About ten weeks ago," says the Sentinel, "she became ill, and while the physicians were unable to de termine the exact nature of her disease, it was supposed to be blood poisoning, the result of handling a large amount of coin. Miss Meredith had the common habit of rubbing her fingers across her face and ear, and a8 an eruption appeared on these parts which soon spread throughout her entire system, it is thought that impurities from the coin were communicated to her system. IN what was at one time a great bog or swamp a resident of Kcndallville, lud., some days ago while running a ditch exhumed several perfectly preserved skeletons of deer just as the creatures mired, possibly hundreds of years ago. One head was found with outspreadiug antlers of great size, the length of the horn being forty-eight inches aud the measurement from tip to tip forty-one iuches. Close to the head the cir cumference was twelve inches, from the head fifteen inches. Tho horn is black, glistening in the sunlight like polished ebony. It is regarded as an extremely valuable specimen. As engine No. 21, F. M. Hopel, en gineer, was going west on tho Kansas City Railroad, iu Arkansas, she struck a herd of three deer. One of them was thrown from the track. Another got its hind legs caught between the headlight steps aud extension brace on the front of the engine, and, not being able to get away, it lay on the engine until L. L. Lolmes, the fireman, went out and killed it with a coal pick. It was a fiue 8-year old buck that dressed 200 pounds. This is the second time that engine No. 21 has killed a deer. "WOMEN'S ways are past finding out." This was the comment of a bereaved husband on reading his wife's will, which was recently admitted to probate iu Kansas City. She generously be queathes to her beloved husband the sum of five dollars, with an emphatic request that he refrain from spending it reckless ly. The rest of her fortune, amounting to over SIOO,OOO, she leaves to distant relatives. BROTHER ANSELM, who has just died a monk and porter at the monastery of La Grande Chartieuse, had been M. do Brecourt, once well known in tho best Parisian society. M. de Brecourt, on coming home from shooting one day, fired into a thicket, behind which his daughter happened to be standing, and killed her. In despair he entered La Grande Chartreuse, where he ended his days. AN engineer on a Texas railroad found a big flock of sheep huddled together in a cut to get out of the storm, and iu driving through them killed seventy eight. Pieces of mutton were found on the rear platforms of the last car. JAVA'S DEATH SHRINE. Awful Experiences in the Island of Java. "I visited 'the Valley of Death' when on the Island of Java three mouths ago," said Lieut. Leon Bancroft when talking to a Tribune reporter at tho Grand Pacific the other day. Tho Lieutenant is connected with Her Majesty's service in India and registers from Calcutta. "The place is called the Valley of Death," explained the officer, "on ac count of the deadly fumes there. But the natives cauuot account for the poisonous odors, nor has their presence ever been explained. The deadly place is about thirty-five feet below the sur rounding ground, looks like the dry bed of a stream and is about one mile in cir cumference. As I approached the place I noticed a suffocating smell and was at tacked with nausea and dizziness. A belt of this foetid atmosphere surrounds the valley. I passed through it, aud iu purer air was permitted to view the aw ful spectacle, for it was awful. Before mo I saw scattered all over the barren ffoor of the valley skeletons of men, wild hog-, deer, and nil kinds of birds and small animals. The entire bed of the valley is one solid rock, aud I could uot discover a hole or crevice in any place from which the poisonous fumes came. Tho hills surrounding this desolate strip are covered with vegetation, and although the neighboring mountains arc volcanic they do not emit sulphurous odors or present any indication of a re cent eruption. "There is no apparent cause for the strip of deadly fume surrounding the valley. After I passed through it I be came bolder and approached the edge of the deadly place. I was anxious 7o reach the bottom of the valley if possi ble. but was afraid to make the attempt, as I had been warned to give the place a wide berth. I determined, however, to seewhat the fumes smelled like, aud started to descend. My pet Irish terrier was with me, and as soon as he saw me step over the side of the bank he rushed down ahead of me. I endeavored to call him back, but was too late. As s<son as the little animal reached the rocky bed below he fell over ou his side. He con tinued to breathe for ten minutes. I dou't believe I was ever nearer death's door than I was at that time. Four or five times I was tempted to rush down to rescue him, but I subsequently learned i that such a move on my part would have ! been certain death. For ten minutes I suffered the agony of seeing my dog die, and then turned and lied from the spot. While there I saw a bird fall a victim to tho deadly fumes. It evidently in tended to lly to the bottom of the val ley, but before it reached the ground it j fell dead. I dou't believe it lived half a minute after entering the deadly at mosphere. "No one has yet been able to explain the cause of the foetid emanations from j the earth, the natives say, and so many live 9 have been sacrificed in attempting to explore the valley that they have de termined to keep away from the spot i forever." —[Chicago Tribune. NOTES AND COMMENTS. SINCE 18G9 only three successful coun terfeits of Uncle Sam's paper currency have been issued—one of them the $2 silver certificate, which has occasioned such a disturbance of late. THE most densely populated State in the Union is Rhode Islaud, which has 820 inhabitants to the square mile. If the population of Texas were equally dense, that State would contain 85,000,- 000 people. THE German Government proposes to spend a million marks on its exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, when that interesting event gets ready to occur. A million marks sounds a great deal larger than $250,000, but it isn't. SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, of the Census Bureau, says that within a radius of fifteen miles from New York's City IlnU now live nearly as many people as there were iu the entire nation a hun dred years ago, when the first census was taken. TIIE New Jersey farmers are to try their luck at sugar-beet raising this sum mcr, and if they succeed, sugar making will probably become a Jersey industry. The Somerset County Agricultural So ciety has had four wagon loads of beet seed for distribution and offers prizes for the bc9t specimens of field-grown beets from this seed. A GERMAN soldier lias just died who carried a bullet in his head for forty years. The skull wliero tho bullet lay encysted was four times as thick as at any other part. When wounded a piece of the skull as large as an egg had been driven inside. Nature inclosed the ball and made it apparently harmless. Some surgeons would have insisted on cutting out the ball and the soldier would have died soon after. Nature, if left alone, ofteu provides a remedy. WILLIAM TELL may be a myth, as the Swiss government now maiutains; but the people of that republic keep on put ting up statues of him. A fine one in bronze has been offered to the city of Lausanne by a Portuguese Hebrew now living in Paris, M. Osiris I Ilia; but the citizens are uncertain whether they ought to accept itor not, as the would-be douor does not enjoy the highest reputation. The city of Nancy, in France, however, took without hesitation last year his gift of a statue of Joan of Arc. MOST Central African explorers have entered the continent from Zanzibar, and have duly impressed all their readers with the horrors of that first 150 miles' march through terrible jungle and swamp before climbing the highlands of Usagara and L'sambara to a better atmosphere. Burton wrote more graphically thau any other traveller nbout these dreary and dangerous marches, which are not likely to be often described in the future, for the German East African Company has decided to spend $1,000,000 iu build ing a railroad across these pestilential regions to the uplands of Usambara. THE village of Proctor, Vermont, was named after the present Secretary of War, and was built up of men employed iu his marble quarries and mills, aud their families. It is a thriving place a few miles north of Rutland. Tho Secretary and his family spend much of their time there, when not in Washington, and iu the seclusion of their pleasant home for get that the man of peace has temporarily allied himself with the arts of war. Sec retary Proctor is now erecting a neat stone library in the village, aud has en tered into a co-operative arrangement with the villagers for filling the building with books. "IT is a curious thing in the study of the world's history," said a New York lawyer the other day, "to see how the commercial ceuter has shifted, from time to time, iu a general course around the globe. You can go back to a time when Antwerp was the center of the world's commerce. Next Amsterdam held the threads of commercial venture. Then the center was shifted to Liverpool. Now it is in London. Next it will be in New York. A careful study of the world's commerce at the present time gives sure indications that the power and prestige of England in her commercial relations are beginning to bo shaken, while the commercial empire is drifting across the Atlantic to tho metropolis of tho New World. And, as indicating what the powerful moucy kings of Europe think, ex-United States Minister Noyes reports that Baron Rothschild said to him recently: 'The financial prosperity of the United States is without a parallel in the history of the world. You are draw ing from all tho treasuries of the Old World to fid your own.'" JUDGING from the almost universal in terest in tho subject of longevity, we conclude that people generally consider lilo worth living. The reviewer of a re cent scientific work says: "From the discussion of ' Oenteuarianism' we gather that Kuropeans are longer-lived than other men, and that Englishmen live longer than other Europeans. The statistics make the expectation of life at sixty, in England, to be about eighteen years for steady and sober field laborers, confirmed drunkards having only hidf as much; about sixteen years and a half for the females of the aristocracy, and four teen and a half for the males; about twelve and a half for clerks, and eleven and thiee-quarters for miners; while sovereigns of all countries at sixty have an expectation of less than eleven years. ' Distinguished men live a shorter time than less distinguished, on account of their harder work; married live longer than unmarried persons, on account, perhaps,Jof the measured tranquillity of connubial life; women longer than men, because tlicy lead an easier life; and the clergy longer than other professional men, for the same reason,'" AN Italian of the criminal class has stated in open court that it was the rule among his people to carry concealed weapons of some sort. The concealed weapon, says tho New York Herald, seems to be a condition and not a theorv so far as our hot blooded races are con cerned—a climatic condition in a sense An officer at Police Headquarters says it is the commonest thing in the world for the Italians and Spaniards, Africans and natives of sunny climes generally to go loaded. "Tho chances of finding deadly weapons on the person in such cases is two to one. If we could "go through " those fellows in New York, sir, we'dtind enough revolvers, billies' slung-sliots and cold steel to arm two or threo regiments. A curious thing, too, the man who is naturally sudden' and quick in qunrrel is more apt to go armed than anybody else. Talk about the law! It ought to bo a penitentiary offense for anybody to carry a deadly weapon with out a permit. It ought to be accepted as prima facie evidence when a man has such a weapon on his person contrary to law that ho intends to commit a felony when he has n chance. The term of im prisonment would depend upon the character of the offender, but the lowest ought to be a year in tho Penitentiary. With such a law you'd see how quickly unpopular the illegal carrying of weapons would become. This is the way to reach such people." THE DUNKARDS. Peculiar Ceremonies of a Peculiar Sect of Christians. The Dunkard Brethren, or German Baptists, held the lirst of their annual series of love feasts near West Hanover, Ha., recently. There are at least 40,000 members of this peculiar sect in Dau phin, Lebanon. Lancaster, and Berks Counties. Fully 3,000 attended the feast. The season of holding these feasts us ually extends from seed time to harvest. One love feast differs but little from another, but all are highly interesting to a stranger. The service consists of preaching, exhortations, old-fashioned psalm singing, feastiDg, and the celebra rion of the Lord's Supper, with commu nion (distinctly separate from the Lord's Supper), concluding with the ceremony of mutual feet washing and the saluta tion of the holy kiss. The brethren and sisters, who were all dressed in the uniformly plain attire of sober gray, black, or brown prescribed by the rules, came to the feast in all manner of country vehicles, and the dis trict roads for miles around were made dusty with their driving. The use of : buttons on clothing is not permitted, and 1 hooks and eyes are used exclusively in ' stead. The sisters wore their hair brushed smoothly across their foreheads and knot ted behind, underneath severely plain bonnets of brown or gray. They wore loose and straight skirts of the same som- | bre tints, unrelieved by rutllcs or trim mings of any kind. Gold ornaments or feathers are to the sisters as sinful and worldly as Paris bonnets or Worth made gowns would be. The brethren wore their hair long and uncut, parted in the , middle, with long beards and full mus taches. They are mostly farmers, noted everywhere for their honesty and thrift. During the progress of the Conference and lo ,r c feast the brethren and sisters sat apart on dilfercut sides of the main aisle of the church, took their meals sep arately in the basement of the church edifice, where it is the custom of the de nomination to provide accommddations for cooking, and at night slept in the attic above, which is furnished with cots and beds, and in the neighboring farm houses and barns. In celebrating the Lord's Supper, according to their custom they ate soup, bread, and meats, pies and cotlee. The ceremony known as the salutation of the holy kiss concluded this supper. Each brother imprinted a smacking kiss from his bearded lips on the bearded lips of his neighbor at table, and each sister similarly kissed her sister companion sitting nearest to her. The communion service which followed con sisted in the breaking of unleavened bread and the drinking of unfermented wine, according to the formulas modeled strictly after a literul interpretation of the Gospels. Feet washing, which is considered the most solemn and significant rite in the whole service, completed the programme. All the brethren, after dolling their coats and vests, and girding themselves with white aprons, took turns in washing the feet of five or six of his nearest neighbors in a bowl and wiping them with a towel, giving each of them a kiss as the feet were bathed and another kiss as they were wiped. The sisters on the other side of the aisle did likewise among themselves, while appropriate hymns were chanted by the remaiuder of the congregation. A benediction, pro nounced by a reverend Bishop, finished the love feast, and the participants im mediately scattered.—[New York Times. The Dotlet on the Veil. It is not such wretched taste, perhaps, as the long skirt, but it is ridiculous all the same, the black 4 'beauty spot" on the veil. Why is it there? Simply to say to the earnest spectator on the street —Look at me. lam placed here to draw your attention to my mistress's pretty mouth or shapely nose. lam not a bit of court-plaster, but I look like one, and answer the purpose. It is almost incred ible that women whose modesty is be yond reproach can so plainly advertise their personal charms on the streets. When any article of a man's attire is de signedly conspicuous he confesses to the weakness of vanity or the misfortune of bad breeding; and difficult aud distaste ful as it would be to apply the same rule to the sex, it is impossible to liud a valid reason for not doing so. The restrictions are fewer for women, of course, in the selection of street dress, and in the mat ter of color and cut, indeed, her freedom of choice is limited only by the degrees of fashion and the dictates of good taste; but when fashion leaps the boun daries of common sense and decency, as she has a scurvy trick of doing often enough, the woman of character and modesty revolts. This is exactly why the miserable dotlet on the veil should be abolished.—[Philadelphia Press. The First Umbrella. It is generally stated that it is to Jonas Hanway, the well-known philanthro pist, that we are indebted for the valu able example of moral courage in tirst carrying a raised umbrella in the streets of London. It is difficult now to con ceive the amount of persecution which this strange proceeding entailed upon that honorable gentleman, whose object was, doubtless, less the protection of his | own person than that of showing his countrymen how they might protect themselves from drenching showers. Long after they had come into occasional use, a gentleman, accompanied by a. lady, under the shelter of the new 7 style rain-protector, was hooted at by grown men as he passed along. A gentleman who chanced to be elonc with a raised umbrella on the streets of either London or Liverpool was in constant danger of assault from the howling mob that was sure to follow at his heels.—[St. Louis Republic. An Ancient Butcher Shop. The Museum of Antiquities at Dresden has come into possession of an interest ing marble relief from Borne, which represents an ancient butcher's shop of oblong shape, and divided by a pillar into two unequal parts. In the greater stands the butcher with a high chopping block resting on three substantial legs beforo him, while behind him hang tho steelyard and cleaver, ho himself being occupied in dividing a rib of meat with another cleaver. On the wall above him, just as with us, is a row of hooks near to eachoth r, on which hang pieces of meat already dressed—a rib and a leg of meat, apoik joint and udders—a titbit of the Romans—also luugs and liver, and, last of all, tho favorite bear's head. On the left, in the smaller division of the shop, iho wife of the butcher sits in an easy chair, with an account book on her knees, engaged in assisting the business of her husband by acting as bookkeeper.— I London Tit-Bits A Delightful Flirtation. "My dear," said a Bociety girl to her josora friend, "I found a gray hair this norning, which I am sure must be the osult of an adventure I had the other light at tho Snooks party. If you will jromise on your word aud honor not to ell-" "I promise." "Well, you know voung Jimmy Trad dles?" "Used to light with him when we •vere littlo." "He took mo to supper." N "A bad selection on your part, for he dniost always takes too much wine." "So l liavo heard. He may have been lingering for more champagne, and 10 left mo longor than ho should in the pornor of tho suppor room, after bring ing mo some terrapin and salid. Any how, I wanted a chicken croquette, and I asked a young man whose face was familiar to me to bring me one. He did so promptly, and I engaged him in conversation. I thought lie was rather bashful, and his reply to my lirst re mark was simply." Yes, mees." His ac cent made me sure I was safo iu say ing; "I think I met you the other night ai the French Legation?" " 'No, mees; I do not think so,' he ro plied. 4 But we had mot on other happy occasions.' "By this time I was convinced that he was an attache ot ono of the foreign | embassies. I have a weakness for foreigners, you kuow; they do llirt so I charmingly. So I giggled and said: "It is very nice of you to say that they were happy occasions." P " 4 Ali, mademoiselle must know it!" he responded with an air of ecstacy. " 4 But you foreigners are given to compliments that one hesitates to be | liove auything you sav. " 'All, mees,' he Haid sighing heavily, 'ze ladies of Amerique are so very beau tiful.' "Evidently he was not so bashful as I had imagined. In response to this galleut remark I ventured to inquire in what respects he considered that Amer ican women excelled as to loveliness. " 'ln efl'ery respect, mees,' he replied. 'Particularly in ze beauty of—what you call it—ah, yes, their hides.' "I couldn't help giggling again at that, but I checked myself and cor rected him, saying: " 'You must say skins—not hides.* " 'But,' lie objected, with an accent oi doubt, T have been told that it is not proper to speak of young ladies' skins.' "Then I giggled some moro, but, not wishing to pursue the discussion fur ther, I changed tho subject and said, as I saw the delinquent Jimmy Traddles making his way in my direction, that my day was Tuesday, and I should be very pleased to have him call. I per rnitted the amiable foreigner to relieve mo of my ompty plate—a courtesy which he thereupon proceeded to bestow also upon seven or eight other girls in my immediate neighborhood, extend ing with the utmost coolness a line ol plates in order to avoid the vulgarity ol piling them along one arm all the way from his finger tips to his chin. Then waving a napkin at mo with tho othei hand, ho said as he turned away: " Tt will gif me much pleasure tc call upon you, mees.' "Withinthe last thirty seconds the situation had suddenly dawned upon me. I had been conversing with o waiter."— Washington Star. Classified Sinners. "Eight sinners came forward foi prayers last night," said a gentleman QOW conducting revival services in Cin cinnati; "eight sinners, some of them oi the very highest Rocial standing, and tome of no standing at all." What would John Wesley have said to such o speech as that, or what his inspired jrother Charles ? Social standing dis cussed at the altar! A story is related that when ono day theDnko of Welling ton was kneeling at the altar to partake of the communion a peasant knelt by bis side for the same religious purpose. An officious person standing by whis pered in words the Iron Duke could not but overhear: " Come away from there. don't you know you aro kneeling by the side of the Duke of Wellington?" "Lei him remain," interruped the Duke "there is no rank at this altar." KewopHpor Kthics. Great Editor —"Did you write a nict article welcoming tho new paper, the Daily Breeze , to local journalism?" Assistant—"Yos, sir." "Hope you said there was plenty oi room for it, and it had only to deserve success to achievo it." "Yes, sir." "Worked in somothing about 'the more the merrier,'eh." "Yos, indeed. Didn't forget that." "All right. Tell tho foreman tc double lead the article aud put it in o conspicuous place; then tell tho busi ness manager to quietly take advertise ments at half price, and bribe all the newsboys to refuso to handle the Daily Breeze on any terms. — Street Smith T Good News. Tho French navnl authorities nro pressing forward the const ruction of more wur ves - ols. EVlakes the Weak Strong The way In which llood'R Rarsnparllln builds up peoplo In run down or weakened state of health conclusively proves tho claim that this medlchn "makes the weak strong." It does not net like n stimulant, Imparting fictitious strength from which there must follow a reaction of greater weakness than before, but in tho most natural way Hood's SarsaparlUa overcomes that tired feeling, creates an appetite, purifies the blood, and, In short, gives great 1 bodily, nerve, mental and dlgestivo strength. Hood's Sarsaparilla fold by all druggist* $1; six for s.l. Prepared oaly by C. I. IIUOI) & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mas* IQO Doses One Dollar Por Internal and External Use. Stops Pnln, Cramps. Inflammation In body or limb, llko mnglo. Cures c roun AMI limn. Colds, Catarrh, Choi tra Morbus, ninrrhopu, liheuinatlsni, Neuralgia, Lam.- bnek. Stiff #.l:;tsand Strains. Full parti.-ulnrs fn-n. I'rieo touts, post-paid. I. s. JOHNSON Co.. Du-.ton. Mass OENSSONw"uKn?^ l*? Successful Prosecutes maims. H 3Trtultwr. 15wtjudlc.tin.claims, nuv (unco. 11 A V EE VCD CURED TO STAY CURED. Unl it B Ell We want the name and ad dressof every sufferer in the & ACTUM A U.S. and Canada. Address, fid I 11IIIH P.HaroldHj#s,M.D., Buffalo, H.T. Under tfia Earth. The workmen in the deepest mine? of Europe swelter in almost intolerable heat, and yet they have never penetrn ted over on seven-thousandth part oj the distance from the surface totbecen tor of the earth. In the lower levels ol some of the Comstock mines the men fought scalding water, and could labor only three or four hours at a time until the Sutro tunnel pierced the mines and drew off some of the terrible heat, whioh had stood at 120 degrees. The deepest boring ever made, that at Sper enberg, near Berlin, penetrates only ; 4,172 feet, about 1,000 feet deeper than the famous artesian well at Bt. Louis. While borings and mines reveal to us only a few secrets relating to the tem perature and constitution of the earth for a few thousand feet below the sur face, we are able, by means of volcanoes, to form some notion of what is going on at greater depths. There have been many theories about the causes of vol canoes, but it is now generally held 'hat though they are produced by the intense heat of the interior of the earth '.hoy are not directly connected with the molten mass thut lies many miles below '.he (immediate sources of volcauio energy. Everybody knows that many rocks are formed on the floor of tho scean, and it has been found that a Iwentieth to a seventh of their weight is made up of imprisoned water. Now, these rocks are buried in time under overlaying strata which serve as a blanket to keep in the enormous heat of the interior. The heat turns the water into super-heated steam, which melts the hardest rocks, and when tho steam finds a fissure in the strata above, it breaks through to the surface with ter rific energy, and we have a volcano. We fiud that these outpourings that havo lain for countless ages many thousands of feet below the surface are well adapted to serve the purposes of man. Many a vino-yard flourishes on the vol sanic ashes from Vesuvius, and vol cauio mud has clothed tho hills of New Zealand with fine forests and its plains with luxuriant verdure. The most wonderful display of the results of vol canic energy is seen in the northwestern corner of our own land, a region of lofty forests and of great fertility.— Gold• lliicaile's Geog rap Ideal Magazine. TO DIRI'ET. COEDS, Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to j awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, uilhout irritating or weakening them, use Syrup of Figs. Mexico is to have the Continent's longest tunnel. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy tho sense of smell and completely derange tho whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous sur faces. tiuch articles should never be used ex cept on prescriptions from reputable physi cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to l iK° you can possibly derive from them. Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,contains no mercury, and is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Ju buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get tbo t-cnuiuo. It is token internally, anil made in lob do Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. llev. Richard Penrose lias become associate editor of the New York Christian. FITH stopped free ny Dn. KUSE'B GREAT NF.RVE RESTORER. NO lit* nft.r iirst day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise mid $2 trial bottle free. 1)R. KLINE. D3I Arcli St.. Pliila., Pa. The totul rout of railroads in the United States has in en nine billion dollars. U 22 Quit Everything Else. S. S. S., is the only permanent cure for contagious blood Taint Old chronic cases that physicians declare incurable; are cured in every instance where S. S. S.. has had a fair trial. I honestly believe that S. S. S., saved Send for OUT my life. I was afflicted with the very new fln worst type of contagious blood poison rnnofi+n+innal and was almost a solid sore from head Constitutional to foot. The physicians declared my "'COu case hopeless. I quit everything else DiS6£IS6S, and commenced taking S. S. S. After mailed free, taking a few bottles I was cured sound The Swift a " w Specific Co., 1 hos. B. Yeager, Elizabethtown, Ky. Atlanta, Ga. QPLnt. 1 REQUIRES ADDITION OF AN DllOp tQUALPARTOFOIL|S4 rtC KfUilt* MAKING COSTPr.qaJl.frl AO ADVERTISED IN 7348 papers! I Where wo hnvo no Agent will nrrnngo wlili liny nolivc Alerelinnt.- 1.. A- ill.—N. Y. TTFATTTT calendar and Jit a of I XJ.XL? AA Ll .L XX /..;• lor each day or \t. 30c. Few lift, will mull for 12c. oacli tocln.so. '450,000 in use designed for the musses-ermintii iol! 1881 Cook Book li on nil v Co.) ——y**—■ hi 1 .i-oi..h-.y vt. BAGGY KNEES (Jrt'cly rant Stretcher. I Adopted by Htiidcnts nt Harvard, Amherst, and otho Colleges, also, bv professional and business no i every whore. If not for sub' tn your town send 25s*. to H. J. UHKKI.Y. 715 Washington Street. Huston. f\f ft If WKAK, NERVOUS, WRETCHED mortals got well an<l keep well. Health Helper W ■ ■ w tells how. 50 eta. a year. Sample copy free. l>r. .1. 11. YE, Fdor, BufTolo, N. Y. piROGREBBni: EI7CHRE. .... . MPND Postal Note to JOHN SEBASTIAN. (J.T. A. I hlcago, and rfccrtre. postage paid, the a lokustdenk of cards von evorv hsmiled. I ... Ten Cent* per pack, una or many. 1 ~ n o e £a.iafullesf e £ b b urd efl s QUl c.&n lessen FE!S BURDEN n^^APQUp^ #fvi I*"i s caJke of-Sfcourinjg so&p wftusi£&.used far- cle&ritn<s p urppses • • ■ IV * 4C3TKIHIHI What would you give for a Friend who would take half your hard work off your shoulder* and do it teithout a murmur ? What would you give to find an assistant in your housework that would keep your floors and walls clean, and your kitchen bright, and yet never grow ugly over the matter of hard work ? Sapolio is just such a friend and can be bought at all grocers. A; W An imitation of Nature —that's the result you want to reach. With Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, you have it. They cleanse and renovate the whole system naturally. That means that they do it thor oughly, but mildly. They're the smallest in size, but the most effective—sugar-coated, easiest to take. Sick Head ache, Bilious Headache, Con stipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of thi Liver, Stomach and Bow.V.s arc prevented, relieved, and cured. Purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, and gently laxative, or an active cathar tic, according to size of dose. As a Liver Pill, they've been imitated, but never equaled. "August Flower" Perhaps you do not believe these statements concerning Green's Au , gust Flower. Well, we can't make , you. We can't force conviction in f ] to your head or med- Doubting icine into your throat. We don't Thomas. want to. The money is yours, and the misery is yours; and until you are willing to believe, and spend the one for the relief of the other, they will stay so. John H. Foster, 1122 Brown Street, Philadelphia, says: " My wife is a little Scotch woman, thirty years of age and of a naturally delicate disposition. For five or six years past she has been suffering from Dyspepsia. She Vomit becamesobadat last that she could not sit Every Meal, down to a meal but she had to vomit it as soon as she had eaten it. Two bottles of your August Flower have cured her, after many doctors failed. She can now eat anything, and enjoy it; and as for Dyspepsia, she does not know that she ever had it." ® BEST BRCOM HOLDER. In tho (kjA llo^s a Broom either end n* i■' M rf- T?l I u l' I" 1 never out of order. " °^J|T h _\\ H 1 'lc,, postpaid. AdKvrs WA.NTKII. 'ify other art icles/rr,i KX(LK IN CO., Hazlcton. l'a. Stamps taken. CANVASSERS WANTED, BAKER AND ROASTER. fittest Improved and most perfect T Mauy uuul) COOKS do not J*iiAfflr the value of this Fan fot SJ* SSP HKKAI) nail C'AKK HAKINO. Ml sizes, niudc of polished steel. A ine !,r #•!?. Circulars free. Address ill. hoi ma d- Co., it.i. i. ton. I'.i. \ nts wanted. BUY A BUFFALO Wyoming lot. It's the coming city of Wyoming. 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