A SILVER CITY. THE GREAT MINING TOWN OF ZACATECAS IN MEXICO. Tunnels Dug Through Veins of Solid Silver—Facts of Interest About Mexican Mines and Mining. A city of 50,000 people a mile and a half above the sea. A great jumble of flat-roofed, box-shaped houses built close up to cobble-stone sidewalks above a net-work of tunnels which run in and out across and above each other with all the wanderings of Rosamond's Bower. These tunnels dug through veins of solid silver. Silver in specks ull around and about you, from the hundreds of mines which dot the sides of the mountains to the clear, silvery sky which hangs over head. This, writes Frank G. Carpenter, to the New York World, is a bare out line of the great Mexican mining city of Zacatecas. Here everything is silver." In the days of Cortez the mines were worked and from then till now the work has gone on, giving hundreds of millions to the world. It goes on still, and under my feet the Aztecs of to-day are work ing away as they did in the past, and across the way I see the mules tramping their hoofs oil in the vitriol and quick silver with which the crushed ore is mixed in order to reduce it for the mar ket. Mexico has given the world more than four thousand million dollars' worth of gold and silver, aud much of the latter his come from here. This whole region is full of silver. The mountains on every side, and, in fact, in nearly every nart of Mexico, are filled with ore, anu from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico there is a vast country of incalculable possibilities. Travellers and old Mexicans tell me that the southern part of the country is even richer in minerals than the northern part, and all agree that the land has not as yet been prospected. The western coast contains undeveloped regions of gold and silver, and this will soon bo opened to the railroads. In Chihuahua, just north of here, there are mines out of which $344,000,000 have been taken in about one hundred and thirty years, and seven days' ride by stage to the west of these are the Bar topiias Mines, which aro owned by Gov. Shepherd, anu out of which ho is taking great quantities of good ore. So far he has put all of his profits back into his mines, and he is, 1 am told, developing them on the same magnificent scale that he improved Washington City. He lives in the hope of a vast fortune in the future and is spending, it is said, in improved machinery and fine raining furniture what any Mexican or ordinary American would consider a fortune. A great deal of capital is now going into the re-development of old mines in Mexico. Iluinboldt estimated that there were 3,000 mines in operation in Mexico at the beginning of the century, and if the legends are correct there was never so great a success in Mexican mining as at the time when the Spaniards were overthrown and driven out of the coua try, in 1821, when the republic was founded. These miues are to be found all over tho great mining territory of Mexico, and there are hundreds of men on tho lookout for good ones. If Hum boldt's figures are correct there must be at least 2,000 mines yet to be reclaimed, and the search for those is active. Senator Tabor is having some troublo with an old mine which ho is re-develop ing. He bought an interest in tho mine for SBO,OOO and agreed to erect reduction works, and begau to tunnel through the side of the hilt to strike the vein in that wav. While they were tunnelling he did not want his miil to lie idle and be gan to work on some refuse which the owucrs had thrown aside as not worth bothering about. It paid so well that he kept at it, and now it is said that tho original owners are making a great fuss because he is not working on the mine itself. The probability is that tho mat ter will be settled without trouble, and that he will make a big thing out of this mine, as he has out of so many in Col orado. The Mexican mining laws nro among , the best in the world. They arc rigor ously enforced and thcro is no country where the miner of any nationality has a better chance than there. The laws per mit any man to claim a mine, but in order to hold his title he must work at least four men in it for twenty-six consec utive weeks every year. If he fails to do this, his mine, however good, can be de nounced, as it is called, by any third party, and the Government will recog nize that party's right to it if he takes the mine and fulfills the above coudi-1 tions. Good mines are carefully watched here and failure to work them results iu their loss. The most of the work in the mines in Mexico is done by the Mexican Indians. They mako splendid miners and they never strike. They get all the way from 50 cents to $2 a day, don't get drunk and work right aloug. Here at Zacatecas there are thousands of them, and you will not find a quieter or more orderly town of 10,000 people in New England than this city of 50,000 here in Mexico. All of the miners wear but little clothing in the mines. They do most of their work barefooted and bare legged, and the little clothing they have on is searched before they leave the mines to see if some silver has not slip ped into it by mistake. The average Aztec has little idea of property rights and he takes what he can get as a gift from God. After the ore is dug, blasted and picked out of the mines it is crushed in a-most primitive way by dragging a sort | of millstone around over it, and when it has become tine enough it is reduced by what is known ns the patio process. Imagine a great round vat of chocolate colored mud a foot or so deep and in the centre of this a Mexican Indian in dirty white shirt and white cotton pants rolled up to his thighs. Let him have four ropes in his hands and to each of these let there he attached one or two or three mules. Put a long whip in the j other hand and let him thrash the mule I vigorously with this, keeping them on a dog-trot as they plough their way around and around and through and through the chocolate mud for hours until it is thoroughly mixed. This chocolate mud is the crushed silver ore which has been chemically treated'and is now being mixed with vitriol, salt and quicksilver in order that the silver in the ore may be united with the quick silver, and this be reduced by chemicals, washings and evaporation until the silver is run out in bars or bricks. The number of Americans who have invested iu Mexican mines is rapidly in creasing, and I expect to sec more Eng- Kok ant * Amcricau capital come hero duFing~"th(T~"f uture than ever before. There is of c9 ursc a * a * r chance to lose, but there is a\?o a fair chance to win, and both in the redevelopment of old properties and in the opening up of new I believe there is iftoncy to be made by any man who is of a fair amount of capital and a| ordinary amount of nerve and good business judg ment. THE TRAINED EAR. How Quickly it Detects Anything Wrong in Machinery. At the meeting of the locomotive en gineers, to be held in Cape May, an in teresting paper will be read by 11. H. Dantzer, formerly an engineer on the Reading Railroad, but now a contractor in West Philadelphia. The paper will deal entirely with the wonderful manner in which engineers on railroads, steam boats, nnd the masters of mammoth machinery ascertain accurately and in stantly when anything goes wrong with the machinery under their control. - Strange as it may seem, tho only re liable friend of the engineer is a well trained ear. The greater part of Mr. Dantzcr's report is tilled with incidents relating to railroad work, but the really wonderful incidents of which he treats are taken from the mammoth press rooms in which Philadelphia abounds. The thunderous rumble and clash of the modern presses, which are considered the most intricate machines in the world, is a pleasant tune to the pressmen, but let a bolt become loose, let a band slip or a piston or bar get out of place and there is a discord in the pleasant tunc. Instantly every man in the pressroom, no matter what ho may be doing, raises his head and turns his eye in the diiection of the discordant noise. Tho particular press is located in an instant, and the particular part of the ponderous machine when the discord is being made is traced by car at ouce. The same rule holds good in the engine room of an ocean steamer. The instant any part of the noble engine becomes out of order it calls in unmistakable tones to the quiet-looking engineer, who hastens to prescribe a remedy. Mr. Dantzer's paper tells of many queer incideuts of his experience as a railroad engineer. The master of a loco motive gets to know his engine as a mother docs her child. In tho darkest night, with the train dashing along at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, the trained engineer hears a slight ound which is out of the ordinary. He not only becomes aware of it by reason of hearing it, but if he were deaf as a post the disorder would be communicatea to him through tho medium of the throttle. He would feel a slight jar which would indicate as clearly as the sound that something was out order, aud, if the oc casion warranted, a stop would be made at ouce or the matter would bo attended to at the next station. Telegraphers work entirely by sound, but, 6trange as it may seem, many of them arc wholly deaf to sounds other than those of their instruments. Any of the chief operators in the main office of the Western Union Telegraph Company can, from one end of their great long room, distinguish with never-failing accuracy which of the several hundred instruments are calling Philadelphia, notwithstanding the constant din of the other instruments. More than this, many of them can determine instantly which operator is sending on certain circuits with which they have become familiar by long service.—[Philadelphia Record. Personal Habits of Africans. At eating, the African having always first washed his hands and rinsed his mouth, sits upon tho ground, holds the larger pieces between his teeth while he cuts olt a bite with his knife, but does not use both hands to hold food, except in gnawing bones; with tho usual dishes, he lays his right arm over his knees and, reaching uito the po% mold 1 * tho thick mess into lumps about the size of a wal nut, which he throws into his mouth with a jerk, without scattering any of the food. To take out vegetables or soup, ho presses a hollow into the lump aud dips with it. Politeness is shown to the host or housewife alter eating by smacking loudly enough to be heard. While the African is capable of eating meat in an unpleasant state of decom position, he is very sensitive against some tastes, and will make evident man ifestations of his dislike of them. He is careful about the outer matters in drink ing. He will ulways riuse his mouth first, even when he is intensely thirsty. If the cup is not too small, lie takes it in both hands, nnd ho likes to sit down with it. If the vessel is large and open, he draws in the water from the surface with his lips, without bringing them in contact with the dish. Sometimes Af ricans pour water into their mouths. When drinking at ponds and rivers, the water is carried to the mouth with the hand. For some mystic reason it is con sidered bad to lie flat down when drink ing from rivers. The fear of being snapped up by a crocodile may have something to do with the matter. Great attention is given in most of the tribes to the care of the body. The teeth are cleansed with a stick which has been chewed into a kind of brush. The hands are washed frequently, not by turning and twisting them and rubbing them together one within the other, as with us, but by a straight up-and-down rubbing, such as is given to the other limbs. This manner of washing is so characteristic that au African might be distinguished by it from a European without reference to the color. The sun is their only towel.—[Popular Science Monthly. A Peony Bed 250 Years Old. In the yard of the old Foster home stead is a llaming bed of peonies. The bed has a history. Hundreds of years ago maidens in Germany plucked the gaudy flowers, and in the days when our forefathers were struggling for supremacy with the red men Indianc used to beg a flower to stick in their topknots. Mr. N. Foster, who was at work in his garden yesterday afternoon said, pointing with pride to the big red flowers, ''Those peonies were brought from Germany by an aucestor of mine 259 years ago. They were first planted in the yard of the old Breed House at the corner of South and Summer streets. AU the Breed family to-day have flowers from that stock growing in their gardens. In the early days the Indians used to come to the old Breed homestead and trade a basket of clams for one of the flowers to wear in their hair."—[Lynn (Mass.) Press, Abnormal Darkness. On the morning of January 7, 1891, a gang of laborers on a railway track near Veadikufkass, Russian Caucasus, were obliged to discontinue their work be cause the gloom of the murky forenoon increased to something like total dark ness. Fearing an earthquake or a cloud burst, they hurried to their camp and did not venture to leave the shelter of their cabins before the next morniug, though on the afternoon of the abnormal day the lowering clouds had begun to clear away. The phenomenon seems to have been observed at several other points of the railway line, and recalls the analogous case of May 19, 1780, when the light of the noonday sun, throughout southern New England, was ecliooed to such a degree that only tho faint out lines of trees and buildiogs could be distinguished at a distance of fifty paces. In several villages of western Massachusetts the darkness was so near ly complete that birds went to roost, and scores of men prayed and groaned in nameless terror, thinking an earth quake near at hand, if not tho day of judgment. Some contemporary writers describe the episode as "fifty hours' night" (from the evening of May 18th to the morning of the 20th); and among the many fanciful explanations the most plausible seems that which ascribes the eclipse to a drift of volcanic ash-clouds. An even more protracted darkness which alarmed the southern West Indies in the summer of 1812 was traced to a cin der-shower from the volcano of St. Vincent.—(Belford's Magaziue. "Sand Augers." One of the most curious wind phenom ena is tho "sand augers" which are ob served on wide plains where the atmos phere is hot and dry. When the Union Pacific Railway was being constructed tho workmen had frequent opportunites of witnessing the formation and progress of these "sand auger" whirlwinds. They were especially frequent in tho Lodge Pole Creek Valley, through which the railway, leaving the Platte River, runs in a northerly direction. Tho first indications of the near ap proach of one of these "augers" would be the formation here and there in the valley of little dust whirlwinds or baby cyclones. These would be whisked away by strong currents of cool air, coming from no one knew where, but all drawing across the valley toward tl e eastern range of hills, their places being almost instantly occupied by a fast-ad vancing, funnel-shaped cloud, like that observed hanging over waterspouts which are forming at sea. From under the surface of this low lying cloud a swaying tongue of lead colored vapor would prolong itself to ward the earth, from which, as if to meet the monster of the air, would rise a cloud of dirt and sand. This earth column would rise higher and higher, with a swift, whirling motion, becoming more compact all the while, until tho blue-black vapor from above and the brown mass from below would unite and form the typical "sand auger of the plains." Tho diameter of these augers seldom exceeded 15 or 20 feet at the ground, but their bulk increased with their height until they were merged into the broad surface of the thick, murky vapor of the cloud above. When this occurred, lightning flashes would sport about tho" upper stratum of the cloud and immense hailstones be formed in the dark point beneath. When all conditions were fa vorable these hailstones would be thrown, by centrifugal force, out from tho re volving cloud. These hailstones were almost invariably of a flat disk shape, from three to six inches in diameter, an inch to an inch and a half thick, and made up of alternate layers of sand and ice. —[St. Louis Republic. An Agreeable Empress. The celebrated Dr. Metzgcr of Amster dam, who last year successfuly treated the Empress of Austria, lias only one waiting room for all his patients, what ever their rank and condition. Each has to wait his turn. Some time ago a poor woman who happened to be there turned to her neighbor, a lady of dis tinguished appearance, notwithstanding the simplicity of her attire, and said: "How long we have to wait, to bo sure! I dare say ycu have got a little child at homo, too?" "No." "But when you get back you will have to sweep out your rooms?" "No, I have folk 9 who do that for me." "Indeed? But you'll want to get din ner ready?" "Not eveu that, for I dine at tho hotel." "Very well, ns you have nothing par ticular to do, you might let me have your turn?" "Very willingly," replied the lady, who was the Empress of Austria. —[Le Ron Mcssager. Taking Care of His Gold Dust. "That boy knows how to take care of his gold dust," said Tom's uncle often to himself, and sometimes aloud. Tom went to college, and every account they heard of him he was going ahead, laying a solid foundation for the future. "Cer tainly," slid his uncle, "certainly; that boy, I tell you, knows how to take care of his gold dust." Gold dust! Where did Tom get gold dust? He was a poor boy. He had not been to California. He never was a miner. When did beget gold dust? Ah! ho has seconds and minutes, and these are the gold dust of time, specks and particles of time which boys and girls anu grown-up people are apt to waste and throw away. Tom knew their value. His father had taught him that every speck and' particle of time was worth its weight in gold, and his son took care of them as if they were. Take, care of your gold dust.— [Young Reaper. A Sharp Mail Clerk. One of the old clerks at the general delivery window tells the following story: Years ago a man called one day at the window and asked if there was a letter for Mike McGinnis. The clerk handed him one from the old country with twenty-four cents due on it. Mr. McGinnis asked the clerk to read it for him, as ho could not read himself. The polite clerk complied. When he had finished reading it Mr. McGinnis asked if "that wns all?" Theclrrk said "Yes." "Then it's not worth twenty-four cents, and I'll not take it." said Mr. McGinnis, nnd turning on his heel he walked away. Home time after the same Mr. McGinnis called and asked for a letter. The clerk recognized him, gave him the same let he had read before, "but took the precau tion to collect his twenty-four cents.— [Mail Coach. The Use of Water in London. One does not find any period in the history of London when the citizeus do sired plain cold water ns a beverage. Beer was always tho national drink— tlicy drank small ale for breakfast, din ner and sunper ; when they could get it they drank strong ale. Of water for washing there was not at this period so great a demand as at present. At the same time it is not true to say, as was said a few years ago in the House of Commons, that for eight hundred years our people did not wash themselves. All through tho Middle Ages the use of tho hot bath was not only common but frequent, and in the ense of tho better classes was almost a necessity of life.— [Harper's Magaziue. A City Destroyed by Silence. Amycl;p, if the old legend of its fate is to be relied on, actually perished, through silence. The legend concerning the unique end of this ancient city is as follows: Amyclfc was a town of Laconia, founded by the Lacedemonian King, Amvqle. It was an independent city for many years, but was finally conquered jy the Spartans. The city had been so often alarmed by false rumors of a pro jected Spartan invasion that at last, weary of living in a state of absolute '.error, it was decreed that it should be made a public offense to report the ap proach of an enemy. So, when the Spar tans at last actually appeared before the city, no one dared to warn the officials of their approach,and thus they were able to take the town with scarce an effort. There is, it must be admitted, another "silence" myth concerning Ainychu. Scrvius says that the city was founded by Pythagoreans, forbidden by laws of their order to speak or to harm serpents. The result was that the snakes from the hills sought the precincts of the city, and, no one daring to speak of it to his neighbor or to harm the slimy creatures, one by one the inhabitants left, until finally the city was turned into a snake den.—[St. Louis Republic. France's poss ssions in Africa are peopled with 24,000,000 inhabitants. Olive oil is being shipped from Southern California to fill orders in England. Don't Feel Well And yet you ore not sick enough to consult rdoc tor, or you refrain from so doing for fear you will alarm yourself and frlonds—we will tell you Just what you need. 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Mr. Rupert Cowdrew, of Skiddaway, Ga., a young man fond of hunting, had an adventure recently with a shark which would in all probability have had a fatal termination had it not been for the iuterferonce of a sailor, one Robert Ilammoud, who succeeded in killing the terrible ocean wolf just in time to save young Cowdrey's life. The sea at this point has always been singularly free from sharks, aud bathers arc able to indulge themselves usually with impunity, but on this occasion Ml*. Cowdrey sought an unfrequented nook, some distauce from the spot where the bathing is usual, and where tho coast shelving rapidly lcave3 the water very deep. He was accompanied only by a younger brother, a boy of 111. He plunged into the water from the re mains of an old steamboat lauding, and, diving, struck violently a dark object that seemed to be lying inert on the sand at tho bottom of the little inlet. It was the shark, which rose with him, and, turning on its back, made for him with snapping jaws. Cowdrey screamed to his brother to go back. Tho boy, who had just left the shore, scrambled back aud set off yelling for help for his brother. In the meantime Cowdrey made for tho landing, and succeeded in reaching its rotten timbers before the shark could attack him. lie endeavored to climb up, but the terrible foe he had aroused gave him no time, but rushed at him with a speed that sent the water flying in foam. To avoid the shark, Cowdrey who is a first-rate swimmer, darted to the other side of the landing, interposing it be tween him and his foe, which hurled it self blindly against the timbers with a forqc that seemed to daze it. It returned, however, almost immediately to the at tack, which the young man again tried to parry by doubling about the crazy structure to which he was clinging; but the shark, seeming to realizo the advan tage it gave its prospective victim, siezed the only, remaining support and snapped the beam in twain, as easily as though it had been of glass, between its terrible jaws. Cowdrey seized a piece of tho wreck age as a weapon, but had nearly given up hope, exhausted and breathless as he was, when shouts from the shore lent | him fresh courage, and he endeavored to frighten off the shark by striking at it with the piece of wood he held. At this moment Hammond, making a running start, jumped into the water, and with a few strokes had reached tho young man's side. Ho was armed only with a knife with which he had been opening oysters about a quarter of a mile from the scene of Cowclrey's peril when sum moned by his brother, but met the shark bravely as it darted at them, at the same time calling to Cowdrey to make for the shore. The young man, who was no coward, was reluct Ant to forsake his rescuer, but perceiving that he was only embarrassing Hammond by his persist ence, he obeyed, only, however, to arm himself with a small pistol he happened to have in his clothes. By the time he had done this, though, Hammond and the shark bus disap peared, and Cowdrey, in an agony of suspense, was about to plunge in, when tho two rose once more, and he could see that the shark was badly wounded. It was still game, however, aud follow ing closely the sailor, who was swimming slowly, but waiting until the black muzzle of tho shark almost touched him, when, as it flirted itself over on its back, he plunged the knife up to tho hilt in its roft bellv. It sank immediately, its blood dyeing the water red and its huge tail lashing the water in its dying throes, while Hammond swam for the shore. He wo 3 so exhausted, however, that it : n jyS^ r the two v.vdreys to bring him in, but with the exception of several severe bruises on the breast and back, given him by tho shark's tail, had sustained no injury. Hammond is a sailor on a small fruit vessel plying between Savannah and Nassau, and happened to be on a visit to his family, who live near here. He is a stalwart man of middle age, and very modest over his heroic deed, asserting that it was only his experience with sharks and their manner of attack in West Indian waters that enabled him to rescue young Cowdrey, who has, how- I ever, presented him with SSOO. The Golden Gopher of Wyoming. At Devil's Bite, that oddly named chasm in Wyoming, and there alone, is found the golden gopher, or golden guide, commonly called the "fleck o' gold." Tho little follow undoubtedly belongs to the gopher tribe, and is of a geueral golden hue, representing the va rious shades of that precious metal from the duller colors of its nativo state to the brilliancy given by the stamp at the mint. The duller colors are blended on the body, while tho brighter ones spread along the back ami tail of this curious little rodent, the tail being the "fleck o' gold's" chief pride and the wonder of the beholder. This tail is fifteen inches iii length— more than three times as long as the lit tle animal of which it is a dazzling con tinuation, and gleams and glistens as if made of the jmrc burnished metal itself. The tail oftlic fleck o' gold is continual ly in action ; an action which has no ap parent purpose excopt that cf display, the jerks and writhes, curls and twists seeming to be solely intended as a means of displaying the caudal appenduge to the best advantage. That the fleck 'o gold is vainglorious of its tail there is but little room for doubt, for he has been seen to wrap it many times around his tiny body, transposing himself into a ball of burnished bullion, and then roll over and over, seemingly in perfect joy and delight.—[St. Louis Republic. Paradiso of Old Horses. The paradise of old horses must bo at St. Petcrburg, where a lover of horse flesh has established an asylum for worn out steeds. The poor old animals are tenderly cared for until their death, and allowed to work a little to keep them in , health. One, for instance, drags an ' empty cart around tho paddock for a short time each day. The veteran of the establishment is thirty years old and can scarcely move. Tufts ot white hair grow about his head, while he lias no teeth, and can only live on mashes. GERMANY is said to have close on 1400 creameries. The establishments are worked on the most approved systems, superior in many respects to those of other continental countries. Tho Ger man Dairy Association now offers a re ward of SI,OOO for the best method of rapidly determining the butter value of milk. Dock-tailed horses are gol <; oat of fashion. bTATE or Ohio, City of Toledo, / Lucas County, ["■ v Frank J. Clieney makes oath that he is the seuior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said Arm will pay the sum of SIOO for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the 0 of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this Oth day of December, A. D., lttad / -—*— i A. W. (iLEASON. ]BKAL r 1 t-~ ' Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken internally and lets directly on the blood anil mucous surfaces af the system. Send for testimonials. fr*o F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. XT Sold by Druggists, 76c. A pood sailing vessel can run from Phila delphia to Sun Francisco in 325 days. How a Tou rial Makes Money. Dear Headers—While visiting places of In terest, I spend my leisure time plating table ware and jewelry and selling platers. 1 make from $5 to sls per day. The work is done so nicely that every person wants it. I paid $5 for my plater to 11. K. Del no & Co., Columbus, I O. Why not have a good time and money In your pocket, when for $5 you con start a busi ness of your own? Write the above firm for circulars. A Tourist. Braddock, Penn., has the largest blast engine. SIOOO In Prizes. The publishers of the Jlamltler Magazine will give flOfiU in prizes for the largest lists of words formed from JhxrrMer Magazine. The first prize is S34KJ cash; the second, iIUO cash; 51 other cash prizes and special weekly prizes will be given. Send 15c. for copy Rambler con taining rail information, or 30c. for 3 inos. sub scription to Ramblor Pub. Co., Syracuse, N. Y. More than sixty per cent, of the sugar produced in the world is made from beets. Mothers should watch carefully those signs of ill health in their duughters,and at once use Lydia E. Pinkharu's Vegetable Compound. It will prove a■ lasting blessing. Australia produces a fourth of the world's wool. HTTP stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nkkve Restorer, No fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise und $34 trial bottle freo. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St.. l'hila.. Pa. Electric enrs run between t lie United States and Mexico. If i.fflicted with sore evtsuse Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottlo India will produce 110,000,000 pounds of tea during the coming season. Mrs. Pinkham's letters from ladles in all parts of thoworll average One Hundred per j day. She has never tailed them, aud her fame is world wide. The wannest place in Europe is said to be Malaga. L2O C O T>Y_R 10 W-rJ 18 9 0 j'. I A prompt return of your money, if you get neither benefit nor cure, Risky terms for the doctor, but safe and sure for the patient. Everything to gain, noth ing to lose. There's just one medi cine of its class that's sold on thesa conditions—just one that could be— Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. It's a peculiar way to sell it—but it's a peculiar medicine. It's the guaranteed remedy for all Blood, Skin and Scalp Diseases, from a common blotch or eruption to the worst Scrofula. It cleanses, purifies and enriches the blood, and cures Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, and all manner of blood taints, from whatever cause. It costs you nothing if it doesn't help you. Tho only question is, whether you want to be helped. "Golden Medical Discovery" is the cheapest blood - purifier sold, through druggists, becauso you only pay for the good you get. Can you ask more 1 The " Discovery" acts equally well all the year round. Made by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, at 063 Main Street, Buffalo. N. Y- g/ERVMoTHEB Should Have It In Tlio flonqc. Dropped on Sugar, Children Love to take Joiinhok's Axodykk Liniment for Croup, Colds, Sore Throat, Tons!litis. Colic, Cramps nud l'uliia. la* llovcs Bummer Complaints, Cuts, Bruises like magic. TIIIXK OF IT. In use over 4U YEARS in one family. Dr. I. H. Johnson ft Co.—lt is sixty years sine© I first learned of your Johnson's anouvkb Limmkkt; for more than fort it I,car* 1 hnve used it in mv family. I regard It ns one of the best and safest family re lies that ran be found, used Internal or external. In nil eases. O. }!. IKUALLS, Deaeon Slid Baptist Chureh, Bangor, M Every Sufferer JX! vous Hcndnche, Diphtherin,Coughs, t 'atarrli. Bronchitis, I Art hum, Cholera Morbus, Diunhu-u. Iwiinnici-. K..r<-iu-es In Body or Limbs, Stiff Joints or Strains, will find in this old Anodyne reliaf nnd sp. edy .-im free. Sold everywhere. I'll.-© .16 els., by mall. 6 bottles, Express paid, $2. I. S. JOHNSON <V to. Boston. Mxtta. indeed sTMIIiG ggjsj alike SAPOL!O should everyt-hing so bright*, but 'A needle clothes others, ajid is itselfi naked'.Try ihin your next house-cle&ning What folly it would be to cut grass with n pair of scissors! Yet peo ple do equally silly things every day. Modern progress has grown up from the hooked sickle to the swinging scythe and thence to the lawn mower. So don't use scissors! But do you use SAPOLIO ? If you don't you aro as much behind the age as if you cut grass with a dinner knife. Once there were no soaps. Then one soap served all purposes. Now the sensible folks use one soap in the toilet, another in the tub, ono soap in the stables, and SAT Old O for all scouring and house-cleaning. IV T EVER before in tire history of live stock lias such success attended I\l e^orts k ret;i lers in perfecting an animal possessing the power! 1 to resist disease, and containing the elements of rapid growth and great sire as the OHIO, IMPROVED 1 hosier hogs, two having ■ /5r weighed 2,800 lbs. These facts, together with our enormous sales in the States and foreign countries, have excited the envy of competitors, who call in question the facts claimed. Wc therefore have decided to convince I ever y cne l * ie superiority of this breed by offering to sell a pair! cvfalSr \ ON TIME to the first applicant from each locality with references.! 1 i| Foreign countrieshavingtaken stepsi% re-open their ports for the reception# jbpP of American pork, also the fact that farmers have sent all sizes to the butcher,, has already caused a lively demand for brood sows and pigs for breeders, A> They sec their mistake, and that the raising of a superior breed of hogs that have a vigorous and strong constitution, with consequent ability to resist the | attacks of disease, will in the near future take rank with lite most profitable I fTaJf Industries. First come first served on a pair on lime and an Agency. 1 ONI3 BNJOYS . Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial tn its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and hnve made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60c Mid $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N.Y. AHU my ugeutH for W. L- Ronglai Shoes, If not lor tmln In your p Intro nsk your ilenlcr to neiul for catulaguc, secure the agency, and get them for you. MT TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. -AJ WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE GENTLEMEN THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE HONEY? It Is a seamless shoo, with no tacks or wax thread to hurt tlio feet; made of the Ix-st fine calf, stvlUb anil easy, and beenimc we make more shoes of this {trade than anu other manufacturer, It equals hand sewed shoes costing from S4.U) to 63.00. <2? C 00 Genuine llnnd-new eil, the finest calf aPU shoo ever offered for $.1.00: equals French Imported shoes which cost from fcH.dito sl2 .(JO. Cvi OO II mid-Hewed Welt Shoe, flno calf. stylish, comfortable nud durnfdo. The bess shoo ever offered at tills price j same grndo as cua tom-mado shoes costing from $G.<) to SO.OO. 05 0 .*SO Police Hhoei Farmers. Railroad Men cjs&n and Letter Curriers all wenrthemj fine calf, seamless, smooth Inr.ldo. heavy three soles, extru sion ©due. One pair will wear a year. 5(1 line enlfj no better shoo ever offered at this prlco; one trial will convlnco thoso who want a shoe for comfort and service. (CO '-45 nnd #-2.00 WorUliiuinnn's shoos P" are very strong and durable. Those who have given them a trlul will wear no other make. Pfc<r*Vr?> B<.o© and #1.73 scliool shoes aro I V worn by the boys everywhere; they sell on thoTr merits, as the Increasing sales show, ft 54tH1 iiiiC 811.00 Hnnd-newed shoe, best UnCS vs ilvo Dongola, very stylish; rqualß French Imported shoes costing from $4.00 to $G.i*J. Undies' #.50, B#.oo nud #1.75 shoo for Misses are the best flno Dongola. Stylish and durable. Caution.—See that \V\ L. Douglas' name and price are stamped on the bottom of each shoe. W. L. DOUGLAS, Ilrockton, Mass. QBTOBIAS UNEXCELLED! A I" I'l.l El) EXTERNAL.!. Y Rheumatism, Renral'ia, Pains in the Limbs, Back or Chest, Mumps, Sore Throat, Colds, Sprains, Bruises, Stings of Insects, Mosquito Bites. TA KEX I XTEIt XALL V It nets like n clinrin tnv Cholera .11 or bit a. Dill rrliu n. Rysen trry, folic, Crumps, Nau sea, Sick Headache, Arc. Wnrrnnted perfectly harmless. (Heeonth niioinpuiMi.il.' encli bottle, also directions if HOOTIIING and I'EXKTItA- Tl NG ciinlfiics are felt immediately. Try it and he . onviliced. I'rlre #5 and 50 rents. Hold by all drug gffltO. DKI'OT. 40 MURRAY 8T„ NEW YORK. FRAZER f A * L s | BEST IX THE WORLD 5S R C A O C BIT dot the Genuine. Sold Everywhere.
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