SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. A VERY peculiar case of perverted vision has been presented to l)r. E. W. Brickley, an oculist of this city, writes a York (Penn.) correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. A little girl of ten years, the daughter of one of this city's most respected citizens, was discovered by her school teacher to be unable to read her reading exercise unless the book was held upside down. The 4 teacher, Miss Busser, immediately com • municated the fact to her parents, and they became very much worried. The oculist was called in and an examination made of the child's eyes. They were found to be entirely normal. The only conclusion arrived at was that the strange freak of vision was the result of a habit of trying to read with tho book pages in an unnatural position, a habit contracted some years ago when the child was first sent to school. At this time the child in writing numbers upon a slate always made them upside down, and as it was never observed or corrected she gradually drifted into the habit of reading the same way. The only means of cure possible is to teach the child everything over again, as though she never knew anything before. This will be carefully done, and a cure of this really phenomenal case is anxiously looked tor in the near future. A SINGULARLY pathetic incident oc hcurred in the Justice of Peace Court, Dun dee, Scotland, recently. Christina Smith, described as a sack sewer, was charged with keeping a dog without a license. Mr. Haliburton, of the Inland Revenue, stated that tho poor woman, to his knowledge, had year after year been in the same predicament as that in which she was now placed. It was a hard case. The woman had no money, but she would persist in keeping her dog. Ac cused, in reply to the bench, stated that she would do her best to pay for a license. She had done that in years past, and if she only had the time she was sure she could do it again. Mr. Haliburton said that he had on several oocasions paid for the license, but, to do accused justice, she had always repaid him the money by installments. The court held that it must impose a penalty, but it would make it as small as possible —viz.,twenty-five cents. After consulta tion among the justices they resolved, out of sympathy for the tender-hearted old lady, to pay the fine and take out a license for the dog. The poor woman courtesied her thanks to the justices, and left the court agreeably surprised with justices' justice. ON a recent morning at St. Paul, Ind., was witnessed a strange scene—that of a dog committing suicide. The dog, a large white one, was standing in the middle of the Big Four Railroad track on the Flatrock River bridge, and a freight train was rapidly approaching, but the dog lay down flat and the train passed over him, when he got up aud trotted away. He soon returned, when another train came and found him stand ing facing it, in the centre of the same bridge, bnt again lay flat down and let the train pass over him. Again the dog rose up, and, after looking uround, trot ted away, but soon returned, and, going out on the bridge, made a spring and a leap directly at the wing wall of one of j . the abutments, which he struck with C such force as to dash out his brains by crushing in his skull. The dog's pecu liar actions were watched with interest by several men working near by, and it seemed as if the dog deliberately con templated suicide. PERHAPS one of the most unique and remarkable institutions in the world is the "Bone Circulating Library," an attachment to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New Y r ork City. In this room, which is fitted up with shelves, cases, etc., just as any other library room, are hundreds of thousands of human bones of all sizes, shapes and forms. The bones, which are cumbered and labeled, are placed in order on the shelves and in the coses, an attendant being always on hand to act in the same capacity as a librarian. It is bis duty to keep track of the bones lent; to enter them upon books, aud to see that they are returned uninjured. During the day scores of students flock in and out of this uncanny place, carrying packages of strange appearance in their hands or sticking out of their coat pockets. These packages are made up of human bones, which they are returning or taking from this "Bone Circulating Library." RICHMOND, Me., is the home of a I clown goat which is a source of much amusement all along the Kennebec. He is a great pet among the steamboat men, and a regular visitor at the wharf when steamers arrive or depart. One day recently Billy's owner missed him, but two days afterward, when tho steamer Kennebec arrived, the gout walked calmly down the gangplank, dressed in a pair of old trousers, a swallow-tail coat and a stovepipe hat. He had been to B< lton with his friends, the deck hands, and came home with an increased dignity of bearing naturally consequent upon a visit to that learned town. When a lady in the waiting room petted him the goat whipped her veil from her face and swallowed it in a twinkling. Then he went home in his new togs, which he has probably since eaten. ONE of the most puzzling cases yet found by physicians is that of James Smedick, of Portland, Conn. He is a four-year-old boy and is now imitating snakes and frogs by shedding his skin. For six weeks his hide has been dropping off in pieces, some of them as large us three inches square. At first he was supposed to be afflicted with eczema and physicians treated him for it, but no fcenefits resulted, the shedding process fceiug e P* U P un *H * n few days * fee sain has oeen fairly dropping off all over his body. Doctors from various hospitals who have visited him pro nouuee his case entirely new. Under the sk'n which drops off there is a pink layer that seems highly inflammable on the slightest irritation. It is a remark able case. A CINCINNATI woman the other day wanted a warrant for tho arrest of a man for theft, on the ground that the spirits had informed her that he was the guilty person. "Oh, we can't issue a warrant on such evidence as that," exclaimed the clerk. "Not when Bright Star, the late chief of the Chippewas, told me him self?" exclaimed the woman in astonish ment. "I'm afraid not." was the reply. "This is an outrage," she exclaimed. "Bright Star seen him when he done it. And if that ain't evidence, I'd like to know what is. But it's gittin* so there ain't no justico in this country anyhow. I I'll tell Bright Star 'bout this, see if I don't. And he'll parnlyzo tho hull blamed court, that's what he'll do." And 8110 walked out like an offended Juno. SOME experiments were recently made in a battalion of Prussian infantry in in structing dogs to hunt the wounded on the field of battle. The manner of training them was as follows: Men iu tended to simulate tho wounded lay down in the brushwood, face downward, and remain immovable. The dogs of the battalion were then dispersed to bunt for the wounded men. As soon as they discovered a prostrate sol dier, they placed themselves before him and barked until they attracted the atten tion of the men with the litters, refusing to leave until these responded to their appeal. A PLANT known as the bull's horn acacia, of Ceutral America, is reported to have entered into partnership with a certain species of ant. It not only pro vides this ant with food and drink, in the shape of tiny egg-like bodies on its leaves, and a sweet liquid contained in special wells on its stalk, but in addition it furnishes a commodious tenement for the ant in the hollow spiues with which it is armed. In return for these favors the ant protects the acacia from its insect enemies. PATRICK WOOD, a patient in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, is regarded by the doctors as a phenomenon. His skin has gradually hardened until it is now like a covering of sheet iron, not so hard, but as unyielding. He is as help less as though he were a statue. He can not move hand or foot. The disease is a rare one and has been diagnosed as schleroderma, or hidebound. There is no known cure for it. Woods is forty two years of age and a painter by trade. He has been in the hospital seven years. THERE is a tract in Levy county, Fla., in which three holes have been dug thirty feet apart, and each excavatiou has laid bare parts of the skeleton of a huge animal. The diggers take it for granted that the bones all belonged to the same creature, and are wondering what sort of a beast it was whose re mains underlie the county. THE Oldtown Indians in Maine have a law that forbids palefaces to be on their island later than a certain hour in the evening. A white man who remained until past the hour recently took a swim in his clothes to the mainland rather than fall into the clutches of the red constable. FOUR boys of Birdseye, Ind., found an old coat near tho railroad, and began tossing it about aud beating each other with it. A bank note slipped from be neath one of tho patches. The boys ripped the coat to pieces, and it panned out $1,711. Sunstroke. The symptoms attending a sunstroke vary in degree and according to tho con stitution. Sometimes simple exhaustion occurs as the result of great fatigue or a high temperature. This is a depression of nerve force and prostration of mus cular power. The skin becomes pale, cold and moist, and the pulse quick and feeble. This form of heat fever may come on at night or in tho shade, and notably when the atmosphere is impure from overcrowding or the want of cubic space. Respiration and circulation fail, face aud neck are congested; often we find a raging delirium aud convulsions •that distort tho body like a potent poison, until finally with a shudder the victim passes the dark river. Treatment should be prompt. First the patient should be removed to a cool and shady place. Then the clothing should be thoroughly loosened about the neck aud waist and wet clothes applied to the head and back of tho neck and wrists with mustard or turpeutino on the solos of the feet. If the patient can swallow, give him a little weak whiskey and water. Always keep the head raised. Meanwhile, a physician should be called, for underlying the superficial, may be more dangerous symptoms that require the use of remedies that influence the action of the heart and nervous system. Above all things don't make the mistake of supposing a man to be drunk, because you have seen him throw his hands wild ly in the air, then stagger and fall and look at you with glazed eyes and speak with incoherent voice, lie may have been struck by death.—[Brooklyn Cit izen. A Female Pigmy. The wonderful accounts given by Henry M. Stanley, tho African explorer, of the dwarf tribes ho has met with in Equatorial Africa have aroused a great deal of public curiosity. Mr. Cross, the Liverpool naturalist, in order to meet this demand, gave orders to his agents to obtain at any price the best specimen they could of this peculiar race, which seems to supply the long-sought-for miss ing link between the anthropoid ape and man. After a long and tedious search in the depths of the Dark Continent, a remarkable female pigmy was procured from a native tribe by which she had been captured and was brought safely to Liverpool. She is thirty-six inches in height, of well-developed body and jet black complexion, with a peculiarly monkeyish expressiou aud a nose so flat that the lower part of her face resembles closoly the muzzle of an animal. Bhe has learned a little English and converses freely, so far as her vocabulary goes, with those around her. Another decidedly human accomplishment she has also acquired, and smokes tho best cigars with a relish.—[Bt. Louis Repub lic. Horse-hair Snakes. There is a current delusion in almost every community where people have a better chance to observe uch things, that horse-hairs are capable of being converted into snakes. The question has often been discussed, but still there are some features about the matter that may not prove uninteresting. To begin with, the root of the hair must be with it or else it will not take on a "living, snake-lake" existence, as some claim it really does under certain conditions. In muddy, tepid water the hair, through its roots, in accordance with the law of life by tho law of aflinity, absorbs vitalizing elements, the same as it did when on the animal. And tho sub stance of the hair being animal as well as vegetable life, it is naturally more or less sensitive to the touch. For more than a quarter of a century the evolu tionist has laid more or less stress upon the horse-hair snako phenomena; but tho whole argument has but little weight, from the evolutionist's standpoint, as there is no reproduction among these "snakes;" without reproduction their whole faith is a dclusiou.—[St. Louis Republic. Bait Ballast. The Southern Pacific railroad across the Colorado desert has, it is said, a long stretch of track ballasted with beau tiful lumps of pure salt crystals. There is in the neighborhood a largo deposit of pure rock salt, and the salt was tho only available ballast. This is perhaps the first instance in the history of railroad ing where a track has been laid in and ballasted with salt. Millions of grass hoppers and legions of giant centipedes fell into this salt when it was in a liquid state, and now, after having reposed there for thousands of years, they arc found perfectly preserved.—[Picayune. SHIP CANALS. They Are of Recent Date—Some Projected Ship Canals. The early part of this century was the era of boat-canals for ordinary iatcrnal communication. They were usually from three to six or seveu foot deep, they climbed considerable ranges of hills by long flights of locks, they were some times three or four hundred miles long, and they were navigated by small barges drawn by horses or mules. C'unals of this kind were not much if any more expensive to build than railroads, and they served a useful purpose. But the development of rail communication soon left the boat canal in the shade, and while the Erie and others of the early water ways are still doing good work, many formerly important canals have been abandoned. The ship canal is even more recent than the railroad, and in its way quite as important. Its object is to correct the mistakes of nature in the matter of navigation. Wherever a tongue of land has been allowed to in trude itself in the path of great ocean commerce, tho ship canal digger is chaf ing to cut through it. The Lesseps, the Menocals, and we may say the Millers, will never be satisfied until vessels can sail from every port in tho world to every other by the shortest possible route. Every isthmus is a temptation to them. Take a map of the world and see what opportunities nature has afforded for this sort of work. For thousands of years the sand-spit of Sue/, cut oil the direct trade between Europe and the East, and for centuries commerce evaded this barrier by making the entire circuit of Africa. At last De Lesseps cut the Suez dam and let the flood of commerce through. The only work comparable in importance to this is that of cutting a pas sage between North and South America. There are no other peninsulas equal to j Africa or South America, but there are I plenty of smaller ones, and wherever there is one we may be pretty sure that a ship canal has been cither dug or pro jected. Greece is piercing the Isthmus of Corinth. Germany has connected the North Sea and the Baltic. We have joined Delaware and Chesapeake bays. We are talking of making an island of Florida. A projected canal to cut olf the peninsula of Malacca will save four or five days and much danger on tho voyage from India to China. One of tho most important ship-canal systems in the world is that which is steadily turn ing the great American lakes into an arm of the sea. The canal constructed by our Government around the rapids of the Sault Ste. Marie already accommo dates a greater tonnage than that of Suez. It makes the four upper lakes practically one, but the Canadians have not yet done their part by giving free ship communication from Lake Erie to tide water. They have done enough, however, to make it possible for special ly constructed steamers of 3,500 tons to go from Chicago to Liverpool, and even tually Lake Michigan will be us easily accessible from the sea as the bay of New York. There will be sad days for the ambitious projector when every isthmus is pierced aud every rapid flanked. As he looks upon a world which, from his point of view, is completed, ho will pine for something more to do. But mean while he is accomplishing a work that deserves the encouragement of the whole world, for it is one lrom which the whole world will profit.—[San Francisco Examiner. Remedy for Hydrophobia. The herb called skpill cap, from the envelope which envelopes its calyx, and which has a fancied resemblance to tho skull of a dog, is regarded by many as a certain preventive of hydrophobia. It is found in low, moist places, and can be had of most druggists iu large cities, who make a specialty of herbs. It is a nervine, and in a great many cases with in our knowledge it has prevented hydrophobia in persons, while animals bitten by the same dog died of th® dis ease. The remedy is rather discounten anced by the doctors, who do not prefer the less simple methods for checking dis ease. In fact, many doctors within a few years have expressed doubts whether the hydrophobia disease did not wholly exist in imagination. Driven from this position, as they all have been, why do they not include this popular simple remedy, which has many believers, in the various plans they are trying to de stroy the hydrophobic germs? It can do no more harm to try the simple remedy than it did tho proud Syrian officer in the Bible story to try dipping himself in Jordan seven times for the cure of the leprosy with which ho was afllicted.— [Boston Cultivator. Big Money in Coyotes. Through the carelessness of tho last California Legislature in passing a bill giviug a bounty for coyote scalps tho State will probably have to pay several hundred thousand dollars before the law can be repealed. A member from Shelp County brought up his coyote bounty bill last winter, and though "guyed" unmercifully about it, he finally secured its passage, most members regarding it as a joke. There is nothing funny in it now, as it is seen to be a scheme for helping thrifty sheep growers to herd flocks at small expense, while it opens the door to flagrant frauds. Recently many complaints were made that coyote scalps had been imported from Arizona and old Mexico, and the bounty of fifty cents on each collected from the county treasurers of California. In this way Fresno County has paid out $3,000 in two mouths and Los Angeles even more. It is also usserted that several mountain ranches are breeding coyotes and then killiug the young animals for their scalps. As each female coyote gives birtn to over twenty young annually it will be seen she is worth considerable to breeders.—[Chicago Herald. Royalty With Simple Childhood. The German Empress, like the Princess of Wales, is one of those ladies whose "destiny to wear a royal crown" comes after a childhood and early youth passed in a very simple, almost bourgeois home. The three Danish Princesses, of whom the Princess of Wales was the eldest and most beautiful, were their own dress makers in their youthful days; the father of the German Empress, Prince Frederick of Schloswig-Holstein, was too poor to keep a private carriage, and according to an article on •'The Girlhood of the German Empress," in Good Words, "when a drive became a necessity it was taken in an ordinary hired equi page."—[Pall Mall Gazette. it api <1 Trail ci t. If any one doubts the popular demand for rapid transit, let hioi look at the fol lowing figures. In New York city the surface and elevated roads during the pa9t year carried about 400,000,000. Taking the population of the city at 1,500,000, this would allow every man, woman, and child 266J rides each during the year. In Boston the number car ried was over 100,000,090, or 222 2-9 rides each of an estimated population of 450,000, and in Philadelphia 150,000,000 passengers were carried, giving an aver age to each Quaker City resident of 136 4-11 rides. The amount of money it costs the public for the luxury on tha basis of 5-cent fares is in New York, $20,000,000; Boston, $5,000,000, and Philadelphia, $7,500,(j00. It is but a very few years since the street railway was introduced, and walking was con sidered good enough for most folks; but all this seems to have been changed, and no one walks it he has the neces *ary nickel, and the number of fortun ate ones in the three great cities men tioned foots up to over 650,000,000, who pay annually $30,000,000, rather than walk to and from their places of busi ness. It is difficult to estimate the average distance each passenger rides and the amount it costs per mile, as it ranges all whe way from one or two blocks to several miles, but it is doubt ful if the average cost per mile is more than two cents. If the above amount was all in 5-cent pieces, and taking the average diameter of a nickel at 13-16ths of an inch, placed in a line these 650,- 000,000 nickels would reach over 8,332 miles; if piled up one upon another they mould make a tower a little over 637 miles in height, and this would weigh something over 5,222 tons. To convey this mass of wealth from New York to Boston would require a train of 261 cars, carrying twenty tons each. If it were to bo shipped across the ocean it would tax the freight-carrying capacity of the largest and most powerful steamer afloat, and when it arrived would re quire the combined force of all the bank clerks in England some little time to count. American Cultivator. 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In both countries they met with great favor, and one historian relates that in New Y'ork "people rode them up and down the Bowery, and on the parks, a favorite place for speed being the down grade from Chatham street to City Hall l'ark." Clumsy machines they seem to our eyes, says the St. Nicholas—two heavy wheels connected by a cross-bar, to which was attached midway the cush ioned seat for the rider. In front of the seat was a raised cushion, upon which, handles in hand, the rider rested his fore arms, guiding the machine, lie pro pelled it by pushing alternately with his feet on the ground until the speed was sufficient to maintain an equilibrium, when he would raise his feet, and in the words of a rider to-day, "coast." The rage for these "Draisines," and "pedestrian curricles," or "dand horses," as the latter "improved" machines were called, subsided rapidly because of the difficulty of making them practically useful, and because of the ridicule always excited by the riders. This curious sport of riding two wheels, joined and running in the same perpendicular plane,therefore languished in obscurity until after a lapse of more than forty years it again attracted public I attention in a new form. It was in 1865 that a French mechanic, Pierre Lalle mant, conceived the notion of attaching foot-cranks to the front wheel of the old fashioned hobby-horse. He made a machine embodying this idea, learned to ride it, and exhibited it at the Pari9 ex position in 1867, The credit for this invention is also claimed in England for Edward Gilman, but be the honor duo to Frenchman or Englishman, here, at all events, was the immediate inventor of the bicycle. It immediately became popular in England and America. A great many changes were necessary, of course, before the crude machine of Lallemant—the ''veloc ipede" of thirty years ago—became the finished bicycle of to-day; but energetic business men in England, and later in this country, saw the possibilities and began the manufacture of the machines. Improvement has followed improve ment, until there is little resemblance left to the old velocipede, or "bone shaker," as it was flippantly called, and it is difficult to imagine in what way a modern bicycle may be improved. Bee Culture in California. Bee culture is a big industry in South ern California, and profitable, says an ex change. The largest bee farm in 0110 town belongs to a merchant, and he has 160 hives, with 45,000 bees in each, making 7,200,000 bees. It is quite a colony. But it is not to bo supposed that there will be an overstock of bees. The life of a bee in the working season is but three weeks. On the second day of its existence it eats its way out of its cell and commences storing honey. If a bee dies within the hive it is dragged out by other bees. Each hive has a queen bee. She is the mistress of the hive and does no work. She only meets i a drone once during her life, which lasts five years, and she has a capacity of 3,000 eggs a day. It is this tremendous in crease that keeps the stock of bees up, for if it were not so the colony would soon be dead. The drone is twice as largo as the queen bee, and the queen bee nearly three times as large as tho work bee. Tho working bees will not tolcrato moro than one queen bee and will kill the drones. The drone's life is short. lie dies after meeting the queen bee. When a colony is without a queen bee they will proceed to elect one. The most singular thing about the queen bee is, she can lay an egg so that it shall be a queen bee, drone or working bee. The bees make these cells for the depository of the eggs. The cells for the work bees, I which are of one gender, arc smaller than I those of tho drones, while the cells of the queen bee aro like a peanut broken in half, or pear-shaped, hanging downward. Now, some think that it is the size of the coll that regulates this. It is cus tomary sometimes to take away these tjueen cells and place them in hives which have not got them. This is for the pur pose of forming a new colony. Bees are extremely found of fresh water and do well near a spring. They especially de light in swampy places, where they can alight nnd drink in tho water without danger of drowning. It has been proved that tho sage -brush makes a very good honey. They are no trouble through winter; twenty pounds of honey will feed a colony of 45,000 bees. The profits on 140 to 160 hives is from $l,lOO to $1,200 per annum. A man or woman can at tend to 300 or 400 hives without feeling the labor. Never Heard of "Burros." The following true story is recalled to the mind of a New York Tribune corres pondent by noticing in the papers the name of tho small Mexican jackass, the "burro." When ex-Governor Axtcli was about leaving Albuquerque, where as Governor of New Mexico under the Cleveland administration he had resided, he chartered a car to take his household and personal effects to his home in Cleveland, Ohio. His New Mexican ad mirers presented him with a pair of burros just before the car loaded with furniture, etc., was to be started on its eastward journey, but the burros must be sent in it, and by readjusting the load room was made in one end of the car for them. The car arrived all right at Cleveland, but ihe railway freight agent could not make the contents of the car tally with the bill of lading, so telegraphed to Albuquerque as follows: <4 Car2,916, Lake Shore road, received; contents short two bureaus and over two jackasses. What shall I do?" The re ply was: "Put yourself in place of the jackasses." The Canadian Contingent. According to the Rev. E. C. Amnron, president of tho French Protestant Col lege at Springfield, Mass., there are now fully 500,000 French Canadians in New England and New Y'ork, aud 1,000,000 in the United States. This number is rapidly increasing, both by constant emi gration from Canada and from tho great number of children—generally ten or twelve—to be found in every family. Of this number about thirty-fivo thousand arc Protestant. The rest are intensely Roman Catholic,—[New Orleans Pica yune. Numerous Family. A few days ago an old man of ninety three arrived at Barcelona, who quitted the country at the age of twenty to seek his fortune in America, and has now re turned to Spain with his family, which is thus made up: Sixteen daughters, of whom six arc widows, nine married, and one young girl; twenty-three sons, of whom lour are widowers, thirteen mar ried and six single; thirty-four grand 'l ughters, of whom three are widows, twenty-two married and nine maidens; forty-seven grandsons, of whom four aro widowers, twenty-six married and seven teen single; forty-five great-grand daughters, of whom two are married and forty-three arc maidens; thirty-five great-grandsons, all single; three great great-grandsons. Besides these there arc seventy-two sons and daughters-in law. In all, 279 persons.—[lrish Times. An Aiiiile to tlm Lord. A member of the Washburn family tells this anecdote in the Atlantic: The town where he resided on the Maine seacoost was one of many communities inhabited bv men of a cross between farmers nnd skippers, therefore, not fully proficient in either calling. There land, naturally of thin soil, was also neglected. The minister of a neigh boring town, coming bo exchange with the pastor, was joined by one of the deacons on his walk to the meeting house, and, as there was something of a drought, was asked by tho deacon to pray for rain. At a fitting place in his service the minister littered himself as follows: "O Lord, thy servant is asked i by this people to pray for rain, and he does so. But Thou knowest, O Lord, that what this soil needs is dressin'." Kansas nvernges one State convention the year Round. A New Yorker's dinner service is worth $50,000. now'i This " Wo offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. 1 F. J. CIIKNJCY <fc Co., Props., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- I tioiiH, and financially able to carry out any ob- j ligations made by their firm. "WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Tola- 1 do, O. WAI.DINO, RINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale ' Druggist s, Toledo, O. llali's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous BUT- , faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. | Price 76c. per bottle. Sold by all druggiata. A seat in tho Bos'on Stock Exchange has been sold for $11),000. ff afflicted with gore e.Mause Dr. laaacThomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle It is told that there are 350 cotton mil Is In the South. That "all gone" or faint footing so prevalent with our best female population, quickly suc cumbs to the wonderful powers of Lydia E. 1 lukhum s Vegetable Compound. It never fails. There were 5.759,856 savings bank books in France Janunry 1, 1891. BFITC stopped free by DR. KLINE'S GRKA* KRVE KBSTOKJCU. NO fit* after first day's use. arvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 831 Arch St.. Phila.. Pa. Tornadoes strip the feathers off Texas chickens. Lydia Pinkham's warning to mothers should ho heeded by all, and "Guide to Health and Etiquette" heeded by every Mother and Daughter in the civilized world. Washington bus double-deekod street ears. U 31 1 ONB BNJOYS Both tho method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshingto 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 in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and 81 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. 10UISVIUE. KY. NSW YORK. N.Y. FRAZERAfkI BEST IN THE WORLD Ullt HO t If" Get the Oennlne. Sold F.vervwhero. greatest GJMFTIS BURDEN lb iajvsolid coJke of-scouamgsoap us ed pjxrposes - ■ What would you give for a Friend who would take half your hard work off your shoulders and do it witlumt a murmur ? What would you give to find an assistant in your housework that would lteep 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. Wk n II B i MI ami Epfl Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. I*jl| Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the RV Ul taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. As she. enter* Womanhood, every young girl needs the wisest care. Troubles beginning then may make her whole life mis erable. But the troubles that are to be \ feared have a positive remedy. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription builds up and strengthens the system, and I regulates and promotes every proper | function. It's a generous, support [ ing tonic, and a quieting, soothing J nervine a legitimate medicine, not i a beverage, free from alcohol and ; injurious drugs. It corrects and j cures, safely and surely, all those | delicate derangements, weaknesses, and diseases peculiar to the sex. A remedy that does cure is one that can be guaranteed. That's what the proprietors of " Favorite Prescription " think. If it doesn't give satisfaction, in every case for which it's recommended, they'll re fund the money. No other medicine for women is sold on such terms. Decide for yourself whether some , thing else sold by the dealer, is likely to bo "just as good" for j you to buy. "German Syrup" For children a medi i A Cough cine should be abso and Croup reliable. A ( mother must be able to Medicine, pin her faith to it as to her Bible. It must contain nothing violent, uncertain, or dangerous. It must be standard in material and manufacture. It must be plain and simple to admin ister; easy and pleasant to take. The child must like it. It must be prompt in action, giving immedi ate relief, as childrens' troubles come quick, grow fast, and end fatally or otherwise in a very short time. It must not only relieve quick but bring them around quick, as children chafe and fret and spoil their constitutions under long con finement. It must do its work in moderate doses. A large quantity of medicine in a child i* not desira ble. It must not interfere with the child's spirits, appetite or general health. These things suit old as well as young folks, and make Bo sehee's German Syrup the favorite family medicine. ® pnTOßij^s UNEXCELLED! APPLIED EXTERNALLY Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pains in the Limbs, Back or Chest, Mumps, Sore Throat, Colds, Sprains, Bruises, Stings of Insects, Mosquito Bites. TAKEN INTERNA LLV It nrtn like n rlinrm for Cholera Morbus, Diiirrlura, Dydcnlcry. Colic, Cruinpn. Nan* urn, Hick llendnclic. dfcc. Warranted perfectly Itnrmlenn. (Heooatk accomplinvine enrli bottle, al*o directions for m*e.) If* HOOTIIINC PEN KTRA* TIN<; qualities re felt Immediately. Try It and be < onviiired. Price 25 and 50 conta. Hold by all drug* glut*. DEPOT. 40 MURRAY ST.. NEW YORK. 4T | EW!S' 98%TYl I Powdered and Perfumed. Bon l Strongest and purest Lye made. A Makes the best perfumed Hard .Soup in 20 minutes without boil intj. It is the best for softening wiiter, cleansing waste pipes, V disinfecting sinks, closets, wash- II ing I>ottles, paints, trees, eto. If. PENNA CO., RUPTURE C URED! Positively Holds Rupture. F&FT A <TT TMI WOHN RIGHT AXD DAT. Br! A;>i 11 E?! 11 ax an Adjustable l'ad wklekna raaita larger or nailer I* call CI Al# VVRA,t . >*kvous, Wiiktchkd mortala(d Allill well and keep well. HniUK Helper tells how. Met*, a vear. Sunplncoat tree. Dr. J. 11. DYE. Editor. Buffalo. N.Y.
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