FACTS ABOUT SEALING
DETAILS CONCERNING THE FIR
SEAL OF ALASKA.
Seals In the North Atlantic—How
They Are Taken, and the Value of
Their Skins —A Source of Food for
the Esquimaux.
While on my way to Newfoundland
last fall on the Red Cross Line steamship
Miranda, we stopped to take on some
passengers at Halifax. Among them
was a six-footer whom you would have
taken for a Down East Yankee if it had
not been for his strong German accent.
He turned out to be a sealer, in fact, a
4. regular seal poacher, on his way to New
foundland to try to pick up a crew for
his schooner, which he had just pur
chased at Halifax. He was quite a char
acter, and gave me many interesting
facts about his sealing trips, which from
his account must have been very profi
table. He had been caught by the Rus
sian authorities and imprisoned and
fined, but neither this nor the hardships
of the long voyages scorned to deter him
in the least from trying his luck again.
He found 110 trouble in shipping a crew
of hardy seal gunners at St. John's,
though the pay, sl3 per month and
found, seemed very small for so hard a
trip.
He calculated that it would take him at
least five months to reach the sealing
grounds, but ho promised each mun 50
cents extra for every seal they shot and
saved. I was surprised to hear him say
thut ho expected to take his wife along
with him, and it seemed to me, as we wore
* plunging through the heavy seas in a
,'jL howling gale in our stanch steamer that
~ it was carrying devotion pretty far to
make that long and dangerous voyage
around Capo Horn in a small schooner. !
Ho gave me the following interesting
account of the fur seal whoso skins are
so highly prized by our wives and daugh
ters when made up into coats and jackets.
Theso intelligent-looking animals, with
their great soft eyes that look almost
human, are covorod with long, glossy,
grayish-brown hair which completely
hides the undercoat of fur, and of course
this hair has to bo removed when the
skins are prepared by the furrier. They
breed 011 a group of islands in the Pacific
Ocean known as the Pribylov Islunds of
Alaska. The males make their appear
ance there about the first week in May,
and about June 1 land in great numbers.
The females begin to laud about the
iniddjo of June. A full grown male will
weigh 500 pounds but the females are
much smaller and lighter. The male
f seals indulge in savage battles for choice
of location, and tour and cut one another
terribly with their sharp teeth. The
stronger ones secure favorable positions
along the beach, while the weaker and
tho young males, or "bachelors," as they
are called, take up positions farther back.
Their 44 bleating " resembles the sound
made bv sheep, and the roaring noise
they make when fighting can be heard for
miles on a still day.
Tho males remain on tho islands for
threo or four months, and during that
timo never take any nourishment and
only sleep by "fits and starts," as they
are terribly jealous and watch their
flocks of females with groat care. When
the males first arrive they are fat and
sleek, but gradually their long fast and
constant worry reduce their flesh until
they return to tho water only skin and
bones. Tho females give nirth to but
one "pup," as their young aro called,
immediately after landing; but they feed
A regulurly and go and come to and from
the sea at their own sweet will. They
seem to bo able to recognize their own
young ones by voice alone, and can pick
them out from the many thousands that
herd together. The pups cannot swim
at first, out after much awkward tumb
ling and scrambling in the shallow water
soon teach themselves.
Tho animals aro vory gentle and are
not afraid of man, though tho males are
not pleasant and aro unsafe to approach
when fighting. Tho females, however,
are tho picture of gentleness ami allow
tho males to grab them and lift them
about without tho slightest show of resis
tance; but after tho females aro all
landed and tho fighting is over the seal
hunters drive them in immense droves to
a convenient spot for slaughter and club
thorn to doath.
During tike warm weather tho seals
suffer very much from the heat, and can
be soon fanning themselves with their
flippers or hind foot, which aro not un
like tho iiuman foot in shape, though
much longer.
Of course tho seal poachers dare not
approach these breeding grounds, but
have to bo content to shoot tho stray
sonls, and they are treated as outlaws,
and tho Russian authorities are purticu
" larly severe.
Now that the seals are to have a rest
and tho sealing grounds are patrolled by
government vessels, poaching will he
almost impossible, and probably my
long-legged friend will meet with disap
pointment or come to grief.
There arc other seals very valuable to
commerce besides the seu bears, as fur
seals used to bo called. Of theso the
harp and the harbor seals are tho prin
cipal ones.
My return voyage from Newfoundland
was made 011 the Red Cross line steam
ship Portia, commanded by Capt. Ash.
Tho readers of the Sunday Recorder will
probably remember that Capt. Ash was
ice pilot on tho Rear, and was the first
man to reach and rip open the tent where
Lieut. Greely and his unfortunate com
panions wcro lying whon they were res
cued. Tho captain gave me a very
graphic account of the finding of Lieut.
Greely. and it seemed doubly interesting
whqn heard from the lips of one who
took nn active part in the gallant rescue.
But this has nothing to do with seals.
What I started to tell was that Cant.
Ash, who is a resident of St. John's, N.
F., when at home, which was not very
U often,was an old sealer and had followed
f soal hunting along tho coasts of Labra
dor and Newfoundland. The powerfully
built soal steamers fit out at St. John's,
and during the season bring in immense
numbers of theso creatures.
The harbor seal used to be quite com
mon 011 our own const, but they are now
scarce, though a few are seen every whi
te*. Robbin's Reef was named after
thoso creatures, robin being Dutch for
seal. Even as lato as in 1872 some three
hundred were seen at one timo by tho
keeper of Birds' Island Light. They
aro common in tho Gulf of St. Lawrence,
K where they are destructive to salmon and
salmon nets. They are of great value
to the inhabitants of tho far North and
I furnish them with food, fuel and cloth
| ing. The skins with the hair shaved off
■ make the best waterproof boots in the
world, and are highly prized by tho cari
bou hunters in Newfoundland, as they
are tho only things in tho way of foot
gear to wear 011 thoso wet marshes eov
k ered with half-molted snow and ice.
K The harp soal is another varioty that
K is very common at certain seasons along
tlios* coasts. Hundreds of thousands
arc killed every season and their skins
sent to Europe to be made into the best
qualities of patent leather.
Some of these seals are caught in
strong nets, and sometimes, when found
on the ice at sufficient distance from the
water, they can be killed with clubs, but
most of them are shot with the heavy seal
guns, with which the native hunters be
come very expert.
The ringed seal is the one that the
Esquimaux depend 011 most for their sup
ply of food and clothing, and authorities
state that as many as 50,000 are killed
annually in the far North. Its flesh is
said to be more palatable than any of
the others.—[New York Kecorder.
Queer Swedish Money.
There was some queer money 011 exhi
bition to-day in the office of tho collector
of internal revenue. It was received by
Chief Deputy Londergron as a present
from his sister, who lives at Stockholm,
Sweden. Tho money was coined in 1733,
in the reign of Frederick of Sweden, and
for over one hundred and fifty years lias
been out of circulation. It consists of a
"4 daler," or $4 piece, containing six
pounds of copper, and a "half-daler"
coin of the same metal weighing about
thirteen ounces. The money of which
those pieces are samples has a curious
history. During tho days of the great
Charles XII. of Sweden the country was
entirely drained of its gold and silver by
long wars. When warrior Charles was
killed in a siege in Norway the circula
ting medium of the country was copper
coins übout the size of an old-fashioned
American copper cent. Those coins,
devised by Baron Goertz, tho finance
minister under Charles, were a sort of
farmers' alliance circulating medium
and were stamped "good for one silver
dollar." The people refused to believe
that a little piece of copper was worth a
dollar in silver, and after the death of
Charles they beheaded Goertz for bad
financiering. The small copper coins
wore übolished and in the absence of
gold and silver coins containing the full
value in copper were struck off*. The
"four-dab r" piece is simply a piece of
rough copper, eight inches square, and
about one-third of an inch thick, and
contains six pounds of copper. On each
corner and in the center are stamped the
arms of Sweden and tho initiuls of Fred
erick, one of tho successors of Charles.—-
[Chicago Post.
All Enormous Woman.
A funeral and burial took place at
Newton, 111., some days ago which at
tracted more than tho usual umount of
uttention on account of the size of tho
person who had died. Miss Rosella
Kibler died at the house of her father,
John C. Kibler, a prominent Jasper
county farmer. At the time of her death
she was nineteen years of age and
weighed 508 pounds, being without doubt
one of the largest persons known consid
ering her age. She is supposed to have
died of pneumonia, probably coupled
with fatty degeneration. Her growth
hud been most marked during the last
five years.
Being a very modest girl her size was
a source of worry and anxiety to her, so
much so that threo or four years previous
to her death she could not be induced to
accompany her parents to tho neighbor
ing village where they did their murket
ing.
Some idea of her sizo may be formed
from the fact that when living she was
unable to pass through an ordinary door
without turning sideways. When she
died it was necessary to have u coflin
specially constructed. Tho coffin as con
structed measured six feet in length,
threo feet in width and twenty-one inches
in depth, and when the coffin was re
moved from the house it was necessary
to take out the side of the room. Tho
strength of ten men, with tho assistance
of handspikes and skids, was required to
load the remains into a wagon.—[New
ton (111.) Advocate.
Crabbing in the Hudson
If I were asked, says a Hudson ltiver
steamboat captain, what the favorite
style of fishing was around the city, I
wouldn't stop long to say, "crabbing."
I get HO tired of seeing people "crab
bing," I wish they'd all die oft or invent
some new shellfish that was as easy to
catch. As Igo up and down the Hud
son every day, when the tide's right, I
see an unbroken line of "crabbers." 1
should say the daily catch must average
a great many hundred bushels. Where
the crabs all come from I can't imagine.
And this fifty miles of "crabbers" ain't,
as a rule, those that are catching them
for sale; they're just residents on the
banks that come down to get u few for
a little salad they're going to make.
Every Sunday thousands of people come
from the city, swarm into the boats, and
station themselves out in five or six feet
of water, and fish for crabs all day, or as
long as they'll take the bait. It isn't
very dangerous sport; uny child can do
it, and 1 suppose that's what makes it so
popular. Most of the boats are provided
with five or six lines, with a piece of
meat on the end of each, which lies on
the bottom. They pull up one after the
other round and round, till they happen
to find a crab on the end of one. Then
they net him, and throw the line over
board, and then go on. Sixty crabs are
a good morning's catch.
Kemnrkuble Longevity*
An aged Cossack named Michael Guv
rylovitch Khlebnikotf, from the village
of Yessentook, Russia, was met recently
in the"Yar" restaurant of Vladikaukas
City. He has no daughters, but rejoices
in a family of seven sons, thirty grand
sons and seven great-grandsons, who are
all living and in good he alth. They live
in ideal harmony under the same roof,
the numerous progeny obeying, without
question, the commands of their aged
relative, who governs the entire fumily
like a patriarch. According to his state
ment Khlebnikoff' has a wife still living
at the age of eighty-eight. To all in
quiries concerning his own ago he invar
iably answers: "Oh, so many vears have
passed away I cannot remember." But
he declares that when Catharine the
Great died (in 17ftG) he was fifteen years
old, so that lie must now be 110 years of
age. He still enjoys vigorous health,
having never had one day's sickness
during his long life.—[New York Re
corder.
Curious Instincts*
That birds can foresee a hard winter
is a belief too general to be founded en
tirely on fancy, but it seems us if certain
species of water fowl were even able to
anticipate storms not preceded by any
symptoms known to our weather augurs.
The captain of a Russian steamer plying
between Astrakhan and Baku reports
I having passed through a gale that broke
about noon of a day almost cloudless till
9 a. 111., at which time large flocks of sou
birds wore seen hastening toward the
rocky shoros of Derbeud, though tho
sailors suspected nothing wrong, and
only became alarmed when half an hour
after the sky became shrouded in a curi
ous lcud-colored haze.—[New York
Voice.
MEXICANS ALL GAMBLE.
It Is the Ruling Craze and Even
Children Indulge iu It.
"Gambling is the ruling passiou in
Mexico," said Charles F. Hughes, of the
City of Mexico, who was a Palmer House
guest, while 011 his way to Now York,
says the Chicago News.
"Ever}' one, from children ten and
twelve years of ago to old men and
women, indulge in it. Every member of
every class of society tries to win the
favor of tho fickle goddess Fortune, for
gambling is not looked upon by Mexicans
as a most glaring vice, as it is by North
erners. The former are more lenient in
tho matter of publio morals.
"Each saloon has various gumes of
chance, but the whir of the wheel and
tho click of tho ball one notes after pus
sing various zealous guards in tho re
sorts of your city are seldom heard
there.
"Monto is tho national Mexican game,
as faro and poker are the American, and
rouge et noir and baccarat the French.
Monte tables are run within sight of
tho passers by; of course these of which
I now speak are tho public games, where
in all who wish may participate.
4 ' Private games of monte aro quite
common in somo of the houses of the
wealthiest citizens of tho balmy country.
Poker is also a very popular game, and
the stakes aro frequently very high.
44 At one homo to which I am often in
vited thoro are four admirers of tho game,
and each one is a shrewd and calculating
player. This quartet is composed of
father, mother, son and daughter.
44 Of course, tho stakes for which they
play are only enough 4 to make it inter
esting,' but the fact remains that the
purents encourage more or less the youth
ful members of tho family in tho fasci
nuting pastime.
"But instead of looking at tho matter in
tho light of a more rigid disciplinarian,
tho father, a well-to-do-merchant, often
speaks of tho clover way in which his
daughter—or his son, as tho case may be
— 4 called his bluff,' and his wife proudly
exhibits a dazzling pair of diamond ear
rings she won from him with a ten high
flush.
44 In alloys, upon the street corners, in
old buildings and in every accessible
place, street boys and girls can be found
playing with somo device for gambling.
To take gambling from Mexicans would
meun to deprivo them of their most fas
cinating pastime."
Catching Terrapin.
In the shoal water along tho coast
south of Cape llenlopen, terrapin are
caught in various ways. Dredges
dragged along in the wake of a sailing
vessel pick them up. Nets stretched
across some narrow arm of river or bay
entangle the feet of any stray terrapin
iu their meshes; but these require the
constant uttendunce of tho fisherman to
save tho catch from drowning. In the
winter, in tho deeper water, the terrupin
rise from their muddy quarters on mild
sunny days and crawl along tho bottom.
They are then taken by tongs, their
whereabouts being often betrayed by
bubbles.
Turtles will rise at any noise, and usu
ally the fisherman only claps his hands,
though each hunter has his own way of
attracting tho terrapin. One hunter
whom 1 saw uttered a queer guttural
noise that seemed to riso from his boots.
Whatever the noise, all turtles within
hearing—whether terrapin or "snapper"
—will put their heads above water. Both
are welcome and are quickly sold to tho
marketmcn. Tho snappor slowly appears
and disappears, leaving scarcely a rip
ple; and the hunter cautiously approach
ing usually tukes him by the tail. Tho
terrapin, 011 the contrary, is quick, and
will descend in nn oblique direction, so
thut a hand-net is needed unless he hap
pens to come up near by. If he is near
enough the man jumps for him. Tho
timo for hunting is the still hour at
either sunrise or sunset.—[St. Nicholas.
The Home of tho Sardine.
The sardine is a little fish that runs in
schools of myriads at certain sensous
along tho cousts of Franco, Spain and
Italy. No 0110 knows where it comes
from or just why it frequents those shores
periodically; but there is 110 doubt that
it is very good to eat, especially pre
served in olive oil. Tho business of pre
paring it in this way is an important in
dustry in tho countries mentioned, and
greut were the lamentations a few years
ago when for a while it exhibited a dis
position to alter its habits and sheer off
to sea after passing the Straits of Gibrulter
on its way north, without giving the
fishermen of the Bay of Biscay, oh! so
much as a chance to make it a captive
for the not. However, there aro mnny
kinds or sardines which have done this
original species the compliment to assume
its name. Norway puts up small herring
as "sardines." So does Japun, export
ing lurgo quantities. Germany does an
immense export business in 4 'Russian
sardines," which are simply herring
cooked and packed with spices. Before
the Franco-Prussian war great quantities
of these Russian sardines were sold in
this country. That tremendous conflict
interrupted tho supply, and dealers on
this side of tho water bethought them
selves that there was a similar fish,
plentiful beyond numbers, in tho New
England waters which might be a suitable
substitute. From the doinund thus un
expectedly originated arose the present.
—[Washington Star.
Apples Baked on the Tree.
It was hot Sunday. Few people in
Chicago will dispute the stateineut, but
that it was sufficiently hot to bake apples
011 the tree a few may reasonably ques
tion. J. 11. llummill, who resides 011 a
farm at 95th street uud Western avenue,
said yesterday:
44 We reside just west of the slope of
Blue Islund Ridge, and have all the dis
comfort of tho warm prairie winds with
out any comforts of tho lake breeze. The
hired man, with others, went to the or
chard on Dr. Kollogg's farm in the after
noon to seek sholtcr from tho heat. They
noticed that many apples facing the sun
were baked, and, filling their pockets,
brought them to the house. The apples
were baked about one-third through and
had precisely tho same flavor as those
baked in an oven."
Mr. Hummill produced'several of tlio
apples for the edification of the reporter.
One-third of the surfaco is baked, and
when cut the flavor is like that of an ap
ple baked in an oven. The apples were
not much more than half matured, some
portions of the interior being quite
green.—[Chicago Tribune.
The Elixir
Of life, is what my wife and I call Hood's Sarsi
parllla. She wasiu delicate healti two years, at
lostoonllned to her bed. caused by dyspepsia mil
neuralgia. She has taken three bottles of lloo.l'S
Sarsaparllla, and has 1 her health and
strength, can eat anything without distress. S.
STOVER. Ex.-U. S. Marshall, Charlextown, Jedernon
County. W. Va. W. H. Be sure to get
Hood's Sarsaparilla
The best blood purifler. the best nerve helper, the
best strength builder.
liOOD'M PI LI St—lnvigorate the liver, regu
late the bowls. Effective, but gentle. Price 25c.
THE "MAGIC" OF LEARNING
It Malta* Po*ll>le All the Wouden
Achieved by Man.
Nothing is more astonishing to
barbarous or primitive people than
the use of figures, diagrams and
mathematical formula! by engineers
and architects. There appears, wo
will say, among the people of some
mountain region of Northern Mexico
an American civil engineer. He
makes surveys and drawings and com
putations. Then he goes away, leav
ing his drawings and calculations
with others. Men with picks and
shovels go to work in his track con
tracting a railway. Tunnels are
cut through mountains from opposite
sides, •and meet, inch for inch, in the
center. Great embankments are laid,
and to make them there is just
enough earth brought. The surface
of the grade follows an even line as
far as the eye can reach—a wonderful
thing to these untravelled natives.
All the while the men who build
the railway consult the drawings and
calculations of the civil engineer.
Everything is done according to
them. Is it ajiy wonder that the
simple lookers-on regard this wonder
ful paper, which opens the moun
tains and spans the valleys, as a bit
of sorcery, a magician's touchstone?
An African Prince, visiting Paris
during the great exhibition, sees the
Eiffel Tower, a thousand feet high,
slenderly built of iron in such away
that every foot of the material con
tributes to the strength of the struc
ture, or to the architect's scheme of
decoration. Nothing is superfluous.
When the African Prince returns to
his people, he can only give them this
account of the matter:
"These white men arc wonderful
magicians. None of our fetish men
can do such things as we have seen.
They have there a school of necro
mancy, where men are taught to
make lines and figures in such away
that great palaces of iron are built.
"It is thus that a white man of
Paris has built a tower which seems
so pierce the clouds, and which at
night is lighted with fires of many
colors. And all that, as it was told
to us, by means of lines, and rules of
numbers and figures.
"Put when the white men sought
to explain these lines and designs, we
understood nothing of what they told
us. No doubt they meant that wo
should not understand the secret.
For if we knew their magic, their
power would be lost."
But the "magic" of the civilization
of the white man is no secret. It is
simply the magic of patient research
and industrious application. Nor is
its possession limited to those who
are not able to go to college.
Every student in the public schools
may treasure up scientific knowledge
which will be of the'utmost practical
value to him when he goes out into
the world. Here is an illustration:
Not long ago, in a Now England
public school, there was a boy who
took a decided interest in natural
philosophy. He said he was going
to be a plumber, and he wanted to
understand the facts that lay at the
bottom of his future occupation.
His father was a poor workingman,
and could not afford to send the boy
to college. But he permitted him to
finish the course at the high school.
The boy never ceased to pay particu
lar attention to natural philosophy.
After he left school, he went to
work for a plumber. When be had
been at work about a year, there
arose a great deal of trouble about
certain valves that belonged to an
important and costly apparatus which
had been supplied to many people.
No one could make these valves work
after they had been in use a short
time.
As there was a great deal of value
at stake one practical plumber after
another was employed, but quite
vainly, to remedy the defect.
Meantime, the high-school lad had
gone to work on his own account to
experiment with the valves. He re
called some facts, which he had
learned in his natural philosophy at
school, about a peculiar corroding ef
fect of water upon certain metals,
and he was able, through this knowl
edge, bo find the exact spot in the
costly apparatus where the fault lay.
The discovery proved so valuable to
the manufacturers of the apparatus
that the boy was taken into their
employ. From this beginning he
rose to a leading and profitable posi
tion. He attributes his success to
the excellent grounding in the
"magic" of natural science which he
received at school.
A Fly Spnck Mule a itlg DifferfiKe.
In one of our large establishments
connected with the iron industry
there occurred recently an apparent
discrepancy in the accounts involving
a matter of 3,000 pounds of scrap iron.
The clerks of the department were
set to work to unravel the tangled
skein, and after they hud expended
two whole days in the search they
were compelled to give up the task
and pronounce it beyond their compre
hension. Thus matters stood for
several days.
Several days later the office-boy de
cided to keep himself in practice in
addition by footing up a column of
llgures on a sheet which was lying on
a desk beside him in the scrap-iron
department. Bending his energies to
the task he got along swimmingly
with the units, tens, and hundreds
columns, but when ho came to the
fourth column he could not make it
agree with the footings set down.
Again and again he tried it and with
the same result —3,000 less. Going
over the figures one by one his atten
tion was drawn to a queer looking
one. A fly speck was beside it in such
a position as to make it appear like a
four, and as such it had been counted
by each of the clerks in the depart
ment. The boy had earned his pro
motion, and he got it.— Philadelphia
Jiccurd.
b.sUKtLtbb KUWUhK.
\ ChlOAjru ilttu Trias MLe Buntl at Mnk
ife M ' It.
*' Yos, tils smokeless powder they
are talking about in Europe," said a
Chicago druggist, is few evenings ago,
"is undoubtedly a great discovery,
but X know something about such
things myself. I had a little experi
ence with high explosives once which
nearly cost me my life. I was a
student then and my favorite study
was chemistry. I had always had a
penchant toward experimenting with
explosives, gaseous, fluid, and solid,
and in the course of my work in the
laboratory I Anally evolved one of
such terrific power that 1 don't think
any other to equal it has ever been
found. It was a fulminate, and when
I had succeeded in producing the tlrst
few graifis of white powder I decided
to try it. A half grain was all I
used. I didn't know how powerful
the stuff was. 1 put it in a big iron
mortar, suspended a pestle over it by
a thread, and fixed a cord so by jerk
ing it I could let the pestle fall. I
retired to the other side of the room,
pulled the string and—well, I was
knocked down, two windows were
shattered and I had to pay $l5O for
delicate apparatus ruined by the ex
plosion.
"Knowing how frightfully danger
ous the stuff was, and yet unwilling
to quit experimenting, I fitted up a
little laboratory of my own in an
abandoned.st.able about a mile from
the college building. This was neces
sary, for the faculty notified me to
stop monkeying with my fulminate
on the college property. I worked
away in my own improvised shop,
however, and soon had an ounce or so
of the stuff made. Then I invited a
friend of mine, a good rifle shot, to
come out with me and try it. I
wasn't taking any more chances on
testing it indoors. Well, we went to
a little lake, about a quarter of a
mile wide, I carrying the fulminate
very daintily, you may be sure, and
lie his rifle. We took a boat, went
out about a hundred yards from shore,
buoyed a piece hoard and on it set
the can with the fulminate in it. I
only used half an ounce. Returning
to the shore we took up positions on
a little knoll, and I asked my friend
to shoot at the cqn. lie missed it
the first time, hut the second, coinci
dentally with the crack of his rifle,
came a ripping crash like the heavens
were being torn asunder. Both of us
were thrown flat to the ground and
half stunned by the concussion. I
saw just a flash, a splitting of the
waters to the bottom of the lake, and
fell. When we arose an enormous
wave rolled shoreward, and we could
see the water for a hundred yards,
all muddy, though it was very deep.
We took the skiff and pulled out
into the lake, and in a moment dead
fish begaa to rise on all sides. The
water was fairly covered with them
in half an hour, all sorts and sizes
floating on all parts of the lake. I
think we killed every fish in the little
body of water, for there were thou
sands of them. We were a mile from
the collage buildings, but when we re
turned we found everything excite
ment there. They thought it was an
earthquake, for the walls had trem
bled, and dozens of panes of glass
were broken. I've never given away
the formula of my fulminate. It's
too dangerous to lie in the possession
even of scientists."— Chicaao Times.
Curious (injection.
The curious fault is found with the
mastless ships of the navy that they
afford the crews no opportunity for
exercise—the seaman having nothing
to climb; they feel cooped up, and are
showing a spirit of discontent. It is
questionable whether such tame de
vices as horizontal bars and other
mere gymnastic appliances would
avail to restore the spirits of the men.
The Darwinians may seize upon this
fact as additional proof of the Simian
descent of the human species.— Phila
delphia Record.
Daniel's Roots.
The boots which Daniel Webster
wore on his farm at Franklin, N. H.,
are owned by the New Hampshire
Historical Society, and are on exhibi
tion in a shoe store at Concord. They
are of kip leather, pegged soles and
heels, with square toes.
OFFICE seekers have strong filial
affection, at least they always look
after their pap.
m*
' ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gentiyyetpromptly 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 fcver 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 $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
UVISVHU, Kt. NEW YORK. N.Y.
KI.Y'S CREAM ll* I,VI mill! 111 l "Ml
Applied Into Nostril# 1# Quloltty 7a
Absorbed, Cleanse* the Head, ■CATaQAvJI '
Heal* the Sores and Cure* Mgp, .frP]
CATARRH.INI
Kestnrea Ta*te and Smell, quick- mi
ly Holloves Cold In Head and
Headache. BOc. at Druggists.
ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y.
Tin* furli* llnj-'i-kers.
' A curious soi.js of sin. *ics estab
lishes the value of the refuse of the
Paris streets. The figures seem in
credible, and show that the rag-pick
ers discharge a duty of primary im
portance. Working at night, busy
under the gas lights with hook and
panier, the value of what they collect
is estimated at £2,000 each day. As
suredly one half the world does not
know how the other half lives. Of
Course the conditions of Paris life are
exceptional. Population is veryclose,
the tall houses are crammed with in
habitants, there are gardens as with
us—there are but the houses and the
streets. The Parisians have away of
emptying all kinds of lumber and re
fuse intg the streets, and then the
rag-pickers gather in their harvest.
A use is found for everything, and
metamorphosis never ccasos. All the
details are interesting, though some
are rather disturbing. Rags, ol
course, go to make paper; broken
glass is pounded and serves as a coat
ing for sand or emery paper; bones
after the process of cleaning and cut
ting down, serve to make nail brushes,
tooth brushes, and fancy buttons; lit
tle wisps of women's hair are care
fully unraveled, and do duty for false
hair by and by. Men's hair collected
outside the barbers' servos for filters
through which syrups are strained;
bits of sponge are-cut up and used for
spirit lamps; bits of bread if dirty are
toasted and grated, and sold to the
restaurants for spreading on hams or
cutlets; sometimes they are carbonized
and made into tooth powder. Sar
dine boxes are cut up into tin soldiers
or into sockets for candlesticks. A
silk hat has a whole chapter of ad
ventures in store for it. All this
work employes a regiment of rag
pickers numbering close on 20,00(1,
and each earning from twenty pence
to half a crown a day. With all the
wonders of our great cities we have
nothing auite like this.
A vein of quartz gold was recently uncov
ered at Craftsbury, Vt.
Prevents Pneumonia.
Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cur® positively
prevents pneumonia, diphtheria and mem
braneous croun. It has no rival. Sold by
druggists or will be mailed on receintof 50 eta.
, Address A. P. Iloxsie. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
clears $4,000,000 a year profits.
For a 2c. stamp, sent with address to Lydia
E. Piukham Medicino Co., Lynn, Mass., ladies
will receive free, a beautiful illustrated book,
"Guide to Health aud Etiquette."
There are 1, 425 chnrneters in the twenty
four books that Charles Dickens wrote.
A. M. Priest. Druggist, Shelbyville, Ind.,
says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of
satisfaction. Can gut plenty of testimonials,
as it cures every one who takes it." Druggists
sell it, 76c.
Imitation "coffees" are chiefly made from
wheat, flour and bran mixed with molasses.
riTt' stopped free by DR. KLINE'S GREAT
NERVE RESTORER. NO fits after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle
free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Phila.. Pa.
American screws are the most popular in
England and Germany.
Young mothers, who regain strength but
slowly, should bear in mind that nature's
greatest assistant is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound. It has no rival as thousands
testify.
The Russian language is to be taught in
the Japanese schools.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thornn
bou's Eyo-water.Druggists sell at 26o.per bottle
lowa boasts of her crop of cereals this
year, especially the oat crop. USD
IIV 15 MINUTES.
ft . j I suffered severely with face neu
ralgia, but in 15 minutes after appli-
EFFLMPASBPH cation of ST. J ACOBS OI L was asleep;
have not been troubled with it since.
No return since 1882. F. B. ADAMS, Perry, Mo.
m -ALL RIGHT/ ST. JACOBS OIL DID IT."
To euro cost!venoustlio medicine must bo
more than o purgative; it must contain
tonic, altcrativo and cathartic properties.
Tutt's Pills
possess theso qualities, and speedily re
st ore to tlie bowels t heir nut ural peristaltic
motion, so essential to regularity.
O A I ESMAN' WANTED. Salary ana expense*
8 AL. nald. BROWN BROS. CO.. Rochester, N.Y.
W "?act'imytody" bnt' If!! "J'.s ''"ifA*'oMo'huikf '
■■ money, to Mmi j I.HHI < iird with full uddnwst. 1
K. 11. LADY. 30.Y High St.. rrovidtuee. '<-1
A GENTS mak ' 100 PEB CZNT wir ri3
(r. Territory. Or. Brldgman, 3:3 B'wy, N.Y
HI O PAGE BOOK, the simplest and fairos
/ I h'Hor written on the tariff iiio*tion, for |o
UlU H tmnr*. P. I' CO . f. N uinlewater St.. N.Y.
ffnuir HTP L> Y, BOOK-ICBKPISO, IDUURWJM Form*,
HUmC Arithmetic, Shorl-hnrul, etc. 1
M Titoßoi iJiii.v TAFOIIT HY >1 A 11.. Circulars free". I
llry n iii'n College. -137 Mnln St., BufTnh>, N. Y. I
UJ| I# EC 1/CD CURED TO STAY CURED.
nil I rtftllWe want the name and ad
dress of every sufferer in the
P. ACTUM A U. S. and Canada. Address,
Oc MO I nlflH P. Harold Hajn,M.D., Buffalo,N.Y.
mE£pAir§ji
= OFUIIUY WARRANTED°=
STON SCALES S6O FREIGHT PAID j
BINEHAMTON.NY. ,
RUPTURE CURED!
PnHMyHiMtßupturt. |
/P.TVV* iu/iwvn \ 744 BROADWAY. N.Y. CITY
rn I EWIS' 98 % LYE
9 Powdered and Perfumed.
!■
Strong? stand purest Lyomade.
A Makes the best perfumed Hani
•Soap in 'id minutes without boil•
ing. It is the host for softening
water, cleansing waste pipes,
■■ disinfecting sinks, closets,wash-
Mm ing bottles, paints, trees, etc.
ML PENNA. SALT MFG. CO.,
EBSTEM A Rents, Phila., Pa.
dh 1 i n,
fc-J Cures whore all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the fjf
|j| taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. E~B
I
Nothing can be said
in favor of the best medicine in th
world that may not be said of the
most worthless. In one case, it's
true; in the other, it isn't; —but how
can you distinguish ?
Judge by what is done. There's
only one blood-purifier that's guar
anteed. It's Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery—and this is what
is done with it; if it doesn't benefit
or cure, in every case, you get your
money back. Isn't it likely to be
the best?
All the year round, as well at one
time as another, it cleanses and pnr
ifies the system. All blood-poisons
must go. For Dyspepsia, Bilious
ness, Scrofula, Salt-rheum, Tetter,
Erysipelas, or any blood-taint or dis
order, it is an unequaled remedy.
It's the cheapest, too. With this,
you pay only for the good you get.
And nothing else is " just as good."
It may be better—for the dealer.
But he isn't the one that's to be
helped.
"German
Syrup"
We have selected two or
Croup. three lines from letters
freshly received from pa
rents who have given German Syrup
to their children in the emergencies
of Croup. You will credit these,
because they come from good, sub
stantial people, happy in finding
what so many families lack—a med
icine containing no evil drug, which
mother can administer with con
fidence to the little ones in their
most critical hours, safe and sure
that it will carry them through.
ED. L. WILLITS, of Mrs. JAS.W. KIRK,
Alma, Neb. I give it Daughters' College,
to my children when Harrodsburg, Ky. I
troubled with Croup have depended upon
and never saw any it in attacks of Croup
preparation act like with my little daugh
lt. It is simply mi- ter, and find it an Mi
raculous. valuable remedy.
Fully one-half of our customers
are mothers who use Boschee's Ger
man Syrup among their children.
A medicine to be successful with the
little folks must be a treatment for
the sudden aud terrible foes of child
hood, whooping cough, croup, diph
theria and the dangerous inflamma
tions of delicate throats and lungs. @
Olfll# WXA * NKRvorR, %VRETCHU> mortals eel
B H well and keep well. HtaUK H+mr
''■Vl* tells how. CO eta. a year. Kamplooeos
■free. Dr. J. 11. II YE. Editor. Buffalo. N. Y-
-Vj 'LADIES. ~
?Z.50 a 2251%ZX V*™*!'
r '" 2 F
W. L DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE CPWlPemiem
'HE BfeST SHOfc IM (HE AORLU 50R fHE MONEY?
GENTLEMEN and LADIES, savcyourdol-
Inrs by wearing W u Douglne Shoes. They
meet the wanes of nil classes, ana arc the moat
eoonomioal foot wear offeree' or the money.
i- 01 dealers who oiler other makes, aa he
ing just, as good, and oe sure you have W. L.
| Douglas Shoes, with name and price stumped OD
bottom. W. L. Dougltfl. Brockton. Alass. _
IF-'PAHE NO BUBHTITITE. jCI
Insist on local advertised dealers supplying you.
pRTOBIHS
UNEXCELLED!
APPLIED EXTERN ALL Y
roa
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pains in the
Limbs, Back or Chest, Mumps, Sore
Tbroat, Colds, Sprains, Bruises,
Stings of Insects, Mosqnito Bites.
TAKEN INTERNALLY
It net* like n chitriu lor Cholera Morhiu,
Dinrrlirrii, DyHcntery. Colic, Crumps, Nuu-
Men. Hick llendnclie. ore.
Wnrranted perfectly hnrinlenn. (See oath
nccoiiipnnylnu each liottie, also dtrenionn
lor use.) IfH SOOTIIINO nnd PENKTIIA
TI NG unit litir* are felt Immediately. Try
It and lie < envtneed.
l'riceV3aiid.lO rente. Hold by all drug
gist*.
DEPOT. 40 L>l CR It AY HT.. NEW YOltK.