Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, September 24, 1891, Image 3
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.