SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OK EVEItV-DAY LIFE. (Jueer Episodes and Thrilling Adven tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. THE boldest robbery of grain ever known in Kansas is reported from King man county. John Myrick, a farmer from the southwestern part of the county, had rented a piece of wheat laud close to Norwich. After cutting and stacking his crop safely he went home. The routed land is a long way from his own place and Mvrick is therefore unknown to the neighborhood of Norwich, so that when a stranger presented himself under the name of Myrick there was no one to question his title to the wheat. After being in Norwich a couple of days the supposed Myrick had his plans perfected. A threshing outfit was engaged and teamsters to cart the grain to Norwich, the work to be done at night because of a tendency to sunstroke which prevented his working in the sun alleged by the supposed Myrick. The plans worked to perfection. Before morning the greater part of the wheat had been threshed and delivered to a buyer in Norwich and the money for the grain was safely in the robber's pocket. By tolling the threshers to be there the next night to finish up the stranger avoided paying for the work already done, but when evening came no Myrick appeared, and it was afterward ascertained that the man had left Nor wich by an early morning east-bound , train, taking with him the proceeds, ! about |11,(J00. A YOUNG medical student in New York ' i had a remarkable experience recently. He belongs to that sort of young men who are compelled to depend almost en tirely upon their own resources to obtain their education, and he spends his even ings in a down-town office. For a long time he was accosted by a professional beggar, a strapping big follow, with a stiff' neck, while passing through City Hall Park. The beggar accosted him night after night in an insolent manner. Frequently it was difficult for the medi cal student to get rid of the beggar, and they rarely parted without an exchange of epithets. This thing went 011 for some time, and then the beggar suddenly dis appeared. One morning shortly after this the medical student wont into the dissecting room to dissect a body. He was surprised to find that the body assigned to him was that of the trouble some beggar. The student had often ! wondered what was the matter with the j fellow's neck, and now lie had an oppor- 1 tunity to find out. He dissected the i body, and found that a layer of bone had i grown down tho nock preventing the j head from being moved backward or for- ; ward. Ono of the attendants mounted j the skeleton for tho student, and it now stands complete in his room at the foot of tho bed. IN tho Island of Corsica, near the head waters of the Tavignavo Kiver and about twenty-two miles from the city of ' Corte, there is a ten-acre field which is | simply a subterranean lake covered with I soil to a depth of about eighteen inches. ! 011 the soil this year there wascultivated j a piece of wheat which produced thirty five bushels to the acre. A curious per son who desires to investigate for him- ; self, and who will take the trouble to dig ! a hole tho depth of a spade handle, will find that ho has dug entirely through the thin covering of soil to the surface of a lake which is from 35 to 80 fee.t in depth. , Through the opening thus made fish may 4 bo caught which have neither eyes nor scales. Tho ground is a black marl, and, in all probability, covers what was once an open body of water, but which centuries of accumulating vegetable j matter lias increased to a thickness suf ficient to produce an excellent crop. All work 011 the soil which covers this subterranean lako must of necessity be done by hand, the soil not being of suffi cient strength to bear a horse and machinery. It is called "(Jorto's won der." "THE 'logger' in an English canal tun nel lias a hard time of it," says a travel- | er. "I went through two cunul tunnels this summer. Tho canals are just the width of 0110 of the small barges used, and but very little higher than the board which runs from the alleged cabin to the tow-lino pole. As it is impossible for a horse to tow the bargo the animal is led around or over the bill, and a logger lies 011 his back 011 tho board referred to, und, raising bis legs from his hips, Sushes tho boat along by pressing 011 the ilapidated roof of tho tunnel. As I sat and watched the man in this unnatural position 1 felt the depth of human misery had been discovered at last. The work is arduous, tho light very bad, the ut- I mosphere almost fetid, the labor degrad- j ing, and the crt'oot almost equivalent to making a man a cripple. Yet tho most the 'logger' can ninko is seventy-five cents a day, and when traffic is light or there is 'fee on the canal he makes little or nothing. The old jail treadmill was bad enough, in all conscience, but this is a thousand times worse." AN extraordinary case has been dovol- ! oped at White Hall, Mich., near Muske gon. George Beard, a young man aged twenty-one, has been confined to his bed for the past threo months, during seven weeks of which time he has been in an unconscious condition. He seems to have lost every sense save that of feeling. When he is touched on the arm with a slight downward pressure he will raise his arm. When an attempt is made to move his head to the right he will turn it to the loft. In order to feed the pa tient four teeth had to be knocked out, as it was impossible to open his mouth either to insert food or to extract the teeth. Through this opening he receives his liquid nourishment. Tho attending physician pronounces it a case of cams. 8. C.REEB, a Western mining man, has a scheme by which he proposes to revo -4 lutionize mining and acquire consider able wealth. Instead of delvingdown in the earth for precious metuls, he is go .ing mining in a balloon. Along the precipitous sides of the deep canyons in the Rockies are many ledges which are known to be exceedingly rich in ore, but which are inaccessible on account of the immense height and sheer sides of the cliff's. Mr. Bees intends to reach these ledges in a balloon. He will anchor his large balloon to the bottom of the canyon with long ropes, and ascend to the point of the wall or tho canyon where the ledge is. Then a foothold will bo worked into tho ledge from the balloon, and the min ing begun from that point. A CLERGYMAN'S wife now in the Trans vaal writes this: "It seems strange to think of what is going on in this bustling city of 40,000 people (Johannesburg), where five years ago were only a few scattered furm-houses. To-night there are fourtoen prayer-meetings in various churches, five or six missionary meet ings, a Congregational bazaar, a grand temperance rally, Lenten services in the High Church and Catholic Cathedral, a skating-rink entertainment, ut which one of the novelties will be a race be tween native boys who never put on skates before, a rendering of Passim music in Music Hall, the Jubilee Singer? concert and many theatrical perform ances." WHILE on his way home from Wash ington a few days ago. Pension Exam iner Samuel B. Brackott lost his lower set of false teeth in a peculiar manner, says a Biddeford (Me.) newspaper. Mr. Brackott has an individual tendency to push his teeth out with his tongue when he is asleep. He fell asleep as tho train ; was ncaring Bridgewater, and, as usual, j dropped his tooth. A knavish fellow I came along and was seen by the passen gers to pick up something, which later on proved to be the missing teeth. Ho soon got off', and when Mr. Brackott awoke the sad news was broken to him us gently us possible. A REMARKABLE instance of a dog's sagacity has just been reported from In diana. A large English setter was "making a point" at a fish that was chasing minnows in the shallow water of a lake near a small boat pier. A by stander told the dog to "hie in," and in he jumped; his head went down in tho water und 110 threw a large fish high in the air. It fell into tho water, when he caught it again and brought it to shore. It was a bass and tipped the beam at two and a half pounds. A NEW YORK jeweler has hit upon a good plan for preventing robberies in bis store. It is an electric arrangement for closing and locking tho street door, which is operated by a push button behind the counter. It will also unlock the door. Now, if well-dressed people who pose as customers seize trays full of valuables and attempt to dush out of the store, they can be de tained. Or if a suspicious person enters tho door can be closed until danger is passed. THERE is on exhibition in a show win dow in Butte, Montana, a very large moose horn grafted into the base of a tree. It has been in that position for years, as the treo lias grown around it so us to get such a grip 011 it that cutting the wood away is the only means of sep arating the two. It is evident that at some remote period tho monarch of the woods was caught in a tree, and in try ing to extricate himself the horn was broken off'. THE Yuma (Cnl.) Sentinel says that at the mouth of the Colorado Kiver und the upper end of the Gulf of California are to be found sea bass that weigh from 250 to 750 pounds each, clams as large as an ordinary dinner plate, millions of sar dines and smelt, oysters small but de licious, millions of soft-shell crabs and other shellfish, myriads of wild geese, brant, ducks', crunes and other sea fowl and birds. A HUMBLE member of tho Franciscan Order, who had attained tho age of 118 years, died the other day at the monas tery, in Italy, where he had passed his life as cook to the inmates. The Pope, who had a great affection fur Frere Og -11011, as 110 called him, never failed to make enquiries after him, nor to send kindly messages during bis illness. J. S. PARKER, of Lincoln Creek, Wash., killed fourteen bears—eleven full grown and three cubs—in one week's hunting near his homo two weeks ago. He bagged Ave tho first day that he was out. Bears are exceedingly plentiful in that section of the State, and another j hunter killed twelve bears there a month | or so ago. Mr. Parker holds the record. THE marvellous records of this year of phenomenal crops may yet have to he revised for surprising additions. Mr. John B. Leahy, of New London, Conn., has an apple tree in his garden which is blossoming for tho second time this year. It has borne a large crop, and is now covered with buds, and has some blossoms in full bloom. JOE WARREN, an employee of the ccrealino mills in Columbus, Ohio, had one of his hands caught in the machinery and cut off, some weeks ago. One day recently a Quakcrtowu (Pa.) farmer found a man's hand in a newly-purchased bag of feed that proved to be part of a consignment just at hand from Mich igan. A QUEER sight to be seen almost any da}- upon the streets of Danville, Ind., is that of Johnny Craig, the largest man in the world, wheeling along his six months' old baby in an ordinary baby carriage. Craig now weighs 823 pounds, while young Master Craig, Jr., is not above the average six months' old child. THE Denver News says that Jonas Carpenter, of that city, is nearly 150 years old. He was born in Virginia, and the family Bible gives tho date of his birth as 1752. He is said to bo in good health. Incipient Melancholy* Melancholia is a grave disease, especi ally because of its strange and terrible tendency to induce suicide and homicide. As the patient's reasoning processes seem to he perfectly clear, friends are seldom sufficiently on their guard. The danger is always present, however, nor is the highest degree of intelligence or of moral worth any safeguard against it. The New York Medical Journal has a report of a lecture on the importance of recognizing melancholia in its earlier stage by Dr. Burnett, lecturer in the Kan sas City Medical College, of which re port we make free use. "There is a marked difference between sadness and melancholia," says Dr. Bur nett. "In ordinary sadness there is a cuuso comprehensible to the individual, and he will seek to remove it. In mel ancholia there is no apparent cause; there is some implication of the higher faculties, and tho patient is usually in different to his condition, surroundings and future progress." There arc several forms of tho affec tion: Simple melancholia, melancholia agitata, melancholia attonita, and mel ancholia with stupor. Tho first two are the most difficult of recognition, and it is these that especially endanger tho lives of the patient and his friends. The first important system of simple melancholia is sleeplessness. Another symptom, of the greatest importance, is a dull pain in the back of the neck, ex tending to the back of tho head. It is only within a few years that this symp tom lias been recognized. The third symptom is depression of spirits, accompanied by slower mental movements and retarded speech and ac tions. When tho first and the lust symp toms are connected with pain in the neck the diagnosis may he considered as con elusive.—{Philadelphia Record. THERE is an odd use of the word "slave" in western l'cnnyslyvania, and perhaps in other parts of the United States, that should reach the great Dr. Murray of Oxford in time for insertion 1 in his ponderous new English dictionary. . A fierce and dangerous dog is called a ! slave, apparently because lie must bo : restrained of his liberty. The word bus j evidently passed beyond the stage wliero if is questioned, for it is used in popular ; speech without hesitation. PIG BREEDING IX SICILY. ! Curious Statistics of an Extensive Industry. The last British consular report from Palermo contains some curious details ro specting the breeding of pigs in Sicily, ; which in certain districts, and especially 1 in mountainous parts, are reared in groat numbers. Nearly all the small towns are overrun with them, and they uro not only useful for food, but act us scavengers to the dirty streets. They are enticed in towns to devour tho filthiest food by sprinkling bran over it. In the moun tainous districts, where there are oak forests, they are driven up to tho high regions to feed 011 acorns. A good acorn year is a godsend to those who possess oak forests. For each full-grown pig us much as 10s. is paid for tho acoru season to the owner of the forest; two medium sized pigs and three small ones are ad mitted at the same rate. The pigs, which are thus driven about under the superintendence of boy swine herds, are all ear-nmrkod, and speedily become accustomed to their now con ditions of life. They form umong them selves a sort of republican government, and are docile to the calls and windings of the horn of their young guardiuns, who are clothed in very plain and primi tive fashion, and live simply on bread and water, taking out with them every day loaves baked in the ovens of tho farm, and in shape precisely tho same as those that have been found in the bakers' shops at Pompeii. The pigs are driven back homo at night and housed to avoid disease, and strange to say, their sheds are scrupulously clean. It is said that they establish internally a kind of sanitary jurisdiction, and that a pig which is found a delinquent against the sanitary rules is attacked with fury by tho rest and killed. The consul litis seen covered pig sties made of stone and capable or holding 300 or 400 pigs, and found them dry and clean and very dusty. The only value of the pigs consists in their being sold as fresh pork and for the making of saus ages. They fattern well upon acorns, and their flesh is very white and tasteful, whereas the color of the pork in the towns is quite dark. The sausages which are made are also very tolerable, but the curing of pork for ham or bacon is un known in Sicily. Pigs in Sicily enjoy as much social distinction as iu Ireland; they, with the poultry and other animals, share their master's tenement, and will trot after him daily to and fro on his way to his work in the fields. Perhaps pork is more commonly oaten than any other kind of meat in tho island. The boy swineherds and goatherds who toud the flocks iu tho mountains receive a daily provision of bread cooked in tho farm buildings, and get nothing else in winter and summer, not even in tho severest weather, and never us a rule, even taste "pasta" or macaroni. Besides the daily provision of bread they receive a dole of 75f a year, paid iu throo parts, out of which they find their clothes. A great part of the year tho lads sleep iu the open air or in temporary straw huts, often iu rainy or snowy weather, and with such a hard life and nothing but coarse broad and wator from yoar's end to year's end their cheorfulnoss and good humor appear quite marvelous, and many of them are bright, intelligent, livoly lads, and graceful and courteous in their demeanor.—[London Times. Jocko's Recreation. A few pedestrians who were out for a morning stroll witnessed a brief but bloody battle through the windows of tho Market street bird store Sunday morn ing. Among the denizens of tho place is a monkey called Jocko, whose proclivity for mischief has led him into disgrace be fore. On tho morning in question Jocko determined to go on a lark. lie suc ceeded in picking tho lock of his cago, and once free turned his attention to his feathered companions. It took him but a few minutes to unlock a dozen of tho various cages in tho room, and soon a funny procession of monkeys and parrots were strutting about. In a few minutes trouble began to brew. One of the parrots, in a spirit of mischief, probably, hit Jocko, and a livoly battle ensued. Polly soon found that she was getting tho worst of it and made a run for her cage, minus her tail leathers and part of a wing. Jocko, who was then thoroughly aroused, sailed in for a genoral massacre, and in a short time had the floor to him self, save for Minnie, a nightingalo, who was too dazed to escape. With one blow tho bird wus stretched lifeless on tho floor. The monkey then offered battle to a bigstuffod owl which had been gazing solemnly upon the scene, and receiving no answer to his challenge throw the bird oft' its pedestal. Jocko's Waterloo was awaiting him, however. A hugo vampire bat, which had been watching tho battle, jumped down from his perch, and Jocko started for him. The contest was brief. The sharp beak and talons of the bird buried themselves like a flash in tho monkey's flesh, and Jocko was glad to make his es cape with the blood flowing from a dozen wounds. At this juncture the proprietor appeared and hostilities ceased.—[San Francisco Chronicle. Heads of Two Noted Men. When the wise and witty Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded his head was stuck on a pole on London bridge, whore it was exposed for fourteen days, much to the grief of hs daughter, Murguret Roper, who resolved to secure it. "One day," says Aubrey, "as she was passing under the bridge, looking at her tathor's head, she exclaimed: 'That head has lain many a time in my lap; woxld to God it would fall into my lap as I pass under!' She had her wish, and it did fall into her lap!" Probably she had bribed one of the keepers of tho bridge to throw it over just as the boat approached, and the exclamation was intended to avert tho suspicion of the boatmen. At all events, she got possession of it, and preserved it with care in a leaden casket until her death, and it is now inclosed in a niche in the wall of her tomb in St. Dunstan's Church. Canterbury. Sir Walter Raleigh's head in a rod bag was carried to his wife, who caused it to be embalmed, and kept it with her all her life, permitting favored friends, like Bishop Goodman, to see and even to kiss it. His son, Carcw Raloigh, afterwnrd preserved it with similar piety. It is supposed now to rest in the church of West Horsley, Surrey.—[Gentlemen's Magazine. Toronto, Canada, propones to have a reg iment uniformed in Scotch kilts. RISE OF THE " HARVESTER." A Great Advance in the Methods of Gathering Grain. The original cave dweller —clear child of the Working Scientist —harvested his wheat crop by going out to his field and gnawing off the heads of the grain with his active jaws. The plan had its ad vantages and disadvantages—on the whole our able progenitor longed for something better. Then there arose a thoughtful paleozoic inventor who point ed out that the grain could be pulled up by the roots and the headsthrashed out in the palm of the hand. This satisfied our esteemed ancestor, and matters ran along thus for a few hundred thousand years. Indeed. I claim the Working Scientist's privilego to be vague as to years. Lot us throw overboard the cave dweller, for that matter, and come along down to modern times. Let us begin with the sickle, for instance. You may still find old men who will tell you that they can remember when farmers in this country had nothing but the sickle with which to harvest their wheat and rye. A dozen men worked in single file, and cut the grain with one hand and gathered it on tin; other urm, stopping every "round" t< drink earn estly out of a big jug of New England rum or Pennsylvania whiskey. Then came the cradle —a scythe with "fingers" on it —which made the grain lie straight. Many farmers have a cradle yet for corners and odd nooks. With it one man cut down the grain and another bound it into sheaves. Then arose a direct descendant of the paleozoic genius, and invented a reaper drawn by horses. This was in the '3o's, say. A man drove and a small boy sat on a low seat and raked off the grain in gavels. He was practically the same small boy who used to pull the strings that worked the cut off valve in the first steam engine. He soon lost his occupation in both instances —in the case of the reaper they invented a mechanical rake. It took five men to follow on foot and bind up what the reaper cut down. Still the farmer wasn't satisfied. So they made him the harvester. Two men besides the driver rode on this, and bound the grain as it was brought up 011 an endless apron to where they stood. They had an awning over them and wore very comfortubly situated. This was in the '7o's. Still the agriculturist fretted. Then ho got the self-binder, which he has yet—though he is beginning to find fault with it und tulk about electricity. At first they tried to tie up the grain with wire, but it did not work very well, and the machines were abandoned, and others using inanila or homp twine were tried with better results. The binder invented by a man named Appleby has perhaps been the most successful. The twine or cord is very strong, and is a little larger than a round shoe-string. It seldom breaks, and the sheaves are tied up firmer and better than by hand. The self-binder is somewhat complicated, but it seems simple when we consider what it does. It is tho most intelligent ma chine used on the farm, if 1 may so ex press it. It would make the paleozoic man dizzy to watch it. All it asks is that tho hired man shall keep his fingers out of it and furnish it plenty of grain to bind up. It does not tie a square or "hard" knot, nor yet a bow-knot, iking tho two ends of a string together for two or three inches from their ends; then considering the two strings as one, tio one single plain school-boy knot in it, and you have the knot made by a self binder. It is the hardest knot in the world to untie, and it never "gives" a particle. In tho machine it is made by a funny, crafty little thingumbob which turns around half way, opens its mouth and seizes the cord, turns on around, and lets go sullenly, as if it hud half a mind not to. A knife cuts the cord, another thingumbob holds the ends, two arms sweep the sheaf off 011 to the ground, and the binder waits for enough grain to accumulate for another sheaf, when it starts itself and repeats the operation. It works with the precision of a fine steam-engine, if tho hired man will only let it alone.—[Harper's Weekly. Errors In Geographies* "The publishers of school maps," says a teacher in the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat, "are responsible for more errors than any other class of people 011 the planet. They use sometimes half a dozen different scales of sizes in a single book, and it is impossible for children to get a correct idea of the relative sizes of differ ent countries because of their lack of uniformity in the scale. In an atlas for school use all the maps should be 011 the same scale, otherwise most incorrect ideas will be formed. I recently asked a bright boy who had just finished the study of geography and laid it by because he knew all about it. how large lie supposed Arabia was. He* reflected a moment, and then, with some confidence, replied that Arabia was about tho size of Massachu setts. 1 suggested the possibility of his being mistaken, when he got his atlas and showed me that Arabia and Massachu setts were the same size, that is, on tho map. He opened his eyes when 1 ex plained to hiinthc mysteries of the scale, and that instead of being a mere speck Arabia was as long as from St.Paul to New Orleans, as wide as from St. Louis to New York, and contained more than one-third as many square miles as the United States. He had been misled by the maps, as his teacher probably had also, and thousands of Hood's Sarsn- | j-orllla make-nie feel well. 1 havo been subject to | severe attacks of Rheumatism iu my urtns and cbest. A very few doses of Hold's Sarsaoarilla cured ine of the last one, when suffer lug lu tensely." E VERY M° THEB Should Have It In T!ao Ilottse. Uropp< d on Sugar, Children Love to take JOHNSON'-! ANODYNE LINIMENT for Croup, Colds, Sore Throat. Tonsllitfs, Colic, Cramps and Pains. Re lieves all Summer Complaints, Cms and Bruises like magic. Sold everywhere. Price Ssc. by mall; 6 bottles Express paid, I. S. JOHNSON &CO.,BOSTON,MASS. YOU NEED NOT FEAR that people will know your lialr is dyed 11 you use that perfect imitation of nature, Tutt's Hair Dye No one can detect it. It imparts a glossy color and fresh life to the hair. lOaaily up plied.J'riee, &l. Office, 39 Park Place, N. Y. ESKIMO DIET. It Is Calculated to Produce Dyspepsia In Any Other Human Being. T had read about Eskimo eating habits—how once upon a time, for instance, an Arctic explorer offered some Eskimo girls some sweetmeats which were rejected, while tallow candles were eagerly accepted and eaten. Now I wish to see an Eskimo cat. With many smiles, I'eter en tered the cabin and sat down at the table. I should have apoplogized to him on account ot the scantiness of our fare, for we had no candles and there wasn't a bit of tallow on deck even, let alone in the cabin, but 1 noticed that the butter plate was heaping full, the sight of which made me wish fof some of my friends so that we could make a pool on the number of bites he would take in swallowing the roll. Then Peter sat down and without ceremony helped himself to a lot of baked beans, a piece of dry bread and a largo piece of very lean, salt beef all of which he bit into and swallowed as a hungry 'longshoreman might have done. Then he took more beans and more bread and more lean beef, and witli them several cups of coffee with a great deal of sugar to each cup. He was a long time getting to it, but lie finally began on the butter. He had poured his last cup of coffee and was looking about for something to eat with it, when his eyes fell on a plate of cake. Taking a small piece he put a small lump of butler on it and slowly ate the combination witli the coffee. To the reader of a geographi cal magazine it may seem strange, but the fact is, until I saw this man at the table, I had really expected to lind the Erkimos of South Greenland showing the habitsand tastes of those living a thousand miles further up the coast. I had not quite expected to lind them living in snow houses, but I had a misty idea that an Eskimo was a little black Indian whose chief delight among the things brought from a civilized country was the tal low candle. The staple food is seal meat and blubber. Next to that is the little tisli taken in the fiord and dried for winter use, known to them as the augmatfat and to the learned as salmo villosux. A favorite way of eating the dried augmatfat is to take it by the tale, poke it into the oily blubber for a while, and then chew it down. Awful, isn't it? It is almost as bad as eating sardines. There is a deal in a name. Blubber is disgust ing; oil, if for use on a salad is de licious and indispensable. 1 have eaten seal oil and found it (very un expectedly) good. I had supposed it would have a ilavor of ilsh oil. There is no such flavor about it. It is equal to the best extract of cotton seed— that quality sold as olive oil in all American groceries. Augmatfat and blubber, under a French label, would ho esteemed a luxury in New York as in Arsuk. For the rest, the Eskimos trade seal oil and skins to their Gov ernor for three kinds of hard tack, for coffee, sugar and tea. They catch Arctic codfish (misarkornak in Eskimo and gadus navayu in the books) and salmon in the seasons; they shoot no end of gulls, ducks, ptarmigans, and the Arctic hare; they have eggs in endless quantity in the season, and very many foxes are trapped. The fox is to the Eskimo what the 'pos sum is to the plantation darkey. Ho likes to smoke and, under favoring circumstances, will swap anything he's got, including his wife, for rum. —Ooldthicaite's Qtoriravhieal Maunzinc. DONALD KENNEDY Of Roxburv. Mass., says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep- Seated Ulcers of 40 years' standing, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, ex cept Thunder Humoi, and Cancer that has taken root, Price, $1.50.' Sold by everv Druggist in the United States and Canada. KN<; i,i: (II S CO., Hny.let'di. Pit. Mn;:,pn taken. CANVASSERS WANTED, Mmt. BAKER AND ROASTER. I .ateat Improved and moHt^perfoet know the value of thin l'nn for imKAI) and Six I*l. i imila *- f'o.. Hne.letnn. Pn. Affentn wanted. PBWSIONS Par all NOLUIUIUt % dlaabled *2 lee for lncreu.se. 31 years ex perience. Write for LAWS. A.W. MCCORMIVK HONK, WAHIIINSTON. D. C. A CINCINNATI. Q. PATENTS wai-.n'^Thi 1 ;!: ' "* "" 1 w AO-hmic l)k fr.. riii<|iiitngu—A Queer African Dish. Salah. Stanley's attendant, said it was eurious to watch Stanley's white officers when introduced to ckiquangu, a kind of pudding made of boiled manioc, root. Neither the taste nor odor of this food is at all inviting at first, but necessity brings all whites as well as blacks to regard it as the bread of life before many months of residence in Central Africa. Sometimes when deprived of it for many days I have often hailed a piece of toasted chiquanya as real luxury, and I have been rather disgusted with newly arrived whites whose upturned noses condemned my barbaric taste. When Stanley's white officers had finished their small stock of tinned provisions and rice, they were abso lutely compelled to fall back 011 the manioc dishes; but the sourness of taste of this African pudding is a serious berrier to the enjoyment of it, and some stubborn persistence is re quired before the white man hails chiquanya at delicacy; but like other white travelers, these officers began to like it, and when they passed be yond the districts where it grew, and were forced to adhere to a roast plan tain diet, they regretted bitterly that they had no inahioc.—.£>'(. Nicholas. Cairo's UiilieHltlirulnes*. Cairo, for a long time has been no torious as one of the most unhealthy cities of her size in the world and is likely to remain so unless the French can be induced to abandon their pres ent obstructive policy in Egypt. The town is practically without drainage and year by year the necessity for j remedying the evil becomes more urgent. Some time ago the Govern- j ment took the matter in hand, em ployed a number of distinguished sanitary engineers and prepared a scheme for a system of sewerage which is generally admitted to he the best and cheapest that could be devised. It was proposed to pay ba the improvement by half the octroi receipts of the city, but France will not consent and demands the appoint mentofan international commission of three experts to study the question, to invite plans and to decide which is to be adopted, no plan to be adopted unless accepted by all three experts unanimously. The (Meet of this proposition if clear, am unless it is modified the drainage plan must be abandoned, at least for the present.— Boston Transcript. ITS KXCKLMOT QI AI.ITIFS commend to public approval the California liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. 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