SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven turer Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. A DF.MERARA correspondent of an Eng lish paper describes a desperate fight between a man and a jaguar, which re cently took place 011 the Demerara River. The hero of the combat, a bluck nuined Lally Davidson, a farmer, was out with his dog, which roused the juguar from his lair. The ferocious uniinal made tracks for tho thick scrub, followed bv , Davidson and his dog. Reiug closely pressed, the jaguar climbed a tree, where Davidson shot it, wounding it in the heart. This inude tho animal descend, and again he dived info the bush, pur sued by Davidson. Tho beast concealed himself in some brumbies, and us David son was again trying to take aim, the jaguar leaped upon him, knocking him bodily into a drain full of water. David son now engaged in a desperate struggle with the tierce brute, und seizing the jaguar, now somewhat exhausted from loss of blood, he exerted all his strength and managed to hold his heud under water until ho was slowly suffocated. Rut before this the juguur had severely wounded the courageous man; his hand was badly bitten, the scalp on the left side of his head was partly ripped off and his left eye was gouged out. Suf fering as he was, Davidson slowly crawled home, and while he went into hospital seut his friends for the dead jaguar. Tho latter measured five feet 1 eleven inches from head to tail. David ion, on whose happy escape his friends warmly congratulated him, was slowly re covering when the last mail left Dem erara. MISSOURI'S husbandmen have been keeping well up with the agricultural procession in this year of phenomenal productions, although the state has not been making much noise about its achievements. Here are a few leaders: Mr. Magee of Glenwood sent to the office of the local newspaper a radish weighing over six pounds. W. E. Floyd of Eagle township handed in ten potatoes aggre gating eleven pounds in weight. .Mr. Snider carried into the Booneville Demo crat office two peaches and a couple of apples which completely tilled a bushel busket. The peaches were* each as large as a quart cup, and the apples weighed one and a half pounds each. Joe Creech of Louisiana, Mo., exhibited a sample stalk of corn which measured fourteen )| feet in length. The ears were seven feet six inches up the stem, and he thinks he will have to gather his crop 011 horse back. Elijah Young expects to get 4,800 bushels of fine apples from his orchard of 400 trees in Warrensburg, and Win. Avis of Lost Creek cannot yet estimate his crop of cherries because one of his trees from which he hus gathered one large crop this year has shed its old leaves, grown a new set, and is now in full bloom again. TUB Chicago Tribune tells a strange story of a mysterious affair, which is said to have occurred at Mendotu, 111. A Mr. Ralph Shaffor erected a fine monu ment over the grave of his young wifo who died last spring, but in deference to his mother-in-law's wishes, who had no love for her daughter s husbund, placed no inscription 011 the stone. The story goes that recently a distinct shadow of the late Mrs. Shu tier appeured 011 the tombstone. It grew un -4 til the shadow became life size. The mother was wroth, and had the monu ment makers rub the stone down with pumice, but they could not effuce the shadow. At first sight the shape has us much resemblance to a man's form us a woman's, but by a continued gaze one seems to see a woman's seini-profile, with bangs and with the liuir done up ut the back of the head. The neck and chin show plainly, as do also the shoulders, and there is a scarf about the neck. The features are distinct, und bear u remark able resemblance to the dead wife. The shadow is oight inches wide and fourteen inches high, and is in the middle of the stone. NEAR Point Burwell, Canada, lives an eccentric character by the name of John Harper, though he is best known by the nickname of "Long-Haired Johnny," which he has gained by the extraordinary length of his huir and beurd. These, he •luims he has never allowed scissors or razor to approach for over thirty years, remarks the Washington Post, in "fulfil ment of a vow, though as to what his vow was ho is persistently silent. His hair trails several feet on the ground when loosened from the plaits in which he braids and wears it about his head, and his board touches oarth when ho stands erect. Both are kept in beautiful order and are a great matter of pride to him. Harper is an Englishman by birth and a man of superior intelligence and some education. Ho lives alone in a small nc-story house and has not been known to leave it for nearly twenty years. lie has no family, but draws a small income from somo investment in England. CHARLES C. BROWIRKI, for twenty eight years an cnginocr in Sioux City, lowa, died the other day of inflammation of the bowels. Twenty-nine vears ago while in the army ho received a pistol wound in tho left side of the mouth, and ■ince then has suffered intense pain when lying on his right side or when stooping over. Before his death he re quested that a post-uiortem examination be hold to ascertain the location of the bullet. This was done. It was traced from tho mouth upward through the orb f the left oyo anu then down aud back hrougli the vital part of tho brain where t was found encysted in a membranous fold in tho posterior portion of the left lateral vcntriclo. Tho portions of the brain through which tho ball passed aro tho most vital. The physicians declare tho case unparalleled. Many cases aro recorded where foreign sub stances lodged in tho upper portion of tho brain, but they know of none like this. THE laws of some of the Western States which confer upon resident aliens the privileges of State citizenship, arc, as is well known, extremely lux. A story is told of a clerk of a county in Wisconsin named McCourt, who succeed ed in obtaining several re-elections to the office notwithstanding violent opposi tion on the part of the more intelligent part of tlio population. Whenever the time for election drew near, he would start out on a naturalizing tour in the lumber camps, taking along tiio county seal and an interpreter, and confer the luffisge upon Norwegian settlers by the hundred. The oath which he invariably administered was us follows: "Do you Solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States, and the State of Wisconsin, and vote for Peter McCourt for Clerk of the Court, so h#lp you God?" The latter portion of the oath was as religiously respected by , tbo Norwegians as the former. A NRW YORKER who is n member of the 1 American .Society of Psychical Research I tells a curious story that would interest his society. While in Mexico recently j he dreamed that in dressing his pistol j dropped from his pocket, fell butt clown- j ward to the floor, turned so that it leaned against his ankle and exploded, shatter- j ing his leg. The dream was so vivid that ho awoke with a start and recalled the whole scene, lie was soon asleep again, | however, and by morning ho had nearly j forgotten his vision. When he came to dress he found himself stunding as in his dream, and as he drew 011 his trousers his heavy revolver fell from the hip pocket, struck butt downward upon the tiled floor, struck a sunken tile and, turn ing, leaned against his unkle with the muzzle pointing directly at his leg. He watched with a sort of fascination for the explosion, but it did not come, und lie lives unwounded to tell the tale. THE palace which J. C. Flood, the California millionaire, erected 011 "Nob Hill," Sun Francisco, at a cost of $3,500,- 000, is entirely untenanted exoept by the old gardener who takes cure of the grounds. Every piece of this big, dreary, brown-stone pile, even including the stones for the wall surrounding the grounds, was brought around the horn from ships from tho cast. The long flight of steps lending up to the portico, with its heavy pillars, shows 110 sign of wear. No feet tread it except the feet of the children who play there until tho gardener drives them away. Outside the house is desolate na a tomb; within it is stored with fine furniture and works of art, but it is never opened to tho public. A VERY large tree, one of tho largest in California, the country of big trees, was discovered near Arlington, Snoho mish county, a few days ago. It is a cedar, and measures sixty-eight feet in circumference. Around the knotty roots tho tree measures ninety-nine feet. About seventy-five feet from the ground it forks into four immense branches, and just below the forks is a big knot hole. Five men climbed into tho hole and ex plored tho interior of the tree. It was found to he a mere shell, and about forty-five feet down it would afford stunding room for forty men. The tree is still green, and a remarkable feature is said to be that it is harked on the inside and the outside alike. JAMES P. PARK, of Philadelphia, seems to be a man without a country. He lives 011 a little triangular hit of land that, through some oversight, has not been in cluded in any of the election divisions of the city, and of course therefore he has 110 voting status. "The only parallel known in this country," says the Phila delphia Record, "was that of a whole township in the State of Ohio, which was entirely left out in an apportionment of election districts, and the citizens who claimed the right to vote had 110 redress whatever and were unable to exercise the right of suffrage uutil they appealed to the courts." THE wonderful crops and the abun dance of general products in the United States this year seem to he a family blessing, bestowed without regard to where tho individual may ho located, from the Arctic circle to the Gulf, and covering half tho world in longitude. This is really noteworthy, considering the hard times afflicting the rest of the world with equal impartiality. Tho sal mon product of Alaska is unusuully large, and will average fifteen per cent, over that of last year. Over 200,(MX) cases of salmon will he shipped from Alaska this season. A RANCHER from away back on the ranges engaged a room at the Occidental Hotel in Seattle a few days ago. The hotel is lighted with electricity, and the bell boy turned on the light in the old rancher's room. The farmer did not know how to extinguish the light, and after exhausting his ideas uncoiled the length of wire by which the light hung and stuck the lamp in the bureau drawer, smothering it under his clothing. The next day the lamp was found stowed away there and still burning. A cow belonging to Samuel Drensor, living on the outskirts of Austin, Minn., has given birth to a wonder. One-half of the body resembles a calf and the other half a bear. The tail resembles the appendage of a deer and the head is inclined to be on the human order. The eyes are tiery black and vicious looking, and one large horn about three inches long protrudes from the forehead. The freak has five legs, three in front and two behind, and all can be used with the greatest ease. THE most remarkable case of dropsy on record is that of I. Meredith, aged seventy-eight years, of Monticello, 111. He has been tapped for the dropsy 278 times, with an average weight of thirteen pounds of water removed each time, making 3,614 pounds which has been re moved from him. His ense beats all past records, and is tho most interesting case in the history of the disease. He is now confined to his bed, and is gradually growing weaker and cannot live long. MORE than three-quarters of a million people are directly employed by rail roads in this country aside from the num ber whose livelihood depends upon col lateral enterprises. Allowing the usual ratio of population aud the vote—for very few persons who are not voters find direct employment on railroads—and it appears that from five to six per cent, of the entire population of the couutry is dependent on the railroads as a means of livelihood. THERE ure nearly 6,000 lighthouses laid down on the world's charts. Over 800 aro on the United Stutes waters and $90,000,000 has been spent on this ser vice by the United States since the organization of the Government. What is now needed are proper lights on the shores of semi-civilized and non-naviga ting countries, and this must be done by joint action of the commercial nations. FOR many years Robert James, aged seventy, of Blue Lick, Clark county, Ind., lias been blind und had given up all hopes of ever regaining his sight. Sev eral days ago his wife was taken danger ously ill and in his distress he prayed and wept incessantly. Suddenly his sight came back to him and he now sees as well as he ever did. MARVIN SMITH, of Montville, Conn., who is 107 years old, remembers seeing the tirst steamboat, the Fulton, when she made a trip up the Thames in 1817. lie also draws a pension for service in the war of 1812, and has voted at every Presidential election since 1808 except the lustonc. A VALUABLE Sherman (Mich.) horso that had died tho other day was looked into. A half bushel of fine sand was found in tho stomach. Feeding on short clover pasture is supposed to be tho way in which it accumulated the small sand bank. A Turkish Bank Note. Tho bill is on imperial green paper, a color held sacred in Turkey, which tho Government alone is permitted to use. ! On the top and sides are the following j words in Turkish: "To bo paid to the ; hearer, without interest, twenty pias tres.'' At the top of tho note is the Sul : tun's toghra, surrounding which is a quotation from the Koran. Underneath | are the words: "Twenty piastres, paper money, to be used in the place of gold at the Hank of Constantinople." At the base of the note is the seal of the mine, | and 011 the back the seal of the Minister jof the Treasury. TIIO toghra is con sidered sacred, and guarded by the throe highest officials of the mint, whose sole duty it is to watch it.—[New York Ad* vertiser. IN ICY REGIONS. Preparations for a Winter Journey in Siberia. ! Our equipment for this long and diffi cult journey consisted of a strongly built pavoska, or seatless traveling-sleigh,with low runners, wide outriggers, and a sort of carriage-top which could be closed with a leather curtain in stormy weather; a very heavy sheepskin bag six feet wide and nine feet long in which we could both lie side by side at full length; eight or ten pillows und cushious of vurious sizes to fill up chinks in the mass of buggagu and to break tho forco of the jolting on rough roads; three overcoats apiece of soft shaggy sheepskin so graded in size and weight that we could adapt ourselves to any temperaturo from the freezing point to eighty degrees below; vory long and heavy felt boots known in Siberia as vullinki; fur caps, mittens, and a small quantity of provisions consisting chiefly of tea, sugar, bread, condensed millk, boiled ham, frozen soup in cakes, and a couple of roasted grouse. After having j packed our heavy baggage as carefully as possible in tho bottom of the pavoska, so us to mako a comparatively smooth i and level foundation, wo stuffed the interstices with pillows and cushious; covered the somowhut lumpy surface to a depth of twelve or fourteen inches with straw; spread down overall our spare overcoats, blankets, and tho big sheep skin hag; stowed away the bread, boiled ham, and roast grouse in the straw, where we could sit 011 them and thus protect them to some extent from tho iutenso cold; and finally, filled tho whole back of the pavoska with pillows. A tem perature of forty degrees below zero will turn a boiled ham into a substance that is as useless for edible purposes as tho famous "chunk of old red sandstone" from Table Mountain. You can neither cut it, gnaw it. nor break it in pieces with a sledge-hammer; and unless you have facilities for thawing it out, and time enough to waste in that way, you can no more get nourishment ! from it than you could get hoof tea from 1 a paleozoic fossil. Having learned this , fact from sad expoience, Mr. Frost and I were accustomed to put articles of food that contained 110 moisture either under us or into the sheepskin bag between us, where they would not freozo so hard. At ten o'clock Friday morning all was in reudincss for a start, and as soon as the driver came with tho horses from tho post-station we sang "Homo, Sweet Home" as a prelude to tho next act, wruppod up the banjo carefully in a soft rug and put it behind our pillows, took seats in the pavoska with our foot and legs thrust down into the capacious sheep skin bag, and rode uway from tho Hotel Deko amid a chorus of good-bys and shouts of "May God grunt you a safe journey!" froin the assembled crowd of servants and clerks.—[Century. Remarkable Mummies. J. W. Morrow, a medical student, who returned to Kansas City, Mo., recently from a Western pleasure trip, brought with hiin two specimens of natural mum mification. lie discovered them on Long Island, in the Columbia River, in Ore gon, which had once been an Indiun burying ground. In life one of the mum mies was an old man, probably sixty years of age. He was buried in a sit ting posture, the knees drawn up to his chin, the left arm thrust under the left leg and joined with the right in an atti tude of supplication. The mummy is perfect, with the ex ception of a spot on the back, where contact with the earth caused decay. Unlike the mummies of Egypt, in these the outlines of the body are not pre served. The viscera is gono, and they look like nothing so much as human frames covered with rawhide. In the old man all the organs and members are per fect, however, even to the tongue, lips and cornea. Grayish black hair covers the head in spots. Not a tooth is mis sing, though they are all very much worn, as in old age. The moccasins 011 the feet are in as good state of preserva tion as is the body. The other mummy is perfect except the head. It is that of a child about seven years old. When found it lay at full length in the box, its feet encased in buckskin moccasins and bits of ribbon, well preserved, tied about its legs. A blanket covered the other. In some re spects the smaller mummy is the better specimen. The finger uuils are perfect, as in life. Mr. Morrow cannot account for tho phenomenon. Settlers in tho vicinity declare that tho burying ground, which wus that of the Columbia River tribe,had not been used for forty years. The mum mies arc, therefore, at least two-score years old, and may be a century. The soil of the island is sundy, and tho at mosphere hot and dry. This might ac count for tho condition of tho bodies, were it not for the fact that mounds on all sides of tho one in which they were found contained nothing but bones.— [New York Telegram. An Island of Skeletons. A party of explorers from San Fran cisco has just returned from the Island of San Nicholas, which lies soino seventy iniles off tho coast of California, opposite Monterey county, whither they went with a view of locating somo land claims. They report that they found tho island covered with tho bones of human beings. For a distance of five miles tho beach was literally covered with skeletons. They estimated that at least 5000 bodies must have boon buried there. In the interior of tho island they found a rude hut buried to the roof in sand. They concluded that it was not worth while to locate their claims on these baro rocks aud human bones.—[Picayune. This Town Has Lost Her River. Tho town of Saratow, in the southeast of Russia, has lost a river—the Volga. Tho wator of the river has for somo time past been deserting tho right arm of the stream, upon which Saratow is built, and flowing exclusively in tho left arm, which is about a mile and a quarter dis tant from the town. Tho former bed of tho strouiu is now quite dry and is used as a road to convey passongors and goods which arrive by stoumcr to the town.— [Boston Transcript. TOST OF LIVING IN MEXICO. It IH Very High, hut Money is MuA Easily. I asked a young American doatist 'v-j San Luis lVtosi, u city of 100,000 pat pie in the north central part ni Mexiflo— a rich farmiug country —it osats to live in Mexico. The young dentist MTCP very nicely Like all o? his kind in Mexioo, he is mak ing ii> %ev and lie is saving enough to muLe him rich within the next ten or fif teen years. Said he: "I keep a close account of my ex penses and as 1 figure it it costs me just about sll7 a month. My living costs Tie for table expenses $2 a day, or SOO a month. I pay $25 a month for my house and I have three servants, who average $4 a month apiece. Here every respect able fallow has to have a cook, man and a chambermaid. In addition to tho wages of the servants I have to give them so much a day for food. Each of them ex pects six cents every morning for tortillas or corn-cakes, which constitute the bread of tho common people. Then every week I have to give six cents extra to thein for soap. This is the custom and they want the money and not the soap. 1 once bought twenty-five pounds of soap and tried to do!e it out to them, but they wouldn't take it. Washing and ironing are never done in the house in Mexico. There are public washerwomen, who pound and rub the clothes to pieces after wetting them with cold water, which they get from public tanks or ditches. They wear out the clothes in one-third the time that thev would ho destroyed by China men ana I pay them $5 a month for do ing it. My butter costs me seventy-five cents a pound, my milk seventeen cents a day, and I puy about six cents a day on the average for charcoal. "An ordinary hand-me-down suit costs from S2O to S3O. Underclothing is very .expensive. Calico costs 18 cents a yard. A very odinary silk necktie sells for $2. Linen cuffs are 50 cents a pair and col lars three for sl. My wife's dresses count up, I can tell you, and a man has got to make a good lot of money in Mexico in order to live us well as he does at home." " I suppose you make it," said ho. "Yes, 1 do," was the reply, 44 and any American dentist who will come here and stay can do likewise. 1 made $5,000 the first year, and 1 have done considerably better right along since that time. I can charge, bigger prices. I get from SIOO to $l5O for a full set of teeth on rubber. Whenever I administer gas I charge $lO for pulling a tooth, and when a number are pulled I charge $lO for the first tooth and $5 for all succeeding ones. For jerking out a tooth without gas I charge $2. Fillings range from $5 upward, and gold fillings cost from sls up into the hundreds, according to the size of the cavity and the size of the bank account of the man who has his teeth filled. I always get SSOO for making a set of teeth on gold, and all other business is done in proportionate rates." '1 hero are about 700 Americans living in Mexico City. Some of them are very wealthy. A few own houses, and quite a number have rented establishments. Thomas Brauniff, who was born on Staten Island, is said to have an income of over SIOO,OOO a year. He is President of the Mexican railway which runs to VeraCruz, aud he has a big plantation, cotton fac tories, and is one of the leading owners of the Bank of London and Mexico, which is the biggest bank in the country, lie is building a house which will cost SIOO,OOO on the Pasco, a fashionable drive of Mexico City. He is the richest American in Mexico. Gen. John B. Frisbie is another rich American. He owns some gold mines near Toluca, and ho has one of the most comfortable homes in the capital. lie tells inc that living is high In Mexico and that his expenses there are about as big as they would be in Washington.—[New York World. A l>cer Whips a Bull. Aimer M. Goodrich, who lives on Pan ther Hill, thirteen miles south of Scran ton, Penn., saw a buck deer strolling along the edge of a piece of woods on his place a few days ago. Suddenly the buck stopped, threw back his antlers, and began gazing toward the farm build ings. In a hillside pasture field, twenty rods below the buck, Mr. Goodrich's herd of cattle were grazing. All at once the buck caught sight of the cattle, and leaping over the fence, bounded down the hillside toward them. The cows be came frightened at the buck's sudden appearance, and with their tails in the air they cantered to a corner of the pas ture. The bull in the herd did not run. When the buck saw the cows caper ing away lie came to a sudden stop. The bull immediately faced the strange animal, bellowed savagely, and began to paw up the dirt. At first the buck acted as if ho didn't know what to make of the noisy bull's actions. Ho backed off a few foet, and the bull slowly followed him. Then the hull made a lunge at the buck with lowered horns, and the buck got out of his way by bounding to one side. This was repeated a number of times, the bull becoming more angry at each failure to gore the buck, while the buck eyed his noisy autagonist and kept out of his reach. Finally the buck begun to get mad at the way the bull was making him shift his ground. When the hull again lunged at him ho uttered u loud bleat, bounded into the air, and struck the hull in the neck. One of the bull's horns pierced the buck's shoulder, and then the buck's fighting nature was aroused to the high est pitch. He danced all around the hull, jammed his prongs into the hull's sides, struck him with his sharp hoofs, and didn't give the bull another chunee to gore him. Boon the buck's energetic and fierce attack completely demoralized the bull. He inude one more effort to down his lively antagonist, hut failed to hook him, while the buck got in another telling strike on the bull's ribs. Then the hull gave a hollow of rage, turned tail like a Hash, and ran at the top of his speed to where the cows were huddled. For a moment the triumphant buck stood and guzed at the fugitive bull. Then he whirled, legged it up the hill, scaled the fence, and disappeared in the forest. The bull was so badly injured that Mr. Goodrich had to kill kirn.—[New York Sun. Velocity of the Meteor. It has been demonstrated that while the greatest velocity imparted to a can non bull scarcely exceods GOO meters a second—about 1,500 miles an hour— meteors from space penetrate the air with a velocity, it is claimed, of 40,000, sometimes 00.000, meters per second. This tremendous speed raises the temperature of the air at once to 4,000 or 0,000 degrees centigrade, causing in many cases the complete destruction of the meteorite by combustion.—[San Francisco Chronicle. The words in common use by the ordinary individual ure estimated at from 1,000 to 3,000. THE RECORD Qf cures accomplished by Hood's SarMoparllla ho uever beeu surpassed lu the history or medicine And the constant strain of letters from people who were almost In despair, but were cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla is very graMiyitu. Beca ue of those we urge all who suffer from Swofula, Salt Rheum or any other disease caused by Impure blood or low state of the system, to try Hon I'M Sarnaparl la. N. B.—lf you decide to lake Hood's farsaparllla do not be Induced to buy i ujr other. Hood's fills—lnvigorates the liver, regulate the bowels. Effect ve, but gentle. Price ¥se. "August Flower" I had been troubled five months with Dyspepsia. The doctors told me it was chronic. I had a fullness after eating and a heavy load in the pit of my stomach. I suffered fre quently from a Water Brash of clear matter. Sometimes a deathly Sick ness at the Stomach would overtake me. Then again I would have the terrible pains of Wind Colic. At such times I would try to belch and could not. I was working then for Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cor. Irwin and Western Ave., Allegheny City, Pa., in whose employ I had been for seven years. Finally I used August Flower, and after using just one bottle for two weeks, was en tirely relieved of all the trouble. I can now eat things I dared not touch before. I would like to refer you to Mr. McHenry, for whom I worked, who knows all about my condition, and from whom I bought the medi cine. I live with my wife and family at 39 James St., Allegheny City, Pa. Signed, JOHN D. COX. & G. G. GREEN Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey. U. S. A. A Most Interesting Ft ml. According to the Washington Star the Smithsonian Institution has re ceived information of the recent dis covery at Tcl-el-Amnria, in Upper Egypt, of a number of tablets relating to the history of Jerusalem and dat ing back fiOO years earlier than any records hitherto known. When it is understood that these tablets of stnrie arc letters passed between the King of Jerusalem and the Pharaoh of Egypt 400 years before the birth of David, who was the father of Solo mon, some notion will be formed of their extreme interest. Several of the letters were addressed to the ruler of Egypt by the King of Jerusalem. Abdi-Taba. The cities of Palestine were at that time tributary to Egypt, and in one o'f the letters the writer saj'9; "The Habiri people are con quering the cities of the King"—l. e., the cities tributary to the Pharaoh— "therefore the King may turn his face to his subjects and send troops. If the troops arrive this year the coun tries of the King, my Lord, may lie saved, but if no troops arrive the countries of the King, my Lord, will exist no longer." This tremendous "llnd" at Tcl-el-Amaria includes two hundred tablets, largely of Babylon ian cuneiform script, which is thus discovered for the first time to have been in use at so early a period in Egypt and Palestine. Many of the other tablets arc dispatches of about the same date from prefects of other cities of Palestine to the Pharaoh. Some of the inscriptions arc in an un known language, which no one so far has been able to translate. Solomon himself would have looked upon these tablets as remote antiquities. Aluminum In Iron Foundries. Mr. David Spencer, In American Machinist, says: I have used alumi num in foundry practice, and And It Is a splendid thing to make Iron fluid and clean. It seems to take all the Impurities out of the iron when it is charged In tho cupola with the pig Iron. Ten pounds of Ciowles' fcrro aluminum to 2,000 pounds of pig iron will produce good, sound castings, I free from blow holes. It is as good in the use of crucible steel as In iron (its effects). It pro duces a sharp, solid casting, and makes a uniform grain. It takes away the tendency to chill in cast iron. In steel it reduces the shrinkage, | and Increases the welding properties in both wrought iron and steel. I recommend it to persons making tool castings, such as face plates, and In fact all kinds of work that has to be planed, milled, or turned. There Is one thing that I like in its use, and that is, it does not weaken the iron or take the strength from it, but rather adds to it. We are hav ing good success with it in sewing machine castings. I believe in prog ress in foundry practice, and am al ways willing to give such things a trial, if I ttud that they are a benefit. I want other fouudrymen to know It. I believe we are making rapid progress in American foundry prac tice, and the foundryman that is satisfied to run his foundry in the same old-fashioned ,way his grand- j father did, is going to get left. And the younger and more progressive men will come to the front. 1 lie Universal Postal Con art sn will n* •einbie in Washington in 1807, DONALB KENNEDY Of Roxbarv. Mass,, says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep- Seated Ulcers of 40 years' sbinding, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, ex cept Thunder Humoi, and Cancer that has tuken root. Price, $1.50. Sold by every Druggist in the United States and Canada. CHAUTAUQUA gffiS E A SE™Vi£. % to ('liutilnu|tiit Ofllre. I'rawcr P.M. Huftaln, N V PATENTS i-"-?""';': 4O-puce bttuk free. lie Didn't G*t the Hatter of Pat. "Some time ago I was trading in a village store," writes a correspondent, "when one of the clerks came to the junior partner, who chanced to be waiting on me, and said: 'Won't you please step to the desk a moment? Pat Flynn wants to settle his bill, and in sists on having a receipt.' "The merchant was evidently an noyed. 'Why, what does he want ot a receipt?' he said; 'we never give one. Simply cross his account oH the hook: that is receipt enough.' " 4 So I told him,' answered the clerk, 'but he Is not satisfied. You had bet ter see him.' "So the proprietor stepped to the desk, and after greeting Pat with a 'good morning' said. 'You wished to settle your bill, did you?' to which Pat replied in the alfiillative. " 'Well,' said the merchant, 'there is no need of giving you a receipt. See! I will cross voifr account off the book,' and suiting the action to the word he drew his pencil diagonally across the account. 'That is as good as a receipt.' " 'And do ye mane that that settles it?' asked Pat. "•That settles it,' said the mer chant. " 'And ye're shure ye'll never be afther askin' me fur it again?' " 'We'll never ask you for it again,' said the merchant decidedly. "'Faith, then,' said Pat, 'and I'll be afther kapln' me money in me pocket, for I haven't paid it yet' "The merchant's face flushed angri ly, as he replied, 'Oh, well, I can rul> that out.' "'Faith, now, and I thought that same,' said Pat. "It is needless to add that Pat ob tained his receipt." tr. Excellent <)nnlltle. Commend to public approval tho California liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. It is pleas ing to the eye, and to the taste and by gently acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels. It cleanses tho system effectually, thereby pro. motingthe health and comfort of all who use it. The great Treasury vault at Washington covers more than a quarter of an acre. A Ivine iu lliu Family. Dr. Tloxsie's Certain Croup Cure for colds, coughs, croup anl pneumonia has no rival. Cures without nausea or any disarrangement. Sold by druggists or mailed on receipt of 5'J AtH. Address A. P. Hoxsie. Buffalo, N. Y. It 18 reported that the Government will discontinue the use of the new parcel boxes. Flit* stopped free by Da. KLINE'S GREAT NEHVK RKSTORJCH. No fits after first day use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and J-'trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch .St.. Phila.. Pa. A cattle range iu Eastern Washington is over 300 miles long and 200 miles wide. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally. Sold by ilruggUts, 75c. The ocean eats into a rod of Atlantic const yearly. U42 From Father to Son. Scrofula is a blood poison which descends from parent to child, [t is a taint which must be AFFLICTED FROM CHILDHOOD. eradicated from the system be- Mrs. N. Ritchey, of Mackey, Ind., says: "Justioe com . pels me to say that 8. S. 8. has worked little short of ore a cure can m j rac i e my in curing me of aggravated Bcrofo be made. Swift's la which afflicted me from childhood. It attacked my _ ... c c throat and nose, and threatened my lungs. My throat bpecinc, o. o. was 80 soro j was compelled to subsist on liquid S., drives out the fo °d- When I began S. 8. 8. I was in a wretched ooodi , , tion but commenced to improve at once, and am now virus through entirßly we i L „ the pores of the skin and thus relieves the blood of the poison. BOOKS ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES FREE. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. ELY'S CREAM BALM —Clrnn.ci. the ftHHHRt'H, Aliuya I-aln und Inflammation, IlralHlPA^KfW Ctves Hollef nt onco for Amly into the Xottrilt. It it Ouiehly Abtorbed. I—soc. l'niggi.ta or by malL ELY BKOS., ofl Warren St., N. Y. GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. EPFS S COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge of the natural law* wh ch govern the operation* of digestion and nutrl- 1 tl lua!i >< urN *|*o'V"' ' r '" '' °' '• s.sr^w BEST CS BROOM HOLDER. br (il'W CABVASSJRS WANTED, 4SSf£%. ROASTER. latest Improved and most perfect i ft "* Ma y GOOD cooks do not nmJgM know the value of thlH I'an foi JjT I?,7pr maf| n o/' A if ? '! A K1 ?°* M 1 jtOBBv ofS'J.lltl. Clrcular"frcr. ll Amir,'!ii ai* A\u< uiu Jt Co.. Hatletou, Pa. Agents Wauteil It goes bark all the money you've spent for it —if there's neither benefit nor cure. That's what ought to be said of entry medicine. It would be— | if the medicine were good enough, i But it is said of only one medicine of its kind Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It's the guar anteed Mood-purifier. Not only is. March, April and May, when the sarsaparillas claim to do good, bnt in every season and in every case' it cures all diseases arising from a torpid liver or from impure blood. For all Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp Diseases, Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Biliousness, it is a positive remedy. Nothing else is as cheap, no mat ter how many hundred doses are offered for a dollar. 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 you are the one that's I to be helped. JOHNSON'S Anodyne Liniment. R P OKIGINATED IN 1010. I HI2TZ CT ITI ALMOST A CXUTUII. Every traveler. Every family should keep it at hand, for the common ills . CO., I.VMN, MAM.