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 <n, and by a careful applic atlon of the flu© proper- I
ties of weli-s levied Cocoa, Mr. Epps linn provided I
our breakfaat table* with a delicately flavoured bev
erage wbloh may save us many heavy doctor*' bill*. '
!t la oy the Judlclou* use of such articles of diet
tbut a constitution .nay be gr dually built UL< until I
.trong enough to resist every tendency to disease,
.lundredsof subtle maladlo* are floating around u* J
ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point. |
We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping our
selves well fortified with pure blood a d a properly
nourished frame."—'"Clod .Service llatette. "
Made simply with bolllaf water or milk. Sold ,
only In half-uonn.l tlu, • y Grocers, labelled thus:
J A <ll Ett KPI'.S Sc COg Hommopathlo Chemlsle.
CHICHESTERS ENGLISH, RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND A
Pttwmmii * r\wis m
THt ORIGINAL AND GENUINE. Tbc only Safe, Nare, and reliable Pill *r ■*!■. NACy
Lad lea, k Drujpflit for Ck(ch**trr Rncliih Diamond Brand in Med an I Gold nx-tallie XV
boir .saw a lib bluo rlbhon. Tithe NO other kind. Refute Substitution* and fialtofiawa.
All pill* In pasteboard boiea, pink wrapper*, are dangrrona eonntcrfVlta. At DmcjOal*.er send a
f iSJL l L inp * for psrtloulara, testimonials, and ••Keller foe Ladle*," In Utter, by retwrw Halt
10.000 Te.tlmonlsl*. Same I'ayer. CHICHCSTCH CHCMICAL CO., Madlana Doawe,
Sold bj< all Local OruicjrUU. I*IULAIELIIU*7VA.
■ PISO'H REMEDY FOB CATARRH.—Best Easiest to use.
cheapest. Relief is immediate. A cure is certain. For
Cold in the Head it has no equal.
■ It Is an Ointment, of which a small particle Is applied to
nostrils. I nee, JJe. Sold by druimists or sent by mail. HR
Address. 12. T HAZFLTINE. Warren. Pa. Hi
Qlfll# *". .-■K'oun, u hitched mortal. eM
*•. Ilr. 11YK. Edtto?. £al£"S! P V?
PBIfSIOIta le all MtLDIIIUII
Hdl.Dle<t. Bin for lucrum*, at roar. r
pfrtMCf. Write for Uwi. A.W. McCormick
DROPSYM
th\un dj! J o^7.""Sr'" It'.?' 41 **
■ ••unovel Impel*., b* bnst'iihjrvioian*. Kroia Hr.t <foe
•jrmptoin* rapidly disappear . in 10 days two third* of ali
of nlnM > 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 <f life liable to oectir to osy on*.
It is Soot him;. Healiutr and Penetrating. Oat* mbl -J
ways wanted. Sold everywhere I'ricr 35c .ns.tC EuU
particular* free. I. H. JOHNSON <* CO., Borrow. Bar*.
TAKE
Tutt's Pills
The first close often astonishea the invalid,
giving elasticity of mind, houyaneyof body,
GOOD DIGESTION.
regular bowels and solid flesh. Price. -sc.
o E iM S 5 OJM U' EX
Hr Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
□ Date Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau.
H 3 vraln lost war. 16 adjudicating claim*, attvoino*
FLOWER SEEOS^^'j&K;Ss
OA! ESMAN WANTED. alary ano * pernor
oftL paid. BROWN BROS. CO. K N.T.
|| A V CCIfCD CUREO T0 STAY CUWB
11M I |L I Lll We want the name and ad
dress of every sufferer iathe
0 ACTUM A U. S. and Canada. Aridrrm,
5c HO I niflH P.Htro!dHs7,lJ. v ßaftJ^l.T.
1 X x INTER-AIR-SPACE x ah
■ Adapted to all climate* and variations of
porature. Bold by Leading merchants in principal
cities. Illustrated catalogue mailed Ireo on appli
cation to Hnrderftild Fabric Co., Tray, N.V.
1 , "A woman beat understands
■ I a woman's ills."
This is why thousands of women have
i been benefited by Mrs. Pi nkham's advice,
' ! and cured by her remedies after ail olher
treatment had failed. This is also whj
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable
Compound
has been more successful in curing Female
Complaints than any remedy the world
has ever known.
| Ail Ill it. or rnt hjr m.il. In Sinn T PiO i
Lmuigva, <m rrceit.t -I*l .(Ml. I.lvrr Pill.,
' Cormp-uidenoe h-eHv sn.w.ml. Aildrsu in csa*ma
LYDIA E. PINKHAM MKI>. CO., I.VMN, MAM.