A WOMAN'S NERVES. THE BTO*Y Olf A WOMAN TO WHOM NOISE WAS TOttTUKE. PrMiraird by the I.enM Kxcitcmrnt— PhylclaiM Baffled By Her Cbhc. (From the Gate City, Keokuk, loiea.) Mrs. Helen Meyers, whoso home la nt 3515 Vernon avenue, Chicago, and whose visit to Keokuk, la., will long be remembered, was at one time afflicted with a nervous malady which at times drove her nearly to distrac tion. "Thoao terrtblo headaches are a thing of the past/' she said the other day to a Gate City representative, "and there is quite a story in connection with it too. "My nervous system sustained a great shock some fifteen yers ago, brought on, I believe, through too much worrying over family matters, and thea allowing my love for my books to get the better of my discretion where my health was concerned. Why, whenever my affairs nt homo did not go along just as I expected, I would Invariably become prostrated from the excitement and I would consider myself fortunate indeed If the efTects of the attack would not remain for a week. I was obliged to give up our pleasant home not far from the Lake shore drive, because I could not stand the noiso in that locality. I could And no place in tho city which I doomed suitable to ono whose nervous system was always on the point of explosion. To add to my misfortunes my complexion underwent a change and I looked so yellow and sallow that I was ashamed to venture from the house at all. •' 'Madam,' said my dootor to me soon alter an unusually severe attaca of tho malady, "unless you leave the city and seek some flaco of quiet, you will never recover.' Ho concluded I would visit my uncle, who lives In Dallas County, lowu, and whoso farm would surely be a good place for ono iu ray pitiable condition. I picked np tho Gate. City ono day and happened to come aoross an interesting recital of the recovery of woman in New York State who was afflicted as 1 had been. This woman had been curod by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I thought that if Pink Pills cured that woman they might do the tame for me. I began to take tho pills according to direc tions und I began to feel better from the start. Alter I had taken several boxes of them I was ready to go back to Chicago. My nervousness was gone and my complexion was as fresh as that of any sixteen-year-old girl lo lowa, ami Pink Piiis is what put the color in rpy checks. No wonder I am in such high spirits and feel like u prize lighter. And no wonder I like to come to Keokuk for if it bud not been for Pink Pills bought from a Keokuk firm I would not have beeu alive now," laughingly concluded the lady. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contnln ull tho elements necessary to give new life and rich ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by alt druggists, or may he had by mnil from Dr. WHliums Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for 50 cents per box, or six boxes for 1 2.50. Paris Ever Famous, Paris was a famous and cultivated city ages before Venice. If we search for them, we may find in it historical associations that may vie with those of any city in the world, except Pome and Constantinople; and even its antiqua rian and artistic remains are seldom equaled or surpassed. At Rome, Flor ence, or Venice, the tourist talks of old churches, palaces, and remains; at Paris he gives himself up to the boule vards, the theaters, shops, and races. The profoundly instructive history, the profuse antiquarian remains of tho great city, are forgotten—carent quia vate sacro.—The Spectator. Paper plates aro iu some German restaurants. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With local applications, as they cannot, roach tho scat of tho disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cura it you must take internal remedies. Hull's Catarrh euro is taken internally, and acts di rectly on tho blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not n quack medicine. It was proscribed by ono of tho best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is compose I of the best tonics known, com bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di rectly on tho mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tho two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results lu curing ca tarrh. Hcnd for testimonials free. I<*. J. Cur nkt & Co., Props,, Toledo, (X 4 bold by druggists, price 75c. Moro than 20 villages in Italy aro in ruins owing to tho recent earthquakes. The Most I'lrnsnnt Wnjr Of preventing tho grippe, colds, headaches and fevers is to use the liquid laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs, whenever tho systom needs a gentle, yet effective cleansing. To bo benefited one must got the true remedy manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. For salt* by all druggists in 50c. and SI bottles. Now York has 1,000 Chinese laundries. A Gloomy Outlook is that of the dyspeptic, but Ids face will brighten when he knows that Hi nuns Tubules cure that terrible disorder und will make him a cheertul uiui happy man. In oortain Prussian restaurants a shilling is charged for tho use of the table-cloth. I)r. Kilmer's SWAMP-ROOT cures nil Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet und consultation free. Laboratory Binghuinpton, N.Y. Of nil tho royal arms of Europe thoso of Great Britain and Ireland nre tho most com plicated. _____ Karl's Clover Root, the great blood purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. 25cts. 50 cts. $ I \ Mexico has a pulquo famine. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces influum tion, allays pain, cures wind colic.2sc. a bottle Tasmania boasts diamonds. ' I believe PIHO'S Cure for Consumption saved my boy's life lust summer.—Mas. ALMK DOUG LASS, Le Hoy, Mich., Octoberßo,lßo4. Molasses is mude from malzo. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp h oil's Eye-water. 1 rugglsts sell at 3.V per bottlo Scrofulous Taints Lurk In tho blood ot nlmost every ono. In many cRSoe they are inherited. Berotuln ap pears in running sores, bunehes, pimples and cancerous growths. Berotuln can be cored by purifying the blood with Hood's Hood's Sarsa - I I www pariUa Birsaparflla. This *| JpC great remedy has had & . wonderful success in curing this disease. It thoroughly eradi cates the humor from the blood. Hood's Snrsaparllla cures tho sores and eruptions by removing the impurities in tho blood. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 26c. FND4 PROFIT IN FISH FARMING. TROUT THE PRODUCT RAISED FOR THE MARKET. Arrangement of the Three Ponds Required—Utilizing Undesirable Land—Best Food for the Fish. A MONG tho new industries of /\ this generation, says tho New M York Sun, one is raising food (,T fish. It was only very re cently that the first experiments in the business were made, but so sigual was the success of the pioneers that there nre to-day a score of fish farms in New England alone. On account of the scarcity of wild trout and the great demand for them, the spotted brook trout aro tho favorite species for farming purposes. One of the first advantages of this form of farming over all others, save perhaps cranberry raising, is that land undesirable for other purposes cau be utilized. First of all the fish farmer must have water, aud nothing but good water at that. A mere pond fed by surface drainage will not an swer. There must be running water ; it need not be a large stream, but it must be spring-fed and never-failing. Tho latter requirement is not always easy to satisfy, for a surprising num ber of good-sized brooks and rivers go dry during tho hot mouths. Hav ing secured the proper water supply, tho next thing to he considered is the lay of the laud. If there is a fair, nutural fall, say of one foot or more to every hundred feet, it materially reduces tho cost of constructing the ponds. If the fall be four or five feet instead of one, it is very desir able, since that permits tho erection of u small waterfall at tho foot of each pond, the tumbling descent of the stream aerating and refreshing the water. The area required is from five to ten acres, depending on tho size of the ponds, which must bo at least three in number. If the fish cultur ist proposes to do his own hatching from eggs he will require a very elab orate plant, but most of the men in the business say it is cheaper to buy the fry at the State or other hatch eries. Pond No. 1, which will bo tho high est, is the abiding place of the tiny newcomers, the newly hatched fry, not moro than un inch long and very tender. Tho banked-up edge of tho pond must bo planted with willows or alders, tho thick roots of which will knit the soil and gravel into a firm retaining wall. If bovs or poachers are a possible danger a thorn hedge makes a good barrier, but it is not so hardy as tho others. A few protect ing rocks and loose boughs thrown iuto the poud serve as shelters from chance enemies, such as the king fishers, bittern, herons, ducks, minks, and musk rats. Aquatic weeds are healthful and advantageous, both as affording shadows lrom the hot sum mer sun and as clinging places for the countless microscopic forms of life that feed the finny babies. Water lilies are bad, not because they have not tho good qualities of the grasses, but became they will grow so rank aud so thick as to fill up tho entire pond and become a menace to tho cleanliness of the water. The pretty sagittaria planted ou the margin makes u beautiful and safe playground for tho youngsters in the shallows, since birds cannot feed among its stiff stalks. At the head of each pond should always be left, if possible a stretch of running brook, for in swift water the trout is at his best, and his flesh will bo firmer and sweeter for active feed ing. In tho early morning aud at night the fish will run up into tho ripples to feed aud play. Alders and osiers should be set along this quick water and trained to overhang, so that the bugs aud grubs which iu warm weather haunt the branches may serve as food for the fish. If the soil is such that fernH can bo raised along tho bank, they should bo planted, for they abound in anil attract insect life of many sorts. Tho dam between ponds Nos. 1 and 2 must be guarded by a strong iron netting of very small mesh. At one side, if the fall is moro than a foot, a wooden fishwav should bo built, so that tho rush of water when the lish are lowered from No. 1 to No. 2 will not injure the young trout. In the lower ponds this precaution is un necessary, for no cataract could kill a well-grown trout iu good health. Be low the dam comes a stretch of say 200 feet of running stream. If cramped for room tho courso of this need not be straight, but may bo doubled, so that pond No. 2 is separated by only a few yards from the upper one. Of course, tho yearlings freed from the upper nursery pond will now need moro room anil freedom, so that this lower pond should be much moro ex tensive. It must bo deeper, too; and, in order to provide depths and still make it easy to empty tho two year-olds into the last pond, a narrow channel is dug through tho centre. When tho water is drawn off, the fish aro driven into this canal and easily forced down into tho big pool be low. It is in tho construction of tho low est or receiving pond, No. 3, that tho greatest care and foresight arc re quired. One lately built iu Massa chusetts seems to be a model of in genuity. The running water boils over u big fallen hemlock into tho head of tho pond npou a clean gravel bar, and tho wholo bottom of the place is sandy and free from largo stones or other obstructions. All around the edge are piled huge slabs of rock, logs and other means of shelter for a width of twenty or thirty feet. This strip offers a series of feeding anil lurking places for the big fellows. When the water is lowered four feet these rocks andsiiukeu trees aro high and dry and the lish aro left on tho clear bottom, where a seine can readily be drawn to a gravel beach near tho outlet nt the lower end. By this arrangement the fish required for market can be secured without difficulty, and yet a comfort able homo in tho mean timo is pro vided. Tho proper foeding of trout is n great problem. Of course, there are various preparod fish foods which an swer very well for tho young fry, und chopped liver or dried grubs do very well for tho larger fish. But a de cidedly beefy flavor cliugs to these preserve-raised, liver-fed fish, al though they bring fully double tho price of the wild brook trout. After long effort and patient study there has been devised a method which at onco avoids this objectionable taste and makes the preserve self-supporting, doing away with the necessity of feed ing by band. This is the planting or stocking of tho preserve with fresh water shrimp. These little crusta ceans grow quickly, multiply with in credible rapidity, and once well started cannot be entirely killed off by tho most voracious trout. As a food they aro unsurpassed, tho fish raisod ou them outstripping in plumpness and size all others of tho same age. It has been observed by a student of trout life that a two-year-old fish fed ou shrimps will weigh from three-quarters of a pound to a pound and a quarter, while others of the same age taken from a liver fed preserve will bo soit fleshed, and weigh from a quarter to half a pound. This statemeut is borne out by the fact'that brook trout killed in salt or brackish water, just coming in from the sea, generally have iu their stomachs shrimp, small hermit crabs, and fiddlers, showing crustaceans to be a favorite food. Fresh-water shrimp aro sold at tho hatcheries for $2 a thousand, and $lO worth, care fully planted, will stock a pond ior years. At tho New York State hatch ery at Caledonia, the shrimps are given away for tho purpose of stocking pub lic streams aud lakes, and will doubt less be sold to any applicant at a merely nominal price. In the trout season the product of fish farms sell in tho market at $1 a pound, and out of season a much higher prico is realized where the sale is permitted by law. A much-disputed point has been whether a fish farmer had not a legal right to sell tho pro ducts of his own preserves at any sea son, irrespective of tho State laws. A Massachusetts man tested this ques tion by ottering for sale, iu open vio lation of the law, trout from his pri vate pond. Tho case was carried to tho highest tribunal, which handed down uu opinion denying tho troiu farmer's right to sell fish out of sea son.—New York Sun. Red, White, Urceu Sea?. The colors of pure ocean water and tho varying shades observed where impurities are met with are htill further diversified by the coloring effects of tho enormous multitudes of various forms of organized life whicii sometimes mask the natural color of tho surface of the sea and tiugo ex tensive areas with remarkable colors. Red appears to be the most frequently met with. Iu tho southern parts of the Red Sea and in tho Arabiau Gulf large areas are colored bloo 1-red by microscopic animalcula, and in tho Indian Ocean similar forms of life cause, in addition to red, milk-white or yellow spots of great extent, tho appearance of which is frequently alarming to tho ignorant sailor. Off the Guinea coast ships some times appear to float in milk. Exten sive red streak* aro also known to occur in the South Atlantic and South Pacific, which are caused by hosts of small red Crustacea. Tho "Vermilion Sea" of California owes its brilliaut color to infusoria. Areas colored greon have been noted, especially in tho Arotio regions, which aro due to myriads of diatoms, and iu some por tions of the Antarctic Seas diatoms o: rusty color raako the water a dirty brown.—All tho Year Round. A Remarkable Electric Light. It is said that a German electrician has invented a wonderful electric light, which operates in the line of Nikola Tesla's high potential and high frequency experiments, but far sur passes anything yet produced by the "wizard." The practical utility of Tesla's work has often beeu doubted, on account of Ihe cost of the produc tion of the current necessary, but tho German inventor, Professor Ebert, has made a luminescent lamp, using a sort of luminous paint, which gives a serviceable light with oue-miliiouth part of one "watt" of electricity. Professor Ebert says that his light costs but 1-2000 as much as au ordin ary lamp. These high frequency cur routs are not dangerous, aud give but the smallest quautity of heat, so th i new light will probably become popu lar.—-New Orleans Picayune. Electrical Possibilities-, At the present rate of progress, by tho end of the century we will use electricity to tho exclusion of most other motive powers. We are already applying it to transportation, lighting, cooking, running elevators, ventila tors aud many sorts of machinery, and in somo of the largest hotels this universal agent polishes tho silver in tho kitchen, washes and irons tho clothes in tho laundry and automa tically does much of tho work of bell boys and messengers.—New York Ledger. Kings as Marks ot Treo (irnvlli. James Stewart, one of the most in telligent horticulturists of the South, says m a note on tin annual ring growth of trees, that ho knew a case of a tree twenty-five years oll which, when cut down, exhibited seventy-five concentric rings. The name of the tree is not given.—Median's Monthly. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. TO DESTROY ANTS. They may be kept from climbing by tying wool round the stems and stakes and putting pine tar on tliom. Trace to their haunts and pour boiling water on them. To drive from their haunts, dig the dirt and mix with gas lime. To kill them, pour over their nests at night a strong decoction of older leaves or turn a flower-pot over with the hole stopped ; the ants will build up into it and thousands may bo de stroyed. ON CAKE BAKING. For baking most kinds of cake tho oven should bo rather slow. If it bo too hot whon sponge cake is baking the cake will sometimes riso very high and fall again. In any case, it will bo coarso grained and tough. A good tost for sponge cake is to put a piece of white paper iuto tho oven, closo tho door and open it in iivo minutes. If the paper bo a rich yellow the oven is right, but if it be light yellow tho oven is too cool, or if a dark brown it is too hot. THE KITCHEN TOWELS. Housewives are sometimes debarred from tho use of crash for kitchen towels by its cost, as well as by tho fact that it needs to be partly worn before it makes really good towels. Now that fashion sanctions tho use of this very serviceable material for toilet articles as well as aprons, it may be economically used in that way lirst, and then descend to tho more utili tarian household uses. For instance, your delicately chcckod linen crush apron, when worn soft, will make the best possible glass or dish towel, and your toilet cover and pin-cushion cover even, after having served their apprenticeship in your room, may bo turned into roller towels and dish cloths. Crash is very easily hem stitched, aud with this ornamentation aud tho stato of immaculate cleanli ness in which it is so easily kept, it makes tho most dosirablo of bureau und table covers. now TO BOIL A PUDDING. Tho most difficult way of cooking a plum pudding is boiling it in a cloth; a novico will bo iikoly to spoil it un less tho following directions are ob served in every particular : To boil a plum pudding successfully havo a largo pot half full of actually boiling water, with a plato in tho bottom to keep the cloth front burning or stick ing to tho pot, aud a toakettloful of boiling water to fill up tho pot as the water boils away; there must always be enough water to float the pudding, and it must boil without ceasing, "jumping" in the pot. The cloth must bo of linon towel ing, about a yard square, scalded by dipping in boiling water and then thickly dusted with sifted flour ; and after the pudding has boiled steadily for at least six hours it should bo un rolled, laid upon a suitable dish au l set in tho oven to dry ofT while the sauce is boing made. Allowance must be made for the swelling of an ordin arily rich pudding, tho cloth boing mado about throe-quarters full. RECIPES, Broiled Chicken on Toast—Clean and carefully siugo aud split down back, season with salt, and broil over quick fire, turning frequently. When cookod put bits of butter over meat and place on pieces of toast with cresses and small bits of lemon. Poppermint Creams—Take two cup ful** of sugar, two-thirds of a ounful of boiling water, one teaspoonfnl of glu cose and two pinches of cream of tar tar. Boil until it threads, cool slightly and heat until it begins to thicken. Thon flavor with peppermint accord ing to tasto and drop on tins. Everton Taffy—Boil one pound of best brown sugar in half a pint of water; when thick drop a few drops in a cup of cold water, and if the drops retain their shape aud become brittle, add too ounces of butter and boil a fow moments until it will harden again. Flavor with lemon. Dutch Applo Pudding—One pint of flour, one and ono-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonfnl of salt. Hub one-quarter cup of but ter into tho flour. Beat one egg light, add to it three-quartors of a cup of cold water, and stir into tho flour. Spread in well-buttered shallow pans. Pare, core and quarter four or five sour apples, place them 011 tho dough, and sprinkle over them two table spoonfuls of sugar. Bake twenty or thirty minutes. Servo ut onco with lemon sauce. Squash Pie—Pool tho squash and cut it in small pieces. COOK until done, using very little water. Mash it fine and to two capfuls of squash, add one cupful of sweet milk, 0110 cupful of sugar, tho yolks of four eggs, well beaten, a pinch of salt, ono-half tea spoonful of gingor. Mix all tho in gredients thoroughly, line a pan with paste and fill it. Bake until done. Beat tho whites of the eggs to a still froth, add one-half cupful of sugar, spread it over tho pies and leave them in tho oven until tho meriuguo is a rich brown. Baked Macaroni (with choose) Broak ono-half package macaroni into inch pieces, cover with boiling water Hlightly salted aud stew gently twenty minutes. Drain well, and put a layer in tho bottom of a buttered puddiug dish ; upon this grato somo mild rich cheese, a sprinkling of salt and bits of butter. Spread ou this more maca roni, and proceed as before until all tho macaroni is used, having tho macaroni on top well buttered, bat without tho cheese. Cover with a scant pint of rich milk salted, aud bake, covered, half an hour 111 a hot oven. Boinovo cover, browu and nerve. New Krylnic Pn. A frying pan constructed on an Im proved principle has been Invented by Inspector Ludbrookc, of the Great Western Railway, England. His pan consists of an outer plate of sheet iron and an Inner one of burnished steel, and between the two is a thin layer Df abestos, the advantages claimed for It being that it cannot get overheated and burn the contents; that the fat will not splutter over the sides, aud the luices of the meat are retained. AN Atchison woman's poodle dog sports a glass eve. All the Same. "Many days you have lingered about my cabin door; hard times, hard times come again no more." Ail the same Merry Christ mas and Happy New Year pnssod as though the land was flowing with milk and honey. Nome bought one thing and some bought an other, but one of the best investments for a small sum paid well. It was not for a Christ mas bush, but thousands got it and thou sands who had suffered long and weurily with rheumatism were made doubly happy in being cured by St. Jacobs Oil. It leaves no trace behind, and all the same, the harder times will come no more to them. The lux ury of health is worth a foriuno. IF the present rate keeps up, all the i men will finally be lawyers, and all the women stenographers. A A Gentle Corrective I \ is what you need when your 1 \ liver becomes inactive. It's / \ Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets; A 'IB they're free from the violence Jy>\ and the griping that come with the ordinary / hVBBI T l,e est lue n IfflS?/ \J / i ll regulating the bowels I ngj (v/ mild methods are pref- I BB erable. For every de- I HUk T rangewent of the liver, /JHMHfcJ stomach and bowels, these tin}*, sugar coated nHraKH pills are most effective. BMV uStt They go about their |B( Iw n a turn I way, amfthcir mm m good lasts. Once used, Hf n they are always in f- Ml H of the choicest, concen- tracts, they cost much .. more than other pills found in the market, B 1 \ yet from forty to forty- B Hi H i'oar are put up in each ' sealed glass vial, as 3old through druggists, at the price of the cheaper made pills. 44 Pleasant Pellets " cure biliousness, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, costive tiess, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coatea tongue, indigestion, or dys pepsia, windy belchings, "heart-burn," paui and distress after eating, and kindred derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels. Put up in sealed glass vials, there fore always fresh and reliable. Whether as a laxative, or in larger doses, as a gently acting but searching cathartic, these little 44 Pellets " are unequaled. As a 44 dinner pill." to promote digestion, take one each day after dinner. To relieve the distress arising from over-eating, noth ing equals one of these little 44 Pellets." They are tiny, sugar-coated, anti-bilious granules. Any child readily takes them. Accept no substitute that may be recom mended to he 44 iust as good." It maybe belter for the dealer , because of paying him a better profit, but he is not the one who needs help. A free sample (4 to 7 doses) on trial , is mailed to any address, post-paid, on receipt of name and address on postal card. Address WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, buffalo, N. Y. BEECHAM'S FILLS (Vegetable) What They Are For Biliousness indigestion sallow skin dyspepsia bad taste ir. the mouth pimples sick headache foul breath torpid liver bilious headache loss of appetite depression of spirits when these conditions arc caused by constipation; and constipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. One of the most important things for everybody to learn is that constipation causes more than half the sickness in the world, especially of women; and it can all be prevented. Go by the book, free at your drug gist's, or write B. F. Allen Co., 365 Canal Street, New York. Pills, 10c. and 25c. a box. Annual sales more than 6,000,000 boxes. " The Best is, Aye, the Cheapest." Avoid Imitations of and Substitutes for SAPOLIO II Scott's Emulsion I I of Cod-livor Oil, with Ilypophosphites of Lime and Soda, E I is a constructive food that nourishes, enriches the blood, ■ creates solid flesh, stops wasting and gives strength. It is H for all Wasting Diseases j like Consumption, Scrofula, Anaomia, Marasmus; or for Coughs and | Colds, Scro Throat, Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Loss of Plosh and j General Debility. Scott's Emulsion has no equal as Nourishment for Babies and Growing Children. Buy only tho genuino put up in salmon-colored wrapper. Send for pamplet on Scott's Emulsion. FREE. Scott Bowno, N. Y. All Druggists. 50 conts and sl. t Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Drft£\l Baking IPowder AR&OLUTEEtf PURE Vast Armaments of Europe. Thirteen million bayonets prop up the Char's throne. That is the full strength of the Russian army on a war footing. Germany comes next, but uf ter a long interval, with 3,700,000 sol diers; Italy has 3,155,000 and France 2,0;>U,000, excluding 350,000 auxiliaries. Austria's line army, which in quality is reckoned scarcely second to Kaiser Wllhelm's, contains a maximum of 1,- 794,175 men. England at home and In her colonies can mobilize a force of 602,000. The little martial republic of Switzerland can summon 486,000 sol diers to her banners in an emergency, and even poverty-cursed Spain boasts of 400,000. Austria, of all the powers, has the most burdensome military es tablishment Iler annual expenditures on her army are $255,000,(XX), while Russia's, with an army seven times as large, are only $180,000,000, and Ger many's $113,000,000. Iu proportion to size, England's army is perhaps the most costly. Her 662.000 men require $89,(XX),000 annually for their support, or only $38,000,000 less than the amount which provides Franco with an enormous host of more than four times England's numbers.—Boston Journul. Tno case Altered. The sort of sentiment which the French system of marlages de eonve nance, or In plain English, of marriage for money, produces is well illustrated by a story which a French paper tells. Marie, a young lady, announces to her parents that she has accepted the hand of Monsieur X. "Child, you are crazy!" exclaims Ma rie's 'mother. "But why, mamma?" "Young X will have no money for many years, because it all belongs to his grandfather, and after that comes his father, and you will be old before you get at the property." "But, mamma—" "No buts about it—you are a bad and undutiful child!" "But, mamma, it is the grandfather whom I've accepted!" "The grandfather! Oh, you little amrel!" Chemistry of" 111-Temper. Prof. Gates, of Washington, has en tered upon an almost unknown domain of psychical science. He claims to have made the discovery that the emo tions produce a physical reaction which discloses itself to chemical tests, and that the benevolent sensibilities, such as kindness, cheerfulness, etc., exert a good effect on the bodily health, while the malevolent feelings exert a corres pondingly bad effect Millions in Charity. England's poor rates amounted to over $85,000,000 last year. Do Not Sleep on the Left Side. There is little doubt that an linmensi number of persons habitually sleep on the left side, and those who do so can never, it is said, be strictly healthy. II is the most prolific cause of nightmare, and also of the unpleasant tuste In th mouth on arising in the morning. All food enters and leaves the stomach on the right side, and hence sleeping on the left side soon after eating involves a sort of pumping operation, which is anything but conducive of sound re pose. The action of the heart is also Boriously interfered with and the lungs unduly compressed. Hence it is best to cultivate the habit of always sleeping on the right side, although Sandow and other stroug men are said to invaria bly sleep on their backs. IlieUreatest Hedical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery. DONALD KENNEDY, of ROXBURY, MASS. Oot this Letter day before yesterday. Penn Yan, N. P., Nov. 28,1804. Your Discovery has done so much for me I am only too ylad to tell everybody about my case. When I began taking it, one year ago last July, 1 had DYSPEPSIA in its worst form. 1 was constipated, so muck so as to always use injections, and I had a constant I'AIN in my STOMACH and LEFT SIDE. My knees were, stiff, and I rouUl not sit down on a stool or get down to fix anything on the floor. Dut now 1 can sit, or get down on my knees, or do anything in my garden. I feel like a new person. 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