€#tJlT©B Talk in favor of Hood's Saraaparilla as for no other medicine. It has the greatest record of cures of any medicine in the world. In fact. Hood 3 Is the One £** ■ ■ ■ ss&M Sarsapanlla Hood's Pills cure sick headache, indigestion DUCKS WITH LEGSTOGIVE AWAY Tlicy Were Horn in Illinois* and Con Swim Excellently, Mr. John Gordon, of Mount Vernon, 111., has a duck which has turned out a queer brood of ducklings. One had four perfect legs and feet, and the duck ling uses them all In walking just like any other quadruped. The other has three legs, but the third leg is rather an DUCKLINGS WITH EXTIIA LEGS. Impediment in walking than otherwise. The other ducks in the brood are of normal appearance. When it comes to swimming, how ever, the three and four-legged ducks show their superiority. They are like so many extra paddles or oars to a boat, and they make better speed than their less favored brethren and sisters. WOMAN'S INFLUENCE. The influence of women upon the civilization of the world, could never be measured. Because of her, thrones have been established and destroyed. The flash of her eye, the touch of her hand, and we have the marvellous power of women, glorious in the possession of perfect physical health. Lydia E. Pinkham, by her wonder ful discovery of the pound," has done much to place this "'Egtam great power in iwiy the hands of / (l women. / f \ She has lifted -j' 7 thousands thousands out / V* of the misery J ywSSti V. wH brought by fn/jflMl | gjj& mentofthe I j EM womb, and I j fljjj all the evils //* 1 ill jfßf that follow ') II I,jj rW table Com- N| |jJ j l pound" re- A Llr stores natural \j cheerfulness, de stroys despondency, cures backache, strengthens the muscles, restores the womb to its normal condition, and you are changed from a physical wreck to the joy of your home and friends. By the way—the leading druggists tell us that the demand for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is simply beyond their power of under standing! and what is best of all, it does the work and cures where the best physicians utterly fail Featherbone Edge S* B,AS QOP& VELVETEEN * SKIRT BINDING has a strip of Featherbone stitched in one edge. It both flares and binds the skirt and holds it away from the feet; the newest of the S. H. & M. bindings. If your dealer will not supply you we will. Samples showing labels and materials mailed free. " Home Dressmaking Made Easy," a new 72 pave book by Miss Emma Mi Hooper,of the Ladies" Home Journal, tells in plain words how to make dresses at home without previous training; mailed (Sir 25c. S. H. & M. Co., P. O. Box 600, N. V. City. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DIME NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, riamlrn, Science, Law, Civil. Me chanical and Electrical Kiiffincerliitf. Thorough Preparatory and Commercial Course*. Ecclesiastical students at special rates. Rooms yree. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Courses. Nl. Edward's llall, for boys under 13. ?.6'\Tern will open .September Srli, ISfIG. ( ntolognes sent Free on application to Very Rev. A. MorrUaey, ©. S. C., President. P N U 33 90 PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHNW. MORRIS, WASHINGTON.O.a Lata Principal Examiner U. 8. Pension Bureau. 3 yrt. ia lait war, 13 adjudicating claim*, uttj. since. Tho glorious Fourth has passed away. Tile day dawns bright with cheer; The small boy's chances to survive Are good for one more year. —'Washington Star. l'oet—How tlo you know the editot isn't in? Office-boy—From your looks. —Puck. First Tramp—Wuz you over married! Second Tramp—Well, 1 ji:st wish 1 had all the alimony I owe.—Puck. "Weren't you surprised when lie pro posed?" "No; wliy should 1 be?" • Ev erybody else was."—Harlem Life. Never Touched Her: He —Don't you ever tire of talking? She (qulrkly)- It depends upon who is talking.—Vogue. Artist—That man Bacon offered me 812 for that largest painting of mine. Caller—Oh, then you've had It framed! —Yonkers Statesman. She—Young Baggie, I believe, takes his fences well? He—Yaas. splendid ly; but it's a pity his horse doesn't take 'em at the same time.—Sydney Bulle tin. "There!" hissed the jealous Moor: "how do you feel now?" "Down in the mouth," gasped the Irrepressible Desdcmona from beneath her pillow. —Puck. "It is simply astonishing the way the bicycle is displacing the liorse!" "It Is, Indeed. Yesterday I found a piece ot rubber tire in my sausage."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Brown—Have you read this article upon "How to Tell a Bad Egg?" Jones —No, but if you have anything to tell a had egg, my advice is to break it gently.—Up-to-Date. Miss Ueeliere (indignantly)— Did you toll Jim Jackson ilat of lie married me he'd hah a white elephant on bees hands? Miss Snoffaike—No, indeed. 1 didn't! Do yo' link I'se color-blind?— Puck. Amicus—Why, do you use the ex pression funny joke? Aren't all jokes ill nil j.' Editor Not by a long shot. The jokes that other fellows get off at your expense are never funny.— Truth. "It seems to me, Miranda," mildly observed Mr. Meeks, "these cakes would be considerably Improved by the addition of a little more ginger." "So would you, William," briefly responded Mrs. Meeks.—Chicago Tribune. "Well, girls, Jack and I are to be married at last, and we are so happy!" "Did you and Jack have some trouble in gettiug your father's consent?" -No, papa and I hail a lot of trouble in get ting Jack s consent."—Exchange. Mrs. Brown—l have been so annoyed at my husband. He has been at the club every ulglit for a week. Mrs. Jones—Why, so has my husband, and lie said lie hadn't seen anything of your husband for a week.—Brqpkl.vu Life. She—lt seems strange that men are no longer willing to (lo deadly combat for the love of a woman. He—Ain't it queer, though? Especially when wom en have so much more money of their own these days!—lndianapolis Journal. "I once knew a man," said the Im aginative hoarder, "who was so fat that he was actually taller lying down than when he was standing up. What do you think of that?" "It strikes mo," said the cheerful Idiot, "as pretty tall lying."—lndianapolis Journal. A Dangerous Text: "Well, Unci# Rasbury, how did you like the sermon?" "Pow'ful fine sermon, Marse John." "Where did the preacher take his text?" "Frum dat po'tion ob de Scrip ture wliar de Postol Paul pints his pis tol to de Fusions."—Washington Times. Fair Patient—ls there no way of tell ing exactly what is the matter with me? Dr. Emdee—Only a post-mortem examination would reveal that. Fair Patient—Then, for heaven's sake, make one. I don't see why I should be squeamish at such a time its this.—Pick- Me-Up. "Xlodern society," observed the young man, contemplatively, "has revised most of the old-time proverbs." "Yes," observed the chaperon, to whom he had ]ust handed an ice, "for instance, now adays we say, 'When the husband comes In at the door, the lover flies out of the window.' "—Exchange. First Summer Girl—Are you going to that old Christian Endeavor meeting this evening? Second Summer Girl- Yes, indeed! Haven't you heard the subject to be discussed? First Summer Girl—No; what is It? Second Summer Girl—"How to Hold Our Young Men." —New York Press. "I was very glad, Mabel, to see you among those who were received into the church last Sunday." "Y'es, auntie, but I was so provoked with the clergy man! Ho gave me the old-style, un fashionable handshake. And he gets a salary of st>,ooo a year!"— Chicago Trib une. "Itastus, you infernal nigger, you told me that mule was perfectly safe, and when I went into the stable he nearly kicked the top of my head off." "Yes, sah; I sayed de mewl wuz safe, sah. But ef j'o' kin reccolleet, I didn't say nutfin' about wedder It was safe In his wlclnity. Dat mewl is able enough to be safe auywhar."—Wash ington Star. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Gas made from sawdust is usad to illuminate the streets and houses of Deseronto,Canada. The sawdust comes from the lumber mills in the neighbor hood. Threads of shredded steel are used in Germany as a substituto for sand paper. It is said to work more quickly and uniformly than sand paper, and does not clog. Only about two minutes are required For the blood to course through the heart, thence to the lungs back to the heart, and then through the entire body, and return to the heart. A Parisian inventor is endeavoring to perfect a phonographic watch. If he is successful, the world will soon see a watch which, by touching a spring, will whisper the time in your ear. The report of the Railroad Commis sioners of New York State shows that in 1890 twenty-sis ! per cent, of our street railways were electrically equipped, and in 1895 about ninety four per cont. A ton of Atlantic water, when evap orated, yields eighty-one pounds of salt; a ton of Pacific water, seventy nine pounds; the water of the Dead Sea, more than twice as much—lß7 pounds to the ton. How much water shall wo drink ? From one-third to two-iifths H3 many ounces as there are pounds in our weight. Thus a person weighing ICS pounds would drink thirty-sis to sixty four ounces, or 31 to four pints daily. An aerial cable railway will soon bo built to the summit of the volcano Popocatepetl, near the City of Mexico, 18,000 feet above the sea. It is de signed both for the shipping of sulphur from the crater, and for the accommo dation of tourists. Essential oil of garlic has been used to cure consumption by Dr. Sejournet, of Revin, in the Ardennes. Mixed with two hundred times its weight of steril ized olive oil it was injected under the skin, producing a marked improve ment in the sixteen patients on whom it was tried. In Siam there is a species cf small black ant officered by mounted "gen erals." Among the working troops monster ants—elephants as compared with the others—move at regular in tervals, and on each of these nnts sits or rides ono of the small ants, evi dently in command. It is said that a new soporific, tc which the naino pellotiu has beeD given, has been discovered in a Mexi can cactus called anhaloniutu. The •native Mexicans eat slices of the plant, which they call "pelloto." Its hynotic alkaloid has been separated by Dr. Hefter, of Leipsic. One grain of pel lotin is equal in its effects to 15} grain.' of trional and thirty-one grains ol hydrate of chloral. It is effective ir quieting delirium tremens only ir large doses. Difficult Rhymes. In tho Snnday Journal of June 21 was given a list of words for which il is either impossible or nearly so tc find rhymes in the English language. "Thin buck too" was given as ths only rhyme for "Timbuctoo." Then is a hotter one, however, which was originated by a clergyman some years ago in a verse written during ths progress of a social game: "If I were u cassowary, On tne plains of Timbuetoo, I would eat a missionary Hat and boots and hymn-book too." The only rhyme for "scalp" is "alp. 1 It would require much thought to con nect these words with good effect, bul Dyron has certainly done so in the following passage irom "Child Har old:" "Above mo nro tho Alps, The palaces of Nature whoso vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps And throned Eternity in ioy hails Of cold sublimity, were forms and falls The avalonehe—the thunderbolt of snow' 1 ' Thero is also tho case of Dean Swift, who was at one time most anxious tc find a rhyme to Bettsworth—the name of a friend. Ono day, while remon strating with a workman, whose claim for wages ho disputed, the man ex claimed: "It's what my two-days' sweat's worth I" Dean Swift had found his rhymo and gladly paid the claim without further parley.—New York Journal. Styles In Men's Shirts. A 6hirt that opens in the front is less likely to break across the bosom than one that opens in the back only; and one that opens in the front only (many shirts are now made to open front and back, too) fits best; the buttonholes in the collar-band and the eyelets, or other openings in the bosom for stnds, afford sufficient play, while the yoiie of the shirt romains firm and smooth. Tho Bhirt that opens front and back has the advantage that the studs can be put in place before the shirt is put on ; in putting on and taking off the shirt it is opened at the back ; the stud need not be romoved until the shirt is sent to the wash. With this freedom from handling the shirt is likely to remain longer in suit able condition for wear. The proportion of shirts made to open in front, either front and back both or front only, is all the time in creasing. More and more shirts are now being worn with cuffs attached.—Philadel phia News. Illiterate Russian Conscrijits. About seventy-five per cent, of tho Russian conscripts are illiterate. In other words,out of 259,000 men drafted into the army every year, 200,500 are nnable to read or write. On entering the army they are taught to read and write, wherefore the Russian War Min ister claims for the conscriptive sys tem the credit of being one of the chief adjuncts to rudimentary pnblio instruction. Gold iii Hie Coin. Despite oft reiteration, the state ment that there is 820 worth of gold in a 820 gold piece, and its consequent demonstration of the unimportance of the Government stamp in giving the coin value, is frequently called in question. An interesting and author itative answer to this oft repeated in quiry has been obtained by the Balti more San from B. E. Preston, the Di rector of the Government Mint. Tho questions and the answers of Mr. Preston are as follows: "What do you give for gold?" Answer—The Government pays for gold at the rate of 820.67 per "ounce tine, or §18.60 per ounce standard (.'J fine.) "Is there a charge for minting, an.!, if so, how nmch is it?" Answer—The Government makes no charge for coining gold. "Is there a charge for tho copper nsed to prepare gold for the mint?" Answor—When tho bullion deposit ed is not suitable for coinage, and re quires parting and refining, charges are ruado for these operations equal to the expense incurred in eliminating the base metals and parting the gold from the silver when the two metals are combined. There is also a charge of two cents per ounce for copper re quired for alloy. Upon gold bullion of standard (ineuess—that is, contain ing .9 gold and . 1 copper—no charge whatever would be imposed. "Will the mint give §1 for 23.22 grains of pure gold?" Answer—The depositor of gold bnll ion is allowed 100 cents for every 23.22 grains Troy of pure gold his de posit may contain. "What is a §2O gold piece worth in the market if melted into a lutnpV" Answer—Twenty dollars (820), if it has lost nothing in the melting. Suggestibility of Crowds. The spontaneous phenomena which the Germans call Massenpsychosen—a word denoting a state of mind shared by a mass of people at once—are noth ing more than nature's exjieriments in suggestibility conducted on a large scale for our beueiit. The panio is a familiar illustration. The terrifying suggestion which each mail could easily bravo alone becomes so intensi fied in beiug reflected upon him from a thousand frightened faces that he gives way and becomes for the timo beiug an unreasoning, struggling ani mal. Daring every great strike such phenomeua are common. A crowd gathers, the spirit of disorder is abroad, and the soberest of citizens feels his lingers fairly itehiug for mis chief. A stone is thrown, another, and then another, and in u few moments every man is vying with |his neighbor to see how much damage he can do. In these eases the {frequently repeated suggestions given by the words, and still more by tho deeds, of others overcome the results of years of train ing in orderly habits, and when tho excitement has subsided many a par ticipant in the late riot may fall to wondering "what in the world pos sessed him." The colloquial phrase, like many other, enshrines a truth. He was indeed possessed—not by any evil spirit, to bo sure, but by myriads of delicate physical impulses, which, streaming in through eye and ear, prompted him with almost irresistible force to violence.—Popular Science Monthly. Lost in a Can of Tomatoes. The finding of a geld watch and chain in a can of tomatoes by an In dianapolis woman brings out a ro markable story. The find was re ported and the circumstances noted in the Indianapolis News, and the next day a young womau who is employed in a cannery appeared at tho otliee and identified the watch and chain. She lost them, she said, two years ago, und while employed at the fac tory. She did not know how she lost them, and advertised at the time for several days. She eays this would have discovered tho property if it had not been sealed in a can in a storehouse. She hnd long ago bought a new one, The lost one was dearer to her, how ever, both because it was prettier and because it was given to her. Her theory is that the wateh and pendant chain dropped from her belt into one of the elevator buckets, was oarried to the filler and went through the filler to the can. The bow, or ring, which connects watch and chain was not found, and it is believed that this part was not solid gold, und was, therefore, eaten by the acid of the tomatoes. Tho mainspring was broken, hut every thing eiso kept intnet during the two years' handling of ttie eun, and tho watch is again as good as now and is keepiDg good time. Music of lIISCC'S. Sir .Tohn Lubbock says that tho houso fly, which produces tho sound F, vibrates its wings 20,100 times n minute, or 335 a second ; and the bee, which makes the sound of A, as many as 26,000, or over 130 n second. On tho contrary, a tired bee hums on E, and vibrates its wings only 300 times a second. Marey hns succeeded in confirming these numbers. He fixed a fly so that the tip of the wing jnst touched a cylinder covered with smoked paper moved by clockwork. Each stroke of the wing caused a per ceptible mark, and there wero actually 336 strokes in a second, agreeing al most exactly with the number inferred from the note produced,—Nature. ' Butter as a Medicine. English experiments have shown that good butter is equal to cod liver oil for consumptivos nud others need ing to bo built up in flesh, and that it is much more easily digested,audience it can be used in larger quantities. Many stomachs too delicate to digest cod liver oil at all readily digest large quantities of butter taken on thin slices of stale bread. VEST'S START IN LIF£T. Ufa Joke 011 a Crowd of Poker Plnycra Drove Him West. One of the conspicuous figures in the Chicago convention was Senator Vest, of Missouri. Vest, says a correspond ent, is a Kentuckkin. He began (life by monkeying with a poker game that was foreign to him. It was at a little village 011 the Ohio River. Vest was a poor boy and did not play poker. Draw poker is only for very wealthy men. That night a game was raging in the cabin of a fiatboat, which was moored to the levee. The temper of the town was fitful and they indicted folk who played poker. So the Judge and the Prosecuting Attorney and others who desired relaxation went down to this fiatboat so that the town would not get onto their sinful curves and put a crimp in them. Vest came strolling along about 10 p. m. where the fiatboat rose and fell 011 the sobbing tide. He perceived the poker game In its crim inal progress. Vest loved a good jest, so he quietly made loose the lines of the fiatboat and cast the poker game adrift 011 tlie dark, shimmering bosom of the river. The malefactors played on, little heeding that they were now afloat. At 4 o'clock a. m. old man Tay lor had won S7O In Mexican silver money. Then he got cold feet. Old \ SENATOR VERT. man Taylor said he had promised his wife that lie would come home early. The others jeered. This did not daunt old man Taylor. He sinkcred his spoil about his honest old frame and saying "adols" left the cabin of the fiatboat and carefuly picked his way overboard Into about twenty feet of water. He was fished out and rolled on a barrel by the other players to get the water and the money our of him. When they at last were towed back to town and found the entire village awaiting them at the levee, they began to hate Vest for the jocose role he had played. They at once laid for the coming Sen ator with sixshooters. Now, if there is one thing about Vest more than an other. It Is the fact that he's what they call out West "gun-shy." Vest won't stand for artillery a moment. So he fled westward and went so fast he simply burned up the region lying be tween Kentucky and Missouri. After ward Vest grow up with the country. It Referred to the Dog. In a well-known street in London a beggar was often seen plodding about with a small dog. The dog was held by a piece of chain, and had round his nock a placard, with "Pi ty the Blind" in largo, red letters. Mr. T , passing one day, dropped a sixpence into the man's outstretched hand. "Halloa!" lie cried, as lie was turn ing away, "was that a half sovereign I gave you?" "No, sir—no," answered the beggar; "only sixpence." "So," said Mr. T , "you are not blind, after all?" "Bless you, sir, no!" he replied. "YOll see, the placard refers to the dog. He's blind—not II" How'# This T Wo olTer Ont Hundred Dollars Reward for Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY A Co., Props., Toledo, O. e, the undersigned, buve known F.J. Che ney for tne last 15 years, and believe him per -1 X " onor * l >le in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by fcneir firm. Ohio TRUAX ' Wholesale Druggiata, Toledo, WALDINO, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the watem. Price, 7f>c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. FITS stopped free ny DR. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER. NO fits after first, day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trhvl bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. STRAWBERRY PLANTS FREE. Absolutely choicest varieties. Seud a postal to AMERICAS GARDENING. P. O. Box 1697. New York, lor facts \ ) Sunlight Soap S is mads in a twin bar (as shown 1 j above) for the sake of convenience; ) ) it is made of pure materials for the > C sake of quality; it is made by our C peculiar processes for the sake of 5 effectiveness (doing its work easily); > it is made at the largest soap works < in the world for the sake of supply -5 ing the largest demand in the world; J it is used everywhere for the sake of ; Less Labor ? Greater Comfort X'ersonai. ANT own who ha* been benefited by the nse of Dr. Williams* Pink Pills, will receive information of much value and interest by writing to Pink Pills. P. O. Box ICO2, Phila., Pa, THE HUE A T NURSERIES. LOUISIANA, MO., KOCKPOKT, ILLS. Visited by fiov. Colraan, Ex-Sec'jr Agrl. and tlie Hort. Ed., Judge Miller. "Oh, how insignificant all my fifty years of nursery business seems, all combined, when compared with this stupendous estab lishment, where they count by millions," utd Judgo Miller, that veteran horticultur ist, as he, in company with the writer, were being driven to the various departments of this vast nursery In un experience of over forty years we do not remember to have passed through an es tablishment where so large a number of hands wore employed whoso duties were so thoroughly systemized, and where business capacity of a higher order was manifested. It is not in the soil of every farm that one finds qualities essential to the growth of the different kinds of Nursery stock, hence it has devolved upon these gentlemen, who were born to the Nursery business, to select from among the hills and valleys of the two Pikes such portions as are udapted to their pur poses. But in this very fuet of selection of soil we see their exceeding care for the fu ture success of their stock. Missouri and Illinois have no moro worthy institutions than the Stark Nurseries, and surely no better or more representative men than the proprietors. The business is grow ing on their hands as it deserves to grow. They have a system of 40,000 acres of com- i mercial test orchards located in great fruit ! growing regions. The canvassing force is being increased; ! 5000 fine outfits ready. Stark Nurseries al ways have room for more active workers be muse they have millions cf Stark trees te •ell.—[Colcaun's Rural World. Four miles of a spider's web would weigh ' only one gruin. Don't yon mnt to *ave moruiv, clothes, time, 1 tabor, fuel, nnd health? All these can 1 saved if yon will fry Dobbins' Electric Soap. We say "try," knowing if you try it rmee, you will always use it. Have your grocer order. The film of a soap bubble is the 2,500,000 th i >f uu inch in thickness. Mrs. Winslow'sSoothing Syrupfor Children ! {eething, softens the gums,reduces inflamma- , v .iou, allays pain; cures wind colic. 250 a bottle. I could not get along without Piso's Cure I k>r Consumption. It always euros.—Mrs. K. MOULTON, Needham, Mass., Oct, '94. il "A Bicycle Built for Two/' ™ • I PLUC^ Five cents' worth of if • "BATTLE AX" will serve two A I chewers just about as long as 5 cents' |j| I worth of other brands will serve one jd | man. This is because a 5 cent piece I jjj of "BATTLE AX" is almost as | • large as the JO cent piece of other • 111 high grade brands. "I like the small package of Pearline," a lady says ; "it lasts two weeks V s all unnecessary. If you ( ll fir cl WclSil d . ont put in enou 2 h Pearl- T \! JJI ' ne to do the work easily / anc l alone, you bring *//■/ / Pearline down to the level of soap, which L / means hard work and rubbing. If you use enough Pearline, the soap is a needless expense, to say the least. Use Pearline alone, just as directed, and you 11 have the most thoroughly economical washing. Peddlers and somo unscrupulous grocers will tell yoa, " l '" S * S as gooc * ** " or <# *k© samc tts Pearline." IT'S JW'V/ VV