LTho French "De." If the flame began with which the particle indicative of nobility, It |waa an easy matter, the only thing necessary being the separation of the initial syllable from the rest of the toame, says tne i\ineteeurn century. For instance, M Qelamare became M. tie Lamare; M. Delestrade was trans formed into M. de Lestrade, and M. bervilley signed "D'Ervilley." But the operation became a little more trouble bomo when the name was a very com monplace one, such as Durand, Reg taault or Dupont. In that case the banie of a town or a political division Was added, and the gentleman called himself Dupont de l'Eitre oi 4 de Nem ours; Regnault de Saint-Jean d'An geuly; Durand de liomorantin, and so forth. \ When no name of a town or village was available the would-be nobleman applied for permission to add his moth er's maiden name to his own, especially if It had an aristocratic sound. In this way a certain ambassador, whose fam ily name was a ridiculous one, but •whose mother's name, though plebeian, Was easy to disguise, dropped by de grees his own name and retained only the maternal appellation, just prefixing the particle "de" and the title of baron conferred on him under the empire. In the elevated circle in which he moves, thanks to his intelligence and superior education, no one suspects that his real name, if he went by it, would associate him more intimately with kitchens than with diplomatic salons. / nappy Australian shopkeepers. / Shop assistants in Australia do not have a hard time of it. They work only fifty hours per week. In Bnllarat every shop, excepting those of tobac conists, fishmongers and hair-dressers, close at 6 p. m for the first four days of the week, on Friday at 1 p. m. and on Saturdays at 10 p. m. The majority open at 8 a. m. to be swept and dusted by the errand boys, the assistants ar riving at 8:30 a. ID. , Ten XWelcn For Tm Cents! fftranfr# us it may (hat big familv papr, the ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY SENTINEL, oil Denver, Colorado, (founded 1890) -will bo sent ten Weeks on trial for 10c; clubs of nix £UC; lj lor *l. Special offer solely to introduce the paper. Gold rings sot with Rocky Mountain penis are pi\eu free a* premiums. Latent mininp news and iilustrrt tiojisol grand scenery each week, also tine glories ol love nnd Hdventuve. Address as above and men turn Uika paper. 1) tile to-day. postage stamps taken. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous neea after first (lay's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervo Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free l)u. R. 11. KLINK. Ltd.. WJI Arch St..Pkila..Pa. India la entering the market as a competitor with Scotland in the manu facture of low-grade jute goods. Chow Star Tobacco—The Bust. Smoke bledso Cigarettes. At sea level an object 100 feet high la visible a little over 13 miles. If 500 feet high it is visible nearly .".0 miles. I could not get along without Piso's Cure for Consumption. It always cures.- Mrs. B.C. MOULTON. Nledham, .Ma--.. OctoberSß, 18Bi j At Chrichel, England, there is a farm ■. on which all the animals—horses, cows, pigs and fowls—are white. The Chinese fiddle, in the shape of an ordinary hammer, has two strings, and is played with a bow. In cold weather We need heat. The blood must bo Warm, rich and pure. Hood's Saraaparilla Keeps the blood In perfect order, Sending it, in a Nourishing si ream, To every organ. INC 4 'BB. •HMItftUMIIHHHMW* ]| flft FOR 14 CENTS 2 \ ! Wewiktoj-*inlM).ooontwcu- S | ! ' l°rkf"f3*D*y Rftd'ab, 10a X ' 1 WmW'M 1 Pk- K*rly Spring Turnip, 100 5 ( 1 1 Kkrliaat Red Beet, 100 9 { ( I " Hiemarck Cucumber, )0c 0 I X lend/It • Melon, ' JOe M * ' S " brilliant Flower Seed*, Uc jr J [ Mfaf Wertk SI.OO, for 14 oeote. { ( | fct jf 88 Above 10 pkfffl- worth SI.OO, we will £ | i ! SH E9 Rre*t Plnt and Seed Catalogue X ' ma (V ui>un receipt of thia notice aud 14c. x < ' 19 We invite your trade aad J 4 > out I'ntatoe* at $1.50 2 | V9SBMW a Bbl. Catalog alone sc. No. AO o 5 i CANCER MS (j without knife, plaster or pain. All forma of Da eon DIKEANEN thoroughly eradicated from the pystein. Six j weeks llemr Treatment for $lO. Book of . fuformatlon free. NATURAL REMEDY CO., Waitfeld, Mm. PROFITABLE SPECULATION A CERTAINTY ■ ir vau ni posn WITH I;R. We accept SIOO and upward, guarantee ftt r^r cent, yearly, pay 9 per cent, quarterly, and nuar •nteo all depositors against lens. H IICKM K A HUFIiLFR, lUoui CU, 2D Broadway. N. Y. PATENTS Wataon E.Coleman, Attorney-at-Law and Bollcitoi of Patents. §oa F St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Richest references in all parts of the country. PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHN W MORRIS, MBHINGTON,D.C. ! Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau, a /re. in laat war, 16 adjudicating claims, atty. einoa TO CHECK A COLO IN ONE HOUR I * Iloxsle's C. C. C., a homoeopathic remedy of great power; a certain cure. 00 cents. Sam ple mailed free. Write Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y. SAPOLIO Is Liks a Good Tomper. "it Shods a Brightness Everywhere." Chronic Kiieamatlain. From (ho Industrial News, Jackson, Jtieh. Tho subject of this sketoh is fifty-six years of ago, .and actively engaged in farm ing. When seventeen years old he hurt his shoulder and a few years after commenced to have rheumatic pains in It. On taking a slight cold or the least strain, sometimos without any apparent cause whatever, the trouble would start aud he would suffer the most excruoiating pains. He suffered for over thirty years, and the last docade has suffered so much that he was unable to do nnv work. To this tho fre quent occurrences or diz?y spells were add ed. making uim almost a helpless invalid. rx ALT, SORTS OF WEATSSB* lie tried the best physicians but without being benelltod and has used several specific liieumivtlocures.but was not helped. About ono ye x and six months ago he read in this paper _>f a ease somewhat similar to his which was cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and concluded to try this n*. .My. After taking the first box he felt some what bettor, and after using three boxes, the pains entirely disappeared, the dizzi ness left him aud he has now for over m year boon entirely free from all his former trouble aud enjoys bettor health than he has had slnco his boyhood. Ho is loud in his praises ot Dr. Wl'Mams* Piulc rills for Pale People and will gladly corroborate the above statements. Hispo9t office address is Lorenzo N"sley, Hortoa Jackson County, Michigan. All tha olemeuts necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and res.ore shattered nerves are contained, in a con densed form, in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People. All druggists sell thorn. The weight of the Greenland whale is 100 tons, which is equal to that of 88 elephants, or 4-10 bears. Proi. McKinley Vs. Freo Silver. A battle qf giants is going to take place this summer on 30.000 farms in America, not in talk or votes, but in yields. Salzer's new potato marvels are named as above, and he offers a price for the biggest potato yield, a'so S4OO in gold for suitable name for his corn (17 inches long) and oat prodigies Only seedsmen in America growing grasses, clovers and farm seeds and selling potatoes at $1.30 a barrel. The editor urges you to try Salzer's seeds, and to SKXD THIS NOTICE WITH 10 CTS. IN* STAMPS to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for 11 new farm seed samples worth JIO.OO, to get a start, and their big catalogue. A. C. 5. Ho \y' 'i his 7 We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any eaie of Catarrh taat c&unot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. I<\ J. CM KNE v & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the iindei-Rigned. liavH known P. J. Che ney for'the Jait 15yens, and believe him ner fectly honorable in nil business transactions ana financially able to car.7out any obliga i tion made by tneir finn. i WEJU" & TRUAX, Wholesala Druggists, Toledo, 1 Ohio. WALDINO. KIW*AV A MARVIN, Wholesale i Drugtflsts, Toledo, Ohio. I Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern Ally, nct i lug directly upon the Mood and mucous sur fuceior the system. Price, 7Ac. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, 'testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. From the report of American Consul Jackson, at Cognac, it appears that the vintages of that section, having been affected by frosts, the output this year will be less than last year's, and tho quality possibly not so gcod. To Cure A Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it tails to cure. 25c. The shipments of boots and shoes from the Eastern States was larger during the month of October than ever before, with one exception in 1594. The fastest flowing river in the world is the Sutlcy. in British India, ltd de scent is 12,000 feet in ISO miles. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrun forohfldren teeth! ng, softens the gums,reducing Inflamma tion. allays pain, cures wind colic, 'MC.U bottle. Viviparous Fish. A doubt that has troubled scientists for years—whether there exists a vlvip | nrous kind of fish, one that gives birth to its young In a living state—was defl ! iiiteiy settiud in the atnrmative the oth i er day when the City Hall fountain of i tho capital of Arizona Territory was j cleaned out. In turning the water out | of the big cement basin, where a gold fish variety of the carp family has long disported itself for the edification of iho Phoenix nurse girl aud the Marl ' copa County hobo, it was found that : many of the fish had given birth to !ns**ny fully formed and ready to dart i about in search of food at the moment | of coming into their watery world. Oth , c-rs had given birth to tiny creatures that were globular in shape, except for the protruding eyes and a nascent tall fin, that could scarcely be seen without a strong glass. From all evl ! dences, It was clear that the clean-up ! had been made during the breeding ! season, yet there was no sign of fish roe or eggs. Many specimens of the strange young fish were collected, and will be shipped to different experts, onq lot going to the Smithsonian Insti tution.—Phoenix (Ariz.) Correspondent St. Louis Glebe-Democrat. i Y * t'*VAYiY viV iY I'IVaV W s / V mV t VVYH^. j A RUBBER| 1 .ST. JACOBS OIL I ;; i-osa — —— j. | Soreness and | Stiff ness. | J IT CURES IN TWO OR THREE | | VIGOROUS RUBS.-® > Keeping; Hogs In Barnyards. It is not a good plan to allow liogs to run loose in the barnyard with other stock. Their odor is very disagree-* able to all other domestic animals and they will not eat their food so well when hogs are near them. Besides, cows and horses, if loose, will trample on or otherwise injure hogs running at their heels. The only excuse for keeping hogs in the barnyard is that they may root over the excrement of cows or horses that are fed on whole grain. No doubt the hogs will get some grain in this way. But tho bet ter way is to have the grain ground and feed enough less to pay for the grinding. With either cows or horses the meal with cut hay or straw will be much better digested than will whole grain. Step Ladders Fen- Fruit (Ritlicrina- Considering how easily step ladders are made, and their small costitlssur prising that they are not more used in gathering fruit. Tho habit of climb ing all through the tree, bruising and injuring its branches, is the direct cause of the numerous sap shoots that start out wherever a branch on the trunk is bruised. There was excuse in the olden time for training fruit trees high, so that cattle and horses when pasturing the orchard should not reach up and gather most of the fruit prematurely. But most of the orchards lately are trained with heads so low that a step ladder set under theiu, and ono somewhat higher set against the outside of the tree, will enable the orchardist to gather his fruit more'easily and safely than he could going through the trees accord ing to the old fashion. Substitute For n SIIIORCTIOURO. The illustration shows a simple plan for smoking a small quantity of meat, without any expense whatever for a smokehouse. Th o {fil'l II lira lower barrel has a ffijl „ | smalt door through |il|||!| I Hjffl which to replenish tho TTfT smouldering tiro in 'Ball ill il the iron kettle on the inside. The bottom Of the box has holes in it similar to those i in tho top, the upper barrel being raised to fflll! I ' l\\ show these. The front mispsffl 0I " " JOX ' s hinged 1T1,.\v7l 111 *° " le meat. '(-'lie upper barrel lias H rllk ne 'l' iel ' t°l> nor bot torn and sei-ves mere siMri.K MEAT ly as a chimney to SMOKER. provide some little draft and to carry o.T the smoke. Two small holes in the lower barrel admit air to feed the smouldering fire.—New England Homestead. I'rotccllii'T Late -Sown Grain. Wo doubt whether it is practically possible to protect late-sown grain by any covering whatever in the climate of Western New York. If you have manure, however, that yon can sparo to topdress tho wheat after the ground has been frozen, that is another mat ter. The manure, unless in greater amounts than wo should advise for wheat, will amount to very littlo as proteotion. What effect it will have is as manure after 'the growing season begins, and especially to make a vigorous clover growth for the young clover. Five or six loads per aero thinly spread will be sufficient for this, and that of course means that much of the surface will have only a very small amount of manure on each of tho 43,560 square feet surface that an acre contains. The notion that grain straw scattered over the fields will be of any benefit whatever is an absurdity. The straw cannot prevent the soil beneath it from freezing. But in spring it acts as a mulch just at tho time when the young grain needs all the sunlight it oau get to warm the soil. Ho the mulch in spring will do as much harm if not more than it gave of benefit during tho winter. In most cases, however, fall mulching with straw results in the straw being piled next the fences by winds blowing across the fields. In such case it does no good at any time aud is simply a was'te of the straw.— Boston Cultivator. A Compact Poultry House. The'i accompanying illustrations present a perspective view and ground plau of a small poultry house of novol form, which has some advantages over tlie rectangle. The outer walls are eight feet high aud may be built of dressed and matched lumber as in Figure 1, or, if preferred, may be of horizontal siding nailed to studding. Tho extreme length is twenty feet NOVEL POULTRY HOUSE. four inches aud the width fourteen feet four inches. The platform be neath the perches is four feet wide, of matched boards laid transversely, for greater faoility in scraping off the drop pings. It would be well to paint the upper surface, as soon as laid, with hot coal tar. Thic prevents the boards from becoming foul or harboring ver min. The four perches are each ten feet long, two b.y three incites, with the upper surface rounded off. They are fitted closely into liotcWfcs at each end, so as to be easily removed for cleaning. Extending the entire length of tho platform, and one foot beneath its front edge, is a shelf two feet wide, upon which are placed tho nest-boxes. These are one foot square accessible for tho fowls from the backside. The window frames are covered on the in side with poultry notticg to tkeep the fowls from the glass. In warm weather the sash may be' wholly re moved, and the house is then virtu ally an open shed. If more sunshine in winter and air in summer are de sired, additional windows may be set in the diagonal sides which face the southeast and southwest. (Tho win dows represented in tb~ illustrations face the south.) The special advantages of this form are greater firmness to resist the wind and increased capacity. The circum ference is the same as that of a rect angular house fifteen feet square or ten by twenty feet. Its ground area is 255 square feet, against 225 for the square and 200 for the longer l\ouse with equal outside measurements. In large establishments, where fowls aro found by the hundreds, it is desirablo to have the houses provided with passages which give access for attendants without coming in contact cepa ooon 111 BOXES GItOUND PL AX. with the poultry. But in a homo place, where only r. small flock is kept, it is all the better for the attendant to go in among tho fowls with food and water. It keeps them tame and friend ly, and affords opportunity to see whether everything is going well with thorn.—Oeorgo A. Martin, in the New York Tribune. Farm mid Garden Note*. Like all ( other farm animals, tho chickens "must bo provided with plenty of pure, clean water. A hen's time is not very valuable and it is best to let her spend a good deal of it in hunting the grain from the litter in the scratching pen. Five blackface shearing rams be longing to one firm wero sold at public auction in Lanark, Scotland, the sec ond week in September, at tho extra ordinary price of §385 apiece. If tho pullets have plenty of range there is not much danger of getting them too fat. The danger of over feeding is moro often liable to occur where fowls aro closely yarded. Peach trees may be examined for borers as lata as the weather holds good, and if not yet attended to should not he neglected longer. Do not per mit those grubs to winter in tho trees, Ou account of their delicacy early hatched turkeys are not desirable. Those hatched in Juno can be made lino birds for Thanksgiving aud Christmas. The unsettled condition of the weather before this time causes a great loss among the poults. The fowl in the wild state was not a very heavy egg producer. Tho large egg production is a characteristic which has been developed by a more generous diet than nature afforded to the wild race of fowls; not the amount of food, so much as the quality, which goes into tho egg composition. If the hens aro left to shift for them selves this winter do not grumble be cause eggs are not plentiful. This is the season of the year when eggs are usually scarce and prices high. Take advantage of this condition of affairs by giving the poultry tho attention they deserve and be rewarded by the increasing number of eggs. Get good town or city customers for poultry and dairy products who Ap preciate these fresh aud good. They will pay you top price, and often will want some of your surplus fruit and vegetables. Make it a point to have something to sell every week. Your customers will eagerly wateh for your coming to get something choice to eat. Somo hens aro naturally better lay ers than others; an increase in the production of eggs can bo developed in the hens by careful breeding. Na ture gives her a certain period of time during which the eggs aro to be developed, aud by supplying her with the needed elements for this pnrposo the number of eggs she will lay can be greatly increased. There is enough heat created by the bodies of the hens to keep them warm during the cold nights of winter if the hen houso is close and froo from draughts. On farms artificial heating cannot bo successfully followed, so the building of sood tight houses is profitable. Yet, if you havo a build ing that becomes damp at times, na artificial heat that will dry it is bene ficial. The temperature of the lien house must be kept above tho freez ing, point, and it can be done without much trouble. Typhoid fever is due largely to choked drains both within and with out the body. WORDS OF WISDOM. | Character is measured by the dis. tance traveled from the starting point, and everything depends upon whether the progress has been up stream or | down. | A ship in the water i 3 all right, but i let the water get into the ship and i down she goes. It is the same with ; Christian people, as soon as they get ' contaminated with the world they are ' in a fair way to be lost. ! Of the five senses, two are usually and most properly called the Senses ol Learning, as being most capable of recoiviug communication of thought aud motions, by selected signs; and these aro hearing and seeing. Some people scorn to be taught, others aro ashamed of it, as they would bo of going to school when they are old; but it is never too late to learn what it is always necessary to know. And it is no shame to learn so long as wo are ignorant —that is to say, so long as we live. Whatsoever it be that disorders, an noys, grieves you, makes lifo look dark and your heart dumbly ache, or wets your eyes with bitter tears, look at it steadily, look at it deeply, look at it in tho thought of God and His purpose of good, aud already tho pain aud annoy of it will begin to brighten. There are some spirits which must go through a discipline analogous to that sustained by Elijah. The storm Btruggle must precede tho still small voioe. There aro hearts which must bo broken with disappointment before they can rise into hope. Blessed is the man who recognizes his Father's voice in tho undertone of the tempest, aud baret his head and bows his knee as Elijah did. Warm nml Cold-lilootlocl Animal*. Animals have been called warm blooded and cold-blooded, but the dis tinction is less sharply drawn than was once supposed, as ono class graduates into the other. In a paper to tho Royal Society of Victoria, Mr. Alexan der Sutherland mentions that tho in vertebrates l.ivo tho capacity of pro ducing heat, although they are cold blooded, but, except the insects, their temperature seldom rises movo than a fraction of a dogreo abovo that of tho medium in which they live. Certain invertebrates, such as polypi, molluscs and crnstaoea, raise themselves one third of a degree to * degree above their environment. Insects, though essentially cold-blooded, aro usually u degree or two warmer than their medium, but capable of remarkable warming with exertion. Fishes, am phibia and reptiles also heat them selves o:a moving. A species of blind worm is said to rise as much as four teen degrees abovo the temperature of the air. Tho warm-blooded animals have nearly fixed temperatures, and do not vary with tha air, the mono tremes, the lowest in the scale of the mammals, having a temperaturo of about seventy to eighty-five degrees, while the marsupials average about ninety-throe to ninety-seven degrees, and the averago of tho higher orders seems to be from ninoty-niuo degrees to 104 degrees. Birds range between 103 degrees and 108 degrees. In a very genoral way it may be said that bodily activity depends upon bodily temperatures. —Trenton (N. J.) Ameri can. Justice Harlan's Chewing Gum. Justice Harlan is tho most dignified man on tho Supremo bench when ho is on the bench. His gigantic figure looms up abovo the others liko a giant among pigmies. He sits next to Chief Justice Fuller, and the contrast is pronounced. When he is not in court Justice Harlan plays golf, - walks, romps with his grandchildren and his dogs, and enjoys life thoroughly. Yesterday lie delayed a street car sev eral minutes while he and his little granddaughter drove back the dogs that were bent on following them to i the depot. On the car the nurse re- ! huked the little girl for chewing gum. I "Why grandpa gave it to me. Ho chews gum, and I can do what grand- I pa doe 3." "Of course yon cau," said tho Judge. "Here is enough to last you all the way to Chicago." And he took out a big package of chewing gum and tucked it away in the little girl's satchel. The other passengers smiled, and the nurse was silent. The Judge aud his granddaughter con tinued to chew gum in absolute in difference to all tho rest of tho street car world.—Washington Telegram to Chicago Post. Great Russian Canal. Tho Great Russian Caual to connect | the Baltic and Black Seas will be begun in tho spring. Tha minimum water way is to have a depth of twenty-eight feet four inches, a width at the bottom of 116 feet eight inches, and a width at the top of 216 feet eight inches. Its total length is some 1000 miles, but only 125 miles will be an artificial channel. The route is from Riga along tho Duna as far as Dunaburg. From that point to Lepol, on the Beresina, au expousive cut must be made. From the Lepel the course of the Beresina will be utilized as far as its junction with the Dneiper, and then the line will follow tho latter stream to Cher son on the Black Sea. Emergency Doctor*. In Paris a list of doctors ready to at tend in case of emergencies occuring in tho night is published for tho con venience of the public. Originally, we learn, a fee of ten francs was the stand ard payment, but moro recently a pool has bceo instituted, and the result di vided quarterly among the dootors. This system has alienated the bettei class practitioners, and now the em ployment of the whole class lias be come endangered by the death of a pa tient treated by one of the members who lives on £lO per annum, with i stock of instruments as scanty as his income.—London Hospital. POPULAR SCIENCE. A enp of very hot milk taken at bed time will effectually prevent sleepless ness. Experiments in Englamlhnvo proved that tine coal iB an excellent material for sewage filtration. It has been discovered that alcohol is among the by-products which can be obtained from coke-oven gases. A prominent physician declares that a plentiful diet of onions, served m various ways, will protect children from many ills. An old physician once said: "If people fully realized what it meant to themselves to laugh and then laughed as they should ninety per cent, of tho doctors would have to go out of tho business." To open tho shell of an egg without spilling the contents, a new appliance is composed of two flat plates fastened together at one side with round aper tures for the top of the shell and a slot between the plates for the pas sage of a knife. To convert an ordinary bathtub into a vapor or medicated bath a flexible cover is plaoed over the edges with an aperture for the neck, and the medi cinal ingredients are placed in a per meable bag suspended from the under side of the cover. The first spectrum photograph of a meteor is the remarkable object lately secured by the Harvard University. It is hoped that this will show some thing of tho condition of shooting stars and meteorites on first entering tho earth's atmosphere. Esquimalt.in British North America, is the only place in tha British Em pire, according to a recent climatolo gical report, that exceeds London in cloudiness. Esquimalt is also the dampest place in tho empire, while Adelaide, in Australia, is the driest. Ceylon is tho hottest and northwest Canada tho coldest possession that the flag of England floats over. The village of Great Cahvortb, in Huntingdonshire, England, is built upon au enormous boulder of chalk. This boulder is half a mile long and must have been carried coastward a distance of twenty-five miles by some great iceberg. It was dropped to the bottom of the glacial sea, where it be came partly covered and surrounded by blue-gray boulder clay. A Russian chemist has discovered a most powerful anaistlietie. It is sev eral thousand times more powerful than chloroform,-volatilizes most read ily and acts when freely mixed with air at great distances. Experiments ire being made at St. Peters burg to see if it cannot be enclosed in bombs, which would have the extraor dinary effect of anaesthetizing instead of wounding the enemy. A Kossar on a Wheel. Pedestrians in Broad street yoster day afternoon were treated to a scene which was quite typical of the progress of the age. A flu da siecle beggar plying his trade upon a bicycle is cer tainly a novelty. Tho man was a crip ple, his left log being missing nlmost Croiu the hip joint. Prom the nature of tho affliction it would seam almost impossible for him to keep his balance spun his wheel, and yet ho not only managed to hold his seat graoefully, but with his one good leg he pushed the pedai in great fashion. He was, in fact, a scorcher. It was his habit to cruiso around Broad street, until a wheelman who looked "touchable" came along. He would overhaul each man and make the usual plea for assistance. He picked out, such a one at AVharton street, and started after him. The intended viotim looked around and noted the cripple's appear ance with a smile of mingled astonish ment and amusement. On the pur suer's breast hung his trade mark, a large placard reading, "Help the poor cripple." The other man put on extra speed and started to scorch away. The cripple also "smoked up," and in a moment the race was on. Away they flew, square after square, tho cripple "gradually gaining on the other until at Moore street he was abreast of his quarry. The latter was laughing so heartily that he exhausted all his wind. "Can't you help me along a little?" asked tha cripple. "Hero's a dime," said tha other; "you've earned it." The crip ple thanked him, pocketed the coin and went off to look for more victims.— Philadelphia Record. Germans Fond of Africans. Owing probably to the rolative sear city of Africans, the Berlin people are inordinately fond of then, writes AVoll von Schierbraud from tho German capital. One hears of many marriages here between white women and colored men. Since last year a littlo picka ninny, by name Quassi, son of a Cam eroons tribal chief, is being educated here in the house of a wealthy dealer named Antelmanu. This little fellow this winter is tho declared darling ol the highest aristocracy, especially oi tho ladies, who kiss and hug and squeeze him fervently ou all social oc casions, receptions, bazaars, balls, etc. The tiny fellow, who is as black as the aoo of spades and has not yet forgot ten tho war dances of his native tribe, nor other heathenish customs, but wbo is, on the whole, rather a pretty sort of little chap, has grown so use to be ing made much of that he takes it as his simple due and puts on airs. He lias learned German like a native with in fifteen months.—Chicago Record. To Protect Imprisoned Miners. Imprisoned miners can he supplied with food and air by a newly patented conduit system, consisting of a series of pipes, to be laid through the mine shafts, with branch pipes running around each section to be used if the main pipe should be orushed by a cave in,floxible conveyers being run through the pipes to carry the food.—Chicago i Chronicle. ||| No. 088. j I. This highly Pol- KjgiSsi-_ished solid onk 5- -:'-t 1 1 ■1 ■ 1 I drawer Chiffon ler measures f4 ► inches IfIKpEL CEP 1! inches deep. l&y'*' 1 furnished with I T y***Tßirr ***| the best. locks, t| fe- -51 a $3.S9 - V 1 v . Bl f 9 f xnct 1 tails for |B.OO. 1 {Order now and avoid disappointment.) I Drop a postal for our lithographed I Carpet Catalogue which shows nil colors fl with exact distinctness. 11 carpet sum- I idea are wanted, mail us fc. in stamps. I Why pay your local dealer 00 per cent. I more than our prices when you can buy fl of the mill? The great household educa- fl for—our new 113 page special catalogue fl of r urnituro. Draperies, Lamps. Stoves, fl Crockery, Mirrors, Pictures, Bedding, R Refrigerators, Baby Carriages is also It yours for the asking. Again we ask, fl why enrich your local dealer when you fl can buy of the maker? Both cuta- fl Jogues cost you nothing, and wo pay I all postage. fl Julius Hines&Son BALTIMORE, MD. | ETHICS OF BOOK BORROWING., How to Take Care of a Yo. - - Lent You. In spite of rolonlus' fatherly injunc tion to Laertes, "neither a borrower aor a lender be," xnost of us borrow a. lew book now or then or receive it Irom the generous owner who insists ipon lending it. Some people take the look carelessly, others do not rest until it is read and returned to the keeping f its proprietor. The lirst thing to do with a borrowed look is to cover it with thick paper to protect the covers from accidental •plashes or from fingering. Do not wait a day or so, but cover it at once ts soon us you receive it. AY rite the aatye of the book plainly on the paper lover,, also the owner's name. If you ire one of a large family and the bor rowed book is likely to be laid ou a ta :>le where any one can pick it up, write >n cover, "This book is not to be left >n the library table," for in spite of lainty davenport arrangements the library table often means close associa tion with an inkstand, a vinaigrette, or flower vase containing water, or some receptacle of fluid which may be aeci ientally overturned and spot the bor rowed book. Do not read a little in the borrowed book and put it aside while you read three or four other more iuterestlng Dooks. Begin it and get through with fl, reading as steadily as you can until it is finished, and then return it prompt y. Do not wait until Thursday or Sun iay "because you will surely see the >wner then;" return it at once and then It will be safely off your hands. It is provoking to have a book bor rowed and kept for on Indefinite time; It prevents others who may be await ing the book from the opportunity of enjoying it. If the borrower finds her self not likely to find time to read it, she should return it at once and ask for the privilege of borrowing it an jtlicr time. Never, never, lend to another a book that you have borrowed. Let not that piece of superficial dishonesty be laid to your charge. Never permit your pencil to make any mark or annotation In a borrowed book. If you think a date is mis-stated or ntiy piece of in formation likely to bo of use in collat eral reading recurs to you. you are ai llbercy to write it on a slip of paper and to leave it in the book at the page where it belongs. No one should ever score a passage or a word iu a borrowed book. This Is Inexcusable. Few of us could subscribe to Charles Lamb's suggestion, advising possessors of books to be shy of showing them, but if you do lend them let it be to one who will return them "with usury enriched with annotations tripling their value." Return a borrowed book in the con dition in which it was lent, and as soon as possible.—l'hitadelnhla Record. Cn Loanable. Taming of the shrew is a task for which some men are not fitted. I'm one Df them." Then the honest-spoken man had to be urged before he entered upon a personal explanation. "In some respects matrimony may be a lottery, but I made my own choice and lots of the boys envied my 'prize. 1 She was pretty, smart and full of push, and had as much ambition as the first Napoleon. But what a temper! AY hew I She literally made my hair stand oa ind Just as though it were cut pom padour, and without touching it, too. Fifteen years ago I left her. As is lit en the case, our quarrel was over a trivial thing. I had carried some mud oa to the hall carpet, when going in after a rain. She took me to task about it, I talked back and pretty soon she was doing that hair raising act in a way that made it Impossible for me t get in ouje word to her hundred. I stood It tor a little while in hope she would run out of steam or material, but she gathered force as she went. In the midst of the tornado I took my hat and walked out. "Ten years later I went back and sat flown before the sitting-room grate as though I had only been out for part of the day. There had been no noticeable change, and everything indicated pros perity. When my wife came in upon ate she neither started, screamed, look ed surprised nor turned pale. And what do you think were her first words ?" "Give it up." " 'AA'ell, did you wipe your feet this time?' Yes, sir, that was her exact lan guage. I left without a word. AVlien the second ten years are up, I'll go again and I'll bet odds she'll ask the lume question."—Detroit Free Press. The oldest tree In the great botanical garden, the Jardln des Mantes, at Par- Is, is an acacia, planted 2CO years ago.
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