*IHL SLtcP r-TIME.
Look, d°nr! the stars are blinking,
Tlio sli-epy moon is low,
A 1 lie little winds among the leaves
31avo all forgot to blow;
Com-, dear, an i say good night!
Uod keep you all the night!
Good night! Gay words for waking,
Brave words for noon are best,
But Moving words for the sleepy-time
\VJle_l the moon is low in the west.
God keep you all the night!
Sweet dreams! Good niijut! good night!
—Bertha E. Brewer, in Youth's Companion.
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toll, scarlet
ji dahlias nodded in
w the September
breeze; the o1 d
watcli-dog lay
asleep in the bland,
yellow sunshine in
front of the stone
sun-dial; and the
late -blooming
Noisette roses, that
garlanded the veranda columns, flung
a subtle perfume on the air at Cedar
Lodge, while in the great drawing
room ("saloon, Miss Dorothea
Brabazou persisted in calling it, as her
mother had called it before her) the
tide of argument raged hotly.
And all about little Myrtle Mono
gram!
Myrtle herself sat in the corner, her
hands clasped so tightly that the tur
quoise and garnet lings cut into her
flesh, her cheek varying from pale to
pink and then back again, while her
large, startled eyes turned first to one,
then another, of the disputants.
Major Brabazou, with liis coat but
toned tight across his chest, sat np
very straight in the arm-chair in front
of the table.
"X say it's all nonsense about send
ing the child to boarding-school,"
said he. "She can play 'Annie
Laurie,' can't she, and 'Wearing of
the Green?' And she worked me a
pair of slippers last fall, and isn't
that enough accomplishments for any
girl?"
Miss Dorothea Brabazon nodded her
capstiings vehemently, as she struck
into the discussion.
"And I say she shall go to board
ing-school!" declared this ancient
lady. "Nobody's education can be
called properly finished until they
have been to boarding-school. I went
to boarding-school myself when I was
eighteen."
"Humph!" sneered the Major, who
had never been taught properly to
appreciate his elderly sister. "And do
you suppose yourself to be a model
woman, eh?"
Miss Dorothea to3sed her head, but
thought it best to iguore the query.
"I will leave it to Mr. Juliau," she
said.
"Well, agreed!" snorted the Major.
"We'll leave it to Mr. Juliau!"
• And Henry Julian, the third guardian
of Myrtle Monogram, who had sat
quietly pulling the ears of a silky King
Charles spaniel, all this time, looked
up, with the least suspicion of a smile
at the corner of his month.
He had not been exactly pleased
when ho first learned that old Judge
Monogram had at death nominated
him as one of Myrtle's guardians.
"I know little about girls," he said,
crisply, "and I care less. But of
course the Brabazons will look after
her—isn't she their own niece?"
But Major Brabazon and Dorothea,
his maiden sister-, had never agreed
on any subject yet, and Myrtle Mono
gram was no exception to their general
rule; and at last the contest between
them waxed so fierce that Mr. Julian
was called on to throw his decisive
Vote into the scale.
"To be, or not to bo—a school girl!"
said he. "What does Miss Myrtle
herself say?"
Myrtle was silent, coloring deeper
than ever.
"She agrees with me!" cried the
major, triumphantly. "She'd rather
have a governess at home."
"I hate governesses!" flashed out
Myrtle,
"There!" said Miss Dorothea.
"And I can't endure the idea of
school!" added Myrtle, bursting iuto
tears.
"Eh?" said the major.
"I don't see wbv I'm to lie bothered
so!" sobbed Myrtle, "Other girls
have a little peace of their lives, and
why shouldn't I? Oh, dear—oh,
dear! I wish I could go for a gipsy,
or be a Daughter of the Begimeut, or
go down a coal mine, like Joan in the
novel, or "
"Myrtle Monogram, are you crazy?"
said Miss Dorothea, severely.
"Bless my soul!" said the major,
breathing very short, and staring as
if his eyes would burst out of his
head; "I'm afraid my sister is right.
Myrtle needs a good, strict course of
boarding-school. land Dorothea have
spoiled her."
"Speak for yourself, brother," said
the old lady, acidly. "Yes, of course,
siie must go to boarding-school!"
Myrtle had dried her tears now—
she was looking curiously at Mr.
Juliau,
Would he not interfere in her be
half? Would he allow her to be ex
iled'thus in spite of herself?
"Then," said he, slowly, "it is un
necessary for me to say anything.
The matter may be considered as set
tled. A majority vote has been cast
in favor of the school project."
"I'm afraid so," and "Oh, certain
ly." uttered the major and his sister,
in one breath, and Myrtle got up and
ran out of the room.
"A pretty little child," said Mr.
Juliau, laughing.
"But a spoiled ono, I'm afraid,"
sighed Major Brabazon.
"A sadly thoughtless creature," re
marked Misa Dorothea, shaking her
head. "But now that you are here,
Mr. Julian, you will finish out the
matter with us?"
And Mr. Julian, who liked the
great linden trees of Brabazon Court,
the sweet breath of the Noisette roses,
and the atmosphere of sleepy, golden
babn that surrounded its wide ver
andas, assented without more per
suasion.
Major Brabazon rode to the nearest
town and bought Myrtle a big trunk
and a turquoise locket; Miss Dorothea
set herself to work to prepare her
niece's wardrobe properly for Madame
de Parega's fashionable establishment
at New Orleans; and Mr. Julian en
deavored by argument, coaxing and
adjurations, to reconcile Myrtle to the
prospect.
"You'll like it, when onoe you are
there," said he. "I am quite sure
that you will."
"How do you know that I shall?"
pouted Myrtle. "For I'm quite sure
that I sha'u't!"
"You will have the society of other
gills of your own age," he reasoned.
"I hategirls!" said Myrtle. "Cross,
envious, backbiting things, with not
an idea beyond lawn tenuis, crewel
work and china-paiuting."
"You will be gaining an educa
tion."
"Batwhat is the use of education?"
persisted obstiuate Myrtle. "I couldn't
chalk out a career for myself, like a
man, if I had ever so good an educa
tion. All I could do would be to sit
at home with folded hands and hair
banged on my J'orehead, waiting for
some young mau to he good enough to
ask me to marry him."
Mr. Julian could not help laughing.
"Myrtle," said he, "you are a
strauge little girl."
"Yes, I suppose I am," said she,
meditatively, "or else I should be de
lighted at the prospect of boarding
school. Six hundred dollars, payable
in advance. I don't believe Madame
de Parega is worth it. Oh, if Uncle
Barney would only let me have six
hundred dollars to build a yacht to
sail on Clear River, or to buy lied Bod
eric, the roan hunter, that old Mr. Sed
ley will have to sell at auction next
week!"
"I don't think that if I were you I
would dwell qn these things," said Mr.
Julian,'repressing a smile. "A young
lady "
"There it is!" sharply interrupted
Myrtle. "A young lady! Oh, why
didn't Providence make me something
else? I would almost have been satis
fied to be a j)low-boy. Plow-boys
don't have to go to boarding-school."
Juliau looked earnestly at her. He
was trying to share Uncle Barnabas
Brabazon's original opinion that it was
almost a pity to cramp such a regal na
ture into the orthodox world of any
"Establishment for Young Ladies."
Myrtle was odd, strange, abrupt, but
she was original.
And ho missed her when at last she
was sent away, sobbing as if her heart
would break, with the big trunk packed
fall of dresses, frills, French boots and
the pretty turquoise locket at her
throat.
kI - "It's too bad to break that affection
ate little heart of hers," said he.
"But she must be educated, you
know," argued Major Brabazou.
"And she was really gettingentirelv
beyond my control," added Miss Do
rothea, regretfully.
Harry Juliau stayed, as he had
promised, for the Mount St. Richard
fox-hunt, and for the fishing; but it
was dismally lonely after Myrtle Mono
gram was gone.
It had never seemed possible to him
that he could so miss a child like that.
Seventeen, did Miss Dorothea say?
No, it never could be possible that
Myrtle could be seventeen.
Before the stipulated month of his
visit was out, however, Myrtle Mono
gram came home—walked most uuex
pectedly into the red-curtained dining
room, 0110 windy, tempestuous No
vember night, her French kid hoots
all burst out, the hem of her gown in
tatters, her curls tangled, and a reso
lute glitter in her eyes.
"I've run away!" said Myrtle. "I've
come back homo on foot, and I'd
sooner die than go back again! But—
but—why do you all look so pale and
troubled? What is in that letter?
Why are you so glad to see me ?"
And she threw herself, white and
terrified, into Aunt Dorothea's arms.
"My dear—my dear," said the good
old soul, who was shaking like a leaf,
"you have flung away your last chance
—an education that might lit you to
be a governess. This letter is from
the lawyer iu New York. Those mine
investments have turned out the
merest bubble, aud you are as poor as
the waitress in the kitchen. Oh
Myrtle, Myrtle!—and to think of the
six hundred dollars that you have
wasted by this mad freak."
Myrtlo had vallied herself by this
time. Still and pale, she stood look
ing at the faces of her guardians.
"Shall I go back?" sho asked, in a
strange, repressed tone. "Shall I
ask Madame de Parega's pardon? Oh,
Aunt Dorothea, I will, if you tell me
to! I don't mind being poor myself;
but—but—l must learn to earn a little
money to support you and Uncle
| Barney. Mr. Julian—Mr. Julian,
tell me what I am to do!"
And she fainted in the old lady's
arms.
"Poor thing—poor thing!" sighed
Aunt Dorothea, "she is tired out.
Walked all the wayfrom New Orleans.
Why, that must be forty miles! And
to hear such news as this at the end of
it! My poor Myrtle—poor, petted,
spoiled child! Tell me, Mr. Julian, is
there nothing left of Judge Mono
gram's money?"
And Mr. Julian answered, with
knitted brows aud compressod lips:
"Nothing!"
The sullen, gray dawn of the chill
autumn morning had scarcely pene
trated the crimson curtains of the snug
breakfast parlor, when Myrtle crept
softly in. Mr. Julian, sitting at a
desk fall of papers—slriol economy
was now the order of the day at Cedar
Lodge, and the library lire was inter
dicted—glanced gravely up.
"Myrtle!" ho said. "My poor
child!"
But Myrtle was calm now, and com
posed.
"Please don't pity me, Mr. Julian!"
said she. "I—l begin to think Ihavo
deserved it all! But advise me. Do
you think Madame de Parega will re
ceive me again, after I have set her
authority at naught? Or would it bo
better for me to learn telegraphy, or
short-hand writing, or some of those
trades by which I can more promptly
support myself and the dear old uncle
and aunt who have been all in all to
me so long? lam not an heiress any
longer. I must be a working-woman
now."
"Come here, Myrtle," said Harry
Juliau, with a strong quiver in his
voice. "Little Myrtle, don't look so
white and frightened! lam a rich
man. I have money enough to make
up your losses half a dozen times over.
I would have done so without a word
to you, if Miss Brabazon had not
spoken out so unadvisedly. And I
would lay it all at your feet, sooner
than that you should suffer a single
pang of grief like this!"
"It is very kind of you," said Myr
tle, coldly; "but of course I could not
accept it at your bunds."
"Will you let me finish?" said
Julian, with a certain arbitrariness
which Myrtle did not dislike. "Will
yon let me speak out all that is in my
heart? Will you let mo tell you that
I love you dearly, and have long de
termined, if it were possible, to win
you—to make yon my wife?"
Myrtle colored—an intense glow of
happiness came iuto her eyes, and then
the long lashes drooped.
"But laiuouly on ignorant novice,"
said she. "And lam poor, and have
no longer any fortune."
"All the same," he answered, taking
both her hands in his, "I want you.
No woman in all the world can ever bo
to me what you are—my Myrtle, my
heart's queen!"
"Yes," she answered, softly; "your
Myrtle!"
"And you love me?"
"Yes."
So Madame de Parega, who wrote a
scandalized lettor to Cedar Lodge con
cerning Miss Monogram's many short
comings and backslidiugs, never got
her truant pupil back again—and
Myrtle, lost one fortune only to gain
another. And Major Brabazon was
delighted, and so was Miss Dorothea.
"Only," she said, "it does seem that
Myrtle is such a child!"
"Never you mind," said the major,
chuckling. "Because you weren't
married at seventeen, it doesn't follow
that nobody else can lie."
And Miss Brabazon was silenced by
this unanswerable argument.—Satur
day Night.
A."Modern KoMiimou Crusoe.
On a coral reef in the Pacific
Ocean, just off the coast of San Fran
cisco, lives a modern Robinson Crusoe.
In this case, however, there is not
even a man Friday to break the terri
ble monotony of his solitude. Theo
dore Gussman is all alone. For
months his horizon has been bounded
by a dreary stretch of sea. He is un
disputed monarch oi all he surveys,
but his only subjects are the seagulls,
bis only companions a couple of
hounds. His little domain is out of
the usual course of vessels, and until
recently he was unable to send word
to his friends on the mainland.
He might have returned on the ship
that brought word of his condition,
but a high sense of duty prevented
him from deserting his post. He was
one of three men sent to Chippenton
Island in July last by the Oceanio
Phosphate Company, to keep posses
sion of tho islaud and the company's
property there. His companions de
serted him when the Mexican man-of
war, Democrata, camo upon them, aud
hauling down the American flag hoist
ed that of Mexico. He was captured
and taken on the vessel. But ho
watched for an opportunity to escape.
Before he had gone very far ho
fiuug himself overboard, and swam to
the place of his self-banishment, with
the papers of his company concealed
in his shoe. All the heroes and all
the lively adventures it would seem
from this are not between the covers
of works of fictions. —New York Jour
nal..
The Nativity of Vegetables.
The eggplant is a native of Asia,
Africa ami South America.
Mushrooms are native to all tem
perate gouutries in short grass.
Garlic came from Asia, and has been
used since the earliest times. It
formed part of the diet of the Israel
ites in Egypt, was used by Greek and
Roman soldiers and African peasants.
Cucumbers are native to the East
Indies, and are grown in Cashmere,
China and Persia. They were much
esteemed by the ancients, and are
common in Egypt, where a drink is
prepared from them wheu they are
ripe.
Brussels sprouts came from Bel
gium; beets are native to tho south
east seacoast of Europe; sago came
from South Europe; rhubarb from
China and Tartary. The arrowroot is
from South America.
Potatoes are native to Peru, and the
Spaniards discovered them. From
Spain they passed into Italy and Bel
gium
Melons were grown by the old
Greeks and Romans, and were carried
to America by Columbr. The water
melon is native to Africa.
The cabbage still grows wild in
Greece, where it originated. Rad
ishes were native to China, but have
been grown in Europe for centuries.
The cauliflower came from Cyprus.
At the Carlisle (Penn.) Training
School 810,000 will be invested in new
athletio grounds.
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Cut Worms.
These are often troublesome in the
spring. They come out of the soil and
cut the little seedling plants off close
to the ground, then burrow. They
may be unearthed in the morning and
destroyed. It is better, however, to
spade the soil up in time, and let the
pests die from the effect of frost dur
ing winter. This is perhaps the best
means of ridding the soil of these
"worms."—Floral World.
Care In Watering.
It soils are not fully porous natur
ally, or if they are well filled with
roots, it is quite common at this sea
son for plants to fail when good care
6eeins to be given. The trouble, too
often, is that the water given rushes
through some fissure, or else does not
pass through at all; and, in either
case, the plant does not receive the
root watering which the owner appar
ently gives. The motions are gone
through, without the proper result.
This stato of things is especially bad
for decorativo stutf like aspidistras,
palms and ferns. One sevore drying
at the root may destroy tho usefulness
of such plants. For this reason let
the grower be sure tho water applied
reaches its destination and does its
work. It may be a good idea to plunge
the pot in a tub of water.—Floral
World.
Grinding Grain on tho Farm.
One of the farm economics which we
hope to see in every neighborhood,
if not on every farm, arc small portable
mills run by two or three-horsepower
engines, with which all tho coarse grain
needed for feeding to etock
may be ground. This will provide
profitable winter work on farms, of
which there is now far too little. It
will also save much expense, not only
in millers' tolls, but also in the cost of
making a trip to mill with horses
or wagons or sleighs, and probably
waiting several hours while the grist
was being ground. Many a day we
have spent thus, with no profit except
to the miller, while if we had a farm
mill, and even a horse power, we
could have made the . horses grind
their owu feed without much more la
bor than is required to draw a grist of
grain to tho mill aud return, and per
haps in a stormy day at that. All
grain is much better for stock after it
is ground. It can then bo mixed with
cut hay or straw, all of which should
also be cut by horse or steam power
rather than by hand. Tho farm mill
is now sold at very reasonable rates,
and one of suitable size to do all the
grinding required on the farm ought
to be iu tliis possession of every farm
er.—Boston Cultivator.
Tlio Flax Crop.
It was not without good reason that
Eastern farmers abandoned flax
growing. Its doom wa9 sealed wheu
tho cotton gin aud successive improve
ments in cotton-spinning machinery
made cotton goods so cheap that they
have almost entirely superseded for
common wear those of flax. In win
ter even a good part of the clothing is
mado of cotton, though woolen may be
worn next tho skiu aud in the outer
garments. Flax is an expensive crop
for the farmer to grow. If the most
possible is to be made from it, tho flax
must bo pulled, aud the entire plant
immersed in water until its woody
fibre has rotted. It is expensive in
still another way, also. No crop takes
so much nitrogen from the soil, and,
as usually managed, makes no return.
The seed is sold at very low prices to
tho oil mills, which extract the oil
and dispose of the meal that is left
after grinding the flax as a by product.
Whoever buys this liuseed meal aud
feeds it gets a double benefit. The I
meal is worth more tliau its cost price |
if fed to stock, and excrement made
from it is wortii nearly as much as the
meal costs. For this reason the East
ern farmer is often an extensive buyer
of oil meal, but ho very seldom, in
these days, grows tho flax from
which it is made. Spinning and
weaving flax, once so common among
New England housewives, have be
come really lost arts sinco the increas
ing popularity of cotton.
I The cotton lias also been so greatly
reduced iu price that it is very unlike
ly that the days will ever return when
flax will bo as extensively used for
clothing as it was within the memory
of elderly people. And yet for sum
mer wear and for durability linen gar
i monts are so much superior to cotton
| goods that they will always bo
; used. But the work of managing the
flax from the field to the loom is now
■ largely left to machinery driven by
! steam or water power, instead of be
! iug operated by human hand labor.—
American Cultivator.
Great Value of Manure.
I Do we farmers value manure as we
should? lam afraid we do not. Tho
j oldor I grow the more I value manure.
I have a saying that every load of
manure has a gold dollar in it. My
i farm is three-quarters of a mile from
a little town, and every load of coun
try produce I see going into town I
say to myself thero is a gold dollar's
worth of manure in that load, and I
must keep an eye on it. I keep one
farm hand, and we have on under
standing that any part or part of a day
that we are not busy the team must
haul manure, and many and many a
time I wonder where the team is, and
I soon seo it coming with a load of
manure, and I can got the gold dollar
ont of each load the first year, and the
ground will show the effects for many
years thereafter. Farmers have many
an opportunity to bring home a load
of manure from town which they do
not improve. For instance, when the
team goes to the blacksmith shop,
while the smith is doing the work
there can nearly always be a load of
manure got at the shop that the smith
is glad to get rid of. I notice year
after year some farmers living out of
town some three miles who for years
have hauled wood into town occasion
ally, and never a load of manure has
any one of them hauled home, and
their farms have got poorer and poorer
until they get but little more than
their seed back for their work. But
just think; if I would give a gold dol
lar to any one of those farmers for
each load of manure, no doubt there
would soon be a value set on manure
in the town, and each farm wagon
would return loaded. For an object
lesson I scatter a load of manure on a
piece of laud twenty feet wide and two
hundred feet long, and when I gather
the crop I note the difference with the
same amount of laud adjoining that is
not manured, and I always find I have
got my gold dollar out of each load of
manure the first year.—Horace F.
Wilcox, Julian, San Diego County,
Cal., in New York Tribune.
Fattening Olcl Coirs?,
There is n widespread popular
prejudice against cow beef, and we
suspect that the doctors are very
largely responsible for it. Yet we
have so often eaten tender and sweet
cow beef that our experience long ago
taught us that its quality was much
more dependent on the way it had
been fattened than it was on the age
of the cow. But it is, nevertheless,
true it is more difficult to fatten an
old cow, or an old animal of any kind,
than it is to fatten young animals. As
the teeth begin to fail the food is not
so well masticated as it used to be,
and as a consequence digestion is re
tarded. The presence of undigested
food in the stomach creates fever, and
in this diseased condition not only
does the animal fatten less rapidly,
but what flesh is put on is less tender
and sweet than it should be. The
common practice of fattening cows
with corn and milking them so long as
they can bo milked helps to make poor
beef. The water and fat that go into
the milk are both much more needed
in the beef to make it as good as it
should be.
A cow proporly fattoued should bo
given as much succulent food as she
will eat, and at first fed with grain or
meal rather sparingly. If she is very
thin in flesh her beef may be made all
the better, provided this condition
does not show the impairment of her
digestive organs. When a cow is fat
tened that when you begin feeding her
is little moro than skin and bones,
with enough flesh to hold them to
gether, it stands to reason that most
of the flesh aud fat you can put on Jier
by three or four months' good feeding
will be new flesh and fat and just as
good as if put on a two-year-old heifer.
Tho bodily system is being constantly
changed by the small veins whioh run
through tho flesh, and which are al
ways carrying off waste matter and re
placing it with new. The old saying
used to bo that the living body is
wholly renewed evory sevon years,
iiut scientists nra now agreed that
most parts of it are renewed much
quicker than this, as any one may see
by the rapid healing of a cut or bruise
when air and the germs it contains are
excluded from it.
Old cows sell at ridicnlously low
prices, as may be seen each week in
the market reports. One weighing
985 pounds was during a recent week
sold for only SIG. This cow may have
been thin in flesh, but if she was in
good health sho would well repay
proper fattening. Since ensilage is
now so common it is much easier to
properly fatten old cows than it used
to be when they were mainly fattened
on dry hay, cornstalks and corn,
neither of them tho best material for
making sweet and tender beef. If
those who fatten old cows would make
an effort to do this properly, cow beef
might be made much better than it is,
aud the unreasonable prejudice against
it would disappear.
Derivation of the AVorct Klondike.
From Dawson the trail to the
mines leads ovor a steep hill to tho
creek made so famous by its tributa
ries; for there i 3 not a single mine on
tho principal stream, which in the
miners' slang is called Klondike. And
yet this stream does in reality bear a
characteristic name given it by the
Indians, which is utterly murdered
by this pronunciation, now so com
mon.
The Indians namo the creeks
throughout the country from some
characteristic in connection with the
stream itself; aud as this one is so
swift that in order to set their salmon
traps or nets they were obliged to
use a hammer to drive the stakes to
anchor them, the creek was named by
them Hammer Creek, or, in their
language, phonetically, Troan Dik.
The spelling Klondike means abso
lutely nothing, but has been accepted,
so I learn, by the Board of Geograph
ical Names of the United States.—
John Sidney Webb, in the Century,
A newly discovered Spanish stone
hnß proved so well adapted to litho
graphic '.work that a large company
has been formed, which threatens to
overthrow the Bavarian monopoly in
lithographic stones.
POWLAR SCrENCE.
There is to bo a new electric light*
house placed on Fire Island, off Long
Island, that will have tho estimated
power of 45,000,000 candles, making
it the most powerful artificial light in
the world.
If the inhabitants of the fixed stars
had powerful enough telescopes to
see us, they would not see us as we
are to-day, but as wo were fifty, 100
years, or even longer ago, for it would
take light that long to travel to them.
One of the attractions of the Paris
Exposition in 1900 will be a huge pic
ture of the coronation of the tsar. The
canvas will contain 200 nearly life-size
portraits, and odd devices will be re
sorted to in an effort to produce an at
mosphere of realism.
The radiation of the heat from the
sun is not eternal; it had its beginning
and will have its end. If the sun rad
iates light and heat in all directions it
cannot bo more than 100,000,000 years
old. This is Lord Kelvin's estimate.
At the present rate the sun will con
tinue from seven to fifteen millions of
years, but the end will surely come.
The nervous system, says Professoi
W. H. Thomson, has a greater stora of
reserve vitality than all the other bod
ily systems together, and is the only
texture that does not lose weight iu
death by starvation or other cause. It
is the last to grow old. As to tho
mind, it need not grow old at all, pro*
vided it be supplied with mighty sfcim
ulous called interest, by which it will
grow steadily, even while bone and
sinew are wasting through age.
According to a reliable computation,
a single tree is able through its leaves
to purify the air from the carbonic
acid arising from the respiration of a
considerable number of men—as many
as a dozen or a score. The volume of
carbonic acid exhaled by a human being
iu the course of twenty-four hours is
estimated at 100 gallons, and a single
square yard of leaf surface, counting
both tho upper and under sides of tho
leaves, can decompose about a gallon
of carbonic acid a day.
According to a German publication,
a chemist of that country lias prepared
a iluid that has the power wheu in
jected into the tissue of a plant near
its roots of anesthetizing thejplaut. Tho
plant does not die, but stops growing,
maintaining its fresh, green appear
ance, though its vitality is apparently
suspended. It is also independent of
the changes in temperature, the most
delicate hothouse plants continuing to
bloom in the open. The composition
of tho fluid is shrouded iu the great
est secrecy, but it is said to have a
pungent odor and to be colorless.
Strange Money in the Mountain*.
"The strangest money I ever saw,"
said a drummer for a Main street house
the other evening, "was in tho moun
tain districts in Kentucky and West
Virginia. Last summer X was making
my semi-annual tour through this dis
trict and I stopped one day at a little
grocery and saloon, not to sell goods,
but to get a drink of the 'mountain
dew.' Whilo I was pouring out my
drink a big husky mountaineer en
tered the place and called for a drink.
As ho finished gulping it down he
reached into a big bulky pocket and
drew forth what looked to be a coon
skin. He laid the skin'on the counter,
the barkeeper took the skin and open
ing a drawer, hauled out a rabbit skin,
which I suppose was the change. 'The
mountaineer picked up the rabbit skin
and started to the front 'part of the
store, which was the grocery. He
there bought a twist of tobacco and
tendered the rabbit skin in payment.
He received a big twist of long green,
and I was surprised to see the store
keeper reach in another drawer and
tender him a squirrel skin. The moun
taineer tucked the squirrel skin iu his
pocket, walked out. unhitched his :
horse and rode away.
"I became interested and engaged
tho proprietor in conversation. He
told me that sometimes be would go
months without seeing any real money,
and .that the mountaineers used the
skins in all kinds of trades, such as
buying horses, etc. He saidAhat four
times a year a hide buyer from Lex
ington or Cincinnati visited this coun
try and bought up all the skins, which
were generally concentrated in the
few stores in tho vicinity."—Louis
ville Dispatch.
Mukes Ilia Own Money.
A man who has been an inmate of
the asylum at Pontiac for many years
has devoted every moment of his spare
time in manufacturing what he fondly
supposes to be bank notes. His pro
cess of manufacture is very simple
and unvarying. Placing a piece of
paper of bank note size over the deo
orated border of the cover of a book,
he rubs heel ball over the paper ami
thus obtains a replica of the pretty
part, as he calls it. Having formed
tho border of his note, he fills in the
interior with similar decorations, at
tained by placing his paper on the
lids of tobacco and other tins; any
surface answers so long as it is hard,
indented or embossed. He finishes
his note by writing in the center in
large figures the value he wishes to>
give it. As he has been engaged for
fifteen years at his hobby, and has
been allowed to keep his accumulated
wealth of paper money, he is the proud
possessor of three little stacks of
notes, each about a foot high. He
calculates he is worth billions. He
has never been known to miss a night
or waste a minute of the time at hie
disposal in all the long fifteen years.
—Detroit Journal.
Oldest Woman Writer.
Mme. Du Bois d'Elbhocqne is tlie
oldest living woman who earns her
living with her pen. She is ninety
years old and lives in a convent near
Angiers, France. In the seventy-nine
years in'which she has been writing
•he has published over forty books.
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Ivory Used by the Ancients.
The earliest recorded history—we
might say prehistoric, the hleroglyphl
eal—that has conic down to use has
been fn carvings on ivory and bone.
Long before metallurgy was known
among the prehistoric races, carvings
on reindeer horn and mammoth tusks
evidence the antiquity of the art. Frag
ments of horn and Ivory, engraved with
excellent pictures of animals, have been
found In caves and beds of rivers and
lakes. There are specimens in the Brit
ish museum, also iu the Louvre, of the
Egyptian skill In ivory carving, attrib
uted to the age of Moses. In the latter
collection ore chairs or seats of the six
teenth century, B. C., inlaid with ivory,
and other pieces of the eleventh cen
tury, B. C. We have already referred
to the Nlnevah ivories. Carving of the
"precious substance" was extensively
carried on at Constantinople during the
middle ages; combs, caskets, horns,
boxes, etc., of carved ivory and bone,
often set In precious stones, of the old
Itonian and Anglo-Saxon periods, are
frequently found in tombs. Crucifixes
and images of the virgin and saints
made in that age are often graceful and
beautiful. The Chinese and Japanese
are rival artists now in their pceulinr
minutiae and detail.—Popular Science
Monthly.
Turkish Army nations.
Correspondents who accompanied the
Turkish army during the recent war
with Greece refer often to the dietary
habits of the Turks. Pilau, or pilaff,
the national dish, receives great praise.
It is what we should call a chowder,
composed of lamb, rice, butter, alm
onds, raisins, allspice, powdered mace,
cardamoms, cloves, saffron, onion, gin
ger, salt, whole black pepper and dhiey.
The butter and onions are placed in the
bottom of the earthen pot; thou a layer
of rice, over which are distributed more
onions, raisins and almonds, sprinkled
with saffron in water; then a layer of
meat, and so on alternately untJl the
vossid Is filled. Butter Is then poured
over the whole, and the cover of the pot
Is closed with paste so that no steam
may escape. It is placed in an oven
and cooked for three hours.—New York
Sun.
nig Poar Yield.
. A single tree in an orchard near Cor
vallis, Ore., has yielded this season nine
hundred pounds of Bartlett pears.
The trouble with a great many men
Is they are never satisfied with wasting
their own time.
Japanese women wear neither cor
sets nor stays of any description. Their
costumes are doubtless worn with real
Japan-ease.
The first thing a* girl does when she
has mastered a kodak, Is to put the
palm on the piano and take a picture ol
it
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Co., lining business in the! 'ity of Toledo, County
and State aforeaaid, and that said Arm will pay
the sum of ONK HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of CATARRH that cannot ho
cured by the use of li ALL'S CATARRH L ITRE.
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Hall's Family Pills are the best.
A newly-born giraffe measures about
six feet from his hoof to the top of his
head.
Ilennty Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Casearets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Casearets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25e,50c.
A great deal of trouble is expended In
educating the showy, high-stepping
horse. He is trained to step high and
act showily by being driven along a
path whereon rails are set crosswise;
he steps high to avoid stumbling, and
In time always steps high.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Tako Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money if it fulls to cure. 25c.
Englishwomen are making vigorous
efforts to secure smoking compart
ments for women on railroad trains,
according to the London Daily Mail.
Chew Star Tobacco—Tho Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
The total cordage required for a first
rate man-of-war weighs about 80 tons,
and exceeds £3,000 in value.
Educate Tour Bowels With Casearets.
Candy Cutburtlc, cure constipation forever.
100, wc. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money.
About 400,000,000 pounds of soap are
used in Britain yearly.