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????? Popularity of Chess. It is asingulnr faot that while nil other games of chance or skill have at one time or another been denounced by the clergy of every faith, chess alone has received their approbation, and among the best players of every land have been clergymen, priests, abbots and bishops.?St. Lonis Globe-Democrat. ^ In 1890 German exports exceeded French exports by 880,000,000. In fc895 this disproportion was almost doubled, Germany's excess over France being nearly ?155,000,000. i Ever sine# 1865 there have b*?n women (men tach year) who claim that there Is no soap hall 'm good, or as economical as Dobbins' Electric. There mutt bo some truth in their claim. Try 'it, see how much. Your grocer has It. A sixteen-year-old Baltimore boy committed suicide because he could not marry a /ourteen-year-old girl. FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No flta after flrot day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. Free$2trial bottlennd treatise. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Phila., Fa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the yums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle ? K Piso's Cure for Consumption has Baved me fnany a doctor's bill.?S. r. Hardy, Hopkins Place, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2,1894. $ The public no longer lacks a genuine remedy for skin diseases?Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair & Whisker Dye, black or brown, 50c. Sharply to the condition of your blood. At f this season peculiar perils assail the system. There are sudden changes in temperature; fogs and dampness, chilly nights, lowering clouds, drenching rains. These sudden changes bring on colds, fevers, pneumonia, bronchitis and other ailments. Keep the blood pure, rich and full of vitality and you will be well. Remember, Sarsaparilla Is the best?In fact t he One True Blood Parlfler QiI(a are the be?t after-din ni'i flOQq S rlllS mils, aid digestion. C5c. Manufacture of Faramu. Paraffin is one of the most valuable f>roduets of petroleum, and its manuacture has been brought to such perfection that it is scarcely possible to improve upon it. ^y the most approved processes the wax is redistilled for the purpose of reducing to the desired gravity and crystallizing the wax. Then the oil is frozen y processes Bimilar to those employed i'or producing artificial ice. The apparatus for this work is of the most complete and scientific construction. "Enormously powerful pumps force the frozen oil into filler presses and convert tho wax into a solid cake. The uses of paraffin are manifold, aud every detail of its manufacture is of the greatest interest to all scientista.?Tho Ledger. c ?ia^ I T?_ -< vt _f ii.? X'roiesfcur iUUUSUU, Ul iuuiuc State College, is experimenting with the cultivation of blueberries, which have hitherto resisted all attempts to grow them on a large scale. TIRED SALESWOMEN. EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE MORE CONSIDERATE. ; Interesting Statement by a Yonng Lady in Brooklyn. In the vast retail establishments of large cities, many women are employed as saleswomen. Men formerly held the positions that I and while women'sor- / / \ ^^-4 %?? they are expected to do v I the same work. Their duties compel them to be on their feet from morning to night, and many of them, in a short cime, contract these distressing complaints called " female diseases Then occur irregularities, suppressed sr painful menstruation, weakness, indigestion, leucorrhcea, general de> Dility and nervous prostration. They are beset with such symptoms is dizziness, faintness, lassitude, ex* litaHility, irritability, nervousness, ileeplessness, melancholy, 'all-gone" md " want-to-be-left-alone *' feelings, >lues and hopelessness In such cases there is one tried and rue remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes uch troubles. The following is a * My dear Mrs. Pinkham :?After .vriting you, and before your answer iame, I was too miserable to go to the itore, and so lost rny position. That vas five weeks ago. 1 am now back igain in my old place, and never felt [o well in all my life. The bearng-down pains and whites have left ne, and I am not a bit nervous or >lue. Life looks brighter to me. I lon't get tired, my temper is real weet, and I could scream right out Every my position should know of your won derful remedy. I never saw you, but K love you for being so good to me ;'? Meoith W. Oth Ave., Brooklyn, N. If. H hacudes mm all ti.bc fails gar L| Scat Cough iyrjp. Tastes GuuU. Ose Wj RB tyl in tim?. -Sold by dri/KHist?. *5fl STYLES IN DRESS. SOME NEW FEATURES IN FEMININE GARMENTS. \ Seasonable Coat for Ladies or Misses?Unique Combination to Form an Attractive Toilette for a Young Girl. "7C" HINT from across the water / \ informs ue, writes May Manton, that the loose jacket in its various forms has met with special favor. A coat of this design whioh is especially noticeable and attractive is shown in the first engraving. It is made of satin-faced cloth in a deep shade of Russian green, the revers, collar and cuffs being of velvet, a darker shade. The garment of fashionable length is fitted by shoulder and underarm seams. The right front overlaps the left in double COAT OF SATIN breasted fashion and closes with two handsome pearl buttons. The back, exhibiting the fashionable and universally popular Watteau effect, is joined to the square yoke. The velvet collar that conoeals the yoke is a stylishly noticeable feature. The fashionable sleeves are gathered at the top UaUavm rrmiofa V?n-i n nnmnlof# ed with deep velvet cuffs. All seasonable coatings will develop stylishlv by tne mode. Smooth-faced cloths, plainly tailor finished or combined with velvet, may be utilized for dressy occasion or when finished in cheviot, diagonal or less expensive grades, the model is adapted to all-round practical wear. To make this jacket for a lady having a 36-inoh bust measure, 3$ yard3 of 44-inch wide material are required, and 2$ yards for a miss fourteen years ol age. ATTRACTIVE TOILETTE FOR A GIRL. Grey mohair, maave velvet, white satin and jeweled passementerie are uniquely combined in the attractive toilette depicted in the second lar^e illustration. The shaping of the waist is accomplished by a fitted lining that closes invisibly in the center back. The upper portion has a shallow round yoke of velvet across the bust and shoulders, the fulness at the lower edge being well drawn to the center. Tho full front droops gracefully in a fashion extremely becoming to youthful figures. A stylish adjunct is the : ATTRACTIVE TO LI handsome bertha shaped at the upper edge in rounded outline with the tree orlops outlined with nnrrow ioweleil trimming. A standing collar of velvet edged with a fall of cream Ince completes the neck. The etvlirb sleeves are close fitting to a considerable distance above the elbow, the short full puffs at the top being the newest of the season's modes. The skirt of fashionable width is gored tu expand gradually toward the lower edge, a band of passementerie above the facing forming the garniture. All seasonable fabrics such as mohair, challis, crepon, in plaid, etriped 01 figured deigns, may be employed in developing the mode, and decorate:! with sparing or lavish hand. To make this waist for a miss in the medinm ''. .... J\ size, it will require of 4i-iucn wid? material li jardB, and 3i yards foj the skirt. LIVE INSECTS WORN* AS .TEWELHT. , Women have taken to wearing . jewelry that is alive and crawlp, a fact which requires some explanation. There is a little animal known as the Japanese terrapin, which for many years has been allowed to make its humble way unnoticed. Then of a sudden some fickle Parisian ladies be gan to tire of their brilliant chame* i leons, which they had formerly been i fond of wearing as a substitute for jewelry, and the pretty little terrapin was attached tt) a gold chain and became the very newest fad. Then New York women took up the idea, and a New York jeweler, in response to the demand, has just ordered some hundreds of these living ornaments. Women are so quick to adopt an idea of this sort that it will not be very long before the bodices of every fash -FACED CLOTH. ionable woman will be adorned with a crawliDg specimen and the enterpri6ing dealer's supply will be more than exhausted. The terrapin is a harmless little creature, most amiable and unobtrusive in disposition and modest likewise in appetite. When one is tired of him as an ornament he may safely be kept in a box and will subsist content ediy on a nttie water ana a ny or iwo every night. He has a pretty mottled LIVE TERRAPIN A3 AN ORNAMENT. shell, to which the gold chain is easily attaohed. This in turn is fastened to a stickpin, which may be elaborate or otherwise. A gold heart is the simplest design, and a gold dagger is likewise popular. The terrapin is ! rr*r\yn twi li oTToninnp ffnwns. whfln VSii/uu nviu ^ ? o- , ho astonishes the public by crawling I over his owner's fair neolt. One has to conquer a little squeamishness to keep up with modern fads, and the _^m^w jETI'E for a girl. 1 terrapin permits no exception to this, ! ?New York Journal. 1 j PKETTY l"Ci< COLLARS. The prettiest fur collars of fashion ere lorge enough to almost oover the shoulders, aud a border of 6?ble tails finishes the edges if you can afford the extravagance. Sable tails, by the way, aro in evidence on gowns and wraps of all 6orts, and two or three arranged with the cream Inco jabot in the front of the bodice aro quito tho i thing. f). Ancrier. a 6tone cutter in Mont I pelier, Vt., has received notice that ' ha has fallen heir te an estuto in Franco I worth 37.000.000. LIFE'S MYSTERIES. QUEER EXPERIENCES RELATED BY A NEWSPAPER MAN. A Lady's Startling Vision on a Steamer?The Warning Voice That Saved a Train?What a Doctor Saw. THE 6tories I am abont to relate, writes E. V. Smalley of the Chicago Times-Herald, I got at first hands, whioh is, perhaps, their chief merit. We read a good many things in books and newspapers that are out of the ordinary rango of onr experience and which we hesitate to believe, bnt when a friend tells ns face to fane and with all seriousness of some extraordinary occurrence, we are very apt to treasure it np in memory and classify it with the unexplained phenomena of this mysterious human life of ours. A lady of my acquaintance, who is engaged in newspaper work in New York, received a visit a few years ago from a Western friend who was about to take a Sound steamer for Boston the same evening. While they were talking the lady had a startling vision. She seemed to see the man walking on the deck of a steamer on a dark night, when the falling ram froze into sleet as it strnck the deck. He slipped and fell, slid under the guard rail and was engulfed in the sea. The vision oame and passed in a a second. The lady begged her friend not to go on the steamer that night. She told him what she had seen. He tw o + ort o 1 iof. Qnc\ lonnrho^ fllA wud a uiavgiiuitwv mum ?mmkuvv? vwv whole matter off as a bit of idle fancy. He took the boat that evening, slipped on the icy deck, fell overboard just as he did in the viEion and was drowned. Three years ago I was living in a car and traveling from town to town in the State of Washington. In Cheney I had a call from a real estate man. Some way or other the talk drifted to qneer 'experiences. My friend fold me had one such experience in life, and one only. Ten years before he was running a train oat of Chicago as a conductor on one of tbe Burlington offnr Vioqtttt roina XI II CD. VUO iliVlUXU^ CVAVWA MWMTJ when there]were freshets in the streams, he stood upon the platform of a way station abont three miles from the crossing of a small river. He was about to signal the engineer to go ahead, when a voice spoke plainly in his ear. "Lookout for the bridge I" No 01 as standing near at the time. He waited forward and said to the engineer, "Jim, I think you had better alow down at the curve just this side of the bridge." "There is nothing the matter with the bridge," said the engineer, "or we would Have had a wire ' from it." "Perhaps there isn't," replied the conductor, "but you slow down all the same." There was a sharp curve a short distance from the approach to the bridge, so near, in fact,that it would have been impossible to stop the train after coming in sight of the bridge had it been running at the usual rate of speed. The engineer slowed down. The bridge was gone. It had been carried away between the time the train left the last station and its arrival at the curve. Had it not been for the mysterious warning the 1 whole train would have gone into the river. A prominent Chicago physician once kept o drug store in a small town in Illinois. Across the street from the ofnro wftB n. flnnsidfirahle stretch of unfeneed town lots. Sitting in the shade in front ol the store one summer afternoon the doctor saw a young man of his acquaintance approaching across the open lots. When he was five or six rods away the doctor, without any symptoms of being in an abnormal condition, seemed to see the whole anatomical structure of the man?all 1 his bones and internal organs, and at the same time he saw the contents of the young man's pockets. The vision passed in an instant.- When the youth came up to tho doctor the latter said: "Henry, I can tell you jast what you have in your pockets. In one of the pockets of your trousers you have a bunch of string for tying up bags, in the other there is a black-handled jack-knife, two tenpenny nails and a half dollar. The date on the half dollar is 1856." The young man turned his Dockets inside out and showed that be was carrying the articles described. He took the coid, looked at it and found that the date named by the dootor was correct. He was eo astonished at this case of clairvoyance that he nearly fainted. Utilizing a Dream. One of the most valuable patents was the result of a dream, says the Boston Transcript. An engineer named Springer had been trying to devise an automatic lock which would brake a carriage going down the hill, so that the driver would not have to get out, but might lock the brake by pulling his horse in. He dreamed that he was driving down a steep hill and had just such a lock on his wagon. He noticed exactly how it was conntructed, onrl nil nralfinnr hfl <rnfc UtJ and Sketched WMV* Vl* " **"* wr> o? the details of the mechanism. Then he went to bed again. Three days later he applied for a patent, which was granted. It yielded $75,000 the first year. Of the heapa of patents issued every week by the United States Patent Office only a very small percentage of them have any practical usefulness. But it is not always possible to judge before a thing has been tried. A few years ago a man thought of inclosing trees in canvas and filliDg the canvas with deadly gases for the purpose of destroying insects. He was consid ered a lunatic, but his method is now practiced on a great scale and with much success in California. Vessel Lifted From the Water by Wind. Captain Carhigeri, of the Italian bark Vermont, which reached Phila* delphia sixty days iroui Genoa, sat in his cabin ?nd told a story of the greatest windstorm he had ever experienced during twenty-five years at sea. It was while in latitude 39.18, * ' ?- /?? nn ii..i U ? Kir lODgllUQe OO.^U) tllUl UC wo? Oil VJJ ft gale that lifted the vessel from the water und shook her from stem to stern. Captain Carbigeri believed that if the bark had been a larger 1 vessel the storm would have sunk her, but as it was ehe rode the gale out bravely, and after the broken sails were readjusted she passed on her voyago.?Philadelphia Times. How Pius Are Made. To complete a pin it has to go through many hands before it ia ready for the consumer. It is a very delicate article to handle, and the oost of building the machines to make it is the greatest outlay. The wire from which these pins are manufactured is specially prepared and comes to the factory on large reels very much like gigantic cotton spools. The wire is first turned through eight or ten little copper rollers. This is to get all the bend and kink out of it; in other words, to straighten it perfectly. After this preliminary operation is completed it is once more wound on a very large reel, which is attached to the machine that makes the pins. One of these machines makes on an average euuu pins an hour, and some large factories will often have thirty or forty machines at work at one time. After the pins are released from the grip of this machine they are given a bath of sulphuric acid. This removes the grease and dirt from them. They are then placed in a tub or barrel of sawdust. Pins and sawdust TiuTt folrsn i/iiTAthAr from the barrel and allowed to fall in a steady stream through a strong air blast, which separates the sawdust from the pins. But as yet they are pointless, and pins without points would not be of much use. In order to point them they are carried on an endless grooved belt which passes a set of rapidly moving files. This points them roaghlv, and after being passed between two grinding wheels and forced against a rapidly moving band faced with emery cloth they are dipped in a polishing tub of oil. This latter is a large, slowly revolving copper-lined tub, which is tilted at an angle of about forty-five degrees. As this revolves the points keep sliding down the smooth copper to the lower side, and owing to the constant friction against the oopper and each other receive a brilliant polish and finish. They go next to the sticker, where they fall from a hopper on an inclined plane, in which are a number of slitb. The pins catch in these slits, and, hanging by their heads, slide down to an apparatus which inserts them in the paper. This machine is, perhaps, the most ingenious of all the beautiful and complicated contrivances that help to make and manipulate tho pin. It does all this at the rate of 100,000 pins an hour, and yet a single bent or damaged pin will came it to stop feeding until the attendant removes the offender. The pins are then Btuck into the papers by the machine, whioh is usually operated by a skilled girl, and then they are ready for shipment to all parts of the civilized world where the common but necessary pin is a factor.?Dry Goods Economist. A Queer Hospital. "I wont to the animals' fair, The birds and beasts were there"? At any rate it was the animals' hospital, and there were enough birds and beasts for a fair. The hospital is in charge of the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, and that, if you please, is part of the University of New York; so if you wanted to send your dickey-bird there for the pip, he would be in a manner under tbe sheltering wing of all the D.D.s that shine as the regents of that noble institution. A great deal of the hospital's most interesting practice is among the animals kept in zoological gardens or in traveling shows. An old circus lion was brought here not long ago to have his ulcerated tooth pulled. Now if the toothache makeByou feel as "cross as a bear," how cross does the toothacha make a live lion feel? To tell the truth, no one at the hospital wanted to know how cross that lion did feel?they thought it was a case in which it would be folly to be wise. The first thing, to be done was to drop nooses of rope on the floor of his cage, and then draw them up wheu he put his foot in one?he knew ho had "put his foot in it" when he found himself snared ?and so, step by step, got him bound and helpless. If you will think how particularly hard it is to tie up a cat, you may guess that it is no juke to make a lion fast; he ie just like a stupendous cat in his agility and slipperiness. The only way to render him helpless is to get his hind quarters tied up outside his cage, and his head bound fast within it; the next thing, for dental work, is to put a gag in his mouth; that is the easier because there is no trou ble at ail about getting him to open his mouth?he does it every time any one goes near him. When medicine cannot be given disguised in drink or food, it is usnally squeezed down the patient's throat with a syringe. The horses are very good about that operation, but the dogs are often troublesome at first, but both dogs and horses soon learn that they are with friends, and then they are wonderfully good and grateful even when the doctors have to hurt them.?Harper's Round Table. Use Ma:te of Peach Stones. Some people may wonder what becomes of all the peach stones, knowing, of course, that there must be great quantities of them, from the milliAna Kno^ola aT non^lina nrrnnrn ill 11 ii WHO \ji uuougjo vi v. i* w *-* v, o (j*w?u from year to year and sold in the markets. Peach stones were formerly bought by several nursery firms here, who, in turn, dried and assorted them, and sold large quantities in the South. The State of Georgia took a great many; so also the West, especially the State of Michigan, and, in fact, wherever it was thought peach orchards could be set out to advantage. Then the wholesale druggists took them, but in limited quantities, for their prussic acid ingredients. They were also stored by the packers, and sold at about 83.50 per carload of, say, twenty-five bushels, and those not sold in the manner mentioned were used for fuel in the winter after they were well dried. But this year there seems to be no demand for them, uuu jmjiveis vvuu JUBVC ruuiu LU uu w are drying them for fuel.?Baltimore American. Ornithological. The reason given that birds do not fall ofl their perch is because they cannot open the foot when the le^ is bent. Look at a hen walking, and you will see it closes its toeu as it raises the foot an.l opens them as it touchcs the ground.?Buffalo Commercial. a ALMOST A MIRACLE. tbeeesxobation to health of a PKOMINENT MAN. I "Worn Ont by Exposure and Krolien Don < In Health He Wai in Misery for ( Months?Ii Now a Well and ^ Happy Man?Head the Story. From the News, Clarksburg, W. Va. - In the Interest of common humanity, your reporter has the honor to send you an interesting and profitable interview had with one of Harrison County's most highly esteemed citizens, concerning his narrow and miraculous escape from death. The person referred to is Mr. Fioyd E. Barnett, of Jarvlsville, West Virginia, who is well known throughout Harrison County and other sections of the State. Mr. Barnett's narrative is as follows: "1 live at Jarvisvllle, West Virginia, was born and raised there, and am thirty-nine years of age. I am a farmer by occupation, and the exposure and hardships incident to this life finally overcame a strong constitution. ana in tne montn 01 may, ioa?, 2. nao oo?ou ; with what the medical fraternity pronounced i sciatic rheumatism. I "Tne disease was first felt In the hip and j soon became severely painful. Within a Bhort time the whole lower extremity was 6 affected and became terribly swollen, and at 1 times the pain whloh was almost unbearable ? extended up into th3 shoulder. I consulted * the best physicians and specialists in the 6 country, some of whom treated me some- t time, but to no successful purpose. I used a various patent medicines and liniments of j. wide recommendation, but none of them gave relief. I worried along this way for J some months, being unable to work and at c times unable to move. I became restless at r night and could not sleep. The disease seemed to affect my heart and It was utterly Impossible to lie on my left side on account < of the seriousness of the pain at the heart. c "My condition seemed a hopeless one and <; I was much discouraged, when by chance I happened to read an account in the Wheel- 6 * r?7 ? ? .7-? * fTTAM^o*fnl /tnva r\f a ? lug lnWfJJGIUJLCTl!' U1 IUO TTVUUVliU* UU4V v* w person afflicted like myself, that Dr. Will- ] lams' Pink Pills had effected. This was some time in the month of December. I immedi- < ately procured a box and began to use them. " A change commenced at once. "I continued to take the pills until I felt . entirely cured. To-day I am a well and sound man. Tne pills not only cured my < rheumatism, but drove that troublesome ] pain from my heart as well. For more than ( a year now I have not been troubled in the f slightest with either malady, or any other ' for that matter. I am a strong man and < perform as much manual labor as any far- ? mer." } Mr. Barnett is a man highly respected for veracity. His statements are corroborated * hv his neighbors and his recovery is ascribed ] to the use of Dr. Williams'Pills. As he talked ( to your reporter, he showed every sign of ( being a man in excellent health and only too glad to toll the simple story of how his life ' was saved by the use of the pills. ' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nervss. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous | headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either In male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box. or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. A Marvelous Bottle. A great curiosity has recently been brought into England from Monghyr, in Asia?the Ur of the Chaldeea. It is an ordinary white wine glass bottle of unmistakably European manufacture. Finding its way to the Orient, it fell into the hands of some ingenious Asiatic, who insoribed upon the interior of the bottle one of the odes " ? it? u att? *a ttto o oo/tnmrvlioliorl %JL ULtXLlZj, nun UUIO TT WD ?VWU?^?4WMVV? no European has been able to discover. Not George 111. puzzling over the problem of bow the apple got within the dumpling could have been more dumfounded. How's TUls ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that en not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney ?fc Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Waldino, Kucnan & MArvin, Wholesale Drusirlsts, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood und mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Are Yoa Satisfied With What You Know Or would you gladly improve your stock of knowledge? You may not have >50 or ?60 you can spare for a 10-volume encyclopedia, but you can afford to pay fifty cents for a Hand Book of General Intormation. You won't want to nay even this unless you are desirous of Improving your mind and believe tliatattve- I hundred-page book, filled with a condensed moss of valuable knowledge, will be read by you. This valuable Encyclopedia will be sent postpaid for fifty cents in stamps by the Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard St., N. Y. City. Every person who has not a large encyclopaedia should take advantage of this great offer at , I once and store his mind with the valuable facts collated in this book. < i ii > m ' A big wash looks disco araging. 1 ' But when you have the right weapon | t 110 SUACK lue Rrcai eiu-u Ui ouiitu clothes with, the battle Is hdt woa j I' already. ' ' Sunlight Soap ! } !s I'm trcapen to nse. It will make that big wash look like a pile of . * } driven snow. All the sheets and blankets as well J 03 the delicate fabrics will be eaved , J by Sunlight Soap, and there won't be any l earing or ripping, becausa j , you don't have to rub. , Less Labor { , Greater ComTori , s Lever Bros., Ltd.. Hudson & Harrison SU., N.7. "5ns Year Borrows Another Y last Year. Perhaps Ye 134 Leonard Street, NY. City foritsi costing a hundred times the 50c. asked. It is c< instantly available. With this valu- rm /rt\ edge at your Angers' ends, and can $ g tional advantages. When reading, ^Jr erences you fail to understand? Isn't SOc. a small at hand? Do you know who Crcesus was, and wh when? That sound travels 1125 feet per second? Marco Po!o inveuied the compass in l"fii), and win was? The book contains thousr fl a flUcl1 matters as you wonder a ^0' low pxict oi half a dolUr ami A Modern Alchemist. A r*n iqVia/^ ty? fllollnr rtk a I a1 a ? m m ?. iiobiu^uiou&u ui^i>aiAU4^4oii viuiuui ;hat he has realized the dreams of the indents and has discovered the secret if transmuting silver into gold, The )ld alchemists believed that some substance might be fonnd by the mere ;ouch of which the base metalu could 3e changed into silver and gold. Modern chemistry shows that the ultimate particles constituting gold, silver, iron, lead zino and all other netals are identical in substance, and ;hat the different properties of the leveral metals depend entirely upon ihe different wave in which the parti:les of the common substance are arranged. It is this secret of rear angdment which Dr. Emmens, the ligh explosive expert, now says he has athomed. He claims that the metal nade by him from silver answers ivery test to which the United States Government Assay Office subjects the fold offered there for sale, and that he metal could be proved to be gold n a court of law. It has every quality equired by the gold of commerce, beng of the same color, weight and <- it- Ti 1 X + XreugtLL xi/ 10 ^xcou uj hiouuuviiou ight and yelJow by reflected light, >roperties which are possessed by [old alone. Its resistance to the acion of either nitric or hydrochlorio ;cid alone, ahd its eolation by a mix are of these acids are aho distinguishing properties of pure gold, and >f do other yellow metal. Dr. Emr nens Bays he has already made foul mnces of gold from about six ouncet >f silver, and that the loss in the proc :ess is about twenty-five per cent* should Dr. Emmens's claims be sub.tantiated an unexpected and striking 1 lolution of the silver question will lave bsen reached.?Science. Singularity About liicycle Accidents. The remarkable thing about most >f the accidents that happen to bicyclists is that the injured is not a novice on the wheel, but generally an experienced, if not an expert rider, rhe novice seems to have sense enough to keep out of danger's way. But as ioon as one becomes accustomed to the pheel he overestimates his ability to lodge danger whep he gets into its path. Witness the foolhardiness of Chicago youths who make a practice )f riding through the tunnels between ;he cable cars.?Chicago Tribune. Gladness Gomes With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many physical ills, which vanish before proper efforts?gentle efforts?pleasant efforts? rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the system, which _tne pleasant family laxative, Syrup ol prompv ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, and is every where esteemed so highly bv all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. 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