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ff ss.- flHE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA, MINN. W. E. HANNAFORD, PvblMrar. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. —Ail' »4nra c&alv costs $800. —California lias a frog farm. —-Englaml made 00,000 bicycles in 1S94. —In" England fifty-five towns cremate garbage. —Spain exports 1.450,000.000 oranges a year. —Frame leads Europe iu wheat pro duction. —The Swiss government made a profit of about $1,000,000 last year on its mo nopoly in spirits. —The territory of the Spartans com prised a district about equal in size to Delaware. —Some of the insurance companies of Paris refuse to insure people who dye their hair. —The Greek empire, under Alexauder the Great, comprised about 1.500,000 square miles. -Paraguay and Montana are of the same size, ouch having nearly 143,000 square miles. In the most prosperous days of Po land its territory comprised about 000,000 square miles. —A bedstead bottom that is made ex tensible. to tit any bed. is among the latest inventions, Diamonds worth $130,000,000 have been taken from the mines of Kimberly, South Africa, since 1S71. —The empire founded by Napoleon comprised at its greatest extent about 7muhh square miles. -One hose-power converted into gas equals 12 candle-iKiwer: into electricity equals ItHH) candle-power. -The city of Lowell, Mass., pays the ilnetors of that city cents for every 1-irth iu the city that they report. --Dunns the past season WOO brace of grouse were killed on Lord Sefton's moors in the Wryedale district of Lan cashire. —There is a proposal to shunt the equestrian statue out of Parliament square at Edinburgh to make room for a statue of John Knox. Five hundred and seventy-six archi tects have entered the competition for the preparation of plans for the pro jected Paris Exhibition of UMM). --The Dosliislin. the Christian univer sity of Tokio. founded largely by Joseph Neesiina, is now. under President Ivozazi, in a flourishing condition. Parisian'restaurant keepers mix a lit tle homy with their butter. This gives it an agreeable taste aud flavor. and makes inferioT butter more palatable. -Western Australia was first settled in 1 N'J!) a the Swan River settlement and for many years the population was very Miia'.I. but iu the end of 1S80 it risen 4:U«2. -"The Feast of Reconciliation" was a religious festival, established by _Queen a it a a 1 celebrate the return of the Church of ihiglaud to the see of Rome. —Tile Moslems have two festivals of special importance, the (»renter Bairam a in I the Lesser Bairam. The former is in memory of Abraham offering his son Isaac and lasts four days. —The fixed Christian feasts are: All Saints. November 1: All Souls. November Candlemas. February Christmas: Circumcision, January 1: Epiphany. Janu ary r: Innocents. December 28. —March 2 is the Texas Fourth of July, being the anniversary of Texan in dependence. It is generally observed iu that state, and meetings of the veterans of the war with Mexico it re common. --Japan is a "show-piece" of the mis sionaries. Probably the Christian re ligion has here made faster and firmer progress than in auy other land. In China missionary work is almost a rec ord of failure. —The total consumption of cotton in the world is 12.000.000 bales a year. Of this amount 9.MH»,000 are produced in the United States aud 3,000,000 bales —one-fourth of the world's consumption —is produced in Texas. —In some Japanese tempies may be seen suspended great coils of rope wovei from human hair. Such ropes, made of hair sacrificed by thousands of women and girls were used to hoist stone and timbers for the temple, and are now pre served as relics. It has been decided to establish a torpedo school at Chatham. England, so as to avoid the inconvenience and ex pense of sending Medway Steam Reserve men to the torpedo school ships at Ports mouth and Devonport for instruction in that branch of naval warfare. —A curious custom stiil prevails at the coal nits on Hogmanay, in Scotland. The first man to come up the pit after his work is over is received with i: shovelful of hot ashes, which, being pre pared for. he dodges as best he can. while the last man gets a bucketful oi cohl water thrown at him. —In the cattle market of Edinburgh last year there were sold 4.",lir fa sheep, lo(»2 fat cattle, 80.048 store sheep, lt'i.olJS store cattle, 7828 milch cows, ist ,s pigs and 2324 horses, against .".8, fat slice)). 1302 fat cattle. 4."22 store sheep. lti.020 store cattle, 7482 milch cows and 1328 pigs in the previous yea r. ALL IN A CHERRY STONE. A Dozen Silver Spoons Almost Invisible to the Naked Eye. There is a cherry stone at the Salem (Mass.) museum which contains a dozen silver spoons. The stone itself is of the ordinary size, but the spoons are so small that their shape and finish can only bt well distinguished by the microscope. Dr Oliver gives an account of a cherry stone on which were carved 124 heads so dis tinctly that the naked eye could distin guish those belonging to popes and kings by their miters and crowns. It was bought in Russia for $15,000 and thence conveyed to England, where it was con sidered an object of so much value thai its possession was disputed, and it became an object of suit in chancery. One of the Nuremberg toymakers inclosed in a cherry stone, which was exhibited at the French crystal palace, a plan of Sevas topol, a railway station and the "Mes siah" of Klopstock. In more remote times an account is given of an ivory chariot constructed by Mermecides which was so small that a fly could cover il with his wing also a ship of the same material which could be bidden under the wing of a bee. Pliny, too, tells thai Homer's "Iliad," with its 15,000 verses, was written in so small a space as to be contained in a nutshell while Elian men tions an artist who wrote a distich iu letters of gold, which he inclosed in th« rind of a kernel of corn. But the Har leian MS. mentions a greater curiosity than any of the above, it being the Bible, written by- one Peter Bales, a chancery clerk, in so small a book that it conld lie inclosed in the shell of an English wal nut. Disraeli gives an account of many other exploits similar to the one of Bales. There is a drawing of the head of Charles II, in the library of St. John's college, Oxford, wholly composed of minute writ ten characters, which at a small distance resemble the lines of an engraving. The head and the ruff are said to contain the book of Psalms in Greek and the Lord's prayer. In the British museum is a portrait of Queen Ann, not much larg er than the hand. Olt this drawing are a number of lines and scratches, which, it is asserted, comprise the entire contents of a thin folio. Solid Yet Elastic. In its present elaborate form the hoof of a horse is the most perfect instrument of support which has been devised in the animal kingdom to uphold a large and swiftly-moving animal in its passage over the gronnd. The original toe-nail, and the neighboring soft parts connected with it, have been-modified into a struct ure which in an ordinary manner com bines solidity with elasticity, so that il may strike violent blows upon the hard surface of the earth without harm. The result is that the horsa can carry a greater weight at a swifter speed than any other animal approaching it in size. —Prof. N. S. Shaler In Scribner's. ii LiielcyCats. The will of Miss Charlotte Rosa Raine is a very eccentric ong: She died worth £80,000, and* tffter "disposing of this, she refers in terms of endearment to her cats. She gives her dear old white puss, Titiens, and her pussies,.Tabby Rolla, Tabby Jen nefee and black-and-white Ursula to Ann Elizabeth Matthews, and she directs her executors ttf nrfy her £12 a year fyr the maintenance of each cat so long as it shall nve. Her long-haired, white puss, Louise, and her black and white puss, Dr. Claus- v- «. N. man, to her handmaiden, Elisabeth Will* oughby, and her black Ebony and white Oscar to Miss Lavinia Sophia Beck aud her executors are directed to pay them, al8v-£12 a year for each of these pussies so long as ft shall live. All the remain-* der of her pussies she gives to the pakl Ann Elisabeth Matthews, and she directs her execfrtors to pay her gut of the baU ance of the divldends of her father's Lam beth waterworks shares £160 a year for their maintenance so long as any of them shall live, "but this is not to extend, to kittens afterward born."—Weekly Times and Echo. RAM FIGHTING AT STAMB0UL. An Kxolttng Battle Between the Pets of Persians. One day during a visit to the East, I went to visit the Sweet Waters of Eu rope in a caique, accompanied by a young Israelite from the embassy at Constantinople, who had been placed at my disposal as interpreter. As we glided past the picturesque scenery of the Golden Horn, he aroused my curiosity by alluding to the ram-fights at Stam boul, of which I had never before heard. During our promeuade on the Bosphorus he gave me a description of the sport, aud promised to inform me when an in teresting rain-fight was likely to coma off. A few days afterwards he kept hip promise, and escorted me to the Persian Khau at Stamboul, the great rendez vous of most of the Caravans arriving from distant parts of the East. The owners of the two rams—both Persians—approached each other, each holding his animal with a cord. When they came dose together, they set to caressing their rams, which appeared to excite them considerably. The two gladiators were then brought almost iuto contact, and their eyes, generally so mild, at once assumed an expression of savageuess that con trasted singularly with their usual look. At the same time they pawed the ground, got seriously angry, and had it not been for a good deal of restraint on the part of their masters, would have n,s,}**d furiously agaiust each other. hen all was ready, the Persian own ers left their pets in position, aud the two nuns looked at each other with eyes* of fin1- As though with a common consent, they walked backwards, so as to gel a good starting point, and then, both at the same time, lowered heads and rushed at each other with incredible speed and tur.v. The shock of their foreheads resound ed just as a blacksmith's hammer re sounds when struck vigorously against a heavy door. The two rauis had met eacli other with such precision that they re mained standing immovable iu froiit of each other, as though half-stunned. Such a result is highly appreciated by the spectators, and corresiionds to the dead-heat, so interesting to the spectators of a horse race, as indicating a certain quality in the -oui]etitors. All sorts of cries and exciting expressions burst from the assembly, while the rams, again •valking backwards, and staring furiously •it each other, proceeded to bike up a new position. When separated at a dis tance of about twenty-five paces they again rushed to the attack, and a second shock was heard, much to the satisfac tion of the lookers on. This "round" still left the battle unde cided. At Che third encounter one of the sheep deviated a little to the left and at the fourth, the beaten ram. which had been injured in the breast by his more fortunate adversay, fell to the ground, and was immediately taken away by his master to have his wounds dressed. HOW TO TREAT A COLD. Sorno Precautions to Take for Its Proven tion and Cure. We are now in what we may call the season for colds, and a well-known French scientific writer. M. Henri de Parville, has been writing some notes on their prevention and cure. He points out that as soon as there are the slight est symptoms of a cold the sufferer should rinse the mouth frequently with some antiseptic fluid, siicli as a solution of car bolic acid, and should inhale through the nose the suiell of this fluid. This treat ment serves to keep off the germs which are likely to cause a cold. But the most curious part of his notes is that which treats of catching cold through getting one's feet wet. In this :'ase, in addition to the treatment of the mouth and nose by disinfectants, lie advo cates plunging the feet into cold water. Usually, he says, people have the water as hot as they can bear it, but that is a mistake. It is likely to make the cold worse. When our feet have become chilled by the wet, obviously the first thing to be done is to make the blood cir culate properly in them. Now. warm water certainly brings the blood back to the chilled feet while they •ire in the water, but as soon as they are taken out and the temperature becomes much lower, the blood again leaves the feet and return to the inner organs, which are warmer, with the result that the cold •ften becomes worse. Tlie feet should be plunged into cold water, even iuto snow, for the space of forty or fifty seconds, not more. This sends the blood flying into the inner or gans, where the temperature is very high, and. as a consequence, it gradually goes back to the feet and stops there. The circulation being thus restored, a little energetic rubbing of the feet will main tain it. M. de Parville recommends this treatment to all who are sufferers from anemia and bad circulation. Great Coasting in New Hampshire. The people of Farmington, X. II.. be lieve that Farmiugton can boast of hav ing the greatest coaster iu New England. Its prominent qualities are length, speed and beauty. It was built by its owner, Harvey Pearl, a painter. His object was to win a wager that he would coast across the bridge at the hosiery mill, which is a half mile from the foot of the hill on Main street. The big sled, which is known as "Uncle Sam," is seventy-sev en feet long, and carries seventy adults. Mr. Pearl always steers, and has taken big loads down the hill, running a mile a minute, without meeting with an acci dent. He is a man of great strength and steady nerve. He recently lifted, clear off the ground, a stone roller which weighed 1000 pounds. Mr. Pearl gave a coasting party for the children Friday afternoon. In honor of the event the schools closed, business was practically suspended, and Main street, thoroughly iced from the aqueduct, was thrown open for the coasters. Mr. Pearl, besides accommodating eighty-five on Uncle Sam, used his last season's triple runner for the benefit of about forty-sev en. TTncle Sam was used exclusively foi the children except on the last trip, when, with seventy-two passengers, mostly grown people, it broke the town's coast ing record by about 700 feet, winning a barrel of apples and an oyster supper for the party.—St. Louis Glolie-Demoerat. Had to Insulate His Teeth. A curious case has just been recorded in which an electric current-was found to be generated by a plate of artificial teeth. A patient consulted his doctor on account of a severe pain in liis tongue. But the sufferer was assured that there was nothing the matter. He then paid a visit to the dentist, who informed him that his teeth were perfectly sound. Be ing, however, dissatisfied, he called upon an electrician whom he knew, and asked him if it was possible that he could have any electricity in his mouth. On examin ing the teeth his friend fonnd that two metals were used to fix them to a com position plate. To these metals wires were then attached and connected to a galvanometer. Then the teeth were re placed in the patient's mouth and the inetals moistened with saliva. No soon er was this done than the galvanometer showed quite a large current from so small a source, enough, it is stated, to cause ulceration and severe pain when long continued upon so sensitive an organ as the tongue. The plate was covered with an insulating varnish, and thence forward all the trouble ceased.—Industries and Iron. The First Tomato Seed. Lorenzo Chanter, now a resident of Jackson, Mich., claims to have brought the first tomato seed to America from the island of Malta hi 1828. He says he planted the seeds In a garden iu Boston, from which a big crop resulted. All were saved for seed, and he claims to have made a general distribution to his friends the next year. Mr. Chanter is now 85 years of age, but is enjoying vigorous health. A few months ago English papers recorded the death of the last survivor of the battle of Navarino in 1827. Mr. Chanter says he was an active participant in that battle, serving as a "powder mon key" on the British frigate Asia. Mr. Chanter followed the sea almost constant ly until 1830, when he came West aud settled in Jackson. He went to California in 1849 and accumulated a fortune, which he is now enjoying. RESOLUTIONS, With tills new year a new resolve I've made which seems quite fitting. And that Is, after much hard thought I've decided to quit quitting. -Judge. 2JL.' ««*«**.- *5' -v YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN Don't 8top tjet,TWnk. wtfisyi gentle antelope Th Oft ywh 'iir Success is for the bold. The men of might who "get the drop" And lay their rivals low, Are those who do not have to stop, But think while on the go. ^-Philadelphia Times. Nursery Made Toys. Every mother knows the trials of that day of downpour when restless babies drive her and nurse to the edge of distrac tion, aud when all wonted diversion fail any longer to amuse. Has that unhappy lady any idea that if she will send nurse down to the pantry for the box of old corks which she thriftily lays away against the time of need, ^voes will disappear as if by magic fron\' the small bosoms, and so rapidly will the hours pass that there will be a cry of surprise when nurse comes to announce the arrival of supper and bedtime. "Corks!" the lady mother says. "What on earth have they to do with keeping children quiet? —unless one uses them to cork up naughty, fretful months!" First spread on the nursery table a big newspaper to catch all the messes that are to be made. Next a bottle of good, thick mucilage, a sharp penknife, a box of matches, Bobby's box of water-color paints, a hairpin or two, some old visiting cards, the pin-cushion and a stout pair of short but sharp-pointed scissors. All the nursery population will begin to be inter ested at seeing these preparations, and when they are completed chairs can be drawn up all round and the announce ment made that the rainy day amusement shop is open for business. Tables of Corh. Perhaps the best thing to begin with is the cork out of the mustard pot, which is large and flat. Snip the sulphur heads off of four matches, leaving them square at the ends'. Sharpen the other ends a little, make four incisions with the pen* knife into the under side of the cork, stick Che pointed ends of the matches into these, and at once the attentive circle about the table begins to see that an other little table is swiftly coming into being. Cut out a circle of a visiting card somewhat larger than the mustard cork, paste it on top of the cork, and there stands a beautiful, piece of nursery carpentry table all complete. A small square bit of cork, with four short bits of matches used as legs, makes a good stool, and by taking the cork that once served to stop the mouth of a little glass jam jar and sticking in four matches for feet and two more on the upper side for a back, with a bit of cork at the top of these, one has at once a delightful chair to go with the table and stool—furniture which no doll would be too proud to use. The next piece of manufacture might be a teetotum, and here Bobby's paints be gin to come into play. Cnt a match in half sharpen one end a little. Cut a thin slice crossways from a claret cork and stick the match through the middle of it, pointed end first. Cut out a circle of cardboard four times as large as the cork, and draw two lines at right angles across the disk. That will leave it divided into four quarters, aud these quarters are to be painted blue, green, yellow and red. Bore a hole in the center of the disk aud slip the blunt end of the match through it until the card board rests upon the cork. Next cut an other, but rather thicker, slice from the cork, bore a hole in the center and stick the blunt end of the match through, press ing it down till it touches the card. This will leave about an inch of match to be taken between finger and thumb for spin ning this fascinatingly-beautiful teetotum. A Croquet Set. Cutting long slices through the middle of the cork leaves pieces, which, with the aid of Bobby's paints, can be turned into a beautiful set of dominoes, and by cut ting out square pieces one can make a beautiful set of noiseless dice, to be used with the backgammon board. But perhaps the nicest toy of all made in this nursery shop, which has for its sign "Old corks taken in exchange'for new playthings," is the set of parlor croquet. To begin this heavy but fruitful labor, cnt out eighteen small squares of cork. Bend into a curved hoop—a minia ture of those used in lawn croquet—nine hairpins and these, with each end stuck into one of the small squares of cork, will stand upright and serve as table wickets for the game. Cut slices crossways from the vinegar bottle cork, and into the mid die of each of these stick a match, whose end has been sharpened for the purpose. This can be painted arouild with rings of contrasting colors, as is done to the goal stakes of lawn croquet. Next, for the mallets hunt about in the cork box for four small ones of even size— those from the small medicine vials serve nicely if they have not been stained by drugs. These, if a nice shape, need no cutting at all. Matches will serve a$ handles for these mallets, and a band of color must be painted around each so that players may distinguish their own mal lets. Some nice, large, old sugar-coated pills would make beautiful balls for this nursery croquet, with a stripe of pajnt around each one, but if all the pills were given to Bobby the last time he ate too much cake and had a tummy ache, then fresh bread pinched up between the fin gers and then rolled on the table beneath One's palm, will make very good substi tute balls and will take a stripe of paint quite well.—Detroit Free Press. A Mixed-Up Hunt. When the doctor settled himself in his armchair and, crossing his legs, puffed away contentedly at his pipe, the boys knew he was good for two hours' talk or story telling, pretty much as they pleased. They drew near in expectant attitudes and the doctor looked up with a twinkle in his jolly brown eyes. "Well, what is it boys?" Reginald, commonly called "the Duke," spoke tirst: "Well, Doc., it's a hunting story to night. I guess?" "Indeed!" "Yes, indeed!" chimed in Gerald, known as the "Modest One," because of his well developed cheekiness. "One story a night is little enough by way of pay ment!" "For what, you scoundrels?" "The armchair, and the pipe, and our society!" And at that the doctor laughed, a hearty guffaw which shook the room, Gerald declared. The armchair certainly trembled and the sparks flew out of the doctor's pipe over his new dressing-gown. "There, you've made me go far to ruin my favorite Christmas present!" he de clared, beaming lovingly at his young cousins. "And it's 1 that would not be here tonight to do thnt same if I hadn't had a good escape from the hunt I'm thinking about!" Then the boys kept as still as mice, for they knew the story was coming. The doctor looked cross-eyed into his pipe to make sure it was alight, gave a reassuring puff and began: "In the first place we didn't go out for big game that day at all. It was during the years I was in Africa, of course, and there's no use telling you the exact part of the country, for you never would remember the names if you heard them. But there were many hostile natives in the region and the hunting party, five men and myself, kept at pretty close quarters in the camp during the night, making our hunting excursions during the day. "The region was a fine hunting ground during the dry season, but neither ani mals nor men can get about much while the rain is falling. The country abounds in game, from the largest size, elephants, lions and tigers, down to antelopes, and that half antelope creature which looks like an overgrown goat and which the Dutch colonists call tlie hartbeest." "It is an antelope," interrupted- the "Modest One." "I said so, didn't I?'retorted the doc tor. "Well, we. did not expect much but antelope that day, as said, and our guns mostly carried buckshot, which was suitable for that kind of game. We had half a dozen natives with- us. They were armed only with their long spheres, which, as I have often told you is, their constant weapon. "We had had good luck and two good sized N'samma antelope, one of the finest of the many varieties in Africa* had been shot. We sent one man back to bring assistance for transporting the an telope to camp. On the.i-oad he met a few other native servants armed with spears, like the.others, who had come out to join our par$y. "It wa» Uite wtaif jthey. reached us, and ,a„ ,'r^vt"' Jt£f?, Mrlc's torrid plain, -a*# iuW fwO llons Suvukliigup, 1 attiring rcppiln, jht TToni 'their Tajiaelous niuwr~ She' vanished like a wink, Aud lived to tell the tale, because She (lhln't stop to think. The plumber doesn't cogitate His coffers now to fill. But takes some figure that Is great And slams it In his bill. The poet never stops to think Of purchasers to be. But grabs his quill and slings his ink And who so rich as he? Iu fact, In every walk of life, This maxim true will hold, In peace and war. In trade or strife, ,- after a hearty luncheon we prepared to work our way back a little nearer the riv er. We left three of the natives who wef? with us during the morning hunt to guwd the game until the transportation para arrived. *Look out, Sahib, for something-bigger than-an antelope!' called out one of the men as we started to preBB through the long grass on the way to tlie river. "It startled us a little, for the natives knew what they were talking about most^ ly, and only one of our party had a rifle with him carryiug a large ball, suitable for big game. But we were in for it and could not draw back now. "Long Graham, a Scotchman, nick named on account of his size, I suppose, generally acted as our captain. 'Keep together, lads,' said he. 'Yes, and watch the grass carefully,' said Tony Pratt, who was an experienced .hunter in that part of the country. 'We'd fall over a good-sized creature here before we knew it.' "Tony was right enough, as it proved. We were watching out for antelope, and presently we caught sight of one feeding at a short distance. Screening ourselves as well as we could behind the dwarf & HER TAWNEY BODY SHONE IN THE SUN. bushes, we leveled our guns, promising ourselves one good shot "Suddenly in front of us, and nearer to me and to Jake Fish (who stood beside me) than to the others, a huge lioness rose out of the grass. Her tawny body shone in the sun, as with a low growl she came straight toward our position. When she was within forty feet I collected myself enough to fire. Jake's shot rang out the same instant, and the lioness rolled over in the grass. "But in a moment she was up again, and charged full at two of the negroes. They sprang to one side and managed to elude her jaws. "Then Graham fired at her, and so did the man who stood beside him, but all the lead they poured into her sides did not kill her. She lay down in the grass so that she could hardly be seen. But her loud growling revealed her position, and the men hastily drew together to decide the best way of finishing her up. "The natives offered to go ahead with their spears and stir her up if we would be ready to shoot when she sprang." "That was pretty brave of them," re marked Kegiuald. "It certainly was," replied the doctor. "But many of these Africans are brave, while others show a good deal of cowardice. "But none of us would consent to their proposal, as it would place the spearsmen in great danger, since the lioness would certainly charge upon.them the instant a spear was thrown. They sought for the beast, and at length saw a yellowish mass. I fired at her a charge of buck shot intended for small antelope. "'She sprang up with a terrific roar, and then the man who had a good-sized ball fired at her, but that did not stop her. Everybody had to run then to keep out of her reach, and suddenly she again disappeared in the grass. "But we spied her again in a moment. She was sitting up like a dog. Long Graham, advancing from the other side, crept to within twenty feet of her before firing, and without her perceiving him. This shot at close quarters finished the lioness. She was an unusually large, animal and her fierceness was quite in proportion to her size." "That's a very good story, .doctor," said the Duke, making his most- finished bow. "I am glad, indeed, you escaped from the lioness, and are safely here to tell us the story about it." "Ditto, ditto! Cousin!" added the MuJ est One. "And I'll fill your pipe again, so you need not move your long legs,, if you only say so!" And the doctor graciously allowed him to do it.—New York World. CURED BY A THUNDERCLAP. Odd Restoration of a Man Blade Deaf and Dumb by Dynamite. John Connell, an inmate of the city poor farm at Maralialsea, near Pittsburg, since October. was reieased recently. AY hen he went there Connell was insane and dumb. His cure has been effected by a clap of thunder. Director George Booth of the department of charities and Supt. Liudc man of the farm vouch for the truth of the story. One night Connell went to his room as usual. He had been acting very queerly, and his roommate was cautioned to keep watch over him. About midnight the two were awakened by a storm which began that night. The storm was broken by a tremendous clap of thunder. The peal had hardly died away when Connell sprang from his bed and raised a shout that starled the entire building. Finding that he could shout, the man began danc ing about the room. He yelled, clanped his hands and sang, while tears of joy ran down his face. Up to that hour none in the establishment had known his name. Being dumb, he could not give any ac count of himself. Now, however, he has given his name as John Connell, and says he was born in Pittsburg and seven years ago went West. Eventually he secured work in a mine owned by a California company. He was awakened, he says, by the clap of thunder, and regards his recovery as a miracle. During his lucid intervals Con nell says he prayed frequently for a res toration of his faculties. He says the loss of his hearing was attributed by the California doctors to the explosion of dy namite in the mine.—Toledo Blade. America lOO Tears Ago. Under the heading "America 100 Years Ago" the American Queen gives the fol lowing: Every gentleman wore a queue and IH»wdered his hair. Imprisonment for debt was a common practice. There was not a public library in the United States. Almost all the furniture was imported from England. An old copper mine in Connecticut was used as a prison. There was only one hat factory, and that made cocked hats. A day laborer considered himself well paid with 2 shillings a day. Crockery plates were objected to be cause they dulled the knives. A man who jeered at the preacher or criticised the sermon was fined. Virginia contained a fifth of tlie whole population of the country. A gentleman bowing to a lady always scraped his foot on the ground. Two stage coaches bore all tlie travel between New York and Boston. The whipping-post and nillory were still standing in Boston and New York. Beef, pork, salt fish, potatoes and hom iny were the staple diet all the year around. Buttons were scarce and expensive, and the trousers were fastened with pegs or laces. There were no manufactures in this country, and every housewife raised her own flax and made her own linen. The church collection was taken in a bag at the end of a pole, with a bell at tached to rouse sleepy contributors. Leather breeches, a checked shirt, a red flannel jacket and a cocked hat formed the dress of an artisan. When a man had'enough tea he placed his spoon across his cup to indicate that he wanted no more. A new arrival, in a jail was set upon by his fellow prisoners and robbed of every thing he bad,—Queen of Fashion. A Lucky Find in aii Attic. A short time ago a young woman of Medford, while rummaging in her fath er's attic, came across an old reticule in which there were half a dozen old '.stamps. The reticule had been there since 1802, and,, thinking thnt the stamps might be valuable front their age, she took them to her father and asked him to inquire' into their value. Last Vireek, to her surprise, her father told her that for her-interest in the stamps he would pay her fare to Washington and back and her expenses for a two weeks' visit there. This sounds like a very liberal offer, bat it probably not so much so it seems. The expenses of such a trip might tie about $50, while the stajnps are worth about $00. They are the Hi cent pink, of the issue of 1801, and are valued in the' new^eatatogue, which tar tot coining otyt, at $ir eafeh. In the old italoguf^theiy j^Kere offdid at hey have beejpiie HO rarlithamhc^rictit a* 'beeh^put 'up. Mth%h theycouW probably not Im sold to a dealer at that price, they are sufficiently valuable to fl^.-Bqston. Jj-an- OTSBOO'S tiiG APRIL SNOWFALLS. One Effect a Great Slaughter of Skunks that Went Abroad for rood. "Otsego county people have never seen such deep snows as fell here hi 1857," said a farmer of the upper Susquehanna valley. "The first one of .three feet came on the 15th, and before that had settled one-half, another of the same depth fell on the 22d. I boiled sap in the bush until late on the night of the 14tli, and was in tending to syrup down the next morning. It rained a little when I left the woods, and at daylight there was a foot of snow, and it kept coming all day. Well, that sap, sixty pails or more, I lost, for when the crust on the snow gave me a chance to get to the woods it was all sour. Ey ery farmer in the county was swamped. The tallest horse could hardly wallow from one farmhouse to another. Many farmers had run out of hay and were obliged to cut limbs from their shade trees for the cattle to browse on. Hay went up to $30 and rye straw to $20, as soon as the snow settled so that those in need of fodder could break roads to where it was to bo got. The great mass of snow crushed many sheds, and killed young (rat tle and sheep by the score. The reflection of the sqn on the snow during the bright days that followed the memorable storms blistered men's faces so that they had to poultice them with buttermilk and Indian meal every night. "But the most interesting spectacle spectacle caused by the enormous quantity of snow was the large number of skunks that appeared on the surface in the day time in search of food. AH their natural grub was covered so deep that they couldn't dig down to it, and they were therefore forced to wander to the farm buildings as a last resort. You couldn't look in any direction without seeing sev eral skunks poking about in the snow. The sunlight partly blinded tlie half starved animals, and it took them a good while to go a short distance. Four of them got in between my house and the snow banks, in the space where the snow had melted, and I got rid of them very nicely by stamping the snow down upon them aud smothering them to death. All of my neighbors had similar experi ences. Seven skunks took possession of one of my barns, and lived on the top shelf for three days by devouring all the eggs the hens laid. I finally killed them by letting them eat from a basin that contained half a dozen eggs beaten up with a little strychnine. If we hop grow ers had prized skunks as highly then as we do now we wouldn't have killed a single one, no matter if they did steal a few eggs. It was years afterward be fore we got to know that the skunks, if not interfered with, will destroy all tlie grubs in a hop yard in a few nights. Nowadays you can't get an intelligent hop-grower to kill a skunk."—New York Sun. TWO SMART CROWS. How They Assisted Each Other Get a Good Winter's Meal. Large numbers of crows came to Cham bersburg yesterday and hunted in yards and at kitchen doors for the food which the exceedingly cold weather and the snow deprived them of in the country. A flock of them alighted on several apple trees in a yard on North Third street and fed voraciously on a half dozen ap ples which had been hanging on the trees since last fall. They enjoyed the meal, it seemed. One apple, however, hung beyond the reach of the birds as they clung to a branch of the tree. It was at the end of a little twig and was exaspcratingly close and yet very far away. Finally two of the crows joined forces. Both stood on the branch from which the twig depended. One stretched out his neck, caught the twig in his beak and swung it until the other fellow could grab it on top of the branch. Then they both .had a rich meal. The crows visited this particular yard several times during the day.—Chambersburg Spirit. REMODELING UNSOLD HATS. Sfic Tile Which Has Lain on the Shelves is Brought Up to Date. One of the little known industries in New York is that of remodeling men's hats. All large hatters have a large ac cumulation of unsold hats from time to time, which are out of style and of an obsolete shape. These hats are removed from their dusty shelves and consigned to the remodeler, who blocks them over on blocks of the latest pattern and returns them in an up-to-date shape. This is, of course, not a very profitable transaction for the hatter. When the charges of the remodeler are added to the interest on the money originally paid for the hats, a very big slice is cut out of the Eave rofits. It is better, however, than to dead stock lying on the shelves, which is out of date, and consequently un salable. .. Bar-room Profits in United States. Up in Canada the tax on one of our proof gallons is about $1.80, if we are not misinformed, and yet the best grades of Canadian whiskies retail iu the leading saloons of Toronto and elsewhere at 5 cents per drink. This, too. notwithstand ing the fact that the grog of Canada calls for more spirits than the toddy of this country. In the United States, though, the re tailer charges the consumer 15 cents and higher in all of the better places, and even then hands out a cheap grade of stuff to the average customer. Saloon men in this country are not unlike the balance of our population, in that they want to grow rich in a year, and they are always on the lookout for short cuts. They will fit up a saloon regardless of expense, put mir rors up for ceilings, pave the floor with mosaics and $20 gold pieces, finish in the most expensive hardwood, and decorate with artistic bric-a-brac, pictures, etc. And yet this place will not hesitate to pass a $1.50 per gallon whisky over the bar and charge 15 cents per drink for it. The trouble is that distillers pay 110 at tention to the retailing of their liquors in tins country, while in Canada they give much attenton to this matter.—Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular. Tuber for a Penwiper. "It is surprising," says a commercial traveler, how general the use of pota toes as penholders is becoming in hotels. I have seen them iu use in great hoster ries of the East, whose owners wouldn't hesitate for a moment to spend $10 for a desk ornament to hold pens used by the guests in registering. The mixture of starch, glucose and water in the potato seems well adapted to take up the impu rities of ink and to keep the pen point clear and bright, while the alkaloid of the potato, known as solanine, doubtless has something to do with it in the same line. These elements readily take up the taunate of iron, which is the body substance of ink. Chemically speaking, starch is the first base of a potato, and sugar or glucose is its second base. Thus is the humble potato finding another way in which to serve the uses of man kind. There is a rather pleasing sug gestiveuess in a big ten-inch potato when a fellow couies in tired aud hungry from a long run."—New York Tribune. Benefits of a Meat Diet. In lower countries the lower orders, as a rule, have but a low vitality. It may be true to say that the vital volition is weak. Let. the learned settle the defini tion. The fact is easily accounted for. During generations upon generations the majority of European agricultural popu lations lived upon vegetable food, like the majority of Eastern Asiatics, and with the same result. Hard labor pro duces hard muscles, but vegetable food yields a low vital tension, so to say. Sol diers know it well enough. The pale faced city clerk who eats meat twice a day will outfight and outlast and out starve the burly laborer whose big thews and sinews are mostly compounded of potatoes, corn and water.—Marion Craw ford iu the Century. His -Professional Implements. Warden (to convict)—"Your term of imprisonment expires today." 1 Convict—"I'm glad to hear it." "I hope that from now you will lead ftn holiest, upright life." "You bet I will!" "Are you sure that you will not return to your evil ways?" "Never, again will I be up to auythiug crooked." "You can. go now." The released donvict hesitates. "Why don't you go? What are you waiting for?" "Ain you going to give me back my dark lantern and my jimmy and the rest of my professional implement* "/"—Ex change. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES h' 'When T*n're a Bride. Married' fh white, You hay* ••lumen all right. Harried Jn gray. You will go far away. Married In black, Yon will wish yourself back. in red. You'd better lx Mnrrled in green. Ashamed to he seen. Married In blue. You'll always he true. Married In pearl. You'll live In a whirl. Married In yellow. Ashamed of the fellow. Married In brown. You'll live out of town. Married in pink, Your spirits will sink. The Queen of Italy's Tact. One day last year during the festivities which celebrated the silver wedding of the King and Queen of Italy, the Ger man Emperor was driving with King Humbert through the streets of ICome. There was no fmrade. The two mon archs were merely taking an airing. Presently Wiihelm, who is much more fond of ceremonial than Humbert hap pens to be, turned to the King and said: *Let call out the troop** for a sa lute! King Humbert suggested that it was hardly practicable that it was not the custom to call out the Italian troops merely to salute the King. "AVhy!" exclaimed the impulsive (i«»r inan monarch with a laugh, "you are the King! Can you call out vour own troops when yon like?" "Oh,' replied the King, not caring I have always seen the tea to have the issue pressed "heiv comes Mar guerite we will nsk her!" The Queen's carriage, with Her Majes ty and the (ierman Empress was follow ing, so they waited for it. Then the King, with a quietly humorous show of deference, referred the matter to the Queen, who took in the predicament in stantly, 'and, gravely addressing the hll)!H»ror. KlliH: VYoti sec we ar*' cIomp to the Vatican, aud I fear it would alarm the rope, if we were to. call out tin troops. He is not accustomed to such displays under his windows, and I should not like to alarm the dear old man." There was no salute tlmt day. I have heard Queen Marguerite called "the personification of Charity." When one of her friends advised her to Ix economical "liecause one never knows what may happen," the Queen replied: "No what comes from the country must go back to the country!" She is an enthusiastic and discriminating patron of art, and has done much to encourage lace manufacture and the production of silk embroidery in Italy: she is actively in terested in founding industrial schools for girls: she contributes liberally to hos pitals, aud orphans and blind asylums, and goes to the children's hospitals ami tells stories to the youngsters and brings them toys.—Arthur Warren in Ladies' Home Journal. An Knglisli Social Function. "Come and take tea with me at H," is one of the most welcome sounds one can liear in dirty, foggy London. The greater the fog, the more iienctrating the dampness, all the more cheerily rings that sound. Nothing iu the whole British constitution has a more solid raison d'etre than tea. No one who has not felt the Loudon fog penetrate to his very mar row can appreciate the full force of this statement words would be as useless in his case as they are needless iu that of the experienced sufferer. Tea is real: tea is earnest: tea is a necessity growing out of the very nature of things tea is a "function" in very truth, and. to my mind, a most vital function of life in England. Americans would all lie as nervous as peas in a pot if they drank tea at home as.much and as often as the English do here: but only come to Eng land and the most American of Americans will gladly strike his «-oiors to tea. The stimulant is a necessity second only to din ner. No one thinks of omitting it. but wherever he is, whatever he is doing, tea beckons at 5 like the finger of fate. The Church of England may become dis established, but never tea. "What! not wait for tea! Why. I should have headaches all day long if I did not have my tea." Thus tlie English woman, who straightway rings her tea bell on hospitable thoughts intent. Then the maid or butler brings in the tea table, covers it with a dainty white cloth of damask or embroidered linen, and pulls out shelves from underneath whereon are displayed the plates of thin bread and butter, cakes and biscuits, which are al ways served with tea. I have never seen these little tea tables in America, with sliding or unfolding shelves underneath for the bread and cakes, leaving the whole top of the table for the tea service alone but here they are quite common, and are certainly very handy. I have also seen the bread or cake served on a little circular bamboo or lightwood stand of three or four shelves just large enough for a plate this is passed around and each guest may take what he prefers without confusion or waiting. Hot muf fins are sometimes served and sometimes those delicious English scones, something like our soda biscuit, buttered aud piping hot from the oven. Bread and butter is cut very thin and left just as sliced from the loaf. I have not yet seen it donbled into sandwiches. Cake is never omitted, but is tradition itself. I find it too sweet and destructive of flavor to go well with a delicate tea. Sometimes four or five different things are served and tea lie comes quite a hearty meal. service brought in on a tray, and never the tea table ready laid in the drawing room, as it so often stands at home. The bell is rung for it. or the servant brings it at 5 without being told. Coffee is sometimes served with it. The other day I saw a most fascinating little hot-water kettle in a tea service. It .was an exact repro duction in silver of one of the archaic Greek^ vases in the British mnsenm, with its queer imperfect shape, flaring spout like the muzzle of a blunderbuss, and incised design of grotesque lions.— Harper.s Bazar. Sing'e Life a Failure. "Can women be as happy unmarried as mar wed said a promisent physician, who had opportunity to study the ques tion, the other day. "No. I do not think so. In the first place, an unmarried woman has not the same sort of vouth- preserviug interests that a married one has. Moreover, unless she is a woman of remarkable character, she cannot fail to grow more or less "set" and 'selfish and it is surprising to know how much mental states affect the health. Why." continued the doctor, warming to her subject. "I believe that half the eases of neuresthenia and nervous depression in my practice are caused, not by over work. but by the need of some absorbing interest. The average woman must have a place where she is supreme, not only over the inanimate objects but over live beings. She must have intense personal interests. It is not enough for her to be a part of the big machine." The doctor paused aud looked as though she were reflecting on the sad lot of numerous patients. Then she ronsed herself and went on: "It isn't so bad when one is 20 or 2T. But it is a little worse when one is over ilO. and sadder and more trying still after 40. At first, tlie enthusiasm, the novelty, and freshness makes the life interesting enough aud full enough, but little by lit tle the glamour fades and her profession is not enough. Women are so constituted that they live largely in tlie emotions. They need home—and a home means husband and children. There arc very few women large-souled and broad-minded enough to expend their affections wisely, to keep their hearts young and fresh through such remote and impersonal means ns hospitals and flower missions. There area few, of course, but cheery, unselfish and young as they manage to keep themselves, one always feels that even they would have been happier nmr ried. "One great trouble with this present hne and cry about woman's work and her in dependence," con tinned the doctor, "is thnt it makes the young woman pnt off thoughts of marrying until it is too late. I don't iricttu too late for them to mar ry, but too late for them to grow Into adaptablity with their huslNinds. The years after woman is first through school and has 4i«d her first experience of life, either professional or social, are years of settling down. If she give* herself up to her 'career' and to 'living her own life' and.all that, she rapidly gets into a state where she is reallv unfitted for matrix mony. She may find her career with ail its attractions and possibilities unsatisfactory, but at the same time it is difficult for her to grow into domestic life after a few years of professional life. It is all a prob lem," continued the doctor, sighing, "ami I dare say it will not be settled in one day." With which gloomy conclusion and a sigh the doctor abandoned the question. Why Does Mot the British Maiden Come to See Us? I often wonder why it is we see so few young English women over here. I do not mean immigrants or variety act* uneasy matrons with a mkmkm. the reprefwntftfrie fnmg 1. —those fresh. biooMinf girto with .MfclH fnl manner*, swevt. deep the tic minds, metkorlffvf ship. gUnionn flgnrru ami «ufWf *f thing. know tfcfy esiaf her am— wm read about tlwm: Intsiiw ftn ManrW their artwtir spMilr, awi btmmmm mm them When we ran aver to Kmtbmt. tint they never seem to think it worth th~ir while to come wer fcw, either to rreafp a first impression or to np mm mr nnaintaBtwto. Even the eel»liir»led M lows that visit m-tkc writing «lortor». the witty deans, the lertnrinir huuwfata and elocutionary novelist* even they leave their wives sod da tighter* them, and only show as their photograph* or furnish them to the eheaner magnsin** as illustrations for artiele* mm »*l™s. I cannot ascribe their rnhmrn to a dislike to travel, beeaase time mtmt mothers and daughters are roiwtantfy go ing off on trips on the Continent, or down the Mediterranean, or in and out tV Nor wegian fjords. We speak the same tongne over here—or noraething like if— so there cannot be any lingnal difficulty that keepa them away. Onr women trooping over to England ev^ry year ami are constantly patting thenmefve* in evt (lenee. The American girl has become a British institution: she is at home in the mansions and country home*, and she has female friends and anpnintn^n there galore. But there the connection seems to end. We sbonld like to keep np them, acquaintances on this side of the water to show our English ronniw that we also know something «»f the genrir airt of entertainment. We should Mhe to fill our bonnes with bevies of pretty Eng liHJi mm st hriMtma* to tnk^ out sleighing by the wore, to crowd ««nr yachts with theiu and teach them how to paddle a canoe, and dine them and win* them and make them ha pay generally. But they do not give a* Hmiw-e. They do not come over here, and Wonder why it is. Is it possible tint they think ns uninteresting? Marital Emmm fee Most of os are aeouainrefl with men who have rc]s-:it-Ur told ns that tb«-T are _matried. We have taken their irml for it. though we have had no other evi dence of its truth. They are setd«nn. if ever, seen with their wives. They fre quently appear in public pbiees. at »*on certs theaters, evening parties, hot in variably alone. This happens so uni formly that we imagine that they have been widowed, and feel prompted to offer our sincere sympathy. But. first, we must know the faet. Oil meeting them again, therefore, we purposely direet the conversation to marriage, so rhat they may inform ns of their trerenvemrnr I»o they? No. They nre Mill hus bands, and very devoted one*, thev ns home. Generally men who habitually and without prompting or suggestion dis course upon their faniil'^s. and enlargc oii their excessive attachment to them, may not Is* accepted unreservedly. An affection that needs so much airing and promiscuons advertising may safely he questioned. Husbands who are ovcrfond of ex plaining their solitary appearance at dif ferent resorts and in society bv their wives domesticity, and their inability to wean them from it. are subject to suspi cion. It is naturally thought that they are offering pretexts where non« are needed: that, covertly feeling culpable, they wish to forestall criticism. Neglect in the matrimonial relation is accounted by many a man a very venial sin. if a sin at all. It is negative at worst, he argues, and such a host of husbands are guilty of it that its frequency might be considered its expiation. Ihnnesticf t.v. shyness, invalidism, are not vices, and a woman may he charged with these withont doing her any great wrong. And then the charge may vastly increase a husband's freedom, and yet enable him to stand fair in the eyes of the world. The world, generally censorious, is in clined to be remarkably lenient to mari tal shortcomings. One of these is as cribing to wives peculiarities they do not have by husbands who have peculiar ities they are unwilling to avow.—Har per's Bazar. Our Daughters. Hiding iu the ear yesterday morning the writer heard the most extraordinary conversation, or. to N more strictly truthful, a fragment of an extraor-linary conversation, the tenor of which wa* so unusual that she has ever sin«-e been wondering at the pecnliar state of af fairs that could have brought a woman, and a mother at that, to give utterance to such astounding statements. "Well. I have just about come to the conclu sion." was the preface of the overheard conversation, "that there is no use in mothers saying a word against their daughters marrying, even once ly not the right one. No one knows bet ter than she who pen* these lines what it is to he a headstrong girl. She tras one herself and oftentimes by sheer foree of perversity did many thmcs that a «le«r mother wnrned her against, and today in her wilier experience she wishes FRESH IT .vrrme pre the "4 the in Ktigland the the "f nmitmm the 34 of (fee imO. fa wlirfc atnA) for the day when the S*aeior ti th* rT«mfHe. peror—a her heart is set upon marrying she becomes so morose and disagreeable that there is no comfort in living with her. hir daughters are ours only nntil they reach a marriage able age. at which time any strange man who is half way decent to them can in fluence them far more than the fathers and mothers who have their best inter ests at heart. My idea is to jtist let a girl have her own way. If she discovers she has made a mistake, take her back home and try to re-establish the friendly compnnionship l»etween her and her par ents that existed prior to her with the outsider who wrought all the havoc." Now. aren't these strange sentiments for a mother to express? What do they mean? Are the girls of the present day so unruly and headstrong, so progressive and perverse, that they wiH not heed the advice that parents give withont be coming uncompanionable and snlhy? Things have come to a pretty pass when the parents have simplv to throw she Obeyed the Code MewSfr. The Norwegian ship Hags, which sailed for Hollam! today, was the victim of a serious mistake recently in South Ameri ca. The Saga was lying at Rio -Janeiro, and the owners, who furnished their cat tains with private codes, cabled the word "residetwt" to the master. The owners had neglected to pnt the word in the codr. and the captain, not finding it there, ex amined another code, which gave the definition "Come home at once."* The owners intended that the vessel should proceed to another port and load cargo. The Saga set sail, and sixty day* later had crossed the Atlantic ami surprised the owners by arriving in Norway. Then the mistake was discovered, ft nst the own ers £1000.—Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Tons* Doctor Ah-a4. Joker—"I suffer from coM feet at night." Dr. Olynn—"Is your general health good?" "Perfectly." "Hood appetite?" "First rate." "Sleep nnder blankets7* "Yes. "Take plenty of oitt«lr»or ex* itls ••i^ts "Very strange!** "The coId feet I suffer fnm are my wife's." "Ah! Oct a divorm Tww doBain. please." —New Yorfc Weehly. A Fatal Spot. A rather em-ions rornctdenee i» cited by old salts here hi connection with the Isss of the Elbe, ft is that three years ago tn a day her sister ship, the Kkhr, wan wrecked almost in the same neighbor hood. The Eider was built test two years after the £the and w»* like her Hi every respect. All the Oder's pnwn»a gers ami crew*were saved, hat the vessel was considered a total wreck and aban doned. Later, however, she wao raised and repaired. She hi now an oeean tramp.—New York Letter. —Frosen pipes earned the expluelun of a waterback at Altooaa. Pa^ ptraena wrr* badiy tajwni. ms. Day mKs SC. Vsterrttrwft Cmy-Thm Fflrnef* R«taKsc. yiwt sr« Ar imimfh T^ 'xry m. iit nsmw* ikiir wiOrtn iwm mtfmm wturh nre miws* r.- m-rtt ,mm' tW ymmnnig anfW. mf+ (W N-w Ttmen. Tie hum hmmm. (he U«rnAm. the irinMM. the jjbmml* jwi Ini' and nil may fiwt thi* eery ih?» "t There iff Ai«fc ~Wi ilm imbry. which mrf in awhile fafti fc There iff S*t. Mnfthiait' hwawe «»T the awwfir rhn fno% the nlneo va cant Njr the tWM-hnnr of fistsii f«eavfc«r. A ad there Pt. Vstrntne'# day. tm or* of the gon«t oW bimhttp. 5*T. Tata wm» nrfi r» 'i mattjnlnm over Mm v»*r* am. J*** wly he ihowfct have «n»a»t p*tfarter trif tk* jtvui and na valentine* ahh #y the»' maWj mtmt mmi hotter the Jeftee plained. There the J2d. which Washing ton's birthday. This year it ntm «n Friday. fie great joy of rhe ehal children. wh» w"?! Jin vc .i r^rstina Anions th«* day '.rhi.-h named, tie- r|wr -.nw« firw* as sure us. They greatly regret that'their wives can never be |»ersuaded to go .nit. They are continually trying to induce them to. but all in rain. The invisible wives are, they assert, so extremely do mestic that they will stay at home. Nn other place has any attraction f.»r them so consecrated arc they to thefr children and the family routine. It seem* if they conld breathe with comfort no other atmosphere than that of fr^s Thwrwday *. M«#d*r 1W rfete j* the 2K*h. on vhich (lay rite. short-'nrerf ffvneb repohfjc jr.i« prHatasf in the ••ity of Paris in Thi* r-*r the fes tival of 3tardl t»r** viH i»» beM ffe» iWk. 3Sor should w»- Iieotym Jihreve Umilii, which fall* .n the JHh. and fbr»we Tie«i it In Jay* aone bjr Wsiif Tiesfcr wae 'ier.rf^d r., i«sina and merrymaking »f varinm* kind*. In d**«i. "*rorhHEr atui niM'd try Wi*h»^j^T»i- in rhe «rn«e heiaa merry. The day -xvf an Emftish boiiday. and in way i* -r tb rliw f-nst«»m cat'iiu T)f prw tire is alluded r., in 'AM'* That Knds« Wl." wleiv rl»e «p*air* »e "a pancake f.«r ?*fer»v»* Toewiay."* And in "FVrw-l*»" rh«-y ir* term •**11i n-«**d in N.-rr- Flnciand tnl other part* .f rhe ••"untrr. Hrrt not least, notahb rhe JIwi'. •»n«-e every four in ••rder risflit in the '-:i(«-ndar. ••)•*!er is f'aiuflemas .lay. a rfc»r which nmw -u its name .-i -he dark den« and eaves which the «r»rfy Christian* imed to gather and worship. The f'hfistian* of th»~»- day« foam! necessary to hav«- candles. .i« Tbey i«n- •Hy held their •wrrie-* hefw dayfijehr. and in m»dergr»otn*f ••Hlrtr*. or in •ut-of-th»«-w:»y |»iac.-i ns rhe »'.ifacmt««* Rome. Fv.-n wh»*:i ^r^ecrrtio* .-»a« the lijrhted «-midU"« v.-r»- rr-tait^i. longer ne»-«f*.[. rul th^isfe :n --hof-h** they are to rhe *iaT Thu#. rhe l'»p«- »n rn:rl 'ic^iflun* !ia-« :ir fendant by hi* with a !ishr«t as if tor th** |nrv»»- -,f -nnMinji liim read his breviary, althonsth it Hn.nd ilaylizht. K« rh»» R»-'-ro»:i rj'-n. .!?• dlemas day -.va* in rh» of fvtislatel by th»- l»:irn« -»f •-nndl*-'. »nr this ceremony, alons with many «rh»r« was swept away at tle» rkae of rfee Rtfion from the "hnn-fi .»f Rome !*». «eya- too. Ash W#*fn»»tay in :t»» name rhe purpose f«r which it -n-«ti tnted. The day on which it fail* -han2e» from year to year, aceortfina t» rhe fail moons, atwf it depend* on Exeter day. A* to the meaning of the nanse. .na from the old custom »f sprinklina on people-'* heads on rhgr day as a mourning, and also to remind rl rhat they are bat duet aud ash*-«. Thia ceremony, aionr with the hearms •-In dies on t'andlemas .lay. disappeared fnm the t'hurch of Kit aland after rhe Ref ormation. and the *erv«-e n*»w largely of rnnindiiK us of the rfrirtnww f«od*s laws. Passing over *t. Yalfiitiie'-' -iay. vHo-fi with its many customs* and foolish fan cies needs n« ntninenf. we rhe 2l«th »lay «»f February, which is a not a Me »lay is the hbnwv and p«!itic of Entope. S*mfdei»|y. on this February !#y. the King, who had governed for eighteen year*, apparently t»» rhe -wtr^ft'- tion of the country pe»»pie. rb« people of Pans l»y refu*h»a aff«vw a certain political dinner party ro take iilace. The result was a revolution. Th^ King shaved off bi* whiskers. iW r»» England under the name of piam Mr. ^mith. and a repuMb- wa* prtw-iaine-f Jiefore the Ifo'el fie Ville. in Parts. Shortly after thi*. Looi* ^Sapofean. neph ew of Bonaparte-, was elected Pn «nle:i* of the republic, which he «a«o» to maintain. But when he f.«iwl irim*er possessed of s*riB*-ieiit power be threw the republic over ami made hi mm Finally we though the man chosen by the child is thoroughly objectionable to the pa rents. If yon op pose a girl when of 2JHh The on till they even this This up their hands and let the children g» therr own Way when that way is very evwlent- had heeded that advice and thus been saved many an honr of sorrow. Mothers ami fathers, do not give in tameiv to your pretty danghters or handsome sons. We do not advocate severity, hnt firmness. ,,n years to come the selfsame children who now rebel wHI thank yon for yonr discipline, and will see how much better yonr way was than tbeim— Philadelphia Times. jf Em position which he held imrii s*ej»- tember. JfCa. wbe» he. too. (rjs d« posed tnd a republic was again aco*fainted the midst of the war with ft11man.i. come ro the am4 insaWe lay in February, which m«*e often than not. noeabie by it* jhni ni i—the •JJHh. The chances are HW tw 1 that no reader this article was jaw on the of February. There are 9G .lays in an ordinary year, three of whfr '-we together, and then comes 'leap year." with 3MK days—That is. ph«s 3C pins :W etfimls l-|tt|. fn that ..rrr of this period of four year* there :tr» t-IKl flays, no any one «rf which it possible for the reader's Isi rhdaj to bar fallen. question way he. "What is the use and is. .-»*fced. of a 3Hh Jay of it takes 9C» days T* hours 4! 7-l» meetinst We let the odd fraetions F»-^- rriaryV" The reason all the years tr» not «iays long is that rhe earth n*ak—« the year by traveling round the mn. .ind !mrntt»-« seconds ro make rhe journey. of a day make a makc» mn whole -lay. tack on to which w- the end of Fehrnarr. Bur the year few nrimrte* too long, and February must rewmnc all claim to its "J!»th day iu rhe year* !!*». and in .-very vthcr T#*Hrh tr which cannot l»e divided by #s wirhewr remainder. brings rhe afmamt-- year so nearly to the real year rhar will take shih' tbouwrode of y«-rrr* V-- fore people find out the liffV iew •. vt». then, if posterity he wix* ae we ,tn. may correct tb«» rime r.. -mit ite»'ff. fHo Ears Oiyy it P*r wUh Jtfcis Tiarles Johnson is a colored pns^n, at the creinty jail, who wiH H.- n4ra*-i ne*t Tnes»h»y. his sentence f«r mafe-joT* cutting exptrmsr »n rhat lay »»ne per Harrty atwmt -Johnson that rt*» «m can tell how obi he i*. He looks r» he year* of age when be tairt. when he lamehs he tnnhs to i»» An*? her pe culiarity about Mnmn i* that be has mriT a half an ear each sole of bia head. How this happened is not hm an, -fcihpmm says that his mother f«H him that hi* master marked him that way ta sirro time s» he ccuM tell him ftim amwhrr hey who looked jast FHbe Mm. tie esr« show that they have been car with a knife.—Cour ice Jisnnal. —Honey enough erect a statue n» in Pari*. been coffee ted to I»r All Run Down 172 to HS fMWk I faking Haiwf* mm bearty sad weflv ox my imah with saisfc. ahfihli not da pwbmrfy. Fhnaofy my MHIMB IWW VMBamBMiv wtm HoodV^Cura