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Meep.
He toe when their ! ot,i. (.,: er, when
their hearts urow ink Mkd hunt.
Bo marks when theit sirm-tb i UliafMj
listens lo inch complsiut i
Be bide Ibom rest Inr a , .n, for tfce path
way hai grows loo Mf
And, iolded in fair, preen paniro,
He giveth His loved one sleep.
Like weary an I worn-out children, tliat tigh
lor Hie ilnyli!!bta cloo.
He knows tlmt they nil lire longing lor home
ami ilia wi et renese:
Bo Hecalla them in MM their labors ere tbe
ahadowa j, .1 them creep,
And silently watching o'er them,
He givetu Uiii lovod ones sleep.
Hegiveth it, oh, so gently1 as a mother will
bush to real
Tbe babe that she aoltly pillows so tenderly
on Im breast.
Forgotten are now the trials and sorrows
that made them weep;
For with many a soothing promise
He givelb His loved enessleep.
Be giveth itl Friends the dearo-t can never
this boon bestow:
But He toticVest he drooping eyelid, and placid
the tetanies crow.
Their toes may gHtlier aliout thum, and storms
may round them sweep,
But, guarding them sale Irom danger,
lie give! h Hit loved ones sleep.
AU dread ot tbe distant future, all tears that
opprest lo-diiy,
Like mists that clear in the sunlight, have
noiselessly passed away.
Nor cull uor clamor can reuse them liotn
slumtiers so pure and deep,
For only II- voico can tench them
Who gi v Bl h Hid loved ones sleep.
Weep not that their toils are o'cr; wcop not
that Ibcir raco is run,
God grant wo may rest as dimly when o-ir
work, like theirs, is done!
Till then we would yield with gladness our
treasures to Him to Keep,
And rejoice in the sweet assurance
He giveth His loved ones sleep.
' (lol'len lloun.
voss.
A group of young men were standing
one morning last April on the banks of
the river Aar, wbich flows by tbe
quaint old Swiss town of Berne. There
was Jobann Ieid, the baker's son, and
Fritz Bund, tbe wood-carver, and half
a dozen others with t eir sisters and
Bweethearts.
Bund, as usual, was loud-mouthed
and voluble. Ho talked with one eye
onlthe gins to eee the effect.
" What do ou say to the race, boysP
There is Johann Leid with his big
muscles. I can outrun or throw you iu
five minutes, Leid."
Leid nodded, threw off his coat and
was beaten, in both race and wrestle.
He was a big, sheepish-looking fellow,
and grew red with anger.
" If you want to look well in Jean
nette's eyes," he muttered, "it is
Nicholas Voss you should throw, not
me. She thinks more of his finger thvn
of your whole braggart body."
Bund was enraged. Everybody saw
that plainly. He looked at Jeannette,
standing with the other girls, like a
modest little rose among flaunting dah
lias. Nicholas Voss was piaying with
bis dog on tho other side of the field.
He was a quiet, under-sized fellow, the
son of the schoolmaster.
"Throw Voss ! I could do it with one
hand. No credit in thnt. Tbe fellow
has no more strength than a girl, poring
over his books. I'll put him to a test
that'll shame him. Jcannette shall see
the sluff the baby is made of. Iley,
Voss!" he shouted.
Nicholas came over, smiling, bit
coloring a little as he passed the girls.
He was a diffident, awkward lad, and
felt bis arms and legs heavy and in the
way whenover a woman looked at
him.
"Come, girls!" cried Bund. The
girls drew nearer, shy, but curious.
" Here's a question of courage to be
settled . Leid wants me to try a throw
with Voss, but it wouldn't bo fair, for I
could fling him with one finger, and
blow bim over for that matter."
Voss changed color; he played nerv
ously with the dog's collar. He knew
it was true that he could not compete
with Bund in a trial of strength, but it
was hard to be told it; before little
Jeanette, too.
"But there's something Voss can do
as well as I."
" What is it P" said Nicholas, eagerly.
" You can swim. Come, jump into
the river yonder with me, and see which
of us can reach the other shore I"
The girls looked at tho river. It was
swollen with tbe spring floods, and
filled with great lumps of ice which
crunched and tore each other as they
went rushing by.
"Ah, that would bo a brave deed 1"
they said, looking admiringly at Bund.
Jeannette looked, and turned away with
m shudder.
"Well done, Bund I" said the other
lads. "There's no cowardioe in Bund,
that's certain t"
Bund tore off his woolon lacket and
boots, straightening himself and clap
ping his bands. He was not sorry that
tbe girls should see his broad chest and
embroidered braces.
"Come, little one, off with your coat !
You'ro a famous swimmer and Jean
Utttcis looking," under his breath, with
an angry flash in his eve.
Nicholas looked at tho lads waiting,
and at tho excited, silly girls, and then
at tho icy river. He Did not trust him
self to look at Jeannette. In summer
be bad often swam the Aar at this very
point. But his lungs were weak. He
ooulJ not bear the siigb'es'. expo
sure; to plunge into this flood would be
certain i!ines perhaps death. And for
no purpose bu1. to grulify the pride of a
vaporing idle fellow.
"Come, come! "died Bund. "Afraid,
Cllf"
Tho ladl and girls looked at Voss;
even Jeanette 's tycs were fixed curiously
on him.
" I am not goinj to swim."
If be had bluffed it out in a strident,
jocular voice, he might have carried the
day. But he was painfully conscious
that they all thought him a coward
He was a sensitive lad, and it cut him to
the quick.
"Afraid! afrnid!" laughed Bund, in
solcntly. " Well, Voss, i wanted to do
you a good turn, nnd let the girls see
that you had the making of a man in
you. iiut no matter," turning away
contemptuously. " A pity be could not
wear gowns and a bonnet," he said to
Jeannette, loud enough for Voss to
hear.
Voss turned away and went hastily
down the road. He was bitter and
angry, and would not go home to Lis
old father in that mood. He went to
the bear pits. Now, everybody knows
that bears are a sort ot sacred animal to
the Bernese, and Nicholas, like his
neighbors, took a keen delight in watch
ing the great sluggish beasts in their
pits. But he had no pride in them now ;
in fact, though be leaned over tbe bar
rier and looked with the crowd, he did
not see them at all.
There were many strangers there that
day, principally English travelers and
Americans. Their children were climb
ing about the edge of the pit, as no Ber
nese child would dare to do.
"Take care, youngsters!" cried a
workman. "They are fierce those
monsters down there. An English offi
cer fell in last spring, and tbough he
fought for his life, that big fellow killed
him."
" Ach ! See his red eyes, the murder
er!" cried a woman.
All the people stretched their necks to
look where he 'ay blinking up at them ;
and a stupid nurse-maid, with a child
in her arms, stood on tiptoe to lean fur
ther over. There was a push a
scream.
"The child! AchGott! It is gone!"
The crowd surged and pressed against
the barrier. Voss was almost crushed
uyon its edge. For a moment there was
asilenee like death as people looked with
straining eyes into the darkness below.
Then they saw the little white heap close
to the wall of the pit. Two of tbe
smaller bears were snuffing it curiously.
The monster that had killed the Eng
lishman was slowly gathering up his
fore-legs and dragging himself toward
it.
There was scarcely any sound in the
crowd. Men grew pale and turned
away sick. A woman who had never
seen the child before fell in a dead faint
on the ground. But its mother stood
quite still, leaning over the pit, her
hands held out to it.
There came a wild cry from the crowd.
A man bad jumped into tlie pit. The
bear turned, glared at the intruder with
sudden lury, and then rushed upon him.
He dealt it a blow straight between the
eyes; but it tell like a leather on a
stone wall.
" He leaps over bim P
"The others are coming on him!"
" Ach. what blows!"
"Well ."truck!" Again, again!"
shouted the Englishman.
" But he can do nothing. He will be
torn to pieces I"
" 01), tbe poor boy!"
" See, the bear has lorn his flesh!"
"He has the child! He Las the child!
A ladder! A ladder!"
But there was no ladder to be found,
nor wiapons of any kind. The mass of
people leaned over, praying, shouting,
sobbing, while the struggle went on be
low as silent as the grave.
Tbe msn, bleeding and pale, was
pushed to the wall, the eliilu lifted high
in his arms. Tho savage brutes sur
rounded him. There was a trunk of a
tree in the center of the pit, placed there
for the bears to climb upon. He meas
ured it with his eyo, gathered his
strength, and then, with a mighty
bound, he reached it, and began to
climb. The bears followed to the foo
of the trunk.
" A rope! a rope!"
The rope was brought nnd flung to
ward htm.
' He has it! He will tie it about his
waist. No, it js the child he tics. He
will save it first."
He fastened tho child, and watched it
swung across in safety. When they
thr 'in i ne rope again, lie did not
catch it. He was looking at tho mother
when tbey put hrr baby in her arms.
When ho had taken the rope and tied
it about liini, a hundred strcng hands,
English, French, Swiss, were ready to
holp pull him up. As he swung ucross
thechasni, going half-wpy to the bot
tom o( i If pit, the beast caught at him,
but It's hold slipped, and the animal fell
back with a baffled growl.
Tucre was a great shouting when tho
lad stood on the grass in safety; every
body talked at once lo his neighbor.
"God be thanked!"
" 'I hat is a hravo fellow!"
"Who is hef"
" It is Nicholas Voss, the school
master's boy."
"Where is heP"
But Nicholas had disappeared in the
confusion.
Nothing else was talked of the next
day in Berne. In tbe shops and kit
chens, at the ball:. in the brilliantly
lighted great bouses, even in the gov
ernment council, the story was told, and
the lad was spoken of with praise and
kindness. At the theater, somebody
called for a cheer for him, and the
whole house rose with the vivats!
Mothers beid their babies closer to their
breasts that night, and with tears
prayed God to bless him.
Meanwhile, Nicholas lay in his cot,
attended by his old mother and father.
His legs were sorely torn. But he was
merry and happy, as he always was at
home.
In the afternoon a messenger from
the council knocked at the door and
left an official document. It was a deed
convey ine to Nicholas Voss a house
and pasture land in the vicinity of the
town.
He put It into his father's wrinkled
hands. " Now, father, you are sure of
a home for you and mother," he said.
He fell asleep soon after that. When
he awoke the sun was setting, and
shone on the bed, and the happy old
people were watching him.
A few days later his father put a lit
tle case into his hands.
" Look at this, my son ! Never did I
think a lad of mine would reach such
high honor!"
It was the gold medal of the Humane
Society of Switzerland, awarded only to
the bravest.
"And here," said his mother, "is a
bunch of violets which little Jeannette
left for you."
Nicholas' eyes shone as he looked at
the medal. But the flowers beheld close
to his lips.
Hibernian Courtship.
Gal way is one of the few towns of Ire
land that still clings to its primitive
simplicity in dress and custom. The
"love matches of Connaught" are spoken
of by the more civilized provinces
with supreme contempt. "Love in a
cottage," or rather in a hovel, is a real
every-day occurrence there. It is usually
supposed that the Irish are vet y suscep
tible to the "tender passion," but we
doubt this being tbe case, especially
among the peasantry of the present day,
who are too wise to let their heart ge .
the better of their head. No man of
sense will allow himself to fall in love
with a girl, however chaiming she may
be, unless be has ascertained that she
has some worldly advantage to recom
mend her besides her face. Consequently
the same bartering goes on about mar
riage as about other matters.
In a certain vi 1 iage we know of it used
to be tbe custom to employ a confi
dential friend, considered suitable for
the purpose, to look out for a wife for
any one desiring to settle in life. The
usual stipulation was that she should
have " three F's," namely, family, face
and fortune. These lrquircntents were
not easily obtained, as may be imagined.
A man would remain a bachelor all his
days sooner than marry a penniless
girl. Indeed, to do these wise heads
justice, we must own that there are very
few cases on record of men who have
so far forgotten what was due to them
selves as to fall in love with a penni
less girl of obscure family. No, tbe
bride-elect must have either cattle, or a
farm, or something to recommend her,
or, be she a very Venus for beauty, she
may remain all her life unsought for,
and "waste all her sweetness on the
desert air." The pioneer sent out on
this delicate mat'er of investigation
must be a man ot experience, prudence
and judgment, who will go about his
work cautiously. But even the most
experienced in this line of commerce are
liable to err, as tho following anecdote
will show: A father wishing to get his
daughter, who was portioned, married
to a wealthy man, sent out tho village
oracle to investigate .
After some little time tbe pioneer re
turned with a brilliant account of his
success; he had heard of just the man
that would do. Accordingly on a given
day the father went to the desirable
personage to inspect matters. True
enough, there were plenty of cows graz
ing in the meadows, cars fnll of hay,
ready for sale, a sty full ot pigs, flocks
of geese, etc. Ni) sooner was the mar
riage accomplished than all the bride
groom's possessions melted into air, and
it was discovered that lie was as poor
as a "church mouse." He had gained
a rich wile, and had nothing to give in
return; tho cattle, goose, hay, etc., had
all been borrowed from neighbors, and
set out for inspection on tuo day that
the bargain was to be completed. It
must lie owned that one's sympathies
go with tho improvident Connaught
"boy," who marries the trir he loves
without thinking of tier portion, evea
though love in a hovel in the midst of n
bog, and a swarm of healthy barefooted
children, be the result. Leisure Hour.
Words of Wisdom.
What is joy? A sunbeam between
two clouds.
Beware of the man who hates the
laugh of a child.
Strong minds, like liardy evergreens
sre most Verdant in winter; when feeble
ones, like tender summer plants, arc
leafless.
If you can say nothing good of any
one say nothing at all, for in friendship
as in love we are often happier in our
knowledge.
Good temper is, like a summer day,
the sweetener of toil and soothor of dis
quietude. It sheds a brightness over
everything.
Tho modern majesty consists in work.
What a man can do is his greatest or
namcnt, and he always consults his
dignity by doing it.
A HA II Y WITH TWO HEADS.
A Htratiur i restate la lh Ninlthtonltn
IttStltMi --.Mj tltry as to lis Origin.
A recent letter from Washington to
the Philadelphia Times says : One of the
officers of the Smithsonian Institutesent
me a note a day or two ago asking me
to come over and sec the strangest thing
that had ever been in the institution. I
went, as a matter of course, and was
surely chown a f cry amazing thing. It
was a two-headed baby, nicely dried and
preserved. It was about a foot long.
The he ds, about the size of a base ball,
were perfect, and so were the
two Hunks, wbieh came together at tbe
waist. The shoulders seemed to be per
fect, tho four arms were perfect, and the
two chests were, so far as I could see,
natural and normal. Tha hips ap
peared about the proper size for an in
fant of that age, and the legs and feef
were natural. Every part of the boys
to the hips seemed natural. Here the
ribs seemed to grow together. The right
arm of the left boy was over the head of
tbe other boy, while the left arm of the
right loy was around the neck of the
other. The other arms were stretched
along the sides. The child or children
were larger than usual at birth, and it
is a conjecture whether it or they may
not have been born alive. The scientists
have not examined it critically ; but so
far there does not seem to be any nat
ural reason why the children should not
have lived. It is certainly a more
curious freak of nature than the Sia
mese twins, except in the matter of
living. The remains arrived a day
or two ago from a Southern State.
The case is enshrouded in a good
deal of mystery and still more secrecy.
The authorities pretend that they have
not a full history of the singular thing,
and whether they have or not it is
doubtful that it will ever be given to the
public. .Even the " specimen " itself is
kept locked up in a room with a lot of
rattlesnakes, and the people are not al
lowed to see it, and this is the first pub
lication about it that has ever been
made. The probability is that tbe ex
istence of such a child was concealed
by the parents, and that the remains
were found by accident, the parents be
ing ignorant of the finding. One thing
I noticed particularly about those baby,
or that babies, nnd that X! a the shape
of tho heads. They were as well de
veloped Lends as I ever saw. They
were large at the top and the foreheads
were full and it did not slope back like
the Siamese twins. What is to become
with him is a question no o.,e can an
swer at the Smithsonian-
(He Hull's Costliest Fiiidto.
"In 183'J I gave sixteen concerts at
Vienna, and then Rhehasek was the
great vh'in collector. I saw at his
house this violin for the first time. I
just went wild over it. ' Will you sell
it ?' I asked. ' Yes,' wc.s the reply, ' for
one-quarter 'oi all Vienna.' Now
Rhehazek was really as poor as a church
mouse. Though bo had no end of
money put out in the most valuable in
struments, he never sold any of them
except when forced by hunger. I invited
Rhehazek to my concerts. I wanted to
buy the violin so much that I made
him some tempting offers. One day he
said to me : ' See here, Ole Bull, if I do
Bell the violin, you shall have .the
preference at 4,000 ducats.' 'Agreed,'
I cried, though I knew it was a big
sum.
" That violin came strolling, or play
ing, rather, through my brain for some
years. It was in 1841. I was in Lcip
sic, giving concerts. Liszt wa there,
and so also Mendelssohn. One day we
were all dining together. Wo were
having a splendid time. During the
dinner came an immense letter with a
seal an official document. Said Men
delssohn : ' Use no ceremony ; open your
letter.' 1 What an awful seal!' cried
Liszt. 'With your permission,' said
I, and I opened the letter. It
was from Rbehazek's son, for
the collector was dead. His father had
said that the violin should be offered to
me at the price be had mentioned. I
told Liszt and Mendel' sohn about the
price. ' You ni:tn from Norway, you aro
crazy,' said Iszt. '.Unheard of extrava
gance, which on 'y a fiddler is capable
of,' exclaimed Mendelssohn. 'Have
you ever tried it P' they both inquired.
' Never,' I answered, ' for it cannot bo
played on at ail just now.'
" I never felt happier than when I felt
sure that the prize was mine. Origi
nally the bridge was ol box-wood, with
two ficbos carved on it that was the
zodiacal sign of my birthday, February
which was a good sign Oh, tho good
times that violin and I have h id! As to
its history, Rhehazek told me that in
1R09, when Innspruck was taken by the
French, the soldiers sacked tho town.
This violin had been placed in the Inn
spruck museum by Cardinal Aldobrandi
at the close of tho sixteenth century. A
French soldier looted it, and sold it to
Rhehazek for a trill ), This is the -nine
violin that I plaved on when I first
came to the United States, in tho Park
theater. That was on Evacuation day,
1943. I went to the Astor house, and
made a joke; I am quite capable of doing
such things. It win the day wh n John
Bull went out and Ole Bull carac in. I
remember that at the very (iist concert
one of my strings broke, and 1 had to
work out my piece on the throe strings,
and it was supposed I did it on pur
pose." Harper's Mngizine.
Prolessor Watson, tho astronomer of
'.ho Miehignn observatory, whoso death
ook place recently, was the discoverer
if no less than nineteen planets and
isteroids and of two comets.
A lle'plnf Hand
"Kvery man's Ncninan I .inn lies in waiting
tor him somewhere " Riuiliia.
There was a small crowd of boys and
men congregated upon an uptown cor
ner the other morning, and the occasion
of it was a horse fallen in the harness
a respectable-looking horse drawing a
respectable-looking milk wagon, and
driven by a boy, who now tugged at his
head, vainly urging him lorise.
"Jerk him up," called a man who
stood on the sidewa k with l oth hands
in his pocki ts. "Give him the whip."
Each one shouted out some advice,
but no one volunteered to assist the boy,
who was just far enough away from his
childhood to feel like having a good cry ;
but he coaxed and pulled at the horse
that now lay quite still. t.nd with horse
sense rlid not try to move on the slip
pery ice, but stretched his nPck out in a
way that brought despair to the heart
of tbe boy, who believed he was going
to die on hiB bands.
Just then a man came walking briskly
along and saw the prostrate horse, and
the disconsolate-looking boy; he car
ried a htavy piece of machinery in one
hand, but this he laid aside as he stepped
out to the horse and began to take off
the harness- In a memcnt he had run
the shafts back and left the horse free.
Then he took tbe briddle-rein, gave a
quick, sharp cherup and the animal
sprung to his fret and gave himself a
great shake; the man helped the boy rc
barncss him, the two exchanged a smile
of thanks and welcome, and then the
mnn picked up his machinery and
walked cheerily off one way, s the boy
drove on another. He had slain the
Nemoan lion to beitin the day, and we
mav well believe that when evening
came he would be one of those who can
sing:
".Something accomplished, something done
Has earned a night's rejiose."
An old colored woman stopped at a
corner of one of the most fashionable
thoroughfares the other afternoon, just
before nightfall, and looked disconso
lately un and down the street; then she
appealed to a beautiful girl in a Raphael
hat and with eyes like some pictured
saint who tripped along in rich and
costly attire: " Please, miss, mought
this be Anthony street, deary," but only
a look from the beautiful eyes was
vouchsafed her. Then came some fair
and prosperous matrons, ail laughing
and ohattlng over their Christmas pur
chases. The old aunty, with her with
ered face (stood in the way. "Please,
honeys, will ye direct me to Anthony
street P Ise done got lost."
"Wo never heard of mob a street,"
they said, and went laughing on. It
was a wearv professor going home from
instrumental lesson-siving, with the
merest breM.h of life left in him, who
stopped and said: "You mean Antoine
street, aunty," and he turned her in the
right direction, and saw that she fol
lowed it. And so he had slain his
Nemean lion before he slept.
For the difficulty of moment in the
path of everybody is the small, homely,
unheroic duty, which is so unbeautiful
we will not see it, and has so little
grandeur with which to ir.vebt us when
we have performed it. Who of us cares
to be seen assisting an old woman with
an oeriiurdun of unwashed clothes, or
a blind man groping behind a wheel
barrow. The fear of ridicule is stronger
than the creed of ages. Detroit Free
Press.
A Joke on the Shark.
The pearl divers on the Coromandel
coast are not infrequently attacked by
ground-sharks. A a rule, a shark will
leave a man with a dark skin alone, but
when hungry it rarely makes a difference
between a European and a Hindoo.
Knowing this, the divers of whom I
speak frequently arm themselves with a
stout bamboo in the shape of a cross,
with the extremities made sharp. With
this four-pointed dagger they will dare
any shark to seize them, for as the
monster turns on his back and
opens his mouth for the bite, they
dexterously thrust the bamboo cro s
between its jaws. Great care is taken
of the strength of the bamboo; the con
sequence is that the shark, on closing
its mouth to obtain the first taste of his
anticipated moal, drives the spike well
home between its jaws. Fishermen
say that when a shark has a sturdy,
well-pointed and placed bamboo cross
fixed in its distended mouth, no efforts
of the creature can rid it of the wood.
It efforts are described as being often
furious aud comic. The diver, as soon
as he has impaled his enemy, Ins to get
out of the way as fast as possible, as a
blow from tbe tail of an infuriated shark
is no joke. As for the comic side of the
picture, it must be a ludicrous siitht for
little fishes to witness, to see their
dreaded, but now impotent, arch-foe
wildly tearing about hither and thither
in the deep, with a cross-bar between
his distended jaws.
Hojs Who Wish to lie Ben.
Boys, do you wish to make your mark
in tho world P Do you wish to be men ?
Then observe the following rulitts
Hold integrity sacred.
Observe good manners.
Endure trials patiently.
Be prompt in all things.
Make few acquaintances.
Yield not to discouragements.
Dare to do right, tear to do wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Fight liie's battles bravely, manfully.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Use all your leisure time for improve
ment. I Attend carefully to the details of your
business.
D. J WaUBalMC
Chattanooga, T in
uroMi noum
1 1 rtlsnl Tenn.
I). J. WHITESIDE & ().,
DEALERS IN
HATS, CAPS,
Gents' Fine
Furnishing Goods,
211 MARKET STREET,
.SHIRTS M IDE TO ORDER
Ohtvtt n nooga. Tenn.
ajiril 25-Iy
tllM I.I.I.AM (II ntjis.
There aro 3,000 miles of canals in
France.
You may live the cold shoulder to the
poor; but let it be of niu.ton, says the
Yonkers O n tte .
8ome of the palm trees in Jay Gould s
late const rvatory on the Hudson were
over 5',)0 soars old.
A Nov ida critic, speaking of a harpist,
said : " We never before knew thcr ; was
so much music in a gridiron."
The cook who can give sage advice
does not always put the right herbs in
the soup. New York Ilernltl.
The military enrollment of Con
necticut shows that there are in the
State 7'J,236 citizens fit for military
duty.
"Kissing your sweetheart," says a
trifling young man, " is like eating sotip
witli a fork; it takes a lone time to
get enough."
A railroad station would seem to be
tbe best place for marriage or divorce,
for they are used to coupling and un
coupling there.
The comparative value of wood and
coal as fuel is shown by the fact that two
and a quarter pounds of dry wood equal
one pound of soft coal.
An Iowa judge, although sixty-eight
vears of age and considered a pretty
well educated man, has entered a col
lege in Boston as a student.
Detroit, Mich., has 820 manufactur
ing establishments representing an in1
vested capital of 113,996,373, and giving
employment to 17,b70 skilled workmen.
By investigation at the records in the
treasury, Washington, it is found that
out of the 050 millions registered bonds
less than IM millions are held by for
eigners. The Baron Charles de Rothschild, ot
Frankfort, is reported to have just pur
chased lor his collection one of the most
superb and expensive silver gilt cups in
the world. It cost $150,000.
Jute culture is one of the rising in
dustries. In North Carolina alone 1,900,
000 yards oi jute e'eth are used annually
for cotton baling. It can be produced
at one-eighth the eest of cotton.
Tho great glacier wbich gives rise to
the Zaralshan river in Central Asia has
been explored and n cently described by
Mr. Mushketof, a Russian geologist. It
is fifteen miles long, and a mile wide.
The Express Eugenie is a very wealthy
woman. She has estates in Hungary,
Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and
England. She Has, besides, the product
of savings and speculations and the in
surance on tho life of her late huslvind.
Pome English sparrows built their
nests in n box that had a minor back,
and nearly exhausted themselves fight
ing their own reflections. Failing to
get satisfaction, they have resorted to
large pieces of gravel, which they take
in their bills and beat foroibly against
the mirror.
There are only 15,000 real estate hold
ers in New York city in a population of
1,000,000. The tenement-house system
is the only resort of the masses, and
about 000,000 of the population live in
this manner. The entire Fifth avenue,
three miles long, contains a smaller
number than some of the more densely
populated squares
A bug has turned up in Asia Minor
which feeds upon the eggs of the locust.
Where a cluster of locust eggs is exam
ined the destroying insect appears in the
midst ot them. Locusts from time im
memoiial have made themselves dis
liked in Ash, and the new bug, which
is believed to deposit its eggs in the live
locust's body, has general sympathy and
encouragement.
In all Gorman towns of any conse
quence occasional exhibitions are held
where new foreign inventions and prod
ucts, which are in any way affiliated to
tho local manufactures, aro exhibited
and permitted to be minutely examined
by artisans and factory operatives. Any
excellence in the foreign article is
quickly detected and imitated by the
local workmen.
Sameschima, the Japanese ambassador
to France, who has just died in Paris of
pulmonary consumption, looked aim st
boyish, although approaching middle
ago. His manners were amiable and bis
and Madame Sumeschima's receptions
were a pleasant winter feature of Paris
ian society. The body of the ambas
sador was shown to a few friends in s
sitting position and propped up with pil
lows, as it was when gasping for breath
be died, and there was in the mor
tuary chambors a service according to
the Buddhist ritual, which Buddhists
only were invited to attend.
SNYDER'S
CURATIVE
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THE MOST WONDERFUL HF.ALTH
BBS TORE US KNOWN TO
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Are worn mtcroally. Wo mnr.o three dif
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N i. li F')r Chills and Fever, Dyepepsit. In
llMtion. BilionoDe-s, Biek and Ntvouh He-il
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ted. Prio". tri
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Falling Womb, Whites; euriolie. tlio
blood, purifies tbe seoretions tnd strengthens
Weakly f d deliotte females. Pr'On tH.
No. 3. ForKtdupy, Hpine. and Bltdder Affto
ttrins, Bright' Disetao, D alietts, Lame or
Weak Back, Toi.es tip vitality and ro.-tor.a
lout energy. Prioe S3.
If four itni)ri!ilB does not keep ' R:t f DEB 8
CURATIVE FADS," and will not Baton for
yon do not l jt him palm off worthless imilt
Uons, bnt ami the prios to ns in a letter, and
we will mail thorn to yon. Address
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143 W. 4th t( Cinoiunsti, Ohio.
For sale by
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Justices and Clorkn of Couits fnrnishod
Blauks on short notioe at Sheep ts tuy ofllre.
Samples of Job Work nd Prices sent on
application. Address
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Of Course Nn union.
" So she's all broken up, ehP" replied
a Detroit landlady when she heard of
the failure of another woman in the
same business in Todo. " Well, I know
it was only a question of time. I was in
her house for a week, and I saw plainly
that she had no economy about her. I
tell you, a landlady must think and
plan."
"Yes.'
"Not only in great things, but in
smell. There's philosophy in running
a boarding-house."
"HowP"
" Well, I can't stop to tell you more
than one instance. I have buckwheat
pancakes every morning for breakfast
for fourteen boarders. They use butter
on their cakes. 1 keep the butter on ice
until it is as hard as a rock. Tue cakes
are allplaced on the table, not smoking
hot, but mildly warm just warm
enough to soften the outside of a lump
of butter. In this way I make a saving
of two pounds of butter per week over
the usual way of rushing on hot pan
cakes. It's only one dodge out of a
hundred, but the landlady who doesn't
play more or less of them must ulti
mately come to grief." Detroit Fre
Press.
How the Landlord Mansgnd It.
Two new tenants, a doctor and a man
of family, had just moved into tbe
building. On comparing notes they
discovered that they were paying more
rent than their predecessors in the lodg
ings. This was how the wily landlord had
managed it: He had said lo the man of
family: "These second-story rooms
arc prcciiely what you want- and there
is a doctor in the story just abovo you,
so that if any member of your family is
taken sick all you have to do is lo slip
upstairs and summon him. Why, it Is
worth 20fl francs a year for convenience
and satisfaction!"
And unto the doctor he had said :
"There ll n man downstairs with
eleven children and a wife, and none of
them seems ever lo have seen a well day.
Why, it's a regular bonanza! Four
hundred francs a year in your pocket at
tho very ieast ! "Paris Paper.
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