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The Ceredo Advance.
T. T. McDOUGAL. Publisher.
CEREDO. : WEST VIRGINIA.
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CURRENT TOPICS.
Ronnoke Island first gn\c to tlio
world tobacco.
An English firm is manufacturing
artificial marble.
The next Olympian games will be
held at St. Louis in 1004.
A (. a li fornia cow boy rides a steer
in preference to a horse.
Celluloid is made with almost the
rain* materials as gun-cotton.
Another \ iking ship, or rather boat
lias born unearthed near Kiel.
Russia has more “freak” ships in
her navy than any other nation.
Of all the newspapers published in
the world OS per cent are in the En
glish language.
The apartments of deceased kings
of Italy are left absolutely untouched
for two generations.
Three hundred and twenty-five
tn'dcs in a day is the record of a sail
ing ship, 500 for a steamer.
(>ov. Allen, of Porto Rico, in his an
fcunl report, recommends a colonial
government on the lines of the Dan
ish French and English West Indies.
Sydney, N. S. \Y\, has large depart
ment stores, some of w hich do a busi
ness of several million dollars annual
ly arid employs from 500 to 1,000
clerks.
The wool shipments from Sydney,
Australia, has a vulue something like
140,000,000 a year, and there is a large
export of grain, coal and manufactur
ed goods.
I lie African Red Kaflir always rubs
liis teeth after a meal with cold wood
• sh from the fireplace, which accounts
for the absence of tartar, and the tine
color of his teeth.
Miss Ruth White Mason, daughter
of Senator Mason, and seven other
young women were graduated from
the Washington College of Law,
Washington. D. (’.
1 he mayor of Lyons, France, has
prohibited the opening of any estab
lishment for the sale of intoxicants
within 250 yards of any cemetery,
church, hospital or school.
The Spanish soldier has only two
vn< als a day, and he keeps in excel
lent condition on a fare consisting
of a chunk of dry bread, a little oil,
b clove of garlic sind his cigarette.
About 10.000,000 cattle are now to be
found in tin* Argentine Republic. They
are said to Is* all descendants of eight
cows and one bull which were brought
1o Brazil in the middle of the 16th
century.
'J hi* most curious cemetery is situ
ated at Luxor, on the Nile. Here re
pose 1 lie mummified bodies of millions
of sue red cats. Their remains are
side by side with ti e bodies of kings
find Emperors in mausoleums.
a lamoiis ranine cemetery is to l>o
seen behind the summer palace at Pe
king, where a thousand dogs, the pets
of the various monarch* of China, are
laid 1o rest. Kaeli animal has a mon
ument erected to if. some of them be
ing of ivory, silver and gold.
I he (iermau army has a swimming
school for troops, where every one
must learn to swim. The best swim
mers arc able to cross a stream of
sew ral hundred yards’ width, even
when carrying their clothing, rifle
and ammunition.
JM me. Aria hi, the noted french jour
nalist. has a private 1 heater in her
home, nud new ploys nre enacted In
fore audiences of her friends. Mine.
Adam has o many friends ihnt the
same piny *s given nr three successive
nights, so that the theater will not
!>♦• crowded.
Northwich, the canter of the salt
Industry i-i flrent Ilritain. h otic of the
queerest towns in the v.orld. The
whole underlying country is «iroplv
one innss of sylt. The mining of the
salt constitutes flu* staple industry
of the districts, an I from Norfhwieh
alone 1.200,000 tons of salt arc shipped
annually.
In I’ra/il has now been found the
most curious frog In the entire world.
It is known as “fly la fa her.” ami the
difference between it and other ha*
trach in ns lies in the fact that the fe
males of this species regulnrlv build
nests in which they lav ih«*i r
the ir object, being to preserve their
littb ones from ihe enemies that con
stantly threaten them.
In India there i.s a Imtterfly < Kalli
ma quaf-his), the under side of uhosc
wing* resemble leaves. When this but
terfly alights th* wings close and the
position taken makes the butterfly
look like a leaf growing from the
twig.
Sweden nnd Norway both boast sev
eral homes for unmarried women. One
of these was endowed more than 200
years ago by a man who left the bulk
of his fortune to his spinster deoend
unt*. 'Ihe home is mnnnged by salar
ied trustees. and the unmarried wo
man who e»n prove kinship to the
founder it entitled to a home there. *
USING OUR TALENTS.
Sermon for Those Given to Depreci
ate Themselves.
Ularonrar of I>r. Talmigp on the Short
Text, “To Another One”— Dlltl
cult 'I'aak to Apcurntcl) I’.m
tliiiute Uorkcltra,
[Copyright, 1901, by I.ouls Ivlopsch, N. Y.J
T his is a discourse by l)r. Talmage
for those given to depreciate them
selves and who have an idea that
their best attempts amount to little
or nothing; text, Matthew H5: 15, “To
another one.”
Kxpel first from this parable of the
talents the word “usury.” It ought
to have been translated “interest.”
“Usury” is finding a man in a tight
place and compelling him to pay an
unreasonable sum to get out.' “In
terest” is u righteous payment for
the use of money. When the capital
ist of this parable went off from
home, he gave to his stewards cer
tain sums of money, wishing to have
them prontnhly invested. Change
also your idea as to the value of one
talent. You remember the capital
ist gave to one of his men for busi
ness purposes tbe talents, to another
two, to another one. What a small
amount to lust, you think, and how
could he be expected to do anything
with only one talent? 1 have to tell
you that one talent was about $7,H00,
so that when my text says: “To an
other one,” it implies that those who
have the least have much.
We bother ourselves a great deal
about those who are highly gifted or
have large financial resource or exalt
ed official position or wide reaching
opportunity. We are anxious that
their wealth, their eloquence, their
wit, be employed on the right side.
One of them makes a mistake, and
we say: “What an awful disaster.”
When one of them devotes all his
great ability to useful purposes, we
celebrate it, we enlarge upon it, we
speak Wf it as something for grati
tude to C.od. Meanwhile we give no
time at all to consider what people
are doing with their one talent, not
realizing that ten people of one tal
ent each are quite as important as
one man with ten talents. In the one
case the advantage or opportunity
is concentered in a single personality,
while in another it is divided among
ten individuals. Now, what we want
to do in this sermon is to waken peo
ple of only one talent to appreciation
of their duty. Only a few people
have five talents or ten talents, while
millions have one. My short text is
like a galvanic shock, “To another
one.”
The most difficult thing in the
world is to make an accurate esti
mate of ourselves. Our friends value
us too high, our enemies too low. To
find out what we ttre worth morally
and mentally is almost impossible.
We are apt to measure ourselves by
those around us, but this is not fair,
ns they may be very brilliant or very
‘lull, very good or very bad. Indeed
there are no human scales that can
tell our exact moral and mental
weight, nor is there a standard by
which we can measure our exact in
tellectual height, so the hardest thing
to do is to calculate our real stature
or heft. Hut it will be no evidence
of egotism in any of us if we say that
we have at least one talent. What is
it and, finding what it is, what use
shall we make of it? The most of
the people, finding that they have
only one talent, do as the man
spoken of in tin* parable, they hide it.
Hut if all (if the people who have one
talent brought it out for use before
this century is half past and corre
spondents begin to write at the head
of their letters 1950 the earth would
be one of the outskirts of heaven. I
ask you again: What is your one
talen t ?
Is it a cheerful look? Carry that
look wherever you go. It must come
from a cheerful heart. It is not that
inane smile which we sometimes see
which >s an irritation. In other
words, it must he a light within us so
bright that it illumines eye, cheek,
nostril ami mouth. Let ten men who
are accustomed to walking a certain
street every day resolve upon a
cheerful count* nance as a result of
a cheerful heart, and the influence of
such a facial irradiation would he
felt not only in that street, hut
throughout the town. ( he« rfulner.s
is catching. Hut a cheerful look is
exceptional. Examine the first go
fares that you meet going through
Pennsylvania avenue or Chestnut
street nr (’roadway or State street
or Salle street or Euclid avenue
■ml 10 out of the go fares hate either
an anxious look *»r a severe look or a
depressing look nr an avaricious look
or a sneering look or a vacant look
Here is a missionary work for those
who hat «• trouble. Arm your-elf V\ i r »i
t;os|H-| comfort. Let the i.ixl uiio
comforted Mary and Martha at the
In** ,,f t h«*ir brother, the (,*,*! W|,*J
soothed Abraham at the loss of1
Sarah and the (,o»| of |/ilVid. who
consoled the la-reft spirit at the Joy* |
of his boy b.v saying: l shall go to!
him; the <•*»«! who fili<*| st. John
with doxologv when an exile on bar
ren Pat mow and the t.od who has j
gi\m happiness to thousands *,f tj,r
bankrupted and persecuted, filling
tlu m with heavenly riches which '•
Were more than the earthly a*lvan
tages that are wiped out jet that
Hod help them. If M<- take full j,ov.
session of your nature, then you will
go down the street hem-diet ion to
all who see you. and those who are
in the tough places of Jif,. „nd are '
run upon and belied and bail their
homes destroyed will say: that
man can be happy. I can be happy.
He has been through troubles as nig
as mine, and he goes down the street
with a face in e.ery lineament of
which there are joy and peace and
heaven. What am I groaning about?
From the same place that man got
his cheerfulness I cun get mine. ‘Why
art thou cast down, O my soul, and
why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God, for 1 shall yet
pruise him who is the health of my
countenance and my God.* ”
Again, is your talent that of wit or
humor? I'se it for God. Much of the
world’s wit is damaging. Most of sat
ir« Las a sting in it. Much of carica
ture is malevolent. Much of smart re
tort is vitriolic. In order to say smart
things how many will sacrifice the
feelings of others! The sword they
curry is keen, and it is employed to
thrust and lacerate, lint few men in
all the world and in all the churches
realize that if wit is bestowed it is
given them for useful, for improving,
for healthful purposes. If we all had
more of it and knew how to use it
aright, how much it would improve
our Christian conversation and prayer
meeting talk and sermon! Hubert
South an«l Howland Hill and Jeremy
Taylor and Dean Swift and Lorenzo
Dow and CJeorge YYhitefield used their
wit and their humor to gather great
audiences and then lead them into the
kingdom of tiod. Frivolity is repulsive
in religious discussion, but 1 like the
humor of .lob when he snid to his in
solent critics: “No doubt but ye are
the people, and wisdom shall die with
you.” and I like the humor of the
prophet Klijah, who told the Paulites
to pray louder, as their god was out
hunting or on an excursion or in such
loud conversation that he could not
hear them. ] like the sarcasm of
( hrist when He told tin* self-right
eous Pharisees that they were so good
they needed no help: “The whole need
not a physician, but that they are
sick,” or when in mirthful hyperpole
he arraigns the hypocritical teachers
of His dav who were so particular
about little things and careless about
Mg things, saying: “Ye blind guides
Mint, strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel,” and the Hible is all ablaze w ith
epigram, words surprisingly put and
phraseology that must have made the
audiences of Paul and Christ nudge
each other and exchange glances and
smile and then appropriate the tre
mendous truths of the (jospel. There
are some evils you can laugh down
taster than you can ]*rcach down. I he
question is always being asked, why
do not more people go to churcli,
prayer meeting and other religious
meetings? 1 will tell you. We of the
pulpit and the pew ore so dull they
cannot stand it. llut when we ask
why people do not go to church we ask
a misleading question. More people
go now to church than ever in the
world s history, and the reason is in
all our denominations there is a new
race of ministers stepping into the
pulpits which are not the apostles of
humdrum. Sure enough, we want in
the Lord’s army the heavy artillery,
but we want also more men who, like
Hums, a farmer at Gettysburg, took a
musket and went out on his own ac
count to do a little shooting different
from the other soldiers. The churcli
of God is dying of the proprieties.
Or is your talent an opportunity to
mt a good example? One person do
ing right under adverse circumstances
will accomplish more than many trea
tises about what is right. The census
hits never b**en taken of lovely old
folks. Most of us. it we have not such
a one in ot.r own house now. have in
our memory such a saint. We went
1° those old people with all our trou
bles. They were perpetual evangel
ists, by their soothing words, by their
hopefu’ness of spirit, an inexpressible
help, i cannot see liow Heaven could
make them any lovelier than they are
or were. Hut there are exceptions.
I here is a daughter in that family
whose father is impatient and the
mother querulous. The passage of
many years does not always improve
1 he disposition, and there are a great
many disagreeable old folks. Some of
them forget, that they were young
t lie insH \ es. and they become untidy
Ml t heir habits and wonder how, w hen
t heir ast lima or rheumatism is so bad,
otliei people can laugh or sing and go
on as they do. The daughter in that
family bears all th* peevishness and
unreasonable behavior of senility
without answering back or making
any kind of complaint. Ifyoushtuild
ask her wl-.at her five talents are or
IU I fine hi leni. is, i he would answer
that she has no talent at aII. (ireatlv
mistaken is she. Her one talent is to
forbear and treat the childishness of
flic old as well as she treats the child
ishness of tlie young. She is no mu
sician, and besides th« re may not be a
piano in tin* house. She cannot skill
fully swing a croquet mallet or golf
slick. Indeed, she seems shut up to
see what she can do with a ladle and
a broom and a brush and other house
hold implements. She is the personi
fiention of patience, ami her reward
will he as long as Heaven. Indeed,
much of her reward may be given on
• :»rth. She is in a rough college, from
which site may after awhile graduate
into brightest domesticity. She is a
heroine, though at present she may
receive nothing but scolding and de
preciation. Her one talent of pa
tience under trial will do more good
than many morocco covered sermons
on patience preached to-day from th<
tasseled cushion of the pulpit.
There is a man in business life whose
one talent is honesty, lie has not the
genius or the force to organize a com
pany or plan what Is called a ‘'corner
• n wheat'* or "a corner in stocks" or
"a corner" in anything, lie goes to
business at a reasonable hour ami re
turns when it is time to lock up. lie
never gave a cheek for $20,000 in all
his life, luit lie is Known on the street
and in tlie church and in many honor
able circles as an honest man. His
word is ie good as his bond. He has
for itO years been referred to as a
clean, upright, industrious, consistent
( hristiau man. Ask him how many
t a lent s he has. and he will not claim
even one. He cannot make a speech,
he cannot buy up a market, he cannot
afford an outshining equipage, but
what an example he is to the young,
what an honor to his household, w hut
u pillar to the church of God. what a
specimen of t rut h and integrity aud ali
roundnevs of character! Js there ant*
comparison iu> usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashing operators of the
money market?
• tie duel work of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and to startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? Mo use
at all. 1 have not so much interest in
the one man out of the million as 1
have in the million, tlet the great
masses of the world right and it does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing.
Have all the people with one talent en
listed fur (I oil and righteousness, atul
let all those with ti ve or t en t a lent s mi
grate to the north star or the moon,
and this world would get on splendid
ly. The hardworking, industrious
classes of America are all right and
would give no trouble, but it is the
genius who gives up work and on a
big salary goes around to excite dis
satisfaction and embroilment, the
genius who quits work and steps on
the stage or political platform, eats
beafsteok and quail on toast and
causes the common laborers, com
pelled to idleness, to put their hands
into empty pockets and cat gristle and
gnaw bones. The world would be
mightily improved if it could slough
off about 5,000 geniuses, for there are
more than that on our planet. Then
the man or woman of one talent would
take possession of the world and rule
it in a common sense and Christian
way. there would be less to amaze
and startle, but more to give equipoise
to church and slate and world. “To
another one.”
uir wurus c»i ^oan
Webster's vocabulary and the thou
sands of words since then added to our
English vocabulary there is one out
mastering word the power of which
cannot be estimated, and it reaches so
far tip and so far down, and that is the
word “ciinte.” It has drawn more peo
ple away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word I now think
of. It has at times crowded all the
1- gates of Heaven with fresh arriv
als. it will yet rob the path of death
of ’he last pedestrians. It will yet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
tolling bells of sorrow will be drowned
with the music. It is piled up in the
I’ihle’s climax and peroration: “And
the Spirit and the bride say. Come, and
let him that liearetb say. Come and let
him that is athirst come.” Have it on
the point of your pen, have it on the
lip of your tongue. Monosyllables are
mightier than polysyllables, and that
word “come * is the mightiest-of mon
osyllables.
After the resurrection day ujhI all
Heaven is made tip, resurrected bod
ies joined to ransomed souls, and the
gates which were so long open are
shut there may he some day when
all the redeemed may pass in review
before the great white throne. If so,
I think the hosts passing before the
King will move in different divisions.
With the lirst division will pass the
mighty ones of earth who were as
good and useful as 11 ev were great.
In tliis division will pass before the
throne all the Martin Luthers, the
•John Knoxes, the Wesleys, the Kieh
ard Cecils, the Miltons, the Chrysos
toms, the Hersehells, the Lenoxes,
the C.enfge I'enbodys, the Abbot Law
rences and all the consecrated Chris
tian men and women who were great
in literature, in law, in medicine, in
philosophy. In commerce. Their
genius never spoiled them. They
were as humble as they were gifted
or opulent. They were great on
earth, and now they are great in
Heaver. Tlieir surpassing and mag
nificent talents were all used for the
world's betterment. As they pass in
review before the King on the great
White throne to higher and highei
rewards it makes me think of the
parable of the talents: “To another
ten." I stand and watch the other
divisions as they go by, division after
division, until the largest of all the
divisions comes in sight. It is a hun
dred to one, a thousand to one, ten
thousand to one, larger than the
other divisions. It is made up of
.... .. ih-mt Hill 2111 V f III lip but Slip
port their families and pive whatever
of their limited means they could
spore for the relief of poverty and
sickness and the salvation of the
world, mothers who took pood care
of children by example and precept
start inp them on the rood to Heaven,
millions of Knhhnth school teachers
who sacrificed an afternoon's siesta
for the listeninp class of vo ip im
mortals, women who declined the
mnklnp of homes for themselves that
they might take care of father and
mother in the weaknesses of old ape,
I ministers of the Gospel who on nip
gardly stipend preached in the back
woods, meeting houses, souls who for
lonp years did notliinp but suffer,
yet suffered with so much cheerful
patience that it became a helpful les
son to all who heard of it; those who
served God faithfully all their lives
and who«e i ame never but once ap
peared in print and that time in the
three lines of the death column
■ which some survivor paid for. sailors
who perished in the storm while try
ing to pet the life line out to the
drowninp. persecuted and fried souls
who endured wit ho at complaint ma
lignity and abuse, those who had
j only ordinary equipment f,,r body
|acd ordinary endowment of intellect,
j vet devoted all they had to holy pur
! atxl spiritual achievement. As
i 1 this, the largest of all the di
; i i*ions, from nil lands and from all
japes, piss in review before th« King
j »>n the great white throne I nrn re~
minded r f the wonderful parable of
the talents and more especially of
my text: “To another one."
There are **>.742 locks and kfja in the
Grand <. pera bouse, i’uij*.
- .1IM Ml
®vpry ra°ther possesses information of vital value to her
y ung daughter. That daughter is a precious legacy, and
the responsitnhty for her future is largely in the hands of the
mother The mysterious change that develops the thought
less g,rl into the thoughtful woman should find the mother
on the watch day and night. As she cares for the physical
StTals°of her daughter’ 80 wil1 the woman be, and her
When the young girls thoughts become sluggish, when
she experiences headaches, dizziness, faintness, and exhibits
an abnormal disposition to sleep, pains in the back and lower
limbs eyes dim, desire for solitude, and a dislike for the
society of other girls, when she is a mystery to herself and
friends, then the mother should go to her aid promptly. At
such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pink
ivcV1 S fVe?Ktnbl° Oo,?,>olllld* Xt prepares the young
^isthoufr0oftthrial°m,ng change’ and is the 8Urest reliance in
, M^hep!tltiWin^le«ers fro™ .Miss Good are practical proof
of Mrs. Pinkham s efficient advice to young women.
Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham for help.
• •DPiR Mho Ptx-itihw. t i i June 12th, 1899.
1IFAR MRS. PINKHAM.—I have l>een very much bothered for
time with my monthly periods being irregular I will tell von nil n>
it. and put myself in your care, for I have heard so much of yon e2?k
month menstruation would become less and less, until it entirely stom>c>'i
for six months, and now it has stopped again. I have Income very^ner
vous and of a very bad color. 1 am a vm.n» ~;,-i „ ‘i i. _ °er
_ 1 . * , r1 n •••• » V ii tilt KAt
"ork ver>’ hard. I would be very much pleased if
you would tell me what to do."—Mibh Pkari.Uood,
Cor. *9tli Avenue and Yeslur Way, Seattle, Wash.
The Happy Result.
„ tw. -tr February 10th, 1900.
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just simply wonderful the change your medicine
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work is now a pleasure to me, while before usini?
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healthy and happy g>irl. I think if more women
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If less suffering in the world. 1 cannot express the
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ham s Vegetable Compound."—Miss Pearl Good.
- Cor- ~uth Avenue and Yeslar Way. battle. Wash.
Q C 11/ inn Owin* (o the fact that tornt akeptical
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HOGS CATCHING FISH.
tt naliiUKlon I'llrmrr* Mint Keen
Their s*, a «* u > from lllvern He
rb it a e of Their UUuk for Salmon.
In the state of Washington, as all
8t‘In mi I hoys and girls doubtless know,
are the greatest salmon fisheries in
America. Kvery spring the swift
mountain streams are fairly alive
with these beautiful reddish yellow
li'li (tin re and four feet in length
and weighing often kV* and 30 pounds),
as they go up Ihe river t<> deposit their
eggs 'm tin. heod'W at ers of the moun
tain streams. I hen in the early fall
tiny roiiir down again. It is during
these two seasons that wluit known
as the salmon run is at its full height,
and I his is i he t lo w |,ioll the Wash
inglon boys look forward to all the
rest of tin year.
I'Wl tin queerest fishers are neither
Indians nor lioys, say* tin cxchunpe
of t lui t state. I*11ey are hops. So
foiul are the Imps of this delicacy,
winch costs the people of London one
dollar a pound, that the farmers who
h,i\.- pastures alonp the rivers have
”*«•*. i rouble fr ne • up the farms «o
that I lie hops cannot pet into the
streams. Mr. Mop( wades in. or swims
m. accord inp to the depth of the
stream, and then watches for the
saltimii I lie salmon -wirtis alonp un
- "spect inply. \|r. Hop is rend.V for
him. (/nick as a flash he fastens his
prerd.v I:|about tin- prcat fish and
allies him ashore, there to devour
h m w th th> preutest relish. Then
l> u l< he slij v into thi water to watch
b»r t lie next traveler alonp that way.
He will keep tins up until his Inin*
:>%i is satisfied, fliis indnlpenee ruins
i In Imp fur pork, however, as it pives
t a f'shy taste, and no one will buy
'*• lb.it is the r< ison the farmers
I cep their hops as far from the
t cams as possible.
GROUND STONE AS FOOD.
sen ret l yr of t.llble Stutter in India
I.cm«Ih to the f «> n■ it |if |n of
»• rlnblr Hock.
On account of the absence of seeds
II Md succulent roots of prusxes, „avi
1 he chief medical officer of Rnjputana
n n recent rrport. the hark of trees
tuU even ground-up rocks are u*«d,
pimcipully tu gi\c imlk to the scanty
meal, aiui tlirrcliy slay the pangs of
hunger for a longer time. At present
small proportions of ground Khejra
hark are in use nearly everywhere,
and in ill.’ proportion of about one
part to twenty of flour it does not
impair the digestion of the J.rboring
classes, although it (lorn so if taken
in excels, says St. James' Gazette.
Indeed, small quantities of this bark,
well ground, are said to aid digestion,
anti to make tip to some extent for
t lie want «*f fresh vegetables. A soft
stone, plia ( hafa, found on the
I»ikanen-Marwar border of Jaipur, is
hugely used in that part of the coun
try to give bulk to the meal. This
stone is friable, and easily ground into
fine powder. It contains an oiengi
lions substance, which has some nutri
tious qualities, and the people have
found that when finely ground aad
used in the proportion of about one
fourth to t hr ee-f ou r t li s of flour it
does not impair digestion for a con
siderable time; but when it is used
In excess it soon gives rise to malnu
trition, emaciation, bowel disease,
swollen fert ami oilier signs of starva
tion. Other barks and earthy sub
stances are more Injurious, but the
flesh of the cattle that died, which was
used extensively, had no ill effects.
Hoyle's literary Work.
The father of 1 lie game of whi^t.
Kdmond Hoyle, lited in lie t»7 venrs old.
Hi* treatise on cards Inis been pub
lished in all language* and probably
no work except the Itildc ha* passed
through more editions. The original
work appeared in l.ondon in ITU and
177ft it bad reached its fifteenth edi
tion. I lien the commentators, revis
ers, critics, iconoclasts, pirates and
expounders set in and from that time
on down to i be prevent day innumer
able liny leu blue been issued.
toffee to I'nrnansy.
I araguay i* to be added soon to f.ha
list of coffee grow ng countries. Thera
are now about a million plauls in the
nurseries.
Till* f '*nr#* Modraf f.
The rzar of Itussia ha* not the kai
ser's fondness to vee himself in print
and. on the rare occasions when he
delivers a public speech, is much an
noyed if be sees hi* words being taken
down by a stenographer.