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WEATHER INDICATIONS:
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K«p Cool!
AUDUBON, IOWA.
W. H. PALMER,
WATERLOO, IOWA.
"8av.d From the Horror* of Nervous Pros*
tratlon" by Dr. Miles' Nervine,
COUGH does not always Indicate
consumption. Ur. W. II. Palmer, ot
Waterloo, Iowa, writes: "I was taken
with a nervous stricture ot tho bronchial
tubes, which developed into nervous pros
tration, I was so weak I could not sit up. 1
got no sleep tor days except when under the
Influence ol opiates. For (our months suf
fered agonies and prayed that I might die
I and be at rest. One
physician said I had
coasumptlon, for I had
a cough that gave mo
no rest. But a gooa
I old physician whose
medicine had failed,
advised me to use Dr.
I Miles' Bestoratlve
Nervine and
1 thank God that It has bright
ened my days, lengthened my life and saved
me from the horrors of nervous prostration."
Dr. lilies' Bemedles are sold by all drug
gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle
tipnefits or money refunded. Book on Heart
dnd Nerves sent free to all applicants.
DB. MILES MEDIOAL CO., Elkhart, Ina.
For Sooeesa In War.
For success in war tho indispensable
complement of intellectual grasp and
insight is a moral power which en
ables a man to trnst the inner light, a
power whioh dominates hesitation and
sustains action in tho moBt tremendous
emergencies pod whioh, from the for
midable oharaoter of tije difficulties it
is called to oonfront, is in no men so
conspicuously prominent as in those
who are entitled to rank among great
oaptains. The two elements—mental
and moral power—are often found sepa
i- flue combination. In
Hot and Then Some!
And you are sweltering if you are like tlie balance of
humanity. No one can prevent the heat but there ia a
way of avoiding its intensity. We've good cool Cloth
ing and we've carved prices in order to close it out.
You'll have lots of time to wear it yet—this is only
July. Everything pertaining to summer goods goes at
about half the usual price asked.
And we'll assist you. Our goods and prices are for
your benefit. Buying for two stores we naturally buy
CHEAPER than so-called competitors and thus we can
undersell them—but that isn't the point now. We are
closing out our Summer Clothing without regard to
value. We are obliged to prepare for our fall trade—
you ought to prepare for the coming warm weather.
Remember the "Mark-Down" sale! The Trend of
trade is FRIENDWAKD"—join tlie happy procession!
Boston One Price
Cash Clothing House
Warwick and the midlands boast
very innocent beverage. It is a concoc
tion of ginger, buttercup seed, nuyenne
and beet juice and is calculated to scorch
the lining from a tractiou engine. Tak
en raw, it is probably the hottest drink
in the country, but it does no harm,
and, if well watered, is pleasant enough.
Keats fell in love with Fanny Brawne,
a dull and unattraotive young woman.
In one of his letters to her be says, "I
feel an awful warmth about the heart,
like a load of immortality."
On June 12, 1766, upward of 8,400
salmon were taken above the bridge in
the river Tyne and sold in Newcastle at
one penny and a penny farthing per
pound.
E WOMAN
It isn't to be
wondered at that
there are so many
sick and half-sick
women. Most ol
them suppose
their peculiat
troubles can oulj
be cured by the
physician. That means local treatment
and examinations. No wonder they
hesitate. And hesitation gives disease
a stronger foothold.
The truth is that local treatment and
examinations are nearly always un
necessary. They should not be sub
mitted to 'till everything else fails.
McELREE'S
WINE OF CARDUI
cures painful meuSfruation, irregulari
ties, life-sapping drains, falling of the
womb and flooding. It cures all the
pains and troubles by making the
feminine organs perfectly strong and
healthy. Its actios is wonderfully bene
ficial to girls just watering womanhood,
ud to women passing through the
jerlod known as the "change of life."
No need to hesitate now. Cure can be
had right at home.
5-
ELEVEN YEARS OLD. EXIRA, IOWA THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1897.
Hamlin Department.
Sam "Weaver sold 1,000 bushels of
his 1895 oats to Harry Percy CounBel
inan this week.
Percy and that aching tooth were
in Audubon Tuesday forenoon doing
some swapping.
Harry Percy shipped five cars of
corn and two cars of oats from the
Station this week.
They were holding a business meet
ing at the Blue Grass Creamery last
Tuesday evening.
The early oat harvest has begun
about the Station and the yield seems
to be pretty good.
We will begin shipping our Blue
Grass Creamery butter to Mel-ry Old
Eugland next week.
That car load of big hogs sold at a
fancy price in Chicago and scared the
natives by their greatness.
Hub Shoesmith is still at the bed
side of his sick wife and his partner,
Mr. Baker, is at the Station.
Percy gave two or three Utile dry
hy&teric sobs and then sold his bossy
calftoRob't Campbell, t'other day.
The blackberry crop is being har
vested by our farmerB and is the most
prolific one they have had for years.
Mrs. Frank East, from Auita, is at
the James East home, near Old Ham
lin, where she will pass two or three
weeks.
John Crecs and wife drove to Gris
wold last Saturday and passed the
Sabbath with Uncle Jake Hines and
family.
Walk Crees has just disposed of a
car load of pop corn to Dickinson, the
Chicago buyer. Golly, what a lot ot
popping that would make!
All his friends are wondering what
has become of Billy Robinson. They
say they can't imagine what'ponthe
earth has become of Billie.
Will Young's boy has been quite
ill the greater part of the past week.
We hope it is nothing serious and
that the little fellow will soon be out
again.
Misses Emma Fenton and Winnie
White are passing this week among
their school mates in the vicinity of
Gray and the north part of "the
county.
Mrs. A. W. Bradley, who has been
visiting at Atlantic, returned Wed
nesday accompanied by her danghter,
Miss Bessie, who will vssit here for a
short time.
Alex Ferguson is cleaning up his
old shot gun, hunting up his Ashing
tackle and getting ready for an outing
among the lakes in northern Iowa» in
jntV or two.
So far this season Will McGuips
has sold 17,000 pounds of binding
twine. That's evidence that there is
some grain to be harvested about the
Station this year.
Mr. Luke Baker tells us that the
barley crop is shelling out right
smart this year, anyway he told us
his crop shelled out about thirty
bushels to the acre.
George Bimick sold Will McGuire
a bit of souce, Monday, that weighed
550 pounds. Whew 1 That beats the
elephaut hog that Supervisor W. D.
Stanley sold McGuire.
Next Sabbath afternoon is the time
for Rev. Humphrey, of Exira, to
preach at Old Hamlin. The Metho
dist classes and Sunday School will
meet at the usual hour.
Harry Percy and family are now
"at home" in their renovated house
at the Station. Harry seems as much
tickled as a little boy with his first
pair of red topped boots.
We hear a good many farmers here
abouts complain that their wheat
crop is blighting badly. There are
many wheat jlelds in this part of the
township and consequently the loss
will be quite large.
A bolt of lightning descending
from*the heavens singled out a gentle
and unasuming horse belonging to
Baker & Shoesmith and hit him
swat on the head, laying the animal
low iu the cold arms of death.
Speaking about the Jersey cattle
beiug prolific Henry Young tells us a
story that takes the linen oft' of the
shrubbery. We'll vouch for Henry
He says he has a cow that is a grand,
mother and is only three years old.
You see it is this way: Her calf is a
mother and is only eighteen months
old herself. There, now! Some one
tell one to beat that.
Indeed, Miss Mullenger, we are just
as sorry as we can be that we are so
late in anuouncing that you had
come to live with us on this mundane
sphere, and would tarry awhile in this
vale of tears, but the fact of it is your
father, Robert, never told us and how
were we to know? We doff our hat to
you and promise that such a thing
shall never occur again.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
TUB BEST SALVK in the.world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
nands. Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or no pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfactiqp 'or money
refunded. Price 25c per box. For
sale by C. W. Houston, Exira or
L. Bisom, at Brayton.
J. C. NEWLOH,
Physician and Surgeon
Ofltce In llaiuler'w drug »tore
EXIRA, 10WA.
Dr. John Bilty,
Dhwpinjan gnrl Cii'
H. fretI Fiaeher, Pre*.
Tohn I'olxin, Vice JPret,
RESPONSIBILITIES, SSO.OOO.
Farmers Exchange
Ross Kennels was a Sunday visitor
at the home of his brother Harlan.
Greenwaldt & Groteluschen are
selling lots ot machinery this season.
Miss Clara Anderson, of Audubon,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Campbell.
Farmers say the wheat crop will
not average over 5 or 6 bushels to the
re.
Mrs. Geo. P. Wiley drove over and
visited over Sunday with Mrs. Jennie
Tucker, ot Vlolfk township.
The homes of Dr. Beers and P.
Moller are made gloomy by their
wives being on a visiting tour.
The U. B. Ladies' Aid Society met
at Mrs. Barracks' and concluded to
give asocial banquet at a near date.
Frank Buckner took a grist to mill
Thursday. The Audubon mill seems
to be the favorite with the farmers.
Mr. Youug and wife, of Manning,
were looking over the growing crops
on their farm south of town Thurs
dav.
•^W. E. J. I^ncelot^S*j so-i&r re
covered from .the fall that she ia
again able to ride to toWh to visit
her parents!
Mr. Scribner, of the great commis
sion firm of Scribner, Creighton &
Co., Chicago, was a business visitor
here Friday.
Grant and Belle Lancelot were
guests of Miss Bessie Ross Saturday
evening last and report a very pleas
ant social event.
Prof. W. H. Lancelot was installed
in the office of Vice Grand of Utopia
Lodge, I. O. O. F. Saturday night.
He is the youngest Vice Grand in
Iowa.
A sweet little girl baby was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Aus. Linn, east of
town Wednesday last and now Aus.
is heard singing, The sweetest ot all
is the last."
Asmus Boysen was ou our streets
again Friday smiling and jovial as
ever. Although defeated for the
nomination of representatiye he has
no sore spots to heal his canvass was
clean and honorable
The father of Mrs. John Campbell
was badly hurt while driving from
Audubon with a traveling man Wed
nesday. The vehicle breaking down
the team ran away, dragging Mr.
Anderson some distance.
Messrs. Packard and Barrack are
remodeling their Agitator" pre
paratory to commencing the thresh
ing season in a few days. These boys
are skilled at the business and always
gives farmers satisfaction.
Milton Crow's team made a suddeu
break for liberty one day last week,
taking with them a disc cultivator to
which they were attached. The cul
tivator was broken into smithereens
and one of the horses severely cut on
a cruel barb wire fence.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will hold a picnic in the artificial
woods near Manning Aug. 11th.
They offer $200 iu premiums for
amusements and will have a display
of fireworks. Everybody and their
relatives and friends are invited.
Miss Emma Feutoo, of Hamlin, ac
companied by her friend, Miss Win
nie White, were visiting old school
mates here last week. Miss Fenton
has been teaching iu Guthrie count}
Her term having expired she has been
retained for another year. She is a
graduate of the Gray High School.
Mr. Guy, of near Templeton, is
visiting his old friend, Win. Lewis,
of Cameron township. These old
gentlemen were neighbors away baok
in the seventies, lived and raised re
spectable families near each other and
now that the weight of years are
upon them, their friendship aud re
spept for each other Is still as warm
and geuial as ever. How pleasant is
it to see men live thus.
The new side walk was extended to
the M. E. oliurch and now Broadway
is in good repair on «!des with a
Geo. P. Wiley, CaaMer.
Ijowia Groteluschen, Afta't Ch'r.
GRAY. IOWA
Do a General Banking Business, receive deposits subject to
check at sight. Buy and sell domestic and foreign exchange.
Interest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on good com
mercial paper or approved collateral. Co-partners individ
ually liable—H. Fred Fischer, John Polzin, Geo. P. Wiley,
Louis Groteluschen. Collections made and promptly
remitted.
The GRAY PHARMACY,
C. EUGENE MERTZ, ntomtwroft.
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS
Stationery, Perfumery, Jewelry, Paints, Oils, Class, Etc.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded,
Gray Department.
Mr. Mertz took tbe-first degree of
Oddfellowship Saturday.
Miss Francis Rabel is again assist
ing Mrs. Charles McLachlin.
script ion ina few days. There has
beeu considerable opposition to this
improvement but now ail are well
pleased.
The Coming Men of America ini
tiated three new candidates Friday
night. This progressive order is
fast growing into popularity among
the boys and their actions are worthy
of older heads.
Ross Department.
of C'obu at Ross at lc per
Plenty
inch.
Mrs. Chas. McLachlin and Miss
Corla Corner drove to Manning
Thursday.
Barley is about all in shock and
the yield is not going to make our
farmers rich.
Mrs. Ed Finch is reported serious
ly ill.
Luse received three fine top bug
gies Tuesday.
J. F. Luse is offering some bargains
In crib lumber.
Farmers' Store Markets:—Eggs 7c,
butter 8c, corn 14c.
Chas. Kibler purchased of Luse
this week a fine top buggy.
Lona Hayes, of Audubon, Sun
dayed at the Shearman home.
John Wagner shipped hogs Mon
day, Tuesday and Thursday of this
week.
T. A. Miller purchased brick at
Ross Wednesday for a large well on
his farm.
Will Bevers' mother, of Omaha, ar
rived Saturday to pass a few weeks
with Will and-fainily.
Fred Tessman shelled corn this
week, marketing the same with Luse
& Reid—1600 bushels.
Mlsert Eva Carper and Orpha Bax
ter, of Audubon,' lO'dlt tjundayTSmirer
at the E. A. Bates home.
Jolly John Reuschling, of Melville,
purchased some of Luse's crib lumber
last Tuesday for coru crib.
Anyone wishing to rent a farfn call
on D. L. Reid, ageut for several good
Cameron towuship farms. 7-22jw
E. S. Damon, of Lincoln, Nebras
ka, arrived Friday of last week to
visit a few weeks at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. D. L. Reid.
Jas. Lee received, Wednesday, from
Chicago, a pair of handsome poodle
dogs—perfect beauties. Jim says
he'll have thoroughbreds or noue.
Frank C. Miller and Wm. Earheart,
always successful raisers of stock,
sold a carload of fine hogs to John
Wagner Tuesday, receiving $3.15 per
hundred for the same.
Last Monday eveniug Morris Gib
son fell from a load of hay striking, a
post, severely injuring his side. So
seriously was he injured that a doc
tor was called and he is now im
proving.
Sam Wilson's brother, of Iowa
county, will soon arrive here with a
complete Huber threshing outfit—
engine, self-feeder, wind-stacker, etc.
Sam has sold his horse-power outfit
to Mr. Jensen, uear Poplar, aud will
assist hiB brother this fall.
Tuesday D. L. Reid was putting
up feuce and accidentally sat down in
a coil of barbwire. After extricating
himselt and invoicing his wounds he
fouud he was perforated in about a
hundred places. Although not ser
iously hurt Dave finds it more com
fortable to sit ou the edge of a chair
One day this week the Christian
Endeavor Society of the Audubon
Christian church dropped in on Mr
aud Mrs. I. S. Shearman and made mer
ry for several hours. The following
were present:
Chas. Dean, Klv. W. B, Clemmer, Geo. Sut
ton. Mr. and Mrs. John Hite, Ur. and Mrs. Ed,
Hanos, Mr. and Mm. Wm. Dryden, Kate Korick,
Mablu Keith, Mase Drury, Llllie Hayes, Julia
Hayes, Anna Doan. Julia Wilson, Edith Lane.
Maudo Lano, Maude Burkey, Nellie Evans, Nel
lie Weston, Llllie Kibby, Etta Shelley, Mabel
Hite, Miunle Lane, May MoJlvane.
From my personal knowledge,
gained in observing the effect of your
Shtloh'a Oure in Gfcaea of advanced Conaump,
tiou. I am prepared to say it is the moat re
maruable Remedy that has ever been brought
to my attention. It has certainly saved many
from Consumption. Sold by O. W. Houston,
Williams & Son, Exira, sielger
Damp8kibs Billeter over disse Linjer
Allan Line, Allan-State Line, Ainerl
can Line, Auchor Line, Beaver Liue,
Dominion Line, Cunard Line, Thing,
valla Liue og White Star Line.
"Last summer one of our grarid
ohildren was siok with a severe bowel
trouhle," says Mrs. E. G. Gregory, of
Frederiokstown, Missouri. Our doc
tor's remedies had failed, theu we tried
Chamberlain's Colio, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy
relief." For sale by C. W. Houston,
Exira A. H. Roberts, Audubon.)
$1.00 cash for the JOURNAI. one year
'he Homestead to Jan. 1, '98
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Satlsflactorllj Explained.
Henry," she said, and there were
what a novelist would call tears in her
voice as she spoke, "I don't believe yoa
love me any more."
"Maria," he said, "don't be foolish."
"There!" she exclaimed. "There's
•vldenoe of the truth of what I said.
Don't be foolish!' Did you ever speak
to me that way before we were mar
ried?"
No, my dear I did not," he admit
ted.
"Then," she said reproachfully, "my
slightest wish was law then you never
sat around like a dummy, smoking a
cigar and reading a paper when I was
In the room then you seemed anxious
to please me and wen ever on the
watch to do some little favor for me."
"It is true," he admitted.
"You were never lazy then," she
went on. "You were full of life and
spirits you were energetio."
'Quite true," he said.
If you love me now as much as yoa
did then," she persisted, "you would
strive as valiantly as ever."
"My dear," he said in that calm, dis
passionate tone that makes the average
wife want to get a poker or a broom,
"did you ever see a boy trying to get
an apple or a oherry that was juBt a
little out of his reaoh?"
"Certainly," she answered, but"—
"He keeps jumping and jumping un
til be gets it, doesn't he?"
"Of course."
"But does he continue jumping after
he hps got it?"
'Certainly not. There's no need of
it."
'Well," he said as he turned to his
paper again, "you're my cherry, and I
don't see any reason why I should keep
•*n jumping any more than the boy."
She didn't say anything, but she
thought and thought, aud the more she
thought the more undecided she became
as to whether she ought to be angry or
not—Chicago Post
The Power of Mathematics.
The man who is always ventilating
grievance was talking very loud to the
bland and patient railway attache on
his favorite theme, the greed of corpo
rations.
'Look at the oharges imposed by the
railroads," be exolaimed. "Think of
making a man pay $6 merely for going
from Washington to New York. It's an
unhallowed imposition on publio
rights."
"Look here," said the railway man,
"do you know how far it is to New
York? It'Bconsiderable over900miles."
"Of course. But it's time that oounts,
not distance. Your road only works a
few hours getting a passenger there."
"It's time that I'm talking about. I
don't want to inquire too closely into
your private affairs, and fin: the sake of
oalculation we'll assume that your
time is worth $90 a day."
The discontented man qoughed slight
ly and said, "That's near enough for
all practical purposes.''
"»ow. allowing that the,
were favorable, yoi» wouldn-t expect
walk that far over the highways,
whioh are, of oourse, absolutely free,
in leas than seven days."
"No."
"Very well. That would make the
trip oost you the equivalent of just
$140, not counting what you would
unavoidably spend for meals and lodg
ing, nor the wear and tear on clothing
and shoe leather. Subtract the $6. SO
we charge you from $140, and it leaves
a saving of $188.60, not counting ex
tras. What do you want us to do? write
out checks in your favor and mail 'em
to you?"—Washington Star.
Blind Watchmaker*.
There have been blind watchmakers.
In former years there was one living
at Holbeaoh in Lincolnshire. His name
was Rippin, qnd although completely
blind he' oould take to pieoes and put
together again watches of most deli
cato construction with surpassing ease.
He was robbed onoe of some of the tiny
belongings of his trade, such as wheels,
hairsprings, etc. The thief was traced,
and Rippin identified and swore to his
property by the touch.
At Barnstaple, too, in the early part
of the present century, there was anoth
er such prodigy. His name was William
Huntly. He was born blind and was
brought up by his father, who was a
olook and watohmaker, to that business.
The inhabitants had great faith in him,
and he had plenty of employment. Mu
sloal docks and watohes even were re
paired by him without difSoulty, and
It ia said that in some oases where oth
er tradesmen had failed to discover a
defeot he deteoted the fault and set it
right—London Tit-Blta.
The Kltld Treat are.
Captain William Kldd, the notorious
pirate, who was tried in London and
executed for piracy in the year 1701,
had a ship oalled the Quida, or Qaedagh,
an East India merchantman whioh he
had oaptured near the mouth of the~Bed
sea. He then sailed for the West Indies
and, finding that the English had pro
olaimod him pirate and ordered his ar
rest, left the Quedagh with 93 of the
pirates and sailed to the north. There
is a tradition that these pirates trans
ferred their property to another less
unwieldy ship and burned the East In
diaman. Another tradition is that she
was brought into the Hudson and, being
chased by an English man-of-war, was
sunk near the Highlands with most of
her treasure. It is certain that there
was visible for a time the wreck of some
large ship sunk in the sands at that
place.—Harper's Round Table.
•las. Poor Fellow
"That," said the infirmary attend
ant, "is an exceptionally sad case.
That man used to be one of the best bar
bers in the country, but one day he
found himself helpless."
"Indeed!" exolaimed the visitor.
"What was the trouble?"
"He had lost hiB voloe."—Cleveland
Leader.
Stop that Cough! Take warning.
Consumption. A 25c
bottle of Shiloh Oure nay youv
Cfrramnfe'etl
to Jy.«jecrf
$1.00 PER YEAR
Salaries of Rulen*
The royal family of England oosts the
British government, in round numbers,
$3,000,000 annually. Of this sum the
queen receives nearly $3,000,000 a year,
besides the revenues from the duchy of
Lancaster, whioh amount to a quarter
of a million. The lord lieutenant of Ire
land receives $100,000 a year for his
services and expenses, and the Prince of
Wales $300,000 a year.
The president of Franco receives
$340,000 a year for salary and expenses,
an enormous salary, when it is remem
bered that the republio is sweating un
der a stupendous national debt of more
than $6,000,000,000, the largest debt
ever inourred by any nation in the
world. Italy oan have 10,000 men
slaughtered in Abyssinia and still pay
her king $3,600,000 a year. The aivil
list of the German emperor is about
$4
,000,000 a year, besides large reve
nues from vast estates belonging to the
royal family. —.
The czar of all the Russias owus in
fee simple 1,003,000 square miles of
cultivated land and enjoys an income of
$13,000,000. The king of Spain, little
Alfonso XIII, if he be of a saving dispo
sition, will be one of tbe riohest sov
ereigns in Eqrope when he comes of
age. The state allows him $1,400.000 a
year, with an additional iBOO.CrotTfor
family expenses.
We are said to be the richest nation
on earth, yet our president's salary is
only $50,000 a year. It was only $35,
000 from 1789 to 1878.—Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Medical Efleoti of Electricity.
In a recent communication to the So
oiete Internationale des Electrioieni
concerning the therapeutic and physio
logical effects of high frequenoy ourrenta
M. d'Arsonval showed the powerful in
duotive effects which oan be obtained
with these currents. A striking experi
ment consists of placing three lamps ia
tension, allowing tbe current to pass
through the body. These currents cause
no sensations, and a man plaoed in a
oirouit does not feel that he is traversed
by the ourrents which brilliantly illu
minate the lamps. The principal results
of this electrification are an augmenta
tion of the oxidations in the organism
and an increase in the production of
heat A subject who, under ordinary
conditions, eliminates 17 to 31 liters of
oarbonio acid per bour throws off 37
liters after having been submitted to
this aotion. High frequency currents do
not act solely upon the n—rfnrri lilTf*
body, but also profoundluqjbri the in
terior. All of these results have been
obtained upon a number subjects by
MM.-Apostoli and Ctyitrin.
M. d'Arsonval cj^ed, in olosing, the
aotion exercised ubon microbes and bao
teria by these currents. The microbes
and baoilli are (modified, arid the tox
ines are killed and -'tranaformed to vac
cine. MM. jjlLArBOnval andOharrin hope
by .s'i'rv 'wV-4'iu^wt
ipWnnterior of the bodies
-.'Buffering with zymotio dis-
4*£xperiments
to this end have
legnn.—Electrical World.
Two Giants.
Cajanns, a Swedish giant who was 9
feet high, was on exhibition in London
in 1743, and several old handbills still
exist whioh set forth the measurements
of this freak of nature. Thirty years
late? we have Charles Byrne, who was
8 feet 4 inches in height in his stock
ingsd feet He, however, died young,
at the age of 33, from hard drinking.
Cotter O'Byrne, another Irish giant,
followed a few years later. He was
born at Kinsale in 1761, and at the age
of 15 waa 8 feet high. This by the time
he was 88 had increased to 9 feet 4
inohes, and then he changed his name
to O'Brian, in order to make ptople
think that he wns descended from King
Brian Boroihme, and went on exhibition.
At that business he, of oourse, soou
realized a very comfortable fortune and
retired—dying at Clifton on Sept. 8,
1804. His will especially provided that
his body should be thrown into the sea
in order to prevent the surgeons from
eutting it up.—London Standard.
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Camphor For His Wife.
"There was a farmer up hru.
said, "who used to have his oooa
spree. Every one knew his failing,
neither of the druggists iu town wot.
sell him a drop. One day he brought
quart bottle into one of the apothecary
shops, with two or three big lumps ol
gum camphor in the bottom. He told
the druggist that his wife wanted hei
oamphor bottle filled with aloohol. The
druggist filled it without suspecting any
thing. In a week the old man can1
again, and in a little while the th
time. Finally the druggist discover
that the 'gum camphor' was mil
quartz, picked up in the fields, and
the farmer had poured camphor overt
outside of the bottle until enough had
crystallized there to look natural and
smell right. The quartz didn't hurt the
alcohol for drinking purposes. "—Time
and the Hour. I
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Hi* Praise*
A Norfolk rector writes to the Lon
don Daily News: "All Norwioh men
knew how exquisitely the late Dr.
Qoulbum read the lessons, especially
the Epistles. Here is a Norfolk farm
er's oritioism upon him, 'Hay wunna so
muoh of a praicher'—an atrocious libel,
by the way—'but hay wuz a wunnerful
fine man at the gewse'—eagle lectern.''
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Artful.
Mrs. Potts—I see your husband has
bought a bicycle Buit I thought he was
determined never to wear one.
Mrs. Watts—I got him to get it by
telling him he was too old to wear any
thing of that kind.—Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Quite Artless,
Editor—I'm sorry I cannot accept
your manuscript, but your story isn't
well written.
Woman Writer—But that would*'*
make any «®W*W».eii
ed. would iV—Brooklyn
CataA^CuVed. A clear
sweet b&atli secured wi
Catarrh Keiiiedy, sold on
H*»«t-reJeok free. Sold by
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