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She pushes bock her bonnet brown,
A rustic glance torsos°,
Her blue -black lovelooks slipping down
To veil the bashful gaze ;
In kerchief white aucl russet gown,
A -dreaming on the painted town,
Half bold and wholly ehY. "
• She lifts her head—her foot ehe stays—
As Igo by,
The lonely pastures stretch behind
In yellow parching heat ;
I watch the dappled river wind
BY pallows clear and sweet. '
Thro mazy footpaths far and blind,
With silver biroh and poplar lined,
kly leafy way shp,l1 lie --
Beyond them rnas the village street—
And 1—go by.,
Across the laurel -bordered rise
The hills are blue au steel—
The splendor of the harvest skies
Is.white against my wheel.
Again the look of swift surprise,
The graceful arm, the r stive eyes.
The gesture, frank and shy—
A stranger's glance of lost appeal
As I go by
I cross the bridge, I mount the hill
All black with headook shade,
I pass the ancient, ruined will,
The green and silent glade—
Yet haste or linger vvhere I will,
Her girlish figure drawn me still
Anti mutely waits rep_ly—
Late, late, I come, my monntain maid,
And all the world goes by.
THE LADIES' COLUMN.
Fashion Frolics and Household Hintof
Everyday Value.
SOMETHINGABOUT ICED DE.SSERTS
(Aunt Kate's Weekly Budget.)
Lel Them Romp.
Hee the child a right to run, jump, yell
tile top of hie voice, blow penny trumpet%
and rampage generally if it 'finde amuse-
ment in it? Generally them are its'.only
means of recreation. It cannot take part
in the profotind discourse of its elders.
The bang-whang and penny trumpet only
same within its present xepources for
'mental and,physical enjoyment. The tell
UB that it is healthy for ohildren to 'be.
allowed the full and free expression of
their bang-whang proolivities.; yet this is
all suppressed in some families. • The
comfort and convenience of the elders
alone are stndied. The child *the weakest;
the child is suppreesed. The 'child ballet
sot foreign to its nature. The child miist
not raise its voice aloud—must not in the
elders' presence babble nonsense, save at
intervals when nonsense amuses the elders.
It must in the house be a "good child,"
which means a quiet ohild, a child which
through fear stifles its nature. A 'ohilq in
whom. the inolination of youth- to kick,
-squeal and oaper, as with kids; colts, cialves
and the young of nearly ()Very living
creature, must be chained down, and in
this way youth is robbed' of its only eouthee
of enjoyment. •
Warranted 40 Clean the Elands. .
Edith—Nothing will whiten the hands so
-
quickly as wheat flour. Sift several quarts
of it, mix it with a little water, add a cake
of yeast and then put on a pair Of kid
glom' dusted on the inside with flour and
go to bed. The next morning take off the
gloves, wash your hands and then return to
your vessel of a dor and work it with Your
hande for'half an hour. Let it stand for
awhile, then work it again the same way,
make into loaveri and bake.
About Ice jIleonerto. .
•
No desserts are so tempting in the warm
weather as treacle delicacies of all sorts, al:
thougb these are not ream:emended as
hygienio by those who are oonveriamswith
the laws of human digestion. When -eaten
without other food and not too fast, ices
may be perfeotly harmless: In Fiance,
where they have most delicious 'ices and
frozen creams, there is a greater variety
and more taste in their preparation than
with us. They never Mix the fruitand
cream, as we ignorantly dd. 'Acid fruits
should never be mixed withpream, led the
cream should curdle, as it must do in the
nature of thinge. Fruit ices sticuld always
be water thee. Whole fruit in ioes ,i.t de-
cidedly objecitionable, as the fruit .hardens
in the freezer and only spoils the comfort
in eating without addiug anything to.im-
prove the ice. Pineapple ice,' strawberry
and cherry ice, as well as orange,
lernon and aprioot, are inade' as we'
make the lemon and raepberry
this country, while vanillaand brandy, end
sometimes liquors, are used to flavor -the
frozen cream. One most delicious ice is
the cafe par fait, a great favorite in Frantoe
and elsewhere where it is known. As this
is not frozen 'very hard, :it is, perhaps,
more allowable than many other frozen
desserts. It is ao simple that it is well
worth trying, if one has a freezer already
in the liptisis: It requires a quart of rich
cream and the whites of pie eggs' • with ham
a cup of strong coffee, anup anda half of
sugar and a teaspoonful of Oro .starch
The oream should be whipped very , light'
and strong and put in 9, sieve to drain. The
whites of the eggs also .aro whipped into a
stiff froth. Take the liquid ' cream remain-
ing after the Whip if3' removed and add the
_coffee and the teaepoonful of men starch to
—thicken it. Afterait has beed sufficiently
boiled and is perfectly smooth cool the mix-
ture and freeze. When frozen Woe a melon
mould with the obffee cream, then mix the
eggs and cream and sugarsind 'fill the mould
to the top. Pack the mould an foe and salt,
and let it stand for an houror more: This
quantity ought to fill a two -quarts mould.
This is very delioate to eat with 'straw -
barrio. •
Summer Wraps.
Extreme diminutivenessie of one of the
chief features of slimmerwraps, fashioned
after the latest models. Various material')
are used, the most elegant -of which is the
heavy real lacer with trimmings of lico.
ruffles to correspond. These lace garments
are generally made with sojustable lininge.
of silk so that the same wrap may be worn
over different -colors And -Her -V0-• for two
suits. Grenadine with heavy velvet flowers
in relief is another" favorite material for
summer wraps, and is et:Lithely less rich in
effeot than 'the lace. Bead fringes and
passementeries, together with lace, are the
preferred trimmings. Some of ,the richest
grone.dines• show tiny jete outlining the
velvet blossoms, and oleo forming the
°entrees A very pretty and graceful :style
ofgarrolmt is made with a short pelerine
back and high -gathered shoulder seams.
Here the pelerine form ends au& the front
of the wrap is made in two long tabs;
knotted, with the ends falling half way
down the skirt. Another pretty style its a
ehort mantle bombed up at the waiet in
panniers in the beck, with the sleeves
made full and the fronts plain and narrow;
wittnither .equare or rounded corners'.
Fashionable Costumes.
Bridal toilets are now getting 'Otit of
their stereotype fitehione of materials and
styles of trimmings. At the recent mar-
riage of the Viscount Exmouth to Mies
Math Hargreavee her maids wore cream
'vetted muslin trimmed with,latie and pale
blue ribbon, lace ceps with pale blue
aigrettes and they Carried paraiele. The
Vieeptuat is 23andshe le ppm' of age.
Mee Qeagie Halkett, who ie WOW the wife
Of Mayor Harvey', wore at their reoent
wedding white velvet richly trimmed with
pearl embroidery. Her maids wore bream
nun's cloth with a eimple pattern running
over it, and white ohip bonnets trill:treed
with honey suolde. The bride's travelling
dress wan a white crepe de chine with broad
flounces of noffee-ocilored lace. Another
bride of the week wore oream brooacled
satin, trimmed with shall cream colored
doves of the same material. The dress
most admired in carriages at .A.soot, was
of black net, ooyered with sprays 9f
laburnum flowers. In the enclosure in
froht of the royal stand a young lady, who
was conepiouous by the brilliant red drese
she wore, was observed to be on fire). This
was not a case of color omxibustion, but of
melees fusee. Earl Haidewiok gave her
a necessary close hug, and put the fire out,
although both were inpoh burned. The
reporter on the press stand who said that
shelled wagered too much on qaioklime
has been refused future privileged.
Jersey', and Loewe.
Queen 'Victoria takes an hour at meals.
Aime. Mocljeska prefers the peaceful
retreat of Poland to the noisy summer
resorts.
Some jetheys cost 6100, but there are
masses of beads and embroidery with lace
stripes, and are not any prettier after all
than some that cost only a few dollars.
The fancy of 'wearing a velvet basque
with a white or light goods skirt is not so
comfortable for the heated terra as that of
the muslin or lacer spencer with a colored
or blaok silk or wool ekirt.
When Chantilly id -quoted as one of the
faehlonable laces the old'blach real lace or
Chantilly is not meant, but an imitation of
the flowers of that old lace, only white, not
black, and applique ais a rule, on colored
tulle or oolored net. These are wonder-
fully effective and beautiful imitations.
Very odd is the notion of a seaside hat
"the Neptune," the fancy of a Paris mil-
liner. la is a large oapote of gray -green
rushes, bordered arouod the brim with
gray -green plush,and onone side an apes
tic miniature landscape ocimpoeed of water
plants and sea -weeds, a pretty pink -lined
then, and a small green frog dressed in
green velvet and .a pale yellow silk, with
great melancholy eyes looking at you
through the rushes.
Hints to Housekeepers.
Light paper has come in fashion again
for bed -rooms.
In washing wooded dairy utensils use
first hot water, then cold, and lastly hot.
See that they are well dried.• , . •
Never use soap in the water with which
you clean the looking -glass; it is almost
impossible to polish the glass if soap is used.
The following reoeipt tor making "cold
dream " is said to be excellent : To one
ounce of glyderine allow ten drops of car-
bolic acid ; add one ounce of rose water.
I Pdarble-top tables or mantel-pieoes are
now never seen. They are either covered
or draped with silk, velvet Or plush, or
painted or grained to look'like wood.
Selecting Bleats.—An authority on the
subject says : When selecting a tongue
choose one that is hard and firm, and has
fat on the under side ; and that the best
hams are the thediumnized ones, with thin
skin and solid fat. Good bacon has a thin
rind, with firm fat and tender lean. If
lamb is not fresh, the large vein in the
neck will have a greenish tinge. •
.In cleaning a mattress remove the hair
from the tick, souse it up and down in warm
soap Burls for a few minutes, then rinse in
clear water and dry in the sun. Wash the
tick and then replace the hair. •
To Clean Kettles. --Fill the kettle with
water, 'and, when this 'has boiled, place in
it the sixteenth part of an ounce of sal am-
monia. Let this boil one hour, when the
hardsubstance will be dissolved,sana-lathy
be ealsily removed.
Suggestions for Keeping Preserves.—Put
thetnawassin smell jars or glasses. If the
latter are used, store them in a dark place.
Cut out a piece of stout paper the size of
each jar. Slip these over the fruit as 'Soon
ash hes grown oold. • Having reserved a
little syrup for the purpose pone a layer of
it on top of the paper, and the Obit will not
rise to the top, mould and spoil.
• A Hit Of Neill .Lite.
"Oh, Bill', but I'm glad to see you ; 'kiss
the kid." •
A girl of 18, with in infant 111 her arms,
said this to one of two raffish young men
vilids walked off a 'ferry -boat on the New
York side the other day. The young man
addressed seethed glad of the meeting,
kiesed the girl and the ohild, and said to
the other man, who only nodded to the
girl, and moved sulkily away:
"I'll see the boys to -night, Patsy.'
" No, he won't," said the girl, goingup
close to the other man. "Not to -night nor
to.morrow, nor never again if I oan keep
him from it. I've got good honest work for
him, an' heiegoin' to do it, an' you ttndyour
wherein' gang can steal for youreelyee.
Oh, Bill" turning to her husband, "euro
you're not goin' with that lot again ? They
got you in. trouble 'befell) an' they'll do it
again. • For the love of God, don't, Bill;
come and stayhome with me."
j
The thief uat off the island walked
briskly away with the girl, but his keen,
foxy eyes would steal after the man they
had left. Au they turned into the labyrinth
of streets by Cherry the man Patey
stopped loungingly to hold up a lamp -post,
and as he looked after the others the grim
grin. of devilish evil that lighted up hie
tape and told of oonfid'ent power would
have done credit to tlie father of original
elm—New York Graphic. •
CURRENT TOPICS.
Tins nallye Japanese papers etate that
the tree from which the lacquer varnish is
obtained is disappearing, and an outcry is
Making againet "the extinction of the
lacquer industry." Like the mulberry
tree (611k -worm's food) it was formerly pro -
tooted by law. The upper class families
were "obliged to rear 100 trees, the middle
close 70, and the lower class 40." The law
haviug fallen into disuse, the cultivation of
the Jacqner tree has fallen away and the
prioe of lacquer hats been "enormously
increased." .
THE prefeseers of the TJniversity of juin,
who have heeninvestigating the effect of
'tobacco upon the human system, report
that rnoderate.quantities of the weed may
be used without injurious effects. They
say that in the German armys'isoldiers in
active service are very properly furnished
with smoking tobacco, because smoking en-
ables them to endure severe fatigue upon
mailer nutrition and with greater alacrity
and oonfidence -than would otherwise be
the base.
Ix a voyage from Rio Janeiro to Bor.
deans two French eavants carefully in,
vestigated the quality of see, air. They
fciund in all instances that over • the open
sea, at a distance from the vessel, the air
was singularly free frorethe multitude of
organisms which are found in land breezes.
It is now believed by these and other in-
vestigators that none of the germs of an
epidemic can orose an ocean with the wind,
but that all low forms of life contained in
it must soon reaoh the water and die. Sea
voyages are now gometimes recommended
on this special ground.
A men engaged in diving operations on
the coast opposite Gibraltar, under Apes
Hill, with the object of aeoertaining the
whereabouts of. a recent wreck, has die -
covered at the bottom from eighty to one
hundred large 'gnus, mostly 24 and 32
pounders, and also two large anchors.
They are supposed to have loelcieged to
some large line -of -battle ship which sank
in the old war, possibly after the'battle of
Trafalgar. As there was no apparatus for
tbe purpose none of the guns were brought
up, so that it has not been possible to
asoertain their nationality.
OUR „periodical " numberings of the
people." never fail to be attended by epi -
Bodes Of a curious and ludiorous character;
but, he might be expected, An Indian
census -taking has its own peculiarities.
During the recent enumeration in the Pun-
jttub, for instance, a native ofdoial returned
a village pond as an " inhabited house,"
and when called upon for an explanation
justified himeelf on the ground that he had
found the pond in question occupied by a
fakir, who announced hie intention of re-
• maining in the water till the unholy rites
of the census were over.
Tem sensible housewife " keeps things
"wool" for herself and her family by
letting in the night air through wide open
She Was Artless and She Woo Hind.
Be• was a married man, blessedor the
opposite, as the reader may determine—
with an extremely jealous wife. Otto even-
ing, not long ago, he seized a chance oppor-
tunity to do eecort to a charming miss of
sweet 16, whose blue eyes and dark, droop-
ing lashes exeroieed a glamor over every
man who happened to come within range
of their charm. At last her home was
reached, and an they paused at the gate the
maiden turoed her lovely orbs full upon hiba
and said:
"I'm so grateful for your kindness, sir!"
"Don't mention it, I beg of you," ho
ejaculated gallantly.
• Very likely the unsophisticated .maiden
migunderstoed the rclotive of his remark,
for elle quiokly answered in a reaesuring
tone ;
"01,, 1 certainly won't sir, as long as I
live, it you don't wish me to "
doors and windows, and keeping the doors
oloaed and the blinds shut during the glare
of the day. There are many other 'small
points, the observance of which adds to the
comfort of hot weather living. By•starting
five nainntesnarlier for the oar, hurry is
aveided; and , nothing heate like hurry, as
the blazing tapes and 'streaming brows of
the late comere oars and on the boats
testify. The sensible fashion Of carrying
sun umbrellas has added much to the own."
fort of town -dwelling gentlemen. •
. As might possibly happen, a man named
Morearo had his entire faoe blown off by
the bursting of e shell in thesFrano-Ger-
,
man war: Eyes and everything went,
leaving only the top and baok sof the hair-
eovered head. And now the Paris corres-
pondent of the London Globe writes that
the man is not only etill living, but that he
ie furnished with an artificial face, which
includes false eyes, a false palate and false
teeth, with Several other things nearly as
false as the correspondent's story. Forit
Is further and coolly , narrated that ,hy-
means of this completely- equipped mask
the man can smell. speak in a natural tone
and even play on the. flute. But this arti-
ficial face, wonderful as it is, is as nothing
to the consummate cheek of the corres-
pondent who tells the story. • .
Tim city of Bruesels proposes to try the
street oars. Ousing
line-s•that of the Rue de
experiment of sing electricity to drive its
•
in Lbi—is to be equipped with motors, and
separate accounts are to be kept, in order
to•asoertain definitely the cost of the run-
ning, as compared with the use of horses.
The teat is to last for one year, and then,
should the result warrant it, electricity will
be employed exclusively on the street rail-
ways of Brussels. •
A COMMITTEE Of 'BOItle Of bhe best surgeon's
in France has been appointed to verify, at
M. Pasteur's request, the success of hie
inoculation of dogs with rabies. Twenty
healthy dogs ere to be inoculated with the
proteotive•virue, and twenty morn to be kept
uninoculated. The whole forty are then to
be bitten by mad dogs and the results noted.
The anti•vivieeption sooieties are forioue,
but the French people are not squeamish in
110850 like this. '
Mn, Gramm, on the occasion of very
Dude Dialect.
A lady who has juat returned from'
Europe said to a friend :
" You might to hear them lawff and chavoff
at our American way of talking over there,
yen know."
" Oh, well, we oan Maud it," said her
friend. "We'll lad and chuff at them •
when,they Rome over hern,"—Deticit Pe
Frees.
proceesion, headed by the orthodox Metro-
politab, is bearing the eacred relict through
the prebuilt'.
Isian Woleeley ‚takes tiommand of the
expeditionory force which starts for Kkiar-
toum in the first week of August. His old
lieutenants, Sir Redvere Buller and Sir
Herbert Stewart, accompany hire' the
former as eecond in command. Col.
Stewart will not be associated with the
duties he so ably oarried out in the Bogdan,
as the cavalry will be under the command
of Sir Drury Lowe. He will be Adjutant
and Quartermaster -General: At the Ser.
vioe (nubs in London they are anziouely
looking out for the official tip," as in the
Tel-el-I/Air affair, of the' number of days
and boors which will puffin to crush the
Alahdi and restore Gordon q hie country-
na an. .
Tim idea that the great deserts are
barren simply from a want of rain is
demostrated by the growth of thick
herbage and grass on the desert of Sahara
this spring. The winter rains were so
prolonged andplentiful that they not only
caused •the rivers of Algeria to overflow
their bathe, but toned the grass •itfelf to
spring up abundantly on the hitherto
unfruitful wastes. Whole 'cities and
villages in Algeria made of adobe or sun-
dried brick have melted away under the
unceasing rain. The French garrisons and
Arabs had to take to their tents, for their
houses beeame 11 rnass of soft mad which
fell to piecee. But the great Sahara
bloomed into meadowe and blossomed like
the rose. •
IT would appear thet in Russia, al wel
•
as in many other countries, a look of hair
is considered a signal pledge ofsthe tender
passion. Mlle. Alice, the favorite Parisian
actress, glories in thespeesession ot auburn'
ringlets, and Would' not part with one or
them for less than a duohy. Two Russian
noblemen, the Count de L. and -Baron ,
were both Butters for the lady's anailes, and
both happened toshave hair of the same
golden hue as that of their mutualdulaines.
E sob begged a look of her hair in exchange
for a look of hie -own, to which the 'charm-
ing creature readily assented; and, without
touching a single tuft of her head, managed
to effect an exchange of 'parcels, by which
each gentleman received a curl of his rival's
oapillariee. The Count now wears the
Baron's hair next hielearb, and the Baron
sleeps with the Count's eoelp look under
his pillow. •
A GRADUATE Of Dublin University, who
hest served a term as stenographic reporter
for Parliament, and has written a text-
book on short -hand, confesses that the
difficulty of reading any kind of short -hand
'is an insuperable barrier to its general use,
and that though he has worked with scoriae
of short -hand reporters, lie never knew one
who eould read hie own notes with the
COMIX1011 writing. Moreover, it
would' not be well.for abort -band writing
to become generalAeinoe the necessity of
writing 'words' slowly and laboriously .in
long-harid provides a sensible cheek on the
volubility ot writers. If short -hand °mild .
be eet up am a common medium of cora-
munioation, it would be more trouhle to
read it than to write it. A man might be
• inundated with correspondence in short-
hand which would occupy a great, part of
his tinie to read, and eventually diecover
that hod of it was not worth .deciphering.
• Ix is asserted on eminent engineering
authority that the beet wood yet discrivored
for• railway' •sleepers is zapote, used for
Ibis purpose in Mexico. It is essentially a
tropical timber, and is exceedingly durable
for outdoor or indoor work, above or below
ground. -Samples of this wood . taken but
of buildings said to have been erected more
than two nonturies ago did not show the
elightest indioatione of deoay; the wood
being.- is sound as on the day it was put
into the building. In color this wood is
nearly as dark as logwood, is very heavy.;
and sinks in water, and so hard that the.
boring of the holes for the spikes and form-
ing the grooves • for the rails is very
laborioue work. It appears to be almost
-
impervious to decay, but has a tendency to
eplit if exposed to the heat of a,' tropical
sun for a few months, fax which reason the
,zapote sleepers haveto be kegt equally
covered with ballast.. •• .
,
Tot Russian ,, cemetery •at Sebastopol
would be considered a handsome necropolis
itnywhere. The :nen are laid. away in
batches in great graves, but the officers lie
in separate one. The tombs in many
theta's:tee are veritable monuments. Among
them are a column and bust over the re-
mains of Prince Gortaohakoff, Commander,
in -Chief of the • Russian foroes in the
Crimea, who died in Warsaw in 1861, but
who "desired to be buried among those de-
• fenders of their country who did not per.•
the enemy to enter. their ' fatherland
further than, where their graves stand."
But the most ocinapiououe object in the
cemetery is a magnificent memorial chapel
of granite, marble and bronze, in the form
of a pyramid, over 100 feet high, the walls
of which, inside and out, are covered with
the names of all who -took part in the de-
fence of Sebastopol and for whom prayer!'
are daily offered up.
great effort% is provided with -about a wipe -
glassful of a sustaining decoction, which he
brings with him, but, as a rule, any such
indulgences are unknown in the British
Legislature. They manage tbinge better
in France. As each orator amends the
rostrum, a footman, in ihe livery of the
Chambers, follows with a tumbler of the
mixture .the speaker particularly affects,
obtained from a little buffet in the penum-
bra, to the right of the Presidential chair.
THE last distiiaguiehed visitor to the
famous Nuremberg beer house, called the
" Bratwuretglookloin," is Carmen Sylva,
the„Queen of Roumania. In the little
room there is a memorial tablet, whereon
are inscribed the names of the famous
anoients who used to visit the plats° and
refresh their souls with the cooling drink
—Albert Darer, korkheitner, PeterViseher,
Adam Kraft, Veit Steels Paumgaertner
and Hate Bache. Atter reading thee°
names the Queen wrote on a piece of paper,
which is now duly framed:
I've read the good names written down,
Ettt since 1 found not One in town, '
I took a seat where theyonde sat,
Inspired with joy to do e'en that.
Which is still suffering from the
effentil of the earthquakes, 15 nOW visited
by another calamity. A large number Of
the lemon and orange trees, which form one
of the chief resources of the inland, are
attacked by an unknown 'dime% and
specialists are being sent by the Minister
et Commerce to make, inVestigatione into
the matter. Meanwhile the pions inhabit -
ante are bevies reoourse to supernatural
remediee. Having chartered a 'veinal
eteamer, they have brought from ono of the,
monasteries of Mount Athos a miraole.
THE OPIUM GEHIENN4111..
The 311xpertessee of a nazi Who
Smoked the Drug Tep Years,
I have smoked opium for ten year% and
no hell would bold the torments piled upon
Wqldrlgul**? knnv Ilainn.
othel oulowoull neveooneaehorein
America. They preach of the tide of
alcohol that is washing away hearthstones
and carrying desolation to lutppy biomes,
and of the loving wife who Bees her fond
husband trying to unlock the gate -latch
with his tvatoh•key. I could ehovr you
inothere by the dozens in this oity who are
looking on while their BOW, and even
daughters, are being drawn to the grave,
with the blush of youth yet n their cheeks,
by opiun. Liquor is debilitating, and it
depraves and clauses ruin, but the man
who is a drunkard to -day may cease to
drink forever to -morrow. Not BO with the
habitual opium smoker. Where there
is one that quits the vice, ten hundred
are buried from it. The evil is spreading
not only on this mat, but through the
East, and wherever the Chinese go it will
follow. La this city there are at present, I
may say without exaggerating, between
5,000 and 6,000 white opium smokers, to
say nothing of those who take it in„ its
other states and use kindred drugs. Of
these there are at least forty who are con-
sidered respectable people, and probably
are respeotable more than they are vicious.
Two years ago there were a lady and her
two daughtere living in an elegant man-
sion on Van Ness avenue, who were) ad-
dicted to the use of opium in the pipe, and
one of the daughters had a perfect mania
for it. The mother had begun the use of
the stuff to cure the neuralgia. She Mired
the neuralgia, but she has never been cured
of the antidote, and she never will. Many
contract the habit by using • ophun BB a
medioant. A wealthy lady in, this city
began smoking opium as a remedy for cor-
pulency three years ago. She weighed 250
pounds when she started. She weighs 120
now and she oan't quit. treieglopium as is
remedy for disease is like taking an anti-
dote for smoking. The euro is worse than
the ailment. I began taking an antidote a
couple cf years ago, and I have two habits
now—the antidote habit and the opium
habit. So called anticla,tes are merely sub.
stitutes, and they are often worse than the
opium. A man may give up opium for
morphine, or he may find a friend in liquor,
it he is not too old in the vice; but whatever
he does he must give hie aysteessan equiva-
lent for the., drug lac quits.—.San
i
A. Railway Hun by Water.
• A newspaper correspondent, writing from
Switzerland, tells of a curious railway as
follows:
" The picturesque and praatioal are often
curiously intermixed. I glean a few par-
ticulars of a funicular railway which con-
nects Territet (Chinon) and Gijon. The
railway, which on a steep incline, some-
thing after the style of the one up Mount
•Veauvius, commences .at in angle 0! 32
deg. and soon increases to 57 deg. It is a
single line with a loop at a passing place
half way. There are two carriages on thes
line, one of, which 'ascends while the-sother
descends. The aseending carriage is'drawn
by the force of gravity of the one which is
deseendingg-the latter being weighted by a
reservoir placed underneath, beingfilled
with water. The reservoir is emptied as
soon as the carriage has made the descent.
The two vehioles are connected with each
other by means of a wire oable, which passes
over a wheel ab the eummit of, the incline.
By the passenger a remarkab1enptica,1 illu-
sion is experienced. Treee, 'huts, houses,
rooks, all seem to'be bent back, as though
• by some enchantment. They are appar-
ently standing out of the perpendicular, and
one can Boareelyshelp wondering that they
do'not toPple over. The deception is due
to the Beate of the carriages whioh are'
conetruoted at such an angle that, notwith-
standing the steepness of the gradient, the
occupant preserves his ordinary upright
sitting posture. The line is 743 yards long,
and the difference between the level of its
base and that of its summit is.984 feet,"
,Or the four peinelpal leaders of the An-
archist party in Pranoe, three are at
present in prieon--Prince Krapotkin end
"companions" Gautier and Crie, the sole
champion of unlimited freedom at liberty
being M. Elmo Reolus, the eminent geo-
grapher. The designation citizen, it may
be observed, imPlying RS it does a settled
social organization, with its accompanying
cheeks and restraints, has long since been
discarded by the modern revolutionaries.
The Prince and M. Gautier will shortly be
restored to society, M. GrevY having
announced his intention of granting them
their liberty on the occasion of the next
recurrence of the National Fete, six weeks
hence. "Companion". Crie, who is des-
oribed as a singularly mild-mannered,
amiable man, was sentenced only a month
ago to a year's imprisonment for the sys-,
tematio advocacy of murder and arson se is
mode of bringing the bourgeois to their
senses. Citizen" Atorphy—he is only
a Sthoialist—may possibly profit by the
President's Clemency on the same occasion.
As his name implies, he its of Irish descent
—perhaps, indeed, of Irish birth. Amor&
ing to the Matin, he only renouneed his
nationality quite recently. " I did it," he
is reported to have said, ' tb esoape habg-
ing. They still keep up the praetioe itt
England.'
Mn, Cremes RUSSELL', who,• since the
retirement of Benjamin, has Made per*
haps the largest income at the English
Bar, received lase yeare1175,03,Qs. , Sir W.
Gull, who tops MA"' phyesioiSM 'made
50,000; Mr. Millais stained' oanvas to a
like figure; Archer, the jockey, made
$43,000 ; Tennyson reoeives 625 a line;
°aide, 66,000 %novel; but in the race for
wealth, Shaun% the drainatist.e " In the
'Ranks," n rank &no of stuff, oan look with
contempt on his baffled pursuer% having
working girdle et the Virgin, and a grand made last year 6100,000.
Taman is the pride ot all Axieettlint•
They even claim it to be the oldest city in
America, and deolere that its origin
antedates that ot Santa F. Before the
advent of Americans ib Wes) a Mexle*4
hamlet, and still earlier it was an Indian
village. No traeee of it first occupants
are to be seen to -day, but the adobe houses
and narrow, winding etreets are Mexican.
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*
LYDIA E. PINKHAWS
* VEGETABLE COMP0UND2*
* * * * * ISA POSATIVE CURE * * f..4 *
For all of those Painful CoMPT*IBLS and
* * weaknesses so common to oar best *,*1
.* * * * *FEMALE POPULATION.* * * * ,*4
IT WILL erns ENTIRELY TUE WORST FORM OP PE.
1
liALE COMPLAINTs, ALL OVARIAN TILoUBLEs, IN-
FLAMMATION AND TJLCERATION. PALLING AND Les.
PLACEMENTS, AND TUE coxszquzw.r SPINAL WEAN -
NESS, AND IS renTleimantx Alvan' En TO TUE
CuANor or Drs. * * * * * ' * *,:
*IT WILL nissoLvz AND EXpEL TUstORS FROM TILE.
ITTERuS IN AN EARLY STAGE OF DEvELOpMENT. TITO,
TENDENCY TO CANCEROUS HUMORS TILEREIS ORNOICED
VERY SPEEDILY BY yes rsz, * . •'* * * * *1
* IT REMOVEs FAINTNESS, FLATILLENer, DESTROYS
ALL citAVING FOR STIMULANTS, ANT) ILELIEVESIVEAR,
NESS OF Tile STOstAcII. IT '1..TRE8 BLOATING, ITEAD-.
ACIIIL, NErtvOuc PROSTRATION, GENERAWDEBILITY„
DEPRESSION AND INDIGESTION. * * * ' * *
* TUAT FEELING OF III:AILING DOWN, CArSING• PAIN,
WEIGUT AND BACILAcliE, IS .ALWAYS PERMANENTLY
CULLED BY ITS USE. *, * * 5 *
* * *
* IT wiLL n ALL TINES AND 'UNDER ALL CINCLIN;
STANCES ACT IN HARMONY WITII TILE LAws TRAT
GOVERN TUE FEmALE sysTnu. * *' * * *
:* .earITS PUILPOSE IS SOLELY FOIL TIIELtorITNATLI
IINALING OF 11185 S5 AND TILE RELIEF OF AIN, AND
TELAT IT DOES ALI. re CLAIMS P0110, TROUSANDS ea
LADIES CAN (MADLY TEsTIFY. 'ea * .*• * *
* * Fn THE eons or Kinszy COMPLAINTS IN
EITHER SEX TRIS IiENEDT IS I.TXSIIILPA$SED. * *
* LVCIA E. PINKBAIDS VEGETABLE COXPOUND is
prepared at Lynn, Bass, Price 51. Six bottles fpr $5.
Setel by all aniggists. Sent by znail, postaggpaid, in form
of Pills or Lozenges on receipt of price es above. klza.
Pinkbam's "Guide to Health', will be mailed free tosuy
Lady sending stamp. Lettere confidentially answered. •
' * No family should be witheut LYDIA E. PINKHAIPS
• LIVER PILLS. The5, cure Constipation, )31Eousnessar.d
Torpidity of the Liver. '25 cents per boy. •. fk ,,
beststest of a human' life is the
amount of good it has been and done so
others. Mrs. Lydia E. Pinklia,m .may be
given a SeSt of holier among " those who
have helped to change siokeess into health,
and to traneform the .darkness of suffering
into the sunehine of rest and hope.
---" What nonsense!" exolainaed Bertha.
"The idea of telling Mrs. Brown that yOu
were only 231" But. didn't 1 do right,
dear?"• replied Edith.' " You know mamma
has always taught usnot to exaggerate. It
s be tter to under rather than over -state,
ou know." "
A Startling Discovery.
A startling and important discovery was
made when, after long and patient experi -
menta, the combination of .NERVILINE was
reached. A: grand, victory, indeed, for the
suffering have an ever ready,:prompt, dB,
dent:, and cheap remedy at hand. Do you
know that for 10 cents you can buy, a trial
bottle of Poison's Nerviline and teat its
great power over pain of every .desoription ?
Poison's Nerviline cures chills, pain in the
• stomach, side, and back, rheumatism ;• in
feet all, pain. Sold by druggists , and
country dealere.
A pompons and opinionated man, when
discussing a certain matter with a lady,
exolaime'd—" I know I am right, I madam.
I am perfectly Sure that I am. I will bet
my eare on it, madam 1" "Do you hink
It right to carry betting to such extreine
lengths?" quietly responded the lady. -
is Advice Cheap?
We think net, for it disinterested it has like
every ,good thing been dearly purohaeed.
A fool may offer, but it requires a wise man
to profit by it, and you, my reader, may
offer or accept a' little practical advice.
/Jae or telt your friends to use only
Putnam's Corn Extractor, for thousands
have testified, after a praotioal test, that
it is the only .sure, safe and harmless
remedy for corns in the world. Sold every-
where, by druggist's and dealers in medicine,
all over the country. Beware of aubsti-
utes.
• icebergs in the Gull.
The steamship Lake ,Nepigen, of the
Beaver Line, Just arrived in Montreal,
teports having passed numerous iceberg%
some trona two to three miles long, off Cape
Race ; also, that on the 20th Juno she
paned the derelict barquentine Ethel
Blanche, of Charlottetown. The Nepigon
passed quite close to the wreck and Hounded
her *Made repeatedly, but obtained no
answer, Two aftermasts of the Ethel
Blanche reMain standing.
A company in Conneetiout manufactiirds
nearly all the liquorice used in the United
States -147,000,000 •pOunds a year. Cob-
feetionery and mediomes take about 1,500,-
000 pound% arid the remainder goats into
tobacco.
A large paokage of bank bills le reported
10 have disappeared freira the post -office,
Quebec), while passing between a looal bank
and 0118 of its branches. .
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