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6 DELASIANS OF AUTHORS.
♦Melees. W1 !ch Appear to. Overworked Au-
thogass-11'Qill0a Celsius' "Green �Vomar►.'•
ral`kd interesting paper oa colltewpor-
t pry English novelists, the second of a
series devoted to "London as a Literary
Center," published in FIalper's Magazine,
Mr. Bowker mentions some singular in-
stances of delusive visions that were ap-
parent to overworked authors. These
apparitions were the figments of imagi-
nations that instinctively sought rest in
variety, conjuring up, without traceable
cause or connection, shapes alien to the
theme on which the authors' minds were
bent, but enduring only until rest from
the laborious
pursuit ofthat subjecti
as
sought and fount!,
When Wilkie Collins used to give over
to his toilsome composition and tfle
seven fold revision to which lie faith-
fully adhered, the hours between mid-
night and +dawn, he had an unlovely
familiar --a green woman with "tusk
teeth," who stood at a particular spot on
the stair landing and closed his vigijs„ley.,,.
the ghoulish .salute of'biting his shoulder.
Other uncanny shapes there were—not
of "the witching hour of night when
churchyards yawn,” but coming with
the struggle of _gray ,dawn With fleeing
darkness. But this flesh tasting female
was the one that persisted in her ghostly
warning until her spectral perseverance
.forced the author of "The Woman in
White" to cease turning night into day.
After David Christie Murray had
passed through those experiences as
journalist, pedestrian and war corre-
sPo supplied ndent that u li
ed t h
e scenes and
experience pe ce made vivid in the pages of
"A Life's Atonement," "Joseph's Coat,"
"Val Strange" and "Aunt Rachel, ",there
accompanied -the productio of
"Schwartz, a History," a Kalb rdier,
dressed in red and black and be 'ng an
ax with which he threratened th writer
from behind. • Murray laughs at his
phantom, which in no wise bore relation
to the story he had in hand, n to any
other in his mind, and lake for his
wrath to disappear under the nfluence
of simples for the cure of ead and
stomach. But a wise physicia chided
him. "My friend, that way 1 es mad- -
nese," and sent the author to six onths'
rest in rustic scenes. The ha erdier
vanished, but other visions still came
once in a while at the end of long ks
with7little rest.
It is characteristic of these hallucina •
tions that intrude on the poetry of liter-
ary invention, that they,, rarely, if ever,
result in permanent mental alienation.
They are merciful goblins, kind, gentle
ghosts, who warn the worker of healthy
mind for hisq wt
t
good,that his mental
health may be preserved to him for his
own advantage and the benefit and pleas.
ure of mankind. Wilkie Collins at 0.4
is still a systematic worker, whose crea-
tions charm the reading world. Decades
t
1 aveassed since thewoman green woman last
bit his shoulder; and Murray has writ-
ten many charming tales since he last
felt the presence of eliati grim halb. rdier.
The author's delusions are those of over-
pur•suit of healthy exercise. They are
not like the cruel and unforgiving pun-
ishments that follow excessive physical
dissipation. They are only the provi-
dentiahmonitions that enforce on those
intellects the world can least spare the
old lesson;
Taturam expellas, furca, intrat fenestra.
—New York Star.
He Is/ Ills Own Lawyer.
You ask ins why I always insist on
being my own lawyer, and why I have a
general repugnance for lawyers. It is
just this: The mass of mankind are help-
less when they get miteed up in a law
suit, and the lawyer, knowing this, takes
advanta a ofthe i
circumstances, and ,
a d the
laws, too, are admirably ads ted to aid
the lawyer in preying upo the rest of
mankind. When an estat is to be par-
titioned the law gives the wyer his per-
centage, sometimes a v ry large sum,
depending upon the si of the estate.
When a divorce suit iso be commenced
the husband is always decreed to pay the
lawyer who defends the wife.
if a receiver is appointed, the receiver
must have a lawyer, and the court gives
the lawyer a percentage of the assets.
Thesame rule applies to assignments,asfd�
assignees. If a man is to be deelafed in-
sane, the court appoints a lawyer amicus
curia, and he must be paid out of the
'property of the insane person. Why,
the whole •vocation of a lawyer is to
divide up and appropriate other people's
property,•and they do it with a nonchab
ance that is simply amazing. Well, I
have made up my mind' that while they
may get some of my property after I a n
dead, they never Wil hbet any of it while
1 am alive.—William Zejlpenfeld \in
Globe -Democrat.
•
Injurious to the Eyesight.
Riding upon` the elevated roads is said
to be injurious to the eyesight. 'With
each passing train a quantity of dust and
cinders is blown through the cars when
windows or doors are open. and also a
fair more dangerous form of flying par-
ticles in the shape of minute chips from
therails. i The rhe lr bi
a t of looking
out of
the window, which so many indulge in,
is also deleterious. The objects seen are
con
ear, ear and c so rapidly passed, thatat the
constant change is very trying to the
eyesight. In riding upon the surface
railroads the case is different, as the ob-
jects seen are comparatively distant, and
are, therefore, within range of vision for
n "such longer time.—New York Sun.
Fair Hair Slowly Disappearing.
Statistics would • seem to show that
brunettes are more successful in obtain-
ing husbands in proportion of about three
to two. Poeta have a proverbial prefer-
ence for fair hair: no poem is complete
without a flaxen haired maid: but pro-
saic mortals in search of a wife seem,
upon the whole, to prefer the brown and
,the black. According L, Dr. Beddoe,
the result of this "conjugal selection"
appears to be that in some ptu•ts of Eng-
land fair hair is idowly disappearing,
while dark hair is becoming more ln•eva-
lcnt,—London Hospital,
A Iligh Priced Manuscript.
e 'file mr,st valuable manuscript in this
country, judging from the price paid, is
in the possession of John Jacob Astor, It
is the Sforzn Missal, for which"$15,500
was paid. It is dated in the Fifteenth cen•
tuu•y and comprises 484 pages of vellum
Jews of the World.
Mr. F. D. Mocatta, in his recent inter:
esting lect}u�re on Judaism, estimated the
Wei number of .Jews throughout the
world as between 6,000,000 and 110,000,-
000. In the United Kingdom there are
about 1,00,000, of whop; seven -tenths are
in London, the •£neat part of the re-
mainder being in Manchester, Liverpool,
Leeds and Birmingham 4 Scotland reck-
ons only 1,500, Ireland only 1,000. In
the .ikitish colonies there are°something
less than 20,00. In France there lire
70,000, of whom 40,000 are in Paris.
About 40,000 were transferred upon the
annexation of the provinces to the Ger.
man empire, among whose 50,000,000 of
inhabitants 600,000 belong to this remark-
able race. Jews are found in large num-
bers along the northern coasts of Africa
as well as in Abyssinia. In America
Isere are 500,000, and Jews are dwelling
in Mexico and in almost every state of
South America. There are supposed to
• be from 40,000 to 50,004, in Persia, 10,000
to 15,000 in the Khanates, and a like
=tC,...beriin Vida.' ""'Switzerland, Belgium
and Holland have also considerable
Jewish population.
The influx of. Jews into Palestine from
other parts of the Turkish dominions and
also from Poland;' Russia and Central
Europe, which. has been going on from
the early part of the present century, is a
noteworthy fact. The Turkish govern-
ment is described as showing an entire
toleration, but it is not now favorable to
an immigration into Palestine, a circum-
stance attributed to 'fear of the inroad of
European ideas. The state of the Jews
in the Holy Land is, according to this
authority, not a happy one. There is but
little outlet for their energies. A large
number give themselves entirely up to
Hebrew studies, while the bulk of them
eke out a miserable livelihood by small
industries, apparently aided, but in re-
ality intensified in pauperism by the per-
nicious system of "Halukah" or distribu-
tion of alms sent from various countries, i
which are doled out among the Jewish
population in small sums.—London Daily
News. •
A Flogging Match In Persia.
Among the subjects of the shah blows
,and domineering actions are freely given
and taken without a thought of bad blood
resulting therefrom. I once saw a regu-
lar pitched battle, or, more correctly, a
flogging match, between two gangs of
Persian charvadras on -the road near
Tabregz. It was a curious exhibition of
meekness and ferocity: The fighting, if
it could be called fighting, was done with
sticks. One ratan would hump his shoul-
ders and with a propitiatory grin' retreat,
while his assailant rained a ed u on Trim
p a
torrent of blows and grunts and impre-
cations. The rage of the aggressor be-
coming exhausted, he would ,desist,
winding up with a torrent of abuse.
Finding himself free from blows, the
other party would now bristle up in self
defense and begin to turn the tables on
his late assailant, who, in turn, would
now retreat and grin and hump his back.
There was no striking - back, blow for
blow—mo opposition. It was simply a
flogging match, turn about, in which one
man would have his innings and then
another. .This prt of thing continued
for ten or fifteen minutes, when every -
6 think that enough`blows
body seemed
had benr i'
e e e wed and delivered, and the
party separ ted almost with good humor.
But th' was,an affair between parties
of•"e u social
qrank; the Persian ryot
never trikes back at his social superior,
no tter how trifling the degree of dif-
fer ce may be between thein. The serv-
ts of the great man, too, are almost 'as
sacred from resistance and attack as the•
great man himself. A Persian peasant
-'would never think of striking back at
the Khan's farrash,who lays about hila
vigorously, on occasion, with 'a long
switch, much as though he were chasing
away. cattle. Old and young receive
blows without resentment. — Thomas
Stevens' Letter.
What , 'rimltive Man Ate.
Primitive fitan, wherever he was cast,
whetheryin one center or in more than
one, must of necessity have found his
food in the plant world. We ,cannot
-imagine him commencing his .career
learned in the arts of hunting, killing and
docking the lower anneals, for food.
Many infer frotr> •�"�a"ireurnstance that
the argument in favor of the vegetarian
practice is copied direct from nature,
signed and delivered by her. Not quite
so fast. There is one interposing barrier
to the free acceptance of vegetarian deed
an. act of conveyance of food from nature
to man. Nature herself, of her own
right royal' will, makes for animals,
herbivorous and carnivorous, Bone dis-
tinctive animal food; a secretion'from the
living animal organism, a fluid which is
a standard food—meat and drink in one
—the fluid known under the name of
milk. Against absolute vegetarianism,
then, we may fairly set up one exception
derived from nature as the unerring
guide.
On observing the habits of animals we
discover another natural fact. We find
that animals of quite different .natures,
in respect primitive ct to rim to e
selection of food,
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f
possess thepowerof
changing their
modes of feeding and of passing over, as
This
It were. e e, from one class a s to another. lhs.
9
change is distinct but limited, and we
mist accept it with all its extension on
the one side and with all its limitation
on the other. The fruit eating ape can
be taught under privation 'tel subsist on
animal diet; a dog can, I believe, be
taught to subsist on vegetable diet. But
it would bees impossible to teach a sheep
to eat flesh as it would be to snake' a lion
feed on-grass.—Dr. Richardson in Long -
man's magazine.
Discipline In !while senoras.
There is sense—but not common sense,
only capital good sense—in the complaint
of "A Mother" that the desperate at-
tempt to educate her children on the
part of the public schools is leaving then,
neither well trained intellects nor sound
moral character. They are asked at the
dose of each day if they have whispered,
on,the supposition that it develops honor
to trust to their replies. I'robaldv cue
-child out of fifty tells the truth, ..One
scholar in one of the largest sc•hoIs said
to me, 'I have told a lie every day of the
year.' " Probably the effect of this sort
of discipline is to render a child ulti-
mately indifferent to -the truth. The
problem f the r
o wve^ t:e education grows
.rows
constant.
solution mt
e
!cunt! m red merpeco.--New York Even- be in a lag 1eandtmotethaggressive ome
ing \%(1),l• lite. Globe-Democrnt.
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CONSOMME AND CUSTARD. NEW YORK'S FREE miyaIG, WHO BII E_S HiS TiME,,
A Caterer's chat concerning Hie t ustom-
ers—'iie IHthee Calisd 1''or.
"The ordinary woman must have a di-
gestive apparatus similar to that sup-
posed to be enjoyed by the ostrich," was
the suggestive comment 'made the other
day by the proprietor of a fashionable
restaurant in the shopping district up
town.
He was checking off the day's orders as
the spoke, and a reporter hearing the re-
mark naturally followed it up.
"Why?"•repeated the caterer. "Well,
I'll just show you. All orders here are
written, you know ; consequently the
ladies have put their testimony in black
and white. Here are some of their
lunches: 'Bouillon and pistache ice
cream.' Fancy a man putting that com-
bination in his stomach to nourish him
for-aday's tramp. here's another:
'Strawberry short cake had a oup of
chocolate;' that was the first course, fol-
lowed by .'cream meringue and it lemon •
ice.' I'd like to bet that woman will be
visited by both her ancestral grand-
mothers to -night."
"1 -ore's an order in swell English
handwriting for a goblet of iced milk an&
an extra porterhouse steak. Nothing
else, Enough to kill her? I should say
so, This extraordinary female relished
a chicken sal.t.l and a cup of tea; this
one reveled in fried Little Necks and
pineapple ice cream, and a third went
from shad roe o a c to charlotte russe usse without
stopping at any intermediate stations."
"What's the trouble with the ladies?"
asked the reporter;
"ignorance
or econ-
omy?"
con-orny?"
"Both," was the emphatic reply.
"They come in hero and puzzle over the
carte for fifteen minutes and then order
consomme and frozen custard. Dessert
every woman must have, and the con-
somme, or chop, or bit of fish is a deli-
cate attempt to lead up to the sweets.
They have no • conception of seasonable
food either. They ask for mince pie in
June, and iced tea in December. In
August, when I have exhausted every
resource at hand to reduce the tempera-
ture of the place, they rush in flushed
and gasping, and call for a fan and a
u of hot chocolate. •
cup OC , 0.
"Very few men eat here during the'
day, but when one does accompany a
lady the order shows at once his press
ence. I can tell, too, nine times out of
ten, if the man is a husband or only the
fiance. If. the latter, the young woman
orders in a lavish, generous way that is
most agreeable to my professional taste;
but when mademoiselle becomes madame
she contents herself with a very modest
luncheon. That is the time the husband
is reckless, and spring Iamb,aearly straw-
berries, and other expensive delicacies
just about fill the bill for him.
"As a rule, however, my patrons dur-
ing the day are ladies. I had to get used
to them. It took me some time; but I've
learned the ropes, and I let them'riln the
thing pretty much as they want to now.
From before 12 to 3 o'clock every day
my place is filled With women, and, by
George( they have a good time if I don't.
"They sit forty minutes sometimes
over a twenty-five cent order. They
meet people whom they know and block
the aisles and delay the waiters while
they interchange small talk and gossip.
They stop on the way out to ask me
where I; buy my bread (which is my
specialty, you know)
or if the cook would
P tY,
be willing 'for compensation, of course,'
to disclose the receipt of a delicious souf-
fle they have a o 'est eaten.
"I blandly . reply that every loaf of
bread is made upon the premises, and that
my cook, who, is a chef, creates those
souffles without other receipt than his
own high art, 'No ordinary cook, ma-
dame,' I will conclude sympathetically,
'could produce the same results from the
sane ingredients.' "
"Which ie a lie, of course," put in the
reporter.
"Partially, only partially," said the
restaurateur with a deprecating gesture;
"you know I could not give away my
kitchen secrets, and, besides, that woman
will conte again and again to eat that
souffle and tell her friends about it and
get then, to come, all because of the little
mystery I throw about it. Curious lot,
these women," finished the caterer, gen-
eralizing, broadly.
"Rather a paying lot, too,.1 suggested
Cie reporter, glancing at the prosperous
aspect of the place.
The proprietor .laughed as he leaned
over the desk.
"I have just leased the place for
another ten years," he said, -New York
Tittles.
An Englishman's Tour of the World.
"Among the most singular of charac-
ters that I have ever met," said a young
gentleman who had traveled consider-
ably,"was a young Englishman whom I
ran across in San Diego. I was with. a
friend in that town, who was going down
to Ensenada, lower California, in his
yacht. Peyton is the name of my friend,
and he owns a huge rancho on that pen-
insula. Well, we were going down to
the yacht when �manofwh
uIspeak
came up to Peyton and said: I ani an ,
Eliglisjinan, and I would like to ship
with youseaman.' H19
t as a common of A
c as
language and his address were those of a
gentleman and we both stared at him,
Ii continued, n a'.youcan
COI t IlUed I al 4see,
somewhat above the ranks of men who
follow a seafaring calling. But the truth
df' my story is: I left London a few
months ago, determined to go around the
world on nothing. I have reached San
Diego, and I intend to travel a good
many years without taking a single five
cent piece, but by working my way.'
"My friend took him, At Ensenada
he left us. He refused inoney and
started to walk across the peninsula with
a small supply of bread. We afterward
heard that he had successfully accom-
plished that terrible tramp. Yon know
that country is the most horrible desert.
There is probably not a habitation in the
interior, and yet that man walked clear
across the° peninsula when brave hearth
have quailed at the attempt when they
were 1Post.
c- nx anted. ' San Francisco P 1S
t.
A Milking Contrast:
The number of persons emliloyed in
constructing, cquippirig, and operating
our railways is about two millions.
The combined armies and navies of the
world, whilefooting,will draw
on peace
fano ainful occpations 3,4.5,000 men.
Those create wealth—these destroy it.
—Phomas Curtis Clarke in Scribner's,
Alt Sorts of scopic Supplied with Drugs Who bides his ttme--be tastes the sweet
for All Misner of Complalnts.
There are many, gtedical dispensaries
scattered over the different wards of New
York and Brooklyn, and they vary in
character mainly in the class of people
who patronize them—the very poor, who
for obvious reasons are driven to resort
to them, and the rich or moderately cir-
cumstanced who know little more than
that a dispensary is a place to which peo-
ple resort when they are sick to get free
medical treatment.
The oldest and largest of these free
dispensaries is the New York dispensary
in Center street, which has been in oper-
ation over ninety years, and has treated
over 2,000,000 patients. The old North-
ern dispensary in Christopher street,
founded in 1817, treats about 20,000 pa-
tients annually; the Eastern, in Essex
street, founded in 1832, does equally good
work, while the Demilt; founded in 1851,
the Northwestern, the German, the
Northeastern, and a host or outdoor de-
partments of hospitals, asylums, charita-
ble sooietiea and so on.
The Demilt dispensary is a three story
'brick building. The main reception
room is filled with wooden benches and
divided into seven or eight compartments
at owl side. These and two or three or-
dinary rooms that also open into the main
room, are the offices of the staff of phy-
sicians, each having his special depart-
ment of ailments to attend to. Tho vis-
iting hours are different for different
classes of ailments; children aro treated
at one hour, men at another, women at
another, and so on. Two female doctors
preside evenings to attend to female
patients who have to work during the
daytime. Every sort of ailment except
contagious diseases is freely treated here.
Whatever of misery there is in this
perpetual stream of the sick poor is not
visible in the main room. Dr. Charles
G. Currier, the house physician, says a
great many more women than men.
are treated, and that women seem to be
more frequently ill, or are more prbne to
believe themselves ill, when they are not,
so, than men, who are more practical
and Dome for help only when absolutely
necessary.
The women aro for the most part neatly
dressed and the majority of thele look
well, if not ragged, though now and thou
a cough or other sign will betoken the
fact that they are suffering. As the peo-
ple enter the building they go to the first
of the small rooms, where the house
physician sits, and tell hint \chat the
matter is.
"I
want a tooth pulled, says one.
"1 have• heumatism," says another. •„
Others will have a headache, a backache
orsand
�� sprain, , so on. Very frequently
an inebriated individual will enter.
"I've been on a spree and want to
sober up," a young man will say.
A dose of bromide of potassium and
chloral is given, and he is told to go home
and go to bed and come back in a few
hours. One wouian calls and says she
has a sister with the .`ammonia," and
another has a friend with the "brown
keeters," and in the course of a day
much similar perversion of medical
nomenclature may be heard. The utmost
civility and greatest kindness are always
practiced toward patients at•this dispen-
sary. A great many painters are treated
for lead palsy at dispensaries.
"Tire lead that poisons thein is taken
into the system through the inotith,"
said Dr. Starr. "When they quit work
they fall to eating their luncheon without
washing their hands, and so take in, lit-
tle by little, enough lead to do the mis-
chief. They breathe in the lead also in
warm; close rooms; but it is the stomach,
and not, as might t b siPPo
sed the lungs,
,
that become at first affected. The
electrical treatment applied to the mus-
cles is the most satisfactory, and will
soonest restore the nerves to their normal
condition."
There have • been,recent additions
which make the worfar more efficient
today than it was in the dispensary of a
quarter of a century ago. For instance,
the doctors interest themselves in secur-
ing employment for painters disabled at
their trade so as to make them unable fib
continue' at it ;• then again, there are
trained nurses in constant attendance at
the dispensarieS;•4;46 instruct friends of
patients how to care for thepl at home,
and if cases require it to go to the houses
to nurse the sick themseldes. Bed sheets;
pillow cases, underclothing, skirts,
dresses, etc., are also kept in stock at
some of the dispensaries•for free distribu-
tion -among the worthy poor.
Medical experts in all departments
serve withouta
p y for the e experience and
the honor, and so excellent is the reputa-
tion of some' of the dispensaries that
many members of their medical staffs
have been called to the larger hospitals
and made faculty members of their
boards.
In the annual report of the Demilt dis-
pensary for last year it appears that 27,-
500 people were treater] by that ,institu-
tion for every conceivable variety • of
disease, and mazy more visited at their
homes by its do tors. A doctor will be
sent to visit any sick person of whom
they are notified. Ten cents is charged
for eachrescri tion made p p a up only from
those who acknowledge they are willing
and able toy p a it.' By far the great
majority pay nothing at all. It is an in-
teresting commentary on the general
retail drug store prices that ten cents is
found to be fair compensation for all pre-
scriptions. For every expensive com-
pound on which there is a loss of ten or
fifteen cents there are two or three cheap
ones costing only two or three cents.
It has been .found impossible to dis-
criminate as to the eligibility of indoor
patients for charity treatment. No one
can always determine whether a man or
woman is or is not able to pay for the
medicines used It their behalf. The
outward appearance determines little, as
many, particularly among the women,
wear very fair clothing which has been
given to them. On the • othef• hand a
man may look as shabby as one well
could and yet be the owner of one or
more houses. All realize that it ' im-
possible to determine the worldly con-
dition of patients by their looks, so no
other question is asked than wly'ther the
patient,., to pay ten cents.- New Fork
Press.
Retieence, concentration and vontinn-
Icyaro characteristic ,which cannot in-
fluence one part of n roan's life without
influencing the rest as ,well.
Of honey, In the sanest tear;
And though he fares with slowest feet.
Joy rugs to meet him, drawiognear;
The birds aro heralds of his cause,
And, like a never ending rhyme,
The roadsides bloom in his applause,
Who bides his time.
—James Wtritcomb Riley.
An Improvement in Dentistry. •
A well known dentist has lately re-
ceived a patent upon an electrical appli-
ance that hae certainly solved one of the
many difficulties attending the proper
handling of the human teeth. Hereto,.
fore a whole
gold bold tooth has been made
by the old fashioned swedging process,
at once clumsy and hardly effective.
The gold cones are technically called
galvano plastic tooth crowns, and the
process of making them is very simple.
A soft metallic model of the. tooth is
made, this being done perfectly by first
taking an impression of the tooth. Tho
metallic model is then placed, in eAlyna-
mo electric bath,. and a deposit pf - pure
gold is thus formed 'all over the model.
When this gold has attained a suitable
thickness the soft metal is easily melted
out without injuring the cone, leaving a
perfect smooth gold tooth crown. This
process is far easier than the old wvay,
and has received marked attention from
the sciantilie dental organs itt the east. —
Pittsburg Ilispatch,
i'rol,iglrn•lo Relies in Dakota.
Alis ('apitola McCuna, who teaches
sch<pi l in
a district south of Sanborn, ,' r
horn
and
one of her pupils recently visited an
Indian mound not far from the school.
Out of curiosity they began digging in
the top of the mound, and near the sur-
face came upon an interesting relic of
the mound builders. It is somewhat in
the form of a vase, with a low round top
and narrow neck, and is composed of
baked clay, which from its peculiar color
would indicate that it had been painted.
It has four handles somewhat resem-
bling a reptile of the crocodile order.
The eyes, nose• mouth. tail and ridges on
the back are plainly discernible, but the
reptile represented is not of a kind now
known, It is• finely finished, showing
workmanship of a high order.—Mandan
(L). T.) Letter.
Mule in Making Investments. •
Not ten out of one hundred mining
companies will ever pay back tho money
invested. There is an old adage that one
person can see as far into a rock as an-
other, so I would advise investments on
top of the ground, where they can •be
seen occasionally; they wilt turn out
much more satisfactorily if good judg-
ment is used in snaking them. An old
rule in making investments is as follows:
"Tete time to buy is when things are
cheap; the time to sell is when they are
dear; the time to purchase is when
everybody wants to sell; and the time to
sell is when everybody wants to buy."
If this rule is followed, combined with
good judgment as to the investments
made, it will generally lead to good re-
sults.—Cor, London Economist.
A Good Pencil SharpenereNeeded.
Popular Science News directs the at-
tention of inventors to the demand for a
good form of pencil sharpener. It is a
'great annoyance to constantly stop and
fashion a fresh point, with the accom-
panying search fur a penknife and the
disposal of the dust and shavings. The
sharpener's iu
common
use make a
pencil
point so short and blunt that the sharpen-
ing process must be repeated every few
minutes, What is needed is some crevice
which can be sold at a low price and
which will cut a long, sharp, tapering
point, such as atresent can only be
formed by a penknife in the hands of an
expert sharpener.—Chicago News.
Our hest Native woods.
According to Professor Sargent, the
strongest wood in the United States is
that of the nutmeg hickory of the Ar-
kansas region, and thccweakest the West
Indian birch. The most elastic is the
tamarack, the white or shellbark hickory
standing far below it. The least elastic,
and the lowest in specific gravity; is the
wood of the ficus aurea. The highest
specific gravity, upon which in general
depends value as fuel, is attained by the
bluewood of Texas.—New York Sinn.
Geological Effects of Ice.
The geological effects of ice seem to
have been greatly exaggerated. From
personal study of living glaciers in Nor-
way, and similar experiences by others,
Professor J. W. Spencer declares that the,
potency of rand glaciers to act as great
eroding agents, capable of "planing down
half a continent," or plowing out great
valleys or lake basins, or even of greatly
modifying them, is most strongly nega-
tived.—Boston Budget.
A Great Inventor.
"It's ,just wonderful, Bromley, how
Edison keeps on inventing things,. He
hasn't his equal in the world."
Dar' n s
, Idon't know
aboutt that.
If my boy keeps on he'll beat Edison all
hollows. lie's inventing something every
Ila .
S
"'fou don't say so! Why, what does
• he invent'"
,J
XCUS R. '—
DeUoit Free Press.
An Outing for the Rabies,
"And if I should die, dear," said a
sick husband, "will you sometimes visit
my'grave?"
"Yes, John," she replied brokenly
"every pleasant Sunday afternoon, and I
will take the children. Poor little things,
they don't have very much to enjoy!!'
The Epoch.
Hemp (:roving In Florida.
The variety of hemp knr(w•n as Sisal,
and which makes superior cordage,.
grows spontaneously in Florida, where it
reaches the highest state cf perfection,
1 grows vigorously on poor sandy soil.
Chicago Herald.
Bellitc is the new explosive invented
by Lamm, of Stockholm, which is des-
tined to liniiek dynamite tend melinite
tout r rat irely.
Egypt in natives rate a emir,:, way
of Ina I, ing —with on v by forcing their
tnrLr t t . tat;•Il, y: e.ita;r'rn in,il.ttionq
•
le Co1'
mothers
Castoria is recommended by physici-
ans for children,teething. It is a pure-
ly vegetable preparation, its ingredients
are publishearound each bottle. It is
pleasant to the taste and absolutely
harmless. It relieves constipation, re.
gulates the bowels, quiets pain, cures
diarrhoea and wind colic, allays feverish-
ness, destroys worms, and prevents con-
vulsions, soothes the child and gives it
refreshing and natural sleep. Castoria
is the children's panacea—the mother's
friend. 35 doses, 35 cents. 2:1-12
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria.
Dr.
Washington's
NEXT 1;ISIT
Thrust and Lung• Surgeon,
• OF TORoNTo
Will beat the
Ra11enbury house
TUESDAY
_AUGUST 21,
After arrival of
noon train from
Cb Godsrreh
Until 6 p. ui
Chronic Bronchitis Cured.
An English Church ( lorgyman speaks,
1ieetory, Cornwall, Ont.
DR 1i'AHaINnTOB,—
DEAR SiR —
1 am glad to be able to inform r
u
that
t mydaughter
6 is quite •
,tell a'n't
q again. As this
is the scone' time she hue been cured of grave
bronch'.al troubles under 3on",trea mln, when
the usual remedies failed, I write to express
my gratitude. Please accept my sincere thanks.
Yours truly, C. R PETTIT,
DisetiEH THEATFD.—Catarrh of the Head and
Throat, Catarrh, Deafness, Chronic Bronchitis
Asthma and Consumption Also loss of voice,
sore throat, Cl nrged tQltsils. PoIrpus 01 the
nose removed. Come early. Consultation fres.
A few of the many cured by Dr Washingtons
new method,
H Storey, of Storey & Son, manufacturers,
Acton, Ont, also Presd Manufacturing Ass.; of
Canada. permanently ("red of Catarrh, by Dr
Washington, pronounced incurable by noted
specialists in this euuutry and Europe. Write
him for particulars,
Mrs John SlcKehy, Kingston, Ont, Catarrh
and Consumption.
John Mefielvy, i(inz,ton, Ont, Catarrh,
Mrs A Hopping, Kingston, Ont, Broncho Con
sumption .
Mr D Scott, Kingston, Ont, Catarrh, head and
throat.
51rs John Bertram, Ilarrewstnith, 01.1, Ca-
tarrh, head and throat.
Miss Mary A Bomhourg, Centreville, 0•0,
Catarrh, head and throat,
James Mathews, p Master, Acton Ont.
A E Fish, Gents Furnishings, Belleville, Out
cured of Catarrh, throat,
John Phippin, Sandhurst P 0, Ont, (near Na-
pnnee) of Catarrh head th, oat and lungs.
Head office 215 Yonet Street, Toronto. Con-
sultation tf a Fr.cc•
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1,
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(;ENERAL AGENT.
Isolated town and village property, as orc•11
as farm buildings and stock, insured. Insur-
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killed Ly 1itiltUling, If you want insurance
drop a card to the above address.
•
lI t'LLOY S; FERGUSON.
\Ir. Jrt,iu•, Frrt;nsou hna entered into part-
nership with 1[r. 11, 11ulloy in the Pump
making business. They are both praetieal
and ws 11 experienced then, and are prepared
to do n11 kinds of work in their line, snch as
Pump Making Well Digging
and Sinking'
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JAS. F'1•;ItGt'SO\.
NEW PAINT SHOP.
KAISER .C; WILSON.
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gow's store. Being practical workmen they
believe they can give satisfaction to all who
entrust their work, PAPF;a HANGING, NAL-
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