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The Exeter Times, 1888-4-5, Page 2"Did n't Know 't was Loaded" Men do for a stupid boy's excuse ; but what can be said for the pareat who awn his cane languishing daily an fens to recognize the want of a toeie and alood-pueifier ? Fotmerly, a. course letters, or selparn and anolasses, was tile nule in n'ellwegaluted families ; but now intelligent liousebolde keep Aye's Sarsaparilla, which is at oace pleasant to the taste, and the most seri•rehing aid effective blood medicine ever discovered. Italian S. Cleveland, 27 E. Canton ste Boston, writes : My daughter, now 21. years old, was in portent health until a year ago viten she began to complain of latinuen headache, debility,' dieziness, itangestion, and. loss of appetite. I con - eluded that all her complaints originated in impure blood, aed induced leer to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. This medicine soon restored ter blood -making organs to heathy action, and in due time recistab,. Milted hetformer health. I find Ayer's Sarsaparilla a epost valuable eemedy for the lassitude "End debility incident to spring time." 3. Castrighlt Brooklyn Pewee Co, lieoeklyn, In, 'Y., says: "As a Spring Xedicine, I And a splendid substitute lox the old-time compounds in Ayer's .latsaparilla, with a few doses of Ayer's PIllea After their use, I feel fresher and stronger to go threeigh the summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer a Co., Lowell, Mass. Mee at; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. THE EXETE Is miblieued every Thursday m orniug,a t Oho TIMES STEAM PRINTING HOUSE I:nein-Antoarty o poeite Witton's newelery Stoee,lixetor,i)nt.,by .1ohu.White 3 llon, Pro- prietors. nAra's or AVVEUTIS17,.7G : First ins ortion, per line .. .10 cents. al, eh sub segue t usertinn c ants . To insure insertion, ativertieenseutt should be seut te uoilatertban Wednesday morning OurJ011 PRINTING D A RTMENT is oue the largest a ad best aqui ppect in the County f Huron, All work entrasted to us will rea eiv ur prompt attention. ineelsione Regarding. Neene- papenet Any person who takes a paperregularlyfrom e po st-o face, 'whether directedin his name or another's. or Whether helium subscribed or not ta responsible for payment. 2 If aperson orders his paper 1 iscontiuried, be mustpay all atrears or the publisher may continue to send it until the payment is made, and. thencollect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from tue offioe or not. 3 In suits for subscriptions, the suit may be instetutedin the place where the paper is pnb • liaised, although the subscriber may re side hundreds of miles away, 4 The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers orpesiodicalafrom the post - office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima, facie evidence of intention al fraud Exeter _Butcher Shop R. DAVIS, Butcher 8g, General Dealer ALL EIRDS "VI E A HOITSEHOLD. Abats by the Way. I bate) tuet fistiehed ray kitchen work and now the afternoon is before me. n can irn agMe that there awe many women yet sour- ing, baking sweeping and doing various other duties pertaining to household work, hoping sometime, between woe and night, to resell the encl. Now I an not minter with my work than many others, nor am I an exception to all Women he this, but I, have tone it a rule, and try to abide by it, never to let the afternoon, find me at work ta the kilclon. Did t say never? Well, now and then there may be an exception of this kind ; suppose I were going to have company to tea, I would with to have my potatoes peeled and covered 'With cold watert the fruit prepared and in its diets, the jelly or preserves opened and the table set it readiness as nearly as poseible, and thus evcid confusion and rush after the company arrives. Then, too there may be other circumstances, once in e while, to came me to break through the rule, but epeaxing of the ordinary every -day work to be done, I strictly adhere to my rule. I think I hear some deter say, " Well, she is not a nice housekeeper is she eau al - wept get throughther work by noon." A model housekeeper I do not claim to be, but I keep my floore swept tolerably clean, things dilated after sweeping, have plenty to eat and wear, and what we wear is as clean as tbe average person wears, I do itay own work and find time to read, write and do a reasonable amount of calling on tny friends, • How do I do it? How does the architect put together the material that when comple- ted makes a perfeot and beautiful structure Not by ptcking up here and there an odd piece of umber without any forethought or preparation, bub by having previonely ar- ranged the kinds, order and the places to be occupied; he goes to work on a system which wee planned before the work began. So each day must have a system to be followed. out, each duty must have a time of its own and the order in which eaoh duty • is done must have been planned so as to re- sult in the best use of time. For instance, when the seonge tees attention in the morning it is not in the best order of things to put it aside to pick the peas or peel the potatoes for dinner, as the breed is delayed I thus far and perhaps will require being baked in the afternoon, when if attended to at the proper time it would have been out of the way by dinner. This is an example given on first thought and only one of many I e hich hinders the progress of our work to advantage. IOur little ones soon learn lessons Of order and it is surprising sometimes how their little facea brighten to know they are help- ing mamma. Little Tommie, thought not four years old, when done eating pushes his chair back from the table to its accustomed place. He was told "it helped mamma" to thie and he loves to do it. BUICQE. Cooking Recipes. CRUMBED linamome.— Remove skin and bones from cold boiled haddock and boil with a email half onion ; pick the fish into flakes and mix with each pint of fish one- half teaspoon of salt, pepper to taste and a cup cf dry bread. crumbs; fill a buttered dish half full, add a half cup of drawn but- ter, then the rest of the fish; sprinkle crumbs ovee the top, moisten with the• water in which the bones were boiledandbake twenty minutes. BROILED BEEPSTEAR. —Lay a thick, tender steak upon a gridiron, well greased with butter or met, over hot coals. When done Son one side have ready a warmed platter with a little butter on it; lay the steak without pressing it, cooked side down, so that the juices which have ge.thered may Cu stoma r s supplied TUESDAYS , THURS- DAYS nen SATTIBDATS at their residenoe ORDERS LEFT AT THE SHOP WILL RE CHIVE PROMPT A.TTENTION. PENNYROYAL WAPERS. Preectiption of a physician who has had a Fife long ex-Peen:lee In treating female diseases. Is used monthly with perfect success by over 10,000 ladies. Pleasant, safe, effectual. LadieS ask your drug- gist for Pennyroyal Wafers and take no substitute, or inclose post- age for sealed particulare. Sold by au.druggists, $1 per box. Address TSB BURMA :MMICIAD CO., Dentorr, MVO VI' Sold in Exeter by J. W. 33rowning, O. Lutz, and all druggists. run on the platter; then quickly place it upon the gridiron again and cook the other side. When done place upon the platter again, spread lightly with butter, eoason with salt and pepper, and keep warm for a few moments over steam, but not long enough for the butter to become oily. Crileitere 'Pusan—Pick into small bits, cold boiled or roasted chicken; season with salt and pepper. Boil the bone and skin in enough water to cover strain and return to the fire. When le boils, stir in each cup- ful of the stock a small teaspoon of flour rubbed in one teeepoon of butter; season and serve hot. I CODFISH BALLS.—Soak codfish, cut in l small pieces, about an hour in lukewarm water; remove the :Alin and bones; pick up very fine; put in cold water and place on A. GI free a r oyel, valuable Sandie cents postage the stove; when it boils, change the water end we will send sou sample box of goon potatoes, mash and season with butter. and let boil again. Have ready some boiled that will po t you in the way of making tratirt While both are ho, put half the codfish with money at once. than onythitiente in America. the potatoes; mix in a well beaten egg and Botlesexes °fen ones caa live at horns and mold into round balls or thickcakes ; then work in sparetimo, or all the time. Ciiplid.1 fry thennin hot lard or drippings. notreguiend. We wilt start you. Immense pay wag e for Unite who start at once. STINSON & 00 .Portland Maine Linapproached for 'ea Tone and Quality CATALOGUES FREE,' BELL & COGuelph, Out, g 3 O. & S. GIDLEY, UNDERTAKERS Furniture Manufac111011 —A. FuLt STOOK OF— Furniture, Coffins, Caskets And everything in the above lino, id Meet inanieniate wants.. 'Vire Iaavo one of the -very best Hearses in.the County, Arid Vutierels fereiehed and cendueten extreetely tote virile, Eneeene tie eat Wen DirlfSulftrt Socinrft Urn &4w.—Shave one-half head of cab- bage as fine as possible ; put it into a stew pan with a piece of butter the size of an egg; salt and .pepper no taste, Add one- half teacup of hot water and one teacup of vinegar; cook till tender, stirring it often. CELERY SALAD.—Wash and scrape two bunches of celery, lay in ice cold water for two hours, cut inn: moh lengths and pour over a dressing made of one tablespoon of salad oil, four tablespoons of vinegar and a half teaspoonful each of salt and pepper. Omer &Atm—Peel five white onions anti boil till tender, mince and add one-half pint of hot milk, one-half cup of butter, pepper and salt to taste. APPLE MERINGUE. —Slice and sweeten apple sauce, beet in the yolks of three eggs, pour into a pudding dish and bake quicirly. When crusted over cover with meringue made by whipping the whites of the eggs and sugar to sweeten; brown in the MIL TEA CAICE.—Three-quarters of a cup of sugar, eight eggs, one and one-half pints of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, three cups of raisins stoned. Rub butter and sugar to a cream; add eggs, two et a time ; add other ingredients; mix to a smooth batter and bake in a buttered shal- low calm pen. Sundry Pointers,. Dear eerie I want to tell you of Bente things I have and name of my ways of do, inn The back of the head of my bedstead can't be seen. I have it a few inches from the wall and take pieces of board or any. thing you can drive a dozen or sto naile in part way. Mine has two holes bored in at tho wide to put ribbons in ; cord of any kind will do, so the board oat be tied to the head -board. On these nails I hang a match ride, a vetch is. pocket for clothe or handkerobiefe, a pinnushion'and if you dozen nein: you willfind some use for thein. One dove will want two roorne if sot at or neer the door. We have one in a large room, and by opening the bedroom doer it is more comfortable to go to bed. Take paste -board A loot or SO in length eta half ei foot wide ; fold it in Vnhape and have the opening in front. Lace or aew up +he opening, • ,gung by a cord, either on the outer corners or cuter of back, makes a good receptacle for odde and ends. Sorap pictures are beautiful, used in vari- ours ways, and lot me ad here that our ed - item have the very nicest scrap pictures to 8011 that I have ever seen. Take good flour Nerste anti be euro the pieture is thoroughly amponed with the paste. TURT WELOOIAR A WRITE MAN AT LAST, A Fierce Island Tribe 'I bat Ens litepelled the Wbttes for Centuries. MADRID, Marini 20.—Lieut, Ints Sonia has returned to Spain, after his explorations in the island of Fernando Po. It is not a little remarkable then the interior of this island, which is only about thirty-five miles long arid, twenty-two miles broad, lying only twenty mike from the west coast of Africa, in the Bight of Biafra, is to this day almost wholly unknown. The reason is that the Debi tribe, inhabiting the interior and the south coast, are among the most unfriendly savages that the withers m er encountered, Though Spain now uses the island as a pen- al colony, the whites do not pretend to have any control over the interior, and they ven- ture only a few miles from their two settle- tnents. In he early days of the white occu- pancy the Bebi on one occasion, freed their ieland of the enemy by poisoning the creeks. M. Regius, in the latest volume of his "Universal Geographynt says that the Bubi live in caves awl in impenetrable intonate; that they are ready always to desperately defend themselves with lances and arrows, and that their remarkably savage dogs have also been effective in keeping the winters at a distance. No adequate attempt to avant - gate them has ever been made, and they have maintained their independence within eight of the hundreds of ocean steamers that ply up and down the coast. By the exercise of long patience and tact Lieut. Sorela succeeded in winning the friendship of this tribe, and he lived among them for some time. He says the chief rea- son of their hostility to the whites is the superstitious belief which they have held for ages that their ruler will inevitably die if he is ever beheld by a white man. It was necessary for Lieut. &mete to convince the natives thet this tradition was erroneous before he was permitted to see King Batuco Woks. Success crowned hie efforts at last, and he had several interviews with the King, and did his beat to impress the savage ruler with the idea that it would be to his advan- tage to enter into friendly relations with the Spaniards. He found that the King had very extraordinary tenons about white peo ple, and the Lieutenant thinks he suoceeded in dissipating moat tif the errors which the King had cherished respecting the Spaniards and their country. In spite of his ignorance, Bloke, is pita a superior tiore of savage, and has made some important iraprovements in the condition of his people. The natives of -the coast have been (Inscribed as inferior in all respects to the tribes on the neinhhoring mainland; but the Bubi of the interior, Sorela seats, are active, athletic and iutella nett, and better fitted to receive eivilizetion than any other tribe he has met. It has been supposed that the interior of the island was covered with immense forests, but Sorela says that the heavy forests and exuberant vegetation of all sorts disappear at an altitude of 4,000 feet, and that this lofty interior consists of large plains dotted 'here and there with small groves, inaccessi- ble to the fevers of the coast, and splendiii, ly adapted to European occupancy. CHINESE JOU.RffALIBM.- The Celestial Editor's Way of Dooming Up a Circulation. • For "ways that are dark" commend me to the average Chinese newspaper. The editors and staff of these sheets wield teach tho 'cutest Yankee newspaper man a trick for every day in the year. The Celestial journalist is as outspoken as his British fellow, and even more so. The freedom of the press, which is curtailed and terribly trammeled in Japan by the Government, notwithstanding which there is much more honesty in the papers ta the latter country than in China, ie so fatly recognized in the Middle Kingdom hat it becomes a license, and a means very often for extortion. A revenue is often derived, not from the inser- tion of "puffs" and advertisements in Chinese sheets, but from keeping personal attacks and impeachments out of print. There is hardly a Chinese paper panted which is not full of gross libels on someone every other day. Here is a neat little trick illustrative of the means sometimes successfully adopted by the ingenious Celestial. A short time ago one of the Shanghai native papers ap. peered with a grossly worded libel in its advertisement columne on Mr. Blank. So far, there was nothing that anyone could be aggrieved at in Oak. Next day the other paper appeared with another advertisement referring to that in the former sheet, and containing a violent attack upon the rascal who had the villainy to commit such a gross outrage upon so good a man as Mr. Sceand- So, whose virtues, real and imaginary, were enumerated at length, thus connecting the blank advertisement with the name of the victim so vilified. There was, of course, no redress for this double•barreled libel, for the first advertisement could not be held to refer to tho victim, and that in the other could not be considered an attack upon him in any way, but rather a vindication of his character,. "OW Dissemination of Poison by Water. When a mass of organic matter charged with zymotic particleit is mixed with water and washed out of a house, the water will carry the poison with it wherever it May chance to flow or trickle —to watercourse, or any other source of drinking-water—it act, the dissemination is asperfectly and thor- oughly done as if dissemination of poison was the main objeotiuview. When dealing with organic matter impregnated with zymotio poi:sots, mere dilution With water Moretti:eft rather than diminishes the danger. As long as the poisonous organic refuse is concen- tratedt its repellent qualities are such that there is little chance of its gaining access to the human body. The microbecot- Mined in it are theoretically capable of in. footing an almost infinite quantity of water, and thi$ large ementity of water nutrias the repellent qualifiers of the stuff, and thus the danger of infection is greatly increated. • The dissemination of poison by water is one • of which the people cf the old catintry have had very bitter experience. There is great room for doubt water has been the little carrier and disseminator of the poison _of cluelent. The other day the bookkeeper of the Jack. smit Iron Company at Escanana, Wis., drew $15,000 to pay off the hands. As he started frorn the bank hie homers took fright told ran away, anti $13,000 in goki *as scattered through the streets, All Mit 0,000 of in was recovered, THE SMALLEST PEOPLE' OF TUB WORLD, , A Baer of Dien Ender Four Feet litgls—The Abbas, the World's Du aril,. At the last meeting of the Anthropologi- cal Inetitute, Prof. Flower, C. B,, Director of the Natural inietory Museum, gave a des. oription of the two skeletoes of Akkas, late- ly obtained in the Moubuttu country-, Cen- • tral Africa, by Eoxin Pasha. Since this diminutive tribe was diseovered by Schweie- • furth in 1870, they have received consider- able attention from various travellers and • anthropologists, and general descriptions and movements of several living indivicluale have been published, but no account of their osteological characters has been given, and no specimens have been submitted to °anoint anatomical examination. The two 'skeletons are those of two fully grownup people, a male and a female. The evidenoe they afford entirely corroborates the view previously derived from external measurements that the Akkas are an-fong • the smallest, if not actually the smallest people upon the earth. These skeletons are both of them smaller than any. other normal skeleton known, smaller oertamly than the smallest Bushman's skeleton in any museum in this country, and smaller thanany out of the twenty-nine skeletons of the diminutive inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, of which the dimensions have been recorded by Prof Inower in a previous communication to the Anthropological Institute. The height of neither of them exceeds 1219 metres, or 4 teen while a living female Akita, of whom Emit Pasha has sent care- ful ineasureinentst is only 1.164 metres, or barely 3 feet 10 inches. The results pre- viously obtained from the meesurements of about half a dozen living Akkas are not quite so low as these, varying from 1 216 to 1.420 metres, and give an average for both sexes of 1,356, or 4 feet 5n inches. But the numbers measured are not sufficient for es- tablishiug the true average of the race, es- peoielly as it is not certain that they were all pure bred examples. According to Topinard's list, there are only two known rages ;which have a mean height below 1,500 metres, viz., the Negritor of the Andaman Islands (1,47$), and the Bush men of South •Ahica (1.4(4) Of the real height of the former we have abundart and exact evidence, both from living indi- viduals and from skeletons, which clearly proves that they considerably exceed the Akkas in stature. That this is also the case with the Bushmen there is little doubt. The point of comparative size being settled it remains to consider to what races the Akkas are most nearlyallied. i That they belong n all their essential characteristics to the black or Negroid branch of the human species there can be no doubt—in face they exhibit all the essential characteristics of that branch even to exag- geration. The form of the head is somewhat more rounded than usual but it has been shown that in Equatorial Africa, extending from the west coast far into the interior, ear scattered lines of negroes distinguished from the majority of the inhabitants of the conti- nent by this special cranial oharaoter emelt as by their smaller stature, to which the name "Negrillo" has been appliedeby Homy. It is to this race of the great Negroid branoh that the Akkas belong, and they are not by any meats closely allied, either to the Bush- men or the Negritor of the Indian Ocean, except in so far as they are members of the same great branch, distin.guished among the general character by them closely curled Or frizzy hair. It is possible that the Negrillo people gave origin to the stories of pygmies so common in the writings of the Greek poets and historians, and whose habitations were often placed near the sources of the Nile. The name Akka, by which Schwein- furth Bays the tribe now cell themselves, has singularly enough been read by Marietta Pasha by the ride of the portrait of a dwarf in a monument of the ancient Egyptian empire, Some Biblical Data. Verses in the Old Testament, 23,241. • Verses in the New Testament, 7,959. The books of the Old Testament, 39. The books of the New Testitment, 27. Words in the Old Testament, 592,430, Letters in the New Testament, 838,820. Words in the New Testament, 18L,253. Chapters in the Old Testament, 929. Letters in the Old Testament, 2,728,100. Chapters in the New Testament, 260. The word "Jehovah" occurs 6,865 times. The middle bookof the Old Testament is Proverbs. The middle chapter of the Old Testament is Job mutt. The middle verse of the New Testament ist Acts exit:, 17. - The shortest verse in the New Testament is joist, xi, 35. The lon.gest verse in the Old Testament is Esther, vita, 9, The middle boa of the New Testament is Second Theesalonians. The middle cha.pter and shortest in the Bible is Psalm exam Preferred the Cash. The late John B. Gough used to love to tell this story. He had an engagement to lecture at a suburban town in Illinois, and asked a darkey cabman, who drove him from Chicago in his back to the place where he was to lecture, wbat his ohattges were. "Well son," said he, "11 you'd jes' gib me a ticket to de leetura eel, I would be very glad." Flattered by 'such a request from such a source, Mr. Gough not only gave the cabman a ticket, but added another for his lady friend. He aid not see his colored friend among his audience, however'that evening. Getting into the same cab the nexe evening he said to the driver: "flow was it I did not see you at the lec- ture last evening ?'"‘ Well, seta" he answer- ed, "1 were not dar ; you Meseta Ijes' sold dem tickets for one dollar, sah, cause I didn't know tnuoh 'bout lectures , ures nowhow, and taught I'd rather hen de cash, sah." Sumter and Sumner, About the time of the firing on Sumter. a South Carolitiat naval officer, who had a warm friendship for Stunner and great confi- dence in hie judgment, carnet to him one day in visible etaberramment. "What WWI I do," he aeked, "if my ship is ordered to the notth to coerce my own people?" "Read your earimistion'sir," was the reply. ' But simpers° my ship 18 ordered to Chatleston ? " "Read your commission, sir." "Bub, Sena- tor, what if I am ordered to fire upon the city of my birth ?" Rend your eOhntilealois, sir," This officer, still living, remained true to his flag, and fortunately, his loyalty .was never put to the terrible tests which, he feared. Some of Stemner's sayings teed to be quoted as good things, The Gerioa, Neve Courier toile of a tough young squaw who walked, through the eli- tes° barefooted the other day when the thermometer was 80 below zero. She turn. ed up her toes a little to keep them out ef the seciW, lett Otherwise Via no attention to the old. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Women desiring to enter the London So- oiety of Lady Dreternaken have to furnish testimonialof their social position" as well es of character, A citizen of 'Newcastle, Pa., dreamed then he was fighting with a neighbor and kicked him violently. The next instant he awoke with a howl, for he had splintered the foot board aud broken his big toe. George Barris and his wife, of Amadeus: Ga., who were married forty years ago, agreed four years age than they would be happier to 'Riposte. There had been no breach of any hind between them, but they lied got tired of ench other. They dld sepa- rate, and the other day Mr. Harris, who is 70 years old, obtained a diVOreet 4114 the same day went to Macon and married a lady of thet atty. Thomas Nast told a San Francisco report- er that when he was in Bismarokt Dakota, it was so cold that he could not give his il- lustrated lecture, for the paints froze stiff, and the spectators were in a fair way to do the same. In Tacoma the manager of the Alpha Hall wouldn't permit Mr. Nast to lecture because there was an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company in town, and the manager didn't think two performanoes at a tune were just the thing. One night reoently, after a Buffalo man had Ming up his watch on its customary nail, hie wife set a pan of dough on a cheer Linden it, In the morning the watoh could not be found: It had disappeared from the nail. The dough was moulded into loaves, which were put into the oven and baked, and when one of them was out the watch was found inside. It had dropped into the dough and, been baked in the bread. A citizen of San nernaromo, Cal., has suoceeded in making a living off one acre of land. .Around the acre is a row of fruit trees from which he has realized $400 for a season's fruit. He put a quarter of an acre in strawberries and sold $200 worth. From the rest of the acre he took three different crops of vegetables and was to successful with them thattie sold $1,000 worth, besides keeping a cow, a pig, and fowls. Ayoung woman of Louisville, Ky., while singing before a large company the other evening, became conscious of a shrill, harsh, metallic' sound, like that made by the loose string of a piano. She stopped in the middle of her song, unable to endure the eiscordant sound. The piano seemed to be all right, and no one had heard the unusual noise. She began again, and again heard the sound, end hail to give up her attempt. She afterward discovered the source of the noise. It was a breastpin which she wore dose to her throat and which, the setting being loose vibrated at certain tones of the piano, and of course the sound was heard plainly by the singer, though by no one else. The Baptists 'in England and elsewhere are greatly excited over the withdrawal of Mr. Spurgeon from the Baptist -Union. In the course of the controversy at present raging over the matter, many very plain and some very hard things hame been said. Mr. Spurgeon insists that a great many of the Baptists ministers are unsound in the faith and are preaching a gospel whioh is no gospel at all. In reply to this, particulars are asked for. It is sai4i to be very unfair to bring general sweeping acclamations against eo large a body of men as the Baptist min- istry without mentioning ' any names or specifying any charges. This seems to be but fear; but.when Ministers take to quarel- ling, they become somewhat unreasonable. The inhabitants of Albany.. Ga., are con. siderably worried over a curious insect that has taken possessionof the cemeteryin great numbers, and which, if the description is accurate, is calculated to cause nervousness. This is the description: "It is a most diabolical -looking inmate aud • appears to be a cross between a grasshopper cricket, a wild Indian. and an imp of dark - nese. When a funeral occurs these insects, hundreds of them, assemble around the grave, climb up the tall gram and other fon- age„ and look up into the faces of the as- sembled mournere with a leer that is hor- rible. They are a kind of wingless grass- hopper of large size, and the devilish -looking faces are streaked with red and yellow. There is a sharp -pointed hump upon their backs. They are very deetruotive to vege- tation. Prince Oscar of Sweden has had his wish. He has secured a wife whom he loves by sacrificing all the olaims which he might have in the way of succession to the Swedish throne. And every sensible person will soy that he has done well. In these days thrones and crowns are somewhat at a discount and peace, quiet and competency with the wife of one's choice, count for a good deal against such showy and somewhat unsatisfactory ex- pectations. Bub what it senseless, upstart, shoddy mw! There is mute romantic story of the same kind in connection with the late Emperor of Germany. Ile however, chose differently. His lady:love went into a mi- ne* exit he in due time married a woman whom he did not love and with whom his re- lations were always, in diplomatic language, sotnewbat strained. Everyone to his taste. Perhaps in after days Oscar may regret the sacrifice he has made, though it is to be hop- ed that he won't. But whether or not is his own lookout and that none. The Evansville Journal of Indiana is re - insensible for a remarkable yarn of a remark- able experience of the mew and passengers of the steamer City of Owensboro, on the Ohio River, near Mo.uckport. It was a bright, clear day, but in the northeast and south 'big bleak clouds kegan to gather. "As they came neater," flays the Journal, "thunder rolled and lenthed forth piercing shrieks, while the lightning was vivid and out through the clouds With appalling fright The &ouch were all rolling with rapidity to- wards one another. The sun was ehining down brightly) but the opening gradually teaselled, and in another instant the rays were obscured. The voluminous clouds came together with terrific forme and a deafening roar drowned the earth and shook it as a sant& shook would. The boat plunged about on the highntinning waves; chairs were thrown over and passengers hurled about the deck. Almost iestantane- acts with the crash cf the clouds aud while the lightning was vividly flashing, an tin- metise object was seen shooting eastward. It appeared to be about ten fecit in length and four in diameter, From all eides of it burst fotth a brilliant light, which, silhotten tea a,gainet an inky heaeen, presented a grand and marvellou sight. It was Inn it gigantic sky rocket, though its luminous power was a thousand times greater. It struck the water nearly thirty feet in front of the steamer and in mid -river. The water clued over it, but a heavy smoke remained above. The clouds dropped back, grew thinner, and in another minute the sun broke feed), shedding it resplendett toys broadcast. The Captairt and passengers wore dumbfounded, and finelly, when they had ten:enrol', their faces were aishet whitey their knees trembled) tied it was with aim. culty that they co-ald maintain a standing position." What a Time People formerly bad, trying to sivallOw the old-fashioned pill with its film of mageesia vainly disguising ite bitter- 11CSS ; and what a etmtrast to Ayer'e Pills, that have been well callea "med- icated sugar-plunis"— the only feat- be- ing that patients may be tempted into taking too many at a dose. But the directions are plain mai should ba strictly followed. T. Teller, D„ of Clattenaugo, N. 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As an example of cold•blooded vil- lainy we give a few of the remarks made by Maatet 13ertle during the progress of the meal: "Ma," he asked first, " whose spoons are the"I1" Iush, deer," said Mrs. Sharnm, He hushed for a second, then: "Ma, whose big glass dish is that In "Little boys should he seen and not heard," mid 3/1re. Shamm with a sickly smile that did not conceal from the guests the fact that there was a fearful reckoning in store forBartie on their departure. "Say, me," he put in, interrupting old 'Mrs. 1V1maeywcighn who was the special guest of the occasion, "that ain't our silver cake basket, is it ?" " Bertie, didn't you hear Mrs. Money- weigbt speaking ?" chides his distressed parent. '" Well, I'll be quid if you'll tell me whose pretty glasses these aro. They're Mrs. Batt - tette ain't they?" • "Berrie 1" "Oh, ma, I forgot to tell you that Min. Hooker wants you to be sure and Betel back - her teaspoons tonight, anti—oh, 4, did you know that Sally brake one or Mrs. Walker's nice teacups and—oh, what a pretty plate this is 1 'Who does it belong t°Tri iie doors had hardly closed on the hist guest when the neighbors were apprised by a sound whose import could not be mittaken that time of reckoning had come. Ought to Rdorm the Speller. "1 notice," said one Democratic Con- greserramt to another, "that Delegate Veen hees, of Washington territory, has intro. duced a bill for spelling reform. "Howl" Inked the other, "Well, he wants various changes made, no that spelling will be easier." "I'm hang glad of that. How' he going to do it'i" "1 don't know exactly, but he's got some plan. For instance, howill spell ache, eelnen The other member looked puzzled. t " Well," he said, slowly end reflectively -- after a minute's thought, I don't see whore thein's reach Morin there. That's the wey we alweye epell in ain't it ?' 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