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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-6-15, Page 2TB tXBTER TIMES DICKSON at. CARLING, Barristers, Solicitors. Notaries, Conveyancers, CoMmissionera, EGO. XOney to Loan ti -t 41- per cent. and 5 per cent. OFFICE r--VANSON'S BLOCK, EXETER. CARLING, 4. A. L. IL Inauscal. member a the firm will be at liensaLl ou Thursday qt (Melt, Week, R IL OOLLINS, lionister,Solicitor, Cooveyamer, Etc, /LIME% ONT. • OFFIOE : Over O'Neirs Bank, ELLIOT& GLAI5MAN, le:rristers, Solicitors, Notaries Ptialic, Conveyancers &o, &o. ormouey to Loan. OFFICE, - MAIN STREET, EXE'rEki. II. v. kiniaer. F. W. GLAIMAN, we....seressessessessaw•me MEDICAL fle R. j. H. RIVERS, M. R. TORONTO UNI j1.1! TERSITY, M. D. C. M. Tandy Univer Mfr., ftIce-Orediton, Ont.. 1') rt s. 11.0141ANS & AMOS. -.Setiarate Offices, Residenee same as fortner. 1Y , Andrew st, ()flices: Spaeittnan's ibuilding dsin sti Dr Rollins' same es formerly, nortii tor. Dr. Anitar'suarie building, south door, LA. ROLLINS. IL D., T. A. 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Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles Mel. dent to a bilious state of the system, such as Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after eating, Pain in the Side, Am While their most remarkalole success has been shown In curing S Headache, yet CARTER'S LITTLE Lreett Pitts are equally valuable in Constipation, curing and preventing this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders of the stomach, estimulette the liver and regulate the bowels. Even If they only cured HE Ache they Would be almost prbieless to those who suffer from tide distressing cornplalnt; but fortunately their goodness does not end ' here, and those who once try them will find these little pills valuable in so many ways that they will not be 'willing to do 'without them But after all sick head the bete of se Many liven that here let where e make our great boast. Our pills cure it while other; do net. 01=1E03 Lirrts Lime Puts are very enual and very erlaY to take. One or two pilkr Make a dole. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action tleaSe who lise them. In viala at 25 °elate/ five for 11, Sold /everywhere, or trent by mail. 0A/H1)111 00., NeW Yak, i IMOLl1.4 iI1DORI 1:4111 16001 tiONSWIMANeWiefelefeetfifileerMWele~aie, HOUSEHOLD. affilVilAWAMAVAWAWAYAVA SHADE FOR SWEET PEAS. It is DOW two years SIAM I began experimenting with sweet peas, and met with unusually good success, writes L. ,A. Whitney. At the outset I chose two sites with a view of aseer- tainitig which was the better. One had a. southern exposure, the lines extending east and west, entirely Iwo- tected on. north side, while upon tne other the lines were lanted to extend north. and south, fronting the east and Protected on the' west and north. The seeds were put in about the first week of April. Those, plante(1 en the south side came ttp first and the vines grew tall and beautiful, while the others were cemparatively slew in sleowing themselves above grou.o.d. For the south Sidvines I had pro- vided wire netting and for those on the east side usedordinary twine feet- ened to stakes set about three feet apart. I soon found, the netting, al- though by far the more convenient by no ni.eana a good arrangement for the vines, for the wire, acting as a conduotor of heat, withered tied dried them so that by noon the stems hung limp and flabby, while the flowers had Lost their brilliancy of color. 1 began to notice this almost as soon as blos- souls appeared, and then watched to see if the same thing occurred with my east side vines. I founcl it did not, and. aLso that the stems upon these grew ro.uch longer before the buds op- ened thaxi upon the others. 013y the end. of July my south side vines were gradually dying from the bottom up- ward, and practically done blossoming. I. °cushier this due prineipally to the location, for at no time during the day were they in shade, and I have found afternoon shade indispensable to the healthy growth of sweet peas. The netting simply aided the drying-np process and should be considered ob- jectionable, no matter what the loca- tion, because of furnishing undue heat to the vines. My east side peas proved a complete auccess. They grew higher and green- er ea.ck day and the stakes, which at first had been set leaving about six feet above grou.nd., had to be pieced out and extended to eight feet. Some of the vines outran even this height and came near putting Mother Goose to shame by rivaling jack's beanstalk. The stems were long and strong and the flowers, many of them, were as large as are represented. by the p10- turesin the seed growers' catalogues which I had previously thought great- ly exaggerated. These vines blos- sonted until the middle of October, by being protected. from frosts, and were still green and flourishing when pull- ed up in order to prepare the ground for another season. The following year I planted only upon the eastern site, lines extending north and south, entirely protecad son the west, using no wire for the run- ners, and the results were equally good.. I should therefore say froui my own experience that, other well known favorable conditions as to soil and moisture being present, this location is of primary importance in the success- ful cultivation of sweet peas. PROBLEMS FOB. MOTHERS. "How can I possibly keep my child simple and unwordly, and at the same time give her the necessary stimulus which she undoubtedly needs in her lessons, by putting her either in. a school or a class with the children of my friends?" aeked a perplexed moth- er the other day. "To my surprise and, I must say also, to my consterna- tion, she returned home the other day quite pettish. 'Manama,' she said, 'where do you get my jackets?" "'Why, sometimes from. one place and. sometimes from another, Mollie,' I answered, rather surprised at such a question from a mite of 10. I buy them wherever I find one that I think is pretty. Why do you ask?' "Oh, because Carrie Midas looked at the mark inside and laughzd, and Sally lufthunter said to me afterward that Carrie wears lovely clothes, but that, of course, she only gets them at the best places, and then added that she herself wouldn't wear a jacket that didn't bear the mak of a fashion- able place." . "Only fancy, children of that age caring where their clothes come from, as long as they are prettily and nicely dressed! But that is not the worst. I found Mollie that afternoon busily un- picking; the stitches that fastened the trade mark in her jacket. "'What are you. doing dear?' t ask- ed her. "'Oh,' she said, frankly, for so far, I ern thankful to say, she does not conceal any of her actions, 'I am tak- this out, and am going to' put in the one from my best jacket, which came from the same place as Carrie's, and which no one sees, as I only wear it on Sundays or when I go out for a walk.' "'But, lVfollie? I exclaimed, quite horrified, 'that is cheating. I am sure my little daughter never would aet a lie.' "The child grew red instantly, and her eyes filled with tears. "'Mamma,' she cried, 'I never thought of that. Fannie Sly told me to do it, and said she took a mark from her mother's cloak and sewed it into her jacket, and all the girls said what • a nice one it was, just beeattse it came from, A ---'se "Now, what is one to do under such eircumstancesS I cannot have my child's simplicity and unworldlines0 spoiled, and yet she is getting on W011• derfully with her lessons, and. needs young companionship. Of course, I can send her to another school, but theft are the children of the people I know, and the girls she will be with later on in society, and they are real- ty nice children, exeept for their worldliness. I want IVfollie to be "in the world, buil not of it,' and how to bring that &bait is a puzzle." 1104111 VAMBIBBS, The man who leaves the breakfas table and etatere the Public ways with the shame of a kanne confliot upon him, itt whioh he has contended for his own aide at the gileSti.011, refusing to yield his point to the very last, will not be likely to wear the appearance of a Knight, and if he has. submitted meek- ly to injustice, and has telt consoious of being misunderstood, if he has the smallest germ of manhood in hie na- ture, he must writhe under the treat- ment, and cannot step like a ooneueror or go forth with the courage neces- sary to win great things in the world. Such o. one must wear the look of the vanquished, no matter how loyal his heart ratty be or how strong his origin- al. purpose for true serviee. And What often makes the condition more pitiful is the feet that the hus- band is largeesouled, willing to give more • than he receives, ready to make sacrifices of his own ease, pleasure and oomfort generally while trying to serve his precious purpose for a future fulfillment. Though he closes his eyes against the signs of selfishness in the woman whom he Wiese as the eairest and sweetest and best, he oannot • but feel the awful despair of defeat, all on accouet of the fascinating, unprincip- led womau whom he took to share his lif r The woraan who clan thus bring de- feat to a high-souled, unselfish man is the "vampire" that has been portraye ed with such unerring skill by Kipl- ing, and many a poor victim of a nar- row-minded wife might recognize in it his own experience: Oh, the toil we lost, •and the spoil we • lost, And the excellent things we plan- ned, Belong to the woman who didn't know why (And now we know she never knew • why) ,And did not understand, And it isn't the shame, and it isn't the blame That stings like a white-hot brand; It's coming to know that she never • knew why (Seeing at last she could never know. why) And never could understand. -- QUICK AND SLOW COOKING. One great mistake •cooks make is to how fast certain articles should be cooked. For instance, meat is always tough enough though it falls froze the bones, if boiled hard. For soup it should be put to cook in cold water and heated so slowly that it will not come to a boil in less thau an hour, and then it should boil only very gen- tly. • When one wishes the flavor all to stay in the meat it should be put to cook in boiling water and allowed. to boil a few minutes' and then set back where it willjust simmer. Meat should not be salted. until near- ly done. Potatoes should boil briskly the first five minutes and then more slowly the reraainder of the half hour. Beans, peas and corn should boil hard UR done. Green vegetables should generally be coated in salted water to beat retain their flavor. This is par- ticularly true of onions and. cabbage. One reason that young cooks pay so little attention to the above rules is that they think the difference is only in the flavor and. that isn't much. But the greatest loss is in the value. And. tb.,at we may have all the nutrition certain foods possess we must give them the treatment they require. NEW WAY TO TEACH.' Lord Rothschild. Engages an Athletic In- structor for His Boys. Leopold Rothschild, brother of Lord Rothschild, and the sporting member of the great Hebrew banking family in England, has recently engaged the services of a, second. tutor for his two boys, whose duties are of a rather un- usual nature. The boys have already one tutor, who has charge of their in struction. The new tutor, a Mr. Tarver by name, who was educated at Eton, and is an Oxford graduate, has been en- gaged atea. 'salary of woo a year, and everything found, to take charge of the lads during all the time that they are not engaged. in studies. He is styled their tutor in athletics, and his duties consist in teaching them to ride, drive, play the various games, such as football, cricket, tennis, golf, etc., and also to train them in gymnas- tics, running, jumping and swimming. He has already started in by teaching them the game of hare and hounds, and may be seen with his two young charges clad like himself in flannels and sweaters, sprinting across fields, leaping ditches and clambering over hedges in most approved style. It need scarcely be added that Mr. Terv,ex is a man of birth and breeding and that he is treated as such by his employer. Bat his engagement is certainly a rather startling innova- tion in the methods of instruction of the young. Actors, Singers, Speakers Thousands of actors, puling entertainers, singers, lemur.ers, preachers and readers are tormented With throat vveakness. Th es e delicate organs being overtaxed be. dome susceptible to head ,r - colds, influenza, hoarseness, Ing, dropping in the throat, tickling in the troat, sneez. pain over the oyes, dry 1U; a throat, etc.; all tlaesc are forerunners of Catarrh, Asthma, Tonsilitis, and ate but stepping stones to more serious nomplioadons if neglected, A.GPIRW'S CATARRHAL POWDBB Powerfid,painless, harmless and qu I Mt -acting, and will cure all such troubles -relieves in io minutes, "5 can but proMaim Dr,Agnew's CatarthalPotv. der a wonderful medicine, 'particularly for singers and publie speakers. Myself and wile were boat subjects of lenstetts and Catarrh, and never found anything to equal this great remedy for quick Odor, said curative qualitlea-it is a weeder worker. I heartily reconunend it to my brotberprofessionals,' M. rerrinaett Fasten, Actor, New yorkcsy--0, Sold by C. Lutz, Exeter, 24wwwwviimmoitivviaimotwwwwwww, Agrlevilturall • LwwMWMYY • 1VIANURES AND al.A.NURING. (T. C. 'Wallace, Before the Ontario Partners' institute.) (Continued.) The important action of water in rattrearing does eat reoeive the atten- tion it .warrants., E refer particularly to the soil wa- ters, terraed as capillary and gravity ill their 'taloa. That film 'which sur- rounds aud clings to each particle of 111011, or like a easing along the melts and hairs of plants in the soil forms a vehicle for the solution of plane • food, and for carrying sustenance to the plata, has •been explained before, To understand what is meant by capil- lary water one 'has but to observe the. action of water rising from the sau- • cer a a flower pot up through and saturating the dry packed earth, Capillaries are then tubes or chimneys • -which forni in the soil, and up whioh the water climbs to the surface. If these are not broken by cultivation, during dry weather, tbe water is rap- idly evaporated and carried away .by the winds, 'Phis loss of moisture • by capillarity and evaporation Gan also be observed with the same simple ap- paratus, by weighing the water sup- plied from time to time to 11,e sau- cer. The original weight of the dry soil in the pet being, of course, first obtained, a final weighing of the soil presents a very simple calculation. When we consider that crops use from 800 to 1,000 tons of water per acre per season, and often even more, and that it takes about an inch of 'water all over an acre to make 100 tons, the loss of water brought to the surface by capillarity and blown away by the winds is a serious anatter, which no araoant of applied manure cul compensate for. This shows us quite clearly the necessity and advan- tage of frequent surface cultivation, by which means the capillary chimneys are broken and a sort of mulch • is formed for a few inches at the sur- face, but it is to the gravity water I wish to draw special attention. I mean the heavy anuiunt of water form- ed in the sons by fall, winter and early spring rains and melting snows. So abundantly does this accumulate that the soils are at times practically afloat in it. It freezes up pretty solid- ly in the winter,and in the spring,. when the weather becomes enildele the swelled land bursts apart by the action of the frost. The loosened particles of material become active in the soil, and by a sort a polarity or attraction which takes place acm,ong them, new conabinations are formed. Particles of decomposed or deconaposeng manures and chemicals form combinations with soil particles, and thus the foundation of plant food for the coming season's crops is foamed. If then we put off our applications of manures until after the gravity water has drained off we loso much of the benefit sought to be obtain.ed by manuring. There is no machine ot man's invention which does this distributing work for us so well as the natural method described. If you examine the duag of the ani- mals by throwing some of it into a tub of water and stirring it up you will notice hew finely most of it is • subdivided. It will then be easily worked into the soil by the action of water I have describ.ed if placed on the fall ploughed land while the grav- ity water is still plentiful and the heavy rains assist in washing it in. While it may be suspended in solution it does not tnarn.ediately become liquid and get washed away, but on the con- trary forms combinations with other substances in the soil. For the same reason we observe surer and better ac- • tion from phosphates, or other man- uring materials reduced to a very fine • powder. In understanding these things we appreciate more fully the deductionsof eminent scientific agri- culturists like Wagner, Ma.eroker and. others who emphasise the necessity of reducing manurial materials by fine grinding. It is true that in doing this we are but stimulating nature, which gradually reduces straw, clover and other organic substances to fine burn - us powder. But this action is slow and in the struggle which competi- tion in this age forces upon us we must use methods to produce more rapid effects. One other point sug- gests itself and that is the air in the A soil in proper mechanical condition should contain abotit one-sixth of its bulk of air, for plants take their oxy- gen through their roots. This is a matter which is left almost entirely to ehance. The pressure of the air on the soil is wily about 14 pounds, and as the gases formed by decennposition of materials to form humus in the earth drive off the air to a consider- able extent, •a thorough loosening of the soil is advisable.. If it were not for this pressure of the air upon the earth the water woull pot percolate down through the soil, As it is the air pressure which forces it down, This ean be easily understood by WithdraW- trig the air from the cylinder of a pump and note that the water the rushes upwards instead of downwards when the air pressure is lifted ftout it. The soil then gets its air mostly by the n ir following and occuping the spaces from which it ousts the water, and it then forms pockets, or rather bubbles, in the Boit. Each of these bubbles, or Pockets, is surrounded by a film of water. Mintite bubbles Not- ability detach from the storage poc- kets and pass to the roots of the growing plant by the water which oar - ries the other food meteriale. Now we see throughout this whole operation of farming iberg is a Steady depletion of phosphoric acid, and when we eoesider the noriern "a good phoe- 'deltic heart is the basis of all success- ful agricultere," it preeents to us a. very serious problem. After a care- ful practioal study of the manurieg question, 1 ant of the opieion that Our best lands can be brought to produce double and treble the feeding value of the orops usually obtained from them. also • feel, assured from successes which I have observed that our seem- inglY WQr11-011t lands • can, under ra- tional methods of cultivation and, man- uring, be profitably brought to the highest condition agrieulture. I will even go so far as to say that the richest wheat lands of Manitoba are only half ereclucing. The qualities of our Ontario grains can be maaterially improved. Our foddors and roots can be doubled and trebled in their feed- ing value. Our fruits can be improv- ed, both in keeping and nourishieg gualities. Grapes cnn be increased in quantity of yield and improved in the quality of the wine they preduce. The a t t ticks of fungoid diseases can , be lessened and even the ravages of .in- sects withstood by properly growing crops. • The tendenoy of the age has been either to ma,nure blindly, or else to manure too •acourately, by which I mean a hand-to-mouth plan od at- tempting to suit just what we con- sider the requirements of the plant's existence. Indeed if it were not pos- sible to greatly increase the prodeo- tiveness of the lead, there would be a poor outlook for the continua- tion of the humae race for another century. I am, h,owever, no •pessimist, but rather an optimist, I have faith in Mother Earth, and I want to see Cailada take the lead. in showing the world that the path to health, wealth and contentment lies through the meadows and the 'grain -fields and, be- neath the orchardsand the vineyards. But this path must be hewn out by the Axe of leaclustry, turnpiked by the Plow of good Husbandry, and kept in condition by the Cultivator's Art, un- der the administration of True Econ- omy. The End. Pi•••••••Oym • VARIETY OF FEED. While cows need a variety, they want it to coma by having a mix- ture of feeds at eaoh meal ,and net by receiving one kind of feed at one meal, another in the next, and still another at the third. Such a method of giving a variety is sure to reduce the yield, as the cow at a given feeding time expects the Berme kind of feed that she ate yester- day at the same time, ancl if not given this, she will be disturbed and. will give less milk. It is not necessary to give a cow Lhe same kinds of feed for su.pper that she had for breakfast, but the breakfast mix- ture should be alike for all break- fasts and the supper feeds the same for all su.ppers for a consider- able period. Sudden changes usual- ly decrease the milk yield even when the new ration is better than the old, and when it is necessary to make a change it should be made gradually, taking a week or ten days to make any radical ob.a nge. RA For infants and Children. qfgnature of • THE BOY KING'S SAD LOT. Amens° MIL Unpopular hi Spain and 11n. liappY• One of the most interesting figures of to -day is Alfonso XIII. King of Spain, who belongs entirely and ex- clusively to the twentieth century. The years that he has passed on this side a 1900 have been few- and irres- ponsible. lie does not take up the reigns of sovereignty or assume the cares of kingship until 1902, and be- tween now and then revolutions may overwhelm his hapless couaatry. But he already sits upon a dignified throne, and. though at present he is unknown outside his own palace, he has a near prospect of rahng the des- tinies of twenty millions of subjects. • Few kings, even af Spain, have be- gun life under worse auspices, His name is unfortunate; his number a pledge of • bad luck. His unhappy father was dead'•before he came into the world, and his mother, the daugh- ter of an Austrian archdukeewas con- fronted with the hateful task of rul- ing an antipathetic country. So far the mother has emerged from an impossible situation with a cer- tain &eduction, if without much glory. But the son will have a harder task set him than ever fell to bis mother's lot, and be will face the music inex- perienced and untrained - His aspect is familiar to every one in Madrid, and his presence has never yet succeeded in arousing enthusiasm, Now and again, as the guard is chang- ed outside the Palace at Madrid, a pale, harassed face is seen; gazing from a window. • SNAKES IN INDIA. Snakes are one of the seourges of India. Thousands of people the yearly from their bite. In the last twenty-Lwo years the number of deaths attributed to this cause has reached the enormous total of 483,389. 1- 'Mtn»'e. 4f6"'' Woo.' s Phoophodine, The -6trea1. English, Remedy. Sold and recommended by fl druggista in Canada, Only reli- able medicine discovered. Six • packages guaranteed to euro all forms of Seactial Weakness, all effects of abuse or excess, Mental 'Worry, ExeesiiiVe use of TO Woe°, Opium or Stiniulants. Mailed on receipt of pride, one package $1, six, $5. One tntit please, nitw1.l1 cure, Pamphlets free to eny addresta. The Wood COmpsein Windsor,Olite "Woodsi PhaSphadine is Sold in Exeter by a. W. Drowning, drUggist. "1"*'" rttl'eetfik, leileett'eu ,s, nir 4 N. 41-.7it.4-1. hat is eastoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription. for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant Its guarantee is thirty years' use by 11111lions of Mothers. „pastoria destroys .Worms and allays 33'everishness. Castoria, prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarriuna and. Wind Colic. Castoria relieveS Teething troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. Castoria assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend. Castoria,. "Castoria is an excellent medicine for children. mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Da., G, C. OSGOOD, Lowell, Mass. Castoria. "Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any pre-. scriplion known to me." n. A. ARCHER, AL D. Brooklyn, N. Y. THE FAC—SIMILE SIGNATURE OF APPEARS ON EVERY WRAPPER. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY ETACcT. NEw YORK CITY. • 41.11Y STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Peentllar and Terr117Ie Binds of the Cur rent en a Child. Some very curtails plrases developed in a case which occurred in New York last. week. A small Italian girl was struck by a bolt of lightning. Shewas passing a long and narrow street at twilight when the opening clash • of a thunderstorm felled her to the ground. On running to her assistance it was at first supposed that she was nrrenw merely stunnedvsiie. ediabsno marks of the • Pending the arrival of an ambulance a druggist tried simple restoratives and stimulants, bat wit/lent effect. The • girl showed no sign of lif e. The gen- eral impression was thee she was dead, When an ambulance came from Gou- verneur Hospital, the surgeon hurried her away. The first singular discov- ery was made when she was laid on th,e operating table. Portions of fab- ric that had looked perfectly sound crumbled into dust at his touch. The area of incineration was an irregular one in front of her waist and skirt, and it pasged olear through her cot- ton uudergarments, the fabrio of which had alae been undisturbed, so far as the eye could determine. And at last, under all OAS burning of fabric was disolosed, the lightning's most dreadful handiwork. It had burn- ed and torn, deeply, fantastically. The victim's flesh was an arabesque of tor- ture. The lower part of her trunk and upper parts of her legs were lacerat- ed and scorched. There were deep, ragged wounds that looked as though they had been made with a blunt wea- pon. Thlere were collections of blis- ters in strange and varied forms. There were large, open burns, curiously die - colored, fringed with shredded catiele, in a regular pattern. There were also burns on the wrists, where they had werebeenhidden desnby important.herslevs, t these It took half an hour to revive the pa- tient. She awoke to intense pain, cry-, ing: ' "I'm on fire! I'm on fire!" She was as intractable, as slow to receive ideas as a person recovering from the effects of anaesthetic. Not for 10 minutes or more could she be made to realize that she was not real- ly on fire. Then she remembered the lightning, and terror crept into her tortured face. This is the effect most to be feared—the nerve blight for which science has no other name than "shock," From what few words she could utter it was gathered. that she could remember that lightning flash, but nothingthat followed it It is pos- sible that sbe never will remember any- thing else. It is thought that she is paralyzed oh both sides. Children Ory for CASTnm SOME COPIOUS LANGUAGB. EogflIh 11,014144 Ail Other Langan gr•s In the Number of W111.41S. Among all the Europeen languages the English -is the richest so fai as the number of ay ordS 10. eanterned„ and 11 is 0,180 the one which has added to its vocabulary the largest number of words within the last half century: The latest English dictionaries contain not less than 900,000 different words. Next in rank comes the German lan- guage; with 80,000, words, and then comes In succession the Italian, with 85,000 the French, with 80,000, and the Spanish, with 80,000 words. Among the Oriental languages the Arabic is FtIf BEANS NEE,YE B5&,s art, a alb. covery that cure the worst mem of Nervous Debility,'Lost Vigor and Palling Manhood• restores the weakness of body or mind caused by over -work, or the errors or ex. creasts of youth. This Remedy ab- solutely cures the most obstinate eases when all other TRELTAIENTS have frilled even to relieve. 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The Kaffirs of South Africa have at their disposal not more than 8,000 words, and the natives of Australia use only 2,000 words. • FISH -EATING SPIDERS. There are certain large sea spiders, two feet from toe to toe, collossendeis gigas, that live in the water and. feed entirely upon molluses and. worms. The carnivorous wolf spider, an amphibi- ous inhabitant of the tropical regions of South America, is said to prefer a fish diet, though it is not averse to eating mica, young birds, and. even snakes, resembling in this respect the theraphosida,e, or bird -catching spi- ders of India and Queensland, some of which equal a. rat in size. The col- lossendeis is the most formidable specimen of the spider family, meas- uring six ineh,es round. the body and possessing 12 long, hairy legs with which it grips its finny prey. • It at- tacks fish several times larger than it- self, and, after biting them through the back and. stinging them to death, gluts itself by suclring the juices from the bodies of its _victims. • • A Russian Countess, Wyanoff by name and conspicuous at court by reason of her wealth, has run off with her footman. It is a touching roma,noe. The footman never told his lova except by daily placing on the Countess's toilet table a lovely bouquet. His secret did not come out, however, un- til his mistress entered her apartment one day to find him in the actof kiss- ing her portrate An elopement and • wedding soon followed, and the Count - e00 put the finishing touch to the romance by buying a Bulgarian estate •With Which gOeS the title of Count, UT'.PERLY OBTUSE, That there oily husband of Minnie's, said the innocent old man With tbo vaudeville •whiskers, is one of the Pleasantest fellers going. Why, I • llacba't beet settin' ehattin' in his office WWI raore'n, a quarter hour 'fore he told me three times to come in an' SSG 'im again. ChildreirfOry for CAST RIA. .0t,