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The Exeter Times, 1893-10-19, Page 39 t- ,ra �.�h 1G' rs Vero euro You, is 'a true statement of the nation of AYER'S Sarsaparilla, when taken for diseaeoe originating iu impui'o blood ; but, while this assertion is true of AYER'S S.,reaparilla, as tent-tOs can attc: t, it cannot be truth- fully appliec'1 to other preparations, which unprincipled dealers will recommend, and try to impose upon you, as "just as good ' as Ayer's. "' Take Ayer's Sarsa- parilla. and Ayer's only, if you need a blood -purifier and would be benefited permanently,. This medicine, for nearly fifty years, has enjoyed a reputation, and made a record for cures, that has neverbeen equalled by other prepare - times, AYEB.'S Sarsaparilla eradicates th4 "'taint of hereditary scrofula and ottr: ood diseases from the system, Opt e confidence i s deservedly,tlt n c ane .� . of the people, ,ilbetrvapa,rina l " I cannot forbear to express my joy At the relief I have obtained from the T,use of AYER'S Sarsaparilla. I was ' afflicted with kidney troubles for about six months, strffering greatly with pains in the small of ray Lack. In addition to this, my body was covered with pimply 'jeroptions. The remedies prescribed. 'sited to help me. I then began to take AYER'S: Sarsaparilla, and, in a short role, the pains ceased and the pimples disappeared. I advise every young man or woman, in case of seek/less resulting from bnpure blood, no matter how long standing the mese may be, to take et.YER'S Sar eataarilla."---1=1. L. Jar- ,manti, 33:William st., New York City. I'i x re Your .Prepared by Ar J. C. Ayer &z Co., Lowell, etess. THE laxETEIi, TIMES. lepublisnodeveryTliaralay meemee, 1.; I HIES STEAM PRINTING s4OUSE Bin a-etreot,nearlyoppoeLte laittaies Jeweler), btoie Esetergeut.,bySeen Wnttox ;5out,er.i• uriotors. 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I suppose,says a writer in the Ohio, Farm- er, I have said as' much in favor of extor• tninating the English sparrow as the average writer, but I am not too old to change my mind, and this summer I have been filled with grave doubts as to -the correctness of. most of the : diatribes that aro clireoted against that long'suffering and oninipreaeut denizen of our country.', In the first, place, the sparrows were im- ported for the solo reason that they were insect destroyers, and °ties . here they de- veloped a fondness for everything digestible but insects, • ao.ording to common rumor. They were accused of being worse than all other grain and fruit=destroying birds ' -put together, and ; dire crimes wore laid at their doors. I am fond of birds and, believe most of them were created for a good purpose, but contact with civilization has depraved ,thein and they have talon from their high estate to some extent. In a nee:sure civil- ization is a failure, but the good overbalances the evil very greatly and ,in tiie case of the Baer -^ l 1,•tvi found that they are not al, together bad. I was led to, examine their e, elle; ease py accident. lJy brother shot one and found in its crop ten tent caterpillars. This was pretty good for ono bird one day, and I began to watch them pretty closely, and soon found that they do not live altogether on grain, for on two occaeions I saw a sparrow -catch a worm in the grass. • I have a pretty fair-sized flock on my place and they have been eating with my chickens all seminar, bat as there was not a tent caterpillar on my orchard while they were plenty further in the country, I did not make muoh objection. The cabbage worm has been eating the cabbage to rib- bons out in the country too, this dry sum- mer, and I noticed that whi e the putter flies were thick about my patch of over four hundred heads there wore but few worms. I gave thorn a dose of pyrethrum early in the season and since that I have only seen one worm on the whole patch. 1 knew Chia ought not to be, forusually the powder must be applied at frequent intervals to keep the worms off and was wondering at the absence of thein, when one morning I noticed that my sparrowa did not come up to eat with the ehiekeee as numerously as usual, and concluded that they had migrat. ad, but in passing the cabbage patch I saw the whole flock very busily engaged in flying from head to head, and a little observation convinced me that they were looking for worms, and since that time I have made a visit to the truck patch every morning aud have confirmed myself in the belief that the English sparrow is helping me out beautifully with those cabbages. I find worm casts but no worms, and have con. eluded that as soon as one is hatched and comes to the surface to eat, hofs gobbled. Sometimes a bird or animal (Manges its characteristics upon being placed in strange and new environments. This is the case with the Australian paroquots, which have changed of late from fruit eaters to mutton; lovers and they kill large numbers of sheep in Australia annually to at at the kidney fat. It is possible that the sparrows upon being brought to this Donn. try developed an unusual appetite for grain and brought coudemuation upon themselves thereby, and now having become tharonglt- ly acclimated they aro going back to their old traits. At any rata they are eating the worms on my cabbages and they can stay with me and eat with my chiekeus as long as they want lto,and since I have form d n them at this work I noticed that their chattering is not nearly so offensive as it used to be. It is the old story about giving a dog e. bad maze. It became fashionable to call the sparrows bad names and I am ashamed of myself that I was led into error regard. ing them without making a personal inves- tigation, I can see thele eating grain al- most any timebecause that is what we are all expeoting them to do, but when I want to catch them miter worms l: bave to get up in the morning for they are well acquainted with the fact that it is the early b.r,d that catches the worm. PURE MIMED/ J��a a!;Mi care for seed potatoes tl,uriug the winter, A little two much of cold or heat or wet damages them. Any sprouting weaken the potato, and the lomat, chilling damages the eye. The: safest plan is to put seed pota- toes into the cellar until the earth is colder than the air. Then take them out of the mailer and put them in conical piles of not more than twenty-five bushels oaob. Cover heavily with straw then with six or eight inehes of dirt: 14.uleb the ground around the piles withstraw, When the earth on the piles is frozen put the' straw on the piles and then put a slight coat of earth over the second dressing of straw. The mulch will have kept the earth near thepiles from freezing so it can be handled easily. This may seem to be a great deal of work. Not very much comparatively. A few dollars thus insures a first °lass lot of seed. The frost remains in the first coat of earth until late spring, and the tubers stay cool. Some use strawy manure instead of the second coat of straw and earth. They oot'er the frozen piles. with the manure, and the man is a gond one, The id. :a.is to hold the frost in the earth covoring. -'air White Holland Turkeys. Potatoes for Seed. The fall is the proper season of the year to select seed for another yeas.. I know of no crop that is given a poorer chance to make agood yield by the average farm- er than the potato, in so far as the seed is concerned. Choice sheat, corn and oats r _ are gotten for seed, but there is a preys. - PUREST, STLi°Q%' CES?, BEST. lent idea that as tate potato is not the true. hwooliia eady forsoy uantity. For making Soap, seed of the plant, the rule of selection Bo toning Water, znoloeting ;anti a hundred °the• does not apply. Then there is careless - uses. Acan cloalasepouudSSalSOda. DOSS i11 the cars of the seed during rvdnter, Nola Ls' An uireear' and D.zae,e e, and altogether the potato has a hard time ,'�. 'S7G-r Pa•�3rjS:aT7C"3: R'ora>aii�. gg of it. :It The Prairie Farmer can induce 'HE LARGEST °EMBUS IN TILE W OE,LA. leower;ne aura TerrYible, true New Bridal litarshills. The designs of thetwo xiew British oruis ors Powerful and Terrible, says the Now York Times, have been given out in brief by the British Admiralty. These two ships are designed to be the largest cruisers in the world, and the intentions of the British authorities' eoneerning them„ have been watched closely by naval experts ever since the first anuouncemeub was made of their prospective building. The prinoipal dimensions of the'Power- ful and the Terrible are Length, • 500 feet beam,' 75 feet; mean draft, with keel, 27 feet; displacement, ,about 14,000 tons. The continuous sea•steaming speed is to be twenty knots an hour, On an eight hours' natural draft contractors' trial the speed will do about twenty-two knots an hour. The Lulls of the two ships will be steel, wood sheathed and coppered. It is pro- posed that the ships shall be able to take the sea and keep it for long periods, and in order that niether shall suffer in speed for want of coal, the designs call for a coal supply of 3,000 taus for each ship. On the 14,000 tons displacement and twentyseven feet draft called for in the designs a cote Y , e '`.o-•4 of supplyis consider- only 1,500 tons a ship ed. The bunkers, however, will hold. 3,- 000 ;000 tons of coal. Th' battery of each ship will consist of two 0.2•incii breeoh•loading rifles mounted, one in the bow and one in the stern, as chasers, twelve 6-lnolr rapid fire guns in broadside, eighteen 12 -pounder rapid-fire guns, twelve:3-pound ar rapid -firs guns, and a number of small machine gums, The 6 - inch rapid-fire broadside guns will be in. �, e_ such a position as to permit tour guns to -... h"i +-K ' be fired right .ahead and four right astern, Armor protection will be provided for all the 9,2 -inch and 6dueh guns, The 12. pounder guns on the upper deck will be fur- nished with strong shields revolving with the guns. The torpedo armament will con• azst of four submerged torpedo discharge tubes placed in two equate compartments. I'hc engines, boilers, magazines, and other vital portions of the ships will be placed below a strong curved steel deck, leaving a thickness of four melees for a largo propor- tion of the length, with a slight reduction of thickness toward this extremities. This deck will be associated ed with min utel y subdivided coal bunkers extending up to the height of the main deck. This latter feature is identical with that seen in all the latefirst•elass endear designs for the British j navy. Careful }Careful attention lies been paid in the de- signs to the transport of the ammunition from the magazines to the gun -fighting As a community of farmers, says Paaren, positions. The armored conning tower is in the Prairie Farmer, we will find it to our on the after end of the topgallant fore- advantage to cultivate none but the best castle, A great height of freeboard has been kind of grass; the ,whole pasture lands will provided in the new ships in association', then bo filled with valuable gras3 seeds. with a long poop and forecastle. This fee - The reason why the farmers, as a community, will be benefited by sowing none but the best seed is, because seeds are distributed through neighboring pasture by the winds, ani. there take roots. Now, if the neightior• in;; pastures abound in inferior grass, the fields will soon be fined with useless plants, which aro very difficult to get rid of. But the aurin thiug inteueded to be eon- sidered in this column is the drinking water for the live stock on the farm. It is an object of great importance to furnish the stock with pure water, There is not one of tis but who considers wholesome water necessary for the preservation of our own Cattle C andfamilies. health that or our farnl"ld s have often been known to turn away from the filthy stuff found in some troughs, and Our illustration represents White Hol- land turkeys. They rank High as a table' fotrl,rneking a nice appearance when dress- ed. They have a plump,fine-boned carcass and juicy well -flavored meat. While not ea large as the Bronze turkeys they dress fully as high a percentage of flesh. They have .a lighter colored skin than other breeds, The skin of the body and lege has a pinkish tinge which, is attractive, White Ilollands have -tear white plumage though during Slimmer, litre ether white fowl's, they become more or lose yellow, The bills and feat are yellowish color. They aro usually favorites on the market on ac- count of their attractive appearance and delicate fleih. Of Good Pasture and Wholesome Water for Cattle - __ se. _:_ tall its readers to select seed with care and '�j'�1 keen it in prime condition, it will do a NEM! tiE F_1'1� a. 1i. L_:5 re a nc: we. ! good work, covezytleat caro the nor t81 s or :ieleciem of Seed—It makes no difference ervors Debllity, Lost Vigor and BEANS1 oiling manhood; restores the whether a man plants only one-fifth of an weakness of body or mind caused more or fifty acres, Inc same care in getting by over -work, or the errors or =Z• good seed pays. Ido notgrow potatoes as con-, of youth. This Ilcrncdy ab- g 1? Y ieaatelyy cures the moil obstinate cases vihan all other ti za111E5115 have failed even to relieve.old by drug- gists pt $1 per package, or six for e5, or sent h mall on receipt of price hy addressing THE JAMES MEDICINE CO., rurpnto. Qat. 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Write to -day for our TE4L s You Rohl To ,GETVVELL8c STAY W.Lu' vldiiess or eeil on (CUHEN MEDICINE CO., bigI" Yill741 LIFE DIIILDING, Montreal,Cait' extensively as some, but on my usual acre- age of fifteen or twenty acres I find that I cannot afrord to use such seed as many plant. I believe in using the best tubers for seed. It would probably pay to cull out the smoothest and best -shaped potatoes from the entire crop, but as this causes considerable work. I have hit upon anoth- er plan that is satisfactory for rather ex- tensive tensive a P g When using, say, 200 bushels for seed, the lot is run over and the very choicest taken out for planting a strip of two or three acres. The remainder is used for the rest of the planting. Then part of the crop from these two or three acres is reserved for next year's seeding, and it in turn is overhauled for the choicest tubers for planting the : 4" pedigreed" field or strip. In this way one can keep up the vitality of the seed and improve it. This plan in veletas little extra labor, and is quite tatis- factory. But why not use` " seconds" in size for seed, many ask. " The tubers are not the true aeed•mf the plant." That is all true, and I have grown pretty good crops from seconds, but they are undestrable as a rule. (1). There time too many eyes for the size of tb_e potato, The stalks aro too numerous, or if cut fine, the seed pieces are too small. (2.) The proportion of"runty" stockin the seconds, increases fast. I have often watched the digging, and occasionally there is a hill of " tubers—all small and showing signs of deterioration. These fall into the class of seconds, and each one becomes responsible for an unproductive hill next fall. bowie seconds are vigorous. They are the later setts that have vitality, but leek time or Levering conditions to reach a size. Such seed often make a; good yield. But the runts are among them. One cannot distinguish there, and their planting leads to worse deteriorations, The finely formed tubers of good size makes the only sa,fe seed'. They ca4 be cut so that only two or three stalks will bs in a hill, and this num ber is enough. Care of Seed. -It is a difficult matter, to ture will, it is calculated, admit not only of maintaining high speed iu a seaway, but permit of fighting the bow and stern guns in heavy weather, 1t is not known how much horse power Bias been allowed to the new ships, as the designs have not yet been fully completed.' It in announced, though, that twin screws, and not triple screws, will bo used. Tho British Admiralty deem the experience had with the cruisers Blake and Blemhefm, as well as in the large twin•serews steamers of the mercantile marine, establishes the efficiency of such propellers within the limits of power and draft contemplated. Powerful cru fsers I owerful °tion a£ the The constru t and Terrible was authorized in the navy estimates of the Admiralty n proved for ho indeed fit SWIM pastures. We allude to i 1803-4.•d. It has been decides, w ever , to the common stagnated pool water that ds postpone the commencement of work on the found in low sitwitiope, and whish some- Tar. ills until the next finidtoial year of the times is the result of drainage without British navy. The tenders for the construe - spring or outlet, Such water has often proved itself to be a serious eauae of dis- ease ; death often running riot among the stock of our western aud northern farmers, when, to our certain knowledge, the enure exists, in some otos, under their very noses. They sometimes see the very best stock sicken and dio without any apparent cause, and the cow doctors aro running rough -shod through the materia medica, pouring down the throats of the poor brutes melts by the pound, oil by the pint, and converting the stomach into a drug store. Sextons are inserted into the dewlap, the horns are tion of the Powerful will be invited, it is said, as soon as the designs of the two ships are fully finished, FROM THE OANNON'a MOUTH. Eleven Slntinous Sepoys littrled into Eternity. A London special says :—A dispatch to the Times from (. aluutta says that serious disttirbaoces occurred at Cabel, tho capital of Afghanistan, previous to the arrival there of tdie inission under the command of Sir Mortimer Durand. The assistant command - or -in -chief, it appears, abused a sepoy of bored, and finally sawed aif, as a sure pre- the Suitt regiment, upon which the regi- ventive for " hollow -horn ;" and as a last mint became terribly enraged, loaded their resort, the animal is blistered and bled. In rifles and fired a volley' killing the assistant spite of all this, the animals sometimes commander•in-chief. A terrible disturb - recover, but dear•bottgdtt experience has mice followed, Themutmous Sepoys fled taught many a farmer that it would be from Cabral, but wore pursued and captured more convenient as well as profitable, to prevent disease, instead of undertaking the unsatisfactory task of curing it. In our capacity as veterinarian, we are occasionally consulted on the subject of the quality or condition of drinking water used for live stook. Not long deo it was stated to us that a number of cattle were put into pasture in which was a pond considered to abound in good water. Soon after putting them there they were attacked with scour- ing, upon which they were removed to an- other field. The scouring continued. In reply to our inquiry it was stated that the cattle still drank of the same pond, and that the scouring still continued, although the cattle had been shifted to a piece of very sweet pasture. It was thus evident that the pastures were not the cause of the dis- ease. A fence was put around the pond so that the cattle could not drink there. They were thereafter driven to a distance and watered, and the scouring soon disap. peered, although the cattle were kept on the same pasturage. The farmer now proceeded to examine the suspected pool, aud on stirring the water he found that it was alive with very small creatures. He now stirred into the water a quantity of lime, and soon after an immense number of reptiles Were seen dead on the surface. A month thereafter the cattle drank of the water without any injurious effects. There is no doubt but that some kinds of water produce derange- ment of the digestive organs of both man and animals; hence, the worms that infest the intestines Gf exult. All decayed animal and vegetable matter tends to corrupt water. Hence,if we have the best spring, and the water shall flow from it through whole fields of dike or gut- ter abounding in decayed matter, it will materially affect the health of the stock drinking thereof. We have written on this subject longer than at first intended, merely to show our readers the importance of ascertaining the direct causes of disease, that, when they , are once diseovered and removed, the rettoi'ation to health general- ly follows. Nitteltrie net-'7 for Inf nt$ and Children "Cast ori r, is so well adaptedto ohiidren that [recommend ftassuperior,to anyprescription known to me," IL A, Ancssn, !>i. 1)., 111 So. Oxford 51, Brooklyn, 2i T. " The use 4f 'Castor's, is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent amilies who do not keep Castorza within easy reach. °Antos MARL IN, New York City Late Pastor Bloomingdale lief Church. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation„ Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. truetatioa, Kills Worms, gives sleep, Ana pretztoten dl estion, Without injurious medication. <' For several years 1 have recommended your Casstaz'is.,' and shall always -continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results," EDWIN F. PAnrrnn, "The Winthrop,"10th Street and T th Ave., Newre.'k Clay, Tris °E rr4ea Co14.4nx, 77 lticnt A,Y Srs•,aa, Fmr Tour - bored, oust It is a wonderful remedy, which is alike henefi' cial to ou and your children. Such is Serails . ynzelsior Y of Pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and ypophos- phites of Lime and Soda It checks -wasting in the healthy It keeps and produces sound fles�ll, lee ps them from taking cold and it will do the same for you.' L'eott's Emulsion cures Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Sorofuiaand ali Anaemic and Wasting Diseases. :t'reveuts wasting in children. Ary most ss palatable as milk. Get only the genuine. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Dellevllle, Sold by all Druggists, 50 cents end $1.00:,• by the Ameer's royal troops. A number of the mutinous Sepoys were tried by court- martial, and eleven of them were sentenced to be blown to pieces from field elms, which sentence was promptly carried Tato ef- fect. All the troops at Cabal were thrown into a. state of excitement by the execution of the 11 Sepoys, and it was found necessary previous to the arrival of the Durand mis- sion to make all the Amoer's troops swear on the Koran to 'eshavo well in view of the coming of the British mission. But the disturbance does not seem to be at an end, as Gen. Foramen Khan has been arrested, and the Governor of Herat has been orde red to make further arrests. .w. Several years ago, John S.. Bough, of Rahway,' N. J., played the good Samaritan to a poor man who was prostratedwiththe typhus fever, and nursed him through the disease. The poor man went to California, became wealthy, and has just died, leaving a tortune of $300,000 to Hr. Hough. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castori4 ia• Oy. rs04 '4 . v .o ��� 4 0 `otic ca•i�G �eI, c`40 Qq ,��,, .v� 0' COt ,ye' xp z �' v' �Jti •�S\ �ti �y sc- ,:s0 .e. S. 'N''' ,�s2� `'� eye ,ca .s ' ' Gey, e, fir'- M1r`" >s ;e'. iib' {� >w� . `'\, e.I EAG �° � �,,'"r se,N 4.Zi". •,;),()•,;),()x. f.,:).. ,� -t-P AS.' GV0 IH L Sy C0y O..„.0. 4y V,X� r.E 'S O ti 0 • Balloons Por War. Mr. Samuel A. King, the aeronaut, who had so narrow an escape from drowning in Lake Michigan recently, has for a long time turned his knowledge to the use of aeron- autics in the science of war. Daring the threatened hostilities with Chili he tender- ed his services to ex -Secretary Tracy, of the navy, for a balloon service, in which com- pressed hydrogen was to be used as the inflating gas. His system, included a group of seven balloons, the car being a metal boat built in sections ; eaeh.of which was to be air -tight. For observation purposes the group was to be what is known as captive and telephonic communiration established with the flagship of the fleet. The casks of cpmprcisacl hydrogen were to be stored on the metal boat and used when necessary for further inflation. The pre testier has an autograph letter from ex•Secretary Tracy, in which his system is highly commended. The professor said that from an altitude of 6,000 feet he could make observations over the area of a circle whose radius is 100 miles. If it was deemed necessary tousethe group for offensive purposes it could be made a most destructive agency. When the winds were favorable it could hover over an enemy's fleet, fortifications or city, and by dropping bombs loaded with dynamite or other explosive material, prove: an ugly customer, During the late imbroglio with Great Britain roghrdldg the Behring Sea, King visited Washington and tendor:.d his ideas to Secretary Herbert. He was to establish a signal service on each of the great lakes. It was accepted contingeli y upon the event,ofitoetilinee lteiijq declared. , ees eesee.e' de' 0 rb" et. 04 f'a 1,0- „..x.,.. �, so `4�4q ..e -,-. fat&i' IPc,ca,..4 4.\' O,' ,Q� ,���� •*:>°" ,��u� ,fi'' 1,-�q Y e' S v 1" �v `a lrianuf.rctured only by Thomas Ilelowav,,S, New Oxford Street, late 44, Oxford Street, London. VI Purchasers should look to the Label on the 'Boxes and Pots If the address Is not 533, Oxford Street, London, they are spurious,] The Second Oataraot, Soudan - War, dusty and sun -baked, stands alert on the Nile mud walla of the entrenchment, and scans the dreary desert hills. From inside one hears the fantastic clash of Arab military music, and at the gate one sees a row of Soulanese fifer boys, curving their huge lips to Orphee aux Enters: It is all border warfare, of the ' ld hand -to hand, cold steel order, very like what it must have been round about a Roman camp in Gaul, when the Adenianni came down at all sorts of unlikely moments on Caesar soldiers out cutting brushwood. el, e went out under an escort of twenty men along the bumpy, ricketty Incfto Serr.,ss, the furthest post held by the Egyptian force, some five -and -thirty miles from Halfah. The line used to go seventy or eighty miles further, but it has nearly all been ripped up by the dervishes. They make occasional descents, too, on what is still left in use, for about three weeks ago they name down in the cool of the evening on the railway bridge at Genial (over which we trundled gingerly), and set to work to try to destroy it, They came down from the desert in their usual obstreperous fashion, h an im u- ' �' wiE howling and singling, evenp dent bugle playing the Khedival hymn, while the Soudanese regiment, Daviel .Bey, that hacl had news of their coming, was ly- ing in wait in excitable ambush. Then, when they heard the pickaxes at work in the dark, they opened fire, after despatch- ing a company to cut off their retreat. Only it seems that one of the blacks, in his ex- citement, Loosed off his rifle, so after spite ting fire at each other Inc a while, in whieh the dervishes lost seven igen and some of the Soudanese had their rifles struck, the ivarauders got clean away into the desert and the darkness. Fine fighters, the Soudanese, they tell me, sill veritable savages in their lust for blo,d, Not so very long ago, in one of 1 their eneountors with the deeideeii:es, they drove a dozen of theta into a native house, and having set fire eo it bayoneted them as they came running out, One of the Sou - demise, a huge fellow, begged hard. to bake his stand at the door, for, said he, he hadn't killed a man for a fortnight. Aud when the next. dervish appeared, he ran; him through and hoisted him back into the burning house, like mud into a London mudcart. But the dervish, writhing on the steel, managed to bend and elntch the soldier's mouth, and tore his hp and cheek up as far as the eye. -[Tho Cornhill 0aga- • zin�. ' boar in house, xha Iluig of Siam keeps a d g but Shelters only the members of his own family. •He has two official wives,. 33 second.class wives, 'and 72 children.. His brothers and sisters number 50, and's irhas '1ii6 uncles and aunts. They all lire with lrini. The saddest, failures. in`!ire 0)11,0 from the not tiutting',forth the power to succeed. A. GHASTLY JOKE Which, and Spoiled a Sermon. A London cable spacialsey3 ; "The read ing of the church congress proceedings could not have suggested the practical joke which it is learned only to -day was played upon the Archbishop of York on last Sun- day evening in a suburban church near London, His lordship was in the midst of a most moving discourse, when unearthly groans and cries of some creature in dire mental and bodily distreee were heard pro. seeding from ono of the windows. The archbishop stopped speaking anti all eyes were turned fearfully toward the window. In another moment the vrindow sash was suddenly mad noiselessly raised. A ghast- ly grinning human skull appeared, hov- ered momentarily in midair, and as quickly vanished. Women fainted, men howled and the archbishop gasped and turned white, although, of oonrse, being a very learned prelate he knew it could only be a poor joke. Some strong nerved and brawny young members of the congre- gation rushed into the graveyard outside, but iu the pito'.i darkness could discover neither the joker nor his property, the skull. Meanwltilo the more hysterical women had been removed to the vestry, and the archbishop, palling himself to- geeher, resumed his sermon without making any reference to the apparition. The window, however, all evening exercised a disturbing fascination. More eyes were turned to it than to the preacher and the effect of the discourse was entirely spoiled. If the jokers can be found they will be charged under an ancient statue with brawling in ehureh, The lawyers hope they will bo caught so that the interesting question may beargned. How eau any- body brawl in church if he (Nee riot enter the leered building2 " What mike the men love Miry.so2" The jealous maidens cry; " Oh, Mary doesn't sing, you know, And more—she doesn't try." By the way, why doesn't the con lnctot punch the train -robber Z Ho might at least give him a check. . A. sin in front of a store at G30 rgetown. Md. bears this inscription : " Born with a >. , p brain within a brain i can kurecnny kind of misery in a short tiros with only the best erbs to be used." 11s Bleph ni is given the credit of being the most hVie -Iiv%i us n ti';; 1I1& in telligent of ai�`tuinisls. VCuivier :says that there ire instances of its having lived to betiotel.t. the ago of $0' wears. The academy tidbit its i'aene ftom that of ashadygrove outside of the walla o s: b:th ens, where Plato and his discipld,l ge'ecee r,stom ed to walk B. C. 378..