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Exeter Times, 1897-3-18, Page 3eeeeegegteige The Same... Old Sarsaparilla. :Ow Ally That's Ayer's, The same old sarsaparilla as it was made and Gold by Dr. J. C, Ayer GO- years ago. In the laboratory it is different. There modern appli- ances lend speed to skill and experience. But the sarsapa- rilla is the same old sarsaparilla that made the record -60 years of cures. Why don't we better it? •.Weil.: we're much in the colt eche Bishop and the rasp/ : " Doubtless, " he said, "God might have made a better berry. But doubtless, also, He never did." Why don't we better the sarsaparilla? We can't. We are using the same old plant that cured the Indians and the Spaniards. It has not been bettered. And since we make sarsaparilla com- pound out of sarsaparilla plant, we see no way of improvement. Of course, if we were making some secret chemical compound we might.... But we're not. We're making the same old sar- saparilla to cure the same old diseases. You can tell it's the same old sarsaparilla be- cause it works the same old cares. It's the sovereign blood purifier, and --it's Ayers. thing;- e blood is sure to o ' havoc some- where. The only Pr ejentiie is sound kidneys, the only C1 e kidney med- icine, the only Medicine is Dodd, s Pills, Kidney EVE FAM ILY SHOULD KNOW THAT Te n very remarkable remedy, both for IN. TERNAI, and EXTERNAL use, and won- derful in its quick action to relieve distress, PAIN -KILLER lea sure caro for Sore Throat, Commits, Chills. 10ia rItte , IDyantery. Cramps, Cholera, and all Bowel Complaints. PAIN -KILLER ie TILE BEST 'rein*edy known for Sean S act or de, Itenuiaclro, 1datn Lt t[ae sett or lido. Itheumatisnt and Neuralgia. PAIN -KILLER is tiNo STinNAnt.Y tl,e aT3E .SENT ENT MADE. Itbrings SPEEDY AND, ENT BELIEF In all cases of bruises. Cats, , Sewere Ruins, etc. PAI is tL triad and PAIN -KILLER N KI trusted friend of the Aldi. Mechanic. Former. ]Palways a and in d, fact nil classes wonting a medicine alx•ays at hand, avid GAPE To usE internally or externally with certainty of relief. Beware of imltatinne. Take none but the genuine !'PasaynAv7A" sold everywhere; do. big bottle. 1'ARALTSIS CIIltED-SWORN STATE1i Eai•T. Mrs. Maggie MoMartin, 27 Radonhuret St., Toronto one, swears that Ityck,nan's "Kootenay Cure" cured her of Paraiveis which rendered one aide of her body r• utdrely useless. Physicians said there was nit chance of her ever recovering the use of her limbs. Hope deserted her, but today elle is walking around telling her friends how Ryo1unan's "Kootenay Ours"gave her life and happiness. Sworn to, July 10, 1S00, before J. W. Seymour Corley, Notary Public. WORN STATEMENT 11T OF A. GRATEFUL MOTHER.. Louisa white, nine years old, who suffered with Drama since her birth, has been entirely cured and her general system built up by Iiycleman's "Kootenay, /lure."' The above facts are given in a sworn state. went made by her mother, Mrs. George White, 130 :Moon Si., Hamilton, Ont„ dated July 8, 1880, before J.'F.°Moocic, Notary Public: eo' IRNA?INT DISTURBED SWORN STATEMENT MADE. • Charles E. Newman, 13 Marlborough St., Toronto • (lot:, had a complication of blood troubles, Rheu• mutism, Severe ICldney .trouble and constipation. Vas frequently disturbed at night, lost his appetite and was a very sick man,` His Kidneys are now in a healthy, condition, his appetite good, sleep undis• turbed and conatipotio cured; all this was done by. Ryoirinan's$"Kootena Cure." He makes .sworn. statement to the above facts before J. W. Seymour Corley, Jul,' 10, 1890. THE '�* EXETE li OF • • TrMrs THE FARM. TIMES SEVENTY YEARS AGO. How, things have changed in sevent No one can hardly tell • Burt few log houses now are left Where people used to dwell, . All the houses then were built Of 'logs just as they grew, They did not stop to peel the bark, Or even try to hew. A big sltaue chimney . all must have, Built up straight through the "peak," Covered with shingles two feet long, So they would never leak. They had to have an iron crane, And six or, seven hooks To (hang the kettles 'round the fire. And accommodate the cooks. The pots and kettles all were made I Of iron, thick and stout; Teakettles weighing_twenty pounds, With great long iron spouts. Old fashionedgriddles two feet wide; (But few now can be found.) All had a swivel in the bail So they could turn them round. Bake kettles, too, they always had. To bake big loaves of bread; They set them on live coals of fire With coals upon . the head. Six or seven ]kitchen chairs Mose always painted red And big and clumsy bedstead With dashboard at the head. Most every house had spinning wheels Por spinning wool and flax. Our mothers had to make the cloth To clothe the numerous backs. See how they had to spin and weave, An,d had to knit and sew ; Make all the stockings and the clothes. How can this all be so ? To see the tools they used to use, 'Twouid almost make you ache To see the swingling knives and board, And the old flax break. To see the warping bars they had, Those old long spools and ".scarp," And see the big and little wheels They used to spin their yarn. Some are wishing for old times, But ah! they notknow k ow The burden that our aparentsbor Some seventy years ago. Our dear old parents, they are ,g6n To another world than this, - If we could see them here .again'` How soonw'd be w ea kiss. FEEDING'VAiU•E-OF GRAIN. The various grain's produced on the farm have a low value now when sold) in their gross form. A man may haul thirty 'bushels of corn, to town in some parts of the country, and take back but about three dollars for it. The worth of his time, labor and team, is equal to half of this, and usually more. When the labor of caring for the cropi and gathering is considered, the corn grower has nothing whatever for the use of his land. The condition is de- plorable h in the case of the renter who' must give one-third of the crop to his landlord. The growing of corn and oats west of the Missouri river is therefore not at all profitable,i f produced witht the intention of selling it outright. The farmer must plan to reap the manu- facturer's profit by feeding it out on his own ground. It is ordinarily esti- mated that t twelve bushels of corn fed in the wasteful way on the average farm should produce 1CO pounds of pork, This means more than 20 cents per bushel for the corn, at the average price of gross pork during the past six months. It is true that the farmer's labor is increased to take care of the hogs. It is also true that the hags furnish employment to the farmer. If the farmer produces 1,200 bushels of corn, and by feeding it to his stock secures $120 additional for it, this means $10 per month for the year, payment for his pains which should not amount to more than ens -fourth of his, time. This estimate, however, is but an exceptional one. The very careful stock grower will realize double this amount on an average with all kinds of meat pro- ducing stock, as average returns dur- ing any period of ten. years. The worth of the'grain is not to be computed from the direct returns which follow feed-. ing it out. The combination of grain in moderate amounts with hay, fod- der and other rough foods gives the grain usually a much enhanced value- Besides this, a judicious mixture of several kinds of grain usually forms a ration which yields greater returns than any single grain alone. There is further economy in feeding a parti- cular grain at a certain stage of the animal's growth. During a considera- ble part of the summer and autumn, it is economy to feed no grain what- ever to some of the stock. Again, 'un- der other circumstances, it is the poorest economy to neglect feeding plenty of grain. In winter, when the weather is below zero, nearly every domestic animal should have 'a moder- ate ration of the most condensed form of one or more of the grains produced on the farm. The animal nature calls for fuel to maintain the heat of the body at this time. A considerable waste of fleshy and vital energy follows a neglect to sup- ply heat -producing food. Buildingsi and proper shelter fromthe winds form a substitute in part for heat -pro- ducing food. In the milder climate, in, winter, plenty of dry hay or other pro-' vender tends to balance up the ration of grazing, roots, vegetables, etc. In the frosty weather the animals will find considerable worth in the food' whatever it be,and this dry food may be used as a substitute • for corn or other grain when such con- densed food is not available. The farmers who can in no way pro- vide stock to consume their grain should make every possible exertion to carry over for another year as great a portion as can be held, as there is probability of much better value with- in the corning twelve months. With the great amount oil cheap money talked about now, honest men should be able to borrow a moderate amount of funds on good, sound grain that is carefully stored. Every effort should be made to grow some pigs and lambs the coming season. GRASS INCREASES FERTILITY. tocultivate1 The desire ' as. much ` lane 1n as possible in order. to get as much as possible from it has -led to general THE EXETER TIMES;; The Lover's Quarrel. neglect of meadow and pasture lands, says an eastern writer. .Only when was found that the soil had lost so much of its fertility that it would not pay for cultivatinig was it seeded down and left to grow up with such herbage, both weeds and grass, as nature pro- vided. The result is that most of the land now in grass is by that very fact, discredited as beim presumably good for nothing else. Yet there is in all grasd land a constant tendency to in- crease in fertility. It is \ n even when tthe land. is left to grow up h '- :weeds and bushes. These shelter the abesi,ce, hold. the leaves that fall on the land from being blown away. The decom- aosition of these leaves gradually builds pp the soil, and to this must be added the excrement from the animals fed cin the herbage which the soil is still sable to grow, The writer quoted above shays: Usually when the improvement of grass land is determined upon, the sod tj be turned under and rot, is regarded ap an important part of the soil as- sets. Improving the land as meadow and pasture by maturing it and still keeping it unplowed is hardly even thought of. Yet in most cases this, grass land, is, even with manure, nott quite rich enough for profitable.erop- ping, the experiment is worth trying of applying to it such manure as can be had and see what the increased• grass or hay product will be worths This is done successfully in England. Why may it not be also in the older parts of this country? The demand for ay is generally good in all eastern cities. Will it pay to fertilize grass lands so as to make the raising of hay profitable? If it will not pay to main' tain fertility in grass land the logical sequence is that all hay or grass ta- ken from it helps to reduce fertility so that the soil will be worth nothing for the production of any kind of crop., It is likely that in the future, as in the past, most of the hay crop in this country will be produced in the years when the rotation between cultivated crops and grass requires that the land be seeded. Our climate is not moist like that of England. Hence it can- not keep a good sod many years wills out plowing and reseeding. This also s so much the best for cultivated land that there needbeno fear thatthe profits for cultivated crops will lessen the amount of land in grass that there will not be hay enough to feed with grain and coarser fodder, nor that it will fail to he supplied at reasonable ri p case BEST BREED FOR THE DAIRY. One of our readers asks which is the best breed for butter and milk. There are people who can give direct and un- equivocal answers to all such questions, says Hoard's Dairyman, but the trouble is they do net agree. One says the Jer- sey, another the Holstein, a third the Guernsey, and another will name yen Shorthorns, Red Polls, Ayrshires, etc. These men are, as a rule of equal cred- ibility and presumably of equal intelii- enbe g and information. But this in- formation runs in different directions with the different individuals. The man who recommends one breed to the exclu- sion of others is usually more or less ignorant of the others, or is prejudiced against them. If t her e is any best breed. for both milk and butter, we do not know which it is. The impartial and most authen- tic records seem to show that the Hol- steins produce milk more cheaply than the others, and that Jerseys and Guern- I buts iitris within the observation poduce butter at less cost ofr oal- most every men, that the best cows in almost any breed are infinitely better than the poorest in other breeds. The advice usually given by the men in whom we have most confidence is that a man should adopt such .one of the dairy breeds as he most inclines to, and this for the reason that it is human nature to be most friendly and consid- erate towards those animal's that fill our eyes with greatest satisfaction; un - , less a man can put himself in complete rapport with. has stock it will net do its best. It is our opinion that there is quite as much room for choice with- in any breeded as there is between breeds, and h ce that i en ha tis not enough to Iadopt a particular breed. Be sure to 'get animals of a, distinctive dairy form and temperament, see that they have the incurving thigh, the high, arching flank, the rising pelvic arch, the clear eye, and general make-up that denotes high courage an d endurance. • THE RIVER THAMES. If the plans now under way are car- ried out as anticipated, the great work of widening and deepening the River Thames will before long be an accom- plished fact, and the commercial im- portance of that river thereby greatly increased. It being clear to the au- thorities, on extended examination and consultation with engineering experts, that a twenty-six foot channel was re- quired for at least nine -tenths of the shipping, it was decided that the -niork should be prosecuted, to be done solely by dredging. ,According to this plan, there will be from Gravesend up the river as far as Grayford Ness, opposite Harfleet,, a channel width of 1,000 feet and a minimum depth of twenty-four feet at low water, spring tide, while from Grayford Ness to the Albert docks the width is to be about 500 feet and the depth twenty-two, and from the latter to the Millwall Docks there will be a channel at least 300: feet wide and eighteen feet deep. ROYAIG RIGHT OF PARDON. It ofthevisit of Cza u 'Asa aces xi Nicholas to France 402 persons were released from prison. When Francis I. ruled : over France Charles V. of England passed thhou.g'h the country. The French ruler extended the royal prerogative of mercy to his disting- uished visitor and it was used several times, once to save the life of a poor wretch sentenced to be hanged for catching frogs in the moat of the cas- tle. The English monalrch, however, refused to -again exercise the right af- ter becoming a guest of the palace. 1; ING. C W CAUSF,D BY` GUM H p An operation was performed the other day upon Dalton Query of Blue Ridge, Indiana, for appendicitis, but he can- not possibly recovery. Query has been an inveterate chewer of gum, and in the appendix was found a ball of wax almost as large as a hen's egg.' "I will not give you back your let - tiers," said he. f'l3ut you have no right to keep them," said T, "now that you are not engaged to me airy longer, Mr. How- ard." "Oh, my dear," he answered, "you cannot have all the advantage. You have jilted me and you can say what you please, and 1 can prove the truth by our correspondence. 'I always kept the rough draft of mine, and there's no law' in the land to make me give up my own letters." "Gentlemen don't talk of law ; they think of honor," said L "Ah, 'whatever you please, Miss Travis. I suppose the fact that my grandfather did, no' leave me his pro- perty has a good deal to do /with things being as they are. Good -by, Miss Travis." But I must -have my letters back, and that night as I sat up in bed l thought of the watt' to do it. Ben—I mean Mr. Howard; he was Ben tee me no longer—lived with Sally Gray's mother. Sally was a girl you could trust. She was a plain little thing, with some- thing the matter with her spine, but just as good as gold. I told her every- thing, and now I intended to tell her the facts of the case and get her to let nes go into Ben's room while be was away' and look for my letters. I knew that Ben—I mean Mr. How- ard—was out by eight o'clock, and at nine i tapped oc the basement -win- dow, and Sally, who was making a cherry pie, looked up and saw me and opened the doer herseit And then and there I sat down and told her all about it and about the Letters. "And I wane you to help me to get them, Sally" I said, "Let me get in- to Mr. liaward'a room ane take what belongs to me. .sena you will, w'on't you 1" "It's a splendid idea," said Sally. "You'll have to wait until lunch is over and Miss Peck and Mrs. Jones go out. Then mother er will lie down for a nap, and Biddy will be getting things ready for dinner and Sarah rubbing the Rorke and glasses. I'll get the passkey—of course we have one for every room. Now, do stay for lunch, darling." And cold shivers ran .up my back when Sallyunlocked ked the door and d we were really in the room—his room. "I suppose hie keeps his letters in his desk," said she. "I know he doesn't put them in his trunk, but this key unlocks all the drawers and desks in the house. We keep it to lend the lodgers when they lose their key rings. Now, I shall lock you in and sit en the stairs to keep watchi though nothing can happen. I'll come for you exactly at four." I drew a chair to the desk, sat down, and turned the key in the lock. There was nothing inside but some notepaper, -and a little package oil legal cap, and pens,, and inkstand, and a blotting pad. "I shut. the desk and looked into the drawer. There was a cigar box." "Oh, dear," I thought, "where can I look now ?" Wind I was about to try my key on the drawers, when I heard the street door open and bang shut and feet ascend the stairs. Then a key rattled in the lock, and I did the only possible thingi to avoid discovery—at least for a moment. There was a wardrobe cupboard with curtains before' it. I ran toward it and stood bolt upright in the corner as Ben—I mean Mr. Howard—entered, followed by another man. They shut the door and sat down. They lighted their pipes. "Ben," said the strange person, "you are not looking well." "I'm feeling wretchedly," said Mr, Howard. "I wouldn't tell another fel- low, but I believe my heart is borken —there, don't laugh. You see that photograph on the mantelpiece "We were engaged to each other," said Ben, "and 1 loved her better then my life, and I thought she was very fond. of me. But you know my grand- father cut me out of his will, and then, a. rich fellow began to call upon her, and she picked a quarrel with me— that's all. She's a mercenary little wretch, but I—i am a fool, Henry. "1 love her still. T shall kelp her. photograph all my life—and her let- ters to read and kiss. I would not give them up." "Stuff and nonsense I" said this Mr. Henry—heartless brute 1 "You'll find a better girl in no time.." "There is but one 'woman in the world for me," said Ben. "There, now,' I'm done. You know my trouble. I'll hide it from the world, and you wilt never speak of it to any one, 1 know. "You'll not have any trouble in six' months," said the horrible Mr. Henry, "Now you'll come up and spend your. 1 withwon't you holiday me 8I'Il just YY step out and bury those things for my wife, and you pack up what you need and meet me at the station." Then Henry walked away, and Ben, —yes, Ben, nay poor Ben—took a bun- dle of letters from his bosom and kiss- ed them, and took down my photograph and kissed (that, and then, having pulled a bag from the corner, he walk- ed straight to the wardrobe and drew the curtain back. The next! moment he was staring at me and I at him. "Is it her ghost ?" I heard. himsay to himself, and 1—well, there I was. It was not a situation to impart dignty. It Is only me in the flesh, Ben," I said "I wed' I was a ghost so that I could vanish. And now you can boast; all your life, if you like—and I will; say something. Firstly, I did not carts: about your grandfather's horrid money. Secondly, I—I—only meant to tiff au. little—not to break off, only to frighte en you. Thirdly, 1 -1 --illi, I've found out that you really and truly love mei Ben—and though it is broken off—I— > want to know -1 used to love you very/ much—and I couldn't be going to marry old Mr. *Tavern], because he, is engaged to my Aunt - Oplve'lia, and he never wanted pie. I came to get my letters; but, yop. may keep them I -I've mis- understood yon, and though we part forever, forgive me, Ben." And Sally was my bridemaid when I married, and is to -day my dearest! friend and the only one who knows/ how Ben and I came to make up curt quarrel. A WIDE DIFFERENCE. e Here is a lesson. in the correct use. of two words. that are often confound- ed:— A fine -art critic was looking over the. pictures that had been submitted for a public exhibition. Well; said a friend, what do you think of th? Um—emer, a•nswered the 'critic; some of them ought to be hung ani. some Best for Wash Day For quick and easy work _ For cleanest, sweetest and whitest clothes --- Surprise Surprise is best Best for ,Every Day For every use about the house Surprise works. best and cheapest, Seq for yourself, CENSUS OF THE WORLD. Onsantic Project Planned for Opening of the Twentieth (century. As impossible as it may seem at first glance, it is nevertheless certain, re- marks a foreign newspaper, that an earnest effort will be made totake a census of the whole earth in the near future. This gigantic project is to be- come a fact with the advent of the twentieth century. (the plan was put into tangible shape at the recent con- vention, held in Berne, Switzerland, of the International Statistical insti- tute, the original proposition having been made by Dr. Guillaume, the direc- tor of the Swiss bureau of statistics, The convention appointed a committee of ways and means, consisting of prom- inent litatistioians, savants, travelers and geographers, who are to propose an acceptable method of realizing this grand scheme and report to the con- vention at its next biennial meeting. ! Nationally it is an impossibility to secure even approximately the exact data in many regions, such as the polar, many parts of Africa, Asia and else-' where, which have never been visited by the explorers, and which a census enumerator would never reach. The population of the globe is now esti- mated at 1700. o� ao 00othese being g i the figures of Profs. Behm and Wagner, of Gottingen, recognized as the lead- , ing tiuthorities in this department. Both, however, concede that these fig - sures are not absolutely reliable, y re able, and € are largely calculations based on the more or less reliable reports of travel- ers. This is, for instance, the case with such countries as China, Persia, Arabia and Turkey. They acknow- ledge that as far as China is concerned the figures may be MILLIONS TOQ HIGH OR TOO LOW, and that the estimate of Africa may be 50,000,000 otit of the way, and that errors in proportion may exist, in the figures claimed for rersia, Siam, Af- ghanistan, (turkey end other lands, China, however, has decided to under- take an official census. This prom- ise was made by Li Chung Tong in Ber- lin only lately. The governments of Turkey, Persia, Siam and Afghanistan are to be petitioned to assist the agents of this statistical institute in taking the census of these countries. Quite to natural. 5 • the e em of the institute can be realized only by the expenditure of considerable money and the application of a great deal of di- plomacy. Bert the institute is san- guine. Then, too, quite a number of alnds mu ste explored t t b e e aced be are 1900. 00 Bat if geographical research is pushed in the next years as vigorously as it has. been during the past decades, then there will scarcely be a mile of terri- tory in Africa which will not have been explored by travellers before the be- ginning of the twentieth century, and a census can be made, at least approxi- mately. Then, too, in the. year 1900 Russia will have almost completed her two vast systems of railroad across the continent of Asia, traversing all Siberia and the wild regions of Thibet, and these districts will be open to the trav- eler. It is, accordingly, proposed to sand a large colony of energetic tra- velers to these regions in 1000 to make a report on the unnumbered millions thatlivethis there. It is hoped that. th s census, notwithstanding its greatness and vastness, can be completed in a single week, in all the civilized nations of the globe. The attempt is even to b:e, made to have the census taken on one and the same day.- ,Pitts prg Dispatch. DR. SPINNEY tt CO. The Old Reliable Specialiste. 8 3 'Years Experitrraoe in the treatment of the Throat and Lung Troubles, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Nervous, Chronic and Special Dis- eases of men and women. Last YenhMtd restotder aod—KldneyandBrad. trubles permmneettyr cured—Gleet Gonorrhoea, Vsrteoceleaud stricture cured without pain. No Cutting. Syphilis and all Blood Diseases cared without mercury. Moan Ian Suffering from the el%cts of g youthful follies or iadiscretioas, or any troubled with Weakness, N'ervoea behiltty, Loss of Memory, De,pondeney, Aversion to Society, Kidney Troubles or tiny disease of the Genital -Urinary br- gans, can here find safe sad speedy cure. Cpoor.hargesCURES reasonGUAable,RAespecl4TE*iallyIl. to the Thereare manytroubled Middle -Aged Yen Kith too frequent evacu- tions of the bladder. often accompanied by a slight smarting or burning sensation, and weakening of the system in a manner the patient cannot account for. There are maymen who die of this difficulty, ignorantof the cause, The doctor will guarantee a per- fect cure in all such cases, and healthy restoration of the genito-urinary organs. Con- sultation free. Those unable to call, can write full particulars of their ease and have medicine sent by express, with full instructions for use. Mention this paper when writing. Office hours: From 9 a. on to 8 p. m. Sundays, 9 to 11 a. m. DR. SPINNEY & C(Sideari EntrancePARD 15 E. AVENUE. No. 1 L E. Elizabeth SSt.) DETROIT. MICH. ■ttltl�► .0111111111111112 FROZEN TO DEATH. , I. -- ThreeMen Driven n out fo Sea on Floating e r e ti Ice. A despatch from Halifax, N. S., says: —Amen Turbide, assistant keeper of the Bird. Rock light, reports that on Rhistwo as- sistants, afternoon h_ a d w Fr ayn Damien Cormier, aged 64, and Charlie Turbide, aged 17, left the Rock to capture some seals that were with- in 100 yards of the shore ice, the wind being moderate from the north-west. After they got on the ice it began run- ning, and the wind increased. It was impossible for them to get back, and they drifted off in asouth-easterly di- rection. In trying so hard to regain the Rock they god, in the water sev- eral times, and got their clothes all wet. Charlie Turbide perished about two o'clock on Saturday morning, and Cormier died a little after daylight. He (Turbide) left them an the ire un- der the upturned flat, and with a heavy heart tried to make the land that h: could see. After walking by day. ane' trying to keep himself from freezing' by night, he landed at Lowland Cove. about eight miles west of here, lasnight, anti was taken cure of by pet' ple who found him and brought hir to the telegraph office. His feet aa, badly frozen, and he is suffering wit: snow blindness. lie says the only per Coson on Bird Rock is the widow of t mier. COSTLIEST BOOK IN THE WORL,E The OfficialHistory of the War cost $8?, 185 re,. vola e. The most expensive book that war. ever published is the official histor.' of the war of the rebellion, which I. now issued by the Government of the United States. It has cost up to date, $2,334,328. Of this amount $1,184,991 has been paid for printing and binding. alone.. It will require at least three years longerer and an appropriationriatlon of perhaps 8110,000 to complete the work, so that the total cost w11 undoubted- ly reach nearly $3,000,000. The history will consist of 112 volumes, including au index and an atlas. Each volume will, therefore, cost an average of about 526,785. cludinalready are sent free to ublic lib -- tion is sold at prices ranging from 50 Trying to Determine whether Light Is Stored in Them. To demonstrate whether diamonds do, as has been claimed; store up light and subsequently give it off when, in com- plete darkness, the French investigat- or, Mr. Mascart, arranged a dark room, in which a collection of 150 diamonds was placed. In one side of the room an ordinary alternating current arc lamp was suspended. The lens, which served the purpose of concentrating the light was covered with a violet colored glass, so that only the ultra -violet rays were thrown on the diamonds. Am- ong the stones were several old Indi- ans, Brazilian and Cape stones, and sev- eral from the South Africa river dig- gings. Of the entire collections only three diamonds were phosphorescent— one, a Brazilian stone of one and five eights carats, possessed this quality in a remarkable degree, and an old Braz Ulan stone of three carats also show - e dthe same property, THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. N Q Alarming 'Rumors no to Bev Malesir's Conditeton. 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