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Exeter Times, 1897-4-22, Page 34, i;1 Fifty Years Ago. President Polk in the White House chair, While in Lowell was Doctor Ayer Both were busy for human weal One to govern and one to heal. And, as a president's power of will Sometimes depends on a liver -pill. Mr. Polk took Ayer's Pills I trow Icor his liver, 50 years ago. Ayer's Cathartic Pills were designed to supply a model purgative to people who had so long injured themselves with griping medicines. Being carefully prepared and their in- gredients adjusted to the exact necessities of the bowels and liver, their popularity was ins stantaneous. That this popu- larity has been maintained is well marked in the medal awarded these pills at th World's Fair 1893. 50 Years of Cures. DOD PILLS ALWAYS CURE AFi'ER TEN YEARS SUFFERING Two sox Cure MILPERTON, 28TH JULY, 1898. Gentlemen For the last ten years I had been troubled with kidney disease, being so bad at intervals that I could not lie in bed at night nor stoop to the ground. I had tried all the remedies I could find. without effect, but heard of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills and procured a box. I am most happy to say it for my own sake as well as for others that I am per. teotly cured after using four boxes. JOHN RILEY. EVERY F-AMM`IILY SHOULD KNOW THAI Re a very remarkable remedy, both for IN: T'ERNAL and EXTERNAL use, and won=. derful in its quick action to relieve distraint. PAIN -KILLER is a suss cure for Sore Throat, Coughs„ Chills. Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cramps, Cholera, and all Bowel Complaints. PAIN-KILLERla'AIiE BESTSm. e"ly known for est..,. Sickness Sick Headache, Pahl in the Hack or S1de,1 theumatlsm lad Neuralgia. PAIN -KILLER IS T,IQRrsTrnNAeLY the HEWS' LINIMENT MADE. It bring. SF££DY AAD rynMAN£NT RUM in all cases of Bruises, Cuts, Sprains, Severe "Burns, etc. C PAIN -KILLER PRACTICAL FARMING. RERIVIANEl r GRASS LAND. This is by far the most important crop grown wherever domestic animals are reared. It is the common herbage on Whish cattle are fed. Grass is the most favorable crop that can be grown, from the fact that it requires, but lit the capital, labor or machinery. Thus it would appear to be the last crop to be neglected. J3ut as such is really the case, it should be first to claim atten- tion to enhance the value of the farm and increase the live stock. Clay or heavy loam lands are the most suitable for grass, and, once well seeded, will improve, thicken up and bear heavier crops for many years. (May can be kept in grass as long as desired, pro- vided they are properly manured, for you cannot take off for successive years the crop without returning manure in some form to keep up the: fertility of the soil. Two tons of bay take from the soil the following mineral elements; Alkalies, potash and soda, eighty-nine pounds; alkaline earths, •lime, and mag- nesia, forty-four pounds; phosphoric ac- id, seventeen pounds. Ft will be found in practice that chemicals that cost at present prices about $5' for an acre, fur- nishing ninety-three pounds of alkali, sixty pounds of phosphoric acid, 100 lbs. alkaline earths and sixteen pounds of nitrogen will not only keep up but improve the fertil:ity.pf the soil, avoid- ing the necessity of the present bran, time every few years of breaking it up, cultivating it for a few years and then reseeding it to grass witty or without grain of some kind. It is expensive to break up grass landtl. It requires labor to cultivate nue crops before they) are again laid down to grass. This, with the cost of seed and manure, deters many from attempting it. Consequent - 1y the land is neglected, the crop, dim- inishes until it does not pay for cut- ting; it. is then turned to pasture, when finally bushes, weeds and moss take possession of tire soil, and tensor more acres are required to pasture one cow, when at the most two should suffice. Mowing lands yield: ug not one-half they should, more than doubling the oust of hay obtained, offer but poor en- couragement to grow stook 'forro- fiand oblige�i b one to keep only those which are absolutely necessary to do the work on the- farm. Thus the adage, is exemnp,ified: , "llieitthottt manure, no crops; without cattle, no dung; without grass, no cattle." If land at the present time in mow- ing is too uneven to work to advantage with Iabor-saving machines, it may be broken up and cultivated for a time or immediately laid down smooth and aaptedd to be worked will machinery. If already smooth, but run out, the top dressing with chemicals will restore an abundant crop and bring in the best grasses. If land now in pasture is ad - adapted to be worked with machinery. the buildings to put it in cultivation for want of maniere or expense of cart- ing in that distance, it can be broken up, manured with chemicals, put into cultivated crops for a few years, or at once laid down to grass smooth and even. If so now, there is no need of breaking it up, but keep it in grass by top -dressing with chemicals. It will then bear nourishing grass and in ab- undance. A pasture that well carry Len head of stock: is worth. more than double one that carries five. There is no way so easy or so oheap to double the value of the farm in eta crop' -produc- ing capacity, and consequentiy, its salable value, as to increase the growth of grass on the pastures and mowings. This enables more stook to be kept pro- fitably the crop is sent to market in a concentrated form, as in milk, butter, cheese or meat, manure is obtained from the stock, and this can be sup- plemented to advantage,, by the aid of ahemicaes. itVhen old grass lands are to be broken up, other than for a summer falow, the plowing should be done in autumn, in order that the veg- etable matter of the sod may under- go a partial decomposition in time to meet the wants of the spring crop, and that the soil may be exposed to the ameliorating influence of the wint- er frosts. Upon our grass lands depend the future of the /area, the . arising of grain, the rearing of stock and the products of the dairy; indeed, every gain which is derived from the farm depends upon these, to someextent, Is the well tried and trusted friend of the Mechanic, Farmer, Platter, Sailor. and in fact all classes wanting a medicine always at baud, and OAFS TO ties internally or externally with certainty of relief. Beware of imitations, Take none but the genuine • EssaY DAvie... Sold everywhere: iia big bottle. :'A.t,$LHpl9 CURED—SWORN STATERIENT, Mrs. Maggio McSlartin, 27 Radenhuret St., Terme" �.uI., spoors that ltyckman'e "Kootenay Cure" cure .rrr of Paralysis which rendered ono side of her bed: en tirely useleea. Fhrdicians said there was no ohmic:. her aver recovering the um of. her limbs. Hors !embed her, blit to=dayshe is walking around telling;, iter friends how Ryokman'e " Kootenay Cure"_gas s it :r life and happiness. Sworn to, July 10, 18S0, .afore J. W. Seymour Corley, Notary Public. .,'WORN STATEMENT etc A 6i1RATEFIIll, . MOTHER. Louisa White, nine years old, who suffered will flextime sine* her birth, has been entirely cured ant; lint general system built up•by Ryckutan's "Kootenay 'jure." The above facts are given in a sworn ,tale. int made by her mother, Mrs. George White, 130 .e"neon St„ Hamilton, Ont„ dated July 3, 1806, afore J. F. Monck, Notary Publics. 4 ,COMMINATION DISTURBED — SWORN STATEMENT MADE. ' Charles E. Newman, 13 Marlborough St., .Toronto Jnr., had a oomppltcation of blood troubles, Rhein. nudism, . severe Kidney trouble and constipation, eat frequently disturbed at night, lost his appetite and wee a very sick man. His Kidneys are now in e healthy condition, his appetite good, gimp undis- turbed oral tnatipation cured ; all this was done by P;yohman'r r Kootenay Cure." He makes s,'orn rtatomsnt the above tants before J. W. Seymour C.:easy, July 10, 1890, .' THE fl1ANYBXET ER TIMES ,+a • PRUNING STRAWBERRIES. The object of pruning is to . induce fruiifuiness and concentrate the strength of the plant on a fent strong buds which shall bring berries to great perfection and impart to them a firm texture and richer flavor. Never lose sight of the important fact that in fruiting a strawberry is multiplying its species by growing seeds, and if choked in this direction when set in the spring, it will next attempt to mul- tiply itself by making and rooting new buds (runners), and if these are pruned off its strength will be absorbed in mak- ing a new fruit bud or arowni on the side of the plant and a new runner will start from this, which,; if pruned again, makes a new crown, so that if all run- ners are kept off the plane will keep on growing in this way, forming, new crops,, until they assume mammoth pro- portions. Its roots will go; down deep and far out, occupying every square inch of soil with its feeding, roots for two or three feet in sill directions. Careful experiments have shown that vigorous fruit buds will not form in the dark. A large isolated plant drops its leaves out in all directional to the sun can shine on the crown or center, and the buds on such plants, are very much more stocky and perfect than, on those which are crowded so thickly to- gether that then' own foliage is: closed in, or the, leaves of other plants fall over the • crowns and shut out the Light. The great neesta)ke growers make is to allow runners to form and make foli,. age in abundance, • and thencub it all off at once. This destroys the balance between roots and foliage, so that the plant is thrown into 'a congested come althea that induces rust and other fun- gi which always attack weakened roots. The runners should be pruned off before leaves begin to form, and then the growth proceeds in the new crown toe Wally and leaf end root are equal. This introduces the question as to how many plants should be, put on an acre; and my answer is as many as possible;, THE EXETER TIMES with the following conditions complied with: Each plant must have sufficient space for root pasturage, so that it shall not trespass on other plants. Experi- ments 'have proven conclusively that vigorous fruit buds will not develop eve en in moderate shade. The strawberry is especially sensitive in this regard, and naturally throws its foliage out so the sun will shine on thei crown, and no other plant should be so near that its foliage will shade any other+ plant. Every leaf should be clear to receive sun light, in order that the plant may assimilate its feed. No plant can digest its food in the dark. The number of plants we can grow, then, will depend on the size, 'to which they will attain. If the work of cul- tivation is to be done with! the horse, room must be added fort'h((ispurpose,,and also for gathering the fruit. i My favorite way for growing fine fruit, of wheat people call medium-sized varieties, is in the hedge row,' that is, one plant wide and as close as their foliage will admit, Prune off the run- ners as soon as they appear by attach- ing a rolling cutter to the cultivator, and thus do the double work with the same labor. Those varieties designated as extra large I should grow strictly in hills, provided always that the ground was very rich to cause them to stool up Iargely. On poor sole I Should let somei run- ners form, but would never let any strawberry fgo without close pruning. R. IBM Kellogg, HORSE 'TALK. Better go twice than overload the team. This overloading is a fruitful cause for unsoundness. When loaded let the team, stop often to gettheir breath. It pays. Be especially careful in leading the colts -a little lack of judgment has ruined' many a fine horse. If von find you have too much load for the colt throw part of it off before he is discottraged. Let his muscles be- come used to work by SCOW degrees. If you have a man in your emp.oy that is tumid and nervous, keep him away from the roils. It requires a level-headed, cool, courageous man to handle colts successfully. Inspire their confidence by kindness and firmness every time you go near them, and the education will be easily and successfully accomplished. Drive only short. distances first, not. far enough to tire them in the least, Increase the distance a little every day, and you will insure a prompt free driver. Don't attempt to train the colt at all until he is in good condition and full of life, if you want him to develop style and action, and be fit to put on the market for a good price ween educated. The young colts should be kept on a ground floor. it must be dry and level. Don't neglect to give every horse on the farm, workers and drivers, a bran mash once every week. Every now and then give !them some potatoes, apples "or carrots. A variety is very acceptable and your horse will be in enough better condition to pay you. to fuss alittle. The foolish try to economize about this time by driving smooth -shod horses. Because Dobbin belts a part of his oats whole does not prove him. to be beyond 'usefulness. A young horse often does this. See if his teeth have not made his cheeks sore by becoming sharp. If so file them smooth. Dirty, dusty bedding is not suitable for a. horse whose coat is desired !clean and lustrous. PASSING OF THE MUSTANG. he Creat Droves or wild Horses Arc Nov Classed al Nuisances, The wild horse of Texas has become one of the greatest nuisances within the borders of the Lone Star State. Not satisfied with its freedom, the wild horse has adopted the tactics of the Apache and the Sioux and stampedes its brethren. Novelists have taught us to believe that the wild mustang is em- blematic of freedom pure and noble. The Texas re-nchman regards him as THE TREES OF MOI JONES an emissary of the evil one, for he brings to his ranch despair and loss. For the last decade the droves of horses that run free in Texas have been steadily increasing in number and strength,. Years ago it was worth while to catch these animals to sell. Nowadays it is hard work to sell a mus- tang for use even as a cow pony. For- merly it was the case that there was no horse for the stockman, the cattle grow- er, like the Texas pony which had run wild, for the first four or five years of its life. Lean and sinewy as an Arab, with the endurance of an Indian and a capacity for steady speed that can only be likened to a locomotive, he was a treasure. Well seasoned, a cow pony could be ridden a hundred miles in a single day and come out of the encoun- ter with fatigue with flying colors. The wild horse, however -that same animal which the ten -cent novelist de- scribes as the "fiery, untamed steed' - believes the sweets of freedom are so very sweet that all his brethren in bondage should share them. With this in mind, therefore, he swoops down upon the enclosure of the ranchman, in- duces the cow ponies 'to brave the ter- rors of jumping a barb wire fence and take chances on clearing the sides of the corral. The result is that the stock- man, unless one of his riders stops on guard, is likely to wake up in the morn- inig and find his herd stampeded. If it is the round -up, the first thing the wranglers know a thunder of hoofs comes from the -prairie, a shrill neigh- ing, which 1 h herd answers in equally shrill. notes. The hoof beats sound nearer and nearer, the herd. growsmore and more excited and uneasy, until fin- ally the wildmustangs dash in and mingle with the cow ponies, and in a moment more all are off for some place, no ,one knows' where. The wranglers,• or herders, will be fortunate, indeed, if they cap; control; their own animals and avoid being forced to join in the stain - pods. WREi5T1,XNG.IN INDIA; Wrestling in India, like prize -fight- ing in England and America, still draws crowds•, and is considered by, In- dians of ` high positions the king of sports, Many Rajahs keep their pahlwans,-and pay them handsomely, and often bestow on them good pensions on 'retirement. In the leun jab there are- at the present day two of these wrestlers, tia.h'lwmns, one a Sikh, by name Keekar Singh, the other a Moh- ammedan ; both are in the service o8 R'a'ahs. Last year they wrestled in Lahore, in the presence of thousand of spectators, each combatant being paid about! £250 to x6800, 'whother he lest or won Jones' wrath was on the rise. The leavening process had begun with ai toothache at abolut 3 o'clock in thea' morning. During the diversion of walk- ing the floor he had stepped on the business end of a tack, knocked the. globe off the gas light and spilled the last drop of toothache Medicine isd trying to resale) it. About 5 in the morning he fell asleep again, and sev- eral hetues later awake with a start. "Great heavens l Half -past 9, and h had an emgagelnent at the office at 9, o'clock! Mary, what on earth did yore letniesleep so long for I" he roared to his wife, but Mary wasn't within hear- ing distance,. Jones got uii with a bound, landed on the foot that had lately' been invad- ed by the tack, and was instantly dee ituged with horrible recollections of the night. His temper already registered a, high degree of heat, when he rushed to the speaking tube and blew a blast that almost knocked out the whistle. "Mary !" he yelled, "where are yoke?'" "Hera I am in the kitchen, dear." "What on earth did you let me over- sleep for ?" "Because, dear. breakfasts will be a little late. The cook )seems to have Ieft" "The cook gone l" eroared Jones, thinking of his prospective breakfast. "Weal, if that doesn't fit in with my luck l" The flet thing Jones saw when he went back into his dressing room watt a two -days' growth of whiskers. He, of course, started in to make prepara- tions for sweeping them off. "Not a drop of hot water," he yelled, turning on the faucet, and be was about to balance the deficit with a few mild oaths, when Mrs. Jones ap- peared in the door. "I don't see why I wasn't born with- out. a hisketrs," he grumbled. "Why, hy, y oki were, dear," put in his wife demurely. Jones lost the point in a chase for a colla,' button and soon appeared, in a. very y rut fled mood, at the breakfast, table. "Well, Mary," said be, looking at, the chops, "you'd better pound up this meat and use it for tooth powder - it's burned to charcoal! And there's batter enough on those potatoes to grease all the wheels in town. What do yqu call those things over there -- cakes?" said he, spearing several with a fork. "They look as if they'd been punched out of tin plate with a bis- cuit cutter I Great heavens! Such fodder, Mary. Hoyt do you expect me to eat it?" t , "It's good enough for bears," ans- wered his disheartened wife, "and if it is bad to eat, it's a good deal worse to cook it. I didn't marry you to do the servants' work anyhow." And with a haughty toss of her head she left. the table. Jones then turned to read his morn- ing's mail. How's this -$50 for remodeling seal- skin coats," he said to ' himself. "Mary," he yelled, "have you had your coat made over I" "Why, certainly," she answered. "Didn't I buy you a tnew sealskin cape this winter ?" Certainly," said she disdainfully, "but. I had to have my coat too" "Fifty dollars," sighed Jones. "Well if that isn't enough to make a man swear I" "Just read it five, dear," called out his wife. "A cipher is nothing, you know,." Jones then opened a gas hill, upon which he dropped so many sparks of indignation that an explosion of tem- per was the result. So grabbing his hat, he banged the doer behind him and started an his way to his phaco of business. He got to the corner just in time to miss a car, and was decorating the atmosphere the conventional hue, when a friend joined him to welt for the next car. "Why. I thought you'd gone to Eu- rope. His friend seemed suddenly to have been infected with the depressing of Jones' mood. "Weal, I was going," be said, sullenly "but I had an accident." "You did, eh," rejoined Jones, me- chanically, for it made no difference to him. Yes," continued his friend, "I drew obit $2,000 in bills and was counting it over the night before I was to start. I was sitting in front of the grate, and had it spread o!ut on my knee, when some idiot opened theoutside door, and the: draft blew the whole wad into the fire before I had time to think what had happened." "Humph," growled !Tones. "Hard luck." Yes, I thought s4." Just then the car tpassed the smold- ering remains of a beg fire. "What's the matter' here ? said Jones, interested for the first time. , "Why, fire, of course. Haven't you heard of it? The morning papers are full of it. Place been Vanning all night. Big loss, too. Insurance ran out a week ago and hadn't been re, newed. Poor Parsons is bankrupt, How's that for hick ?" le eves jest beiginuing to dawn on Jones that he was ,not the only man in the world who had tro' ibles of his own, when he arrived at his office. He hadn't been there long, when a man cause in hurriedly, and asked if he had disposed of a certain piece of property. ' o," said Jones, regretfully, "I was to have sold it this morning at 9 but I was late fon thdi engagement and missed my man'." "Well, I'm glad of tihiat," said the Other man. "I want that piece of land, and will give you $8,000 for it. Is it it bargain?" t Jones felt himself swelling up with the satisfaction that goes alongwith lucky strike.. Was it's bargalin I Welk rather, for him. lead he met his dee peered 9 o'clockf engagement: it would have been • solid or$2.000 less The change e that Jones' disposition suddenly underwent was a wonder. , He had now worked back to the pristine stete cat good humor for which he was noted among his friends, and immedi- atelly began to to hard to persuade himself that he had not been) obnoxious to everybody for the last few' hours. Beat the only way he could do so seem, e.d tie be by way of a little weal` a1 aid. <a�e_an Wash Day For quick and easy work For cleanest, sweetest and whitest clothes Surprise Is best office force in so lavish and uncalled for a manner that they all began to wonder what was up. He tipped the elevator boy, without any cause foe doe ing so, and suggested an extra vacate tion on full pay to his bookkeeper-, much to that gentleman's surprise-, who accepted, however, without inquire ing into the cause. Then after cone siderable skirmishing with bellsand phones, he called the office boy, and told him to deliver this note: Aly Darling Wife -I send you three dozen jack roses and tickets for the opera. Meet me at the box office at 8 o'clock, t Yours devotedly, TOBACCO SMOKING. One million Tons a Year Goes Pp iu Smoke in All the Countries of the Globe. Spain is not a wealthy country, and her 4 per cent. bond:, guaranteed by the Government and protected by the security of public property and the rev- enues from customs and local taxes are selling at 59 cents on the dollar. But the people of Spain last year (and not the male inhabitants of the Spanish peninsula exclusively) smoked $31.000,- 000 31.000,000 worth of tobacco, an average of 81.80 for each inhabitant. The total con- sumption oo tobacco in Spain in ayear fur cigarettes, (which are 'very popu- lar), cigars and snuff is twenty thou- sand tons, she same quantity that is consumed in Italy, a country with near- ly twicethe population of Spain, The Spaniards are greater smokers than the Italians, as these figures show, andthey use, too, it may be added, a much bet- ter quality of tobacco, or more properly speaking, 'they use more of the bet- ter quality, One-third .of the tobacco used in Italy is raised, so to speak, on the premises, and its excellence is not such that there is a large foreign de- mand for it. , The consumption of tobacco in the United Kingdom amounts in a year to about 25,000 tons, and in France to 40,- 000 tons, a disparity which is much greater than the difference in popu- lation, and has been steadily growing of late years. At the beginning of the present century .mord s :,' ung esed per capita in Elgiand than in France, but gradually end steadily the French per capita consumption has increased, owing, some think, to the fact that for more than eighty years the sale of to- bacco in any form in France has been a Government monopoly, the profits from which have gone toward the re- duction of taxation, and the busines.- of which has been greatly stimulate -I by legislation. An enormous quantity of tobacco, amounting .in a year to 75, 000 tons, as consumed in Germany. ant the Germans, it is to be observed, art rather pipe than cigarette smokers, cut tobacco in Germany being the chief item of demand. Germany raises about 40 per cent. of the tobacco which its people use and imports the other 60 - Germany is the country of pipe smoke ers, as the United States are, beyond ' all other countries, the land of cigar smokers. And when the figures of for- eign countries are compared with those of the United, States, the extent of the American consumption may be judged readily. There were collected as rev- enue last year by the Treasury Depart- ment taxes on tobacco to the amount of $30,000,000-$12,500,000 on cigars, $1,- 600,000 on cigarettes, $650,0900 on snuff, and the balance, $15,250,090 on smoking and chewing tobacco. The American product of the tobacco amounts in a year to 250,000' tons, or ulbout one-quar- ter of the whole tobacco product of the world. The a arts of American to- bacco are about 150,000 tons, of which Holland, Belgium, England and Ger- many are the chief consumers. The im- ports of tobaccg'into the United States , chiefly from Cuba and from the Dutch possessions, amount to 15,000 tons in a. year. Since the beginning of the Cu- ban war the amount of tobacco import- ed has decreased. Holland uses in pro- portion to its population more tobacco than does any other country in the world. the average consumption being 100 ounces a year for each inhabitant.. Belgium averages 80, Turkey 70, and the United States about 60. Although the habit is no longer so generally dif- fused as it once was, the United States hold the unviable position of being hold the unenviable position of being first among the nations in the amount of chewing tobacco used. .Ftvery room i don, has a tele The prizes a party in Atehi Bibles. No two clocks time exactly '6r tee:mously. The cleanest city( 7,n nee • Cannes, France. An the scree ing there is done by a brigad men. ;llbe telephone which extends over longest route is that between .Bos ami St. Louis, a distance of 1,400 A toboggan slide in St. Moritz, S errand, is three-quarters of a mile 1 The descent is made in seventy -on seconds. Over 700 people assembled near A.t- abison to engage in a wolf bunt. They captured about 200 jack -rabbits, but nett a wolf was seen. A thief in, Monterey. Mexico, thr " a hook and line through an opeee s izr, dtnv, and stole the bedclotbsitete, which the owner of the: necessarily slumbering. ins. We hex e ; The salary of the Prtttll beitriilf 1 dorra, a republic in teed in the H' •chain the smallest receivedennd let the executive in the waw BETWEillN the $1.50 a moutile or $18 tltside thelia, a In, Tampa, Fla., the nbicycle their cows from house ro=ve 1'e, en milk them before the eyes Seethe sus- tourers. This custom also prevails i.. mast of the Cuban towns. A generous swain in Chicago, after of paying one dollar for a =triage 1. cense, manfully said as he threw dow a second. dollar, "Mere! give me an- other license. I want one for the girl too," Andrew Bair, of Warfieldsburg, Mild., is still a very active ma -u at the age of eighty-three, and has never exper- ienced a day's illness. Meat has nevri er passed his lips, and he lives entirely on vegetable food. T,lee left foot of W. A. Fox, of Argen tine, Kansas, went to sleep and con tinned torpid for twenty days, the to pidity finally extending above th. knee. Surgeons were about to ampu tate the leg when the man died.. The :se of S14M) at ten per cent. •'ampounai 'interest for fifty years will amount to $117,390. Young man, why didn't some angel advise your father to invest -Mar sum for your benefit half a century ago? A footpad demanded assistance from •i gentleman iu Minneapolis. The e'n'tleman refused, and the fotpad timed a pistol at his heart. The bul- 'et lodged in a well-filled pocket -book, Ind murder was thus prevented. Two boys, pupils in, a Leavenworth nigh school, engaged in a. prize fight to decide which was the better entitled to a certain girl's affections. They were dismissed from the school, and the girlginow turns upon themi the marble ce. A flying pio'eon dashed violently into the face of Mrs. Cora Strenrhard, of Kremis, Pa. The lady jerked her head backward with such force that her neck was broken-, and it is now in a plaster mold. There are hopes of her recovery. ria Two gentlemen in Calais, Maine, one fat and the other thin, lately met and compared notes. The fat man had been advised to drink a glass of water be- • fore each, meal to make him thin; and the thin man had, been directed by another physician to use the same treaianentt to make him fat. Little woolen dolls, four inches high and made to resemble national cele- brities are used in the beer cellars of Munich, to mark the glasses in which the foaming beverage as served. This method is to insure a. return to each customer of his own, glass after it has been refilled. No two of the beer . markers are alike. i When Wholes was Vice -President, !. and thhereforepresidiing officer in the Senate, he would not permit one Sen- , ator to refer to a colleague as "my friend from Virginia," or "the gen- ' tienian from Massachusetts." He in- sisted. that the correct phrase was i'the Senator from Virginia," or "the Senator from Massachusetts." Jo(hin Jacor Astor's new hotel, ad- ' joining the Waldorf, in New York, is to be called. the Astoria, and will have 1,000 rooms. The ball -room will be 85 by 96 feet and 40 feet in 'height, with . two tiers of galleries, its cost will be I about $5,000,000. Both hotels will, when in operation, require the atten- dame of 1,000 persons. KAISER'S SONS TOYS FOR CHARITY According to the diary of a German courtier, the children of the Emperor are well supplied with play things, On Easter eve, he writes, the tutor of the Emperor's sons bolloots all the toys which have been given the children during the year. They consist for the most part of things of a military na- ture, such as miniature cannons, sabres, horns, deems, cornetts, and, of course, tin soldiers. Then he causes them to be repainted and generally repaired. and distributes them among the poet and the hospitals of.. the cpital. Last Easter four cart loads oftoys were thus distributed. ' PALE GIRLS. Weak, languid and listless, suffer- ing from heart palpitation, ner- vousness, stomach troubles or constipation, should use Indian. Woman's Balm. It cures. Run dove ' , easily tired, pain in baok or mbet eroubled with dizslnese, r h of blood to - head, faint eeliu r.-at2eea, Indian. ;Wo fi'e Bairn* -1:11' -nature's remedy for 'women.: ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. Two very effective methods have re- cently been discovered for making ar- tificial flowers. One is the use of bak- ers' bread, the other is by using the inner pith of the fan palm of Japan. "Bread" flowers are made in England only, this factory being in the West End of London, where something like 100 expert hands are employed. The process is still a secret ; and, as the flowers are so natural in appearance as to deceive the eyes of an expert, it is considered very valuable. For silt only do these flowers look exactly like the real article when freshly made,. but as the bread grows stale' the flow..,OS eve ers assume a slightly withered. appeae see twice which is almost identical w^ • that of a flower beginning to fed S' Artificial flowers, as a rule, can at be detected . by the unnaturally bet W and fresh appearance- hey present, being in the ball r an for er hams, but • the faciiiaa; ; ' oveers o bread flowers preeti agains'i detection. I for, corsage ewaU>a PYNY-P Posit' - ly COUGHS in a surprisingly she entific certainty, trim and healing in its elle W. C. McCo report Ina letter that C. Garman of chronic cold tubes, and also cured W. laagatandlag cold. MR. J, H. Hurry, Chen, $38 Yonne St.'I '•Asa gsnerat cough and 1 Pectoral is a roust invaluable hes given the utmost antlers have tried it, many having at' benelta derived from Its use It is suitable for old or young, the taste. Its mils with me hal and I con always recommend reliable cough medicine." Large Dottie. DAVIS & LAWRENC Sole Propri Mourne len €t AGRA DELICT► l? IN SEALED 0 4,UUR' THE SUPERVISION 4' reit PLMil it MONSa O N ,s EA,A {rte Is packed under the supert fr of t and is advertised. and sold them. the best qualities of IntliaS ud that reason they see that noneabut leaves go into 1ilonsoon`pacttages. That is why "Monsoon," the p be sold at the same price as inferior It is put up in sealed caddies of r 5 lbs., and sold in three flavours at ¢0c STEEL, HATTER & CO., Front HOW POLAR ICE r0' Doctor Neaten also observe ice does not form by .direr on the Polar Sea, to a -Ehii ceedi.ng about thirteen fee was, the maximum 'nude in the tee -fields the greatly increased ;b broken masses, Mt eAds and waves;