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The railways of tlio world carry ov 4(J,(KK),0()0 1MIHHCI1BITH Weekly. Wind moil In Japan curry a whistle which they blow to warn passers-by, Uwo thousand Latter Dny Kaint missionaries are said to bo In Knglnml JiiHt now. Ninety-live thousand tong of Ainorl ran apples arc Imported Into Knelaud every year. A Hwordllsh wan raptured by a New London (Conn.) Hklpper wlilch welshed (100 pounds. Taking It year In and year out, the oohlest hour of each twenty-four Is o'clock In the morning. The nveriitfe walking pace of lipalthy man or woman Is said to be weventy-nvc steps n minute. Itats are fond of aunllowcr seeds. trap baited with these weds seldom falls to catch the rodents. They gay there are alxiut 200 differ cut shapes and varieties of tooth pull Iiir forceps on the market. In the United States there are 410 different species of trees; nnd nineteen of them, when perfectly seasoned, will sink In water. The prison population of India, lnrpe ns It Is. Is only IW per lOO.OOu Inhabit ants, or loss than half the proportion that prevails In Groat Britain. Twenty new paper making machines arc to be added to the New England Mills this year, each machine having a capacity of fifteen tons dally. A Itudn-I'esth Journal notes the fact that :)2,000 season tickets were sold for the millennium exposition In that city while at the last Paris exposition only 19,000 were sold. The wool clip of Robert Taylor, of Casper, Wye, for the present year Is 150,000 pounds. Mr. Taylor Is believed to be the largest Individual wool grow or In the United States. I'aris concierges have received a blow .by a law Just passed In the chamber of deputies, punishing by a maximum of a year's imprisonment and ?100 fine the suppression or opening of private letters. The Microbiological Institute at Mad rid has published statistics that show 1 hat only 10 per cent of diphtheria pa ticnts treated with the serum died w.hereas previously (from 1HS2 to 1MH) the mortality had been HO per cent. A pencil drawing, p.n-ily colored, of George, prince of Wales, 1708, by Rich ard Cosway, the miniaturist, brought Jf-120 In London recently; another of George In 1772 brought $.V0, while one of Caroline of Urunswick, his princess, brought ?435. A ninn In Germany recently bought 1,000 cigars and had them Insured against tire. Then he smoked them, and demanded the amount of the policy from the Insurance company. The com pany refusing to pay it, he brought suit and got a verdict. Only a week before the passage In the lords of the deceased wife's sister 1.111 a divorce case was thrown out of court by Sir Francis Jenue without any Inquiry as to where the marringo hud taken place, on the admission thnt th.; wife In the ense was the sister of her husband's first wife. At Marlborough house there Is more ceremony, socially speaking, thnn at Sandrlngham. A number of servants herald your arrival or departure, and there nre usually two iervants stand ing outside of your room door when you are staying In the house and a man be hind the chair of every guest at meal time. The day on the moon is a fortnight In length. During that period the tem perature on the illuminated side prob ably rises to 220 degrees Fahrenheit, nnd during the period of darkness the heat probably radiates so freely that the temperature falls to 300 degrees below the zero of the Fahrenheit scale. '1 he night is, of course, of equal length. "Marniaduke" In London Truth asks It it Is not time that the custom of bury ing murderers in uneoiisecratod ground should cense? "Whi n the criminal has paid the extreme penalty of the law, if Is ludicrous for the State to pretend that it can in any way affect him In the next world; while, even If It were In Its power, it would be abominable to do so." The total amount paid out for ill kinds of pensions in the United King dom for the year ending March. 1S!)2, was 11.5SS,Sfi2. Then pensions for the civil list amounted to 2.101.i.S7; for the army. 3,714.r73; for the navy, 1. 742.S12, and for the survivors of former distinguished naval and military men. ii,720. The whole number of recip ient's of all classes Is 102,040. Important improvements in Roentgen photography are announced from Ber lin. The most interesting Is a simple method of photographing the stomach and Intestines. It Is only necessary f.ir Ihe patient to drink some harmless solution of mineral salt, such as lime water, which is as Impenetrable as bone to X rays, and excellent results are obtained. Belfort, the eastern gate of France, and Kambervillers. In the Vosges Moun tains, have just received the cross of the Legion of Honor, which will be em blazoned on the town arms, in honor of the gallant resistance they made to the Germans twenty-five years ago. Altogether, nine towns In France now have the cross of the Legion of Honor on their coat of arms. The mosaic work with which the crypt of St, Faul's Cathedral 1 paved was made by the female convicts a: Working prison. The qnarries of the Isle of Portland, In Dorsetshire, suit plied the materials for St. Tsui's Catb-?- dral. and for all the most splendid buildings In London. About 70,000 ton of Toi-tlnnd stone are now exported an nually from these quarries. A Uonibay nvwspaper declares that the castor oil plant affords a means of protection against iiioniiuIioch. In Egypt It Is planted about houses .j drive thu Insects away. In towns a better plan Is to have the young plant In pots and bring them Into the hou. tor a day or two at a time, but the palma Chrlstl Is a sun-loving plant, and then-fore must not be kept too long la the shude. Thu heads of the naval and military departments n Kiigland were ho Im pressed with tlie wholcrtoiucucHH and superior nutriment of cocoa that they iu l.St." Judiciously directed that It should be served out twice or thrice a week to regiments of thu line, and to the seamen on board of ller Majesty's ships, and this wise regulation evinced Its snlutnry effects In the Ininrovcd i health and condition of the men Germany has made some bold experi ments at railroad speed on the line be tween Berlin and Gorlit.. The bent performance was slxty-Hve and three quarters miles, which was twelve miles better than the. highest speed of tlu fastest German train, the Ilerlln- Ham burg lightning express, which does 177Vi In three anil one-half hours. Ordi nary German express trains make forty-three and one-half miles au hour. As the result of the existence of a cattle trust In liclglum the humbler classes of the population there are forced to purchase horse tlesli as u sun btltute for ls'cf. The Antwerp corre spondent of a London Journal says that for some time past the importation of cattle Into Belgium from tho I'lilted'a. sure States and Canada "has been prohibited owlnir to the detection, alleged or real, of a single case of pleuro-piieumoiil.i." From an artesian well 1SS feet deep, recently bored at San Marcos, To.vi.t, there were expelled more than a dozen specimens of a remarkable hactrachiin. together with numerous crustaceans. r .on, me -American -Nuuirtiusi n ,p. prars umi me crus.iaee.ius comprise numerous shrimps (one new pooio: pnlaeomonotes artroruni). a lesser num- It first appeared on his lip and resem lier of Islpods of a new genus (clrolan- j bled a fever blister, but spread rapidly ides) and a verv lew nmphlpods. All the species are whit. -ml I unusually long, slender feet and an- tennae. Jennie Woodward, a 5-year-old girl, 1 iving near Kingston, N. V lias a big black cat which Is her constant ciiiiprin- ion. Tlie girl and cat were playing in he yard, when the cat began to watch a crevice lu a stone wall. The child's urlosity was aroused. As she dr-'w near to peer Into the crevice a large attlcsnake darted out toward the child. The next Instant the cat had sprung to the rescue, seized the snake and crushed Its spine. Tho snake measured six feet and three inches. So seriously has the city of London taken the custom of the buttonhole bou quets worn by stockbrokers that it bus actually given the women who sell flowers recognition. The flower girls, s they nre all gallantly called, are per mitted by the regulations to set down their baskets and sell their flowers round the Iron railings opposite the Royal Exchange. They nre among the most respected stall holders In the city. They nre uniformly polite, ns they nviy well be, since they may be said to be on speaking terms with nil the youth ind gallantry of Threndneedlo street and Throgmorton avenue, nnd they are very skilled In tho making of boutonnleres. The Armenian relief fund has beaten the record among the various efforts to relieve extraordinary distress. The mount forwarded to Constantinople lready reaches $715,000. Of this P00 represents the relief fund proper. ollected by the Duke of Westminster's oinnilttee from England and Ireland. inericn has sent direct to Constantino ple $2."i0,(i00. Scotland, whose Interests in afllicted Armenia is very keen, lias out $,"0,000, and France has sent ns much ns Scotland. Germany, Swirzer- nd and the British colonies have sent contributions, too, though Gernmiiv th Its $1. ".()(!() Is some distance behind ranee; while the Armenians tliein- Ives scattered throughout Europe ive collected $80,000. Is This Marringo Legal? An odd case has come up In San Francisco with regard to tlu legality of a certain marriage. Two Califor nlans, an uncle and a niece, wishing to marry, found that the State law for bade It within such relationship. There fore, after consulting lawyers they went aboard a tug which carried them out to sen beyond the jurisdiction of the State, and there they were made man and wife. According to California law the legality of a marriage depends upon the law of tlie place where the marriage Is contracted. It now re mains to bo determined whether any statute of the United States covers the case, since, if the vessel was of Amer ican register, the marriage took place within tlie jurisdiction of the United States. Buffalo Courier. Not His t'niitt. The mendicant stood before the way farer with otitstreti-hed hands. "I'lease. Kir." he said. "I have Keen better days." "Well, that's no affair of mine." said the wayfarer. "Make your complaint to tlie clerk of the weather if you don't like this kind of a day." Amusing Journal. He I'M. "Are you still fussing with your next door neighbor about that tree?" "Yes: it kills the grass on my side of the fence." "Why don't you bury the hatchet?" "Just what I'm going to do tonight In the tree." Washington Times. Mrs. Casey Joont ffe little Mary ma kin' love to little Moikey. Mrs. Ker rigan (Jod blip the pxr men when he grows oop. She makes love like a wid der already." ruck. 1 i m Water Far City llmM. The ancient idea of flashing the Mf en anit gutters of city street with water ii being rigorously discussed in many placet. In Englund it has come into such favor that a proposition is now put forward to supply the city of London with sea water. The water would be taken from the sea at a spot not for from Brighton remarkably free from pollution. It would be pumped into a reservoir of 10,000,000 gallons. Thence it would be forced into another reservoir, from which it would gravi tate to London. The present consump tion of water in London is 200,000,000 gallons a day, of which 40,000,000 gal lons is nsed for municipal purposes. This might be saved for domestic fiur poses by the introduction of sea water. The cost of tho project is put at 2, 250. -000, and the sea water would be sup plied by meter for public purposes at a fraction of the present cost of fresh wa ter. One watering of the streets with sea water is said to be equal to two, or even three, with fresh water. It pre- : vents tho decomposition of street refuse, it is effective for flashing sewers, and I particularly valunble for the. extinction of fire. Of its value to hcnlth there Is I no doubt, and it would be easy to sup- ply it to hospitals and to schools for swimming baths. par last and always advert'sed m a true blood put 1 Ber. the most woadcrl il cures on record nre made aud the greatest calua am won by GO'S to Sarsaparilla pet Hood's, only llood'i Hood's Pills cure all liver ills, biliousness. His Lip Gone. M Nichoison. -ho lives at the ; .rner f rnrran and Anderson StS. . At- 1 Janta, Ga., had a cancer for years. ' soon egan to aestrov ine uebu. J j ai(1 in different cities. w it seemed iin- i nrwsible to check the disease. Several I operations were performed but the can- cer always returned. This continued for vears until the partition in ins nose and his entire Up per lip were eaterj away. All treat ment having proved fntilo. Ill" Innkerl , upon death as thC ' only relief, "Some one re commended S.S.S." he says, "and a few bottles afford ed some relief; thus encouraged I con tinued it, and it was not long be fore the progress of the disease seem I persevered 'in its use, and remarkable as it may seem, I am completely cured, and feel like I have new life. .S.S.S. is the most re markable remedy in the world, and evervone will aeree that the cure was a wonderful one." A Real Blood Remedy Cancer is in the blood and it is folly to expect an operation to cure it. S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) is a real remedy for every disease of the blood. Books malted free; address Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ba. Featherbone r Edge BIAS VELVETEEN SKIRT BINDING I has a strip of Featherbone stitched in one edge. It both flares and i binds the skirt and holds it away from the feet ; the newest of the S. I H. & M. bindings. If your dealer will not j supply you we will. j Samples showing labels and materials mailed free. ! " Home Dressmaking Mde Easy." a new 72 pag book by Miss Emma M. Hooper. of the Ladles' Homt I Journal, tells In plain words nowio mam dresses . nome wunoui previous training mailed for 25c 5. H. & M. Co., P. O. Box 609, N. Y. City. FRAZER AXLE ODCACC BEST IN THE WORLD. MlViairtVs. I Its wearing qualltlesareunsnmas'ed.actually ! outlasting two boxes ol any other brand Fret from Anlm! Oils. flT THK OKMJINS, 1 FUR SALE BY OKKUON AND I f3r-WASHlNOTOX MKKOHANT8-SJX1 and Dealers generally. DROPSY TREATED FREE Poaltlv ly Cured with Vegetable Remedial Hare cured thenaands of caaea. Cure eaaea pro-1 flounced hopeless br beatpbyatclans. From oratdosi : symptoms disappear: in ten darsatleaat two-thlrdi ; ail iTmnLnmi ramnved. Send tor tree book teitlmo i olala of mlracnlons core Ten days treatroere free by mall. If yon order trial, send 10c. In atampi orpay poauute. Db. H.H GRiiNSu-s,Atlanu,(e lfyoo orderlrtal return tola advertisement to ui FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE SICK or "Just Don't Feed Well," pLIVER PILLS are tba One Tbtng tone. Only One for a Doss, Bold by Druaiitta at SBo. a box Bun plea mall4 free. AddreaS , or. ttounko Med. Co. phlla. 1-a. ed checked. at v -1 MRS. WINSLOW'S HwJH j - FOR CHILDREN TEETHING ! ! "uaUf ta itiiui lima! ' 1 1 I Baa tooth bjrap. Taaaaa ttoL Use 1 1 I 1 ta tlx tV-ld fry dresTlata. I I A WONDERFUL GUN. Poll the Trigger and It Flros Eight Phot In ttnrc-aeinn. What is claimed to be a most re markable weapon and one which Is ns great an improvement over tho ordl- nary revolver for military purpose as was the revolver over the old-time horse-pistol, has been brought out by a Berlin flrm. The construction of this latest development In tl rearms manu facture Is upon entirely new lines, so far as regards small arms. Tho cart ridges, wlilch are eight In number, nre continued within a magazine lu the grip. The action of the piece Is so rapid that the eye cannot follow the move ments, and the whole eight shots can be fired before the first shell ejected has struck the ground. The cartridges are brought tr tho front of thu breech lock, when tin lnt ter Is moved to the rear In openliiK the breech, and closing the breech places the cartridge In Its proper position In the firing chamber. The recoil at firing drives the barrel and breech mnclian Ism to the rear, the three friction rolls of the rear link strike against the curv ed butt and are forced downward, the middle Joint of toggle Is raised and the breech block recedes, taking with It an empty shell by means of the extractor, until the ejector strikes the shell from below and throws It out, nnd the stir plus momentum of the recoiling pnrtH is taken up by the recoil spring against which the friction rolls Impinge. As soon ns the recoil, which Is so eased ns to bo scarcely noticeable to tho hand, is spent, the spring draws the toggle link forward and downward, the breech block pushes the tipper cartridge Into the barrel nnd the firing holt Is ar rested and held cocked by the sera. The safety piece prevents accidents when the nrm is not In action, otherwise the pistol is always cocked and ready for service. The pistol weighs two and three quarter pounds, with a six-Inch barrel, und two and fonr-llfths with a seven and a half Inch barrel. The projectile weighs eighty-five grains and Is pro jected by the cartridge at about 1.200 feet per second. Cincinnati Enquirer. Attorney Garrett McKnery recently appeared as counsel in a case before a justice of the peace at Sulsln. Jk-Kn- f,,.i i. H.....I1....1 .... ... .....i... lullllt 'I "nrpftai,v iu umui- in qucnt objections to the evidence not the opposing counsel was attempting to Introduce. The Justice, whoso first rule of evidence Is "everything goes." looked first annoyed and then iii'.lijf lin nt. Finally he could contain himself no longer, nnd, as a ruling on one of Mr. McEnery's objections, roared: "Mr. McEnery, what kind of a law yer are you, anyway?'' "I am a patent lawyer," replied the attorney, facetiously. "Well, all I've got to say is that when the patent expires you will have a hnnl time getting It renewed. Go on kwi:h the case." San Francisco Fos. NEWLY INVENTED MATCH GUN. Good Thins for Bicycte Rldcra In Lighting Lanterns in a Storm. A bicycle lamp lighter or a ma toll gun Is one of tlie latest Inventions. It FOn I.IOITTJNf; nil YCI.K LAMPS. is worked on the same principle 11 an indelible pencil. Silver at the Treasury. There is 11 jrencnil misapprenenslon ns to the nature of the silver certificate which could lie easily corrected by n careful rending anil considentliou of the words It bears on its face. In tho case of the $." note these nre: "TIiIh j certifies that there have been deposited I In the Treasury of tlie I tilted Stntf j five sliver dollars, pnynble to the hearer on demand." It is nothing more, iheiv ' fore, than a certillcnte of the fact that I the silver has been deposited and that I the bearer of the note may have it nf any time lie ciiooses to hsk ror it. 1 nere is nothing on the face of the imie to justify tlie Impression Hint it is to In? redeemed in gold, for the assurance It bears Is directly to the contrary. I Coax a rtnbnnrn Home. Some homes will slubornly refuse to take the bit. A boy with a Sln'tlnn-1 jMjny hit upon a novel method of in ducing a stublxrrn animal to allow of iiiKerting the bit In its mouth. He kept a vial of molasses on a shelf in the fctall. and rubbed a few drops on Ihe bit every time he put the bridle on tho pony. After a while the pony asso ciated the molasses with the bit, a ml as horses are fond of sweets, be showed less reluctance as he was thus reward ed every time he submitted. Klndnesa conquered in his case, nnd the suggest tion of a little molasseat on the bit la one that Uia; be followed. : - ! ( BT ITEAMER, TRAIN OR BOATT Which of thee hare yon telrcted a mean or travel? No matter. Wnlrhever It Is recol lect that lor sea alck lieu, dl-onlcrs ol thu stom ach, liver or bowcln, euvoudered hy rouxlj lo comotion and bad (nod or water, mm! for malarial troublca. Hottottor'a Hiom h Blltera Is Ihe most meful aped ho you can lake witb you. It la Invaluable also lor rhemnallaio, kid ney complalnisaud iimona trouble. The only gem In the world wbioh oannot be counterfeited is the otial. Its delicate tints defy imitation. Plso's Cur for Consumption Is the only cough medicine used In mv house. D. C. Albright, Milllinburg, Fa .I), 11, 'Itt. There limore catarrh In this section ot the country tban all other dienas put together, and M 11 til the laat lew yeara was lupnoawi to be Incurable. Kor a grt-at many v, an doctors pro nounced It a local dlaeate, and presorlb-d 1-cm1 remedlea.and by constantly falling tocurewltn local treatment, pronounced It Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitution al disease, and therefore reqiiliea constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, mauulacturrd by K. J. Cbeuey & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally In riosea from 10 tlrmiM in tnaiMMiii. fill. It acta directly ou the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Theyolterone hundred ! dollara (or any case it fails to cure. Bend tor ; Circulars aud testimonials. AaMroa, ! , , V.J. CHENKY 4 CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Orwrglns, 75o. Hall's Family rills are the best. FITS. All fl's stopped tree by nr. Kline's Great Narva Hj.at.m-Mv. Nn lll.ufi,rll-aH,.l day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise aud U 00 trial bottle lree to Pit cases, bend to Dr. Kline, , m Arch St., Philadelphia, Fa. . I MI8CKLLANKOV8. j A woman is the engraver of medals In the royal mint at Stockholm, . Sweden, and has been for many years. ; It is said to be possible to draw platinum wires so fine that two of them twisted could be inserted in the hollow of a human hair. The most effective way to capture a : whale is to spear it with an eleotrioal barpoon, when it is once shooked into anoonsoiODsness. Prominent citizens of Cbarlestown, Mass., have urged that the Bunker Hill Monument should be illuminated with eleotrioity. A new globe, for all kinds of light, increases the illuminating power ten per cent. It is grooved vertically in side and horizontally outside. Miss Agness Adams, of Whitman College, won the highest honors at the first annual oontost of the Intercollegi ate Oratorial Association of Washington. 2 jeooooooooaooooooooooooooooooooooooooocoociaoo Immmmm Ciliolli j , .jar r aiiiuiting i ooagcomaae anu see now to get your snare. 0OO000300000O60000K400yrAAAiUonO000OO0000 i I . JV .A, s Greatest Highest Smallest Quantity. Quality. Price. ) I IV. 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