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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1887)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. J.L.CAMFBKLL. - . rrrtatr. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. A VALENTINE. Ob, chubby fair little God of Lore, Can you carry nit-nnuo truer Or wouldn't a burden Hunt for dove lie too neuvjr load tor your Such a weight of love i I lonj to lend I'm afraid you would ttutftC'r under. Could yon tiear It aafe to It Journey's end. And deliver II there, I wouderf Then go to my ludy and whlnper low,. At you ttand by be r wicker eliulr, IVhlle the watehe your dimple come and go. And the tunny gleum of your balr. Tell her how fulr the la, and tweet; Tell her the't crowned with lovu of mine; Tell her my heart It lying at hrr fuel; Ak bur to be iuy Valvulitis. Tell her with love I am all irIow. Bhe will nut thow the leant turprUe; For, Cupid, the beard It lung tu. Let her read It again In your eyee. lie flndt her the only love of my life; He It telling hit tlory. may be; for, tee! the It hinting him... Kbe'l my wlfel And "Cupid" It Jiml the buby! llitiU VhumlUr, in llurpir't Batar. CLERKS IX ENGLAND. How Thousands Live on One Pound a Week. The "Kninl.llet" of London and Their llabllt of Lodging, IHuliig and Dreae tug Ingrnlout Hhlflt of the Economical. "Two pounds, tlmt Is ton dollars In your money, In considered u luro mil wry in Kngland for nil sorts of clerkly cuiiloyineiit," said u well-known Lon don merchant yesterday who Ih jmnrtlll a few tiny In Ihi eity. lie was con versing with u reporter on the labor trouble in America, niul remarked in cidentally that employe of nil ilcxcrif tiong were not only better paid ami better (rented but were thought nineh mora of in the New World than in the Old. "And, by tint way, I have read several Hi'liele on weekly incomes," he lidded, "Hy clerks," continued tint nierehant, "I nni not referring to shop nien. I believe idiopineti average in Kngland very nineh n they do here. Tho eiieeeiotf ill tnli'Hiiiiin licciimeii vnln able ami foree good wages, "I hear that, some of the young nii'ii behind counters in big London store earn a much n live and even nix pound a week, nn excellent income, lint the nverage wage of a clerk in a mercantile house I out) pound a week. ThoiiHniid receive considerably less. The young man, however, who earn hi weekly wage of a sovereign I con sldcrcd while young to be fairly pros perou. With eeononiy hii can live decently on that niuount, and I think 1 ran wifely nay that ten thousand of tliewcll-drcssed.Hwaggeriligynungnion you will meet in the streets of London on a thSunday afternoon are fifty-two-pof 4-a-yoar clerks. "To begin with, ho can hire a room In a dozen and one respectable street off llloniuHliury, that is, within easy walking of the city, for four Hhllliug a' week, lly an iirinugiinieiit' with hi Inildlndy I he can have ' hrcakfrt.st brought up to hi room for nix-' pence daily, that I, tlueu and six ft neck. You must understand that cheap Imai'ding-house nre not general iu Loiidiin. "o far seven ami sixpence are out of the pound, lie. can iline rvery day for uboiit eight pence I will tell you how he doe that iu a moment ami on Sunday he can have a por tion of his landlady' dinner for a shil llllg. Six elghtpeuce make four shil ling, with Sunday, live shillings, which added to Ncvcu and Hixpeueu make twelve and six. For hi tea or sup per, a you call it he goes to a eoll'ee hop. There a in many humlrud In Lon don w here he can buy a cup of tea or 4'oft'ee for n penny, three slices of bread ami butler fur a penny-halfpenny, and an egg orraherof bacon for twopence, lu all fouipciiee-halfpenny, or say two and vlghtpeuce a week." Now iet us add that up: d. 0 0 I) 0 KM, llglngt lreakfut itl ltd. a day IMnner at M. a duy tor tlx iluj t rumlay dinner. Tea at a iluy n 0 Left over tor clotho and tumlrlct. . . "Now," continued (lie merchant, 'fifty-two time four ami teiipeuce lilfH'iiny make twenty-two pound nine and elghtpeuce, oiit j.f which the clerk's, clothes, atnuscnicin.s, tobacco, Utvr, aaving and every thing else must come, lie will wear two nmts atul an Ul pair of trousers every year; one business suit at two pounds' ten, and win black suit at three Niuuds ten six pounds. At the prices charged iu Knglaiid he can supply himself with thu rest of his tilings as follows. For the sake of tho addition, 1 will oe,, with clothes. " a a i i) o a I ul it. U It 0 1 limine x tun Ural autl ' Kitra tmiiM'r Twelve iuiii. at ihI... Three n.'vkui l ! ... Tallhst ," Tao dt'i'r-.tii:km at t.,l ahirta. S i. Two tuiu mii nu't under cor I " winter " i Twehe eelUr, at fcl hit wir f cutV at Sit Itoutv llin-r ,ir, al li ... tH-nat, t3 rierv J yi r, per l.knea, vmtcraud umuu r Fifty I wo week for feed i,J lodging. II 0 I .t r,u (sr Seek 3- 0 0 0 "That leaves him only eleven sliillings fur tobacco and ft cry thing e!c. On the f.ue of it, thai j n,, ry much; but if he hat ui iu.iiutaun s ami ueaiiy every clerk hn,liegcta gii deal more for pocket money. For Instance, if he I clever he will tiinimgo to dine or take tea or perhaps both meals out every Sunday. On hiii Ii occasion ho also foregoes breakfast, with the result that he saves 1 lOJd, or in the year 4 17 6d. In fact every meal Hint lie saves, nnd he watches every opportunity for doing so, I o much In his pocket for sundries, extra finery or saving fund. "Oh, I forgot to say how ho manages to dine for eightpetico. Under ordinary circumstances ho buys a plate of beef for sixpence, potatoes penny, thick slice of bread penny, waiter he must never bo forgotten penny. That's niiiepenee, you say. Certainly, but to ofl'set that, three daysa week he will go to an a la inodo beef-house, w here he, will get a plato of delicious beef slew for fourpeiice, bread a penny, potatoes a penny, waiter a penny; In all, seven pence do you see? These a la mode beef-houses, by the way, nre f re (pieuted by the richest men iu the city, so the poor clerk's cheap dinner is in no way infra dig. "I think," continued the merchant, "that in my time 1 have employed hundred of young men as clerks and I have watched their ways. Tho ambition ones, a small minority, either rise some how or other to Important position with wages, say, of two or at most three pounds a week, or else find their way In to some more prosperous undertaking. The maioritv. however, remain nt a pound until either shiibbine, hick of smartness or marriage drives them U the wall or probably the workhouse. "In his earlv years hi ways are most interesting, lie i up to all manner of dodges'to save his clothe or to seize what lie considers to lie honest per quisite in the shape of odd (-heels of note paper, pens, envelopes, etc., lor private correspondence at home, lie saves his boots by putting on list slip pers in the olllce; he wear mi old rag of a coat; he tics a little apron over hi waistcoat so a not to hint it when leaning against a desk, and of course he takes oir his cull's I think cull's were invented for clerks. When, how ever, he arrives in lie morning, or goes out for his midday lunch, he is simply lovely to look at that is, the careful and tidy fifty-pound clerk. His tall hat every city clerk in Lo'i don wears a tall hat glisten in the sun. His collar I up to his ears and hi cull's cover his knuckle and the rest of him i In full harmony. Xow, there you have him and how he can live. Let the same man have ten, twenty or thirty pounds more ami he marries. If he remain single he is regarded in his particular circle as a bachelor of opulence, and ho really is. "Now, a to the social position of these men. They nearly all belong to what Is known as the middle class. They regard shopmen a person be neath their station, and probably their fathers were unsuccessful doctors, law yers, ollicer of the army and navy or something else in the great community of poorly-paid professional men in England. Hut you just put an ad vertisement in an English paper for a clerk at a pound a week, and 1 will .guarani! Uiat yorr htivtr.sffwi's.r hun dred answer. " I once kiicvv ' an auctioneer and surveyor in (irent Cieorgc street, Westminster, who a few years ugo 'advertised for a copying lerk; sallirv oiui pound per week. Answers came by lw thousand from' naval and military ollieers nnd fathers ui union!-, im-iii tor ine position in save them from starvation." I'liilatld fihia I'rtM. AMERICAN PIANOS. The Total Number I'roiluerd Nlnee the Kniiiidntlmi of the Induttry. "What becomes of all the planus?" is a question frequently asked. Not withstanding the immense progress in the manufacture of pianos in this coun try, the business is still in its infancy, iiul there nre handy piano enough on Ims continent to supply one eaih to half of the families now dwelling in the State of New York, Only for the years I Sti 1-70, when, an internal-revenue tax being levied on sales, manufacturers had to make monthly returns of the, number of instrument sold, are exact statistics accessible. The following es timate is believed to be nearly accurate as to t number of pianos made iu tho I'liited States: Attruyf. .. ."! . l.iul ,. ?,UM 7WI. lllVIK!..,. IS-.M1S.HI..., IstHMll.... IM.I KhI.,,, KVI Will.... N"l Isill ... Mill TO.i llll.lMI 5i UHI liViui Ui.mi Vl'.'.IUI .lil.HO .I.M .'iVine .ae.uo KIMS,.,.. K! ISftl.... ISMIHSJ,.., Ttul .nr.i.iiki After a review of last year's produe lion, the ( 'miner reached tlieeouelusion that the output will be about -I.IKHl pianos. The total iiiiniU-r, therefore, made in this country since the founda tion of I he industry would be about. .'lir.tXkl, Together with those imported, we would have in ue in this country t.ClHi.lkHl pianos. I'pon examination of ,'cnsus tahles we ascertain that there ne aUmt U.OOO.iHk) families iu this .oiiutry. Say that .'i.UkUHHt families would Use pianos, tli:t would leave l.iSki.iHk) families to supply, ltut lit us come to cIom' figures. S.iy '.'.ikni.tkKi families require pianos. That would leave l.OnO.tOM families to supply. Hut let us come to still closer ligures. Sav that there are no families to supply ex cept such as purchased pianos ori" inally or inherited them and can not use lliein any longer. The old pianos are In-coming les u-cful, and to supply this deficiency t.s.ism pUnos are not sufficient. This number is only 5 per i out. of the whole numlier made, ami much more than A p-r cent, are lH-eoiu-iu Um-I ess. .V. 1'. XumoU I'vknir. CORN FOR FOOD. Ilia t'naeeounlabla I'rejndlre Kh)tng Agalntt lu I'M in KngUnil. j It Is really surprising that the yuc Indico nirainst what wo rail "corn ' a. a food-product among thu people of KnL'laml ami Ireland eliounl be so gen eral and so strong as It js. It is all the more surprising be':.; use the polat ha been adopted by the hnglish, ami still more by tho Irish people; and lit tie reiiu',nancc is manifested toward American tobacco anywhere in tin United Kingdom. In a recent issue, the London Telegraph rails tho atten tion of the public, to this strange dis taste for corn. There i said to bo but one dealer in London from whom corn-meal can be obtained, and this dealer keeps it only for American customer. Refer ence I made to the potato famine of 1.1-G in Ireland, ami it is said that the canro of corn which wa sent over there from this country was wasted charity. "Ilather than eat maize iu the form of bread or of cukes, the Irish poor preferred to starve for want of the far less sustaining potato." Ef forts made since that time teach tho Irish how to cook nnd serve this article of food are reported as without effect. The writer from whom we quote ail- mits that "unless corn become fash ionable among tho richer classes, it were vain to hope that itwill ever seem palatable to the poor." This reminds u that it was precisely iu that way that antipathy to corn wn over come iu these colonies. When the aristocracy breakfasted on corn-bread, ami went out to work all day on the thin soil of New Kngland, trying to make a crop of corn for the next sea son, with nothing to support them in their labor through the day but a few kernels of parched corn and a tighten ed belt, then this grain became "pala table to the poor." All nonsensical prejudice against this rieli blessing was then weeded out of the American miml. Our exports of corn to Oreat Hritain amount to more than thirty millions of bushels a year. They have been us high us sixty-live millions. If the Lon don Tcli iriiph is well informed, most of this corn must lie fed to stock. In that case, it is to bo feared that many an Irish pig fares better than his owner's children. It may bo said that (lie corn goe to make meat, ar.d that the meat is tin essential article of food. This argument might be admitted in part of Ihi country where corn is thought a proper article of fuel even, but in a country where corn is an im portation, any such direct conversion of it into food is extravagant wasteful ness. Mr. Keinble concludes that the. bread of Saxon Kngland wa made largely of rye. He shows that very little of it wa made of white, sifted Hour. Since ll'oO, as appear from the researches of Prof. Thorold Rogers, wheat ha been tho grain which has furnished Kngland with bread. "I can not but think." he says, "in tlie provident cure which the Legisla ture took nt so early an epoch of the interest of the consumers, attention would have been given to rye, oaten or barley bread, if these had been iu early times the food of the .people." Thl ong-eoiitiiiueil acquaintance with Tkrtiton loaves has matured the Hritish Ujtes for that variety oR food. That it eta yield to a liking foij corn bread is lliilie certain by the f:$t that in this Oimiiljy it is the white pcrtple of the South, thimost thoroughly Iglisli iu their nnJttcV who show the ktcnest appreciation oi the merits of the hoc cake, Johnny-cake ami pone bread What our Hritish cousin need in thi matter is to learn how to prepare corn for food in the ways with which any plantation utility is familiar, and then it will be both easy and agreeable to discover the good qualities of this grain. Youth's Companion. A PRECIOUS COLLAR. The Klugiilnr Honor Kujo.vnt by Wearers of the Order of the Aiimuuhita. A collar of great price, certainly of great rarity, is nt present seeking a wearer. It resembles our own Order of the (larter in its exclnsiveness, but more like the less prized Order of the Hath, it is to be had only by deserving of it. It is in the gift of the King of Italy, nnd has become vacant by the death of Signor Minglictti. Its insti tution dates as far back as the four teeciith century, and its enjoyment car ries with it a most singular privilege. The wearer of the collar of the Order of the Aiinuuidata has the honor of being styled the cousins of the King. Fifteen of these cousins the King of Italy may have; the number must not e exceeded and must not be tilled lip. And the distinction is not to be had for the a-king, nor is it the reward of mere successful courtiers. The qualifications are definite, and tlie xssession of them s "ietly required. The candidate tnusf I ve rendered service to his country by conquest iu the baUle-tield. or by carry i g iwit some treaty of alliance or other " ise, or by increasing tiie national ter tiary. When a Knight dies his son, or eext of kin, takes the collar to the King, who himself chooses the succes sor. For the present vacancy there are two aamlidales. Hoth tire known to contemporary fame. M. Manciiii ef fected the introduction of Italy into the Aiistro-to-rnian alliance. M. t'airoli increased the territorial wealth of Italy by annexing tlie sandy shores of As-ab, though bis saiing the King's life at Naples is likely to stand him lit better stead. I'ull JAif Cizrtft. The farmer who permit h; chick en to roost in the stables does not de serve to haw a horse. It generally re quire but little effort to keep theni out, and it should U done by all mcaiid. UV.ni OLD FAITHFUL." Th. Regularity wltiTlVhlrh Yellow.fone'i Slo.1 KBinoue tieyter Atterta Itaelf. Old Faithful, the pet geyser of tin neper basin, is situated only a few rodf froiir Jhe hotel. You hear it spiasning In the nTfe-hf, and. if you have kept your reckoning can actually tell the hour he is so reguAur in his action. Never was a geyser bcrfr named, ruico every sixty minutes, withotr fail. ). Hsscrts himself. The mouth of Ohf, Faithful protrudes somewhat, ns if he were always ready to spout. His is a generous month, six feet by two, and twelve feet above tlie level of the plateau; but the face of him is also din tended, as if fixed in tlie net of blow in", and the slope to tlie lips covers nn area of 145 by 215 feet You may walk up to the mouth of Old Faithful and look down his throat if you like. There is nothing visible but a passage full of water. You may drop in a handker chief or any bit of cloth and watch it become saturated anil sink from view; then you can walk a few rod away and sit ilov,n under the bushes, and, if it is near the hour of eruption, your wisest ..vaV is to do this immediately. Not that there is any particular danger in delay, for even had Old Faithful begun operations there would be time to run but of reach but it I so pretty to watch him at a safe distance, and then it is only from a distance that one gets anv idea of the height of the geyser column. Now by looking at your watch you will note that it is tune tor tlie out fellow to begin; he does not vary ten minutes one way or thu other during tlie four and twenty hours. With watch n hand you listen for the preliminary nimble. There it is! A kind of chok ing sound in hi throat and a moaning as of intestinal disturbances; this is followed by a splutter and a slopping over that is like a futile attempt. F'or a moment you lose i lulence; you begin to fear that his day is over for every irevser has his day, and sooner or later that day come to nn end and this eruption is bound to be a failure. His reputation is at stake, and lie knows it, for after a half-dozen .-.bortive discharges abortive when compared to what he lias done and can do when he is in good form, but such a would make fame and fortune for a spring outside of tho Yellowstone re gionafter finning anil fretting nnd catching his breath nnd retching for three or four minute he gets mad, and bang! he is oil', with a column of water that curl outward on every side in a magnificent capital nnd veils itself in clouds of whirling vapor. Higher and higher it climbs, a, if endeavoring to outdo himself. You see he is redeem ing his reputation, until nt last it top most wave seems actually to catch an insure beauty from tho sky and to leave part of its diamond dust aloft there to lie absorbed by t ho sunshine. In live minutes lie is satisfied; lie lias exhaust ed his enthusiasm and his resources at tlie same moment and he quietly, but majestically, and with great dignity subsides with nn audible sigh. Ho steams vigorously for a little while and pants as from sheer fatigue, but shortly lie is a quiet ns if he had never done auy thin": out of tthe common, and he does it so easily and so naturally that it is hard to believe that he has. Just before the eruption the water in Old Faithful's throat stood fit a temper- nturc of 2(H) degrees Fahrenheit Now it is down to 170 degrfies Fahrenheit That little freshest yonder , 'is the sur plus, the ovcrllow from r this small mouth, now hastening to tlie river in the head of the valley. Here is the handkerchief you dropped, into the gey ser before the eruption. It has been thrown thirty feet from the lips of the crater; had the wind been blowing it might have lodged fifty or a hundred feet farther yet away; it looks a tangled skein; hut for the knot you thoughtful ly tied in it perhaps there vuld not I have been tin cads enough of it left to- ' gether to warrant identification. Not withstanding the regularity with which Old Faithful Attends to his duties he is seldom twice the same in appearance. The slightest w ind sweeps the descend ing water to a considerable distance and spreads it in many a graceful and beautiful pattern, sometimes he re sell! hies a colossal ostrich plume of the most dazzling whiteness. The real leather is not lighter or more suscep tible to the influence of the winds. There are many geysers within range of Old Faithful. Sometime it seems almost as if a rivalry must exist among them, for one will start oil' with a grand flourish, and no sooner has it got under good headway than another, which perhaps has been anxiously watching for some hours and seems to be obsti nately refusing to do its duty no sooner does the one call for admiration than the other bursts magnificently upon the sight and fairly outdoes it self in the brilliancy of its action. Cor. Sua Fruni i.ico ChnmirU. The Queen of Roiunania. known in literature a "Carmen Sylva." has re cently undertaken to deliver a course of lectures on iiatiiYual literature at the hieh school for girls in llucharest. Her Majesty has been for some time accustomed to give lectures privately in her palace to the young women of the leading families of P.oumauia. These literary assemblies proved so at tractive that the demands for admis sion grew inconvenient, and the Queen therefore resolved to deliver her lec tures in the high school to all pupils who wished to attend. At a sale of unclaimed articles at a Pennsylvania railroad otliee. one bid der lxui'ht a g.xwl sewing inaeliiue for four dollar ami a quarter. A man bought a giMsl overcoat for twenty-five cents. (!;-e package was found to be full vt baby miltcus. I'Ltt'-urjl fuft. ..nu tnita TO SIXTY-i'CrjiT A Tltdtor to a gchool examination In Athens or Home on a day In the year A. V one might lve heard the que.tlon asked bv the tesiher, "How many ee menu are there in na.urer and the echolarH' answer, as found In he biK.ks would have been, Four-earth, air. ' re and water." That answer waa aa far a 'cience had reached at that me but dtliitent research, prosecuted In the Inter veidnu; age, has n'ven to tlie scholar of to day a different an wer. A v sllor to a school in London or Paris orl'hllai elpTiia would hear the same question replied to i .. . ,.v,lue lti "sixtv-four! One cf the most i teresiing discoveries made in iiwxiem times by deivera into the mys eries of naJur I that of "Compound Oxyuen. Drs. SYKKEY & Pai.E.v, of Philadelphia, I he physKrlans who have been for years treating their pwtlents with this remedy, are glad to satisfy fche cur. I 1.. ,.. it anrt mill mull I ee -tO IUUO ' I v it - w - ----- - any applicant a copy of their brochure on nearly M pages, entitled "Compound Uxygen, lis wile oi auiiuu "u " Orders for theCoietiound Oxygen Home Treatment will be filled by H. A. Mathews 615 Powell Street San Francisco. , Bill Nye, the western humorist Is tall, lank, miioolh faced, buld headed, wears glasses and is as mild and pleasant as a shepherd dog. Bill never wa Intoxi cated but once at a press banquet at Denver, over which General Field pre sided. H.V A SUGGESTION TO THE 1B&YELIN0 1TJBUC. Tourists, emigrants and mariner find that HoMelter's Mouiach Hitters la a n.eti icinut saKtiard against unhealthtul Influences, up on nineh they iu implicitly rely, nlnee it pre; vente the etlecte of vitiated atmosphere, unac customed or unwholesome diet, bud water, or other conditions umavoialila to health. On long voyages, or journeys in latitudes adjacent totiieequumr, It is especially useful as a preven tive of tlie febrile complaints and disorders of the stomach, liver ami bowels, w hich a e apt to attack natives of the temperate zone so joi ruuiK or travi ling in such regions, ami it is an eeellent protection against the influence of extreme cold, sudden chanties of temperature, exposure to damp or extreme fatigue. It not only prevents iiitermltteut and remittent fever, anil oilier riiseasea of a malarial type, but eradicates tht-m a fact which haa been notor ious for years past In North and Fouth Amer ica. Mexico, the West Indies, Australia aud other countries. A carppt sweeper is invaluable In a din ing room where small children eat, but should never be used for general sweep ing. "He who is false to present duty," says Henry Ward Beecher, "breaks a thread In the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten it rant-e." Acase in point occurs to us. Mr. William Hyder of t7 Jefferson street. Buffalo N. Y re cently told a reporter that 'I had a lame absiess on each leg, that kept continually discharging for twenty year. Nothing did me any good except fir. Pierce's 'Gol den Medicai Discovery.' It cured me." Here is a volume expressed in a few words. Mr. Kyder's experience in entitled to our readers' careful consideration. The Sun. Try eating onions and horseradish to re lieve dropsical swellings. PLl URISY CUBED. Kiniiston, Ontario, December?, 1885. Six years ago I caught a severe cold standing In an ire house with my coat off. I felt myself getting chilly and went to the house, where I shook for half an hour and then had high fever and terrible pain in my sHe and though my lungs. I put an Alloock's Porous Plaster on my back and one on the front of my chest and in a short time the piin decreased and I fell asleep.and did not wake until the next morning, when 1 wa again quite as well as ever. In tellimr my doctor about it. he said I had been attacked with pleurisy aud, possibly, pneumonia. "Ilrown'n Ilroucliinl Troche" will relieve Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh ami Throat Diseases. If aflllctfd with Sore Eyes, use Pr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. DruKtflfete sell it Side Ir a cough disturbs your sleep, take riso's Cure for C usumption and rest well. Try buttermilk for the removal of tan and freckles A SUDDEN DEATH from heart disease is quite common. Dr. Pierce'a ''Golden Medical Discovery'' la certain remedy. Chronic irritation, pal pitation, excessive or defective sclion of 1 1... haurl titinrtnoaa nf lirejtt.li. and nnin are leuioved by it. Iii a short period. It a so cures hii oiseasi g relating io me liver, stomach, bowels, Mood and skin. Italy hss been visited by a severe snow atorm. T' e fall was five fee' in dcpih. How to Core Skin&Scalp Diseases with the CuticUf Remedies. qiOItTt'HINQ. niSFIHURING. ITf'HINO, 1 n sly and pimply diseaseeof the skiiuscalp, and bleo4 with loss of Imtr, fiom infancy to old age, are cured hr thel'iTlci KA Kkmkdieh. t'c iicitiA HKSiil.VKNT,lheue blood puriflnr. clcanm-a the blood and perspiration of dlsease stistaininK elvnitwis, and lieu remove tlie CAl'SK. OlTlct'HA, the treat Skin Cure, instantly allays itching and infltinimation, clean the skin and scalp of crusts, scale and sores, and re stores the Hair. t'l tici'Ra Soxp.an exquisite Skin Heautifior. la tnilippensuble in treating skin ' ipeasex, baby humors, akin blemishes, chapped and oily skin. I'VTitTKA Hkmkmk are the great akin beatiti tiers. Hold everywhere. Price, Cmcra. 50c: Soap. H.V.: KKSot-vip ? ft. Prepared by the PoTTKKllRl'U AND CHUM1C4L ('0..11oMton,Masa. f -Sead for "How HM'ure Ski I lineman." mTKI) with tiie loveliest delicacy is tlieitln bathed with Ccticcra MKUlruTKn Soah. riso's Remwtv for Catarrh is the Best, Easiest to line, and Cheapest. lSS'""MS" R.,1.1 hv rlrnc-tntii or pont hr msiL 50c. . T. HiLteltine, Warren, Pa. Too much effort cannot b made to brinit to the attention of milferinu womanhood the great value o( I.jdia K. ilnkham'a Vegetable Com pound aa a remedy for the diseases of women. .Snch an one i the wife of General Barringer of Winston, X. C. and e quote from the Gen eral letter a follow: "Dear Mrs. Pinkhain: Phase allow me to add my tcmininny to the nioet e Hunt medicinal qualities of ; our Ve. f table Cotapound. Mr. Itarrinirer was treated for several year for what the physician called Leuoorrhn ard Pnilapniu I'teri combined. I sent berto ISichmonrf. Va where the remained for i month nnder the treatment of an emi nent physician without any permanent benefit. She wa Induced to try your medicine and after reasonable time commenced to improve and 1 now able to attend to her business nd onn aider herself KfLlV RELIEVED." General Bar rinkf on if the proprietor of the American Hotel Winston, S.C, and i widely known.) n nn ill Bladder, Urinary and Liver DiwaM, Drop,; Gravel, and Diabetes, are cured by HUNT'S REMEDY THE BEST KIDNEY JLND LIVER MEDICINE. HUNT'S REMEDY euro Bright' Dlseaae, Retention or Kin-Retention of Urine, rains In th Back, Loluj, or Side. HtfNIlS REMEDY cure In tempt ran ceMrvoui DUeaset, Gennal Debility, Female Waaane7hdxoeae, HUNT'S REMEDYn euro Bilioumei, Headache, Jaundice, Soar Stomach, Dyipepsla, Constipation and Pile. HUNT'S REMEDY ACTS AT ONCE on th Kidneys, Liver, and Bowel, restoring- them to a healthy action, and CUKES when all other medicine fail Ilundred) have been laved who have beeu given up to die by friend and physician. Bend fur pamphlet to HUNT'S REMEDY CO., Providence, II. I, 8QI.I BY AM PltrOOISTB. A CYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY FOR i."f: sgts. want d; write at once fur term and territory. A. ROMAN, 130 Sutler St., Han Fraud i. $60. RICHMOND 860. Champion Fence Machine ron makisu COM II IX AT I OX FKXCK! The Rtrnugeit Mint Durable and Cheapest uf Fendni W Write for circulars. Address 11.11. HERD. P. 0. Box 588, PORTLAND, OREGON: No County Rights Sold! THE INDUSTRIAL W0RL3. Minimis of wiisliboimls are mailt nnd sold itnimally in this country. It is estimated tliiit not less than 7.2il!l.0fH) of thein are sold every year between tho Allegheny mountains and the Mis souri river. Tho Chevalier van Flewyek, nf Louvain, has just perfected, after thirty-eijrht years of labor, a'tnachino for reeordiiijf till music extemporized upon the piano. His invention is worked by means of electricity, and hit has been assisted in tho mechanical de tails by M. Kermis, iui engineer of Brussels. A tunnel is projected, to be bored under Gray's Peak, in the Rocky Moun tains. It will bo placed 4,4 U feet be low the summit of the mountain, will be 2'j.OOO feet lour, and will give direct communication between the valleys in the Atlantic Slope and those of the Pa cilie side, with a shortening of some 800 miles in tho transmontatio dis tance. Sun Frannsro Chronicle. In 1790 nine-tenths of tho popula tion of Massachusetts were engaged in agriculture, while in 1H83 only one eighth were occupied with that class of work. In the great Stt.tes of New York and Pennsylvania four-fifths of the peo ple are not engaged in igrieiiltrtre, and in Illinois, the greatest agricultural State in the Union, less than, one-half of the population is occupied with, farming. lloston He ra Id. The ditViculty of sighting rifles in thedark in warfare has been ingeniously overcome by the use of luminous paint. A small luminous bead is clipped on ti the ride over the fore-sight, and another over tha rear sight when used at night in reply to an enemy's fire, forming two luminous sights. The British War Ollico authorities have had somo of these sights under trial for the past si months, and have now given their tirst order for thein. A new method of manufacturing car-wheels litis been tested at Wilkes barre, Pa., with satisfactory results. By tlie old method three men could make only eighteen wheels per day of twelve hours. By the new process the same number of men can turn out a perfect wheel every minute, or 720 per day. Onn of the principal features of the new method is the use of a steel core, instead of one nf sand, in casting the wheel. The core is removed by knocking out a center key, leaving tlie hide perfeutly trim and ready to put upon the axle at once, without dressing or boring. I'Httliiirtik rod. Shoe-pegs require 100,000 cords of timber annually in their manufacture; matches, 800.000; lasts and Ixxtt trees 500,000. All this is of the most superior quality, straight grained, and clear of knots and gnarls. To raise the tele graph poles of the country required 800,000 trees, and 300.' KW more are re quired for annual repair. The railway ties of the country annually consume ij.OOO acres of timber at least thirty years old. and the fencing nf railway rcpiesent $ J"), OtH 1,000, and the annual repair tl5.tX0,0X). These are but : moiety of what is required of our fnre-t supply. The burning of brick alone requires tf.lWM1.fKN.) cords of wood au nnallv. X. Y. Tribune. "Do you object to smoking. Mi Flo?'' asked young Duniley. "Not at nil." replied Miss Flo. "But I lon"c want pa to see me. He's got old-fashioned notions about such things, von know." Customer (in restaurant). Waiter. :sn t it grange that I should find sev eral flies in my soup? Waiter (some what ain.tA-d). It am strange fr a fac". sail, fer dis season ob the yeah. L'ariKr't U tzar. A