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The difference of cost between a
good and a poor baking pow
der would not amount for a fam
ily's supply to one dollar a year.
The poor powder would cost
many times this in doctors' bills.
Royal Baking Powder may cost a little
more per can, but it insures perfect,
wholesome food. In fact, it is more
economical in the end, because it goes
further in leavening and never spoils
the food.
Royal Baking Powder used always in
making the biscuit and cake saves both
health and money.
You cannot, if you value good health, afford
to use cheap, low-grade, alum baking pow
ders. They are apt to spoil the food; they
do endanger the health. All physicians will
tell you that alum in food is deleterious.
ROYAL BAKINO POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
The Mliloiiary' I.tttle Joker.
A native Maori chieftain, the de
scendant of cannibal kings, is now com
pleting his medical education in Chi
cago. Cannibalism ended in his tribe,
he says, when Bishop gelwyn converted
hii grandfather; but he tells some stor
ies of it which have a distinctly humor
rous flavor. For instance: It is said
that once a chief captured a missionary
who was anything but a toothsome
morsel, as he was old and thin and
looked as if his flesh would be tough.
The missionary warned the chief that
he would not make a good dinner, and
pulling up his trousers, cut a slice off
the calf of his left and offered it to the
chief. The chief tasted it, said he
didn't like it, and passed it to a sub
chief. The sub tasted it, made a wry
face, and passed it on. The next man
who took a bite of it spat it out. The
missionary was released. After he had
gone it was discovered that he wore a
cork leg.
Returned the Compliment.
The obsequious person who seeks fees
from travelers by pretending to mis
take them for noblemen occasionally
meets one who does noi fall into the
top. The following example is taken
from an English paper: An English
gentleman of somewhat imposing per
sonal appearance had a door opened for
him at the Taris opera house by an
. wher, who bowed low and said: "The
door is open, prince." The English
man glanced at him, and, without ex
tending the expected fee, sipmly said:
Thank you very much, viscount."
Berlin has the smallest elephant in
the world. It is but 89 inches high
nd weighs 160 pounds.
Cooked Tnwel In Vienna.
One of the best known citizens of
Panta Clara, who has been along while
Europe, brings back a number of funny
stories about Vienna.
"n that city," he says, "poker and
cocktails are playing the duce with
men and women, especially these pre
pared cocktails. I was in a Viennese
liquor place where one of the men
spoke a little English.
" 'Buy a bottle of cooked towels?' he
asked me.
" 'Gracious, what is that?'
" 'Not know cooked towels? Surely
monsier is an American?'
" 'I am.'
" 'Why cooked towels is the name of
your drink. The g'-eat American
drink. '
" 'Do you mean cocktails? I asked.
" 'Ah, mon Dieu, no. Cooked tow
els. Pee, here's the inscription.'
" 'We call these cocktails, my friend. '
" 'Ah, thank you, 1 thank you. I
ask the American ladies and gentlemen
to buy the cooked towels and they
laugh at me. Now I know. It is
cockus tails. Ah, that is good to know;
cockus tails. "San Francisco News
Letter.
In Too Great Haste.
"Wife What's the matter, John?
You walk lame. Husband Yes, a
pretty girl with fluffy hair and dia
mond earrings got on the car coming
up, and I sprained my leg in giving
her a seat. NewYorkWorld.
No One Suld Nay.
"Scotland's emblem is a thistle, and
her poets are fond of talking about
braes," said the reckless punster.
"One would judge from this that Cale
donia is a paradise for donkeys."
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Wisconsin Farmer Make a Discovery
in an Abandoned Building.
Mr. Whitte, a Pleasant Prairie,
Wis,, farmer, has more bees and honey
than he knows what to do with. About
two years ago a swarm of bees took
possession of an old frame house on his
farm and as they were not disturbed
they multiplied until there are mil
lions of them.
Mr. White recently made an attepmt
to enter the old house; he succeeded in
getting far enough to find the whole
interior lined with honey comb and
then he made a hasty retreat. He says
there must be several hundred pounds
of honey there, .but he does not .want
any of it at present. He will wait for
zero weather before making another at
tempt. . :
Nearly all the omnibus horses in
London are imported from the United
States and Canada.
An ordinary dinner-table wine glass
was recently broken by singing. The
man who did it had a deep, full voice.
He set the glass on the table, stood be
side it and ran up and down the scale
as though in search of a note. When
he settled on one rather high the glass
shook visibly. The note was repeated,
sung as loudly as possible, and finally
the glass shivered and crashed into bits.
Itnprovnd Train Kqiilrrtnrnt.
The O. R. & N. and Oregon Short
Line have added a buffet, smoking and
library car to tlieir Portland-Chicago
i through train, and a dining car service
has been inauguarated. The train is
equipped with the latest chair cars,
day coaches and luxurious first-class
and ordinary sleepis. Direot connec
tion made at Granger with Union Fa-
' cifio. and at Ocden with Rio Grande
! line, from all points in Oregon, Wash-
ington and Idaho to all Eastern cities.
I For information, rates, etc., call on
any U. K. & JN. agent, or address vv.
H. Hurlburt, General Passenger Agent,
Portland.
A half million-dollar cotton mill is
f Vio nmnturl Iti Xnrt.h Carolina and
operated by electric power entirely.
Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a
family niecHcino with us nince 18G5. J. It.
Madison, 2409 4tM Ave., Chicago, Ills.
To help the lock-out workmen in
Denmark an entertainment and ball
was given in Brooklyn recently.
rTO Permanently Oureif. 'o fits or nervousness
llo alWflrfit duv'a use or Dr. Kline's Oreat
Nerve Kestorer. Send for FREE 3.00 trial
bottle and treatise. I) It. H. U. KUDU, LUL.6J0
Arch street, Philadelphia, fa.
A 500,000 sugar beet factory has
been offered Fort Dodge if sufficient
beets are guaranteed.
Mnfhvra will find Mrs. "Winslow's Booth
hie Svrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
Tha lilv of the valley contains pros
ain ar-irl. It is thought dangerous to
put the stalks in a person's mouth, be
cause if the sap chances to get into a
crack in the lips an annoying swelling
is produced.
1 he Grand Brace.
One of the Bohemian citizens of the
town wenlj home the other night after
having donned a pair of skates that
would have slid him over an Arizona
desert with the mercury bubbling out
of the top of the thermometer. He
had no recollection of how he got home
and even the next morning he was not
certain whether he was on a storm
tossed Atlantic liner or making a leap
from a balloon minus a parachute.
He went down to the breakfast table
with enough wet towels wrap)ed
around his head to make a turban for
the mahdi. His wife met him with
reproaches in her eyes, but she did not
scold him. She wanted to inform him
of his conduct the night before, how
ever. "My dear," she said, "did you know
that yci came very near killing us all
when you went to bed last night?"
"Nope," said her husband, thickly,
as he felt his hot forehead.
"Well, you did. You knocked over
the baby '8 cradle. Then you blew
out the gas and we were nearly as
phyxiated. What do you think of
that?"
Her husband is usually a resourceful
man, but the fumes of many cocktails
taken the ni;ht before somewhat cloud
ed his intellect. He made a grand
brace and tried to look pathetic.
"M'love," he said, asa rayof inspir-
v.,,.,.4. Vi l,Mln
U.IAUA4 UUlOti UllUUU iUd AKJ
"wasn't I here to die with you?"
Washington Post.
Vanderbllt an Inventor.
"She works, Mr. Waite," said Cor
nelius . Yanderbilt, Jr., as he entered
the office of the superintendent of mo
tive power of the New York Central
railroad. He hud just come down
from Albany, where locomotive No.
947 had been tested to see if the fire
box invented by Mr. Yanderbilt was
a real fire box or only a toy.
The young scion of the great rail
roading family ran the locomotive him
self. It was built at the company's
shops at West Albany, and it made its
first tirp on Wednesday afternoon.
The Yanderbilt fire box can be easily
taken out for repairs and put back
again. This is an improvement over
fire boxes in use at present, which can
not be extracted under 10 days.
. Young Cornelius, the inventor, is a
draftsman in Mr. Waite's office, and
has designed several locomotives.
Street cars propelled by liquid air
have been satisfactorily tested at Zu
rich. Passing of the Horse.
So soon as nature sees an improvement
jthere is a change. The candle gave way to
Electricity and t he horse to the automobile.
??he fact that Hostetter's btomach Bitters
ms been sold for over half a century,
proves its vuluo. There is nothing to equal
it tor stomach or liver trouble.
The Sandwich Islanders estimate the
beauty of women by their weight.
There is more Catarrh In this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to care
with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to bo a constitu
tional disease, and th.rfore requires constitu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, man
ufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional curoon the market.
It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Bend for circulars and testimonials. Ad
dress, F. J. ( II KNE Y & CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by Druggists, 7rc.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
New York city is to pay unskilled la
borers $2 a day.
EAST INDIANS LEARN ENGLISH.
A MAGNIFICENT WOMAN.
Holds Up Peruna as the Ideal Rem
edy For Female Catarrh.
Method by Which -.he Queen' Sub
jects Learn the Ivan srna co
in many Indian schools now the En
glish language 13 being taught to the
little dusky subjects of the empress
queen. G. Gill & Sons, of London, have
Mrs. Clnra Makemer.
Mrs. Clara Makemer, housekeeper for
the Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mis
sion, of Chi -ago, writes the following
letter from 802 Chestnut street, Chi
cago: 'Teruna is the best tonio I have
ever known for general debility, a sure
cure for liver complaint, and a never
failing adjuster in cases of dyspepsia.
"I have used it in cases of female
Irregularities and weak nerves com
mon to the sex, and have found it most
satisfactory."
From early girlhood to the end of the
child-bearing period few women are
entirely free from some degree of ca
Urrh of the pelvio organs,
f With Pernna the thousand and one
ailments dependent upon catarrh of
the pelivc organs can be wholly averted.
I "Health and Beauty" sent free to
women only, by The Teruna Medicine
Co., Columbus, Ohio.
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TEACHING YOUNG IM)IA ITS A U C.
designed a chart ror helping the puplla
to acquire the lang-tinge, and a fac
simile of it appears above. The pro
nunciation of the Knglish characters is
given In both Pers an and Nagrl.-
A PROMISING OFFICER.
Death of Lieut. Col. Mlle.r, Who Wo
r lmlnent at Fnntlnira.
T.leut. Col. John D. Mlley, Inspector
general of the volunteer forces, who
died In Manila of fever, wus one of the
moat promising young officers In the
army. He was a lieutenant In the artil
lery branch of the regulars and was on
Gen. Shafter'8 staff In the Saullago ex-
L1KVT. COL. JOll.V 1). M1I.KY.
poditlon. He bad much to do with the
movemennt of trooi at S:in .lunn and
El Caney and. with GtMicrnls Wheeler
and Lawton, negotiated successfully
for Che surrender of the Spanish forces
under Tornl. After the Cuban cam
paign be nsked lo be iusalgncd to duly
In the rhlllpplniics, and bus served
there eycr since. The Colonel was six
feet three Inches In Uclylit mid very
slender.
A REMARKABLE ROCK.
At a TMatance It Looks n it' a Hattlc
ahlrwVA'na A tipronrhlnr.
In the canyon of lln Little Mtnma
R'ver, near Clifton, Ohio, there Ij a
rock which perhaps Iy.ih the otraiigest
formation of any rotk !n the United
BATTLESIIir HOCK.
States. It Is shaped almost exactly like
a modern battleship, bearing ho close
and striking a resunhluiM-u that It has
gained the name of Battleship Hock,
and Is generally known thereby. It Is
over 75 feet long and nearly 40 feet
In height.
Man's Mont Altructlvo Age,
"Thirty or thirty-five," says a woman
who has evidently given some serloua
thought to the problem, "Is, I tliLuk, the
age when a man is at his most attrac
tive stage. Ills manners- are then mod
eled and his character formed; h baa
had some experience with the world
and human nature, and consequently
knows how to act and make allow
ances. He realizes, loo, how utterly
Impossible it Is to live on romance and
flattery, which younger fellows fondly
Imagine possible; 1 more level-headed,
practical, sensible, sincere, and Just In
his attachments. Not so liable lo be
led away with every pretty face, aud,
mixing with the world, lias found out
perhaps that 'all la r.ct gold Ui.it gut
ters.' "
Nearly ail old women want lo wear
white.