OLDEST MINJN AMERICA
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Mr. Isaac Brock, tin: Oldest Man In the
United States.
Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county,
Tex., lias attained the great age of 111
years, having been born in 1788. He
is an ardent friend to Peruna and
speaks of it in the following terms:
"During my long life I have known
a great many remedies for coughs,
colds, catarrh and diarrhoea. I had
always supposed these affections to be
different diseases, but I have learned
from Dr. Hartnian's books that these
affections are the same and are prop
erly called catarrh.
"As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Pe
runa, I have found it to be the best, if
not the only reliable remedy for these
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Itucttiujin.
"Peruna has been my stand-by
for many years, and I attribute my
good health and my extreme age
to this remedy. It exactly meets
all my requirements."
"I have come to rely upon it almost
entirely for the many little things for
which I need medicine. I believe it to
be especially valuable to old people."
Isaac Brock.
Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old
age. A person entirely free from ca
tarrh is sure to live to a hale and hearty
old age. A free book on catarrh sent
by The Peruna .Medicine Co., Colum
bus, O.
Electric Road to Mt. Blanc.
During the past summer an electric
railroad was completed to the foot of
Mount Blanc at Chamounix, which
makes it possible to reach that place
from Geneva in three and three quarters
hours. But recently the journey was
by dilgience and took the greater part
of a day.
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Signature of
Chasing the Foxy.
She Is your .friend going to marry
the widow?
He I think not. He told me he
had a better offer. Smart Set.
The Cloudi of Doubt
"He has told me that he loved me,"
said the fair girl, "but I don't know
whether to marry him or not."
"I am sure he does his best to tell
the truth. But, you see, he works in
the weather bureau. Washington Star.
The Easiest Way.
Husband What are you doing in my
pockets. Haven't you any money?
Wife I have money of my own, but
a man's pockets are so much easier to
find.
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AH rivers of Africa have a marked
peculiarity. They seek the ocean far
thest from their source.
The loftiest tableland in the world is
that of Assuay in the Andes. An area
as big as Yorkshire lies at a height of
14,500 feet
The Alps cover a space of 90,000
square miles. In them rivers have their
source, flowing into the North Sea,
Black Sen and Mediterranean.
Norway's coastline is 1,700 miles In a
straight line, but over 12,000 if followed
round the fjords; 150,000 Islands have
been charted in her belt of Islands.
An anemometer, or wind measure,
consists of four cups at the end of
arms. It is so constructed that it makes
500 revolutions while a mile of wind
passes.
Twenty-four tons seaweed yield one
ton of kelp. This gives about eight
pounds of iodine. Seven thousand tons
of kelp are made yearly on the shores
of Great Britain.
The ocean used to be considered
about as deep at its deepest as the high
est mountains are high. It has now
been proved to be half as deep agalii,
that is, 40,230 feet
The common lizard changes Its color
like the chameleon. It will become
bluek ufier leiiiuiuiug upou Mack soil
for about half a minute, but upon an
old-fashioned wooden fence the animal
soon assumes the motley gray hue of n
weather-worn rail. Upon a green leaf
the same lizard will take on a greenish
tint.
All readers of the "Arabian Nights"
will remember the thriling conse
quences to the man who, while eating
dates and carelessly throwing the
stones about, accidentally put out the
eye of the Invisible son of n genie. No
similar peril would attend the degusta
tion of a species of date mentioned in
recent French scientific Journals as
having been discovered by M. Riviere
la an experimental garden, and which
possesses no stone or pit whatever.
This new kind of date tree is said to be
very fruitful, and means of cultivating
and perpetuating the species are being
sought. '
The little planet that rides next to the
sun, bearing the Latinized name of the
god of the winged foot in Greek mythol
ogy, Mercury, has always been more or
less puzzling, even to astronomers. Al
though Its discovery antedates history,
such details ns its size, its rate of rota
tion nrhl the presence or absence of an
atmosphere clothing its surface are not
yet ascertained with certainty. The
latest measurements of the diameter of
Mercury, by Dr. T. J. J. See, of the
United States Nnvnl Observatory, make
the planet considerably smaller than do
the estimates hitherto generally re
ceived. The mean diameter, according
to Dr. See. is about 2,058 miles. This
Is about 350 miles less than the figure
gven, for instance, In Prof. Young's
"General Astronomy," edition of 181)8,
where It is set down at 3.000 miles, "not
differing from that more than fifty
miles either way."
PILGRIMS TO LOURDES.
Many Thousands Looking for Miracu
lous Cures of Disease. S
Lourdes, which for ten months out of
the twelve has a population of some
1,500, hns had its Inhabitants increased
since early this morning to 18.000, and
by to-morrow some 25,000 persons will
be gathered. in this little Basque village
under the beetling brows of the Pyr
enees, which tower over It.
We are all watching anxiously for
miracles, and since we left Paris In the
"white train" on Saturday our talk has
been of little else. There were BOO of us
In the long "white train," of whom 300
odd were sick, and three were dying
when we started. Now one of the latter
Is dead, and If report Is to be believed
three of the sick were cured miracu
lously. I saw none of these miracles, but
those who did declare that a crippled
lad, who threw nway his crutches, and
a consumptive girl, who rose from a
stretcher and walked out of the Church
of Ste. Radegoude nt Poitiers, had both
been sick almost to death some hours
before.
Although It Is but two full days since
we left Paris, 1 seem to have been mov
ing amid the sick and dying for several
weeks. Our Journey was Inexpressibly
pathetic. All through the hot day and
two stifling nights the noise of the
train drowned the Irrepressible cries of
our sick passengers as It Jolted slowly
on.
At each stopping place and they
were very frequent sweet-faced, gentle-handed
nuns, of whom there were
two to every three carriage loads of
pilgrims, darted here and there with
water, soup or milk for the patients.
White and black robed priests of the
Order of the Assumption hurried along
the train, praying with one sick passen
ger, talking cheerfully with n not her,
comforting here, exhorting there help
ful always.
No drugs of any kind are allowed to
SiVention
the passengers. Whatever may be
thought of the humanity of trundling
sick and dying people so many hun
dreds of miles In the hope of a miracu
lous recovery, the faith and cheerful
ness of these poor souls were In them
selves a miracle.
I spoke with many of them on the
way, Including a man who eventually
died. He was In a state of loathsome
decay from the waist downward,
though only 22 years old, and one leg
had been amputated at the right thigh
before he started.
"I received extreme unction before I
started," he said, "and if the Holy Vir
gin does not cure me I hope to die at
Lourdes." The poor fellow's last visit
was doomed to disappointment. He died
yesterday, an hour before we left Pol
tiers. At the tomb of Ste. Radegonde at
Poitiers, and also at the grotto here, to
which all the sick are carried immedi
ately the trains arrive, and at the pas
sage of the host among the sick, which
took place amid great pomp this after
noon, there was frenzied eagerness
among the crippled and imoptent wor
shipers to get nearer. All hoped against
hope for a miracle to raise them from
their couches and stretchers and bath
chairs. It was heartrending.
Above the prayers, and even above
the singing of the huge crowd, which
formed an immense oval above the
powerful voices of the preachers and
above the stentorian supplications of
Father Marie rose the whimpering of
a crippled idiot boy.
They were drowned suddenly by tin
tremendous roar at the conclusion of
the ceremony us a crippled lad, who Is
said to have lost the use of his legs for
many years, dragged himself from the
friendly arms which had been support
ing him and ran. Was he really par
alyzed? Will he be so to-morrow?
There nre four doctors here, of whom
one is an Englishman, and they believe
that miracles do occur.
To-night the church nnd the crosses
on the hillside present n fairy-like spec
tacle, nnd ns I dispatch this message
a torchlight procession numbering
many thousands of persons Is winding
nlong the tortuous pnthwny on the
mountain side. Correspondence Lon
don Mail.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
Girl with a Red Cape Disturbs Ani
mals in the Zoo.
"I'll be pleased when that youngster
gets out of here," said the keeper, in
clining his head toward a little girl
wearing a red cape, who was making
a round of the "zoo's" lion house. "No
tice how uneasy the animals are. It's
the red cape. Feeding time is n long
way off, but that cape looks enough like
a chunk of raw meat to get the animals
excited.
"Talk about waving a rwP flag at a
bull! It's nothing to exhibiting a red
rag to a hungry Hon. Watch that old
lioness follow the youngster along the
front of the cage. You'd think she was
going to Jump through the bars. That
girl hns been nil nlong the row nnd has
got the whole house worked up. Any
time the animals nre hungry n red ob
ject sets them going. Listen to the
snarling. If that red cape hadn't come
nlong they'd be taking things easy,
waiting for dinner time, but now they'll
chafe nnd fret and work themselves
Into a fit.
"It's always that way," said the keep
er in conclusion to the Philadelphia
Record, "when people wearing some
thing red come through the house."
Unique.
In the Academy of Sciences nt Tsars-koe-Selo
may be seen one of the most
interesting relics in the world. It Is
a geographical globe, eleven feet In
diameter, and It Is made of copper. It
was commenced In the year 1054 and
was completed ten years later during
the reign of Duke Frederick of Hol
steln. The outside represents the earth
nnd the Interior the celestial spheres
of the world. There Is a door giving
nceess to the interior of the globe, and
In the center is a round table, which Is
so large that twelve persons can easily
sit around It. By means of old-fashioned
but reliable mechanism the globe
can be made to revolve upon Its axis.
This curious relic weighs about three
nnd a half tons. Ever since it was
made It has been regarded as entirely
unique In Its way, nnd, though its value
for geographical purposes Is not now
very great, it Is still prized by scient
ists as a striking evidence of the inter
est which was taken In geographical
matters two and a half centuries ago.
Eloctrle Shocking of Men and Home
A writer states that the difference In
susceptibility to electric shock between
horses and men Is largely a question
of shoes. The sole of a man's shoe has
a very high resistance, but a horse,
with Ills four iron shoes fastened on
with Iron nails, is npt to get the full
benefit of the current.
American Hops.
The American hop fields employ
about 240,000 men, women and chil
dren as pickers alone, for there are 72,
000,000 hop vines to be stripped, and
the crop In a good season Is worth $10,
000,000. People abuse you now, but think of
the nice things they will say about you
after you arc dead.
FLAGS AT HALF-MAST.
At First Marine Signals of Distress,
Now Signs of Mourning:.
"What Is the origin of the custom of
displaying flags at half-staff, or, as peo
ple usually say, half-mast?"
This question, when it was put to me
the other day, appeared to have an easy
answer: "It is borrowed from the navy.
The ensign or pennant at half-mast is
a recognized sign of mourning."
"Yes; but was it at first a ship's sig
nal of distress, as some say even some
of the good dictionaries?"
I have heard that In the seventeenth
century it was so employed by the
Spaniards; but, at any rate, toward the
end of the eighteenth century the sig
nal of distress recognized by French
and English sailors was a different af
fair, as the following story shows:
, Anno, 1783. The French ship Sybille.
a powerful thirty-six gun frigate. Is
sighted off Cape Henry by the Hussar,
of twenty-eight guns. Now, the Sybille
a few days before, In a drawn fight
with one of the ships of the English fleet
to which the Hussar belongs, sustained
such Injuries that she has subsequently
been dismasted in a puff of wind and
Is under jury masts. As she is therefore
unable to chase the Hussar, she seeks
to entice her alongside in order to take
her by boarding, and accordingly she
hoists to the peak the French ensign
under the English, as if admitting that
she Is captured. All this Is legitimate.
whether the Hussar takes the bait or
no. But the French captain goes too
far. He hoists In the main shrouds an
ensign reversed and tied In a weft or
lo"I. Now, tills being n well-known sig
nal of distress an appeal to a common
humanity which no generous officer
could disregard the Hussar at once
closes. Fortunately, however, her crew
nre nt quarters when the Sybille, haul
ing down the English flag at the peak
and hoisting the French above, endeav
ors to run her on bonrd. The extreme
rolling natural to a ship not steadied
by sufficient sail exposes the Sybille's
bottom, and several shots from the
Hussar go through her very bilge. By
this time another English man-of-war
comes up, and tie Sybille strikes her
flag, the reversed ensign with Its weft,
so dishonorably hoised, remaining In
the shrouds.
So much for the signal of distress
theory.
We know that flags were commonly
used at funerals in England, especially
before the middle of the seventeenth
century, not reversed or tied In a weft,
but floating In their normal position.
This practice was discontinued little by
little, though no doubt some trace of Its
Influence is still seen In the universal
display of military flags on occasions
of national bereavement. New York
Herald.
PAYING OIL WELLS OF JAPAN.
Modern Methods of Drilling Have De
veloped Petroleum Industry.
Mr. Rentiers of the British consular
service in Japan has submitted to the
British Board of Trade a report on
the petroleum Industry, which has of
late attracted much attention and
reached considerable dimensions in
that country. The ouly place In which
the oil Is produced in large quantities
Is In the province of Echlgo, on the
west coast, the center of the Industry
being the town of Arnase, where the
largest oil company In the country has
been at work since 1S88 with machin
ery Imported from 'the United States.
Here wells were dug In the sea and
carried above the sea level by a double
ring of piles filled in with earth. In
the northern part of the province oil
was discovered In 1889 and led to a
fever of speculation.
In 1802 there were between 000 and
700 speculative companies with small
capital at work In Echlgo, and most of
them failed. On their ruins arose
large companies working on a great
scale and with imported machinery.
Hand boring has almost ceased to ex
ist, and with improvement in methods
of winning the oil came improvement
in the transport of the oil to the re
fineries, ripe lines" were Introduced
to convey it from the wells to the re
fincrels and from the latter to the rail
way stations, and It has been proposed
to construct a pipe line all the way to
Tokyo, the capital, about twenty miles
away.
Petroleum has also been found In
Yezo, the northern Island, and It Is be
lieved that the supply there Is as rich
as it Is in Echlgo. In one place In the
Island wells have been dug and worked
by hand for some years. Here the oil
overflows Into the sen, and In stormy
weather boats take refuge there on
account of the smoothness of the wat
er. In 18!)!) the total production of the
oil In Japan was 18.fCW.013 gallons, of
which 18.713,230 gallons were produc
ed In Echlgo. London Telegraph.
Keeping Tobacco Stores in Franca
To hove the right to keep a retail to
bacco and cigar store In France Is con
sidered a privilege worth working for,
nnd It Is said that every chnngc of min
istry Is sure to give nn opportunity to
the exercise of the nppolntlve power of
the government, which augments the
number of retail tobacco dealers.
When you see a free horse, Isn't It a
fact that you fee a longing to hop on
andrldu?
OUT OF DEATH'S
THRILLING RESCUE OF A UTICA
WOMAN.
Tim Story of the Kveut a Told by Mm.
Tucker A Horrible Kxpnrience
With a Happy Ending,
How Mrs. Anna M. Tucker, of S52
Kossuth avenue, 1'tica, N. Y., was
saved from a horrible fate when death's
jaws were almost closing upon her is
told in the following statement made
by her to a reporter.
It was soon after the birth of my
little boy," she said. "Three different
doctors had done their best for me, but
they all failed to do mo any good. My
case seemed .to be a combination of
nervous and stomach troubles. I had
fainting spells, my food did not digest
and caused nie great distress. My head
felt very badly and at times I was de
lirious. I lost in weight from 130 to
1)8 pounds, I had no color, my feet and
hands were cold nnd my limbs had a
prickly sensation ns though asleep. I
was not refreshed by sleep although I
slept heavily. I learned of Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Tills from a published case
similar to mine that had been cured by
the pills. I took three or four boxes
before I was certain that I was being
benefitted, but continued their use until
I was entirely cured.
"I am glad to recommend Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People for
they are the medicine that saved my
life. I do not believe that ordinary
medicine could have cured me."
AUliuu'i Mro. Tucker's wash severe
case, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cured
her. Lesser troubles yield even more
readily to the potent action of this mar
velous medicine. Not only will these
pills cure cases similar to Mrs. Tuck
er's, but they have been proven to bo
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St. Vitus' Dance, sciatica, neuralgia,
rheumatism, nervous headache, after
effects of grip, of fevers and of other
acute diseases, ' palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow complexions
and all forms of weakness either in
male or female1. Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People are sold by all
dealers, or will bo sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price, fifty cents a box, or six
boxes for two dollars and a half (they
are never sold in bulk or by the hun
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Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
They act directly on the blood and
nerves. Avoid imitations; substitutes
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A Cinch.
The Boss No I must have a married
man for this position.
Applicant Just keep it open for an
hour. It's easier to get married than
it is to get a job.
Changed Plans.
"Is your poor aunt consolable yet for
the loss of her first husband?
"Oh, yes ; but now her second bus
band is unconsolable over it!" Flie
gande Blaetter.
College Colon.
"Our college colors are pink and
gold," said Miss Frocks.
"Our college colors were black nnd
blue when I was initiated into the
secret societies," added her brother.
Detroit Free Press.
Hit Real Reason.
Biffkins I tell you I hate to think
of my wife going away on a vacation.
Bilkins I dare say you will be lone
ly, old man.
Biffkins It isn't that, but she
always mowed our lawn. Boston Post.
All Planned.
Teacher An island is a body of
land entirely surrounded by water.
Take Cuba, for instance.
Tommy My pa says that's what wo
are going to do before wo get through.
Boston Herald.
Detected.
"What mkes the actor criticise you
so severely?
"My dear sir," answered Storming
ton Barnes, "he hopes to muke people
say it is professional jealousy, thereby
conveying the iniprt-..::'in that he is in
my class." Washington Star.
An Inspiration.
O'Hoolahan Will, the barn is paint
ed an' Oi'll take thot money if it's all
the same to you.
Ottinger (surprised) Why, you can't
have painted it ho soon, Tut!
O'Hoolahan (triumphantly) Sure,
Oi hov, sir. Oi mixed the yellow paint
for the first coat wld the grano for the
second, nn' Oi put both coats on to
gether to save time. Brooklyn Eagle.
Matched.
Mr. Drinker I want a blue necktie
o match my eyes.
Salesman I'm sorry, sir, but we are
just out of blue ties; but I can sell you
one to match your nose."
If One Loses.
Mr. Dobbs (on the way to the races)
Nice ride to the race course, don't
you think?
Mr. Hobbs (nervously) Yes, but
think what a long walk back.