It covers a qood deal of around
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
overy. And when you hear that
A cares so many diseases, perhaps
you think " it's too good to be true."
But it's only reasonable. As a
Mood cleanser, flesh - builder, and
strength-restorer, nothing like the
"Discovery " is known to medical
science. The diseases that it cures
come from a torpid liver, or from
impure blood. For everything of
tins nature, it is the only guaran
teed remedy. In Dyspepsia, Bil
iousness ; all .Bronchial, Throat and
jLong affections ; every form of
Scrofula, even Consumption (or
iiunsr-scrolula ) in its earlier stages,
and in the most stubborn, Skin and
Scalp Diseases if it ever fails to
ftenefit or cure, you have your
aaoney back.
The worst cases of Chronic
Catarrh in the Head, yield to
Ir. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
So certain is it that its mak
ers offer $500 reward for an
incurable case.
TAXATION IN ITALY.
(Government Takes Nearly One
Third of the People's Earnings.
Mow Wages and, High Prices Keep the
Working Classes in a Perpetual State
of Poverty Financial Mis
management. 4
iJie cities 01 Italy, the communes
arnd the provinces arc threatened with
political extinction as -well as with
financial ruin, says an Italian corre
. spondent of the New York Independent,
in. Naples the city treasury is not, only
mpty, tut there is a deficit in the
municipal revenue this year of $600,000
r more. Borne is also in a bad way
Snancially, and so are Florence, Genoa,
' Milan, Turin, and other cities of the
peninsula. In some of the cities building-
speculators have been driven to such
.'. slesperate straits that the national gov-
the
smment has been forced to advance
Ehem money in order to prevent whole
sale bankruptcy and ruin. As a result
f all this the people are burdened with
enormous taxes and debts. It may be
aloubted whether any modem nation is
o heavily pressed as Italy. It would
1e an easy matter for the people to re
aver their losses were it not for the
immense burdens laid upon them by the
national government. All kinds of lo
al improvements, sanitary as well as
V . . . . .J, mi, cu I. ILUllU.ILil 1 ucluuk Luc;
jjeople cannot pay the costs. Some idea
the burdens which the people of
Italy are enduring may be gathered
from a brief glance at a few of the most
important taxes.
Income from landed estates pays a
las of 43 per cent, for national and local
jpurposes; rent on houses pays 34 per
cent.; the earnings of merchants are
taxed 18 cents on the dollar. All in
aoirres above $120 pay one-seventh of the
amount to the government. A school
teacher receiving $200 a year has to pay
a tax of about $27. Cab drivers and
railway employes also endure enormous
hardens. To make all this worse the
government imposes a heavy duty on
aearly all the necessaries of life. There
3s a tax on imports and there is a tax on
exports. It would look as if a man
were taxed for being taxed. The duty
so sugar makes that important article
i food costs from 15 to 20 cents a pound.
3Tea costs from 80 cents to $1, coffee
Srom 40 to 60 cents, according to quality.
. !iBread is very dear, as there is a duty of
30 per cent, on imported wheat. The
people pay, either directly or indirectly,
aearly one-third of all their earnings to
She government. Hundreds and thou-
sands of farmers have been ruined by
She intolerable burdens of taxation.
One would imagine that, if taxes
tflie cost of living were so high, wages
would be correspondingly high, but just
the opposite is true. Farm laborers get
tmtO cents a day on an average. Ar
tisans receive from 30 to 40 cents a day,
nd are not regularly employed at that.
' The wares of women are so small m ts
make a man blush to name them. In the
lice fields of northern Italy women wade
. to their knees twelve hours at a stretch
Sot 10 cents. The straw plaiters of Fie-
aole, Prato and Leghorn make from 6 to
. 30 cents a' day. Their poor fingers fly
. Ske spindles from early dawn till late
at night. Skilled labor is better paid,
Imt $Jl a day is considered good pay. A
fcw workers in Stone and . marble,
Ibronze and silver,' make from $3 to $5
day. .
Tno (jsetui Apple Wuuu.
. The best handles of small tools, says
KB expert on the subject, are made from
&be wood of the apple tree, which is ex
tremely hard when dry, and possesses a
fine grain. Moreover, it does not check
easily after it has been dressed. In the
case of a plane, while the handle propel
will be of j this wood, the best wood for
tie block in which the cutting part oi
e plane is fastened has been found to
1e second-growth beech which has
grown in a clearing. The trunk of such
a tree below where the branches start is
-meed for this purpose with the best re
mulls.
Ths CHKoxicLEis prepared to do all
iinds of job printing.
LEGENDS OF HAUNTED HILL.
Traditions of Love un:l Ilafc T-?nt Are
I lo-.-in-; Around Aaonj tUc iuJians.
; Haunted hill, in Frazier, on the road
from ijpringvillc Sto Pottsrville, is an
odd-looking mound which is wrapped
up m the mysteries of several Indian
legends, says the Tulare (Cal.) Times,
Some of the traditions were told to us
in 1874. when we first visited this re
gion, and ever since wc have endcav
orcd to learn the true stories. The In
dians arc scattered and their legends
arc difficult to obtain; those possessed
of intelligence will- not or do not care
to tain, uut rrom wnite men living
hero manv years ago, and who learned
to speak in the Indian langaarre, wc
have gathered the partial narrative of
the legends of Haunted hill, known in
tne Indian tongue as "Wailing moun
tain." ...
- Two legends are. told one a tale of
Indian love and jealousy, the other the
story of a dreadful and fatal battle be
tween the Tule river Indians and their
enemies, the Mexicans .residing near
San Diego, in this state.
Regarding the first tradition but
scanty details can be obtained. It is
probable the older of the legends and
the time of its origin daes back ages
ago, and it has been handed down from
parent to child among the Tulare In
dians for hundre-.ts of years. This
much only can be learned: A tribe liv
ing on the banks of thr Tule cast of the
hill gave orijin to the legend. Amon
some members of the tribe a bitter
jealousy arose, having love for' a
source. A faction having won the af
fections of nix womn, the rivals re
solved on sa:i::.:nr .' revenge, yrbicung
time and waitm r a-.i unguarded hour.
they pur-sued i.i::-.e women to the lop
of Wailing laov.-t.iin a.iJ. murdered
them. Every n":Th., t'.ie I:i.lia:iu aver,
the gro-.ind on th-. summit opens and
the six women appear, or.ly to vanish
instantly. Since then no Indian will
visit the hill at ni, ,-ht.
The other legend is perhaps the more
authentic; it 13 the one sadly told by
the few surviving members of the once
prosperous and numerous Tulare In
dians. In brief, it is this: The Mexi
cans from southern California were
wont to make raids into this valley and
drive away the pomes of the Indians,
Armeu with superior weapons, they
could defy the Indians. Driven to des
peration, the natives resolved to offer
battle, and, if possible, drive the ma
rauders from the valley, otherwise to
crush them. Learaing this, -the Mexi
cans came in larger numbers, prepared
for the trial of strength. The opposing
forces met in the valley at the base of
the lull. The Indians, terrified at the
Mexican weapons and the slaughter
among their numbers, flscl to the top of
tlic lull. 1 here, crouching behind the
many rock ledges, they made a last des
perate but i-aoiTcL-tual stand. Soon the
Mexicans gained the crest, when disor
der again prevailed araong the Indians,
large numbers falling at each volley
from their enemy. ' Only the more cow
ardly escaped, the real warriors dying
amid the rock piles, for no quarter was
asked or given. It is told that five hun
dred Indians perished that day at the
base and on the - summit of this hill,
which ever since is known to the Indi
ans as the "Wailing mountain." Pass
ing the hill at night the Indians say
that the piteous wailing of the slain can
be distinctly heard, hence its name and
its dread to all aborigines of the Tulare
valley
NOT HEREDITARY.
Vou May Get Consumption In .Various
Ways, ISut Not by Uirtli.
The " accumulation of evidence is be
coming so great that every physician of
experience is forced to share the belief
of the communicability of consumption.
There are. also few physicians who have
not had one or more cases that for years
they had thought had been contracted
in this way, writes Dr. Chappell, in the
North American Eeview. How else
than by communication are we to ac
count for the rapid spread of consump
tion amongst savage nations, where
this disease was unknown before civil
ized people began to visit them? This
is true of our own American Indians,
the inhabitants of Central Africa and
many other countries. Intermarrying
or any other condition which might
make hereditary transmission a possi
ble cause -ccrtainly could not account
for its rapid progress.' Besides, some of
the best observers and investigators be
lieve that consumption is not heredita
ry, and there is much positive evidence
in favor of this view. 'With such evi
dence of the possibility of inhaling the
bacilli the question would naturally be
asked: How do the bacilli get into the
atmosphere when they are not found in
the breath of sufferers of this disease?
We know positively that in these cases
bacilli are present in the mucus which
is raised after coughing. In its moist
condition it is impossible for it to be in
haled, but when it dries and becomes
aust it is blown about, and it is in this
form that it becomes dangerous.
Tne Morality of Athens.
The city in Europe which makes the
best showing, so far as morality is
concerned, is Athens. Within the
memory . of the present generation,
there has been no single matrimonial
scandal that has taken place in the so
ciety of the Grecian metropolis, and the
latter is about the only capital in the
world which is absolutely without any
chronique scandaleuse. The Athenians
marry young and remain 'laitniui .to
their marriage vows. . This is not alone
on account of principle, but is also at
tributable in a measure to the almost'
entire absence of the demi monde. What
little there is of the latter in Athens is
exclusively of foreign origin.
According to the dispatch from Wi
nona, Minn., twelve thousand dollars in
bills has been found in a piano stool
among the effects of ten a Weinberg,
the housekeeper of the old Huff house,
who died two years ago. Eighteen
months ago twelve thousand dollars
was found in some false-bottomed
trunks. The stool was ingeniously
fixed to hold money without suspicion.
The find was made by the admin istra-
Subscribe for The Cheoxiclk.
- CONCERNliMU DYNAMITE,
Several Sliliioa Ullur.i Xuvcitctl l:i Its
manufacture la tuo (Tutted states.
Very fev people have a correct idea
of what-dynamite is of what it is made,
and the uses to which it Li px-.t. To the
French belongs the honor of its discov
ery and its practical use. "
Nitro-glycerine is the force of all high
explosives. Dynamite is the name most
usually given .to these explosives,
though other names are sometimes used.
Dynamite, says the Detroit Free
Press, is simply nitro-glycerine mixed
with various ingredients. Nitro-glyccr-me
is made by mixing sulphuric and
nitric acid with sweet glycerine, the
same that is used by the ladies to pre
vent chapped hands. . Mixing the, acids
and glycerine is where the great dan
ger lies in the making of nitro-glycer
ine. The mixing-tank, or agitator, as
iz is caiiea oy dynamite maKers, is a
large steel tank, filled inside with many
coils of lead nine, throusrh which, while
thf mixing is in progress, a constant
now of ice water is maintained. This
flow of ice water is used to keep -the
temperature of the. mix below eighty
five degrees, as above that point it
would explode, and a hole in the ground
would mark where the factory had
been. The nitro-glycerine is stored in
large earthenware tanks, which are
usually sunk in the ground , to guard
against blows or severe concussion
The other ingredients for making
dynamite are: Nitrate of soda, which
is found only in Chili, carbonate of
magnesia and wood pulp.
Dynamite is- put in paper shells
usually one and a quarter inches in
diameter and eight inches in length,
and weighs about one-half pound to
each shell or cartridges "It has largely
taken the place of black powder for
blasting, as it is many hundreds of
times stronger' and consequently more
economical. It is used chiefly in mining
all , kinds of ores, coal and rock and
submarine blasting and railroad build
ing. Without its aid many railroads,
especially those crossing the Rocky
mountains, could not have been con
structed; without it Hell Gate in New
York harbor could not have been de
stroyed, and without it the miner, at
prices now paid for mining ores, could
not earn his bread-
Dynamite will not explode from any
ordinary fall or jar; it will burn with
out explosion and freezes at forty-two
degrees, ten degrees above ordinary
freezing point. 1 The bomb of the an
archist is made of metal or glass and
filled with pure nitro-glycerine' ar
ranged so as to explode by severe con
tact with ' any hard 'object. These
bombs are, of course, never made by a
reputable dynamite factory,
Five or six millions of dollars are in
vested in the manufacture of dynamite
in the United States, and its use is con
stantly on the increase. The fumes of
nitro-glycerine produce intense head
ache, which can be cured by taking a
very small dose of it internally. N
EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY.
A Thief and a Vagrant Traded Identities
for Mutual Advantage. .
Here is a bald statement of facts, says
the Pall Mall Gazette, and it reads like
an ingenious bit of fiction. It only
happened recently, and the authority
is the report of the police office. A poor
man wandering in the Paris streets
came up to a constable and entreated to
be arrested. He said ho was penniless
and hungry, and that at the lockup he
would at least r-et a bed and a break
fast. The err cable took him at his
word took I-.': :. 5n fact, into custody
and he was lo-". 1 up for the night. In
the lockup he r.i ' a thief, whose ante
cedents were rather troubled, but who
had great hopes for the future if he
could only escape. The one wanted lib
erty, the other wanted money, and they
had all the night to make their arrange
ments. . When the morning came a bar
gain was struck. The thief was able
either to produce or to guarantee fifty
francs, and in consideration of that it
came to a change of identities. When
the roll was called over each of the two
prisoners answered for the other. 'The
thief came in for some pity, some sym
pathetic advice and his liberty. He ac
cepted all three and made immediate
and excellent use of the last. The other
prisoner was "put back. Hut the fraud
was discovered it was almost inevita
ble that it should. He was brought un
again and sentenced to fifteen daysim-
prisonment for conspiring to defeat the
ends of iust"ce. The report says he was
delighted with the sentence and re
turned to his cell in triumph. The story
would, have seemed improbable in a
novel; but fancy the satisfaction of the
pona-fide thief when he read the report;
LIGHT OF COMING DAYS.
Scientist Think Phosphorescent Clot
, Will Supersede Electricity.
It seems hard to believe that in a very
few years the incandescont lamp, which
we now regard as in many . respects an
almost perfect light, will be regarded
as a crude makeshift, which mankind
availed itself of while science stood on
the threshold of the discovery of the
perfect luminant. Mr. Tesla has shown
in his experiments an ideal form of
electric lighting which would transcend
in luxury and convenience our present
system of electric lichtin&r bv inean
aescent lamps so tar as tne latter tran
scends the oil lamps and tallow dips
used by. Our near ancestors. Every
drawing room would become an electric
field in a continual state1 of rapidly alter
nating stress, in which the occupants
would live, experiencing no unpleasant
effect whatever, while vacuous tubes
or phosphorescent globes' and tubes.
without care or attention, would shed
a soft, diffuse light of color and intensi
ty arranged to suit the most luxurioui
fancy. Mr. Tesla's watchword is that
the phosphorescent gjow is the light oi
of the future: he hints at artificial au
rorte spreading from the summit 01
towers of hithertoundreamt height,and
he has, at all events, got as far as pro
ducing in the air at atmospheric pres
sure a glowing plane bounded by twe 1
rings about a foot and. thirty inches .in
diameter respectively. Whether all hit
visions will be realized remains to be
proved; there is no doubt that they are
guiding him aright.
ANCIENT AMEEICA.
bupposed to Have Been Atlantis
.a Powerful Empire.
.According to an Egyptian. Legend tbj
, Whole '-Continent Was Kuculfed
- ' " In the Sea by a Convulsion
of Nature.
' ' ' : :
In a volume entitled "The Lost At
lantis," by the late Sir Daniel Wilson
president of the university of Toronto
an interesting study is made of th
legends which suggest that Americi
was known to the ancients. In two o
i-iaio s dialogues, tne lunaeus ant
Critias, it is related that Solon, th
great Athenian law-giver, during
vit.iL ne maac to aais, m issrvnt. some
thirty-four hundred years ago, was in
formed by the priests of the formei
existence, west of the strait of Gibral
rtar, of an' island continent in the At
lantic ocean, says the Baltimore Sun.
This continent, Atlantis;, the seat ol
a powerful ' empire, according to ' the
story, was engulfed in the sea- by some
convulsion of nature, with the result,
of course, of destroying its hundreds ol
cities and millions of inhabitants. Al
ready in Solon's time the destruction ol
Atlantis was described as a remote
event, "white with age."
Has this legend a basis of fact? It
cannot be accepted as a whole, ' it ap
pears, because the Atlantic, in the opin
ion of geologists, has been substantial
ly what it is for many millions of years
Geology shows evidences of local up
heavals, but none of the submergence
01 extensive continental areas. Sir Dan
iel accordingly feels compelled to reject
the sinking of Atlantis as a detail of
the story invented to account for the
cessation of intercourse with it. The
body of the story he is disposed, to ac
cept. Atlantis was America, which con
tinent the earlier Egyptians had discov
ered during their period of adventurous
maritime enterprise.. There are many
evidences of ; Egyptian domination
around the Mediterranean' before the
Trojan war. Their ships sailed the At
lantic, visiting England for tin and ex
ploring the coast of Africa toward and
beyond the equator in search of gold.
Their vessels might readily have been
carried westward by ocean currents' to
Brazil and Central America. In , the
year 1500 of our era Pedro Alvares de
Cabral, the Portuguese admiral, while
sailing southward along the west coast
of Africa, was carried by the equatorial
current so far out of his course that he
accidentally discovered Brazil. What
befell the- Portuguese 'admiral in 1500
might readily, Sir. Daniel thinks, have
befallen Egyptian admirals thousands
of years before. Egypt when first re
vealed to us in history was already far
gone m its ueclinc. Its people had lost
the spirit which impelled them to their
first discoveries and to their acquisition
of the greatest if not the first of the
ancient empires.
Sir Daniel affirms that' the ancient
maritime races of the Orient frequently
made voyages far out into the-Atlantic.
In the reign of Pharaoh-Necho, 611
605 li. C, after the decline of Etrvntian
maritime enterprise, a Phoenician fleet
Was employed to circumnavigate Africa.
Hanno, the Carthaginian, is said to
have reached the Indian ocean by the
route around the' cape, as. Vasco do
Gama did later, in 1497. Enterprise has
its pulsations its periods of 'expansion
and contraction. There are,' it is seen.
indications that the discovery of Amer
ica, was within the reach of the Etrvo-
tians at the period to which the story of
Atlantis refers.
When the Egyptians ceased to "rove
the sea Atlantis was lost to view at Sai&
and became a dim legend. Evidences of
Egyptian intercourse with it are to be
sought, according to the author, among
tne ruinea cities of Central America.
Such evidences may yet be forthcoming.
It would not," he says, "in any dearree
surprise me to learn of the discovery of
a genuine Phoenician or other inscrip
tion or some hoard of Assyrian gry
phons or shekels of the merchant
princes of Tyre, 'that had knowledge of
tne sea, being recovered among the
still unexplored treasures of the .buried
empire of Montezuma or the long-deserted
ruins of Central America. Such
a discovery would scarcely be more sur
prising than that of the Punic hoards
found at Corvo, the most westerly island
of the Azores. Yet it would furnish a
substantial basis for the legend of At
lantis. There is nothincr improbable in
the idea that it rests on some historic
basis in which the fall of an Iberian or
other aggressive power in the western
Mediterranean has mingled with other:
and equally vasrue traditions of inter
course with a vast continent lying be
yond the pillars of Hercules." The
speculation is an attractive one and
adds interest to the study of the antiqui
ties 01 Central America.
AN ODD PROFESSION.
Qood Incemcs Are Earned by
' IMt Articles In Shops.
Finding
Few women shoppers in their rush
for bargains stop to think of the num
ber of things that are lost by that
great army of bargain hunters every
day. Pushing and pulling at each other
as they do in their attempts to get near
some special bargain, the unnoticed
dropping of a handkerchief, pocket
book or fan is a common occurrence, ac
cording to the New York World.
The manager of a big store on Sixth
avenue says there is a regular company
of women who do nothing else but pa
trol the stores on the lookout for arti
cles and money lost by shoppers;
Most of these women,, he says, are
well known to the floor-walkers and de
tectives, but as they break no laws and
occasionally make small purchases they
are not molested.
- At six o'clock each night,, according
to his story, or whfen they meet at their
"office" and make a general division of
their spoils, to the unique band it is nc
uncommon thing to divide one hundred
dollar's worth of goods as the proceeds
of a day's persistent search. ' -.
Of course they closely examine the
personal columns of therpapers, and ii
a large enough reward, is offered the
persons who lose things stand. a pretty
good chance of having them returned. ,
COMFORT HOT AND COLO.
It Is to Be Found in the Reflection That
There Are Worse Climates.
Which is the very hottest region of
the globe is disputed warmly sometimes
by travelers.. The thermometer will not
decide in the sense .we refer to, says the
London Standard, because local condi
tions h,ave such great influence on our
feeling of misery. Those who have
been quartered at Aden would not al
low that any spot on this upper earth
can be more awful than that. But un
fortunates who have dwelt in Scinde
mock the terrors of Aden. Visitors to
Bushire; in the Persian gulf, talk light
ly of Scinde; and' Russians assert that
there are districts in central Asia more
terrible than all three. One would in
cline to believe them also, if only it
were proved possible to live through a
summer in heat more cruel than that of
Scinde, for instance. Americans also
put in a claim' for their great desert.
One thing is assured that the famous
Sahara does not approach any of those
mentioned. In some parts of Scinde
necessity taught the inhabtants ages
ago to invent an apparatus for cooling
their rooms, which we were glad to
adopt under the name "windsaiL"
. As for the actual heat in the severest
climates, persons otherwise trustworthy-)
win give astounding reports. We have
heard responsible officers of the old In
dian flotlla avouch that they have seen
the glass register 300 degrees In the sun
at Bushire. It was a long time -.
however, and there lies their excuse.
Perhaps 180 degrees has been recorded,
for a brief space, under peculiar cir
cumstances. But when 160 degrees iS
passed every traction becomes horribly
perceptible. . Ten degrees above this is
not uncommon. The coolest place to bo
found at Shikarpnr sometimes has been
140 degrees. But, 120 degrees in the
shade may be regarded as the tempera
ture of the very hottest climates in the
world when no wind blows. Fan?y
that as ' a minimum, for forty-eiTht
hours at a stretch. At Sukkur the
year round, mark residents endure a
minimum of 97 degrees; happily there
are very few whites among them. But
this is in a time 'when no wind blows;
and winds are the. rul-s f .- m lar :h. to
July. There is tha Su'r. .--Y '1 rise-,
as scientific persons alleg in th.-i 'Caehi
desert; but ordinar;,- nwtv.!'i T.-.''l "tiit
be persuaded that . it hi-. ..:. -f.n. in
the upper world. All lifj withers be
fore it. But there is worse. Tho bad-i-simoon
kills outright eVerything it en
counters; not only that it burns up
tissue and cartilage, so that the limbs
can be pulled asunder when the storm
has passed Of course it is rare and
brief and very narrow in its track.
From the roof of his house in Jacoba-
pad, an officer watched it sweep by, de
stroying actually everything it met;
but he, fifty yards from the edge, felt
only a warmer elow than usual. .
AN EDITOR'S TALK.
He Tells What Names Are PopulM
. Among So-Called JLllerary Women.
An uia . n;a:tor: x wonder it any
woman ever liked her own name? When
I was In the harness I used to have to
read all themanuscript that came tothn
omce. most 01 our con trinu tors were
women. Women, ' I .have sometimes
thought, are naturally inclined to litera
ture. I never knew one - who didn'l
drift into writing- for the press if she
had the slightest encouragement. And
when they begin to write of course the
first thing they do is to select a nom de
plume. These assumed 'names used to
amuse me and I took a fancy one day tc
keep track of them for one year. At
the expiration of that time I discovered
that the dame "Maude" led the list.'
The next was "Lillian," and then they
scampered off into the rea'.ms of fiction.
Boulah," "Mispah," "Eowena," and
the like. . Occasionally I found one who
assumed a commonplace - tag. and I
noticed that such a one, as a rule, gen
erally made her way to the front. ' J
wonder whatever became of that lonu
procession of sorrowful-looking creat
ures who used to come to my desk with
great bundles of manuscript and - be
seech me to examine it and use it, al
the same time telling me of the sick
children at home who were famishina
for bread, -and who couldn't get any un
til "this article" was printed. At lirsl
I was soft-hearted and listened to ttest
appealB, but soon found that I had more
manuscript on hand than we had col
umns in the paper. Then I grew hard
hearted. For instance, I would ask one:
"How many children have you?" If she
said more than two I asked their names.
Then I would ask the nature of theii
diseases and she would tell me. I would
take the story and label it, "Katie
measles." Then of the next annlicant
the same query. Then the label,
"Johnny the mumps," and then I
would lay the M6S. away in a pigeon
hole and occasionally I would look them
over and wonder how the invalid corps
were progressing. When I felt a little
womanish in my heart I would select
the "disease" which I thought was most
dangerous and' use it. And then I used
to watch the obituary column.'. But I
never saw the announcement of the
death of any of the starving ones whose
names were on the parchment in mj
pigeon-noies. unicago Tribune.
Distant Travels or the Stork.
An interesting proof of the distant
travels of a stork was discovered this
spring in the neighborhood of Berlin.
For a number of years a pair of storks
built their nest annually in the park oi
the castle Ruheleben. A few years ago
one of the servants placed a ring with
the name of the place and date on the
leg of the. male bird, in order to be cer
tain that .the same bird returned ' each
year. -This spring the stork came back
to its customary place, the bearer of
two rings. The second one bore the in
scription: "India sends greetings to Ger
many." .
The nip of a polionous snake is but a
slight remove from being more danger
ous than the poison - of ecrofula in the
blood. Ayer's Sarsaparilla purifies the
vital fluid, expels all poisonous sub-
tan ces, feand supplies the elements of
life, health and strength.' ' :
APOLLO IN DISGUISE. -
The Man Who Delights In posing Before
Passengers in Horse Cars. - .
"Do you see that man standing in the
center of the car?" said a conductor on
the Columbus avenue line to a Boston
Herald reporter the other day while on
a down-town trip about ten o'clock in
the morning. '
"Yes; anything usual about him?"
"Only that he is stuck on himself."
? "How does he show it?"
"By declining to take a seat when a
passenger leaves. , I have been watch
ing him now for three or four weeks,
Tf there art n niimhpr nf 1 I in f-u r-
when he enters he insists on standing,
notwithstanding the amount of vacant
space at his disposal. From his actions
one would believe he did not see it, and
fnntiAnt,l-v it li anrwinc fKof esvmA
hearted old gentleman who never loses
an opportunity to be of service to his
fellow man will poke Mr. Vanity in the
back with his cane and direct his atten-
tation of this nature with 'No, thank
you; I prefer standing, as I intend get
ting out shortly.'
- - mcic a piciivj gui iu tuts car lie
manages to get as near her as possible,
so that when the car sways in taking a
curve he can jostle against her and go
through the street-car etiquette of lift
ing his hat and begging her pardon.
"If he enters a car that is sparsely
occupied, and no ladies are present he
takes a seat as close to the door as he
can, in order to be the first one to rise
when a lady docs come in. The 'thank
you' he receives for his disguised cour
tesy he interprets as a recognition of
his personal attractiveness, and his
actions during the remainder of the
trip are based on this presumption." If
thfa lady should by chance happen to
look toward him it adds strength to his
false supposition and additional height
to his mountain of conceit. - When she
leaves the car he follows her with
his ' eyes until she is out of sight, with
the hope that she will turn and give him
some' sign of recognition. .
"It makes little difference to men of
this character how often they are made
to-feel the sting of their own conceit,
as it 'is without apparent effect."
SUED FOR; STOLEN TIME.
How an Old Provorb !.! to an Innocent
Man'i Conviction. '
A rattier striking caso has just been
brought before a Violrsburg" justice of
the peace, says the Arkansaw Traveler.
A man named Hatlihonc sued ohq Jack
son for time. , '
"Well," mid the justice, when the
case wau c-iicu, '-you have brought an
action here for time, bvt ycu do not
specify. Did you give this man Jacicson
so much of your tiiao and has he refused
to pay you for it2Yv.
"Your honor, thin man ha,i had my
time and does refi::.v.- t j p; a;, I will
explain. I live on t.io Hk. --vu'.t above
him. and Kore t:r--- !-rv y.--v; J t. n ;-i
clock on the instaii-aiect . plan. ' The
other day the4 fellow came around to
collect the installment, and it occurred .
to me that, as Jackson could hear the
clock strike, he - ought to. help no pay.
for it. I looked into the matter and
zouna mat ne nan no cioci: m-l J -siixi
learned that' his hour. werj iv ;-,itj
by my timepiece. . Then I t: J his
that he owed me for my t5.m : and
plained to him, but he reiuiod t onzur-.
tarn my claim."
,"Mr. Jackson," r.ald the judge, 'have
yon no timepiece of yuur own ?"' ' ' " '
"I have not, yo-ai-.: .;-..r."'
"And have you been t"'lirT t'"? time
f day by . liuicn::- t i t..- ng oi
Mr. Eathbone's eloclr.'-
"Well, yes, but I did not think that it
was wearing on the clock. I thsi:ght
that while tlie cloch: rrsr. fctrihiry' for
him it could just r.r v.vli strih - i'or me,
especially as one net of strikes would do
for both iamilies.".
"But had you intended to eet a clock
wiui t. atxx. jA.iibuuuuu ouugni nis tne
justice asked.
"Well, yes. . '
The justice reflected a moment and
then said: "Your delay in buying a
clock makes you the victim of this ac
tion, for the law plainly says, as every
schooTboy ought to know: 'Procrastina
tion is the thief of time.' - Yon. have,
therefore, stolen this man's, time arid
will have to pay for it or suffer more
serious consequences.- I assess the dam
ages at ten dollars."
Tobaoco Chewing w .
Says a tobacconist in the Boston Sat
urday Evening Gazette: "For a long
time the old American habit of tobacco
chewing has been on the decline. Near
ly half the men used .to chew years ago,
but very few if them do it now. The
calls for a plug of chewing tdbacco
lasted all day long, but you will wait
an hour now before you hear such a
eall. ; It was not only the workuvTmt-a
who indulged in the habit but also the
swells and the .business people. The
Southerners were nearly all chers
and so were the Weterne'. 1M-.t the
quid has gone out of fatuon uere."
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