TALKING ABOUT HENS. IIow a Decided Coolness Sprang Cp Be­ tween Two Old Fi lend*. ! A FAIR EXCHANGE. ■Vhi ■ Detroit Tsy-Fsys» Pr.f.»r.<1 Whfftstone to a Patent Door-8priu<. a MASCULINE MEDDLERS. Glimpses of Detroit Ufa. (Detroit Free Prom. J “Want your sidewalk c eared off I” he uked of a citia»n of Wo -dward ^v^nua In one of the parlor cars on a west­ “JuMt got a man.” •‘Have any badge* onT bound Northwestern train sat a woman “I believe he has flv- or six." who was not as young as she had been “Then let him keep tha job. I'm a tramp and whose temper was, apparently, and hard up. but them ro .er skating chain not as sunny as it might be. For she pions has got to earu a living somehow, and I’in not tbe ma i to stand in their way. scowled and looked sour and tried to They are eut tied to public ayinp .thy aud read a bit and slammed the book down wdstance.” Why a Snappish Woman Carried a Flak« of boot on Her Cheek. OUR BREAD IN DANGER lie slid quietly into a Jefferson avo A Rochester man named Mu?gs has nuo hardware store yesterday forenoon, be n out in the town of Wheatland vis­ unrolled a paper on the counter, and iting some friends who live on a farm. as he held up a patent door-spring he Mr. Muggs is not only a man of more said: than average intelligence, but he is "I buy him two days ago, und I like iso of an inquiring turn of mind; and to oxchange him for a Wheatstone.” while he was visit ng on the farm he “What's the matter?” “Vhell, I can’t make him fit on my and banged the window up and then managed to pick up a good deal of in­ LIME KILN CLUB RULES. formation by asking quistions about screen door.” banged it down again when she found On motion of Wavdowu Bebea by-law No. “ Why. that's the easiest thing in the things. One of the first things that ex­ world. See here: This end screws on the wind played bob with the carefully 63,S94 was amend’d so as to real: “Any perNon comi lg b‘fore this club with a salve ited his cur’osity was a hen that was the door, and that end on the casing.” trained bangs on her forehead. Taking or ointment warranted to cure chiiban- Among recent important discoveries by the food analysts it all around she was in a fine state of on a nest under the end of a lumber shall not be permit ted to experiment until “1 tried him dot vhay, uud he doan' mind, and there was a big piece of soot he has given bonds in the sum of $25, and pile. work.” is that by Prof. M ott , U. S. Government Chemist, of large “This must be a hen,” said Muggs, “When it is on you take this mital on her cheek of whose presence she th > firsexp *nmeats shall be ma le on the eonfidi ntly. pin and turn the spring. Soo the holes did not seem to be aware, but which fe t of members who ure iu arrears for amounts of lime and alum in the cheap baking powders. It “It is,’ said the farmer. was observed and commented on by all dues.” there?” ••She seems to be taking life pretty Chancery Jo-es attorney genera! for the “I does dot vhay, und my screen of the passengers, is a startling fact that of over one hundred different brands easy,” ventured Muggs. Soon a traveling man came out of club, then announced that he had looked ur» doors Hies open.” the law in the case, and satisfied himself “Quito the contrary." said the the smoking-room, took a look at the “You turned the wrong way.” of baking powder so far analyzed, comprising all those sold tarmer. “She is busy.’ “I turns him eafery way. Some­ state of things and accosted her in so that any member who, b.’acci lent or mis­ "Laying an egg, probably," suggested times der door vhas wide open, und all low a tone that his fellow-passengers take. dropped a silver quarter into the con­ in this vicinity, not one, with the single exception of Royal tribution box instead ot a button, coul l not L'ug-’S. der flies in Michigan go in, und some­ were bitterly disappointed in not being “Probably not,” said the farmer. times lie vasli shut oop so tight I can t able to hear his remarks or the reply reclaim the same except by burglarizing the Baking Powder, was found free from both lime and alum, safe. ••She is setting.” got in my own house. I bogin on him in thereto. The reply, however, was ap­ The meeting then went home. Then Muggs made some patronizing der morning, und I doan’ leave off till parently very short and quite conclu­ Tho use of alum is to produce a cheap baking powder. It A DOG WHICH CAUGHT ON. sive, for the traveling man retired remark to the hen and reached dow. n to night, but he won’t work right.” “Yes, that ’ere dog belongs to me, I s’pose,” itroke the fur on her neck. The hen “That’s curious. What tools did you about as quick as he knew how and replied a farmer at the market yesterday, costs less than two cents a pound, whereas pure cream of with something on his face which re­ when rallied iu regard to an ungainly cur Fas busy, but not too busy to keep an have?” Bye on Muggs, and when his hand “I uso a hammer and screw-drifer sembled a blush remarkably close, con­ which was lying under his wagon. tartar costs forty. Its effect upon the system has been ascer- tame witiiin reach she picked a small und colilshisel und saw und auger und sidering that he was a traveling man. “Is be any good/ ’ Presently an oldish gentleman—not “Not the least bit. I’ve tried to give him p ece of skin ot! from it. Muggs took crow-bar und lots of more, but he doan’ tained to be poisonous, and overdoses have been attended with b s hand away with wonderful quick­ spring for me. My wife works at him, too old to snooze in public when it is away, and I’ve tried to drive him off, but it’s ness and put it into his pocket. Then too, und my hired man ho lose half a warm, but yet old enough to be labor­ no go. ” fatal results. Lime is the most useless adulterant yet found be stood and contemplated the hen in day, und I vash discouraged. I guess ing under the delusion that he is yet “Why don’t you lose him here in town?” something of a lady-killer—presently *i’ve tried it in vain. Lemma tell ye what lilenee for several minutes. At length I trade him for a Wheatstone.” in baking powders. It is true that when subjected to heat a be sa d: “Woll, 1’11 exchange with you, but an oldish man of this sort woke out of I did in September. 1 brought that cur up here with me, and I got on the street cars “1 suppose hens seldom have hydro­ I'm sure I can show yoa how to adjust a nap, looked about the car to see if certain amount of carbonic acid gas is given off, but a quick­ there was anybody he could scrape and rode around for half a day. Away up phobia?” it." Jefferson avenue he got into a row with some “Seldom,” said the farmer. “I guess I doan’ try any more. You an acquaintance with, spied the soured lime is left, a caustic so powerful that it is used by tanners to “But when they do have it they see. my life vhas sfiort, und I can’t and spluttering female, and immedi­ other dogs aud lost the car, aud T went home feeling that he was done for. Next morn ■ i n. linve it pretty baa, don’t they?’ .spare so mooch time mit machine ry. ately began arranging his necktie and eat the hair from hides of animals, and in dissecting rooms to I went at it w vh my boys and painted qu red Muggs. with considerable if I got a Wheatstone I doan' haf to mopping off his face. Then he hap­ ing the front fence and the house so he wouldn ’ t inxiety. screw him on nor turn him around. pened to notice tho piece of soot, and, more quickly rot the fiesh from the bones of dead subjects. tbe rlace if he came along. I tied up a ••Oh, you needn’t be alarmed,” said Dcre vhas no pins or ratchets in his as he left his seat and approached the know calf in the front yard, cut down all the weeds the farmer. “The hen is mad, but not stomach. He vhas all right both ends woman, the passengers all watched him and so chang 4 the general looks of things Tlie effect of lime upon the delicate membranes of the in that way. Her fangs are not poison­ oop. Maype ho doan' keep oudt flies, expectantly. that my ner ^ors didn’t hardly dare come ous.” “I beg pardon, miss,” he began with In. On the third day we s^w the cur com­ stomach, intestines and kidneys, more particularly of infants but ho makes no troubles for mo.” “I suppose, now,” said Muggs, “that The exchange was made, and the a smile meant to be charming, “but did ing down the road *rom town and everybody n industrious, persistent hen bke that man went away light-hearted, calling you know there was a flake of soot on got inside. He came up, looked around in and children, and especially when taken into the system day W.ll hatch out a chicken.every day, and back from the door: your face?” great astonishment, and his tail dropped as Dot fe 1 it.” “Yes, I did," was the reply, snapped if somebody had tied a brick to it. In his after day, and with almost every meal, is pernicious in the “I can make oudt a wheatstono all bones he felt that it was the old place, but “There is a difteret co in hens,” said right, und I vhas obligid mit you. A out like the cracker on an old whip. the painting up sorter paralysed him. He tlie farmer, "Some liens set harder wheatstono winds oop only one vhay.” This rather staggered the old party, extreme, and is said by physicians to be one of the chief than others and hatch chickens faster, — Detroit Free Press. but he partially recovered himself and sat down to think it over, and all at once ha came over the fence and began to gambol 1 have got one that hatched out a remarked: causes of indigestion, dyspepsia, and diseases of the kidneys. t rood of chickens last summer in ten “B-but don’t yon want to wipe it around as if ’ickled to death. He had got SWEEPING DAY. on to something and it was no use trying days. She never stopped for Sundays Chemists have found 12 percent., or one-eighth of the weight, off?” longer tc fool him.” or legal holidays, but just kept right flow It Can Be Robbed of Some of It» “No, I don't,” the snapper-like jaws any “ What did o discover? ” Most Disagreeable Features. at it. But it wasn't a very good of some of the baking powders prominently sold in this vicini­ rattled out again, as the passengers “Why, there had been three panes of glass job, because it was rushed too If you look at your house-work as tittered. out of the garget winder for over two years much. Nine of the chickens were fool­ the means to a delightful home, it will ty, to be lime. The wickedness of this adulteration is apparent. “And may I ask why you wish to car­ and we’d fori * put* era in. As soon as ish and the other four were not any too not seem hard or hateful; even the ry that soot on your face, madam?" he raised his eyes aud saw that winder he The absolute purity and wholesomeness of the Royal bright. You see, they were not expect­ “Because you are the fourth med­ knowed the house belonged to me, and a ing it, and they seemed to bo sort of dreaded sweeping day, which I own to dling old fool who has told me it was dozen . o ’ your best lawyers couldn t have Baking Powder—now affirmed by every chemist and food dazed- couldn't understand how they l.king worse than wash day, loads to there since I left Chicago, and I want made i him believe I’d sold out and moved got here so soon. They would stand the repose of fresh, fragrant rooms, to keep it on long enough to find out away. i Dogs is ro fools, and don’t you for» analyst of prominence, and conceded by all manufacturers of around in a half-witted k nd of way and and a sanctity from dust and deface­ how many more there are of you.”— get __________________ I it” try to figure it out, but they never ment. It need not be quite so milch a Chicago Herald. Where He Was Struck. penance if you have proper aids. other brands—arises from the exclusive use of cream of tartar teemed to understand it at all.” [Philadelphia CalLj “I should think,” said Muggs, (These are covers of glazed cambric QUAINT OLD LUBECK. Witness—Yes, sir: he struck me on the specially refined by patent processes, which remove totally thoughtfully, “that chicken hatched so for large furniture, carpet sweeper, bridge— A Visit to th« Market-Place of the Once fast as that would be apt to mature brushes, patience, care, etc.) Lawyer (sharply interrupting) — How U If you sweep with a broom, use Famous Hanseatic City. the lime and all other impurities. These facilities are pos­ quickly—get old while they are young, that? You said a while ago that he struck damp tea lea Yus, bran, coarse meal, The market place is a large quad­ you on the balcony. us it were.” sessed by no other manufacturer. The Chemist of the De­ “Exactly—they do," said the farmer. saw-dust or dry snow, to keep down rangle, entered only by narrow pas­ Witness—iso he did, sir. I'm telling you “You remember that I bought, a the dust, remembering to have these sageways at the corners, and through no lie. partment of Ilealth of Brooklyn, N. Y., in which city the couple of spring chickens from you last things damp, not wet; to sprinkle only the colonnade under the Rathhaus. Lawyer—Did he strike you more than once? full," said Muggs, st.11 moro thought­ a yard or two where you mean works of the Royal Baking Powder Company are situated, Witness—Only once, sir. Begorra, I wa. fully, as if an idea had occurred to to sweep at once, and to take it up Tlie scene in this enclosure is, every with the sweeping) before you go to morning of the week, a very charac­ quite satisfied. h.m. after recent numerous experiments, reports: Lawyer—How, then, could he strike you “Yes, I remember,” said the farmer, tlie next place. Brushing’ a damp teristic and lively one. The pavement who was also beginning to have an mass of dust and trash over a whole is covered with farm produce and mer­ on the bridge and on the balcouy at “I subjected several samples of the Royal Baking Powder, carpot is n it the lie way wa to improve it. same time, aid with one blow? idea. “What of it?" Witness— Anyhow, be did, sir. Wilt >n or Moquette chandise of all descriptions. Robust “O, nothing; only I thought perhnps Fino earpots like V,' purchased from dealers in Brooklyn, to chemical analysis, Judge (interfering)—On what balcony? thev belonged to tli's brood that you should be swept with the pile to keep peasant women sell the freshest ol Witness—The balcony of the hotel, yonr have been speaking about. We broiled them from wearing; and d alers say vegetables and the most delicious dairy honor. and I take pleasure in stating that this powder has attained them a couple of days and then gave that Brussels shonld be swept only one produce; fish women, ranged in rows, Judge—And on what bridge? th nt to my Loy to cut up into Lean- way. It is a go xl rule always to begin each with her feet and petticoat hero Witness — The bridge of my nose, sir. Had a most remarkable purity. I am unable to detect the slightest at the corner f irtiiest from the door, tucked away in a box to keep the sliooters." the sp^puen waited Ida told him. A coolness has since existed letwecn taking up the dust every yard or two. draughts oft', attract by their vigorous trace of lime tartrate in it, while all its constituents are pure Muggs and the fanner. — Rochester Her- Take rugs up, bringing opposite sides cries, customers to select from their Stories from Detroit. tog tiler, not to spill the dust; lay stock of live fish swimming about iu and of the highest quality. The ‘Royal’ is a baking powder i “ a lady from : wat back ." them face down oil green sward, or trays; carts are crowded together in hang them so out of windows, and one corner, piled full of great loaves ol A Montana woman had a neighbor woman FOREST DESTRUCTION. undoubtedly of the greatest leavening power, and perfectly ( beat the backs till all the dust is out. bread; pigs squeal and fowls clatter in xrrested on charge of slander. Tha trial took Beating on the face sends the dust into pyramids of cages: tables creak with a )lace before a justice of tht» peace. The tlan- Evils of Deforestation as Seen on the Once wholesome. D r . 0. GROTHE, Fertile 1 lulus of Spuln. the firm woven ground of the rugs.— burden of quivering cheeses that lered woman, being duly sworn, took the witness stand and began: thicken the surrounding air; it is a Baptise Weelc'y. The evils of deforestation have been ___________________ u Chemist Department of Health, Brooklyn, N. T." Babel of sights and sounds and odors, **1’11 tell ye in derned few words how it so many times rehearsod that it is only which tho multitude appear to enjoy was, Jedge. That lyin’ old thing thar give it AT THE AUCTION. necessary to montion them briefly lieio and thrive upon, while the stranger, if out cold that I wa’n’t no lady, be gosh I An’ Between any other old slouch thinks I’m Trees are nccossary in the hills and Veracious Account of a at all fastidious, holds his ears and his if she ’ to or lay Nmiirty and the Auctioneer. low an swaller talk of that kind nose, or takes a speedy flight. At agoin mountains to perfect the spr ngsnnd in­ And it camo to pass after the going noon time tho shadows of the house they’re badly left. I’m a lady from *way sure a steady supply of water through­ back, Jedge, and I’ve got the papers fer it I out the year. If all the trees about down of tho sun that young Smarty gables fall upon a clean swept pave­ And I kin jist everlastingly lick the — —” was paxsing tho mart whero a certain ment, with only a couple of fruit “Verdict for the defendart!” roared the sources of the spring! are cut away the booths to remind one of the tumult of Judge. springs flow but a short time after the man cried out in a loud voice; “Two the early morning. This is the hour to SOLOMON IN TEN NESSES. winter runs cease. In early summer am I offered; do I hear two and a sit on the well-worn bench under some Ascertain justice of the peace, who lived they have <1 .appeared entirely, and half?” overhanging story, and imagine the in Tennessee, was once trying a negro for w.tli them the small brooks they have "Aha!” cried young Smarty, turning scene when merchants of every im­ Among the defendant's witnesses fed. ami which were wont to supply the to tho companions who attended him. portant town, from Novgorod to Ber­ dealing. was a girl. It was very evident that she wa< creeks and rivers now either greatly re­ “behold! the auctioneer. Let us enter gen, from Wisby to London, sought not telling the truth. duced in volume or vanished. Conse­ in, and mark howl will paralyze him.” this their commercial capital, in The The magistrate stopped her in the midst for Infanta and Children quently drought, poverty and suffering bo entered they in. days before the discovery of the New of her testimony and said, “Do you know from fine agricultural possibilities And still the voice of the auctioneer World, with its immeasurable re­ whar you’ll go if you swar a lief” ruined with a soil deprived of its needed was lifted up: “Yes, sir,” she replied. sources, gave a new direction to trade, I ’’nr« Cotto, Constipation, moisture. There is another evil scarce­ ‘•Wharf” irecommend It as superior to any prescription I Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, “And a haf'n a haf'n a haf'n a ha'f. and made the greatest commercial J.'I<*I i Iliff?»». Eructation, At*l UCUII.1OI1. known to me." A. Aacnsa. M. D„ I Kills -- -------- ----------- ------------- - Worms, gives sleep, ---------------- aud proinotei ly less serious. Th s results from the Anybody say three-quarters?” • ‘ I ’ ll goter torment P partnership in history no longer a petition. 1U Bo. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | inundations which almost annually ••Torment» Youll goter jaff, en from thar Three -quarters said they not Without injurious medication. necessity. A Lutheran priest in Ion? devastate those parts of Europe which ••Prvthee, sir,” said young Smarty, black robe and high ruff hurryins you’ll goter the plenipotentiary, that’, whar Tax CxHTAua Cour ANT, 13S Fulton Street. N.I you’ll go!” in the long course of ages has been “will you allow me to make a bid?” through the colonnade, completes the fgradually denuded of their forest with For Smarty, the juvenile, had read in illusion of the past induced by this During tha rest of the trial sha spoke the truth, the whole truth aud nothing but the it tie or no effort at renewal. Spain the chronicles how a man had once picture of its grandeur. Two truth. For the jail had mor, terror, fur her lias in ties respect been tlie worst suffer­ propounded that query to an auctioneer unique little children in latest Paris fashion er. Except in certain favored local­ who stood in the market place, and on trip along with their nurse, and the 1 than “torment,” ACENTS WANTED ities, principally along or not far from his replying; “Yoa. verily.” he said; spell is broken.— Christian at Hori. ’’ s Lî . A. qu’vr.. FennM*» I?ataike-. - ERIK MED. CO.. BUFFALO. N. T. less country, its vast o’live or­ of tho auctioneer. I know a rich man m New York —al. by express, prepaid. chards afford, ng here and there a partial Will you allow mo to make a bid?" whose office rent is $2,500 a year, n vle cxpresdy'for'tl» cure cr exception. One may travel by train for Up spako tha auctioneer, who was , »l1-rangements of the generariv days hero and there over the groat cen­ fl.v with regard to tho ways of the un- every penny of which is paid by another man who for the expenditure tral plateau, which constitutes the golly: “tçé'f W'4 through the parts must rester- 1 them to healthy action. greater part of the peninsula, and "No, I will not. I never take bids contents himself with a desk room in a not confound this with Electri Belts advertised to cure all til scarcely see a tree, not even an olive, from children and fools." far-away corner. The name of having from head to toe. It is for th< on the plain, and not a grove on a hill ON E specific purpose. Then the people laughed Smarty to an office with the millionaire, the rep­ For circulars giving full ta or mountain side. Such desolation scorn and he slunk away, sorrowing.— formation. address Cheevex utation of hobnobbing the day through F’ectrir Belt Co., im WashTnr seems appalling. As a natural con­ Teros Siftinas. with a magnate that is what he gives sequence, the ra ns that fall, not being bis money for. Silly? No; it pays. detained by groups or forests of trees, A Juvenile Tilt. Two years he went into the scheme IDIFL. MINTIEI run off at one.' into the valleys, whore THE SPECIALIST, First Boy—My pa blow, a horn in as a sheer speculation. He hadn't $10 i they swell the creeks and rivers to No U Kearny St., San Franclico, Cal then: now he can draw his cheek for enormous volume and cause those the band. hsos - tc , srscut. ASD PsrrATX Dmj. »100.000. He has been trading on the T sjuts ill C WITH Second Boy—That ain't nothin’. frightful inundations which two or three WONDBRFUL SUCCBMS. F. B.—Mischief it ain't; mo’an your prestige of his office friend, and. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY! times every year form the burden of Spanish dispatches and deplete the your olo pa oan do. My pa goo, to credited with a good many secrets an 1 Is » rertaln cure foi purses of the benevolent in every part parties an' picnics an' your ole pa can’t lots of information that’ ho doesn't Ven-on. ItrhlUty, possess, he coins money out of th« of the world. In Austria, Hungary go there. noe», and all the ev£ S. B.—Ye«, an’ mv pa i, in the peni­ crowd, who trv to “work’' him in seek and in ditlerent parta of Germany, there effect, ol youthful folli« and excesses, and |r »re similar experiences, with incal­ tentiary an’ your ole pa can't go there, ing inklings oi the millionaire's stock drinking intnxirnfins market plans. There are enterprises culable loss of property anil loss of 1 fe. either.—Ariton,ate 7'race/er. liquors. Dr. Minile and enterprises in this world.—.V. 1. and to a certain extent in France and • ho is a regular phis!.ijn Tinies. —The writer of the new song. “J graduate of the Vv' ei Italy, though the two latter countries sity ot Pennsylvania, wi find a remedy in the universal dissemina­ Love You. Darling, in My Dreams.' agree to forfeit fSCe f- —According to the A'lerlanrn, it tion of tho olive and Tine, ode or the should not forg t that drcams go l>> » case of this kin ’ tk. Pereisiavl there lately died a Jew Vital Krstorntirt (ur other of which clothes, and to a great contraries. Little mistakes like thi- advice and treatment) de» hie bis special advtee ....... will not riire measure protects the most barren hill­ sometimes produce a discord.— H’u.sA- ! named Sril.nyi. aged one hundred ai fl .0 a bottle, er four time. “ ther. ------ - — 1 quantity Js, a nt t- seventeen, who up to his last remain« any address onrereiptof price. or,. „. P. ... in pn m.-. sides. There al*o also In both countries inqton Cnt.c. » C. O. privai, hale and sound, possessed an acttt name ---- . ---- — tt Kean; .“‘a? If desired by Dr. "r- .v/nr/r. '■'nrir. It hoam- s,. efficient laws regu'ating both questions A. A. fili Send for list of questions and twnt-hle' memory ami a s.i.ie intellect, and ev. —The Queen Regent of Spain wi rancisco ftctr’a of deforestation and adorestadon, which y- NJ.vpy.K hottlh FRKB EXTi'XtST”*- ■—»...• have done much for tha protection of maintain and educate at her privati a few months b> fore his end, content win be sant to any on. applying by Iettar, »teline ail in tercets concerned— Cor. San Fran- expense the children of tbps* who par plated marrying a ninth time. His eh ■* ln "v“-1 * la bed in tha recent tornado at Madrid e.st son was only eighty-two year- ol. b