THE GRUMBLER. He sat at ths dinner tabla With a discontented frown— “Tlie potatoes and steak were underdone. And the bread was baked too brown. The pie loo sour, the pudding too sweet, And the roast was much too tat; Tlie soup so greasy, too. and salt, Sure twas hardly tit tor the cat." decoction were to become a necessity it was ridiculous to pay heavily for what could just a« easily be made out of sage j and bramble leaves. Another com- plaint of the period against this . new fashion of tea <1 «Irinkin;; was that it gave rise to Jfo«*ip and backbiting. There is a r letter in tlie Gentleman's Magazine for 1785 finiHng fault with ladies “who make their tea table the mart to dispense scandal an<1 attack reputations,” and later we have a writer jn the Connoisseur bewailing the loss of time and th«! profanation of the Sabbath consequent upon Sunday evening tea drinking. The beverage had by this time become pretty much a favorite at social gatherings through out the country ami neither the econo mists nor the wits could counteract what was quickly lieeoming a popular demand. Beside, tea hail its champions as well as its detractors. Dr. Johnson «■ame to the rescue among other« ami Itolilly confessed himself “a hardened and shameless ten drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight and with tea wel- •omes the morning.” When we get to Colley Cibber, we find the beverage apostrophized in this fashion -“Tea, thou soft, thou sober, safe and venerab'o liquid; thou female tongue-running, «niile-smothing, heart-opening ami wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moments of inv life.” Waller has the lines: [ f ever, upon the Chinese merchant ha1 had the effect of making him mon careful in the "sorting” of the articl* and we have the satisfaction of know ing that, while tea is now cheaper that, ever in England, it has not fallen off in Quality.— Leeds Mercury. ,, ABUSING WASHINGTON. »Some .‘Sv.»mli*Ion-. Cli»rg«< Against the F*ther of Hi«* Country. I I ----- SCHOOL ANO CHURCH. THE Dlt'ElTFUnmsoi'.^r Mil Ions of people, when n I tie out of xoria lake s< Uw .‘H ’•»kJ or other eithe, usa bere , teine. Almost m once A'“0'»• ajS feel better. A n hoou looses it. power they fltl so they again res« rt to th J *8«'u, J because as they th, ugllt t better when they nr;t make them belt, rkgui,,. J tlieniBelves uiul tl.eir p»«..^cJi'r*d.t^3 lug alcoholic «loses 'IT' 7".‘.l'>PreS3 ally like it, too and so the d^"1' <,n p e«« ril ing for them Few are cure d and many ¿Ì lheI liid to »heir peiiiianent dl»»j Alcohol sat la«»,,,' lant. lhatisnot w hat ,Ut. * «tittJ BUfferers want, ih,, '’™>«c >«*¿3 strength to throw off an«l i.t«’*n“to3 They want a real '.tai “ * i*“1»'-«kJ viia iz.-r is found in “< m, I, ’«J Tlie merits of this « italizeXv, years been abundantly tested no secret about it. ’pre army of the relieved jB luu,„lor7 «fj tl at all may read it. I, '«'OrdJ readitnr, either by hì < k ieonU**1 "J obtain II write to lira l 15;« Arch street, I hfi.m"^! will 1« sent to atty address free „.Vl Orders for the Compound Ox. ' ‘‘N Treatment will Is- nileil i ' u Vft" W «15 Powell St n et, S-.„ —The Christian 1«. ..np-'llil««) Churel in Kentucky is to establish a theolog.-'ii. seminary for the education of colored Stl^Porter Sherman, who enter««! Yah College in 1S61 and remained thro« years, recently returned, after an nb- sence of twenty years, to complete Ills course. , , — Was John B. Gough right or wrong when he said recently that "a churoh has no right to discipline a man for guttin"’ drunk, when it does not disci pline him for drinking?”—AT. K Ob- scrcfTe _ Many women school teachers in Massachusetts receive only four or five dollars a week. The explanation may be that Massachusetts has obtained all the knowledge that is to bo had, ami that, therefore, the occupation of the schoolteacher is departing.— Current. _ Lorenzo Dow preached once from the text of St. Paul: “I can do all things.” "No, Paul," he said, “you’re wrong for once. "I’ll bet you five dollars vou can’t.” and he took a five dollar bill from his pocket and lai«l it on his desk. He continued to reail, In New ùu«k ti.«ie~777?(, , I “ through our Lord Jesus Christ. “O. Paul,” said he, “that's an en keepers, Ot these ;• «H mates of the county prj„ tirely different thing; the bet is off." been cot fined in poli, e s ... ’ ’"'I hl —During 1886 the Methodists of have been tri, dfi^r^^y. nJ South Australia will celebrate the jubilee of the introduction of Methodism A Sl'GGlbliOb 10 T, E1B TH|1, into that part of the continent. They IUBUC. have in South Australia 336 churches TiiuristH, «nugrsnts ai d iB,rir—. . Hostetter's euniacl, BilUi, ,, k<«b and preaching places, seventy-five min isters and 393 local preachers, 7.829 aalemiiiid aguiiut i.bl.taliliul in,'”’1'» members and 48,000 attendants. A vents the erretaol iitiui1(i „1 I « "“R or ui.w l.oka, int .JiJ jubilee fund of $300,000 is to be raised custonied conditions ...... . to pay off church debts and start a olbor on« voyuges, or jouiii,5tillial “.to"»- < to tlie equaior. it is ereeilalH “>4 woman’s college. of 11,c febrile «■< ini.lauL ”, a —Our own recollections of school live the stomach, liver anil tew, u Afr1111»] to Hitack natives « I the "«nr?..th "'J davs recall none of more profit than joormng or ................ ¡„ M;, h >'«d those spent UQtler the guidance of sen an excellent protection »eaillst o',u j**'] sible. motherly, Christian women, who extreme «-old, sudden < hai ge8 (f,“"»¿I Io damp or < xireu«« fatieuZS'fl get their pupils tasks in good text exuosure only prey, nts iniermltt« nt and ,11 books. and then took pai is to set' that and other dis«as« a of a malxH.1 the meaning, not th«! mere language, eradicates tin ti. f«„ t whi.hkg i«’M out fur rears past in North and VS ¡3 was well mastered without too much lea. Mexico, the West b.«!it- Ab.hMl aid from more developed minds.' This other countries. ’ any teacher fit to teach at all will see It takes » oew ot sixty n «n to till 1 to," and we doubt whether the expe , K. V andurbilt’s million debar ul,.« rience of Normal School graduates so I yacht. P UI far will not go far to show that artifi THF Hl U. 1 KI IIIB’S CtEPIilJf, cial and technical equipments anil "Itint disc- uragrel. I have too mud methods are quite as often a hindrance do, I am tired lam sick. I mJ» as a help to successful teaching— Bos was put into this houise to loen it («ir. ton Traveller. but it ¡ k too much work. I won'ttn —There is no end to the funny tilings will go to Bleep. 1 don't «are what I that are seen and heard by the teachers comes ot th© house. The ab< «e is an allegorv The in our public schools.. Once a teacher housekeeper is the fiver, ahi,to observed a huge biot of ink on a bov’s aged, deed is olten <a led “the licusetewr copybook. "What is that?” he de our health. II it does go tn K|ei, „ manded. "Sure, I think it’s ft tear, | threatened, a <r«wd of disea-es re I ? >• sir.”- “A tear! How could a tear be ready to-p.il g up as loimquiute. 1 black?” “Sure, I think wan o’ the I ieice s “Golden Medical IliMover)’J colored boys dropped it. sir.” For the upon the liver and assists it In its rok| and hou-e cliauiig. It comfort of children who know what it housekeeping the great liver remedy and 1,1« oil «lend is to be “flustered,” this is the laugh- ami cures «11 the ong Hain of cii3 able reply of a very bright and accom- maladies resulting from a torpid or J plished lady teacher who was passinw gtsh. Sleepy liver, melt as KckhtadaJ s purely formal examination in physi scrofulous disepsiB, as tileete, id ology: "Where is the alimentary sores, “white swellit gs.” liipjidntl consumption of the lungs(«Itiil canal?” was demanded, "Really,” sease, really only s« tofula nianifiatiig im ] was the pleasant reply, “I forget the delicate li-sues of the e <.innn,J whether it is in Indianapolis or Illi all skin diseases, as blotches, p.mp'esw eruptions, and all b!o<d taints, LwJ nois.”— San Francisco Argonaut. ‘ General Washington was probably ns much abused as any President who has ever acted as the Chief Executive of the United Slab s. At one time he “I wish you could out ilie In-eud and pies said that be had been abused worse I’ve seen my mother make: VOUDOO WORSHIP. Th-y are something like, and t would do you good thana common pickpocket, and he was Just to look ut a loaf ot her cake." Revolting Superstition* Prevailing Amon; charged with all sorts of crimes during Sai. iho sinning wife: “I ll improve with age, the Negroes of Hayti. Just now I’m but a beginner. But your mother has come to visit us. Sir Spencer St. John gives a ver.' his administration. The Philadelphia And to day she cooked the dinner." spirited description of Voodoo worship Aurora was, perhaps, the most bitter. —Li.tle M. Hadley. in Good Housekeeping. ------- ----------------- I in Hayti. “According to thé trui When Wa hmgton left the Presidency secretaries of the voodoos,” he say«. it bad a jubilant article over the close A CUP OF TEA. , "who m lintain its principles and obey of his term, in which it said: "If ever there was a period of re its rilles, 'voodoo' signifies an all-power joicing this is the moment. Every The Beverage That Oheers but fill and supernatural being, on whom heart in unison with the freedom ami Not Inebriates. depends all th«' events which take place happiness of th«.* people ought to beat in the world. This being is tile non high with exultation that the name of venomous serpent—one so common ii Washington this «lay ceased to give a Literature of the Plant That Has Made Its Way Through the Wide World—Old ! Hayti ami it is ululer its auspices tha currency to political iniquity ami to Idea* as to Its llnrinlfcKsneMM. i all those assemble who. profess thi legalized corruption. A new era is doctrine. Acquaintance with the past now opening upon us—an era which ■know ledge of the present, prescience o' promises much to the people; lor pub It is curious that while the Chinese lic measures must now ttand upon flu« future, all appertain to this serpent their own merits, ami nefarious pro claim a remote antiquity for nearly all that only consents, however, to com jects can no longer be supported by a the products of their long-arrested civ inunieate his power and prescribe his name, it is a subject of the greatest ilization, they give what to them is a will through th«« organ of a grand I astonishment that a single individual comparatively modern date for the in pri 'st, whom the secretaries elect, and shouki Lave carried his iles-igns against troduction of tea into the Celestial Em still more by that of the negress, whom the public liberty so far as to have put pire. And even then they trace th«! origin the love of the latter bail raised to th« in jeopardy its very existence. Such, of the article to a myth. They tell ns rank of high priestess. These two dele 'jowever, are the fact«, ami with these that about the beginning of the sixth staring us in th«! face this day ought to gates, who deelare themselves inspired be a jubilee in the United States.” century in our present reckoning, one by their god, or in whom the gift of in Dnrma, a prince of high principle and During a part of his Presidency spiration is really manifested in the I Washington was -called th«' step-father great piety, landed among them and opinion of their followers, bear the of his country, ami among the para gave up his life wholly to devotion, He pompous names of ‘King’ and 'Queen,' graphs written about him was one entereil no temple, but, living in the or the despotic ones of ‘Master’ or which said: “That to talk of the wis open air, gave day anil night to prayer ‘Mistress,’ or the tombing titles of dom of the great commander (V\ ash anil the study of God's work in nature, ington) and the great philosopher The Muse ’ s friend, tea dries our fancy aid. his aim being to so purify his life that in Repress those vapors which the head invade, ‘Papa’ ami ‘Mamma.’ They are during (Franklin) was to talk nonsense, for And keeps the palace of t'|<- soul serdne, their whole lives the chiefs of the great Wa-hington was a fool ft'om nature the end lie would become absorbed into Fit on her birthday to salute the Queen. family of the voudoos, and they have [ and Franklin was a fool from age.” the Divine Presence. He hail an idea Nor should Cowper's delightful home a right to th«« unlimited respect of those that if he could only conquer sleep so In 1795 “A Calm Observer” in the his mind might be forever alive to the picturo be forgotten in this connection, who compose it. It is they who decide New York Journal accused Washing form of the impressionsand scenes around him, and if only to give the original the title of if the serpent agroes to admit a candi j ton of being a thief. lie stated that he date into the Society, who prescribe the ! had overdrawn his accounts and that inconstant meditation on the unseen, modified words chosen as sketch: obligations and the duties ho is to ful I | he owed the treasury $1,037. Another the sublime purpose h«! had before him this Now stir the lire anil close the shutters fast, fill; it is they who receive the gifts and writer licensed Washington of hypoc would surely be attained. The weak Let full the curtains, wheel the sofa round; And while the bubbling un«l loud-hissing urn presents which the god expects as a just risy and declared that he wanted to ness of the flesh, however was too much be a King. A third criticised his carri Throws up a steamy column, and the cups homage to him. for this enthusiast. Worn out by his pro That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, age and liis aristocracy, and, in fact. To let us welcome peaceful evening in. “ To disobey them, to resist them, is tracted vigil, lie ut length fell into a 1 all- the opposition newspapers de The question seems to have arisen to disobi'v Goil himself ami to expose nounced him in unmeasured terms. profound slumber; but instead of wak very early in the use of tea as to th» one's self to the greatest misfortunes. ' engross went against him during his ing up with a sense of comfort anil re "This system of domination on the second terra and refused to celebrate freshment, it was in shame and humilia amount of the infusion which one might tion that he opened his eyes, anil in an safely take. Several medical men hail one hand and of bliml obedience on th« i his birthday, though they hail been, ac to do so, and when he i re- agony of grief over his failure to keep pronounced it not only safe itself, but other being well established, they at | customed fused to run for a third’ term they awake In* took a knife and cutoff the of as conducive to health; and a Leyden fixed date« meet together, and the king charged that he did so because he fending eyeliils. Returning after» time physician, writing in.1671, commend)« it ami queen of the voulions pri'siile, follow feared that he could not be elected. to the spot where this extraordinary a* a panacea for almost every ailment ing th«! forms which were probably It will .be surprising to the people penance was performed, ho was amazed and does not think that 200 cups daily brought from Africa nml to which to-day to know that >« ashington was to find that the eyelids hail taken root and would bo too much even for a moderate t 'reole customs have added many varia- once, charged with murder. It was developed into fragrant anil beautiful drinker! This, however, was interested ions and soino traits which betrat during one of liis Presidential cam shrubs. I!«? plucked some of the loaves testimony, the physician in question European ideas, as, for instance, the paigns. The Philadelphia Aurora made and eating them felt like a man trans having, it js said, been brought over scarf or rich belt which the queen wear.« the charge. It stated that Washing had, during one of the battles of formed. A new joy possessed his for the purpose by the Dutch East at these assemblies, and which she occa ton his early life, shot an officer who was mind, a new courage animated his Tmlia Company. At the same time, sionally varies.” bearing a flag of truce, ami that in the As for th«» practice of Voitdoo w.orship, papers relating to the affair ho had ac body; he had found an elixir that con ' there have been tea drinkers whose ap quered sleep and made persistent wateh- i petite for the beverage was virtually it is well to say that of the votaries in knowledged the act of assassination. fiilness a certainty. It was in this ’ insatiable. It was not unusual for Hayti tiler«! seemS to be two classes — Peter Porcupine takes up the charge in fashion, say the Chinese, that th«! ten Robert Hall, the divine, to swallow thosQ who worship the serpent and offer his letters and proves it to be false. plant came into existeneo. The story is t wenty cups at a sitting. To Johnson, animal sacrifices-to appease his wrath The • fact, however, stands that the not so meaningless as it appears on the as already indicated, the beverage or court his favor, ami those who kill «barge was made. Speaking ot Washington, I see that surface. Apart from its spiritual signifi . never came amiss. There is a story in human beings ami not only offer them some acquired. of the goody-good newspapers which Sir Joshua Reynolds is credited cance, we see in the legfind that from as sacrifices, but eat their flesh. The of the country are very indignant at According to recent «stin.atn ttJ PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. with reminding him that, he hail just an early period tea was regarded ím a temples of the vomloo are generally the statement in Quackenbos’ history Stt.OOO suicides occur in Eurtpe til —There is a place, in Scotland where year. preventive of drowsiness; ami this, in- drunk «deven cups. "Sir,” said John small, unpretentious wooden buildings that Washington at one time ate peas ] deed, is the recommendation given to son, "I «lid not count your glasses of —called bv the natives HUmforto—anti with a knife. I do not doubt but the a certain class of people who bother Palmer Ac Key manufacture III it by those Jesuit Fathers who are sup wino, why should you number my cup« arc scattered generally throughout the statement is true. The whole literary office holders and the public should be own g« oils, and <ad sell 25jer <e.tl«w It is called Killiecrankie — Pitts than auy other houfee. I posed to have been the first Europeans of tea?” Then ho playfully added. "If interior of Hayti. Some of them are United States.at the time of Washing sent. it. hail not been for your remark, I most incongruous in their interior ton, however, seemed to be a mutual burgh Chronicle. in China to mako use of the plant. —Jones (at the. circus) — “Hello, admiration society, ami there is little SAFE, 81RF, AND »pSn. I We do not find mention of tea in should have released the lady from any decorations, and one situated a litth unfavorable gossip about the White Smith, you here?” Smith—“Yes, 1 No external remedy ever yet devise® literature earlier than the sixteenth further trouble; but you have reminded distance back of Heaitx du Cap, was House dinners. I found the otherday. had to take care of my littls boy.” so fully «H(i unqueRtkcably met ill century. Certain Italian writers who me that 1 want, one of the dozen and I profusely decorated with illustrations however, Maclav’s diary, giving his Jones—“Where’s the boy?” Smith— three prime coimitionH as successful™ flourished then speak of it, and one of must ask the lady to round up the from colored weekly pamphlets, inter I experiences during his term as a Sen "He was taken sick at the last moment A I.I.COl K*S l’OROUf I’l.ASlIRS. Tbejj them, anticipating Cowper, describes it number.” The story docs not end spersed with gaudy chromoic pictures of ator of the United States when Wash anil couldn’t come.”— N. V. Herald. safe because they ii ntain no deltteril ington was first President Maclay as "a delicate juice which takes the here, for we are assured that as John various saints.— N. K. World. —Never judge nten by appearances. Hint are manufactured upon « dined with Washington a num- A man may look as bold as a lion ami drug-* place of wine, and is good for health son was sipping his twelfth cup he told tiiic principles of medicine. ThtyareJ her of times, and how, on one occasion, being invited to scattered AN ALGERIAN WEDDING. be a Major General of militia, and yet because nothing goes ii to tin in exceffl and sobriety.” fea must then have through his diary are little bits make his wife go down stairs first wlien gredients which are exactly adapiedtoj found its way into Europe, and the a party' to be made a lion of, he had his It* Celebration an Interestin’; Relic of of gossip about these dinners, At two he imagines he hears burglars in the mu poses for which a i latter is req™ Very Ancient Custom. Portuguese were probably the first to revenge by swallowing twenty-five cups They are m eedy in their ncthn 'becifl of them he describes Washington as their medicinal quali’ies go right to til import it. It was not. however, until of tea and not treating his hostess to as A marriage celebration in Algeria is amusing himself during all the dinner house. — Philadelphia Herald. — "A Reader ” asks the editor of the many words. The right method of work of relievn pain and rtMcrin«| about a century later that it was an interesting relic of ancient custom. by playing the devil’s tattoo upon the York Journal-. "How many peo natur.d and healthy perforn ance of■ brought into England. It was so preparing tea for drinking was not The bridegroom goes to bring the bride, tabic with his fork. He says, speaking New ple have lived on this earth since the functions of musdes, nei v< s, and «Mi much of a rarity that a gift of a at first easily understood. The Chinese and the guests assemble outside the of one of these dinners: "The Presi creation of Adam?” It is such conun lin«' .lob »nd News-tekx few pounds of it to the sov- say wo have not mastered the secret houso will wait for his return. Soon dent kept a fork in liis hand when the drums as these that make the editorial ereign in 1664 was considered yet; but we Jiave undoubtedly improved ■ the sound of pipes is heard coming from cloth was taken away, I thought for head turn prematurely gray.— Boston only complete stock, will be I oum Palmer & Hey's Portland house. a magnificent present, In 1667 a coli- upon the instructions left by an t the summit of soino neighboring hill, the purpose of picking nut«. He ate no Transcript. nut«, but playc«! with the fork, striking siderable importation of the article was authority in the last century, whose ad and the marriage procession approaches on — An eminent statistician has calcu l-’or 4 '.mt:Ii*. Asilima. • the edge of the table with it.”— lated that a man spemis nine dollars ’■'liront l»i»or«lcrs. use made into this country, the amount be vice was either to boil and drink the the bridegroom’s house. The pipers Cor. Cleveland Leader. Bronchial t roches." :5 cts, aboi. liquid when the leaves settle to the bot per annum more than a woman. This ing nearly five thousand pounds, but it always come first in the procession, may be accounted for on the ground found by no means a ready sale. This I tom, or steep the tea overnight in cold then the bride muffled up in a veil, rid- SUPERSTITIOUS SIGNS. 3 months' treatment for 50c. that a man generally has to buy his was owing, perhaps, less to the price water ami boil in th«! morning before I ing a mule led by her lover. Then Remedy for Catarrh. Sold hy di Popular Fallacies Wli ch Probably Orig- wife’s clothes as well as his own.— drinking. ( 'rude as this system was.it than to th«1 prejudice with which En [comes a bevy of gorgeously dressed hiatetl Hundreds of Years Ago. Philadelphia Call. Palmer & Key will <™tM glish people in the first instance re was preferable to boiling the leaves and , damsels, sparkling with silver orna- —“Can y__ .......... If, on going out of the house, you you tell me whose picture is pell their type and pi tiding material I garded th«' beverage. When it was first tlu'ii eating them with butter, pepper | ments, after which the friends of the Tar ' bills?” asked a caller of a tha?i auy other hoii^e on the Coast. forget something, you must under no on ten-doll# offered in our markets from £6 to £10 and salt, as was done in some country I bride follow. The procession stops in eiicumstnnces ____ turn back if you can country editor. “I don ’t ____ know; 1 I places in ignorance of the proper use of a pound was asked;a little later £2 10s. in front of the bridegroom's house, and possibly avoid it; if you do, you must, couldn't even tell you whose portrait is the plant. There is reference also to a was accepted. Garraway, of coffee ; the girl’s friends line both sides of the at any rate, sit down a moment before on one-dollar bills,” replied the pen- house fame, was retailing it in 1657 nt custom last century of first serving the pathway. The pipers march off on one going on» again. pusher, .wi^h an eight-line pica sigh When Baby was sick we gave her Cai from sixteen to fifty shillings a pound. leaves between thin slices of bread and side, while the bridegroom lifts the girl If the first person von nmet is nn old —General Toombs’ “last words” will When she was a Child, she cried for ’ butter and eating them as a delicacy. woman, it is a sign of coming mis hardly do to put in the list of the last When she became Miss, she < lung to ’ In his advertisement he states that “in from the mule and holds her in his arms. The distinguishing names for tea are The girl's friends thereupon throw fortune; while, on tiie contrary, a words of great men. Said the «lying When she had Children.she gave them’ respect of its former scarceness and dear ness it hath been only used as a regalia not expressive, as is generally supposed, earth at the bridegroom when he hurries funeral procession denotes good "fort Georgian to his grahdsoti-in-law, "LenS une. me $100," ami that was the final utter in high treatment and entertainment of particular varieties of the plant. forward and carries her over .the thres l’igs to vour left bring good luck, to of the old man. — Philadelphia and presents matle thereof to princes They relate chiefly to the conditions hold of his house. Those about the your right the opposite; to avert ance Press. Other asenciea <>’ and grandees;” but a better era had under which the leaves are picked. The door beat him with olive-branches amid which, grasp something made of steel —Brown—“I don't see how vou can founders ha«e to pay freigts «nd now dawned and Garraway tells us ho principal lilaek teas are liohea. Congou, much laughter. and the spell will be broken. find time to. go to church every Sunday. vance their prices. “first publicly sold the said tea in leaf Souchong and Pekoe; while green teas -------- ' , J If. on setting out on a journov, you Ini sure I can’t. I've so much to do.” In the evening, on such occasions, the Baking soda put on a burn will and drink aeeonling to th«' directions are known as Hyson, Twankay and pipers and drummers are called in, and meet a sow with pigs your enterprise Fogg—"Yes, I suppose you do turn oft _____ a good deal of work Sundavs. I wish the heat. of the most knowing merchants and Gunpowder. Of the black varieties the women dance, two at a time, facing will be sure to be succi s«ful. 'I o tnvet two magpies portends mar I could do it; but the fact is I can’t go Dr Pierce’s “Pellets” cure »tri «"} travelers in those Eastern countries,and Pekoe stands first, and of the green each other; nor does a couple desist un upon knowledge and experience of the Gunpowder has the preference. The til, panting and exhausted, they step riage;. three, a successful journey; without my sleep as well as you can.” ioui< headache, sot r btomacn» an four, unexpected good m ws. Wonder what he meant?—Boston Tran ious attack«_________________ j said Garraway’.« continued care and in Pekoe consists of the buds and very aside to make room for another. The To see one magpie and then more is script. dustry in obtaining the best tea ami young leaves ami is gathered early in dance has great energy of movement, unlucky; to kill one of th sc birds is A mill at Lehigh Gap, I ’“.’’Jn —It was a case of breach of promise * 3, i '(X) tons of nielallir paint I erf I making drink thereof, very many spring. The Souchong is the result of though the steps are small and changes irretrievable misfortune. It is also un The defendant was allowed to say a noblemen, physicians ami merchants the second picking, which is made about of position slight, the dancers only lucky to kill a swallow. T ry G krmka for breaktsst. I word in his own behalf. “Yes/’ he and gentlemen of quality have the beginning of May. Congou is th«' circling round occasionally. Hut they If your left hand itches you will »ftid. "I kissed her almost continual!« ever since sent to him for the name given to the third gathering, and swing their bodies about with astonish take in money; if the right, you will every evening I called at her house?’ said leaf and daily resort to this house Bohen is a late leaf. Of the green teas. ing energy and suppleness. As leaves pay it out. IBAIBY ; A ringing in the right ear means Lawyer for defendant—Then vou con to drink the drink thereof.” Evon Hyson is a gathering of tender leaflets flutter before the gale, so do they vibrate fess it? Defendant—Ye«. I do confess that some one is speaking well of you: iKINfcSCW Garraway’s reduced scale of prices and Gunpowder is a selection of Hyson. to the music; they shake; they shiver ■ n th«! left, you may be sure that evil it; but I had to do it. Lawver —You . and accomplished brewing failed to The Twankay is the last crop of and tremble; they extend quivering tongues are busy with yon. had to do it ? What do vo:i mean ? ' CLEANSES create any great demand for the new the season. China continues the pt-in- , arms, wave veils, and their minds seem If your right ev«‘ itches, you will see Defendant-That was the onlv wav I PURIfi^J beverage ami most of the writers and cipal source of the English supply of lost in the abandon and frenzy of the some beautiful sight; if the lelt, you could keep her from singing. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant wits of th«« time are found satirizing it. tea, though we now import largely also ' dance, while the other women, looking will have cause to shed tears. □ BEAUTIrl If your nos ■ Itches, you will hear Tr-'mue caTin8 their »e»ts. — Chicago Shmhvell talks of it as something “for from Assam and India. In the Ufiited on. encouraged by their high, piercing, EY some news or-will fall into the mire. women and men that live like women;” States the Japanese variety is at least I trilling cries, which add to the noise of ^CUTICURA] r ?IwEdi,PTWel1'’’ TheU' l’ 0 • Stevens but Shadwell, on Dryden's showing, as extensively used as the Chines«'. Th«’ the pipes and drums.— Brooklyn Mag — <in• intuiti Enguirer. Lo„ Wash. Terr , was entirely cured of being "round as a tub and liipiorcd fact that other places than the Celestial azine. I rheumatism by the n«e of St. Jacob's Oil. non CLEAN8TN" 1 1 beautifyii.br the ot < j...» *1 «■very chink,” could hanlly bo expected Empire now cultivate the tea plant is a A Monkey’s Mathematics. ‘. 1 .consider it a wonderful and curing torturing. dH*fihUnnK- for it *lld " al'•■'»} s speak a good word and-pimpiy < to be partial to any such mild form of benefit to the consumer, not only in of 1 ’ e —The most prominently picturesque blood, with Jos- of hair, iron*\ juibk J dissipation. Steel«« was no doubt less i a larger supply of the article, but as a old building in Albany, N. Y., is to I ••I toll you. Bradley, that's the the CTil< » ha prejudiced, but even he »peaks bitterly protection against adulteration. The succumb to the march of modern im smartest dog in the worM.” .-i'T’JL ,(?as,','de '"nnel when completed CUTICVRA. the great «.«uuM OAP. an exquisite i "No «marter than a monkey I saw of the new custom of tea drinking. best quality of tea never leaves Chinra; provements. The Slants liou«e, south saw wi I be the second 'ongest in this country. CVHA j»ared front it. externally• £’* .firf lh- longest in the world is Mount S'. “Don't you see," he makes one of his it is too precious a commodity there east corner of State and Pearl, with it« on Walnut street yc’terday. He be- Go hard, 16,; 00 ya-da. koLyftNT. the new Hired F• invariably succeed when »1« I characters «ay of women, “how they Besides, to enjoy tea in its choicest date. "1647,” is to give way to a fin« ongeii to an Italian organ-grinder. and the best physicians He couhl eount.” Arehitect h.itimnu Leeendre. 419Sutter swallow gallons of the juice of tea, flavor it must be use«l when perfectly banking-house.— Albany Express. CUTICURA ItEMKhlh* •’^ïtitifier1 1 "Ilie Ita ¡.in?” »tree«, San Francbco, Cal. states th*t the only infal ible skin bea‘ while their own dock leavi’s are tro«l- fresh and this freshness is impaired by having suffered for a long tini" with a purifiera, free from "No. the monkey." <len underfoot?” This, however, was the drying processes to whiehthe leave.« Sold everywhere. ^__4 m tW ÎiefT*1 ™ ’7h- “nd f"Jlin8 obt*in »»y "■ —The cost of postage-stamps to the "Uli. nonsense, Bradley!” hef ftom doctors and the numerous pre. ttc.: RBeotvKNT.il. but echoing the views of economists of must necessarily bo subjected for ex Government, covering every thing, in "Anyhon, I »aw bint run up a col TVtM h I h «s/* vhe alarmed. the times, who had said that If such a port The effect of competition, how- cluding delivery, is |6.9y per thousand. umn. -Ph id'lphia Call. ““5 r »ÄJCurt> “don‘ buttle f 0 Si Ti Ki H M Ph D McMIN Office »tore. Laugh PH n ItcMIN) eus Il prepare« N. Livery Cora LOGAN The B< Premptlj “ORI ABtri Some goodff) MOri TO! Th only first c Th« Cowcerni increase in •n general, Ocular, th« give» the The total 1885, was 2: >ng the ye •narriages S 859. The i 347,54“. of birth» pe of marriage These figure Pared with t •bow a an oiftlntry, wli with 89 Sages, and f actual incre (*n«l Wales) in Prussia.— —The last the old Phila down last we in fifty years ‘»rea Ph il ad open its entir •he public__ _ —An Englf * list of Amer bearing the w ‘“«het. Shel 'Haw! haw!’ •o. if the wh< “■boWen Jag