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ADVERTISEMENTS ka Sara Liver Complaint ; Is mora suraly snd speedily eured by the , of Aye'rt Barsaparlll, than by any , atbtr remedy.. I ww ft great sufferer , ' from Hrer troubles, and ave found any thing that gar ma permanent rllf until I began taking Ayr Sarsaparlll, about twq years ago. A fewbotUeof thlrmed ... Iotas; produced ft radical eure. Wm. E. Baker, 135 W. Brookllne it., Boston, Mm. A, nm3irkbIo f Cu.; - AyrtfSriparlll has cured me of eav bad aeaof AW of the Liver a any human being-could b afflicted with and - live. , I wa confined to the house for two Tear, and, for the last three month of that time, wa unable to leave my bed. Four nhralclan treated me without rir- -. big relief, and, in fact, nothing helped me. until I tried Aver SanaDarilla. After using quarter of a bottle of tbl nudW elne t began to feel, better, and rery additional dote eemed to . brine new I need three bottle, j health and itmurth. and am now able to attend to my busin. . X walk to town one mile dletant and return, without difficulty. Aver' Sana, barilla ha accomplished all tbl for ate. ' W. 8. Miner, Canon City, Mich. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, UTe Ve Dr. J. C. Ayr It Ce, tawll, Mae. e4UlraalM. rdeeftl; aUeMUM,. Varafwl DrwnxlaU and Other. Wfc ; JDaetar fraoa Ulaedara. JA prescription clerk with years of ex perience tamed the other day About fatal error made by those who compound drugs. . '.- -, "Yes," sold he, druggist who make a blunder that cost a life may a , well go oat of business or more away to escape hi reputation. But, lot mo tell you, auch blunders are fow in proportion to wio opportunities ror making them. Take tar own xcerietice. for inatmnca. I made one year an average of the num ber of prescriptions 1 put up daily during . that tfnie, I found I had averaged forty 'Ada tier day-cali ff furtyow jthat loots up about 1-1,000 for the year. - A 'thoroughly competent prescription clerk is ablu to average- live prescriptions each hour. Of course some prescriptions re quire a long time to Gil, : but others are put up very quickly, so that, if man luts thom to do, he can average, as I say, .ftrBerhonr.4.F5. s thi,': ;-'. u eu, now there are over 500 store .' .- GrretiiboroJT. C. W ill be at CJrrham on lWolHhgr of each werk ta attend tnproferabinsl biulntrs. Sep Ifl) " L'V;: 'H1' i Jj. i i F. H. WHrruJi.; -tJ'E: XK'MiAN., WHITAKEJt & MoLEAN, ,r ATTORNEYS ATliAW, v. GRAHAM, Jt. X. IS EBNODtE "V ATTORNEY AT LAW, ..-":" '' ",, MaW. w. (I. - FYarllec in Pin ' ntata and Fed erai Conr - swill faithfully and promptly attend to all be . e iniriixie'l u liim ,' MOIlf FHIBNII a Not only vbnrten the time of labor . and leiven the pain, bat It treat' -' dim uiehoi die danmr to life of both mother and child, and'leave "the:" ' inotberln aeondltioa avire favorbl(" ' to F-iy recovery, and loi Hal lo to " iloodiiiK roiivuUIgn and other - alarming rmtoiii. Ita eflicacy In ; lli'ji twoccteiitltMit to be called the Adither friend, aud toiank one : . f the :l!fe (nrlniC' reinndie of tlie nineteenth -entiirv.-' . We cannot jiublUh certlncate eon- . A--- tWTningihliirenieilt; witnont -wimnd-... 4 ' lngUiedtleieyof the-wtltcaf -JTe$ .are have hnudreda on file. Sendfcrwir boVk,VTo,Motlie" malleil free : j' BaAOrtBt.il REWOtaKion Co., "' ? ; .v-fc'. i , i Atlanta. Oa- FOR SALE I Qt.n'irUiil e-'nwaM Hhi't of; Prih-un J -'n.niiilii 8 ac:e : 9 r inn eoilg on it e'l, ilairy. I a-j-,.S "I elce ioi tr.ilt tr-e and'ifrr rinrr. "Apply o : -PABKEB &KEBXODtFf, AgK WEEKLY DISPATCH ! i Richmond; Va THEGEOBATPAMILyWEEKIY. fttlfthl I.Mraa rrr, Calaaaaa; Str . - ftl.w rrtt liar, . ' The Wertclr llpat-h I fined llh new tn.m all paruol the worlds. Our leJara hic erlc eoem every country. All treat v.-ial, wllfrlon and to:tlea Binvrnu-nt at heme o abroad ar falih-ully - chrwichid." " - - '- All ne i.Ueover'ew tn scicnre nd their ap pllcitlon U agrlcolinral and ae-haiilral art, find a plare iii.Ue eolnn na. i .? - ; i j 1 he far.uer has a dcuirtintnt ull et la truetive matu-r t and the ladle are kept bv fofmedolFabton' Vary Ing phare and el II new louwhoM noveltie. It I a welcome vWlor to every member of tli famllr. Everv rnmber enntairsaa biteref ting itory and po'rtiaiu ai-d Llocraphlcal akrlelie ol lodiKg men of our own and other count r. A weeklv rcvlrw of prim Ipal markeU of the United 8Ute If n hnponaa feature, i In abort we elm io male the Merkly l-l-patch o attisctfve lnP :tl detartmeni that it reader wilt not willlnily give it up. and M valuable w an rdnratorof the yonng snd pld that no family ran sfiord to be with- tjttch- ,-; h ' i j- - 3Dertil attention U riven to North Caro- ifmawa). onreorpe of coiwpondcnta In lb PRESCRIPTION CLERKS' WORK. (..Alii., lux iWilne. . evcmlilns: of Interest Our rlrenlatlnn' wa dowbled hvt rear. . Th laree addition to oar (nlMerlpdon litta already ' received, aire Marnot that U will be men tlr. n duabied this rear. . . aampie ouple mailed free to any arVrrft Tiy the Weekly IHipatch one rear tins: one sonar im THIS BrCUXUHU winrii" n w r RW-hnx-eVl NOTICE. ' i H.-.t . Haring anallVd a administrator of TU tha Holum, dereaedn, peraow barmg Uim . . .i.. LiiW harabr rkotiired -to exhibit the earn te the audetn-Je admlnW iratnr witutn twelre momO inxn i(b ate or -i ihhiatrfirewlUkerjtrtutcdmhar of their re- ewrety TUUJaly loth. J8W. . . Ptthaon. . .. .M. Hot toe idrnV. - SUITOR y.;. f j. -, .Ccgiate1 It-astitutc. " " CHARTERED 1871 - PrfpmrtUory, VwWoal-er . HiAi f . : - daai sr UdkfwCalic, Sdemee$ and tk t int ArU. P. J. EST ZZZZ, A. H; TfadpL Term raaMaabe. Both sexes admitted la dUtiaet eeperttaeuu. --.' ' . The aezt taaiok ope Monday, fiepr. It. , r1&7. Wrtu to the priactpa' fjr tatatoa at tbfiulk, V a. V Ulf in New York rcity 1 employing two pre scription ctercs eacn. lint makes 1,000 clerks, and if each averages, say forty prescriptions per tlay or 14.000 in a year, the total will be 1,000 times tliat, or -aoout 14,000,000 prcscri;itions put up in tins city every year. 1 lie total is more than that at the daily averago I named, but let it stand for round numbers. Yes, the amount is large, but then multiply inai njr su.uuu to cover Kew 1 or k state, na l .uare swefly titat witb so many chances to kill somebody, there are fewer fatal blunders by druggists than are made iy the same Bum bur of men in any other vocation. -rt;-;r. '-But n ; iwcscripthwi. clerk must not only guard himself rgainat blunders liable to he made by himself, as lie is frequently 'called ti)on to save physicians from fatal or disagreeable errors.. How? ' Why, clerk ou reading a preficription may find ttiat ingreutents are -disproportionca sc tluit if the written order was obeyed someixxiy wouw soon be a subject for huriuL For instance a elcrk may get a prcdcnption for 'pills wis.! poisonous in' gredients. Tlie physician has written the proper ' rcMtire quantities of the dmcs. hnt has in liaste or heedlessness neclcctvd to order how many i)ills to. make of the compcmmleil m:iM. lie nas neglected tc write in Ids prescription whether th. eomiMnnd is to be made into one mighty pill or into fifty little ones. One of the latter miht effect enre, whereas tlie entire mass, it dnijined down an unsus pecting throat, would bo about the last the patient would ever swallow, . ','Whot do we do In such a case? That depends ' upon who the physician is and wliat the customer may be. If the doe- tor be one whom we know we may right tho error, if we are certain as to what should bo done. That is, we may put up prescriptions daily for ft physician, and sd tecome acquainted with his methods and treatments. - But, if we do not know the doctor, and if the customer b an educated person, we say to the customer: 'Doctor So-and-so has doubtless intended differ ently than ho ha written here, and think you liad best go honk to him and say that your druggist desires him to see tho prescription again before it is put up. An educated person will at once under stand Hint a physician, under stress of professional, onrietieiv may have made eonio liUlo slip, 'and tho doctor does not suffer. But if tlie customer bo an ig norant person tlm action to ho taken dif fers. ' We desire not to injure the physt eian, Imf if we were to say- to on igno rant iuid nnedncated -customer that bis doctor hal raado such blonder in his pre scription that w-: could - no put it up, why the customer would . nercr forgive' tho medical, man, but would out upon him ns a quack. . Yes, I'll teH yoiiliow wo do. I'd say to that uneducated cus tomer: 'Now, sir, one of the ingredients in tliii iireecription is very difficult to Xgotanl it will require florae tinie-rcomo back in three hours, and it will be ready for you.' Then we send the pretcription at ones to the doctor, who sees the error, corrects it, and puts us in shape to go liicaVi JJl't do you Biipnpe the doctor likes it? why, I liaro saved doctors from srriotis conBequonces . before now, and had them fly into passion at what tbey called impertinent meddling, and advise 1 thvir patients to shun us as incompetents. I Hit I have observed that the suggested c-liangc U made or tho omission is sup plied before tho mrdicino to prepared. Other physicians, fcowerer, - appreciate tb serrico rendered them." Tlici! the experienced prescription clerk was asked if the pasting of one label over another was approved by the pharma ceutical code of ethics, whereupon tho EL 1. C grew warm. i A druggist who does tliat," said he", is absolutely lazy. Tho recognized right way u always to soak off old labels re move, tlicm entirely and neatly. I hawe in time of great haste scotched off ft label with my knife. That was slovenly, bet it was at kast right and safe. No, ell druggists do not do it, but they should. I know they do not, because I hare my self soaked six htbek from bottle brought in for ft prescription. V--New York Sun. Taalla the Bawfcr ntowatatas, One of th most prodigious engimtilug projects now on the tapis is that for tun neling the Rocky mowntalns under Tray's peak, which rises no less than 14.441 feet abor the leTeief the sea. It is stated that at 4.441 feet below the peak. by tunneling from east to west for Zj.OOQ feet direct. rommunicaUon could be opened betwretilhe valleys on the Atlan tic slope and those oa the FaeiAc side. This wowld sajortest the. distance between DenTr in Colorado and Salt Lake CHy in Utah, and eanaaqurolly the distance be tween the Missouri, river, say at Kt. loms, and San Francisco aessiy $09 uilea, and there would be little mora re quired in the way of ascending or de scending or tunnciing mountams. Part , of the work baa already been ftceom plisbed. . The courttry from the Hiseoeri to the foot of tne-Kbckica rises gradually in rolling prairie until an deration to reached of &,! fed shore the sea, arret. The Rockies thrmseJrrs rise at Tariona places to a bright exceeding 11.000 feet. Of the twenty sooat famous passes only seven are below 10.000 feet, while fire re upward of 13,000, and one is 1S.O0O feet. The point from which it is pro posed to tunnel is sixty miles due west ' from Denver, and, although on. of the I highest peaks, it is by far the narroweU la tlrn great backbone of the- American CouUDcut- New York Sun. i , Sow Jotwred Cartoon Are Mml;. ; ' "It docs not follow "that because hii artist's name is signed to a cartomi tlius he has criguiatodUK) idea, '.'.remarked u well known caricaturist. '...' 'A luqtpy thought is liable to come to any one, as is shown by the fact that ft cobbler "won the prize offered, by Punch for. the best advice tn those who wero about to mar-, ry. : The suggestion- for many a '6ule brated cartoou has -been handed in by persons who ' have never been heard of by tbe public. These suggestions are. submitted mostly by men who pick up a living at all kinds of Bohemian work. The price paid is 13 for black and white picture, and tS or 10 for a colored car- wood. Becoming io wnctiwr it u weu as sr single or double page picture. Many suggestions are paid for that ere never used, either because the subjects turn out nine day wonders, or because the artist is unable to treat them in a satis factory manner, while it sometimes hap pens that what was bought for a black and white picture is found to contain tlie making of ft striking cartoon. It is extremely difficult to grasp an other person's idea for a picture, and the artistic editor is much more liable to er rors of judgment than his literary broth er.' Scarcely one-quarter of tho sugges tions submitted are found available; not so much that they lack merit, but, be cause tbey can't be drawn. The most ludicrous situations in life won't admit of illustration, as it is often found that the most humorous incidents read tame when put Into words." New York Sun. ladleattona af Phyalcal Decay. In the rapid advance of science, medi cal experts can now detect, by countless almost imperceptible signs in eiich part of man's body, decay at the neat of his life. - ' . . '' By a few marks In the finger nails and teeth, specialists in diseases of tho nose and throat can note the progress of catarrh. A peculiar incertitado of gait denotes tlie beginning of a disease in tho brain," that will inevitably end in madness and death, ; Tlie wife of ft wttl known western lawyer was troubled a fow years ago with an unaccountable dimnecs of vision, and came to an eastern cltr- to consult a famous oculist He placed her in front of a strong light, and, by tlie aid of a tiny mirror, turned its rays into her eye. He found certain diameters on tho gray tissue which told him that ebo was the victim of an unsuspected and mcurahlo disease. : Jio hud but two months nioro to live. .. . "" " Tho color of tho skin, tho breathing, tho shape of the-fingcre, the glance of the eye, all betray to tho scientific observer tlie condition and probable duration or that mysterious power .within us which we call life, and which, once gone, can never be recalled. Youth's Companion. .'- J i I .... . .k ailent Taremanta Aroaad Dig Bn ldlna. - The roar of trucks in the narrow streets down, town, upon which most of the great office buildings are located, is so loud as to drown ordinary conversation when tlie windows are oncn in ererr office fronting on a street, oven in the tipper stories. . To remedy this a smooth asubalt pavement was this -week com' plated around one of the largest otuce building on. Nassau street. 1 he experi ment is said to be very successful, the street roar being scarcely noticeable any where in the building, although it rises Just as usual from all the pavements near except from the small strip in front and on each side of the building. Ono ex planation of this is that the most of tho sound that lilted the omce was conuueica up the walls of tlie building from their direct contact with the pavement. Tho new pavement produces no noise to bo conducted up tho walls, and tho nolso from the ordinary pavement a few feet away reaches the offices only through the air, which is poor conductor, it is probable that the ssmo experiment will bo tried about other largo office buildings. Similar pavements have been successfully Used for some time to keep the street ncW from one of the city hospitala. 1 39 fagh .. ....... -. A letter ef Laagfaltaw'a, A hitherto unpublished letter of Long- fellow's has- just been made known. It was written to the mistress of ft girls' school in Chicago, and ran as follows: To tboso who ask now l can write so many things that sound as if I wero as happy as ft boy, plcaso say tliat there is tn the neighborhood, or ncighbortown. a pear tree planted liy Governor Endicott, 00 years ago. and that tins trco suit bears fruit which it is hnpowiblc to dls tincuish from the young tree In flavor. I suppose that tlie tree makes new wood every year, so that some part of it fat always young. Perhaps this is tbe way with some men when they grow cia. i hope it is so with me." And then bo adds: "I am glad to hear tliat your boys and girl continue to take so great an in- est In poetry. That is a very goou sign, fog poetry may be said to be tlie flower and perfume of thought, and a perpetual delight, clothing all the mere common place of life with golden ex halation of the dawn.' ''Queries. FiUalaa ftgajaat Tellaw Tarer. Tbe FrobJem of protection ngninst yel low fever by inoculation seeni in a fair way to solution by the Brazilian doctor, Freire, who ha been seven years at work the subject According to a recent account, tho number of persons already inoculated is 6,624. There nave died from yellow fever fat Rio de Janeiro, bo- ween Jan.. 1889. and Sept.. 1W, I.G73 persons, of whom eight had been inocn Uted (In 184, the method bring then im perfect). This gives a mortality of about 1 per 1,000 for taa inoculated, ana l per L for tne cmnoculsted. it remark able that there has been no epidemic- of yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro this rear fa thing not known for the last thirty 0t years). Theamicrobe of yellow fever is called "Crypt ococcus xanthogmk-us. " Dr. Fretr gets a culture liquid for inocu lation, on the principles of M. Pasteur's met bode, and be injects about one gram of it snbcwwaeoosly. Frank Leslie's. Kalilow's Trade Review describes a steam omnibus which is now in wae at Dreadrn. The motive power is apt-lied to tbe hind wheel, and to sopplk-d by an upright boiler and compound engine. It to need oa tbe streets for carrying Bttsscogcra, and will seat twenty rjersono, ' PEN PICTOR. ; OP' LINCOLN. - tf-f 'i '-Ji'f " . !"!' X.-ju'r,. .- ; I Ma WhoHl i fliViiitiiie SPtninl AH Angle A Far of IVcnllar tlrjvHy. ' It was a biting: winter's tiny tliat I be gan thy j"iirney to Springfield. A furious mow ftonn was raging, mid on my arrival at the capital of' Illinois tlurwholo city seemed ulnirwt buried under its white mantle. The streets were blockaded, only here and there a pcrmn was seen hurry ing along the way. and tho place appeared . as though substantially uninhabited. For tunately, the fnry of tho storm had kept away tlie usual army of office seekers, and I had the good f ortuno to find Sir; Lincoln at the state house, with only Mr. JohnQ. Nicolay, his private secretary, for a com panion. Mr, T. D. Jones, the sculptor, of Oliio, who was engaged in making a bust of the president, walked over from tlie hotel and introduced nle to Mr. Lin coln, who arose upon our entrance and received ns with unassuming cour tesy. Telling hiuk at once that my visit was purely official, and .that office seek hig formed no part of ipy .mission, lie; grasped my hand in tho most cordial manner, invited us to be seated, and re marked in a quizzing tone tliat as most of his visitors wanted something, and gen erally wanted it pretty bad, he was glad to find nobody in Ohio had any such itching. . ; ' -. . ' This, was the first time I had seen Mr. Lincoln, and my first impression was that bo and Mr. Nicolay wero the two homeli est men I had ever seen in ono room at the same time. Tlie president at first appeared to bo all angles. . His height was great, his shoulders broad and square, bis legs, arms, bodv, forehead, nose, chin, seemed angular, lie was dressed in an old fashioned black suit, well worn dress coat, satin vest, cut very low in front, displaying a large amount of shirt bosom. The shirt was scrupulously clean, but it had been so often washed and ironed tliat the edges were thoroughly well worn, and covered with a kind of stiff bristling fringe. Tlie buttons were fow in front, and as Mr. Lincoln seated himself in a very low chair, lie disclosed a strong, powerful chest covered with hair like a bison. His faco was covered with a stubby beard of a few 'weeks' growth, which he explained by saying tliat ho was growing' whishors to. iinprovo tho beauty of. his appearance. His hair was long, Uiick, sprinkled with gray, and thrown back from a high, broad, retreating forehead. The percep tive faculties wero unusually prominent, tlio eyebrows strongly marked and shaggy, , The skin of his face was brown, coarse,., covered with furrows and deep lines; mouth large, eves sparkling, bril liant and thoughtful; hands and feet enomiotiM, and wlien seated his leg from the knees down npared out of nil pro portion in length to the rest of Iii3terton. Ho held in his luinds a lair of heavy, old fashioned, silver bowed spectacles. Altogether, his person and manner was tliat of an extremely awkward, ungainly man dref-sed in country fashion in his Sunday clothes, , ri.-wiig away fnn his daily work and imsicusto get tack to his orduiary occupation and working gar ments. , ll'm faco in rqmse was I hnt of a vigurous. original, intellrctnnl thinker. but .clouikd with a peculiar gravity as near to melancholy as ft can lie described. When ho liegnn to talkUbo whole counte nance lightened, tlie eyes twinkled with fun or shone with erriousncsB. At times bin laugh was so boisterous, boy hke and genuine that it was positively inuctious. Clovchuid Leader. ' ' . ' C'hiirla ftamnar TVork Kaaaa. ' ' . But bis study, or work room, as he was wont to call it, was as rich in engravings as in books and tuaiinscriptsi It war a large, room on the second floor, with three windows looking oat on Vermont avenue, one of the widest in that part of the city, perhaps tlie most beautiful in Washing ton. At one end was his own huge desk full of drawers and pigeon holes, with its long, wide, flat top always cumbered with papers. . At the other end was his clerk's desk. In the center of the room was an other long, flat table. In corners were other tables of lesser size. And there, too, were a lounge and many chairs of differ ent kinds. . But all were loaded with books, letters, congressional bills, docu ments and manascripta. To seat a guest, it was often necessary to empty a chair by dumping its contents on tlie floor. ' : He was systematic in his disorder, and could always find the paper, or book be wanted, provided' it had not been mis placed by another person. He even knew tlie stratum it occupied.. Engravings covered the entire wall space not taken by book cases. ' They oven hung on the door panels, and generally ono or more leaned against a chair or table. The great reclining chair he used for reading stood by the center table with a swinging leaf attached for writing; but he sat mere often at his desk in a revolving chair, from which ho could reach tlie books ho called his tools on tho movable book case wliich was ranged behind him. . He was wont to say that tlie pictures on tlie walla of this room were suggestions and inspira tions. There were six; around wliich, as around centers, other pictures hung as if to define or illustrate them. Arnold Burges Johnson in Tho Cosmopolitan. A Hut n'raibcr Tltrrsnamrter. Thrro hi a thermometer arrangement which, I tliink, would Miit every body this liot weather. It Is l.xeil so as to measure tho intensity of the nun's rayu a nearly asrowiMe. Tlie arrnngenu-nt consists of a plain wooden box about one foot 'squrre. . It is covered with a glass lid, and i ; lined on tlie inside with tkek wool cr black velvet Tlie- thermometer, which hi only an ordinary instrument, is IiLiced on 11k- insido of this box, tho lid .i diced down, and the hex is tlicn jLicid out in tho run where tho rays ere util-roken by surrounding objects. Of courser luP.Mm' roy pKstttrntc (he gaw. mvl ell ef 1!k lieat generated L retained in the box. On a day. wlirn tho ther mometer rises to 100 degs, in tho shade, tlio temperature in inch a box would be Utile less than tlie actual intensity of the stm's rays.- I suppose the tbcrmometer would go up to 100 degs. or more. What wo try to get at In tho tignal office is to measure tho tempernturo of tlie atinos plKTc, and not the Intensity of tho sun's rays. Sergt. Weber in Globe-Democrat. The Cars Farerlta raatlaae. It is related that tlie czar lias at last found a pastime wliich soothes his irri tated nerves. Ho has become a passion ate fiUicrmnn, and this Is tho way it was brought about: Not long ago complaint was uiado to him tliat the carp and pike in tho ponds of Oatcluha increased so rap i'.'Jy tliat means must be sought to check tbocvil. Tho czar declared at once that bo would fish in his leisure liours. What at first was undertaken iu jest has now become a serious business. Alexander III spends hours in succrwion on tbe edge of his pond, and exhibits all the well known cnaiwrtcristics of tho profes sional angler. He is disappointed and moody when the catch fa) unsatisfactory, and comwjKwlingly flared when he brings home an unusually heavy fish. He enjoys tlie spurt so much that he intends visiting the seashore next autumn. Bos ton Transcript. rtatrmnllk a a Bavwrag. "Buttermilk is getting to be the girls' farorite drink." So said a clerk in a Chestnut itreet store, where all aorta af mild drinks are dispensed. "Soma days ago," the clerk continued, "a pretty gni came in here with brr mother. Tbey each had a glass, but when the ghi tented bcrs she put it down in a hurry. Oh! mamma, J can't drink it. It's too horrible,' alio said. Her mother adrised her strongly to drink it, and she took another tip. Then she called for the girls' stand by vanilla with lots of cream. Sbe has been in a few times since and each time she drinks a little more buttermilk, so in a month or two she'll be a regular. They say it is good for sunburn and freckles, o I suppose that tbe reason- the girls 'drink U' nmaddrJiia CaU. .. How many heart or eaten out in longing for what tuey lure so power to reach. Christian Keii. A Flaw ef Health Iaau ranee. The astute Chinese, who were discuss ing civil service reform when our ances tor were building the reed hut and hurl ing the flint tipped javelin, ore said to pay their medical attendants regularly so long' as they enjoy, good health, but promptly, to discontinue their remittances on tlie first appearance of sickness, to re sume only on recovery which, no doubt, has arisen from their absurdly attempting to live up to a foolish old proverb of ours about "an ounce of prevention." : The plan wliich t would respectfully submit is briefly as follows: That at the beginning of the calendar year each indi vidual or family should engage his family attendant for the next twelvo months, agreeing to pay him a specified annual salary in advance, cither in full or in quarterly or monthly installments. Tlie physician, on bis part, should agree to render any and all professional services required, except operations or manipula tions requiring the skill and training of a specialist, for tlie annual consideration specified, wliich might readily be fixed according to some rate per capita or per familiam laid down in tbe fee bill. Tlie physician should further agree, in con sideration of the sum specified, to make an annual or acmi annual inspection of tlie sanitary condition of the house and promise of his client and to offer such suggestions as he Saw fit in regard to the diet or habits of life of himself or Ids family; in short to act a general adviser on all matters of hygiene or therapeutics. The system might briefly and perhaps not inaptly be descrilied as ft scheme of health insurance. North American Re view. . . -t Parninf Men o the Mas. Dummy men are strictly within tlie property department, hut when used as they wero in "Henry V" at Sadlers Wells they rise to tlie point of stage effect of no ordinary character. In tliat play thcro is an important scono of tbe triumphal entry of tlie prince's army into Uarfleur. , Tlio stago was arranged with a .parapet across up stage. A largo gate way on the right stood on a platform which sloped down like a roadway. There were mom 200 or 800 supers well drilled as soldier, and every three of these did duty as eight soldiers a large Quantity of dummies bad been prepared and carefully rlotlied. Tlie mak had all been mtxleWxl as tiortraits of living men, and were tainted by Absolom, tlio foil af ' Al udiuiiv.laiu -TliiSr ilUU dummies Were arrayed in this way: The formation was eight abreast. The end fil'.-s were living men, and one was hi tlie middle. Tliese bring men had attached to them an iron rod ou which flvo dum mies wero fixed. Mirror. fTjrftleale PraMrtla af IlatlermlllL. ( Someone lias lately written that tlie best cholera mixture to watermelon and buttermilk. In some cases both these foods are dangerous, but they are oilier wise healthful and valuable during sum. mer. Take buttermilk; it to one of the few valuablo beverages of summer as re gards tlio system; it scours it in a natural way tliat drugs will not do, reaching every crevice and crack, gatliering tbe re fuse that could 1 exterminated in. no other way. It to a remedy for Indiges tion, for in churning tlio first processes of digestion are accomplished. Nothing is mora easily digested than latttermilk. It besides makes gastric ju'ee. Then, for tboso who cannot sleep, it is valuable as a soporific. In hot weather it is a stimu lant, and should bo taken every day, where coffee, tea and water would be harmful. Dr. Richardson in Globs Dctnocrat. - : Taraa af a M ager. On an occasion a party of doctors wera talking in tlie parlor when Parepa Rosa came In. Dr. Hint said to her, "W hare just been iscmdng whether tbe throats of singers differed in any way from the ordinary throor." Weil," she replied, "I hare to objection to your making an examination of mine. If roj like," and immediaU-ly put berarlf in U band of tbedortora, who thus had an op portunity seldom accorded tbe medical fraternity. Dr. Flint, who was then en gaged on his work on phystology, discov ered quite a difference in tlie formation of the throat, and afterward mentioned tbe fact in hi book New York Com mercial Advertiser. A Kaatty ga rati aw. Overruling a Scotch court, the houeeof lords has curtained Dr. Cairrf professor of moral philosophy to the University of Glaagow, in hi contention that he has a rtplit of property n hi lecture as again students who report tnem lor sale and publishers who buy and print them. The question was a somewhat knotty one. BrouUrn LagJe. . TH CITY Of THE UTURfi. AtNnalnatlon That Will Be Fukaaww. Street Majaetl and spaelaa. ' The American climate, with Its Intoler able beat in summer, causing sunstroke and other disasters, its dismal and pierc ing cold in winter, and its sudden and extraordinary fluctuations of temperature, all the year round, has never inspired en thusiasm even among the best disposed of foreign visitors. The Englishman pro nounces it beastly and the Frenchman death dealing as the thunderbolt or the pestilence. Winter can be guarded against, aud it to possible to the experi enced to be moderately comfortable even in Chicago; but the American summer in cities is growing every, year more in tolerable. There can be no question that a great deal of the suffering is due to the manner in which the American city to built. . -. ' ' , "'-"V1 . The point, then, to this that American cities should be built with toore regard to the summer climate. In the ideal city of tlie .future such abominations as tin and slate roofs will b unknown. There will be garden roofs for resort in the evening, which, placed under glass, will be valuable as sanitariums in winter. Here delightful sun baths, amid tropical surroundings of birds and flowers, may be had in January. There will be no gigantic warehouses and dwellings of brick and iron, absorbing and storing up beat all day to diffuse it through the night The houses will be semi detached and the streets majestic and spacious, -At frequent intervals there will be handsome squares with shade and flowers and fountains, and seats for everybody. And along the streets there will be files of. stately trees, so that even with tho thermometer at 100 degs., protection and comfort may be available for tlie way farer pleasure, too, all the year round, for the eye of the lover of the pictur esque. With a free circulation of air Clo .will find themselves able to the, even when there exists excessive atmospheric moisture, such as we have experienced this summer, and tbe noi some smells ef the present will be known no more. Unless something of this sort shall be developed, summer life in American cities in the future will be simply impossible. The mortality is already terrible. The tall buildings of brick and iron constantly- going up, and In many cities getting higher, are merely reservoirs for the storage of heat. It is instructive to note the steam that arises from the aides of tlio houses when a sudden rain occurs on a July day. Were shade trees erected along tho chief thoroughfares, apoplectic prostrations of man and beast would be rare. Uefreshinir sleep at night would follow tlie day's toil, as it does on the hottest nights in tho country, where, as soon as the sun goes down, there being bo baked walls to slowly radiate the heat tlie liours of darkness through, a refresh ing coolness immediately springs up. A little reflection will show tliat life could be made altogether different from what it is at present, Walter Edgar McCann in the Epoch. Marl Antoinette. Mario Antoinette was in no way a woman fitted for affairs of state. She was simply a woman. That was her charm and her misfortune. Tbero wa no trace in her of the genius of her mother, Maria Theresa. 8ho was simply a young Vienneoo princess. Fond of pleasure, and sympathetic, she was too proud of her rank and birth and too dis dainful of tbe opinions of the world to sacrifice to tnem oven a t ruling caprice. Frivolous, but little educated, and never reading, difficult to advise and impatient of schooling, w hich bored her, she judged of policies by persons, and of persons by the opinions of coteries. With little judgment she had plenty of courage, but her valor was apt to dissipate itself in anger or tears, Her heart, noverUielesa, was noble, and honor was with her a passion. When the dignity of tlie crown seemed compromised or lowered when it was outraged amid provocation and in sult, she hardened herself against attack. and one could then recognize in her tbe dagghtJT - it llari Tlinniaa. wm AlilfTt HoreL ' - - Treatment af laaeet AMags. The stings of insects, such as gnats, musquitoes, etc., are often painful In such a caso apply spirit of Iiartshom or volatile alkali to the part. Spider bites are not only painful, but often venomous, and it to necessary to wash them with salt water or diluted vinegar. Tho sting of the bee to harmful only when tho sting re mains slicking in the wound. So the first thing to be done Is to press the wound in order to make it bleed, sinco the blood that flows will carry along a portion of the poison. Then suck the wound and wash it well with water and then with a solution of knos powder. This latter. wbkrb at much used In uigiand, consists of three parts of chloride of lime to eight of common salt. An ounce of this pow der to to be dissolred in a tumLler of water.' If this composition to not to bo had, Goulard's extract may be unrd. For the sting of the scorpion, voiatilo alkali should bo used, and after tbe pain sub sides, an emollient cataplasm may be ap plied. La Fharroacien Popalaira. Cfclek I nailwet af Daagw. It to remarkable how tlio instinct of self pi ti n at ion and the knowledge of danger will snow tn young chicks, w uu a mother hen, it to ckrar tliat the young sters are trained by a series of warning cries, but chicks hatched in incubators and cared for by artifV-ial mothers will run and hide if a hawk or even a pigeon fly over, and if ono makes a whirring sound like that made by a bird's wings, the chicks run to cover or drop flat on the grooruL j If a ben be setting en ten genuine eggs and three china eggs, she will posh tlta china eggs out of the neat within twenty- four hours. She ran tell tbe good frura tbe bad by the difference of temperature. New York Mud sod Express. Tk trmlu af Tataalas From their earliest youth the Bunncsa men tattoo their legs from the thighs down to tbe knees with designs both floral and animal, and puncture tlie up-' per pert of tbrir bodiea with numerous ronnd hi ilea, into which thry rub ver milion powder. This operatitMt is snrh tliat oiuin to often adhiiiiMttrd to 4ealen the agonizing lin that it couaca. Chicago News, MY FRIEND AND MY BOOK i. I bid my friend, th Inore tliat t Head I im, ' Iota my readlnj; roont and br tar Mei ' Olail, If mine linppy hour he mar abide, -Nor te nor 1 Into heed how twift titer more! Thlt la, I wot, true f ricMriiip' charm to prove, Whra We United heart, tri Siuttloi faltb allied, Jungle Uieir thought and word ia one van tide, . . " .... That Bow all doubt ad jealousies abova! ' I fcllowahlp to dear, oae fault t own- . Discourtesy to friend) my guest before t -' And UU be came, enough for my dellghtl Left now, alaa! in diareapectriil plight, - , . And mute, nor 'with reproachful look or tone, Prone on -their face and toaml npoa tbe aoorl William C. Bicnard la Th Qoamopoutan. r PLUMAGE FOR LADIES' HATA laaaetleerev Bird Mat ttd for Tea . Pnrpot.i Byply fraak.Farlga Laada, From time to tuna a great add to made by the friends of tbe feathered kingdom because women wrfll Insist on decorating their hats and bonnets with Ui plumes) and beads of unfortunate birds. Such decoration has long been pronounced ridiculous and in bad taste, but the -words of the critics had no effect tantil they showed the farmers the danger which menaced them in the destrucuod of insectivorous birds. This agitation rs suited in the passage of a law forbidding the killing of tiusclossof birds, and id some states tbe penalty was made ftf severe that a woman would be liable tcf arrest if caught on the street wearing ono of the protected birds. Even now, however, it is frequently asserted tliat tbe law to not enforced as it should be, and spasmodic efforts are mad to atop the traffic in thi line of good. Investigation shows tliat the law to not violatad to much as is commonly supposed. Before a bird appears as the decoration' for a bonnet, it passes through a good many hands, - Soon after the hunter bags it, it is turned over to the coin mis sion or "raw stock" man, as he to termed, and then goes to some big manu facturing house, where it to made an for the trade. Then .tlie jobber takes charge of it, and after perhaps one or two mora transfers the real milliner gets it, and places it upon a bit of feminine headgear to charm the eyes of the masculine world, There are in this city several oornmhy don or raw stock houses, - wliich buy from hunters all over the country. One of these houses to located on Cortland street.- A reporter went through the en tire establishment without discovering an insectivorous bird. Tbe staple birds in the trade are the tern and heron, although a good many gulls are used. The feath ers of these birds are all of quiet oolors, but tliat docs not make the slightest dif ference, as the manufacturers turn out any color desired. All they want is that the feathers sliall be atrong and well shaped, and then they can turn out a more gaudily colored bird than nature ever produced in her most eccentric mood. In the great manufacturing es tablishment not a single feather to wasted, even the small feathers on the body being used in pasta work. Such patchwork to naturally not noteworthy for strict adherence to nature, but it sella . just as well nevertheless. Tlie commission man whose place was visited told the reporter that probably not one-tenth of the birds used by aoillinere in this country now are insectirerous, and most of tlie few tliat are used eoma from Africa or flout h America, where the sup ply to inexhaustible. Tbe teraand heron, which are chiefly used, are fish eaters, and their loss wall never be felt. The prices of tliese birds vary greatly from time to time. At present a tern skin, preserved by arsenic, just as it cornea from- tlie hunters, is worth from forty to fifty cents in the city .. The aigret, or plume, of tlio snowy heron, is worth $18 or $20 an ounce, but only last February it brought $63 an ounce. It takes a dozen or more birds to supply an ounce of these plumes, but, of Bourse, the com mon feathers am also used. New York Commercial Advertiser. newer la the Hat, It b the custom in the Tyrol for a mar, when ho is engaged to be married, to wear a bouquet In hi hat. Tho damst-1 gives him, every day or two, a fresh BawpKi, pltltii r4ta AaajaaVjrta jg her window, Should she prove fickle, and jilt tho swain, the other young men of tlio village assemble under her window and throw down the flower pots. A stranger wonders, on seeing so many men with bouquets stuck in their hats, why they do not marry, especially as net a few of them are what we call "old bachelors." The explanation is that tbe villa go commune will not allow any per son to marry, unless he can show that ha has hud by a sum of money sufficient to support a family. - j Sometimes a doeen or more of engaged young men and women, despairing of ever getting money enough to secure t!:a comniuno's pennhaion, go on a pilgrim ago to Borne, Legging their wny on foot. When thcro they are married, but on their return to the native village they are fined as a punishment for break ing the law. Youth's Companion. -- . Caralayas la TSalfera. "It to now tbe proper tiling to have tmiformcd employes," said a local dry goods merchant. "The custom to not an aid one and ha only become popular with the building of tho three or mora mammoth dry goods esfalJkhnient. Do I think the idea a good oner Yes, for many reasons, the more prominent of which to that customers can recognise at a glance the employes of any particu lar bouse. And tiien the men make a neater appearance than they would with out uniforms. Ten years ago it waa necessary for a coachman to get down from bis box for the purpose, of opening tho door of the carriage. Now a Urericd employe performs this errrioe and po litely opens tlie door fa' tbe occupant to alight." Brooklyn Eagle. - A Cartas OM Axewav A curioua old anchor, very rrobablr lost by tbe early French misMonarien, was fonnd at tbe bead of Green bey. It eppears to have been constructed from a young maple tree baring threa branchee from the root. Another bar waa f.-wtened on. Tbw far it is like a ronnd tone.l stool with four legs. On the bottom of these legs were fastened, with rnortin and tenon, the Cukes, which were bora of oak crossing each other. New York Bun. Discontent is infirmity of Q. Tnicr
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