) X fj I I 1 ( - BE STJHE YOU ABE BlgHT-TTO&Q AtoSADHD Orockett. . . f - . -" VOL. 72. NO. 45. .5a0PSSSI0NAli CJLEDS. Law, UOSSEY BATTLE, ' I' i Ji :U Attorney and Councillor at - LJl ' ' 1 Tarboro, Nl C. "T Rocky Mount, K C. In iTarboio office e7ery , Monday, Hncky Mount balance of week. J-t-'J" Adjustment of cUima a specialty, and ()1UL JONES, Wywid Coimcelor at Law j TARBORO, N. C. J: J. MARTIN, , Attorney at Law, Practices in the Courts of Edge cqmbe, Martin and Pitt.- Office rear of Doodle Pender's Store. It- I.."-"' " k Tabboeo, N. C. JOHN 11. BHIDGERS & SON, Attoriieys-at- W - FOR; FALLING HAIR," I USE CULLEY'S- Baldj Head Preparation I desire to say to the public and the la. dies especially that I now have my ' Hair PreparatiorC I so that I can arrest the falling out of the nairwiuun io 15 days, and this you will readily see if you will give it a trial. ll&ir also thickens from its juse. It hu no unpleasant odor and leaves no dasger contracting neuralgia, cold, &c Mus taches easily thickened up by its use. Young j men will please make a note of this. Nothing asked to show the truth fulness 'of the above except a fair trial of Cxtllxx' Bald Hxad Pbkpabatiob. Good references given to sbow that the hair is thick if not thicker than ever. . ALFRED CULLiEY, 43tf Tarboro. N. C TARBORO N. C. THUBSDAY. NOMiafcR S. 1894, TA.RB.Q. 14 It A. OnxiAif . ILTlAM Law, X C- uomuxOiuuif & SON Attorneys-at-Law, ') ' TARBORO', H. C.j Yn i nractice In the Counties ol Edzecombe, Halifax and Pitt, and in the Courts of the if iist Judicial District, and In the Circuit and ; trireme Courts at. Raleirh. W. 0 HOWARD, Att'y Counsellor i TARBORO, N. C rPcotapt alteaiion given to Office over R. C. Brownfs Store. 1anl8-lv. at Law A' SIGN G. EDWARDS. AND HOUSE PAINTEE, Paper, h anging a specialty business. 40tf.' TARBORO, N. C. jJSijm if! Jt'l lllglllf r r ia 0 FRESH CANDY GOilSTlPATIOIl Anr rAiiaUF MAKKlAlilw I ve you newspaper! 1 . PRTP.R RFin? HOTS ever read UdW . . 5 . 4 All AUli UU' UKIUOES. Ia called the "Father of Disease". It ia can8ed by a Torpid Liver, and is generally accompanied iritl ' LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, : BAD EREATH, Etc ! AV INQOIRT. MY-uriCTe cam to a stbp butside a siatidoer:&h6p In Oxford atreet. WtenJi naw. what had caught his at-' tertian Ltepca(ched myself for my thrlgTjtlsswss; .Corh;- iaiaX jf tell me what you ihL&kf of ret)r(a(ntB.tfv mm. To treat constipation roccessfullj ilm9fltrf : j : a . ? v.- . , ;. ;;'IVs no jod, George.. . You did iRH.itt.I It is a mild laxative and a tonio to the digestivo organs. By taking Simmons Liver Begrolator you promote digestion,' bring on a reg nlar habit of body and prevent Biliousness and Indigestion. "My ra Mrdy dinwm J with CoMttpar tioo mad coodunc. followed with BlMdtay PiW. After foor aoatha nM of Simataaa Ltow RafwlMa she is almost entirely relieved, fmiBiac towaKk nd flab." W. B. Lnm, TwreCoT'T - 9EVEBT PACKAOX- B" mfl 9tawa tw cl m whUiki J.H.ZEIL1S 4 CO., fhnWphH H AT THE GMDY t O THE PUBLIC. 1. I am Prepared to do all work i n the : ii : Undertaker's Business, at the shortest notice. (Having con aected with my shop the repairing business. All work Left at my shop shall have Prompt attention. ' PRICES MODERATE, AIbo a first-class -HEAkSE for hire i Thanking my Iriens for their former patronage, T hope lo merit the same, shoal i they noed anything n the J . , Undertaking 10 ST AND -AT Cents Per Porair ALL KINDS; TASTELESS . 1H1DLL tup rfst lira IS THE SAFEST INVESTMENT I EVER MADE. 1 I Repairing Business My Place is on Pitt Street Three Deors frcj tVe Corner of Main. j J. i. WALLS. Fashionable :-: Tailor. Iitt St. J one door below eidell & r Mt i , .. .. I Fine Full Drees and Evening Tailor Mfii. Rnita The term well dressed ei- tonili frnm the neck tO the foot Of the snblect. i .' I - 7 " r "Cutting, repairing and cleaning ucne at short notice. j .- -'- : ot':-. i THE NEW! YORK 1 WEEKLY I1EBALD i yii v n i i i ra in PHrtaMOtetaCe. WI QUESTION I V JPOT? 1804- be wrrnoTJT J AMERICA'S Leading Family Paper The repuiatioq that jthe Weekly Herald has enioved for man J years of being the i best'home newspaperin the land will be materially added tojdunng inN ye&f oi 1894. No pajos or expense will be spared o make it in every department the most reliable, interesting and lnstroctiye of all weeklv newsDaoer publications. i Iti will be improve n many ways. ; A number of new features and Ueparts ments w ill be added The latest develoD ment in all fields of tontemporaneous hu man interest will bei ably discussed from week to week by accomp iflbed writers, THR HEWS OF THE WORLD wilt be given iu a concise but complete formJ " Every important or, ' interesting event . either at home or abroad, will be daly I described in the columns of the Weekly Herald. I In politics the Herald is absolutely in dependent and sound. It tells the tights and wrings of all sdes without fear, j Farmers and stock . raisers cannot afford to be! without the Weekly Herald, during the coming year. l will contain a regular department each week devoted exclusiye y to subjects of timely, interest to them and giving many valuable suggestions and new ideas. - ' A' The women and children of the ! land will find in the Weekly Herald a welcome visitor. The household and children's panes will be bothj instructive and enter taining. They will abound in hints nd receipts which women so much value. A brilliant array of novels and i short stories by the best writers in Aineiica and IrtiaT mrm tairta Tctmtl ho atorea In ant Ursa cities which eell 2,000 pir of hoea a day, making a net proflt of $250,000 a yea. Wa eeU aboea low, hiit wskII a mat many Daira. the clear profit on oar ladies', m'.aaes' od.ehildTths'afcoea Is at least ten cents a pair, and on ofl'jcis'and boys' shoes 1? cents a pair. "W shaU ytolish shoe atorea la each of tha fifty lamat c)ds) f the U. S., and if tho ull onlv SOS Dalrs of ahoe a day they would earn $525,000 a year. We should be able to pay a a A MAmA at B5.25 a share, or over 40 per cent. a year on the investment. We sell the stock at $40 a share. The price must Inevitably be much more than $10 a share. No stock has aver been sold at lees than thie price, which is its par value. Btoek ...uuilile. Inco mo rated. CaDital $1,000,000. We have over 1,000 stockholders, and the number ta lncreaslnj dally. Some of tha principal stoci- ' holders are : T. S. Wsllirr. K. A. Revd, Jr Chicago J. B. Kvmnugh, Little Rock, Ark.: or.. Phil. R. Hardin?. P i, lli-h , F. P. liullmc Arcade. K. Y. ! Write for a prospectus containing the names of par stockholders, etc., or tend an order for stock enclosing catntert cnecc, camn or money oraer. Orders taken for one or noco shares. Price, $10 nrurrn eune lft 14t. 14 141 yrtl ULAICn OnULUU,, st, bostoi, atua, i Agentt W'antod. I - r v.: dODltun Habits ... ..-jEL-d at home with- I a'? ; -. Ii :1 c:upun..uoocoipai t S t T-. rZ ttailarsaentFatl BasTT--t -sn.f.I.WOt)LLEYJl.IX Atlanta. Gs, Oilice lt)4 WniteballSb SI 8 t THE , SUN ; t The first of American. Newspaper$, CHARLES A. DANA , Editor. ... I- The American Conotitutlon, tha Amer ican Idea, the American spirit, lnese flnt, I' and all the time, foreyerl ( The Sunday Sun Is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in tie. I , world. -v lrrce Be. a copy. By mail, $2 a year Daily by mail. : - - - $6 a year Daily ind Sunday, by mail, - 88 a year The Weekly - - - f I a year . Address THE SUN, New York. Piles... Rhfiumatl tfee aapa thUijrt thepakw shop. Tb youthirik.I nerrtwtbca3rishopt ffirtjthRrta vats sttiT Utok every shqp;j,b48S ,r?ETjilrnvB oi It yta theasauliibl'aVii never sua-. pectd.befopeow entirely f retad tfiturher rfcisgfrrcept, pcrbapsV; ha'3tt4-kid book shops. Jjrba v4-fTrldseecoa'bnt on marrying. s. ifs-Cineer.TsaWhe, "that a llt Ua whllaAgtr-tlihiR that worried thf ittjtu4to& ot .fiyerytMntT elswaa the 5 ;ol telf martied, and' now 'It la to near It's entirely the getting married that upsets me. I have forgotten the horrid conse quence in the horror of the opera tion." . . . It's much the same," said I, "at an execution." . ? "Look at those cards'." He Waved his hand towards 'a neat:array of silver and white pasteboard. " 'Jemima-Smith, with an arrow through the Pmlthmnd1 'PpdRer written above It, and on the opposite sido-.'Mr. and Mrs. John Podger," That is where it has me, Qeorge,' i - Wewenton past a display "of eleb- tro-plaU with a card about pfeeente in the window, post windowiuU of white flowers," past ft carriagfe-btuld-er's and -a glove shop. . '.'It's Qka death," said my uncle; ' It turns up everywhere and is Just the same tor everybody. In that cake shoji there are pSes and piles ot calces; from Ut tie cakes ten i Inches ' acrossup to cakes of three hundred-weightbr so; all just the same rich; tneatahls, greasy stuff, and with just the' same white sugar on top of them." I sup pose every day they, pack 'dots. It makes one think t marrying In swarms, una " tne . gnsTrS . I eaten myself wondering sometimes If Aha run of peoplv really- ire separate Individual or only a kind of replica," without . any; tastes jf -their .(Jwn. There are -people who would rather, not marry without one of ; those cakes, George. ., To fae it seems to be almost the moat asinine position a couple of adults can. be In, to hare to buy a stone or so of that concen trated biliousness and cut It ut or procurw "other people to ontltxrp, and send it round to other adults who" would al-Qoat a soora,et arse nic. And why cake Infantile cakeT Why not bisculbs, or ; cigarettes or chocolate? It seems' to me to be playing the fool with a solemn occa sion.", r , : 7 t I "You see, it is the custom to have cake." ,r. I - "Well, anyhow, I intend to break the custom." "So did I, but I had it aU the same." "s - My nxnele looked atzne. , , j'fYou see,'aldl, '!wha 4 womavn lays you must do this or that-r-tnust haveeake at a wedding, -for iastaaoe you must dolt. 'It Is not a teas for argument. It is a kind of priv ilege they haver the categorical im perative. You will Soon learn that Evidently -.the question was open. But why do they say you mus t V ! Other women', tell -them.' ! Therf would despise anyone dreadfully who did not hare a really big cake from thatshoo.' "Butwhyr- nr - j a ear unoie, saia , uu rw JyLUSt3.H2f going Into matrimony. You do not O show a proper spirit.1' "The cake,"- said my uncle, "is only a type. There Is this trousseau business again. Why should a wom an who is 'going to marry require a complete outfit of that sort? Then the costume, Why should a sane healthy woman be covered up In white gauze like tne oonieouonery T mm E IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. : PRICE GO cts. Galatia, It-La-, Nor. is, wsa. bt. ucnia, aio. Gentleman: We aoVd last year. SQO boules of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TOMO and hava beaurht uarea aroaa airaaay tma year. i:l i rme fx us traly, i nsrinmria fxt 11 issn. la tb draa? bosloeaa. haT nTer aoM as article that ( aoch nlTrsal aatis. tacUoo as your TonM. Xonra traly. . "l didn't know." said I, "that tbrewa any .part to readr-IfB au advertlsemenU; all the article are advertisements, nil the para graph, the stories', the 'answers to correspondents verytbirjg.V a : "That's exactly what make, me think the tradesmen have hypntUxed the sex.- It may be they -do Itr la those drapers' dens. . A man spots thai kind oi thing at ones and drops the psper. Wdnaen gVon year fter year, simply: worshipping paper hoarding of that kind; arid el olfl g pa tiently evsrvthing: they Sjretofd to U9 raere thta way au these exwnsirB 'tthmes of matrimony, l can't understand 4 woman In full possession of her f so ul ties deliberately exasperating Hhe man she has to live with I stfppose all men submit to it under protest for all these stale and stereotyped antics. She must be magnetized.' . "They are not stale to her," I sid. . j . . "Mrs. Ilarborough "hebegaa. "Of course, a widow 1J forgot," I said. ."Out she seems so young, you know." ". "And putting aside the details." said my uncle with a transient dash of cheerfulness at my mistake, "I object to the publicity of the whole thing. It's not nice to bring the street arab into the affair, to sub ject yourself to the impertinent con gratulations and presents ot every aspirant to your intimacy, to be patted on the back In the local news papers as" though you were going to do something elerer. Confound them! It's not their affair. And I'm too old to be a blushing bride groom. Then think, what am I to do, George, if that cad Ragsbot tends me a present? "It would be like him If he did," I said. "I fancy he wflL" "I can't go and 'kick him,", said my uncle.- i lDecttaed with thanks," I W geeted, "owing to pressure of other matter."- ' ' . "You are getting shoppy, ueorge, saia my uncie, in as near an approach to a querulous tone I hsre heard from hlnf. 'You are getting' married," Ire- plied, with the 'complacency of one whose troubles are over. "But it's a horrible nuisance, anyhow. StUL the world grows wiser, and the bur den is not quite so bad as it, used to be. A hundred years bene 'Td be willing enough to wait. said my unci "but I'm not the only party lu this affair." Pall Mall Budget. The Enormous)' frocadltore r.erv- resentexl In Artificial Highways. Highest of aSia livening rowe& Latest U. S. GoVt Report n TTT THE CODFEH M1RBLE WOEXS, 111, tlS and 115 Bank Street, ' NORFOLK, VA. LARGE STOCK OT FINISHED Llonumsnts, and Gravestones, Ready for I Timed late Delivery March SI. 1 AM lla Coat Met C Koaaa at w Tork'a Fa BrtcM TTa Haaoai . BJa Brt4 Ttel la m aVe. It has become a custom to SDeak of the present time as the age. of electricity, but I there are good reasons for calling It also the bridge age. Some of the artificial high ways which are now in course of rtfMtatf-rvtlrm rVa V lV I . . V ,. ri. , ii ',11 wtuu arc ill AnrhOW ttls-cjry in cbotemplatlon, and . some of tli iy that-I ,.vonfifr for creatrooes which ham been built In recent years represent an enorm ous expenditure of capital. x ew teople know how srreat the sum of money Is that Is Invested in the bridges which connect Manhat tan Island with the mainland and ith Long Island. When lboee new ones for which charters hare been obtained are . put across the East river, Hell Gate and -.the Hudson river, the bridges of New York will represent an Investment of capital equal to that of the New York Central railroad system, or to the Western Union Telegraph company. Each of these great corporation is capitalized at about a hundred mil lions of dollars. i ' . The suspension brldua over the East river cost fifteen millions, the beautiful Washington bridge oyer the Harlem more than two millions, and the proposed Hudson river bridge will cost about forty mil lions. ; 1 , The two new suspension .brileea to be built over the East river, each larger than the famous bridge that Roebling suspended between New York and Brooklyn, will cost ten millions apiece, and when they and the Hudson river bridge are oom- plttsd, Manhattan Island I will be connected with its outlyiog districts by thirteen artificial highways, each a triumph of engineering science.' These bridges over New York waters illustrate a com pa raUvely small part of the energy, capital and engineering :genhis that are being devoted to bridge construction in the United States. - f Two great bridges are to be built over the, Niagara river, one sear the falls and one connecting the city of Buffalo with the Cavnada short. It is proposed also to oonstrvct mammoth bridge across the Missis sippi near New Orleans, j The science of bridge building was revolutionized when I Roebling planned tha Brooklyn bridge.' His dsrlng amazed the engineers of the world. He had'no previous example on so largv a scale to aid him, and therefore was compelled to rely upon I ."VV - . . ft : PB0HPTLY HONORED. :: ' t ... I A PeTmaTTtranl Boy's Iccsgtaad- - xng u) ffn on a, Cbioago Ttrm. Caataa aa mm 1SSS C4a. : . A due bUl for twenty-five cents against a certain Chicago firm wa collected recently, says the Chicago Tribune. It had been credited to a boy by the firm over fourteen years ago. ' . In the winter of 1380 a Pennsyl vania boy decided to Invest his sav ings in a pair of s kites. He sent a sum'of money to a Chicago firm and received in return the skates and with them a letter, stating that twenty-five cents too moch had been remitted and that the amount was credited to the boy on the books ot the firm. A blue slip of psper was Inclosed which bore the Information that the firm whose signature was attached would Pay to 13 baarw ev orOer t am o - ty Mae. OASs) 4M flearnnil The boy forgot the due bill and wore out and outgrew the skates. But his old mother found the faded paper ia an old jacket-pocket among the fish-hooks, dried worms, dried apples, etc, . and laid It carefully away, saying: ' "I may go to Chicago some day. ' The. boy joined, the busy ranks of msu who gain a livelihood in the picturesque western counties of the itate .by extracting petroleum oil from the bowels of the earth. He reached the years and average size of manhood, little having occurred In the meantime to distinguish him or his life from the ordinary boy or the . average : boyhood. Finally he was induced to study Uw.Ta&inA ri that ha beoama AUoouiavgad aod began to travel. He .went to $t. a I Louis. '.thenc to the Rockies. H 0YERBI0 IRONCLADS. The Oraat Floating Casttea Thew Modern Days. - of -way ta , tArM V.. ills Ara Xet U .Mom EffslT Om. The biggest armorclads la the world are the Italian Italia and Le- ' panto, slater ships, each of 15,900 tons displacement. Next to them come the monster English battle ships of the Royal Sovereign class, vessels of 14,150 tons displacement. These in turn will be surpassed by the Magnificent and the Msjostic, each of which. will displace ,14,900 tons. The largest armorclad over which the French Cag Coats is the Admiral Baudlo, of 11,900 tons, and next to her is the Lara re Carnot, only 80 tons smaller. Germany's largest armorciad is the Branden burg, of 9,840 tons. Austria has never built any, armorclads . save those of moderate dimensions, her largest, the Tegetthoff, being of 7.390 tons. Spain's largest is the relayo, of 9,900 tons. The three United States battle ship of the first class which have been launched are the Massachu setts, Oregon and Indiana, each of 10,2 JO toes displacement. The Iowa, now building, will be of 11.29G tons. There is now a reaction against monster ships. . England Is the only naval power that persists in the pol icy of builuing tLem. and apparently she is nearicg.a halt. The Italians have come to the conclusion that is indicated by the dimensions of their late&t armorciad authorised, which will have 9.W0 tons dLnJicement. The determination of Franco and the United State to keep their bat tleships under 12.000 tons was tie-. Uberately taken l.v each govern ment, after weighing weight against ..I. . . , . a. .11 n augutca on ine snow-ciaa sia er I eniciency. in iii.s r:cv r,.k.il. I '1 TT. '..,., ,1 . T" r . 1 I n. i ...... sw.l . . . n w. vuuvuw. vsi- i suu BKtKs, tuc lairii m urranaor A Costly Bed. (tit I'rot-r.. W.&M1TU. JriawipaU f the COMMERCIAL COLLEGE of KEMTUCKY UNIVERSITY MEOALp ANDJJJPI.OMA ft. tk W.rll'. OslaMblM byaUln. fcr T rf Lr.kKfl aa4 Uask-rsa eTaaUaa. t-J . II i. ...mi rngni IMIIHIBMIM ,.l,Mw. " Adareaa, , at. saiin, miim" . Mexican Liniment for Burns. , Caked & Inflamed Udders. A Bombay man has constructed a bedstead priced at ten thousand rupees.; It has at its four corners four -full-sized gaudily-dressed Grecian, damsels those a"t the head holding banjos, while those on the right and left feet hold fans. Beneath the cot is a musical box,' which ' extends along the whole length of the cot, and ls capable - of playing twelve' different charming airs. Thtmuslo being 'the moment the least 'pressure is brought to bear from the topv which is created by one sleeping-: or. sitting, and ceases the fnoment the Individual rises.- ---'; " ' While the music is in progress the lady ban Joists at the head manipu late the strings with their fingers and move their heads, while the two Grecian damsels at the bottom fan tee sleeper to sleep. . - There is a button at the foot ot the cot, which. after a little pressure, brings about a cessation of the music, if such be' the desire ot the occupant. Evening .Wisconsin. Railroad Building In Corsica. After going about half the dis tance between Corte and Vizzavona, the evidences ' ot the construction of the intermediate sections of the rail road became apparent. The labor ers on the excavations for the bridges and in the heavy cuts were many of Pains, England has been willl be one of the ! secured, so that fiction (most attractive features in the Weeklv Herald durir 1894. In fact, the Weekly Herald wlH be al magazine of the highest order, combined with a complete newspaper. i i i - .! - ' NOW IS THE TIME TO 8UBSCRIBE.' Only $i ,OO a If ear cJknd rob Bamplx Copt.- Address HE WEEKLY HERALD, Hkbald Sqtjabe. I NEW YOi&K. Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as- adminklrator of Gracy C. Btallirgs, dec. ssed, late oi Jfidge combc county, North Carolina. Ibis is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit tbem to the undersigned on or before the lzth day of April, 1895, or this notice will be Dlead in bar ot tbeir recorery. au per- boos indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 12th day of April, 189-1. HENRY JOHNSTON, 7t Adtn'r of Gracy C. Biallinss. Bruises and Strains. " RtTnnfnV Sores, ' ! Inflammations,' Stiff joints, f Harness Saddle Sores, Sclaticar : Lumbar, Scalds, Blisters, : j Insect Bites?. !. . All Cattle ;AiUnents, All Horse Ailments, All Sheep Ailments, i a BVrm wrtnAaw when the flies are them woman, young giris and boys .W.I1, And wriv T" and all. Including the men, carried tt i i ,,tfA,sn the dirt and stone out in basket on .,;rtr:; WV. :h? heads. By thU slow, toilsome AiimiDlstrato -'s Notice, The underBigned having qualified as adm'r of T. B Barlow, deceased, this is to notify aU persons owing the said deceased, to make immediate payment, and all per. sons having claims against the said T. B. Barlow, to present them for paymest within one year from date, or this notice will be p'ead in bar of tbelr recovery. This 3rd day of May, 1894. W. I. BAKLOW, Adm'r. J. L. Bridgers & Son, Att'ys. 6t I said, "for any of it." This sort of talk always Irritates a married man , because it revive his own troubles, j 'It's Just the rule. Surely, if a wife is worth having she is worth being ridiculous fori . You "ought, to ,t Jolly glad you don't hart to wear ia fool's cap and paint your nose red.. IJore precious than rubies' "Don't," he said. "It must be these tradesmen," be began bitterly, after, an interval.' Someone must be responsible, and it's just their way; Do you know, Georra. I sometimes fancy that they have hypnotised womankind Into the belief that aU 4hw iram!orta-' bie things are holilyjiecessary to a valid marriageJust a.. they have persuaded the .landlady class - . ... a. aW that no house is compwta wtinou method Is all this work done, and It appeared to me that the work would be interminable, but I was told that the contractors were under heavy bonds to complete the road in the time contracted for.. and that It would certainly be accomplished. Charles u. Adams, la the Century, theoretical demonstrations. Yet after eleven years of use It has been found that Roebling mis calculated i In no detail, however smalL Ths science ot bridge bulli ng ha advanced so greatly since Roebling in his closet thought out the principle upon which the Brook- yn Suspension bridge should - be built, that It I now possible to build colossal structures much more rali- y than the Brooklyn . bridge was built, ard at grestly reduced cost. The Hudson" river bridge can be built, the engineers say, In five Tears, although It required nearly twenty years to construct , the Brooklyn . bridge. Moreover, sl- though it is -to be i three times as loagjaa .the Brooklyn, bridge, its estimated cost, la only- a in tie more than, half as much again as was the expense of constructing the Brook lyn bridge. Youth's Companion. . I , . . Ths American Florists. The bill for the Incorporation of the American Society of TlorLsts passed by the recent congress pro vides for an organisation with a charter membership extending from Washington and Philadelphia to St. Louis. Its sole purpose is to prop agate and spread fhelnterest In hor ticulture and'.adtance the science. The measure owes Its origin to Wil liam R Smith, superintendent of the Botanlo gardens, who has been for forty years in carge of the flower department ot the government. Mr. Smith is the possessor of the best and most extensive library on horti culture, botany, etc, in the United States, embracing several thousand volumes, and It is his desire to see an organ Ltatlon of floristf formed to which be can donate his books. The bill passed , the senate by a unani mous vote in the last congress? but was never called up In the house. It was introduced by Air. Hatch, In this r-olk-v Russia Carbonate hill. tie In the valley ot the Arkansas. ran a faro bank in Salt L&ke Crtyf pumped water out of a silver mine in Leadville. and nearly died ot ty phoid fever la Pueblo. He return ed to Pennsylvania, where his old mother nursed him back to life and health and gave him money enough to go to Ohio and start anew, lis labored one long year for tha Stan dard OU company la the swamp of Wood county. At the end of the year he bad cue suit of clothes, faa bLTltletto the amount ol four hun dred dollars, malaria and rheuma tism, xerar and agusL Then he sttd- led msdislni for three : years and worked one year - at night-watch in a lunatic asylum. Finally he drift ed Into Chicago and the newspaper business. , . In ths course of time his mother wrote she was comlpg to visit her boy. Then she went to ths china closet In the corner and took from ths top shelf ths yellow sugar bowl with gilt stripes and from it the blue slip of paper placed there by her own hand fourteen years befort. 6he collected the money, which was given her in the shspe of a twenty-flve-cent piece bearing tha date 1823. She placed the bright coin in her wandering boy's hand. The Engineer's Dog. No Accounting for Tastes. A dentist died in a rural town in England a few days ago, after spend- but tbe absence of that gen Us ing over nity years in puumg ine ,1 p by Representative x orman, ox xiiincns, auu paueu. molars of -hie- lllow-ei vixens. He 4iad mad It a hobby to keep all the teeth -. which - he had drawn In the course ot his professional career, and took great pride In the collection. v nen nia wtu was opened it was -found , that 'he had ordered the col lection, of - teeth to be placed with His Penetrates Muscle. j m iu mirror over "the fireplace: and a him In huusoffln for ' burlaL Hit Membrane dTls .;:hirg tumtA his command, and al Quickly to the Very Seat of Pain and OusteitinaJiffy. Rub in Vigorously. Mustang Liniment conquers Pain, j Makes flan or Beast wall . stfaia. strong flavor ox .j mesmeno sug gestion about a woman's attitude toward these matters,' considered in the lurht of her customary common sense. ' Do you -know, George, I really believe there is aseoret socie ty of tradesmen, a kind, of -priesthood, who get hold of our woman kind and muddle them- up. with all these fancies. It's a sort , of white magic -;"Have you : vor-"beeis in a draper's hopV George T" ' 'Never," ! said; "I always wait outside." ; most thirty thousand teeth were put into aa cofnaith the dead dentist. It soirnr archaeologist ct-a future centuTytahsirhsppa 16 open that grave ha wlu hava ''Xood for thought' afid-Some1 dHaculty-perhaps in ex plaming'the presence of so many teeth. - ;s : ... . Slsmese vYTvss. In Slam", tha' first wife may be divorced, .but cannot be sold. The other wives msv be divorced and fold.' of Chicago Post. The OsepTOsep 6e. It Is a remarkable fact that the deepest parts of the sea are iojeU case very ; near the land. Tha desroest sounding known. 4.6CS fathoms, or S7,930leet. was obtained 110 miles from the Kuril lalaf.di the next deepest. 4,(61 fathoms-, was found seventy miles trtk ol Porto Rico. With a few xcepUon like these the depth of ths ooean as far as now known does to fach! The Korth Paclflo has 4 mean dspth ll i,50d fathoms, the South Paclio of 1,400, tht Indian oceaa d 1,006, and ths Atlantic, by fay the best. vestfeled poean, has a mean depth' of fatfeoms There is an engineer out on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad who is the owner ot a dog which Unpos sessed of a good deal more than the average amount of canine intelli gence. This dog Is a bright little water spaniel, and ha been accus tomed to ride with his master on the engine since he was a puppy. He goes to the roundhouse about the time for his master's train to be made up, and mount his own en gine, having no dlSculty in picking it out from twenty or more engines standing. in the rosndhouse. He rides on the fireman's side of the cab, with his head and paws both hanging out of the window, Intently watching the track. He often scents cattle at a long distance. When they appear in sight, he becomes greatly excited and barks furiously, looks first at them and then at his master, as though trying to make him understand the gravity of .the situation. On a nearer approach to 1 them be become almost frantic, and ! if It become necessary to come to a full atop, he bounds out ot th cab, and running ahead drives the tres passers out ot harm's wsr. He Is well known to -all -the railroad men along the line, and if by chance be gets left at any station, he In variably board the first train for home, wtarre he patiently await ths return of his master. St. Louis G lobe-Democrat. Heads and feoceanuts. A curious artifice was adopted by a Chinese slav ship when attacked by a man-of-waxv The crew threw cocoannts overboard Into the sea. and then Jumped in among thera, Nearly all escaped, for it was ta postlble to tell which were bead and which were nut. - dads in service I. ?:? the Geonri Pobiedonoseix, of lO.iV-u ton, while her naval contractors narJ 12,000 toes as about the prp-r limit. Of the cruisers now afloat the Russian Rurik is tic largest and probably, ta?.ng all things into con sideration, the most powerful. She b armor belted, and Is ct 10,909 tons displacement, almost 2,0 tons larger than the Blake. The English have authorized two cruisers of 14,000 ton each, being determined to seo the Rurik and go her 8,100 tons better. As in the case of the armorclads, England stands alone In accepting this challenge. Her Blake and Blenheim are not only ex ceeded by the Rurik, but by the Spanish .Emperador Carlos Y., which has 9,233 tens displacement. -The largest French cruiser In active service is the DXntrecaatcaux, of 7,900 tons, but the Jeanne d'Arc is being enlarged to a .total displace ment of 8,700 tons. The largest cruiser class of the Italian service either afloat or authorized, displace 6.S00 tons each, which is 4j0 tool more than Ger- maoy's leader, the Kalserin Au gusta. The largest of our cruisers -afloat is the New York, of 8,150 tons, while the Brooklyn, building, will be 1,000 tons larger. --Boston Transcript. - r The World's Coppee Product. The production of copper through out the world In 1833 was, according to the technical organ, Inventions NouveHes, 17,SoO tons for Germany, 1C0 tons for the Argentine Republic, 1,423 for Austria-Hungary, 7.500 for Australia, 2.S00 for Bolivia, 4,000 for Canada, 6,090 for Cape Colony, 64,270 for Spain and rortegal. H7, 210 for the United Statm. 21,250 for Chill, 400 for England; 2,040 for Newfoundland, S.500 for Italy, 13,. 000 for Japan, 8,430 for, Mexico, 400 for Peru, 6,000 for Russia. 7J0 for Sweden and 2,830 for Venezuela. This makes a total of 303,973 toss, against 310.843 In 102, 279.431 in 1S31 and 2C9.C30 in 1&0. The average prioo per tun was 1,093 francs in 1503, 1,130 in 132, 1,277 in 1S91 and 1,133 in 1K0. OwpUTs Telegraph. A conductor CZ the Consolidated railroad discovered an Ingenious caso of copld's telegram recently He was telling about it. A certain young man belonging in Hartford visits a young lady In a suburban town almost every nii'bt. He come hom on the last train and always sits la the smoking car. The con ductor noticed for awhile that the young man got on the train at the way station and lighted a cigar. The train Tassses near the house ot the young man's iwcetheart- r Only the other night the conduct- no- tleed a light waved twice In an up per window of the hoase. He no ticed the young man, too, and was amused to see that ho had just lighted a match for bis cigar and was waving It twice close to the window, returning the slgrfaJ irora 1 the house. Hartfurd rest. . . . t . -. 1 M i i ! 1 1 ! I li 'H li ! A 1;