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line, V.ia42 poles to a black oak, S.I60 poles
to a cthut, W. 4-0. poles to a chestnut, S.
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in said lirle, then S. to a black oak. hickory
and pii n N bank Silver creek; then down
channel of sard creek, rather east of north,
loc) polL-s ;tf a hiekory or the centre of creek
at the;rhonth.pf Kennedy's Fork; then down
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"If any one doubts that the earth was
once a molten mass and that its moun
tain chains, its great tablelands and the
recesses for the seas were the results of
the cooling and settling of the surface
and then its shriveling to fit the ever
shrinking center, let him see a world
made," said the observant Jerseyman.
"That sounds; simple," said one of
his hearers, "but I haven't noticed that
there were any worlds being made just
now upon which progress was any faster
than right here, and I can't say. that I
have observed much change in this old
globe since I began to watch it. "
, I have made many globes, " declared
the Jerseyman, ' 'not merely insensate
things to represent what we know of the
natural and political divisions of the
earth, but miniature worlds of the days
of chaos, with every particle in them
aglow with heat and all in motion.
And then I have watched them become
cold, immobile and dead, with black
ened, roughened surfaces, and it requir
ed no great stretch of imagination to
feel that within the few moments which
the whole operation required one had
bridged over millions of years in the
history of a planet and seen it pass
through every stage of its existence,
from that of a light giving body to that
of our own dead and desolate moon.
Come with me," he continued, "and I
will show you the history of our world
since it first took form. "
. With that he led his little audience to
a workbench and drew forth a chunk
of charcoal "covered on all but one side
with plaster of paris, a blowpipe and a
jeweler's soldering lamp.
"I will make the globe of a dime,"
he said. And he placed a silver 10 cent
piece on the charcoal. Then' he lit the
lamp, and with the blowpipe directed
the flame upon the dime. Soon the char
coal began to glow and burn away' about
the dime in a broad hollow, and then
the dime turned first black and then
red, and aa it approached a white heat
it drew itself together until presently it
was a globule of molten silver.
If you have never seen such a ball of
glowing,! melted silver, you have missed
one of the prettiest of sights. On the
outside there forms a very thin skin of
black oxide, whioh serves, like a wom
an's veil, to heighten the charms be
neath it.. With the blowpipe stUI adding
heat to the globe, the silver became as
liquid as water, and the gases emitted
by the heated charcoal made it roll'
about in the hoUow as mobile as quick
silver,! while within the tflobe the metal
-could be seen agitated by intense cur
rents. These currents changed their di
rection as the point of fltme from the
blowpipe was moved from point ,to
point, and every moment the surface
agitation was so great that the rest of
the oride -would break and disclose, the
dazzling metal beneath.
All know the beauty of quicksilver,
and many have seen the glow of melted
lead or tin or the red glare of iron as it
was poured in the foundry or furnace,
but none of these compares with the
beauty of molten silver. Melted gold
has a beauty of its own, but not like
that of silver. The light which comes
from the melted sUver seems as brilliant
as that from an arc electric light, but
not dazzling; it is whitef with a tinge
of heavenly violet, and the swirling
metal seems translucent like a pearl of
the finest water.
"Now we will let it cool, " said the"
Jerseyman, removing )the blowpipe from
his lips and letting his inflated cheeks
resume their natural condition. The
charcoal was placed on the bench. Soon
the agitation of the surface of the tiny
globe of silver ooased, and the quiescence
of the dull outer coating showed that a
skin of metal had cooled and set in
place. - - -
"Now watch the mountains and valjj
leys form and see the mighty earth
quakes shake the crust," exclaimed the
Jerseyman, and as he spoke the crust,
which had been smooth and even, began
to. wrinkle. Sometimes the wrinkles
would form long continuous lines across
half the globe. Then in spots the whole
"surface would pucker up and again all
of these would straighten out only to
f orm new series of puckers and wrinkles
in other places. It was all over in half
a minute, and the globe vjas set enough
to drop into a glass of water to cool.
"Now look at it," said the Jersey
man, handing the globe ; to his visitors
and with it a strong magnifying glass.
"There is a skimmer' of 'water .oir it,
caught in the interstices of the rough
ened surface. That is three four
times as much water in proportion as
our earth has on it, so you have before
you all the features of sea and land,
mountain and valley. " ,
It was' indeed so, and, although the
-glass revealed' Only the more prominent
of the features, there was no difficulty
in seeing all the others with the mind's
eye. New York Sun.
lavish With Telegrams.
"Sending a telegram," says a Phila
delphia telegraph man, "is serious busi
ness for the ordinary man or woman.
JThey think it's expensive and only nse
the wires when thev have to. There's
one exception, however, and a kind of
complimentary business that most peo
ple would never suspect. Whenever
there's a Hebrew wedding that is, one
of any importance we handle scores of
congratulations, hundreds : sometimes,
from all parts of the country. They are
sent with directions to deliver at a cer
tain hour, and we generally send them
all to the house or the place where the
reception is held in one bunch. It's a
good thing for . the company, for the
senders don't count the words and file
their telegrams without any revision.
Sometimes the7 run up to 100 or 160
words."
A CITY OF THE DEAD, chivalry and matrimony. kangaroo hunting.
But It Wasn't Her Papa Calling, Only the
Brakeman of the Railroad Car. !
She occupied the seat directly in front
of me on a Central Railroad of New Jer
sey train from New York the other
night. She was a plump girl, with au
burn hair and hazel eyes. She was evi
dently a girl employed in New York
perhaps a typewriter. Her name is
Elizabethi How do I know? Well, I
didn't askj her. I never saw her before, '
no one called her by name and she had
nothing about her that served to toll me
that her name is Elizabeth. Yet her
name is Elizabeth. - I i
I am not the seventh son of a seventh
son, neither do I possess the power of
second sight, But I found out that the
name of the plump, rosy cheeked young
miss in the seat in front of me is Eliza
beth. Before we had gone many miles
out of Jersey City the "sand man" be
gan to play havoc with Elizabeth. Her
eyes became heavy, and every few sec
onds her head would drop. Before we
had crossed Newark bay Elizabeth was
sound asleep. The train sped on, and
,when the speed was slackened the brake-
.man opened tne floor ana snouted:
"Elizabeth! E-lizabeth! i 'LdVbeth!"
With the first word the girl began to
move. - When the brakeman shouted
'E-lizabethl" the eyes were half open
ed, and when he finally called " 'Liz'
beth!" she rubbed lier eyes and ! said,
"Yes, papa, I'll get up." Through the
cars ran the sound of suppressed laugh
ter. But the girl had fallen asleep again,
and when the train stopped and the
brakeman again called out "Elizabeth!
Elizabeth!" the pkimp girl jumped up
and said, "All right; I'm coming,"
This was too much for the harebrained
dude across the aisle, and he began to
"Ha, ha!" while the gipgling maidens
several seats iii front began to; giggle
more furiously.
PERE LA CHAISE, THE GREAT AND
BEAUTIFUL CEMETERY OF PARIS.
Tim
lea Daya
It Contain 96,000 Mausoleums and Hon
nments The Last Resting Place of Many
Whose flames Live In History A Bat
tlefield lb the Days of the Commune. .
Pere la Chaise, so called after Louis
2QV's confessor, who had his residence
on the hill long ago, covers 106 1-2 acres
and is laid out, like a miniature city,
in nearly 150 streets or avenues and lit
tle paths. Bordering these are 96,000
mausoleums and monuments of every
description, from the most magnificent
tombs to the most unpretending urns.
Each little house has its family name
above the door, and few are ever with
out some fresh tokens of loving remembrance.
The French may not be a deeply re
ligious nation, but they certainly do not
lack personal affection and respect, and
this is strikingly shown in their devo
tion to the memory of their dead. Orna
mental wreaths made of beads or tin,
black, white and colored, many of them
with appropriate mottoes, were piled or
hung upon the monuments.
Entering one of the main streets and
walking up the hill, we were 'soon in a
labyrinth of tombs. Inside of one little
house, which had a glass door, there was
a shelf built of marble, upon which
stood a framed photograph of a man.
On each side were vases filled with
white lilacs, and underneath was stretch
ed a white ribbon, and letters in gold
upon it told that this was an offering
from his sorrowful schoolmates. Three
columns rising from one pedestal and
resembling some fragment of a Roman
ruin stood to commemorate three broth
ers who had wished to be lard together.
Even the sedate looking I Many monuments were" like obelisks or
1 i 1 1 1 .
old gentleman seated near by could not
suppress a smile. i By this tflne the girl
was wide awake, and that she was con
scious of what she had done was evident
by the fact that her naturally red cheeks
became redder stiil, and I even imagined
that I saw tears in her eyes. H ; j
That is how I found out that her
name is Elizabeth. Gerald Gray, in
Allentown Call
IN HOLLAND.
Some Cariosities of Etiqnette In Vac Neth
erlands. !
An unmarried girl in Holland always
takes the right arm Of her escort, while -j famous names brgan to claim our inter
the married me selects the left side of .et- Here lay Moliere and further on
ner nusuana. oo aeepiy nas tnis custom i a ifrpH 0 rupt rh rrreat noptn.
in other ' Epyptian forms, showing the
influence upon the f r.shion of the time
of Napoleon's eastern campaign. One
large column with a broken shaft stood
alone in an open space upon a raised
platform and attricted our attention be
cause of the great number of wreaths
and flowers piled high upon it. This
was a monument to those whose burial
places were unknown, whose deaths
were shrouded in mystery, and whose
mourners come here to pray and weep.
As we looked .a poor woman with a
child by one hand added her little spray
of chrysanthemums to the gay but pa
thetic heap. Soon familiar and world
entered into the life of Hollanders that
at a wedding the bride enters the church
on the right side of the groom, the
young wife returning on the left side of
her husband when the ceremony has
been performed. No unmarried lady in
this country ' can dream of going . to
church, a concert or any other place of
public assemblage without the escort of
parents or male members of the family.
She ennnot take a walk, pay a visit or
go shopping unaccompanied by her
mother or some married lady friend.
The Holland young lady does not go
to the theater with the gentleman who
has been introduced to her a week be
fore, neither does she vary j her beau to
suit her dress or complexion. Unmarried
daughters are chaperoned to all places
of amusement. Even dancing parties are
interspersed wi,th songs, recitations,
etc. , for the amusement of elders of the
family who sit around tables socially
sipping their coffee, wine or other favor
ed beverage, while the young members
glide over tha.waxed floors T to the fitful
strains of music. Here the young must
make the best of their opportunities, for
when it pleases the parents rto seek the
quit solace of the house the daughters
also quit the gayety of the ballroom.
Philadelphia Times.
The Red Rocks.- 9
In sight of the Erie tracks, between
Susquehanna and Great Bend, are the
Red rocks, a red cliff standing above
the Susquehanna river. Near them can
be seen traces of the grave of a beauti
ful Indian maiden, the daughter of a
famous chief. . She was betrothed to a
young brave, a member of her father's
tribe, then encamped near here. ' Her fa
ther desired her to marry the son of the
chief of the neighboring tribe, and the
wish of the paternal ancestor usually
counted for something. f j
. In consequence she resolved to fly to
the." happy hunting grounds," and one
night she stole noiselessly from her wig
wam, and, with the death song upon
her lips, flung herself from the high
cliff, her life's blood staining the rocks
below. And to this day they have retain
ed the reddish hue which the rains and
floods of a century have failed to efface.
When the maiden's lover saw her
mangled corpse, he retired to a cave in
the mountains and never again was se-en
alive. Forty years later his petrified
body was found in the cave by a wan
dering remnant of the tribe. Under his
body were found the long raven tresses
of the old chief's daughter. New xork
Press.? ; . , I
. ' His Opportunity. j j
Fuddy There seems to have been
quite a change come over Blow ser They
say he gets up .to speak almost every
evening at the revival meetings : in the
Beulah street church. i 5 I
Duddy Yes, it gives him an oppor
tunity of calling people names.; Itf is
some satisfaction to him to be able to
call folks sinners. And, then, you know,
t isn't actionable, as "thieves" and
'rascals" would be. But you make a
Jiistake when you think that a change
of heart has made any perceptible
change in Blowser himself. Boston
Transcript. , -
i The fortifications of Vicksburg, At-'
lanta and other points in the south were
of earthworks, hastily constructed,
though the positions chosen were gener
I ally of great natural strength. j .
Raphael is said to have conceived, in
dreams, the ideas of some of his great
est pictures. ;
Chopin's last resting place marked by a
beautiful figure. Lafontaine, with a
little fox appropriately crowning his
sepuleherfor" who can mention him
without thinking of the sly puss that
got the crow's dinner? Balzac, the nov
elist Cherubini, the composer, and
many other famous painters, authors
and musicians. Then the brave men
who fought for France Marshal Ney,
Napoleon's right hand man, who lies in
a little inclosed lot filled with shrubs
and flowers, Lutwith no monument, for
when he died his enemies were in power
and would allow rnuo to be erected, and
now its absence and the simple grave
speak more eloquently than could the
finest tomb.
Near by lies poor Villeneuve, who
lost at Trafalgar and in consequence of
Napoleon's disjlea.ure received such a
hUrsh repulse, when he re turned to Paris
that he ran a needle through his broken
heart. Just across the way from him is
Parmentier, the agriculturist. He was
the man vho with the utmost difficulty
convinced the dainty French that the
potato was worth cultivating and eat
in g. They say that Marie Antoinette
helped him to attain this end by wear
ing potato blossoms with her beautiful
ball gowns. However true this may be,
certain it is that the vegetable is planted
every year around the good man's tomb.
inere is one toniD whicn every one is
sure to visit at Pere la Chaise, and this
is the grave of Abelard and Heloige, the
grave that has been the subject of so
many songs and verses, and where lov
ers come to plight their vows and pledge
their faithfulness. Very romantic it
must be, too, on a moonlight evening,
with the pale rays falling on the stone
figures lying peacefully Bide by" side,
with folded hands, under the canopy of
early Gothic style, with queer gargoyles
a4 each corner. The story of the lovers
is well known. They had many trials
and tribulations, but at last they rest
together, according to Heloise's '. last
wish that Ehe might be reunited to her
idol. Through tho tombs and trees we
went higher and higher, until we came
out upon a wide terrace and Paris burst
upon our view. Paris, sparkling in tho
euuliglit, spread before us in a glittering
panorama, an immense expanse of white
bmiamgs with domes, towers, spires
and bridges, and the Eiffel tower rising
like a gaunt skeleton amid the feast of
beautiful architecture. No wonder that
the mutineers of the commune appreci
ated the fine advantages of position af
forded by Pere la Chaise. Here they in
trenched themselves and transformed
the quiet oemetery into a noisy camp.
Here they met the fire from the govern
ment positions, until finally they were
overpowered by troops which scaled the
heights, and the terrible slaughter took
place wh6n thousanda of the communists
fell among the sepulchers. Some poor
wretches tried to hide in the toflibs, and
the merciless soldiers closed them up
fast, so that to this day skeletons of their
victims are found in their ghastly pris
ons. Paris Cor. New York Observer.
Honored Notions of Old
Which Don't Stand tho Test.
We all want to consider the days of
chivalry as the golden days never to
be recalled for womankind. This ia by
implication a rank injustice to our own
time. -
With all its fine expressions of ardent
devotion to the fair sex and the multi
tude of its exquisite pretensions, chival
ry was the degradation of the highest
and tenderest human instincts the ver
itable curso of the course of true love.
Such a statement presents itself to the
romantic believer as a terrible counter
blast, but it is true, nevertheless. The
records of the treasury and the law
courts of those days, in furnishing the
experience of popular life deeply marked
by the worst shades of modern short
comings, provide the fullest p-oof.
Chivalry did not make marriages, at
least in the sense of those born of love's
young dream; it entirely ignored all
frvrcl affections and sold its victims
with ruthless indifference to all mutu
ality. ; "
There were not two parties to its bar
gains. There was only one, who was al
ways the third of the group and the one
interested, not in satisfying the yearn
ings of the impassioned, but in a pecun
iary sense of tbeir value. ' He was the
vender and might be either king or
baron. But whichever he was, he was
the incarnation of unscrupulous power.
The matrimonial transactions of chiv
alry were mercenary. To them there
were no "contracting parties" in the
shape of whispering lovers, ardent
swains and coy maidens. On the other
hand, there was but sullen indifference
or hating compliance. Chivalry canted
about its faith in women and the purity
of its own motives, because it could not
sing of love. It may be said that it so
canted because it knew it must cant. '
It knew that its marriages had not
been made in heaven and of ethereal
sentiment. They were coarsely bargain
ed for, either in the king's exchequer or
in the open market place. Chivalry knew
itself as a social falsity and the parent
of lust. As a consequence tho "lower
orders" have had to give us the nomen
clature of our love affairs. Chaucer, the
very mirror of the era of chivalry, has
typified lust with his master hand.
but he has no picture of the gratified
tenderness of longing youth. In his sur
roundings it was not suffered to exist. '
These surroundings had no terms to
enumerate the ardent swains and coy
maidens of rusticity. But if the aris
tocracy can produce no one instance of
the coy maiden, and the rustic sweet
heart remains to mock the dubious
fiancee, it has a . wealth of the arts of
diplomacy, and an inexhaustible list of
the terms of intrigue. Chivalry gave ex
pression to the word" maitresse," which
may have and had the funniest of mean
ings. New York Herald.
. Old People.. ..."
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the trueremedy in Electric Bit
ters. This' medicine does not stimulate
and contains no whiskey nor other in-"
toxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative.-
It acts mildly on the stomach
and bowels, adding strength and giv
ing tone to the organs, thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the func
tions.' Electric Bitters is an excellent
appetizer and aids digestion. Old Peo
ple hud it just exactly wnat tney neea.
Price fifty cents and $1.00 per bottle at
John Tull's Drugstore.
CThe Herald office for Job
Work. i
The Wine of Card at Treatment
male Diseases.
of
Ft-
Any afflicted woman can adopt this
simple "Home Treatment" without
submitting to an humiliating examina
tion or consulting a doctor.
". COST OF TREATMENT. i '
1 Bottle McElree's Wine of Cardui, S1.00
1 Package Thedford's Black- i
Draught . . . - . . . .25
Total cost
81.25
Public libraries spend vast Bums of
money to make their collections com
plete. In the Boston Public Library is
ICS) WllVWblVU . V. V n.E ava.aaa
Shakespeare which ost $50,000. i j
In a Harry.
Doctor How is your brother, Miss
Cynthia?
Aunt Cynthia He's worse this morn-!
ing, doctor a lot worse.
Doctor Did you give him that medi
cine as I directed a -teaspoonful every
hotr?
Aunt Cynthia No, doctor. I just
gave him the whole bottle at once. He
wanted to hurry up and get well, so's
to go to the pantomime tonight Strand
Magazine.
Anecdote of General Grant,
General Grant, on his return to this
country, is said to have been' severely
afflicted with a couch, contracted
while crossine the ocean, and which
had stubbornly refused to yield to any
treatment. A friend procured for him
a bottle of Symphyx, and by its use he
was in a few hours entirely relieved.
He remarked to his friend : "Men look
upon me as a great soldier,- but this
bottle of Svmphyx is greater than I.
My calling has been to destroy men s
lives, but this medicine is a victorious,
saviour of men. I shall never be with
out it again." . j
HThe Herald office for Job
Work. ,
-Decline of the Leech Trade.
The medicative leech is now practi
cally a thing of the past The falling
off in the demand for leeches by the
medical profession is quite astonishing,
as may be judged from the fact that in
the year 1845 the two largest hospitals
in London called for about 50,000 of
them, whereas now these institutions
order only 50 or 100 leeches at irregular
and infrequent intervals.
Wc acp informed by well known leech
importers that the trade in leeches has
been subject to such fierce, competition
that the "price has been troupht down
almost to nil. Tho quotation for a sin
gle hundred leeches at the present mo
ment is fixed at a rate which is little
more than half what the great hospitals
paid for their enormous leech supplies
in 1845.
At that time the importation of
leeches was carried on by moans of sail
ing boats plying to and from Smyrna;
but, owing to tho difficulties of transfer
and the irregular arrival of the boats,
many attempts were made to conserve
and breed leeches in England. ; One en
terprising man established three ponds
"on his own" at the top of Brixton hill
and used to disposo of many thousands
of leeches weekly. His successors, how
ever our informants have a gross an
nual output of only 40,000, not a tithe
of the business done half a century ago
Assuredly the leech has seen his best
days. With the old regime, when cup
ping and bleeding were the sheet an
chors of surgery, the leech all but disap
peared. So constant was his ' employ
ment in mediaeval times that his name
furnished a synonym for the medical
profession, and the doctor came to be
known impolitely as "the leech," per
haps a subtle allusion to the rapacity for
fees which characterized the profession
in those .times.
1 At present the Hungarian speckled
leech is most in request. It is unsafe to
use tho leeches found in some of our
ponds in England, for their bite is dan
gerous, otten giving rise to Diood poison
ing. Household Words.
The Clerk Faid It. ! .
During Andrew Jackson's presidency
a certain clerk in the treasury depart
ment showed a marked disinclination
to paying his board bill He had signed
notes, but his landlady could collect no
money. In despair she went to the
White House to Bee Jackson. She told
her story, and he requested her to get
the clerk's note for the account. . She
obeyed And carired the note to Andrew
Jackson, who, after glancing over it,
affixed his signature to the back. "Now,
madam," said he, "put that in the
bank, and we shall see which of us shall
have to pay you the money. " The note
was duly deposited and was paid by the
clerk, who afterward apologized to
Jackson and promised to mend his ways.
Exchange. j
Riding to Hesadt After the Kimble Brats
In Aeatralin,
There are twoway3t-f hrxtingkanga--roos
in Australia one followed by na
tive hunters and Ihe other by white
men. The natives rxrrr vA a herd of
the animals, narrow tl:c cirrrlc and then,
when the kangaroos i'alj at them in
wild efforts to escape, kill lb m with
short spearr andcltls, cfmmonly called
waddies. It is lively wtik for the native.
The kangaroo uses its hind legs viciously
and with great judgment, and dogs,
horses and men have been torn open by
the nails of its hind feet
The white men prefer to follow the
kangaroos with dogs. Every herd of
kangaroos has a leader, known as the
old man, or boomer, which warns its
followers of the apxroach of danger ty
stamping the ground with its hind foot.
making a booming sound that starts all
the kangaroos in hearing on a rani A
scared herd will run 20 or 80 miles at
times, or until it reaches safety. A
male weighs from 100 to 175 pounds
and is 7 or 8 feet long; The English
make up parties of hunters and follow
the kangaroo with dogs somewhat like
foxhounds, but of greater size and
strength. Women and men join in the
sport, riding to the hounds on good
horses.
"Riding to tho place where a herd of
the beasts had been seen the day before
by bushmen," a Sportsmen's Magazine
wnter says, "we came to the bush, a
growth of ubiquitous ti trees and tree
ferns, fit to brush one off his horse.
Quiet was the word of caution passed
when we came near the sparsely grown
ground beyond the bush where th kan
garoos had been seen. The dogs were
called in, and then we rode from the
bush into view of the herd's sentinel,
and then away went the kangaroos, fol
lowed by the dogs, and we were at the
tail tips of the dogs. The kangaroos
could not run; but, folding their forelegs
across their breasts, they sat down.
Then, with tail and hind legs, away
they went by hops, no hop being less
than 20 feet long and others being more
than 80 feet - They cleared shrubs 12
feet high.
"Curiously enough, the kangaroo
travels faster up hill than down, the
dogs catching up on the down slopes.
Tho beast sometimes breaks its neck
while running down hill by going head
over heels. The does began to throw
their young out of their pouches, and
we knew they were hard pressed. They
turned suddenly for the water. We
found the dogs at a water hole with two
boomers At bay. We dismounted and,
drawing our knives, waited an orjor
t unity to run in and hamstring them.
A trtg rushed in and was caught by a
hind leg of a boomer and pressed under
water, where it was quickly drowned.
Then a dog got one of the' beasts by the
back and threw it, whereupon my cousin
quickly hamstrung it, while I rapped its
nose with my whip, killing it We had
kangaroo tail soup and steaks for dinner
for several days. "
REVENGE ON A SNOB.
GETTING EVEN WITH A NEIGHBOR
WHO PUT ON AIRS.
The Man Who Mado His Money Had a
Grade Against tho On Who I ah riled
Wealth A Patent Medicine aad the Bill
poster Did tho Trick.
WROUGHT IRON FAD.
It Had a Beginning- Ia Germany In the
Middle Age.
There is no doubt that wrought iron
is more and more used every year in do
mestic economy and decoration. De
servedly so. There is nothing that lends
itself so easily to the requirements of
both utility and art. Besides, it has an
ancient and respectable history.
Germany in the fifteenth century pro
duced much wrought iron work of a
rather Fpecial character, such as the
grave crosses and sepulchral monuments
to be seen in the cemeteries of Nurem
berg. Iron was also employed for well
canopies, such as that at Antwerp at
tributed to Quentin Matsys. Originally
a blacksmith from Louvain, he came to
Antwerp to seek his fortune. There, as
the story roes, he fell in love with the
daughter of a painter, and, to propitiate
the daughter as well as her father, ex
changed the anvil for the painter's pa
lette, and I ef ore his death, in 1531, he
was successful in helping to raise the
school of Antwerp to .a celebrity equal
to that of the schools of Bruges and
Ghent
Ironwork was extensively produced
at Augsburg under the fostering care
of the Fugger family, taking the shape
of brackets projecting from the walls
and grills over fanlights or in a balcony.
Grotesque knockers are also common in
Nuremberg. Keys were sometimes elab
orately decorated, and the part which
is now a common ring was once occupied
by little figures in full relief, with coats
of arms and the like. The French revo
lution was the cause of much splendid
ironwork being destroyed, when, in
1793, certain provinces had to gather
together evt ry available piece of iron
to transform into pikes and other weap
ons."' New York Herald. j
A Pertinent Rejoinder.
"I always try to make as many
friends as possible," said the woman
who gossips. j
! "Of course," replied Miss Cayenne.
"If one had no friends, how could one
discuss their private affairs?" Wash
ington Star.
i The little daughter of Mr. Fred Web
ber, Holland. Mass.. had a very bad
cold and cough which he had not been
able to cure with" anything, ' I gave
him a 25 cent bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy, says WV P.i Holden,
merchant and postmaster at West
Brimfield. and the next time I saw him
he said it worked like a charm. This
remedy is intended especially for acute
throat and lung diseases such as colds,
croup and whooping cough, and it is
famous for its cures. There is no
danger in giving it to children for it
contains nothing injurious. For sale by
W. A. Leslie & Co. I
. P-pe and Soldier.
The pope used to be the idol of the
French soldiers during the occupation of
Rome and did not disdain to maintain
with them the intimate relations and
cordiality of a village pastor. Whenever
there was a regiment called home, its
members never failed to visit his holi
ness to obtain his benediction, and the
soldiers were always warmly received.
One day a trooper made a singular and
daring request that the pope would say
a mass for him, for him alone. The
pope consented. "But" said the sol
dier, "I want to be present." "WelL"
answered the pope, ' 'come at 9 tomor
row to my private chapeL No one but
yourself shall be admitted." "Tomor
row," suddenly replied the soldier.
"Tomorrow I've got to go to the station
to see some of the boys off; but the day
after, pope, I'm your man." "Very
well, my son," said the pope with a
smile, "day after tomorrow be it"
New York Tribune. i
This time the drununr(war a travel
ing salesman for a large 'drug firm ia
Philadelphia, and he was, as he put ir,
merely knocking around New York to
see if his goods were a drug in tho mar
ket or not
"The meanest, low down kind of re
venge I ever heard of one man taking
on another," he was saying when the
conversation had got around to the an
ecdotal stage, "was told me the other
day. I won't mention names of persons
or places, for the parties are still living,
but a dozen years ago there was hurled
at the great American public through
the newspapers from every dead wall in
the city and every fence and barnside
in the country, in millions of pamphlets
and pictures, and by every means known
to the skilled advertiser with unlimited
capital, the name and Tirtues of a med
icine that would Cure all the ills that
flesh is heir to, and this valuable truth
was heralded forth with all painful and
realistic details until it actually made
the reader feel as if he needed some of
tho cure all as soon as he could get to it
"In some sections cf the country the
landscape was alive with the glittering
and glaring advertising of this wonder
ful medicament, and-in one particular
city and state it seemed as if every
available inch cf unoccupied territory
was covered with notices of it. Bigger,
too, than the name of this medicine was
the name of this Napoleon of public
benefactors, this healcrcf mankind, the
great discoverer and Black's Whatevt r-it-was,
and Blank's Whatever-it-was
was far more in evidence as Blank's
than as Whatever-it-was.
"In the meantime one man in the city
referred to above was gnashing his teeth
and pulling his hair out by the follicles,
and another man was laughing his lungs
out And why? Because one was the
revenger, and the other was tho re
vengee. .
" "And the nub of it is herein. Blank
was a wealthy man in the city of Name
less, where the ads. ebowed up the thick
est, and he was ultra swell and un
American and looked down upon earned
wealth as compared with the inherited
kind he being an inheritor. He snab-
bed mct of his fellow citizens when he
had the chance, but he was particularly
ready to down Jthe man who was the ar
chitect of his own fortunes. He who
made money was too utterly vulgar for
anything. Across the street from him
lived one of the kind he disliked so heart
ily, and this man was a millionaire and
a gentleman. He had made every cent he
possessed and made, it honestly, and a
snob was one of the objects in life he
was gunning for perpetually.
"And Blank was one he had it in for
more than all the others, for Blank he
had with him always. He didn't know
just how he was going to obtain bis ob
ject in life, but he waited and trusted
in Providence, and one day it came to
him in the shape of a formula offered to
him by a prominent physician who rec
ommended it as very nearly an infalli
ble remedy in certain cases. He listened
quietly, said nothing, took the formula,
made up his mind and one Sunday morn
ing every Sunday mwsraPer n the city
of Nameless ai.d in all the cities in the
United States fairly I Wscinc-d wilh the
circus bill pootcrs of Blank's Wonderful
Whatever-it-was, and Blank woke up to
find himself famous. He tore the car
pets up in his vain pawing to assuage
his wrath, but that did no good, for be
fore the week was out there wasn't a
spot on earth within reach of Blank's
eye that didn't carry the hateful, thing
to glare at him and make his life a
mockery and a bitterness.
"His was a proud name to be thus
dragged through the mire of vulgar
printers' ink, but he had no recourse,
for the other man had found another
Blank, one who wasn't so aristocratic
and was willing to sell his good name
at a fair price to decorate a patent med
icine. It was the same name, yet in law
it wasn't and Blank couldn't do one
earthly thing except groan in spirit and
curse the day that the man across the
street had been born. Once be threat
ened to challenge his tcrmentcr, tut on
second thought concluded that it would
further advertise himself and the medi
cine, so he settled down finally to accept
ing the situation and preserving a digni
fied silence, which he has done to this
day. . .
"Now, just to show how Providence
is always on the side of the right," con
cluded the drummer, "I may say that
the man who risked his money to make
Blank's name a burden to him made
500,000 out of the patent medicine,
and to add somewhat to the romance cf
it he gave 25,000 of his earnings to a
widowed sister of Blank, who had sev
eral children dependent upon her and
had but a small income." New York
Sun.
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Looking Forward.
"When I am rich," he said haughti
ly, "I will return and taunt you with
the opportunity you have missed." "
"When you are rich, she answered
calmly, "I trust you will offer to pay
for the broken leg of that spindle limbed
gilt chair."
And he went forth with a hollow
groan. Cleveland Plain Dealer
Caught on the Fly.
He WelL your sister is married.
Now it's your turn,
Sh'e-Oh, George 1 Ask papa, Boston
Traveller.
Keys are made, to a considerable ex
tent by machinery, special dies for each
variety being employed to cut the
wards so as to fit a particular lock. The
hollow keys, formerly made altogether
by hand, are now in great part manu
factured by a machine.
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Something to IJepead On.
Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones & Son, Cowden. 111., in speaking
of Dr. King's New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe, and her case grew so
serious that physicians at Cowden and
Pana could do nothing for fcer. It
seemed to develop into Hasty Consump
tion. Having ur. Kings New; Lus
coverv in store, and selling lota of it.
betook a bottle home, and to. the sur
prise of all she began to get better from
first dose, and a half dosen bottles
i cured her sound and well. Dr. King's
INew Discovery for Consumption.
Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do
this good work. Try it Free trial
bottles at John Toll's Drugstore. ,
There seems to be no garment cr other
article of wearing apparel pertaining to
woman on which a miniature may not
be appropriately used as a garniture.
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