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Only a Few of Them Left. Prior to 1833 the naturalists ot America knew nothing on the xiphlOid whales except from comparisons and the fossil records of the geological ages. During the year mentioned, however, one of these queer creta cans was stranued upon the sands at Barnwrat City, N. 3. J. H. Itidgeway and his assistants managed to save the specimen, and immediately telegraphed for the oiVeiaU of the National Museum of Washington. They went, of course, and took all the apparatus necessary for preserving such a unique curiosity. Among these Smithsonian worthies were scientists of international reputat on, yet the creature before them could not he assigned to its proper claSs until after thi brain was critically and

scientifically examined this on account of its ran:y. Before removing the tlesh preparatory to "making a skeleton" of the great creature's bones a plaster cast of the exterior was made. After this operation bad been finished in all its minute details the meat was cut away and the bones carefully articulated. A scientific report of the incident, quoted by the St Louis 1 epublic, close as follows: "The xiphioid whales hare a most interesting history. 4 They really telong to the geological ages, and perhaps only a few stragglers are now left in remote quarter of the - globe. It would seem that they are but the surviving relics of a great race, which declined long ages before man appeared upon the earth." I,10 BTS. POTATOES PER ACRE. This astonishing yield was reported by Abr. Hahn. of Wisconsin, but Salter's potatoes always get there. The editor of the Rural New-Yorker reports a yield of 736 bushels and 8 pounds per acre from one of Salzer's early potatoes. Above 1.410 bushels are from Salzer's new seedling Hundredfold. His new early potato, Lightning Express, has a record of 803 bushels per acre. He offers potatoes as low as 12.50 a barrel, and the best potato planter in the world for but 82. If Von WIU Cut This Oat Mid Send It with 6c postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La C'r03se, Wis., you will receive free his mammoth potato catalogue and a package oi sixteen-day "Get There, Eli," radish. "'And what," asked the young woman who is sometimes facetious, ''is the rank of the individual who brings up the rear with a bucket and a tin cup?" "Oh," replied the member of the militia, without hesitation, "he is lemonade de camp." 84 to California. This Is our sleeping car rate on the Phillips-Bock Island Tourist Excursions from Chicago to Los Angeles or San Francisco, via the scenic route and Oeden. You can go with Phillips, the best of all exenrsiou managers, for he has each party accompanied by a special agent who goes tho entire trip with patrons. These personally condneted excursions leave Chicago twice a week. Tuesday and Thursday. We have also a daily tourist car service, via onr Southern route, through the beautiful Indian Territory and Fort Worth to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The tourist car rate via this route, the same. Apply at Bock Island ticket office, 104 Clark street. John Sebastian. O. P. A., C. R. I. i P. By., Chicago. Mother Did you thank the gentleman who carried you across the crowded street? Wee Son I tried to, but I didn't know what to say tne words wouldn't come somehow; but 1 guess it's all right, 'cause my dog wagged bis tail enough for both of us. Asthma Cored By SchUTmann's Asthma Cure. No waiting for results. Its action is immediate, direct and certain. A single trial convinces the moat skeptical. Price 50 cents and $1, of druggists or by mail. Trial package free t y mail. Send your address to Br. K Schiffmann, St. Paul, Minn. Dr. Perkins Sooxover was called on to attend Hostotter McGinnis, who complained of a pain in his chest. "That's dyspepsia you've got. "said the doctor. "What does that come from?" "Dyspepsia? That comes from Greek." SUDDEN CHANGES OF WEATHER cause Throat Disease. Tbere is no more effectual remedy for Coughs, Colds, etc., than Bnowa's Bronchial Tbochbs. Sold only in boxes. Price 25 eis. "Ate hours per day," is what the walking delegate brages of having done. Ebb "Colchester Spading Boot ad. ia other column. Is the man who sits behind an attenuated livery stable hack screw driver. What is mora fascinating than a complexion tinted like the rarest itanhelTind m ined by the bm: ol Glenjrti Salpliur Sowpr Standard Works The flag makers'. i Hen'n Eml Mrs. Vfsxit fjni-miriv nf TtsirinkrOI King Weiiam Co, Va, writes as follows: "Foe about eight or ten years my father. Col T. U. Fogg, of Wilt Point, Ycu, waa laid up with carbuncles, the wont that I ever saw. He tried everything he beard of, his doctor coma ao notning lor him. Had six or seven carbuncles at a time, as large as ben's eggs. He sot ao weak and suffered so much he could not walk a step. In 1873 he had his bed put in the middle of his room and got on it to die. No one expected him to get well. He saw Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery advised for all blood disorders. Before he had taken half-abort le of 'DfecovCOL T. U. Food. P. away. Two bottles entirely cored him. Ha now 78 yean oH. and enjoys good health." PIERCE CURE la BttHEr 19 BEaTUHBEJa, DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME. La Grippe I Grippe ! Grippe ! After Effects Cured. Mr.Buger writes: "I had a bad attack of the Grippe; after a time caught cold and had a second attack. It settled in my Kidneys and Liver and Ohl such pain and misery in my back and legs I The physicians' medicine CAlSP. and other things that I used Tfnjjaw' Jr made no impression, aud I continually grew worse until I was a Physical wreck susd given up to die. Father bought me a bottle of Dr. Kilmer's SWAM-BOOT, and before I had used all of the second bottle I felt better, and to-day I am Just as well as ever. A year has passed and not a trace of the Grippe is left. Swtsp-Rwt Saved Uy Life. D. H. BltoxR, Hulmevllle. Pa., Jan. 10th, 1893. At Vrnggtats .50 rents and Sl.OO sire. "IasaBay Onide.to Health " free CorwcltatfcHi tree. Dr. Kilmer & Co., - Blnghamton, K. Y. Dr. Kllaer't PAR1LLA LIVES PILLS Aie the Best 42 PUte. SS cent. AUBnwbta. Ely's Cream Balm Cleanses the Nasal Passages, Allays Pain and Inflammation, Restores the Sense of Taste and l-mell. Heals the Sores. !. Balm into each nostril. tutUD. M w arren i . . orSIL.VHcs-si:j l-.-.nd irliji MAOMXI0

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BY MRS. M. CHAPTER IX. The guests were all departed, the lights extinguished, tho great castle was iu silent as death. In the young Countess' bedroom, however, the lamp still burned. Davis was sleepily engagod in putting away the " gleaming satin her young mistress had worn, and, that done, approached the table to replace the magnificent Darrell jewels in their case. Alice, who had been standing lost in a delicious reverie, woke from hor dream. She had donned the long white peignoir, and her masses ot golden hair hung unbound over her shoulders. 'You are tired out, Davis. Oo to bed," she said kindly. "Leave me to put away the diamonds: I am not tho least sleepy." Davis looked up gratefully. "Are you sure you are not tired, my lady?" she demanded. "Quite," answered Alice. "Go at once it is very late." "I was thinking perhaps it would bo better to take t he diamonds to the butler's room. He alwhys has the plate with him after one of these festivals, and he sleeps with his revolver near at hand, in case of robbers." "Robbers!" laughed Alice, though a slight fear crossed her mind. "Why, who would dare attack tho Castle, Davis? i am not afraid." "Then, good-night, my lady, and many thanks." Alice waited till tho maid withdrew, then locked the door. She was not nervous, although she slept in a wing awav from the re -it of the Castle. She returned to the table aud took up the diamonds. She gazed at each with a tender look as she replaced them on their velvet beds. "His jewelsl" she murmured. "His hand has touched them." Sue lifted a bracelet to hor lips as she spoke, then, blushing at the action, hurriedly put it in its case, replaced the leather-covered case in the small iron safe standing on the table, and locked it. She put down the key, and walked to the window. It was a dark night, no moon shone; yet to Alice it seemed as if she were Cozing on the fairest picture. "Why am I so nappy. ' sue mur mured, wandering slowly up and down. "Why does my heart thrill? He spoke kindly: but it may be gone to-morrow or perhaps I only dreamed he was so kind!" She passed her hand over her eyes, then a smile of gladness came to her face. "No, no; it was real it is real: he has asked me to meet him to-morrow. Oh, how long it seems till then: Something tells me that his contempt and scorn are dead that he no longer wishes me away. If if it could be that he is beginning to like me? But that is too great a happiness. All has gone well to-night. His mother kissed me, and gave me her blessing: everyone was kind all except Valeric and Count Jura," she shuddered. "How I dread that man! If only I dared had told Boy what he had said! But it was too soon. I must be brave: and should he dare to insult me strain, I will ap peal to Lady Darrell for protection. Valerie, top why does she hate me? bne could nave married Koy m tne bygone days. I have heard her say so with her own lips to her brother; and now, when he is my my husband, she is jealous, and hates me. I do not like her. But I am stronger now now I know he is kind and does not despise me. I will kneel and thank God for all His goodness to me." She sank beside her dainty bed, and buried her face in her hands. All was silent, save Jbr the moaning of the trees in the "gentle autumn breeze, when, to break the silence, there came a decided tap at the door. Alice rose surprised, but not frightened; her prayers always soothed her. She opened the door, and was amazed to see Valerie Ross in the corridor. "I am sorry to disturb you," said Valerie gently, and smiliner kindlv, "but I am rather distressed. I have drooped one of my ruby and diamond stars, and 1 grieve to lose any oi that set; it belonged to my mother." "Can I help you to look for it?" ex claimed Alice in genuine sympathy. She remembered now, in that conversation with her brother Valerie had mentioned she had no valuables left but these jewols. Oh, thank! My maid ana I have searched everywhere; and then she suddenly remembered that she heard Davis say she had picked up an ornament belonging to some one, and X thought she might have brought it hereT" "Let us look; it may be iu the room.-' Alice at once lit an extra candle, and Valeric, who was attired in a long, loose peignoir of crimson silk, stood gazing at the girlish iignre as it moved from her with an expression of deepest malignity. "1 am sure it is not with tho Darrell diamonds, for I put them away myself," Alice said, snaking back her masses of hair and preparing to search the room. "How beautiful they are, and how well they Decome you! Vou were charming !" Valerie uttered the words in her sweetest manner, smiling pleasantly. Alice glanced up, ana, at tne Kind i ; il. - . l t . 1 1 l I expression on tne oiuer s nice, an ner leeiings oi aisiitte disappeared. "Thank you very much," she said quickly. "I can appreciate your words more than 1 can say, lor 1 learea you did not like me." "Not like you, my Lady Alice ! It would be impossible to do anything else." "Ah, then, we may be friends after all !" cried tho girt with joy, putting out her slender hand. "Yes friends after all," repeated Valerie, with a strange gleam coming for one instant into her eyes, and clasping the hand outstretched. Against herself ashiver went through Alice s her fingers were ,held in that cold tight clasp, but she was too happy to give way to presentment and fear to-night. "Come, let us begin our search." She went to the dressing-table and bent diligently over it, while Valerie, glancing swiftly at her, took two steps to the door, and softly and noiselessly removed the key. "I can see it nowhere here, but if you will wait an instant I will go into the dressing-room. It may be there, though I am almost afraid to hope. I think Davis would have been sure to tell me. Valerie made some slight answer, then as Alice disappeared through the curtains into the adjoining room, sue ; bent over the bed and deftly poured j the contents of a small vial on to the 1 lace-edged pillow. She was back dili-1 gently searching the mantelshelf as Alice returned. "No, it is not there. Miss Ross," she said, feeling really distressed. "Now, what shall I do next?" "Nothing," Valerie answered pleasantly. "You have already done too much, dear Lady Alice.-' She had saturated her pocket-handkerchief with the remainder of the fluid as she spoke and now drew it from ner aress, leavine the vial hidden in ' her pocket. ' i "I feel so sorry for you," Alice went i on, "if you will let me, I will help you lookin tli c, roar ftwgr" ; "Yes, I shall be very glad if you will ana now i muse sy gooa-nigat." Vulorio held out her bp- " say

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Alice put down the candle, aud passed nor nana over her face. "How closo the room is! Goodnight. What a curious odor!" "It is the scent on my handkerchief, I am sorry I brought it up it is some very powerful perfume given me by a friend from India. Do you liko it?"' She put tho handkerchief to the girl's face as she spoke. "It ia very strong," murmured Alice faintl.v, feeling strangely stupid. " es; almost too strong. Well, now I must leave you. Yon look so tired; it is really a shamo to have roused you. Good-night." "Good-night," replied Alice. She moved with difficulty after Valerie, and closed the door. Her hand wandered to the key, but she was too confused to notice it was gone. "How closo it is!" she murmured. "Vhero am T all is dark." She staggered blindly toward the bod, and fell across tho pillow. There are a few gasps for breath, a slight struggle as it for air, and tho young countess lay still and motionless as death. A few soconds elapsed, then the door was softly opened and Valeric stole in. Sho moved on tiptoe to the bed. "Yes," she muttered; "it has worked well. She will sleep well to-night. Friend- a fr'.end to this Kor puny thing? I am her enemy, as she will soon discover to the bitter end." She crept bak to tho door, and beckoned without a word to another form. in an instant Count Jura was in the room. Glancinir anxiously and hur riedly round, his wyes fell on tho safe that contained the diamonds. He opened it and took out the case. "Must you tako those?" murmured Valerie with' knit brows. He nodded. "How else can we throw shame on her? Have no fear. Though these go, you will soon have others from the Earl." Her face flushed. Count Jura moved to the bedside, and turned the inanimate face, lovely in its palor, round, lifting the form gently in his arms. "You have given her enough," he muttered. "vVill it kill her?" asked Valerie in a low eager whisper. He shook his head, and a wave of contempt passed over his face. "Ao: sue win live, outsne is out of your path forever." "What will you do with her?" "Ask no questions," retorted the man, fiercely. "I have served your purpose; leave the rest to me. '' "I want to know nothing, except that I am free of her," Valerie answered with a sneer. "I will answer for that. She will be in my hands, and cannot escape me, I think." "Then come quickly. Here take this cloak and hat. It will look as if she planned everything. The window must be opened, or they will detect tho chloroform." Whilo sho spoke Valerie moved swiftly about, then, flinging the cloak over the slender form in the Count's arms, she led tho way from the room, carrying the diamonds. With gentle tread and bated breat they sto e along the corridor till they came to the door Alice had told the Count that morning led to an uninhabited part of the castle. This Valerie rushed onen, and guided by the dim light of the candle sho carried, the Count, clasping his precious burden close in his arms, descended carefully the stone steps tili they reached a corridor of stone that led to a door opening into the grounds. "Now can you find your way?" whispered Valerie. "Keepstraignt ahead." "I know; my cart is concealed there if Paul has done well." "Then fareweU; but once more before we part repeat your oath. You swear never to lot ir'aul Rosb molest me when once oneo I am " "Countess of Darrell," finished the Count quickly. "I wear it!" "That he shall not approach me?" "I swear it!" he repeated. "You have more power over Paul than I imagined human creature to have if you can do this," Valeric muttered. Tho Count laughed softly. "And this girl shall never come in my path again?" "Never by my help. Good-night, We must part now. Give mo the diamonds." Valerie held the candle above her head, and nodded as she handed him the case. Tho Count took it and gave one last glance at her before he strode away. In her crimson gown, red-brown hair, and eyes 'flashing with triumph, she ! looked like some spirit of evil pushing I aside all good. j "She is ashe-devil!" muttered Count 1 Jura with a slight shudder as Valerie i disappeared from his view, "but she j has helped me to clasp you in my ! arms," ho added, bending over the ! sweet, pale face lying on his breast, j "Yes, my time has come; before another night you will have flung all prido ! aside aud be at my feet praying for , mercy, which you will not get. Curse ; these diamonds how heavy they are! j But for Paul I would leave them be- j hind. I have tho jewel I crave; but he j must be silenced, and with these I can j shut his month and work as I will. He drew the cloak over the girl's : face again, and crept on slow ly till he j reached the end of the coppice. Hero ' he stopped and uttered a low whistle, i After an instant's silence, a man's j form crept from the bushes. ! "All right?" he breathed. "Yes. Where is the cart? "Here to the right. You are late: I thought you were never coming." "Got the swag safe, Paul?" asked the Count as he handed the diamonds 1 to tho other. "Yes; but you have not done much, j there are only three cups and a gold I plate." j "It is a lion's den, my good Paul, so closely guarded; I have done my best. : Now lead the way to the cart, my arms i are full." ' "What have you got there?" asked i Paul suspiciously, dimly seeing the j burden in the darkness. . "A woman!" "George, are you mad?" "No, perfectly sano. Lead on." "A woman! What are you going to do with such a burden on your hands? A woman! What a fool!" "Hold your tongue!" hissed the Count, suddenly changing his tane! "bew are how you talk to me. You are forgetting yourself, Paul Iioss." There was a change at once in Paul's manner. "You surprised me," he said, hurriedly, "it is no like you. But let's hurry; here is the cart. ' The Count wrapped tho cloak round tho girl, and together they placed her at the bottom of tho cart. "Put this over your fine clothes, George," said Paul, flinging his companion a smock frock, "and draw this over your eyes, in case wo meet anyone on the road. We must say we've just come back from Ncstley town, we've been to sell a cow. It's market dav to-day, so that will answor well. But 1 don't think wo shall be questioned." The Count slipped the loose blouse over his evening dress and donned the slouch hat then both men mounted the cart, and drove slowly out of their hiding place to the lonely country road that led through a deserted part to t he old abbey ruins, while on the rough planks lay the still form of Roy Darnell's young wife, ignorant ol the misory in store for her, wrapped in deep and dark oblivioD. I :: i,c:y ' Boi, ',ir Dan

next morning. A strange delightful feeling filled his heart directly hiseyes onenea. What was It? Never in all nis life had he experincod so groat a happiness as seemed to live within him now. A vision of a fair. puro. lovely face rose to his mind and solved tho mystery. Itwaslovo. Yes, love had come to him love for another, and that ot her not the stat ely handsome Valorio Ross, but his simple low-boru wife, Lady Alice. Tho memory of her girlish sweetnessand manner of the night before, her falterimr lips and groat, wondrous, starlike eyes, made his heart thrill with a tenderness that amazed him. Now he knew that he had never loved Valerie, he had admired and liked her, he had treasured her as a friend, but ho had never loved till now. True, he had thought of making hor his wile, but his feelings had boon born rather of admiration of her beauty aud the knowledge that sho would prove acceptable to his mother. For a brief moment a vague passion filled his heart for her, but it had come from piqued pride and justice, when his dead friend Eustace Rivers maligned Valerie to him and dissuaded him from marrying her. TO BK CONTINUED.

Buffaloes Innumerable. Now that the bison, or buffalo, as it is more commonly called, has become almost extinct, it is hard to realize how extremely abundant it was less than forty years ago. A vivid idea of its numbers "iu the early fifties" may be gained from an experience of Gen. . H, Walker, as recorded by his friend Mr. Theodore lioosevelt In his recent volume, "Tho Wilderness Hunter." Gen. Walker was encamped with a scouting party on the upper Arkansas Itiver, and had gone out to shoot some meat Many buffaloes were in sight, scattered, as usual, in large bands. By and by a dull roar in the distance attracted his attention, and he saw that a herd of buiValo far to the south had been stampeded and were running his way. He kuew that if he was c.iught in the open by the herd his chance for life would be small, and he at once ran for the river. Uy the greatest effort ho reached tho breaks in the sheer banks just as the buffaloes reached them, and got into a position ot safety on the pinnacle of a little bluff. From this point of vantage he could see tho entire plain. To the very verge of the ! horizon the b:own masses of the bufJ falo bands showed through the dust i clouds, coming on with a thunderous I roar like that of surf. Camp was a mllo away, and the stampede luckily passed to one side of it. Watching his chance he finally dodeed back to the tent, and all that afternoon watched the immense masses of buffalo, as band after band tore to the brink of the bluffs on one side, raced down them, rushed through the water, up the bluffs on the other side, and again off over the plain, churning the sandy, shallow stream into a ceaseless tumult When darkness fell there was no apparent decrease in t'.ic numbers that were passing, and all through the night the continuous roar showed that the herds were still j threshing across the river. Toward dawn the sound at last ceased, and Gen. Walker arose somewhat irritated, as he had reckon' d on killing au ample supply of meat: and he supposed that now there would be no bison left south of the river. To his astonishment, when he strolled up on the bluffs aud looked over the plain, it was still covered far aDd wide with groups of buffalo, grazing quietlv. Apparently there were as many on that side as ever, in spite of the many scores of thousands that must have crossed the river during the stampede of the afternoon and night Men Tigers. The belief is very general throughout India that men are turned into tigers by eating of a certain root It is supposed that tigers who destroy many human beings are men wh: have partaken of this peculiar root The Sarimant, chief of Deori, related to the author of "Rambles and Recollections" the following anecdo'e: "Tne tigers which now infest the woods from Sagar to Deori are neither more nor less than men turned into tigers a thing which often takes place in the-woods of Central India. The only visible difference between the two is that the metamorphosed tiger has no tail, while the lora, or ordinary tiger, has a very long one, "In the jungle about Deori there is a root which if a man eat of he is converted into a tiger on the spot; and if ia this state he can oit of another root, he becomes a man again. When I was a boy a melancholy instance of the rooteating occurred. "My father's washerman, llaghu, was, like all washermen, a great drunkard: and being seized with a violent desire to ascertain what a man felt in the state of a tiger, he weut one day to the jungle and brought home two of these roots, and desired his wife to stand by with one of them, and the instant she saw him assume the tiger shape, to thrust it into his mouth. ' The washerman ate his root and became instantly a tiger; but his wife was so terrified at the sight of her husband in this form that she ran off with the antidote in her hand. Poor old Iiaghu took to the woods and there ate a good many of his old friends from n ighboring villages; but he was at lat shot, and recognized from the circumstance of his having no tail. "You may be quite sure," concluded Sarimant "when you hear of a tiger w thout a tail, that it is some unfortunate man who has eaten of that root; aud ot all the tigers lie will be found the mot mischievous." The Sarimant religiously believes the t ruth of this story, and so do his attendants and miuc: and out of a population of thirty thousand in the town of Sagar, not one would doubt the story of the washerman if he beard it ldonliiied. A teller of a bank in New York reports the following incident: A German citizen approaching the window requested that a check payable to the order of .cchweitxerkase be cashed. "Ya, dot's me," he nodded reassuringly In answer to the teller's look of inquiry. "But I don't know that yon are Mr. Kchweitzcrkasc. You must get yourself identified," said the teller. "How vasdot?" asked the German citizen, with a puzzled look. "You must get some one to identify you," repeated the bank otlicer. "I don't know you." "Ah, ya," cried Hans, quite relieved, "dot's all right; I don't know you ueider." The man who walks through lifo on a carpet of velvet, and ha a nice time of it, is the ooe who thinks i twicft lxfor b" thinks """c w' tifz i flWt'l : . "

Was It Wrong? Speaking of millionaires reminds me of policemen, who are also of our conquerors. This little story, whoso sadness is not wholly sad, comes from a Western city which had suffered severely during the present financial stringency. A grooT in one of the poorer quarters of the town was accosted one day by a man who asked if he would let hiru have a sack of flour and trust him for payment until he found work again. The grocer refused. Going out to the front of his shop a few minutes later he found the man no longer in sight and one of the sacks of Hour piled up outside was missing. Summoning tho nearest policeman he described the man and his application.

"I think I know who he is. said the o Tcer. "I'll have him for in a jiffy." On arriving at the house ot you tho man, whom, from the description, he suspected of the inert, th? policeman walked in without knocking. The tell-tale sack of Hour was standing on a table in the center of the room and the family was gathered around it They had not waited to untie, much less to cook it but armed with spoons had fallen ravenously upon the sack aud, making holes in the sides, wore eating the dry flour. Tlie man turned white to his lips at the sight of the officer. The policeman looked and hesitated. Suddenly a bright idea occurred to him. "Docs John Smith live here?" Tlje man shook his head. 'Do you know where he does live?" No one knew. That's all right Perhaps I can find out next doi.r. It's John Smith 1 want," and the otlicer of tho law retroatec. returning to the grocery, he isked the price of the Hour, and paid it and related the scene. "And I will lie d d," he concluded, lowering his voice reverentially as might one who had trodden unawares upon sacred ground, "if I am going to arrest that man." ICate Field's Washington. Dwarfs 'rom Generation to Generation. Col. A. tore sting gard to t T. Fraser has sent us an innoto from Bellarv with revo Hindu dwarfs which he .died in the Kurnoui district Madras l'rosidenov, not far photogra of tho south of 1 and intel distingui; of India. he Kiver Kistna. in speech igence the dwarfs were inbablo from ordinary natives b rom an interrogation of one ; appeared that he belonged y all tho male members of ve been dwarfs for several ns. They marry ordinary rls and the female children liko those of other people, s, however, though they dethe normal rate until they a ago of six, then cease to 1 become dwarfs. These ecimons of humanity are alless, and are unable to walk of them i to a faml which ha generatif native gi grow up The male velop at roach th grow an stunted s most he! more tha a a few yards. - Nature. A Relcntlcftti Creditor. A creditor seldom goes so far as to seize a coffin about to bo carried to the grave. Hut this happened in the opeu street in ierlin a few days ago. and created -onsiderable excitement and great ind gnation. A cabinetmaker's wagon had just stopped in front of a house nei.r the Alexander platz in the Gorman i a; ital with a eomn foi: the wife of a oeomotive engineer who had died. As the collin was about to be borne into the houso an official of tho Court apj eared, placed his seal upon the oaker box. and ordered it transferred to the Berlin pawn office. The official had acted on behalf jot a relentless credl:o' The engineer pleaded in vain or tho coffin. The record failed to say whether ho succeeded in getting another. A Mllw-ntikep Man's Interest,,!;; Relic. Dr. Thomas L. Jones, a physician who came to Milwaukee from l'ekin. China, pesi-essos, among many other curios, a copy of the l 'ekin Gazette. the oldest neu'spaj er in the world. It has been pi Wished continuously since about the year li 00 A. I). Tho paper is of the size and shape of a railway folder, and the news published in it relates entirely to the courts, tho edicts of the Emperor and government affairs in general. In fact, it is really tho official gf.zette of the Chinese court, though it is published as a matter of private enterprise. Dr. Jonesalso has some vorj rare old Chinese coins, including cue that dates from about tho year 2700 B. C Milwaukee Wisconsin. Covering tho Ham boo Lounge. 1 ho bamboo lounge, so eool in summer, with its graceful twistings and turnings, has a chaerlcss look in winter, unless tastefully covered and piled high with gray, soft cushions. Tho latest material is the durable corduroy the seat ami back tufted and corded like a mattress and made in three sections. Drown seems a favorite although like its less expensive rival, the denim) it is now presented in a variety of colors. A peculiar deep rod gives a cheerful bright effect to a room, whether in tho daytime or by artificial light at evening. Man's Inhumanity to Hlimelf. The most inhuman outrages, outrages whioh would disgrace the savage, man perpetrates upon Lis own syetem by swallowing tirati' purgatives whioh convulse his stomach, agonize his intotiaea aud weaken hi system. Many people constantly do this under the impression that medicaments only which are violent In their action, and particularly cathartics, are of any avail. Irreparable injury to health Is wrought under this mistaken idea. The laxatlye which most nearly aplnoaclies the l'enetieent action of nature ia Hosletter's Stomach Hitter which i painless but thorough, and Invigorates the intestinal eanl instead ot weakening and irritating it. 'the liver Hlltl the stomach share in the t:.eniim discipline instituted by this comprehensive medicine, v.'uose neaitutui mnuence is lclt throughout the syste:u. Malarious, llieumatlc, kidney and nerrons complaints succumb to it. Kagle Licked by a Coyote. While coming across Combs flat recently, W. C. Phinimer of i'rineville, witnessed an exciting light between an eagle and a coyote. The eagle had caught a rabbit and the coyote' undertook to take it away from him. Tho eagle defended his prey manfully for sometime, but the coyote was too much for him, and finally sot away with the rabbit, hut not until aftei 'tho eagle had clawed several handfuls of hair out of his ba. k and left him somewhat disfigured. Portland Oi-ej;onian. A si'Mmkuv proceeding A rise in the mercury. llKH ham's 1'H.i.ti. (lie certain euro for biliousness an sick headache, arc pleasantly coated and nice to take. Price ii-. A button hole cu!tor-Tho man who refuses to bo interviewed. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures Even wtien all other prepara tiona tail to do any good whatever. It is prepared by modern methods, possesses the greatest curative powers, and has the most wonderlul record of actual cures ol any medicine in existence. Be sure to get Hood's, because HoodViCures

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