Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1891 — Page 3

TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Comments and Criticisms Based Upon the Happenings or the Day—Historical and News Notes. The cochineal insects furnish a great many of the fine colors. Among them are the gorgeous carmine, the crimson, scarlet carmine, and purple lakes. A Japanese writer says that Dr. W. E. Griffis’ well-known work on Japan, “The Mikado’s Empire,” is by far the best American work on the subject. When the carpet lias been soiled by ink, instantly apply blotting papei - , then milk, then blotting paper, and so on until the spot is out, as it will be. Don’t rub. The exquisite Prussian blue is made by fusing horses’ hoofs and other refuse animal matter with impure potassium carbonate. This color was discovered accidentally. The dust collected by a small patch of snow between Nov. 27 and Dec. 27 last indicates that 1000 Mons of soot settles monthly on the 110 square miles of London. The trustees of a Pennsylvania county school didn’t have catarrh and didn’t want it, and when theecliool ma’am ’wouldn’t spell it “catar” they bounced her and got a teacher who would. Pennsylvania wants English as she is spoke. The first water mill ever built was erected on the River Tiber, at Rome, A. D. 50. Wind mills were in original use in the twelfth century. Tide mills were operated in Venice about 1708. Saw mills are said to have been in use at Augsberg, Germany, about 1332, The term “blue stocking” was originally used in Venice about the year 1400 to designate literary classes by colors. The application of the term to women originated with Miss Hannah More’s description of the “Blue Stocking Club" in her “BaS Bleu.” To make an impermeable glue, soak ordinary glue in water until it softens, and remove it before it has lost its primitive form. After this, dissolve it in linseed oil over a slow fire until it is brought to the consistency of a jelly. This glue withstands water. A substance having all the essential qualities of silk has been made from wild hemp of Japan. The plant grows on moors and hillsides, and could be cultivated. The fiber o is strong and glossy, and several silk factories are said to have found it to be in no way inferior to silk. •* ‘ ■ *• B < Bells were invented by Paulinus, Bisho?) of Nola, in Campagnia, in or about the year 400. They were first used in France in 550, in Greece in 864, and in the churches of Europe in 900. In Switzerland they first appeared in 1020. The first tuneable set of bells known to England were used in Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire, in 960. So ear as the hotels of Europe are concerned, not one in fifty has a fireescape of any sort, and not one in a hundred burns lights to point out the stairways in the night The idea that any of them will ever burn up is the last thing to be considered. When one does, the guests are of course charged with “extras.” The whaling schooner William A. Grozier, of Provincetown, carries one of the youngest sailors afloat—the captain’s aon. aged 13 years, who is now making his seventh voyage whaling. He goes as assistant mate and navigator. He is regarded as a mascot both by owners and crew, as gp6d luck has followed . every trip, y The fifstmartyr to American liberty was Christopher Snider, 11 years old. On Feb. 22, 1770, a mob, principally boys, attacked the house of Mr Richardson in Boston, owing to his having attempted to remove certain marks set against the house of Lille, who had contravened the importation law. Richardson fired upon the mob, killing young Snider. '* Several lots of French paintings for the Berlin art exhibition arrived on the Berlin-German border on Feb. 28. The breaking out of the anti-German movement in Paris had, however, so appalled the artists who sent them that all telegraphed to the custom house officials instructions to hold every consignment. A few days later orders were received that the pictures should be returned to Paris, and back they went. It is estimated that there are always 50,000 Americans in Italy, and that there are now ten times as many Italians in this country. Nearly all the Americans in Italy are well off, and nearly all the Italians who came to this country are in poverty. In most cases the Americans who go io Italy spend a few weeks or months there, whifS the Italians who come to the United States expect to stay here. The Americans in Italy spend their money; the Italians in the United States earn money. A new glass is said to have been invented which is as hard and tough as castiron. It is proposed to employ it in the manufacture of stairs, street lamp-posts, and gas and water pipes. If it can be used for the last named purpose, and thus do away with the dangerous lead nipe, it will be an acquisition, indeed. It is thought that these and similar articles can be made of this new glass 30 per cent, cheaper than they can be made of cast-iron. An old crank named Conners, living in lowa, tried to npset the last State election because he was too busy to go to the polls and vote. It cost him SBOO in cash and a good deal of trouble, and the courts put a flea in his ear which

made him lose fifteen pounds of flesh in a ‘ - At one of the steel works in Allegheny City, Pa., there was recently rolled a strip of steel for a spring six inches wide, one-quarter of an inch thick and 310 feet long The order for it had been tendered to all the large .English and Continental works, but none of them would undertake the task. “I am going to die!” exclaimed a despondent youth, as he entered a Sacramento saloon not long ago. “Give me a glass of beer in which* to take this poison. ” The drink was handed to him by the obliging barkeeper, who a moment afterward saw him sprinkle a small powder in it and drink it Two hours later the man died, having taken strychnine. The barkeeper, when interrogated by the police, unfeelingly replied, “I didn’t think he meant what he said; but anyhow it isn’t my funeral.” ’• The proportions of the human figure are six times the length of the right foot. Whether the form is slender or plump, the rule holds good on the average. Any deviation from the rule is a departure from the beauty of proportion. It is claimed that the Greeks made all their statues according to this rule. The face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to the end of the chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature; the hand, from the wrist to middle finger, is also one-tenth of the total height. From the crown to the nape of the neck is one-twelfth of the stature. “The music of the future,” says a composer of comic operas, “will be a blending of the German and Italian—not one, but both. Harmony is what the public demands. We have not at present any distinctive American music or school of music. The only distinctive school we have are the negro melodies, the great composer of which was Stephen Foster. These melodies embrace the ‘Swanee River,’ ‘Old Folks at Home,’ ‘Gentle Annie’ and other well-known tunes. Beyond these we have developed no sleperate music. Our music, like our race, must be composite.” » One of the properties sold by Philadelphia auctionerikis of considerable historic interest. It;is the house on Seventh street, below market. This has been known for many years as “The Jefferson House,” and is said to be about one hundred years old, having been built by Jacob Hiltzheimer, who owned the corner house where the bank now stands and in which Jefferson drafted the declaration of independence, during the revolution. The present Jefferson House occupies the site of a part of the garden of the corner house and was built after the English soldiers departed from the city. Captain Carrie, of the British ship Wayfarer, which arrived in Oakland, Cal., a few days ago, 154 days from Antwerp, reports a weird phenomenon on the night of Nov. 13. It had been blowing for several days, but with nightfall the air became perfectly calm and the sea as smooth as glass. Overhead the sky was as black as ink from the dense masses of heavy clouds, and with the barometer at 28.50 a rainstorm was looked for. The expected downpour did not occur, but the sea glowed with a phosphorescence beyond anything the oldest mariner had ever seen. The ship’s surroundings were lit Jap so that it was possible to read on deck. Nobody cared much for reading, however; the contrast between the light from the sea and the inky clouds was so gruesome that all hands could not help feeling that some unnatural catastrophe was about to occur. The crew were much relieved when a breeze dissipated the clouds, and the phosphorescence was cleared at the same time. The largest apple-tree in New England, according to the Boston Journal, is in the northwestern part of Cheshire. Ct., and it stands in the dooryard of Mr. Delos Hotchkiss. Its age can be traced to a family tradition to 140 years at least, and it may be twenty or twenty-five years older. It is now of symmetrical shape; the trunk is nearly round, without a scar or blemish; there are eight large branches;■’ five of them have been in the habit of bearing one year, and the remaining three the next. Mr. Hotchkiss has gathered in one year from the five branches eightyfive bushels of fruit, and his predecessor has harvested 110 bushels from the same five branches. By careful measurement, the circumference of the trunk one foot above the ground, above all enlargements of the roots, is thirteen feet eight inches. The height of the tree is sixty feet, and the spred of the branches as the apples fall is 100 feet. The fruit is rather small, sweet, and of mo<|i6rate excellence. Turning It On Her. He had finished his introductory remarks, and was about to propose, when he discovered that his proposal would be treated with contempt “Go on, Mr. Sprigger,” she said, impatiently tapping her foot on the carpet as he paused in his remarks. “I was about to say, Miss Hilder,” hecofitnmeti, “that I am aware that the human heait, especially a woman’s, is a delicate thing, and I come to-night to correct a/wrong impbession which you have been under for some time, I think. To be plain, MissHilder, because I do not wish to cause you future suffering, letAne state that I have never cared though for you to ask you to link your lot with mine, therefore do not think that I can return the love you bear for me. My attentions to you have been prompted purely by a friendly feeling, nothing more. But I trust this will not mar our friendly relations,** he said, taking his hat to go; “for remember, you will ever have in me a true friend. Be assured I will be always a nephew to you.” And she was so dumb with surprise and anger that she didn’t say good-bye to him when he bowed himself onL— New lork Herald.

ALL ABOUT BASE-BALL. THE NATIONAL GAME FAIRLY UNDER WAY. Retirement ot A. G. Spalding—The New President ot the American Association — The Northwestern and National Leagues —General Ball Notes Never in the history of the national game has a more auspicious start been made. On opening days immense crowds greeted the contesting clubs, and the athletes of the diamond rewarded the enthusiastic spectators by putting up games that elicited hearty applause and gave excellent sport The race for the pennant is on and in the different associations the very best talent is strainlag every nerve.- This year no discordant jangle distracts attention from the sport. The Brotherhood is a thing of the past, and, with few exceptions, the strongest players are now at work with their oldtime associates. A. G. Spalding is no longer the President of the Chicago Ball Club. At a recent meeting of the stockholders he handed in his resignation. The resignation was accepted and Mr. Spalding sent a letttr to N. E. Young at Washington notifying him of the fact Mr.

Spalding’s retirement from baseball is no surprise. It was understood i everywhere that he would take this action,and the proceedings were a formal confirmation of the statement that he was about to retire -'.from a field where he has been a conspicuous figure

a. o. spalding. so long. On the retirement of Mr. Spalding, James A. Hart was chosen President of the club and Fred Andrus Secretary. Andrus is the very ideal of a secretary besides being an athlete, and Mr. Hart is largely equipped with good sense, shrewdness, and business capacity for his new office. While, perhaps, not filling Mr. Spalding's place, he will come as near it as any base-ball man in America could. Much new timber has been secured by the different managers. In the ranks of the National and American Associations will be found the names of many who last year had not attained such eminence. Most of the old stagers, like Anson, Flint, Deacon White, and others, are at their places. Salaries this year are not soaring so high, but the coltish ones will only have to behave themselves to escape the fines, in order to pull out of the season with as much money as ever. » An excellent picture of Louis Kramer, the new President of the American Association, is herewith given. He is a base-ball admirer and patron, and was Vice President of the old Cincinnati Club, and a director of the same in 1882,

LOVIS KRAMER.

*B4, *B7, *BB, and *9O. His salary as President will be §3,000, and he will be allowed to charge for a stenographer and traveling expen es. His secretary, should he need one, will have to be paid by himself. 1 He will do little traveling, however, as he accepted the office on condition that its duties should not take him away from his business in Cincinnati. . A Doomed Duet. Singers who “murder” music are usually considered more guilty than the music is. The provoked Cincinnati judge was not blaming ,the music, however, when he turned the metaphor the other way. His daughter and a young gentleman caller frequently indulge in tuneful vocal practice over the piano, and when they get together in the parlor the judge gets in as remote a part oi the house as possible in order to avoid what he terms the uproar. One evening last week they had been even more devoted than usual to their music, and on the following morning the ’‘judge inquired of his daughter: “What on earth was all that racket you and yohr caller were making in the parlor last evening?” “Why, papa, Sam and I were trying a new duet.” “Trying a new duet, were you? Well, from what I heard. I should judge that you found .it guilty, and inflicted the heaviest penalty on it.”— New York Times. A Bible with 168 Pins in It. It was a Bible, a family Bible, a wellworn family Bible—the Bible of an old lady who read it, and walked by -it, and fed on it, and prayed oyer it for a long life-time. As she grew older, her sight began to fail, and she found it hard to find her favorite verses. But she could not live without them, so what did she do! She stuck a pin in them, one by one, and after her death they counted 168. When people went to see her she would open her Bible, and, feeling over the page after her pin, would say: “Read there,” or “Read here.” and she knew pretty well what verse was struck by that pin. She could, indeed, say of her precious Bible: “I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold; they are sweeter to me than honey and the honeycomb. “ « ■' A Page in History. Paper was first made by the Chinese B. a 220. The “Declaration of Rights” was passed by the. first Colonial Congress at Philadelphia, on the 14th of October, 1774. The invention of the sun-dial is of great antiquity, the Greeks having, it is said, learned its use from the Chaldmans. Diamonds were found in Brazil in 1728. The diamond was first proved to be combustible in 1694 by the Florentine academicians, who found that when exposed to the heat of the sun in the focus of a large lens it burnt away with a blue lambent flame. •Dice similar to those of onr day have been found in Thebes. The Greeks gave the names of their gods and heroes to Ohe different throws. The invention of dice is very ancient, and is variously ascribed to the Greeks and Egyptians, and by Herodotus to the Lydians. In the time of Herodotus, the art of dentistry seems to have been practiced in Egypt, as was also the treatment of diseases of the eye And ear. In the ancient tombs of these people artificial teeth of ivory and wood were found by Belzoni and others, some of which were fastened on gold plates. It is stated that the teeth of mummies have been found filled with geld, and others with a white cement

CLUBS, AXES AND GUNS. STRIKERS ARE RIOTOUS AND POWERFUL. The Street Car Service in Detroit Paralysed—Pennsylvania Coke Workers in a Pitched Battle with Officers—Bloodshed and Death Result. Nearly the whole of Detroit’s police force was called out to keep order during a monster labor parade of shoemakers and stove molders, which was incited by the street %ar troubles. Immediately after the parade passed it was decided to stArt ten cars lor evening service on Woodward avenue. The first car got away all right, followed by a patrol wagon containing ten officers. A second car started immediately after without the accompanying protection, however, and the strikers threw it on its side and across the track. The attempt to start cars was then given up, but the first one out continued its perilous course, being the target of anything handy to the strikers the whole length ot the avenue, and meeting with tne jeers and taunts of the people as it passed along. Two policemen were on every corner the whole length of the route and the car eventually reached the river front in safety. On the attempt to start for the return trip there was a very exciting scene. A burly man sat in a dog cart directly across the track. The policemen led his horse away. The man whipped up his horse, overtook the car, and drove across the track again directly in, front of the street-car. His buggy was smashed and he was thrown to the ground. He was finally overpowered and taken to the station. As the car kept on its way the small crowd sent only a few stones as a parting sal-ute. A car had been lying at the river front ail day was then started up- the hill. The word was quickly passed, and in a short time about fifteen thousand people broad avenue from the north side of Jefferson avenue to the river. The car started up the hill at break-neck speed. The mob closed about the car. A man leaped from among the crowd and grasped the team’s bridles. The driver whipped his horses. The man was from his feet and pulled all the way across the street. But he held on, ran the horses Into a buggy and stooped the car. In the meantime a number of buggies, trucks, etc., had been run across the track. The dozen policemen on the car tried to remove them but could not. Then Strathern Hendrie, the treasurer of the company, got up on the “front platform with the driver. Pulling a big revolver fpom his pocket, he pointed it threateningly at the crowd. Immediately cries of “Kill him, hang him,” etc., Went up Brkks began to By through the car windows, and it looked as if car, drived, policemen, Hendrie, and all would be torn to pieces. Hendrie's discretion evidently gut the better of his valor then, and the car was started back to the river. The crowd pursued it, and, unhitching the horses, tried to run the car into the river. A ferryboat coming into the dock just that moment prevented them carrying out their design. At point the crowd was charged by a force of police and clubbed unmercifully. Revolvers were drawn, and for a few moments it looked as if there was to be bloodshed, but the police presented a sturdy a front and effected some arrests, which quickly quieted the crowd considerably. It began to rain shortly after, and as no, more attempts were made to run cars, the crowd gradually dispersed. IN THE COKE REGION. The Authorities Are Having More than They Can Do. A serious riot occurred at Monarch, Pa. Though the riot resulted in the probable fatal wounding of one man and the serious injury of a woman, the Sheriff of Fayette County, with his deputies, has been defied and the Sheriff himself assaulted—shot in the hand and beaten and cut with an ax in the hands of an infuriated Hungarian woman. Since the ugly Morewood affair the women have taken the principal part in defying deputies, the men either preferring to obey the orders of their leaders and remain inactive or thinking the Sheriff and troops would not be so severe where women led the attacks. Sheriff McCoirmick and his deputies went to evict ten families of striking Slavs, and they had a bloody battle with an infuriated mob of men and women. In order to reach the houses the Sheriff and his deputies had to march several hundred yards up a steep road, at which point he ordered the militia, which came up with him from Trotter, to remain until they were needed. It was about 11 o’clock when the sheriff and his deputies reached house No. 105, occupied by Thomas Tarr. A crowd of three or four hundred men and women had collected in front of the premises Tarr, with an oath, declined to evacuate, and. seizing an ax, stood in the doorway and defied the sheriff to enter. Then the troubles commenced. Men and women, in broken English, yelled defiance and berated the sheriff and his deputies in the strongest language they could command. Th ? sheriff tried to reason with them, but without avail. Their blood was up, and nothing but a first-ciass ‘ battle would satisfy them. Andy Blashko s wife, spying the sheriff, made a dive for him, pistol in hand. Just as she was about to fire he struck the pistol a downward blow and at the same time fired. The two pistols went off simultaneously. The sheriff had shot the woman in the flesh part of the left thigh, and she had shot him in the left ankle. By this time the sheriff’s blood was up, and with a cocked revolver, 44-caliber, in either hand, stood with his back against the end of the house, and. informed the mob that the first one who made a move toward him he would shoot, and shoot to kill. Martin Scroupka left the crowd and rushed? at the Sheriff with a huge club uplifted. The Sheriff waited, until Scroupka got within\fi.ve feet of ifijm. and thep fired. The shot? took effect, th® bullet striking Scroupka in themouth, knocking out two of his teeth anh lodging somewhere in the back of his mouth. The wounded Slav wheeled and started to run and the Sheriff followed him. Some one shouted to the Sheriff to look out, and turning he saw Tarr, the man on whom he had served the writ, coming toward him withan ax. The Sheriff pointed both his revolvers at him and Tarr retreated. By this time Capt. Frasher, of Company C, hearing the shots and the uproar, had brought the soldiers up the road on double quick, and their presence at once quelled the rioters. Tarr is now in jaiL Then He Wa« Mad. A German cobbler, who was reputed to be one of the laziest and most worthless men in Leadville, dug a hole in his yard and salted it with ore, and showing the pit to the representatives of a company he was able to sell it for $2,500. During the carouse which followed he boasted publicly of the way in which he had fooled the capitalists, but before the purchasers of his property heard of these remarks they had sunk the shaft four feet deeper and had struck one of tht richest veins of carbonate in Leadville. "The cobbler, on learning what had happened, danced about the edge of the pit and swore that he had been swindled. The mine yielded about 51,000,0q0.

Den'S Throw Up the Sponget That hideous ogre. Giant Despair, often tea. tens Us clutch upon the chronic invalid. Constantly plagued by dyspeesia, biliousness, and constipation—nervous and sleepless, too—what wander is it that, having tried in vain a multitude of useless remedies, he is reedy, figuratively epeaking, to “throw up the sponge.* Let the unfortunate “take heart of grace.* Hostetter’s Stomach Bitterr can and wfll put a terminus to his trials. It strengthens the stomach, confers nervous vigor by promoting assimilation of the food, arouses the liver when dormant, and relaxes the bowels without pain. The ability to digest and assimilate restored, the ability to sleep follows. Nothing then can stay the renewal of health but imprudence. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, moreover, transcends all others as a remedy for malarial, rheumatic, and kidney complaints. A wineglassful three times a day. Carried Too Far. A farmer from Nankin Township was at police headquarters Saturday to give notice that some one had stolen about twenty bushels of oats from his barn. “When did you miss them?” was asked. “On the Ist.” “And this is the 4th. You should have reported sooner.” < “Well, you see, the Ist was April Fool’s Day, and I thought some one had stolen the oats as a good joke on me. I’m a great hand for jokes myself, and I like to have lots of fun going on around me, but this is a leetle too steep. I’ve waited four days for some one to bring the bags back, and now I guess I’ll have to make trouble for some one.”— Detroit Free Press. TTAT,T,’R CATARRH CURE is * liquid and is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c. E. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Circus Towns. The press agent of Barnum’s circus says there are sixty first or money-mak-ing cities for circuses in the United States, and the only one-week stands are New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Bos>ton, Chicago and St. Louis. Strange as it may seem, Mr. Hamilton declares that there are but five other cities where a show can remain with profit during two days, and they are Baltimore, Washin ton, Cincinnati Pittsburgh, and New Orleans. All of the West, including Kansas City with its nearly 200,000 inhabitants, will not support a circus longer than one day. Scurvy and Scorbutic Affections, Dimples and Blotches on the Skin. Bad Legs; Ulcers, Wounds. Ac., &c. The cause of all these complaints Is in the blood, and it often happens that they are floating in the blood a long time before they break out on the body. This class of diseases requires that the blood be powerfully and perseveringly acted upon. In order to cleanse it from ail the morbid humors which have been floating about in it, perhaps for many months. It is of no use to heal the sore by outward applications, for in so doing you only get rid of one trouble to make way for a much worse in a short time. Beecham’s Pills are prepared only by Thomas Beecham, St. Helens, Lancashire. England. B. F. Allen Co., 365 Canal St., New York, Sole Agents for the United States, who, if your druggist does not keep them, will mail Beecham’s Pills on receipt of price. 25 cents a box. but inquire first. The man who wrote “Ten Acres Enough” was probably on his way to the dentist. “A diety house and a scolding wife are poor companions.’ SAPOLIO wiU cure the ?, rs . perhaps moderate the rancor of the latter. Try a cake. The toothless man ought to be a sweet talker, for all his words must of necessity be gum drops. " BA’o Opium in Plso » Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. Why should you be careful how you entertain friendship'? Because it has a cold shoulder. Good Blood Is absolutely Essential to Good Health You may have both by taking the best Blood Purifier Hood’s Sarsaparilla

nW®® the Viewy Remember last winter’s siege. Recall how trying to health were the frequent changes of the weather. What was it that helped you win the fight with disease, warded off pneumonia and possibly consumption ? Did yougivesdH? credit to SCOTT’S EMULSION of pure Norwegtau. Cod Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda? Did you proclaim the victory? Have you recommended this wonderful ally of health to your friends? And what will you do this winter ? Use Scott’s Emulsion as a preventive this time. It will fortify the system against Coughs t Colds, Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility, and all Anomic and Wasting Diseases (specially in Children). Palatable aS Milk. SPECIAL.—Scott’s Emulsion is non-secret, and is prescribed by the Medical Profession all over the world, because its ingredients «re scientifically combined m such a manner as to gtoatly increase their remedial value. CAUTlON.—Scott’s Emulsion is put up in salmon-colored wrappers. Be sure and get the genuine. Prepared only by Scotti Bowne, Manufacturing Chemists, New York. Sold by all Druggists. Rm Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. I<3 Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the K KU taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. urtEK CHiCHann Emum. Hee Cum Be/um A 431 VtHHNROY k\i * V\\i\iS

What is lacking is truth and confidence. If there were absolute truth on the one hand and absolute confidence on the other, it wouldn’t be necessary for the makers of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy to back up a plain statement of fact by a SSOO guarantee. They say—“lf we can’t cure you (make it personal, please,) of catarrh in the head, in any form or stage, we’ll pay you SSOO for your trouble in making the trial.” “An advertising fake,” you say. Funny, isn’t it, how some people prefer sickness to health when the remedy is positive and the guarantee absolute. Wise men don’t put money back of “ fakes.” And “ faking ” doesn’t pay. Magical little granules — those tiny, sugar-coated Pellets of Dr. Pierce—scarcely larger than mustard seeds, yet powerful to cure—active yet mild in operation. The best Liver Pill ever invented. Cure sick headache, dizziness, constipation. One a dose. He Has Not Secured Hiji Pension. The following Salem pension story matches the one I told a week or two ago. A veteran soldier of that town who applied for a pension was obliged to forward to Washington some testimony as to his disability, and this is the affidavit that he presented to his lawyer: “This is to certify that John Jones worked fqr me before the war and since. He doesn’t do half a day’s work now and never could.” Jones’ counsel thought that the. testimony would not help along the claimant’s case, and he wisely concluded not to send it.— Boston Traveller. Neglecting a child troubled with worms may cause it to have epileptic fits. Horrible! Give it Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers at once and save the child. By mall, 25 cents. John D. Park. Cincinnati, Ohio. A Dead Law for Idiots. There is a law in Michigan to punish the idiot who points a gun at a friend to see him jump, but it is practically a dead-letter. Indeed, no law can be to properly punish a person who was born without the necessary filling in his head. We must simply wait until he pours kerosene on the fire or sits down in front of a buzz saw. Gus. A. Dubois, a well-known resident of St. Louis, says: “I have used several bottles of Prickly Ash Bitters for biliousness and malarial troubles, so prevalent in this climate, and heartily recommend it to all afflicted in a like manner. It is the best remedy I ever used.” Couldn’t Recover. A man in Dubuque sued a barber for having given him the barber’s itch. The barber proved in court that the man drank from five J,o fifteen glasses of beer per day, and was unclean in his habits, and the jury returned for the defendant. They decided that he started the itch on himself. COUGHS. HOARSENESS, SORE THROAT, etc. .quickly relieved by Brown’s Bronchial Troches. A simple and effectual remedy, superior to all other articles tor the same purpose. Sold only in boxes. Ready to Answer. New Orleans has the history of every Italian who was mobbed down fine and can prove beyond a doubt that every one not naturalized, and therefore beyond Italy’s jurisdiction, was an outlaw and a murderer, who fled from Italy to escape the punishment of crimes. ’A savior of her sex.’ is a title bestowed upon Lydia E. Pinkham by the women of the world, millions of whom are indebted to her for health. Diminutive Dude—“ Why do you make ms wait until the last dance?” Young Lady—“Oh, to give you time to grow.”

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