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A lluapltul Car far Immigrant,. A hospital car, to be rup iq oonneotlon with every emigrant train and in cane of the discovery of contagious disease to bo switched off and Isolate 1, la a needed improvement which is being urged by Eastern health officials. The Baltimore and Ohio, which carries a large Immigrant traffic, Is favorable to the plan and the other trunk lines wlll do.ibtloHH also adopt it. The attention which has been directed by the National Association of Railway burgeons und by other bodies of med- < leal mon to the subject of the proper and safe transportation of the sick nas been of much value to the public and , the railways, and the additional safo- ' guard that would be afforded I y a car In which sick immigrants coula boscitarated from the well and proi»erly treated should not be neglected.— Railway Age. A Fortunate Accident. To break a mirror is considered unlucky by the Bui>c'«tltiouH. However, It was a very lucky accident in the case of a certain Mr. Roll of Newark. The mirror had been given him by hie grandfather. One day, to his great consternation he shivered it to atoms, whereupon an old yellow parchment fell out irom between the glass and the frame. This turned out to be a document for which Mr. Rollffiad been vainly hunting for years, and which proved his right to a large piece of land near New York, valued at six million dollars. A.s there were nearly a hundred persons seeking to establish their claims to tho estate, the sensation cursed by the lucky find may be easily imagined. The story reads like a romance, but it is true, nevertheless. Trouble. Threatening tho Kidney., Although they are grievous and very often fatal if disregarded, may be prevented by a timely resort to that admirable nates’rerd of health, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a genial promoter of activity in the ren'al organs, the stomach and the liver. Eie Inaction of the kidneys develops into Br ght’s disease, diabetes, or other dangerona disorders, recourse should be had to the Bitters. If this suggestion is followed, the happiest outcome of the earlier symptoms may be anticipated with confidence. Check a development ot these maladies at the outset by the means indicated, since at their maturity they' are hard indeed to conquer. Dyspepsia, rheumatism insomnia, nervonsnoss.constipation. malarial complaints are eradicated by the Bitters, a medicine of comprehensive use and prompt effects. An Incomplete Offering. The late Sultan Burghash had a very savage chained lion, and, as a happy thought, offered it to Sir John Kilk, then British Comul-Gencral at Constantinople, reminding him that the lion formed one of the supporters of the royal arms above the gate of the British Consulate, and that the presence of the real brute would, therefore, be highly appropriate. “I am Bure that your would never make an incomplete present,” he replied, “and when you are able to accompany the lion with a unicorn I shall be delighted to receive your munificent ouor.” How’. Tbl. T We offer One Hundred Dollar. Howard for any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Ball s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENKY & CO., Prop.., Toledo. O. We. the underslgno I, have known F. J. ( horsy for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transaction, end financially able to carry out any obligations n ode by their firm. Wssr i 'lauax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldimo, Kinnan & MaUvuc, WhoieMle Drug. ests, Toledo, O. all’s (atarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting direoily upon the blood and mucuu. surfaces of the system. Tt •>imonial. sent free. Price 7So per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Descended from the Gods. The Japanese believe that their emperors are descendants from the gods, the present rrikedo biting the 121st in direct line fro.n heavenly beings. Jaynb’b Expectorant is both a palliative •nd curativq in all Lung Oomplaints. Bronchitis. &o- It is a standard remedy for Cc-ighs and Colds, and needs ouly a trial to prove Ils worth. Wo one ever knows what a girl’s right name is until her wedding cards are sent out.

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TALMAGE’S SERMON. ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ON THE MISSION OF THE FROST. A Sermon Appropriate to the Cold Weather— The Fr<*t as a I’alntor, a Jeweler and an Evangelist—The Demon and the Peroration. The Divine Breath. Before the usual throngs that for nearly 2fi years have gathered in the first, second, and third Brooklyn Tabernacles successively, Dr. Talmage Sunday forenoon preached this gospel sermon, after commenting upon an ap propriato Scripture lesson und giving out the most inspiring hymns. The subject was, “Tne Mission of the Frost." Text -Job xxxvii, 10. “By the breath of God frost is given.” Nothing is more embarrassing to an organist or pianist than to put his finger on a key of the instrument and have it make no response. Though all the other keys are in full play, that one silence destroys the music. So in the greet cathedral of nature, if one part fails to praise the Lord the harmony is halted and lost. While fire and hail, snow and vapor, respond to the touch of inspiration, if the "frost made no utterance the orchestral ren dcring would be hopelessly damaged ana the harmony forever incomplete. I am more glad than I can tell that the white key of frest sounds forth as mightily as any of the keys, and when David touches it in the Psalms, it sounds forth the words. ‘ Hescattereth the hoar frost like allies,"and when Job touches it in my text it resounds with the words, “By the breath Os God frpst is given.” As no one seems disposed to discuss the mission of frost, depending ob divine help I undertake it. This is the first Sabbath of winter. The leaves are down. The warmth has gone out of the air. The birds have made their winged march s mthward. The landscape has been scarred by the autumnal equinox. The buskers have rifled the cornshocks. The night sky has shown the usual meteoric restlessness of November. Three seasons of the year are past, and the fourth and . last has entered. Another element now comes in to bless and adorn and instruct the world. It is the frost. The palaces of this king are far up in the arctic. Their walls are glittering congelation. Windsor castles and Tuileries and winter palaces and Kenilworths and Alhambras of ice, temnles with pendant chandeliers of ice, thrones of iceberg on which eternal silence reigns, theaters on whose stage eternal cold dramatizes eternal winter, p.llirs of ice, arches of ice, crowns of ice, chariots of ice, sepulchers of ire, mountains of ice. dominions of ice — eternal frigidity! From those h rd, white, burnished portals King Frort descends and waves his silvery scepter over our temrerata zone. You will soon hear his heel on the skating pond. You already feel his broith in the night wind. By most considered an enemy coming here to benumb and hinder and slay, I shall show you that the frost is a friend, with'Denedidtion divinely pronounced, and charged and surcharged with letters potent, beneficent, and tremendous. The Bible seven times alludes to the frost, and we must not ignore it. “By the breath of God frost is given.” First I think of frost as a painter. He begins his work on the leaves and continues it on the window panes. With , palette covered with all manner of colors in his loft hand and pencil of crystal in his right hand, he sits down before the humblest bush in the latter part of September and begins the sketching of the leaves. Now he puts upon the foliage a faint color, and then a touch of brown, and then a hue of orange, and last a flame of. fire. The beech and ash and oak are turned first into sunrises and then into sunsets of vividness and splendor. All the leaves are penciled one by one, but sometimes a whole forest in the course of a few , days shows great velocity of work. Tired of working on the leaves, the frost will soon turn to the window panes. You will soon waken on a cold morning and find that the windows of your home have during tho night been adorned with curves, with coronets, with oxquisiteners, with pomp, with almost supernatural spectacle. Then you will appreciate wbat my text says as it declares, “By the bro.th of God frost is given.” Yo.i will see on the window pane, trace:! there by the frost, whole gardens of beauty—ferns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes, china asters, fountains, statues, hounds on the chase, roebucks plunging into thestream, battle scenes with dying and dead, catafalques of kings, triumphal processions—and as tho morning sun breaks through you will see cities of fire, und bombardment with bursting : shell, und illuminations as for some I great victory, coronations, and angels on Wte wing. Standing here between the closed doors of the pictured woods and the opening doors of the' transfigured win-1 dow glass, I want to cure my follv and I your folly of longing for glorious things , in tho distance, while We neglect ap-1 pr. e.iaJoa of glorious things close* by. | "Oh. ii' I cqu.d only go and eoe the : factories of lace at -Brussels ” s ys some one. Why, within twenty feet ■ of where you awaken some December | morning you will see., rich lace interwoven for your window panes by divine fingers. “Oh, if I coqld see tlie factories of silk at Lyons!” says some one. Why, without leaving your own house on- Christmas morning you may see where the-Lord has spun silken threads about your windows this way andHhat —embroideries such as no one but God can work. Alas, for this glorification of the distant and this beli.tling of the close by! This crossing of oceans and paying a high admission in expenses to look at. that which is not hall as well done as something we can see by crossing our own room, and free of charge.. This praising of Raphaels, hundreds of years gone, when the greater Raphael, the frost, will soon be busy at the entrances to your own home. Next I speak of the frost as a physician. Standing at the gates of New York harbor autumn before last, the frost drove back the cholera, saying, “Thus far shalt thou come and no farther.” From Memphis and New Orleans and Jacksonville ho smote the fever pjegue till it reeled back and departed. The frost is a physician that doctors cities, nations, and continents. He medicines the world. Quinine for malaria, antifebrile for typhoids, eulphooal for sleeplessness, antispas-, modic for disturbed nerves, but in all therapeutics there is no remedy like 1 the small pelle s prepared by the cold, and no physician sso skillful or so misrhty as tne frost. Thank God for frost! It is tho boat of all germicides. It is the only hope in bacteriology. It is the medicament of continents. It is the salvation of our temperate zone. It is the best tonic that God ever gave the human . race. It is the on y strong stimulant wnich has no reaction. But I must go farther and of the frost os a jeweler. As the snow is fro en rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God transforms it from a liquid into a •. a'&V. ‘-il- • "

crystal. It is tho dew glorified, in the thirty-eighth chapter of that inspired drama, the book of Job, God says to the inspired dramatist with ecstatic interrogation, “The boary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?” God there asks Job if he knows tho parentage of the frost. He inquires about its pedigree. He suggests that Job study up tho frost's genealogical line. A minute before God hail asked about the parentage of a raindrop in words that yoars ago gave mo a suggestive text for a sermon, “Hath t-io rain a father?” But now the Lora Almighty is catechising Job about the frost. He practically says: “Do you know i's father? Do you know its mother? In what cradle of the leaves did the wind rock it? ‘The hoary frost of Heaven, who hath gendered it.-'” He is a stupid Christian who thinks so much of the printed and bound Bible that he neglects the Old Testament of the fields nor reads the wisdom and kindness and beauty of God written in blossoms on the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in stars in tho sky, in frost on the meadows. Tho greatest jeweler of all the earth is the Frost. There is nothing more wonderful in all crystallography. Some morning in Dorember a wnole continent is found besprinkled with diamonds, the result of one night’s work by this jeweler. Do you make tlie depreciatory remark that the frost is impermanent and will last only two or three hours? What of that? We go into London Tower and look at the crown jewels of England, but we are in a procession that the guards keep moving on, and five minutes or less are your only opportunity of looking at those crown jewels, but at the crown jewels bestarred of the frost in parks and fields you may stand to look deliberately and tor hours, and no one to tell you to move on. The imperial household of Louis XVI. could not afford the diamond necklace which had been ordered for Queen Marie Antoinette, and it was stolen and taken apart and lost, but the necklace that the frost ppts on the wintry morning, though made of as many brilliants as the withered grass blades, is easily afforded by divine opulence and is never lost, but after its use in the coronation of the fields is taken back, to Heaven. O men and women, accustomed to go into ecstasy when in foreign travel you come upon the historical gems of nations, whetner . the jewel be called the Mountain of Glory, or the Sea of Light, or the Crown oi the Moon, or tho Eye of Allah, or the Star of Sarawak, or the Koh-i noor, I implead vou study the i'ewels strewn all round your wintry lomo and realize that “by the breath of God frost is given!” s But Igo a step farther and speak of the frost as an evangelist, arid a text of Scripture is not of much use to me unless I can find the gospel in it. Thq. Israelites in the wilderness breakfasted ' on ssmeth’ng that looked like frozen deW. The manna fell on the dew, and the dew evaporated and left a pulverized material, white and looking like frost, but it was manna,and of that they ate. So now this mo.ning, mixed with the frozen dew of my text, there is a manna on which we may breakfast ■ | our souls. You sty the frost kills. Yea, it kills some things, bnt we have ' a'ready seen that it gives health and ! life to others. This gospel is the savor of life unto life or of death As the frost is ’mighty, the gospel is mighty. As the frost descends from heaven, the gospel descends from ' heaven. By the breath ot God the I gos.rel is given. As the frost purifies, ; ■ to the grace of God’ purities. As the ■ I frost be tars the earth, so grace bejewels the soul. As the frost prepares for food many things that otherwise ’ would be inedible, so the froit of trial ripens aud prepares food for tne soul. In the tight grip of the frost the hard shells of walnut aud chestnut and hickory open, and the luxuries of the woods ' come into our laps or upon our tables; ; l so the frost of trial takes many a hard I and prickly shell and crushes it until I that which stung the soul now feeds it. I There are passages of scripture that • once were enigmas, puzzles, riddles, I and impossible for you to understand, I but the frosts of trouble after awhile i exposed tho full meaning to your soul, i You said, “I do not see why David I keeps rolling over in his Psalms the ' s ory of how he was pursued and peri secuted.l* He describes himself as | surrounded by bees. He savs, “They ! compassed me about like bees; yea, they compassed me about like bees.” j You think what an exaggerating thing I for him to exclaim, “Out of the depths i of hell have I cried unto thee, OLordl” I And there is so much of that style of j lamentation in his writings you think ' he overdoes it, but after awhile a frost I comes upon you in the shape of persei cution, and vou'are stuck with this i censure, and stuck with that defamai tion. and stuck with some falsehood, | and lies in swarms arc buzzing, buzzling about yottr ears. and at you j understand wbat David meant when he said, “They compassed mo about Ji te | bees,” and you go down under nervous I prostration and feel that you are as far down as David when ho cried. “Out of I the depths of hell.” I What opened all those chapters that i hitherto had no aim: opriateness? I Frost j! For a long while the Bible I seemed Irpsided and a disproport'onate 1 amount of it given up to the co t: oai tory. Why page after page and chapi ter after chapter und book after book ! in the Bi Io taken up with alleviations. with pacification >, with coido ences? The book seems like an apothecary st >re with one-half of the shelves occupied with balsams. Why such a sunerflfuity of balsams? But after awhile the membranous’ croup carries off your chi d. or your health gives way under the grip, or your property is swept off by a bad investment, or perhaps all three troubles c me at once - bankruptcy, sickness, and bereavement. Now tun con olatory parts of the Bible do not seem to be disprODirtio ate. You want tometliing off almost all the shelves of that sacred disp. n ary, What has uncovered and. exposed to you the usefulness of so mu ho; the Biule that was before hiden? The frosts have been fulfilling their mission. Put down a l the promises of the Bible on a table for study, and put on one side the table a man who has never bad any .trouble, or very little of it.but pile upon the table beside him all encyclopedias, and a'.l dictionaries, and and ad arcxologies, and all common- j tarios, and on the other side of the , table put a man who has had trial upon trial, disaster upon disaster, and let him begin the study of the promises, , without lexicon without, commentary, . without any book to explain or help, | andd;h s latter man will understand far i more of the height and depth and 1 length and breadth of those promises than the learned exegete oppsito. al- • most submerged In sacred literature, i The one has the advantage over the : other because ho his felt the mission: of the frosts. O, take the consolation I of this theme, ye to whom life is a, struggle, and a disappointment, and a ; gantlet, and a pang. That is a beauti-' ful proverb ameng the Hebrews which i says, “When the tale of bricks is! doubled, then Moses comes." Mild doses of medicine will do for | mild sickness, but violent pains need i strong doses, and bo I stand over you i and count out some drops that wD*'

alleviate your worst troubles if yon will only take the medicine, and here it is: “In the world ye shall have tribulation, but lie of g<s>d cheer. I have overcome the world.” “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Thank God for frosts I What helped make Milton tho greatest of poets.-' Tho frost of blindness. What helped to make Washington tho greatest of generals? The frosts of Valley Forgo. What made it appropriate for ono passing John Bunyan s grave to exclaim, “Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers?” The frosts of imprisonment. Tho greatest college from which wo can gradnat-i is the collego ot frosts. Especial trial fits for especial work. Just now watch, and you will see that trouble is preparative,ani educational. That is tho grindstone on which battle axes aro sharpened. I have always noticed in my own case that when tho Lord had so.rie especiil work for mo to do it was preceded by especial attack upon me. This is so proverbial in my own house that if for something I say or do I get poured upon mo a volley of censure ami anathema, my wife always i asks: "I wonder what opportunitv of I usefulness is about to open? Something I good and grand is surely coming!” What is true in my case is true on a larger or smaller scale in the history of every man and woman who wan's to servo the Lord. Without complaint take tho hard knocks. You will see after awhile, though you may not apurociate it now, that by tho breath of a good and lo.ing GoJ frost is gifen. Let tho cornersof your mouth, so long drawn down in complaint, be drawn up in smiles of content. For many years poets and essayists • have celebrated the grace and swifti nossot tho Arabia-n itorsga. The most wonderful exhibition of horsemanship i that I ever witnessed was just outside of the city of Jerusalem—an Arabian i steed mounted by an Arab. Do you . know wherp these Arabian horses got their flqetness and poetry of motion? : Long centuries ago Mohammed, with i cO,(M) cavalry on the march, could find : for them not a drop of water for three i days. Coming to the top cf a hill i a river was in sight. With wild i dash the 30,000 horses started for the i; stream. A minute after an armed host i | was seen advancing, and at MohamI med’s command 100 bugles blew for the | horses to fall in line, but all the 30.000 11 continued the wild gallop to the river, ■ I except five, and they, almost dead with ! I thirst, wheeled into line of battle. i Nothing in hnman bravery and self ■ sacrifice excels that bravery and self : sacrifice of those five Arabian war- > horses. Those five splendid steeds ' Mohammed chose for his own use, and i from those five came that race of Arabian horses for ages the glory of the f equestrian world. And let me say that fI in this great war of truth ag irist er- • I ror, of holiness against sin and Heaven l : against hell, the best warhorses are I - descended from who under pang i ' and self denial and trouble answered i . the gospel trumpet and wheeled into ■ | line. Out of the great tribulation, out ■ |of great fires, out of great frosts, they ; rettme.j I | And let me say it will not take long i | for GoJ to make up to t?ou in the next i ' world for all you have suffered in this. . l As you enter Heaven He may say: > ■ “Give this man one of those towered I * and colonnadei palaces on the ridge oj ■ gold overlooking the sea of glass. Give . ' this woman a home among those amaII rintbine blooms and between those t' fountains tossing in the everlasting i sunlight. Give her a couch canopied >, with rainbows to pay her for all the fa- , i tigues of wifehood and motherhood and > housekeeping, from which she had no • rest for forty years. i “Cupbearers qi Seaven, give these > newly arrived souls from earth the 11 costliest beverages and roll to their I door the grandest chariots, and hang i ' on their walls the sweetest harps that ■ i ever thrummed to fingers seraphic, i' Give to them rapture cn rapture, ce'e- ; | bration on celebration, jubilee on jubi- . i lee, heaven on heaven. They had a I hard time on earth earning a liveli- . : hood, or nursing sick children, or t j waiting on querulous old age, or bat- , ; tling falsehoods that were told about , j them, or were compelled to work after i they got short breathed and rheumatic . ! and dim sighted. lj “Chamberlainsof Heaven! Keepers ); of the king's r cs! Banqueters oi -: eternal royalty! Make up to them a i hundredfold, a thousandfold, a millionr ; fold for all they suffered from swad- , I dling clothes to shroud, and let all ’ j those who, whether on the hills, or in ■ j the temples, or on tne thrones, or on i jasper wall, were helped and sanctified ’ and prepared for this’ heavenly realm f , by the mission of the frosts, stand up : and wave thdir scepters!” And I ; looked, and behold, nine-tenths of ■ the ransomed rose to their feet end i nine-tenths of the scepters swayed to ■ and fro in the light of the sun that , 1 never sets, and then I understood, far • better than I ever did before.'that 1 trouble comes for beneficent purpo e. i: and that on the coldest nights tho i aurora is brightest in the northern ; heavens, and that “by the breath of • . God frost is given.” ! I An Optimistic View oflt. , I When, during the present month, ' three or four times as many peoule 1 are killed in a s ngle explosion of 1 dynamite as have been killed on all the railroads ot the United States ’ dur.ng the entire year, that may well ; be spoken ot as appalling. But, after . all with deaths from accidents by i high explosi .es, by steam, bye ec-, : tricity ami by all other dangerous agencies of civilization, we have an • always lesser Ing risk. Os course this ’ cannot be demonstrated by figures, to convince anyone who knows something of history that the ordinary . citizen of America has ten chances of living his lite out to one chance enjoyed by anyone of his ancestors in Europe tbe centuries ago. Civilization nas its disadvantages but iis risks arc not appalling at all when compared with the risks of not . coming as civilized as possible.—St. i Louis l.epublic. Gave Him the Merest Hint. A bashful youth of some twenty summers was paying his addres.es to i a young lady who |had long, since despaired ot bringing things to a crisis. One night he called, and they sat in the gloaming, their hearts pulsating wth the tender jiassion. After settling the merits ot the weather the girl looked shyly into the face of her i timid lover and cxelaiiued: i “idreanied of you last night, John." “Did you? Why—now!” I “Yes, I dreamed that you kissed me ” I “Why! now. what did yov dreitu i your mother said.-” i “Oh. Idi earned she was away from home." ' A light dawned upon the ymng i man's intellect. A singular sound ; the surrounding stillness and iin less than a month they will be | married. —Memphis Commercial. j The charge at Balaklava would never have been a failure if there had i been a few plumbers in the ranks of ' the gallant 009.

THE HIGHEST AWARD. Royal Baking Powder Has All ths Honors -In Strength and Value 20 Per Cent. Above Its Nearest Competitor. The Royal Baking Powder has the enviable record of having received the highest award for articles of Its class —greatest strength, p irest ingredients, most perfectly cimbined wh irevor exhibited in competition with others. In the exhibitions of former year <,at the Centennial, at Paris, Vienna, and at the various BtatS and Industrial fairs, whore it has boon exhibited, judges have invariably awarded the Royal Baking Powder the highest honors. At tne recent World’s Fair the examinations for the baking powder awards were directed by the chief chemist of the Agricultural Department at Washington. The chief chemist's official report of the tests of the baking powders, which was made for tho specific p irptsi of a'Cortaining which wai ti e best., shows the leavening strength of the Royal to lie h 0 cubic inches of carbcnic gas pur ouuco of powder. Os the cream of tartai’ biking powders exhibited, the nexi highoit in strength tested contained but 133 cubic inches of leavening gas. The other powders gave an average of 111. The Royal, therefore, was found of 20 jier cent, greiter leavening strength than its nearest competitor, and ss per cent, ab >ve tho average of all tho other tc-ts. Its superiority in other respects, however, in the quality of the food it makes as to fineness, delicacy and wholesomeness, could not bo measured by figures. It ii t ese high qualities, known and apprec'ated by the women o£ the country for so many years, that hate caused the sales of tne Royal Baking Powder, as shown by statis tics, to exceed the sale of all other baking powders combined. The Wine Fly. It may be the “invisible spirit of wino,” which Sbakspeare sp.aks of, that materializes in the worm and subsequent fly, called tae bibio. or wine fly. These worms are born in the sediment of wine, in empty casks and in drippings 'rom wine vesse’s and presses. They grow for about seven weeks, and then enter into the nymph state. Alter about ten days theirshell breaks, and the ily comes out. The insect is extremely small, whCn its wings are 1 not extended, not exceeding the size of a pin's head. The brea-t and body 1 are yellow, the reticu’atel eyes are red, and the wings posse-s a'l t:.e col- . os of the rainbow. Ti ev prove very interesting to microte ipists. and are found to Lave all tho regular parts of. ' common flies. Their antennae are oval and flatter, and their legs ana ' every other part are perfectly formed. Babv'ft Profession. i A Parisian stroller haspickcd up the ; , follow.ng particulars of a ccnversation , which j as.-ed in an emigration office, j The fattier of a family presents himi sols and asks for tickets. ; “How many are you?" asks the : agent. "Three—l, my wife and my child.” “Good: your age. your profession?” • “Thirty years, carpenter: my wife, twenty-lour, needle-woman.” "Tne boy?” asks the agent. I “Eeven months.” — — - > “His profession’” ' The father s eyebrows formed gothic ’ arches on his forehead. , “His profession, I say?” repeated the , agent, angriiy; "we have no time to i lose.” The father reflects, and at last reI plies,— i “Bachelor!” Ambiguous. i A New York clergyman, who was preaching in a neighboring village, as- ■ tonished the congregation by s .ying: ; “I wish to return to New 'York by the first train, as 1 have a wife and five chil- ■ dren there, and have never seen one of • them.” This declaration excited the i most painful curiosity amongthe good • people, which was allayed,“Tiowever, ■ when it became known that the “one” • which the clergyman had never seen ; was one that had been born since he • left home the day before. I t ■ . » Tbe Difference. i One of the stories of the Midway Plaisance is of the mosque there, i where prayers were said daily, at reg-j • ular intervals, for the natives. A pious woman passing accosted a young I Oriental and chatted with him, linishi ing with a nod toward his prayer-house i and the remark: “I hops you go to church every Sunday, like a Chris- i tian.” “No,” was the quick reply; “j 1 go every day, like a Turk.” Burial of a Pope. ' With much pomp and befitting cere--1 mony the remains of Bone Alexander ' V., who died in 1410 at Ea ogna. have ; at length been detin te'y entombed ina menutnerital crypt constructed at the > expense of the present Pontiff in the 1 Church of San hrancisco at Balogna. I ' This is the ti th time that the unfortui ate Alexander V. has been moved since his demise. Winter Tourist. Kates. Rates lower than usual to alt points in Florida and the South, In effect from all points on or via the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton It. It. D. 0. Edwards. General Passenger Agent. Cincinnati, O. There Are Limits to Man's Endurance. Excited Citizen—l want a man arrested ! I've been assaulted, and I ’ wasn't doing a thing but walking along the street in a quiet, order y. and inofl'i nsive manner, an.d whistling. Policeman—Em-er-what tune were you whistling? USE BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES for Coughs. Colds, and all other Throat Troubles. ’Pre-eminently the best."—fieo, He/ire Ward Beecher. •• Parents are having another rainy day; school books have to be bought. Anvone would bejusthiedJn recommending Beecham's Pills for all affections us the liver and other vital organs. A WISE man is one who appreciates the bright things you say. What You Read i. w About Hood’s IS 30 ■ ■ , . The testimonlsls published in behalf of Hood's Sarsaparilla are not purchased, nor nr? they written up in our office, nor are they fio'n our employ, s. They aro simple statements of facts from peoplj whom Hood s Sarsaparilla has cured, published without sensationalism or fictitious headlines. They prove cesitiv.-ly that Hood's Sars parilla possesses absolute merit and that HOOD’S Sarsaparilla CURES Bold by all druggists, tl per bottle: six sorta. Hood’s PHl*’ core liver Us, jaundice, bllloosseaa. alak headaohe aud fiidliestion. Zia

Queer ret* An animal which makes a most agreeable pet, but is rarely tamed on account of its fur value, Is the North American beaver. A well known In J dian trader, some years ago, tamed several of these hard working fellows, so that they answered to their names and followed liko a dog. In cold weather they were kept in tho sitting room, and were constant companions of tbe women and children. When tho Indians were absent for any great timo the beavers showed great uneasiness, an 1 on their return disiovered equal signs of pleasure by fondling them, crawling into their laps lying on their | backs liko a squirrel, and behaving | like children in the presence of parents whom they selaom see. In the r wild [ state beavers feed on bark and herbage chiefly, but in their case they feed for the most part on rice, plum pudding, partridge and verilson, and they liked all of them extremely. A Hardy Lltt'e Cactus. There grows upon the sands of the Atlantic coast, at least as far north as the Virginia line, a little cactus with a pretty yellow flower. It flouri hes in the driest seasons and where naught but bare sand is visible for inanv square yards. The secret of itssrurdy growth amid hard conditions is found p rhaps in the c aracler of its roots. They are long and tough, like twine cords, and radiating in several directions they convey to the plant whatever moisture the ground contains for yards around. Oddly enough, too, this cactus, when torn up by the roots and conveyed north, seems to live on indefinitely under entirely new conditions its roots cut short, planted in clay soil and abundantly watered. What Ho Tbonglit. Down in South Caro'ina (said tie Hon. W. J. Talbert of Sjuj.h Carolina, in a recent speech in tlie House;,there was a man who hired a lawyer to conduct ac: se in court. As the lawyer was not talking exactly to suit him, he got up to make a few remarks himself. The Judge, of course, n ade him take his seat. He got up again, and the Judge made him take his seat again. A third and fourth time this happened, and, finally, the old farm r got up and _Baid:_ "Well. Judge, ii yoi won t let me talk, won’t you let me think?” "Why, certain'y.” rep ied the Judge. "Well, Judge,” he sail, "I think you and a'l these lawyers are a set of d d rascals.” Boarded by an Owl in Midocean. A large and curious white owl held captive on board the Red Star line s eamship Pennsylvania, which has just arrived from Antwerp, creates a great deal of interest among all having any busin ss on board the ship, and has : become qu.te a oat among the sailors. The strange visitor came on board the Pennsylvania Oct. 24. when about 1,400 miles off from the Eng.ish coast. It flew into the rigging of the Pennsylvania ear y in the morning in an exhausted state, and had no doubt been carried off from the coast in a gale of wind.—Philadelphia Press. A Straight Line of Railway. The longest reach of railway without a curve is that of the New Argentine Pacific Railway, from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes. For 211 miles it is without a curve and has no cutting or embankment deeper than two or three feet. THE MODERN MOTHER Has found that her little ones are improved niore by the pleasant laxat re. Syrup of Figs, when in need of the laxative effect of a gentle remedy than by any other, and that it is more acceptable to them. Children enjoy it and it benefits them. The true remedy. Syrup of Figs, is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. About the rarest thing in the world is the divorced womaai who wouldn’t get married again if she could. Saxby's Query to In-ersolL This beautiful song, (words and muste, regular sheet music size ) will be m ailed to any one enclosing 5 cents in stamps to D. G. Edwards. General Passenger Agent C.. H, & D. R. R., Cincinnati. Ohio. A man always feels abused when he gees home and finLs the hoase : locked up. For weak and inflamed eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. It is a carefully prepared physician’s prescription. Almost every woman looks better dressed in mourning than in anything else. •. Hatch’s Universal Cough Syrup most prompt, pleasant, aud effectual. 25c. The most stupid person in the world can say tome very funny things when 1 ho abuses his kin. I Ser “Colchester' Spading Boot ad. iu • other column. The trouble with letting love in, young man. is that when yoa open the door, it lets ambition out. FITS! AD fit* tnp,«d fr e b.- Dr. K i e’- Qrcnt Nerre Rojo er. 2\*»ftt'n.i r hr* dav’e uwe- M rvt-i u-ctuiiK Trea i e: n < $-.<w> trial > o t e to F t tea*i to br. Kline. 931 The smaller the man, the larger the badge he wears.

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“German Syrup” Judge J. B. Hill, of the Superior Court, Walker county, Georgia, thinks enough of German Synip to send us voluntarily a strong letter endorsing it. When men of rank and education thus'use and recommend an article, what they say is worth the attention of the public. It is above suspicion. “ I have used your German Syrup," he says, "for my Coughs and Colds on the Throat and Lungs. I can recommend it for them as a first-class medicine.”— Take no substitute. ’ iii i ■ It Corel Colds.Cou-h, Snre ThroitCrcnrJafluMl. ra, Whooping Cough. Bronchitisand Asthma. A certain core for Consumption in first atagea, an! * sure relief in advanr-d ataeea. Bae at or.co. You will aee tho excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold ty dealer! everywhere. Larfi* bottles CO -enta and $ 1.00. . ff REWARD I VtiX (J Q WILL BK PAID I To ANY MAH or WOMAN, Youth or Maiden, between the of 16 and 70, who ■ can twipply the full 1.-t of rerrwt answers t« the fol- ■ lowing four Skeleton W<»rt>htvdiks, and apropor- ■ tionate award for A SINGLE VVLXNLSG ANbWEK tc M ANY ONE of the four. || HERE ARE THE 4 BRAIH-BURHISHtRS : | What many pollt oßoooooNT 1 11 1 ' would like to be. _ _ _.. Desirable for as! »o- * A I-II All men ’ “d 2 " ILft those witn plain or unattractive face*. A That for whkh women QQ \ fond of showy attire often w speud uh> Uiuch money. 4 I IIT Desirable in their “ biwinee* ** OH I 1,7 C'rbettc Mitchell, 111 Sullivan, aud o tilers. COSTS NOTHING TO TRY| Simply write out what, after careful study, yon be- R Here .w the answers required to win the S2O reward ; M AND DON’T FORGET thftt if yoer answers are only par- K tially right you will still win a just proportion of the M full reward. Then write yonr name and padres* an- ■ deraeath your answers and mail them to this aadrea* ; U AH. PUB, CO, Clerk 86, Jersey City, N. J. ■ You are not required to send a penny of money H with vour answers—not even return postage on tho |B Awarding Committee's reply to you- we pay that. NiCKSLpATE SOLID THROUGH TRAINS BUFFALO LOWESIWTHROUGH SLEEPING CARS between Cbicager Buffalo, New York and Boston. SUPERB DINING CARS. Cuisine Unrivaled. For r'te« ■: oth.T information, cai] on nearest Ticket Agent, or «• • R* A. W. JOHNSTON, 0 B. F. HORNER, Gen’l Saperintcndent Gen'] Paa eager Ggenk CLEVETAND. O I Miss r)el,a Stevens > Scrofula V ways suffered from heieditary Scrofula,, I for which I tried various remedies, and | many reliable physicians,butnonerelieved , !me. After taking six bottles of I am now well. lam very grate- wICIrJI ful to you as I feel that it saved me from a life of untold agony, and ;[ shall take pleasure in | ■Uffjll > speaking only words of w** ' ( praise for the wonderful medicine, and i ]' in recommending it to all. [ ' 1 Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. 1 ;! SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Ely's Cream WILL, CUKE ? CATARRHrS i Price 50 Cents. I ■■■■■■■■■l yA Apply Balm Intoeach nostril. ELY BROS., Ju Warren St.»N.Y.

DO YOU LIKE TO TRAVEL! READ THIS ABOUT CALIFORNIA! TheWABASIJ RAILROAD has placed on sale low rate single and round trip tickets io all principal Pacific coast points, giving a wide choice of roulM both going and returning, with an ex* treine return limit of Nine Months Stop overs are granted at pleasure on round trip tickets west of St Louis and tho Missouri River, and by taking the WABASH but one Change of cars is necessary to reach Los Angeles San Francisco. San Diego. Sacramento and Portland. Ore. Remember the WABASH 1* the peoples favorite route and is lhe only line running magnificent free Reclining Chair Cars and Palace Sleepers In al) through fast trains to St. Louts, Kan.-M City and Omaha. For Rates, inapt, and genera! information, call upon or ad< rets any of the undermentioned Passenger Agents of the Wabash System. R. G. BUTLER. 1> P A., Patrott, Mich. F. H. TRISTRAM. C. P. A.. Pittsburg Pa. P. E. DOMBAUGH P AT. A.. Juludu. Ohio. R G. THOMPSON P. & T. A., Fori, w avue, 104 J. HALDERMAN. M. P. A., W1 Ciarh St.. CMcgo. Tl> G. 0. MAXFIELD. D. P. A., tndianapoii., Ind - .uni rn g r ,t. r's . si. I o"i- W" ■ K W. N. No. When Writing to Advurtlwrd. nay yon MW Che JLdrwUMuwnt lu ihU paper.