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THE TRpTH ABOUT RUSSIA

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The Situation Is Viewed by "Dr. TaJm^ge. __ Si 'fin Klotinently Itofutea tho Stories Told .Befiardlng Cruelty and the C/.ar'a -Si-

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"Rev. Br. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Sunday, and fulfilled his promise to speak again of his recent visit to Russia and to refute the cal--uranies told of that people. If presented in full his sermon would oc.«upy seven columns of this type. Wo therefore are compelled to be •content with copious extracts and •condensations. His text was from II Peter, ii, 10. Pie said:

Anion# a most reprehensible crew Peter here paints by one stroke the portrait of "those who delight to slash aft people in authority. Now we all Ii&ve a right to criticise evil behavior. whether in high places or low, but the fact that one is high up is no proof that he ought to be brought "down. It is a bai streak of human 'Stature now, as it was in the lime of the text a bad streak of human nature, that success of any kind excites the jealous antipathy of those "who cannot climb the same steep.

There never was a David on the throne that there was not sotne Absalom who wanted to get it. There never was a Christ but the world had a saw an:l hammer read}'to fashion across on which to assassinate him.

Out of this evil spirit grow not only individual but national and international defamation. To no country has more injustice been done to our own in days that are $ast. Long before "Martin Chuzzle-

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was printed the literature of ".the world scoffed at everything American. Victor Huiro. as honest as he was unequalled in literary power, was so misinformed regarding America that he wrote "The most singu iar thing is the need of whittling, '®cith which all Americans are possessed. It is such that on Sunday they give the sailors little bits of wood, because if they did not they would whittle the ship. In court, at the most critical moment, the judge, whittling, says: 'Prisoner, are you jguily?' and the accused tranquilly responds, whittling, 'lam not guilty."'

But there is a sister nation on the other side of the sea now going through the process of international defamation. There is no country on -earth so misunderstood as Russia, and no monarch more misrepresented Ifehan its emperor. Will it not be in the cause of justice if I try to set .right the minds of those who compose this august assemblage and the etiinds of those to whom, on both sides of the ocean, these words shall tome? If the slander of one person Is wicked, then the slander of one 'hundred and twelve million people is sue hundred and twelve million times •more wicked.

In the name of righteousness, and tin behalf of civilization, and for the .•..encouragement of all those good people who have been disheartened by the ocandalization of Russia, I now ipealr. But Russia is so vast a subject that to treat it in oue discourse la like attempting to run Niagara falls over one mill wheel. Do not .-'think that the very marked courtestSes extended me last summer by the :Emperor and Empress and Crown •Prince of Russia have complemented "tie into the advocacy of that empire, ""lot* I shall present you authenticated facts that will reverse your opinions. they have been antagonistic, as mine were reversed.

I went last summer to Russia with .as many baleful prejudices as would make an avalanche from the mountain of fabrication which has for •years been heaped up against that empire. You ask how is it possible that such appalling misrepresentations of Russian could stand? I ac ••count for it by the fact that the

Russian language is to most an im(pussable wall. Malign the United .^States or malign Great Britain or

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••••-cablegram the falsehood is exposed, •lor we all understand English, and many of our people are familiar with -••German and French. But the Rus*sian language, beautiful and easy to those born to speak it, is to most vocal organs an unpronouncable •••.-'tongue, and if at St. Petersburg or

Moscow anv anti-Russian calumny were denied the most of the world •outside of Kussia would never see or •Lear the denial.

What are the motives for misrepresentation? Commercial interests and international jealousy Russia r? is as large as all the rest of Europe put together.

Why does not Europe like Russia? Because she has enough acreage to wswallow all Europe and feel she had -only half a meal. Russia is as long ».&s North and South America put tofjj:£ether. "But." says some one, "do you mean to charge tho authors and -Mhe lecturers who have written or if spoken against Russia with false-

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Then I bethought myself, Do the people in America hold the government at Washington responsible for t/he Homestead riots or for railroad Insurrections, or for the torch of the viilian that consumers a block of •houses, or for timrulfians who arrest a rail train, making the passengers hold up their arms until the pockets ure picked? Why, then, hold tho -emperor of Russia, who is as impressive and genial a man as I have ever looked at or talked with, responsible for the wrongs enacted in a nation a oopulation twice as large in numbers as the millions of America?

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country smllt nave right ifcleae concerning Russia, for amonjr all the nations this side of heaven feussia is America's best friend. Tlfere has not been an hour in the la^t'seventy years that the shipwreck of free institutions in America would not have called from all the despotisms of Europe and Asia a shout of gladness wide as earth and deep as perdition. But whoever else failed us, Russia never did, aud whoever else was doubtful, Russia never was. Russia, then an old government, smiled on the cradle of our government while yet in its earliest infancy. Empress Catharine of Russia, in 1776 or thereabouts.offered kindly interference that our thirteen colonies might not go down under the cruelties of war.

Again, in 1813, Russia stretched forth toward us a merciful hand. When our dreadful raging aivl the two of northern and clashed, Russia practically said to the nations of Europe, "Keep your hands off and let the brave men of the north and the south settle their own troubles.

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I stood on New York Battery during the war, as I suppose many of you did, looking off through a magnifying glass upon a fleet of Russian ships. "What are they doing there?" I asked, and so every one asked. Word came that aothcr fleet of Russian ships wasj in San Francisco harbor. "What does this mean?" our rulers asked but did not get an immediate answer. In these two American harbors the Russian fleets seemed sound asleep. Their great mouths of iron spoke not a word, and the Russian flag, whether floating in the air or drooping by the flagstaff, made no auswer to our inquisitiveess.

Not until the war was over was it found out that in case of foreign intervention all the guns and the last gun of these two fleets in New York aud San Francisco harbors were to open in full diapason upon any foreign ship that should dare to interfere with the right of the Americans, North and South, to settle their own controversy.

But for those fleets and their presence in American waters there can be no doubt that twoof the mightiest nations of Europe would have mingled in our light. But for these two fleets the American' government would have been to-day only a name in history. I declare before God and the nation that I believe Russia saved the United States of America.

And now I propose to do what I told the emperor and empress and all the imperial family at the palace of Peterhof I would do if I ever got back to America, and that is to answer some of the calumnies which have been announced and reiterated and stereotyped against Russia.

Calumny the First—The emperor and all the imperial family are in perpetual dread of assassination. They are practically prisoners in the winter palace, and trenches with dynamite have been found dug around the winter palace. They dare not venture forth, except preceded and followed aud surrounded by a most elaborate military guard.

My answer to this is that I never saw a face more free from worriment than the emperor's face. Tho winter palace, around which the trenches are said to have been charged with dynamite, and in which the imperial family are said to be prisoners, has never been the residence of the imperial family one moment since the present emperor has been on the throne.

The winter palace lias been changed into a museum and a picture gallery and a place of great levees. He spends his summers in the palace of Peterhof, fifteen or twenty miles from St. Petersburg his autumns at the palace at Gratschna, and his winters in a palace at St. Petersburg, but in quite a different part of the city to that occupied by the winter palace. He rides through the streets unattended, except by the empress at his side and the driver on the box. There is not a person in this audience more free from fear of harm than he is. His subjects not only admire him but almost worship him.

There are cranks in Russia, but have we not had our Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth? "But," says some one, "did not the Russians kill the father of the present Emperor?" Yes, but in the time that Russia has had one assasination of Emperor America has had two Presidents assasinated. "But is not the Emperor an autocrat?" By which you mean, has he not power without restriction? Yes, but it all depends upon what use a man makes of his power.

A i*e you an autocrat in your factory, or autocrat in your store, or an autocrat in your style of business? It all depends on what use you make of your power, whether to bless or to oppress, and from the time of Peter the Great—that Russian who was the wonder of all time, the Emperor who became incognito a ship carpenter that he might help ship carpenters, and a maohanic that he might help machanics, and put on poor men's garb that he might sympathize with poor men, and who in his last words said: "My Lord. I am dying. Oh, help my unbelief!" —I say from that time the throne of Russia has, for the most part, been occupied by rulers as beneficent and kind sympathetic as they were powerful.

Calumny the Second—If you go to Russia j'ou are under the severest espionage, stopped here and questioned there, and in danger of arrest. But my opinion is that if a man is disturbed iu Russia it is because he ought to be. Russia ta the only place in Europe it wUieh ay bagjfuge was

not examined. I carri££*M rny hand. tied together witl^&eord ^o their titles could be Men, a. pile of eight or ten books,-atiof them froni lid to lid cursing Russia, but I had no trouble in taking with me the books. There is ten times more di.ficulty in getting your luggage through the American custom house than througn the Russian. I speak not of myself, for friends intercede for me on the American'wharves and I am not detained. I was several days in Russia before I was asked if I had any passport at all.

Depend upon it, if hereafter a man believes he is uncomfortablj* watched by the police of St. Petersburg or Moscow it is because there is something suspicious about him. and you yourself had better, when he is around,look after your silver spoons. I promise you. an honest man or an honest woman, that when you go there, as many of you will—for European travel is destined to change its course from southern Europe to the northern regions—you will have no more molestation or supervisal than in Brooklyn or in New York or T.he quietest Long Island village.

Calumny the Third—Russia and its ruler are so opposed to any other religion except the Greek religion that they will not allow, any other that nothing but persecution and imprisonment and outrage intolerable await the disciples of any other religion. But what are the facts? I bad a long ride in St. Petersburg and its suburbs with the perfect, a brilliant licientand lovely man who is the higest official in the city of St. Petersburg, and whose chief business is to attend the Emperor. I said to him, "I suppose your religion is that of the Greek church?" "No," said I he I a a an W a is your religion?" I said to one of the highest and most influential officials at St. Petersburg. He said "I aui of the Church of England."

Myself an American, of still another denomination of Christians, and never having been inside a Greek church in my life until I went to Russia, could, no.t have received more consideration had I been baptized in the Greek church and all my life worshiped at her altars. I had it demonstrated to me very plainly that a mail's religion in Russia has nothing to do v^ith his preferment for either office or social position. The only questions taken into consideration are honesty, fidelity, morality and adaption. I had not been in St Petersburg an hour before I received an invitation to preach the Gospel of Christ as I believed it. Besides all this have you forgotten the Crimean war, which shook the earth, grthv out of Russia's interference in behalf of the presecuted Christians of all nations"in Turkey?

Calumny the Fourth—Russia is so very grasping of territory, and she seems to want the world. But what are the facts? During the last century and a quarter the United States have taken possession of everything between the thirteen colonies and the Pacific ocean, and England, during the same length of time, has taken possession of nearly three million square miles, and by the extent of her domain has added two hundred and fifty million population, whil.e Russia has added during that time only one half the number of square miles and about eighteen million of population England's advance of domain of two hundred and fifty million against Russia's advance of domain by .eighteen million.

Calumny the Fifth—Siberia is a den of horrors, and to-day people are driven like wild, dumb cattle no trial is afforded to the suspected ones they are put into quicksilver mines, where they are whipped and starved, and some clay find themselves going around without any head. Some of them do not get so far as Siberia. Women, after being tied to stakes in the street, are disrobed and whipped to death in the presence of howling mobs. Offenders hear their own flesh sizz under the hot irons.

But what are the facts? There are no kinder people on earth than the Russians, and to most of them cruelty is an impossibility. I hold in my hand a card. You see on it that "red circle. That is the government's seal on a card giving rne permission to visit all the prisons of St. Petersburg, as I had expressed a wish in that direction. As the messenger handed this card to me he told me that a carriage was at the door for my disposal in visiting the prisons. It so happened, however, that I was crowded with engagements and I could not make the visitation. But do you suppose such cheerful permission and a carriage to boot would have been afforded me if the prisons of Russia are such hells on earth as they have been described to be?

But how about Siberia? My answer is, Siberia is the prison of Russia, a prison more than twice the size of the United States. John Howard, who did more for the improvement of prisoners and the reformation of criminals than any man' that ever lived, his name a svnonvm for mercy throughout Christendom, declared" by voice and pen that the system of transportion of criminals from Russia to Siberia was an admirable plan, advocating open air punishment rather than endungeonment, and also because it was taking all offenders hundreds of miles away from their evil companions. John Howard, after witnessing the plan of deportation of criminals from Russia to Siberia, commended it to England.

If a man commits murder in Russia he is uot electrocuted as we electrocute him, or choked to death by a baiter as we choke him to death. it ssia is the only country on earth 'rota which death penalty has been

driven, cx *ept ia case of high treason. Murdere and desperate vuliahs are sent to the hardest parts of Sibera, but no man is sent to Siberia or doomed to any kind of punishment in Russ a until he has a fair trial. So far as their being hustled off in the night and uot knowing why they are exiled or punished is concerned, alt the criminals in Russia have an opeu trial before a jurj' just as we have in America, except in revolutionary or r.otous times, and you know in America at such times the writ of habeas corpus is suspended.

But how about the knout,the cruel Russian knout, that comes down on the bare back of agonised criminals Why, Ru sia abolished the kuoufc before it was abolished from our American navy. But how about the political prisoners hustled off to Siberia According to the testimony of the most celebrated literary enemy of Russia, only four hundred aud forty-three pDiitical prisoners were sent to Siberia in twenty years. How many political prisoners did we put in prison pens during our four years of civil war Well, I will guess at least one hundred thousand. America's one hundred thousand political prisoners versus Russia's four hundred and forty-three political prisoners. Nearly all these four hundred and forty-three of twenty years were noblemen or people desperately opposed to the emancipation of the serfs. And none of the political prisoners are sent to the famous Kara mines.

For the most part you are dependent for information upon the testimony of prisoners who are sent to Siberia. They all say they were innocent. Prisoners alvays are innocent. Ask all the prisoners of America to-day, "guilty or not guilty?" and nineteen out of twenty will answer, "not guilty." Ask them how they like their prison, and how they like sheriffs, and how they like the Government of the United States, and you will find these prisoners ad mire the authority that arre:ted them and punished them just about as much as the political prisoners of Russia like Siberia.

But you ask how will this Russophobia, with which so many have been bitten and poieoued, be cured? By the God of Justice blessing such books and pamphlets as are now coming out from Professor de Am aud, of Washington Mr. Horace Cutter, of San Francisco Mr. Moriill, of England, and by the opening of our American gates to the writings of some twenty-four of the Russian authors and authoresses, in some respects as brilliant as the three or four Russian authors already known —the translation of those twentyfour authors, which I am authorized from Russia to offer free of charge to any responsible American publishing house that will do them justice.

Let these Russians tell their own story, for tbev are the only ones fully competent to do the work, as none but Americans can full}' tell the story of America, and as none but Germans can fully tell the story of Germany, and none but Englishmen can fully tell the story of England. and none but Frenchmen can fully tell the story of France, Meanwhile let the international defamation come to an end. Cease to speak evil of dignities merely because they are Presidents, aud of Emperors merely because they are Emperors.

And may the blessing of God the Father, and God the Son and Gcd the Holy Ghost be upon all the members of the imperial household of Russia, from the illustrious head of that family down to the Princess, seven years of ajre, who came skipping into mv presence in the palace of Peterhof last summer! Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men!

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The Editor of St, Nicholas, Before she became the editor of St Nicholas Mary Mapes Dodge was a perplexed widow with two heathy boys depending upon her. This was twenty-five years ago. She had been reading Motley's histories, and was carried into the land of dykes and windmills until she felt that she knew Holland nearly as well as America. The outlines of a story came into her mind, but she was determined that they should be of no faint tracings, bhe seized upon every book bearing upon the customs of the Dutch and the appearance of their country which she could find and devoured it. This was productive of a flesh aud blood tale—"Hans Brinkcr, or the Silver Skates which made her famous, it being not only translated into Dutch, but other languages. This brought her to the attention of the Century people, and so she came to be plut at the at the head errat iuvenUe periodical.

Religious Persecution.

Religious persecution still exists in Vieuna. A Methodist congregation was first formed there in 18t ). and after continuous interference it has been finally forbidden. For several years the Methodists have worshiped very privately, but about a year ago a" pplice officer visited the pastor and demanded to see the ar.iclesofhis religion. There being none in the Wesleyau Church, the pastor foiind a copy"of the twenty-five articles which Wesley chose from the thirty-nine articles of the Church of Erlglaud, and on the strength of the twienty-secoud, forbidding the mass asa blasphemous deceit, Methodist prtaching was prohibited in Vienna. The case was brought into tire courts with the same result, and the. Methodist pastor dare not now open his miuth.

For asthma soak blotting paper in strong saltpeter water dry, an-i burn atuight.

HUMANE yiLING.

Eha Has of Garboaio A&(3 as a Painless Substitute for hanging.

Electricity Will Not Eofcvo the End* of tlio Humanitarian—Coal Gas, or Water Gas will Destroy Life in Two Minutes.

Dr. Samuel W. Abbott, secretary of the Massachusetts state board of health, contributes the Boston Medical, and Surgical Journal an interesting paper relative to substituting for hanging some better and more humane method of inflicting the death penalty. Ia the preseut state of scientific knowledge of nature and effects upon the human system. Dr. Abbott is not prepared to nccept it as the best substitute at hand, saying of the experiments which have been made "It would appear from tho results that there are suitible hindrances to the adoption of this subtle agent." Without considering the main question as to whether some other method should take the place of hanging Dr. Abbott says that if a change is desirable, "in carbonic oxide we possess such an agent, which has the property of destroying rapidly and painlessly when properly ndministered." lie re. fers to the writings of Dr. 15. W. Richardson of London, who several years I ago brought the method to public notice for the destruction of small domestic animals, such as dojrs and cats, and especially to Dr. Rich'ardson's statement that 7,000 such !anim ils had been destroyed in London in a few months previous to the doctor's article on "The Painless Extinction of

Life." Dr. Abbott snys carbonic oxide may bo made from charcoal at small cost, or it may be obtained more cheaply still from the street m?»in.-3 or any coal and water gas company. Water gas he considers preferable to coal gas. since it contains from four to five times as much carbonic oxide, and would, therefore, be more rapid and fatal iu its action. He says: '^Vn atmosphere of 25 to 30 per cent of carbonic oxide,as in the case of water gas, or, still better, one of 50 per cent or more as may be made from charcoal, would undoubtedly destroy human life in less than two minutes without pain." Ho has himself used a mixture of about 7 per ce»t, with air, with perfect success in destroying small animals in from one to one und a half minutes without the appearance of pain.

Dr. Abbott goes to show that the apparatus for an execution may be of the simplest and most inxpensive kind, and suggests a tight wooden box three feet square and seveu feet high, a tightly fitting door, an aperture for admitting a gas pipe of liberal size for applying a rapid supply of gas under ordinary pressure from the street mains, and a small aperture to allow the expulsion of the air. If a higher percentage of carbonic oxide is desired a smiH charcoal furnace would bo required for generating it and storing it temporarily, as in the case of Dr. Richardson's lethal chamber. Of this methol Dr. Richardson says: "Compared with othjr methods of extinguishing animal life. such as hanging, drowning, poisoning by prtissic a -id, fjhooting, stunning, the lethal method stands far ahead on every ground of pr.iciical readiness, certainly humanity." In summing up, Dr. Abbott claims for carbonic oxide the advantages of painless death, rapid action and economy. In respect to the second point ho iys "Its action should not be confounded with the slow action

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ges of gas, such as illustrated by the accidental deaths often occurring in hotels. These almost invariably happen by exposure to the gas escaping from a mere pipe hole or slit in tho gas-burner, which consequently forms but 1 per cent of the air of the apartment, and destroys life slowly." In regard to economy, he says that the cost of the wooden box would be but a trillo, and the expense of 75 or 100 feet of gas is sc ireelv worth mentioning whon compared with the expensive apparatus required for an electrical execution.

JOSH BILLINGS.

A11 phools are poor listeners. Young man, don't grind your scythe all on one side.

The more you prase a man who don't deserve it the more you abuze him. Everybody in this world wants watching, but none more than ourselves.

A weak constitushun lean be strengthened, but a woak set ov branes kan't. Flattery iz like ice-kream to relish it good we want it little at a time and often.

Vanity is a strange pnshuu. Rather than be out ov a job it will brag of iis vices.

A wize man iz never konfounded hi what he don't understand, but a phool generally iz.

I don't know of a more lamentable sight than an old rake. Even repentance looks like weakness in him.

About all it tnkes tow make a wize man is tew giv other people's opinyuns as mutch weight az we do our own.

Fust impreshuns are sed tew be lasting. Enny man who ha/, only been stung bi a hornet once will swear to this.

The safest way for most folks to do iz to do az the rest do. There an't but phew who kaa navigate without a compass.

Fattening on Bread Sii.I Milk.

You will never find in all your travels a character more unique or interesting than Dr. Isaac Bartlett, of Hope, Me. Here is a man who has nearly lived his three score years and ten, a medical doctor, too. on one particular diet, namoly, bread and milk, not perhaps from any virtue in his own right, but more properly speaking because lie was born with a liking for bre and milk, and a taste or appetite, with slight cxccptions, for no other kind of food a man who has never eaten an ounco of meat in all his life, who has never taken a teaspoonful of intoxicating liquors of any kind, who has never used tobacco, tea or coffee, except in the case of coffee once or twice, but very weak, and- a man, too, who is hale and hearty, bright and active for a man of his age, and who tips the beam at 240 pounds.

SECRETS OP THE 8U What Science Learns With ttt of the Spectroscope.

The solar spectrum, as shown rainbow or dewdrop, says the Ana* has always been a familiar object^ mankind, but it is only within the 1 quarter of a century that the man ous facts written in the rays of lif from the sun and stars have been veaied to us.

One of the most useful applicatioiaif^ of the spectroscope is to the analysis' f: of different substances. Tho chemist would be unable to detect with bis reagents the presence of small qnantities of certain elements, but let trim bring the substance into the flame of ay lamp and glance through his spectroscope, iind in a moment their presence or absence is indisputably proved. A.... ten-thousaodth part of of sodium can be easily detected opt this means, and simply clapping his near the flame will give off enough" this omnipresent element to cause 1 characteristic yellow line to appear at once in the spectroscope., We have by this means proved the presence of the rare element lithium in the blood of a. 1 person who has been drinking a mineral water containing a trace of its salts.

Not only does spectrum analysis show us the presence of familiar elo-i ments. but sometimes lines are observed indicating the presence of those

previously unknown. But still more wonderful are the facts, made known to us when wo turn the spcctroscop3 toward the celestial bodies. Every ray of light reaching usj from the sun bears a message which,! with the aid of the spectroscope, we can read as easily as we can read those,, photographs which are only visible, through a miecroscope. The characters1 of many ancient inscriptions are stilli undeciphered. but the story told"" byr"^' the little dark lines crossing the spec-, trum is perfectly familiar to us, although only a few chapters of it have," as yet been interpreted.

We know that iron, sodium, platinum, find many other elements are present .-:.• in the sun in the shape of vapor, and it has been well said that if the word "iron" appeared on the disk of the sun the proof of its presence would be much, less perfect than is th -t furnished bythe lines it causes to appear in the solar spectrum. The spectrum of fixed stars, comets, nebulae, variable stars, etc., all give U3 an immense amount of information concerning them. We may judge of the temperature of the 7 stars and calculate tho speed at which 1, they are moving toward or from t.he earth. It tells us thatcomet3 are, in part at least, gisaous bodies, and distinguishes between those nebulae which are simply distant clusters 08 separate stars and those which are masses of glowing glass not yet cooled down to the liquid or solid state. -./••, /si

The spectroscope shows the presence of more or less moisture in the upper air, with the accompanying probability of rain or fair weather. It shows the presence of the constituents of blood ia solution, besides many other organic substances, and, finally, the spectrum, of the light from certain rare metals glowing in a vacuum under the influence of an electric current proves their compound nature, although to the coarser chemical and physioal tests they appear as simple elements.

Sparks and Flaihes.

The'sensational weekly is "a "fly paper. Men are led to hope and driven despair. '7-

Rooks with cheap covers are bound to sell. One may mako a nice cigar Jighter by simply reducing it to ashes.|g,

A man might never become a fence even were he continually a-railing. Doubtless an eccentric bard would readily get to be conspicuous by reason of his many odd-ditties.

Ah, no Reuben! The Woman's club so often referred to in the newspapers is neither a broomstick nor a roiling pin.

It would be perfectly safe to lay a heavy wager that generosity is not the motive which prompts a woman to give her husband a piece of her mind.

His nobbs canrotsee why there need bo any difficulty in deciding upon a suitable place for holding the world's fair. A peep into some cozy parlor, after the old folks ive retired, might do not a little toward effecting a speedy solution of the problem

HEALTH MINTS.

Don't shako a hornets' nest to see if any of the family ar3 at home. Don't try to take the right of way from an express train at a railroad crossing.

Don't go near a uraft. If a draft comes toward you, run way. A sight draft is the most dangerous.

Don't blow in the gun your grand- '.Js father carried in the war of 1812. It is more dangerous now than it was then.

Don't hold a wasp by the other end whiie you thaw it out in front of the stove to see if it is alive. It is generally alive.

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Don't try to persuade a bull-dog to give up a yard of which he is in possession. Possession to a bull-dog is ten points of the law. ,s|^

Don't go to bed with your boots on. This is one of the must unhealthy practices that a man, ospeoially a married man, can bo addicted to.

Tlic Youth and tlio Eg?s.

A flippant young man entered a Brooklyn grocery, and after eating a dollar's worth of things that were loose asked the woman clerk: "Are these eggs fresh?" "Not by comparison," replied the woman, quietly. The young man thought very hard for a moment, bought tho eggs, and hurried away.

It Was a Shock.

The other morning, when a Chicago paper made the statement that the. water supply of that city whs costing $1,000,000 per year, thousands oi citizen* gave a start of surprise. Thejl know they never used any, and the e* travagant waste 01 others stunned an41 amazed them.