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It is among the probabilities that the United States may soon see the last of her liritannic majesty’s popular diplomatic representative. Sir Julian Pauneefote. It was learned the other day from privnto sources that Lord Bufferin, the British ambassador at Paris, | will shortly retire. The date of his retirement is still a state secret, while the name of his successor, which is a matter of frequent speculation in Lon1 don, i.; yet unknown. The embassy at ; Paris is the most important diplomatic I post within the gift of the liritish foreign office, and it lias always been held by an ambassador of high standing. A precedent for the transfer of Sir Julian Pauncefote from Washington to Paris was created some years ago when Lord Lyons, the British minister at this point, was sent as her majesty’s rupresentativc to the French capital. All the delicate questions arising between the United States and Great Britain of late years have been handled by Sir Julian in a spirit of great friendliness to the United States, to which country he is very partial, and also to the satisfaction of the London foreign office. He would, it is well known, leave Washington with regret, owing to the agreeable intercourse of himself and family with the American people. Still, it is said, the British mission to Paris is like the presidency of the United States—no one was ever known to decline it.

One of the first thing's to engage the attention of President Cleveland, now that he has returned to Washington, will probably be the appointment of a fish commissioner in place of Col. Marshall McDonald, who died last summer. Active aspirants to the position number a dozen or more, while fully forty persons have been named in connection with the place. It is one of the most desirable in the government service. The annual salary is f.I.OOO and the commissioner is practically independent. He reports to the president, and is subject only to congress which provides the necessary funds for carrying on the work. Besides the salary there are other attractions which the place affords, traveling on journeys of inspection, by sea and by land, and the use of the commission vessels for some of tlycse trips. So it is not strange that there are a sufficient number of applicants for the president to make a suitable selection.

When Mrs. Cleveland with her three little daughters, and accompanied by the nurse, the governess, and maid, arrived in Washington on their return from Buzzard’s Bay, there were in the same ear and close to the party as they entered their carriages three secret service officers, one of whom was the brother of Chief Uazen. It apppears the attendance of these officers had not been merely temporary, but during the stay of the president’s family at Buzzard's Bay there was a detail watching the premises day and night in order to protect the president, his wife and little ones from cranks anil evil-minded persons who might try in the seclusion of that place to work personal harm to Mr. or Mrs. Cleveland or to kidnap one or more of the children. This custom of traveling with government detectives near their persons was not adopted by any of Mr. Cleveland's predecessors, and the precaution now is said to be taken on account of the anxiety of the president’s friends. Every day or so some crank or other visits the white house and the daily mail of the president contains threatening epistles, which, by the way, never reach his eye, p.s the watchful Thurber deposits them in the waste basket before he sends the mail to his chief.

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Couniy litiortltra Fees, Notice is hereby given that bv reason of ine fee and salary law now in force all oflicia!! fees earned by the Recorder of Putnam I county must he turned over to the Countvi Treasurer, and said fees must l>e paid invar-1 tably in advance, as provided by the law of I the State. „ BEN. 8. HARRIS. Recorder of Putnam County. Greeneftstle, Ind., Nov. 1, 1895 . 3129

DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS RICH. An Old Lady's Heath Reveals a Pile of Hidden Wealth, Mrs. Sarah Coolidge, a widow, 75 years of age, died the other day at Boston. She has been considered eccentric, and was thought to bo comfortably well off, but not wealthy. The body was prepared for burial, and then it was that btattling discoveries were made. Secreted about her person and in pockets of other dresses, pieces of brie-a-brac, vases and closets were found many thousands of dollars in gold coin and in bills of large denominations. For thirty years she has lived alone in this house, with the exception of the servants. It is estimated that she was worth more thnn f 1,000,000. Her only living relative, so far as known, is a brother, J. P. C. MarshaU. The Germaii umi ills Hog. A German sportsman once said to a well-known Scottish baronet: “Talking about dogs with keen scent, I have one in Germany that will compare favorably with any you have in England.” “Very remarkable dog, I suppose,” yawned the listener. “I should say so. The day after I left home he broke his chain and, although I had been away for hours, he tracked me and found me merely by scent. IVhat do you think of that?” “I think you ought to take a bath,” replied the Caledonian, turning calmly away. Iliamarck on Marriage. A Vienna paper publishes a collection of aphorisms on love, women and marriage which have found utterance in the sittings of the German parliament. The following dictum is attributed to Bismarck: “It is an immense edvantage to the career of any nwrt if he can embark on the voyage of life without a female crew.” Kir*t V.nnd.tn Hsiflv. It was not until the reign of Ann that a daily London newspaper was issued. It was in 1700, and called the Dally Coarant.

lioness Attacks h^r keeper. 1 Matt John.oii Serlcnaiy Injure.! at the 5L Louis Fair Grounds. Sultana II., IlageubEch's ’ ig Honesa ! at the fair grounds, ; t-.clv >1 Matt ; Johnson, her trainer, Hie o'. !.e" day, and before aid could reach h'm lie was frightfully torn alxiut the E‘>dy. f he 1 had been in a bad humor for several . days and when Jo.m- in enter.-l her cage in the afternoon sh- 1 sprang upon him without warning. She struck him a powerful blow, t ■tiring the flesh from his side and inflicting a horrible wound. He fell bleeding and helpless to the floor, and the I’oness was upon him in a moment. Another trainer rushed to the rescue and by m ans of an iron bar succeeded in beating back the infuriated bea ;t. She turned with a roar and seized the iron bar iu h^r teeth, and while she wav thus distracted Johnson was dragged out of the cage, leaving Salt.inn II. to beat her head against the bars of her prison. The injured man was found to be seriously hurt and h:s condition is l regarded as precarious. The lioness is 1 notoriously ugly. She nearly chewed a woman to pieces at Coney Island last summer, and twice her trainers have had narrow escapes from being torn in pieces. GETS DEFENDER'S TOPMAST. St. Uftry’s :trvi;>lt_il Wll! T.ira the Trophy to Hoo.l Account. The Defender's wounded topmast, thanks to the generosity of C. Olive Iselin, is to be devoted to the work of aiding in alleviating the sufferings of the poor. The famous spar that was cracked by the fouling of the cup defender of America with the Valkyrie in the second of the international series of races is to be competed for at the next annual garden party of St. Mary’s hospital, which will be held in Brooklyn, N. Y., in June, IHSWJ. While lying ill recently, Mrs. John Byrne, wife of Dr. Byrne, of Clinton street, who lias been I prominently connected with all the I philanthropic work that has been performed for the benefit of St. Mary’s hospital, conceived the idea that the possession of the Defender's topmast could be turned to the pecuniary advantage of the sick poor. A flagstaff will be made of the mast, and it is the intention of Mrs. Byrne to have a handsome silk American flag made to accompany it. A model Of the Defender, which will also be made from the topmast, will be among the other attractions of this garden party of 1S90. A QUEER KITTEN. Horn In Gcunclx Without Ulad Legs—Her Queer Antics. W. T. Gaston, of Forest, Ga., has in ids possession a curiosity partly in the shape of a cat—the other part is missing. The kitten—it is two months old —is one of a litter, and the only one fully formed. The kitten in question has no hind legs, there not even being a sign of a bone other than its vertebra* back of its ribs. Its tail is fully developed, and the kitten uses it to balance itself when sitting down. It walks and runs about as lively as any kitten, placing its feet as a human does and balancing itself to perfection on its front legs, which are normally formed but larger and more muscular than usual. A curious thing is that when instinct moves it to scratch as an ordinary cat would with its hind feet, it squats ami attempts to do so, producing a quivering motion where its missing hind legs should join the body. WED LIKE INDIANS. A I’nlijnc Wedding Ceremony at Chlcairo I nltei Tito Quakers. One of the few marriages ever performed in Chicago according to the rites of the Quakers was that of Percy Vestey, of Xew York, and Miss Mary Elizabeth i’oulson, of the former city, celebrated the other afternoon at the home of the bride's parents. No. 5547 Fifth avenue. Although unusual, the Quaker marriage ceremony is impressive. There is no clergyman and no music, and the bride and groom marry themselves. Many friends of both the man and woman are assembled, and the man, taking the woman by the hand, repeats the prescribed ritual of the sect. The young woman likewise repeats the words of the ceremony and then the relatives and guests sign their names to the quaintly worded marriage certificate. A FOLDING LIFEBOAT.

OcciiTd.s Little N|.xce, fan He l;*>».!U> Kj Glid'd f..| A an uu'l X* X ulifti ii kiilMir. A lifeboat that can Vie folded int each stateroom of a steamship an readily extended for use has just bee: patented. The inventor claims to hav realized a lifeboat, the frame of whicl is composed of practically rigid ma terial, a stem and stern-post of the sam firmly secured to the keel, a supple rnentary stem and stern-post firmly sc cured to the keel, the whole ranking i framework for a boat, which is mad of one or more layers of sail cloth am an outside coating of rubber. The oc cupant of the boat buttons a water tight cover about him, leaving only th head projecting. The boat is unsink able, and if overturned instantly right itself.

Bloomer Cafe Hat a Boom. San Francisco has had bloomer ba' bloomer marriages, and now a bloon restaurant has been opened in the vr business center of the city. The r taurant is called the “Bloomer Caf and has been a success from the stn Four sjiapely girls, attired in ne fitting bloomers, attend to the wai of the customers, and have prov such an attraction that more girls v have to be employed to take care of t increasing trade. Dlarrlmlnfttlon Against Marriage. The St. Paul school board has ' cided that no woman who has a h' band able to support her may be e ploved as a teacher. a That He Who Ran* May Read. In India every resident must, un< penalty of fine, have his name writ! up at the entrance to his house.

WHAT JAPAN 13 EURE CF. Has Teamed a Hitter Lesson from llm* Mia’s Intervention. Japan has learned a bitter lesson from the intervention of Russia, says the London Speculator. She realizes as she never realized before that Russia is her real enemy, or, ct any rate, that he who would China win must with Russia first begin. She knows now that if she is to carry out her dream of supremacy in the far east she must first settle accounts with Russia. Look forward a year or two and see what is likely to be the course of evi its. Japan will, during the next three <r four years, lie busy creating a great licet. Her army is a sufficiently satisfactory weapon already and need give her little or no trouble. When she lias a fleet of firstrate ironclads she will no doubt open the ball by virtually annexing Corea or else by making some new demand on China. The prompt payment of the unpaid installments of the war indemnity will always give her an excuse for quarreling, for it is certain that China will make very slow progress in meeting fully her financial engagements under tiie treaty of Simonoseki. Russia will then have to do one of two tilings— either to stand by and let China be despoiled or else to intervene once again to protect her. But the task will then be a far harder one than it was last spring. Japan, if our argument is correct, will be in a position to fight and to dispute with Russia the command of the sea in the far east. Russia iu three or four years', time will then have to meet the EDI,000,000 she has provided, turned into ironclads and torpedo boats. HIG ESCORT MAY CE SMALL. Hut Oik* Mllitarv ( ompany TTBl Accom•piny llevclxiHl at Atlanta. The announcement has been made by Col. John S. Candler, the senior colonel of the Georgia volunteers, that no company of the regular national guard will consent to parade on president day at the Atlanta exposition, October 23. The reason for this is that the exposition directors have placed the parade in charge of Capt. J. F. Burhc, of the Gate City guards, an organization which is not enlisted in the state service. does not wear the regulation state uniform and is not under officers commissioned by the state authority. The judge advocate general of the state more than a year ago decided that the state militia could not legally parade with the guard. On this account that company was not invited to participate in tiie parades on the opening day of the exposition and on Liberty Bell day, but through the action of the exposition committee they have been placed in charge of the procession to escort I’rcsident Cleveland to the ground on the occasion of his visit here. Col. Candler is one of the most prominent Cleveland democrats iu Georgia, but it is understood that this will not prevent his insisting on a strict observance of the military law of the state. Tiie regular militia are with Col. Candler, and the indications are that the president's escort will be confined to a single company. NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE. Dissolution of tho Famous Chlnrao S'x C'onipanii-s of ('allfornla. The latest talk in Chinatown at tiie present time is concerning the split in the powerful “Six Companies,” wlreh until a few days ago had for its membership every Chinaman who thinks anything of his native country in the United States. Now four of the companies which were in tiie organization have stepped down and out, and hereafter there will he two Chinese organizations. Whether tiie members of the two organizations will continue on friendly terms or whether they will go to murdering one another is now and may remain for a time an unanswered question, says tho Seattle Times. Chinatown in this city has been billed with copies of a proclamation announcing the secession of four of the companies from the Six Companies. The proclamation appeals to all adherents of the seceders to stand together and boycott the other companies. The local Chinamen are said to be divided. Some will stand by the old organization and others will unite with the new. TTIIED IT ON THE DOG FIRST. How th* Lin" of Italy Flayed a Joko on Queen RIarf(uerite. An amusing story comes from the court of Italy. For some time past Queen Marguerite has been very much concerned at the extraordinary rapidity with which the hair of King Humbert has been whitening. What could she do? Woman like, she saw only one remedy—hair dye—and she suggested the idea to the king. But his majesty objected to being rejuvenated b> an> such process. One of her relatives, a young prince, suggested strategy. He know, ho said, of a splendid colorless dye which she could place on the dressing table cf the king and he would use it without thinking as ordinary hair wash. But his majesty got wind of the affair and laid a counterplot. The queen had a little white dog with long hair. He inveigled it into his dressing room, applied the famous hair dye and turned the dog into her majesty's apartments in a coat of splendid jet black. Mrs. Carlisle a IBryellst. Mrs. Carlisle, wife of the secretary of the treasury, is the first one of the cabinet women to adopt the bicycle. She is taking lessons in riding nearly every nffemonn in Gobimbia field, fhe training ground of the Washington cyclists. She is generally accompanied by two of her children, who are good riders, Australian Sheep. Sheep farming is an industry of great Importance in Australia. In Victoria alone there is pasturage for something like 25,000,000 sheep. Kainen lain for ih«*lr Far. A Sutter county (Fal.) man has a “cat ranch” upon which he annually raises thousands of Maltose pussies for the fu,- market.

THE TRAVELS OF SOUND. A Mini’ll Voire Heard at a UUtanra of Eighteen Mile*. An inquiry was recently made in London as to the greatest distance at which a man's voice could be heard, leaving of course the telephone out of consideration. Tiie reply, says Harper’s Round Table, was most interesting, and was as follows: Eighteen miles is the distance on record at which a man’s voice has been heard. This occurred in t'>e Grand canyon of the Colorado, when one shouting the name “Bob” at one end his voice was plainly heard at the other end, which is eighteen miles away, ' Lieut. Foster, on Parry’s third arctic expedition, found that he could converse with a man across the harbor of i’ort Bowen, a distance of six thousand six hundred and ninety-six feet, or about one mile and a quarter, and Sir John Franklin said that ho conversed with ense at a distance of more than a mile. Dr. Young records that at Gioraltar the human voice lias been heard at a distance of ten miles. Sound lias remarkable force in water. Colladon, by experiments made in the Lake of Geneva, estimated that a bell submerged in the sen might be heard a distance of more than sixty miles. Franklin says that he heard the striking together of two stones in the water half a mile away. Over water or n surface of ice sound is propagated with great clearness and strength. Dr. Hutton relates that on a quiet part of the Thames, near Chelsea, he could hear a person read distinctly at the distance of one hundred and forty feet, while on the land the same could only be heard seventy-six feet. Prof. Tyndall, when on Mont Blanc, found I lie report of a pistol shot no Ipuder than the pop of a champagne bottle. Persons in a balloon can hear voices from the earth a long time after they themselves are inaudible to people below.

POSY RINGS. Some of These Ponies Are Very Quaint and Curious. When posies inside of wedding rings were first introduced does not'seem to be known, says Chambers’ Journal. Time has covered that, as he does so many tilings, with the mosses of oblivion, but we know that from the sixteenth century until the middle of the eighteenth it was customary to have them engraved on rings. These posies or mottoes are seldom to be found with more than two lines of verse, and often with only one, but there are few instances known where three lines are used. Some of these posies are very quaint and curious, and a few reach a high standard of poetic beauty. In 1G42 a small collection of rhymes was published with the title of “Love’s Garland; or Posies for Rings, llandkerehiefs and Gloves,and SuehPrettyTokens That Lovers Send Their Loves.” It

Before the finished fruit come bud and blossom. Bud grows into blossom and blossom into fruit. And so girlhood merges into womanhood and the woman into motherhood. The two most critical times in a woman’s life are tho times which make the girl a woman, and the woman a mother At these times, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip\ion is of incalculable value. It turns

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A Splendid Chance. Everybody who is weak, delicate or sickly wants to get well. Dr. Greene, of 35 West 14th St., New V ork City, makes a specialty of treating patients through letter correspondeuce. The wisest thing all suefl'ring people can do is to write the Doctor, stating just how they feel, mentioning every symytom of which they complain, and he will answer the letter, explaining each symptom and describing the case so thoughly that patients understand their complaint as well as though they bad talked with the Doctor. He- makes his explenation so clear that they cannot help but understand just what ails them, and he tells exactls what to do to get well. It saves a journey to the city and doctor’s fees, and costs nothing. Dr. Greene is tha most successful specialist in curing nervous and chronic diseases He is the discoverer of that wondeful medicine, Dr. Greene’s Nevura blood and nerve remedy, Thousrnds are cured through his perfect system of letter correspondence. It has been proved successful.

contains some posies that are not to be met with elsewhere, and is a very interesting work, though but few people seem to have heard of H. The South Kensington museum has a good collection of posy rings, and among them we find the following: “United hearts death only parts,” “Let us share in joy and care,” “Love and live happily.” There is a story to the effect that Dr. John Thomas, who was bishop of Lincoln in 1753, caused to be inscribed inside his fourth wife’s wedding ring: “If I survive I’ll make them five.” If this be true, and not the fable it appears, we can only judge that the lady who wore the ring meant to outlive her spouse. How tiie story arose is not known, but most likely it is all imagination, for we find tiie same thing said about Lady Cathcart and her fourth husband in 1713.

SHE USED THE PASS. The Ingenious Scheme of n Woman on a

Train.

A genial Chicagoan, who for obvious reasons does not cure to have his name printed on this occasion, secured a parlor car seat on an express train for Indianapolis a few daysngoaud us he was about to pass through the gates was surprised to hear himself accosted in feminine tones with the somewhat.startling question: “Please, mister, could I borrow you for awhile?” Looking around he found two buxom women, who hesi-

ocraicn a peaaimiat, and, more often th not, you will And an optimist turned sour. Man has a firmer grip on the truths tninks he has tound out for himself than those he has been taught. Many a man forgets uis evil deeds so swi Ij thm he is honestly surprised when 0 one else recills them. Aiun v a man would blush for his wisest cisious if only he should reflect on I reasons which moved him to them. To see a clever man making a fool of hi sell is a sorry sight; and it is pitiful to cl ^^ 1 r tha i. t i he r u , , . way8 Bives ulo;)l cxcel ent r aons for his folly.

The income of the Episcopal church during the past year was $38,000,000. This church has 79 bishops, 4,541 clergymen and 597 candidates tor lay orders, it had 190,820 baptism iu the past year and 131,473 confirmations. There are now 618,500 communicants 5,117 church edifices and nearly 500 institutions ot a benevolent or educational character.

While George Beidler was trying to drive a cow home that had strayed into the woods near Berlin, N. J., * he fell into a deserted well about twenty feet deep, in which there was about two feet of stagnant water. He tried every way to get out, but was unsuccessful. He was missed by his family as night camo on and searching parties went out to look for him, but without success. Again tiie next morning the search was renewed, and one of the party accidentally ran across the well, and on looking into it saw Beidler at the bottom. He was hauled out and found unhurt.

tntingly explained that they were rilling on a pass made out in the name of a g‘*u f i^roon and his wHe and as the gentleman was not present, the} wauled the genial-looking citizen to place his bought ticket at the disposal of one lady, and take the other one under his wing while he personated the absent owner of the puss. , “Which is my wife?” he inquired, ‘ with an inward qualm lest his own absent better half should ever hear the

story.

“You can take your choice, sir,” said the lady in vonreh of an eseort. and he promptly did so by taking the arm of the younger fair one under his own and leading her into the ear. The couple proved to be right jolly traveling companions and the citizen’s only re gret in the transaction was due to a fear that the story might leak out and get home ahead of him. A Faulty Deduction. “There’s a great deal in this seienae of deduction,” said an ardent admirer of Sherlock Holmes to a chance acquaintance on the rear platform of a trolly ear. “For instance, I see from your bronzed cheeks that you have just returned from a long vacation, you have just dined, for you appear to enjoy that cigar hugely, and a cigar always has finer flavor after dinner.” “Deduction, is it?” said he whose family history the original Sherlock would have known at a single glance. “Well, i ain't iutii no vacation, and I ain't ha«l no dinner. I’m a bricklayer—been working for three weeks on the top of ^ a five-story budding, and I'm friends > ■with this cigar beeause-I’m uster smokin’ a pipe, and it’s the first rope I’ve bought for eight years. See?”

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