St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 April 1892 — Page 2

ROMANCE OF THE EGGS. A VERY ENTERTAINING COMPILATION. The Egg of Commerce and of Faster the Food of the Natural Man and an Instrument of the God of Love—Some Recipes and Games—The Egg Dance, Etc. Odd Effects May lie Produced.

IMNE vivum ex ovo. ^This familiar proverb, (the I asis of the religious beliefs of many Eastern nations, is the happy motto for a delightful little book by Anna Barrows on “Eggs.” She has compiled an amazing mass of delightful facts and fancies about them, her praiseworthy object being twofold—to ^increase the use of

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eggs as food and thus increase their pro; duction. The new Century Dictionary gives more than fifty derivations and compounds of the word egg. “Nature is very skillful,” says Charles Rea&e; “we don't take half as many’hints from her as we might. Do you observe these eggs all of one color —those delicate blues—these exquisite drabs? If you ever wish to paint a room take one of these eggs for a model, and you will arrive at such tints as no painter ever imagined out of his own head, I know. The 9,000 varieties of known birds fur- ! nish every shade of color in eggs. This j is a device of nature fortheir protection. ; Birds whose nests are covered lay white I eggs, while in open nests in fields or on j the sand the eggs aFe colored like sur- j rounding objects." Some very funny people may be made ' to live in egg-shells for the amusement i of children. Empty the shell by blow- | Ing and pour in melted beeswax until [ the egg stands securely on its larger | end; a few shot dropped into the warm | wax will help matters. With ink or j black paint draw ragged lines neardhe ; OVATION or THE CHERUBS. middle, as if the shell were broken there. On the large end sketch the features of an old gentleman and put a tall paper collar just above the ragged line. Draw on the shell or cut from paper and paste in place a pair of arms with hands ' clasped in front; add feet in the same 1 way. Then put the old fellow oa ‘the 1 table and he will stand on his head. The face may be clouded or sc’-ene at ’ the .pleasure of the artist, but mo.->t people would not feel very happy if stand- j Ing on their heads. An old .lady can be made in like manner—with the addition ( of a tissue-paper cap. Another device , ""t® S t*xuzi.il crying face with Jagged lines i around it as if the shell were broken a i little, but the prisoner could get no 11 further. Or the shell may be filled with wax or clay, and broken away in the tl place where the face is to be modeled. tl Travelers in Mexico give accounts of an egg game and dance existing there. ~ The eggs are prepared by first emptying the shells, then refilling them with finechopped colored paper, tinsel, mica, and sachet powder. The holes are then pasted over with a bit of paper, and the outside is gayly decorated. In the more prosperous days of Spanish sway grandees often had the shells filled with ' gold dust and precious stones. Those times are past, but occasionally small trinkets, coins, and candies are mingled. Several dozen are needed by each participant in the easearone. A stranger is at first often startled by having one of these fragile treasure chests broken over his head by a senorita to whom he has not been introduced; but former acquaintance is not considered essential. It is a great compliment to the recipient of the blow, who must return the favor at the first opportunity. Thrifty matrons intending to give such a ball save all the shells of eggs used in tho household and spend their leisure hours in filling and decorating them. In the good old times Easter eggs were often adorned with tiny pictures or emblematical devices and sentimental mottoes. Such eggs did duty as valentines, and were afterward preserved in the homes of the happy pairs. That the inscription might be read without touching the frail treasure the egg was often kept in a 'glass. The dates on these eggs were considered as reliable evidence as those from a tombstone. The new fashion of egg photographs is but a revival of this old custom. Many lovers of the present day have THS DANCE—THE CASCARONE. been made happy by receiving an Easter I egg bearing a photograph of their sweet- , hearts. Photographs of distinguished persons ' are often pasted on Easter eggs and ! sent to their friends, or more often I their enemies. An iron egg is to be seen in one of j the grandest of the European museums, j which was once sent as a betrothal gift I from a prince to a princess. The lady, j angry at so mean a present, flung it to ! the floor, -when a spring opened showing : a silver lining, a second opening re- j vealed a yelk of gold, and a third and J fourth displayed diamonds and rubies, ! by which the lady's displeasure was | soon assuaged. “The marrkJjge aux oeufs” between ;

' Marguerite of Austria, Gouvernante of i Flanders, and Philibert the Handsome, | Duh j of Savoy, is a still more romantic J story. It was the custom Easter Mon- | day in the district of Bresse to scatter a | hundred eggs on a level place covered Iby sand. Then a lad and a lass, hand in hand, would execute the dance of the country. If they succeeded without breaking an egg they were considered affianced; even if it wore against their parents’ will. On this occasion three couple had tried in vain, but Savoy and Austria accomplished the dance without crushing a single shell. When Philibert said, “Let us adopt the custom of Bresse,” Marguerite suffered her hand to remain in his, and history tells us 7^l /X. Xev/t A ‘ Il v / n i v f MmJ EASTER GAMES. ; that their married life was long and ' happy. The census returns do not give a full ; report of the egg production of tho j United States, but furnish the figures of ’ j those which are bought and sold; per- i I haps an equal quantity is consumed by I the producers. In 1879, according to the tenth census, the number of eg.s produced was , 456,910,916 doze,’. At 15 cents per I dozen the egg crop would amount to $68,536,637. The consumption of one egg daily by each inhabitant of the United States could hardly be thought an extravagant estimate. This would amount to over four million dozen. The poultry and egg crop together are estimated to be worth $250,000,000 annually to the United States. And yet we Import annually forty-eight million dozen eggs from Canada, France, Germany, Austria, and Denmark. During the last four months of 1888 6,708 cases, each containing fifty dozen, were thus brought into the ’ United States. Imported eggs are sold in all large cities in the East and North, mainly to packers and manufacturers. New York j City takes about one-fifteenth of the en- I tire crop. For the year ending Oct. 31, i 1887, New York received 59,095,330 ■ dozen, and imported also 50,000 dozen. In January, 1889, 57,653 barrels, each containing sixty-five to seventy dozen eggs, were received in New York, against 37,103 barrels during the same month in 1888. The increase was largely due to the mild winter. Chicago, in 1888, received 624,721 cases, each case containing thirty dozen, and shipped 460,060 cases.

Philadelphia, in 1887, had 501,245 cases, or 15,037,350 dozen. The San Francisco report shows about 4,000,000 [ dozen. Figures from the Boston Chamber of Commere give the annual receipts of eggs in the city as follows: .., ISAS issa is,<oo.coo IBS7 UMO’.OIO 1888 1«, JUL 000 A part of these find a market outside the city, but are balanced by tho quantity brought in by small dealers. Experiments of later date prove that J. k READY FOR KASTKR. an egg is usually digested sooner than a potato, and quite as soon as beef or ■ mutton. Hard-boiled eggs require 3 hours 30

minutes. Soft-boiled eggs require 3 hours. Fried eggs require 3 hours 30 minutes. Roasted eggs require 2 hours 15 minutes. Raw eggs require 2 hours. Raw eggs (beaten) require 1 hour 30 minutes. That life can be sustained by so little nourishment as a single egg daily is proved by the experience of a German scholar, who took refuge from a hostile enemy in a loft. A hen laid her daily egg for two weeks, and this was all his food, yet when the army had gone he had strength to reach home. A similar story is told of a refugee from the massacre of St. Bartholemew. Ti e Lilies That Toll NjL A very untidy and reprehensible person hurried up the steps of a big house early Sunday morning. Her hair was untidy and her shoes were down at the heel. She talked to herself, too. A disgraceful habit. “Hot coffee and two eggs. Yes, the two eggs for Easter,” she whispered as she rang the bell. Her eyes shone. A plump little rosebud of a girl opened the door. The woman smiled eagerly. “I’ve finished it,” she gasped. “Well, it’s about time," scolded Miss Rosebud. “You had no business to keep j me in such suspense. I’ve worried my- | self almost sick.” She took the bundle and hurried up j stairs. “Please,” faltered the reprehensible | person, “please, the money. I worked j all night " “Come some other time,” said Miss I Rosebud, over her shoulder. “Don’t! I bother me now." The untidy woman went down the i j steps. Her lips trembled, but Miss ! I Rosebud had the loveliest dress of all { | the lovely new dresses in the big church ! ion the avenue that morning. At least; | that’s what one young man in the eon- : j gregation said, and he ought to have ■ known. Curious Facts About Flaster. ! In 1883 Easter fell ( n March 25, and l it will only once again this century, I namely, in 1894, fall on so early a date. | In three following centuries it will occur only eight times on the same date—-

namely, In 1951, 2035, 2046, 2057, 2103,' | I 2114, 2125 and 2198. The earliest date ! on which Easter can fall is on March 22, ' and this only in case the moon is full on ' ' March 21, when this date happens to j fall cm a Saturday. This combination > of circumstances is extremely rare; It ; occurred in 1093, 1761 and 1817, and will 1 happen again in 1990, 2076 and 2144, i i while during the three following cen- j turles it is not once “on the books" at« this early date. On tho other hand i Easter never falls later than April 25; . ; this was the case in 1666, 1734 and 1886, . and will only happen once in the next . century, namely, 1943. QUAINT CUSTOMS. Wliat Some Europeans Do at Easteif Time. ' Good Friday and Easter customs in tho old country are numerous and curious. For instance, in London, Good i Friday, sixty of the youngest boys of > Christ’s Hospital School attend di- ; vine service at All Hallows’ Church, and afterwards receive each a bag of ; raisins, one new penny and one bun. At the old Priory Church in West Smithfield, twenty-one widows each pick i up a now sixpence from a tomb in tho churdh-yard, just as the same number of widows have done for 500 years past. A principal business of the whole pop- : ulation of Strobeck, Germany, from the i children at school to the most august dignitaries of the district, is tho playing of the ancient and r, yal game of chess. This has beeu the caso for cenXMries. As soon as they are old enough to understand moves the boys and girls of i this idyllic village are taught the laws 1 and ordinances of tho game, and ara ' j initiated into the mysteries of the i knight’s move, and the advantages of j early castling. Every Easter the children are eolj emnly gathered together to display their I skill in the presence of the pastor, the school teachers, tho village authorities ' and the public generally, and each oi i , the three boys and three girls most proficient receives a chess-board in- ! scribed with the words “A Reward for Perseverance.” An Faster Processional. Let us sing of bright morn breaking Krom iho glorious east; Lilies fair their sheaths forsaking; Larks in light their niu-ilc making; i Sing tho song of wings and waking . That befits our feast! I I Apple boughs in white are drossing, > And in heaven’s blue arch i Little clouds, like cherubs pressing Rank on rank with cheeks caressing, ' Shed their softness like a blessing | On our joyful march! Hypnotism and Humbug. Hypnotism, which 1b now the subject , ! of much intelligent and well-directed I modern research, and is also, unfortu- 1 ' nately, the plaything of a class of 1 wandering stage performers, is the i lineal descendant of many ancient be- | liefs. It ws known to the earliest , races of As a and among the Persian , magi; and to this day the yogis and fakirs of India throw themselves into a state of hypnotic ecstasj and reverie by fixation of the gazo. In many convents 1 of the Greek church it has been practiced since the eleventh century, as It Is j

still by tho Omphalopsyehics, with whom - hypnotic reverie is obtained by steadily , j gazing at the umbilicus. Modern hypnotism, mesmerism, telepathy, animal ’ magnetism, thought reading or thought ’ Which. In earlier Hntea - > ««■•« wont, to nnaiyso natural i phenomena by natural methods, brought । forth tho practices of the magians, the ; antics of the demoniacs and the pos- , sensed, the expulsion of evil spirits by * exorcism, the healing of tho king’s evil by laying en of hand-, the serous acceptance and judicial punishment of tho ’ hallucinations of the witehes ami th» fantastic cruelty of the witch tinders. I The proee- dings by which Karchas, the i faithful con] anion of Apollonius, gave L sight to the blind, movement to tho , paralyzed, hearing to tho deaf, and reason to tho insane w. re essentially methods of what wo should now call 1 “suggestion,” and tho applb ation of the ■ influence of suggest ion to pc: sous in the - most various mental and physical states, 1 whether of health or d .s, ase, will servo to throw light on seme of the most , tragic, blood-stained, picturesque and incredible pages of history, us well as on a multitu-'eof stage tricks and quack ; procedures which are just now, as they ; have been at frequent intervals during i the last century, much in vogue.— Nineteenth Century.

Thu Meat Diet. The attention of the French Society for the Advancement of Science has recently been directed by certain physicians to the evil effects of an excessive 1 meat diet, or of raw, overkept or bad : meat. The ptomaines thus produced introduce poisonous principles in the system, which the kidneys cannot throw off. Inhabitants of cities indulge far too i freely in meat, often badly cooked and kept too long; the poor and country population do not often get their meat fresh. Professor Verneuil considers something should be done to remedy th s state ol things. He points out that Reelus, the French geographer, has proved that can- 1 cer is most frequent among those branches of the human race where carnivorous habits prevail. Dressmaker's Item. “If your mother had twenty yards of stuff and made a dress requiring but eighteen yards, how much would she । have left?” asked the teacher. “Mamma can’t make her own dresses. She has tried often, and they are always either too -" ‘.’Suppose,” interrupted the teacher, 'she sent it to a dressmaker, how much would the dressmaker send back?” “Depends on which dressmaker she sent it to. Some w uldn’t send back ’ any,” said the little girl. “Suppose she ■ sent it to an honest one?” said the teachj er, impatiently. “Some of the honestest i ones cut things to waste, so that there : is never anything left, no matter how much you send ’em.” i Hardy Western . Women. Two young city-bred women, daughI ters of a prominent wholesale merchant I in San Francisco, named Lowenstein, ■ are living on and working a land claim I in the State of Washington, between j Hadlotk and Port Ludlow. They took I up the claim two years ago and have ! lived on it continuously since, built the ; cabin in which they live, and hav^ j cleared and grubbed twenty acres oi land. Their nearest neighbor is four miles away. What is believed to be the highest electric central station in the world is located at Pontresina, in the Swiss Alps, the altitude being 6,000 feet above the sea level.

BAD, HEATHEN CHINEE. The nigbbln<l<o a Who I’o'y American Lawn i»i<i < low K ch. 1 The power of the Chinese highbinders of San Francisco has been broken, though only partially. The Mongolian terrors, who lor more than twenty years have held complete sway • over Chinatown, who Fave saturated its narrow alleys with the Wool of fellownicn, ignoring every law and I defying the boldest attempts of the I police to break their muiderous reign, [ find themselves paitiv subdued,! though there still remain open to! them many avenues in which they! ran carry on their occupation of i crime. For years the police were i powerless to do anything with the Mongolian outlaws The Chinese dis-1 trict is a section about eight blocks ; by four, into which are packed 25,000 of the yellow-faced heathens. If any j row occurred here and a crime was : committed, the police could get no I track of the criminal, for in the dens . of Chinatown he would be so safely ! secreted that all the police < f fan ' Francisco could hunt lor months and i never get a trace of him. About i three months ago electric lights were ; placed in the worst alleys of Ch ua- I town, and it is they which have done i whatever has been done towards ! breaking the highbinders’ power, j They cast a Hood of brilliant light I upon their once favorite haunts. : where formerly they ciouehed in the ! dense shade of overhanging roofs and sprang upon their victims. A glance . into the life of t his criminal baud will ' be of interest to our readers. When the first coolies came over । the ocean to California, attracted by the ta.es of gold that was to be I found, th>y founded societies for; their mutual protection and assist-i ance in time of sickness or other . trouble. There were six of them and they became known as the Chinese ! Six Companies and under that name they still exist. But the Chinese Six Companies and the highbinders must | not be confounded. The lat t w are o;f---shooti of I’m* other founed by lawless । spirits, who were ixpelled from the! Six Companies. They claim to be ■ Chinese Free Masons, iut they are i really leagued together for mutual i protection in crime, for b'ackma 1 and tor political purposes. It you can gain t! e eontldenee of a hig’nbinder he will tell you that black-1 mail is what they live by and lie will : take a natural pride in the exploit* ; of his gang. Os course much of this I blackmail is g 11-edgcd tribute levied on rich merchants. Certain stores are under the protection of a certain society of highbinders, and no thieves dare meddle with them because they know that swift vengeance would be dealt out to them by i he highbinders. For this service, which is certainly valuable, these professional bravi es receive good j ay. Another lucrative i Source of revenue is the brothels with which Chinatown a'Kiunds. Ka<|i { keeper of one’of these dens has tn pay * us her champion* and protectors and many of the wretelied creature* in these aliodcs of living dcatli have to part with a share of tlu ir small earnmgsjto the highbinder*. Hut it i* not only the ritv that tbe*e nravoe* draw upon -they levy on the whole coa*t. Their men keep a i^rfe< t iceord of all the mi*decd* of thinescoa thee .i,t. at d it a coolie get* into an' trouble he i* pn-tt v *ure to le blackmailed Iwsome highbinder ;:* a recomp !)'•• for lndpiug him to escape the law. Their seivic * are ai <। n cal.< (1 hi i » i cti :s i i<»u t > settle private quari.ds a ud on •of their be-t paid s, • \ ,e > the >p ed\ or poison. Tiny aim consider it leg.lima!'- t murder anyone who proves a reneg;' le to his soeiets or any who commit liie unpardonable sin of refusing to ••punglc up" when a demand i* made on th-m. Though many Lave boldly detied th in. there is no record of any esaipe from their vengeance. I’iiey have men al all the places of t xil from the coast by stage, train or steamer, and if an edict gees forth for »he slaughter of a certain coolie he cannot escape. He may save his life by hidiim for a f< w w 'ek*. imt unless he makes go al the reward put upon lr* head h s death is as sure as the rising of the sun. The leading hiulibin h r s .ciety is known as the €hte Kung Tong. Its headquarters are in a line brick building, owned by the society itself, and Idle rooms are elaborately fitted up. Tiie society is regularly incorporated under the laws of California and has a large reserve fund. It employs an American lawyer lor its counsel, who receives a sa'a'y of SIO,OOO. The society has a police force, consisting of thirty-three ••hatchetiiien.'* elected quarterly, whose duties are to enforce the decree* of the society, wherever such si rvins may take them. They have absoliitciy no choice in the matter, and death itself is the penalty if tlicy fail to do their duty. The initiation of the new members is verv severe and is a ceremonial which is held sacred. Only a few privileged Americans have witnessed it and one of these, in describing it to the writer, declared it was really impressive. The neophyte, ns well as all the officials, are dressed in the richest silken robes. The candidate for admission bows before the great joss, which is in ti c upper room of the society headquarters, then kneels. A great two-handed Chinese sword, l’aming with jewels like Excal bur. is held directly across his throat; another but smaller sword is piessed againt the nape of h s neck. In this position, more critical than that of the man who played the role of Damocles, the neophyte repeats in a chant the s ilemn ritual of the society, with the oath that binds him to renounce all earthly ties and pledge hi* undivided devotion to the society. This oath is , held inusually sacred bv the super-

stitious Chinese, for the society sees to it that any one who breaks it does not cumber the earth many moons. The l bee Kung Tong has over 5.030 members in San Francisco, while on its rolls in this country and Cuba are over 15,000 names, reriresenting branches in 400 towns of the United j States, (. anada and Cuba. From this | mother society have swung a dozen | other societies, each a miniature re- | production of the parent, for the i Chinaman is nothing if not im tative, land he objects to any material change in a good thing. Each of these j smaller societies has its headquarters, ; officers and hatchetman, an 1 each i has a specialty in blackmail. One I lives almost entirely from tribute of i fallen women, another flourishes on a certain class of incichants, another ■ on gamblers, and so on. All are in the He’d as professorial bravoes, warI ranted to kill an enemy with neatness i and dispatch amt guarantee that the ■ American law shall never harm the I man who sets tins deadly machine in : motion. Ixwactvd mih i Hllcufty. The taciturnity of backwoodsmen I used to be much illustrated byAnieri- J : cun writers, but now, perhaps because ' < back wood men are too few to form as conspicuous a national element as ! formerly, their peculiarities are not I often mentioned. From Canada, ! : which still lias vast areas of almost unbroken forest, we received the fol- ■ : lowing verbatim report of a eonversa- ; ! lion between a city sportsman and bis backwoods guide, Bill Buckshaw. : ’’You have killed mouse, Bill, 1 . suppose?” “Some.” “Any big bulls?” “Some.” “Where?” “Back yonder.” “Were you ever charged by one?” | “<>nct.” “How was that?” “He com? at i me." “Had vou wounded him?” “Yas.” “How did he come?” “J.crost the , swale.” • “Couldn't yen stop him with another .-hot?’’ “Hadn’t on’y a muz-zle-loader.” “Did ho get close to you?” “Clost ! as you be.” “Then you killed him?” “No.” “What then?" “1 dumb up.” “Where?" “On the root.” “What root?” “The big pine root." “A fallen pine?” “Yas.” “What did he do?” “Lammed ' into it.” “Into what?" “The root.” “How?” “Lickety pelt. Head llrst. Twict." ••Did he go oil then?” “I near did.” “He shook the root, eh?" “You : bei.” “But you held on?” “Sure.” “Were you sitting?" “Stannin’.” “How could you hold on?” “Brandies of r iot.” “Well, what then?” “I fetched him." , “Ua, you had another shot?” “Got 7ou Koum mm? " “You could 'a' killed him yourself then." “With ’hat,” *ay* the sportsman, “I gave up th“questioning, and imagined tiie details. After a long silence Bill said: •• -That cured me of muzzle-load-ers/ * i»c rMv<. The sucres* of Robert Bonner in making the New York Ledger the 4teat M pan r "f it- da-, is one of a th" U-and iiiu-trat i nis, ami an incident -bowing h s persistence and daring in th ■ direction of nd vert isim.’ will be interesting. He savs: “Once Ima lea > w ntra , l with the Tribune, to place an advertisement in the dailv, -emi-weekly ami weekly e litiot.-. After it appeared in tiie daily Mr. Gid ley objected t » its going in the w. ekl>: h • thought it would take too much -pace. Mr. Greeley said to me: -We will not carry out the iontract. but the page you have had in the daily editi n vou can have for notliing.' Th • editor of the Herad. -peaking to Mr. Hud- n, his inaiuming editor, about the Tribune's at tion in the matter, said: -We can give an a Ivertiser all the spice he want-.’ 1 I eard of this remark, and, calling on Mr. Hudson, asked him: •Mr. Hudson, did Mr. Bennett say so and -o?' He .said. ‘Yes. If you want an extra quantity of sprace we would like a day or two's notice.’ Soon afterward I sent word to him: •Tell h m 1 will lake the whole paper next Saturday.’ Next Saturday they got out a sixteen-page praper: I had th pages oi advertising on one sheet and threw on another." This is perhaps, the only instance on record where a single advertiser has bought the whole of a great paper. Mr. Bonner’s advertising was a revelation to publishers of those days, and in was only bv -‘sticking to it” ihat he was able to secure the result* he hoped for. —Christian Union. Hinxl;ir- f ront <i!ass. Under the name of wire glass a new invention has been brought on the market in Dresden. The proce** of manufacture consist* in furnishing glass in a not. plastic condition, with a flexible metalic layer, iron wire n't Ung. for instance, which i* completely inclosed by tne vitreou* -al stance an 1 effectively protected against exterior ini'uences, as dust. etc. The new g a.-- i< sse-ses much greater resi-ting power than the ordinary materia! and i*. it i* claime.l. inditlerent to the most abrupt change* of temperature ami will even with*!and open tire. The glass is especially adapted for skylights, the powerful resisting qualities of the material enabling the u*ual wire protectors to b? di*pensed with. As wire glass cannot be cut by the diamond except under the air plication of great force and cannot be broken without creating considerable noise, the substance is claimed to be in a measure Lurglar-proof.— Iron.

Thrilled by*Nnmeralfc Mme. Modjeska, like tho rest of hu* manity, is not averse to an occasional |oke, and ono of a practical nature which she recently played upon a supremely swell assemblage was rather unique In Its conception. A dinner in her honor had been given at a certain Fifth avenue mansion, and toward the close the guests joined the hostgss in a request that madamo would favor them with £ brief recitation. She stated her willingness to oblige, but though she racked her brain nothing apropos recurred to her, and finally she begged to be let off with a short selection in her native tongue. The suggestion was applauded and madame began. Although her listeners could not understand two words, her gestures and some thrilling tones .held them enchained . until tho final syllable, when she was oveiwhelmed with plaudits. As she was preparing to depart her hostess asked her for the title of the selection she had given, and much to her surprise madame went into a paroxysm of laughter. , | “I am sorry to deceive you,” she said, smiling, “but my recitation hasji’t any name. My memoKy .failed so badly that as a last rqsort I recited the numbers from 1 to 230 in Polish.” —New York Advertiser. Pure and Wholesome Quality , Commends to public approval the California liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of I Figs. It is pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on the kidneys, liver and | bowels to cleanse the system eiYectually, it promotes the health and comfort of all > who use it, and with millions it is the best and only remedy. Joss Not Chinese. i “Joss, ”• so far from being, as I among others always imagined, a Chinese word, is merely the mispronunciation of the Spanish dlos, God. The discovery of this fell heavily upon me. It reduced my knowledge from two words to one; but I have learned several since, but Awill not write them here, as I do not know what they mean. A. and the writer both started with the determination of studying Chinese, and the writer let A. buy a grammar; but on discovering that the single letter I had 145 ways of being pronounced, and that each pronunciation had an entirely different meaning, we said that there was no poetry about the Chinese language, and that it was not worth learning, and A.’s grammar was secretly consigned to the river mud by being dropped overboard.—Blackwood’s Magazine. Important to Land Seekers. The only load running into the new lands onene I for settlement 's the Chicago, Rock i Island and Pacific. These It n’s are the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservaticns, which, by Piesident’s proclamation, are pat on the market; they are in Oklahoma, and join very close to the towns of Hennessey, Do'er and Kingfisher, and adjoin the to*ns of El Reno and Minco, the latter the present terminus. The Rock Island Road runs a magnificent train service from Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis St. Paul, On ah i, Lincoln, St. Joseph, and Denver to the towns above mentioned. You need a sectional map showit?g each piece of these lands, and It will be sent to you or any friends you desire, free, by addre sing John Sebastian, G. T. and P. A,, C., R. I. and P. R’y, Chicago, HL Making I p for L< st Time. There is a well-known man of something like p 2 years of age in New Haven, Cuiui., who never knew what tobacco smoke was like.until LnFad nnssed his a month on an average. Ilie Only One Ever Printed —Can You Find tho Word? There Is a 3-!nch display advertisement In tliis paper this week which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent'’ on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they will return you book, beautiful lithographs, or SAMPLES FREE. The yo ing man who indulges freely in biting sarcasm will find himself obliged to swallow affronts. TESTED BY TIME. For Bronchial affecti< ns. Coughs, etc.. Brown’s Bronch’cl Trochus have procul their e.Hcacy by a test of many years. Price" 25 cts. The flood of grief dccreaseth, when it swells no higher. nnroZ-o CATARRH CREAM b ALM wh^n applied into th A *a° a gy :. etr.U will be ab fcs CX. r- M ljC KOI e bed effectuall j. IN 1 cleansing the heat o! kj 1 catarrhal virus causin^ hea'.tliv secretions. uCit allays inflammation. 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