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OUR TITLED WOMEN AT HOME.
The Estates and Residences of Former
American Girls Now Livingfin England.
American young women who marry
titled or prominent linglishmen usually
spend the remainder of their lives
abroad. 'lheir homes are all tha
money can buy. The new duchess of
Marlborough will, of course, occupy
Blenheim one of the most magnificent.
piivate residences in the w.01hl 1"01-
tunes have already I)(-‘( 11 spent in (.oni-
pleting and repaiiing this magnificent
castle, and another million or so could
be employed to good advantage in put—
ting the building and grounds in order.
it is expected that a huge portion of the
marriage settlement “'1“ be expended
.111 this manner, says the New York
ivorld.
One of the largest castles in Eng-
land, Coonibe abbey, belongs to the
countess of Craven, who was t,Miss Cor-
nelia Bradley Martin, and who has just
passed her lb‘th birthday, though she
has been a lady of high degi ee fox more
than a y ear
" l‘he countess of lussex, who was Miss
Adele Grant, of New York, owns an-
other of the English grand country
seats. The countess of Essex brought
her husband no fortune, but she is ac-
knowledgeu to be one of the most beau-
tiful and chainiing 01' Lngland‘ s rap-
idiy- increasing coiony of “'Amelican
princesses.” She is the second wife of
the earl of Essex. her favorite resi-
dence is Cassioberry, in Hertfordshire.
The building is the center of vast
grounds, including some of the best.
deer parks in England. The grounds
contain more than 20 miles of walks
and drives, all beaiitilully shaded. The
countess need never go beyond her own
preserves when she takes outdoor ex-
crcise.
'TWO GREAT RIVAL ARMIES.
Tremendous Sacrifices Which French and
German Nations Have Made.
The knowledge that France would fly
at Germany’s throat as soon as it seemed
safe to do so has been a permanent
factor in all international bargainings
and controversies; the terror that some
untoward accident might precipitate
the always-threatened connict, even
against the desn-csand 'best Judgment
oi the combatants, has never ceased to
haunt the imaginations of men, says
the London Saturday Review. If this
prolonged anxiety has ruined the
nerves of onlookers, what must have
been the tension upon the peoples di-
tectiy concei nedl Statistics afford
-.i 1.1 c slight conception of the material
binocns 11 men they have been 1'01ced
to bcar. When the war ended, for in-
stance, the Uermans had 570,000 troops
of all arms on l‘rench territory.
'l'o-day the regular peace looting of
the regular french army, without.
counting gendarmerie or any reserves,
actually exceeds by 30,000 that total
muster of the Germans at the time of
their triumph. The present standing
army of the German empire, being
formed on the theory of a. defensive
force, is a trifle smaller. It has only
555,000 men under-211...... l'hcsc .1gures
are too vast to convey realities to the
mind. '1 he fact may be made a little
clearer by sa'ying the l'rchch and bier-
111an peoples together have now some
{100,000 more pro1ess1onal fighting men
in active service than they found it
necessary to maintain before the war
of 1570. Yet this, too, fails to give an
adequate idea of the tremendous sacri-
nce which both nations have been com-
pelled to make, yearafter year, through-
out this weary quarter of a century.
MACKEREL BRINE.
Cured an Indiana Justice 01
Rheumatism.
Once upon a time, says the Peru
(1nd.) Chronicle, there lived‘at Hun-
tington a German potentate of the
name of Louis Hitzfield, who from time
How It
. immemorial was a justice of the peace.
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The squire grew intoinfluencc, wealth,
gout, corpulency and sciatica simul-
taneously. The older he became the
goutier, more dogmatic and rheumatic,
until at length his sufferings Were in-
tolerable and relief was imperative to
postpone the inevitable foreclosure on
the tenure of his existence. lie was
advised to go to Mount Clemens, and
went and took a course of treatment
and returned greatly relieved.
He had not only bathed in the pools,
but tasted the waters. In the course of
time the affliction returned in all the
tarious forms and degrees of torture,
and he resolved, having, as he believed,
l'ully analyzed the water and become
acquainted with its composite qualities,
to prepare a bathing solution for him-
self. lie purchased a number of half
barrels of mackerel, took the fish out
for family consumption and reserved
the salt brine for bathing his rheumatic
limbs. His experience, after testing
both Mount Clemens brine and the
mackerel solution, was that the latter
w as equally effective as the former, and I
he never went to Mount Clemens again.
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PONY PENNING.
5"" - A Favorite Sport of the People of
Chincote ague Island.
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How Hundreds of the Little Animals Are
Rounded Up and Captured by the
Men and Boys—11 Gala
Occasion. '
Cltincoteague and Assateague have
had their hundredth annual pony pen-
ning. Chincoteague is a. small island
in the Atlantic close to the shore of Ae-
comack county, Va.
long, narrow peninsula. lying outside of
Chincoteague and protecting it from
the assaults of the Atlantic. Citin-
coteague is a. glittering little island,
.btilliant with sand and salt water,
densely peopled, well / wooded and
haunted by mocking birds. There is
neither povei ty nor crime there, drunk-
enness is almost un',known and doors
are always unlocked. It is the boast
of Chincoteague that no slave ever lived
upon its soil, and that the island re-
mained true to the union throughout
the war. There are no better sailors
anywhere than the people of Chin-
coteague, and there are no stancher
little boats than the Chincotcague ca.-
noe with double leg- of-inutton sails.
Nobody knows positively the origin of
the. Chincoteague ponies. It is only
known that they have roamed the
marshy pastures of the islands for at
least a. centui y, and there is a tradition
that the ancestors of the ponies came
ashore from a wrecked ship in» the
eighteenth century. 'lhesc, doubtless,
w ere full g1 own horses, and the Chin-
coteague pony of to- -day is a. degener-
ate, through droughts in summer and
exposure in the open pastures through
long winters. But . degenerate as
he is, the Cliincoteaguc pony is
a fine, hardy, and often beauti-
ful animal, with strength out of
proportion to his size, and, when well
broken, has strength. agility and
speed. 110 is from ten to twelve hands
high and front six to eight, hundred
pounds in w eight. F rom two hundred
and fifty to four hundred of these little
c1 eatures roam the island pastures.
There are, perhaps, half as many on the
lowei end of Assateague.
A stallion leads upon the pastures a
group of from ten to twenty-five mares
and colts. The leader is on the con-
stant lookout for danger, and at his
snort his whole pol ygamous family take
to their heels. The ponies are really
far from wild, and one may easily ap-
proach within fifty or tWenty yards of
a. group at pasture. The older stallions
become fierce and quarrelsome, and
have to be removed from the pastures
from time to time, lest they should de-
stroy one another or the younger stal-
lions. They are all excellent swimmers,
and when the pastures become bare on
Chincoteague they frequently swim to
the neighboring islets. where the salt
grass is still green. It is not uncom-
mon to see from the top of Assateague
light a group of horses bathing in the
surf. The colts are born and nurtured
in the open pastures, and the annual
pony penning is for the double purpose
of branding these colts and selling
some of the older horses.
Pony-penning day ‘is still a fete day
on Chincoteague. The pen for the
horses is built near the center of the
village, and on the morning of the
pony penning men and boys mounted
on swift and well-broken ponies ride
out to the pastures to drive in the wild
creatures. The groups of ponies are
slowly driven together on the pasture
and then started townward. As the
pen is neared the guards thicken, so
that the whole band is easily driven
into the inclosure. Branding 1rons are
heated; men with rope nooses on the
end of long poles leap into the pens.
The colts are thrown to the ground and
held there while the iron is applied.
The branding done, the auction fol-
lows. Unbrokcn horses fetch from
twenty-five to forty dollars each. Oth-
ers, broken to harness, fetch as high
as sixty dollars. Well-matched pairs
sometimes fetch one hundred and fifty
dollars. The ponies have long been
the pets of children of well-to-do fam-
ilies on the mainland, and of late years
have been sold over a large part of the
United States. They are larger than
Shetland ponies and more beautiful.—
N. Y. Press.
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How It Is Pronounced.
The other day, in a public place, two
suburban schoolmistresses fell into con-
versation with a. precise and somewhat
airy lady, not from Boston, who began
to criticise the attainments of Boston
teachers. “It is most extraordinary,”
she said, “what ignorant people they
employ to teach school in Boston. Such
English as they sometimes speak.” The
two .schoolmistresses ventured to ask
what unfortunate peculiarities she had
observed in the English of Boston
teachers. “Why, their pronunciation
is so bad,” she answered. “Just fancy—
I heard a Boston teacher the other day
say ‘programme.’ ” The two teachers
opened their eyes, wondering why peo-
ple shouldn’t say “programme.” They
hardly. dared to ask, but the lady en-
lightened them. “When anyone who
had been to school at all,” she added,
“should know that it should be pro-
nounced ‘progrum!’ ” — Boston Tran-
script.
Colds
Coughs and
Bronchitis
Cured by Taking,
Awarded
Medal and Diploma
At World’s Fair.
_ Use Ayer’s Hair Vigor for Color.
Assateaguc is a. '
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Nothing can bemore be-
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nothing prettier, richer look-
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Port'bei‘es, in beautiful pat.-
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Silk Damasks, in very deli-
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Embroidered Organdie—a
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lavender, red and White, in.
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Ultl' 200.
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A SCIENTIFIC MELANGE.
Most perfumes, even those most strik-
ingly characteristic, are now obtained
syntheticallv in the laboratory of the
chemist.
In the time of Christ the seven bright
stars, collectively known as “the Big
Dipper,” were in the' form of a dia-
mond.
A medical authority on the .t‘irtues
of various kinds of food declares that
the herring gives the muscles elastic-
ity, the body strength, and the brain
vigor, and is not flesh-forming.
According to Prof. Barnard, there is
no ground for the supposition that the
rings of Saturn are closing upon the
planet, as his observation shows that
no changes have taken place since the
first systematic measures were made.
According to Sir Benjamin Richard-
son the normal period of human life
is about 110 years, and seven out of ten
average people, if. they took proper
care of themselves, ought to attain that
age.
Diphtheria serum is about to be man—
ufactured on a. commercial scale by
:1 dyeing establishment at Hochst, near
Frankfort-on-the-Main. It will be
much concentrated, and five times as
strong as that hitherto used.
Meteorologists say that the heat of
the air is due to six sources: (1) That
from the interior of the earth; (2) that
from the stars; (3) that from the moon;
(4) that from the friction of the winds
and tides; (5) that from the meteors;
(6) that from the sun.
Prof. Olszewski, of Cracow, who has
succeeded in liquefying hydrogen, has
tried to liquefy helium, whose density
is nearly twice as great, without suc-
cess. This is due, Prof. Ramsey thinks,
to the molecular constitution of hel-
ium; and for the same reason the lique-
faction of argon should be more diffi-
cult.
HORTICU LTURAL NOTES.
The perfume of the nutmeg flower is
said by some naturalists to have an in-
toxicating effect on small birds.
Every flower that has a perfume at
all secretes a. volatile oil, the evapora-
tion of which constitutes the peculiar
odor characteristic of the blossom.
The smallest flower known to the bot-
anist is said to be that of the yeast
plant. It is microscopic in size and is
said to be only 1-100th of a millimeter in
diameter.
Lilies of the valley in France are
called “Virgin‘s tears,” and are said to
have sprung up on the road between
Calvary and Jerusalem during the
night following the crucifixion.
The wax palm tree of South America,
which grows to an altitude of 10,000
feet above sea. level, is completely cov-
ered with a coating which consists of
a vegetable wax and crystalline resin.
When mixed with fallow this substance
is made into candles.
A novel feature was introduced at a
harvest festeval held in a New Haven
church the other day. Members of the
congregation owning canaries brought
them to the church, and the cages were
hung in various parts of the building.
The feathered songsters joined in the
musical part of the services with what
is described as a most delightful effect.
THROUGH THE STATES.
.\ brass clock which is alleged to
have been telling the time in Concord,
Mass, when Paul Revere rode through
that town is owned by a man in Brattle-
I)( ro, Vt, and is still an excellent time-
keeper.
A fierce northwest wind was blow-
ing at. Ocean City, Md, and it was seen
that tens of thousands of red butter-
flies were flying rapidly over the city,
like :1 dense cloud. For an hour the
people watched them, and during all
that time there was no break in the
procession.
Rattlesnakes are unpleasantly plen-
tiful in the vicinity of Fairliavcn, Vt.
It is stated that more than a hundred
have been killed in that neighborhood
during this season. Eighteen were
killed by one man last month.
Indian relics in great abundance were
discovered near Milford, Mich, a few
days ago when workmen uncovered a
prehistoric cemetery. There are said
to be several thousand graves in the
area of-tlic burial ground, and in almost
all so far Opened pipes, spearheads and
various trinkets have been found.
SWORD AND SAIL.
Two sons 'of Marshal Bazaine are said
to be serving in the Cuban insurgent
ranks.
The largest man ever enlisted in the
British army was Lieut. Sutherland.
height was eight feet four inches and
his weight 364 pounds.
During the late English naval man-
'euvers the Havock was the only tor-
pedo-boat destroyer which pulled
tlnough without a breakdown All
others had semething go wrong with
th!ir machinery, and had to put into
port for repairs. The Havock came. out
best in coal consumption, using nine
tons to the 13 of the boat next on the
1131...
The Magnificent, the biggest war ves-
sel afloat, weighs 6,000 tons, and has a
displacement of 15,000. Without her
internal fittings the ship cost £ 627,500.
Her steel armor ranges from eight to
fourteen inches in thickness, and she
is armed with 50-ton guns. The vessel
is to be followed by eight others equal-
ly powerful.
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ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA.
The largest ferryboat is said to be one
at Port Costa, Cal.
length and has a tonnage of 3,541.
Letters received from sailing ships in
the Pacific Arctic say that the ice has
formed earlier and heavier this year
than ever known before.
The largest sailing ship afloat has
just been completed at Bremen. She is
called the Potosi, is a. five-master, 30-1
feet long, 50 feet broad, with a draught
ol: 2-5 feet, and a carrying capacity of
6.150 tons.
It is 424 feet in
'WhEkLY'f-noRWALK GA ETTE '
HAS NO EQUAL.
That is Norwalk Testimony and
Therefore Reliable.
When a remedy has no equal it is up
to date and a. little in advance of all
other remedies for a specified complaint.
Medical theory of old times held that a
medicine containing a 'little of each
kind for every ill should makearemedy
for all complaints We laugh at such
foolishness to-dav, and wonder it was
ever-thought Wisdom. The maxim to-
day 18 learn what the disease is and ap-
rly the remedy which has proven the
mes-t direct and radical. Specialties
rule the day, and a single organ, its
disorders and how to cure it, is the
highest distinction in the medical pro-
tension. The kidneys are wonderfully
constructed. Do you know Just what.
their functions are. 9 They are the
laboratories of the body for the RENO-
VATING of the blood, BEFORE ITS
USE AGAIN. Read that. carefully.
Every pulsation of the heart sends out
the blood to give life to the body.
When it picks up the poisons in its
course it goes to the kidhevs to be made
new for use again. If the kidneys are
weak they cannot. do the work, and uric
pomon stamps out the life of the blood.
Doau’s Kidney Pills correct all disor-
ders cf the kidneys and keep these
laboratories true purifiers of the bIOttl.
Norwalk people are fa'- 1: learning this.
Read the follow 112 case:
Mrs. Joseph Whitney resid n: at No.
61 Belden avenue, hasn’ t had a new set
of kidneys, she hardly needed that, still
she hLd to plumb. up the old ones no
they had become clogged and as 9 ect-
sequence was a suflerer from backache
Queer expression isn’t. it, plumb the
kidneys, but it’s right. Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills are. nature’s plumbers and it
was Simply the working of these little
wonders on the kidneys that done
away the backache for Mrs. Whitney
She says in brief: —“I got a box of
Donn’ s Kidney Pills at Hale’ a drug store
and took them for backache with anti 9-
tory results. I recommend them to my
friends.”
Doan’ s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers. Pr1ce.0 cents Mailal hv
Fos er- -Mi'1burn 011., Buffalo. N. Y.
1015 agents for the U. S.
Thousands are suffering excruciating
misery from that plaoue of the night,
Itching Piles, and say nothing about ll
through a sense ( f deicucy. Instant re-
lfiefI in Dcau’ s Ointment. It never
a] s.
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