,Tired, WealcNervoss
Hood’s samdbullla Restores
Strength and Bodily Vigor.
The cause of that tired, weak, nervous
condition in which so my peeple find
themselves, is the failure of the blood to
, properly nourish
the nerves and tis-
sues. Feed the
nerves upon pure
blood, and gthey
will be steady and
strong. Read this:
~ “ It is with pleas-
;- are that I recom-
K" \‘
' saparillaas an ex-
, cellent nerve tonic
, 1.' I and blood purifier.
lire. C. I. Valuable I have taken ' it
Kelthsburg, 111. more than once
and am taking it now. I was tired, my
body sched, and I felt very badly all over.
I was afraid I would be sick. I thought I
would take Hood’s Ssrsaparilla, and
It Has Cured Me,
and I find thllt it is cheaper than the doc-
ter’s bills. Hood’s Pills are the » best I
have ever taken and I use no other. I am
glad to have an opportunity to recom-
mend Hood’s Bernpsrilla." M135. 0. K.
Vmunm, Keithsburg, Ill.
9 Sama-
Hood 5 w
W 1"" it
Be sure to gag: ures
Hoodzs. W
Hood’s Serseperille is sold by all dru -
. 1 six for . Pre ared only y
Ei'r. Ego _ & 00., £337,311, ass.
Hood’s Pills suitcase um
REE you come sour-n?
If so. for hnalth. pleasure unlicoml’ort go
to Plney Woods Inn. Southern Pines. N. C.
Those desiring to escape the rigors of the
climate North will find a mild. dry climate
at Southern Pines. N. 0.. in the heart of the
long leafed pine section of America.
The elevation is coo feet above sea level. the
highest point in the turpentine belt. delight-
ful climate. with all the advantages of resorts
further south and free from many disadvan-
tages: it is the place the tourist and health
seeker will appreciate.
It has the most perfect drainage, being a
huge sand bank. and is situatedm _the heart
of the long leaf pine. It 13 Within the in-
lluonce ol the gulf stream. to _Wth-ll it owes
much of the mildness of the climate. ,
Plney Woods Inn. an elegant new hotel. is
now open. The house accommodates 200
guests. has all modern conveniences. sam-
iary plumbing. eloc‘ric lights. call bolls,
wide verandas. sun 1 c.‘ hrs. steam heat. etc.
in fact. Piney Woods 111.2 has been fitted up
that guests may enjoy me comforts of every
day it e at. home at moderate rates.
v the Sea-
Piney Woods Inn is reached
ddress.
, board Air Line. For terms. etc.
CHARLES ST. JOHN.
(Museum
' Southern Pines. N. C.
DAILY FREIGHT LINE
‘ BETWEEN
NORWALK,
so. NORWALK
rArW YORK."
. prgpfgligl’s
City of l.‘i’orwalk,
Vulcan and Eagle.
Leave Norwalk at 5 p. m.
Leave So. Norwalk at 6 p. m.
Leave New York, Pier 23,
‘E. Pu, Beekman St., 5p m,
CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,
26 H’JLL ST., NORWALK.
INCORPORATED SEPT. 1, 1876.
CAPITAL, - - - - - - $100,000
GEORGE M. HOLMES, President.
E. L. BOYER, Vice-President.
WILLIAM A. CURTIS, Cashier
DIRECTORS :
Gannon M. HOLMES, H. E. DANN.
P. L. Cuxsxxenln, J. . Pnowrr'r
E. L. P-OYER, S. H. HOLMES
J. Consrxs. J a.
Biscounl llay, Saturday.
Faillleld county llallonal Bank.
44 Wall Sara: 1', Nora-ails, Conn.
INCORPORATED. 1824. Capital, $500,000
EDWIN O. KEELER President. .
DAVID E. ILLER, Vice-Presldent. .
L. C. GREEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
EDWIN 0. KEELER, Moses H. GLovsa
DAVID E. MILLER, A. J. MEEKEB,
F- ST. J OHN Locxwoon, THEODORE E. SMITH
Ina Conn, Cues F. Tarsralu.
Accounts of Manufacturers, Merchants and
Indrvrduals solicited. ’
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
LOBKWOOD! LIGHT PARCEL and
* PACKAGE DELIVEBYi
Cheap rates, Will also take orders for mes-
senger service in New York. Goods called
or and dehyered to all arts of the town,
.Orders received at E P. eed’s Drug Store.
33 Wall Street, With telephone connectlon un-
til 5.3). .
C E. LOCKWOOD.
After Considerable Experience Mr. Peter-
WOOING A WIDOW.
kin Found the Right Method.
“I have often wondered,” said Squire
~ . Ben, “why it was that some women are
overwhelmed with suitors, so to speak,
while others have not 'a solitary one.
There is something queer about it, but
perhaps it comes from perfectly natural}
conditions, but of which we are un-
aware. And this reminds me of a
story. Some thirty-odd years ago—I
9 AMERICAN .iiiLLIONAIREs
|
A Paris Paper’s Account of'our
. Men of Money.
In Which Facts Are Somewhat Distorted
and Exaggerated — Strange
[uaccuracy of the For-
k. . elgn Press. V
_—,_-.-
The founder of the colossal fortune,
don’t know exactly how .1113an but it is portion of which comes to France
,was some time during the war—.I heard with the new Countess de Castellane,
a. story which a returned soldier was '. died about two years ago. He was a
reading in a newspaper to a. little
group around him, to their great en-
'joyment. The story made such an im-
pression on me that-I haven’t forgotten
it, and will tell it in outline.
“Mr. S. C. Peterkin was a prosper—
ous young man of business in New
York city, who got ahead in spite of
his constitutional modesty. This was
his way in society more than in trade;
he was afraid of women more than
men. For a long, long time he had
set his heart upon a lovely young lady
named Violet. He often called upon
her, and resolved again and again to
offer his heart and hand, but as often
that heart failed him. At last he be-
came alarmed by the fact that the
dashing Capt. Latham, of one of the
sound steamers, was often at the house
when , he called to see Violet. At laét
,he could not bear the suspense any
longer. and he ventured, with much
hesitancy land awkwardness, but with
do-or-dic determination, to ask her to
be his wife. With remarkable coolness
she replied: ’ ‘
“ ‘You should have spoken long ago,
Mr. Peterkin; I have been engaged to
Capt. Latham for some time past, and
we are to be married very shortly. I
am sorry to disappoint you, but we
will be as good friends as ever, and you
must come to see me just the same.
The captain will always be gladoto
have your company.‘
“Peterkin went away sorrowful. But
a brighter day soon dawned, for with-
in three months after they were mar-
ried the captain fell off the steamer in
a fog on the sound and was drowned.
Now Peterkin took heart. He would
have the widow. A year of mourning
wore slowly away. He kept his eye on
the widow, but would not insult the
memory of the dead by proposing until
a decent interval had passed. The
year ended, and he laid his heart again"
at the little feet of Viol-3t. She heard
him quietly and gently remarked: ‘My
dear Mr. Peterkin, I am sorry to dis-
appoint you again, but for the last six
months I have been engaged to Dr.
Jones. It was hard for me to make up
my mind between him and his friend,
the handsome Lawyer Bright, but Dr.
Jones was so good to me while I was
sick in the winter, after my husband’s
death, that I promised him 1 would be
his at. the end of the year..’ _
“So poor Peterkin retired once’ more;
the Widow Latham became Mrs. Dr.
Jones, and so remained. while the dis-
—comfited Peterklin wished the doctor
might take enough of his own pills to
make an end of him. Time passed on.
Peterkin was walking down Broadway
one day, while not far ahead of him he
saw two men, one of whom he knew to
be this hated Dr. Jones. A large flat
stone was being hoisted to the coping of
a new building; the ropes gave way: it
fell and instantly killed the two men.
“Peterkin rose to the emergency of
the moment. For the dead he could be
of no avail. His thoughts were on the
widow. He turned, he ran, he flew, to
her abode. When she entered the
room Where he awaited her he began:
‘My dear Mrs. Jones. I bring you
dreadful news. ' I was walking on
Broadway, when I saw a stone fall
from a house upon your poor husband,
and he is dead, but you must let me
comfort you. I beg you. now, to be
mine—my Violet, at last.’
“ ‘Dear Mr. Poterkin, I am so sorry,
but when Dr. Jones and Mr. Bright
were both begging me to marry, I took
the doctor and promised Mr. Bright if
anything happened to Jones I would
certainly be his. So you see I am on-
gaged. I am sorry, for I think a. great
of you, my dear Peterkin.’ ,
“Peterkin was very calm and self-
contained. He said: ‘And will you
promise to be mine when the lawyer is
no more?’ ‘Certainly I will, with all
my heart and-soul.’ ‘Thcn come to my
arms, my Violet, for the same stone
that killed the doctor was the death of
Bright, and you are mine at last?”—
——Boston Herald.
A Court Decides That Dogs Cry.
Docs udog cry? This knotty ques-
tion has occupied one of the civil courts
under these circumstances: A certain
gentleman rented a handsome set of
rooms, and the lease contained a clause
intordicting the tenant from keeping
animals which any It happened that
a friend so: 5‘ '~ 1w gentleman two little
dogs from Eli The arrival of the
animals leil 1 ) notice being served on
their owner for breach of the terms of
the lease, and the matter had to be I
settled by legal argument. The de-
fendant insisted that Pipe and Pipa,
as his dogs were called, weighed only
twelve ounces apiece, and their bark
was correspondingly diminutive; but
counsel for the plaintiff contended that
dwarfs were known to be bad-tem-
pered, and very small dogs were no ex-
ception, and were inclined to be quar-
rel-some and noisy. In ordinary lan-
guage, their whimpering might be
called crying. The court tools the
same view, and Pipo and Pipe. had to
find another home in twenty-four
hours, or subject their master to a. pen-
alty of five francs for each day’s delay.
—London Telegraph.
Funercal Plants.
The olive, oak, laurel, myrtle, rose—
mary, cypress, amaranth and parsley
are all funcreal plants among the
Greeks and Romans. “To be in need
of parsley” was a Greek euphemism in-
dicating the death of the person so de-
scribed. An Athenian army once
marching against the Lacedemonians
was stampeded on its way out of the
city by meeting two mules laden with
parsley—the omen being that the
whole army would soon be in need of
the article—Chicago Inter Ocean.
/
prodigious speculator, a financier for
whom speculation was a perfect bat—
tle. We refer to Jay Gould, the man
who left, in .addition to his gigantic
fortune, an imperishable souvenir in
the financial history of North America.
. His name is legendary in the bourse
of New York, where they, still remem-
ber him as he sat in his office upOn one
of the arms of his chair—his favorite
position—sending and receiving hun-
dreds of dispatches during the busi-
ness hours. ’He commanded a. perfect
army of brokers and agents. Two
hundred intermediaries operated con—
stantly for him, unknown to each
other, and his office was connected di-
rectly by special telegraph lines with
' twenty-five offices of brokers.
1
His habits were remarkably simple
and sober. He never touched alcohol
in any shape and never smoked. Jay
Gould only knew one fashion—specula-
tron.
The fortunes of the Vanderbilts, of
the Mackays..of the Bennetts, and of
the Astors are well known to our
readers and it is not necessary to refer
to them. We prefer to mention a few
other millionaires less popular who are
still in the world of finance.
First we have Mr. Russell Sage, who
was present at the marriage of Miss
Anna Gould and who four years ago
was the hero of an extraordinary ad-
venture. It was upon him that an
anarchist named Lord called and de-
manded one million dollars under the
penalty of an explosion. Mr. Russell
Sage having refused to comply with
the demand, Lord did just as he said
he would do. He threw the bomb up-
on thc floor of the office of the Amer-
ican bunker, but that machine, intel-
ligent for once. only killed the an-
archist. ,
Mr. Russell Sage is not only one of
the richest bankers of New York—ho
is worth two hundred- and fifty mil-‘
lion dollars—but he is also the one who
as always on hand the most ready
money.
After having been one of the great-
est speculators of llall (sic) street (the
bourse of New York), he at length con~
fined his operations entirely to dis-
counting notcs, and in order to be able
'to meet all sorts of eventualities he
has always on hand a running account
of‘ considerable sums. Mr. Sage can
at any moment draw his check for
fifty million dollars. He was for a
long time closely connected with the
affairs of Jay Gould.
Beside Mr. Sage stands Col. Hunt-
ington. who is also worth two hundred
and fifty million dollars. He is the
son of a farmer, formerly a farm hand,
and he commenced his fortune in specu-
lations in American clocks. He is now
one of the railroad kings and is also a
tegtotalcr, drinking nothing but tea.
The other great speculators. with no
more than from fifty million dollars to
one hundred million dollars, are Mr. S.
V. White, nicknamed “Deacon Wh'tc,’
because he was formerly a trellis rer
in one of the churches of New h rk
and very affable and very charita 1e;
Mr. John D. Slaybach, Who one lay
lost more than a. million because he
left. his office to attend a religious ‘ c-
ture; Mr. H. Victor Newcomb. a young
man who was known as “the boy prd‘si-
dent” at the time when, before he Was
of age, he was president of a railro d
company; Mr. D. 0. Mills, etc. “I
All of them operate on a gigantic
scale. To give only one example, 0
may mention that Mr. S. V. White so I 0
years ago made. ten million five linin-
drcd thousand dollars in two days o t
of one speculation. ‘.
Most of these financiers are al‘ 0
church members. The piety of l\ 1'.
Sage is especially exemplary. ' But c
has one passion, nevertheless, and th t
is for horses.
nowned in New York. ~—Pari_s Figart.
Science of Modern Medicine. 1
Of all. the benefits science has con-
ferred upon mankind, there 'is nothi‘ g
more important than the part. that it
has played in the study of medicipe.
With its help medicine has» become
elevated from a. superstition to oneiof
the grandest pursuits within the ran 3
of human intelligence. Through le
lnstrumcntality of science, impro e-
ments, discoveries and benefits untgld
have resulted, even though as _et
many branches of it are still in t (3
stage of the merest infancy. A pro 0-
sition has been made of late to com-
bine with the hoSpital practice of st 1 - ‘
dents a thorough course of scionti 0
training on medical lines. The ruler, ‘
scope and chemistry are the docto‘l’s
strongest allies. With a thorough
understanding of these two agents
added to his ordinary medical knowl-
cdgefithe physician of the future wil
be able to cope with difficulties which
have heretofore been thought insur-
mountable. There is at? present a
movement going on the object of which
is to extend the course of study for
students of medicine and to compre-
hend in theml‘more than is now in-
cluded. A higher standard is also to
be demanded—higher in every respect;
It certainly should go without saying
that a physician should be of the most
exalted moral character and the
highest grade of intelligence. Ig-
norance or imposition in this direction.
ought to be punished with the utmost
severity—N. Y. Ledger.
..——
. ' Sure of Itu
“There’s money in stocks,” said the
man who is young and enthusiastic.
“Yes,” replied his seasoned friend;
“I’m sure there is. I have been put-
ting half my salary there for the last
four years, and tb at’s all there yet.”—
Washington Star. ' ’
.u
His trotters are re-‘
wages of women servants in‘Londonds
interesting to American housekeepers. ,, '.
,l The general housework girl in" London“
1 gets 56. 50 a'mon'th, a cook about $9. a'
: nurse $8 and a. laundress $8.25.
-—'Dr. Chapman shows that the bobo-
i linksvwhich nest' west _-of the Rocky.
mountains do not migrate southWard
with the birds of that region, but re-
trace their steps and leave the United .
States by way of Florida, thus furnish-
ing evidence of the gradual extension
of range westward and of the stability
of the routes of migration.
—Philadelphia’s harbor is to be im-
proved by the city of Philadelphia. by
the removal of certain rocks and other
obstructions in' the Delaware, and
Schuylkill rivers. » The work will be
done under the direction of the di-
rector of public Works, and two hun- ,
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars
is available for this purpose.
—That a plant appreciated by the
cultivator in one country is but a weed
in another, is exemplified by the sen-
sitive plant. In our gardens few are
more welcome. In India it is sucha
pest that it is regarded with as much
disgust as the Canada thistle‘,.horse
nettle, or other notorious plants are by
the American cultivator. It is con-
sidered one of the vilest weeds in
India.
—At the Victoria institute, London, ‘
it was stated that all naturalists now
admit that qvolution as a working
hypothesis has, as yet, proved insuffi-
cient to account for man’s place in na-
ture. As regards the question of the
missing link” between man and the
ape, it has been scientifically demon-
strated that in no case had a. so-called
missing link proved to be other than a
human being, with a. lesser developed
brain than usual.
—The capsicum plant, from which
the different varieties of pepper are
produced, is indigenous to the tropical
regions of Europe, Asia, Africa and '
America. It grows wild almost as well
as under cultivation in' all these coun-
tries, and in each is used by the na-
tives as a seasoning for food. Its ex-
' tensive employment has suggested to
medical theorists the thought that it
must be considered as a. natural tonic
for the stomach in tropical countries.
——Bleaching by peroxide of hydrogen
has now become almost universal.
This substance is simply water with
an added atom of oxygen.- which extra
oxygen unites with and destroys the
pigments of vegetable and animal sub-
stances without afiecting the fibers in
any way or leaving in them any for-
eign' matter. It can be used with any
material. Ivory, bone, human hair,
wool, silk, jute, linen and’ cotton can
all. be bleached, and the wool on the
" sheep or the hair on the human head
can be whitened without in the least
affecting its growth or vigor.
--Cow’s milk is almost at the bottom
of the list of the food substances that
contain iron. As it is so important to
1 infant life, Prof. Bungc has been led to
experiment on animals to see in what
proportion iron is present in the sys-
tem at different ages. He finds that
the younger animals contain much
more iron than adults; in a guinea pig
or rabbit one,_..hour old, for instance,
there is more than four times as much.
iron as in the same animals two and a
half months old. He infers from this
that a long-continued exclusive milk
diet is not good for babies, but should
be supplemented by wheat prepara-
tions.
' GAYETY or ENGLISHMEN.
They Are a People, That Know How to
\ Enjoy Real Sport.
All the English writers have said
that Englishmen take their pleasures
sadly (in contrast with the Italians),
and all English history, moral as well
as civic, shows a strain of vulgar bru-
tality in what they are pleased to call
the enjoyment of life. What I Wish to
say is that England is changing in
both these respects.
increase of gaycty, and there is less
brutality in sports and social pleasures.
We have boasted in American, superior
sensitivcness and a shrinking from
brutality of manners, but some of the
later developments in our most civi-
lized class have silenced this boast.
For instance, our elaboration of the
Rugby game of football has carried us
to a brutal excess wholly unknown in
England, and we have to ask how it is
but our lads, nurtured in preparatory
institutions that are free from the tra-
ditionary brutalities of the English
public schools, developed on the green
field so much of the spirit and man-
ners of the prize-ring. The love of
sport is more universal with the Eng-
lish than with us; everybody wants
to share in it, and the English public
would not be satisfied as we are with
exhibitions of baseball'furnished by
professional players. The'love of real
sport is killed by the commercial
spirit. Talk in all classes of society
about sports, the space given to them
in the newspapers, testify to the lively
interest in all out-of-door games, not
only in the great national races and
regattas, but in the more privately
played games of golf and cricket.
Everybody, from the cabinet minister
to the humblest clerk, from the rich
merchant to the poorest workman,
plays some sort of outdoor game. or
indulges, in some weeks of the year,
in a sporting holiday. I have a fancy,
founded on some observations, that
the English public generally know
how to enjoy a, holiday better than we
do. The listless and melancholy as-
pect of 3 Labor day celebration with
us is calculated to make one in‘ love
with steady work merely for enjoy-
ment. ltmay be said that the power
of enjoyment of leisure has been ex-
tirpated by disease, and that this very
incapacity shows the need of more
holidays for our people. In time we
. shall doubtless learn what to do with
them. It is certain that the English
of 1ate4.yea.rs, notwithstanding the
drawback of their climate, have in-
creased their capacity for enjoying
holidays, and with less boisterousness.
-Charles Dudley Warner, in Harpgr‘s
. rMagazine. , .. _ r .‘
'TCQJL-m“--— T” -
SCIENCE AND l'NousraY. -_
—-,A‘-frepbrt showing the’avcrage "
There is a visible’
1 sign... of .au'ih Leavening
(5,
v a."
._ I . .r 2‘»...
Pores-é Latest U. S.
serum“: was i
AN EQUINE LUXURY.
eerie Has NgvrT-Jkish Bathing
House for Horses. ~
The Establishment Is Similar to Those
Used by Men, But Is on a Larger
Scale—How the Animals ,
-> Are Handled.“ ’ ' "
A Turkish bathing c'stablishmentpfor
horses and dogs has been started 'in a.
quiet street in Paris, near to the .Bois
de Boulogne. Henceforth those who
possess horses and pet dogs will be en-
abled to let them experience all the
delights of these oriental ablutions.
When the wealthy man returns to
his home he may take pity on the tired
steeds that have dragged his carriage
through the hot, dusty streets and tell
his groom to take them over for a. bath.
The place has not been open long,
but judging {from the amount of sup-
port it is said to have enjoyed up to
now, the experiment should be success-
ful. Whether it will be found to keep
up its business in winter is a. problem
for the enterprising proprietor to solve
by experience.
The idea is unique and at the same
time humane. There can be little
doubt that animals which are not livv
ing in a state of natural freedom will
derive great benefit from these baths,
especially in summer weather.
The arrangements made in this estab-
lishment for the treatment of four-
footed clients are elaborate and inter-
'esting. The bathhouse is designed in
much the same style as those used by
hiiman beings. but the rooms are on a
much larger scale.
, There are three large rooms con-
nected with each other by wide doors,
which fit closely and are practically
air-tight. When a horse- is, to be oper-
ated on, it is taken first into the back-
room. This is divided into large com-
partm cuts or stalls. The horse is tied
up to a ring in the stall and the door
shut. A steam coil is concealed in the
wall of the room and the steam can be
turned on from the outside. .
After the animal has been tied
with a good length of halter he is
shut. in and the room is filled with
steam until the temperature rises to
about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. “ The
time the horse is left in this chamber ‘
varies considerably, according to the
condition he may be in. ”Usu ally half
an hour is sufficient to pl'aqluce profuse
perspiration. '
When this has been effected the door
is opened and the bother is untied and
led into the middle room,with littl e win
dows in one wall which separates it
from the first room. This end of the
room is also divided into stalls, and
has a. window to each stall. There is
no steam here, but hot air‘keeps the
temperature at about 165 Fahrenheit.
This heat increases the flow of per-
spiration begun by the steam, and in
about fifteen minutes it is streaming
from the animal. After this'the little
window in his stall is opened and his
. head drawn through t9 be tied fast to
a ring in room No. 1. After this a
cold shower-bath is turned on from
the ceiling, and two attendants, stand-
ing one on each side, rub and scrape
off the perspiration and water with
smooth, flexible ’ scrapers of hard
wood.
The shower is continued fer fifteen.
minutes. When it is turned ofi the
horse is given a gentle shampoo with
soft brushes. He is then rubbed vig-
orously for a, few minutes with warm,
dry cloths, and a drink of brandy and
water is administered.
The temperature is gradually low-
ored to about eighty degrees and then
the horse is led into the front room.
This is kept at a. moderate tempera-
ture, and is fitted with a table on
_which the patient is laid while the
final touches are put to his toilet. The
table is of mechanical construction
and is a very ingenious affair. The
top, which is padded and covered with
oiled canvas, turns over so as to be
perpendicular, one side touching the
marble floor. Wide strips of strong
webbing are drawn through it, and
when the horse is led. up beside the
table top, these strips are passed
around his body, back through the.
table top and buckled tightly on the;
other side. His feet are also buckled
in straps, and when he is securely
fastened the attendants turn a revolv-
ing shaft which tips up the table top
until it rests horizontally on the four
massive legs, which are connected by a.
strong framework.
L When it, is tipped up the horse is ly-
ing at full length on his side, ready for
the final operation. ,1 This consists of
fifteen minutes’ rubbing by two at-
tendants. These men wear gloves
which have the inner surfaces covered
with stiff hair. They rub until the
horse is perfectly dry; they then apply
various balsams and T'bay rum. \Vhen
one side is finished the table is ”tipped
over and the horse unstrapped and
turned on the other side. Then the
mane and tail - are -combed, brushed
and braided. The process is now end-
ed, and’ after having another drink of
brandy the. animal is led Out.—"-N. Y.
_ World. .
- . Wisdom and Modesty. ,
The celebrated Aboo Yusnph, who
was chief cadi, or judge, of Bagdad, in ~
the reign of the Caliph' Hadee, was 'a
',very remarkable instance of that 1111-
mility which distinguishes true wis-
dom. ' His sense of'his own deficiencies
often led him to entertain doubts,
where men" of less knowledge and
more presumption were decided. It is
'related of this judge that, on one coca-
sion, after a.,very patient investiga-
rtion of facts, he declared that his
case closed his career.
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knowledge was not competent to de-
cide upon the case before him- “Pray, .
do you expect,” said a bert' courtier
who heard the declaratBn.T “that the
caliph is to pay you fo your igno-
rance?” “I do not,” w gee mild re- ~
ply. “The caliph pays ,me,'a"‘nil~'well;”~”
for what I 'do know. If he were to’ at: .
tempt to pay me for what I do not
know, the treasures of his empire
would not sufllce.”'-'Golden Days.
. —Nothing can constitute good breed-
ing which has not good nature for its
foundation. s—Bulwer. -,
BRIEF AND INTERESTING.
Almost the only monument of the
Roman dominion in Egypt, the fortress
of' Babylon, at Old Cairo, is being torn
down to make way for modern build—
ings.
The latest story of the kind is of'a.
needle which a woman in South Surry,
Me., swallowed 72 years ago, and which
prodded its ,way out of her elbow a.
week or two ago. .
Beverage is the suggestive, appro-
priate, but noncommittal name of the
man elected president of a. temperance
society in North Haven, Me., a few
days ago. _ "
Eighty varieties of microbes, some en-
tirely new, have been discovered by
M. Van de Steen in Amsterdam drinke
ing water. NOne of them are cholera
bacilli. _
A German antarctic expedition has
been decided upon and 950,000 marks
allotted to it. It will. consist of two
vessels, will last three-sears and will
start south from Kerguelen island.
Kildare and Wicklow have been just!
1y termed the garden of Ireland, for no- 0
where is nature more profuse in her
display of the picturesque and the
beautiful. _ ‘
The nettle is put to a useful purpose.
in some parts of Europe by‘being con-
verted into various textile fabrics. In
Dresden a thread from it has been pro-
duced so fine and silky that a length
of 60 miles Weighs only 40 ouuces.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms
where daylight appears, the eyes of a ._
fish get bigger andbigger. Beyond
that depth small-eyed forms set in,
with long feelers developed to supple-
‘ment the. eyes.
Frederick Thompson, aged 75, sat in
a. bootblack’s chair in a San Francisco
street, and was having his boots pol-
ished, when a fatal attack of heart dis-
The man had
been dead three minutes before the
bootblack was aware of the tragedy.
An interesting duel was witnessed in‘
Pike county, ,Pa., not long ago. The
duelists-were prize rams, and their
method of combat was unique. They
would repeatedly back off from each
other to a. distance of. about 40 feet,
and then dash madly forward until
their heads collided. This plan they
continued until one ram dropped dead. ~
HISTORY REPEATED.
From the date of the creation to that
_ of the flood, the Hebrew version cal-
culates 1,656 years; the Septuagint
2,262; the difference being 606 years.
Dishes of gold and silver used in ta-
ble service in 900 B. C., were found at
Troy by Dr. Schliemann. One of these
was about the size now employed.
The League of‘Armed Neutrality was
a, Convention originally formed in 1780,
between Russia, Denmark and Sweden.
The states general subsequent-1y . en~
tered this league, and it was also joined
by the king of Prussia. on May 8, 1871,
and by the kaiser on October 9 of the
same year.
Nova Scotia was‘discovcrcd by Cabot,
1497,. visited by Verrazzani, 1524, and
named Acadia. Settled in 1622 by the
Scotch under Sir William Alexander, in
.the reign of James I. of England, from
Whom it received the' name of Nova.
Scotia. Since its first settlement it has
more than once changed (proprietors,
and was not confirmed to England till
the peace of Utrecht in 1713.
ABOUT THE WOMEN.
One of the richest heiresses in the
world is Lady Mary Hamilton Douglas,
the 11-year—old (laughter of the late:
duke of Hamilton, whose income is now
about £ 160,000 a. year, and will be well
above £200,000 by the time shc is of
age.
Est-Empress Eugenie has rec‘en tly'de-
posited her will with a. prominent Lon-
don‘ attorney, in which, true to her
pledge, she has left a legacy to each of
the 5,834'male persons of France born
on the birthday of her son, Prince
Louis. ' ,
One of the maids of honor to the
young empress of Russia was married
a few months ago. On bidding her
good-by the. empress congratulated
her warmly, adding: “I shall indeed be
sorry to lose you, but I am so happy .
myself that I wish every one to be mar
ried, too.” '
Ll TTL E BITS.
is a prosperous lawyer
Francis A. Fee
of Madera, Cal. ,
Diphtheria has been communicated by ~ ‘ .
telephone, in Paris. .
Mr. John Likewise is a respected resi-
, dent of Plattsmouth, Neb. —
unces was '
An apple weighing 2 .
' 2" Thomas, of
raised this year by J.
Trigg county, Ky. .
. Antiquarian's say that glass was in
use 2,000 yearsbeforc the time of the
birth of Christ. . _ i ' ‘
The largest Bible in the world be-
\v
, longs to the Buddhists. It‘is in 325 vol-
umes, and Weighs, 1,625 pounds.
Norwalk Chronicler