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. The Honorable J. F. Greer, one of the
best known and most highly respected
county Judges of the State of Florida,
writes of his horrible sufferings from
Inf: ‘inmatory Rheumatism:
OFl-‘lCE or J. F. GREER, COUNTY Jonas}
Green (.ove Springs, Clay Co., Fla.
GENTLEMEN : Twenty-three years ago? I
was attacked with inflammatory rheumatism.
was attended by the most eminent physician
the land. I visited the eat Saratoga
$prings, N. Y., the noted Hot prings of Ar.
kansas, and many other watering places.
always consulting with the local ph Sicians for
directions, and naily came to lorida, ten
years ago. About two years ago I had a severe
attack of rheumatism, was confined to my
room for tWelve weeks, and during that time
was induced to try P. P. P., Lippman’s Great
Remedy, knowing that each ingredient was
good for impurities of the'blood. After use—
ing two small bottles I was relieved. At four
different times since I have had slight attacks
and each time I have taken two small bottles
of P. P. P.,.and have been relieved. and I cori-
Sider P. P. P. the best medicine of its kind.
Respectfully, J. F. GREER.
James M. Newton, of Aberdeen, Ohio,
says he bought a bottle of P. P. P. at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, and it did him
more good than three months’ treat-
ment at Hot Springs.
Rheumatism, as well as sciatica and
gout, is‘ cured by a course of P. P. P.,
Lippman’s Great Remedy.
P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy, is
a friend indeed to weak women. It is
a positive and speedy cure for general
weakness and nervousness.
All skin diseases are cured by it; any-
thing from pimples to the worst cases
of eczemas succumbing to the wonder-
ful healing powers of P. P. P.
Dyspepsia and indigestion in their
worst form are cured by it. As a tonic
. to restore the appetite and to regain
lost vigor, it is simply marvelous.
P. P. P. is the best spring medicine
in the world. It removes that heavy,
out-of—sorts feeling and restores you to
a. condition of perfect physical health.
For Indigestion, Sick and Nervous
Headache, Sleeplessness, Nervousness,
Heart Failure, Fever, ,Chi'ils, Debility
and Kidney Diseases, take P. P. P.,
Lippman’s Great Remedy, the most
wonderful medicine in the world
Sold by all drugglsts.
UPPMAN BROS., Apothccories, Sole Prop'rI»
Lippm-o's Block. sensual. &.
it’s neglect of
throat and
bronchial l
troubles HALE s
that 4 "ONE;
leads to CF
death- HOIlEHO|INll
dealing m
disease. TAR
4 No wonder Halc’s Honey of Horshound and
far is praised by its users. Its curative efiects
we like magic. Sold by druggists.
Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
'LYMOUH, BUCK ICE
STIIIGTLY PIIIIEI
Stores and families supplied. Lowest rates.
ELLs & co., I I North Ave.
Norwalk. ‘
Horace E. Dann,
EXCELBIOL
Livery and Sales Stable.
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Opposite Dsnbnry and
Norwslk Railroad depot
Norwalk. Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Teams
with or without drivers
Safe horses for women
sndohildren. .
SADDLE HORSES A SPECIA L "- Y
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P. W. BATES’
42 mm smart, ‘
You can find as fine an assortment of
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Slate Look it over and get prices
before going elsewhere.
Piano Lessons.
RS. GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter
_ of the lateWm. I . Nash.) gives stilt-ant
and satisfactory instructions on the Plan‘3 :2
her home No. 193 Main street.
A FAMOUS EXCURSION RECALLED. —
driven to Interest Capitalists in North'ern
Pacific. Stock.
A Northwestern Congressman, who
was on the famous excursion which
Henry Villard gave to witness the driv-
ing of the golden spike of the Northern
Pacific road, recalled some of its inter-
.esting features recently:
the history of the United States, bar
none,”.said he. “Villard had completed
the road, putting an enormous amount
of money in it, ‘and he decided that he
could interest English and German
capital in the enterprise by taking the
capitalists themselves out over the
road. So he" made up his party, includ-
ing a large number of distinguished
Americans—General Grant among
them, I remember—and four trains of
sPuIIlllaIl cars, each train hauled by
two locomotives, started for the North-
west. You never saw’such entertain-
ment as was lavished on the party.
Champagne flowed like water, and no
one was allowed to pay for anything-
not even for a shave or a newspaper.
The trip altogether "must have cost at
least $400,000, for therewvere 400 per-
sons in the party, and $1,000 per head
is a low estimate.
“Well, the tragic part of it was yet to
come. ‘The sv‘vord ,of Damocles was
hanging over Vill'ard's head all the
time, and he did. not know it. He had
invited the English and German capi-
talist-s to go out over the road. They
had never seen anything except rail-
roads between clties closely situated,
and they could not, appreciate trans-
continental lines. They could not un-
derstand how a road could pay that ran
through Stretches of unsettled country.
and while they were dining off Vil-
lard’s terrapin and champagne, they
were wiring back to New York and
London to sell the Northern Pacific
stock. 'The stock, which was worth 78
or thereabout when he left the East,
kept dropping until it was down to 50.
Villard could not account for the de-
cline. Finally he was telegraphed to
hasten to New York to bolster up his
property. Hiring a special engine, he
hurried East as fast as steam could
carry him, leaving his guests to follow
behind him, which they did, but mark-
ing every mile of the way with a drunk-
en orgie. Champagne bottles were
flung around the cars and out of the
windows, and costly cigars were tram-
pled under foot, just for the fun of
crunching them.
“Thesequcl of that famous trip al-
ways remindcd me of Napoleon’s trip
to and from Moscow. He went out in
glory and hurried home on a sled to
save his head and crown, while his
army followed in a rout behind him.
Viliard traveling on a special engine to
save himself from ruin, was history re-
peating itself.”—-W-ashington Post.
NOBLEMAN A POLIC‘EMAN.
Must Serve Ten Years On the Force to In-
herita Fortune. .
The strangest of all the mgiiy re-
quests that have been made of Mr.
Hanna since he took up his leadership
in politics came to him when Baron
von Mncgge, a young German, solic-
lted his influence to obtain an appoint-
ment as Deputy United States Mar-
shal, at any place where the sur-
roundings are agreeable, at any salary,
or any amount of fees that might be
offered." .
The applicant, who is well vouched
for and is undoubtedly all that he pre-v
tends to be, told a strange story of the
will of his mother, a wealthy, but
eccentric, German, who stipulated
that he should serve ten years as a,
policeman before he should come into
his fortune, her idea being to teach:
him self-control, develop his character
and convince him of the dignity of
labor. - :
As he did not wish to serve in such:
Ill] humble caps-city among his former;
and future associates, Von Mulegge‘
came to the United States to serve:
his time. He has been on the force'
In several cities, and is now employed
as a watchman by a railroad company
in Cleveland. ' l
The man is personally known to Mr.
Hanna. ;
His term of servitude expires in No-
vember next, and the baron is anxious
to spend the remainder of the period
in surroundings which will be more
agreeable than those in which he has
been situated for the last nine years.’
He would like to be deputy to the.
United States Marshal of the District:
of Columbia for the next six months,!
and has asked Mr. Hanna’s influence.
to secure that position—Chicago RecJ
0rd.
Number of Mechanical Movements. I
. There are more than 310 mechanical
movements known to mechanics to-;
day, and all of these are but modifies;
tions of those found in the human‘
body. Here are found all the bars?
levers, joints, pulleys,‘- pumps, pipes,
wheels and axles, ball-and—socket'
movements, beams, girders, trusses,i
buffets, arches, Column-s, cables, and‘
supports known to science.
, \Vell Named.
“The month of May‘ls very appro-i
priately named,” remarked the youth
to his frien .”
“In what regard?" ,
“Because its weather is so uncer-,
lain.”
“How does, the name May apply to
uncertain weather?"
“Well, it may be hot or rt may be
cold; it may be wet or it may be dry.”
—Plttsburg Chronicle.
i
Dusty Dan: “Wot’s dis Spring fev~
er dalt you hear so much about?” '
Roving Rube: “I’ll tell yer. De igno-
rant laboring classes has er follacy
dat dere’s a time of year dat or man
hates for work more’n udders—dut's
Spring fever.—Twinkles.
“I second.- th-e motion,” said the man
an the rear .of the tandem. '
“It was the greatest junketing trip in '
READY-TO-WEAR. CLOTHING.
a Young industry-unions“ Rapidly In-
creased—Fair Profits for Merchants.
The ‘pop-i‘ilarity and sale of ready-
made, or ‘Teady-to-w'ear,” clothing, as
the merchants now prefer to call it,
has greatly increased in the last eight
or ten years, according to good author-
ities. The cause is not hard to find.
It is due to the greater care exercised
in the making up and the style of the
goods. More pains are taken to make
up the clothing in good style, and in
such varieties of shapes and sizes, that
it is rarely that a man cannot be fit-
ted, and where alteration is necessary
it is no more than a custom-made suit’
usually needs. A man may decide
some morning that his cutaway is a
little shabby, and, as he may be go-
ing out that evening, he. requires
something better. It is only necessary
to visit one of the clothing houses in
New York city to find just what he
wants, at almost any price, try it on,
and have it sent home during the day;
any necessary alteration is made in
the course of a few hours, and he can
obinfortably pass the evening, confi-
dent that his appearance is all that can
be desired. ‘"
The cost and profits ofthe business
make intqresting reading. The fancy
suit, everything except plain black,
which retails for $15, is sold at Whole-
sale for about $11. In small towns
and out-of—the-way places, the retailer
puts the price at whatever he'thinks
he can get, but in. the larger places the
profits are practically the same in the
reliable stores. In addition there is a
discount of from 7 to 8 per cent. al-
lowed by the wholesale dealer, which
the retailer seldom fails to take ad
vantage of.
The manufacturer’s profit is, as a
rule, about 15 per cent. . It requires
three and a fourth yards of cloth for a
suit, which, at $1.50 per yard, makes
the cost of the cloth $4.871/2. The cut-
ters are paid on an average $20 a
week, and it is estimated thatthe cut-
ting of a sack suit costs the manu«
facturer 35 cents. For making up the
suit they pay $1 for the coat and 50
‘ cents each for trousers and vest—$2
for the suit. The linings, buttons, can-
vas, padding, silk, stay-tape, &c., cost
about $1.50 more. These items can-
not be figured exactly, as they vary
with different suits, being much cheap—
er for black clothes. The manufao
turrcrs purchase black buttons, lin-
ings, &c., in large quantities, and get
them proportionately cheaper, where-
as, for brown, gray, or other fancy
suits, thebuttons and trimmings must
match the cloth, and the great variety
of shades necessarily limits the quan-
tity purchased. This makes the suit
that the manufacturer sells for $11
cost him about $8.721/2, and leaves
him a profit of. 352.27%, not including
the discounts allowed to the retail mer.
chant.
POSITION OF FRENCH WiVES.
It is Dignified and that of a Comrade and
, Loyal Helpmate.
French women have a loyal chain.
pion- in Mrs. Crawford, the brilliant
and well-known journalist, who, haw
ing lived amongst them for a period
extending over thirty years, should
know something about their charac-
teristics. To quote her own words in
speaking of French women: “They oc-
cupy a very dignified position, and the
wife is more the comrade of her hus-
band than in" England. In the higher
circles she makes his social position
by her grace and tact, and if she has
special culture and aptitude she forms
a salon, and becomes a great power.
In 'b’usiness the wife is frequently the
dominant partner; she studies the mar-
kets, secures customers and invests
the money.” Mrs. Crawford very
poignantly remarks that “although the
influence of women upon politics is
more indirect than it is in England,
since they do nor. come on to the po-
litical platform, yet, as the first Na-
poleon discovered, they direct men
how to act.
Sight Said to be Restored by Prayer.
The story comes from Anderson, Ind:
The Rev. Charles Morton, -the evan-
gelist, who has been totally blind as
the result of a fall, was divinely
healed. Dr. G. N. Eldridge, pastor
of the M. E. Chyrch, and wife, and
Mr. Mort-on spent one entirelday in
fasting and prayer. Late in the even-
ing they were joined by Mmes. 'An—
drew and Finnegan and T. N. Still-
w-ell, and all united in prayer. After
reading the followng passages in the
Bible, James v., 14th, 15th, and 16th
verses; I John v. 14th and 15th ver-~
ses; Mark XL, 24, Dr. Eldridge an-
nointed Mr. Morton with oil, and then,
with silent prayer, the healing was
claimed and the miracle wrought. Mr.
Morton appeared in the M. E. Church
that night and told theisto'ry of his
healing. The event created intense
emotion, and crowds lingered in the
church until a late hour.
She mistook film.
It is not every great man who car-
ries his honors as meekly as the May-
or of Inverness, who rebuked an ad-
miring crowd in the words: “Ft-”ens,
I’m just a mortal’man like yersels.”
Sir Wilfred-Lawson tells the following
story: “A woman was once pursuing
her fugatlve cow doWn a lane, when
she called out to some one in front:
‘Mlan, turn my cow.’ The man took
no notice and allowed the cow .topass.
When she came up she said: 1.;‘Ma-n,
why did you not turn my cow?""~fie
replied: ‘Woman, I am not a. man;
I am a magistrate) ”~H-ousehold
Words.
Minnie—“I want to. introduce you to
a young lady—a very nice young lady
—and she’s worth her weight in gold.”
Bob—“Stout girl, I hope.”
The softest shades of ten are com-cc:
for gloves-now that we have so much
color in our gowns.
Medical men agree that
.blopia.
‘diced opinion is that man
THEEVENING GAZETTE
AUK AND THE Dooo GONE. .
L)! All Birds Extinct None More Interesto
ing than the Great Auk.
Before the white man came there
was a large and cliimsy bird on the
island of Mauritius called the ‘fdodo.”
It was related to the family of pigeons.
Being incapable of flight and good to
eat, thc‘species was destroyed whole-
sale by sailors, and the eggs and young
were eaten by hogs. So it disappeared
and not a single specimen remains in
any museum to tell its melancholy
story. Mauritius had also a small but
peculiar owl and a big parrot, alarge
heron with short wings, and a big
rail, all of which are now extinct, as
well as a good many other birds
which are now only known by the
stories of early voyagers and the bones
found in, caves on the island. Far to
the eastward of Mauritius, on Rodri-
guez Island, dwelt a near relative of
the dodo, called the solitaire. It be-
came extinct about the beginning of
the eighteenth céiitury.
Of all birds recently extinct none is
more interesting than the gal-e f'OWI,
or great auk. The last two living
specimens were seen and taken on a
rocky islet off the southwestern point
of Ireland. A single egg of a great
auk was sold not long ago at auction
for $1,500. And yet sixty years ago
birds of this species were found on
Funk Island, off the Newfoundland
coast, in countless numbers. People
from the mainland used to go over to
the island in summer and kill them
by myriads to eat and for their feath-
ers. They were sofat that they served
as fuel. Ships used to land there and
get boatloads of the auks by the simple
process of placing a plank between
the boat and the shore, and driving
the helpless creatures over it. The
Smithsonian Institution has practically
a corner on their bones. A while ago
it sent an agent to Funk Island for the
purpose, and he “brought back nearly
a barrelful of auk bones. If you want
a skeleton you will have to send to
Washington for it, and it will cost you
about $600.—V’Vashington Post.
FEATS OF HINDOO PORTERS.
Hardy Hill-Men Climb Steep Mountains
Carrying Camber-some Pucks.
Darjeeling tea, said Mr. Gec‘vrge W.
Christison, in a recent lecture before
the British Society, of Arts, is all car-
ried by the hardy bill-men up the steep
mountain roads to the nearest railway
station on the way to market. It is no
unusual day’s work for a coolie to
carry from 110 to 130 pounds a dis-
tance of five or six miles, making at
the same time an ascent of from 2,500
to 3.500 feet in sheer vertical elevation.
There can be no deception about a
task like that, and we can not but have
an admiration for the powers of en-
durance of those who perform such a
feat. Of course these people are
trained to load carrying and mountain
climbing from their very infancy, and
hence the peculiar set of muscular fac-
ulties required for them are fully de-
veloped, if not actually called into ex-
lstence at a cost of others—so much so
that walking on a level, after a few
miles, becomes positively painful to
"them. ‘ »'
In the prosecution of their own
trade, or in domestic affairs, they fre-
quently undertake long, arduous jour-
neys over ridges and along and across
hot valleys, varying many thousands
of feet in elevation, occupying many
days, carrying heavy loads of from
150 to 200 pounds and over, and in ad-
dition to their food and bedding most
cheerfully lighting a. fire, cooking and
eating their scanty meal, and going to
sleep by the wayside. '
There is a story still current of a
Bhootean in old times having carried a
grand piano up a hill to Darjeeling, a
distance of fifty miles forward, and in-
.volving a rise of more than 5,000 feet
in elevation by the old road. These hill
tribes are a. hardy people, capable of
performing marvelous journeys with-
out partaking of food, or on the most
meagre fare—New‘York World.
LIABLE TO CAUSE BLINDN £58.
It Is Possible for Certain Kinds of Food to
Endanger the Eyesight,
Few peopleknoiw that some foods
are very injurious to the eyesight, and,
Indeed, may cause total blindness.
defects of
,vision are often httributable to this
cause, and warn their patients against
eating certain foods.
Stale sausages, sour cream and taint-
ed rabbit pie are injurious to the eye-
sight. In one instance a case was
'brought under the notice of an eye
specialist in which the eyes of a whole
family Were affected by eating rabbit
pie. In each instance the patient had
become afflicted with a peculiar defect
of vison- that is technically known as
“failure of accommodation.”
The eating of chocolate was recently
proved to be the cause in a case of
weakening of the sight known as am-
Bli-ndness resulting from eat-
lng tainted fish.has been found almost
‘ini'possibleto cure, and quinine is also
responsible for some persons half-
;blind condition. This drug affects the
optic nerve in g manner that some-
times
ends) '11: b1indncss.—-—Golden
Days.
’ A Pair of Them.
Borrowit—Say, Jack, can't you lend
me a five?
Hardup—Sorry; I‘m busted myself.
[ just had to borrow a ten.
Borrowit—Well, my eycsl You're a
fine kind of hogto refuse after such
luck as thatl—Truth. '
Ligan Thing.
Miss Newwoman—Yes, our unpreju-
is a total
failure. ' ‘
Dick Rounder—Taking that view of
the case, I am willing to admit that
woman is his equal.—New York Jour-
nal. ‘ oi
can
“PoWnER
OF TOELET SOAP IN EVERY PACKAGE.
A'DULTERAIION OF RUBBER.
The Collectors Augment Its Weight with
Earth and Stones.
In spite of the constant talk" of a sub-
stitute having been found for it, rub-
ber seems likely to be for some time
to come the standby of the electrician
for insulating purposes. - The manufac-
ture-rs who prepare the rubber for the
electrical and other markets complain
of'the increasing adulteration of the
raw material, especially of that com-
ing from Assam and Burmah. Ac-
cording to H. N. Thompson, the Chi-
nese have a practical monopoly of the
trade. The forests at the head of the
Upper Namkong basin are rich in rub-
ber, and the trees attain. a height of
200 feet, with. enormous girth. The
great tribe of rubber collectors is the
Sana Kachins, who go vast distances
for their rubber harvest in the dry
season. The chiefs levy toll on the
produce as it passes down the river.
The Chinese who control the trade,
pay the Kachins for it in provisions
and cloth, and as they are adopts in
the art of concealing stones in it, by
the time it rezfches Rangoon its weight
and bulk are largely augmented by
foreign substances. The Assam sup-
ply is fed mainly by the Nagas, who,
having got in their crops in December,
set off for the rubber' forests within
the drainage area of the Tareu River,
where they know every tree, the
knowledge being in many cases passed
on from father to son. The rubber in
this district is said to be groiving so
scarce that it often takes a man forty
days to collect a coolie load. In spite
of this, the Singpho villages levy a tax
on each collector. When first col-
lected the rubber is very pure, but the
Nagas hlave
udnlterating it with earth and stones,
and the Assam rubber is not regarded
with favor in the Calcutta market.
It is a sore point with the Chinese
merchants that the Nagas so exhaust
the capacity of the rubber to receive
adulteration that there is no opening
left for the exercise of their own in.
genuity in the same direction—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
HALF A' 'MILLION' DOLLARS. ‘
[n a Collection of Stamps and Unused
Railroad Tickets.
A short time ago an eccentric mil-
lionaire died at Vienna, who, during
sense of the word. He lived alone in
a large dwelling, and when his heirs
appeared'they found nothing of ' value
except his collections.
magnificiently arranged stamp collec-
tion Worth about $120,000 was found;
three cabinets were full of unused
railroad tickets from all parts of the
globe, representing a face value of
several hundred thousand dollars,
arranged in geographical order. This
collection is most interesting since it
contains some specimens of the very
first beginning of railroading, among
other tickets a ride from Troy to Al-
bany and from Albany to Newburg,
issued during the first year’s existence
of the railroad between those points.
The collection of coins found com-
and was sold for $220,000. The stamp
collection was bought by an English
dealer for $75,000, but nobody has yet
been found who wants to give any-
thing at all for the collection of rail-
road tickets, which is considered
unique, but Which was rejected by the
Austrian and German Governments,
to which it was offered, because of
heirs. While he spent during his life-
time more than $450,000 on this col-
lection, the heirs will be satisfied to
realize less than a third of that sum
for the sale of it.——London Mail.
A Matter of )prense.
Jack—Was yours a long courtship,
old fellow? .
Will— Gracious, no! My wife had
nine little brothers and sisters.
“Really. But what difference did
that make?”
“What difference? Well, if you had
to bribe a crowd like that to keep out
of the parlor every time you went to
see your girl, you’d soon want to cut
expenses.”—Boston Traveller; '
acquired the trick of‘
THE CAMEL’S HUMP.
The Latest Scientific Explanation 09:143.
Origin and Purpose.
Where- dill the camel get its hump?
Be it known that camels did. not
originally have humps on their backs.
So says Professor Cattaneo, of the little
ian Institute of Science. The proof
that they. did not and the explanation
of why they have them now is. given
by this savant in a recently published
monograph, which is the result. of sci-
entific study of the subject.
The llama is known to have. been
used. as a beast of burden centuries be:
fore the discovery of the Western
hemisphere, but it_ is asserted that
thousands of years befdre the first“
llama carried a load upon its-back the
camel had been domesticated. and was
used for the tranSportation on burdens.
It is upon this point that the Italian
savant rests his theory as tether forma—
tion of that animal’s hump. In the be-‘L
ginning, he says, the camel, like the
llama, was straight of back, but a hun-
dred centuries, perhaps, of making a
' pack animal of the camelhave brought
about the change. At first the skin
gréw loose upon the camel’s back. Then
there and upon its knees the skin grew
thick and callous. Soon nature began
to pad this burdened part. with fat and
muscle: then for countless genera-
tions heredity did its work; little by
little the hump grew, until it finally
acquired its present size. .
The use of the camel in the desert
places of the world also played its part
in the formation of this portion of its
anatomy. For, being forced to go with-
out food for days at a time, nature
came to the rescue of the camel and
providently stored these humps with
fat which should nourish the beast
through its periods of privation.—New
York Journal.
LUMINOUS’PLANTSI'
Ar. .Australian Toadstool will Light 3
Room Sufficient to see Print.
Near Simla, in the Himalayas, the
grassy hills are, during the rains, i1-
luminated in patches with a strange
pallld light, which gleams tremulous
his lifetime, was a. collector in the fall
In one trunk a.
prised more than 80,000 Specimens,‘
the enormous price asked for it by the .
as a will-o‘-the-wisp. It has been
found to emanate from a grass whose
botanical name is “An-thisteria. ana~
I ritheia.” Not every plant has this
strange luminosity, perhaps only one
in a hundred, but even this is sufficient
to make the whole hillside glow here
and there with this beautiful phos-
phorescence. _
Another plant, also Himalayan, the
“Dictanius fraxitella,” has an even
stranger property; for from its leaves
a volatile oil is distilled in such quanti-
ties that, on bringing a. lighted match
near to it, the whole shrub will be en-
veloped in a transient flame, which
will yet in nowisc injure it.
On the dwarf palms of Brazil grows
a beautifully phosphorescent fungus,
whilst another Australian toadstool
emits a soft green light so strong that
a few pieces of it will enable one to
see print in- a dark room. Australia
also produces a luminous moss which
gleams like a whole nest of glow-
worms from the dark recesses of the
rocks.
I . The root of certain orchids likewise
' shines when moist, and though. nite
2 listreless when dry, renews its ight
as often as it is again thoroughly satu-
rated—Golden Days.
’ -... . I _. I.
The French Prize for Virtue. '
Paris has such a world Wide reputa—
tion as a center of gilded gaiety that
there is a popular idea, in certain
quarters, that the French capital cares
little for the virtues, Christian or
otherwise. As a matter of fact, it is
probably the only city where a reward
for virtue is publicly awarded each
year by a great om dial institution.
The prize is one of those distributed
annuallyby the French Academy, and
this year the medal was given to Mlle.
Hocart, an enthusiastic mission work-
er in the slums of Paris. That no
prejudice influenced the award is
easily believed when it is known that
' Mlle. Hocart is the daughter of a Wes-
leyan minister, and Catholic France
has no love for the Wesleyans.—The
amen. 4
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