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#' % AL,e|[eiiil of (iuuti 8t. Vitlentlue. St. Valentinu at Tflcv's j,'atti Did knock with iiitK'it and main. Let ino out for (inc.-, t-Tii 'tis too lato ; My tiuio lias couit- ugain." Then Peter ^nwly turned the key, And let the tiot)d Rtiint t;o. It wan tUu (ourtventli of I'ebruareo, And the tiround \siis white with snow. The saint ho HuiiU-d as he paced IJroadway. His teetli gleamed c lear ami pearly. For he actually liHihi t betii out in bread day Hince lu the'tliird leuturyâ€" early. " But love." thouyht hi-, " and life and youth Are surely the same a.** of yore. I'll jUBt go around and discover the truth, And make things us nice, if not more." Ho really expected t4i ]>e anmsed Wbon 1:0 paid his first moruiuf,' call ; But the ladles " het^'t^d to be excused," They'd been all night at a ball So the saint in wonder turned away. And bravely trieil once more ; But here they all hud visits to pay, And the footman showed hiui tho door. But he still kept on. and tried all kindsâ€" The good, the grave, the busy ; He saw all sorts of brains and minds. Till they fairly turueil him dizzy. For one was practising Mendelssohn Alone ill her maiden bower ; ABOther was carving an old dry !>one, While a third read Schopenhauer. A fourth in water and oils could paint All things beneath and above ; A fifth iu good works was a perfect saint ; But tliey'd none of em time to love. Sadly Ht. Valentine floated back It tho gato of good St. Peter. " Alas !" eiied he â-  .1. girls tliere's no lack, And I must say 1 .• eldom saw sweeter. ' They're good and pretty, iay and wise ; eyre nothing if nut pedantic ; Thoy know what they like and what they despise, JOTTINGS FOE THE LADIES. They're nothing if 1 nioy know what the} But they don't seem to be romantic." Then St. Peter clanged the brazen gato. And let in the dear old sinner. Who'd been up early ami stayed out late, And probably wanted his dinner. MOtULL. I pray, sweet maids and youths, beware. Ana mind what you're about ; For now the saint's around, take care, Don't let him " tind you out." ♦â€" ! ' A KINO IN HIS CUADLE. Tho Lltllo I'lnk-Toed Twenty-Pounder at Madrid. Tho baby king of Spain is a fine, hniid- 8ome child who eujovH robust health, and does credit to the iiiiuienso amount of care with which he is surrounded. Though court etiquette rc<iuirefl that the six- months-old Alphoiiso XIII. should be treated with tho most rigid ceremony, his mother will never call him "the king" anloss on very strict State occasions, biit uses the Bimplc term of " my child." His Majesty has his own vast suite of apart- ments next to those of tho Queen Regent ; and a special guard keeps his bed room door at night. His foster mother, the sturdy peasant Itaynmnda, feeds and amuses the baby ; but he is washed and dressed according to traditional ceremony by a bevy of ladies of honor, under the direction of his " Hoveruess," who held that same office towards his father. Doctors visit the baby twice daily, and every day he drives out with his governess and Rayrnunda â€" sometimes with the Queen. In court ceremonies Raymunda must not carry the king ; that is the duty of the Mistress of the Robes or of his aunt, the Infanta Isabella. Queen Christina is a most devoted mother, spending all her time with her boy, and tho Infanta Isaoella is eqoaUy attaehed to her nephew.â€" LoTidon Graphic. â€" . ^ â€" â-  Vurlou* Odd Troca. A " Kentucky coffe«-tree " boars a broad, flat ikkI, something like the tamarind pod, nnd is said to make a fair sort of coffee. Th« Cornchan chorry, from Italy, has a flat scarlet drupe about as large as au old- fashioned o-x-heart cherry. Gerris oaks, from Turkey, keev their green leaves late. These outlast some of the green English oaks, and have even now only reached the falling stage that most of our indigenous trees reached more than a month ago. This Turkish oak bears a huge acorn. . n is long, and grows on a long stem likovvqlierry. The liquid' a^ibpr tree and the Siberian pea grow in tbjs country. The pea is in a little pod not bigger than tho pod of tho sweet pea, but it^^yeljow bloom in spring, on a tree near the lake, makes one of the charming sights of tho park in May. Had boys break off its branches in winter for use as " shinny " sticks in their games on the ice, 4!k1 thus mar the symmetry of the tree. Tho jinko is a tree from Japan. It grows to a hoi.Liht of perhaps thirty foot, and has fan-liko leaves, with serrated edges, and without any mid-rib or fibre, being a simple large expansion of the stem. Not until these leaves had fallen, in tho year iMbfi, was it discovered in this country that tho jinko was bearing fruit as well as leaves. Its fruit, when found, was spoiled by frost ; but it was of a pale purple, look- ing something like a gootl-sized crab-applo, without tho crab's bright hues. In its overripe and half-frozen state it had an unpleasant odor. Hut its largo, glistening, aatin-shoony seeds, as broad as pumpkin seed and six times plumper, are really handsome. Some have been planted to see what will come of them. How to Drink Water. The leading medical journal of Franco has published a pamphlet protostinf^ against tho extravagant use of artificial mineral waters, which, it sets forth, do tho double damage of cooling the stomach, thus laying the foundation for gastric catarrh, while the limestoue hold in deposit in tho car- bonated waters findH its way to the kid- neys and ovontually produces IJriglit's disease. Tho iiaiiiphlet also protests against ice-water as a provncativo of catarrh in tho stomach. It further says : " Water should bo drunk cool, but not iced, with the juico of a quarter or half a lemon in it. Mineral water should also bn drank with a dash of lemon. Water should always be swallowed slowly. It is not the stomach which is dry, but tho mouth and throat. If you toss off a drink of water you throw it through your mouth into your stomach, without doing the former any good, while you injure tho latter by loading it with what it does not require. Drink slowly, and keep tho water in your mouth for a moniont when ymi begin. If yon work in a hot rooi \ in hot weather tie a damp oloth ai-ound : our tem- ples, and you will not exporionco half the craving for drink you otherwise would."â€" Atlanta Cotulitution. ljat«itt FiMhlon Notes. The latest fancy from Paris is a little pompon of crisp tulle, from which rises a heron's plumes, to bo worn in the hair with dancing toilettes. The newest cloaks for little girls have waists reaching only to tho arm-pits, more like a deep yoke than a waist, and skirts falling to the ankles. Pleated fronts to basfjues are worn by persons who have very slender figures, even in tlie heaviest velvet materials. They have two pleats at the top of the shoulders next the collar, and then drawn to the middle, becoming plain at tho waist line. The new overcoats for young girls turned out by Redfern have the high, military collars fastened witli a little irregular shaped strap, tliat is loose and buttons to a large button on either side of the collar. For wear in wet weather are shown silk rubber cloth long w aps, with sling sleeves. These are in indef lito plaids, with the pre- vailing ccrior sha ,es of dark blue, red, gr>3en, brown and tan. Nearly all tho newest wraps have tho fashionable "sling" sleeve, and those wraps made of the same material as the suit show, when the arm is raised, a lining of soft, Htrii)ed surah ; this same lining is employed for tho little fancy muff also matching the suit. The tendencies in draperies is to make them long and full and quite dissimilar to anything hitherto fashionable. These draperies have heavy, pointed fan folds and very little looping. Tho effect is obtained by tho varying length of the points in which the drapery hangs rather than by loops. These modes are seen with plain skirts and large tournure. Instead of folds or frills in the neck and sleeves, modistes now send home each dress waist finished off with ribbons, which may be white or in direct contrast with tho dress material, such as rose-pink in moss- green dresses, or red, or orange in those of dark blue. The gau/.e ribbons, with hxiped or picot edges, are used. They are folded over not quite double so that both the fancy edges will show just above the collar of the ilress. All the French waists show an effort to make tho shoulders as high and s<iuare and the waist as long and slim as possible.' This effect is gained by a shirring across the chest and on the shoulder seams, and tho fulness drawn down as far as imssible to the waist and there shirred more closely aijain. This gives the slim effect seen in French fashion plates, and while giving an improved sleiiderness and grace to thin angular figures, hides all the pretty curves of good onc6. The tailor gowns of dark copper red, trimmed with the same shade of plusb, are worn to afternoon teas by young women with small red velvet turbans without a brim, and adorned with gray or brown wings and breasts of birds. The heads are not used. With these are worn with lovely effect breast knots of pink roses. For car- riage wear red beeomss more and more popular. Several dark red suits are shown with trimmings of black mink, and bon- nets of red velvet and jet. For wear to tho theatres by those ladies who aro prepared to adopt the Knglisb fashion of apiicaring without bonnets, aro shown little Marie Stuart coifs of silk and plush, tho face being anrronnded by pearl beads matching the hue of the ooif. Attached to it is a long scarf of surah ttwt is drawn around the throat. Those can be worn without disarranging the hair and thrown off and on more easily than a lace scarf, whih thoroughly protecting tho head and throat from the night air. Shoes for balls aro still very open on top, the ends aro pointed and they are worked with beads. Thoy aro trimmed with a small bow or " strass " buckle. These shoes are of satin ta match the dress. Black satin and velvet shoes fo. dinner wear are worked with gold beads or tinsel. Those used by young girls imder light wool or gauze dresses aro of ercam, blue or bronze kid. They either match the dress or trimmings in color. It is not necessary the atocKings should match the dress. The favorite colors aro rose color and black. 8oin« Reclpos. Lemon Cake.- One and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of milk, two cu^is of flour, two eggs, juico and grate the rind of one lemon, ono-lialf toaspoonful of soda ; bake in small square tins and ice on sides and top. Lemon Cakes.â€" Rub together in a dry state throe-quarters of a pound of flour.two ounces of butter, then add three-quarters of a pound of pounded sugar, tho juice and rind of one lemon and two eggs; mix well together with half a wincglassful of brandy, and make into small cakes ; bake in tins (previously buttered) for about 20 minutes. Ginger ("akes. â€" Beat to a cream half a pound of butter with four eggs, add half a pound of flour, half a pound of po%ydered loaf sugar, two ounces jxiwdercd ginger ; mix these in by degrees ; roll out, and to tho thickness of about a ipiarter of an inch cut into biscuits with a tin cutter ; bake in a rather cool oven for twenty minutes. Lemon Turnovers. â€" Three dcssertspoon- falsof flour, ono of powdered sugar, rind of one lemon, two ounces of butter, two eggs and a littlo milk. Mix the Hour, sugar and the grated rind of lemon with the milk to the consistency of butter, then add the eggs well beaten and the butter melte<l. Butter some tin saucers, pour in tho mixture and bake them in a rather iiuick oven. WHien done take them out of the tins, cut them across, fold them together and pl'"o them on o napkin with sifted sugar sprinkled over them. Chocolate Tarts.â€" A quarter of a pound of chocolate, one small stick of cinnamon, jMsel of one lemon, two spoonfuls of flour, six eggs, two spoonfuls of milk, sugar to taste, a pinch of salt, puff paste. Rasp a quarter of a pound of chooolato, tho cinna- mon, and add half the lomon-iieel grated, then the salt and sugar. Well heat tho yolk of eggs witli two spoonfuls of milk, add it to the other ingredients and set them over tho tiro in a stcwpaii for about ten minutes, add pool of half a lemon cut small, ami then sot it to cool. Put tho mixture into a tart dish lined with puff paste, cover with tho whisked whites of eggs and bake it. When done sift sugar over it. TAKING COLD. An Old Soldier Relates His Kxperleuce During the War. Writing to tho Scietitijic American from Cincinnati, Andrew Van Bibber says : Reading in a recent issue of your pajier an article of Dr. Brown Seijuard on " Taking C!old," it occurred to me that colds are pecuUar to civilized life and to our com- fortable, warm rooms. I have had colds as frequently perhaps as any one, but during one iieriod of my life 1 was entirely free from them, with one exception. I served through the war in the Fifth Ohio cavalry, beginning at Sh.iloh and ending my service with the march to the sea. Wo were au active regiment, always at the front and therefore always remarkably unencumbered with tents or comforts. We were exposed to all weathers and all sea- sons. Many a time wo were rained on for a week or more. When the sun came out the next week or tho week after, it dried us. Many a time, long after dark, after a march in rain and mud all day, we have been filed into miry woods, where wo slept iu the rain with the running water wash- ing between us and our blankets. I have seen men wako in the morning with their hair frozen in the mud. Hut none of us caught cold. We swam the Tennessee river after midnight, when tho mercury was at zero and among floating ice and camo out with our clothes to our armpits CIKCUMSTTANTIAL EVIDENCE. A lioy, a Man, a Gun and the Conse- quence. No matter how strong may be every link in a chain of circumstantial evidence there is always a doubt, a lack of certainty, that should weaken it and cause us to distrust it. I remember a story my grandfather used to tell of a case in whiclvan innocent life was sacrificed for a guilty person. A boy on a farm, for some misdemeanor, was sentenced by his father, a stern man, with an eyo to saving a half price ticket, to be deprived of his annual circus privilege, and, iu addition, he was to hoe so many rows of corn while the rest of the family took in the lady's pad act, the bare back riding of Jack Robinson, the club that killed C.'ax>taiu Cook and other attractions of the great moral show. The boy watched the waggon drive away, with tears in his eyes, and then he went at his corn rows with a determination to make a short crop, if it could be worked without detection. But he grtw hungry after awhile and went into the hev.s3 and investigated the pantry. There were seven pies â€" it was an Ameri- can household â€" seven blackberry pies, baked for Sunday. The boy, who was not feeling very well himself, soon placed his person anterior to six of tho pies, but paused thoughtfully, and with keen regret midway on tho seventh. One-half of that he left. He then caught tho family cat. TOO TIDY FOK COMKUKT. Don't .Scrub the Floor Till You rail ThrauKh It Into the C'elUu-. " ItecoUectious of My Mother," by Susan T. Lesley, gives an interesting picture of life in Northampton fifty years ago. Tho mother was Mrs. Lyman, famous for her liospitality and her devotion to reading. Here is a suggestive bit for housekeepers : " One day a friend came in who had jaai visited M rs. , who was one of the exquisite housekeepers. She began to tell my mother about the perfect condition of that house from the garret to cellar, and rang the changes on tho brightness of the brasses, the admirable shine of \h<: glass nd silver, the entire absence of duitt on every carpet. My mother stoo<l it just as long as she could, though fidgeting uneasily in her chair. Then she exclaimed : â-  I think Mrs. is the dirtiest perstui I over saw iu my life.' ' Oh, Mrs. Lyman, what can you mean ?' cried the friend. ' What I say is true,' said my mother, bringing down her hand with much force on the table. ' From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same that woman's mind is on dirt. She thinks dirt, sees dirt, is fighting dirt the livelong day. Now, I would rather see more of it on the carpet and less of it on her mind.'" â€" lio*ton litcurd frozen like sheet iron and then marched I thrust her nose and feet into the remains till morning. In the cold winter of 18G3- lof tho pie, and dropi)ed her on the clean, M, wo were in the mountainous country of white sanded floor of the pantry that she cold as â-  â-  Fast Tennessee, where it is as Ohio. Wo were there from November until March, without any tents or shelter of any kind, moving every day and sleeping in a different place every night, with the tenilH!rature freijuontly below zero. I have, with my comrades, ridden ujwn the skirmish lino when I cuuld not lift a cartridge out of my bo.x, nor even pick up a carbine cap. I have been on night pick- ets, mounted, when tho pickets had to be relieved every fifteen minutes, because if left longer the men could not load and fire. Hut we never caught tho slightest cold, nor did I ever in times of cold and exposure to wet see a soldier with a cold. But I did catch one cold in tho army, and I never had such a one before or since. It came from excessive comfort, or what seemed comfort to us. Wo were at Camp Davies, Miss., tho southern outpost of the great fortress of Corinth. Uaving been there some mouths, we began to build neat log cabins, with oi>oniug8 for doors and windows â€" no glass or doors, of course. One of our mess being a young bricklayer, wo thought to surprise our neighbors in stylo and oomfort, and we sent for brick, and he built us a large chimney and fir< place, and we built a good tire. That settled us. Four of ua had to go to the hospital with tremendous colds ou our chests and in our heads. We never had such heAvy colds in onr lives. Thia was a)>out the middle of our thr-jc years of ser- vice, and before and after that I never saw an cxiKiaed soldier with a cold. Of course a few days after our cabins were finisheii we got marching orders. I lielieve all old soldiers will bear me out that in active campaigns, where there was great exposure to tho weather, no one hjtd a cold. And, come to think of it, in my cxixirieuccs in Colorado and Utah, ij^'/ recent years, I never saw au Indian w >h a cold, though they stand more cxiws^ro than our cattle do. It is our hot rooms that give us our colds. If a person would camp out from fall till spring, exixwod fto the weather of a severe winter, ho woulOineter take either a cold, pleurisy or pneumonia, and wonld be absolutely free from them. But when yon aro in Rome you must do as the Romans do, and take warm rooma and colds. might track around on it. Then he went bach to his corn rows. Evening brought the family home. The boy saw them climb joyously out of the big waggon. He noted how the overripe apples fell from the trees when his sister jumped over the side and lighted flat-footed on the ground. Ue saw his father let himself down over the double-trees and get himself kicked twice by the roan colt. Ho saw his mother waiting patiently until some- body had time and inclination to take tho baby. Ho saw his grandmother perch her- self on the hub of the hind wheel o>i one foot, while she made va^je, circumferential, wandering excursions for the wide, wide world with tho other. He saw his brothers let themselves down over the tailgate and sneak away to avoid doing any work. At last the waggon was empty, and there were visible signs of excitement about tho houdc. "The raid is discovered," said the boy, cutting tho roots of a healthy stalk of corn and carefully hilling up a vigorous large weed. Presently he saw his father come out of the house with the gmi over his shoulder and the cat under bis arm. " The culprit is arreated." calmly remarked the young robber, as he leaned thoughtfully upon his hoe, and watche<l bis father dis- apix>ar behind the barn. The sharp report of a gun rang out upon the quiet of the sun- set hour. " There," said the boy, with the confident expression of one who knows what he is talking about, "there goes another victim tocirctimstantial evidence." â€" Woi IluriUtle. \ (Sreat Slave-UuutlUK Kegioa. The country between the Zambetii Kiver and the lake regious of Central Africa is ono of the great slave-hunting grounds of that dark continent. An English traveller who recently journeyed through the coua- try says that every village shows the fami- liar sight of tho slave in tho yoke awaiting the deiiart ore of a caravan. This yoke is made from the forked branches of a tree ; about five or six feet long â€" some are much longer â€" and from three to four inches ia diameter at the thickest part. Through eadi prong of the fork a hole is borod for the reception of an iron pin. This ready, a soft fibrous bark is wrapped round until tho whole forms a thick collar of bark, making a sort of pad much rougher than % horse's collar. ' t ia often alloweil to re- main ui>on a sla%? for nine months or • year, night and day, without being once taken otT. When a caravan is ready to start the nieu are coupled by the yoko being laahed so as to form a rigid (wle, binding the pair from neck to neck together. With loads on their heads, they then turn their faces to the eastward and leave the homes forever. â€" I'itttburijh Commercial Oiitettt. m Notlern SanMoiu. " Home of those Western di-ajx^radocs must be very strong men," observed Mrs. Snaggs. " Why ?" asked her husband. " The paper today says that two of them held up a train yesterday." " Oh.that'snothiug. Even a weak voman like yon can hold up a train when there is danger of some one's treading on it." â€" • I'itt'bur;! Chronicle- Tflfijruph. The Urratest Men. A prize was recently offered by the editor of CattelVi Saturday .luurml lor the best list of the twelve greatest living men. The result was decided by the votes of the competitors ; and, as tho iwll waa excep- tionally heavy, the following catalogue of tho distinguisheil names that headed it may be of general interest. It should be stated that Mr. Gladstone's name found a place in about yj per cent, of the voting papers. The tlgnree show the number of votes given to each celebrity : 1. Itt. Hon. \V. K. Gladstone -. SOM* X I'riucevon llisraarck 384S43 3. Baron Tennyson .««. «â€" iCOM 4. Â¥ duLesseps 1U,776 !>. (ten. Viscount Wclsoley - "•*!! ft. Marquis of Hali»bunr..„..>«. 17.WB 7. fount von .Moliko 13,90H H. Kt. Hon. .loliD bright â€" 1-1.741 « Lord Randolph Churchill la.ll? John linskin „ - l'-.:«« 11. Henrv Irving 12. H. .M.'Ktanloy . 1.1. Ijouis Pasteur »._â€"... 14. T. II. Hu\ley _ 15. Ur\. C. H. Hipurgeon 10. The Eimioror of (.ennany.. 17. T, A. Edison.....â„¢â€" IS. Uev. H. W. lloecber 5.8S»S 19. tlrover I'levelaiid 5.a« a). H. U. H. tho I'rince of Wales 4.9H1 iil. Sir ,1. K. Millais <,»*.'> at Charles Oouned â- â€¢.(*"' 10,600 10,141 10,110 9,10H 7,H00 O.WN C.H. rarnell â€" *M^ IU. Hon. .1. Chamberlain 4,1»W Tho Ctar ofKussia „ J.lâ„¢ Sir Arthur Bullivau 3,912 His Holiness the I'ope 3,744 Mariinis of llnrtingtim 3..'55'J Sir Frederick Leighton â€" . 3,a>4 ules Orevy.... Sir (ieii. Frederick Uobcrts Cardinal Manning Karl of Dufferin .lolm Tyndftll â€" ~.. Xt. Cardinal Newman -.... Wl. llaron Uothschild â€" .. :)7, Olivir Wendell llolmoB 1,«I7 3M. Canon Farrar l.'j)^ 39. Archbishop lunsonâ€". l..««> 40. Kobert llruwning 1.1* No other diatinguiahed man received o thousand. S.v.u 8.(170 a.H'.ii 2,fia9 «,.V>2 3,4.17 2.260 Death of a Man Rescued by Grace Darling. On Tuesday, in Iho littlo village cemetery of Whitburn, the grave close<l over the re- mains of James Nicolson, wLo waa perhaps the only remaining survivor of the crew of the steamer Forfarshire, who were so gal- lantly rescued by the English heroine. Grace Darling, in 1834. Nioolson waa then a young man of '2'2, and acted as flremaa on board the steamer, when she was wrecked on tho Fame Islands. Ila. was not inclined to be very communicative on tho Rubjoct of the disaster, and never re- called the subject without beiug deeply affected by the recollection of the aufToringa he and his fellows endured on that terrible night. It waa gathered from him that for three hoars ho liung on to a rope, using his teeth and nails as in a death-grip. He afterwards got a footing on the rock, and on exploring it in the darkness waa glad- dened by finding a sea-fowl's uoat contain- ing tho remains of egga which had been hatchml. This gave the unhappy man a ray of hope that they had gained an eleva- tion ou the sea-washed island where the devouring elcmont wotild not reach thetn. Ho also related the first impression of tho unfortunate men on seeing a boat with a woman in it approaching them through tho morning miat, and over the foaming bil- lows. Thoy " thought it was au angel," and thia sufliciently indicates tho severe strain their minds had endured through tho long, dark hours of night. xVfter the occurrence Nicolaon gave up the sea. Uo was twice married, and is survived by a grown-up family. ^ A Mayor Honored. Ono of the penalties of greatness ia the obligation of sharing one's name with a now invention or fashion. Brougham gave his name to a vehicle, Wellington to boots, and the late I'remier to a bag ; but all this ia nothing to the fate of tho Mayor of Bolton. A lioness in a menagerie recently gave birth to three cubs at Bolton, and, as is often tho case with the human race, a ditliculty arose as to naming the new- comers. Eventually, while one w^as calloil btolla (probably at the instanceof the circus proprietor) and another Commercial (at tho instance, let us say, of the advisers who dropix'd in to share tho diacnssion over the festive glass), it was decided to name tho third lion Fletchers, after tho Mayor of Bolton. This gentleman is douhtloBB now as proud as most godfathers, although a great difliculty is likely to arise, as ho can hardly present the infant with a fork ami siioon or a drinking mug.â€" .V(. Janiei' iiazittc. Full of Stitches. A Vienna tailor, says the Ucichenberfier /ciliiiiii, wagered recently that it took more than forty tliousand stitches to make a winter overcoat. To decide the question a coat wos ordered and acomniitteo of exiicrts sat to suporinteiid tho work, as well as to see that no uni.ccessary stitches woro made. Tho rcsidt wan announced as follows : Body of tho coat, l.THO stitches ; collar, H,Of).S ; sewing collar on, 1.703; buttonholes, 2, o'iO; sloevoM, with lining. 980; pockets, '.l'21 ; silk lining of body, with lining interior, 17,sU:! ; braiding, '2,T2l'<. Total, ;)y,t')l!l stitches. When a woman gets on a street car and spreads out her skirts so that she occiqiics two scats, you can make up your iniml that her husband always sits on the edge of his chair oiid says •' Yea, m'ni, " " No, m'ni to her. You Can't Read This without wishing to invpstigate, if you are wis* Send your address to Hallutt ,% Co.. I'ortland, Maine, and ynu will n^coivo. free, full informa- tion alx>ut work that you can do. and Uvo at luune, wherever you are located, at which you ran earn from ti Ut HA and upwards daily. Homo have earned over 490 lu a day. Capital not viuirod : you aro startod froo. All is now. Hoth sexes ; all ages. Huug littlo (ortuuos await all workers. ^^ Ilerr Krupp pays tax ou an income of 81,'250,OOO a year. There ia money for aome iieople in tho anned-csmp ooudition of Tender Corns, Soft corns, corns of all kinds removed with- out pain or sore s{>ota by Putnam'a I'ainless Corn Extractor. Thonsandstestify that it is certain, painless and prompt. Do >iot be im[>eBed ui>oii by substitutes offered for the genuine " Putnam's" Extractor. Hure, safe, harmless. .Test what Franco wants to go to war for is not very clear. From the 1st of January to the end of June, 18HG, there were only four more births than deaths in Paris. In Marseilles, Lyons, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Amiens the numbed of deaths was largely in excona of births. Peace and matrimony are what France needs, not war and widow- hoo<l. • 1 wan so bad with lumbago and sciaticft three years ago that I could scarcely rise from a chair or walk, other treatment failed, and I was entirely cured by taking McCollom's Kboumatic ReiH-ilant. W. Lowrie, Tilsonburg P. O. Ills St. Paul Job. " No, I don't care for hard work," said a tramp, os tho manager of the Provident wiHxlyard (xjinted him to a saw and an axe. " I'm not very atrong, and 1 have to work easy or none at all. I'p in Kt. Paul I applie<l for the job of driving flies out of the ii-c palace, but a snoozer from Fargo got in ahead of me. Vou don't happen to have an ice palace hero, do you ?" â€" Chicago Herald. A Chip. l)evote<l mother - •• No, dear little boy, you must go to bod. When you got bigger ami older mamma'll take you to church with her." Angel child- " But, mamma, when I dot old and big. like papa, mebbo I won't want to go." It costs the taxpayers of Boston on an average 810,000 a year to settle claims against tho city on account of people who are hurt by falling on icy aidewalks. Miss Kli/abeth Tlallart, a Christian girl, recently joined tho .Jewish Church in Now York city in order to marry her Hebrew lover. Lord Tonnyaon's eyesight is failing him I to sucli an eXiOiit as to cause serious alarm among his numerous circle of f riosda. Marvellous Memory DISCOVERY. WhoIlyunllkoArtmrlalSyiK'mR-ruroof Mind Wa*. derltUT - AH7 luMjk U**rT;tsi In imp nMtollfifi. nt«ry rw- • lui'tloiv for LKWtAl clruiacH. Pr<«|>ecluil| wlUi oplp- loltf-Mf Mr. rmx-nm. th.- AmmrHtnor. uoiw. w. W. AfimiK. JVDAII r. ItKHJAMI.M, Dl't. UXVOIL, t\'ou0 Klul oiheri** •out i>-w*t mrK, Tv PROF. LOISETTE, aa7 Fifth Aveuur, New Tork. CONSUMPTION. 41WM* ; Ut III I hftv^TK [Htaltlvc rrtti'd)' for th. ItioiuAndt "'<«"< t "t ih« womt klu bftvft b««n >-arf'l. IdUmI, p<. •lr«i>( U mv fftHh In ria •fflr«oy. Ibat I wl'l -rn I tW<» I1'>TTIJ« PKKK, fflbmr With • VaMTABIJI IHKAllMt on tUiM l liiMi *a Mir inffkrar. (Hwe eiprcw an>l P << ft4 ?r*>«a. nu ' * m.tHTK, Branch OfBco, 37 Ycmge St, Torato U C N U 0. 87. DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND. •> r- Af«H /