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 XiiJoy«4 LIVING. let Can Be ng Cost. the London J^^^ )ring under the roti2 e experiments L hav, jlve the diffical^ or.doa and else-rhere. 80 dear the poor c«i •y is true if they (r«M it if th«7 will iiv,"J and healthy fare the» ttle. A little over* led to give up all e,. od and live almost a, Having left off Q^^ Jars, and lecturing fj. tion cf food, I ^^g- Ling ^ver my food a*, k, butter, egg3 gj^ ccflje, were fairly ej. one of them necessarr • :i ti'iie to see results' my experiment aj one " ounces. I con. ;arian diet for a montli fi atone three pounds lin of 4 I p'junds. ^u vvsill i telt well, and the same as ever, j iteiii 'iiiies daily, gg^. txc.jise. Hereig^ •, wi ?h cost me little a day, and I conid i. out luxuries. Break ,m of pornJge, made tmeal aud wheatmeaL palatable than either y eat with bread to ij. ivation. Then came •d cotton seed oil, or 3. 'or drink I had a It syrup, with warm he cocoa used was as lenty ot starch in it drnik, and no mili Hnner consisted of a bill bread, potato pie 1 pie, vegetable stew, oes, etc For a second ium puddinc;, stewed !cl sago, tapioca and es, hgs, raisins and laisti 1 of bread and â-  some grten stuff, aa omatoes, etc. I had day, and frequently, ,d oclv two, and a cup for supper. I always ead, an it is a laxative 'â- il of nitrogen, which the bran. The cotton 1 good cooking oil, and ;ct. Tnis diet is con- aud now I only take when out, not having diet to one of flesh or latest analysis shows 70 to 74 per cent, of ue being very rich ia tains a little carbon- er. Hence, to live ci as eig'it pounds a day lere are to be consider- iiiials, which are corn- that tlish be not thor- iroiigh and, as very •t^ a perfectly natural more or less diseased, ^3. The excess of ni- system in eating flesh 1 of by the liver, kid- snce these organs are disease is the conae- re it uot for the flesh lid have very little to 3«-n3 can not afford to luse he does not get id ovygen to burn up Q. It he does eat this much, then he must n plaints, such as indi- .cks, congested liver, catarrh, and other :he habit be continued iry calculi may follow, ut. Tr.cn the kidneys more work is thrown leeoiaes also diseased uc ot the lingering dia- diseased organ some- sy-"and many nervous ed by tlesh. Cancer is frum acme observations be indirectly traced to has I'uly a remote con- t be ig due chiefly to egetable food is cheap, t supply of nutriment • system are so forni«i t expenditure of vitai ruelty lu obtaining oui see it it be wholesome iet much disease is pK" 3t chi'ouic cases of pr^- iieviatcd by it. If we we ha\e the following Wheat, oats, barley, ioca, smolina, hominyi itc, are all concentrat- nutriment. Potatoes, nips, onions, cabbage, the variety, bulk and • be adaed tVe sweet vory dishes. AppleSi -berries, plums, straw- crries, and other fruits, !C8, grapes, etc., *r* il 'desome fruits. The '., tigs, appleringa, car- re cheap and good. T« tinned goods. Tiio' nense variety of tasty ;hese to suit all purse*. e milk, butter, cheeao, iiich are got without at if we take anini»l ist iL, .rious then beef eal, pork, game, etc.) and ought to be avoid* i-.N-, L R C.r., etc. ire X, AGRICULTURAL. I The toang Lambs. Alihough it in rather soon for estimating upon '.he number of lamtw due, in a few more i^eka some ot the ewes will come in, and if tie fstmer desires to push them forward rap- idly he must pay some attention to the dams nsw. The ewe must endure the cold, be de- prived yi her natural green food, and nourish tie coming lamb in such a manner as to bring it forth strong and vigorous. The early lambs are the ones that bring the highest prices when tent to market, but an early latnb is a nuisance and unprofitable when it is stunted end dwarfed by cold and insclScient food. If the ewe is sound and heslthy, and has been well-fed on a variety of food, she will have no diflijulty in lamb- ing or providing for the lamb but the trouble is with the farmers, who invariably leave tne ewes to themselves during that periodi and give them no attention at a time when it is mostly required. The ewes are naturally protected by their wool covering, but when lambs come into ihe world on a cold, bleak day or night, :hey are too delicate to be left to the care ot the ewe alone, and the farmer who ex- pects early lambs should be on the alert by penning the ewes that are liable to come in, and givirg them good shelter and dry bed- ding. The first care of the lambs is one- halt the difficulty removed, and if they get a gocd supply of milk they will do exoellent- Iv, but that is something, too, to be noticed. Feed the ewes liberally on all the hay they will eat, and give them a small allowance of mixed ground grain, fcuch as corn-meal and o;its, with seme roots. Should milk fever o cur, feed on oats and hay alone, inducing the lamb to draw as much as possible by placing it occasionally at the udder, (live ewts that have lost their lambs others that are twii s, which may be done if not post- pi, pkI t'lo late, thereby allowing onl^ one lamb to the ewe. The Cost of Dogs An Iowa man has figured up the cost of keeping dogs in his Scdte, and finds that they eat enough annually to feed 100. OOO workmen, and counting in the damage they do to the sheep farmers, the dogs cost the State S;», 000,000, while the education of all the children in the State is less than half that sum. A Tennessee man makes out a similar con- diti n of aflairs in his State. He finds there are 'WO. COO worthless dogs, which crnsume food enough, if fed to hoga, to mike SO.OOIJ,- OOO pounds of bacon, which would be equal to feeding meat to 100.000 able-bodied men a whole year. At ten cents per pound the bacon would be worth S-'-i 000,000, and if in .Sliver Would load down 94 two-horse wag- gons, and make a wagon trtiu more than half a mile long. Again the worthless w helps prevent farmers from keeping 2 000,- t)CO sheep; the mutton and v. ool from woich would be worth 000.000. Including the ihtep LOW annually killed, the whole ex- pense for keeping the dogs of the State uinouuls to tne pretty sum of s9. 000,000. Tennessee i \ptna8 $;i 000,COO for educating her children. Three dollars for dogs. Oae dollar lor children. Another writer after making careful esti- mates of the damage done by dogs in the Forchern States alone, finds it c jsts not less tnaii $;:! JLO 000 annually to support our dogs, a sum that would buy 165,000 farms at goveinnient prices for land, or it would purchase 1 '.â- _' 000 ncighborliood libraries of l!00 volumes each. summer scents to WIB* 2aed a river in Central 'omj-i. It can not b* "'yum-ni/um. as ncn has been held ot c roles as to the fine«» Si. V York City. Tb» 'anlerbilt, on Fd» r the moat elabor»t» rrcNfivation of Hen Manure. A\'e can hardly overvalue the manurial product of ihe hen-house, or exercise too much care in its preservaiion. If thrown into the compost heap, deposited with hog manure, nearly all its good r^ualities would he retained very likely, but 1 Ivise a ditii- rent course. Nearly every farmer wants a little fancy manure for special purposes in the spring, and instead of buying guano and superphosphates of doubtful quality, he can maiiuiacture his own at far leSs cost, if he keeps a considerable number of fowls, by utilizing their droppings for that pur- pose. It has been my practice to sprinkle dry oirth under the roosts, or, what is tnlly its equal, road dirt or scrapings from the high- way, ccUected during dry weather. It is gathered in places where the soil is cf a loamy character and from sanJ, and put away in boxes or barrels for use in winter and spring. By using this three or four times a week, andoftener in warm weather, all had odc'r is presented and the escape of the fertih/.icg properties of the manure is ar- rested. The accumulatiDh under the roosts should be removed as o^ten as once a week, and this, shoveled in a pile, will begin to fer mtnt a-^d generate more or less heat as the weather grows warm in spring. If closely watched and shoveled over when undue heat is liable to be generated, the process will add to its value for the spring crops, as the maiiure becomes decomposed by fermen- tation and it3 particles are separated and mingled with the earth used as a deoderizsr and its crudeness is changed so as to be reidily available tor the growing plants, last year I used some fiitsen bushels of this kind of manure and found it a very ac- tive fertilizer. For potatoes and corn I ap- plied it in the hill, mixing with that used for potatoes one fourth its bulk of unleached wood ashes, dropping it in the row and cov- ering it immediately. Aa there will be con- siderable moisture present in such manure the addition of ashes tets free the ammonia to some extent hence no time should be lost in getting it un!f!rground as the earth absorbs the fertil:zing properties of the man- ure set free in the form of ammonia by the addition of the alkali. )q warden vegetables •^his manure has a ery marked effect 'Xe.irly every far-iier, by taking a ;iittle pains, can make enough of such fertilizer to go some ways in the garden. It has the ad- vantage of being fiee Irom the seeds of grasses and weeds.â€" /,'((raZ Xeic Yorker. Mr. Adam, formerly of the English Lo- eation. Washington, and who married ]Mi;s Palmer, of Georgetown, D C is now secretary of the English Legation at St. Petersburg. Mr. Adam, who is a very distinguished linguist, won the prize for mastering the Russian tongue within the prescribed time al'owed by the Eoglish Government. Xoslemg and the Mehdi. The Cairo (xnreapondent of the London Standard ssya that the religiooB side ot the Sondan question seema very i^nerally mis- imdentood, and the following remarks on the pretensiHia of the mehdi by a learned Moslem may throw some light upon them He was amongst those who signed a fetva, or species of excommunication act, against Mohammed Ahmed Shemseddeen El Mehdi, and I asked him what he would do if the invader should take Ciuo and find out the fact. "I should say, of coarse, that I had only signed nnder compulsion, and I should at once recognize in him the mehdi," "But you cannot really believe he is such " "No! Neither does he believe it himself, if he knows anything about his religion â€" and he has studied for years at the holy mosque of El Azhar. I doabt, inded, if he pretends to be the mehdi. Any man who raises a re- ligious enthusiasm and leads on a host is a mehdi, or leader, and the present rebel in the Soudan is a mehdi. Bat our religion teaches that before the advent of the last mehdi seven men shall successfully arise in various parts of the Moslem world, and by religious propaganda shall prepare the way for him. Each of these seven men shall be called either Ahmed or Mohammed. In my opinion this Soudan mehdi is the third. Lenoussi was the first, Arabi the second, and he the third agitator bearing one or other of the prescribed names. 1 he real mehdi shall appear at Mount Ararat at the time of the Howaf, or Sicred Procession of the Haj. His coming will be foretold by the dumbiiess of the seven mams, who shall in turn attempt to recite the Khubeh and fail. Then tne mehdi will ride out from the crowd of worshippers on a white horse, and he will at once be accepted by the whole Moslem world, There will then re- main forty years' domination of Islam after cocquest, during which your Christ will come again from Syria and rule our empire. Then we believe that our last decadence will set in, and some nation from the farther east will occupy our countries â€"probably the Chinese." "Then you do not think any good Moslem can accept the Soudan pre- tenaer as the mehdi?" '"No, not as the last mehdi but as his forerunner, yes and the mass of the ignorant believers will probably even go so far as to believe him to be the true mehdi. They look at results and suc- cess, and they will argue that the poor na- tive ot the Nubia who, without other trib- ute of power except such as he may be in- vested with by Orod, has been able to gather about him vast hosts, and defeat armies commanded by the infidels, must be some- thing nearly approaching prophethood. We know that he is not the Mehdi ala er Hass- oot â€" the fortruuner of the last prophet, Christ, but you cannot expect the masses to draw rine distinctions." What to Do, and What Not to Do. If you have goods to sell, advertise. Hire a man with a lampblack kettle and a brush to paint your name and number on all the railroad fences. The c:irs go whizzing by so fast that no one can read them, to be sure, Lat perhaps the conductor would stop the train to accommodate an incjaisitive passenger. Remember the fences by the roadside as well. Nothing is so attractive to the passer- by as a well painted sign: "Millingtou's Mixture for Mun^ Have your caru m the hotel register by all means. Strangers stopping at hotels for a night generally buy a cigar or two before leaving the town, and they need some in- spiring literary food besides. If an advertising ag( nt wants your business advertisad in a fancy frame at the depot, pay him about 200 per cent more th^n it is worth, and l-tt him put it there. When a man has thtee- quarters of a second in which to catch a train, he invariably stops to read depot advertisments, and your card might take his eye. ()i course the street thermometer dodge is excellent. When a man's fingers and ears are " phewing" at the heat or tingling with the cold is the time above all others when he stops on the street and reads an advertise- ment. Advertise on a calendar. People never look at a caleniar to see what day of the month it is. I'hey merely glance hurriedly at it so as to be sure that your name is spell- ed without a p â€" that's all. When the breezes blow, wafted hy a paper fan in the hand of a lovely woman, 'tis well to have the air redolent of the perfume of the carmine ink in which your business ad- dress is printed. This will make the market for decent fans very good. Patronize cjvery agent that shows you an advertising tablet, card, directory, dictionary or even an advertising Bible, if one is offered at a reasonable price. The ma^n must make a living. But don't think cf advertising in a well- established newspaper. Not for a moment. Your advertisement would be nicely print- ed and -vould find its way into all the thrifty households of the regions, where the farmer, the mechanic the tradesman and others live, and into the the families of the wealthy and refined, all who have articles to buy and money with which to buy them, and aftei the news of the day has been digested, it would be read and pondered, r nd next day people would come down to your store and patronize you, and keep coming in increas- jng numbers, and you might have to hire an extra clerk or two, move into a larger block and more favorable location and do a bigger business, but of course it would be more expensive â€" and bring greater profits, â€" New Havn Register, A New Treatment for Neuralgia. The latest agent introduced for the relief of neuralgia is a 1 per cent, solution of hy- perosmic acid, administered by subcutane- ous injection. It has been employed in Bdlroth's clinic in a few cases. One of the patients had been a martyr to sciatica for years, and had tried innumerable remedies, including the application of electricity no fewer than "230 times, while for a whole year he had adopted vegetarianism. Bill- roth injeited the above rcnaedy between the tuber ischii and trochanter, and within a day or two the pain was greatly relieved, and eventually quite disappeared. It would be rash to conclude too much from these re- sults, in the face of the intractability of neuralgia to medication, but if i*. really prove to be as efficacious as considered, hy- percsmic acid will be a therapeutic agent of no mean value. â€" Lancet, AN AUSTKALIAN HOBBOB. TwTttl* H«r«l«Hp» of • PoU«« Psarty â€" Fwiahlas of TUrat. The Sjrdnen HeraM of a recwat date aays: A report reached Adelaide a short time since that two persona had been murdered â€" Keadford and Macnsh â€" by blacks in the northern territory. The aathoritiea order- ed a party of poUoe to go in search of the eupposed murderers, consisting of Mr. Giles, five troopers, and a black boy. The following telegram was received from J. Skinner, sta- tion-master at Alice Springs *^I am afraid I have to send very bad uews of the police party who started in search of Readford. I have not yet received fall particulars, bat I believe that the whole of the party, with the exception of Giles and the black boy, have perished for want of water. Giles left Trooper Shirley abjut fifteen miles from Attack Creek, apparently completely ex- hausted, but as there have been thunder- storms about the vicinity, there are hopes of his having survived. Tae rest of the men J. Rsees; J. Hussey, George Phillips, and Arthur Phillipsâ€" were left without any hope of recovery. Giles and the black boy walked in fifty miles to Attack creek. A party from Powell's creek left this morning to assist Giles, with instructions to travel day and night." The following telegram was received from Mr. Giles ' 'I am sorry to have to report that all the police party, except myself and a black boy, died of thirst last Wednesday; also all the horses. I have walked in fifty miles, and have had Lothing to eat since Sunday. Please instruct Abbott to send a man with two spire horses; also pocket instrument, foolscap, pencil, pick, shovel, tomahawk, and rope to lower bodies into place. Let him send me a little food, such as rice, corn flour, fruit, and lime juice; also a blanket, towel, shirt, trousers, pipe, tobacco and matches. Please let the party start at once, as I am very weak, tired, and wet through. I know where the bodies of Shirley and Hussey are lying â€" about fifteen miles from the last water. Arthur Phillips and Rees are farther back, I'lease let tne^ party get here to-night. "A. M. Giles. "Survivor of Police Party, Attack Creek." Further particulars received fjom Mr. Giles with reference to the fate of the re- lief party show that the victims endured un- mitigated hardships before they dropped down one by one in their endeavors to .re- gain their camp. Giles and the black boy, who were the only survivors of the expedi- tion, are doing as well as can be expected after the terrible privations they suffered. (S.lesis anxious to return to ttie scrub as soon as possible, not with the hope of find- ing anv of his late comrades alive, Ijut with a desire to sec are their remains from c'ogs and birds and give them a Cnristian burial, Giles accounts for his being able tc hold out longer than his companions from his refusal to share with them the b!oid of the hor.'ies which his cc4»panions eagerly drank when- ever one of the animals became knocked up. M' Giles started off again to endeavor to rescue any of his compiuions, if found alive, but from his report there is no doubt all the rest perished. He telegraphed to Mr Todd, postmaster general of Adelaide 'T beg to report my return to Attack creek this after- noon. 1 start for the Tennant to-morrow and arrive there on Tuesday. I hunted for the bodies of my late colleagues on the plain and the edge of the scrub for four days, but was only able to find those of S'lirley and Arthur Phillips. Shirley's was under a bush about ten miles from the water, close to where I left him, and Pnillipj was on the open pUin about four miles further off, I buried the bodies and read the burial per- vices over them. I have no hopes of any of the others bting alive, although I was un- able tp find the bodies, as they must have wandered away from the track. 1 recovered a few sacks, rifles, etc., and will send the rest from Tennant's creek. I am glad to say that I feel better." The Spanish Beauty. We in America are apt to judge of the Spaniard by the Mexican ^and the Cuban. Nothing can be more different. Whatever their faults or virtues, the Hispano-Ameri- cans seem to have taken nothing but the languge from what of the conqueror's blood they may have. All else has come from the native. Unbroken in pride, uadebased by evil habits, self-respecting, sober in speech as in food, the Iberian needs only a leader to again take his rightful place in the family of nations. And the woman Ia she beautiful I hardly know, but she is the most bewitv;hing, bewildering, fascinat- ing of all Eve's daughters. There is a magic in her step, a poise of foot, a grace of rythmic motion, a proud tenderness in her dark eye, a something voluptuous which is yet chaste, a magic in her smile, such as no other race or clime can Show. Beautiful A man whose blood runs red in his veins may see beauty elsewhere, but he has never felt the perfect charms of'woman's loveliness until he has met love looking from the melting brightness of those matchless orbs, which none but Spain's dark-glancing mai- dens bear. There is no neglect here. The dress may not be rich, but there is not a fold ill placed. To her is paid the reverence of passionate devotion. Still is Spain the land of romance and of song, because her men are brave, her women worthy to be loved They Kept Cool. The Amesbury News relates that a trader of that town, accompanied by his wife, vis- ited a friend in Mernmac, a provision dealer, who invited him into the store to examine his ice closet, in which he kept his meats, vegetables, etc. Upon arriving at the store, the Amesbury gentleman left his wife in the carriage, and proceeded with his friend to an inspection of the ioe-closet, which they entered, the former pulling the door to after him. A spi-ing lock being attached to the outside of the door, they were prisoners in the coolest place the town could provide. In vain they shouted â€" their cries could not be heard. The wife, tired of waiting, took a shirt drive about town, and her husband not appearing on her return, she entered the store, but no one was to be seen. In pass- ing a particular place she thought she heard voices, and upon opening the door of the closet was surprised to see the gentlemen, who had become nearly exhausted by their close confinement, and endeavors to es- cape. SieHTS IN JAYA. Aa Amwteaa C^reiuâ€" Tlie Upaa Treaâ€" â€"The Kaxtbaaakes. Probably the most mtreesting thing I saw in Java was an American circus, and it was curious to see the crowds of Malays and Chinese as eager to catch a glimpse of the bon or to get a seat next the ring as the average Americcn small boy. It was Amer- ican in every respect, aud I believe they are getting to be an inetitntion of our country. To get a warm reception anywhere all the manager has to do is to advertise it as such; draw attention to the bareback riders all as Miss Emma, or some sach good English name, instead of Mile. Lucie de la Vere aa is the custom with us, and that Sim John- son, the great American negro lion tamer, will give an entertainment with his five tame lions captured ia the wilds of M's- Bouri. Yes, the American circus is gaining a world-wide reputation, and even here in Batavia was the excitement of the week. Java is the home of the upas tree, and as it is only recently that true scientific exp'a- nations have been given of them, probably one theory may be interesting. Wonderful stories were told about the valleys where they grew. No living creature was able to live an instant exposed to its effects, and even birds in flying over would drop dead, so that the whole valleys were covered with their skeletons. When ecien'ific men first began to inquire into it, they could only with the grei.cest difficulty induce the na- ti^'es to accompany them to the spots, ia such dread and supers'.ition were they held. A peculiar feature in the earthquakes in this part of the world sodu eolved the problem and exploded the theory as to the tr.?es themselves. It was found that at certain times the sulphurous vapors and noxious gases escaping through the cracks in the earth in these valleys were so tlense and poisonous as to be destructive to animal life, and at such times had so affected the na- tives that they had retained the memory of such places and avoided them forever alter- ward. No evil effects were experienced by those who traversed the valleys, hutthere was unmistakable evidence that at periodical in- tervals they were deservingly to be avoid- ed. I can not close without a last word about the earthquakes. I was iu Batavia only a week from the time they happened, and from what I saw I mast say that the news- paper accounts at home were very much exaggerated. The destruction was great enough when ic happened, but why extend it to Batavia itself, when, save for a few ashes that fell harmlessly around, and for a tidal wave that threw down a few hundred yards of breakwater, th-y were perfectly se- cure. According to some of the papers at home it was totally destroyed, whereas 1 think the city was never in a more hoaithy or enterprising condition; and iieard less of the earthquake than the people -it hoine. â€" Correypoiulent Neio Ortean.-i TiTii"i-Diino- crat. The Weight of the Hnnan Brain. The recent diiciuaiOn about the weight of Tourgaeneff 8 brain has led to the pablica- tion of an article on the subject of the weight of brains by a Russian scientist, M. Nikiforoff, in the Novo^i. According to him the weight of the bratin has no inflaence whatever oa the mental faculties. The average weight of a man's brain is, according to Luschka, 1,424 grammes, of a woman's 1,272 srammes Krause gives the averages as 1.570 and 1 350 respectively. The max- imum Weight is said to be 1,630 grammes, and the minimum 200 grammes. The brain of the celebrated raiaerjilogist Haussmaun weighed 1,200 grammes. It ought to be re- membered that the significance of the weight of the brain depends upon the proportion it bears to the dimensions of the whole body, and to the age of the iatflvidual. Byron died at the aje of 36, the aeometrician causs at 78 years of age the brains of the two should, therefore, not be compared. It is equilly important to know what was the cause of deith, for long disease or old age exhaust the brain. To define the real de- gree of development of the brain it is, therefore, nocessary to have a knowldge of the condition of the whole body, aud, as this is usually lacking, the mere record of weights possesses little significance. .Sjveral vears ago, in ' Madison Avenue horse c.ir, W^ni. "alien yan r. and Bayard Taylor were comparing notes about the poet Wtiittier, who. they believed, could not live long. Tney are dead, aud Whittier celebrated his 70 h birthday on M aa.lay. For the first five months of the present fis- cal year the total internal revem e col'ec- tiona amounted to S-il, •279,000, being .*;ll,- 3-13,000 less than lor the correspoudii^g period last year Carrier Pigeons. Dr. Harvey J. Philpot, in a letter to the London Dai y TeJegraph, writes as follows â- '1 have made valuable use of the carrier or homing pigeon, as an a';xiliary tJ mv prac- tice. Sd easily Ere these 'unqualified as- sistants' reared and trained that lam surpris- ed that they are not brouijht into use by tne profession 1 belong to. ly modus operandi is simply this T take out half a dozen birds massed together ia a basket with me on u\y rounds, aud when I have seen my patient, no matter at what distance from home, I write my preecription on a piece of tissue paper, and having wound it round the shank of the bird's leg, I generally throw the car- rier up into the air. In a few minutes it reaches home, auJ, having been shut up fasting 8inc3 the previous evening, without mush delay enters the trap cage connected with its loft, where it i? at once caught by the gardener or dispenser, who knows pretty well the time of its arrival, and relieves it of its dispatohea. The medicine is immedi- ately prepared ar.d sent off by the messen- ger, who 18 thus sived several hours of wait- ing, and I am enabled to complete my round ot" visits. Should any patient be very aijk, and 1 am desirioiis of having an early re- port of bun or her the next mjrain,i, I leave a bird to bring me tiaings, A short time since I took with me six p.tir3 of birds. I eiit a pair cf them off from eauh village I ha:l ec;a?ion to vi-iit, evt-ry otiier one bear- ing a presc;;p:ion. Up ':â-  my return I round all tuo pre.scripti jur" arranged on my desk hy my dispinser, wao had already made up the me.liciue^." Will somebody plen.-^e go and tell the ther- mometer it is time to get up. " How is it you never marrie 1, C larley ' "Oil, I dtin't know, exiep: I remained single from cnoice." • AV.iy, I neviird that ycu tried 'o get rhat l'.}dgkii:s g'rl a year or two ago." "Yes, 1 liid ask her to luir- ry me." "And she would not have yoa " "Tnat's about the s:z2 of it. So I remained single from choii;e â€" her choice, you know." WHO IS UNACQUAINTED WITH THE «EOCRAPHY Or THiS COUNTRY, SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE WILL Chicago, Rock Island Pacifbc R'y, Being the Great Central Line, affords to travelers, Ciy renaon-of Its unrivaled geo- graphical position, the shortest and beat route between the East, Northeast and Southeast, and the West, North-Aest and Southwest. It is literally f"nd strictly true, that its connections aro all of the principal lines of road between the Atlantic and the Pacific. By tts main line ancJ branches It reaches Chicago, JolJet, Peoria, Ottawa, La 8:ille, Geneseo, Moline and Rock Island, In Illinois; Davenport, Muscatine, Washington, Keokuk, Knoxville, Oskaloosa, Fairfield, Dan Moines, West Liberty, Iowa City, Atlantic, Avoca, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrie Center and Council Bluffs, In Iowa; Gallatin, Trenton, Cameron and Kansas City- in Missouri, and Leaven- worth and Atchison In Kansas, and the hundred; of cities, villages and towns Intermediate. The "GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE," As It Is familiarly called, offers to travelers all the advantages and comforts Incident to a smooth track, safe bridges. Union Depots at all connecting points. Fast Express Trains, composed of COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL HEATED, FINELY UPHOLSTERED and ELEGANT DAY COACHES a line of the MOST MAGNIFICENT HORTON RECLINING CHAIR CARS ever built; PULLMAN'S Mitest designed and handsomest PALACE SLEEPING CARS, and DINING CARS that are acknowledged by press and people to be the FINEST RUN UPON ANY ROAD IN THE COUNTRY, and In which superior meals are served to travelers at the low rate of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH. THREE TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER. TWO TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, via tfie famous ALBERT LEA ROUTE. A New and Direct Line, via Seneca and Kankakee, has recently been opened, between Newport News, Richmond, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and La Fayette, and Council Bluffs, St. Paul, Minneapolis and intermediate points. All Through Passengers carried on Fast Express Trains. For more detailed information, see Maps and Folders, which may be obtained, as wsN as Tickets, at all principal Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada, or oi R. R. CABLE, E. ST. JOHN, VIoe-Pres't i. Oen'l Manager, Cen'l T'k't A Pass'r Ag' CHICAGO. ii