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 8APANULE takes all soreness out of bunions and corns, and Is a sure cure for chilblalus. Owners of dogs will find that by washing their dogs in Sapanule and water will remove any unpleasant odor, leaving 

 the coat clean and ailty. 



SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, 50c and $1 per bottle. 

 SAMUEL CERRY & CO., Proprietors, Providence. R. 



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WHOLESALE AGENTS, NEW YORK. 



Cutting a Tigbr'b Toe-nails.— The inter- 

 esting feat of clipping the ingrowing claws of 

 the royal Bengal tiger "Jim," an inhabitant of 

 "The Zoo," at Philadelphia, was accomplished 

 to-day with much difficulty. On account of the 

 lack of constant attrition on rough ground, 

 such as they would have had if traversing 

 their native jungle instead of the smooth floor 

 of his cage, Jim's claws had become length- 

 ened to an unnatural size and, continuing to 

 curve inward, had gjown deeply into Ms 

 paws, by which the animal was exposed to an 

 attack of lockjaw. Hence the clipping. The 

 well-known animal trainer, Mr. A. J. Fore- 

 paugh, was retained for the operation, and 

 appeared early this morning at the carnivor 

 hi, use of the Zoo, accompanied by Dr. Chap- 

 man, physician to the garden ; Arthur E. 

 Brown, the superintendent, and four keepers. 

 Mr. Forepaugh had provided himself for the 

 operation with a strong three-quarter inch 

 rope, looped at one end, a long pole and four 

 short half inch cords, also looped, a thick, 

 knotty hickory club and a pair of sharp wire 

 nippers, and with these tools proceeded to do 

 the job as follows : 



The loop of the larger rope was placed on 

 the end of the long pole and thrust into the 

 cage. At the instant the tiger leaped into the 

 furthest corner -with a terrific roar which 

 startled the other animals, and the lions, 

 tigers, leopards and hyenas all howled in 

 chorus. The loop, however, was run over 

 " Jim's" neck, and he was gradually drawn, 

 in spite of his struggles, to the front of the 

 cage. 



Mr. Forepaugh now showed consummate 

 coolness and judgment, and quietly and 

 quickly directed bis assistants to secure the 

 animal to the front of the cage. " Now his 

 feet," and the fore feet were in the loops with 

 the aid of an iron scraper, and the tiger, be- 

 wildered at the tactics of his supposed ene- 

 mies, shook his head, roared, and for a few 

 seconds struggled fiercely to get loose, but in- 

 stead of getting loose, opportunity was taken 

 to get the loops of the other ropes on the hind 

 feet, and he was thrown on his side and 

 drawn up to the front of the cage with his 

 hind feet, striking clear through and the fore 

 feet to the edge. 



In this position he was secured and safety 

 cords attached to the ends, each one of the 

 latter being held by one of the assistants, so 

 that as soon as the operation was completed 

 all the feet could be loosed at once. As soon 

 as the feet were thus secured the rope around 

 the neck was cast off, so that the tiger's head 

 was free. One of the keepers was then 

 stationed near the head, so that in ease he bit 

 at the ropes binding the feet or at the operator 

 he could thrust the hard wood knotted club 

 into his mouth for him to bite on. This be- 

 came necessary so often that the hard club 

 was chewed into a pulpy brush. 



" All ready," said Mr. Forepaugh, and tak- 

 ing in his right hand a large, sharp wire clip, 

 had each ingrowing claw in turn pryed from 

 the flesh and straightened out, and clipped oil 

 to the required size. The right hind foot 

 was the worse one of the claws, having 

 grown fully an inch into the flesh,and by con- 

 stant irritation caused the wound to inflame 

 and fester. As soon as this, with a r art of 

 the outer shell, which had been shed into the 

 wound, bad been removed, the tiger appeared 

 to quiet down and submitted to have the rest 

 of the claws of the Bame foot clipped without 

 making much struggling. The right front 

 paw was also badly lacerated and inflamed. 

 The claws were clipped in every case very 

 quickly and successfully. As soon as the 

 claws of each foot were clipped the operator 

 rubbed burnt alum into the festered wounds 

 to burn away the proud flesh, and then 

 poured over the wounds balsam of fir to heal 

 the same. 



After all the claws had been clipped Mr. 

 Forepaugh, stepping back, cautioned his as- 

 sistants to be ready to pull the safety cords at 

 the word. So the animal, freed from all the 

 cords at once sprang to his legs like a flash 

 and jumped to the rear of the cage, wheie he 

 first licked his bloody chaps, and, squatting, 

 soothingly licked his paws, apparently satis- 

 lied that "they were still in his possession, 

 commenced pacing his cage, showing evident 

 signs of having experienced great relief from 

 the operations performed on him. The whole 

 operation occupied only twenty minutes and 

 was very satisfactory to all parties. In a few 

 days the paws will be examined again for 

 proud fleBh,— New York Herald, March 29. 



The Wham? Rats of New Yoek.— This 



under side of the city is a shadowy world 

 even at high noon, and its structure, as well 

 as its seclusion, makes it as good as a forest 

 for hididg. These piles stand in rows run- 

 ning across the pier, a stringer or heavy tim- 

 ber lies on top of each row, joists lie across 

 the stringers, and planks cover the whole. 

 Thus between the top of each stringer and 

 the planks there is quite a space, where hoses 

 and bundles can be hidden. The under side 

 of a pier can hold a good sloop-load of pack- 

 ages, and a box on a stringer is invisible to 

 any one passing under the pier, unless he 

 passes very close to it. There are many miles 

 of piers about the city, and each- pier has a 

 great quantity of stringers. So here is a vast 

 region of secrecy right under the busiest part 

 of New York. Many of the piers are sup- 

 ported on such a dense forest of spiles that 

 only the smallest skiff can pass through the 

 narrow, tortuous openings. Formely the 

 thieves had a channel of this kind from one 

 end of the city to the other, by which they 

 could travel nearly the whole distance with- 

 out showing themselves. 



"You see, sir, here are plenty of chances 

 to hide. These cribs of beams and spiles, 

 mouths of sewers, odd holes here and their 

 along the rocky shores, and all of it covered 

 over from daylight, and some of it almost in- 

 accessible,— all that you would think is 

 enough for any set of thieves. But it is not; 

 for we follow them up and clean out their 

 holes. They find new places now and then. 

 Once we discovered a lot of hardware and 

 tools hidden under the guards and in the pad- 

 dle-box of a steamboat that was laid up for 

 the winter. Many things they hide under 

 water, such as spelter and other metals .It is 

 almost impossible to discover these ' plants' ; 

 but sometimes we hit on them by chance. 

 Once, a man who had been loafing about the 

 deck of one of the Troy steamboats threw 

 overboard a valuable hawser, and then 

 plunged overboard himself before anybody 

 could catch him, although the boat and the 

 wharf were full of people. Both the hawser 

 and the man fell into a skiff alongside the 

 steamboat and disappeared under the pier. 

 He had the start and of course escaped before 

 any of us could get a boat and follow him. 

 But we heard of him afterward under a cer- 

 tain pier, and we went there to look for the 

 rope. We dredged between the piles for 

 three days, and by good luck hooked up the 

 hawser. These men sometimes get their de- 

 serts without any of our help. One of them 

 who had stolen a boat-load of pig-iron, ran 

 under Pier 49 to hide. That pier had a shaft 

 and gearing under it for hoisting ice. He 

 hitched his boat, and then climbed up near 

 the shaft ; the gearing caught his clothes, and 

 we found him in pieces scattered over his 

 boat. Wharf-thieves used to be more suc- 

 cessful than they are now ; they were organ- 

 ized in regular gangs. But we have broaen 

 them up, scattered them, and driven the most 

 of them away from the docks." 



Still darker scenes might be recorded of 

 this under side of the docks. The actors ap- 

 pear first in the city's brighter haunts of 

 pleasure, or in its miserable dens of want and 

 crime. Then they wander in the streets 

 alone ; and gradually but surely stray to the 

 water. Night is around them, in them. 

 The city behind them sparkles with life. 

 But it cannot penetrate their night, nor light 

 their dark passage under the waves to the 

 morgue. — Scribner's 



same time having a genuine and heartfelt pity 

 for those who can't. 



"Of one thing, however, I am assured, and 

 that is, no really great feat of endurance can 

 be performed unless next door to total ab- 

 fitince is adhered to. When young men go on 

 long walking tours, a glass of beer at every 

 village inn means failure, and as to spirits, 

 they are simply poison. If 1 had really taken 

 nothing I should have reached Gravesend 

 without any difficulty whatever ; as it was, I 

 was in kind, but stupid hands, and although 

 I succeeded in my first public attempt, it was 

 with difficulty, and I then determined, from 

 what I felt from sipping brandy during the 

 swim, in the foolish hope of getting good, 

 coupled with what I afterwards heard, never 

 again to take spirits while undergoing pro- 

 longed exertions. Weston, the great walker, 

 fully coincides in my opinion on this point." 



A Strangr People.— A Peruvian Race of 

 Remarkable Habils and History,— ~Dr. E. R. 

 Heath, in a paper on " Peruvian Antiquites," 

 describes a strange people living in a town 

 called Eten, in seven degrees south latitude, 

 and about two miles from the sea. They 

 number about 4,000, and they speak, besides 

 the Spanish, a language which some of the 

 recently brought over Chinese laborers under- 

 stand, but there is no other similarity be- 

 tween the two peoples. They intermarry, 

 uncles and nieces, brothers and sisters, 

 nephews and aunts, that is promiscuously, 

 and with no apparent curse of consanguinity ; 

 but they will not permit any intermarriage 

 into their number, or with the outside world. 

 They have laws, customs and dress of their 

 own, and live by braiding hats and mats and 

 weaving cloths. They will give no account 

 of the place whence they came or of the time 

 they settled at Eten. History does not men- 

 tion their existence before the Spaniards ar- 

 rived, nor does it record their immigration 

 since. Among them there are no sick or de- 

 formed persons, their custom being to send a 

 committee to each sick or old person, and 

 those who arc reported past recovery or past 

 usefulness are promptly strangled by the pub- 

 lic executioner. Eten orders it, they say, 

 and with Eten's orders there is no inter- 

 ference. 



One Good Lesson.— Captain Webb, who, 

 next to our Captain Boyton, is the greatest 

 swimmer in the world, tells how he learned 

 one lesson which is worth every boy's learn- 

 ing. 



" My first public swim was in July, 1875, 

 when I swam fromBlackwall to Gravesend, a 

 feat then thought wonderful— just as Weston 

 walking 110 miles in twenty-four hours was 

 thought very wonderful shortly afterwards, 

 simply becauso it was not known how much 

 fatigue a man was capable of undergoing. A 

 repetition of either of these feats now would 

 be thought nothing of. 



" In this first swim I learned one good les- 

 son, which, thanks to some good advice I got 

 afterwards from one who had been a great 

 friend of mine ever since I swam across the 

 Channel, I believe has been the cause of my 

 ultimate success. When I swam from Black- 

 wall to Gravesend, I very nearly failed, 

 owing to some persons on board the little boat 

 which accompanied me, as well as a steamer, 

 insisting on giving me brandy. Now, I am 

 no teetotaler, and I am happy to say I can 

 keep sober without bragging about it ; at the 



A BABE Faced Fraud.— The Czar wished 

 to shoot a bear. A bear was accordingly 

 found, a ring of peasants surrounded it, and 

 word of its whereabouts was sent to the im- 

 perial sportsman. Unfortunately, while 

 those preparations were being made, the 

 creature contrived to slip through the ling 

 and escape. What was to be done ? That 

 the Emperor of all the Russias should come 

 and find no game would never do. A happy 

 idea seized one of the foresters. Regardless 

 of cost, a tame bear was procured in the nick 

 of time, turned loose within the ring, and 

 now all was ready. The circle closed in; 

 Bruin was discovered at the foot of a tree ; 

 the attendants fell back, the Emperor ad- 

 vanced to fire, but now came the climax — 

 just as the trigger was about to be drawn, 

 Bruin rose slowly on his bind feet and began 

 to perform the national dance ! The exhibi- 

 tion saved his life, but it did the reverse of 

 securing for those who introduced him to the 

 presence that royal favor which their ingen- 

 uity deserved. 



Night Lamp and Tims Indioatob.— -A 

 recent number of La Nature describes a sim- 

 ple and convenient night lamp, indicating 

 the hour by the extent of combustion of the 

 oil. From the oil reservoir rise two vertical 

 glass tubes ; one contains oil and is graduated 

 for the hours, the other contains the wick 

 saturated with oil and giving the light. The 

 construction is such that one hour is required 

 to consume the quantity of oil between two 

 graduations of the first-mentioned tube. A 

 reflector placed under the flame at the side 

 throws a luminous beam across the graduated 

 tube. During the night one can thus see at 

 What height the oil stands in the tube and^ 

 read the corresponding hour. 



American Warkiobs for Zulu Land. — A 

 reinforcement of 500 double-back-action 

 mules left this port for Zulu land yesterday. 

 They came from Kentucky, and having un- 

 dergone the ordeal of an English veterinary 

 surgeon's inspection, now move to the front 

 in the campaign against the South African 



savages. These brutes have been trained to 

 advance at lightning speed heel foremost 

 against the foe and as the Zulus are not up to 

 these tactics it is altogether probable that the 

 employment of American mules may yet be 

 the solution of the South Africian trouble. 



Tkuk Recusation.— One of our readers, 

 on his vacation ramble last summer, penned 

 the following from the shores of Cayuga Lake 

 to one of his county papers (the Monmouth, 

 N. J., Inquirer). We select from it an ex- 

 tract. It is from the really excellent summer 

 resort known as Markel's Cove, on the west- 

 ern shore of Cayuga Lake, one of the best of 

 places for parties seeking real pleasure. He 

 says : 



Beautiful boats lie at the miniature dock 

 ready for any occupants, while one company 

 is pitching quoits and another is "letting the 

 old cat die " in the capacious swing on the 

 beach. The waters, with lazy wavelets, kiss 

 the pebbles at your feet, while along the 

 shore can be seen the white tents of campers- 

 out, sometimes half-concealed in the ever- 

 greens along the banks, cropping out, as Jo- 

 aquin Miller would say, like quartz among 

 emerald stones. Hammocks swing with their 

 occupants, who, far from being lazy, have all 

 their senses alive to the beauties of nature a 

 round them, and they seem drinking to the 

 full of the overflowing cup that here, in al- 

 most myriad ways, she holds up to the thirsty 

 soul. ******* 

 We passed one of these coves where there 

 were at one time forty-two of these snow- 

 white tents, with every heart happy and 

 every moment seemingly a golden one. Oh ! 

 ye devotees of fashion, who, with " Sara- 

 togas " full of finery, seek expensive places of 

 resort to recuperate (?) and fill up (?) the ex- 

 hausted fountains of being .' How far do 

 you come short of the real object of the an 

 nual cessations from the "hum and drum" 

 of business, compared with these blue-shirt- 

 ed, plainly dressed devotees at Nature's in- 

 expensive shrine! Compare one of these 

 who has been in communion with nature in 

 her groves — " God's first temples " — who has 

 been self-baptized in her sparkling waters, 

 and whose face and hands have been em- 

 browned by exposure to the united influ- 

 ence of sun and wind ; — compare one of 

 these as he returns to his usual vocation, 

 with a step as firm as a rock, a grip like a vise 

 and a look like a sailor-boy, ready for yard- 

 stick or ledger-page, with him who comes 

 from the place of fashonable resort with 

 his physical exchequer as much depleted as 

 his pocketbook, and a woe-begone look that 

 tells of jilted love, a worse than wasted 

 vacation, and no feeling for business. 



To Lovers of Angling. 



Important Auction Sale, N. Y. 



TO CLOSE THE ESTATE OF THE LATE 

 THADDEUS NORRIS, ESQ., OF PHILA. 



Prize Medal TROTJT & SALMON RODS, 



And Other Anglingr Implement*. 



NORRIS RODS. 



These rods are of well-known reputation, and are 

 guaranteed to be genuine Norrls Rod* of the best 

 workmanship, selected woods, and stamped with 

 he maker's name. This is the only opportunity 

 which will be offered to obtain one of these rod*, 

 there being no more for sale after this lot is disposed 

 of. Noa. 10, 20 and it were made for and were on 

 exhibition at the Centennial Exhibition, for which 

 first prizes were awarded, and medal also. 



Side Saturday Afternoon, April 26, 



AT 2:30 O'CLOCK, 



AT KURTZ'S GALL.ERY, 



Twenty-third 81., Kast of Broadway. 



ON EXHIBITION 3 DAYS PREVIOUS TO SALE 



Catalogues may be had on application to 



THOS. E. KIRBY, Auctioneer 1 



NO, SSI BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 



