THE  BEST 
IF  YOU  WANT 
KmpUmtnl^i  IRacUlttfrj) 
KwpUmcttt^!  and  Parhin^rp 
French  liuUes  now  allow  cigars  and  other  free 
and  easy  ways  la  tlic  drawlog-room,  In  order  to 
keep  the  gentlemen  there,  who  It  was  found  wore 
rapidly  preferring  stables  and  clubs. 
Mr,  lurr,  the  cattle  king  of  Colorado,  la  assessed 
in  Weld  County  alone  for  ie,ooo  head  of  cattle. 
For  sixty  miles  along  the  Plutto  one  sees  no  brand 
but  his. 
Emma  Pikiick,  a  Montreal  actress,  bravely  res¬ 
cued  a  child  froiii  under  the  feet  of  rujiaway 
horses,  and  was  rewarded  with  two  ponies  and  a 
phaeton. 
A  Louisiana  wife  tried  to  poison  herself  because 
her  husband,  In  a  prayer-meeting,  had  fervently 
said  amen  to  the  petition  of  a  gUd  of  whom  she 
was  Jealous. 
Bayahd  Taylor  rather  likes  the  “pullbacks” 
of  the  period.  In  his  poem  he  said  to  Liberty : 
” - but  keep  thy  RitriucnU  pure  ; 
Pluck  them  buck  with  Itio  old  dixduln.” 
The  Pope  Is  said  to  have  $3.8TO,ooo  standing  to 
his  credrt  la  the  Iiallau  treasury.  It  is  the  ac¬ 
cumulation  of  the  annual  sum  of  $&1S,U00  allowed 
him  by  the  Oovornment. 
The  Professor  of  Medicine  at  King’s  College, 
London,  recommonds  a  total  change  of  diet  with¬ 
out  the  aid  of  medicine,  as  an  ellloaclous  method 
of  treating  nervous  diseases. 
The  Sioux  Indians  havo  to  stop  lighting  and  go 
back  to  the  reservation  for  more  aiuinuultlon. 
N,  B.  The  ammunition  on  the  reservation  It 
furnished  by  the  Government. 
Lonofellow  visited  Wellesley  College  the  other 
day,  and  eight  girls  rowed  him  across  the  lake  lii 
a  way  that  made  the  old  poet  wish  he  was  a  gay 
young  man  multiplied  hy  eight. 
A  BEAUTIFUL  photo-mtiilature  of  the  late  Char¬ 
lotte  Cushman,  by  Mias  Lizzie  Cummings,  in 
Memorial  Hall,  Is  dally  surrounded  by  a  crowd  of 
the  admirers  of  the  great  actress.. 
The  new  Sultan  of  Turkey  spends  the  greater 
part  of  his  time  at  YUdls  Kiosk  (the  I’alace  of  the 
Stars),  which  Is  cooler  and  quieter  than  Dolmu- 
bagtehe,  and  is  surrounded  by  delightful  gardens. 
Tliere'a  a  plaoe  that  Is  wariuev  than  this, 
Where  never  n  collar  cun  stand, 
Whore  you  only  cun  bubble  and  eiss— 
Will  you  conic  to  thul  heaullfiii  hind? 
The  right-hand  assistant  of  the  savage  Sitting 
Bull  Is  sMd  to  be  a  hall-brecd  Sandwich  Islander, 
who  speuks  a  lialf-dozen  luoderu  lungiuiges,  and 
all  the  Indian  dialects,  and  Is  a  man  lull  of  cun¬ 
ning, 
M  R.  Air  Is  the  name  of  an  hotel  clerk,  and  It 
Isn't  Inappropriate  mthor.— [A>ic  York  (Xmvinercial 
Advei'liser.]  Don’t  Boreas  with  any  more  Uko 
that,  or  we  may  come  to  “blows.”— 
UeraM^ 
A  brothbr  of  Charles  Bradlaugh  has  Just  been 
converted  from  atheism  to  Protestantism,  and  is 
holding  open-air  mootings  In  London,  which  arc 
said  to  bo  as  Interesting  as  those  held  by  Moody 
and  San  key. 
I  What  a  mother  lacks  In  skill  sho  makes  up  In 
entbusLaarn  when  she  cuts  her  boy’s  hair.  The 
back  of  his  head  may  look  like  tlimider,  but  every 
scollop  is  a  bright  vision  of  devoted  allectlon  to 
the  understanding  mind. 
The  following,  from  a  Chicago  source,  may  be 
received  with  some  reserve “  Last  TueBda.v, 
while  a  St.  Louis  young  woman  was  putting  on  a 
pair  of  ball-sllppers,  she  found  a  missing  sealskin 
Jacket  In  tbe  toe  of  one  of  them." 
“My  son,"  said  an  alTectlonale  mother  to  her 
son,  who  resided  at  a  little  distance  and  expected 
in  a  short  time  to  be  married,  “  you  are  getting 
very  thin.”  “  Yes,  mother,"  ho  replied,  “I  am, 
and  when  I  come  next  I  thlnli  you  will  see  my 
rib," 
The  songstress,  lima  de  Murska,  “married, 
widowed  and  robbed  ”  in  Australia,  a  few  weeks 
since,  is  united  again  In  the  hands  of  wedlock— 
this  time  also  lu  Australia,  and  to  Mr.  John  mil, 
another  pianist.  Some  people  can’t  keep  un¬ 
married. 
Mlls.  Albini,  according  to  the  London  papers, 
Is  to  he  maiTled  at  the  close  of  the  present  London 
opera  season,  to  Mr.  Ernest  Qye,  son  of  her  opera 
manager.  Sho  has  been  engaged  to  Idm  for  three 
years  past,  and  ho  accompanied  her  In  her  oper¬ 
atic  tour  to  this  country. 
Now  is  the  time  when  the  college  graduate 
comes  Into  the  newspaper  ofllce  to  know  It  he 
can’t  get  a  Job  os  a  dramauo  critic,  correspondent 
at  the  Centennial  or  In  Europe,  city  editor,  man¬ 
aging  editor,  or,  If  nothing  else  Is  vacant,  he 
would  take  tlic  proprietorship. 
Mr.  Freeman,  the  well-known  English  lltera- 
teur,  visited  Sllle-le-Gulllaune  not  long  ago  to  ob¬ 
tain  materials  for  his  “  Life  of  William  the  Con¬ 
queror,”  and.  being  mistaken  by  au  astute  i/arde 
clunnpelre  for  a  Ihaisslan  spy  taking  notes  with 
sinister  Intent,  w'os  arrested  and  hud  some  diffi¬ 
culty  in  regaining  his  liberty. 
If  you  have  money  to  Invest,  don’t  put  it  in 
New  York  real  estate.  Prof.  Werrlman  states 
that  by  a  reversion  In  polar  conditions  in  ten 
thousand  years  from  now  New  York  will  be  two 
hundred  and  flfty  feet  under  water.  And  no  man 
could  live  two  hundred  and  ftfiy  feet  under  water 
many  weeks  without  catching  a  dangerous  cold. 
Mr.  Uotoukiss,  one  of  the  ablest  of  Connecticut 
journalists,  retires  from  the  Hartford  Courant, 
and  Is  to  be  connected  with  the  Charter  Oak 
Life  Insurance  Company.  Nominally  the  city 
editor  of  ilie  Courant  for  nttoen  years,  he  was  so 
versatile  and  so  vigorous  that  he  overflowed  Into 
other  fields,  and  was  to  a  very  large  extent  Its 
State  editor  and  often  Its  political  editor  also. 
He  Is  a  good  deal  of  politician  anywaj',  and  is  not 
likely  to  keep  his  fingers  off  tha  wires  in  his  new 
Ml&.—SpnnafleU  Republican 
PEESONAL  ITEMS 
firicti  Id  DO}.  mArket;  luoo  It 
t  nhMprr  *1  lu  priM  thm  *Dy 
oth*r  pr»*i  AAdrw 
tn  lAtOooia,  P;E.I>>DimcK 
A  AlWurr,  N,  Y.  Hon- 
i»l,rQ.  No.H6W«.tI«th 
St ,  in.  WilYlniOD 
Arasut.  N .  St.  Loalt,  Mo. 
T»(  PtartTvu.  lUr  Pittu 
btlDi  hty  twioa  u  w 
Day  otIiDr  pmi,  paU  teu 
toDj  la  a  Krtia  car,  doA  jTjy 
the  hay  tutnga  balUr 
Weston’s  latest  failure  wa.s  In  Scotland. 
Niluson  Is  getting  stout.  Cary  says  It  Is  porter. 
Kalsku  Wilhelm  received  41,371  presents  last 
year. 
Kvekvthino  Is  well  dona  thaso  days— In  fact, 
baked  I 
Dom  Pedro  Is  a  Brazil  nut  that  the  toadies  can¬ 
not  crack. 
Frekfort,  111.,  has  a  minister  who  delivers  ser¬ 
mons  In  rhyme. 
Victor  huoo  Is  worth  half  a  million  dollars,  and 
Is  as  egotistic  as  ho  Is  rich. 
One  of  the  hostile  chiefs  la  called  “  Rye  Facw.” 
He  is  the  flour  of  the  Sioux. 
Tennie  Claflin  says  that  she  and  her  whole 
family  havo  become  Catholics, 
Euroi-ean  fashions  lu  dress  arc  followed  at  the 
court  of  the  Japanese  Emperor. 
Bkvant  Is  worth  |.')00,ooo,  and  Is  said  to  be  the 
richest  as  well  as  the  oldest  poet. 
A  oAi.LERT  for  portraits  of  artists,  painted  hy 
themselves,  Is  projected  In  Paris. 
Over  three  millions  of  visitors  havo  reviewed 
the  cuiiosiacs  of  the  Centennial  display. 
Caft.  OiLDERSLKKVE  Will  Command  the  Ameri¬ 
can  rifle  team  In  tbe  Centennial  matches. 
Tub  actor  Irving  and  the  poet  Tennyson  have 
been  shaking  hands  and  visiting  together. 
Charles  Francis  Adams  has  been  re-elected 
ProsldonL  of  the  Harvard  Board  of  Overseers. 
Some  people  spend  an  tholr  time  adiUng  ciphers 
to  the  left  Bide  of  exLstonce,  Now  there  is  Keeley. 
Empkrss  Victoria  throws  a  stone  round-handod 
and  sUarpftos  a  lead  poncU  with  a  pair  of  scissors. 
Mrs.  Mov'br  of  Strausstown,  Pa.,  who  Is  eighty 
years  of  age,  walked  seven  miles  to  lead  a  dance. 
A  .Salt  Lake  Mormon  has  returned  from  the 
Sandwich  Islands  with  five  young  Itawaltan 
wives. 
A  Chicaoo  fruit  dealer  announces  FSfteenth- 
Amondment  heriies  for  sale.  Can  ho  melan  black¬ 
berries  ? 
“Weeh  aukkn”  Miller  lias  torn  himself  away 
from  Newport  to  languish  around  in  Burlington, 
Vermont. 
Capt.  Webb  announces  Ills  Intention  of  swim¬ 
ming  across  the  North  Channel  from  Port  Patrick 
to  Belfast, 
Mrs.  Swissiiklm  writes  that  In  Germany  it  is 
the  rule  for  gentlemen  to  bow  first  In  the  matter 
of  recognition. 
It  Is  understood  that  Mr.  Geo.  B.  McCarteo  will 
succood  .ludge  Burnam  as  Assistant  Secretary  of 
the  Tre.asury. 
At  the  funeral  In  Boston  of  William  Heaver,  a 
disbeliever  in  any  religion,  Bryant’s  “  Thanatop- 
sls  ’’  was  read. 
Harriet  Martineau  prides  herself  on  the  fact 
that  lipr  cook-book  was  the  most  popular  work 
she  had  written. 
A  New  York  young  man  wants  some  one  to 
show  him  a  spiritualistic  trick  that  he  can’t  un¬ 
ravel,  for  83  cents. 
Don  Carlos  Is  talk  handsome,  swarthy  of  com¬ 
plexion,  with  dark  hiilr,  dark  moustache,  and  a 
very  small  Imperial. 
Capt.  Cook  of  the  Yale  Crew,  will  turn  author. 
It  Is  said,  and  write  a  hook  explaining  his  system 
of  roivlng  and  training. 
The  Kov.  Mr.  McKlbbon  acted  as  umpire  for  a 
game  of  huso  hall  In  Ht.  Paul,  and  his  congregation 
was  thereby  displeased. 
A  correspondent  of  the  Troy  Times  says  that 
Miss  Bennett  Is  the  richest  .\meiican  wmman  who 
ever  chose  a  convent  life. 
A  tdrek-ykar  old  boy  fell  Into  an  empty  cistern 
In  Kansas  (ity,  broke  his  arm,  and  lay  two  days 
before  he  was  discovered. 
A  DWARF  InNlngpo,  China,  Is  so  small  that  his 
brother  carries  him  in  a  basket,  and  opens  the 
cover  for  tliose  who  pay  to  see. 
Dio  Lewis  has  observed  that  a  lady  will  eat 
four  times  as  much  corned  beef  and  cabbage  w'hcn 
alone  as  when  anybody  sees  her. 
Do.v  CARLO.S  loves  to  squander  money  at  gam¬ 
bling.  He  recently  left  fioo.ooo  in  New  Orloana 
and  Mexico  in  that,  way,  It  Is  said. 
There  are  5, zoo  Journalists  In  the  Union,  and 
only  one  In  ten  of  them  credlLs  what  he  clips  from 
the  others.  This  Is  a  sad.  showing. 
A  Paris  gardener  put  romance  into  his  suicide 
hy  hanging  himself  from  a  weeping  willow,  hls 
feet  touching  clusters  of  hnmoriAjUcs. 
Thu  London  Lancet  sitj-s  that  no  woman  dies  of 
fright.  Her  corset  Is  laced  so  tight  that  she  can 
do  no  more  than  utter  one  yell  and  fall  over, 
A  Minneapolis  woman  found  a  package  con¬ 
taining  seventeen  diamonds  secreted  In  a  desk 
that  once  helouged  to  her  great-grandfather. 
There  Is  no  truth  in  the  report  that  the  Har¬ 
vard  Ubraiy  was  being  dest.royed  by  white  aunts.. 
The  Boston  ladles  treat  books  with  reverence. 
There  are  40,000  Turks  In  prison  for  debt.  The 
Sultan  will  probably  relieve  them  and  enroll 
them  In  the  army,  pardoning  their  indebtedness. 
A  town  In  Kansas  is  called  “  Woman’s  Waste,” 
because  an  Indian  legend  says  that  an  Indian 
once  kUled  hls  wife  there  for  wasting  buffalo 
meat. 
The  few  men  who  are  still  earnest  advocates  of 
the  theory  that  lager  beer  does  not  intoxicate, 
still  cling  fondly  to  the  good  old  custom  of  wind¬ 
ing  the  clock,  at  2  A.  M.,  with  a  haff-brush. 
evof  jnade,  •cod  S  cent  AtAnan  to  M,.  Harder,  Empire 
ARrlonltaral  Work*,  UohUiAkUl.  N.  V.,  for  Postage  on 
CatakiRue,  with  price,  full  Inforamtloa,  and  Judgoa' 
Report  of  National  Implement  Trial. 
DtUmcA'i  Wr*  Bd1«  Tim  ar»  Uw  ctcDpMl  »nd  b«t. 
GEO.  E.  WHITE’S  CLIMAX  SUPERPHOSPHATE, 
repared  speoialiy  for  tUo  wheal  crop.  Is  for  sale  at 
i9  Front  fit..  New  York. 
Spring  Avenue  Gardens. 
WINTER-BLOWiNG  PLANTS 
A  SPECIALTY. 
Carnations,  Smllar,  Ncapolttso  Violets,  Bouvar- 
dias.  Chinese  Azaleas.  Lily  of  the  Valley.  All  the 
new  and  most  desirable  Geraniums  and  similar 
plants.  Also,  a  creut  variety  of  the  common  and 
fancy  Hardy  Evergreen  Trees,  a*  low  os  they  can 
be  purebnsed  of  any  trustworthy  dealer. 
Address  1I»  W.  ilAIjEN, 
Kidacwood,  Bcraen  Co..  N.  J. 
For  Presses,  Graters,  and  all  Cider  Machinery, 
address 
BOOMER  &:  BOfKlHKRT  PRE88  CO., 
8yriicuae,  N.  Y. 
FRUIT  AND 
ORNAMENTAL  |  IILskW  I 
LARGE  STOCK.  LOW  RATES. 
STIKUIBD  PKAR  T»I!F.S  1  SPKCMLTY. 
AGENTS  Wanted.  Address 
E.  MOODY  dk  HONS,  Lockport,  N.  Y. 
Niagara  Nurseries,  Established  1889. 
END  lor  Clrcnlar  of  the  Noiseless  Thresher, 
I  to  M,  WILUAMfi  &  CO.,  fit.  JohnsvIUe,  N.  Y, 
NEW  FORCE  FEED 
BUCKEYE  GRAIN  DRILL 
with  Fertilizer  Attachment 
iRijurfllaajDUSf 
and  Morphine  absolutely  aiiK 
tardily  eurul.  Poiuleti:  ni^ubiiclty. 
seiid  sTsinp  ibr  piRienlsri.  Dr.  Carl, 
too.  IN  WsshlUjttuii  St.i  Cliivago,  IR 
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household,  the  farmer  in  hls  held,  tbe  stock  raiser 
among  bis  animals,  ar.d  the  young  folks  around  the 
evening  lamp.— Low*  of  lAfe, 
