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How Much Can q Man Eatl

The question asked by a correspond
cnt as to the quantity of food necessary
to support life is, we suppose, says q
New York paper, rather intended rs an
INQUIRY as to the quantity needed by
an adult person in the ordinary voca-
tions of life. In a recent phb 'ication-
"Hygiene and Public Health THE
fullest answer may be found. From
this work and other sources can be
gathered the exact quantity of food nee
essary for a soldier or sailor, which
may be taken as typical of the wants of
the individual. An American soldier
has daily given him % ounces of
bread, IL ounces of pork or bacon. or 20
ounces of fresh or salt beef, l6 ounces
ofpotatoes three times week, l.6 ounces
of rice, with l.6 ounces of coffee, 2.c4
ounces of sugar, "a of a gill of beans.
80 of a gill of vinegar. 0. l6 of a gill OF
salt. AS to the quantity Of this food, it
is larger and more abundant than would
seem at first sight to be necessary, but
the liberality in food has this great
advantge, that in time of hard work the
fatigue of the individual is diminished
and the power of recuL Leration sensibly
increased. The total quantity then
provided for soldier Of the United
States army is larger than is consumed
by the general working man. Of course.
various conditions of life. climate and
locality have to do with the quantity of
food. Thus, an idle person can get
along very we'll with 2.75 ounces of nj
troeenous food, and 20 ounces of car
bonaceous food (hesh and cereal or vege,,
able food), when if the same individual
we're walking or in active outdoor lite
double this quantity might be used.
Perhaps the Esquimaux represent the
heaviest feeders in the world, for Parry
tells of a young native who devoured in
the twenty-four hours 81 pounds Of sea-
horse, half raw, half cooked; II pounds
of bread, II pints Of good strong soup;
II pounds of ship bread, and 9 pints of
water, not counting grog and spirits.
Both Sir John Ross and DR.. Hayes,
from personal observation, declare that
the daily ration of an Esquimaux may
range from twelve to twenty pounds OF
flesh food. On the other hand it is quite
remarkable how small = quantity of food
q man may eat and still retain his
health, though rs to the point of mental
vigor endangered by scanty fare that is
another question. Cornaro. who wrote
q treatise on long life. subsisted for
tifty-eight years on twelve ounces OF
vegetable matter and fourteen ounces OF
wine per diem, while another case is cited
of a man existing for not quite twenty
years on sixteen ounces Of flour per
diem, made into some kind of q pudding.
All such stories of people who have
lived on a minimum of food when their
means or circumstances allowed them
to procure more, should be taken with
q certain amount of doubt. There is
nething in WHICH deception is more
likely.
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Puget Sounds Wild Beauty.

Puget sound, so justly famous the
world over for its excellent tim Der, is an
arm and many fingered hand of the sea,
reaching straight down southwark from
q little above the head of the Straits of
Fuca about a hundred miles into the
heart of one of the finest forest regions
on the face of the globe. The scenery is
perfectly enchanting, smooth lake-like
water reaches, wooded shores sweeping
onward in beautiful curves around bays
and capes, and jotting promontories in
Vulnerable. Islands, too, with soft, wavy
outlines, passing and overlapping one
another, all richly feathered with tall
spiry evergreens, and doubling their
beauty in reflections on the bright mir
ror waters. A more charming compost
ton of sky, land and water I have
never yet beheld. Sailing from Victoria
we had the Olympian range before US to
our right, rising in bold relief against a
dark blue sky, a jagged zigzag of black
crests and black peaks along the top,
from 5000 to 5000 feet high, glaciers
and ragged edged fields of snow beneath
them, the former inclosed in wide am
phitheaterssa at the head which opens
down through deep, spacious, forest
filled valley to the Straits of Fuca.
Those valleys mark the courses of the
Olympian glaciers at the period Of their
greatest extension, when they poured
their tribute into that portion of the
great Northern ice sheet that over-swept
the south end of Vancouver island and
filled the strait between it and the main
land. All the way up to Olympia, a
hopeful little town situated at the end
of one of the longest waters of the sound,
the scenery is so perfectly life-like in the
clearness and stiffness of the water and
the leafy, f1owery luxuriance of the
sheltered shores, that it is very hard in
deed to realize that we are on an arm Of
the salt sea. One is constantly remind
ed of Lake Tahoe-the same bright
water, the snme picturesque winding of
the shore lines with their dark green
conifers; only here the trees stand closer
together, and the backgrounds are lower
and far more extensive, while on doub-
ling cape after cape and rounding the
uncounted islands that stud the shores,
new combinations break on the view in
endless variety, sufficient to fill and sat-
isfy the lover of wild beauty through a
whole life. Sometimes the clouds came
down, shutting out all the land, and
leaving US with only level water view,
Is if at sea; then, lifting little way,
me islet would be given US standing
alone, with the tops of its trees dipping
out of.sight in gray trailing mist fringes.
The long ranks Of spruce and cedar
bounding the waters edge would appear,
and when at length the breaking cloud
mantle cleared away altogether, the CO.
lossal cone of Tacoma would be seen in
spotless white looking down over the
dark wood from a distance Of fifty or
sixty miles, but So lofty and so massive
and so clearly outlined as to impress it.
self upon US as being just back of strip
of woods only mile or two in breadth.
San francisco Bulletin.
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The New instrument for the Deaf.

For an indefinite number of ages, says
New York paper. deaf people have
gone on putting their ear-trumpets in
their ears, and have never thought to
put them in their mouths, as it now ap-
pears they should. Every aurist has
always known that the external ear is
not the only avenue of approach to the
auditory nerve. and any unprofessional
person who thinks that it is can never
have tried thesimple experiment OF put
ting watch between his teeth and stop
ping his ears. Mr.. Richard s. Rhodes,
of Chicago, did this one day about q year
ago, as not less than 100000 people
had done before him, but he is the first
one to whom the sounds heard under
such circumstances suggested the idea
that q fan-like instrument held between
the teeth would greatly help deaf people
to hear. Ever since that time he has
been developing his "audiphone," as he
calls it, and within few days it had its
first public trial in an Indianapolis in.
stitution for the instruction Of deaf
mutes.. The reported results are aston
ishing. A bright little girl about ten
wears old was the first to whom the test
was applied. For number of years
she had been totally deaf and speechless,
but "she had not listened a minute be-
fore her features lighted up with q smile
that told the whole story" Several
other children confirmed the happy re-
suit, and it was regarded as established
that persons in whom the auditory
nerve exists at all can be made to hear,
even though the ordinary ear-trumpet
is of no help to them. And as dumb
ness is only result of deafness, it fol-
lows that the dumb can be taught to
speak, as, indeed, they have been for
several years in an institution in this
city, but only by the most laborious
methods, and not with entire success.
Mr.. Rhodes cites one case in which two
sisters, who had not heard each others
voice for 3 number of years, resumed
conversation within the first hour of
using the audiphone. It still remains.
however, to invent a help to hearing
which will he inconspicuous. There
would seem to be no rational reason whv
people should shrink from using an ear
trumpet any more than an eye-glass, un-
less, perhaps, that deafness is more un-
usual than imperfect sight, and, there
fore. attracts more attention. But the
fact remains that deaf people are very
ayerse to using artificial aids to hearing,
and multitudes will prefer to hear par
TALLY and compel their friends to shout
rather than to use anything which con-
fesses their deafness.
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A terror remembered is sometimes
more dangerous than the same terror
actually experienced. One Sunday, not
long ago, as young woman was cross
ing the Rue St. Honore, Paris, she was
suddenly knocked down by a high
wheeled cart, known as spider. Her
peril was imminent, but she retained her
self-possession and relieved the anxiety
of the spectators by regaining her feet
and reaching the sidewalk very little the
worse tor her mishap. AS soon as she
reached home she began to relate the in
cident to her friends, and while doing 50
was seized with aviolent attack of nerv-
Gus agitation, and sank fainting on the
floor. She never spoke again.
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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.
The WatermilI.


Listen to the watermill through tho livelong
ow the clinking of its wheel wears the hours
away.
Languidly the autumn wind stirs the green
wood leaves,
From the fields the reapers sing, binding up
the sheaves;
And proverb haunts my mind, as a spell is
cast,
The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.
Autumn winds revive no more leaves that
once are shed,
And the sickle cannot reap corn once gath
cred;
And the ripping stream flows tranquil, deep
and still,
Never gliding back again to the watermill.
Truly speaks the proverb old, with meaning
vast,
The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.
Take the lesson to thysel, loving heart and
, .s true,
Golden years are fleeting by, youth is passing
too;
Learn to make the most Of life; lose no happy
day,
Time will never bring thee back chances
swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid, love while love
shall last;
The mill will never grind with the water that
is past.
Work while yet the daylight shines, man OF
strength and will,
Never does the streamlet glide useless by the
Wait not till to-morrow's sun shines upon thy
way,
All that thou canst call thine own lies in thy
today.
Power, intellect and health may not always
~ last; o..
The mill cannot grind with the water that is
past.
Oh, the wasted hours OF Lie that have drifted
by!
o., the good We might have done, gone with
out sigh!
Love, that we might once have saved by
single word,
Thoughts conceived, but never penned, per-
ishing unheard.
Take this lesson to thine heart, take and hold
it last
The mill will never grind with the water that
spsst.
Gen. d.. c. Nc cCdllum.
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Edward Burnham, OF Portland, has a
table that was brought from a British
frigate during the Revolution to General
Glover's house at Boston. On the re-
taking of the city by the contiEentals
four British officers were playing cards
at the table, when cannon ball passed
under it, soaring them away.
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Autumn Leaves.


Autumn leaves are falling, falling, falling
Slowly to the ground;
Angels sad are calling, calling, calling ~
To the weary hearts with mournful sound;
Solemn sound. - s'iss' 50 'f'T5
Autumn leaves are sailing, sailing, sailina
g. Softly through the air;
Loving hearts are failing, failing, failing;,.
Azrael hovers, beck'ning everywhsrs-i5.
Everywhere. ,,s,t. 3. p, s,,,,.-,-,
Autumn leaves are dying, dying, dyinaga.i;
=" .">" Sadly, one by one; .sS'oc"
Broken hearts are lying, lying, lying zero,
In their rest where dark despair Is done,
- Grief Is done. ~ a,ti
Autumn leaves are speaking speaking, spealk'
To the thoughtlsss souls ts%as
Who, but pleasure seeking, seeking, seeking,
Heed not as life ever onward rolls; z
Swiftly rolls i'Ml@t ~ a;ailsl
Autumn leaves are pleading, pleading, plead
In prophetic tone, !,
With the thousands speeding, speeding
speeding $500. o., 5,e,
To appear before their Makers throne;
Awful throne! 4.
-. -Emsle PiekhsrdE
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Persons presenting claims to the
United States treasury on account OF
bonds which have been destroyed wholly
or in part, or on account of registered
bonds which have been lost, will be re-
ouired to present evidence showing
First. the number. denomination. date
of authorizing act and series of each
bond, whether coupon or registered, and
if registered, the name of the payee. IN
the case of registered bonds, it should
also be stated whether they had been
assigned or not, and if so, the name OF
the assignee should he given. Second
The time and place of purchase, of whom
purchased, and the consideration paid.
Third-The material facts and circum-
stances connected with the loss: The
evidence should be as full and clear rs
possible. Proofs may be made by atfi-
davit, and by such other competent eyi-
dence as may be in the possession OF the
claimant. Duplicates will not be issued
within six months from the loss. The
interest on uncalled registered bonds
will be paid Notwithstanding the loss.
These regulations do not apply in any
way to coupons lost or destroyed which
have been detached from the bonds, as
no relief in such cases can be granted.
The agitation against vivisection has
taken a deep hold in both Germany
and Switzerland. Numerous anti-vivi-
section leagues have been formed, and
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-06-28

If l could CLEAN anything about him,
and there, hanging up on the wall, | saw
that very wreath that had been haunt
ing me for monthsl"
Chow did you persuade her to part
with it."
"Ah, Lady Grace, that was not very
difficult-honest English gold. Her
eyes glistened at the sight of it! Very
pretty eyes they were, too! She cried
when took it down, cried when l told
her Hans was dead. But her husband
comforted her. See, my wife, he said,
[ will make for thee wreath of these
lovely roses of just the same size did
| say they were artificial flower makers?
-'and we will hang it up in its place,
so that you will not miss the other.
And as to him, poor fellow, life is diff
cult, and perhaps he is well out of it!'
$50 Madame dried her tears.
"A All, that will be lovely l heard
her say, as / carried my treasure away;
and like the colored ones best. And
the money, you see, my friend, is far
better; it will feed and clothe the chill
dren, whereas the wreath-we could
only look at itl'
I" You are interested in it now, are you
not Lady Grace? You will all come and
have tea in my rooms tomorrow after
noon, and see the wreath of roses2 Poor
fellow, what sad pity it was that he
died SO young! "-Tempte Bar.
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An Old-Time Canal.

Anterior to the time of the occupancy
of Florida by the people whom Ponce de
Leon found here when he was conduct
ing his romantic search for the fountain
OF perpetual youth, race of men had
partially constructed canal across the
southern end of the great cape. The
work must be very old, for in the bed of
the excavation are live oaks which have
been growing fully thousand years, as
the ages of trees are determined. 1t is
claimed that this old excavation can yet
be used in the construction of ship Ca
nal, and that additional openings of
fourteen or fifteen miles will unite the
waters of the Atlantic and the Gulf, and
afford passageway for vessels by much
shorter route and free from the perils of
the reefs and keys along both coasts.
The saving of life and property by means
of this transit would soon compensate
for its construction, and it cannot too
soon receive attention from those inter
ested in navigation.
During the occupancy of this territory
by the English from 1863 to 1888 rice
plantations were established along the
creek to which this creek gives its name,
Palatka. The remains Of food-gates,
constructed of cedar, now a hundred
years old, are still found in good de-
gree of preservation, and the lines of the
sluiceways are plainly decentralization.
N. Y Tribune
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An Orthodox Chlnaman,

Concerning future rewards and punish
ments Colorado furnishes the following
illustration, which occurred recently in
court in La Veta, where the testimony
of Chinese was objected to on the
ground that he did not understand or
regard the obligations of an oath. To
test him he was Intercepted thus:
John, do you know anything about
GodW
"No; me net belly we'll acquaint
with him."
Have you no Joss in Chinaw
ooh, yes, gottee heapee JOSS"
Where do you 60 when you die"
Me go to Sian Flancisco."
"Don't you understand me. When
Chinaman quit washee all the time, and
no live any more, where does he go?"
ooh yes, me sabe now. If he belly
goodee man, he go upee sky. If he
belly BADGE man, he go luppee down
hellee, ale sanaee Mclean man."
The court was satisfied with this
orthodox statement, and admitted hi:
testimony.-Harper's Magazine.
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SONG OF THE WRECK.
BY CHARLES cARsobE.

High DER the beach the shattered hulk.
With storm-wrenched timbers stern and prav
Mars with its grim, unsightly bulk, ''
The brightness of the golden day;
While tossed on high each enarled beam
Clear cut against the amber sky
Like wrestling giant arms might seem,
Flung out IN helpless agony.
And fancy counts Tbs winters gone
since, bowed beneath the tempests hate,
The hapless vessel, drifting on, ~'
came groan1ng, shuddering to her fate.
And gallant lives of stalwart men,
Borne upward on the raging air,
feot out mid terror, night and pain
one herce pang of wild despair.
Now while on shore and 81 the sun
Its purple mantle gently laws
AND iar-seen islands, one by one
Melt IN the rosy glimmeriDg haze
While yelling up through breach and seam,
Inc sun-upped wavelets pulsing flow
Telling the beach their summer dream
In sea-blown murmurs faint and low
Fair, gentle girls, with eyes like stars.
And ripping laughter crisp and sweet,
Cluster around the gray old spars
lhe bright foam dancing to their feet,
I'LL when the sunset gIories fade
ana twilight deeepens into night,
Wnen, keenly flashing through the shade
FLAMES Ger the sea the beacon light,
Their parting voices wane and faint
To stiffness all unknown before.
Save where the night wind means its plant
Kound wreck aud tower, on wave and shore,
Courage, sad hearth Though dark and chill
Thy storm-wrecked life in ruins lie
Though watling ghosts its chambers fill,
And strength aud hope its impulse die,
stil youth and love some tender CLEANS,
Some jOy-light, o er thy gloom shall cast
Stirring TO transient happy dreams
The old sweet warnings of the past.
And when the darkness falls again,
stand, like the wateh-tower, strong and sure;
In patience hide thy lonely pain,
Steadfast, TeDaeHaber-and endure!
= 1r,er,s Mrry-;,o
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Fresh SunnIfes of Vitality

10 renew waning stock may be gathered from
source accessible to ALL and never sought in
vain by any whose constitution and vigor are
not 80 much dilapidated as to be wholly past
repairing. Evidence direct, convincing and
ample, indicates Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
as tonic of unexampled efficacy and perfect
purity, and possessed OF properties that con-
stitute it an invaluable remedy for dyspepsia,
constipation, liver complaint, urinary and
uterine weakness, rheumatic complaints and
malarial fever. Delicate females and infrm
old persons are invigorated and selaced by it,
and the physical prostration which usually
follows a severe illness is in a great degree
remedied and convalescence accelerated
through its use. 1t occupies leading position
among medicinal staples
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The MendeIssohn Piano Co., 10. 81 East
18th Street, n Y, sell Pianos at Factory
Prices. Write for catalogue.
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Speculation.

Since the creation, it is estimated that a.
600, 900, 900, 000, 900 have lived on the earth.
This sum divided by 27,864, 900 the number of
square miles, gives 1874, 522, 086 to square
rod, and five TO square foot. Suppose a
square rod be divided into IL graves each
grave would contain 100 persons. But this is
speculation, and Of no benefit to the 0OO 000,-
600 people that now exist, SOC, 0O0, 900 Of whom
are invalids, Sc, 200, 900 dying each year. What
they most want are the facts concerning DR..
Pierce's Family Medicines. For years his
Golden Medical Discovery has been the stand
ard remedy for the cure Of all scrofulous,
throat and lung diseases. While for over a
quarter of century, DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy has been unrivaled as a positive cure for
catarrh. The testimony Of thousands of ladies
has been published certifying that DR.. Pierce 8
Favorite Prescription positively cures the dis
eases and weaknesses peculiar to women. For
full information, see the Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser, an illustrated work of
over 900 pages, price (post-paid), $3.50. Over
100000 copies sold. Address the author, R. V.
Pierce, III. D., Buffalo, n. 7.
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Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Smoke Posne's ''Sitting Bull Durham Tobacco"
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A HEROIC Young man inn ned off

A HEROIC young man jun ped off the
San Rafael ferry boat about a month
ago, and rescued from drowning the
daughter of one of our richest stock
operators. The next day the grateful
father sent for the hero and presented
him with point on stocksl To-day the
heroic young man is walking around on
his uppers and sleeping on benches in
the plaza. This is true story.-San
Francisco Post.
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MINNESOTA Chief
The Best Thresher on Wheels!

1t is not a vibrator, neither s 1t apron machine
but the best points of both combined, with new
and original features of its own 1t is wonderfully
simple in its arrangement It is admirably perfect
in its threshng aud separating qualities. 1t
all the grain and cleans it ready for market. 1t
easily, is constructed duraby is finished beau
tfully is the economical least expensive, and
altogether the most satisfactory machine in the
market.
1t will handle wet grain as well as dry. In thresh-
ing Flax and Timothy it has no equal threshing and
cleaning both WE'LL and nearly rapidly wheat
requires change except the selves 1t has more
square feet Of separating and cleaning surface than
any other machine made and cannot be overloaded.
1t is both and under blast at the same time.
Our clover hulling attachment is new and very de-
srable feature 1t does the business rapidly and
better than an exclusively clover huling machine.
Separators of the various sizes fitted for Steam
Horse Power, as desired.
An Improved Pitts Power, an Improved Woodbury.
Power, and the Edward FqualiZing Power, all
mounted on four wheels, manufactured by us,
and not surpassed by any in the market.
For Priceists and Circulars address the manuf rs,
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highest medal a. one of the great worlds ex-
positions there would be room to question
which was the best; but Mason & Hamlin have
taken the highest honors at every such COM
petition for twelve years.
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NEGLECTED COUGHS AND CoLDs.-Few are
aware of the Importance Of checking Cough
or Common Cold" in its first stage; that
which in the beginning would yield to
"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs,' if neglected
often works upon the Lungs.