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A Funny Mistake.

The other day an old country woman drove
up in her wagon to a ~well-known shoe store,
and entering the same, thus accosted the
urbane proprietor: 81 want to see them ERE
{ Ninety-6ve' Rubber Boots advertised in all
the papers. I'm thinking they must be cheap
at n%inety-fve cents, and I'll Just take home
Two pair to the old man."
1t was difficult at first to convince the old
lady that the figures 1895" referred to quality,
not price, and that the boots were 95 per
cent sterling pure; but when sne was shown
a sample cut open to display tha interior, and
saw That the soles were half an inch thick Of
solid rubber, and that the upper and legs were
double thick, she was contented to pay, not
ninety-ive cents, but several dollars, for II
single pair OF tie "Cundee IS Per Cent.
Boots" believing they would be the cheap
est in the end for the "old man" The
storekeeper punched the date OF sale in tho
legs so Us TO Tx the expiration OF the three
months warrant, and assured her in case they
did not stand the warrant, he would give a
new pair free OF charge.
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How q Sultan was Murdered.

The New York Herald correspondent
at Cairo gives a history of the downfall
of Abdul Aziz and describes the muir
der. Abdul Aziz, it appears, made sew
eral attempts to escape and was contin-
ually threatening Hussein Aoni, who
had been the foremost conspirator
against him, so the latter induced a
Greek physician whom Abdul Aziz had
made q pasha for relieving him of a car
buncle, together with q eunpch, to kill
the imprisoned sultan. The murder is
described as follows:
On the evening of June 6 the two
agents of Hussein Aonl entered the pal
ace of Heterogeneous affecting the du-
ties of 4 physician the other returning
to his accustomed post. AS late n two
o'clock in the morning Abdul Aziz re-
PEELED his mothers caresses, reproached
her for having been partly the cause of
his fall, denounced her. and his young
son, and paced violently up and down
his chamber. Finally, utterly Frustrated
and worn out. he removed his coat only
and laid down-not on q sofa, rs has been
reported. but upon n Turkish bed.
When the ex-sultan was asleep the
eunuch entered the room, followed by
the physician. The eunuch was pro-
vided with a sponge saturated with
chloroform, the odor of which vas still
in the chamber the next day. When
the doctor considered that Abdul Aziz
was thoroughly under the influence of
chlorotorm lie quickly rolled up the ex-
sultan's shirt sleeves and cut the two
arteries. This done he placed the scis-
sors on the floor, and the two accom-
plices disappeared. Abdul Aziz must
have afterward struggled against the
influence Of the chloroform and loss of
blood, for when his mother afterward
entered the room he was at the foot Of
the bed, which, together with his own
body, was bathed in blood. The stor"
of Abdul Aziz having in the ours. of
the night asked his mother for q pair of
scissors to cut his beard is q pure fabr:.
cation. 1t was a political necessity to
at least furnish some plausible ground
for the belief that a suicide had occurred
instead of a murder. 1t is true that
Abdul Aziz had been in the habit of
trimming his beard himself, and usually
carried q pair of scissors about Ms per-
son. and would often play with them
while engaged in conversation. This
fact doubtless suggested the role which
the scissors have played in the matter.
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Some Facts About Fire Insurance.

The losses of 1879 exceeded those Of
1878, Of 1877, and of 1915 by many mil
lions of dollars.
There was 1888, 600. 900 werth of prop
erty wasted by fire in the United States
during the last five years.
Fraud vitiates all contracts, but the
burden of proof is upon the party alleg-
ing it. It requires evidence %precluding
reasonable doubt.
Assuming the loss for twenty years to
be in the same proportion as that of the
last five years, it would represent 8 sum
nearly equal to the entire public debt.
The number of fires is surely and
steadily increasing. The number of
fires causing a loss of 800 and upward,
in 1876 was 9. 3Ol. In 1879 it was l2,849,
an average of about one fire every forty
minutes.
The losses of the companies doing an
inland and marine business in this city
in 1879, are reported to have exceeded
the premiums, leaving $3.50, 600 of ex-
penses to be met from other sources.
1t is a very common and very en-
roneous impression that iron window
shutters and iron doors are a sure pro-
lection against fire. The fact Is they
are comparatively useless when fire
reaches them. A wooden door or shut
ter covered with tin is much better than
iron.-New York Mercantile Journ al.
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The New York Herald Irish relief fun.

The New York Herald Irish relief fund
committee, consisting OF E. R. King-Harman,
NJ. P, ". Shaw, N. p, Prot. Baldwin, Rev.
George H. Hepworth and the archbishop OF
Dublin, has begun the distribution Of the
money amounting to over $3.50, 000, entrusted
to it.
The woman, Vera Sassulitch, the famous
Nihilist agent who in February, 1878, at
lempted the assassination OF General Trepof,
the project OF St. Petersburg, has been ar
rested at the residence of one OF her friends in
that city.
The twenty-ffth anniversary OF the access
sion of the Car of Russia to the throne was
celebrated in St. Petersburg by military
parades, p~ricstly professions and a general
turnout of the people in honor OF their
ruler: The car appeared tor twenty minutes
on a balcony of the Winter palace, saluting the
multitude, and then drove in an open carriage
through the crowded streets.
General Melikoff has been appointed virtual
dictator of St. Petersburg, and has named
a "commission OF supreme control"
The steamer Vingoria, from Bombay, India,
for Kurrachee, has foundered. Six Europeans
and sixty-twon natives were lost.
The work OF piercing Mount st. Gothard
tunnel has been completed amid great re.
ioicing. The tunnel runs through the Alps,
connecting Italy and Switzerland, and is the
largest in the world, being AZ, 900 feet or GA
miles long. It's cost OF construction has been
ISL, 500, 900.
General Melikof, the new military ruler at
St. Petersburg, while alighting from a carriage
in front OF his residence was tired upon but
not hit by a young man. The would-be as
sassin was seized as he was trying to fire
a second shot, and claimed to be a student.
Experiments are being made in Paris with
the polyscope, a new apparatus TOR illumin-
nting the interior OF animal organisms, which
ia clnimed to render bodies transparent, so as
to make al examination OF every portion of
the body feasible.
AT Ashton-under.L Lyme, England, 10000
cotton weavers struck work in consequence
OF the refusal of their employers to grant an
advance of FIVE per cent. in their wages,
which advance the s%pinners recently obtained.
A leading Paris newspaper asserts that
France has entered into negotiations with the
United States and England with a view OF
terminating tho war between Chill and Peru.
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The HOund.l

Tie hound is a most interesting dog.
How solemn and long-visaged he is
how peaceful and well-disposed! He is
the Quaker among dogs. All the vic
iousness and currishness seem to have
been weeded out of him; he seldom
quarrels or fights, or plays, like other
dogs. Two strange hounds, meeting
for the first time, behave as civilly
toward each other as two men. know
a hound that has an ancient, wrinkled,
human, PARKWAY look that reminds one
of the bust of Homer among the Elgin
marbles. He looks like the mountains
toward which his heart yearns so much.
John Burrouqhs, in ScTibner.
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India Rubber War Vessels.

The Italians are rapidly reducing
armored vessels to an absurdity. They
arc building two enormous men-of-War
the Italia and Lepanto-which are to
be of about $4,000 tons each, and to
carry arn.or of thirty-six inches in
thickness. No gun now in existence
can pierce this armor, so that the ships
will be for a time invulnerable. IN
the other hand, their immense draue,ht
of water will prevent them from entering
almost all the French and Austrian
harbors, so that they can be OF little use
for offensive purposes, so long as hostile
vessels are content to let them alone.
OF course, guns will DON be made
which will pierce thirty-siN inches OF
iron. and the Italia and the Lepanto
will then be rs useless as are the old
fashioned ironclads with six inches OF
armor. What the building OF these
ships really demonstrates is the fact
that the time has arrived when a Vessel.
in order to carry armor enough 10 resist
the attack of a 1Oo-ton gun. must be
made so large as TO be unable to enter
IN ordinary harb0r; or, in other WORDS,
must be an absurdly useless monster,
The acute German mind has already
perceived the folly of building lmpreg-
nable ships. The learned Professor Loe-
wenthal has become convinced that IN
stead of building ships which cannot be
pierced by the guns low in use, we
should build ships which would otter
the..least possible resistance to cannon
balls. He claims that the frigate OF the
future will be so constructed that the
balls of the enemy will pass directly
through her without inficting any dam
q andthat she will attack her enemy,
not with guns. but with %torpedoes.
Herr Loewenthal selects tor the ma
terial of his newly-invented war vessel
I%ndia-rubber of one foot in thickness.
The whole hull is to be made OF India
rubber, strengthened below the water
line with a light steel frame. The YES
sci will be driven by an ordinary steam
engine, and will have no masts. At the
bow will be a projecting spar, to which
torpedoes will be affixed, and the en-
tire crew, including the helmsman, will
be on the lower deck, out of the range
of shot. When 4 cannon ball strikes
the India rubber ship, it will pass
directly through it above the heads Of
the crew, and the hole made by it will
instantly close. Paying no attention to
such futile attacks, the india rubber
vessel will steam toward her adversary
and explode her torpedo. The doomed
vessel will instantly sink, while her
elastic destroyer will be driven hun.
dreds Of yards backward by the recoil
following the explosion. Such q vessel,
says the inventor, could easily destroy
ali the navies of the world, and after
her work was done she could be made
as strong as ever with the aid of two or
three bottles of cement.
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rerneYere.

The worh thou seek'st to know
II often dark and drear;
Shadows around may tall.
But persevere,
The hill thou clilnb'st Is high.
Tho prize is great and near;
Write "duty" on thy heart,
And %persevere!
The rond il smooth to ell
4 10 have n conscience clear;
walk wisely on thy path
And persevere!
BE Arm! II fortune fails,
Lies burdens do not fear;
Go forth with manly pride,
And rcrsevero!
Few tnil Who seek to win,
None stray who rightly steer.
Thine ia tic prize If thou
Wilt persevere.
Around the darkest sto;m
The sun's bright beams appear,
With !ish: anA hope for all
Who pcrsevere
The worlds temptations scorn;
Let others wealth revere;
Be strong in right, detest the wrong,
And persevere!
Then, when lite's twilight fades,
Tho thought will give thee cheer
That thou in trials passed
Didst persevere!
-.hep York Erenin9 Post
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Naval Fights.

From a naval officer of great age we
have the following anecdotes, never be-
fore published, Of our first great sea-
fights and of the amenities between the
opposing officers. They throw u curl
ously human CLEAN upon a human chap
ter in history which we generally regard
as altogether dark and savage.
In the early part Of the war. the
American frigate United States and the
English Macedonia were anchored near
each other, and the captains, Garden
and Decatur, often exchanged friendly
visits. The English frigate carried
eighteen-pounders, the American twen-
ty-four Founders, and the officers daily
argued rs 10 the relative advantages Of
the ordnance carried by their vessels.
"IfI fired into you, l should blow you
to pieces, Garden" said the American.
"No. for / could fire my light guns
twice as fast as you can your heavier
ones" was the reply. Six months later,
they actually did fight. AS the defeated
Englishman stepped on board OF the
United States, he called out: You see
you were right, Decatur! But what
will they say at home? / am the first
man to strike the English flag"
"No; Dacres is defeated"
"Dacres! The Guerriere" waving
his arms like boy. "Then I'm not the
first"
An officer from Newburyport was n
prisoner on the Guerrero when she met
the Constitution. When the fight be-
gan, he said, "Ill 90 below" Captain
Dacres heard him.
"No fear" he said. 1.-The Yankees
will not hit u.s."
The Constitution was 50 long in open
ing fire thst the Yankee prisoner
thought Dacres was right. but when
she began" he says, 1.-THE Guerrero
shook like an aspen leaf. In thirty
minutes the fight was over"
Commodore Reid, still living, was
then 4 lieutenant, and wa sent on board
the captured vessel.
Have you struck, sir:?" he said to
the first officer he met.
Yes. We had no mast nor flag to
haul down."
Lieutenant Reid found Dacres lying
wounded on deck. Captain Hull, sir"
he said, "desired me to present his COM
pliments, and to place his surgeons at
your service"
care they not needed at homer"
"No, sir. We have but seven killed
and seven wounded"
Dacres' face clouded. "My men fired
e~xccrably." he said. They have burst
open the grog now. That is the first
thing they do when beaten. There are
both plate and jewelry in my cabin.
Will you remove it, sir, and say to Capt.
Hull I give it into his care?"- Youths
CO1nDuuiOn.
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How tho Edison Stock Advanced.

The British Trnde Journal puts Mr..
Edison's recent discovery and the effect
it had on the stock Of his company as
follows: In the summer of 1878 a COM
pany of capitalists formed a corpora
ton with 5000. 600 capital, in 300
shares. the money to be expended by
Mr.. Edison in experimenting with the
electric light. After months of unsuc
cessful experiments: the prospect looked
very blue, and as the overworked and
disappointed investigators became o
cndaverous. the shares sank in the mar
ket. The 500 declined to $50, when
one day Edison, having used piece OF
paper for a light. carelessly rolled the
burnt fragments between his fingers,
and suddenly discovered his latest great
hit. The iact of lis discovery caused
tic stock, which had been down to $50,
jump''to by rapid stages up to S~3,5ooiper
share.
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Is it Possible

That a remedy made Of such common,
simple plants as Hops uchu, Mandrake,
Dandelion, ETC., make so many and such
marvellous and wonderful cures as Hop
Bitters do 1t must be, for when old
and young, rich and poor, pastor and
doctor, lawyer and editor, all testify to
having been cured by them, we must
believe and doubt no longer. See other
column.-RoSt.
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DR.. C. E. Shoemaker, the well-know aural
surgeon OF Reading, Pa, offers to send by mail,
tree oil charge, a valuable little book on deafness
and diseases of the ear-specially on running
enr and catarrh, and their proper treatment
giving references and testimonials that will
satisfy the most skeptical. Address as above.
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Physicians say that there is no remedy for
consumption an6ipossibly in some cases the
assertion may be correct. We know however
OF many cures made by DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup and will guarantee positive relief to the
sufferer in every instance.
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DR.. ANARCHISTS Uterine ~CATHOLICON will posi-.
lively cure Female Weakness, such as Falling OF the
Womb. Whites. Chronic Inflammation or liberation Of
the Womb, incidental licmorrhase or Flooding, Painful,
Suppressed and Irregular Mcnshuation, &c. An old and
reliable remedy. Send postal card for 0 pamphlet, with
treatment, cures AMI certificates from physicians and
patients. TO HOWAKTH l. BALLARD Utica, N. Y.
Sold by all DrugyIsts-Sl. 50 per bottle.
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Notwithstanding all that has been

notwithstanding all that has been
written on the subject. the Use of arsenic
in dyes and coioripg matters continues
to be the cause of widespread mischief.
We see by foreign Journals that in
France the p~rrfc"t of the department du
nord has just issued a notice to book
binders and others concerning the dam
ger incurred by the use Of colors which
have tor their bases ursenic or copper.
These are often employed in coloring
papers on the edge of books bound III
green. In case Of my accident arising
from them. the binders are liable not
only to civil damages. hut for criminal
offense.
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A book on the Liver, it's diseases and their
treatment sent tree. Including t~reatises upon
Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundicc,
Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, Dyspep.
sia, Malaria. etc. Address DR.. Sanford, 1872
Broadway, New York city, N. Y.
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NERVOUS SUfrERER.-A dose OF Vegetine,
taken just before going to bed, will ensure a
comfortable nights rest to the nervous sufferer.
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Chicago packed last year 100000
hogs, being ali increase of ten per cent.
over 1873, and seventy-tlvc per cent.
over 1877. Over 10000 men are N
Moved.
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A pork packer at indianapolis has in
vented a machine which will scrape
1000 hogs a day.
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Wanted

Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich, want On
agent in this county at once, at a salary oil
800 per month and expenses paid. For full
particulars address as above.
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Glbert's Pat. Gloss Starch for fine fabrics.

For sore throat, gargle with Piso's Cure,
mixed with o little water. Relief is instant.
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Druggists Testimony.

Mr.. b. r. STEVENS:
Oar Strive have been selling your remedy, the
vEoETINE, for about three years, and take pleasure
in recommending 1t to our customers, and In no
i"s;sace where q blood purifier would reach the
case, has 1t ever failed to effect . euro, to our
knowledge. It certainly is the NO plus ultra Of
renovators. Respectfully,
Ne. II. SHEPHERD l. CO., Druggists,
Mt. Vernon, III.
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Kidney-Wort effectively acts Mt the
same time on kidneys, liver and bowels.
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The most comfortable boot in town is that
with Lyons Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners.
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A writer in a Paris paper paints a de-
plorable picture of the terrors by which
the car is haunted and of the precau-
tions taken to secure his person from
injury. At one time the emperor Of
all the Russias was in the habit of
wearing 4 coat of mail, very delicate
and supple, but, unable to endure the
weight, he has abandoned this ark of
safety. His uniforms, however, are
now specially prepared, and arc said to
be stepped in a particular wash which
renders them bullet-proot The car
riages and sledges used by the monarch
are also plated with iron, and such is
the mysterious secrecy with which he
is surrounded that even the most trusted
policemen are ignorant half an hour be-
forehand in what direction he is going
The cook is watched Mt his work by two
special employees. aud the kitchen door
is guarded by two Sentinels. The viands
are tasted by experts, and only offered
10 the car when they are convinced
that no poison is lurking in them. Fond
rs he is of a good cigar, the emperor is
obliged, from similar motives of pru-
dence, to foreeo the pleasures of smok-
ing. Such is said 10 be the life Of the
greatest autocral in the world, who
must no and then envy the 10! even OF
the meencst OF his subjects.
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Two boys of Davenport, Iowa, can
rival the Lone Fisherman" for pecu-
liarity of catch. They were casting
their lines in the Mississippi and one of
the hooks caught on an object near the
shore which proved to be the handle of
an iron safe. With pulley and tackle
they landed the prize, and were so un-
romantic as to sell it, unopened, to a Junk
dealer for $3.50. The safe proved to
have belonged to the steamboat Effie
Alton, that burned and sunk twenty-five
years ago, and is supposed to contain
several hundred dollars. search is be-
ing made for the clerk Of the steamer,
and in the meantime Mr.. Junk is re-
strained from opening the safe.
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Al ri,le-ic-camp to the sultan has been
tal,n into custody in Constantinolle Tor COIN
rIic;ty with a Greek who WAS arrested Tor
having III internal machine in his possession.
The uIl ,ir appears TO have been a conspiracy
against the sultau's lifs.
The acknowledgements goH mines in
Cunn.ls nrc doing we'll. Three weeks wolk
III Montague retained $50 ounces OF gold.
A portion OF the parliament buildings mt
Fredericton, N. B., have been destroyed by
lire
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It is estimated that the following ad-
ditions have been made to the fortunes
of some of the principal New York
millionaires by sp~eculations and prohta-
BILE investments during the past year:
Added to the Vanderbilt estate, $50 MO,-
600; to the wealth of Jay Gould, Sl5,-
600, 600; to the wealth OF Russell Sage,
$40, 900. 900; Sidney Dillon. 500 900;
James r. Keene, IS, 600, 900; to the First
National bank, 50, O0O, 900; to Drexel,
Morgan & Co., 50, 900, 900; and to three
or four Other great operators. $4,000, 900,
giving a total of profits of $50, DOC, 900 to
about ten or twelve estates in p single
wear.
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b! ; iiaf'

Is the best in the Void. II Is absolutely pure. Il Is the
all Family Uses. Sold BY all Druggists and Groecra o..
PENE'A SALT MANUFACTURING CO., PhlIa.
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The wheat production Of America
formed a topic of discussion ut q recent
meeting OF the Farmers club held
in London. A paper read by
Mr.. Finlay Dunn entered into de-
tails showing that the United States at
present produced about one fourth the
wheat grown in the world, the weld for
1870 being about $4,000. 900 quarters.
According to the statistics, the wheat
area is upward OF 32,000,0 900 acres, or
ten times that Of the British islands.
The area of the crop of 1873 was
twenty-five per cent. greater
than that Of 1877, while during
1879 q further increase was made
Of fully three per cent. an mere
ment Of twenty-eight per cent. under
two years. This rapid augmentation
testified how readily and quickly the
supplies in America responded to the
demand. Even with this large accession,
the wheat area of the States was only
equivalent to the dimensions of the sim
gle State of Alabama. or only l-44th OF
the total area of the United States.