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Foreign News.

SEVERAL prominent firms on the London
stock exchange have failed for large amounts.
TIE Nihilists' newspaper organ says that the
coronation of tho car, fixed for the 25th OF
May, will never take place, and predicts grave
events in Russia.
SIX Mormon elders accompanied by q process
sion OF Mormon men and women, singing
HYMNS, attempted to hold a meeting in Eondon
for tho purpose of inducing emigration to
Utah. The Mormons were attacked by a large
crowd and the meeting was broken up.
BY the bursting Of q reservoir at Calais,
France, a school-house and two other buildinga
were overwhelmed and destroyed, few Of the
inmates escaping. Twenty.seven bodies were
taken out of the ruins.
The following isthe new French cabinet: NJ
do Freycinet, president of tbs council and
minister of fo,oign affairs NJ. Jules Perry,
minister Of public instruction; NJ. Goblet,
minister Of the interior and of worship; NJ.
Humbert, minister of justice; NJ. Leon Say,
minister Of finance; NJ. Varroy, minister d
public works; General Billot, minister Of war;
Admiral Jaureguiberry, minister Of marine;
NJ. Tirard, minister OF commerce; N. Cookery
minister Of posts and telegraphs.
THE Union Generate, a Partisan banking
concern doing m immense business, has sus.
pended.
A REIGN OF terror prevails at Cabul, Afghan.
istan, where 100 persons are imprisoned fol-
political offenses.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says that Engi-
neer Melville will form five separate parties to
search for Commander Do Long, OF the lost
Jeanette.
An extraordinarily large number Of secret 80.
cieties have been discovered in Ireland. The
arrests under the land act are constant and MI.
merous.
LIEUTENANT D~ANESHowEu, of tho Jtanncite
expedition, has arrived at lrkutsk. He tcle-
graphs that Lieutenant De Longs party has
been traced to n detinitivc loca ity on the west
1cnt of the Lena. The Jeanette entered the
ice near Herald island on September 6, 1879,
Gliflcd to the northwest during twenty-ono
months and sank on June II. Tho retreat
ONCT lllc lCC NJ tilCIl lLinLoC y t!lC 2NSh W.
islands, AMI thence in boats to the delta OF
the Lena.
HEAVY reductions in rent are being made by
the Irish land commissioners.
THE French troops operating in Southern
Algeria marched eighty miles in three days,
captured IL, 1000 sheep and G.OOO camels and
killed ninety tribesmcn.
A FRENCH frigate has been ordered to Guate-
mala. Central America, to demand satisfaction,
50, 600 indemnity and the Imprisonment of the
assailants for a recent assault OH tho secretary
of the French legation.
TIE president and manager Of tho broken
Union Generate Banking company, Paris, have
been arrested.
NEARLY every inhabitant Of ono townlanl of
Lough Mask. ireland, has been arrested Oh
suspicion of completely in the murder OF the
proces--server, Mr.. Hubby, and his nephew,
whose bodies were found in the lake.
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Docfors Among the Beers,

There is no man a Boer has greater
reverence for than q doctor, yet those
in the Transvaal are mostly unqualified
practitioners or quacks of tho most au
dacious kind. But he will drive miles
to fetch one of those fellows, and hand
over the fee with q groin, without q
thought of disputing it. The rapaclty
of these practitioners is Incredible. Not
many months ago a Boer living on the
highroad to Pretoria called in q local
doctor to attend his wife. Everything
passed off quite satisfactorily and the
| doctor asked as his fee $3.50, and got it.
AS the Boer said, "it was O very deaf
baby" And this man had only driven
some eight miles to the farm.
A more amusing incident happened
when another doctor was called upon
by a Boer, with an urgent. request that
he would come out to his farm to at
tend q sick man.
"How far is the FARM" asked the
medical man.
"About twenty miles,"
Twenty miles -twenty pounds. A
pound a mile" To which the Boer
agreed, and went away to fetch his
sspider." On returning he found his
friend a little the worse for liquor, but
thinking the effects would soon pass
off he took him up and they drove
away. After going some few hundred
yards the doctor laid his hands on the
reins, stretching one out and hiccup-
ng
"One mile-one pound"
The Boer, willing to humor him, gave
him a pound and drove on again; but
before half the previous distance was
done the trap was again stopped, and
the hand poked out under the drivers
nose
"Two miles-two pounds" This was
too much even fora Boer, and he turned
and drove back, doing as best he could
without advice.
I know a third case, where a doctor
attending a patient called at the house
ninet sen times in one day, asking for
his fee at each visit, and managing the
business by calling at the front door,
leaving through the kitchen, and going
rou..d to the front again. But then he
was a bit drunk too.
The fees are given in written promises
to pay, called "goo | fors," as Beers
seldom keep sums OF money in Their
houses; and these "good-fors' are
readily taken at any store where the
Soer is in the habit If trading. the
storekeeper knowing that they will be
taken up when the man comes in to sell
his produce. -BtactUood.
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The Pocket Photographic instrument.

Have you leard of the i~nstantane Gus
Photographic instrument ? asks a New
York correspondent. I! is a great in
vehtiop. The Instrument is no larger
than a well-flled pocbetbook, yet it is
so complete tina; every man can be his
own photographer without any trouble.
The process of taking the picture is as
simple az writing. You simply hold
the instrument before the object to be
taken and there it il. I believe the
policemen of London. a : armed with
them, and they fla h then camera on a
rogue with as much ease as you would
a dark lantern. No matter how swiftly
an object is moving, it can be taken. /
know OF one enthusiastic man who
claims that they will be the reporters
notebook of the future. For example,
he is writing Nh article On the Brooklyn
bridge, and as lie writes he uses his
camera. When he goes home he de-
velops his plates, and consequently has
q correct picture Of the scene before
him. Indeed, he never goes cut of the
house without his instrume t in his
pocket, and he keeps his friends sup
piled With pictures. I am o little afraid
Of the abuse of this invention. An IN
principled rascal seeing a pretty girl on
the avenue can whip out his camera and
have her face at cIce transferred TO the
plate. The instruments are quite cheap
$40 I believe i is that they coSt-so
here is fun for the million. How pleas
ant when taking q walk in the country
t'repro ll,, til, l.7dsc. pe for ones
own ratification or that OF those at
homel You see a lamb friskinS by its
mother side, and in a moment, while
its heels are kicking in the r, you
have it down bef' re you. If I was &C.
ing to travel in Europe / should GER
tainly take a pocket camera along with
me. Any curious sight you can repro
doce in the twink'iLg of an eye. I have
Q e pictures Of moving crowds, OF
ships IN motion. Of men rowing and
horses racing, taken by this process
with the most remarkable accuracy.
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Tit for Tat.

A Griswold street lawyer was sitting
in his office the other week when a
stranger appeared at the door and said
"Beg pardon, but can you tell me
where Smiths Office is 2"
eyes, sir-next door,"
The stranger uttered his thanks and
passed to the next door, which was
locked. Returning to the lawyer he
observed
"Smith seems to be out
"Of course be is. II You had asked
that question in the first place I should
have answered it by telling you So"
The visitor had q troubled look on
his face as he passed out of the build.
ng, but that look was gone when he re-
turned the next day and inquired of the
lawyer
"How much will you charge me fol
q verbal opinion in a little matter 2"
ooh, about S."
The case was stated and the opinion
given, and the stranger was moving
away when the lawyer said
My fee, please"
haven't a cent to pay you !"
You haven't?'
"Of course not. If you had asked me
that question in the first place I should
have answered by telling you So. Good
morning, sir! - Detroit Free Press.
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HEALTH HINTS.

Heavy persons growing too stout fol-
comfort should stop eating bread, pc
tatocs, sugar, etc and take meats
above-ground vegetables, fruits, toast
etc
Celery boiled in milk and eaten will
hte milk served as a beverage, is SAID
to be a C Ire for rheum ism, gout.ands.
specific in case Of smallpox. Nervous
deople find comfort in celery.
Tannic acid will STOP bleeding st the
nose. Take a pinch of the powder and
snuff it up the nostril. 1t is en as
%tringent, and. as il lodges III the throat,
will prevent bleeding from the back o.
the nose.
Bread of unbolted wheat flour is, fol
making superior bone and muscle tc
the growing child. far preferable tc
bolted -four, and oatmeal is fully equal,
if not superior to it. Fed on these with
pure milk children will be sure to have
good health and good teeth.
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Labor on q $ mdWlch Island Plantation.

A letter from tue Sandwich Islands
gives this interesting account Of life on
the plantations there: In the field and
at the mill hands work lazily, talking
and laughing among them elves, look
ing healthy, cheerful and contented
and on the best terms with the planters
and overseers. The work is what any
boy or girl fifteen years old could per.
form, but the boys an( girls must go
to school. No matter how far the cane
field may be from their houses. laborers
arc not required to start any earlier in
the morning, and they reach home just
as soon in the evening. The hardest
work is hoeing, and that consists Of
only turning a light, sandy soil, and
they themselves say they are never hur-
ried a ainst their will. Tho method
adopted by q manager to get q good
days work out of them is to go among
them and talk freely, allowing them op.
rortunities of showing their wit, and
then pit one gang against another. The
native is particularly susceptible to this
treatment. Natives usually reship !;
Chinese never do, but they haunt a
Limitation after the expiration of their
contract, gambling with the hands, sell.
ing them smuggled opium and liquor.
The native, like the child that he IS,
gives them all he earns in exchange for
liquor which he cannot resist. Con-
tracts, which are usually fer n TO
three year., GILL for ten hours work per
day, lut the days they work 70 long are
few and far between. At the koloa
mill they were grinding from l
o'clock in the morning till 6 in the
evening, with a separate gang for night
and day, making eight and a half hours
all told, including the DINER hour.
Hands employed at feeding tho rollers
knocked off shortly after 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. This is one of the
oldest plantations in the kingdom, and
never has had any trouble with its men.
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II

DR.. John G. Johnson, Of Brooklyn,
recently read an interesting paper be-
fore the New York Medico-Legal So
ciety on "Anesthetics." The follow
ing are some of the points of the doc.
tors statements !:
Should a patient die from chloro-
form inhaled in a sitting position in a
dentists chair it could no longer be
urged in behalf of the surgeon, whose
patient had been chloroformed out Of
existence, as it was successfully argued
in behalf of the young Partisan surgeon
in 1858, who had been imprisoned for
the death of a patient under chloroform,
on whom he was operating without as.
sistance, that there was no fixed rules for
the administration Of ch.oroform. The
English chloroform committee appoint
ed by the Royal Medico Chi,urgical
society laid down in 1864 the rule that
annsthetics should always he given in
the recumbent position and never in
the erect position. The reason of
this rule is evident. In natural
respiration the rising and falling OF the
ribs is produced by the intercostal
muscles, and the respiration is called
tboracic. As the patient comes under
the influence of the aneathetic. these
in%tercostal muscles become paralyzei
and cease their action. The respira.
ticn is then kept up by the action of the
diaphragm OF abdominal respiration.
Those who have seen much of the
patients under the influence of arns.
thetics in our large hospitals must have
noticed how quickly q patient stopped
breathing at this stage if an assistant
pressed against the abdomen, to watch
the operation or to pass an instrument.
Now, as soon as the patient comes fully
under the Influence OF an arnsthctic,
she slips down in the dentists chair
The weight OF the upper portion of the
body is COMPRISING the abdomen
preventing the diaphragm from acting.
l think, with the present knowledge OF
antesthetics, that a surgeon who
should administer chlol oform to a
patient IN the erect position in the dent
lists chair, with her clothes tigh-
around her waist, and the patient
should die, he would Justly be held for
n~anslaughter. During the early ages
of anns tketics the knowledge Of the
profession Was only cXperime entail.
Thai age has passed. The most dis
tingui=hed men in the profession, as
long ago as 1864, published this rule
and the reasons for it. Subsequent
experimentation has demonstrated the
justice of it. 1t has been adopted by
all our modern writer's on the sub
ject. The courts have held owe and
over again that a physician must prac-
tice according to tue w%ell-known rules
o., the profession, and if he departs
from them it is at his peril.
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In a Cincinnati daily we notice that Mr.
Tim GIAeson, ex member of the Council
from the Fourth Ward of that city, says he
suffered terribly from rheumatism all last
winter and spring He tried all kinds of
liniments and medicines without any bene
fit until he used St. Jacobs Oil, the first ap.
plication of which insured q full nights re-
pose, and its subsequent use entirely cured
him. 1t is a great remedy.-Akron (Ohio)
beacon
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South and West.

Ar Wapello, Iowa, j. R. Helm fatally shot
his wife, with whom he had lived unhappily,
and then ended his OWN existence.
THREE colored men were hanged the other
day-Auguste Davis at New Orleans for assault
ing a white woman; John Morris at Raleigh,
N. c.. for the murder of another colored man,
and Edward Bolton at Mansfield, La, for badly
wonnding and robbing Albert Smith, also
colored.
ANrr-MoRMoN meetings are being held in
many cities OF the West
FIVE members Of q family named Roman,
living on the outskirts of Corinth, Ky, were
fatally poisoned while at supper by eating OF
corn bread containing arsenic.
A FIRE at N%orthport, Mich, destroyed the
courthouse of Leelenan county, with most OF
its contents.
Two freight trains, embracing fifteen care
and two engines, were completely wrecked by
c%olliding near Stufgis, Mich.
The only colored Presbyterian church build.
ing in Virginia was burned in Lynchburg the
other morning.
Mrs. DonRIs, wife Of General Doris, q
prominent citizen of st. Louis, was robbed and
murdered by her dissolute nephew and a COM
panion. The two young men were arrested and
confessed the crime.
IScESsED residents Of Alma, Ark, hanged
tile governor of the State in efigy for commut.
ing the death sentence Of u murderer.
A TRAMP who assaulted o Mrs. Buell. near Lo-
gansport, Ind, was caught by neighbors Of the
woman, hanged and then burned.
In an accident on the Union Pacific railroad,
near Fort Steele, W. T., three men were killed
and four others wounded, and by the collision
on the Scioto Valley railroad, at Hanging Rock,
Ohio, two men were killed and five fatally i'll
iured. .
OWING to the prevalence OF smallpox III a
malignant form in Brunswick county, Va, the
churches and school-houses were closed and a
county hospital was established.
THREE young ladics-two of them sisters
were drowned while attempting to cross the
shenandoah river in Rockingham county, Va.
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Ailments that Seem Tridinz

Are often but the prelude to a complication OF
obstinate maladies. Among the former are a
fit of indigestion, loss Of appetite, b%iliousness
safe to disreg ard any of these symptoms Of bod
lily arrangement. They should be attended to
at once, ere they become chronic, and involve
the general health. The above complaints may
be easily subdued with Hostetters Stomach
Bitters. Rheumatism and fever and ague, both
maladies for which the above is q reliable spe.
cifc, yield most readily to it in their incipiency.
The testimony as to it's preventive efficacy, and
fortifying influence upon the system, is partic'
ularly satisfactory and conclusive. Nervous
ailments are among the maladies for which
prompt relief is obtained by the use of this
sterling medicine.
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Confusing.

Bishop Bloomfield has been a wild
over and had several children. He mar
ried q second time a widow with @
family. One day he asked a country
clergyman to dine with him, telling
him: "You will only meet our family
party" The clergyman found a much
larger number assembled in the draw
ing-room than he had anticipated, and
was introduced by the bishop thus:
s'These are mine, these ore hers and
those are ours"
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RFSCTED FROM DE,TI

william J. Culghln, Of Somc-. lie. Mass says In the
fall OF 1876 was taken with BLEEDING OF THE LUNGS fol.
lowed by Il severe cough. l lost my appetite anil flesh,
AMI Wis crlIlnctl to my he'll. In 1911 | was admitted to
the l:cSp,tLl. The 'loctors said had 4 hole In my lung as
hi: rs Il lhif-lollar. At enc time n report went around
that | was dead. | gave up hope, but 4 frIrnl told Inc Of
DIR. WILLIAM HALLSBAI.SAM FOR TIE LUNGS.
got a bottle. when to my surprise. I commenced to feel
better. and To-day I feel better than for three years past.
| write this hoping every one afflicted with Diseased
Lungs vii! take DIR. WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM, and
b. convinced that CONSUMPTION BE CURED. !
can positively say It has done more good than all the
other medicines have taken since my sickness.
ALIENS Brain Food-cures Nervous Debility l.
Weakness of Generativc Organs, Stall druggists.
Send for Circular. Aliens Pharmacy 1913 rstaY.,N !.
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The manner in which various butter
flies break through the shell of the
Cocoon is very interesting Some drop
a minute portion of liquid from the
mouth, which softens tho shell others
exude acid. and others still pierce the
shell by means If protuberances with
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He slipped quietly in at the door,
but, catching sight of an inquiring face
over the stair rail, said Sorry SO late,
nv dear ; couldn't get a car before"
80 the cars were full, too" said the
lady and further remarks were I'M
pecessary.-Boston Bulletin,
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A brain, preserved and metalized, has
been presented to the French Academy
OF Medicine. tt was kept in alcohol
for a month, then plunged into a solu-
ton of pirate of silver, transferred to a
case of sninhureted hydrogen and then
exposed ~ the air.
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"The Best Liver Drops" is the title
OF all advertisement in the daily and
weekly. We don't consider our liver
or Of the best in the market, but it
has never dropped, to the best of our
knowledge and belief. We fear some
advertise nents don't tell the truth
The Judde.
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After all the arguments about cneapness and
quality it appears that DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
is the best remedy for the cure of Coughs and
Colds ever offered to the public. Tho price ie
only rs cents q bottle and every druggist in the
land sails and recommends It
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About 10000 people in the city OF
Buffalo d rive their support from the
railroad companies. The amount ex-
pended there by the different roads
in wages will foot up over $4,000, 600
annually, During the past year over
$1,000. 600 have been expended in that
vicinity for improvements.
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Bruised and burned in the Spuyten
Duyvil IN. Y 6isaster-his arm con-
sumed to the elbow and the throes OF
death upon him-Oliver B. Keely
thought of his wife and sent her a mes
sage of love-"Write to my wife and
give her my love'-a last, precious
message to a str cken heart. That man
died O hero,
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TEGET1SE.-"The life of all flesh is the blood
thereof" And TO one can possibly be healthy
when the blood is diseased. VEaETINE is COM
posed of substances identical with healthy
blood, and when taken into the system for the
cure of disease it is absorbed, and replaces the
deficiency which caused the disease,
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A stone bridge to DO built over the
Mississippi at Minneapolis, MINI, bids
fair to become one of the most notable
structures of the world. 1t will con.
sist of sixteen eighty-foot spans and
four 1OO-foot spans, and, including the
shore pieces, will have a total length OF
1000 feet. 1t will support two railway
tracks at q height of over sixty feet
above the water, and will run diagonal
" across the river below St. Anthony's
falls. The cost IS estimated at nearly
$500, 600.
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In 1881 the wandering bands called
gypsies we're so numerous III England
that an act was passed to Danish them
from the realm on pain of imprisonment
and confiscation of property.
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On Thirty Days Trial.

The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, will
send their Electro oltaic Belts and other Elec.
trio Appliances OH trial for thirty days to any
person afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost
Vitality, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing
complete restoration Of vigor and manhood.
Address as above without delay.
P. S.-No risk IS incurred, as 80 days trial Il
onouol
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FACTS AND COMMENTS.

The New York Hour calls attention
to the fact that greater care is taken OF
young fish than Of childrenin that city
For while more than half the children
die before the age of five, the fish COM
missioners say that only about two pc,
cent. of tie sp avn of shad or salmon
are DESTROYED.
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PURE coD-LIvER OIL, from selected lvers, on
the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., N. Y.
Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have
once taken 1t prefer 1t to all others. Physicians
doo1ora ~ ouparior n oil otbnr oi1a
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Let it be understoI once for all that CARDo-
LINE o deodorized extract of petroleum, will
positl yely restore hair to bald heads, and there
is no other preparation under the face OF the
s11n that can accomplish this work. .
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It may be right occasionally TO take a
bull by the horns, but it is always we'll
10 keep in mind that the horns belong
10 the bull,
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vegetine,

Says q Boston physician, "has no equal ~ q blood
purifier. Hearing of its many wonderful cures after
all other remedies had failed, l visited tn" I.ahora-
tory, and convinced myself OF its genuine merit. 1t
which Is highly effective, and they are compounded
IN such q manner as to produce astonishing results