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Frauds in Drugs.

The Philadelphia Medical Ne,cs has discovered
pretty good argument against buying quinine
pills. 1t finds by expert analysis that only two
OF our seven prominent manufacturers give an
honest weight of suphate Of quinine in their
'two-grain' pills. Those made by one firm con-
tain 2.10 grains, and next to these are III con-
tanning 199 grains. The others run down so
low as 1.61 grains and the price varies from
s2.75, the highest. to S1.7O, the lowest, per
hundred. This discovery Of what may be care
lessness, but is more likely to be fraud takes on
a considerable importance when IT Is considered
that quinine Is one OF the most widely used and
expensive of drugs. The poorest Of these pills
Containing 1.6l grains) Is sold for the highest
price, $275, and IN the other cases the cost
bears no Just relation to the real amount OF
quinine present. So large proportion of the
remedies now in common use are put up In the
form of pills and granules that it might be well
to carry this inquiry as to weights and measures
farther. 1t Is OF some concern to the doctor
and certainly Of considerable Importance to the
patient.-Sprimgied Republican,
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Lost on the Ocean.

from the Chicago Herald.
Rear Admiral George II. PrebIe, Of the United
States navy. in the current number Of the
United Service Magazine. gives some interest
ing facts concerning the loss of life and prom
erry in Atlantic passenger steamships The
writer covers period of forty years. from 1888
to 1879. The whole number of vessels lost in
these forty years was LA, or an average of be-
tween three and four vessels q year. resume
OF the most Important wrecks. I'm which large
Numbers of lives were lost. gives the City Of
Glasgow, in 1854. with $50 lives; the Arctic.
with 562 lives: the Pacific, lie Lyonnais and the
Austria with 200, 260 and 533 respectively; the
Hungarian, Of the Allan line, from Liver
pool to Boston, in 1860. with 205 lives; the
Canadian, also of the Allan line, 1861. with
30 lives; the Anglo-Saxon, OF the same line in
1853, with 23S1 lives; the Cambria of the Anchor
Line, wrecked in 1870, losing 1876 lives: the
Eeanderia, OF the Morgan Line. which disap-
peared in 1872, with As souls: the Atlantic. of
1.-The White Star Line. which was wrecked in
1878, and $40 lives lost; the Vile du Hayre i'm
the same year. with $50 lives; the Schiller of
the Eagle Line, wrecked i'm 1875, losing 200
lives; the Deutschland: of the North German
LIoyds. In 1875. with Isl lives. and the P0me-
Tana of the Hamburg-American Packet Com
pany. in 1878, with fifty lives. Nineteen vessels
In the forty years have lost every soul on board.
These were the President. in 1871; Her Majesty.
1854: the Tempest. 1857, the Rechid 1861: the
United Kingdom. 1869; the City Of Boston, 1870:
the Commander. 1872: the Mary Church. 1872:
the shannon 1872; the Charruca, 1872; the
Devon. 1872: the Ismalia. 1873; the Anna 1874:
the Colombo 1876; the Mexican, 1877; the
Copia, 1875 the Hermann Ludwig, 1873; the
Homer 1878. and the Zanzibar, 1879.
1t Is generally believed that the Cunard Line
has never lost ship nor the life of passenger
This report shows that that line has lost two
vesseIs-the Columbia. In 1S43. and the Tripoli
IN 1872. In the first accident one life was lost:
none i'm the second. The Inman's loss Is given
ut vessels: the Williams Il Guion. 9; the Mon
trsal, (Allan I.ine) !; the Anchor Line 8; North
German Lloyds. 4; Compagnie Generate Tran
sstlantique. 5; White STAR !; Wilson, 1; Ham
burg- American Packet Company, 1; Antwerp
Line. 1: and State Line, 1. More than half the
vessels lost are said to have been wrecked close
TO the shore. Twenty-fOur are reported miss
ing; 10 were burned at sea; s were sunk by
collisions and stress of weather. 1t is probable
that the "a reported missing were sunk BY ice.
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All About a BeaIews

To show the house Of commons how business
Is done In the British army, and how cor.
respondence Is multiplied by the red-tapists,
Capt Vivian recently recited the following curl
GUS history Of an application for bellows and
the course 1T had to run through various chan
nels for nearly six weeks:
after long correspondence the local COM
mssariat officer at the Curragh camp on the 18th
February obtained authority from the war de-
partment to indent on the royal engineer de-
Tor pair OF bellows. urgently required
In the camp. and applied for them to the district
engineer officer. On the 10th the district engi-
neer officer applied to the military store officer
at Dublin; on the 18th the military store officer
at Dublin informed the royal engineer Off
Ger at Dublin that he could supply the
required bellows on reqnisition On the
10th the royal engineer officer at Dublin
forwarded this Information to the royal engineer
or officer at the Curragh; and on the 21st the
local engineer officer at the Curra9h repi; ed
that he had no form of requisition. On the 22d
the local engineer officer at the Corragh asked
the local commissarat officer if the proposed
bellows would do. On the Esd the local com
missariat officer replied Yes On the 24th the
local engineer officer informed the local commits
sariat officer that he must apply to the royal
engineer officer. Dublin. and accordingly the
local commissariat officer applied to Dublin
The military store officer at Dublin answered
that he would supply the bellows on an order
fromthe war office. The local c0mlnissarat officer
then produced an authority from the war office
and read it to the local engineer officer. On the
LIST of March the district royal engineer officer
declined to have anything to do with a
service which was not brought to his notice
through the proper authorities and the
local cOmmlssaliat officer referred the ques-
ton OF the cOmmisSarat officer in Dublin. On
March I'd, the cOmmissaliat officer in Dul lin re-
ierred the question to tie deputy quartermasteI
general. Dublin; and the next day the deputy
quartermaster general at Dublin referred the re-
QUESTION to the quarteTHaster general Horse
Guards. On the 5th the Horse Guards referred
to the War Office and the War Office referred
to the commanding general-in-ciiief. London
On the 18th the commanding Generai-in-chiel
asked the director of stores to give authority
which two days after was produced The direc-
TOR OF stores then stated that tie coninssaliat
officer should include the bellows in the annual
estimate, and on the 11tn tie commanding gen
erai-in-chief wrote to the Horse Guards and the
comlnissariat officer. Dublin. Alter all this cor
respondence. on Marcia Goth. the cOinmissariat
officer at the CuIragh was still believing for his
bellows. il such large amount Of corresDon-
dehce was necessary In purchasing pair of bel
lows. he asked again. what would be the issues
In q case of emergency 90
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The Lumber Region On the Russian
Rfv~r.

River.
The mouth Of the river, when we had cone
near enough to have o good view of It from
headiand, made q very noble picture. The
green hills on the south slope gradually to a
well-turfed base. hiding the beach. but showing
long sand-spit running out alncS. ecrcss The
very entrance of the ifrrle bay, behind which
I-v calm shadows. The northcrn headand,
on the other hand. stands in bold cutlne-a
point of sheer cliff jutting between the ocean
and the river. Yet the charge of those
waves rolling from the spicy archipelagoes of
the great South Sea. or from the bleak coasts of
Tartary, is met, not by this mole. but by an
outer row OF giganticisoiatedr rocks. overlapping
the tide as the stones of Carnac rear their heads
above the level plain. and the imagination can
easily believe some giant Of old. more powerful
than the Druids, TO have planted them there as
breakwater guarding the harbor. Around their
base curis the angry foam of swift-charging.
impotent breakers. and they glory i'm the snowy
clouds of spray that envelop their flanks. for
thus the rage of the mightiest of oceans il
proved Intellectual. aud the tanned waves sink
behind them into sullcn peace upon the weedy
shore.
where we cast our lot these pleasant June days.
and watched the cutting of the big trees
Tradition says that credit for the very first at
tempt to make lumber with saw i'm this region
tior Tue RUSSIANS heWed all their beams and
pianks) belongs to John Dawson. of Bodega
Dawson was one of three sailors who abandoned
their ship at San Francisco as early as 1890 pre-
fefring the free and easy life of the Californians
In two or three years they became citizens
under the Mexican government and took up
granted ranches hereaway. Dawson marrying
the daughter of Spanish dragoon officer. She
was only fourteen when she went to live as mis-
tress of the Canada de Po-otolne and only
seventeen when she found herself the richest
widow in northern California. Dawson's lum-
Der was cut over pits 10y means OF rip-saw.
which he handled without help. Not half z
century later steam mills i'm this district are
turning out two hundred thousand feet of lum-
Ter daily.-E'mest Ingersou, in Ha'per's Maya
zine
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Grand illGslscr's Sermon.

The supper Is Ger, the hearth Is swept,
And in the wood fires glow
The children cluster 70 hear tale
vi thaJ time so long ago,
When grandma's hair was golden brown.
ana the warm blood came an,; welt
yer the Lace that cOulI scarce have been SWeote
Than now In its rich content
The face IS wrinkle and careworn now,
And the golden hair is gray;
BIT the tight that shona in the young girls eyes
Never has gone away.
And her needles catch the freight
AS IN and out they go,
With the clicking music tlat grandma loves
Shaping the stocking to-
And the waiting children love it. too,
For they know the stockinr song
Brings many a tale to CT indlna's mind
Which they shall nave ere long.
But it brings no story OF odcn time
To grandina'S heart tonight
only refrain. quaint and short,
Is Sung by the needles bright.
Life is stocking" grandma says,
"And yours has just begun,
But am Knitting the toe OF mine.
And my work is almost done
"With merry hearts we begin to work,
And the rubbing Is almost play;
Some are gray-colOrtd, ana some are white:
And some are aShen gray.
"But most are made Of many hues,
with many a stitch set wrong;
And many row to be rippn1
Ere the whole is fair and sronm.
There are long, plain spaces, without a break,
That in lie are hard to bear;
And many weary tear IS dropped
As we fashion the heel with care
"lut the saddest, happiest time Is that
We count ana yet would shun
When Our Heavenly Father breaks the thread
AND says that our work is done"
The children came to say goofnfght
With tears in their bright young eyes
While IN gran.iina's lap, with broken thread,
The finished stocking lies.
Saratoga sam
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AN ITALIAN PENITENTIARY WHERE STATE PRIs-
ONERS ARE CHAINED.
From the New York Hour.
Passanante is chained to the wall in the prison
OF Porto-Ferraio. No Jail is more dreaded by
the convicts than this of Elba: nowhere is the
chance of escape more hopeless He is chained
to the wall. and in the courtyard below him
| hears the prisoners at work, the hammer of the
carpenters. the bellows of the blacksmiths He
is chained to the WALL and just four years ago
he was waiting in the streets of Naples to see
King Humbert enter the town with his queen
and his prime minister beside him. Just four
years ago. wrapping strip of red cloth about
his knife. he leant upon the carriage, and Cal
| roll the minister turning his arm aside, re-
ceved wound in the side. On the red cotl,
was strip of paper, death to the king. Life
to the universal republic To-day Passanante
lies in POrtO-Ferrai0, crOuching on O mattress.
chained TO the wall.
Two wild beasts, barely human. are chained
| In cells beside him. One is CiprianO La Gala,
chief of the Calabrian brigands. Twenty years
nave gone since CiprlanO, driven from his noun
tains. took refuge in the Pontifca states; since
fleeing again. he hid on French vessel. and
was only surrendered by Napoleon III. on con-
ditiOn that his life should be spared. Neither
by night or day. during twenty years. has he
been released from the chain. and yet-nO war
| der knows hOw-he is king OF the prison. and
with signal commands the implicit obedience
of the conyicts. His nei@hbor is ROssirnol. a
Frenchman. ROssignOl lived at Turin. in q
house beside the Pc. He had a pretty sister
and night after night would send her to the
| theater or the opera. So pretty was she that
all the glasses would be turned on her and
when she had attracted the attention of some
man OF substance. she would answer his chances
discreetly would draw him slowly after her
from the theater. and would bring him to the
house beside the~PO. There Monsieur ROssig-
mol was waiting behind door. A blow on the
head would suffice for the man of substance
His body was dropped into the river. Fifteen
citizens of Turin thus came by their end.
Passanante, then. is in pleasant company
His chafp is four feet long: his cell is three
yards wide. By the dim light of the window he
reads his Bible. That is his sole occupation
When he came to the prison he asked for the
Bible: he has since done nothing but read and
mediate. When he sleeps broken words come
from his lips. God. Bible, brothers. people uni
yersai republic" He has no vices Though a
Neapolitan. he has neither gambied nor drank
! He scribbles his creed on sheets of paper 81
belong TO no sect" he writes. Il despise the
lnternatiOnale and all who call themselves COM
munists. My ideal is the universal republic. 1t
is announced in the Bible and it will
come )" Science has decided that he is not
mad. Common sense decides that he is no longer
dangerous.
Yet. while the other convicts ply hammer and
needle, he lies between CipranO, the brigand.
and ROssignOl. the assassin COUGHING on a mat
treSS, chained to the wall
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PrOvident SuiiOr and a Mormon
Romance.


From Lppincott's Magazine.
when the overland train reaches Ogden the
agitation of the female mind about visiting Salt
Lake City becomes evident. There are ALWAYS
some ladies going there for the benefit of their
health. and many more to crafty their curiosity.
Tor, strange as 1t may seem. the Mormon strong
hold is the great business, social and educa
tfOnal center between Omaha and San Fran
CISCO The conductor told us that there were
always ladies bound for Salt Lake, particularly
during the winter, when the climate is
salubrious; yet even in large party the men,
bers of the fair sex felt half-amused trepida-
datlon in preparing to inspect a society SO en-
tlrey at variance with their principles and
notions of prOpriety.
what, then was our surprise to meet on the
very day of our arrival a Philadelphia lady, a
niece of an eminent Presbyterian divine. who
had been residing in the capital of Mormondom
Tor nFe years. She was widow. whose extern
slve landed interests lay in Idaho, and who had
found fine educational advantages for her chill
dren and pleasant social circle for herself be-
meath the peerless blue sky and within the cir
cling snOW-capped mountains that bound Zion.
She lived In double house with long French
windows, surrounded by blooming garden
The furniture was elegant and convenient.
Church privileges were ample, and she had some
friends among the MormOns. Her bete ,oi,e
was her landlord, whose particular offense was
his too great desire to make improvements and
repairs upon her residence. His manners were
very mild and pleasant; but he at last justified
her antipathy by sending his first wife to ask
her to be his fourth spouse To free herself
from association with him after this she bought
the house. when he cOolly told her that what
she regarded as audacity had been prospered by
the Lord, and enabled him to sell at a profit.
The romance of Salt Lake City is the story of
Libbie Young, and visitors are sure to hear it as
an illustration Of how love rules the world.
Libbie Young resided in Philadelphia One of
her relatives was the second wife of Brigham
Young, jr. and while visiting her husband fell
In love with Libbie, and Lbbie became infatua-
ted with him. She refused to marry him. how.
ever, unless he discarded his wives-an arrange
ment which, strange to say, was agreed TO-.
Brigham. jr, then made settlement on each of
them: and he and Libble were married. They
lived happily until the death Of old Brigham in
duced his son to look to the succession to the
presidency, when, to strengthen his influence
with the church. he took to himself two new
wives. On this Libbie left him. and ever since
both OF them have broken hearts, She still
maintains intimate relations with his former
wives and frequently visits Them and when she
goes to Salt Lake, Brigham hOvers around her
residence to get glimpse of her. but she will
not see him. And yet everybody says she loves
him and he still loves her, though ambition
proves the stronger passion.
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Sometimes, by fiattery, she's 1;
Sometimes she is 2, TOO;
Shes often Bling, and, my son,
sometimes She goes you.
Sometimes she Is 5-aciOus quite;
Sometimes, alas, she's s.;
sometimes she's TO our sight
And doth our souls lransfiX.
Sometimes by cannibals she's s.;
She often Is be g.;
Sometimes she Is 10-der mate
In the domestic line.
Sometimes she just amounts too
And cannot make a pie,
And then IL Is that we are taught
That female figures lie.
II. c. DODGE.
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The Cllcrk.EHein.

When You compel @ horse to contract the
muscles just under the top of the collar i'm order
TO sustain TIL" head foot more or less above
Its natural place, and then hold them thus con-
tracted, the strain on these muscles soon pro-
duces great harm. If you don't believe il,
watch the animal: look at his eyes and ears,
am sure you can't misunderstood that face See
him carry his head around on one side and
then away round on the other side. Now i'm a
moment you will see him throw his nose up in
| front as high as he can three or four times
That struggle for re- ief he continues all the day
long. When you take Oft the cheek he will
hang down his head low and show in his face a
sense of relief which am sure you cannot mis-
understand. The long strain wastes the muscles
and produces that ugly hollow which is now SO
common just under the collar.
The London Herself Book saws: THE check
rein is useless and painful encumberance in
Produced 10y vanity. and retained by thought
fessncss amounting to cruelty"
Prof PrtclaTd. of the ROYAL Veterinary coll
iege Q-ondon(, says: ITO SUM up in a word,
, the check rein lessons the horses StreRot h.
brings on disease. keeps him in pain. frets and
Injuries his mouth and spells his temper
Dr. Fleming, veterinary surgeon of the royal
engineers Q.ondon) says: Nothing can be more
absurd than the check rein. 1t is extremely
cruel. 1t is not only the head and neck that
suffer. but from his head TO his tall. from his
shoulder to his hoof. he suffers more or less
The eminent John Adam Mcbride professor
of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in the Royai
Agricultural College, eXclaims: Could these
speeches. sufferers answer the inquiries-Why
do you continually toss your heads while stand
Ing in the harness: Why do you stretch open
your mouths. shake your heads. and gnash
Your teeth? Why do you turn your heads back
toward your sides:-thev would answer: "Ali
this is done to get relief from the agony we are
enduring by having our heads Kept erect and
our necks bent 10y tight brides and CALLING bits"
The author of that excellent aud allie work
" The Horse in Health and Disease" after discus
sing at length the mischief done by the check
rein. closes with these words: ITO sum up the
consequences of the gag-bearing remit in
ficts intense agony on the horse. impedes the
action of his muscles. and by making him frac-
tiOus and miserable. spells his temper"
1t would not be difficult to I'LL volume with
quotations from the ablest European and Amer
lean veterinary surgeons and authors, all show
ing that the check-ren is cruel and mischieyous
Not one word can be found in them in support
OF lt.-Dio Leocis an the CongregdGondiist
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The Secret OF Dead.headfsm.

The aeronaut who was about to make bal
loon ascension was waited upon BY an Ameri-
can eagle, who besought him of his charity to
give him trip pass to the Regions of Upper
Ether. "But," demonstrated the aeronaut.
why should you desire passage In my bal
loon, when by employing your own wings You
could rise to even greater heights?" ..Silly
fool" screamed the eagle in reply, -'can You
getting there as going there at your expenseS"
Moral-Base is the American Freeman that
pays.
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From the Philadelphia Press, 25th
In the Delaware county court. at Media. yes
terday, Judge Clayton granted a writ of habeas
corpus compelling Mrs. Henrietta Melville, wife
of Engineer Melville, of Arctic fame, to produce
her children-Elsie Maud and Meta Melville
In court on January s. This action is the result
OF Engineer Melville's efforts to obtain possess
sion of his children
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From the Pail Mall Gazette.
If there is a third great fire in London before
Christmas it is probable that Capt. Shaw will at
last be able to secure an adequate vote for the
establishment of an efficient fire brigade. At
present he is limited to the proceeds of rate
which must not exceed 1 halfpenny i'm the
pound. Consequently. instead of having 800
firemen, 66 steam and 264 manual engines, and
an annual budget of f120 900. which he con-
sidered indispensable 10 years ago for the pro-
lection of city 20 per cent. less than the
London of to-day. he has only 50 steam and 40
manual engines. 500 fremen, and an annual in
come of E100.000. With this force which is 50
per cent. below its proper strength, whether
judged by comparison with the brigades of other
cities or with the Chiefs estimate of what is
Indispensable. Capt. Shaw has to protect from
destruction 10y fire property covering province
of III square miles in extent and valued at
FL 200 100000. IL this is not penny wise-half-
penny wise. in fact-and pound foolish, it would
be difficult to say what is.
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CURE CURE FOR MALARIA.

Rure cure for Dyspepsia in al its stages: also foR
Coughs Colds Bronchitis, Asthma. and al dssasee Of s
Throat and Lungs and the only remedy that d benee
san or TOLU, ROCK CANDY. GAdNEsIA s9a
bang the pufes Rios and Rye Whiskies Hermeas and
very pleasant % take Tyft FWa ~ e dEueg5stl
and Rrucers at1 par quart hOo1e. H. trade eulYAo4
q liberal discount by Barbour Hamiltaa and ffank
Hume. Nholeeale 0rocerA end Sole AFenel for fhi1
Charleston. 6 O.. Eose Manufactures and pSupE3etogn
d9o.fR.fha