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CANNIBALIsM IN FIJI.

1t was only people who had been
killed that were considered good for
food. Those who died a natural death
were never eaten-invariably buried.
But it certainly is a wonder that the
isles were not altogether depopulated,
owing to the number who were killed.
Thus, in Namena, in the year 1851, fifty
bodies were cooked for one feast. And
wien the men of Bau were at war with
Verata they carried off 26O bodies, sew
enteen of which were piled OH canoe
and sent to Rewa, where they were
received with wild JOY, dragged about
the town and subjected to every species
OF indignity ere they finally reached the
ovens. Then, too, just think of the
number of lives sacrificed in a country
where infanticide was recognized insti-
tuition, and where widows were strangled
as a matter of course Why, on one
occasion, when there had been a horri-
BILE massacre of Namena people at Viva,
and upward of 100 fisherman had been
murdered and their bodies carried as
bokola to the ovens at Bau, no less than
eighty women were strangled to do
honor to the dead, and corpses lay in
every direction of the mission station
It is just thirty years since the Rev.
John Watsford, writing from here, de-
scribed how twenty-eight victims had
been seized one day while fishing. They
were brought here alive, and only
stunned when put into the ovens. Some
of the miserable creatures attempted to
escape from the scorching bed of red-hot
stones, but only to be driven back and
buried in that living tomb, whence they
were taken few hours later to feast
their barbarous captors. He adds that
more human beings were eaten on this
little isle of Bau than anywhere else in
Fiji. It is very hard, indeed, to realize
that the peaceful village on which am
now looking has really been the scene of
such horrors as these, and that many of
the gentle, kindly people around me
have actually taken part in them.-At
Home in Cumming.
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Where the Tax Falls.

The Farmers Journal directs attention
to significant fact, that seems to have
quite escaped public attention, in con-
nection with the tax on distilled spirits,
viz. that whisky which is used as q bey-
erage, and is at best but luxury, pays
but about one half the tax per gallon
that is paid by alcohol, which enters into
the arts and manufactures and is
chemical agent of inestimable value.
The explanation is that whisky is only
about one half the strength or proof of
alcohol.
Many seem to think that high tax
tends to lessen the use of spirits as a
beverage. This view, however, does
not seem to be sustained by the facts or
the statistics of the Revenue Department.
Before the tax was put upon spirits fully
SO per cent. Of all that was made was
used in the arts and in manufacturing.
Now nearly all that is made appears to
be consumed as a beverage. Before tho
days of the tax alcohol was extensively
used in preparing dyes for calico, car
pets, etc. 1t was also largely used by
furniture manufacturers, varnish makers,
hatters, druggists and in many other in
dustries Now wherever it is possible
substitutes are employed, such as wood
spirits and fusel oil. which have an OBJ
jectionable odor and are rank poisons.
1t is estimated by those most compe-
tent to judge that If the tax should be
reduced to 80 cents per gallon that at
least 16, 200, 900 gallons of alcohol would
be used in the above industries. This
would create market for over 4.000,-
600 bushels of grain. while it is further
claimed that the Government would
suffer no loss Of revenue.
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GLOVES.

Society insists that long, loose gloves
shall be de rigear. The fat woman gets
into them, and has the satisfaction of
affording infinite amusement to those
who are not entirely lost to o sense of
humor. Her arms look like twin
Bologna sausages. The women with
beautiful arms spoils one of the rarest
of charms. The woman with thin, ugly
arms alone covers herself with more or
less glory. As matter of fact no two
beings are fashioned alike; many are
fearfully and wonderfully made, and
hands and arms are as distinctive as
eyes and mouth. There are women
whose arms cannot well bear more than
x-buttoned gloves even in ball dress.
Why should they injure their appear
ance by initiating an actress who would
be the first to rail at such folly ? !; Have
they not taste enough to judge ofeffect I?
Admitting taste, do they not possess
sufficient strength of mind to have the
courage Of convictions? The wearing
of gloves, be they four, or six, or twenty
buttoned, is scarcely q subject upon
which to wax eloquent yet'this same
apparently trivial detail involves prin-
ciple-the principle of individuality, of
independence Of thought, ofpropriety in
adofnment. THERE'S no such thing as
senseless beauty. There ID always a
reason why beauty is beauty, however
ignorant the many-headed may be OF
the cause Of objective pleasure er-Rate
Field.
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DxSTRIBUZIOy OF FORCE AND THE
USE SHOWMEN MAKE OF 1T.


USE SHOWMEN MAKE OF III.
1t is not generally known that force is
never instantaneously communicated,
and that a succession of i'm
pulses are required to communicate
motion. In like manner, no force can
be instantaneously arrested, and grad
ual resistance to motion is necessary to
make it disappear. Examples showing
the gradual nature of the retardation of
force are numerous. 1t is by the gradual
or continued resistance of the air that
the motion of cannon-ball is destroyed.
Now if, instead of this gradual resist
ance, any hard substance, as block of
granite, were opposed to the progress of
the ball, it would be at once broken
asunder. We see, then, the reason that
a hard substance of moderate thickness
does not offer SO effectual resistance to
q body moving very rapidly as some SUBJ
stance of more yielding kind and of
greater bulk. For example, bale of
cotton will arrest bali which would pass
through plank, for the cotton, yielding
easily, permits the force of the ball to
be felt and resisted by larger bulk,
while the wood, not yielding, opposes
but small portion of its whole bulk to
the force of the ball, and, therefore, does
not arrest it /; in other words, the mo-
mentum of the ball is communicated to
a much larger quantity of matter in the
cotton than in the wood. These prin-
ciples afford ready explanation of a
feat which is sometimes performed. A
man lies upon his back, and, having an
anvil carefully placed upon his chest, al
lows some one to strike heavy blow
with hammer upon the anvil, and no
injury is received. Why? Because the
momentum, or force, of tine hammer is
diffused throughout the bulk of the
anvil, and then again throughout the
bulk of the yielding chest. The man
takes good care to have his lungs well
filed with air at the moment of the
blow, for this increases the bulk and
elasticity of the chest, and thus pro-
notes the diffusion of the momentum.
If the blow of the hammer were received
directly upon the chest, terrible injury
would be done, for the force would be
spent upon one small spot alone. The
principles above elucidated are applied
by men instinctively in their common
labors and efforts. Watch a man catch
ing brick that are tossed to him. As he
receives the bricks in his hands he lets
his hands and the bricks move together
little way, SO that he may gradually
arrest the motion of the bricks. To do it
suddenly would give him painful les
son on momentum. So, when a man
jumps from a height he does not come
to the ground in a straight position.
This would cause q sudden and there
fore painful arrest Of the motion of the
whole body. To avoid this he comes to
his feet with all the great joints of his
body bent, so that the different portions
approach the ground successively, his
head having its motion arrested last.
At New Orleans during the war of
1872 the effect of the balls from the
English guns was effectually neutralized
by bales of cotton, were even stone
would have been unavailable.
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THE MARKETS.

;, CINCINNATI.--Flou Fancy, s6 s597 90; fam
ily, IS 65@5 go. Rye -four, 81 25@4 So Grain
Corn~No white sse No. mixed, % &c. on n trace z
Oats-No. 2 white 51954Kc; No. mixed, SIC.
si7 5osis co. o. Psovis1oSs-Mess PHs os pork 81 s.
Lard, Hsoc Bacon. 12s4c. Sugar cured hams,
l4@l5e, Tallow AN saSsAe: Wool,Dealers Dealer buy
dium at 24@25c.; washed fleece fine at s3 S5c..
medium at 81 4Oc tub washed, coarse at 2s@3Oc,
choice at s5 a SC, pulled, at 2s a2sc BURY and
AND Observation-Disclosures good to prime,
s. Oo@7 90 per standi blsekbeIries, s. oo@s 20
Southern ss ooa4 % per barrel Peaches, caches s. 90
@3 90 per bushel in crates Potatoes-New Peer
bsgs 90 Ea5 @ q RGse 70
crates. Watermelons, s25 OO@S5 90 per 100.
NEW YoRK,.Flour.Commo to good extra
Western and State, "a 65@5 CO. Wheat-No. 2
No. r. red, 81 44Si Is. CornwNo. 2, S71sc. deiiv,
cred. Oats-Mixed Western, 54@62c. Mess pork,
$40 0o920 So Lard, prime steam, .s21ac.
CHICAGo.-Whea-N 2 Chicago spring,si 81 /;
$40 7os2o IS Lard, i1.421sc. whisky, 81 ID. =
III. ge good
S6ga1H sng ssf 'v rssd @sdRs miSans re"r, %a
ornN No 70 90; Mntsr, N patents e oo9s 20
Lard, choice leaf, is1Sc
INDIANAPOLIS Wheat - Weak at 81 Esq
5s11@541zc. ssf-0i',-- i34 = ilo'
Observation-Disclosures extra family,
S6 rs 90 90. Rye -four, - 25@4 so. Wheat-No
2 red, 81 4O13. Corn Sale mixed; s414c. Oats
No. 2 white, 6i5s@62c. Mess pork, s2l 00@2l rs.
Lard prime steam, 12c. Whisky,,tl II.
BALTIMORE Flour = Family, s5 s507 90.
Wheat-No. 2 winter red, 81 361a1l 81. Corn
Mixed, 7SI@S0c. Oats-Western white, 60@62c.
Mess pork, $50 1922 25 Sugar cured hams, i5K
@16c. ala a.. -,t....t.t -. -..-.-., q.f..,z 4; r.
LIVE STOCK.
CINCINNATI attic Common, 81 2593 So;
good to choice butchers grades, IS 0096 rs. Cows
and heifers IS 90 a6 co. Good to choice oxen IS 90
as 00; light yearlings and calves, $2 b00sS so.
Hoes Select butchers and heavy shippers, IS % q
u.s. fair to good packers, 81 506S 90; Stock hogs,
81 1901 25. Sheep, good TO choice, ~ 2505 90.
Lambs, common to fair, "a 1895 so, and good to
choice, t5 1895 25. ~ Ai1i ts 4 = i5t'
EAST LIBERTY, Pa Cattle, So 10; common
to medium butchering, s6 00a7 90. Hogs-Phila-
delphias, IS 259S so; cornfed Workers, " SOC
7 10. Spring lambs, 4lS661ac. ~" '.s'f'"
| CHICAGO.-Cattle--G Good so choice shipping,
81 400S7 30; common to fair, IS 1907 co. Hogs
Mixed, 81 509S 90; heavy, IS 00as 80; light,
81 35g8 90. Sheep-Medium to good shorn, 81 rs
y5 90. u4IH..la.. $3.50 .tITHls5tE fF
NEW YORK.-Dressed beef, 1lal4e for native
steers; for Texas, 7@l0c. Hogs-Firm ut ~ 4oa
40 for common to choice live. Sheep, S4 500
90. Lambs, 50 75@s s71a Dressed mutton,
s@l0e.
INDIANAPOLIS Cattle Shipping, IS 75@s 25
butchers, ~ 80 a6 90. Hogs Common light and
bseons, " s5Ws ~; heavy packing u 9o0s 70.
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THE NEWER ARITHMETIC.

A bank has $7S, ,420 in its vaults. The
cashier gets away with $50, 382, and the
bank settles with him for two-thirds.
How much is the bank ahead, and what
will the poor cashier do if next winter
happens to be hard one?
A house-painter consumes forty-eight
minutes in lighting his pipe; fifty-fve
minutes in telling stories twenty min
utes in watching kitchen-girl thirty
six minutes in binding up sore finger,
and quits work nine minutes to 6. How
much time did he beat his employer out
of, and how long will it take him to
work himself to death?
A boy who is sent on an errand stops
to watch three dogs, plays marbles with
four boys, climbs two shade trees, takes
a short ride on a velocipede, makes
up faces at three girls, and sits on a
lumber pile for fifteen minutes to help
another boylearn to smoke. What did he
get when he got home, and how long
did it take him to make his mother be-
ieve that he had come in two minutes
ahead of chain-ightning.
A certain grocer, whose scales only
weigh fifteen ounces to the pound,
sells 800 pounds of various goods
every twelve hours. Find what he
gains weekly, and after you have figured
it up do your trading with some other
house.
A lady desires to divide six sunfowers
among five girls so that each girl can
wear one to the party. How can she do
it without cutting one of the girls in
two?
At one of Eli Perkins lectures in Ohio
in hall seating 82O people one-thirtieth
of the seats were jammed full of enthu-
siastic admirers. Find the number Of
seats which didn't admire worth cent !;
also explain how far Eli travelled by Foot
4 Walkers line next day.
A dog starts out to overtake a cat.
She has seventy feet the start and knows
that he means business. At the end of
every rod she slips back two inches and
he gains four inches. How far must he
leg it to overtake her and hush her
yeowls forever?
Three sticks of stove-wood weighing
five and half pounds bend a boys
back four inches out of plumb. How
many additional sticks will it take to
make his chin touch his knees
A woman calls at thirteen different
dry-goods stores, walks a distance Of
three miles, enters three millinery shops,
halts before seven show windows, calls
upon two jewellers, and takes the car for
home, calculating to freeze the human
hyena who doesn't vacate his seat fo,
her the instant she gets her nose inside
the door. Find how many -? Come
to think of it, you've found it all when
she drops down without thank you. u
Free Press.
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THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED FOLKS


"What 1 am longing arter," said
Brother Gardner of the Lime-Kiln
Club, "what am longin' arter am
sight Of a good, old-fashioned man or
woman-sich as we could find in ebery
house thirty Vars ago, but sich as can
not be found now in a weeks hunt. 1t
makes me lonesome when realize dat
our old-fashioned men an wimin am no
mo. In de days gone by if I fell sick
one woman would run in wild catnip, an
oder wild horseradish leaves, anoder
wild bowl O. cruel, an tears would be
shed, an kind words spoken, an one
couldn't stay sick to save him. In dose
good ole days de kaliker dress an white
apron abounded. An honest woman
wasn't afeard to wash her face on account
OF de powder. Ebery woman wore her
own ha'r, an she wore it to please her
self instead of fashion. Thick shoes
kept de feet dry, thick clothes kept de
body warm, an dar was no winkin' and
wobblin' an talkin' frew de teef.
"Dar' was goodness in de land in dem
good ole days. OAR was prayin' to God,
an de hearts meant it. De woman who
wore No. 6 shoe was as good as de
woman wild a foot all pinched out of
shape and kivered wild cons. You didn't
h'ar much bout breach-o promise cases
and other deviltry. De man who parts
his ha'r in de middle an b'lieves he
mashes his victims by de score wasn't
bon den. People didn't let deir nayburs
die under deir noses widout eben KNOWN
dat sickness had come to de family.
Men worked hard an put in full time,
an women foun' sunthin' to do beside
gaddin' de streets to show off a small
foot or new bonnet.
"De world calls it progress. We
must shet our hearts against our naybur,
sacrifice all fur fashion, conceal our
limps and pains, appear what we am not,
an when we 60 to de grave fur rest we
am forgotten in week. Whar' one
woman looks to heaben dozen looks to
fashion. Whar' one man helps de poo
from kindness of heart dozen chip in
because de list of names will be pub
lshed in de paper. When sot down
of an evenin' and fink desc fings ober it
makes me sad. I doan' know jist how
wicked Sodom was, nor what deviltry
dey was up to in Gomorrah, but if either
town had mo- vanity, wickedness, friv-
olity an deceit dan Detroit, Chicago,
Buffalo or any odder city in dis kentry,
rents mus have bin awful high DE
| troit Free Press.
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YITAL STATISTICS.

It has been calculated by recent
writer that of ten children born in Nor
way little over seven reach their twen-
tieth year; that in England and the
United States Of America somewhat less
than seven reach that stage; that in
France only five reach it, and in Ireland
less than five. He tells us that in Nor
way, out of 10000 born, rather more
than one out of three reaches the age of
10 in England one out Of four; in the
United States, If both sexes be com
puted, less than one out of four in
France less than one out of eight, and
In Ireland less than one out of eleven
London Sanitary Record,
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an IGN OIcANI' OLD DU1CHMAN.

Demosthenes Blowhard was a can
didate for Justice of the Peace down in
Scrub Oak township, and, as the political
parties are nearly evenly divided in that
precinct, he was engaged in v1g-
orous canvass. While returning from
the village postofice, he met Hans
Van Hoofinger, and accosted him
with:
"Hello, Hans How are you and
how's the folks ?"
"Vell, I vas veil, und mine frau vas
veil, und leetle Hans and Yawcob, und
Katrina und der paby vas vell-we vas
all breddy veil, I tanks you"
"Ah! glad to hear it-glad to hear
it," said Demosthenes, rubbing his
hands delightedly. "Ahem 1 suppose
you know that I shall be candidate for
the Office of Justice of the Peace at the
ensuing election?"
"Ish dot SOP"
Yes, they would insist upon my ac-
cepting the nomination; did all could
to induce them to nominate somebody
else, but it was no use; seems as though
I was the only one they wanted, and
they were bound to have me-" ..
d"And SO you did not wants der Office
and dey will makes you took it? Dot
vas too pad" e.
"Well, you know good citizen is
always willing to sacrifice his own in
terests to some extent, where he feels
that the public good requires him to
do so. And now, since I am in for it,
I suppose I may depend upon your
support?" ,-
"Vhen feller does not want some
dings, it vas not right to make him takes
it. does vat I can foy you-I votes for
de odder chap all der dimes, und talks
NIT der poys und tells dem what you said,
and dinks mebbe I gets you peat.
Good evening"" a:s... sto d.
Demosthenes now alludes to bans as
a poor, ignorant old Dutchman, and
says it is thousand pities that such
ignorant people should ever be per-
mitted to exercise the right of suffrage.
Toledo Blade.
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RULLS AND BEAHS.

The etymology of the term shear" is
believed to be this When u dealer in
stocks. or for that matter in merchan-
disc, had sold more than he was capable
of delivering he was naturally bare Of
the article, and it was naturally his in
terest that prices should fall in order
that he should cover hls engagements
and be no longer bare. From the ad-
iective, the transition to the substantive
of the same sound (bear) was easy. The
growing bear being thus embodied, his
antitype, the bull, was not long making
an appearance. It is somewhat curious
to find in the popular mind a diffused
notion that bulls are the more virtuous
creatures. This is sometimes fallacy.
The bull is usually specLlator who
proposes to gain merely by market fuc-
tuation, and to fish in troubled waters.
The real investor, for instance, is often
bear in spirit because he awaits an op-
portunity to buy cheaply. The cotton
manufacturer who contracts to sell cloth
is in spirit bear of yarn and other ma
terials, which he requires to buy cheap
ly-that is, unless he has already bought
too much of such materials, in which
case he has over-traded. Some amount
of speculation is no doubt good, whole
some and necessary in business. It is
only when the one party is much over
powered by the opposing party that
mischief results. NeaUs.
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SAYS a social critic "Women are all
more or less born actresses the first
word with most of them is, How will
it look p They know that their pretty
pretense of freside needlework looks
very we'll to their admiring friends and
even to their husbands. They know
that its meaning is understood and ac-
cepted."
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Sadly Am icfed.

"My boy was badly afflicted with
rheumatism" said Mr.. Barton, of the
great stove firm of Redway & Barton,
of this city, to one of our reporters.
".We doctored him a great deal, but
CO u}d find no cure I had heard so much
of the efficacy of st. Jacobs Oil that I
finally determined to try it. Two
bottles of the Oil fully cured him. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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TINDER AND SPARK.

"Oh, yes," says Fogg, "John and
Matilda sit side by side on the sofa,
thinking of nothing but their own sweet
selves, and you say it is a splendid
match. Well, supposing it is. what
then? They are gentle enough now, but
wait till that splendid match suffers a
little friction and you will see fire in
stanter. ."-B0st0n transcript.
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A MAN who camped out two weeks
and ate haf-cooked meat, smoke favored
and sooty fish, stale bread and coffee as
unpalatable as an "ague cure" COM
menced to grumble at his wife's cook
ing as soon as he got homo and sat down
to the supper table. Perhaps he didn't
bring his appetite with him.
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A New HAMPSHIRE photographer has
grouped representatives of five genera
tions on one card. Mrs. Weston, of
Peterboro, aged 104, and her son, Sc;
her granddaughter. So; her great-grand-
daughter, 80, and her great-great-grand-
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THE local editor of the Springfield,
Mass Republican, Mr.. J. II. Mabbitt.
says: "We have used St. Jacobs Oi,
in our family for rheumatism, and found
it to be first-class thing. Boston
HernZG
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If YOUR lungs are almost wasted by con-
sumption DIR. Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis
covery" will not cure you, yet as remedy for
severe coughs, and all durable bronchial, throat
and lung affections, it is unsurpassed. Send
two stamps for DIR. Pierces large pamphlet
treatise on Consumption and Kindred Affec-
tions. Address, WoRLDs DIsPENsARY MEDICAL
Association. Buffalo. N y.
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Woman and Her Dis ases.
is the title of large illustrated treatise, by
DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, sent to any
address for three stamps. 1t teaches successful
self treatment
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"rhrew Away Her Supporter" "

DR. P1ERcE:-A neighbor of ours was suffer-
ing with female Weakness" which the doc
tors told her could not be cured without a
supporter. After considerable persuasion my
wife induced her to try your "Favorite Pre-
scriptiou." After using one bottle she threw
away the supporter and did large washing,
which she had not done in two years before.
JAMES MILLER,
4246 Jacob Street, Wheeling, w. Va.
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Sufferers from weakness,
lassitude, thin blood, sallow
complexion, malaria, ner-
vousness, loss of tone in the
muscles or digestive organs,
stiff joints, pain in the back,
or kidney diseases, torpid or
inactive liver, will find
Browns IRON BITTERs a
reliable and efectual cure
for same. Sold at SI.oo a
bottle byall dealers in med-
cine.
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"WHAT a change" exclaims the nov
elist Roe, "one little woman can make in
a mans lifei" Exactly; and what heap
of "change" she requires while doing it.
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AN American author was heard rum
ming down his own country so bitterly
the other day, and lauding England and
its people and institutions SO highly,
that it is thought he spent two weeks in
London and was brushed against by
Prince or Duke.-No7ristoaO Herald.
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USE Kidney-Wort and rejoice in health. One
package makes six quarts Of medicine.