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Certainly lie Would.

The other evening, as muscular citi-
zen was passing house on Montcalm
street, q lady who stood at the gate
called out to him:
Sir! l appeal to you for protec-
tom"
"What's the troublcp" he asked, as
he stopped short.
"There's man in the house, and he
wouldn't go outdoors when ordered
him to!''
"He wouldn't, chi Wen see about
that"
Thercupon the man gave the woman
his coat to hold and sailed into the
house splitting on his hands. lie found
a man down at the supper-table, and he
took him by the neck and remarked:
"Nice style Of brute YOU are, eh (!
Come out o. this, or III break every
bone in your body!"
The man fought back, and it was not
until chair had been broken, and the
table upset that he was hauled outdoors
by the legs, and given n fling through
the gate. Then, as the muscular citi-
zen placed his boot where it would do
the most hurt, he remarked: snow,
then, you brass-faced old tramp, you
move on or I'll finish YOU"
"Tramp! tramp!" shouted the VIC
tim, as he got up, "I'm no tramp!
own this property and live in this
house,"
"You doP"
"Yes, and that's my wife holding
your coat"
"Thunder!" whispered the victim, as
he gazed from one to the other, and
realized that the wife had got square
through him; and then he made a grab
for his coat and sailed into the dark
ness with his shirt bosom torn open, a
finger badly bitten, and two front teeth
ready to drop cut. Detroit Free Press.
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u>.I for, AMI he rcglv WAS that "the
English nobility and E.i ionaireS greatly
e,t-rmcl i, when sci in rings. and few
of the crowned ia,iic- Of Europe had it
among their choicest icwelry. a breast
pins, earrings, e'c.'
Du ing the time Of the First Napole-
on. red Il deep red coral was the
style, and that color commanded the
highcs. price; but the English of late
Years, following the style IF the ex-
Empires, Eugenia, have taken to the
"eXtra rose" As it better suits the
blonde complexion of rs .bly'U>eS. Be-
side, it Is the rare,t of coral. In Spain,
on the contrary, the extra rose is at a
discount, rs the 6rulett,s TES~lync
want the deep red of the first empire to
set off their darker complexion.
In India, Persia, China and Japan the
dark red commands Il very high price,
being. in the two first countries, used to
adorn their turbanS, and the handles Of
their swords and poniards, and also as
ro>arics by their priests, and rs charms
placed on the bodies of the dead to drive
away evil spirits. In China it hasa great
value Is buttons of Office for mandarinj'
caps. In Japan coral is also used as q
badge of distinction.
Just here comes in o curious fact.
From Italy coral has hitherto been cx-
ported to Japan, but recently there has
come to Italy pink coral of good rose
color, purporting to be found III Japan
csc waters. 1t is Of immense size-one
piece is said to have measured fifteen
inches wide and five feet long. The
Challenger, in its dredgings off the
coasts of Japan, never found it, neither
did any of the staff ever hear of 1t from
the Japanese, and Prof. Mosley is in
clined to doubt if it comes from Japan.
Nevertheless, it has been brought to
Italy, and have seen specimens at Sig.
Casalta's as fine rs the best rose of Sar-
DINA. Letters have already been sent
to Japan concerning it, and hope some
day to find out its ''local habitation"
and write you thereon.-NaVlcs Cor.
Loulon Times.
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Let the Strawberries Alone.

That donkey, by his winter brows.
Ing of a vine which yields superior
grapes the next season, originated the
art of pruning, is an old story. I STUN
bled by some such accident upon a very
successful, simple way of growing straw
berries. An overcrowded bed had
yielded such poor returns of small, dry,
Inferior berries that hoed it up before
all the fruit was off, intending to let
some current bushes have all the benefit
of the soil. Later in the season few
plants were found to have escaped, and
they made such handsome start with
the fall rains that where there was plen-
ty OF room some were spared. The Sc
became very strong, and looked luxuri-
antly green and vigorous in the spring
and yielded splendid fruit. This cuf-
ture was so nearly no culture at all, but
q mere accidental permission to q few
plants to grow, that l have condensed
my practice into the mere dictum: "Let
them alone" l find that this fills the
bill of requirements as to culture if we
have given the soil for them to grow in
food that is not charged with weed
seeds, and water enough while swelling
their fruit. Winter shelter is useful, but
is afforded by their leaves if the autumn
growth has been as strong as 1t should
be, and it will be strong if they are
properly let alone. This consists in not
only letting them alone ones self by
avoiding bruising or trampling or CUT
ting of roots, but also letting the weeds
let them alone by keeping every vestige
Of weed away, and making them let
each other alone, too, by preventing
the beginning Of overcrowding. To
prevent the white grub from interfering
is not SO easy, but something can be
done to arrest his destroying work, too,
and thus ''let alone" all around they are
safe for productive prosperity.-Cor. y
z Tribune
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fU,,EIEN GOSSIP.


Venice AMI Amsterdam are tho
cities Of bridges. The first has 80, the
last 500. London has L.. Vienna -, and
Berlin will soon have -. Altogether
the most beautiful and striking bridge
in Europe is that over the Moldau at
Prague.
1t is found that the mind of Under
Secretary Burke'> sister, who lived with
him. has ,-iven way. She has not shed
q tear, and sits NJ the window, oxclaim-
ing n every football. "He is coming"
II i impossible to divert her thoughts
from him.
A man smashed every one of the
large plate glass windows of the London
office of the Dublin Fr.,men'S IHiWdl
some ninhts ago because, as he said,
they had no right to write about En-
glishmen.
( MIR. Diioud, who had previously
spent thirtv-iive years in prison, lately
set fire to Nalcnce Cat hehral, bat, the
fire being quickly discovered. only
=, 0oo of damage was done. He said
he was tired of prisons in France, and
wished to end his days in New Caledo-
nia-twenty wears penal servitudc.
They pulled down Il chimney at the
Royal Mint, in Berlin, the other day,
and it occurred to the architect that It
might be worth while to analyze the SCOT
still adhering to the inner bricks. The
result was that they found four pounds
! of pure gold, worth a thousand dollars.
The recent solar eclipse calls To
mind an incident of Francois Arago,
who gained among his simple country
ncighborS an almost uncanny reputa-
ton by his accurate prediction of a total
eclipse. Not long afterward he was q
candidate for election to the National
Assembly, and was elected by an al
most unanimous vote of his constituents
The wealth and government influence
of the rival candidate created no impress
sion upon the voters. "No, no." they
cried; "wc must vote for Arago, for, if
we don't, he may get mad and hurl an
other eclipse at u.s."
The newest fashion in Paris, that of
wearing black Undertaking, has be-
come the furor among the women of the
highest aristocracy. The undergar-
ments, like those of the Eastern Odal-
isques, are composed usually of silk,
generally of what is called foulard DIES
Indies. From head to foot the Partisan
lady appears, when Invested of the outer
robe, as just emerging from IN ink bath
the stockings of black silk, the slip
pers of black velvet, the corsetS of black
satin, and adorned with black lace, and
the petticoats of black surah, filled
around the bottom with stiff mousse
of black illusion or net.
Tho following clause was found in
the will of 4 Yorkshire rector: "Seeing
that my daughter Anne has not availed
herself of my advice touching the OBJ
jectionable practice Of going about with
her arms bare up to the elbows, my will
Is that, should she continue at my death
In this violation of the modesty of her
sex, oil the goods, chattels, money,
lands, and all other things that have
devised to her for the maintenance of
her future life shall pass to the eldest
son of my sister Caroline. Should any
one take exception to this as being too
severe, | answer that license in the dress
of 4 woman is mark of a depraved
mind"
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Valuable Coral.

The best coral is worth five times its
weight in gold. Mr.. Casalta informs
me that the finest pink coral (knOwn in
the trade as "extra rose') has often
commanded from 800 to 5000 per
ounce, and that he once paid for the
very finest piece of "extra rose" that he
ever saw, at the rate of 5000 francs
each ounce. e., in round numbers
1,20O per ounce. Now, as each ounce
of gold is worth about Sl6. We can see
that this unsurpassed piece of fine coral
was worth seventy-iive times its weight
in gold. But Mr.. Casalta added anoth-
er considerations. e., that in cutting
up and filing away, and washing this
fine coral, enough was lost to make its
price really more than one hundred
times that of gold. lie further informed
me that coral of this preciousness was,
when worked up into ornaments, really
valued by the carat, and was treated AS
. precious stone, and was set with pearls
and diamonds. l asked what such
highly -prized and high-pr;ced coral was
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The Sight of Fishes and Frogs.

At recent meeting of the Berlin
Physiological Society, Prof. Hirschberg
communicated the results of his dioptric
measurements of the eyes of fishes and
amphibia (pikes and frogs), as a further
contribution to the comparative diop-
tries OF the eye. According to his meas
urements, the cornea in the pike has q
large radius of curvature which exceeds
the length of the optic axis; conse-
quently, these animals are very myopic
in the air; when, however, the eye was
opthalmometrically examined under
water, the distance of distinct image
formation was much greater. The eve
in fishes (bOth those of the pike and
roach were examined) behaves quite
differently In air and in water. This
fact Ia contradiction of Herr Rateau's
statements, who also found the seeing
distance Of fishes almost the same in
both media. The eye of the frog also
behaves differently in water from what
it does in air; the radius of curvature
OF its cOrnea is much smaller in proper
ton to the length of the optic axis, and
its myopia in air is much less than in
fishes. 1t is remarkable that in the case
of the eyes of both the frog and the pike,
neither solution of atropine nor of
eserine produced any alteration in the
distance Of the formation of images: it
is hence probable that the accommoda-
ton of the eye, if 1t occur at all in these
animals, takes place by some other
mechanism than that which effects it in
in the higher vertebra.
The many collectors of postage
stamps may follow in the steps os
Benedictine monk, who has solved the
problem of their usefulness, and with
them he has papered the walls of a
room in the monastery in a most inge-
NOUS aed effective manner. IN three
months he collected SOU.000 stamps,
sorted them according TO their colors,
and then arranged them in a variety of
animal and other designs. such as
flowers. notices and Inscriptions, to-
gether with the date of the day when
the task was finished. CHICAGO H.raid.
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The Truth About That Shell.

The story of the daring English Off
Ger who cxtinruished a shell which had
fallen on deck by putting it in II bucket
of water has some minor inaccuracies.
In the first place, no fuse could be eX-
tinguishcd by water; secondly, no shell
would be likely to stop long enough to
be picked up; finally, the Egyptians
threw solid shot. but no shell at all.
The facts in the case are that an English
shell lodged in the tasscl OF the khe-
dives cap. and ne prevented its explo-
sion by calmly splitting into the fuse
hole. Tewiik tells the tale himself but
-Ihiiuleilhia Hocori
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--Once was the time when the In
dian ranged the wood. decked out with
beads, feathers and dirt. in search of
the scalps and gore of the pale-faces.
Now he dons plug hat and rides about
in Il barouche, accompanied by II long
haired liar. with Il bottle of bitterness.
He is Il doctor now. Verify the last
state of that redskin is more dangerous
than the first. --Snl Fr0uciScO Chronicle.
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Burnham'S Abietene.

cur attention h,s been called Ia the remarkable
curative PIE pcrt,-~o IF liurHlam'> Ahrtcnr. II j. not
coup mud hut pure dis illHtiuii from peculiar
klnd Of ir hal~an II Is really one ui natures RENE
dis. SID both internally and externally ~ Il spc-
rlnr fer Group stands without rival. and docs
with the HLu~tinc effects at hi" syrup and "mciiC>
Cures colds. coughs. threat rheumatism mural
,.ia. kidney trtuhics. etc. t-,d hnInrnt Tor
hr>s. burns, sin joints. >raiI~. Iul>un uak. II has
surtI"r For s: hl all dru.yisj> Price ~ cents and
- pir buit,r.
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Who has not seen the fair, fresh Young "rl
transformed in 4 few months into the pale,
hag%ard, di>pirtrd woman: The sparkling"
ryt> are dimmcd, and the ringing laugh
heard no more. Too often the CAUSES are dis
orders of the system which DIR. Picrcc's
" Far"ritc Prescription would remedy in q
short time. Remember, that The "Favoritc
Prescription will unfailin"ly cure all
female Weaknesses" and restore health and
beauty. BY all druggists. Send three stamps
for DIR. Picrcr'> treatise on Diseases of
Women Chi pages. Address WORLDS MEDI-
Cal. ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, y. Y.
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lfl"u feel dull drowy >drhiiat,d have FIRE
qurnt headache, mouth TASTES bad, poor appr
lite, tongue coated, YOU are differing from tor
pid liver, or hiliuu>nr>S." Nothing will cure
y"L 80 speedily and permanently ~ 1,r.
all lrIIrmists
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II i better to remove than to hide complex
ional hlcIni~hcS. tScGlENN'o SULPHUR soar.
HILLS HAIR DYE, black or brown, fifty cts.
PIkE'- TooTHACnE DK"rS CURE in one
minnie
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Carpets 20 cents cheaper at SchcllLla,'
llth street, Oakland Cal.
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lccbergs from an ESthctic Point OF
View.

1t IL n pity that the iceberg should be
so highly dangerous, for nothing that
floats upon the deep is more impressive
and picturesque. Such beautiful objects
ought to be fixtures, that they might he
sighted and their grandeur enjoyed
without more risk than lovely stretch
of coast or n green and cleaning South
Sea island offers. Yet, ii the truth must
be told, something of tho composite
emotion which the spectacle of an lee
berg exciteS is due to the element of fear
which the spectacle conveys along with
its majesty and beauty. Figure a sea
shrOuded in driving mist and rain aud
feathery particles of snow; the pillows
leap out of the thickness as though born
of the void from which they curl, comb
Ing over in green transparent arches
and breaking into dazzling spaces of
foam; the decks are dark with wet, and
the ship has gray and frozen look as
she sweeps over the kissing and roaring
and trampling surges toward that whirl-
ing fog curtain which ever recedes be-
fore her while it closes upon her aStcrn.
Suddenly loud voice rings sharply out
of the pallid vagueness of the forecastle;
and even as the helm is shifted there
shapes itself with terrible abruptness out
of the obscurity ahead Il huge outline
an object like an island, Enthusiastically
covered with minarets, steeples, towers,
looming bastions, and cathedral like
forms which vanish in the rushing folds
of the pale, rain-swept sea-mist.
The thunder of the sea shifting its
base and boiling up in heights of spark
ling smoke awakenS thousand sullcn
echoes in the crystal caverns, in the
gloom of the precipices, and amid the
marble-like hills and heights of the
enormous berg. As the voyager
sweeps past he hears the cracking and
rending of ice, he marks the brilliancv
of snow upon the jutting points which
open out upon the sight with startling
suddenness amid flaws in the pouring
and eddying mist, and he feels the
singing breath Of the frozen mass on
his cheek rs the gale blows past itdown
upon him. AS the ship runs roaring
by the thunder-laden apparition large
Jumps of ice shower upon her, and over
the rail, the green fragments may be
seen colored to the very complexion of
the deep half leaping out of the swirl
of foam alongside, and vanishing
astern amid the swoop of the rushing
waters. What pen can describe the
desOlation of a berg so beheld, looming
up, as itwere, out ofspace, filling the
eye for g moment with its mighty,
lonely, and wildly grand conformation,
and then disappearing rs though its
solid and substantial proportions were
as visionary as the fabric of the vapor
that has enclosed it? No hint of life is
seen upon it. No sea-bird screams
around its nOdding summit. 1t is a
drifting phantom from world of phan-
toms, to melt presently and vanish ut
terly, yet, while it stands, eloquent with
hints of the white and silent realm
from which it has tioated-a majestic
ocean-idyl "writ large" and rich with
a solemn poetry set to music of the or
gan-roIl of the deep.-Lonion 1ele-
graph.
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That terrible scuurce
fever and aElIr. AMI
It's cunrcncr. bilious
rciiiitrnt. hrsi,,cs ai
itriiuns of the stuIn
ach. liver md h"wcls.
produced by nIiaSina-
tie air and water, are
both cra,licaftd and
prevented by the use
uf llostcttcr's Stom-
ach Bittcrs. u purely
vegetable elixir. i'll
hor-rd hy rhN>lrliIi-.
and more extensive
IL used rs Il remedy
Tor ihr above class
disorders. ~ well a.
20 many others. than
any medicine of the
age. For sale lay all
Druggists and Deal
ers generally.
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The Bilious.

Dyspcptic ar c"n~tipatcd, should address,
with tw" STAMPS for pamphlet, W"KLn' :
DI-PENeARN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo,
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Whcu the milk Curdlr> lahy viii cry.
Nh'n fever sis IN. baby may die.
When baby has pains Al dead ui night
lluI>Ch"ld alarmed. father ia u plight.
Ihrn good mothers learn without DELAY
That t'astOriR cures ~ night and DAY.
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Upio>itr N'lls. Fargo COS Express, san Francisco"
~. Under the management Of has Montgomery. j.
the leading Hotel Farmers. Merchants and
fauilirs. Board and Room. 81. ~I.2J and ~ 30
per DIV. >It..lr Ir'iuS. 81 cents per might. When
tie eli, ht' and get into the American
\rlanrr Hotel ,rh. II Will hrnl; You To and from.
Tie ll"tcl free of charge.
All Photographs made al tn, New York Gallery,
v" = Third II :. f.. guaranteed To he ir>clas>.
Prices I" suit the times. i. H. PFIF,~ * Go.
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Twenty per cent saved hy huying cf direct
ii. Schclihaa>, llth street, Oakland, Cal.
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lNtnlN per cent saved nv tlIN lIlU 81 uIit't
III. SChcliha;t>, llth street, Oakland, Cal.
Thousands upon thousands of bottles oi
CarbOlinr i dcodoriZcd extract Of petroleum,
have been sold, and from al! over the land
comes one universal cry. "Carhniinr, ~ now
improved and perfected, i, the best hair re-
StorltiNc ever used" sold 10y all druggists.
Russia Salvc i, the universal remedy for
burns, scad>, cuts, bruises and flesh wounds.
EARNEsT.-Wc quote to-day: Continental
Oil, - - case; starlight, :! II; common To
good brands, Il ~ To $40 case. 1t will ad-
vancc.-Tra. ) 'h>., 81 90 1" $l.m.-Coiicr,
green, Toe, be, lie. IT.. Roast or ground.
Ice, ,lnr. :.9c :9ic Pure lava, :Dc.-Eicc,
best, Il %: common Ia good, / l.! To = d
Sugars for 81, dark brown Il lbs, good brown
Ia, Col. {. . Il, extra light ., %ranulatcd
:, Cube ar crushed =, extra pow :
Pickles, ! gals plain ar mixed, sl.;j.-Pultcd
Ham, :!nr; Devil Ham, Eastern, Ifc.-rur-
key roast :;0r, chicken :ic. Pig feet :,0r. and
:ar. Cranberry Sauce ,!oc. .Icllic> and Jams
De, SID dozen.
We sell only good articles; prices always
the lowest We have trade all over the coast
and want more. Satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. Reference in every county
lS To far dealing. Full price list "n appica
ton. Address, II. \. SMITH,
san Francisco Cash Groccry,
$40 Post ST., ;. F., Cal.
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OF GLNERtL INTEREST.

Probably the oldest hotel register
in the country i n Columbia Hail, Lee
hanun Springs. y. \. 1t contains the
names Of Webster. Clay, Lafayette, and
many other nutablcS.
A Troy. (N.I..) family are much puz-
zIcd. and possibly little Disturbed, by
the simultaneous stopping. the other
night, without any iiSco,crable cause,
of their three time-pieres, consisting
of au eight day clock. a u hour clock,
and 4 watch.
Ben Thompson. manager of the
alter at san Antonio. Texas, appeared
on the stage recently. while a fight was
in progress. and qucllcd il by shouting
three bullets through the nibS of three
gas burners. just to show how easily he
could hit the listurberS if he tried.
There is nothing so sad rs the
items in the record i'll New York pa
pers OF deaths and pru>tratIonS by the
heat, such rs the following: "a wo-
man, name unknown;' "a man, no
residence. so far as can be asccrtained;"
"a woman, no home and no friends. y
"A man of eighty wears applied for
n marriage license in Kingston. Ontario,
the other day, but when asked the
name of the woman he would make his
bride. said he had not vet selected her.
He went away much disappointed that
he could not get the license as 4 pre-
liminary.
An area of $4,000 acres have been
planted with trees in Kansas under the
new law relating to arboriculture. The
cotton tree was largely planted on nc
count of its rapid growth. and 5000
acres We're set with walnut trees. Tho
expectation is that this will operate, in
| course Of time, to relieve the climate of
its extreme dryness.
Allan Pinkerton, the detective.
writes to the Chicago papers concern
ing an adventurer who once tried to
pass for the poet Byron. 1t was in
1854, and Mr. Pinkcrton had the pleas
ure of arresting the adventurer for
wrecking and robbng train on the
Michigan Central Railroad. The rob-
Der ended his days in the Michigan
State Prison.
Seven hundred and sixty newsbovs
and one newsgirl partook of the dinner
given by George W. Chlds in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, recently.
She was only newsgirl, to be sure.
But oh, We besiked aud beieweled
DANES of high degree, think of the
ecstacy of being the sole object o. the
attention of seven hundred and sixty
| of the male sex!-B0Stosl Post.
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A smart Warsaw man who wanted
to put stop to his cows switching
her tail while he was milking, tied that
appendage to picket fence. The boz
vine became frightened. and the man
says he wouldn't mind repairing the
fence, as ii would be- just Judgment
on him for being a fool. but he does
think it pretty rough that she should
drag lO-ioOl section of it through his
garden and tear up about every grow
ing thing there. --HOSt0n Post.
A Philadelphia woman who has
lost her husband and six children has
long been insane from grief. She im-
AGNES that the spirits of the departed
dead have transmgrated to the bodies
OF the English sparrows. Daily, rain
or shine. she trudges to the public
square to feed the little birds. She
calls them by the names of her lost
childred and they seem to know her.
They eat from her hands and perch
fearlessly upon her shoulders. With
them she is happy: without them the
keen look of sorrow and sadness is ever
on her face. Chicago Ncws.