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RuckWIleaI Cakes.

One of the frequenterS of the Parker
house dining rooms is known to the
attendants as ''the buckwheat man.
from the fact that he never orders any
other article of food save buckwheat
cakes. Greatly as these cakes are in
favor in this country, it is not imprOb-
able that they are still more in favor
with the Russians. a correspondent
writing of the festivities connected with
the carnival at st. Petersburg says
that the chief features of the
carnival consist in the unlimited
eating of buckwheat cakes, and the
riding on sleighs with three horses at
IA furious speed. For il whole week,
rich and poor, high and low, contrive
to eat these cakes twice Il day, for
breakfast and dinner. all other dishes
being for the time well nigh discarded.
At one of these meals il Russian will
eat all the way from five to twenty
cakes, using with them butter or half
liquid suet and fresh cavier. TO make
room for the cakes the family dinner is
generally cut down to Il cup of clear
''bouillon - then the cakes are brought
in Il number of times wrapped i'll nap
kins to keep them hot. Bets are fire.
quentlY made among men of social
standing with regard to the number of
these hot cakes that can be eaten, and
an occasional sensation is produced
when a happy mortal gains the distinc-
ton of eating an extraordinary num-
Der. The correspondent asserts that
he knows of instances where men would
eat on bet as many as forty buck
wheat cakes of SauceT'S size at one
meal, helping them down with draughts
of red wine or hot tea. Such fcats are
not often achieved, however, because
most of the betters believe in helping
down the cakes with champagne, and
this combination is apt to submit the
system to quite an exceptional strain.
The cavier, of which mention is made
above, is IA food prepared from the rOes
of large fish, more especially of the
sturgeon. 1t is mostly made III Russia,
which monopolizes this branch of com
merce, and it is much used during sea
sons of fast in Italy, Russia, Greece and
Turkey, being eaten on bread with oil
and vinegar or lemon. The process of
manufacturing consists in thoroughly
clearing the roe from its membranes
salt is then well mixed in and the liquor
pressed out ; it is then dried and
packed for sale. The best kind, that
which is more thoroughly freed from
tho membrane, does not easily become
fetid, and is packed in kegs the infe-
rior kind is made into small thin cakes.
Boston Traveller.
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Death Painless.

Philadelphia physician has made
a special study of the phenomena OF
death, both through his personal OBJ
servatiOns and those of others, and his
conclusion is that dissolution is pain
less. Il mean," he explains, chat it
approaches as uncOnsciOusly as sleep.
The soul leaves the world as painlessly
as it enters it. Whatever be the
causes of death, whether by lingering
malady or sudden violence, dissolution
comes either through syncOpe or as
phyXia. In the latter case, when re-
sulting from disease, the struggle is
long prOtracted, and accompanied by
all the visible marks of agony which
the imagination associates with the
closing scene of life.
Death does not strike all the organs
of the body at the same time, and
the lungs are the last to give up the
performance of their functions. AS
death approaches, the latter gradually
become more and more oppressed
hence the rattle. Nor is the contact
sufficiently perfect to change the black
venous into the red arterial blood
an unprepared fluid consequently
issues from the lungs into the heart,
and is thence transmitted to every
other organ of the body. The brain
receives it, and its energies appear to
be lulled thereby into sleep-generally
tranquil sleep-filled with dreams
which impel the dying to murmur out
the names of friends and the Occupa-
tiOns and recOllectiOns of past life.
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mense shield, his impressions would
not perhaps be much different. He
would find the same vacuity, the same
blank or negative space, the same
empty, indefinite, oppressive out-of-
doors. For it must be admitted that
voyage at sea is more impressive. to
the imagination than to the actual
sense. The world is left behind all
standards of size, of magnitude, OF dis
lance, are vanished there is no size,
no form, no prospective the universe
has dwindled to little circle of crum-
pied water, that journeys with you day
after day, and to which you seem bound
by some enchantment. The sky be-
comes shallow close fitting dome, or
else a pail of cloud that seems ready to
descend upon you. You cannot see or
realize the vast and vacant surround
ing there is nothing to define it or
set it off. Three thousand miles of
ocean space are less impressive than
three miles bounded by rugged mount
ain walls. Indeed, the grandeur of
form, of magnitude. of distance, of
proportion, etc, are only upon shore.
A voyage across the Atlantic is a ten
days sail through vacancy. There is
no sensible progress you pass no fixed
points. Is it the steamer that is NOV
| ing, or is it the sea or is it all dance
and illusion of the troubled brain
| Yesterday, to-day and tomorrow yOn
are in the same parenthesis of nowhere.
| The 300 or more miles the ship daily
makes is ideal not real. Every night
the stars dance and reel there in the
same place amid the rigging; every
morning the sun comes up from behind
the same wave and staggers slowly
across the sinister sky. The eye be-
comes ahunger for form, for permanent
lines, for a horizon wall to lift up and
keep off the sky and give it sense OF
room. One understands why sailors
become an imaginative and supersti-
tious race; it is the reaction from this
narrow horizon in which they are put
this ring of fate surrounds and OPP
presses them. They escape 10y invOk-
ing the aid of the supernatural. In the
sea itself there is far less to stimulate
the Imagination than in the varied
forms and cOlors of the land. How
cold, how merciless, how elemental il
looks
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Alexander ii. stephens RO-
nance.

In one of the early years of the for
ties Mr.. Stephens, then a young man,
paid visit to the home of Mr. Darden
in Warren county. There he met a
fiaxenh haired, blue-eyed girl of sixteen,
beautiful in face and lovely in charac-
ter; piquant, witty and gifted with a
mind rarely cultivated. An attachment
grew up which for years did not pass
the formal bounds of friendship, but
which was secretly cherished by both.
The boy lover was poor i'll this worlds
goods fragile in frame and haraSsed
by sickness he did not dare to aspire
to the hand of one whom he had learn
ed to love and vet fOrehore to claim
With wOmanly devotion the Young girl
read the secret i'll the young mans
eyes, aud true to her heart she could
Only-wait and love. One evening in
lS49 a party was given at the residence
of Mr.. Little in CrawfOrdville. There
the two met once more there they en-
loved that sweet communion born of
perfect trust, and there Mr.. Stephens
found courage to speak the words which
for years had fought for expression until
at last he could no longer contain them
care YOU sure that there lives none
other whom YOU prefer to me ?" asked
the maiden timidly, half-shrinkingly,
yet only too happy to feel that she was
favored i'll his eyes. ''ln the whole
universe there exists not another" said
he, passionately. Thus their troth was
plighted the day was set for their
marriage, and all seemed auspicious for
the lovers. But clouds lowered DER
their hopes; matters of private ma
ture, which it is not in the dominion of
the public to know. interfered and de
ferred the fruition of their hopes. The
one became immersed in politics, and
racked with physical ills hesitated to
enter a state where he feared the hap
piness of the other might be marred
The lady found her duty by the side of
an invalid mother. who fingered with
a combining disease. Thus the years
flew by, but the plighted troth was
kept. Mr.. Stephens never addressed
another, and ever kept the fair young
image in his heart. The lady was the
recipient of admiration from many, but
to all she turned a deaf ear. They
have often met since. and while the
idea of marriage was abandoned they
felt a sweet pleasure in each others so
clety. But two weeks ago the lady was
at the mansion, and on taking leave of
her old friend one of the chairs tipped
up, an unfavOrable sign, as the COVER
nor remarked at the time. The lady
has for years been "A citizen of Atlanta,
and no one is held in more esteem for
every quality which adorns woman
hood than Miss Caroline Wilkinson
Atlanta Constitution.
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The CramPing Influence Of the
Sea.

John Borroughs has an interesting
paper in the April Century on the sea.
in the course of which he says One
does not seem really to have got out-of
doors till he goes to sea. On the land
he is shut in by the hills or the forests,
or more or less housed by the sharp
lines of his horizon. But at sea he
finds the roof taken off, the wall taken
down he is no longer in the hollow of
the earth's hand, but upon its naked
back. with nothing between him and
the immensities. He is in the great
cosmic out of-doors, as much SO as if
voyaging to the moon or to Mars. An
astronomic solitude and vacuity sur
rounds him his only guides and land
marks are stellar the earth has dis
appeared the horizon has gone he
has only the sky and its orbs left; this
cold. vitreous, blue black liquid through
which the ship plows is not water, but
some denser form of the cosmic ether.
He can now see the curve of the sphere
which the hills hid from him F; he can
study astronomy under improved con
ditions. If he was being borne through
the interplanetary spaces on an I'M
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A Stamp at a Premium.

On Tuesday last in New York city,
a single three-cent postage stamp was
sold for one hundred dollars. 1t will
be remembered, in 1876, while await
ing supplies from the department at
Washington, the postmasters of GER
tain cities were authorized to issue
stamps temporarily. Among others so
issuing was the Postmaster of Brattle-
boro. Eight hundred stamps were
printed, and of these Onehalf were
burned. Collectors have been in search
of some of these stamps, and it was
considered almost a hopeless matter to
procure one of them. One collector,
however, who was shrewder than the
rest, instituted a search for the en-
graver, whom he found residing in
Springfield, and he had still remaining
seven of the precious squares, which he
disposed of to the collector for seventy
five cents each, besides furr ishing in
dubitable proof of the genuineness of
the issue, the very existence of which
was doubted. The fact of the purchase
leaked out, and dealer offered one
dollar "A piece for six of the seven.
This was refused by the original pur-
chaser, who demanded five times that
sum, and before the money reached
him, although it was sent with prompt
itude, he had an offer of so a piece.
Being an honest man, he stuck to his
first offer, and parted with six for $50.
The most precious of the lot, which
bore the engraver's name, he retained
possession of, and this is the one he
has now sold for 800. These Brattle-
boro stamps were printed in sets of ten
and each of the set, of course, differed
to an extent appreciable with the
microscope. No ordinary collection is
complete without a Brattleboro stamp
but this quite too altogether priceless
collection has now three, and may yet
have a complete set of the BrattlebOrc
issue Boston Traveller, April 6.
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The Southern "GatOr."

A writer in the Continent says that
six thousand baby alligators are sold
in Florida every gear, and the amount
of ivory, number of skins, and guam
tity of oil obtained from the older
members of the Saurian family are
sufficient to entitle them to a high
place among the products of the state.
The hunters sell young "gators" at
twenty-five dollars per hundred, and
dealers from seventy-fve cents to one
dollar each. Live alligators two years
old represent to the captOr fifty cents
each, and to the dealer from two to
five dollars, as the season of travel is
at its height or far advanced. A ten
foot alligator is worth ten dollars, and
one fourteen feet long twenty-five dol
lars to the hunter, while the dealer
charges twice or three times that price.
The eggs are worth to the hunter fifty
cents per dozen, and to the dealer
twenty-five cents each. The dead al
ligatOr is quite as valuable as the live
one, for specimen nine feet long and
reasonably fat will net both branches
of the trade as follows: The hunter
gets $3.50 for the oil, 81 for the skin,
and so for the head, making "A total OF
$3.50. The dealer gets S7.50 for the
oil, 81 for the skin, and S25 for the
head, making "A total of $3.50 The
value of the head is ascertaned by the
number and size of the teeth. Dealers
mount especially fine specimens of the
skull, but the greater number have no
other value than that of the ivory they
contain
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The MaPIe-Sugar Industry.

Very few, says the Boston Traveller,
have an idea of the importance of this
industry to the several states in which
maple sugar and syrup are manufac-
tured. According to the census of 1870
the total production of maple sugar in
the United States was y, 443,645 lbs,
which, at ten cents per pound, would
aggregate 4, s44, 364.5O. The product
at this time far exceeds that amount
both i'll quantity and value. OF the
twenty eight states, the census of 1870
gives the following as having the larg-
er products: Vermont, 1894, 302 New
York, 6,692 ,040; Ohio, 3,469, 1913; New
Hampshire, l.S00,704 Pennsylvania,
,545, 9I7 Indiana, 1872 ,3;S2; Virgin
il, 755, 500 Wisconsin, 507, 1872 Mas
sachusetts, 399, 800; Kentucky, 269,-
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Look AT This.

In a certain manufacturing town an
employer one Saturday night paid to
his wOrkmen 800 in crisp new bills
that had been secretly marked. On
Monday $3.50 of those identical new
bills were deposited in the bank by
saloon keepers. When the fact was
made known the wOrkmen were so
startled by it that they helped to
make the place no-license town.
The times would not be so .hard" for
the workmen, if the saloons did not
take in so much of their wages. If
they would organize a strike against
the saloons, they would find the re-
suits to he better than increase OF
wages, and to include an increase OF
savings 5. 5. Times.
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The Village Band.

A Boston paper, in presenting some
reasons why there are few good bands
in smaller places, truthfully remarks as
follows: The bands in these places are
generally composed of men who have
other business to attend to, and who
give all their spare time for the inter
est of the band, either in attending re-
hearsals or practicing at home. The
town is anxious to have a band of its
own, and promises much but when
those men have given so much time to
their work, and have at last succeed
ed in fairly starting a good band, what
encouragement do they get If there
is to be IL fair or entertainment they
are invited to play, and for their ser
vices receive coffee and cake. But are
their services not worth more ? Then,
i'll the course of time, some celebration
occurs, and band is engaged, but it is
not the home band. BY paying much
more the committee have hired some
"big band" from the city. OF this
treatment the band boys have IL right
to complain. The rule of patronizing
home industries applies as well to them
us to the merchants and others who
preach it so much us applied to them
selves and practice it so little as APP
piled to the band. Think this matter
over, You who have a good band in
your town, and help the boys along in
every way you can. They play for
your pleasure, so do what you can for
them. Don't go out of town for what
You have at home. If the band is to
give Il concert, turn out in full num-
bers. Better still, get up "A concert for
the benefit of the band, they will APP
preciate it, and you'll lose nothing.
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A frugal old farmer named John
Peck, who lived near Paducah, KY,
died on March a minute too soon for
the welfare of his family. On his death
bed he called his youngest son to his
side and impaired the unexpected in
telligence that he had laid by $1,000 for
each of his seven children. He was
going to say where he had laid it by
when death snatched him and left his
heirs in darkness. A search has since
discovered $4,000 in gold in a couple of
hidden jugs, but the rest of the treasure
is still unbound.
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In the Whole History of
Medicine

No preparation has ever performed such
marvellous cures, or maintained so
wide a reputation, as AYERS CHERRY
PECToRAL, which is recognized as the
worlds remedy for all diseases of the
throat and lungs. Its long-cOntinued
series of wonderful cures in all eli
mates has made it universally known
as a safe and reliable agent to employ.
Against ordinary colds, which are the
forerunners of more serious disorders,
it acts speedily and surely, always re-
lieving suffering, and often saving life.
The protection it affords, by its timely
use in throat and chest disorders,
makes it an invaluable remedy to be
kept always on hand in every home.
No person can afford to be without it,
and those who have once used it never
will. From their knowledge of its
composition and operation, physicians
use the CHERRY PICTORIAL extensively
in their practice, and clergymen recon-
mend it. 1t is absolutely certain in
its healing effects, and will always
cure where cures are possible.
For sale by all druggists.
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4I6. As the second growth maple
yields the largest amount of saccharine
juice, and as the value and demand in
crease, there will be an inducement to
raise sugar orchards in all the states
above named. In the western states
and in part of New York the primitive
method of cutting into the trees and
gathering the sap in troughs is still in
practice. The waste of sap even under
the method of sugar tapping is nearly
or quite one-fourth. But with a sugar
orchard, well laid ont and convenient
ly located, the waste would be trifiing.
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to house five weeks. 3"

Clinton Mass, Sept. l, 1882
After being confined to the house for five weeks
with a very bad COLI upon my lungs coughing
violently a greater part of the time. and trying
all the different kinds of medicine / procured a
35 cent bottle of Kings Juniper Tar Cough Bal
sam; " its effect wonderful; almost the first
dose produced relief and before two thirds of the
bottle gone it effected permanent cure. No
family can afford to he without it,
Respectfully, r. X. DIAS
Price 35 and IS cents per bottle. Sold by j. A
PAQUET & CO, Railroad Street tJun22 90
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PATENTS.
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Had heard the praises"

Bolton, Mass. March 20, 1882
We had heard the praises of King 5 j uniper Tar
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FISTULA AND PILES

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT OF
JORDAN, MARSH & CO.,

we take great pleasure in announcing to our
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st Cured his Wife"

Clinton, Mass, Jan. ? lss2.
Kings Juniper Tar Cough Balsam" cured my
wife of severe coughing nights, after several phys
clans and many well known medicines had failed.
WILLIAM CLIFFORD.
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"Harper's Bazaar Patterns"

which for years have been acknowledged repre-
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what Jordan, Marsh s. Co say concerning these
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Harper's Periodicals,

which are now sold only through their established
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w. 3. ANDERSON

would respectfully announce to the ladies of st.
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he will add to his stock of Dry and Fancy Goods
a complete and fresh stock of the Justly celebrated
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BILL HEADS,

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Ia 3 ELS

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letter HEADS

In the most desirable styles for men, kept
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