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SWOrdsmen OF the Deep.

Imagine whales fencing with one
another for amusement!
1t seems as if such q thing could not
be; and yet there are whales of a certain
species which not only fence with one
another, but use their teeth for swords.
1t is the narwhal that fences. One of
the teeth of the male narwhal always
grows through the upper lip and stands
out like a spear, straight in front of the
animal.
1t seems as if all the material that
should have gone to fill the narwahl's
mouth with teeth had gone to the one
tooth that grows out through the lip; for
sometimes this tooth is eight feet long.
The animal itself, from head to tail, is
seldom more than sixteen feet in length.
Of what use such an enormous tooth
is to the narwhal no one knows. Some
persons say it is used for spearing fish;
others. that its use is to stir up the mud
in the bottom of the ocean in order to
scare out the fish that may be hiding
there; and one man says the tooth is for
the purpose of breaking holes in the ice
in winter; for the narwhal, like all
whales, is obliged to come to the surface
at intervals to breathe.
Whatever the tooth is intended to be
used for, it is certain that when the mar
whal wishes to play it finds another mar
whal of n like mind, and away they
charge at each other til the long tooth
swords clash together.
They are active as well rs frolicsome.
and sailors tell of seeing them crossing
swords in this way, thrusting and parry
ing, and rolling and darting about with
marvellous agility and grace.
The naryhal is light grayin color, and
covered with black spots. For a great
many reasons it is valued by the Green
landers. 1t furnishes a very fine quality
of oil, it's flesh is used for food, and its
skin, made into a jelly, and called mattak,
is considered a dainty too choice for
ordinary occasions.
This "swordsman of the deep,n as 1
have called HIM, is a warm, blooded ami
NAL, and must not be COMPOUNDED with
the saw-fish or sword-fish, both of which
arc entirely different from the narwhal.-
John Il. Cornell, in ST. Melodies.
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The Jumping Bean.

MI. Fred. Frclinghuysen, son of Sec.
rotary Frelinghuysen, possesses a num-
Der of Mexican jumping beans, which he
procured from the United States agri'
cultural department. According to Mr..
Frelinghuysen these acrobatic beans are
very rare. They are certainly considered
a great curiosity by all those who have
see them, and no one yet has explained
what they are. Each pod contains three
kernels. Each segment is rounded on
one side and A shaped on the other,
greenish yellow in color, and in circum-
ference about the size of a silver three
cent piece. When placed on a table
they roll over and skip about, sometimes
jumping a couple of inches: When held
between the thumb and forefinger
they are felt to beat as strongly as the
throbbing Of a strong mans pulse.
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How They Fall,

The woman who steps on a banana
peel will be down in o heap and up again
with a faint little shrek before anybody
knows anything about it, while the man
will fall the length of the whole block,
as usual, waving both hands in the air,
kicking with both feet, plunging, throw
ing hat and umbrella into space, bowling
at every jump, until, breathlcss and ex.
hausted, he caroms on an ash barrel at
the end of the run and rings down the
curtain by rolling downstairs into a bar
Der shop.-Bo6 Burdette.
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architect had gone off together in a hack,
with The Climax wailing in a basket on
the front seat.
But this did not break up the society,
for another good friend stood ready to
fill the vacancy, and stepped promptly
in. And did we not find the work too
hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a
bother, but, divided among four, it was
not oppressive; and if the lardcr got
empty, or other work pressed, we took
our dinners out for a day or two.
And we did not get tired of it, but
after a three years trial of the plan, are
more and more satisfied, for it is
home. We leave tin the morning with
regret, and return to it gladly at night,
feeling that it is ours. that we arc not
there on sutfcrencc, but by right. And
this sense of security and permanently en-
courage us to add comforts and even
luxuries to our surroundings, and | think
YOU might hunt up and down the city
and not find a more contented and com
Portable set of people than the members
of the Home Cooperative socicty.-Har-
,,or,o DnzJr
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A plan for lessening the violence Of
storms has been submitted to the French
Academy of Sciences by M. Minard, who
proposes to use a great number of light
ming rods elevated on telegraph posts
and connected with the iron tracks OF
railways.
Mineral wool is used for packing to
deaden the sound between floors in
buildings, and being in%combustible it is
now pretty generally used between the
floors and ceilings in new houses. Min
eral wool is obtained from the Stag from
blast furnaces, and is produced by
throwing a jet of steam against the stream
of Stag as it flows from the furnace.
Experiments have been made at n of
the large collieries in England with com:
pressed lime for bringing down coal from
the lodges. Holes are bored into the
vein of coal, filled in with compressed
lime and rubbish and then water is
forced in. which causes the charge to ex-
pand and bring down great masses os
the fuel in solid Jumps. The expert
ments are said to have been highly salts
factory.
The reign of Charles II. of England
was O great era in science. Sir Isaac
Newton discovered the wondrous law
that holds the sun and planets in their
orbits; HALEY commenced his learned in
vestigation of tides, comets, and the
carth's magnetism; Boyle improved The
air pump and studied by its aid the prop
critics of the atmosphere: Hobbies and
Locke discoursed of the human mind, its
laws and relations to matter.
When pure platinum is as soft as silver,
but by the addition of iridium it becomes
the hardest of metals. The great diff
Guilty in manipulating platinum is its ex-
cessive resistance to heat. A tempera-
tere that will make steel like water
and melt down fire clay has absolutely no
effect upon it. You may put q piece of
platinum wire not thicker than human
hair into a blast furnace where ingots of
steel are melting down all around it and
the bit of wire will come out rs absolute
ly unchanged as if it had been in an ice
box all the time.
1t is said that an electric hand lamp
has been invented, the illuminating prin-
ciplc of which is generated by some SIM
pie chemicals that are r%edicuously
cheap and easily manipulated. A little
sliding drawer at the bottom of the lamp
holds the electric spark in the solution,
while, by simple touching a button, a
magnificent light is developed or ex.
tinguished, as the case may be. This
lamp does not specially differ In appear
ance from the ordinary kerosene affair,
and can be used in the same way, but
with a complete absence of trouble, odor
ordanger.
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Carpets

Carpets are of very ancient useS f2'
East, but were not known in EuropeaI
countries until comparatively recent
times. Even up to the time Of Queen
Elizabeth, when there was such prodigal
richness in personal adornment, the
houses of the wealthy, in England, were
scantily furnished and lacked some o.
the simplest appliances for health and
comfort. The floors of beaten and hard
ened earth were often covered with moth
ing warmer than a layer of matted straw,
and none of the early ch7oniclers make
mention of carpets. .
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NJ OF THE A

The butcher who trusts loses flesh
Boston Post.
Babies know nothing of politics, yet
they are fond of crow.-Puck.
A door is sometimes /, jar and an earth
quake always is.-LoueH Courier.
"The work of retaining the Potomac
flats is rapidly going on" SO says an
exchange. "This must be pleasant
reading for Washington dudes. -Burlig-
ton Free Press.
A clearinghouse cook has been
awarded $3.50 for the invention of o
new and improved, chicken soup. Per.
haps the improvement consists of put
ting in some chicken derrick.
cat great heights, dogs lose their
power of barking" 1t is a fine scheme,
then, to keep your dog in the garnet,
or tie him up to the swaying limb Of 9
tall and lonely rec .-Hawkeye.
SHE AND Me-.
She held him fast in her soft white arms
And kissed him warm with a yearnine
hug,
For she was a girl of the upper ten,
And newell, he was D dogoned pug.
-Merchant-Irareler
Maud-"Isn't this q queer title for
book, mother: Not Like Other Girls ?
I wonder what she can be if she is not
like other girls 2" Mother--"T don't
know, unless she goes into the kitchen
and helps her mother instead of staying
in the parlor to read novels" Life.
A horrible example,: A Partisan doc,
tor precribed for a lady who had objec-
lions against growing stout: stake ex.
c%rcise, my dear lady. Consider the trees
of the field; they never take exercise,
and as q consequence they 60 on grow
ing bigger and bigger every year:"=lR2s:
ton -LnMa.nnI =-@
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WON AND LOST.
WHAT A NOTED GAMBLER SAYS
ABOUT PLAYING.
Gamblers Never Fitted for Anything
Else-GambIing Ends in Dissipa-
ton.

Gamblers Never Fitted for Anything
Else-GambIing Ends in Dissipa'
ton.
Quite early yesterday morning q rather
young-looking man of about thirty-tivt
entered the Hoffman honse and greeted
those present with a pleasant good-morn
ing. He was dressed in q neat-fttine
suit of some light material, and appeared
as bright as a new gold dollar. HI
chatted pleasantly a few moments with
those about him, and then went to break
fast.
This man was Billy Dcutsch, Mt one
time the manager Of Booths theatre,
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Florence.
Billy Deutsch is quite a celebrated
man in his way. He was known, and if
yet, as mighty gambler. He has gained
a certain kind of fame as q noted bacca'
rat bank breaker, and mentioned in Paris
as "Thc King Of Baccarat." He is al,
most six feet tall, and wears a black mus
tache.
After breakfast Mr.. Deutsch INDUCED
in conversation. Of course, gambling
was mentioned. In his long experience
he had come to the conclusion that those
who touch cards or gamble ale almost
lost. However intelligent a player was,
after he had won IL few times he was I'M
fitted for anything else but the life Of
gambler.
He stated that his ~favorite game was
baccarat, at which he had lost over $500,
600, which result all could expect if they
continued to follow the game. On ono
occasion, being out $50, 600 on the game,
he bet SEQ, 900 on the turn of a card and
won.
The title "The King of Baccarat" was
bestowed on him in Paris. Some time
ago, for twenty-cight days in succession,
he won $40, 900. The smallest he won
during that time was $4,000, and the
largest $50, 900 in one night. He had
often made bets of So, 600, and other
large amounts. In playing he always re-
mains cool, and never losesh his head.
Mr.. Deutsch played thirty games OF
cards and won 81, 600 on Foxhall when
he won the Grand Prix dc Paris. Mr..
Deutsch claims that he is not a profes-
sional gambler, and only played foI
pastimc. ,,,.
His experience had taught him that a
man who wins money on cards simply
squanders and dissipates it. He also
forms habits which unfit him for any le-
gitimate business. Gambling was the
cause of a majority of suicides.
Gambling in London was not allowed
as it was in Paris. In France every one
plays, from the highest to the lowest.
Gambling there is looked upon as a pas
time, and not as a vice.
Mr.. Deutsch stated in conclusion that
he had sworn never to touch cards again,
and would 60 into the brokerage or the
atrical business, probably the theatrical.
-New York Truth.
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Absinthe Drinking,

The amount of absinthe drinking which
takes place at Marseilles, France, is alb
normal. The great street is the Rue Can
nabierc. which is the boulevard Mont
martre of Paris raised in intensity. The
shady side is an almost unbroken series
of cafes, and from early morning until
late at night usually the tables in front
are occupied by Marseillais, with a little
decanter full of syrup of gum, and two or
three bottles containing absinthc, from
which thew help themselves.
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S9I.43

(Which means" said Kate" dropping
her official manner, 'that we have had
all this good time, and dent W q cent
for anything, and have six dollars and
seventeen cents apiece coming back to
u.s." and she counted out four little piles
of money.
"And coal in the bin, and food in the
larder," added Beth.
The next month we paid five dollars a
week each, and had a surplus, and after
that, four dollars a week usually covered
all expenses.
When we started, though We asked no
advice, we had floods of it, and no end
of dismal predictions. "You'll QUARREL"
you'll run in debt" "You'll find the
work too hard" "You1n get tired of it,"
and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be
talked about"
"Well," said Kate, when this was
brought up, eff a good name in the past,
and orderly living in the future won't
save us, why, let them talk. They must
talk about something, and while we are
under discussion somebody else will es-
cape. DO ludI vas oispOoCo Os AIM
we did not run into debt, and VIC did
not quarrel. 1t would be too much to
say that we never differed, but our diff
~ferences were never bitter.
We used to think sometimes that Beth
shirked her share of the work, but she
was the sweetest-tempered creature liv-
ing, and always willing to make amends.
Then we had to hold a tight rein on
Kate, who was apt to want luxuries out
of season, at exorbitant prices; and l
was sometimes a trial about cooking, be-
ing minded, and apt to burn
things up. AS to Mamie, she was never
anything but a comfort. We didn't keep
her long, for one day, toward our first
Thanksgiving, there was an unusual
futter in the house. We trimmed the
with flowers. and tied a white
satin ribbon on The Climax; the minis
ter and O few friends came in and almost
before we knew it, Mamie and the young
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Infinite toll would not enable you tc
sweep away a mist, but by ascending 6
little you may often look over it alto
gether. So it is with our moral improve
ment; we wrestle fercely with q vicious
habit which would have no hold upon us
if we assembled into a higher moral at
mosphere,
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SONG.

Some find Love late, some find him soon,
Some with the rose in May,
Some with the nightingale in June,
And some when skies are gray;
Love III to some with smiling eyes,
And comes with tears to some,
For some Love sings, for some Love signs.
For some Loves lips are dumb.
How will you come to ME, fair Love:
Will you come oon or late!
With sad or smiling skies above,
By light of sun or moon:
Will you be sad, will you be sweet,
Sing, sigh, Love, or be dumb,
Will it be summer when we meet,
Or autumn ere You come!
-Pakenham Beatty.
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and everything IN tho nature Of erupions
blotahes, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous humorsI
and incipisnt consumption, which is nothing
moro nor less than scrofula Of the lungs, com.
pletely out Of the system. It stimulates and
lnvigorates the liver, tones up the stomach,
regulates the bowels, puriaes the blood, ane
builds up the weak places Of the body. 1t Isl
purely vegetable compound, and will do more
than Is claimed for It. VI refer to d.. Piercet
ttGo1don Ma1ica1 niqcnverv
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About thirty years ago, a prominent
physician by the name Of Dr.. William Hal,
discovered, or produced after long experi-
mental research, a remedy for diseases Of tho
throat, chest and lungs, which was Of such
wonderful efficacy that it soon gained a wide
reputation in this country. Thenanas Of the
medicine Is DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for tho
Lungs, and may be safely relied on as q
speedy and positive cure for coughs colds
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Old man Pcttigrew, Of Austin, is very
precise in his statements, and is also a
strict constructionist. One morning a
neighbor rushed in on P.ettigrcw, while
the latter was eating his breakfast, and
exclaimed excitedly: "Your house
is on fire." "Sir 2" "Your house is
burning up" "You are wrong sir"
"Wrong?" Eyes, sir, this is not my
house, only rent it."-1eras Sytanas.
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GERMANY e1pends $50, 700 annually for thu
maintenance of experimental forest stations

Lydia E. Rinkham's Vegetable Compound
Is to be had at the nearest drug storefor . dol.
lar. It is not claimed that this remedy VIII
cure every disease under the sun, but that It
does all that it claims to do, thousands OF
good women know and declare.
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The New York horse cars last year killed
twenty-four persons and injured eighty-ntne.
Gas Good az Now"

"As Good a. New"
are the words used by q lady, who was at ont
time given up by the most eminent physicians,
and left to die. Reduced to q mere skeleton
pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed
suffering females, such as d~isplacefnents, leu
corrhoea, Inflammation, etc, etc. 6he began
taking Or. Picrce's "Favorite Prescription,
and also using the local treatments recon-
mended by him, and Is now, she says, "a,
good as new" Price reduced to one dollar
By druggists.
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Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet
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The greatunanimity with which dairymen Of
high reputation have adopted, In preference
to anything else, the Improved Butter Color
i fon1 w fy " Me sema Ele1aTos0 F. . s So;, 81 tbat TIE
claims Of initiative colors are baseless; wise
dairymen will use no other.
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In the midst of all the excitement
concerning it, the north pole remains
perfectly ool.-BHzzard.
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The Cost of Royalty.

AS a sample of what royalty costs the
people of Great Britain alone, Whitaker
gives the following annuities to the royal
family:
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An observer says most of the centena,
rians in America are from Ireland
though there are many among the col
ored people.
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60 Cents
Will buy a TREATISE on THE HORSE NM Hrs
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SsRou0h nm pain.sS
Young Nlen!-Road This

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for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia
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60 Cents

N1TRE beds are being found IN Nevadt
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A Circus Elephant in a Rage.

Coles huge elephant Sampson severed
his chains ut Haley. Idaho, and started
to pulvcrizc his keeper, who made Il
hasty retreat. a cage of lions stood in
the way of the Infatuated animal, which
he picked up and hurled to one side,
killing two horses. The circus people
called on the crowd to shoot the monster,
and a lively firing began, but without
appreciablc effect. Finally a party Of
men succeeded in roping the beast and
he WIS quietcd. Thirty bullet holes
were found in his hide. The damage
done by him amounted to $40, 600.
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Adolphus-"Why is it, don't you
know, that all the young fellahs sit
down on me so?" Mary Jane-"I don't
know, Dolly, unless it is that they like
a soft seat. "-Boston Transcript.
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-NEBRAsKA has nearly $50, 600 acres Of
planted forests in good condition.
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Night Sweats.
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An undoubted Rlcsainx,

The electric light on Washington monl
ment can be seen seventeen miles away.
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A baldheaded man, who has heard that thu
hairs Of a mans head are numbered, wants t.
know if there is not some place where he car
obtain the back numbers. . Carboline vii
supply the demand.
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The diver is the man who weights for
the tide. -Neu YORK. Iurnal.
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