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SWOrdSmen OF the Deep.

Imagine whales fencing with one
another for amusement!
1t seems as if such a thing could moi
be; and vet there are whales of a certain
species which not only fence with one
another, but use their teeth for swords.
It 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; fol
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 fol-
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 q like mind, and away they
charge at each other TIL the long tooth
swords clash together.
They are active rs we'll as frolicsomc.
and sailors tell of seeing them crossing
swords in this way, thrusiing and parry.
ing, and rolling and darting about with
marvellous agility and grace.
The narwhal is light grayin color, and
covered with black spots. For a great
many reasons it is valued by the Green
landers. 1t furnishes u very fine quality
of oil, its flesh is used for food, and its
skin, made into a jelly, and called mattah,
is considered q dainty too choice fol
ordinary occasions.
This s%swordsman of the deep" as
have called HIM, is a warm, bloodcd ami
NAL, and must not be COMPOUNDED with
the saw-fish or sword fish, both of which
are entirely different from the narwhal.-
John r. CoryeA, in St. Nicholas.
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S9T.43

(Which means, ".said Kate" dropping
her official manner, that we have had
all this good time, and don't 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"
"Youll run in debt" "Youll find the
work too hard, "You'll get tired of it,"
and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be
talked about"
SWELL" 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" So that was disposed of. And
we did not run into debt, and we 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 absent-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 Il first
Thanksgiving, there was an unusual
futter in the house. We trimmed the
rooms with flowers, and tied a white
satin ribbon on The Climax; the minis
ter AID q few friends came in and almost
before ne knew il, Mamie and the young
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done, and 1 doubt if many brides, going
into houses luxuriantly appointed with
out care of theirs, feel half the satisfac-
ton that we did in looking round on the
result of our ingenuity and hardwork.
And it was a right cosy little place. There
was a good sized 81 ting-room with two
sleeping-rooms opening from it, a kitchen
adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc. and
as the house was IN q corner. We had the
sun most of the day.
Kate and Mamie painted the floor CT
their room soft gray, and covered their
dressin.-table and wash-stand with blue
and drab chintz. the one window was
draped with full curtains of unblcached
cotton, trimmed and loopcd back, with
bands Of the chintz, and a low cushioned
chair and ottoman were covered with the
same blue and drab covering.
A low painted bcdstead and chest OF
drawers completed their furniture, and
strips of blue and gray carpcting before
the larger pieces took Always any suspicion
of baroness.
The room Beth and l shared was pre-
| cisely similar, except that our floor was
painted a bright warm brown: and our
| cretonne covers and bits of carpet were
scarlet and white. But it was on our
common sitting-room that we lavished
our greatest skill. The three windows
were curtained with full drapcries of
cheesc-cloth, over cream colored shades,
O big crimson bow at the top of each
window where the draperlcs parted.
Mamie, who was not in the least aGs-
| thetic. pleaded to have the whole floor
covered, but as this meant twenty-five
yards of carpeting, she was voted down
on the score of economy as well as of art.
A wide margin was stained a
most delightful dead-leaf brown, and
nine wards of crimson and wood
colored carpet made a square large
enough to come we'll out around the cen
ter table. And the tablc-wc saw it one
day in front of an auction-room. The
top looked as though opposing forces had
fought across it, but the standard was
good and solid; so home it went, and
when it was covered with Beth's old
gray shawl dyed crimson, and the
studept-lamp set over the darn in the
middle, the effect Was all that could be
desired.
Then we had Beth's piano and the
plants, and nobody knows until she tries
it how far a piano and plants go toward
furnishing a room. We had a comforta-
BILE lounge, bought Sin the CLOTH" and
covered by our own hands, Il big Shaker
rocking-chair, and two or three smaller
rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-pa-
per was subdued, and u few pictures
and brackets made quite a show, and
when We had scattered our books and
trinkets about the room, it was a decided
success.
"There, Mamie" said Kate, when we
reached the coy kitchen on our tour of
inspection, "you can tuck your little feet
right into the oven, and feast your eyes
on the braided mat, and if the cat was
only here, you would have reached the
climax of earthly happiness"
The young architect looked inquirlng-
". and Nannie's ideal of bliss was cX-
blamed to him. He made nc comments,
but looked at her with a peculiar ev-
preston in his krn'~rme eyes, and | fci.
that the ~>:alil; The society was
chr
! &C sit inc
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MORE INSTHE MANTHKNrN TtAE
LAND g4E u?

l knowed q man, which he lived In joined,
Which Jones is q county Of red hills and
stones,
And he lived pratty mnch by gettin, Of loans
And his mules were nuthin' but skin and
bones,
And his hogs was fiat as his corn bread ponas,
And he had bout a thousand acres Of
land.
He swore that he'd leave them old red hills
and stones
Fur he couldn't make nuthin' but yererish
cotton.
And little O thot, and hisfences was rotten
And what little corn he had, hit Yves
boughten,
And DANCED if alivin' was in the land.
And the longer he swore the madden he got,
And he riz and he walked to the stable lot;
And he hollared to Tom to come thar and
hitch,
For to emigrate somewhat what land was
rich, "
And to quit raisin' c~ockburs, thistles aud
SIGH, &
And a waistin' their time on the cussed
land. {
So him and Tom they hitched Up the mules,
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy their lifetime out,
Just scratchin' q Twin when all OF euts
mought
Get places in Texas, whar cotton would sp,out
By the time you could plant insthe land
And he driv by a house whar q man named
Brown
Was a livin' not far from the edgesof town
And he bantered Brown for to buy his placs
And said that bein' as money was skacs,
And bein' as sheriffs was hard O. face
W dollars and acre would git the lanfa
They closed at a dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him a wagin,snd tents,
And loaded his corn and his wimmin and
truck,
And moved to Texas, which it tuck
His entire pile, with the best o luck,
To git thar and git him a little land.
| But Brown moved out On the old Jones farm
And he rolled up his breeches and barred his
arm,
And he picked all the rocks from off'n the
groun',
And he rooted it up and plowed itdown;
Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in
the land.
Five years Gid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got 50 fat that he wouldn't
weigh,
| Was a settin down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one o. the children jumped on his knee,
And says: "Yan's Jones, which you
bought his land"
| And thar was Jones, standing out at the
fence,
! And ha h"1r't no ,yaqin. r~~
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OUR EXPERIMENT.

"Tm sick of it," said Kate, dashing a
handful of hair-pins upon the table, and
letting q big brown braid 60 tumbling
down her back.
$50 am l." said Beth.
$50 alb IL said Mamie, who was suf-
fering with a dreadful cold.
"What is it, girls?' said |, turning my
book face down in my lap.
ats the suppers," said Beth.
SITS the everlasting gossip" said Kate.
"1t's so differed from hobe," said Nan
ME, to whom clearinghouse life was a
new experience.
'It's all three. and much more" was
what l wanted to say, but being the
oldest of the four, it seemed my duty to
. make the best of things; so l said, quite
c%heerfully, II didn't see anything unus-
ual about the supper tonight"
"Ihat's the trouble" groancd Beth.
lit was altogether too usual. l am SO
tired of bread and butter and apple
sauce and dry cake that l feel like gnash.
ing my teeth at the sight of them. ]
should like a slice of toast or q bowl OF
1 bread and milk occasionally, without
I being made to feelthat | had disarranged
} the whole internal economy of the house
] "The suppers are bad enough" said
Kate. but they are nothing to the gossip.
] I'm tired of hearing it whispered round
that Mr.. Johnson and his wife had a
quarrel in their room last night or that
Miss Robinson has worn three new
dresses this month"; or that Mr. Jewett
came in ever so late the other night, and
it sounded as though he fell upstairs.
Bah" and Kate locked as scornful rs o
round face with a dimplc in it would
allow.
81 could stad everything else," said
Mamie, eff it vas odly hobe-likc. Oh
if l could odly sit dowd in a clead
kitched, with by feet in the stove owed,
ad see o braided mat in frod of the stove
with a dice cat cd it, 1 should be per.
,fegly happy"
We ali laughed at this idea of bliss,
but after the laugh there was a sudden
silence, for each one of us recalled such
a kitten, and the presence that had made
it home-like.
We were not sisters, or even kin tC
each other, but meeting as strangers in
a city clearinghouse, a strong friend
ship had grown up between us, starting,
l think, in the fact hat we were eacf
orphaned and had our living to earn, and
strengthened by many congenial tastes
We were doing our daily duties in rate
a brave, cheerful ~
complaints, bur
q cloud. Outs;
lashing the
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Absinthe Drinking.

The amount of absinthe drinking which
takes place at Marseilles, France, is abb
normal. The great street is the Rue Can
nabiere. which is the boulevard Mont
martrc 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 absinthe, from
which thew help themselves.
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Carpets
Carpets are Of very ancten

Carpets are of very ancient ise in
East, but were not known in EnroiItr
countries until comparatively redFat
times. Even up to The time of Q5len 1,
Elizabeth, when there was such prodE!ai
richness in personal adornments fbe
houses Of the wealthy, ia England Eere
scantily furnished aud lacked soas q
the simplest appliances for healthaand
comfort. The floors of beaten and tard-
ened earth were often covered Nithtoth-
ing warmer than a layer Of mattedffaw,
and none of the early chronicles make
mention of carpets.
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DRe, some find him soon,
he nightingale in June,
me when skies arc gray;
ZONES to some with smiling eyes,
hid 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 O O 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!
-Pukenhdm Beatty.
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Old man Pcttigrew, of Austin, is very
precise in his statements, and is also a
strict constructionist. Ono morning a
neighbor rushed in on Pettigrew, 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.'-1seas Svtinas.
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Infinite toll would not enablefyou I

INFINITE toll would not enable you 20
sweep away a mist, but by ascetding a
little YOU may often look oyerl y alto
gether. So it is with our moral approve
ment; we wrestle fercely with d~picious
habit which would have no holfSnpon US
If WI assembled into a higher oral at
mosphere.
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knocks the spots2

and everything In tie nature q ernptons,
hiotches, pinples, ulcers, scrofn,f1s hnmors,
and incipient consumption, whiebis nothing
moro nor less than scrofula Of ttf lnngs, com.
pietely ont Of the system. It stimulates aud
!tnyigorates the liver, tones up She stomach,
regulates tho bowels, purifes ts blood. and
bu3 Ids up the weak places Of thdbody IL Isl
purely vegetable compound, AMI VIII do more
than Is claimed for 1t. WerefetoD d.. Pisrcsf
tfE1oIdan Me1ical Disrnvsrvnit ~
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o. :.:.4 commence

O. Am CJIHIHtNCC
Supert1uous hal 2ycd sue
cessfully and pei oy using a
paste composed of water and any prop
erly prepared depilatory powder, such as
are put up by all of the leading chemists
and pharmacists. Allow the paste to
remain on for two minutes then remove
it, and the hair and its follicles will have
been completely destroyed. Pepilatory
powders are very injurious, however, if
improperly prepared.-HeaM and Home
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Gsanknr expeuds $4,000 a}nually tor The
of experimental Iorcyt stations,

Lydia 3. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
70 TO be had at the nearest drIk storefor Q dol.
bar. It Is not claimed that tns remedy VIII
cure every disease under TIL SUN, but that Il
does all that 1t claims to do, thousands OF
good women know and declare.
TIE New York horse cars last year killed
[tKenty-four persons and injured eighty-nira
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| ~
pFsician l.
sS0yerei.

SVVeFe1, 7 =
mntal research, a rCineiy tor G-~ Ses Of tue
thaat, chest and lungs, which was Of such
wonerful efficacy that I. soon gained q wide
reputation in this country. Thename Of the
meditne Is Dr.. VIM. BALLS Balsam for tho
Lung, and may be safely relied On as a
SPEEDY and positive cure for coughs, colds
prA hroat. etc. .
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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 a
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
appreciable effect. Finally a party OF
men succeeded in ropiug the beast and
he WIS quoted. Thirty bullet holes
were found in his hide. The damage
done by him amounted to $40, 900.
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che said turnlnr on

49,. .,.,u. she said, turning on
-eproachfully, Il hope you are not
/ Ing to spoil everything" But Nam
ME was busy filling Il saucer for the new
conner, and made no answer.
may as well say here that, soon after,
the young man came to me in a very
straightforward way, made known his
intentions in regard to Mamie, and
asked permission to visit her. That
night, while she was gone on an errand,
1 laid the question before the other
girls.
II move" said Kate, who was rather
given to sounding phrases-''I move
that he be granted leave to withdraw"
"Oh, let him GOMEZ" said Beth, with
true Southern obliviousness OF conse-
quences.
Well, he came, and came again, and
the little romance unfolded in a kindlier
atmosphere than that of a boarding
house parlor, and after a while l think
we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a
high-minded, intelligent young fellow,
who conducted his wooing with very
little nonsense. Some evenings he
would come in with his drawing-board
under his arm, and establishing him
self at our kitchen table, put in his mar
~velously fine lines and figures. with
Mamie sitting beside him with her sew
ing, making quite a Darby-and Joan
picture. Kate sometimes shook her fist
at him from the covert of the sitting
room, put she usually ended with "Bless
the children!"
But to turn from love to figures. How
much did it cost?
Now, l do not expect to be believed
when l say that our entire furnishing,
from the small mirrors in our bedrooms
to the big iron spoon in the pantry, cost
exactly $12S. G3; nevertheless, that was
the exact total. 1t may seem more cred
table when it is understood that our
dressing-tables, wash-stands, and otto
mans were packing-boxes, and that the
inviting cushioned chairs were originally
barrels. Of course our bedsteads were
not furnished with hair mattresses and
rose blankets, but we had warm cover
! ings, and clean straw-6lled ticks, which
were simply luxurious after boarding
house mattresses.
Our table was not set forth with cut
glass and silver Except Rates spoons
and forks, but it was clean, and the
food wholesome. and varied.
And about the cost of living? We
elected Kate treasurer, and every Satur-
day night each of us put five dollars and
a half into q box kept for the purpose,
and she paid for everything out of it.
We questioned her often, during the first
month, how the money was holding out,
but she made no satisfactory answer.
The first day Of January we each found
on our plate at supper the following no.
tice: 1.-THE first monthly meeting of the
Home Cooperative Society will be held
this evening in the kitchen, as soon
as the dishes are done. A full attend
ance is desired, to hear the report of the
treasurer"
Every member was present, and the
treasurer read her report. After setting
forth at some length the origin and OBJ
ject of the society, she presented the
following figures:
In ACCOUNT WITH HOME COOPERATIVE SOCIETY.
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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 ccntena,
rians in America are from Ireland.
though there are many among the col
ored people.
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In the midst Of all the eEisement
concerning it, the north poll remains
perfectly cool.-Biiszard.
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Adolphus-"Why is it., don't you
know, that all the young fellahs sit
down on me SOL" Mary Jane-"l don't
know, Dolly, unless it is that they like
q soft seat. "-Boston Transcript.
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tNTrRE beds are being found In Nevada
Raing IN productivene8 those Of Peru.
A26sCenrs

WI buy q TREATISE oNTHE HORSE AND Hrs
DISEASES Book Of 100 pages, valuable to
Sentpostpaid. New YORK HORSE BOOK Co.,
Ia seonard Street, New York city.
szesarst of the i~ncipinr
TN. 1~L-
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Every Farmer and Horserr..
should owns book deserin,i.s
Of the Horse, and the Diseas..
to which tho noble ANNA, g.
liable that sickness may be AZ
ogn'zed in its incipiency IA
relief promptly afforded. 3.
book should be in the hanaa =
every Horse owner, as the Know
edge it contains may be worth
hundreds of dollars at any ~.
mens. II you want to know IN
ABOUT your Horse, how to Ts,l
MS Age, how to Shoe him, eso
SEND s'c. in stamps, and recsiys
the book, post p.id, from
NEW York HaasE Book eoapa
'a@ Leonard ST., n, /, tlsw
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KIN hot,
Itself and the floor
sharp and riz and swore
mems land was rich or poor,
as more in the man than thar was
in the land"
-Sidneu Lanier, in Southern Cultiuator.
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Nssht SSyeats.
Headache, feypr, chils, malaria, dyspepsiR,
cured by "JFeIs' Eealth Renewsr:nn 81
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; Young nIen!-Read This

Trough on Pain.0
Cue collie, cramps, diarrhma; externally
for shes, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia,
rheuEatim. For man OF beast. % and 50c.
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NEBRASKA has Hsarly ;250,00o acres Of
planted forests in god condition
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Yac Hope oftle Nafious
yscrax
anddsEeato, sse4sWells, Health Removes.

- AAOlS
sChildrenssSwi ndeyelopms u scrawny
anddsies6e, atse4'W w els, Health Renewer.
HaysFsSer sa typeof catarrh having 20.
cFitai $ r1r.olns It. is attended by an ID.
famed ccnditi,n OF tho lining membrane u
the nostrils, ftsaf:ducts and throat affecting
the lungs Anacrid nducus is secreted. the
discharge is Accompanied with q burltngsen
sation. There are severe spasms OF snee1ng,
frequent6attaf&sof headache watery and In
fanedeyes. Hy's Cream Balm is O remedy
founded on erect diagnosis Of this disease
and can 10 depeadedupons 30 cts at drug.
gists;'G CTS by saHfE Sanplab ottle by mai
80 cts. Ely ElO Draggists, oWego, n Z,
AbalJheaded lean, who has heard That the
hairs OF a mans lead ara numbered, want8 TO
know II there Is mot some place where be can
obtain the back Numbers Carbolins v1l
supply the demand.
tt.ILs
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The diver is the man who weights for
the tide. = York Journal.
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The Bc.e Batrsr CoIo,

sI20uaii on Tniuo Plaster
Porous md strengthening, improved, tne
best for bsclache, pains In chest Or Hderhe1-
mntism, pguraIgia. 2c. DruggistSor mail
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,o,,r nerves weak?

.,@,ys d~isorderetl
y.or,.1ht nte from my grnvey1 3tl
hudbrr ,.yen up by Is best docfbzsF
n, n. Deyeraux, Mechanic, loniath1kh.
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whno
mnently cure
W Iout the use
St ps for pamH
I'LL P.