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I'm duster," said young woman
whom a reporter met in private house
up town "a professional duster I'm
not the only one. It's a regular pro-
fession, busting is, nowadays. The
parlors of the rich have grown to be so
many museums of delicate and costly
ornaments. To dust and arrange these
collections every day would too severe
ly tax the strength of the wealthy
ladies. To set the servants at the work
was found to be bad management. not
because they were bungling and liable
to smash the delicate fabrics, but be-
cause the servants have no time &c
spare from their other duties. There
fore, the mistresses employ competent
women to keep their parlors in order.
The busting business is an established
industry, but it is confined to the
metropolis. and almost entirely to the
region of brown-stone fronts. All the
busters know of are women who have
seen better days, but, of course, it isn't
every educated and refined woman who
can make a good duster."
What are the requirements?"
''She must be light-footed. quick and
strong in her wrists and arms. To visit
a dozen houses in the forenoon before
callers arrive, and dus. and arrange
things, is no child's play. A woman
must fairly jump at her work. The re-
muneration? Well dollar or seventy
five cents a visit. sometimes more. At
some houses where the hostess enter
tains good many guests the rooms are
arranged every day. Orders are given
to the busters to change the arrange
ment of the appointments every tune
they come. Then. again, buster must
know how to take hold of every sort OF
knickknack and how to move it safely.
She must know just what sort of brush
to use for every sort of busting: The
brush that will not break a fiimsy tissue
Of glass is useless on piece Of furni-
ture, and would not reach the ceiling
corners. She must have several brushes,
and she must not be careless or slap
dash for an instant There are few bitk
Of bric-a-brac in these parlors that ]
could replace with SIX months es-n-
ings."-N y Sun.
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The Great Mexican Cathedral.

The cathedral, rising conspicuously
above all the buildings of the city, is of
great size and possesses considerable
architectural elegance, the facade, in
particular, being deliberately decorated
with stucco-work. The design is Moor
ish, and the bell towers, from which
come constant changing of old Spanish
brass, command an extended view of
the city, the lakes and the distant noun
tains. The interior of the spacious house,
which. was erected by the Spaniards,
contains many rare ornaments, and the
nave is surmounted by vaulted roof,
supported by hand-carved beams and
pillars, among which hover somber
shadows. At one time, that during the
reign of the Spaniards, the altar was
laden with solid objects of gold and sill
yer and precious stones, but to-day il
has lost all, or nearly all, of these and is
covered with tawdry images and imita-
ton ornaments, while there is every
where apparent the extreme age of the
building. Entering the nave at almost
any hour of the day have never failed
to find odd groups of Mexicans and
Indians telling their beads and lisping
their prayers, while at regular mass the
cold stone floor is covered with devout
worshippers and the place is filed with
the whisperings of those who pray. And
what heterogeneous crowd one sees
The poor and the rich. the hungry and
the well-fed. the half-naked and those
clothed in silks are all together. Here
an indian, kneeling by his tattered SON.
brero, and with his heavy load near by,
prays with his soul upon his lips; there
q dimpled senorita, demure but con-
;cious, reads from her gilt-edged book.
Incense odors fill the air. the monoto-
nOuschantings of the priest are heard and
silvery-toned bells ring out the holy COM
maIds of the church and send the wor-
shippers to crossing themselves and
bowling in holy penitence. Set into one
Of the outer walls of the cathedral is the
sacrifcial or calendar stone of the Az
tees, hewn out of black porous lava and
covered with hieroglyphics, reminding,
so it always seems to me, the ignorant
Indians who sell their bits of pottery
near by of the greatness of their fore
fathers, who had their palaces and tenn
Piles in the square which is now the busy
center of the great city. Juarez was an
Indian, but he became the Lincoln of
Mexico, and in good time the other de.
scendants of Montezuma may yet re-
gain their old-time power City Of
Merico Cor. San francisco Chronicle.
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Styles In Mems Wear.

An artistic Dearborn street tailor and
draper stood in the front part of his es-
adjustment at five o'clock Yesterday
afternoon and affectionately stroked a
stack of imported diagonals, Then he
pointed to high-colored fashion chart
on the wall, and said it represented the
different styles of costumes worn by
men and women from the time OF Louis
XIV. down to the present.
"What will be the changes in mems
garments during the coming season?'
asked a reporter.
There will be no more radical
changes" he replied, " and there have
been none for some years. There is
only one garment to be introduced that's
much changed or that's worth calling
new. L speak of the new dress coat.
Instead OF being constructed in tho
square-notched fashion. like the old
spade-tail coat. it will be a gradual. cut
away of the same length, and the ma
terial will lee delicate wine-colored
diagonal, neatly bound. It's q beauti.
full coat. 1t was invented in New York
year ago, but don't think there is
one yet worn in Chicago. The idea OF
the inventor was to produce garment
that would distinguish the costume Of
gentleman from that of waiter.
There is another point worth speaking
of. Coats and waistcoats will be closed
higher than formerly, excepting in full
dress suits. The old-fashioned full.
dress suit was never more in favor in
this city than now. The long-cut Prince
Albert will still be worn with trousers
OF different color; and the five-button
single-breasted cutaway will be the
proper thing for the younger class of
men. For business the sack coat will
predominant as usual. Trousers will
still be worn close. but there is a ten
dency to greater width. Summer coats
will be rolled lower than last year, and
the material will be light, fancy mix
lures"
What about spring overcoats?"
well, sir, you will find that they
will be made soft in the breast so rs to
roll low or button up high, which ever
Is preferred. The sack will lead. A
few will be tight-fitting, douhle-breast-
ed frocks, and the Newmarket-well.
that will only be worn by the dude as
now. Let me tell you. There's been
no radical change in mems garments
for the last fifty years. Fifty years
ago the leader in New York circles was
the tight-waisted body coat with enor-
nous rolling collar, and trousers were
as tight as they could be worn. In
fine. there is every indication that the
men were guilty of wearing corsets in
that day. The dress of the ladies. it
seems TO me, has changed less than that
of the men. have been told that there
Is an association of alleged tailors in
Chicago whose members induce conn
try workers to come here and learn
metropolitan styles of cutting. IL is
funny how the countrymen viii allow
themselves to be pulled in for chumps.
They viii come here and pay one hun
bred dollars or more for q few lessons,
and 60 homo under the delusion that
they are metropolitan artists 1t re-
quires years of practice and study to be-
come skilled. "-Chfcdoo NesDs
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WIT AND WISDOM.

Brave actions are the substance of
life. and good sayings the ornament of
it-Lady'S Journal.
Wisdom prepares for the worst,
but folly leaves the worst for the day
when it comes. Cecil.
=" My, how your daughter has
grown!' said "a lady visitor to Mrs.
Jones. "Yes," at this moment said
saucy brother Bob, mothers switch
will soon fit sister,"
"A Massachusetts locomotive re-
Gently collided with bovine and threw
her over into ten-acre pasture. The
engine was not in the least cowed, but
continued on its journey.-TeraS Sift-
iHgs.
"A man in New York, seeing two
police men, dropped sixteen dozen
meerschaum pipes and ran. 1t is sup
posed that he was going somewhere to
have quiet understandable Cou :
rier-JourIldl.
"A rural friend wants to know what
is the best thing to feed hogs on. He
might feed them on the ground. or, il
he wishes, in trough. We never did
approve of fixing up mahogany tables
with marble tops for hogs. Burlington
HdI0keye.
Scene: An Irish cabin. Pat is I'LL.
Doctor has just called: "Well, Pat,
have you taken the box of pills l sent
you?' ''Yes, sir, be jabers. | have,
but don't feel any better yet; maybe
the lid hasn't come off yetr'-C Chicago
Tribune.
"A boy found a woman's switch in
the opera house and returned it to her.
''Thank you, my little man." said the
lady; ''you are an honest boy" ''Oh,
no, I'm not so very honest; but know
what / am" ''What are YOU, then?''
"a hair restorer."-OH City Blizzdrd.
"A scissors-grinder was ringing his
bell ''to grind On Brush street, when
a young man called to him and asked
Say, can you sharpen everything?'
Yes, aeferytings." ''Can you sharpen
my wits?" "Your Wits! Well. guess
you hat to go und get new handle und
backspring put in first! 1 muse hat
something's to hang on pyr'-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Three virtues will be especially
proclaimed in Heaven the virtue of a
young man who lives pure in large
city, the virtue of poor man who re-
stores lost treasure, the virtue of q
rich man who gives without ostenta-
ton" Every sin is allied to igno-
rance" Never cast stone into q
well out of which you have once drunk. ~
''Who cares not for the sick is all one
with the murderer" "He who lent
money should try not to meet him to
whom he has lent it." 1.-The house
which opens not to the poor will open
to the physician. THE Tai,n,sd.
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Diseases Of Plants.

Like the diseases affecting the animal
system, those of plants are a constant
subject OF study. Most of the latter are
:he result of attacks of vegetable para
sites, which in their development pene-
rate the tissues of their host and feed
upon the matters intended for the for
nation OF new tissues, or interfere with
The production of new cells. The de-
struction annually resulting from this
cause can scarcely be estimated, and
anything that may tend to diminish it
should be hailed by agriculturists as a
boon for which to be deeply grateful.
The latest suggestions come as thu re-
suit of series Of observations that have
been made in Germany and elsewhere.
Az a rule, the diseases injecting farm
crops may be referred to fungus growths;
apd these, it is well known, develop bet
ter upon certain plants than on others.
Snch supports TO various kinds of mil
dew and rust are found in the barberry,
hawthorn and blackberry, and it n
therefore recommended that thesG
SHRUBS be carefully removed from the
hedges bordering upon fields of grain.
There is here an exceedingly ready rem
edy, and one that should by no means
be neglected. But there are other pests
not so easily disposed of. The plants
upon which they grow and develop are
often the cultivated ones of farm crops,
and the question of this destruction of
ten becomes an interesting one. For
ordinary smut, Kuhn recommends
sleeping the affected or suspected seed
in sulphuric acid diluted to the proper
of LIS too 100, and submitting them to
the action for twelve hours. Copper
sulphate (blue vitroD is quite as active,
but is often destructive to the germ.
Dreschsler recommends a solution OF
one part crude carbolic acid in 100 parts
Of water, both to destroy fungus germs
and to preserve the seeds and young
plants from insect injuries. The latter
is said to prove effective and to have nc
deterioating influence upon the seed OF
upon the newly-developed root.
All these remedies are simple and
easily applied, and they should therefore
receive serious attention by the pro.
gressive farmers, especially during the
coming spring, when much poor seed
from last years crop must necessarily
be used. After sleeping as directed,
the growth of the plant is largely in
creased, and the treatment is both mex.
pensive and easy of application.-Cat
cGgo Tribune.
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Wire fence should not be stretched
too tightly. The contraction of the iron
in cold weather breaks many wires
Chicago Journal.
DIR. Price, the aged Welsh Druid
who recently attempted to dispose of
the body of his infant child by burning
II, has been tried and acquitted. The
Justice, in addressing the Jury, said he
had been unable to find any law forbid
ding cremation. Detroit Free Press.
New York's new water supply will
cost from 25,0oO,O 900 to $4,000. 900.
The works will be located in Westches-
Ter County. thirty-five miles from the
city. A dam $50 feet high will form a
reservoir of $4,000, 600, 900 gallons ca
pacity. New York City daily consumes
1OO.OOO,O00 gallons of water, and when
the new reservoir is completed the ca
pacity for storage will reach 400, OOO, eco
gallons daily.-N. T. Sun.
Baseball making is one of those
quiet industries which attract little or
no attention from the busy world. but
prove unusually remunerative to those
engaged in them. Last year over
100000 balls were manufactured in
have larger number of orders than
ever before it is estimated that 200, 600
base-balls will be knocked into the great
nowhere the coming season. Chicago
Herald.
In the matter of powder-makinp
Pennsylvania leads all the other States
in the Union. with New York and Ohio
competing for second place. Curiously
enough. much more powder is burned
in times of peace than in time of war.
The average daily consumption of
powder in the United States is one hun.
dred tons. In battle in which fifty
thousand men fired forty rounds each
less than one-quarter of an ordinary
days quota of powder would be used.
In the construction of the Hoosac Tun-
mel more powder was exploded than in
the war of the rebellion, and single
large coal mine will use almost as much.
The coal trade consumes more powder
than any other single interest. Chicago
Times.
Some idea of the growth of this
country may be gathered from the
postal statistics recently published in
Washington. In the year 1889 there
were 20 post-offices and 1926 miles of
postal routes. The revenue of the De-
partment was $3.50, and the expendit-
ure 1880. The amount paid for trans
portation was S5,568. The population
of the United States at that time was
3,929,214. The figures for 1882 give
the number of Offices at 46, 23l; extent
in miles, 343. 61S; revenue, S41, 1888, OO5;
expenditure, $40, 4S2,021; paid for
transportation, $22, S46,112; postage
stamps, etc., issued, 40, 97S,053; money
orders. 1l3. 400. 11S; letters received in
dead-letter Office, 1926, 2S5; popula-
ton, so, 155, 783. - Rdshinqton Star.
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WHYDoY'T THE GIRLS PRoPosE7

Why don't the girls rrup' e.. papar
Why don't the y rls prupOscf
Each ono seems coming tu the point,
And then away ~1 gus.
Though lis their pr.,i.clc this year,
A. rybOdy knows.
They tlirt IN guile AN awful way,
hut, Oh, they wun . propose.
I've read the litcst fashions,
talk of pla and trill,
And discuss the new 20 tulor
with "a quito Cou~uminute skill:
avn du ftd ou hornets.
Know thing or two ~ hose,
And I seem to int resi- them,
hut they won't-thcy won't propose.
That most feminine ~ columns
In the excellent BfEtT,
Whore the puccrCst sort Of queries
About making dresses ere.
I have studied with uftcutirr,
TIL ono really wOul ! s,ii pose
That my language must gtt,act them,
Yet stiil they won't pr pI-c.
Two prurtlccd charming innocence,
And weeping no the play;
And can drop my eye ia
In u most cnHax n way;
I've studied hard to blush ard lisp
My eyes" a. and NY 'bn's,
Aud smiled With sfr", p" stcncc;
Hut they wi. MT propose.
It's really very harl prpI;
There cause for nat uWp Iint;
Ia even trying 'u t'H D tuvs''t
Tho way 60 svrr m and iu.nt;
But while p.uCticu csc art,
Too fast the . ap-yo|r r"c~.
Why don't The rtr prui o. . p1pnf
Why dout TIA rl- prupO'cf
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THE st. Louis (Mo.) Post Dispatch says,
that Mrs. Phoebe Rice, 1908 Madison street,
a sister Of Hon. H. Clay Sexton, Chief, st.
Louis Fire Department, had been a suffer
er from inhsmmatory rheumatism for seven
years; the muscles of her hands and limbs
were contracted and she used clutches. BY
q single application of st. Jacobs Oil she
was benefited instantaneously, and finally
completely cured.
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and yous back aches, and your head feels
heavy, AMI you wake unrefreshed in the
morning and your bowels are sluggish or
costive, you need Kidney-Wors. It is ma
lures great ramedy and never fails to re-
lieve all cases IF Diseased Kidneys, Torpid
Liver, Constipasio Malaria, Piles, Rheu-
matism, &c. 1t operates simultaneously
on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, strength.
ening them and restoring healthy action.
Put up in both dry AID liquid form. Sold
by all druggists.
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No matter what parts It may finally at.
feet, catarrh always starts In the head, aud
belongs to Che head. There is no mystery
about the origin of this dircfuf disease. It
begins in a neglected cold. One Of the kind
that is a. sure to be better in few days."
Thousands of victims know how it is by
sad experience. Ely's Cream Balm cures
colds in the head and catarrh in all its
stages. Not snuff nor q liquid. Applied
with the finger to the nostrils.
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RELIEVE Swift's Specific has saved my
Life. had virtually lost use of the upper
part Of my body and my arms from the
poisonous effects of a large cancer on my
neck, from which had suffered for twenty
years. s. 8. s. has relieved me of all sore
ness, and the poison is being forced out OF
my system. / will soon be well.
w. R ROBINSON, Dayisboro, Ga.
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Is one that Yields its owner a good profit
through the whole season. But he mus,
supply the cows with what they need Ia
order for them to be able to keep up their
product. When their butter gets light in
color he must make it " gilt edged" by us
ing Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Improved
Butter Color. 1t gives the golden color of
June, and adds five cents per pound to the
value of the butter.
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Congressional Endorsement.

Hon. John Cessna, ex Member from Penn,
writes: 4" In the space of twelve hours my
rheumatism was gone, having taken three
doses Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. Ny
brother was cured by a similar amount
cordially recommend it," By all druggists,
or r K. Helphenstine, Washington, ID. G.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-28

packageof Diamond Dyes at the druggists.
they coler anything the finest and most
desirable colors. Wells, Richardson &
Co., Burlington, Vt. Sample Card, 81
eolors. and book Of directions for &c stamp.
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FROM JOHN KUHN, Lafayette, Ind, who
announces that Zone year ago was, to all
appearance, in the last stages of Consump-
ton. Our best physicians gave my case up.
My friends then purchased DO tie of DR..
WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS.
took nine bottles, and l am now in perfect
health
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-28

Sent free to sufferers from nervous
chronic and blood diseases, brain and hear
affections, nervous debility, etc. It tells OF
wonderful cures effected by DIR. Scott's Coca
Beef and Iron, with Phosphorus. Sold by
druggists; 81. DIR. Scott, Kansas City, Mo
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For COUGHS AND THROAT DISORDERS
use BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs. Shave
never changed my mind respecting them,
except think better of that which began
thinking well of."-Reu. Henry Ward
Beecher. Sold only in boxes. % cts.
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The Postmaster General has ordered
that no business cards, bills or adver.
tisements shall hereafter be allowed tc
be stuck up in post Offices.
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IT doesn't speak much of the size OF
mans mind when it takes him only a min
ute to make it up.-N T. Graphic
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"THKRK. is money in hogs" said a rural
exchange. 1t would seem so. We know a
great many sSat have money.-Philddel-
Dhid Call
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A splendid Dairy

WoMAN's rights-to do as she pleases,
while mans is also to do as she pleases, OF
take the consequences.
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IMITATION may be the sincerest form Of
1attery; but it is possible to have too much
of q good thing.
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DRUNKEN men are seldom hungry, but
the man who is sleepy drunk is possessed
of a nappy tight.-Boston Star.
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BEING entertained by a romance isn't
what is usually meant when the types say
" novel entertainment
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Hale.s Honey of Horehound and Tar
Will tackle an obstinate cough or cold.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
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When You Feel BIue

TIE best hand to hold in the game of life
is that of your best GIRL Waterloo %
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IL afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell II. ESQ.
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PAR excellence-a good father.-The
Judge.
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PIso's CURE for Consumption is not only
pleasant TO take, but it is sure to cure.
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sWhy is Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound like the Mississippi River
In a spring freshet? because the immense
volume of this healing river moves with
such momentum that it sweeps away all OBJ
stacles and is literally fooSing the country.
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THE disease of tho meter-gas trick
tever.-Ou City Derrick.
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Look ont for Your, Hcadi

If you want to put money In a sound I'm
vestment buy telegraph stocks.-Philddel-
phia Chronicle Herald.
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REMEMBER the poor. 1t costs nothing
N. O. Picdyune.
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z Fnox North Hampton, N. H, Mrs l. B.
fariton writes: " SamdTitan Nerr5ae crrea
my son."
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AT the dawn of womanhoo5, or In the
change Of life, Samaritan MSrine is the
ladies' friend.
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A LADY wants to know IL . lover can be
can be called sutton IL he doesn't suit her.
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An Open
Secret.

The fact is well understood
that the Nj EXICAN NUS
TANG EMINENT is by far
the best external known for
man or beast. The reason
why becomes an "Open
secret when we explain that
ssMustang. penetrates skin,
flesh and muscle to the very
bone, removing all disease
and soreness. No other Hni-
ment does this, hence none
other is so largely used. or
does such worlds Of good.