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Flowers.

A walk along the streets of any of
our small villages in the summer or
autumn months will fill any one with
pleasure to see the abundance of flow
ers of various kinds and varieties deco
rating almost every dooryard, whether
large or small, all the inmates of the
house indulging in taste for the love-
Hest of natures beauties. We always
experience q great respect for such, aud
feel grateful to all who may add some
thing to the charms of everyday life
that will make people better and hap
pier, and trust the time is not far dis
tant when the custom will become
universal in town and country-and go
where we will, we see flowers. We
know some men who are enjoying these
blessings-they neither appreciate nor
deserve, they try to show their man.
hood by contempt of these beauties,
but fortunately they are remnants of q
race almost extinct. Men of brains and
culture are helpers in the good work,
and nobly aid in making homes beauti-
full, bright and pleasant. And the chill
dren will learn to plant and take care
of flowers, and by having these fair and
beautiful things about them they will
acquire q taste and leinement which
will sweeten and beautify all their lives
and the result in the great future no
one is wise enough to tell.
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shrink in value until 1887 or 80. This
forecast has not been proved false mp
10 date. According TO the hypothesis
Of this modern prophet Of prices. the
market value of prices tells the story
Of the prosperity or otherwise Of q
given period. When iron is in demand
and its price is advancing. there is Q
business boom under way, and vice
We sa. LION is the key to the industrial
8 tuation, for when there is work to do
tools are required. Now Mr.. Benner
argue, that the variations in the price
OF iron are subject to a law of period
lefty. Panics occur in periods varying
from eighteen to twenty-one years.
For instance, we had them in 1887,
1857, and 1873, and the next one Is due
in 1891. The really prosperous years,
according to Mr.. Benner, are very few.
The boom lasts only for brief period.
The intervening years are record
of depressed business and general suf-
fering. If there is anything in Mr..
Benner's theory, men in business are
justified in engaging in new enterprises
when the price of iron is advancing;
but they SHOULD be careful when the
iron industry is under a cloul-Dea-
oresfs Monthly.
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Moths.

Always in the spring, after beating,
cleaning, and grand airing, take the
wooden clothes in while the sun is on
them, and put away, with as little fold
ing as possible, in large chests, lined
with thick paper, and plenty OF gum
camphor in rather large pieces among
the layers. L hope to see the large
wooden chests for storage form part of
our outfits as they were of our grand
mothers. Boxes ore much better to
keep clothes in than leather trunks are,
and a set made of cedar, or lined with
the veneers of that wood, built very
large to receive clothes without much
folding, would be better than cedar
closets, especially if there IS a dry attic
to store them in. One chest for blank
cts, one for mems clothing, and one for
women's, should be part of the family
plenishing, and descend as heirlooms
after the sensible custom of our ances-
tors. fuIs keep best in the new bar
rels made from paper pulp, which can
be sealed up to wholly exclude moths.
If You must store them without any
such convenience, beat them thoroughly
on the inside, brush the fur vel, put
into clean large paper bag which you
get from the groceis, with Jumps of
camphor in the pockets and fol Is, and
pa te the top of the bag closely. Keep
each article so sealed, in separate
bag, in q box or trunk. This work
should always be done as soon as you
are through wearing furs and woolens.
Moths seldom attack things in constant
use, but seize their chance if art cles
are left in closet or trunk for fort
n ght unguarded. Don't leave your
winter dresses and the boys clothes
hanging in unused closets or the attic,
half the summer. Beside moths, the
ants, wasps, and flies will gnaw holes
IN them, dust gathers, and light fades
them. The waste of clothes come,
nearly as much from neglect as from
use. Vide Aicdke.
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All women and painters admire the
color known as blue. And this general
admiration cannot but provoke CON-
ment when il is realized that there il,
with the except on of the sky, less Of
blue in nature than of any other color.
1t conveys to the mind but one idea,
that of purity; and the value of the
virtue seems to be Swallowed forth in
the color. Painters OF all ages have
delighted in robing loving Madonnas,
pale saints, and angelic cberubs in va
rious shades Of this wonderful color.
There are few blue flowers, and not
many blue birds or fishes, while real
blue eyes, supposed to be seen every
day, are really anomalies in nature
which, ii possessed, it is not believed
would be beautiful.
The Roman love for blue was such
that it came to signify beautiful" and
to impurple for it was called purple or
blue) meant to make beautiful. The
early Britons evidently shared this
taste in conjunction with the Romans,
because they tattooed their bodies
in blue, and were 80 proud of display
ing them that beauty unadol ned" was
the favorite mode of dress among
them.
Fra Angelica worked with ardor
years and years before attaining the
shade of blue that has made his name
famous; and when, after much toll, the
summun bonum in tints was reached,
he thought his time had been well
spent.
IL is, of course, well known that
"blue blood" does not exist, doctors
telling us that the veins most percepti-
bic in white, slender hands are gray,
red, or green. One cannot discourse of
the "green blood of his ancestors" so
that nothing remains save to know bet
ter than one talks.
But, after all, the sky, the corn
flower, and the air are all of this heav-
emily finland arc they not three good
things in nature? We look at the un-
fashionable mass of blue and dream Of
rest therein-we pluck the tiny flower
and feel that beauty is grasped-we in
hale the pure, sweet air, and are con-
scious that health comes with it. In
the old pictures and poems why do we
separate them when they are one p
blue told of pure, calm love-never of
excitement or passion. The Madonnas
are robed in blue, the Magdalenes in
purple. Marguerite going to church is
clothed in a blue kirtle, while Mar
guerite, tempted and betrayed, is in
black or purple. In the hand of dead
baby We may place white lily and a
blue forget-me- but never red
rose. Blue, the shade of the heavens,
is appropriately intrusted to those who
are heavenward- bound.
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A Modern Prophet.

The tesS of science is the ability to
predict We believe the astronomer,
because lie is able to foretell within the
fraction OF second when an eclipse
will beg n and when it will end. We
put faith in the chemist, also, for we
find by exper .ence that, when he puts
certain atoms OF matter together, GER
tain resalt Il sure to follow. Water,
for instance, lis composed of two gases,
oxygen AMI hydrogen. Spirisualism IS
discr, dited, because its prophets and
mediums cannot foretell. Some of the
sciences are 20 far imperfect that its
professors can OF predict with conf
dence. We know a great deal about
the weather, for instance, but the Wash
ington Weather Bureau is OF en- mis-
Ia, on in is forecasts. Much has been
"a 4 as to the possibility OF founding a
science of society; but it is conceded
that, as yet, the sociolog SITS have not
dared to claim they could read the
future. All thi is apropos of a person
who has appeared in Ohio, who makes q
claim that he has discovered the law
which shows the variat .ons in the pr ces
Of commodities. His name is Samuel
Benner. He published book in 1875,
in which he made q forecast of the
prices of iron, grain, hogs, and cotton,
up to the year 1891. 1t must be con-
fessed that he has so far proved re-
markably accurate. He said the price
Of iron would be lowest in l8}7-that
it would advan, and be at its maxi
mum IN 1c6l-and that il would then
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A Huge Electric Battery.

In erecting the great Statue OF
Liberty. two things had to be con-
sidered that seem very trifing, and yet,
if neglected, might destroy the statue
in one day, or cause it to crumble
slowly to pieces One Is the sun, the
other is the sea breeze. Either of
these could destroy the great COPPER
figure, and something must be done to
prevent such a disaster. The heat of
the sun would expand the metal and
pull it out OF shape, precisely as it does
pull the Brooklyn Bridge out of shape
every day. The bridge is made in four
parts, and when they expand with the
heat of the sun they slide one past the
other, and no harm is done. The river
span rises and falls day and night, as
heat and cold alternate. The great
copper statue is likewise in two parts,
the frame work of iron and the copper
covering; and while they are securely
fastened together they can move one
over the other. Each bolt will slip a
trihe rs the copper expands in the hot
August sunshine, and slide back again
when the freezing winds blow and the
vast figure shrinks together in the cold.
Besides this, the copper surface is SO
thin aud elastic that it will bend
slightly when heated, yet keep its gen.
eral shape.
The salt air blowing in from the sea
has thin fingers and bitter, biting
tongue. If it finds crack where it can
creep in between the copper surface
and the iron skeleton, there will be
trouble at once. These metals do not
agree together, and where there is salt
moisture in the air they seem to quarrel
more bitterly than ever. 1t seems that
every joining of points Of copper and
iron makes tiny battery, and so faint
shivcrs of electricity would run through
oil the statue, slowly corroding and
eating il into dust This curious, silent,
and yet sure destruction must be pre-
vented, and SO every joint throughout
the statue, wherever copper touches
iron, must be protected with little rags
stuffed between the metals to keep
them from quarreling. 1t is the same
wherever two different metals touch
each other. Imagine what tremend-
Gus battery the Liberty would make,
with its tons of copper surface and mon
strous skeleton of iron. However, q
little care prevents all danger, as pro-
vision W III he made, of course, for keep
ing the metals from touching each
other. -@The BdrthOtdj Statue" by
Charles Barnard, IN ST. Nicholas.
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A Remarkable MyrtaceOus Plant.

One of the most remarkable trees,
which was pointed out to me, is the
Rata, Metrosideros M. robusta. This,
though q myrtaceous plant, has all the
hsb t. of the Indian figs, reproducing
them in the closest manner. 1t starts
from seed dropped in the fork of a
tree, and grows downward to reach
the ground, then taking root there and
ga ming st en- 9TH, chokes the support
ing tree and en- rely destroys it, form
ing large trunk by fusion Of its many
stems. Nevertheless, it occasionally
grows originally directly from the soil,
and then forms trunk more regular
in form. Another, Metros,deros M.
florida, is q regular cl mber.--Notes of
a naturalist on the "Chdiiengcr."
The orchid epidendum Glare smells
precisely like roasted apples.
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The California Lilies.

The California Horticatltttrist thus
speaks of the native lilies: The noun
tain children whom one meets on their
way to school in the morning load
themselves down with what they call
Tiger Lilies or, in other words,
Lilium Humboldtii, whose spires flash
out with wonderful brilliancy around
the bases of volcanic rocks, or near
shattered lodges, or on the hard red
clay of the hillsldes. One of our au-
thors, who studies with loving and an
alytic mind the colors, and sounds, and
meanings of the Sierra woods, has
called it 'carnelian-hued,' with its or
ange and amber ground, veined with
black. In favorable places we have
found lily-stems as tall as man. The
bulbs are deep down, and not easily
dug out. Some insect bores into and
ruins many q choice bud. This lily
loves company, being always found in
groups. Where you see one yellow
flash, you may be sure there are others
near. After blossoming time is over
the stalks disappear very quickly. BY
following up the long ridges, blossoms
may be found in perfection for several
months. The same is true of the lovely
white lily, L. Washingtonianum. Both
species are in perfection in Nevada
County"
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Mr.. ID. II. Barnaby, of Oweso, N. Y, says
that his daughter was taken with violent
cold which terminated with ncumona, and
all tic best hys!clans gave the case up and
said she could live but a few hours at most.
She was in this condition when friend rec
commended DIR. VIM Hall Balsam for the
Lungs, and advised her to try it. She ac-
cepted 1t as a last resort, and WAS surprised
TO find that it pre- duced "A marked change for
the better, and by persevoring a Permanent
euro was effected.
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Dirt, IL has been we'll said. b only
matter ont of place." The waste Ut
large cities, which occasions 60 much
add to the fertility Of the soil and in
crease the well-being of mankind. The
amazing growth of cities in the modern
world is forcing upon MS the considera-
ton of sanitary problems unheeded by
our fathers. 1t was conside cred in former
generations simple enough matter to
convey sewage through pipes or coz
duits to some neighboring river or bay |;
but as the city grew and it's sewage in
creased, the waters became poisoned,
and the once healthful shores were
made the seat of all manner Of foul
diseases. The River Thames was at
one time nuisance due to the filth of
the lSlglish metropolis which was
poured into it. The same was true of
the Seine in Paris. In both great cities
gigantic public works had to be con-
structed to convey the sewage to distant
farm lands. Certain arid and strongly
mineralized soils were rendered won
derfully fruitful Ivy the sewage Of Lon
don and Paris. The sewers of the lat
ter city are among the wonders of the
world. An army can be marched to
any part of Paris 10y making use of the
underground passages. In this country
we have paid far less attention to this
important matter than it deserves.
Cities with us have grown so rapidly
that the requirements of sanitary sci
ence have been overlooked in our
haste to profit by improvements. 1t
is only recently that Boston has
built q great sewer to discharge the
foul accumulation of that grow
ing city into the ocean, yet it is adj
mitted that this is sheer waste, as the
sewage might be utilized to render fer
tile great tracts of land west and north
of the city. New York City, although
surrounded by water, with two swift
rivers ON either side of it, is most inn
perfectly severed. The health maps
of the metropolis show large areas
where fever and diphtheria claim a
steady crop of victims due to damned
up streams, dishonest plumbing, and
imperfect sewerage The central gov
eminent has had to interfere also to
prevent the reckless citizens of New
York from running their noble harbor
by dumping their garbage and debris
into the channels used 10y deeply laden
steamships, whose coming aud going
enrich that city. Some of the younger
communities realize the Importance OF
this matter. Any one who visits the
town of Pullman, near Chicago, will
notice that the great Corliss engine,
which attracted so much attention at
the Philadelphia Centennial, is made
use of in that artistically la d out city,
to pump the sewage to farm lands
three miles away. This example is
worthy Of following. The greatest OF
modern benefactors are those who are
insisting upon the necessity Of sanitary
reform. He who puts dirt in its place
who ribs a neighborhood of center
of fever affection, who improves the
plum bling OF houses, and thus adds to
the general health of the community
is the real philanthropist of our age,
the true friend of humanity. Dem
OyeSPS MOntL[u
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THE very remarkable climatic eccen-
tricities. if so they may be termed, that
have lately attracted attention the
world over, are typically exemplified
in the last winter season about Stavan-
gov, Norway, where, in latitude 5S deg
% min, or only one degree south of
the extremity Of Greenland, the Their
mometer but once during the month of
January fell to the freezing point. The
grass plots Of the various gardens are
des ribed as having been pract cally as
green rs in summer; daisies, snow
drops, pansies. violet, and primroses
had their blossoms we'll set; peonies
appeared above the e 'ound, and many
roses had thrown out vigorous shoots. I"
The Americdn.
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A Government Sheriff.

Mr.. Edward l.. Green, Sheriff, Auckland.
New Zealand, writes Il received an injury
to my shoulder in June, 1882, and from that
date until July, 1883, could not use my
arm. / applied to medical men and usel
all sorts of liniment without any benefit.
have great pleasure in stating had occasion
to use ST. Jacobs Oil for it, and / had not
used it more than ten minutes before l felt
the beneficial effect, and l can work with
my saw or spade as well as ever / did, and
recommend it to any one suffering pain.
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THEY are sowing in some places IN
the West q "drought-proof" grass. I"
sorghum hdidp e,tse, which seads it's
roots down into the ground after
mo sture from three TO Twelve feet. It
is proof against freezing, flooding, and
continued drought. If cut when the
plant il in bloom it makes very good
hay, and the roots are greedily de-
voured by hogs. In rich soil it grows
sometimes to tue height of ten feet
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Young Men, Read This

The voLTAIC ID sLT Co., of Marshall, Mich.,
offer to send tn ir celebrated ELECrRO- Vol
rAIC BELL and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
on trial for thirty days, to men young or
old i!icted with nervous debility. loss of
vitality and manhood, and all kind ed trou-
b es. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia pa
ralysis and many OF Ter diseases. Complete
o toration TO health, vigor, and mani
uaran eed. No risk is incurred as thirty
days trial allowed. Write them at once
for illustrated pamph ct. free.
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Higher Prices Tor Butter.

All dair,men who use Wells, Richardson &
Co s Improved Butter Color agree tina. II in
creases the value of butter several cents a
pound. & is pure and harmless con enent
for in tint use, Is TO "A te or odor, and
gives a Gear. golden richness to the b err.
1t f. the very bet bu ter color obta nab'e,
and is not expensive. In eve y tate in the
Union the demand for II is in ;reas ng.
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Lots %. reop a.

get bilious, ha Q bca y headaches, mouth
oui. GLOW G, 90 etc., AL the diroc result o i.
IMPURE blood which can he h roughly
cloansed, RI newei ;, md enriched with n dncy.
Wort IL acts ut the same time on tie X d.
neys Liver and Bowels, an has more real
,irtue In pa kage than an b. found ~ any
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Three Remarkable Interviews.

a reporter has interview ed Hon. VIM. ID.
Keley. NJ. c.; Hon. Judge tlti ders. of New
York: aud Il. :. Arthur, IN egard the eX-
perience with Compound Oxygen. Tn Sc 1t r
views give surprising resul and show lps
treatmenl for the cure of chrouic dis a c. to
be most remarked be. a copy of these ter
views, also Treaticc OIL Compound OK gen
will he ma led FIR g 10y ID Starkey Pihen,
ll0J Gira st., Philadelphia.
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FoR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression Of
SIP rits, and general debility in their vario 3
forms; also, as prev ntive against lie er and
ague, and Their intermittent 70 ers. the
" FerroPhosphorated Elixir Of Ca iaya,"
made by Caswcll, Hazard q Co., of New ork,
and sold by ali druggists, is the best tone;
and Tor patients recovering from fever or
other sickness il has no equal.
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IN the Book OF Martyrs we read OF the
agonics OF men who SUI cred for tLcir faltn,
and in our wofk-aday experience We cara
tue desrce OF pam which IL is possible Ior tne
human frame u endure. Re-. VIM. 4. Cor
b. 4, ID. d., OF New Haven. alter years .. suf-
Ter ng from the most cXcruciatsng rhe mItic
tortures, was immediately "a CT b. Ath,opho-
ros Price, III PEI bottle. II your uruggi
hasn't 1t, send 10 Athlophoros CO., liz Wal
Street, n. Y.
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put upv mt the Gault House.

The business man or tourist will find first
class accommodations at the low price OF So
and $3.50 per day at the Gaut House. CHI Ca
go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This
far-famed hotel is located in the center of the
city, only one block from the Union Depot.
Elevator; all appointments first-class.
IL. W. HoYT, Proprietor.
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appetite, from imperfe ( dig eston. low pirits
and nervous debility, may have health r, new
ed and life extended by the use of Mrs. LYDIA
Il. Pinkham's remedies for ell complaints
specially incifent 10 the femae cons iii tuition.
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HAY-FEvER. can recommend Ely's Cream
aim to all Hay-Fcvcr sufferers; it is in my
Opiaion, sure cure. was a icted for
twenty-five years, and never before 70 md
permanent relief.-W. II. HAsKINs, Mar. Il
oil
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HAYFEvER. 1 have Il, en- II Fever suf-
ferer for three years have often Leard Ely
Cream Balm spoStn Ct in the highest ter ns.
used IL and W tn the most woadsrful sue
cess.-T. s. GEER, s. racu e, N. Y.
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eN-KEEp IN THE FAsHoS.-Ihe Diamond
Hyes always do more than they claim to do.
Color over that old dress. IL viii look hke
new. Ihes are wa rantcd. l0c at drug lists.
Wells, Richardson a. Co, Eurlin ton, VT
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I know not which love the most,

know not which love the most,
Nor which The oomel es ( bows.
Tue t,mid, b,shfu violei,
Or IN 10y l-hcarted rose.
TIE pansy 10, purple dress.
The link ith cheek Of red,
Or the ant, air hello rope, who han2s,
Lik a bash nj mali. h n h, nj.
Er love and prize you one and all.
From o lie st low bloom of ~ ring
TO the ly fair, whose clothes outsaine
The raiment Of king
p. Cary.
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THE solvCn, properties of crude oil are So
well established thit il is unnecessary to
quote examl les. Carb line is m de from
crude oil devoid of smell and is guarantee
to remove scurf and dandrun
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EVEN the homeliesi n an when assisting
fell passenger 10 PIT his ncgei in the
slreet-car box, Is Iassng iare.-fttsLu'th
ChfUglica- Teiegroph.
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Horsford's Acid Pho sphate.

BEWARE or INVITATIONS.
limitations and counterfelts have rgaln ND
poarei. o sure hat tue worJ docs ori p
Il ON he wrapper Nons gcnu ne W bout It,
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THE increasing sales OF Piso's Cure attest
Its claim as the best cough remedy.
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''ARE the slils on tho ship of state made
from the Pres Dental canvass +" asks IA young
staiesu& I'm from Is ooklyn.-NciD York TINES.
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WHY are the huTan race like an anc-
tioncers goods. Because they are always
going, going. gone.