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Composing Leaves.

To compost leaves use freshly slakeC
lime, one bushel to every fifteen OF
twenty of the leaves and dark loan ".
inc beneath them. One bushel of lime
is recommended for ten of swamp
muck. Twenty bushels of the leaves
and muck are to be first spread three
inches deep. then buShel of lime warm
from the shaking Sprinkled over this
layer. Then this process is 10 be re-
peated till the heap is several feet high.
The heap may remain through the
summer and be mixed by cutting down
and Shoveling over If bushel OF salt
Ito six bushels OF lime) be dissolved in
water, and the brine used to Stake the
lime. the acton will be more rapid, and
few weeks be long enough to set up a
decomposition, when the heap may be
overhauled, and will be ready TO use in
a few weeks more. Instead of salt.
muriate of potash will answer, and will
supply indispensable potash to the
crops. 1t IS on account of the forma-
ton of soda and carbonate of soda from
the lime and salt mixture that this mix
ture exerts more powerful decompo-
sing action than lime alone. When salt
is cheap and wood ashes scarce. the
mixture may be applied to advantage.
Farm, Field and FireSfde.
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SINGULAR FREAK OF NATURE.

A Chicago Miss Miss n" More, and Instead
of Miss Hattie She is Now Master Harry
A Singular, but Authenticated Case of
Change of Sex.
CHICAGO, ILL, October u.
A case of change CT sex, which by rea
son OF the prominence OF the parties has
attracted Considerable interest, has just
been made public. Mr.. John q. ,ry, of
the Gardner & Spry Lumber Company, is
a weIl-known, wealthy and respected
citizen. His residence is upon the
northwest corner of Looms and
West Monroe street, fashionable neigh
borhood. His family consisted of four
girls and three boys up to about two
months ago. He now has four boys and
three. girls. The eldest daughter, Miss
Eliza Spry, was married a few years ago
to Mr.. John Harvey, Of the firm OF
Harvey Bros, Others, but is now
Il widow. The second daughter, Miss
Harriet Spry, was brought up is Il
girl and considered herself as such.
Much care was spent on her training and
education. She attended the West DIvi-
sion High School, and was a frequent
visitor 10 the NatatOrium, where she was
considered an expert swimmer. Her
powerful frame, awkward movement
and athletic manner excited suspicion
among her girl friends. She made
rapid and satisfactory progress
with her stuGies. There came
Il time when 4 manly down adorned her
upper lip. Her voice, too, deepened from
Its not mp easant contralto and was a.
ternated with the fuli-chest tones of a
basso. Tue young women or the school
were quick to see all these indications,
and their suspicious were aroused. The
matter was Drought TO the atten ton of
the t acherS, aud Miss Hattie was sent
home. When Miss Hattie had been home
some days she had a private and conf.
dental conversation with her mother,
which resulted in the calling of an emf.
nent surgeon, Dr. Moses Gum, well
known in medical circles, AMI a pre- i'm
mary examination and corroboratory cir
cumStances decided all parties that an
operation was necess airy. When this
was concluded, Miss Harriet, now Harry,
Spry, put on a suit of her brothers
clothes, bad her hair cut, bought
razor and entered upon a new career as q
young man. A day or two ago, in CON-
pauy with his brother, he departed for &
school for bows and young men IL the
CITY of BoS on, wher at last accounts
was prosecuting his studies diligently
aud fitting himself for the battle of life.
A number of physicians spoken with
upon this very interesting case say there
are few ike il on record in the book of
medical science
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Why Kerosene ExplOdes.

In the first place kerosene never eX-
plodes Ordinary kerosene y mix
ture of oils which are converted
into gas, or vapor, at different tenn
peratures. This gas. when mixed in
certain proportions with the air, forms
a most explosive compound.
The danger, therefore, from kero-
sene comes from this gas, which. of
course. cannot be seen. From the best
quality of kerosene all, or nearly all,
the oil which evaporates at a low tenn
perature, and thus becomes explosive,
has been removed. The latter oil is
naphtha or benzine. So long as this is
kept confined, so that its vapor cannot
mix with common air, it is safe. But
the moment the gas mixes with the at
mosphere it becomes explosive and
dangerous. These facts give the reason
why it is never safe. under any circum-
stances, to fill lighted lamp, or to
pour kerosene from a can upon burn
ing fire.
The lamp needs filing; therefore there
is space over the oil filled with the
gas of the oil evaporated by heat and
air. 1t is confined, and as long as the
cover is screwed down no spark can
get to it.
But when the cover is taken off the
gas is pushed out by the oil entering
the lamp, mixed still further with the
common air, becomes explosive, com
municates with the flame of the lamp,
aud Immediately explodes.
So, too, there is explosive gas in the
top of a half-emptied kerosene oil can,
and when the oil is thrown on the fire
the fame communicates with that gas
and causes an explosion.
The sellers of cheap oil frequently
declare in selling the dangerous fluid
that it is so safe that lighted match
can be thrown into it. That this can
be done with safety only shows that the
conditions for making the explosive gas
are not met in the experiment But if
the same oil were used in a defective
lamp, or with any but the EXTREMIST
care, there would be an explosion
PhilQdeLDhil CAL.
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4 Fatal Collision.
~ Il stAeAA SpaaAsAOhF
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct,

PITTSBURGH, Pa, October II.
A Times spec al rom Greensburg, Pa.
SAYS Il freight train colideJ with coke
train atDuaker's Station, fifteen miles
south # here, on the southwest bran b
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Engineer
John Layt II o. the freight train was in.
stantly killed. Conductor Goodwin,
Fireman ChaS. Springer and Erginee'
Thompson of the coke train were fatal
injured. The coke train took fire and
the entire train WAS consumed. The &c.
cidentwas the result of Engineer Lay
TONS failing to stop his train II Dunk RS.
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Ferry Looking for Warm Work.

PARIS, UcIOD0r To-
Ferry, in course of nversation with
friends in his own circle, said he
expected the coming session ofth Cham
Ders 10 Pc brisk. one, and that there
would be much defensive WORK Tor Min
listers who We're receiving severe party
discipline. He denied that France was
on bad terms with Eng:and, but said
France was prepared to make arrows of
every SO of wood to fire at EGG and
unless she gave France satisfaction in
Egypt. He declared he had no exs an
Outstanding with Bismarck, but that ii
ne could turn an enemy into an ally, even by
sacrifice OF amour prOpye he would do SO
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DYNAMITERS' WORK.

The New Parliament Building at Quebec
Badly Shaken by Two Explosions of Dy-
namite-Two Men Injured But No Loss of
Iife-The Shock Felt Throughout the
City.
QUEBEC, CAM, October Il.
Early Yesterday afternoon an explosion
occurred at the arliament building, de-
stroying q considerable portion OF the
masonry and windows of the new build
ing, which is just being rooted in. The
explosion at first was supposed to have
been the boiler of the engine used for
hosting mate ial, but this was found not
to be the case. Neither can it be attributed
to gas. The general Impression appears
to be that the explosion was caused bV
dynamite, but as none of this Ingredient
is used on the work., the mystery is w
it came there. The workmen all being
away at dinner, NOBODY but one man WIS
injured and he escaped with slight cut
from a piece of stone. The shock was
severe all over the city.
The explosion did considerable damage
to the windows in the vicinity of the
Parliament house. Almost all the WIN
dows in the house Itself in the section
where the explosion occurred are shat
tered. Mertel, a workman, and Charlie
bois, contractor, were the only persons
injured and those but slightly. The
damage by the first explosion was q con-
siderable hoe of about twelve feet
by five wide, blown out of the wall on
the third story, and directly over the
rsnht IN tho 10
chamber, and near the place where the
speakers chair is situated. The second
explosion occurred in the northeast cor
ner. Tne stone forming he support of the
building is badly buIged, and it is doubt
full if it can be repaired without letting
down the whole wall. Whatever reason
there may be for wishing the destruction
OF the building, there is no room
to doubt that dynamite was used. A
searching investigation into the cause of
the explosion is now in progress.
EveryJhi g is quiet in the neighborhood,
and a section OF the battery is patrOlling
the grounds about the building The
Government was waiting the completion
of the building to call the house together
for the dispatch of business. The
building had been SO far advanced that
only part of tie roof remained unfin-
iShed.
Regarding the cause of the explosion
the French employees state that the
work was done by Irish dynamiters.
While some Irish citizens think, and
the opinion is shared by great many,
that the French workmen did the deed
with yitw of I'M uring the contractor,
but for what reason is not apparent,
as it is said the contractor and the
men are on the best terms. Serious
trouble is feared between the French
and Irish should the accusations be ca =
ried much further
The Cabinet has decided to issue a
proclama ion offering reward of 81, 900
for information regarding the authors of
the outrage. Gu rds have been placed on
all powder magazines connected with the
citadel, military stores and cartridge fac
tory.
THE TALK OF TIRE TOWN.
OTTAWA, CAN. October l3.-The sub
ject of conversation tonight is the blow
ing up of the Parliament buildings at
Quebec All precautions were taken here
IN the way of extra policemen at the Par
lament buildings.
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The Meaning OF the A. 3. Degree.

If you will label the product of a
purely linguistic culture with an equally
descriptive name; if, following the
French usage, you will call such gradu-
ates Bachelors of Letters, we shall not
object to the term Bachelors of Science;
or, without making so great an innOva-
ton, |, for one, should have no ob;ec-
ton to a distinction between Bachelors
of Arts in Letters and Bachelors of
Arts in Science. But it is perfectly
well understood that in this community
the degree of Bachelor of Arts is for
most men the one essential condition of
admission to the noble fraternity OF
scholars, to what has been called the
Guild of the Learned" To refuse
this degree to certain class of our
graduates is to exclude them from such
associations and from the privileges
which they afford; and this is Just what
is intended. Hence L say that the
argument is not ingenious, and it is
not charitable because it implies that a
class of men who profess to love the
truth as their lives are seeking to ap-
pear under false colOrS. To cite eX-
amples from my own profession only [
have always maintained that such men
as Davv, Dalton, and Faraday were as
truly learned, as highly cultivated, and
as capable of expressing their thoughts
in appropriate language, as the most
eminent of their literary compeers, and
| shall continue to maintain this prop
osition before our American community,
and l have no question that sooner or
later my claim will be allowed, and the
doors of the Guild of the Learned
will be opened to all scholars who have
acquired by cultivation the same power
which these great men held in such a
pre-eminent degree by gift of Nature.
Prot. !. 2. Cooke, IN Popular Science
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The Signal Service and Mete0rOlOgy

The Signal Service in its present
form for making observations and re-
ports on the weather and publishing
probabilities of changes in advance was
Instituted about twelve years ago. Ii
is a branch of the United States army
service, and the officers are either Of
ticers of the regular army or are liable
to be drafted into the service in case OF
war as part of the army signal corps, of
which this is really part and an extern
sion. The work is performed atwidely
separated stations in such parts of the
country as offer especial advantages
for observing the various changes in
temperature, atmospheric pressure,
moisture, rainfall, and direction and
velocity of wind and air currents.
These reports of themselves are of very
little service, but when they are tele
graphed to the central Office at Wash
ington and marked down upon large
map there, the Chief Officer has before
him a very plain and full view of the
state of the weather ell over the coun-
try from points reaching 5000 miles or
more from the office Every detail is
thus placed directly under the eye of
an experienced meteorologist, who can
then prognosticate with considerable
certainty what changes will take place
at any particular locality, and how soon
these changes may be expected. Thus,
the course of a storm beginning in
Manitoba or in the Gulf of MEXICO can
be marked. out in advance and almost
the precise hour fixed when it will
reach any place in its course. This
knowledge is of the greatest value to
sailors and also to farmers, who can be
forewarned twenty-fOur or even forty
eight hours in advance of it and so be
prepared for it. Meteorology is the
science of the atmosphere and its physi-
cal changes, or in other words. the
science of the weather.-N. \. Times.
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Mr. D. n. BARYABY, of Owego, NY, says
his daughter was taken with violent cold
which terminated in Pneumonia; the best
physicians said she could live but few
hours, when friend recommended Dr. WIZ.
Halls BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. She &C
cepted it and was surprised to find that it
produced a marked change for the better,
and by persevering a permanent cure was
effected,
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This is also the season when the poor
but honest farmer blows up Jugs con-
tanning $4,000 in gold coin; when
folks clean out wells and find dead
loads of silverware; when old houses
are torn down and bags containing sill
yer dollars come to light, and when
tramps along railroad lines find dia-
mond rings by the back-load. Every
such incident is true-positively true.
and any one doubling the fact will be
shown a bag of gold watches brought
up from the bottom of Lake Erie on a
schConer's anchOr.-Detr0u Free Press.
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WHEN it is rumored that a pie-man's
stock has disappeared, there can always be
found evidence to cc-robber-ate it.-HGr
sQtc Wasp.
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For RELIEVING THROAT TROUBLES ANI
COUGHS, 'BrOtcn's Bronchial 1rOcheS'
have wide reputation. Sold only in boxes.
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WHEN the irate parent attacks the small
boy with a slipper, he is a very dull boy
indeed if it don't make him smart.-Ihe
Hdtchet-
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eyes, sir" said Mrs. Darlington, speak
ing of one who drank himself to death:
ives, sir; dissolution has brought many a
man to his grave. "-LJe-
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WHY Is a child, whose father and mother
have no sister, like an unsolvable conun-
drum: Because it has no aunt, sir IAN
swer).
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Trough on Coughs" Troches. 15c; Liquid, 25c,
for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness.
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Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Sexual De
bility, cured by Wells Health Renewer." 81
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HEADACHE is Immediately relieved b.
the use of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh.
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The charter of Atlanta, Ga, for
bids any person from holding the Office
Of Mayor !0r Two consecutive terms.
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Trough on Corns" 15c. Ask for it. Complet,
cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunions.
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Rough on Pain Porous Plaster, for Back
ache, Pains in the Chest, rheumatism. 25c.
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Singing, inflammation, all Kidney and Urin
airy Complaints, cured by "Buchupaiba-" 81
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A FLY-TRAP-The professional baseball
lists hands.-BOSton Post
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A VICTORY at baseball is side ISSUE
The Judge
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Loss and Gain.
CHAPTER ]
81 was taken sick a year ago
With bilious fever"

With bilious fever
"My doctor pronounced me cured, but
got sick again, with terrible pains in my
back and sides, and got so bad
Could rot move!
I shrunkl
From 22S lbs. to 1901 had been doctor
ing for my liver, but it did me no good. L
did not expect to live more than three
months. began to use Hop BitterS Di-
rectly my appetite returned, my pains left
me, my entire system seemed renewed as II
by magic, and after using several bottles, L
am not only as sound as sovereign, but
weigh more than l did before. To Hop
Bitters i owe my life" r FITZPATRICK
Dublin, June 6, 81
CHAPTER II.
maiden, Mass Feb l, 1850 Gentlemen
suffered with attacks of sick headache.
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in
the most terrible and excruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me re-
lief or cure, until used Hop BItters.
The first bottle
Nearly cured me;''
The second made me as we'll and strong
as when child,
"And have been so to this day."
Ny husband was an invalid for twenty
years with a serious
Pronounced by BostOn's best physi-
clans
"Incurabler'
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him
and know of the
"LiveS of eight persons"
In my neighbOrhOOd that have been saved
by your bitterS,
And many more are using them with
great benefit
They almost
Do miraeles?' Mrs. 3. D. Stack.
How TO GET yourself day and
night: eat too much without exercise; work
too hard without rest; doctor all the time; take
all the vile nostrums advertised, and then you
will want 20 know hOtD to oct iceU, which is an
swered in three words-Take Hop BittersI
~ None genuine without bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poi
sonous stuff with Hop or Hops" in their
name.
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Colden,s LIQUID Beef Tonic

Promotes digestion in females of delicate
health. ColdeD's, no other, of Druggists.
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MILK has this popularity, the more it is
doctored the worse it gets.
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In the Fall.

MARIA he said to his wife the 9TH
err evening after supper, Il think Ill
put on that light overcoat to go down
town
What, that bottle-green?
Eyes, dear"
"Why, sold that to peddler = whole
month ago"
''Sold it! Sold that bottle-green over
coat to pc ddler..''
"Yes, darling. for that pair of vases. y"
Then we are ruined. In one of the
pockets of that coat was Sl0,000-all
the cash | had saved in the last six
months on salary OF fifteen dollars
per week! No new seal-skin sacQue-
no hOrse-no new house-we are ru-
ined-ruinedn'
.'Got fire in the parlor stove, eh?"
he queried as he backed up to it and
spread MS coat tails apart.
res. Samuel. the evenings are get
ting chilly"
Eyes. fire feels rayther good. l
was a-thinking that after I'd fed the
hogs you'n / would"
Here no stopped and began to jump
I'D and down and tear his hair and
damage his hat, and after minute he
pulled the stove over and rushed for
water to quench the fire.
Mercy sakes alive! but are you
mad?"
"Hanner-ohl Hammer! dowse her
out, dowse her. Call for the police"
Samuel Collins! have you gone
crazy?"
Gray! Never. You back-action,
double -jointed, duplex IDIOT, but had
hidden $4,000 in greenbacks in that
stove, and you've kindled fire on top
of it, We are knocked out-busted to
blazes. and 90 to the barn to cut my
throat with razorn'
They sat in the cleaning. She was
thinking that it was about the time O
year to make sOft-soap, and he was fig-
urinr on whether he could afford to
buy a forty-acre tract of land in the
suburbs. When he had decided that
he could he kindly said:
"My little rosebud, won't you get
me that old trunk which one of the
hired girls left in the attic a year ago?'
Not this eve'' she sweetly replied.
81 gave that to a man two weeks ago
for hauling away those ashes"
"Ashesl Gone! Two weeks" he
whispered, while every button on his
vest danced jig under the suppressed
excitement.
You betn'
"Friendless. Fooless! You have
Knocked me into the middle of thirty
years ago! That trunk contained all
my small change. amounting to some
$4,000, and utter poverty and desolate
ruin stares Us in the face! Here-we
will both drink of the poisoned chalice
and die together!''
And they died.
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THE GENERAL MARKETS.

A scALY business-The music teachers.
Post.
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WATER is musical, we presume, wher
the fountains play YOnkerS Statesman
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WHEN should a song have most discord!
When it is set-to music.
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One wear after date received promise 20 pay
the order Of publishers Of OcEGs OcTAS the sum
Of Dollars. with interest At per cent. per
maturity. IL is understood End agreed that
no part Of principal OF this will be demanded or
become Fable fcxeept pessure as long as re-
main paidup subscriber &c the above named paper.
fStgRsdD
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OTTAWA, CAN. October I3.-The sub
ject of conversation tonight is the blow
ing up of the Parliament buildings at
Quebec All precautions were taken here
In the way of extra policemen at the Par
lament huildin0s
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Tnn Eollics

First-To think the more man eats the
fatter and stronger he viii become.
Seeond-To think the more hours chill
dren study al school the faster they learn.
Third-To conclude that if exercise is
heaithful the more violent or exhausting
ii is the more good it is doing
Fourth-ro imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained.
Fifth-To act ON the presumption that
the smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
Sixth-To argue that whatever remedy
causes one TO feel Immediately better is
good for the system, without regard to
mere interior effects.
Seyenth-To commit an act which is
felt in itself to be preiudicial, hoping that
somehow or other il may be done in Your
case with impunity
Eighth-To advise another 10 take
remedy which you have tried on yourself,
or without special inquiry whether all the
conditions are alike
Niuth-To eat without an appetite, or to
continue to eat after ii has been satisfied,
merely to CRAFTY the taste
Tenth-ro eat 4 hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the brief time
it is passing down the throat, at the ex-
pense of whole night of disturbed sleep,
and weary waking in the morning.
[ cottage Hearth