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The National tribune., 1885-06-18
FOR THE LADIES.

Princess Beatrice must be charming and de-
liciousiy lovely She is said to look like Ameri
can giri--Augssta tGal Chronicle.
1t Is said that 800 farms In Iowa are owned by
women and that % dairy farms are managed by
women. There are Us women physicians and five
women aitorneys-at-aw in the State.
- nIrS. Emily H Tubnan. one of the oldest and
wealthieSt residents of Augusta Ca, died yeStcr-
day. aged 81 years. She was the ward and personal
friend of Henry Clay, and assisted at the welcome
to Lafayette in Augusta. She was q most remark
able woman, and gave over $4,000 year to
churches and charity She built several Christian
or CampbeliIte Churches in Georgia and assisted in
maintaining the colleges of this church IN West
Virginia and throughout the West Her real estate
goes to maintain a home for the poor of Richmond
County in which Augusta is, according to the pro-
visions of her husbands Will.
An old lady over SO years of age, and who was
great beauty, died recently in Paris, leaving
after her a diary In which she endeavors to show
up the alleged vanity Of women. From the age of
20 to 80 she spent three hours day at her toilet,
which foot up for the period one year 81 days and
six hours employed in dressing her hair. powder
ing her checks, and painting her lips From 80 to
80 the toilet labor5 amounted to five hours a day,
the extra hours being cousecrated to the covering
of the tracks of time intending the obteration of
crows feet and other necessary filling in and grad
efforts had to be redoubed. To the last she resisted
the effects of time.
Following is the inscription on the tomb of the
first husband of Martha Washington at AIRING
tom the original seat of the Gusts family, the
Eastern shore of Virginia:
Beneath this marble tomb lies ye body
of the Honorable John Custis. Esq,
Of the City of Williamsburg and Parish Of Boston,
Formerly Of Hangers Parish on the Eastern
Virginia, and the County of Northampton, the
place of his nativity.
Aged II years. and yet lived but seven years,
Which was the space of time he kept
Bachelors House at Arlington,
On the Eastern Shore of Virginia"
The National tribune., 1885-06-18

have already become a part of the common
heritage of glory of all the people of America.
Would that l could meet here to-day in living
presence that splendid man and soldier, Robert
Lee, on this very field, where in all honor and
earnestnesS we strove as enemies for the cause
which each deemed just, and once more take
him by the hand, as in those long past days
when We served together IN the land of the
Montezumas, and prove to all that the fact that
we had fought against each other in many a
stubborn fight had left no rancor in our hearts,
and that we were once more reunited in de-
votion to our common country.
/ know that that noble nature bore no malice,
and that he would be the first to respond to
the appeal, and unite with me in paying to the
gallant dead of the Army of the Potomac the
same tribute of reverence that | offer to those
of the Army of Northern Virginia.
My countrymen, as we proceed to that which
I trust is no idle ceremony of mere form, but
tribute from the very heart of hearts, while
we pour ont our silent wishes for the repose of
the heroic dead-although convinced that
what the Army of Northern Virginia could
not destroy is safe for all coming time-let US
not forget prayer that our great Union may
never again be endangered, and that no shadow
of civil war may ever darken the future of our
country without a new Army of the Potomac
to meet it.
Whatever danger may threathen the land in
the ages to come, the people may rest secure if
such armies arise for its defense as the two
which fought on this very field.
This our land never did nor never shall
Lie at the proud foot of a conuueror
But when it first did help to wound itself
Now these her children come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms
And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us
If America To itself rest true
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
An Absent-Mirded Barber.


"Ees," said the proprietor of an uptown bar
Der shop, "Jim was good workman, but had
to get rid of him."
"What was the trouble?"
He was too absent-minded an forgetful
One old fellow, with head like billiard ball,
he never failed to ask if he didn't want q
shampoo Another bald-headed old chap got
mad because Jim insisted upon sellin him a
bottle of Elixir that was warranted to keep
the hair from fallin' out; an young man,
who was slightly under the influence Of beer,
fell asleep in the chair and Jim shaved Off his
mustache. l had to call in policeman then.
He cut one mans ear nearly off while watch
ing dog fight in the street, an sometimes he
would rub hair oil over a customers face in
stead of his head. an fill his ears full Of lather
and forget to wipe it out. Jim didn't mean
nothin' wrong, but as said, he was absent
minded. You remember when old Deacon
Jones died2"
"Yes"
"Well, the family sent for barber to shave
him, an told Jim to go up. 1t was that job
that lost him his situation. He did the work
all right,-nobody ever found fault with Jim's
work; but when he had put on the fnishin'
touches, an pulled the towel off the poor old
deacon, he turned round an shouted 'Next!'
so that people heard him a block away. So
told Jim that guessed I'd have to let him CO."
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
What an Eminent Lecturer Said.

Prominent among gentlemen who have at
tanned national reputation is Mr.. Edward l..
Wilson, of Philadelphia, natural artist,
superior photographers, and fascinating
speaker In Winter he addresses large audi
ences, aud in Summer he gives illustrated
lectures at the various camps Of moral and
religious instruction throughout the country.
In consequence of close application to his
professional duties Mr.. Wilson became con-
frmed invalid His absorbing labor con-
nected with photographing the Centennial
Exhibition in 1876, when he had charge of over
a hundred artists and workmen, first impaired
his naturally strong constitution
To a representative Of a city paper who
called upon Mr.. Wilson, he gave the following
relation in regard to his loss of health and
subsequent complete restoration:
"The strain on me had been too great. Invent
down. down, gradually. I became so prostrated
that I could not sleep more than an hour or two
ia the course Of the night. suffered Nth acute
neuralgia, and NTH headache, which, ghen they came
suddealy. pould render po,oerless to think or
act. My appetite became capricious and my
digestion demoralized. Ny throat GAGE me
trOnjle, and began 10 be afraid of Chronic Bron-
clitis. One day five or six years ago, friend
who had been cured of rheumatism by Com
pound Oxygen, said to ME, 'Why don't YOU
try Compound Oxygen?' / laughed at the
idea, for / had no faith that such thing could
reach my case. But consulted Drs. Starkey
g. Palen at their office in Girard ST., and con-
cluded to give their Treatment thorough
trial.
In less than month began to feel great
change. My headaches became less frequent and
/ began TO get better Sleep The strained, wearied
feeling Of Tie body from utich / had long suffered
departed, and Nth IL the mental depression under
aohich l had labored TiDOat trouble aDent aray
and had q decided increase IN lung poWer. nv
good appetite returned my digestive organs disposed
Of all the food gaze ten ,oas as good as neU.* .
:" have since engaged in my old duties with
more than my former activity, often in the open
air, without any throat trouble. / attend without
difficulty to the details of my large photo
graphic business. can work general thing
about seventeen hours in day, and my work
seldom tires me-"
A Treatise on Compound 0xygea," containing
a history of the discovery and mode of action
of this remarkable curative agent and large
record OF surprising cures in Consumption,
Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis. Asthma etc.,
and wide range Of Chronic diseases, will be
sent free Address DRs. STARKEY 81 PALEN
llo9 and I'LL Girard ST., Philadelphia.
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lie Wasn't Ashamed.

A clerk and his country father entered a
restaurant Saturday evening and took seats at
a table where sat q telegraph operator and a
reporter. The old man bowed his head and
was about to say grace when a waiter few up
singing, 81 have beafsteak, Goldfish balls and
bullheads." Father and son gave their orders,
and the former again bowed his head. The
young man turned the color of a blood-red
beet, and touching his arm, exclaimed in a low,
nervous tone:
Father, it isn't customary to do that in
restaurants!"
It's customary with me to return thanks to
God wherever l am," said the old man.
For the third time he bowed his head, and
his son bowed his head, and the telegraph
operator paused in the act of carving his beef
steak and bowed his head, and the journalist
pushed back his ishball and bowed his head,
and there wasn't man who heard the short
and simple prayer that didn't feel a profounder
respect for the old farmer than if he had been
President of the United States.
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
MONKEYS AT BREAKFAST.
Brides Experience in Her Indian Home-Mon.
keys Grave and Gay.


An English gentleman who lived in India
during his early life tells an amusing story of
some pranks played by monkeys. They were
almost as tame and playful as kittens about his
home, and there were great number of them.
He says:
/ was married in India, and engaged for our
home house Ia miles or SO from any other
habitation of white man. On the morning of
our arrival my wife went in to change her
travelling dress. while the servants laid break
fast on the verands overlooking the river. At
the clatter of the plates there began to come
down from the big tree that overshadowed the
house. and up the trees that grew in the ravine
behind it, and from the house roof itself, from
everywhere, a multitude of solemn monkeys.
They came up singly and in couples and in
families. and took their places without noise or
fuss on the veranda and sat there like an audi
ence waiting for an entertainment to commence.
And when everything was ready, the breakfast
all laid, the monkeys all seated, went in to
call my wife.
Breakfast is ready and they are all wait
ing" said l.
"Who are waiting?" she asked in dismay.
az thought we were going to be alone, and
was just coming out in my dressing gown"
Never mind" l said. "The people about
here are not very fashionably dressed them
selves. They wear pretty much the same things
all the year round"
Ana SO my Vile came out. Imagine, then,
her astonishmeHt.
In the middle of the veranda stood our break
fast table, and all the rest of the space, well
as the railings and the steps. was covered with
an immense company of monkeys, as grave as
possible and as motionless and silent as if they
were stuffed. Only their eyes kept blinking
and their little round ears kept twitching.
Laughing heartily, at which the monkeys only
looked all the graver, my wife sat down.
"Will they eat anything?' said she.
"Try them," said.
So she then picked up biscuit and threw it
among the company.
Three hundred monkeys jumped up in the
air like one, and just for one instant there was
a riot that defed description. The next instant
every monkey was sitting in its place as solemn
and serious as if it had never moved. Only
their eyes winked and their ears twitched.
My wife threw them another biscuit, and
again the riot, and then another and another.
But at length we had given away all that we
had to give and stood up to go. The monkeys
at once rose-every monkey on the veranda-
and, advancing gravely to the steps, walked
down them in q solemn procession. old and
young together, and dispersed for the days oc-
CupatiOn.
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ITO be continucd.l
Almost Willing to Sacrifice Himself.

A negro and his family living on the Decatur
division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
recently attempted one of the most sensational
swindies of the day. There are 10 children in
the family, and the husband and wife find it
hard work to feed so many mouths. At fami-
ly council it was finally decided that one of the
children should sit down on the railroad track
and be run over by passenger train. The
parents would then sue the company for dam
ages, with which the remaining youngsters
could be fed, clothed, and educated. One of the
boys was so much struck with the project that
he volunteered to sacrifice himself for the good
of the others. Shortly before the train was
due he took his seat On the track and waited.
The train came laundering along. The little
darky held the fort. He was true grit until
the engine got within about 10 feet of him,
when he gave an unearthly yell, and with
bound into midair made tracks. The authorities
investigated the matter, and the above facts all
came out,
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
"WHEAT BAKING POWDER.

"The jurors in the above class (305l having
carefully examined the exhibit made by NJ
Kalbfeisch's Sons, New York, and all compet-
ing exhibits find the Baking Ponder is a pure
preparation, Ueu adapted for all baking purposes,
as it contains neither alum other deleterious
substances, is considered a wh0lesoae preparation,
and awarded a FIRsT-CLAss MEDAL.-M Miller
for Awards Committee, New Orleans Interna-
tional Exposition"
In the issue of Nov. 18th, The Ne1o York
Tribune, speaking of baking powders, published
the following Professor Won Liebig once sad
in speaking of baking powders, that a material
should be made which would add to the bread
the elements lost to the -four. Martin Kalb-
feisch's Sons have succeeded in producing a
baking powder which, in the opinion of Prof
Siliiman, of Yale, possesses the properties
recommended by Won Liebig. 1t restores to
the bread the potassa and magncsia salts which
the milling removes from all high grade -four
1t is also entirely free from those injurious
salts which are often found in ordinary baking
powder. This new invention is called WHEAT
BAKING POWDER, and makes bread and bis
cults that dyspeptics can eat"
The manufacturers of this unrivaled powder
will send sample for trial to any reader of
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE free of all cost. All
that is necessary to be done to receive the pres
ent is to send your name and address on postal
card, saying you saw the advertisement in this
paper, to Martin Kalbheisch's Sons, New York
City. SEND AT ONCE. oiz
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
SCIENTIFIC CHAT,

The State Geologist of New Jersey gives the
following directions for making cheap but excel
lent filter for purifying drinking water: 1t is the
bottle filter, and Is made by tying string wet
with turpentine around the bottom of a quart bot
tie and breaking out the bottom. This is done by
lighting the string, and when the flame has encir-
cled the bottle. dipping it in cold water. Layers
of fine cotton batting must then be placed in the
bottle until n wad is collected that rests on the
ahoulders of the bottle and its neck. Now
dissolve cup of alum in hot water and pour the
solution into a cup of cold water This makes a
ftering substance. use alum because it is the
only thing which will precipitate all the impurities
of the water to the bottom. For every gallon of
water that it Is desired to purify add a teaspoonfu
of the titerng fluid and stir it until every particle
of the animaculse Is precipitated, This usually
takes about five minutes. Then your gallon OF
water thus treated through the filter and you viii
have your water free from all impurities"
- From the census tests to determine the power
of various woods to resist longitudinal COM
p ession it appears that large proportion of the
very toughest IN this respect comes from semi
tropical Florida. First among them stands Spanish
stopper (engenia buxifoiia) then mangrove (Rhizo-
phora mangiel, then red iron wood (Reynosia lati-
fola), followed by Usage orange, 81 Southwestern
tree. Then follow succession of Florida trees
again, broken by Greigg's acacia (which ranks No.
TO- and extends from Western Texas to San Diego)
The black locust stands No. Is, and is the first
eastern tree in the List which grows As far north as
Pennsylvania.
A process for making sea water drnkable has
been discovered by an English experiment.. 1t
consists in using citrate of silver to remove the
chlorides. One ounce of the citrate of silver will
uiahS HELL pht of SEA water IL fuftuSE
experiments confirm this it Is probable all sea-
going vessels and lifeboats belonging to them will
be provided with bottles of citrate of silver.
One by one the instruments and processes of
our fathers are being relegated to the domain of
the antiquated. Now the churn must go. Accord
ing to French patent, the passage of a suitable
electric current through milk causes the rapid sep
aration of the butter and renders ehurning unnec-
essary. The manufacture of cheese and the re-
moval of rancdty from butter by electrical aid
also claimed.
To the list of hiccough remedies, most of which
concentrate the attention for few moments, the
Popular Science Monthly adds: " You say to yoar
affected friend something like this: See how close
together you hold the tips OF your forefingers
without touching. Now keep your elbows out
free from your side. You can get your fingers
closer than that. They are touching now. There
now hold them Steadyi' By this time you
ask: Now. why don't you hieeoughi'"
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
PERSONS AND THINGS.

1t Is said that the permanence of California
mountain forests Is seriously threatened by the
mountains every year to Craze. From the foothills
to the highest meadows every blade of herbage and
every Seeding shrub, and tree rs deyoured. Young
trees barked and ruined, and the roots OF
grasses are trodden out by the hooS OF the animals
The life of any forest in which all young trees
destroyed is limited to the life of the full grown
trees which compose 1t.
Iowa has $50 cattle to the square mile, larger
number it Is said, than any other State.
Horses cnn now be supplied with artificial tails
of the most beautiful quality The largest tail fac
tory is at Bridgeport, Conn.,
The throne OF the Empress of Russia is COM
pletely covered with plates of gold. and contains
SEQ rubies and coo tarauoises beside many other
and costly gems The throne OF the Car Is
known as the diamond throne. Russia possesses
jority of which were procured ut the expense of
blood. The jewels in the Cathedral of Moscow
alone are valued at SD ,000,00O
There are three political parties in Japan the
Juitos who are in favor Of Republic; the kokentOs
who are imperiaiists, and the Kaishintos, whose
general principle is to be agin the Government"
At present the kokentos appear to have the upper
hand.
The bicycle Is to be officially introduced into
the Bavarian army. number of soldiers of the
garrison of Munich are at present doing orderly
service for the purpose of trying the practcabiity
of the :" eeI."-4me1ican Register, Paris.
Three Mormon Elders have been placed in jail
In Tennessee under the new law making it a miS-
dcmeanor to preach Mormonism. They will test
the constitutiOnality of the law.
Chinese are pouring into California in almost
great numbers as ever, Notwithstanding the re-
strictive legislation. The great majority come ON
Custom House certificates believed to have been
purchased i'll Hong Kong from returning coolies.
There is evidence i'll their appearance that they
had ever been in this country. The examination
is said to be slight that there IS difficulty in
getting through
- Many English cIergymen are sufferingseverely
from loss in the of their parishes In four
benetfces in archdeaconry in the diocese of
Peterborough, the aggregate income has fallen
from $40 eco TO 81 600.
A convict in an English prison perfected the
style Of lawn tennis racquet now the most popular
among British players.
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
Notice.

Campers will do we'll to write to G. W. Sim
mons & Co., of Boston, Mass, if in need of tents
or camp furniture of any kind. G. w. Simmons
& Co. are Headquarters for G. A. r., military
and sporting outfits, and if you have not seen
their neW illustrated circulars send for one.
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
Making q Mouse Useful.

In French town in which the telegraph
wires are laid underground, a telegraph line
was interrupted. The workmen pulled out the
wire and repaired it, but then discovered that
they could not pass a wire through the pipe,
by means of which they could pull the tele-
graph wire back into place. A laborer, how
ever, found an ingenious way of avoiding the
difficulty. He caught mouse and tied to it's
tail very slender wire. Then he put the
mouse in the pipe. At first the mouse refused
to submit to what it perhaps regarded as an in
dignity, but when a big cat was brought the
mouse ran for dear life through the pipe, drag
ging along the slender wire, by means of which
the workmen pulled the telegraph wire through.
Ask for Ayers Sarsaparilla, and do not be
persuaded to take any other. Sold by all drug
piSts
The National tribune., 1885-06-18

Three or four hours every night coughing.
Get immediate relief and sound rest by using
Wells slough on Coughs" Troches, 15c.;
Liquid. 25c.
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
A Present to Housewives,

In another column of the paper will be no.
ticed the advertisement of the now famous
Wheat Baking Power, which recently eclipsed
all competitors and took the gold medal at the
New Orleans Exposition. The following is an
accurate copy Of the formal award of the COM
mittce
The National tribune., 1885-06-18
by yKENSINGT0S X ART %.

ea "A SONGS and the Best Ssczy Pspsr In It's -T"-
sEEHA 3montis Free all who send cent stsnt -
- - postage Address Social viztsfs s6ostoa, ssS.
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CURE FOR THE CHILDREN

Children feel the debility of the changing
than adults and they become cross peevsh and
controlabe The blood should be cieansed and the sys
TEN nvigorated by the Of Hoods SarsaParIla. Give
1t q trial.
"Last spring my two children vaccinated. Soon
AFTER they broke all out with running sores dreadful
thought should lose them. Hoods SasaparilIa cured
them completely and they have been healthy
feel that Hoods Sarsaparla saved my children to
me-" MRS C. L. THOMPSON, wes. Warren, Mass.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Sold by all druggists. q; six for s. Made only by
G. ]. HOOD CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR.
The National tribune., 1885-06-18

lam glad, inexpressibly glad, that have been
permitted to live until the fame and exploits
of these magnanimous rivals have become the
common property of our people; when the
ability and virtues of Robert Lee, and the
achievements of the magnificent Army Of
Northern Virginia, IS well as the hsroism and
rsnown of the proud Army of the Potomac,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-06
LADIES, UsR1EAcaEp Hos,rRy
AT THE

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