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A Famous Inventors Rise.

In a letter from Fargo, Dakota, to the
| St. Paul Pioneer Press we find the follow
ing: On the train from Bismarck to
this city l met ]. P. Rossiter, who had
charge of oil the Northern Pacific roll
ing. stock between Fargo and Livingston:
Speaking OF electrical inventions and
improvements, Mr.. Rossiter said he
knew Prof. Elisha Gray very we'll. "We
both worked at the same bench in o cab
met. makers shop in Oberlin, Ohio, IN
1854. His genius was a part OF his
birthright. | remember we'll his coming
to the shop one day with his face badly
cut by glass with which he had been ex-
p%erimenting in the mixture of chemicals:
We worked year or two together, and
then GRAY married Della Shepherd. lkncw
her we'll, and she lived only a mile west
of Oberlin. After that he moved on to
her mothers farm, and commenced ped
ding milk and making butter. This he
continued until he demonstrated his ina
bility to make a profit, and succeeded in
compelling his mothcr-in law to mort
gage her farm and sacrifice her property,
whereupon he began the study Of tele'
graphing and of telegraph instruments,
something that he before knew nothing
about.
Two or three years he spent in fool
ing with an old instrument, until his
poverty increased to such an extent
that his wife had to appeal to friends
and neighbors for the nccessaries OF life
For wceks.he would hardly speakto her,
and the impression became prevalent
thai he was not in his right mind. Ono
morning he returned from his work-room
with Il smile and said: "Delia, I've got
it." and at once commenced q long dis
sertation upon the advantages of "a
self-adjusting helix" So Incompetent
siblc were his statements to the uncom'
plainine wife that she rushed off to the
pastor of her church and conidentlally
told him that her worst fears were no"
confirmed, and there Was no longer any
question of her husbands insanity.
While appropriate action to be taken
in the case was being discussed Gray
slipped down to Cleveland, showed hlf
invention to some capitalists and manu-
facturers and sold n half interest in the
same for $3.50, 900 cash before re-
turning home. When last I saw him he
was q millionaire, had travelled arouno
the world with his wife, and had faker
out his nineteenth patent.
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Facts Worth Knowing.

There arc 2,75O languages.
A square mile contains Gi0 acres.
4. barrel OF rice weighs 600 pounds.
The ave age human life is 81 years.
The first steel pen was made in 1880.
A barrel of flour weighs 1856 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
4 span is ten and seven. eighth inches
A hand (horsc mcasure) is four inches.
Watches were first constructed in 14T6.
A storm moves t~hirty.six miles pei
hour.
The first lucifcr match was made in
1929.
The value of a ton of silver is $37, 704.
81.
\ hurricane moves eighty miles pei
hour. 49,.
The first iron steamship was built in
1880.
Modern needles first came into use in
1915.
Coaches were first built in England in
1869. ...
The first horse railroad was built in
1867. =,
One million dollars of gold coin weighs
1855 pounds avoirdupo:s.
Until 177G cotton-spinning was per
formed by the hand-spinning wheel.
One million dollars of silver coin weigh:
So. 5000 pounds avoirdupois.
The first complete sewing machine wa
patented by Elias Howe in 1916.
Glass windows was first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
Albert Durcr gave the world q proph'
ccy of future wood engraving in 1927.
Measure 200 feet on each side and you
will have a square acre within IN inch.
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BY THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI,

The king Of rivers has a dolorous shore,
A dreadful dominion of cypress trees,
a gray bird rising forevermore,
And drifting away toward the Mexican
seas
A lone bird seeking for some lost mato,
So dolorous, lorn and desolate.
The shores are gray as the sands are gray;
And gray are the trees in their cloaks OF
moss;-
That gray bird rising and drifting away
Slow dragging its weary long legs across
so weary, just over the gray woods brink;
1t wearies one, body and soul, to think.
These vast gray levels of cypress wood,
The gray soldiers grave; and so, Gods
will =
These cypress trees roots are still running
blood; -.
The smoke Of battle in their moses still
That gray bird YEARLY drifting away
Was startled some long-since battle day.
joaquin Miller, in the Current.
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Beauties of Madagascar,

Lieutenant Shufeldt, Of the United
States navy, who recently crossed
! Madagascar from cast to west, accom-
plishing what few white men and no
American had done before, said in n re-
cent lecture about the island and his eX
plorations there:
madagascar is the third largest island
On the globe. Its area covers 230, 600
square miles; being 1000 miles long,
and averaging in breadth 230 to 400
miles. 1t is four times the size of Great
Britain. The interior gives the observer
q potent sense or silent and majestic
vastncss. II exhibits some of the grand
est specimens of natures handiwork,
consisting of mountain peaks, plains and
forest cataracts and waterfalls. Around
the area coast stretches a dense bet OF
tropical forest, the home OF malarias and
deadly fever; the abiding place of saw
age and barbarous people, and of richly
plumcd birds. The chief river, the
Sizebouge, is the size of the Ohio, and
shows some of the most magnificent
scenery in the world, thundcrous water
falls and cataracts bordercd by primeval
forests"
The speaker said he thought this river
would prove navigable and might be
made the highway for the products of
the interior, ebony, sugar, rice, and
other articles of commerce. in quantities
sufficient to make it ''thc FL Dorado of
the Eastern seas" The climate he de-
scribed as variable. In the interior it is
eluable and temperate. frequently re-
minding one of a New. England autumn,
but about the sea coast it is always warm
and I'm wholesome. He estimated the
popu alton at 5, 700, 000, embracing many
races of men varying in color, physique
and civilization. The principal tribe,
the IIovas, arc men of Malay origin,
with fair complexion, bright and spark
ling eyes, aquiline noses, numbering
about 800. 600, and far in advance of the
rest of the inhabitants IN intelligence
and the arts of civilization. The women
are often handsome. some of these adj
vantages can be attributed to climate,
the region inhabited by them averaging
Also feet above the sea level, and af-
fording o bracing atmosphere. Next in
importance and intelligence he placed
the Betsileo tribe, the men possessing
1.-the and active frames, but the women,
unlike the Hova women, are seldom or
never handsome. The Barra people. in
the southern part of the island. are dis
tiuguished by their lack of %enaobling
qualities. The morality of tho Barra,
said Lieutenant Shuleldt, might thus be
summed up: Give me my gun and my
spear, my rum and my wives, and my
oxen; let me steal. plumber and destroy
everybody; let nobody modest me, and
care not who is my king"
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Trees and Lightning.

Professor Tyndall, IN a recent lecture
on electricity, produced the clothes o a
man who was taking refuge under a tree
when it was struck by lightning. IT. was
a foolish thing, he observed, to 60 under
a tree during an electric storm, unless
person stood some distance from the
trunk. In this particular case, however,
the mans clothes were very wet, and,
though they were very much torn, they
formed a sufficiently good conductor to-
the lightning, and he escaped with NJ;
life. Had his raiment been dry he would
inevitably have been killed. Produc ne
the man, boo;s, the lecturer pointed oul
that the uppers were torn to pieces by
the electric fluid in its anxiety to reach
the earth: but the sole, into the con
structiou of which iron largely entered
in the shape of hobnails, formed a good
conductor and was not hurt.
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Homo items and Topics.
-"AU your own fault
# you remain sick when you can
GAf hon bikters that neyer-FM

~ va "ASA
Get hop bitters that never-FaI
Tho weakest woman, smallest child, sp1
hckest invalid can use hop bitters with safety!
and great good.
Old men tottering around with rheumar
Hm, kidney troubles or any weakness VIII b
made almost new by using hop bitteTs.
tBMy wife and daughter were healthy BY
the use Of hop bitters and I recommend them
to my people. Methodist Clergyman.
Ask any good doctor II hop
Bitters are not the best family medicine
On earth! | !
Malarial fever, Ague and BIIiousness, VIII
Leave every neighborhood as soon a.
hop bttters arrive.
my mother drove the paralysis and neuc:
ralgia all out OF her system with hop bitter.
Ed Ostcego Sun.
E-Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bit
ters and you iced not fear sickness"
Ice water is rendered harmless and more
refreshing and reviving with hop bitters In
such a draught. :
Tho vigor of youth for the aged and In
firm in hop bitters! 4! ! (
(-"Att the change of Life nothing equals
Hop Bitters to allay all troubles incident
Thereto.n
1.-THE best periodical for ladies to take
monthly, and from which they will receive
the greatest benefit. is hop bitters-"
Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing chill
dren, will cure the children and benefit them
selves by taking hop bitters daily.
Thousands Gle annually from some form
Of kidney disease that might have been pre-
vented by a timely usc Of hop bitters.
Indigestion, weak stomach, i~rregulart.
ties Of the bowels, cannot exist when hop
bitters are used. =
A timely y + y use Of hop
Bitters will keep a whole family
In robust health a year at a little cost.
TO produce real genuine sleep and child
like repose all night, take a little hop bitters
on retiring. ~.
EY-None genuine without q bunch Of green
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, pol
sonous stuff with "Hop" or Chops" in their
name.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
To recent ropre in sanitary science

To recent progress in sanitary science
Sir Joseph Tayrer, formerly surgeon gen.
eral of the army in India, attributes the
fact that England's death-rate has de-
creased during the present century from
forty in the thousand to twenty in the
thousand.
a mountain explorer just returned from
Asia states that during a four months
residence at a hcighth of more than 49,
600 feet abovethe sea his pulse, normally
siXty-thrce beats per minute, seldom fell
below one hundred beats per minute, and
his rcspirations were often twice as
numerous as at ordinary levels.
After many years of experimenting, q
German chemist claims to have succeeded
at last in coating i~nstantancously all the
ordinary metals and their alloys with a
thin film of brass, which a be varied
in color. He uses only a single battery
cell, and obtains at will solid deposits of
various hues and brilliancy.
TRANSMISSION Of blood has been SUCCESS
fully tried in the collapse of cholera by
a member of the Paris Faculty of mcdi
cine. The patient, who was moribund
when the remedy was tried, recovered
from the death coma in a few minutes,
and, from the moment of the
TRANSMISSION spontaneously and rapidly
improved. Human blood was employed
in the case; but experiments arc to be
made with the blood of domestic ami
mails, particularly sheep and cattle.
According to the novel computation OF
a German histologist, who has been cal
culatlng the aggregate cell forces of the
human brain, the cerebral mass is com
poscd of at least 800, 600, 600 of nerve
cells, each an independent body, organ
ism and microscopic brain, so far as con-
Germs its vital relations, but s~ubordinated
to a higher purpose in relation to the
function of the organ, each living n sep
aratc life individually, though socially
subject to higher law of function. The
life term of a nerve cell he estimates to
be about sixty days, so that 5, 1000, 900 die
every day, about 200, 900 every hour and
nearly 1850 every minute, to be sue
cceded by an equal number of their
progeny; while once in every sixty days
Il man has C totally new brain.
Beside the vast quantities of solid par
ticles which arc washed from the land
into the sea -rcducing the height of the
entire Mississippi basin at the estimated
rate of one foot in $1,000 years-much
matter is dissolved by the water, and
carried away in a state in which it ordi'
narily escapes notice. From data fur
nished by the Mississippi, the La Plata,
the Amazon and the st. Lawrence, Mr..
T. Mellard Readc, an English geologist,
who has devoted much attention to the
chemical dcnudation of the earth's sur
face, has calculated that the whole
American continent is losing in this way
an average of 100 tons per square mile
each year. Similar results have been
obtained for Europe, leading Mr.. Readc
to infer that the whole of the land drain
ING into the Atlantic Ocean from Ameri-
ca, Africa, Europe and Asia contributes
matter in solution, which, if reduced to
rock at two tons to the cubic yard,
would equal one cubic mile every six
pnorS
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Il There Cure for Consumption

We answer unreservedly, yes! II tu5 pa
tent commences in TINA the use OF DR.;
Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" and
exercises proper care. II allowed to run its
course too long all medicine is powerless to
STAY it. DR.. Pierce never deceives a patient
by holding out a false hope for the sake OF
pecuniary gain. The Golden Medical Dis
covery" has cured thousands Of patients when
nothing else seemed to avail. Your drug
eist has it. Send two stamps for DR.. Pierce's
complete treatise on consumption with nu'
merous testimonials. Address Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY.
An early riser - Yeast.
T j.

AN early rlSer- eaSI.
A wet day-Wash.day.
The dark cages-Dungeon cells.
A man need not necessarily be pos
sessed of musical ability to strike a liar.
Bloomington Eye.
A little New Hartford ~three-year-old
boy, in admiring his baby brother, ex-
claimed, He's got o boiled head, like
papa"
The fact that the poet is born, not
made, relieves our educational system
from a serious responsibility .-Boston
Courier.
A New York woman ate a porous plas-
ter instead Of applying it in the usual
way. Her neighbors declared she was a
terribly stuck-up thing.-Blizsara.
They are experimenting at Staten
Island with some new cannon. These
cannon have the latest style of breaches,
with four pockets, and are very killing.
-LoueW Courier.
Miss Angelica: I suppose you have
been going out a great deal lately, MIR.
! McFamish7" mo; I have only been to
one dinner in two weeks" "Dear me!
You must be hungry" .
81 am surprised, john" said an old
lady when she found the butler helping
himself to some of the finest old port.
$50 am I, ma'am. I thought you had
gone out" was the reply.
The true use of q porus plaster, &C.
cording to a Milwaukee druggist, is "to
retain the back in its proper place and
let the pain crawl out through the
holes. "-Meuman Independent.
"Have you any home ties2'" asked
a lady of a young man whose appear
ance indicated dissipation. ooh, yes
(hic) home tics, lots of 'em, g-g-got a
mother-in-lawr'-CaE Pretzets Weekly.
As we look through the lists Of "the dead Of
the year,"
We notice without surprise,
The names of q great many business men,
-Merchant-Trareler
An exchange has an article on "The
rise of the roller rink" This ought to
confirm the theory of the young man
new to the rollers that the floor flew up
and hit him in the back of the neck
Blizzard.
An Australian naturalist is reportedto
have discovered that sponges are en-
dowed with q nervous system. All the
s.sponges" known to US socially certainly
display a great deal of "nerve' in their
own peculiar way.-LoueN Citizen.
Reciprocity-Landlord: "Have you
any fanily9" Intending lodger: "No."
L.: That's right, for l don't let my
rooms to dodgers with families" I. L.:
s'Have you a family2" L.: "Yes; four
children" I. L.: ''Sorry to hear it, for
I never take apartments with landlords
who have families. "-G. Petersburger'
Zeitung.
An eminent sportsman was b~oasting his skill,
And was ''going it," too, pretty hot.
He swore on his honor, that once on O lime
He hit seventeen hares with one shot.
But q friend standing by rose up in his wrath
And exclaimed, "That there statements
too big:
We can't swallow it, unless you admit
You were shooting that day at your wig"
Judge.
A pie in ITO was made of two bushels
of flour, twenty pounds of butter, four
geese, two turkeys. two rabbits, four
wild ducks, two woodcocks, six snipes,
four partridges two heats tongues, two
c%urleys. seven blackbirds and SIX pig
cons. A pie can now be had from n
slice of dried apple and q piece of soggy
dough, such is the march of improve
ment.- Courier Journal.
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The VoLTAIc BELT Co., Of Marshall,
Mich, offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO.
ANCEs on trial for thirty days, to men young
or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss OF
vitality and manhood, and all hndredtroubles.
Also for rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, and
many other diseases. Complete restoration
to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No
risk is incurred as thirty days trial Is allowed.
Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet
FREQ
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All the ice that is used in Mexico
comes from the top of ~Popocatapetl, is
brought down the mountain on the backs
of the natives, and then sixty miles on
the cars to the city, where it is sold at
wholesale for ten cents a pound. At the
bar-rooms iced drinks are very expen-
siyc, and ice is seldom seen anywhere else.
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A prehistoric workshop, dating from
tho stone age, has been discovered by NJ.
Saillard on q steep rock by the sea on
the southwest side Of the peninsula Of
Quiberon Brittany. In it have been
found the skeleton Of a workman and
various objects and implements illustra-
tive of the smiths methods and process.
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When VIC become exclusively ab'
sorbcd in one pursuit, however legiti-
mate it may be in itself, it draws the
mind and interests away from all other
things, and causes us to neglect Them
though some of them may be distinctly
defined duties as itself.
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For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression o. splr-
It's and general debility in their various forms,
also as q preventive against fever and sgus and
other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor.
ated Elixir Of Calisays," made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by al Drug.
gists, is the best tonic and for patients recover
ing from feveror other sickness it has no equal.
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There is still in existence in England
a society devoted to the work Of dis
droving the doctrine that the earth is a
globe revolving about the sun.
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Young Men:-Read This

"Buchu Pniba.o
Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder
and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
Stone, Gravel, Catarrh Of bladder. 81. Druggists.
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The Origin Of ~"Chowder."

The French Canadians cook nearly
everything they eat in the ''chaudiere'
from this word comes, it is claimed,
our appetizing "chowder." There are
some falls near the city of Ottawa, in
Canada, which are called the "Chau.
diere" from their resemblance to a paEN
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Important.
When you visit or leave New York city. savebs6SaSe,
e1pressaee and 90 carriage hire. and stop At the Grand
Union Hotel. opposite Grand Central depot.
6OUelegan rooms, fitted M u . cost Of ons million
dollars, 81 and upward perdsy.. European plan. Els
vator. Restaurant supplied With tho bsst. Hoss cars.
stages and elevated railroad to al dsposs. Families
can live better for less money at tho Grand Union
Hotel than 1t any other hrtelsss hotel In the city.
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Heart Pains.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swsllings, Dizziness,
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by
"Wells' Health Renewer.n
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Price q In liquid, pill es tassass hf1.
. III purpose u solely for tho legitimate hsalang q o.
Il clafus to do, thousands oIIadtes caa gladly testJs.
II w!u euro entirely all Ovarian troubles, InnammA.
ton and liberation, Falling and Displacement, and
adapted to tho change Of life s.s.s.s.sssse
. Itremores F~aintness, Flatuleucy, destroys AZ craving
for stimulants, and relieves Weakness OF the Stomach.
General Debility, Blecpleasness, Depression and Lndi-
ges.ion.,. That feeling of bearing down, cau;tn9 pain
. Send stamp to Lynn, Mass, for pamphlet Lcttefso Of
inquiry conddenttAlly answered. For sok0tdrnoptnA
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Bad treatment or structure often compli-
Gates the disease and makes 1t difficult Of
cure. The worst and most inveterate cases
speedily yield to our new and improved
methods. Pamphlet, references and terms
sent for two three-cent stamps. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Bu6alo,N. z.
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The Druggist estimates that - an
nual production of canned goods in the
United States equals 500, 600, 900 pack
ages, or ten for every person.
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The Indian Of falcon glance and lion bear.
Ing, the theme Of the touching ballad Is gone;
but the petroleum they discovered, now made
into Carboline, the Natural Hair Restorer
will live forever.
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The recent census Of Paris shows that II
has 9. 739. 9a28 inhapitants
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WHEN may q chair be said to dislike you'll
When 1t can't bear you.

The best test Of a human life Is the amoszt
Of good it has been and done to others. Mr..
Lydia E. Pinkham may be given q seat OF
honor among those who have helped 10
change sickness into health, and to Transform
the darkness Of suffering into the sunshine of
~n,t o,d bopo
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BLACK PRINCE TWILLS,
GuiZOtt's $;:;:::: :: France

gives it from the pen Of q master, that can be thought OF
as a rival to the mammoth production Of Guizot. How Mr..
Alden can give the eight volumes, and this on good paper, and
clear type, including the multitude of illustrations, isa thing
have CIPHERED ove,, but VIC faNt to underst0"d
1t. The first volume gives substantially the beginnings OF
French history. It is Of necessity the dullest of the eight, yet
4vith Guisot eves zogarithnns eOould be Te0daoe."-
Christian Leader, Boston, Mass. ,
"Ihe MARVELLOUS CHEAPNESS Of these profuse'
" illustrated and handsomely bound volumes must provoke
comment everywhere. Each volume is eas"y aoo'7n
AZ. 90. according to the standard of prices asked. This is
the only complete American edition of this work, which Is
known as the best popular history Of France."Journa
Indianapolis, Ind.
I'm the reproduction Of this work the publisher has outdone
all previous efforts, and has given us a MARPE OF EX-
CELLENCE, in every respect, at a marvel Of ~cheapness."
at Work; New York.
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"Rough on Rats.
Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants, bed
bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. l5c. Drgta