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People Who Use Snuff.

"Of course sell snuff" replied one Of
the leading tobacconists of Washington
to question from reporter, who had
been gazing with great curiosity at row
of tin boxes on shelf in the rear of the
store. 'There is a very good demand
for snuff and I always keep it in stock.
But sell to very few men. The fact is,
that know but one or two men who use
snuff"
"Who in the world are your customers
then2" inquired the listener, with con-
siderable astonishment.
"Why, the ladies, of course, " was the
reply, NEARLY all my customers are
women, and have quite a good trade.
There are certain class who use great
deal of snuff, but then the habit is not
confined to any particular class. l know
wives of members of Congress who are
fond of tobacco in this form, and use a
great deal of it"
sIshould think that their vanity would
keep them from such habit" said the
reporter. 'It makes the nose larger,
does it not9"
'They don't all snuff it. A great
many dip snuff. You know that habit
is very prevalent, especially in the South
ern States. My customers, however, are
not from any particular locality, but from
all parts of the country. 1 think that
the majority of people who use snuff dip
it; that is, rub it over their gums with
a small stick"
'Is it an expensive habit9"
"Not very, was the reply. ut don't
cost as much as smoking and chewing,
and in my opinion is much cleaner than
the last. The best snuff is Martinique,
which costs about $1.25 per pound. But
the article usually purchased costs fifty
and sixty cents per pound. There are
not as many varieties made now as there
used to be when the habit was more
prevalent. Only standard brands are in
the market, and it may be said that the
trade is dying out"
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BILE. Some of the bananas are brought
from ports along the coast, even 100
miles away. No. 1 fruit brings gener-
ally from three to four shillings per
bunch. 1t will thus be seen that native
who is willing to walk twelve miles with
two punches of bananas on his head for
six shillings, must be very desirous of
getting money. Help, in fact, on the
island of Jamaica is very cheap, and
common laborers may be hired for forty
cents per day. Some of the banana
groves are as large as two or three hun
dred acres, but they range in size all the
way from grove of ten trees upward.
The. very largest groves are owned by
Englishmen and Americans, but the
ordinary and smallest sized ones are
owned and cultivated by the natives
themselves. The natives eat scarcely
any meat, and their chief articles of food
are bananas, bread, sugar-cane, yams
and "star" apples, which grow there,
and are round, of purplish hue, and
full of milky substance which is very
pleasant to the taste. 1t should be
stated that the fruit is picked in green
state, about three-quarters grown. If
picked when ripe it would spoil before
reaching the great markets. -Prouldence
journal.
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over the early years of the social regime
of their term.

over the early years of the social regime
of their term.
Many living persons remember the in
cidents of society life of this period, tht
quiet, graceful manners of Mrs. Pierce
and the hearty cordiality of the Presi'
dent at the levees and state receptions
Mrs. Pierce died at Andover, Mass,
during the war, and the ex-President al
Concord in 1869. Both are buried in
the cemetery, not far from the spot
where the embattled farmers fired the
shot heard round the world, in that
pretty New England town.
James Buchanan was bachelor, and
everybody recalls the presiding lady OF
his stormy career in the White House.
Harriet Lane, his niece-who was well
known in her youth in the society OF this
city, Lancaster and Pittsburg. 1t was
at Bedford Springs she met the young
Baltimorean, Johnston, who married her
at Wheatland in 1866. The White
House never had a more accomplished
domestic and social head than this young
Pennsylvania girl. It was while she was
hostess that the Prince of Wales visited
the United States and was entertained at
the Presidents mansion. Albert Edward
bore away with him, so the story of the
day comes down to us, warm apprecia-
tions of the grace and beauty of Miss
Lane.
Of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of the
Great Emancipator, of Mrs. Johnson,
who was Eliza McArdle, and of Julia
Dent Grant, the wife of the Silent Cap
tain and President who has so lately
passed away, the public of to-day is fa-
miliar. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Grant
both took part in the social duties of
their stations, as did Mrs. Hayes and
Mrs. Garfeld-the former Lucy Webb,
daughter of DR.. James B. Webb, of
ChiIlicothe, Ohio, the latter Lucretia
Randolph, daughter of Zebulon Ran
dolph, of Garrettsville, in the same State.
Lincoln lost son, his favorite Tad, in
the White House, Nellie Grant, the Gen
erals beloved daughter, was married-a
brilliant wedding-in the same place.
President Arthur assumed the Chief
Magistracy widower, and, althoug b
rumor was very free with his name dur
ing his term, he did not marry. His de-
ceased wife was daughter of Captain
Herndon of the United States Navy, the
gallant officer who went down on the
Central America. james Buchanan and
Grover Cleveland were the only two
bachelor Pre,idents, and if the latter
marries Miss Folsom this year, it will
leave the Pennsylvania President alone
in the celibate list of Chief Magistrates.
Four Presidents were widowers at their
inauguration-Jef Jackson, Van
Buren and Arthur. Sixteen were mar
ried when they went into the White
House. One alone, President John
Tyler, married while holding the Execu.
tive title
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To Make Timber Plentiful.

Ben: Perley Poore says in the Americon
Cultioator: Far better than the imported
twaddle published by some of our arbori-
culturists, is the following practical
advice by Professor Lazenby, of Cornell
University. To make timber plentiful,
he says, and to render our climate more
genial, we must re-clothe all rugged,
broken land and rocky crests, in fact,
every acre that is not cultivated, , or is cul-
tivated at loss, with valuable forest trees.
First-All ravines and steep hillsides,
all land too rocky to be thoroughly
cleared of stone and plowed, should be
devoted to trees.
Second-Protecting belts of timber
should be planted wherever buildings,
orchards, gardens, ETC., are exposed to
cold, sweeping winds.
Third-The banks of streams, ponds,
op bitches, etc., should be so planted
with trees that they will be protected
from abrasion by floods and rapid cur
rents.
Fourth-All public roads should be
beted by graceful, stately trees.
We should preserve, improve, and ex-
tend our existing forests b. keeping up a
constant succession of young growing
trees of the hest varieties. TO do this it
is necessary:
First-To allow no sto"k to run in
woodlots for purpose of forage. This
should be rule inAexible and relent-
less.
Second--Young growth in forests
should be thlnned moderately and judi
ciously. Worthless varieties should be cut
out and the valuable sorts should be
trimmed up so that they will grow tall,
forming trunk rather than branches.
Third-Timber should be cut with in
telligent reference to future growth. Val
liable trees that you wish to propagate
should be cut in the spring. Those that
you wish to exterminate should be cut in
Auoust
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The Small BOy.

One day sat in car seat on the sau.
gus branch of the Eastern road behind a
pale, careworn lady, who was taking a
little boy from Boston to Maiden. AS
the little boy was of very inquiring
mind, and everything seemed to attract
his attention, could not help listening
tc some of his questions.
"What is that, auntie2" the little boy
commenced, pointing to a stack of hay
on the marsh.
"Oh. that's hay, DEAR" answered the
careworn lady.
''What is hay, auntie?"
''Why, hay is hay, dear"
"But what is hay made off,"
why. hay'is made of dirt, and water,
and air."
"Who makes it,"
"God makes it, dear"
"Does he make 1t in the daytime or
night?"
''In both, dear"
"And Sundays?"
eyes, all the time"
"Ain't it wicked to make hay on Sun
day, auntie2'
''Oh, I don't know. I'd keep still,
Willie, that's dear. Auntie is tired"
After remaining quiet a moment little
Willie broke out:
"Where do stars come from, auntie?"
II don't know; nobody knows"
"Did the moon lay 'em?"
eyes, 1 guess so. Don't bother me. I"
Another short silence, when Willie
broke out:
"Benny says oxins is an owl, auntie;
is they"
"Oh, perhaps So"
81 think whale could lay eggs
don't you, auntiel"
ooh, yes; Iguess so," said the shame
less woman.
"Did you ever see whale on his nest2"
"Oh, I guess so."
"Where?"
Il mean no. Willie, you must be
quiet; I'm getting crazy"
"What makes you crazy, auntie"
20 dear! you ask so many questions. I"
"Did you ever see little fly eat sugar9"
eyes, dear"
"Where?"
"Wilhe sit down on the seat and be
still or I'll shake you. Now, not another
wordw
And the lady pointed her finger at the
little boy as if she were going to stick it
through him. If she had been wicked
woman she would have sworn.
There are 5000, 900 little boys like
Willie in the United States, and half as
many in England. Record.
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THE ENGINEERS STORY.

Hanson, stranger! Yes, she's purity an es
peart ez she Kin be. &
Cleverl Wy! she amt no chicken, but she's
:: good enough fur me.
What's her name? 'Tis kind O common, yit
Iein't ashamed to tell, @
She's ole ''Fiddler" Flkin's daughter an bar
dad he calls her ''Nel."
I wuz drivin' on the Central" jiss about q
year ago,
On the run from Winnemucca up to Reno, fn
There's no @ end O. skeery places Esin't :
road fur one who dreams, 81
With its curves an awful tres'les over rocks
an mountain streams. sE
'Twuz an afternoon in August we he'd got
behind an hour - W.
An wuz tearin' up the mountain like sum
mer thunder shower,
Round the bends an by the ledges bout e.
With the mountain peaks above us an tho
river down below.
Ez we come nigh to tres'le crost hoher,
deep and wild, ~.
Suddenly saw a baby, twuz the station
keepers child, I.
Toddlin' fight along the timbers with bold
an fearless tread ~,
Right afore the locomotive, not hundred
rods ahead. sfS
list jumped and grabbed the throttle anil
fairly held my breath,
Fur felt couldn't stop her till the child waz
crushed to DEATH.
Wnen q woman sprang afore me like sud-
den streak O. light, '
Caught the boy an twixt the timbers in .
second sank from sight.
I jist whis1d all the brakes on. An We
worked with might an main
Till the fire few from the drivers but we
couldn't stop the train,
An it rumbled on above her. How she
screamed ez we rolled by, n ~,
An the river roared below us-I shell hear IL
till die!
Then we stop't; the sun wuz shinin'; ran
back along the ridge
An I found her-dead? MOI ivin'l She
wuz hangin' to the bridge
Where she dropt down thro' the croas.ties
with one arm about sill MI Il,
An the other round the baby, who wuz
yellin' fur to kill! 4$SS
So we saved 'em. She wuz gritty. She's es
peart ez she kin be- .e. .s5t.
Now we're married; she's no chicken, but
she's good enough for me, ~.
An ef any ask who owns her, wyl1 ain's
ashamed to tell .......s
She's my wife. Their amt none better than
ole Filkin's daughter shell"
Eugene j. Hall, in the Current
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eESOLVE

As the dead year is clasped by dead Decem
her,
Solet your dead sins with your dead days
lie.
A new life is yours, and new hope! Re
member
We build our own ladders to climb to the
sky.
Stand out in the sunlight of promise forget
ing
Whatever your past held Of sorrow OF
wrong;
We waste half our strength in useless re-
GREETING;
We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Have you missed in your aim: well, the mark
is still shining.
Did you faint in the race? well, take breath
for the next.
Did the clouds drive you back! see out yon-
der their lining.
Were you tempted and fell! let it serve for
text.
As each year hurries by let it join that pro
cession
Of skeleton shapes that march down to the
past,
While you take your place in the line Of pro-
gression,
With your eyes on the heavens, your face
to the blast.
tell you the future can hold no terrors
For any sad soul while the stars revolve,
If he will but stand firm on the grave Of his
errors,
And instead of regretting, resolve, re-
solve!
It is never too late to begin rebuilding,
Though all into ruins your life seems
hurled,
For look! how the light Of the new year is
gliding
The worn, wan face Of the bruised old
world!
Ella Wheeler Wilcor, II, :New York Sun.
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Rage Virus.

TIE tragic fate of DR.. Warner, the
Baltimore physit ian who tried to band
age a wounded dog and paid for ms
Kindness with his life, is being ascribed
to the influences of an excited magma,
ton, but the true cause may be the vlru.
lcncc which rage imparts to the bite OF
tortured animals. The cur had been run
over bv street car and was picked up
stunned and bleeding, but revived in the
hands of the kind doctor, whom he prob
ably mistook for the author of his woes.
During the last Russo-Turkish campaign
Russion surgeon was bitten by dying
Basbi-Bazouk, and two days after his
hand and wrist begin to swell in way
that his colleagues decided to amputate
his arm at the elbow. The saliva virus
of agonized creatures of the mammal
species has occasionally caused the death
of innocent victims, bit nature S original
intention was probably to protect hel
children by making cruelty parlous.-
Dr.. Osuald
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Comedy Of Ages.

Comedy Of Ages.
ACT I.
Merry age.
ACT II.
Mary age.
ACT III.
Marriage.
ACT w.
Mary rage.
detroit Free Press.
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The Army Of the Revolution

1t is not positively known how many
men from the colonies served in the war.
The official tabular statement indicates
total of recorded years of enlistment and
not total of the men who served.
Hence, man who s:rved from April
10, 1715, until the formal cessation
of hostilitics, April 10, 1888, counted as
eight men in the aggregate. In this
basis of enlisted years, the following
table gives the contributions of the
vario,,c Statrs.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-15
CHARLEsTON,s FUTURE.

The people of Charleston exhibit much courage and fortitude, and the rebuilding of the city is actively going on. There is, of course, much suffering there, and there will be much more unless the outside aid, which has been so promptly and generously ex- tended, be kept up for time. It doubtless will be-
 There seems to be no good reason to fear for the future prosperity of the city. Her commercial facilities have not been de. stroyed by the earthquake, nor has the dis position to use them been plotted out Therefore it may be expected that business there will soon be fourishing again. All that can be done by outsiders to help bring this state of things about should be, and plan proposed by Assistant Secretary Thompson of the Treasury is therefore we'll worth consideration. He was in Charleston last week, and he says the extent of material injury to the city has not been exaggerated. He makes the following suggestion: It has occurred to me that if Congress would make liberal appropriations for the completion of the jetties, that would enable Charleston to develop her great natural trade facilities The only thing she lacks in the way of com mercial facilities is deep water on the bar. It would be genuine economy for Congress to appropriate sufficient at one time to com plete the jetties. The engineers in charge have frequently reported that the system of small appropriations not only delays the completion of the work, but adds to the final cost. The increased commerce which would be drawn to the city as natural re- suit. of the completion of the jetties would be of material advantage, and it would have an encouraging effect upon the people. This is constitutional and 8 practical mode for substantial relief and one which I believe would be recognized by the whole country as wise and just.
 Anything that Congress can do to help the business of Charleston should be done.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-15
TIGER HUNTING IN INDIA.

A Party of Kfngly Sportsmen Stir the
 Fierce Beasts of the Jungle From
 Their Hiding Places and Shoot Them
 to the Death.
 Prince Carl of Norway and Sweden in the Nine
 teenth Century.l
 In silence and solemnity the procession moved toward the jungle in order not to awake the sleeping tiger. In spite of it's be- ing the s:cold season." I suffered tremendous ly from the heat under my broad-brimmed Indian hat. But who could have time to complain of the heat then, though one could hardly breathe and was bathed in perspira- tion2
 After awhile flock of soaring vultures indicates that we are approaching the spot where the tiger consumed his nocturnal meal, and behind a ridge, strewed with blocks of stone, and which seemed only five hundred yards off, the slain bullock had been tied up. The native huntsmen main- tained that the tiger must be near, the birds continued to soar restlessly over the spot without daring to descend to their prey. Shortly after we have reached the northern slope of the ridge referred to, where the ele plants are ranged in semi-circle at dis tance of two hundred and fifty yards from the top, the position for each elephant being indicated to the ''mahout" by an old, gray headed shikarie, who is evidently quite at home in the jungle. Adelborg and myself are stationed on little mound, whence we have fairly good view. Low shrubs, in some places forming to the eye impenetrable thickets, surround the spot in which our ele- phant stands hidden behind two great blocks of stone, and 8 similar jungle covers the slope in the direction whence we expect the beaters A ravine runs to our right. On the other side Oscar and SandstrOm are post ed; next to them an elephant with some of the suite of the minister; then Salar Yung himself with Ali Beg After a while's anx- ious waiting yells and loud sounds of drums and cymbals are heard in the distance, and in a few moments one dusky figure after an- other appears on the brow of the hill. We now rise in the howdah and, cooking our ex- press rifles, scan every shrub in front of us. 1t is becoming exciting, but still no tiger is visible. The beaters begin to separate and break the line. Adelborg and myself have just agreed that there is no tiger within the line when suddenly the report of gun is heard from Salar Yung's elephant indicating there is something up. It is Ali Beg, who has shot at tiger which is attempting to break through at the side of his elephant This is immediately followed by shot from the elephant carrying the attendants of the minister, and in the next few seeon ds the re- treating tiger is subjected to a veritable pep pering from that quarter. We double our attention, but fail to see anything except the smoke from the guns. The beaters again collect, but a number of frightened coolies run terrified in all directions, and even the elephants show signs of flight, stamping and swinging their trunks to and fro. In the meantime, however, Ali Beg seems to call us by waving his hat, and we beckoned to our mahout to urge the elephant forward. de- lighted at the thought that there might still
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-15
FLANNEL DEPART MENT

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 We have also received our as- sortment of the celebrated Mer- ritt's Cassimele Pulled Flannels, of which we are sole agents for this city. These Flannels, well known and appreciated by the patrons of Messrs. J. N. Adam & Co.,, are All-Wool, Fast Col ors and Unshrinkable. They come in Plain Greys, Browns, Scarlet, Cardinal, Navy White; also handsome Stripes of vari- ous combinations, all in 84 inch es (2A yards) wide; also in handsome Stripes and Checks in 28 inch width. This line of Flannels cannot be excelled for Children's wear of all kinds, Ladies Skirtings, Gentlemen's Underwear, &c., as they are durable, guaranteed Fast Col, ors, and Absolutely Unshrinka. b1e.
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Ehedica1.
A CHILD'S SUFFERING From Eczema. Ears and Scalp Covered with Scabs and Sores.
 Cured by Cuficura

My little son aged eight years has been afflicted with Eczema of the scalp. and at times great por- tion of the body, ever since he two years old. It began in his ears, and extended to his scalp, which became covered with scabs and sores and from which sticky fluid poured out, causing in tense itching and distress and leaving his hair matted and lifeless. Underneath these scabs the skin raw, like piece of beefsteak. Gradually the hair came out and was destroyed, until but small patch was left at the back of the head. My friends in Peabody know how my little boy has suf- fered At night he would scratch his head until his pillow covered with blood. I used ito tie his hands behind him, and in many ways tried to prevent his scratching; but it use, he would scratch took him to the hospital and to the best physicians in Peabody without success. About this time some friends who had been cured by the Cuticura Remedies prevailed upon me to try them. I began to them on the 18th of january last In seven months every particle of the disease moved. Not a spot or scab remains on his scalp to tell the story of his suffering His hair has re- turned and is thick and strong, and his scalp as sweet and clean any chlds in the world. I can not say enough to express my gratitude for this wonderful cure by the Cuticura Remedies, and wish all similarly afflicted to know that my state ment is true and without exaggeration.
 CHARLES MCKAY, Peabody, Mass.
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Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-15
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Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-15

Extending the BreakWater at
 GrecnpOrt, N. ".
 ENGINEER OFFICE, U. s. ARMY, Room 57. Army Building, Cor. Houston ana Greene Sts, New York, N r., Sept. !, lse6. ) GEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate for extend E1 ing the breakwater at Greenport will be re- ceved at this office until twelve Q2) o'clock m, on Wednesday, October 13, 1886.
 Further information, specifications and forms or proposals can be obtained at this office:
 D C. HOUSTON, Lieut.. Col. Of Engineers.