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RAILWAY INFORMATION.

How many miles of railway in the
United States? One hundred and fifty
thousand six hundred miles, about half
the mileage of the world.
How much have they cost? Nine
billion dollars.
How many people are employed by
them? More than one million.
What is the fastest time made by a
train1 Ninety-two miles in ninety-three
minutes, one mile being made in forty
six seconds, on the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad.
What is the cost of high class, eight
wheel passenger locomotive? About
$500.
What is the longest mileage operated
by single system? Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe system-about 5000
miles.
What is the cost of palace sleeping
car? About SIS 900 or $1,000 if ves-
tibuled.
What is the longest railway bridge
span in the United States? Cantllever
span in Poughkeesie bridge, 53S feet.
What is the highest railroad bridge in
the United States? Kinzua viaduct, OH
the Erie Road, 3o5 feet high.
Who built the first locomotive in the
United States7 Peter Cooper.
What road carries the largest number
of passengers? Manhattan Elevated
Railroad, New York. SIS 900 day, or
IoI, ,625. 900 yearly.
What is the average daily earning of
an American locomotive? About SIoo.
What is the longest American railway
tunnel2 Hoosac Tunnel, on the Fitch
burg Railway, four and three quarter
miles.
What is the average cost of construct
ing mile OF railroad? At the present
time about $50, 1000.
What is the highest railroad in the
United States Denver and Rio Grande
Marshall Pass, Io,S52 feet.
What are the chances OF fatal accident
in railway travel? One killed IN 10000
900. Statistics show more are killed by
falling out of windows than in railway
accidents.
What line of railway extends farthest
East and West? Canadian Pacific
Railway, running from Quebec to the
Pacific Ocean.
How long does steel rail last with
average wear? About eighteen years.
What road carries the largest number
of commuters Illinois Central, 4,82S,-
I2S, in 1887.
What is the fastest time made between
Jersey City and San FranciscoP Three
days, seven hours, thirty-nine minutes
and sixteen seconds. Special theatrical
train, June, 1886.
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marry selfish, foolish, i significant
woman, who has no thought for
othe, S, but only looks upon a hus-
band as slave to work for her graft
fication and minister to her vanity,
and thinks him hardly good enough
to wipe her old shoes on. | tell you,
sister, it is a terrible thing when peo-
pie come together without true love
and appreciation. Let us pray that
God will send the spirit OF 10 a d
unity into every household"
And both husband and wife hear
tily responded ".Amen. - W0maN'S S
Journal.
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A HAIR GROOMER,


The names of the occupations which
refined women in reduced circum-
stances are seeking nowadays are
legion. A reporter was introduced by
friend the other day to lady who was
earning very comfortable livelihood as
hair groomer. "I'm not hair dresser"
she said" I'm hair groomer. l don't
do up hair at all. | only comb the hair
and give 1t that general attention which
every woman's hair demands two or
three times week. There are lots of
women IN this city who are in this
business, and VINO would scorn to call
themselves professional hair dressers.
'What do do to the hair? Well.
first | rub it dry with a soft and then
with hard brush. l don't put a lot
of water and cleaning stuff upon the
hair at first, as some do, but after have
the dandruf all out | wet the hair with
simple solution, which | know to be
effective and not deleterious then l
rub and brush the hair dry again. Next
comes the trimming. l pull out the
gray hairs one y one, taking care to
! pull them SO that the scalp is not lacer-
ated and the hair cells themselves
destroyed. There is great art in pull
out hairs. YOU must pull them in the
direction in which they lie in the scalp
| just as you would a silver of wood from
your own hand, in the direction in
which it entered. Men or women can't
pull out their gray hairs themselves, for
1t is utterly impossible for them to see
that they are pulling the hairs out on
the proper slant. Of course, you know
that people are very touchy on the SUBJ
Ject of gray hairs in their heads. 1t
makes woman have the blues for a
week when her first gray hairs come.
Now, when gray hairs are the result of
age | never meddle with them the only
thing to do is to let them come. But
they are often the result of sickness or
some other little trouble, and it is then
often impossible to prevent their COM
ing. Badness is to be doctored in Just
the same way. can never cure, though
and nobody can cure the badness of
people like accountants and others
accustomed to work all day with the
glare and heat of gaslights or electric
lights beating down upon their heads.
In their cases the hair cells have been
literally burned out.
"Wel, finally trim the hair. l cut
each individual hair separately, so as to
make it even with the others. When
the hair is gathered up in the hand and
cut square across in lump, as it were
with the scissors the struggling heirs are
not reached. The result is only to
make the hair shorter and quite as un-
even as before. Then | part the hair
simply and do it up plainly As l told
you, if women want their HAIR done up
in any of the fancy styles they mustn't
| come to me.
"How much does it pay me? Well, l
generally think l ought to get 81 at
least each time visit lady's house. If
lady lives great way up town, and it
takes me all the afternoon or morning
to 60 up an! see her, l want more
money, of course. And on the contrary
when two or three patrons live near
each other, why, l can moderate the
price little to each one 1t is hum
Bile way of getting living, l know, but
it is respectable, and | shall stick to it."
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Save Money

For rainy day, and not squander it in
doctors bills. Ayers Sarsaparilla, at a
dollar bottle worth five dollars =
is the best, most economical, and relia-
BILE Family Medicine you can have. 1t
is a specific for diseases of the Blood,
which comprise a great majority of all
the complaints that atflict humanity.
Z" / have been a great sufferer from
Dyspepsia, but have cured myself, and
saved the expense of doctors bills, by
the use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. j.
Bodemer, Cambridge, Mass.
Gas a safe and reliable Spring and
Family Medicine, think Ayers Sarsa-
parilla Invaluable. ."-W VIM. Il. Ferree,
/ Chatham ST., Boston.
a have used Ayers Sarsaparilla, as a
Spring Medicine and Purifier of the
Plpnl
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what Drug Will Scour These English
Hence2"

Wicked Macbeth, who murdered
good King Duncan, asked this question
IN his despair. Thousands of victims
of disease are daily asking "What will
scour the impurities from my blood and
bring me health?" DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery will do it. When
the purple life-tide is sluggish, causing
drowsiness, headache and loss of appe-
tlte, use this wonderful vitalizer, which
never fails. 1t forces the liver into
perfect action, drives out superhuous
bile, brings the glow of health to the
cheek and the natural sparkle to the
eye. All druggists.
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Every Mother

should take it, and give it to her chill
dren."-Mrs. d. Vickery, Dover, n. Fl.
Mrs. S. Embury, IL Newton Place,
Holyoke, Mass, says For more than
two years l have suffered constantly
from Headache and Indigestion. A
little over month ago a friend urged
me to try bottle of Ayers Sarsaparilla.
l did so, and before l had finished the
second bottle, my headache disappeared.
my appetite returned, my food digested
properly, and my health was completely
restored. As safe and reliable Spring
and Family Medicine, it is by far the
best of any"
81 have suffered much from Canker
humors. At times, 1 was unable to eat
or swallow solid food. Last Spring |
began the use of Ayers Sarsaparilla,
and Quickly
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@Sprirg-'88@@
nALL, AT OAK HALL. meets the demands of the
- time in the Best Styles and Lowest Prices OF
Spring Clothing

The popular notion that good clothes must be bought
in the city exploded for right your doors you
find at Balls Oak Hall, opposite the Court House. in
the town of Elkton, as ftH complete and ah,actiue
stock of Clothing for Men, Boys and Children as any
city retail store displays Besides, he shows the largest
and best selected stock of Hats, Caps and Furnishing
Goods in mems and youths sizes. To special
attention this line, he will give with every suit OF
Boys Clothing a handsome aeatch chaiu With every
Mans suit OF clothes he gives valuable present He
asks you before purchasing look for yourself and be
assured that you do better by buying of him than
elsewhere. Ii money is any object, he help you
in the price OF your Clothing, and at the same
time you wear the best.
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Ayers Sar sapariIIa,

saparilla. Her health has already great.
ly improved. = Mrs. Harriet ii. Battles
South Chelmsford, Mass.
DR.. J. C. Aver g. Co., Lowell, Mass.
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With Great Benefit,

and would not willingly be without it"
Mrs. S. H. Pray, E. Boston, Mass.
"I have been suffering, full two years,
from troubles consequent upon severe
fall. Ny blood became very much i'm
poverished, and / suffered severely from
loss of appetite, when friend recon-
mended me to try Ayers Sarsaparilla.
Am now taking the third bottle and am
greatly benefited by its use Mrs. NJ.
H. Rowland, South Duxbury, Mass.
al have used Ayers Medicines in my
family for years, and always keep a
bottle of Ayers Sarsaparilla in the
house. We could not do without it,
Mrs. E. TlIruvegen, Perth Amboy, n. j.
ayers Sarsaparilla is taking the lead
of ali blood-puritiers in our neighbor-
hood. One man, afflicted with sores OF
many years standing has been cured
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-07-07

Ayers Sarsaparilla, operating through
the blood, eradicates the scrofulous
taint
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By Using

Ayers Sarsaparilla. > Sharp, McAfee
& Co., Waleska, Ga.
My daughter. IL years of age, has
suffered for the past year from General
Debility. A few weeks since, we began
to rive her
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Found Relief.

After taking less than two bottles of
this medicine, was cured. - Mrs. w.
Gaige, Poultney, VT
being greatly reduced by Dyspep-
sia, l was advised To take Ayers
Sar-
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which entirely cured me. I never had
better health than at present. ~ Mrs.
j. w. Bradlee, Hyde Park, Mass.
Price ST. six bottles, SIS. Worth SIS a bottle.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
a BIG CASH CHEST.

IL VIII Hold Hundred aud
Twenty Eight Million silver Dol
lars.
This great steel CASH. box OF the govern
ment, which has just been put in readiness
to receive the overlooking millions Of coin Of
the republic, is the largest construction OF
the kind in the world, says Washington
letter to the Philadelphia Tines. 1t lies
buried under the north court OF the treasury
building, where all the hundreds OF millions
OF the peoples money Is kept. Ii consis Il
OF outer walls of masonry and brick and q
covering OF iron Orders. brick arches and
concrete five feet thick, and an inner lining
OF heavy plates OF steel. The inside meas
ure ments are 50 by 90 feet and IL feet high.
For the convenience and additional security
of storage the interior is divided into sixteen
steel lattice cells, 20 by 10 feet with a ca
pacity OF $500, 0O0 silver dollars each. They
are surrounded by an outer corridor and open
upon transverse passage.
The inner door OF this immense coin chest
is massive construction of steeLS by 6 feet {
inches thick aud weighs 5000 pounds An
apparatus consisting OF levers aud combi-
nation OF cogs 10 required to open aud close II
on its tracks. A half-dozen men can barely
move 1t unaided BY this mechanical appli.
ance.
A practical idea Of the size OF this immense
subterranean cash box may be formed By
showing its holding capacity in silver coin.
II is estimated TO accommodate 500, 000, 000
in the cells or sixteen latticed subdivisions.
The silver Is packed in heavy canvas bags
lSxl0 inches, each holding 1000 silver dollars
and weighing about fifty-ninc pounds. Each
cell contains 81, 500 900. which is q, 500 sacks,
making 1884 500 pounds of silver coin, or equal
10 over 1872 net tons. The sixteen cells will
hold $780, 100000, or 100, 900 bags OF dollars,
weighing 3 500, 900 pounds or about 8, OOJ net
tons. The outer corridors and passage will
store SIS, 900 more, or $4,000 sacks, OF
l,592,000 pounds, equal to nearly 500 tons
more; or an aggregate storage capacity for
SIPS 200, 900 ia 1850 sacks weighing T. 492,
300 pounds, or 8, 746 tons.
In event of a sudden necessity TO remoye
this immense bulk OF treasure 1t would re-
1uire about 1900 four-horse wagons carrying
two tons each and making a treasure train
Lhirty-six miles in length. or 1t would take q
railway train OF lS7 cars each car carrying
twenty tons of coin.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
A SHARK KILLED BY TOBACCO.

The Fatal MorseI Administered TO
tho Monster Through Dead
Fish.
We had not flshed very long before a large
shark put in an appearance and stopped our
SPORT says a writer In Forest and Stream.
We first knew of his presence by his greedily
swapping off the feb from one OF nv neigh
boris lines having followed up from the bot.
TOM He executed this performance several
times aud then the snappers stopped biting
entirely. Not even o nibble could we get, &c
we hauled IN our lines and commenced to pay
our attention to the shark. He was a mon.
strous fellow, about fifteen feet long, and he
kept swimming round aud round the vessel,
sometimes on top the water aud sometimes
way down deep below us, but always at a re.
spectful distance. His reddish brown body
could be plainly seen through the clear, trans.
parent, green water, aud you may be sure he
was the cynosure OF all eyes.
While we were talking | noticed the native
pilot every now and then throwing overheard
one of the snappers We had so recently caught,
and as the current carried IL a little distance
clear OF the vessel the shark would gobble il
down, and in fact the intervals were so regu.
lar that Mr. Shark seemed impatient when
the regularity was broken by little della,
ject IN view aud 1t drew our attention to him.
AS he was born aud raised on this coast and
had probably served his pilots apprenticeship
as a fisherman he knew how to deal with his
inveterate foe, the shark. Anyhow we all
thought so and gave him credit for II, and
although he did not say much he went about
1t In a very earnest manner.
After having thrown over ten small fish, he
selected another a little larger than the 9TH
ers, and with a stick OF wood rammed a roll
Of chewing tobacco, nearly as large as a mans
hand. down into its belly aud pressed It's
throat together again. He held 1t ready to
throw, and as the shark came up, snxiously
looking for his fish, he tossed 1t 10 him, and
as IL barely touched the water the shark turn
ed over on It's back and sucked It In. The
shark then swan of as usual 10 the side Of
the vessel and then below US, and was appar-
emily rising again Ia expectation of another
fish when the nicotine commenced its work
His struggles aud conscientious were terrib @
to behold as he daTted here and there In a
blind rage and vomiting blood. but as he
swan or was carried b. the current away
from us his struggles grew gradually less un-
I'll they ceased altogether. The tobacco had
/ killed him,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
JUDGE TERRY'S RECORD.
Something About the Terrys In Tex
asa War Tragedy.

something About the Terrys In Tex
asa War Tragedy.
The recent press dispatches from San Fran
cisco conveying the intelligence that David
s. Terry has been committed to Jail for six
months, by San Francisco judge, for his &C.
ton In the notorious Sharon-IIlll case recalls
a portion of his career In Texas, says n Gal.
weston dispatch to the st. Louis Republic,
and brings back memories of the family TO
'old timers In the coast country. David s.
Terry, when young man. studied law in
Houston with I. J. b. IIsdley, a relative by
marriage, and known as "Alpha.et Hsdley."
Terry was quite dandified youngster and
came 10 Galveston on a visit At that time
there was quite q noted phrenologist named
Flowers here, and young Terry permitted him
to "feel his bumps" and tell what kind OF q
man he would make. The phrenologist being
blindfolded pompously felt Terry's head aud
remarked:
"Ihis young man is a sort of 'iy.up.the.
creek kind OF a fellow who wifi never
amount to much in this life"
With this young Terry leaped from the
chair in which he had teen sitting and pro-
ceeded to wipe up the floor OF the fremont
house, where the scene occurred, with the
anatomy OF the phrenologist, who yelled for
mercy.
Terry afterward removed to California,
where he became chief justice Of the state.
He stabbed man in San Francisco during
the reign Of the vigilance committee, narrow
y escaping death at the hands OF that organ
ization. His duel with Senator Broderick and
the death OF tie latter at his hands is n mat
ter OF history well known to readers OF the
daily press, and 1t is not necessary to repro
duce IL here
One of his brothers, Frank Terry, large
planter on the Brazos river before the war, a
regiment OF cavalry In the confederate army,
known as "Ierry's Texas rangers" and fell
at Woodsonvllle, Ky, at the head OF his men
In one OF the first engagements OF the war.
Still another brother returned from Call
fornia to Texas during the war, aud was APP
pointed colonel Of regiment OF cavalry by
Maj. Gen. John A. Wharton, a family con-
nection, over Col George w. Baylar, his su-
perior In rank. This led to Baylor calling at
Wharton's headquarters, at the old Capital
notel In Houston, early In 1855. and expostu.
lating with him In reference to such treat
nent. The interview was a strong one and
resulted In Wharton being killed by BAYLOR,
who was acquitted, and is now a resident of
western Texas, where a few years ago he
commanded a company of state rangers
A couple OF years ago a nephew OF Judge ID.
s. Terry OF California, named Kyle Terry,
shot and killed a policeman named Williams.
In Houston and the case is still hanging fire
In the courts.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
MACHINERY oUTDONE BY HANDS
How Playing Cards are Cut Great
Men-Interesting Facts About the
Handling OF Eggs.

How Playing Cards nre Cut Great
Men-Interesting Facts About the
Handling OF Eggs.
speaking about accuracy Of machinery"
observed a scientific writer the other day,
"but this degree of accuracy to which the
human hand can be trained is equally won
derfu."
Playing cards are required to be cut with
the sides quite parallel to each other, because
IL pack be trimmed by the machine slightly
wider at one end than the other, and they
become turned lend for end" In dealing, the
excess 10 width OF some cards over others al
the end Of the pack will be double the yarla,
ton in any one card, which would facilitate
cheating, Il very minute variation being per.
ceptible. The men who test these cards for
this make calipers of their finger and thumb
and by passing them along from one to the
other, detect a difference in width betwee d
the two ends which IL Is difficult to measure
by any other means.
There are men employed in factories where
dried yeast is made whose business 1t is 10
put the yeast Ito packages weighing a GER
tain amount each. 1t is on a table In front
of them In q large plastic mass, and there
are the scales for Weighing it. But the men
do not use the scales They simply seperate
from the mass with their hands a lump OF II
and put IL up, and you may choose at random
and put II on the scales, and II will weigh
exactly the right amount, the scales beam
just balancing.
Where large numbers OF eggs are handled
and shipped TO market there is a process
known as ''candleing" eggs, which consists
In taking them up in the hands usually two
eggs in each hand at time), and holding
them up before a lighted candle. The light
shining through them reveals to the pruc-
ticed eve the exact condition OF the content Is.
But some OF the men soon get so that they
do not need to use the candle, the mere con-
tact Of their hands with the shells denoting
the condition OF the egg Just as infalllbly
and much more quickly And they distin-
guish In that way not merely eggs which are
decidedly bad, but those which are just
barely beginning to lose their freshness
"Hcre are three different ways In which
extreme skill OF the hands is shown by per-
sistent training First, in detecting sill ght
differences In magnitude; second. In weight;
and, lastly, in texture or character Of sur
face handled."-NeV York Mud and Express.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
Foolhardy Feat in a Menagerle.

An announcement made by the crier
that q man named William Samuels, q
local inn-keeper. and the champion
boxer of Wales. would enter alone a
den of lions at Messrs. Wombwelps
menagerie, now at Swansea. caused
considerable excitement in the town
and drew great crowd to the show.
At o'clock the band played 'For
He's a jolly Good Fellow" and then
Samuels. accompanied by Mr. Bostock.
the manager of the show. walked up
TO den containing lion and about
dozen lionesses. A great crown ut
once assembled round tho cage. Mr..
Bostock mounted platform and in
formed the public that his old friend
Samuels had volunteered to perform
deed of daring such as had never
been done in the menagerie since its
establishment III 1908 Mr.. Wiltshire
had, he said, recently at Cardiff en-
tered the cage in company with Nine.
Saliva, the lion tanner. and had by his
action caused great sensation in South
Wales. But Samuels was going to
surpass this feat for, though urged to
let Nine Saliva accompany him, he de-
clined to enter the den at all unless
allowed to do SO alone. This he now
was about to do. The announcement
was received with great cheering,
though it was evident that. on the part
of many present there was
a feeling of considerable anxiety
seemed to share none of these feelings
of uneasness. ALFRED as pr 20
| fighter, and with blue rosette on his
breast. he appeared at the entrance TO
the cage. and cudgel in hand boldly
entered it. The lions appeared in nc
way TO relish this intrusion, and il
looked as though Samuels would have
had a warmer welcome than he bar
gained for. Possessed apparently
with nerves of steel, the man walked
undaunted up to the end of the cage
where the animals were huddled to-
gether awaiting only tho slightest Ell.
enlargement to spring on the intru-
der, and held his cudgel threateningly
before the nose of the fiercest. Growls
OF rage greeted this act, but Samuels.
in no way discoinposed, walked among
the animals and made them fly right
/ anu lClL ilio hlu SON-
eral times. and on one occasion acted
so rashly that grave fears were enter
tanned for his safety by those in charge
of the exhibition. These-who. as a
precaution, were armed with red-hot.
irons-were ready to act promptly,
when Samucls again obtained the mas
terry over his savage companions. and
showed his fearlessness of them by fir
ing loaded pistol at their faces.
Then. his courage maintained to tho
last, he went to the gate of the den
and waited in a dangerous position
while Mr.. Bostock presented him,
amid the cheers of those present with
a unique chain composed of spade and
crown. and with a certificate record.
ing the fact that he had accomplished
his purpose. Immediately afterward
the band played "See the Conquering
Hero Comes" and Samuels was borne
in triumph out of the menagerie and
through the streets. South Wales
Daily Neto,