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Getting the Best Out of Life.

The London Standard, in discussing
whether 1t pays to try to live to be 100
years old, gives some useful suggestions. 1t
says: 1.-THE man who really gets the best
that can be got out of life is the man who.
with fairly good constitution to begin
with, is ready to squander it at any mo-
ment and on every occasion in sufi-
Gent cause. He keeps no account of profit
and loss with his vital energy; he sees
work to do, and he does it; he sees pleas
ure to be enjoyed, and he enjoys it. He
is alive all his life, save when he sleeps :;
and he wakes from each fresh slumber
looking the world cheerfully and courage
ously in the face, and ready and even
eager to be a combatant where there is a
good, honest fight, and a runner when there
Is good, honorable race afoot. He may
not live to be 100, but he may well live to
be 70, I5, or even so. He may have a
career, if not SO conspicuous, yet as active,
as varied, and as restless as that, say, of
MIR. Gladstone, and yet not be really old
when time registers him among the aged.
Better fifty years of Europe than cycle
of Cathay;' and better twenty years of I'M
calculated activity than the slow pulse
anu H0dSuieu slep ol the ClrcumSpect
snail that creeps surely on to 100 We
are not denouncing centenarians They
are like angels visits, few and far between,
and they are too rare not to be welcomed.
Moreover, we doubt not that they deserve
their length of years But it would be a
misfortune if it was ever thought an OBJ
.iect of life to live very long. The object
of life is to live, live nobly, live bravely.
As Shakespeare says, Ripeness is all!'"-
Herald of Health.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-26

A movement has started in PhiladeI-
pima to encourage the planting of shade
| trees along the streets. This IS a matter
| that has in late years been neglected in
! Cincinnati as well as in the Quaker CITY.
Here the conditions for tree planting are
as favorable as they are there. In streets
that are narrow and crowded rows of shade
trees are impracticable, but there are nu-
merous other streets in which they would
| be no inconvenience, not even to the man
| ayers of telegraph wires, but beauty and
JOY forever. \ statement of the arguments
In favor of street shade trees would
be superfluous. Of course, some iudg-
ment must be exercised in the
planting. diseased, deformed
tree struggling for existence in the stony
highway, is an ugly sight. The sooner it
is removed the better But there is no
more beautiful spectacle in a city of grand
objects than a strong, healthy, hourishing
tree, apparently enjoying its own life, and
gladly affording pleasure to people walk
ing in its shadow. Heretofore the selec-
ton of trees for street planting has not
been with the most careful wisdom. The
rapid growers have been in the greatest
demand, and these, as experience has
proved, are not the most desirable. Sill
yer poplars are rapid growers, but have
given poor satisfaction. Those who have
secured them are usually glad to get rid
OF them. The ailanthus is adudged beau
tiful by some. The foliage is indeed
pretty, but the tree is not, and it is apt to
become diseased and hollow, and danger
Gus on account of it being likely to snap
of az the surface of the street in any gust
of wind. The native elm is the great
shade-tree of this country. 1t is vigorous,
hardy, shapely and beautiful at all times,
even in winter. There are several varieties
and differences of form, none of which,
however, is undesirable The elm has be-
come great favorite in the suburban vii
lagos, where we are glad to see the people |
are enthusiastic tree-planters. Notwith-
standing all we have heard regarding the |
destruction of forests, there are probably |
three times as many native forest trees
growing in Hamilton county to-day as
there were twenty years Cincinnati
Commercials Guzette.
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Land Values in Ireland.

The ruinous price of land in Ireland was
illustrated last week at the auction mart
in most striking manner The estate in
the island of Achill, owned by the late
Lord Cavan, which was referred to the
other day, was sold by order of his Trus-
tees, consisting of 2,068 acres of freehold
land-in fact, the whole island-with
house and entrance lodges, both furnished
The auctioneer described the property as
one of the finest sporting estates in Ire.
land, though he admitted that the tenants
were three years in arrear with their rent
The property was sold practically without
reserve, and after very slight CONNECT.
ton was purchased by lady at the mod
est figure of ESQ, or about six shilIinos an
acre.-Loadoa Figaro. Oh
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mule is employed. The poor, having no
animals, grind the grain themselves.
Three distinct grades of flour are thus
produced by this single grain. The "Shon
MEN," or A grade, is the first siftings
the NEE MEN," or second grade, is the
grindings of the rough leavings from the
first siftings, which is of darker and redder
color than the first grade, the last grade,
or "mo D." is the finely ground last sift-
ings of all the grades. When bread is
made from this grade it resembles rough
gingerbread. This is usually the food of
the poorest families, who buy it at some
thing like twenty cents bushel. The
bread of the Chinese is usually fermented
and then steamed. Only a very small
quantity is baked in ovens. But the sta
pie articles of food in Northern China are
corn, milIet and sweet potatoes. Wheat
and rice are the food of the rich. In the
southern provinces the entire breadstuff is
rice.-IuiLler's Rerieu
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Fertility Restored.

The Courier says that few years since
a gentleman began farming an S0-acre tract
in the Petaluma valley. The land is
adobe, and had been planted in grain con-
tinuously for eighteen years. He took
extra care in preparing the land and SOW
ing the grain. His crop averaged only
ten bushels to the acre. Now, this same
land had in former years produced as high
as so or 60 bushels to the acre, and though
the stratum of rich soil was several feet
deep, he knew something was the matter.
In all the eighteen years it had been
farmed continuously, without fertilization
or rest, and it had given out. Though in
debt, our farmer bought fencing material
and cut his eighty acres into three lots.
He then bought between ten and fifteen
head of COWS and put them on it. By using
one lot for pasture for his cows, another for
hay, and the third one for grain, and
changing about each year, he soon raised
the average yield of this land from 10 to
q bushels to the acre. By this system of
farming he not only enriches his land, but
makes it pay him handsome profit over
all expenses, and he tells US his land is
becoming richer and more valuable every
year.
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Antiquities in Greece.

An Athens dispatch to the London
Daily Neus says: As foreshadowed in my
telegram of yesterday, committees have
been appointed to examine the accounts
of every institution which is in any way
under the control of the Government. NJ.
Trieeupis intends to have a complete in
vestigation, and will no doubt not rest I'M
til the books of every public cashier have
been put to the test of searching exami-
nation. Even time-honored antiquities
are not allowed to rest quietly in the
hands of their would-be possessors. Yes
terday afternoon General Ephor bounced
upon the most lovely anaglyph hitherto
discovered in Greece. 1t consists of seven
pieces, two of which were found in box
in yard. The other FIVE were slowed
away in a house. The workmanship is
of exquisite beauty, and evidently belongs
to the fourth or fifth century before Christ.
The anagiyphis nearly seven feet in hight,
and represents two women greeting one
another. Near them is man, wearing a
beard, and behind the group stands lit
tie girl, probably slave. Notwithstand-
ing vigorous protests on the part of the
owner of the anaglyph, General Ephor
carried it off and deposited it in the Ma
tional Museum.
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Population statistios in Janan.

The London and China Telegraph, refer
ring to recent publications on Japanese
statistics, says that on January l, 1885, the
japanese Empire had population of 81
o6S,907, or an average of ninety-nine in
habltants to each square kilometer, which
is about the same average as Italy and
much more than that of Germany But if
the large area of Yezo and the Kurlies,
with its small population, be deducted,
Japan proper has population of 13l to
the square kilometer, while Great Britain
has only ia. For various reasons peculiar
to the country and the people the distribu-
ton Of the population is by clusters. In
eight administrative districts the density
reaches 300 per square kilometer, for these
include the fertile rice plains and the most
productive fisheries. Japan is country
of small peasant cultivation, rice being
the principal staple, and hence the noun
famous districts are very thinly inhabited.
The average number of persons in a house
hold is 4.9l, while in Germany it is
At; but in suburban households the aver
age is much smaller than in the country,
or than those of European cities. Not
withstanding the density of the popula-
llOIl, IHe SIHdlItr IluHuUeT Vi pOpulOuS IOWNS
is very striking. Only five have popula-
ton exceeding 100,0O0-viz: Toxic, 902,-
S37; Osaka, $500; Kioto, 255, 403; Ma
gova, 226,S9S; and Kanagawa, 104, 1920.
Six only have population between $4,000
and 100000 This popularity in distribu-
ton is due to the circumstance that Japan
is not an industrial, but an agricultural
country. Another popularity is the pro-
portion of the sexes. There were 10, 49,
977 males and 1871, ITO females, so that,
reversing the rule in Europe, the males
predominant. This is said to be due to
the fact that there is a great preponder-
ance of female mortality between Is and
40, japanese statistics on this subject be-
ing wholly different from those of
European countries. At the date of the
census there were 1898 japanese abroad,
their distribution being as follows: Corea,
1856; China, 206S; America, Sl7 Rus
STA (mainly Eastern Siberia), GIL; Great
Britain, 264; France, 1854; Germany, 129;
and the remainder in other countries on
the sea-
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MOUNTAIN sAM,s HUNTING Dogs.
Their Exploits in Rounding Up and Cap
turing the Big Horns.

An old trapper and hunter known az
Mountain Sam" is doing land-otfice
business killing huge mountain sheep for
their heads and horns. These he ships to
New York to fill the orders he is con-
stantly receiving, and there they are
mounted. Sans best customers are
wealthy Englishmen, and many an Eng
lish hall bears witness in mammoth heads
and antlers Of the mountain sheep, mag
nifcently mounted, to Sans powers as a
hunter.
For MANY years 'Mountain Sam" has
buried himself in the most remote recesses
of the Big Horn mountains. Here he is
in the very haunts, hidden and deep, of
the big horn or Rocky mountain sheep.
Sans way of capturing his willy quarry is
peculiarly adapted to his needs and
deserts. He rounds up the wild sheep of
the mountain crag, peak and precipice
with dogs.
His pack numbers twenty-five head,
and they are pure cross of the blood
hound and bulldog. Mountain-born and
bred, these noble animals add to the nat
ural strength and sagacity of their blood
strains marvellous endurance and a cat
like activity. No snow depth, no rough
ness of trail, no steepness OF precipice, no
loftiness of peak, no remoteness OF locality
can stop the mountain dog when on the
track of mountain sheep.
The pack works in an organized way
when the trail of band of sheep is struck.
The dogs break into little punches, and
wide and careful circuits are made. The
closely-pressed sheep are hurried to a COM
mon center, and they will soon be punched
with twenty-five dogs erect and tails wag-
ging, moving about them in an endless
and eager circle.
The pack has been known to bunch $50
head of sheep, and to hold their watch
and guard for over six hours waiting the
coming of their master, who has been kept
back by the difficulties lying in his path.
1t sometimes occurs that the dogs bring
the game together on spot that Is utterly
to human feet. Then the
hunter gives his dogs notice Of the fact by
a peculiarly shrill and piercing shout.
The pack at once dash into the midst of
the sheep, seize and Stay the largest, and
by dint Of rolling, tumbling and falling
from crag to crag, from declivity to decllv-
ity, bring the carcasses within reach of
their master.
These dogs trace their pedigree to a
pair brought into this region many years
ago by rich Englishman, who made old
Fort Stambaugh his hunting headquarters.
When the Englishman left these noun
tains he gave his dogs, whose worth he
had proved in many hard days chase, to
" Pap" Conant, who was well-known then
as a frontiersman. Pap" gave a couple
of pups from the first litter to his old
comrade, Mountain SAM" who thus
came into possession of the nucleus of this
present magnificent pack Wyoming Cor.
Denrer Tribune Republican.
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A Paris dispatch to the London Daily
Telegraph says: Some remarkable prices
have been realized at the Hotel Drouot for
several rare editions of old works which
had belonged to Baron LIE Roche-Laca-
rells. Bibliophiles-French, English and
American-attended the sale, and the bid
ding was very brisk, the Frenchmen going
away with the principal prizes A book,
which had belonged originally to Nine. de
Pompadour, and was ornamented with her
arms, was bought for .e2S0. An edition of
the Adventures of Telemachus," bearing
Longpierre's insignia of the Golden Fleece
on its boards, was knocked down for e200
The History of the Holy Grail" or
& First Book of the Round Table" which
had once belonged to Louis XIV, was sold
for the same price, while splendid manu-
script of the fifteenth century, on vellum,
engraved by Attavante for Lorenzo de Me
dici, and containing Petrarch's "Triompho
dello Amore," went for EGO. 1t was with
out doubt a sale-rare even in the annals
of the Hotel Drouot-and one which
would have relolced the heart of old Paul
Lacroix, the " Bibliophile Jacob" were he
alive.
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Good Business Policy.

To do business without clear and we'll
defined business policy and an objective
point kept steadily in view is to invite dis
aster. We do not mean by this that a man
should do business by habit A good bust
ness policy adapts itself to every emergency
and surmounts every obstacle, however I'M
expected. The reason that American loco
motives are better than English locomotives
for all new countries is that they are more
elastic and better accommodate themselves
to the exigencies of adventurous railroad
engineering with heavy grades, sharp curves
and rough road-bed An English engine
would not keep the track on one of our
western roads an hour, and run of 100miles
would shake the vital principle out of
it. The successful business man should be
like the successful type of American loco
motive. He must accommodate himself to
whatever he has to travel over, or the
shocks will break him up But he cannot
wander around the prairies looking for
rails, nor lie on the main line waiting to
make up his mind which way to CO.
american Grocer.
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Rather Mixed.

Washington politician to Pittsburg ball
crank" Whitney has made hit in Wash
ington." Pittsburg baseball crank" Yes,
he's doing well this year." "And Cleve-
lands third year seems promising for the
gang" You bet; he's good one, but
Kuehne takes the cake" "Who takes the
cake ?" "Kuehne." "Don't know him
myself; suppose he's local candidate ?"
" Yes, and he's got the Point delegation
with him." "Ah he may show some
strength in St. Louis. The selection of
Fuller will strengthen us in the West"
When did you get him? thought he
was with the New Orleans team" No, he's
in Chicago" "Well, Ansons all the time
picking up new men," "Yes, the old man
has habit of taking new men like Phelps
and Fuller" Phelps? Where's he play
ing~ ooh, he's in Washington now, you
know, I'm sorry the New Workers didn't
take to young Grant" "He seems to be
popular in Buffalo" Eyes" al suppose
his color was against him in New York"
His color?" Eyes; he's a coon you
know" SECT out. He is white all
around" "What! Grant of the Buffa-
los?" 81 don't know about his being in
Buffalo. He's been living in New York
since the old man died" "What old man ?"
why Grant. Gen. Grant. U. S. Grant
Did you never hear of him ?" "Well, |
swear. You mean Col. Fred Grant, and Full
Ter, the new Chief Justice-hol no and
Grover Cleveland? and Secretary Whit
ney? Well, Pm blessed thought you
were talking about men-real men who
can hit the ball - iHSburq Chronicle.
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A WHOLESOME STIMULANT.
Why Upon Occasions Women Should
Drink Hot Milk.

OF hot milk as stimulant the Medical
Record says Milk heated to much above
1909 Fahrenheit loses for a time degree
of its sweetness and density. No
one who, fatigued by over-exertion of
body or mind, has ever experienced the
reviving influence of tumbler of this
beverage, heated as hot as it can be
slipped, will willingly forego resort
to it because of its being rendered some
what less acceptable to the palate.
The promptness with which its cordial in
huence is felt is indeed surprising. Some
portion of it seems to be dlgested and ap-
propriated almost Immediately, and many
who now fancy that they need alcoholic
stimulants when exhausted by fatigue will
find in this simple draught an equivalent
that will be abundantly satisfying and far
more enduring in its effects.
There is many an ignorant, overworked
woman who fancies she could not keep up
without her BEER she mistakes its momen-
tary exhilaration for strength, and applies
the whip instead of nourishment TO her
poor, exhausted frame. Any honest, in
telligent physician will tell her that there
is more real strength and nourishment in
q slice of bread than in Il quart of beer
but if she loves stimulants it would be
very useless piece of information. 1t is
claimed that some lady clerks, and those,
too, who are employed in respectable busi-
ness houses, are in the habit of ordering
ale or beer at the restaurants. They
probably claim that they are tired
and no one who sees their faithful
devotion to customers all day will
doubt their assertions. But they
should not mistake beer for blessing, or
stimulus for strength. A careful exami
nation of statistics will prove that men
and women who do not drink can en-
dure more hardships and do more work
and live longer than their less temperate
neighbors. But
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still,
and woman is wonderfully like him in
this respect.
Furthermore, if woman wants any
thing, from California trip to glass of
toddy, you may rest assured that her health
will demand it, and it sometimes demands it
SO loud and so long that her friends are glad
to yield in time to save their own lives.
A tippling woman gets a pain or an ache
on short notice, and if she has cold or
a headache the whisky has to suffer, and
the drug stores in her neighborhood do a
thriving business. If her ale disorders her
stomach she depends upon dose of whisky
to correct its effects, and SO her morning
beer and evening Bour bon do co-opera-
tive business"
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why Require a Seal ON Deeds >

In a recent address before the Yale Kent
Club, at New Haven, the venerable David
Dudley Field said: "Another of the
anomalies which should be eliminated
from our legal system is the distinction
between sealed and unsealed Instruments
Can anybody give reason for this distinc-
ton, except the historic one that seals
were used when most men were unable to
write? Now, when most men do write,
why use the seal? Or if the seal be used,
why give it a significance and importance
not given to the writing? l find in your
revised statutes provision that deed of
real property must have seal and two
witnesses at the least. You cannot trans
fer to your neighbor cabin for hundred
dollars without these ceremonials; but you
may transfer to him million dollars
worth of railway stock by simple sigma
ture, without seal or witness. Upon a
sealed instrument you may bring suit
within seventeen years; but if the seal is
wanting, you must sue within six years.
Is it a reason why these anomalies should
be retained in the valley of the Connecti-
cut, because they come from the valley of
the Thames Scientific american.
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WEALTH.

How oft as night her mantle draws
Around the sleeping world,
l gather up the fragments left
From hustle, noise and whirl--
gaze upon the picture odd,
So many hands have touched,
But fail to trace a motive more
Than this world greedy clutch.
o wealth, thy power-none know their fate,
On whom thy finger points,
o wealth, thou mighty potentate,
Crime, echos but thy voice,
And yet thy beacon burns as bright,
None seem to fear the course.
You mighty whirlpool of mankind,
The dying gurgling curse,
OF countless victims of the race
Assured, that they would win.
Ambition stares them in the face,
They grappled but in vain,
And yet the lessons wisely taught,
No loss without some gain;
knowledge, when It's dearly bought,
Win yield like golden grain.
Now down the hill of life we plod,
Man on the way to meet his God,
One kind of wealth, each must carry,
The purse of honor, love and duty,
Or coin debased with misery ring,
An orphans curse, o horrid sting.
From such a picture let US turn,
Degrading fame, thus he would earn,
Who chains himself to bleak remorse,
For paltry wealth, and death at last.
-BOstOn Courier.
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An explanation.

What is this nervous trouble" with
which so many seem now TO be afflicted :?
If you will remember, a few years ago the
word malaria" was comparatively I'M
known; to-day it is as common as any
word in the English language yet this
word covers only the meaning of another
word used by our forefathers in times past.
So it is with nervous diseases, as theya
malaria are intended to cover VIVA ynr
graudfathers called biliousness, and all are
caused by troubles that arise from dis
eased condition of the liver, which, in per-
forming its functions, finding it cannot
dispose of the bile through the ordinary
channel, is compelled to pass it off through
the system, causing nervous troubles, ma
laria, bilious fever, etc. You who are suf-
fering can well appreciate a cure. We
recommend Green's August Flower. rs
cures are marvellous.