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Done Been Seen Since ! Sawn
Him."

A little dar key boy was recently
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trifling offense. He asked TO baye
his case postponed for one day, so
that he might bring az witness
another darkey boy who would ex-
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moDy was entirely against the &C.
cused boy, and resulted in con
vicuon. When the prisoner was
asked to explain this fact he re-
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done been seen since | sawn him"
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A new acquisition to England''
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pot ship, bat Is a fast protected
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tireIy novel type. The constrnc
ton of the Vulcan was begun on
June 16, 1888. She is of G,G9O ton
displacement--larger, in sbort,
than any of the large Indian troop
ships and three times as large as
many a cruiser. She is built oil
steel, her hull alone weighing 81
40 tons, and her principal meas
urements are as follows: Length,
800 feet; beam, GS feet; mean
draught 90 feet. The vertical keel
is of an unusually heavy and sub
stantial character and is 3 feet Il
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weighing five tons. The vessel Is
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thick in the slope aud p inches
elsewhere. The engines are OF the
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"A collective indicated horsepower
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They will drive the ship at speed
of 20 knots (23 miles and Is knots
(2O.7 miles, at sea. There will be
storage for 1000 tons of coal, an
amount sufficient for 5000 miles
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will have a balance rudder similar
TO that fitted TO the Spanish cruiser
Reins Regent and TO the lnman
steamer City of New York. This
will enable the new war ship to
turn a complete circle OF not more
than 400 yards IN diameter in little
over three minutes.
AS a tOrpedo.depot ship she will
be admirably adapted for the work.
She will be floating factory, full
of forges and workshops tor the
repair of torpedo.boats aud torpe-
does. She will carry an immense
supply of torpedoes, submarine
u.ines and all the necessary gear
for submarine work on a large
scale, and she will also have upon
her decks u small flotilla, probably
eight in number, Of second-class
torpedo boats OF the largest size.
These she will be able to hoist
overheard and dispatch in all di-
rectlons at a few minutes notice
The vulcan will also have torpe'
do armament Of her own, consist
ing of six launching tubes, some OF
which are to be under water. Re-
garded more particularly as a
cruiser, she will posses qualities
which will entitle her 70 rank
among the most formidable I'M
armored cruisers of the world. She
will have weapons which, at close
range, will be capable of penetra
ting armor up to nearly sixteen
inches thick. The qulck.fring arm
ament will be the most powerful OF
any ship in the world. 1t will en-
able her to discharge on each
broadside a storm of from soto 15C
projectles a minute; and should
she ever he attaked by unarmored
cruisers or torpedo-boats, she
would be able to give them a warm
recepuon.-BaltimOre San.
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HAS he ABOLISHED DEATH7
DIR. BROWN. SEQUARD CLAIMS TO
HAVE DISCOVERED THE
ELIXIR OF LIFE.

The medical world Is excited 10y
the statement Of DR.. BrOwn-Se
guard, The great French specialist
in nervous Diseases, who declared
before the Biological Society OF
Paris. of which he is president, that
after twenty years OF experiment.
ing. he had discovered IA true elixir
of life, a substance that would re-
invenate the old aud make strong
the feeble. He cOnteuded that 1t
the living cells of young and
vigorous being could be injected
into another where the vital spark
was low, his organism must vibrate
in unison with the fresh life. Many
years ago the doctor advanced
views of the same character in a
lecture before the medical faculty
of Paris, and has since been en-.
gagged in experimenting on the
subject by treating old and worn
out animals. Finally, as he states,
he reached such perfection that he
tried his elixir upon himself with
startling results.
The doctor administered 70
himself a cubic centlmeter with
a bypodermic syringe, just as NOR.
phine is injected. He declares that
the day following this experiment,
after two injections of this vital es.
sence, he felt himself transformed.
Up to that time, halGan.h0ur's
work, standing mp in his laboratory,
exhausted him. Now he declares
he can study three hours uninter.
ruptedly, without the least repOse.
His appetite has increased, his
sleep is sweet and refreshing, his
stomach performs its functions al.
mlrably, aud his intellectual labor
is performed with wonderful ease
and clearness. His feelings. also,
have been youthful. DR.. Brown.
Sequard declared that the dose he
took was equivalent to ten years
reinvenation.
The doctor is now seventy-twO
years old, and presumably is sub.
ject to the weaknesses and infrmi-
ties of age. HIS revitalizing sub.
stance, be explained, was derived
from certain organs or glands
taken, still quiyerng, from live
animals and reduced at once to a
pulp in a mortar with distilled
water. From this compound he
extracts an essence which be uses
as hypodermic injection.
Medical men 10 New York are
sceptical about the doctors alleged
discovery, and smile incredulously
when asked what they think Of it.
While they admit that all things
are possible. they are far from
ready 10 give credence to the
story as it comes from France, or
to accept the statement without
further proof than has yet come 70
hand.-NeW York World.
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ATERROR OF A HORSE.


tendance at Saturday afternoon"
performance of Buffalo Bills wild
West Show, at Paris. A large pro-
portion of those present had been
attracted by the announcement
that the equestrian skill of Colonel
OOdy's cowboys was to be pat to
the test of riding a vicious French
horse, of which they knew nothing
whatsoever. Certain Partisan gen.
tlemen, who faEcied that the ex'
hibltion of buckIng horses was
conducted with animals trained to
display wildness they had long
before had taken out of them, laid
heavy wages with other members
of the Jockey Club, who had con-
fidence in the genuineness of the
buckiDg horse act, that they could
produce an animal which the cow
boys could not saddle, bride or
ride IN the time usually devoted to
that portion of the performance.
The horse selected was La Retif, a
powerful black stallion, seventeen
hands high, belonging to NJ. Tail
lard, that had acquired a well
merited reputation for viciousness
by killing two men who attempted
to break him into the saddle and
bride. He was not brought to
the camp until few minutes be-
fore the commencement of the per-
tormauce, and when the time came
for the Ducking horses be was
turned into the arena along with
the bronchos and the other horses
used in the act.
He had not gone far before a
lasso thrown By Tony Equival set
tied around his neck, and this novel
experience was such surprise that
he offered no serious resistance to
being saddled and bridled. Then
be apparently realized the situation
and while the usual bucking bust
ness was progressing he made
things particularly lively for those
that we're holding him. After five
or six of the broncbos had been rid
den LIE Retit was led forward, and
before he knew what was to be
done with him jim the Kid, a
Wyoming cowboy, was on his back.
For a few minutes lie Retif showed
that in the art OF bucking he bad
nothing TO learn from bis American
bretbern.
he alternately paved the air
with his tore and hind feet, gave
great leaps, and did his level best
to unseat bis rider, but all in vain,
and presently he gave up the strug'
Gle and allowed Jim the Kid to put
him through bis PAGES around and
around the arena, while the de-
lighted audience rose to their feet,
cheering and waving their hats and
handkerchiets with wild enthusi-
asm.
Presently Jim the Kid pulled M,
and another cowboy got on behind
him, and LIE Retif, after a brief
struggle, was forced to carry the
double lead around the arena.
NJ. TaiIlard was the first TO de.
clare that the performance was a
magnificent spectacle of equestrian
skill, and the disappointed hackers
of LIE Retif, although they had as
much as 100000. at stake on him,
did not even attempt to claim the
Gne. Even the other horses seem
ed TO enjoy the scene.
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In the OLD haggling way Of trade
which has, in this country at least,
happily gone out for the most part,
and has been replaced by the more
honest one-prlce system, in which
a dealer puts fair profit upon his
goods and sticks to that, it was
custom mary to demand a great Zeal
more than the asker hoped to get.
One time on the Texas frontier a
man came into camp riding an old
mule.
Chow much for the mule n
asked bystander.
"Jist hundred dollars" an.
swered the rider.
"I'll give you five dollars" said
the other.
The rider stopped short, as if in
amazement, and then slowly dis
mounted.
STRANGER said he, 81 amt
a. goln' to lei q little matter of
nlnety.6ve dollars stand between
me and q mule trade. The mules
yourn."
Another story, somewhat of the
same sort, is related OF an old
tenant farmer who, on paying his
rent, told his landlord that he
wanted some timber to build a
house, and would be much obliged
if he would give him permission to
cut down what would answer for
the purpose.
"Noo said the landlord, sharply
aWell, then, Sir" the farmer
went on twill you give me enough
to build barn 7"
"Nop
"To make a gate, then 7"
eyes"
"That's all / wanted" said the
farmer, "and more than | ex-
pected."
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
CULTIVATED AREA OF THE
COUNTRY.

COUNTRY.
The breadth of cultivated area
Increases largely each season. In
the newer states aud territories
settlement is rapid, and each year
new areas almost equal to states in
their aggregate are given over to
the pillow, while in older sections
east of the Mississippi river new
farms are appearing on hitherto
uncultivated lands. The rapidly
with which this extension has gone
on during recent years has been
recently noted by the national sta
tistician, who furnishes the data
here given: In 1875 the four prln-
cipal arabic crops-corn, wheat,
oats and cotton-occupied 12S, OOO'
900 acres; in 1888 this area had
increased to 159,OOO,OOO-an en-
largement ia nine years of 81, OOO,-
600 acres. If the increases IN all
titled and grass land has been in
the same proportion as that in
these four crops, we have now a
total area of improved lands in
farms of 800, 100000 acres, against
$1,000, 600 in 1879.
With the rapid increase Of ag-
gregate area there is generally but
little change IN the comparative
breadth gwen to each Of the prin'
clpsl staple crops. In the minor
crops the fluctuations are greater,
an extended area one year often
resulting in low prices of the pro-
duet and a diminished acreage the
next. In some seasons there is a
forced change OF proportions, re-
sultlng from an unfavOrable plant.
ing time for one crop, or from
other natural causes. These vari-
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portions restored 10 the normal.
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present season occupies its aver
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to change from one crop to anOth-
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and potatoes, the price OF both OF
which have ruled low during the
year past. An increased acreage
is devoted TO oats IN the middle
and north Atlantic states, With
some enlargement Of grass land
and increased attention TO truck
farming and market gardening.
The cotton states show the usual
increase in the acreage of their
staple, with more determined eff
fort than usual to grow a home
supply of grains and food stuffs.
In Alabama and Georgia especi-
ally there seems to have been some
success in the effort to reduce the
importance Of cotton, due appar-
emily TO the direction Of farmers
associations. The effort TO make
tobacco a staple crop in Florida is
being continued on a larger acre
age and with apparent success.
Elsewhere the area of this crop has
been very materially reduced both
in the cigar and shipping districts.
The acreage of spring wheat seems
70 have declined in Wisconsin and
Minnesota, owing to ravages of the
chlnch bug. Flax shows a decline
in cultivation IN the older districts
and an increase in the newer re-
gions, where it makes an excellent
first crop. Increased attention is
being gwen to sorghum in portions
of Kansas and locally in some 9th
er states.
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Thought it Would Kill Him.
COFFEEvILLE, MISS.
Feb. Goth. 1889.

Gentlemen I suffered with exc.
ma for nearly two years, and was
treated by three physicians, but
they could do me no good. spoke
of trying s. S. S. and they told me
it would kill me, but | tried it any
way, and after taking six or eight
bottles was completely cured, and
have never been bothered since
with 1t, and 1 feel it a duty to you
and suffering humanity to make
this statement. ii. s. DAVIS.
MONTPORT HOUSE,
WILLIS POINT, Tex, April 8. !
To the Srif Specific Co., Atlanta,
Ga:
Gentlemen-Our baby when but
two weeks old was attacked with a
scrofulous affection that for time
destroyed her eyeslght entirely,
and caused us to despair of her
life. She was treated by the best
physicians without benefit. We
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which soon relieved her completely
and abe ia now as hale and hearty
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about this coffee, F" said the boardeI
in iudicaI tone. "The good point
IS there 10 no chickery in IL; the
bad, that there 10 no coffee in It,"
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"Thats all wanted" said the
farmer, "and more than | ex-
pected."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-07-18
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
ONLY A DOG, But HE SAVED HIS
MISTRESS FROM DEATH

JoHNsTowN. June Ga large crowd
of people attracted my attention about
six O'Clock this evening on Main street
On going closer | noticed that a mum
Der of men aud women were surround
ing dog
Come here, Romeo, my noble old
dog !" said one woman.
Give me kiss there is dear. "
"Ah, Romeo" said another, 1T was a
pity Johnstown had not more such as
you are-there would not be so many
people dead here now"
The dog. a beautiful water spaniel,
stood as quietly among the people as il
he understood each word Soon
learned what it meant.
Romeo belonged to Mrs. C. F. kress
of Washington street, Johnstown.
Last Friday, when the flood of the
South Fork resei voir broke loose, that
lady went to the house of her sister,
Mrs. A. c. Kress, on Main street,
taking the dog with her. While there
the waters came sweeping down, and
all were compelled to get upon II roof.
There we're seven in the par and
Romeo.
Suddenly big wave dashed upon the
roof. Mrs. c. F. Kress was knocked
off, and rapidly floated down the
stream.
But the waters had no more than clos
ed above the sinking lady when the dog