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Babies of The World.

II has been computed that between
thirty-six millions and thirty seven mil
lions Of babies ars born into 't''I tbo uorII o,ll
each year. The rate Of production is.
therefore, about seventy minute, or.
rather, more than ono for every beat Of
the clock. With'the one-a. minute cal.
culation every rYisr is familiar. but it
is not every one sho stops to calcu-
late what this m ps when it comes to a
years supply, tho Leeds Mercury.
And 1t will prot slartlc good many
persons to find, the authority of
writer in the stal that could the
infants of ye ranged In a line in
cradles seven d phey would 60 round
the globe. w Fe the ingenious con
clusion also thaE Exposing the little ones
to grow up and be sexes to be about
equally divided,R Re should have an ar
my a hundred til as largo as the forces
of the British Ell fe, with wife in
addition to eyg soldier. The same
writer looks at / matter in still more
picturesque light He imaginos the
babies being carried past given point
in their imltoshc: $ charge, one by one,
and the procession being kept up
continuously nsgE aad day, until the
last conner in The tweyemonth has
rassed by. A sufficiently Liberal rate
of speed Is allowed, but even with
these tabies-ipyaFms going past twenty
minute, thu Feviewing officer would
only have seen asixth part of the infantine
host file onward by the time he had
been year at his post. In other
words, the babe that had to be carried
when the work began would be able to
waddle onward itself when mere lrac.
tlon of its comrades had reached the
saluting post; and when the years sup
ply of babies was tapering to close,
there would be a rear guard not of in,
fants, but Of iomping boys and girls,
They would have passed, in fact, out oI
the maternal arms INTO the hands of the
school teacher. Every moment o
nearly seven years would be required tC
complete this grand parade of those lit
tie ones that in the course of a twelve
month begin to play their part in tn
! first age Of man.
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Making Wood FireprOof.

If this could be cheaply aud effectu-
ally done there are few Improvements
which would be more largely conducive
to the welfare Of mankind, says writer
In siA- so4sse-s1gslps The following
paragraph, Therefore which has been
lately in circulation. may be fairly pro-
nouncel 'importantif true, and inter
esting at any ratep
II is stated that New Englander has
recently discovered a cheap method of
dissoving zinc by combining it with
hydrogen and producing a solution
called zinc water. This liquid, if APP
piled to certain woods, notably white
wood, makes it absolutely fireproof, and
at a low cost. Mr.. Edward Atkinson,
the Boston economist, in speaking of it
ut Cornell University, says he regards
this discovery as one of the most i'm
portant of the age, and one that will
surely rovolutionize fire insurance, as
well as Immensely decrease the losses by
fiie. The invention is kept secret fol
the present. Only one foreigner, Sil
Lyon P ay fair, the English scientist,
knows of it. He corroboratcs all tha
is claimed for the invention, and says
that the inventor is a bungling chemist
but that he has faculty of underine
into the choicest secrets of natures lab
oratory. As soon as IA ents are per
fected and capital interested, zinc watet
will become an article Of commerce.
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The Farmers Breakfast.

Breakfast should be cooked quickly
and served promptly. Therein lies sue
cess in quality. The farmer should
build the fire for he can do so and let it
have time to heat the stove while his
wife or the cook is dressing. The bill
Of fare should be simple, wholesome,
substantial, and be of a kind quickly
prepared, such as any one of the follow
ing:
Stewed mackerel or whitefsh, French
fried potatoes, hot corn pone breakfast
breadD, coffee or hot milk,
Fried breakfast bacon and boiled
eggs, potatoes stewed in milk, fried
corn mush, coffee,
Fried ham and eggs, oat meal mush,
bread and butter, coffee and milk
The bill of fare for breakfast should
in every case be decided upon the day
, s,ssfss a. ~ Fsys'
and nut at hand, so that no time may
be lost in the morning. 1t is just as
easy to grind coffee, slice and prepare
meat, and have the vegetables ready to-
day, as it will be tomorrow, and strength
and time will be saved in the morning.
II is not the cooking, but the preparing
TO cook, which keeps the breakfast late
and nuts the ''lord of the manor" out
of patience. When we go to cook VIC
ouoht to cook. Get good fire and get
eyeyy taSeg OF the fye at once. Inc
meal is then ready to go on the table
altogether, so that no part oil 1t Is
spoiled by waiting for the rest Of it to
be cooked. II breakfast becomes cold
waiting for ''me lord" to come IN ana
eat il we have nothing to say, ano
neither has John if he is gentleman.
| If he is a gentleman he will probably
remark in such case, "My dear, an
sorry. &c."-LiUs Stock Journal.
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NO. 10.
The Cliffs Of the Hereafter.


When we scale the highest mountain
OF our holest thought in prayer,
Thinner grows the veil between US
And the souls that oyerlean US
From the cliffs of the hereafter
Who keep us in closest crre.
On the cliffs of the hereafter
Seraphim in glory throng,
And each yearning heavenward tending,
Is an angel reascending
That walked with us along,
For tine cliffs of the hereafter
To the Prince of Peace belong.
Have you strayed at sunsets hour
BY the anthem-singing sea
Without noting with what power
He creates eternally
Pictures of the hereafterI
'Tis no mirage that ye seei
On tho cliffs of the hereafter
Garments threaded dark with doubt,
Woven at the loom Of living,
Wen be utterly without;
buL lnOush naked ile VIII ClVIhO "'
In the garb of truth about
From the cliffs of the hereafter
Bacl and forth the angels go,
All unseen yet seeing ever
Valley dwelers here below,
Who hut sight their radiant raiment
When their dreams are white as snow.
--Augustr Chambers.
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Origin of X.

Moses Folsom of Port Townsend sends
the following sketch of the origin of the
use Of the letters so. K" which, he
states, was furnished him personally by
James Parton:
While at Nashville in search of mate
rial for his history, Mr.. Parton found
among the records of the court of which
General Jackson had been judge great
many legal documents endorsed 20. r.
which meant 's0rdcr recorded" but
often so scrawlingly written that one
could easily read it as o. X. If major
Downing" noticed a bundle of papers
thus marked upon President Jackson S
table, documents, perhaps, from his
former court, in which he still had in.
saAssssas&sssssssA ssssx Assesx .sssses M uslAa
ster could imagine it TO be 30. X" or
"oll korrect"
No doubt Seba Smith, who wrote un-
der the nom dc plume of Major Jack
Downing" had much to do with Great
ing the impression that President jack
Son was unlette,e and illitcrate, where
as many existing personal letters,
military reports, court opinions and
state papers show to the contrary. He
lived before the day of stenographers
and typewriiers, aaa yet carried on !
yoluminouI correspondence. Hundreds
of his personal letters to old soldier
friends are still preserved as heirloom;
in the south, and his handiwork is
numerous in Washington. He was evi-
dently rapid renman, and made
greater use Of capital letters than is the
present custom, but misspclled word'
and stumbling sentences were few ane
far between. Portland Oregoaioa.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-28
PORT TOBACCO, MARYLAND. JUNE 2S, 1889.
MY Kingdom and Ny Queen.

W hth1NVhA WIN ~ T
MY kingdom hasno dazzling throne
No palace grand upon it,
Yet tits as bright as eer was known,
Or sung in loyal sonnet.
I've Travelled east, I've Travelled west
Mid scenes Of wealth and splendor,
But this one spot love the best,
With all its joys SO tender;
No place so dear I've ever seen,
For pace reigns Lere and Love is quee
Two subjects in my kingdom dwell;
One has an eye Of azure,
And smiles upon her fair face tell
OF pure and perfect pleasure;
And one has hair Of raven hue
And eyes Of hazol beauty,
And whate'er he may strive to do
He always does his duty.
And faithful they have ever been
To her who is my household queen.
And as life yields me newer joy
And hope divine and human,
l see one now no more boy
And one almost woman.
The bright days come, the bright days go,
And each brings some new pleasure,
And no spot ON the earth know
Is richer with heart-treasure.
Nor happier subjects ne'er were seen
Than in my home where Love is queen
BY no high-sounding royal Manic 1"~''
Or title they address her,
AS cheerily, their eyes ahame
With love, they kiss and bless her;
But with voice of gentle tone,
Which joy gives to each other,
They call her by one name alone,
The hallowed name of mother.
A name the sweetest known to man
Since time and love their course began.
Youths Companion.
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HUMOROUS.
High-bred people-The bakers.

High-bred people-The bakers.
A moose bureau-The matrimonial
agency.
Retired to private life--Reduced to
the ranks.
New wheat never ruined as many men
as old rye.
Filing saws-Pasting old jokes in
scrap-book.
A current remark--I must make some
jelly this fall.
1t must be the spur of the moment
that makes time go so fast.
The policeman who is free with his
club keeps law and order on tap.
The passion some women have for at
tending auctions is morbid taste.
A counter -irritant-The fellow who
leans across it AMI bores the clerk.
"Take your lickin' without kickin',"
is the way that a school boy philosopher
counsels resignation to the inevitable.
Dentist" Shall l give you gas,
ma'am9" Mrs. Blobsom-"Yes, you
can talk all you please. reckon it
will kinder cheer me up.
i sDont interrupt me till I'm done, /"
was an Irish bull recently perpetrated
by an English speaker.
"Bat, my dear, what has that old
man to recommend himself aside from
his riches9' "IIeart disease.
Elsie-la going to marry the apothe-
cary. Aggie-Ohl how nice. He'll
trust us for vlnilla cream sodas now.
Husband (entering)-My love the
stove smokcs Wife-You wouldn't
have it chew would you, ike you, you
brutel
The dying statesman raised himself in
bed and looked appellingly around him.
'I have only one request to make, " he
said, f ebly. "See that no New York
r paper proposes a monument for me.
r A gypsy woman laid her curse on an
Indiana farmer who refused hera nights
t lodging, and within two weeks an uncle
J of his died aud left him $35, 900 in hard
cash. He says he'd like some more OF
: the hoodoo business.
Mrs. Youngcouple: "You must have
: very uncongeniaI husbandl Why
r heard you ask him as many as twenty
questions this afternoon that he made NJ
reply to whatever" Mrs, PeItlady-
"Ohl dear George is used to mel HI
knows that 1 ask questions simply t.
amusc myself"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-28
Method Of Removing a Tight Ring

HcthVu ". AsOhiVtinS llSHt hiHS.
Use the finest silk or thread consistent
yith b. stssagss s s
thread is strong enough. Pass the end
between the finger aud ring, keeping
the spool or unlimited end at the side
near the fnger-tip; then wind downward
toward the tip of tho finger for about a
quarter of an inch; then wind off from
lbovc by the short erd about half this
amount. Proceed alternately winding
on and on, always leaving about one
Eighth of an inch in breadth wound be-
aeath the ring, When the knuckle is
passed, the ring coaes off easily, Oil or
Iosp the thread well, and push up the
ling before commencing to wind. This
method, it is believed, will remove any
ting.
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SCROFULA

can only be cured by thorough purifea-
ton of the blood. If this is neglected,
the disease perpetuates its tailt through
generation after generation. Among its
earlier symptomatic developments are
Eczema, Cutaneous Eruptions, Tu-
mors, Boils, Carbuncles, Erysipelas,
Purulent Ulcers, Nervous and Ply
sical Collapse, etc. If allowed to con-
tinue, Rheumatism, Scrofulous Ca
tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases,
Tubercular Consumption, and vari-
Gus other dangerous or fatal maladies, are
prodlleed by it.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-28
Politics Do Look Serious for Elll9tt.

Colonel Elliott f. Shepherd of the
Mail and Express asks: ''Can an editor
De Christiang' When it comes TO the
point that an editor himself has doubts
IN this matter, things begin to look
,retty serious.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-28
Restored to Home of Wealth.

S. B. Sanderson of Joliet, ILL.,, camo
to Los Angeles, CAL, few weeks ago
with his family to settle permanently.
He is wealthy, and FIVE years ago had
an only daughter, Eselle, who at IS
eloped wiihsa handsome brakeman
named jane P'Brion. The girl wished
to be forgih, but sandcrson turned
her out. H9 husband was soon killed
in an aocide and she supported her
self as govt She recently drifted
20 Los Angts, but lost her position
and began make personal canvass
Of houses I'd Fork. She rang the bell
of her faith house without knowing
the name Of be occupants, and mother
and daugh thus met for the first
time since The estrangemcnt. The
prodigal w welcomed and restored
from hungry, houseless wanlcrer to a
home of wealth. = Chicago Herald.
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Ayers 5 Sarsapar1Ma

IS The only po,sertlM and dl,gays reliable
Hood-purifyiR0 medicine. 1t is so effect
ual an Alternative that it eradcates from
the system Hereditary Scrofula, ana
the Kindred poisohs Of contagious diseases
and mercury. At the same time it en-
III Nes and vitaIizes the blood, restoring
healthfal action to the vital organs and
rciuvenating the entire system. This great
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Reqenerative Medicine

Is composed of the genuine Honduras
iosfrsapariHd, with Ieli0lo Dock, Stil-
lfa0ia, the I0dideS Of Potassium and
non, and other ingredients of great po-
tencv. carclully and scientifically com
bounced. Its formula is generally known
to the medical profession, and the best
physicians constantly prescribe AYERS
SARSAPARIIIA aS an
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Absolute Cure

For all diseases caused by the vitiation of
,he blood. 1t is concentrated TO the high
est practicable degree, far beyond any
other preparation for which like effects
,..1 AL Il fbarafafo the cbaan,.Sf
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WILL
CURE YOU
KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to scrofua
because OF superstition that it could bc
cured by kings touch. The world y
wiser now, and knows that
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needful errand.
"Viva, you must tell Captain Creigh-
ton."
81 will not" she answered angrily.
'sBut you mustr'
~ never will After all these wretch
ed years of waiting, do you think l will
throw my life away, DIR. Sands"
''If you do not, shall"
"You WON'T you can't"
''But SHALL 1t is my duty. If YOU
do not tell him befo.e saturday@rhis is
Tuesday-I shall"
The doctors voice was stern, but the
nurse came in; he said no more.
Next day came Tom with startling
news; he was ordered at once to Fort
stillng; the garrison there was needed
in struggle with the Indians; fresh
troops must man the fort; there was not
a day to spare.
"Viva, viii you go with mci''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09

could see nothing he could hear and
feel that footsteps were approaching
his bed. He jumped out on the floor
and again the room was dark.
Then he could hear voices in the cell
lar, as If some one were digging and
laying up stone wall. He got up,
dressed himself and awakened the land
lord and told him that he could not stay
there any longer.
"Pshaww said the boniface, "are you
foolish enough to be frightened out OF
your sleep by a few rats?'
Rats or not" said Webb, 81 am GO
lug" and he did 90.
J Several years after "Granther" Mill
: ard saw the sights there was an alarm
OF fire one night and the ''old lid Tay-
ern" was In flames. But little effort
was made to prevent the fire from de-
Strcying 1t.
] The next day some men went up to
look at the ruins. In the cellar there
appeared to be portion of the wall
that had been taken down and relaid.
Several men pried at the wall with
! sticks and II fell down, and behind the
Wall was found mans skeleton, bits
! OF blue cloth, some gray hair and two
. or three hOrseshoes. Old men then re-
membered that forty years before that
traveller and speculatar In horses be-
tween the United States and Canada
had been seen i'm and about the tavern
as lately as he had been heard of any,
where. But as more than dozen diff
ferent men had tried to keep the tavern
there was no means of fastening the
crime upon them.
In Copake. about two miles below the
village of HillSdale. there was, thirty or
nrfx IL n
tavern had been kept. One John
Shafer kept tavern there before this
time, and finally the place began to
have an uncanny reputation. An old
man named Vandeusen was passing the
house one night when he saw black,
nOndeScript. headless animal 90 from
the house about 100 feet to all old well,
where it disapp AIRED. His horse was
terribly frightened and came near
throwing his rider.
A young lady who taught scdool in
the district and boarded around stayed
there couple of days. but could not
control her nerves any longer. There
was heavy door that led into her bed
room which she locked and bolted, but
after she had retired she heard foot
steps and the door would fly open. She
heard elanking of chains and noises like
the falling of clOds upon ii coffin. She
told her hostess, but the latter Insisted
that it must be her imagination. But
the old we'll was filled up one summer
and another one was dug.
The old house has been torn away for
many years and new smart farmhouse
occupies the site.
Since the war there have been no we'll
authenticated ghost stories. But in the
old times MANY an old man, and Young
man too. for that matter. that had Occa-
sion to go from Hillstlale to Copake
alter dark, took the west road and gave
that spot the g0-by. At one time that
place stood higher than any one of
the half-doZen in that vicinity IN the
folk lore. 1t had its story of disappear
ing peddler, which used to be aseribed
as reason in many cases. But who he
was or when he disappeared. there is
probably no one living that can to-day
tell except from unreliable hearsay.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09
THE ORIGIN OF HURRAH.
A British Authority Says That the
CrV Strings From the German

Cry Springs From the German.
Writing to the Times, with reference
to the remark of its Berlin correspond
ent that the exclamation "Hurrah :"
lis said to be of Slavonic origin" DR..
c. A. Buchheim. af Kings college. Lon
don, says, II presume your correspond
ent must have some authority for this
assertion; but | nope you will allow me
to point out that, as far as l know, the
word is of purely German origin. 1t is
generally assumed to be derived from
the Initiative interjectiOn hurr. descTib-
ing rapid movement, from which
word the middle HIgh-German hurren.
to move rapidly or rather TO
hurry, has been formed. Hurrah is,
therefore, nothing else but an enlarged
form of huTr, and, as | said, of purely
Teutonic origin. In Grimm'S 'Worter-
buch' we find the interjection quoted
from a minnesinger. 1t also occurs i'm
Danish and Swedish; and it would be
Interesting to know when it was
first introduced in this country
in the AngliciZed form of hurry
In Germany it was frequently
used during the Napoleonic wars by the
Prussian soldiers, and it also occurs in
SOule pOllIlcdl ana martial songs of
those days. Since then it seems to have
been adopted also by other nations,
even by the French in the form of hour
IA. That the interiection did not be-
come so popular in Germany as a cheer
at eonYiyial gatherings as in this
country Is probably owing to
the circumstances that prefer.
enee was given there to the
brief exclamation 'HOchr forming re-
speetively the end and the beginning of
the phrases. 'Erlebe hOch' and 'Hoeh
soil or leben.' OF late the word hurrah
seems to have become rather popular i'm
Germany. 1t is just possible that the
English reimported it there or that il
was revived through the magnificent
poem of 'HuTrah. Germaniar' written
by the poet laureate of German people,
Ferdinand FreiligTath."
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How the Mo.ths Were Named.

How the Months Were Named.
Chicago Tribune
In looking up the peculiar names
given each of the twelve months of the
year. it becomes necessary for us to go
back to the old Romans, who have i'm
posed upon us set of names equally as
absurd as those the NorSemen, the Sean
dinavians and SaXOns applied to the
week. January is named from Janus.
the-'sOd of doors and gates, because the
mo n h opens the year; some say that he
is a two-faeed god, and could look back
on the last year and forward to the
coming.
February is from februo, to purify.
March was originally the first month
and was named for Mars, the god of
war.
April is from aperire, to open, be-
cause the buds open in that month.
May is from Maia, goddess.
June is from Juno, the patron of mar
month for weddings.
July was named for Julius Caesar and
August for Augustus Caesar. Origi-
DalIy August had butthirty days and
February twenty-nine in the common
year and thirty in leap years. Augustus
was jealous that julius month should
have more days than his own, therefore
took one from February ana added it to
August.
September. October, November and
December are so called because they
were originally the seventh, eighth,
ninth and tenth months of the year.
The names are inappropriate and rank
miSnOmerS as now applied. y
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vANDERBILTs GETTING IN
Some Idea Of the Social Strug-
giles OF Americas Richest Fam

Some Idea Of the Social Strug-
giles OF Americas Richest Fam
lily.
New York Letter in San Francisco Argonaus.
1t was only by rigid system of en-
tertainments that the VanderbiItS
eventually reached the inner set of New
York society. Even when social preju-
cices began TO melt before the refal-
gence Of the Vanderbilt millions, there
were some naughty .spirits-sons, but
more especially daughters, of Northern
chlvalry-who intimated that the hand
of Douglas was his own, and never
would in friendly grasp the hand of
such as Vanderbilt clasp. Foremost
among these were the Ast0rs An Astor
would not bow to Vanderbilt on pain
of death. The MODtagues and the
Capulets, the Guelphs and the
Ghibellines were friendly, not to say
atfectiOnate, in comparison with tho
AstOrs and the Vanderbilts. The AstoF
blood is, as every one knows, of the
purest cerulean tInt-it would be cal
umny to allude to that sacred fluid as
plain blue. The original John Jacob
had gone to scnool with Sehopenhauer,
which is enough to have Cast an aristo-
cratic gloom over the family of Bacehu5.
This was the situation when the Van
derbilts gave their famous fancy ball
five years ago. None of the Astors were
asked. They had not called. The Van
derbilts had resurrected their dignity
generally regarded in society as both
lost and gone before-from oblivion,
busted it Off and unfurled it to
the breeze. No call. no IN
vitation, said they. Miss Astor
longed to go to the ball. She waited
for an invitation hoped. pinned dropped,
despaired. Finally. in desperation. she
bowed her crested head and tanned her
heart of fire and called. The next day
she received the coveted card, and since
then the families of Vanderbilt and
Astor have grown together like double
cherry,