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Great Works of Europe.

One of the most remarkable works of
the kind constructed in modern times is
the aqueduct bridge of Maintenon,
erected for the purpose of conveying
water from the river Eure to Versailles.
It consists of three rows of arches, one
above another, and is 200 feet high by
fve-sixths of q mile in length. The con
duit that supplies Marseilles with the
water of the DURANGO is about sixty
miles in length, and one of Its aqueduct
bridges is 262 feet high. The length Of
the conduit which brings water from
Kaiserbrunn to Vienna is fifty-six and a
half miles, but the tallcst of its aqueduct
bridges is only about 96 feet. The main
Paris aqueduct is a little over 10 miles
long, and, with its subsidiary conduits,
compelled the construction of seventeen
bridges.-New York Ledger.
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A Dude Doused with mo,a.scs,

While two young women werepassing
Lincoln's drug store atOgden avenue and
Congress street Sunday evening an ele-
gantly dressed young man accostedthem
and insisted on accompanying them.
His advances were repealed, but this did
not subdue the impurtunate snob. Find
ing verbal protest unavailing one of the
young women, who had just come with
her companion from a neighbours house,
where she had borrowed a quart of
syrup, flung the contents of the syrup
pail at the head Of the dude. The young
man hailed a passing cab and was driven
to the West Side natatorium to get
cleansed. The oma washed the syrup
off her hands in Lincoln's drug store
Chicago Herald.
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Smiled in French.

The late Judge Noyes had q remarka-
BILE voice. It was the voice Of man Of
fine physique, and its owner used it as
skllfully as q trained elocutionist.
Judge Noyes' voice was Of remarkable
timbre, and 1t was won't to be his boast
that "give me an audience Of 10000 peo-
pie in the open air, and I'll make every
one Of them hear" When Gen. Noyes
was minister to France his great voice,
round and musical as a note from a
bronze bell, was the marvel of the
French people.
Lew Rosen, the playwright, was in
Paris when Gen. Ndyes came to repre-
sent the great republic at the French
capital, and was engaged as Frenchtut
for the American minister's family.
Gen. Noyes had difficulty in learning
French, and freely confessed it. One
day Mr. Rosen called upon Henri Mar
tin, the famous French historian, and
in the course Of the conversation he
mentioned Gen. Noyes' difficulty in &C
qu1nng French. "Ah," said the great
writer, "Gen. Noyes does not need to
learn to speak ze French language; he
SMILES 20 French language."-Cincinnat
Commercial Gazette.
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HAD PLAyeo THERE. BEFORE.
A Story of IL Lewiston BOY Who Could
Throw Across the Diamond.

A Story of IL Lewiston BOY Who Could
Throw Across tho Diamond.
A Lewiston young maj who plays a
good game of baseball and who has had
the proud position of first base upon a
hustling local nine, and who can speeda
baseball like a bullet. is very efeminate
in his manne-s and looks like anything
but a sport.
He was ont visiting in New Hamp-
shire, and while there tho local ball toss
ers looked at him with disgust. They
called him u "dood" and said that he
was a "sissy." He took it in good part
and said nothing. One day they laid out
a plan to mako him tired of the town,
and they invited him to play baseball.
He said that he didn't play much of n
game, but that he would like to accom-
modatc them if possible. They were to
meet another nine in the same town, and
the boys We're all out to see u boy called
"Ratsy" 'paste tho balls into the Lewis
ton dude first bascman."
The game began, and the young fellow
with the rodcntial name was pitching.
The first chance he got he snapped the
ball into the Lewiston boy at first and
the crowd just howlcd in glee, expecting
to see it go right through his hands.
More of them followed and he chung to
them rather bunglingly at first, just for
fun. Some of them he muffed purposely
and some he fumbled, and all the time
"Ratsy" kept putting them along as
hard IS he could, apparently trying to
catch the base II off the first.
All this time tho crowd was laughing
Just as hard as it could. Finally the
Lewiston boy, who al throw a ball like
an arrow from IL bow, decided that it
was time to stop tho picnic. "Ratsy"
slid ono in to tho first with all Of his
power. A sudden change came over the
Lewiston boy. He took it with a grace
that seemed new born, and then he
Strengthened up and his arm flow back
and the ball wcntin. "Ratsy" had never
played baseball outside of his native
hamlet. He had never handled red hot
pig iron or trifed with a high tension
electric current.
He had never been shot with a hun
drcd ton gun or kicked by mule, but
this time he thought that he had expert
enced them all ut once. The ball split a
finger, passed through his hand and hit
him in the stomach, and "Ratsy" pitch
ed no more that game. After that the
Lewiston ball player took everything in
his reach, high, low, daisy cutters, foul
flies and all the rest, and there was not q
smile on the ball field that was not born
of admiration Of him. After that he
was the lion Of tho hamlet. Anyway
this is the way some of his friends tell
tho story.-Lewiston journal.
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Coming Notifications in War Tactics.

1t is pointed out as one of the ons
auences of the universal introductions
II smokeless powder which is now immi-
nent, that, Us soldiers will have to seek
all possible cover, it will be necessary
to multiply the number of orderlies and
messengers, and the commander-in-chief
will have to take his position in the CEN
TIRE Of action to watch everything and
to be ready to modify the original plan
swiftly if needful. The change from
brilliant uniforms to those of soberer
and safer hues will involve such expense
that it is likely to be deferred for a
while, but the glitter of helmets and
bayonets is now so dangerously visible
that already the French minister of war
has given orders that in the army of the
republic these shall be dulled with
bronze New York Commercial Adver-
tiSar
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Advantages of Imperfect Vision.

h0v0AsH6Vo A"HSAASSs sAoAOAs
Few people probably realize how rare,
OFFICIALLY speaking, is really perfect or
normal eye among human beings. Out
Of 100000 persons examined by German
oculists only n was found who had
normal vision, and he, strange to say,
saw nothing, as the generality of man.
kind see things. A star. for instance, to
him was a perfectly circular figure, with
no radiatng points, and he seemed to
be incapable of recognizing lines and
projections essential to many geometri-
cal conceptions.
May not the myope and astigmatic
comfort himself, therefore, with the re-
Election that his vision, if In the strict
sense defective, has compemations not
to be lightly disregarded? Is it not bet
ter to see things In IL picturesque way,
with harsh outlines softened and with
variations In curves and angles in har-
mony with ones sense Of beauty, than to
be held rigidly to the letter Of nature
and 80 find the external world IN affair
Of blank neutrality-suspicious. Beacon.
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Composite Landscapes.

A suggestive use Of photography has
been recently made. Landscape features
are photographed here and there, figures
being posed to fit the theme. The diff
ferent parts are then collected into an
effective group, and the assembled
groups arc photographed to form one
complete picture. Something of this
kind has been done by artists in CYCLIC
ramic painting, the different views be-
ing grouped together in sections and
painted on the canvas in connected
groups to form a complete representa-
ton of avast stretch of landscape.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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Politene@.

1t is polite to avoid practical Jokes. 1t
is polite when you have offended any
n OF hurt his feelings in any way t.
apologize for it as clearly as possible,
without reservation or excuse. since the
more vulgar q man is the more does he
obscure and degrade an apology by self
justification. 1t is polite to express III
interest in or admiration of that which
Is deax to others.
It is sometimes more polite to accept
a gift or IL courtesy, especially from
humble people, than to refuse it; and it
Is polite to show the utmost kindness
and courtesy to those who have been re-
duced by adversely. And it is some
thing more than polite to interpose and
shield another person from modification,
wounded self respect and loss of dignity.
Jean johnson in Jenness-Mill Maya
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DEATH pEposeD.

Death stately came to a young maj and said.
"If thou vert dead
What natter" The young man replied,
'See my young bride,
Whose life were al one blackness if 1 died.
Ny land requires me; and the worlds self too
Methinks, would miss some things that I can do"
Then Death in scorn this only said,
BE dead"
And so he was. And soon ancther's hand
Made rich his land.
The sun, too. of three summers had the might
To bleach the widows hue, light ind moro Light
Again to bridal white
And nothing seemd to miss beneath the sun
His work undone
But Death soon met another maj whose eye
Was NATURES spy,
Who said: "Forbear thy too triumphant scorn.
Tho weakest born
OF all the sons of men is by his birth
Heir OF the Might Eternal, and this Earth
Is subject to him in his place.
Thou lcav'st no trace.
Grim, fcshleSs Fatc;
Cold, dark aud wormy thing Of loss and tears.
Not in the sepulchers
o dwelest, but III my crimson'd heart,
Where while it beats We call thee Life. DEPART
4 name, a shadow, into any gulf,
Out OF this world, which is not thine.
But mine:
Or stayEbccausc thou art
Only Myself"
William Allinsham in New York Tribune.
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French Pensions.

The cost of the French revolutions to
the French government of today is re-
corded in this little list of pensioned per-
sons and families: Senators of the en-
pire, $4,000 francs; in consequence of
Vienna peace, 434,211; men of the times
of Louis XVIII and Charles x, $4,000;
families of Louis P%hilippe's time, Al, 225;
wounded in June, 1s4s, 136, 975; persons
of the Second Empire, 1872, 900; wounded
in February, 1848, 1915, 600; victims of
Dec. 3, 6,553,s66. Each government has
respected the pension obligation of its
predecessor as to this growing list, and
has paid every item with scrupulous reg
ularity.-Paris Letter.
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In Tiff.

Dr.. John Hunter, the eminent surgeon,
adopted a rule which may be recon
mended to all. When a friend asked
him how he had been able to accomplish
so much in the way of study and discov-
cry in his busy life he answered: my
rule is deliberately to consider before ]
commence whether the work is practi-
cable. If it be not practicable 1 do not
attempt it. If it be practicable I can
accomplish it if I give sufficient pains to
it, and having begun I never stop until
the thing is DONE To this rule I owe
all my success In life."-New York
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Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld, ILL.,,
makes the statement that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; She
was treated for a month by her family
physician, but grew worse. Hetold her
she was q HOPELESS VICTIM OF CONSUME.
TON and that no medicine could cure
her. Her druggist suggested DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption: she
bought n bottle, and to her delight
found herself benefited from first dose.
She continued its use and after taking
ten bottles, found herself sound and
well, now does her own homework and
is as we'll as she ever was.-Free trial
bottles OF this Great Discovery at ]. j,
Freeman's Drug Store, large bottles soc.
and S1.00.
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Political Ways Arc Mysterious.

ways ARG IhySJCr1OuS.
First City Father-Here's IL fine look
ing street.
Second Ditto-You are right there.
What's best to be done with it?
"Let's have it dug up for q sewer"
"But wouldn't it be proper to pave it
first?"
"Of course. l supposed you under
stood that. Then after it is paved and a
sewer put in, we'll have it repaved."
Cali in readiness to be dug up again
for the gas pipe? 1 SEQ you understand
the principles Of municipal economy.
And after we have repaved a second
time, then what2'
"Well, then it will he in order for
widening. There's nothing I admire so
much as system in the care and improve
ment. of our roadways Boston Tran
scriDt.
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MIsT0RY. Taa M.paors eselstan,a contain. s'I, q complete
s sns sa iilnssIs,s si'' siIh 1 nu me sss1 1pe asssss' ei ,hs Re s Z ni9 a
complete History Of America, from its discovery By Columbus to
i ihs pEsseas' e s7as; f n tsa h aSssyp Of I'll q na, ,tasa' chr aaass ca
history. etc, etc.
sss%G rsssiasn,. 81 the n Ga stsaf s staie sen tasm " y i,
Harrison. with portraits and other Illustration, also lives aud
Penn. benjamin franklin. Henry Clay Daniei Webster, and
down to the present day.
AGRICULTURE. Valuable hints and useful suggestions
i e H,f i%sIsn sssa.'n tiy Sd asss s ssIsiss sf ins,s aah ss ne sis 'ssii,,as' e.
diseases Of domestic animals poultry keeping, and how made mac
s sRssinssut Of these Is subject. : i IS eompie, y aid exhaassise. and
renders the work Of atpractisal use to farmers andstockmen:
II ss1Esls ! "A lIns, of H %1ssssas Il s's aa 2, ssu isss' as S'e sass Ssn,s
from the experience Of the most successful! horaeul.usistsi
AReHITECTURE: Designs and plaIna fr houses, cottages,
those intending to build. ~
HOUSEHOLD. This work eS1tsins ,,.sa md tested recipes
this department alone being worth more than nine.ten;hs Of
s ssa. io0s y, soG bos sSla; s,pos ds ,1nns sna su s,p : ns'P PsT anu MAKING sns,
many beautiful things fi tho sdo.nment 81 home, in nssdlss:
successful with ali the various plants toile. hints, telling how
to preserve and beautify the complexion, bands. teeth, hair,
MEDICAL. Many dollars In doctors bills will be saved
annually to every possesses 9fthis book through the valuable
yet reliable homo remedies, available In every household, every
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hardly be computed In dollars and cents.
INVENTION AND DISCOVERY; Remarkably later.
estiIS descriptions OF great Inventions. including the Steam
NneiIo. the Telegraph. the Printing Press. the Electric Light.
the Sewing Machine, the Telephone, tho Type Writer, the Type
Setting Machine, the Cotton Gin, eta.
TnE WOILD,s WONDERS. Graphic des;sIp.ion,.
Valley. Niagara Falls. tho Alps. Paris, yesuvius. Venice,
Vienna, the Canons Of Colorado. Mammoth Cave, Natural
Bridge, Watkins Glen, the White Mouutains, etc, ete.
TRAVELS. Descriptions. profusely illustrated. Of the life.
manners. customs. peculiar forms, rites and ceremonies Of the
From the above brief summary of its contents some
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ably one of the best and most valuable works ever publ
ont it; /, It. It Is Il a., work r to , be consulted , y h every cry fsIn VIII hn IsT e
tinuous reading no work Is more entertaining or iIstru
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Wanted Something in HI. Box.

A man stepped up to the delivery win
dow at the postofice Saturday night
and in a savage voice said: "See here,
you fellows, l want my money back.
You can't fool me this way" whats
the trouble?" inquired the clerk. oval,
I hired n of your gosh burned boxes
most two weeks ago and have not got a
letter since l had it; but I see most 'er
the other fellows that has boxes gets
somethin' in theirs. Give me back my
money, l say!" It was uselesgto argue
with him, so the clerk told him there
had been ONE mistake, and if he called
around later he would find something In
the box. He went off satisfied, while
the clerk filled the box with patent med
icine Observation-Disclosures Age.
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Remedies for Lightning Stroke.


A singular phenomenon of the light
ming fash is that its chief effects are OBJ
servable only at the points of its en-
trance and exit. Thus u flash which en-
tered a school room injured only the
first and last child Oh the form, those
between escaping unhurt. The most
effective treatment of lameness and other
ailments due to lightning is the applica-
ton alternately to the head, trunk and
limbs of a large horseshoe magnet. In
case of q quite recent stroke the clothing
should be unfastened, the patient laid
with the head high and quietness and
fresh air should be secured. If con-
sciousness does not return, the head
should be exposed to a stream of cold
uater.-Philadelphia Press.
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The Prayer Wheel of India.

The prayer wheel consists of a metal
box about as big around as one which
holds boot backing, and about twice as
deep. Through it a wire is stuck, and
is fastened into u handle a foot long.
Inside tho box there is a roll of prayers
written in Thibetan characters, and the
worshiper rattlcs off prayers at the rate
of 100 a minute by giving the handle a
twist and setting the box to rolling.
Each roll records a prayer. Every
prayer does away with one or more sins
and puts a brick in the pavement which
leads toward heaven.-Frank q. Car
penter's Letter.
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Up amonk the Catskill mountains re-
sides Fri Gray, who is los years old. He
has been q resident Of that locality over
fifty years. and now occupies a cabin by
the roadside. He knows no living rela-
Hves. For over twenty years kind neigh
bors have supplied his fuel, clothing and
provisions.
The Dickinson press., 1890-11-29

The most recent additions to the cata-
logue of scientific terms have been made
by a professor ct Aix-la-Chapelle, DR..
Michaelis, who has taken out patents
for the manufacture Of acetylaethylen-
Observation-Disclosures and its aethyl-
Observation-Disclosures.
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Old Oceans Depth,

At the depth of about $500 feet waves
are not felt. The temperature is the
same, varying only a trif1e from the ice
of the pole to the burning sun of the
equator. A mile down the water has q
pressure of over a ton to the square inch.
If a box Elk feet wide were filed with
sea water and allowed to evaporate I'M
der the sun there would he two inches
Of salt left on the bottom.-Ocean.
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TIE BUCCANEERS OF OLD

sign, detiantly ut the masthead. Your modern
pirate, not on the high seas, bnt upon the high
reputation of standard remedies skulks under
has never to any degree affected Hostetter's stom-
ach Bittcrs, although that standard invigorant
and corrective has long been the shining mark
local bitters, composed of fiery unrectited slim
ulants. with an Infusion: or extract possibly, of
some tonic bark. are still sometimes recommend
virtues kindred to those of Americas chosen fam,
lily medicine. These perish speedily, while the
its successful career, overcoming malaria. dys.
pcpsia, nervousness, kidney troubles, c%onstipa-
tiou and rheumatic ailments, not only on this
but on many continents.
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A Slight Error.

When Sir John Herschell was defend
ing the science of astronomy in view Of
a mistake of nearly 1900, 900 of miles in
estimating the distance of the sun the
correction was shown to apply to an er-
Tor of observation 80 small as to be
equivalent to the apparent breadth Of q
human hair ut a distance of 1876 feet
St, Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1890-11-29
Where Many Oysters Arc Opened.

In n place on West street the pro-
prietor stated that be had 1000 men
busy shucking oysters, and that each
man averaged 81 a day-in other words,
each ma opens from 5000 to 1000 oys-
tiers a day, receiving 81 for every 1000
oysters opened. Therefore if 1000 men
are engaged in opening oysters, and each
man opens 1000 Il day, no less than
1000, 900 oysters are opened in q day
New York Letter.
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AUTOMATIC SEWING mAc1;.rz:

Prices reduced. Every family no,r.aa
have the best Automatic SEWING Nh
chine i'll the market at reduced price.
For particulars send fnr our ncw illus
trated Circular with samples of stitch
ing. Our Illustrated Circu.ar shows
every pat of the Machine perfectly, and
is worth sending for even if yon i"t: =
Machine. kruse e Murphy M,g. g
A55 and 457 West 26th ST., n. Y. City.
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4 Girls Reasoning,

There was a girl whose logical turn of
mind was her destruction. She could rea.
son with Euclid, but the culinary results
which her reasoning brought her were
peculiar. Once, when she had been sent to
make some drawn butter gravy and the
result was not forthcoming, her mistress
went out to see what she was doing. She
found the girl trying to melt down some
uncooked pie crust, having argued that
Us pie crust was made of butter and
flour, and drawn butter gravy was made
of butter and flour, she had only to melt
down the pie crust to get drawn butter
nrerD -R<stnn TransnrinE
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The electrical instrument invented for
avoiding the pain incident to the extrac-
ton of teeth consists Of adjustable
prongs, carrying buttons and connected
with an electrical battery. The buttons
are placed on the face over the nerves
leading from the teeth to the brain, and
q circuit is established the moment tho
extracting instrument touches the tooth.
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lie Felt Refreshed.

Henry Romohr, who lives near Butler
vile, o., stepped into L. Snider's gro
Gerry II evening, Boosting of the large
supper he had just eaten, but said he
didn't have eggs so he bought a dozen
and ate them, and then a half dozen and
ate them, after which he drank a pint of
water and then ate ono pound of candy
in all eighteen eggs, one pint of water
and one pound of candy in fifteen min
utes, after which he said he felt very
much refreshcd.-Cor. Pittsburg Dis
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Those Haunting Airs.

The way that a popular tune puts out
its invisible graphing machinery and
anchors itself in the mind is one of the
psychological mysteries. The first time
you hear it you don't care-possibly you
may even be glad you heard it. The
next time there is a dull, apprehensive
throb; then there is a thrill of pain, and
after that an acute desire to hurl ones
self into humanity and extract gore
from the man who invented it.-Wash-
ington Post.
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Crushed stcel-made by crushing in a
stamp mill high carbon steel quenched
in cold water from an excessively high
temperatures being used for cutting
stone. 1t is very hard, and cheaper and
more effective than emery.
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Pine and Oak Welded.

A curiosity can be seen near Tarpon
Springs, Hillsborough county, where u
pine and oak have linked their fortunes
in strange wedlock. They are known
far and near as the pine and oak, and
many an artist has carried away their
counterfeit Observation-Disclosures Jour-
nal.
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Ten years ago 500, 900 was IN unusual
amount for ven the wealthy to have In
vested in diamonds, whereas today there
are a number Of families each owning
diamonds to tho value Of $500, 900.