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A Cure for FeIons.

An "iron" man tells the Scientific
American how to cure felons. lie
writes: 81 was engaged in marking
iron with white lead and tulpentine,
and having a felon coming on my
finger, dipped it frequently into the
mixture. As the iron was quite warm
which | was marking at the time, I
found the next morning that there was
a small yellow spot where | felt the
felon. | opened this, and had no
more trouble from it. The next time
| felt one coming | procured some tur.
pentine and bathed the part affected
frequently, and held it near warm
surface to dry, with the same result.
Since then have used it several times.
always with the same result. | also
have had others try it, among them
some of our men who work in the
rolling-mill, whose hands are covered
with very hard skin, and every one
of them who tried it met with the same
results, saving them great deal of
time, money and pail.
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PerneinnI Fire.

There exist still a few-a very few
-contrivances for this perpetual firo
in our churches; they go by the name
Of cressct stones. The earliest ! know
is not in England but i'll the atrium
outside the remarkable church of St.
Ambrogio at Milan. II is block of
white marble on a moulded base, now
broken, but banded tOgeter with iron.
1t stands three feet ten inches high
and is two feet six inches in diameter
at top. 1t consists Of fiat surface in
which are depressed nine cup-like
holows. These were originally filled
with oil and wcks were placed in
them and ignited.
In England one is still in stu, in
the church of Lewannik, in Cornwall.
There it is not far from the door, 1t
consists of circular block containing
on its fiat upper surface, which is
twenty-five inches across, seven cup
like hollows four and half inches
deep. The stone stands on a rudely
moulded base, octagonal, and is in all
about two feet six inches high. In
Furness Abbey, among tine ruins, has
been found another, with five cups in
it; at Calder Abbey another, with six
teen such cups for oil and wicks. At
York is another with six such fire
cups, and at Stockholm another with
the same number, i'll square stone
table. At Wool Church, Dorset, is
again another example built into the
south wall of small chapel on The
north side of the chancel 1t is
block of Purbeck marble, and has in
the top five cup-shapcd cavities quite
blackened with the oil and smoke. In
some of the examples there are traces
of a metal pin around which the wick
was twisted rCornhill Magazine.
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Marks called me TO his house and told
me to get the yawl ready for trip.
The boat was lying in creek half a
mile away, and before the rupture had
been free to all, though had always
been taken along to manage her.
Marks was not q married man. lie
now praised and flattered me in the
highest terms, and said he proposed ID
go off in the yawl to some other island,
taking me along. No one else was TO
60. and was not to breathe word.
That evening, as soon as dark, was
to carry all his bundles to the boat,
supply her with water and provisions,
and then bring word to him when all
was ready.
When night came he got the men
out into the woods TO watch, and !
took from his house six rifles, all the
money, the bedding, clock, clothing,
etc. | supplied the boat with forty
gallons of water and lot of cooked
and fresh provisions, and by midnight
had her ready. | had had plan of
my own ever since Marks opened his
mouth. 1t was very doubtful if he
meant TO take me with him at all, but
if he did it was more than likely that
he would throw me overheard when
lie had sighted other land.
1t was 3 o'clock in L c morning be-
fore the tide turned, and then l got
into the yawl and let her drift to the
west. / was not yet out of hearing
distance when Marks came down to
the creek and called me.
When daylight came and l got
breeze | was only three miles off shore
and was no doubt seen by all our party.
| held to the northwest, having a COM
pass in the boat, and after three days
and nights of fair progress reached
another of the Austral group, called
the Kings Park, and there found a
trader, to whom related all. After
a short delay he set sail for the isand
| had left, taking me with him, but
owing to contrary winds we did not
reach it for a week. War had been
rife meanwhile. Marks, Baker and
three others had been killed, two
women and two children had been
wounded, and the entire party now
prayed to be taken off the island.
Arrangements were made with the
trader, and all were loaded up and
carried TO one OF the Navigator islands,
where some of them are still livng.-
New York Sun.
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An Amazon River Phenomenon.

Shortly after the tide had stopped
running out, they saw something COM
ing toward them from the ocean in a
long white line, which grew bigger
and whittier as it approached. Then
there was a sound like the rumbling
of distant thunder, which grew louder
and louder as the white line came
nearer, until it seemed as if the whole
ocean had risen up and was coming,
charging and laundering down upon
them, boiling over the edge of this
pile of water like all endless cataract,
from four to seven metres high, that
spread out across the whole eastern
horizon. This was the pororocal
When they saw it coming, the crew
became utterly demoraized, and fell
TO weeping and praying in the bottom
of the boat, expecting that it would
certainly be dashed to pieces, and
they themselves drowned. The pilot,
however, had the presence of mind to
heave anchor before the wall of wa
ters struck them; and, when it did
strike, they were iirst pitched violent
ly forward, and then lifted, and left
rolling and tossing like a cork on the
foaming sea it left behind, the boat
nearly filled with water
But their trouble was lot ended;
for, before they had emptied the boat,
two other such seas came down on
them at short intervals, tossing them
In the same manner, and finally leav-
Ing them within stone's-throw of tho
river bank, where another such wave
would have dashed them upon the
shore. They had been anchored, be-
fore the waves strucl, them near the
middle of the stream, which at this
place is several miles wide.
Citizen-Did the ampulation do tho
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NO. So.
The Most Renntirnl Picture.

"What impressed you most of all
that YOU saw in Europc?" l recently
asked a friend who had just returned
from year Of travel extending from
Amsterdam TO Naples, and taking in
the chief points of interest in Eng
land, Holland Belgium, France, Ger
many, Switzerland and Italy. lie hes.
itated moment, and then he said:
"The thing that really affected me
most, think, was picture | saw in
Rome. 1t wasn't by Raphael or
Michael Angelo or Titan or Murillo;
in fact, it wasn't painted, but liv-
ing picture. Nor was it in palace,
surrounded by luxurious accessories
"It was just a simple little compose
lion in homcly cottage doorway-a
humble mother, sitting upon the top
step, winding into ball skein of
yarn that her boy, a sturdy little curly
haired fellow of seven or eight years,
held out over his two hands stretched
apart. There was tender look in the
mothers eyes and contented, happy
expression in the face of the child that
took me back forty years TO pretty
little home in Massachusetts village,
where, in a doorway not unlike that
one, | sometimes sat with the skein of
yarn over my outstretched arms, and
my dear old mother wound it into a
ball.
81 could not quite see my mother
and myself in these Italian faces, so
far as physical resemblance was con-
cerned, but the content, the freedom
from care, told of that beautiful time
in life that never is half appreciated
until it is past. That picture, my
friend, of all that l saw. was what
impressed me most. None of the
royal pageantry | witnessed, none OF
the miles of glowing canvasses l
looked upon, none of the interesting
historical scenes | visited, presented
anything to compare with it."-[Ncw
York Star.
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HUNTING BUFFALO.
Adventures Of an Expedition on
an American Desert.
Two Small Herds of Buffalo
Sighted IN Wyoming.

Two miserable months on drcary
segment of Sahara, two buffalo hides.
two heads with the short horns of the
wild COW of the prairics. This in
brief is the history Of tic exploits of
an expedition of great opcs organ
lied at Lamarie, Wyoming, last Au-
gust, and in the field from early in
September TO November. The party
included J. c. Robbins, Jack Hill
Frank Kelley, Willis Woodruff and
William Hopkins, all brave boys, who
have ridden the range for years Their
project was to capture the ban of
buffalo ru ming on Red descr, 100
miles north of the Union Pacific in the
center of the Sta.e. They proposed
establishing on the Laramie plains a
buffalo ranch similar to the preserve of
G. J. Jones near Garden City, Kas.
The project has been abandoned after
trip full of incident.
A couple of light storms made trav-
ell difficult, and they were two weeks
from this place before the desert was
reached. They skirted the northern
edge of the waste by way of rcconnoi-
tering, then plunged into the cxpanse
Of alkali, greasewood aud water holes.
There Fl st adventure was the meeting
of ten lodges of Arapahoc Indians,
who had come out into the desert to
hold some sort of a powwow. The
reds were friendly and told the hunt
crs of lake where they could camp
and be reasonably certain of sighting
the buffalo they sought. The hunters
travelled as directed and reached the
murky sheet in two days. In the for
ty-eight hours they crossed seventy
miles of yeritable ba land--a broken
country without vegetation and with
scarcely any water. They remained
here eight days, hunting all the time.
During breakfast the first morning
Hill sighted a herd of buffalo with his
field glasses. The bunch numbered
fifteen and they were grazing quietly.
Before the hunters could get into actior
the game had 81 ssppeared and was moi
found again. A few days later they
came upon a magnificent bull, foul
fine cows and yearling The bull
charged them. They shot to frightcl
him off, and were altogether too sue
ccssful in this direction. Hill rOpel
one of the cows. The animal worried
herself so that she died after being
'hog tied" A buffalo will sIruggl,
till completely exhausted and rarely
recovers The only other capture was
that of another COW, which soon sue
cumbed to the nccessitated choking.
Robbins satisfied himself that this
herd was not from the National Park
as has been so often reported of late.
The Indians told him that in 1884 the
herd numbered 500. Three years later
it contained but 100 AMI is now no
over 20. The reds killed many ant
the remainder died during the severe
winter of 1S89-90.
During their desert travels the hun
ters encountered several herds Of
wild horses. They were the regular
mustangs, small and spirited and look
ing unkempt in their winter toafS
Robbins, manager of the expedition
SAYS he has had enough buffalo hunt
ing to satisfy him the rest of his life
- San Francisco Chronicle.
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Citizen-Did the ampulation do tho
man any good? Doctor-Oh, no !;
but it was beautiful operation.
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Eyes Reveal the Horses Temner.

The horse has no eyebrows. The
appearance of much white in the eye
of horse indicates vicious nature,
because high-tempered horse looks
constantly about, apprehensiye of
danger or desiring TO do mischief.
The quick motion of the eyeball in op-
posite directions exposes an unusually
large surface of white, which thus be-
comes an evidence of the temper of
the animal.-[New York journal.
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A Mean Swindle.

Mistress-"Did you ask for milk
bread?"
Domestic-'|Yes,m num-"
"What miserable little loaf they
gave youw
"Yes, mum; it's my opinion. mum,
that that baker is usin' condensed
milk. New York Weekly.
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PORT TOBACCO MARYLAND. DECEMBER 49, 1890
Hunters.

Hunters.
A crickc. led on an insect
Too small for eve 20 see,
A field mouse captured the cricket
And hushcd his minstrelsy.
A gray shrike pounced on the field mouse
Aud hung him on n thorn,
And hawk came down on the cruel shrike
From over the waving corn.
And a fox sprang out on the red-tailed hawk
From under fallen tree,
For bird and beast by food aud Geld,
OF every degree.
Prey one upon the other,
Twas thus ordained to be;
My rifle laid old reynard low,
And Death--Death looked atme.
-LErnest McGaffey in Chicago Herald.
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Oysters Grown Ready Packed.

Mr.. Joe King, the oysternan, has a
small keg of full-grown oysters which
is a curiosity. Under favorable condi-
tions oysters will attach themselves to
any convenient surface which is hard
and smooth. Samples of such growths
have been sent to the Sun office in end
less variety, and they have included
cd boots and shoes fully encrusted and
filled with fine oysters, bottles covered
with biv;lves, crooks and pots of
them, utensils of all sorts full of them,
and even clay pipe burthened with
three or four heavy shells; but it IS
not often that oysters take the trouble
to pack themselves so closely and so
cleverly in keg, handy for transport
tation, as in the Joe King specimen
baltimore sun.
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The First Descent In a Diving Suit.

This first plunge leaves no agreeable
memories. They dress you as if YOU
had to endure the cold of Siberia. a
precau,ion which have found useless
in the Mediterranean. With knit
wcolen hose, cap and shirt, | have
never felt the cold Then comes the
ample coat, which we get int > through
the neck-hole, and the casque, which
resounds as if one had his head in
kettle. Then they put on you belt
with dagger, shoes with loaded soles
and lead at your breast and back. Now
you are so loaded hat you could hardly
stand straight if the boat should TIP
then you go down into the water where
all the weight is no longer felt.
Now different feeling begins. At
the command, "Pump!" some one
rapidly screws down the glass in front
of your casque, and you hear noise
TO which You have to accusiom your
self-pah! pah! pah ah!--accompanied
by Kissing of the air. Little whiffs
's.s~'ss's~ted with ma
chine oil and caOutchouc. The begin
ner fails to manage the escape, and
his coat and sleeves become inflated,
SO that, when he wants to 90 down, he
floats like tho Q frogs We used 10 blow
up when we were boys, and then
throw upon the water to amuse our
selves with their vain struggles TO set
under it Popular Science Monthly
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Proof Positive.

"Gertrude, | see YOU rejected the
head clerk last night"
"Why, Papa, how did you find
CUT"
"Easy enongh-he did the biggest
Lalt days work tins morning that he :
done in five years. - Epoch.
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Deed Of nnring.

Mrs. Gru5s:-Here's an article In
tie paper headed "Daring Robbery of
a Woman" | can't see anything dar-
ing in it. There were two robbers
and only one woman.
Mr.. Grubbs (gloomily)-Perhaps
she was a married woman Life,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-13

Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.l
LONDON, July 2.
They say of the Princess Victoria of Teck,
''good-looking for princess" and after you
have had glimpse OF the Royal Family of
Great Britain you begin to understand what
they mean.
Tradition keeps informing us how cookbook
ing princesses are, but nobody can ever accuse
the Guelph family of SHINING in the way Of pos
sessing professional beauty in its ranks. The
Princess of Wales has charmingly sweet face,
but take away from her that gorifcation which
is about royalty and you would never give her a
second look; she wears the wiggiest of wigs, and
horror upon horrors, is dowdy-lOoking. Loyal
subjects refer to her as the best dressed woman
in the world This is absolute nonsense. If |
We're King of England l should make an effort
to get in Il little outside blood and have the
chance then of showing some good-loozing
women in the family Personally not given to
frantic waving of the Star-Spangled Banner,
never feel SO proud OF the American women
as when see their English sisters. The pas8s
beauty is to the fore-a something easily under
stood when the court age is considered. With
out exception she uses paint in the most lavish
manner, puts daub under each eye, one on
her chin and one on each ear, and then over
lays this with thick coating of powder, and
believes she has beautided herself. Her inclina-
tion is to a rather frowzy head, and though we
rave over London tailor-made clothes, there is
no doubt about it that English tailors them
selves lit women better after they have had a
short stay in New York.
HEALTH OF ENGLISH WOMEN.
The Englishwoman's health has been talked
Of and written Of until the subject, if not the
woman, has been worn threadbare. She does
start in with an iron constitution, but the way
she racEets is enough to break up several con
stitutions, if it weren't for the amount she eats
and drinks; as she grows older she gets abnor-
mally large below the belt and suggests nothing
so much as q respectable Aousekeeper Beauti-
full women Yes, there are plenty of them, but
they are not seen in the extremely fashionable
set; they belong to that great middle class
which is the mainstay Of English respectability
SOCIAL LIFE BELOW STAIRS
The "huppah cirkles" have nothing to do but
20 amuse themselves, and we all know who finds
mischief for idle hands to do Affairs of the
heart (it always seems so ridiculous to call then
that are spoken Of in the frankest manner, anC
a hostess knows exactly what man to ask TO hel
house when she has invited some special
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4 $4,000 Hotel Will Be
Erected at Once.

Water Works, Planning Mill, Electric-Light
Plant, Brick Works. ETC., will be erected at an
early date.
Being 1000 feet above the sea, the climate is
unsurpassed by the celebrated mountain resorts
of the world.
large tract of level land, with front of
one and one-balf miles, on New River, has been
set aside for manufacturing purposes.
Liberal inducements will be offered all in
dustries locating here.
Through its connections with the steamship
lines, the Louisville and Nashville, the Shen-
andoah Valley, and the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Railroads, and its outlet on the Ohio
River, the Norfolk and Western Railroad
places "IVANHOE" in direct communication
with all the great markets of the North, East,
South, and West.
For maps, descriptive pamphlets, ETC., apply
to the Secretary of the Company, at
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Conducted Tour to Mag
ara Falls via Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company an
nounces that the first personally-conducted tour
of the Niagara Falls series will be run Thursday,
July II, 1890, Tourists will leave Washington
at 7l0 A. NJ. and Baltimore at $50 A. NJ. by
special train of Pullman Parlor Cars and Day
Coaches, and reach Niagara Falls at II p. NJ
Tourist Agent and Chaperone will accompany
the party looking after the pleasure and com
fort of all. Round-trip tickets, valid for ten
days, including date of excursion, and embody-
ing privilege of stop-off at Watkins Glen in
both directions, will be sold at a rate of $40
Return coupons will be accepted on any regular
train within the limit, except Limited Express
trains. The tours embody the select character
of a private party and offer the opportunity of
summer outing, instruction, and recreation.
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can say nay if the man happens to be marquis
and the lady duchess? A spade is called
spade until American women wonder and feel
their cheeks getting a bit pink; for while, as
nation, we may be no better, we at least don't
hauut in coarse words our wickedness so
openly.
THE CHARMING SIDE OF LONDON
is the world where the makers of books and pic
lures and the singer of songs dwell 1t is never
called Bohemia, because when once land has
that name given to it its charm is lost; but there
are hundreds of delightful houses where you can
meet the man who wrote the poem that stirred
your soul, where you can see the poet-painter
who thought out the great picture, or the man
who has made music that delights you when all
the rest of the world seems full Of sadness.
Here you meet Mrs. Leo Hunter, eagerly search
ing for her lions and amazed that they are not
anxious to roar even mildly in her drawing-room.
Here was known poor Amy Levy-the wonder
full young girl who after doing work that was
great died just as it was beginning to be recog-
nized. Here you search for Rudyard Kipling-
you want to know all about that awesome time
when "they hung Danny Deever in the morn
ing and if you are like me you will come across
him and be so choked up with delight and ad-
miraton that you won't be able to say one word
except a rather stiff 'Thank YOU when he eX-
presses his pleasure at meeting you. And you
will weep bitter tears of Indignation afterward
at your lost opportunity. You will see the
beautiful wife of Sir John Millais, and you will
get man who lives near Manchester to tell you
all about that day when they opened the
coffin of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's beautiful wife
and took out the bundle of sonuets from the
/ golden hair that had formed a network over
! them,
ENGLISH REALISM IL ART.
You will go to studio whose owner is deeply
/ interested in artistic iron work, and as you are
drinking your tea the doors of the back will bt
opened wide, and there working away will
hammer and anvil, with the glowing fire Of tn,
furnace upon them, you will see the blacksmiths
the effect is wonderfully artistic, but you pu
your hand up to your head and wonder if yol
are not in land quite outside OF the ordnar,
world You are. You are in the land of thor
ough artistic knowledge and absolute learning
Englishmen know everything better than d
American men. Wherever they have sought ou
anything they have gone to the very root of /
and are not satisfied with merely smattering
No man talks to you about anything he doesn'
understand, and this is where the greatest ma
tion in the world $50 it esteems itself might ad
yantageously take example
ENGLISH VERSUS AMERICAN WOMEN.
The American woman is as far ahead of tn
Englshwoman as the Englishman is above tn
American man, I don't mean in ideas abou
suffrage or anything of that Sort but she
more thoroughly az c0lraDt as TO what is goin
on in the world and wherein the daily life is IN
teresting. The exceptional Englishwoman, tn
booliish woman, is not pleasant in her appeal
ance, and seems to think that with learnin
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IN THE MODERN BABYLON.
BAB CHATS BRIGHTLY OF THINGS
SHE SEES AND HEARS.

Royalty is Not Beautiful-Health of Eng
lish Women-Social Life Below Stairs
Where Spade is Called "A Spade-Lon-
don's Charming Side-English Realism
in Art-English VS.. American Women.
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Catarrh Cured.

clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease Catarrh, and vainly try
ing every known remedy, at last found a pre-
from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful
disease sending a self-addressed stamped enve-
lope TO Prof. j. A. Lawrence, SO Warren street,
New York, will receivet the recipe free of charge
-Heurlch's Extra Pale Lager. ASK for it.