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King Humbcrt's Gray Hair.

King Humbert's gray hair has become
snowy white, much to the distress of
Queen Marguerite, who is most anxious
that her husband should follow the exam
pie of his father and the fashion CON-
mon among elderly Piedmontese officers
and dye his hair. Her pleadings were,
however, of no avail. Humbert's is an
honest nature, that does not love these
subterfuges. Seeing petition was in vain
the Queen had recourse to stratagem.
She caused a quantity of fine hair dye to
be sent from Paris and put in the Kings
dressing-room. together with directions
for its use, making, however, no allusiop
to the subject. The King, too, said
nothing, though he could not fail to see
the pigments. Now, the Queen has a
large white poodle of which she is very
fond. What was her horror, few days
later, to see her pet come running into
her room with his snowy locks dyed the
very deepest black hue. King Humbert
had expended the dyes in changing the
color of the poodle's hair. From that
day forth the subject of hair-dyeing was
dropped between the royal couple.-Chi-
e1a3 Post.
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WHAT FAsCINATEs TIE MEN.

A writer in the Ladies Home Journal
has attempted to define some of the
qualities in women that attract men.
She says:
What attracts a man is one thing;
what will hold him and command his re-
spect is another.
A woman's smile, for example attracts
o man; but an even temper retains him.
A pretty gown attracts a man; the
knowledge that it was inexpensive de-
lights him.
A pleasant manner attracts man
brightness of brain holds him.
A knowledge of how, when and where
to be little stately attracts a man; an
appreciation of the folly of frivolity wins
his respect.
A respect for the religious belief OF
every human being attracts man; irreV-
erence in woman is to him abominable.
A consideration for his comfort attracts
q man; a continuation of this makes him
your most humble slave.
A chat in which there is no malice at
tracts o man; neither scandal nor evil.
speaking make woman seem sweet and
lovely to him.
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After Forty Years Immersion.

A very interesting report has just been
issued by DR.. Konig, judicial physician
of Hermannstadt, on the state in which
the human subject, after forty years i'm
mersion in water, may be found by the
psychologist. In the revolutionary up
heaval of 1849, q company of Honveds,
as the Hungarian militia are called, hav-
ing fallen in the vicissitudes of war, were
consigned to the waters of the Echo
schacht, pool of considerable depth not
far from Hermannstadt. After some
forty-one years their bodies have been
brought up again to the light of day and
subjected to a careful and minute investi-
cation from the Psychologists point OF
view. DR.. Konig found them in perfect
preservation, both externally and inter-
nally, without a single trace of any de-
composing process. Externally they had
the appearance of having been kept in
spirit, like so many preparations in an
anatomical museum. Structurally the
organs retained their outline perfectly
and were so easily recognizable in tissue
as we'll as in confguration that, accord
ing to DR.. KONG, they might have been
exhibited for demonstration" in an
anatomical lecture room. Considering
that the bodies have been forty-one years
under water this is, indeed, a remarkable
phenomenOn
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Animal Worship.

Among primitive peoples all animals
are supposed to be endowed with souls,
which in many cases have formerly ami
mated human beings. Hence likeness
is often recognized between an animal
and some deceased friend, and the
animal is addressed as the person would
have been, and honored with kind OF
worship. Many tribes call themselves by
the name of and even derive their pedi-
gree from some animal. It's cries be-
come the omens of the tribe, and thus
originate the divination and augury of
more civilized nations. In the modern
world the most civilized people among
whom animal worship vigorously survives
lie within the range of Brahminism.
Here the sacred cow is not merely to be
spared; she is as deity worshiped and
bowed to daily by the pious Hindoo.
silva is incarnate in Hanuman, the
monkey god. The divine king Of birds,
Garuda, is Vishnu's vehicle, and the
forms of fish and boar and tortoise
assumed in the avatar legends of Vishun.
Perhaps no worship has prevailed more
widely than that of the serpent. 1t had
its place in Egypt and among the
Hebrews; in Greece and Rome; among
the Celts and Scandinavians in Europe;
in Persia and India; in China and
Thibet; in Mexico and Peru, and in
Africa, where it still fourishes as the
state religion in Dahomey.-BrooAyn
Citizen,
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AN INGENIOUS USE FOR GLOVES.

There is a young woman who has dis
covered an ingenious use to which her
gloves may be put, and that, too, while
they are acting as coverings for her plump
and well-shaped hands. She always
wears the long wristed mousquctaire
gloves, and before putting them on she
rubs into the inner side of the top of the
wrist little pink face powder. By and
by, she feels her face growing warm, and
perhaps, little shinny-and the mass of
women would rather have their faces
dirty than shiny, you know-and then
all she has to do is to pull the wrist down
inside out over the palm of her hand and
with feint at using her handkerchief,
give her cheeks and the tip of her nose a
delicate dusting of powder. And even
if there isn't much of the powder left in
the kid it doesn't matter much, for as
any girl knows there is nothing better to
take the "shine" off ones face than the
soft inside of an old kid glove unassisted
by anything else. And thus this ingen-
ious young woman beauties herself as
often as she pleases, and right under the
eyes of her escort, if she wants to, with
cut his being one wit the wiser.-Ne'o
York Sun.
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Virtues Of the Sunf1oWer.

Riding on an Erie Railroad train I
overheard commuter tell fellow-pas-
senger how much he had suffered during
the past week with malarial fever. "You
could easily remedy that" said the man
spoken to. "How?" asked the sick man.
"Why, by simply planting sunfowers
around your place. They will soon alb
sorb the dampness of the soil, as we'll as
the poisonous gases in the air about your
home" replied the first man. A large
florist of Jersey City added: "The sun
flower absor5s the emauations from
swampy lands as we'll as the gas which
arises from bogs, and has been found q
preventive for intermittent fevers arising
from those causes. 1t is very hardy
plant and easy and cheap to obtain. The
experiment of planting these flowers for
the prevention of malarial fever was first
successfully tried by man named Muir
ray, in Washington, years ago. He
planted the flowers around one of the
Government buildings which stood some
hundred feet from a marsh caused by the
overaowing of the Potomac River. The
Erie Railway employees have also become
aware of the virtues of the plant, and
hundreds of them are growing around
the signal tower at the Bergen end of
the Erie tunuel. They have been planted
some five years, since which time none of
the men constantly employed about there
have suffered from malaria. Prior to
that time two or more of the men were
always off duty on sick leave.
"The usefulness of the plant does not
end there" said my informant, "for its
seeds are useful for the oil which they
contain, and which is converted into
soap. The oil is also used to adulterate
salad oil, aud can also be burnt. For
fattening chickens there is no better food
than these seeds. The petals of the
flower contain secretions of which bees
are very fond, and are also used in the
manufacture of chrome yellow. In China,
where the plant is plentiful, from the
stalks fibre is obtained, which the willy
sons of Confucius weave, with a mixture
of silk, into clothing. am even told
that the seeds, when dried, crushed and
scalded with hot water, like coffee, make
fair beverage, but I have never tried
that particular branch of the plants USE
fulness. ."-New York Star.
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A Tiscount and His Hand Organ.

One OF the most remarkable tpectacles
one sees in London is that of man play
ing q barrel organ through the streets.
He is sometimes accompanied by his
wife, who gathers the pieces of money
contributed by auditors. The organ is
particularly good one; it must have cost
small fortune, for it has five cylinders
and discourscs fifty tunes. But the most
remarkable feature of all is the placard
surnouuting the organ and announcing
that the man playing the instrument is
the son of an earl, compelled by parental
harshncss to earn his living. The placard
speaks truly, for this eccentric person is
the Vi$ount Hinton, son of noble earl.
This eccentric individual quarreled with
his father fourteen years ago and since
then has led life of vicissitude. He
first took to vocalism in the London
music halls and enjoyed fair success un.
til finally his voice failed him and he had
to adopt other means for livelihood.
1t occurred to him to turn troubadoar;
he secured fine barrel organ on credit
and proceeded to tour the highways and
byways of the metropolis. His two
children were adopted by the dowager
Duchess of Cleveland, the son is subal-,.
tern in the Welsh Fusileers, and the
daughter is at school.
Whenever Hinton's father comes to
town, Hinton serenades the old gentle
man, grinding away for hours at time
in the street in front of the hotel. Now,
fond OF music though he is, the noble
earl does not particularly pine to hear it
discoursed by his scapegrace son and heir
at the business end of hurdy- -gurdy; SO,
as you can perhaps imagine, the noble
earl makes precious few visits to London,
and when he does come his stay is ex--
ceedingly brief. As for Viscount Hinton,
he processes to be happy, and he certainly
is independent. His habits are good and
he is generous to fault. Not long ago
he was grinding out his dolorous music
on the beach at Southsea, when he saw
harmonium player driven away from her
"stand" by party of hoggish minstrel
performers. His compassion was moved
"Cone here, MISS" said he, kindly,
"and I'll give way to you for awhile;
we'll take turns, for surely there's enough
room here for US ALL" Every now and
again Hinton donates his services to some
charitable object; at such times the pla-
card on the organ announces that "the
Viscount Hinton performs to-day for the
benefit of" such or such an institution,
and in this wise he has turned over con-
siderable money to one hospital and an
other. Hinton talks very temperately
about his father; hopes that the old gen.
tleman will live many years; says he is in
no hurry to succeed to the estates, as he
and his wife are making enough money
to live Chicago Meus.
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Once Was Enough.

A young gentleman who lately left his
home in England. having exhausted his
credit, telegraphed to his parents:
"Your son was killed this morning by
O falling chimney. What shall We do
with the rcmainss"
In reply check was sent for SlOo,
with the request, "bury them" The
young gentleman pocketed the money and
had an elaborate spree. When in q con-
dition for writing he sent his father the
following note:
81 have just learned that an Infamous
scoundrel named Barker sent you tictltl-
Gus account of my death, and swindied
YOU out S100. He also borrowed $50 of
me and left the country. I write to in
form yoa that am still alive, and long
to see the parental roof again. 1 am in
somewhat reduced circumstances, the &C.
cumulstion of the last FIVE years having
been lost-a disastrous stock operation
and if you would only spare me S1OO l
would be ever thankful for your favor.
Give my love to ALL"
A few days later the young man re-
ccived the following dignifed letter from
his outraged parent:
"My Dear Son: I have buried you
once and that is the end of it. decline
to have any transactions with o ghost.
Yours in the flesh, Father. Calgary
(Canada) Herald.
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cAMEL's HAIR CLOTH.

Camel's hair rivals faced-cloths for
tailor gowns and is combined with velvet,
which may be braided in metal or silk
cords. A very tasteful gown of sage
colored camel's hair has its jacket fronts
opening over vest of dark olive velvet
braided with gold. and broad forder
of the braided velvet trims the foot OF
the English skirt in front, gradually
narrowing on the sides. The revers on
the vest and the lapels on the back of
the coat are of plain velvet; a plastron
and collar are of the plain camel's hair.
A second vest is provided of dark green
pique, and still another of white cordu-
roy-gray, tan and brown-will be
much used for waistcoats.- Commercial!
AdrertiSer.
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ANOTHER EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.

An amateur photographer of the Lis
tener's acquaintance tells him that it is
next to impossible to get picture from
the Photographic printers under six
weeks, so utterly unprecedented has
been the descent of amateurs on the
printers with the negatives which rep
resent their vacation photographing.
Certainly there have never been SO many
amateur photographers abroad IN the
land as the present season; ard as of
course only few of this immense army
of photographers print from their own
negatives, the printing has to be done
after they come back to town, and they
all want it done at once. Result, a
dreadful congestion of negatives at the
printers, and hope deferred that maketh
the heart sick on the part of the enthu-
siastic amateurs. BY the way a new aad,
80 far, lucrative business has been
opened up by this craze of everybody to
take photographs. Printing photo
graphs from negative: is an occupation
for which women, with their naturally
quick eyes and deft fingers are especially
adapted; and some few of them have
worked into it very well. The Listener
knows of one young woman who put
$4,000 in the bank last year, representing
the clear profits of one years work in
printing photographs. And evidently
ner work this year is on larger scale
than last year. Women's work in this
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There are some patent med
icines that are more marvel
lous than a dozen doctors
prescriptions, but they're not
those that profess to cure
e0srytAsxg.
Everybody, now and them
feels "run down" played
out" They've the will, but
no power to generate vitality.
They're not sick enough to
call a doctor, but just too
sick to be we'll. That's
where the right kind of a
patent medicine comes in,
and does for a dollar what
the doctor wouldn't do for
less than five or ten.
We put in our claim for
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery.
We claim it to be an I'M
equaled remedy to purify
the blood and invigorate the
liver. We claim it to be
lasting in its effects, creating
an appetite, purifying the
blood, and preventing Bilious,
Typhoid and Malarial fevers
If taken IN time. The time
to take it is when you first
feel the signs of aOearauess and
zveakuess. The time to take
it, on general principles, is
NOW.
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H0M to Go TO Sleep.

eff you want to 60 to sleep quickly" :"
said physician the other day, "drink a
half pint of hot water or hot milk. I
don't say it will act in every case, but 7
will venture my opinion that it will act
in eight cases out of ten. Beef tea is alsc|
good. Of course, you will always find
people ready to overdo this. When J
said to a lady patient some time ago that
feeding the stomach on retiring produced
sleep. was called in the following day.
She had eaten what you call square
meal. ."-Chieago Tribune.
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Children's Lives Saved for so Cts,n

Thousands of children die annually of Group.
Now, mothers,i if you would spend 81 cents and
always have q bottle Of DR.. Tobias's Venetian
Liniment in the house you never need fear
losing your little ones when attacked with this
thief in the night, and be prepared to save
your darlings! 1t is now upward of forty years
since this 1iniment was first offered to the
public. Hundreds Of cures have been reported
never has home been known to have been
robbed Of one Of its treasures where the above
preparation was us:d. Those who have tested
and know the value of DIR. Tobias's Venetian
even were the price SlO per bottle, instead of
only Is or so cts
Sold BY all druggists.
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LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY.
His Sympathetic Nature and His Earl
NIisfortunes,

His Sympathetic Nature md His Early
NIisfortunes.
Those who saw much of Abraham Lincoln
during the later years of his life, were greatly
impressed with the expression OF profound
melancholy his face always wore in repose.
Mr.. Lincoln was of peculiarly sympathe-
tic and kindly nature. These strong charac-
teristics influenced, very happily, as it proved,
his entffe political career. They would not
seem, at first glance, to be efficient aids to
political success; but in the peculiar emer-
gency which Lincoln, in the providence Of
God, was called to meet, no vessel Of COM
mon clay could possibly have become the
'chosen of the Lord"
Those acquainted with him from boyhood
knew that early griefs tinged his whole life
with sadness. His partner in the grocery
business at Salem, was "Uncle' Billy Green,
of Talula, ILL.,, who used at night, when the
customers were few, to hold the grammar
while Lincoln recited his lessons.
1t was to sympathetic ear Lincoln told
the story of his love for sweet Ann Rutlidge;
and he, in return, offered what comfort he
could when poor Ann died, AMI Lincoln's
great heart nearly broke.
After Ann died" says 'Uncle" Billy, ION
stormy nights, when the wind blew the rain
against the roof, Abe would set thar in the
grocery, his elbows on his knees, his face IN
his hands, and the tears 'runnin' through his
fingers hated to see him feel bad, an I'd
say, ABE don't cry and he'd look up an
say, can't help it, Bill, the rains a fallin'
on her."
There are many who can sympathize with
this overpowering grief, as they think OF
lost loved one, when ''the rains fallin' on
her." What adds poignancy to the grief
sometimes is the thought that the lost one
might have been saved.
Fortunate, indeed, is William johnson, Of
Corona, L. l., a builder, who writes June %,
1890: Last February, on returning from
church one night, my daughter complained
Of having pain in her ankle. The pain
gradually extended until her entire limb was
swollen and very painful to the touch. We
called physician, who after careful exam
ination, pronounced it disease Of the kidneys
of long standing. All we could do did not
seem to benefit her until we tried Warmers
Safe Cure; from the first she commenced to
improve. When she commenced taking it
she could not turn over in bed, and could
just move her hands little, but today she
is as well as she ever was. believe l owe
the recovery of nv deuphter to its Use"
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NEW PHASE OF THE SERVANT GIRL
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
One of the oddest contributions to the
really large body of literature called forth
by the ''servant-g girl question" is the pro-
posal of Mrs. Francis Darwin, il an Eng
lish magazine, that the servant girl, when
applying for situation, should have the
same right to ask for references from the
mistress that the mistress has to ask
them from the servant. For tie purpose
of meeting this legitimate demand, she
suggests that each mistress should name
two referees among her former servants
who have lived with her within year.
This assumes judicial-laindedaess and
power of expression oa the part of SER
want girls which they hardly ever possess,
and it assumes, also, that the servant
girls do not already act as references
about mistresses for each other. The
truth is, that nearly every employers
character, as an employer, is pretty we'll
known to all the servant girls in the
aeighborhood. They describe the ways
OF the people they live with to one au-
other at their Sunday evening coLven-
ticles with o minuteness and prolixity
which leaves nothing to be desired in the
way of information about temper, habits,
kind, and amount of work. 1t would be
waste of labor for any housekecper to
appoint standing referees, because their
Judgment would either be superAuous or
ineffective, and would, beside this, be
highly colored for the reasons of the ref
cree for leaving or staying IN the house.
-Argonaut.
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Japs Laugh at Foreign Grammar.

Patriotic japanese regard foreign
grammar and composition with consider.
able contempt. A native book on for:
eign literature censures the westerners
for not putting the verb at the end of the
sentence, "the only sensible way, as we
do it in Japan. You can see the crook
edness of European hearts by their writ
ing. They write croeked-across the
paper instead of up and down, as any
sensible person would. ."-Caur<r-Jomr-
nal. t.
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branch is acknowledged by Photographic
experts to be superior to that done by
men. But perhaps it will be with this
business as with so many others; the
success Of some will encourage others to
enter it, and at last it will be over
crowded and prccarious. But even then
there will be Groom at the top" as
usual.-B0ston Transcript.
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Curious Fall OF "Celestial Grain"

NJ Rene de Campagne, director OF the
French school at Diarbekir, in Asiatic
Turkey, reports the fall of curious far
inaceous substance during q hailstorm.
He describes it us ''new marna," re-
sembling mulberry in shape and size,
although the mulberry is not cultivated
in that region. The Kurds, according to
his latter, have given it the name Of
"celestia:. grain" and it was sold in the
market-place.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Costly HAIR.

It is related that one Partisan woman,
whose hair had reached the length of
six feet, refused an offer of $1,000 for
it. The present market value of pure
white hair, of fine texture, in France, is
about $500 per ounce, and the price is
constantly advancing. Next to the pure
white, and vieing with it, the most
valuable shade is that of ''virgin gold"
Courier Journal.
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The number of lunatics under restraint
in the district criminal and private luna
tic asvlums of Ireland on the first day of
this year amounted to Is, 159, being an
increase of 474 over the total recorded
in the previous return.
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Commendable.

All claims not consistent with the high char
acter Of Syrup Of Figs are purposely avoided
by the California Fig Syrup Company. 1t acts
gently on the kidneys. liver and bowels, cleans
ing the system effectually, but It Is not cure
all and makes no pretens:ons that every bottle
will not substantfate
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Is it economy to save few rents buying q
cheap soap or ST. ong washing powder, and 80se
dollars in ruined rotted clnthes? II not, use
Dobbinss Electric Soap,white as snow, and as
DUG. Ask your grocer Tor II.
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The Caledonian Railway Company pro.
poses to run tunnel under the River
Forth, Scotland.
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FRANCE is the country where the best trim
mings are produced.