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ST. DISTAFFS DAY.
Thread lis Miles in Length Spun Frou
One Pound of Cotton.

A Thread 1lB Miles in Length Spun From
One Pound of Cotton.
The 9TH Of January is day in which
the elderly maidens, who are sometimes
called spinsters, should take peculiar
interest. In old times it was known
and observed as St. Distaff's day, be-.
cause it was generally then that the
women resumed. after all Christmas
holidays, the distaff and spindle. When
the spinning-wheel was invented, along
in 1888, those ladies who used it began
to be called spinsters. This, afterward,
in legal Technology, came to be applied
ito all unmarried women, but the name
was an honored one until the employ.
ment of spinning was considered too
mental for women of rank. Then it was
used contemptuously, and gradually it
came to signify, more particularly, sin.
gle ladies of mature years. Eefore the
,spinning-wheel was relegated to the
garrett some extraordinary feats were
accomplished, or, as people nowadaya
would say, records were made, by those
expert in it's use. In the year 1745 a
woman at East Dereham, in Norfolk,
spun single pound of wool into q
thread of $4,000 yards in length, wanting
only eighty yards of forty-eight miles.
This, at the time, was considered per.
Torrance of sufficient Importance ia
merit place in the proceedings of the
Royal Society''-a very high honor, in.
deed. Afterward, this feat was eclipsed
by another English lady, living at Nor.
witch, who spun a pound of combed wool
into a thread of 10000 yards; and she
actually produced from the same weight
iof cotton thread of 2o3, 900 yards, equal
to about lis miles. This last thread, il
woven, would produce about twenty
yards of yard-wide muslin.-Chicago
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To Keep the Stove Brirht.

After doing its first duty as q heater
the next thing we require of stove is
to look bright. A dull dusty, smoky
stove will make room look disorderly
and uncomfortable. 1t requires only a
few minutes care each day to keep the
polish bright and nickel-plate shining.
Keep one cloth, used for nothing else,
to rub off the stove. When used first
on newly-blacked stove the cloth be.
comes filled with the surplus polish.
which rubs off so easily, and it is then
ready to impart gloss whenever it is
needed. Another plan is to use old
newspapers to rub of the stove, instead
of brush. In mixing stove polish use
vinegar and . teaspoonful OF sugar.
Strong soap-suds are recommended FOX
the same purpose. If it Is used the
luster will appear Immediately, saving
work and dust To brighten the nickel
plating rub it with whiting and kero-
sene, using q wooden cloth and -four.
If the mica In the stove door has be-
come discolored with smoke it can be
easily cleaned by washing it with vine
gar. The fancy zinc now used 50 gem
orally under stoves only requires to be
busted of with dry cloth. To clean q
plain zinc wet salt with vinegar and use
it to scour the zinc, rubbing with
WOODEN cloth.-American Agriculturist.
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The progressive increase in these fig
ures with larger doses is q good indica-
ton OF the action of the alcohol, and
roughly indicates the comparative
amount of injury done. The influence
OF one drachm is decisively indicated,
and ! found two drachms quite enough
to produce transient giddiness. There
were considerable variations in the
number at the various sittings, but they
are due to many causes, such as time Of
day, amount Of light, condition of brain
and body, etc.; but this difference does
not affect the relative result with and
without alcohol. Each experiment was
done on different day. Several func.
lions of the brain and spinal cord are
hereby tested, such as:
l. The steadiness of the hand and CO.
ordination of the muscles.
2. The sharpness of the sight.
g. The accuracy of the Judgment.
4. The rapidity of thought perception
and decision).
S. The rapidity of muscular action.
6. The power of self-control.
1t may be taken as proved that alco-
hol Injuries the capacity of self-control,
or temperance, which can not be as
great or complete with alcohol as with
out it. The largest quantity taken,
half an ounce, is about the amount con-
tanned in half pint of beer, small
glass of wine, or two tablespoonful OF
brandy and water, and hence these are
clearly capable of doing considerable
harm to the nervous system.-J. J.
Ridge, M. D., in Medical Temperance
Journal.
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There, said, turning around, your
bear is al right or will be % soon ns he
comes 10 his senses. And, now, who
owns the bear?
mo one spoke. They ut once scented
. doctors bill I put the question
again. No reply. then put the ques-
ton to each man In turn, looking him
full in the face. Each one denied own
ership, either wholly or in part: and the
| wink went around. Don't think he's
got any owner several Of them re-
| marked.
Il applied chloroform to the animals
nostrils again, for he was beginning to
revive. Very WE'LL I continued, III
this bear has no owner he is practi-
cally and also legally . wild beast, and
must look to him for my pay
"They grinned, but said nothing.
"Once more,' continued, does any
| one of you claim him? No one spoke.
Taking knife from my case
| stopped down and opened the creatures
jugular veins, and in very few min
utes he was dead bear. He had died
unconscious and quite without pain.
Then without another word I set at
work to take of the animals skin. I
took care to remove with the hide the
nose and ears, as by law required, hav-
ing 1t in mind to secure not only the pelt,
| but the State bounty upon bears.
mo opposition was offered me by any
OF the crew, and not word was spoken.
The men stood by and watched me.
Gentlemen said, as folded up
the skin, you are welcome to the meat.
/ hope it will taste good to you.'
II wiped my knives, put on my coat,
and taking the bear-skin went back to
the sled and sang out for the teamster
to take me home. did not expect that
he would do it, but he took his place on
the sled and we started for the village
without word in objection. Neither
OF US spoke till we had gone two or
three miles. He then burst out in a
'horse-laugh' and looked around at me
for some moments. We'll, what's the
joker said.
"'Oh, nothin',' said he. Il was only
a-thinkin' what good thing twas fer
those fellers up thar at the camp that
they had their larf before you begun.
Thar didn't seem much ter larf at when
you got through, DOCTOR
"It was to be an April fool joke on
me, I suppose said l.
"'Yes; they was all the forenoon talk
in it over
"'Well, how do you think 1t stands%
I asked him.
"I think we got the butt end on It"
II realized seventeen dollars upon the
bears skin and bounty, and in reality
the incident was worth q great deal
more to me, for the story was told
throughout the town and served as an
advertisement, If nothing more.
'"Those lumbermen were very civil to
me from that time on, and, trivial as
the incident seems, have always been
inclined to attribute great deal to it,
for I immediately began to pick up prac-
tice. In few months I had about all l
could attend to, and by the end of the
second year was able to buy a team
and pay cash for ito. A. Stephens, in
Youths COMPANION.
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READ THE DATE.

the winter toad was getting quite rough.
Our progress was rather slow, though
the driver put the horses at their best
pace. As We foundered along I made
inquiries az to my prospective patient,
and the cause of his accident.
''''Twas done a-scuH1in',, the team
ster replied. 'Ye see the crow amt
workin' to-day. They got ter foolin'
and ter scufain', and in the fracas Pete's
shoulder got pulled out O. j'int.'
= who is this Pete, French-Can-
adian"
''Wal, dunno 'zackly. He KEN
from up in the French country. should
say that ye might call him French re-
piled the man, who seemed, thought,
somewhat amused at the question.
q How old person is he? asked.
'''Wal, now, we've got me, doctor.
It's di@kilt tellin' how old them iellers
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- lazy OSS4 y J00v AAA0 OUE 1Olk0S 70
know. That was about al the informa-
ton could elicit from the driver, but l
gained the impression that my patient
was probably an eccentric man. The
teamster seemed to prefer talking upon
other subjects
when we had gone about halfway
we came to hill SO bad that we got of
the sled and walked. A team had lately
broken down on the hill, and among
other remnants Of the wreck on the
snow at the side of the road was . news
paper. l picked it up and read the
date on it-'Thursday. March as 1t
must be a week old, for that day was
Thursday.
Like . flash it came into my mind
that the day was the First of
April, All Fools Day. I had not
thought of it before. In an instant
then it passed through my mind that
my call to sct shoulder was proba-
bly, case of April fool; that these
rying out an April fool joke on the I'M
sophisticated young DOCTOR
THE case now seemed so plain that
my first impulse was to take my traps
of the sled and start for home; but !
had already come so far that they would
have the laugh on me in any event. ]
began to feel angry as we'll as mortified,
and the smattering of law taught at the
medical college came to me. I could
collect my fee by suing for it, if pro.
ceeded to the place to which was sum
| moned.
$50 without allowing the teamster t.
mistrust that I suspected a practical
joke, I changed the topics o. converse
ton and went on with him, mentally
bracing myself for the result, whateve,
it might be.
"At length We came in sight Of the
three or four large, low log shanties
which formed the lumber camp. Nearly
a score of lumbermen were standing
about the door of the man camp as il
awaiting our arrival. Not 1ord wa.
spoken by any of them as we drove up
but they looked to me like men wh<
were keeping their faces straight by :
great effort.
"'Wal, boys, here's the doctor!
shouted the driver. He's got all his
tools with him. Shall we take him il
| ter see Pete?'
"'Sartin! sartin' they all said, and
one of the crowd added that Pete hai
! been takin' on awful
"Lead the way said, I'm here a
your CALL
'"The whole party at once proceeded
to one of the adjoining shanties. Every
man seemed to be- REFRESHING some very
strong emotion. The shanty door was
thrown open, and they all stood aside
| as if for me to enter, one of them re-
marking in husky voice that pete
was inside. stepped to the doorway
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE TRUE LADplE.

Here's laddie. bright and fair,
And his heart is free from care;
Will he ever, do you think,
Learn to smoke, and chew, and drink!
Make furnace of his throat,
And chimney of his uose,"
In his pocket not groat,
Elbows out and rugged toes'
Here's laddie. full Of glee,
And his step Is light and FREQ.
VIII he ever, do you think,
Mad with thirst, and crazed with drink,
Stagger wildly down the street;
Wallow in the mire and sleet;
Hug the lamp-post, and declare
Snakes are Writhfng In his hair?
Not an i'll this laddie knows
And his breath ia like the rose;
Win he ever, do you think,
Poisoned by the cursed drink. r-
Fever burning In his veins,
Soul and body racked with pains,
Sink into drunkard's grave,
Few to pity-none to saver
No; this laddie, honor bright. 81.
Swears to love the true and n ght
Keep his body pure and sweet,
For an angels dwelling meet; ,r..
Never, never will he sup
Horrors from the drunkard's cup;
Never In the flowing BOWL
Will he drown his angel-sOul.
Julia M. Thayer, in Temperance Journal
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action Of alcohol I have made sev.
erai experiments, chiefly on myself.
These consisted in endeavoring to pass
pointed stick through swinging ring,
counting the number Of swings between
each successful endeavor and adding
these together when sixty had been ac-
compltshed. A certain dose of pure rec
tined spirit was then taken, and after
fifteen minutes the numbe Of swings
required to accomplish sixty more
swings was counted. append the re-
suit: OF the experiments made on my
self, because can guarantee their bona
tds performance and accuracy, and they
were all performed after sufficient skill
had been acquired by practice.
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1cal college," said he, ''twenty-six years
ago. l was twenty-one years old that
June. I remember just how fresh and
green the whole world looked to me on
those juno days. The color may have
been partly reflection from something
inside me. Indeed, had an intuitive
feeling that this was the fact. In con-
sidering where it would be best for me
to settle, l accordingly fixed, naturally,
on the rural districts, where the con-
trast between the general aspect of
nature and my condition would be less
striking.
II went to small town in New
Hampshire and hung out my shinglo'
in little saw-mill kind of a village,
where tho people were mostly umber-
men, with sprinkling of French-Can-
adams. There [ thought might pick
up enough preliminary practice to cut
my professional teeth.
'But even with the advantages Of
this rustic, green background, there
was still vernal contrast not in my
favor. could see that even the lum-
bermen's wives made fun among them
selves of the young doctor and his now
trunk, but the old people of the place,
particularly the old ladies, seom to
have thought themselves authorized to
ask me any professional question that
interested them, but as for paying ME,
they had no idea of doing that. NV adj
vice was worth having if it was to be
had for nothing.
$50, of actual practice which brought
me In any income, had next to none
oil that summer and fall. I had but two
bona fde calls all that season, and one
case was merely one of toothache.
There was an older physician settled
five miles distant, and I sensitively
imagined that he disparaged me.
However, it did not cost me much to
live there. My Office rent was but
thirty cents a week, I got boarded
for a dollar and fifty cents a week, and /
kept no horse.
During the succeeding winter I had
one or two cases where there were Sc.
we're colds and three or four of cut
feet among the lumbermen, but whom
there were any serious ailments the
old doctor was sent for. Naturally
enough, may say now, though it then
oOOu4OA VI UGLY uuAdIuIdA 10 1tl0.
''By spring I was getting pretty
badly off financially, in spite Of several
humiliating remittances from home. /
was meditating all sorts of desperate
shifts and expedients when just at noon
one day a lumberman, with a span OF
heavy draught horses and a sled, drove
up at round pace for so heavy team
and raped loudly at my Office door.
ga Teller they call Pete, up at John.
sons loggin' camp, 8 got his shoulder
out O. tint, were his first words. They
want you to come up an set it. You're
the doctor, amt yep he asked.
That's my profession I replied,
with proper dignity, and inquired as to
the place and the distance.
'''I'll take We back with me- the man
replied. 4 ken a-purpose for ye.'
"'All right said, good deal elated,
with a vision of fve-dollar fee dancing
in my mind. ran in to pick up what
I might need, including my surgical
case and bottle of chloroform.
'1n two minutes was out and on the
sled with the teamster who had sum-
moned me, and on the way to the
logging camp about six miles distant in
the woods to the north of. the little vii
lage. Tho snow had begun to thaw, and
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THE BLACK MOUNTAIN.
Its Ascent IL Difficult and Accomplishe
by Worry Few Tourists.

Its Ascent IL Difficult and Accomplished
by Very Few Tourists.
Climbing is much the same all the
world over, and the only noteworthy
feature in our ascent was the atrocious
heat reflected from the bare gray slabs
OF rock on every side. Long before
reaching the summit had added my
shirt to my coat, and when, after two
hours very stiff work, we stood at length
on the crest of Kerstatz We felt we had
we'll earned the refreshing breeze which
greeted US from the other side, but
which never blows in the fearful natural
oven from which We hsd Just emerged.
The view from the top is magnificent,
embracing not only the whole length of
the Bocche, but stretching over the
further mountains on to the Adriatic
horizon beyond. The ascent is one of
the steepest known, and Lady Strang-
ford aptly describes the impression pro-
duced in saying that one has the feel
ing of ascending the. highest tower in
the world and looking down from the top
into the perpendicular depths below"
! On our way up we overlook a Monte
negrin, who, as being the first specimen
OF the race had met in his native wilds,
interested me considerably. In spite Of
| the heat he was dressed in thick
! double breasted waistcoat and felt-cloth
jacket with an inevitable struka over
his shoulders. This integral part of
| every Montenegrin's costume is coarse
black rug of raw goats hair six feet long
by two wide.
No inducements are adequate to per-
| suade the women to spin a broader pat
tern, consequently it is of little use ex-
| cept to sit upon. It is worn thrown over
| the shoulders with the two long fringed
ends dragging in the dust, and thus
| certainly forms some protection for tho
back against the rain, but leaves the
| chest and throat exposed. It is too mar
row to wrap round one as blanket, and,
speaking from experience, failed to
get as much warmth and comfort out of
three strukas as would have been given
by common ulster coat or Scotch plaid.
| Our friend was very communicative,
and insisted on accompanying us into
Cettinje. whittier he was himself bound.
Whenever we stopped for mo-
ment he spread his rug for my use, and
was particularly anxious for me to
wear 1t when we reached the
higher and colder atmosphere. was
surprised 70 see that both he and the
Dalmatian drank copiously from every
running stream we came across. As he
grew more at home with US he pro-
| duced letter from a brother of his
dated "Johnsonville, CAL, where he had
been mining for many years, and fre-
quently heard later Of others who had
emigrated to the fields. Our companion
had general recollection of all the
British Consuls and well-known travel.
ers who had visited Montenegro and
seemed astonished that I was not per-
sonally and intimately acquainted with
all of them. On the whole, however,
he was an intelligent, quick-witted
fellow, full of stories and questions, and
his company helped not . little to
shorten the long walk.-Fortnightly
Review.
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WIT AND WISDOM,

Tho prosperity Of Jest lies very
often in the digestion Of him who. hears
1t.--Puck.
The easiest money to spend, and the
hardest money to save, is that which We
have not yet earned.
Few Of US sever discover bigots among
those who agree with our religious con-
victions.-Troy Press.
NO pusson is lazy case he doan want
money, but boca'se he doan want ter
Work.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Only what we have wrought into
our character during life can we take
with us to the other world.
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Consumption Surely Cured.

ToTHE inform your read.
ers that I have positive remedy for the
above named disease BY its timely use
thousands Of hopeless cases have been per-
manently cured. I shall be glad to send two
bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your
readers who have consumption if they will
send me their express and post-oftice ad-
dresa Respectfully, T. A. SLocUM, M c.,
1871 Pearl street, New York.
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Beware Of Olntments for Catarrh That
Contain MerCurv.

Beware Of Olntments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do is ten
fold to the good you can derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney Il Co., Toledo, o contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally and acts d.
rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure and get the genuine It is taken
Internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
J. Cheney Il Co.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
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II HAVE been afflicted with an affection Of
the Throat from childhood, caused by diph-
liberia, and have used various remedies, but
have never found any thing equal to
Browns BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" REQ G. H.
F. Hampton, P4keton, Kv. Sold only in boxes.
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AN APRIL FOOL" JOKE.
How It Was Neatly Turned and
Gained a Reputation.

T A dinner given
by a society of
m Q deal stu
dents one of the
most celebrated
surgeons of New
England, W b O
was q guest of
the young fell
low 8, in re-
Spouse to the
toast, MY First
Year of Medical
Pra G tice," re-
lated the follow
ing anecdote of
one of his early
professional ef-
forts:
II took my de-
Il ~
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MORE diseases are produced by using
brown soaps than by any thing else. Why
run such terrible risks when you know
Dobbins' Electric Soap is pure and perfect.
Dobbins' prevents hands from chappin9.
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Tho Only Guaranteed Cure

! AN evening call is generally productive
Of pleasure-if not when you come, when
you go-Texas Siftings.
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IT is only question of time when the
wisest Of US win mako foolish brealk.-1n-
dianapolis News
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A NAN doesn't really realize how the Sec
onds fly until he sees detective in hot pur-
suit Of the hackers Of prize-fght-Yonk-
ers Statesman
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The Public Awards the Palm to Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute,
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ARE unlike all other pills. No purging or
Carter's Little Liver Pills. One Dill dose,
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ALL disorders caused by bilious state of
the system can be cured by using Carter's
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them.
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THERE are many men who contract debts
In the East and then go West to settle
BinRhamton Leader
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WHEN q theatrical manager has . good
house he can, with propriety, thank bus
stars--Light.
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The man who has no charity in his heart
gives no quarter to the hotel waiter.-Roa-
ton Post
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Is IT not odd that our; fondest recollections
should be about wasted opportunitiesl-
Ashland Press.