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WISE AND OTHERWISE.

When tailor makes misfit itmust
be shear carelessness.
The man who tells you how he be-
came bald, knows ''wear off, he speaks
This is a regular sugar loaf" said
the candy store clerk when business was
dull.
The time comes when some men
leave father and mother and cleave unto
their uncle.
The author who is seriously de-
pressed by unfavorable notices of his
work may be said to be critically ill.
Gladys: Does your father give you
much pin money?
Murial-Oh, yes-he comes up to the
scratch every month.
-''How old is grandfather?n
lone hundred and three years"
"You surprise me. had no idea he
was centaur,"
Woman is a greedy creature. She
robbed man of a rib at the outset of her
career, aud she has been after his heart
ever since.
DE Canter: Is there any sure way to
tell the age of horse?
De Trotter: Yes. Ask the dealer and
multiply by two.
The Only Proper Thing to Say:
-IoN Il tn n tpnn after din
ner? asked Walker, anxious for a walk.
Nothing. unchain the dog"
Popularity called the king of medicines
- Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t cOnquers
scrofula, salt rhem and all other blood
diseases.
The chances are that a long-felt
want is about to be filled. A Hoboken
man is working on collar button with
a whistle attachment.
Somebody says that poets are declin-
ing. This may be so; but you had bet,
not ask poet what he will take on the
strength of it.
A Successful Life-Hungry Joe: So
Puddin' Pete is dead He was mighty
successful Teller, Bill.
Sloper Bill: You bet. He never done
an hours work in his life.
II feel constrained to tell you, Fred
that have been engaged before this, y
she whispered.
Don't mention it." he said, gently
81 too. have been lifted
GOOD SEXTON.
| have used DR.. Deans Dyspepsia
Pills for Dyspepsia and Constipation
and have been cured by them. | cheer
fully recommend them to all who suffer
from the same. STEPHEN DURHAM,
Sexton Wayne Street Reformed Church.
40 Jersey City.
Pretty Bad-Enpec: The doctor says
it wouldn't take but breath to carry
me off.
Mrs Enpec: The breath you brought
home last night was strong enough.
One road to Wealth. Publishers
would make good thing of it if they
would print novels for young ladies witt
the last chapter following Immediately
upon the preface.
Made a Good Job of It-Printer
There goes poet, and he's half.shot.
Editor: Hand me the musket-quick
I'll do the other hall. He deserves {
whole load!
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Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
Dr.. G. G. OsGoop,
Lowell Mass.
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Castoria.

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-"
II. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
iii So Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Our physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among or
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it,"
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIsPENsARY,
Boston, Mass.
ALLEN C. SMITH Pres,
1rray Street, New York City.
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THE STANDARD,
THE RELIABLE.
THE TRUE,
THE TRIED
HUNTS REMEDY,
WILL POSITIVELY CURE
ALL KIDNEY,
ALL LIVER,
ALL BLADDER,
ALL FEMALE
TROUBLES.

81 suffered for years with weak back
and swollen limbs. Hunts Remedy
cured me. "-MRs. WIN. GRAY, Hotel
Goldsmith, Boston, Mass.
at saved me from death by Brght's
disease. "-JERE SMITH, Kingston, N. Y.
Hunts Remedy may save you 500 in
doctors bills-may save your life.
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"Castorla is the best remedy for children Of
which am acquainted hope the day is rot
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the various ouaok nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR.. J. f. KISCHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-02-05
GREEK MYTHOLOGY.

A School Where the Grecian Heroes We're
Taught.
In the mountains of Greece there was
great cave, and in that cave lived q
man who was half horse. He had the
head and breast Of man, but a horses
Body and legs. He was famed, writes
Andrew Land in st. Nicholas, for know
ing more about every thing than any
one else in all Greece. He knew about
the stars, and the plants Of earth, which
were good for medicine, and which were
poisonous. He was the best archer with
the bow, and the best player of the
harp, he knew most songs and stories
Of old times, for he was the last of q
people half-horse and half-man, who
had dwelt in ancient times on the hills.
Therefore, the Kings in Greece sent
their sons to him to be taught shooting,
singing, and telling the truth, and that
was all the teaching they had then, ex-
cept that they learned to hunt, and fish,
and fight, and throw spears, and toss
the hammer and the stone. Many of
the boys taught by Chiron became ia
nous. Among them was Orpheus, who
played the harp 80 sweetly that wild
beasts followed his minstrelsy, and even
the trees danced after him, and settled
where he stopped playing; and there
was Mopsus, who could understand what
the birds say to each other, and there
was Butes, the handsomest Of men; and
Tiphys, the best steersman Of ship;
and Castor, with his brother Poly
deuces, the boxer; and Heracles, the
strongest man in the whole world, YVES
there; and Lynceus, whom they call
Keen-eye, because he could see so far,
and he could see the dead men in their
graves under the earth; and there was
Euphemus, so swift and lght-footed
that he could run upon the gray sea,
and never wet his feet; and there were
Calais and Zetes, the two sons of the
North Wind, with golden wings upon
their feet; and many others were there
whose names it would be too long to
tell They all grew up together in the
the hills, good friends, healthy, and
brave and strong
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CRABS EYES AS MEDICINE.
They Are Used to Correct Acidity of the
Stomach.

They Are Used to Correct Acidity of the
Stomach.
Crabs eyes are employed to some e1-
tent as remedy for acid stornachs.
They are not actually the eyes of the
crab, but simply small concretions of
lime found In the stomaohs of crayhsh
at the time when they are about to cast
their shell and make new ones. It is
supposed, says the Chicago Times, that
these concretions are designed by nat
ure to provide material for tho new
shells. AT all events, having been de-
posted originally by animals, they are
more readily absorbed into the human
system Before being administered as
medicine they are pulverized.
Oyster-shells are used in precisely the
same way and for the same purpose,
being prepared preliminarily by wash
ing and pulverizing. The pulverized
shells are placed In solution in water,
the heavier and coarser particles fall
ing to the bottom. BY pouring Off the
solution thus obtained and permitting
1t to precipitate such fine particles Of
lime as ~ still retains, IN exceedingly
refined deposit Is at length secured.
Cuttlefish bones, from sepia fish of COM
merce-the same that are used for con-
ary birds-are ground up~and used in
the samc fashion and to sorve q lilre
medical usefulness
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-02-05
The American cologne Habit.

Moral remonstrance is now coming
from Paris, says the New York World
about the iniquitous habit of Americans
in regard to cologne. We owe this to
England. 1t may be remembered that
during the early days of last summer
some astute and pawlzy essayist in Great
Britain discovered that American men
and women had habit of frequently
indulging in what was known as a sco-
logne soak" This dissipation took the
form Of an elaborate consumption of
cologne-soalsed Jumps Of sugar or of
cologne itself straight from the bottle.
OF course nobody had ever heard Of
cologne soak" in this country, but the
British reviewer is never nonplussed by
such mere detail as that. After the
British reviewers had ceased writing
scathing things about US they turned
their attention to some other form Of
public evil. Meanwhile their articles
drifted into France, and now the French
writers are moralizing on our habit Of
drinking cologne. Apparently news Is
scarce across the water.
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. 8 8 a9qY 8 . :
Special.

It is with pleasure that we announce
to our many patrons that we have (again)
made arrangements with that wide
awake, illustrated farm magazine, the
American Farmer, published at Ft.
Wayne, Ind, and read by nearly 2O0,-
900 farmers, by which that great publ
cation will be mailed direct, FREE, to
to the address of any of our subscribers
who will come in and pay up all ar
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advance from date, and to any new SUBJ
scriber who will pay one year in ad-.
vance. This is grand opportunity to
obtain a first-class farm journal free.
The american Farmer is large 16-page
Journal, of national circulation, which
ranks among the leading agricultural
papers. 1t treats the question of econ.
omy in agriculture and the rights and
privileges Of that vast body of citizens
American Farmers-whose industry is
the basis of all material and national
prosperity. Its highest purpose is the
elevation and ennobling of Agriculture
through the higher and broader educa-
ion of men and women engaged IN its
pursuit. The regular subscription price
Of the american Farmer is 81 90 per year.
1T COSTS YOU NOTHING. From any
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win be worth thrice the subscription
price to you or members of the house
hold, YET YOU GET IT FREE. Call and see
sample copy.
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Score Better Than Dozen.

Any person who will be at the trouble
Of little observation, can hardly faie
of being surprised at the amount of de-
lay, and often the positive inconveu-
ience, arising from the adherence to-
the use Of the dozen ard the hclf-dozena
in small transactions, as though people.
were restrained by high and occult rea-
sons from buying four, five, eight or
ten of any thing. Plaialy, therefore.
the dozen should have taken it's depart
ure long ago with the old shilling-and-
pence system Of which it was con-
stituent part, and OF which at present il
is only relic. Now, proper unit OF
count is convenience in some kinds OF
retail trade; and, fortunately, we have
such unit in the score of twenty, *
measure which is as old as the English
language. The score possesses, for us
Americans, certain obvious advantages
over the dozen, for easy reckoning, be-
cause, like the dollar, it has half, a
quarter, fifth and tenth. in wholss
nrrabers.-Boston Transcript.
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forty, and still no news from the
trains.
could stand the suspense no longer
seized my hat and started for tho
door; there stood undecided, when my
practised ear heard Brockton calling tho
dispatcher's office. He answere a<sd
again, half dazed. listened. The old
sounder ticlxed on without realizing that
It was speaking to me words of life aud
hope. 1t said:
mo. "a is here and -"
heard no more, but fell swooning so
the floor.
The terrible strain had been too much
for me. don't know how long lay
thus; when came to, l found stranger
faces about me, heard the sound ecg
escaping steam and there before tho
station stood No. 10. How did it happex..
you ask?
Well, will tell you. No. 10 hid
passed X while l slept No. 81 lad
signed it's orders at Brockton and rro-
ceeded on it's way.
Now comes the strange part of this
strange tale, showing how God In Ills
infinite goodness can and does step IA
Wuch uAttu 40 pOWcTleoS duO III uSSEdIf~
Near Coal Switch is q deep cut, where.
the road runs through small spur Gf
Bearpaw mountain. Into this cut, il
seems, the snow had blown all that
| night from the bank above until tbs
track was one huge drift.
On rushed No. 81. On, on rushed Ncx
10 until-well-untn this blessed SHOW
bank was reached. Then they halted
scarcely four hundred feet apart No
81 returned to B for help, and No "a.
being short Of water, backed to- "
where they found me lying where fell
In some respects / have never recoe-
cred from that nights experience Or
course was called up to interview tlses
superintendent l told him all like n
man, then bade him good-day, and went
out into the world to commence all over
again.
Through the officials kindness The.
newspapers never learned of my criur-
inal carelessness or the averted catas-
trophe, for all of which l was very
thankful. I soon secured new posi-
ton in the East, where have remaine.i
ever since. That nights work, how
ever, carried with it a lesson to wIiich T..
perhaps. owe my present gtSess---G..
M. Dennison, in Yankee Bla,A
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A Royal American.

A curious mistake has been made by
an official at Carlsbad. An American
gentleman who had been travelling in
Bohemia arrived at the Spa, and en-
TERED his name as James l. King, Of
Buffalo. This was conveyed to the
local press as "Jamee the First, King Of
Buffalo" and Mr.. King was besieged as
"His Majesty" by such q shoal OF trades
men. beggars and tuft-hunters that he
was obliged to leave Carlsbad sooner
than he had intended Some OF the ma
tives even mistook the popular tourist
for Buffalo BILL
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MIGRATION or BIRDS.


The Prompting Causes Of Their Lengthy
Flights.
Brehm, the distinguished German
naturalist, who has so recently died,
says love and hunger are the birds only
guiding impulses. The statement is
made, and is very interesting one,
that those that cross the Mediterranean
sea in going from Africa to Europe fol-
low certain fixed routes: First, by the
Straits Of Gibraltar; second, from Tunis
to Sardinia and Corsica to the shores of
the Gulf of Genoa; third, from Tripoli
by Malta and Sicily to Italy, etc.
; How were these lines of passage
learned? In the diluvial period, what
is now the Mediterranean sea consisted
of two large lakes, one of which was cut
off the ocean by a broad strip of land
where now are the Straits of Gibraltar,
and which were separated from each
other by a land dixie composed CT Italy,
Sicily, ETC., which connected the two
continents. The birds, as they in
creased in numbers, migrated by these
routes in search Of better breeding
places, and as the lands sank they con-
tinued to follow them over gradually
narrowing belts Of land, over marshes
and iagunes, and finally uover broad
waters, and yet no one generation was
aware of any change. They carried
with them the memory Of their warm
winter home, and on the approach Of
the European winter, when their food
supply failed, returned to IL with their
young.
If this explanation is the correct one,
It Is evident, says Forest and Stream,
that we have failed in our efforts to in
troduce these migratory birds because
we have attempted to reverse the proc
ess by which the habit Of migration
was acquired, and, in aorder to succeed,
instead Of turning them loose In the
north, we must give the strangers, sky
larks, nightingales, quail, etc., suita-
BILE southern winter habitat (Florida,
Louisiana, Mexico), from which in
spring, food failing or driven by an in
herent tendency (as asserted by Prof.
Baird), they may wander to some other
locality suitable for raising their young,
and to which, by virtue of memory thus
acquired and finally inherited, they may
return when food fails them in their
summer home.
If they wander in all directions from
the winter home, those that go to tho
most favorable localities will most GER
tainly survive and multiply, while none
of them will be in such unfavorable
conditions as those that may be turned
loose in our Northern States. They
will then, so far as we can arrange it
for them, be best prepared for the
struggle for existence in this country,
over the whole of which, il they find
favorable conditions, we may expect
them soon to spread, and thus repay us
for our expenditure of effort and money.
By initiating the processes of nature we
shall make haste slowly, but we shall
| finally have our reward.
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AFTER DEATH.

.Dehold, I show you mystery
Folded hand and nerveless arm,
Shrouded form In 10y calm,
Wrapped in dreamless, solemn sleep
Never more to wake or weep
Flowers strewn on coff1n lid,
Socn to be forever hid
Where the winds unheeding pass
Through the swaying, signing grass
With o sacred tenderness
Press silent, sobbing kiss
On the unresponsive face,
Still and strange in deaths embrace
Shut from sight. precious trust,
Earth to earth, and dust TO DUST"
All the kisses, all the tears,
AL tho hopes OF future years,
All the tenderness I crave,
Buried In the darkencd grave.
What to me is well-meant phrase,
Kindly word, and mournful praisei
Leave me with my grief alone.
Still my love is all L1y own,
Mine to cherish and 10 keep,
Though he lies in dreamless sleep.
will keep my soul for thee,
Sweet and fadeless mcinoryi
Cofln.lid can never part
Heart that's firmly linked TO heart.
When I drift from earth away,
Be with me, my strength and stay.
Gently guide my rntried feet,
Kiss my lips In welcome sweet
Death to me can never bring
Fear, distrust, or doubt, or sting
On another, fairer shore,
I shall clasp thy hand onoe more!
Helen N. Packard, IN Springfield Republica
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PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS
THROUGH TO ST. LOUIS.

LOWEST RATES, QUICKEST TIME,
BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
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THE MONKEY DRUM sSN
An African Story Accredited to &n1frs
Pasha.

An African Story Accredited to Nnnfr
Pasha.
Emin Pasha, the story of whose res
cue from Central Africa is well known,
to the world, is an enthusiastic studenr
OF natural history, and had made a eoA-
lection at his headquarters on the Up-
per Nile, which he was compelled to-
abandon.
One of the objects of his interest IL,
the equatorial province was a species
OF chimpanzee, and Mr.. Stanley tells
some remarkable stories regarding
Emin's observations.
According to Stanley's account, tlit.
equatorial chimpanzee is not greatly
the inferior in intelligence of some ogf
the human beings found there.
The forest of Msongwa is infested by
tribe of chimpanzees of great statures.
who make almost nightly raids ON the
villages and little plantations of tlss.
Mswa natives, carrying away Their
bananas and other fr-uitsS There. ia
nothing very remarkable about th6ss
fact, since many kinds Of animals make
pillagirog forays upon the habitations off
men; but the surprising part of Enainis
narrative is the statement that in thesss
thieving raids the chimpanzees maze.
use of lighted torches to hunt out tls.
fruit.
"If had not myself been a wit,rsss
of this spectacle" Mr.. Stanley reports
Emin as saying, nothing would evex
have made me believe that any race. af
monkeys possessed the art of making
fire."
On one occasion, Emin says, cfihra..
panzee of this intelligent tribe stole. a
drum from the huts of his Egyptian
troops and made off with it, beating II
as he ran. g
The monkey took the drum to the.
headquarters of his own people" wao
were evidently much charmed with H.
for the Egyptian soldiers often heard
the monkeys beating it vigorously bua
irregularly. Sometimes in the middle
Of the night some sleepless chimpanzee,
would get up and go to beating ths.
drum.
Just what the other chimpanzees
thought of this midnight musical per-
formance will never be known posi-
lively. But from the fact that nss
sound of battle and slaughter amone-
the intelligent chimpanzees ever fof-
lowed, the Egyptians We're forced to.
conclude that they liked it.-N. Y. Surz-
day Journal
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Tho Life of Trees.

Recent information gathered by the
the German Forestry Commission ss-
signs to the pine tree 800 end 700 years
as the maximum. 4a5 years to the silver
fir, 275 years to the lcrch, a45 years to-
the red beech, 210 to the aspen, 800 to-
the birch. l7o to the ash, l4s to the
alder and i30 TO the elm. The heart OF
the oak begins to rot at about the ayr
800 years. The holly cak alone escapes
this law. 1t Is said, and there Is speci-
nen of this aged 40 years in existence
near Aschafferburg in Germany ~
,ayo Times
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Tickets sold and baggage checked through to
destination.

For reliable information, maps, time OF
trains and the best possible rates apply
to Agent q. w. & b. Il. Il.
e. CARSON, Hillsboro, Ohio.
OR TO
c. E. PATTON Trsv. Pass'r Ag't, Chillic0the, O..
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MAMA YEAR, Iund.rtal. to briefly
CT.
wv ~ how Three Thousand Dollars q
tns they live will also furnish
The suaton which TINT
No fr unless successful above Easily and quickly
learned dcsre but worker from each district county
have already taught provided with employment large
1rhss who are making over $4,000 year each ltsNEW
~. o. ALLEN. box 4SO, Augusta, Maine.
The Washington bee., 1891-07-11
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Whiting or ammonia In the water is pre-
ferable TO soap for cleaning windows or
paint.
You can take out spots from wash goods
by rubbing them with the yolk of eggs
before washing.
At recent dinner party, fifty slender,
cut glass vases were filled With exquisite
flowers and placed around a circular mir
ror as centerpeice.
To remove stains from marble, take OK
gall, wineglassful of turpentine and mix
into paste with pipe clay. Put the paste
on the stain and let it remain several days.
Silver becoming black may be avoided
by keeping that which is not often used
ia canton flannel bags, with small bags
about the size OF thimble filed with bits
of gum-camphor packed around the artic-
cles.
Old ornaments. 1t has been discovered
that the faded ink on old documents.
papers, parchments, etc., may be restored
as To renuer the writeing perfectly legible.
The process consists in moistening the
paper with water, and then passing over
tie lines blu ush which has been wet in a
solution of sulphide of ammOnia.-Cana-
dian Queen.
The Washington bee., 1891-07-11
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Pieces of licorice laid around where
ants run is recommended.
Take iron stains from marble with lem
on juice or a mixture of spirits of wine
and oxalic acid.
Meringues should be put on puddings
after they are slightly cool, as, if the pud =
ding be hot, the egg will liquefy.
Old newspapers torn in small pieces
and wet in water s0ftened by the addition
of little ammonia, are excellent to wash
lamp-chimneys.
Steamed dumplingS, with stewed chicken
or veal, are an acquisition. Cook both
these meats until nearly done, then m.ke
the dumplings like baking-p powder bis
cults; pour all but little of the water
from the meats into another vessel for
gravy, and put the dumplings In the pot
on the meat so they will not touch the
water, and cook uutil all the water is
boiled away.
To remove scratches aud bruises from
furniture, rub them gently with = fresh
walnut, butternut or hickorynut kernel,
aud they will disappear as if by magic.
TO remove the unsightly marks caused by
drippings from the faucets in marble
basins, or the water-closet bowl, nething
equals pulverised chalk, moistened with a
few drops of ammonia. Apply
with an old toothbrush and they quickly
disappear.-LadieS Home Journal.