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VARlEDAuES

Hay verdades tan admirables justas. que
uno cree haberlas "a dido, no obstante oirlas
Apor primera vez,
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Ell vapor Bueno, hires trajo para Ell acre
ditaiu derOsito de L;as,acus LA ULTRAMARi
Ma, nn eseujldo suitluO de rOpa hecha, q
Ultima lnoda j cYSa tle gusto. Dicha lopa 80
propone1 vendeg.a 4 sprecios limitadisimos.
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ATEN Clio m

Una familia dec, nte que habita casa cen
trica de esta Capital, desea alquilar un par de
habitaclones muy claras frescas con frente
la brisa independents Ell una galema En-
Ia tienda do Ambos -Nusados de Bar0 Ca. San
Justn 81 infOrnlaran 50
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Ell REsULTADo sera siempre altamente
beEeticioso.
Ell insfrescrito doctor en- Medcina : Cru
jia, m6dco del Hospital de la Concepris,n
Certifica: que Ia Emulsion do acelte de
higado de bacaao hipofosftus alcalnes, de
los Scott Bovine de New York puede reco-
mendarso los enfermos que paiozcap de ca
tarres cr6'sicos del pulps6n a los que expert
mentan las molestias inherentes tempera-
mentos nfatcos escrofulosos en- la seguri-
dad de que ell resltado que obtengan de su uso
sera sieInpr. altamente benefceso.
San Juan de Puerto Rico Julio l. de 1891.
-(Firmado) Dr.. Gabriel FeyYey y Hernandez.
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,.ATENCION

Don Jose Becetra, professor superi T. .ofre
&C sus seryeis profe onaos en- la Gals dc !,
Cruz ftlintro II, adn!ite I,up.ts l,al;a la EN-,
senaiAa 81 iil'-uta secun.!a!la Is
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THE FUTURE LIFE.

Victor Hugo occasionally has insight
into the way the human instincts and senti-
ment confirm the declaration of the Gospel.
He says
II feel in myself the future life. am
like forest which has more than once been
cut down. The new shoots are stronger and
lvelier than ever. You say the soul is moth
ing but the resultant Of bodily powers; !;
why, then is my soul the more luminous
when my bodily powers begin to fail? Win
ter Is on my head and eternal spring Is in
my heart. Then breathe, at this hour, the
fragrance of the lilies, the violets, and the
roses as at twenty years. The nearer ap-
proach the end, the palmer L hear
around me the immortal symphonies Of
the world, which unite me. 1t Is mar
vellous, yet simple. 1t is q fairy tale. and
it is history. For half century 1 have
been writing my thoughts in prose, verse,
history, philosophy, drama, romance. tra-
dition, satire, ode, song-I have tried all.
But feel that have not said the thousandth
part Of what is in me. When 60 down 10
the grave I can say, like so many others, Il
have finished my days work. but I cannot
say, Il have finished my life My days
work will tegin again the next morning.
The tomb is not blind alley, it is thorough
fare. II closes in the twilight to open with
the dawn. improve every hour because l
love this world as my fatherland. My work
is hardly above its foundation. l would be
glad to see it mounting and mounting
forever. The thirst for the infinite proves
lnfinity."
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SAFETY IN TIE SHELrEI1NG ROCK.

Jesus Christ is no security against storms
but he is q perfect security in them. have
seen village nesting in the bosom of some
great mountain. Speaking one day to the vii
layers. ventured to ask if they had. many
storms during the year.
"Oh, yes" was the answer. Ifthere is a
storm anywhere in the neighborhood 1t
seems to find us out" "How do you account
for it," Those who seem to know say it is
due to the mountain which towers
above our village. If he hap
pens to see q cloud anywhere on
the horizon he beckons it until it settles on
his brow. We villagers call it putting on his
nightcap." "IIave you had any accidents
from lightning% 'Not one. We have seen
the lightning strike the noun
tain hundred times, and q
grand sight it was, but nobody has
been killed." "What have you, then? I'VE
have the thunder which shakes our windows
and frightens our women and children, but
1t has not killed anybody; and we have the
downpour. The fertility Of our village which
you so much admire. is all due to the thunder
showers"
When Jesus Christ became incarnate. he
rose like very mountain Of God, and all
the storms of the ages gathered around bis
head. There came sweeping up, too, hurrl-
canes from the dreary wilds Of eternal night,
which hurled themselves In all their fury
against him, but he took the lightning into
his own breast, and what have we? The
thunder-shower. He shall come down like
rain on the mown grass, like showers that
water the earth Henry Simon.
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Elephants in the Pl0W.

Elephants are now turned to agricuf..
tural use in Ceylon. Travellers BY the
seaside railway can witness the curious
spectacle of the huge earth.shaking beast
breaking the stubborn glebe with the.
aid of ridiculously disproporioned
plow. An elephant plow Of just propor-
tion, as far as appearances are concerned,
would be Titanic implement, and would
cleave chimes and canons where the agri-
culturist looks only for moderate fur.
row. But the Swedish plow, which ia
now much used in Ceylon, Is more eff
fective and heavier than the primitive
native instrument, and the disciplined
power of the elephant makes him an .in-,
valuable substitute for the powerful
draught horses used at home.
The animals are employed in turning
up the soil between cocoanut trees, To-
prepare the ground for cotton planting.
An elephant with its driver and coolie,
acting as plowman can thus plow an aero
day, at little more than half the cost
of the usual practice of scratching up
three OF four inches of the soil by means; !;
of the Dutch hoe. The Swedish plow,
drawn by an elephant, does the work
very thoroughly. The ground is eaee-
tually weeded, and the cocoanut trees
benefit by the turning up of the ground
about them. Where elephants are not
employed the primitive light plow of the
country is used, drawn by bullocks or tho
curious long-headed native bufaloes-
long.headed in physical sense. Intel
lectually, of course, the elephant is in
comparably superior. Buffaloes, for tha
heavier Swedish plow, need to be large
and well-fed animals, and the elephants
are found cheaper and more dependable.
London Grarhic.
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The Ski.

The Norwegian snow and ice of mid
winter is surprising to any one accus.
toned to the English climate. The very
snow and ice is what makes Norway and
its customs so particularly interesting to
a stranger. OF course the cold is very
intense, the thermometer never rising
above freezing point for months, and
often standing at zero; but at the same
time the atmosphere is so wonderfully
dry that the cold is not nearly so notice
able out of doors and indoors the houses
are kept very warm.
In winter all the vehicles are sleiges-
carriages, cabs, carts, and even the per-
ambulators are on runners. Outside the
town, where the road is not trodden
hard, it is impossible to walk without
the snowshoes of the country. These
are called "ski," pronounced "she," and
are peculiar to Scandinavia. Ski are
long wooden planks, measuring nearly
nine feet for a FULLY grown man. They
are three-quarters of an inch thick and
about four inches wide, slightly raised
at the toes, and pointed off like the
shoes of Chaucer's day. The wood for
ski is not sawn, out split, with the grain,
so that they never break, and can bear
q tremendous strain.
For four or five months of the year
the ground is entirely covered with snow,
and were it not for ski the natives living
outside towns would see absolutely moth
ing of one another, for in many parts
there are no roads or tracks, and walk
ing over snow is impossible while sink
ing to the armpits at every step. Thus
it will be seen that ski are not only an
amusement, but an absolute necessity.
The postman carries the letters on ski.
The farmer visits his friends on ski. The
children 90 to school on ski. Everything
is done on ski, in fact, and outside the
poorest cottage the snowshoes of the
family are stuck up in the snow, which
has been swept or dug back with wooden
spades from the entrance door. There
they stand-the fathers, mothers, ser.
wants, children's ski all in rows, for
without them no one could leave the
house.
Under these circumstances 1t is not
extraordinary that people become very
proficient on their snowshoes; they can
60 up hill or glide down mountain on
them, besides being able to stop them
selves suddenly from going over preci-
pice, aud even to jump raviue. Every
valley has ski club, and every club
holds meetings" to encourage proiic'
iency in the art.-Murrays AGgasiae.
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Queer Ears.

On the tlbia of grasshoppers' and
crickets' fore legs may be seen bright
shiny spot, oval in fern, which has been
found to be true ear. Old naturalists
supposed these strange structures helped
in some way to intensity the penetrating,
chirping sounds of crickets. No one
for moment thought they might be-
ears.
Sir John Lubbock and other modern
naturalists have decided that crickets.
bees, ants and other little animals shall
not keep their sense-organs secret from
us any longer; and although these ara
often in the least suspected places, still,
by careful experiments they are sure to
be discovered, as was the cricket's ear
Some grasshoppers have no ears in theif
legs, and as rule these cannot sing
St. Nicholas.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
DOING ALL SHE CAN,

Twenty years ago. German moved up the
Ohio river, and had only seven hundred do
lars and an interest in a superanuated saw
mill. That man has been so blessed of God
for his generous giving that today he is
worth thirty millions of dollars. He has q
beautiful young daughter, who is graduate
of the best woman's college in this country,
master of Latin, Greek, German, French.
Italian, as well as being very proficient in
music and art. What is she doing? Is she
dawdling about in fashionable society. or
running from resort to resort, crossing the
water every summer to pick up some dude or
some sickly foreign count, or some pseudo
prince, that she may bestow her fortune
on him and share the disgrace of his name.
Hear what she is doing. If her father should
die today, her check would he worth at least
ten millions of dollars. She is the unpaid
missionary Of the Presbyterian church in the
city of New York, down in the lowest and
most neglected part-climbing up the stairs
Of tenement houses, three, four, five, six
stories, to minister comfort and salvation to
those who are in want and sickness and sin.
She is searching there for jewels for her
Masters crown. She Is lineal descendent
of the Son of Man, who left His glorious
home on high to come down on earth and
win men to God.-[Dr. W. A. Spencer.
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Draught Horses of Various Nations.

Every nation has its prejudices in
favor of the horses of their own country
as the best in the world; they get edu-
Gated up to that standard type. In Scot
land they think the Clydesdale the best
draught horse, while the English are
equally as sure that the Shire is the great
model draught horse of the world. Across
in Belgium every one, from the peasant
to the King and Queen, believe that the
Belgian draught horse is best of all
breeds, while the Frerchmen think
there are no good draught horses outside
of France. America finds much to ad'
mire in each of these breeds, which are
being so extensively imported and crossed
upon our native mares and from which
the American draught horse Is being
evolved, containing the best points Of
all. There is no patent on any OF these
breeds, and we are free to use the points
we like best and graft them on to Amerl'
can Western Aqriculturist.
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POrtuyal's Gold Mines.

"Few people know that in Portugal.
there are gold mines that can be worked:
ct profit, if the proper machinery could
be taken into the country" said Watson
B. Percy, of London, England, at the.
Park Avenue Hotel, s'bnt it is q factr,
and have recently make trip through
that country. In prospecting around =
struck one of the old Roman mines
worked in the days Of Cesar Augustus,
just 2300 years ago. In those days they
cut down to the vein of ore, and this vein,
was 500 feet deep before pay rock was
reached. The mine was opened for an
area of ten or more acres, 500 feet deep
and every foot of the surface Of tha
ground had been taken off.
'tIt was curious to see the way thu
miners reached their work. There wers
shelves or steps made into the earth and
the dirt was packed hard by the many
feet that had trodden them. We found,
too, many old Roman coins and evidences
of smelling in this mine, as we'll a.
others we explored. Tue trouble Is in
Portugal that the cost Of transporting the
machinery is so great as to make it im-
possible to work the mines at good pro-
fit. You know people have an idea that,
gold mine should pay an enormous per-
centage on the capital invested and ara
never satisfied with small returns.
"The profitable mining in Portugal q
for antimony and this mineral carries
such trace Of gold in 1t that itpays for
the transportation down the Duro on
barges and to be taken to Swan sea, Eng
land, where the ore is smelted and tha
ingredients separated. I don't think
there will ever be gold rush for Portu
gal, but many of the natives make com:
Portable living in Individually hacking
away at the vein of ore."-NeW Yora
Telsor0m, a
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The largest fy-wheel in the United
States has been turned at Boston in 70.
sponse to the. touch of Henry N. Whit
ney, of the West End Street Railway
Company. In other words the first big
engine in the new power-house of ths.
road was started. This house is designed.
to furnish the electric power for running
nearly all of the street cars in Boston.
This central power station concentrates
in one place greater amount of horse
power than is known anywhere else In
the world. The boiler house is 100 feet
long by eighty feet wide, and designed
to contain twenty.four boilers, which
will supply steam for thirteen engines in
the power house. These engines are of
the triple expansion type, and of sufi-i
cient capacity to develop at maximum
1000 horse power each, making the total
capacity at the station 10000 horss.
power. This added to the capacity Of
the Cambridge station, will make on the
completion Of the proposed extensions
total of 81, 900 horse power, sufficient to
run 100 long cars. This gigantic plant
is, however, only about half completed
at present, enough to operate $50 long
cars. The countershafting in the base.
ment will be when completed, the largest
piece of work of this kind that has ever.
been built, and is designed to transmit
the power Of the engines to the genera
tors on the floor above. These genera
tors, now in process of construction by
the Thomson Houston Company, will be-.
the largest street railway generators th q
have ever been built. The water forcon-
densing purposes, of which 2O, 900 gall
Ions day will be necessary, is obtained
from the South Bay through thirty -six
inch cast iron pipes entering the end Of
the power house. s
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THE INCREASE ON INSANITY.

The Duluth (Minn.) News says: "fhe
snread of insanity is one of the serious prob
lens of the age, Statistics show that the in
same population is increasing from year to
years 1t thinks ''the number of insane
much greater than it is pleasing to contem-
plate and larger than is justified by the
increase in population" and adds, "The
conclusion is inevitable that the cause must
be traced to the increased develop ment Of
the intellect and more constant brain work. !"
There is, indeed, high pressure in many
.ways in modern life, but we have no doubt
that the brain power of many Of the in
creased number of the victims of insanity
has been lessened by the deteriorating in
,fluence of alcoholic indulgence, either on
their own part or of their ancestors, One
of the hereditary legacies of alcoholic BRAIN
poisoning is nsaniry.-Tempsrunce Adro'
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ALCOHOL AS A BEVERAGE.

1t will be shivering surprise to the aver.
age reader to know that Of late alcohol, pure
and simple, has become beverage in Amer
ica, especially in the West, Northwest and
in the coal regions Of Pennsylvania. Even
in New York City the census returns esti-
mate fifteen barrels day rs the allowance
for drinking purposes.
It is an innovation as startling as that of
the opium habit when 1t came in. As the
opium habit came through the Chinese, so
the alcohol habit has come through the
Poles, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Hunga-
rians and Russians.
The eagerness with which any such evil
practice becomes ''all the rage" among drink
ing people may be seen from the fact that,
although recently introduced and at first in
idulgedi in quickly, alcohol is now sold over
the bar in the lower grade bar-rooms. One
half Of the liquor sold for drinking purposes
in tho Northwest is alcohol. This Is phase
of the liquor problem that may we'll cause
alarm, even among those who are naturally
indifferent to the ordinary evils Of the soc.a!
drinking Of light beverages. Sacred Heart
RevieW.
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TEMPERANCE.
THE DRUNKARD's DAUGHTER.

THE DRUNKARD'S DAUGHTER
Out In the street, with naked feet,
saw the drunkard's little daughter;
Her tattered shawl was thin and small;
She little knew, for no one taught her.
Heart-broken child, she seldom smiled;
Hope promised her no brighter morrow;
Or. if its light flashed on her night,
Then up came darker clouds of sorrow.
She softly said: "We have no bread,
No wood to keep the fire a-burning."
The child was i'll; the winds were chill,
Her thin, cold blood to ice was turning.
But men well fed and warmly clad,
And ladies robed in richest fashion,
Passed on the side where no one cried
To them for pity or compassion.
That long night fed, and then the light
OF rosy day in beauty shining,
Set dome and spire and roof on fire,
And shone on one beyond repining.
Asleep-alone-as cold as stone,
Where no dear parent ever sought her,
In winding-sheet of snow and sle0t,
Was found the drunkard's ifeless daugh
ter.
-NetU York Ledger.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


Mexico's new tariff will make our beer
cost seventy-fve cents pint in that coun-
try.
Aged Thomas Feeny dropped dead at q
bar in Schuylkill Haven, Tenn. while reach
ing for glass Of liquor.
Chief Justice Green, Of Missouri, decided
that when q saloon is open contrary to law
any person can injure its business and the
proprietor cannot recover damages
Eighty per cent. of the crime of our coun-
try, SAYS General Eaton, is the result OF in
temperance, and ninety-fye per cent. OF the
depraved youth are the children OF drunken
and depraved households.
Petitions containin, thousands OF names
are constantly coming to Evanston. H.. to
be attached to the great petition which SEEKS
tine ourlawing of the liquor traffic and opium
trade rhroug ghout all nations. Ceyion has
sent SO, 7DT signatures; Burmah, g., ,073; Can
ada, IS S65.
DIR. Hugouneng, after experimenting Win
artificial digestive fluids, concludes that all
vines, without exception, interfere with the
action of pepsin Those which are most
highly charged with coloring matter, alco'
hol and cream Of tartar are most hurttul.
It is found that the acidity Of new wines IS
calculated to aid the action Of pepsin.
'Alcohol is q chemical compound, the
product of decay. 1t Is always poison,
doctors to the contrary notwithstanding. 1t
is not stimulant; IL is an irrltant narcotic
1t never increases strength, it never helps
digestion; it is not a food in any sense.
Doctors will soon give up prescribing alcohol
In any form, just as they have given up
bleeding.
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THE USE OF ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE.

DR.. Crosveror, in the Buffalo Medico
Journal, gives the following concise sum-
mary Of his views respecting the medicinal
use Of alcohol,
!. Grave responsibility rests upon the
medical profession in the use Of alcohol as a
medicine, on account OF its deieterious In
fuence upon the system, and the liability OF
the patient to CONTRACT the habit Of using 1t
as beverage.
2. Alcohol being an acrid narcotic poison,
the bottle containing it should be labelled
POISON" as reminder Of this characteris-
tic. and warning to handle it with care.
8. Alcohol containing none Of the COM
pounds which enter into the construction Of
the tissues, cannot properly be termed tis-
sue-forming food.
4. The evidence in favor of the existence
of a heat-generating quality in alcohol is not
sufficient to warrant the belief that it Is a
heat producing food.
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How to Tie u Shoe.

To tie a shoe properly proceed
.;actlY as if you were about to tie
an ordinary bow knot, but before
you draw it up pass the risht.hand
loop through the knot; give q
steady and simultaneous pull on
both loops, and YOU may tread tue sands
OF time or the ocean beach all day and
waltz into the wee sma' hours Of the
next day and that shocstring will never
trip you up. In untying be sure to pull
the right-nand line and the string will
readily unloosen, but if you pull the
other you will tiud it as hard to ultlsten
as some hast!ly-tied matrimon.a. Knols.
-Mw York Journal.
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AN American who saw the German

AN American who saw the German
Emperor at the theater in London
SAYS he looks much more like man
than his uncle, the Prince Of Wales,
does. Well, he is much more like a
king. Indeed, he is good deal more
king, but ii this profoundly impressed
American will not tell US what king
"a typical king-really looks like we
shall know whether he has IN
mind the fierce, theatrical chap in the
purple togs on the stage or the very
meek and hun,ble-looking king OF
clubs. ~~
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The Crown Prince Of Italy threat

The Crown Prince Of Italy threat
ems to smash the royal conventionali-
ties into cmithereens by marrying a
pretty little English girl whom he
loves. This makes an American SOW
ereign feel like patting him on the
back, and it may make the Italian
sovereign feel like doing the same
sort Of thing, only with more vehem'
ence; and if the Crown Prince will
refer to his map Of Italy he will see
that it is shaped significantly like a
big boot. -