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, 1891-07-21

Unless one happens to be n wheel
woman" herself one hardly realizes to
what an extent this exercise is now in.
dulged in by women. A stroll in upper
Lexington avenue, out on the Boulevard,
in Harlem or oven in Prospect park will
quickly show how New York and Brook
Ign women regard the exercise. Tri.
cycles are rapidly yielding to the grow.
ing popularity of the ladies safety
bicycle, almost every woman now who is
buying Il new wheel choosing the latter.
There is still more or less discussion con.
corning the healthfulness or otherwise OF
the practice for women, but the fact that
there are nearly $4,000 women in the
United States who are devoted to it is a
weighty argument in i hvor.
On this point IL young woman, who il
a great traveller on her steel steed, gave
recently a serviceable hint. of you real.
ly want to ride a wheel and want to be
Endorsed by medical opinion, consult a
physician who is a wheelman. To Il man
such will recommend the exercise fol
women; the non-riders are not so certain.
This consider positive proof in its be-
half. Only a person who has tried wheel
ing knows its exact tax and the full
measure of its benefit Her Point OF
View in New York Times.
, 1891-07-21

Too much duInbbel exercise is a weari-
ness to the flesh, and rnatutinal swing
ing of the Indian club becomes, sooner
or later, irksome. The idea of relieving
the tediuin of daily exercise while in
creasing its benefits is a good one, and
it is now placed at the service of the
public in a practical form. A polished
wooden box contains the appliances in
cidental to the ordinary exercising ma
chine, and is equipped, in addition, with
a magneto-electro apparatus capable Of
transmitting an electric current to ten
or more persons ut the same time, or be-
ing graduated to the endurance or pleas
ure of II person, so that while the vari-
Gus forms of exercise are being gone
through an electric current of any re-
quired strength can be impaired.
1t is claimed that electricity can thus
he applied under improved and more
pleasant conditions than formerly in
many cases where its use has been
proved to be most beneficial. Attention
is called to the fact that telegraph op-
orators, accountants, typewriters, plan
lists, and all whose work is apt to cause
muscular pains and stiffness in the hand
and arm, can by the use of this exercis-
ing machine reap a twofold advantage.
The machine has a bath attachment.
This is placed in II bath, and when the
foot is placed upon it an electric shock
of graduated strength is impaired to the
bather.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
, 1891-07-21

Mousmees, riokshaws and tea houses
are the three institutions one associates
with Japan. Kipllng has made the rick
shaws hardly more of "A phantom than
the three-horse car, while Sir Edwin Ar
mold and Pierre Lott have pictured the
gentle mousmee with such exquisite
finish that people ignorant Of the mean
ing of the word a few months back are
in love with her quaint beauty and raw
ishing smiles.
Tea houses are simply inns or rcstau-
rants where the principal refreshmcnt
(often the only one) is tea. In the cities
they are the ~favorite evening resorts. for
there you can hire the gaudy Gcisha
girls to dance and sing or play tho samo-
sin and koto between the intervals of
love making. She is a mistress Of this
art. Nara, one of the most beautiful
placesin Japan, has no other accommoda-
ton, and notice must be sent the day be
fore to tell the owner how many guests
he is to accommodate.
Rickshaws laden with supplies start n
few hours ahead, the coolies who draw
them acting as cooks and house servants
during your stay. Slowed i'll these use
full vehicles is all you require-food and
the utensils for cooking and eating it.
The teahouse supplies nothing but chop
sticks, fresh egg and rice. The little
teahouse at Nara was like a white parch-
box with wooden corners, and
stood in the shade of II crystomoria
grove. In the heat of the day the parch-
ment walls disappear my%steriously into
the wooden corners; then the entire
house looks like a platform, with high
wooden corner posts, raised a few feet
frsm the ground. covered with dazzling
white matting.-Once a Week.
, 1891-07-21

A famous Chicago lawyer once had a
singular case to settle. a physician came
to him in great distress. Two sisters,
living in the same house, had babies Of
equal age, who so resembled each other
that their own mothers We're unable to
distinguish them when they were to-
gether. Now it happened that by the
carelessness of the nurses the children
had become mixed, and how We're the
mothers to make sure that they received
back their own infants? But, perhaps"
said the lawyer, 1.-The children weren't
changed at ALL" son, but there's nc
doubt they were changed" said the ply.
stefan. Are you sure of it?' "Pcr
fectly." "Well, if that's the case VIII,
don't you change them back again?
don't see any difficulty in the case
Boston Saturday Gazette.
, 1891-07-21

The Best Tonic for Overstrung Nerves
1t is not the work but the worry which
kills There is no tonic for the body like
regular work of the mind, though this
is unfortunately not often appreciated
or not allowed by the physicians to
whom anxious mothers take their grow
ing daughters, There is nothing so sure
to steady the nerves of the fretful and
excitable child as a regular school work
in the hands of a real teacher. Many n
child who is celebrated for dangerous
fits of temper at home becomes entirely
transformed under the influence of such
a school till her nearest relatives would
not recognize her if they should ever
take the time and trouble to visit the
school room.
| do lot mean n school room full OF
competitive examinations, of marks
and of irrelevent inducements to make
the child commit to memory n mass OF
unrelated and undigested facts; | mean
one where, withou; any inducement but
the natural desire for knowledge, which
is all sufficient with any American child
if it be rightly directed, you find steady
and well ordered labor, without haste,
though not without rest. and honest,
thorough and pleasurable work. We
may learn alesson from this fact-for it
is no theory-of the effect of regular
work on our tired nerves, and wise shall
we be if we apply it. Even the most
consistent homeopathic physician could
not object to this kind of tonic, though
he would tell you, and truly, that onics
are worse than of no use for overworked
nerves.-Anna G. Bracket in Harper's.
, 1891-07-21

A West Side lady recently employed a
domestic, who had never been out to
service in the city, but had worked for a
farmer. ''There is one thing that you
must agree to-" said the new girl, land
that is TO let M sit at the table with the
family" The lady was astonished, but
replied pleasantly "AI right, | will
agree to that, because your recommends
tions are good. Of course | am not used
to such a thing, but we will try it" An
hour later dinner was ready and on the
table-soup, the meat course, pastry and
all together. The girl was there too.
The lady of the house stepped up to
the table, removed her own plate and
knife and fork and went into the kitch-
en-. She Dol came back wearing a
white apron and a dainty white car
She never smiled, but began serving the
soup. She helped the servant first, then
her husband. The new girl" was par
alyzed, and two minutes later volunta-
rily left the table. She cried n little bit,
but told her employer that she could see
how foolish it was for her to make such
a request. She has developed into a per-
feet Kitchen ueen,"-Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
, 1891-07-21


The gambling tents were large. and
billiard tables. At one Of these / was
once playing billiards with aman named
H. A few feet from US. raised upon
n platform made for the purpose, were
seated three Mexican musicians, playing
Guitars; for these places were always
well supplied with instrumental music.
The evening seldom passed without dis
putos, and pistols were quickly drawn 10
settle quarrels. Upon any outbreak men
would rush from all parts of the room,
struggling to get as near as possible to
the scene Of action. and often they paid
the penalty for their curiosity by being
accidentally shot.
While Il and / were engaged in
our game we could hear the monOtonous
appeal Of the dealers, Make your game,
gentlemen. make your game. Red wins
and black loses" Suddenly bang, bang,
bang went the pistols in a distant part
of the tent. The usual rush followed.
Bang, bang, again, and this time the
guitar dropped from the hands of one O.
the unoffcnding musicians, who fell for
ward 10 the ground with a bullet through
neck. His friends promptly under
took to carry him past us to the open
mir. Our table was so near the side Of
the tent that only one person at "A time
could go between it and the canvas.
H was standing in the way, just
in the act of striking the ball with his
cue, when one of the persons carrying
wounded man touched him, with the
hat he move TO one side. He
turned, and saw the Mexican being sup
ported by the legs and arms, the blood
flowing from his neck. Then, with the
coolest indifference, he said, Hold on,
hold on. boys, till l make this shot"
Then, resuming his former position, he
deliberately finished his shot.-Dr. c. d.
Gillespie in Century.
, 1891-07-21

Who in New York can boast of a real
silver belt, collar and cuffs? And yet
there is such a set, and a most remark
able one. 1t belongs to May Yohe, the
girl with the beautiful eyes and the deep
contralto voice, and was made for her in
California. OF course it is solid silver.
The design is open, and shows here and
there a four leaf clover surrounded by Il
horiated pattern. The girdle is a deep
point in the back and front, reaching far
up on the bodice and the same distance
below the waist line in front. At the
sides it is about two inches wide, and
the fastening, on one side, is almost in
visible. The collar and cuffs are pointed.
and will fit right oven the cuff of the
sleeve or the collar of the gown. 1t is
specially effective when worn, as it fire.
~quently is, over a Grecian costume of
white wool.-New York Sun.
, 1891-07-21

Now think a minute. Is there not
some unknown person whom you are al
ways meeting in this great city without
any reason for il? | have asked a great
many people, and find that nearly every
body is haunted by some stranger. Just
Mt present l am haunted by n red headed
girl, who has freckles and a turn up
nose and wear a light gray dress. She
turns up at all sorts of unexpected places.
No matter where l go to lunch that red
headed girl is sure to pass me on the
way. Every day or two | meet her in
the Il" car. l change the line, but sure
as fate there she is. If ] go ont between
the acts at the theater that red headed
girl walks by. Aud SO it goes, until
now | have got to absolutely dread her.
The worst of it is that she is n nice
looking girl and never seems to see me.
New York Herald.
, 1891-07-21

The number Of working girls and
women gathered into any sort of organ
ization in New York city is, % the widest
calculation, fewer than 1000. In the
factories which the inspectors visited
during tho past year there are $4,000
women employed, and counting those
who work at various trades, as well as
servant girls, the total Will not fall far
short Of 100. 900. This would seem to
leave n wide feld7for the expenditure Of
the energies of the Knights of Labor,
trades unions, working women's societies
and working girls clubs, without dan
ger Of knocking elbows. There is, at
any rate, no fear Of a dearth of raw una
terial.
There are various umo afloatof pro
posed new central bodies of women's
organizations. one of these, which will
be composed of delegates from the vari-
Gus women's unions, will be affiliated
with the Central Labor federation. The
rumor, however, touches delicately upon
the number Of delegates Then it is said
the X. of l.. will try to organize a work
ing women's district assembly. This
will be simply the rcsurrecting of an at
tempt made by Charles Guy Brown,
who died recently, when he was editor
of The Union Printer. 1t was IA fiat
failure then, and why it should be more
successful now is nc apparent. There
is plenty Of room, however, for all new
corners who wish TO make experiments.
New York Recorder.
, 1891-07-21

Among the inventions that commend
themselves to public notice during the
last fifty years are those relating to cof-
fins. graves and burials. One of these is
intended TO furnish the tenant of a grave
who has been buried p~rematurely with a
means Of escape or arousing the neigh
borhOod. This invention is "A simple af-
fair, being merely an open tube provided
with a rope ladder and II bell and cord.
Should the occupant of the coffin awake
from the trance he could climb the lad
der and make his way back TO the world,
or pull the bell and alarm the township.
For those whose only fear is that they
may not be allowed to rest undisturbcd
a cousiderate inventor has provided a
torpedo grave" which, if disturbed, ex-
plodGs Mt once and scattcrs the vandals
to the winds.-Chicago Times.
, 1891-07-21

The city of the future in a country
where cities are not left to accrete by
chance, but are laid ont with some re-
gard to their possibilities, will undoubt-
eddy be planned with definite regard to
its ultimate architecture. 1t is because
Washington was thus laid out and Bos-
ton was not that Washington promises
to be the most symmetrical and the
handsomest city in the world, while Bos-
ton remains and will always remain an
agglomeration of straight avenues and
crooked cowpaths. New York, in some
respects the most unfortunate of all
American cities, owing to its longitud-
inal limitations, is forcing attention to
this fact with increasing p~oignancy every
day.
Suppose for a moment hat New York
had been planned as any great modern
structure is planned-that is to say, by
beginning at the cellar. Suppose it had
a sub-story, and in great part a roof!
Does any one fail to see that such pro
vision would relieve it of difficulties that
are never ending?-Nym Crinkle in New
York Recorder.
, 1891-07-21
Pronounced Hopeless. YET Saved.

From a letter written by Mrs. Ada f.
Hurd OF Groton, 5. D., we quote. WAS
taken with a bad cold which settled on
NV lungs, cough set in and terminated in
consumption. Four doctors gave me up
saying | could live but a short time. /
gave myself up to my Saviour, determined
it could not stay with my friends on
earth | would meet nv absent ones above.
Wy husband was advised to get DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. | gave it a triol,
took in all eight bottles; it has cured me
and | thank God | nm now n well aud
hearty woman" Trial bottle free at
Roeiel's drug store. Regular size, soc
and 81
, 1891-07-21

The eternal and ineradicable distinC-
ton of sex is n principal reason why
women in a representative government
should be directly represented. If law
yers alone cannot safely be trusted to
make laws for mechanics, if merchants
alone ann legislate for farmers, if
every well defined class in society is en-
titled to its own authoritative expression
through the ballot, surely women, who
are the wives and sisters and mothers of
men, should give expression 10 the do.
mestic interests from the feminine point
of view. If n blacksmith cannot fairly
represent a physician, how much less can
a man represent a woman!-Henry b.
BLACKWELL.
, 1891-07-21

A large black bear entered a tunnel in
the Santa Maria mine, in Tuolumne
county, Cal, and attacked several
miners. As the men realized their dan
ger, which was made apparent only By
the dim light of their candles, they
grasped their picks firmer and attacked
the brute. The foreman struck the bear
first and drew blood. This Infatuated
bruin, and he made a resistless charge
on the men, e~xtiuguishing nearly all
their candles and decorating every one
more or less. One man, named Dougher-
ty, had his scalp torn off by one blow of
the bears paw; Others had the flesh of
their arms laid bare. The contest in the
darkness and close atmosphere lasted an
hour, when the bear vas killed, more by
good luck thar by skill. Exhausted as
the men were, they dragged the bear
out of the tunnel and took him ~ their
station on a car.-Chicago Herald.
, 1891-07-21

length was landed at the Fish market,
Aberdeen, IN the Gath ult. from the
steam trawler Bonito, Captain Adams.
The fish was caught in the net about
nine miles from land. 1t was bought by
Mr.. Robert Walker, fish merchant, for
the purpose of securing the liver oil, of
which it is calculated the yield would be
close upon three hundredweights. The
shark was estimated to weigh about one
and one-quarter tons twenty-five hun
Observation-Disclosures and Water.
, 1891-07-21
fS a sim

IES q SIGN
that you need help, when pimples,
blotches, and eruptions begin to APP
pear. Your blood needs looking
after. You'll have graver matters
than pimples to deal with, if you
neglect it. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery prevents and
cures all diseases and disorders
caused by impure blood. 1t invig-
CRATES the liver, puriies the blood,
and promotes all the bodily func-
tons. For all forms of s~crofulous,
skin and scalp disease, and even
Consumption (which is really lung
scrofula) in all its earlier stages, it
is a certain remedy. It's the only
one that's guaranteed, in every case,
to benefit or cure, or the money is
refunded. It's a matter of conf
dence in ones medicine.
p 1t is the cheapest blood purifier
sold, through druggists, because you
only pay for tho good you get.
Can you ask moro?
The Discovery" acts equally
well all tie year round.
, 1891-07-21

-
OF all the schemes designed for small
savings and to encourage the poor to Law
by small sums the penny savings stamp
system, established in 1882 at Frankfort
on-the-Main, is the most unique. Frank
fort IS distinguished among European
cities by the large average wealth of its
citizens, and by its exceptional proIni-
in all that pertains to banking
and finance. Many great banking fami-
hes had their origin in Frankfort. from
which branches have been established
at Paris, London, Vienna and New York
There are today not less than 200 bank
ing houses, public and private, in the
city. 1t might naturally be expected,
then, in view of these facts, that some
original features in the line If savings
banks should be found there.
The Frankfort Savings bank is a pri-
vate corporation established in 1923,
nearly seventy years ago, when Frank
fort was a free city and independent Of
all state allegiance and control 1t be-
gan with 294 ~depositors, with S6,g3l
marks to their credit. In 1889 there
were sc, 697 depositors, with an aggre-
gate capital of 80, 215, 697 marks, the re
ceipts and withdrawals that year being
6,3l9,276 and 5,l51 ,GO2 marks respec-
lively.
There are three departments connected
with this institution. The Savings De
post bank, which comprises IA central
office and two branches in different parts
of the city; the Weekly Savings bank,
a separate bureau, under the same man
agement, but differing from it in that it
collects from each depositor a stated
weekly deposit, and the Penny Savings
institution. which is adapted to the
methods of the humblcst class of depos-
itors, whose savings are limited to a few
pennies per day or week.-New York
Rac,r1ar
, 1891-07-21

Simon Gormley, of Grab Orchard,
KY, was two years ago smitten with
paralysis. He regained his physical
health, but was unable to speak IA word.
a few days ago, while watching a game
OF ball, he received another stroke,
which threw him into violent couvul-
sions. He was put to bed, and the next
day astonished everybody by sitting up
and talking. He has regained his voice,
but has lost his recollection of all events
during the past W. years. 1t is believed
he will recover.-Exchange.
, 1891-07-21

Two Maine woutsl and Three Bears.
The Parkersons and Ackleys pasture
their cows in the same lot. Saturday
night these cows did not come up to the
bars as usual, and after waiting a reason
able time Mrs. Thomas Parkerson and
Mrs. EIbridge ACkley started out 10 find
them. 1t was almost shutdown when
the women began their quest. They
pushed on. however. and having climbed
the hill had entered a belt of old growth
woods on the edge of the swamp when
Mrs. Parkerson caught Mrs. Ackley by
the arm, crying:
"Oh, my! lookr' pointing to the right
Mrs. ACkley followed her advice and did
look.
What she saw would make an ordinary
woman faint away, but downeast women
are made Of sterner stuff, so when she
saw three bears, q female and w cubs
she said "Oh, my, " too, and both women
went TO a pile of cord wood close by and
procured two stout round birch sticks
about four feet long.
The subsequent battle was short, but
very exciting. The old bear was lean
and weak. She made a deal of noise.
but when it came to fighting she wasn't
in it." Two times she moved up and
showed fight, but falling to break
through the waving wall of clubs got
down on all tours and beat n hasty re
treat, followed by her two young cubs.
One Of these little beHrlets was very
weak and could not run nearly 30 fast as
the other, so in the course Of ten or IF
teen minutes the old mother bean and
the stronger cub were ont Of sight, leav-
ing the u weak II to the tender
mercies of t,.o ~wideawake women.
The little fellow was soon dispatched.
the cows were found, and the tired vic
tors went home TO get supper, proud of
work.-Trescott Cor. Bangor News
, 1891-07-21

Every one has heard of the Boy Brown
ing, son of the illustrious Elizabeth Bar
rett and Robert Browning, but does any
one remember that his fair, plump wife
is an American woman? She has no
children, and spends much time in en-
te%rtaining her friends in her beautifully
decorated home in De We're Gardens.
The pair are shortly to take up their
residence in Venice in an old palace,
whittier nearly a hundred huge cases of
furniture are being shipped. Mr.. Brown.
ing divides mis- time between painting
and nursing govt, to which he is u
martyr. Exchange
, 1891-07-21

\ new employment for women is sug-
gested by "A paragraph to the effect that
a number of women IN London advertise
that they will, for suitable remuneration.
care for city conservatories, window
boxes, balconies and little gardens. They
will personally superinteud and carry
eut orders, and employ men only to do
the necessary digging When city houses
are to he closed for the season, valuable
plants may be left in charge of these
women. Owing 10 the popularity of
this work Swanley Horticultural college
has opened Il special department for
women, where they may learn both the
theory and practice of plant culture
Exchange.
, 1891-07-21

The Wabash Line is now running its
Canon B ll train froIu Kansas City to
Toledo. yestibuled, e wing Kansas City
nj $40 p IN. maxim direct connections
with all trains from the West at that
point. ~
Free reclining chair cars and Pullman
buffet sleeping cars from Kansas CITY to
Toledo.sat which point as well as at Fort
WAYNE aud Defanse, direct connection is
made with all the limited trains for the
East, Southeast. and Northwestern points
This is a star route. Ask for your
tickets via he Wabash line.
O. NJ. Hampson, comtnercial agent
1927 Seventeenth street, Denver, Colo.
G. l.. Allen, travelling agent.
DENVER March Is
, 1891-07-21

Cholera ,ntantum has lost Its terrors
since the introduction of Chamberlain s
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhpa Remedy.
When that remedy is used and the treat
ment as directed with each bottle is fol
lowed, a cure is certain. Mr.. a. W.
Walter, n prominent merchant at Walters
burg, ILL.,, says. at cured my baby boy
OF cholera infantum after several other
remedies had failed, The child was so
low that he seemed almost beyond the aid
OF human hands or reach of any medi-
cine 25 and so cent bottles for sale by
A. Z. Roedel
, 1891-07-21

A young RFn of Bethlehem went out
walking witlfa neighbor's daughter one
evening which he knew was against the
wishes of the girls father. And when
he saw him coming around the corner he
took to his heels, and stumbling, fell and
hurt himself. Then he had his prospect
i've father-in-law arrested for soaring
him and causing him to fall. To the
amusement and wonder of the town a
justice held the old gentleman in $500
bail for trial.-Philadelphia Times.