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But in the four summer months, or
winter months as they are in the South
ern himisphere, the climate is cool and
delightful.
The people, except the pure.blooded
Europeans and the Chinese who have not
been there too many years, are lazy,
shiftless and sensual. Food is easily
got, and no more work is done than is
absolutely necessary. All the energy of
the British officials will not drive the
scavengers to clean the streets often
enough to prevent rank smells from load
ing the air of the cities. The island
slopes from coast side upward toward
the three mountain chains which cross
the interior.
Violent rains and wind storms are
frequent. The bushes, vines and flowers
are beaten to the earth to rise again in
few days as though nothing had hap
peued. Mountains lie exposed on the
eastward side to the full sweep Of the
great storm winds of the Indian Ocean.
Outside of the cities there is little build
ing that is more than temporary. Sew
eral times in a century the hurricanes
come and raze the whole island except
the cities and the deep valleys. With
' each hurricane many natives are killed,
because of the weak shelter their houses
afford against the aying tree trunks and
stones, and against the fierce wind that
can uproot the nos! firmly plauted foun-
dations.
But never before has such a wind as
this last cone out of the depths OF the
Indian Ocean. IL must have attacked
the cities and orcrtkrown them, SIS well
as the houses scattered on the plantations
and the hi!ls;des sl! through the island.
1t must have left few places where shell
ter from violence could be found, and,
no doubt, very few escaped injury OF
some kind. When it is considered that
the population is only 500, 900, the re-
ported death roll OF $1,000 shows how
enormous the destruction was. Yet, no
matter how great the ruin, before the
fastest steamer could reach Mauritius
from London or New York, the last
trace of destruction would be obliterated
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The deck is on the whale back plan.
There is an opening-or cockpit, in
nautical vernacular--3x5 feet, in which
there is just room enough for person to
sit comfortably. Under the decks are
compartments in which the provisions
are to be stored. The mast rises eight
feet above the deck and the boom is
thirteen feet. The gaff will be ten feet
and the total sail carried will be less
than fifteen square yards. Three hun
dred pounds of lead will be securely
fastened to the bottom, and it will be a.
most impossible for it to capsize. Should
such an accident happen, however, it
will right without assistance. There
are no water-tight or air-tight compart-
ments.
Little danger is expected from high
seas, and should the hold fill with water
it will not damage the food supplies, as
they will consist altogether OF canned
goods and preserves in sealed jars.
Captain Andrews thinks it will take
about forty days to cross the big pond.
He will head for Queenstown, but he Is
likely to make harbor at the first land he
may sight. It is his intention to return
with the Flying Dutchman by steamer,
and have the boat exhibited at the
Worlds Fair.-New York World.
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writer. 1t has the same charms as other
tropical islands which are more easily

writer. 1t has the same charms as other
tropical islands which are more easily
and more comfortably reached. So,
aside from dry consular reports and frag-
men,ary observation that Mauritius is q
gem and that Mauritius is queer little
island, there is not much material to put
into a picture that will show the readers
of the Sun what manner of beauty and
strange aspect of human life it was that
the hurricane swept down upon and
blighted.
It is known that Mauritius, discovered
in the early years of the sixteenth
century, ls now inhabited by the most
conglomerste population on the face OF
the earth. Europeans of three nation
alities, English, French and Dutch, are
there in considerable numbers, and
Europeans of all nationalities in smaller
numbers. Negroes and Mozambiques
and Madagascans have come over from
the west; Parsees, Arabs, Cingalese,
Cinnamon, Lascars and Malays have come
down from the northeast. The result is q
commingling of breeds and languages,
religions and costumes, that makes the
dirty streets of the queer cities of the
island full of sights, sounds, faces,
costumes and wares to inspire amaze.
ment and confusion. Everything is
jumbled together, religions as we'll as
languages and breeds, until nothing can
be put in exactly its proper place.
Although Mauritius is rich and fertile,
it is hardly developed at all. For eight
months Of the year the sun shines down
upon the island day after day, with
brief intervals of terrific rains, whose
beating only a rank tropical vegetation
can survive. The heat is intense and,
when the wind is in certain quarters,
poisonous. For instance, in the three
years of 1856, 1867 and 1865, $4,000
persons died of fevers of various kinds.
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twenty-five Years Advance.

Among tie scores of large tailoring estab-
lishments in New York, none is 50 well and
favorably known as Nicoll the Tailor, at ri
Broadway and l45 and l47 Bowery. 1t Was
quarter century ago that Nicoll the
Tailor first embarked in his venture in New
York. Since that time his business has
taken gigantic strides, warranted by fair
dealing, moderate prices and dependable
workmanship. Instead Of one store, he now
has two immense establishments in New
York, and branches in Pittsburg. Har tford,
Washington and Boston. Summer suits are
not all ordered yet; in fact, most people are
Just beginning to cecide that the weather is
now sufficiently warm to call for a change
in wearing apparel. Any doubts as to tho
proper thing to select may be solved by a
visit to the above mentioned popular tailor.
Our country friends are respectfully re.
quested to call and see tho largest stock Of
summer goods ever shown. Scotch Cheviots,
Mohairs, Tweeds, Flannels serges, Cassi.
meres ETC., in all the known shades, and
some new ones. II you find it inconvenient
to call, drop Us postal card, and We will
mail you full set of samples, with easy
rifles for self measurement. Suits to order
from $40. Trousers TO order from IS. Gus
tom clothing only.
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Syrup"

JUDGE J. B. HILL, of the euperiof
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup to
send US voluntarily a strong letter
endorsing it. When men Of rank
and education thus use and recon-
mend an article, what they say Is
WORTH the attention of the public.
It is above suspicion. II have used
your German Syrup" he says, for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. + can recommend it for
them as a frst-class medicine."-
Take no substitute. Q
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a transatlantic voyage, 14i feet in
length, S feet beam, and will carry not
more than fifteen square yards OF sail.
The new boat is named the Flying
Dutchman, and is six inches shorter than
the Nautilus, in which Captain Andrews
made the voyage in 1878.
Captain Andrews is Yankee and
piano-maker by trade. He is tall,
athletic looking man, of light COM
plexion, and is forty-nlne years old. His
hobby is what he calls "deep.sea boat
ing" and he is a mine Of information
upon that subject.
The Flying Dutchman fore and aft
tapers to a point, and resembles very
much gunner's k-box, being decked
all over with half-inch cedar. The sides
and bottom arc also made Of this thin
material and the whole is covered with
canvass, drawn as tight as drum head,
oiled and painted. 1t can be folded like
a canvas cunning skiff.
During his three former trips Captain
Andrews found that his wood.bottom
crafts had become heavily weighted with
barnacles and seaweed, which greatly
hanpered progress. He claims of the
new boat that the canvas WILL avert this
trouble.
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The First Human Ostrich"

The first case on record of a human
bcin lndiscrlminately devoWing every
thing that came within his reach is that
of the French boy, Tarare, who first gave
an exhibition of the capacity and strength
of his stomach by eating full peck OF
carrots and seven bars of soap with ap-
parent relish. Of course, he was not
always a boy, and as he grew up the
treakish antics of his stomach took many
varied twists. On one occasion, when
a druggists back was turned, Iarare
hastily swallowed a couple of dozen OF
corks of all sizes. At last, his stomach
being full of such indigestible matter, ne
became the victim of violent attacks OF
collie and was finally compelled to seek
the advice of NJ. Girard, of the Hotel
Dieu. Girard called a council OF ply
sicians and Tarare's case was Thoroughly
discussed. They tried to explain to the
man wha: would be the final outcome OF
such performances, but were greatly sur
prlsed, if not angered and chagrined, to
find that he had actually swallowed
watch chain, seals and all, besides bunch
of seven keys and glove hook which
were on an ivory ring nearly two inches
in diameter; all this while the learned
gentlemen were lecturing him! At the
time of this examination he regularly ate
twenty-feur pounds of beef day. be-
sidss other vlctuals in proportlonate
quantities. He now entered the French
Army, being first attached to the Nlnth
Regiment Of Hussars, Major Courvlile
retaining him as freak. He was daily
allowed the regular ratious of three men
and the right to the refused scraps ana
other pickings. When on the marcn ne
would catch eess and serpents and swallow
them whole. On one occasion he ate
cst. bones, fur and all. Colonel MarPel
and General Beauharrjs both make am
davit that they saw him eat thirty Pounos
of liver at one sitting, and others declare
that he once ate fourteen months oio
child st. Louis Republic.
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PORT LOUIS, MArR1TIUs.

them since the opening of the century.
On one of the coasts of the island stands
a great block of black basalt, rising
forty feet above the sea which surrounds
it on all sides. 1t is bored from It's sum-
init down to the waves with q circular
hole. When the waves are rushing in,
warning Mauritius that storm is bear
ing down that way, the water rushes into
this cavity,is sucked upward, and thrown
high in the air in column of spray.
And the rumbling Of the Souffleur, as the
rock Is called, may be heard many miles
away. Also, when the hurricane is com
ing, the people of Port Louis may look
away to the mountains and see little
white clouds darting round and round
the tops, while coppery tinge over
spreads the whole sky.
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Roses That Drink Blood.

A gentleman who has a marvellous
display of roses in the little space behind
his town house says that he attributes
their wonderful bloom, color and size to
the effect of a strange experiment. An
establishment for the slaug htering of
animals for market being in mis- neigh
borhood, he obtained, several times q
week, quantity of blood which he
mixed with the earth aruund the roots
of the plants. Tue result Is most satls.
factory as lar as improving his plants is
concerned. but one cannot help rather
shuddering at the idea of carnivorous
roses; it seems like an unnatural aud
horrid appetite. Particularly superb are
bis "JacHs," whose deep and vivid red
is almost unpleasantly suggestive. New
York Tribune.
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"Raining Cats and Dogs

In Norths,u mythology the cat is sup
posed to have great influence on the
weather, and English sailors still say:
"The cat has q gale of wind in her tall
when she is unusually frisky. Witches
that rode upon the storms we're thought
to assume the shape of cats; and in the
Harz Mountains the stormy northwest
wind is called the cats nose. The dog
is the signal of wind, like the wolf, both
of which animals were attendants upon
Odin. the storm-god of the Mortimer.
The cat, therefore symbolizes the down.
pouring rain, and the dog is the strong
gusts of wind that accompany rain
storm. Hence 'raining cats and dogs
means heavy rain with wind.-Courier-
Journal.
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The Glass Snake.

The so-called glass snake does moi
break to pieces at the sight of an enemy,
as is commonly supposed, but, like some
lizards, throws off its tail in an effort to
escape. There are several lizards which,
when attacked. for instance, by bird
or predacious animal, will throw off
their tails, and the tail Topping up and
down On the ground diverts the enemy
and thus gives the lizard time to escape.
The glass snake adopts the same trick,
and thus frequently saves itself. 1t is
true, however, that the joints of this
singular creature are 60 loosely con-
nected that the snake will be broken to
pieces by q blow of stick, though the
idea of reunion of the broken parts is
a superstitious absudity. The broken
joints do not reunite, though new tail
will grox in few months if the reptile
has received no other injury.-St. Louis
Globe. Democrat.
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Can be counted on
to cure Catarrh-Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. It's nothing new. For
25 years it has been doing that very
thing. 1t gives prompt and COM
plete relief-but you want more
than that. And you get it, with
this Remedy-there's a cure that
is perfect and permanent. The
worst chronic cases, no matter Of
how long standing, yield to its
mild, soothing, cleansing and heal.
ing properties. "Cold in the Head "
needs but a few applications. c.
tarrhal Headache, and all the
troubles that come from Catarrh,
are at once relieved and cured.
You can count, on something else,
too-$500 in cash. ...
You can count on it, but it's
more than doubtful whether you
earn it. ..
The proprietors of DR.. Sage's
Remedy, in good faith, offer that
amount for an incurable case of
Catarrh. Don't think that you
have one, though.
They'll pay you, if they can't
cure you. That's certain.
But they can cure you. That's
just about as certain, too.
Can you ask more
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Where Wolf Hunting Pays.

The wolf-farming industry around
Ga!eua, ILL.,, received big impetus at the
last meeting of the County Board, which
placed a bounty of ten dollars on old
wolves and FIVE dollars on whelps. As
result the county has spent $500 for
wolf scalps in the last two months. One
individual brought the scalps of twenty
eight wolves to the County Clerk in one
day and received $150 bounty. The
big bounty makes wolf hunting SO profit
able that it is alleged that nimrods of
contiguous counties drive the wolves
over the border and round them up in
10 Daviess, where they kill them for the
bounty.-Chicago Herald.
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Utilizing Street Swept lgs.

In Italian cities the cleaning of streets
is sold to the highest bidder ut public
auction. The bidder puts up every 400
yards Of street in charge of one man with
8 handcart, who is kept constantly at
v ork from sunrise to sunset and in the
twilight. At intervals large carts 60
around and receive the contents OF the
handcarts. The dirt is taken to fac
tory, where it is pressed into blocks of
about cubic yard in dimension. These
are placed on the market and are sold
for iertilizing purposes.--San Francisco
Chronicle.
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The Influence of Heredity.

The influence Of heredlty is probably
the mos: important factor in the making
of criminals. From a criminal stock not
p,uch else but criminals can be expected
to spring. And that this is so has been
proven time and again by the family
history of criminals. But there are
other factors that can be counted upon
just as surely, though they operate with
less frequency. Habitral drunkenness
on the part Of :hc paren. is prstty sure
to result il mental or mora; degeneTacy.
New iork Herald
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MAURIYIUS.
THE STORM SWEPT ISLAND IN
THE INDIAN OCEAN.
Peopled by Representa- or All
Races. Languages, Religious
and Observation-Disclosures
For Its Beauty.

Now that the whole world is seeking
information about the island of Maurl'
titus, it is surprising to find out how lit lit
tie is really known of it. 1t is one OF the
most important islands in the British
possessions. 1t is visited daily by men-
of-war, sailing vessels and tramp steam
ers from all parts of the world. It's
name and its beauties have been MADE
famous by the glowing descriptions o,
BernardiD St. Pierre in his "faui anu
Virginia"
Mauritius, or the Isle of France, is an
island belonging to Great Britain, lying
N the Indian Ocean, about 460 miles
east of Madagascar and 1927 miles from
Cape of Good Hope. 1t is thirty.s'1
miles long and thirty-two miles Wioe'
and has an area of 676 square miles
But Mauritius has never been visited
much by the tourist and the descriptive
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As the island is almost surrounded by
coral reefs, the waves that great wind
lashed up are thrown In the air to great
heights, and the noise is so loud that,
combined with the roar of the wind, it
makes the thunder seem faint and far
away. As one remembers these things
and reads of the darkness and the flashes
of lightning and the ships lifted in air
and rent asunder or blown far up on
shore, one realizes what spectacle this
sto-m must have been.-New York Sun.
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There are 257 religious sects or de-
., limitations in Great Britain. This enu-
u Grafton counts all the Plymouth Breth-
rem. of whom there ,re FIVE distinct
bodies, as one sect.
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An irrigation canal is in progress of
building u Utah and Idaho 10y Chicago
capitalists, it Is told, that will ,rrigate
lou, 900 acres of land.
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Amherst College IS now among the
American colleges which authorize their
students to appear in classical garb, cap
and gown.
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pADWAy'S
IL PILLS

The most perfect, safe and reliable Cathartc that
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The absence of tourists in Germany is
q great source Of complaint from the
hotel keepers.
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make very good dccoy for ducks, but
ir is a little too heavy, weighing some.
thing over two pounds by the accurate
scales in .hc Republics editorial looms.
This extraordinary potato was raised in
Jefferson County, Mo-, some four miles
from Festus, and was forwarded to the
Republics Museum of Natural Curiosities
by 5. r. Wngsener & Bro, of that town
st. Louis Republic.
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Many of New Jerseys muck rnea.lows
are being reclaimed and devoted to onion
and ce.ery growing.
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500 Reward. 500.

learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it's
stages and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being o con:
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in.
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation Of the disease, and
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have 60 much faith In
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that It fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials Address
+. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
z" Sold nv DrnOuisfe Thr
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A Dnck Of o Potato.

This isn't the picture of duck, but OF
a big sweet potato that looks very like
duck. If this potato would fost it would
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The assessed value of real estate in
Newport, R. l., is $27, 81, 400.
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This century has produced no woman who
has done 30 much to educate her sex to q
thorough and proper knowledge Of themselves
ns Mrs Lydia E. Pinkham.
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VIM. Sprague Smith, Providence, R. L.,
writes: ~ find Bradycrotine always cures
headache" AL druggists, fifty cents.
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The inhabitants must have had warn
ing of the storm that was coming, as
they have had warnings of the three
other hurricanes that have rushed upon
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ONE ENJOYS

ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
TEN efectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro.
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, kk NEW york. hH
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BEEcHAM's PILLS quickly cure sick head
ache, weak stomach, impaired digestion, con-
stipation, disordered liver, etc.
A lady returned from foreign tour claims
that her health was sustained by the use Of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
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A SICK LIVER

IL the cause Of most the depressing, pain.
frl and unpleasant sensations and suffer.
ings with which we are AFFLICTED, and these
suHerings will continue 80 long as the Liv.
or 10 allowed TO remain in this sick or slug.
gish condition.
To stimulate the Liver and other diges.
tive organs to q normal condition and
healthy activity, there II NO better medi.
cine than