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figure of medium height, but splendidly

figure of medium height, but splendidly
proportioned; proud and graceful car
riage; face perfectly oval, with COM
plexion spctless, but with slight tinge
of Creole blood that imparts to the
cheeks hue like that of the damask
rose; eyes large, dark and lustrous,
fringed by long silked lashes, and over
arched by brows, which, with the raven
hair, make the white forehead look like
alabaster; small and delicately chiseled
nostrils that dilate nervously at every in
spiration; teeth so white and regular
that to catch a glimpse of them through
the Cupid's bow of smile is to wonder
at natures perfections.
If the face has fault it lies in the
full red lips and the senuous lines sur
rounding them, symbols of a passionate
and voiuptuous nature. Imagine, he
says, this face set in a frame of soft
black hair and surmounted by white
hat of the mcst coquettish fashion, on
which repose real flowers and live fire.
flies; imagine the lithesome figure attired
in dress of some soft texture and deli
cate tint and of mode known only to
the Worths of Paris and Madrid, with a
sparkle here and there of diamond or
shy glimmer of dull gold; imagine,
finally the whole being instinct with the
grace and vitality of youth, and we have
the author's portrait of an Argentine
girl.
lis, however, admitted that in spite
of all these charms the beauty of the Ar.
gentine does not move ones higher i'm
pulses. 1t dazzles the eye and captivates
the senses, but does not appeal to the
soul. These resplendent creatures. after
all, are but fine animals. Then the
greatest charm of women next to per-
sonal beauty, sweet voice is lacking.
The voices of the Argentine women are
harsh, discordant and shrill. When you
hear them talk you experience the revul.
sion which you feel when, after gazing
for the first time at the plumage of q
peacock, you hear it scream. There
seems to be something about the climate
which is adverse to the development of
the voice, and by which every one is
more or affected. For the rest we are
told that Argentine girls are lively, play.
full and mischievous as kittens, and very
fond of gayety. They are passionately
addicted to music, and the crown OF
their ambition is the attainment OF three
things-the piano, the French language
and a string of lovers.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
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Sanitary Walls and Ceilings.

Q. Does the Bible have anything to say
regarding sanitary wallse
A. Read Leviticus, 18th Chapter, 3s-4l
verses.
Q. What do modern sanitarians say,
A. That wall paper and glue kalsomines
are directly responsible for much Of the sicS-
ness, ignorantly attributed to other causes.
The Chicago lnter- Ocean, In an article
ON pape ring walls, under the caption
of ''Nasty Practice" has this to say.
"Our Health Officer. Dr. DeWolfe, says the
free passage Of air through walls OF living
rooms is an important element in proper
ventilation. The practice of repapering
rooms by layer upon layer OF wal! paper,
made adhesive by glue or paste, which adds
a decomposing material to the nasty prac-
tice, can receive nothing but condemnation
from the sanitarian. The perfect wall for
domestic habitation is Of material which re-
sists decomposition in every form, and which
permits the free passage Of air. 1t seems to
me that Alabastine is admirably adapted for
the purpose"
The Doctor agrees with the Inter Ocean,
that special law should be passed to pre-
vent the practice Of pasting repeated layers
OF paper on the walls.
Write the Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids.
Mich, for supplement from the report OF
the Michigan State Board Of Health, entitle
SANITARY Walls and Ceilings"
Remember the name. Alabastine, made
from slabaster rock.
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The Human Ostrich Dead.

The Human Ostrich, the museum
freak who has astonished 30 many people
with lis ability to eat ten penny mails
and chew up pieces of window glass, will
do so no more. He is dead. He died
at the City Hospital in St. Louis. The
practice of filling his stomach with nails,
screws, glass and similar indlgestible
matter was the cause of the untimely
ending of the human ostrich.
The mans name was John W. German.
He was quite young, and had only been
engaged in the effort to delude people
into believing his stomach was abnor-
mally constructed for a comparatively
short period. His father, who lives in
this city, is in the shoe business. Cor
mau claimed that he dige:ted the nails,
tacks and screws that he swallowed.
His claim created a great deal of inter-
est among medical men in this city, and
many of them examined him when he
was exhibiting at the museums of this
city. No one found anything abnormal
about him except the fact that he did
swallow nails and glass.
A post mortem examination showed
that the walls and lining of the stomach
were entirely normal, but literally filled
with nails, screws, tacks and broken
glass which the man had swallowed.
None of them was encrysted, but there
was not one instance of peroration of
any part of the stomach or throat BY the
sharp points or edges of these SUBJ
stances, but beginning at base of the
tongue and going back to the esophagus,
and from there entirely down into the
stomach, the nails, tacks, glass, etc.,
were found.
In the stomach itself there was found
almost handful of these nails, tacks,
screws and pieces of glass, over an ounce
weight of them being removed. Con-
tinuous liberation marked their presence,
extending from the esophagus into the
stomach. York Press.
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Food Frauds.

When one buys tea for 81 pound
one is very Likely to pay in reality ~ a
pound, because half Of the quantity is
currant leaves. Indigo, soapstone and
china clay are among other usual in.
gradients of tea. Sage is often potato
starch. Grated horseradish is some
times composed of turnips. Bologna
sausage may be putrid meat of un-
identified animals, colored with salt
petre and Venetian red. Flour is fire.
quently weighted with soapstone.
Sweetened water, shsrpened with citric
and tartaric acids and favored with oil
of orange skin, makes orange cider. It
costs sixteen cents gallon to make and
sells for $2.25 a gallon. Maple sugar
may be glucose and SO may honey. Real
honey can be distinguished under the
microscope by the pollen grams it con-
tains. They have wonderfully beautiful
forms and the very flowers from which
the honey has been obtained can be
identified by the VARIOUS exquisite
shapes of these fructifying germs
Washington Star.
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The Great South African Gold Field.

Experts-men who have spent many
years gold mining in this and other
countries-are confident that Mashona-
land will prove the richest gold country
in the world.
Besides gold, Mashonaland is rich in
silver; very rich lodes have been discov-
cred in the Lo Mogundi district; these
had likewise been worked in ancient
times. Chips from the blossom rock
give an assay of over one hundred ounces
of silver to the ton. Galena containing
a very large percentage of silver has
been found in large bodies in Manica.
And in different parts, other minerals
have been discovered whose nature and
value have not yet been tested.
Iron is found everywhere of the gran.
ite beds, and often in almost virgin
state. cannot positively declare that
the future of Mashonaland as gold
producing country is assured. Only deep
sinking, careful development and the
battery test will prove that. But do
say the prospects disclosed by what work
has already been done, quite satisfy the
expectation Of the most sanguine. No
one can say what is under the ground;
but there are good reasons for feeling
confident that the promises of the sur
face and of the depths that have been
already reached will be fulfilled when
the country is mined in practical man
ner. Of wood and water there is abun-
dance, and in many parts there is the
fall necessary for water power. have
said that all the claims pegged out as
yet are on old workings. Whoever the
people were who worked these mys-
terious mines, they knew as much if not
more about gold prospecting than we do.
Almost all the gold bearing outcrop is
away. Where the ancients worked, it
is invariably rich.
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King Of the Australasian Forests.

The kingship of Australasiau forests,
heretofore claimed for the eucalyptus of
the Continent, is disputed by :he kauri
pine of New Zealand. 'Really, to
bring home to the mind" says d
a writer, "the stupendous size of the
colonial oak, as it has been called, it
must be compared with the largest trees
in these islands. In England there are
several elms seventy feet high and thirty
feet in girth; oaks eighty feet high and
with trunks forty feet in girth, and in
Scotland there is an ash ninety feet high
and nineteen feet in girth. But these
are regarded as extraordinary and grow
in solitary grandeur. The average girth
of trees in Britain is not more than
twelve feet nor the average height above
sixty feet. But in New Zealand there
are miles of kauris whose average height
is not less than 100 feet, and whose
girth is not less tim thirty feet and
forty feet. The largest kauri yet dis
covered was seventy feet in girth and
the trunk was 200 feet high" With
the exception of living carpet of deli
cate maidenhair, which attains a height
of from five to six feet, and of ropes of
creeper ferns which swung from tree to
tree like fairies in the castle of giant,
the forest is altogether bare Of under
growth. But their doom has been spoken.
The axe of the lumberer and the whirr
of the sawmill resound in the land, and
the earth quivers with the shock OF fall
ing patriarchs. With the recklessness
of the spendthrift the New Zsalander is
spending his heritage, aud before another
fifty years have passed, away this noble
tree will be as extinct as the moa. New
York Sun.
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A Great Mind.

Caleb Cushing, on being appointed to
the bench, prepared himself by reading
in nineteen days the fifty-seven volumes
of Massachusetts, reports. When Web
ster's Unabridged Dictionary appeared
he read it through, word by word, and
corrected some mistakes. Mr.. Gushing
excelled as linguist, and was said to be
abel to converse with all the foreign
ministers at Washington in their own
tongue. 1t is also stated that IS our
Commissioner in China, he negotiated
the first treaty without the aid Of al in
terpreter. er.-Green Bag.
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The American Forestry Association.

The chief work of the American For.
estry Association at present, as stated in
the Experiment Station Record, is di'
rected toward securing reservations OF
public timber lands, which shall be
placed under national administration.
During the summer memorial was pre-.
sented to the President of the United
States asking him to exercise the author
ity granted him under the act of Con-
gress of March 8. 1891, by making
certain reservations of lands which arc
now being examined. At the last an
nual meeting, held in Washington,
second memorial was presented to the
President recommending further reserva-
tions in Oregon, Colorado, North Da-
kota and California. The general object
of the proposed national forest reserve is
not to withdraw these lands absolutely
from occupation or use, but rather to in
crease their usefulness and the sum total
of their productiveness of the territory.
In the case of these reservations it is
the purpose to maintain and increase the
lumber industry by permanent and con-
tinued yield of forest products on non
agricultural lands, which by the present
methods are laid waste by fires and
made less productive; to cultivate and
develop new growths of timber where
ever the matured trees are cut for mar
ket; to specially guard and protect the
sources of our main rivers and lakes, and
thus continue their flow for the benefit
of the people at large; to prevent these
lands from being taken for timber only
and abandoned after cutting the best,
and also to secure bona 6de settlements
on the agricultural sections. Nor is it
the purpose to prevent the prospecting
for minerals, opening of mines or other
legitimate and rational use and develop
ment of these lands.-New York World.
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Butterflies That Love Ice.

Near the top of Mt. Washington, in
New Hampshire, lives little colony of
very cold loving and mountainous but.
terhies, which never descend below 1000
feet from the wind.swept summit.
Except just there, there are NO more of
their sort anywhere about, and as far as
the butterflies themselves are aware, no
Others of their species exist on earth.
They never have seen single one of
their kind, save of their own colony.
The scientific theory is that this little
colony of chilly insects was stranded on
Mt. Washington at the end of the glacial
period some odd thousands of years ago,
and the butterflies have dwelt there ever
since, generation following generation.
New York Journal.
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TALENTED WOMEN.

The assistent edlto. of the Toledo
(Ohio) Bee is Mrs. A. P. Stevens, who
has worked herself up from the case.
Meanwhile she has ma le study of the
industrial status of women in this coun-
try, and as a member of a typographical
union and a master workman in the
Knights of Labor is able to do admirable
service in looking after the interests OF
women in the trade union congresses and
labor conventions to which she is usually
a delegate. She has large, shapely
head, very bright face and an amiable
manner. She is clear, terse, animated in
speech, and in presenting asubject shows
mental discipline and desirable appre-
citation of the value OF work.-New York
Sun.
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HAIR DRESSING.

The variety offered in the matter OF
hair dressing is very great. There was
a time when fashion settled the matter,
but now the style of the face is studied
and the hair put up accordingly. One
thing is certain, false hair is but very
infrequently worn. Those women who
have but little find way of contriving
to make the most Of it, and those who
have an abundance choose such forms as
will show it off. Curly bands are still
very generally worn, and it is to be hoped
that they will remain in favor, for they
are far more becoming to every face than
the locks that are smoothed back in
prim orderliness.-Metropolitan and
Rural Home.
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LATEST BONNETs,

Bonnets are triae larger and are q
little higher in the crown than they
were. The newest straw for the spring
is rough and dull of surface. Many, how
ever, are made entirely of open-work jet,
some having the crown formed of large
let sunfowers set back to back and with
bows of very fine lace above them. Tiny
tips of ostrich feathers, arranged some.
what after the manner of the Prince of
Wales plume, are still favorites for trim
mings, though the newest arrangements
take the form of lace pompons. Strings
are wider than they were and come from
the sides of the bonnets, to which they
are apparently attached by tiny ear-bows
or miniature buckles. White lace raised
on invisible wire and allowed to droop
over the hair makes most becoming
brim to bonnet, the crown of which is
coarse straw. It is small, round and
rather high and has Eau de Nil and pale
pink satin ribbon twisted round it and a
small frill of lace dropping over the hair
at the back. A fat bonnet (and many
will be worn fat by tall women) is of
cocoa-brown rough straw and has in
front a large fiat bow of palest peach
colored velvet. 1t is worn on fair hair
dressed far back, and the strings, which
are of peach-colored velvet and not very
broad, cross over the hair and are brought
to the front beneath the ears, and tied
in a bow under the chin. A pretty
flower bonnet is plateau of pale green
straw drawn up into small crown and
trimmed with high bow of pale mauve
moire ribbon. The brim IN front is 6
diadem of pale mauve hyacinths, with a
smaller diadem in yellow hyacinths be-
hind it. At the back the bonnet is fin.
ished with two tiny loops of hyacinths
falling on the hair. The strings ol
nauve moire ribbon come from the sides
Chicago Herald.
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QUEER NEW COATS.

Some of the new coats resemble moth
ing so much as the old fashioned bed
gowns, or short night robes, sacred to
the memory of our grandmothers. We
may come to regard them with some de-
gree of favor after a while; now in their
simple and accentuated ugliness, the girls
eve them askance and wonder if they can
ever adopt the horrid things, even though
the talismanic name Of "Worth" is
stamped inside the collar.-Brooklyn
Citizen.
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A NEW WHIM.

One of the newest whims is the "Paul
Kauvar" sash, and to be in the fashion
YOU must wear sash with all your spring
and summer gowns. The sash may be
satin, silk or surah-black, white, one OF
the primary colors, or severalshades COM
bined. The name refers not to the color
or the fabric, but to the manner in which
it is worn; out the softer the material
the prettier the effect. 1t is carried from
the front of the waist around to the back,
where it is crossed and brought again to
the left side where it is fashioned into
two short loops with long fringed ends
reaching to the hem of the gown.-De-
troit Free Press.
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Peoplc Know q Good Thing.

THAT'S WHY REMINGTON TYPEwRITERs ARB
IN DEMAND.
Some idea of the present wonderful
growth Of the typewriter business may be
gained from the fact that the sales Of REM
ington typewriters for January and Febru-
ary, 1892, exceeded those Of the correspond
ing months Of 1891 by $16O, 600.
The great and constantly gaining popular.
ity of the Remington is clearly shown by
the fact that the business has more than
doubled within three years. The Remington
factory at lion, N. Y, employs 700 men to
fIl the demand created by the sales agents,
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, who dispose
of machines at the astonishing rate Of one
every five minutes.
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THE GIRLS OF ARGENTINE.

The author of the book "Argentiua
and the Argentines," asks US to imagine
q brunette of fifteen or sixteen developed
into o precocious maturity; an erect
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Some of the gentlewomen Of Londor
who have gone into trade have by no
means been deserted by their former
friends. One of them, once leader in
the great world, now fashionable dress
maker, serenely invited her friends to
an afternoon tea little while ago and
entertained them by showing them the
new dresses she had for sale!
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The seed is planted
when you feel "run down. and
"used up" Malarial, typhoid or
bilious fevers spring from it-all
sorts of diseases. Don't take any
risk. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery invigorates the system
and repels disease. It starts the
torpid liver into healthful action,
puriies and enriches the blood, and
restores health and vigor. As IN
appetizing, restorative tonic, it sets
at work all the processes of diges-
ton and nutrition, and builds up
flesh and strength. For all diseases
that come from a disordered liver
and impure blood, skin, scalp and
scrofulous affections, it's the only
remedy that's guaranteed. If It
doesn't benefit or cure in every
case, you have your money back. =
You pay only for the good you
get. )
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RADWA!y'S y!
III PILLS

The most perfect safe and reliable Cathartic tha
bas ever been compounded - PURELY VEGE
ABLE, positively containing no Mercury or othe'
beleterious substances; having all the benefcia
properties that Mercury is possessed Of cstharti
Without the danger OF any Of its evil consequences
hey have superseded Mercury, and have become tn.
fnl of Modern Science. Elegantly coated and with
ut taste, there IL no difficulty In swallowing RAD.
WAYS PILLS, mild and gentle or thorough IL
heir operations, according to the DOSE they are tn,
hSorites of the present time.
They cure all disorders Of the Stomach, Liver
kowels Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases Loss o
kppetite, Headache, Costiveness, Indigestion, Dys
Sepeia, Bilousness, Fever, Inflammation OF the Bow
ls Piles, and all the degrangements OF the Internal
fiscera Is cents . box.-sold by druggists DR
&ADWAY & CO., 50 Warren Street, N. Y. City.
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Pale green will be much used this sea-
son in combination with light tan cloths,
and green in pine, moss, sage, etc., also
pale yellow with gray and fawn gowns.
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Young married ladies find in Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound a trusty friend
and in the "Guide to Health and Etiquette"
book that answers all their questions.
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The worst cases yield to tho
mild, soothing, cleansing and heal
ing properties of DIR: sage's Catarrh
Remedy. That's why the proprie-
tors can, and do, promise to pay
$500 for q case of Catarrh in the
Head which they cannot cure.
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For strengthening and clearing the voice,
use "BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs. "-"i
have commended them to friends who were
public speakers, and they have proved ex-
lremely serviceable. Henry Ward
Reerher
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Isl sensible? Is It reasonable? Is it economy
p suffer yourself and worry others with head
ache when Bradycrotine will relieve you in
fifteen minutes2 It costs only fifty cents q
bottle at drug stores.
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49, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the SYSTEM; Send fer testimonials, free.
F. j. CRENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
" Sold BY Druggists, 75c.
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STATE OF OH1o, G1TY OF TOLEDO, : a.,

lUOhb SOCNII,
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that be is the
senior partner Of the firm Of f. J. Cheney q
Co.. doing business in the City Of Toledo.
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum Of 500 for each and every
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day Of December, A. D., 1SS6.
t~~, A. w. GLEASON,
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BEEcHAM's PILLS will cure constipation.
keep the blood cool and the liver in good
working order; price 25 cents box.
The worst cases Of female weakness readily
yield to DR.. swans Pastiles. Samples free.
DIR, Swan. Beaver Dam. Wis.
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German
Syrup.

I must say a word as to the ef-
fcacy of German Syrup. I have
used it in my family for Bronchitis,
the result of Colds, with most ex-
cellent success. Ihave taken it my
self for Throat Troubles, and have
derived good results therefrom. I
therefore recommend it to my neigh
bo-s as an excellent remedy in such
cases. James T. Durette, Earlys-
vile, Va. Beware Of dealers who
ctier you something just as good" "
Always insist on having Boschee's
German Syrup. q