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latest one to attract the attention OF
World reporter is on Eighty-sixth
street near Third avenue. It seems
probable that this really is the very
smallest building, certainly, as to
breadth, that the city contains, as the
extreme width is but thirty-four
inches. Like most of the excessively
narrow buildings of this class its exist
ence,is the result of accident, an error
of the surveyor of the adjoining lot,
leaving vacancy of about three feet,
which the owner, Mr.. L. A. Lahey,
utilized by erecting on it this lllipu-
tian structure.
He found tenant in the person of
a little German named Otto Werner,
who for some years kept a grocery
store there and lived on the floor
above. He did a good business, but
in the course of time, becoming too
portly to get in and out the front
door, gave up the house and removed
to New Jersey. Since then no one
small enough could be found who was
willing to lease the house at any price,
no it has been turned over to the
dairyman next door, who has cut an
entrance into it from his store.
The property is entered on the tax
collectors book, and has to stand its
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A Meat.Eating Nation,

The recent dinner of the Vegetarian
Society in this city has attracted con-
siderable attention. A gentleman
from Germany who has recently made
a tour of observation in this country,
commenting on this vegetarian move
ment, said it was just what the United
States needed. He added, "Ameri-
cans eat too much meat. I have OBJ
served that fact wherever ! have gone.
You have meat for breakfast, for
luncheon. and dinner. In Germany
our breakfast is 9 cup of coffee and q
boiled egg or two. Then come our
midday dinner in courses, a simple
supper and snack before we go to
bed" My German friend was COM
PEELED to admit, however, that he was
not as frugal in his diet as he pre-
tended to be, for he said that the Ger
man people always felt free to take a
sandwich and cup of coffee or glass
of beer between their meals and as 8
rule managed to eat at least five or six
times day. Englishmen are great
meat eaters. Perhaps we inherit our
appetite and our taste from them
New York Mail and Express.
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A Liberty Bell Ring.l

William B. Fry, of Drifton, Penn,
son of Alderman George Fry, of this
city, has become the owner of ring
which to him is almost priceless. This
ring was made from the metal that was
cut away along the zigzag crack Of the
Liberty Bell, with the idea that it
would restore the tone of the bell.
Joseph Buckley, cousin of Mrs.
Aurelia s. Fry, the mother Of. Mr..
William B. Fry, was in charge OF the
bell at the time. He took the chip
pings and had this ring constructed Of
them. In 1850, while Mrs. Fry was
on visit to the family Of Mr.. Buckley,
in Philadelphia, he presented her with
the ring, and last Christmas she pre-
sented it to her son. The ring also
has historic resting place. 1t re-
poses in a box made from a piece OF
timber taken from the floor Of the old
lions Reformed Church, Allentown,
when that edifice was razed, in 1888.
1t was in this church that the bell was
concealed in 1777 to protect it from
the British troops.-Allentown Penn.
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The Gauch0's Dietary.

The dietary of the South American
gaucho Cowboy is simple, so his
cooking is elementary in it's charac-
ter. As rule, he eats only once in
the day, toward sunset; when, jour-
neys or toll being ended, supper, con-
sisting of thin piece of meat, is
roasted upon spit of iron or wood
stuck slantingly over quick fire. If
this should be in winter, all sit around
on the skeletons of horses heads, and
with their long knives or facons (falch-
ions) cut Jumps from the haunch.
This, being held in the left hand by
one end, is seized with the teeth at the
other, and tempting tit-bit is skill
fully cut of. The hard, dry meat, de.
fcient in fatty constituents, is washed
down by copious draughts of mate,
made from the favorite yerba.
The hut, dimly lighted by a lamp in
which bullock's tallow is burned, bears
some resemblance to stable, from
the brides, saddles, spurs, bolas, and
lassos which decorate the roughly.
daubed walls. If the Gaucho happens
to be family man, fat, black-eyed,
good-natured, nearly naked children
indulge in antics during the meal,
while the poultry wink drowsily from
their perches. No wayfarer is tut n ed
from the door, fc- the hand and heart
of the child of the pampas is ever
open to the stranger, and the arrival
of such is made convenient excuse
for bringing out the cana, a coarse
spirit, which has perhaps been provo.
cative of more evil than anything else
which he can call his own. Water
melons are sparingly partaken of in
their season, but these are almost the
only vegetables the wild horseman
cares for.-Temple Bar.
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The Sand.in.Sugar Fiction.

Nearly everybody entertains the
opinion that a dishonest merchant
will mix sand with his sugar for the
purpose of gain. This is indeed a
popular error, for sugar is but rarely
adulterated, from the fact that unless
scientifically done, and then only with
certain kind of clay, the fraud would
come to light without the consumer
applying any test. If sand is mixed
with sugar it would be discovered by
the sugar eater, or the sand would be
found as a deposit at the bottom of
the coffee cup, or it would betray it.
self by the grit in the cake. Home
and Farm.
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Take no Substitute for
Royal Baking Powder.
1t is Absolutely Pure.
All others contain alum or ammonia
Layers of Petrifaction In the West.

North Colorado and parts of Wyom-
ing and Montana are genuine mines OF
petrifactions. There are petrifactions
of every kind, including many varie-
ties of wood, ferns and plants, fish,
toads, snails, frogs, serpents, shell fsh
and objects which cannot be classified.
The deposits often occur in layers as
though some great natural convulsion
had destroyed the animal life of .
whole district at once. The scientists
make very few and tolerably weak at
tempts to explain the singular phenom-
enon, and the fact is evident that
they know no more about the matter
than do the men who pick out The best
specimens and sell them to tourists. -
Chicago Herald. ..... ,..,.
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Blood Drinkers,

The Zoothermic Institute in Rome
is "cure" place, where people go to
drink fresh blood for the cure of gout,
rheumatism and the great prostration
and an@mia caused by the malarial
fevers of the Tontine Marshes. The
blood to be imbibed is first rapidly
freed from fbrine, by a carefully
aseptic method, the animals from
which it is derived having previously
undergone inspection by veterinary
surgeon. Some patients bathe either
part or the whole of the body in the
warm blood, and the Italian doctors
think with great benefit, in spite of
which, it seems a barbaric survival.
The poor are treated gratis, but the
highest fee is equivalent to fifty cents
of our money.-New York Indepen-
dent.
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Congressional Treasury was empty.
Through his influence and largely on
his own personal security he succeeded
in raising the greater part of a two
million-doller loan called for by Vir-
ginia in 1850. For many years he was
a member of tho Virginia Convention
and also of Congress. He was one of
the committee which drew up the
Declaration of Independence, and ne
signed that memorable document July
5, 1776. During the war he was for
time Governor of Virginia.
In 1922 an effort was made in the
Virginia Assembly to repay to the
heirs of General Nelson q IT Of the
money he had advanced curing the
Revolution. Although favorably re-
ceived, the matter lay dormant until
1881, when the State Auditors re-
ported against it. A petition to Con-
gress met with no better success, and
in 1889 Philip Nelson, the patriots
grandson, made another vain attempt
before the Virginia Assembly.
General Nelson was buried in York
town, beside his father. Nelson Coun-
ty, in Virginia, is named in his honor,
and his statue in bronze is one OF the
six which adorn the Washington mon
ument at Richmond, Va.
In 1924, General Lafayette, during
his last and triumphal visit to this
country, occupied the old Nelson
house during the time that a grand
celebration was given at Yorktown in
his honor. Early in the Civil War it
was occupied for time by the Con-
federate soldiers, and after the battle
of Bethel, June 10, 1861, the house
was used as hospital for the wounded
Federals who fell into the hands OF
the Confederates.
The Nelson house, although 1S2
years old, is still in an excellent state
of preservation, and, unless overtsken
by some unforeseen accident, will
easily survive long into the twentieth
century. It is now occupied by Miss
Kate Nelson, the owner of the prop
erty. She is the granddaughter OF the
Revolutionary patriot. The house was
not built with a view to exterior
beauty. 1t is large and ple.n two.
story brick structure, with corners OF
hewn stone, built on the old English
plan. York Times.
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Stanley and His Gray Hair.

Stanley came out of Africa with
gray hair for the first time OF the re-
turn trip that Immediately preceded
bis marriage. Before that the ex-
plorer was curiously unwilling to show
himself in the haunts of civilization
bearing upon his head the story of
bis hardships, and he always dyed his
hair before reaching the coast OF
Africa when homeward bound. Hair
dye was always part of his baggage,
but the explorer was not a skillful
DIVER, and his handiwork was far from
improving his appearance. His friends
were at length well pleased to see him
wear his hair in it natural gray
Chicago Herald.
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It Has Come, Will 1t Be Gentles

Gentle spring with the flowers Of May may
WOO Us into careless Indifference Of sani-
tary laws. It is the old story, thrice told
tale OF being rash and taking the conse-
quences. THERE'S no time in the wholeround
Of the year when results are more serious
from an ordinary want Of care than now.
What with changeful temperature and in
fectious dampness, rheumatism Is most prev
alent and In the most aggravated forms.
Even In the pursuit Of the seasons pleasures,
It's pastimes and sports, there will be pro-
digious crop Of sprains and bruises, OF lame
backs and stiffened limbs, Of neuralgia affec-
lions and sciatic troubles. Men and women
win suffer intensely, and only because they
tail to be provided with what is known to be
the remedy for them all. When it is said that
St. Jacobs OH is that remedy, It is only say
Ing what thousands know and thousands
have pronounced it the best. e., .-.-.
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After reading The following letters can any

After reading the following letters can any
one longer doubt that Trustworthy remedy
for that terribly fatal malady, consumption,
has at last been foundi II these letters had
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esteemed neighbors they could be no more
worthy Of your confidence than they now
are, coming, as they do, from well known,
intelligent and trustworthy citizens, who,
IN their several neighborhoods, enjoy the
z c. McLin, ESQ, Of Kempsville, Princess
Ammo Co., Va, whose portrait heads this
article, writes "When commenced tax
Ing DR.. Pieree's Golden Medical Discovery I
was very low with a cough and at times
spit up much blood. was not able to do
the least work, but most Of the time was In
bed. was all rundown, very weak, my
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to do me much good, but had faith In II
and continued using it until had taken
fifteen bottles and now do not look nor
feel like tho same man was one year ago.
People are astonished and say, well, last
year this time would not have thought
that you would be living now can thank
fully say am entirely cured OF disease
which, but for your wonderful discovery
would have resulted In my death.
Even when the predisposition to consump,,
ion is inherited, it may be cured, as verified
by the following from most truthful and
much respected Canadian lady, Mrs Thomas
Vansicklin, Of Brighton, Ont. She writes
81 have long felt It my duty to acknowledge
20 you what DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and his Pleasant Pellets have
done for me. They almost raised me from
the grave. I had three brothers and one
sister die of consumption and was
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that time was persuaded to try the Golden
Medical Discovery and the first bottle
acted like magic. OF course, I continued ON
with the medicine and as result l gained
rapidly In strength. Ny friends were aston
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left him. by his father being nearly q
quarter of a million of,dollars, D great
deal of money in those days. ALI of
his fortune, however, was freely given
for the American cause, and when he
died in 1889 he WAS poor man.
General Nelson's father laid the cor
nerstone of the house which bears the
family name in 1712. The future
General was then baby only twelve
months old. szgsgs aEs&aa .sz,esg
Had General Nelson done nothing
else to render him worthy of the name
of patriot, his act during the siege of
Yorktown would have been sufficient.
He personally took charge of the first
battery which opened upon the be-
leaguered town, and, it is said, aimed
the first gun at his own residence. He
offered the gunner reward of five
guineas for every shot fred into the
house. From the Tsppearanoesof the
place at the present day, that gunner
evidently did his work well, and was
the possessor of pocketful of guineas
after the surrender of the British
General.
The house, owing to the fact of its
being the finest one in Yorktown and
occupying a commanding position,
was naturally supposed to be the
headquarters either of CORVALLIS
or some of his chief officers. Hence
the furious bombardment made upon
it. But Cornwallis had his head
quarters in another Nelson house,
occupied by William Nelson, General
Nelson's uncle. William Nelson was
too old to engage actively in the stir
ring events of the time and had re-
tired to live quietly in his own home,
which stood not far from the original
Nelson residence. When the English
arrived he was suffering severely from
the gout and was unable to leave the
town. General CORVALLIS treated the
aged owner with marked considera-
tion. But the guns of the besiegers
were trained with unerring aim upon
this house as well, and during the first
day of the tombsrdment one of the
old mans negro slaves was killed by a
shell. ~ &&
Besides his nephew, General Nelson,
the old man had two sons in the
American army, and their anxiety for
the safety of their father, according
to one who was present at the time,
was painful to witness. The sons
finally persuaded General Washington
to send a flag of truce within the
British lines with a request that
their father be permitted to leave the
town. Chevalier de Chastellux, a
Major General under Count de Ro-
chambean, was in the American lines
during the siege, and in speaking of
this occurrence says: ~.
''Lord Cornwallis had too much hu-
manity to refuse request 80 just, nor
can I recollect without emotion the
moment in which I saw this old gen.
tleman alight at General Washington's.
He was seated, the fit of gout not hav-
ing yet left him, and while we stood
around him he related to us with a
serene countenance what had been the
effect of our batteries and how much
his house had suffered from the first
shot, $50. 3. ..
General Nelson did great deal for
Virginia during the Revolutionary
period. He advanced large sums of
money to pay the troops when the
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destroying force Of time and the march
of improvements. The indentations
of numerous cannon balls are still Wis
ible on the old walls, plainly attesting
to the severe bombardment to which
it was subjected.
The house was owned by General
Thomas Nelson, Jr., signer of the
Declaration of independence, and one
of the noblest and most self-sacrifcing
patriots of the Revolution. Previous
to the war he was wealthy, the estate
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The first complete history of each
vessel in the United States Navy from
its commencement in ITS was pub.
lished by Lieutenant G F. Emmons
1850. Recently two valuable tables
have been compiled by Naval Bureau
CT Steam Engineering, which includes
full information regarding the rev
navy both as to performances of tho
machinery and speed.
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Ready-Made Forests.

Machinery has become 80 perfected
thai establishments row offer to re-
move trees from six to twenty feet in
diameter and reset. 49,
Such trees are now lifted, together
with from one to four tons of soil, and
reset before ones door.
Tree-moving began in the West and
records it's greatest success there, but
quite large undertakings of this kind
have lately been successfully carried
out in New England.-Boston Globe.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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three pieces, bowl, stem and mouth

three pieces, bowl, stem and mouth
piece. As tobacco is extremely scarce
and therefore valuable near the Arctic
circle, the bowl is quite small; in
fact, it will hold only half the guam
tity used in making cigarette. The
stem is rather large ard is ornamented
with little silhouettes, representing
the occupations of the Esquimau1
and figures taken from their mythol-
ogy. The figures are colored with
charcoal mixed with walrus oil, which
makes a durable pigment. Chicago
Tribune.
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FAMOUS OLD HOUSE.
1T WAS BUILT IN YORKTOWN IN
1712 AND STILL STANDS.
Home of General Nelson, Signer OF
the Declaration Of Independence
IrBombarded by the Amerl-
cans During the Siege.
. REPRESENTATIVE TYLER, of

T REPRESENTATIVE TYLER, of
- Virginia, introduced a bill
n into the House of Repre-
sentatives, authorizing the
appropriation of $4,000 by Congress
for the purchase Of the CID Nelson
house at Yorktown, Vs. This is the
house which frequently, although mis-
takenly, has been called the head
quarters of CORVALLIS during the
siege of Yorktown. It, however, played
q very prominent part in that decisive
Revolutionary year of 17sl, and is one
of the few historic landmarks left in
America which have survived both the
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The Gar and the Poet.

=. An utterly unknown British poet
recently sent some verses to the Car
congratulating him on his recovery.
Apparently so surprised and pleased
at getting a good word from England,
he sent the poet, much to his aston
ishment, a magnificent fur coat. New
York Journal. 9 = 4 y
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The Sickle Of the Sphinx.

The oldest piece of wrought iron in
existence is believed to be a roughly
fashioned sickle blade found by Bel
zoni in Karnac, near Thebes. 1t was
imbedded in the mortar under the
base of Sphinx, and on that account
is known as the ''Sickle of the
Sphinx" It is now in the British
Museum, and is believed to be nearly
1000 years old.-St. Louis Republic.
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A House Three Feet Wide.

The search for ,diminutive houses in
New York, several instances of which
have already bt55p noted in the World,
still continues, each fresh find being
smaller than its predecessor. The
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Odd Pine for the President.

Captain Miner W. Bruce and his
party of eleven Esquimaux have
queer-looking present for President
Cleveland. The present is pipe made
of walrus tusk by See.Ku-Ku, mem.
Der of the party. The pipe is made OF
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Dress for Girl Four to Six Years Old.
Long empire frock in flat plaits be-
fore and behind, and loose, with wool
en- braidings at bottom. Straight COL
lar. Puffy sleeve joined to q close