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The Latest in Soap Bubbles.

Make fluid in this way: Get {
cake of palm oil soap, shave its par
ings as thin as possible and drop in a
big bottle filed with distilled water.
Shake the mixture very vigorously,
then filter through gray tlter1ng
paper anG mix the remaining fluid
with one-third of it's bulk OF pure
glycerine. Before using shake we'll.
Get small glass funnel about two
inches in diameter, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, connect it with a
tube of India rubber, and you can
blow bubbles with this apparatus that
will surpass the rainbow itself in
brilliancy and beauty. Yes, there is
lot of trouble in getting your scientific
pipe and liquid ready, but think OF
the sport in the end. Just imagine
q bubble twelve inches across! You
can blow them in this way by putting
them upon big iron ring-very care
fully, of course-while the metal is
wet with the prepared solution. Get
a ring that is quite rusty-that as
sures good result. a strluS VI ooo'
bles two or three inches in diameter
can be kept intact for ten or twelve
hours.
NJ. Izern has communicated to the
Academy of Sciences new method for
obtaining soap bubbles lasting a much
longer time than those obtained from
the soap water generally used. He
has recourse to resinous soap made
by the following formula: Pulverlze
together ten grammes of pure resin
and ten parts of carbonate OF potash
add 100 parts of water and boil until
complete solution; we obtain in this
way thick solution, which may be
kept in stock to be diluted for use
with from four to FIVE times its volume
of water. 1t can be kept indefinitely,
even when exposed to the air. The
bubbles produced are very persistent,
and, consequently, can be made USE
full in the study of the phenomena re-
lating to thin laminae and in making
photographs in which soap bubbles
play part,
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FOOTWEAR FOR OUTINGS.

There is very much in the selection
of footwear that people who indulge
in outings do not realize. Thin. fine
shoes are very hard to walk in, and
when one is going about for the most
part on plank walks and then on
ground that may possibly be damp, a
heavy sole is much easier for the feet
and safer as to health, The fashion of
carrying fancy parasols and wearing
delicate and perishable garments on
such occasions is not at oil to be COM
mended. In the first place. such
things are inappropriate; In the Sec
ond, they are extravagant, and that,
in the light of common sense, is not
many removes from sinful. People
who have money to spare can put it to
much better use than to waste it in
the purchase and wearing of things
that are destroyed as soon as they aro
exposed to the elements.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

The secret pleasure Ct generoui
act is the great minds great bribe.-
Dryden.
Heaven will be inherited by every
man who has heaven in his soul.-
Beecher.
The more honesty man has the
less he affects the airs of saint
Lavater.
Be careful to make friendship the
child, and not the father, of virtue.-
Sir P. Sidney.
=. The personal pronoun ~" should
be the coat-of-arms Of some indi.
viduals. s.-Rivarol.
The most amiable people are those
who least wound the self-love oi
others. s.-Bruyere.
Heroism-the divine relation which,
in all times, unites a great man to
other men.-Carlyle.
All governing overmuch kills the
self-help and energy of the governed.
Wendell Phillips.
Copiousness and simplicity, variety
and unity, constitute real greatness oil
character.-Lavater.
Sin is the only thing in the world
which never had an infancy, that knew
no minority.-South.
There are persons who regard their
friends as victims devoted to their
reputation. Evremond.
God governs the world and we have
only to do our duty wisely and leave
the issue to Him. John Jay.
A mercantile democracy may gov
ern long and widely; mercantile
aristocracy can not stand.-Landor.
The head has the most beautiful ap.
pearance, as we'll as the highest sta
ton, in q human figure. Addison.
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COLLARETTES AND CUFFS.

The pretty collarettes and cuffs now
so much in vogue are likely to be-
come still more popular. With the aid
of these dressy little novelties, even a
last seasons gown can be made pre-
sentable, and the great variety of them
makes the average girl long for at
least q dozen sets of each pattern.
The English collarettes are rather
plain and built on solid principles
square yokes with high collars and ruff
fec of embroidery are chiefly what are
ussd. Some have parallel strips OF
embroidery running up and down,
with fine tucks in between. All are
cut square, with not suspicion of a
point or curve. On the slim, long
necked, long-waisted English maidens
these, no doubt, look very pretty, but
the French ones are more to the taste
of the American girls. These French
"yokes" are extremely fancy and
elaborate. Butter colored lace forms
the principal trimming for many of
these, and yards upon yards OF it are
used very effectively. Insertion is
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SuperstitiOn in Bicycling.

A cycling paper recently told of a
man who selected wheel but after
ward, without any apparent reason,
refused to take it. He wanted another
one, and was satisfied with a machine
that was an exact duplicate of the one
he had rejected. The agent puzzled
his mind to discover what the objec-
ton was to the first wheel. The two
were alike in every particular except
the number. This gave the ciew. The
number of the first wheel was $40, ,051,
and the total of these individual fig
ures was thirteen. That was the ex-
planation, as the customer admitted.
There is q sequel, however, and now
the superstitious man asserts that he
has been fully vindicated. On his
thirteenth mile he picked up pin
and got puncture. If he had been
riding No. 340,O51 he believes he
would have had his wheel smashed or
o limb broken. Therefore he con-
graduates himself on his shrewdness.
New York Tribune.
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Sleep and Insomnia.

Sleep is q greater mystery than in
somnia. We hear much of the latter
state in these days. But it is more
wonderful that we sleep 30 we'll than
that we are occasionally wakeful. We
hear more of sleeplessness than our
forefathers did. It is O remarkable
fact that in scarcely any OF the older
textbooks of practice of physic is
there any formal notice of insomnia
per Sc. In later works, and especially
in those devoted to treatment, the
subject OF insomnia does not receive
considerable attention.. And every
now and again the sleeplessness of q
great man in the world of science or
in that of politics reminds us that
eminence has its troubles, and of q
sort which seldom affects the poor
man. 1t is probable'that this evil OF
wakefulness is more common than it
used to be. The excitements and es-
pecially the worries of life multiply.
Many OF the arrangements Of society
are of q nature to drive away sleep.
Even the pleasures of life are 30 taken
by many as to rob them of one of the
greatest pleasures of allan eight
hours sound sleep; for we maintain
that this is what everybody should aim
at. 1t may seem long time to spend
third of ones life in sleep. But il
the other two-thirds are used we'll,
there is little cause for blame. Nc
rule for all can be laid down; but it
would be well for most people in the
intensive days in which We live to de-
vote eight hours to the cultivation OF
the mood and act of sleep, and to
resist the domination of habits and
fashions that are inconsistent with this
purpose. Home and Farm.
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Paper Sails.

Among the new uses to which paper
is put is that OF sails for yachts. A
regular processed pulp is made, and
is treated with various chemicals. To
a ton of pulp are added forty pounds
of prime tallow and one and half
pounds of soluble glass, thirty-two
bounds of alum, twenty-five pounds of
glue, and one pound of bichromate of
potash. All of these Ingredients are
thoroughly mixed, then made into
sheets after the usual fashion, and
then two sheets are gummed and
pressed together Sc as to practically
unite them in one. Then specially
built, very powerful compressors are
employed to roll these thick, pulpy
sheets out into the desired thinness.
The result is tough, strong, flexible
paper ready for further treatment,
which comes next in the way of a bath
of sulphuric acid and water, then it
must pass between glass rollers. Then
follows an ammonia bath, then q clear
water washing and pressing between
felt rollers, winding up by a drying
and polishing between heated cylin-
ders. The sheets, which now resemble
in weight and thickness the usual
grades of duck employed for sails, are
cemented and sewed or riveted to form
a continuous sheet of the required
size for sails. It is suggested that
this material would make admirable
tents and covers where cloth is ordi-
narily used. When once its manufac-
ture is carried on on a large scale it
will be comparatively inexpensive,
and quite as useful and durable as
cloth. New York Ledger.
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Mileage of the Blood's Circulation.

The mileage Of the blood circulation
reveals some astounding facts in our
personal history. Thus it has been
calculated that, assuming the heart to
beat sixty.nine times minute at ordl-
nary heart pressure, the blood goes at
the rate of POI yards in the minute, OF
seven miles per hour, 16S miles per
day and $500 miles per year. If a
man of eighty-four years of age could
have one single blood corpuscle float.
ing in his blood all his life, it would
have travelled in that same time 5, l5O. =
SOS miles.-Boston Cultivator.
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FASHION FANCIES.
HEADDRESSES AND ORNAMENTS
FUR THE HAIR.
Suggestions as to the Most Effective
Way of Using the Latter
Dainty Accessories to
a Costume.
r. TEADDREsSEs like TINT pic

r TEADDRESSES like that pic
Nj tured herewith, which is COM
posed chiefly of two big
bows, supplemented by Mer'
curry wings, a bunch of violets and q
stiff aigrette, are what have made side
combs fashionable. Though these tiny
ornaments are becoming to many Of
their wearers. they should not be used
unless the hair is very pretty. If the
locks are not handsome of themselves
let the forehead be made point OF
display, and don't attract attention
from it and to the hair by jeweled or
elaborate combs. This IS Sor the same
reason that rings should not be put
on an ugly hand to call attention to
it's lack of beauty and perhaps divert
attention from a pretty wrist or arm.
Side combs and other ornaments are
not worn for their own display, but
for added emphasis to a personal
beauty. If the hair is pretty and the
head is we'll shaped, then you can wear
almost as many ornaments in the hair
as the little Jap maiden. One may,
for instance, held down the side locks
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
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A T0psy-Turvy Junk.

There are three Chinese junks in
San Francisco Bay engaged in the
shrimping trade. A reporter who vis'
tied one of them, the Lund Sune,
found everything arranged contrary
to nature. according to Western no.
tions. The planking Of the deck ran
athwart ship, the anchor hung over
the stern, the rudder had large mum.
Der OF diamond.shaped holes in it.
and the batwing-like sail was hoisted
with an uncouth windlass, though it
would be quicker and easier to give
the halyards a few pulls. Then the
ribs came up few inches above the
deck and the side planking ran beyond
the stern, as if the ship carpenter had
forgotten to come back with saw
and finish his job. Nevertheless, the
captain Of the Lund sune regards her
as q clipper, and wants to enter in the
regatta.-New Orleans Picayune.
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so aptly term ''creations. :" One pretty
model of this material had the double
sailor collars and double cuffs hem
stitched. Another has double hem
stitched rufle around the edge OF a
star shaped collarette.
A quantity lowered organdis is
made after the style of a Marie An
tionette tichu, and is trimmed with
frills of the same. Fichus of NOUS
seline de sole are also strictly in good
taste, and are effective trimming for
any kind of gown. Chiffon fronts in
various colorings with lace insertion,
and ribbon garniture are very dressy !;
in fact, all these little vanities are
part of the wardrobe of every we'll
dressed girl.
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One Good Thing Done BY the Bicycle.

One of the many good things the
bicycle has done for Chicago human.
ity is to greatly reduce the number OF
those who take hypodermic injections
of morphine. A preacher not so very
long ago said that there were 80, ,OOu
persons in the city who sought relief
from the aches and pains of dyspep.
sia, neuralgia, insomnia and SO on by
the use of this narcotic. A ten or
twenty mile ride in day goes long
way toward curing sleeplessness and it
has like beneficial effect on dyspep'
sia and other troubles which result
from too much mental and too little
physica: exercise, combined with in
judicious diet.-Chicago Times'Her'
old
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monument is on the top of knoll and
can be plainly seen from the car win
dows, so that travellers who know what
il is NAV know the moment in which
they pass from one State into the
other.
This monument was placed where it
is in 1878, the year of the first Gov
ernment survey. 1t is of cast iron.
about six feet high. twelve inches
square al the base and six inches at
the top. In shape it is like on Egypt,
ian obelisk. On one side in raised
letters is the word "California;" on
the other, "Nevada." On the side
next the railroad track it says: 1882.
Longitude 12o deg. west Of Green
wich. A. w. Won Schmidt, U. s. as
tronomer and surveyor" On the op.
posite side it says: "Oregon, liza
miles and forty-four chains"
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A BicycIe Mail Route,

A bicycle mail route has been estab-
Iished in Australia by all enterpris'
ing young Euglishman between Cool
gardie, the center of the mining dis.
trict, and Dundos, which is $50 miles
away. A small letter box is fastened
to the wheel in which he carries let.
ters between the two towns for twen-
ty-five cents apiece, and kilograms for
S1.25. He makes one round trip per
week, aad goes armed to the teeth.
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by side combs; o tall, square comb
may back the big coil at the top OF the
head; O sort Of tllet may bind the
brows, a richly ieweled ornament
rising at the parting in Diana-like
fashion, and then one or two jeweled
pins may be thrust through where the
effect will be the best AMI most striking.
Maybe the effect may be little bar
baric if considered as display of orna-
ments, but when considered as an en-
phasis for the beauty of gracefully
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A Giant Alligator.

A giant alligator, measuring four
teen and one-half feet long, eight feet
around the body, and with head
three feet long, was killed in the
st. Johns River, near Fort George,
Fla, recently. The alligator has been
known in that vicinity many years,
and many hunters have tried to kill
it. It's back was covered with barna-
cles and moss, and local natu1alists
say the reptile was much mere than
100 years old.
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BarriSters Desert Historic Haunts.

Barristers are deserting the Inns of
Courts. In the Inner and Middle
Temple fifty or sixty sets OF chambers
are marked as vacant, whereas ten
years ago vacant chambers we're al
most unknown. The reason given is
high rents. Cheaper and better rooms
can b. had Outside the Temple. -
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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New Way of Smuggling.

A new way OF smuggling was recent
" unearthed in Bristol, Conn. A
clerk employed in wholesale house
there had bale of hay consigned ta
him, sent from Nova Scotia. On ex.
amining the bale roll of expensive
broadcloth was found in the centre
of it.
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Suicides in Paris.

The official statistics of the number
of suicides in Paris during 1898 has
Just been issued. The total number
of self-murders was 953. Of the total
231 drowned themselves, 113 used
guns and revolvers, SO of the shots
being in the heads, II stabbed them.
selves to death, 81 used poisons, 4
asphyxiated and II threw themselves
from high buildings, monuments, etc.
-Phlladelphia Ledger.
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LEAVES ITS r1ARK

every one of the painful irregularities
and weaknesses that prey upon women.
They fade the face, waste the figure, ruin
the temper, wither you up, make you old
before your time. :.
Get we'll: That's the way to look well.
Cure the disorders and ailments that beset
you, with Dr.. Pierce's Fayorite PrescTip-
ton. ,-. &
It regulates and promotes all the womanly
functions, improves digestion, enriches the
blood, dispels aches and pains, melancholy
and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep,
and restores health and strength.
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The cuffs that accompany this pretty
yoke are longer than the ordinary and
are turned at the upper part IN points
that match the collar. Others are
made after the popular sailor collar
pattern, some of Swiss, or lawn,
trimmed with narrow lace rufies.
Grass linen is much used in making
these little affairs, which the French
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A Strange Fatality.

At the moment little girl in
Brooklyn public school was reciting
piece describing the fury Of d storm
lightning struck aud killed her fathsl
q tew blocks away.
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Where Two States Meet.

Twenty miles east of Truckee, COL,
and less than 100 feet to the north of
the railroad track is an iron monu-
ment, which marks the boundary line
between California and Nevada. The
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In London there is street collec-
ton for one benevolent institution Or
another on almost every Saturday in
the year.
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DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP Root cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles
Pamphlet and Consultation free
Laboratory Binohamton. n. Y,
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little girls shown in the sketch !he
tancoed with wide collar and harln
edged cops with brown uache braid The hat is SIMPLE
m the brim with aunty bow
Phe figure shows coat for
outlining back. Blue velvet ribbon concea the
Joining sleeves dainty at the the shoulders
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Nerves irritated by tobacco, always crav.
Ing for stimulants. explains whyi it Is so hard
to swear of. No-To-Bac is the only guaran-
teed tobacco habit cure because it acts di-
rectly on affected nerve centers, destroys ir-
ritation, promotes digestion and healthy, re-
freshing sleep. Many gain 10 pounds in 10
days. You run no risk. No-To-Bacis sold
Book Tree. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co., New
York CITY or Chicago.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
ton, allays pain. cnres wind collie. 25c. bottle
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session in Boston, as Supreme TempIar
of the order. Some idea of the ardu-
Gus duties DR.. Mann has to discharge
may be gathered from the fact that he
rules over 5G0,605 members in IL, $50
lodges.
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"Suffered with Cntarrh for fifteen years,
Halls Catarrn Cure cured me-" Sold BY Drug
picfc -5f
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LIKE Oil Upon Troubled Waters is Hale's
Honey Of Horehound and Tar upon cold.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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Tits likely that macadamized road,
100 feet wide, running along the lake
shore from Chicago to Milwaukee,
Wis, will be begun soon. ~
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Icannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure for
Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK MosBS, 20 w. III
St., New York, Oct. %, 1894.
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Good Templars' Supreme Ruler.
DR.. D. II. Mann, of Brooklyn. was
reelected by the International Su.
preme Lodge of Good Templars, at its
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One Gives Relief.

It Is so easy to be mistaken about indiges-
ton, and think there is some other trouble.
The cure is h pans rabules- One tabulc gives
relief. Ask any druggist.
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Tobseco-weakened Resolutions.

John Burns, the labor leader. has been re-
elected to the English Parliament.
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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-
tenn efectually, dispeis 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 30
cent 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. kE NEW york. N.Y.