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MUTILATED MONEY.
Fun Value of Note Is Paid For Frag-
lnents Representing Three-ffths of 1t.

Full Value of Note Is Paid For Frag-
lnents Representing Ttree-ffths of 1t.
According to the present rule of the re-
demption division of the United States
treasury nothing less than fragments rep
resenting two-ffths of a bank note or
greenbacI will be redeemed by Uncle Sam.
" If that much of note is presented, the
United States, writes Clifford Howard
on Destroying Million Dollars Day"
in The Ladies' Home journal, "will allow
the holder one-half the face value of it,
while three-fifths of note will be re-
deemed for full value OF course there are
occasional exceptions TO this rule
'Some time since man from New
England forwarded bunch of discolored
paper money that he had found buried in
field. It had lain in the ground SO long
time and had been SO generously Toasted
upon by worms that it fell to pieces as
soon as it was touched. 1t would have
been utterly impossible for any one unac-
quainted with the secret marks that the
government places on it's bills to gather
these deeayed pieces of money together in
their proper order, but some of the clerks
in the redemption division of the treasury
are particularly expert in sorting and de-
eiphering bits of mutilated money and
through long years of experience are able
to tell in an instant to what particular
note or kind of note certain scrap be-
longs. When the pieces contained in this
bunch Of old money we're finally sorted and
mounted, it was found that while there
was not one complete note remaining (not
more than two or three scraps in some in
stanoes) The rightful owner was entitled to
a redemption of $500. Unfortunately for
the man who found the money, he could
not prove his ownership, nor could he
make affidavit as to what had become of
the missing portions Of the notes. Conse-
quently the United States was the gamer
in this case. Accidents of this nature are
by no means rare, as is attested by the
number Of boxes of charred remnants of
money which are kept among the curious
records Of tho redemption division
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ODD FREAKS OF FORTUNE.
Unexpected windfalis of Wealth To
Those Who Needed Them.

Unexpected windfalis of Wealth Tor
Those Who Needed Them.
While most people find it very hard to
acquire even a modest competency, others
are more lucky and to them fortunes
come without even the asking. Several
such instances have occurred of late years,
some of them of an interesting character.
1t was only a short while since that poor
ragpicker in Birmingham suddenly found
himself a man of wealth. BY dint Of
working from dawn till late at night he
had been in the habit Of making the not
very exorbitant income of 49, 80 per week.
One morning lie heard from firm of So
licitors in London, who requested him to
call, when he would learn something to
his advantage. He found that long lost
brother, who had made money in Aus
tralia, had recently died there, leaving
him q sum of IS, 900.
At Tamworth, England, q tobacconist
has unexpectedly found himself the heir
to baronetey. For some time past he
has been in receipt of 25s. Cd. week,
having served as q sergeant in the Suf-
folk regiment; hut, finding this sum in
adequate, he took tobacconist shop at
Tamworth and was apparently contented
NlVia LIS 4Oti WA4NA liz dNOhD w uAu
self baronet Of the United Kingdom.
a schooner which went ashore off the
American coast with 1900 tons of coal,
being abandoned by her owners, was sold
for $40 Some 400 tons of coal had been
got out of the hull when suddenly the YES
sci slid off the rock and sank in deep wa
ter, only, however, to float again the next
morning and drift with the tide right
into port. 1t ssems that sufficient coal
had ratified through the holes in her bottom
to let the hull como again to the surface
with some 800 tons of coal still in. As the
vessel then stood, she was worth So, 600 or
more to those who bought it for $40.
A couple of lucky domestics have lately
come into possession of a considerable sum
of money through the death of their mis-
tress, an old lady of So, who left them her
entire fortune The sum to be divided is
$3.50, 000 and it is bequeathed to them in
recognition Of their long and faithful
services, one of them having been rs and
the other IS years with the lady in ques-
ton.
The effects produced by suddenly &C.
CURED wealth are sometimes startling in
the extreme. A suburban Partisan who
lately inherited SIC, 600 from an elderly
aunt at once began to look about for some
outlet for spending the money quickly
AT length the craze for building specula-
ton seized him, and he built houses wher-
ever sites were obtainable. He went on in
this way for some time, when his mind
became unhinged, and he was found one
day walking around his newly built houses
firing shots from navy revolver at imag-
mary enemies-Boston Traveller.
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Col. Choptank a Fishin'.

1--WE been up the river bass fish
in" said Colonel Choptank today
when the Star man asked him what
made his nose so red.
'.You see, ledge Cherrystone
with whom / am stopping, said be
could give nae finer fishin' than we
had on the Eastern Sho', and | went
up to see about it,
"How did it turn out p
II amt got anything 10 say agin
bass fishin'. It is sho'ly fine-spo't
However, we struck a place called
Hancock, up here in Maryland, and
fshed all day Saturday. When we
went in at night the Jedge told the
landlord to get the boat ready fol-
early next morning
why you amt gointo fish on a
Sunday r says the landlord. Don't
you fear the Lord We fear the
Lord around here
"The jedge said we'd go some
where else, then, and called for ouI
bill. Well the way that old man
robbed US was scan lous. 1t was S.
a day for the boat and S. a day
apiece for board.
No wonder you fear the Lord
around Hancock said the Jedge
You've got good reason to be
afraid of Him.
'Then we went to another place
and had some magnificent spot. ]
thought ! knew what fishin' was or
the Eastern Sho', but that bass fish
in lays over all. / haven't go'
words to describe it. Honestly
sub, to show you how absorbing .
spot it is, / was that bound up in il
that | forgot to take drink all day
and for an Eastern Sho' man, that (
saying heap.
II heard a story on Grover Cleve
land, )" continued the Colonel. "Ht
was up the river fishin' when he was
President. wunst, and had well
known character for his boatman
1t seems that Grover took severa
pulls ut the bottle and never Offered
the boatman any. Finally, aftel
the old man couldn't stand it any
longer, he seq, MIR. President, al
your boatman, / am your servant
On the other hand, as President o
the United States, you are the ser
want OF the people, and. therefore
my servant. In the latter capacity
you'll please pass me that bottle.
And he did it, too. '-Washingtol
Star.
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Personality Conducted Tours
via Pennsylvania Railroad.

That tue public have come to rec
ognize the fact that the best and
most convenient method of pleasure
travel is that presented by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company s
personally-conducted tours, is evi.
denced by the increasing popularity
of these tours. Under this system
the lowest rates are obtained, for
both transportation and hotel ac-
commodation. An experienced tour
ist agent and chaperon accompany
each tour to look after the comfort
of the passengers.
The following tours have been ar
ranged for the season OF 1897:
To Yellowstone Park on special
train of Pullman sleeping, compart
ment, and observation cars aud din
ing car, allowing eight days in
"Wonderland,' September 2. Rate,
$235 from New York, Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington $3.50
from Pittsburg.
To Niagara Falls, excursion tick.
cts good to return within ten days
will be sold on July 22d, August 9Th
and 10th, September 4th and 18th at
rate of $40 from Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington. These
tickets include transportation only
and will permit of stop over within
limit at Buffalo, Rochester and
Watkins on the return trip.
Two ten day tours to Gettysburg
Luray Cavern, Natural Bridge, Vir
gina Hot Springs. Richmond and
Washington, September 28tb and
October IL. Rate, $65 from New
York, $63 from Philadelphia.
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A good story Of james G. Blaine is told
by d writer In the St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat. The incident related was a ma gnani-
nous and clever act of the mime states.
man, when, as speaker Of the house, be got
through resolution appropriating s1s, goo
to the Ecedy widowed daughter OF Presi-
dent Zachary Taylor. This lady got as
far as Washington on her way to Paris to
see sick daughter, and. being destitute
of money, appealed TO her only friend at
the capital, General Sherman His purse
was always open to the distressed, but he
had no funds at all adequate to relieve her
necessities In this emergency he thought
of Blaine. The man from Maine entered
into the spirit Of the occasion as soon as be
heard General Sherman's statement He
called another to the chair and made a
five minutes speech that fairly electrified
the house, which passed the resolution
Blaine had penned only a moment before.
He took the resolution in person to the SEN
ate, where it was also Immediately passed,
had the president to sign it the next day,
and on the following day the beneficiary
got the money. General Sherman always
insisted that Blaine would have made the
grandestactor that ever lived, and in adapt
ing his career to politics be robbed the
stage of born star
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Edmond &c Aaiois, &c Italian writer,
visited Sardon in Paris and describes the
visit in his :, eoya Autologia. . OF the
old dramatist he says:
"He looked little like Napoleon, lit
tie like Voitaire ard a little like the smil-
ing portrait of malicious actress which !
had seen in a shop window the previous
day. He wore large black velvet cap,
below which fell long, waving gray locks
He had a silk handkerchief ronnd his neck
and was wrapped in a wide. dark colored
Jacket, which looked like demidressing
gown. My attention was riyeted by his
strange face, without beard and colorless,
with long nose and pointed chin and ir-
regular and strongly marked features,
lighted up by two koenly sparkling gray
eyes, full of thought, the glances of which
correspondent with the rapid motion of the
thin and flexible lips, and the acute yet
benevolent expression of the whole face,
sometimes Illuminated by bright, slight
ly hooking smile, like that of a quite
young man. He did not look more than 20
years of age, and when he spoke he seemed
still Younger
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Fell Dead.

These words are very familiar to
our readers, as not a day passes
without the report of the sudden
death of some prominent citizen.
The explanation is "Heart Disease
Therefore beware if you have any of
the following symptoms: Short
breath, pain in side, smothering
spells swollen ankles. asthmatic
breathing, weak and hungry spells,
tenderness in shoulder or arm, fiut-
tering of heart, or irregular pulse.
These symptoms mean heart disease.
The most reliable remedy is DR..
Miles New Heart Cure, which has
saved thousands of lives. Book Of
testimonials free at A. M. Gilbert's.
who also sells the New Heart Cure.
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Sometimes the most careful wo-
men are the most careless. Many q
woman bundles herself up, to keep
out sickness-when she is negiecting
the very worst sickness that can
come 10 a woman. She allows a
slight disorder to become worse, to
slowly sap her vitality. The little
pain and the other slight indications
of trouble seem to her unimportant.
She goes on, with increasing suffer
ing, until life itself becomes drag
Nervousness, sinking spells" d.
gtstive disturbances, and fifty other
complications may arise from the
arrangement of the organs distinct.
ly feminine. Over thirty years ago,
the need for a reliable remedy for
so-called "female COMPLAINTS was
recognized by DR.. r. Y. Pierce,
then as now. chief consulting physi-
clan to the Worlds Dispensary and
Inyalids' Hotel, at Buffalo. N. Y.
He prepared DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, the most wonderfully
effective remedy that has ever been
used for such maladies.
Send 81 cents in one-cent stamps
and receive DR.. Pierce s zoos page
Common Sense Medical Adviser
illustrated.
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Bright faced, happy, rallickilig, playful
babies thousands of tii-ni all over the
broad lend. have /, their bodies the seeds
OF serious diseases, and while they laugh
and play are faeing death. The mother, in
tie majority of cases, is uncorsciously re.
sponsibie fcf this sad state of Affairs. Where
tffe mother, during the anxious period, suf-
fers from weakness and disease of the dis
tinctly feminine organism. it is useless to
expect q sound and healthy baby. Every
woman may be strong in wonlanly way,
and have robust, happy children.
A wonderful medicine for women is DR..
Pieroe's Favorite Prescription. 1t is the
discovery of an eminent and skillful spe-
cialist, DR.. r. V. Pierce, for thirty years
chief consulting physician to the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo,
N. Y. II is a medicine that acts directly
and only on those delicate and important
organs that bear the burdens of maternity.
It makes them strong, healthy and elastic.
1t allays Inflammation, heals liberation,
stops debilitatingalrains and scothes pain.
II gives rest and tone to the tired nerves. 1t
fits for wifehood and motherhood 1t does
away with the discomforts of the expcctant
period and makes baby's coming easy and
comparatively painless Honest druggists
will not offer an inferior substitute for the
sake of little extra profit
II suffered for years from displacement debi1i-
tating drains, Inflammation and weak back i"
writes Mrs. Bessie Mcpherson, of 50 So. Main St,
Providence r. I. Al travelled with my husband,
aud first noticed my weaknesses coming on when
the Jolt of the cars became unbearable stop
ped travelling but the trouble steadily grew worse
/ suffered SO that became respondent and wish
ed for death. took only a few bottles of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription and was perma-
nently cured"
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ENGLISH EPIcUREs.
The Deer That Furnish yenison For the
London Markets,

The Deer That Furnish yenison For the
London Markets.
The two kinds which reach London, red
deer and fallow, are in season at different
times and probably need some difference
of treatment in preparing for the table.
The season for red deer yenison opens in
the beginning of July, is at it's best in
August and the first fortnight of Septem
Der and closes or ought to close when
the stays begin roaring at the end of that
month. Fallow bucks come into season
in June, when the does are giving birth to
their fawns, but the winter fallow yenison
is the fattest and best, bucks and does
being both in season. Most of the red deer
venison which finds its way to London il
Scotch-wild yenison, shot in the forests.
There is great difference in quality in this
highland venison. To be good venison
needs to be fat, and unlike most game the
"artifcially fed" deer, or, rather, the deer
that enjoys the feed of a good English
park, is better for the table than when
picking up q hard living on Scotch
mountain, but there are varieties of Scotch
deer. Those on forests with plenty of low
ground attached grow fat and heavy, and
the meat is as good as that of an English
park fed stag. The only thoroughly bad
British red deer venison is that of stays
shot too late in tho season, when they are
roaring.
At the end of October and beginning Of
November the flesh deteriorates rapidly
and is rank and poor evidence, if any
were needed, that the shooting ought to
have closed earlier, but q good deal Of
Russian venison, shipped ready and cut
s,,4~. 81. t. l,a
same rules as to season govern the supply
of red deer venison from English parks,
but the weight and quality of the latter
are superior to the Scotch. Most large
proprietors find sale for their spare veni-
son near home, and consequently it is less
common in the market Red deer kinds
are again in season in winter, but the fall
low venison is in every way better. Some
is even stall fed, and the carcasses show
almost as much fat as does small mutton.
-Cornhill Magazine.
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lust For Once.

Two up state farmers, Jerry and Jake,
had been enjoying a brief holiday at New
York, and during the trip they had seen a
great many sights. Jerry was rather q
domineering sort of fellow, and, some
what to his companions annoyance and
humiliation, had taken the lead all day.
In fact, Jake had been trailed about here,
there and everywhere willy nilly without
being consulted, and he was just about sick
of it all At last it was time to go home
When they reached the station, Jake
marched upon the platform and jumped
into the first car he saw.
What have you got in there for9'' de-
manded Jerry as he came up.
ITO please myself, returned Jake sulk-
lily.
"Well, get out then, This isn't our
train, said Jerry.
II don't care straw whose train 1t is,
Jerry. Pm going with It,
Jake, don't be a fool. This train
deesn't go our way. It goes to Chicago,
and that's where it will take you if YOU
don't get out.
81 tell you don't caro- where it takes
ma TO, Jerry. You have had your own
way with me all the day, and I've never
gone anywhere wanted to 60 So / don't
care if it takes me to San Francisco. I'm
going to please myself just for once. -
Harper's Round Table.
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A Happy Remedy.

Two physicians were talking together,
when one of them raised his hat to lady
whom they met.
"a patient?' asked the other.
ooh, in way" answered the first doc
tor. 81 treated her the other day for q
small difficulty
"What was it?''
"a wart ON the nose"
"And what did you prescribed"
81 ordered her to refrain absolutely from
playing on the piano.
The other doctor was astonished.
Ordered her to leave off playing the
piano for wart ON the nose. Well, can t
understand your treatment.
ST you knew the circumstances, you
would" said the first doctor. "She occu-
pies the fiat under mine. London Fun.
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Women No Longer Stroud Themselves
in Crepe Trappings.

A casual observation OF the great
world of women passing in review
on the public thoroughfares would
cause one to think, according TO the
standard of bygone days, that the
feminine heart did not let grief
weigh On it as heavily as of yore,
and that sorrow had grown old
fashioned and mourning discarded
habit, says a writer in an article on
"The Passing OF the Crepe Veil"
The heavily drsped sable figure
swathed in crepe from head to toe
is rarely seen any more. The deep
crepe veil that once was thought the
necessary outward indication OF IN
ward woe has passed, to join mui-
titude of other similarly ridiculous
and unhealthy modes that women
have discarded, when their common
sense and their family physician
have Joined in despotic embargo.
To show the proper respect to the
memory of ones dead is commenda-
BILE, and 10 touch with all the fner
instincts supposed to be possessed
by the gentler sex. but the depth oil
grief can not be guaged by the
thickness of the veil or the quality
of the crepe, and it is as likely that
just as heavy burden of sorrow is
carried beneath a sensible outer
covering of somber hue as was ever
hidden beneath the hideous veil that
made its wearer look like some
grewsome mummy in an assem- blage
of animated mortals. Many a wo'
man has sacrificed her health to a
mistaken notion of respect to the
dead, indicated by the thickness Of
the crepe which hid her sorroWful
eyes from the gaze of sn unfeeling
world.
Tears and dye have wrought sad
havoc with many fair face, and it
is pleasant to note that at last CON-
mon sense has gained the ascen-
dency over sentimental tradition.
The passing of the crepe veil is one
of the most commendable depart
ures from the conventionality OF
fashion that the thinking woman
has yet made.
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BEDouIN SONG.


From the desert ] come to thee
On a stallion shod with fire.
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under the window stand,
And the midnight hears my cry
/ love thee, / love but thee,
With love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment book
unfold
Look from thy window and see
My passion ana my pain.
! lie on the sands below,
And I faint in thy disdain.
Let the night winds touch thy brow
With the heat of my burning sigh,
And melt thee to hear my vow
OF love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves Of the Judgment book
unfold
My steps are nightly driven
By the fever in my breast
To hear from thy lattice breathed
Tho word that shall give me rest
Open the door Of thy heart,
And open thy chamber door,
And my kisses shall teach thy lips
The love that shall fade no more
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the judgment book
unfold
-Bayard Taylor.
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Peter cooper's Advice.

Here is what old Peter Cooper
who died in New York, worth mil
lions, said of newspapers
I'm all towns where a newspaper
is published every man should adj
vertise in it, if nothing more than q
card stating his name and the BUSH
ness be is engaged in. 1t not only
pays to advertise, but let's the peo-
pie at distance know the town in
which you reside is prosperous
community OF business men,
Never pull down your sign whils
you expect to do business.
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BROOKLYN. N. Y, Dec. Is, 1896.
MEssRs. ELY Bros. I'll have used
Ely's Cream Balm a number OF
years and find it works like q
charm. 1t has cured me Of the
most obstinate case of Cold in the
Head in less than 48 hours from the
time ] felt the cold coming on, and
could not be without it.
Respectfully yours,
283 Hart st. FRED & FRIES.
Cream Balm is kept by all drug
gists. Full size so cents. Trial size
10 cents. We mail it.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren St., New York City.
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Hoods
chest, always ready, al Evzo> ass
ways efficient, always sat- aHE@
isfactory; prevent a cold IL d -
or fever, cure all liver ills,
sick headache, jaundice, constipation, etc. CSC.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.

Some idea of the magnitude of the
worlds shipping interests can be
obtained from the fact that the loss
es at sea from shipwreck and other
causes for the first quarter of 1891
were 254 vessels, with an aggregate
carrying capacity of 212,O94 tons.
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Onions and Rheumatism.

A large Spanish onion stewcd slowly
until tender in weak stock quickly made
from beef extract and hot water is a most
palatable and nourishing dish, especially
useful, according to physicians, in coun-
teracting the poison of rheumatic govt 1t
should be we'll seasoned with cayenne.
The late supper of chronic sufferer from
this same rheumatic govt, and which is
taken just before retiring, consists of a
perfectly roasted apple, without sugar, but
with thick cream and two large slices of
brown bread-NeW York Post