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Remarkable ldeas Of eeautv,

1t is remarkable 10 learn the ex-
traordinary ideas Of female beauty
which characterize different ma
tions. The ladies Of Arabia stain
their fingers and toes red, their eye
brows black and their lips blue. In
Persia they paint a black streak
around their eyes and ornament
their faces with representations of
various figures.
The Japanese women adopt the
singular method of gliding their
teeth, and those Of tho Indians
paint them red. In some parts of
India the pearl of the tooth must
20 dyed black before woman can
sbe beautiful. The Hottentot wom-
en- paint the entire body in compart-
ments of red and black.
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Care Of the Plano.

Every one has observed after pur-
chasing a new piano that it soon
takes on dull, smoky appearance.
To remove this use fine sponge,
tepid water and CASTLE soap. Go
over the case, little at time. The
water alone without the soap will
usually be all that is needed. "a
chamois skin as dry as can be wrt1ng
out of water should be used to dry
the surface after using the sponge.
For old pianos polish Of raw lin
seed oil 1.-TWO parts), alcohol and best
vinegar ..one part each) may be ap-
piled with good results if care be
taken to 'ssc very little at time
and to thoroughly rub that little
off. Shake the polish frequently,
use soft cotton cloth, one piece to
rub it on and large clean piece to
finish it off with. Bruises, usually
on the front, can be taken off by
rubbing with powdered pumice
stone and water or with sapolio.
Clean the keys with alcohol and wa
te., equal parts. # 8,
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Cunning oulIs.

An example OF the cunning of
g1lls was observed at Tacoma when
several alighted on bunch of logs
that had been in the water for a
long time, with the submerged sides
thick with barnacles. One was a
big gray fellow, who seemed to be
the captain. He walked to par
tieular log, stood on one side of it
close to the water and then uttered
peculiar cries. The other gulls came
and perched on the same side Of the
log, which under their combined
weight rolled over several inches.
The gulls, step by step, kept the
log rolling until the barnacles
showed above the water. The birds
picked eagerly at this food, and the
log was not abandoned until every
barnacle had been picked.
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Peculiar Rainatorms.

There is at least one place in the
United States where a man may lie
out in q heavy rain and not get wet
even though he has neither mackin-
tosh nor umbrella. In the Colorado
desert they have transforms during
which not drop of water touches
the earth. The rain can be seen
falling from the clouds high above
the desert, but when the water
reaches the stratum of hot, dry air
beneath the clouds it is entirely abb
sorbed before falling half the dis
tance to the ground. It is singu-
lar sight to witness heavy down
pour of rain not drop Of which
touches the ground. These strange
transforms occur in regions where
the shade temperature often ranges
as high as 1873 degrees F.
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aen's Hats In EIlzabeth,a Time.

The gay young courtiers of the
queen-Elizabeth of immortal mem
ory-shone resplendent in high
crowned hats of rare device, which,
like the brilliant Raleigh, they hung
around with strings of pearls.
Kingsley describes his Elizabethan
adventurer John Oxenham as hav-
ing on his head ga broad yelyet
Spanish hat" and Master Frank
Leigh as shading his delicate COM
plexion from the sun with ca broad
dove colored Spanish hat with
feathers to match, looped up over
the right ear with a pearl brooch"
But hats or caps were worn ac-
cording to taste or circumstances,
and Scott tells us that when Leices-
ter rode bareheaded at Elizabeth's
side on her entry into Kenilworth
his esquire had charge of his lord
ships black velvet bonnet, gar-
nished with clasp of diamonds
and surmounted by white plume.
Chambers Journal.
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a HAPPY SEQUEL.
The Result Of a Fnilcitous Termlna.
&lon to Novel

~SS's W - IHuCitOuS t6Fmtnds
ton to a Novel.
A fcw years ago one of ourSmost
popular noyelists was busily en-
gagged in writing serial novel for
o London Journal when a certain
nobleman called ON her in a state of
intense excitement.
"Do tell. me-" said he, tshave you
finished the story now appearing
in -W
"Why, of course; some time ago."
was the reply.
"Does the heroine die at the
end2"
ooh, certainly. After such con-
sumptive symptoms as I have de-
scribed how could she possibly
liver"
''But you must make her live.
You must change the catastrophe,
for on your heroine's life depends
my daughters"
"Your daughter's?" exclaimed
the novelist in surprise.
eyes," was the startling rejoin-
der. "She has all the various
symptoms Of consumption which
you have described and watches
mournfully for every number of
your novel, reading her own fate
in that Of your heroine. Now, if
you make your heroine live I feel
persuaded that my daughter, whose
imagination has been very deeply
impressed; will live too. Come, o
life to save is temptation"-
"Not to be resisted" added the
novelist.
Consequently the last chapter was
changed. The heroine recovered and
was duly made happy. About five
years after the novelist met the
nobleman at party.
"Ahw he exclaimed, s1et me In
troduce you to my daughter. ]
think she owes her life to you
There she is.''
"What! That handsome woman
who looks the very picture OF
health? ?"
eyes; she is married, and has
had three children"
"And my novel has had three
editions" said the novelist with a
laugh; $50 we are auits."- ."-London
Tit-Bits.
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Japanese Serenity.

Perhaps the secret of the sweet
expression and habitual serenity of
the Japanese women can be found
in their freedom from small wor-
ries. The fashion Of dress never
varying saves the wear of mind over
that subject, and the baroness Of
the houses and simplicity of diet
make housekeeping o mere baga-
telle. Everything is exquisitely
clean and easily kept so. There is
no paint, no drapery, no crowd of
little ornaments, no coming into
the houses in the footwear worn in
the dusty streets. And then the
feeling Of living in the rooms that
can be turned into balconies and
verandas at a moments notice, of
having walls that slide away as free
ly as do the scenes on the stage and
let in all out of doors or change
the suits of rooms to the shape and
size that the whim of the day or the
ho'lr requires! The Japanese are
learning much from us, some things
not to their improvement. We
might begin, with profit to our
selves, to learn of them.
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CURING A BaLKY HORSE.
An Easy and Effective Remedy. Al.
though Bit Heroic.

All Idsy ana Effective Remedy, Al.
though BIT Heroic.
"Ohly. pacc in my life have /.
been stuck on balky horse" said
the old horseman, .and I worked
cure in manner you may call he
roic. Most horses balk out of pure
.Eussedness. They won't move be-
auseathey; don't want to. This an
in.al was alE right until I got him
shomes ard then he revealed all his
meanness. Neither coaxing nor
licking. did any good. He'd go only
when he took q notion to. I be-
came disgusted with his tricks, and
one day I drove him over to a acoun-
Try. railroad crossing. There was
quite g steep gradeaat the crossing,
and l figured that he would balk on
the tracks. For this reason I had
hitched him to en- old vehicle. True
to my figuring, the beast came to
q dead stop at the top Of the grade
and stood right across the rails. I
LETT him there and got down and
walked away for few rods, as I
didn't want to be hit by the splin-
ters.
'It was forty minutes before I
caught sight of a freight train down
the road. The horse heard and saw
1t, and il l had coaxed him o little
he would have moved on. wasn't
coaxing, however, and when he aaw
| wasn't he braced his feet, dropped
his ears and determined to die game.
AS the whistle footed T saw him
trembling, and as the rails began to
hum he rolled his eyes, but he never
moved till the cowcatcher picked
him up. How high he went up I
can't say, but he landed in a swamp
with an awful thud, and pieces of
the wagon rained down for five min
utes after. l supposed the horse
was dead, of course, and went back
to the farm to say so, but within
two hours he came limping home
and asked to be- taken in. In
week he was as good as ever, but
what a change in disposition! He
was like a boy after good spank
ing, and, although owned him for
five years after that, he never baked
again. Now and then he seemed a
bit inclined to, but all I had to do
was to go foot, tcot, toot!' and he
would drop his tail and ears and be
good for the next three months."-
Detroit Free Press.
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The Grave Of St. swlthin.

st. Swithin, by his express re-
quest, was buried in the open
churchyard, thinking no vault was
so good to cover his grave as that
of heaven" When he was canon
lied, however, the monks of Win
chester took it into their heads that
his body ought to have more dig
nified resting place, and resolved to
remove it into the choir, fixing the
18th of July for it's solemn trans
lation. It rained, however, 80 vi
olently on that day and for forty
days in succession that they aban-
doned their design as contrary to
the divine will and instead erected
a chapel over his grave, at which
many mir'cles are said to have been
wrought.
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Company Manners.

The pitfalls of company manners
receive fresh exemplifcation in
the story of woman who, having
heard that it was impoite to press
a guest to have more of dish at
table, thereby calling attention to
the second serving, SO instructed
her daughter previous to dinner
she was giving, charging her to act
accordingly. At the table she heard
her say, .'A1r. K, will you have some
oysters ?" and Immediately the
mother exclaimed in Mortified
tone:
"Why, hasn't Mr.. X. been served
to oysters yet?"
Whereupon the daughter respond
ed that he had been helped three
times, which contributed to the hap
plness of neither mamma nor Mr..
n
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Coughs Qr!ck Wit.

An effort of one of John B. Coughs
tours of tho West was to arouse his
converts to political movement in
favor Of prohibition; anu iu several
states the politicians began to give
consideration to the cry, says the
Philadelphia Times. The distillers
and liquors dealers are said to have
been SO frightened that they employed
men to follow and lecture, sit among
the audience aud endeavor to con.
found him with questions. He had
worked Topeka. Kan, audience up
to tine pitch of excitement, aud in
his effective manner, cried:
Temperance! temperance Tenn
perance (! It will mean money in
your pocket, clothes on your back,
happiness in your homes, and God in
your heart"
Up leaped one of the paid inter.
rupters and shouted to the audience
Money in your pockets! Why,
follow citizens. follow this man ideas
and we'll all be in the poorhouse
Think of the fields of tasseled corn
that stretch on every side Whiskey
is made from corn. We sell millions
of dollars worth Of corn to the whisk,
makers. Stop the manufacture o.
whiskey and whatll we dog
Then turning to Cough he wen
on:
"You, Mr.. Smarty-whatll we do
Tell US, if prohibition comes, what
we do with our corn?"
"Raise moro hogs, my fricnd,' re
piled Cough, without seconds hesi
tation.
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GOING BY ELECTRICITY.
some Things the Trolley Car Con-
duetor Must Be and Do.

eome Things the Trolley Car Con.
duetor Must Be and Do.
The successful conductor joins to
,hc chivalry and impressiveness off,
policeman the savoir faire of the
Gentleman behind the, silk counter,
for persons whe go home;from clubs,
at 2 in the morning maythaye to ibf'
persuaded in six s1ifPoreniE5 fsSays '6a.
fore they offer anything to s.ring
up," l says Charles M:Sskinner in tie
Atlantic. y tens M s 81
The conductor must keep fifty or
sixty streets in mind. he must be
sure to let the elderly lady off at
the one she has been thinking of,,
and when she foils him hemust not
impcach her veracity if she Gust
knew" she told him. He must not
allow the man who hmmerses him
self in newspaper to forget an OBJ
lieation Of 5 cents to the company.
He must curb a natural inclination
20 embrace the wives of strangers
when he lifts them up the steps.
He must call the attention Of Tor
getful persons to the fact that they
are chewing tobacco or are drunk.
He must arbitrate between the man
who opens the window and the wo.
man who wants it shut and shut it.
He must insinuatc himself up and
down the aisle of his car without
tipping standees into the laps of
irasciblc bankers or treading on
the corns of such as wear them.
And while others clutch at straps
or dashboards or doorknobs or the
cord he rings his fares with, when
the notorman is seized with. sud
den frenzy for action he must never
lie down on the floor or lose his dig
nifty. He can be philosophic after
he grows used to it and find adyah-
tages in lis wild career. AS CON
ductor remarked: soThe worst of GO
in by Electricity is it most shakes
your liver out. But you never get
dyspepsy."
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The Same Old Story.

j. A. Kelly relates an experience
similar to that which has happened in
almost every neigbborhood in the Uni
ted States and has been told and re-
told by thousands Of others. He says:
last summer l had an attack of dy-
sentery and purchased bottle Of
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, which used &C
cording to directions and with entire
ly satisfactory results, The trouble
was controlled much quicker than for
mer attacks when used other RENE.
dies" Mr. Kelly is well known
citizen of Henderson, N. c. For sale
by Orr Gray 4 Co.
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Gypsy Notions About Mountains.

In some of the gypsy tribes living
about central Europe the noun
tains are called bar, 'trags," or
nluchlyis, which last term usually
means "clouds," "mist," the same
name being applied to the clouds as
the mountains; the latter being re-
garlcd as kind of pathway to
heaven. According to gypsy ideas
the clouds are daughters of the
mist king, and the lightning flashes
the sons of the fire king, who
would soar up high into space, but
the wind king comes and drives
them down to the earth, their grand
mother. In their flight before the
wind king the lightning and its
progeny very often lose the road to
their father, the fife king, who
dwells deep in the earth, and fall
PROSTATE in the wrong part of the
earth, where they. are changed to
stones. Such lightning stones,
known in Germany as thunderbolts
and weather stones, are pushed out
of the ground after nine years, and
whoever finds such q stone on a
mountain will be rendered lucky if
he always carries little bit of this
stone with him.
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Wasted Enerax.

"Madw he exclaimed. "Of course
I'm mad. I tell you what we need
in this world is some good system
OF general thought transference or
mind reading. You know how hard
l worked to get Margaret"
eyes"
Gust gave all my waking
thoughts to the subject, neglected
my business, and all that, and made
a fool Of myself generally"
But you succeeded"
ooh, yes; we're engaged. And
now that we have exchanged conf
dences / find that she was working
just as hard to get me, snd it makes
us both mad to think of the waste
Of effort"
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spuraeon's ForcIblo wav.

Spurgeon sometimes carried dra-
matte action to ludicrous excess
in the pulpit. Mr.. Haweis says that
once in the middle of his sermon
the preacher shouted out: "What's
that thee says, Paul, Z can do all
things? I'll bet thee half crown
O. that" So the preacher took out
half q crown and put it on the Bible.
However" ho continued, '1et's see
what the apostle has to say for
himself" So he read on, Through
Christ that strengtheneth me- Oh"
says he, eff that's the terms of the
bet I'm off" And he put the half
crown back into his pocket.
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Hair Restrained by Law.

!" Centuries ago for some reason it
was thought necessary to introduce
a kind of sumptuary law with re-
spect to the length Of garments and
the length Of the hair. Men were
forbidden to wear their hair on
their shoulders and women to wear
the long plaits hanging loose. It
was mark Of distinction for maid
ems to wear long hair, only the slave
born having it cut short. So it is
not likely that women of free birth
were induced by any edicts to cut
their hair loose, but orly to confne
it within reasonable bounds.
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An Opportunity.

"And how is the poor lady on
your first floor ?" asked fine dame
who was district visiting.
Very sadly, ma'am," replied the
Lodging house keeper. "She'llShard,
~ last over the night.
Dear, dear!" re;oined the sym.
pathetic inquirer. sIs she ,con-
scious ?" w. ~ ~ q
Only at times, ma'am; just be-
tween the fits, you know"
An, yes, very sad; very sad in
deed! Next time she comes tG
wish you'd ask her the address OF
her laundress. She was a very good
one, recollect, and worked cheap"
London Tit-Bits.
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sotas.o Acid.

Boracic acid is an element of VOL
panic gases and is found in combina-
ton with various salts in the vicin-
ity Of active or extinct volcanoes in
different portions of the world.
Borax is largely used in glassmak-
ing in pottery glazing and enamel
ing and medically for the treatment
OF external sores and ulcerations.
1t is valuable as an antiseptic and
in Sweden is largely used in the
preservation of meat and milk, pro-
ducing, it is claimed, no unpleasant
or unwholesome effects.
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cIRCUMsTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
The Events That Led Ono Man to he.
gard It With Suspicion.

9dTo te Witn suspicion.
"As to circumstantial evidence,
it's queer thing" said the man in
the brown suit. Give or six years
ago | was in certain town for G.
night when bank wss robbed.
Next morning T was arrested as an
eccomplice, it being contended that
! wis seen idling in front of the
bank and evidently acting as SEN
tinel to those within. Three differ
ent persons identified me as the
man, and fourth claimed to have
seen me enter the hotel at late
hour by way of o shed and q win
dow. | was locked up for e:samina-
ton, with d chance of things going
hard with INC, when evidence began
to come forward on my side. The
landlord asserted and swore that T
was sitting in the Office at 10 o'clock
p. IN. Two servants swore they saw
me going to my room half an hous
later. A man having rooms oppo-
site the hotel swore that he saw me
smoking at my window at midnight.
A guest of the hotel who had q
room next to mine swore that my
Chores disturbed him from midnight
till 2 O'Clock and that he heard me
turn over in bed at 8, and SO was
honorably discharged from custo-
dy."
"But about its being quecr?" was
asked.
"Why, all the people on both
sides were mistaken. I was not
outside the bank at the time named,
and neither was I in the hotel"
"But you were somewhere
ooh, of course. Fact is, I got
mashed on the landlords daughter
and we sat up all night on bal
cony and talked love and looked at
the moonfight-yes, sir, sat there
all night like couple of idiots, and
though I declared I would die fol
her and she said she only wanted
me and humble cottage, she was
married to a red haired butcher
within year and ] was being sued
by snub nosed widow for breacl
of promise. I was simply obsery
ing, you know, that circumstantia
evidence is a queer thing, and
wish to add that jurymen should
not be influenced too much by it,
-Pearson's Weekly.
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diamond cuttlna.

Not only is diamond cutting not a
specially highly paid occupation,
but it is one involving q most hu-
initiating system of espionage to
the worker. Each man has to strict
" account for the stones he receives
on going to work in the morning
and the count has to be carefully
taken when the unfinished work is
handed in at night to be locked up
in safe, against the return of the
workmen the next day. The posi-
bilities Of theft are great, though a
dishonest workman knows that an
attempt to dispose of an unfinished
stone would bring suspicion upon
him wherever the attempt was made.
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NO MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Farmer Told the Parson Why Ha
sHe;tCd Him to Drink.

!Hs;tcd Him to Drink.
Ono cold Sunday morning as the
Worshiners from little country
church in England were slowly
vending their way toward their
homes a bnrly old Devonshirc farm
er might have been seen leaning
over his yard gate, nodding his head
and wishing cheerful Good day!"
to passersby.
At last his greetings became less
frequent, and, telling himself that
nearly every one must have passed,
lie was about to turn away VIXEN he
deserted the we'll known form of the
vicar coming down the road.
Every cold day, farmer" COM
mented the clergyman as he drew
near.
"Mortal cold, indeed" was tie
hearty response. ssBc e too proud
to step inside minute ar taste G
good glass o sweet cider, pa'son ?"
81 am not too proud, Of course" /"
r..turned the vicar amusedly, "but I
will not accept your kind offer all
t',e same, thank you, for, to tell
you the truth, it is close upon my
dinner hour, and I must go straight
home"
"Then you bcan't thirsty?:"
"NO, thanks"
"Look @ here, pa'son" exclaimed
the farmer. "Us don't want te
have no misunderstanding for want
@ few words O explanation, an
should like for e to know that
shouldn't have made so bold as t.
ask e to drink if it hadn't been fo1
what I heard the doctor say to hi
son bout you as he went past m,
yard a quarter hour ago"
"What was that ?" asked the vic
ar, with considerable interest.
"Why," said he, ""The vicar i
terrible dry this morning."
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Roberts
Chill Tonic

Enters the blood, drives out the yellow
poison and stops the trouble at once.
1t not only prevents but completely
cures chills, fevers, night sweats and
malaria. The manufacturers know
all about this yellow poison, and have
perfected Roberts Tonic to drive it
out, nourish ycur system. restore appe.
tite, purify the blood. 1t has cured
thousands of cases of chills, fevers and
malaria. It will cure you or your
money back. THIS is fair. Try it.
Price, 25c.
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. srIdges In China.

Most ancient Chinese bridges are
only wide enough to allow the pas
sage of two mounted men, ratings
on each side serving to insure the
travellers safety. It is thought
highly probable that the mission
aries who first reported on the early
suspension bridges of China, and
who, of course, gave some idea of
their plan of construction, were
really the cause of that unique
species of bridge building being
adopted by western nations.