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T^ T^ 9* ^1 â-  I HOMES OF THE HOVRI. Irftvely Daneen in the Shah of Pcmtla's Harem â€" Women In the Orient â€" H«r lutrlKuea ami Ainuneutents. The seuluBion which the Shah requires of hia wives is shown by the (juarters they occupy at the Ark or city palace. This is a vast enclosure, entered by a separate gate. In the centre of the court is an ele- gant garden. The ladies have each th3ir own apartments in regular order '.i the quadrangular building, which in its general plan is not unlike barracks, although of course more ornate and attractive. No windows open on the street, but every apartment faces the court. Ventilation is gained not only by the open windows reaching to the floor, which in that delight- ful climate are open the greater part of the year, but also through shafts leading from the roof and connected with wind towers called badgers. These towers form an important feature of Persian dwellings, and are often very gracefully shaped. They have apertures opening to the four winds of heaven. Not only are the wives of the Shah forbidden to gaze into the street, but neither must any other ladies of Teheran enjoy that cherished Erivilege. The flat roofs are surrounded y high walls, and thus while one may enjoy i\ delightful promenade toward even- ing on the roof of the house and contem- plate the vast and lovely landscape, one can see no one nor be seen. These restric- tions are much more rigorous in the case of ladies of rank than of the lower classes. The latter enjoy much greater freedom, and while obliged to keep the face well con- cealed when abroad are allowed much liberty, a liberty that there is no question results in adding to the corruption of morals. If a Persian wife cannot have the society of her husband she is likely to seek the society of other husbands. Intrigues are arranged by third parties, generally pro fessionals, usually old women. The women being able to see the man while he cannot see her face until she makes the first advances, luich intrigues usually com- mence by the woman tirsi taking a fancy to the man. It is comparatively easy for the lovers to meet after all is arranged, owing to the disguise worn by the woman, which makes it exceedingly difficult to dis- tinguish one woman fron another, and somewhat hazardous even for a jealous husband to attempt to penetrate that dis- guise. The wives of the Shah are not without entertainment at home, in spite of their apparent imprisonment. Many of them enjoy embroidering, and are capable of exquisite skill in the arts of needle work. Occasionally a lady is found in the Uoyal Anderoon who is inclined tu intellectual pursuits, and interest;) herself in the study of languages, in comi>osing poetry, painting or practising on the piano. Pianos, by the way, although carried over the mountain with extreme difficulty, are becoming quite common in Teheran. If our Uovernment had been more alert in protecting our interests in Persia and advancing our commerce there, doubtless American pianos would have found their way to that distant land before this. Not unfrwjuently these ladies give entertain- ments, to which the wives of most of the high dignitaries are invited, and one may jadge from hearsay that these occasions possess many features of a romantic char- acter. The afternoon is always the time â- elected. The sod under the pavilions or the trees is spread with carpets embroidered by hand ; the air is cooled by the spray of fountains tossing silver streams iu every quarter of the shaded terraces. Amid these fairy-liko scenes hundretls of ladies move, sliji^tly clad, the costume resembling that of a ballet dancer without the tights and stockings. On such occasions a white oymar of embroidered gossamer is thrown over the head, giving almost an ethereal effect to the flesh tints underneath. Music on the zither, songs and dancing girls add to the attractions of the fleeting hours, and abundant refreshments, i'lcluding un- stinted confectionery, appeal to what some call the grosser senses. The kalian, with its aromatic fumes, lends a finishing touch to a sc-ene which suggests the voluptuous episodes of the .\rabiau Nights. But one form of diversion is forbidden these royal ladles ; I refer to their inter- views with the court physicians. Ne.it to the sacred luxury of a confidential talk with a father confessor or a favored pastor, there is scarce any solace which possesses such attractions for the average woman as a sympathetic recital of her troubles and ailments to a trusted family physician. But neither one nor the other is allowed to see the wives of the Shah. No priest nor doctor can receive from them the soothing confession of sorrows and narrative of aches and pains. I Of course if she is ill then a wife of the | Shah receives medical attention. But the j physician may not obtain on en a sight of her face. Behind a curtain, surrounded by her attendants, she resiKjnds to his ques- tions ; in extreme need she juiy show her tongue, but no other part of her features. Nor is the interview altogether attrac- tive to the li.ysician, especially if he bo a native, for Li must necessarily be extremely guarded ia his language, and if the patient dies it may go hard with the doctor. He does not venture to prepare or furnish the drugs himself, and the modi- such outrages. By the expressed wish of the Shah a conference was then held at the Foreign Office to agree upon a modus Vivendi. The plan I suggested proved entirely acceptable to the Shah and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Emir Sultaneh was instructed to accept it. While appa- rently doing so he yet raised difficulties, doubtless in part because a powerful faction opposed to the missionaries was behind him, and eventually he resorted again to hia tactic* of annoyance. One of these was the erection of a screen wall on a party wall between the two premises. In this addition he caused two windows to be opened, overlooking the grounds of our citizens. This was such a direct violation of the Persian law that, although not con- trary to American customs, it could, under no circumstances, be accepted except as a gross insult, intended as an act of persecu- tion. To allow it to pass unnoticed would be to invite further attacks on our rights. With some difficulty I succeeded in having the windows walled up. A few months later, during my temporary absence in the suburbs, the Emir Sultaneh hastily threw up a pavilion on a corner of the party wall and opened five new windows directly over- looking the girls' school of the American mission. The matter had now reached a crisis ; the Minister of Foreign Affairs was either in league with or afraid of the power at the Emir Sultaneh, who seemed deter- mined to invade the right to the quiet enjoyment of property awarded by the treaty. In this emergency I succeeded by jirUHie in obtaining a legal decision from Httdgi MoUah Alee, the head of the Mus- sulmans of Persia, and also Chief Justice and expounder of the law, wbiob officially and emphatically announced th* law on the subject, in language so strong that the aggrieved party was even given authority to shoot any one opening windows overlook- ing a neighbor's grounds without his per- mission. Armed with this document, which represented the highest authority in the land, I succeeded at last in bringing the Government to terms, and the offend- ing windows were finally closed with masonry. The effect was at once seen in the quick redress gjven as soon after in an affair of far more importance to Selnias. S. G. W. Benj.vmin, Late U. ^. Minister to Persia. The Moilern BletUudH. We do not sigh for a return of the " good old days" whan boys went barefooted until they were 21, and walked ten miles to and from school. There are now new and im- proved methods of "toughening" boys. They are about as tough, generally si>eak- ing, as they can very well be. But we do soiniAimes long for a little of the old-fash- ioned discipline and " trouncing" methods that made boys subservient to the will of their parents in some slight degree. Imagine a good, old puritan mother getting her son Waitstill or Godspeed up of a morning after this, the fashion of our mod- ern mother. Fancy her saying : "Waitstill, you getting up?" And fancy Waitstill surlily replying ; " Yes'um, by'n by." "Well, I don't want any by and by about it. Hump yourself out of that now." " Well, purty soon." " It had better be pretty soon, young man, if you know what's good for you." " Well, I reckon there ain't no hurry about it." " I'll let yon know if there ain't, about tM time I come np ther« vv-t^ m pw» t># cold water." " Can't ye lot a feller sleep half a minute '/" " ' Haifa minute !' I'd say ' half a minute' if 1 was you, when you've been in bed thirteen hours. Now you crawl out of that instantly 1" " All right." Half an hour pajscsâ€" Waitstill does not appear. His mother's voice cuts the air in the hall. " You Waitstill Prosperity Dogood Win- throp !" " Wbacher want ?" " 1 want you to h'ist yourself out of that bed too quick ! You hear ?" " I ain't decf. " " Breakfast was over an hour ago, and not one single bite shall you have in this house before dinner." " ri.' see about thot." " So'U I, young man! You crawling out?" • Yes'm." Another half-hour passes, and Mistress Temperance Prudence Piety Winthrop's voice goes ringing upstairs "You Wait!" CANXIBALISAI IN HAVTI. Decline of BrltlHli Possegglonsâ€" Facts About West India. U. B. Powter, a resident of Kingston, on the Island of Jamaica, is at the Laclede Hotel. Me is the manager of a company which is engaged in mining phospliate on the Grand Cayman's Island, near Jamaica, and shipping it to the United States, \/here it is used for fertilizing purposes. This phosphate is the remains of animal life, according to geologists, and is thought to have been left in the immense beds in which it now lies by the subsidence of some prehistoric sea. The deposits upon the Grand Cayman's Island are in masses from three to fifty feet deep and at some distance from each other, some of them sustaining upon them the growth of forests known to be more than one hundred years old. Upon the present commercial and docal condition of Jamaica and the whole group of West Indian islands, Mr. Powter talks discouragingly. "The islands and their inhabitants are re- trograding rapidly," said he yesterday. " They are exporting less and less every year, and the natives are departing more and more from civilization. The reason I believe to be the abolition of slavery in 1824. The effects of that step were not felt by the white planMrs until the old slaves began to die, and the new generation had to be depended upon for labor. They would not work, not having been bred to industrious habits, and each old slave that died was so much loss to the ((uantity of labor to be obtained. Some of the planters resorted to the expedient of importingcooly labor and did very well, but a large number of owners did nut do this, and estates on the island went to ruin fast. As time passed on it became more and more diffi- cult to obtain laborers, and the evil effect of this unusual idleness was seen in yearly decreasing imports. The negroes need not work to get food and a house â€" tiiese can be had for nothing â€" and the only reason why they work at all is that they may earn enough money to dress in expensive and gaudy colored clothes. That is the only use they have for money. If slavery had nut been abolished, or if it could be re- established, the islands would flourish. " " What of the reports that the prac- tice of cannibalism has been revived in Hayti ?" " In the main they are true. Hayti, of all the West Indies, is the most marked ex- ample of the decay of the islands. When the French left ' it, in 177'2, they left a superficially, at least, religious people, with churches, factories and roads. Now there is not a church or factory in the island.aud but one road, while the Catholic religion has been abandoned for the Ubi or fetish worship, and cannibalism has again sprung up. The island is a black liepublic, and no whites are allowed to own property. In fact, the only whites on the island are a few European traders, who conduct the finan- cial affairs of the Government and lend it money. The island is not communicatod with by the people of the other islands, and the negroes are loft to devour one another as fast as they please. Their hunii>ii flesh eating i^not that of the past century. They do Jbt eat the flesh of those who have died, and having nobody to war with they can take no prisoners to cook and eat. They eat the flesh of children, taken when young, I>enued and fattened for the feast. Some- times they steal children from the neighbor- ing islands and fatten them fer their tables. They are drifting back into complete bar- tiKiisui, ana inBre is uu ^ivimation on me part of other islanders to interfere with their gradual extinction."â€" .S'f. Louii Globe- Democrat. Hey?" I'll • hey ' you, you idle thing, you ! I'll sins or the | tell your father on you." " Tell away." " You'll see what you'll get. Wait Win- throp. Not a single bite of breakfist do you get." " Guess I'll stay in bed, then." " I guess you won't, if I come up there ; you out of bed yet?" " Almost." " Well, I'll help you the rest of the way with the broomstick if you aint out in five minutes." Half an hour later he gets up. His breakfast has been kept warm for him. It is set on the table and a fresh cup of coffee ...».â„¢..i made. His mother dances attendance on crnesTie prescr^Ks'iiTu^'bi.' co'n.p^uiided'by I him during the meal, unmindful of all past servants of the pa) .ce to insure against "--^â€"^ ....«oa _r.,/. /(./«. danger of iwisoning, as" well as to protect the practitioner from suspicion. The European physicians practising at tho court of the Shih exercise somewhat â-  ^.^^jj^j^^^, ^j ^,,q proprietv of his receiv greater liberty ill the matter of dni^^s and j,,^ jjjg consolations of religion, and he threats and promises. â€" Tid-Hitf. ._ ^ X Peer'H Couipunctlun. When near his end. Lord Northingtoii prescriptions,' but even the\ are obliged to jg^jjiy a„reed that a divi procecii with great cautiou a'»d never at- i j^^.^^^ ^j^^^^ j^^^. j^,^ . nc should bo sent not with tempt any serious surgical operations when ^^^^^^ ,^g ^^j formerly been intimate, was tho patient is a Musaulmon. In the matter p^o.^ged, ho said, " No, that won't do. I of windows alluded toabove I am reminded j ^^^^ ^^n confess to him, for tho greatest sin of a case growing out of tho laws and ous- ^ ^y^^^^ y^^^^ ^^ answer for was making him toms regulating that question which gave ^ bi8liop."-(;/««i;ow //fr.iW. mo more trouble than any other which 1 ' ^ had to .leal with while at Teheran | Colorado Sensitive PUnt. Tho missionaries had built a chapel in , ~ ^ their own grounds, but adjoin;. ig the estate Colorado manâ€" So you think the trouble of Emir Sultaneh, n ixiwerful courtier, who with your boy is sensitiveness, eh ? had been endeavoring to persuade them to Omaha man â€" Yes ; he isn't fitted for sell the mission premises to him. As no knocking around in tho world. price could be agreed upon they declined to sell, and he then enterod on a series of an- noyances intended to force them to sell at any price. Twice he raised a mob of his It may bo. I know all about that. My family is the moat sensitivo folks you over seed ; can't staiul nothing. Why, I've got a brother that goes most crazy if ho sees a TheSeutvh Wheelbarrow Craxe Tho wheelbarrow cru. ) underwent a now and novel phase on the morning of the 31st ult. in Crieff, where at 10 o'clock a tailor named Robert Cow[)er, with a wooden leg, started from James' Square with an ordinary one-wheelejl barrow, " frnm (,'rieff to the Cross of Glasgow and back." Kobert was advertised to leave tho Cross at '.).4r>, nt which hour tho town's bell was rung. He was attired in a grey coat, open vest with white front, and his only foot adorned with a Ught spat, while his head-gear was a sou'wester cap. On proceeding along to James' Sijuare the pilgrim was received with c> <)er8 and much laughter, numerous jokes being passe<I with reganl to this the latest phase of the barrow mania, .\ftcr receiving a considerable sum of money, whiok was dropped into a collection Imx placed on the barrow, Uobert started on his journey, passing down King street followed by a large crowd, while both sides of tho street were densely crowded by spectators, who laughed and cheered by turns. Uobert passed through Stirling on tho afternoon of tke 1st iiist. He had experienced a strong head wind and heavy roads all tho way. He complained at Stirling of having been illiberally treated »o far. On tho night of tho 9d inat. a Glasgow re)K)rtcr awaiteil the arrival of Itobort, who reached tho Post Office at l.l.'i, and when he entered the building to got the oftice postal stamp placed on his book ho was awaited on iho outside by a largo and onthusiaHtic crowd. The barrow-pusher was attired like a seaiiiaii ready for a storm, as he wore a sou' wester and an oilskin coot. He appeared cheery, and not tho least fatigued. A VERYDKADLY NEEDLE. HypoiiermluIiviectliinH Which Causa Death in Many Casett, Opium has been known as a drug from a remote period, and is produced as an article of commerce in India, Persia, Egypt, and Asia Minor. In China opium is used to an enormous extent by all classes, the mode of taking it being to smoke an a({ueous extroct in a peculiarly formed pipe. Opium smoking began in China in the latter half of tho seventeenth century, and in spite of all the efforts of the govern- ment to prevent it rapidly spread till now it may be called a national practice. That the drinking and smoking of laudanum and opium are not unknown vices iu New York any physician will affirm. But there is a practice which is even more deleterious, the use of tho hypodermic syringe. To estimate tho growtJi of this evil, it is only necessary to take the testi- mony of druggists and dealers ir. surgical instruments. The fact is, it has become a problem with which social reformers must deal. Ac(iiiaintance with this method of taking opium is made innocently enough, it generally having been prescribed by the family physician to alleviate some tem- porary ailment. The effect is observed by the patient, and too often when the doctor goes tho syringe stays. There have been many stories of Urge quantities of opium taken by those addicted to tho habit without producing a fatal effect. An Englishman lately resid- ing in this city was known to consume sixty grains each day. Prominent up-town druggists declare that they sell more needles to thoir general customers than to tho modicttl profession. Ecjually conclu- sive as to tho prevalence of the habit of subcutaneous injection is the fact that, whereas druggists' customers used to buy in ((uantities of from 00 to 120 grains in the crystalline form of tho muriate, tho sulphato, or tho acetate, tho sale now largely consists of the solution in quantities of from one to six ounces. A reporter talked yesterday with a prominent physician upon this topic. " Many medical men," said ho, " are un- aware that the use of the hypodermic syringe is always attended with danger of instant death. The cause of this danger is not well understood, but tho fatal accidents that ha\u been recorded were not due to the taking of larger doses than usual by mistake, nor to the culininative effects of tho drug. Cases have occurred in which persons have taken large closes for months without producing a single unpleasant symptom, and have died in a few minutes from the effects of a .luarter of the habitual <juantity taken in the usual manner and at tho regular hour. " There is a danger of fatality against which no vigilance can guard. The symp- toms are not always so severe as to proiluce coma, unless arrested. They occur about once in one hundred administrations, and prove fatal at least once in ten. That is to say, a man who uses the hyiiodurmic syringe at the rate of toil punctures a day, which is a very moderate average, should encounter tho symptoms and their attendant danger of death once in every ten days on tho average, and the probabi- lity is that they will prove fatal within six months after the habit is formed. The danger that he may bo found dead is thus always a real one with the habit of the hypoilormic, a tlaiigor tnat may at any moment involve a coroner's inquest and the imoutatiuu of suicide." â€" .Viid York Mail utul Kxpren. ^ Xu Olil MaMjiile S4!an<lal. So much has been said from time to time ill relation to tho Morgan affair of 1H20 that 1 have been induced to give par- ticular attention to the affair. Half a century ago most of the men connected with the affair were alive and willingly gave me their statement of the facts. Some time in lH2'la man calling himself William Morgan, a stonemason, came from Canada to llochester. N.Y., and settled there. Ho was a !isr>!p>itable, worthless fellow, but Hiiiarl and forward. Ho brought with him what purported to be a Masonic diploma, and ho succeeded by its aid in visiting the lodge there. A few months later he began to travel among tho lodges of Western Now York, and iu l.S2l> removed to Hatavia. Here ho was detectwl as an impostor and publicly cxjiosed. This so uxasjierated him that ho announced his purpose of publish- ing an expose of the secrets of Froo- nittsonry, and actually began, in company with one Miller, a printer, to prepare such a work. Some of tho more thoughtless Masons threatened hi'.i with grievous penalties if ho did not desist, and the public gave crodenco to the idea that he wos in peril of his life. Gov. Ue Witt Clinton, who had long been Grand Master, (•oncerii- ed for tho honor of Masonry, took tho load 111 laisiiig money to induce Morgan to go back to Canada. A ooiiiiiiittee of most respectable gentlemen took tho matter in hand at Clinton's re<ineat, and on Septem- ber loth, 1820, Morgan started for Canada, where ho had proniiseil to settle down near Uainiltoii, and his family were to bo sent to him. But freu, and with iiioiiey in his pocket, ho pressed on to Montreal and all troco of him was lest. Ho may have been murdered for his moii^ by the roughs with whom ho associateil'I'or, which to mo is TBICKINU A DUKE. Foroedto Bemaln In an Antique €halr bj m tfCechanloal Contrivance. An amusing story concerning the Duke of Edinburgh is being told. While at Chester His Royal Highness was shown, at his own re<iuost, by Canon Tarver, an ita~ tablishment where antique furniture might be picked up. The foremi u who waited oa them was all unconscious of the quality of the Duke, and on His Royal Highness noticing a peculiar antique chair, asked him in jocose manner to try it. The Duke sat down, aut immediately his arms wore im- prisoned by tt mechanical arrangenlont of the chair. Thei)uke struggled to get out, but could not do so until the shopkeeiier re- leased him, after giving him a certain amount of polite chaff. Tho Duke asked tho price of tho chair and bought it. Th« shopkeeper asked where he was to send it, and on being told that he was to send it to Canon Torver's for the Duko of Edin- burgh, the shopman was literally duinb- fonndedattho familiarity he had used. The Duko afterward remarked that never had he seen a man so frightened in his life. â€" London Exchamje. own servants, oided by some of the canaillo, (Jollector coming with a bill he can't pay who by violence drove the men working on " I can sympathize with him. What the chapeJ from the promises. By employ- doos he do usually ?" ^ . .u ing great urgency at the Foreign Office I " Well, he most generally shoots the ool- sucoeodod iu preventing a reourronco of Xooionyâ€"Otnaha Herald. A Nov*'l DreiiH, A novel suggestion in conneotion with a gift to tho yiieeii on tho occasion of her jubilee comes from South .\trica. Shortly before Christmas tho Kitenhogo 7'/»i(», a Cape pafior, suggested that a present bo made to Her Majesty the yuooii of a robe, dolman, fan, etc., made of South .African ostrich feathers, contributed bv Sou''.! African ostrich farmers. The conditions were that no iiorson contribute more than three feathers, so that all might participate in tho demonstration of cstoeni for Her Majesty. In a fow weeks the names of one hundred and sevoii farnieiH willing to con- tribute wore received by, and published in the Kitonhago 7'imis, the proprietors of which paper undertake to have tho articles made up and forwarded to Hor Majesty. .\ rare collection of feathois will doubtless be got together, and soino valuable and uniiiuo articles of dress made up. â€" Itov. Ur. Cochrane, Brantford, has re- ceived £200 from tho Free Church of Scot- land for the Homo Mission Knnd. â€" .\ politician should have tough vitals. Lord Iddosloigh provokedliisfatobyaccept- ing office. Ho had heart trouble, and doubt- less when he was broken of his office his heart broke, too. Some Old EnKland Gossip. Tho old Crown Court Church, (.'ovont Garden, once and for long the scene of the labors of the Rev. Dr. Cumming, of pro- phetic memory, is now the Church of the Highlanders resident in Loudon, with services in Gaelic. The two copies of tho Bible used at Ijueon Victoria's coronation are still in ex- istence. One is an heirloom in tho family of tho late Dr. Sumner, Bishop of Win- chester, and the other is preserved in the Cathedral at Norwich. Lord Herscliell, addressing the young men at .Aldenham Institute, said that for » long part of his life he workedoii most days of the week si.xteen hours a day â€" a fact to be home iu mind by any one ambitious at reaching the woolsacl- Lard Mostyn has intiinafed his intention of presenting the Happy \' alley, Llandudno, to the town as a pleasure ground in com- memaration of the Queen's Jubilee. Mrs. Harriot Kemp, Manchester, who died recently, has left i;i,000 to the Wesleyan woni-out ministers' fund, liSOB to their foreign missions, and alxiut 1-1,000 to pay off the debt on Victoria Wesleyan Chapel, Cheetham, and to capitalise the ground rent. â-  ♦ • â€" - â€" â-  A Singular Faot. It is a singular fact, almost without ex- ception, the most su'jcessful literary men liave always lieeii those who did very little reading. This seems unaccountable in an age when the world is lloodod with cheap and attractive publications. Some one asked a French writer what books ho read. Ho replied, " I never read anything bat my own works ; when 1 want to read » novel I write one !" Sublime assurauue, vou will say. There is something in it, nevcrthelcHs. Dickens was very iiuiuh like the i'renclnnan. When he wa^^ted to have a jolly good time it was his custom to lie down and road • David ( 'opjierlield " or " Pickwick," and laugh himself into tita. â€" .itlanta CunMtitution. more probft)>J?,^lio;jiiay have shipped before tho mast on a European-bound vessel. .Vt any rate ho absolutely disappeared from tho pages of history. â€" Cor. .S''. Louis Ulolie- Democrat. Tired ofUlvIng Away Nocktles, " I don't mind giving up my neckties before they're half woniout, " said a society young man yesterday, " because they look pretty ill crazy ((uilts. But I'm going to draw the lino on my married lady frieiidH hereafter." " Why ?' asked a friend. â-  Tho last lot of scarfs I gave to Mrs. â€" her husband has boon wearing over Hince. Do you blame mo '!" - lltiJI'aU) I'miricr. Doctorâ€" Your heart is in a normal con- dition. Nervous Old Lady â€" Goodness! And is it fatal '! Doctor- It's beat is iam- bic. Old I.iidyâ€" It's just dreadful ! Doc- tor â€" Wore it trochaic, or oven spondaic-" Old Ladyâ€" Doctor, don't keep nio in this horrible suspense Give mo some iiiodiciiio at once. Doctor â€" My door, there's nothing tho matloi' with your heart. Old lady- - Oh 1 there isn't ? Why didn't you soy so, then ? â€" Tho young woman who was reported cured of paralysis in tho lefs by faith has now lost tho use of her tongue. .Snug I.lttle Fortune* nmv lie had by all wliu aru Hutllciuiitly InUilli^ent VmcH'Acc»sirma^ly"Hr'o'uffurod tht!iii! ' llallutt A Co., l'f>rt]aiiil, Mnino. liavt* Kuiiuitliiii^ iiuw Co olTur iu tliti line ot wiirk wliicli you ctin <\o fcqr tlluui, and live at Iiuiihi, wilurevur yniiartiUHraluU ProfttB iinmonso and overy worker \% -^uro of uvur :^5adny ; Kevural fmvo iiiadtt t)v«r ^:'iOin a Kiiit;ltt day. .\ll aijtiet ; both huxhw. Capital not rvquirtid; you nru Htartod freu ; all particulars free. Yoia had butter write to them at ouce. ilbiM^rvlng the Proprlelli^t. .'Vt ilessert : One of the guests has lieeu speaking of rather a lively song which has made a hit in tho Latin quarter. " Oh, siiiK it to us, ' says the Countessdo Santa Gruo. " Impossible, it's really too naughty." " Well, then," (lorsists tho countess, "give us only the words." â€" Varif t'iijani, .Strletly True 111 overy respect and attested by the testi- mony of thousands that Putnam's I'ainloaa Corn Extractor is a sure and painless cure for corns. The claim that it is just as good made by those endeavoring to palm off imitations for the genuine only proves the Huperio-ity of " "iitiiom's." Use only- Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor. Sure, safe, painless. The Utmost Depth of Misery. At tho Club: " I'poii my soul, Dodsoii f you ore tho dismalest coinpany 1 know of since that Brown girl gave you your congi. I never saw a fellow take tho mitten so wretcheiily." " Wretchedly ! Haw I Wretched isn't a name faw it. You can, aw, fawiicy how wretched I niii when 1 tell you, I, aw, don't cayaw a wap how my, aw, bweeches fit mo." â€" town I'ttpics. Tho cliilling wintry winds dovelod rheumatic atToctioiis, for wliiili the surest euro known is McColloni'a Klunimatic Ro- liellont, prepared by \V. .-V. .McColloin, druggist, Tilsoiibnrg, and sold by druggists at 81. Sample bottles 2;'i cents each. E. W. Hon, a German conijiositor of Bal- timore, told Warner Hicvo that when ha died he wanted his body sold to a medical college and his debts paid with the pnxieeds. He dioil on Wpiiiu.'sday. ami Rieve obeyed his friend's wish and sold tho body for $10 to tho Maryland I niversity. Uievo was greatly surprised the ne.\t day when ho was arrested for dealing in dead Inimali bodies. nm. ; 1»» ltin_. hftvp Ijeen ,iir.-.l. rn>i«^tl, ro Itroiiic It my ftith In lla pfflrncy, lh»t I wl I M-h.l TWn ntrni.KS PKKK, tMttb«r with » VALIIAIU.R THKATrSK on (hit .JImiio Ut »»» â- iiaerrr. (ilve ..i|ii.d» ii„i !'. o Kil.lrcBt. r>K. .', A. SI,0( DM, Branoh 0£Sce, 37 7enge Si, Tonato D C N I,. 10. 87. DUNlSi'^S BAKING POWDER THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND ','t*j'