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Prcllistoric Man 111 fgnt and S)ria. A gab meeting was held by the Victoria Philosophic-·! Instil ute of London ,m the second week rn May, at which its FRIDAY, JU.NE 13, 1884. members gave a w01th v wpJcome t0 ViceChancellor Dawsull, C. l\1 G., of McGill THE M.l'STERY OP THE LAKES. University Muutreal, a.t whose instance the British Associat1on visits Oauada this Ca;vuga's Ee«l of (:ratern-A hul>tena,,eaE year. 'rhe Society of Arts kindly lent :Rlver Between Sup.-rior nnd C'r:tarto. its premises for ~he uccasion, and its great "If you are ever drowned in Cayuga theatre was crowded in every part long Lake, your friends need not go to the ex- before the hour of meeting. The chmr pense or trouble of dragging the lake for was taken bv Sir H. B.;.rkly, G.C.M.G., your body, for they'd never find it." K.C.B., F.R.S., who-after the new This was the cheerful remark made by members had been itnnounced by Captain a resident of Ithaca, who has a taste for F. Petrie, the secietazy-welcomed Dr. geological research, and wJ:io has indulged Dawson amid loud applause, and asked it durmg the past fow years in investigat- him to deliver his address. It was on ing the bo~tom of Cayuga Lake. "Prehistoric l\fan in Egypt and Syria," "From all I have been able to discov- and was illustrated by large diagrams, er," said he, "the bottom of Cayuga also flint implements and bones collected Lake is a series of large openings and cav- by Dr. Dawson himself on the spot du:iit1es, many of them resembling the ing his winter tour in the East; Pr9fessor craters of extinct volcanoes. Some of Boyd-Dawkins, F. R. S., kindly assisted in these are a hundred feet in diameter, and. the classification of the bones. In dealare all surrounded by raised rima, like ing with his subject, Dr.Dawson remarkthe sides of a milk can. _ These craters, as ed that great interest attaches to any rel believe they are, lie at different depths, mafrs which, in countries historically so or, rather, are of different heights. 'fheir old, may mdicate the residence of man depth I have nncr been able to sound, before the fl awn of history. In Egypt, although I have lowered many hundred nodules of flint are very abundant in the feet of plumb line into them. Tney are Eocene limestone3 and, where these have undoubtedly fathomless, and have be- been wasted away, remain on the surface. come receptacles of the bodies 0£ the hun- In many places thera are good evidence dreds of persons who are known to have that the flint thus to be found everybeen drowned in the lake during the past where has been, and still is, used for the half century, and of the undoubted t.hons- manufacturCJ of flakes, knives and other ands of people killed in the fierce b,i,ttles implem.,nts. These, as is well known, that were frequently waged on the shores were used for many purposes by the anof the lake between hostile tribes of the cient Egyptians, and m modern times 'original people' yeais before the white gun-flints aud srike -lights still continue man appeared on this continent. , to be macle. Th0 debris of worked flints "It was in Cayuga Lake that the found on the surface is thm of little wretch Rulloff lowered the bodies of his value as an indication of any flint-folk wife and child, enclosed m a chest, after preceding the old Egyptians It would he had murdered them, twenty years ago be otherwise if flint nnplements could be The wp~ . that were spent in draggmg found in the older g1avels of the counbry. for the chest was time thrown away, for Some of these are of Plei;;tocene age, and it had sunk into the mouth of one of belong toa penod of paitialsubmergences these of the Nile Vall~y. Flint implements DEAn VOLCAKOES, had been alleged to be found in these and, if it is not sinking yet, is no doubb gravels, but there seemed to be no good floating about in the bottomless depths evidence to prove that they are other where, in the ages past, fire and smoke than the clnps broken by mechanical vwand ashes were the dominant element. Jenee m the removal of the gravel by tor"Within forty years between two and rential action. In the Lebanon, numer three hundred persons have been drown· ons caverns e:xist. These are divided ined in Cayuga Lake, to recover the re- to two claRses, with reference to their mains of whom the grappling iron and origin, some borng water caves or tunnels drag have been used indastnonsly, but of subterraneaa r1vers, others sea-caves, in vain. If it were possible for one to excavated bv the waves when the country make the rounds of this lake's crater-like was at a lower level than at present. bed, he would, beyond doubt, encounter Both kinds have been occupied by man, hideous c!iamel houses beyond number- and some of the1!l undoubtedly at a time caverns where thousands of grmning anterior to th.e Phcerncian occupation of skeletons have found their own sepulchre, the country, and even at a time when the subterranean catacombs without end. animlil inhabitants and geographical featWater taken from a depth of 300 feet in ures of the iegion were different from Cayuga Lake-which must have been from those of the present day. They were one of these cavities-is strnngly charged thus of various ages, ranging from the with sulphuretted hydrogen, nitrogen, post Glacial or Antediluvian period to the ___carbonic u,cid, and the carbonates ()f lime, time of the I'hamician occupation. Dr. "Cayugn J,n lrn has also a mysterious Dawlion then remarkeJd that many geotidal mut.011. It is irregular rn 1ta occur- locists in these days had an aversion to rence, but very decided. The pheno- using the word "Antediluvian," 011 acmenon has been known to appear twice a count of the nature of the work which, in year, aml then two years or Ill( ro have years now gone by, unlearned people had elapsed between its periods. The water attributed to the Flood described in frequently recedes jifty feet, the ebb is Scripture, but as the aversion to the use gradual, but the flood tide comes in with of that word was, he thought, not called considerable force and rap1d1ty. Thi~ for in these days, he hoped it would pass phefl0 enon is also noticed on ~eneca away. Speaking as a geolog.st, from a Lake, .which is divided from Cayuga by purely geological point of view, and from the hi"h Senec.'1 county lulls. The sur- a thorough examination of the country face of Seneca Lake is sixty ,feet above around, there was no doubt but what that of Cayuga Lake, but I believe its there was conclusive evidence t.hat bebed is of t11e same remarkable character tween the time of the first occupation of Seneca Lake......r~s and falls ~.w.uch..as these caves by men-and they wero men three feet daring the- time of its tidal of a Rplendid physique-and the appearcommotion, which is also irregular in its ance of the early Phamician inhabitants periods. I belieYC there is r of the land, there had been a vast subA SUBTERRANEAN RIVER t mergence of land, and a great catastrorunni11g from Lake Superiors through phe, aye a stupendous one, in which even Lakes Huron and Michigan, under Lake the Mediterranean ht1d been altered from Erie, and emptying into Lake Ontario. : a small sea to its present size. In illusThere is no other way in which to explain i tration of this, the caverns at the Pass of certain mysteries connected with our l Nahr-el· Kelb and at Ant Elias were de great lakes. The surface of Lake Super- scribed in some detail, and also, in conior is about 650 feet aboi;e tide, while its nection wiLh these, the occurrence of flint bed is about 260 feet below tide level. implements on the surface of modern Lake Huron's surface is 50 feet below sandstones at the Cape or Ras near Beythat of Superior's, and its bed is about on rout; these last were probably of much a level with Superior's. The surface of less antiquity Lhan those of.the more anLake Michigan is 300 feet lower than cient caverns. A discussion ensued, Lake Huron's, and-its bed is smi,k a cor- which was taken part in by a number of responding distance t o the level of the distinguishad Fellows of the Royal Soother two lakes. Lake Erie's surface is ciety, including Sir H . Barldy, F.R S., nearly as high as Lake Michigan's, being Professors Wiltshire, F.R.S., 'Warring565 feet above tide, but its bed is also ton Smyth, 1!'.R.S., Rupert Jone, F.R. above tide, being 350 feet higher than the S.; Colonel Herschel, ll~.R.S., the talentocean level, consequently its bed is 250 ed son of the late Sir J olm Herschel; Dr. feet !1igher than those of the lakes above Rae, F.R.s.,- the Arctic explorer; Dr. it. Lake Ontario's surface is the lowest Dawson, F.R.S.; Mr. D. Howard the of all the great lakes, being less than 500 vice-president of the Chemical Institute, feet. ahove tide, but its bed is 260 feet be- and other geologists. The meetmg after1 ·W tbe ocean, or about the same level as wards adjourned to the Museum, where Michigan, -Huron, and Superior. So refreshments were served. there is a continuous fall from Lake Superior to Ontario, and all the outlet tliat the upper lakes have that is known is the It was Sent to Iler House. comparatively insignificant Detroit river. A certain pretentious shopper, after That stream never can care for all of that great pressure and Yolume from above, teasing the clerks of a dry goods store beand the theory of an underground river yond the forbearance limit, pompously such as I mentioned, seems to me most ordered a spool of thread to be sent to her reasonable. All the St. Lawrence fishes house. It was agreed that she should be are taken in every one of the lakes but made an example of, and a warning to her Lake Erie. Why? Because they follow kind. She was surprised, and her neighthe course of the subtArranean stream, bors were intensely interested, shortly passing 300 feet beneath the bottom of after she had arrived at home. A comLake Erie, and enter the waters of the mon dray drawn by four horses proceeded upper lakes. The great lakes above Lake slowly up to her door. On the dra.}, with Erie have an occasional fiux and reflux of bare arms, were a number of stalwart lab· their waters, corresponding with ocean orers. They were holding on vigorously to some object which she could not see. tides save in regularity. It was a most puzzling affair. The "The subterranean river, according to my theory, becomes occasionv.lly ob- neighbors stared. After a deal of whipcracking and other impressiveceremonies. stru~ed by great obstacles that are constantly moving down from the lake the cart was backed against the curb bottoms. Then the channels of outlet There reposing calmly, end up, in the are insufficient to carry off the great vol· centre of the cart floor, wv,s the identical ume of water, and they are dammed back spool of thread which she had "ordered." and.th_elakes rise. Finally these ob- It seemed to be coming all right. With structions are swept away by the irresis- the aid of a plank, it was finally rolled, tible pressure, the river flows naturally barrel fashion, safely to the sidewalk, once more, and the dammed waters sub· After a mortal struggle it was "up-endside. That is the whole mystery of the ed" on the purchaser's doorstep. The rise and fall of the tides in the grnat fact that the purchaser came out a minute later and kicked her own property inlakes." to the gutter detracted nothing from it. \!Jln .nU.H4- lif-suw.t.t\fu ~tatt~HlUtU. or;; PL \.NTATIO~ NEGROES. ·he Life or )"tel d Bands-Their DomesLiu Re .. a.'l...a.OJJ.8. 1 Plantation negroes are, to those who see them for the first tlmo, most miserable specimens of "men and brothers," if they are to be judged by their external appearance. They are usually very black m color, with pronounced negro features, and ignorant. In some cases they are but a few degrees above the animals. They live only m the prtJsent, know nor care nothing for the future, and seem to regard freedom as only the means of dee.ding for them whether they will work or remam idle, and, as may be supposed, if ba,co_n and corn bread could be had without the labor, it is safe to say they would remain idle. I was told however, despite tneir dejected, work-a-day look, they are a very happy and contented people, and they are treated with much cons1derat1en and ldndness on the two plantations 1 Visited, being allowed to build huts and cut all their firewood on the lands, and in illness cared for either by the overseer or owner, who employs a physician in urgent cases. These plantations have also stores upon the grouuds wherein the hands can buy at market rates alt the necessaries of then· lives, food, clothmg, and sh.oes-in fact, anything that can be had at the usual or "general country store." And this has been done in order to keep the "plantation hands" at home, for 1f during the plantat10n season the hands can get otf to town after a pay day there is no chance of their return until all theJr money is spent and either wo1k or starvation stares them in the face. And, as moat plantat10n hands are born and raised in the work, they know no other. Oacasionally a more ambiguous or intelligent one will aspire to "learn to be a barber," and leave his "natiYe heath," but it is said that they do not as a rule take to education, and prefer to remain ignorant and work by day, and if they can dance and frolic by mght they are content with hfe as they find it. 'l'ileir domestic relations and moral hfe is better left unquestioned in many cases, although the law compels marriage. lt is often honored m the breach or1ly, but they have the enthusiastic religious "rtJv1vals," and their colored prea.chers are ever on the plantations and hold services in their church at "Orton" for the religiously mclmed. Some of the women seem disposed to think that the lives of "house servants" are more enviable than their own, working as they do in the hot fields, but it is not an energetic longmg and involves too [llUch thought to be put mto active execut10n. One rather bright-lookmg young woman, to who111 I spoke, n.skcd me if I thougl1t I could get her a "place" as cook at the north. 1 asked her what wages she earned as fieldhand, and she said: - "Mostly $3 a week, but they say I could get $12 for a month as cook!" Her mental arithmetic >'las a little off, b.:tt she was in earnest. I t ol'd her 1 did not think she would like the northern states, it was so much colder, and she laughed and said: "That's what they a.11 say, nuss; mtJbbe I would nut." Freedom means to this class of people only the ability to earn money and provide for themselves, instead of havmg everything pi;ovided for them, and it will be a long, long time before they are elevated or educated suflic1ently to understand how much has been done for them. -Wilmington (N. 0.) <Jor. J..'roy J..'imes. GRAINS OF GOLD -- .Pat~nce strengthens the spirit, sweete~tlle temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envv, subdues pride; she bridles the tong ie, restrains the hand, and tramples up u temptation. Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. Bacon is generally cured by smoking, but there are some hogs who are never cured by riding in a lilmokini-car. "That's the trouble in this part of the. country," remarked a Texas editor, as a bullet crashed through the window and took a piece of his ear off. "You make a paper interesting and newsy, and you have got to dodge around to keep it up." "Well, Johnnie," said a doating uncle to his little nephew, who had been fishin* all day, "did you catch a p-ood many fish 1' "No, uncle, but I drowned a ft!ood many worms," was the reply. You will never convince a man of or· dinary sense by overbearing his underatandmg. A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat. That state of life is the most happy where superfluities are not required, and where necessaries are not wantmg. Discretion and hardy valor are the twins of honor, and nursed together make a conqueror; divided, t a mere talker Some people l.\re always finding-- fault with Nature fo~ puttmg thorns on roses; I always thank her for having put roses on thorns. To educate a youth so that he llhall have a strong moral character, do not isolate him, but teach him to come out unscathed from temptation. This is the law of benefits between men. the one ought t o forget a b once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received. Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished. Truth is calm, serene, its judgment is on high; its king C';meth out of the chambers of eternity. Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by internperanpe and an irregular life do as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drown themselves. The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and count~rpo1ses of the clock uf time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motioft'o Poetry teaches the enormous forces of a few words, and, in proportion to the msp1ration, checks loquacity. Great thoughts insure musical expressiom. Every word should be the right word. Strength of character is not mcro strength of feeling. It is the resolute restraint of strong feeling. It is unyielding resistance to whatever would disconcert us from without or unsettle us from within. There is poetry and there is beauty ia real sympathy; but there is more-there is action,. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look, it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help. A Hindoo was utterly puzzled by the use of the word bwptism in the sentence. "He that believeth and is baptised shali be saved." Bap, he knew, meant father; tis he could not make anything of; but m«. meant mother. He, therefore, concluded that on believing JtJsus Christ would be his father and mother. A man being accused of being so mean that he would quarrel about a fart!:iing, retorted : "I know 1 would and I'm proud of it ; for everybody knows that the 'less' one quarrels about the better." The Government of London, We are t.tpt to think of London as a single, vast etty, covermga wide area and teeming wl ~h a population of four millions of souls What we do not fully realize is, that London, while geographically a great and compuct mass, is, politwally speaking, simply a combination of a large number of separate towns, each partially independent, in government, of the others. What is called "the city of London" is but a ver small art of the metro ohs ·t ~. comprises p OnJyab OU t a square P The " Cly mile, and has a population at night of only about fifty thousand. It is this small section, consisting mainly of the busi11ess and financial quarter of London, which is ,.uleilpv~'r by the Lord Mayor and Cor· t' pora 10n. Otherwise London is divided up into a large number of parishes, which are gov· erned by "vestries," and into boroughs, like Westminster and Southwark which have still another kind of govern~ent. There are one or two "Boards" indeed, which exercise theirfunctions throughout the whole area of the metropolis. These are the Board of Works which establish the roads make recrulatio~s for health and ' "' ' on; look after the sewerage, water, and so the School Board which presides over the national schools ~nd the Board of Police Commissioners, 'who manage the police force of the entire city. Justice is meted ouG in the large p,1rb of London by police magistrates, who are appointed and salaried by the State. But in the "city" proper the Lord Mayor and Aldermen are the magistrates, eervinghkll the English country magistrateswithout pay. The many eYils attendant upon the d1v1ded government of L.:indon hav:e loner been recognized ; and now a bill has bee~ introduced into Parliament changing the various local and independent systems, and combining London under one central system. This measme proposes, indeed, to make London a sort of municipal federat ion, which we may compare with the U nit<1d State~. The Lord Mayor, chosen, not ao now, by a small body in a single locality, but by the representatives of the whole metropolis, will find his authority extended throughout its limits. The Board of Aldermen rs to be abolished, and a Oommon Council chosen by and for all London. At the same tim,e each parish and borough is still to have its local body, acting under the general one, and managing its local affairs, just as do our States under the general Government at Washington. The present Corporation of the "city" is thus made the basis and nucleus of the new single government which is to hold away, not over fifty thousand, but over four millions of people. In making this great change, the Cabinet proposes that the people to be governed shall have a much larger share m electing their civic rulers than they 1 have hitherto had, either in tho "city" or in the parishes. Th2 g lvernment of the "city" has already been chosen by the "livery-men" and the various trade guilds Now, the mass of thqse who are interested in the conduct of municipal affairs will have a voice at the polls as to who shall assume it. All the important functions, in short, of the-mumctpal rule e~cept poor relief, education, - and police, are tu be given to the new corporation. The council thus created is to consist of two hundred and forty members, this entire body being elected every three years. Of these, the "city" proper will have thirtv members. The Lord Mayor will be elected by this council, and will be paid such salary as it chooses to vote him. Each of the old vestry districts will have its "district council," all the powers of which will be derived from the general Common Council, and the members of which will be chosen by the voters of the locality itself. Such are the main features of the scheme for the union of London into one great cent1·al government. I QUEER FA.t;TS AN)) · HAPPENl~GS. -. A New Albany firm gives every twent1eth customer theamountof his purchase. The plan t,.kes well. "l have bu1 ied six family physicians and still l;ve," sa'd Col. Georae L. Per~ kins of No. wich, Ct)nt1. Ilti i~ 96. The 14 ·e r 0 M d crh' f G · ,. Y a. c au.., uer o tJorge ~~i~h~lm of Lima, 0., JU~nped the rope ?56 times an~ ~ell unconscious. She lay m days b"'fore h that d. dcondition fur twent~· J v 8 16 e · An enormous tree oi: the farm of James Reese, near l\fountctm. C1·eek, Ga. , "'.as washed by. the floods sixty f!3et from its place and lS lef.t standmg upr1i;ht. Foilage still covers it. . . John Lowell of We3~mgtun Sprmgs, Dakota, was to be m irned on the 30th ult.? but on that day he was compelled, unaided, to bury hts affianced, her whole fa~ily havii:i-g thD diphtheria, and the Il;e1ghbors bemg too much alarmed to assist. . . . A toun~t m M, ·nt~na tra.v.elle~ e1~ht days and mne mghts m the direction mdicated by a finger board which read, "S" ·1es t o Miles c·t ix mi l y, " b ef ore h e reached that place. Then he learned that the sign had been carried off by In~ians, and s1 uck up there where he saw ~ remcr;;:able c~se of change of color l8 exc1tmg the medical men of Santa Barb~rn, Cal. Four years ag0 a man na~ed Pm'." was of very dark complexw~. W~ute blotches ~egan to. appear on his skm and now he. is as white as any m::1n, save on part of his face and hands. G. L. Record of Vicksburg has an odd strawberry patch in which the plants are very prolific. He bored holes in rows around a hog$head at regular intervals of six inches, filling the hogshead with earth l'md set a strawberry plant in each one of the holes, besides putting a number on tcp. There are one hundred plants growing from the sides of this novel garden. Some of the berries are ripe and have attained great size, one measuring three inches in circumference. . _____ Darwin says there is a living- principle fruit. But we suppose he ref"n tO' tb.eo werms. "What do we need of an wy /" .isks an excited contemporary. To !01 Jk after our floating debt, of cours'3. We must never undervalue an~ person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in hts presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His w.J1k. "And now, Mrs Sullivan," sa.id the counsel, "will you be kind enough to tell the jurywhetheryourhusband wa;; in the habit of striking you with impunity 1" "Wid what, sir 7" "\Vith impunity." "He was sir, now and thin; but he struck me oftener with his tist." Sund1.y-school teacher, a.bout to comment on St. Paul's directioru; for the con duct of l)len and women during Divineservice--"Now, do you knowwhy women do not take off their bonnets in church !" Small b.oy-"Cos they ain't got no lookiJ!g-glass to put em on ; gain by." DR. SCOTT'S PREPARED SPICE For Horsoes, Cattle, Sheep & Swine. it. , . Russiiin Longevity. Says Chambers' Journal: From .a correspondent who has passed some years in Russia, we learn that in the village of Vellkotti, in the St. Petersburg govern· ment, ar. old woman is livin~ who has just attained her 130th birthday ! The old lady is in the enjoyment of good health, lwt _oomplams of her deafness (and no wonder.) .Her hair is still long and plentiful, considering her age. She spent her youLh in great poverty, but is now pretty well off. She has outlived three hmibands ; and had a family of nineteen children, all of whom have been married, and are now dead, the last one to die bemg a daughter aged 93. She lives with one of her great-grandchildren, a man of 50. Our correspondent also informs us that a few montfis ago an unusually curious wedding took place in EkatterinOJlay, in Russia. The bridegroom was 65 years old, the bride 67. By former maniages, each of them have children and grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren living in the same town. The bndegroom's father, now in his 103d year, and the bride's mother, in her 96th year, are still alive, and were at he wedding. Jealous .Millionaires. Speaking of the hatred of wealth, I ob· serve a great deal of rancor between mill10naires themselves. Gould and Vanderbilt are reputed to loathe each other It is only lately that the Astors and Vanderbmlts came to speaking terms. When Villard went under the expressions of delight were by, no means confined to m<ln who had envied him in prosperity. And now that-J"Im Keene is sufftJring a disaster there is positiv_e hilarity among Wall streeters. It seems to me that a mob which should pillage one millio11J1.ire's pro· perty would be encouraged and ab.ll_tted by most of the millionaries. The joy is quite unconfined over Keene's downfall, however, on account of his personal ob,1ox10usness. Few men went near to him, on no matter how trivial the business, without going away inveterate enemies. He had a needlessly harsh, insulting manner, and rarely modifie-d it on any occasion or towards ailybody. It is nuq manly or courageous to striJ,:e ~a dead lion, but there are few men in Wall street who ae not this week doing it.-New York ror. Utica Observer. It has no equal in curing Hotses of the sev· For COUGHS, COLDS, ROUGHNESS of the HAIR, BOTTS SCURVY, &c., it is inva· luable, and administered in smaller doses, acts as a Tome, resultmg in a heallh y cornhtion Austria's Empress. The empress is at once proud and ca- and fine appearance of the animal. Is also pacious, says a Vienna letter to the Lon- equally beneficial to CATTLE SHEEP and SWINE. For sale everywhere: don Daily News, and in some ways one of SOLE .PROPRIETORS: the most inuertJsting, as well as extraordinary, women of her rank that the century J'.. C. XE~J? &i CO.. has produced. She is equally proud of MONTREAL, P. Q. her hair and her figure, the first being as abundant as a Magdalen's-the latter slender as a girl's. The former she wears PORT PlURRY as loosely as possible ; the latter she tightens as much as she can. Her waist ,,, belt used to be shown as curio·ities in exhibitions. They measured only eighteen 'l'he aboYo works are running full blast ta il'(ches in circumference. I can remember keep up with orders. Some Yery htrge orders hav.e b@en received lalcly. We employ no agents but one other woman with a waist so and are sellmg Tomb l;;tones. Monument·, ecc., small. at lower prwe~ in co11scqnence. Our cmto mers get the commission themselve<. It will .. The emperor has always been a model ptty any person who intends erecting a monuhusband, so far as admiration for l1is ment to tl.ie memory of a departed friend to wife's beauty is concerned. He is report- wntome or see me personally before placing then· order. I guaran1ee first class work at ed to have said on one occasion that "the lowest possible prices. Empress Eugenie might be the most beautiful woman in the world if there M.ARBLR ·womcs, were not my wife." 251-tf. PORT PERRY, When the shah of Persia travelled some years ago in Europe, the Empress of Austria was the only sovereign who would not receive him. She shut herself up in a country castle all the time he was in Austria. She never could be induced to go to I'aris during the empire, the style of living at the Tuileries not being to her taste. A short time ago, also, when passing through Paris, she would not go te the Elysee to return the president's visit. She never follows a fashion, it is said, 1:-ut makes her own fashions, and, ;is all her inventions are suited to Cures Completely Scrofula. her own peculiarities of person, they do liiyf}lnlis, ( itn<'e1·, Rhenmntis1n, not become any other women. It was ('atat·l"h, Uke··s and Sl·in and Blood Disease!'! of e\·ery de!icri1" she who introduced the abominable fashtwn. ion of high shouldered sleeves fulled in $1000 reward to anv cliemist who will on the shoulders, a fashion which does find, on analysis of 100 bottles o! :Shn!,cr B Dod Svrnp, one Jlflrtrnle of j\fc1CLny, little to her artistic taste, to say the Iod,de of l'otnssrnm, or .tny mino1.d sub· least. Stu.nee. Altogether, however, Aust1-ia is proud SOLD EVERYWHERE. Pr!ce, · Sl.00 l'or Bettis, er Six f:r $~ .oo. of its empress, who, take h~r all in all, is a wonderfully attractive woman for her STOTT & JURY, Sule;Agents tor Bowm,mv1lle age. I must add that no woman ever studied her own beauty so much as the h!fl!lll!lil-llllJ!!lllll!!ll!Ul!!iilillll_ _ _ _11111111111--·, empress does. 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