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The Hevald—-Review. i. Kites. MINNESOTA. By 3RAND RAPIDS - When Mr. Platt puts ‘his hand on New York state it is hardly ever there. A paper has a long article on the necessity of buying Platt. Well, now, when did Thomas dig himself out? “Divide and conquer.” It is an old military maxim, but a quarter of a million New Yorkers just had a fine opportunity to learn that it fails in politics. One college has forbidden foot-ball because a student was Killed in a game of that kind. Recently a young man was drowned. Shall there, accord- ingly, be no more fishing? Just before election there was a@ parade in Brooklyn of nine thousand anti-swearers. The sufferings of this band of reformers, in view of the ex- citement of the canvass, must have been intense. Street-cleaning and improved sani- tation are allies of temperance work- “You come and live in our court,” said a drunkard in a wretched London quarter, “and you'll soon take > the gin.” A better environment, a larger moral hope. A riparian landowner has only a right to use water from a stream pass. ing his land for domestie purposes and for the needs of the land, and if he uses it for other purposes to the dam_ age of riparian landowners below him he is liable for such damage, accord. ing to the decision of the supreme court of Pennsylvania in the case of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company vs. Pottsville Water Com. pany. The fund started by Ignatius Don- lly te pay off the mortgage on Mrs. e’s house is the most absurd yet. Lease’s failure to pay up the mortgage is not a matter of poverty but of principle. She doesn’t think it would be right to pay the money, and besides she needs it, as her Kan- sas friends think, to gratify her love of extravagant dress. Of course there must be funas; but, as we have al- ready suggested, why not get up one for the amelioration of the sufferings of the Vanderbilts? No doubt a great deal of the wrang- ling and hairsplitting in congress is due to the great preponderance of law- yers in both houses. Sixty of the eighty-nine senators and 245 of the 258 representatives are members of the bar, the total of both houses be- ing: Lawyers, 305; all others, 142. this looks like a very small proportion of bread to an intolerable deal of sack, so to speak. It is an open question whether lawyers are the best legisla- tors, and it may be set down as cer- tain that the garrulousness character- istic of the gentlemen of the long rove does not expedite business. Peter the Great’s opinion of the profession is shared by a good many people even in this age when lawyers appear to have the start of everyone else. Sir Walter Scott’s writings do not pass into eclipse behind the later pro- ducts of genius. The Providence Pub- lic Library issues a bulletin from which it appears that during ten years a few books were drawn more than three hundred and fifty times. Among ‘these were “Ivanhoe,” “Guy Manner- ing,” “The Bride of Lammermoor,” and “Kenilworth.” “Kenilworth” was taken out six hundred and twenty-five times. Thirty-five years after Scott’s death a London bookseller would not keep in his stalls a sixpenny edition of the Waverley novels, because they killed the sale of all other books. Yet the lure was not in sensationalism; the popular craving was not for pois- ‘nous sweets; millions of readers found only a pure and wholesome hu- man pleasure. A report from Anderson, Indiana, says: The eastern part of the county has been overrun with rats during the past six months. Thousands of them have colonized over a radius of six or seven miles. The farmers have been fighting them in every way pos- sible but they continue to multiply and are taking everything in sight. The stories of the numbers that go in droves have been discredited by An- derson and Muncie people and, in or- der to prove their assertions, the farmers took several out to one of their “rat drives” recently. One of the records that was made was twen- ty-four rats by Superintendent Heaggy of the poor farm, who only discharged his gun four times. Several other records have been made at other times. They are costing the farmers many hundred dollars by underminging wheat bins and burrowing into build- ings of all kinds. No theory has been advanced which will satisfactorily ex- plain where they came from, as this section has been remarkably free from rats in previous years. A report from Vienna, Austria, says that the Hungarian government has purchased the race horse Galtee More for £20,000 ($100,000). Galtee More is a three-year-old, bred by Mr. John Gub- bins, a well-known Irish sportman. The animal was the first Irish horse to win the Derby, and is one of the seven horses that have won the so- lled triple classic crown of the Eng- } turf—viz., the 2,000 guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby and the Doncaster St. Leger. He is regarded by the best judges as one of the best forces of the century. PITH OF THE NEWS| ww: ‘Lon —_—< EVENTS UF THE ‘PAST WEEK IN A} CONDENSED FORM. A General Resunre of the Most Im- portant News of the Week From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled own and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Perusal By Busy People.- The Nation's Capital. The three house committees on elec- tions are beginning ‘to map out their work. There are twenty-one of these contests pending. Chairman Davis says he is not ready to proceed with the Hawaiian annex- ation treaty although he thought it would be considered :before the holi- days. = The records of the ‘treasury depart- ment show that the amount of net gold on hand is $158,191,669, which is greater than at any time since Au- gust, 1890, when it was $185,837,581. Senator McMillan of Michigan will introduce a bill authorizing the presi- dent to have constructed on the great lakes a gunboat to replace the United States steamer Michigan, :and to cost not more than $230,000. George W. Temple will ‘be appointed postmaster at Spokane, Wash., in lieu of Fred. Hopkins, who declined. An appropriation for five additional mail carriers and two ‘clerks has been se- cured. By direction of the secretany of the navy the special board of officers at Indian Head made a final teat .and in- spection of the new six-pounder auto- matic gun. This weapon has been fired at the rate of 41 rounds per min- ute, and in use dispenses with the ser- vices of a man at each gun. Casualties. The business portion of Borianza, | Caldwell county, Missouri, was wiped out by fire. Chrrles Ewald, aged sixty-five while switching cars with his team at Dag- get, Mich., fell across the track, the car wheels passing over him, killing him. He leaves a wife and ten chil- dren. The coroner’s jury which has been inquiring {nto the Garrisons (N. Y.) train wreck on the New York Central, in which nineteen persons lost their lives, have rendered a verdict to the effect that the cause of the accident is unknown. A drunken miner, name unknown, jumped from a Northern Pacific west- bound train near Bonner, Mont., while it was running at full speed. He was taken to the Northern Pacific hospital at Missoula. No bones were broken, but he is believed to be seriously in- jured internally. Crimes and Criminals. M. A. Carpenter, a seventeen-year-old boy, whose former home was in Put- nam county, Missouri, was sentenced in the district court at Perry, O. T., to one year in the penitentiary for horse- stealing. Miss Maggie Kirkpatrick of Phila- delphia, who was a guest at a cottage at Atlantic City, N. J., has been re- ported missing. She is said to have about $30,000 in government bonds on her person, which she persisted in car- rying around with her because she would not trust the banks. Mrs. J. A. Wilkins, twenty-three years old, committed suicide in the Oriental Hotel, New York city. She was despondent because of the inabil- ity of her husband to secure work. The latter attempted to commit suicide on learning of his wife’s death, but was unsuccessful, eee 1D ake, Foreign Notes, President Zelaya of Nicaragua has decided to reduce the export tax on India rubber. Admiral Baron yon Sternect, com- mander-in-chief of the Austro-Hun- garian navy, died of syncope. Bishop Walsh, Anglican bishop of Ossory, who, as a curate, baptized Charles Stewart Parnell, has resigned from his see. Tomatoes have been grafted upon potatoes by a French experimenter, whose hybrid plant produced tubers under ground and tomatoes above. It is said that Oscar Wilde has ar- ranged to publish in London and New York city a poem entitled ‘The Bal- lad of Reading Jail by C. 33.” The Belgian-government has decided that Americans residing in Belgium will hereafter be exempt from service in the civil guard. Adolph Neundorff, celebrated in Eu- rope and America as a composer and musical director, died suddenly in New York of heart failure after a long illness. Ernest Daudet, the less famous brother of Alphonse Daudet, but a much more prolific writer of novels, is a candidate for the late Duc d’Au- male’s seat in the French academy. The American <imbassador, Andrew D. White, opened the American church bazaar at Berlin. The empress of Ger- many forwarded some valuable gifts, and the ex-empress sent a lady in wait- ing to make purchases. A company has been incorporated in St. Louis, with a capital of $100,000, for the manufacture of enamel signs and the ornamentation of any metal with an enamel surface. The plant is the only one of the kind in America. Kangaroos are being exterminated in Australia nearly as fast as the seals in Behring Sea. In Queensland alone 288,658 kangaroos and 522,653 walla- bies were destroyed last year. Kan- garoo tails for soup are being shipped to London by the ton. A paper was circulated in the house of representatives witha view to hay- ing a conference of those members fa- voring a change in the present civil service system. The paper was in cate of Mr. Pearson of North Caro- na. ‘The trial of Capt. C. J. Rollis of Stoughton, Wis., charged with assault with intent to commit murder upon Mayor O. IX. Roe, in the melee over the possession of the armory building some time ago, was begun in the mu- nicipal court. don. ‘M. de Fourtou, the ‘former: minister Of the interior, is dead :atiParis, aged ixty-two. ‘@sborne M. Kavanaugh, 'third secre- ttary of the British embassy, died at Washington of typhoid fever. -Rear Admiral Joseph F.'Green, U. 8. IN. (retired), died at his‘home.at Brook- line, Mass., from a complication of dis- eases. ‘Charles Bordelois, a Cuban officer who was wounded in :the fighting in Cuba and brought to New York for medical treatment, died im:a hospital. ‘Paul Alexander Johnstone, :the mind reader, says he is going to'take a trip around the world blindfdlded. At the same time he is going ito tny:and beat the records for globe ‘trotters. Rey. ‘Dr. John Rouse, reetor of Trin- ity Episcopal church, died from shocks attending an operation for appendicitis. He was but thirty-five years of age and one of the most prominent of the younger clergymen in Chicago. Charles G. Kretschmer, for forty years principal of the Dubuque (Iowa) public schools and one of the oldest and best known educators in the North- west, is dead, aged 76 years. J. H. Webster, one.af the oldest set- tlers of Dunn county, Wis.. is dead, aged 68 years. He assisted iin the government survey of Northern Wis- consim, and has been county surveyor for mamy \xears. : George H. Pullman, fer the past three years associated with the Ameri- can National Red Cross, has resigned his conmection with that orgamiza- tion, other engagements demanding his entire time. Chief Justiee Conway of the Wye ming supreme court, died at Cheyenne. He had been sick some three weeks and confined to his home with .an at- tack of la grippe, but no one supposed that he was seriously ill. Lord Rosebery’s mother, the aged duchess of Cleveland, is about to start for India for the winter. She is an in- veterate traveler, every year taking journeys that most young women would shrink from. Cecil Rhodes has written to Bulu- wayo: “I have made up my mind to extend the railway to Zambesi without delay. The magnificent coal fields be- tween here and there mean much to us. Let us see the work accomplished during our lifetime.’ Queen Victoria was an exhibitor at the Bournemouth chrysanthemum. show, and took first prize for thirty- six Japanese cut blooms, Lady Theo- dora Guest being second. For twelve Japanese blooms Lady Theodora Guest was first and the queen third. Her majesty also won third prize for six cut blooms. Charles A. Hardy, president of the Catholic Standard and Times Publish- ing company of Philadelphia, and the founder and publisher of the American Catholic Quarterly Review, died at the St. Charles hotel, Atlantic City, aged fifty-one years. The deceased was one of the most prominent Catholic laymev in the country. General. George C. Woods of Douglas county, Kansas, has been appointed a plumber in the quartermaster’s department at Fort Filey, Kas., at a salary of $900. Announcement of the consolidation of the Union National and Hide and Leather National banks of Chicago will probably be made before the end of the week. The stock yards company of Sioux City, Iowa has reduced charges on hay and corn from $1 to 80 cents per bale for the former, and $1 to 60 cents per bushel for the latter. 'The farmers near Beulah, Kas., have organized against Sunday hunters, and hereafter will make it hot for any man who persists in disturbing the Sabbath tranquility of that vicinity. The plate glass factory at Ellwood, Ind., employing 800 hands, has closed, because of the refusal of the polishers to accept the change to payment by piece-work, instead of by the week. There are fourteen salmon canneries on Puget Sound, the total output for 1897 being 5,500,000 pounds of fish, 467,000 cases, bringing in $1,634,500. Seventy-two traps and a large number of gill-nets supply them. The cireuit court at Chicago has granted to Edward J. Frost an abso- lute divorce from his wife, Elizabeth H. Frost. Mrs. Frost was Miss Eliza- beth S. Hancock, a niece of Gen. Han- cock. Robert W. Jones of Buffalo has pur- chased one of the largest farms in the country, a tract of 6,000 acres of wheat land on the Soo railroad in North Da- kota, for a cash consideration of about $175,000. While R. E. Page, a Swisher county (Tex.) ranchnan, was asleep in camp, he was attacked by a large wolf, and so badly bitten that he has gone to the Pasteur institute at New York for treatment. ‘There are only two disengaged wheat ships in port at San Francisco, the Heathbank and Peake, and _ their agents are holding out for a 35 shilling freight. The tonnage on the way is 35,000 tons less than it was at this time in 1896. William Mida of Chicago, editor of Midas Criterion, is at Louisville, in the interests of the congress and exposition of the beer, wine, liquor and tobacco interests of the world, to be held in Chicago at the Coliseum during next May. Four sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hankey, who live on a farm near Dover, Del. The father has already given the name of William J. Bryan to the largest, the eight-pound member of the quartette, but the oth- ers, the smallest of which weighs three pounds, are not yet designated. Moth- er and children are doing well. It is reported that Mrs. Pullman will renounce her. husband’s will, entitling her to a million or so of dollars, and demand her dower of about $3,500,- 000. Her object is said to be to divert the bulk of the estate from her daugh- ters, and to make millionaires of her two sons, despite their father’s action in cutting them off with $3,000 a year each. The Hlinois law allows widows one year in which to decide between wills and dowries, and Mrs. Pullman is expected to announce her decision In ample time. : nien Saar hes» cat w| PASSES THE HOUSE PENSION APPROPRIATION BILL GOES ‘mRovGH. The Amendments Offered to Correct Alleged Abuses “Were All Ruled Out of Order on‘the Ground That They Were New Legisiation—Civil Service Keform ‘Comes in for a Share of Attention During the Debate. Washington, Dec. 12. — The house passed the pension appropriation bill without amendment -and:adjourned till Monday. The amendments offered by Democrats to correct alleged existing abuses were all ruled-out on the point. of order that they were ‘new in legis- lation. As passed, the ‘bill carried $141,263,870. ‘The débate covered a wide range. It teuched not only the question of our pension policy, but that of civil service reform and the receipts and expenditures of the treasury un- der the Dingley law. On the latter question Mr. Dingley made an im- portant statement in which he ex- pressed the opinion that the receipts would equil the expenditures before the close of the present fiscal year, and predicted a surplus of $10,000,000 next year. ‘The civil serviee law was savagely at attacked by several mem- bers, notably by Mr. Brown (Rep., 0.) and Mr. Linney (Rep., N. C.), and was warmly defended by Mr. Johnson (Rep., Ind.) Just befere the dlose of the session Mr. Hitt, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, attempted to secnre unanimous consent for the ‘passage of the bill to prohibit petagic sealing by American citizens, but ob- jection was made. It will, under agrement, however, be considered on Monday. s WASHINGTON. CLEVELAND I Fermer President Passea Through the City on a Hunting Trip. Washington, Dec. 12—Former Pres- ident Grover Cleveland arrived in Washington, yesterday afternoon in the special Pullman car “Davy Crock- ett” attached to the regular west- bound train on the Pennsylvania rail- reads. He is en route to South Caro- lina on a hunting trip. Although this was the first time Mr. Cleveland had been in Washington since he left the executive mansion last March he did not leave his car during the two hours it was in the city. He was met at the Sixth street station by Capt. Rob- ert Evans, of the light house board; Gen. Larson G. McCook, United States Marshal A. A. Wilson and two or three other intimate friends. Mr. Cleve- land has evidently improved greatly in health since he left Washington. He said that he was enjoying excellent health, and, indeed, had not been bet- ter for several years. He declined to discuss politics or public affairs, but laughingly suggested that he might have some interesting stories on duck shooting to tell on his return from the South. A NARROW ESCAPE. Ordnance Exp:rt Injured While Ex- amining a New Rifle. Washington, Dec. 12. — Prof. Philip R. Alger, one of the foremost ordnance experts in the government service, sus- tained an accident while examining one of the new naval rifles that came very near being fatal. A cartridge was accidentally exploded while the gun was in the hands of Prof Alger. The bullet, propelled by the big charge of smokeless powder, struck the heavy iron casing of a window and smashed the half-inch iron, which flew back in small fragments. Prof. Alger was struck by several of the pieces and re- ceived cuts, but. the most serious in- jury ‘was caused by a piece of metal which severed the temporal artery. Only the presence of mind of the con- structor, Dashiel, who was_ himself hit by some pieces of the iron, but without injury, prevented what might have been a fatal result, as he sprang to the assistance of the professor and held the wound tightly closed until the surgeons ‘arrived and stopped the fiow. Prof. Alger is now in no danger, HOVERING ON THE BRINK. Mrs. McKinley Reported Very Much Weaker. Canton, Ohio, Dec. 12. — Friday marked the ninth day of the sickness of Mrs.,McKinley since she was stricken with paralysis. During these nine days she has taken but little nourishment, and during that period has been conscious only a few times. he case has been pronounced by the attending physician as a very remark- able one. The constitution of the aged patient has withstood the assaults of disease. Several visits were made by Dr. Phillips, and at each one it was reported that there were clear indica- tions that the patient had become de- cidedly weaker. CAUSED A SENSATION. Posting of Placards Causes Trouble at Vienne. i Vienna, Dec. 12.—A great sensation has been caused here by the posting} broadcast of red placards, even in the | inner town and Hofburg, inscribed? “No ausglisch,” “Abolish the language ordinances,” and “German is the na. tional language.” The police tra the placards. The ausglisch is the com} pact existing between Austria an Hungary, providing for a common head, the emperor of Austria. and kin; of Hungary, and for a common ad- ministration of foreign affairs, des fense, financial affairs and commercial affairs, etc., although each country has its own parliament and ministry. Want the Charters Revoked. Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 12—B. B. Osler, Q. C. of Toronto, has filed a petition in the department of justice to revoke the charters of the Canadian Copper company, an Ohio concern, and tho Anglo-American Iron company, which control the output of the nickel an copper mines around Sudbury, Ont., on the ground that the charters were given in Canada on condition that smelting works would be established, but instead of this the companies have taken the ore to the United States and had it smelted there, __ GEN. RIVERA RELEASED. insurgent Leader Recently Pardoned Is Set at Liberty. Havana, Dec. 12.—Gen. Rivera, the insurgent leader who was captured in the Province of Pinar del Rio by the Spanish troops under Gen. Hernandez Devalasco, and who was recently par- doned by a royal decree, has been re- leased from the Cabanas fortress, where he has been imprisoned for sev- eral months, and sailed by the steamer Colon for Cadiz, his home. The Colon also carries back to Spain 800 sick, wounded and otherwise incapacitated soldiers. In the skirmishing of the last ten days the insurgents have lost.113 killed and 35 taken prisoners; 8.chiefs and officers and 53 armed privates have surrendered to the Spanish. The Spar- ish column in the same period have lost 5 officers and 22 soldiers killed, with 11 officers and 110 soldiers wound- . Juan Cosio, who was in charge of the insurgent dynamite corps in the Province of Puerto Principe, is dead at the insurgent camp. He was a cousin of Senorita Evangelina Cosio. Fi ea FIGHT IN PROSPECT. Insurgents~ Plan a Demonstration Against Havana, New York, Dec. 12.—A dispatch to the World from Havana says: An im- portant battle is expected hourly. The insurgents have planned the most formidable demonstration against Ha- vana fora year. Gen. Parridos has started from this city with strong col- umns of troops to meet the Cubans. Senor Canalejas, the confidential agent of the Spanish government, went with him - to ascertain the real condition of Havana province. Gen. Rodriguez, with the combined Cuban forces under Juan Delgado, Nodarz and Rafael de Cardenas, is encamped on La Lisa plantation, near Guira de Melina, about twenty miles south of here, on the railway to Pinar del Rio, He has fully 1,000 men who are all well arme!, and he is said to have a Hotchh rapid-firing cannon. The topography of the country about Guira de Melena is favorable to the Spanish troops. TORTURED ©. BY REBELS. Women and Children Are Burned by the Cuban Insurgents. New York, Dec. 12.—A dispatch to the Herald from Madrid says: A storm of indignation has been provoked here by news of tortures inflicted by Cuban rebels upon the inhabitants of Guisa, women and children being bound and burned alive. ‘The details are given by the Imparcial, a paper by no means favorable to the present government’s policy, and the news is row officially confirmed. One of the ministers says that as far as known at present the only crime the unfortunate creatures appear to have been guilty of is that they favored the acceptance of auton- omy. —o— in New York. New York, Dec. 12.—The Journal and Advertiser says: Weyler’s policy of extermination has resulted in an enor- mous influx of Cubans into New York. Hundreds, if not thousands, of them are dying of hunger here. The number of these refugees is variously esti- mated at from 12,000 to 20,000. Per- haps the majority are absolutely with- out means. There are men and women among them who were worth hun- dreds of thousands of dollars before the war began, but who are now pen- niless. Some of these are working as waiters, porters and seamstresses. Very Suspicious Person. New York, Dec. 12.—Charles Zanoll, the barber who pleaded guilty to de- frauding an insurance company, and who admitted that since 1883 he had collected insurance on four wives, one mother-in-law, one daughter and one employe, was arraigned in police court on the charge of being a suspicious person. He was remanded to give the detectives time to thoroughly investi- gate his record. Hungry Cuba Dismissed the Indictment. Baltimore, Dec. 12.—The grand jury has reconsidered and dismissed the in- dictment against F. B. Hubbell and James Russell, who were jointly charged with William J, Atkinson with making false returns of the financial condition of the Best Telephone Man- ufacturing Company of Baltimore for the purpose of influencing the price of the company’s stock. Robbed a Mail Conch. London, Dec._12. — According to a special dispatch from Lydenburg, in the Transvaal, a body of armed high- waymen have robbed a mail coach from Pilgrim’s Rest, about twenty-five miles northwest of Lydenburg, of £12,- 000 in gold coin and bullion. No or- rests have been made. Destroyed by Floods. Galena, Ill, Dec. 12.—A flood caused by heavy rains practically destroyed the government locks at the mouth of the Galena river. The locks were built seven years ago at a cost of $100,- 000. The damage was caused by a great ice floc swept down the river by the flood. The British Advance. ; London, Dee. 11. — According to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Cairo 600 British troops will take pare in the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian expe- dition in the Soudan that was post- poned after the capture of Berber last September in order to avoid the hot season. Murdev and Suicide. Chicago, Dec. 12—Mrs. Fred Schroed- er, who was shot in the right shoulder by her husband, after a quarrel, has died of her injuries. Schroeder put a bullet into his temple when the police forced the door of his room. He died instantly. New York to Celebrate. New York, Dec. 12.—The merging of the old city of New York into the Greater New York will be celebrated on New: Year's eve. The leading citi- zens of both cities have received invi- tations asking them to aid in preparing for a big celebration of “Charter Day.” Shot His Wife. Philadelphia, Dec. 12. — Anthony V. Devlin of ‘this city shot and seriously wounded his wife and committed sui- ide by shooting himself. The couple had been married twe years, —__ Weak Stomach feels Perfectly Well Since Taking: Hood’s Sarsaparilla. “1 have been troubled for over two: years with a weak stomach. I concluded to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. After taking- a few bottles I felt perfectly well, and I cannot speak too highly of Hood’s.’”* Mrs. M. H. Wricut, Akron, Ohio. KH d 9, Sarsa- OOCd § pparilia: Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. - Hood’s Pills are the favorite cathartic. 25c. Patents Issued. List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors: Andrew J. and H. W. Cleland, Man- kato, Minn., double-grade grain clean- er; Hermann C. Dittbenner, Minnea) olis, Minn., lever shield; James C. Fe} guson, Minneapolis, Minn., acetylene gas generator; Leo H. Goodkind, H.. M. Essington and H. E. Bartlett, St.- Paul, Minn., button-feeding apparatus* for sewing machines; William C. Huhphrey, Jamestown, N. D., dress and mud guard; Henry Klossner, Win- throp, and J. Schuch, Round Grove, Minn., cutter bar; Edward W. Simms, Fort Assinaboine, Mont., track clean- er; Thomas H. Williams, Huron, 8. D., potato planter. Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attorneys, 910, Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. Warned. Playwright (in excitement.)—They are calling for the author. What shall I do? Stage ager (who has seen the crowd.)—You'd better slip out of the- stage door and make your escape while there is time. DROP Is the name of a simple but effect- ive remedy for rheumatism, neu- ralgia, asthma and kindred ail- ments. The trade mark is self- explanatory. Five Drops make a dose. The effect is magical. In days gone by other alleged cures have been marketed with the promise to take effect in thirty days or more. Five Drops begins to cure at once. Immediate relief is felt. The manufacturers of Five Drops have thousands of testimonials from reliable people, copies of many of them gladly sent upon application. In order to more effectively advertise its merits the com- pany will for the next thirty days send out 100,000 of their sample bottles of this positive cure for 25 cents a bottle by mail prepaid. Large bottle, 300 doses, $1 (for thirty days 8 bottles $2.50.) Those suffer- ing should write to the Swanson Rheu- matic Cure Company, 167-169 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill, and take advantage of this generous offer. This company is reliable, and promptly fill every order Impertinence. “Why, good afternoon, Miss Rocks- rocks.” He saluted her politely. Sir-r!” she exclaimed, in haughty, frappe tones, regarding him with a marble glance. “Do not presume to take the unpar- donable liberty of familiarly address- ing me simply—” She repeated the word this time 4 though she had just taken it from a cold-storage warehouse. “simply because you happened to- be engaged to me at the seashore last summer!”’—New York Journal. Measure for Measure. Nell—Charlie and I had an argument last night about the size of our mouths. Belle—How did you settle it? Nell—We measured. Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag- netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men: strong. All druggists, 50c. or $1. Cure guaran- teed. Booklet and sample freé. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Less tobacco is consumed in Great Britain, in proportion to the inhabitants ,than in any other civilized country. The average ts twenty-three ounces per annum for each person. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the only cough medicine used in my _ house.—D. Cc. Albright, Mifflinburg, Pa.,. Dec. 11, "95. ‘The Siamese have such a superstitious dislike of odd numbers that they studiously strive to have in their houses an even number of win- dows, docrs, rooms ,closets, etc. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money if it fails tocure, 2c All harm from trolley railroads has been pre- vented in Budapest, Hungary. There the roads are in cuts below the street surface, where ped- estrians never go. ASTHMA can be quick y cured by Dr. Taft's Asthma exe. All sufferers from this distressing complaint should write to Dr. Taft Bros., 4 Flm St., Rochester. N. Y., for a sample bottie, sent absolately free on receipt of name and address. They are reliable. A pompous barber in Kansas proclaims him- self a ‘‘professor of the tonsorial art,”’ and de- clares that he has just ‘‘accepted a chair in the Douglass shaving parlor."” " No-To-Bac for wifty Cents. Guaranteed tobaccs habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 50c, $1. .All druggists A lady in Springfield, Mass., caught a severe cold by riding in a chilly street car, ard has begun suit for $20,000 damages. Star Tobacco is the leading brand of the world, because it is the best. An intelligent cat is a net in the house of Mrs. Mary Brownell, at Wilmington, Del. When the ‘animal desires to be let out of the cellar it rings a bell. Coe’s Balsam Is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anythicg cise. It is always reliable. 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