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RPNMG^THE BLOCKADE.XXOITXVO *PXSODX X» TX*OABSSB

life-time. There's no use getting ox*cited."

" We lay in port*about eighteen days,"he teaumed, "dischargingour cargo, andreloaded with cotton, when we a"gain put

passed the squadron without

ssCoininander's Story*' It was about I I o'clo

i the for<

Everything went smooth until abouti * m i l e s off Cuba, when we broke our

Suimunition lorment.-'

lor the Confederate govern- ^ ^ l ^ I f ^ ff1^ent.The speaker, says the Savannah (Ga.)

jVT*#«. was a medium-sized, square-builtman, with deep-set eyes and determinedf u r e s .

I have read the account m the Sun-day New*," he continued, "of the strik-

features.

TJffi PEEPLEOTJHOW A WOMAJT I.BFT THH fTJUL OT

V Cipher Which Could Be CorrectlyInterpreted in Two Way*-Settlingthe Difficult?.

Crushed orange is one of the newest-shades of yellow.

Gloves for ball dresses must have atleast twenty buttons.

Blouse vests of satin are seen on thenewest basques and jackets.

The following curious reminiscence ap^pears in "RomantilfrSfcwaes 6f the LegalProfession:" Miss Bridgets .Molloy wasthe possessor of a large fortune in her ownright, the same having been left to her

| by her father. She had two sisters, LucisThe Seminole which figured in the a nd Judith, who had incurred the old

above affair was employed by the UnitedStates government during the war in

South Atlantic and

gentleman's displeasure by running offand marrying two scapegraces, and~~8O

^ „ „ „ _ they were not remembered in his will.JGulf coast in search, of the many enter- j Qne of these sisters had a son, Ferentzprising blockaders with which the coastand West India waters were infested.

ing chase' at sea, aud the story of the re- She captured and assisted in the capturemarkable escape of a Confederate steamer j of a number pf vessels m which severalat Galveston. I was in command ©f ] Savannah citizens were interested at thatthat ship at the time." ! ti^e After the war she was sold to theUJ.CVV Pa*1!"' **** kXXV tlLUV. j % _

The reporter recognized at once an old Nickerson line, and ranSavannahan, Captain (Charles W. Austin, j steamer between Bostonwho is now in the government employ, ! for a number of years.and who figured in many thrilling ad-

ventures in the war, buT^came"out w:*u-

and ran as a merchantand Savannah

Japan's Model Postal System.tut a scar. " You had a narrow escape, We clip the following from a KobeJaptaiu; but tell us something about j (japan) letter to the Philadelphia Press:' -<*--» 'The postal * system of Japan is always

pointed at as a model in its way—one ofthe affair."

"As I said, it was some time in thefall of 1865. I had made four or fivesuccessful trips from Havana, bringingid-ms and munitions of 'war, but this tripnearly wound me up. The Susanna,

hich the writer in the Newt referred to

the foremost departments of the Eu-ropeanized government. And, indeed,it must in all fairness be acknowledgedthat much credit belongs to Japan forswiftness in the dispatch of mails, -while

as a privateer, was a stanch, trim-built j fettered with a lat-k of railroads. In theiron vessel, with a capacity for from j g rg t pi a c e every trata-tarries mail, and1,400 to 1,800 bale? of cotton, and with j u j a p a n be it known, the imperial rail-

Steldil, and the other a daughter, LuciaBidigita O'Birn. When it happened toBrMgita Molloy to die, unwedded andwithout issue, they found a will underher pillow, which was in the strictestsense a conundrum. It read plainlyenough so far as minor bequests were con-cerned, including £1,000 each to thenephew and niece, and a shilling each tothe brothers-in-law, "to buy mourning

but when it came to the bulk of

average speed of about fifteen knotsv an hour. She was built in England, on""" the Clyde, as a blockade runner, and lay

roads run through passenger trains everytwo hours, and on the Yokohama rail-road nearly every hour. . Thus,~while in

low in the water, with her long, black ; America three mails each wayhull hardly visible except in broad ^ " •

dailylitihull h a y p ^ ^ ^ j a t j i ^ ^ e m e d thedimaxrof^acilitiesr

light. She was about 225 feet long by j t n e minimum between the various cities4foiT^y-hr».n.nv and-hp.inp a new vessel. I urTC j H about te" mnilg fftp.h wav daily.ing ^ ^ ^

felt.her equal to anything in a chase. I This "applies merely to the railroads, bf

The delivery of mails is also veryprompt, and takes place a good manytimes a day. A person may mail a letterin Yokahama for Tukiyo, one hour's ride

We left Havana with a crew of twenty-seven men, well officered by men whoknew their business. We had fineweather and calculated to make land in-side the "blockade under cover of nightbetween 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning. Tto t n e n o r th, as Iat6 as dusk, and yet reHowever, as luck would have it an3&*i ceive an answer the same night, provid-cident at sea—the givingour machinery—detained us several hoursand brought us to land in open daylight,about 6 o'clock in the morning. By thistime we were in plain sight of the block-ading squadron, but as yet were unob-served.

"The entrance to the harbor was filledwith gunboats. It was near the close ofthe war, and the blockade at other pointson the coast having been raised/W© Fed-eral cruisers were concentrated atj^ab*es-ton.- The situation was a perilous one,and there was but one thing left to bedone. If we could evade the enemy untilnightfall, and then pass the squadron andenter the harbor unobserved, we wouldbe all right. Calling the men all to thebridge 1 gave them their orders, and theship was soon heading toward land. Westood well to the eastward, close undershore, with the intention of secreting our-selves until night, We were yet somedistance out, and hauling in rapidly,when about 8 o'clock I discovered a cruis-

ing his friend is prompt. While in Yo-kahama I took occasion to mail a letter

rings;'7

the fortune, here is what it said:* * * Aad all the residue of my proper-

ty, whether real or personal, I grfve, bequeathand devise to G P X D N W M D YB D OV J W D M I H T I D X TZ.

That was all, and of course it wassimple nonsense as it stood. But whilethey were examining it a note droppedout, in which they were told to lift upthe carpet in a certain corner of theroom. They did so and found thereanother note telling them to consult acertain page of a certajn book. Theydid that also and found there a thirdnote saying: "Key behind wainscot,three inches toward cupboard fromdressk om—windowr"—it—was the-work of a few moments only to remove« Innap Wrf l a* fr p pnjnt i n ^ a t ^ W*

there they came upon a few half-eatenscraps of paper, and nothing more. Themice had swallowed the key! Therecould be no doubt that the whimsicalcollection of letters was a good andsufficient cipher,.if they could only get aclew to it. The parents of Bridgita'snephew felt sure it could be made to spellhis name, and the parents of the niecewere equally confident that it meant her.

in a post-box as late as 6 o'clock one As a result each party brought in an ex-evening, at a point fully a mile from thepost-office. It was soon collected, deliv-ered to the one to whom it was addressedover on the bluffs, and the same eveningI received a call from the recipient.

Every effort is made in the case of for-eigners to deliver their mail to thempromptly. So anxious are the authori-ties to deliver mail tnat one of the mis-sionary ladies in Kobe says when lastsummer she went up among the moun-tains, six miles distant, a spec-ial man was despatched from theoffice here, really against her wishes,

pert; and, strange to tell, each expertsolved the mystery to suit the '

FASHION NOTES.

coins huBg across the entire bar.little girls' dresses are laden with

bows* of some gay colored ribbon.Morning dresses of pale pink qr blue

cashmere embroidered with rose-budsform a part of brides' outfits.

Ermine, once the most aristocratic offurs, fit for kings and queens, is now usedonly as a simple lining to plain cloaks.

Oriental broche damasks with the de-sign outlined in cashmere beads makethe front and sleeves of velvet and satindinner dresses.

Very large nets in which the hair fallshalf way to the waist are worn by younggirls in Pa*ris. It displays the hair togreat advantage, but gives endless op-portunities for deceit.

Grays of several tones in one costumsmost ft

dresses. Gray cashmere with gray em-bossed velvet and chinchilla fur.combinemany clear shades of this fashionablecolor.

Mr. ThoS^A.'?J!TteJ^ty»,??Jai8»1888, writes as follows:

I have been suffering during several yearsfrom severe Illness, ami a general breakingdown of my physical system, and have triedthe treatment and prescriptions of many doc-tor* far and near, and traveled to the HotSprings and other mineral springs famousfor their'remedial qualitim, drinking thewaters ahd Patnmg systemati<wHy in theirhealing depths, but all to no avail, as I !steadily failed in health; and although ia- 'formed by my physicians that my ailmentsand weaknesses were the result; of kidneydisease of a dangerous character, they couldgive me nothing lib cure me. During thepast two years my sufferings at times weredreadful, and I had the most indescribablepains in the regions about the kidneys, theparoxysms of which were so severe as torender it impossible for me to sleep. Whilein this deplorable and discouraged conditionI was persuaded to try Hunt's Kemedy, andafter using less than half a bottle my great

- —• - -—«=-; * —•—/ *.—*. of pa in were en-tarely relieved, a n d I could sleep be t te r a n dlonger than I had in two years before, andalthough I am ndw on my third bottle onlytoy improvement is very remarkable, and Iregret that I did not know of the wonderfulcurative powers of Hunt's Remedy before,as it would have saved me years of suffering.I heartily recommend it to all afflicted withany kidney disease or disease of the urinaryorgans."

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Neuralgia,Soittica, Lumbsgo,

BACKACBI, •ElADACHS; TOOTH AQH*

SORE T H R O A T ,QUINSY, SWRLLENGfc,

Please allow me to^speaPV'the highest^L0.* " H u n K Remedy," for it hit my

case exactly. I had kidney "a^d^urina^yI was recommended

FROSTBITES,BURNS, SCALDS,

And all other bodllyachetand pains.

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xactly. _ __trouble pretty badHunt's Remedy. II took one" teaspoonfuf as

decided chang th fitBlack satin skirts with the froata cor- tS^nJotto fefi? S S ^ ' J S & Lered with black chenille fringe are wornwith black velvet bodices. There arealso jet embroidered fronts for satinskirts that have a velvet basque withjetted satin sleeves.

The pelisse or dolman of sealskinedged with otter or beaver or black foxfur prpved to be the most elegant cloakbf th i season in New York. Short man-

Itoanewmaiuever since. Please receiveTthesincere thanks of myself for the benefitswhich I sought vainly for aud found only inHunt's Remedy.

I will cheerfully give this same opinion of»Hunt's Remedy to any one who wishes it bvaddressing ROBERT D. ARCHER,

March 14, 1

IN 1810 the English-speaking population ofties of sealskin have not had the' success the globe wi'l be i ,000,000,000.anticipated for them. The epaulettod j That Tj*ribiejrra«luTcape is in i'avoslor young^nd slight 0 K I °* ™* CHIE1I7U8TRITED I"Fwomen with their cloth tailor-made suits. As details of the Rath bone wife murder are

dresses ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ g lfalling quite straight on the sides, andhaving three plaits, beginning on theshoulder,

__, .,nd was him-self stabbed by the assassin. The event wasfollowed by nervous prostration, which

T thathad employed him, a nd each was able toprove the correctness of his reading.

The one retained in the interest of thenephew began by explaining that a per-son like Miss Molloyl presumably igno-rant of cryptography as a science, wouldi?e almost certain to adopt the device ofmaking one letter do duty for anofcher."Now, you know," he continued, " thecommonest English letter is e, so. that,ten to one, the commonest letter in thecipher will represent e. That letter is d.

•, gathered at thewaist and fall- caused. s*Js Senator Harris, of Albnnv,; *v-«i« ±~ +v« fl^^« mi o Ko/,b- nf *Yia panful dyspepsja, which fjrowing constantlying thence to the floor. The back of the £*orse m £he 't<m £ fimlf p r o d w e dwaist is cut off just below the belt, and j "blues" and periodical brain disorder*a short, full train is gathered upon it. J Dyspepsia made this man a monster!

" Experts tell us that the brain is thesOund-fi«»nn;n» T?JB1I «6< nvioa i e s t °* a11 W ans* and they credit the alarmingSwapping FISll stories. j i n c r e a s 0 of tnsaftity to derangements of the

The Anglers' association of Eastern I stomach. What the stomach is the blood will" " their rooms on Arch j 5 e ^ . d _ b ^l K ^ ? ^!!?J????!?5?_?.lLei:

,, tiie other evening,

er bearing down upon us. All hope of j i n tne interior mail is carried from townmaking land ; was then abandoned, and j to-tow-n by messengers, who al«o travelthe only chance for escape was t o put to J a t a dog trot, in cases where Btage linessea. Having full confidence in my men, J- --*- ----•<- \\n^—u ±i—: «,^«:^..^

who came all the way on foot, and was | It comes no fewer than five times innot content until he had hunted her up ) the twenty-five. So, ten to one, standsand delivered her the mail. The city j e. Well, if d means e, it is likely enoughcarriers have small carts painted fed, with j a would be b, b would be c, and so on,which they deliver mail upon the arrival ] taking " " — ••-of the large mail steamers. They goabout the city at a" dog trot. This ap-

| plies, of course, to the large port cities.

and Knowing the speed of my ship, I didnot fear the result. _

"Calling to the engineer through thepipe, I discovered that after making atwelve hours' run off shore and backagain, I would not have coal enough tocarry me back to Havana, as there, wasnone to be had in Galveston. I was in aquandary; but no time was to be lost.'Give her full head,' I shouted to theengineer, and casting my glass across theharbor, I saw the Federal cruisers pre-paring for action. There was only onealternative, and in forlorn hope I tookthe desperate ehance- of running thesquadron and breaking the blockade. Itwas then about noon. I headed the shipfor Galveston and passed over the outerbar into the swash or beach channel,hauling in south by west in the teeth ofthe guns on the gunboat Ssminole, whichhad already opened fire. At this pointthe chase began, and for an hour we ranunder a heavy fire from the guns of threeof the squadron, which were bearingdown on us 111 the time.

" 'Push her hard,' I shouted again tothe engineer. 'All right, sir,J came thereply, and the huge black columns ofsmoke that poured out our funnels andlay in cloud9 on the water, the throbbingof the engine in the hold, the strainingof the wheels as they flew along, plow-ing the water.iind leaving a track of boil-i.lfoaruin S ^ W told th

do not .exist. With all their ceremonioushaste it is amusingly incongruous tonotice that little effort is made to pro-tect mail—doubtless because, in this poorcountry, valuables are not • much trans-mitted through the mails. In summerthe overland mail-carrier transports themail from place to place by means oftwo nets attached to the end of a polebalanced over the shoulder. In case ofrain these nets are wrapped in oiledpaper. To one who has been accus-tomed to the iron mail wagons of Amer-ica i t is a peculiar sight.

ing the water.iind leaving a track of boil- r , .i.l.foaruing S ^ W ™ , told that he • •»*

Emperor William at the Opera.A Berlin letter has this account of

what the writer saw one night at theopera: Nearly the entire court was pres-ent. The emperor, of course, was there.He never fails to appear when Luccasings. In the largest of the royal boxessat Prince Wilhelm, his wife's brother,Prince Guntfcer of Schleswig-Holstein,and another young officer. In the boxadjoining were the prince and PrincessFrederic of Hohenzoliren. Between theacts Prince Wilhelm, followed by hiscompanions, entered their box. Theprince and princess kept their seats, andshook hands with the future third em-peror of Germany, without offering tostand up. Prince Wilhelm gallantlykissed the princess' glove, and then took

i ththe prin th<

1 jnot a word

It was an exciting5 at his post, and

The shellover and splashed and drenched

our deeks as they fell close under joursides. Two solid Shots passed throughour funnels as 1 stood on the bridge, andthe fragment of a shell shattered ourbow above water, but otherwise we wereunhurt. I could watch the movementsof the men on the cruisers through myglass, as I stood on the bridge, betweenthe flashing of the guns and the clearingaway of the smoke.

' ' We were even now about half a miledistant from each other and,about a milefrom the shore. ' All right below V Iacquired again through the pipe. ' Allright, sir;' was the answer, and the shiprushed through the water as the' shot fellthick and fast, but the chase was aboutup. Tne bar was between' us and thegun-boats, and the distance grew greateras the channel widened. In ten minutesmore we were out of their reach, and,running the ship under Pelicant Point,"we were under cover of our own guns,sheltered from the enemy's.

' ' We were now safe. The open baywas before us, with the white sand hillsbeyond. The fleet was lying below abouttwo miles, and*the fort and the wharvesalong the city were lined with thousandsof spectators who had witnessed the

Suddenly the old kaiser walked in. Theparty instantly arose to greet the griz-zly "monarch, who shook all cordiallyby the hand, and appeared in

cess' hand until she stood up straightafter making her a low courtesy, I no-ticed for the first time that,the kaiser'*index finger of the right hand was en-

ling "pleasantly, until his majesty with-drew. The prince of Hohenzollerndropped on a sofa in the back ot the box,and just as Prince Wilhelm was startingto sit on the point of the former's helmetcap which lay beside him, he pulled itHastily aside, and the heir to the Germanthrone let himself carefully down intothe velvety depths of the sofa besidePrince Friedrieh.

Once, in going through one of theroyal palaces, the guide told me that theemperor's finger had been shot off acci-dentally at a hunt when he was a veryyoung man, and before his marriage, butthat the artists always painted in themissing membej.

the letters following." Puttinge for d and n for m, he went mi to shnw,and assuming that y might stand for p, bfor h, and o for w, it was easy to spellnephew. Then he showed that the cipherand the "Steldiu both ended in a letterbetween a pair of letters—zxz: Idl,Therefore, he argued, z would mean 1and x would mean dr And with so muchdetermined, it must be clear thatsubstituton of letter for letter, and nevermixing them, would give my dearnephew, Ferentz SteldL Only there wasa j in "Ferentz," which should have beena d to represent an e. But the lawyerwho had drawn up all of the wmbut thisperplexing clause recollected that MissMolloy had insisted upon having theboy's name spelled "Firentz," and thusthe j must stand for i, and there wasspecial confirmation of the expert's pro-cess.

Then came the other expert. His pro-cess was quite as convincing and evenmore simple, and yet the outcome wasentirely irreconcilable with that in thefirst case. When old women makeciphers, he explained, as his rival haddone before him, they commonly changethe letters by counting forward or back-ward. So he had first counted one for-ward, then two, three, four and finallyfive—and there he found a startingjxrint.According to that rule, g would be 1, pwould be u, x (making a follow z) wouldbe c. Next came, d, which would be i,then n, which would be s, and so on,the true letter being always the fifth let-ter from the cipher forward—and theexpert smiled as the cipner was thusfound to spell out plainly, letter for let-ter: Lucis Bridgita O'Birn, my niece.There could be no more cavil over thisthan over the. other one. The ciphermeant two'distinct stod opposite things,equally and at the same time, bothdemonstrable by processes equally ob-vious and equally sound. Wilat was tobe done? It must go to the chancerycourt,.certainly; that was the only thingleft to do. But it never-got there. Tbenephew and niece met, fell in love,and got married; and thus, after all—may it not be behoved? the will of MissMollQy was finally carried out exactly asshe had planned and desired.

After tne consideration of routine mat- W | i en it might be checked or cured. H. S.ters was concluded the Rev. Dr. Wayland Benedict, for thirty-flve years express agentHoyt suggested that the executive com- "P»» J.roy?#

has -often related how for a long.y. =>° . . . - . . , .. tune his life was an n b a b l b dmiftaa nronai-a o Hot nf ailiionfa KnfVi nf t l n l 6 "1S lUe ^ ^ a n Unbearabll

mitteewepareaUstof subjects, both of , H e h e w o u M m t h e r d i e

practical and scientific import, with re- j through his old dyspeptic experiengard to the finny gtitles of subject* suggested were: "The

"P»» J.roy?#has -often related how for a long

tune his life was an unbearable burden,d than go

John Sting, the Videiy-known Odd Fellowof Hudson, informs us that what began ia: The j ,

?hen Taken from the Water."Upon the latter topic Mr. Cardoza re-marked;

" I believe a fish dies of intoxicationwhen taken out of the water, notalcoholism, but oxygenism, a sort of fervid«exhileratian, so to speak." Other subjectsnamed were, " How Fishes Feel Pain, "and " Upon What Food Fishes Live."

"I don't wish^ to complain^" said aHgenia], .angler/wearing ^Qld-^immed spec-tacles', approaching the reporter as hespoke; '"but we would like you to men-t^in tixe scientific and other subjects wenow have under consideration. Youknow,"confidently, "wedon't want thepublic to. get the idea that we assembledJoere merely to tell—"

"It's a story I can vouch for," ex-claimed the well-known voice of DoctorHoyt, near the speaker's chair; uknewthe man; saw the fish; positively true."

"All right; let's here it if it is true,"chorused several voices.

"Well," eaid the reverend doctor, "itwas a couple of summers ago. I was inCalifornia. In San Francisco, near thewater works, was a large tank, and inthat tank was a fine, large Californiatrout. It was very tame and the clerksused to catch flies and hold them overthe water, and the trout would come upto the surface and take the fly from their/fingers. Well, one day an idle clerk,

jf tired of the usual thing, placed a nice,fjjt fly Upon the hook of a bent pinr Histroutship came up as usual and wascaught, The clerk released him and en-joyed the joke. But would you believeit} after: that day twenty hotel clerkscould stand around that tank and thatfish would take flies from every one ofthem except-Jihe man/"Vho played theloaded fly oniiim."—Philadelphia Times.

firmed dyspepsia, intense heat and distress inthe stomach, belching of wind, hard andbloated bowels, loss of appetite, constant con-stipation, sick headache, and a despondent,irritable condition of mind.

These gentlemen can realize, as can thous-ands of others, to what violence confirmeddyspepsia may drive a man! Happily forthem they escaped mental frenzy by thetimely use of Dr. David Kennedy's FavoriteRemedy, of Rondout, N. Y., a pure vegeta-ble, non-alcoholic preparation which in thepast twenty years na3 cured in 90 per cent,of cases.,iJ.t has a very large sale and is re-garded by physicians as most valuable forstomach, malarial, liver, kidney^ urinary, fe-male, strd tAutid cUsortters."

If we would escape the full penalties of dys-pepsia, we most arrest it before it becomeschronic and sets the blood and brain on Sure.—Kingston (N. F.) Freeman.

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colors of the Diamond Dyes, for Silk, WoolCotton, etc., 10c each. A child can use withcorrect success. Get at once at your drug-gists. Wells, Richardson & Co. Burlington, Vt.

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AFTER DIPHTHERIAThe terrible prostration which tottovn Diphtheria,

and the peraiitency with which it clings to the p&tient.ire marked feature*. The power of HOOD'S SABSAJPA.RITXA to drive oat the poison left in the sytbem, andreUere the consequent distress, was never more signallytbown than in the following remarkable statement:

The Revise:! Old TestamentOf the forthcoming revision of the Old

Testament the Christain at Work says:"Unles»ali signs fail, the book willbereceived with far more favor thaat the NewTestament revision has met with, and

chase, and who received us with open ! this because the Old Testament is lessarms." . ' ' " " ' , ,, ,

" It was a nip-and-the-bounce, cap-tain," .remarked the reporter. " Howdid you feel with the shells burstingabout you ?" — *v

" Well, about as I do now," was thereply, as the complacent captain stoodwith his hands in his pockets, quietlysmoking his cigar. "True, there wereabout 200 pounds of powder under thebridke wfeere I stoipa, but it's all in a

:nerally read, because current religiouslief pivots almost wholly around New

Testament exegesis, and because the ori-ginal text of the Old Testament is solost in antiquity there is nothingto do but ta take up with what wehave, and, whimjmportant changes havebeen resisted in tHe NeurTestament, theywill probably not be refused, if indeed,they are not promptly accepted in theOld."

Bananas itf Florida.Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, writing to

the American AgricuUurut in regard to arecent visit to Florida, says: "OppositePalatka there were great plantations ofbananas, which grow by suckers from theroots, and increase like weeds. They

.have to be three years old before theybear, and the development of the flowerand fruit, which was going on while wewere there, was a, pretty-sight. The topof the stock turns over and produces ahuge purple flower of a single leaf, aslarge as the hand of a giant. From underthis lar^e leaf starts a circle, of smallsprouts like fingers. The big leaf fallsoff, but from the ends of the fingers burstother much smaller,puq>le flowers.. Thenbelow the ro# ©f fingers grows anotherlarge flower like the first; it also uncoversanother row oi fingers, and so on till the en-tire bunch of bananas, as we know it inthe market, is formed. Even then theflower point does not cease growing, butexhibits flower after flower, which are

How Cakes are Tfrosied. '—-—-

In the window of a i ; delicatessen';

store on Third avenue, there appeared thehead of a large porker ornamented withflowers and vines in an extraordinarymanner. A wreath of red and white jroses rested between his ears. Therewas lilies and pinks in his jaws until hiiteeth were buried out of sight, and aminiature sunflower covered his snout.The proprietor of the store smiled whenasked about it and picked it out of thewindow without saying a word Thequestioner then saw that the head wassimply a cake ornamented w i ^ variouskinds of frosting. "There is art infrosting cake as well as in painting," saidMr. Schifferdecker, a confectioner. " Ittakes an artist to imitate nature so close-ly as to deceive the eye. The process ofornamenting a cake is very simple. Sugarsof various colors are, mixed with thewhites of eggs to a thick paste. Themixtures are put in cone-shaped bags sixinches deep. In the apex of each bag isplaced a tin cone-shaped spout the smallend of which is round or serrated or flataccording to the purpose for which weuse it. Holding the bag in one handand steadying it , with-^te other wesqueeze the mixtures through the tubes.The shape of the tube helps us in form-ing the design, Thus flat tu%es serratedon one side are used for leaves. Littleroufcd mouthed tubes serve to make vinesand tendrils. To build a rose we use athicker moisture, and form the rose fromit exactly as a sculptor would model one !in clay; I sometimes make a rose with !

nothing but a little bit of wood notmuch larger than a" toothpick. In fact,the tools used oa elaborate pieces of con-fectionery are nothing more than what Ihave told you, but we have to serve longas apprentices before we can do the

. J called the doctor, who1 poa my word, the child grew wio? for a bottle of HOOD'S SAEI

. - - - -__,_».it leave the little girl the first —,«and «#am in the morning. Before the day was out shewas pUying around the house. Her pains were goneFrom that day till now she he8 been well, and is whollyrecovered. Her flesh baa come b;:ck. she is fat as eter.ftod.aa mirthful and lively as before she wa» sick—lull oi•pint*, to the delight of as ai!.

M&B. JAMHB BURNI,46 Market street.

Hood's Sarsaparilla

growing moreimpftativp, aid ofthese H o s t e t t e r ' sStomach Bitters is•he chief in merit am"the most p o p a 1 a rIrregularity of tinstomach and b owels.malarial fererg. livercomplaint, debilitr h e u m a t i s m aiminor ailments, arethoroughly cooqied 1 y this incompara-ble family restorativ

cinal naf*

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!when applied by the finW Into the noitrlls(will be abaorbed, effect|nally cleansing the h«*d[of catarrh*! vims, can*.|fog he*lthy secretions.lit allays inflammation,protects the membrane

[of the nasal passage!*jf&m additional colds,complexly heals the

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Pain in the Chest, and all pains and aches either local ordeetMteated a n instantly nsUered and-speedily cored bythe well-known JSTep Plcuter. Compounded, as it is, ofthe medicinalTirtaesof fresh Hops, Gams, BalsamsondKRracts, it ia indeed the bttt •pain-kHUn*, stimulating.soothing and sta-e*"-""—*—"** -™ _-'_ .-'Hop Piasters are16 cent* or five for $1.00.Mailed on receipt ofprice. HopPtostwOo.,Proprietors and Mann-tactorera, Boston.Maaa.

strengthening Porous Plaster erer nude,are sold by all drogyixteaad coua|ry stores.

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ESTABLISHED 1878.

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