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PERSONAL CHATS.

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simmie Green, who +1 YY Elisw the battle of Waterloo.

Nathan B. Moore of Bingham, Me., has tramped the woods of that state for

wer 71 years and has killed nearly 300

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The New

York chemist, Professor Emmens, claims that he can settle the i 1 question by transmuting into gold all of the silver that is br ght to bin

Prince Bismarck is an enthusiastic wimirer of the bicvcle. Ee approves of \ n riding and regrets he is too old a | Ww | 6 ll tae &§ ry Dim-

the pri ehter, ts said to hav reht a house for $29,000 in New York and to have paid forit. From n h it would appear that a man may I bly win in a losing fight.

While President Faure of France was in | hof, Russia, he slept in a bed w lh was made and designed especial-

first Grand Duchess Olga

N laievna, daughter of Nicholas L

lisxs Twiss, eldest daughter of Hor- ace Twiss, married the editor of The Times, aud on becoming a widow mar- ried his successor, John Delane. Her father thus happily described tho dou- ble event, took The Times and

‘*Sheo sv ment. ”’

fessor James A. Breasted of the department of Egyptology at the Uni- versity of Chicago, received recently direct from Deshasha, Egypt, a consign- ment of antiquities of unusual value. Among them is the mummy of Mery, priestess of Hathor.

Dr. Hu King Eng and Miss Wang are to be the Chinese delegates to the woman's congress to be held in London in 1898 The former, who is known as the ‘*Miracle Lady,’’ on account of her snecess in the art of healing, obtained her decree of doctor of medicine at the Women’s Medical college in Philadei- phia.

Milton Barney, the oldest living pio- necr in Michigan, was born in Hanover towuship, N. Y., om March 24, 1819. With his parents he emigrated to Mich- igan in 1835 and has lived at Battle Ureek ever since. His father, Nathaniel Barncy, drove the first stage between Battle Creek and Marshall when the country was alive with Indians.

SIZES.

The nail is 24 inches long.

A nautical knot is 6,100 feet.

A size in cuffs is half an inch.

A quarter of cloth is 9 inches.

A equare 16mo. page is 44, by 3%.

The royal] 24mo. page is 545 by 344.

A box 5 by 5 feet holds 5.92 barrels, a 6 fcot box 8.53 barrcls.

A box 22 inches by 1244 and 8 inches deep will hold a bushel.

A 1 cent bronze piece is three-quar- ters of au inch in diameter.

A box 22 inches by 13 and 24 inches deep will contain a barrel of 244 heaped bushels

A thousand shingles laid 4 inches to the weather are required to cover 100 superficial feet of roof.

Tacks are from a quarter to a half inch, though, when accidentally step- ped on, this length seems to be multi- jlied by 100. A pound of the smallest sized contains 16,000 tacks,

FYourpenny nails are 14% inches long and 300 to the pound. Sixpenny fence nails are 2 inches and 80 to the pound. Fine threepenny uails are 144 inches and 760 to the pound. Twentypenny nails are 4 inches and 24 to the pound. Fiftypennies are 64g inches, aud 12 weigh a pound.

A size in hats is one eighth cf an inch. According to the English method, the smaller diameter of the head is taken as the starting point. One-eighth of an inch increase in the shorter diam- eter makes a little more than three- eighths in the circumference. The French and German hatmakers have a rule slightly different from thia

NOVELTIES.

Dainty furnishings for the writing @esk come in burned and carved leather.

Some of the new paper knives have silver blades, with handles of polished stag horn.

New cases for small articles in silyer

are covered with moire silk and lined with satin.

Little powder boxes containing tiny powder puffs are made up in gold, sil- ver and steel.

There are some exceedingly attractive tete-a-tete sets, bowls and vases, in Jap- anese porcelains.

The American Beauty rose and ita foliage furnish a charming design for the decoration of some of the new flat ware.—Jewelers’ Circular.

iTEMS OF INTEREST.

Recent surveys show that over one- sixth of the state of Oregon, something over 10,000,000 acres, is covered with dense forests.

In the tiling of the delivery room of Chicago’s splendid new public library the great dramatist’s name is spelled Shakespere, while in the reference see- tion it is spelled Shakespeare.

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ThE GUREWA

The Story of a [lan who Suffered the Agonies of a

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From the Meatord, Ont. , Moniter. | About two years ago the Monitor | procured an interview with Mr. Reuben Petch. of Griersville, in order to ascer- tain from his own lips if the reports were well founded that he attributed | his most astonishing return to health to the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Theresult of the inter- view was published in the Monitor under the date of Jan. 17th, 1896, Mr. Petch’s case was cartainly one of the most extraordinary in the annals of med- icine in Canada—if not ia the world. He bad been iil for five years and in that time he consulted no less than six of the best physicians he could find, but none could give him the least relief. His limbs and body were puffed and bloated to such an extent that he could not get his clothes on,and for two years he had not dressed. He had lost the use of bis limbs entirely. His flesh seemed to be dead, and pins could be stuck into various parts of his body without being felt or creating the slightest sensation. He could not move about andifbe attempted to get up would fall back and would have to be lifted up. He was unableto open his mouth sufficiently to take solid food,and hadto be fed with a spoon like a child. The doctors said Lis trouble was spinal sclerosis, and that he could not possibly vet better. He was in fact nothing more or less than an animated corpse, so helpless was he. He was a men- ber of the Canadian Mutual Life Asso- ciation, and was under their rules en- titled to disability insurance and made a claim for it. Two doctors, on behalf of the association, were sent to examine him, and they pronounced him incurable and permanently disabled, and m accordance with their report he

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For three years more he lingered in the condition

after his sickness began.

above noted, utterly helpless, and a burden to himself and friends. He was then advised totry Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. LHe did not hope that they wou!d help bim, but in his sad condition

he was prepared to grasp at anything}

that afforded the prospect of even a slight relief. ‘The first change noted in bis condition after he began the use of the pills was a disposition to sweat free- ly. Then life began to return to his hitherto dead body, and from that time on his progress towards recovery and activity was steady and certain.

The publication of the interview, con- taining facts above nuted, created un- usual interests, not only in this section, but throughout Canada. Thata man, whose limbs and body were all dead, who had been examined by medical ex- perts, and pronounced incurable and on the strength of their report was paid a large disability claim.should afterwards be cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, was looked upon asa marvel. Mary were skeptical ; not as to the cure— for the fact that he was actively going about proved this-~but they did not believe jt would prove permanent. In view of the doubts then expressed, the Monitor determined to watch the cise closely. and now, nearly two years after the cure was first published, has again in- terviewed Mr. Petch, with the result that weare ina positionto say most emphatically that this remarkable cure has proved permanent.

Ona being again questioned, Mr.Petch said:—**You see those hands—the skin is now natural and elastic. Once they were hard and without sensation. You could pierce them with a pin and I would not foe! it, and what is true of my hands is true of the rest of my

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that I have now even ceased to use a cane, and can get about my business perfectly well. You may say there is absolutely no doubt as to my cure be- ing permanent. Indeed I am in even better health than when I gave you the first interview.”

‘Do you still attribute your cure to the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills?” asked the Monitor.

‘Unquestionably I do.” was the re- ply. ‘Doctors bad failed, as had also the numerous remedies recommended by my frends. Nothing I took had the slightest effect upon me until I be- gan the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. To this wonderful medicine Lown my release from a living death. I have since recommended Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to many of my friends, and the verdict is in their favor. I shall always bless the day I was induced to take them.”

The above are the chief statements made by Mr, Petch in this latest inter- view, and the Minitor may remark from along acquaintance with him, that we considor this statemen abso— Jutely true and remarkable. He has no interest to serve other thana desire to recommend the medicine that has done so much for him, and we fee) sure that if any sufferer will write Mr. Petch, enclosing a stamp for reply, he will endorse all the statement made above. We may further add that Mr. Petch’s remarkable recovery leaves no doubt of the wonderful curative powers of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and it*seems reasonable to infer that they will do for others what they have done for him—restore health and vitality.

The check at the head of this article is a fac simile of the one by which Mr. Petch’s disability claim was paid and is given in further corroboration of his

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This Girl Kept an Expense Beok and Lost a Husband.

There is a North Side girl whe has a laudable ambition to know just where her money goes. She has tried two or three times to keep mental track of her expenditures, but this always proved unsatisfactory. At last she decided that she must keep an exact and minute ac- count of everything she spent. She got herself a small book with rulings and wargins and a pliable cover ahd set to work in earnest. She put down reli- giously ev ing she spent, the exact amount, the article and the date. She never allowed the slightest matter to go till there was a chance of her forget- ting it. When she made any purchases down town, she went over the list care- fully in the car on her way home and put the amounts on the outside of a

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vackage. Th this way sé succeeded in ceeping a very satisfactory record of 1er expenditures. |

There was only one drawback. She was forever leaving the book around. Of course there are a great many people who are only too glad to read such things. The servant would see it. The man wko came to tune the piano might easily have done it if he liked, and she did not know whether he had or not. A neighbor had once picked it up on the lawn in front of the house and brought it in, but what was worse than all the rest was the fact that a couple of girl friends perused it one day. There were some things which she had talked a good deal about that she got for down- right bargains. In fact, after this catas- trophe everything on her record seemed to be shamefully cheap. However, she was unwilling to give up the bookkeep- ing, and if she didn’t carry a neteh->

around with her she would certainly forget something, so she bethought her- self of another expedient. She determin- ed for the purpose of mystification to multiply everything she put down by ten—that is, to add a cipher to each en- try. In this way she could always tell that every item really cost one-tenth of what appeared on the book. After this she didn’t care who saw it.

There is a lot at the side of her fa- ther’s house and a rustic seat. One day she left the book on this seat. In the evening the young man who had about concluded to ask her hand in marriage | came along. He noticed the book, picked it up and looked through it carelessly. He was amazed. She had always claim- ed to be sucha prudent girl, and he had believed she was. Still there he saw:

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He was getting a fairly good salary, but he felt wholly unequal to the task of supporting a girl with tastes like that. In order to put himself out of any possibility of such a thing he married soon afterward a girl on the West Side who never kept any accounts.—Chicago Tribune.

Scarcity of Material.

‘*The Rey. Mr. Jingle is running his mission in regular vaudeville style. Had a pie eating match there on Mon- day, and last night he offered a prize to the mother who would wash the great- est number of boys’ faces in the short- est time. It was a dead failure.’’

‘What was the treuble?’’

‘‘Couldn’t get the boys.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Men’s overalls and jumpers at F. Per- kins & Co’s,

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|THE CLOCK WINDER,

A NEW YORK MAN WHO MAKES. 43 LIVING AT THiS CALLiNa,

Whims of Some of His Patrons Whose Timepieces He Looks After—M ystery oo the Clock That Would Not Go on Friday, Twenty Clocks In One House,

Clock- winding seems a simple-enongh task to be performed by Owners fog their respective timepieces, but there are many people who find it sufficiently burdensome to make then delegate it t» Hence has arisen the

some one else.

profession of clock wincer, which gg yet claims probably fewer members than any other calling in the city, Fp some years jewelers have attended tg

the repairing of clocks which they sold and have even looked after the windj

where this was especially desired, byt they never tried to obtain this kind of business, and it was done merely ag aq. accommodation to their customers, Now there is at least one man in New Yorke. there may be more, though not many: —whose only occupation is the wind. ing, regulating and occasional cleaning of clocks for numerous families, Hg makes dai!y rounds so as to cover hig

whether they are occupied at the time or not. Through the various halls an@ apartments he goes, from the top of the

Of course he does not pay any attention to the little nickel alarm clocks, which ron for only one day. His care, being given weekly, is spent upon the eight — day clocks of more expensive designand workmanship.

“Some people are very particular aboat the striking of their clocks,’’ he said “They will ask me if I can’t arrange

have all the timepieces in the house strike together. Now, as a general thing, that is an impossibility, and I'l}

to strike just half a minute before hour, some for a quarter of a mi before, some for a few seconds after the hour and so on. You see if I fixed them so that they would strike together would not be exactly together in of actual time, which is more import In one house on my list the family ow 20 clocks. Of these I suppose 5 or perhaps more—strike in unison, the others all within a minute. My ders in this house are to have all the clocks except one at precisely the cor rect time. This odd one is the timepiece in the bedroom of the mistress of the — and she wishes it kept three — ae fast. I think that is the only — ins

body who wants a clock perpetually »

one who asks me to keep one slow. ‘‘When I undertake the care of the — clocks in a house, nobody else is allow. - ed to touch them, and the servantsin — particular have orders never to moye Gr ~ interfere with them in any way. Some- s times this is done accidentally, andit — is hard to find out how the clock has oF

one of my best houses because therewat — one clock which I could not seemt — put in proper order. I would take it —

every smallest part of the mechanism. — Apparently it made no ae clock positively refused to ran right Finally I gave it up, and that Aaa

ities as a clock repairer.

‘‘Some weeks after that I come sua a a clock in another house which acted exectly the same way. I was pe for awhile. Finally I noticed that itak — ways stopped on Fridays. That wat queerer than ever, until by chance 1 hit upon the solution of the mystery. servant, while dusting the room on that day, was in the habit of pea ber cloth along the mantle under the This would have made no oo oall with many timepieces, out this one had an open bottom, through which a of the pendulum projected. The cloth just touched this enough t0 it. The girl did not know what she4 done, and thus the family were ™) fied anew each week by finding that clock would not go on Friday.

“I clean all my clocks re in two years, and in that way keep © in proper running order. Most people think that it is just as well to it clock run until it stops, fairly ¢ ae up with dirt, burt that isn’t so. time it may be so bad that it will impossible ever to make it run as rately as it did before.

take entire charge of all the clocks house, it being understood that weekly visits, Sometimes, th & am employed by the year. In the case of the house I was telling you of, wae they have.20 clocks, oe pay me $10 annually“tor the work, It takes @

deal of my time in tbe course 4 months, and I don’t fill my fast as some folks seem to chink ;

ought,’’ concluded the clock a

with a. mile. —New York Tribune. ££

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Monct(n yarn in black, white, Be scarlet, b’ewn, light and dark grey, ale , received at F. Perkins & Co’s, Sunnyside fi

entire reute, but he never visits thy same horse c*vener than once a week, On that day Lis coming is expected, ang he hes free access to all the roomg

house to the bottom, winding the clocks _ and giving a touch here cnd theretog regulator where ho finds it necessary,

The clock winder whom The Tribune. : reporter saw had several stories to tell < about the pursuit of his occupation @

tell you why. Some clocks are arranged

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