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Show :' ' Jjyjs ( , OME REMEDIES FEET IN New Torn UAnm STOCK oai Now York ImitT, th uor tu, 1 ,0OQ In3 rhiladelpbla cost ouly $'8,000,000. hM aiison . 'VbicU bnilt better, New York or Philadelphia! structure, lu th, Q,laU(ir unpretentious dwelling house, hccnnof working people, while those of New York included splendid business 4 magnificent palaces for the residences of the rich. Philadelphia la noted as being tha city of homes. It has not so many tenement bouses as other large cities, hut is Boat- tored over wide distances and covered With eottages, not pretty architecturally, but much more comfortable and pleasant than the ordinary tenement bouso. Philadelphias working people ire happier and more independent than those of most other cities, no doul t, but rival places claim that thess flocks of little houses hurt the appearance of the city architecturally. It is an interesting topic. Certainly svery great and flourishing town want, both the eplondid edifices and the bapfy imall homes for working peoplo. It wa the policy of the ancient Creeks, tht most artistic race that ever lived.tr erect magnificent temples and , heaping money without stint upon them, but to have private residences tnurked by a simplicity that certainly would look becoming in the citizens of a republic. Cut tho beau tiful Greeks lived outdoors most of th lime, while either from habit or necessity the modern American spends much of his existence within walls. It I noticeuble that tho tendeucy ot most of tho older eastern cities, with tic exception of Philadelphia, is toward the erection of fewer buildings annually, but those more costly, although hero, too, there is an exception in the case of Denver, which is the sixth city of the Diiion in the cost of its single buildings. of the largest Finally, in twenty-sevecities of thj country the average cost of the houses erected in lt&O was 5 rg? INTERFERING HGRSE8. p-T- Interfere Whoa pul of Condition. tnruins to our tost boohs we find in la many otlmr case, only the Loot monger notices, mi ik y each hoods U limiting wid cuttJpf, do., o. g.t In Williams It? many respects yrolmxwork on veterinary surgery be dismie' the subject with the following: jnmhinff or cutting is caused by the boc of one foot striking against the fufc. lock, generally it is tho hind limbs bat suffer, but not always. ' Young horses out of comlitlon often do this when they aro tired and Jo ibis, They rnniit be shod with pro--y entire shoes. When horses have been sharpened during a frost they are very apt to tread thomselves, and sometimes yery severely, causing extreme lameness. Older writers like Vouatt have gone a little farther, and describe it under tho lie says: The inside head of cutting, is often bruised by the (t the fetlockhoof of the opposite foot. ,hoe or the M iny expedients used to be tried to this. The inside heel has been raised and lowered, and the outside raised and lowered, and sometimes one operation has succeeded and sometimes the contrary, and there was tio point so jnvolved In obscurity or so destitute of principles to guide the practitioner. The most successful remedy, nod that which in tho majority of cases supersedes all others, is to put on a shoe of equal thickness from heel to too, and having but one nail, and that near the too on the insido of tho shoe, care being taken that the shoo will not extend beyond the edge of the ernst, and that the crust shall be rasped a little at the quarters." Ho then continues: "There are some d ofeels, however, in the natural form which are the causes of entting, find which no contrivance will remedy, ns when the legs aro placed too near to each other, or when the feet are turned inward or outward. "A horse with these defects should be Carefully examined at the inside of the fetlock, and if there are any sore or callous places there will bo a good reason fpr not purchasing tho animal. Some horses will cut only when they are fatigued, or lame and old. Many colts will cut before they arrive at their re-pu- re m A POET IN PRISON Winced to Patronize Him Himself. Speakiug it a tupper given to him in LivUu, "Ill (I II It so erpool recently, Toolo, the celebrated coraw ritfuti. duin, aald thil once when playLg tu h Tau Lau Is a Chinese pout. He U also an the pert of the Artful Ledger, la kmats of th. 6t Louis w.rkhouto to which ho wore a piir of trousers to hich which he was ent recently on a charge of there wm quite fe history attached, he met a 1 break tog Scotch gentleman to whom, in course of con i"hC B0t hCy verse of more or lei, merit. vemtiou, he recounted the fict of hiving a Ihe rhymes at hast pleat, the other cou- - pair of trousor, which bad been worn for b recite them, amt they nearly forty yuan. The Scotchmen ejects are a, j hU oulr critic. t Whas your tailor I" Uted, "Quid Tau Lau camo to America thirty-si: year, ago. ir0 was at the time a lad of m Morning Journal. and knew no Eng-huNow he bu, nia Scheme. a good nequuint-anc- e with the As one atop toward bringing himself in touch with American custom ho cut off hie queue. That was ni 1 Thai Ibe Veterinary Writers Bar About lilr Knowledge Mol Too titan. h; j. i KoSri? FDR lte Young lloraef Are Tired and cmistriK-tc- Name I Tan lull:-burg- atwer, IS i- j e. after just the doss Hi! of tho war.' countrymen re- - ' 'I Iu y seated Tau conduct in a peculiar Oriental niauner. At that time he ran a gambling house lu San Francisco. A "job1' was put up on him, and three conspirators won all his money. Thou ho received notice to leave town. He did so, aud since has been a wanderer, doing some work, writing much poetry and getting Into numerous scrapes, Here is one of his productions: public-buildings- u Chinaman sneer I go by, American given me kick; No queue or country have I; My condilion make me sick. e Wive, Wanted. There Is one spot of the globo, at any rate, where there are not too many women, where, in fact, there are not enough, and tho one crying want of the community is for women. This region, favored or unfavored according to the point of view from which one looks at full strength." it, is in the new French Canadian settleProfessor Dick says: "Cutting, brush- ments of the northwest. A Stiong Mana Last IV a go r. ing, interfering are said to take place A curious wager with fatal results was of the Freuch Canadian as The success when the one foot strikes and wounds decided at Siepriug, ia Bavaria. the opposite fetlock, and they usually a family man is proverbial. It is a pity, recently A notoriously strong man named Frcying occur in young and timid horses with ill therefore, when he has net full oppor- bet that a horse could not move him from formed legs. The habit requires either! tunity in this direction. We accord- the door of his house. The horse Iwas a particular form of shoe, with which ; ingly do our best to give publicity to bis brought nndFreytng put his arms and feet tho shoeing smith is familiar, or so putthe door posts, while Stem, the pathetic appeal to nice Catholic French against with whom the bet had been made, ting on tho shoe that the crust will pro- girls and women to come to him and his man l neck. At a rope mound ject beyond it A boot U sometimes re- brother settlors in the new northwest . e first pull the rope broki. A new rope I quired." and be married at once, aud be happy, oj! beeu bimigliL-Ster- n phed his whip One of tho most frequent causes is .vii.ii all his might, when Freytng gave a when a defect of the hoof brings the ever after, u3 we hope. and letting go was drugged along To show how in earnest they are these si ankle over the insido heel; it is then fur some yards. II is nook was broken. placed, when advnnced too much, In etiapping young bachelors of the CanaHis Coolness Saved Illm. front of the other foot; this will be ag- dian northwest have referred tho subject A native of Cocoa, Fla., Clare Copgin by gravated If this other on being advanced of getting wives for them to their priests, has a twisted gait, either from weakness, and their appeal has been scattered oame, bad a queer adventure with bees or defective organization or function. broadcast through the province of Que-se- one day recently. lie approached a hiv, from which the honey makers wore swarmAsa study this subject has features of Tho girls will not, however, be ing, and they settled ou his Lead. Withsignificant scientific interest Jt belongs asked to enter matrimony on the spot out trying to fight them off he made for to the domain of farriery, where there ia the river, waded in to his armpits and much to be learned before the treasures on reaching the settlements. Places for then settled down until his hat floated bo housefound as will them readily it contains are rovealed to ua. Horse sway. The bees left him, and he walked keepers, domestic servants and laun- to land without a stiun ou his person. breeder- dresses, if they will accept the offer to Tin Two Jumbo. Tabby's Shrewd Act. go to tho settlements, and courtship and A queer natural history fairytale comes Eelowis shown what is porhapa the will naturally follow. from Scotland, At Haddington a cat gave largest pair of steers in the country. birth to four kittens, and with her offBtrnnge to say, too, they were not reared took up her abode iu the garden spring in tho big, fat west, but in the rocky summer house. Three of the kittens were little state of Vermont. removed, and the lady of the house, on visThe illustration is copied from The iting the Bummer house the next duy, was Ilural New Yorker, and that paper says .. surprised to fiud that the fourth kitten ' of the oxen, called by their ownei "The be made aa bad a break as man could pa(i as0 disappeared. Search was made, well make in disposing of his property by but to" no avail. Several days passed, and Two Jumbos:" was attracted This name has boon given to the big will. Among other things he left a fund the attention of tho inmates movements of somewhat the stealthy by oxen shown, and we would say after a of $5,000 for young mechanics of the the mother cat. when it was seen to k rebo named should well glance at them tliut they are managed peatedly to a thick arch of honeysuckle iu city of Boston. It if "Jumbo" is to bo taken at its accepted In a way directed by the doctor himself, th garden. Here the missing kitten was meaning of enormous size rather than and after its accumulations had reached found safely ensconced in a blackbirds St its real meaning of devil. These "big nc.jt. A better retreat could not have been a sufficient sum it was to be available chosen, ns the nest was fully seven feet Itecra" are owned by Mr. Shej-burfor the benefit of young apprentices who from the ground and in the thickest part had faithfully Berved their time. But of the honeysuckle. Here tho kitten rewhen tho money reached by increuss mained apparently comfortable la ns novi J Journal. such a sum that it would do what Frank- quarter A Man' Clothe lin calculated on, behold, the apprentice The most elegantly dressed man who hn system was done away with almost altowalked the streets of Boston for fifty year ingether. Men worked in factories was the late lamented Nathaniel G. Greene. stead of serving apprenticeships, and ma- He had an eye for color. He would go into chinery did what tho human hand had the shop of a tailor who might be unknown done in tho days of Benjamin Franklin. to him, having been allured by a piece of and ask in hi winning $3,000 has increased to goods in tbe window, The original Y can you make a pair of tones: friend, My f o $308,711.11. Not knowing what to trpust,r3 oceoI.jintf to a pattern that I will with it the authorities of Boston sought xheu with chalk he would out line on Franklia table precisely hi idea, tube from to of u,fl use it improve make cuttiug to of width of waist TtlE TWO JUMBOS. nark- - Tho descendants of Franklin have, his pocket a memorandum t) and length of leg, and, without asking price, Moore, of Darnct, Vt They were 11 and from tins, however, enjoined than ori)i,1, tlie paruM1t to be sent to his adfears old ia April In August, 1880, tailor carried out his llca h the money for themselves on the JrpsSi jf claim they weighed 8,030 pounds, with a girth what he that it has not been used accord- - Wl)uu buy cloth wherever be saw of 10 feet 1 Inch, a him until he and height of 0 feet and a ground return and lawliked patronize tho Now width of 8 feet across the hips. They ing to intent of the will made's mistake. Bo, also, with his coats, esre short horn grades of good pedigree, ; yers will got most of it, aud it will not pecially overcoats. It the tailor remonstraIbclr siro having been an animal of ex- - do anybody any good; The moral is ted aa to fashion, Nat would smile .and pat you to wear cellent breeding. As an evidence of j that which Benjamin Franklin himself hi shoulder, nud inquire: Are am II Your or this garment when their strength it is stated that at S , enforced so often: "When you want not I injured because yon will reputation ftars of age they hauled five and one-hathing done, do it yourself. follow my playful, perhapi reasnnl.iss, fane. tong on a drag. They were worked in a - Boitou Gozett. will logging camp for three years, and tarjngltl. now work of the Tin Mines or Aasini. anywhere, as they are sound, Laryngitis Is an Inflammation inThis voice. value of the mineral product of tontle and kind.-Ftho total The larynx, the organ f Austria (proper) in the year 1870 was tbe past five years they have lived flammation would not be specially danger to narrowness of t lie chink 3,4.VS,UX, which in 1888 increased the lives of gentlemen, having been per- ous but for tbe the character 1870 the output included 45,013 In and unyielding mitted to give tho larynx up work and dovota their in walls. The sucking centners (110 pounds) of copper ore, 5,549,-05par timo to entertaining sideshow of the surrounding as it crowds inflammation centners of iron ore, 70,ca5 centners of tho caused jadiencca. In this capacity they lmvs Inward bytends to obstruct aud even to close lead ore, 304,577 centner of sine ore, 07,6)7 able to earn far more money tliaa centners of manganese ore, 09,390,184 centIn many cases tho the spasmodic 1T could at plain work. iilcrensed a ners of pent and 49, 284,494 centners of coal by frequent further the outputs, w 1th the muscles, somewhat Compared with c. ft: SfM -'ea ; ; I flni.-bo- d lf or 0 A Question of KnUdlng. A comparison of the building opera, lion, of tho cities of the Union ia larger past yoar open, tip aa interesting V'tion. It seems that Philadelphia as the city that built the most lun-- w t!o number beiutr 11, DCS. I'h tho Action of tho laryngeal as in whooping cough, Laryngitis may be either 0ulimmechronic. The ncuts form istbe mote diately dangerous, but , iu the acute form differ greatly spect, according as the membraue or confined to the mucous beucath.-To- uU tends to tho til temp giou. 'jfif J J x?" Kuse he's 1. x pot to sell fur pork so I gwiutor fill him full er shot an den sole him fhr pig Iron." Once a Week, Grind mi' ClitMe. have you seen my ioctnrles!" Your gold rlmuied glasses, gramma!'1 Tri-dily- , Ye." A Rapid Rida for Llh. The bito of the Gila monster, a hideous reptile that thrives in the deserts of Arizona, is said to be filial. An exception to the rule survives, however, In the person of Walter I Vail, a cattle dealer, who wae nipped on the Laud by one of the hideous things not long ago. Of bis experience after being bitten be said recently: Borne one iu tbe party tied A string around my finger and another around my wrist to stop the clreulatioa of tho poisoned blood, and I took a big swallow of whisky, not as au antidote, but as a stimulant. Everybody expected to ace me die right there, but I made up my rulnd to live, if possible. I mounted my horse, aud started on a twenty-thremile ride to InneU-liistation, aud I tell you it was a ride for life. I made those tweuty three miles in just one hour and twenty-fiv- e minutes, liy the time I reached Pam-tellmy lack and my legs began to pain. I felt like a man who was under the influence of r st rong current of electricity, and suffered greatly. An engine for which 1 bad telegraphed on my arrival arrived lit tho sta tioti about an hour after I had reached it, and 1 was conveyed to Tucson, a distance of rniiea. Medical science saved twenty-eigh- t my life, but not until I bad passed through ten days of intense suffering. n "Watcher gwinoter shoot dat swine furl Why doutchur knock him in de head wid er show exception of zinc and manganese ore, considerable augmentation, the totals fot the latter year being ns follows: EoPP-- 0J ore, CO, 184 centners Iron ore, 10,09.3, , zinc centners: lend ore, 12.,311 centnei-.05, Ml ore, manganese centners; 203,170 ore, and centners; pent, 128,002,553 centucrs, -Journal Chicago centners. coni, 82,744,009 of Commerce. .What you wear an your noso and through P "Ye; where are they I" The glasses that grauipa gave you?" see "YeJ.1 For a Christmas present fi' "Yes; tell me where they are." Are they the glasses that you read ill? Eible with, grammal" Tm getting impatient, Freddy. Oh, yo Get them for me." "Glasses that you rend about David sud GerliuU with, aud the three children in tht Hory furnace I" "Yes; the same glasses. Tell mo they are, and quit asking so muny questioua, "Do you want to read with them now, grammal" No; I want to sew." "What aro you going to sew, grammal" I want to hem a few handkerchiefs." For me I" No; fur grandpa. Where are those glass, you little tormuutr You can't seW with the glasses, cau you, grammal" Of course I can. I cant sew without them," 1 thought you cewsd with a towing mu ol.luc, gruumia." Oh, you aggravating boyl Look right at me Now tell me where those glu-ewe.' Pimuo." Iluven't you seen them lately)" Nome." William II. Kiviter In Fuck. s He Never Saw Any. The folios itig dialogue occurred lu court at KHrnimgtmm recently: . "What dry did you fix up tho line fencuf asked the attorney. "Tho "ill ot Bcptembo.'," said the witness When did you go to work for the plaintiff?" The 1st of September," was the reply. Ilotv long after that w b m you went to Cx the line fence!' "About a fortnight. " "Lit rfdrnTlgiittrdfntlldlkt btS-piemui-- r to tho 7th?'1 asked the astoulshed attorney. Whereupon tbe witness coolly replied, "Yes, sir, I lliiuk it Is." A quicker wittoi reply was that given by a witness at a clots of a tedious cross questioning. Now tell mo how many sheep you ever saw, under oath, now remember," I neyer saw a sheep under oath," replied the witness, which closed the examination. New York Telegram. Shi It a Smart. I love you, Maud! She AU right, Harry ! Aud you may keep company with mo this summer ou a few conHe ditions, Name them, sweetl" You must uot try to work tho baccili in ice cream racket on mo, nor cutallthu drowning accidents out of papers to show mo, nor tell any chestnuts about poisonous serpents at , picnic. They wont work I Now-- I think we cau get along very well." Lawrence American. n n , L. En Route. par on NW York aud New Soone--Parl- Tf . Haven railroad. Dramatis Persome Young lady of period and young mau of ditto. Ho Cun you tell mo which American city you like the best) Bbe Well, really, I cannot make up my mind between New York and es. Bix hours ia a short timo.--Li- fi rn He-Y- Reputation. Population Is the outer garment of character. Reputation often conceals tbe character; yet, sooner or later, the character form will show lUelf in or through the garment which it wears. An old English ballad tells of a magio garment brought to King Arthur's court, which could be worn only by a person of right and honorable life, From eontact with any other wearer tbe sensitive fabric shrunk away, refusing to do its ofllce of covering the person. Not uuprofitably might we f:cy ourselves subjected 'to siaii lur ordeals That if the truth of our language eeuld be tested, so that words insincerely written by is should vanish from our page; or if our voles, in its too much protesting, were to become inaudible) Would not tbe confusion of King Arthurs circle be repeated in tho society of today I Hucb liability to publlo conviction would render many a person more heedful of thought and word than be now supposes himself to be; yd, even as things are, disclosures like these are constantly being made. t A kindly seeming note shows itself void ot ths spirit it professes, the assurance of the lips Is denied by an inflection of the voice, tnd tbe tenor of ths inner life is by manifold signs laiil open to the keen observer. There is no kek of te t whereby our real character ii revealed to others, though we may be all unconscious when or bow the revelation is effected. And so it is that gradually our reputation is adapting its form to the charactes beneath it, Sunday School Times. Lead In tin Blot for Cum. I collect from the one cent ecales. I have tolleotcd from about thirty today and I lavs tukeu out about thirty one cent pieces and more than sixty lead pieces. These leads ore size of a penny and weigh precisely the same as a peuuy. Wlio puts thorn in! You think it is done by boys. These leads ore out so and weigh Just the same that I um inclined to think tlie work ii dune by me.i. You may hate to think there are men as small at that, but I've met 'em," -- interview in Chicago Tribune. cut just thu ni.-el- 'pnr $ |