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Show v n tmk hki: t Mrrtr nurrium. Doctors In th. ir light against disease Aave had their attention called to a common, bnt hitherto 'unnoticed medium for carrying infection. It is the wind. Examination shows that genus have been cariicd immense distances by the breeze and deposited in places where nil the cl mi matinees were favorable for their growth and spread. im Sanatary Public Miiit ml Plumbing. private huiKliiii,'. new uml put oll, llxuiultu-- d in tliouriKli ! ! RUSH, The Plumber. i 6 E. SECOND SOUTH STREET. Telephone Slit. Sl! toke ciiy, null. Drainage and Ventilation Steam Practically Executed. and Hut Water Heating. TOLD OF ROYALTY. . The Duke of Norfolk has just sold a bit of family properly the origin of which dates hack to Flo Men field. The battle was won for England by his antestor, the Karl of Surrey. Among the rewards of a grateful king was the bestowal of a pension of J a year, to be paid him and his heirs forever. Through the several centuries that 1 Lave elapsed since the S.ots were beaten back at Flodden this 10 a year has duu coffers.' The replenished "Tinker availing himself of a treasury minuto passed in 1SSS, has commuted his pension for the round sum of 800. The treasury has, in this case, made an excellent bargain. The capital sum represents only twenty years Labors Extravagance. The membersjof an archaelogical so-- i VMracTa gathering at the home of one of their number in Gloucester. While they were roaming about the house, the host called the attention of his guests to an old clock, a great favorite of his. He told his friends of his great attachment to this ancient timepiece, and grew quite pa- thetic at certain points- in his remarks, which he brought to a close by saying, in- a voice full of emotion: "Gentlemen, I have wound up that clock every Aioht for more than forty He had evidently made an years. impression onhis visitors, when one old fellow, who had been carefully examining the clock, turned the tide of feeling evoked bV the story by saying, dryly: "Well, I always did think you were something of an idiot! Thats an - - eight-da- y clock! r The Mo..jullo !Ud fci4ved the 8ak-- I Itlcn Man Ait Abu Cure. New York Press: "Talkin about said an Erie railroad rattlesnakes, brakeman, "did you ever bear how the mosquitoes saved a mans life up near Gulf Summit last summer? Well, while getting out railroad tics In a slashln over hack of the Summit. Abe MoreIn Druvrr. No M emorlil liny IC The last Decoration day road race in house was bitten In the leg by a ratDenver under the auspices of the Asso- tlesnake. A Susquehanna doctor wai ciated Cycling Clubs of that city has at once' sent for and the leg was bandbeen run, the association having voted aged tightly above the wound. It at a recent meeting to abandon tho wa3 expected that Morehouse would race on that day in deference to the die before the doctor could come up the pike on his bike. Just ns soon as requests of the Grand Army of the tiie leg was bared to put on the bandRepublic. Hereafter the day will b left to the old soldiers and another age it was attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes, and when the doctor arselected for the annual road race. rived he found the man as lively as a cricket and in no need of a doctor, but the ground was covered with dead and dying mosquitoes. They had sucked tho poison fiom the wound and saved Morehouses life. The mosquitoes presented their bills and died. The doctor presented his hill and got his money. This was hard on the mosquitoes, but I presume Morehouse's life was worth savin. There was Sol Timson, another brakeman. Sol used to brake on the Delaware division, from Susquehanna to Port Jervis. He had the ague awfully. Had it so bad that some of his teeth shook out, and he shook the buttons off his coat. A lot of Ills friends had sure cures for the ague, and each gave him the prescription. At last when he had 13 prescriptions;- - he- - took - them all -- to aPort Jervis drug store and had them put up. He took them home and put them all into one jug. Then he shook the jug, mixed the 13 prescriptions thoroughly, and took three doses. He rover shook again until the hearse struck a stone. -- The Duke of York is to. represent Queen Victoria at the second levee of the season at St. James palace, which will be held in the second week in March. The Prince of Wales will then be on the continent. This, will be virtually a naval levee, and the levee following, to be held by the Duke of Connaught, will be mainly military. The latest story of the kaiser is that when he goes to balls he criticises the dancing and gives personal reprimands to faulty dancers. Such a course might pccupy the greater part of a mans time, but the kaiser finds leisure for affairs of state. DOCTOR TOO LATE. All Wool. "That boy remarked the proud parent extravagantly, "is the of mine, genuine article. Hes all wool, you can bet. "Shouldnt wonder, commented old Grumpy; I notice that he shrinks from washing. Philadelphia Record. The Chinaman Awheel. The irrepressible John Chinaman is making himself obnoxious as a cyclist He evidently fancies in Shanghai. himself as a trick rider, and is anxious to show off his dexterity regardless of the safety of the general public. An aggrieved resident wrote to one of the Shanghai papers regretting that such things should be. He complains that young Native scorchers ride at a reckless pace through the crowded streets, with arms folded across the chest. He remarked one who was not only riding "hands off, but had actually taken off the handlebar of his machine, and was holding it over his head! If a man Mme. Johanna Gadskt. chooses to make a goose of himself in this manner and runs into a brick wall Merely Wared. Indiana Centenariads. "Am I to understand, said the un- he has only himself to blame; but in There are five old people in Madison county, Indiana, whose ages aggre- successful candidate, "that you accuse this particular case the young celestial gate 534 years. They are Alexander me of having used money in the legis- did worse he lost control of his maanswered Senator chine and ran into a lady who was lature? "No, Ferguson, Mrs. Bettie Carrolton, Thomas Wells, Monroe Hedges, and WilSorghum, with a pitying smile. "You riding on the opposite side of the liam Blackburn, aged respectively 107, didnt use money. You just wasted street, knocking her off and smashing 111, 106, 106, and 104 years. her machine. it Washington Star. . J |