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TIMELY TOPICS. The Press In Japan. son, who is nearly 150 years old. Her grandson, at the age of ninety, was one of General Fremont's guides when he crossed tho plains. GOOD OLD AGE.

Men and Women Who Have Lived More Than One Hundred Years. The longevity of the patriarchs may not be attained, but the century-post is passed by more people than one would suppose. If modern scientists may be believed, the Biblical characters who were said to have reached a phenomenal age were really much younger than the scriptural record makes it appear. The question rests altogether on the proper translation of certain words, and the claim set up by many philologists of this day is that the translators In Every Sea, In every sea there somewhere lies an on-known tale, Delicious with the sweetness of its air and clad In dewy umbrage; fruited deep each dusk defile, And fairy rings make all the fragrant meadow glad. And so there is no bark upon life's tide, ween, That, in the beckoning sometime, may not anchor find, flower'd shores and leaning groves of palm between, While silver fountains murmur on thl wind.

Islands to-day, whereas 100 years ago 500,000 people existed there. Of the fifty-four persons who were killed by the recent falling of a huge chimney at Bradford, England, twenty-six had their skulls fractured. Several curious incidents are tpld about the survivors. A girl of thirteen, who was taken to a hospital, when asked her name, replied, "five minutes past 8" (the time of the accident). Twohour3 later, in response to the same question, she said, "Two pence three farthings," and again, an hour afterward, "Forty-five." A few minutes later she was able to give her real name, and after that rapidly improved, A boy suffering from concussion of the brain remained motionless in a curled-up position for thirty-six hours, He finally became conscious, and in all respects sensible except that he had no recollection of the accident or even of the events which immediately preceded it.

He knew where he lived and where he worked, but did not remember going Consul-General Van Buren sends some information regarding the press and the press laws of Japan. The newspapers in the kingdom are now reported at 113 (besides 133 niiscella neous publications), and the news. paper circulation is said to have grown from 8,470,209, in 1874, to 33,449,529, in 1877. A list of the dozen leading journals is given, which issue from 2,900 to 19,000 copies daily; one has 19,000 circulation, one has 13,000, one has 9,000, one has 6,000, one has 5,000, the other seven have less than 4,000 each, but if 300 publication days in the year are assumed, the aggregate circulation of these twelve is nearly 29,000,000. The journal of largest circulation, partly illustrated, strikes tlie lowest level of sensationalism and borders on looseness of morals; the re- strictive press laws take no trouble about indecencies, but apply only to expressions as to governmental aif airs.

The code of 1878 does provide for a tine of 5 to 100 yen (the yen is equivalent to our trade dollar) for publication of anything offending against good morals and decency, but these terms are rather vaguely defined in Japan. The code of 1875 provides that any person wishing to publish newspaper or anything else must ob tain leave by petition. Tlie proprie tors and editors must be Japanese, and the name of the chief editor must be published. For anything defamatory or slanderous the editor is held pecuniarily responsible, and next to him the writer. Any person writing on home or foreign matters, news, literature and so on, must sign his name; for using a feigned name or that of an other person a fine is imposed.

For two days' omission to announce by name the person actually responsible a paper is liable to be suppressed, and in such case whoever wishes to revive it must apply for permission as for a new one. "Any person who falsely notifies a change in the government or a discus sion with a view to mislead the people" is liable to imprisonment trom one to three years; to publish proceedings of courts and acts of judicial officers, "unless they are officially notified. carries a heavy penalty of line and iin prisonment. One article provides that letters sent to a newspaper tor pub lication must be published, under penalty of a fine of 10 to 100 whether the unhappy editor will be held pecuniarily responsible, under the rule above noted, lor anything amatory or slanderous" or otherwise objectionable found therein is not stated. The code of 1875 provides that if a newspaper speaks disrespect- iullv ot the law or states tnat the law has been wrongfully administered the editor shall be fined 5 to 500 yen, or his paper be suspended for three to a hundred davs; another arti cle empowers the minister of the home department to permanently suppress any paper which he considers dangerous to public peace, and neither owner nor editor of a paper so suppressed can continue the newspaper business until he has taken several years' leisure to reflect upon his wickedness.

Of course, the natural result of this censorship and suppression is more and more oc casion for censorship and suppression. Demand ior the creation ot a repre sentative assembly has become general and the newspapers, becoming more and more outspoken, are either lead ing or following this demand. The Cost of Stopping a Train of Cars The cost of stopping a train of cars, says the Hartford L'oiirant, is being guessed at by experts just now in a very interesting way. And it is something worth the inquiry of rail road men, especially in Connecticut, where beside the stations mere are so many drawbridges at which the safety of the traveling public demands full stops. Estimates of the cost have rangeil from one-quarter of a cent up to $2 for stopping an ordinary passenger train.

The small figure represented only the estimated loss of metal by applying the brake to tlie wheel. Some of the real considerations that go to make up the cost of a atop are the coal burned while the train is standing still and in order to resume the former speed. This tho Pennsylvania railroad people put at twelve to fifteen cents; then there are the wages of all the persons on the train, who, while tho train slows down and stops, are paid as if they were running. This is insignificant in the case of one person, but it amounts to something when the whole train force is considered; beside these there is tlie wear of rails. A rail lasts only a third as long where trains come to a stop on it as when merely run over.

This is the result of the action of the brakes. Then, too, more accidents oc cur to engines, to wheels and to axles in coming to a stop or iu starting again than when running right along. The Railroad reports a discussion on tlfis subject, in which tlie conclusion is reached that the actual cost of stopping an ordinary train is about thirty to sixty cents. An amusing story is told of a trial where experts testified that it cost two dollars to stop a train. They established the fact.

Then the counsel on the other Mde produced the company's time-table, with a full list of all the stops, including stations, took the total number of trains, calculated the total stoppages of all the trains for one year, multiplied the result by two dollars the experts' estimate of cost and demonstrated that the stoppages alone had, if the estimate was right, cost the company three times as much as the entire amount of itsoperating expense! for the year. This reduction to a solid basis of fact upset the two-dollar theorj effcetui'lly. The total railway mileage of tho world in 181 was follows America, M9.590, divided as 122.180: Europe, 108.002 Asia, 10,774 5.481; Africa, 3,117. Australia, Gouverneur Morris, Uniteil States collector of customs at Sitka, says that Alaska is likely to become the great gold field of the world. Rich lodes have been found upon the mountain Bides and yield remarkable profits to placer-diggers.

The sea swallowed up 1,790 vessels In all parts of the world last year, involving a loss of 4,129 lives. Within the last five years 20,763 persons have perished at sea, not counting this year's disasters, the loss of the Cim-bria atone bringing the sad.list up to more than 21,000. In 1840 there were 3,700,000 people engaged in agriculture in this country, out of a total population of 17,000,000. To-day we have about 7,000,000 agriculturists out of a total population of 50,000,000. In 1840 it was one to four; now it is one to seven.

The farmer then had four men to feed Where he now has seven. A thirteen-year-old Italian girl who was found begging in New York in the guise of an old, decrepit woman possibly felt some pride in the success of her acting. "With only a little coal dust for paint, aided by the lines with which hardship and hunger had already marked her face, she succeeded in disguising herself and in looking her part much better than some actresses do on the stage. The Mormons have been thirty years building a magnificent granite temple in Salt Lake City, and it will take at least ten more to finish the work, in case it is ever carried to completion, which is now considered doubtful. There is difficulty in collecting the taxes kvied on the believers for this purpose, and the Gentiles already count on turning the structure into a State house when Utah is admitted to the Union.

King John, of Abyssinia, has lost his throne, though lie retains his kingdom. This apparent paradox means that a band of rascally Bedouins have stolen a brand-new throne made to order for the king, regardless of expense, by an English firm at Aden, and intrusted to a caravan for safe conveyance and delivery. The robbers attacked the caravan just outside of Aden, and not only got away with the throne, but also carried off six hundred decorations of the Abyssinian Order of the beal or bolomon. The king of Corea has set a good example for other rulers by making a complete confession ot his errors. He says he has been for seventeen years at the head of the nation, but was wanting ability, Ins administration was failure and abuses arose in the govern ment through his fault.

He made many improvements, lie says, but both the rich and the poor suffered under the burden he altered the currency and sacrificed the interests of the people; he acted against religious doctrines; he wasted the revenues he allowed bribery to be carried on publicly he allowed the taxes to be embezzled and the business of the people ruined. He concludes by saying I am ashamed to come before the people again. I will purify my mind and lepent my former misdoings." There is a prosperous farmer in Kent county, named Jonathan Longfellow, who, as Arteinus "Ward, would say, is a numerous father." He has taken unto himself in his seventieth year a third wife forty years his junior. Number one bore him six children, and number two the amazing total of twenty-two. The proper cultivation of so many olive branches was an expensive matter, but being by nature thrifty and ingenious Mr.

Longfellow hit upon an economical device which has served him well. lie built a schoolhouse for his family and employed a young Avoman to superintend the wholesale education of his children; and now, his second wife heaving departed from the world which she had done so much to populate, he has married the teacher. The shifting bog which is threatening to overwhelm a part of the town of Castlerea, in Ireland, is a very interesting phenomenon, and one of the most singular results of the heavy rains which have of late prevailed in various parts of Europe. According to a report by cable, thousands of acres of land have already ben overwhelmed by the bog, and several farmhouses have been destroyed. To those who think of a bog only as a low, swampy piece of ground, it may seem strange that it can change its ice and move across the country.

Bogs, however, are not necessarily either low or level, and some of those of Ireland present a hilly appearance. They grow by the accumulation of vegetable matter, and when softened, iu in this case, by long continued rains, may encroach upon the neighboring country. A visitor from the United States who has visited the Sandwich Islands was struck with one remarkable feature of Hawaiian life: He found that the chiefs and chiefesses, as a rule, have no families. The king and queen are childless; two of the king's sisters, married to white men, are childless; and the same may be said of other married members of the royal family, also of the dowager queen, Queen Emma, although she had one child which died in infancy. Our humble American citizen, who has been traveling abroad for pleasure, concludes that the day is not far distant when the dusky chiefs of llawail, like poor Lo of our Western plains, will be blotted out of existence.

There tiro probably less than 30,000 pure natives in the entire group of Sindwlch The Rise of Petroleum. In an article on the Standard Oil company, in the North American lie-view, Senator Camden says Few things in fiction are more wonderful than the history of petroleum since the opening of the iirst oil well in Pennsylvania, on August 28, 1859. Four years before that time Jonathan Watson, who owned a tract of land on Oil Creek, noticed oil flowing from a spring. He took a bottle of it to Hartford, to have it analyzed by a well-known chemist. This authority pronounced it an artificial product and not a natural one.

Had any person then predicted that Northwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia would be found to contain vast reservoirs of this oil, and that it Avould in a score of years have added $1,000,000,000 to the wealth of the nation, he would have been considered insane. Yet such a prediction would have fallen short of the truth. There are to-day more than 20,000 wells producing this oil, and over 100,000 persons are exclusively engaged in handling it. Railroads have been built to transport it, while through a network of over 4,000 miles of iron pipes, running over mountains, beneath rivers, and through cultivated fields, streams of it pulsate continually. Oil from the wells in Pennsylvania light the streets of South American cities, cathedrals in Europe, the mosques of Asia, the shop-windows of Jerusalem, and it is known and used over the whole civilized world.

While Colonel E. L. Drake has the credit of being the first person to drill successfully for oil in this country, Mr. Charles Lockhart, of Pitts burg, was probably the first person who made the production ot the article a business. The discovery of petroleum in Pennsylvania was followed closely by its development in West Virginia, on the Rathbone estate, at Burning Springs.

The first wells bored in West Virginia yielded oil at less depth and in greater quantities than the iirst wells of Pennsylvania, and, in consequence, West Virginia was supposed to be the richest territory; but the immense yield resulting from deeper boring and the discovery of new territory in Pennsylvania soon left that State without a rival. In 1SG0 Mr. Lockhart visited Europe to introduce the crude and re fined oils there, and although his samples attracted little attention at the time, his trip was not without subsequent good results. Beginning in 18G2 with shipments of 588,000 gallons of oil to Germany, which was sold for 2,000 loss than the cost of transporta tion across the sea, the exportation fo oil has steadily increased, until it now reaches but little less than 2,000,000. gallons a day.

For the first seven months of 1882 the value of the exports of petroleum and its products was which was exceeded only by the exports of cotton and cereals. During the first eight months of gallons of crude oil or its equivalent in refined were exported, against 390,010,048 gallons during the corresponding period in 1881. These surprising results are by no means due to the simple discovery, in 1859, that oil could be obtained by drilling for it. Petroleum was no new thing in 1859. It had been known in Eu rope and Asia since the earliest ages of the world.

Kerosene was extracted from the cannel coals of England in 1094, as recorded in the specifications of letters patent granted at that time. It was afterward made from the boghead shales of Scotland, the albert ite of New Brunswick, and the asphaltum of Trinidad. Coal oil was also manufactured from coal in Prince Edward's Island in 1840. A kerosene oil manufactory of this kind was established on Newtown Creek, Long Island, in 1854, several years before the oil discoveries in Pennsylvania. Kerosene, however, was a manufactured article, while petroleum is the natural product of the earth.

It is produced in the north of Italy, and was used there for illuminating purposes before attention was called to it in this country in 1859. It is also found in Germany, France, Russia, India, in the Island of Trinidad and in Canada. A Moving Tunnel. In Castle district, at a point about five miles north of Virginia City, is a tunnel that may be called an ex-tunnel. It is a tunnel that remonstrates against beinga tunnel.

It was run about four years ago into the side of a steep hill and was originally about forty feet in length. When in about fifteen feet the tunnel cut into a soft, swelling clay, very difficult to manage. After timberingand striving against the queer, spongy material till it had been penetrated some twenty-live feet, the miners gave up the light, as they found it a losing game. Being left to its own devices, the tunnel proceeded to repair damages. It very plainly showed that it resented the whole business, as the first wove was to push out all the timbers and dump them down the hill.

It did not stop at that, but projected from the mouth a pith or stopper of clay the full size of the excavation. This came out horizontally some eight feet, as though to look about and see what had become of the miners, when it broke off and rolled down the slope. In this way it has been going on until there are some hundreds of tons of clav at tho foot of the hill. At first it required only about a week for a plug to come out and break off, then a month, and so on till now the masses are ejected but three or four times pi year, yet the motion continues, and to-day tho tunnel has the better of the fight by about four feet. of the Bible erred in making the patriarchs so long-lived.

Thus it is held by one scientist who has given the subject close study that Adam, instead of reaching the age of 930 years, as is alleged in the existing version of the Bible, really died at 130 that Seth died at 121 and not 912; Enos at 114 and not 935; Cain at 119 instead of 910; Mahalaleel at 122 instead of 835; at 147 instead of 962; Methuselah at 124 instead of 9G9, and Noah at 159 instead of 950. This theory would make the ancients no older than many men and women who have died during the last century or two, and to whose age there is not much, if any, question. A few years ago some English authorities obstinately asserted that there was no authenticated instance of a person reaching one hundred years. They were soon obliged to recant this opinion, for undeniable centenarians turned up, and writers of this school now affirm 100 to 108 years the highest possible limit. There is no doubt a tendency to overstate in respect to the very old, and many false claims have been exposed.

It is altogether probable, however, that persons have reached a considerably greater age than 108. One United States pensioner at least attained 117, and it is hardly to be supposed that the age in this cae was misstated years before when the pension was granted. There is a tablet in a church at Warsaw, in Poland, erected to the memory of a priest named Cybuiski, who was reported to have been born in 1500 and to have died in 1G67. It is said that these dates are unquestionably correct. Daniel Waldo was born at Windham, Connecticut, in 17G2 and died in 18G4, at the age of 102.

He served in the American army in 1778 and graduated at Yale college in 1788. He was a Congregational minister, and retained his physical and mental powers to the last. Varnavas Fangolos, the Greek patriot, who gave his immense fortune to the cause of his country, died in 1855, aged 111 years. Thomas Parr, born in Shropshire in 1843, lived in three centuries. He tilled the soil until he was more than 130 years old.

At 120 lie married a widow, and seemed to be in perfect health. In 1085 Parr's great age and his apparent soundness of body and mind made him a great deal of a curiosity, and the Earl of Arundel, thinking to please his royal master, took Parr to the court of Charles I. The old man, whose long life had been passed in the most simple fashion, fell a victim to his appetite at the king's table, and died of overeating at the age of 152. Dr. Harvey made a post mortem examination and found no signs of disease.

Charles Macklin, the actor and dramatist, was born in Ireland in 1090. He remained on the stage until 1789, and died in 1797, aged 107. Francis Ilupozoli, who was born in Sardinia in 1587, died in 1702 at the age of 115. He was first a clergyman, then a merchant at Scio, and then Venetian consul at Smyrna. He married his fifth wife when ninety-eight years old, and had four children by her.

He drank water only, and never smoked. He kept a diary in twenty-two volumes. At 100 his gray hair became black. At 113 two large new teeth came, and he began to eat meat again, but he died two years later. Marion Delorme was born in France in 1012.

She was the wife of a member of the malcontent party, and was persecuted as such by Cardinal Richelieu. She spread a rumor that she was dead in 1050, and got up a mock funeral of herself. She escaped to England and married a lord, who soon died, leaving On her way to Paris she was robbed by brigands and compelled to marry the chief. He died, and she married M. Laborde.

After seventeen years he died, and she returned to Paris, where she was robbed of all her money by her servants. She lived in poverty to the age of 134. Letitia Cox, who died at Bybrook, Jamaica, in 1838, claimed to have been a young woman when Port Royal was destroyed by an earthquake, which was on June 9, 1092. This would make her 100 years old. In Sevier county, Arkansas, there is a colored woman named Edna Goodman, who is 125 years old.

For tho last quarter of a century she has frequently talked about dying, each time winding up her remarks with the wish that she might live to see just one more cotton crop. Tamah Brooks, a colored woman living at Atlanta, is 123 years old, and has given birth to several children since her 100th birthday. Henry Johnson was sold on the auction block in King and Queen county, Virginia, when eighteen years old. He served General Dick Taylor until ho was transferred to General Andrew Jackson's household. Ho was with General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans.

He is now living at Oberlin, at the age of 109 years. Tho oldest woman in the State of Ohio lives at the little town of Baker-ville, in Coshocton county. Her name is Catherine Alber, and her age is now 107. Captain Joe, tho local chief of the Washoe Indians, says that there is a squaw living in the outskirts of Car- HUMOROUS. A money-making man The counterfeiter.

Protection for home industries A lock and key on the pantry door. Know thyself," was Plato's motto. No beans" is Dr. Tanner's. Lowell Courier.

When a convict's watch runs down it does not necessarily follow that hia time has expired. It is always at the swellest receptions that a man learns he left home without a handkerchief or a pair of cuffs. Puck. The art that conceals art," as the thief remarked when he slid an expensive oil painting under his coat. Boston 'transcript.

It was a cold day for that judge who threatened to fine a party $10 for cough-ing in court when the disturbing element informed his honor that he would be willing to pay twice that sum tc have it stopped. Denver Bustler. "What's the crowd about?" queried a stranger, as he noticed a stream ol visitors going into a fashionable residence. It's a silver weddin'," obligingly replied his informant. What's a silver weddin'?" "Why, a chap's been married twenty-five times, and he's a celebratin' of it." An exchange announces, in a tone of surprise: "The czar and czarine have been dancing at a ball." There doesn't seem to be anything out of the way in such conduct.

That is what balls are for. Now, if they had danced at a prayer-meeting, comment would have been in order. Norristown Herald. A gentleman at the theatre sits be-' hind a lady who wears a very large hat. "Excuse me, madame; but unless you remove your hat I can see absolutely nothing." Lady ignores him.

"Excuse me, madame, but unless you remove your hat something unpleasant will happen." Lady ignores hin again. Gentleman puts on his hat. Loud cries from the audience. "Take off that hat! take off that hat!" Lady thinks they mean her hat, mid removes' it. "Thank you, madame," Fliegende Blatter.

"It was just too delightful!" exclaimed the happy girl, as she came into her mother's presence with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes. I never en joyed a sleigh-ride so much in my life Put the air was so keen, Eliza; I hope you kept your muff to your face?" "Mother," replied Eliza, turning upon her venerable parent a pair of eyes that was utterly incapable of dissembling, "I will not deceive you; Charley's mustache was warmer than the muff." Brooklyn Eagle. THE EECOOXITIOX. Home they brought her sailor son, Grown a man, across the sea, Tall and broad and black of beard, And hoarse of voice as man may be. Hand to shake, and mouth to kiss, Both he offered, ere he spoke And she said "What man is this Comes to ihiy a sorry joke?" Then they praised hi called him "smart, Brightest lad that ever stept But her son she did not know, And she neither smiled nor wept.

Hose, a nurse of ninety years, Set a pigeon-pie in sight She saw him eat "'Tis he I 'tis ho She knew him by his appetite I At a Uixl Time. Commander J. B. Coghlan, IT. S.

tfritcs to us from the Navy Yard at Maro Island, An enforced residence of two years in California made me the subject of most painful attacks of rheumatism. Consultation upon my case by eminent na al and other surgeons failed to afford me the slightest relief. Dr. Jloyle recommended to me St. Jacobs Oil, the happy result of the use of which was my complete and vwulerul litre.

Washington B.C.) A rmy a ml Na Register. An exchange contains an article en titled "Curious Facts About Precious Stones." One of the most curious facts about tfcem is their elusiveness their hard-to-get-ableness, so to speak. Norristown Herald. ismm THE MAN REM CURES Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backacht, Hoadjcht, TeoHitcht, Hmrt Tit rnnl. wel 1 1 Npraln, Braises, iMrti.

Nraini, rim iiiir. A'B uTiimt miiiii.t rms At mm. 114 kf IW Unj Cnui ktlll. AW if EER itu to work that morning. The storm which recently struck the western and northwestern coasts of the British Isles and penetrated far inland was of the most terrific description At sea vessels were wrecked and driven ashore, and on land houses were unroofed, chimneys were blown down, trees were uprooted and general destruction was wrought.

To add to the terrors of the gale, some of the rivers overflowed their banks. This recalls the "Great Storm," as it is pre-eminently called, which raged over the British Isles in November, 1703, and in which twelve men-of-war foundered, the Eddystone lighthouse was destroyed, damage1 amounting to ten million dollars was done in London, and vast destruction Was wrought, with much loss of life, throughout England. Great Britain has not infrequently suffered from destructive gales of this kind, several of -which, besides that of 1703, have become historic. Both last fall and in the fall of 1831 great storms raged on the British coasts. The census report of manufactured lumber for the year 1880 shows that there are in the United States 25,708 establishments engaged in this manufacture; they capital invested; they employ 5,907 children and youths, 125 females above fifteen years of age, and 441,504 males above sixteen years of age, and they paid in wages.

The value of material used was: Logs, $139,830,809, and mill supplies 0,318,516. Total material used, $140,155,385. The products of these establishments are stated as follows: Feet of lumber 18,091,350,000 Number of laths Shingles Staves j. 1,248,255,000 Sets of headings Feet of bobbin and spool stock. Value of above products Unspecified products Total value of products 233,307,729 There are few in the country prepared to believe that the manufacture of lumber had expanded to such enormous proportions.

Secretary Teller has issued instructions to the superintendent of the National Yellowstone park setting forth that the regulations heretofore issued by the secretary of the interior in regard to killing game in the Yellowstone National park, California, are amended so as to prohibit absolutely the killing, wounding or capturing, at any time, of any buffalo, bison, moose, elk, black-tailed or white-tailed deer, mountain sheep, Hocky Mountain goat, antelope, beaver, otter, inarton, fisher, grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, wild goose, duck, robin, meadow lark, thrush, goldfinch, flicker or yellow-hammer, blackbird1, oriole, jay, snow bird, or any of the small birds commonly known as singing birds. The regulations in regard to fishing in the waters of the park are amended so as to prohibit the taking of fish by means of seines, traps, or by the use of drugs, or any explosive substance or compounds, 6r in any other way than by hook or lino. All cutting of timber in the park, except upon special permission of the department of the interior, is prohibited. How Old Apples Are Disposed Of, Speaking of adulterations, a writer in the Philadelphia Times says But it is when lie comes to the manufac ture of the various jellies and fruit butters which are found in every grocery that the genius of the imitator displays itself at its best and he intakes a toothsome product out of stale and unprofitable material. Everybody has noticed the enormous quantities of dried apples which the extension of orchards and the introduction of the Alden process have combined to throw upon the market.

These supplies are seemingly as abundant at the end of the year as at its beginning, but eviry season a fresh quantity conies forward and that which is old becomes worthless. This is the fruit-butter man's opportunity. He buys up tho old apples boils them to a pulp and with his little bottle of ether proceeds to make of them all sorts of fruit butters, apple, peach, pear, plum, quince, grape or whatever is desired comes forth from his kettle as readily as there-quired wine from a conjuror's magic bottle. Does he want preserves or small fruits? They come forth also at hit call, fully imitated, even to the seeds, which are imported from England a little, hard, black seed, grown, it is said, exprssly for tho purpose. For jellies nothing more is needed than gelatine, some simple coloring matter and a little ether of tho proper flavor, and it is charged that tlie shrewd makers will even nlip an occasional seed into the jellies to remove all suspicion that they might liavo boon made from old boots instead of ripe and liuclous berrtas." I'lfwuiMI.

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