A New Cure For Chills

Last fall a 12-year-old boy living north of the' river in St. Clair county, Missouri, became afflieted with chills and fever.and all the medical skill that could be summoned was brought to his assistance, but to no avail, and the young man dwindled away to a mere skeleton. Thinking that nothing could be done for his relief, the youngster concluded to try a remedy of his own, and, while sittiñg aronnd the fireside, caught a cricket, whichhe swallowed alive, and the párente of the boy say he has not been troubled with chills from that day o this. - St. Louis Bepublican. In a Swiss museum thero is a watch that is only 3-16 of an inch in diameter. It is 'serted in the top of an old-fashioned pencil-case, such as our grandrnothers used to possess. Its littlo dial not odIt indicates hours, minutes, and