Minneapolis, Dec. 29.—E. B. Williams, of the state dairy and food department, yesterday came to Minneapolis and seized 1,500 pounds of filled cheese. This spurious article had been shipped on a consignment from Chicago to C. E. Marvin, dealer in dairy products. Mr. Marvin being suspicious of the article, refused to place it on sale. The manufacturers and dealers in this vile stuff—so-called cheese—are active enemies of the pure dairy product, and are continually sending out on consignment their “filled cheese” into all parts of the West and Northwest. The state dairy commissioner says that dealers in pure dairy goods need be on their guard and watch with unflagging zeal these suspicious agents and guard well their customers, who invariably want the pure, well made, full cream cheese.

Unlovely lips come from an unhealthy stomach. Bad digestion will often assert itself in broken or chapped lips, sores in the corners of the mouth, fever blisters and a coated tongue. Chronic sore mouths should be rubbed with sweet oil or pure glycerine at night; in the morning wash with a solution of alum or borax—a teaspoonful in a tumbler of water. Camphor ice is both healing and cleansing. Good cold ice is not a bad salve. The receipt is simple enough, but it doesn’t pay ot prepare it, all the druggists have supplies and cheerfully dispense five-cent quantities. Citron ointment is one of the old reliable lip salves kept by all chemists. It is applied to the sore with a soft linen cloth. When the mouth is sore the diet should be changed to vegetable foods.—N. Y. World

She looked like “the real thing.” The women in the corridor, who were also becomingly groomed, looked after her enviously as she swished rhythmically past them into the reception room at the end of the hall and the men supplemented this attention with admiring nods and softly modulated “whew-eew-ews,” relates the New York Times.

The dozen people already gathered in the reception room reading and talking were likewise visibly impressed with the general excellence of her manner and appearance and every one of them would have been willing to take oath that there wasn’t a kink in up-to-date life that she was not familiar with.

By and by the charming creature began to give evidence of an uneasiness that went a little way toward dispelling the illusion. She looked doubtfully about it seeking something she wanted badly, but didn’t know how to get. Presently she spied a little black knob far up on the wall near the door, and she stood up on her tiptoes and turned it gingerly. In an instant darkness had settled upon the face of the reception room and all who sat therein.

“O-o-oh!” squealed the women and “Thieves!” ejaculated the men. The apotheosis of grace and culture wailed loudest of all.

“What has happened?” she cried.

“You’ve turned off the electric lights,” said a porter, who had rushed in to prevent a possible crime. “What did you want?”

“I wanted to call a bell boy,” sobbed the apotheosis. “I thought that was the button.”

“I have a friend, a most amiable and accomplished man, who has a hobby that he seems never to tire of,” said Mr. W. A. Villiers, of New York, to a Washington Post reporter. “His hobby is that no child should be given a double name. He says that two given names are not only unnecessary, but a positive handicap in the battle of life. He will talk all day long on this head if he can only get an auditor, and will reenforce his argument by instancing departed great ones who only bore one name.

“George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and scores of others, are cited to prove that the single name suffices, and that in fact it is vastly to be preferred. A man who is very much in earnest and who can make a a good presentation of his cause never lacks disciples, and so my friend has created an impression in his circle of acquaintances by reiteration of his theory. In fact, not long ago quite worth citizen, who fell under his spell, became convinced of the danger of the double name and concluded to eliminate one. Those of us who are in doubt are waiting to see if any good luck will follow the amputation, and should it, we may conclude to do likewise.’

The sad case of inhumanity which occurred in our midst the past week ought to rouse every right feeling person in the community to a determination that such things shall not be allowed to exist. If in a town of this size there is not power enough to protect our dumb animals, there is something radically wrong. Why should two innocent creatures who have done nothing worse than to serve their master faithfully as long as they could stand, in spite of abuse, be so cruelly neglected and allowed to suffer the tortures of slow starvation in a barn in the very heart of the village, and not a hand raised to prevent it?

This is not the first time that such cases have occurred, and it is high time that the matter was taken up, and something done to stop the abuse of helpless animals that is going on all around us every day. There are many animals in this locality who are so unfortunate as to have for their masters men who care nothing for their comfort or well-being, and the poor dumb brutes know only cruel treatment; they are ill-fed, half frozen, and subjected to every kind of inhumanity. If the owners of these animals have no sense of feeling or humanity, the law should take steps to protect the poor beasts and mitigate their sufferings as much has possible. Why should such things go on? “A merciful man is merciful to his beasts”, and there is law in this land which can compel those who own abused stock to either care for them properly or to give them up and allow them to be put out of their misery. Surely we have a great deal to answer for if we do not all in our power to prevent this crime of cruelty to animals. There should be a good, working S. P. C. A. here, with an officer at the head who loves animals and will do everything possible to relieve their sufferings, and every case of neglect and cruelty should be reported and receive immediate attention.

It has been impossible i the past to handle these cases as they should have been, because there was no one who seemed to have authority to go ahead in the matter. There are people who should have been willing ot reimburse the town for whatever expense it may have been to in putting suffering creatures oot of the way rather than the poor bests should be tortured.

The organizing of a Humane Society should be agitated, and there are surely plenty of kind hearted people who would be glad and willing to support such a society to the best of their ability.

A Freind of the Animals.

A small-pox scare was generated in Pittsburgh by an Italian boy who was a victim of indigestion. The medical colleges should lose no opportunity to teach graduates the difference between small pox and in growing toe nails.

It has been discovered that the reason Emin Pasha preferred to live in Central Africa was that he had a number of families there. Things seem to go by contraries, in that regard. When a man in this country is discovered to have numerous families he longs for the solitude of Central Africa, to get away from his many wives.