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CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC'*
WATWtrkook Milk PAi'Kn.— Silk pa-
par la allowed to float for a little time
on tho surface of an aqtientie aolntion
of ahnllao iu borax, and then dried in
tho air. Mr tho adroixiuro of a amall
quantity of an aniline eolor with tho
borax colored papers aro obtained.
A krw life-muring invention Inis ro-
oi-ntly appoaro<l in’I'ari* in tho shape
of a durable garment which covers the
entiro body. It is made of rubber, and
(• providea with a flexible tube which
has a mouth piece. 1 iy blowing into
tho latter, tho person in danger inflates
(lie garment., which buoys him up when
in tho water.
A I'AiiAaiiAvn ia going ubout tho pa
pers that the largest room in the world
under a Mingle roof, unbroken by pillars
or other obstruction*. is at Bt. Peters
burg, in Itunain, and ia 050 feet long and
160 loot wide, It ia anid to ho used for
military display. The (hand Central
depot, in Now York, is 800 feet long by
240 wide, covering about four aoros.
Tho roof in supported by thosido walls.
Exploratiokh have rooontly born
mode into the mounds of Ottnmwa,
Iowa, In one a mass of oimrcoal, a bed of
nahen, and aomo calcined human bones
wero found, allowing that cremation waa
practiced by the people who erected
them. As Indians novor bum their
dead, this adds another proof to the
theory that they were not tho original
mound-builders. The similarity of iho
mounds of Mexico and of Iowa point (o
tho foot that they worn constructed by
tho same rsou of anoient Mexicans,
A Fnititeu modiosl journal reports
the oure of tiie moat refractory corn by
the morning and evening applications,
with abriisli. of a drop of a solution of
tho perchloridu of iron. It states that
nfU r a fortnight’ll continued application,
without pain, a patient who had suf
fered martyrdom for neniiy forty years
from the most painful oorn on iho inner
side of each little too, was entirely re
lieved: pressure was no longer painful,
aid tlio oure seemed to ho radical.
Other and similar eases aro reported as
equally successful under tho treatment.
FllOM six to ten drops of iho nouaen-
trated solution of chloride of soda in a
wineglaHNfiil of pure spring water, taken
immediately after ablutions of the
morning are completed, will sweeten
tho breath by diainfeetiug the stomnoli,
which, far from being injured, will be
hcnofltod by tho roodioinc. If neoessary,
this may be repealed iu Iho middlo of
the day. In Homo oases tho odor from
curious tooth is combined with that of
the stomach. If tho month is well rinsed
with a teaspoonful of tho aolntion of
the chloride iu n ti nthler of water, the
bad odor of the tooth will he removed.
Lki't-Hano Wiimmi.—A left-hand
writer in the Hoientiflo American givea
some reasons why it ia hotter to writo
as ho does. Tho hand is never in the
way of vision. The pen-point Ih al
ways in plain Right, and so is the papor
to be written on. There is, consequent
ly, no iuduooment to stoop forward to
turn tile head so ns to throw tho eyes
out focus. It ia a common fault with
who write much that the left
onvoriod auc^ wmip<Mml r lo VunjU
itself to nearer viaion. In writing with
tho left hand theae evils are avoided.
An upright posture ia the easiest, and
the eyes nro equally distant from 1 lie
paper.
A iisn-KKKi'RR gives this plan to pre
vent a swarm of bees from getting away
from tho itive, with tho statement Mm*
after ten years' experience ho luia novor
known it to fail but once. Ah soon as
they show tho first symptoms of swarm
ing stop up aomo of the outlets to the
hive no an to foroo thorn to a outisidor-
able time coining out. Tho swarm bo-
ing made up in part of young bees,
many of thorn unable to fly well, and,
as tho swarm can do nothing until all
are out and flying about in tho air, by
prolonging their exit tho feeble ones
become tired, and, finding their plana
frustrated, they alight to arrange their
journey. If thoy can leave tho old
hive at onoe they earn very little about
alightiug.
From 67 TO ha Milbh AN noon iiy
llAiTi.—Fast t ime was recently tun lo by
tlm " newspaper train,” which left Jer
sey Oily irnarly half an hour behind
tune, and inndo it all up before reach
ing Trout on. This dlntanoo, n fraction
lean than 67 miles, was run in 51) min
utos, including a stoppage of over u
minute at Newark and a moderation of
■peed at New Brunswick. There were
some portions whore speed was more
than a mile and a quarter u minute.
Just beyond Now Brunswick, live miles
krero run in three minut e, which is at
tho rate of nearly 80 miles au hour.
About a dozen masougera enjoyed thin
cx raordinnry rule. - brlmtt/l, ' .\,„ cr i
can.
A Bio Chunk of I’latina.—Tho Baris
uiiut him just completed the mimufso-
turoof a bar oi inflated platinu of tlio
enormous weight of five hundred
pounds, and worth 210,000 francs, the
exhibition of which recently took place
at tho Conservatory dcs Arts el Metiers
of Paris, iu the presence of delegates
from foreign countries and members of
tho Academy » f Sciences, invited by
Gen. Moriu, director of tho establish
ment* That turns of metal, quite ox
caption-. 1 for its size and homogeneous,
m ss. ia to bo used in making tlio stan
dard motors and kilogrammes required
bv various governments for tho adoption
> f tin* metrical system, or tlio compar
ison of their weights and measures.
Each sot will cost 51,500 frnros, and
forty-live have been ordered by differ
ent powers. Tlio fusion of the metal
was effected by the aid of seven blow
pipes of oxyhydrogen gas inserted into
the cover of enormous crucible ; forty
cubic meters of that fluid wero sufli
oient to keep up the combustion of the
Roveu jets of ordinary gas during the
,n VO boujs tho oombustiou lasted,
llis light of tho inooudesoont metal
was ao intense that the melting-pot'
con.d only ho looked into with the aid
of u colored gins*. Many centuries
may puss before tlio occasion should
rise for «uoh a work as that executed
as the production ».f plathia is very
limited, and doe-i not exceed from a ton
to a ton aud a half aunnally.
Don’t Criticise.
Whatever you do, don't set up for a
critie. We don't moan a newspaper
one, but iu privato life, in the doun-stic
circle, in society. It will not do nnv one
»ny good, «"•> it "ill .V| Ton harm— il
you min 1 Mur oillcMiaaRreeablo. I(
you don't liki> any on..', or object
to any ones olnu, don’t put vour feel
ings iuto words. If any one’s manner
dou’t please you, remombor vour own
People aro not all ma le to suit one
taste, recollect that. Take things ns you
find them, unless you con alter them.
Even a dinner, after it ia swallowed,
cannot lx* made any hotter. Continual
fanlt-flnding, continual criticism of con
duct of this one and the speech of Mint
one, tlio dress of tlio oilier, and tho
opinions of t'other, will make home tlio
nuhappiest place under tho sun.
.Marriage ah a Manltary Measure.
Tho papers east toll us that Mr,
Ovington, a well-known Brooklyn mer
chant, has tiled a petition for tho di
vorce of his daughter, Mrs. Hpiers. on
tlio ground of hopeless imbecility.
Miss Ovington, it seems, a few years
since, having graduated with high hon
ors at Packer Institute, was ash-red in
to tlio social world with fairest prom
ise. Alas, Dio old story of ovor-tnxnd
immature brain repeated itself and
those n uhappy symptoms appeared whloh
only developed as timo went on. Tho
child of woaltliy parents, sho doubtless
received every attention which affection
could suggest or money command—
travel and rent, sea-bathing and moun
tain air, various diversion by land aud
water—all to no avail. As a lust ro-
sort, "she won married to her present
husband,"
Comment is hern taken up by the pa
pers on Dio inability of tho female
mind to cope with tlio more difficult,
abstruse collegiate studies; an old
tlicmo, aud still worthy of considera
tion, notwithstanding tho prominent
exceptions to tlio contrary. But the
novelty oi the filial attempt to minister
to a mind diseased must givo us pause.
Any new sooial experiment demands
close and respectful attention from tlio
possible importance of its results. If
man’s power become to developed by
Die execution of the marital boud that
he can recover for his.wife a lost reason
why wo ought to know it at oneo, be
fore wo send any more girls to tho lu
natic asylum, or suffer young men to
idlo away single lives, while their agen
cy might he such a useful one. It was a
hold experiment to mnkc, for thorn was a
disugrcenhlo acknowledgment in ovent of
failure, and in face of experience that
was almost inevitable. Hometimes there
is decided improvement physically
brought about by marriage. Eccen
tricities are corrected by husbands of
tact like Botruohio ; wives aio brought
to reason, but who ever heard of reason
being brought to wives? It would in
deed bo a haiipy oondition of things
could one mind l>y constant sympathetic
intercourse lure hack another whioh Imd
tttkon flight. Worthy would ho tho
cause for saorifloo, and beautiful tho no
tion of its devotees. To our sorrow,
tiioro is no such encouragement. Mar
riage seems to bring out imbecility
rathe, than to slay it. In these days of
laced waists and high heels, girls not
only pay tho penalty of a mother’s
folly, but borrow largely on their own
noconnt. We regard them with wondur
as night after night they trend the
measures of tlio inir/.y, way past tho
smallest hours, riso iu tho morning to
nay calls or shop, and to put saddle*
horses to severe tests in tho afternoon.
A young hum is completely deonivod,
for this wondrous ondurance ooohch after
marriage as though that were tlio one
grand blow which swept away all props,
(lermati llgures of a domestic out won't
answer ; the illusion is over when there
is no prospect of changing partners. A
baby intrudes and tho milk bill in-
WmbXgg&iAffS'i;
of Bpnrtau or Roman glory ? Is it.
conceivable that one can imbibe wit
and muscle through an India rub
ber tube V And shine a being iH denied
that losthetio education whioh an ac
quaintance with his mother’s breast
gives, but is brought up on the fraud
of.a bottle, is it at nil strnugo Mint, his
affections often cling tonnoiouslv to this
latter tlio rest of his days ? Timo was
when wives oouhl givo ample ovidouco
of affection nnd backbone combined,
whon tho witty fruits of Weinberg tri
umphantly .boro off their husbands
from tho belongurod oity. A follow
would stand a good ohaneo now of bo-
ing loft to tlio tender meroies of
Krupp's oann m for aught his hotter
half nould do to help him.
Yes, tho imbecility most often exhib
its itself in lack of energy and strength,
iu poor management of husband,
children and household ; lmt there
isn’t always tho kind father iu-law to
step in with his petition of divorce.
Had tho effort succeeded, the oonso-
oneuoi a might have boon startling in
the extreme. There would have been
such a rush on tho eligible young man
as was never known. Marriage would
ho justly known ns tho true Pierian
fount, mid tho artiolo husband drive nil
other tonics out of tho market. A
mot In r would regard thorn critically i h
she might the jars iu a drug store, whilo
tlio father would count them as so much
off his doctor’s bill. Iu short, they would
cease to occupy tlio simply ornamental
position of to-day and ho considered thor
oughly useful iistho universal health io-
stilror. Stock would rise, and plenty of
those now ready to sell out at u mod or
ate llgure would hold off for higher
bids—terms in proportion to serious-
ness of ease. It might pay to orgnnir.o
a joint stock company, with every bus-
band warranted.
But tiioro was only failure to chroni
cle, and the young man's chances aro
as poor as over. One consolation must
ho, that ho who weds it wealthily in
I’udua isn't of necessity happy ;* and
that should wo ov»r have a case pre
sented which will test our gallantry as
sorely m( Miss Oviligton’H, we must leave
tho gate open for graceful retreat. The
groom’s expenses wero doubtless well
covered, but for our part we think it
very fortunnto that ho croupcd tho name
of ifatlur.—Courier'Journal,
Sheep Bolls ami Dogs.
Mr. Mathowson, of Connecticut, fur-
nisho* tho following statistics :
Oi fourteen flocks without hells but
otie escaped; iu live flocks with bells on
each sheep no damage was done. Mr.
1). Fowler of Middloilold had a flock
partially belled, aud lost but one slieop,
which strayed into another lot, was
without a bell, and was killed. Mr. A
B. Ooo bought a Hook and put in a lot
adjoining the former, nnd aoou found
two dogs at work at the forty-fifth
sheep. Tho dogs belonged within a
quarter of a mile, and passe I Mr. Fow
ler's sheep ia getting into Mr. Goo's
flouk. Dogs, niter getting tho taste of
blood of unboiled sheen, may attack
sheep with bells on ; y, t 1 believe if all
sheep were belled, trouble from dogs
would l>e very rare. Tho great difficulty
has been to get bell* which did not wear
the strap i ft*. lDUs with shanks to pou-
otrato the strap will wear it off iu a few
weeks. To be safe, every slit op and
lamb should wear a bell.
Tuu Detroit Free Proas gives this
study : “It is a very pleasant picture
to behold a fut woman seated on tho
front steps of her vine clad cottage,
putting a p toll on her huabnud’s trows-
ers with ono hand and motioning off
with tlio other what she’d do if sho
wore Beeclur.”
A 1‘KTIIOOAT PHENOMENON.
ilrtnrilliurr Powers of * Meninble
Medium -Atir Maktialcmallon In
Chicago.
It will bo rcmcraberod by Mio renders
of the Appeal that we, some timo ago,
published a full account of tho won
derful development and powers of Mrs.
Miller, a young married woman who for
some months oocnried with her hus
band apartments in tho Gnyono house.
Wo related tho story of her advent
into spiritualism, and recited hor pro
gress under the advice and mnnipul*
lion, ns sho and hor husband claims, of
tho spirits, aud of tho singular mani
festations, unexplainable, npon any
scientific hypothesis which wo wit
nessed nnd vouched for as plainly visi
ble to 110.
A few weeks since, much to tho dis
appointment of the Spiritualists of
Memphis, who uro a largo and infiuen-
tial class, many of them notable for
their culture, intelligence ami high
standing in the community, Mrs. Mil
ler left Memphis for the north, and is
at present sojourning in Chicago, whore
sho has nt onco taken high rank ns tho
ablest and best of ull the physical me
diums of tho country. The Times,
most impartial authority, tolls tho story
of her progress and triumphs in that
oity in this way
“After Chicago had sucked
'mind-reading* lemon dry, more than a
year ago, and given accounts of the
phenomenon to tho world through tho
Times, New York has just captured the
young man Brown, nnd is making
groat ado over him. Columns s
printed in the papers, learned savnns
report on his wonderful abnormal devel
opment, and tho wiscuores genera'ly
snake their dubious heads. Chicago
is ready to confess that Brown is quite
a curiosity. Having db.eoverod him,
so to spoak, it would hardly he fair to
go lmck on him, but he is no longer a
marvel in the light of later diicoveries.
Ho may still l>o tlio eighth wonder of
the world for slow-going Gotham, but
Chicago is prepared * to do hotter—
iu faet, discount him. For several
weeks past people of all sorts, in
eluding skeptics, physicians, scion-
lists, professional ami business met:
have been astonished, liut to say edified,
by tlio inediuinistic exhibition givot
through tho organism of a young mar
ried lady, Mrs. Miller, of Memphis,
Tenu., now holding seances ut the
rooms of tho /leliyio 1‘hilosophical
Journal, corner of Adunis street and
Fifth avenue.
Mr**- Miller is a lady about twonly
years old, of slight form, with uxprea-
sivo, winsome features, in n porfect gen
llewoni hi in do|>ortTnout, and so far ai
certtfii phases of tho phenomenon arc
ooncerned, that are exhibited in hoi
presence, fraud is simply out of the
question, for the wliolo experiment is,
so to speak, looked in the visitor’s own
mind. Iu the case of the young man
Drown, hidden objects were discovered
by taking the luiml of tho party having
secreted it, placing it over his eyn
previously blindfolded, and then leac
ing the party to the object. .But in h
ease it was necessary that the perse
with whom ho was Vhus placed r/i ra/>-
port should plneo his mind intently and
uudeviatingly on the object or tli*
poriment did not suooeed. In the
of Mrs. Miller this prerequisite in not
onllod for. Oil the contrary, she allows
tl»« vUitqy to think of two objects at tie
same time —or, rather, take two ubjooti
in tho mind, and. having dooided oi
them, may dismiss them again—nnd
she will find them, und at the same tiiuu
give a test through this very operation.
Thus the visitor is requested to ask a
mental question -one Involving a tost—
and toko iu his mind two objects, tlio
one to stand for 'no' and the other for
‘yes.' Taking the visitor’s liuml she
will proceed to one of theso objects,
never failing to givo the test. To illus-
truto : A gentleman thought of the
head of his oano ‘for yes,’ a distant ob
ject iu tho room for 'no,' and asked tho
montal question : Have 1 a brother
living in Chicago? Tho lady took him
to his oano in a trioo, and tho gentle
man, explaining his question and the
object* lie bad taken iu mind, confirmed
that ho had a brother living in this oity.
Iu the course of nn evening scores of
suoli experiments aro made, and so far
as tho writer's observations go, they
never fail.
Bo muoh for Mrs. Miller's mental ex
periments. Ho physical experiments
aro oven more wonderful uml just iu
much above suspicion, ’llaviug magnet
food a small table by passing hoi
hands over the top and along the legs,
she turns it on its face, ami then
quests any gentleman present to turn it
buck, to stand it upon its logs, simply
allowing her to place the tip of her Hu
ger upon nuy part of it. Bootes of stal
wart men have pitted tlioir full strength
against tho little Huger of this little
woman, hut have ignominiously failed.
Even four men, whou the “ power" has
been strong, have combined their
strength, ami failed as well, though
generally the table is broken in the
fort. Il is a very inteiestiug cx|
rnent. While the stalwart man iH
ing to set it on its legs, tho table
absolutely float all over the room—-that
in to say, it is continually trying to get
away from the lady’s antagonist, and
will carry him about, now hero and uow
there, ami will genet ally sustain a posi
tion over his head. The momdnt the
sensitive removes her hands the table
becomes docile, nnd allows itself to be
set properly on its feet, the same as any
other well regulated piece of family
furniture.
Another phrase of Mrs. Miller’s wo-
diumship is slate writing. The visitor
is allowed to bring his own slate-
double-locked slate if he ohoosea—a
when the medium lias In Id it nude:
tablo,{intelligent answers toqnoatioue
other tests aro invaiiably foun l wii ton
on the inside of the locked slate. But he
piece dc rt'jtislanca i* her materializing
phase. For scientific and text experi
ments this lady i* the best medium that
as ever been seen iu Chicago. When
hands wero securely tied, sewed
and sealed together, iron rings,
chairs, coats and vests are put ou her
persou so quickly that absolutely no
time is consumed.' Conceding that she
was not tied at all, but was free to do
with her hands a* she chose, she could
not manipulate three large chairs as
they aro manipulated in her pro once.
Take nil for all, Mrs. Miller in the va
riety of her phases, staml*, probably at
the head of the physical mediums of
the country, the more s > as she imposes
almost no oouditiomi.—Memphis Ap
peal.
A Reckless old Man.
There was an old e tuple at the Cen
tral depot yesterday waiting to go
through to the west, aud they seemed
ioviug enough until the old man went
out mid returned smoking a flvo cent
cigar, ami with his hatslautiug over l>i*
left ear. Thu wife looked at him twice
beforo &he coal l recognize him, aud
then opened her month aud ssi .
"Whal'd 1 toll ye, Philutus Reming
ton, beforo we left New Jer cy ? Didn’t
I say you’d go aud moke a fool of your
self tho first chance yon got?” He
tried to pacify her by saying that the
cigar only cost five cents, but she
shouted : “You tossed and teased till
I let you git yonr boots blacked ; then
von wanted some soda water; then you
bought apples on the train, nnd hero’s
anwther five cento thrown awav ! It all
counts op, nnd if yon don’t die in the
poor-honso then my name haiut Bary I ”
—Detroit Free J*res».
Let Them Work.
Thcro never w as a truer axiom ntterod
than that which couples Bulan's name
with idle hands ; und pareuts who have
bovn to bring up should never forget
this. A great many boys nro mischiov-
ons aud vicious simply beonso their ac
tivities aro not directed in proper chan
nels, and for thin their pnronts nro the
only ones to blame. The boy who has
a sled, possibly of his own making, nnd
a pocket knife, who has skates for the
winter and kites for the summer, who
has his own garden patch and garden-
tools, his own juvenile library of hucIi
books as he loves, his favorite pet aui-
mmls, is almost sure to bo industrious,
happy and free from vioo. If be shows
an aptitude for drawing, pencils and
drawing-paper should be supplied ; if
pninting, a box of colors should tin fur
nished if for type-setting, ho should
have a miniature printing-press ; and,
in one way—in fact, many ways—his
capabilities should he so cultivated that
lie will never ho nt a loss how to employ
his time pleasantly and profitably. In
furnishing your hoys with a wisely-se
lected stock of tools, you confer upon
them a benefit which in incalculable.
To bo sure, many a kuifo or girnlot will
bo lost uml must bo replaced before tho
habit of thoughtfulness is formed whioh
will prevent losses ; tools will ho in
jured, often destroyed; the quiet of
the family will he disturbed by ham
mering aud sawing, unless there is a
workshop on the premises; shavings anil
suoh like clean dirt will be of frequent
oecnrrtnoo iu the kitchen, regular chores
will be forgotten and uegleoto 1 in tho
enthusiasm of tho lx»v to finish some
task he has iu lisnd ; but these oircum-
stnnocn are trifling compared with tlio
benefits to be derived from the constant
and habitual tiaa of toots. “ Hoys
make mon,” and thoy should he taught
to make useful men ; knowledge never
comes intuitively ; it must be transmit
toil. Tlio father who will uot, tnko iho
trouble to direct tho expanding ener
gies of his hoy, to lead his inquiring
mind to tho pastures of knowledge, ever
fresh nnd fair, ami open for the child a
career, humble though it be, is laying
up for himself dis ipnoint rnent, chngrin,
perhaps heait hreat, in tho future.
When your hoy stands at ydur side,
book in hand, and begs you to explain
the pictures to him, don't send him
away until you have done it. Encour
age him to look at pictures uml u>k
questions about them ; tell him stories
thnt will stimulate his longings to read
intt resting xml instructive hooks, of
which happily there is no end. Thus
oooupied with tools, bonks, work and
play, ho will grow up accustomed to
find resources within himself, mid not
bo driven to seek idlo or vicious
company.
Duller Iu Now Orleans
“A Rebel’s lb-colIcctions” in the
August Atlantic, concerns itself with tlio
>nduct ot tne southern women during
MARKET REPORTS.
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In New Orleans, soon after tho war,
I saw in n drawing room ono day nu
elaborately framed Tetter, of which, the
cnrtaiu being drawn, I could only road
tho signature, which, to my astonish
ment, was that of Gen. Butler.
“ What is that?” I asked of the young
gentlewoman I was visiting.
“ Oh, that’s my diploma, my certifi
cate of good behavior, from Gar, But
ler,” ami taking it down from the wall,
permitto.l mo to read it, tolling mo nt
the samo time its history. It seems
that the young lady had boon very no- i
tivo in aiding confederates to escape
from New Orleans, and for thin and oth
er similur offenncH she was urrested
several times. A gentleman who know
Uon. Butler personally had interested
hi nisei I in behalf of her and some of 1
her friends, and upon making nu appeal
for their discharge received this per
sonal note from the commanding gener
al, in which he doelnred his w linpuonw
to discharge all the others. “But that
black-eyed Miss B. ” ho wrote, "seems
to me an inoorrigiblo little devil whom
oven pris »u faro won't tumo.” The
young Indy had 1 rained tho note, and
she cherishes it yet, doubt less.
Many of the southern women during
the war denied tin msolves uot only del
icacies, but even substantial food also,
iu order to a.ld to the stock of provis
ions for tho army. One of them was
told by a friend that sho was breaking
down her health by luck of proper diet,
amt answered, “I know that very well,
but 1 must do the little I can *nt any
oust.” Aud si mound in a southern
ohureh-ynrd testifies that she monnt
what bIic said.
Voltaire and Ills Early Love.
The crowning event in Voltaire’s life
ns a lover was the sequel to the romance
of Auroro do Livry. More than sixty
years had elapsed since he had seen her.
She was now over'80 years of age, a
widow, and tho only one of his loves
still living. He wrote to hor, asking if
she would receive him. The reply
being in the affirmative, he went. A
Suisse in uniform, ns gorgeous as upon
the former occasion when Voltaire was
refused admittance, now led him
through the magnificent cut ranee of the
mansion, and ushered him, breathless
with fatigue and emotion, into (lie pres-
once of the marquis de Gouveruet. For
a momeut thoy stood before each other j
when Voltaire lifted tho hand in his to
his lips and kissed it. “ Ah, mon ami 1” 1
she said with a sad smile, " what have
we done with our twenty years?” " Ah,
how true !" sighed Voltaire; •' one dies
every twenty years. Happy are those
ho have lived them ! But in the ret
ro- ptot neither you nor I, marquise,
has cause to commiserate ourselves
My life has. been a romance easy to
read; but yours, what an eloquent and i
desperate struggle 1 You took up the
war of the Ti ons,” " Alas,” she re
plied, “I would gladly give my man-
sibu, my farms of Bounce aud Bretagny,
my diamonds aud my carriage, with my
dear ol*d Snisso included, to live orn* :
more hour of my b.autiful life." “And
I,” responded Voltaire; “ I would give
my tragedie* and ray epic poem, my
histories and my stories, all my past
glory, all ray rights to live iu posterity,
with all my fautenil iu the academy
included, to take from your lip ouly on'e ,
of the kisses of those da>8,', They then 1
sat down to talk over their six weeks,
dream life that lay so fur back in the
past-, but which shone through a'l the
mi ft of more than half a century.
Youth, beauty aud passion were dea* ;
ouly the past was left to them. What
momeut iu thejr lives !—Galaxy.
Editomai. notices are so ooramon that
it is almost imp ssiblo for an oditor to
express his honest opinion of tho merits
of any article without botog suspected
of interested motives. This fact, how
ever, shall uot deter us from saying what
we think of a new addition to the Ma-
teria Median to which our attention has
born recently directed. Wo refer to Dr.
J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters,
a remedy which is making its way into
more families just now than all tho other
advertised mediciucs put together. I»s
popularity, ns far as wo can jndge, in
not bast <1 on empty pretension. There
seems to be no question about tho po
tency of its tonic and alterative proper
ties, whilo It possesses the great nega
tive recoinmeudation of containing nei
ther alcohol mr mineral poison. That
it is a specific for indigestion, bilious
ness, constipation, and many complaints
of nervous origin, wo have reason to
know ; and wo nro assured on good an
thority that a* a g< noral invigornnt,
regulating and purifying medicine, it
has no cqunl. It is stated that its in
gredients, (obtained from* tho wilds of
California,) nro new to the medical
world ; and its extraordinary effects cer
tainly warrant the conclusion that it is
a compound of agents hitherto unknown.
If popularity is nuy criterion there can
ho no doubt of the efficiency of tho
Vinegar Bitters, for the sale of tho ar
tiolo is immense and oontinnally in
creasing.
i« very xtrot.glr recommended Iit tlio modiosl
f ami tv and is largely prescribed among ilicir
female patients. It i* wot thy of all confi
dence. ,\s may tie U4U from tlio following tes-
Dr. fl. It. Ciiai-man, Plattsmonth, Neb.,
writes: I have under treatment a lady, who,
for the past seven years has been ahlictod,
and. after trying sovoral physicians without
reviving houofit, in ijainimj rapidly ou your
Atu
. III.. July 14. 1S7‘J.
l)r. It. V. Pi
I have not wot
vou for vour a<!
There Is not one who has used yonr medicine
since they have been brought hero, hut tin
can sav with me they have hceu greatly bent
It od. Since I have rcou so helped by Us u.<
nix or seven Around me left off all doctors an
other i. odiciuee. and now nro ft in tlieir fan
ilies, aftoi being cured of tho same disease *
mine. Vou do not know what a wonder it
wroto you about, for wlio hail boon under the
caro of three of our best doctors, but could
? beggodof 1.
fore site had used half the battles she could
go all around the yard, and has now Just com
home from a visit five miles awav.
M ns. Taos. McFarland.
From Miss Lorinda E. Ht Clair, Shad.
Athens Co.. Ohio, Oct. It, 1H72:
Dr. It. V. Piehcb, fluffalo, N. Y.-Your F«
vorite Prescription ie working almost like
miracle on me. I ath bettor already than I
have been for over two years.
From Ella A. Si iiaikr, Zanesville, Iud.,
Aug. 3, 1873 :
Dr. Fierce : I received tho medicine you
d began using it immediate!;
result of tho treatment I fool hut
r throe voai
ha'
From Mrs. John K. Hamlin, Odell, 111
March 19, 1872:
Dr. Pierce : The Favorite Prescription has
done me good, which 1 am very thankful for.
Favorite Prescription is soli by all druggists.
Dr. Pierce’s Treatise ou Chronic Diseases of
Woraeu will be sent to any address on receipt
v-f two stamps.
Every :
buying a paper oollar
wants to get as near an imitation of linen as
possible The ouly collars that look like linen
are tho Elmwood aud Warwick. This is net
ouly in tho folded edges but in the finish.
o Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, Ill.
The Grand Revolution a Mxoical
Taratuxnt, which waa commaaoed la 1880, ia itlll
Id proRTeaa. Nothing can stop it, for It !• founded
on the principles now universally acknowledged,
that phyxlcal vigor U the moat formidable antagon
ist of all human allmenta, and experience has ahowu
ttfat Plantation Brrreiu la a peerless lnTlgorant,
as well the best possible safeguard against epl-
TUe Ladles* Sorosls Club, of New York,
recently changed their discussions from Woman’s
suffrage to Hair preparations and Pimple Banwh-
crs. They declared that where nature had not en
dowed them with beauty, it waa their right—yea,
their duty—to eeek it where they could. Po they all
voted that Magnolia Balm overcame Sallowuews,
Rough Skin and Ringmarks, and gave the oomplex.
Ion a most diitincue (Sorosian) aadunarble-hke tp-
j-carsno” (dangerous to men, no doubt); ar.d that
Lyons Kathairou made the hair grow thick, soft
More than forty Teunw
pokes fav ‘
Governor.
Bfsf Quite so Past, nr. Juurat-Ahorse-
doctor In Philadslphls waa eaogbt changing tbs
celebrat'd Mexican Mustang liniment Into other
bottles, and nslsg it as hi* own recipe. Honesty
Is always the best policy. These medicine men Ilk*
to follow up such fellows. Il cured the lame bom
all the same; but it damaged the Doctor’s reputa
tion, and benefited the proprietor In proportion.
We have beard of so many Rheumatic pereotu and
tame horses being cared by the Mustang liniment
that we advise every housekeeper, llvrrymsn
j nT „t j n - j 60 ct. or s 11.00 liottle, agl
iterfelU. It la wrapped
planter to Invast In a 60 ct. or s |l.00 l>nttlr, against
‘rat. Dewars of counter' “ *
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Dr. J. >Vnlkpp‘s (’nlifoniiu Vlii-
e^nr Ilillers aro a purely Vegetable
preparation, matlo chiefly from 1110* na
tive herbs found on tlio lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada niountainfl of Califor
nia. Uu medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without tho rise
of Alcohol. Tho question is almost
daily asked. “ tYhr.t is the cause of the
unparalleled success «t Vinegar Hit
ters f” Our answer is, that they remove
tho eause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. They are the pi*k
blood purifier and n llfepivlng princiy...
a perfect Honovntur and Invigorate,
of the system. Never befon* in the
history of tbs worhl ho* a medidno Iactti
oomi*omule<l iros^e-^inir tho reinnrkaulo.
qualities of VlSKOAK limxRA in healing the
sick of every disease u.sn in bcir to. They
are b gontlu I’urjrative n. v. «•!! »- n
relieving CoegoMlnti or Inflamins'ieti ol
tho l.iv«T ui *» \ i—t'rul Organs, In Bilious
DtoMUMR.
Tilt* propPlilrs of Du Walker’s
VikkoasIltrWRs are Aperient, Di»i>h<-i. ti.
Canniuntlve, Nntriti tu.-, I.axstiye, Diuretic
.Sedative, Ouunter-Irritant. Sudorific, Altn*
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Kivxtly improved,nnd I now fcvT lb) li»-
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THE NEW IMPROVED
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