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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD! -- An Old l*l*ii for fSrovrin* cnenmlMTe. The following is an old plan practised In some sections with good effects: Spade up a good piece of garden soil and make a circular mound about eight feet in di ameter and ten inches higher in the cen ter than at the outside. In the center of the mound sink an old leaky barrel and Gil it two-thirds full of barnyard ma mire, with some hen manure mixed in. Pour the wash water from the house into the barrel ami let it leak through into the ground. Plant the cucumber seed in a ring, about six inches from the bar rei; watch for the hugs and destroy them by the usual methods. Supply tbe water often enough to keep the ground moist, to promote a rapid growth, hut not too wet. Manure for Grape Vines. Common barnyard manures are not Adapted to growing the best grapes, though they are much better than no manuring. The faults of stable manures are an excess of nitrogen, causing cx cessive growth of vine and too little of mineral fer ilizers which produce the fruit. An application of potash in spring or any time during the growing season is very beneficial. Old country vineyards are manured almost exclusi vely by the ashes from the burned trimmings of grape vines. These asl.es are very rich in potash. This mineral food is es¬ pecially valuable in promoting early ripening. Vines that overhear are s ni ply in most cases setting a larger num¬ ber of clusters than the vine can sup¬ ply potash for the perfecting of the seeds, ami for changing the harsh juices of the green grape into the riper one. Thoroughbred lIor*en and Farm Woik, It is frequently stated, says the Turf, Field and Farm , that the thoroughbred horse is not fit for farm work; that his limbs are loo weak to stand the strain, and his nerves too highly strung for plodding effort. The weedy thorough bred is light limbed, and on the turf he never ranks above fhe common plater. But with the muscular and sfanchly built thoroughbred it is different, lie has speed, stamina and weight carrying ca¬ pacity. His temperament is lively, and it is necessary to be patient and kind with him when put to slow work. Harsh j treatment will ruin his disposition. Thoroughbreds are often condemned be cause those who seek to make use of them do not discriminate, do not make proper selections. A Tennessee observer writes to the Spirit of the Farm: “I believe that the past proves that wherever there is thoroughbred blood > i whether in the trotting horse or mule, lie is bettered by it. Feme of tbe fast¬ est trotting horses tire country has ever seen have a cross of this bloorl, and I am sure from iny own experience that amule from a thoroughbred mare by a good jack will kill almost any other not simi¬ larly bred if it is forced to keep up and do the same amount of work. 1 know of a ease where a gentleman, living in Davidson countv, plowed a thorough¬ bred horse, and ho told me that on on<? occasion, when plowing corn, which was about up to a man’s shoulders, on a verv hot day, and having a large number of plows , running, . all ,, drawn , by , mule* , ex ceptonc.it . ., . being . drawn , by , the .. ,, thor oughbred ,, , horse, , that when , the ,, mules , were hot and tired, and had to be watered and Tested, this horse, though " „ as wet , with sweat . as , lie could ,, , be. was not blowing a particle, but went on pull ing bis plow without the least trouble.” Iloiiseliu'd IlintM. Pencil marks on paint, or white-washed walls, may be removed by rubbing with a little cooking soda on a damp cloth. Windows may be beautifully cleaned by using whitening, w ithout cither water or soap, and pouliing off with either a chamois or with old newspaper. Straw mattings should never be washed with soap, which is certain to turn than yellow, use clean salt and water mot brine) and wipe dry as soon as washed. Kerosene oil will sofien leather belts or boots that have become bard from ex posure or u-u around the wash room, Good for the harness when hard front rain or dampness. Wash with warm water, then grease with good animal oil. A cheap paint that will last for years may be made for out-buildings, by tak¬ ing milk and cement, or “water lime” as some call it, mix and apply three or four coats; any dry color may be added, This will last for years, and by renewing once in two or three years, a building will look as if painted with oil paint. To put this on, the paint should be stirred constantly, as the finer parts will soon I e all used obt, and you will have nothing lcL but sand. A Logical Hen. Every one has beard of the distress of the ben on beholding young ducklings hatched by her taking to the water. This occurs so frequently as to attract little remark, except when observed by any one for the first time. Mr. Jesse, in his natural history “Gleanings,” records a singular incident. A hen which had hatched three successive duckling broods got so accustomed to the aquatic ten¬ dency of her pupils, that on hatching a set of ber own eggs she led the chickens to the pond, and in surprise at their un willingness to take the water, actually pushed some of them in, and several were drowned before the awkward situation observed and the survivors rescued.— Leisure Uj% r. The farmer king of Alabama is Bragg B- ComeT, of Barbour county. He raised 2,230 bales of cotton last year, beside a large amount of corn. He has from 3,000 to 10,000 acres in cotton and corn this year. “7." The superstitions of life are many, ^ c i rcums tance9 giving rise to the .' peculiarly varied and complex, but uoc excite more the curiosity of people with ^ inclinalion t0 mvs ticism than the pe cuhar gignificance seemingly attendant q the employment of the numeral , fhe uge o{ tbe num b er can L« | traccd back tQ the Mogaic narrative i since which period, as marking the du qJ . a week in day8) it i ias influ enced the social life of nearly all con tinental nations. It is somewhat curious to note the peculiar character of its progress through the ages, and its re mar) .. lb | e adhesion to history and sei pnco Ag> for instance) therc are . ac cordjng fo fhe time honor ed creed, seven bodic8 in alchemy, divided, and, so to speak, personified thus: The sun is gold; the moon, silver; Mars, iron; Mercury, quicksilver; Saturn, lead; Ju j.iter, tin: Venus, copper. The mystic charm goes further. The champions of Christendom were seven numbcJt) gaint9 George, of England; AndreWj of Scotland; Patrick, of Ire j )avi d, 0 f Wales; Denys,of France; ’ Jamc g) of Spain, and Anthony, of Italy, ]nvincib | e Itome crowne d seven hills an J ancient TKebcs j, a< i seven gates piercing hef maggive walis . Keiigion even falls underneftth the influence, for are there not seven mortal sins—pride, wrath, lugt> gluttony? avarice an d slothi The life of Rien/.i, possibly, was most potently influenced by the innocent nu meral. On the 7th of October he com pletcil the conquest of his foes, lib reign as Tribune lasted seven months,anti the period of his exile embraced seven years. Seven weeks after his return witnessed him without an enemy, and the crowns bestowed upon him by Roman convents and council were seven in num her. The seven sleepers, presumably buried at Ephesus, were presumed to exercis an infiuence upon national fortunes a< late as the time of Edward the Confessor for William of Malmesbury says; “Ed ward the Confessor, in his mind's eye saw lire seven sleepers turn from thei, right sides to left, thus boding great disasters to Christendom.” An ancient chronicler thus memorial izes those types of elemental power, thi seven wonders of the world: “The pyramids first, which in Egypt wet laid; Next Babylon’s gardens for Amphytis made Then Mnusoles’ tomb of affection and guilt put!,, the Temple of Diao, at Ephesus built The Colossus of Rhodes, east in brass to th sun; Sixth, Jupiter’s Statue, by Phidias done; The Pharos of Egypt, lust womler of old, Or Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold.” The most far-reaching of the super stitions attending the utilization of till number seven is the astrologic power con ferred upon him who shall stand as tlu seventh male heir of the seventh son Such a person was presumed to possesi iu a large degree the power of curing disease by the laying on of hands, — Cin¬ cinnati Enquirer. Chronology of Steamboating. The first i,|ca of stcam navigation wa* contained in a patent obtained iu Eng * an< ^ Hulls iu 1 <3(5. Fitch experimented * in steam naviga tion on the , Delaware river . in 1733-4. Oliver Evans was the , next expenmentei in Virginia ..... in steam navigation .... in ,_ 1785-0 OK - ° HamS °- V al8 ° aU ^l-nmcntcr u ' . stc ,m navigation in **r?* nia m ‘ 1 - • W. Symington n made trials on tbe Forth aiul ^ de " rib , a rudely eon 8tructed ino,lcl a 8tcal » er la J-S 9 - Chancellor Livingston built . steamei a on tbe Hudson in 1797. The first experiment of steamboating on the Thames, England, was in 1801. Mr. Symington repeated his experi ments on the Thames with success ii 1802. Fulton built the steamer the Nortl nivcr> m: „ lo a passage up the llud son river to Albany, from New York, it thirty-three hours-tlie first steam navi gation on record. The engines were constructed by Boulton & Watts. Th< voyage was made in 1807. The next steamboat was the Czar ol Neptune in 1808. Fulton built tbe Orleans, at Pittsburg, tbe first steamer on Western rivers. It was completed, and made tho voyage tc I New Orleans 2,000 miles, in 1811. I The Paragon was tho next steamer, : built in New York in 1811. The Richmond was built at New York in 1812. The first steam vessels of Europe com ntenced plying tbe Clyde in 1812. The Vesuvius was built at Pittsburg it 1815. England built her first steamer it 1815. The Savannah, the first steamer tf cross the ocean, was of 350 tons burden, and sailed for Liverpool from Savannah Ga . July 15, 1811). The first steamer built in Ireland wa: in 1820. Captain Johnson was paid t‘10,000 oi $50,00) for making the first steam voy age to India. The voyage was made oi tbe steamer Enterprise, which from Falmouth, England, August 16. 1825. The Great Western, from Bristol, Eng land, and the Sirius, from Cork, Ireland both arrived at New York city, each ot their first voyage, and each eighteen out, on June 17, 1838. i The first war steamer built in England was in 1838. ,, R * tUr " 8 fr °“ States gav, | an aggregate of 700 steamboats in tht United States in 1838. j There were about 1,500 steam vesseh in the I'nited States in 1867. The Washington was the first Ameri can ocean steamer of note, She made ! her first passage to Southampton, £ng land, in June, 1847 .—New York Karin, Journal. POPULAR SCIENCE. Wet winters have been found to result disastrously to insects. The grasshopper develops from the young larva to the winged adult without changing its mode of life. Tr; London an electric light has been used to illuminate the interior of an oven. The door was of plate glass, and every part of the process of baking could be distinctly seen. Discussing the manufacture of hone dustj Professor J. Konig shows that vvhen hones, previous to grinding, arc freed from fats by treatment with ben z0 ], they are purified from ingredients wb ich have no agricultural value, while our country is sunposed to be near , y frec from earthquakes, no less ^han 364 shocks were recorded in the United g ta tes and Canada during the lwelve year3 en( ]ing 1883. This is an average of about one in every twelve days. A mountain explorer just returned from Asia states that during a four months’ residence at a height of more than 13,000 feet above the sea his pulse, normally sixty-three heats per minute,fell below 100 per minute, and his respira¬ tions were often twice.as numerous as at ordinary levels. Before the Linnean society, of Lon¬ don, Mr. A. Taylor has sought to prove that plants have a dim sort of intelli¬ gence, and are able, at least, to exert as voluntary power as certain lowly organ¬ ized animals. One proof of this, is the plant’s avoidance of obstacles—placed artificially in their way—by bending aside before touching. A French botanist, M. Fonssagrivcs, asserts that poisonous gases are given off by both growing and harvested fruits— such as apricots, oranges and quinces— and death by poisoning lias resulted from sleeping in rooms exposed to such emanations. A similar deadly gas—evi dentlv connected in some way with vegetable odors—is given off by sweet scented flowers and odoriferous leaves. Adanson found trees of the baobab species in Africa which he computed to be 5,150 years old; and De Candolle has reported the deciduous cypress of Mexi¬ co to reach a still greater age. The oldest individual specimen of any species—in fact, the oldest living thing upon the globe—is probably tbe cypress of Santa Maria del Tule, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. If estimates of tree ages are to be relied upon, the life of this venerablo forest monarch may have spanned the whole period of written his¬ tory. At last accounts it was still grow¬ ing, and in 1851, when Humboldt saw it, it measured forty-two feet in diam eter, 145 iu circumference, and 282 feet between the extremities of two opposi branches. On the Raging Canal in Venice. It is possible to go through London by canal, but it is not possible to go through Venice by any other route unless a per Bon walks, says Luke Sharp in the De¬ troit Free Press. It is hard to imagine a great city where most of the inhabitants never saw a horse except at the public gardens, where an equine couple are kept as curiosities. My two Pinafore gondoliers got one on each end of a large gondola, and I seated myself on tbe comfortable cush¬ ions in the center. Every gondola has a sort of air cushion, one to sit on and one to lean back against, and the effect is very luxurious. When once a person gets into a gondola the charm of Venice is on him and the enchantment never leaves him. The evening was still and the canal as placid as a mirror. The two gondoliers swing together in working j ! their oars with an easy rythm of motion that sent tho boat along swiftly and si¬ lently. As we neared the beautiful arch of the Hialto they turned into a smaller canal and thought it part of thoir duty to sing. I made them quit that though, and nothing further occurred to mat the perfection of the journey. It was almost dark as we passed under the gloomy Bridge of Sighs, a most appropriate time to get a first view of that structuie, although in the dimness I regret to say that it reminded me of one of these cov ered ways that sometimes span an alley overhead to unite two parts of a sepa rated factory. Then we canie out into the broad open water again and up another narrow canal, and thus cam" to ' the .id. th. bi e ltot.1. ! * | About Widows. I have a vague idea that a widow. to be natural, should always be plump. | I can’t give any reason for it. I have | long had a conviction that grief over a departed husband is fattening. 1 knew I that stage widows are always wan and pale, and faint at the sight of any relic of the deceased. But that is a dramatic license, and only in comedies where true , iove and devotion are made funnv, not 1° S8 J ridiculous, do they make widows plump. Come to think of it, 1 don’t see a widow shouldn’t be plump. She ^ as n °thing to worry about. She is Porcine of one great battle, with a weakened world before her to conquer. ^ ^e widows. It always seems to me that a widow is a woman who has got ‘ the be9t of a man Uc “ay have been a B 00< ^ of a man, or very little of a I man, but she’s got the best of him. It seems to ire awfully hard for a woman to survive her husband. I do not wish to ask whether matrimony is, after all, a disease that is fatal to woman. I don’t say that a woman should never marry at all. She should always marry some other man .—San Francisco Chronicle. Although William Cullen Brvant has been dead since 1878, letters addressed I to him are still received at the office ot! the New York Evening Post. LIEUTENANT ADD THE TIE. A I.1TT1.E AltVIV -TOliV OF GENBHAI. ItUANT ANO ID* MAYS. How n Menlrnnnt who Passed Himself oft as General Grant mine to l.rlet. Here is a comical story of the way in which , ■ , General ,, , Grant is saw K „;,i to to have nave punished a “ cheeky ” lieutenant. We ftal it in t,„ Springfield Mm. “Tb. officer in question coming upon a lonely 'arm-house one dav. and being struck with ... the pangs of ( i,mirror hunger, dismoumtu, dismounted and in order to get the best the house afforded, hail the impudence to repre sent himself as General Grant, lie was served with the greatest alacrity, and, with . . his companions, nearly r'pnnwl c < anea the tut larder. Pay was refused and they rode rejoicing. . . r away “ In the meantime General Grant, who wuo had aau halted na.icu his u armv a few miles - further back for a brief resting spell, tame in sight of and was rather favor ably impressed with the appearance of this same house. Riding up to the fence in front of tf. door, bo do,nod to know if they would cook him a meal. it < No ’ said a female, in a gruff voice. . General „ , Grant „ ,__, and .. his staff u._„ have jus been here and eaten everything in the bonto oxo.pt one pumpkin pie.' (< f Humph,’murmured Grant; ‘what is votir •’ nnmp 9’ ' I < f Selvidge, r , , replied the woman. “ Casting a half-dollar in at the door, ho Rhked if she would keep that pie until he sent an officer for it, to which she molted replied that Hilt «he she would wouiu. “ That evening, alter the camping ground had been selected the various regiments were notified that there would bo a grand parade at half-past six, for Officer. „™>]J see th.t ell IM. men turned out, etc. “In five minutes the camp r was in a perfect uproar, and filled with all sorts of rumors. Borne thought the enemy were upon them, it ... being so unusual ix to have parades when on a march. “At At halt-past ImlfiW six six the tne parade parade was was formed, ten columns deep, and nearly a quarter 1 of a mile in length. ° “Both officers and men were amazed at this uuusual parade f after such a long and march, and wondered what . it . weary portended, when the assistant adjutant general rod. to tr.Mol tbe liee., and, to a grave, loud, and clear voice, read the following order. “ HiSAUQUAUTEliS Armv IN THE Field, “ ‘Special Order No. —. (t t Lieutenant Wtckfiald, of tho Iu on this day, e«te» everything in Mrs. Belvidge’s house, at the crossing of the Trenton and Poco Liontas ftiid , Biaci , Ivivor ,, aiiu , Gape (jirar dean Roads, except the pumpkin pie Lieutenant Wiektield » w, ordentd to return, with au escort of 100 cavalry, and j tat , xt.rtf that pie ifin also. „l*n << ( U. S Grant, “ ‘Brigadier General Commanding.’ “It is impossible to describe the effect the reading ol this order had on the troops. Every one was expecting to hear some momeutuous announcement, and li.to.to,. .-1,1, T , .ttototo,,. when it was finished, looked at each other in utter bewddermeut, aud asked what did it mean, “The parade was over, aud the moment they dispersed each one sought an ex planation of the btiauge affair. It soon leaked out, and by the time the crest fallen lieutenant was ready, with his es eort, to leave camp, it was in a perfect uproar, aud peals of laughter followed . him . as he . defiled | j», x a ; ong the road on his way back to oat that pie, “Grant made no explanation of his conduct, followed it by no reprimand. The order carried its own lesson, admin istcred its own rebuke, and each one knew that it would not be a safe business to pass himself off as tbe General-in Chief, much Jess forage in his name for his own benefit. When the lieutenant returned to camp, late iu the evening, he glad to escape to bis tent to avoid tho numberless questions and jokes about the pumpkin pie.” ------ ■ » • liBBAT _ Biutain buys her postal card supply from Germany, the last order giveu the successful bidder being b 150 090 Odd 011 n »%.|I. tl > - An unusual number of houses are now for rent in New York, and many private residences on Fifth avenue are being 8 converted into stores. The pay of a retired army officer is seventy-five per cent, of the pay allotted •to the rank of officers in active service at the time of retirement. The Hotel Vendome, of Boston, is unsurpassed iu location and appoint ments. Tourists wishing to stop at a hotel which offers the comforts of their — ll0me s -hould h ut fail to vi.it it. Tlo Secured the Interest.. - A few years before the war the late Commodore _ , Garrison, _ , of . New „ York, _ purchased with Commodore Vanderbilt a majority of tho stock of the line now known as the Pacific Mail. The part¬ ners disagreed, aud each wanted to bay the other out. At last Commodore Garrison received an offer of several millions from Vanderbilt. Garrison ne ce l’* e L au d Vanderbilt, paid him in n °t es - After the notes had ran for some time Mr. Thorne, Vanderbilt’s son-in law, wont to Garrison and said that Vanderbilt did not want to be paying in¬ terest any longer, and offered to settle for the fall amount. This was accepted, Vanderbilt sending around a check for the principal. Commodore Garrison put it in his pocket, and walked to Van¬ derbilt’s office, 3 Bowling Green. “Look here, Vanderbilt,” he said, striking the check against the palm of his hand, "1 want the interest on this money. ” ' “Do you ?” replied Vanderbilt. “What will you do if you don’t get it?” “Do? I’ll show you what I will do,” replied Garrison, closing the door and locking it. No one knew what passed, but ten minutes afterward Garrison emerged from ‘ he d o° r of »«• 3 bearing a check lor the full amount, principal and in¬ terest. Neither of the Commodores could ever be prevailed on to disclose the secret of that interview. A SINGULAR ROOK, *4clntillatinff with Snrrafln .-nd Brilliant \vil!i iraili. Kno Ynrk Correspondence American Rural Home. Chap. I. “Has Malaria;’'goes to Florida. Chap. II. “Overworked;” goes to Europe. Em» Chap. III. “Has Rheumatism;” goes to Chap. IV. Has a row with his Doctor! The above chapters, Mr. Editor, I find in a oook recently published read deal by of an anonymous in , u thor. I have a sarcasm my lay, but I never read anything J equal to tbe herejn containe a. i suspect the experience portrayed is a personal one ; in “™£££- is the cloak “ W with “Malaria” as it states, which superficial physicians cover up a mul titudo of ill feelings which tluw do not under m)J (lo not nnl ,. h CAre to investigate. 11 js ulso a cover for such diseases as they ^tT^a^or h^oC vvorked and needs rest and is probably suf rering from malaria, it is a confession of ig norance or of inability. Tlie patient goes ahroad T(l0 change j s tonic and for a time he feels better, t omes home. Fickle appe tite, frequent headaches, severe colds,cramps, sleeplessness, irritability, tired feelings, and general unfitness for business are succeeded in due time by alarming attacks of rheuma tism which flits about bis body regardless of ail human feelings. his back. Articular,— It is muscular’—in " his joints. Inflammatory, my! how he {ears it will fly to his heart! Now off he goes to the springs. The doctor sends him hands'. That would hurt his business! Better for a few days. Returns. After a while neuralgia transfixes him. He bloats; cannot breathe; has pneumonia; SSftilSaR cannot has ^iS5KSUJSt frequent chills and fevers: , everything about him seems to go wrong; becomes sus picious; musters up strength and demands to know what is killing him! “Great heaven 1” ignorance?” he cries, “why have you ::ept “Because,’ me so long said in the doctor, “I read your fate five years ago. I thought best to keep ! V°u comfortable and ignorant of the facts.” t He dismisses his doctor, but too late! His fortune has all gone to fees. But him, what becomes of hint? ^ ^ a weU known Wa „ street banker fa ;j to- me. “it is really astonishing how general Bright’s disease is becoming. | for nephew recently cured when his ; Physicians my said was impossible recovery was one.” 1 he case seems to me to be a wonderful This gentleman in formerly represented his gov eminent a foreign country. He knows, appreciates and declares the value of that preparation, because his nephew, who is a i son of Danish Vice-Consul Schmidt, was pro ' "“’unced incurable, when the remedy, War „ er > K sa f e cure, was begun. “Yes,” sai l his father. “I was very skeptical, but since tak II I regret the remedy to note the that boy is President well ” Arthur ex is said to be a victim of this terrible disease. IIe n VBht t0 ' iv ? ^ ut the probabilities are 1 , hat since authorized remedies cannot cure him, his physicians will not advise him to his life, as so many thousands have Co.’s, jOSSSL'^TSSTSS^j told he regarded “as wonderful me a Well, I suspfect the hero of the book cured himself by the same means. The inierna! i evidence points very strongly to this conciu ! sion. 1 cannot close my notice of this book bet ’-^eSSf^lSrSSi'ii’SSK 1 have portrayed, do not cnee t,rust as Physicians the exclusion put your i! 1 to of other remedial agencies. They have no monopoly over disease and I personally know that many of them are so very‘conscientious’ that they than that they should be saved to earth by the use of any ‘unauthorized’ means.” i And that the author’s condemnation is too | true, bow many thousands duped, and yet rescued, as he was, can personally testify? In a Dream. An exchange tolls of a theological pro Eationer who was being examined at the 2 &£$£ wa8 greatly worried by the questions, He was rooming temporarily with a j young lawyer ^ and a Methodist preacher. 1 8 e< ’P ^ l0 student began to answer j suggested °the ^prSel the formal questions to the lawyer, who propounded them to the sleeper. The latter passed his strange examination with great credit, but on day a bad fai ‘" re | when the same questions were asked u by ! the authorized examiners. | -- WnTi Yks.—A circular issued by the Psychical Society asks, amoug other j questions: “Have you ever, when in I good health, and wide awake, had a : vivk ] impression of something extremely | fh r °o at R ““ wS" we »th« think we have. What made the impression so vivid was the fact that the extremely good and inspiring stuff was actually trickling down. P. S.— It was ice water, on a warm day. —Norristown Herald. $500 lh'wanl. 1 The former proprietor of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, for years made a standing, public offer in ail American newspapers ot $500 for a case of catarrh that he could not cure. The I’tesent druggists laoprictors have reiwwe i this offer. All the soil the Remedy, together with the-Douche ’ and all other appliances advised to be used in connection with it No < atarrh P atient is longer able tosay “I eau ?°n be cure<i ” YuU get #5J0 in cas0 of failuro '__ Conversation:—Tlie idle man’s business and the business man’s recreation. Dr. Freckles, Tingiles, Salt Rheum cured. Ad'ss M. Hutchinson, 110 Clark St., Chicago, El. If your hands cannot he usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. An Oniv r,ai,*iii. r Cme i oK un.nmpiion. When death was hourly expected from Con ; made a preparat on oi Indian Hemp, which cure Ibis only child, and now gives this recipe on receipt ot stamps to pay expenses. Hemp al ach, T.’ n,r and f will n ‘,8 br» ht s ak '' fO a S ; fresh na ’ lsea cold “ t in . ^ 24 hours. stom Address Craddock & Co., 103i Race street, 1 hiladelphia. Fa., naming this paper, Mi -M- S. K. CHASE, Of Chase’s Market, Lowell, Mass., is frequently called upon £J for information in regard to his wonderful cure by the use ofb f Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. l He assures all inquirers that i, J his testimonial is strictly true. f Here it is: — - .j From my infancy I was afflicted with LJ | Scrofula. The doctors pronounced my l— case incurable, and were of the opinion L that Consumption, induced by scrofulous V* poison in the blood, would terminate my life. About five years ago I had become A ,1 so debilitated that to do day’s work a wa*. hi <1 an impossibility. I was completely dis¬ IU couraged, when a friend advised me to ^ try Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I bought one bottle, took the .Sarsaparilla regularly, and began to improve at once. Continuing the treatment, I was permanently cured— taking less than one dozen bottles in all. The virulent sores, tyhich had eaten through my nook iu a number of places, rapidly healed, and my strength gradually increased, until I became a vigorous man, as I am to-day__S. K. Chase, with I. M. Copyrighted Chase, Provision Dealer, 203 Merrimack Et., Lowell, Mass. Fropivud Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, i>y Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., LoweU, Hats. Sold by Druggist.. Price $1; six bottles, *6 Your character cannot be essentially injured, except by your own acts. Brown’s T.lttlr Joke. , “Why, Brown, how short your coat is,’ said Jones one day to his friend Brown, who wittily replied: “Yes; but it will bo long enough before I get another. ” Some men spend so much for medicines that neither hoal nor help them, that new clothes is with them like angels’ visits—few and far between. Internal fevers, weakness of the lungs, shortness of breath and lingering coughs, soon yield to the magic influence of that royal remedy, Dr. R. V. PierceV “Golden Medical Discovery." The value of an autograph depends upon what it is annexed to. If afflicted with nore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s F.ve Water. Druggists sell it. ‘25c “The Mitc'y Dollar”—‘That made up of church collection pennies. For ia’rpevsia, indigestion, depression or spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the “Ferro l’hosphovated Elixir of Calisaya,” made by Cas¬ well, Hazzard & Co., New York, and sold by ail Druggists,is the best tonic ;and for patients has equal. recov¬ ering from fever or other sickness it no Franklin: An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Stricture of the urethra in its worst forms, speedily cured by our new and improved methods. Pamphlet, references ami terms, two three-cent stamps. World’s Dispensary _ Association,663 Main street, Buffalo, , Medical N. Y. _ The Russian platinum mines are said to bo the most valuable in the world. Important. Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot. 600 elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, *1 and upward per day. European plan, tie vator. Restaurant supplied with the beat. Horse cars, stages and elevated railroads to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the brand Union Hotel than at anv other first-class hotel m the city. Cicero: To live long it is necessary to live slowly. __ A SURE PREVENTIVE to »li sending $2 to DR. BOSTON’S PALATIAL HOTEL The Vendome. W. TRACY EUSTIS, law. Wh Pensions ■ to Soldiers k Heirs. Sen<X*tarap The Great Nerve Remedy, Curcs diseases of tho Tin a in ami Nerves, called Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Fainting, Fits, Paralysis, &c. 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She says: “I am taking your Veg¬ etable Compound and find great benefit from it. Jt has done me more good than a’l the Doctors Mrs. T. of Vincennes, lnd .writes: “Having taken 11 bottles of your Vegetable Compound and cured by its use, 1 feel very anxious that every woman nfliicted with NV onib Disease should make use of it. An¬ other lady in Birmingham, Mich., was suf¬ fering from weakness and displacement. She says: “I began taking your Compound and it helped me so sooa, I feel like proclaiming to the World its preat virtues ns a healing agent for women. a., Vte ARE HOT SATISFIED V*le Iron and cannot ba broken. K<in m in all ,, pesporfg to rords and weightfl, ami at o». - ntli t lift cost. Can bo applied with a BcrY-w-drlvor , ,n : nandv powm. Hainplo coffiploto for th-‘ winnow mailed upon receipt of loots. Agt-uts wanted in ovary town. J. R CLANCY, 8yracwv\ N. Y. AGENTS WANTED WlifiS BOA It I), 141 Madison Ave , New York, WITHOUT MON EY! gSSSSPSI iSisssssI information that *"« i ffsasuskaa may provermore valua- ■» i - WITHOUT PRICE! A QUESTION ABOUT Browns Iron Bitters ANSWERED. Physicians known recognize*Iron the profession, as the and besTTiffitorativn inquiry to 0 f anv leading chemical firm will substantiate theassertion that thero are more used preparations in medicine. of iron than of anv other substance is acknowledged This shows con eluBYve\y that iron to be the moat important factor in successful medical practice. It e^'o7lYiA)WN>S b £ f HIVt'eI IK f)N tlSno iy satisfactory iron combination had ever been found headache, BROWN’S prodace IRON constipation—all BiTTERSteffi medicine*do. or liHOU N’M IKON other iron cures fndiffCNtion* ISilioiiMiiess, Weakness lUTTJEHs Dyspepsia, Tired Feeling,General Malaria, Chills Debility,Pain ami Fever*! 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