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A PEPPERMINT KING. Account of a Unique Industry of Wayne County, N. Y. A Small Area Where Seven-Eighths o* the World’s Peppermint is Eaised, Along the banks of the Garnagua River,which flows through the southern portion of x ttt AVayne county, _ , -ikj N. v Y., may be seen large fields of green-colored plants about eight inches in height ex ' tending over an extensive area. To a botanist irenthapeperita is the name bv which it is known, but to the world in general , it is . peppermint. . . t In 4 tnis .’ •__.„n small area seven-eighths of all the peppermint in the world is raised. The low, mucky land is plowed in the spring. It is then laid off in furrows eighteen inches apart, ana A sets, t portions of old plants, . are * planted , . , ciosely , together , in . the . row. L. This . . done , early , . April: . .. the , roots 4 is in are transplanted , . , other . _ It every year. takes , about . eight . _ square sods _ of . roots , as they , he the , ground , to plant , upon * ° 1 an acre. The roots that are planted 1 , this , . after , the _ . gathered, , will be year, crop is transplanted in every other row for next year’s crop. The first year’s crop is al ways the best, because the plant is then freest from weeds. Usually they are al¬ lowed to run only two years, after which the ground is ploughed under. "When the plants have grown to about two and a half feet in height they ri¬ pen. The harvest begins usually in the last of August. It is cut like clover, with a cradle, and raked into cocks, when it is allowed to wilt a little before it is taken to the distillery; the process of distilla¬ tion continues until the last of October. The plant is brought from the fields in large wagons and tightly packed in steam-tight vats; the steam is let into the bottom of the vat, and the oil from the plants volatilized. Tho oily vapor and steam pass through a condensing worm into a receiver, where tbe oil, be¬ ing lighter than water, is dipped off, and is then put up in tin cans, holding twenty pounds, and taken to the refinery of H. G. Hotchkiss of Lyons, where it is refined and put into twenty-one-ounce bottles, eighteen bottles in a case, labelled and shipped to all parts of the civilized world. Mr. Hotchkiss is justly styled the H peppermint king.” “The average crop per year in Wayne county,” he said, “is between 80,000 and 100,000 pounds, and yields on an average about twenty pounds to the acre in a good season. Seven-eighths of the whole crop in the world is raised in Wayne county, and that principally in the towns of Lyons, Arcadia, Palmyra, Sodus and Wolcott. A large proportion of tho oil is exported. “Oil of peppermint has many uses. It is used for medicinal purposes in general; is an important agent in cholera. It is also used in flavoring confectionery and in perfumes, essences and peppermint cor¬ dials, the latter being a favorite drink with Europeans. It is used as a house¬ hold medicine all over the world, and for childrens’ complaints is unrival¬ led.” i i How much of the oil do you handle?” “More than three-quarters of the crop raised in this county, and more than any other one man in the world. I have been in the business since 1839 and had a varied experience. In 1879 the yield was the largest ever known, aggregating 150,000 pounds. This year it will be hardly one-third of that. “The market is now at a standstill, owing to the uncertainty of the growing crop. Last year’s crop is nearly all marketed. The average price paid for tho last three months has been from $3.75 to $4 per pound for the crude oil. In 1879 it was down to $2. I have known the market to jump $1 per pound in a single day. “One farmer last year brought into our refinery a common sleigh-load, which was found to be worth $4000. You can see from this how much money there is in peppermint .”—Buffalo Ex¬ press. Big Crabs. On the island of Madagascar large white land crabs arc very common, and afford considerable sport to good riders, who follow them on horseback along the beach and endeavor to kill them with long poles used as lances. Ban Francisco possesses two of the largest crabs in the country. One is in the co'lection of Woodward’s gardens, and the other is a strong card for a neighboring “museum” that pictures the unfortunate decapod as overturning a boat and embroiling a crew of sailors in universal ruin. The crab itself is about twelve or thirteen feet across from the tip of one outspread claw to that of the other, and presents a truly formidable appearance, and is a remarkably fine specimen. The Woodward crab is some¬ what smaller, but equally striking. A specimen in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge and a large cara¬ pace or shell in tbe Museum of Natural History, Central Park, New York, are the only others that I know of in this country. The thirteen-foot crab alluded to would astonish the average crabber, but specimens of these spiders of the sea have been caught in Japanese waters, to which they arc indigenous, that spread from the tip of one claw to that of the other twenty-two feet, A friend of mine who has caught the great crabs in Japanese waters telis me that they have a curious habit of leaving the water and coming out upon the beach at night to feed.—San Francisco Call. At New Ulm, in Minnesota, German is ,e. the official ~ . , , language of . the Municipal .. . - , Council. The mayor and all the council men are Germans, and all the business is transacted in German. FOB THE FARM AND HOME* How to Feed Hog*. Construct your troughs for feeding bogs, says the Live Stock Register, of Kansas City, so that each hog cannot appropriate more than a foot to himself. Have divisions by means of small fenced yards so arranged that at least three of pigs can slip under and be divided into three grades and each have a trough ° to eat from. Now, by pouring »will into the troughs for the , small . pigs the ? wl11 crowd int0 thelr P en first and be out of the wa ? of the older ones ’ safe > eatin S' Then take thc second grade, i and they will all be on an equality and i out of the way J of the Btill larger ° oies. In this manner a feeder can re « ulate the feed and ^ ade his ho = s ia eatm 2> and j mana S e a lar S e r ‘ umber f d have each a P r0 P'- r sbare of foo , an not get j 1 hurt. Do not undertake to raise your , hogs on grass alone. , They need at A ; least : ® j ; of day! them one ear corn per to give , heart , and _ to A neutralize the acid .... arising ® from . eating the A . full , ,, supply , of grass. ® ashes , and , salt should ., . be kept . . reach , m all „ the time. Charcoal .. is a great neutral- , , 1 izer . of . acids. .. Burnt „ . cobs are good, , j Rcmember that clover is full of acid) and a sour stomach goon leadg to disease . „ An ounce of prevention ig worth a pound of cure „ in this case _ Care ot an Orchard. W. A. London says ic the Rural Mes¬ senger : I find that lime, wood ashes, and old iron put around the roots of de¬ clining trees, have a very beneficial ef¬ fect. These fertilizers restore the trees to a healthy condition, and also greatly improve tho fruit in quantity. I made the application early last Spring as an ex¬ periment on a Winesap and Neverfail; about half a bushel mixed lime and ashes to each, and dug it in with a hoe some six fQet around the trunk, and put the old iron immediately around the base of each. The trees put forth with renewed vigor, bloomed abundantly, and yielded a good crop of fruit. An excellent wash for trees may bo made thus : Heat an ounce of salsoda to redness in an iron pot, and dissolve it in one gallon of water, and while warm apply it on the trunk. After one application the moss and old bark will drop off, and tbe trunk will be quite smooth. This wash has quite re¬ cuperative properties, making old trees bear anew. I have tried soft soap as a wash with good results, and also a coat¬ ing of lime in the Spring season, which is a fine specific for old trees. The ques¬ tion is often asked if it is best to manure trees in the Fall or Spring. I have found the Summer season to be a good time; have great faith in mulchin - ■ r ’ es pecially young trees, for several reasons, after they are planted. Apple trees have two growths during the season— the secondary growth takes place after mid-Summer; hence it is that a topdress¬ ing of manure and also coarse litter, fa¬ cilitates the late growth, aud often pro¬ duces very marked results in the habit and formation of the tree. The good effect that mulching has to young trees is that it wards off the intense heat of the sun from the tender roots, aud also has a tendency to hold moisture. A good topdressing of stable manure in tho Fall around young trees, with a good many corncobs cast over the surface of the soil, gives satisfactory results. Milking; (ow*. In speaking upon this subject the Fitts burg Stockman says: Milking is nothing short of a fine art, and the farm hand who knows how to milk properly is more valuable to tho careful dairyman than any other help. Some can milk a dozeu cows while others would milk half that number, but the careful manager is not so anxious for fast help as he is to employ those who are careful. Thc operation should never bo hurried, but the milk should be drawn steadily as it flows. Some cows have tender teats and udders, and the rapid milker forgets this in his effort to make speed. A cow that is naturally impatient and fretful does not like to sub¬ mit to rough handling, aud her disposi¬ tion is soon ruined by such treatment. As the udder becomes distended with milk the cow readily submits to milking for the relief it brings. The constant practice of being milked at stated inter¬ vals impresses itself strongly upon her, and she will seldom resist without cause. If a cow that has been patient at milk¬ ing becomes fractious the fault can al¬ ways be traced to the milker. The care¬ less dairyman is the one who complains of his cows to keep up the flow, and bloody milk, enrget and other evils are almost always the result of his own mis¬ management. Another point demanding attention is allowing cows to stand a long time waiting to he milked, With cows that milk laTge it is painful when the udders are filled to the utmost and the milker is not on hand to relieve them, and they become nervous and rest¬ less. This causes a cow to dry up pre¬ maturely because nature revolts at her suffering. The cow should also be milked to the last drop; '. if the last por tion of , the milk, ... as claimed, .... is the best, I t ’ the , udder ,, should , lie left with nothing , K m it. _. With , ularity feeding, milking i re in , . the and kind . av caring or cows, treat ment at all times, the cow will not only become gentle and stay so, but will give milk longer and her season’s product will be much larger. If a cow begins to give trouble in milking proper attention in handling and management will mostlv cure the evil. I i . arm and Uaiii.u Vst.i. ; Rewniate Heguiate the thc fed feed of of horses yom ,,„ to I correspond with the amount of work they are required ' to do ' i ^ Host melon melon vines vlncc with n-ith Pans d - irrecn or j London purple to keep off the bug. Dust one part of the powder to twenty five parts of flour. "Watch for the currant worm, and ns soon as the leaves appear ragged apply white hellebore—a tablespoonful to a pail of water—by means of a syringe. Repeat in about a week. When two or three different kinds of grasses are sown together for pasture, many vacant spaces may be filled up, as each particular varietv will find the kind of soil best adapted to its vigorous growth, the consequence being that the sod will be the thicker. The problem of farming consists in mak ing . the ,, soil increasingly , fertile. ... Manure , r is . the farmer’s . , saving . V bank, i and a if -x more of them had large heaps of it every spring to spread upon their land, instead of money at interest, thev would prosper ’ w*,.. a Soiling crops demand the very richest ground. It wiil not pay to cut and gather a poor crop to be carried to the j barn and fed while green. If the land is not nch enough to produce a maximum . crop, let stock gather herbage for them selves until enough land can be got into suitable condition. Barnyard manure may be imitated by thoroughly composting with a cord of seasoned meadow muck, or some substi¬ tute, sixty-five pounds of crude nitrate of soda, two bushels of wood ashes, one peck of common salt, ten pounds of fine bene meal, two quarts of plaster, and ten pounds of Epsom salts. The best ground for a peach orchard is a li»ht ° ’ sandv ^ soil that has been P nlanted several years with general crops. Do plant on ground rich enough to pro onions, peas, spinach or lettuce, for 1 will be liable to make a late growth, and produce unripe . wood that will be winter-kihed. Profitable bee-keeping greatly depends upon a gathering up / of the fragments, that a nothing • . be , lost. _ Fragments of ... time can be used in caring for bees, fragments of lumber in making hives and frames, fragments of comb for wax; and every drop mil of honey is useful; i. even though with aw, i. «. ted to needy colonies. The work of caring for beans comes just at the busiest .harvest season, and this crop is therefore apt to be neglected. If delayed till after harvest it is too late, and the vine cannot be disturbed with¬ out injury. Yet the work in hoeing beans, if done at the right time, saves an equal amount of labor when they come to be harvested, besides the advantage to the crop. The soils best adapted for the potato are sandy and gravelly loams. C.ay soils, especially if the season be wet, produce poor potatoes, with a tendency to rot. An old pasture turned over or any sod ground, is well fitted for potato growth. A little well-rotted compost harrowed in thoroughly upon such sod will usually give a fair crop even upon poorish soil. Fresh stable mauureshould not be applied, as it results in a di¬ minished yield and increases tendency to rot. ougehold Uinta. Oil of la, ader will drive away flies. Grained wood should be washed with cold tea. If meat bakes too fast cover with but¬ tered paper. To remove tea stains from cups and saucers, scour with ashes. Hellebore sprinkled on the floor it night destroys cockroaches. They eat at and are poisoned. To prevent lampwieks from smoking they should be soaked in vinegar and then thoroughly dried. Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste bet¬ ter by sprinkling a tablespoonful of flour over them while frying. Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where ants congregate will drive them away. The same remedy is also good for mice. To clean unvarnished black walnut: Milk, sour or sweet, well rubbed in with an old soft flannel, will make black wal¬ nut look new. Rub the nickel stove trimmings and the plated handles and hinges of doors with kerosene and whiting, and polish with a dry cloth. Keoelpta. Arrowroot Pudding. — One pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of arrowroot, two eggs, half cup of sugar, half tea¬ spoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg ; boil the milk and stir in the arrowroot, which has been dissolved in a little water; take from the fire, add the other ingredients, and bake in an earthenware dish in a quick oven. Tomato Soup without Meat. — One quart of stewed tomatoes, one quart of milk, one rolled cracker, one teaspoonful of soda, a small bit of butter and a little salt. When tomatoes are sufficiently cooked add the soda, then the cracker, butter and salt. Heat the milk in a saucepan, and pour into the kettle, and as soon as it boils remove it from the fire, and seive it at once. RuL for Cooking Cabbage. — Boil the cabbage ,. gently ,. until ... cooked, . . and . dram . . it; •. put 7 two . ounces of ... butter into a sauce pan, „ set „* it on a good fire, K and, . when , „ me.ted, .. . put m the cabbage, . with ... some sa ] t and pepper, add half a pint of cream orm]Iki anJ tne t ODfu , of fl ’ ! stirriug constantIy with a wooden 8iraraer until the sauce is reduced) and I serve hot. Cold S/aw. Put three teaspoonfuls of ■f vinegar 75 in a saucepan, 1 with a 1 ttle salt , and pepper; beat two eggs very light . and mix with a tabiespoonfu! 1 of floor a ’ | teaspoonful of butter, a teaspoonfui of ” ’ aud “ ® i ha | f 1 a tt-asi.oonf.il t ^ p0 ° nful of f S ,rrr„nd rou ' ,d nM ' UtA - Set the , vinegar on the stove, and when it boils stir in the mixture ’ adding half a cup of milk. Cook for two stirring constantly. P ur the sauce ever the shred cabuage, and kt it become cold before serving. Sheets for the Sweet, Wohten are the funniest when they ' 0Ut women arc 80 S(ddom ' ' Susan „ the ., girls . , says she , enjoys seeing them go in bathing. She loves to see spit the sand out of their mouths, Did you ever get your girl by an ice cream 8a ^ <® a bot day without stop ^ g “’ ^ow? long 6haTvls a re now made into dressing-gowns for men. That ends the about the extravagance of women who cut them up r for wrappers, WAiTtso-MAm— _ Good „ , doc- , morning, tor to’her My lady sends me t0 beg you possi- to come husband as quickly as die, ble. She does not wish him to without your assistance, It is said that a great manv ladies who are enthusiastic homeopathists think that their favorite school of medicine is called homeopathy because they can practice it at bome If you watch a woman's mouth closely when she dresses the children for Sun day-school, you will find out wiere all the pins come from, and of course it must be where they all go. Ix some pairs of France betrothed ladies wear a scarlet bow on the left shoulder. In some parts of America thev wear a green beau on the left and right shoulder, alternately. The reason why coachmen are so pop¬ ular with the lames need not be sought very far. Bacrnum's baby show of twenty years ago awarded the first premium to a coachman’s baby. A Boston woman cut her dress from a ln a ™ a£raz ' n .® datcd btdol ?r ahe discovered that it wa»nit 1886 and it tCK ^ £ three doctors to tide her over that long, lonely night. A squaw refused to marry a Canadian Indian, and be took her scalp—a lock of ber hair ’ 83 ;t were - Sbe then married him. and it wasn't long before he hadn't hair enough for a scalp lock. A Tmn) Boston i an had married a lady pounds. whose weight verges up to two hundred her, ‘‘shall heln -My dear,” said he to I vou oyer the fence V* “No * 0 ’ ” , . „ , . r << tn allow your husband to attend a fair with some other fair, and pay her fare?” “Hardly <*• fair, hk" and if it was my husband, A. Gebman, complaining of the over¬ shadowing the effect influence of militarism: “See on your children; if you have handsome, well-made boys they join the military; if girls, the military joins them.” A Singular Discovery. At the end of last October, a Paris correspondent Chaucelade, says, a landslip occurred at in consequence of which a quarry befow fell in, burying a number of workmen. For some days afterwards sounds were heard, and smoke was seen issuing from the quarry, which it was believed came from a fire lighted by the men as a signal. Some time, however, elapsed dertaken. before any explorations were un¬ At length passages to a cer¬ tain distance were opened, but no vestige of human remains could be found. Further investigations were subsequently made, but with a like result, and the conclusion arrived at was that the bodies must have been crushed by the falling rocks at a greater distance inward than could be reached. Not satisfied with this conclusion, however, several of the victims’ comrades resolved a few days ago to attempt to penetrate into a portion of the quarries which they judged not to have been suf¬ ficiently examined. The result was that two bodies were found, together with the clothes of at least five men. Among them were those of a man who had gone into the quarry after the disaster in search of his son. The intricacies of the approaches seem to have been such that this man was unable to find his way back and conduct the men through the passages by which he had entered. The emaciated bodies found appear to have been gnawed by rats. Wlmt has become of the bodies of the other men whose clothes were found is not known. Two skeletons were found lying at full length with the faces turned towards the ground. The engineers are severely blamed by public opinion for not exercising greater promptness in their attempts to reach the interior of the quarry, and the magis¬ trates have opened an inquiry on the subject. It is certain that air was not excluded from the quarry, and, there¬ fore, that the men died of starvation. Delicate Men Lire Longest. “It’s my pet hobby that delicate men live the longest,” said a leading Elmira physician the other evening, adding: \fr. “I’ve been greatly interested in Tilden’s case. It has been a wonderful example of what science is able to do in prolonging well life. It has been exhibited pretty in other cases, but in Mr. Tilden’s it has been particularly satisfac¬ tory. Oh, there is no doubt” had Mr. Tilden been a poor man or a man able to surround himself with only the ordinary means of prolonging life he would have died several years ago. If I were to found an insurance company I would ac cept ail the risks rejected by the regular companies. delicate Why? Because of my the ory that men live the longest. It is, of course, because they take better care of themselves than strong, robust individuals, 'rhe latter say, ‘Oh, I can stand anything; nothing will hurt me;’ and the first thing you know pneumonia or some such disease takes them off like a flash. The delicate man or woman, on the contrary, is always guarded against draughts, is careful during sudden changes, mindful not to eat what experi¬ ence has taught him does not agree with him, and by such care extends and pro¬ long life .”—Elmira Gaeetle. Rival Cities. * i Big row in Minneapolis;” “No.” “Yes.” “What about?” << The education board has excluded the Bible from the public schools.” “What for?” ‘.‘There ™ to ° mucb about 8t ’ Paul _ Groaning on a Bed „ , of ^ Arony, . In the throes of rheumatism, which has reached the inflammatory stage, the invalid has just “ u “ , ° inefficiency of med encs winch could u niter uproot the di-ea-r *’ 8 ou siart. nor avert its dreade d cl max. H< s tetter* Stomach Bitter* to % medicine winch, without the danger attending the us of some of the ordinary specifics for this majudv, uied is infinitely more^searching the and effective, at th. start, it check* prt grr-m of ih* di*-a«-. and expels, or neutral.**, -hr rtarnmano ^afa the blooi® Who *. lake* it .uenra no riRa, aud is wire to he uenentfe-d, valuable m rhMUnatism.it neuralgia, it equally complaint, effictciou.w digef-tion, a remedy liver u lud bi^def upon to promote sleep and appetite. THE LATE GEY. SIBLEY. A Gallant Ex-lonleilerate wlio Deserved a Better Fate. This distinguished soldier, late of tho Egyptian army, previously of the Con¬ federate, and originally of the United States army, died lately at his residence in Fredericksburg, Va., aged with seventy. painful He had suffered for years a and wasting malady, and death came to him as a rescue and a friend. Henry H. Sibley was born at Natchi¬ toches, La., July, 1816. He was gradu¬ ated at the military academy, West Point, in 1838, and served with distinction in the Florida and Mexican wars and in the Utah and Nevada expeditions. At the breaking out of the rebellion he had been promoted to be major of the 1st Dra¬ goons. On May 13, 1861, however, he resigned and entered the Confederate army. After the collapse of the rebellion he went to Mexico and thence to Egypt, whera his conspicuous military ability at once secured him a high position in the khedive’s army. He was one of that brilliant galaxy with W. W. Loring, Thomas G. Rliett and others, who exiled themselves after the downfall of the cause in which they were engaged, and who in the prime their of their powers and the ripeness of ex perience, lent prestige to the arms of Egypt. Rhett died, Sible.y soon fell a P re y to disease and had to seek an asylum ®t home. And now, after long and wear .v years of suffering, intensified by poverty and want, the broken old man, once so gallant and so gracious, turns his face to the wall forever. General Sibley was the inventor of the tent by his name, and at the time of his resignation from the army in 1861, held a contract with the government by virtue of which the United States is "to-day very largely his debtor. He has never been able to obtain a recognition of his claim, or even secure the privilege of submitting it to judicial inquiry. lie lay a bed-ridden invalid for years, plunged in direst poverty. He died, leaving a penniless thousands and helpless family. But the treasury, representing standing to his credit times in that the many amount of profit derived by tbe govern ment from his invention, have been de med him, and we assume will be with held from his successors. There will be many of the class of 1838 t0 r ^ a11 the bri j liant and dashing „ s °utlienior, and_to v breathela sigh y° UD g over tbe P ltlfu ' clo8e a career tha ‘ b £ — , . »'»*«»*-* A The Spoils of Politics in England. I have been analyzing the list of Min¬ isterial appointments. I find that forty seven members, either of the Peerage or of the families of Peers, or of the un¬ titled landocracy, have received places, carrying with them fat salaries. To the victors belong the spoils. It is not so very should surprising that the privileged classes wish to clutch at office, in view of the booty which, under such circum¬ stances, accrues to them. Besides these appointments, a number of Peers are given an addition to their incomes by their wives receiving salaries for being lay figures in court tomfooleries. This is the apportionment of the spoils to Peers and to Peers’ sons: Lord Salisbury, £5,000 per annum; Lord Halsbury, £10,000; Lord Ash¬ bourne, £8,000;LordCranbrook, £2,000; Lord Iddesleigh, £5,000; the Hon. E. Stanhope, £5,000, Lord Randolph Churchill, £5,000; Lord George Hamil¬ ton, £5,000; Lord John Manners, £2,000; Sir R. Cross (with a peerage), £5,000; the Hon. F. Stanley, £5,600; Lord Lon donderrv, £20,000; Lord Dunraven, £2,000; the Hon. IV. Broderick, £1,200; the Hon. H. Northcote, £1,200; Lord Charles Beresford, £1,200; Lord Lathom, £2,000; Duke of Portland, £2,500; Lord Mount-Edgcuiube, Hill, £2,000; Lord Arthur £1,000; Lord Lewisham, £1,000; Lord Folkestone, £1,000; Lord Onslow, £700; Lord Limerick, £1,000; Lord Henniker, £700; Lord Ilopetoun, £700; , , Elphinstone, ,,, , . £i00; Lord . , de , Ros, ,, “ ar M aldegrave, £700: Lord Ih’jmdmnp, Eon. S. £1,000; Herbert, Lord £1,200; Harris, Lord i ^iJOO; Dol'd ~V,,~ Total, £110,000 hintorc, to Peers £1,000. and sons of Peers. Besides this, the duchess of Buecleuch receives £500 as Mistress of the Robes, and eight Peeresses £500 each as Ladies of the Bedchamber. After the Quartz. i l Gentlemen, Arizona is a great coun¬ try; lots of gold, lots of fresh air. You’d ought to see the mineial! Quartz, quartz everywhere.” A red-nosed toper edged his way to the bar eagerly. “Scuse me, mister, but is them quartz frequent in ’Zona.” Frequent ! why, man, every settler has quartz to give away; and on the river— the bars are full of it.” The tramp seized his bundle. ; | about. going after them quartz you tell No more thimble drinks for me. Quarts at every bar! If the walking’s good I’ll get thar; don’t forget it! i’> ^ Chicago man visiting Cincinnati '"'® s being shown around by a citizen who said : “Now let’s go aud see the Widow’s Home.'’ The Chicago man put his finger ,<J tbc *ido of his nose and winked, and 1 llC! } sa,( ^ “Not much Mary Ann; I saw 11 w ’dow home once, and she sued me for t> re ®ch or promise and proved it on me, it cost me sixteen thousand dollars. ^°’ s i r ' sen( i the widows home i m a i' ac k.” Mr.A. Fueger, 606 Walnut Street, St Louis, Mo., sneered for two years with lumbago and was confined to his bed for several months. ., He entirely was cured by the nse of St. Jacobs Oil, which he says is also the best euro for sprains and all other pains. correspondent In Mexico explains why the Mexican calls the American h “Grinco.” During the Mexican war a favorite song in the American camps was Burn's "Green grow the rashes O.” Tho Mexicans, hearing it so Ox ten, dubbed them “Gringo" pronouced bv them “grmg go.” Mrs. F. W. Ingham. 472 W. Madison street, Chicago, 111., recommends Red Star Cougli Cure, a few doses of which gave her entire re lief from a violent cold. Price, 25 cents. \ Boston physician thinks he has run across the longest word now in use in the English language He found it in a medical Journal y?'\v Methylbenzomctboxyethritetrahydropridinel 0 , r ,? b6,I ' s ,h ” chemical term for corains’ carboxvJate. There are 52 letters in the word. One kind of medicine will not cure all kind* of diseases. Dr. Kilmer’s Preparations are Spec 1 fie s--a remedy for each disease. Thev are . the result of | ! uuie Health a successful practice since 1859. ** (Sent b'rti) Binghamton. N. Y. i he purest, sweeteat and best Cod Liver Oil liu.ie world, manufactured from freeh. healthy li'- ers. upon the seashore. It is absolutely pnr. a d sweet, lalienta who have once taken it j it to all others. Physicians haro de cuied it superior to any of the other oils la | ! market. Made by Caswell, Hazard A Oo„ New ' ,kTn r «a-vm n .^-erw— ^ “ d , 2 m h , f ---- >* ,u neglect a rough w|ea and let it and^Jd! remain t. i i^uvo rr ‘ ta i e . C Cur«? vourlunp for a Iir Bigelow** An * j Consumption, The best cough sold medicinfis Pi.,/. Cur. for everywhere. 25 cent. Buckingham’s Dye f< r the Whiskers pro¬ duces, in one used application, Ayer’s a permanent Cure, and o >lor. have We nave Ague found it Invaluable in malarial trouble . Felt the Earthquake. . . Did you feel the earthquake, Sirs. Flaherty?” “Faith, an’ I did.” a Pherc was you?” “In the cellar. I was groping in the dark among me winter presarves.” it Presarvcs! Ye're gettin’verv ° jo high toned. Pat do loike pickled onions and squash jam, and I’d put some up for him. I was rayching among the presarves when I felt it.” What was it loike?” (i Wirra, what would it be? 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One of the oldest and most reliable subscrip¬ tion book publishing houses in I lie South is that of B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va. They issue nothing but the most attractive and of the popular Southern books, peoplc.which being adapted to the wants accounts for the excellent successof their host of agents. Both members of this lirm have canvassed in years gone by a great deal themselves, and know how to supply the wants of agents and the public. Ask your shoe and hardware dealers for shoes Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners, they keep boots and straight. WOSVIE N Needing renewed strength, or who suffer from Infirmities peculiar to their sex, should try BROVJN '5 H Vo”'* •\°* i BitTE S® B BEST TONIC THE Tliis medicine combines Iron with pure vegetable tonics, and is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. It I'n» riches and Purifies the ISloori, stimulate* the Appetite, Mrcnpthcfi* the Muscles and Nerres-m fact thoroughly Invigorate. 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