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DIAMOND THIEVES.
Searching Kaffirs as they Leave
African Mines,
Cunning of the Natives in Hid¬
ing the Precious Stones.
“One of the most curious sights to be
seen at the African diamond mines,”
said a recently returned trader, “is the
inspection of the Kaffirs as they como up
out of the mines each day. These na¬
tives are hired for a period of six
months, during which time they are not
allowed to go outside of the enclosure
at the top of the miue, called ‘tho com¬
pound,’ containing only a circle of huts
in which they sleep and a store at which
they may purchaso tobacco, snuff,
beads, and trinkets dear to the savage
heart. They work constantly in the
presence of white inspectors who
watch them closely to prevent their
secreting any diamonds about
their person during the day, and
at night when they como up out of the
mine they are led out one by one
through a narrow passage, fenced in on
either side with barbel wire fences and
each man removes tho little bit of cloth¬
ing he wears before he enters the narrow
door which admits him to the inspec¬
tor’s room. Ilis clothing ho carri-8 in
his hands to the officer, whoproceols to
examine it carefully; then looks into
tho Kaffir’s oars and nostrils and mouth,
under his tongue, between his toes, into
tho sauff or tobacco box ho sometimes
carries, and feels all through his woolly
hair. Hi; Kaffirs frequently cut a deep
gash in tho fleshy part of the hip,
i .to which they insert a diamond and
then bind it up in sucb a way as to en¬
tirely conceal tho stone, and another
common trick is to cut and irritate a
place on their legs until it becomes
a deep wound, in which
they may secrete a diamond with
small chance of detection. Occasionally
a Kaffir will swallow a diamond, and, if
undiscovered will hasten home and take
an emetic to recover tho stone. If, how¬
ever, the inspector suspects him he is
compelled to take tho emetic in his
presence, which ficquently results in
the discovery of tho concealed stone.
At the end of six months tho gang of
natives are discharged and return to
their tribe, and another set of work¬
men take their place. As soon as they
receivo tho small amount of money
paid them for their labor they proceed
to invest it in some of the most singu¬
lar purchases. A favorite possession is
u small American trunk with a lock and
key, which they fill with various trin¬
kets and ornaments, and if they can
find and purchaso an English officer’s
scarlet coat they put it on over their
bare skin aud walk off with tin trunk
under their arm as proud as peacocks.
i% The natives know well the value of
the precious stones they handle, and in
spite of all precautions, it is believed
that very many nro stolen every year.
It is impossible to wash the soil so
thoroughly that some small stones will
not remain. A woman living near a
mine kept a quantity of fowles which,
when killed, very often had, among tho
pebbles in their crops, the small, rough
diamonds which they had picked up at¬
tracted by their glitter. An English
lady had employed this woman as a
nurse, and, learning of tho little box of
stones she had collected from her fowls,
tho lady sold them for her servant in
London, receiving for them a little
more than $100.'' —[Now York Sun.
Two Girls Fight With n Buck.
An Indian Territory special to tho
Globe Democrat says: I venture to give
an account of the oxperienco which two
young ladies had with a deer recently
near Eulaula. The two young ladies,
daughters of respectable families, living
at the above named town, went out in a
carriage one evening recently for a
drive. They drove along the wide pub¬
lic road for several miles without mo
lestation. Suddenly, while passing a
dense undergrowth of grape-vines and
cypress near the road, a deer of gigan¬
tic siz**, with a large head of horns,con¬
fronted the horse which they were driv¬
ing and commenced to butt tho animal
with its horns.
The girls wero frightened and did
everything in their power to get the
horse to go on, but to no avail. Pres¬
ently one of the girls got out of the
buggy with the hopes of frightening
the deer and running it into the woods.
On alighting from the vehicle she gavo
her handkerchief a flirt, aiming to scare
the unwelcome visitor, but tho deer, in¬
stead of running, made for the young
lady with such fury that she was power¬
less to get away. The deer kept but¬
ting her until tho young girl was badly
gored. By this time the young lady re¬
maining in the buggy had come to her
assistance, and now commenced tho
fight for life or death, One of the girls
seized the buck by the horns while tho
other took a strap from tho harness,
and placing it around the deer’s neck,
tied the other end to a tree.
After this avas tec am plishod, tho
young ladies got into their buggy and
drove home, where some of tha in
hai itants were informed of the affair.
A company of young men armed them¬
selves and repaired to the scene of
the battle. O arriving at the place, to
their surprise they found the buck tied
to a tree with a leather strip which had
keen taken from the harness on the
horse which the young ladies were
driving. The buck wes shot down,
skinned and taken to town. The horns
wero presented to tho young ladies,
the points numbering thirteen.
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the
final awakening.
JTOH FARM AND GARDEN.
Hreedintt-Olt Morn*.
Some people have an idea that it
takes a long time to breed off horns.
The fact is if you should keep a
thoroughbred polled bull with a herd
of forty horned cows, the chances are
you would have more than thirty horn
less calves, with heads about as smooth
as the thorough-breeds, If a calf is
dropped with horns, its being sired
by a polled bull will not diminish the
tho size of the horns. I can tell as
soon as a calf is dropped whether it
will have horns or not, and I do not
raise any with horns. I do not beli.va
in dehorning when it is so easy to breed
them off. In my herd of fifty I have
thirty-seven hornless ones. I am breed¬
ing them for the milk business, and
have raised tho most of them myself.
I like them very much, and will have
ten or twelve heifers between two and
three years of ago come in within a
few months.—[New England Farmer.
Curing Hay.
Grass cut after the dew is off and
drawn in during the beat of tho day, is
the best, when practicable. The
Eureka mower leaves the grass in a
most admirablo condition to dry evenly,
as its semi-erect condition allows the
sun to penetrate the mass. To obviate
the over-drying of the surface while the
under side remains moht, the hay ted¬
der has replaced the tedious hand pro¬
cess. When the surface of the grass
has dried partially, tho tedder will
shake it up loose and partly invert it,
leaving it in a condition to be quickly
and readily dried. When hay yields
over one ton to tho acre, the tedder is
needed in proportion as it exceeds that
amount. The time required to properly
dry hay will depend upon whether it is
stirred, and upon its degree of maturity.
[Prairie Farmer.
Flower* tli.il Will Grow in the Shade.
But few plants will develop their
flowers in the shade and none will do it
so well as if it were lighted up by 811 1
shine a part of the day. In reply to
numerous queries as to which flowers
will thrive in the shade tho editor of the
Horticultural Times replies as follows:
“Fuchsias, pansies, forget-me-nots,
violets, lobelias, lilies of the valley, hol¬
lyhocks, phloxes and other herbaceous
plants whose native habitat is a shady
wood will do best, but even these lan¬
guish if denied all direct sunlight. Tho
best effect in such situations ii pro
duced by ornamental leaved plants, the
beauty of which is not dependent upon
their flowers, Amount those may be
ranked the gold and silver variegated¬
leaved geraniums, achyranthos, alter
nantheras, begonias, caladiums, centau
reas, coleu es, etc., which, if planted so
as to bring tho various shades in con¬
trast, produce a pleasing effect, which
continues during the entire summer
mouths, and is not sjjrpissel by any dis¬
play of flowers. The cultivators of flowers
in rooms should understand tho neces¬
sity of sunlight to plants that are to
flower, and endeavor to get, theso as
clo=e as possible to a window having an
eastern or southern aspect. The higher
the temperature tho more plants suffer
from want of light. Many plants might
remain semi-dormant in a temperature
of forty degrees—in a cellar, for exam¬
ple—away from direct light, for months,
without material injury; whilo if the
cellar contained a luraaco keeping a
temperature of seventy degrees they
would all die. Such would particularly
be the case with plants of a half-hardy
nature, such as monthly rose3, carna¬
tions, fuchsias, geraniums, &c.
Eitractrt! llonry.
When a machine was invented for
throwing tho puro liquid honey from
the cells where it had been placed and
sealed up by bees apiarians supposed that
their business would become very profit¬
able. The comb from which the honey
was taken coutd bo returned to the hive,
filled and emptied several times during
tho season of flowers. As a result of
this arrangement bees would bo required
to devote but a small proportion of their
time and talent to securing wax and
constructing cells in which to store
honey. Having mado comb enough to
fill a hive they could settle down to the
business of securing honey and not have
their occupation interfered with, Bee
keepers stated wh*at was truo, that ex
tractod honey was worth much more to
the consumer than honey in comb. No
ono wanted to eat beeswax, aad there
was no propriety ia placing it oa the
table. It was costly to buy and was
generally thrown away by most families.
The transportation of comb honey was
expensive and much of it was lost Ex
traded honey could be put in wood,
earthen, metal, or glass pac cages aud
transported without danger of loss and
at a very small cost.
For a time extracted honey sold well
and bee-keepers who used the machine
for taking it from the comb prospered.
The effect of this prosperity was to
induce many to engage in tho produc¬
tion of honey. Soon there wero reports
that much of the so-called extracted
honey was adulterated with liquid glu¬
cose, glycerine and flavoring extracts.
Some newspaper writers declared that
many specimens wero entirefy artificial.
Lies never diminish in sizo by “going
tne rounds of the papers,” but they are
more likely to be believed, Bepcated
often enough a lie will be likely to take
and keep its place among the things that
everyone believes, It is certain that
most persons became predjudire 1
against extractei honey very soon after
it was placed on the market, aad preju
dices can cot be destroyed by facts or
reasoning. Though extracted honey
should be worth more pound for poued
than honey sold with the comb end
uuch more than honey told with the
comb and wood and glass box, it soon
sold for much less, and this circum
stance helped some people to bolieva
that it was not genuine.
It is likely that sentiment has much
to do in making people prefer honoy in
the shape it is placed in the hive by
the ‘‘little busy bee. »> The bible writers i
likened everything excellent ‘‘to honey
in tho honey comb, It All the sweet
poets from Virgil to Whittier have sung
its praises, The poisons who sco a r.ico
piece of comb honey on the table begin
to think of the passages in tho Libia
about it and to associate it with the
most iudustrioua of insects and tho love¬
liest of the flowers. There is a charm
about it that is not associated with any
other article of food. For some reason
visions of bloisoming orchards, clover
fields, and flower gardens do not riso
before one who sees a dish of extracted
honey on the table. — [Chicago Times.
Farm anil Garden Xule«.
Dehorning still excites interest anil
discussion.
Tho average farmer makes too lavish
use of arsenical poisons of killing in¬
sects.
Peas and brush beans may be sown
continuously from the early Spring sow¬
ing every three weeks until miisum
mcr.
A mixture of resin and lard is recom¬
mended for applying on the trunks of
trees to repel tho borer.
Appearance has much to do with the
sale of manure. It is a popular fallacy
that muck, being black, mutt thoroforo
be very rich.
All the leguminous plants that havo
been tried make good ensilage, but
they are so highly nitrogenous, as to
mike too rich a iooi to use alone in any
quantity.
To prevent cramps in young chickens
keep them on a dry, clean floor in a
roomy coop, and spread clean sand or
sawdust on the floor when necessary.
Give the chickens a drop of tmeturo
of camphor in the foo 1 for every five;
bread crumbs will bo a convenient food
for the purpose.
Easy and profuse perspiration is an
indication of weak digestion an l mal¬
nutrition. Give tho horse a quart of
raw linseed cil with one ounce of tur¬
pentine and feed bran mashes with
dram doses of sulphate of iron daily.
Give no new oats and be careful not to
uie musty hay.
The conceit is often knocked out of
tho dairyman who considers himself a
first-ruto judge of a cow, when ho be¬
gins to weigh her milk and churn it into
butter. It is very rare that the true in¬
wardness of a cow can be ascertained,
and her real dairy value known, until
theso tests aro applied. Weigh the
milk, and keep tho record. Appear¬
ances are deceptive.
A bright and effective bit of back¬
yard flower gardening may be produced
by fi.ling a barrel with earth and
manure to within a few inches of tho
top, and planting petunias. Oily a lit
tlo care in supplying sufficient water is
necessary, and when the plants aro
grown they will not only fill tho barrel
but fall over its sides, and as the fl >wers
bloom in profusion it makes a very
pretty show through tho entire summer.
Tho kind of sheep to keep depends on
the soil an! pasturage. Tho South
down u tho best breed to cross with
native ewes that are m ido to forage a
great portion of tho time. Merinos do
better in largo flicks than do tho heavy
mutton sheep. Heavy breeds can not
range as easily as tho small sheep, and
therefore require more attention. U.-ing
tho improved breeds for crossing means
that a larger allowance of food must be
given if success is expected.
The best tonic and preventive of
poultry diseases is as follows: To ono
gallon of puro water add from fifteen
to twenty drops of tincture of iron
and two or three drops of aconite. Stir
and mix well before putting into ths
drinking-vessels. if used ail tho
year round this will pro luce a healthy
flack of birds. Tho jron strengthens
the blood, whilo tho aconite prevents
and allays feverishness. Caro mu it be
taken not to get too much acouito iuto
tbit mixture.
Blinders should certainly he u»cd
when a horse has weak eyes and is
working ia tho bright hot SU 1. It
would ba well to put a screen of dark
green cloth across the face from ono
blinder to the othor, to keep tho cyos
in tho shade. For weak, i; flamed cya
give every day one ounca of hypotul
phite of soda, and every eveni ig bathe
the eyes with the solution of fou r grains
of sulphate of zinc in one table-spoon¬
ful of rain water.
The Uses of Castor Oil.
The average boy has an idea that cas- !
tor oil was got up for tl e torture of all
kids who have care’u! mothers to pro- j
tect them from tho fell destroyer, IIo
is mi-taken, liko a majority of grown
people who only regard castor oil as a
medicine. Only a very small propor
tion of it is consumed in that manner.
Castor oil forms one of the best lubri¬
cators, and is used for greasing wagons
and other purposes where the price does
cot prohibit it. Then it is burned as
an illuminator, not only by the Hebrews
for their Sabbath lamp, but els.whore.
In India, where I irge quantities of tho i
seed are raised, the oil u addc 1 to the !
native condiments to flavor the m. It is
also made into an illuminating gas ia
India. In this country or oil is used |
to dress morocco leather. Ca li.'ornia,
Knnsa*. Iowa and Ibinois aro tho prin- |
ci al ctions of this country where tho ;
seed is raised, and tho castor oil presses
at Be leville, Ind., are among tho most j
extenaire ia the world."— [Globe-Demo
crat. |
(JUAI.NT AND CURIOUS.
A New York fisherman cast n fly
118 5-12 feet at a recent castiug contest. .
Clans are said to have arisen in Scot- ,
land during the reign of King Malcolm
IL, about 1008.
Galileo constructed a telescope in
1609, and discovered Jupiter’s satellites
January 8, 1010.
A mammoth strawberry seven inches
in circumference was grown this season
at Porterville, Cal.
Thero died the other day at Chiii,
Ind., a pony of the mustang variety that
was foaled in 1837.
Sieving beach sand for valuables lost
is an occupation followed at most of our
Waterloo places, chiefly by youngsters,
A recently published “Dictionary of
Furniture aad D corations’’ shows that
the grandes dames of tho seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries received while
in bed.
Mr. William Wiathrop Allen of Mod
field Mass, is now the oldest living
alumnus of Harvard. He was b >rn
January 20 1794, and was a member of j
tho class of 1817.
A petrified tree, the size of a tele¬
graph pole, with well-marked bark and
roots, was found the other day in an
Ohio sandstouo quarry at least sixty
feet below tho present earth-level.
Chineso pheasants are so thick in tho
Waldo Hills, Col., that they havo to bo
shooed out of the furrows by the plow¬
men, so greedy arc they in gobbling up
the angleworms. They are becoming a
nuisance.
An old sorrel liorse was carried a long
distance in California recently in a par¬
lor car. The animal, now 28 years of
age, is the property of cx-Senator James
G. Fair, who grants tho ancient steed
every luxury.
A colored woman, of Iticlimond, Va.,
brought her baby to be baptised tho
other day, and when asked what namo
she preferred for it, chose tho word
“Amen,” as she liked its sound, and it
wa3 in the bible.
Fort Keogh, M. T., can claim tho
honor of showing the widest range of
temperature of any placo on earth. Last
summer the thermometer ranged from
120 to 130 degrees above, while recently
it marked 65 degrees below zero, a
total range of 195 degrees.
Alfred M. Horton of Middletown, N.
Y., although totally blind, is expert in
the uso of carpenter’s tools, and does
repairs about his house and stables. Ho
is fond of horses and buys and sells
them with good judgment, judging
them entirely by his sense of touch.
At Acosta a Roman metal pen has
been found. It is a bronze pen, slit in
exactly the same fashion as the present
steel pen. The Dutch invented a metal
pen in 1717, but it was not until many
years later that the hand-screw press,
which made the first steel pen, came
into use.
In Paducah, Ivy., Mr. JosephHebute,
a rich German, upon going into a drug
store for something to heal a hurt got
in the Franco-Prussian campaign, found
in tho man who supplied it not only a
fellow German, hut tho same surgeon
who had nttended him when first hurt
in the fatherland.
In a Japanese play some characteristic
figures of speech are: “Ilis attempts at
love-making are as awkward as a puppy
on a slant roof,” sail by one rival to
another; and, “tho sparrow cannot
comprehend the mind of tho eagle, 19
when one character asks another to ex¬
plain a remark he has made.
Two little pigs were walking along
the Texas Pacific railroad track, when a
train came along and, as they fled in
opposite directions, tho train decapi¬
tated them both at the same time, leav¬
ing their heads exactly opposite each
other, one pointing due east and the
other due west.
The skeleton of an Indian who was
killed in what is known as tho “Kil
burn fight” of 1753 was recently
ploughed up in a field near Walpole, N.
H. , where the fight took place. It was
in this famous encounter that two mon,
two women aad two boys dofondod
themselves for six hour3 against 406
bloodthirsty savages.
Hearing the Grass Grow.
The Listener has often encountered
the expression, “One may hear the
grass grow now,” but ho never actually
did hear tho grass grow until the other
night. To forestall sleeplessness he has
a habit of starting out in the evening
for a brisk walk stick in hand and dog
at his heels. Passing the other evening
along a grassy wayside, which was lined,
across the wall, with a row of button
wood , trees, . , ho heard, i , two three
’ ' or
time*, peculiar crackling that I
a 1 n sound, *
was very much liko the falling of drops
of rain upon dry leaves. But as the sky
was perfectly clear, the sound could not
be rain; and as there was not a breath
of air stirring it could not bo wind. Nor
could it be the jumping of insects, for
it was quite too early in the season for
them. The qujer crackling continued.
Presently the Listener stopped and lis¬
tened more intently, and he satisfied
himself, by a sufhcient examination, and
hy a comparison with other places in
the neighborhood, that tho ciackiing
was ma de by the pushing up of the
growing grass upoi a thin, continuous
covering of dry buttonwood leaves that
overspread it. These leaves constituted
almost a carpet over a thick mass of
R rass ! and the grass, ia lifting this cjv
crln ?i cracked it here and th;re. It was
the leaves and not the grass, to be sure,
that tho Listener heard, but it was tho
growing of the grass that made them
cra ckle, so that ha may truly say here
af, cr, that he heard the grass grow.—
(Boston Transcript.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A constant and disagreeable sweat
taste has been reported in one case as
a result of the substitution of saccharin
for sugar.
Among curious vegetable products West j
are a kind of butter from a tree of
Africa and milk from a tree of Vene
zuela. Both are nutritious food.
Two French physicists, Violle and
Vautier, havo established beyond doubt
that tho velocity of sound diminishes
with its intensity, but is unaffected by
it3 pitch,
Dr. G. M. Smith points out that great
eitle* losing one of nature’s best
S^s in the wasted sunbeams which fall
upon unused roofs. Ho would convert
the roofs into pleasure and health parks,
where pure air and sunshine might be
enjoyed.
There are only four localities where
mercury or quicksilver is found in
abundance. These are California, Aus
tria > Almaden, in Spain, and Peru. Cin
nabar 6ott and reddish rock 0 :
>
wdich mercury forms a part, when
ground very fine, serves as a beautiful
red paint.
In drilling glass stick a piece of stiff
clay or putty on the part where ycu
wish to make the hole. Make a hole in
tho putty the size you want the hole,
reaching to tho glass, of course. Into
thii hole pour little molten lead,
when, unless it is very thick glass, the
piece will immediately drop out.
Tho red hematite ore of the Vermill¬
ion range, Minnesota, is not only valued
for its great purity but for the high
“lay” of tho vein, which makes it per¬
fectly easy to work—as easy as to break
rock from the sides of a bluff. The vein
near Tower has already been traced for
sixty continuous milo3, and it.is said to
be, on the whole, the most valuablo de¬
posit of iron ore yet uncovered in this
country.
In the month of April last two Ger¬
man travelers, Lenk and Topf, under¬
took the ascent of the volcano of Iztac
cihuatl, tho neighbor of Popocatepetl,
in Mexico, whose summit reachei an
elevation of about 17,000 feet. They
failed to reach tha very top, but the
expedition fully rewarded their efforts,
as they report the existence of a glacier.
It has not been supposed hitherto that
there were any glaciers in this part ol
the American continent.
“Railway-brain,” b a term applied
by Dr. Thomsen to ancurosit or gene¬
ral derangement of the nerve produced
by a shock received Ly the head oa a
railway-car. In tho particular caso de¬
scribed, no wound was received and
con ciousness was preserved at tho time
of the injury. Afterward the patient
became melancholic, and complained of
insomnia, headache, spinal pain, weari¬
ness and failure of appetite. A hygien¬
ic and palliative treatment was given.
Dr. William Noyes, contributes to
the Journal of Social Science a con¬
venient summary oi the modern view o)
the criminal type. Taking Lombrosc
as his guide, he shows in how very
many respects tho criminal presents ab¬
normal differences, both physical and
psychic, from his fellow-men. These
differences are, to a large extent, indi¬
cative of a reversal to a more primitive,
Sivagctypp, It is hopeful to add that
many of , the ., peculiarities .. can be , do- , ,
tected in children, and that tho evi
results which they forebode can be, tc
a largo extent, prevented by a properly
directed education.
-rfru;i VY IlllC it •, appears from , tho ,, records , of .
English health officers that dis¬ ;
some
eases have special seasons ia which thej
are most likely to prevail, it is not
shown that occasional variations in tern
perature have much influence in the
matter. Scarlet fever is at its mini- \
mum from J to May, at . i
mu iry ltl
maximum ia October and November.
Diphtheria i3 more evenly distributed
through the year, and is most danger¬
ous a little later than scarlet fever.
Measles aad whooping-cough seemed to
be somewhat aggravated by cold
weather, but are most fatal in May and
Junt*. Hot weather is adverse to small¬
pox, and favorable to disorders of ths
bowels, particularly ia children.
A Mysterious Bottomless Fit.
Upwards of 180 tons of stono havo
icon dumped into a six by seven feet
aole in a road at IVaterbury, Conn.,
without having any perceptible effect
towards filling it. Oa the contrary the
*tonc seems to have deepened the mys¬
terious hole, and now the t • corduroy”
process is to be tried. As an initial
move to the tatter they are thrusting
dead trees into tho opening, which in i
l urn ara to be covered by a layer ol
j j
dirt Taxi then trees added followed !
more iuuuweu ■
>
. by dirt, by
again ’ J which time u it ia pt. |
pectei , tho surface will have b°cn I
reached and a good foundation secured.
--[New York Graphic. 1
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Firing Into Vacancy.
Enraged husbrqd—Maria, I can cn
dure this existence no longer, I am
going to blow my brains out.
Wife (calmly) — Don't attempt it,
John, you have never had any success
in firing at small targets.— [Chicago
Tribune.
The Development of Culture.
In the book store of the future.
Customer—“Have you any book on !
culture ?”
Ionian’s Clerk—“Yes, Own Manual sir; we have the ‘Bjs- j
of Self-Defense*
and ‘Baseball as Played in New York ’ ’’
Customer—“But ‘haven’t you any
works on intellectual development,
mental phical discipline, self help in philoso¬
uature;” research, or something of that
Clerk (doubtfully)—“I don’t know,
sir, but I will see. Boy, bring me that
obi box of antiques from ihe lumber
room .”—Chicago Tribune.
Yes, lie loves you now, ’tis true,
Lass with eyes of violet blue,
Lips as sweet as bride! honey-dew,
Bonny little
Will he love you as to-day,
When your bloom has tied away.
When v ur golden locks are gray,
Will his love abide? all
V*s if it is the true kind it will survive
♦heinevitable wastes and changes of hfe. But,
ukftvprv woman’s desire and «uty toletain,
^foveTlS 1 youth.“ nHuI
cahk^P.^^^^^JfsutfeHng^Hjm 1 “troubles! female
these
1 druKgiat*.
sold by
Human bones are shipped from Africa to
Australia to be used as fertilizers.
Conventional “ Motion ” Resolution*.
Whercatt. The M non Route (L. N. A. A
Ry t’n.) es res to make i' known to the world
at large that it forms the double connecting
[ink of I’ullmm tourist travel between the
winter cities o‘ 1* lorida a d the summer le
sortsof the Northwest; and
iniereos. Its “rapid transit" system Buifet Sleeper is un
surpa sed, its ©leg »nt Piill’uan
and Chair car service between Chicago and
Louisville, Indianapolis* and Cincinnati un
equal ed; and lowas the
W/nna*, Its rates are as lowest;
then be it the event of starting
Remlved, That in O. on Mc¬ a
trip it is pood polic*/ to con ult wit i l‘«.
Cormick, tien’l Pass. Agent Monon Route, 185
Dearborn St.. send Chicago, for Tourist for full Guide, particulars. enclose (In 4c.
any ea ent a
pi stage.) ^_______
The Knights of Labor organization is spread¬
ing rapidly in England.
An Offensive Breath
T* moit distressing, not only to the person af¬
flicted if he have any pride, but to those with
whom he comes akof.but in contact. it has parted It is a not delicate only
matter to sp Bad breath and eat ant)
friends but lovers. Sage’s atarrh Remedy
are inseparable ” Dr. c testify.
cures tlifc yf oust ca.ses.as thousands van
Oatmeal and water is a refreshing and
strengthening drink for men working in heat.
The remedy for baldness recently discovered
hv H \ Fechter, of New Haven,Conn., seems
to be almost infallible. It is performing watching some
wonderl u) cures, and physicians A are circular
i i s effect s with much interest. he gi ob¬ v¬
ing the history of its discovery can
tained Dee. by writing to the discoverer.
THE LIVER.
Works with the Stomach and the Stomach
with the Liver. You must have good bile
to have perfect digestion, and free liver ac¬
tion to have pure blood. Therefore beware
of a congested Liver, which is nothing more
than a thickened and clogged Liver. The
great reducer of congestion is Schenck's
Mandrake Pills.
BILIOUSNESS.
An early and ugly form ofliver trouble. It
is blood poison. The Liver is not taking the
bile ingredients from the blood. Treat it
with Schenck's Mandrake Pills and make it
do so.
BREAKING DOWN
If you have neglected the laws of health too
long and feel that your lungs are involved
in any way, send for Dr. Schenck's new book
on the Lungs, Liver and Stomach. It is sent
free, and will be of infinite service to you.
Dr.Scheiict’s PULMONIC SYRUP
Heines: SEAWEED TONIC,
MANDRAKE PILLS
are sold by all Druggists. Full printed di¬
rections with each package. Address all
communications to Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son,
Philadelphia, Pa.
ROANOKE
Cotton and Ha;
The best and cneapest made.
Hundreds in actual use.
Bales cotton pick. fatter Address than any
gin ROANOKE can IRON AND
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Chattanooga, Tenn. Box2ti0
BICYCLES.
‘ 7m And guarantee LOWEST PRICES.
V A. W. GUMP At CO., IlayIon, O.
Largest retail stock in America*
52 in OTTO, factory price |60.00, our price “ $40.00
50 in. “ “ “ 55.00, “ 35.00
48 iu. 50 00, “ 33.00
46 in. 45.00, “ 30 00
44 in. 40.00. “
Order quick. A Iso 250 second-hand Wheels. Repair
iug & Nickeling. Bicycle® & Guns taken In trad*
jgj “OSGOOD”
S ra t 6. S. SUnduri ScalM.
WJHWH g ent on tr j a i Freight
iWKAHTOH paid. Fully Warranted.
3 TON $35.
Other illustrated size- proportion- Catalogue
atelylow. Agents well paid.
free. Mention this Paper.
QggQQg & THOMPSON, E’DghamtCn, N. Y.
zjy’°^”Un ^ Revolvers,
Jo J EwRiflet, raSkfeEtc.
} Ore Add-re M
ilt-i tfamp At West era
for J’rict Lift, (junWorks, Pi
Seines, Tent«, Breech loading double Shotgun At $9.00;
|ing!ebarrelBreech-loailersat$4to $1.50 $15; Double barrel Muzzle $12; Hreech-loading
Kifles to loaders at $5.50
to $ JU ; Repeating Flob Rifles, Rifles, lft-sliooter, $2. $s. $14 to $30 : Revolvers,
$1 to $•»!; Revolvers *rt by mail '>0 to Guns sent C. O. D. to
examine. WORK'S. to any P. O. Address JOH.V
ITOVriflIUUT nr.STKKV m \ ntt.W*, IVnna.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
TULAHE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.
It* [Formerly, advantages 1847,-1884, for piactical the instruction, University of Louisiana.]
and especially
iu the diseases of the South-west, ate unequalled, as t he
law secures it superabundant materials from the great
annually. Charity Hospital Students with have its 7lK) beds, hospital-fees and 20,000 patients
special instruction daily no to pay and
is given m tin* lied.Hide ol
tin* wick, as in no other institution. For catalogues
or information, address
Prof. H. E. CIIAILL. HI. !>., Bran.
ZST P. O. Drawer 261, New Orleans. I .a.
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE
IMZ-A-COlsr, O-Ae.
Begins olst Annual Session October 3d, 18K8. The
oldest and the leading college for girls in the
South. All modern improvements looking to
health, safety, comfort and advancement of pu¬
pils in Literature, Science and Art. Pure water,
mild climate, generous table, thorough teaching.
Apply early for REV, catalogue W. C. BASS, to
D. D., President.
Monroe Female College,
FORSYTH, CA.
This Institution, “ one of the best for the higher
education of young ladies to be found iu the
South,” will resume exercises September 17,
JS88. For Catalogue and particulars appiv to
R. T. ASHE R V. President,
#Tl. R. BRANHAM. Secr-sary.
Send for a Catalogue f the
COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS BALTIMORE, AND SURGEONS,
which offers the Student >10.
advantage*. of Medicine superior
Dn. THOMAS OI’IE (Dean . mo N. Howard St
BLOOD rwivwmimi POISONING u ( ', la ance and ™. all Tumor*, Diseases Scrof- of the
Un i 1 ^ y Organa positively cured or no charge. o U r
medicine is a preventive of Malaria and Y«l low Fever
Ful i Bi *® kotti* sent free on receipt of 2 :.
cents to prepay postage. A<1dresR THE IIAliT
MuRK'in'* 1 < o.. Bo x soi. liioiivillf*. Ci.
GOLD,
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UN S URPA SSRI) DISPLAY.
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CAUTlOji Beware of Fraud, hr my name "* 1 \
stamped before leaving on the the bottom factor, of nil price,
atrainst otters W. Imh i prices l.eualun and (nfiiiof shSatTrbJ f ,»S ‘•ir2
says tie has them v without mv name ^
on the bottom, put him down a ™tiauf a ,,i... “«^
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§3 SHOE • GENTLEjiek F01i
Ti e only iln* calf $3 Se i inics* Sh e In the w u
mad** without tack* or noils. A. sivikh Uni ‘
dun bit* at those co-lug $5 or $i;, an I a;
lacks ur nails to w< ar tne sticking or h t rt t
makes them as comfortable and wel fUu M " *•«.
him I sowed shoe, liuy the best. None t*.
less warranted.” stamped on bouoni “W. I. Douglas g/sh *
W. I.. DOUGLASS! SHOE, theor ltH.,. L™ - i
onlv linn I sewed welt $1 slic e, which equa U8
made shoos costing from gti to $8. “™
AV. L. DOUGLAS Si.50 SHOE Is atti.
celled for heavy wear.
AV. L. DOUGLAS Si SHOE Is worn h. „
Bo > *, aud is the host school shoe in the world,
AH the above goods are ma le in Congress v.'o'n
ami Love, aud it not soli by yo ur dealer “
W. L. DOUGLAS. It oektnii, Mae*.
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ENDORSED BY THE LEADING ARTISTS, SEMI¬
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BEST PIANOS MADE,
Prices as reasonable and terms as easy as consistent
with thorough workmanship.
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IMARVSLO US
DISCOVERY.
Wholly unlike artificial systems,
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Any bowk l«*ttrned in one reading.
Classes of 1087 at Baltimore, 1113 Washington, 1005 at Detroit,
1500 at Philadelphia, Columbia at Law 121(1
at Boston, large classes of students »t
Yale, Wellesley, Oberlin, University Ac., Ac. of Penn., E’ldorsedb; Mich¬
igan University, Proctor, Chautauqua, the Scientist, Hon«.W. W.Astor,
Richard
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H. Cook, Principal N. State Normal
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JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS
AVAR R \NTE1) PURE
White Lead, Red Lead, Litharge, Orange
Mineral, Painters’ Colors and Linseed Oil*
CORRESPDN PENCE >01,11 ITEi).
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X OHO 99 WELL
H DRILL
All cutting* of the drill in clay, sand, gravel, reck. Ac,
are tool*. discharged Noted for nt success surf,ire where without others fail rriuovnj* prill
drop* 70 to fK) tiiiWN tt minute. Profits larf*
Catalogue Free. IAMI3IIS tV NYMAN*
TIFFIN, OHIO
®NREP eating
Uses •RIFLE
38 <fc 44 cal.
Winchester cartridge. x*. Jn«t
Works easier, is simpler, _ \JySig* __
stronger, l ighter, than any other.
dok't buy till you see it. ^
IIA filiA lilt
BAllERY, HUNTING AND TARGET RIFLES.
fiend for lllustratod Catalogue.
MARLIN FIRE ARMS CO., Buz sol), NEW HAVEN, CT.
, fer Shot Guns, (£E, ,r >Q
& RiFLtlS
and Pistols.,;! ■ B G i
Send > Cheapest ___
for free % mj* u ana best if jfT,
Illustrated i
11 Catalogue. i - 3
Ideal M'fgGo.^
Box 1044 V, New Haven, Conn.
[3C FLIES! RPM l IlH'.ll I III* III lU'V 1 ' ii h
*5 B Fly
1 <lnw*
gists or KToccrrf, or mailed, postaire paid, on ::
of 5 eon in, T. If. DA MEET , MnniiW*
tnrer, 57 Beeknmu St ecti New » OT -'_—
SI OO tO 5300 M
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•Spiro moments may e proJitaoy cUtes. enim 2, *• jrjH.V
A few vacaufles i.i towns »tnd »•
SON A CO.. 1.U3 Main st.. Itiehm mL Va.
Blair'sPills. Great English Goal aid
Rheumatic Remedy.
Ovnl it*.*, :i 1: t
HERBBAND improvemeut. HER FIFTH UK WHEEL. AND to.. jffiSSj IT.ni 0 Dk“
TCY ■ tfi Al# AC I (L A AAID'* If Ll tural 000 and 000acrest prazinp land ’ M i? 8 . r i»if
Address.<JOnI.EY PORTKK. D*H»«»T gS.
G Olil) is worth ■""'<*0 per lb. Pettit’* KySilrti!
worth $Lo»u. but ia sold at Bo. a b-ii br
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