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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 - 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. 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Hundreds in actual use. Bales cotton pick. fatter Address than any gin ROANOKE can IRON AND ■4 WOOD WORKS for our Cot ton and Hay Press circulars. 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, T " n '‘ rHE *- Ad "”'“* T « l ”“ <”-,au*u., PISOS CURE FOR CONSUMPTION Cincinnati ocrT JU LY 27 4 th ft I? TH ri‘T • 1 ( i » * GRAND JUBILEE celebrating the Settlement of the Northwestern Territory. UN S URPA SSRI) DISPLAY. EXCURSION RATES FROM ALL POINTS 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... “«^ ^SIIPW, ■ I / _1 j St W. L. DOUGLAS §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*. WEBER PIANO-FORTES S ENDORSED BY THE LEADING ARTISTS, SEMI¬ NARIANS, AND THE PRESS, AS THE BEST PIANOS MADE, Prices as reasonable and terms as easy as consistent with thorough workmanship. CATALOGUES MAILED FREE. Correspondence Solicited. WAHEROOMS, Fifth Avenue, cor. 16 th St.,N.I IMARVSLO US DISCOVERY. Wholly unlike artificial systems, t ine ol mini! wii tideriu«. 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 Judah P. Benjamin, Judge Y. Gibson, Dr. College, Brown, Ac. E. H. Cook, Principal N. State Normal Taught from by PROF. correspondence. LOIS FT I’E. Prospectus 237 Fifth Ave.. POST N. FREI V. 5C » a ps •/. Sh a ❖ tt x tt ^ V 5 z PURE c j * ■< V) *» M X a £ O WHITE » ** ‘ I § « m » O 8 £ TRADE MARK. 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). _ 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 Ug •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 A. N. U.....~ Thirty-one, 83