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The “ Itnlryinple I’m in* ' In Itnknta and
How They are Worked.
A com spoiubiit of the Detroit Post
writes from Dakota ;w follows:
The !r<-n rai statistii .of what are com
monly stvled in tliis country “Dal
rymple’s farms,” as driven by Mr. Dai
rymple, are aa follows: The area of
farm lands under lib management, scat
tered in large tracts through tliis part of
the valley of the Rial river of the North,
i 75,000 acres. Some of them are his in
dividual property, but in the most of
them he has a half interest, operating
them “on shares” with the owners of
the soil, who are chiefly Eastern capital
ists. This enormous area of prairie lands
Mr. Dalrymple is d-veloping in syste
niatie fashion and under a carefully or
ganized business system. This year he •
has 20,000 acres “in crop,” and is
“breaking up” with the plow 5,000
more acres of now uncultivated land for
next year’s sowing. In seeding he uses
from one and a naif to one and three
quarters bushels per acre. The method
of cultivation in the.-i new farms on this
large scale may b< briefly summarized
thus: Fad plowing, tic- mellowing of
the plowed surface during the winter,
weeding as soon as the frost leaves a few
inches of the top of the earth, harvest in
latter July and early August, threshing
:ls soon as the reaped grain has sufficiently
dried in the shock, prompt shipping to
the eastern and seaboard markets. In
the various stages of managing the crop
tie best class of agricultural implements j
are used, and all supplies are procured in
large quantities at c< ntral agencies, and
thus at the lowest po-.-ible prices. Mr.
Dalrymple gives thes- figures as to the.
work he gets out of his stock and ma
chinery :
lb- has one span of horses or mules to
<ai h eighty acres of < ultivatejJ land, and
one gang plow to every one hundred
acres. lie is this season using 115
reapers, all of them self-binders, and
twenty steam threshing machines. The
first subdivision of great tracts of land
under lii.s control for administrative
purposes is into sections of 5,000 acres,
aver each of which a superintendent has
control. Each tract of 2,000 acres is
equipped with complctescts ofbuiidingS,
machinery and stock, and is also under a
distinct superintendent. The buildings
include a home for the superintendent, a
large hoarding house for the men, barns,
granaries, blacksmith shops and com
modious machinery halls. All of these
structures are well built, neat in ap
pearance and thoroughly equipped. For j
the stock each subdivision raises enough
barley and oats, but wheat is the only ;
, crop marketed.
All the principal operations of wheat
raising plowing, seeding, reaping,
t hreshing, etc.—are earned on by gangs
ot men, working under constant super
intendence and in accordance with a
careful plan. Ordinarily each gang
works successively on tracts of a mile
square, a procession of plows, of seeders,
ot reapers, etc., as the season may he,
traversing fronsday to day a constantly
diminishing area, always accompanied
by superiiflendenls ;u,d machinery re
pairers; by tliis means work is pushed
on systematically, under constant super
vision and with tin' fewest possible de
lavs. The wages paid to regular “farm
hands is S2O per month and board, ex
eeptduring harvest, and there are about
too names on Mr. Dalrymple’s regular
pay-rolls. During the five weeks of
harvest the work of from 500 to 000 ad
ditional men is required, and the uni
form rate for all of harvest wages is $2
per (lay and hoard. Thus far no diffi
eulty has been found in procuring the
necessary help required for harvest
. niong the new settlers on small tracts
of land who have riot as yet got their
own lands into productive shape, and
are glad of the opportunity to earn
inoney at these rates. Working hours
in the busy season commence at six
o’clock and cover daylight.
Mr. Dalrymple’s ’books show these
averages, l’he cost ot the first wheat
• Top on new land, including allowances
lor interest on machinery end like items,
is sll per acre; for the second and later
crops this cost diminishes to $* per acre.
Of course this low rate is due to a con
siderable extent to the saving effected by
*h'' large scale on which Mr. Dalrymple
is enabled to purchase food, supplies and
machinery, hut land agent Power states
t hat actual experiment has shown that
fai ms of a few hundred acres can now
be cultivated in this country for wheat
at an average annual cost of not over
sh> per aero, after the land has been
In oken up. All tlie present indications
point to a yield ot from twenty-three to
t wenty-live bushels to tin acre as a safe
estimate of this season’s crop, which will
be iif high quality, and can he moved to
New York lor fifty cents a bushel (in
cluding lake and rail freights, insurance,
commissions, elevator charges, etc),
ibis indicates a market, price at the
nearest depot of from eighty to ninety
cults per bushel for the crop of 1879.
I hose figures, with ample allowance tor
margins,, indicate hat the Dalrymple
farms will ip 187!) produce upward of
laO.OOO bushels of high grade wheat, at
u cross cost of not over .$ 175,000, insur
ing a handsome profit to their owners
and operators of about .$185,000.
Operations upon these monster fauns
V' 1 --' llis , did not commence until
18i.>, when two sections were broken up,
and the.first wheat crop was gathered in
Ism. ‘he results of that experiment
have led to the vigorous work if de
velopment, which Jins yielded the
.astonishing results just summarized.
M;msin? Females in England.
I In' gallows Inis been busy in England
with temalo criminals, mid notably, of
lajo, tlu> recent execution of a woman in
Wordsworth prisonbeiiTgtliethird with
in a year. More then a dozen women
have suffered death under Queen Vic
toria. many of them being phenomenal
criminals. In April, 1815, we believe,
Sarah Freeman was hanged at Taunton
for the poisoning with arsenic of her
mot her, brother, hushand and son. In
Apri;. 1849, Sarah Thomas was hanged
atGloucester, for lira ling out the brains
oi her mistress, an old woman of sixty
one, with a stone. She went to the gal
lows in an ungovernable tit of rage,
wrestling tiud biting so desperately that
it was with ftillieulty two stout wardens
could force her up the ladder, and her
sere uns of anger and terror continued
until the bolt was drawn. On the "21st
oi August, ot the same year, Marv Ann
(leering was hanged in' front of L nves
jail for having poisoned her husband
and two sons, so as to get the burial al
lowance from the friendly society to
which they belonged. Two days later
Rebecca Smith suffered at Devizes for
the murder of her baby, aged four
weeks. Her show of fervent piety had
provoked much sympathy tor her. but
after her conviction she broke down and
confessed that she bad poisoned her
seven other children. Finally, on the
tilth of November the Mannings were
h urged before Ilorsemonger lane jail.
Mrs Manning was hanged in black
satin and a long luce veil." She and her
husband shook hands on the drop.
Dickens wrote iff the execution, mem
orable to this day, that “a sight so in
conoivably awful as th wickedness and
levity of the immense crowd could be
imagined by no man and presented by
no heathen land under the sun.”
A Reversible Cataract.
Burdette the humorist of the Burling
ton ffawkeye. has been at St. John. N.
8.. and while there visited the falls of
me St. John, of which he says: The
other day. toward die close of a drive
that was full of delight, Mr. Hopper
took us over to see the graceful suspen
sion bridge that spans the falls of the
Si. John. The bridge was all right,
nothing could better combine airy grace
and lasting strength, but the falls!
Amazement sat upon ns as we gazed.
They were there. They always are
there ' They stay there all the time, I
guess
But somebody had turned them inside
out.
They were falling up stream.
1 never saw a vything like it before in
my life. It beats Niagara. Niagara
can only fall down, but the falls of the
St. John fall up, par: of the time. I
think nobody stared at the spectacle
wi b quite so much amazement as our
gU e.
" Well.” he said at length, “ there
tin re they are. They are going the
wrong way. but wlia* you see are the
fa'i- of the St. John, ail the same.”
The bay of Fundy is remarkable for
its tidal phenomena, and this is one of
them. When we visited the falls, the
t dr was setying in strong, and the falls
w -re boiling and plunging up the river,
a- furiously as though that was the way
they always went. But when the tide
ro.-s out, the falls turn and plunge sea- j
ward,.as steadily as Niagara itself.
A SPANISH BULL A HIM.
The Brutal Spectacle Witneaaeil by a
Party of American*— The Keene on the
Kuacl and In the Theater.
A letter from Madrid to the New York
j Commerda, / Advertiser says: We con
t fe-s to feelings of moral reinissness in
the mad curiosity we had been cuddling
up to see the bull fight, but our friends
ha and already purchased tickets for the
shade, and we were “booked” for the
fight, the national spectacle of Spain.
At 2 o’clock crowds began to assemble,
and gradually to form along the Alcala
Fiente to the grand amphiteater. This
structure is about eighty yards in
diameter, built in the Moorish style of
architecture, of brick, iron, and stone,
seating comfortably 13,000 spectators.
'V e have witnessed often the excitement
and rush of going to races, but never
beheld such joyous displays of madden
ing! rowds as we saw that day pressing,
rushing, tearing along to the Toros.
Afoot and on horseback, in carriages,
carts, and omnihusses, with two, four!
six, eig it, and with ten horses all dressed
in variegate (ribbons find gaudy colors;
the .drivers halloing and scieeching with
delight, and the animals running at tin
top of. their speed, apparently as excited
as their drivers.
Once arrived and seated, we beheld
with admiration the vast gathering
within the theater. It was estimated
that not less than twenty thousand spec
tators were pressed within the buikling.
The marshals, clad in a gay and elegant
dress, marched across the arena and
egged permission of the mayor to allow
the games Of course, it was
graciously granted, anil pioclamation
was at once made that the exercises were
to commence. The fatal gate was opened
am! in rushed the hull wild with terror
as he beheld the scene, and trotted to
the middle of the arena: with head erect
and staring eye he stood collected, then
shook his head in attitude expressing the
most perfect defiance. We enjoyed the
spectacle with the highest relish. The
theater was crowded to its utmost, and
the scene was very enlivening. Next
came the picadors with their lances and
the flag bearer to tease the bull. lie
(hushes at the erimon flags as they are
flaunted tauntingly and deceptively be
fore his face. To the Spaniard, how
ever, this is but by-play, and soon he
calls for blood. The picador rides full
in front of the bull, who with one plunge
gores the blinded horse.
“ Till yells the mad crowd o’er entrails fresh
ly torn.”
Another presents himself, and now
again is seen the disgusting s r ght re
peated of bloody horns goring another
victim, urged as long as he has strength
t'Aiana a blinded sacrifice to the fury
of the beast, until lie falls dead upon the
plain. Sometimes lie carries with him
the stuffed and padded picador, when
the whole mass of spectators rise on the
instant with breathless expectation; for
here, indeed, is danger, as the roaring
bull, crashing the lance, plunges over
horsi and rider. Still ns death lies the
pcador, and the foolish beast is cheated
ol his prey; tor, believing him already
i! ad, lie passes along, in an instant to
be diverted by the flags and spears of
bis enemies. One picador became en
tangled with liis falling horf?e. and re
ceived a crushing tread from the bull’s
foreleg as he passed over him. The
panting animal is now plied with flesh
arrows, and when sufficiently maddened
the cry for the espoda (sword) is given.
I tie matador comes forward, who is not
ai towed to leave the arena, hut must seek
his safety in his skill. Arrayed in ele
gant dress he encounters the bull. The
matador poising his sword as the hull
daslies at him drives home the weapon.
If the aim is unerring the beast falls
on his knees, trembles for an instant,
then stretches his carcass upon the
ground. But often the sword fails to
strike the spine, and the bull fighting
valiantly drives the matador until sev
eral thrusts are made before lie is dis
patched. When the sword passes un
der the shoulder blade next the chest,
piercing between the ribs into the
Jungs, the blood flows freely from the
mouth of the animal in a gushing tide
that exhausts him nearly as quick as the
fatal stroke in the spinal marrow. The
light is over; then conies the mules to
drag away the carcasses, and the ring is
cleared for another engagement. Dur
ing the tight six hulls and sixteen horses
were killed. We looked anxiously at
t lie royal box from time to time, but to
his credit Alfonso did not make his ap
pearance. Our sympathies were aroused
for the poor horses only, who were rode
blindfold before the bull to be gored,
simply to madden him by the sight of
blood.
Sunday in Paris.
It is Sunday once more—a Parisian
Sunday—in this gayest of capitals; and
50,000 people, to speak within hounds,
have all day thronged the Champs
Elysees. The toy and refreshment
Infill hs, on either side of the long and
spacious avenue, drive a lucrative busi
ness: tlie numerous goat and pony
wagons for children are in constant re
quisition. and one little turn-out consist
'd ot four well-trained Newfoundland
dogs, elegantly harnessed, attended by
two liveried footmen, and driven by a
hoy of twelve or thirteen. Merry young
misses drive their ribbon-decked hoops
with special relish, and roguish boys
skip their tops witii equal zeal. Clouds
of toy balloons, of various colors and
sizes, flash high above the heads of itin
erant verniers, and the fountains throw
up sparkling and softly musical jets
everywhere, uttering low and refreshing
murmurs.
Soldiers oft' duty, strolling idly about,
dot the scene with their various uni
forms. their shining helmets and abun
dant gold lace. The crowded roadway,
thronged by a thousand and more of
liveried turn-outs, drawn by high-step
ping horses, is a marvel of activity,
making one almost dizzy to gaze upon.
Delighted bourgeois youths of both sexes
mount wooden horses in the merry-go
rounds, and enjoy their imaginary ndeat
a cost of a couple of sous ; lofty aerial
cars, upon huge revolving wheels, afford
as much delight and more risk to others,
at an equally moderate charge. The
man with his air-gun and his well-ar
ranged mark is on hand to serve ambi
tious juvenile marksmen; the Italian
harpist, with a taraborine and violin ac
companiment, gathers a small crowd
about him; a performing monkey is
equally popular as an attraction close
by; and not far away an acrobat, dressed
in flesh-colored tights, lies upon the car
peted ground and tosses a lad, dressed in
spangled thin clothes, heavenward from
his feet, catching him as he come s down,
and twirling him with his legs so rapidly
that the hoy becomes invisible, or nearly
so. Such is a glimpse ot the Cfiamps
Elysees on Sunday.— Paris Letter.
, Uoiv to Detect a Ripe Watermelon.
Few people know, from an outside in
spection, how to determine the ripeness
and the perfection of a watermelon. In
quiries are frequently made in the hor
tiouituinl journals as to the means to be
used to arrive at a reliable rule for set
tling this question. Within a few days,
says a correspondent of the Country Gcn
ii man , I have seen directions given to
reai li a correct conclusion on the sub
ject. by pressing the melon and noting
the manner in which it emits a crack
ling sound under the operation. These
results are to be obtained after some ex
perience in judging of its peculiarity un
der pressure. Considering the' vast
quantities of this delicious fruit con
sumed at the North, after shipment
from the sections where the vine flour
ishes, ’nut where the fruit is always
picked in an immature state in order to
bear transportation well, it is really a
serious matter to be able to know cer
tainly when buying a melon, perchance
on the street or at a dealer’s stand,
whether one is securing a ripe melon or
noi. In nine eases out of ten the chance
i- that your melon is only half ripe, and
therefore not a great acquisition for vour
dessert.
Now.* let me give you and vour read
ers an infallible sign by which to know
a full ripened melon. When the melon
begins to change color inside, and its
seeds to turn black, a small black speck,
scale or blister begins to appear on the
outer cuticle or rind. These are multi
plied and enlarged as the fruit matures.
A ripe melon will show them thickly
sown over surface. A partial de
velopment only indicates haif ripened
truit. A full crop of blisters reveals its
perfect ripeness. When hundreds of
melons are strewn along the sidewalk,
von will have to look pretty sharply to
ind one that exhibits a satisfactory " es
•nteheon.” to borrow a term from M.
tiuenon. But it is unfailing when found.
:.r.d by following this guide you may
walk away with your melon with the
most entire confluence. The blister is
-,nly to be seen upon close inspection,
but is plainly visible when that is given.
(A lecturer’s Reminiscences.
Anna Dickinson has written a book
of reminiscences of her lecturing tours*
calnng it “The Ragged Register.”
Among other amusing stories she tells
one of the rampant president ot a certain
lecture association who wanted her to
lecture him his town. She could not do
it .ana meet her other engagements, and
she told him so quite plainly. But he
wouid net lie put off. He told her that by
taking the three o’clock train she could
do it. After a hard night’s work a three
o clock train is not a pleasing prospect,
and she declined the honor. “I'll be un
(ter your window at 2.30 sharp,” replied
he, notwithstanding her expressed de
termination. And he was as good as his
W< ai ’ was pouring rain, hut he came
am. banged away as though the front
£rwas a fort and he a battering ram.
'\ hue lie was banging an indignant
family servant came into Miss Dick
inson s room with a bucket of wa
ter in her hand, and opened the window
above the man’s head. “ Why do you
waste the water, Maria,” said Miss Dick
lnson ; “ he is wet to the skin already.”
out Mans knew what she was about,
and standing the bucket on the sill,
emptied the contents down over the be
sieger. A howl, a muttered exclama
tion more vigorous than plegant, and his
leet were heard splashing down the
walk “I thought that kitchen fin
would never burn,” Maria said, as she
passed out of the loom, “ and that there
tea kettle never would bile, but it did.”
Miss Dickinson tells of one man who
‘ took a seat by her in the cars and tried
to make her talk by plying her with
to all of which she gave mono
syllabic replies. Becoming discouraged,
he dragged some greasy bills and cur
rency from his pocket and said: “ Well,
now, ,ook here,; you’ll never lecture in
our town. It’s too small. But I’d like
<> hear what you can do when your
steam s up. I thought I’d get a‘free
blow-out, but I reckon you weren’t
born yesterday—got your eye-teeth cut.
there s a dollar, ’ll that pay you fora
good square talk anrl all the fixins’ ?”
Miss Dickinson tells some of the ad
ventures she has had in keeping her lec
ture engagements. One night she was
drawn across a river on a sled by two
men—the h:e was too thin for horses and
a sleigh—in a driving storm. Thejour
ney took tliree hours. She arrived at
the “ institute, teeth chattering, stomach
chattering (no nourishment for thirteen
li#urs), lingers stiff, feet like wooden
clogs, winter cold through and through
me. Miss Dickinson has heard that
somebody once asked Mr. Beecher
whether a man would have gone !
through that to have kept a lecture en- J
gagement, and that he answered, “No; j
no man would have.been such a fool.”
And he was “justified in the saying,’’says \
she; “only lie should remember that
the world, in reasonable fashion, de
mands of a woman that she do twice as
much as a man to prove that she can
equal him.”
estern scenery is Miss Dickinson’s.
delight. Out there she met a man whom
she describes as a “horrid little scrub,”
who was bound on a lengthy tour of the
Pacific slope, his wife lecturing, he man
aging and an adopted daughter singing,
the whole made to “go ” by a gift en
terprise. To make herself agreeable.
Miss Dickinson said something about
the marvelous Montana region. “A
beastly country!” he cried, “a beastly
country! we did not take SSQO in it.” In
traveling through tliis country, if in
stages, she rode on the seat with the
driver; if by railroad, on the locomotive
with the engineer. Her dress for cross
ing the mountains on horseback consist
ed of a soft felt hat, loose coat, skirt to
the knees, Turkish trousers, woolen
stockings and stout shoes. Thus arrayed,
she bestrode her horse like, a man, not
withstanding the sneers of a lady who
joined their party, and in an audible
whisper told her companion to “ look at
that vulgar creature.” The “vulgar
creature,” from her comfortable and se
cure seat, looked at the long skirts and
twisted bodies of the other ladies, and,
thinking ol the twelve hours’ ride over
the mountains, said to herself, “Look at
those idiots!”
Sitting on the platform alone Miss
Dickinson has often had hard work to
keep from laughing at the manner of
her introduction by pompous chairmen
of a lecture committee. One presiding
officer in New England, instead of intro
ducing her, offered up a prayer of
twenty minutes’ duration, in which he
interceded with the throne of grace in
Miss Dickinson’s behalf. A Western
chairman,with an eye toward Congress,
I spoke of her reputation as a lecturer.
“In fact,” said lie, “ wherever the
English language is spoken, wherever
| the stars and stripes wave, her name is
like household words. Listen to her,
then, and I know—yes, fellow-citizens,
I know you will listen to her, since she
always addresses herself to the ignorant,
! the down trodden and tlie oppressed of
| every color, clime and tongue.”
Audiences are thus described by Miss
Dickinson: “Some audiences are stone.
You strike against them and rebound—
angered by their hardness. Some are
sponge—absorb, and absorb, and absorb,
and give nothing back, till you feel
as though you had enjoyed six
hours of tlie Turkish bath and then
been put under an exhausted receiver—
and some are like champagne, or vigor
ous tea, or clear cognac, or aggressive
coffee, or whatever it may be that the
most quickly and enchantingly stimu
lates your brain and nerve.”
Boys Who Learned to Sew.
When the late Admiral was a
young midshipman he was sent on a
voyage round the world in one of King
George the Third’s ships. He was three
years away, and, as he grew very fast,
lie found himself sailing in the Pacific
Ocean witli hardly a stitch of clothes to
his back. Ilis mother, sister of Admiral
Lord , had taught her little boy to
sew, so lie got some canvas out of the
ship’s stores, and cut out and made him
self anew suit of clothes; his mother
was very proud of these, and when her
son was an admiral she used to show
them to her grandchildren and tell them
the story. Rather more than thirty years
agp a lady went to call on another one
rainy afternoon; the house was built on
an island in a lake in Ireland. In the
drawing-room were two little boys sit
ting on footstools, one on each side of the
fireplace. Probably the visitor looked
astonished, for the mother of the little
boys said in a low tone, “ Please don't
laugh at them; what should I do with
them on this island on a rainy day if they
were too proud to sew ?” One of these
boys was a lieutenant in the Crimean
war; he fought none the worse because
lie knew how to use the needle as well as
the sword, when he, with his men, was
for eighteen hours in the ltedan on the
memorable lßth of June. The chaplain
of an Irish institution had seen, when lie
was young, the straits to which the
French aristocratic refugees were re
duced, from having to learn how to do
things for themselves; and he got a tailor
to come into his house and teach his
boys how to cut out and make and mend
their own clothes. One of the boys is
now an old general, but he sews on his
buttons, to this very day; and when lie
was on service in one of the small British
stations in Asia he not only mended and
patched his own clothes but those of bis
brother officers. All the men of his
regiment knitted their own socks.—Lon
don Court Journal.
For Boys to Remember.
A gentleman advertised for a boy to
assist him in sis office, and nearly fifty
applicants presented themselves. Out of
the whole number he in a short time se
lected one and dismissed the rest.
“ I should like to know,” said a friend.
“ on wliat ground you selected that boy,
who had not a single recommendation?”
‘•You are mistaken, my friend,” was
the reply; “he had a great many, and
if you care to listen I will enumerate
a i'ew of them. He wiped his feet when
lie came in and closed the door after
him. thereby showing that he is careful,
fie instantly his seat to an old
man who is lame, showing that he is
kind and thoughtful. He took off his
cap when he came in. and answered my
questions promptly and respectfully,
showing that lie is polite and gentle
manly. He picked up the book "that I
had purposely laid on the floor and re
placed it upon the table, while all the
rest either stepped over it or shoved it
aside; and he waited quietly for his
turn, instead of pushing or crowding,
which evinces an honest and orderly
disposition. When I talked with him I
noticed that his clothes were cleanly
brushed, his hair in nice order, and hi's
teeth as white as milk, and when he
wrote his name I also noticed that his
finger nails were clean, instead of being
tipped with jet like that handsome littf
fellow's in the bluejacket. Don’t you
term those things letters of recommenda
tion? I do, and I would give more for
what I can tell about a boy by using my
eyes for ten minutes than all the tine let
ters you can bring me.”
A Wendcrfai Simula Talley.
( Captain Rhodes, of EsmejpJda county,
) who is in this city, is ownerof what is
known as RhodGsSalt Marim, huf which
is a perfect laboratory of mineral wealtji.
Tlie vailey contains 4.H0 acres. It is
quite level, _and is surrounded on all
sides with high volcanic mountains. It
is situated about fifteen miles northwest
of Columbus.
In this little valley is a sufficient
amount of salt to supply ail the markets
of the United States, if not the whole
world. A foot or two below tlie surface
is found a solid floor ol pure rock salt, as
firm and as transparent as ice. Indeed,
when the sand that covers the surface
i is stripped off the salt below bears a
very close resemblance to a field of ice.
In many places little streams of water
bubble up through the mass of salt, and
very frequently deep pool- are found
which look just like the air lioli s in a
frozen lake. The salt made at the marsh
is perfectly pure. When a tract of
ground has been stripped of the surface
soil the salt water rises over the bed of
rock salt to the depth of a foot or two.
Then crystals of salt begin to form on the
surface of the water, and as they form
they sink to the bottom. If the salt is
to be fine, tor table use. workmen stir
these ciystals about with shovels its
they settle to the bottom, thus breaking
t lem up. For use in working silver
ore coarse salt is as good as tine, and the
solid formation may be dug up with
picks if necessary, but the loose crystals
are more readily handled, and as much
salt of that kind is formed as can be dis-
posed ot.
Not only are there inexhausible stores
j of salt in the little valley, but immense
; stores of borax. This borax is of the
finest quality known, and two or three
cents per pound more can be obtained
for it in Europe than for any other
borax sent to that market. Splendid
specimens of tincal, or natural crystals
of borax, are found in tlie marsh im
bedded in the clay near the surface.
Immense quantities of sulphate of mag
nesia (epsom salt) and sulphate of soda
(glauber salt) in a pure state are also
found. Nitrate of potassa (saltpeter) is
found, but the extent of tlxe deposits is
not known.
Common potash is found in great
abundance, and among the curious
specimens to be obtained are what are
called “cotton balls” (boreate of lime)
and fibrous crystaline borax. Also
there is found an abundance of an un
known mineral. It is something de
scribed in none of the books. It does
not appear in the shape of crystals, yet
jias a regular form of its own, present
ing the appearance of branches of coral.
It is thought that this may be some new
salt. A quantity of it will shortly Vie
sent East for examination.— Virginia
City (Nev.) Enterprise.
Some Cnrious Facts.
Bleeding, blistering and dressing of
ordinary wounds still forms the business
expected of barbers in Turkey, who are
often thus employed.
The Chinese keep grapes fresh a long
while by cutting a hole in a pumpkin,
cleaning out the interior, putting in the
ripe grapes and replacing the cover.
The largest nugget of gold ever found
was at Ballarat, in Australia, in 1858,
It received the name of “The Welcome,”
and weighed 2,166 ounces—worth about
$41,800.
When vaccination was first introduced
in Boston, in 1721, the House of Repre-'
sentatives passed a bill prohibiting it
Now, under certain conditions, it L
made obligatory.
Some of the old Theban mummies ex
liiliit in their wooden receptacles speci
mens of gilding, which show that the art
of producing gold leaf was known two
or tliree thousand years before the Chris
tian era.
Pliny has stated that an ounce of gold
was beaten into 750 leaves, each four
fingers square. Martial speaks of the
gold leaf being as thin as a vapor, and
Lunetius compares its substance to a
spider’s web.
It is said to be quite the custom in
Dublin for pawnbrokers to receive from
washerwomen on pledge clothes belong
ing to respectable lamilies which they
have received to be washed. The arti
cles are usually pawned early in the week,
and released in time to be sent heme on
Saturday.
A packet of nine hundred pieces of
gold-beater’s skin, each four inches
square, is worth S4O. They may be
beaten continuously for several months
with a twelve-pound hammer withe ut
material injury. The intestines of 500
oxen are required to furnish 900 leaves,
that form one packet, or mold, as it is
technically called.
Tlie site of Alfred the Great’s palace
at Wedmore, England, is being excava
ted with interesting results. Long lines
of wall of more than ordinary thickness,
but not laid with the neatness and pre
cision of Roman work, have been un
covered. Numerous fragments of Anglo-
Saxon pottery, iron work and roofing
tiles have been found.
Wliat an African Traveler Saw.
Major Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese
traveler, who has just returned from his
expedition through the African conti
nent, started from the Portuguese pos
sessions, on the west coast of Atrica,
and made his way in a zigzag to Natal.
He describes a tribe of natives he met
with near the Zambezi with white skins,
but with the wooly liair and other pe
culiarities of the South African. In por
tions of the country lie enjoyed such ex
cellent sport, that he was able to kill
game enough for the support of liis 150
followers. On reaching an elevated pla
teau Major Serpa Pinto said he was as
tonished to see a town in the middle of
a vast plain. The houses were at some
distance from eacli other and all built on
the same model. On approaching the
town the traveler found that it was in
habited by white ants. Throughout,
Major Serpa Pinto appears to have been
well received by the natives. One of
their kings offered him his daughter in
exchange for his watch, and when the
traveler explained that he could not part
with it his majesty asked for his shoes.
The slave trade is in full swing. He
met numerous files of unfortunate
wretches chained together, going in the
direction of Egypt. He passed through
a portion of Zululand a couple of days
after the death of the Prince Imperial.
A Shabby Umbrella.
Strange how ashamed a man will be
of a shabby umbrella—one of those
slouchv corpulent affairs, with the
bleached out covering divorced from a
third of th° rib tips, and a shoe-string
clasped around its waist in lieu of the
long vanished' elastic! How lie will
hide it. as far as possible under liis arm,
run it up his coat sleeve, tuck it away
beneath the folds of his coat, keep it be
tween himself and the wall, and when
lie gets in the car how careful he is to
dispose it in the darkest possible corner!
And if perchance anybody, spies it out,
how quick is he to head off criticism by
explaining that it is the one he keeps in
the office—so convenient to have one
there, you know; one that you know
nobody will steal —ha! ha! Or may be
lie will go a step further—the lying ras
cal—anJ say he borrowed it, and if he
didn’t return it old Gritnshaw would
never forgive him—ha! ha! But
when the clouds lower and the rain
drops begin to patter, who so at ease,
so envied, so proud and happy, as the
man with tjie shabby umbrella, as he
stalks along between rows of unpro
tected men and women, with his despised
umbril dripping its liquid harvest indis
criminately on the just and unjust?
Verily, there is nothing in this life
wholly good or wholly bad.— Boston
Transcript.
The Wheat Export for 1579.
It is now clear that the United States
will be able to export to Europe ot this
year’s when: crop not less than 160.000,-
000 bushels, and possibly 200,000,000
bushels. From careful estimates the lat
ter figures are probably nearer the mark.
The European demand last year was for
159.000.000 bushels out of a crop aggre
gating 400.000.000 bushels. Europe thus
taking nearly half our product for that
year. The current deficiency in Europe
is estimated at not less than 225,000.000
bushels, not including that of France or
England, which together will probably
want not less than 200,000.000 bushel's
additional. Taking the continent of Eu
rope as a whole, the most moderate esti
mates place the prospective demand so
high that it will easiiv absorb our entire
surplus, which may be safely counted
upon to exceed somewhat, that of last
year. The demand, however, will not
promise high prices, yet with cheap
Transportation to the seaboard and across
the Atlantic,onr home farmers have rea
son to expect full sales and good margins
of profit. —New York Graphic.
GOLD MINE STAMP MILLS!
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS !
Engines and Boilers and Water Wheels, Pumps, Injectors, Ejectors and Piping and Pitt
ing- (bearing, Shalting, Hangers, Boxes, Pulleys, etc. Belting, Eacing, Oil, Globe and Check
\ alves, etc. Repairs promptly and well done, and Mill Machinery ot all kinds and Supplies
furnished at lowest prices. Try us.
GEO. !R. LOiIBARD & CO.,
Forest City Foundry and Machine Works,
170 FENWICK STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Say where you saw this advertisement. June 1-ly
m mam Jk ML ■ ■ It neglected, may readily develop into quick
■ 1 U consumption. Ordinary treatments will
|W. I ■ not cure it. Its effects are nervous weak
ness, loss ot smell, taste, hearing and voice,
weak eyes, dizziness, faint feelings, matter dropping into the throat, disgusting odors, and
finally consumption and premature death. For
CONSUMPTION, nA 51 ™.., CATARRH,
Bronchitis, coughs, nervous and catarrhal headaches, deatness, sore throat, and all diseases oi
the air passages and lungs there is no treatment so pleasing, thorough, and certain to cure ind
give instant relief as
De Vone’s Inhalene !
A compound of the most healing balsams known to medical sci. nee, with CARBOLATED
BINE TREE TAR, which, by simply breathing or inhaling from De Vone’s Inhaler, is con
verted into a cleansing, invigorating and healing vapor, and taken direct to the diseased cavi
ties ot the head, and into all the air passages and the lungs, where it acts as a local application
to the diseased sunace, and its health-giving power is felt at once. The only method by
which these diseases can be permanently cured. HOME TREATMENT. Sent to any part ot
the United States or Canada, to be returned if not satisfactory. Also tor sale by drug
gists. Send tor circular giving full information, terms, etc. A competent physician always in
charge. Advice tree on all chronic diseases. State symptoms plainly, and your ease will have
immediate aLd caretul attention, and free advice by return mail. When writing, name this
paper. Addiess, HOME MEDICINE CO., S. W. cor. Tenth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, I’a.
ATHENS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS,
iATIIEKTS, GEOnGIA,
General Foaite & lacMaists, Patten YorLSnitlu & Eeprim.
Having an extensive collection of Patterns, manufacture
Iron and Brass Castings, Mill and Gin Gearing, Mining and Mill Machinery.
Steam Engines and Saw Mills.
Have on hand for t e season a full supply ot Agricultural Machinery—Magic, Farmers’
and Victor Cane Mills. Cook’s Celebrated Evaporator, Portable Engines, etc,, etc.
§@“For Descriptive Circulars and Price Lists, address
R. NICKERSON, Agent andSupt., Athens, Ga.
JISSE THOMPSON BEO. 8. HEINDEL
THOMPSON * HEINDEL,
CONTRACTORS AND BUTUDERS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moldings, Brackets,
NEWELS, MANTLES, BALUSTERS,
STAIR RAILS, DOOR and WINDOW FRAMES,
DEALER3 IN ’
Dressed and Undressed LUMBER.
BILLS OF LUMBER CUT TO ORDER AT SHORT NOTICE.
Dressed Lumber Always on Hand. Laths and Shingles.
Planing- Mill and Lumber Yard, Hale Street, near Central Railroad Yard.
Office and Warorcoms, 43 Jackson Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
GREAT REDUCTION !
Watches, Ole®, Jewelry, Silver ana Plate! fare.
The largest and most complete stock in the city, comprising all lines of
goods usually kept in a x
FIRST-CLASS JEWELRY STORE !
Is now being offered at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES fOR CASH, with a view to CLOSE OUT STOCK
and change investment. Most of the goods are new and desirable, and BOUGHT AT HARD-TIMF
PIIICE6!
SPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES, GUNS, PISTOLS,CUTLERY,
Table-ware, Musical Instruments, Fine Violins, Etc.
■ STARK Will assist in Bales, and gladly welcome all his friends and Bell them
REPAIRING! Watches nicely ad justed at Lowest Prices. Guns aud Pistols Repaired. Finest
Pebbles ana Glasses fitted to old Spectacle Frames. * 1
T CAlljlj AAT3D SEE.
Yours, very truly,
W. A. TAL MADGE,
College Avenue, Opposite Postoffice, ATHENS, GA,
A. K. CHILDS. R. NICKERSON. v H WINV
CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO.,
No. 15 Franklin Houso Building, Athens, Ga.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
Iron, Steel, Nails, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse Shoe Nails, '
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
LEADS, OILS, GLASS and VARNISH. HARNESS LEATHER
MILLBURK WAGONS,
COTTON, MANILLA AND JUTE ROPE,
Carriage and Saddlery Hardware, Felloes, Hnbs, Spokes, Buggy Wheels, Axles, Rp-imrs, etc. Rubber aud
Leather Belting, Mill Saws, Mill Findings, Anvils, Bellows, Vices, Hollow Ware, etc.
Manufacturers’ Agents for the sale of
FAIRBARTKS’ STANDARD SCATjES,
Cider Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators, Watt Plows, Farmers’ Friend Plow. Pumps, Criculur
Saws, Winship3’ & Sawyers’ Celebrated Cotton Gin.
Also Agents for HALL’S AND MASSEY’S FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF KAT ES.
tW Any article In our line not in stock, will bo ordered when desired, with tbe least possible delay.
Call and Examine our Stork nod Prices.
PERKINS * BROTHER,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Doors, Sash and . Blinds,
Mouldings, Window and Door Frames,
STAIR RAILING, BALUSTERS, NEWEL-POSTS, BRACKETS, &c.
Lumber, Laths and Shingles,
We have on hand a large stock of the above gopds which we are selling at the LOWEST
CASH PRICES. Send for Price List. All orders promptly attended to.
OFFICE, LUMBER YARD AND PLANING MILL ON
Calhoun St., below Central R. R. Depot, Augusta, Ga
Garble, marble.
G-reat n.ccivicti on in X*rices !
MONUMENTS and TOMBSTONES !
And the work still maintained to the highest state of perfection. Gail and get my prices
and he convinced that you areSteuling with a fair and square man. Designs and prices at my
Yard. Specimens of work on hand for sal (4 A. R. ROBERTSON,
Sculptor and Monumental Builder, Athens, Ga
gf MARBLE YARD on tbe corner of Thomas and Market Streets.
DR. ULMER'S
Liver Corrector,
TRADE
jffpjf
Mark-
OR, VEGETABLE APERIENT.
For D saases arising from a
DISORDERED STATE OF
the livek.
such as
Dyspepsia, Obstructions of the Viscera, Stone in th>
Gall Bladder, Dropsy, Jaundice. Acid Stomach,
Constipation of the Boweis, Sick Headache,
Diarrhea and Dysentery, Enlarged Spleen,
Fever and Agne, Eruptive and Cutaneous
Diseases, such as St. Anthony*. Fire,
Erysipelas. Pimples, Postnle* and
Boils, Female Weaknesses, Affec
tions of the Kidneys and Bladder,
Piles, ami many other disorders’
caused from the derangement
of the Liver.
This preparation, composed as it is of some of thi
most vamable alteratives known, is invaluable for
? ile tone and strength of the system
debilitated by disease. Some of our best physicians
who are famlnar with the composition of this medi.
cine attest its virtues and prescribe it. It is a Peas
ant cordial.
PRESIRai ET
B. F. ULMER,
J SAVANNAH, CA.
„ *aa One Dollar. 1"r sale by O. w. Smith and
1. T. M. Haire,Lexington, M.H. Thomas,Crawford
und Druggist* generally.
McWhorter bros.,
Attorneys and Canasta at Law
LEXINGTON, ) „
GREENESBOEO, f UEOEOIA -
Will practice in all the Courts— State and
Federal.
DRUOS
CHEMICALS,
GLASS, CHEAP SOAP,
AND EVEEYTHING IN THE
DRUG LINE
FOB SALE CHEAP.
ONLY TRY US ONCE.
ME. HOWARD EDWARDS,
Of Oglethorpe County, is still with ns, and
will be glad to see and wait on all his old
friends, and will see that they get
#
Good Goods at Low .Prices,
R. T. BRDSBY A CO.,
COLLEGE AVE., ATHENS, GA.
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER & JEWELER.
A. EVANS,
i Having returned from big vuit to Europe, begs
I leave to inform tbe people of Oglethorpe and
unrounding oonntieg that he can be found at
| bis new stand,
In flic Store of T. Fleming & Sod,
Corner Deupree Block, Athens, Ga.. prepared
to do all kinds of work in bis line. All work
warranted.
Prioes obeap as tbe cheapest
Tonrs truly, A. EVANS,
JOS. N. WORLEY.
Attorney and CouDselor at Law,
ELBERTON, GA.,
& ra^ C 6 i a 4 he 001101163 of Franklin, Ogle
thorpe, Elbert, Hart, and the adjoining coun
old acquaintance be forget ?
‘-OLDEST MUSIC HOUtE INT GEORGIA.
Ihesntecnberrespectluily informs the nub
l>c thnt he hns once more taken the helm in
hand that he has held so satisfactory to his
mends lor the last thirty-one years in Au
gusta and hopes, with the assistance ot his
on, I. HARRY OATES, to be able to drive
business in such a manner as to get his share
ot it and to show that he will sell Pianos and
r =? ns 88 cheap as the cheapest and as good
as the best. All he asks is a trial, and those
who do not give him a chance are the losers.
A good assortment of choice Stationery,Books,
etc., always on hand at lowest prices.
D . GEO. A. OATES, Agent,
rmnos luned and ReDaired in the best man
ner, by 1. Harry Oates, who has the highest
recommendations. All orders punctually at
tended to.
Reduction oi Passenger Fares
COMMENCING SEPT. Ist, 1878,
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD
Will pell straight and excursion ticketH between
, stations on the main line and branches, in
ciuamg the Macon and Augusta R iilroad, at
GRFATLY REDUCED RATES.
Straight, icb at four cents per nule.
E\cui’B<on tickets at six ceuta per mile (eoo
for ten day*) v
Minimum for straight tickets, ten cents; ei
cursion tickets, twenty
Io secure tlio advantages of the reduce
ratep, tickets must be purchased frcm the sta
tion agents of the Company. Conductor** are
not allowed to charge less than tho reguiai
tariff rates ot five cents per mile.
Excursion tickets will be good to r3*urn ten
days, from and including the date of issue.
No lav-over privilege allowed to these tickets.
u°r will any be granted. Neither will an ex
tension of time be granted. The Company re
serves the right to change or entirely abrogate
hese rates at pleasure and without notice. ’
E. R. DORSEY. Gen. Pass. Agent
FONYER & KENNIBREW,
Attorneys & Counselors at Lav.
LEXINGTON and CRAWFORD, GA.
s®“** Will promptly attend to all business en
trusted to their care.
T. A. ILER,
Practical ffatcßmater and Jeweler,
Snead's Shoe Store , Athens > Ga .
All kinds of Repairing done in the best manner
and warranted to give satisfaction.
NEWTON HOUSE,
Athens, Georgia.
Rates -S2-00 Per Day.
A. D. CLINARD Proprietor.
NOTICE.
THE undersigned gives notice that
notwithstanding he is engaged
in the PRACTICE Oi- DENTISTRY,
in which he is prepared to do all
KSS?, 0 / work uiso keeps up his JEWELRY
ESTABLISHMENT as heretofore, and wiil do ai
manner o! work in both professions, at most, reason
able rates; and guarantees perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Will also furnish any article in
the Jewelry Ir'e at as low rate as the same can h*i
purchased or ..here.
My Dental v ■ trons will he attended at their home?
when desired, *ben notification by mail or other
wise is given m<,
B. OHEDEL.
WHITSON Q. vJOnNSoiu,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW.
LEXINGTON, GA.
Will practice ill the Counties of Oglethorpe,
Clarke, Madison, Elbert, Wilkes and Talliferro, ami
in tho Supreme Court of Georgia.
B. M. WOOLLEY’S)
Morphine, Gum Opiun?
Painless American Laudanum or Elixir of
ol> I XT IWX Opium, cured painlessly
rnpc by this improved remedy.
” ’ Manufactured atAtlan
■ iiTinah- ta - at r Prices.
ANTIDOTE, Tested in hundreds of
cases. Guaranteed Cir
• icuiars free. Address B. M. WOOLLEY, At
lanta, Ga. Office, 25 Whitehall St., up-stairs.
When a city gent attempts to row in a
“ home-made ” boat and glides gently
overboard, there is nothing that wiil
bring out the high-toned conversation
tliat lie has picked up among the elite of
the metropolis so thoroughly as to have an
unsophisticated native shout from the
shore: “ How do you like swimming
with boots on?” —New Ilnven Register.
languor, Its Cause and Remedy.
The cause oi languor, when it is not the im- j
mediate or indirect consequence of positive
disease, is traceable to a debilitating tempera- ,
ture. Persons living in a warm, moist climate
are peculiarly subject to it. Diminished physi- j
cal vigor and an indisposition to active exer
tion are its characteristics. Sometimes it is
accompanied by undue relaxation ol the bowels !
and by dyspeptic or bilious symptoms. A reli
able remedy is Hostetter’s Stomach Ritters, a
strengthening and alterative medicine derived j
from the purest and most efficacious vegetable ;
sources,with a pure spirituous basis,pronounced
by eminent physicians a mild and wholesome J
stimulant. The Bitters, foremost of American
tonics, is largely used in the tropics, where the
climate is very productive of debility, malarial
fevers, and disorders of the bowels, liver and
digestive organs.
An Important Geological Fact.
Geology has shown us that nature accom
plishes her greatest revolutions in the earth's
surface conformation slowly. Every year the
river makes its channel deeper, the glacier
wears a deeper gorge in the Alpine rock, and
the ocean tide deposits the sand it has civm
bled from the rocks upon which it breaks. We
note the earthquake and the devastating hur
ricane; but these changes are so gradual man
seldom observes them until the channel has
become overhanging cliffs, or a mountain has
disappeared before the icy stream, or the ocean
has given us a Florida. Thus it is in disease.
Our attention is attracted by acute diseases, as
fevers, cholera, etc., while chronic diseases
(olten the most dangerous in result), being
slow in their development, are seldom noticed
until thf% have made an almost ineffaceable
impression upon the system. Persons believing
themselves comparatively healthful are oft
times the victims of these diseases, and only
become aware of their presence when relief is
almost impossible. Diseases of the liver and
stomach ate the commonest of these chronic
affections. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets are
never-failing remedies tor these diseases. They
produce a healthful secretion of the bile, pre
vent indigestion by regulating the bowels, and ,
mparta vigorous tone to the whole system.
Terribly exhausting are the night sweats
which accompany consumption. But they, as
well as the paroxysms of coughing, are invari- j
ably broken up by Dr. Hall’s Balsam lor the
Lungs, which conquers the deadly malady, as
well as bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, asth
ma, diphtheria and all other affections of the
throat, lungs and chest. It saves thousands
from untimely graves and is invaluable in res
cuing children from the croup, whooping cough
and quinzy. It is sold by druggists.
By sending thirty-five cents, with eight,
colo" of ej cp. and v..u wiii receive by re
msil & correct photograph of your futuie
b. nd cr w.fe, with name and and; to of m*r
*.ti tcm i7. Fox. . 0. SI,
Fnlfot vide. N Y.
Coughs.—A medical preparation in the form
of a lozenge is he most convenient. “Brown s
Bronchial Troches ” allay irritation which in
duces coughing, giving relief in bronchitis,
hoarseness, influenza, consumptive and asth
matic complaints. 25 cents.
Maaon & Hamlin Cabinet Organ* are fur
nished, for cash, from £54 each, upward;
every one being of the same highest excel
lence.
/T he". Jackson's Best fciweet Navy Tobacco
£1175 Profits on day,' inre-rmert r SIOO
J in St. Pau.. A<u t u*t !. J u
Pi'opor*.tonal returns every went; oil Stock Options • J
S3O. - S3O, 100, - 5500.
Official Report* n,| Circulars free. A ! ire-
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YOUNG MEN
■d- at Every graduate guaranteed a paying eitm*
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emn *• *■.. kicm & t0..p.-t,id
otNU
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vOOUU Agent. Good, Co* t Yo.TCK.St. Louis. Me.
i^Hj^
A bod kreatfc from
stomach oi from WHenaness. In eitne
I doses of .
Tarrant’s Seltzer Aperient,
ilminlstvre.l according t? Ss*s*j£st lad healthful
warm weather, ami leaves the sjstem .trong. J
work of recuperation.
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Mianeapolia £ Manitoba R’y, (late St. Paol £ Pacino.
3,000,000 ACRES
Mainly In tfc, Fathom
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the great vegetable
Pain Destroyer and Specific for Inftam.
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RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. No ether ruv™.—
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hcea, Catarrh (for which it is a specific*. Chit*
blaiiM. rosted Feet. Mines of Inserts. Not
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ail manner of Skiu Diseases.
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of the expense of the Extract as adapted for
safe use m its delicate application to mnuj
ailments, we have prepan-d a preparation for
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to animals, in a cheaper form. Price, per
gallon. VETEIUNAUY EXTRACT, E3. k).
. CAUTION.— Pond's Extract, is sqiil only
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It is never sold In bulk. No one can sell it
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SPECIAL 1-REPARATIONS OF POND’S EXTRACT COM
BINED WITH THE POTIEBT AND MOST DELICATE
pgAFL'MES FOli LAKES' BOtTDOIR.
POND'* EXTRACT ,T0c.,1.00 nsdU.73.
Toilet Cream 1.00 I Catarrh Cure - 7 S
Itentlfrlce - - AO Plaster - 35
l.lnNaive - 35 I Inhaler (,w--- 1 .no
Toilet Soap (3 c’k’s 50 Nasal Syrtliae 35
Ointment - - 50 I Medicated Paper 85
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a book aa this one by W. O. Perkins, who now, by the
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of Musical Doctor. rom tbe elegant title to the last
pae the spfee is most acceptably filled.
The Elementary Course is ample in quantity, and has
numerous new tunes for practice, which practice, indeed,
may extend over the whole book.
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The numerous Glees and Harmonized Songs add to the
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I the Old ltellable Concentrated Lye
FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKING
Directions accompanying each can for making Hard
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IT IS MULL WEIGHT AND STRENGTH.
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i Lye, which is adulterated with salt and resin, and won
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