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—=*- *T - - F VB.MF>'; ON 1 Hit SCALE. 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- T. POTT KK WIGHT * (JO.. Baaier-. ! Watt St.. N'.Y YOUNG MEN ■d- at Every graduate guaranteed a paying eitm* u3t A.d ress B.TaJeiitine. Manure r . Janeavil.e. Wia. ni A p.* V. —Wit a SteDCU outfits. What co-us 4 f||n ctr - rapidly for flO cts. Cat*: ogre free l#lU -v M Swim,flaw Vfaaft. nnillßl Habit A SU in IMea-e.' Th u llrHim U-*tPr - ” " vi ran t.iwrit* i.-. COEn AMOlfTH—AwentsWanted—3lre.* selling articles tolh. wnrhi; in. -am|i.efr> - Address JAY BKONSOX. Detroit. Mich emn *• *■.. kicm & t0..p.-t,id otNU (St Q ‘tnn' A TEAK. Ujw tc it Mu 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. ~l 1.... .1 ~l —.is— EXODUS To the bast land*, m the b-wt oitroaio, **•-£*“? markets, and on the best terras, aloor *“•iiST* Mianeapolia £ Manitoba R’y, (late St. Paol £ Pacino. 3,000,000 ACRES Mainly In tfc, Fathom RED RiVER VALLEY OFTHE NO YTH. On lone t.ima. low prioes and aasy payments Pamphlet with foil lafomaatlen trailed free. Apph D. A. McKJKLAY, Land Com’r. i. P. U. A *. U>, St. Pael, Klim. RisM su N STOVE POLISH f or beauty of Polish, Saving Labor, 1 (ness. PuratuSit.var.ii rhr-tru.'ss^pnequah’d. A* ISJi Li.riS.. FropAurore. Cal Masa ■A _a— .■ T DESIUJMS, TBADB HglTPntQ makks, labels. ■ Cl AVI ICAVEATS and advice ho* to secure thorn promptly nnd at the lowest cost given hy S. H.tVALKS <fc Stour .Editors of the “Scientific Veiv ,' Xo. lO Spmce St., New York, who have had twe'.ty-four years’ experience in the bnsiness. itn i ,■ n WT M Full of Engraving Scientific News,” ventors and readers of popular science. Only SI * year. Sample copies and pamphlet to inventors sent j free. B AGENTS WANTED FOB THE ICTORIAL i HISTORYoftmWORLD It contains 072 fine historical eneravinns and 1200 = large double column pages, and is the most complete | History of the World ever published. It sells at sight, j Send for specimen pages and extra terms to Agents, and aee why it sells faster than any other book. Address, National Publishing Cos.. Philadelphia, Pa. ! ■ MASONiC" lies for TaOdges, Chapters, tmmanderies, mauufact !/. <7. Lit try J- Cos., Colum nd for I*rice Lists. Uniforms a Specialty. | ty. and Firemen’s Goods. E CURED FREE. An infallible and unexcelled Remedy for Fits.Epileuuyor tvarrantea to effect a speedy and PERWAKEWT ture. VIMIV “ A free bottle 99 of my ■ 3 B 8* •* renowned specific and a valuable I fl Treatise sent to any suflerei 1 X IB sending me his P. O- and Ex w press address. % Dn. 11. G.'ROOT. 181 Pearl Street,Hear Tcifc, j Ml In km Ti ■ ■ ii THIS NEW TRUSS Hat a Pad differing: from all othtrt, ta cap-shape, with Self-Adjusting Ball W CPUem , _ S3 In canter, adapt* itaelf to all poaiUona m SENSIBLE Wof lba body, while tba |AI I m the the Hern!. I, held .ecvrely day and rngbi, and a radical care eer. tain, lb la easy, durable and cheap. Kent by maiL Circular* Eggleston Truss Cos., Chicago, 111., Uff B *TTT There is no enre f or Bright t Dis iefß fa 111 V ease of ttie Kiit„ Pvg , or ltlaildei 111 II II I amt I rinary (Mnp] a 'ints- Ttieyare 111x111 1 ]H ST'S HEM cures these diseases* Gen- VflVffVlfW >ral Debility, Pains in the Back. Hfll H I fl| J/ Loins or S:<i*\ Dropsy, ftravr:. Dis- I Ml I Sll n Filiation, a’-J all Diseases of tbe U 111 _■% Kidneys. Bladder and Urinary * "■■■“ "■ Organs are cured by SlVli!;!{}'• Family Physicians prescribe lllliT’S : HliTll.lll . St mi for pamphlet to W M. K. CI.AHKU. Provitlence. R. I. iHPiI f ‘‘ r - *< *- j'i.K WAAKAX IKI A . Sr. jT cure all kinds of PILES iflS KIDX E VS. DYSPEPSIA,OANCKR, anl all diseases of the SKIN and BLOOD. Entirely Ve*<- 5-t “ ! Internal and externa! use. Money refunded in all cases of far . , r ur ,.. none foT j,, ypars even .. wheie. Send for pamphlet. $1 a Bottle. * j H. I>. lOWLE, Boston. CIUVREHLAIIV IWSTITrTE isilii. Bandolpli, IV. V. On the A. &G. W H. R..IU the (iKiutawfwi Lake region. A well-endowed and successful Seminary f.*r both ►exes. Tie usual Literary L epartments and a very fi..irishing Commercial School and Music Denartm-rt. sSf different students last year. Pure air. mountain spring water, gotl food ind careful supervision. Nod iths in3o vears. Etidow nients such that we will receive student (total expense) ft r 1 Term for ; for 1 year, S|r<>. Cata logue sent fr -c ,! application to the Principal. PROF. J. T. EDWARD ' -A ii*-. 20. AGEMTS WANTED FOR * BACK from the MOUTH of HELM*. By one who has been there! 6 Rise and fall of the. MOUST A CHE.’’ By the Burlington Hawkeye humorist. (i Samantha an a P. A. anti P, M." By Josiah Allen’s wife. rhe three bright -1 and best-selling books out. Agent* you can put the books in everywhere. Best serm ?lven. Addres*- Agency, AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO.. Hartford, CL; Chicago, 111. _ TMi date-Bewe Eatabliahed 19M, PENSIONS. New Law. Thouwnd. of Soldier, end hefri entitled. Pensions date beck to dlecharge or deatk. nK Itnaßed. Addreu with stamp, ( GKOBGE E. LESION, f. 0. Drawer 385, Waahliiftea, D. Q. THE WEEKLY SDN. A large, eight-pa :e paper of 50 broad columns, wii le sent postpaid t-j j address u.*tii January Ist I**o, FOS HALF A DOLLAR. Address THE sr.v. y. v. j ■ Children otfen neen simple nourishment rather than medicine, and how to afford this when the child has little p >wer to assimilate is fully ne t in Ridge’s Food. .Milson H Hamlin Cabinet Organa monitrati-.l be • by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL A LD’3 EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS, via.: at i a ISriT; ViEjrxA, 1873; Santiago. 1875; PHihADar.- fma, If). ; Paris, 1878, and Grasd S-.vedish Gou Medal, 1873. Only American Organs ever awarded highest horr ors at any - uh. Sold for or installments. Innue i'ratxd C'atai/rjites and Circulars with new styles and pricei, sent free. MASON t iiAMI.IN ORGAN CO ;•-t n Nrw Yot . or C • nco .cWARNER BRO'S CORSETS H e' • rent \ >.j~. f-y PARIH E\PO!TSG;i, \. f r LKXIBI.K HIP toittSET 1\; • i. .aa.>vo ..ysU.a. ' \ I VIPROVED HEALTH' CORSE’ f , f, .ij *.,ft %fi>t fi-xible and conlaina te. V ; : ! Price by Basil, |LM. Y [ 11 ' Js P-r K*le by sllOsdlnr merchtonU. y wuntm BROS.. 351 Broadway, ! . i TEAS’ ■ torn W ■ai.i. tiik time The very best goods dir" t from t? : tape Tiers at Ha J fhe usual cost. Best plan ever offered U Club Agents and large ALL EXPRESS CHAi GKS PAID. New terras FREE. The Great American Tea Company, 31 an 33 Ve*ey Street. lew Vork MOLLER S TO B 'COD-LIVER OIL Is perfectly purr:. Pronounced the beet by the h eat medical au'horitie* in the wirii Given bitrhert award at I*6 World’s Expositions, and at Paris, Hold by Drurita W.U.ibcbieffelin 11 0.,N.Y. IAGENTS. READ THIS! We will pay Agents a riaiary of |IOO per month and expr-nseg, or allow a large cun mission, to sell our new ana wonderful inventions. We mean toh-it toe eay. f*acßn pie free. Addrese 6BLERMA . . 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