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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
row Yields of Corn.
In reference to the very low yields of
corn in the Southern States, a rather
singular fact might be mentioned. Some
time ago a correspondent who is a South¬
ern farmer wrote asking for advice as to
what crops ho could grow in place of
corn, which only yielded six bushels per
acre. Sincp then the writer has been on
this farmer’s land and found in his close
vicinity another farmer who made the
past season 150 bushels of corn from
twelve acres, or more than ten times the
yield of the complaining farmer. The
reason was very plain. The with one had
grown corn year after year a few
crops of rye and buckwheat edged in
betweea them, and without a particle of
manure, while the other had grown
buckwheat for a first crop on new land,
then corn for two years, then wheat, then
clover for two years, and last corn on a
rich clover soi. As usual, it was a case
of “ the man and not the land,” as it is
every time .—New York Times.
Water and Manure for Strawberries
C. M. Hovey, of Cambridgeport,
Mass., writes to the New York World:
Water and manure for strawberries are
important items. When La Constante
was introduced I planted a bed on a
hard, hill, and clayey laid ground, hose on the the slope of that a
a at top, so
they could get all the water they needed,
and I never saw such a crop. The fruit
was exceedingly large and fine. I picked
from two or three rows one hundred
^baskets, which sold for $100. Guano is
not safe for strawberries. Fifteen or
sixteen years ago I had berries of the
Admiral Dundas variety and eight ordered or nine
in inches circumference, 1 my
men to give the plants applied a little guano. much The
following year we high so that
the leaves grew so the fruit could not
be seen, and I got no fruit for three
years. Wild strawberries are always
found to thrive where wood has been
burnt off, showing the benefit of ashes.
We should fertilize to make fruit rather
than leaves.
Do Ughtnlng.Kods Pystect )
A few years since, at a farmer’s insti¬
tute in Michigan, facW* were reported
which seem to throw much doubt on the
usefulness of lightning rods or conduc¬
tors as usually placed on farm buildings.
This is certainly a question of much im¬
portance. I know of one small farm
house and barn, the surroundings ot
which seem to show that the owner m ss
illy prepared to stana such an outlay
where there are seven lightning rods It
is an interesting fact, that in passing
through any of our farming successful, districts and the
buildings of the most
especially the most studious and intelli
gent, of the farmers are unadorned with
these supposed attractions for electricity.
Surely the practical verdict of our best
farmers is against such protection. That
science believes in thoroughlyconstructed evident from the
conductors seems fact
that the tall Washington monument with just
now being constructed is provided
a lightning conductor. Yet that this tall
shaft has stood unharmed for so faith long of a
time will tend to strengthen the
those who are willing to risk lightning
without the rods.
In the current volume of Nature, page
eighty, Mr. Arthur Parnell, who has
thoroughly investigated this subject, pro
duces statistics that surely weaken confi
dence in the value of these conductors,
There are 320 cases given where light
ning has paid no heed to these means of
protection. Of these sixty-four per cent,
resulted in damage to property. “The
whole of the results of his researches
affords,” he says, “evidence that failures
and accidents more frequently happen be in
with rods which are thought deemed to
good order than with those faul ty
in construction. It ould it not be
worth while for farmers to give statistics
as to the efficacy of such conductor? If
we may judge by the practice in govern
ment buildings and that of our most
thrifty farmers, rodding convinced does not that pay. If
all farmers could he con
ductors arc, as usually put up, useless,
or possibly worse than useless — so
strongly convinced that they could stand
firm against the smooth, bland, earnest
arguments of the venders much money
would he saved each year. Professor A.
J. Cook.
Farm and Carden Xoie«.
The soil for corn must he dry,rich and
well pulverized.
Cows that yield the most milk, as a
rule, are never fat.
jA little charcoal fed to swine now and
'then proves beneficial.
The first element of success in the care
of live-stock is fondness for the stock.
Use the curry-comb lightly. When
it is used roughly it is a source of great
P a in
Never clean a horse in the stable. The
dust fouls his crib, and makes him loathe
his food?
New York and Pennsylvania produced grow
two-thirds of all the buckwheat
iu this country,
It is asserted that “there is not one
farm hand in 1«,000 who knows how to
feed live-stock.”
source of disease.
y~.g fig. asm profit us * sm tea.
and return a larger m proportion
to cost than hogs.
A farmer in Plymouth, N. II., raised . ,
last rear four hundred bushels of onions
on less thau an acre of land.
Sprinkle a little lime (air slacked) over
the potatoes in your cellar. It will tend
to prevent rot, and purify the air of the
cellar.
Every fruit garden should have its
manure heap, that in the fall or spring,
when it comes to be applied, will cut
like paste.
Should you runout of axle grease some
busy time^ mix two parts of lard with
one each of black lead and wheat flour,
and apply.
A pound of flesh lost to the brute is
twice lost to the owner, for the waste of
the body tovto must m.iat hr> be ren-iircfl repaired whi.e while u it is is be- oe
ln g re P a •
ffii(fthey S will\ee > j
with with'buckwheat buckw mat cnaitt C j p p weU
and do no. fre.zeaseas *. • - ’
sawdust or ea-th are used.
To procure a good coat on your horse,
use plenty of rubbing and brushing.
Plenty of “elbow-grease” opens the
pores, softens the skin, and promotes
the animal '3 general growth.
Keen stables warm during the cola
weather and free from draughts. This
does not mean to exclude ali outside air;
the stable should be ventilated, but that
can be done without draughts.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station ea\l 3 attention to the fact that in
its experimen-s. potatoes raised from
laror who : e seed ripened nine davs ear
lie?than those from seed cut to'single
eyes.
Chestnuts aie usually srown from seed,
either planted during the fall or kept in
sand through the winter and planted in
the spring. The large varieties of the
Spanish chestnut, or marrow, which do
not come true from seed, can be grafted
on the others.
Every preparation should be completed
for making and saving the largest amount
of manure possible. Provide a tight
shed or dry cellar for the manure. If
exposed to the weather, its most valuable
constituents ore washed out aud lost. It
is the worst economy to permit this.
Horses that have a rackful of hay be
fore them all the time will grow poor,
when, if fed a limited quantity, with
some grain, they will become fat. The
rack tilled with hay .becomes offensive
from the horse’s breath, and the animal
must be partly starved before he will
eat j t
A Wisconsin farmer stoutly maintains
that he prevents the ravages of the
beetles in iris potatoes by planting one or
two flaxseeds in each hill. He says the
bugs will shuu the flax every time, and
that he has grown potatoes in this way
for ten years and secured good crops
when others failed.
In the care of fowls ‘no one thing is
more important than system. There
should be a daily routine. It must bo
somebody’s business to attend to the
fowls punctually at just the same time
every day—just as much as it is essen¬
tial to the well-being of a well-ordered
family to have the meals at regular the hours,
the washing done on Monday, iron¬
ing on Tuesday, the baking on Wednes¬
day, the sweeping on Friday, etc. It is
just as essential as it is to groom the
horses, feed and water all around,
regularly aud daily, week iu aud week
out.
The man or boy who has ever had oc¬
casion to drive or lead a hog does not
need to be reminded that the task is
oftentimes irritating. It is claimed that
by the aid of a strong bushel basket the
hog’s aversion to going as you please The
can be successfully overcome.
method of operating is this. When the
subject turns aud makes a dive for your
underpinning quietly clap tbe basket
over his head, when he will begin to
back, and can be driven in that manner
past the spot to which he has an aversion,
when the basket can be removed, A few
applications of this kind will be sufficient
to peisuade the subject to drive without
difficulty.
Recipe,
Cabbots. -Wash, scrape and
cut in sii either across or lengthwise: and
put P illto a saucepan with a little salt
watcr cover thcm well, boil
uutl ten ^ and . dra , • n
‘ er ‘
Bean Soup. Soak a quart of beans
in _ water over night ; in the morning
pour off the water and add fresh. Set
° n ^ le ^ re . anc ^ when the skins rise to
the top remove them, Boil until soft,
allowing two quarts of water, Seasou
with salt and pepper,
Chicken Pates. —Chop meat of cold
chicken tine and season well; make large
cupful rich drawn butter, aud while on
fire stir in two eggs, boiled hard,
minced very fine; also a little chopped
parsley, then chicken meat; let almost
boil; have ready some pato pans of good
paste baked quickly to a light brown;
slip from pans while hot, fill with mix
ture and set in oven to heat,
Potato Pudding. —Boit and mash
SO me nice Irish potatoes, season deli
cately with salt and butter, and heat
; n t 0 a thick batter with two eggs and
sufficient ntilk. Put at the bottom of a
baking dish some slices of cold beef or
j aln b with salt, pepper and a little stock
jelly; add a layer of the potato, then a
j a y cr Q f meat, and put a thick layer of
potato on top. Bake to a rich brown,
Acnt Betsy’s Apple Tart.— Peel
and core some apples, cut them into
s jj ceg ’ cu t one sma [j quince into slices,
and 8 tew it Untu tender in a very tfttle
wa ( C1 . with a small lump of buttei
added Linc somo round t Uia w ith puff
j te ro „ ed very then put into it a
of the a le3 and t h cn of the
q U j uce -with a layer of apples on the
top; ” sprinkle sugar enough over each
j to swceten jt put a band of puff
tc around the edge‘and a thin with cover the
over j-] lc t 0 p. wet this over
w b dc of an egg, and bake in a moderate
ovcn Just before it is eaten it should
have powdered sugar sprinkled over it.
Household Hint*.
Bronzed chandeliers aud lamps should
bt dusted, not washed. Washing takes
oil the bronze.
To fasten leather upon metal: The
surface of the metal is washed with
a hot solution of gelatine, and the
j ea {i, eri previously steeped in a hot infus
j on 0 f ’g a ii allowed nuts, to is cool, pressed upon the
me tal and
j.-jy epecks, etc., may be removed from
bronze by means of a mixture of laveu
der oil, one drachm, alcohol, one ounce,
water, one and a half ounce. Use soft
sponge and proceed quickly, with little
rubbing as possible,
To take impressions from coins, pro
cure tin or lead foil, as tlriu this as with possible,
place it on the coin; cover wet
blotting paper, then with a sheet Of dry
paper firmly, press them under weights
its concave side.
Jft* H. gfS3%£?£R£S. wi f h hot soapsuds, Then
we „
scrub it with clean, hot water, after
w }p c h rinse it off with cleat , cold water,
jj an g U p 'the and dr y, if very dirty, scrub
it ., vlUl suds on both sides. After it
i s dr y, l»y on the grass and sweep off.
Iu Three States at Once.
qq ie Maryland line is about two miles
goujp c f Newark, and the tracks of
Baltimore and Ohio extension run
across the sharp angle of Pennsylvania,
which extends down between Delaware
aud Maryland, at a point where it is five
feet wide. After the first train stopped
over the Maryland line and most picked of the their per
sons on board feetthrough alighted the mud and
way 250 water
to the point ^ in the woods where the three
^ ^ Thc spot u iudicated first
bv a loo<r stone just above the surface,
>-rks Mason and Dixon's line,
Beside it J9 planted Delaware, a triangular stone,
with the initials of Maryland
and Pennsylvania cut on the various
s j des q q the west side is the following
j cscr jn tiolI . '‘Erected by II. G. S. Key,
M d.; J. P. Eyre, Pa.: G. B. Riddle,
pj e ] _ Commissioners, 1840.” Some of
the visitors mounted the stone in order
to sav that they sat in three States at one
time; others palate their thumbs on the
apex of the stone in order to say that
they bad their thumbs in the three States
one time, while o'hers still stood in
the narrow strip of Pennsylvania and ex
tended one hand into Maryland and the
other into De aware. Thegtone is about
three feet high and the three sides each
about fourteen inches wide. It is called
a prismatic ston t.—Baltimore Sun.
GRATES OP THE PRESIDENTS.
Where the President, are Buried—
C'ali for » National Mausoleum.
It would be agood idea for the United
States to have a national mausoleum, like
Westminister abbey, iu which Presidents
could be buried, and statues of them
erected. At present some of them have
neither a slab nor a monument to mark
their graves. General Harrison’s body
rests in a brick vault on the top of a lit
tie hill fifteen miles west of Cincinnati,
A big, flat stone lies on its top, but there
is no inscription, and the only beauty
about the grave is the pine trees which
surround it with their perpetual green,
John Tyler s body is buried in the Holly
wood cemetery at Richmond, va., aud
has not a stone or bust to mark its rest
ing-place. . Ten yards . President
away is
Monroe’s grave, but he was not buried
here until after the centennial anniver¬
sary of his birth.
Monroe waite,d twenty-seven years for
an appropriate tomb, and he now rests in
a vault over which is a large granite
sarcophagus, and on it an inscription tes¬
tifying that it was erected “as an evi¬
dence of the affection of Virginia for her
good and honored son.”
Van Buren’s grave, notwithstanding
his wealth, is now bleak and bare, with,
out a flower or shrub, at Kinderhook,
and a year or two ago the little granite
shaft which stood over the remains of
-Thomas Jefferson had been mutilated and
its inscription destroyed by relic-hunters.
Its gates were rusty and its appearance
that of a ruin.
George Washington Henry has showed been twice day
buried, and Clay one
in the Senate a piece of his first coffin.
Mount Vernon is now his tombstone,
and the sarcophagus in which he lies is
a brick vault overlooking the Potomac.
It has hut one word on it, and that is
“Washington.” Tho Adamses buried iu the
two are
Unitarian church at Quincy. When
John Adams died, his son, the Presi¬
dent, obtained a deed to a burial lot in
the cellar of the church fourteen feet
square, aud in this he built a granite tomb
for himself and his father. Here lie tho
two Presidents and their wives, and on
the walls of tho church above are long
incriptions commemorative of their lives
and worth. John Quincy Adams’ in¬
scription commences: “ Near this place
reposes all that could die of John Quin¬
cy Adams.” And it closes:
A son worthy of his father.
A citizen shedding glory oil his country.
A scholar ambitious to advance mankind.
This citizen sought to walk humbly in the
sight of God.
The incription devoted to the first
Adams aud his wife Abigail ends in the
following verse of advice, headed “Pil¬
grim
From lives thus spent thy earthly duties
learn; virtue turn:
From fancy’s dreams friendship, to active faith, thy soul
Let freedom, en¬
And gage, like them, thy country and thy
serve,
age.
The most expensive of the presidential
monuments are, I suppose, those of Lin
coin and Garfield. Lincoln’s monument
at Sprinfield cost 8206,550, and the
ground devoted to that of Garfield’s is
said to be worth $100,000, and the
monument is to cost $150,000 more.
There has been a number of stories
published in regard to the graves of
President Taylor, in that ho was at first
buried at Washington and his body
afterward moved about from place to
place. The truth is he has never been
buried, but was brought immediately, father's on
his death at the capital, to there his
old farm iu Kentucky, and put into
a vault. His body'has lain there ever
since, and there is a gray granite monu
ment. surrounded by a marble statue of
the general, near by.
Frank Pierce has a monument of
Italian marble at Concord, stud, strange
to say, the name engraved of upon Franklin it is
Francis Pierce, instead
Pierce, as he was known to the country.
It has no long inscription, and is, like
the monument of Millard Fillmore nt
Buffalo, simple to an vault extreme. the Lancas- J.ames
Buchanan lies in a in
ter cemetery, and chronicles his life in
Ihe dates of his birth aud death, and
the fact that he was the fifteenth Prcsi
dent of the United States. It takes
twenty-three lines to write the inscrip
tion on Polk’s tombstone, and it lies in
Nashville, twelve miles away front that
of Andrew Jackson, a much greater
man, who sums his record up in three,
Jackson’s body beside lies his in wife. his garden The at the
Hermitage of monu- lime
ment above them is Tennessee
stone, and Jackson’s life is triven in
these words: “ Gen. Andrew Jackson,
born March 15, 1707; died June 8,
1845 .”—Cleveland leader.
An Abyssinian Library.
The Abyssinian alphabet consists of
two hundred and eight characters, each
of which is written distinctly and separ
ately, like the letters of a European
printed book. The labor required to
write an Abyssinian book is therefore im
uiense. and sometimes Years are con
sumed iu the preparation English of a single scholar, vol
nine, Mr. Luzon, an
visited an Abyssinian monastery a few
miles from Cairo, and was surprised to
find therein one of the most unique of
libraries.
In a room twenty-six feet by twenty, a
number of long wooden pegs projected
from the wall, and on them hung about
fifty Abyssinian books in manuscript
A.s the entire !iterature,of Abyssinia does
not include more than one hundred vol
times, the monks were proud of their li
p rar y
Each book was bound in red leather or
In boards, and enclosed in a case tied up
with leather thongs. To this case was
attached a strap for the convenience of
carrying 'these the volume over the shoulders,
and'by straps the books were four hung
to the wooden pegs, three or to a
The room thus fitted up also contained
a number of l-.mr staves, for the monks
to lean on at the lime of prayer. It had
the aopeiratice of a guard room, where
the soldiers had hurt" their knapsacks
and cartridge boxes against the wall.
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A , Iesson . in ... Domestic ,. Esonomy. r
A bear once fell in love with a setting
hen and told her one day that rite might
; ro to a picnic and he would hatch on
her eggs for her. the consented, and
the gaiiant bear took his position on the
nest in the regulation manner, but soon
got up, looking as if hr bad been re
clining in a bowl of Cggnog as a subeti
tute for an arm-chair.
“The next hen I frill in love with
must do her own hatching.” he re
marked to himself hi great digest, as
he took his melancholy dcjiarture. “I
hatched out the eags at the very fir-:
, clatter, but there are no chickens iu
them.”
Moral: This fable teaches ^ that some
duties pertaining to the domestic econo
tnv are too subtle and mysterious to be
..nlli.-mtly discharged by the lords of
creation .—Lfe.
AN ENTERPRISING REPORTER.
How lie Learnod llie Secrets of a
legislative Caucus.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in a
sketch of Joseph J. Eakius, a young by the re¬
porter who has been made clerk
new mayor, relates some illustrations of
Eakins’ journalistic enterprise while he
was serving at Frankfort as capitol Commf- cor
respondent of the Louisville
cial :
He was only nineteen years old then,
but be aitracted the attention of Colonel
Kelley. When the session of the colonel legisla¬
ture began in October the re
solved to send him to Frankfort as that
paper’s correspondent. He instructed
him to go there at once and made a ved
liot partisan tight for “ the only Republi¬
can daily ” in Kentucky. There was
never a better show for an active re¬
porter. Colonel Kelley told Joe that
previous correspondents had always been
afraid to attack the State government, such
aud that lie wanted him to make no
mistake. Joe was a Democrat, as all his
people were before him, but he knew
what his duty to a Republican paper the
was, aud he. promised to carry out
colonel’s instructions. If he made any
mistake in his vigorous fight, he did
so because he was obeying with or¬
ders. He went to Frankfort
the determination to unearth
sensations, and he succeeded, Many
were the devices to which he had to re¬
sort to obtaiu the news in spite oi the
hostility of ihe members. One of the
cleverest and most amusing was the way
in which he obtained the proceedings of
the Democratic caucus. For the purpose
of excluding him, it was resolved to ad¬
mit no newspaper men. A reporter is
not easily daunted, how T ever, and Eakins
considered that all things were fair in
the enemy's camp. The first evening
thereafter he went into the upper gallery of
of the house and hid under a row
back seats, When the caucus was as
sembled, however, a search was ordered,
and Joe’s feet were discovered slicking
out from under the bench by a sergeunt
at arms. The official, with a laugh, or¬ he
dered him to come out, and when
emerged, covered with dust and humilia¬
tion, he was greeted with an enthusiastic
chorus of derisive yells. He walked out,
but lie did not give up the light. A pipe
from the stove in the house passes back
into the cloak room. Securing a step
ladder he mounted, and, placing his ear
to the pipe, heard every word that was
uttere d. The voices of the members were
perfectly familiar to him by this time,
and his dispatch was unusually full and
complete. There was great wonder the
next (lay, and this was intensified when
that evening’s caucus proceedings were first
also repotted in detail. It was at
thought that he was in the confidence of
some member, but the next day the se¬
cret leaked out. The door in the cloak¬
room was locked and the step-ladder liakins re¬
moved. Still, this did no good,
found means to be introduced into the
house early the next afternoon, and se¬
creted himself behind a book-case,
where at tho cost of some personal dis
comfort, lie remained during the caucus
| session, lie was able to do so connivance only that
j time, as the person by whose afraid longer
: he had effected it was to
i assist him. Another resource was dis
' covered, and for two more nights the
I faithful reports of the proceedings were
kept up. The third evening, after the
roll had been called, the Hon. Laban T.
Moore arose aud stated that the secretary
bad omitted the name of one who had
always taken a deep interest in their de
liberations. He di.sired to suggest that
the secretary call the name of
j Joseph State-at-large. Eakins, His member words from greeted the
were
with cheers, and when the secretary
called out the name u voice said
“ Here ” from one of tho windows.
Looking out they found the indefatig
able correspondent seated ou the limb of
a huge tree, which grew at a distance of
J fifty feet from the window. lie hud
; climbed the tree and crawled out on a
huge branch, whose extremity almost
j fortable touched the position shutters. there, It was but not a the com
up ro
,
porter had a piece of soft paper and was
writing up the proceedings as they went
on. As fast as a sheet was finished he
dropped it to the ground, when it was
picked up by a messenger and taken to
the telegraph office. ’1 lie spirit of op¬
position had not guard quite died out placed the next
evening, and a was over
the tree. The day following, bow¬
ever, it was resolved to hold the sessions
with open doors, and when Eakins
walked in a little after 8 o’clock he
was greeted with a perfect ovation of
shouts, yells and cheers. llis plucky
fight had won the hearts of all present,
and he had much smoother sailing tho
remainder of the term.
Railroad Accidents and Color Blind
ness.
It has not been the duty of tho writer
to investigate cases of accident which
might have been caused by defects of
! sight, but he has been assured by officials
that a solution will hereafter be found
in them for those hitherto insoluble tnys
\ teries where men. otherwise credible,
have so flatly contmdicted themselves
; aitd the circumstances of the case. By
or >e prominent officer lie was told that,
; being upon a train at night, delayed by
! some slight accident, lie himself took a
red lantern, and going a proper distance
back placed himself on the track in the
way of an oil com ng train, but finding
his light not observed he was compelled
to dash it into the cab to attract the en
gineer’s attention, and arrest him in his
progress to a collision. Upon the cx
animation of another engineer, his su
perior officer being present and convinced
of hie marked color-blindness remarked
that but a short time before the man had
run into tho rear of a train properly pro
teeted by a red light in the hands of a
j brakemari some distance in the rear, that
the most careful investigation had re
suited only in the suspend™ of the
j brakemari for not having gone far enough
back, but that he was now satisfied lhat
the color-blindness of the engineer bad
been the real came of the accident. Some
slight or minor accidents recently led to
the discovery that another engineer had
' by some oversight not been tested in his
division, and tiii* led to his examimrion
“»d detection lucre, .awl .... to Im convic
tion „ y , Uf . writ,-,- as a color blind. Hull
| another c-se now presents it-elf. An
engineer killed some brakeman time holding ago ran ovet danger- and
a a
signal on the track in front of his engine.
\ and no satisfactory ex pi (ration could
then be given; but the division examiner
predicted that he would probably be
i found color-blind, and on his examina
i tion this Monthly. proved to be the case.— Popular
Science
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There are five spiritualistic organs in
h'rance, four in Belgium, two in Holland,
eight in Spain, tv. o in Italy, and three in
Germany. In addition to several jour
nals devoted to the cause in England
and the United St a es, it has one organ
eac j, : n Austria, Russia. Mexico, the
Antilles, Chili. Brazil, l ruguay, the Ar
gentine Republic, Australia, India and
j Cape Colony.
Lobby Ladies*.
The ladies of the lobby are the great¬
est bore to the average Congressman,
writes a Washington correspondent to
the Cleveland Leader. By this I do not
the lady lobbyists. '
mean There are few
purely business lobbyists among the
ladies abounds of the capitol, fiction and the character
more in than in reality.
But there are scores of women with
claims, women office seekers, and adven¬
turesses of different kinds, who come to
the capitol, and the rooms reserved for
their raception are always full while
Congress is in session. The ladies’ re¬
ception north room door. of It the lionse is opposite
the is a loug room, with
great white marble Corinthian columns
runniug through cushioned its center, and with a
number of red leather chairs
and sofas around its walls. When 1 en¬
tered it to-day I found it filled with
about forty ladies, some sitting and wait¬
ing, and others engaged in talking to
Congressmen. Some of them were
drested in the finest of garments, cut
after the latest, styles, and there w’ere a
number of sealskin cloaks and not a few
diamonds. Mourning, however, pre
dominated, and I should judge there
were more soldiers’ widows after pen¬
sions than society women who had come
to gossip. I noticed many fresh young
girls; on colonel speaking who to had the charge polite Confed¬
erate of the
room, he told me that these, in nine
cases out of ten, were young women
who wanted places in the depart¬
ments, and had come to solicit
their Congressman’s influence. Said he:
‘‘You have no idea how many office
seekers come here. There are women
from all over the country. Many of them
are deserving, and notwithstanding what
has been said about it, I have yet to find
the first questionable bad character they did in this
room. If they are not
show it. We have from one hundred to
two hundred ladies in here every day to
see Congressmen. They must ali apply
to me, and I send in their cards by a
page. Sometimes the, members receive
them, and sometimes not.
“Many of the claimants are meritorious
ones, and some of them are very needy.
They tell me their pitiful stories, and
once in a while we have a scene here. 1
have seen many acts of congressional
kindness in this room. Last year there
was a poor old woman who used to come
.here and scud in her card about once n
week. The members generally came out
to see her, and she would tell her story
The few the called out always gave to
her, and I have seen two, five, and even
ten dollar bills go out of their pockels
into hers. Congressmen are generally
libernl'and kind-hearted, and they give
freely.”
As I leave this room I stop a moment
and speak to a doorkeeper 1 know. 11c
tells me that ladies sometimes try to go
into the house while it is in session, and
that dnrinar the last term one came to his
door with blood in her eyes and a cow¬
hide whip under inside, her sealskin but cloak. gently She
started to go was
pulled back. She said a Congressman
had ill used her, and she was bound to
go iu and horsewhip him in the presence
of the House. The threat of a policeman
restrained her.
The Colossal Statues of the Pacific.
Quite lately, fresh attention lms beeu
directed to the extraordinary island, remains which
which are found on Faster
lies about 2,300 miles west of the coast
of Peru, within easy sail of San Fran¬
cisco. Everybody remembers the colos¬
sal statues which are found in profusion
on ttiis island, monoliths representing
men forty feet high and nine feet across
the shoulders, They are made of the*
country rock of the island, but it is
quite evident that they are not tho work
of the natives, who tire n low luce of
savages, without tools capable of carving
in stone, or machinery suitable for
moving heavy weights. The question is,
how did they come here? it has been
suggested that Easter island is the re¬
mains of a submerged continent., which
was inhabited by u civilized race. But
Sclater, whose theories aro regarded
with respect, makes Easter island the
terminus of the southern migration of
mankind from his fancied continent of
Lcmuria.
For the benefit of those who are not
familiar with his studies it may he ex¬
plained that Sclater was a believer in Iho
hypo, bests which ascribes to mankind a
single otigin front a single race, accord¬
ing to the Bible. He held that Paradise,
from which all men originally came, was
a continent lying south of Ceylon; to
this continent he gave the name of Le
muria, from lemur, which means a ghost,
hut which Linnaeus gave to a race of
monkeys. Sclater believed tlint from
Lemuria man migrated into Africa, into
Asia, and thence into Europe and Amcti
ea, aud likewise into Polynesia, one
stream of emigrants pushing their way
as far east as Easter island. It is evident
ly worllt while to study these Easter
island statues and see what light history they
can shed—if any—on the early
of our race, and nowhere can that study
be presented to such advantage as in would Han
Francisco. The navy department
probably be quite willing to direct one
of our ships of war to collect two or
three of the colossal statues and brinir
them here, if we provided a place would for
their reception. The exhibit alone
draw Mvannsof visitors to San I rancid
CO.—(Sot Francisco Chronicle.
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I Ifntl a Hire*Hf»»! t'ough,
and raised a eonsiiieraolo amount of blood
and matter; besides, I was very thin, and «o
weak I could scarcely go about the house.
Tins was the ease of a man Willi consumption
arising from liver complaint,. He recovered
his health completely by the use of Dr.
Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” Thou
sands of others tear simitar tecintony. '
---T- advertisement • -
T"* newspaper ap
peared in
Repeated reqilfinfl K. nave Finkham’s in'IUCQU Vegetable trie pro
prietorrf of Lydia
Compound to send by mail to various lady
correspondents, lflrze mounted portraits of
| Mrs. Filikhain; and now many a household
wail is adm*n«*d by the familiar, motherly
face of the Massa-Iiusctts woman who has
done «o much for a ll women.
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There is much smuggling ' from Mexico
into the United Mate.
l *> r ‘he I.edies.
Laughter is the jujor burden mans light; plaster,
Turning Making sadm— every iittogl-nhic*
Darkest hour to May dawn bright.
j Tts the deepest, noilthe cheapest
J | r 1 ,,,, , ■* F av „ r ite Prescription.”
j a jj -weaknesses anil irregularities, •
“tearing down” sensations, “internal fever,”
j bloating, mg rick'nesa displaccm awl tendency mts, to cancerous d»
| ^ ' Price reduced to ooo dollar. By drug i .
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debt . i , ), |
Jersey City ha. a or over , •
OOO. .
Dxhrete — diseases, ----. affa'ting ma^ or <-no , ;
.
. ^llustrateltoKak
(Jon-ti . thrw iett-r stamiis
tation free. World’s Dispensary
j Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y.
j Im Mexico there is a petrified forest cover
ing "Ms acres.
_
Th<* Contrast.
Am the sable i* to ermine: as smut to flower:
Swen!toaU “ ^ti^^teY^rfSir^o^hmTri , jUpwrattons. ,
other
“Rough on Pain” Plaster.
Porous and strengthening, improved, side,rheu¬ the
best for backache, pains in chest or
matism, n euralgia. 25c . Drug gists or mail
Mexsman’s Peptonized beef tonic, the only
preparation ofbeef containingits blood-making entire nutri¬
tious properties. It contains
force generating and life-sustaining properties;
invaluablo for indigestion, dyspepsia, general debility; nervous
prostration, and ail forms of
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over¬
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazards
Co., Proprietors. New York. Sold by druggists.
Cntnrrlr of the Bladder.
Stinging,irritation,inflammation,all Kidney
and Paiba.” Urinary Complaints, cured by “ Buchn
$1.
Dairymen Retting Kiel*.
with Progressive dairymen who are only satisfied
the best results, are adding to their
wealth and conferring a benefit on society,
by in the rapid improvements they are making
the art of butter making. This class use
Wells, Color, Richardson & Co’s. Improved Butter
and know by actual test that it fills
every claim made for it.
“Rough on Cough*.”
Ask for “ Rough on Coughs,” for Coughs,
Colds, ttoro Throat, Hoarseuess. Troches, 1.5c.
Liquid, 25c.
The Children's Health must not be neglected.
Colds in the Head and SnulHos bring on Ca¬
tarrh and throat and lung affections. Ely’s
Cream Balm cures at once. It is perfectly
safe also and is Catarrh easily applied with the finger. It
cures and Hay Fever, the worst
druggists. cases yielding to it in Ely a short time. Sold by
50 cents. Bros., Owego, N. y.
The bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm that l ob¬
tained of you last summer has entirely cured
my little boy of a severe attack of catarrh.—
Mrs. Sallie Davis, Green Postoffice, Ala.
One of my children, a girl about nine years
old, had a very bad discharge from her head
and nose of a thick, yellowish matter, and
was physicians growing prescribe worse. for \V e her, had two but different without
benefit. Wo tried Ely’s Cream Bairn, and
much to our surprise in three days there was
a marked Improvement. We continued using
tho Balm and in a short time discharge was
apparently cured. —0. A. Cary, Corning, N. Y.
Tlic Hope of the Nation.
Children,slow in development,puny,scrawny
and delicate, use “Wells’ Health Renewer.”
Lemon growing is rapidly becoming an ini
porfcant industry in Florida._
Wlion visit, leave Impo N« I’tnitr. York city, bag#a*e,
you or \v save
PXprt'fiKnge and carriage hire, mid stop at tha (Irani
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central d »pot.
dollars, Mkieleg'in rft 1 mid rooms, upward titt■«! up m, a Kuropnnn cost of on*s million ICI»
vntor. Restaurant supplied perdity. with theh‘*at. Horse plan.
c trs.
Stages and elevated railroad to all dep.itd. Families
fan live better for lead money nt the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other flrat-ohiss hotel in tho city.
Under British rul© there live about 2N5,
000,0(H) human beings.
The Pains and Aches
Of rheutnatiem hue© in many infltnnoes been cured by
Hood's Sarsaparilla. The best authorities say that
rheumatism originateii in a morbid condition of the
blood. Lactic »cid, circulating with the blood, at¬
tacks the tih rot is tissues, particularly in tho joints.
Hood's Sarsaparilla, by its purifying and vitalizing ac¬
tion cn the b.o >d, corrects tho cause of the disease,
and thus effects the mo. t rrinaikable cures.
Rheumatic Lumbago
“I was troublod with rhoumatio lumbago, and see
ing Hood's Sarsaparilla wan recommended for that, I
thought I would try it. After taking three bottle* 1
felt like s new mao. 1 wn» also unable to sleep nights,
but after taking Hood's Karaaparilla I could sleep es
well as ever. I would recommend llnod’s Sarsaparilla
before all others. L. E- Uabsidy, Omaha, Nsb.
“I suffered from what the doctors callod muscular
rheumatism. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and »m en¬
tirely cured.”--J, V. A. PROUDFOOT, letter oarrier,
Chicago, III.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by Dniffguds. $1; six for $5. Made only by
0. I. HOOD A OO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
RADWAY n 1 TWIT i tr.n S
O il IT t IS A RV 11
BSBaroa* R u
B B ■RELIEF
UUREM AND I’llHVISNTM
Colds, Coughs, Soro Throat, Inflammation*,
Uliommitisni, Neuralgia, Hoafluoho,
Toothache, Asthma, Difficult
Breathing.
CURBS Till: WORST hour I*AINN in from thin one ad to
twenty vortinsolent minute#. Not one NIJFFI2K after WITII reading PAIN.
need any one
RADWAY’S
READY RELIEF
la n Cure for Every Pain, 8prttiu*t Bruise*,
I'll iu In the Hack* Cheat or l.imba.
It «vu* (lie Plral nnri In tlie Only
PAIN REMEDY
That instantly stops tlie most excruciating pain, allays the
Inflammation, and cures Congestion^, whether of
Lung#, Mtoinsch or Bowels, or with other threatened glands or organs
by one application It H«dr.«d
PNEUMONIA,
Or any inflammation of Vh# internal oraana or mucu*
membranes, after exposure to fold, wet, rti;., lose nu
time, tint apply Ra.tway's Relief over t.l»« part affected
wittt A teaspoonful cungottlo 1 or in icflanjiimtlon half f.urabloi anil of w«tor < uro tho will 111 imtiont. fow
a a
miuutoi our# Grumps, Spasms, Hour Htoinach, Headache, Itoart
bnrn, NerfoiisusM, Hlosplettsuos*. Hick
iMarrhwa, □al pain”. D^tootery, Colic, FUUilency, and all later
MALARIA
CVIIEU IN ITS WOIIST FOUMH.
There ia ro * remedial agent In the world thtt will
cure and Ague and all other Malm l us. Bilious
N.eo
Filly cent* per H »i«l by llrugiflntN.
Jr. Railway’s Sarsaparillian Resolvent.
the creat blood purifier,
For the Cure of All Uiroulr DUcjucii.
Jhronio Bbeunjarism, Scrofula, Venereal, Kyphi itfo Omi
plsiut#, etc. (kr« our »>'•<>h on etc.; prios
twoiity-Hv# Ceuta). Ghadiilar IlHuding SwellinIlackinie •/ ( ry
Cough, Gauceri u.h Affection*, the l.i/n^H.
iJyHpopsia. Water lirar.h, Whit# <>l the hwellings, F. Ulcers Tumors, Hip
Punphrt*, Itl'flehep, Lhi j>ti* tut ce, 11‘ieuni, U
DistMuoa, Go it, l»ropay. Kicket*. Salt on
chill*. Gonsun»pt»i>»», UiabsteB. KWnsf, Bladder, Liver
j Coin plaint#, etc.
SCROFULA,
‘ wh.th.rtr.n.mittrub» p»r«itt«or ac'tuir«d, I.I.IAN j* within
|
<u y»ar* »f «.g«. i.v i*te. raDWAV'h kahsa
!
sod poruunent in it** treztmsof * r “l cu>*. Hold by all
ri One Co lar a Louie.
ca t» HUdW/iV ,__. f 0*2 n;l Fill . c/a
l. tvUUTl uJ twynu Aui
Forth, cure at .11 dinorJ... of th» stom.ch, Llr.r
i ttiim n. llZSSW w’ii. ra-.-o i »u •*» u ‘“
t.rn.1 Viscera. Pure , . < nUm.uz u« nt",
^
'I’OTf IliPL'IlMf’. il*t sure Oida^k for R*<J way's,
and #*• that. th« name “Kadway*’is <U what you buy.
OICCL PLATE rl-Hii- EN6BAVINU *“ 11 w * *
In a Uiinsmoratlou of the comp etlon of *h*
ww n f\RonUITICntl
— Tu* portrait* or ~p
W3Shifl§[t0i!f LiflCQ)l? 3HU U£l7i£*u»
*•«*
fr 1 'r / w t 'l*V>' fema>j. A -i
• sn.i v. . 11 tvrrj -
w i-r^Ano |ip.-r»unify * fa > f dime l-xclu-lveterrlo
rrsni sr.*, title" Si .OO s‘“d
& A .
2 Eoe«.:ime with ?»uch wonderful hu
J. ViUKiil, CHICAGO. ILLor 8i’. LOUIS. MU
m L. K. t~ ► a I * !f A « <».. Ap7»'fc, i • ImUma, Hi.
rsnpiePI £ 5J 1.1 IRIS'*! Wli
r -Z ~ .
^ 'ser.d led
irmi (• for i circa dar
* 3d if'niniy Ave.. New Verh.
rehife p lt s»i A.tlP, \V ifl.tca. Cutin.
IOc:b. V.. n. (
mraetwyij» gras
2 III Scrap Pietor*s, 1 c. fJ »okC'o.. N'a»tsa.N.Y.
ItwvwllMWbKiSSKn.'SEt
Yoars^Ilecord. UndoTBeA
by Physicians.
sub* ill*yi‘ /‘it*
mmmm.
CUBES By the use of tills
ALL RJEMTCDY, the Stom
DISEASES c,oh and Bovrelo
OF speedily regain their j
• tr engfch, and the
TUB blood ia purged. $• t
KTDTTEYS It ia pronounced by
» IJVJTR hundreds of the beat ,
BLADDER doctors to be the ON
V Ii Y C IT B. 33 for all 1
AJNTD hinds ot Kidney ]
TOINABT eases. 4
ORGANS It ia purely vege¬
{ DROPSY table , and cure® -whets
GRAVEL other medicine* ftdt.
DIABETES It is prepared ex¬
BRIGHT’S pressly for these dis¬
DISEASE eases, and has never
PAIRS been known to fail.
IN t One trial will oon
the vinoe you. For sale
BACK by all druggists. ■
LOTN8 PRICE *1.25. *i
£ OR l Send ftr
SIDE A /Ot of Pamphlet Tcat *“
fNERvotra menials# jjj
DISEASES SqjJ HUNT’S! IJ
RETENTION / W
on REMEDY j
NON-RETENTION CO.,
OF Pro? Wence,
« TODCB. m3 k. i.
HUNT’S (Klilnej and I,iv«r) ftKMl'DY
lino saved from linrferng dittoana And death hundred
who have been Riven up by phytm-iam to die.
N ?NU-3
Mark. THIS PLASTER
„ Acts directly upon th*
£ w nins
cles and the nerves of tha
Tr*<J« E hack, the seat of all pain.
P- FOR ALL
I.unnr Trout.).,, whether
local or deeply leatert thl,
v platter will rell be lef funiut to
tilve Instaut by sbenV a»*
blyllW tier between the
bi.dea
SHARP
For Kidney Trouble,
ft mm ! Ks lieumatlsni. kill in I the th Aide Neuralgia, and B«c<
Ache, the they are a ce rtaln
and speedv ?<iv cure.
TAINS.
AMD I Sold by Druggists for 26
*AC* cents, or five for ©I.
- Mailed on receipt ot
PU$TERT
PATTERNS OP ANT SIZE.
UNPARALLELED OF FER!
D EMOREST’S BESl nr
THE
Of all the Mnufazine*.
Illustrated with Original Uteri IHeturrs. Kngraa
lugs, 1‘hotogravure* and Oil
Eiu li cow Of •• PcmnroHt'n Monthly Mnrntltic," Coupon com
mencinit with November, IHfU, will corrUlu A
Order ontltllo* the holder to the mlectlonlofony pattern tn
Uluct rated to the faehion depnrlnicnt In that number,
“'^cX«'o"T~, r ,“';ondl„e the Coupon with ,
from the Magazine containing tho order.
ONLY TWO DOLLARS
lh Sem!''twenty 1 conta^fw number with Pattern
the current
Coupon and you will certainly subscribe for a year ami get
ten (lines Itn value.
IV, Jennings Dotnorest. Publisher, 171.14lh St., NewYortu
Sold by all Newsdealers aud Poetinaater*.
BBAZiLlAN COMPOUND
The moNt remarkable DIMt'OVUKV of I ho
ONUIC CONSUMPTION. tAl, ilW'3 afflicted#
upon ihe j* .-wa-x part*
awT.'.* a.h" J^gfldioiisitnds
1>ICU Inin cured , *vbo
jut Iiiib vr.Npent for him I [ 'Iris (red* of *lol
m worthg Mil remedies.
you ii 1 IIShionciIitW
It HIM: JflON irsf ’ v
' ---------- HTKIt,
consumption.
For u al« at all Druggists, > For history of the disoovsry
or mulled upon rsoeipt of ;|f inf this remit kablw oom
price. HmaM. Nr7,1C, $i ound and testimonial# of
i.ahue Hizv., holding four pmaoitn restored to hoalth.
limns the quantity, 93.60. addr* s BRAZILIAN UOM
Directions for using accom-JroUMD Go., IJ9 »ud 2*1
panying OYrry package. I Market Ht -, Newark, N. J.
Gut this adv. out and send .o some afflicted friend.
PIANOS
AND
ii ORGANS
at Low Prices . 1
■OLD IN ALL PARTS OF THK COUNTRY
ON THK FOLLOWING EASY TERMS t
PIANO 8 , SSB CASH, AND • IO MONTHLY
FOR THE BALANOB UNTIL PAID.
ORGANS, • 19 CASH, AND »9 MONTHLY.
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
AND REDUCED PRICES.
Horace Waters & Co.
124 FIFTH AYE., NEW YORK.
Paynes' Antomatic Engines ana Saw-Mill
Wo offer OH 6 ll» II. P, inountetl Kngliw with Mill,
U) ,d. r-oliil .s»w, 60 ft. beltins, $' 100. cant-honka, Kagino rig skirls complete 9110
for operation, on circular cars, (B). on PAYNli
l«e*. H »J for H. \V.
HONH, 01 *llMjfl«s Automatic F.n
®hnft.n*r, L'inck, from Elmira, 2 to 3 N 0 II Y. P. IJox : also 18.10. Pulloj's, llaoeer* fco*i
we want 1000 book aoents
©osrth« nonr book TIIlitTY-TIIItKI-•: YEAIW AMON©
1 ftllD (JUfl Ufll WlfSLU || Ski711 llVlIlllllw A MC
BrYn!ooi>CE.n<! -IMuretlby ticn. fm’t suekm.n. xyUwt, Tr* Qmt rutatuffing ften w.
frooW ..Ut. ..n,!. ot
s:i,i,i.iati, o.ij tiw' !
fSSTMUi* **«.*••*& ■rJV’22 ‘tfLJi* STctf’ZZt
fj*** *Wl4
U. S.PENSION & INCREASE
Many officer*, soldi Ota, sailors, wido*V«. children,
mothers and lathers everywhere, wt ill cull led t.>
Lnck/c.^ WillTK KIKJttt. This A«e*cy ».,t
or r
nettedt-d by Wa h ngton, I>. C., or oUters. G a mp
Prompt am? miccckmIiiI, Vth*rw»»w *»« cimrec.
Hand tw«»*t linns lor replv aod circolar. Addrms
PEN^ . J.
(Lat« ; U s. Pension Agency, n •'.)
I3YI. X»mQ tTI ST y S
i'ilis W?. 1st, .....51 75
a* ptaBy Spinal Cor»ct,..............^ Corset,... OO J85
nPR Spinal Spinal AbdommalCorset^ Nanina
I\ ~ Bet o zDinended by Jcodlpg phf MCfenn ,
deliverod free auywhero in tlio U. 6.
___ of price. Lady Agcnta V/ai.UJ. ©
-DrJLinijaiat’s&pinxlCoraetCo-.ri'ilq'way.HewYorh. on receipt
I bftYe a posltiro remedy for tb* sbovo dlMssa; and by It*
use thomufiiofcutioi tire wo»*t kind of lonl!
fttiarilnc have teen cared. Indeed.* ottronsi»my faith
in Ics efficacy, timt I wj I Fend TWO BOTTLES rKEK,
tcgretbEr wild a Va l.t ! A BLKTRKATI8K on this dtseoM
W anj tufferer. 6ive**prets*Ttd V *», ad dr ts.
Dii. T. A. SLOCL’M, ie* Pcai 1SL, York.
%2& R. U. AWARE
THAT
LoriUard’s Climas Plug
hear in e Lenf a red tin ten/ ; that LornlardN
Rote tine Cut: that LoriUard’s
LoriU&rd’a coasldered Suaile. are
y ?
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