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xOPULAR SCIENCE.
(jlrHiitiics finmt'e World oi Discovery
Cleaning an< | Invention.
The popular fallacy that house
plants poison the air of a room by the
exhalation of carbonic acid during the
night, has been demonstrated by recent
experiments of Prof. Kedzie of the
Michigan agricultural college. To make
as conclusive a test as possible, instead
of taking the air from a room contain
ing a few plants only, the professor
gathered it from the college green
house, where more than 6,000 plants
were growing. The room had been
closed for more than twelve hours ; and
if the plants exhaled carbonic acid to an
injurious extent, the analysis of air
from such a room would certainly dis
close this fact. Three spec mens of
this imprisoned air were gathered
shortly before sunrise, from different
parts of the room, the analysis of which
gave 4.11, 4.00, 4.00 parts of carbonic
acid in 10,000 of air, or an average of
4.03 in 10,000 while the out-door air
continued 4 parts in 10,000, thus prov
ing that the air in the green-house was
better than “ pure country air.”
The Bees as Architects. —Man is
obliged to use all sorts of engines for
measurement —angles, rules, plumb
lines—to produce his buildings and to
guide his hand ; the bee executes her
work immediately from her mind, with
out instruments or tools of any kind.
“ She has successfully solved a problem
in higher mathematics, which the dis
covery of the differential calculus, a
century and a half ago, alone enables us
to solve at all without the greatest dffi
culty.” “ The inclination of the planes
of the cells is always just, so that, if
the surfaces on which she works are un
equal, still the axis running through it
is in the true direction, and the junction
of the two axes forms the angle of 60
degrees as accurately as if there were
none.” The manner in which she
adapts her work to the requirements of
the moment and the place is marvelous.
In order to test their ingenuity, Huber
glazed the interior of a hive, with the
exception of certain bits of w ood fas
tened on the sides. The bees cannot
make their work adhere to glass, and
they began to build horizontally from
side to side ; he interposed other plates
of glass in different directions, and they
curved their combs in the strangest
shapes, in order to make them reach the
wooden supports. He says that this
proceeding denoted more than an in
stinct, as glass was not a substance
against which bees could be warned by
nature, and that they changed the di
rection of the work before reaching the
glass, at the distance precisely suitable
for making the necessary turns—enlarg
ing the cells on the outter side greatly,
and on the inner side diminishing the .
proportionately. As the diflerent in
sects were working on the different
Hides, there must have been some means
of communicating the proportion to be
observed ; while the bottom being com
mon to both sets of cells, the difficulty
of thus regularly varying their dimen
sions must have been great indeed..
Scientific American.
The Fecundation of Flowers by
Insects. —Among the numerous dis
coveries with which vegetable physio
logy has of late been enriched, none is
more interesting or more carious than
the part taken by insects in the develop
ment of flowers. Some flowers seem to
appeal to the insect o enter their < pen
leaves by exhibiting the brightest colors,
and most beautiful and varied forms,
beside secreting quantities of the nectar
Ufxro -whioli fcheiir huLisWh. No
thing can be more wonderful tuan the
thousands of different shapes of corolla
of stamens, and of pistils; and yet all
are arranged o as not only to cover the
insect, in spite of himself, with pul leu,
but, at the same time, to separate com
pletely the pollen and stigma of the
same flower. Often the mechanical dis
position of the various parts of the
blossom and their play at the moment
of the entrance of the intruder is ex
tremely complicated, as Darwin has de
monstrated in the case of many of the
orcliidacese ; but there are other flow
ers of which the construction is easily
understood and which are equally in
genious and surprising. The insect
alights upon the lower lip of the corolla,
and, to reach the hidden nectar, tries to
penetrate the tub *. But this it cannot
do without pushing before it the short
branches of the two levers formed by
thj connectives. At the same time the
arched upper parts advance and em
brace the body of the bee, applying the
open anthers to its abdomen so that the
insect emerges covered with the fine
pollen. As long as it seeks the nectar
of flowers of the same age as that j ust
left, of which the styles are still very
short, the stigmas can receive but little
pollen ; but when the bee attempts to
enter an older blossom the elongated
*tigma grazes along its back, rubs off
the pollen, and thus becomes fecunda
ted. Since the pollen of the salvia is
deposited on the back of the insect, it
is evident that little can be given to a
flower of another species, the construc
tion of which requires the placing of
the substance upon the head or trunk.
While, whatever may be the flowers
which the bee visits before entering
another salvia, the pollen with which
it is charged is not rubbed off or wasted,
as it remains intact until a proper blos
som is entered. — Scientific American.
—The potato rot, that mysterious dis
ease which bothers the farmer so from
year to year, -results from a parasite
wlncli infests the foliage. The foliage
is the point of attack, and the tubers
are influenced, secondarily, from the
vines. If this is a settled point, the in
quiry arises, How do the parasites
reach the tubers, buried up in the
ground as they are? The spores, or
germs of disease, must be very numer
ous, and they must pervade the vine in
every part; and, also, they probably
fall upon the ground in copious show
ers. Now there aie two ways by which
they may reach and infect the tubers ;
they may descend through the tissues
of the stalk, or they may be carried
down through the earth by rain. Ileal
thy potatoes have been taken and buried
in the earth and moistened, from time
to time, with water containing the para
sites, and, in from eight t-o ten days,
they began to show disease upon the
upper surface, or on that part first ex
posed to the influence of the descend
ing spores. The same variety ol heal
thy potatoes, planted under similiar
conditions, and kept moist by pure
water, showed no signs of disease after
prolonged experiment. It has been fre
quently observed that fields of potatoes
I lave been stricken with disease, and
yet the .tubers W v -re gathered sound and
healthy. This is accounted for on the
supposition that no rains of much mag
nitude occurred, to carry down to the
tubers the germs of disease. It is thus,
undoubtedly, better to dig the potatoes
in an infected field as soon as the vines
are observed to change color.— Journal
of Chemistry .
—Do not ruu in debt to the shoe-ma
ker. It is unpleasant to be unable io
say your sole is your own.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Regular Monthly Statement Increase in
October 039,578.
Washington, D. C., Nov. I.—The
public debt statement has just been
issued, of which the following is a re
capitulation :
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN COIN.
Bonds at 6 per cent $1,234,098,050 00
Bonds at 5 per cent 489,272,900 00
Total $1,723,370,350 00
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONET.
Lawful money debt $ 14,678 000 08
Matured debt 14,226,290 00
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal tender notes $ 361,031.948 00
Certificates of deposit 8,875,(100 00
Fractional currency 47.876,149 00
Coin certificates ~ 27,569,880 00
Total without inteiest $ 445,353,978 00
Total debt $2,197,627,618 00
Total interest 39,706,595 00
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
C'lln $ 82,313,58 10
Currency 4,312,155 00
Special deposit held for redemp
tion of certificates of deposit,
as provided by law 8,875,000 00
Total in treasury $ 95,500,732 Oo
DEBT LESS CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Debt less cash in treasury $2,141,833,476 (X)
Increase of the debt during the past
month.. 3,039,578 00
BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES—
INTEREST PAYABLE IN LAWFUL MONEY.
Bonds issued to Pacific railroad
companies, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstand
ing $ 64,623,572 00
Interest accrued and not yet paid.. 1,292,470 00
Interest paid by the United States.. 20,447,986 00
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc 4,538,813 00
Balance of interest paid by the
United States 15,909,172 00
The Postal Telegraph.
From the Boston Advertiser.
Four years ago, Mr. Gardiner G.
Hubbard, of this city, in an address to
the Board of Trade, stated that the
tariffs of the Western Union telegraph
company were high, arbitrary and ir
regular ; that a large reduction in rates
could be made without a diminution of
the profits, which would increase the
business without a corresponding in
crease of expenses, and that a still
further reduction of rates and of tariff
could be effected by the adoption of the
postal telegraph. He has advocated his
reform before congress, and obtained fa
vorable reports at the last congress from
committees both of the Senate and
Hous . Mr. Orton, in liis annual re
port to the stockholders of the Western
Uuion telegraph company, says these
efforts have induced the company “to
proceed more rapidly with increasing
the facilities and reducing the rates ”
than they should otherwise have done.
The average rates in 1869 were .97 ;
now, according to this report, thev are
.61. Offices then, 3,469 ; now, 5,740, a
reduction of per cent, in the rates,
and an increase of 50 per cent, in the
offices.
Mr. Hubbard said that large reduc
tions in the rates could be made without
any diminution of the net profits. This
Mr. Orton denied, alleging that the ex
penses increased in proportion to the
business, and that a large reduction of
rates was therefore impossible.
The net profits when the average rate
was .67 were $2,534,000 ; at .91 they are
$2,857,000, with an annual saving to the
public of $4,000,000 in the reduced rates.
Then 6,548,000 messages were annually
transmitted ; now 12,200,000.
Mr. Orton says no dividends have
been recently paid. This is true, but in
the meantime the company has doubled
its business, added fifty per cent, to its
miles of wire and other properly, has
purchased and now hoi s nearly twenty
per cent, of its bods and $4,000,000
stock in other telegraph companies,
amounting in all to $12,000,000. The
compan has thus proved t* e truth of
the position assn ed by Mr. Hubba-d.
that a large reduction of rates would
be followed here, as it had been abroad,
by an increase of business and net ro
fiis. Mr. Orton verv plain y intimates
that no further considerable reduction
in rates will be made. These rates are
now higher than those of any other
civilized country. The local rates aro :
For twenty-five miles or less, twenty
five cents; for over twenty-five u les
and under fifty, fifty cents; or over
fifty an 1 under one hundred, eventy
five cents ; with an average rate, as Mr.
Orton says, of sixty-one.
The rates abroad are as follows :
In Great Britain 25 cents.
Belgium, Switzerland, Baden and Nether
lands 10 “
Greece and Italy 20 “
In France from 10 cents to 20 “
In North Germany from 12 cents to 38 “
In Austria, from 10 cents to 40 “
The average rate in all Europe is 40
cents.
Mr. Hubbard maintains that the rates
can bo still further greatly reduced, and
proposes the following rates : 250 miles
or under, 25 cents ; between 250 and 500
miles, 50 cents ; between 500 and 1,000
miles, 75 cents. By night, 1,000 miles
or under, 25 cents, with an average rate
of about 45 cents.
These rates Mr. Orton substantially
admits in his report are possible, for he
says that with the duplex apparatus
which they are rapidly introducing up
on their lines they can perform double
the business on the same wires at a
small extra cost. If the postal system
is adopted the people will realize the
benefit from these great improvements
in reduced rates. If not, they will all
go into the pockets of the stockholders
of the telegraph company.
Two plans for uniting the telegraph
with the postoffice were submitted to
the the last Congress. The postmaster
gftnpral dosirod authority to purchase
and operate all the lines of telegraph.
The other plan authorizes the postmas
ter-general to contract with the postal
telegraph company to transmit tele
grams between all offices, to receive
them at all post and telegraph offices,
and deliver them as they are now de
livered at the rates above named, five
cents of the rate to be paid to the de
partment for the office work performed
by it. This plan relieves the depart
ment from all expenses of purchasing,
maintaining and operating lines, fixes
the rates at low and reasonable charges,
prevents any centralization of power in
the executive, and takes the telegraph
out of the hands of private parties ;
three gentlemen, it is said, at the annu
al meeting, represented $30,000,000 out
of $40,000,000 of the capital of the com
pany. This plan was approved by the
committees of the senate and house,
and will be brought before congress
again this winter.
Mr. Orton says the Western Union
have checked all competition, bought
out all competing lines, with two or
three exceptions, which are doing a los
ing business and are in process of being
extinguished; that soon the Western
Union telegraph company will be with
out a substantial competitor in the con
duct of a business which is now in its
infancy, although transmitting over 12,-
000,0 CK) messages a year, and collecting,
distributing, and furnishing the tele
graph news to the press all over the
country.
We prefer to see the postal system, as
approved by committees of congress, in
augurated, and the country relieved
from the danger of a corporation of such
power, controlled by Mr. Vanderbilt
and his associates. *
SATIETY.
BY HOWARD GLYNDON.
After Binging, silence; after roses, thorns;
All the blackest midnights built o’er golden
morns;
After flowering, fading; bitter after sweet;
Yellow, withered stubble, after waving wheat.
After green, the dropping of the rhriveled leaf.
Like the sudden lopping of some dear belief;
After gurgling waters, dry, unsightly beds;
After exultation, lowly-hanging heads.
So I shrink and shiver at your proffered kiss,
Knowing pain must follow on the heel of bliss;
Knowing loss must find me sleeping on your
breast;
Leave me while you love me,—this is surely best !
I.ike a blushless (lower left upon its stem,
Sweetening the thickness of the forest’s hem ;
Like a hidden fountain, never touched of lips ;
Like an unknown ocean, never sailed by ships.—
Thus I shall be fairer to your untried thought,
Than if all my living into yours were wrought.
Hearts’ dreams are the sweetest in a lovely nest;
Leave me while you love me,—this is surely best;
Care of Cows in Autumn.
An enterprising farmer of Weston,
New York, communicated to us recent
ly liis practice in the management of
his cows during the season when grass
begins to fail. He says the great secret
of rearing and feeding stock success
fully, is to keep what you get—to save
every pound of flesh and fat that is pro
duced. The question lying still back of
that.is, how shall the fat and flesh be
retained? What to do and how to do it
is the question. Hitherto I have always
commenced feeding my cows with meal
in October, and continued the regular
extra feed through November; and we
made more butter in one of those au
tumn months than in any other month
of the grazing season. I have a pint
cup with flaring sides, that holds, when
dipped in and heaped up full, about two
quarts of good indian corn and- oats, of
equal parts, made of the pure grain. I
never “cob” my animals. lam down on
that cob system of management. With
every fifteen bushels of corn and oats I
mingle, before it is ground, about one
bushel of flax seed. This improves the
quality of the feed for animals of any
kind, as ground flaxseed, when mingled
with grain, is far better for milch cows,
for horses, for fattening sheep, or for
young stock of any kind, than oil meat.
I sow a little flaxseed every year for the
express purpose of having the seed to
mingle with the grain that is ground
into meal for my cows and other stock.
I think this is the true way to make
money—to save all that is made without
loosing any portion. The little losses
abstract the profits.
Salt-Rising Bread.
A correspondent of the Household
gives the following receipt for making
salt-rising bread, which is superior to
common yeast bread, and is considered
by some as more wholesome: Put
three teacups of water, as warm as you
can bear your finger in, in a two-quart
cup or bowl, and three-fourths of a tea
spoonful of salt; stir in flour enough
to make a stiff batter; this is for the
rising, or emptyings as some call it.
Set the bowl, closely covered, in a ket
tle, in warm water, as warm as you can
bear your finger in, and keep it as near
this temperature as possible. Notice
the time when you “ set ” your rising ;
in three hours stir in two table spoonfuls
of flour, put it back and in five and one
half hours from the time of setting, it
will be within one inch of the top of
your bowl. It is then light enough,
and will make up eight quarts of flour ;
make a sponge in the centre of your
flour with one quart of water of the
same temperature as rising, stir the ris
ing into it, cover over with a little dry
flour, and put it where it will keep very
warm, but not scald; in three-fourths
of an hour mix this into stiff dough ; if
water is used be sure it is very warm,
and do not work as much as yeast bread ;
make the loaves a little larger, and keep
it warm for another three-quarters of
an hour ; it will then be ready to bake.
While rising this last time have your
oven heating ; it needs a hotter oven
than yeast bread. If these rules are
followed you will have bread as white
as snow, with a light brown crust, deli
ciously tender. —Country Gentleman.
—The long-received opinion that
guano is the deposits of myriads of sea
birds, accumulating through long ages,
is rendered untenable by the recent in
vestigations of Dr. Habel. After treat
ing the guano with an acid, microscopi
cal and chemical examination revealed
that the insoluble residue was composed
of fossil sponges and other marine ani
mals and plants precisely similar in
constitution to such as still exist in
those seas. The fact that the anchors
of ships in the neighborhood of the
guano islands often bring up guano
from the bottom of the ocean, is quite
in opposition to the prevalent belief.
Dr. Habel therefore considers that the
deposits of guano must be the result of
the accumulation of fossil plants and
animals whose organic matter has been
transformed into nitrogenuous sub
stance, the mineral portion remaining
intact.
REMEDY
THAT WILL CURE
CONSUMPTION.
Will those who have been long afflicted
with Consumption take courage.
Please read the following :
Columbia, Henry Cos., Ala., March.B, 1873,
Messrs. J. N. Harris & Co.,'Cincinnati, O.
Dear Sirs— I want you to send me six bottles of
Allen’s Lung Balsam. Since last May I have
bought and taken about twenty bottles of the Lung
Ba sam for a disease of the lungs of thirteen years’
standing. Before that time I had bought and used
nearly every: aag remedy recommended, and your
Lung Baisam is the only thing that had given me
permanent relief I believe that it - aved my life
last spring when I commenced its use. 1 do not
expect anything will cure meentirely, but the Bal
sam keeps me up so that I can attend to business.
It gives me immediate relief, and I am greatly im
proved in general health. *
I remain, gratefully yours,
D. D. POOL. |
What better proof of a good remedy
for Consumption do you want 1
Hayes’ Station, Ala., April 7, 1873.
Messrs. J. N. Harris &, Cos.,
Gents:—l take great pleasure in writing vou to
say that I received the Allen’s Lung Balsam I
used it according to direction, and it has done me I
great good It is the best medicine r ever used Tor I
coughs and colds, and I know it I follow the direc !
tious it will cure my consumption. Witn these !
few remarks, I remain, yours trulv,
WATSON GRAVES.
The Lung Balsam never fails to do good for those
afflicted with a cough.
It is harmless to the most delicate child.
It contains no opium in any form.
It is sold by medicine dealers generally.
CAUTION:
Be not deceived. Call for allen’s lung bal
sam, and take no otner.
Directions accompany each bottle.
J. N. HARRIS & 00., Cincinnati,
Proprietors.
Sold by all medicine dealers.
Excellent Fruit Cake.
The day before the cake is to be
made stone and cut fine tlae raisins,
wash the currants (and see that they
are carefully dried, or the cake will be
heavy), and cut the citron into small
thin "slices. To every pound of brown
sugar allow three-quarters of a pound
of butter, three pounds each of currants
and raisins, one pound of citron, one
pound of sifted flour, five nutmegs gra
ted, half a teaspoonful of cloves, half an
ounce of cinnamon, twelve eggs, and
half a tumbler of best brandy. Wash
the butter well, remove all the water,
and when the butter has been well
crammed add slowly the sugar; when
these have been made perfectly light,
stir slowly in the beaten yolks of the
eggs, alternating the flour and well
beaten whites ; then cinnamon and
cloves; mix a small quantity of flour
through the fruit, to prevent it going in
lumps -through the cake. Now stir in
the fruit, a small quantity at a time, al
ternating it; and when it has been long
and well stirred, so it is certain to be
mixed through the batter, add the bran
dy. Bake in one large loaf, or two
small ones, in a slack oven two hours.
Many persons who have not experience
in baking fruit-cake prefer sending it to
a cake or bread baker, where it is certain
to be well done.
Items for Housekeepers.
Alum or vinegar is good to set colors,
red, green or yellow.
Sal soda will bleach ; one spoonful is
sufficient for a kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden and
plants, or to harden yards when sandy.
A hot shovel held over varnished fur
niture will take out spots.
A bit of glue dissolved in skim-milk
and water will restore old rusty crape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed
in cold suds and not rinsed.
If flat-irons are rough rub them well
with salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying a carpet for dura
bility, you must choose small figures.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of
doors will prevent them from creaking.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes where
crickets run out, will destroy them.
Green should be the prevailing color
for bed-hangings and window-drapery.
No Uncertain Sound.— When a man
discovers a great truth, it is his duty
to proclaim it to his fellow-man. The
use of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters can
not be too strongly recommended to the
invalid public. To those who have
tried it. nothing need be said ; their ex
perience is their proof, pure and posi
tive as Holy Writ. To those who have
not tried it, these truths cannot be too
often repeated. It is a certain vegeta
ble specific, which aids faltering nature
against the triumphs of dyspepsia, bili
ous disorders of every kind, malarious
fevers, constipation of the bowels, liver
complaint, spring and fall debility, etc.
It costs but little, and can always" be at
hand. It is the poor man’s friend. It
saves a doctor’s bill, and the time lost
in riding five, ten or twenty miles after
him; besides being free from all the
poisonous medicants of the pharmaco
poeia. It will not stimulate you to-day,
to leave you weaker to-morrow. Its
benefits are permanent.
We see that Procter & Gamble’s
Extra Olive Soap is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it lias a large sale.
Chapped hands, face, rough ekin, pimples,
ringwwnn, salt-rheum, and other cutaneous
affections cured, and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the Juniper Tar Soap, made
by Caswell, Hazard &, Cos., New York. Be
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap , made by
us, as there are many imitations made with
common tar which are worthless.— Com.
Fevers seldom make an attack with
out warning, and may often be thrown off by
soaking she feet in warm water, wrapping up
warm in died, and taking two or tlnee of Par
son’s Purgative Pills.
A missionary, just returned, says he
regards Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment as be
yond all price, and efficacious beyond any other
medicine. It is adapted to a great variety of
special cases, and is the best pain curer in the
world.
Samples Free.—The Saturday Even
ing Post, 319 Walnut street, Philadelphia, gives
a beautiful chromo to every yearly subscriber,
PEERLESS
CLOTHES
} _______________ wringer
If you have chills and fever, or any form of
fever and ague, take Bh llenberger’s Antidole and
save a doctor’s bill. Every druggist has it.
It is altogether wrong to trifle with a bad eoueh
or c.dd, when the risk is great and a remedy so sure,
prompt and thorough as Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant
can be readily found.
CIII L DIC EIIV OFTEN LOOK PALE
AND SICK
from no other cause than having worms In the
stomach.
BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFITS
will destroy worms without Injury to the child,
being perfectly WHITE, and free from all color
ing or other Injurious Ingredients usually used In
worm preparations.
CURTIS <fc BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 5415 Fulton street. New York.
Sold by druggists and chemists, and dealers In
medicines at twenty-five cents a box.
A COUGH, COLD OR SOUE THROAT
BROWN’Jj Requires immediate attention, and
BRONCHIAL should be Checked. 11 allowed to
TROCHES continue, Irritation of the
FOR Lungs, a Feumanent Throat
COUGHS 1 Affection, or an Incurable
and Lung Disease is often the re
COLDS. Jsult.
liROVVN’S BRONCHIAL TROCIIKS
Having a direct influence on the parts, gives- 1m
mediate relief. For Bronchitis, asthmi, Ca
tarrh, Consumptive ann Throat Diseases,
Troth es are wed a ways u-ifh pood success.
SINGKRS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
Will find Troches useful in dealing the voice
when tukenjieiore s i n &ing or Bpcakiug. and re
lieving thetfiroat after an unusual exertion of the
vocal organs.
Obtain only" Brown’s Bronchial Troches,”
and do not take any of the worthless imitations
that may be offered. S Ul everywhere.
THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE
OF AN OLD NURSE.
Alm. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Is the
prescription of one of the'best female physi
cians and nurses In the United States, and has
been used for thirty years with never falling safety
and success by millions of mothers and children,
hum the fe°ble Infant of one week old to the adult.
It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health
and comfort to mother and child. We believe It to
be the best and surest remedy in the world in all
cases of DYSENTERY and DIARRHOEA iv
CHILDREN, whether it arises from teething or
from any other cause. Full directions for using
will accompany each bottle. None genuine unless
the faosimile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the
outside wrapper.
Sold by all medicine dealers.
THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA,
AND
FAMILY LINIMENT
Is the best remedy in the world for the following
complaints, viz.: Cramps in the limbs and atom
ach, pain in the stomach, bowels or side, rheuma
tism in all its fo.ms. bilious colic, neuralgia,
cholera, dosejitery, colds, fledi wounds, burns, sons
throat, spinal complaints, tprains and bruises,
chills and fever. For internal and external use.
Its operation is not only io relieve the patient,
but entirely removes the cause of the complaint,
it penetrates and pervades the whole system, re
storing healthy action to all Its parts, and quicken
ing the blood.
The Household Panacea is purely Veg
eta le and ad heating.
Prepared by
CURTIS A BROWN,
No. 5415 Fulton street, New York.
For sale by ail druggists.
Mothers who have Daughters that
have Weak Lungs should arrest the
disease when it is in the incipient stages.
• m<^J Cat i e< M ) Z a backing cough, pains
in the chest, difficulty of breathing, or
oppression of the lungs. If this be
permitted to run on, tubercles will
form, and consumption will be the re
sult. A most valuable remedy will be
found in Allen s Lung Balsam to cure
and check this disease in its first stage.
3?or sale by all medicine dealer*
llg
A ji \ i
l)r. J. Walker’s California Vin
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from tbe na
tive herbs found on tbe lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, “What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of Vinegar Bit
ters V f Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of Dr. Walker's
Vinegar Bitt-ers are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altera
tive, and Anti-Bilious.
R. m. McDonald & co..
Druggists ami Gen. Apts., San Francisco. California,
and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N Y.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
$5,000 to SeJriTon Awar!
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longer, publish a series of
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delivered by Rev. Dr. Ptitart Robinson, revised
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CONSUMPTION
And. Its Cure.
WILLSON’S
Carbolated Cod Liver Oil
Is a scientific combination of two well-known medi
cines. Its theory is first to arrest the decay, then
build up the system. Physicians find the doctrine cor
rect. The really startling cures performed by Will
on’s Oil are proof.
Carbolic Arid positively arrest* Decay. It is tho
nost powerful antiseptic In the known world. Kn
taring into the circulation, it at once grapples with
corruption, and decay ceases. It purifies the sources
of disease. , ...
Cod Liver Oil is Nature's ben assistant in resisting
Consumption.
Put ini In large wedge-sliaped bottles,
bearing the inventor’s signature, and is
sold by the best Druggists. Prepared by
J. 11 .WILLSON, 83 John St., New York.
Western Agents,
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aud complete Gistorv of the
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1 1 reports the fashions for the ladies, and the markets for the men, especially He
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