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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! THE LOUISVILLE WEEEY COURIER-JOURNAL, A FIRST-OT ASS family, news, political and commercial paper, nation'll in its aim. reputa tion and circulation. 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