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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Chinese Preparation op Soy.— Equal j quantities of beans and wheat are boiled together, and then triturated between stones, aud water occasionally added. The mass is cooked in a pan, and cut into thin slices, which are kept covered with straw for about twenty days. When completely fermented, the separ ate slices having become moldy, they are washed with water, placed in a ves sel, and their weight of water and of salt added. Jn this condition they are kept for a number of days, and are finally again triturated between stones. Chinese Preparation of Vermicelli. A dough is prepared out of small green peas by soaking them thoroughly in water and grinding them between stones, adding water and pressing them through a sieve; then subjecting the mass ob tained by pressure in a strong vessel and thus removing the water. This dough, well softened with water, is poured through a gourd vessel, usually with ten holes in it, into a vessel of bailing water; the higher the gourd above the boiling water, the longer and finer the vermicelli. On removal from the boiling water the threads are imme diately dried. A Permanent Paste.— The following process will, it is said, afford an un usually adhesive paste, adapted to fas tening leather, paper, etc., without the defects of glue; which, if preserved from evaporation in closed bottles, will keep for years. Cover 4 parts, by weight, of glue, with 15 parts of cold water, and allow it to soak for several hours ; then warm moderately till the solution is perfectly clear, and dilute it with 65 parts of boiling water, intimate ly stirred in. Next prepare a solution of 30 parts of starch in 200 parts of cold water, so as to form a thin, homogene ous liquid, free from lumps, and pour the boiling solution of glue into it with thorough stirring, and at the same time keeping the mass boiling. Utilization of Old Fish Pickle.— It would hardly be supposed that so apparently innocent a substance as old fish pickle would have any special med ical or physiological properties. The fact is, however, that in the earliest ages it was believed to have important medicinal qualities ; and quite recently it has been used to a very great extent in the manufacture of propylamine and methyl amine (maintained to be distinct bodies by some and simply different forms of the same substance by others), now so largely employed as a remedy in acute articular rheumatism. Recent experiments also show that a small quantity of this pickle administered to poultry produces fatal results ; and in France it is quite common where the premises are infested by a neighbor’s poultry, to soak grain in this pickle, and when dry to throw it out where the intruders can take it; the result in most cases being their death in a short time. Hardening Steel Tools, Etc. —The following secret, unpatented composi tion, suggested by the chemist Kulicke, has been employed with success at Saarbrucken for restoring burned steel to its primitive condition, and as it af fords a peculiar hard metal, it is also used for tempering steel tools that are too soft, or may become so by use, as chisels, saw-blades, etc. Although rather expensive, it is really an eco nomical treatment where large numbers of steel tools are used. Burned steel heated to a oherry red, and forged somewhat on an anvil, is plunged into a well mixed doughy mass, in a box near by, composed of tartaric acid, 6 ounces; cod oil, 30 ounces; charcoal powder, 2 ounces; bone black, 8 ounces; beef tallow, 10 ounces ; yellow prussiate of potash, 5 ounces, and burned harts horn, 3 ounces, and is then completely cooled in water. Steel tools are simi larly treated. Small articles of cast iron, such as wheel-boxes, axle-bearings, etc,, maybe successfully case-hardened by being plunged red hot into a mixture of 10 buckets of urine, 5 pounds of whitening, and 4 pounds of salt. Effect of Topping Potato Stalks. Comparative experiments to determine whether cutting off the stalks at the commencement of the potato disease protected the tubers without diminish ing the yield, were made by Paulsen, by raising one row and topping another on the same day, at regular intervals. While the result showed that the sep arate rows, by like treatment, without disease, varied in yield, the topped plants bad for the most part a larger proportion of large tubers than those that had been raised on the same day. It seems, however, that only water is taken up by the tubers after topping, since no increase of dried matter was found when the topping occurred so late that the stalk did not grow again ; and under any circumstances the yield seemed poorer in quality and quantity than without topping. Although the stalks topped at the proper time had fewer diseased tubers, the spores of the fungus seem to be carried to the tubers through the stalks rather than by rain; otherwise the topped stalks would have received a supply from the neighboring ones. In warm, dry weather the in growth is greater than in cool, wet pe riods. Early kinds of potatoes seemed to do better than late ones. Heavy manuring, especially with horse or sheep manure, favored the disease, and increased the watery contents, and the yield was also less, although with lux uriant growth of the stalks. Destruction of Phylloxera.—Tes sie de Motay remarks that among the many propositions for the destruction of the phylloxera or the grape-vine louse, apart from the method of flood ing the roots of the vine with water dur ing the winter season, the application of sulphur is most efficient, and that the method of applying this, as it is customary, in its crude form, does not meet the needs of the case, as it is not carried sufficiently far into the soil to act upon the insects. We must, there fore, resort to some very soluble and assimilable chemical compounds, and this is best done by using in succession two different|liquids, the mutual decom position of which will result in the sep aration of the sulphur in a nascent state. Two processes are suggested by him for accomplishing the result. In the first of these ho waters the foot of the vine with a solution of a soluble hyposulphite belonging to an alkaline or alkaline-earth series. As soon as the acid solution, in penetrating the has reached the roots, he waters ™vmew'u ; .tljL a solution containing a suffi cient quantity of the acid phosphate of lime, soda or potash, since the excess of phosphoric acid saturates the base of the hydrosulphito originally em ployed, thus producing the nascent sul phur. In the second method he waters the plant either with a liydrosulphate of sulphur, or with any other sulphate of the alkaline or alkaline-earthy series. As soon as this solution has penetrated the soil sufficiently to bathe the roots lie applies a solution containing a suffi cient quantity of soluble hyposulphate to produce the nascent sulphur by double reaction. The same solution may be employed, alternately, for watering the trunk, branches, or the leaves even, as well as the roots of the plant, with the object of destroying parasites. CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC. —lt has been suggested that a cause of certain mysterious fires in factories may possibly be traced to the electric spark, the electricity being generated by the friction of the leather belting on the pulleys. —Tyndal, in a letter to Nature, com bats the theory entertained by many, that the rainbow is reflected after the fashion of an ordinary floating cloud which emits light in all directions, and which, by the light thus emitted, paints its image in the water. —The geographical society of France proposes to have a portion of the des ert of Sahara surveyed, with a view of learning the practicability of turnin'* the water of the gulf of Gabes on to this vast expense of sand, and thus con vert it into an inland sea. —The Preece block system of elec (ric railway signaling is worked on the principle that the trains are to be kept a T certain unvarying distance apart. No train can advance until the signal is given that the line for the specific dis tance ahead is absolutely clear. —An inquisitive citizen writes to one of the St. Louis papers inquiring why the committee on art at the late fair happened, to award the first premium for fruit in water-colors to an oil-paint ing. It is a question concerning which a mild curiosity would seem entirely justifhible. A substitute for quinine has been discovered in the ecliises plant, which grows abundantly in the Philippine is lands. It is said to be a remedy for a 1 kinds of fevers, that the use of it in volves none of the unpleasant after-ef fects of quinine, and that it can be pre pared at one-half the cost of the latter drug. —lt is announced that a society num bering one hundred members has been formed at Hamburg, the object of which is to reintroduce the ancient practice of cremation in place of burial. In order to prove their earnestness, it is required of each member that he make a will in which he orders that his remains shall be burnt. Santiago de Cuba, a city whose name will henceforth be heard with a shudder, was formerly the capital of Cuba. It is a fortified maritime city, and contains a population of about 25,- 000. It is the second city in size on the island, and is situated on the San tiago river, six miles from its mouth, on the south coast. —People who wet their winter’s sup ply of coal, in order to lay the dus", do so, probably, without knowing tlie consequent evils. By wetting a mass of freshly-broken coal and putting it into a cellar, the mass is heated to such a degree that carbureted and sulphur eted hydrogen are given off for a long period of time and pervade the whole house. —Full beards have long been regar ded as a defense against bronchitis and sore throat, and it is asserted that the sappers and miners of the French army, who are noted for the size and beauty of their beards, enjoy a special immu nity from affections of this nature. The growth of hair has also been recom mended to persons liable to take cold easily. —Foucault has invented an apparatus for measuring the velocity of light, which includes a small wheel that can be run at the rate of 60,000 revolutions a minute. The wheel carries a diminu tive mirror, which at first was of the ordinary kind; but the great speed quickly stripped the amalgam from the glass, aud a metallic mirror had to be substituted. —A solution of five parts of borax in one hundred of water it is said will pre vent the putrefactive process in meats for a considerable time; flesh dipped in the mixture and then dried resists the usual process of decomposition. For dissecting-rooms, the taxidermist, and those engaged in preparing cabinet specimens of animal tissues, this solu tion can be put to important uses. —Several hot springs of the Yellow stone region are situated so near to the margin of the Yellowstone lake that a person might stand on the siliceous rim of the spring, extend his fishing-rod into the water of the lake, and catch trout weighing from one to two pounds, and cook them in the boiling springs without removing the fish from the hook. Professor Payden’s new volume of western surveys illustrates the oper ation. —The English papers give the follow ing statistics as to the speed of their railway-trains: Those of the Great Western are the most rapid, its fastest trains running an average of fifty-three miles per hour ; whilejjthose of the Lon don and Northwestern run only forty three. The Great Northern stands sec ond for speed—fifty miles—and the other great lines average forty-five. The best speed made in America aver ages only a little over thirty miles. —Among the mechanical novelties of the American Institute Fair at New York there is exhibited a diamond saw, which gives promise of great things, and may justly be ranked with the dia mond drill and sand-blast. The diamond saw consists of a thin metal disk, the teeth of which are nothing more than minute black diamonds, imbedded in the metallic edge of the sheet. When re volving at a high speed, this disk cuts into the sides of a stone slab as though it were a piece of timber ; and not only can straight cuttings be made, but, by an ingenious mechanical device, bevels and rounded edges are cut. Asa labor-sav ing machine, the inventor judges that one of them will do the work of four teen stone-cutters. The Best Pathfinders. —As the frosts of winter destroy their pastures in the north, so the heats of summer parch those in the south, and the buffa loes must, each spring and autumn, take long journeys in search of fresh feeding grounds. The large size and weight o: these somewhat clumsy ex plorers make it rather difficult for them to cross the mountains, so they seek out for themselves the most practicable routes ; and hunters and emigrants have found that a “ buffalo track” offers the surest and safest path for men and horses. The best passes in the Cum berland and Rocky mountains, and the regions of the Yellowstone and the Colorado, have been discovered by fol lowing the trail of these sagacious animals. I know this is so, for the great travel er, Humboldt, once wrote: “In this way the humble buffalo has filled a most important part in facilitating geo graphical discovery in mountainous re gions otherwise as trackless as the Arctic wastes or the sands of Sahara,” A Florida Panther Story. \\ idle hunting near the coast, a few days since, it was my misfortune to wit ness a sickening and heart-rending scene near a bayou. My companion and self had been hunting two or three days previous near the locality, and shot tour deer, one of which ran toward that spot-, so badly wounded that I thought it would fall within two hundred vards of the place at which it was shot"; but as we had as mauy as we desired for that day me did not trace it. On our return, two days aftrrward, to hunt near the same place, I noticed buzzards fly ing near the spot where I suspected that the deer had gone, and suggested to my companion to g > to it, just to satisfy myself that I was correct in my sur mise, and also to show him how accu rately I could shoot; for he continually taunts me with the number of deer that carry with them evidences of my poor marksmanship. On approaching the spot the stench was so unpleasant that we were in the act of retracing our steps when I noticed a buzzard hop as if chased, and insisted on going far en u h to be satisfied that I was cor rect. On nearer approach, a most hor rible scene was before us. About twen ty paces from a bayou, a number of immense alligators were keeping off a flock of buzzards from a partially eaten and decomposing body of a human be ing, and near by, the carcass of a pan ther ! The head and limbs of the human being were severed from the body, a r and were scattered in an area of fifteen feet. The head was bruised, scratched, swollen an < eaten so that it could not be recognized, except that it was a wliiteman’s. Nearly all the flesh was eaten off the bones, and so recently, too, that the traces of large teeth were noticeable. The carcass of the panther was also devoured. A large, heavy sailor s knife, stained with blood, was near the trunk of the human being, and there were other evidences of a desper ate struggle for life between tl e man and the panther. As we approached none of the guardians over the dead moved until my companion threw a heavy pine knot into their midst, when the smaller retreated into the water, the 1 trger moving sullenly in that direction, but never going farther than the edge, all the time closely watching every movement we made. When my companion began to collect the bones of the man for interment, while I held both guns, the alligators, near the edge, became ferocious, and about ten rushed madly toward us. We stood our ground, and fired four times, fatally wounding, if not killing, as many al igators. I looked toward the bayou and its surface was covered with alliga tor heads as far as the eye could reach, which came toward the shore, I suppose to learn the cause of alarm. As we did not wish to wage war with the alligator kingdom, amid the stench which was nearly stifling, we retreated. All inquiry has failed to furnish in formation in regard to the man, except what has been detailed above. It is conjectured that he was an unfortunate sailor who had been shipwrecked and cast ashore, and who, in seeking to reach some habitation of man, was over taken by the sad misfortune which be fell him. —Marianna Courier. Scenes from the Tweed Trial. Tweed was the weakest criminal who ever stood at the bar, and Davis the most inexorable jnge who ever sat on the bench. As the latter delivered his long address, which ;would have been only a stump speech had it not had a sting in it in the shape of a sentence, and the Aral sentence was fore-shad owed in various forms. Tweed bent his head, overwhelmed with mortifica tion, and in the deepest dread of what was to follow. He was surrounded by friends who appeared really humiliated by his display of weakness. He has a most violent temper, and his outburst of rage in the time when he was power ful would awe his most intimate confi dents. To day those whom he has threatened would have laughed at his weakness if they had not felt that his conviction and sentence let down flood gates, and that they might be the next to be overwhelmed and condemned. Tweed was surronded by his friends, among whom were two ladies whom I did not know, and whom I had not the heart to ask after. But the story filled the court that they were his daughters, the only women of all he has enriched —for Tweed was a generous thief, and shared with the natural consorts of thieves the profits of the wholesale pick pocket—to attend him in his hour of supremest peril. Behind him, prom inent by his peculiar appearance as by his political standing, was Thomas Led with, who, two years ago, ran against Judge Davis for the seat at present oc cupied by the latter, and who, if Tweed’s designs had succeeded, might have been trying and sentencing him, instead of encouraging and sympathizing with him. The Sun’s Ciust. Prof. Charles A. Young caused consid erable discussion at the American sci ence association’s meeting at Portland, lately, by some unique theories regard ing the sun. The eruptions which are continually occurring on its surface render probable the supposition that there is a crust of some kind which re tains the imprisoned gases, and through which they force their way in jets, with great violence. According to Prof. Young, this crust may consist of a more or less continuous sheet of descending rain—that is, a downfall of the con densed vapors of those materials which we know, from the spectroscope, exist in the sun. The continuous efflux of the solar heat is equivalent to the sup ply that would be developed by the con densation, from steam to water, of a layer of about five feet thick over the whole surface of the sun, every minute of time. As this tremenduous rain de scends, the velocity of the falling drops would be retarded by the resistance of the denser gases underneath ; the drops would coalesce until a continuous sheet would be formed; and these sheets would unite and form a sort of bottom less ocean, resting on the compressed vapors beneath, and pierced by innu merable bubbles. It would have an approximately constant depth, because it would turn to vapor at the bottom as rapidly as it grew at the surface; though probably, the thickness of this crust would continually increase at a slow rate, and its whole diameter grow less. In other words, Dr. Young would regard the sun m an enormous bubble, whose walls are steadily thickening and its di ameter ever lessening, in proportion to the loss of heat. —There is nothing that will so disarm and depress certain sensitive natures as conscious inferiority of dress. Until a degree of familiarity with the world has been acquired, or a man has learned that he has a recognized place in it, his dress either holds him up in his own self-respect, or compels him into abject self-contempt.— J. O. Holland . Anecdote of Landseer. —The follow ing anecdote of Landseer is worth re cording, as showing the geniality and charitableness of his character: Not very long before his fatal illness he was induced to attend a bazar, held for some benevolent object: “As the cir cuit of the town where the bazar took place was being made, a lady friend is said to have asked the painter how he was going to help them. Sir Edwin answered, ‘I think I can try to help you,’ and, asking for a sheet of paper and a, pencil, he rapidly sketched a dog. Placing his initials in the corner, he handed back the picture to the young lady. The sketch was subsequently raffled for, and thereby a handsome ad dition was made to the funds collected during the day.” Heart Disease.— Many persons suf fer with heart disease without knowing it; suddenly they drop off, and their friends are astonished, on a post mortem examination, to learn that they died of heart disease. The heart, like the brain, is the seat of life; its diseases are of sev eral characters. The most common are valvular disease, fatty degeneration, and functional derangement. If the liver becomes deranged, and digestion is im paired, the heart, through sympathy and juxtaposition, becomes abnormal. The following symptoms indicate approach ing disease: Palpitation, giddiness, faintness, nervous prostration, deranged digestion, vertigo, cold extremities, etc., for which the old school will administer iron, opium, antimony, mercury and many other poisons. TEleart disease is a blood disease; purify the blood, remove obstructions to a limpid circulation by taking that vegetable alterative, Vine gar Bitters, and you w ill be a sound person in two or three months. Diseased Lungs are Greatly on an Increase in this Country. —The sud den changing of weather has done much to give rise to consumption. But there are thousands of cases who bring it on by their own imprudence—such as wear ing damp clothing, and going from the warm room into the cold air, and check ing the perspiration, which causes irri tation of the lungs, and then matter or phlegm will collect, which nature will try to relieve by coughing it up, to pre vent pustules from forming. If nature does not raise the matter with ease, and stop this inflammation, tubercles will soon form, and consumption will soon follow. Allen’s Lung Balsam will cure and prevent thousands of cases of con sumption if it is only taken in time. For sale by all druggists. Prices Reduced. —The Mason & Ham lin company, whose cabinet organs are un questionably the best in the world, have just reduced their prices to correspond with de preciated values of material and labor. They are also introducing this season, a number of exquisitely beautiful styles, containing im provements of much value, effected this sea son. They now offer FIVE-octavo double-reed or gans, for one hundred and ten dollars, and other styles at proportionate prices, being about half the prices at which peddlers are crowding upon purchasers organs worth not half as much! —lt is announced that one of Mr. Dickens’ sons, not the eldest, having shown himself a remarkably effective reader in semi-private performances and charitable entertainments, is about to read in public on his own account. We see that Procter <fe Gamble’s Extra Olive Soap is becoming very popular in our city, its quality we know is superior, and being nicely perfumed wo are not surprised that consumers prefer it, and that it has a large sale. American Manufacturers at Vienna. The well-known Mason & Hamlin organ com pany have received honors at Vienna. At the exposition they were awarded the highest medal for the best instruments of this class in the world, and the Industrial Society of Aus tria has awarded them its grand medal and diploma of honor for the extraordinary excel lence of their productions. This distinction has never been conferred cn more than five Americans. No other American manufacturer of cabinet or parlor organs has ever succeeded in obtaining any award in competition with European makers. This is the second time the Mason & Hamlin organ company have come out ahead in such comparisons, as they took the first medal in Paris in 1867. This company can now produce on an average one cabinet organ every fifteen minutes of work ing time, or about ten thousand per annum.— New York World. Tl]!. i'l’KKM' AND SWEETEST COD-LIVER Oil. is i 1 A (.Uiswcil's, made on the sea shore, f. i iTs'sii. selected livers, of the Cod only, by Oaswei.i.. Hazard A Cos., New York. It is ab sohitfdv imre aud street. Patients who have oner- taken it prefer it to all others. Physi cians ha e decided it superior to all other oils in market.— Coni. Butter and cheese are almost indis pensable articles of food. Properly used, they are nutritious and healthy; but an inor dinate use of either causes indigestion and dyspepsia. Parson’s Purgative Pills, judicious ly used, will remove Doth of these troubles. Have you ague in the face, and is it badly swollen? Have you severe pain in the chest, back, or side? Have "you cramps or pains in the stomach or bowels? Have you bilious colic or severe griping pains? If so, use Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment internally. PEERLESS CLOTHES WRINGER A. REMEDY THAT WILL CUBE CONSUMPTION. Will those who have been long afflicted with Consumption take courage. Please read the following; Columbia, Hes i t Cos., Ala., March 8,1873. Messrs. J. N. Harkis & Cos., Cincinnati, O. Dear Mrs— l want you to send me six bottles of Alien’s Lung Balsam. Since last May I have bought and taken about twenty bottles of the Lung Balsam lor a disease of the lungs of thirteen years’ standing. Before that time I had bought and used nearly every lung remedy recommended, and your Lung Balsam is the only thing that has given me permanent relief I believe that it saved my lie last spring when I commenced its use. I do not expect anything will cure me entirely, 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 J Hayes’ Station, Ala,, April 7, 1873. Messrs. J. N. Hareis & Cos. Gents:— l take great pleasure in writing you to say thatl received the Alien's Lung Balsam. I used it according to directions, and it has done me great goth. It is the best medicine I ever used for colds and coughs, and I know it I follow the directions it will cure my consumption. With these lew remarks, I remain, yours truly, 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 lunh bal sam, aud take no other. Directions accompany each bottle. j, N. HARRIS & 00., Cincinnati, Proprietor!). Bold by all iuedioine|deaierH, If you have ague in any form, you will save both time and money by trying Shallenberger’a Antidote at once. The cure is immediate. CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK FALK 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 tn worm preparations. CUKTIS fe BROWN, Proprietors, No. 315 Fulton street. New t’ork. Sold by druggists and chemists, and dealer* tn medicines at twk.hty-fivk cknts a box THIRTY TEAKS'* EXPERIENCE OF AN OLD NURSE. *• Winslow’s Soothing Syrup li ths prescription of one of the best female physi cians and nurses In the Untied States, and has been used fbr thirty years with never felling safety and success by millions of mothers and children, from the feeble infant of one week old to the adult, It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieve* wind eollc, regulates tlie bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to mother and child. We believe It te be the best and surest remedy lu the world In all eases of DYSENTERY and DIARRHOEA IN CHILDREN, whether It arises from teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. None genuine unless the facsimile of CURTIB & PERKINS la on the eutalde wrapper. Sold by all medlclme dealers. THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA, AND FAMILY LINIMENT Is the best remedy in the world for the following complaints, viz.: Cramps in the limbs and tnm. ach.pain in the stomach, bowels or side, rheuma tism in all its forms, bilious colic, neuralgia, cholera, dosentery, colds, flesh wounds, bnrns, sore throat, spinal complaints, sprains and bruises, chills and fever. For internal and external use. Its operation is not only to 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. T3ie Household Panacea Is purely Veg etable and all healing. Prepared by CURTIS At BROWN, No. 315 Fulton street, New York. For sale by all druggists. A COUGH, COLD OR SORE THROAT BROWN’S Requires immediate attention, and BRONCHIAL should be Checked, $ If allowed to TROCHES continue, Ikkitation or TUB Lungs, a Pkhmanbkt Throat COUGHS affection, or an Incurable and Lung Diseass Is often the re- COLDS. Isult. 1 ROUS’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES Having a direct, influence on the parts, gives Im mediate relief. For Bronchitis, Asthma, Ca tarrh. Consumptive and Throat Disbasbb, Troches are used always with good success. SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS Will And Troches useful In dealing the voice when taken before Singing or Speaking,and re lieving the throat after an unusual exertion of the vocal organs. Obtain only" Brown's Rboncitial Troches," and do not take aoy of the worthless imitations that may be offered. S Id everywhere. m /Awii fi j | Dr. J. Walker’s California Vin egar Hitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the na tive herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of.Califor nia, the medicinal properties of which ire 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?” 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 Kenovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world lias a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They arc a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. 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