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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Care of the Cow-House.
A word in regard to the care of the !
stable or hou.-e in which cows are kept. !
' r is not an unimportant matter, as
X" mauy farmers hurried with other
work arc apt to think. The cow-house
-hould be kept clean and sweet. First,
because pure air is almost as necessary to
♦he health of the cow as to that of man;
*’ ec,,nt L because cows are often milked in
the stall. Now, milk is very sensitive,
to outside influences; its purity and flavor |
are affected by foreign substances falling
into it, and a’so, it absorbs ammonia and
noxious gases very qui kly. These will
pretty surely exist in an ill-kept stable.
My way of keeping a clean, sweet smell
*nG place for the cows is to sprinkle the
floor once a day with plaster. Plaster
enough for this purpose will cost but j
little, and will increase the value of the
manure more than enough to compen
sate..”— New York World.
Cooling New Milk With Water.
The success of the < ream cry system is
in the sudden cooling which new milk!
undergoes, surrounded, as the creameries I
are, by ice. Many years ago, long before !
e e iron ies were thought of, some thrifty
housewives had go hold of this idea, j
only dashing a 1 ’.tie iee cold water into
the nes milk as soon as it was set in the
pan. 7Yie rapidity with which the cream
will rise under this stimula ion is easily
noticeable. Place two pans of new milk
of e piil quality side by side, and the one
that Ins half a teacupful if cold water
dashec. into it will not only raise cieam
more r.uickly, but more of it than the
othetf-Milk treated in this way will give
wearly as TDfucti TfiT'Ani as the best cream
ery. It will be fairly blue when the cream
is skimmed ofT, while milk in the
usual way will have a thinjkim of or
on its surface after souriug. This
covery is probably fifty or oore year < j
and may possibly luivebeet the basis <
the creamery system. TL r milk shouhl
he set, warm, and the wat be as cold as
possible. Ice, if it car be procured,
would possibly be better than water.—
Cultivator.
Grinding Corn Wi*h the Cob.
There is no little variance of opinion
as to the advisability of doing this. Our
opinion is that whe" there are facilities
for grinding corn nd the cob together,
and where the ground feed is to be given
to cattle or horses, it is wise to do it.
There is real’y more nutriment in cob
han is genera ly supposed. A competent
authority sayi that it shows on analysis,
42.8 per cent- of carbo-hydrates, 1-4 per
cent, of aibt'uinolds and the same of
fat. Cobs tack nitrogenous elements;
hence, if thf deficiency can be supplied
by other rr.eans, they are not so undesir
able as a food ration w ith corn. Some
writers claim that cobs thus ground and
fed, have o?e half as much value as hay.
Many objec because there is an apparent
danger in feeding cracked cobs. Where
cob-; and c°i'n are ground fine in burr
mill stones, the feed is in a better con
dition to itiiter the animal's stomach
than when corn is ground tine alone.
The juice of the stomach can better
penelfate t- 1e food, and it is digested
better, lb 1 let no one suppose that
grinding p°Us separately, is here or ever
advocated; kn tependent.
Thinning Fruit.
A writer^^ 8 ' n *h® Michiyan Ilorticnl
'htrist Wb en Wanted in "oo.i soil, good
tht ifty fruit ß nearly always overload
themselves, U ,u i * n order to secure the
best, smoot! jest ; un 'i largest fruit, con
siderahle thr in ' n k ""ist be done; this is
especially th® case " >tli grapes and tree
fruits.
t boicc pcac'-es, peats, quinces
in fac'- l * H - i )es t of all kinds of fruit—
command *\ le best prices, and always
sell. (dtt lines the market becomes
glutted poor Iruit- 1 , and the prices
realized a 0 really below what it costs to
produce -item, aud sometimes they can
not le at any price, while at the
same tin? 1 ® choice-1 and best are sell
ing a' '"tltab'e price.
'l'uo n-any fall into the error of think
ing tha- 1 thinning they lessen the
quantity much l hat they prefer to let
t: c fruit remain. This is a mistake,
as wdl ° t liink that by thinning they
lessen the on tlie iruit. AVheu a
tree is hea N d . v l° ft dod the fruit must
v mail. and this will lessen
the quantiu' ; f^en the fruit being small
will sell fof ‘ less l* rio ®> -1 really cost
more to sell - and .you really 10-e rather
than make ,’hy uot thinning. Then in
addition, w ' on :i tree or vine is allowed
to overload ’' and 'nature the fruit, it is a
strain lu - irV'- vitality <>i the tree, so
nin- h that a \ 1 u-t be l ad, and the
nex’v year the 'tree will fail to bear.
Whenever t r '‘d uiciously thinning
fruit always hut it requires con
siderable when the trees are
laden with vc* ‘ g fruit to go over and
pull off and tl*" ay a considerable
portion of tY® f' ll t. To one who has
never tried ai h ISI it would seem like
a waste; vet i\ has been tested sufficient
ly to prove its ue.
* The work, f; cri '<-*. should be done
earlv, as soon p t- i tie* fru t has set as
possible. Th# lon 5? r f hc fruit grows
aft r settiusj, t!l ® more wa-te of Vitality
of the tree, il 1 at shoaid go to the other
fruit that is lA ft '*!' (>n 'he tree to mature.
It should be 4® ne as evenly as possible
ail over the t e* - thui 80 a ' to £ ive each
specimen left a ß . n ~® h rc mas possi de.
t lose crowding * s " lia - < ’fton makes ill
shapped fruit.' v° u have never been
in the habit oft'dnnuir.g try* a lew trees
first to see the 1 ” lC '-
of cases you 11 -<>n 1 ide that it is
beneficial. '
Ground & anP for Poultry.
Some of our i irn V - [ ri ® n Is appear to
b- deeply imp cV®' 1 " th lh .® not on that
hens need no fo, ollt c,,rn 10 fume of its
forms. Jhu w, oJ^ ht . n , ot '° tor " et , that
food mean? the m \* r!:U ' ‘ rythiug
that come - out of . ® "-' ste n. ad that
if any i art cuiar rac- 1 ll P a - v 8 ®°' ul
branch of manttfac#, - ,* • cv mu.-t have
>he raw mater si Vi an; *]
m are or less lime: '} 1 ' onc of , the P r:n
aaal elements e:^' -! . iU - : l ® 0 ™P "
aition oft: e bone‘s l >ut :ne aen needs an
ext:a supply. Ih ® domestic t and hen
also need - more- !an Wi ‘ d 8t >ck of an - v
sort, since sh, ‘ s attd lo ? na '® r
urodoctio' .' S3 8 * In consequ
must ®- ve ler "tore than is contained m
arious grain-.
and. he most useful forms in which to give
uine are in the shape of coarsely ground
Done and oyster slid s. Feed these ar
ticles most abundantly at the time the
hens are lay ing mos freely, and i.ntici
pate, if possible, by beginning early in
the season, lest your fowls eat a shelless
egg, and acquire bad habits The im
portance of providing a lib ral su ply of
ground bone and oyster shells for fowls
is less understood than it should be by
breeders of poultry. Raw bone, coarsely
ground, say half as lar-e as grains of
corn, is grtediiy eaten by fowls, espe
cially if they are not allowed to run at
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large; and wei; -conducted experiments !
have proved that it is not only beneficial
to the health A the fowl, but it also cer
tainly stimulates and promotes laying to
a very great extent.
Now, while this effect of producing an
increase in the number of egos is cer
tain, and not a newly claimed merit, we
have arrived at the conclusion that it also
increases the size of the eggs: and where
there is any trouble with regard to the
shells of the eggs, we have found it
speedily remedied by a liberal use of
ground raw bone and oyster shells.
Every person who keeps even a few
fowls should own a mill for grinding
such food, as it will soon repay the cost.
Bone and shell should be fed to fowls
by putting it in a narrow box and nail
ing it to the side of the coop; we prefer
this method as it is less wasteful than
throwing it on the ground. To use fine
bone beneficially, it is necessary to mix
it with the soft food, and we have found
it it very useful in cases of diarrh t a in
fowls, having cured cases of this disease
in green fowls in a single day by the use
of this article; to promote laying, how
ever, it is necessary to have it ground
coarse.— American Rural Home.
Practical Tests in Transplanting.
In an essay read by Mr. J. T. Lovett,
Little Silver, N. J., before the last meet
ing of the American Horticultural Socie
ty, this enterprising horticulturist pre
sented some facts in relation to trans
planting borne of his own experience, aud
what, in many instances, demolished pet
theories. Following are some of the
statements made by Mr. Lovett:
1. Celery and cabbage plants become
established in their new quarters as well
and as quickly, whether freshly taken
from the seedbed or alter being kept in a
damp cellar for any number of days be
tween one and six, with a hardly notice
able difference only in favor of the fresh-
I ’/ puffed plants.
There is no perceptible difference
m the behavior of plants after trads
puntiafg, whether during their short in
■ m in the cellar their roots were kept
in damp soil or in water. The new for
mation of fibrous rootlets, one quarter of
an inch in length, developed during a
several days’ sojourn of the roots in
water, proved to be of no advantage
whatever.
3. Plants set out just as they come
from the seed bed or cellar do exactly as
; well as those the roots of which were
j dipped in water or mud before transplant
ing. The famous “puddling” is of no
i account.
4. The application of water to a rca
sonably moist soil—one which is neither
j wet nor dry, and therefoie in the only
i proper condition for the work—-after
: transplanting has no visible effect and is
| entirely superfluous
5. When the soil is very dry, the ap
! plication of water some time before set
ting out the plants, so as to get a merely
moist soil at planting time, is of decided
advantage and preferable to watering af
! tei planting.
0. Cnder average conditions it was
found immaterial whether the work is
i done in the forenoon or afternoon. Only
! during extreme hot weather, with an ex
i cessively dry atmosphere, is it advised
I to defer setting plants until after the
I proverbial 4 i>. m.
T. Plants pulled from the seed-bed,
i when this is thoroughly wet, recover
from the effects of transplanting so ,ner
than when taken from a scarcely moist
j bed.
8. Shading the plants for a few days
i after setting them out, either by means
I of boards above the rows, or by other
means, is of decided and lasting benefit.
The here enumerated faets appear to
| justify the axiom that the plant itself—
its character, size, and condition —is a
| most potent factor. As regards size the
| advice is given that celery plants be large
! —in fa t the larger the better—as the
! roots do clop but slowiy during their
! earlier life. Cabbage plants of medium
! size seem to get over the effects of trans
| planting quicker than very large or very
! small ones. 1 heir roots develop coropar
atively much earlier than those of celery.
In both kinds of plants, however, the
proper balance between root and top
must be either already existing or estab
lished by pruning.
The character, or rather composition
of the plants is of the utmost import
ance. Any plant, no matter how thrifty
it may appear to be, is of little value if
it' mineral constituents are scanty. The
right kind of plants, such as will beat
handling and transplanting well and
j qu'ckly recover from its effects, are those
grown on soi! abounding with the ele
m nts of plant food; not in one with an
exc.ss of vegetable matter.— New York
World.
Jokes About Journalists.
A retired editor—One who is in bed.
An exchange wants to know why edi
tors commit so few crimes. They haven’t
time.
The sculptor thinks he can carve a
poem about right, but the editor can
usually 7 cut one up in better style.
A health journal says you should take
three quarters of au hour for dinner. It
often happens that au editor gets noth
ing else.
An article iu a contemporary is en
titled “Why editors are rich.” It is be
cause they give a five-dollar puff with a
fifty-cent advertisement.
Among the requirements of a Boston
recipe h nv to cook strin .-beans is to stir
with a silver fork. Very lew outside of
editors' wives can afford to cook bean
that way.
An Ital’an ha? discovered a lotion
which will - ake away all desire for food
and will sustain 1 fe. If editors can only
get tli s stuff on advertising tutu they
can afford to run newspatiers as the ir.a
icrity of folks seem to expo; . them to.
namely, free puffs a:.d lots cf them.
The Cause of His Sorrow.
On of the most pathetic sights I havt
seen in a 1 ng t me i saw the other after
noon. He stood on the corner of e
street, with evesast down and a i ok
of agony on his f;u e. He was s : ghing
heavjty as h * poked a thLk s:i k intr
era ks aud breaks in the a-phaltum.
which was terribly 7 open to such p king.
He a . n ol ;i>h man. to >, and seemed
to be heart-!* oken. I watched him f r
quite a minute, and he se- med so deep
in painful thought that the people pac
ing aimo-t walked over him without
awakening him. Iv- as studying ihis
picture when a fr ; e:.d came up.
“What's the mattei !"
“l.ook at the poor old fellow.” 1 -M.
“Tha*! don't you know him? That ?
cld , the mill omire. He owns th.it
block, and he s got to put down anew
pavement. ’’ —-Si? Fraud* <> Cad.
The Younger Brother's Warning.
He spoke of love till 12 f. m.,
(f sunshine in a cottage.
With him she thought'twouldratffv.-a
To live on Esau's pot f age.
At length a rap as from a stick
Came from the upper story.
And with it one shrill voi re that said;
“Your jop's a eomin,' Flory.'
—Aru dork Journal,
“PALMISTRY.”
WHAT THE DIFFERENT LINES
OF THE HAND DENOTE.
Indications of Various Kinds of
Hands Finger-Nail Disclos
ures—Directions of a Stu
dent of Palmistry.
A man or woman with a face that is
easily read is at a" strong disadvantage,
and a4 times must long for a veil. But
it seems that people with the blankest
!o iking faces are exposed to dangers of
discovery wh ch have hitherto been but
vaguely understood, and which ceitainlv
ought to increase the populaity of
gloves. According to the explanations
of a certain Professor —professors are al
ways explaining—the hand is the traitor
among the various portions of the hu
man corporatio i. The initiated can at
once discover whether you are likely to
rival the age of Methusa’eh or be cut off
in the flower of youth; whether mea-les,
whooping cough, glanders, smallpox or
any other adjunct to a doctor’s income is
likely to add variety to your days, and
whether you are likely to leave a large
or small family to weep for you.
Nor is th's all. A’our sweetheart with
a fondness for palmistry can at one
glance o: your band decide whether you
are true or fickle, generous or economi
cal, and a dozen more things about you
which you only intended to let out by
degrees after marriage.
The long, slender hand with tapering
fingers is called the “clerical hand,” and
is generally found among people who de
vote their time, or whose tendencies are
toward the higher intellectual and spir
itual pursuits, such as clergymen, poets,
authors of high literature and scientists.
The “soldier hand” is well shaped, li t
is broad, and the fingers are not notice
ably long. This kind of a hand is found
among people who have force of charac
ter, executive ability and quick inte.lt
genee, although it is not of the highest
order.
The finger-nails even have much to do
with the character. Most musicians,
artists and people clever with their fin
gers have what are known as spatulated
nails, rather short and broad, the lingers
also broadening at the tips. The thumb
plays an important part in the reading of
character. Persons easily led and in u
encecl have a small upper joint to the
thumb, but good reasoning powers,
which are denoted by the length of the
second joint. The thumb-nail, if unusu
ally large, shows unusual will power.
There are many other outward signs be
fore the palm lines arc read, and these
two seldom disagree.
A noted student of palmistry gives the
following interesting directions for find
ing out the general characteristics of a
person:
“The head-line, which is the most im
portant, should be clearly marked to de
note what is called a ‘level head,’ and
should extend beyond the centre of the
palm to denote a brain better than the
ordinary. When it just passes or only
reaches the centre of the palm the intel
ligence is only ordinary. If the line
keeps one course it shows one aim in life,
but this is unusual. If it goes out into
two or three forks it shows an inclina
tion for many callings, and if it becomes
entirely lost in a labyrinth of marks it
shows a person not especially adapted to
anything in particular.
“The life-line,which is really the next
in importance,” continued the Professor,
who isn’t at all sentimental, “is easily
read. If it goes in a clear line from the
head-line down to the wrist it denotes
good health and long life. If broken off
in the ceutre, one will die when middle
aged, but if continued again the break is
merely an illness, and if a long break a
very dangerous illness. All breaks in
the life-line denote illness. When the
life-line branches out from the main
| track each branch denotes a descend
ant.
“I suppose I should take the heart-line
next,” said the Professor. “Indeed,
with young people it is the most inter
esting. When one has a good an 1g n
erous heart the line must extend beyond
what is called the ring finger. If the
main line is deeply marked it shows a
person of strong emotional tendencies.
A fickle nature is shown by the end of
the heart-line. If this forks out in many
directions it shows that the heart is not
steadfast, but when it branches out in
one or two forks this does not show
fickleness, because, you know, very few
people love only oue person.
“The travel-line runs very close to the
life-line uid crosses the head and heart
generally, but I have seen hands where
this line was not visible. Toward the
right hand is the east and toward the
thumb the west. The life-line generally
runs north aud south, and each break or
offshoot from it denotes a journey in the
direction it takes. If a long journey the
break is a long one, and in this way one
can tell exactly how far they must
travel. Of course there are thousands
of other lines on the hand by which om’s
fortuue and history can be read, even to
the most minute details, but those I
have mentioned are the most important
ones. Palmistry is a great study, greater
than phrenology, and more people are
becoming converts to it each day.”—
Philadelphia Pres*.
Petrified While Living.
A plrvsician of Elmira recently visited
Jonathan Bass, of Cambria, Niagara Cos.,
N. Y., wh se ease is bel eved to be
without a pa-alel in medical records. Mr.
Bass is fifty-six years of age. In the
summer of PS’S he was seivc-d with a
sharp pain in the bottom of his right
foot. > o cause for it could be discov
ered. The foot and leg became greatly
swollen, and during the next nine years
all the toints in his body became slowly
anchylosed—grew into solid bone. In
18” he was placed on an invalid’s bed.
and ha< never been removed from it. 8o
completely consolidated are all his joints,
including the spine, that he may be lifted
by the placing of a hand under his htftd
and one under his heels, his weight
being but seventy-five pounds. The
bones of the tin ners of the right hand, of
the entire left hand, and of the toes of
both feet have been entirely absorb and,
and the flesh of the fingers and toes kan:;-
down like fringe. Mr. Bass saws are
tightly locked, but he managers to eat
the heartiest meals without mastication
and without suffering inconvenience.
Pork and other meat is cut in thin ?t ins,
wh eh he draws into his mouth by suck
ing through the narrow opening be
tween his upper and lower t ethT He
cats the fattest meat. Since I s " '-' he has
been totally blind. His heart is five
inches lower tha a the usual position of
that organ, but is perfectly sound, as are
Ml of the invalid's vital parts. The nails
>n his fingers have grown to nearly a
foot in length. Air. Bass is a man of
mqje than average intelligence, and
ke s himself pasted on a:l questions of
the day. He converses with ease. and;s
lively and cheerful His constitutional
he Ith i- so good that physicians ag ee
that h will live beyond the allotted time
of the most active man.
English Speaking People.
The Anglo-Saxon race to-day, widely
separated as are its various divisions,
numbers not less than 94,000,000 souls.
According to the Statesman’s Year-Book
it numbered, at the beginning of the
present century, only some 20,000,000 in
England and America. Its increase has
b en at the rate of twenty-one per cent,
each decade. If the same rate continues
unchecked—and there appears no reason
why it should not —there will be, 100
years f.om now. (100,000,000 people of
Anglo-Saxon blood, equal to about half
the present population of the globe; aud
200 years from now there will bejthe enor
mous number of 4,000,000,000 —more
than thrice the present population of the
globe.
True, the people represented by the
above figures are not all of Anglo-Saxon
race, for European emigrants of every
nationality to the United States and the
British colonies are included; but the
negroes of the States aud the native
races in the colonies are excluded. Im
migrants of every nationalty adopt the
English language in the next generation.
It would accordingly be more accurate
to say that these figures represent Eng
lish-speak;ng people of European blood.
The question of how room is to be
found for the startling number of
iish-speaking people is an interesting
one. But an examination of facts will
show that there is no cause for dismay
on this subject for a long time to come.
The Australian colonies, with an 'area
of 3,000,000 square miles, have a pop
ulation little exceeding one personto the
square mile. The United States has less
than twenty persons to the square mile.
The Cape Colony, with an area of about
200,000 s juare miles, has a white popu
lation of little more than one to the
square mile. When it is remembered
that the population of England gives
44") and of Belgium 440 persons to the
square mile, it will be seen that
there is considerable room for ex
pansion. Large tracts of America and
Australia are as fertile as England or
Belgium, and at the moderate proportion
of population to area of France—lß4 to
the square mile—or of Germany—2l6 to
the square mile—the Australian colonies
could maintain front 400,000,000 to 000,-
000,00) people. Besides the United
States and the British colonies there are
vast expanses of territory, notably in
South America, eminently suited to sup
ply the wants of people of the European
race.
At th® present time, there is probably
no language in the world —except Chi
nese—spoken by a larger number of peo
ple than the English language. The
people of the Indian Empire are of many
races and speak many different tongues;
and it is doubtful whether 94,000,000 of
them speak any one of these as their na
tive language. Probably within the
lifetime of persons now living English
will be spoken by a larger number of
people than even Chinese. —New Orleans
Times.
The Panic of 1857.
The cause of the panic of 1857 was
mainly the rage for land speculation
whi' h had ran through the country like
an epidemic. Paper cities abounded,
unproductive railroads were opened, and
to help forward these projects, irrespon
sible banks were started, or good banks
found themselves drawn into an exces
sive issue of notes. Every one was anx
ious to invest in real estate and become
rich by an advance in prices. Capital
was attracted into th ; js speculation by
the prospect of large gains, and so great
was the demand for money that there
was a remarkable advance in the rates of
interest, in the West, where the spec
ulative fever was at its highest, the com
mon rates of interest were from 2 to 5
per c ent. a month. Everything was ap
parently in the most prosperous condi
tion, real estate going up steadily, the
demand for money constant, and its
manufacture by the banks progressing
successfully, when the failure of the
“Ohio Life and Trust Company” came,
August 21, 1857, like a thunderbolt from
a clear sky. This was followed by the
portentous mutterings of a terrible com
ing storm. One by one small banks in
Illinois, Ohio, and everywhere through
out the West and Bouth went down.
September 25-28 the banks of Philadel
phia suspended payment, and thus
wrecked hundreds of banks in Pennsyl
vania. Maryland, and adjoining States.
October 13-11, after a terrible run on
them by thousands of depositors, the
banks of New York suspended payment.
October 14 all the banks of Massachu
setts went down, followed by a general
wreckages of credit throughout New
England. The distress which followed
these calamities was very great, tens of
thous mds of workmen being unemployed
for months. The New York banks re
sumed payment again December 12, and
were soon followed by the banks in
other cities. The darkest period of the
crisis now seemed past, although there
was much heartrending suffering among
the poor during the winter which fo!
lowed. The commercial reports for the
year 1857 showed 5,123 ccmmer ial fail
ures, with liabilities amounting to
7 5 0,000. — In ter- Oc a ■*.
The Clergymen ef Bygone Days.
The social pos’t'on of the English
clergy was not always one of respect and
consideration a-, happily, at the present
day. From the latter half of the seven
teenth century down to about the middle
of the eighteenth the position of the in
fer! r clergy was regarded somewhat in
the same light as that of upper servants,
to whom no young lady would be guilty
of showing any favor, much less of gi
ing her hand
The domestic chaplain was relegated
to the servauts’-hall for his meals; was
expected to do “a bit of g rdening”:
and. in short, to make himself generally
useful in return for his bed and board,
with perhaps a salary of-. 10 a year. A
waiting-maid or one of th upper female
servants was considered good enough as
a wife for his everenoe, and not infre
quently the bon; s of such a helpmate
was tacked on to the gift of a family liv
ing when the time tame for rewarding
the chaplain’s services with a pension,
thus killing two birds with one stone,
and with all due economy.— Chi-ago TANARUS, i
bune.
Mineral YYool for Floors.
In constructing fine houses in Eastern
cities, builders now pretty generally use
mineral woo! between the floor and ceil
ings. This fibrous metallic substance v
produced by sending a blast of air or
steam thr ugh a jet of molten slag when
it flows from the furnace. Having sus
tained the heat of fused iron, it is non
combustible and free from organic mat
ter, so that it cannot rot nor harbor any
vermin. It is completely sound-proof,
and may be termed an absolute non con
ductor of heat, for a layer of one inch
thickness, says our informant, may fuse
on one side while the other will remain
cool. These properties, combined with
its extreme lightness, have since its in
troduction a few years ago, as a good
building material, made it a great fa
vorite with architects and builders, and
it is now largely used as a sound and
fire r. . filling between floors and par
titions. and in attic* to keep out 'heat
aud cold.
Col. McClure Wanted a Stake.
The Cleveland Leader tells this story
of a brother editor: —A. K. McClure of
the Philadelphia Times is said to be one
of the kindest hearted, most intelligent
and most generous of the noted men of
Philadelphia. He is said to scorn small
things, to be very lavish with his money, j
and to be not averse to a good game
of poker. Not long ago, my informant
says, he had been playing a quiet little
game with some of his friends, in which
the stakes were rather high, and had
left the table dead broke. He canae
upon the street, and walked jauntily
along until he met one of his millionaire
friends.
“How are you off for money to-day ?”
said he. “It is too late for me to get j
into the bank, and I haven’t a cent. Can
you lend me a little until to morrow?”
“Certainly,'’ was the reply, and with
that the man handed McClure a SSO bill.
McClure took the bill and looked con
temptuously at it. He then looked at
the man and held up the bill saying:
“And do you call SSO money? I call it
only an ant£.”
Manx’ suspicious wives, who wish to
detect any unusual thickness in their
husband’s tongues on coming in late at
night, never tail in tlieir schemes by
getting them to sav “< hrysanthemum.’
Hydrophobia Witnout a Cause.
A few weeks ago Harry Gibson, a
hotel boy in Chicago, was taken to the
insane department of the county jail,
suffering from a malady which seemed
at times to resem 1 le hydrophobia. It
cannot be ascertained that young Gibson
was ever bitten by a dog, either rapid
or otherwise, yet he snapped his teeth
and growled at people, frothed at the
mouth and in every way gave evidence
of suffering from rabies. Before Gib
son’s removal to the jail he was cared
for at the hotel and a porter named John
Heilland was detailed to watch him.
He would argue with his attendant in
a most rational manner, saying that
there xvas no necessity for his being
watched; but the moment the attendant
turned his back Gibson would leap up
on him. and endeavor to bite him.
After Gibson’s removal Heilland was re
lieved from the duty of caring for the
patient. He went to his room and
spent the next forenoon in sleep. When
he went to work he complained to his
fellow-porters of being ill, but thought
nothing serious of it. The day follow
ing, however, he was attacked with the
same symptoms manifested by young
Gibson and became violently mad and
unmanageable. He frothed at the
mouth and acted like a person having
the hydrophobia, though at times he
was perfectly rational. He declares
that he was not bitten by Gibson, and
had not been bitten by a dog. The at
tacks recur at regular intervals each
day. The cases will be thoroughly in
vestigated.
Paste Diamonds.
“I know her diamonds were made from
paste.”
Nonsense! Why, Beesley the jeweler
says they are of the first water.”
“Still they were made from paste,”
“How do you make that out?”
Her father was a bill poster.”
The Only Way to Conquer Dyspepsia.
It is perfectly preposterous to introduce pep
sin and other artificial solvents into the stom
ach, in the expectation that they will assist
digestion by acting on the food itself. They
will not. Nor is it possible thus to overcome
dyspepsia. The only way to conquer that dis
order, and prevent the numerous diseases and
disabilities which it assuredly provokes, is to
renew the activity of gastric action by
strengthening the stomach. Hostetter’s stom
ach bitters eradicates the most inveterate
forms of indigestion by restoring .vitality to
the alimentary organs, and those which are
tributary to them. The liver, the bowels, the
kidneys and the nerves, no less than the stom
ach, experience the invigorative effects of that
standard tonic, which possesses alterative
properties that greatly enhance its beneficial
influence, and give a permanence to its effects
which they would not otherwise possess.
“ Your presents is desired at our Christmas
■celebration,” was a boy’s letter to his uncle.
“The Blood is the Life.”
Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the
fountain of health, by using Dr. Pierce’s Gold
en Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a
fair >kin, buoyant spirits, vital strength, and
so undness of constitution will be established-
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors
fromthecommon pimple, blotch, or eruption’
to the worst Scrofula or blood-i oison. Espe
cially has it prove ) itseffeacy in curing Salt
rheum or Tetter, Fever-sores, Hip-ioint Dis
ease, Scrofulous Sores ana Swellings, En
lar. ed glands, and Eating Ulcers.
Go.den Medical Discovery cures Consump
tion (which is Scrofula of the Lungs), by its
wonderful blood-purifying, invigorating and
nutritive properties. For Weak Lungs! Spit
ting of Blood. Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis
Severe Coughs, Asthma and kindred affec!
tions, it is a sovereign remedy. It promptly
cures the severest Coughs.
For torpid Liver, Biliousness, or “Liver Com
plaint,” Dyspepsia and Indigestion, it is an
unequaled remedy. Sold by druggists.
Passing around the hat is one way of getting
the cents of the meeting.
“Consumption Can be Cured.”
Dr. J. S. Combs, Owensville, Ohio, says: “I
have given Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver
Oil with Hypophosphites to four patients with
better results than seemed possible with any
remedy. All were hereditary cases of Lung
disease, and advanced to that stage when
Coughs, pain in the chest, frequent breathing,
frequent pulse, fever and Emanciation. All
these cases have increased in weight from 16 to
i!olbs.,and are not now needing any medicine.”
For a man to be efficient, like a cable car, he
mustn't lose hig grip,
More Money for Tour Work.
Improve the good opportunities that are
offered you and you will receive more money
for your labor. Hallett & Cos., Portland,Maine,
will mail you, free, full informationgiiowing
how you can make from $5 to $25 and upwards
a day *ud live at home, wherever you may be
located. You had better write to them at once.
A number have made over SSO in a day. All
is new. Cap tal not required; Hailett & Cos.
wdl start you. Both sexes; all ages.
success attends every worker. Send your ad
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C hicago clergymen sincerely hope that the
ballat is on its last legs.
Use Dr. Pierce’s “Pellets” for all bilious
attacks.
Ad me museum man eats live frogs, puts
them in his hopper as it were.
The farmers, in their swamps, we’re sure.
Could find the roots and plants that cure;
If bv their knowledge they only knew
For just the disease each one grew,
Take courage now and “Swamp-Boot” try —
(for kidney, liver and bladder complaints),
As on this remedy you can rely.
if afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
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If a cough disturbs your seep, taks Piso’s
('ur*- for Conniri". t on.
firilPlffllP Officers’ py. beonty pro-
SrST cured . deserters relieved.
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book fres . Dr. .O J.tftaTHSSBl, Kfmmm On J, mb .
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A Screw Loose.
“Well, Fred, they tell me that every j
sailor in the whaling ship Northern
Lights deserted as soon as she got into
port. Do you know why they did so?
“Couldn't guess it for the life of me,
Henrv. There must have been a ship s
crew loose somewhere.”
“That's exactly it—they just turned
out and slipped away.”
Dr. Gross, physician at St. Vincent’s Hospi
tal, Baltimore. Md., considers Red Star Cough
Cure perfectly harmless, being purely vegeta
ble and entirely free from opiates, poisons,and
other narcotics. Other professionals also en
dorse it as prompt, safe and sure. Price.twen
ty-flve cents a bottle.
Munkßesy, the artist, is painting a potrait of
Mrs. J. W. Pulitzer, wife of one of the pro
prietors of the New York World, and who is an
exceptionally beautiful woman. She is as
beautiful as her husband is homely. They are
spoken of together as “beauty and the beast.”
The magical effects of St. Jacobs Oil in re
moving soreness and stiffness makes it inval
uab.e at ail times. Rheumatism and Neural
gia promptly yield to it.
Nokes’ small boy was seen hanging over a
barrel half filled with water, when Mrs.
Nokes vigorously shouted to know what he
was doing there. "I want to get drowned so
that I can get my name in the paper,” was the
reassuring and prompt reply.
Pile tumors, rupture and flstnlae, radically
cured by improved methods. Book, 10 cents in
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Heathen are the people who don't know
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Daughters, Wives and Mothers.
Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, free,
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- The treatment of many
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DISEASES OF I diseases peculiar to
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It Is a powerful Rcstorativo Tonic
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to the system, and cures, as if by magic, Ten
corrhea, or “ whites, ’’ excessive
flowing, painful menstruation, un
natural suppressions, prolapsus or
falling of the uterus, weak back,
unto version, retroversion, bearing?
down sensations, chronic consee
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