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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
FUN.
The Men.
Communications,receipts and honsehold hints
of all kinds are solicited from our lady friends.
We trust they will not be backward in helping
us to keep up this Department. Send bits of
your domestic experience. Let us hear your
mistakes *nd how you rectified them. Ask
questions for other correspondents to answer, if
they can. Send communications to us—person
ally.
Cultivation of the Stbawbebby.—I have the
finest strawberry bed in this part of Georgia.
It is four years old and has for two years been
yielding me quite a handsome sum every spring
from the sale of the berries which I send to At-
lanta in crates. Let me tell you how I planted
and worked my bed. I had the ground prepar
ed the fall before by thorough ploughing and
leveling and manuring with leaf loam mixed
with fowl and barn yard manure. In April I
set out my plants, getting the Wilson variety
and mixing them with the wild strawberry that
is indigenous in our meadows and waste fields.
This mixture makes a hardier growth. I set out
the plants fifteen inches apart in the row and
the rows two feet apart, which distance admits
of cultivating with the hoe between the rows.
Last year on enlarging my strawberry patch, I
set out half an acre of plants far enough apart
to cultivate with the horse and plow. I planted
these in September and the vines are looking
splendidly. September and August, when not
too dry, are very good times for planting a straw
berry bed. Let the rows be straight to facilitate
cultivation, rejeot all weak plants, make a hole
as deep as the rootand compress the dirt around
the roots. In cultivation keep down all weads
and grass by frequent hoeing. Stirring the soil
and sprinkling with water occasionally coun
teract drought. Remove the runners as they ab
sorb the strength of the plant that would else be
thrown out in fruit. In the winter, cover the
beds with a light covering of leaves or straw,
which must be carefully removed in the spring
(not burned off though. When your berries be
gin to diminish in size and the crop is Bmall,
best plow up and plant over afresh. Sydney.
Bow to Feel Peaches fob Canning.—Make a
strong lye of wood-ashes and salt water. Fill
a kettle with the lye and when boiling rapidly
drop in your peaches twelve or eighteen at a
time. Take them out almost immediately and
merse them in a pail of cold water. Take one
in your band and the rind will slip off leaving a
beautiful yellow ball; throw this into another
vessel of pure water, and so proceed till all are
done. This process will not in the least injure
the flavor of the peach. If the lye is not strong
enough, put into the kettle a dipperful of clean
wcod ashes. Common baking poda will answer
the same purpose as the ashes.
How to Clean Place; Silk.—The durability
of black silks leads to the necessity of their fre
quent oleaning, and an excellent way to do this
is as follows; Peel about two potatoes,slioe them
thin,and pour one pint of boiling water on them.
Leave it standing four hours. When ready for
immediate use, put in about a quarter of a tea-
cupful of alcohol. Sponge the silk well on the
wrong side, rubbing any shiny spots with care.
Then role it tightly around a thick pole. This
renews.its freshness and cleans it well. Do not
use an iron.
Cleaning a Brussels Cablet.—As the season
is now approaching when earpets must bo hand
led, the following will prove of Interest to the
numerous lady readers of l'HE Sunny Sogeh:
First, have tbe carpet well shaken, then tack it
down in the room where it is to remain; sweep
it as thoroughly as possible; take a pail of hot
water, put in two tablespoonsfnl of pulverized
borax; wash the carpet all oler the surface, us
ing a flannel cloth. For grease spots or very
dirty places, use a scrubbing brush freely, and
a very little scap, taking care to rinse the soap
off well after scrubbing; change tbe water quite
often; rub the carpet well with a dry cloth after
washing, and open doors and windows so as to
diy the carpet as quick as possible.
Obange Salad.—Peel one dozen of oranges
and cat in slices, put in layers in a glass dish,
sprinkling each layer plentifully with sugar.
Squeeze over this the juice of six oranges and
ponr over all a glass of win# or brandy.
Miss Corson writes a good work "on -Twenty-
five cent Dinners,’ which every lady who has a
husband should have. It is a gem of domestic
economy and sbould be followed by a volume ,
to back husbands’frugality in drinks and cigars.
A lady is tbe proper one to write it
‘Pocket Books.’—Very nice.—Beat well the
yolks of fonr eggs with two tablespoons of sugar.
Dissolve one yeast cake, or fonr tablespoons of
fresh yeast, in a little lake warm water. Into
this stir the sugar and eggs— adding one pint
of flour, one pint of sweet milk and also salt
and the whites of tne eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
Set this sponge aside to rise. After rising suffi
ciently, add one tablespoon each of butter and
lard, and flour enough to make a soft dough.
Let it rise again. Then add a little flour and
make out into your rolls or ‘pocket books.’ If
you wish the latter, take a small piece of dough
and roll out in the shape of a pocket book.
Spread a very little batter and sprinkle a small
quantity of flour on each one. If yon do not
care to trouble about making into that shape,
cut them out with your biscuit cutter and put
one on the other. After rolling out, put them
in yonr biscuit pan. Let them rise some time
before baking. Bake them as you would light
biscuit. Send to table hob H. C.
Happy Babiesln a Tub vs. Crying Babies.
B.H. If our editor is willing I will give her some
directions which I think will mitigate young
mother's trials at their babies’ bath hour. Prepare
wrapper for your babe with large sleeves and arm
holes to put on when yon undress him. Have
ready a tub partly filled with warm water at such
a temperature as will be exactly comfortable for
your elbow. Wet his head with cool water and
set him in the tub carefully at first. I think he
will let yon wash him sufficiently while he en
joys the splashing. After a few minutes, accor
ding to your judgement, throw off his wet wrap
and take him up into a large drying cloth—
which was warming a little—and which will en
tirely cover him except his face, rub him gent
ly but briskly till thoroughly dry, then dress.
I think he cries because sensitive to the cool
ness produced by evaporation.
Your Giels—Let Them Leaen to Do Fob Them
selves.—Girls sbould early learn to purchase
materials for their own clothing. Parents can
advise them at the start, but it would be a good
plan for girls to learn to rely on their own judg
ment. The purchases can be talked over after
they are made. Let your daughter, with a lit
tle advice, cut up a few yards of calico and
make aprons and dresses and bed-quilts, even
if there is a little waste and some poor fits. She
will be likely to see her mistakes and profit by
them. Let her make some cakes and bread,
and boil some meat and pop some corn, no mat
ter if she does have to throw some into the swill
pail. It is better to make a few small mistakes
while young, in acqniring an education, than
to grow up without experience. They must
learn some time, or make great blunders daring
a good portion of their lives, when left to rely
on themselves. In many respects, children are
not trusted enough. They are -bossed’ too much.
Mrs. M. S. Lee, liviDg near Jasper, Ala., out
her own throat with a piece of broken glaaB
tumbler, severing the jugular vein on the left
side, at three strokes, and bled to death in about
ten minutes.
All flesh is grass, bat grass widows are not all
flesh.
A delicate parcel—A yonng lady wrapped up
in herself.
Almost every young lady is public spirited
enough to let her father’s house be used as a
court house.
All the nice hoys have their hair closely lawn
mowed. It stabs the flies to death and bothers
the mosquitoes.
Whenever a young lady learns to stick a pin
in her apron strings that it won’t scratch a fel
low’s wrist, there will be more marriages.
The Empress of Austria wears a train thirty
feet long, and when she walks upstairs the dis
heartened Emperor goes up in the elevator.
One of the most remarkable of American ex
hibits at the Paris Exposition on tbe opening
day was a Cincinnati woman in a last year’s
bat.
The Cincinnati ‘Commercial’ predicts knee
breeches will be worn next year. We never saw
the time yet when breeches were not wearing
at the knees.
The wolf, says an old Russian proverb,
changes its hair every year. The young lady of
the present day can beat this badly; she changes
hers every afternoon.
A woman and a phonograph never get along
well together—they both want to do all the talk
ing, and the woman's bound to get tbe last
word in, even if she busts the old machine.
I would not live alway,
I ask not to stay;
So he ate a green peach,
And was carried away..
At a church entertainment in Atlanta lately,
dnringa pause in the conversation,a young hope
ful broke the silence by exclaiming, ‘Oh ! Mrs.
Smith, let down your teeth again. It’s funny.’
The mosquitoes are nightly transferring the
best bine blood of our country from the veins of
her fair daughters, and gallant sons to their
own. Bnt we are too fast Medical men de
clare that mosquitoes are veinless.
An English boy was beating a donkey unmer
cifully, when the minister of that parish, com
ing np, censured him for his cruelty. The boy
resentfully retorted: ‘I’m sure you needna care;
it's nane of your congregation.’
An orator who was much in demand in polit
ical campaigns, being asked by an admirer the
secret ot his success, replied: ‘When I Lave
facts, I give 'em facts; but when I haven’t, I yell
and saw the air.’—The Nation.
There is more unadulterated joy over the cap
ture of one solitary mosquito on the inside of
the netting than in circumventing the million
and ninety-nine on the ontside. This is from
the new Bible we are getting up. It suits the
times.—Oshkosh Christian Advocate.
The United States Army is pretty busy just
now. One of them goes out to fight twelve
thousand Indians every morning while the other
stays at home and gets breakfast. It'a wearing
though—on the army. The Indians don’t ap
pear to mind it,
Great pains are taken by the New Port cor
respondents this year to let the world know
that Mariner Richard W. Thompson or Mrs.
President Hayes ‘touched off such and such a
number of torpedoes at the station here to-day.’
Just whether fashionable Newport pays for all
those tons of burnt powder is not stated.
He wanted to have some fun, so he wrote let
ters to every minister in town in these words:
‘The folks have discovered everything. It will
all blow over in a couple of weeks, l’a threat
ens to shoot you on sight.’ He wrote them all
in a female hand, and the following Sunday
every pulpit was occupied by out-of-town min
isters, as ‘our pastor was suddenly called away.’
New Signals.
[Apropos of fan 'and handkerdefflirtations.]
1. Pulling np the shirt sleeves and slightly
moistening the palms of tbe bands—Step over
here a minute; I wish to speak to yon.
2. Stepping np behind a man and grasping
him by the scruff of the neck, and advancing
rapidly—Please follow me.
3. Putting fore finger to right eye aDd draw
ing down lower lid—Don't you (or do you) wish
you had it?
I. Nonchalently chucking a brick or other
• light object on top of a man’s tile—Who’s your
hatter?
a. Taking a man’s nose between your fore and
second fingers, and slightly changing the posi
tion of the same—I address myself to you.
G. Abruptly altering the angie of a man’s coat
tails by insinuating your boot-toe under them
—Do not linger.
7. Putting tbe point of your elbow between
any two of a man’s ribs, and jarring his internal
economy—We are observed.
8. Doubling yonr fist and placing it firmly on
the bridge of a man’s nose—I love you but not
devotedly or passionately.
9. Grasping a man’s ear between your upper
and lower jaws, and gently working the jaws—
My heart is another's.
10. Rapidly removing the chair on which a
man is about to sit down—We are not entirely
sympathetic in our objects.
II. Taking a brief observation across a kind of
impromptu sextant, constructed of all the fin
gers of one hand outstretched, the thumb cen
tering on the nose—Farewell; this parting isfor-
ver.
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Happiness grows at onr own firesides and is
not to be picked up in the stranger's garden.
‘Not in the end, but in tbe deeu,
Doth tri est honor dwell.’
A man too careful of danger lives in continual
torment, bnt a cheerful expector of the best
bath a fountain of joy within.
Love is not love when mingled with other
considerations.
Friendship is a medicine—a panacea for all
misfortunes.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, edu-
cation is to the human sonl.
Labor to keep alive within yonr breast that
spark of celestial fire called conscience.
A man of gieat reading, and without conversa
tional powers, is like a miser, hoarding all for-
himself alone.
XU d<sperandum. Faith and persistency are
Life s architects, while doubt and dispair bury
all under the ruins of any endeavor.
Joubert says: 'Choose for a wife only the wo
man, were she a man you would choose for a
friend.’
Promises shatter like crystals under the ham
mer of the first temptation,
It is a joy to think the best we can of human
kind. WoBDSwoiiTH.
. The advance of prices in Paris is driving
'thousands away from the Exhibition who would
otherwise remain daring tbe summer. The ho
tel-keepers are learning too late the injury they
have done themselves, and are now trying to
tempt strangers and tourists back to the capital
by lower figures who were driven away by ex
tortion.
Excelsior Platters.
This nhique little invention which wo noticed
last week does all kinds of plaiting In oue fifth
of the time required by others instead ot four
fifths as stated in the advertisement. Prioe one
dollar and a quarter.
The skull of Captain Jack, the Modoc chief,
hanged for Gen. Canby’s murder, has been pre
sented to the Jewett Scientific Sooiety, of Lock-
port, N. Y.
The Marquis of Lorne parts his hair in the
middle and shaves clean. The Princess Lou
ise resembles the Queen and looks older than
her husband.
Col. E. Z. C. Judson, formerly well known as
‘Ned Buntline,’ a sensational Btory writer, now
lives quietly and happily at ‘Eagle Nest,’ in
Stamford, Delaware county, N. Y.
“Hog” Williams, the rich miser, owner of
- several fine blocks of buildings in Memphis, who
died of yellow fever in Granada, in his last hours
refused to give anything for the sufferers around
him, and actually applied to the relief committee
for supplies.
A New Orleans correspondent reports that ex-
Governor Wells will enter the lists as Republican
candidate for Congress in the Fourth Louisiana
district, but believes he will succeed poorly in or
ganizing the colored voters. Gen. Anderson is
inclined to make the race in his district.
While Joseph Besons, of SpriDgtield, 111., was
crossing a drove of blooded cattle over the Trin
ity river, near Dallas, Texas, a fine Dnrham
heifer was seized by two alligators, dragged be
neath the water and drowned. In the stampede
which followed a valuable bull was gored to
death.
A journeyman gilder, a boy of eighteen, has
been arrested at Berlin for sticking on a wall
opposite the Crown Prince’s palace a placard
containing the following words: ‘Last bulle
tin—His Majesty, the Emperor,is re-established;
the author of a third assassination may now
make his appearance.'
Culpepper Va. News: There is a colored boy
liviDg on the farm of Major Throckmorton, near
Cedar Mountain, about seven miles from Cul
pepper, whose skin is exactly like that of a
snake, the creases and diamond-shaped scales
being plainly discernible on all the unexposed
portions of the body.
Prof. Leone Levi, of the University of Lon
don, believes that the troubles of the English
workingmen are caused largely by their own
vices. They earn in the aggregate $1,500,000,-
000 in cash annually, of which they ought to
save $75,000,000.* As a matter of fact they save
only $20,000,000. The bulk of the $55,000,000
is wasted mostly in drink.
Nothing is too good for the Earl of Beacons-
field just now. When he went to Osborn the
other day to visit the Queen he traveled in one
of the royal saloon carriages, the superintend
ent of the linb dfeye the.train, as he does when
the Queen travels, and the platforms in Victo
ria Station were covered with orimsoa cloth. Nq
wonder Mr. Gladstone is disturbed,
A French paper says that Lord Beaconsfleld had
no sooner returned to London from the congress
than he wrote over to Paris for twenty-five new
novels, the more extravagant the better. Were
this true, Lord Beaconstield would not be the first
eminent statesman who has frequently sought sim
ilar ficreaiion. Metternich, Alexander I, of Rus
sia, and Gregory XVI were all readers of Paul de
Kock,
Mr. Rufus Hatch is a fresh illustration of the
vicissitude of Wall Btreet. Some few months
ago he failed for the paltry sum of $2,500. Af
ter having sealed with his creditors he Was re
admitted to .4 • board, and is estimated to be 1
j worth to-day'qj quarter of a million of dollars
almost the wlmIo of which he made in the
Granger stocks, bulling them at the lowest and
selling tliem-ajj-ttee bighost figures.
The story is told of a respectable Philadel
phia bachelor, up at the Catskill Mountain
House, laying siege to a fair Miss of forty-five,
who flutters in pink and lavender ribbons,
One of the most striking costumes with which
he has sought to charm her eye consists of a
black silk coat lined with white satin, cream
colored vest, black gros-grain silk pantaloons
silken hose, pumps, chapeau a cort.
The latest political satire published in London
is entitled “Dizzy vs. Bizzy, or the Carving of the
Turkey,” aud is a drama in three acts. The first •
act opens in 1875. The diplomatic garden is re- I
presented with Dizzy pointing to the turkey and j
saying tragically, “You shall not amputate his
legs and wings if I know it. This I have sworn
before one great god Jingo.” The second act
presents Constantinople in 187G. This contains ■
much wit and many happy hits. The third act, j
after Dizzy has settled matters with Gortschy,
Drassy and Bizzy, represents Dizzy as declaiming I
theatrically, “But, soft, my apotheosis approaches; 1
the telephone is laid on to Charingcross, anu is
even now in action. Listen ! I hear already the
acclamation of a millenium. The star of Occident
sets forever, and by means of my magic sway the
tide of an ancient civilization flows back once
more to its source at the orient. Britannia has
completed her career; the queen of the west fades
into the dim vista of the dead past, while the sun
of Palestine again covers the terrestrial and celes
tial disks. Yet triumphant I return to the tawdry
halls of the Giaour, which I detest. Listen ! 1 say.
As I caracole through parliament on the long
eared Eastern, but hitherto despised quadruped,
hear them cry hail! all hail!! to thee, Moses Sec-
undus, thrice liberator of the Elusian race, grand
vizier of independent Turkey, and juke of Jerus
alem 1”
The Strange Miner,
THE JOKE THAT WAS PLAYED ON HIM—HE T.TiTTn
THE JOKE, TOO.
Not many miles from Shasta City is the gnlch
of which the following mining story is told: It
is a pretty deep ravine, with rocks showing all
the way up the sides. Gold in paying quanti
ties had been found along the stream,but it seem
ed to disappear a few feet from the channel.
One day, while a gang of busy men were toiling
in the stream, a stranger, evidently green at mi
ning, came along and leaned on ragged elbows
to watch, with protruding eyes, the result of
their toil. The miner nearest him took out a
$5 nugget,and anxiety overcame the greenhorn.
‘S-a-a-y,’ he asked, ‘where can I go to diggin
to find it like that ?’
The hardy miner stopped his work, and giv
ing the wink to all the boys, so that the joke
should not be lost, pointed np on the barren
rocks where no gold had ever been foand.
‘Ye see that rough lookin’ place ?’
‘Yes—yes,’ said the new hand.
‘Well, thar it is rich. Jes’ ye stake out a claim
an’ go ter work, an’ when we finish here we’ll
come up, too.*
Then the now hand thanked the honest min- j
er, and the boys all grinned appreciation of the
joke. That afternoon a solitary figure was pick
ing away on the slope, and every time the min
ers looked np they roared with laughter. But
about noon the next day, the greenhorn struck
a pooket and took out something like $30,000
in a few minutes. Then, innocent to the last,
he treated all aronnd, and thanked the miner
who sent him np there, and took his money
and went down into the valley and bought him
a farm. Then the nnhappy miners arose leav
ing their old olaims, dotted that hillside for days.
But there were no more pookets anywhere. The :
whole thing reads just like a traditional fairy '
story. But then I saw the gnlch. Mnoh more :
unbelievable things have happened in the mines. |
THE WOMEN.
Miss Alcott, the author, is regarded as rath
er stiff and unapproachable in society.
CypruB is called ‘the home of love and beau
ty.’ Wonder if Vick Woodhnll isn’t over there?
Dr. Mary Walker has purchased a farm ont
West, and will turn her attention to agricul
ture.
What riles a country postmistress, is to have
a postal card come to the office written in
French.
The old lady who was told by tbe photograph
er to ‘look at that spot on the wall,’ after walk
ing over to it, said Bhe oonldn’t see it withont
her ‘specs.’
It is said that blondes have had their day,and
now the attentions of male admirers have switch
ed over to the brunette. Of course the blondes
will declare this a pure fabrication.
The Ladies’ Flower Mission, of Philadelphia,
distributed in one day 650 bouquets. One hun
dred and forty were devoted to special cases,
and the rest were distributed In institutions.
Mrs. Lovell, of Deadwood, is a mild one; she
whipped and choked several women, shot some
men and ran the whole neighborhood ont of
town; and when tbe polioe came to arrest her,
barrioaded her honse and didn’t surrender un
til she bad shot two or three policemen. The
jndge who tries her had better look sharp.
Little Annie Halton, a miss of five years ar
rived safely at Wilmington, N. C., having trav
eled by herself from Little Rock, Ark. The va-
rious conductors of the trains on the ronte took
pare of her. The railroad conductor has many
stones thrown at him by drummers, would-be-
deadheads and others, but he is on tbe average
a real good fellow.
A young lady’s daily auditor, in an uptown
dwelling, when she is playing the piano, is a
mouse. No sooner are the keys thrummed,
than the little animal comes rnshing from an
adjoining room, mounts the instrument and lis
tens delightedly to the playing. ‘My Grand
father’s Clock’ excites his mouseship greatly,
and during its performance he fairly dances a
jig-
The Women of Cyprus—Wherein lies
their charm.
The bewitohing power attributed at this day
to the women of Cyprus is ourious in connec
tion with the worship of the sweet goddess who
called their isle her own. The Cypriote is not,
I think, nearly so beautiful in face as the Ionian
queens of Izmir, bnt she is tall, and slightly
formed ; there is a high-sonled meaning and
expression, a seeming consciousness of gentle
empire, that speaks in the wavy lines of the
shoulder, and winds itself like Cytherea’s own
cestns around the slender waist; then the riohly
abounding hair (not enviously gatt?®r<?d togeth
er under the head-dress) descends the neck,
and passes the waist in sumptuous braids. Of
all other women with Greolan blood in their
veins, the costume is graciously beautiful, but
these, the maidens of Limesol—their robes are
more gently, more sweetly imagined, and fall
like Julia's cashmere in soft, luxurious folds.
The common voice of the Levant allows that in
face the women of Cyprus are less beautiful
than their majestic sisters of Smyrna, and yet,
says the Greek, he may trust himself to one
and all the bright cities of the „Egean, and may
still Weigh anchor with a heart entire, but that
so surely as be ventures upon the enchanted
Isle of Cyfprus, so surely will he know the rap
ture or the bitterness of love. Tbe charm, they
say, owes its power to that which the people
call the astonishing ‘politics, ’ politike, of the
wemen, meaning, I fancy, their tact, and their
witching ways; the word, however, plainly fails
to express one half of that which the speakers
would say. I have smiled to hear the Greek,
with all his plenteousness of fancy, and all the
wealth of his generous language, yet vainly
struggling to describe tbe ineffable spell which
tha Parisians dispose of in tbeir own smart
way, by a summary l Je nescai quoi.’
All The World Over.
OUR WIVES.
Changes in Ten Years of Married
Life,
A young woman daring ihe first week of her
marned life entertains vague suspicions that
the statements of older wives, that the way to a
man’s heart is through his mouth, are true. Her
Charles, who is almost, if not quite, ermpt
from human failings, has already manifested a
profound admiration for veal pies, and has
openly expressed his detestation to overdone
mutton. She accordingly builds up within her
a fortress ot resolution in which to guard that
sacred treasure of a husband’s affection. In her
girlhood this young woman had speDt much
time in cnltivating her musical taste in read mg
Emerson and Carlyle; she had been fond of
pretty landscapes, and could use her pencil with
effect, and she had been heard to declare with
pride that when she married she would give up
none of these things.
Let us visit her now, at the end of ten years
of matrimony, and we will find that she has
broken her vow and thrown it to the winds.
We find a tiresome sort of person, whose whole
intellect is absorbed in attending to the cares of
honse-keeping and in getting stylish deesses
for her children, Her conversation rises seldom
above the level of infant gossip and servants,
and the only ideas developed by time and ex
perience in her conviotion that men are tbe most
unreasonable and selfish of creatures, ana wo
men the most abused and self-sacrificing.
There is a great evil somewhere, but what is
it ? The husband acknowledges to himself that
he is disappointed in the wile he has chosen,
and jet he finds difficulty in pointing out his
mistake’and hardly finds cause to blame her,
for is she not a faithful wife, a devoted mother
and a most frugal manager ? The mistake is a
national characteristic. So passionate and in
tense is the American mind in pursuit of its
temporary interests, the men will suffer the
chains of business to bind them down aDd throt
tle them, while their wives bend beneath a sim
ilar yoke of dnty at home.
What is lacking is the power to rise above the
petty annoyances of daily life; we need to learn,
to distinguish trifles from affairs of moment, to
know that every mole-hill is not a mountain-.
We need not forsake the upper strata of senti
ment, thought and ideality—the atmosphere of
the sonl—because we know that there is a lower
one of rontine and small vexation, in which our
feet are told to tread. To breath in the one is
to receive strength and refreshment for exertion
in the other. It is a good plan to pick up nee
dles and pins from the floor, bnt picking pins
ought not to be made the chief object of exist
ence; for, if we move along with our heads con
stantly downward, we most assnreadly will see
nothing better than pins and needles to the end
pf om days,
POSITIVE EVIDENCE
of the Efficacy of B. M. Wool
ley’s OPIUM CURE as shown
by Testimonials from Reliable
Cured Patients with the name
and Postoffice address of Each
Given.
Bonham, Texas, June 18th, 1878.
Maj. B. M. Woolley,35 Whitehall St. (up stalls
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir:— Excuse me for not writing sooner.
I appreciate the cure your antidote made ou
me. I am in excellent health and gaining
strength every day; and this is to certify that I
used opium for four years, using thirty grains a
day. I applied to you for your Opium Anti
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commenced with the antidote. No interference
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the antidote. Yours Very Truly,
W. H. Gilbert.
A Southern woman visiting at Nantucket,con
sidering herself insulted by a resident, drew
her revolver and made him get down on his
knees and apologise.
Princess Louise, now Vice Queen of Canada,
is described as a woman of strong character and
decided will. She has an intelligent and deter
mined face, which suggests her mother’s. She
is very cultivated in literature and art and pleas
ant in her manners.
Palestine, Tex.—The layiDg of the corner
stone of the Mosaic Temple, in this city, took
plaoe August 29. The ceremonies included a
grand procession by the Knights Templar, civic
authorities, and various corporate bodies, con
cluding with a ball for tbe benefit of the order.
Sixty t)f the Western editorial excursionists to
the Mammoth Cave arrived at Nashville yester
day morning, and visited the State capitol and
other public buildings, and called on the wid
ow of the late President Polk. The visitors re
turned to Louisville by the 3 p. m. extra train.
The new tramp law, under which tramps are
sentenced to thirty days hard labor in the chain
gang breaking stone in the streets of Erie,Penn.,
is working beautifully. The tramps seldom
linger long in the city after being released and
the community never was freer from them than
now.
Lient. H. S. Wetmore, formerly of the navy,
has given notice to Admiral Porter, commander
of the navy, that he intends to bring suit against
him for the recovery of $1,600, which Wetmore
claims tbe Admiral exaoted from him wrongful
ly while he was in the service of the department
He claims that the Admiral has been instrumen
tal in getting him appointments, first, as chief
clerk of the board of inspectors of tbe United
States Navy, and second, as the chief clerk of
tbe signal office of that department and that
when he (Wetmore)came to draw his pay through
different disbursing offioes, he foand that cer
tain letters had been filed with them, asking
them to retain out of bis pay certain sums, which
were to be sent to Rosalina Wetmore, who lives
in Chester, Pennsylvania, who is the divorced
wife of Lieut. Wetmore. The case will be en
tered in the courts hero in a few days. Wet
more has been divorced from his wife over three
years, and claims that Admiral Porter had no
right to force him to contribute to her support
Death fbom a Needle Point.—A young man
named Henry Hubbard, aged 38 years, fell dead
while walking the streets of Toronto Canada.
Of coarse, the usual inquiry was instituted and
examination made. It was at first supposed he
was the victim of heart disease, but the most
vigerous search failed to detect any signs of dis
ease in that Qrg&D.
The Doctors were puzsled; the man was
healthy, and in full possession of his powers:
what could have caused his sudden departure
from this world?
It was at last traced: in one section of the
heart, while Uhdejr the microscope, was discov
ered the minute point of a needle. Death had
been bronght abont by this broken point of a
needle. Bnt how did the needle get tc the heart ?
The doctors renewed their researches, and were
at last able to follow the oours'e of the needle’s
point, whioh had first entered the man’s foot,
and from there had Blowiv worked its way
through the body to the heart, when death
resulted.
Pbeston, Websteb co., Ga., July 3d, 1878.
Maj. B. M. Woolley,
35 Whitehall St., (up stairs) Atlanta, Ga.,-
Dear Sir:—l have used your Opium Antidote
with entire success. I am perfectly cured of the
habit, and can say that in my opinion your
Opium Cure will never fail if taken according
to directions. Yours truly,
yi. P. Tracy,
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Take that Buckeye out of Your Pocket l
Now that tbe medical properties of the Buck
eye are clearly established, and utilized for the
cure of Piles, why not make a direct application
of its healing virtues in the form of Tabler’s
Buokeye Pile Ointment and be cured ? This
preparation is made from the alkaloid of the
Buckeye, er Horse Chestnut, and, combined
with other ingredients, is offered to the public
as a cure for nothing else but Piles. Price 50
oenta a Bottle.
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