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A Man of‘-Faith.”
YOUTH’S COLUMN.
The man who stands on a dry goods
hox and tells the public that the medi.
<M,<e jn the little bottles before him is a
sure cure for this or that complaint
Jinds about two believers out of every
hundred who pass. If lie only finds
one his expectations are answered, and
he makes a good thing out of it. He
began his talk yesterday with an audi
ence of one. It was a fat, fleshy young
man of 25 v/ith a double chin and a red
neck-tie, and “faith” was written
across his face in letters broad and
plain,
“Gentlemen,” began the vender, as
he looked the young man in the face,
do you have a feeling of nashua at your
stomachs? If so, one of these 10 cen
bottles of my world pannersea will in
stantly relieve and «.ure.”
“Just what 1 waut,” replied the
young man, and he laid down 10 cents
and took a bottle.
“Gentlemen,” continued the vender,
“do you have backache and chills? If
so, I warrantthis pannersea to cure you
at two doses. It has been tried by Kings
and Emperors, and it has give:- uni*
ver ”
“Been looking for just this cure,”
interrupted the young man, and he
paid lor a second bottle and fell back
into his old tracks.
“Gentlemen, it gives me pleasure to
assert that this medicine was origi
nally invented as a cure lor headaehe.”
softly remarked the seller. “When I
Eay it will cure the worst cate of head
ache ever known in from three to five
minutes, 1 solemnly mean what I say.
It has been tried in 10,000 cases.”
“Might as well knock my headache
while I’m about it,” said the young
man to himself and he laid down a
quarter and received his correct change
for another bottle.
The young man was still the only
audience. Faith brightened ou his
face, and he laid down 10 cents with
the remark:
“My old liver is always kicking up
trouble, and I guess 1’il cure her!”
“My lellow-eitizens,” remarked the
seller as he mopped his face, “are you
troubled -with toothache, cutaneous
diseases, palpitation ot the heart, loss
of sleep, or in-growing toe-nails?”
“We are!” solemnly replied the
young man, and he invested in another
bottle.
“Americans—freemen—are you sub
ject to coughs, hoarseness, bronchitis,
quins}', consumption, nightmare, 103S
of memory, whooping-cough, or fall
ing out of hair?”
“Hanged if we ain’t!” whispered
the young sellow with the double-chin,
and he pocketed his sixth bottle and
waited lor further oratory. His re
markable faith staggered the dealer
w ho finally said :
“I guess you have had enough for
this time. Take according to directions
and you will soon feel the beneficial
effects.”
“Yes. 1 will—thank you eyer so
much—j'cs—stammered the young
man. “This ’ere remedy isn’t good
for fits, is it?”
“Well, well,” slowly answered the
vender—that is not the regular cure for
fits,
“Then 1 guess I’ll take what I’ve
got and get cured of all these things
\ ou mentioned, and then go for the fits
alone and give ’em thunder and blazes,
wouldn’t you ?”
FARM AND GARDEN.
•1 <
you bring
“Yes that’s the way.
out anything loi nu> i v.
me a gallon. I’ve been unier the
weather just as long as I can stand ii
Good-by.”
The Malarial Tuition.
Intermittent fever, marsh fever, ma
larial fever, fever and ague, “chills”
—these are a few of the names by which
the doctors and the people know more
or less one of the most w idespread and
familiar of the ills that flesh is heir to,
a malady that seems to occur at one time
or another in all countries where there
are to be found war.er, sunshine, and a
soil reasonably rich in decayed vegeta
ble elements.. In countries where the
soil is less rich in vegetable elements
the fever is restricted to the neighbor
hood of inundated lands or marshes, or
ponds of variable level, because in
these situations the abundance of de
caying vegetable substance is very
great. In such countries the opinion
is general, and is perhaps accurate,
that’the poison is of marshy origin;
but in countries where the whole sbul
is rich enough to be ±n this particular
like these marshy lands, it has been
long recognized that the poison had no
necessary relation to marshy situations?
but was in fact telluric, and that a
short rain which only slightly mois
tened the surface of the earth, and a
few succeeding hours of sunshine, sup
plied all the conditions necessary lor
the elaboration of the poison that pro
duced this fever. But what was that
poison? Science failed to solve that
problem. But it did not fail for waut
of effort. An exceedingly great amount
of ingenuity’, industry and trained skill
has lor age* been devoted to the labor
of hunting down, isolating and de
scribing the offending atoms that have
made and still make uninhabitable some
of the fairest regions of the earth. All
effort was vain, however, and no satis
factory answer has ever been made to
the query, What precisely is the poi
son that causes this disease? Ic has
remained a mystery. Within a few
years ingenious endeavors to solve this
problem have multiplied, lu the pre
sent year some experiments have been
made at Rome which appear to be more
fruitful than any hitherto recorded ; or,
in the words of the report read to the
Academy of Rome, “the investigation
was rew arded with complete success.”
These experiments were conducted by
Signor Tommasi of Rome, and Profes
sor Klebs of Prague. They togetuer
spent some weeks in the Agro Romano,
and made repeated examinations of the
lower strata of the atmosphere, of the
soil and of stagnant waters, and suc
ceeded in isolating a microscopic fun
gus, specimens oi which, being placed
under the skin of healthy dogs, caused
distinct and regular paroxysms of in
termittent fever, and produced in the
spleens of these animals that peculiar
condition which is a recognized part of
the pathology of this disease. In the
medical world this achievement must
be regarded as an important one. To
people at large it may not seem a great
aflair to have ascertained precisely what
pari of the elements of a poisonous soil
it is to which its poisonous nature is
du^i but it must not be too hastily
j udged that this knowledge will not in
volve an important advance in the ca-
p ;city to deal w ith this noxious pro
duct of the earth.
“Chubby Wubby.”—She had such an
honest, hearty, round iittle face, with
two brown eyes, a dot of a nose, and
such chubby, hard, red cheeks that
Aunt Gussie named her “Chubby Wub
by” as soon as she saw her.
Her real name was Fanny, although
mamma called her “Blossom” some
times, and papa declared she was his
little “Boy,” while grandma had a
a whole host of pet names besides.
Aunt Gussie thought “Chubby Wub
by” seemed to suit her the best of all,
she was so round, plump and rosy.
Miss Chubby was cross one day, and
among other things, she took it into
her head that she wouldn’t be called by
any of her pet names. Wlieu mamma
said to lier “Blossom, come and get
your bat on,” she shrugged her
shoulders; and she answered “Agh,”
when Aunt Gussie made a rush at her
for half-a-dozen kisses when she came
in off the lawn, with such tempting , -
cheeks that it was impossible not to I applied
want to bite them.
When Aunt Gussie said, “Come
here, quick, you sweet little Cliubbj'
Wubby!” Fanny just kicked out one
of her bare, plump little knees, and
cried, “Pigl”
Now that was a very dreadful tiling
for her to call her auntie, for Fanny
thought pigs were a very horrid sortol'
beasts, and it was the worst name she
knew, and besides, she said it in a
naughty, wicked tone.
‘ Oh, Chubby,” cried Aunt Gussie,
laughing, “we haven’t got any pigs in
here and w r o don’t want any colts
either, and if 3*ou are going to kick
that w ay, we shall have to put you in
the stable,”
Chubby didn’t feel a bit like laugh
ing at this, but said again, very loudly
•‘Pig, Pig, Pig!”
Mamma heard her from the ether
room then, and she called out, “Come
in here to me, Fanny; I want to look at
your t-ngue.” Fanny kicked up her
heels and ran to her m imma and stuck
out her little coral-tinted tongue.
“Wha’ lor, mamma?” she asked,
thinking perhaps some little sweet pel
lets might follow.
“I wanted to see the naaghty spot on
it,” answered mamma. “I heard it
cafl auntie a name ju3t now, and I
wanted to tell you if 1 ever heard it call
any one that again, 1 should put some
thing on the spot to cure the naughti
ness."
The Practice of Fai.l Plowing,—
Disintegration is one of the great se
crets of the beneficial effects from fall
plowing. Its action is both mechanical
and chemical. Land when broken by
the plough holds a greater percentage
of water. It freezes w hen in this wet
state, then it thaws and the disintegra
tion is complete. All moisture receiv
ed on the surface filters through the
pulverized earth evenly, and in conse
quence the manurial properties in the
water reach every particle of the soil
and are retained. Another advantage
of fall ploughing is the much greater
surface of soil exposed. Compact,
ground presents but one surface to the
air, w hile that which is well broken
exposes nearly every side of every par
ticle of soil as deep as the tilth goes.
The tilth 13 also deepened, and clay
subsoil thrown on top becomes subjec
ted to atmospheric actions which pre
pare it lor any solvents that may be
ipplied. The linear thing of pestilent
nsects from their comfortable biding
places in the fall, and exposing them to
the weather is one of the incalculable
benefits arising from fall plowing.
The turning under of cockle-burrs, ox-
eye daisy’, foxtail and other noxious
weeds with the stubbie of the grain
fields before their seeds mature is still
another benefit, as these growths are
destroyed and forced to serve the land
they previously burdened by enriching
it. Fanners who are constantly com
plaining that plowing under certain
weeds only tends to a more luxuriou
growth, are reminded that w’eeds
which are propagated by seed should
be turned under before the seed ripens
If the process is delayed, a foul crop of
weed seed is planted instead of destroy
ed. Cultivators who understand the
good effects of fall plowing, some of
which, by the w ay, is best accomplish
ed during the summer, will soon set
the plows moving it they are not alrea
dy started, on lands designed for winter
grain, fall seedings, and for corn next
spring.
Pork or Bacon.—It is often a ques
tion with fanners whether to sell their
hogs in the fall as pork, or convert
them into bacon, to be reserved for a
better market during the year? Thii
will depend, in part, upon the locality
of the farmer. As a general rule, if
helivc3 a considerable distance from
market, then bis chances for profit in
L’ttle Fanny shut her lips very tight I baccuing his pork are greater, because
then, only opening them to eay very j he not only allows himself more time
earnestly, “Never no more, mamma.” I and opportunity to oltain better prices,
“Well,” replied mamma, “I hope you j but secures a considerable reduction in
won’t forget, for I shall not; now kiss ! the cost of transportation. Most far-
auntie, and run out on the lawn and mers are accustomed to put away pork
play until luncheon.” ! enough to serve their families the en-
Then little Chubby Wubby went in j tire year, and in doing so are supposed
and threw her arms around Annt Gus- | io secure their meat at less cost than to
sie’s neck, and all was forgiven. j sell it as pork and buy their bacon If,
Somehow “never no more” happened I therefore, the practice holds good in
to be a very short time, for not very I such cases, why should it not hold
long afterward, when Annie, her nurse, I equally good with all the hogs he has
called, “Come Fanny, bread and milk | to kill? It Is true, the answer to this
L all ready,” she ran away off down by question is somewhat conditional; but
the brook and answered, “No, I don’t j then it may be assumed as generally
wan’ to turn.” I true that the farmer who bacons his
“But mamma says you must come In j hogs has a much better margin for pro-
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Washing Windows.—ft is not an
easy thing to wash windows so that
they will look clear amd well-polished,
and if soapsuds are used, it is quite im
possible to do it. The old-fasliioned
way of taking out all the windows,
and setting them aside to dry, after
the suds have been rinsed off, is, to be
sure, the easiest way of cleaning them,
but it is also the. worst way to make
them look clear and bright. First
brush them off well with a sponge, or
brush that comes for the purpose, and
then wrap a bit of cloth about a sharp-
pointed stick and w’ipe out the dust
that adheres to the corners, then take
iome weak tea, boiling hot, and add to
it a tablespoonful of alcohol and a tew
drops of aqua ammonia or a bit of car
bonate of ammonia, the size of a wal
nut. Dip a piece of sponge or old can
ton flannel, into it, and rub the glass
one way only until it shines clear.
Wipe it off with another cloth, rubbing
It until well polished, Newspapers
used to be much better than any cot
ton cloth for washing and wiping win
dows and mirrors, but now that the pa
per is chiefly composed of wood pulp,
they are the worst tiling that can be
used, as they cover them with a lintv
substance. ^
Keeping Apples in Plaster.—I have
been experimenting the past few years
with apples, and find those packed up
in plaster keep much longer than any
other way I have tried. L use flour
barrels and find them preferable to ap
ple barrels, as they are made tighter.
I first cover the bottom of the barrel
with plaster, then a layer of apples,
then cover with plaster, and so on till
the barrel is full: then put the head in
and drive the hoops tight. The plas
ter, being of a cold nature, keeps the
fruit at an even temperature, and being
fine and dry, packs so close as to keep
the apples air tight. 1 had Northern
Spy and Swaar almost as fresh in May
as when picked, and found no decayed
one, aud think they would have kepi
till early apples were ripe, had we not
used them. Shall put up several bar
rels for next spring and summer use,
as I am satisfied that our best varieties,
such as Steel’s Red Winter, Wagener
aud seek no further, will keep several
months longer than putting them up
without plaster, and will retain their
flavor much better beside.
WIT AND HUMOR.
A Bit of “Sass.”—He was inspect
ing the Swine Department and point
ing out such hogs as he wished were in
his pen at home when a stranger asked
him to change'a ten dcilar bill.
George complied, and when it was
too late discovered that his ten was a
counterfeit. As there was no hope of
findiug the swindlers he pitched into a
farmer, with an open countenance and
a red nose and rolled him in the mud.
The police thereupon placed George
in the “coop” and drew him down.
“George Brown, how mean to try to
and break up the peace aud harmony
of a big State Fair in such a manner!”
remarked the court in reproachtul
tones as the prisoner stood before
him.
“Yes, and how mean it* was in them
fellers to break up the peace afid har-
.mony of George Brown !” retorted the
prisoner.
“You got swindled by sharpers but
that was your own fault. The farmer
had nothing to do with it.
“He didn’t, eh? When 1 found that
the ten was a counterteit didn’t be
jump up and cracked his heels together
and haw! haw! haw! till ye could
hear him clear across the grounds! 1
may be a fool, your Honor, but no man
with a red nose can haw ! haw! haw !
me and not pay for it!”
“Well, I’m going to haw ! haw ! you
about $5 worth.”
The prisoner settled himself back for
a speech. Then he settled forward to
give the coart a bit of “sass.” Then
he didn’t exactly like the looks of
of things and he pulled out a“V,” paid
the fine and walked out.
A Great French Philosopher
once defined a doctor to be *a peraon whe
pours drugs about which he knows litt ; e, into
a body concerning which he known less, in
order to cure disease -- of which he knows noth- '
ing,’* aud the empirical, barbarous, useless
treatment of piles since the days of Hypoc-
ratea, when doctors burned the tumors off
with red hot iron, down to the absurd wonder
cures and nostrums of n oderu quacks, would
►•eem to bear testimony to the wisdom of the
Frenchman. The great modern benefactor of
the modern race is now admitted by every one
to be Dr. Sdabee. the di~coverer of an infallible
pile remedy in Anakesis. This miraculous cure
for the most painful of all diseases is regarded
as the scientific triumph of the age, and is
prescribed and endorsed by physicians of all
schools. It is not taken inteina'ly but applied
as a suppositoiy directly to the affected part,
it giytfa instant relief, soothes pain as a poul
tice, presses up the tnmore as au instrument,
and ultimately cures piles by its medication.
Anakesis, Dr. S. Silsbee's External Pile
Remedy, is sold by all firat-ciass druggists.
Price $1 00 per box. Samples mailed free to
all sufferers on appi cation to P. Ncustaedter
& Co.. Box 3946, New York.
Winning a Wife.
right away,” and Annie ran after her.
“I’ig, Pig, 1*ig,” again cried Fanny,
in an angry tone.
Mamma heard her, and came to the
door. “Pick her right up Annie, and
bring her to me. 1 am going to cure
her of that habit directly,” and so poor
little naughty Chubby Wubby was
borne into the house, kicking and
screaming lustily.
“Now stop your crying and put out
yonr tongue,” said mamma, “i’m go
ing to put some pepper right on to the
naughty spot, and burn out the name
you have called auntie and Annie to
day.”
“No, mamma, no, no, never no
more,” sobbed little Chubby Wubby,
her eyes and round red checks all wet
with tears.
“Well, if Aunt Gussie and Annie
say so, I will let you off this time,”
said mamma, with the little pinch oi
pepper in her hand and all ready.
“But please remember, if I ever hear
your tongue call any one ‘Pig’ again. 1
oi.ttii pui. me peppei ou it ana burn out
the naughty spot.”
Chubby Wubby sobbed over and over
again “Never no more, mamma,” and
Aunt Gussie and Annie were very glad
to say they would not like to have their
darling punished “this time,” and
Aunt Gussie whispered to little Fan
ny’s mother, “I feel half to blame my
self, for I suppose she thinks if I call
her a name, she may call me one,” and
after that day little Fanny never called
anybody “Pig,” and Aunt Gussie
stopped calling Fanny “Chubby Wub
by,”
fit than he who sells his animals In the
shape of pork. Again, we have known
men to make it a business of purchas
ing p^rk in the fall lor the purpose of
converting it into bacon, and made
money by the operation. And if these
men could afford to pay cash for the
article and then make it profitable to
convert it into bacon, it does seem to
us that a far tier is acting unwisely
who would thus surrender apart of his
ligitimate profits by selling his hogs as
pork.
The Rag Weed—its uses.—Some
farmers do not relish this massive
growth of weeds. If clover is excel
lent as a manure plowed down why
not the rag weed ? W here a mass of
vegetable matter is turned down and
phosphate, plaster or lime subverted
with the weeds decomposition takes
place and plant food is created. Phos
phates act not alone as a fertilizer but
as a means of ni»t |n <y th ** fc ' vhiv ' 11 ia in
the soil soluble. Acids soon convert
raw vegetable matter into sustenance
for plants. Plaster will have the same
effect as we very well know. The
many fields covered with rag weed and
awaiting preparation lor wheat that
we have noticed this iall, if treated
with the design of utilizing the abun
dant vegetable matter for the coming
wheat crop, would certainly increase
ibe yield to a very perceptible extent.
With all the competition in soap,
Dobbins’ Electric Soap, (made by Cra-
gin Co., Phi.adelphia, Ta.,) is first
in popularity, because it is pure, uni
form and honest. Have your grocer
get it and then try it at once.
Autobiography of a Bog.—Never was
an “innocent child.”
Took to general wickedness as fast as
I was able to comprehend it.
Stole pie, cake and jam and lied about
it.
Had two sets of, faces, manners and
morals. One for indoors and before the
folks; one for outdoors with the boys.
“Sting of conscience” meant getting
Ca w g « a r rw a b ^ g «n r ‘i. aP f^ e n 0 l Cb J r ^ v, I to the bottom of the Vessel, bat if three
founded 1 y i ‘’»ys old it will float in the liquid; if
Herded with other little boys of my
own age.
• B;g boys” taught us many kinds of
wickedness.
A “big boy” is a boy who haslearned | FoodforHogs.—Three or fourbush-
to smoke and chew tobacco. j els of corn meal, with a quart of salt,
Used to hang around and hear men j in a hogshead of water, stirred occa-
talk on mysterious subjects. N. B.— i sionallv for three or lour days until it
ferments, is much better and far cheap
er than feeding either meal or corn to
growing pigs. You can add bran, mid
dlings or slop to it; and, when half
used, fill up with water, and so repeat,
adding meal when needed, aud a little
salt,
Age of Lggs,—To determine the
exact age of eggs, dissolve about four
ounces of common salt in a quart of
pure water, and then immerse the eggi
If it be only a day or so old, it will sink
| more than five, it comes to the surface
I and rises above in proportion to its in-
I creased age.
Grown up folks always Seem to forget
that the smaller a boy is the bigger are
his ears and eyes.
Parents are not to be trusted. If you
tell them the truth about yourself they
lick you. The premium is on dis
honesty. Parents are useful to feed
and clothe a feller and give him Fourth
of July money. O: her wise they are
intrusive.
While my folks thought they were
“bringing me up” I grew up. I con
quered all my privileges. Learned to
smoke eight years before they allowed
me to smoke.
Learned much from other boys at
school not printed in the books.
We recently noticed the discovery of a
remarkable subterranean body of water
in Australia. A similar discovery is
now reported from Algeria. At Tiem-
cen there are some beautiful cascades,
near which a number of miners were
engaged in blasting. They had blasted
a huge rock, and were removing it,
when they came upon the opening to a
large cave. The floor was covered with
water. The men made a raft, and hik
ing candles, embarked on the stream,
which led into an underground lake,
overspread by a lofty, arched roof, bril
liant with stalactites. Here they en
countered diffionity in navigation, for
the stalactites from above met tne stal
agmites rising from the water, forming
massive white columns, by which their
progress was considerably impeded.
At the end of the lake an out-flowing
stieara was visible, but the explorers
did not pursue its course further. They
estimate the total distance of this point
from the mouth of the cave at about a
mile and a half, and the width of the
lake at one mile. A number of- blind
fish were obtained from the waters?
One of the most valuable aids to meat
production is almost entirely disregar
ded in this country. The flaxseed
cake made here finds its market mainly
in England. It is true that corn is
cheap, but there are feeders in this
country who have proved the economy
of a small ration of oil cake.
A slop made of corn and oats, ground
in about equal parts, with a little oil
meal added, makes the best food for the
sow while.sucking, to increase the flow
of milk; and this, with clover pasture
and plenty of soaked corn during the
summer, will promote a rapid and
healthy growth of the pigs.
Oats for Horses.—Oats are justly
advocated as the grain above all others
adapted to horses, and it is true that
for young, and those used on the road
there is probably nothing equal to oats,
but they ought to be crushed or bruised,
and not ground. In fact, all grains
are better fed in this way.
A teaspoonful of ground horse-rad
ish added to every quart of catsup or
pickles will keep the mould from the
top.
A Blockade that Should be Raised.
The egress from the system of waste mate
rial through the natural channels should be
rendered free, without loss of time, when &
blockade is produced by an attack Of constipa
tion. a d.Bo.der which if it becomes cbroDic, is
productive of serious bodily mischief. Jaun
dice, severe-headaches, nausea dyspepsia, the
usual concomitants of the malady mentioned. | cases, has felt it his duty to make it
-ii ' wmn« .mm.., knew to Ii is suffering fellows. Actu-
Consumptloa Cured-
An old physician, retired from prac-
ice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of a simple vegetable remedy lor the
speedy and permanent cure for Con
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
and all Throat and Lung Affections,
also a positivfe and radical cure for Ner
vous Debility and all Nervous Com
plaints, after having tested its wonder
ful curative powers in thousands of
all indicate that the bodily functions
terially interfered with, lloatettcr'a Bittera is
particularly effioac.ous in casta of this sort,
and renders the habit of body per ectly regu
lar. It ia a medicine greatly to be preferred to
drastic cathartics, which are well calculated to
drench, but unhappily also to weaken the in
testines. We say unhap, ily, since such medi
cines are the favorite resource of many ill ad-
v.aed persons, who resori to them u;>on the
most trivial occasion, and greatly to their dis
comfort and injury.
ated by this motive and a desire to re
lieve human suffering. I will send free
of charge to all who desire it, this re
cipe, in German, French, or English,
with fuil directions lor preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing
with stamp, naming this paper, W. W.
Sherar, 149 Powers’ Biotic, Rochester,
New York.
Ax Old Rule for Ventilating Bed
rooms.—A simple device is within the
reach of every one having an ordinary
window in his room, by which fresh
outer air can be admitted a small quan
tity with such an upward current as
will prevent its being felt as an injur
ious draft by the iumstes. It is par
tieularly adapted to sleeping rooms
when the weather is too cold to admit
of au open window half an inch, which
is not quite enough to clear the rebate
or stop-heads at top and bottom, but
which leaves an opening of au inch
between the meeting rails, through
which a current enters, but diverted
upward by the glass as it should be, so
its coolness might otherwise induce it
to do. It thus becomes well mixed
with the air of the without being felt
as a draft.
Fish Cake.—Take the meat from the
bones o! any kind of cold fish, which
latter put with the nead and fins into a
stew-p iu with a pan of water, a little
salt, pepper and onion, and a fagot of
sweet herbs to stew for gravy. Mince
the meat and mix it well with crumbs
of bread and cold potatoes (equalparts),
a little parsley and seasoning. Make
into a cake, with the white of an eg;
or a little butter or milk: egg it over
and cover with breadcrumbs, and then
fry a little brown. Pour the gravy
over, and stew gently for fifteen min
utes, stirring it carefully twice o
thrice. Serve hot and garnish with
slices of lemon or parsley.
Baked Indian Pudding.—Econom
ical and excellent: Boil a quart of
sweet milk, thicken with four table-
apooniuis sirted corn meal. Add three
tablespoonful molasses or brown sugar,
a tablespoon of butter, one egg, a salt-
spoon of salt, nutmeg or cinnamon to
taste. Bake one hour* if tour oven is
quick: if a slow heat, one hour and a
half. Eat warm from the oven, or
cool if prefered, with syrup or other
sauce. Don’t think to Improve it by
adding more eggs. It should bake un
til curdled, like ail over-baked cus
tard.
Beautiful Black Color for Bronze.
—A strong concentrated thin solution
of nitrate of silver is required for this
purpose. It should be mixed with
equal solution of nitrate of copper, and
well shaken together. The pieces
which require coloring are dipped into
this solution and left for a short time.
When taken out they should be equally
heated till the required black color
makes its appearance,
JFegetin'e.—When the blood becomes
lifeless and stagnant, either from
change of weather or of climate, want
of exercise, irregular diet, or from any
otaer cause, the Vegetine will renew
the blood, carry oil'the putrid humors,
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bow
els, and impart a tone of vigor to the
whole body.
Domestic Champagne.—W hen grapes
are just turning, or about half ripe,
gather them, pound them in a tub, and
to every quart of pounded fruit add
tw’o quarts of water; let the mixture
stand fourteen days, then draw it off;
to every gallon of liquor add three
pounds of loaf sugar; when the sugar
is dissolved pour it into a cask; after it
is done working put in a cellar; in six
months bottle and wire the corks tigkt-
ly * .
Steaming Puddings.—Never put a
pudding that is to be steamed into any
thing eise than a dry mould. Put into
boiling water and keep boiling till
done.
Get out of Doors.—The close con
finement of all factory work, gives the
operatives pallid faces, poor appetite,
languid, miserable feelings, poor blood,
inactive liver, kidneys and urinary
troubles, and all the physians and med
icine in tiie world cannot help them
unless they get out of doors or use Hop
Bitters, the purest aud best remedy,
especially for such cases, having abun
dance of health, sunshine and rosy
cheeks in them. They cost but a trifle.
See another column.
Regarding Shortening.—In mak
ing a crust of any kind do not melt the
shortening. Let it be as cold as possi
ble and knead it through the flour.
Melting it injures the crust.
A Wise Legislator.
He is successful because he lias the
manly courage to rise above all per
sonal motives or interests and casts his
vote and influence on the side of meas
ures woich will contribute to the well
being of his fellow-men. The good of
the many, even though it proves in
jurious to the interests of the low, is
the maxim of the wise legislator. But
certain men will never admit the wis
dom of this doctrine, any more than
some selfish practitioners will admit
the superlative value of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery and Pleas
ant Purgative Pellets, because these
remedies have injured their practice.
OI course, no man in his right senses
will pay a physician $5.00 for a con
sultation, a bottle of bitters, a few
pow’ders, and a prescription, when one
bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery and a bottle of his Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, both costing but
$1.25, will accomplish the same ie-
ult, viz: cleanse the liver and blood,
regulate and tone the stomach, and im
part a healthful action to the bowels
and kidneys.
Almost Young Again.—“My mother
was afflicted a long time with Neural
gia and a dull, heavy, inactive condi
tion of the whole system; headache,
nervous prostration, and was almost
helpless. No physicians or medicines
did her any good. Three months ago
she began to use Hop Bitters, with such
ood effect that she seems and feels
young again, although over 70 years
old. We Liiiuk there is no other med
icine fit to use in the family.”—A lady
iu Providence, R. 1.
A father never thinks his ten year
old is stronger than a horse until he
employs him to turn the grindstoue to
sharpen an old axe that is about as
sharp at one cutkas at the other. The
old mail bears on until the lad’s eyes
hangout and his trousers’ buckle flies
off, and just before he bursts a blood
vessel his father encourages him with
the remark, “Does—it—turn—hard?”
Thousands of boys have runaway from
home and become pirates aud green-
backers in order to escape a secoud
siege at the grindstone.
A young couple In humble life were
going through the usual civil matrimo
nial forms a few days ago before tiie
mayor of one of arrondissements of
Paris. “The woman is everywhere to
follow her husband,” said the function
ary, reciting the usual formula. “1
decline to promise that,” said the bride,
with great decision, “What do you
mean ?” inquired the mayor. “My hus
band is u letter-carrier in the su
burbs,” replied tiie cautious creature iu
a mincing toue.
An old Scotch lady, who had no rel
ish for modern church music, \\ as ex
pressing her dislike for the singing of
an anthem in her own church one day,
when a neighbor said, “Why that is a
very old anthem ; David sang that an
them to Saul.” To this the old lady re
plied : “Weel, weel, I noo for the first
time understan’ why Saul threw his
javelin at David when the lad sang to
him.”
A poetess sings “I love tliee every
hour.” That’s right Girls who love
a fellow only four or five hours out ol
the twenty-four, and bestow their af
fections upon several other chaps dur
ing the remaining hours of the day,
are what the New York custom officers
would cail “Irauds in silk.” They
should love every hour, or not at all.
“My Mother-in-law i3 a walking ad
vertisement for Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup,”
a subscriber remarked yesterday: “she
recommends it everywhere.”
Listz was at Prague in the autumn of i
1 846. The day after his arrival a stranger !
called upon him, and represented himself as :
a brother artist in distress, having expended
irfill his means in an unsuccessful law suit, ■
Hd solicited aid to enable him to return to 1
Nuerberg, his place of residence. Listz;
gave him a hearty reception, and opened |
Iiis desk to get some money, but found he :
possessed only three ducats.
“Yon see,” said the generous artist, “that •
I am as poor as yourself. However, I have j
credit, and I can coin more money with i
my piano. I have here a miniature given j
me by the Emperor of Austria; the paint- j
ing is of little value, but the diamonds, are-;
fine; take it, sell the diamonds, and keep
the money.”
The stranger refused the rich gift, but
Listz compelled him to take it, and he car
ried it to a jeweler, who, suspecting from
his miserable appearance, that he had stolen
it, had him arrested and thrown into prison.
The stranger sent for his benefactor, who
immediately called upon the jeweler, and
told him that the man was innocent, that
he had given him the diamonds.
“But who are you?” said the jeweler.
“My name is Listz,” he replied.
“I know of no financier of that name,’
said the jeweler.
“Very possible,” said Listz.
“But do you know that these diamonds
are worth six thousand florins?”
“So much the better for him to whom I
gave them.
But you must be very rich to make such
presents ?”
“My sole fortune consists of three ducats,”
said Listz.
“Thenyou are a fool,” said the jeweler.
“No,” said Listz. “I have only* to move
the ends of my fingers to get as much money
as I want.”
“Then you are a sorcerer,” said the jew
eler.
“I will show you the kind of sorcery that
1 employ,” said Listz.
Seeing a piano in the back parlor of the
jeweler’s shop, the eccentric artist sat down
to it, and began to improvise a ravishing
air. A beautiful young lady made her ap
pearance and at the close of the perfor
mance exclaimed “Bravo Listz!”
‘You know him then ?” said the jeweler
to his daughter.
“I have never seen him before,” she said,
“but there is no one in the world but Listz
who can produce such sounds from the
piano.”
The jeweler was satisfied, the stranger
was released and relieved, the report of
Listz being in the city flew, and was waited
upon and feted by the nobles who besought
him to give a concert in their city. The
jeweler seeing the homage that was paid to
the man of genius, was ambitious to have
an alliance with him, and said to him :
“How do you find my daughter?”
“Adorable i” was the reply.
“What do you think of marriage ?” con
tinued the jeweler.
“WeU enough to try it, said Listz.”
“What do you say to a dowry of three
million of francs?” he next asked.
“1 will accept it,” was the reply, “and
thank you, too. ”
“Weil, my daughter likes you and you
like her,” said the jeweler, “the dowry is
ready, will you be my son-in-law?”
“Gladly,” replied Listz, and the marri
age was celebrated the week following.
VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates and
invigorates the whole System,
ITS MEDICINAL PKOFEHT1ES ABE
Alterative, Tonic? Solvent
and Diuretic.
Vegetine Is made cxcluslvel from the Juices
of careruliy-seleeted barks, roots and herbs, and
so strongly concentrated that It will effectually
eradicate from the system every t >lnt or Scro
fula, Scrofulous Humor,Tumor**, Can
cer. 4'aucerous Humor, Kryhipelan.
Salt Rheum Syphilitic Diseases, Can
ker, Faintness at the Stomach, and all
diseases that arise from impure blood. Sci
atica, Inflammatory and Chronic Rheu
matism. Neundgia, tout and Spinal
Complaints, can only be effectually cured
through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the
Skin, Pustules. Pimples, Blotches.
Boils, Tetter. Scaidhead and Ring
worm, VEGETINE Uiia never failed to effect a
permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back, Kldrey Complaints,
Dropsy, Female weakness. Leu orrhcea, arising
from internal ulceration, aud uterine diseases
and General Debility, VEGETINE acts directly
upon the causes of these complaints. It invigo
rates aud strengthens the whole system, ets
upon the s cretive organs, allays Inilainmation.
cures ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costiveness,
Palpitation of the Heart, Headache. Piles, Nerv-
tever give
feet satisfaction as the VEGETINE. It purifies
the blood, cleanses all or tiie organs, and pos
sesses a cont: oiling power over the nervous
system.
The remarkable cures effected by VEGETINE
have Induced many physicians and apothecaries
whom we know, to prescribe and use it in their
own families.
In fact, VEGETINE is the best remedy yet
discovered for the above diseases, aud lstbe
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed be
fore the public.
VEGETINE,
PREPARED BY
H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Hass.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
A belated husband, hunting in the
dark lor a match with which to light
the gas, and audibly expressing his
disappointment, was rendered insensi
ble in an instant by his wife suggest
ing in a sleepy voice that he had better
light one and look for them, and not go
stumbling around in the dark breaking
things.
Will newspaper reporters ever get
through writing that a man seriously
ill or badly’ hurt is in a “dangerous con
dition.” A man may be danger
ous when in the full possession of
health and strength, but quite harm
less when prostrated with illness and
wounds.
Tildy, the cook, to small waiter boy
(Catholic)—Martin, did you know you
was eating meat on Friday? I thought
It was against the rules of your church.
Martin—Well, so it is, but it don’t hurt
the boarders and 1 guess it won’t hurt
me.”
A little girl was visiting the coun
try and lor the first time witnessed
the operation of milking. Watching
the proceedings intently for a while
she inspected the cow minutely, and
then launched the poser, “Where do
they put it in?”
“I think it’s time to he going,” said
young Skinner, after boring bis be
trothed till a late hour at night. “Yes,’
said she, “this is a go-as-you-please
match.’ ”
A new style ot boys’ trousers has been
invented in Boston, with a copper seat,
sheet-iron knees, riveted down in the
seams, and water-proof pockets to hold
broken eggs.
Fennel tea is a simple remedy to qui
et the baby, and this innocent article is
embodied in Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup,
which outs the baby to sleep without
the evil use of opiates. Price 25 cents.
“Tim very soil of France,” says a
recent writer, “sprouts immorality.”
But Franoe is not peculiar in this re
gard. You can find loose earth in every
country.
A truly consistent clergymen al-
ways rides to church. He must save
his own sole as well as souls of others.
Repentance is like a married woman
rushing for an excursion train—it usu
ally arrives too late.
An old man with a brilliantly red
nosee should not be held up as a shin
ing example for young men.
A man at a church fair the other
night cried out, “I’ve got the oyster.
Gimme the prize.”
College boys take more naturally to
Pi Eta than piety.
To some men popping the question is
a difficult ask.
Flour is rising
should rise.
All good flour
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Children’ll Hair.
How often the soft, flossy hair of
children is seen crimped, pinched aud
curled, and nothing is so injurious to
the ultimate health of the hair as this
sort oi treatment. Wee creatures ol
three or four yaars and eveu younger
are arrayed in curl papers by affection
ate and admiring mothers who are bent
upon making the ciiiidren charming,
and who do not stop to consider how
far they may be defeating their own
ends by the action, or how much pain
they may. be inflicting on the objects of
their kind solicitude. An authority ou
that subject 8ay3: “Up to the age of
six, children retain what is called their
‘baby liair,’ which is injured, not im
proved, by cutting. In its soft and
delicate silkiness, it is like the plumage
of a young bird, and is quite different
from the harsher hair which succeeds
it. If the hair curls naturally it looks
charming dressed in that fashion, but
putting it in papers is sure to injure it
and pull it out by the roots. The use
of curling irons is still more objection
able; anything which tangles and cuts
the hair is bad in the extreme, and il is
to be regretted that mothers draw so
heavily on the capital of their children’s
hair instead of using the yearly increas
ing interest of its beauty and valae.”
One disastrous result arising from the-
prevalent custom of allowing the hair
to flow uncontiued down the shoulders
has been, in some cases, disease of the
spine, or other ills of a kindred nature.
This has been attributed to the heat of
the hair, when it is thick, and as the
hair is a non-conductor, the constant
warmth of it about the neck and shoul
ders becomes a weakening agency that
betrays itself in some miserable form.
The scaip of the head should always be
kept clean. The liair should not be
brought in contact with very sharp
comb teeth; it should be carefully and
well brushed, and loosely coiled in one
of the becoming fashions that abound
at present, without being injurious to
the growth or beauty of the hair, or
detrim ental to the physical structure
in any way.
Bora» Reran, busdsak»
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i tx^aaea mat CornffaUat*
nr gold.
ha paid fora eat* ootesra or Safe, or
(or an jthlng tmpara or ln^uloaa toand
Aik year dmgglat for Hop Bitters aad trj thaae
bofors yea sleep. Taka no ctfaar.
rOonaCvaihtiM nreeta^ afw mS 1
Ask Children
Ibo Her Fan for Stomach. Lire- and KMsoja fc
■neper-tor to ail olfccra nsii Dmegica
, L C. is aa obeotata and tirerfaen** ear* tbt
• ot oplom, tobacco and narcotic*.
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