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/ ERMOMETERS. IHli PROCESSES OP SUKINO WEATHER INDICATORS. x3xtr»mo Delicacy Required to Make a First-Class Instrument— How the Thermometers Are Gauged. ¥ A.KING a thermometer may be either a delicate scientific operation, or one of the sim plest tasks of the skilled me chanic, according to the sort of ther mometer you want. With the extremely sensitive and minutely accurate instru ments designed for scientific uses, great care is taken, and they are kept in stock for months, sometimes for years, to be compared and recompared with instru ments that are known to be trust worthy. But so much time cannot be spent over the comparatively cheap thermome ters in common use. These are made rapidly, though always carefully. The method of manufacture has been so sys tematized within recent years that the very cheapest thermometer should not vary more than the fraction ot a degree from the correct point. Whether the thermometer is to be charged with mercury or alcohol; whether it is to be mounted in a frame of wood, pressed tin or brass, the process is substantially the same. Mercury is generally used for scientific instruments, but most makers prefer alcohol because it is cheaper. The alcohol is colored red with aniline dye which does not fade. The thermometer maker buys his glass tubes in long strips from the glass facto ries. The glass blower cuts these tubes to the proper lengths, and with his gas jet and blow pipe makes the bulb on the lower end. The bulbs are then filled with colored alcohol and the tubes stand for twenty-four houra. On tho follow ing day another workman holds each bulb in turn over a gas jet, until the colored fluid, by its expansion, tills the ' "tube. It is thon taken back to the glass blower. He closes the upper end and turns the top backward to make the little glass which will help keep the tube in place in the frame. The tube* now rest until a great num ber of them are ready. Then the pro cess of gauging begins. There are no marks whatever on the tube, and the first guide mark to be made is the freez ing mark. This is formed by plunging the bulb3 in melting snow. No other thermometer is needed for a guide, for melting snow gives invariably the exact freezing point. This is an unfailing test for any ther mometer whose accuracy may be doubted. Melting snow is not always to be had, and a little machine resembling a saus age grinder is brought into use. This machine shivts a block of ice into par ticles, which answers the purpose as well as snow. When the bulbs have been long enough in the melting snow, a workman takes them one by one from their icy bath, seizing each one so that his thumb-nail marks the exact spot to which the fluid has fallen. Here he makes a scarcely perceptible mark upon the glass with a fine file, aud goes on to the next. The tubes with the freezing point marked on each now go into the bauds of another workman, who plunges them, bulb down, into a vessel filled with water kept constanly at sixty-four de grees. A standard thermometer at tached to the inside of this vessel shows that the temperature of the water is correct. Another tiny file scratch is made at sixty-four. A third time the bulb is shoved into water, kept ..constantly at ninety-six, -which, like the others, is marked. A tab is affixed to each tv.be. It is given over to the maker, who fits the bulb and hook into a frame, makes slight scratches, corresponding to the thirty- two, sixty-four and ninety-six marks. It is next given over to a workman, who cuts the degree marks. Altogether, it takes nineteen work people to make a thermometer. Nine are females. Any time you have time you could not spend a half day more pleasantly than looking at the making of a thermometer.—New York News, Conducting War on Snow Shoes. A novel idea of military operations in the great lake region in winter is out lined by Captain Thomas Sharp, United States Army. After citing the commer cial importance of the waterway between the lakos and the seas and the incalcul able benefits of a canal system that will let au ocean steamer loaded at Chicago discharge its freight at Liverpool, he proceeds to the serious question of who shall control the great gateway to this country, the St. Lawrence River. The vital thing in Captain Sharp's little pamphlet is the explanation of the ease which Canada could get possession of and control this source aud its traffic in the event or war with this country. The whole secret of the advantage as set forth is the faculty with which tho Can adian forces could operate in winter by reason of their being habituated to the use of snow shoes. Were hostilities de clared when the snow lay deep on the ground the Canadians could move into formidable offensiveness with such promptness as to be strongly intrenched in strategic positions before the Ameri can forces could be advauced to the bor ders. Comparatively few Americans along the northern border are accustomed to snow shoes, and in the military service such a thing as snowshoe practice is un known. Captain Sharp proposes that this practice be adopted as a means to our protection on the north against a possible foe that has learned to mass its forces at a given point despite the depth of the intervening snow. The idea is not to be scoffed at. It suggests a mode of warfare that we may be called upoa to eucounter, and the eat thing in a Natron’s defense is eternal preparedness in every direction from which assault is to be feared. Moreover, tho manufacture of snow shoes for army use would establish a new industry that might employ a goodly number of workmen.—Chicago Inter- Ocean. The World's Shipbuilding. The statistics of the world's ship building in 1892 show a large tonnage, notwithstanding the depression that pre vailed in the industry during the year. Tne Loudon Iron states that 1259 ves sels were constructed last year in the ship yards of the world, aggregating 1,431,919 tons, or a diminution of only 37,936 tons pompared with 1891. The two greatest centers of the shipbuilding industry point to fairly important in creases, the Clyde total for 1892 bsiDg 336,414 tons, against 326,475 tons in 1891, and that of the Tyne 297,210 tons, against 185,283 tons in the previ ous twelve months. Outsids of the British yards the slackness of the trade seems to have been most acutely felt,for the tonnage built by the United States and Canada is given as 22.213 tons only, compared with 63,813 tons in 1S91, while the continent of Europe con tributes but 149.675 ton=, in oompsri- £>n with 157,63.2 ions m the preceding ear, ' su \be «Lgr Salt and Civiliaatiom. Though playing an unobtrusive part in human economy, salt has been a pow erful factor in the politics, commerce, and wealth of Nations, and its use has marked the advancement of civilization itself. Liebig once said that the state ol civilization and the prosperity of a Nation might be measured by the quantity of soap it uses; but a more shrewd observer, Schleiden, claims that a better estimate of a people’s advancement can be formed trom the amount of salt they consumed The first trade routes were established for the traffic ia salt and incense; bar baric people waged war over the posses sion of salt sprinss; Venice owed much of her magnificence to the revenues from her salt lagoons; while the French Revo lution is indirectly attributed tc the in exorable gab&lle, the cruel and exorbi tant salt laws which oppressed the French people through four centuries. In Europe, even to-day, the salt works are either owned or controlled by Govern ment; while the Chinese jealously pro hibit the export and import of salt, Thus, the policy of kings, the prosperity of Nations, the progress of civilization have hinged upon this unconsidered trifle but aside from them, common salt has had, in all times, among all people, and in all creeds, a deep religious signifi cance. The Greeks and Romans made salt a part of their sacrifices, and it was offered in direct propitiation to placate the gods of the infernal regions. Among the Hebrews, all flesh sacrifices offered in the temple were seasoned with salt; and the most binding and sacred com pact was the so-called "Covenant of Salt,” all such treaties being made ovet a sacrificial meal, of which salt formed a necessary part. The early German tribes thought the ground holy where salt was found, and their prayers more readily heard in such places; while to this day the priest places salt in the mouth of a person receiving the Catholic sacrament of baptism. The reason of this deep and far-reach ing significance is not far to seek. Salt, because of its preservative qualities, has ever been the symbol of eternity, iacor ruption, fidelity, wisdom, justice, and peace. Christ called His disciples the "salt of the earth,” meaning that in them lay the perpetuity of the Christian spirit. It had also, particularly in the Bible, a terrible and sinister meaning, betokening sterility ana irrevocable ruin, as shown in the account of sowing with salt the site of a city destroyed by siege. Moreover, salt is the inviolable symbol of hospitality, every meal including salt —among the ancients, and in the Orient at the present day—having a sacred character, and creating among the par takers thereol a lasting bond of friend ship. "Attic salt” is the commonest synonym for wit; and it is recorded that the Romans who made salt the symbol of the immortal spirit, termed a man’s soul his saliUum, i. e., salt-cellar.—Demorest’s Magazine. Lived on Samples. He was well-bred, and when he com raenced to chat of sights in foreign lands one did not feel like doubting his word. He talked of the execution of pirates ia China, described the diamond mines of Kimberiy, and when he dwell for a few minutes on the great Expos! tion in Paris it was an easy step to Chi cago and the World's Fair. He said meditatively: “Exposition; are a snap for fellows who are ‘broke,’ and I’m awfully near it.” "Sot” queried an interested listener. "Yes,” he continued. "For sii months, when the Parisian show was on I lived like a lord, and it didn't cost me a sou, cither. Had a course dinner every day, too, from soup to cigarettes. I guess that the ‘graft’ ought to be just as good in Chicago, and so I yearn for the opening of the gates.” "How did you do it?” eagerly ques tioued his companions, whose outward appearance did not betoken unbounded wealth. “Samples, samples,” responded the man of the world. "You see, the man ufacturers of all kinds of prepared food always have samples of their stuff on ex hibition. The soup man, the maker o; beef tea, the preservers of game, the can ners of beef and other meats, tho people wbo put up all kinds ot fruit are each and every one represented. So are the men whose brands of coffee are known all over the world. In Paris they all had miniature kitchsns where they pre pared their goods, and alt you had to do was to walk up to the exhibitor’s booth, look interested, aDd you would be po litely requested to test the goods. Ol course it was impossible to refuse the in vitation, and if you made a few eulogis tic remarks it was nearly a sure thing that you would get a second helping.” "I should have thought they would have got onto you in a week or so.” “Well, I had to be somewhat diplo matic, but by skipping the soup booth every other day, only calling on the beef tea man twice a week, and otherwise ju diciously distributing my patronage, I managed to avoid any unpleasantness. Before I’d been at it for a week I had a system, or route, call it whic.i you will, which worked like a charm.” "Say,” queried his interested friend, you said you were broke. Where did you sleep?” "Sleep? Wny, in a sample bed, tc be sure.”—Chicago Tribune. Trepan?. Nowhere have such rare taste3 in food been developed as among the Romans in ancient times and the Chinese. Tucre may be found in the bills of fare of the latter people addled eggs, fat gruh3, caterpillars, sharks' (ins, rats, dogs, In dian birds’ nests, and—the finest of all their delicacies—trepang. Wuat is tre- pang ? Trepang or tripang is a collective name by which a consiiarable number of species of most curious sea animals are designated; they are also known as sea idlers, sea cucumbers, in French a3 coruichons de mer, and scientifically as hoiothurias. Tuey are among the most sluggish of animals. Only the fixed oi stationary animals are slower than the hoiothurias. They lie litre gray, brown, or black le jtber pipes or cylinders on the bottom of the sea. One might .watch them half a day long, if he had nothing better to do, and hardly sue them change their position; and they rarely move more than a foot or two in several hours. Their class relatives, the other spiny- skinned animals or echinoderms, are much more active. A sea urchin or a starfish is able to get away from a spot quite nimbly, and the serpent-stars, the most active members of the whole order, are capable of using their long, slender, many-jointed arms as legs, and are as quick and alert as crabs.—Popular Sci ence Monthly. CURIOUS FACTS. TO CLEAR HARNESS. Harness is often made of inferior leather, and by exposure to the air and use such leather decomposes on the sur face more so if it is not keep well oiled. Tbe best oil for harness is tanners' oil, and this should be applied after every wetting, and once a week anyhow, but in a small quantity, just to keep the leather soft. If it gets bard and dry wash the leather well with warm water and castile soap, then wipe it, and apply the oil belore it dries.—New York Times. DRESSING POULTRY. Nearly all the markets require poultry to be picked dry and to be drawn. Tbe former requirements secure better keep ing, scalded poultry becoming discolored much more quickly than that which is picked dry. The latter requirement does not add to the keeping qualities, but secures the removal of the offal. Poultry that is to be killed for market should be kept without feeding for twelve to twenty-four hours to secure perfect emptiness of the crop. When the crop is entirely empty, it becomes unnecessary to open the fowl in front, and leaving the skin unbroken at the front of the breast causes the poultry to look better. But if there be any grain in the crop, the crop should be removed, as the grain will soon become sour and effect the flavor of the meat. In picking dry, tbe fowl should be killed by either decapitation, sticking a knife through the throat and severing the large veins and windpipe, or by cutting a slit across the roof of the mouth. As soon as the fowl is dead—and many pickers do not wait for this—the large feathers of the tail and wings should be pulled, and then the softer feathers plucked. The dressed fowl should be hung to cool off, and if then the head be not severed it can be, and the skin of the neck drawn over tbe end and tied. Neatness in the dressing adds much to the salability of poultry. When one kills for his own use be will find tbe labor much less to scald the fowls, but when he kills for market he must consult the requirements of his market.—American Agriculturist. MAKING BEEP IN CANADA. Experiments were conducted for three years at the Ontario (Canada) Station to ascertain the relative value of the fol lowing rations for makingbee f , viz: En silage and meal, ensilage, hay and meal, roots, hay and meal, and also the cost of making beef when the values of food and meat are both considered. Leaving out of view the details of the experiment, the following appear as some of the re sults from five animals with the three different rations used: The daily average cost of each ration was as follows: Ensilage, hay and mea', 16.7S cents; ensilage and mea', 16.9(J cents; roots, hay and meal, 19.10 cents. The average daily increase of live weight from each ration per animal wa c , from ensilage and meal, 188 pounds; ensilage, hay and meal, 1.63 pounds; roots, hay and meal, 1.74 pounds. The average selling price of each ani mal fed on the different rations, with the cost of food added, exceeded the buying price as below: Ensilage and meal, $12.65; ensilage, hay and mea 1 , $10.95; roots, hay and meal, $8.22. It is considered that these experiments, of which a full account is given in Sta tion Bulletin No. 82, have demonstrated that beef can still be made at a cash profit where suitable grade animals are carefully purchased and judiciously fed. Two important statements, however, are made in this connection which should not be overlooked. First, it has been made pretty clear that ensilage and meal only do not furnish a ration that is altogether safe in finishing beef cattle; and second, the experiments have proved in a comparative sense the great safety in feeding a ration in which roots con stitute an important factor. In the meantime farmers who are growing roots for this purpose are advised to continue to grow them and to grow corn m addi tion, where this is practicable.—New York World. The !>i\»meilary Parcel Post. The dromedary parcel post service in the German territories of southwestern Airies has given results better than were expected. The dromedaries are adapted to the climate, are not affected by the prevalent cattle diseases, and are not male foot sore in stony regions and do ; not suffer extreme toirsc waea deprived | of water for a week. They travel, each j carrying a eight oi 253 pounds, as fast jas au ox team,—Ne.v io.-i Witness. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. If you wish to keep seed keep away mice. Beets can bear some frost but not severe ones. The rubber plauts are natives of tropi cal America. Winter Cheer is the name given to a new scarlet carnation. The white pippin resembles the New town pippin, and is much esteemed in Ohio and other Western States, W. F. Massey, of the North Carolina Station, names Henderson's dwarf linn bean as the bc9t for his latitude. Too much heat is more injurious to plaDts than too little. This is especially true of hardy and half-hardy sorts. The Florists’ Exchange names the Per- civalliana as one of the best free-grow- and flowering cattlcyas for florists’ use. Under tbe name of nicotiaua colossea this gigantic tobieto had figured as a eedsman’s novelty for the past two years. Potatoes and parsnips may be store 1 in heaps in the cellar without coveria<», but beets, without earth or sand, will shrivel. Do not put off spraying the trees until the fruit is so large that it will do no good. Spray first as soon as the fruit is well set. Partridge cochins necl plenty of exer cise to keep down internal fat; much coarse food should be given in their daily rations. Among yotmg trees, and in half shade, you can plant c i-rants, goose berries, strawberries, raspberries, black berries, etc. There is no better bedding plant than the verbena. By starting plants from seeds early in pots or boxes one may have a brighi bowering bed of these in June or July. Four important factors enter into suc cessful fruit production—namely, man ure, pruning, and spraying the trees with insecticides and thinning the fruit where necessary. Where a hop arber is desired, Ameri can Gardening says to plant rone cat- tings, which can be obraiael from any hop grower or from mauy nurserymen at small cost. An authority on such matters believes that tbe gulls on an oak, by attrasrin ; ants, lead to tbe slaughter of quantities of caterpillars and other insects, whic.i are its natural enemies. If you have not yet cleaned the o'.d canes out from the raspberries, do si the first time the weather will permit. Do not put this off until the season is so far advanced that the spring work is pressing. J Cortez took kfteap to Mexico in 1530. A San Francisco woman Is the proud possessor of 200 cats. A combined knife and fork for one- armed men is being manufactured. The most unique citizen of New York City is Ah Goo Wah, a Chinese tramp. Tobacco has been successfully raised on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Maine. The Desert of Sahara has almost exact ly the number of square miles that the United States has. Shirts embroidered by hand and cost ing fifty dollars each ca ne in fashion in the reign of Elizabeth. Herrick, the poet, was fond of pigs as pets, and taught one to follow him about and to drink beer out of a mug. Rose Brooks, a ten-vear-old girl, of Memphis, Tenn., was choked to death by a glass marble the other day. Out of one hundred and thirty-four men in the freshman class at Amherst College, only sixteen use tobacco. Paper teeth are now manufactured by a Lubeck dentist. One set has been iu use thirteen years and is as good as ever. A goose with three wings is the choic est fowl in the flock of Mrs. Samuel Lutz,-.of Worcester, Montgomery County, Penn. The staple of food for the 500,000 na tives of Natal and the Zulus alone is white corn. It is ground into a coarse meal and boiled with water, making or dinary porridge. The chips from a gallows upoa which several persons had been hanged was one of the items of mediaeval materia medica; these were thought to be especially valuable in treating cases of obstinate ague. C. W. Zinn, of Ivorydale, near Cin cinnati, Ohio, was afraid that people wouldn’t believe him tbe owner of twin puppies without any forelegs, so he had an affidavit made out and five neighbors swore to it. It is customary throughout Spain for the waiters ot cafes to fill a glass of wine or liquor so that it overflows upoa the saucer. This custom, in which it is de sired to show an appearance of liberality, is called the "footbath." The title of Prince is almost as com - mon in Russia as that of Colonel iu this country. A Prince Krapotkin is a cab man, a Prince Soloykoff is a rairket- house porter in Moscow and a Princess Galitzkin is an equestrienne in a cheap circus. Miss Ella Hale, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, lost her voice while coughing live years ago. The other day she experi enced a similar coughing sdell, and after it bad subsided found that her voice had returned. Doctors are unable to explain. Some of the costly things in the Sul tan’s treasure house at Constantinople are children’s cradles of pure gold, in laid with precious stones; divanscoverec with cloth of gold, embroidered with pearls; suit3 of mail, thickly incrustel with big emeralds and diamonds, and other relics of former Ottoman splendor. "Crowd Poison.” The newest name for bad air is "crowd poison.” Two medical mea have beeE endeavoring to determine what it i3 that makes the air of crowded places poison ous to those who breathe it. Their ob ject was to find out whether the effect was owing to the diminution of oxygen, as generally believed, or to the presence of deleterious organic matter in the car bonic acid expelled from tbe lungs, as the majority of physiologists maintain, or to the excess of carbonic-acid gas pure and simple. The conclusion ar rived at is that the cxce s of carbonic- acld gas is alone responsible for the headache, feeling of suffication. etc., frequently experienced through the breathing of a contaminated atmosphere. Some persons yield much more readily than others to this combined exhalation from many systems, and persons are overcome by it who can withstand the air of a room vitiated from other causes. During the receot Lord Mayor’s show iu London the foul air of the crowded streets was noticeable. To such as sat alightly above the level of the pavement the impurity of tbe air was distinctly perceptible. The baneful effect of im pure air was recently felt in a remarkable way in a London court room. When the judge entered his court in the morn ing he feund the jurors and c mnsel al ready exhausted and soon began to experience a similar feeling. Ou order ing on investigation he was informed that “the engine was out of order, and could only pump into the court the stale air that had been U3ed two days ago.” The windows were so constructed as to prevent any proper ventilation of the premises, so that no assistance could be obtained to expel the two-days’-old atmosphere which the pumps persisted in sending into the ciurt. The resuit was that when the jury list was dis posed of the judge, instead of sending for more cases, sent the jurors home and quickly followed their example.—Chi cago News Record. Big Cotton Slalks. "Yes, I have seen the big cotton stalk3 grown in India and the cotton plantations of the Brazos bottom in Texas,” said Alonzo T. Yerger, of Way- cross, Ga., at the Southern, “but down in Washington County, Mississippi, they grow cotton stalks—not stalks either, because they are trees—that beat any and all things in the cotton line that I have ever seen or heard of. Why, on a plantation belonging to one of the Wil- zlnky’s, which firm failed the other day, 1 saw a field of cotton that looked like a forest of sycamore trees. The cotton plant had grown to an enormous size, almost as large as trees. Colored children had to climb them in order to pick the fleecy staple. When the crop is gathered along in February the tenants cut down the stalks and chop them up for fire wood. The wook makes a bright and hot fire, burning as quickly as fat pine. I saw one of the stalks exhibited at Greenville a few day3 ago that hal borne 1151 bolls, and the cotton in the seed weighed 120 pounds. According to that rate it would require only twenty stalks to make a bale. But, of course, there are but few specimeus of such phenomenal growth recorded in the world’s history.” —St. Louis Republic. Cultivate the Sunil nver. Among the crops that may be grown, and that may be said to be such as give returns, may be mentioned the sunflower. It is a rapid and vigorous grower and every part may be utilized; the leaves for fodder, the slalks for fuel and the seed for the manufacture of oil, the resi due being valuable for food, or the seed may be used as a feed without extract ing the oil. Tne oil makes an espec'ally fine lubri cating fluid, and the residue of the sesi is said to be a better feed than cotton seed meal, because it does cot posses; that highly stimulating quality possessed by cotton-seed-oil cake. The whole seed may be used as a feed for sheep, swine, poultry, cittie, and even horses, and i; devoid of the objectionable qualities at- tiseaed to cotton seed as afeed. — S^ruisc loan (Penn.) Telegraph. Farm Philosophy. In sowing grass and clover on poor land do not be stingy with the seed. The poorer the land the more seed will fail to germinate. A farmer ten miles from town on a poor country road is further from market than if he were two hundred miles away by rail. A system of cropping on shares is not usually a good one for the land. Tbe tenant’s only interest is to get as much from the soil as he can. One reason for the low average of many crops is that we do Dot fight in sect enemies promptly enough. There should be no delay in dealing with tbem. If you propose to practice level culti vation of potatoes this season, drain your land properly first. Otherwise the ex periment may prove very unsatisfactory. Irrigation keeps plant food in solution, and uses it up more rapidly than would otherwise be the case. When you irri gate, supply fertilizers most abundantly. The low average of many crops, as shown by statisticians, suggests the vast opportunity that exists for better and more profitable farming. Why not take advantage of it? Growing for the home market first is allright, but tbe American farmer should remember that his market is the whole world. Local demands should not be our entire guide when planting.—Green’s Fruit Grower. Economical Household Purchases. Carrying Wax Insects to Market. The valley of Sheoo-Shan produces the wax insects, but the wax is produced elsewhere. At the proper season the scales are detached from the ligustrum and made up into p iper packets of about sixteen ounces each. A porter’s load is about sixty of these packages, and the duty of the porters is to convey them with the utmost speed over the moun tains, a distance of 200 miles, to the town of Chia-ting, which is the the cen tra of the wax producing country. The greatest care has to be taken in the carriage of the brittle scales, snd tbe porteis must only travel during tbe night, as the high temperature during the day will devilop the insects too rapidly, and they may escape from their natural cages. Wherever they stop for rest the porters must open up their paper packets and spread them in cool places, but with all precautions there is a large percentage of loss upon tbe journey—tho packets usually weighing at Chia-ting each about one ounce lighter than when they left Sheoo-Shan. The usual price at Chia-tiDg for a pound of sc lies is about half a crown, but in years of scarcity this price has been doubled. A pound of scales ought to produce from four to five pounds of wax, but in bad years only pound for pound is yielded, so that the profits of the industry are very fluctuating.— Chambers’ Journal. It is well understood, or it should be, that discretion in buying and skill in cooking are both vital to tiue economy. The woman who should go to a dry goods store, and without specifying what particular kind of cloth she wanted, di rect the salesman to give her enough of the best woolen goods for a dress, and who ahoald then hand the material over to her dressmaker with instructions mere!) to make it well and trim it be comingly, might or might not bo well dressed. It is fairly certain that she would not be economically dressed. Yet thousands of women give orders after precisely this fashion to their butchers and cooks, and are then despondent be cause their bills are so large. It is a primary duty of tbe housekeep er to understand the relative values, of the good’, and to know how they should be cooked to preserve those values. If the most exper sive viands are desired, all right. Let them be so prepared that they shall justify their cost. They do not necessarily traverse the principles of true economy. But the most expensive viands, while they are likly to be the best for their particular purposes, are entirely out of place in the prepsration of other equally valuable and equally toothsome dishes. Their use then becomes gross extravagance. If the housekeeper knows the character of each article of food that is bought, and devotes each to its proper use, she has mastered the great principle of dietetic economy.—American Analyst. Too Lively. An Odd Find. Rather a queer find was unearthed a few days ago from a small aperture in the jam of a fire place in an old brick building now used as a boarding house, in Coshocton, Ohio. A woman, while sweeping about tbe hearth, discovered a slip of paper tucked away under the narrow opening at the foot of the mantel, which proved to be a slip torn from a Steubenville paper, bear ing the date of April 21, 1855. In the slip were three finely engraved copper dies for counterfeiting gold dollars. Two of the dies were dated 1820 and the other 1825. The dies are an inch and a half in diameter and about one fourth r.f an inch thick. The engraving in them is ex ceedingly fine, indicating the hand of a skilled engraver. According to the date as shown on the paper, the outfit his been concealed about thirty-eight years. Tbe building where they were found about that time was used as a geueral store. Mamma—"Did you and Ethel play church with your doll?” Little Dora—"We tried to, but we could i’t, causa we hadn’t any boy doll for a preacher. Ws dressed up Johnny’s jumpin’-jack an’ tried him, but he was a little too lively for a reg’lar church,so wc turned it into a revival.”—Street & Smith’s Good News. JJyfjpWEiss A Beginning. Resident—“Think of opening an office in this neighborhood, eh? Stems to me you are rather young for a family physi cian.” Young Doctor— “Y-e-s,but—er—I f-hall only doctor children at first.” Among: the Wide Range of Benefits Conferred upon the invard public by Hostet- t p r’s Stomach Bitters, its eood effects in ca e • where the kidneys and bladde** are inactive are conspicuous and amp y proven. An im perfect discharge of the duties of these organ- is the preliminary, if disregarded, of their dangerous disease. The Bitters will forestall this and avert difaster. Experience ha* de monstrated this in numberless c ses. Mala rial, liver, stomach and towel disorder also should be treated with the Bitters. For Throat Diseases and Coughs use Brown’s Bronchial Troches Like all really good things, they are imitated. The genuine a, s •old only in boxes. Our old reliable eye-water cures weak or in flamed eyes or granulated lids without pain. Price25c. John R. Dickey Drug Co., Bristol, Va. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye-water.Drugg?st> fell at 25 per bottle. o:ve> ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts f ently yet promptly on the Kidneys, liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Fig3 is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N.Y. “August Flower” I had been troubled five months with Dyspepsia. I had a fullness after eating, and a heavy load in the pit of my stomach. Sometimes a deathly sickness would overtake me. I was working for Thomas McHenry,Druggist, Allegheny City, Pa., in whose employ I had been for seven years. I used August Flower for two weeks. I was relieved of all trouble. I can now eat things I dared not touch before. I have gained twenty pounds since my re covery. J. D. Cox,Allegheny, Pa. ® wwwvwwvwwwvwwvwvwViiw Mr. Geo. W. Cook Ot St. Jobnsb-.iry, Vt. Like a Waterfall Great Suffering After the Crip Tremendous Roaring in the Head- Rain in the Stomach. “ To C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: “ Two years ago I had a severe attack of the Grip, which left me in a terribly weak and de bilitated condition. Last win f er I had another attack and was again very badly off, my health neariy wrecked. My appetite was all gone, I had no strength, felt tired nil the time, had disagreeable roaring noises in my head, like a waterfall. 1 had also severe headaches and Severe Sinking Pains in my stomach. I took medicines without ben efit, until, having heard so much about Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I concluded to trv it, and the re sult is very gratifying. Ail the disagreeable Hood’s SS& Cures effects of the Grip are gone. I am free from pa ns and aches, and believe Hood's Sarsapa rilla s surely curing mv catarrh. I recommend it to all.” Geo. W. Cook, St. Johnsbury, > t. Hood’s Pi Is cure Nausea. Sick Headache, Indi gestion, Biliousness. Sold by all druggist*. ROOT, BARK * BLOSSOM The Jlc«t Stomach, Llrcr, Kldsel and Blood Itemed?. I'-ins ia Lack and Limbs, Tired, Dragged Out. Nervous Feeling, Debility aud Low Vitality Quickly Cured as wcil as Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sleeplessness, Dizzi ness. Rfacmuai ism or Catarrh. Sample Free for stamps. AGENTS PAID WEEKLY SALARY. et hox two months’supply I ( Beat by mail oral moit Drug. 60c. •* one month’s supply f \ gist*. Try It and Bo Wefl. ROOT, BAR* & BLOSSOM, Newark, N. J, <VVyVVVNAA/*rv^AftSVVWWVVWV\#\A/VVVV Do Not Be Deceived with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the I hands, injure the iron and burn red. The Rising Sun Store Polish Is Brilliant, Odor less, Durable, and the consumer pays t or glass package with every purchase. The Bew Co,,ghBy«r g rastes Good, l.’se in time. ♦ sold by Druggists. f= W cof fer you “Mothers Friend” MIMES CHILD BIRTH EftSY, Colvin, Lsl, Dec. 2,1883.—wife used EOTHES’S FBIEND before her third confinement, and says sbo would net t ? without it for hundreds of dolhir3- DOCX MILLS. Sent by eraess on receipt of price, £1.50 P^ r ket tle. Book “ To Mothers ” mailed free. BSADFIBLO ItSQllLATOR CO., roe wus »r *u HmuTii . ATIMBTA, QR- 'a ready made medicine for Coughs, Bronchitis and other dis eases of the Throat and Lungs. Like other so- called Patent Medicines, it is well advertised, am having merit it has attain ed a wide sale under tin name of Piso’s Cure fo: Consumption. It Is new a “Nostrum,” though at first it wa- '’ompounded after a prescription by a regui .*• physician, with no idea that it would ever g rn tbe market as a proprieta ry medicine. Hu after compounding that prescription over thousand times in one year,we named it ”Pfcc* Cure for Consumption .*’and b?gan advertialn it in a email way. A medicine known a!- over the world is tbe resuit. Why is it not just as good as though costi. fifty cents to a dollar for a prescription -jr.-i «flual sum to b^ve it out up at a drug store* ^ Random Notes. Two confederate stamps recently car ried a package from Granby, Mass., to Boston. They were not detected in the postoffice. A Dcnding bill in the New York legis lature provides that a man who has serv ed seven years in that body shall be ad mitted to the bar without undergoing an examination. But these legislators not only learn no law, but speedily forget the little they carry with them to the statehouse. Daniel Morgan, of Missouri, has made a claim on the government, who says he is the only descendant of a famous revolutionary general that gave a note to aid tbe colonies. The note was to raise monev to clothe and sustain troops. With' interest tbe claim would now amount to $30,000,000. It has not been allowed.—Atlanta Constitution. _ Always spread a large clean cloth in your clothes basket before putting in ths clothes. Pass a clean, damp cloth along the clothes line to free it frotn dust. A galvanized wire clothes line is best, as it need not be taken down, besides freeing ODe’s mind of the fear of breakage or slipping of knots with the direful atten dants of such contingencies. A clothes pin apron, which is made by facing a large, piece of cloth on the outside for a pocket, is much more convenient than a basket, as it allows the free use of the hands. A Precious Jewel. Aun'y—“Has your mamma a "good girl now?” Little Miss De Flat!—“I dcsso. Mam ma won’t let her clean zee front win dows, for fiar she’ll fall out.” “Each Spoonful has done its Perfect Work;’ Is the verdict of every woman who has used Royal Baking Powder. Other baking powders soon deteriorate and lose their strength, owing to the use of inferior ingredients, but Royal Baking Powder is so carefully and accurately com pounded from the purest materials that it retains its strength for any length of time, and the last spoonful in the can is as good as the first, which is not true of any other baking powder. A Testimonial Worth Reading. Mt. Sterling, Ky., Feb. 13, 1889. I desire to make a brief statement for the benefit of the suffering. I had been afflicted with catarrh of the head, throat and nose, and perhaps the bladder for fully twenty-five years. Having tried erther remedies without success, I was led by an advertisement in the Sentinel- Democrat to try Hall’s Catarrh Cure. I have just finished my fourth bottle, and I believe I am right when I say I am thoroughly restored, I don’t believe there is a trace of the disease left. Respectfully. WM. BRIDGES. Merchant Tailor. L*. 1 flockla” 11 name W. L.D9UGLA $3 SHOE FOR GENTLEMEKi A sewed shoe that will not rip; Calf,’ seamless, smooth inside, more comfortable, I stylish and dnrable than any other shoe ever sold at the price. Every style. Equals custom. ' : shoes costing from $4 to $3. The following are of the same high standard oft lent: >4.00 and $5.00 Fine Calf, Hand-Sewed. $3.50 Police, Farmers and Letter-Carrier#.' $2.50, 92.35 and $2.00 for Working Meoi ‘J and $1.75 for Youths and Boys. .00 Hand-Sewed, I FOR Dongola, j LADIES. Will (ire exclusive .ale to .hoe dealers and general merchants where I have '4. :b. Write for catalogue. Ifnot for sale i ‘ , size and width wanted. Pestaco Free. Unlike tiie Dutch Process No Alkalies — or— Other Chemicals are nsed in the preparation of W. BAKER & CO.’S reakfastCocoa which is absolutely pure and soluble, i It has more than three times 1 the strength of Cocoa mixed i with Starch, Arrowroot or _ 'Sugar,and is far more eco nomical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, and easily DIGESTED. Sold by Grorem everywhere. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS il THOMSON’S ft J SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETSn No tools required. Only a hammer needed to drive «n c inch :h- m easily and quickly, leaving the clinch abso utply smooth. R.-quiring no hoe to be made in h“ tea:her nor i '.rr tor ti.e Rivets. Thev are strong, 'oujrh and durable. Millions now in us<* Ai' envthv uniform «»r ss« >rted. put up i.i r»oxe*. Ask your dealer for tbem, or send 40c. in -itampa for a box ji iOG, a»sorte4 sues ilan'fd by JUDSON L THOMSON MFG. CO.. W1LTBAX, 71 ASH. AN ASTONISHING TONIC FOR WOMEN. McELREE’S It Strengthens the Weak, Quiets the Nerves, Relieves Monthly Suffering and Cures FEMALE D1SEA8E8. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT. *1.00 PER BOTTLE. CHATTANOOGA PE0. CO., Chidtanwg., T*nn. If anyone doubt! that we can core tbe most obstinate case in 30 to 60 days I let him write for I particulars and ia- | vestlgate our reli ability. Our financial backing is 8590,000* Whj?i mercury,iodide potassium.sarsaparillaor Hot E * THE ONLY THING THAT 1 _ NENTL Y. TVSlT1VK PROOF SEA LED, V REE. COOK REMEDY ( OHPA\Y.Chlcny, Ilf. I For Indigestion. Biliousness. = Headache, Constipation, Bad | Complexion. Offensive Breath, land all disorders of tbe Stomach, I Liver and Enw.'ls 1 act gently yef promptfy.^Ferfeet | digestion follows their use. Sold ■hw /twn<rcri«t« nent byuudl. Box B1PA5S CHEMICAL CO., New To BICYCLES Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore Throat* Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee. Pl3o’s Remedy for Catarrh is the Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. CATAR R H sold by druggists or sent by mail, 50c. E. T. 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