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THE ASTOR ESTATE.
VAST AMOUNT OF PROPERTY
OONTROJLED BY ONE MAN.
Bflieved to Comprise One-Twentieth
ol the Realty Values of New
York—How the Estate
Has Grown.
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The estate of John Jacob Astor, of
New York, has been variously valued in
the newspapers. Some have placed it at
$75,000,000, none lower, while the esti
mates have climbed to $400,000,000, this
latter being the most sanguine production
of all the “guessers,” for it is guesswork
pure and simple. There is no possible
way of arriving at an approximation even.
The most reasonable estimate yet made
by an outsider of the Astor holdings was
given by a gentleman whose reputation
is that of the best informed real estate
'‘expert” in New York. It is his busi
ness to know the value of all properties
in the city, and it is his pleasure to note
and store away in his memory all details
pertaining to important transfers, or those
involving celebrated people or properties.
Thus he has noted purchases by the Astors
of different tracts which have never again
been associated with the name, the prop
erty continuing to appear on the public
records under the old ownership. This
gentleman believes the Astor family hold
about one-twentieth of the realty values
of the city, and on that basis their hold
ings are worth $150,000,000. These
figures are probably not far from correct.
What proportion of this sum belongs
to each of the male representatives—
William Waldorf and William Astor—is
undeterminable for the same reasons as,
those which forbid a qualified appraisal
of the whole estate. The younger man’s
interest is, of course, very much the
largest, as his father was a steady, per
sistent and successful investor,apparently
taking pleasure only in the care and
accumulation of his property, while, on
the other hand, William Astor has been
an acknowledged devotee of pleasure,
spending a large portion of his time
aboard his magnificent yacht, the Nour
mahal, in Europe.
Much has been written about the
wonderful foresight evinced by the
founder of the family in his anticipation
of the city’s growth by large purchases
of lands on and beyond the city’s out
skirts. This foresight was probably the
development of a necessity, and later be
came a confirmed policy. When John
Jacob Astor the first found himself with
an accumulation of fortune beyond the
ueods of his trading enterprises, favor
able investments in the lower part of the
city were, in a different degree, as few'
and rare as they are to-day. But Mr.
Astor was looking for greater returns
than could be expected from business
property held at its then full value; he
was looking for the profits of a trader,
Hot the modest percentage of a con
servative investment, and to that end he
sought the field where large blocks of
bind could be had for proportionately
small sin’s of money. He bought at
acre prices, and realized on a city-lot
basis; and after this policy became his
chosen line of action, his groat native
sagacity and shrewdness were evidenced
in the selection of location in his pur
chases. The Astor properties are situated
almost iuvariably amid surroundings that
are in no way detrimental to each in its
class.
, It is said that so far back as 1810 John
Jacob Astor was the largest real-estate
holder on Manhattan Island. If this
could have been true, which is doubtful,
he certainly showed a wonderful ingenu
ity in hiding the fact of his possessions
from the taxgatherer, for in 1815 his
name appears on the records as the holder
of but $20,000 worth of real estate, as
sessed value. When, on his death, iu
1848. the estate was turned over to Will
iam B. Astor in trust for the latter’s two
sons, it was estimated to be worth $20,-
000,000. This was probably an exagger
ated figure, just as have been some of the
recent estsmates of the late John Jacob’s
wealth. By far the greatest additions to
the Astor wealth have occurred since the
death of William B. Astor in 1875, the
extraordinary enhancement ot real estate
values in and about New York city dur
ing ten years past alone making this pos
sible. If such i thing could possibly be
determined authoritatively, it would be
found that the family wealth under the
stewardship of the late John Jacob Astor
had, in ratio of increase, far outstripped
the results of his father's management.
The difficulty encountered by an out
sider in an effort to segregate the Astor
real estate and estimate upon its value
may be readily understood by an explan
ation of the situation in the Seventeenth
Ward. In that district is a tract of land
embracing about 300 city lots, which was
purchased by the first John Jacob Astor
when it was a truck farm, and familiarly
known as “the old radish gardens.” It is
now in the heart of a great German pop
ulation aud entirely built up with a fair
ly good class of tenements. These
houses were erected by tenants on
twenty-one-year leaseholds, and not by
the Astors. Many of them have been
surrendered by the holders and now
stand in the name of Astor on the official
records, but out of the 300 lots—all
built upon—known to belong to the
family only 106 are identified with its
name on the assessment books. To make
the matter more puzzling to the searcher
is the fact that the Astors paid taxes
last fall on 158 houses in this district,
while only 106 appear to belong to
them.
This block of 106 houses Is estimated
to be worth upward of $2,000,000, the
estimate based upon the tax assessors
valuation and forty per cent, added.
According to the official records this is
all that the Astors own iu the Seven
teenth Ward, aud if these books were
the only basis of estimate the family
holdings would be returned for this
ward at the sum named above—s2,ooo.
000. Yet there are nearly 200 lots
known as Astor property to be included
in such an estimate, bring the figure up
to $5,000,000 anyway, and perhaps $6,-
000,000. These same conditions exist
throughout the whole city wherever
Astor property is occupied on leasehold.
It has been a favorite source of income
with them from the time of John Jacob
the first. The leaseholder assumes taxes,
water rents, and expenditures of all kinds
excepting only possible assessments, the
cost cf which is generally divided be
tween owner and lessee, while the lot
owner has nothing to do but collect his
rent, which is always well secured by
the lessee’s improvements.
In that section of the city south of the
city hall property to the value of $lO,-
000,000 stands in the Astor name, It is,
of course, all business property of the
most desirable kind, and the entire hold
ings of the family iu this section are be
lieved to be included in the sum jusl
mentioned. Besides this, there is block
after block of first-class dwelling prop
erty in some of the most select sections
of the city, those ill the neighborhood ol
Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue be
ing conspicuously the most valuable.
Then there is business property on Third
avenue, blocks of it, tho best on that
street; more on Broadway, Fourteenth
street, Union Square, Madison Square,
and Fifth avenue; dwelling-houses in
Harlem by the hundred, and the same on
the far west side, beyond Eighth avenue.
The enumeration would become all but
monotonous were it recited in detail.
In the centralization of immense real
estate interests that of the Astor estate is
probably the most wonderful instanco in
the world, excepting perhaps that of the
Duke of Westminster, in the city of
London. Which of the two estates is the
more valuable is a problem that can be
settled by the principals themselves only,
but it is very doubtful if the Duke could
climb up into a high tower and through
an ordinary field-glass gaze upon SIOO,-
000,000 worth of his own property, all
lying within a radius of ten miles from
his point of observation. Yet that is
what William Waldorf Astor can do, if
he should choose to climb up into the
observation tower on the old aqueduct at
High Bridge. —Chicago Timet.
How Hailstones are Formed.
The showers of hailstones that havt
fallen with unusual frequency in the pasf
week have afforded much en joyment tc
Young California. His father has wagged
his head gravely, and sadly informed
his progeny that hailstones were un
known in the State when he was a hoy.
Many recalled the time when a hailstone,
in a casing of salt, was brought from
the Sierra and exhibited in the old
Miner's Retreat saloon, on Commercial
street, at two bits a look. After it had
been shown for a week, au adventurous
spirit, doubting its genuineness, dropped
it into his toddy, when it was discov
ered that the hailstone was a base imi
tation.
The showers have been frequent and
violent lately. The manufacture of hail
stones is conducted at a high altitude.
When a storm comes on there is a rush
of cold air upward, which catches falling
rain drops and bears them heavenward.
Then the drops pass through a cold
clouu and get congealed; they become
heavy and fall back into the rain cloud,
where a coat of water adheres to them.
Caught up again they are carried into the
snow, and take on another jacket; and
so the process goes on until a large-sized
stoue is formed, which, with its com
panions, escapes from the current of air,
and comes tumbling to the ground. If a
hailstone is cut in two, the layers of ice
and snow may be seen with the “naked
eye.” The small, ordinary hailstone
sometimes starts as a raindrop, but
achieves its new dignity before it reaches
the ground. Hailstones are most fre
quent when the temperature conditions
are most uneven. It has been very cold
in the North, and very warm iu the
South lately, and the currents of air com
ing from those sections have caused the
abnormal fall. —San Francisco Chronicle.
Scientific Paradoxes.
The water which drowns us, a fluent
stream, can be walked upon as ice. The
bullet which, when fired from a musket;
carries death, will be harmless if ground
to dust before being tired. The crystal
ized part of the oil of roses, so graceful
in its. fragrance, a solid at ordinary tem
peratures, though really volatile, is a com
pound substance containing exactly the
same elements, and in exactly the same
proportions, as the gas with which we
light our streets. The tea which we
daily drink with benefit and pleasure pro
duces palpitations, nervous tremblings,
and even paralysis, if taken in excess; yet
the peculiar organic agent called theinc,
to which tea owes its qualities, may be
taken by itself (as theine, not as tea)
without any appreciable effect.
The water which will allay our burning
thirst augments it when congealed in
snow, so that it is stated by explorers of
the Arctic regions that the natives “pre
fer ensuring the utmost extremity of
thirst rather than attempt to remove it
by eating snow.” Yet if snow be melt
ed it becomes drinkable water. Never
theles -, although if melted before enter
ing the mouth, it assauges thirst like
other water, when melted in the mouth it
has the opposite effect. To render this
paradox more striking, we have only to
remember that ice, which melts more
slowly in the mouth is very efficient in
allaying thirst.— Blackwood's Magazine.
She Killed a Deer.
Addie Valeles, a young girl about six
teen years of age, who lives with her
parents on the Calaveras River, captured
a deer one flay recently and at once be
came the heroine of the country. The
girl heard some dogs barking in the
direction of the river, and ran down to
w here the dogs had a buck deer bayed in
a ho.le of water* She returned to the
house, and the only weapon she could
find was a butcher knife. Her presence
encouraged the dogs, and when she re
appeared on the scene the dogs sprang at
the deer, and with the aid of Addie the
buck was thrown down, and in less time
than it will take to tell the story the
deer's throat was cut from ear to ear.
Addie says it was no small task to hold
the animal down with his throat cut, but
she knew that to let go of the buck be
fore it was dead would endanger her
own life. —San Andrea* ( Cal) Prospect.
The Tongue.
Taste is not equally distributed over
the whole surface of the tongue. There
are three distinct regions or tracts, each
of which has to perform its own special
office and function. The tip of the tongue
is concerned mainly with pungent and
acid tastes; the middle portion is sensi
tive chiefly to sweets and bitters, while
the back or lower portion confines itself
almost entirely to the flavors of roast
meats, butter, oils, and rich or fatty sub
stances. There are very good reasons for
this subdivision of faculties in the tongue,
the object being, as it were, to make
each piece of food undergo
three separate examinations, which
must be successively pasecd before
it is admitted into full participa
tion in the human economy. The first
examination gets rid of substances which
would be actively and immediately de
structive to the very tissues of the mouth
and body; the second discriminates be
tween poisonous and chemically harmless
food-stuffs, and the third merely decides
tne minor question whether the particu
lar food is likely to prove then and there
wholesome or indigestible to the particu
lar person. The sense of taste proceeds,
in fact, upon the principle of gradual
selection and elimination; it refuses first
what is positively destructive, next, what
is more remotely deleterious, and, finally,
what is only undesirable or over-lus
cious.
Speed of Animals
In respect to the comparative speed of
animated beings, it may be remarked that
neither size nor comparative strength
seem to have much influence. The sloth
is by no means a small animal, and yet it
can only travel fifty paces in a day; a
worm crawls only five inches in fifty sec
onds; but a lady-bird can fly twenty
million times its own length in less than
an hour. An elk can run a mile in seven
minutes; an antelope can run a mile in a
minute; the wind-mule of Tartary has a
speed even greater than that; and an
eagle can fly fifty-four miles in an hour;
while a canary falcon can even reach seven
hundred and fifty miles in the short space
of sixteen hours.
A quaint superstition formerly existed
in Wales to the effect that bees were
originally created white, but became
brown after the fall; a white pigeon set
tling on a chimney is regarded as a cer
tain token of death; and in some parts,
if in a row of beans one should happen
to come up white instead of green, a
member of the family w ill die before the
year it out.
Spring Medicine
Is ft necessity with nearly everybody. Hie run
down, tired condition at this seaeon is due to ira- 1
purities iu the blood which have accumulated dur- j
ing t it winter, and which must be expelled If you
Avlsli to feel well. Hood’s Sarsaparilla thoroughly
purifies and vitalizes the blood, creates a good appe
tite, cures blUousne36 and heatlache, gives healthy
notion to the kidneys and liver, and imparts to the
whole body a feeling of health and strength. Try it
this spring.
*‘ T lake Hood’s Sarsaparilla every year as a *prin~
ionic, with most satisfactory resuits. ,, -*C 4 Pakmelee,
? i*4 Bridge street, Brooklyn.
Purifies the Blood
"Hood’s Sarsaparilla purified my blood, gave me
strength and overcame the headache and dizziness,
so that I am able to work again. I recommend
Hood’s Sarsaparilla to others whose blood Is thin
or impure, and who feel worn out or run down.”
—Luther Nason, Lowell, Mass.
"We have used Hood’a Sarsaparilla for years, and
recommend it as the best spring medicine or blood
purifier. Our boy is nine years old and has enjoyed
good health ever since we began giving it to him.”
—B. F. Grover, Rochester, N. H.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Dcses One Dollar
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Emergencies.
The surest way of being ready
for the great emergencies of life is to
meet all its small ones not only wi h
calmness and unruffled serenity, but with
a masterful spirit, resolved to turn defeat
and disaster to good account by learning
from them the secret of victory. Those
who with fearless courage and indomitable
wisl.will fight the lesser battles of life,arc
strengthened thereby for those mightier
conflicts that call out all their skill and
resource, and make them saviors aud ben
efactors to their associates in trouble.
Young mothers envy the unruffled com
posure observable in elderly women
who have reared large families of chil
dren, and who have learned that
broken bones will heal, that bruises get
well, that there are ways of managing
and preventing disease, and that it is al
ways best to. keep possession of one’s
wits. “All things come alike to all;” and
as Milton says of the affliction which at
once darkened and brightened his life;
“It is not so wretched to be blind as it is
not to be capable of enduring blindness.
But why should I not endure a misfortune
which it behooves every one to be pre
pared to endure if it should happen,
which may, in the common course of
things, happen to every man, and which
has been known to happen to the most
distinguished and virtuous persons in
history?”
The Color of Flames.
The color of a flame depends partly on
the temperature, but principally on the
nature of the substances undergoing com
bustion or incandescence. The flame of
an ordinary fire is yellow, because the
heat is m-t sufficient to render the carbon
a white heat. The flame will bum much
brighter when air is supplied to it freely,
as by raking out the cinders at the bot
tom of the grate or blowing the fire with
a bellows, because with every fresh rush
of air there is anew supply of oxygen.
The red flame is caused when there is a
rapid union between the combustible
gasses and the oxygen of the air, which is
frequently the case in the uttermost zone
of a candle flame.
The Smallest Railway in the World.
The smallest railway in the world is
said to be that from North Billerica to
Bedford, Mass. It is narrow gauge in
the truest sense of the term, for the rails
are only two feet ten inches apart. It is
eight and a half miles long. The rails
weigh only twenty-five pounds per yard,
the locomotives eight tons and the wag
ons four and a half tons each. The speed
of traveling is about twenty miles an
hour.
The chief reason for the marvelous success of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is found in the article itself*
It is Merit that, wins, and the fact that. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla actually accomplishes what is claimed
for It, is what has made It the medicine first in Iho
confidence of our couutryraen, and given to Hood’s
Sarsaparilla a popularity aud sale greater than that
of any other bloo.l purifier.
‘Early last spring I was very much run down,
had nervous headache, felt miserable and all that.
I was very much benefited by Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and recommend it to my friends. ’—Mrs. .T. M. Tay
lor lIdSIJSuoHd Avenue, Cleveland O.
Creates an Appetite
“I wish to enroll my name fts one of those who
have derived health from the use of Hood's Sarsa
parilla. For many years I havy. taken it, especially
in the early spring, when lam troubled with dizzi
ness, dullness, unpleasant taste in my mouth in the
morning. It removes this bad taste, relieves my
neaJachc and makes me feel greatly refreshed.
The two bottles I have used this spring have been
worth many dollars to me. I advise all my friends
to take It.”—John Binks, 60S 48d Street, Town of
Lake, Chicago, UL
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Sarsaparilla
Sold by ail druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
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No precise reason can be given for au
thors writing under fictitious names. It
is probable that many who adopt a nom
deplume, have some object for so doiDg
peculiar to their state of mind at the mo
ment of sending their first book into tho
world. Not many authors are very sau
guine to the success of their first work;
they are apt to believe that even though
the publisher has accepted it, public cri
tics or friends may not be quite enthus
iastic as to its merits. It is, therefore,
often thought better by the author to pub
lish the book anonymously under a feign
ed name, for it is easy and delight
ful afterward to confess to being
the anther of the book when everybody
is talking its praises, should it prove a
hit. It is by no means unfrequent for an
author to use a fictitious name to prevent
his or her whereabouts from being discov
ered, when it is desirable to keep the
same unknown. Most people, in spite of
that oft-quoted adage of Shakespeare's
have a great depth of belief in a name,
ami always consider themselves sufficient
ly ingenious to fabricate a more striking
and easily remembered name than that,
given them by their godfathers and god
mothers. Iu some cases this is correct
enough, but as often ns not totally un
necessary.
Miss Larkin* was bilious and feeble ami sick.
And it seemed as If nothing would ever re
lieve her.
Her livor was clogged with Impurities thick.
Anil her stomach was constantly burning
with fever.
Of the great (}. M. I), she bought a supply,
And directions for taking pursued to the let
ter,
’Twas the best tiling on earth she could possi
bly try.
And soon, very soon. Miss Larkins was bet
ter.
Tho O. M. D. wlilrhsh* took was Dr, Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery, the grout remedy
for bronchial, throat ana lung diseases, sick
headache, scrofula, dyspepsia, and all diseases
that have origin in impure hlood and a disor
dered liver.
The cleansing, antiseptic and healing quali
ties of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy are un
equaled.
A man likes to be told to “move up” la poli
tics or professional life, but not. in a street car.
Tlie Ladies Delighled.
The pleasant, effect aud the perfect safety
with which ladies may use the liquid fruit
laxative. Syrup of Figs, under all conditions
make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing
to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual
in acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels.
Love is a spocies of intoxication that swells
the heart instead of the head.
The Beaatv of Health.
How many women with regular features that
might lie beautiful, are not, and instead of
awakening our admiration only arouse our
pity. Their hollow eyes and sunken cheeks
and sallow skin haunt our memory. Alas! an
invalid wife or mother or sister fills the house
with gloom and sadness and an otherwise hap
py fireside is shadowed with a pail of regret.
Blessed lie the physician who lias invented a
remedy with power to strengthen the female
organization, that regulates the delicate func
tions of feminine life, that relieves those hear
ing down pains, that renews the appetite, that
perfects digestion, that brightens tiie eyes and
beautifies the complexon with the glow of
health. Such a remedy is Dr. Bull’s Sarsa
parilla. It is woman's best friend for coun
teracting the evils that afiiiet her se*. Thou
sands of ladies owe their I enuty to a use of
this incomparable alterative. Demand it of
your druggist. Take no other.-- Paris JVeU’S.
Honesty is doubtless the best policy, but it
seems to hive expired long a*o,
How’s This!
We otter One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any ease of Cat arrh that can not lie cured by
taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O,
We, the undersigned, have known F. .1,
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions, and financially able to carry out any ob
ligations made by their firm.
West A- Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
E. 11. Van Hoesen, Cashier, Toledo National
Bank, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucus sur
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle.
Hold by all Druggists.
It’s no sin to sin, but it's a sin to be caught
sliming. That Is—if you are in society.
My wife for several years had been an inva
lid and slowly grew worse. I tried doctors but
their skill failed. A neighbor recommended I)r.
Bull's Sarsaparilla ana her nealth began to
mend at once. She weighs fifteen pounds more
than she did four months ago, and feels quite
strong and well.— O. W. Strain, Canton, O.
Is the woman who goes to church to exhibit
her sealskin sacque religious?
Wasting away, growing thinner every day.
Poor child. You need Dr. Bull’s Worm De
stroyers and you would soon grow fat and
hearty. Mamma, get her some.
It seems paradoxical to say it, but some rich
men have more dollars than sense.
FITS stopped free by Dn. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial
bottle free. I)r. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa
The Mother’s Friend, used a few weeks be
fore confinement, lessens the pain and makes
labor quick and comparatively easy. Sold by
all Druggists.
lfafflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-Water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
The U. H. Government makes regular pur
chases of “Tanslll’s Punch” for the army.
WEBSTER’S
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Said Sarah to Mary :
“ Pray, tell me, dear cousin, what can be the matter?
Sure, a few months ago you were fairer and fatter.
Now your cheeks, once so rosy, are sunken and sallow.
Your thin, trembling hands arc us hueless as tallow;
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And you act and appear like a woman forsaken."
Said Mary to Sarah :
" Your comments seem rough, but the facts ara still rougher.
For nobody knows how acutely I suffer.
I am slek unto death and well nigh desperation.
With female disorders and nervous prostration.
I've doctored and dosed till my stomach Is seething
And life hardly seems worth the trouble of breathing.’*
Said Sarah to Mary:
“ Forgive me, my dear, if my comments seem crusty.
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And pass half your days Id such pitiful anguish.
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HEADACHE.
Biliona Headache, Dizziness, Constipation, ladlgee
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AAfik DR. PIERCE’S PELLETS.
Purely Vegetable and Perfectly Harmleee.
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For Fifty Years
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and
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Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
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as a
Spring
Medicino.
Prepared by
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Lowell, Mass.
acvcN aivtintiH
To cure Biliousness. Btck Headache. Constipation*
Malaria. Liver Complaints, take the safe
and certain remedy, SMITH'S
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Cold in the Head it lias no equal. _____
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It is an Ointment, oi which a small particle is applied to th
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Address, E, T. HAZIXTINB, Mcrren, Pa.
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QEAWEED
0 TONIC
Is a Positive Cure for
DYSPEPSIA
And nil Diiordi-rsoftlie Digwt
iro Organ.. It i. lik.wUe
corroborntlvp, or .Irength.n
ing Medicino, and may li*
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caw. of Debility, for Sale bf
ail Druggl.l. Price, *I.OO per bottle. Dr. Bchenck •
TO THE SICK
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