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imaginary disease. |L I_S INTENSIFIED and morbid fan cies HARD TO CURE. guff* 3 ring* of the Confirmed Hypochoifr dl'tiiO—' Cancer himl Heart DUeane in the jHin<l —A Cano in a New York Hospital. In Fifteen Minute*. The writer called on a number of prorn lncut physicians and asked them if. among t l, e ir patients, they had many who imag ined they ha<l diseases which they did not liave Some very interesting information wa3 obtained The doctors said it was found to be a very common trouble, and that the chief diseases these peopilo im dne they have are cancer, heart disease arid Bright’s disease In the language of the profession, the complaint is known as hypochondriasis 'it was found that the disease is often epidemic. At the time of Gen. Grant’s gicknoss and death from cancer of the throat, and during the illness of the late j£ a jscr Fried rich, hundreds of people with nothing serious at all the matter with the.a (..died upon Dr. JShrady, who attend C( J Gen. Grant, and told him they had can cor of the throat coming on and wished to be treated for it. One celebrated physician, who made a special study of the disease, said that it w ; s worthy of note that in all these cases the pat i 1 oit reasons correctly—that is, ho dr:iv s just inferences from the error Thr the Prince of Bourbon, when ho supper and himself to be a plant, reasoned ju'tly when he insisted upon being watered with the rest of the plants every day In like manner, the hypochondriac who .supposes himself to be dead reasons with the same correctness when ho stretches his body and limbs on the bed ora board and assumes the stillness and silence of a dead man. The following is from the records of one of the New York hospital’s house jwirgeons. W “It was on July 0 that a man of small stature, who was found afterwards to bo a Giocmaker by trade, who was apparent ] about 40 years of ago, escaped from his 1. • mid was running at large in the st; -of the city, lacerating his flesh an: heating his head against the sides of F use . A number of citizens managed t-capture him, und they brought him to tli" ho pital, followed by a big crowd. With 1 1 is arms tied behind him, and in the greatest agony, his face bruised and swollen, his lips torn to pieces and streaming with blood, he was ushered iatu the ho.- pital by those who had him in charge I met them at the door and in quire! into the case. The man was eager to tell his own story, but with difficulty collected words to convey it. His lan guage was copious, but his agitation so great that he could hardly utter a sen tence, being interrupted by constant eilorts to tear his lips to pieces. Those with him knew nothing except that they 1.1 [re rented him from beating out his own bruins At length he conveyed the information where his distress was, and upon which his mind was deluded. In his upper lip lie said there was a worm gnawing his flesh and penetrating into his body, und unless he could tear it out the worm would soon be beyond his reach ami inevitably destroy him. This was the cause of his misery. He was assured of the possibility of relief, and with a smiling countenance I patted him on the shoulder and bade him no longer be un easy, for 1 would cut out the worm. His eyes sparkled, and in an instant he re plied, ‘Will you? Do it then. Do it, Suck, for God’s sake.’ if‘lie was urged not to despair, for I *;.B now ready to remove the insect prey ing upon his flesh Accordingly, we went tc the cells of the maniacs. When being stated lie fixed himself for the operation. 1 paraded six lancets on the table before bin I’y making'- a display of this and o'mer preparations and sending for assist ance he became composed, waiting with j -deuce the result. In the meantime I hid sent in search of the worm. Tlio person sent, being unsuccessful, stayed too long and I hurried out the door and picked from the ground one of the large worms or caterpillars which infested the poplar trees at that timo and had fallen tom the trees by the door. One end of tlio insect had been trodden upon, and it nearly dead This I got, and on re turning found my patient’s uneasiness increased Bnt upon seeing mo take the instruments lie fixed himself in the cliair and requested my assistants, the apoth ecary and the orderly man, to hold Ins ba.n.s ! cut he should start while under p; in ot the cutting instrument. ' a lancet the operation was begun. ‘.D‘, Dp with it, which made him mo - u “ L ‘ H© accordingly leaned kc..,i firmly against the person ■ ■ stood behind him. and shut his eyes T• ‘ n : R I t’-us fixed lie bore the re |ig,:eil pricks of the instrument with I yiness and fortitude After pinching ■ ’.“d, “’ifh one hand and wounding it r, : cut ofT a portion of the | kp which ho had torn with his k'h was pendulous. 1 now B7.fi 1 dim that the operation was nearly I I * Gu, tor the head of the worm could I ‘j- Ij g bystanders cried out: “ there P" lucre it is! lie raised eyes to see, W ‘>as cautioned to be still for one min ' ‘,D or - at which he again shut his i then gave him a severe pinch, 1110 edge of the lancet across the v:,;‘, at '' u and exclaiming, 'l've got _ - opened my hand and exposed the frat worm. it y L ' nuin rose from his seat and gazed j..';' Worill with astonishment beyond At length he spoke and re v. ! to preserve it, for, he observed lom juiliity, his friends had said he , -“Zy- but this would be an evidence contrary. .//C result of this deceptive operation ’(•■rfect cure, and this remarkable ' "as effected in less than fifteen gutter the patient entered the k„ U ‘ st doctors say that the causes of ' M ‘ he in conditions usually ob !&,; . \’^ :( 'h lower the tone of the gen i: : or depress the vitality of the Rr or j‘,, 01 : ’ ie r by physical wear or mental ■%'?,*• disappointment, bad habits, m f proper mental occupation, often e trouble. The treatment eon- ML.ff Uloasi:r ©s t 0 improve tho general \ specially a full diet, carefully ■ ’ hydro-therapeutics, massage, horseback riding, walking, It f;ebundant and agreeable exercise the management of Bfe n.d nt s surroundings so as to lighten : a:i h relieve from worry, perhaps ,* or s . ea voyage. 7 commonly worse than use* BC! ! d iere should boa decided im ■C, 7 k'vcn that the generally morbid clue to ill health. The risk of (jiV7 HQ sma h that restriction of lib- B-’ta i, c< te< i to its prevention does more ■ W, i,in , good - —William Henry Hawley I Globe. Connect oencea of Physical Inert!*. An American business man appears to be horu with a disinclination to walk. 1 have seen half a dozen at a time stand around the entrance to a hotel elevator, wasting several minutes in waiting for the machine to come for them rather than mount one flight of steps. Asa conse quence of this physical inertia most busi ness men of the present day have weak muscles, and especially weak hearts, so that should they bo obliged to exert themselves to even a slight degree their limbs become exhausted and tremble like “a reed shaken by the wind,” their respi ration becomes hurried and difficult, and their pulses beat at the rate of IJo a min ute, or even more. It is only necessary to stand at the cor ner of a street through which a street railway passes and to watch the men and women leaving their homes directly after break&ukt, and running a hundred feet or so at the top of their speed to catch an approaching ear, as though it was the only one by which they could go down town, and their lives depended on getting into that particular vehicle. How they pant and blow and turn red in the face, and gesticulate wildly at tlve conductor and drop into their seats thoroughly ex hausted from the comparatively slight exertion into which they have been forced by their love of business! Many minutes ehipso before they recover their mental and physical equanimity. Not a year passes that the newspapers do not record several deaths that have occurred from this practice, and which would not take place if the subjects had been in the habit of takjng sufficient muscular exer cise. In such people the heart is sud denly subjected to a strain to which it is not accustomed, and it gives way in the effort to accomplish the work required of it. I venture to say that of those who read these observations not one in ten can ascend the steps of an elevated rail way station as slowly as he pleases with out having the action of the heart nearly doubled in frequency. A rapidly beating heart is almost invariably a feeble heart. —Dr. William A. Hammond. Cyclin'; Down a Mountain Side. The long seven mile coast began. The road wound down around horseshoe curves and loops without number, and as it was on the east side of the smaller valley which led down at right angles to the Rhine valley I had to ride on the outer sido of the roadway in order to be on the right side. At first, in turning some of the sharp curves to the left where I could see nothing ahead but air and the hills of Switzerland twenty miles away, I slowed up some, for the road was visible for only twenty or thirty feet ahead, and where it went to then I was totally ignorant, but after riding a mile or two down over roads so smooth that the running of the machine was scarcely audible, 1 let up on the brake a little and away I went faster and faster. One finger was sufficient on the brake at first, but after a few miles that one began to get cramped and two fingers were applied. Then the brake spoon began to get hot., but still I could not see the foot of the mountain. About half way down the water of the Rhine began to show itself over the edge of the road as I came to those sharp turns to the left, and then I knew where the bottom was. It actually seemed that, if I went straight ahead, I should land in the river, how many hundred feet below my blurred eyes could not clearly discover. Once I met a team and yelled, but the oxen were on their own side and I went by them with a rush all right. Another time some children saw mo coming and ran down the sides of the mountain scared out of their wits. Still I went like the wind over the same steep grade and smooth road down from top to bottom, without mishap, but with a feeling I never before experienced in coasting that 1 was glad 1 was at the bottom. Flow long it took me to come down I do not know, but I waited six minutes at the base for the English men.—Bicyclist George Li. Thayer in New York World. To Keep the Eyes lieu tit iful. To have beautiful sightly eyes, we must have strong, sound ones, and avoid all causes of harm. Never read, write or work with tlie light from a window in front of the eyes. Artisans injure ’’their sight past recovery by working at a bench directly in front of a window, when they should be placed with the back to it. The light in front falls into the eye, which contracts to lessen what it cannot bear, with the invariable result of weak ened sight. Lamps, gas jets and student lamps are often placed so near the head as to heat the eyes injuriously. The sim plest shade stops this by making a current of air between itself and the lamp. 1 quote from Dr. Jeffries’ highly inter esting pamphlet on “Our Eyes and Our Industries.” lie speaks very decidedly on the injury to the eyes of wood engrav ers in cutting from photographs on the block, making the blurred and misty pict ures too familiar in papers and magazines. The work is cheaper, but, oculists find, most destructive to the eyes, and the bet ter class of engravers either refuse such work or raise their prices nearly double. The wear and tear comes of looking con stantly from the photograph to the orig inal picture hung before it and continually changing the focus of the eye. lam glad to know this has awakened attention, for I know that looking at the soft, blurry wood cuts is very trying to sensitive eyes. So is the satiny, calendered paper which certain publishers protest is necessary for fine impressions, although finer work is done abroad upon dull paper. The gloss and glitter of much of the modern house decoration injures the cy\) by the broken reflections it is forced to meet on all sides. The varnished paint, the metallic finish of walls and fabrics, the breadth of plate glass and painted glass are simply destruc tive to good sight. They may answer for people who never read, like the Turks and Bulgarians, but eyes overtaxed like those of our professional and many of our artisan classes are, quickly find this glitter sui cidal. —Shirley Dare's Letter. Slight Impurities in Metals. The astonishing changes that small proportions of foreign matter will produce iu metals are not necessarily of small practical importance, as very slight im purities in metals for certain purposes might lead to serious consequences. Rob erts-Austin gives two striking illustra tions of this possibility. A small fraction of bismuth in copper will reduce the elec trical conductivity sufficiently to cause any submarine cable made with it to become a commercial failure, and the message carrying power of copper cables is said to have doubled since tho early iays of telegraphy on account of the in creased purity of the copper. Pure gold has a breaking strain of from sixteen to seventeen tons to the square inch, but when alloyed with but two-teuths of one per cent, of lead it will break with a slight blow or under a trifling strain. — Arkansaw Traveler. . ........ THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL. | A SAD CITY WITH A STRANGE LACK OF LIFE. First Impressions of St. Petersburg—lt* Unhealthy Position —Coarseness of the Lower Classes—The Droskm and Its Rev erent Driver —At Clinrclu The first impression of the traveler on approaching St. Petersburg is df wonder at its size and its position On every side stretches of what is apparently a low, fiat marsh, covered with innumerable build ings; the strangest plime for a city ever chosen by the obstinate will of man, seek ing to dispense with all natural ad van tages. Peter the Great chose it, it is said, as being “a window looking out upon Europe,” but surely a site might have been found with an equal outlook and a less desolate and fatal position. Unlike Stock holm, which is likewise surrounded by water, but which sits on her rocky thrones like a queen above the dangerous element, St. Petersburg lies helplessly at its mercy. In autumn, when the Neva is rough and stormy, and In spring, when the ice is breaking up, the danger is greatest. Th© waves rise to the level of the streets, the numerous canals overflow; guns from the fortress are constantly fired to warn the people of their peril, while the inhabitants seek the upper stories of their houses and the police pre pare boats for rescue. Another conse quence of this marshy situation is its an healthiness, The sewage is not properly carried off, the water is undrinkable, and dysentery and similar diseases prevail whenever the friendly frost is not present to turn everything to ice. Peter the Great did not build his capital in ignor ance of wliat ho was doing. Fie laid its foundation upon human lives. For many years 40,000 men were annually drafted from all portions of his empire to work in this poisonous marsh. Every cart and vessel entering the port was obliged to bring a certain number of stones to pavo its streets, and hundred of thousands of wooden piles were buried in its depths. Soil was also brought in in great quanti ties to raise the level of the place, and massive granite quays built along the rapid river; but nothing has availed to prevent disastrous inundations, seven or eight of which are particularly mentioned since the foundations were laid in 1708. At one time the river rose thirteen feet. But it is not only the want of elevation and of picturesqueness that is depressing to the visitor; it is no less the wide deso lation of tlie vast open spaces of the city. From the busy moving multitudes and crowded quays of Stockholm wo have come to quiet and deserted squares, end less rows of immense buildings, mo notonous grandeur and regularity It is evident that there are not enough people to fill its streets, and i: is a positive re lief to enter tlie few thoroughfares where business and life is centered, such as the Nevsky Prospect. Of course, in winter, when the court is here and the richest citizens come in from t heir summer homes in Finland and the islands, when the sleighing is lively and all the gayeties of the season in vogue, St. Petersburg would show to much greater advantage. We had been told that the contrasts of luxury and poverty on the streets would be most painful, and we expected to meet beggary on every hand, but such has not proved to bo the case. There are always beggars at the church doors, but seldom elsewhere, and poverty is by no means so obvious and distressing as in many cities It is not the poverty, but the coarseness, almost brutality, in the lozver classes that impresses you most vividly*. The men that you meet in their sordid rags or tlieir undressed sheepskins seem hot to need nor desire any better raiment. It is suitable to them. Wild of face, with long, tangled hair, and inexpressibly dirty, often half drunk, but never scring ing. you shrink from rather than pity them. The pictures drawn by Tolstoi are seen to be fearfully realistic. The women are less forbidding, but with little intelli gence or good humor. Actually I have never seen a smile nor heard a laugh in the streets sinco we have been here. Nobody understands or wishes to understand you; the poor arc sullen, the well-to-do careless or in solent. And then there is so much that is strange and utterly foreign. For some, to us, unexplained reason the days of tho month are changed. You thought it was the 20th of August—you find it is tho Bth. The Russian alphabet is very dif ferent from ours. ai:d the names of tho streets and the signs over tlio shops might as well be written in Runic. As very few of tho natives, however, are better off than yourself in this respect, the shopkeepers do not trust to the al phabet for setting forth their wares. I have complained of the want of life in the streets. 1 must make an exception in favor of the droskas. These little car riages fly about iu every direction, for everybody rides. You look down one of tho long quays perhaps aud see no walk ers, no loungers, but you are sure to see droskas. They are small, low vehicles, each holding two passengers, with a driver on a high seat in front clad in a long blue blouse, with a leather girdle and a peculiar cap on his head. Tho horses, with their huge arched col lars, are active and gentle and apparently well treated, and if you know enough Russian to make a bar gain, you will find this method of tran sit a cheap and convenient one. It is cer tainlv convenient; you have only to raise your baud and droskas sweep down upon you like vultures on their prey, sometimes jostling each other in their en dcavor to reach you the first; but as uono of the drivers know a word of anything but Russian, you may not find it very easy to make them comprehend where you want to go. This difficulty overcome, however, you will soon be spinning at a rapid rate over the badly paved streets. You will probably soon notice the driver snatch off his cap. wave it in the air, and, replacing it, make a hasty sign of the cross by touching the forehead, breast and each shoulder in succession. This is when a church is passed, and such recognition ot the sacred edifices and shrines is com mon among both walkers and riders. Ihere is no nation probably so devoted to religious forms as the Russian—cer tainly none which believes so implicitly in the value of signs and genuflexions. It is strange enough to watch the crowd which fills the church during service time. There are never any seats; all, rich and poor, stand together; but iu place of standing quietly, or, at most, kneeling occasionally, like tho congrega tion in a Catholic church, tho whole body of worshipers in a Greek church are in motion; bowing, prostrating themselves, waving the arms up aud down, continu ally making the sign of the cross de scribed above, they resemble a garden tossed by a gr? *t wind.—Cor. San Fran cisco Chronicle. Tooth railing by Electricity. Boston |K*ople nowadays have their su perfluous te • h drawn bv means of elec tricity Inasmuch as all new ideas iu the arts and sciences are spread from this en lightened metropolis originally, and from bailee extended over the country, there is little doubt that sooner or later this new method will supersede laughing gas aud ether in other big cities of the Union The process in question is very simple, scarce any apparatus being required be yond an ordinary two cell battery, with vibrator attachment. This attachment is a thin strip of metal, fastened at the ends, which is made to vibrate a thousand or more times {>er second by the electric cur rent. At each vibration the circuit is cut off and renewed again, the effect being to give a perfectly steady flow of the mys terious fluid In order to make sure that the flow is quite satisfactory the operator tunes the machine—assisted by a little reed tuning pipe—until the strip of metal sings “A.” So far, so good. Now to the battery are attached three wires. Two of them have handles at the ends, and tlie third is hitched to a for ceps. The patient in the chair is given a handle to hold in each hand, and the cur rent is turned on gradually until it be comes painful. Then he is told t-o grasp the handles as strongly as possible, the electricity—having been switched off for a moment—is turned on again suddenly, and the dental surgeon applies his forceps simultaneously to the tooth. The instant the molar is touched, it, as well as the parts surrounding, becomes electrified and absolutely insensible to pain. When it is withdrawn from the socket, the subject of the operation feels not the slightest disagreeable sensation. A jerk and the tooth is out. the patient drops the handles and the affair is over.—Boston Cor. Globe- Democrat. Making Fine Grade Candies. The process of making the “cream” is identical in both wholesale and retail es tablishments. Confectioners’ sugar is first boiled until it becomes a thick and waxy syrup. It is then turned out on slabs and Allowed to partially cool. In the retail establishments it is then worked with wooden paddles until the grain is so stretched that the mass is resolved into a soft, snowy compound, ready for the flavors or to be mixed with fruit or nuts. In the wholesale factories ICO pounds of clear syrup is turned out on a slab at cue time. When it has cooled enough to work a canclymaker stations himself at either end. lie hold;* a common garden spade. Together the two workers turn and turn the hardening sugar until it is white. Then it is packed away iu big iron recep tacles and covered with heavy, wet cloths to keep it from hardening, This cream is the basis of all the finest grade candies in the market. It is in the manufacture of this cream that dealers have revolutionized methods and brought that of America to the highest standard in the world. Candy is not made in such vast quantities in any other land. The famous confections of the Orient are not to be compared, either in quality or quan tity, with those of the United States. Eastern compounds arc largely of the nougat order and made in small quanti ties. Armenian Greeks offer Turkish paste along State street every day for sale. It is turned out in a big cone ex actly as it is cooled in the pot. It is sold in slices. It is after this same fashion that the confections of the east are all made. French bonbons do not suit the American palate. They arc not distinct flavors as a rule. Instead, they are a con glomeration of flavors so mixed as to make subtle but intangible flavor that can be attributed neither to fruit nor flower.—Chicago Herald. Reroe and Its Dears. Every one immediately associates the mention of Berne with bears The coat of arms consists of one of these animals, and everywhere and on everything they appear—in stone and in wood, carved and painted, and alive in the pits, where they have been maintained at the expense of the government from time immemoru.l. Fountains are ornamented with bears; if the fountain itself is not a bruin, one is sure to be found in the vicinity. A statue of Bert held von Zohringen surmounts a watering trough, and by him stands a small bear with a sword hanging by its side and acting the part of helmet bearer. Sunday afternoon the entire populace, old and young, dress in gala attire and visit the pits. A double row is formed around the railing: each person purchases carrots or bread to throw the pets, whose ele phantine-like gambols provoke shouts of laughter from the surroundinguaultitude. They really are most amusing animals. A deep tank is in the center of the den, and while we were present a regular wrestling match took place between two hoary old fellows, in which the great struggle was to throw one another into the water. At last one succeeded in giv ing liis opponent a thorough ducking, aud then sat on the brink eyeing his defeated adversary, his head on one side, and rub bing his immense paws, apparently with the greatest enjoyment. One of the lookers on declared that lie grinned and chuckled, but serious doubts may be en tertained as to the veracity of that state ment. —Baltimore American. Newspaper Enterprise “Out West.” The successful western newspaper is, above all things, enterprising, and this quality, now so wonderfully developed, is a legacy from the pioneer press. The special telegraph wires of today from Cincinnati aud Chicago to New York, Washington and important nearby cities had their prototypes in the pony expresses and special messengers of the pre-railroad and ante-telegraph times. And it re quired more courage and pluck to send out the latter than to put in the former. This enterprise displayed itself in many startling ways, as it docs today. It ad apted itself to surrounding circumstances. When Denver, in 18fi9. was but a collec tion of tents, rude shanties and corrals on Cherry creek, and tho nearest United States postoffice was at Fort Laramie, 220 miles away, when the mails arrived but once or twice a month, and were uncer tain at that, and news from “the States” came only at long and irregular intervals, the editor of The Rocky Mountain News was the one who sent a messenger to Fort Laramie to bring back, in spite of the suf fering and hardships the journey entailed, a mule load of letters and eastern news papers. And his readers, with that gen erosity that has always distinguished western newspaper constituencies, showed their appreciation of his enterprise in a substantial manner.—Z. L. White in Harper’s Magazine. Strengthening the Memory. Among the axioms which fill the moral columns of a weekly journal is one that “There is no better way to strengthen tho memory tliitn bv speaking the exact truth.” and another, that “A liar should have a good memory. ” The editor has a decided taste for mnemonics.—Shoe and Leather Reporter. A NEW SERIAL] TheiFisliermani EY ALEXANDRE DUMAS. TTe have completed arrangements forth© early appearance in those columns of the popular serial noted above. Readers are requested to keep a sharp look out for the opening chapters, which will ap pear very shortly. The story’ is FINELY ILLUSTRATED from-dra wings by one of the best newspaper artists in the country The following illustrations are taken from among those which will embellish this serial. -s. jL Th Wall ou tie Beach. /A / r Afm ‘ ' -• 1 ‘ J 2la‘oani.>LL' i ocognizcd the y£ La; friend BrJv-'jx'r 1 n.| M lfc\ lit lin # “Pity, father, pity for hiznl” 1 ' * Ai\ V # ( 1 , The Castel-Nuova “Not to offer them to our dear llasanlellor This Story is Consumingly Interesting, and is written in Dumas’ Best Stvle.. Watch for the Opening Chapters. Cases of Momidd&l insanity “Have you had much experience with this form of insanity, doctor?” "Many and many a case 1 remember once being visited by a gardener tie told me that Ids niece kept house for him, and that as l.e hud raised her he was very fond of her One day he was filled witu an impulse to drive a pitclifork through her neck He was talking to her at the time and had the pitchfork in his hand By a tremendous effort he re framed Several times afterwards he felt the same desire coming over him. and each time it grow stronger, and at last he made a figure, with the neck and bust of straw. Whenever the desire to stick liis niece in the neck with the pitchfork came over him lie would rush out and stab the figure. I got him into an asylum and he was eventually cured "I remember another case where a man in Arkansas wrote me saying that one day while he was digging in the garden his little child came running ut to play. As soon as he saw her a sudden desire to kill her with the spade came over him. He said the feeling was so strong that he had to tell the child to leave the garden. Afterwards he declared that he feared he would kill his family I wrote him to go to an asylum immediately, because if he did not the rnknia would grow und he would certainly kill some one, in which event he would lie morally as guilty as if he had planned the murder in his sober senses "The case of De Mallard, the French man. is a noted one. and from the fact that the victims were all women it is peculiarly interesting Ho used to adver tise for servant girls When they came he would, lead them o:T to some secluded spot ami murder them There was uo other object than a mad thirst for human blood. Lie is known to have murdered six women in this way. and is supposed to have killed many more whose bodies were never discovered Lie was executed. The books are full of such eases, and they are not confined to men. either Women have figured quite as v rominontly One French woman, between W-d and lsn?. murdered over twenty people She used poison in every instance, and bet victims included relatives, neighbors, physicians and nuns. She attended a number of her victims while they wi re on their deathbeds and gave every evidence of being deeply affected Perhaps she was. Ci course she had no object*except an insane desire to see people die. "This mania is but one of a number, all of which arc of the same general family. In some cases it is kleptomania, in others a mania for suicide, in others for murder, and so on ” —Dr. William A. Hammond in New York World. Testing Englishmen’s Credulity. An American gentleman who was re cently visiting in England thought he would try an experiment to test t lie cre dulity of Englishmen in regard to the United St a* ns So one day when he was witii a number of fairly intelligent Eng lishmen he gravely told them that on various street corners of Chicago there are peculiar machines run to intricate clockwork on which is inscribed the legend ’Drop ten silver dollars in the slot and get a divorce Hall of ms auditors believed the story and the other halt accepted it in its main features but criticised certain details New York Tribune YOUII EARS Ought to have attention perhaps. If so, I>. IE B. will do vou good, removing all ignorant matter, the direct cause of deafness. Witness the following testi monies: COULI) HEAR A TICK CRAWL. Mr. C. E. Hall wrote from Shelby, Ala., Febuary 9, 1887: “1 could not hear it thunder. I heard of B. 15. 8.. used two bottles, and now can hear a tick crawl in the leaves. “I OAVP UP TO DIE." Knoxville, Texx.. 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