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FOR FARM AND GARDEN. ONE GOOD nEStILT. At a late butter making competition in England, held at Colchester, nud open to all comers, all the prizes were aw arded to pupils at the dairy school at Ipswich. This qfows what syste¬ matic training will do toward making good butter makers, and wo only wish those who are interested in tho subject in this country would profit by this most excellent example. — American Pair y man, don't KEEP POOR STOCK. Please listen to a fow admonitory Wgestions, such as are especially sea¬ sonable in tho winter and will bear re¬ peating annually. It will not pay to keep poor, unprofitable stock at any season, and pnrtieulrrly through the winter. Every farmer who raises stock lias some which it will not pay to keep longer. Just as soon ns stock reach ma¬ turity thay should bo sold. It is a daily loss to keep them longer, for they soon eat themselves up—that is, they will soon consume their own value in food. llogs that arc nine or ten months old should be fattened and killed. Cows that aro getting old should be sold off. Two or three year old steers should be sold. The flock of sheep should be cu led out and the old¬ est well fed and and sold as soon a3 got in order. Horses that aro not needed should b3 put into marketable shape and sent to market, Get rid of the poorest and feed the balance with what they would have eaten, Hold on to ibe best, and continue to make them eettcr still by good care and feeding.— Weekly Witness. GROWING POTATOES IN RIDGES. If the ground is rich and remonabl y free from weeds, the potato crop is bet¬ ter grown in ridges than in hi!Is with ro.ws botli ways. The small annual weeds do not much matter, as in tho ridge system tiic potatoes are planted deeply, and tho field is harrowed tlior- oughly beforo the potatoes are up, thus destroying the small weeds as soon as they germinate. A good many m re potatoes can be grown per aero of tha close-growing varieties which have small tops and grow their tubers m a bunch. It seems a waste of laud to devoto a space of three feet or more each way to grow a hill of these varieties. Sum farmers make hills three feet apart one way, and two feet eight inches the oth¬ er, thus cultivating both ways. But it is hard work to run a cultivator through these narrow rows without injuring tlie plants, and planting in ridgei is prefer¬ able. Early Rose po’.atoes may bo planted ten to twelve inches apart in ridges, thui giving three times as many hills per acre as is possible where rows are made both ways. When thus plaut- ed it is customary to seod lightly, one, or at most two, eyes in a place. This secures potatoes of hotter size. jf whole potatoes or pice 31 with a great number of cyci are planted in ridges, they are overcrowded, producing many potatoes too small to bo marketed.— American Cultivator. rOINTS IN SHEEP-KEEPING. Since it lias become established that ihoep can ho well wintered on straw, or, at most, straw and a few cents’ worth of grain, they have advanced in price. For several years good storo or keeping sheep could be purchaiod in the fall for $3 or loss, and now they are from $4 50 to $3. Several of my towns¬ men, says Ga’cu Wilson in the New York Tribune, who had not kept abreast of the sheep markst, because they are not general readers of the press, were offered and accepted $3 .26 for their flocks, thinking they could re¬ place them rcaddy at tho low figures of past years; hut, after several days’ search, they learno l to their chagrin that they could not buy short of about $5. But even at $5 good ewes are cheap; 25 cent? will winter one six mon.hi , if the , owner has straw, and for the other six month, her patturago is worth 5 cents a week,making her year’s keeping f l 53 Her wool will be worth $2, aud her lamb $1 to $5, so a largo percent, of profit is in her fivor, bar¬ ring dogi and accidents. Some advocate sihigo for sheep-feed¬ ing. It uuswers for wethers and fatten¬ ing ewes, but is not deiirablo for brood¬ ing ewes It has boon tostod, and tho weight of evidence is against tho prac¬ tice. The ewes do not do well at lamb¬ ing-time, and the lambs are inferior. After tho lambs are dropped, however, silage i, valuable feed, aud in hothouso lamb-growing supplios tho placo of roots. Timothy hay alone is also an un¬ suitable food for owe, in lamb; it is constipating, while straw is not. Any person who will observo the difference in droppings of straw-fed and hay-fed sheep will confirm this assertion. When the evidence is before my eyes that breeding cwoi wintered on straw alone shci ro l 8 pound p cr head, each had n lamb and every lamb lived, I am in¬ clined to say, though I confess, re¬ luctantly, that straw is sufficient. There is a bright, immediate future for the sheep industry. SOIL FOB HOUSE PLANTS. The provident gardener, and particu¬ larly the commercial florist, who de¬ pends for his bread and butter upon his success, is particular about hts soil. Ever since tho advent of growing monthly rbses, in such enormous quan¬ tities, -and with sueh marked success. this soil idea has became a prominent aae. it was not that the idea was not known, or that it was not practiced, by many of the best plant growers, but n vast number of growers contented them¬ selves, in old timos, by having a sort ol mixture they called a pottiug soil, and plants did fairly welt, as a rule; but with the soil as then used, rose* were not the success thoy now are. At the present day, tho successful •florist or amateur has a pile of sods iu some out-of-the-way place, where it will decay, and ho ever ready for pot¬ tiug purposes. Some of tho best rose- growers in our country use nothiug else lor their young roses, and there car bo nothiug bettor; others, in piling up the sods, alternate the layers with stable manure. This makes a good compost, but is a congenial homo for worms and grubs, which are destructive to the plants, which liavo to be examined for, and destroyed before using. This soil is a base that almost any pot or homc- grown plant will do well in. If tho sod in the first instance is without sand, if for pot-plants, enough good, sharp Baud should be mixed with it at the time of potting, to give it a porous nature, so that tho walor may readily puss through tho mass, and thus not stagnate. The rose of carnation, grown in tho open or free ground, without potting, does not need the sand, as the pani¬ cles aro coarser, and allow the excess of water to pasi through without. Plants with very fine fibrous roots need more sandy soil than such as have them coarser. So also, very small or young plants are the bettor started, if sanl is used in their young stages. It also pays, in this case, to run it through a sieve, or break up finely by the hand. For older plants, this is not necessary nor desirable.— Prairie Farmer. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Weasels and similar vermin only give trouble in very rural neighborhoods. They generally come in a regular track and can be trapped, by baiting with dead birds or chickens. Tho silo enables the farmer who has brood mares to keep up the milk flow in winter, and so time tho foaling, if lie likes fall colts, as to have his niaros in working condition in the busy sea¬ son. Good drainage limit bo provided be¬ foro cold, freealng weather sets in. Nearly all kinds of fruit plants will bo seriously injured if the water be al¬ lowed to stand around the roots during the winter. By looking around over tlie f.um many little remnants of seed and grain can ba put asido for tho use of tho poultry; tho seed from the sorghum stalks, the shattered corn gut here t up from the floor of the corn crib bjfore the now crop is housed and the trashy wheat mixed with dust and chaff left on 11,0 g r “ nar y floor whou Hie last bag has been carried to mill are all good food for feathered treasure?. Hens that have taken to gneezi r.g have caught cold in some way, and this cold may become croup if the pndis¬ posing causo is not removed. Feed them a warm mess made quite hot with pepper in the morning for a few days, and keep the chicken house door shut during the night. If your chicken house is at all open make it wind proof at least. Chickens that roost out of 1 ! doors never take cold, neither do Uioy lay iu the wiutor. The Biggest Earthquakes. In 365 A. D. the greater part of (he U ■man world was convulsed by nil earthquake, which was followed by tidal waves. For a long time after¬ ward tho city of Alexandria amiudly commemorated the fatal day whoa 50,- 000 citizens lost their live? in an i iui- dation. Two centuries later the It >man empire again was shaken, and credulity is staggorod by the statement that 251,- 000 lives ivoro lost. One shrinks from enumerating many of the great earthquakes of history, for to attempt tho task is to sun full of I horrors In the ua;ly history of Amor- , ca tho disappearance of whole cities was not unusual. In 1456 60, 003 per¬ sons were killed in Naples. Iu 1759 tlicro were destructive shocks in Syria, and at Balbcc 20,000 perished. In 17S3 Guatemala, with all its riche? and 8,000 families, wai swallowed up. In Sicily and LUmbriu, from 1738 to 1781, the victims reached a total of 80, 000. China'., capital was destroyed in 1333, and multitudis were killed in a series of shocks that wore distributed through ten years. And so on uutil the statis¬ tics become sickening. The great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 will be remembered as the ouo in which tho good Dr. Johnson refused to be¬ lieve, although he pinned his faith to the story of the Cock lane ghost. This shock extended over a surface of the globe four times greater than that of Europe, destroying the eitios of Fez and Mesquinez in Mdr; con, with 15,- 090 person’, an I affecting tho coasts of Greenland, the Iric of Madeira, and the West Indies, nearly 4000 mit«« a way. In Lisboa it was All Saints’ day, the hour of high mass, and all the churches were crowded. There were three shocks, and thou the city was in ruins. Tho earthquake was followed by ihe horrors of a conflagration. In the Caracas earthquake of 1812 the people were praying, like thoio o; LL non, when desolation came upon them. It was Thursday of Holy week, and great numbers were iu the churches. At least 4000 people perished iu the downfall of the sacred cd ticos. Oae cathedral only held out. (JUAINT AND CURIOUS. The cultivation of’tho Egyptian date palm is to be tried on a large scale iu India. Ex-Congressman Stephen F. Wilson, of Wellsboro, Penn.,* has built for him¬ self a granite tomb in shape of a log cabin. A hundred and twenty thou land fishermeu aro always afloat round tho English coasts, gathering the harvest of tlie sea. Tho sweet-scented Peruvian helio- traps, or * ‘cherry pic,” was introduced from South Americi in 1740, hnving been discovered by tho celebrated Jus¬ sieu when hotaniziag among tho Cordil¬ leras. Oae portion of West Main street, Gainesville, Ga , is known to some by tho startling name of “Dead Man’s Rorv.” In tho past seventeen years four men have been killed in almost tho same spot. Tlicro have boon two springs discov¬ ered in Bramwell, W. Va., which aro only about fifteen feet apart, the water of one of which is colder than ice, if possible, while the other almost reaches a boiling temperature. Rice Boyd of Uniontown, Penn., has been pasturing his cattle on a $90,000 coal field, never suspecting its value, lie sold it to a neighbor not long since for $600, and the purchaser deposed of it at onco for $90,000. Alexander Simpson, for some years a reporter on the Kansas City Times, re¬ ceive l word the other day from London that lie had fallen heir to the estate of bis aunt in Edinburgh, Scotland. The e tntc is valued at $200,000. Prothonotary Collner of Clarion County, Penn., has a highly prized war relic in the shape of a sergeant’s report book which saved his life. A mini* ball struck the book and spent its forco, though the blow was heavy enough to knock the soldier down. At Portsmouth, Ohio, the wedding of Uncle Aaron Noe’, a Clay township farmer, aged eighty-throe, to Mrs. Lizzie Dawson, a widow of Lucasville, was stopped by tho groom’s son, A. N. Noel, he taking the marriage license from him. Visitors to tho vaults of the Pantheon in Paris remember the echo which the guide used to produce by shouting and pounding on a drum. This has been forbidden by the minister of the inter¬ ior as “a desecration of the abode of the illustrious dead.” What is known as the “tree of life” is growing in tho United Brethren Church at Falmouth, Penn. Tho plant is of the spice-wood variety. It has now attained the height of 3 feet, and shot from the earth through a knot¬ hole in tho pulpit floor. A fossil forest lias been discovered near Franeut in Scotland. Forty or fifty fossil tree trunks have been already laid bare, and the full dimensions of the forest are as yet unknown. Oae of the trunks is about throe feet iu diameter, and tiiey are for tile most part of free¬ stone. Negro is pure Spanish for black, aud is derived from Hie Latin word Nijar— black. The Fpaniar Is, being near Africa, appropriated the word to the inhabitants of that continent iu early times. They applied it more particu¬ larly to slaves, aud hence the English application of the said time to the dark- skinned race. At a wedding which took place re¬ cently at ChbelhuiMt, England, the of- fic tiling clergyman left out the words: “With this ring 1 thee wed,” etc. Tiie omission was not referred to until the bridal party were assembled at break¬ fast, and then the party repaired once more to (ho church, where the service was performo 1 a second time. A little girl only six years old ar¬ rived in San Francisco from Now York a week or two ago, wholly unattended, with a tag pinned to her dress request¬ ing that she might be well cared for on the way. S le had no money, and was wholly dependent on chanty. She was living with aa aunt iu Now York city, and her father, who lives in San Fran¬ cisco, sent for her. Champion Shavers of the World. Tne greatest shavers iu tho world ari the Chinese. Every week at least one hundred million almond-eyed ficei must ba cleaned by the rtz >r, ; tid every tea days the hair is scraped fro n tho scalps surrounding at least tha number cf long, black, Chinese pig-tails. The barbers constitute one of the most im- p >rtaut parts of the Chinese popula¬ tion. They have their guilds and their trades unions, and sorno years ago they brought the emporor himself to his knees. There was an edict iu force that classed the barbers with the lowest ranks of tho Chinese people, and that prohibited them from entering the com¬ petitive examinations for official rank. The barbers struck and demanded that this ba rescinded. For several weeks the whole Chinese nation wont Ull • shaved. The black hair sprouted out to the length and stiffuess of the bris¬ tles of the Berkshire hog, and a wail ot anguish rose from the throats of mil¬ lions of Chinese m-n. Public opiuion has its weight in China as in Americi, and the emperor oime to terms. Now a bar ber’s son may become viceiO/ of China, nud it is not an impossibility U at a barber himself should aspire to be minister to tho United States— Cour¬ ier Journal. UTILIZING SKIM-MILK. kS INTERESTING AND INSTK1JCTIVE ARTICLE BT UR, A. WACTI.IN FBOM STOCK¬ HOLM, 8WEDEN. This gentleman, whose name will be known alroady by many of our readers from tho time of his connection with the Deiaval Separator, was present ut tho N. Y. State Dairymen’s Convention, held at Ithaca 10th, 12tli of December, and gave to the meeting some interesting state¬ ments concerning quite a new feature in agricultural progress. The subject of his address was a perfectly new method of utilizing skim-milk and whey, and to prove of what great importance to a na- lion like America, this question would be. Mr. W. produced statistical state¬ ments from the United States Department of Agriculture, showing an annual man¬ ufacture of butter in the States of not leos than one thousand three hundred million pounds, lion and four hundred and fifty mil¬ two gallons pounds of cheese. Counting about of slcim-milk to each pound of butter and, say about one gallon of whoy to the pound of cheese, the enor¬ mous waste of public wealth could easily be calculated even if no more than one cent’s value to the gallon were allowed. With this new method, however, Mr. W. claimed not only had this waste been tual remedied, fact, but, as he could prove by ac¬ the farmer could make a profit of at least six cents a gallon on his skim- milk, quite which hitherto had been considered valueless and. almost a burden to him. Tho process of manufacture is quite inexp in thi ensive. Tho skim milk is curded e manner usual iu manufacturing cheese, only that a greater quantity of rennet and higher temperature is used, so as to make the precipitation as thorough as in possible. These curds are then placed a common cheese press, where it how¬ ever required undergoes a harder pressure than is for ordinary cheese and after¬ wards put through a simple process of drying of and grinding, leaving the product ble. dry curds as free from water as possi¬ These curds, containing a very high percentage constitutes of protein, i. e., that which the basis of all animal tissue, makes it very valuable as an ingredient in feeding |n cakes for cattle, horses or dogs, biscuits poultry and food, etc., ns also in bread, other kinds of human food. this By mixing only a small percentage of to what extraordinary is called nitrogeneous feeding casein in¬ Mr. W. stated,cheaper compound kinds grains, cakes, of or milling ing offals, may be used, yet produc¬ cakes superior to the best rape or lin- iced cakes. By adding the same to any kind of feeding cake for milch cows, it will render, by its mildness, a finer flav¬ ored butter and maintain the normal live Weight of the animal, even whilst under¬ going richer a in butter protein test. and The of casein is nourish¬ much than greater and, being ment meat even, a prime producer of flesh and blood, will Keep the animal in a healthy condition,by constantly tissue. supplying the waste of animal For army horses the casein, mixed into cakes of suitable form, will prove invalu¬ able, protracted especially in cases of long rides or bulky exertions, provender. where it The is impossible to carry same may be said with regard to dogs, or in all pases, where the physical powers of the animal have to be exerted, as the casein does not fill the animal and thus make it sluggish, digestible, but increases nevertheless, its staying being very be found powers. For the same reason it will very valuable also for mixing into biscuits sailors, or bread for soldiers on active service, laborers or sportsmen. As a food for poultry it will, whilst maintaining a healthy condition, advance its egg-pro¬ ducing capacity and debilitating great fattening bird, qualities, done by without the ordinary method the of using- as is flesh food. Mr. W. stated several results of practi¬ cal tests, which had been made in Europe, with these casein feeding-cakes in con¬ nection with milch cows. ! The whey, remaining after the curd¬ ing mentioned above is mixed with an equal quantity of skim-milk and the bulk put through transformed a simple process solid, of evapora¬ tion and into nearly water-free cakes, afterwards to lie cut, more or less roasted, and ground to suit whatever purpose intended. The whey from an ordinary cheese factory could- also be used. To this substance had been given the name of “Laetoserine,” from the latin Lac, milk, and Serine, whey. principally These solids containing azotio or organic nutritious substances and carbohydrates, and nourishing are naturally well very healthy highly in tho as future as palatable, become and highly sure important near in human to food, beverages and pastries. opinion, Mr. W. Careful analysis and the physicians have stated, of well known proved that “Laetoserine,” mixed with coffee, for instance, produces and a sometimes beverage which in taste approaches of the best unmixed even surpasses that coffee, aud iu nutritious value far sur¬ passes the same. In salutary respect it produces for invalids or the generally physically in¬ weak, a beverage where the jurious, enervating properties of coffee are reduced to a minimum. Mixed with cocoa, a chocolate is pro- duced which in nutritious qualities stands quite equal to the best known and most valued cocoa preparations of our time, excelling, the same by its mildness of flavor and richness in body. such for For household purposes, as thickening and flavoring soups and sauces, in preparing deserts and ices of all kinds, etc., it has proved to be of great value. The same will be found in the confec¬ tioner’s trade, and also in bread-making in all its branches. Asa “food for infants and invalids,” the laetoserine has been superior, proved by both most in exhaustive analysis to be preparations taste nud nutriment, to most and far of the same kind known as yet, nearer Prof. Koenig’s standard than Nes- tle’s Food, which has however won a world-wide fame. W. thought In view of these facts, Mr. himself safe in stating that this valuable substance would readily find an open market in America, as it has already done in Europe. produced, Certified analysis were and a committee of five most prominent its vice-pres¬ mem¬ bers of the association, with Sherman, ident, J. W. Edmunds, of N. Y., as chairman, was appointed, and after a critical examination, convention. reported The very Ithaca fa¬ vorably to the Journal, of December 11th, also closes a very warm editorial with the following- endorsement : “A new road has been opened by these inventions, leading to fresh sources of profit, wealth, and providing in fact, access road to of great which pub¬ lic a wo should think all those who .toil within the districts of farm and dairy will readily avail themselves. In this,namely, “lacto- serine," a new substance has been found, which, in consequence of its many pala- table, nourishing prominent and hygienic position properties, issuro to take a mankind, among foods and and think beverages its used interest, by that the wo it to this publio should further certain investigate tknt_ tha matter, as wo are same has not only opened a new and created brighter era in the dairy trade, but quite which much a wholly now expected.” industry, from may be Fingers and Forks. Less than three hundred years ugo tho fingers were still used to perform, the office and now assigned refined to circles forks, in of the society. high¬ est most At about this time, iu fact, was the turn¬ ing point when forks began to be used at table as they are now. When we reflect how nice were the ideas of that refined ago on all matters of outer decency and behavior, and how strict was wonder the etiquette that of tho courts, we may well the fork was so late in coming into use as a tabic-furnishing. Tho ladies of the middle ages and tho Renaissance were not less proud of a delicate, well-kept hand than those of our own days, and yet with they picked the meat from tho platter their slender white fingers, and in them bore it to their mouths. The fact is all tho more remarkable, because the form of the fork was familiar enough, and its ap¬ plication to other uses was not uncom¬ mon. The Spirit ot a Signature. “Did it ever occur to you,” said a treas¬ ury official, “that a forger has half his work done when he can get hold of the identical pen with which the owner of the signature habitually writes? A great many meD, bank presidents and the like, use the same pen for their names only for a year ot two without change. A pen that has been used by a man in writing his name hundreds of times, and never for anything else, will almost write the name of itself. It gets imbued with the spirit of tho signature. In the hands of a good forger it will preserve the charac¬ teristics of the original. Tlic reason for this is that the point of the pen has been ground down in a peculiar way, from be¬ ing used always by the same hand and for the same combination of letters. It would splutter if held at a wrong angle or forced on lines against its will. It al¬ most guides the sensitive hand of the forger when lie attempts to write the name.” A Penny in tlie Slot. The idea of dropping a penny in the slot boxes is older than Christianity, In the Egyptian temples devices of this kLtd were used for automatically dispensing of five the purifying dropped water. into A slit coin in drachmae a a vase set a simple in piece motion, of mechanism like opened a well for sweep, a valve was permitted an instant and a portion of the liquid was to escape. The apparatus was described in the “Spiritalia” of Hero of Alexandria, who lived two hundred years before the Christian era, and is illustrated in the sixteenth century Latin manuscript translation of liis work, iu which, by the way, is also delineated the Egyptian fire- engine of the author’s day, with its double-force pump valves, lever arms, goose neck, and probably, too, air cham¬ ber—but this is a moot point—which form Hie essential feature of the machines of the nineteenth century. Dr. Ghavenigo, of the successfully University of Padua, is said operation to have which hitherto per¬ has formed an been vainly tried by various experimenters, botli in France and elsewhere. The op¬ eration consists in the grafting of a chicken’s cornea into the human eye. In the successful case reported by Gravenigo, quickly, the graft is said to have united and formed a cornea which was very transparent, shining and convex. Boys need a little experience of the rough places in life if they are to face the world successfully. A fussy, nervous mother who is always trembling for the safety of anything her darlings, their and will companions not let them do that rejoice in, either makes her sons weak and deficient in self-reliance, or plausible hyp¬ ocrites who pretend an obedience which they do not yield. “Why need it he?’’ we say, and sigh When Joving mothers fade whose and die. And leave tlie little ones feet They hoped t® guide in pathways sweet. about It need not be in many eases. All us women are dying daily whose lives might have been saved. It seems to be a wide-spread opinion that when a woman which is slowly out fading of away with tlie diseases grow fe¬ male weaknesses and irregularities that there i ■ no help for her. She is doomed to death. But this is not true. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is constantly restoring women health afflicted with diseases of this clasa to and happiness. It is the only roedloine for their ailments, sold by druggists, under ftpos- of tive guarantee from the manufacturers its giving satisfaction in every case, or money paid for it will ho refunded. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, the original and only genuine Little Liver Pills; S5 cents a vial; one a dose. _ A wise chief may give words, but he keeps his thoughts to himself. Tourist*. Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and ot„her forms of sickness. For sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by all leading drug¬ gists. ______ God makes Ihe glow worm as well as the star; the light in both is divine. Deatnrss Can’t be Cnrcd By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by con¬ stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by au inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tuba gets in¬ flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper¬ closed fect hearing, and when it is entirely Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam¬ mation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, bearing will be de¬ stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in¬ flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we cannot cure b >y taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send forcirou la: s, iree. F. J. Chenkv & Co., Toledo, O. |y Sold by Druggists, 75c. Oregon, tlie Fnrndise of Farmer,. Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun¬ try in the world. Full information free. Ore. iVd- diess Oreg. Im’igra’tnBoard, Portland, We recommend “TansiB’s Punch” Cigar. Cold Waves Aro predicted with reliable accuracy and people liable to the pains and aches of rheumatism dread every change to damp.or stormy weather. Although we do not claim Hood’s Sarsaparilla to be a positive specific for rheumatism, the remarkable cures it has effected show that it may be taken for rheuma¬ tism with reasonable certainty of benefit. Its ac¬ tion in neutralising the acidity of the blood, which isthecauseof rheumat sm, constitutes-the secret of the success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla in caring th ! s complaint. If you suffer from rheumatism, give Hood’s Sarsaparilla a fair trial,* we believe It will do you good. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by C. L HOOD Jt CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell* Mass. IOO Doses One DollajL t W flfl.SACSft & CATARRH REMEDY. SB I V rr 1 o •V~ -Oi im id dil V - \ & I* -vS 9 i [v 1 sh SOio C ,' n(5 !> Pj M p osini/ E i > p. ‘•w “S T- X| '* >v v J !v* “s> ' ry V, & i THE FASTEST TIME ON RECORD; in the direction of the nearest drug-store, is not too fast for a person to make who is troubled with any of the myriad forms of disease resulting from a torpid that or deranged liver and and only its attendant guaranteed, impure blood-purifier blood, and is, therefore/in need ol World-famed and liver iuvigorator known as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Every form of Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp Disease, and Eczema, Erysipelas, Salt-rheum, Tetter, scaly, crusty, itching, remedy burning if by tormenting Sold forms of skin disease, are positive cured by this wonderful, as magic. refunded. by All druggists, Scrofulous under affections, a guarantee Fever-sores, of benefit or cure, or money as White ■ tlve Swellings, properties. Hip-joint It promptly Disease, Old Sores Indigestion and Ulcers, yield to its wonderful cura-. conquers and Dyspepsia. It is a con¬ centrated alcohol, vegetable don’t fluid extract. Dose small and pleasant to taste. Contain! no inebriate or manufacture topers ; is free from syrup or sugar., • and, therefore, don’t sour or ferment in tiie stomach, interfering with digestion ; other as peculiar medicine in its wonderful all curative effects as in its composition. There is no at like it, either in composition or effect. Therefore, don’t be fooled into accepting something instead, said to be “ just as good.” If substitutes are recommended “just as good,” why don’t their vendors guarantee them to do what they are to, or refund money paid for them, as we do with all who buy “Golden Medical Discovery?” For the very good reason that such a plan of sale would baukrupt the manufacturers of any but an extraordinary remedy like and the “ build Discovery.” To purify the blood, invigorate the liver, promote digestion, up both flesh and strength, it is uncqualcd, whether for adults or. children. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 1 for an^ incurable^case ol 5*5 Wthe proprietors of DR. SAGE s’cATARHH REMEdV, SYMPTOMS <>S ; CATARRH.—Headache, watery,,and obstruction acrid, of nose, discharges thick, if . - ..v, falling- into throat, sometimes bloody, profuse, putrid and offensive; at others, weak, 0#l]L Ak ' \vSf tenacious, ing in mucous, deafness; purulent, offensive breath; smell and taste impaired, eyes and ring- ears, of these symptoms likely to be gen- era] debility. Only a few present at ones. Dr. Sage's Remedy cures the worst eases. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists, everywhere. Young Journalists, Not long ago it became known that a certain New York periodical for boys and girls was edited by “a man aged thirteen,” and honor was claimed for the ambitious youth as the youngest journalist in the world. Alas, for such fleeting honors! No sooner was the boys’ and girls’ hero crowned than a rival sprang into fame, a rival with the balance of two years to the good and a reputation as a sen¬ sational paragraphist of the first water. A little lad • of eleven years of age, in a corner of Germany, lias confessed to having been a reporter for the last five years of his eventful life. The lad had been having a “lark” in the streets; the wily gendarme caught him and brought him up before the magis¬ trate, collecting where it came out that he had been and material for “his paper,” that, since he had reached the mature age of seven, he had been permanently en¬ gaged on the staff to collect news at ac¬ cidents, fires, funerals, and all manner of festivities. Hard to Do. To stand perfectly motionless, and en¬ tirely at ease, is difficult of accomplish¬ ment. Iu society you will find gentlemen standing on one leg, or with legs crossed, or feet wide apart, or attempting- to stand easily with feet close together and toes out. I say you will notice gentlemen do¬ ing this because an inexperienced stand that person cannot tell when ladies way. But they aro just as bad as the men, and if you study the effect of these pos¬ tures you will be able to tell tho women as well as the men. The correct attitude is with one foot slightly advanced and the other about a foot back of it, with the toes nearly all right angles. This gives one latitude to rest the weight of tho body on either or both feet, and gives one’s suppleness some expression. Patti’s Wages. Patti, the divine singer, receives the largest wages ever paid to an artist. She receives three thousand five hundred dol¬ lars every night she sings in the Albert Hall in London. Even with this and the expenditure of five thousand dollars for each concert, her managers are able to show a profit of from two thousand to three thousand dollars her per exertions night. Patti has earned by own more money than any five women that ever lived. Her receipts since she began sing¬ ing in public, twenty-five years million ago, dollars, can¬ not be much short of three and she has several her. years of profitable farewelliug ahead of A Nation of Blondes. If anybody believes that this is not des¬ tined to be a nation of blondes, let him stutv the statistics of the immigration popula¬ of the Scandinavian people. The tion of Norway shows a per centage of ninety-seven and a quarter of light eyes. Flaxen hair appears-in fifty-seven and one twentieth per cent, wliile absolutely black hair is only found in the ratio of two per cent. The immigration from Scandina¬ vian countries in 1888 numbered over eighty thousand, or about one-sixtli of the entire immigration that year. The choral singing in Russian churches is beyond description. No voices are known like the phenomenal voices of some of these Russian peasants. Truly they are * ‘organs,” and the effect churches produced is by the choir in great vaulted thrilling. 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OPIUM |- I prescribe and tho folly only en- _____ _____ dorse Big Cw as cortain Cure* in w specific for the curt KgSGearanuod TO 5 DaY 8. of this disease. D., faSo ©fcUiaStrifltuM. not G.E.1NGRAHAM.M- N. Y. Amsterdam, gHnt. JS iff d only by £b# Wo have sold Big Criof Chtxictl ©iSk vSsA. Cincinnati,safiM faction. li. DYCHE A CO.. Chid. “jLdF D. 111. WSP^arl.’BS W Chicago, l.OO. Sold by Pruggials. A. N. V ..........'.............One, 1890. Pisa’S CURE FOR Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Phs slcians. Cures where all else falls. Pleasant and agreeahi e to the taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. CON SU M PT I O N