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CATCHING RATS
Banishing the Pests With the
Help of Ferrets.
The Buildings Most Infested
With the Rodents.
“How do you clear ruls out of a
house?” asked a reporter of Louis Bos-
sic of Philadelphia, who calls Uitu-elf
the “champion rat-catcher of the United
States.”
“First,” said he, “I let my ferrets
loose in the wabs. Taen I set my traps
and my dogs, and sometimes a nut Uk#
this all around (showing a long, loosely-
woven hammock-like net). And then
I’m there myself. The traps are baited
with a fluid having an unusual odor,
but one which never fails to attract the
rats. .Sac, here it is.” And be held a
small bottle unicr the rep liter s nose.
“What do you think it isf”
“Smells like peppermint.”
“Yes, and camphor and many other
tkiugs. The recipe for that fluid I got
from an old Liverpool rat-catcher, and
no one bat myself knows what ingio-
dicuts there are in it. Well, as 1 was
suying, the traps are set, the ferrets
are lo>>e, and land my little dogs are
watching for the rats. Presently they
come, and, if they are not attracted in¬
to the cages by the odor, the dogs uud
1 go for them.”
“How long will it take?”
“That depends, of course, on a good
mauy things. i caught fiity-seven in
two hours—big fellows they were, too,
every one of them—last winter at
Evans’s drug store. But that was quick
work. Wnat buildings arc most in¬
fested with iat - ? Business houses,
markets, restaurants and particularly
newspaper c discs. ” Tae reporter gave
a jump. Lou laughed.
“There aren't many professional rat-
catchors in the country. So me people
say there are eight, but I think that's
too many. Thcvo are two others, be¬
sides myself, here iu Philadelphia, but
I’m the champion.”
“What becomei of the rats tint you
catch in the traps?”
“Oh, some are fed to the ferrets and
some arc killed, and some are used in
the shooting galleries, instead of
pigeons. Yon know tho law is against
shooting pigeons, but there isn’t any
against shooting rats. These that 1
havo in this cage I’m going to give to
those hungry ferrets in tho window', so
as 1,o show you some fun.”
A crowd had gathered about tho
window, and as the reporter went out¬
side to view the slaughter “Lou"
opened tho window from within arid
shook two rats out. of the' cago down to
the ferrets. In au instant the latter
mndc for the rn's and caught one of
them, the other escaping temporarily.
Running to tho other end of the window
lie made the most frantic efforts to
climb its glass surface, while the ferrets
at tha other end dine l off of his un¬
fortunate comrade
The inner window was slid aside, aad
a poor old blind ferret was dropped in
Tiie rat made a jump at the ferret, who
retreated, stumbling about in a thor¬
oughly blind manner. Mr. It it tried
agaiu to climb tho glassy surface, atul
m he fell hack tho ferret was on him.
The rat shook him off, and, having the
advantage of sight, and seeming to
realize this, made a jump at the fjrrct.
tso it went on for ft good forty seconds,
first the rat seemingly triumphant until
the ferret would make a turn and a
shake which for the moment gave him
the victory. At last tho rat got such a
hold that it seemed as though that for-
ret’s life wasn’t worth much, when sud •
dciily lie made a spring and, winding
his long body about the rat, proceeded
to demolish him.
A Tree's Record of Its Life.
It is not knowu to every ono that a
tree keeps a record within its stein of
the character of ench successive soason
siuce it began its growth. If a poach
tree, for instauce, bo examined nfter it
has been cut down, the ring of wood
formed in each year will show b/ its
amount whether the summer of that
year was warm or dry, or otherwise
favorable or adverse; and by tbo con¬
dition of the wood the character of the
winter will be denoted. Scvore early
frost will leave a layer of soft, decay¬
ing wood; and later frosts will be in¬
dicated by a chango of color, if uoth-
ing marc.
If a summer has been so dry as to
cause a total rest between the growths
of Juno and September, tlio annual
ring for that year will be a double one,
and sometimes barely distinguishable
as one, but liable to ba taken by a not
very close observer, for two different
years’ growth.
At a late meeting of the Botanical
society of Edinburgh, Sir Ribert
Christisnn gave the results of measure¬
ments of large trees of different spec e.
made annually on lines of girth marked
permanently with paint. In the very
unfavorable season of 187.1, the defi¬
ciency in summer temperature was
nearly 10 degrees. In seven oak trees
of different species the deficiency in au-
uual increase in girth was 10 per cent.
In eleven othor deciduous, trees it was
Vi percent., aud in sevanteou pines if,
was 20 per cent., different specie, of
the saiga family giving very nearly
similar remits. — Tel's Mouthy.
Cuvirr-. .considers it probable that
whales sometimes live 1001) year*.
FOR FARM AND UAKDKN.
AN EXPERIMENT WITH GRIT.
You may auppyse that because your
hem have the ruu of n tango, they pro¬
cure all the gravel they desire, and so
they can—of round gravel—but as the
run may have been searched over for
months, and perhaps ye irs, tha supply
of sharp material may be scarce. To
test this, break up soma glass, old
china, or other brittle material, and
notice the avidity with which the hens
will eat it. It is just ns necessary to
supply the hciis with grit as it is to
provide them with lood.
TO MAKE CATTLE TllltIVE.
Cattle can thrive only liy full feed¬
ing, and without thrift thoro can bn no
profit. If milk be tha object short
feeding is succeeded immediately by
loss of product and loss of power to
produce. It is, therefore, shortsighted
policy to depend on tho season of year,
or without thought, to suppose that
cows with full stomachs must give full
yield of milk without regard to quality
of feed. Provident dairymen, careful
of their own interests, begin feeding
grain early in autumn and find profit in
it .—Far in. F.t d anil Stockman.
SAFE THE VEGETABLES.
Iu nearly every garden there are nu¬
merous vegetnblei left in the ground
that could lie easily stored for winter
u e, thereby adding to the profits of
tl.e garden as well ns to the luxuries of
the table, as no meal is worthy the
name unless vegetables form a promi¬
nent pnrt. It is ustonishing to seo how
much there is or may be in tho gnrdcn
upon the approach of winter lliat is
usually neglected—vegetables tliat are
difficult to obtain when wanted. There
is always a plenty of carrots, an indis¬
pensable vegetable for soups, and a
small quantity of which are sufficient
for winter use. A few beets are il.-sir-
able, and usually there are sufficient
allowed to spoil in tho ground to make
many good dishes .—American 0nilen.
rilE JERSEY COW AS A CIlEEgEMAKEIt.
Tho Jersey is considered pre-emi-
n a fly ns a butler cow, with her in st
profit able u;e iu that direction, o.t no-
count of the large proportion of cream
contained in her milk. Consumers of
cliocsc need not bo to d that its excel¬
lence depends almost wh illy on (he
quality of the milk from which it is
prepared, ns is further well indicated
by the commercial forms of e:e.ui
cheese, skim cheese, etc., according ns
the milk from which it, was mads may
have been whole milk, or skimmed nnd
robbed of its cream. If the milk be
poor in butter the cheese must be
equally so, and will grade according to
its richness or deficiency in cream.
Many persons arc of the opinion (hat
cream which has once be-" separate 1
can never be so well mixed again with
(he ink A, that a portion of the fatty
matter will nit ftnv out with the
whey, thus rendering tha cheese less
rich. This has given rise to some dis¬
cussion as to whether rich Jersey milk
can be profitably made into cheese
without skimming. According to the
laic Professor Arnold, while the Jersey
is emphatically a butter cow her midi
is rich in cheese matter and can, with¬
out the wnsto of its buttery matter, be
convcrtol into checic as rich as En¬
glish Stiltou. Professor Arnold was
speaking of new, warm milk, almost
immediately from the cows, when tho
solids are in the most perfect emulsion
and hence more of Hie globules of fat
wid be hell, by the rennet. With
mixed milk brought to a factory once a
day the cisc would be different. Practi¬
cal home cheese-makers univer ally
agreo that the sooner the milk is set for
clieose-making after it has been drawn
from the cow tho more of butter fat. tho
cheese will contain__ X Y. World.
WORMS IN HORSES.
Horses and colts which are coin -
polled to get thoir living wholly upon
frost-bittcu grass arc very liable to
ioffer from worms. Colts should be
looked after closely, ns numcroui cases
of death from this cau>o cccur every
year. Oao of the symptoms of worms
is an unthrifty coat an 1 loss of fltsh.
Another is the appearance of worms iu
tho 'wees. An occasional feed of pul¬
verized copperas and gentian given the
animals in their grain is a pretty sure
preventive of most varieties of these
troublesome pests. The proportions
should be equal parts by weight of
each, and the dose for a fttll-
grown animal tablespoon fill,
which should be given once or
twice a week. Some of the best breed¬
ers in Kentucky mix pulverized copper¬
as iu tho salt which is constantly kept
within reach of their auimils. It Ins a
better effect, however, to mix it with
gentian. One of the simplest and most
effective remedies for worms is super-
carbonate of soda given iu milk and
molasses’, after preparing the animal
with bran mas be i. Feed sparingly on
hay and give a liberal bran mash at
night. 1! -pent this the following morn-
ing amt also tho next night, B rtore
feeding ov watering the next morning
mix a tablespoonful of super-carbonate
of soda with a pint of milk, and ad l a
half-pint of good molastos made from
cane syrup, Be sure that it is not glu-
cose, large quantities of which arc
palmed off for molasses. Pour this down
the animal's throa' from a born or rub.
her bottle if ona can bq obtained. A
glass bottle will answer, but as there is
always more pr less danger of serioiti
injury to tho patient from tho breaking
of the latter, it will lie muolisafer to go
a long distance to secure either of the
others. Tho dose prescribed is for a
full-grown animal. Tho dose for a
yearling should bo only'tiboiitone. third,
nnd that of a two-year-old onc-lialf, tho
quantity given to u full-grown animal.
A Bix-months-ohl foal will require only
about half that of the yearling. The
directions if followed will produce a
smart operation of the bowels, which
will bring away most of tho worms.
Affor this has been accomplished give
the copperas and gentian every night
for ono weok, and there will be but
little to fear from worms for some time
to come .—American Cult icator.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Slow aud careless drivers make lazy
horses.
One worthless cur on a farm is a nui¬
sance, two an abominnlion, threo or
more, a calamity to tho entire neighbor¬
hood.
Keep the seed com in a dry, well-
ventilated place and keep it and all
other seed where mice nnd rats cannot
get.
It will bo better to have a nice lot of
fodder near the barn when the first
snow comes than to have it buried out
in tha field.
The man who ran in debt during tho
early spring and summer is now endeav¬
oring to run out again; but the chances
are against him.
The old idea that young cattle and
colts mU3t winter at straw stacks in
open fields, to make them tough, hap¬
pily has gone, much to the comfort of
the young animals.
The whip as an emblem of authority
in tiie relations between driver and
horse is by no means objectionable, but
when it becomes an authority itself tho
driver is inferior to tho whip.
Man is by nature sympathetic and
hence does not, cannot live for himself
alone. Is your life helpful or hurtful
to those with whom you sympathize?
The winter covering of strawberry
plantations may be safely delayed until
tho ground has frozen hard, when a
wagon can be driven over the beds and
the covering material more easily <li;-
Iributcl than if put on earlier.
To keep nuts in good condition store
in a dry, cool place. Chestnuts require
more care to keep them fresh and
plump. Mix the nuts with fveoh sand
and pnek in boxes, which may be placed
In some cool location or buried in the
soil out of doors.
Money is not lost that is spent in
beautify ing a home. Ever; tree planted
out, is a monument to tbe glory of liyn
who planted it; and every flower is a
wreath for ower, and every happy
is a perennial source of pride and
satisfaction to its possessor and founder.
There is no profit iu rearing ov keep,
ing cattle, except through good feeding
in all seasons of the year. No argu¬
ment is required to prove the truth of
this assertion, for even slightest lreflic-
t :on shows that profit comes clear'y only
through utilization of foo l beyond tho
necessity for maintenance.
When you kill a fowl hold its legs
and the long feathers of its wings in
your left hand, and use the hatchet
with the right. When the head is off,
hold firm the chicken until it has be¬
come stiff. Don’t throw it down and
let it kick itself to death.
The Highest Chimney on Earth.
At the Imperial Smelting works, in
Halsbrucke, Saxony, there has been
great need of a chimney sufficiently
high to carry the noxiotu gases so far
above the surface of the ground as to
prevent injurious effects from them;
and last year the foundation for tho
highest chimney in the world was laid
there. The chimney will bo 459 feet
high, with an interior space of 16 feet.
It is being erected on the right bank of
the Mulde, on ground which is 197 feet
above the works, so that its opening
will be 656 feet higher than tho works.
The base of the chimney is about 39
feet square, and on this is erected the
richly- ornamented pedestal, which is 29
feet high, and from which tho round
c >1 umn rises to a height of 429 feet.
The transportation of the materials has
heeu voTy difficult on account of the
hilly nature of tho laud. During the
course of construction it is to bo
mounted by an elevator operated by a
portable engine, Tho expense of
building this gigantic chimney will be
about $30,000, and it will cost nearly
as much to build the exhaust channel
fv- m the works to the chimney, a dis¬
tance of 3280 feet. It is carried across
tho Mulde like a bridge, this part of
the channel being built of lead and tho
rest of bricks.
Pulpit Jokes.
There have been many preachers
whoso pulpit jokes are the only re¬
membered portions of their harangues.
Michel Menot, reproving the ladies for
being late at church, told them that it
would take less time to cleanse the
Augean stables than to stick iu all a
woman's pins. The story is told of
Rowland Hill that he once began a ser¬
mon with the words, “Liok at my
wife there, with a chest of drawers on
her head." Toe congregation stared at
'h<: poor lady thus pointed out, but
only perceived that she wore a new bon¬
net. “She has sold a elicit of drawers
and bought a new bonnet with the pro -
needs. ” Then he went on to inveigh
against female love of dress.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The town of Elkins, W. Va., had no
existence last spring. It is now a
thriving place.
Elizabeth Coukctnous, who resides
near Wuverly, 0., died the other day.
Sho was 45 years old aud weighei 700
pounds.
Q tills aro said to have been first used
for pens A. D. 553, although somo au¬
thorities give the year 635 as tho date
of their introduction.
The largest ourang-outang yet shot
in tho island of Borneo stood four
and 10 inches high. The average is
about four feet, six inches.
Seventy tlious.m l “phonograph dolls”
ure being mido at Sonncberg, in the
German toy country, to contuin Mr.
Edison’s wonderful apparatus.
Iu a revival meeting at AValla Walla,
Oregon, a man con fe wed that ho was a
murderer and asked forgiveness. He
refused to reveal the circumstance',.
Twelve hundred years ago kerosene
was known to tho Japanese, but the
method of refining it so as to be avail¬
able for domestic use is but a dozen
years old.
A New York city man proposes to
vive tho ancient sport of falconry at his
country seat in New Jersey, and has
gone to Europe to procure tho birds
and traircr.
Frank Erb, of Cunningham, Mo.,
ninety years old, recently won a prize
at a shooting match, some of the best
marksmen in the state being among
the contestants.
Nearly all the insects, crustaceans,
snails and the like go into winter quar¬
ters; frogs and all tho reptile kind
bernate by burying themselves in the
mud or under stones.
A Japanese paper reports a battle oi
butterflies which was witnessed by
many of the villagers. When tho
was finished the fiells were covered by
the bodies of the slain.
A Wisconsin man, whose wife and
one daughter are already members of
the legal firm of which he is the head,
lias two daughters preparing for the
bar at tho state university.
The longest bridge in the world is
said to be at Laogaugc, China, over an
arm of the China Sea. It is as much as
five miles long, built entirely of stone,
and has 400 arches, each seventy feet
wide. The roadway is also seventy
wide.
When a clergyman at Pcnnsbitrg,
Penn., handed his wife the envelope
which contained the customary present
from a groom, she found it contained
only six cents. The minister had been
called out of bed to perform tho cere¬
mony.
In Suwanee county, Fla., recently, a
minister of a certain denomination was
converted through the preaching of a
minister of a different denomination,
and all the members of the onverted
minister’s church cliauged their faith
and followed their old shepherd.
An express train in Alabama going
nt full speed struck a woman and threw
her twenty feet in the air, landing her
cutside the right of way. When picked
up she was dead, but there was not a
bruise anywhere on her body, yet the
soics of her shoes had been cut off as
smooth as if done by a cobbler.
Old Men in Jails.
A recent visitor to one of the Pun.
jaub (India) jails was amazed to find a
remarkably large number of old men
among the prisoners, almost one con-
vict in five having a gray beard. The
jailor being asked for au explanation
replied: •It is a common practice
when a theft is brought home to a man
by the police for him to get an old
father or uncle to take the blame on
himself, or he puts up a young brother
to do so. B fore tho couvt they make
full and circumstantial confession.
They lire convicted and the real thieves
get off, and it is for the family benefit
that this ghoul 1 be so. A sturdy young
man i3 able to do more for the family
support by honest labor or thieving
than an old man or a boy. The old
man has lost many of the iustincts and
appetites which make liberty so dear to
young man. He cannot bo put to
any very hard labor, and will be well
fed and well looked after while ho is in
j til. If a boy confesses he will proba -
bly escape with a flogging. The con¬
viction of an old man or a boy will look
quite as wcli in the police returns as
that of an able-bodied young man. So
long as they get their conviction the
police don’t trouble themselves very
much about the milter.”
Dangcrons Breath.
The strange case of William Jackson,
whoso breath was inflammable, excited
a great d al of interest in medical and
scientific circles two years ago. At that
time Mr. Jackson was a photographer
in Fayetteville, N. Y. More recently
he has beeu engaged in the same busi¬
ness in Middlebnry, Yr. One evening
at. 10 o’clock he lighted a lamp with a
match. Then with a breath of air he
sought to “blowout the match.” Iu-
stantly his breath took fire with a slight
explosion. Jackson gasped with fright,
and the flame of the compustible air
entered his mouth and blistered his
tongue. His lips and face also suffered,
and his mustache, eyebrows and the
hair above his eyebrows were singed to
a marked degree. Jackson is still iiv-
in S aml ab ult yeavs old .--Chi
en ”°
The Day* of Old.
It is awn's prerogative to be possessed
of 'bo gift of history nnd to interest him¬
self in ancient things. He “considers the
days of old.” The instinct which lies at
the bottom of every historic study is a
feeling have developed which we and of the world old of to-day that
out the time
was before us. The due understanding of
the past is but a deeper way of looking
at the life that now is. Every part of our
modem appliances is the outcome of an
innumerable succession of things that led
up to it. The genius who startles the
world with n “new” discovery, simply
avails himself of materials which previous
hands have prepared for his use, and
passes them on in fl more highly devel¬
oped form. “Looking hack" is not only
material a necessity in the promotion at of the man’s
time the progress, but belongs poetic instincts same of
to finer, the
life; and it would he surprising if it did
not possess thoughtful a profound minds. fascination The historian, for
many
the antiquary, aud in another way the
scientific student of nature, all find their
varied interest in that past world from
which we have grown to be what we are.
It is not a (lead past. Its voices are not
mere echoes from the tombs. If “a
primrose by the river’s brim” instructed is to the
poet and thoughtful something more, student so to the antiquity is
of
even a fossil, something more than a fos¬
sil, elation. There is in the past a perennial grand, silent rev¬
It is part of the
procession of a life which has no begin¬
ning blood and no end, which frame,” “remakes and which the
for the and changes is the
moment ours.
Wrinkles.
A wrinkle cure is advertised in a daily
paper, nnd no doubt finds many patrons.
Nevertheless, there is one sovereign rem¬
edy the or preventive for wrinkles that it is at is
command of every one, though
not advertised in the shape of a patent
medicine. This is, to set your face
against wrinkles from the start. Good
humor and contentment keep the face
smooth. Crow’s feet come from care;
from a bilious and melancholy habit of
ill life, and from the habitual is the'scowl indulgence and of
temper, whose badge of the hu¬
the frown. There is a period
man life when wrinkles come in the due
course of nature. In nearly every case
where they arrive before that date, they
will be found to have been invited by
their victim, and all the nostrums in the
world will not banish or charm them
away.
One Way to Make Coffee.
Some one says that this is the best way
to make coffee: Buy the best coffee and
grind it to the consistency French of ordinary
corn meal. Into u teapot put ail
ounce of coffee for every person. One
and pound of coffee will make everything sixteen clean; cupslj
no more. Have
and, as soon as the water in the tea kettle
begins to boil, moisten tbo coffee, gently,
and leave it to soak and swell for three
minutes; then add n little move water;
don’t be in a hurry; continue to add wa¬
ter until you have obtained not more than
a large coffee-cupful of the extract. If
carefully done, the entire virtue liquor of the
coffee will be in the cupful of at
the end of five minutes. For four persons
use a quart of pure milk, nnd have it
piping ing into hot; them heat Lot the large cups divide by pour¬ the
water; now
coffee into the four cups, each of which
will be one-quarter full; till with the
boiling milk.
Old Wrought Iron.
The oldest-pieces of wrought sickle iron
known are probably under the base of
found by Beizoni the
sphinx in Karnac, near Thebes; the
found by Colonel Yyse, embedded in
masonry of the great pyramid; exhumed the Nim¬
tion of a cross-cut saw at
rod by Mr. bayard—all of which
now in the British Museum. A
bar of Damascus lexauder steel was the presented Great.
King Poms steel of to A China for
razor many
surpassed all European steel in temper
durability made of edge. wrought The iron Hindoos directly
to have
the ore, without passing it through the
furnace, from time immemorial, and elab¬
orately wrought masses are still found in
India which date from the early centuries
of the Christian era.
Table and Bed Linens.
Don’t permit table or bed linen to lie
from year to year without being used. It
will last the longer for an occasional
washing. If it is already very into yellow, four cut
up a pound of white soap quarts
of milk. Put it over the stove in a wash
kettle, and when the soap has dissolved,
put it in the linen and boil fifteen min¬
utes; then wash in soap suds aud rinse in
two clean waters, bluing the last water
slightly. The possessor of a grass plot
can whiten her choice and laying linen by it simply the
rinsing in soap suds on
grass for two or three days. Rinse iu
clear water and dry upon the line, and it
will be sweet and fresh aud white.
The Sorrel Horse.
Stockmen claim that there is no color
on the horse which is so insensible to
heat as the sorrel. There is seldom any
coat so silkv or responds so quickly to
good grooming still, as there the is sorrel. seldom But horse more
important sound feet and limbs, any
with such or pos¬
sessing the endurance of the sorrel.
Kin8«<t Another JI»n’i Wife.
“ You At his scoundrel,” good neighbor yelled Brou young Jacob Green,
n,—
“ Yon kissed my wife upon the street,—
I ought to knock you down.” [replied,
“That’s where you r wrong,” meek; good Brown
In accents mild and
“ I kissed her, that I’ve not denied,
But kissed her on the cheek—
and 1 did it because she looked so handsome -
the very rlctvre of beauty and health. What
is the secret ask oi it ?” will “Well,” tell replied she Green,
“since you Favorite it, Prescriptk I you: uses Dr.
Pierce's in. I accept your
Apology. Uood night.” “ Favorite Prescrip-
turn” is the only remedy for the delicate de-
rnugements and weaknesses of females, sold by
druggists, under A positive guarantee of
giving satisfaction in every case, or money paid
for it returned.
For constipation, "biliousness, take sick Dr. headaclie, Pierce’s indigestion,
and Pellets.
One embrace, says a cautious suitor, is worth
a dozen love-letters, because it cannot be intro¬
duced in a breach-of-promise suit.
The Standard
{ regard Hood’s Ssr£»vaviUa « s liaviug
p»»sevl abova the ginde of nve commoaly
called patent c* proprietor? me Jicines gaid a
well-known p'uysic an recently. “It's fully enlldeci
to be considered a stAudard medicine, and Idas won
this position by its undoubted merit and by the
mauy remarkable cures it has e'Teetet. For tm
*iter-itive and tonic it has uere. - been equaled, and
phyalelam are *IaiI to tare their'patients take so
reliable and trustworthy medicine.' 1
a
>. IJ.—if you decide to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla
do not be iu luced to buy any other.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
fold by all druggists. $1, six for Prepared oily
fcy C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries! Lowtll, Hass.
100 Doses One Dollar
The Intention of Clocks.
The date of the invention of clocks is
uncertain. It is supposed that they were
unknown before the fifth mid sixth cen¬
turies, used and clocks of that period worked were only by
in monasteries, ami were
water. The clock which the King of
Persia sent as a present to Charlemagne in
the year clock. 807, is The supposed timepiece to have marked been the a
water
hours by the performance of a cymbal,
and of horsemen, who at each hour went
out through the windows, and on their
return in the last hour of the day, shut
the windows as they marched back. For
a long period the machine of Richard de
Wallingford, who considered lived in the the fourteenth oldest
ccnturV) known, was as
clock and was called by its in¬
ventor “Albion”—all in one. The best
authorities, however, are of opinion that the
the invention of our clocks belongs to
eleventh century, as after that pcnocLthey believed
that are frequently the honor referred of invention to. It is be
the must
ascribed to the Saracens, to whom we are
indebted lor most of the mathemat'ea!
sciences.
Henry—“So you asked night, old Growler
for his daughter last did you,
Fred! And how did you come out!”
Fred—“It was a window, I believe, Har¬
ry. That was the best I could do,
though.”
doing Charming nowadays?” Widow—“And what are you
lie—“Oh, umusiug
myself; looking out for number one.
And you!” Charming Widow—“Look¬
ing out for number two.”
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THE HEAVY END OF A MATCH.
of “ Mary,” coffee, said I’ve Farmer Flint, discovery.” at the breakfast-table, as he asked for a second
cup “ made a
“Well, Cyrus, you're about the last one I’d suspect of such a thing; but
what is it?”
“ I’ve found that the heavy end of a match is its light end,” responded
Cyrus, with a grin that would have adorned a skull.
got Mary discovery, looked too, disgusted, Cyrus. but It with was an made air by of triumph Dr. R. V. quickly Pierce, retorted, and Is called “ I’ve
a
* Golden Medical Discovery.’ It drives away blotches and pimples, purifies the
blood, tones up tiie system, and makes one feel brand-new. Why, it cured
Cousin Bell, who hud consumption, and was almost reduced to a skeleton.
Before his wife began to use it, she was a pale, sickly thing, hut look at her: she’s
rosy-cheeked and healthy, and weighs one hundred and sixty-live pounds. That,
Cyrus, is ft discovery that’s worth mentioning.”
The farmer’s wife was right, for the “Golden Medical Discove-v” is in fact
the blotches, only medicine eruptions, for purifying other Skin the and blood Scalp and curing all manner of pimples,
and diseases. Scrofulous Sores and
Swellings, and kindred ailments, possessed of such positive curative properties
as to warrant its manufacturers in selling it, as they are doing, through drug¬
gists. under a positive paid for guarantee it will that it will either benefit or cure in every
case, or money he refunded. It also cures Bronchial, Throat
and Lung diseases. curative Even properties, Consumption if (which is Lung-scrofula) yields to
its marvelous taken in time and given a fair trial.
For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis,
Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy.
Don’t be fooled into taking something else, said to be “just as good.” that
the dealer may make a larger profit. There’s nothing at all like the “Discov¬
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tion ; as peculiar in its curative effects as in its composition. It’s a concentrated
adults vegetable extract. children. Dose World’s small and pleasant to the taste. Equally good for
or Dispensary Medical Association, No. 663
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
CATARRH IN no matter THE of how long HEAD standing, is per¬ 2
manently cured by DR. SAGE’S CATARRH REMEDY. 150 cents, by druggists.
(JATflRRfjF*?®
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ELY Apply BROS.. Balm into W»rr**n f acli Sf nostril. ..N. V.
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Very Simple snd Perfect in its Operstiou; Drops
_ Unrolled Seed or Feniii-
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DR. LOBB
North Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa., for
the treatment of Blood Poisons, Skin Eruptions,
Nervous Complaint*. Bright’s Disease, Strictures,
Impotency long and kindred diseases, no matter of ho\f
tW~Ten standing days or from what cause originating.
medicines furnished by mail rnrr NlCti
Bend for Book on SPECIAL* Diseases.
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Tourists*
Whether on pleasure bent or business, should
take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs,
as it nets most pleasantly and effectually on
the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fe-
vers, headaches u nd other forms of sickness. For
side in file and $1.00bottles by ujl lending drug¬
gists.
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The more an idea is developed, the more con¬
cise becomes Its expressions: the more a tree is
pruned, the better Is the fruit.
A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years
ought to know salt from sugar; read what ho
says: ToLIDO,
Messrs. F. J. O.. Jan. 10,1887.
Cheney * C'o.—Gentlemen :- I
have Ix on in the general practice of medicine
for moet 40 years, and would say that in all my
practice paration and that experience, I could prescribe have never with seen a pre¬
confidence iv* Catarrh much
of success as 1 tan Hall's
Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed Is
it » great many times and its < ffect wonder¬
ful, and would say in conclusion that I have
yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not
cure, If they would take it according to direct¬
ions, Yours truly,
L. L. GORSUOH, M. lb,
Office, -15 Summit St,
We will give $100 for any ease of Catarrh
Cure. that can Taken not internally. be cured with Hall’s Catarrh
F. .1. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0.
resold by Druggists, 75c.
Erie Railway.
T his popular Eastern Lino is running solid
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during tbo season, and passengers holding
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Self.epeMng Revolvers, Jtlekel-plaled, $2.00.
pend 2c. stomp for 50-pne« Catalogue and save 25 per ««t.
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| W | fl Sk | IK Q Crimpass, "Woven Covers, a useful, con-
venient and durable &tic'e,on'y U) cents
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OPIUM
I prescribe and fully en-
«-jpr -«<«. dorse Big ti as the only
Mr Corea DATS.TO in specific for the certain curs
r WS-S^ i to 6 1 0 f this disease.
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Suns Chemical Co. many years, best and it has
sa given faction, the of catis-
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Ohio. n M I>. R. D i’CHE Chicago, Sc CO.. III.
•tvSl.OO. Sold by Druggists.
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Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians.
Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the
taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists.
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