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> - COD LIVER OIL.
'Eke Method of Procuring This
Oleaginous Medicine.
Consumption Often Cured by
Inhaling the Factory Fumes.
\ American cod liver oil is made at
Portland Me. The livers of the col,
haddock, hake and cusk are used in the
manufacture. Only about one-third of
the American output of this oil is pro¬
cured from cod livers.
From September until March the
livers are fat and in the best condition.
A bucketful of livers will then yield
about six quarts of oil. Only four
quarts of this, however, can be made
suitable for medicinal purposes; the re¬
maining two quarts is of an inferior
quality and is used by curriers.
From March to June the liver* are
thin and inferior, and will yield only
one-half as much oil. Cod fiver oil for
medicinal purposes must be made from
« livers of fish that have not been dead
over 48 hours. Fishing vessels on their
long trips to the banks save the fish
livers in hogsheads and sell them to the
oil manufacturers for 30 cents per
bucketful. From these livers an infe
Up to about fifteen years ago the
were very unsatisfactory, and the best
portion of the livers was wasted, The
old method was to expose the livers to
the action of the sun until the oil was
dried out Only a small percentage of
oil w&3 thus secured, and the residue
was thrown away as useless. Now
every portion of the liver is used. The
method is to put the livers into a large
tin-lined vat having a coil of perforated
steam pipes at the bottom. A pressure
of thirty pounds of steam is put on the
boiler, and the steam escaping through
the perforations in the pipes saturates
the livers with hot steam and thus tries
out the oiL In half an hour after
steam is turned on ail the oil that can
be procured by trying out will have
arisen to the surface. The livers, now
termed “blubber,” will have sunk to
the bottom of the vat. The oil is bailed
off and put into barrels to cool and set¬
tle, after which it is refined by being al¬
lowed to freeze till it is of the uoiv
sistency of thick mush, when it is put
into drilling bags aad the pure oil
pressed out in a heavy iron press, The
oil that is pressed through the drilling
is considered refined, and after being
put up iu new barrels of forty-five gal¬
lons each is sold to the wholesale
druggists for about thirty-six cents per
gallon. From these it passes to the re¬
tail druggists, who sell it for $4 or $5
per gallon. Running the oil through
charcoal and sand has been tried as a
refining process, but it was found to be
vastly inferior to the freezing and press¬
ing process. Refined cod liver oil,
■when subjected to the same temperature
at which the crude oil was frozen, will
change its color and assume a milky ap
pearance. The refining process leaves
in the bags a substance resembling lard
in color and consistency. It is stearine,
or “tanner s grease,” and is used as a
dressing for morocco.
The blubber left in the bottom of tbe
vat after the trying out is allowed to
work and ferment for forty-eight hours,
and is then pressed. After the pressure
has continued for fourteen hours all the
oil is secured that remains in the blub¬
ber; it is inferior oil of which there are
six grades. It is worth about twenty
five cents per gadon, and is used by
curriers in dressing, tanning and color
ing leather, Tbere is left in the bags
a substance of the color and consistency
of dry mud called “scrap” which is
6old to farmers as a fertilizer at $9 per
ton. oil
The best quality of cod liver
comes from Norway. It is much clearer
and whiter than the American oil. It
is put up in tin casks holding 30 gal¬
lons each, enclosed in wooden barrels.
The claim is made that no livers except
those of the codfish are used in its
manufacture, but American manufac¬
turers strongly suspect that it owes its
remarkable clearness to its having been
mixed with seal oil. Twenty dollars
per gallon is considered a low price for
this oil, and it sometimes goes as high
as $28. America is the largest buyer of
Norwegian oil.
Newfoundland cod liver oil ranks
next to the Norwegian oik It is made en¬
tirely of the livers of young cod caught
off the Labrador coast. Portland has a
cod liver oil factory that produces 5-K)
barrels per year—300 barrels of refined
oil for medicinal purposes and 200 bar¬
rels of “curriers’ oil.”
Cod liver oil has long been recognized
as a valuable remedial agent, but it is
not generally known that sometimes
when the oil fails to effect a cure the
steam arising from the frying-out vats
•will succeed.
A consumptive here, in almost the
last stage of the disease, happening to
pass through a cod liver oil factory,
stopped, inhaled large draughts of the
usually offensive vapors as though they
were the sweets of a flower garden, re¬
marking: “There is something here that
seems to strike the right spot,” and,
although a wealthy man, obtained per¬
mission to work in the factory. At the
end of ’a month he had gained thirty
pounds, had greatly impr -ved in ap¬
pearance and feeling, his appetite had
returned, his cough was gone, and
finally he completely recovered. Sing¬
ers also sometimes resort to cod liver oil
factories to inhale the fumes arising
from the vats. They assert that their
voices are thereby strengthened and
cleared.— New York Sun.
The Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea is one of the most re¬
markable phenomena on the earth. The
Bible calls it the Salt Sea, or Sea of the
Plain, the Greeks the Lake of Asphalt
and the Dead Sea, while the Arabs
know it as Bahr Lut, or Sea of Lot,
preserving the memory of the tragic ca¬
tastrophe which occurred on its shores.
According to the old traveler Maua
drell, the name Dead Sea is derived
from the fact that it moveth not, but is
ever stilL A modern traveler says it is
the least dead of anything he knew.
On the day of my visit it was greatly
agitated—its high and angry waves
crested with foam. For other reasons
it deserves the title. Not a shrub
grows on its shores. Not a fish dwells
in its brackish waters. Not a boat
floats upon its surface. Here and there
on the beach lies the dead trunk of a
tree, brought down by the Jordan, but
thrown up by the uiwilling lake. Irby
and Mangles tried to light one of these
pieces of driftwood, but in vain, on ac¬
count of the impregnation of salt. The
old tradition that birds could not fly
over the water and live was a mistake.
The lake is the deepest depression on
the surface of our continents, being
1,300 feet below the Mediterranean and
COO below the Lake of Galilee. It is
47 mile3 long and 10 wide, covering
three times the area of the northern
lake. The water is intensely brackish
and bitter, containing 2J per cent of
salt, which Dr. D iwson says is not
common salt, but mostly the chloride
and bromide of magnesium and calcium.
There are hot, salt an l sulphur springs
in the hills along its eastern and
western shores. The lake has no out¬
let, but receives the sweet current of
the Jordan, which pours 6,090,000 tons
of water daily into its deadly and insa¬
tiate bosom. — New York Mail and, Em
prets.
Iowa’s Walled Lake.
The greatest wonder in the State of
Iowa, and perhaps any State, is what is
called the “Walled Lake, in Wright
County, twelve miles north of the Du¬
buque and Pacific Railway, and 150
miles west of Dubuque City. The lake
is from two to three feet higher than
the earth’s surface. In some places the
wall i3 ten feet high, fifteen feet wide
at the bottom, and five feet wide on
top. The stones used in its construe
tion vary in weight from three tons
down to a hundred pounds, There is
an abundance of stones in Wright
County, but surrounding the lake to the
exfent of five or ten miles there aro
none. No one can form an idea as to
the means employed to bring them to
the spot or who constructed it. Around
the entire lake is a belt of woodland
half a mile in width, composed of oak.
With this exception the country is a
rolling prairie. The trees must have
been planted there at the time of the
building of tbe wall. In the Spring of
the year 1856 there was a great storm,
and the ice on the lake broke the wall
in several places, and the farmers in the
vicinity were compelled to repair the
damages to prevent inundation, The
lake occupies a surface of 2800 acres;
depth of water as great as twenty-five
feet The water is clear and cold, soil
sandy and loamy. It is singu ar that
no one has been able to ascertain where
the water comes from nor where it goes,
yet it is always clear and fresh.
The A. G. Rhodes Furniture Co.,
BRANCH HOUSES.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. Savannah, Ga.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. Atlanta, Ga.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. Mobile, Ala.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Montgomery, Tenn. Ala.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. Chattanooga,
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Nashville, Tenn.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Memphis, Tenn.
A. (t. Rhodes A Co. - Knoxville. Tenn.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Charleston, S. C.
MAN UF ACT U KERES, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
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Ours is the biggest Furniture buisness in the United States, and our sales annually are over a million dollars.
Besides manufacturing a large part of goods, control the output of several of the largest taetoues in t he
our we from $-•>,'
West. When small dealers buy from $100.00 to 150.00 worth of goods at a time, we buy 1 • °
$50,000.00, FOR SPOT CASH, thereby getting from 15 to 25 per cent, better discounts than they. '' e are
always willing to give our customers the benefit of these big discounts, and save you from 10 to 20 pei < • on
every piece of furniture you buy from us. Another advantage is, we handle only first-class PRICES. goods, and \\ 1 i gua r
antee every piece we sell you. Our motto is “GOODS AT RETAIL AT WHOLESALE o prove
this we submit a few and
500 Bureaus beautifully finished at $4.50 each.
3000 Good Strong Bedsteads, complete at $1.50 each.
1000 Good Strong Bed Springs at $1.25 each.
200 French Dressing Cases, 20x28 German glass, $10 each.
150 Ten piece, toilet, bed room suits, marbleized top, 20 x
28, German plate glass, only $29.50 each.
50 Ten piece, solid walnut, marble top, toilet bad room
These are only afew of the thousands of bargains we have to offer you, at prices lower than other dealeis I •. “
same goods. If we by bvying for 18 large stores, in the enormous quantities we do, cannot undersell sma < e. i
the wholesale houses have no advantage over the little one horse dealers that buy a handfull ot goods at a time.
LAST, B IT NOT LEAST, Among the many attractions is'our CARPET DEPARTMENT. We carry the largest
siock in the South, and our prices are the lowest to be found. These goods are the latest designs and nevves s 1 , < < • • 1 •
orders have our best attention always. Can sell you good Ingrain at50c per yard, best at 8;>. {.Good 1 vu re s . .A’’
$1.25. Make a diagram of your room, with exact measurement, write us what kind of carpet you want a *
antee to please you. We cannot cut samples as it takes frnra a yard to a yard and a quarter to show the ugme.
Don’t buy article of furniture until our goods ond get eur prices. If you cannot come, scud us your orders
an you see
py mail. We will treat you right and do our bust to please you. COMPANY,
THE A. G. RHODES FURNITURE
1029 Broad St.. COLUMBUS CA.___
FROST KING COMPANY.
EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURERS OF Water, Acid* and Frost do
£ » » * not afTect ft.
% Prevents B ricks Torning White.
Keeps all Walls and Sur¬
\ Waterproofs faces Briok Cleon. and Stone.
Blank Walls made Water
-i proof.
You Can Paint Ove»
..... Cemented or BricklWalla
Treated with Preservathrfc.
* Any one can attolv I*.
BBT Send for Price* and Catalogue*.
Trade Mark Reglsfcered3,March 9th, 188®.
BFFIBES: J3T S. E. Cor. 3d and Walnut St’s., Phila., Pa. 12 Broadway, N. Y.
HUBHSON & SULLIVAN’S THREE-QUARTER ROAD WAGON.
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1 H. |s Ught and tarty Bnjrprr. v eil bolt* In vrerj particular, to carry ono or two pa-wengcr* ; and
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0mr large sate. it allow u* to put the price Vary Law.
Scad tar ILUirtwUed Catalogue and I’rfeu IArt ohowln* a full line of Carriages, Itamrlon, Carts and
HUGHSON srTLILIVAJN,
SiOCXEimisTmrR, it. tt.
A fk TO BUILD THEM, cost houhks-how and complete *0 BUILD descriptions tiikjm.” of
Now ready. This contains plans, illustrations, Country IIotiHeoK costing from #800 to $7500. po
New, Beautiful, and build Cheap SliOUO house for 91750, and how to mate than.
jjjrrtfrfiSv . Shows how you can a
mu a handsame, convenient, healthy, light, cool, and airy In summer,
I warm and elieanlv heated in winter. Tells intending builders of homes
P SaU lwti.i to do, and warns them what not to do. Describes houses adapted
to aU climate*. \ NATIONAL AIILHITKC'T’S UWIOfl. Pa.
__ §1.90 by m nil j 927 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
6-Ton Coffon Gin Scales, $60
BEAM BOX
i Brass Tare beam.
Warranted for 5 Years
- W .. Freight Paid.
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‘‘JONES HE PAYS THE FREI6HT. ,
Per Free Price List, Addrem
JONES of BINGHAMTON, Binghamton, N. Y.
JOB PRINTING!
We are Prepared to do AU Kinds of
JOB WORK
WITH
NEATNESS
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DISPATCH!
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suits, large bevel glass, only $45.00 each.
frame, silk plusli parlor suits, *•>•> each. ,
30 solid walnut moqnette tops, only
r,o solid Walnut, full spring bed lounges,
$9.75 each. each.
“Walcott” cottage chairs, 50c Rocking Chairs, cane seat
500 good, strong, walnut finish,
and back, only $1 each.
i homas f. farley
Furniture, Stoves
—and—
gjgjg 0 f House Furnishing;
GOODS,
•248 Broad St., 2nd door south
of 13th Street,
COLUMBUS, GA.
'Ryan’s Patent Post-hole
DIGGER AND TRANSPUNTER.
Light, Fimple. Strong and Effective.
L II It Is the only self-cleaning Digger
made, and can be used in any kina of
f lj soil, no 9 matter thus how possesses sticky, greet with perfect adva n
ease.
: I, tags* over all other diggers In th* tnar
III |f ket With It a man can easily dig 300
to 400 holes per day. It is exceedingly and
* lighL^ret^ery strongly made war
C. PETERSEN I CO.,
MOLUTB, ILL.
BRANCH HOUSES.
A. G. llhodes A Co. Columbia, S. <’.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Terre Haute. Ind.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. Evansville, Ind.
A. G. Rhodes A < to. - - Cairo, 11*.
A. G. Rhodes A ('o. - Raleigh, 1ST. <'.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Vicksburg, Hiss.
A. G. Rhodes A (to. - Augusta, Ga.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. Louisville, Ky.
A. G. Rhodes A Co. - Eufaula, Ala.
THE VACUUM TIPPED ARROW
PISTOL.
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ljannleu. Acnnroto, Sure. Car* ami trouble yard'*i 9 when
this ficpial toy ia placed vritii the CtUiMfl, or I areiita. haauo “f
tor the homo, no sharp oonmrs or
and Target Hunt port-paid to any nddroaa for SOc.
BOYS’ ARCTIC DRIVING REINS.
Thin was
just the
article J
£ 5 i wanted
'when a
Boy,
It is very
strong, pretty,
and durable.
25c.
PoBt-paid
VELOCIPEDE BELL.
YOU t
cannot do
without it
if you
have a
wheel. m
Sent Post¬ lii
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paid for , if
2!ic. or the
articles
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complete
SAMUEL KIRBY,
Manufacturer of Bell., Toys, E»c, t
MIDDLETOWN. CON*.
I CURE
FITS!
Wt«n I say Cork I <io not mean merely them to
stop them for a time, and then have re¬
turn again. I MEAN A RADICAL CUBJL
i have made the disease of
FITS, EPILEPSY or
PALLING SICKNESS,
A life-long study. I warrant Because my other* remedy have to
Cure the worst cases.
I ailed is no reason tor not now and receiving Frekhottu* a cure.
Send at once for a treatise a
of mv Infallible Remedt. Give nothing Expreae
and Post Office. It cost* you for a
trial, and it will cure you. Address
H. C. ROOT, M .C M 183 Pearl St., New York
BARRETT’S TONIC
This Tonic is prepared from Fare
Selected Jamaica Ginger, tog.-tlier with
other rooti an 1 lierjis, and f irms a Pleas¬
ant and Efficaci iu» Tonic .is a cure for
Dvspepsi t. Heartburn. Getier.il Debility
and as an Appetizer ;tis unexcelled. En¬
dorsed by Physicians. Try it. Drug Co
Manufactured by the Barrett
Augusta. Ga.
For sale hy Hilkt & Willis ms.