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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 « '9 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. -A; N IfifeOr J§L ■Mr a 3ST o. 105. 1 H. |s Ught and tarty Bnjrprr. v eil bolt* In vrerj particular, to carry ono or two pa-wengcr* ; and a 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. AC ^7d s r»l! V A e! l J. ED - T ‘‘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 -AND- DISPATCH! rJIll r; ig =^®ig§ r -U ' 1 | 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. I 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 m paid for , if 2!ic. or the articles 2 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.