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WIT AND HUMOR. “Why does a dog chase his tail?” Rika an idle paragrapher. Because it fleas from hlnj, of course. Burlington Free Press. “So you think John is becoming a 1 great man in the city?” said a farmer, speaking of hi# absent son to a com panion of the youth. “Groat man! I should say to. Why, tic re ain't a bar keeper in the city hardly that lie don’t call by his first name.” When Mrs. Homespun rend in the , paper that Slappandash had "fail*- ! for $200,000” stie said he was a lucky f* low. Sho thought the innocent cn-a turo —Hint he got that mu< in >nc. failing? What ridicuioii ideas the women do have about biisinc-s! When Mrs. I’inaphorc read that “FooChow had fallen,” she aid that ; this might be good news to 11 1 <* •<■ v > | liked the stud, but sho wouldn't bnc the mixture if it were to fall to thr cents a quart. It is suppo >1 the ee j woman was thinking of chow c ow. Said Jones: “We’re goin g to run j Blifkins forjudge this filin’ Smith: “Blifkins! What does he him . ; about law ?’’ “Nothin.' at all. He never saw a law book. That’s t-' reason wo arc going to run him. M think that if ho is ignorant of law we may got u little justice.” Blunkin and his wifo had been in dulging in a family discordant: • and finally Mrs. U. exclaimed: “Well, I y got my opinion of any man that lain as you do.” “Oh, have yon! Well, you can keep it if you want to. ’ “N >, J can’t, either, it’s so awfully bad al ready that it won’t keep.” “What,” asks iv very tender writer, “what can take the place of babies? Sli! Bond your ear a little closer and we’ll toll you. Other babies. Von didn’t suppose this year’s crop would last forever, did you? Goodin- s, man, it will bo clear out of style in eighteen months. Brooklyn Engle. 'J'ho neatest fraud in Saratoga is said to boa girl who is apt at making such very disiugonious remarks ns this. “Deary me, Sophy, you have just the same perfume in your rent bottle tba: your brother liolph puls on his mu tache.” Ami tlion she wonders vvi i;- oyed what they are laughing at. For tlio sake of truth men should be more careful how they talk. It was but yesterday that wc heard a gentle man say of a pretty girl who had just passed: “She is a eweet girl,” when on investigation wo found that h - had novor oven kissed her. Such talk i, an outrago on truth. A’- ntueky Hint Jin - ml. A negro fell from it four-story build ing in Charleston on the pin/./, i shod Dolow, and, rolling oil, fell on the ground in the yard, lie was insensi bio for a short time, but quickly.recov ered, and, oil being asked if iie wa. sorlously hurt, lie answered: “Oh, it".” Ho had fallen on Ills head, and no bone voro broken. It is said that the sanitary condition of'loulon is so bad that it catchnil tho infootlous diseases going. I > to the hour of going to press, however, it had not caught the base-hull fever, and tho Kuroponu papers, therefore, are . •ittlo previous in demanding that tli town be torn down and rebuilt. - A.. rislown Herald.. Masked hugging parties are populat at church fairs in Missouri. By pa> ing 16 cents a man is allowed to hu a girl, but ho is first blindfolded. It •cakes a man awful mad to lied, on : ■ moving the bandage from hi • that he lias boon Ini g up liis - .tv Fifteen cents gone for uothi. > m- Lt villc Journal. About two hundred different guide books to summer resorts have lieen re ceived in thi- oflleo. They are very Jirulty, but lack something. IVo have been trying to think wl.at it was fora mouth bnoK, and it has just occurred to us that tho only tiling to make them n tiling of beauty and joy forevor is a pass accompanying each.— Brv lyn Times. f irst cotton planter -“tv ell, urcen, 1 hear you done knocked down a man on tho steamboat t’other day.” Sec ond planter “Yes; one of them cotton cotton spectators came up and asked mo to give him an example of my cot ton. ItlilTuscd, whereupon he consult ed mo; thou 1 picked up one of them windlass chairs and knocked him pros perous.” Harper's /la:ar. A teacher asked a bright little girl tho other day what country was oppo site to us on the globe. “1 don’t know sir,” was the reply. “Well, now, pursued tho teacher, “if l were to bon a hole through tho earth and you were . to go in at this end. where would von come out?” “Out of tho hole, sir,’ said the pupil in triumph. AY to For' World. “How wet the poor dear boy’s halt ilt,” exclaimed tin loving mother, as - she placed her hand tenderly upon he child’s head. “Flaying out in tin hot sun makes the perspiration start from every pore.” And little William Henrv turned a,sido as he thought to himself that he would go in swimming again just as often as he could while 1 the hot weather tasted. —Lowell Citi ten. Scone at tho San Jose train: Gen tleman in seat. Enter ladv. Gentle man rises, gives his seat to Indy, leaves his valise under the seat, goes into the smoking car. Next station. Youn<* lady looking out at window. Man rushes along, looking for his valise. ! Young lady hands it out. Next sta tion. Gentleman comes from smoking car, bonds down under scat, apologize: to lady for troubling her to rise. Young lady cots up. No valise. Tableau.— Ban Francisco Chronicle, The tallest bird known to othnolo- I gists was found by Professor Herbert in the lower eocene deposits ne.v l’aris, France. It was over twelve fee' in height and could have bitten a man's head off as easily as a woodpecker cau nip a cherry. We cannot bo too thank ful that this bird has gone out of fash ion and existence. Ladies would liavi ' wanted to wear it on their hats, ml men who sat behind such bonnet orna ments in the theatres would be unable to see whether a ballot or a prayer meeting was in progress on tho stage. — Harris!cam Herald. One of our English cousins was re cently placed at dinner by the side of a charming woman who bad been re ted. by the hostess to amuse the 1 •T ranger. * They were gelling on very well, when he drew attention toaguesi opposite by saying: “O, I say, do look at that spotted man: did you ever aeo such an object?” And the lady said with much dignity, to stop his prattle if possible: “Yes; that is my hus band.” And the wretch said: “Oh, j how jolly, you know, becauso you can tell me—is he really spotted ail over? ’ The happy lot of the strcebcar driver is thus described by an ironical driver in New York: The horses have to walk, you know, but the driver just leans up against tho dashboard and rides. If you’re fond of ridin’ it’s a soft job. Fourteen shillin’ a day is a big sum of money to pay out for seventeen hours’ work, but the company is rich and can stand it It costs a driver very little to live, becauso ho doesn't havo time to eat anything. I used to keep most of my money in tlio bank, but so many of ’em are bustin’ up that I drawed it all out, and now I’ve got it up to tho house packed away in barrels. Sho was a remarkably sensible young lady who made the request of her friends that after her decease sho should not be buried by tho side of n brook where babbling lovors would wake her from her dreams; nor in any grand cemetery, where sight-seers, conning over epitaphs, might distract her, but be laid away to take her last sleep tinder tho counter of some mer chant who did not advertise in tlio newspapers. Tnere, she said, was t* bo found peace surpassing all tindci standing—a depth of quiet slumber, on which nuither the sound of tho buoyant ; foot of youth nor tho weary shudlo oi j old age would ever intrude. —Albany ( Ua.) News. A Four Year Old Hoy Who Smokes Twenty Cigars a Day. While making his rounds recently your correspondent was much amused to sec a littlo boy, apparently about four years of age, who was puffing away at a huge black cigar with all tho nonchalance of the most habitual user of tin: weed. On being informed by several neighbors standing near, that the boy had been a conlirmod smoker since Hie age of fourteen months, tho reporter determined to investigate tlio case. The little boy’s name is PetoySpang onberger, a son of John Spangenberg er, the well-known saloonist at N7 East Main street. When asked about it, tlio father seemed proud of his sou’s ac complishment, and gave the reporter tho following account of tlio com mencement of the habit: “When tho littlo boy was an infant in the arms, fourteen months of age, a cigar was given to him onoo in fun by one of tho customers in tiie saloon. Instead of growing deal lily sick and dropping it, tho little follow clutched it with his baby lingers, and seemed to enjoy it, smoking it to the very end. From tlio first cigar his taste for smoking com meneed, and from that day the child cried for cigars as an ordinary child cries tor candy. The taste seemed to take such a terrific hold on his baby ap petite that ho was soon smoking, nil the time, one cigar after another, until lie reached the appalling number of twenty per day. Nothing else would pacify him, and ho would cry bitterly when not allowed bis tw ntv cigars per day. Though the parents could see no evil effects from tho use of tho weed, the', grew alarmed :tint called a physic ian who tn.v!, i minute examination of the little fellow, and finding no evil r< i. .. from tlio use of tobacco, told tlio cuts that tlio habit would do tho child no harm. Reassured by this statement tho pa rents allowed free rein to their child’s j appetite, and ho has been an habitual i sniokor from that day to this. Pipes, | cigars, cigarettes, everything of a j tiraokablo nature that fell in his way, ) were eagerly devoured. Ho com- j menced to chew, also, but this second habit was promptly prohibited, Tlio little boy is now in kilt suits and ; is 4 years old. His habit attracts un- j bounded amusement nnd admiration j from tho patrons of ids father’s saloon, j nnd many are tlio cigars which fall to j his share from customers who desire to ! see him smoke. For the last few i months ho lias averaged only from ten to twelve cigars a day, and smokes ; slower and seems to enjoy it more. Tho little boy was shown to tlio re porter, who was surprised to find a fat, chunky little fellow, with a pro nounced German appearance, nnd tho fat hanging in ropes from his littlo cheeks, lie seemed of a lively, jolly disposition, and betrays not tho least traces of nervousness. Tho parents at- | tribute his fatness to the smoking, as ho avoids all fat food in eating, nnd nev er drinks wine or beer, lie will only smoko one particular brand of cigars— a very black, strong variety—and it is extremely amusing to see him toddlo down in the morning lieforo breakfast and demand a cigar from his papa. ; This obtained, he will light it with tho most profound gravity, and puff away with tho air of a man of fifty. The on ly peculiarity about him 5s his odd ways, his every action reminding one of the most dignified adult, liis broth ers and sisters show not tho least dis- ! position toward tobacco. His parents . arc both wholesome and hearty Ger mans. l*r. McLaughlin, who exam ined tho boy recently assured your cor respondent that all his functions aro in a normal condition, and liis nervous system fails to exhibit the slightest trace of the tobacco or nicotine influ ence. 11«' considers that tho habit has become so natural that tho efleets of the poison is lost on tho boy’s system. The parents believe that the tobacco has saved their sou’s life, nnd an nounce their intontiou to contiuue tho child's gratification of his appetito. — Springfield, 0., Commercial Gazette. The Boonu (Iowa) c-'.M . Jard , printed at the home of Kate Shelley, tho he ,- ine who saved a railroad train from destruction, and who was present.a with n medal by the lowa Legislature, savs of her ambition: “Next to tlio love of mother and children tho or.o great hunger of Kate’s existence is s substantial education. For this she is willing to sacrifice those tilings which most young girls esteem—gay clothes, society and that spirit of ‘go’ which so fills the blood from 15 to 20. Sho lias made a brave start in her books, and clambered with tireless footsteps ovetv the first rude stones which hedge abotrf the base of the temple of knowledge. A i “G ran cl mother." “Is she dead yet?” 1 should grieve to hear that she was I am referring to the good-natured, over-ready, old-fashioned grandmothc' of days gone by. She was my grarid •nother and yours, and, indeed, every body eise’s, when one was needed. 1 remember her ns gray-haired, wrinkle faced, and hands crippled with tlio hard work of pioneer days. I remem ber her sympathetic voice and soft touch her steel-bowed *-'■(■<•:acles —her quaint old snuff-box r i-:tling look a d anxious-tones : e came in the nek way and caiic I ott : “And so that boy's had to give up and go to bed, eh? Dear me! but it’s too bad, though I guess it’s nothing serious, and I hope you won’t worry. Let’s see him. All—urn! Stomach out ->f order and lie’s got some fever. Had my children taken this way dozens of .inv s and in two days they were out playing.” It was worth a month’s sickness to m.o her bustle around after horse •idisli leaves to mako drafts for tlio feet; cloths to wet in cold water for the head—mustard for tlio back of the nee :—a bit of rhubarb to sweeten the stomach, and to hear her say: “Well, now, wlio’d thought it; but don’t worry! Mercy on me! but my 1 n’l lias been sicker’n that fifty differ ent times and i-n't dead yet. Just you go right down nnd finish your baking and leave me to take cure of him. 1 just dote on sick folks!” And didn’t tilings turn out just as site predicted? And three days after didn’t siio come down into tho back lot where I was eating sour crab-apples and iling up her hands and exclaim: “For tho land’s sake! but does this boy mean to kill himself afore the summer is out!” If mother had a pain in her side she ran over to see grandma. If father went lamo it was grandmother who had a remedy. Not in our family alone, but in a dozen. Not in ono case, but in a hundred. Who had catnip and smart-weed and may-weed and oak bark and spice bush and mustard? Grandmother, of course. Who knew wliat was good for earache, toothache, jaundice, languor, loss of appetite, rheumatism, bilious ness and a hundred other ills? Grand mother. And if her remedies failed to arrest disease and the doctor was sent for iiow kindly courteous lie was! Every thing she had done was professionally justified, and lie seemed almost sorry that sho hadn’t worked a euro and de prived him of his fee. He would take tho ease and warrant a cure, but, of course, must depend upon her to a great extent. Such a compliment was worth more than a now home to her. And if death came grandmother was there to weep with the family and to console all otiiers. It was her poor old fingers which closed the eyes— which helped to mako the shroud— which arranged the lifeless hands. It was her voico which kept whispering: “There! tliero! poor thing—don’t tako it so much to heart! lie is far hotter off than we are, nnd you must live on for those left behind.” She was with .he mourners—at the grave—back to the house to cheer tho heart-broken and leave them at night with a feeling that it was for tlio best. Ami it was a holiday when grand mother came over with her knitting or sowing for an afternoon visit. She had the rocking-chair and the cosiest cor ner, and no queen was more respocted. She remembered tlio war with Mexico, and tlio fall of stars, and two or three earthquakes. Sho recollected what overybody had dreamed, and how it came out, and who married who and how they prospered. Sho had seen two or three Presidents; been to New York and Niagara Falls. She was a medical college, an encyclopedia and a book of adventures combined, and her going away at night left a vacancy that she alone could fill. Is sho still living? If so, may tho world reverence her. Is she dead? If so, may tho sunshino of Heaven have made tier tho happiest angel of them jill! Filling anil Graduating Thermome ters. “When a thermometer is to bo made,” savs a manufacturer, “the glass-blower first blows a bulb on the end of a long tube. While this bulb is hot tho end of tho tube is inserted in mercury, and as the bulb cools the mercury rises and fills the bulb. This process is repeated until the bulb and part of the tube are filled. The bulb is then immersed in snow and chipped ice and the mercury settles to the freez ing point, which is marked on tho tubo as 32 degrees, if a Fahrenheit scale is to he followed. Next tho bulb is put in boiling water and the point to which the mercury rises is marked on tlio scalo as 212 degrees. Ten degrees of the mercury are now detached from tho column by jarring and tlio whole length of the tube is tested. The pro cess is repeated with live degrees of tho column being measured all tin time by a standard thermometer to see if the tube is conical at any point. Common thermometers generally vary about two or three degrees, owing to the irreg - larity of the opening in tlio tube which causes the mercury to rise slowly where the opening is too largo and too fast where the opening is too narrow. It requires great skill to blow a tubo with a uniform opening the whole length. They should be allowed to stand not less than one mouth—one year is bet tor —to allow tho mercury to settle be fore the scale is made.” Tho self-regis tering thermometer is used for marking the highest and lowest points reached within a given time. The bulb is filled with mercury, above which, in the tube, is inserted a fine piece of steel spring; the remainder of the tube i 3 • The steel spring rests at the highest point it is pushed to by the mercury, and is afterward drawn down by a small magnet. By a duplex arrange ment and reversing the scale the low est or (V dost point is indicated in the same « The deep-sea thermometer is oft’. me pattern, and is incased in a henvv copper tube to preserve it against the pressure of water. It has, besides, a self-regulating attachment. The fever or clinical thermometers #ru made with great nicety, and are iflad for determining the temperature of wto human body. « xne »tory or a i;oar. I was strolling along carelessly in Chatham street, when a man ushed out of a door, with a Sam’l of I'osoc face, and seized me in his arms. "Great Caesar!” said I. He started to carry me into his store. Is it possible, thought I, that he has mistaken mo for his clothing store dummy, and is tak ing me in out of the wet? Before 1 knew where I was, he had dragged me into his lair, where there were two more men, who looked so much like him that the three might have been taken for twins. I thought of Daniel in the lion's den. I was representing Daniel in the tableau. Like Daniel, 1 was taken for a profit. Did you ever notice how those Dav enport brothers, of spiritualistic fame, got their coats off anil on in two turns and one motion? Well, that’s the way, only faster, that my old coat came oil and a new one went on. “Oh, ain’t he cunning?” said one of them, referring to my improved ap pearance. “Don’t you vant to puy dot goat for seving tollars?” I really didn’t need any coat, but on examining it I found the cloth was the finest I had ever seen. It was really a S2O coat I examined the coat once more. The garment was of the very best cloth. Then I asked myself; Is it right far me to tako advantage of the mistake of these unfortunate Israelites, who aro strangers in a strange land? May be they are just starting out in business, and perhaps they have families depend ent upon them for support. On the other hand, business is business. It is for them to look out for their own in terests. If they see proper to sell me a S2O coat for $7, why should I pre sume to dictate to perfect strangers about their business affairs? I reluc tantly consented to buy the garment. I handed out $7, which they accepted without any hesitation, which surprised me, as I expected them to back out. I backed out as soon as they wrapped up my purchase. It was so kind in them to wrap up the coat for me considering how little money they got for it. When I got into the street with the bundle under my arm I felt as if I had stolen it. My conscience troubled mo so that I took the bundle back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and told them that there must be somo mistake about the coat. They became very indignant, and, not only refused to take it back, but actually pushed me out into the street with as much cordiality as they had formerly shown in pulling me in. I hurried off with my precious bar gain, which the partner of my joys un wrapped. “Is this the coat you paid $7 for?/ asked my wife, holding up a wretched, shoddy garment I had never seen be fore, or behind either. “No, no,” I stammered; “that’s not the coat. The Jew has wrapped up the wrong coat by mistake.” “Well, then, take it back to them, and tell them that they have made a mistake, and get your money back.” I did tako the bundle back to them, but they said there was no mistake. They would not listen to me. The children indulged in unseemly levity. The coat has since been cut up for dish rags. A few days after my Chatham ex noe I met Sykes. He has lived in New York all his life, and knows ev erything about the city. He said: “I know those identical Israelites. Lord, how they hate me. I can pass there a thousand times a day, and they will never try to sell me a coat for $7. They tried once and I got away with the coat. You see, I knew all about the trick of wrapping up the wrong coat. They fitted me with a coat that was really worth twenty dollars, the finest kind of a coat, and then after I had tried it on, and found it fitted, they wanted me to tako it off I refused to co-operate. I would not lot them take the coat off. Abraham tried to pull it off, and I hit him a fearful whack on the nose, I nearly knocked it off It is crooked yet. Then Jacob ran to the door and called: Miolice! Bolicel’ A policeman came running with his tongue hanging out. I happened to know him. His name is Mike Sullivan. He is a whole-souled Irishman. Wo belong to the same lodge. He clubbed Abraham and Isaac all over the store, while I got Jacob over a drygoods box and paddled him good with a piece of the cover. “Policeman Sullivan ran all three Is raelites in, and Judge Donahue, Anoth er chum of mine, a whole-souled, noble Irishman, by the way—you ought to know him, I’ll introduce you some day —he fined Abraham, whose nose I dis located, $lO, and Isaac, whom Sullivan clubbed, got S2O, and Jacob, whom I paddled with the piece of a shoe-box, got ten days for resisting an officer in the discharge of his duty. And I got away with the S2O coat, and the best of it was that I didn’t pay the $7, so I got the S2O coat for nothing. When ever I pass their store,” continued Sykes, “and any of them aro standing in the door, I shake my hand, and say: ‘Abraham, don't you vant to puy a goat for seving tollars?’ ” — A!ex. E. Sweet, in Texas Siftings. A Good Story of Washington Irving. “Speaking of his liking to look at workmen,” says an old friend of Wash ington Irving, “reminds me of another good story which he used to tell with great enjoyment—no one can tell his stories as he used to. One day when he was building the extension to Sun nyside, as he strolled about watching tho carpenters, he happened to pick up an apple that had been blown from a tree. The next moment he felt his arm tugged, and turning saw a ragged little urchin—one of half a dozen who had come to pick up the chips left by the workmen—looking up into his face. “ ‘Say, mister,’ says the little chap, •just you come with me and I’ll show you where to get somo good apples; but mind you don’t let tho old man know.’ meaning Mr. Irving himself. “ ‘Well,’ Mr. Irving used to say, tell ing the story, ‘the little scamp brought me to the very best tree in my orchard and there we filled our pockets to gether and ate our fill of my very best apples. We got on very well together, and I believe it’s the only case I ever heard of where a man participated in the robbery of his own orchard.’ ” THE DUDE’S CIGAKET. It Kills, but “There’s Millions In It.“ “Have you any cigarets, Mr. Drug Store Man?” a dude asked a North side drug store. “Any kind you wish.” “I’ll take a package of Mignonet Bouquet.” “Well, we haven’t any by that name, but here is the next thing to it. Thcso are called Til never forget mv sweet heart.’ ” “I’ll try those,” said tho thin legged voting man, and as he balanced a shin ing pair of glasses upon a long and prominent nose ho gave several puff* at the sample of the new brand, glnncvd admiringly at the pale face reflecfbil behind the cloud of smoke in the look ing-glass, nnd went his w y, gaylv whistling the air to the latest love song. The prescription clerk came out from behind his window and looked at tho retreating figure in contempt. “Ob serve,”'ho said, “liow tho youth n-l mired himself as ho puffed away in iront of the glass. Well, 1 dare say lie tobacco siekouc 1 him. but lie smokes because it looks well, i pre ■•.ume he wears glasses for the san-o reason.” “You have no right to complain,” said the proprietor, “trade would not be half so good for us if the dudes did not smoke. You might as well tell the women to stop eating morphine and uispense with cosmetics. Suppose they did, what would become of our occu pations? We might have to turn in and do what those men are doing out there—scrape the streets. It’s all for the best. The dude smokos cigarets, and while he does he patronizes tiio i.obacco case. After awhile he gets a cough and goes to the doctor, and comes to us with a prescription. 110 thinks he has a fatal disorder, and so wo get the best of him again.” “That may be so,” said tho clerk, dejectedly, “but in the meantime he has married a rich girl and is prepar ed to lead a life of ease while ui ire sensible men are rolling pills ’ “If you want to catch oslo a rich girl,” said the proprietor, "you oughter go and hire out as a coachman. In that case you’d have to get used to a cob pipe a la Carlisle, that is until you could stand in with the family and find out where tho old man kept his Havan as.” “You don’t mean to infer that dudc3 are the only people who smoke ciga rets, do you?” a reporter asked. “No; they aro the largest customers. Some are consumed by young boys and women. The dude and tho cigaret seem made for one another, and tho trade in them —I mean cigarets—de pend upon the crop of dudes. In Chi cago there must bo largo numbers of these silly young men, for tho annual sale of cigarets is immense. A whole sale dealer told me recently that at least 100,000,000 of them were sold by tho firms ho could name on his fingers’ ends. It is a question whether tho dude was called out by the cigaret or whether he originated the cigaret Tho first cigarets were made for tho trado about ton years ago, up to which time the tobacco and papers of ’vhich they were made were sold separately, ana those wto cmokcd »hem made them for themselves. Since then machinery has been invented by which thoy car. be made in large quantities. Sinco the goods began to bo sold in ready-mado packages the trado has shifted, it ap pears, from the confirmed smokers over to dudes and beginners, the old smok ers preferring cigars, because they are made of better tobacco and have non* of the poison contained in tho cigaret paper. This enters into the blood, makes the face pale, settles upon tho lungs, and gives birth to a hacking cough.” Here is a piece of information for housekeepers. We have tried it several times. Every one knows how disagreeable tho odor of cooking, cabbage is. All your neighbors can tell when you are going to have cabbago for dinner. If you put a small piece of red pepper in with the cabbage there will be no smell. The pepper absorbs tho odor of the cabbage. 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If you wish to t-x --amine watch before t&yiDK for it, we will send you a sample C.O.D. wfttA privilege of inspection before for it, on nsreipt oo ctA 411 (to guarantee < liarye* >; or sAiaef&<-tory nft rt*nci* to show that watch w oiv.crv-d in sfood faith. The above cut represents Genii.'Turn's watch ; it has ISk poldfta teil hunt: me oast*; celebrated anchor lever movement; compensation balanr* 1 hand:stem winder; etsm setter. t.* i • - the ® ppearaace of a #7.1. watch. - r if for L*d* <» Qmt . r !<*n m ’r*" A free VICTOR \V.\IC II < a A »4> Lane, N. 1. BROWN’S m\M BITTERS Combining IROX with PURE VEGETABLE TOXICS, quickly find completely CLEAXSES nnd ENRICHES THE BROOD. quickens th* '•''♦ion of the I,lvor nnd Kidneys. Clears the completion, makes 1... .‘ ..ill smooth. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache, or produce con stipation—ALL OTHER IKON MEDICINES DO. Physicians nnd Drogfhsts every where recommend it. Dr. N. 8. RrooT.Rfl, of Marion. Mass., says; "1 recommend Brown’* Iron Bitters as a valuable tonic for enriching tho blood, and removing all dyspeptic symptoms, it does nut hurt the teeth.” Dr. R. M. PFE7FI.T.. Reynolds. Tnd., says: .‘*l have prescribed Brown’s Iron Bitters in oaaue of amemia nnd blood diseases, also when a tonic was needed, and it has proved thoroughly satisfactory.” Mu Wm, Byrnr, 26 St. Mary St., New Orleans, IjR , »»avß: “Brown’s Iron Bitters relieved me in a casi of’ blood poisonin*. and I heartily commend it to those needing a blood puritier. Mr. W W. Monahan, Tuscumbia, Ala., says: “ I have been troubled from childhood with Impure Blood and eruption on my face—two bottles of Bro'vn’s Iron Bitters effected a perfect cure. I c tot speak too highly of this valuable medicine.” Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Tnlu* no other. Made only by BUO Wft CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, Mlk L __ He Ms Cotton aM Cora Planter AND Fertilizer Distributor. Highest award at International Cotton Exhi bilon, Atl nta, Ga., the Arkansas State F air th* Ntioual Cotton Planters’ Association, the Great fieuthern Exposition, Louisvi'le, Ky., and ths World’s Exposition, New Orleans, La , and which has NEVER failed in any contest, has been still further im; i oved, and is now fullv adapted to any cbaract- r of soil ana the most unskilled labor, two styles and fixes belt g now made. It is the most durable Planter made, and will Save its Cost Three Times Over IN A SINGLE SEASON. As it plants from eight to ten acres per daj. with less than one and one-half bushels of seed per acre, and opens, drops, distributes ter tilizers and covers at one op- ration, saving TWO HANDS AND ONE TEAM The price has been reduced to suit the times. Bend for circular giving full description and terms. Globe Planter M ’fg Co., 226 Marietta Street, Atlanta. Ga STEEL PENS. PATRONIZE HUE INDUSTRY. We are ...r ,i. s *- pumic STEEL PENS of our oivu manufacture. Our Plowboy Eagle Is the best business pen in the prarket,-75 cents per gross, postpaid to any address bn receipt of price. And for tine writing our Plowboy Favorite Surpasses any pen yet made, SI.OO per gross postpaid, on receipt of price. Samples on ap plication. THE PLOWBOY CO., East Point, Ga. THE PLOWBOY CO. 18 PR kl'A Iraki/ 1U 1»0 , NEWSPAPER •WORK Os Every Description In THE BEST POSSIBLE MANNER. And it the Shortest Notice. We Furnish READY PRINT INSIDES OB OUTSIDES For Newspapers, OF THS Hiilest Orier at Eicelleace. NEWSPAPER HEADS Made to Order From the Latest Style of Type, Publishers who desire to furnish then subscribers with the greatest amosnt oi reading matter at the least cost, will d* well to communicate with us at once, We will print the inside or outside, Os the entire paper, if desired. Samples of Ready Prints sent on ap plication, and prices quoted that an surprisingly low and defy competition. All we ssk is an opportnnity to serve onr fellow publishers, confident that we can give satisfaction. THE PLOWBOY CO. Kagt Point, Ga.