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Cariosities of Science.
IRRITABILITY OF A REPTILE HEART.
Prof. Buthcrford, of Kings College,
England, is now lecturing on physiolo
gy. He narcotized a frog with opium,
and then took nut the heart and placed
it on a glass plate in a little pool of
serum, just to keep the organ moist.
Strange to say, it kept on pulsating pre
cisely as when iu the body.
Alter watching the phenomenon
awhile, he cut the throbbing heart
transversely in two pieces, through tho
middle of the ventricles. The apex was
quiescent, but the base continued pul
sating as before. Why the death of one
part and not the other ? Dividing the
eontractilo muscular fibres by which
contractions were performed explains
the rationale of the experiment in re
gard to tho quiet half of the heart.
CHROMIC ACID.
Asa disinfectant, this article is recom
mended on high chemical authority. It
is also an antiseptic. It acts in that
character by coagulating protean com
pounds, a marvellous property, harden
ing animal tissues very quickly.
Why would it not be a valuable arti
cle in tanning? With ten times the
coagulating power of carbolic acid,
especially with albumous solutions, it
seems destined to bo an agent of too
much value to bo overlooked in many
arts.
CLINICAL AL'SCULATION.
Dr. Griffiths, of the Royal Irish Col
lege of Surgeons, proposes a common
tuning fork for ascertaining tho normal
or abnormal condition of tho viscera.
It is a curious circumstance, quite new,
that when tho forks are vibrating, if ap
plied to the chest or abdomen, a positive
difference of sound is perceived between
a diseased or a sound organ over which
it is placed. Practice is required to fully
appreciate this novel method of internal
explorations.
PUBLIC HEALTH.
At no period in the history of Eng
land has bo much scientific attention
been given to public health and tho
means of promoting it as at present. Even
government recognizes the duty of car
ing for the masses by giving the poor
pure air for respiration, the first demand
of their nature, and tho next is whole
some food.
In most of the large towns, health
officers are instructed to bo vigilant.
Common sewers give more trouble than
very many ordinary nuisances, because
there is generated within them the vilest
gases. Where they are imperfectly con
structed, they become laboratories in
which are manufactured the seeds of
death. Jio vapors are so noxious, or so
charged with poisons as escaping gas
from sewers. Our cities should also be
equally vigilant—life being a precious
boon.
INCREASE OF LUNACY.
Wherever the strife for position and
wealth is most active, there men and
women are prone to distraction. Wound
ed pride, disappointed expectations, re
ligious exaltation, and a determination
to rule or ruin, appertain to countries
where civilization is most advanced, and
the difficulty of procuring subsistence
becomes difficult in consequence of a
density of population. Everywhere in
the oldest centres of refinement in Eu
rope insanity is immensely on tho in
crease. So it is in the old Stater of this
country. Massachusetts has already
three large public insane institutions,
and another is needed. Boston has one,
and then the richly endowed McLano
Hospital at Somerville, besides several
private asylums, are cited in proof of
this opinion. The State of New York
is also becoming too much distinguished
for insanity.
LUMINOSITY OF THE SEA.
Prof. Panceri, of Naples, alter a long
series of experiments on the phospliores
nnce of the sea, is satisfied he has solved
that difficult problem.
Heretofore the theory of that aquatic
lire which gives waves in a dark night
the appearance of liquid fire, was an an
imation from phosphoric matter in the
bodies of very small aquatic mites, so in
calculably numerous their combined
luminous points gave a volume of bright
ness on agitating the water. But Prof.
Panoeri says it is not living organized
forms that produce the phenomenon,
but the dead matter or desquamations
of the surface of their tiny bodies, ab
sorbing solar light, which is given ont
when put in undulatory motion. There
is an analogy in this, found in decayed
wood and putrescent fish, which becomes
wonderfully phosphorescent in a moist
atmosphere.
NICKEL PLATING.
Quite anew art has been introduced
to tho world of manufactures by Mr.
Isaac Adams, of Boston. Although an
art, it belongs to science, and is, there
fore, of interest to chemists. Plating
with nickel is accomplished by elec
trolysis. The process is simple, but un
fortunately being patented, the price es
a right to use it is too expensive to he
extensively employed.
A NEW FOSSIL BIRD.
Prof. O. 0. Marsh, of California, has
discovered the skeleton of a biped in the
upper cretaceous formation of Western
Kansas, that was five feet high. It must
have been extinct many ages.
A llockj Mountain Cat.
Jim Stewart, sometimes called the
■* Commodore,” is the most noted darkey
in Erie. He is a good-natured, shrewd
sort of a fellow, somewhat addicted to
doing business now and then on the
Jeremy Diddler style, as the following
incident will testify: Living near the
residence of the lion. Morrow C. Lowry,
he was frequently employed by the lat
ter to do odd jobs around the house and
in the garden. One day Mrs. Lowry
concluded that the peccadilloes of a
worthless tom-cat, long attached to the
family, were such as demanded the in
fliction of capital punishment, and Jim
was called upon to play the part of exe
cutioner. After a long chase the victim
was captured and put iy a basket, over
which an old shawl was fastened. The
next move was how to dispose of the
prisoner. Mrs. Lowry suggested drown
ing, but Jim, with tears in his eyes, pro
tested that he could no more drown the
cat than he could drown himself; that
were he to do so, his conscience, acting
on a naturally tender heart, would trou
ble him so much at nights that ho was
sure that he would never sleep a wink
thereafter. Not wishing to ruin Jim’s
peace of mind, Mrs. Lowry compromised
the matter by giving him a dollar, and
directing him to dispose of it any way
he pleased, so that she should never see
it again. Putting the dollar in his pock
et and the basket under his arm, Jim
atarted down town. He had not gone
out of sight of the house when he met
Morrow walking along leisurely toward
his home, and tho following colloquy en
sued :
Morrow—Hello, Jim, what have you
got there ?
Jim—Ono ob do celebrated Rocky
Mountain cats, sah.
Morrow—A Rocky Mountain cat ?
Why, Jim, where did you get him, and
what aro you going to do with him ?
Jim—l goby, sah! Didn’t you heah
ob de big bunch ob dem oats oum to
town yesterday from ICalforny, sah?
Best mousors in the wurl, sah, and dis
is de biggest and bes’ one ob de lot, sah.
Dey are gwine to give me foah dollars
for him at do Reed House, sah.
Morrow (rccollocting the general “cus
sedness” of tho family cat) —Jim, wo
want a good cat up home, and I guess
1 11 take this fellow, but—but—don’t you
think four dollars is steep for a cat ?
Jim—Why, all de res’ sold for five dol
lars, sah.
This decided Morrow, so he paid tho
price asked, and told him to carry the
“Rooky Mountain cat” up to Mrs. Low
ry. Jim had, however, very important
business elsewhere, and he begged Mor
row to take tho basket himself, wluch
the latter consented to dp. Arriving at
homo, he took tho prize into the sitting
room, carefully closed the doors, slightly
lifting the basket-covering, and smiling
benevolently' at Mrs. Lowry'’s apparent
astonishment, remarked : “My dear, I’ve
bought you a Rocky Mountain cat—the
best mouser —”
At this moment the cat jumped out of
the basket and commenced rubbing him
self against his master’s logs. Morrow
stopped short, while his wife broke out
impatiently : “La me, Morrow ! Why,
that’s the same cat I gave Jim Stewart a
dollar to drown not more than ten min
utes ago.”
What followed we know not, but a
few minutes later the Hon. Morrow B.
Lowry might have been noticed on the
streets of Erie, armed with a walking
stick, and wondering “ why a man can
never find that nigger when ho wants to
see him badly!”
Housekeepers and Housekeepers.
It is a well known fact that many- per
sons have very fine and orderly houses,
but have, after all, no home, for
Horne's not mnrelv Tour squnro walls,
> hough with pi ture* and gilded ;
H«me is where affection calls,
Fillart with shrines the heart has builded.
A hoinekeoper is one who makes all the
ways and convenience of the house con
duce to the comforts of the inmates. She
will allow the members of the house
hold to build each a shrine, and will
treat it as sacred, because it is a shrine
to the one who has builded it. The
daughter is not called an idle thing be
cause sho wishes to know her tune, and
gazo wistfully toward the horizon ; nor
is the son reproved if he shall slam
around, and wish he was anywhere but
idling at home. Gradually the house
keeper will quietly aid the first to search
for beauty this side the horizon, and
that boy will find a vent for his activity
without seeing he was gently led to it
by an overseeing love.
A house that is blessed with a house
keeper has an infiuenco that even
strangers feel. They receive that rest
which comes from the “ fitting of self to
its sphere.” The order of the house
may be mechanical like that of a loom
or a harp ; but, like these mochanical
things, it conduces to results, and justi
fies itself by tissues of more than silken
fineness, and music sweeter than that of
the spheres. If there is a homekeoper
the housework is not in utter confusion,
if perchance one rises an hour too late.
Servants are not expected to perform
miracles, and keep coifee and toast hot
and fresh for an hour. Breakfast, such
as late risers should expect, is eaten in
peace, and not in a flurry of excuses for
not having a meal that it was impossible
to furnish without inconvenience and
discord in the kitchen for the whole day.
It is foolish to attempt to keep a restau
rant with only tho arrangement suited
to a small family.
The peace of many a family is des
troyed by attempting impossibilities.
The breakfast of the late riser need not
have an added tirade against servants.
Realizing that the guest regrets his tar
diness, she lets the cold breakfast suffice,
hut does what she can by word, look,
and act to make the best of what cannot
bo helped, and really so calls out the
gratitude of the late riser, and ever after
that breakfast is a bright and pleasant
memory ; for he feared he was a nuis
ance, yet without direct word he felt
that his act did not discommode the ar
rangement of the house. His best
thought was called out, and that house
will stand to him in after life as a home,
for “ there is where the heart can bloom.”
Housekeeping can be done by any ener
getic woman. Homekeeping requires
that the woman’s heart and wisdom be
greater than her house, and that she
keeps the house, only that in it life can
be lived with love and truthfulness.
Lightning Freaks.
All Almeda, California, paper, of tho
30th ult., thus describes a recent thunder
storm there: “ Suddenly ceasing, ap
parently to take breath, darkness came
over us again, and in an instant a ter
rific crasli was heard, and heforc we
could turn our eyes to the street a stream
of light, such as we have not seen for a
score of years, completely enveloped
everything in the vicinity. Almost im
mediately after the falling of the thun
derbolt, people were seen making their
way to the railroad station. Hastily
donning our bat, we rushed to the de
pot to find that the lightning bad shat
tered the telegraph apparatus and en
tirely broke the connection. Miss Ellen
Babcock (a pupil of Mr. Dicker, the
operator) was sitting at the table, facing
the instrument, in the act of receiving a
message, when the crash came; and,
although completely stunned,she escaped
uninjured. One-half of tho sheet of pa
per upon which she was writing was
thoroughly scorched. The presumption
is that the bolt struck first a telegraph
pole at the comer of Railroad and Buena
Vista avenue, which is bent from its
position and shattered at its top, throw
ing splinters a distance of fifty yards,
and then branching oif, sought the oper
ating rooms at A. A. Cohen’s residence,
and tho business office at the depot. At
Mr. Cohen's house the batteries were
shattered, as well as a library in tho
room where tho children were at play,
bnt the lightning made its way out of
an open window without damage to an
individual. At the business office, after
splintering tho polo at tbo end of the
building, the lightning made its way
into the operating room, when finding
no outlet, it demolished everything, with
in its reach. The bolt or hall was soon
to drop at a dozen different places, as
many different persons having assured
us that they saw it drop and explode in
front of their various localities.
AGRICULT URA L.
Coen Fodder.—The opinion vre Lava
always hold upon tho question of tho
value of green com fodder for milch cows
has been that when raised from "broad
cast sowing it is nearly worthless, but
when sown in hills or in drills, and culti
vated with access of air and sunlight, it
is of high value. During tho presout
season wo have made some experiments
to test tho correctness of those viows.
Stalks were collected from a field whore
the seed was sown broadcast, and also
stalks growing in drills upon the same
field, and they were dried in a drying
closet to expel the moisture. Both speci
mens wore planted at tho same time, the
Gth of May, and it was found that the
plants from the broadcast sowing con
tained 9J per cent, of water, those from
drills S3 per cent. Thus it was shown
that the difference of solid matter in the
two was relatively' as 8 to 17 per cent.
The solid matter was composed of starch,
gum, sugar, and woody fibre. There
was almost an entire absence of sugar
and gum in the stalks from the broad
cast sowing, while tho stalks that had
grown under the influence of light and
air hold these nutrient principles in con
siderable quantities. The stalks were
collected at the period of growth just be
fore tho ear begins to form, a period
when most farmers begin to cut the fod
der for their cows. Our experiments
upon corn fodder have afforded us im
portant information upon other points.
We find that the stalks out before they
roach a certain stage of growth are de
ficient in nutrient matter, and therefore
it is a waste to feed them too early. The
corn plant, like all other vegetable struc
tures, has but ono object or aim in its
growth, and that is to produce seed. It
is engaged during its whole life in stor
ing up large quantities of starch, which
is to be used when the pressing occasion
arrives, or the seed vessels mature, to
form by some subtle, mysterious changes,
the rich nutrient principles which are
found in seeds. As soon as this struggle
is over, the corn plant, like aniinals, dies
a natural death. It is not necessary for
frost to strike it, it dies from simple ex
haustion. The proper time to cut and
food cornstalks is during the first four or
five weeks which succed inflorescence, or,
in other words, they should not be cut
until the flower is fairly developed, and
the car commences to form; and any
com that is so planted that the ear can
not form and mature is practically worth
less for fodder. Farmers may' learn from
these facts that corn designed to be cut
for fodder should be planted at two or
three periods during the season; some
fields quite early, others somewhat later,
and still others as late as safe. Iu this
way, when the hot, dry months of July
and August are reached, and the pastures
falter, a supply of fodder is secured at a
proper stage of growth to afford the
largest amount of nutriment.— Dr. Sich
ols in Journal of Chemistry.
Cisterns for Surface Water.—
Each year over considerable portions of
the country farmers are put to much an
noyance and extra labor, and their stock
to considerable actual • suffering on ac
count of scarcity of water. Where water
from the wells is difficult to obtain, a
good cistern is perhaps the best way by
which to obtain water. But many
farmers in the West have small build
ings and tho water from the roofs would
be but of limited amount. To such we
recommend tho digging of cisterns iu
which to collect and hold water from the
earth’s surface. In a very large num
ber of cases sufficient fall can be found
near the farm buildings, for the purpose.
The water from the winter rains and
melted snow from a half acre of land
even, will be a very large amount.
A party of wits onee stopped at a tav
ern. When the feast was over, one of
the members called to tho hostess. “ An
golique,” ho said, “I am going to give
you a lesson in astronomy. Have y r ou
not heard of the great Platonic year,
when everything must return to its
former condition ? Know, then, that in
sixteen thousand years we shall be here
again, on tho same day and at the same
hour. Will you give us credit till then ?”
The hostess, however, had her reply. “I
am perfectly willing,” she retorted, “ but
it is just sixteen thousand years since
you were here before, and you left with
out paying ; settle the old score, and I
will trust you on the new.”
We translate the following notice from
the Cincinnati VolksUatt, edited by Fred
erick Hassurek:
“The Kew York Evening Mail has
commenced the issue of a weekly edi
tion, to which we desire to call the at
tention of such of our readers as wish to
subscribe for a first-class literary and
political newspaper. The Mail is one
of those New York papers which every
educated man will read with pleasure,
and which may bo safely admitted to
the most refined family circles. There is
not a heavy line in it. Gossipy in the
best sense of the word, it is always in
structing, and its sprightliness never
borders on the frivolous. Its editorials
are tersely and vigorously written, its
selections excellent, and its correspon
dence equal to that of the best of the
old New York dailies. Such a paper is
an honor to journalism, and we reccom
mend it once more to onr readers.
If you wish any information in regard
to Railroad 110/uls, write to Charles W.
Hassler, No. 7 Wall Street, New York.
Now York Wholesale Markets.
BUTTER—State, fine firkins $ 32 ® $ 36
Western 21 to 23
CHEESE—State lac lory 14 to 15
Ohio do., 11 to I t
Farm dairy 12 to 14
COTTON—Ordinary 12 to 21
Low to good middling... 2Hi («j 22}j
EGGS-N. Y., N. J., & Penn’a 32 & 35
Limed (<<l
FLOUR—Supertine 570 to C2O
Extra to fancy State 650 (<e 726
Ohio round hoop C7O Ox GBS
Extra amber G 75 to 740
Spring wheat GBO O'! 720
Extra Genesee 726 to 875
Si. Louis double extra.... 875 QC 10 60
CoaN Mkal-Western & Jersey.. 360 to 300
Brandywine 410 to 415
BrcKWHgAT Flour 100 lbs 2HO to 325
GitAlN—Corn—Western 72 to 74
Southern 72 GO 73
Baui-et—Western 85 (to 95
Canada 110 to 116
Oats 56 0 50
Ilrs Vi to 95
Wheat—Western No. 1 Spring.... 155 to 156
Do. No. 2do 149 to 152
Do. Amber IG4 to lOS
D«>. White IGS to 176
White Genesee 166 to 174
PROVISIONS—Pork—New uiot-M... 13 37 to 14 37
W’n prime.. 11 60 to 12 25
Beep—Plain 800 to 10 00
Extra mess 10 00 to: 12 00
Beef ham 22 uO to 25 00
Bacon 7i,' to 1%
Green Hams to B*2
Lakd 9* 0«j 9*
HELD—Clover iu*. to: lltf
Timothy 3 50 3 G 5
WOOL-N. Y., Pa.! O.Vand Mich!!!! 04 to 70
Vt.andlowa 60 to 05
Texas and California 58 to 47
BEEVES—Best 12 to 13
Good 11 to H3k\
Common to fair 7% to 9if.
SHEEP & LAMBS—Sheep 7% to 7%
Lambs to
SWINE-Live 5 S' to
Drc.viud Q
literary notices.
Ths Little Corporal presents the following mter
©s ling table of conteuu tor February: Lorn, chapter
11, with illu-Iration—oy Halen C. W j«k>. Parsonage
Doves, with iilimradou-* by Mary £. C. Wyoth. quest
of tlie Flower—by Eiir.ir Fuwcet. Number Throe—by
A. H. Poe. Lillie’B ValenUne-by Olivor Thorne.
Summer Days at Kirkwood, chapter Vll—by xiuniy
Huntington Miller. Afloat on an loe Cak with liius
tration-by Chan. E Uuri. The Rivals, with lull page
illustration—by Uendd North. Trudy’s Pocket is filled
with the usual variety of spicy lottora from tho little
folks; an 1 Private Queer’s Knapsack is crowded with
things to puzzle tire mind* of the boys and girls tor a
month to come. If you want a magazine that us always
frosh, sparkling, and vigorous, subrcribo tor Tun Lir-
TLB (JO UFO UAL. ToHUS, SL6O U yilOT. JOUN E. UIILLIiU,
Publisher, Chicago, LiL
Tits Phrenological Journal has began the year
well. In no other periodical do we find human nature
so thoroughly treated. Wo always see something in it
which Instructs us, something which entertains and
something amusing. It is a capital family maga
zine. Iu the February number we tind illustrated arti
cles and sketches on the following: James Dunoon
Reymert, tho eminent Norwego-American; How the
Faculties Combine; Protoplasm, or the Mystery of
Physical Life; Expression—its Anatomy ami Philoso
phy; Conjugal Psychology; Joshua Watson, the Phi
lanthropic Churchman; "Follow your Nose, or, How
the Nose indicates character: Rheumatism, its Causes
and (Jurr ; Great Criminals; Plain Penmanship; Pre-
Adamitos lbuud in thu Bible, anew reading 01 Gene
sis; Governor Washburn, of Massachusetts ; A .Marvel
ous Conjurer; Pickles, etc. Price 30 cents, single
Nos.; S3 a year. S. It. Wells, New York.
Our Ijiprudexce the Cause of
Consumption.— How many of us can
date the cause of our last sickness to
either a crowded room, and then coming
out in a cold air, or wearing damp
clothes, causing a. cough which settles
upon the lungs, producing seated pains
in the chest. Allen’s Lung Balsam will
check the disease and restore health to
the system, if only used in time.
Remember and call at the Ding Store
fer Allen’s Lung Balsam. Every family
should keep it at hand. Sold by all
Druggists.
Symptoms in Liver CompLaint, and of
Rome of tlie Dkeancs prodncet? by it.
A sallow or yellow color of skin, or yellow
ish brown spots on face ami # other parts
of body; dullness and drowsiness with Se
quent headache; dizziness, bitter or bad taste
111 mouth, dryness of throat and internal heat;
palpitation, in many cases, a dry, teasing
cough, with sore throat, unsteady appetite,
raising of food, choking sensation iu throat ;
distress, heaviness, or bloated or full feeling
about stomach and sides, pain in jides, back
or breast, and about shoulders; colic, pain
and soreness through bowels, with heat; con
stipation alternating with frequent attacks of
diarrhoea ; piles, flatulence, nervousness, cold
ness of extremities; rush of blood to head,
with symptoms of apoplexy, numbness of
limbs, especially at night; cold chills alterna
ting with hot flashes, kidney and urinary dilli
culties ; female weakness, dullness, low spirits,
unsociability and gloomy forebodings. Only
few of above symptoms likely to be present at
one time. All who use Or. Fierce’s Alt. Ext.
or Golden Medical Discovery for Liver Com
plaint and its complications are loud in its
praise. Sold by all first-class Druggists.
Tun Culture of the Hair.—Just as sure
ly as a soil infested with Canadian thistles can
be made to produce fine crops of'golden graiu,
thu scalp now sparsely covered with harsh,dry,
unmanageable liair can be made prolific of
silken tresses. All that is necessary to effect
the change in cither case is the right hind of
fertilizer. Leaving the agricultural chemists
to determine how the barren lans shall be
made fruit.'ul, we positively assert that Lyon’s
Kathairon is unequaled as a fertilizer and
beautifer of the hair. Twenty-five years of
success is the basis of this unqualified state
ment. During that time it has been used by
many millions of both sexes, and the first in
stance in which it has failed to fulfill the ex
pectations of a nitional purchaser has yet to
be discovered, it will not cause hair to grow
on a varnished gourd ; but wherever the loots
of the hirsute libers remain undisturbed it will
cause them »o put forth new shoots, and in all
cases where the hair lias become thin it wili
increase its volume.
Victorious JSverywlxere Z
From all quarters comes the same happy
news. u Hale’s liouey of Ilorehouud and
far,” is accomplishing such cures in severe
Coughs aud Colds, and other Lhioat and lung
complaints as astonish even Dr. Hale himself.
To be without it iu winter, is a moot serious
matter in any family.
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure Toothache in
one minute. S‘»ld by all Druggists at 25 cents.
Columbus discovered America, but it has
been found that the only economical shoes for
children arc the celebrated SILVER TIPPED
—never wear out at the toe and are worth two
pairs without Tips.
All dealer® sell them.
Do not be deceived. CABLE SCREW
WIRE Boots aud Shoes are the cheapest,
easiest, driest, and most durable ever worn.
Trv them.
All bear the Patent Stamp.
To the Public.—We know of no remedy
equal to Jaokson’s Catakrh Snuff and
Troche Powder, for Catairh, Asthma, Loss
of Voice, tic. is mild, pleasant, agreeable to
use, and a sirre cure. Ask your druggist for
it. or mail 35 cents to ( ooPEit, Wilson &
Cos., Philadelphia.
FREE SEEDS, BOOKS, &e., Sample
Packages of Mammoth Corn , White Norway
Oats, Alaska Clover , and copies of the Ameri
can Stock Journal sent free to all who send
stamps to pay postage. Address N.P. Boyer
& Cos., Parkesburg, Chester Cos , Pa.
IScst and Oiliest Family Mciliciac.-SuM
ford's Liver Invigorator.—X purely Vegetable Cathartic
and Tonic— for Dyspepsia,Constipation, Debility, Siclt
headache, Bilious Attacks aud all derangements of
Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask your Druggist for it.
Beware oj imitations.
Dead men toll no tales ; if they did,
anathemas against tlie depleting lancet,
tho drastic purge, and the terrible sali
vants of tho materia medica, would arise
from every graveyard. The Motto of
modern medical science is “ Preserve and
Regulate, not destroy," and no remedy of
our day is so entirely in harmony with
this philanthropic logic as Dr. Walker’s
Vinegar Bitters. In this powerful,
yet harmless restorative, dyspepsia, bil
ious complaints, and all diseases of the
stomach, liver, bowels and nerves, en
counter an irresistible antidote.
The Purest and Sweetest Cod
Liver Oil in the world is Hazard &
Caswell’s, made on the sea-shore, from
fresh, selected livers, by Caswell, Haz
ard & Cos., New York. It is absolutely
pure and meet. Patients who have once
taken it prefer it to all others. Physi
cians have decided it superior to any of
the other oils in market.
It is now generally admitted by hon
est physicians, that when onee the con
sumption is fairly fastened upon the
lungs, no human power can save the pa
tient from death. They also say that
about fifty per cent, of those who die
from this disease can trace the cause to a
neglected cough or cold, which might
have been cured by a small bottle of
Liquid Opodeldoc, or what is the same
thing, Johnson's Anodyne Liniment.
Cut this notice out and bring it with
you. We are authorized to refund the
cash to any person or persons who shall
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fail of relief and satisfaction.
A Universal Remedy.—“ Brown's
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and Bronchial Affections, stand first in
public favor and confidence ; this result
has been acquired by a tost of many
years.
D}-oi>op3la sail CoMivcnef n Cured \Villl
out Medicine.
I will forward to any address, on receipt of
fiftt cents, a printed prescription that will
cure any case of Dyspepsia or Costiveness,
however obstinate. The remedy is very cheap
and pleasant. The articles are kept in most
farm houses, and obtained anvwhere
Address Dr. S. N. Thomas, Phelps, N. Y
To Consumptives.’
TUc advertiser, kftycirrg boon permanently, cared of
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means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send a
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will pleaoQ address
Eov. EDWARD A. WILSON.
264 South Third St., Williamsburg h, N. Y.
Curs for Consumption.
What tlie Doctors say*
Amos Woollet.'M. D., of Kosciusko county, Indi
ana, says: For three years past I have used Allen’s
Lcng Balsam extensively in my practice, and 1 am sat
isfied there is no hotter medicine for lung uhouso* in
Isaac A. Doran, M. D., of Logan county, Ohio, says:
“Allen’s Lung Balsam not only sells rapidly, but
gives perfect satisfaction in every case within my know
ledge. Having confidence in it, and knowing that it
possesses valuable medicinal properties, I freely use it
mmy daily practice aud with unbounded success. As
an expectorant it is most certainly ahead of any pre
paration I have ever yet known.”
Nathaniel Harris, M. D., of Middlebury, Vermont,
says: “ I have no doubt it will soon become a classical
remedial agent for the cure of all diseases of the Throat,
Bronchial Tubes, and the Lungs.”
Physicians do not recommend a medicine which lia?
no merits; what they say about
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Can be taken as a fact. Let all afilictod test it at once.
Dr. A. L.SCOVILL is the inventor ofsevoral medici
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have been liberally used. Among his inventions aro
“ Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs” and “Liverwort and
Tar." For the past ten years a better Lung remedy has
been offered to tho public. Read tho following let.er
from Dr. Scovill referring to it:
Messrs. J. N. HARRIS & CO.:
Gents l make the following statement from a per
fect conviction and knowledge of the benefits of Al
len’* Lung Balsam in curing the most deep-seated
Pulmonary Consumption I have witnessed its ef
fects on the young and tho old, and I can truly say that
it is by far tho best expectorant remedy with wnich I
am acquainted. For Coughs, aud all the early stages
of Lung complaints, I believe it to be a certain cure,
and if every family would keep it by them, ready to ad
minister upon the first appearance of disease about the
Lungs, there would be very few cases of fatal consump
tion. It causes tho phlegm and matter to raise, with
out irritating those delicate organs (the Lungs), and
without producing constipation of the bowels. It also
gives strength to the system, stops the night-sweats,
and changes all the morbid secretions to a healthy state.
Yours, Respectfully, A. L. SCOV ILL.
It will euro when all others fail.
Directions accompany each bottle.
J. HARRIS A Cos.,
Sols Proprietors,
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