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National Capital “Signboards/’
Prank G. Carpenter, in one of his in¬
teresting tetters ‘‘signboards’’ from Washington, of the national says
of one of the
capital: remarkable character here is
Another
a man who is always ready to Washing¬ take a
drink, and who lives around
ton’s hotels trying to squeeze one out of
evcrj new comer. There are a number
of this class, and I recall the remark of
one of them, who was once minister to
Boliva. Eads’s ship railway project was
being discussed in the house, and the
question had arisen as to the climate of
the iskmus of Panama and of the region
about De-Lesscp’s canal. I knew the ex
Minister and was sitting acquainted down beside with him, the I
country, myself, and asked him how
introduced
he liked his life in South America.
He replied: “ Very well; but indeed,
I am not a hard man to please, I could
live happily on tallow candles with the
Esquimaux,and I could exist comfortably
upon tbe jerked beef of the Patagoniau
huuters. I liUethemea'.sofDelmonico’s;
I have dined very well at the Grand
Hotel de Paris. I am a man of all times,
alt climates and all tiling.. But there is
one thing I like above all others, and that
I am always ready for.”
Here he looked me straight in the eye
and, as he put one hand caressingly upon
my knee, he concluded:
“I always like to take a drink 1”
I returned his gaze without flinching,
aad, after a full minflfie had passed, in a
sere tone, he said:
“ Ah, my young triend, but you don’t
drink 1”
“No said I coolly; “my doctor has
forbidden it.”
This same cx-Mini-ter subsists largely
off of free-lunch counters, and boards
wherever they will keep him longest.
How lie continues to live on, year after
year, is one of the things which God only
knows.
Predicting a l}ig Explosion.
An American paper, the Fireman's
Herald, oil regions predicts of the a United terrible States, disaster in the
if the
tapping of gas-wells is allowed to go on
at its present rate without check or su¬
pervision of any sort. A fearful explo¬
sion of natural gas took place in China
some two hundred years ago, it appears,
tearing up and large destroying inland sea—that a district and
leaving a the Lake Fu-Cbang. non
known on maps as
Should such an accident occur in the
United States, there will be such an up¬
heaval, the Herald believes, as will dwari
the most terrible earthquake ever known.
The country along the gas-beit from To¬
ledo through Ohio, Indiana and Ken
tucky will be feet “ripped up to the depth oi
from 1,200 to 1,400 feet, leaving a
chasm through which the waters of Lake
Erie will come howling down, filling the
Ohio and Mississippi \ alleys and blotting
them out forever .—London St. James's Ga¬
zette.
A Tendency Toward the Country;
“The tendency of all cities,” observes
a traveler, “is to grow away from rather
than along the river or coast. The cir¬
cumscribed limits of New York compel
this hero, but you will find in all the
cities where there is a chance for expan¬
sion in Hie back country the cities grow
.away from the river or coast, which is
abandoned to commercial purposes, as in
this city. The riverside, like the Bat¬
tery, often offers the most pleasant place
for a residence, and it was selected as
such by the original residents, but in the
development of the city the march of
progress is into the country. Think over
all the cities you have visited, and you’ll
find this to be the case.”
Fashionable Dogs.
The coach dog was recently tabooed
with tne Spitz, because both breeds were
supposed to be specially the good subjects
for that hydrophobia, The during coach dog big promises scare on
subject. ground,
to regain lost however, for he is
just now the fashionable flog in England.
So he will soon usurp the place now held
by the St. Bernard and collie here.
They are certainly very handsome and a
desirable adjunct to a complete turnout.
In the perfect dog, which is a decided
rarity, there should be no blending of
eolors, but a distinct spot of black about
the size of a. silver quarter. Dalmatians
is the name by which they are known
among dog fanciers. —New York Times.
The acts of a nation may be triumphant
by mighty its by good the genius fortune, and its words
of a few of its
children: but its art only by the general
gifts ana common sympathies of the
race.
THROUGH THE FOREST.
n. oid... aii
Old men live in the past.
mfno^^ut, in the theThvS aUttlebft
more past, and drew less on the fu
rare.
The log cabins of primitive times would
seem very cheerless habitations to the people
parents took a great deal of comfort in these
rude homes.
1 hey wererugged and healthy. The men
stssrossjms £» sta
that make the sex of to-day practically help
loss slaves to hired foreign help.
White-haired grand-sires frequently took
! a score . el L' f of ®r BSSmI miles through “2 ,2 the n forest J 10 ^ ba to . enjoy rode
the lively pleasures of a frontier ball, danced
till daylight, rode home again in the early
morning, then put ina good day’s work.
Middle aged folks of to-day couldn't stand
that sort of a racket.
To these tnud-ohinked log cabins doctors’
visits were a rarity. The inhabitants lived
to Sometimes a rugged-and green old age.
these log cabin old-timers were
iln tiken ill. They were not proof against all
exposures to which they were subjected.
They found the i flfeetive remedies for these
common ailments in the roots and herbs
which grew in the neighboring forests and
fields. They had learned that nature has a
cure for every ill. These potent remedies
assisted their sturdy frames to quickly throw
off diseases and left no poison in the system.
The unpleasant feature of modern practice
with mineral medicines is the injurious after
effect on the system. May not modern
Uysical A drug-saturated degeneracy be due to this is feature!
latural, consequently system in healtqy,state. not in a
not a
If any of tbe main organs are clogged with
traces of the mineral poisons used to drive
out a particular disease! the whole machinery
of life is deranged and early decay of natural
powers is the inevitable result.
There can be no question that remedies
from If they the laboratory efficacious, of nature are the best.
vantage^! are ns leaving they have the ad¬
Their efficacy, if properly no after sting.
the roraedy applied compounded,and the dis¬
proper to proper
ease, will not be doubted. The experience of
ages proves it.
Their disuse has come about principally
through the rapid congregation of people in
cities and villages, rendering these natural
remedies difficult to obtain. Progressive
business enterprise has lately led to putting
these old time remedies within reach ol all
classes.
The proprietors of Warner’s safe remedies,
in the faith that the people of to-day would
be benefited by using the simple remedies of
log cabin days, have caused investigation to
be made and secured the formulas of a num¬
ber of those which long and successful use
had proved to be most valuable.
general They will, title we ‘ learn, be known under the
of ‘ Warner’s Log Cabin Reme¬
dies.’ ’ Among these medicines will be a
Cabin ‘Sarsaparilla” for the blood and liver, “Log
Hops and Buchu Remedy,’ ’ for the
stomach, etc. ‘ ‘ Log Cabin Cough and Con
sumption ine,” for the Remedy,’ hair, ’ “Log a remedy Cabin called Extract,” “Scalp
for internal and external use, and an old
valuable discovery for catarrh, called “Log
Sabin Rose Cream.” Among the list is also
t Liver “Log Cabin Plaster,” and a “Log Cabin
Pill."
Around the World.
Here is a story from a French paper'of
an hailed Englishman: cub Sir William Braggs
and a told the at driver Brighton about a year
ago to take him to the
pier, off which Sir Draggs had his yacht.
He told the cabman to wait for him,
meaning hour to cruise about off Brighton his for
an he determined or two; but changing mind
to go around the world.
The cabman waited and waited, and,
finding that his “fare” did not come
back, he obtained leave from the munici¬
pality to erect a shelter for himself and
horse. Here he waited for more than a
twelvemonth, when the other day Sir
Draggs returned surprised with his yacht he was
not at all to find the cabman
waiting for him. ‘ ‘How much do I owe
you?” he said, and upon the cabman
handing him a bill for £600 he tore a
check out of his book, filled it up forthe
amount, and told the man to drive him
to his hotel.
Endless Railway.
A railway, consisting of a chain formed
of a series of flat plates, 17 inches long
and 13 inches wide, made of hard wood,
riveted between two steel plates, is the
latest solution of the problem of an end¬
less railway, that is, a road which is as
much a part of the vehicle as the wheels
are. As the wheel revolve i it moves
along the bottom plate of the chain and
brings the next plate into position with¬
out undue strain or friction. It has been
used to good purpose in South America,
and is now being used in the swampy
land in Germany, where large beet root
plantations are.____
A New Yoke editor accuses a rival of
having had “a hideous nightmare, from
which was evolved a coagulated mass of
brutal rhetoric.”
The fob chaiD, which gives the wearer
Sfifgssssn the high road public «
to favor once more,
“*“*£ U P buckles jewelers and pendants are again which burnishing have lain
untouched for many years.
A farmer in Ingram’s township, North
of an *i with !>“«»>* for she split 200
- reason; can
fence rails a day, and has done it time
and again; and he says that it is a com
turpentine -»«*> <« day. ** •» **»»« “ <*
a
Carpenter Brown, of Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich., has built himself dog.*, a large and s will sleigh, sn ® I
secured a full team of set
out in a few days to drive them from the
goo to Grand Haven, a distance of nearly
and miloo nmes
‘
Jenks’ Dream.
Jenks had a queer dream the other night.
He thought he saw a prize-fighters' ring.and
in the middle of it stood a doughty little cham¬
pion by who met and deliberately knocked over,
one Ing one, a score or more of big, burly-look
Giants fellows, they as they advanced to tlie attack.
as were in size, the valiant pigmy
proved K all more than a match for them. It was
so funny thatJenks woke up laughing. He
just had
come to the conclusion, after trying near¬
ly every big, drastic pill on the market, that
Pierce’s tiny Purgative Pellets easily “knock
out” and beat all the rest hollowl
books Tanning is boa industry constrictor In Hamburg, skins N. for J. pocket
an
A Great Chance.
If you wish a beautiful picture that can not
bo distinguished from a Water Color, north a
large rest’s Monthly amount of Magazine, money, you for should February. get Demo- It is
simply wonderful how such an elegant picture
can can be furnished in a Magazine that only costs
20 cents. If yo ur new sdealer has not got it.
ask him to get it for you, or send to the pub¬
lisher, W. Jennings Demurest. 15 East 14th
St., New York.
The fashionable waist this season is 15 inch¬
es. That’s about all the dude is able to clasp.
Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Editor:—Please inform your readers
that X have a positive By timely remedy for thousands the above of
named disease. its use
liopelesscases have been permanently cured. I
shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy
free to any of your readers who ha ve con
sumption If they will send me their Express
and P. T. O. address SLOCUM, Respectfully, M. C., 181 Pearl St., N. Y.
A.
Roscoe him Conkling 1 residential says possibility that the endeavor is to
make nonsense.
A Woman’s Sweet Will.
She is permatnrely deprived of her charms
of face and form, and made unattractive by
the wasting effects of ailments and irregulari¬
ties peculiar to her sex. To cheok this drain
upon, not only her qualities strength and well, health, is her first but
upon her amiable as
duty. This is safely and speedily accom¬
plished by a course of self-treatment with Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, a nervine and
tonic of wonderful the alleviation efficacy,and of those prepared suffering espe¬
cially from for “dragging out” pains, sensations of
-
nausea, and weakness incident to women—a
boon to her sex. Druggists.
The New York City postoffice sold iu 1887
eleven tons of postage stamps.
The best and surest Remedy for Care of
all diseases caused by any derangement of I
the liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, I
Billons Complaints and Malaria of all kinds
yield readily to the beneficent influence of
A3J1
It la pleasant to the taste, times op the
system, restores and preserves health.
It is purely Vegetable, and cannot fail to
prove beneficial, both to old and young.
a a Blood Purifier it is superior to all
others. Sold everywhere at tl.00 a bottle.
mtuSm iglgS] ELY’S CREAM BALM
Is SURE TO CURE
mim 9§MC0LD™ J&fB HEAD
QUICKLY.
Apply Balm into each nostril.
u^aI h’i J Bros.,235 Greenwich St., N.Y.
PIS0S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION
IN THE SPRING!
Almost everybody wants a “Spring Tonic.*
Here is a simple testimonial, which shows how
B. B. B. is regarded. It will knock your malaria
out and restore your appetite:
SPLENDID FOR A SPRING TONIC.
Arlington, Ga., June 30,1887.
I suffered with malarial blood poison more
or less, all the time, and the only medicine that
done me any good is B. B. B. It is undoubtedly
the best blood medicine made, and for this
malarial country should be used by every one
In the spring of the year, and as good in sum
mer, fall and winter as a tonic and blood puri¬
fier. * *
GIVES BETTER SATISFACTION.
Cadiz, Kr„ July 0th, 1887.
Please send me one box Blood Balm Catarrh
Snuff by return mail, as one of my customers
is taking B. B. B. for catarrh and wants * box
of the snuff. B. B. B. gives better satisfaction
than any medicine I ever sold. I have sold 10
dozen in the past 10 weeks, and it gives good
satisfaction. If I don't remit all right for snuff
write me. Yours,
W. N. Brandon.
IT REMOVED THE PIMPLES.
Round Mountain, Tex., March 29, 1887.
A lady friend of mine has for several year,
been troubled with bumps and pimples on hei
face and neck, for which she used various cos.
metics iu order to remove them and beautifj
and improve her complexion ; but these local
applications were only temporary and left hei
skin in a worse condition.
I recommended an internal preparation
known as Botanft; Blood Balm—which I have
been using and selling about two years; she
used three bottles and nearly all pimples have
disappeared, her skin is soft and smooth, and
her general health much improved. She ex¬
presses herself much gratified, and can recom¬
mend it to all who are thus affected.
Mrs. 3. M. Wusoa.
» WELLS'
HAIR
BALSAM
ilj d* restores Hair to ortgi- 6rnj
Bin ualcolor. An
elegantdress¬ ing. softens
ana beautifies
No grease nor
oil. A Tonic
n m Restorative.
Prevents hair
coming strengthens, out;
A cleanses and
heals scalp.
'Jl SOc. Druggists
E. S. WELLS,
Jersey CUy, I. J.
mm LOOK YOUNG
as long osyou can, prw*
vent tendency to wnn- .
kies or . ageing of tn#
tel mm plump, .moves [Tenttaadeaeyto LEAURELLE ness Removes Wrinkles, preserves of the only that the will of complexion, substance fresh pimples, Flesh features; arrwt and and a condition youthful, prevents or wrlnklsa and rough¬ known clear* skin; OIL nr©- the ro>
$J. Druggists or Exp.
[ E. 8 . WELLS, Chemist, B. i»
Jeraey City,
THOS. F. SEITZ1NGER,
PRINTERS’ EXCHANGE
DEALER AND MANUFACTURER OF
Printers’ Supplies,
32 West Mitcbell Street, ATLANTA, GA.
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Will trade for all kinds of Printing Material. Old
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