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pi!" Jill " FAKE, GARDEN A>D HOUSEHOLD.! Newly Set Trees. Watering is not often necessary for nearly set trees. "We have known them to be injured by surface watering when ! mulching would have saved them. If yon have a mellow soil and mnlch yonr trees several inches thick you ^ill seldom need to wa*er them. The only way in which water can be advantageously applied is to remove the soil from the roots to the extent of the hole dug for planting, then pour in water nntil the roots are thoroughly soaked, re- j place the earth and mulch. Cultivate Youns Orchard*. Professor Beal, of the Michigan Agricultural College, says: "If you have! money io fool away, seed down your j jotmg orchard to clover and timothy, i or sow a crop of wheat or oats. If you want the trees to thrive, cultivate well till they are seven or ten years old. Spread ashes, manure, or salt broadcast. Stop cultivating in August, j weeds or no weeds; this allows the trees to ripen for winter. The question whether to cultivate old orchards or not must be answered by observing the j trees. If the clover of the leaves is good and they grow well and bear fine frait they are doing well enough even if in grass. But if the leaves are pale, ! the annual growth less than a foot on j twelve tree?, and the fruit small and poor, something is the matter, and tlr.-y are suffering for want of cultivation, or manure, or both. To judge of the condition of sn apple tree is like judging of the condition of sheep in a pasture. Look at th9 sheep, and if they are plump and fat they are all right." Goslius*. After the first few days' regime of ! chopped eggs and nettles young goslings may, according to an English breeder, be given a mixture of potatoes, meal and green vegetables cut up very finely. The nettle, however, suits them better than any other green food, as the iuice of that-Dlant seems especially fa vorable tc their digestion, which is so rapid that young geese must be fed five or sis times a day. "With them, as with all other young animals, it is necessary to give abundant nourishment from the very first Later on they will eat beet root either raw or cooked, and most green vegetables, as well as any sort of grain, and are especially fond of fruit. The Toulouse goose has a rather inconvenient habit of seeking her own provender, and, if she has any chance of doiDg so, will dig up and consume any number of crocuses and otherbuibs. It is not, however, to be supposed that they will be given the entree of on gardens ; but the present writer having once suffered severely from an incui-sicn of these marauders thinks proper to warn others against alike misadventureelite tri V.ivo cr*fv?a&& geese inusi be careful to give them a house which is large and airy enough, and plenty of clean bedding. The " ^Wabominable practice of letting ducks ^ud geese sleep in the hen house cann'&be sufficiently reprehended. The , go3k, in particular, "is a bird which likesStleanliness, and which, indeed, can ne\r thrive properly where this is wanting!^ InJjria' Corn Caltnre. Selecting twfe?P ear of the doubleeared stalks of CTfep from year to year, says a correspond*?^ of the American ^luiivaior, nas givtj^ua uuuuuic improvements in thecrJpryet there comes finally an end to thisprogres*, while at the least neglect reversion follows. I am becoming convinced tS|^ the tendency to sucker is the main caA? of reversion. There have been many triatt, in the past, the reports of which are conStfting, but the general impression prevaiDr^hat removing suckers lessens the yielcfi* Some recent experiments of my own co$vince me that this is owing to the mannt? in which the tuckering has been perforated. Corn, of course, is one of the grasses, and has the natural tendency to tiller, >. habit which needs to be broken up, and the energies of the plant concenT? r^r\T, nno c^ol lr onrJ itQ firV^O/rmftTW ing ears. Suckerhjg has neither gone far enough, tor been persisted in long enough, to break up the tendency. Once or twice pulling off is not sufficient to break up this tendency. In my own field I have broken out stickers this season at rfx different times, the resnlt of which has been somewhat to dwarf the stalks, bnt the gain has been in forcing out ears at every node. I am now convinced that if this plan be followed np for successive seasons the habit of suckeringcan be broken np, and in place of suckers we can develop ears. It has been thought necessary to retain the suckers to afford pollen for late ears, yet I find it is suckering that causes the laio ears, by diverting the energies of the plant from performing their proper functions at the right time. In such cases the removal of the cause cures the difficulty. I have had much experience in corn culture concerning the crossing of varieties and their reversion. Some years ago I crossed black Mexican corn and early Minnesota to improve the / quality. I saved the white corn from this cross, i lanting it for several yea: s to fix the habit, but it soon reverted, so that I could not distinguish it from early Minnesota. For four subsequent seasons I have crossed black Mexican, Early Minnesota, Campbell's sweet corn, Egyptian, itea iiiverana CKowen s Evergreen. Until this season there were seldom two good ears to the stalk, gfcb- I account for my success this year from the faot that dating 1831 I Jiave kept the suckers entirely removed, and most of the stalks have borne two, some three, some four and some even five ^ears. I removed every tassel upon those staiks which were without an ear before the time of blossoming. I think in this experiment I h-ive now crossed long enough to fix the impression, and prevent, at least in part,the tendency to revert, and shall coramc-nce next season to select and lis two varieties, one early and one late, with two and three ears to 1 11 * ? ? XK. ^ 4 tViv^A & SlitiiT, UejlSViL'g- (.JUUb L U ?uu wxcc good ears 3re all a stalk can successfully roatnre of sufficient size to prove profitable. I have no doubt that more ears in number can be developed, but my observation convinces me that three erecd ears of c rn are of more value than six rubbins. Before this year I have often wondered how other cultivators secured : their five ?ud sis ears of corn to the btalk. A Yankee guess would be that ppx-sisfent suckr-riiig coupled with select jor., is the secret; if so it should be a secret no 1 jngt-r. Farmers should be irt-eiy entitled to the benefits of all the knowledge there is among men. Flocks, cr " White ('ape," in Cream. Flecks are generally supposed to be pieces of dried cream, and possibly - -- "? _ v?i. ... : so nit i" :ucs ruey iuhy out usuanv th-v are not. for occasionally tliej enist in milk- before any cream rises, and sometimes are mingled with butter made by processes of cold-setting in which the cream remains soft, no part of it being dried at all. They seldom appear, however, in butter made by cold-setting ; they are mostly forrnd in butter made in dairies where the milk is set without any other cooling than that of the air in the room where the milk stands. For the most part they are developed in milk after it comes from me cow. jlij gmcsiy coonug mux. 10 & low degree, change is so much arrested thafc they cannot develop. They can^ only form -within certain hmits of temperature, and when they do, are likely to appear as plentifolly in.*oe milk as in the cream, and often. laore so, wliich is evidence adverse ?o their being originated from drifcjci cream. In milk which is in a peifect.1V normal condition they never appear. Tht-y always occur in milk which is more or less faulty. They are rirj apt to accompany an inflamed s- 'Ste of the udder, and seldom or never >aur>ear without it. When milk is all * * / right, the surface of the cieam mar be exposed to currents of dry air until it " becomes quite dry and hard, with<vit showing any indication of "white caps" as they are sometimes called. The dried cream, when mixed with the rest and well stirred up, soon becomes soft, and f churns the same a? tie rest. But when i. milk, which is a iitdo feverish, or in i i ]/ some other way faulty, is thus exposed to the air without being first well cooled, flecks will be pretty sure to show themselves in cumbers proportioned to the exposure. Whenever flecks are liable r to be developed, there can, with the c aid of a nr'crcscope, be seen in the milk f small specks of solid matter with frag- 1 mentary shapes which form the nucleus t cf the flecks. When such milk is set in ( a glass vessel and kept without much c cooling these specks can be seen to en- t large by the coagulation and adhesion 1 of the milk in contact with them, i Sooner or later they swell from gas form- ? ing within them, and, becoming lighter i than the milk, rise toward the surface and i more or less of them become imbedded i in the soft cream. When they form in { the milk they are almost wholly com- i posed of curd, but when formed in the : 1 cream they are very rich in cream, hav. : * ing as much, and perhaps more, cream i in their composition, as curd. ' ] 1 ReciDcs. At>t>tt* fut-per pirps tsllra r>tia f pound of apples, boiled, and pulped i through a sieve, one pound pondered : white sugar, the juice and grated rinds .! of three large fresh lemons, and four : ; eggs well beaten. Mis. these ingredients 1 carefully, and put them into a sauce- ! pan, in which jou have a quarter of a < pound of fre?h butter melted. Stir it ] constantly over a slow tire for half an 1 hour, and let it cool Line pie dishes 1 with fine puff paste, pour in the apple 1 mixture, and bake without upper crust < in a quick oven. Sprinkle with pow- i dered sugar, and serve when cold. 1 Meat and Potato Pie ?For the sake 1 nf varietv and to -olease children, who ; 1 V * * I J seem sometimes to be fascinated by pie, j} make once a year a meat and potato pie. j i Make a cnist as fcr chicken pie, and"fill j it with pieces of beefsteak, either partly ; cooked or raw; season it well, and make a gravy of melted butter and water 18 thickened with flour potir over the I < meat and then put in a layer of mashed : poteto, and the crust on the tow? of that \ t If it is too much trouble to mash the I potato, put in small cooked ones whole; j' be sure and Lave enough gravy so the pie will not be dry. Do not make the 1 j crust so rich as to be unwholesome. i! How xo Coos Veal.?Choose a piece ' which is firm and fat When it has been in the oven lcng enough to be heated i ^ through, begin to baste it with melted j 1 butter and water which is well salted | ] and peppered ; keep this up until the : meat is done, basting it every ten minutes Do not leave the kidney in < the meat to roast, but take it out, and < let it Drown ana crisp over 011 ine uuu- | < ; side Have a very fine oveD, and roasti1 a long'tine ; veal needs to ccok a third ' longer than beef. Add butter to the drippings for gravy. If you like stuffed veal, be sure that it is chopped very ! line and veil seasoned, as, unlike beef and lamb, the veal will add nothing to the Savor, so put m plenty of sage, j pepper and salt, and let "onion atoms j t lurk within, ana, scarce suspected, ani-; mate the whole." j. Potato Salad (German' Style.)?Boil! the potatoes with the peels in water and i __n ?m j? . ?? 1 some salt j until uuiie, puux uu mc water and set back on the stove a few minutes to dry; peel, and when cool, ' cut in thin slices; strew enough salt und fine black pepper to suit the taste; chop, or cut fine, one good-sized onion and add; also about one tablespoonful of pnre sweet olive or salad oil, and : . enough vinegar in which a teaspocnful of sugar has been dissolved, to make it < sour enough to suit the taste or propor- j tioi. of ether material. Household Hints. To preserve apples pack in boxes j or barrels elevated from the j cellar floor, with a layer of dry j sawdust at the bottom of eaclt box or ! 1 1 . xl 1 C oarrei, men a lavex ui uupies, pj.av_.cu. onfc of contact with eacli other, then a layer of sawdust, ana so on till all are full. Sound apples packed in this man- ner will keep fresh a long time. To whiten Trails, scrape off all the old : i whitewash, and wash the walls with a I ; solution of two ounces of -white vitriol i to four gallons of water. Soak c. quarter ] of-a pound of white glue in water for i i twelve hours ; strain and place in a tin j pail; cover with fresh water, and set ! the pail in a kettle of boiling water, j When melted stir in the glue eight pounds of whiting, and water enough to make it as thick as common whitewash. Apply evenly with a gcod brush. If the j1 walls are very yellow blue the water j slightly by squeezing in it a flannel j j blue-bag. : A correspondent complains that she 1 cannot make her white starched clothes, particularly the shirt bosoms and col- j lars, look bright and clear and glossy. : She is snre she washes them clean, and : hangs them to dry turned wrong side .; out, but when they are ironed tbey ' have a dingy look. Perhaps she does 1 not keep her irons clean. This fault is : not uncommon. It is well to wash the i irons all over carefully once in a while, before they are quite cool and are pnt away. Starch that sticks to them bums cn, and soils the clothes. Beeswax is often recommended for cleaning the irons when starch sticks to them. A ' little salt on a paper on the ironing j table, to rub the iron on whenever ihe : starch sticks, will be found useful. Washington's Family Coach. # w ? Benjamin Kichardson, an eccentric j New York gentleman owns the carriage ! in which "Washington made his tonr of i the Southern States in 1791. This is the only one of Washington1 s carriages in existence and it is unquestionably the most wonderfully constructed piece of road machinery of the hind extant. "The Ark," as its facetious custodians at the Centennial were pleased to call it, was built in 17S9 by I John WhitS of this city, who re-1 garded it as his masterpiece and felt as '< proud of his work as the builder of the famous "one hoss shay" did of his. : "vVhen full-rigged and loaded with fonr inside passengers, a driver on the bow and a footman perched on the pcop : deck, "the Ark" weighed nearly fonr : thousand pounds; but it was made of such excellent material that in lumbering over two thousand miles of rough ' country roads in the South not a screw , or bolt was started. Even now, after a lapse of nearly a century, the old chariot is in a good state of preservation and it would stand as much rough travel : : as a carriage built twenty years, ago. 1 The wood-work of the vehicle is oak. The axle?, wheels, whifletree bar and . fifrh wheel do not differ from these pares of the carriages of the present day, except that in Mr. White's masterpiece, they are of monster size. The wheels are but little heavier than those now in : ! upc, but their circumference is much greater. That "the Ark" was built to last is proven by the fact that every bit; of woodwork, from the sole-leather- j covered dash-board to the footman's; stand in the rear, is heavily bound with iron and s:rongiy riveted. The woodwork iu bodies of ordinary barouches is quarter-inch ash cr poplar, but no such li^ht fetnff was used in building this roiling relic of the past century, and the General's "heftiest Loss" might tLunder his heels against the dashboard for a week without i damaging it in the least. Instead of the cloth lining of the carriage known i , to thr present generation Washington's faroiiy vehicle is lined inside with black . ?3obled calfskin, and green painted oak slab blinds, nearly as large as those of an ordinary dwelling house, allow light and air to enter the cavernous depths cf the ccach when it is in j motion. The body of the carriage swings by leather straps from four oldfashioned upright springs, which are braced and bolted in a score of places. From the top of the coach to the groana me distance is eignt leet six inches and the cavity is large enough to contain a couple of hogsheads. The front of the carriage is decorated with two lamps, each of which contains the moldy stub of a tallow candle. The ancient vehicle was on exhibition at the Philadelphia Centennial, and is now in a museum in that city. i Show your colors, but don't show them cn vour nose. J I * i \ * f RELIGIOUS READING. The Gitrden of Geth?eraanc. Ge?h?emane was a garden or orchard, narked probably bv some slight :n-; ilosure ; and as it had been a place of requent resort for Jesus and his fol-1 owers, vie may assume that it belonged o some friendly owner. The name j Jethsemane means the "oil press," and loubtless it was so called from a press o crush the olives yielded by frhfj countess trees from which the hi!L derives is designation. Any one who 'has rested it noonday in the gardens of En-ganlim or Xazareth in spring, and can j ccall the pleasant shade jielded by the nterlaced branches of oiive and pome- j ;ranate, and fig and myrtle, )nay easily | magine what kind of a spot it was. The :raditional site, venerable and beautiful is it is from th 3 age and site of the gray jnarled olive trees, of v.hich one is still snown as the Tree of Agony, is perhaps :oo public?being, as it always must j lave been, at the angle formed by the j :wo paths which lead over the summit i md shoulder of Olivet?to be regarded j is the actual spot. It was more proba-: bly one of the secluded hollows at no ?reat distance from it that witnessed :hat scene of awful and pathetic mystery. But although the exact spot cannot be letermined with certainty, tbe general position of Gethsemane is clear, and hen as now the checkering moonlight, he gray leaves, the dark, brown trnnks, he soft greensward, tbe ravine with Jiivet towering over n xo tne easwaiu md Jerusalem to the west, must have oeen the main features of a plane which tvill be regarded with undying interest trhile time shall be, as the place "where :he Savior of mankind entered alone into the Valley of the Shadow. ItelisiocM Mew* and Notes. According to the Baptist Weekly there ire three vacant pulpits of Baptist jhurches in New York city. The AmeriCa?^3oard eCTf^Ct^soon to -end out twenty-one new missionaries, [t has a very small deficit this year. The Rock River Conference which deposed Dr. Thomas'from the ministry, idopted a strong report against polygeny. The will of the late Francis P. Schoals has been admitted to probate. He be jueaths $275,000 for charitable purposes, chiefly to various Presbvtenan institutions. Professor W. P. Coddington, of Syracuse University (Methodist), has declined a call to the Second Presbyterian Church, of Chicago, on the ground of difference in theology. The General Missionary Jubilee Conference of the Reformed Church in America was held at Albany. The Rev, R. W. Clark, pastor of the First Reformed Church, delivered the address of welcome. At the recent session of the California Congregational Association it "was stated that there are as yet twenty-two counties which have no Congregational church or minister, and many which have no kind of Protestant preacher. The Baptists in Sweden report for 1881 19,297 communicants, united in 303 churches, of which thirteen were formed in the past year. The churches have 11G places of worship of their own. Last year 2,3G5 persons were baptized. The Rock River Methodist Conference, in session recently, reported 24, 11G full members, 1,370 probationers, 320 churchcs, worth $4,500,000, and 139 parsonages, The benevolent collections for the year were liberal. The Christians of all evangelical denominations in the United States have averaged twenty-one cents a year from each member for foreign missions for the past ten years. For home missions the average has been twenty-eight cents. It i? reported that che Ohio Congregation alists have made a gain of 500 in membership in the last year. The contributions for benevolent objects amounted to $63,54S, a gain o2 $27,161 over the preceding year. The churches number 230. The Paris correspondent of the London Times says that the belief is current that the Pope has authorized the members of the dispersed religious orders to assume the dress of the secular priests, or even that of laymen, and has empow ered the French bishops to give them appointments as parish priests. In th9 pulpit of the Episcopal church at Shrewsbury, N. J., there is a Bible which was printed in 1717, and presented to the church in 1752. It is in good order, and is regularly used by the reccor in the church services. A quaint memento of Revolutionary days" surmounts the steeple. It is an iron crown of George III. It is marked by bullet holes shot through it by the patriot soldiers as tokens of disrespect to his majesty. The church is nearly 180 vears old. The First Onarrel. Tn five cases cut of sis, the first matrimonial quarrel is occasioned by a badly prepared meal. John is a prosaic individual and wants a good dinner; but Matilda does not knowhow to cook it. Very likely she has been spoiled by a bad example at home. Her mother, although she may know how to work well when she thinks it worth while, and may have taught her daughter all she knows, yet does not regard home and the family as always deserving of her best, and so accustoms them to the slatternly service or the neglectful cooking. It is too troublesome to stone the raisins when the familv are only by themselves?one day the daughter forgets that raisins ought to be stoned. It is equally troublesome to broil the steak, and save it from flame and smoke?the daughter of the woman who thinks so always fries steak. It isn't worth while wasting an egg on the coffee when there is no company?the girl hardly remembers any coffee with other taste thau that of the salty bitter of the fish-skin used to "settle" it. It is easier to buy a few pickles and a litMo than it is to make them: easier still to go without them. She does just as her mothei did before her. If her mother's baked beans were stewed bullets, she cannot fancy anybody should want beans cooked all day, and cooked differently. If her mother never strained the pea soup, but had set it on as it came from the fire, a sad day is hers when he^-husband.^g^ for a dish of pea soup for the next day's dinner, and gets his watery portion with its sediment ai; the bottom and its scum atop. If her mother's biscuit were always streaked with salaratus and heavy with lard, she would regard rolls white and light as newly fallen snow as something belonging to the households of princesses, to the King cf France's kitchen, but not to be frc-ely eaten by common folk?. If the mother thought it a pity there was any such thing as eating, that the brushing of the cloth was a great waste of time, ihat dinner wa3 regarded only as something like the stopping of a steamer to -'wood np,:' it is then most probable that the daughter will think so too. Her ways are all slip-shod, acd poor .John must suffer in eonseqiaense. A Fable. A little mouse saw a fine piece of cheese in a trap. " Hew gcod it locs.%" he ?aid. " I gaess I'll ] ost taste it. ana tase tne rest home to my sick little sister." Just then his oldest brother ran into the room. " It's mine," cried he. running toward the trap. " Yon shall not have any of it. I want it all for myself." He took a bite, the trap snapped, and he was killed. Selfish little boys and girls don't get caught in traps, but they often get into a great deal of trouble. A Philadelphia washerwoman who held twelve shares in one of the build- i irifr associations of that citv has iust re ceived 83,430 as the result or her savings during nine years and six months. She ! had paid in 81,333 in her monthly dues, ; and was so punctual in her attendance ! that her accounts were elcar of lines win n the association linallv Tvcund up. One Meal a Day. Dr. C. E. Page sends to the Joitma of Chemistry an account of experiment! made to show that one meal a day i: enough for a man : "S. N. S., twenty-eight years old resolved to adopt the one-m2al system and did so, leaving off meat and al condiments, as salt and pepper, anc eating chiefly wheat-meal bread anc fruit, the bread made from unsiftec meal and mixed with water only, n( salt or bread-raising devices?unleaven ed bread. Within seven months hi: weight increased from one hundred anc forty-five pounds to one hundred anc seventy pounds, and his strength of botl body and mind had increased in pro portion. His labor had been severe he is a machinist and an inventor working ten hours every day, and do ing a good deal of practical and profit able thinking at the same time. It ii now a full year since he came to on< meal, and the weight gained has beei maintained, and his health is perfect During the last winter, for the purpos< of testing the sufficiency of one meal o pure food for the most trying labor, hi worked in an iron foundry for threi , months, and notwithstanding the ex treme and frequent changes of temper ature incident to the work, on col< mornings, witn tne mercury oeiow zero and in the afternoon at 120 degree above, and all hands sweating like rain he had not a 'cold' for the winter, an* j was the only employe thus exempt. H had formerly been subject to frequen attacks of the above disease. Hi daily ration consists of six ounces ti nine ounces (according to labor)?ii Graham flour, beside fruit sufficient o supply all the liquids necessary half : j dozen apples or their equivalent t< i other fruit. He is rarely thirsty, bu | sometimes, if too little fruit is taken a I meal time, he takes a small draft o j water in the course of the day. Thi ; meal is taken at night, aftef entire re [ coYefcS^sflffi^atijfce, usiii^^cui^bou j seve\ t, --Tin?- Dnring tiie month o I passed, he gainecf sixt; j hours,~or six fail days, working extr | honrs at his bench, sometimes workinj ! right through to midnight, and takinj i bis 'breakfast' after a short rest, befor I retiring. No man in his employ hat j gained so much time. He has occa : sionaily made a trial of bolted-flou I bread, but has invariably experience) ; a loss of weight and strength. "AT-ir n?n nvnavianna ornoe fav f n rirnv J.U..T wnu I * 1 the efficiency of the above regimen fo either the brain or muscle worker. ! am now taking but one meal a day, an< ; find myself perfectly nourished, weigh ! and strength maintained, on abou ; fourteen ounces of unleavened wheat ! me^l bread, to the mastication of whic] I devote an hour or more. I find tha six cold gems, weighing about fourteei I ounces, without either butter or milt ! chewed deliberately and thorough!; : dissolved by the juices of the mouth will sustain me much better than whei : eaten warm with butter or milk, or bot] | together added, and eaten as fast as on | naturally eats hot rolls and butter o ; bread and milk. Considering the man j ner in which people in general bol | their food, it is not strange that a larg i proportion of it fails of digestior ; Starchy food cannot be transformed in i to pure blood entire, except as far a ; the change is begun in the mouth. "Until a few months ago I took m; | food in the morning, but I find th ; evening a better time. During the da j the biain and muscles can have every thing their own way, without interfer ing or hindering digestion, and at ever j ing, after sufficient rest, tiiere is per ; feet tranquility of body and mind an j 'leisure to digest.' I had never been ; 'good sleeper' until I adopted this sys j tern of diet. People who eat severs ! meals a day do well to take the least o: j early, and the lighter they make it th j better, but dyspeptics may rest assure I that, of itself considered, the evenin, meal is not the cause of their wakeful ness or troubled dreams. When I at ! three meals of a mixed diet, I coul not make the last one simple enough t give me complete rest at night, bn now, when rested from my day's laboi j I can eat my full vegetarian mfal am I sleep like a well-fed babe. I could giv quite a number of examples like th foregoing, of one-mealers, did spac permit, all tending to prove the superi ority of vegetab?e over animal diet, am of the entire wheat over the most sc; entifically impoverished article." A Veritable "India Knbber J>an." The strangest phenomenon we hav : seen for a long time is now on view i ; Vienna. "Der Gummimensch," or th india rubber man, is quite the queeres ' ET?. fla, JLCIIVW lOiagiuauAc. uc JLO a> iiuv cid man, with red liair and a bilioti complexion; he wears black reive knickerbockers, and is very polite. F can seize ike skin of his chest wit! ! both hands, pnll it away from his bod ibont eighteen inches, and raise it t the level of his head; and yet when k leaves go, instead of his sKin hangin in horrid folds it goes spreading itse] again, so that not a crease is to be dis covered. The skin of his nose he ca stretch six inches, the skin of his fingei two inches, so that his hands look size Nos. 29 or 30. He drags at the calf c his leg and behold a goodly and trans lucent membrane, in which ca.n be see the ramified network of arteries, pin and pulsating. This does not hurt hiir j He can?but enongh. You see that h ; well deserves his title of "Gammiu ! ensch." "What with his cadaverous fac ; and gluey elasticity he much* remind j one of Dore's ghastly portrayal of th j damned in the grand illustrations c I the "Inferno." The medical facult ! are highly exercised anent this man an i they have begged him for the smalles | strip of skin jnst for microscopical in i vestigation. There has not been sue i a case for two centuries, and in thos | days of course the microscope wa rather primitive. "Gummimensch" i a Bavarian, thirty-two years of age ! married and has three normal children | He charges two florins to show himsel; His skin feels like velvet, or perhap j rather like the breast of a plucke I fowl, but it is not a sweet sensation t j touch him.? Vienna Letter. Nothing Extraordinary, j Colonel Stuart, when a subaltern a ; Gibraltar,, was ^ one day on guard wi? | another afficer, who unfortnggtelv jfel i down a pf1Q?jK^2$9a^TOUre^eS899 ; and was Smed^ln fhe guaraj-epo* i ther9 is : "N. B?Nothing extraordinar since guard mounting," the meaning c | which is chat in case anything particnla should occur, the officer commandin the guard is bound to mention it. On 1 friend, however, said nothing about th ; accident that had occarred to h: ; brother officer, and some hours after th brigade major came to his quarters, o the part of the officer commanding, wit the report in his hand to demand an c-2 : planation. The brigade major, address ing iiim, said : "You say, sir, in tot I report. 'N. B.?Nothing extraordinar i since guard mounting.' when jov brother guard, on duty with you, hs fallen down a precipice, four hundre | feet high, and been killed." "Wei sir," replied B , "I dinna thin there's anything extraordinary in it; : ; he'd faun down a precipiee four huudre feet high and not been killed, I shoo] ha'e thonght it very extraordinary ir : deed, and wad ha'e put it down in m i report.1' In Japan spiders are so troublesom o the telegraph lines that men are c-i ployed to keep the lines clear by brnsl I ing them -with long bamboo poles. Th spiders spin heavy webs from the wire to the trees and earth, which in we weather become good conductors an carry off the current. Germany grows about fifty millioi pounds of tobacco on her own soil, ant imports a hundred million pounds fron the United States?according to a Bei lin writer. The coming holidays wiil L-o mora general 1 observed than any for many years, and w would remind our readers that a bottla of Pi litilfa Cyngh Syrup will prove a most accept able holiday present THE USE OF NARCOTICS. z 3 The Habit Rapidly Incrcaainjr?Investieatinnt* by a New York Physician?Statl?- i 3 tics Obtained | Irom Drnsaists?Opinra j Dona in New Ybrk--How the Drills are , ! L'sed. > i It is prrbably but little known out- j | j side of medical circles that the habit of ! | eating opium is rapidly increasing - among respectable and educated people. ' Dr. H. H. Kane, a physician of this city, } for some time has been investigating ' the extent of the opium habit in this 3 country, and especially in New York * city, and he has gathered many facts ' which furnish startling proof of the 1 headway this vice is making. Dr. Kane, " in reply to some questions from a > Tribune reporter recently, said: > " A higher degree of civilization, " bringing with it increased mental * development among all classes, in5 creased cares, duties and shocks, seems } to have caused the habitual use of nar1 cotics, once a comparatively rare vice * among Christian nations, to become 3 alarmingly common. Increase in men* tal strain, hot-house development of e the passions, lessened physical labor B and increased mental work, have been " gradually giving ua bodies in which the nervous element largely predominates. 1 Persons who may be classed under the '? head 'nervous temperaments' are daily c xT- _ ? - v\m'n * { on tile murease. 0:1111x1x15 jjam, uci> I vousness and hysteria constantly claim* ing his attention, and that nothing ree ; lieves him so well as opium or morphine, t the phjsician resorts to iheir use more s i and more freely, expecting as soon as 0 the more distressing symptoms pass 1: away, to pursue another plan of treat' ? i ment. The patient, however, having a ; once felt relief, insists upon the further 0 ] use of the drug, sometimes feigns illness ^ i in order to procure it, finally obtains * | some by purchase, and in guilty secrecy * ; drifts rapidly into the habit. Moreover, 8 j nervous affections are on the increase; *7' pain without any apparent cause, ner\ i vousness from the most trivial things. 1 Neuralgia is more common. Insanity 7 and suicide are daily more frequent." a "How did yon proceed in order to I ascertain the extent of the opinm habit Z in this city ?" asked the reporter. e i "I sent a circular to every one of the 3 1 600 drug stores in this city, asking how ' I many habitual users of the drug each r had, I received answers from 136 3 | druggists from all parts of the city. A | large number had three or four cus6 j tomers, and some as high as sixteen or r I eighteen habitual users of some opium r - - - - - ? t AA preparation. Altogether tney gave soy 1 users of the drug. As there are about t 600 drug stores in this city, there -would t be, calculating on this basis, about 1 1,900 habitual users of opium in this b j city, exclusive of the smokers." t j " Do you think that this indicates a I that the number of opium takers is on ' > j the increase?" 7 | "It most assuredly does. The most I dangerous preparation, morphia, has, a ! on account of its rapid and decided ach ! tion, the most popularity." ?| " Have you been investigating at all r j the extent of opium smoking, among -? - i - fin i- { wmie psopie : t j (i Yes, and I have come to the cone ! elusion that there are between fonr and i. ; five thousand white opinm smokers in i-! the United States, and three or four s , hundred in this city." j "Is this habit confined to the larger J | cities of the East and to the Pacific e i Coast ?' 7 " No, it is spreading all over the - United States. Actors and traveling - salesmen who have been in all towns of an v importance in the North, East, South - a::d West, tell me that they never have tl been in any town yet where an opiuma den could not be found, and where i- white smokers were not present. There >1 are about ten men to one woman n | smoker." &, "Do you think that the spread of c1. the opium-smoking habit is due to an ? increased Chinese population?" I- "No. According to the census of e 1876 there were about 117,331 China d ! men in the United States, and accordo ing to the census of 1880 we have only fc a Chinese population of 105,440. "With a falling off of Chinese population in d these four years there was an increase e of 7,456 pounds of smoking opium. As e j an ordinary smoker will consume about e 100 grains of opium daily, and as there i- arc at least 4,000 American smokers in d the United States, 400,000 grains are " *? * ? "? ^ i A o f\nr\ aaa I* usea a any, equai 10 xio,uw,uuu about 19,000 pounds, in a year. As smoking opium retails for about $30 a pound, ?570,000 are annually spent for ! the gratification of this vice." e : " Some smokers have been known to n I consume as much as 1,440 grains, or e ! three ounces, in one day. Three to six it grains make a pipeful. There are two kinds of opium, No. 1, or Li Tun, is smoked by the better class, and No. 2, it consisting of a mixture of the ashes of e No. 1 and crude opium boiled together h and filtered. The latter is very strong y | and rank, and is only smoked by the o ! poorer class. In the opium dens No. 1 e ' retails for 25 cent3 for sixty grains, g | The Chinese measure it by fun, and sell [f| ten fun for 25 cents. An ordinary 1 smoker will smoke about three drachms n i of smoking opium in a day, which will s I cost from 50 to 75 cents. ' Fiends,' peris I sons who smoke to excess, have been >f | known to use as much as a pound and 5- a quarter a day." n "What is the rate of increase in this k n ity i. ; "About ten persons a week. Smokers e j lead others into the habit in order i- j to en joy their companionship, it being, e i like drinking, a social vice. Here the s 1 habit is much less prevalent than in the e i West and South. Dr. Shurtleff, of - ? rui:r~?-n. )I | OlUUJbLLUUj VCtl-LlV-/! JJLltA, JL/1 xocuiauuiiW) j of San Francisco, and Dr. Hams, of d Virginia City, Nevada, assure me that ;t the cpinm habit is spreading despite the strictest laws and ordinances. The h habit was first begnn by sporting men, e and gradually spread among all classes. ,s The first white man to smoke opium, it ^ is said, was a sportiDg man in California. As opium smokiDg takes a great i. deal of tine, those haviugmuch leisure I. on their hinds are most prone to inis dulge in it. There are a few 'society' d : women who smoke in the better class o : of opiim dens." "Whereabouts are the opium dens in i ,:In Mctt, Pell, Paik and Ciuy&lie tveets, several in.JFonrth and Second j- avenues, and' one cn Twenty-Third &. street. ahe one in Twenty-Third street r5' is kept by a white woman, and is only frequented by white smokers. Chinas men manage the others. It is a curious y fact that smokers prefer reveling in the | low 'joints,' as opium dens are called, ,r j to smoking in their private apartments. ? ' This is partly because the pipes in the r | dens are so thoroughly impregnated ;e ' with opium by their constant use that ls j they seem to have a more decided effect e j than less frequently used pipes ; and ? partly for the sake of the companions sure to be found there." " JL/UtJi UpiULLL*^JJJ,UXVJ ax Vllijj JLfAV?v4.MW 3" stupefaction?" 111 "No, that is an entirely erroneous ^ idea. So far from producing stnpefacLr tion it does not even induce sleep. Moderate indulgence produces a feeling . of perfect contentment and hap' piness and of complacency with the world and all its surroundings. Life , seems to be replete with the brightest ^ prospects, and the most cherished ; hopes seem on the eve of being realized. 1_ | Everything making life disagreeable 7 i fades into obscurity. Upon persons ; living in cold and temperate climates the drug does not have the effect which I it has upon Orientals. The mode of n : life, the indolent habits, the religions 1_: associations and the fertile imagination I of the latter races are all likely to pro? | duce, under the*influence of the drug, ^ the most fanciful and grotesque dreams. These are due to their environments ' and not to the specific action of the j opinm inhaled. That it does not pro^ ; duce sncli an effect npon our plain, 1 ! methodical, unimaginative peopie is a not astonishing." "What effect does a continued indulgence in this vice produce upon the mind and body of the smoker?" ? 'After a time the pleasurable sensae , tions entirely disappear, and he only *. smckes in order to stifle the terrible r sufferings that abandonment of the j practice entails He no longer smokes for the sake of the pleasure it brings, i but is driven to the practice he abhors i to avoid the pains he cannot endure. ' The effects upon the body and mind are : Lassitude of the will-power, indecision, loss of memory, soreness of the , eyes, emaciation, obstinate constipation, dyspepsia, inflammation of the throat ! and bowels, and eventually death." "is opium-smoking, in your opinion, as disastrous in its results as drinking ?" "There is no comparison between J opium smoking and chronic alcoholism, the latter doing far more injury to the individual and the community. An opium-smoker does not commit murder | or any brutality and will not go rteling t through the streets to end his debauch in a police cell. Less degrading as it j may appear than the a'coholic vice, , still the opium-smoker has not the least excuse for indulging in this vice other than the gratification of a morbid desire for a pleasurable sensation. The morphia or laudanum taker usually employs the narcotic for the purpose of allaying pain, while the opium-smcker does so merely, as I have said, to ! gratify his passions." "Are there any other narcotics that j i are habitually used ?' ' Yes; there is choral hydrate, bro j mide of potassium, chloroform and hasi hisch. When chloral was first introI duced in this country, it was used as a ; sleep producer in cases of insomnia. It is now habitually taken, especially : by persons recovering from a debauch. The effects upon body and mind .are far more dangerous than any other opiate. It causes a complete ruin of both. It is the most treacherous drug known. A i person may take say twenty grains for j years, without any ill effect; then sud-1 denly without any warning this dose produces death. There is a less marked craving than with the opium-smoker, j and the habit is the more easily broken, but the tendency to relapse is much greater. The continual use of bromide of potassium produces blood poverty, disease of the lungs and throat, insanity and sometimes death. Chloroform and other are known to be habitually taken. A physician of my acquaintance, after his day's work, retires to his chamber and inhales enough chloroform to put him into a stupor lasting several hours. Neither the chloroform nor the ether habit has yet been sufficiently investigated to warrant any definite statement as to the extent they are practiced. Hashisch, or Indian hemp, is rarely taken in this country. It is not steadily nsed as opium is, but, like alcohol, is only resorted to at irregular intervals. It is usually taken in the form of a pill containing the green extract. ''From all this you see that the habitual use of narcotics is steadily on the increase, especially the sub-cutaneous use of morphine ; that these drugs are I usually taken first to relieve pain, and not for the gratification of a morbid appetite ; and that the increase of the habit is in a measure due to the carelessness of physicians and druggists. The physician is to blame for putting the hypodermic syringe in the hands of the patient. The spread of the vice is still more largely due to the druggists, who i-n montr mcoc coll tho drnor \37if.hnnt. a I physician's perscription, in direct violai tion of the law. Chloral is sold to men just recovering from a prolonged debauch ; and prescriptions containing large amounts of these drugs are renewed for patients without the authority of the physician. The druggist himself often prescribes chloral, morphine or bromide of potassium for persons suffering from insomnia. When spoken to about this matter they coolly excuse their practice with the remark that 'If we don't do it some other druggist will, and why should we lose the money ? The laws relating to the sale of poisons are loose and inefficient, the practice rotten, and the statute really a dead letter. Dangerous and even fatal cnneonnPTiM? flTA Tint. then. SO much Vt~ ' ~ -3 * to be wondered at." A Cornish Tillage. On tlie summit of the west bank it touches the village of Saltash, which is built down the hill-side to the water's edge, and which is like most other fishiDg villages in Cornwall?clean, solidly put together, unornamental, and a whitish-gray in color. The deficiency of color is dispiriting to the artist who has come from the contemplation of the more opulent architec IUXC VJL CJUO VVUWAUVMW. _4_ -i-*^ -ww one and two stories liigh, of concrete, brick and stone, with diamond-pained windows, have been designed to shelter withont any other idea than ntilitv. Their white or yellow walls seem to be vertical strata of the indigenons rock of their foundations. The sashes aEd the doors are painted black, and the streets are made of gray macadam. What little color there is gains brilliancy from contrast with these quiet surroundings. The verdure is the greenest, and the fuchsias blaze in relief. Up on the hill, with a somewhat disorderly little grave-yard inclosing it, is a serious-looking, sqnare-towered church, like many others in Cornwall, of gray sandstone, well worn by the weather of centurics, which has smoothed all the edges. The church is nearly seven hundred vears old?the tower older? and where time has made a gap or a seam, the "restoration" 1 as been effected in the most economical way. The concrete used to fill in lias included the fragments of the rained part, and bits of gargoyles and other carved work are found imbedded in the plaster. Look from the houses to the people?there is an infallible correspondence. The men are brown and strong, a little sad, with large frames, but no spare flesh; and the women, who are g) and at the oar, are scarcely their inferiors in physical I proportions. They are frank and indej pendent in manner, gathering their j living from the sea. There is little vice among them?the smart dresses and chubby faces of their chilai-en are certain indications of domestic virtue : but that some of them fall to the besetting sin of the English may be inferred from what we heard one of them say of a neighbor: "He wass as dhrunk as forty maintops'l-fheet blocks."-Magazine. M The Eyesight of Readers. A writer calls attention to the danger which readers run of injuring their eyesight by the use of a bad Jight. He remarks that engravers, -watchmakers and others, who use the eyes constantly , in their work, take extra care to pre- j serve them by getting the best possible j light by day, and using the best artificial light at night. The great army of readers are careless, and have, sooner j or later, to pay the penalty of their carelessness by giving up night work ; entirely, anc" sometimes reading, except at short intervals, and under the best conditions. All departures from common type, making the matter more : difficult to take in, increase tiie danger. : The magnitude of the physical labor of reading is not appreciated. A book of ! 500 pages, forty lines tc the page, and j fifty letters to the iine, contains 1,000,| 000 letters, all of which the eye has to J lake in, identify and combine each with I its neighbor. Yet many a reader will ; go through such a bock in a day. The | task is one ho would shrink from if h. | should slop to measure beforehand, J i Tiie bes*. positions ana tjue oest ngnis clear type, plain infcs, -with, the best paper of yellowish tints, and abundant space between the lines, afford the best safeguards against harm. Sot Worth It. j A backwoodsman promised to send j the minister fifty pounds of maple sugar j for marrying him. Time passed cn, I and no maple sugar arrived to sweeten j j the minister's household. Some months Jater he saw the newly-married husband : in tne town, ana venirureu iu xemiiiu him : "My friend, yon did not send the maple sugar yon promised." With a ! saddened countenance he looked np and replied: "To tell yon tie truth i governor, she ain't worth it! | The man who was "rocked in the ! cradle of the deep" mu.st have slept between sheets of water. i 1 ?rv; *<%- ; I THE HOME DOCTOR. To remove freckles: Lemon juice, ( one onnce ; qnarter of a dram of pondered borax and one dram of sugar. Mix them, acd let them stand till ready 1 for use, then rnb it on the face occa- : sionally. When an individual is reported to , have died of disease of the heart, we j ! are in the habit of regarding it as- ; an inevitable event, as something which ' could not have been foreseen or pre vented, and it is too much the habit when persons suddenly fall down dead, to report the heart as the cause ; ihis , silences all inquiry and : jarestigation, j and saves the trouble and inconvenience < of post mortem. A truer report would | V?r?TTA n +/vr?^/vn/'>T' f/\ coro TnorsT" 1 iTf- J is through a report of disease of the i heart that many an opium-eater is let \ off into the grave, which covers at j once his folly "and his crime; the brandy- j drinker, too, quietly slides around the j corner thus, and is heard of no more;; in short, this report of disease of the } heart; is the mantle of charity which ' the polite coroner and sympathetic physician throw around the graves of generous people. At a scientific congress at Strasburg, it was reported that of sixty-sis persons who had suddenly died, an immediate and faithful post modem showed that only two persons had any heart affection whatever 1 ?one sudden death only in thirty-three, ' from diseases of the heart. Nine out out of sixty die of apoplexy?one out of every seven; while forty-six?more than two out of three?died of lung af fection, half of them congestion of the lungs, that is, the lungs were so full of blood they could not work; there was not room enough for air to get in to support life. It is, then, of considerable practical interest to known some of the common every-day causes of this congestion of the lungs, a disease which, the figures above being true, kills three times as many persons at short warning as apoplexy and heart disease together. Cold feet, tight shoes, light clothing, costive bowels, : sitting still until chilled through after I having warmed up by labor or a long, 1 liastv walk : eroinsr too suddenlv from a ! , close, heated room, as a lounger, or listener, or speaker, while the body is weakened by continual application, or abstinence, or heated oy a long address; these are the frightful causes of sudden j^ath in the form of congestion of the lungs; bat which, being falsely reported i as disease of the heart, and regarded as an inevitable event, throw people off their gaurd instead of pointing tnemto their true causes, all of which are avoidable; and very easily so, as a ! general rule, when the mind has once j been intelligently drawn to the suiv I ject.?Hall's Journal of Health. nri. - / , 1 r> t. nit; tuucuru u'bvu iu julc.vitv. In her paper "A Diligence Journey in Mexico," in the Century Magazine, Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote gives the following picturesque description of the diligence: The diligencia general is the ordinary Concord coach, drawn by eight mules, | harnessed in a complicated tangle, which | is technically described as "two wheelers, fonr on a swing, and two leaders,' i. t., two at the wheels, fonr abreast in the middle, and two ahead. The driver wore a pair of goat-skin breeches, with the long yellow hair outside, comically I suggesting the legs of a satyr. He had 1 an assistant beside him, who wielded the whip, or, if whipping failed, pelted the mules with small stones from a leather bag filled for the purpose. There was extraordinary neatness and precision in his aim. The offender was admonished by sharp, unerring little i taps upon the ear, or the root of the tail, or a projecting hip-joint. On these occasions, unlike the teamsters of the Northwest, the Mexicans do no rely on profanity. i An Indianapolis exchange mentions that j St. Jacobs Oil cared Mr. J. K- Mattern, a j letter-carrier of that city, of a severe sprain, j contracted in the war ?Detioit (Mich ) ' Western Home Journal. ii , Over 2,000 robins were killed .by one man in a Kentucky roost recently, j Every branch of a cedar thicket sixty acres in extent has its red-breasted lodger, and although the slaughter by ; hunters, who use a lantern and a club, ! is terrific,their numbers do not seem to decrease. j From the Wilmington (Del.) Republican: j Mr. J. M. Scott, corner Third and Madison ! streets, had a remarkably fine horse cured | of the scratches by St. Jacobs Oil. j What's going and what's past help ! should be past grief. ABEATTY's* PI AXOFORTES.-Masmiflcenl . holiday presents; square grand pianofortes.four very I handsome round corners, rosewood cases, three unisons. 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For Concbs, Colds, Croup, Bronchitis and all ? other affections of the Throat and LUN'GS, it stands unrivaled and utterly beyond all competition. tit nniTcimirnmTTTTi ni circa 4 Ill bUflOUi!irilVJ!i OAOAD ^ It approaches so near a specific that " Ninety-five " , P<t cent, are permanently cured where the direc- ? t. >?< are strictly complied with. There is no chemi- ^ cal or other ingredients to harm the young or old. ^ AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL! IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM! J. N. HARRIS & CO., Proprietors, ^ CINCINNATI, O. It lit FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ? s?fil?8BGED!53#?? | U ?? 1"^ , fis commenced in the November number 01 hi Arthur's Home Magazine, s All new subscribers for 18S2 will reccivo 11 PDC ? ^:c November and December Nos. g h n?Eofthisyear.Terms :S2ayear; 2copies $3.50; 3 copics 55: 4 copies ?<5; 8 and one ex- B1 tra$12.-55-For specimen number, containing en first chapters of *? Divorced,"send 4 w IS. AJiXHUB&SON, Philadelphia.! \JQt g ? ?? relief i r-rmT < KIDDER'S PASTiLLES^mal?^^ f igapYfliMMBiMiman&BSCkaiiestQYtn. Mass. A nylilTins Person can learn to play Piano or Orixfranin 15 minutes. Musical talent or previous >jv practiceunnecessary. Gui^eby mail,50c.(stam;>s taken.) Send for circulars. L.W. Tcmass. 653B'way.NA- -^y ARIBISI DIorphlncHabltCaredinlO I1P!IHS? ?? 20 day*. Xopay till Cared. & Ul IwIvB Da. J. STJcraENS, Lebanon. Ohio. ? S-V -? -V A YEAR A>'D EXPENSES TO P 3 8 S AGENTS. Outfit free. Address L * * * P. <). VlcUery, Angqwta, >Ie. II <2 A T "CCR/TCKT WANTED to sell Stationery VJ OAJjXiOJJiXiIl Goods on commission. Send S3 stamp for terms. PHOSNIX PUB. CO.. Warren. Pa. co A MONTH-AGENTS WANTED-90 be?? 80 selling articles In the world: 1 sample free. Address Jay Broason, Detroit. Mich. ? YflllNfi MpfJ If you would leam Telegraphy in f I UUtVU iTiuli four months, and be certain of a situation, address Valentine Bros.. Janesville. Wis. I A GENTS WANTED for the Best and Fastest- I A Selling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced ? 33 per ct. National Publishing Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. ~ I) 4 I T Learn Book-keeping or Telegraph.//, send J J>TC L stamp to Buckeye College, Sandusky. O. | C.CC a week in your own town. Terms 3nd ?5 outfit , VwO fr/wv AHH'c W Watt.vttAtf"V> PrtrtlAnrf Mftinft. W A rppiTTT^H CtUJogoefire. Aairea,Suna?r<J * W A A vXlUrfiJ American Wuch Co..Pimb>ir^h.P>. ~ YT^TC! Revolvers. C?txlopJ? free. Addreaj | j wT w JLs{ Kj Grtxi TTtit. Gap Work*. Plttihnrsrh. F?. I' $9H perdayathome. Samples worth f5 free, c* v O iw $u\J Address &nxsojr & Co..Portlsjid. Maine, v Improvements?New Sty THE MASON & HAM Whoso cabinet or parlor organs have won highest honoi trial exhibitions for fourteen years (bcinK the only J o: such at any), have effected moke and greater fractic in the last tear than in any similar period sincc the first years since: and arc now oflerins organs ok higher exc: medium and smaller styles of improved quality, and a NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 30 PP.. 4to.: is now r tratinsr more than 1< ?i styles of Orrans. This, with net pr about organs cenorallv. which will be useful to rverv one paid. Address MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO. Street. NEW YORK: or 149 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. * Enclose one three-cent stamp wit ?e? as Trill return you by mail twelve as& m H cards, or a set of 5 gilt" Marguerite ?|y?! afford to give you these elegant c l||g| Trill expect you to read the docume gjj them. Should you wish both sets e: gg stamps. Address <$y! sis w. j ejotcxgs Demorest, 17 Ea Dr. JEETTAr^'S HEADACHE PTT.T.S short timo both SICK antl JTEKVOUS H3 the nervous system., cleanse the s to mac' recrular healthy action of the bowels. A fall size box of these valuable PHI plete cure, mailed to any address on re stamps. For sal* by all druggists at 25 BROWS CHEM* L -The Mnminator. . 1UO CAUKUW v* QV?_ feeling on the pan or the iAy\'p<\ French Nation for the peopie of this country is shewn ^3Ss:'M cy the presentation of a iiS?v%; colossal bronze figure of Freedom holding aloft the terffS torch of Liberty. Beauty, , ^ /O tTli'il with usefulness, is comx~-n A 3 M bined in this immense 14 a f \\ work of art, as the bright, I if m < j blazing torch will serve III j'J ?. the purpose of a beacon R j * I :J light in the harbor of New LmJ| lil ; , York. There is another iX;'-.":?! It- figure which will chal^ lenge larger praise and admiration than even the great work above referred tm to. It is illustrated here- * -"^BP th, and represents the aged and worthy St. coe, holdingaloft in his hand that beacon which 11 guide aright all sailing upon the sea of life, lose waters abound with the shoals and danrous places of sickness and disease. The light ? sists is designed to show that St. Jacobs Oil is e true and trusted means of keeping the body *' its proper course, and of easing ana "righting should it be unfortunately cast upon the shoals -i Thous. rucuiimii^ux kjl vcuvi _ ds of grateful ones throughout the world have -VJB oved tne value and felt the good of this Great < :rman Remedy, and are glad to recommend it all needing tlie sen-ices of just such a remedy. this connection Mr. John S. Briggs, a well town citizen of Omaha, Neb., told a newspaper m that he was terribly afflicted with an acute M tack of rheumatism in his back. The diseases iieh had been preying upon him for years had ~V 'fj awn him out of shape. He resorted to every J medy known to physicians, but found no relief itil h'e tried St. Jacobs Oil, one bottle of which Eected a complete and radical cure. Another se may justity reference: gs A VETERAN SEAMA2TS TROVZLR * ' Editor Inter-Ocean. Chicago, IU.: I send you this, eling that the information conveyed will be of atenal benefit to many of your readers. One ' our oldest citizens, Captain C. W. Boynton, the Dvemment Light-house keeper at this point, is _ ^ obably one ot the oldest seamen in America iving sailed twenty-six years on salt-water. fter this forty-six years' service his eyesight iledhimand he kept the Light at Chicago until le Government built the Gross Point Light here, hen he was transferred. V.'hile seated in my ore this morning the Captain volunteered the " * ? -A.*-..***. ? Thic fc tr\ n&vtifn mowing written suueiucw.. tat I have been afflicted with rheumatism for renty (20) years, both in my side and limbs. I n happy to say that, after using less than two botes of the St. Jacobs Oil, I am entirely free from ^ lin, though still limping somewhat when wali- ? ig, from long force ot habit. C. W. Bototos." eferring to the foregoing facts, I might allude to . :umerous similar cases that have come to my otice, but" & word to the wise is sufficient." Johk Goesel, Pharmacist, Evanston, El y Y X U 17 H| MAMFACTOBY | i M Wholesale Depot, 465 FULTON ST., . % ni=iJ>.Mn BROOKLYN. mprtant to tie Mis of America. j The MOST JiAiiV?-ijv^uo 'ORLD is the "WJLL50NIA" MAGNETIC ARMENTS. They cure EVERT FORM OF DISEASE known to an, without medicine, changes of diet, or occopaon. 200,000 PERSONS, once HELPLESS INVAIDS. are now rejoicing in the blessings of BErORED HEALTH. All checks and postoffice orders for "WILSONIA" iit? must he made pav-able to WM. WILSON, 463 ULTON ST., BROOKLYN*. Send tor circulars, price list and other memoranda *rarding the "WILSONIA." We give from the list of thousands of " WILSONIA" itients the following REPRESENTATIVE REFERENCES: Hon. Horatio Sevmour, Utica, N. Y.; Hon. Peter ooper. Hon. Thurlow Weed, Commodore C. EL Garson, General S. Graham, Jndge Levi Parsons, of . Y. (Sty: J. B. Hoj-t (merchant). Spruce St., N. Y.; . V. Fairweather, (merchant). Spruce St., N. Y.; E. . Stimson (merchant), Spruce St., N. Y.; Thomas all. 184 Clinton Ave.. Brooklyn; Colonel Bayard lark, 54 E. 49th St., N.Y.; Hon. John Mitchell (treasrer), Brooklyn; Mrs. R. Robb,395 Wyckoff St.JB'klyn. DESIRABLE FARM HOMES ' ' On land within 7 hours of Philadelphia and 10 bourn of New Fork City by R. R. ?5 to $15 per Acre, ON TWELVE YEARS' TEttE. Good opening for persona with capital to condnct a :ore, make brick. wood manufacturing, canning "uit and vegetables. No intoxicating lienors sola i the colony. Twenty-five houses on the Tract. ^ For full particulars address KLEJ GRANGE, tation A, NEW YORK CITY. hould have such a knowledge of the requirement# A of business as may be obtained in the U)CHESTER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, Rochester, N. Y. There is no other Commercial School in the countzj lat is held in so high esteem by the better class oi asiness men, that is patronized bv so mature and cab rated a class of pupils, or that has so large a nun* <mylna.*n*in Inmtiw ard honorable Dositioa* end jorcirculars. L. ]/ WILLIAMS. President EX-SOLDIERS^ 'ODderful parc-r. the World and Soldier, pubshed at Washington. D. C. It contains Stories or tho W far, Camp Life, Scecesjrom the Battlc-rield, and a ^ aousand things of interest to our country's defendcs. It is tie great soldiers'paper. It contains all m le Laws and Instructions relating to Pensions and ?8 ounties for soldiers and their heirs. Every ex-sol- ~ pi ier should enroll his name under the World and oldlrr banner at once. Eight rages, forty col- i mns, weekly. Si a year. Sample iree. Address f Vorld and Soldier, Box 5S3, Washington, D. C. i & PENSIONS. .. flARE PAIDeTerrsoldierdisabledbyaccicent j or otherwise. A WOt'XRof any kind. loss oi fy linger. toe or eye, lil'PTCRE, if but alight; diseases of Lungs or Varlcme Vein# girt a pension. Under neve luw thousands are es> titled to an increase of pension. Widows. orphans and dependent fathers or mothers olfoldicrs get a pension. Send a stamps for copy Pension and Boantr Acts. Address. , P. H. Fitzgerald & Co-CIgm Agent*. Indisnapoli*. ind. Keter to Ind. Bf.skmf Co. and Prcs't Central Bank, bothci Icdiyi?rjlia? v If you enjoy a lau#rh heartee ?!,! a. Then read our Science in Stobxe m i nHifg?rii~ Of Sammy Tublw and his Spousio, jjSSSJSSjStV The Boy Doctor J: Trick Monkey; ? s??& The author, E. B. Foote, JI. D, Illustrated contents free. 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Add s Tette & Co., Ausrosta, Maine. les?New Catalogue 1LIN ORGAN COJ IS AT EVERY ON~E Of the GREAT WORLD'S ECDXLmerican organs which have been found wort.-'' ally valuable improvements in their Or^ajgriff introduction of this instrument by thoin, twer . =:lle>~ce and enlarged opacity; also popu> IDg t lower prices: $22, $50. ?"4. ? 0 and upward. ? a eady (October, 1S81), fully describing and illv?*5 a w?, and circulars containing such informatiojJo^y tbinkinc of purchasing, wiil be sent free arulpr' , 15i Tremont Street, BOSTON; 46 East LIU try, -'about h votir address. and T P558SS El anpr a Drted elegant chromo Elf a IF &ma ;" cards. I could not f I?w| =1S Httut ards were it not that I |?0|s ja^LT nt I shall enclose with g S g| ||F g nclose two three-cent g p| jp |p ^ '*^g0 ?t 14th St.. yew York, iLteJll) Jp B euro most wotxaerfally in a very iA2)ACHE; and while acting on h. of crccss of. bile, producing a S, with fnH directions for a comceipt of nlfee three-cent postage c. Solo Proprietors, g CAX. COSDPANY, Baltimore, Md. "18 *V