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fTHE SET Df 18S2. Amotber Interesting Year for $ tar-Gazers ? <Conjunctions and Transits. If 1881 was pre-eminently the astrologers' year, owing to the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, upon which so many frightful prophecies were based, 1882 will be, in a similar sense, the astronomers' year on account of the transit of Venus. The transit does not ocnn? Ttrtf.il TW^mTwr. Vvnf-. sstrnnn mers are already preparing for their observations of it. In fact they began their preparations more than twenty-five years ago, so important is tbis event to astronomical science. By the transit of Venus is meant the passage of that planet between the earth and the sun, so that the planet is seen against the disk of the sun like a black dot. It owes its importance to the fact that it furnishes, perhaps, the best means of measuring the distance between the earth and the sun, and this distance is the astronomer's yardstick, without which he cannot get along. The more accurately the sun's distance is known the more accurate become other astronomical measurements. Modern estimates of this distance have varied between 95,600,000 miles and 91,000,000 miles. Since the transit of 1874 it has been put at about 92,800,000 miles, but the astronomers think they are yet one or two hundred thousand miles out of the way, and this year they hope to cut these limits of error down very much. The results they achieve must stand for more than a century, since there will T- xl i. TT 2.Z1 not DS auuiiier traiibiii ox vexius outxi 0420 There will be the usual number of conjunctions of the moon with various planets this year. Although of no especial value to the astronomer, these conjunctions are interesting and often beautiful phenomena, and they serve to point out the planets to those who otherwise might be unable to identify the world's sister planets among the staffs. There will be a few rather close conjunctions between some of the planets, and Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars will be conspicuous in the evening sky, during the winter and spring, offering fine opportunities for observations to those who possess telescopes. The expected comet of 1812 has not jruw u JLU au. oo ouiuc: w tronomere think that the last comet discovered in 1881 may be the long lost Lexell's comet, which nobody expected to see again after Jnpiter kicked it ont as an intruder in his family of moons, it may not be too much to hope that the stupendous comet of 1264, which is now more than twenty years' overdue, will pay the sun another visit and make the night again brilliant with the glories of his train. The period of disturbance in the sun has not yet reached its height, and the great central luminary may be expected to furnish interesting scenes for those who delight to gaze through telescopes at the wonderful things that exist outside the earth. WORDS OF WISDOM. firoof fhftTlffTlfjS rvriorinofa frnm a errlm heart What mighty contests r *e from trivial things! Proud hearts and lofty mountains are always barren. To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness. . "We are no longer happy so soon a we wish to be happier. A prison is never narrow when the. magination can range in it at will The qualities we possess never make .us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have. No principle is more coble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. From the very hovels of poverty and destitution, we may, with self-reliance wreathe about our heads laurels of undying fame and receive as a reward for our labors a crown of eternal life. He understands liberty aright who _ - makes his own depend upon that of others. True liberty does not permit the enfranchisement of one's self through the enslavement of some one else. Y 1 3 o esj o usy is ittsty 01 uie anu remi dons of it, and is as the toad whicy Pean lie stirless under a stone for many f seasons, yet keep its vexom nnspent to use whan the stone which has held it down has been rolled off. Learn to say no. If a man makes a request of yon which yon cannot grant, tell him so at once. Don't derive him. It may make him feel unpleasant toward yon for the moment only. If yon deceive him, he will hate yon all his lifo, if he does not despise yon. In a valiant snffering for others, nor insloaihful making others snffer for us, did nobleness' ever lie. The chief of men is he who stands at the van of men, fronting the peril which frighten back ail others; which, if it be not vanquished, will devour the other. Every noble crcwn is, and on earth will forever boj a crown of thorns. Japanese Medical Practice. A physician, writing from Yokohama concerning the medical practice in Japan, states that the physicians there are of two classes, the old and the new. The old school there comprises the Chinese physician, and those physicians who have adopted the practice of Europe and America are said to be of tho new school. Most of the large cities have hospitals ccndncted on the plan of onrs. Though the physicians of the emperor are all of the new system some of his Majesty's household have little or no faith in them, ar d send for the adherents of the Chinese school when S -' ILL One of the most carious facts noted by this writer is that although the garments and apartments of the invalid may be of the richest material and kept scrupulously clean, the invalid himself is permitted to become very dirty in a long illness by the careful avoidance oI the nse of water even for cleaning of the teeth and the failnie to cat the beard or the nails. Even the doctors of the new school do not dare to insist on personal cleanliness least they be dismissed from attendance on iw. the case. Some attention is given to to diet in aickness but not with good judgment, a~ d many of the sick die from inanition or starvation when they might have been saved by the nse of sufficient nourishment, tonic3 snd stimulants. If the Japanese are not wholly wise in the treatment of the tick they are ceitaialy in advance of ns ia dippwing of the dead by cremation; and, though they have not the advan tsftc- of the most approved furnaces they nevertheless manage to effectually cremate bodies at small expense ana without offense.?TV. Foote's Health Monthly. A Fireproof Building. A. real fireproof structure, says a New York paper, is in the first place solidly anchored on broad stcne foundations. Its outer wells ate thick enough to retist the effects of a fire in an adjoining edifice. Its partitions are of brick. Its bea^as are of iron imbedded in brick walls, and not resting upon iron pillars, which warp when subjected to heat, Mid, as was shown in many instances at tee great Ubicago lire, bring down tne interior in ruins. Arches of tiles, covered with concrete, rest upon the iron beams *nd support the f oors. The halls are floored with tile and the stairs are of slate, resting upon iron supports at one side and firmly imbedded in the walls at tbe other. The roof is proof against sparks from without and flames from within. In the rooms only the doors, window-casings and surface floors are conbustible. A fire might be left to itself in the room -where it breaks out without spreading to any other room. The thick concrete-covered arches under the floor and above the ceiling, an.1 the brick partitions, would keep it confined as in a stove, Mid if it should burn the door leading to the hall and its casing, it could go 110 further, for there wouid be nothing wijfr ' else for it to lay hold on. ; i \ Origin of Some Well-Known Phrases. Taboo.?In the Sandwich islands and New Zealand the early European dis coverers found among the natives a custom called in the native language tabu. It is called in the English language taboo. The taboo was both oi a political and a religious character. I: originated probably as a religious con secrative interdict, ana was afterward made use of by the native princes in keeping their enemies in the islands subdued. Certain persons were marked out at the pleasure of the reigning powers, and were prohibited to have intercourse with their fellows, or even to touch anything until the taboo was removed. It is now done away "with. The "Navvy."?This term has become almost naturalized, and now is understood to mean a laborer employed in the construction of.a railway. It is a corruption of the word " navigator; but what has a navigator to do with railways? Before the age of railways ''navigable canals" were the order of the day, and the laborers employed in their construction was, with some propriety. canea a navigator. wee a railways superseded canals the laborer, verr improperly., was continued to be called & navigator, or, as now corrupted, a "navvy," whereas the word "excavator"' would have been better. Dan io Beersheba.?I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry't all barren.?Sterne in "Sentimental Journey." A Battle Lost is a Battle Won.? The next dreadful tbiog to a battle lost is a battle won.?Wellington. Blackguard.?la all great houses, but particularly in royal residences, there were a number of mean and dirty dependants, whose office it was to attend the wood-yard, sculleries, etc. ui these?for in the lowest depths there were lower still?the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to carry coal to the kitchen, halls and other apartments. To this smutty regiment who attended the progresses and rode in the carts with the pots a ad kettles, which, -with every other article of farniture, "were then moved from palace to palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of "blackguards," a term since become sufficiently familiar. Pabiae.?This word denotes one of the castes in India, and a pariah is one of the lowest and most despised of men. In the English lansruasre it has come to be applied to an outcast, one rejected and condemned by society. The word, strictly speaking, means 'bell, because the members of that caste are compelled to carry a bell about them, to warn the Brahmins of the approach of an outcast. To the Bitter End.?This is clearly m old nautical expression, elating lorg prior to the modern use of the phrase. Bailey's dictionary, 1721, has "bite," a turn or part of a cable; "bitts," two main pieces of timber to which a cable is fastened when a ship rides at anchor; "bitter," a turn of the cable about the timber called "bitts," that it may be veered out by little and little: and "bitter end," (of"a cable) is that part which is wound about the bitts when a ship rides at anchor. The modem cant expression, "to the bitter end." may have taken its rise either from the oldnauti?i ~ U&JL wuiui>, uieauiug LJJLO laoc \jvll \J? the Cdble, or from the last end, the very "bitter" dregs. It is a slang expression, another form of "I will fight you to the death." In it bitter only means pitiless, severe, like a bitter east wind or a bitter foe. The Terrible JCabbage Habit. There is no disguising the fact that our people are becoming addicted to the cabbage habit to such an extent that they are unable to shake it off. If they cannot get the wherewith to shake their appetite for cabbage at home they will levy upon foreign countries for a supply. TTio />aKht(ye? 'ho.'Kif. wimAfl rm ft man gradually. At first he tries a little raw cabbage, and likes ii. He next takes it with vinegar, until his appetite craves something stronger, when he resorts to the sauerkraut, and then there is no help for him-. From the moment that he places the platter of the fermented sauerkraut to his lips, he is a changed man.. Friends may rally around him and try to get him to turn over a new cabbage-leaf and stifle his appetite, but he is deaf to their entreaties. He laughs at their fears. He even gives cabbage to his children, and instances have been known where whole families, men tottering with age, men in the prime of life, women with babes in arms, and innocent children have ail been seen around a table indulging in cabbage in its various forms. Men under the influence of cabbage have been seen walking along the public streets "with cabbage concealed in baskets, taking the intoxicating fruit to their once happy homes to be made up into sauerkraut. If accused of an intention to convert the cabbage into the j kraut that giveth the color and smell j to the firkin, they will laugh it off and ! even admit it. It .is time something ' were done to rescue our neighbors from ; the demoralizing <&bbage habbit. Let ; us form temperar-e societies to rescue the fallen cabbage consumers, and cause happiness where now is gloom and the smell of kraut. Let us go among the cabbage-eaters and beg them to look not upon the cabbage while it is red or xrhitA tvnt take an oath to abstain from it. Let us nominate ail anticabbage ticket for State offij cers, composed of men who have indulged in cabbage to excess and beenreformed, and snatched like brands from the bnrning, and let ns go before | the people on a platform that denonnces i the practice of eating cabbage, and I calls any man that likes cabbage a horse thief and a villian. Think of it. I Men are being cut off every day, with i their faculties impaired, and their skins ! fnll of cabbage. No one is safe as long as the cabbage eater is allowed to go j about, holding office and drawing sal- j aries. Let us work while the day lasts, j in this cabbage reform, and pay our j salaries out of the collections taken up. i The country is in danger as long as the j growth of cabbages is not prohibited by law.?Peck's Sun. About Killing: Er^feemsu. The Hartford Ccurant, in dwelling upon the importance of railroad com| panies using freight couples of a cnaracter that will not endanger the lives of those who are compelled to do j the coupling, says: ; E*cli road that, in this civilized' j day, continues the bra&emen butclij erv is responsible for it. Nobcdy i denies that the pcor fellows are chopped I and hacked to pieces wcfully j every day. Not a quarter of the "ac| cidenis" to tbem get into print. la| deed, it has been even commented rn : as remarkable that, whereas in oid times j i brakemen ustd to work their way up to I places of high responsibility, such1 things now arc rare. The present brakemen are said to be rougher stuff There are two reasons "why promotions are Jess likely than they used to be. I "- A.i iU " V 1.?. K-rr^ .j \Jhli IS (JUUU luc UiajTkCij^ajj uurcu u me ! long enongh, and the other lies in the I "rongh sinff" consideration but the i reason they are rougher stuff is that they | are brutalized by the treatment they get. No other branch of industry has ex| panded so much as freight transportaj tion has with such disastrous results to ! those personally engaged in it. As a i rcle when any occupation grows in im! portance the circumstances of those en; gaged in it improved to correspond. In I freight transportation this has been rei versed,and the brakeman is worse off in the full growth and activity of business I than he was when it was only beginning, j ! It is all wrong, and in the name cf j : human treatment of fellow-men some- ; I thing ought to bo clone to check the ! I present wholesale butcherv. . A New York correspondent of the I Cincinnati Gazette names twenty-one : millionaires who have died in that city ! within the last few years, leaving property worth in the aggregate $250,000,- i 000. Among them were the elder | Vanderbilt, W. B. Astor, A. T Stewart, the Goelets, James Brown, Charlesj Morgan, David Jones, John Lenox and j . Webster Wagner. FG& T!iJE FAIR SEX. Something New in Perfumery. A London fashion journal says that ' at festive occasions in that city, "it 'is j the custom to rise an aromatic ozonizer, a natural air purifier and perfume com' bined, which is sold in four ounce : barrels at one shilling a barrel. Thi3 ; ozonized perfumery requires no prepar| ation of any kind, is merely spread on a plate, and quickly permeates the air with the fragrant and healthy smell of the eucalyptus and the pine trees." Thus does modern science bring the forest air to the salons of the crowded city. Ancient Spinners. The following is an extract from a | law respecting spinning, passed by the ! general court of Massachusetts, in the year 1663: Be it Obdered, By the authority of this court, that all hands, not necessarily employed on other occasions, as women, girls and boy3, shall be, and hereby are, enjoined to spin, according to their skill and ability ; and that the selectmen in every town consider the condition and capacity of every family, and accordingly do assess at one on more spinners; and because several families are necessarily employed the greatest part of their time in other business, yet, if opportunities were attended, some time might be spared at ! least by some of them for this work, j the said selectmen shall therefore assess ! such 9t half and quarter spinners, acj cording to their capacities. And every ! one thus aforesaid for a whole spinner, | shall for time to coine spin eveiy year ! for thirty weeks three pounds a week | of linen, cotton or woolen, and so proj portionately for half and quarter spin| ners, under the penalty of twelve pence I a pound short; and the select men | shall take special care for the execution .of the order, which may easily be : effected, by dividing their several towns ! into ten, six, five, etc., to take an ac j count of their division, and to certify ! the selectmen if any be defective in i what they are assessed, who shall im! prove the penalties, imposed on such as I are negligent, for the encouragement of ! those who are diligent in the work. I The Welsh Maid. That any employment for women J should rack below that of a domestic | servant in popular estimation, is an idea ' which strikes the American mind as | quite a novelty. An American girl will I do almost anything than be a servant, j A factory girl ranks in the United States j as a far more important member of so| ciety than a domestic servant. This is j not the case in Wales, nor, I believe, in ! Great Britain generally. The servant : girl holds herself far higher in the social scale than the tip giri, or indeed any other girl who works with her i hands, unless it be the girl "in business" is what Americans politely call a "saleslady," though in Great Britain she is not infrequently a seller of gin and beer?or in other words a barmaid. Barkeepers of the masculine gender, it mav be remarked bv the wav, are nearly ! unknown in Wales, "unless as an exotic I of American origin. The masculine bartender of America is an outgrowth of pioneer roughness? a condition of society in which pistols and bowiekDives were many, and women few. There is hardly a better servant in the world than a really good Welsh maid. She more nearly approaches the best French model than any other I have known. Of course she has not the training in certain polished customs which the French servant has, but her deftness, alacrity and politeness are equally gr eat. The politeness of a servant to an employer is as clear and fair a thing as any politeness on earth. Its absence is a great loss to both parties; in America it is very generally absent, its expression being thought servility. The servant in Wales who is not polite is thought to be lacking in the social culture benefiting his or her station. The wages, of servants, while very much below these common in the United States, are, as a rule, better than the earnings of any other women on their social plane.?Ramble3 in South Wales. Fashion Item*. Saw silk underwear is in much use. Handsome black silk guipure lace is again in vogue. Moire is the chief element in lately imported costumes. Drab and violet are combinations of color for spring wear. Simplicity at last prevails in young ladies' evening toilets. Lace is the most fashionable of all trimmings for evening dresses. Muslin petticoat breadths are sewed j up in back of evening dresses. Very short skirts are regulated to the ; use of only very young ladies. Sunflowers and lilies, peacock feathers and poppies, are in demand. Shoes for dancing are made of satin of the same shade as the dress. Black satin shoes with Rhine 'crystal buckles are chosen for the house. Velveteen has loDg been a favorite dross fabric with English women. ' - il. T Tiiere is as great variety in ine uau and bonnets as in dresses and wraps. There is a war between short skirts and demi-trimmed ones for evening wear. Stripes of white and black and white and color are a feature in new spring goods. Kid arabesques are sewed with gold thread on plush ornament skirts of! Paris suits. It is impossible for a woman to look j as dignified in a short, skirt as in a j trained dress. Parisiennes have their initials embroidered on their gloves and shoes in self colored silks. Ras terre (escape the ground} skirts are more in fashion than very short ones except for very young ladies. JLfOng wnit-e mQusiiueuure gxuvco, embroidered in silver and jet beads, are worn with "second" mourning dre3s. Feathere are again worn in the hair with full evening dress?matrons wearing them to the exclusion of floral garniture. Rich chenille fringes, mixed with tinted beads of every description, are in the height of favor for dress trimmings. The jaunty Hungarian costumes are exceedingly pretty ior children, made of Craigisvar tweed trimmed with dark bottle-gresn plush. Some of the latest gloves of Danish kid are decorated with tiny butterflies made of gold or silver tinsel and chenille in raised work. New Castilian breakfast caps of gold lace and Manila giass nettings are fastfrtpd to the head bv Ions' cold-headed | ! pins set with onyx stones. Dresses in the style of the First Em- j : pire, with very short waists and skimpy : skirts, will, it is predicted, take the j lead among the new spring fashions. Shoulder knots of white satin or i watered silk ribbon, fastened by a rose or delicate spray of flowers, take the j place of the floral epaulets worn last j winter. j Bridemaids at fashionable English weddings wear caps of white mull, with full Moorish crowns gathered into a satin band covered with rich ls.ce. A watered ribbon about sis inches in j width is twisted throngh this lace, j terminating behind in long friuged | u>hi>h are* finite a vard and a-half ! long, ana are intended to reach nearly ! to the foot of the dress. The custom of employing artists to : paint the outside of houses with artis'ic , designs, which formerly prevailed not only in the south of Europe, bnfc aiso i largely in Germany, Las lately been re- j vived in Munich. Two houses recently treated in this manner are exciting I much admiration from the beauty of their decoration. New York consumed 600,000 eggs last i year. Wlio Am IJ Though I do not wear a Orowa, I possess more influence and power than any European Sovereign. I have existed from generation to generation, bnt am assuming more sway over the civilized world evijry year. I extend my authority into nearly every city and village in the British Isles. The Em peror of Hades is my strongest ally, and my subjects veiy often emigrate to Kingdom. Strange as this may appear, yet it is a fact that high dignitaries in Christian churches solicit my company, and at times receive from my treasury handsome gifts to enlarge and beautify their temples of worship, while many i of the clergy enjoy my association. The British government find me a warm supporter of their revenue, and employ my agentu to collect it; they uphold my authority, and legislate for mtr Iotcta and flnnriahme' business, i irrespective of the spiritual influence I exert on the population. They place at my disposal an immense number of officials, whose vocation will be mentioned further on ; while they encourage me to extend my commercial relations to the colonies of India and Australia. I am at peace with all the crowned heads of Europe, but the President of the United States has refused me permission into the White House. I have been given the active services of the "Bobbies" and the "Royal Irish" in the management of my trade. Magistrates paid and unpaid, sit on the bench at my bidding, and bow to my Authority; many of them are in my employ on high salaries. Lawyers derive much of their professional business c?/mwa a /vf rv,x? JirUJJJ. LliO L[UCUiCiOUiJiU iiuuiuu Vi jjubj nearest friends. Barristers spend much time pleading for and against me. Judge'* on' circuit acknowledge that I keep them employed, and that I succeed in demoralizing more people than any other agency known. Business men I compel to leave their offices and sit in the hungry jury box at my leisure. The medical profession are becoming disloyal to me, but I have still a large proportion under my grasp, and they constantly introduce me to new patients, where I make many friends, many of them never leave my side, and die in my parlor; I show them due respect, and I attend their funeral feasts. Papas and mammas teach theii ! children to look for me at dinner time, and allow them to join my Sundayschool. The fair sex are getting very fond of me; many of them give me a morning call, and get so enchanted with my society, they visit me again and again in the afternoon; many call three times a j day; the last visit is always the most enjoyable. The governments are really most | liberal in aiding me in the various dej partmen^s of my business?they apI ?/vin+ mon /-if nn/1 nnhtad character to see that no robbery goes on when I leave my still chamber, and that no cold water falls on my head. Being partners in the concern, they hold the entire guaranteed preference stock, and give me in return about three-fourths of the j poor law hotel accommodation, a large propertion of the wards in the lunatic asylim.3 and hospitals free of charge, while the Bridewells and Goals are open to my numerous customers* Its all nonsense to say that education i is an enemy to my advancement; I defy I it I I have numerous schools of my own j in every city and town. While other people rest on Sunday, I have the privilege of keeping over 50,000 people at work, as I have no respect * * JV _ n.Lt.ll. m'L- __ whatever xor ine oaouam. x.uo pawnbroker materially assists me in ready cash. The undertaker puts my victims out of the way at earliest convenience, and as for the publican, I supply him with all his comforts?he is the mainspring of my establishment. The coroner gets nearly all his fees through my influence. Though millions of professing Christians give me their hospitality, I never leave until I am turned out doors, and though they love me I despise the respectability of their characters, and delight in leading them into my long dark irrVti/tVi zvn/1 in rnin onfl Heft+Ti V/uamuuiO) TT.UJ-V.U- v.lVMvM. The cry of the heart- broken wife never troubles me. The wail of the starving children never enter?, my ear. I have neither mercy, pity, nor compassion for those who get ruined by partaking too freely of my cordiality. I bring down the rich from luxury to want, and the working mac and his family from plenty to pauperism and rags. Its nothing to me. Thousands of orphans are produced by my trade, but I leave them to the public charities I travel free on till the railways, first class, second class and third class, and sail in all the ocean and channel steam ers. I never get sea sick. I sometimes so captivate the officers on board with my conversation, that they lose their reckoning and steer for the rocks. They forfeit their lives but I am always saved. As to my popularity, I am equally welcome at tlie banquets of the rich and the table of the peasant, I am a favorite in the palaces of kir gs, while the outcasts of society and the victims of delirium tremens delight in my , charms. I am a public executioner myself, but sometimes the hangman | relieves me in the discharge of my duties. Possessing such vast influence, my revennes are enormous: I boast myself to be the richest man in the world. Would you believe it, my income is ?143,000,000 a year, which is equal to ?392,857 a day??16,369 every hour or ?272 a minute. I am a successful warrior?the number of human lives killed in the battlefields of the world every year, is small compared to the thousands I hurl into an untimely grave, yet I use neither shot, shell nor torpedoes. The Devil and me we always agreelike him and he likes me. Having now given yon some idea of the extent of my power, I leave yon to gness my name, It commences with AL and ends with OL. Torturing Russian Soldiers, During the proceedings of a courtmartial recently held at St. Petersburg upon five hussars of the Imperial Guard, accused of having assassinated a sergeant of their squadron, it came out in evidence that the murdered man, in obedience to orders received by him from his superior officer, Prince Chowanoky, had tortured the men under his command with the most revolting barbarity. He was want to drive them, bare-footed, about a barrack yard bestrewn with sharp flints, and then to steep their wounds in petroleum. Other torments of an altogether indescribable character were inflicted upon his victims by the heartless miscreant. Prince Chowansky, examined by the court with respect to these horrors, avowed that they had been perpotuated by his order, and had the audacity to add <:lhat nobody but a person utterly ignorant of military matters could experience any surprise at his method of dealing -with insubordinate soldiers." His comrades took occasion to disavow this assertion publicly ; the court acquitted the accused from the charge of murder, and the colonel of th<i regiment-, Baron Mejendorf, forthwith resigned his commission. Chowansky has been placed under arrest, and wili be shortly tried for inciting his subordinate officer maliciously to wound the soldiers of the Czar. A Batter Test. This test of butter will bo :;ead with surprise by some. It i3 from the Paris Journal dc Pharmacic: Rub some of the suspected butter on a piece of broadcloth. If the butter disappears without leaving a stain it is pnre, however poor. But if it j eaves a "grease spot," ifc has been mised with fat. Perhaps readers will recall to mind how singularly free from spots of any kind the clothing c f dealers in butter usually is, although these raen in | sampling their goods not unirequently ! find that scaae butter has been dropped j on their dress. The feet is that butter j instead of soiling broadcloth is useful for cleaning it. ci I A good place for earthquakesShaker Village. ; % 4 4 A MURDERER FOILED. Invention of a New Instrument of Death br a Berlin LocksmUfc. How His Plan Failed. A Berlin?letf:er of. recent date says: j A. new system of gajroting has been in-j vented here by a m<rt dangerous erimi- j nal by the name of ,Vilke, who, fortu- j nately, is in the h&nds of the police. On Thursday last two men, conscience- j stricken, presented-themselves before j the authorities, accusing themselves of having conspired with a locksmith (the | man Wilke) to hire furnished rooms in ! different parts of the town for the pnr- j pose of extorting money in the follow- j ing manner : One of them was to go to ' bed and, pretending to be ill, send for I a physcian. As soon as the doctor ar- ! rived and bent over the bed an iron col- j lar of a special contrivance, hid beneath i the counterpane was to be applied to i his neck until he had signed a bill of j jxchange, then he was to be strangled an d thrown into a canal which was close at hand. Wilke had devoted much ingenuity to the construction of this instrument, which they described as something like a pair of tongs or pincers fired on the end of a long: iron tube with a winch at the bottom, by means of which the tongs could be made to close as tight as one liked. The peculiar virtue of this nefarious invention was to consist in preventing the victim from citing for help by immediately depriving him of the power of utterance. Wilke had also constructed two steel traps for the victim's feet. The conspirators had begun by hiring a room at No. 59 Elizabeth-Ufer, where the Schiffahrts-Eanal has an unusual width, and would facilitate the disposal of dead bodies. That very evening, the accomplices declared, had been agreed upon for committing the first murder, and Dr. Lehrs, living close by on Kaiser-Franz-Greaedier-Platz, was selected as the victim. As soon as this confession had been made policemen were sent to the house mentioned, where they were told that a man who pretended to be employed at the government office for weights and measures, a few days ago hired a room and paid a fortnight's rent in ad vance, but that he had not shown himself since; he had, however, sent a trunk in to his room the day before. The director having been referred to, and showing that no person by the name of Wilke was employed in the office iu question, the constables proceeded to j open the trunk, in which they found ! two mantrips and all the compo-1 nent parts of the garroting machine. J The trunk was; carefully reclosed, and the landlady warned not to say a word i about the visi t. An agreement was then come to between the police and Wilke's two accomplices that the latter should at first assist nheir comrade in carrying out his diabolical plan, and only turn round upon him when the victim^ life was in danger. Several constables were concealed in a neighboring room, and at 7 o'clock Wilke appeare*?, entered his bedroom vrith his confederates, went to bed, and sent for Dr. Lehrs. Instead of the latter, a policeman came in disguise; and inquired after Wilke's health. The ruffian at once sprang up and applied his pincers to tha pseudo physiician'u neck. 'Che latter having managed to make "Wilke understand that he had very little money about him, he wa3 requested to fill up a check. On his refusal WiIKe turned tne wmcn until j the victim began to be afraid of his i life, and began stamping on the ground. j This was the signal for the accomplices i to let the sliable hands loose, and for j the police to enter and seize the criminal in the very act. Thus arrested, the scoundrel has since confessed thai: he intended procuring himself a sum of money, of which he was in great r eed by garroting, but denies having hfid any intention of taking his victim's life. He pretends that he purposed to abscond with his accomplices after committing the deed and cashing the check, leaving the doctor to the chance of being released from his iron collar in the course of time. "Wilke tams cut to be 28 years old, a nitive of Austria, and possessing a wife and children, who live separated from him. .lie has been for two years con- | strncting his garrotting instrument, and ever since December 3d has been bent on executing his plan. ' The instrument is described as being cleverly constructed al ter a principle derived from a mediaeval instrument of torture contained in. the Markische museum. Dr. Langerhaus, member of the Prussian parliament was selected to be the second victim, and a member of the reichstag as the third. Dogs and Dog Collars. "Yes," said the dog-collar merchant, "we have some very queer customers. In those cases we have about 1,500 patterns in dog collars. I see you look somewhat astonished, but if you were here for a little while yon wouldn't be surprised. There's a modest little collar that we sell to the dealers to retail for twenty-fire cents, and here's one [ of solid silver, made to match a lady's ! bangle bracelet, that you can have for 825. That's about the range of prices, i This collar was ordered to match a! silver oraceiet. Jj&cues are our oesz i customers, and ibey will buy the most1 expensive goods. Sportsmen buy a j cheap, substantial collar. They are like Southerners with a $500 gold watch and a shoestring for a guard. A SI,000 dog belonging to a sportsman will have a dollar and a half collar, while a cur I wouldn't give house room will sometimes wear from S10 to $20 worth of i trappings. Pag dogs are now all the j go, and there is no limit to the price j paid for them. As high a3$300 will be | paid for one by a lacSy sometimes, and j then it is brought to us to rig out. Let me show you some blankets for pugs. These bring f::om $5 to $18 each; but we have some even more expensive." ' Are collar?i any protection against dog thieves?" inquired the reporter, Again Mr. Bremer smiled as he replied: "They take the dog and the collar both. The other day a well-known gentleman came to me for a collar with aa inscription plate on it. He had engraved on the plate: 'If th:is dog is returned to , $20 reward will be paid.' "I told him that he was encouraging j dog thieves, and besides, the dog, in < my estimation, was not worth the; reward. He sadly shook his head as he ! said, 'Mr. Bremer, that dog belongs J to my wife. She is as fond of him as ! she is of me.' <But there is one kind of customer that makes me sick. That is the young man who wants a collar for j his girl's dog. He's always got a smile on his face when he wants this inscrip- , tion: " 'Bow, wow, wow! I'm Sadie Smith's dog; TVho8e dog are you ?' ' Then ho smiles again as if he has hit on something original. If wo don't I augh why we lose his custom."?New York St-ir. * v.x.ti. "*r *- n a ^ijiaoie Jiairs i/iireei, "William .Alexander, one of the most, notable men in Pittsburg, Pa., died ; there receD tly. He was be m in county | Antrim, Ireland, in 1806, ;and came to America in 18*0. He then went to New i Orleans. Jn January, 1827, as Generalj Jackson was coming into the pier at: New Orleans, the New 0 leans artillery- j men were f.ring a salute iu honor of j the hero of 1815. The gunners could j not manage their cannon, and Ale xan- j der offered his services. While ram-; ming home a charge the cannon was discharged, and both of Alexander's arms were blown off at tbe elbow. At the great: bail given that night General Jucsson j heard of the accident and sent the ; wonnded man a cheek for 81,000, but j Alexander ^vould not receive it. Mr. ! Alexander 'vas engaged to be married to Miss Eleanor Day at the time and he offered her her freedom after he recov- i ered from his accident. She refused to accept it, and for fifty-one years after was his wife. He came back to ! Pittsburg, and although burned out in | the great fire of 1845, he struggled o-', and at his d >ath was a very wealthy ! *** ; j1 The bullion output of Colorado, the j past year, is estimated at $20,200,000. j > 1 A Western Sampson. Jonas Johnson, or "Big Jonas," is the Goliah of the Boone (Iowa) region, and some of the stories of his strength and endurance eonnd fabulous. In 1853 he gained a national reputation by walking from Illinois to California, pushing his provisions before him in o> nucciy?uiuu, AJ.O rrao AAA. Knox Co., 111., when the gold fever swept over the country, and being in the early]:wenties of his life, was Iked with ambition to join the Argonauts. He was imperfectly acquainted with English, and had but $10 in cash, so he walked across Illinois and Iowa to Omaha, making the distance in two weeks. There he bought a wheelbarrow and laid in a stock of provisions. "With these, on April 15, he pushed bodily out, and ninety days thereafter he "landed" safely at the diggings, some fifty miles northeast of Sacramento, the first successful placer mines. Here he went to work in the same independent way he made the journey?alone-and was successful. He was able to earn from $10 to $20 per day, according to the number of! hours he put in. A year satisfied him, and with a bag well-filled with "dust" he returned, by way of Panama and New York, to his former home in Hlinois. His feats of strength are no less remarlrnVilp Abrvnt twenty vears aco he found a cow in no uncommon predicament in those days?mired in a elough. A team of horses planted on firm ground had proved unable to draw her from the mire, whereupon Jonas, laying down some boards to give a good footing, lifted her bodily out of the swamp and, seising her by the horns, dragged her to firm ground. At another time his wagon loaded with hay became mired down and the horses failed to extricate it. Jonas got impatient, and going to the rear he raised the load and pushed it forward to better ground, making a lift which is moderately estimated at 1,300 pounds, and performed under unfavorable conditions. He is now a hale, ruddy-faced man of 53 years, located on a fine farm of 120 acres in Boone and Hamilton counties, iwell stocked and improved, besides being tLe for tunato owner of two otners, it>u ana 126 acres respectively. He was born in Sweden, was 22 years old when he came io America, and has been a resident of this county for twenty-three years. He stands six feet two inches in his stockings, and tips the beam at 245 pounds. A No. 12 boot accomodates his foot and his hand is that of a giant. Freaks of Gamblers. Enough has been said about the superstitions of gamblers to fill volumes, but the subject will never be exhausted so long as the passion for gambling exists. Among the "Gleanings from Monte Carlo" have recently appeared the following instances of the lunacy to which gamblers are subjected : "A well-known Italian Marchesa never sits down without a talisman in the shape of a tiny glass bottle hidden in the palm of her hand and containing a live insect; and one of the most indefatigable votaries of roulette, a Paris banker, positively declined, a few months ago, to commence operations, and returned to Nice, because a ticket bearing the number twenty-nine had been given him at the door in exchange for his overcoat. "Last winter two habitues wer6 talking of a common friend of theirs, who, one of them remarked, was in deep affliction on account of the death of his only son. "Very sad, indeed,' observed the other ;*'I conclude that you ascertained the necessary particulars and profited by them ? " 'I did and I did not,' replied the first speaker ; 'that is to say, I found out that the boy was 8 years old, and that he died on November 30, at 6 o'clock. Naturally I played pretty heavy on these numbers?eight, thirty and six?one after another, and then what do you think happened,?' " 'They came up,'suggested his friend. "Not they. That scoundrel of an /%-nA TTAtl VriATO TITtf CLUpujJT C UllC till II UU.C, JUU " """] n?u the hatchety face?actually brought up twenty-seven, my pet number, three times running, and, of course, I "was not on it. Can yon conceive anything more unlucky ? " Height of Some New York Buildings. New York is becoming distinguished for the height of its buildings. For a long time the underwriters objected to taking risks of this kind, but they have been compelled at last to submit to the irresistible progress of the age. A few years ago four stories was considered a good height. At present, however, eight and even nine stories are common among the new commercial structures., and even this is by no means a finality. After the gTeat fire in 1845 (which laid 25 acres in ruins) the new stores were carried up to the unusual height of 55 feet. Now look nt the difference. The Stewart palace of fashion^ is 88 feet to the cornice, while Claflin's store is almost as high. Arnold, Constable & Co.'s store is 95 feet and the store, 355 Broadway, is 100 feet. The Fifth Avenue Hotel is 90 feet hiarh. The Grand Central is 123 feet, including 30 feet of Mansard. The Gildey House is 100 feet to the deck roof, after which yon have the Mansard, which is 30 feet additionalLooking at business structures, there it the Equitable, which is 113 feet to the deck, while the Boreel building is 115 feet, and the New York life building is 129 feet. Turning from Broadway to Nassau street, the Morse building overtops all the preceding, being 146 feet to the cornice, while the tall tower of the Tribune holds unrivaled distinction. The insurance agents, however, still maintain that 60 feet is the limit of discretion, and for every additional 10 feot they add extra rates, though hardly sufficient to meet the ri3k. This change has chiefly taken place within the last 10 years. The Herald bu'lding (fin ished in 1865) now has a squatty appearance, and if rebuilt would be carried up four additional stories. Ben_~LI. J JUCbb lb ?UUU LU UO ttiliiu VCU UU liliO ucicv^u, and no doubt an additional elevation will yst be attained.?New York Ijetier. Scalps and Masts. Hermann, tho celebrated piettidigitator, on his recent return to Vienna from a long and exhaustive professional tour in South America, presented the Imperial Museum of Natural History with a large number of curi ius articles picked up by him at different times in the course of his transatlantic wonderings. The quaintest object in this interesting collection i* a war trophy of the Jivaros, an Indian tribe > -i ? J.-L.- 01.1. T* IQUaUlllGg T/Xie OUa.Lt; ui uuauux. n consists of the' entire scalp and faceskin of a warrior, carefully boned and dried by interior applications of heated stones. The flowing hair, bushy eyebrows, and strongly-ruarked features are perfectly preserved, but the last, in consequence of the peculiar treatment to which they have been submitted, are shrunken so small that the whole ! face is little larger than a baby's i clenched fist, and looks like a well- j executed miniature in carving. It is, ! moreover, as hard as wood and extremely light. These dried and contracted masks are by no means inconvenient to wear as trophies of victory, and possess the paramount advantage that they tell tlieir own story. In the j ba=<e cf a:ere scalps, one resembles | another so closely that their enviable j proprietor may readily experience some i difficulty in identifying such souvenirs | of triumph with their original owners. I But there can be no mistake about a j relic which preserves the features, ! however reduced in size, of a van- j quished foe. Nothing, except perhaps ; his photograph, can remind one more ! vividly of a dead enemy than his o^n i face, prepared in the Jivaros fashion ? London Telegraph. VTe Lave beard both Democrats and Republicans say that there is nothing better for a ; cough th in Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup; this old J reliable remedy never fails to cure a cough or j cold at once, and may be obtained at any drug j store for 26 cents a bottle. A. Smile of Satisfaction. I This from the Cleveland (Ohio) Penny Press carries its own suggestion: recently meeting Mr. H. G. Keffer, treasurer of the Cleveland Herald, our representative j inquired of that gentleman, after stating ! his mission, if he personally knew anything l about the great German remedy, St. Jacobs ! Oil. A smile played across Mr. Keffer's I expressive face and his eyes twinkled merrily a3 he replied in the affirmative. "I will ' * -? avrmwanflo nritV? it not reiuse \aj state uj.j tA^iwivv ?.*, and you may use it as you think best. Four years ago I sprained one of my ankles, an accident which, as you are aware, entails much suffering and sometimes leaves the limb in a condition to re mind one frequently of the old hurt Unj fortunately this result ensued. Whenever the weather became damp or my system | absorbed the slightest cold my ankles pained me. T<iis went on at intervals for I over three years, and I could not obtain relief. Last winter I applied the St. Jacobs Oil and it completely cured me. I have not since felt a return of the pain." Mr. E. E. Fish has noticed that many birds posses powers of ventriloquism. ' From a distance of a few feet, the ; cuckoo makes its voice appear to come from a furlong away ; singing on a low branch, the thrush seems to be in the tree-top; the vesper-sparrow and the field sparrow are apparently in a distant field, although really on a neighboring fence. The robin and the catbird are endowed with a similar power; and the oven-bird, singiDg at a distance, almost canses the listener to believe it to^ be within reach, by its sharp, ringing noiss. hum The Trenton (N. J.) Gazette mentions the case of Mr. John Wood, with the American Pottery Co , that city, who was cured by St. Jacobs Oil of an attack of rheumatism, which has confhed him to his bed for seventeen weeks. He praises it un stintedly. The New York State Medical Society condemns the use of the so-called "foods" for infants. These foods are sold in large quantities, although nothing is known of their composition or whether they are not worse than useless. On Thirty Days' Trial. The Voltaic Eelt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts and other Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to any person afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing complete restoration of vigor and manhood. Address as above without delay. P. S.?No risk is incurred, as 30 days' trial is allowed. Skinny Men. Wells' Health Renewer. Absolute cure for ! aervous debility, dyspepsia, mental or physical | decline. $1 at druggists. Prepaid by express, $1.25, 6 for $5. E. S. Wells, Jersey City, N. J. Yegeti>"e is not a stimulating bitters which creates a fictitious appetite, but a gentle tonic which assists nature to restore the stomach to a healthy action. HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE Is the BEST SALVE for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all kinds of Skin Eruptions, Freckles and Pimples. Get HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE, as all others are counterfeits. Price 25 cents. DR. GREEN'S OXYGENATED BITTERS Is the best Remedy for Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Malaria, Indigestion and Diseases of the Blood, Kidneys, Liver, Skin, etc. DENTON'S BALSAM cures Coughs, Colds, Rheumatism, Kidney Troubles, etc. Can be used externally as a plaster. Use RED HORSE POWDER for Horses and Cattle. ALLEN'S Brain Food-cures J?"ervous Debility & "Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all drnggists. Send for Circular. Allen's Pharraacy,313 First aT.,N.T. THE MARKETS. 6 Beef Cattle?Med. Nat live wt. 8%@ 9% Calves?Poor to Prime Veals... 6%@ 9% Sheep 5%@ 6% Lambs 6% Hogs?Live. 7%@ 1% Dressed, city %% Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 70 @ 8 00 Western, good to choice 5 80 @ 8 75 Wheat?No. 2 Bed, new 1 43%@ 1 43% No. 1 White, new 1 33%@ 1 39 Bye?State 91 @ 98 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 91 Corn?UngradedWesternMixed 67 @ 71% Southern Yellow 71%@ 71% Oats?White State 50 @ 52% Mixed Western 48 @ 49 Hay?Prime Timothy 85 @ 90 Straw?No. 1, Bye 75 @ 75 Hops?State, '1881 26 @ 28 Pone?Mess, new, for export...18 25 @18 37% Lard?City Steam 1112%@1112% Befined 1130 @1130 Petroleum?Crude 6%@ 7% Befined 7%@ 8% Butter?State Creamery 82 @ 40 Dairy S3 @ 39 Western Im. Creamery 35 @ 41 Factory 14 @ 84 Cheese?State Factory 9 @ 13% Skims 3 @ 9 Western 9 @ 13 Eggs?State and Penn 29 @ 29 Potatoes?Early Bose, State, bbl 3 25 @ 3 50 BUFFAI/O. Stec- -s?Extra 6 00 @ 6 25 LamL.-s?Western 5 50 @ 6 50 "Sheep?Western 4 30 @5 25 Hogs, Good to Choice Yorkers.. 7 00 @ 7 15 -n s<* a *r. i ci? n rr ntr luour?o v<jrouna, i>o. 1 spring o 10 i jk> Wheat?No. L Hard Dulutn.... 1 57 @ 157 Com?No. 2 Mixed 68%@ 69 Oata?No. 2 Mix. West 48 @ 50 Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90 BOSTON. Beef?Extra plate and family.. 14 00 @15 00 Hogs?Live 7 @ 7% Hogs?City Dressed 8%@ 8% Pork?Extra Prime per bbl.... 15 00 @15 50 ' Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @8 87 Com Mixed and Yellow. 73%@ 75 Oats?Extra White 55%@ 57 Rye?State .- 97 @100 Wool?Washed Comb&Deiaine 44%? 46 Unwashed " " 30 @ 31 WATEBTOWN" (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 6 75 @ 7 25 Sheep?Live weight 4%@ 5% Lamos 5 %@ 6% Hogs, Northern, d. w 83?@ 8% PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. Ex. Family, good 6 37%@ 6 57% Wheat?No. 2 Bed 1 40 @1 42% Rye?State 97 @ 97 Com?State Yellow 69%@ 69% Oats?Mixed 47 @ 47 Butter?Creamery Extra Pa.... 44 @ 44 Cheese?New York Full Cream. 13%@ 13% Petroleum?Crude 6 @ 7 Refined 7%@ 7% Time Testers and Burden Bearers. From time immemorial the horse has been man's best friend. But a few years back we can all remember the comparatively little attention paid to this most indispensable of animals. We say comparatively little attention, for the horse was aswell groomed,and certainlyas well f*d,ai> now; and at those great gatherings?agricultural shows?you would see the pride of the county and State stables and farms assembled. But there was a conspicuous want of noble draught horses, and as for speeders?well, 2:40 was the great ultimate limit that owners in those days desired to strive for. But now a 2:40 animal is esteemed a fair roadster, and fine animals only deserve the name when they can shade the first quarterof the third minute. Therehavebeenimmense strides forward in the right development of horseflesh in the civilized countries of the world, as shown by the time-records of the racers and draught capacity of the humbler,but really more useful, work-horse. Many things have conspired to effect this desirable end, chief among -which have been the intelligent care and consideration bestowed upon the animal in his even* relation ?in a word, upon the breeding. And this has not failed to include a very serious modification of the old methods of treatment, doing away, in many cases, with the inhuman and really savage ?lans pursued in the eradication of even simple isorders and ailments, and substituting rational measures of relief instead. A prominent factor of this reform, and one indorsed by owners, breeders, farmers and stockmen th$ country over, is St. Jacobs Oil, recognized by all who have used it as an exceptionally good remedy for the ailments of the horse and stock generally, meeting more indications for its use and effecting far better results than any article of a curaave or remedial natureeverintroduced. Such b?redcrs and horsemen as Aristides Welch, Esq., of Erdeaheim, near Philadelphia; Mike Goodin, Esq., Belmont Park, Pa.; Calvin M. Priest, formerly m charge of Mr.Robert Bonnets stock,New York; and thousands of others throughout the country, who could be mimed, are on the list of unqualified endorsers of thu-efticacy of St. Jacobs On. NT~S' U 6 ~ V ' - " ! ' ' ^ Acrid Imparities In the"Blood Produce rheumatism, gout and other distressing maladies. It is one of the beneficient effects of using Hostettefs Stomach Bitters that these impurities are absorbed from the vital current and carried off by the kidneys, which are rendered more active and efficient natural purifiers by this standard depurent. This also results in benefit to the kidneys and vi-+Vio o^tiTn'i-e Whieb the Bitters Ul<?U.UCMj OUbV VTWVAT produce is reflected in increased health and vigor in those organs. A sluggish tendency in those is thus overcome, and renal diseases of a destructive and obstinate nature prevented. Fever and ague, dyspepsia,' constipation and liver complaint are among the forms of indisposition which this fine medicine eradicates. It regulates the habit of body, improves the health, and remedies the feeling of despondency resulting from dyspepsia. Neablt 3,000 tons of wrapping paper were made in one month, by fifty-one mills, in the I United States. "Throw Physic to the Dosrs, FII None of It.*' Wo do not feel like blaming Macbeth for this expression of disgust. Even nowadays most of the cathartics are great repulsive pills, enough to "turn one's stomach." Had Macbeth ever taken Dr. Pierce's " Purgative Pellets " he would not have uttered those words of contempt By druggists. A fey.- years ago British India only raised about 20,000,000 bushels of wheat. Her crop of wheat ?this year amounts to 860,000,000 bushels. " Golden Medical Discovery " (words registered as a trade-mark) cures all humors from the pimple or eruption to great virulent eating ulcers. Chi>-a imports 100,000 chests of foreign opium annually. Average smokers spend twenty-five cents per day for opium. The "Favorite Prescription" of Dr. Pierce "fiimiia tr-Aftimfiss" and kindred affec tions. Sold by druggists. Gloves and mittens to the value of $8,000,- \ 000 were produced in Fulton county, N. Y., during the past year. Suffering U Needless. 23eooely>-, N. y., June 21,188L H. H. Waexee & Co. Sirs?I find that palpitation of the heart, shortness of br. ath, dyspepsia and pains in the kidneys yield easily and gracefully to your Safe Kidney and Livei Cure. Bqbebt g. Thubstqs. Is a Mississippi town one colored man per//MOT.O /In-Koa nf a. Vm/rhpr ftr>d of a iUStiC6 of the peace. Mexsman's Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, a medical work for every man? youn^, middleaged or old. 125 invaluable prescriptions. Thousands of persons who are bald to-day might have full heads of hair if they would only use Cabboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, which is the only preparation ever discovered that will really do this. 5 NATURE'S REMEDY."* ^ (TOETIHE5S {jl'HE OflEAT BlOOO PuRlflER^/^ WILL CURE Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor, Cancer, Cancerouj Humor, Erysipelas, Canker, Salt Rheum, Pimple?, or Humor in the Face, Coughs and Colds, Ulcers, Bronchitis, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Bheumatism. Pains in the Side, Constipation, Costiveness, Piles, Dizziness. Headache, Nervousness, Pains in the Back, Faictnesa in the Stomach, Kidney Complaints, Female Weakness and General Debility. This preparation is scientifically and chemically combined, and so strongly concentrated from roots, herbs and barks, that its good effects are realized. immediately after commencing to take it. There is no disease of the human system for which the Vegettcte cannot be used with perfect safety, as it does not contain any metallic com pound. For eradicating the system of all impurities of the blood it has no equal. It has never failed to effect a cure, giving tone and strength to the system debilitated by disease. Its wonderful effects upon the complaints named are surprising to all. Many have been cured by the Vegetete that have tried many other remedies. It can well be called The Great Blood Purifier. DR. W. ROSS WRITES. Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism. Weakness. H. It. Seevexs, Boston: I have been practicing medicine for 26 yews, and as a remedy tor Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Jlheumaiism, Weakness, and all diseases of the blood, I have never found its equaL I have sold Vegetine for seven years, and have never had one bottle returned. I would heartily recommend it to those in need of a blood purifier. DS. W. BOSS, Druggist, Wilton, Iowa. 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