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AHOXG THE SENATORS. Scene* ia Use Unlt<rd States Seuw.tr. ^ To one who visits the city of Wash iu. mo wxiiter, a cmei point 01 attraction must *iways be the scene where the law. of the nation are made. Even to ctase who take no special interest h politics, the two chambers of the National Congress present curious and instructive features. 'Our Republic has provided sumptuous and imposing quarters for its legislators. Those who see the Capitol for the first time, rising, with its mighty dome and its broad white wings on tiie crest of a hill which overlooks the entire city, are tempted to exclaim that, before it, the most famous palaces on/1 ^niMinnrc at M**v? VJi JUIUV^/O J-UX^A J.VA and commonplace. The interior of the noble edifice harmonizes with the beauty of its outer aspect. On entering the great doors, and penetrating from ths rotunda to the many corridors -which radiate in in every direction, you cannot fail to observe the most expensive decoration and the most elaborate beauty of adornment. Some of these corridors are frescoed in the choicest colors and devices of Italian art; even the walls of the committee-rooms are hidden beneath this brilliant and artistic handwork. Tne great hall in which the United States Senate holds its sessions is square in shape and is adorned with simple yet rich and tasteful decoration. Wide galleries, handsome and comfortably furnished, surround its four sides. The Senators sit at mahogany desks, ranged in a semi-circle; and are proTided with ample armchairs. Opposite this semi-circle rise the mahogany desks, first of the clerks of the body, and above this, of the presiding officer. Els the area below these desks are the boys "who serve as pages; and who, when a Senator raps on hi * desk, run a race with each other to see which will reach him first. On either side' of the presiding officer, and below ixim, sit, on one siao, tne sargeant-ar-arms, ana on the other the door-keeper of the Senate. A session of the Senate is always interesting to the new-comer, even though no lively exciting debate be going forward. Promptly at noon the President raps sharply on his desk with his gavel, and calls the Senators to _ order. Just before, theie has been much bustling and buzzing of voices in the chamber; for up to the liour of beginning the session, every one who chooses may go upon the floor and talk with the 'Senators. As soon as the gavel is heard, however, all must retire except the members and officers of the body itself. As soon as the Senators have taken their SAafeL a brief -nravpr is offered bv the i chaplain. Then a clerk reads in a clear voice, the record of the previous day's proceedings, after which begins the |? regular business of the day?the presenting of petitions and .bills, and the discussion of the measures before the Senate. The first part of the proceedings is seldom of interest to th e spectator ; and -while it is going on, he has leisure to look around the famous assemblage, and to take note of the personal appearance of its more eminent members. If he is wise, he will have bought, for ten cents, at one ot the stands in the corridors, a little plan or diagram of the Senate, which tells him the seat of each Senator. By aid of this, he can readily find those Senators he desires to see. ? The Republican members sit together, on the side of the center aisle to the left of the presiding officer ; the Democrats on that to his right. Many men of national celebrity may thus be seen and recognized, as they sit, conversing together in low tones, or bnsily reading or writing at their desks. The Senate is a quiet,sedate, orderly body. Its business usually goes on smoothly and somewhat monotonously. It rarely bears what we should call "a great debate." The "field days," such as used to be had when such men as Webster and Clay were members, seldom take place in these more prosaic times. The debates are more often dull and tedious; and it is rather a place to see and observe the political leaders of the country, than to listen to fine and flowery examples of American eloquence.? Youltis Companion. X Eiver of Rapids. For two or three miles above the Shoshone falls the Snake river flows w\n rrVi iwmoico />Tio_cms \r5fVi TCalla on either side hundreds cf feet high. The river is full of . rapids for miles, the descent being so great. At the upper Shoshone falls, known as the Twin or Little falls, the river is divided by an island, and the two streams rush over a precipice and fall into a pool 175 feet below. As viewed from the blufi hundreds of feet above, the sight is grand, and from below there is still pL more to admire and awe the visitor. Some four or five miles down the river we come to the great falls, where the entire river descends in a sheet 210 feet. Some thirty or forty miles further down stream is Solomon falls, extending quite a distance. The greatest of these falls is only twenty feet, but the forms and great nnmber of the falls and cas cades make it very beautiful. But a short distance above the fall is the most remarkable sisht we have ever seen. In the high bluffs along the river there issue numerons great springs the waters of which fall over the rocks and are lashed to silvery streams and spray in their descent. The first of these pours over a cliff in a semi-circular form and falls over 200 feet. As seen from the opposite side cf the river it is very "beautiful. Further down the river is a much grarder sight. A stream of water equal to that of a small river pours out of the bank and falls over the rocks in silvery streams of almost every conceivable shape and form, while the spaces between are lined with green moss or shrubs, so that it presents an appearance of an immense grotto .? Omaha Bee. Cnnoinsr Method of Hatching E?gs* There is a bird in New Gninea xrhiVh. in the size of its eggs and its manner of hatching them, must be considered extraordinary. It is not larger than one of our ordinary fowls, but its eggs are - three inches long by two and a-half in diameter. It does not attempt to sit on I them. A colony of birds lay their eggs together in a large mound, in the hottest part of the year, from September to March, and leave them to be hatched by the sun. The mound is made of sand, loose earth and sticks and leaves, which latter, by their decay, increase the heat. The mounds are wonderfully large, being ten feet high and about six feet in circumference at the base, 'lhe young birds come out at a hole in the lop. The mother bird waits on he trees around till her chicks are hatched, and then leads off her own brood. How each knows its own is a mjstery. Changes in Tree Trunks. Recent botanical research has shown t;':. that the trunks of trees undergo daily changes in diameter. From early morning to eariv afternoon there is a regular diminution till the minimum is reached, whea the process is reversed, and the maximnm diameter is attained at the time o? twilight; then again comes a diminution, to be succeeded by an increase about darvn?an increase more marked than that in the evenirg. Variations in diameter are believed to coin- j cide with the variations of tension, but j they are shown to be inverse to the temperature, the maximum of the one corresponding roughly to the minimum of the other, and so on. In connection j?. with these investigations it may be re marked that the height of a man is j greater in the morning than in the af- : temoou, and again, that other influences being suspended, the barometer is higher in the morning than in the afterIt seems that at Havre so'many ships ha~e been built that in tbe course of a year or eighteen months^ tbe port will be able to boast of thirty steamers, of j| fjreat dimensions, intended for the trans flow Axes are Made. The materials used in the production of axes are iron, steel, coal, borax, grindstones. emery and glue. Formerly foreign material exclusively "was used, but now everything is American except the grindstones and the material of which the emery is made. Let is follow a piece of rough iron through the various processes untii it emerges a finely polished axe. First, bar iron inch i; placed between large snears_and junked up into proper lengths, iiach piece is called a pattern, two of which are worked together. One lies in the furnace heating while the other is worked by the forger. The pattern, white heat, is taken to the hammer, furnished with suitable dies, where the ends are drawn and plated, so that when brought together the eye is formed, a section in the middle being left to form the head of the axe. The pattern being drawn is now turned, so as to bring the encs together, a slug being placed between the ends to give greater thickness belo v the eye of the as. When at welding heat the pattern is taken tn a trip hammer and welded eolid below the eye, forming what is termed the poll. Two I T_ _ it . 11.. J ^ men ma&e cue pons, in xaci, mis js custom all the way through, each gang performing a certain part of the work. The poll is taken to the bitt-trimmei*, where it is trimmed to the required form. It is now ready for the steel. The steel which forms the edge of the ax comes in bars, and is cut up and prepared by having the edges turned up. The steel is now placed on to the poll, the edges coming up on either side. The steel is well supplied with ground borax, without which a union of the iron and steel cannot be had. After heating it goe.s to another trip hammer, the iron and steel are firmly welded and the bitt drawn. At this point the material begins to look like au ax. At the next heating the ax is taken to au other hammer, where the steel is condensed and refined in the most thorough manner; then to another hammer where the iron from the eye down to the steel is swaged. The ax is placed in another furnace, so that the head will heat while the bitt remains comparatively cool. When hot the head is squared under another hammer, the eye perfected, and the ax finally straightened. We now have a perfect ax'in the rough. The next operation is the tempering, The axes are slowly and evenly heated, when they are plunged into brine, which makes them them as hard and brittle as glass. Again they are placed over a fire until the temper is reduced to the required point, which is known by the color of the metal, and again submerged in water. The next nroeess is the grind | ing, which is done on two large revolving stones, one weighing three, and I the other one and a half ton3. A stone of the latter size is used up in twelve days. All the imperfections are ground out, the ax turned and edged. Next it goes to the polishing-room, where it is polished on an emery wheel until it becomes as bright as a mirror. Here the axes are weighed, stamped and bronzed or painted, when a perfect ax is made and ready for packing. Some are not polished, but are taken from the grina! stones and painted black all over. This class is preferred by lumbermen. Signs of Vulgarity. | A truly unselfish person is never vulgar, because he thinks of others : more than himself; on the other hand, a selfish man, even though tolerably well bred, is guilty of numberless offenses again s good taste. Asking questions, private and personal, is one vulgar habit, and telling your own business, which no one wants to hear, is another. Asking the cost of a present that has been made to von: "Dumoine" a servant to hear what has been given by way of parting vail; lond talking in public ; hard staring at table; insolent disrespect to husband, wife, sister or brother; showing temper in trifles and making scenes in public ; showing an embarrassing amount of fondness and making love in public ; covert sneers, of which people can see 1 the animus if they do not always under| stand thfe drift; persistent egotism, 1 "which talks forever of itself, itself, itself, only itself, and cannot even feign the most passing interest in another; detraction of friends and it may be of relations?a husband telling of his wife's unpleasantness, a wife complaining of her husband's faults; the bold assumption ot superiority, and the servile confession of infinite unworthiness ; all these are signs 2nd evidences of vulgarity?vulgarity of a far worse type than that which eats its fish with a steel knife, and says "you was" and "each of the men were." Getting Bargains. A great many houswive3, who are dependent upon their husbands for money, and consequently inclined to value it highly, have a talent for making bargains, and there are few gifts more subject to abuse. Ladies, have a care in your economies of this sore, lest you be found to "grind the faces of the poor" We have known a wealthy woman, and a prominent church member, to "beat down" for troublesome and expensive white work, a young woman, w whom a dollar meant almost the difference between hope and despair. Once a minister's wife said complacently, "I got her to let me have this for a half dollar less," when we could hardly help exclaiming. "Don't you know the poor old lady of whom you bought this is almost on starvation's verge?is living on two meals a day m this bitter weather?" The whole purchase amounted to iwo or three dollars., and the reduction had only been consented to under the urgent necessity to sell. How cruel!?and yet, in both instances, the wrong was done by kindhearted women. More evil is wrought | by want of thought than by want of I heart. But in this world it is our business to think. Ways that are Dark. The Chinese in San Francisco are expert enough to split a 310 gold piece, cut out the center, fill it with base metal and join it together so nicely that only an expert could detect the fraud. The patient Chinaman also finds it profitable to "sweat" gold by shaking | the coin in a bag and gathering the j gold dust which accumulates from the i abrasion of the metal. Another device is to file gold coin | across the edge, thus destroying the i raised milling. All the silver and nickel coins are counterfeited, from the three cent piece to the legal-tender dollar. Thev are first stamped from | base metal, and then plated with silver. | Even this the counterfeiters do not buy, I bnt obtain by immersing silver ccia in j acid, which removes from the coin i enough silver for the counterfeiters j use, while the 'sweated "silver cau still J be passed at par. How Sleigh Bells are Made. It has, do donbt, been a mystery to many readers how the iron bells inside of sleigh bells got there, and it is said to have taken considerable thought on the part of the discoverer before the idea struck him. In making sleigh tells the iron ball is put inside a sand core, just the shape of toe inside | of the belt 'I hen a meld is made just the shape ^f the outside of the bell. ! This sand core, with the jinglet inside, is plaoed in the mold of the outside ana the melted metal is poured in, which fills up the space between the core and the mold. The hot metal burss the core, so that it can be all j shaken out, leaving the ball within the | sLell. Ball values, stfrwU^joints and j many other articles are castuSt^e same j manner. ?4 "There, child," said grandmother, | "you mnstn't be vain; don't stand there at ths mirror admiring yonr dimpled cheeks. Dimples are pretty enongh, no donbt, but they will change to wrinkles one of these days " Little Edith tnrned from the glass, with just a suspicion of a pout on her rosy lips. She ! sat silent for a moment; then looking up, she said : ''Grandma, what a lot of dimples you must Lave had. when yoti were a little girl?all over yoi>r race, w.i'n'tthey, grandma?" * . ^pgggS- - > r -7. - '/ CHINESE VILLAGES. LSie and Habit* of the Oriental*. Vi 11 r? /vAfi * ? /\f Krt ,11r? V\tt iH V\T7 otiTT m DOT> C ? -ill ua\+?j kj uuv k/j ouj occur at intervals of a mile or two apart all along the roads of China, says a cor- : respondent. Very good brick, much about the same size, shape and material j as those made in ;hi3 coimtry compose the walls of the better houses; while ; for the poorer order of edifices mud is used. The brick walls in China are excellent, better than the cheaper brick walls in America and but little inferior to our best pressed brick. When vil- j ; lages are constructed of mud, there is a striking resemblance to the villages of ! j Egypt. The houses have no outside i ; windows and but one opening which is | the door. The openings for light are | upuii liijuer wiuiiCi ui uatA jaiuo anu are without glass. The eaves are made j to project, so as to keep out the raic, and in doing so of course exclude much ' i light as well. Blinds made of slats ; are sometimes used, and thin light paper pasted over the slats serves to keep out some of the cold air and to I let in a little light- The honses are in- j variably one stoiy high ; and at the ! bottom of tnis custom is a superstition ; ; that higher houses would interfere with j the spirits of the air ("Fung Ghui") awl J offend them, thus bringing disaster upon the house o:: village. In front 01 each door and at a distance of eight or ; ten feet stands a detatched wall fifteen ! feet long and as high as tbe eaves of the ! house, concealing the door from any person standing in front of it. This is for the pnrpose ol protecting the house j ! and family from malignant "Fung i Chui" or spirits, which are popularly i I believed to fly only in straight lines and ; to be incacable oii turning a corner. It i follows that wher. traversing the air in search of a certain house, when they came in contact ?dth the wall they are thrown off at an angle and thus bafled ' of their fell purpose, and fly in a tangent through infinite spa^e and are lost. A Chinese village has but little in com; mon with those ot this country, eithei 1 in detail or in general appearance. : While the villages of America copied j from English prototypes are peculiar : for their detatchei and separate build, with garden and grass plots, those of China are compact, huddled together, and present from a distance the aspect of a mere dead wall. One peculiarity of all Chinese cities and villages is the absence of steeples, spires and | pinnacles, of any kind. While Mohammedan countries have the mosque with ; its flashing domes and graceful mina- ! rets, and European and American cen- ; ters are marked by lofty towers and spires, China is almost absolutely without any of these striking architectural points. The result is great monotony and dullness of aspect. A Chinese bed is real estate and not l personal property. It is built with the j house, and is of brick, resembling a fruit drvinsr furnace more than anything ; lean think of. It will be remembered ! by any one who has ever fvisited Pompeii | that the Roman bed was built in the same way, and there is a strong resemblance between tjaem. Those I saw at Nankow and elsewhere in China consist j of a mud or brick wall constructed ; quite across the room at one end of it, j gay six ft-tt or such matter from the end, j and about five feet high. Thi* is floored j over to the wall of the room so as to j make a raised platform six feet by the i width of the room, say ten or twelve feet. : i Openings are lefi; in the front wall for ! .! fuel to be put, in which in winter straw I is burnt to keep the bed and room j warm. In fact the bed is a furnace, i J and in this country would serve for kiln.! -drying apples or peaches. Felt or other 11 mattings are laid on the top and on this i j the Chinese, in such numbers as can j fi-d room, pig down together without , j undressing and without sheet, quilt, I blanket or other covering. But it must | not be forgotten that to undress and go , to bed is Western altogether. No Oriental nation does it. Tnrks, Persians, and all of them sleep in their every-day j clothes. The other bedding in China i consists of the pillow which, both in i j China and Japan, is a block of wood or : bamboo, and among well-to-do people | may be a little bench carved wi:h more ! or less taste and 'aigh enough to support j : the head. There is usually a little depression into which the neok fits. This ' j pillow enables the Chinese lady to keep I , her elaborately c.ressed-up hair in pre: sentable condition for a week at a time, and is a wonderful economy id hair I dressing. Although we were lodged at I an inn, we saw nothing of the landlord I or his servants. There was no rush of i clerks, stewards, porters or bell boys,to . | wait on us. We had our own cook and : | our own attendsints. All the obliga: tions we were under to the kitchen of j the house was for hot water to make ! our tea. And it was fortunate, for there i was nothing in the larder of the estab| lishment that would have been to our | I taste. The chief work of the cook of j j the inn seemed to be boiling rice and ; cabbage for the few present who were | lodging in the house. We made our I beds on the peach kilns and slept com-! I fortably enough. We had brought with I us mattresses, pillows, sheets and covj ering, otherwise we should have suf- i ' - ? I i ierec i >'ew York Dwellings. The luxury an a perfection of detail ; in New York dwellings is passing into ; a proverb. Nowhere " in toe world, i probably, is so ranch time and money i I expended npon the furnishing and or- i namenting of the homes of the rich as ; in New York. The draping of curtains j has become a distinct branch of art, and i every decorator and upholsterer has one : I or more employees whose sole business j it is to arrange in graceful folds the : draperies, which are now indispensable, I j at doors, windows and fireplace. Even j the banisters must now be stnfied and : turfed and draped on either sid e with ' Vi oo T7T7 f rin era or a ora or?/3 I 7 J A I VUiAIAigO tMi. iiVOVWV/U J I painted in the studios of distinguished j artists, and then transferred to the: | houses that they ;ire to embellish. Hun \ ! areds of women are employed, a: an ex- ' | pense of thousands of dollars, upon emi broidery and art needlework which are I to adorn the sumptuous palaces in which i our rich men live. Paintings, statuary, | carvings in stone and wood, the richest ! fabrics of French and Indian looms, in| deed, all that is rare aad beautiful in i nature and art, are brought to bear upon | the decoration of these republican pali aces. Even the stables in w&ich the : horses, coachmen and grooms are to be j | housed, are far more Injurious than the j simple homes in which the fathers of our race passed their lives. The newlyfinished stables o:: Cornelius Yanderbilt j in Fifty-eight street, far outshine those ; of the Roman emperor whcse sumptuous ! appointments have become a matter of ! history. A Parrot Catches a Thief. 1 A grotesque illustration of the recur-: rence of the most striking incidents of : | fiction in real life is afforded in so com- J j monplace a quarter as a New York beer ! shop. The keeper thereof had occasion ; to leave his bar for a moment, and on returning found a number of watches stolen. He arresied a suspicious custo-! mer, but having no proof, he was dis-1 missed. What was the consternation of j this person the next day on entering the place -,to have himself saluted by a : croaking parrot, "Billy Coxe stole Hor- i sen's watches." This was too much for : his self-possession and ho hurried out, but was soon thereafter nabbed by a policeman. Sure enough. Poll proved i correct, one of the watches was found , on tbe culprit. "By the Card." In the time of George HI, Horace Walpole tells us that everybody fol- j "io^ed. Hamlet's direction, and spoke j bv tfie'-car&I!?Thev were madfl the* ! vehicles of messagieS- pf all kinds, and even reverend bishops would take up an j ace of hearts to convey instruetrjnuIT; serious matters of business; some of [ which are still in existence. Caricatures, '< then a new species of satire, were some- ' times drawn upon them, and ministers j 3 of state condescended to invent the de- \ vices, Charles Townshend himseli: caii- ! 1 catering the trial of Admiral Bv:ag so < cleverly that the pack was afterwards , I engraved. ; < THE HOME DOCTOR. To destroy the black-points, 3esh- * irotms, or comedones, which are found on the face, and especially near the . nostrils, Dr.tUnna prescribes the fol- * lowing : Kaolin , four parts ; glycerine K three parts ; acetic acid, two parts, with I or without the addition of a small c quantity of some etherial oil. "With I this pomade the parts, affected are cov- 1 ered m the evening, and if need be, 1 during the day. After several days the ? comedones can be easily pressed out of ^ the skin. Bandaging with vinegar or < lemon-iuice or diluted hydrochloric acid has much the same effect. ( A medical student of good physique and | healthy parentage suffered from short-; ? ness of breath, dry cough, general j weakness and despondency. By prac- i ticing regularly deep and prolonged breathing he was relieved of his lung \ symptoms. He acquired, by this practice, a difference of live inches in the ( r,i- r\f ?tl-*fief tc: ft IXiCttO UiCUlCUU Vi ilio VU^OU. -ju j-Li *./ M . j kind of a pulmonary gymnastics which ; ' can usually be prescribed in cases of j "weak chesty" and it is to encourage ^ and facilitate this practice that nhe of- ( fer in our premium list the Dickenson ^ Inhaler.? Dr. Footers Health Monthly. Old and young persons are often ( sorely troubled by small, hard particles . of matter thai get under the eyelids. : When children suffer in this way, their , parents may not even suspect the cause , of the trouble. The irritation may go on increasing for years; for tho inflammation strongly resembles catarrhal conjunctivitis, -which has quite a different cause. The conjunctiva (as the termination itis in medicine always means "inflammation of,"conjunctivitis means inflammation of the conjunctiva) is a mucous membrane which begins hear the edge of the lids, uppsr and lower, lines them, and then turning back, covers also the eyeball. It thus forms two sacs. It is exceedingly sensitive,and is very liable to inflammation of various kinds, all pair ful and some very difficult of cure. A foreign body beneath the eyelid soon inflames it. Such a body beneath the upper lid is not as readily detected as one beneath the lower, and it is harder to remove it. A child that had long suffered from what was supposed to be catarrahal inflammation, and for which it had been energetically treated,only to grow worse, was brought to Dr. Broosa, professor of ophthalmology in the New York University. On turning back the child's upper eye)id, the source of the trouble was found in a small bud of a cherrytree. Relief and cure followed its removal. In all such cases the main thing to do is to evert the lid. The lower lid /VCTOV fTlO finCTA* Tf t.llft I XO C^CiOXJLJ UUIilOU VUV ? ? particle is beneath the tipper lid, press the lid against the eyebrow and have the patient look down. Then seize the eyelashes acd edge of the lid and turn the lid quickly over the thumb. Remove the speck with a handkerchiefs and show it to the patient; for he will often feel for some time as if the object were still in the eye. A Romance of the War. Soon after the battle of Gettysburg the Seventh Indiana Regiment was stationed near Waterford, Loudoun county. An acquaintance sprang up between Lieutenant Holmes, of that regiment, and Miss Lizzie, daughter of John B. Dutton. The correspondence between the two which ensued upon thcii: separation, led to their betrothal. In an assault upon the Confederate works at Petersburg the young lieutenant was killed. A few days later came a letter from ius oetrotnea. a. friend and comrade cf the slain officer, Joseph M. Drml.ip, gknowing the relation between the two, returned the letter, at the same time apprising Miss Button of the fall of her lover. A letter of thanks from the young lady foi the mournful attention paid her gave occasion for the interchatge of several more epistles. Mr. Dunlap was deeply impressed with the style of the letters, having previously seen and admired the writer. The tide of war rolled on i until the torn battle-fiags were furled at Appomattox. The correspondence ceased. Mr. Dunlap went to his home in Indiana and fulfilled a long-standing engagement by marrying the daughter of a neighbor. A year or two ago this lady died. J Mr. Dunlap went forth into the world a lone man, and in his travels found himself one day near the house of his former correspondent. A train of pleasant recollections followed. Was she married ? No. The widower pondered | and speedly formed his resolutoin. A postal card opened the way to a renewed /wi?roer?-?rn1<ir>r.A. A visit t,n th? home of his correspondent followed. Th?y talked of her dead lover, of his gallantry and manly bearing, and how lie fell at the head of his men at the ! very points of the Confederate bayonets. Then they talked of something else, and matters flowed on so easily, smoothly and naturally that in a few weeks Mr. Dunlap found himself at his Indiana home busily engaged in pre paring it for the reception of a new mistress. Last Tuesday the little town of Waterford was all a blaze of light and a ecene of general rejoicing for the lady was popular and beloved by all. In the midst of a large assemblage the ceremony took place which united Miss Dutton and Mr. Dunlap in the bonds of matrimony.?Richmond (Va.) Whig. ' mm' I Fires. The recently printed statistics of the j number of fires, and the extent of dam- ; age done thereby, in the United States, j furnishes material for an interesting analysis in the Fireman's Journal or the nature of these lires. It appears that during 1881 throughout the whole country there were 472 large fires, causing a damage of about $60,000,000. The striking feature of this list is tke very large percentage of loses encoun- j tered by manufacturing industries. Over 60 of the wood-work manufacturing establishments in the country were ' damaged to an extent of over 350,000. j and probably as large a number encoun-j tered loss by fire to a smaller extent, i Next to these premises iu percentage of} damage are the establishments in which ! grain is cleaned and ground, which I operation causes the diffusion of fine ! dust in closed rooms, thus creating danger. A loss of $3,000,000 alone is ! set down against only 25 of these bnild-! ings, which include grist and flouring j mills, breweries, distilleries, and eleva- j tors. A loss of ?2,500,000 is the result of fire3 during the 12 months in a similar number of cotton, woolen, and flai mills and cordage works. The loss being, in the aggregate, larger than in the preceding year, the competition between the fire insurance companies, j is regarded as being a losing one. It i has been asser; ed in this connection ! that with some unscrupulous companies, j the "hazard" involved has been merely ; a secondary consideration, and they have insured buildings at unduly large figures simply to secure a premium, which it is alleged is in such cases practically a bonus for incendiarism. It is reported that some insurance- people even go so far as to attribute over half of all fires that occur tj incendiary ; origin. Danger is also often needlessly ; incurred through the imperfect and! careless construction of buildings, j This is more especially the case in the j smaller cities and towns, where wooden j structures are put upwithout, apparent-1 ly, the slightest attention to their pro- | per protection from fire either within j or without their walls.? Nere York Times. I Under a law which went into opera- j tion at the beginning of the present i year the female sex in Switzerland j has been conceded the right of becom- j . ing of age at twenty-one. Hitherto a I woman in Switzerland never attained ! a majority in the eye of the law, and j no matter what her age she was always j in a state of wardship. This gallant j Legal liction has now been abolished, ? : !jmt it is doubtful whether the women 1 1 Switzerland will own up to being \ ; ;wenty-one any quicker than the women ! >f any other conn try. j i i t ? I f E 4 t ? t r HlKYESTLJfG ICE. low the ice I? Cat Frotn the Frozen Hud SOU ana siorua a way. The business of haryestir g and stor-1 ng ice has become in the Northern States one of great magnitude and imjortance. The use oi ice for various | lomestic as well as commercial pur-; )oses has become a positive necessity 1 ather than a luxury, as formerly, i iimost every neighborhood in this1 lection of the country is during the : winter provided with a store of ice, large j >r small, for use during the hot weather. > rhe method employed by the large j jorporations that cut ice by the tens I tnd hundreds of thousand tons on some )f our navigable rivers is told by describing a winter scene among the ice jutters on the Eudson River, say about LOO miles c.bove the city of New York, it various convenient points along the banks of ths river are located immense storehouses, within which the ice is leposited and kept for summer use. 50,000 or even 100,000 tons being frequently deposited in a single set of icetionses. The storage buildings are t - n _ j omit o; wood, Wltn aouoie wans, anu | ire of rough appearance, though strong-; [y built. " In gathering ice, the work generally , commences on the Hudson river as j ?oon as the material reaches a thick- i aess of nino inches. On the Kennebec ! ind Penobscot rivers and other Maine J sources of supply, as well as those cf j Massachusfitts, a greater thickness is | commonly secured before cutting operations are commenced. The thickness and quality of th^ ice varies greatly at different points of the river. The plot of gooi ice selected within convenient distance of the ice-houses is staked out and marked with hemlock j brush. Tien with ice-plows, tho em- . ployes mark out the ice in suitable j squares 01 cakes, about twenty-two j by thirty-fire inches in size, cutting the groove about one inch in depth. Following :;he markers, plowing with ice-plows of deeper blade sink the groove to a depth of three inches, contirmine' thin' oneration nntil a sufficient depth ii secured. One of the runners, which is smooth, rest on the ice and serves as a oearer, the other ronner is provided with a series of teeth or shares which maie, the desired groove in the ice. J xst enough ice is left at the bottom of 1he groove to hold the blocks of ice firmly together so they may be mooved in a mass or field. The next operation is to separate a raft of tho blocks, generally abont 112 in number, from the main ice in the river by tf.ps of a heavy ice-chisel. These rafts are next towed by horses into a canal cut from the pond to the ice-house, tvb.ere the raft is secured by nikemen and thrust toward the slope of the ice-honse. Before this is reached, laborers provided with tridents break the raffc into single cakes, which as they reach the slope, are gnided to the cleats attached to endless chains, which latter, moved by steam power, carry a steady stream of ice cakes to any desired gallery of the storehonse. From this point the blocks glide swiftly down an incline, until they reach the doorways opened for their reception, and where barmen dexterously switch cake after cake into the slide which leads into the house. The work of storing is quickly done, and the blocks so arranged, by leaving a space of two or three inches between the cakes, so as to afford a circulation of air as wsll as a means of escape for such water as results from the melting of the ice. When the house is filled, loose hay i3 thrown over the top and the house is closed. The bulk of the ice thus stored on the. Eudson is intended for New York city market and is coveyed thither in barges towed down the river by steamers. The price depends on the season and the greed of the companies.?Boston Cultivator. Care of the Teeth. A hard crust is the best possible dentifrice. I never could get myself to believe in the natural necessity of a brush. The African nations, the Hindoos, the natives of Southern Europe, tViA Rnnf>> SS?a Islanders, the Arabs, the South American vegetarians, in short three-fourths of our fellow-men, besides our next relatives, the frugiverous animals, have splendid teeth without sozodont. I really believe that ours decay from sheer disuse; the boarding house homo lives chiefly on pap?wants all his meals soft boiled, and growls at cold bread or an underdose potato; in other words he delegates to the cook the proper functions of his teeth. We heard of an old man getting a second or third set of teeth. I met one of them in Guatemala, and ascertained that he had become toothless during a twelve years' sojourn in a seaport town, and that he got his new set upon his return to his native village,, where circumstances obliged him to resume the haid corn cake diet of his youth. His teeth had reappeared as soon as Ltbeir services were required, and would not have absented themselves if a pap diet had not made them superfluous. An artificial dentifrice will keep the teeth white, but that does not prevent their premature decay; disuse gradually softens their substance, till one fine day the hash eater snaps his best incisor upon an unexpected piece of bone. Every old dentist knows hundreds of city customers who the daily use of the tooth brush dii not save from the necessity of applying before the end of fortieth year of a complete celluloid set. I do not say that a toft tooth brush and such dentifrices as oatmeal cor burned irrowroot can do any harm, but of sanitary purposes precautions must be supplemented by dental exercise. Let a child invigorate its teeth by chewing on a hard cru6t, or a handful of Sfc. John's bread or carob beans. Children &2em to feel an instinctive desire to exercise their teeth upon some hard, solid substance, as pet squirrels will often try to gnaw the furniture if you give them nut kernels instead of real nuts. Thus Kohl tells that the natives of Southern Russia are ad dieted to the practice of chewing a vegetable product which he at first supposed to be pumpkin or melon seeds but fonnd to be the much harder seed of the Turkish sunflower (helianthus! perennis.) Their national diet consists of hominy and butter and boiled mut- j ton, and they seem to feel that their 1 Turkoman jaws need something more substantial. The schoolboy habit of gnawing penholders, linger nails, etc., may have a similar significance. Our practice of sipping ice cold and hot drinks, turn about, has a very bad effect upon our teeth; no porcelain glaze would stand such abuse, and experience has taught hunters and dog fanciers that i* destroys even the bonecrushing fangs of the animal from which our canine teeth derive their name. Savage love of Dress. The love of dress sometimes pierces the heart of even a savage. Here is a description of the costume of a tall young fellow who proudly walks the streets of Carson : A red blanket hung over a rope and tied about his neck; above this a locg scarf of pink calico, tied in a huge bow under the chin, something after the manner of Sarj Bernhardt; on his head a very much battered plug hat, in the band of -which are stuck two or three broken rooster';. feathers, and a tattered ostrich plume. At the Bide, pinned with a very large steel brooch, floats a blue veil, about j two yards in length. Around his dirty, i bare ankles are knotted some strips of! red calico, but his feet have no orna-1 ment but mnd. The crowning glory of j his attire are his ear-rings. His ears i have slits in them over an inch in ; length; and in one, tied with a buck-1 skin string, is the handle of a table-: castor and two brass door-keys, in the other an ornamented top of a meeri _ _ _ ii ! ccnitum pipe, a uru.K.eii ?uu tlie tin cover, .from a box of bakiDg-j powder. Tcy?crown all, his face is j painted with^ripea of red. Having usecfc Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup in my ; family for thei^ast three years, I find it is the ] best preparation I have ever used for Cough-} ind Colds, giving almost immediate relief. j '<? B. Walk ee, i ften'ICom. 118 Light st, Ealto., Md. | WORDS OF WISD03I. He is Trise -who never acts without rea- j I son, and never against it. ! I Laziness travels so slowly that pov- j ( erty soon overtakes her. ! t Error would be mobbed in the streets ;1 if she did not go disguised in the garb i of truth. | If a man makes money at the expense \ of his virtue, he dishonors his soul, j He sells honor for gold. All the gold j on earth is of no value compared with ! virtue. J It is hard to personate and act a part! j long, for where truth is not at the bot- ! j torn, nature will always be endeavoring j to return, and will peep out aud betray 1 itself one time or another. The extinction of slavery in Brazil is j proceeding very gradually, and it will i j take more than thirty years to aceom- ! j plish it. Emancipation began in 1870, i j but there are still 1,500,000 >ondmen j, in the country. j If you think you can temper yourself j i into manliness by sitting there over : i vour books, it is the very silliest fancy j that ever tempted a young mail to his ! 1 ruin. Yon cannot dream yonrself into i ] a character; yon mnst hammer and j i forge yonrself one: ' 1 A loving heart and a pleasant conn- i' tenance are commodities which a man . shonld never fail to take homo with I him. They will best season his food j and soften his pillow. It were a great thing for a man that his wife and children conld truly say of him, "He never brought an angry or an ill-tempered j word across hi3 threshold." The best ! likeness of heaven ever seen on earth i3 j a well-conducted and happy family. j Tlie "Curse of Scotland." It has often been asked why the nine of diamonds is called the "Oturse of Scotland," and as an answer has lately Vioori or?ran hv a writer in Notes and Queries, we may perhaps conclude this ! article by giving the three historical facts which he assigns as having caused the saying. In the distracted state of the country, during the reign of Mary, a man, George Campell by name, attempted to steal the crown out oi Edinburgh Castle. In this he was unsuccessful, but managed to abstract nin? valuable jewels and escape safely to a foreign shore. To replace these, a heavy ; tax was laid upon the country, which i the poor, oppressed people thought so j great a grievance that they termed it the curse of Scotland ; and, until very re-; cently, the card itself bore the name of George Campbell in the Highlands. The second explanation relates to the well-known massacre of Glencoe. The j mandate of thi3 crnel deed was signed ' by the eldest son of the Earl of Stair, j who was at the time the Secretary of j State for Scotland. The coat of I arms belonging to this family bears nine | diamonds on its shield, and tlae people j not daring to stigmatise the Master of Stair as the cnrse of Scotland, applied \ it to his armorial bearings. The last j expiration relates to the battle of i ! Culloden, which extinguished the I hopes of the Stuart party, and was at j tho time considered a national curse. , The Duke of Cumbrland, who was known to have been a gambler, is said . to have carried a pack of cards in his \ pocket; and when he had won the j famous field, he took out the nine j ! spot of diamons and wrote his account, : of the victory on it.?Chamber's; Journal. A Chinese Conspiracy. Tso-An, the late lamented empress i regent of China, underwent a curious experience in the pleasure garden of [ the pilace at Pekin a short time before j her death. Several huge effigies of ' lions adorn different parts of the pri- i vate grounds. Two of these mimic j lions, cast in pure gold, stood on either : side of a shady path, her majesty's ! favorite resort. As she was strolling j up and down this walk ono fine morn-, ing last March, attended by her ladies ! of honor, one of the golden lions sud- i denly sprang into the air from its ped- j estal, and with a tremendous roar like j the report of a cannon, fell nearly at1 her feet, shattered to pieces. Tso-An swooned away on the spot and was j carried into the palace, where she 0?\AA^iilTr AAMA OT>/3 TT7Q O ! D?/C'GUXijr VBIUC (IV uuu nuw AWV*MV? . to have sustained no damage bejond a i severe sliock to her nerves. It was ! subsequently discovered that the hoi- j low body of the lion had been filled j with gunpowder and fired by means of j a wire connected with an electric bat- i tery fitted up in the private sitting- j room of a subordinate palace of&cial. j This person's arrest and the deposi- j tions subsequently obtained from him j by certain ingenious methods of per- j suasion usually brought to bear upon | criminals by the Chinese executive, ; led to the discovery of an elaborate ; court conspiracy against the life of the empress regent. The conspirators { did not long survive their accomplice's j revelations. The Greatest. The greatest thing in the world is the j j falls of Niagara ; the largest cavern, the j ; Mammoth cave of Kentucky; the j | largest river, the Mississippi?4,000! j miles in extent; the largest valley, that ! j of the Mississippi?its area 5,000,000 j : sqnare miles; the greatest city park, that ' | of Philadelphia, containing 2,700 acres; j ; the greatest grain port, Chicago ; the 1 i largest lake, Lake Superior; the | longest railroad, the Pacific railroad? ; i over 3,000 miles in extent; the most j ! hnge mass of solid Iron is Pilot Knob : j of Missouri?height, 250 feet, circumference two miles; the best specimen i of architecture, Girard college, Philadelphia ; the largest aqueduct, the Croton of New York, length 40* miles, cost $12,500,000; the longest bridge, the elevated railroad in Third avenue fcT "XT _ _1_ . 1 L AUA T>^ I INew xoris ; lis irum mo ijancij I j to the Harlem river?the whole length ! j of the eastern side of the Manhattan ! Island?seven miles long or nearly 40,-1 000 yards. The longest bridge over the I | water, however, will be that now being i I constructed in Russia over the Volga | at a point where the river is nearly four I miles wide. The most extensive deposits of anthracite coal are in Pennsylvania. j A 4-year-old child, who, while visit- j ing, saw bellows used to blow an open I fire, informed her mother that tbev i "shovel wind into the fire down at Arnit! Emma's." ? __ Rather Enthusiastic. The Wilmington (Del ) Daily R^publi- ; can lately contained the following: item oi i popular interest: Dr. J. F. Speck, who i.-1 connected with the Wilmington Every I Evening, speaks rather enthusiastically of j St. Jacobs Oil. Dr. Speck states that lie uses the oil in his family as a household remedy, a sort of universal panacea for all aches and pains, and has always found it to i ' act most happily. His attention wascailed \ j to it by the many testimonials in its favor, j J and he one day used it upon himself lor j j sore throat. Two applications wc-re suffi-; 1 cient to effect a cure. He also used it ou I | his little girl for sore throat with gratifying j j success The same child had scarlet fever j ! this winter which left the tendons of one; | leg much contracted. The little prattler j ' couldn't walk without assistance and suf- | i fared much inconvenience and pain. Sev- ' ; eral applications of St Jacobs Oil restored i | her limb to its normal condition, and she has not experienced any trouble sincc. Dr. Speck states that he has also seen the Oil j act charmingly in toothache. He thinks St. Jacobs Oil is a sterling remedy, and does not hesitate to recommend it for rheumatism, etc. A watch stolen from a San Francisco j lady more than a year ago was returned ! to her last week, the singular fact in i connection with its recovery being that : it was sent back from China by some 1 person there who had received it as a j present, but was not satisfied with its j style. The Nebraska City (Neb ) Press says: St. Jacobs Oil strikes heavy blows for good j all around- and its virtues for rheumatic | pains nre lauded upon every hand. Try it, j all ye who suffer. Within the past year three churches have been built and fully paid for by i the Methodists of Minneapolis, Minn / { f t - J - ' _ f. - wm Arizona Pets. ! 111 An engineer upon the Southern Pacific , the Railroad recently sent to General j "* faster Mechanic, A. J. Stevens, from ; ^ 3ila Bend, an assortment of the semi- j ea1 topical animal pets of that region. I tet imong them is a centipede, about j dy >even inches in iength and half an inch j ^ n diameter; a tarantula, with a body i reJ >ver two inches long, and legs covering | Sp< i circular space of fully six inches. | chi ibout half a dozen scorpions are among jfei ihe lot. The longest are over sii I wfc .ncnes. An interesting specimen is the sh< 'tarantula hawk," which resembles a ' ?? ? ? ? A* Afl ;arge wasp in ap^'tjurauuc, uuo auuai <u ne [arge agaiii as that insect. Tt is said to on nave been given the name it bears from :he fact of its enmity to the tarantula, [t lights down npon the tarantula's b?] back and bites it to death, and then pj finishes up its destructive work by eat- sv ing off its legs. Among the collection ^ ire also several Gila monsters, which Sy are simply overgrown lizards, the m> largest of which are more than tiiteen inches in length. A "beautiful" rattle- b, 3nake, with seven rattles and a bntton, which pet the engineer fonnd xn his ^ bed beside him upon waking up one pi morning* was also sent to Mr. Stevens, A is the engineer acquired a "lively" in- w terest in this snake upon first sight.? Sacramento (Cal.) Union. A (Jueer Css? of Selfishness. To the Headers of the Brooklyn Eagle: ? ine iacw contaiaea m me ionowmg aaiuo gj are related by C. 3L Farmer, Esq., 169 Third l avenue, New York, who will impart the full B particulars of the case, and the name of the j, party, to any one seeking the same. Deferencs to the wishes of the gentleman benefited in- V duces us to withhold his name and advise the source of information as above. g In a neat frame cottage on a high elevation c overlooking the East river and the islands in the stream below Hell Gate, dwell Mr. and his wife. Thre6 years ago the husband was g prostrated by rheumatic gout, which, in the S course of a few weeks, invaded every vulnerable ? part of his body. His feet and hands became jnot only useless but most unsightly members, his fingers becoming so swollen, distorted and P twiated that they looked like the tangled claws ^ of a crab.. Being the owner of his home, and having some money laid by from his former salary, earned while bookkeeper for a prominent commercial house, he sought relief from pain and utter helplessness from the best sources, and paid dearly for it. He obtained I temporary relief from his pains, but no medi- ^ eal skill availed in straightening out his dis- g torted limb3 or enabling him to resume hie j I former avocation. Thus he lay bedridden as I ? tedious months went by; meanwhile hiej j stock of money was being rapidly exhausted, V until only a small sum remained at his com- ? uian.'L Among his kind and sympathetic j. neighbors, a few months ago, was one who came with a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil in his I pocket and urgently insisted that it should be j tested. But such was Mr. 's obstinate ob- j jection to everything bearing the name or sus- I picion of a proprietary medicine that he posi- ? tively refused its use, and for a week afterward j he lay groaning in his bed while St Jacob's \ Oil stood untouched on the wife's dressing cable. j One night his sufferings were unusually s severe, and after a long entreaty Mrs. was I allowed to anoint her wretched husband * thoroughly with the Oil. When he awoke in j the morning from the first easy and peaceful \ . leep he had enjoyed for many months, he saw * before him a new lease of life. Repeated ap- q plications of this wonderful remedy, night after I night, for two weeks, restored the man to his nor- C mal condition of health, strength and activity, * and to-day he is occupying a position of no little . labor and responsibility, ana at a tine salary in : a prominent business honse in the lower part of the city. Learning these facts from his wife when I called at the pleasant cottage home 1 above mentioned, the writer made an appoint- ] ment to meet him the next day. i "lam happy to learn," I said to him, 'ifhat j yon have recovered your health after a lonf*and < painful illness. Mrs. informed me that j you owe yonr present happy condition to a pro- , prietary medicine." " Yes," he answered, cheerfully. "I call it a miraculous medicine. The world owes a debt J of gratitude to the discoverer of 8fc. Jacobs Oil, } which, with all its wealth, it will never pay, be- * cause it will never folly appreciate the great virtues of ihis remarkable remedy. Look at me. Do I look like a man who for three years has been an invalid and a cripple ?" " You look like the picture of health," I replied, "and while I congratulate you, I must request that you allow me, a3 a press reporter, to make your case known to the public for the benefit of those who have suffered like yourself." "Excuse me, sir," he returned, "but I would rather not." "Why, what objection can you have?" I asked son. vhat puzzled. "Well, you see," he said, ' I a.ui peculiarly situated, and, while I have a sympathy for all who suffer, I would, for certain reasons, be jeopardizing my own interests by allowing my name to be published in this connection." "Very well," I said. "Your wishes shall be observed. But dou't you think you are a little selfish in this matter ?" " Perhaps I am," he answered, "but St. Jacobs Oil has so many other testimonials from prominent I men in its favor, that mine would be of little ? consequence." * f Although the writer regretted this refusal to * allow another name to be added to the long list c of testimonials to the efficacy of the Great Ger- ? man Remedy, it was felt that perhaps the gen- r tleman's reason for such refusal might out- * weigh in lile's scale of economy what looks on \ its face as a queer case of selfishness.?Neic ? York Ectning Tslegram. ? Alab.uia has 799 more colored than white r inhabitants. Of her total population of 1,262,- I 505, all bnt 9,734 are native born. Our Prosrreso. ! As stages are quickly abandoned with the completion rf railroads, so the huge, drastic, j cathartic pills, composed of crudc and bull./ i medicine*, are qniculv abandoned with the introduction of Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative | Pellets," which are sugar-coated, and little i larger than mustard soeds, but composed of highly concentrated vegetable extracts. By I druggists. Atlanta, Ga., boasts of a young, attractive and industrious cobbler of the female sex, who I both mends and constructs all kinds of shoes j to the satisfaction of numerous customers. Consumption Cure. Dr. B. V. Piekce: Dear Sir? Death was hourly expected by myself and friends. }Iy physicians pronounced my disease consumption, and said I must die. I began taking your " rhannverv > and "Pellets" I have used nine bottles aau am wonderfully relieved. I am now able to ride oui. Elizabeth Thornton, 3Iontongo, Ark. Thibty dollars are offered by tbe Mexican ? government to the Mexican Southern company c for even* family of colonists settled along the * railway line. - . j The " (5 Iden Bloom of Youth" 1 may be retained by using Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." a specific for " female complaints." -By druggists. Last year 2,991 books were published in the United States, an increase of 915, or at the rate of eighteen a week over the issue of 1880. A Pnstar's Enthusiasm. Whippaxy. X. J., July 2.1830. H. H. Warner & Co.: Sir:s?Mrs. Bardwell has beou a 1 >ng suffoivr from chroni<; ititla.ni- mation of the bladder, which yielded t > no | tre.tment until she began the use o:' >orcr Stf.Kidney and Liver Care. We recommend the 1 remedy at all times. Kev. D. McGee BaeweliIn 1823 Amsterdam, Holland, wa3 visited , by 102 American vessels ; in 1880 by only ten. ( A Sure Cure for Fits Will be sent by mail to any address, postpaid, on receipt of one dollar. Address J. Alonzo Greene, Indian Doctor, 816 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. Don't Die in the llou-e. 1 ti.- fnr " linntrh on lilts." It clears > PO"'"' c ? out rats, mice, bedbugs, roaches, vermin, ilies, ( ants, insects. 15c. per box. ? We can insure any person having a bal l head or troubled with dandruff, that Carboline, a deodorized extr'.ct of petroleum, will do all that is claimed for it. It will not stain the most delicatc fabric and is delightfully perfumed. Pure cod-liver oil, from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. Chapped hands, tace, piruples aud rough skin i cured by using Juniper'far Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard (i Co.. Xow York. j The Scienci- of Life, or Self-Preservatioi, a ' medical work for every man?young, mid lioaged or ol'"' 125 invaluable prescriptions. On Thirty Darn' Trial. ' t>ip Voltaic P.pit Co.. Marshall. Mich., will | ) send their Electro-Voltaic Belts and other Electrie Appliances on trial for thirty days to any person afflicted with Nervous "Debility, Lost j Vitality, and kindred troubles, -raarauteeing ] complete restoration of vigor and manhood. Address as above without delay. P. S.?No risk is incurred, as 30 days' trial is allowed. " Yegettse has restored thousands to health who had been long and painful sufferers. \ p Undigested Food the stomach develops an acid which stings (upper part of the throat and palate, causing leartburn." It also evolves a gas which proees "wind on the stomach,'' and a feeling 3 appearance of distension in that organ after :ing. For both this acidity and swelling Eostor's Stomach Bitters is a much better reme- I than alkaline salts, like hartshorn and caxcate of soda. A wineglassful of the Litters, er or before dinner, will be found to act a a a j iable carminative or preventive. This line i ;cific for dyspepsia, both its acute and j conic form, also prevents ana cures uuuhm | ^ rers, constipation, liver complaint, kidney | rubles, nervousness and debility. Persons j aj 10 observe in themselves a decline of vigor | f: suld use this ~ne tonic without delay. fa There arc fifteen prisoners in tho Virginia si Ditentiary for life, one for fifty-four years, v< e for thirty-eight, and two for tLirtv-six. i * pi HOW TO SECURE HEALTH. gj t Is strange any one will suffer from derangements h jugfct on by Impure Wood, when SCOYILL'S SARSA- d: lRILLA AXDSTII.LIXGIA.or BLOOD ASD J.IVF.R al 'RUP will restore health to the physical organization, ?j Is a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and the BEST a .OOD PURIFIER ever discovered, curing Scrofula, yi philltic disorders. Weakness of the Kidneys. Ery.-ipclas, * ilaria. Xervous disorders, Debility, Bilious complaints c' d Diseases of the Blood, Liver. Kidneys, Stomach, n in, etc. k ?????? p Edey'a Carbolic Troclien prevent all conta- ci nis diseases, such as Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, si hooping Cough, and euro Coughs and Colds. .. easant to the taste and a good disinfectant. a: . ? ? x-?rv,i,;i;tv A- h LLEX'S Brain hoo??cun? .<?rnWu^ .. eakness of Generative Organs, ^1?all druggists. ;nd for Circular. Allen's Pharmacy,313 First av.,X.Y. THE MARKETS. 1 8 f VEW YORK* ^ eef Cattle?Sled. *Nat live wt? 10 @ 12% aires?Poor to Prim9 Veals... 6%@ 9% aeep 5ye? 6% amos 6 %@ 1% logs?Live. 6%@ 7% Dressed, city 8%@ 8% lour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 50 @ 8 00 Western, good to choice 5 60 @ 8 75 i fheat?No. 2 Red, new 1 34 @134% No. 1 White, new 131 @ 1 SI ye?State 92 @ 92 alley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90 orn? Ungraded WesternSIixed 65 @ 69&" Southern Yellow 71 71% ats?White State 52 @ 56 Mixed Western 48 @ 49 I [ay?Prime Timothy 90 @ 95 fcraw?No. 1, Rye.... 80 @ 80 [ops?State, 1881 27 @ 28 ork?Mesa, new, for export...17 75 @18 00 ard?City Steam 10 65 @10 65 Refined 10 95 @10 95 . ~ - my I etroieum?Crude o."4? '7s : Refined 8 %@ 8% iutter?State Creamery 34 @ 40 , Dairy 36 @ 40 J Western Im. Creamery 32 @ 43 < Factorv 10 @ 35_ i heese?State Factory 9 @ 12% ; Skims 2 @ 7 j Western 9 @ 12% Iggs?State and Penn 26%@ 27 'otatoes?Early Rose.Srate.bbl 3 25 @ 3 25 t BCiTALO. teers?Extra 0 Ort @ 6 25 1 .ambs?Western 5 50 @ 6 50 i heep?Western 4 75 @ 5 50 J logs, Good to Choice Yorkers.. 0 75 @ 6 85 ] lour?C'y Ground, No. 1 Spring 6 75 @7 25 Fheat?Xo. 1. Hard Duluth 145 @145 k>m-Xo. 2 Mixed 6SJ,<@ 69 )ats?Xo. 2 Mix. West 48 @ 49 Parley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90 EOSTO>". !eef?Extra plate and family. .14 00 @15 00 i logs?lave "... 7%@ 8 Io?s?City Dressed 9 @ 9% >ork?Extra Prime pet bbl 14 00 @14 50 "lour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @9 00 ,'orn Mixed and Yellow 73%@ 75 lata?Extra White 54^@ 56 lye?State 97 @ 1 00 t'ool?Washed Comb & Delaine 44%@ 46 TT ,1.^1 U U Qfl <31 UUWttSUCU ?-?v V?y v* WATEBTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE HABKET. 5eef? Extra quality 6 50 @7 12% ilieep?Live weight 4 ? 6)? .amba 6 @ 7% logs, Northern, d. w 8%@ 8% philadelphia. 'lour?i'cnn. Ex. Family, good 6 00 @ 6 00 Vheat-No. 2 Red ." 1 32%@ 1 32% tye?State 97 ? 97 lorn?State Yellow '69%? 69% )ats?Mixed 46 @ 46 Jutter?Creamery Extra Pa.... 45 @ 45 Jheese?New York Full Cream. 13%@ 13% ; tetroleum?Crude 6 @ 7 Refined 7yA@ 714 ] A. Friend in Need is a Friend Meed, ind by such a one's sympathizing advice and lid many a trouble hns been lifted and burden .ightened. Such a friendship is worth keeping, lud when, from his experience, be advises and instructs, his opinions should be heeded. If kind ivords can never die, and good deeds are never .ost, the inducement for always doing the good >ne can is still a great one. Many people imagine :bat they had better do nothing* than do a little, Forgetting that it is the detail that makes the agrregate?the drops that form the showers?the iittle kindnesses of life that make existence eniurable. A?, in the picture, the good old St. Jacob is extending relief to the suffering supplimtby offering a bottleof that wonderful remedy, ?t. Jacobs Oil, so all can do something of beneit for his fellow men in their times of trouble or ickness. In how many instances could the simf >le mention of the words "St. Jacobs Oil,' oupled with terms of indorsement and en ouragement, bring relief and cure to those sufering with rheumatism. In view of the wonder- j ul record of this Great German Remedy in the :ure of rhcumutism, neuralgia and all painful liseases, it appears in the light of strong duty for iveryoue to patientlv, yet persistently, urge its implication in the diseases named, bearing in nind that the highest good from man to man :onsists in that which tends to promote tbeir >eace. welfare ana general health. Amongothers vho have no hesitation in giving free expression o their opinion is Bishop Gilmour. of Cleveland, )bio. who has used the Great German Remedy. It. Jacobs Oil, and endorses it highly. H'e rrites about it as follows: "I am pleased to say hat the use of St. Jacobs Oii. has benefited me rrcatlv, and I have no hesitation to recommend t to ail as an excellent curative." ^ Y N U?S OF THE CUITEAU TRIAL This is the only complete and fully illustrated "Life md Trial of Guiteau." It contains all the testimony >f the experts and other noted witnesses: all the peeches made by the cunning assassin in his great 'fforts to escape the gallows hv feigning insanity. Jeware of catchpenny books. Millions of people are raiting for this work. As?-ntj? wanted. Circulars ree. Extra terms to Agents. Address National Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. c j Y W3T WASTE MOXCT! ?ainrn?ooroM. OI If jcm w*at a Luxuriant dou*Uc:,c, 2owu>c whalers* or a h^nrr growth of Iitvir oa b*I<i ? '^ 2^ W W or to THICK K.N. ZTllfiyOTlirX a=-l INVIGORATE the HAIR annr&er* 4oo*t b? huajhitgjr**!. ?j3 Trj the irreat Spanish di-?wrrrT which hi* NKVK.fi V?f >\*I LED. ??.?To>'LY SIX C?NTS to Dr. J. r.ONZALtZ, Uoz WW. D**ton. Miv. I>wax? of al! Imitations. > ?MPLOYWIEKTof,T^S^ ?for services and expends. Kcainess honorable, rermuient, and easily operated. Write tin. A CO.. 306 George Street, Ciacinntti. Ohio. I _ _ for 1 SVi. with improved Uiary r F60 IWrtW iable. 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The very finest *t r Preecriptioni for all acw SHOW THYSELF I gilt!0 Price oaly^iis ILLUSTRATED SAMPLE, Tti* Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, Is the mo is nothing whatever that the married or single oj ivfaat is fully explained. In short, the book is invaluat i'he bo?t medical work ever published.?London Lanr* .' .ild aud jeweled medal awarded the author of th( ?ii,w.chv*tw< Ploughmen. Thousands of exi km :ine journal*?literary, political, religious and scie: ,H u ' I.*' Jt i "nvi *u v ' v* j m > i? i n mini i> mnwy v.ill refunded ia every instance. Thonsanri* of Copies are tent by mall, seen vrcrltl, every month, upon receipt of price* 81.S Address PEABGDY MEDICAL INS Al Balflneh Street K/p , ti>? author tdmj 1m cturoittd oo ill ?mn Ve getine VILL CURE CAMCER. 'J? PROOF! PROOF! PROOF! < , _ :||:j . K. SiKvrs-g, ESQ.: . I Dear Sir?About two vears ago a cancer made its '.'j; 9 spearance on my face, left side of my nose. When '53'. first noticed it, 'twas about the size of a pin-head ? ery small). It increased in size, and spread on w 2 .ce until it became as large a? a common cent. I ied all kind? ofremedies, and advice irorn a phycian. It was spreading and eating into nv jJiw'i ;ry fast. I was very much alarmed. I went to *?'physician who cured cancers; hi- did not give HtJ luci? encouragement. It gained me vi-rv much; 1 '-a'-/! ifferc-a Eight and day. It would bleed at times xeff A3* rofusely. Everything was done that could be r< y to cure the cancer. My brother had a cancer or. is lip: he submitted to an operation, being we! 5 iscouraged. I was one asy in Mr. Wood berry V iwthecary store, of this town. ?He pave me j onr imphlet, containing many cures by the use of Vep- }$1 tine. I found on page 19 wher??Vegeti?e had cured cancer on a lady's nose. I then bought ?l>ottIe oi' f our Vegetine, and it proved a great blessiis; to me.: could see <*ood effects from it right away. After :-j iking tltr&e bottles it stopped the spreading of theincer about the edges; it checked the eating lci?r fjg :y flesh. I could see it was gradually healing. 1 ept oa taking Vegetine. the canccr slowly disaj*' earing, until I had taken sixteen bottles and i^ ' '% ompletely cured it. It has left a large scar on ou?> de of my nose; aad I feel it my duty to recommend p . S emetine to all like sufferers, as it is certainly a great A Blood Puriiier." I am now sixty-three- years o." -a Ke, and Vegetine has greatly improved my general 2?^ ealth. Yours most respectfully, if. * WM. P. CLEAVES. 34 Federal St., Beverly, Mas v. : We, whose names are annexed, can testify to th'r * ~1'1 r*f this town bove, as Mr. cieaves xa !. WOODBERBYi Apoth'y, RICHARD PET?RICK, -. ^.v LERBERT S. SMTH. ANDREW L. EATON. u GLEDDEN. GEO. S. MLLLEIT. Vegetine. |g PREPARED BY I. R. STEVENS3 Boston, MassVegetine is Sold by All Druggists. PEERLESS || "unmiMl/r 1 TV ILtfllllin. WILLIAM WILSON. 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