The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 19, 1882, Image 4
PttM. GABB^X AM) HOUSEHOLD, j
Salt for Sheep.
A writer says that in Spain whenever j
Bheep are kept in the neighborhood of i
rock salt hilJs or sea sal?, and have ac- !
cess to it, they thrive better than in j
other situations, and in France the same I
thing is fonnd to exist in the neighbor- j
hood of the sea coast and the salt works j
of the north; sheep give more and j
better wool, and the mutton is more i
highly esteemed than that from other j
localities. Where it is given to them j
. vrEen at pasture the amount should be i
^s^irom half an ounce to an ounce each
daily, and it is a well-known fact that |
sheep never stray from an inclosure in ;
which salt and water are provided for j
them.
Far Tarkes.
An old turkey-raiser gives the fol- |
lowing experiment: Four turkeys were j
led on meal, boiled potatoes aad oats.
Four others of the same brood were also
at the same time confined in another
pen and fed daiiy on the article, bnt
with one pint of very finely pulverized
charcoal mked with their food?mixed
meal and boiled potatoes They had
also a plentiful supply of charcoal in
their pen. The eight were killed on
the tame day, and there was a difference I
of one and a half pounds each in favor
of the fowls which had been supplied
with charcoal, they being much the fat
test SLd the meat heincr creatlv sirne
rior in point of tenderness and flavor.
Celery.
Celery requires a great deal of moisture,
and if the soil is not naturally
moist It may be necessary to furnish
some water. After transplanting, cultivate
often enough to keep the ground
loose and free from weeds. About the
middle of August the process of "earthing
up" should begin, when the soil
should be drawiK up to the plants
enough to keep the leaves upright, and
when cool weather comes the blanch
mg may be tnisnea by taking son from
the space between rows and banking np
^ ..to 4he Tops of the plants on eaoh side
~?" of the row. The "earthing up" should
be done when the plants are dry. Be
careful to get your seed from reliable
sources, as old se^d or that grown from
inferior stock will be sure to disappoint
yoo.
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Teadcr Teot In Ilorses.
A writer in an exchange says: A
most excellent treatment for tender
feet in horses is to make a carpet for j
them to stand on of horse-manure and j
dry earth. I had a horse whose feet j
were bad, and after many experiments I
-hit upon the exact remedy, and have
long kept np its use with most excellent
results. It is nothing more nor less
than about two inches of dry, fibrous
horse manure with drv earth sifted over
it and a laver of straw on that, till it
becomes trodden down smooth and
hard. Every day. and generally twice
a day, the portion of it wet by the horse
is removed and replaced, bnt most of
the floor bas not been uncovered for
years. The hole is filled np and patted
down with a Hexamer prong hos and a
little dirt pnfc on,and the litter at night
is put over it?that's all.
Salt on a Garden.
Li reply to a West Virginia corre- j
spondent the New York Sun says :? j
There ha3 been considerable change in j
opinion on the question of the value of j
salt as a fertilizer, and it seems now to |
be pretty well agreed that while its ap- j
Ipiicau^u to isiiu is oiseu uauenujtu m :
many ways, tliis is far frcm proving j
that it has in itself any, or even a small
amount of fertilizing properties. It adds
a very little soda and chlorine, and that
if all. Bat that its application to land
is often an advantage there can be no
donbt. On many soils it serves to make
them more light and mellow, and on j
most it is beneficial in times of drought. I
It raases potash and ammonia available
K &3 plant food. It destroys vermin in the
soil. Where it is used, grub3 and wire
worms are found to disappear. On
wheat its effect is often plainly seen,
and the same may be said of grass land.
So, while as regards its direct fertilizing
qualities, we would put salt in the same
N catalogue as lime, in replying to your
question, we say it would probably
have a beneficial effect on your garden,
5*5^=: ? ?ttnleasyou have a wet clay soil, and that j
you could apply from three to six bush-!
gj| to an acre with confident expectations
of good results.
Kindly Treatment of Dairy Stoctti
Mr. Parcell, in the report of the New !
Jersey Agricultural Society, says: It I
is important that dairy stock, from the j
young calf to the old cow, that is being
fed for beef, should be handled and
treated kindly. If a calf is handled
roughly and becomes wild and vicioas
thereby, when it becomes a cow you
may expect the same, but if handled
carefully and treated with kindness,
when grown up she will be mild and
gentle. It may not always be so, but
in general it is. There have always J
- been many cows spoiled by the person j
having the care of and milking them by ;
whipping or frightening them whenever i
they come in his way, or if, when milk- i
||p>: ing, a cow hoists her foot or kicks
(which is generally caused by pain)
such a fellow stops milking and commences
whipping, or worse, kicking the j
cow, and she becoming enraged, holds j
up her milk, kicks back, and is finally j
ruined. Never whip a cow for kicking i
if she does kick the milk-pan out of j
your hand aud sometimes upset and j
knock von over, but be kind and centle i
I -with her, and milk her out with as little
excitement as possible, and if she
gets over her kicking propensity it will
be by mild and not by harsh treatment.
Never whip a cow because she kicks,
for it will do no good, but will do a
great deal of harm.
Poultry Notes,
Young chickens, like young turkeys, j
are h j ired, ofkn fatally, by being ex- !
posed to heavy dews or rains.
The best breeds are those which re- j
I. t^e owner the most money for
the Jabor and food expended.
Let the old and young fowls have as
large a range as possible, the larger the
Fowls intended for breeding purposes
should have all the exercise that it is
possible to give them.
Many a hen has been made a confirmed
egg-eater from the very foolish
pracace 01 using nens eggs ior nest1
eggs.
It is better to spend your time improving
one or two breeds than to be
nanhering after others, unless you have
abundant means and plenty of room.
Animal food occasionally for young
Igg* or old fowls seems indispensable, but j
>vafto-r crvo t>i?m inQ<v>f. fnnr? Wh^r) I
they are able to procure it them-j
Those who consider poultry a worth- ;
less stoat must have kept the worthless !
kinds, or else they know nothing about j
choice fowls.
The best and most natural flooring j
for hen houses, all things considered, is ;
clean, dry earth upon an earth floor. j
' Fowls intended for breeding purposes j
should have all the exercise that it is j
possible to give them..-Poultry Monthly. !
t Nearly every farmer goes to the near- j
est village to trade, visit a mechanic, or j
obtain his letters and papers, at least
once a week. He often takes a load to j
marked, but rarely brings oce home. He j
can, with very little trouble, haul a
load of material that may be obtained
for nothing, and which will be of great
benefi'- to his land. Most village people
make no use of the ashes produced
in tlxeir stoves, or of the bones taken
?rom the meat they consuma. Scarcely j
on? hrftwer has anv nse for the hons
have been boiled in his vats, and |
th?y^"Qks^ith hardly ever saves the
^es from feet of lorses.
All thtexiaJs m ake excellent;
manure. A barrel otf-s^avicgs cnt from
the hoof of horses contaia^i^ore ammo-1
nia than is contained in a*loaa"?{,$table j
manure. Applied to land withont prep- j
aration they might give no immediate j
Key would become decom,
and crops of all kinds
>enefi5 from them. They
: ~
nay be so treated that they would prodnce
immediate results. By cover Dg
them with fresh horse manure they will
decompose very rapidly. They may j
also be leeched in a barrel, and the j
water that covered them drawn off and
applied to plants. Water in which
pieces of hcr:S and hoofs have been
soaked is an excellent mannrefor plants
that require forcing. It stimulates the
growth of tomatoes, rose bushes and j
house-plants very rapidly, and emits
no offensive odors. A vast amount of
fertilizing m iterial is wasted in towns
that farm rs conld obtain the benefit
of with very little trouble.
Baslne?s Habits.
"There is probably not one farmer in
ten thousand," says an exchange, "who
keeps a set of accounts from which he
can at any moment learn the cost of anything
he has produced, or even the cost
of his real property. A very few farmers
wao have been brought up to business
toon anf?V> owmrtt.j $?nr1 fthlft to tell
howtheir affairs progress, what each !
crop, each kind of stock, or each animal !
has cost and what each produces. Knowing
these points a farmer can, to a very
great extent, properly decide what
crops he will grow and what kind of
stock he will keep. He will thns be
able to apply his labor and money where
it will do the most good. He can weed
out his stock and retain only such animals
as may b9 kept with pro tit. For
the want of such knowledge farmers
continue, year after year, to feed cows
am r>"-.f"fiVilo and fronnpntlv
s^ll .'or lc-s* than her value one that is
the best of the herd, because she is rot
known to be any better than the r( st.
Feed is also wasted upon ill-bred stock,
the keep of which costs three or four
times that of well-bred animals, which,
as has been proven by figures v=hi<h
cannot be mistaken, pay a large profit
on their keeping For want of knowirg
what t'.iey cost, poor crops are raised
year after year at an actual loss, provided
the farmer's labor, at the rates
current for common labor, were charged
against them. To leam that he has
been working for fifty cents a day for a
number of years, v, liile he has been paying
his help twi :q as much, would open
the eyes of many a farmer who has actually
been doing this, and it would convince
him that there is some value in
figures and book accounts. It :s not
generally understood that a man who
raises twenty bushels of corn per acre
pays twice as much for his plowing
and harrowing, twice as much for labor,
and twice as great interest upon the cost
of his farm as a neighbor who raises
forty bushels per acre. Nor is it understood
that when he raises a pig that
makes 150 pounds of pork i:i a year that
his pork costs him twice as much or tt e
ot rn he feeds brings him but half as
much as that of his neighbor, whose p g
weighs 300 pounds at a year old. If all
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figures upon a psge in an account oook,
and were studied, there would be not
only a sudden awakening to the unprofitableness
of suoh farming, but an immediate
remedy would be songht. For no
person could resist evidence of this
kind if it were once brought plainly
home to him. If storekeepers, merchants,
or manufacturers kept no accounts
they could not possibly carry on
their business, and it is only because
the farmer's business is one of the most
safe that he can still go on working in
the dark an'J throwing as?av oppor unities
of bettering hi* condition and increasing
his profits."
Recipes.
Making Tea.?A French chemist asserts
that if tea b9 ground like coffee
before hot water is poured upon it, it
will yield nearly double the amount of
its exhilarating qialities. Another
writer says if you pat a piece of lump
sugar, the size of a walnut, into a teapot
you will make the tea infuse in half
the time.
Vermicelli Sour.?"Boil a shin of
veal in three quarts of water. Pat in a
turnip, an onion and one carrot, whole.
Boil about three hours. Add salt and
a small teacup of vermicelli, and boil
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ivr lUiCC^uai tcio vi tux uvui?
adding vermicelli strain through a colander.
Keep adding water if it boils
away.
Corn Cafes fob Two.?Sift a cupful
cf corn meal into a bowl or tray, make
a hole in it. cut in salt, soda and short
ening, as for biscuit; break in two eggs,
stir with a strong spoon until the eggs
are well broken and mixed, then with
new buttermiik or sour milk make into
a batter; bake in a brisk oven; have
the cakes three-fourths of an inch thick
when it goes in the oven.
Boiled Occumeebs.?Take a half a
dozen large young cucumbers, wash
and quarter lengthwise; put them in a
pint of boiling water with two teaapconfols
of salt, let them boil gently till
perfectly tender, keeping closely covered;
add more water if necessary,
though the less water you use the better
they are; drain perfectly dry and serve
on buttered toast, with butter, salt if
necessary, and a little white pepper.
Household Hints.
Spinach may be flavored agreeably
by putting in some gravy from roast j
beef or lamb.
Snowballs are made by dipping fried I
/v>Troo in a /sf or? %-crcr OTir? fKon I
voavo au vuu nuivo v/a, kuwm
in powdered sugar.
To take stains from silk mix together
in a phial two onnces of essence of
lemon and one ounce of oil of turpentine.
Grease and other spots in silk I
are to be rubbed gently with a linen rag I
dirraed in this mixture.
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Lace and Lice-Making-.
The New York correspondent of the j
Syracuse Journal gossips as follows of j
laces and lace-making in the metropolis:
For several years taere has been
considerable manufacture of real laces
in this city by French, GermaD, Eagli>-h
and Irish women. Reproductions
of old laces are being made for house
decorations, and esqaisite bits for per
sonal use, one yard navmg oetn just
completed for a ball dress that Cjst
$50. It was to match some very elegant
old lace flowers, and to make it
quite pertect in color was dipped in
strong coffee. A profitable trade is
made by lace-makers in buying machine
made "points," as they are called,
which are joined with old lace by exquisite
darning, the whole being colored
"by coffee or saffron, and sold for
manufactures in vogne 200 years ago.
The alteration and cleaning of lace occupies
a great many women. It is a
trade by itself. There is a great deal
of fine and expensive lace here?some
women who can afford it having a genuine
craze for it. Mrs. A. T. Stewart
has a large fortune in laces really, as
well as Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. S.
L. M. Barlow, Mrs. Belmont, Sr., and
several others. Mrs. Cyrus W. Field
has a Jaee overdress which cost several
thousands of dollars. A beautiful b 11
dress worn by a leader of fashions re- j
cently was of white cashmere trimmed j
with laces that resembled cobwebs, j
ana white ostrich tiDs. Mrs. William j
Astor, it is said, has 150 yards of a rare ;
kind of Valenciennes lace
Another craze in laces is to have his- j
toric pieces. One lady is happy in pos* '
sessing a white point lace court train ;
that belonged to a daughter of George ;
the Third- Some of the laces owned I
by the Empress Eugenie have been sold .
here. Several years ago, before fine
laces were so common, there was a lady :
in fashionable society who always ex- \
cited the envy of her feminine ao^uaint- i
ancei, as she almost always wore the :
same costume, a magnificent white
round-point laee overdress, and spravs
of diamonds that reached from her
throas nearly half way down the front
OA UULO y ouo uw?u xwauuu mwwmo,
and had made a study and collection of
rich laces. Being of a stately figure,
and having the art of walking gracefully,
she became the cynosure of all eyes
as she slowly promenaded across a ball
room two or three times in an evening,
out never dancing.
~ Eleven English e'er ym< n recently;
exhibited their pets at a dog show, and j
many clergymen were among the spec-!
tators. 1
THE IIOXE D OCTOR.
Suggestions for Emergencies.
Nearly every one knows what to do in
ca&e of injury or sudden sickness, bnt it
cfren happens that nnder the excitement
attending snch circumstances they become
confused and forget all they know
about it. The following suggestions
might be pasted upon the inside of the
closet or book-case door, where they
could be referred to promptly:
A teaspoonful of ground mustard in
a cup of warm water is a prompt and
reliable emetic and should "be resorted
to in cases of poisoning or cramps of
the stomach from overeating.
For stomach cramps ginger ale, or a
half-tea&poonful of the tincture of ginger
in a half-glass of water, in which a
half-teaspoonful of soda has baen dis
solved.
Swallowing saliva often relieves sour
stomach.
Hot, dry flannel, applied as hot as
possible, for neuralgia.
Whooping-cough paroxysms are relieved
by breathing the fames of turpentine
or carbolic acid.
For cold in the head nothing is better
than powdered borax snuffed up the
nostrils.
A strong solution of bicarbonate of
soda (baking soda), taken frequently,
is a reliable remejy for diarrheal troubles,
particularly those arising from
acidity of the stomach.
A standing antidote for poison by
dew, poison-oak, ivy, etc., is to take a
handful of quicklime, dissolve in water,
Let it stand half an hour, then paint tne
poisoned parts witb it. Three or four
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applications win never iau to uure mo
most aggiavated case3.
If children do not thrive well on fresh
milk, it should be boiled.
Powdered resin is the best thing to
stop bleeding from cuts. After the powder
is sprinkled on, wrap the wound
with a sofc cotton cloth. As soon as the
wound begins to feel feverish, keep the
cloth wet with cold water.
For barns, sweet oil and cotton are
the standard remedies. If they are not
at hand, sprinkle the burned part with
flour, and wrap loosely with a soft cloth.
Don't remove the dressing until the inflammation
subsides, as it will break
the new skin that is forming.
For nose bleeding, bathe the face
-yrt aaV rrri t TT7Q f
tu-llt If ALU VV1U IIMVV bt
If the artery is severed, tie 3 small
cord or handkerchief tightly above it.
Fcr bilious colic, soda and ginger in
hot water. It may be taken freely.
Broken limbs should be placed in
natural positions, a->d the patient kept
quiet until the surgeon arrives.
Nervous spasms are usually relieved
by a little salt taken into the mouth
and allowed to dissolve.
Hemorrhages of the lungs or stomach
are promptly checked by small doses of
salt. The patient should be kept as
quite as possible.
Sleeplessness caused by too much
blood in the head may be overcome by
applying a cloth wet with cold-water to
the back of the neck.
Wind colic is promptly relieved by
peppermint essence taken in a little
warm water. For small children it may
be sweetened. Paregoric is also good.
Chlorate of potash dissolved in water
is a standard remedy for sore throat,
particularly if the throat fee s raw.
Tickling in the throat i3 best relieved
by a gargle of salt and water.
Pains in the side are most promptly
relieved by the application of mustard.
Indigestion is the prolific cause of
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uuuus, uiarruae, u?uauuca, ivuoi^ation
and many diseases of the bladder.
Food that is not digested ferments and
becomes powerful acid, cansing irritation
and inflammation wherever it
touches. Many fevers are caused by it.
Pepsin is the best remedy, if taken immediately
after eating. If pepsin is not
fal"en, the acidity should be controlled
by bicarbonate of soda or potash.
In every house there should be a little
nook in which a few simple remedies
are kept. Among them should bo
extracts of ginger, peppermint, chloride
of potash, bicarbonate of soda, sweet
oil, paregoric camphor, ?irnica, cotton,
old muslin for bandages, some stickingplaster,
a box of ground mustard and
some ready-made mustard plasters.
Always strike a light when you go to
get any of these in the dark, and be
sure you have the right one.
Avoid purgatives and strong physics,
as they not only do no good, but are
positively hurtful. Pillsi may relieve
for the time, but they seldom cure.
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ine piii lasers latter wjju is uiwtvyo
worse than his first condition. Stomach
bitters are a snare, and only create a
desire for stimulants.
Eat only such things as agree with
you, and not too much at a time. By
heeding the warnings of your stomach
many doctor's bills may be avoided.
Shun feasts and big feed3. Give children
plenty of milk and bread, Graham
or oatmeal crackers, and good ripe
fruit Thej will not osly thrive on this
diet, but keep healthy.
An observance of these suggestions
will pay well for the trouble.
Sprains and bruises call for an application
of the tincture of arnica.
Sickness of the stomach is most
promptly relieved by drin ?ing a teacupful
cf hot soda and water. If it brings
the offending matter np all the better.
2Iajor Andre's "Watch.
The story of Major Andre's watch,
which, after many vicissitudes, has
come into the possession cf a genfcleman
living in Newburg-on-the-Hudson, is an
interesting one. Andre at the time of
his capture wore two watches, as was
the custom of gentlemen at that time.
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?118 captors took dolii. urnj vxeuerai
Washington forced them, to give np,
and it was restored to Andre. The
other is the watch in question. Its history
is as follows : After Andre's execution
it was sold by hia captors to
Colonel "William 8tevens Smith, then
holding a commission in the patriot
army on the Hndson, for thirty guineas.
Colonel Smith, it may be premised,
mariied a sister of Johu Auams, and
was the ancestor of the present owner,
from whom these facts are derived.
Smith sent the watch under a flag 5f
truce to General Robinson, commanding
the British outposts on the Hudson,
with the request that it be forwarded to
Andre's family in England. Robinson,
who, as is proved, was a roue and a
gambler, pawned the watch and spent
the money in carousals. Time passed
on, and the watch was forgotten. At
the time of the Philadelphia Centennial
it came on with other relics and was
deposited in the Wisconsin department.
There a sharp-eyed newspaper correspondent
discovered :ifc. and described it
in the colnmns of his journal. The
paragraph, a long time after, meeting
the eye of the gentleman whose ancestor
had sent the watch, as he supposed,
to its rightful owners a hundred years
before, he at once began a search for the
relic, traveling over a greater part of
the State of Wisconsin, and at last discovered
its owner in the person of a
venerable laay, wno stated mat ner
husband had purebred it of a pawnbroker
in Philadelphia nearly fifty
years before. The lady wa3 willing to
sell, and the gentleman gladly became
its owner. Its identity he has been
able to clearly establish. It is an openface
gold watcd of French manufacture,
of peculiar shape, being flat and thin,
and totally unlike anything known to
American jewelers. There are but four
figures on the dial,?three, six, nine
and twelve?the intermediate hours
being indicated by asterisks. On the
dial-plats in fine letters are engraved
the words. '-Thomas Campbell, Albany."
Campbell was the dealer of whom
Andre bought it, Albany being a little
town in the district of Breaaalbane,
Scotland. On the inner case is engraved,
"John Andre, 1774." On receipt
of the watch, inquiries were made
in England through Dean Stanley and
other parties to discover if the Andre
family ha<i received the watch sent to
General iiobinson, wnicn estaonsnea
the fact that they had not. The same
inquries proved incontestably tbat this
was the watch carried ty Andre on the
morning of hie capture.? Lippincott.
Thfre are 1,000 Indians in the everglades
of Florida.
FOB THJ! FA1S SEX,
Kate Shelley Receive* a Medal.
The Iowa House of Eepramatatives
I has passed a till by a vote of ninety!
nine to one, appropriating $150 for the
purchase of a gsld medal for Kate
| Shelley, the Booi;e heroine. It will be
; remembered that Misis Shelley warned
j a coming railroad train of the destruction
of a bridge by a flood, by creeping
across the piling and timbers on her
hands and knees, and thns saved the
train with all on board from s, 'terrible
disaster.
Drinking Amonir Women.
Among women in the high-jsi; walks
of life in Chicago, liquor drinking and
drunkenness are fearfully common. Dr.
; Duncan sajs that he could count twenty
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such cases, mm, auuitusii, iu uia j
He say8 that the women living i.i fashionable
hotels and boarding-hou3es are
in a shocking nnmber inebriates. In
many cases they have completely broken
np their homes and gone headlong to
rain. He attributes it to lale suppers,
indigestion and idleness, and sa3's that
it is almost impossible to treat s ach an
asylum as the ladies propose to establish.
Dr. Singley says that drunkenness
in its very worst forms will be
found in some of the very first families
in the city.
A Russian Peasant's Boots.
" Shall I speak of the dress of the
Russian ueasantrv ?" savs a correspond
ent. The rags our peasants wear have
strnck all traveler?! who visited Kasaia.
Sufficient to say that boots are considered
as objects of luiarv, and nntii
now, in Little Russia, the girl bnys one
pair of boots and must wear them
through her life. On Sunday, when
she goes to church, she walks barefooted
in the cold mud of the road, and
only when she has arrived at the church
TraoV>ea foof in a n/vnd nf
water, puts on her boots and enters full
dressed. The thre<i{rubles (about SI.50)
she has paid for her boots are considered
by the peasant; as such an immense
amount of money that his wife never
must expect to indulge in such an expense
i'or a second time during her life.
This instance, together with what I said
in a proceeding lector about articles of
masons win travel, on foot along railroads
with their boots on their backs,
is sufficient to give an. idea of what the
dress of the Russian peasant really is.
Fashion Notes.
Flounces are widsr.
Short suits are shorter.
Moires remain in favor.
Snanish lacfl prenadines are new.
San-satin is a new glossy woolen
stuff.
Lengthwise plaits are stitched like
tucks.
Little silver cats on slides are the
latest fancy in lace pins.
Plaided and striked white mnll muslins
will be much worn.
Tinted mulls wi?J not be so fashionable
as cream and white.
Ponfs in the backs of dresses grow
smaller and less bouffant.
Siiirrings will be used on new light
woolen and cotton goods.
! Panier effects are taking a decided
place among spring styles.
Dotted and plain mulls are both
brought ont again this season.
Cliandron and m&roon are the cambination
of the passing moment.
Evening dresses are trimmed with
embroidered raffles and tabliers.
Cloth and cheviot costumes are irarely
mad a of two materiiils combined.
The crab and tho spider are favorite
creatures in millinery ornaments.
Feather hats and bonnets are moribund.
Paris has condemned them.
Atl i. P * i
AJi soils oi Bieevt-H tuts xu vugmj, uut
the coat sleeve remains the favorite.
Silk pocket-handkerchiefs are preferred
to linen for small boys' use.
Galloons and braids will trim many
spring costumes and spring jackets.
Decorated tambourines in all sizes are
in demand for household ornaments.
The single-piece suit, with no belt or
waist, remains the favorite for little
girls.
Sbculder capes should bo woni only
by slender, well-formed and graceful
women.
Ribbed velvet and corduroy velveteen |
jacket? are the iancy of the passing !
moment.
Kilt plaitings and tucks in dusters, i
slmrings and puffs all appear on spring |
costtimes.
Embroidery in bands come on many
of the nnn's veilings, batistes, and solid
colored ginghams. >
For fnll evening' dress, there are
bands of gold or cilvor or strings of
pearls vrorn in the hair.
Tan, ehatidron or copper shades, and
bun are tne leading colors in genue- i
men's kid, goat el in, and chevretto |
gloves.
In spring costumes there is a tendency
to uee lengthwise tucks in clusters
in the place of ki t plaitings and
shirr iDgs.
r_ New spring wraps consist of long,
medium and short dolman-visites in
light and dark cloths, English worldng iootota
tinrl Innc raclana.
"White work dresses for the coming j
summer will be or liner, lawn and sheer
linen cambrics, soft as India muslin
and almost as transparent.
Coifi'ares remain exiremely simple [
and are much worn quite low in the
neck, in coils or plaits, while the brow !
is covered with waves or high rings of j
hair.
Washington's ttiqnetlc.
President Washington never went to :
Congress on public business except in a \
i state coach, drawn by six cream-colored i
horses. The coach was an object which I
would excite the admiration of the j
throng even now in the streets of :
London. It was bnilt in the shape cf j
a hemisphere, and its panels were j
a'orned with cupids, surrounded with J
flowers worthy of Florida, and of fruit
not to be equaled out of California.
The coachmen anci posiilliocs were
j arrayed in gorgeous liveries of white
I anrl s/>**1a?_ Th? Philadplnlita ftn.ip.ttf>..
a government organ, regularly gave
a supply of court news for the
edification of the citizens. From
that the people were allowed to learn i
as mach as it was deemed proper for !
them to fenow about the President's i
movements, and a fair amount of space j
was also devoted to Mrs. Washington :
?who was not referred to as Mrs.
Washington, but as "the amiable con'
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SOU 01 OTir Deioveu .rxoaiueuu tmcu
the President made liis appearanoe at a
ball or pnblio reception a dais was
erected for him, npcn which he might
stand apart from ihe vulgar throng,
and the guests or visitors bowed to him
in solemn silence.
" Bepublican simplicity" han only
j come in later timen. In our day the
! hack-drivei- who tal:es a visitor to a
j public reception at the W1 Us House is
i quite free to get off h^s box, walk in
side by side with l is fare and shake j
hands with the President with as much ;
I familiarity as anyboc-y else. Very few j
| persons presumed to shake hands with i
; General Washington. ' One of his j
j friends, Gouverneur Morris, rashly j
j undertook, for a foolish wager, to go !
i up to him and slap h: m on the shoulder,
| saying, "My dear ger eral, I am happy to j
I see yon look so well." The moment fixed |
! upon arrived, and Mr. Morris, already
half-repenting of his wager, went up to ;
I the President, placed his hand upon his 1
shoulder, and uttered the prescribed
I wordsi, " Washington," as an eye-wit- '
; ness aeEcnoea xce scene, " wicncirew
his hand, stepped suddenly back, fixed j
his eye on Morris for several minutes j
with an angry frown, until the latter j
retreated abashed, and sought refuge !
I in the crowd." No one else ever tried j
: a similar experiment. It is recorded '
i of Washington that he wished the of;
ficial title of the President to be ''High
i Mightiness." and at one time it was
i proposed tfi engrave his portrait upon ;
j the national coinage. No royal levees ;
i were more punctiliously arranged than \
| those of the first President.? Quarterly \
I Renew. I
A DESPEEAIO'S DODGE.
How q. Convict Fel?ued Insanltr, and How
His Eaio Was Discovered.
In a recital of the artfulness of con- !
victs at the Joliet (Til.) prison, a writer !
in the Chicago Herald says : I. H. Bar
ton, a Ion?, lank Texan desperado, a j
pal of A1 Zines, alias Harry Floyd, !
both of them convicted of robbery at
Cairo, in 1869, and sent to prison for
seven years, was a source of great annoyance
to the prison-keepers of those
days. Oa his arrival at Joliet, he was
put to work in the cooper-shop, but
the moment his guard left him he |
darted out of the door and hid among
the stave piles in the prison yard. Of
course he was pnt in solitary confinement
after this breach of discipline.
After several days' confinement he was
sent back to work, bui: the moment he
got a chance he left the shop, and was
pnt in solitary confinement again for a
longer term. He kept this np for
weeks. The only effect the punishment
seemed to have cn iiim was to make
him longer and lanker than ever. The
scant supply of bread and water that he
received while in punishment made
him hook like a walking skeleton, but
whenever he was reported for punishment
ha always came up cheerful and
smiling as though he en joyed it. The
keepers looked upon the man as a
"crank," but the doctor would not believe
" in Bnrton's insanity. They
finally got tired of punishing him, so
the deputy had a large ball and chain
made to order and attached to one of
Barton's legs. He was then given a
broom and told he might stay ont in
the prison-yard if he would sweep off
the stone walks. Instead of doing this
he shonldered his broom in true military
fashion, took up a position near the
rear entrance of the warden's house.
There he would stand as though on
guard, saluting every passer-by, and
going through the manual of arms like
a well-trained Foldier, u%ing his old
broom for a musket.
An order was finally given to convey
Burton to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum.
The day after he had been taken
to the asvlum a cruard went to Burton's
old cell to make it ready for a new occupant.
While examining the bed, books,
&c., in tne cell, he found a long note ia
the Bible, written by Burton and addressed
to his partner, A1 Zanes, in
which he went on to tell how slick he
had played the insanity dodge on the
piisonkeepers, and that now he would
be taken to the asylum, from which
place he would escape, &o. The guard
took the note to the warden, who immediately
dispatched an officer to the
asylum and had Mr. Barton brought
back to his old familiar cell, where he
wa9 confronted with the warden and
his own note, which gave him dead
away. Barton was again put in solitary
pumsnmens. xnis si me ne was given a
dose of prison discipline that broke him
all cp. He finally agreed to go to work,
and did, but the prison records to this
day show him to have been a man of
immense endurance; they show that he
spent more time in punishment, and
was put in the dark cell a greater number
of times than any convict ever confined
in Joliet prison. He always wore
a emillinij face, and had a soirit that
could not be subdued. When hisfjterm
expired he went back to Texas, where
he soon took to stage and train robberies.
He made a big name in New Mexico
and Colorado, where, under the
name of " "Wild Bill," alias Burton, alias
Han White, he robbed several stages
single-handed, pretending each time
that he had a gang back of him in ambush.
He was captured in Colorado
last summer and sentenced to a long
term in the Detroit (Michigan) House
of Correction.
United Scates Marshal P. P. Wilcox,
of Denver,brought the prisoner East last
fall. Just after the train left Chicago
for Detroit, Barton managed to slip one'
hand from his irons. Watching his opportunity,
he snatched the marshal's revolver
from his pocket and struck the
officer a terrible blow on the head. He
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Luen sprang miu i>uo aisie 01 me car ,
the car was in an uproar, the frightened
passengers expecting every second that
the desperado would fill them full of
holes with the marshal's revolver. He
stood in the aisle shaking the weapon
and threatening to kill the first man that
laid a hand npon him. At this moment
a brave little woman, sitting on the opposite
side of the car from the marshal,
and behind the desperado, threw her
arms around Barton's neck and pulled
him backward over the seat at the risk
of her own life. A second later the
marshal was on top of him, wrenched
the revolver from his hand and held
him until the train men could replace
the handcuffs. All efforts to find out
the name and residence cf the brave
lady proved unavailing, although the
marshal promised to send her $500 as
soon as he returned to Denver. Burton
was safely landed in Detroit, where he
is now confined.
P0PUL1R SCIENCE.
About four thousand roses are required
to make one pound of ottar of
roses.
Experiments tend to prove that human
respiration is less rapid in the
tropics than in the colder regions.
Sauerkraut is cabbage in the first
stage of fermentation, which, if completed,
yields quass,, a Russian
tonic.
More water is admitted to the atmosphere
from the transpiration of a
forest than from an equal body
of water.
A river-dolphin of Sonth America has
the greatest cumber of te-ith found
in the order of whale?, two hundred and
twenty-two.
Oid boots and shoes are turned to
accouni; by the chemical manufacturer
in producing the cyanides and ferro-cyanides
so indispensable in photography.
The coffee plant has the general appearance
of a cherry tree. It grows to |
the height ef twenty or thirty feet, but
in the course of culture is kept cut
down to five or six feet.
Observers of the sun believe that the
maximum of sun spots in the "eleven
year period" ttill be reached during the
present year, although M. Daponchel
thinks it may be delayed until 1890 or
1892, on account of planetary influences.
An examination by Mr. Orville A.
Derby of the numerous quartz veins
which traverse a serie3 of inclined beds
of clay slates in the province of Minas
Geraes, Brazil, has revealed the fact
that many of them carry both pyrites
and gold.
.auivu^ UUO AMUlbO Vi. U
across the Sahara, Dr. Oscar Leng reports
that no depression below sea-level
could be found. The schemes entertained
for flooding the desert with water
from the sea are therefore hopeless and
misleading.
From some experiments made by Mr.
Felix Masure, it appears that when
arable soil is very wet it throws off
more watery vapor than a sheet of free
water. If the land is only moderately
moist the quantities are about equal,
and if the soil is dry its evaporation is
less.
The German scientist Ebrenburg
finds that a single drop of water may
contain more than 800,000,000,000 of
animalcuice. Lady Annie Blunt says
that the Arabs judge of the wholesomeness
of water by the presence or absence
of inseets in it, as perfectly clear
water without animal life is sure to be
noxious.
Whether an animal will suffer or not
from eating mold vegetation depends
very much on the constitution of the
animal. One animal will suffer no bad
effects from the same fungus which will
destroy the organs of another animal as
a malignant parasite. Bears grow fat
on wild parsnips, wnich are poisonous
to man, and if eaten frequently produce
death.
The publishers of the Richmond (Ya.) En. j
qvinr heartily recommend Dr. Ball's Cough '
Syrnp and say: " It has been well tried in our ;
oface aad composing room, iufcl has cured our |
city editor of i very bad caaa^f Bronchitis." |
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RELIGIOUS READING.
now ro Succeed.
Bayard Taylor made the following
remarks respecting the rales of success,
that are worth their weight in gold to
any and every young man, as the experience
of cne'whom all delighs to honor.
"I have always reverently accepted
them. First, labor. Nothing can be
had for nothing; whatever a man
achieves he musb pay for it; and no
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iavor 01 iorinae can uuauive miu irurn
duty. Secondly, patience and forbearance,
which is simply dependent npon
the slow justice of time. Thirdly, the j
most important, faith. Unless a man
believes in something far higher than
himself, sometimes infinitely purer and
grander than he can ever become?unless
he has an instinct of an order beyond
his dreams, of laws beyond his
comprehension, of beauty, and good
and justice, beside which his own ideals
are dark, he will fail in every loftier
form of ambition, and ought to fail."
Rclizlons Xewi and Noici.
The Southern Baptist Convention,
vonrcccnfiri or fifteen nr mor> Stat as will
meet in Greenville, S. C., ia May.
The Reformed (Dutch) Church at
Leeds, N. Y.', recently celebrated its
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
The Berkley Divinity School (Episcopal),
at Middletown, Conn., receives
$100,000 from the Sheffield estate, New
Haven.
Rev. Egerton Ryerson^D-D., ran eminent
Methodist divine, and for many
years superintendent of education La
the Province, died at Toronto recently
at the age of seventy-eight.
In various parts of the Turkish emDire
thirtv-two ladv missionaries are
regularly at work. They teach school
among the girls, and also teach the
women as opportunity is afforded.
Bishop Whipple (Protestant Episcopal)
has announced his intention of
licensing two women as lay readers in
Glencoe, in the diocese of Minnesota,
ucuauau no wonuuu J-LUVA XUOU JVI
work.
The Rev. George Noel Storrs, an
English clergvman, recently visited a
coal pit in the comity of York, England,
and delivered an address to the miners
nndergronnd before they were raised to
the bank.
The propriety of rising when the
"hymn before sermon" is snng is suggested
by a writer in one of the religions
journals, on tne ground that "it
gives relief to the muscles and fits one
me oeuer xo listen 10 me sermuu.
Bishop Jansens, of Natchez, Miss-,
forbids marriage in the Catholic
churches after dark. He assigns as his
reason the great concourse of people
wont to assemble at such an hour and
behave as if the church were a place of
public amusement.
There is no foundation, Dr. Schaff
says, for the report that the demand for
the Revised New Testament has almost
ceased. On the contrary, the demand
at present is greater than it has been for
several months past. Thirty editions
have been brought out in this country
alone.
In the Moravian settlement near Sa
lem, jn. <j., tne oia custom 01 announcing
the death of a church member by
the music of a baud in the church tower
is still adhered to. Those versed in
music, it is said, can tell from the air
played whether the dead person was
married or single, young or old, male
or female.
A Picture Worth Beholding.
Hanging between two small windows, and
catching the light from a larger one opposite,
in cne of the offices of Adams Express
Company, at 59 Broadway, New York?the
office occupied by Mr. W. H. Hall, head oj
the delivery department?is a plainly
finished but neatly framed chromo about
by 3 feet in size, which is looked upon by
hundreds of neooledailv. on many of whom
it has a wonderful and salutary effect. Ii
represents a flight of half a dozen rough
stone st pa leading from the swarded bank
of a placid lake to a little rustic temple set
in the rugged side of the mountain which
rises in stupendous proportions in the background
all covered with a rank luxuriant
growth of foliage in brush and tree. In the
open door of this little temple stands a halt
concealed figure, with an arm and hand extended,
holding forth a small,dimly defined
package, while sealed on the sward at the
footof thestepsan aged pilgrim, barefooted,
lame and decrepid, bears a staff in one
hand, and in the other holds before his dim
eyes a small bottle, whose label he eagerly
scan'. This label bears the words "St.
Jacobs Oil the Great German Kemedy."
Simple as this little chromo appears in its
unostentatious position, it has an influence
which it would be difficult to estimate. " It
is to that picture and the persuasions of
Mr. Hall," said Mr. Edward J Douglass, a
gentleman connected with Mr. Hall's department,
" that I owe my peresent ability
to perform my work. Some weeks ago I
was violently attacked with sciatic rheumatism,
and hour by hour I grew worse, and
nothing my family or the doctor could do
save me any relief- I began to think in a
few days that my case was hopeless and
that I was doomed to be an invalid and
helpless crippte for life. But at last I
thought of that picture whicli 1 bad so olten
looked at with but little interest, and then
Mr. Hall came to my bedside, and telling
me how St J acobs Oil had cured him of a
worse and longer standing case than mine,
urged me to use the same remedv. I did
so that very night, directing my wife not
to spare it but to apply it thoroughly according
to the directions; this she did with
a large piece of flannel cloth saturated with
the Oil, and then bound the cloth to the
afl'ected part'. The next morning I was
free from pain, and although a little sore
in the hip, was able to dress myself, and
Kio nort rpsnmed mv duties in the
office as sound as a dollar. Here I am now
in full health and stiength, having had no
touch of rheumatism or other pain sinee.
Wherever I see one of our drivers or any
other person who shows any symptoms of
lameness or stiffness, I point him to the
picture in Mr. Hall's office, and then direct
him to go for St Jacobs Oil at once.''?.
New York Evening Telegram.
3ionnt Vernon.
During the war, when the bloodiest
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UtLblitX) UU LHO 1 UWUiau
fought. the Southern and Northern
troopa fraternized on this spot, and not
a shot was fired nor a blow exchanged
on the domain of Mount Vernon. It
was neutral ground. The soldiers exchanged
coffee and tobacco and lolled
amicably together under the trees, then
went back to shooting and killing each
other as soon as they were off the sacred
ground. The most irreverent scoffer
must walk with reverence through the
ancient frame house in which so much
of our history is embalmed. Hanging
in the ha?l is the great key of the Bas
tile, sent to Washington by Lafayette,
and near it is the General's field-glass
hung on its rack by Washington himself
and never disturbed. Of all the
memories of Mount VernoD, none are
more interesting than those of Eleanor
Custis?poor Nelly, who died at twentytwo,
and was her stepfather's pet. In
the room stands her harpiscnord, an
immense machine, just the size of a
grand piano of the present day, with
two banks of keys like an organ. Beside
it are some ancient blue chairs embroidered
by her dead fingers a century
arm T-n cTfinTids stands her rose-1
bush, beside which, tradition says, she
received her first offer, and which the
guileless and credulous of her sex are
persuaded to walk around six times to
bring a similar event abont One of
the ingenuities of the regents of Mount
Vernon was to have magnificent Turkish
rngs made to resemble, as far as
possible, the rag carpets which were
the floor covering in Martha Washington's
day, and for that purpose scraps
of the rag carpets were sent abroad to
be as nearly 6imnlated as possible. And
way up high, tinder the roof, is a little
hip-roofed, dormer-windowed rookery,
whiVh nftpr funeral Washington's
death, his widow chose as her own room,
because it was from that window only
that a view could be had of the brick
tomb in which the mortal part of the
general lay.
Moses How, Esq , of Haverhill, Mais, |
trengly indorses St. Jacobs Oil for rheumatism,
etc., from the observation of its effects
in his factory as also in his own family?so
we see from one of our Massachusetts exchangea.-~Bridgeport
(Conn.) Standard.
New Orleans has a debt of $20,000,00,
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TH1T EICHjrXPERlENCZ
A. Free Jrreia Istervi-w su?ralaed and Its
Sourcr Kcvcaltd.
(Detroit i'ne frers.)
A few months ago an interview with a prominent
and well known physician, formerly a
rrsident of Detroit, bat now living in Kew
Jork, appeared in the columns of this paper.
The statements made by the doctor and the
facts he divulged were of to tmusaal a nature
as to cause no little commotion among thoso
who read them, and many inquiries were raised
as to the genuineness of the interview and the
Yalidity of the statements it contained. The
came of the phyeiciaa was at jthat time sup
pressed at his own request. 'ice seal o: secrecy,
however, csn row be removed, es the
important and interesting letter which appears
below will abundantly show. In order, however,
that the reader may better understand
this letter, a few extracts aro herewith given
from the interview in question:
After an exchange of courtesies and a few
reminiscences about the war, in which the doctor
was a prominent surgeon, the reporter
remarked upon the doctor's improved appearance,
upon which he said:
' Yes, I have improved in health since yon
last saw me, and I hope also in many other
ways. One thing, however, I have succeeded
in doing, and it is one of the hardest things for
any one, and especially a doctor, to do, and
that ia I have overcome my prejudices, l'ou
know there are some people who prefer to
remain in the wrong rather than acknowledge
the manifest right. Such prejudice leads to
bigotry of the worst order. Now I am a physician,
and of the ' old tchool' order, too, but I
have, after years of experience and observaLJ?
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highest of all things, and that if prejudice or
bigotry stand in the way of truth so much the
worse for them?they ere certain to be
crashed soonor or later. "Why, when I knew
you in Detroit, I would no sooner have thought
of violating the code of ethics laid down by the
profession, or of prescribing anything out of
xhe regular order, than I would of amputating
my hand. Now, however, I prescribe and advise
those things which 1 believe to be adapted
to cure, and which my experience has
proven to bo such."
,45How did you come to get such heretical
Ideas as these, doctor?"
" Oh, they are the result of my experience
and observation. I obtained my first ideaa
upon the subject, though, from having been
cured after ail my care and the tkill of my
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proiesaiomu ureinrcu unu uucu iu ihkid mv,
Why, I was as badly off as many of my patients,
with ? complication of troubles, including dyspepsia,
and consequently imperfect kidneys
ana liver, and I feared I fhcmld have to give
up my practice. For months 1 suffered untold
agonie*. Dull, indefinite pains in various part*
of the body; a lack of interest in everything
around me; a los3 of appetite; headaches; all
theee disagreeable symptoms were added to
pains which were both acuto and constant.
Sick as I was, however, I became restored to
health in a moat snrf rising manner, and in an
incredibly *hort space of time, and it was this
that proved % revelation to me. That was the
starting pointy and my prejudices faded rapidly
after that, I can assure you. I went
to reading extensively, and analyzing
more exicnajvtri^, uu ciu?>
I have discovered many things of real value to
humanity. Why, only a few days ago I advised
a ladv who was suffering from a serious
female difficulty and displacement to use the
same remedy which cured me. I saw her thin
morning and she is nearly well; the pain and
inflammation are all gone and she is around as
usual. We have no right in the medical fraternity
to sit back and say there is no such
thing as improvement or advancement, or that
we have a monopoly of the remedies which nature
has given to mankind. There are great
changes going on in every department of life,
and there are great developments in medicine
as welL Thousand* of people die every year
from supposed typhoid fever, rheumatism or
other compl iut*, when m reality it is irom
trichina, caused by eating poorly-cooked and
diseased pork. Thousands of children are
dying eveiy year from dropsy as the apparent.
?equel to scarlatina, when in reality it is from
diseased kidneys which have become weakcued
by the fever tney have just had."
" Well, doctor, you have got soma new
truths here, certainly, but they sound very reasonable
to me."
" Well, whether they arc reasonable or not. I
have demonstrated to my own satisfaction that
they are true, and I propose to stand by them,
no matter how much opposition I may raise by
doing so. Any man, be he politician, preacher
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Or pnysician, WHO IS BO tuiiaiueraio ui uia
pocketbook or of bis own personal ecds as to
stultify himself by suppressing: the manifest
truth, is unworthy the name of man and unworthy
the confidenco of the public whom he
eerves."
The above are some of the principal points in
the interview referred to. I\ow for the seqneL
Tue following outspoken letter from the doctor
himself which has jus: been received, i? published
in full:
Editor Detroit Free Press:
Some time ago a reporter of you r paper had
an interview with me which he said he wouLi
like to publish. I consented on condition that
you would not mention my name UDtil I gave
you permission. I bavo now accomplished tbe
purpose 1114a in mmu, sua wum w iu j uu
(which you can publish or not as you see fit)
that I had debated for a long time whether I
would ."hake off some of the professional fetters
which bound me with others for years, and tell
the truth, or not. When I looked back, and
thought of the tortures, like those described by
Dante in his trip to the infernal regions, -wsich
I endured from dyspepsia, and recalled how
much I would have given at that time for tbe
relief which I haTe since obtained, I determined
that I would take the step to long meditated
and thereby discharge a duty to my fellow men.
If I could thereby save one poor mortal one
niglit of the terrible suffering I endured X
would t>9 luiiy ea;:snea, ds uie ouier consequences
what they might.
* My dyspeptic condition was proancea Djr a
forpid liver, which did not, as a consequence,
remove -the hi!e from the blood. Tnia produced
derangement of the stomach, inflammation
of its coats, dyspeps a, constipation, headpcLe,
depression of spirits, yellow complexion,
jfat-covered eyes, ciiills and fever; in short, I
Was miserable to the last degree. I appealed
fn rain to my book*, to my skill and to my
fellow physicians. The mystery of my illpealth
grew deeper. I traveled everywhere?
exhaused all authorized expedients?but to no
purpo* e !
When in this frame or mind, desperately in
need of help, but expecting none, one of "my
unprofessional friends called my attention,
to some unusual cares wrought by a prominent
remedy and urged mete try it. I emphatically
declined. But secretly, and with
the firm determination that I would never
let anybody know what I had done, I
began its use. It was only an exDeriment,
vou know, but, for that matter, all medical
treatment is experimental. Well, to make a
Jong and surprising story short. I experienced
a sort of physical revolution. My skin * got a
better color. My liver resumed'its fanccions.
I no longer had to arouse the bowels with
cath-rtics. My headaches disappeared. "NaM~
'* n T P.nf siAtArmiftAi? tfi
1?UI O UiU XI f JL IViKVUVU. v^v.v. YV
push the investigation to tne extreme, while I
was in active worK, I tried the effect of the
remedy on my patients afflicted with kidney,
Diver and urinary diseases, watchin; every development
carefully and studiously. Then I
was completely disarmed, for tiro remedy
jatood every test imposed!
Under such convincing circumstances, the
matter of confessing my cure bscame a question
if conscience and of duty to humanity.
' Here it a remedy," I said, "that has done for
me what the b?st medical skill of tho country
coma doc accompusn"?ana as an nonoraoie
mail I -will not suppress the facts. I therefore
write you aa'd most unhesitatingly assert that
for all diseases of the kidneys, liver, stomach
or urinary onrans which are"amenable to treatment,
Warner's Safo Kidney and Liver Cure
surpasses any remedy I have ever known or
used, and since physicians have so much illsucceas
in the treatment of di-eaees of these
organs, I am prepared to accept all the consequences
when I say that they are, if conscientious,
in duty bo;;nd to use this pure vegetable
compound iii their practice.
lours very truly,
J. W. Sunn, M. D.
Statements go outspoken as the above and
coming from such a reliable source are valuable
beyond question. Ti:ey conclusively
phow not only the power of the remedy which
has become so well known and popular, bat
the great importance of attention in time to
the first indications of declining health- When
professional men of such high standing sink
their prejudice and williiigly declare their belief
in that which they know to be valuable,
the public may confidently follow their example.
A Terrible Crime.
A servant girl in Stargard, in Germany,
had in course of several years
saved a handsome sum of money, which
she deposited in a savings bank. One
day, a few weeks ago, she drew the
money and too1! the train for the town of
Schneidemnhl, a few miles from home.
She visited an acquaintance, a uu&cuer,
and told him in course of the conversation
of the money she had in her
pocket. The butcher advised her to
wrap up the money and fasten it on her
head, buried in the hair. The girl followed
his advice and left for home, the
way taking her over a deserted heath.
Meeting a policeman she begged him to
accompany her, on account of her
money. The policeman complied and
n/inflmnoriioil Tior fllA OTAfttPT Tiart of thfi
OUrUUiyUU-lVV* MV* r
way. Hardily, however, had he left her
and turned back when he heard a piercing
shriek. Hastening back he found
the girl lying dead in the street without
her head, which had been carried off.
As the girl had told the policeman of
the butcher she had visited, his suspicions
were at once aroused, and he hastened
to the butcher's house. After
waiting half an hour the butcher came
in with a bag under his arm. To the
question what was in it he replied that
it was a sheep's head, and threw it
tinder the bed. The policeman left and
returned in a few minutes with some
colleagues. The sack was demanded, and
on being opened was found to contain
the murdered girl's head
A Chicago prison-keeper says: "I
i?* Tm'fVi Knro horo rmdpr twelve
UttVC MiCU TTiVU WWJW . _
years old who have traveled all over
this land alone, and gave me accnrate
descriptions of Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
San Francisco and New Mexico."
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Cariosities 01 Animai raie.
Sharks usually turn on their side to
eat.
In animals the'arms and legs are of
tlie same length.
Fishes hare been taught to come i
when called by their names.
A female spider will suffer death j
before she will forsake her eggs.
The razor fish, though it lives in salt
water, seems to abhor salt.
The ancients believed that the lynx
could see tbrough stone walls.
The tusks of a full-grown elephant
sometimes are ten feet long.
white shark sometimes attains
the enormous weight of ten thousand
pounds.
Snails have been put in boiling water
and have survived the terrible ordeaL
Kaempter says he once saw a hyena
which had put to flight two lions.
An elephant does not attain his full
growth until he is sixteen or eighteen
years old.
Elephants have been known to live
four hundred years, and it is supposed
whales may live one thousand years.
A snail's head may be cut off and in a
certaia time another head will be
formed. At least so says Spallanzi.
The elaohant has been known to die
for grief when, in a sudden fit of madness,
he has killed his keeper.
The spot whereon President Garfield
fell in the railway station at "Washington
is marked not only with a little silver
star, bnt by the regretini veneration
of the passers-by. As they hurry to
their trains it is said that each steps
aside lest a disrespectful foot should
LUC oyUM
The shovel-makers in the United
States manufacture about 12,000 shovels
every week. About one-half of them
are used at home and most of the others
go to South America. The
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Is the best in the market. It is <be most
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Have Yoa Bead It 7
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ALLEVS Brain Food-cures Nervous Debility 4c
Weakness of Generative Organs, ?:i?all druggists.
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THE JLiKIkETS.
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NEW YOTLZ.
Beef Cattle? Prime, liv? weight 9%@ ^Yt
Calves?Com'n to Choice Veala. 7 ($ 10
Sheep &/i@ JK
Lambs 8 @ 9 .
Hogs?live 7 @ Vfi
Dressed, city 8%@
Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 20 @ 8 00
Western, good to choice 5 30 @ 8 50
Wheat?No. 2 Bed, new 1 43 @143%
No. 1 White, new 133 @138%
Bye-State 86 @ 87
Barley?Two-rowed State 92 @ 98
Com?UngradedWesternilixed 75 @ 78%
Yellow Southern 81 @ 84
Oats?Wbite State 59 ? 63
Mixed Western 55 @ 57
Hay?Prime Timothy SO @ 90
Straw?No. 1, Ryo 65 @ 70
Hops?State, 1881, choice 21 @ 25
Pork?Mess, new, for export...17 50 @17 62yt
Lard?City Steam 10 75 @10 75
Refined 1125 @1125
Petroleum?Crude 7%@
Refined 8 yt@ 8
Butter?State Creamery S5 @ 42
Dairy 33 @ 40
Western Im. Creamery 36 @ 41
Factory liv-j?
Cheese?State Factory ,7 @ 13
Skims 1 @ 6
Western 8 @ 12%
Eggs?State and Penn 17^@ 17%
Potatoes?Early Bose, State, bbl 3 50 @8 75
BUFFALO.
Steers?Extra 5 80 @ 6 25
Lambs?Western C 50 @ 6 70
Sheep?Wwtern 5 75 @ 6 25
Hogs, Good to Choice Yorkers. .6 65 @ 6 SO
Flour?C'y Ground, No. 1 Spring 6 75 @7 25
Wheat?No. L Hard Duluth.... 147 @ 147
Corn?No. 2 Mixed G8%@ 69
Oats?No. 2 Mix. West 47 @ 47
Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90
DOSTOX.
Beef?Extra plate and family. .13 00 @15 00
Hogs?Live 7}?@ 8
Hogs?City Dressed 9j|@ Ty?
Pork?Extra Prime pet bbl.... 14 25 @14 75 j
Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @3 00
Com?Hi.Mi Mixed 81 <& 82
T3Sts?JartnhThltoC'
Rye?State 97 @ 100
Wool?Washed Comb & Delaine 44%@ 46
Unwashed " SO @ SI
WATEBTOWS (3IASS.) CATTLE JIAEKEI,
Beef?Extra quality 6 75 @725
Sheep?Live weight 5J?@ 6%
Lambs ; 7 @ 13A
Hogs, Northern, d. w 8%? 8%
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. Ex. Family, good 6 12%@ 6 12%
Wheat?No. 2 lied 140 @ 140
Eye?State 97 @ 97
Corn?State Yellow 669%
Oats?Mixed 55 @ 55
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa.,.. 43 @ 44
/cAAAA vMi. t?hII n.AAm i o /o io
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Petroleum?Crndo 6 @ 7
Kefined iyt% 7 *A
^ The Illuminator.
The existence of good
feelinzon the part of the
/Ay French Nation for the peokYJSL
pie of this country is shown
T??gjr/fl by the presentation of a
ipwPW colossal bronze figure of
l\v5tjy Freedom holding aloft the
WffnR torch of Liberty. Beauty,
frill M with usefulness, is com.
7.9 M3 \ Kin/t/3 in t.hfa imrriAncA
/I o ] \\ work of art>83 the bright,
If I x\ blazing torch will serve
1/ ?J s the purpose of a beacon
' il s light in the harbor of New
> { j - York. There is another
?1 ) \s ^ figure which -will chals
lenge larger praise and admiration
than even the
great work above referred
to. It is illustrated herewith,
and represents the aged and worthy St.
Jacob, holding aloft in his hand that beacon which
will guide aright all sailing upon the sea of life,,
whose waters abound with the shoals and danjerous
places of sickness and disease. The light
it casts is designed to show that St. Jacobs Oil is
the true and trusted means of keeping the body
on its proper course, and of easing and "righting
It should it be unfortunately cast upon the shoals
of rheumatism or other pain ful ailments. Thousands
of grateful ones throughout the world have
proved the value and felt the good of this Great
^on/1 ota clnd tn rwnmwffld it
V,IViiuail Xktiuuuj I uttv* tM? 0 ? ? . __
to all needing the services of just such a remedy.
In this connection Mr. John S. Briggs, a well
known citizen of Omaha, Neb., told a newspaper
man that he was terribly cfllicted with an acute
attack of rheumatism in liis Lack. The disease,
which had been preying upon him for years haa
drawn him out of shape. lie resorted to every
remedy known to phvsicinns, but found no relic!
until he tried St. Jacobs Oil, one bottle of which
effected a complete and radical cure. Another
case may justily reference:
A VETSRAX SEAM AITS TROUBLE.
Editor Inier-Occaru, Chicago, 1U_ I send you this,
feeling that the information conveyed will be of
material benefit to many of your readers. One
of our oldest citizens, Captain C. W. Bcynton, the
Government Light-house keeper at this point, Is
probably one of the oldest seamen in America,
having sailed twenty-six years on salt water.
Alter this forty-six years' service his eyesight
failed him and ne kept the Light at Chicago until
the Government built the Gross Point Light here,
when he was transferred. While seated in my
?fnrv> this mumin? the Cantain volunteered the
following written statement: " This Is to certify
that I have been clTilctcd with rheumatism for
twenty (20) years, both in my side and limbs. I
am happy to say that, after using leas than two bottles
of the St. Jacobs Oil, I am entirely free torn
pain, though still limping somewhat when walking,
from long force of habit. C. W. Boyntok."
Referring to the foregoing facte. I might allude to
numerous similar cases that have come to my
notice, but "a word to tbe wise is sufficient"
John Goebel, Pharmacist, Evanston, HI
K~y~N~U?13
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