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BUHAX CURIOSITIES. Ir ' The DcTinnd Sai>?Jy for C^iarit*, 311(1- ' CCts xxv.d Other Nov??lti?s. I This is the time when the cir*;ns managers complete their arrangements fci j the season with hnman curiosities. The j ?r?aks of nature become restless in an-' tieipation of sa^dast rings and side J*hcw3, as thej prefer to travel Y.iih. a! circus to staying at a stationary musenm, j because largtr salaries are given tlicra, : their hotel billa are paid by the nan- j a^eme^t, the fat woman rides in a hack , instead of a street car, enjoying, as she j enters, the expression which mantles cabby's f^c3. He little creamed, prob- ! ably, what was before him when he con-; tracted to convey the f*t woman of the show from her hotel to the tent for t?o ] circus tickets. Woo to his vehicle if j the takes her seat energetically. The | Aioino iocr.fi to net;er advantage as iris fair skin ana pin!: eyes receive the light of the matinee sunbeams dancing through the openings in the canvas. The Circassian g:r 1, her hair freshly brushed wirh scar beer, bys in a new | supply of powdered chalk and rouge, ; and with beaticg Le^rt contemplates | the havoc she will create in the rural j breast. The giants ran pick cherries | along the country rrarJs without bor- j rowing ladders from the farmers, or j amuse themselves by lifting the rustic ! lassies from the ground with agility. iis mere usnuiiy is trau ore set 01 n tinman curiosities in each circa?, consider able competition exists among these , frsaks cf nature. There ir>, fox instance, j but cne giant, ore iuz Vv-orsan, one Cir- j cassian girl, one brace of dwarfs, male and female, etc., etc. The knowing curiosities generally wail till the last ; and take up with fcmalk>r ehoT7S, preferring money to notoriety, something which they have probably already _____ gained. *"" To show the value of metropolitan ; notoriety to living curiosities, it may i be instance! that Cheemah, the Chinese j dwarf, and Biustard, the Norwegian j giant, were imported to this country at j a cost of seventy-live dollars per week, j At the conclusion of their short contract j \rith Bunnell they were engaged by a circus man and paid $200 a week apiece. : The famous living skeleton, who up to j this year never received a higher salary ; than forty dollars a week, now grows j fat on double tbai amount. But not- i withstanding the prosperity of human I curiosities, there is nothing on record to prove that- a female skeleton ever I became an attraction as a fat woman, i There is but one genuine Hindoo snaso ! charmerin America, yet every ehow has ; its snake enchantress. A boa-ccnstric- j tor, usually kept in a blue bos with a ! in f'**** for> is *?oked a*ter generally by worc.-m or a Circassian girl, who handle.1* the snake without extra pay. : Eer only danger is from constriction, ; bnt the boa is almost inrauably too i delicate to "'constrict." The pay of a fat woman runs from $15 to $73 per week, according to i weight and personal beanty. There is j one attraction in the business who in ! addition to being a fat woman* is a bearded lady, and also charms the snake. ; He? salary is the smallest in the show, ; because she is cross-eyed. The highest j price paid to a fat woman is received j by Hannah Baitersby. Her face is very ; pretty, and she weighs 7S0 pound?. I Her height is sis feet. She has, how- j ever, a dangerous rival in the fifteen- j vear old giantess, Jessie Warner, who j now tilts the beam at 500 pounds, and j stands sis feet four inches. The ever ; increasing thirst of the public for | novelties has made museum managers j send into the wilds of Africa and to the out-of-the-way islands of the Pacific for ; interesting samples of humanity, to ; xehnm thev hr>.vA rrv niTfir srw?iai indilfift- ! meets to cone to this conntry. A band ; of Znlns recently exhibited in this city j t'Oct SiGO per week and hotel expenses, i This line cf curiosities is different from j home monstrosities, inasmuch as the i longer they stay here the less their j salaries grow. In other words, a savage I attracts quicker than armless, legless j men or a live-legged calf. The highest i Raiaries paid to giants go to Csptain i Bates and his wife, who are each eight j feet high. They are very wealthy and it j is difficult to get them to exhibit them- j selves. They will sometimes, however, ; rlor>/^ VtrtfrivA fri'rrn* rrc* of. 15.^00 ' . fcj IT*: i Wfc W 7 t*W w v per week and expenses on short cod- j tracts. Within recent jears the Tom j Thumb school of dwarfs has been re- I placed to a great extent by the Midgets. ] The t^-o which attracted so much atten- i tion at Masonic Hall receive together i $500 per week. Dudley Foster, the five- i pound midget, though only ten years old, gives his parents $100 every Saturday. Two-headed girls are extremely rare and are worth $500 per week and expenses. Their rarity" makes them j very conservative and sensitive a3 to ! bogus two-headed curiosities. Giants are very sensitive also, and a seven-foot I five-inch man has been known to cry j like a baby beeause the printer cut oi? nrtfl in/Vh frriT*> Tiis cfa+.nrA. The Camera on the Battle Field. "]My first experience in photograph- j ing the dead," said a Philadelphia photographer, "was on the' battle-field of j Antictam. It was a warm September ' morning, three days after the great ; fight. I had a boy with me to assist in i preparing ine chemicals. lie only j worked ior an hour. With boyish cnri- ! osity he went poking about, and picked ; Tip an nnexpioded siieii. Me "was men j on the bank of the creek, about half a ; mile off. I never knew how it hap- i pened, bnt the bomb exploded, and ai- ; most blew him to pieces. A little col- i ored boy came np to where I was ^ ait- j ing for the boy's return, and complete ly unnerved me by shouting :' Say,bos, de red-headed gemmen has done" gene ana blowed himself up wif a shell!' He was a bright, intelligent boy, and I ^ felt his loss keenly, bnt I pressed the v colored boy into service, and went to W y _ <. WOT*., "It wonld be useless to go over the ; scene of that camsge again?to tell of J the ghastly after-sights of that awful j fight, which made so many widows and orphans. I was nervous and excited, j and yon can depend it did not terd to quiet ray nerre3 when I nnwittingly ; planted one leg of my camera stand on | the chest of a dead Union drnmmer- : boy ! By some means he had been partly buried in a patch of soft soil, i ?rrn? c*K]a Knf T\T?ff/vnQ on I ?I OO VM4VAO k/uu VMV wu?%v*.w | his blouse and on? foot. I chaDged my position rather hastily. A * dark i room' :was[improvised by banging army j blankets down from the limbs of a low ; tree ; and after taking fonr negatives i : I packed tip my traps and started for j 1 Philadelphia, it was a slow and dan- I gerous journey ; but I made it safely, : and went to work printing pictures, j They sold like wild-fire at fifty cents ! and $1 each. I was nearly ?2,000 in j - *? *1? i _ *.. ! pocket in less iwo weess, ana uu- i termined to repeat the programme after ! th9 next big battle. It came with Fredericksburg. My anxiety to get a view j of the field after tue retreat o: tha j Union array led to trouble. I was csp- j fcured by three Confederate stragglers, ! and taken down the Rappahanncc1-: in a row-boat. They suspected mo to be a spy, i suppose, and the photographing apparatus merely r. blind. At any iate the valuable camera, chemicals, glass, and everything elso were damped into, the river. I was teken befrre General Lee. cersonallv, and charged v,*hh beiog ~? ? 1" ? ^ ? . a Union spj*. No cnpiaiistiien ava lea j anything, *it vas noi even fcslieved that J I was a photographer. G.;e o: General j Lee's staff?1 think his name vrr.3 Mrs?- ! raj?proposed that I should be tc-cted. An aide-de-camp galloped cft and procured the necessary apparatus, and I photographed the Confederate Genera! and his entire s-tsif, on a ch:y cold enough to freeze the vrords in a man's ' month. The oKcc-rs ttsic evidently ; imnreiSed 'with the idea of n-.y in nr. cence. A sbcri eons n list ion fo]lrr.red, and then Genera! L:e 15m ul-' to me: 'Sir, it appears that you i:ro s::op> engaged in earning a i:vel:licod, and I I believe, honestly. Ton are at I tie: t v.' I vras blindfolded, pnt back in the boat, and landed vi:tin tweniy miles ! of where Bsra'.ids fc :<* his "int. r quarters. From toat day to Ibis I never ! know vhere I T7>s. E?re is tee piciare of Leo and bis s'aiT.' and t!:o phoiog- ! Rlgt rapber exhibiifd the faded liacnesi ! Mjjfe Trhicb hsa probably saved bis life. i J WORDS OF TV1SD02. Promises told men faster than benefits; hope is a cable and gratitude a thread. There is in all this world no such fount of deep, strong, deathless love as that within a mother's heart. In this age almost every person is a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge but power. Every idea, from the moment of its emergence, begins to gather material force, and after a little while makesitself known. Earn an calculation canpol limit tbe influence of one atom of wholesome knowledge patiently acquired, mod estly possessed and faithfolly used. E^spotism can no more exist in a cation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. When Amos Lawrence was asked for advice he said: "Young man, base all j your actions upon principle; preserve your integrity and character, and in v/?n%An fVio rtoef " In peace, patriotism really consists J only in this?that every one sweeps j before hi3 own door, minds his own < business, also learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his | own honse. We should no more lament that we a^e growia^t old than the husbandman, J t l'i u the bloom cud fragrance of spring 1 :.vo passed away, should lament that j summer or autumn has come. Preserve yoz-: conscience always soft j and sensitive. If but one sin force its i way into that tender part of the soul and dwell easy there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. Our lives should be like the days, i more beautiful in the evening, or like j the spring, aglow with promise, and i like autumn, rich with golden sheaves when good works and deeds have ripened on the field. ?i" CkrTH TV>7> TUT fTT!?TfVr? A X<7 X Vik J i i Prairie dogs will dig 2C0 feet for water. The sea holds GO, COO,000,000,000 tons of salt. The islands of the Pacific Ocean have been planted with cocoannt palm by j ccean currents. An ant, watched from six o'clock in the morning to qnarter of ten at night, worked incessantly. Migratory bird?, when flying by night are at an elevation of from one to four j miles above the earth's snrface. "Workmen on a railroad near Denver, | Col., came upon a petrified forest at a | depth of from ten to twenty feet. A celebrated physician for the insane says that these afflicted ones are more : skillful in weaving mats than at any j other trade or pursui;. Cigarette makers buy cigar stumps of little children who gather them from the gutters and receive ten c?nts a pound for them. Then they are manu- j factured into cigarettes. It is observed that trees in the peach gardens of France, grafted on plnm j stock, ripen their fruit at least ten days earlier than the same variety grafted on ; a peach stock. Daniel Murpby, a Dimu r*ew loriier, bas erected r-n h--s family lot at Calvary I cemetery, a $20,000 monument inscrib- j ed, "May this monument outlast the : kingdom of Great Bntian." German undertakers do not exhibit : their wares, as is the custom in America, i Coffins are made by them to order when j wanted. This custom prevails through- I out the European Continent; it is only j in the large cities that any stock of the | commodity is kept on hand, and then in ! an unobtrusive fashion. A few years ago an enterprising undertaker in Basel, Switzerland, started business in the American style and put a couple of small coffins in his window. Crowds gathered to stare at the unwonted sight, and before the end of the week the police gave > notice to the shop-keeper that "the un- : seemly exhibition" must cease. Body Servants of the Supreme Court Justices. A Washington letter says: One of the customs is that each justice has a body I servant. The justices get money for their own body servants, but the custom is otherwise, and the body servants are paid $1,200 per annum by the govern- i ment. Some of the justices want to select their own body servants, but they are not allowed to do it by the other j body servants, for the custom is that j the newly-appointed justice retail the j body servant of his predecessor. The body servants have never been known to allow a justice to violate this custom, j justice wooas, who was appointed by Garfield, in speaking to some gen- j tfeman of this custom, said : "My body servant is the most annoying thing I have yet experienced. The fellow is ; the first man I see in the morning and j the last I see at night. He forced his way into my room at the Elliott bonse, ordered, me to go down to breakfast, and then asked me what I would have for breakfast, taking my order to the cook himself. I could not get rid of him in any way. He hannted me all : the time. I tried to find places to send J him to s:et rid of him, but he was back I as quick as lightning. That fellow will ; be the death o! ce. I have this satis- i faction, however, the other justices ara tortured in the same way." "Whc-n Justice Gray, of Massachu- j setls, recently went on the supreme i bench, he had an idea he would do just as he pleased; but after a trial he finally had to yield, and is now as com- : pleteiy in the power of his body ser- j vast as any of the others. He not only , was not allowed to select a man for him- j self, but was forced to accept the ser- j vices of a fellow he does not like. mi 4-? . i XD.QJ are ueuwi uu uuswu , mcjr ,u?o i on custom, and not one cf the body : servants does a thing different from what he did years ago. As a mle, the ! body servants are past middle age. The i fathers and grandfathers of some of j them eerved in the same capacity, for j they never let a new man into the ring, i Pet Animals and Disease. One of the medical jonrnals, in referring to the ease with which germs of 1- L J contagious aiseases caa ue uaugnt auu | conveyed in the hair of animals, tells of ; a cat that had diphtheria and died in ! the house ; the disease broke * ont I violently the day after the animal's body was removed, and two or three children j died of it. Horses with glanders some- ; time3 transmit loathesome disease to | man. The hog cholera that was so : destructive a few years ago was fre- ; qu.'-ntly carried from pen to pen and orcve to drove by rats who ate of the I "? > * 2T-3 J Aninvi 1 U UitiU, auu wcio ?lu uuiu cuicm by ether hegs. Some pet animals are cleanly in their habits, but as there are ! many localities where cats and dogs j roam at large and are caressed by every j child that can lay hands on them there j is good reason for taking special care j against the homeless contingent of es- j trays.?Kcw York Herald. A Giant Obelisk. The first place we visited says a letter i fzora Egypt, was Pompey's pillar, a massive column of granite 10^ feet high ! A irt 'PViA cTn r\ f f*. ; UUU iVCU ill UJIUUVWVK is 67 feet long and 9 feet in diameter, i a solid piece of stone weighing hundreds j of tons raised on a pedestal of solid j granite 37 feet high. Many times as i large as the obelisk taken from this city j to New Yors, it remains standing a relic of the art and science of the past ages, j It must have required much engineering ; to bring this immense mass one thons- { and miles down the Kile from the qner- ; ries of the Assouan, and to monnt it on j its immense pedestal. Such work ; ^onld to-day excite the world's wonder, j Yet this is only one or four hundred, if S we may beiiove the Mohomedan histor- j iar-s. wirch formed the colonnade j of the great k-^pie which held the ; groat Alei andrian library over two thots ! sr-.-.u years r.'/c i - i nranr? ?- ?????????? ' FARE, GARDEN ASD HOUSEHOLD. ] Coverinz Manure. Manure is best exposed to the weather unless it gets too wet and drains away. When oovered it often heats and dries injuriously. This may be prevented by : faming it over or mixing swamp muci ! plentifully with it, cr by keeping it in ? j cellar and conveying all the liquid ma-1 sure on to it, by which it is kept moist, j A well-managed yard, in which no water j comes from the roofs to flood it, will be good enough to keep manure in if the manure is put up in flat heap3, as it should be. The tons of the heaps shoriid bo made hollow to catch the rain, and no drainage will escape from a heap so kept. riant Pomtoe* Keep. Trouble is iound with potatoes drying when planted. This is the casa especially with cut seed, and particularly ^hen small. It is caused by shallow planting, dry weather succeeding. The remedy is very simple?plant deeper. A few inches more will put the seed where it is moist, say at a depth of five or six inches, or in light soil an inch deeper. The crop will also be better as the potato loves coolness and moisture. The seed I planted last sprint when the leather was unusually dry, was cut to I the size of a walnut, a single eye to a j piece, one piece to a hill, and not a miss la all. I planted deep. How to Manure Trees. Many make the mistake when manuring trees "of putting the manure too near the trunk. It should be remembered that the feeders are near the extremity of the roots, and the manure should be applied where it can be best reached by them. If the roots of a vigorous tree. : eight or ten feet bigh, should be un- 1 covered, it would be found they extend nearly the same distance from the tree in every direction. To give the best : results, then, the size of the tree should be taken into account. A good way is i to dig a trench, say two feet wide, half : as far from tbe stem ai the tree is high, ! into which a goodly quantity o? manure . may be spaded. If the turf has been i removed, it should be replaced. A j little manure may also be spread on < both sides of the trench to advantage. j ftlllk and Fish for Fowls, Theso are both good ingredients to enter into the bill of fare to which we treat our fowls, when either or both can be had at economic cost. Upon the farm, ordinarily, the first may be had conveniently; but the practice is usual where there is a surplus of milk to feed it to the pigs in preference. This is the old stylo system. Those who have tried it have come to learn that the waste milk on the farm is doubly valuable fed to poultry, as compared with' giving it to swine. Mix with any kind of meal, milk is an admirable thing for fowls, young or old, and par iicularly young chicks. Fresh fish waste, that may be had at city markets for taking it away, is also sin excellent thing for occasional poultry feeding. There is but little solid nourishment in this; but it is good by way of a change once or twice a week. This should also be boiled or steamed when fed to poultry ; but it is not advisable to feed this just j before killing. Brcediaz Terms. j As there is often a mixing up of the , use of terms used by breeders, the following from a manual on cattle may serve to give our readers a proper idea as to their meaning: A breed is a race, class, or kind of 1 animals having certain peculiarities of form and ether characteristics different from others of the same family. Thoroughbred animals are those which have been bred in a direct line sulii- j ciently long to establish a fixed type, ' which they have the power of transmitting with uniformity to their offspring. < Full B'ood.?In Kentucky the resnlts i of the sixth cross are called "frill blood." This should not be confounded with \ "thoroughbred," as an animal that is ? full blooded is only sixty-three sixty- \ fourths of the blood of a thoroughbred < used in the cross.. Thus the first cross t of a thoroughbred bull on a "native' cow produces a half breed; the next , - ' ... il.. T_71? * cross oi a tnoroagnorea on me nan-1 breed produces a three-quarters; the third cross of a thoroughbred on the three-quarters produces seven-eighths; on seven* eights, fifteenth-sixteenths; on fifteen-sixteenths, thirty-seconds; on thirty-seconds, sixty-three sixty-fourths, which is called full blood. The uninitiated are liable to be, and sometimes have been, imposed upon by confounding full blood wiih thoroughbredCross-breed ammals are the offspring of a thoroughbred male of one breed out of a thoroughbred of another. Grades are the oSspriEg of a thoroughbred male or female, and what are known as common stock, which belong ] to no particular breed; or any other thoroughbred or cross breed. High breeds are those having a pre ponderance of pure blood, sucn tne as offspring of a thoroughbred bull out of ! a half-breed cow, which is three-fourfchs. ; Full-blood animals are high grades. Low gradee embrace half-breeds and all gradations below, so long as the impress of the thoroughbred is visible. "Common stock," "scrubs," or "natives," are those which have been indiscriminately bred until their is no recognizable trace of any breed, and uniformity of type. The only breeds which are pure in America are the Devon, Dark am or Shorthorn, Ayrshire, Jersey, Holsteia or Dutch, and Horefcrd. In Europe \ the Angus Polled (without horns), the : Galloway, and the Scotch Highland are highly esteemed, but, as yet, none of J consequence have been imported into * and bred in this conntry. "We have ' palled cattle in America, but none have 1 been bred pnre on this side of the At- \ l&ntic. 3 i A Chapter for Batter Makers. The qusintity and quality of cows' ' milk, while largely determined by the j individual character of the animal, are 3 also greatly influenced by the character of the food supplied. A liberal diet is ' a -fri 11 ennnlv aI! milfr 1 CDQOUUIAI 1\JL J UXi v?. *uaaja? Green fodder is favorable to a large pro- ; dace, so are also brewers' grains. The 1 quality of the milk is influenced by the ^ richness of the diet. The milk i 3 poorer 1 when the quantity produced is large or j the diet insufficient, and richer when these conditions are reversed. A cow ' is generally in full milk from the second 1 to the seventh week after calving; after 1 this the milk gradually diminishes in ' quantity but increases in richness. < The quality of butter is influenced by 3 the character of the food, some foods producing a hard asd others a soft ; butter. Rape cake, oats, vrheat, bran ] and barley employed with straw chaff, hay and roots are recommended as pro- : ducers of excellent butter in abncd- 1 ance. Dnrirg the winter season ttir- i nips favor milk and butter, therefore : mangel are a better food. Cows in fall milk require a tolerably nitrogenous diet; this diet is naturally provided ' when cows are fed on grass and clover; ! when hay, straw and root3 form the : bulk of tho food it is imperative that oilcake or grain be also employed if an abundance of milk is desired. When milk leaves the cow it will have a temperature of about ninety degrees V. at* nr\i- /A* /?% /*<> i? olinnlrl J.' AJJJlTZ ?111*51 If Vt ilOU DOU i Vi Vfctau* iJ UUWU4V* I be cooled as quickly as possible, as J changes in composition occur at a high j temperature. The cream obtained from i: milk set in shallow vessels contains ! various strongly-Savored products of! decomposition that deteriorate the j quality of the butter. This is due to the i Urge surface of milk exposed to the in- j fluence of air and the length of time required for the separation of the rream. The cream from milk set in deep vessels and surrounded by ice is free from curd and sweet, as is cream i 5hat is separated by subjecting the milk ; in a i^cnrHfnOf:] machine. An excellent aualiiv can be obtained j by churning at a favorable temperature, i If the temperature b9 too low the but ter will be long in corcing, and will be | hard in texture. If the temperature is ; too high the batter will come very i speedily, but the product will be greasy ! and deilciens in quantity. Xo tempera- i ture can be fixed as the best at which j <? churning should always take place. The proportion of the solid and fluid fats in the milk varies somewhat with the diet of the cows, and this necessitates a change in the temperature. A somewhat higher temperature will be required in winter than summer; the temperature must also be higher for sour cream than for sweet cream. Generally speaking, perfect sweet cream fchculd be placed in the churn at fifty rfrr_fTr?rv Anrryn^a "K'oViVcm Vinif OT1/3 VV 4-L? UJ tirv/ *. sour cream at fifty-two :o sixty degrees. When sour milk is churned for butter, the temperature must be about sixtyfive degrees. Churning ought always to be stopped as soon as the butter comes, a3 overchurning i;po?ls the texture of the butter. The butter is then separated from the buttermilk, worked with cold water, and after standing to solidify is carefully worked and pressed to expel all watery matter; overworking at this stage will also spoil the grain and make the butter greasy. Butter made from perfectly sweet c::eam keeps far better than butter made from sour cream, as the butter contains acid, a substance very prono to change. Salt is generally added to improve the keep ing quality o! butter. Reclp??r Potato Croquettes.?Boil a dozen medium-sized potatoes thoroughly. Mash and add a little onion which has been well fried in butter, salt, pepper, 3 little sweet majoram and half an egg. Dip in egg and cracker crumbs and fry quickly. Fp.uit Pcedes-g.?To make a plain fruit pudding, take one cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter and two eggs, and beat together, then add a cup of sour milk and one teaspoonful of soda, three cups of flour and one cup of chopped raisins, spices to taste. Pat in a mold and steam two hours. Rice am> Apple Pudding.?Boil a cupful of rice for ten minutes, diain it through a hair sieve until quite cry. Put a cloth into a pudding dish, and lay the rice round it like a crust. Cat six apples into quarters and lay them in the middle of the rice with a little shopped lemon peel, a couple of cloves and some sugar- Cover the fruit with some rice, tie up tight and boil lor an hour. Serve with melted butter sweetened and poured over it, or with :ream. Lemon Fickles.?Wipe six lemons, :ut each into eight pieces; put on them a pound of salt, sis large cloves 3f garlic, two ounces of horse radish, sliced thin, likewise of cloves, mace, nutmeg and cayenne, a quarter of au Duoceeach, and two ouncas of flour of mustard; to these put two quarts of rinegar. Boil a quarter of an hour in * well tinned saucepan; or, which is better, do it in a strong jar, in a kettle Df boiling water; or set the jar on the liot hearth till done. Set the jar by, md stir it daily for six weeks; keep ;he jar close covered. rut it into small bottles. Beef Soup.?Three pounds of beef, three onions, three quarts cf water, jne-half pint pearl barley. Boil beef slowly about an hour and a half, then idd onions, sliced, and pearl barley [previously well washed and soaked ialf an hour); then boil about an hour longer. More water may be added, sufficient to have two quarts of soup when done. Season to taste with pepper. Household Hints. Sliced tomatoes really do not need vinegar. They are better without it. A little salt mbbed on a discolored ;gg spoon will restore its silver tint. Lard alone -will make a tender, but iot so flaky a pie crust as butter, or autter and }a'd both. A screw that has "rusted in" may be easily started by applying a little kerosene oil around the head. To keep lamps from smoking, soak the wicks before using in either strong unegar or alum water; dry them lirnv-inrrhlv ortd vnnv l?rrm will civo a clearer* light and"1 will not smoke or nnell disagreeably. A pint of soot from the chimney or stovepipe in a pailful of water will ; nake a liquid manure of the greatest ralue for flowers and plants of all 1 b'nds. ; The London Furniture Gazette gives , ;he following directions for restoring . r> A on/1 rtlef ATlf. tUU^U AliVA OVAAWVl J VMV j ;he dust thoroughly ; afterwards brush ^ell; then apply a strong lather of , ja^tila soap by means of a hard brush; ( irasli tho lather off "with clear water and , follow with a wash of alum water. , ft'hen clry the colori will be restored to ;heir original freshness. If the colors ; have faded beyond recovery they may ( oq touched with a pencil dipped in srater colors of suitable shade with gum water. . London's " Old Bailey." "Enturirx* hv thfi low froiked wicket. I ? o -J -X- ? ' 50 familiar to all passengers in the Old Bailey, the visitor passes through the warden's common room into a dark, aarrow passage which, running north md south, communicates with every ; part oi the interior. In front, on ti e right hand, is a gallery opening into a 2mall, comfortable-looking room, fitted with a pressi, a safe for the kejs and a leader cistern bearingthe date 1781. In | the press are kept a variety of disnsed J handcuffs and leg-irons, some of them i being of a great thickness and weight, rhe leg-irons, when worn, hung from in iron DClE round me caipni s waisr,, [n the cupboard are also preserved the block, with its hammer, cpon which the prisoner would place his feet that the jhains might bo fastened on and unrivated just before his execnfcion, with the ix that was carried to the scaffold in front of the condemned under sentence tor treason. This ax has never been actually used for the purpose of decapitation after death. The head was severed by a skilled surgeon. The last iime the ax went to the scaffold was on Monday, May 1,1820, wLen Thistle wood Brunt, Jngs, Davidson and Tidd, prin ilpals of tne uaro screes conspiracy, (vere executed according to the horrid manner of traitors. In this apartment, boo, malefactors were pinioned by the hangman. That operation is now performed in the condemned cell, with a jet of straps of ingenious construction, rhe place of execution for Middlesex aas "been at Newgate since 1733, and antil a few years ago before the door in the more northerly porlal. The "prosession" so frequently described in the laily journal used to start from the pir;ioning-rocm down the passage, througi the kitchen, passing between black curtains put up for the occasion, and so out into the Oid Bailey. The gibbet, or scaffold, was brought over n:ght from Its place in th9 Session-house yard; tlie staples to which it was fastened may yet*bo seen at either side the outer iron door o^ Ihe kitchen. The dissection of the bodies of executed persons * ?3 discontinued in the year 3832. Dasts arc now taken of their faces; these arranged in a lobby of the warden's roora. are by no means pleasant to (.ok npon, though not without- their value from a physiologist's point of view ! The chapel, where divine ssrvice is eelsbratea cverv dav, is on the fir3t floor j it {ho rear of the governor's house. In the Microcrosm is a plate by Rowlandson asd Pajin oi its interior (since considerably changed) in the year 1809, on i Sunday preceding tha nay of execution. Sunday being a dies non in the ayes of the law, it was then customary to hold capital trials on Fridays, and to give the condemned the full benefit cf ihe few hours' grace meted out in sentence. I .'is Arizona C&ve. In Tvinslow, near the Sunset mountains, a cave has been discovered which is erne of G-rentesfc renders cf the Ar- ! izona Territory. It is of unknown proportions, having novsr been explored, and the phenomenon connected "with it that causes tha wonder of beholders i3 that a strong current of :;ir rushes into the cave of sufficient force to draw , do^n into the Plutonian depths ail j liqht articles placed near the entrance. ' The roaring of the vinds into the car- j em may be heard hvn hundred yards | away from the opening. ) " i?^ii ?a? A BEAUTIFUL SIMILE. An ESoqnent Divine on tho Semi's Salvation. In the troubled days of Scotland Sir John Cochrane was doomed to dsath bj the King. The death-warrant was on the way. Grisel, the daughter of the condemned man, resolved that her father should not die. "I shall cie," said the father. "Yon shall not die," said Grisel. the daughter, as she left the prison door. Not long after a wayfarer is waiting on the moor for the horseman carrjing the mail-bags containing the death-warrant of John Cochrane. Springing ont npon the mailcarrier, the disguised traveler seized the horse's bridle, and, with pistol at the head of the mail-carrier, cried, <lDismonnt!" Ee reached for his arms, and was jerked to the ground, while the wayfarer slung the mail-bags over the 6hoalder and~slipped off through the nignt. '?nus fourteen aays were gamed for the doomed man, while a father confessor sought from tne King the pardon of John Cochrane. A second time the death-warrant was cn ita way. It was a most tempestuous night, but the same disguised traveler waited among the brambles in the pitiless storm. The moil carrier sped as fast as he could spur the steed. The flash of a pistol in the darkness made the horse LLu.mu<jagcauic? aiiu wucu u 10 nuoi uischarged a pistol in response, the horse, in terror, flung the rider, and the robber, ont of the brambles, instantly had his ioot on the breast ot the fallen mailcariier, and the demand wa3, "Give me yonr arms or die." The mail carrier surrendered. "Now, leave," said the robber, "but let me have the horse and the mail-bags," and the robber rode ont of eight. A second time the death-wavrant had been stopped, and another fourteen days had been gained for the prisoner before the expiration of which the father confessor abtained a pardon from the king, and the cell door swung open and John Cochrane went forth free. While he and ^ his friends were rejoicing over his deliverance and the mysterious Providence that had twice stopped the death-warrants so as to make time for the pardon, the wayfarer stood outside asking to be admitted. He handed to John Cochrane two papers, saying: "Head them and then throw them into the fire."' They were the death-warrants. John Cochrane and his friends embraced tho robber for what he had done. And Cochrane ex- I claimed. "Who can this man bo to whom | lam indebted for my life?" Then the wayfarer threw off coarse cloak and Derbies and beaver, and lo! it was Gri?el. his own daughter, who had saved his life. ! " Gracious Heavens!" cried the father, j " my own chiida my savior, my Grisel 1" But here is a more thrilling scece. A death-warrant went forth from the King of heaven and earth saying : "The son! that sinneth it shall die." The deathwarrant was on its way on the black horse of eternal night. We mnst die. j We mnst die. But pressing ont through i the night and breasting the storm was I the disguised wayfarer. The world knew | Him not. With mighty arm He (matches ; by the bridle the oncoming doom, and flings the executioner to the earth, and puts a bleeding foot on the breast of the overthrown pursuer. Meanwhile, pardon, complete pardon, flashes from the throne, saying: "Go free! Open the prison door I Strike off the chains! Go free !" And before your liberated soul to day stands your deliverer, and as He throws off the disguise of His humiliation, the disguise of hia eartaly sandals, and His seamless coat, and His turban of thorns, you behold Him, one i of your household, your brother, your i Christ, your pardon, your kinsman, your \ /> . 1 T . J. .11 1.1. J T -T. 1 ux>ci. U06 aii earm anu nuaveu uresx forth in vociferation: Victory through onr Lord Jcstis Christ I "A cold, weak and helpless worm, On Thy kind arni3 X fall; Be thou my strength and righteousness, Sly Jesus and my all." [Extract from Talmage's sermon. Cleyer Crows. Mies Bird, in her "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan," says: I have not said any- J thing abont the crow, ^hich are a feature of Yezo, and one which the colonists would willingly dispense with. There are millions of them, and in many places they break the silence o? the sitent land with a Babel of noisy discords. They are everywhere and have attained ? ? j 3 1,1^ L* a degree 01 most nnparaonauie impertinence, mingled with a canning and sagacity "which almost pnt them on a level with man in some circumstances. Five of them were so impudent as to alight on two of my horses, and so be ferried icross the Yurapugawa. In the inn garden at Mori I siw a dog eating a piece of carrion in the piesence of several of these covetous birds. They evidently said a good deal to each other on the subject, an<* aow and then one or two of ther* ' - to pull the meat away from him, * .ch he resented. At last a big, strong crow succeeded in tearing off a piece, with which ho returned to the pin? where the others were congregated, and, after much earnest speech, they all surrounded the dog, and tho leading bird dexterously dropped the small piece of meat within reach of his mouth, when he immediately unarmed at it. letting eo the biz r>iece unwisely for a second, on which two of the crows flew away with it to the pine, and with much flatter and hilarity they all ate, or rather.gorged it, the deceived clog looking vacant and bewildered for i moment, after which he sat tinder the I tree and barked at them inanely. A gentleman told me that he saw a i Sog holding a piece of meat in like manner in the presence of three crows, which also vainly tried to tear it from him, and after a consultation they separated, two going as near as they dared to the meat, while the third gave his tail a bite sharp enough to make the dog turn round with a squeal, on which the other villaias seized the meat, and the three fed triumphantly upon it .on. the top of a wall. In many places they are so aggressive as to destroy crops, unless they are protected by netting. They assemble on the sore backs of horses and pick them into holes, and are mischievous in many ways. They are very late in going to roost, and are early astir in the morning, and are so boJd that they often came "with many a stately flirt and flutter" into the veranda where I was sitting. I never watched an assemblage of them for any length of time without being convinced that there was a Nestor among them to lead their movements, Along the seashore they are very amusing, for they "take the _ _?? _ :? _? Bir ill liie evening, Btraicu uu ottiiu-uaunja facing the wind, with their months open. They are threatening to devour the settlers, and a crusade is just now being waged against them, but their name is legion. Where Old Things G?. Dickens wonld have delighted in the advertisement of a leading journal, j which advises one that "discarded, rejected, regretted and once respected silk, satin, cloth and other dresses should be sold to those respectable of all dealers, Mr. and Mrs. Blank, Man-1 Chester Square." Another firm who advertise with no false modesty of small ' - it - 11?- xi?A. 11. ?-n ijpe, assure ine puono inau mey van | wait upon ladies and gentlemen with j the strictest privacy for anything in the j shape of clothes, jewelry, saddlery, carpets or cnrtains, as they have a large business with South Africa and Australia, adding the displayed information, "Artificial teeth purchused.' South Africa, then, i3 the ultima thule of fashion, where disappear those vagaries of dress which have nothinsr but their nov elty to recommend them. The English | colony np at Vancouver's Island are said j to be wearing hoops and rolled-back j hair in the style of the Emprees i Eugenie, underthe impression that they j are following the latest fashions; and the stray officer or missionary who finds j himself among them feels as if he had j been set back about twenty years. But! what a procession of cast-cfi'styles a-.d j degraded finery must astonish the eyes cf the ostrich and cassowary in Zalulaud. A country without fashions ie iike a country without time-pieces. Ben-ire.?Do not let yonr Drnjrgis: palm oil on you any new, cheap remedy for colds when you inquire for Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup, or yon will be disappointed. Price 25 cents a bottle. | ^ r * - .-j POPUJLAB SCIENCE. Dr. Siemens says the heat of the sun is cot wasted, and by a big-horded explanation vhieh he gives, shows that after the earth Las employed it, the caloric returns to the glorious orb for future use. IroD slag is ceasing rapidly to be a waste product. At an English iron works it is employed as a non-conductor of heat. When it is ground it is ! molded into bricks of great toughness, ! wmcn are aiso impervious 10 iross ana thirty per cent, lighter than common | clay fcriclis. Cement, concrete and i artificial stone are likovrise made from j the slag. I It is reported that Professor J. Law! renco Sancb, cf Louisville, Kentucky, j lately discovered in a native iron which was found in 1875 in the Province of { St. Catbarina, Brazil, the singular physical property that in its natural condiI tion it is very feebly attracted by the j magnet, but if a fragment is heated to j redness and then cooled there is maciI fested a magnetic property with the | usual intensity of iron. ! A schoolmaster of Nice has formed : ?rv-k/ %*>? to o rr -frw y.rrt. L I i u I 1 JJ.10 O gvvit-tj AWi WiU | tection cf vegetation. The members .ire to destroy injmion3 larvre and protect harmless birds. Their interest in the \7orJi is kept up by the erection of laureates and the arard of prizes. In four months of 1S81 the children destroyed 4 555 belts of mothecgs, repre <.' r j." i ogo rrnn 1 . beiiiiug ii'j icv?ex: tuiiu ?to'JoyovKj iai>u2 , ! 19i,^2S cabbage larvro; 1.5S2 grasshoppers ; C29 butterflies ; 58,911 slugs and snails; l,27i srabs; and 35,721 insects of various kinds. The work is very valuable and very instructive. THE II031E DOCTOR. Neuralgia and toothache are sometimes Epeediiy relieved by applying to the wrist a quantity of bruised or grated horseradish. Insect bites, and even that of a rattlesnake, have proved harmless by stirring enongh of common salt into the yolk cf a good egg to ranks it sufficiently thin for a plaster, to be kept on the bitten part. Eiysipelas, a disease coming without premonition, and ending fatally in three or four days, is sometimes very promptly cured by applying a poultice of raw cranberries pounded, and placed on the **i#TrV.K V> T LI Milk porri-Jge can be varied so'that an invalid will not tire of it soon. Put a dczen raisins in about two caps of milk, boil for five minutes; they will flavor it agreeably, though they are nor intended to be eaten. A little nutmeg can be added, c? the white of an egg beaten light may be stirred in just after the milk is taken from the stove. The free use of saleratus in domestic, cooking is extremely injurious; it causes groat muscular prostration when taken into the stomach. It is poison to the alimentary canal, causing great irritation to tho passage. A nourishing and pleasant drink for a sick person is mud'e of parched rice. T> + V>*;/?A + Vi rv O c TTTI A A or\-f. : iTU l.uu bliw uuwu wu JWIU WW vv* j fee; then pour boiling warer with a little salt in it over the rice. Let it boil until it is tender; then add sugar or cream to it. It may be sbained or not, according to tasto. Contempt of Court. The famous and witty John Baldwin, for indulging in contemptuous langaage in an Allegany county justice's court was sentenced to imprisonment in the Angelica jail for twenty days. By his own assurancG and daring, however, he managed to escape. After the justice had pronounced this sentence upon Baldwin be proceeded to draw the mittimus which empowered the constable to take the disrespectful lawyer into custodv. The justice, who was an in different and slow penman, was a long time in preparing the somewhat technical document. Baldwin, who watched the proceedings with the deepest interest, waited until the magistrate was about to sign the warrant, when he suddenly seized a large inkstand fall ol ink and poured its contents over the fearful paper, destroying in an instant the hard work of an hour. This done, he mounted his horse and escaped into Steuben county beyond the reach of pnnther mittimus. In the early days of Buffalo a leading lawyer -was arguing a cause in the Court of Common Pleas where one of the side judges presided?the fir3t judge not being on the bench. To show his superiority, the judge often put irritating questions to the counsel. To help the matter along, the two other side judges on the bench annoyed the lawyer in a similar manner. A* Toe,* nnn 1/1 anclm-a fl>Ja Tin Innaror and, pausing in the midst of his argument, he said; "If your Honors will excuse me I would like to say that this court reminds me of a Virginia rag-bag team." ' Well. sir. what kind of a team do you call that ?" asked the judge. "It is a team, your Honor, composed of two mules and a jackass." For this the lawyer was fined $15 and two days' imprisonment. Son;e Curiosities of Trade. \ The demand for eye stones has fallen off very largely, but they are kept still and sold in considerable quantities. 1 3 eye shone will clear the eye. There is no doubt about that, but its movements are regulated by its shape and by a formation on the flat side or base of the stone, similar to a blade in a turbine ?"U a ^.1 nl-v r\ rccnrnWoa o WUttjr W JLICUI. J.U? Tf XiVAV XVWVXA1VAW? M shell just begun?before the cavity was formed, if shells were so formed, but are not. The stone is composed of limestone, and vinosar or any acid by its action upon it causes motion. The stone3 are found on the sea shore on the Pacific coast. Sailors gather them by the qaart and vend in trade centers. The price is ten cents. Blood stones are also called for, not the kind known to seal rings and sleeve " VvTif"^loca tfnnoa nr rvf f.h? U HbllUHOj UUV UWUA4UM ??. WMW color of blood, dark red. These are worn to prevent the nose from bleeding although the old plan to prevent, namely, to keep the nose out of other persons' business, is in nee still and works well. With a string through the glass bead and the string around the owner's neck, the liability to nose bleed is removed. The bloodstones, some of them, come from Germany. Rattlesnake oil will unlimber joints afflicted with certain lameness, as no other oils or preparations wm. jh is called for often and the buyers may get rattlesnake oil and they may not. It is said to be a business of considerable importance to capture rattlesnakes and from the fat to produce the oil. At all events, rattlesnake oil is sold, and it is supposed to care marvelonsly. Skunk oil is another cnrc-all for certain maladies. ? . aoa A singularly in'eresting ca*e was lately referred to by the Brooklyn Eagle. It was told by Mr. W. A. Davenport, connected with the house of Messrs. Butler, Pitken & Co., 476 Broadway, IsV.y York, and concerned the marvelous cure of Mr. Ezra D. Clarkson, rear Newark. N J., of a terrible case of rheumatism, which other remedies had failed even to aiieviate. He was on his way to a hospital when Mr. Davenport met hitn and induced him to try St Jacobs Oil, with the result named.?Cleveland (0 ) Practical Fanner. Pi of. Brown, special census agent, i says that 5.5S6 patents have been issued ah Aira in f ! ?/> TTr.i fed States. On har rows and diggers, 1,74.^5 have been granted; on harvesters, C.235, of which abent 400 sre cn self-binders; on threshing mach-ccs the Climber is 1.722. MM* The Newark (X. J.) Sunday Call says: One of o ir Cincinnati exchanges cite? the ensa of Mr. IIol<io:nnn, of the Louisville Coarier-Jonrnai, who was cured of rheumatism by St Jacob- Oil His wife was cured of ncurnlcia by the same article, and every member of his family of some pain or ache by the Great G*im::n Remedy. The Transporting p) wer of rnnmng water depends cn its :aIccitv. Its force * * - 0 * *i-~ 1 -1 varies as tlic s2x.n1 po? or 01 its velocity ?that is, doubling the rate increases I the force sixty-four tla:83. -> PEESEXTISENTS. Ad InTMtltfailan of the 0-n*ea of Thote ; Cflr forefcoaJn&K Which 31alie Powerful Men Weak. f Golden Rule.] 2Icch apprehension has been occasioned I throughout 'America from tho announcement ] j made by Professor Proctor that the return in ; nineteen years of the great comet of last sumI iner will cause the destruction of tho earth. But j while people are becoming so strangely eserj cised over this announcement. _ an event of far j more serious importance, which is taking place to-day, seems to be almost wholly overlooked. * *** - ' A rtl T> Vlfl j xne nature 01 tens ihobv >aw? ouujct.. wuw better explained by relating the following expeI xiences: Bishop E. 0. Eaven, known to the entire land, was unaccountably awakened one night j l out of a sound sleep, and lay awake until morn- ! ing. His mind seemed unusually active, and I he not only reviewed his past lite, which had i been an eventful one, but laid extensive plans for ths future. He did not feel especially ill, but could not account for the unusual activity of hia brain, nor for the restlessness which I seemed to possess bins. In the morning he had I but little appetite, bul was apparently well in j other respects. In a few days, however, he began to feel restless and morbid, although he ! tried earnestly to overcome the feeling which I had taken possession of him. But try as he would I the shado i of some evil seemed to follow him, | and he was conscious of a cradual sinking I aud wasting away of a'.l his phvsical faculties. Ho had been an earnest and diligent worker, and in his zeal frequently over-taxed his strength, and being absorbed in his duties failed to observe the common eymptoma witl v?a w?? fifflietftrl. Thna t>ernsittincr the work of destruction to go oil unheeded." But the end finally came iu a most peremptory manner. Shortly before his death he wrote a letter?the last one ho ever indited- in which he speaks as follows: "A belief that death is near affects different minds differently, bat probably all who are in a fair condition of physical and mental strength instinctively shrink from it with aa indefinable dread and horror. A dying man is no more able of himself to forcsca his own destiny or the destiny of those ho leaves than ho rras "before he besjaa to die." The recent sad and sndden death of Hon. Clarkson N. Potter is one of the most eerions warnings ever given in the long list of innumerable cases of fatal neglect, it is not sufficient to say that many other brilliant men, including Everett, Samner, Chase, Wood, Wilson and Carpenter, were swept away by the samo fatal trouble. Th9 question is, were these men sufficiently carefal of th6ir heal th I and could they have besn saved ? The Albany Argus, in speaking of Sir. Potter's sudden illness and death, says: "One of the physicians who attended Mr. Potter hero was interviewed laet evening. Ecstatod that Mr. Potter's inability to converse had for some time served to baffle the physicians in their efforts to determine the root o.f his illness. It seems, however, that Mr. Potter, some two years ago, suffered a slight attack of kidney disease. Unwise dependence upon a robust constitution and naturally perfect health, and neglect of proper clothing, donbtless sowed the seeds of a disease that needed but some such personal neglect as that of Tuesday morning to develop. From the symptoms at firet shown, it was thought that his only trouble was nervous prostration; bat his long continuance in a semi-unconscious state led to the belief that his illness was eeated in a chronio difficulty more mysterious and dangerous." Uo to the latter part of last year Mr. Edward F. Rook, a member of the New lork stock exchange, was doing business in Wall street, New York. He had everything to en courage bim and make life happy, bat was tiie victim of unaccountable uneasiness. His experience as described by one who knew, was aa follows: "At unexpected times, and on occasions when he had the greatest reason to feel joyous he was irritable and haunted with strange feelings of discontent. He endeavored to chock these feelings and appear pleasant,bnt it required a great effort to do so ; after which ha would agarn relapse into his former morbid mood. This feeling continued for a number of months, when ho became conscious of an added sensation of lassitude. He was tired even when resting, and although experiencing no acute pain, had dull, ashing sensations in his limbs and various parts of hia body. Shortly afterward his head began to acho most frequently and his stomach failed to digest properly. Being told that he was suffering from malaria he consulted an eminent physician, who informed him that his kidneys were slightly affected, and gave him medicine to restore them. But he grew worse instead of better. He then consulted other eminent doctors of another school and was informed that he had a brain difficulty somewhat in the nature of a tumor, but in spite of all efforts to the contrary ha continue 1 to grow | worse. At this time his condition was terrible. What were at first simple symptoms had devel| oped toterribl9 troubles. He was flushed and feverish, constantly uneasy, and yet always wsary. He bad an intense appetite one day and vory little the next. Hia puis* was irregular, h:s breathing labored, and every moment of existenco was a burden. These disastrous symptoms continued, his face and bod? I became discolored, hia heart was irregular in it* action, and his breath csm9 in short, convulsive gas vs. Ho grew constantly worse, not| withstanding the utmost precautions of his friend?, and finally died in ths greatest agony, j After his death an examination as to its actual cause waa made, when hia brain vras found to bo in a perfect condition, and tho reason of his decease was of an entirely different nature." Tho experiences which have teen cited abov3 all bad a common cause acd were cacti tlie re- 1 suit of one disease. That dkease, which so deceitfully, yet surely removed the people abova mentioned waa Bright'a disease of iha kidneys, in the ca^e of IIr. Ecok the examination after death, while showing the brain to be in nerfect condition, revealed the teriiblo fact tint ho was the victim of a slight kidney trouble, which had gone on unchecked, until it resulted in acute Bright's disease. Tiie leading physicians and scientists of the world are fast learning that more than one-half the deaths which occur are caused by this monstrous scourge. It is one of the most deceitful maladies ever known to tho human race. It manifests itself by symptoms so slight and common as to "seem unworthy of attention; and yet these very insignificant symptoms are the first stages of tho worst complaint known in the history of the world. Thousands of people have died from troubles that are called /itj/ioeo onnnlorc rmnAmnnia. brain fever I r and similar diseases, when it was in fact Bright's disease of the- kidueys. The ravages of this disease have been greatly increased from the fact that until recent year/no way was known to prevent its beginning nor check its increase when it had become ouce fixed npon the system. Within the past two years, however, we have learned of more than four hundred pronounced cases of Blight's disease, many of them much worse than those above described, and most of whom ha I been giveu up by prominent physician?, who have been completely cured. The means u-ed to accomplish this end has been Warner's Safe Kidney find Liver Care, manufactured in Rochester. N. Y., a remedy that has won its way into the confidence of the public solely upon the remarka ble met its it possesses. As a result, it is more widely used and thoroughly praised than any medicine which has ever been before the American public. Indeed there is not a drug store in the entire land where it cannot be found. Although Briglit's disease is so common in cities, it is still u ore prevalent in the country. When eminent physicians in the largest cities are not able to recognize Bright'a di-ease, it is only natural that in the country, where there are few physicians of any kind, and those few eo unacquainted with the disease as to call it hy some other name, it should rage terribly and yet unknown to the ones who aro suffering with'it. Thousands of people can look bacls and recall the death of friends from what was snpposed to bo some common complaint, .vhen it was really Bright'a disease, and no oxe knew it" The terribie pleuropneumonia, which has teen eo dreaded, is usually the result of uremic or kidn<vv poison. Lung fever can be traced to a simil _ source. Most cases of paralysis arise Irom the same difficulty, as well as innumerable fevers, lang, throat, head and bowel troubles. A vast number of ladies have suffered and died from complaints common to their sex called, perhaps, general debility, when, could the real cause have been known, it would have been fonni to be Bright's disease, masquerading under another name. In marked contrast to the tad cases which havo been above described aretbo experiences of many prominent people who were as low as any of the persons mentioned, but who were remarkably restored to former health and vigor by this same i remedy. Among this number are the following prominent names: Colonel John C. Whitner, Atlanta, Ga.; 1>. F. Larratee, Boston, Mass.; General G. A. Heckraan, Phiilipsburg, N. J.: Rev. D. D. Back, D.D., Geneva, N. Y.; Dr. F. A. McManus, Baltimore, Md.; Edwin Fay, Davenport, Iowa; Be v. A. C. Kendrick, LL.D., Rochester, N. Y.; J. S. Matthews, Portland, Mich.; C. W. Eastwood, New York: Dr. A. A. Ramsay, Albia, Iowa; Chancellor C. N. Sims, D.D., Syracuse, N. Y.; Dr. S. P. Jones, Marionette, Wis.: T. S. Ingraham, Cleveland, 0.; Henry T. Champney, Beaton, Mass.; Eider Jamea S. Prescott, North Union, 0., who ia & prominent member of the Shaker community, and many others. To all cantl:ci micas t:ie lorcc oi tue anove facts must coma with tpecial power. They show the importance of promptness and attention to the first symptoms of disordered health before disease becomes fixed and hope depart*. They show this can successfully bo done, and that the dangers which await neglcct can only with difficulty be removed. A Literary Fancy in Napkins. Shakespearean table napkins are the latest nnion of trade and sentiment. After the fashion of German housewives of the sixteenth century, -who not only wrought their initials and family badge on the table linen, but surrounded it with tests, maxims and mottoes in cross-stitch, a manufacturer sends out large damask napkins with sentences from Shakespeare, wovc-n in red letters an inch long, filling the four tides. Oce may read on his unfolded napkin that "small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast," which sounds more like the exhortation of a niggard housewife < i ^ ? WHO 6XCG5CS lier spare ittuio v?al.u uuc I words than like the ccnrtesy which would fain need no apology for its good will or its providing. The cost of barb wire fences built in the United States in 1831 is estimated at 810,000,000. Gratitude of an Adopted Daughter. j Carrie Koper, twelve years of age, a : poor, friendless orphan girl, was: adopted by John Potts, the Tillage blacksmith at Brooklyn,Luzerne county, i; Pa. She was educated at a fashionable j school, studied music and graduated j with high honors. She then disappeared, ; and Potts gave her up as dead. In the meantime, Mrs. Potts died, and he lived alone, still working as blacksmith ; but 1 enfeebled by age, he was in danger of losing his little property by being unable to pay off a few xnoitgages. Two weeks ago a lady appeared at the old house and introduced herself as Mrs. James Rutledge, the wife of a Pittsburg millionaire. The old blacksmith recognized her at once as nis adopted daughter Carrie, and was overcome with joy at her appearance. The lady had come to take .Fotts to Her Home, wnere ne was to eDjoy the freedom of her home during bis remaining days. She paid ofi the mortgages on the Potts property, purchased a handsome monument for the grave of Mrs. Potts, and started with her old friend for her home in Pittsburg. Soon after their arrival she made Potts a gift of $50,0G0 in United States bonds. Alternately Shaken nnd Scorched By the paroxysms of chilis and fever, tbe r tched' sufferer for whom quinine has been prescribed essays in vain to exterminate the dreadful disease with that hurtful palliative, which at best only mitigates the violence of the fits, and eventually ~p: ores highly injurious to the system. In order to effect a thorough cure of malarial fover, whether intermittent or remittent, or to render the system impregnable to its attacks, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters should ba used daily. That this medicine is a searching cradicant of diseased generated by miasma, and a reliable safeguard against them, is a fact so widely recognized in this and other countries that to adduce evidence In support of it is unnecessary; but rccra it either" essential or desirable to do so. it may well be supposed tha; from the testimony corroborative of its claims, which has been accumulating during the last twenty-five years and over, sufficient proofs might be gathered to convince the moat inveterate skeptic. I>- Prance children under fourteen years of age are not allowed to live in canal boats, nor can woi*icii rO without special permission from theaulhorities. Advice to Consumptives. On the appearance of the first symptoms?as ?V\i 1 iftt Iacj r?f nollr*r /"?ri i 11 sensations, followed by niefit sweats and cough ?prompt measures for relief 6hould be taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs: therefore use the great anti-scrofula, or bloodpurifer and strength-restorer?Dr. Pierce'* '' Golden"Medical Discovery." Superior to Cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsurpassed as a pectoral. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, and kindred affections, it has no equal. So'.d by druggists the world over. For Dr. Pierce's pamphlet on Consumption, send two stamps to World's Dispensae? Medical Association, Buffalo, N^Y. The French Cremation society now consists of 406 members. The average cost of cremation has been sixty cents. Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" is everywhere acknowledged to be the standard remedy for female complaints and weakness. It is sold by druggists. The mind is like a trunk; if well packe-1 it holds almost everything; if ill packed, next to nothing. The huge, drastic, griping, sickeninc pills are fast being superseded by Dr. Pierce's " Purgative Pellets." Sold hy drnggista. These are 283 persons or films in Washington engaged in prosecuting claims before the pension bureau. Send name and addrees to Cragin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., for cook book free. New York merchants estimated that the business of A. T. Stewart & Co. amounted to about $70.00 ',000 a year. Oa Thirty Days' Trial. Tho Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will aATirl fhat-r onrl ntVi/>r Pi/5/*. I trie Appliances on trial for thirty days to an\ person afflicted with Nervous Debility, Los: Vitality, and kindred troubles, guaraiiteein;,complete restoration of vigor and manhood. Address as above without delay, P. S.?No risk is incurred, as 30 days' trial is allowed. The Frazer Ax.'e Grease Is the best in the market. It is ?he mos economical and cheapest, one box lasting aslong as two of any other. One-,gTeasing will last two weeks. It received first premium at the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also medals at various State fairs. Buy no other. Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Renewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexua: Debility, f 1. Druggists. Send for pamphlet to E. S. Wells Jersey City, N. J. Pcbe cod-lives oil, from selected livers, or the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co-., N. Y. Absolutely pure* and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. CniTismijivne fi/v> r.imnldj stiff r<viT>> al-ir> cared by u? inJaniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co.. Xew York. There is but one way to care baidness, and that is by using Carbolme. a deodorized extract of petroleum, the natural hair grower. As recently improved, it is the only dressing for the hair that caltnred people will use. The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, a medical work for every man-?young, middleaged or old. 125 invaluable prescriptions. IIOW TO SECUKE HEALTH. It Is s!r?nj.e any or.c will suffer from derangement.brought on by Impure blood, when SCOVILL'S SAKSAl'AP.ILLA AXDSTILLIXGIA.or BLOOD AND LIVKK SYKL'P win restore health to the physical organization. It Is a strcRgtiseninssynsp, pleasant to take, and theBKST BLOOD Pl'KIFlKIt ever discovered, curing Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, M.s'aria, Xervous disorders. Debility, Bilious complaints and Diseases of the Blood, Liver. Kidneys, stomach, Skin. etc. Edey's Carbolic Troche* prevent all contagious diseases, such as Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, and cure Coughs and Colds. Pleasant to the taste and a good disinfectant. IhLE.VS Strain Food-cures N'ervoas Debility Ac Weakne.-s o! Generative Organs. SI--ail druggist*. Send lor Circular. Allen's Pliarniacy,313 First &v?>\Y. THE 5IABKET& 0 SEW YOSK. Eeef Cattle ?Prime, live weight 11%? 12% Calves?Com'n to CLoice Veals. 9 @ 11 Sheep G&@ 7% Lambs 7 ? 8 Hogs?Live 7 ? 7% i Dressed, city 9%@ 97s Flour?Ex. St?.te, good to fancy 5 70 ? 8 50 Western, good to choice 5 65 @ 9 00 Wheat?No. 2 lied, new 1 -12 @145% No. 1 White, new 1 41 ? 1 41% Rye?State 97 @ 97 Barley?Two-rowed State 92 @ 93 Com?Ungraded Westcrnllixcd 8.5 ? 89% Yellow Southern 81 @ 81 Oats?White State 61 ? 64 Mixed "Western CO @ 61% Hay?Prime Timothy 90 ? 95 Straw?No. 1, Itye.... CO ? 65 Hops?State, 1S31, choice 22 ? 23 Pork?Mess, now, for export...18 25 @18 40 Lard?City Steam 1120 @112) Beiined 1140 @1140 Petroleum?Crude iy<. | liefined 7j?@ V/t Eatier?State Creamery, Hue.. 30 @ 31 Dairy 27 ? 23 Western Im. Creamery 23 @ 30 Factory 20 @ ? Cheeee?State Factory 13t< Skims 2 @ G;.^ Western 8 @ 12^ Eggs?State and Perm 17 @ 17% Potatoes?Early Bose.State, bbl 8 37 @3 50 EUFFALO. Steers?Good to choice 6 85 @ 7 20 Lambs?Western 7 00 @ 7 50 Sheep?We-tern 6 25 @ 6 75 Hogs, Good to Choice Yorker? ..710 @ 7 40 Flour?C'vGround, No. 1 Spring C 75 @7 25 Wheat?No. 1. Hard Dulutu.... 147 @147 Com?No. 2 ilixcd 669 Oats?No. 2 Mix. West 47 @ 47 Barley?Two-rovred State 90 @ 90 BOSTON. T5?c unn /ainnn auu j ? x -S ww ww Hogs?Live ri\{% 7 Ji Hogs?City Dressed 9}<@ _ 93 s Pork?Extra Prime pe! bbl 14 5^ @13 00 Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 8 00 @9 25 Corn?HiMixed 91 @ 95 Oats?Extra Whits 69 @ 72 Ryo?State 93 @ 97 Wool?Washed Comb & Delaine 45 @ 43 Unwashed " " 2} @ 30 Vi'ATHETOVi'.N" (MASS.) CATTUS MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 7 378 00 Sheep?Live weight "i/i Lambs 7f^@ S;^ Hoes, Northern, d. vr 9 @ 9*< PHILADELPHIA. FJour?Penn. Ex. Family, good C 23 6 25 Wheat?No. 2 lied 1 1 41% Rye?State 97 6$ 97 Corn?State Yellow G9% Oats?ilixed 5(5% Dutter?CreameryKxtraPa..., S2 @ 3i Cheese?New York Full Cream. 13%6$ 13% Petroleum?Crude 0 7 liclined 7 1% Well One? More. 541 East Abch Strew, y Pottsvnxe, Pa.. Sept 22,1881. f H. W. Warner & Co.: Sirt~l lave TO for manv vears with inflammation of the ki?? neya an<5 Sladder, and have never fct3j?? S thing that would give me any relie? c*cep| your Safe Kidnev and Liver Cure. & ' Mrs. Mary Stager. h The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. FACTS ABOUT UMBRELLAS. i?itmhrpllA WIS tiff Tented shortly after the flood, and has been th? least Improved upon of aU appliances for humans comfort, the shape being now as it was in ihosff youthful days of the world. An umbrella 1? much like a pigeon as to the question of possession?the last one who gets it owns it. The fol^ lowing facts about umbrellas?especially the last one?may serve every reader a splendid purpose sooner or later: To place your umbrella in a rack indicates that it is about to change owners. An umbrella carried over a woman, tne man getting nothing but drippiags of the rain, indicates court- A ship. When the man has the umbrella and the woman the drippings, it indicates marriage. To carry it at right ang.es unc.er your arm. signifies y thai an eye is to be lost by the man who follow* \ you. To put a cotton umbrella by the side ofafrice ^ silk one signifies that" exchange is no robbery." J * i To lend an umbrella signifies that" I am a fcaL" To rArrv an umbrella just high enough to tear oat men eyes and knock off men's bats, sigmne* "lama woman." To go without an umbrella t In a rain-storm shows I am sure of fretting rheu- matism, and will have to use St. Jacobs Oil to get well." To keep a fine umbrella for your own, use and a bottle 01 St. Jacobs Oil always in the house, in case of rheumatism or accident, would ~V:, you 7 ^ .The l^n^^^^^rcnnicat^n to the editor of the Salem (Mass.) JlcaUier show.." how an artist treated his visitor: "I would hare accepted your kind invitation to visit you in yourv'ew qoarters with pleasure before this had not my v"ld enemy, '$$& Mr. Rheumatism. pounced on me so suddenly. He arrived last Fndav, and, without stopvTinS to spnd rin his card, rushed in and grasped *>7 3?f the hand with such a grip that in a "few hooT* jm mv hand and wrist were so badly swollen and painful that I felt as though one of Sir. Hatch'g * coal teams had run over me. Mr. Rheumatism has been a constant visitor of mine for several years; he alwajs swells and put on a great many X airs, making himself at home, devouring rnysubstance and leaving me poor in flesh and packet Last winter he came and stayed two montns. I then decided that the next time he came I would change his diet. I waa somewhat at a loss what to feed him with, but finally concluded to give him three square meals a day of St. Jacobs Oi^? "* ! morning, noon and night 'This fare he is dis- 1 gristed with, and is packing up his trunk and will :3'-^ leave by to-morrow or next day: says he cannot stop any longer, as he has pressing business elsewhere. He is a treacherous fellow, and h<! intends visiting some of our Salem friends: if he does, just give him the same fare that I did an<X he won't stop long. J. S. Lefavocr. y~Y~y v?11 C3=s=cq^ :JJ wnaoa's cchpouhd O? ^. P%EH COB LIVES FOIL ahd use/J J To One and A11.?Are yon suffering from a Cough,Cold, Astbms, BroncMtia, or any of the various pulmonary troubles that so often end in ConsumptionJ <3 It so, use " B7Iter's Purr. Cod Liter Oil and iume," a safe and sure letnedv. Th'8 is no quack preparation. but is rr.'-scr:bed bv the medics! faculty. Mannf. only by A- 3. W'gxOB, Chemist, Bo3ton. By all draggiata. " NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS." JJ Warehouse, 45 FiiItOD St, H.T. i HOWARD & MORSE, JlAhXFACrTBEES OP BRASS. COPPER & IRON' WIRE CLOTH* WIRE WORK, FENCES, RAIL- 3 IXGS & GUARDS, J| Galvanized Tvvijjo Wire Netting For Poultry Inc!o?nves, PIiea*antrie?, Pls? con Houses, etc. Sand tor Price List. P AGENTS WANTED FOR THE . ZCTOHIAL HISTORYopteeWORLD Embracing full and authentic accounts of every nation of ancient and modem times, and including a history of the rise and fall of the Greek and Roman empires, the middle axes, the crusades, the feudai system, the reformation, the discovery and settle- mentof fixe New World, etc., etc. It contains 674 Sae historical engravings, and is the most complete History of the World ever published. Sead for *pecimen pases and extra terms to Agent*. Address ' > >'atioxai. Pcp.usniy<~, Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. Panomt' Pnrsnitivo PllJii make Nevr Elood, and will completely change the blood _In_thc. entire system In thrc" montns. Any person wuu will tjjee one pilJ each ciffht trorul to 12 weeks mar bo restored to sound health, if such a thing: be possible. So'.d everywhere or sent by mail for 8 letter stamps. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Itfass^ formerly Bangor, !He. Gout, Gravel, D^^cs. The Veffeti! French Salicylates, enly harmless specifics proclaimed by science. relieve at once.cure within four days. Box $1. mailed. -JSa Genuine has red sea! and signature of L. A. Pakxs & Co.. only agents. 102W. 14th St.. N.Y. Askyourdruj;gist for the Genuine. 'Write for boob and references. MAKE HENS LAY. I An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist, cow traveling in this country. saj6 that most of the Horeo * and Cattle Pow'lerssoid here are worthless trash. Ho <aysthat Sheridan's Condition i'owaersareaosoinie- - ? iy cure and immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make bens lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Dose, one tcaspoonful to one pint of food. Sold everywhere, or sent bv mail for 8 letter ftami.-s. I. S. J OHKSOX & CO.. Boston. Mass.. formerly Bangor, Me. TEIIITL] 18 SliCOTT. Fref. yARTTMZ. /'<t,sN { nl/ ? Pa it. <;.-*? i-tt. A.w^tn / \ III l>?TtbofceiM. will. tor cO < ? -?. ??b ?S?.l?**FI* ' \&~Zj 1 foior'/*rcs lu-rkftf tur. wcj * CURlttCT VIC" J i TURK of' Tocr future ho?*.>nw of *-?. * t" a*o*.l-*1*, ) _jtf tat pj?? ?f it.<: -.? e.* s:irr?t?. fau# HHB pr*2tcc*i. Xooey mera*t to ?U net NSC3S25? ^Aidreu tt* i~ Xutxa, 10 Sctf; tUu. ^?LxSi** e^tSSS ^n>>>lne n?bUCare4 InlO 'v to -0 days. So pay till Cored. a g *js>3gg I stilPhens. Lebanon Ohio. Inventors to know that I mike no Tjr a TTrp?-pi chirsc for obtaining patent* until after v J X-5jJJ the patent U actually allowed. Book sent C- A. allAW, II Coart St- Boston. - ' .-^S CI A A EEV7ABI) toreasc of Xervooj Debility, Blood or XpKidaer Dkeasecolcuivd by Dr. V. itlea.SOS Wat- <jfc nut. Phlla. 1000 r-'f-rtnei'* >ent fr*e. Cnre rnarantced. fc!p?TH-fl6?KT$ WANTEO-90 b*rt tfS ?cMr.g articles in the world: 1 sample fret. faj?V<Jr XClCi<H6 Jay Brouon. Detroit. Mich. VJ YOilWft M P N if von want to learn Telegraphy in i uuiiu iiih.li a few months, and bo certain of a situation, address Valentine Bros., Jqucs-.ille. Vfla. "Wl AMilt" 1>UIC1\. UAi ni.Mi. v wellix^tox. o. rypamphlets fkee. CARD COLLECTORS, a handsome set of Curds tor three-cent stamp. A. G. basssit. Rochester. X.y. DIVORCES in any State without miblicity. Send V. " stamp tor the law. G. P.. SIMS. Chicago, HL ; <?CC a week in your own town. Terms and *5 outfit vuu tree. Add's H. H.\TXTnr.vCo..PortIand.Maine. M ^ . TTfANTED AGENTS for the complete and as- . T ? tnent:c lite cf Heney w. Longfellow, by F. H. U-derwood. Il!u?t rated. Th? people are ready :orjt. B. P. KUSScLL. 57 ComhiB. Boston. Maaa. improved root bees. SJ 2 ?4 ga ^ i '25c. package mates 3 gallons cf a e?A ?S5?s\? dclicious.wholesome.sparldmstTeai- .^SPz g H peranee beverage. Ask your druggist, or sent by Vhr, a 11 mail for '25c. C. E. Hires. 48 N. Dcla. ave..PblIa. " ^ ?na?safi cl mozpijixs cstfmf? 1 ? 8* i ! ! Rfl A Treatise on tbeir Lc4 1 H4U I SENT FREE. Da J.C. aprrKAN.P.O Scr !33.Ct:loago..rH. BMftlMBMBme . fc^-i 6 ? ^s! Bto Eca^^tation For prices, etc. vr.te Thz AUITMAX i, TAYLOR CO. Masafceid. o. i yri-SlALAlUA.?The result of a physician's sac- J.yA A ce<s it treatingobstinaten:?lari it d.s^aaes. Price *Lfl. Address Anti-Malaria Co.. Stamford, Conn. C "7 O A WEES. * 12 a day at fconie easily made. Costly 9' ? qgtst free. Add's Thce & Co.. Augtista,Maine. ONE BILLION COPIES SOLD. || EVERYBODY WANTS IT! '* | EVEBYBODY NEEDS IT -.1 THE SCIENCE OK LIFE; OR, SELF- -.;M PRESERVATION, Is a medical treatise on Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical Debility. Premature Decline in Mas; is an indispensable treatise for everv man. whether - i THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELFPRESERVATION', V Is beyond all comparison the most extraordinary ? work on Phvsiolojry ever published. There is nothing whatever that the married or s:n?le can either re- % <ju:re or wish to know but what is fully explained.? V for onto Globe. -^5 THE SCIENCE OK LIFE* OR, SELFPRESERVATION, Instructs those in he.ilth how to remain so, and the ?. *5J invalid how to become well. Contain? ono hundred anrl twenty-live invaluable prescriptions for all forms Mm ofac;::e and chr?::ic diseases, tor each of which a 4Mm fim-class phrsiciaa would charge Jrom $3 to $10.? Loniion isinc'i. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELFPRESERVATION, bound in French muslin, embossed, full silt. It 18 a marvel o: art and beauty, warranted to be a better .**? medical book in everv sense than can be obtained elsewhere for double the price, or the money will bo rciunued :n every instance.?Aulhor. TI1E SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELFPRESERVATION* J Is ?n much superior to all other treatises on medical fSf -object* that^comparison is absolutely impossible.? Sfijjji TiiE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELFP RESERVATION* Is sent by mail, securely sealed, postpaid, on receipt of riicc, only $1.25 (new edition). Small illustrated Ti;c author can be consulted on all diseases re- T-rS luirinjr skill and experience. Address PEABODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE, or W. H. PARKER, M. D., I KuiSnch Street. Boston, Maw. ectn eOA per day at home. Samples worth |5 free. ^0 kQ Address Stixsox & Co.. Portland, Males.