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WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF TH* MICROSCOPE. •f/heMg** OrMly Enemy • -The Bactllna and It* It&vnrea. 0l»enTery 31 nn hind- _ 'I l.e scientific world has been greatl) startled and agitatel of late by the discovery with the microscope of the most v readful eneray'of mankind in the form of myriads 01 little death-dealing parasites. The air we breathe and live in is charged with these deadly little growths in proportion as it is infected from varions noxious sources. Having by recent experiments and research been shown to be the most fruitful cause of disease known, and the welfare and health of every individual depending so largely on the freedom from their destruc tive ravages, it is but natural that the re ports of recent investigators in this field ol scientific inquiry should be widely read, and that every phase of these astounding discov eries should be subject to universal discus. - ion. At first received with some suspicion they have at length been thoroughly proven, and are now receiving the unqualified in dorsement of the leading scientific men throughout the world. But little else is talked of in the schools and clubs of science, and the medical and scientific journals are crowded with the testimony that is being added corroborative of the value of the mar velous discovery —hich is pronounced the greatest advaroe in radical science of mod ern times. To L. Pasteur, the eminent French scientist, who by his learned investigations has saved to France so many millions of dol lars, is probably due the honor of first point ing out the terrible power of these germs. In recognition of his great service the govern ment has recently voted him from the public treasury $10,000, with which to continue his experiments. He has described several va rieties of these parasites, some comparatively harmless, others extremely dangerous. One form he proved by a series of vaccinations and other conclusive experiments was the cause of death of many thousands of ani mals and herds of cattle; another the active agent in the death of fowls by cholera. Act ing upou the knowledge he had gained of the nature of these germs, he pointed out a means of relief that speedily prevented a spread of the diseases and ended their devas tation. Tyndau,, with the aid of other eminent English investigators, made a number of ex aminations of the floating particles in the atmosphere, and found numbers of living spores capable of producing disease. In dry and healthy localities but few germs were \ found, and these of the harmless varieties, 'while in low damp places, crowded houses end unhealthy cities, the poisonous germs were extremly numerous everywhere. Dr Rudolph Kooh, of Wallstein, Ger- injany, a man whose work in connection with thie organisms of contagious diseases has mhde him a recognized authority upon the subject, by experimenting after the methods off Villemin, has discovered and published afc account of one of the most dangerous varieties, to which it is proven more deaths are due than to any disease incident to the |uman race. He describes it as a simple cellular organ ism belonging to the same order as the bar- f teria. When dried the germs may, without losing any vitality, endure great extremes of temperature. Being as fine and as light as dust, invisible to the nuked oye, they may be blown any distance by the wind or carried upon the clothing or body. Like seeds, they may lie for months or years undisturbed upon the furniture, floor, carpets, curtains, wall!;, or in the bedding, and only requiring a proper degree of warmth, moisture and food to waken into life, develop and grow. They thrive and live in the blood, lymph, mucus and secretions of the human body. When the system is unhealthy or weak they attack the cells that make up the animal frame. Any albuminous fluid will furnish them with food for growth, and a single drop is sufficient to contain bun- dr 3ds. Examined with microscopes of great power, which enlarge them so that they can be seen and studied, they have the appear ance of minute rod-like bodies having, when active, some power of motion. They bend in the middle like a bow and straighten with a jerk that sends them a few times their own length. At the temperature of the human body they are the most active. Their power of increase or reproduction is remarkably great. One germ in a few weeks’ time, under favorable conditions, will give rise to millions. The process is by simple growth and division. Cold destroys or pre vents their growth, and this is why refrigera tion prevents decay of meats and other ani mal foods. Exposed to warmth these small organisms attack and eat up the albuminous tissues, leaving a foul mass. The odors so common to this process are given otf by these minute organisms,and is about the only indi cation of their presence. Tins is the warning of nature and it is an instinct to avoid all such smells. The foul breath, bad odors of old i ores, etc., leads man to avoid these germs in a great measure. The danger of their pres ence in the body can be imagined when their rapid increase is considered. A few germs may be readily absorbed into the system by breathing air containing them. They are thus drawn into the interior of the body through the long and narrow respiratory passages of the throat, chest and nose, which ure lined with soft membrane and covered with sticky mucus. In this fluid they find ready lodgment and favorable condi tions for development, increase and growth. The “cold’’ or catarrh, ozaeua or chronic citarrh, hay fever, etc., ar^ommon manifestations of the ef fects o^nie of the le.ist harmful of these germs or mieroeymea. In the discharges from the respiratory passages at such times thousands of the living animalcule are fomu’. The fever, debility, pains “ in the bones,’’ loss of appetite, etc., are indications of their depressing effects upon the vital organs. It is from germs of slower development, however, that the greatest danger follows. To the one most fully described by Kooh is due more deaths than to any other known cause. According to the researches of Cut- tkb, Flint and Dkjeuine, over eight million people die every year from this cause alone. The annual deaths in France, England, Germany and Russia from their destruction was over one and a half millions. In the United States and Canada over three hun dred thousand persons perished in the last year from _ the bacillus alone. The most common disease resulting from it is con sumption of the lungs, but other organs of the body are liable to be affected as they de velop slowly but surely in any organ that may be in a weak or unhealthy state. If active and healthy, the liver, kidneys and bowels have to a wonderful extent the power of expelling these deadly animalcule or parasites from the system. And this fact furnishes an important indication for the successful treatment of all the long hat of maladies caused by these parasites us will be hereinafter shown. The studies of Danoisoa, an eminent Italian, and Wood, Fobmad and others, are interest ing, as showing the large variety of chronic diseases as heretofore classified, that result from these germs. Among the most common were “liver complaint,” biliousness or torpid liver, dyspepsia or indigestion, lung affec tions. bronchitis, kidney diseases, chronic diarrhea, spinal complaint, fever-sores, white swellings, hip-joint disease, rheuma tism, malarial diseases, such as fever and ague or intermittent fever, general and nervous debilities, female weaknesses, chronic catarrh of the head or ozaena, many forms of un healthy dischargee from internal organs, and all the varions scrofulous affections of the akin, glands, bones, joints, etc., including consumption, which is but scrofulous dis ease of the lungs. In this large catalogue of apparently wide ly differing diseases, but really all deluding upon a common cause, and therefore natu rally to be successfully treated on the same general principles examination of the blood and secretions revealed large numbers ot these parasites, and curiously enough the number bore a direct relation to the severity of the disease, a compar atively sms 11 number being pres ent in mild oases and a very large proportion in bad oases. Under the use of the specific treatment which they give, and which is substantially the name as that described and recommended later in this re view, the nu mber was seen to steadily dimin ish from day to day until, with the restora tion of health and bodily strength, they could not be found at all. The greatest variety of symptoms were found to accompany their presence, due to peculiarities of the constitution, the pert of the body most seriously affected, and the ef forts of the different organs to rid the system of these germs. Among the most common were frequent headaches, neuralgic pains, nausea, constipation, poor or variable appe tites, diarrhea, bad breath, 'hectic fever, cough, night-sweats, cold extremities, dyspepsia, ca arrh, sore throat, sore eyes, etc., while where the akin was affected, salt-rhcum. boils, carbun cles, scurf skin, erysipelas, St. Anthony’s fire and other symptoms were common, and all gradually but with certainty were cured by the same means. I he hectic fever so often met with in consumption, with the hm»n.ig or tearing cough, night sweats, diarrhea, and other syamtons due to the efforts of na ture to tnrow on ana expel tneee germs wen also readily controlled and cured in the same way as were the old sores, abscesses and ulcers in the lungs, liver and other im portant organs. The corrosive adds and mineral poisons are found to possess the power of miing these germs, but the dangerous nature or such powerful agents prevent their internal use. For the purpose of expelling the germs when once within the system it is necessary to resort to vegetable remedies in order to eleanse the blood of the germs without in jury to the patient An American physician of large experi ence in the treatment of all forms of diseases, now oondusively shown to be caused by parasitic life, for many years de voted much time to the investigation of the causes of these affections, and in the treat ment of many thousands of oases developed and thorongbly tested a combination of veg etable agents which he used with marvelous success m their cure. In cases of wasting disease, as consump tion or scrofula of the lungs and other or gans, and in all cases attended with great weakness, it was found to exert the most wonderful tonio and restorative influences, beside its nutritive properties far surpass those of cod liver oil or any of the remedial agents resorted to by the medical profession in such cases. Hypophosphites, iron and quinine bear no comparison to it in build ing np the strength of the debilitated. The recipe, as advised by him, has been used for years with the greatest success in a vast and most successful practice. The written experience of the many suffer ers who have been cured and who express in terms of the highest praise their indorse ment of its great value, are sufficient to fill volumes. Laving witnesses are everywhere, monuments to modern genius and scientific progress in the healing art Sufferers from “liver complaint,” giving rise to “bad blood,” consumption, scrofula, and other affections and symptoms, the re sults of blood poisoning from the ravages of the deadly parasites or disease germs so briefly referred to, find in this remedy prompt relief and a permanent cure The great ana increasing demand for thii God-given and peerless remedy for so many apparently different, bat really kindred, ail ments, led to its preparation in pure and convenient form under the name of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It can he obtained th“ vrerid over at drug and gen eral stores, and full directions for its use will be found in the pamphlet that surrounds each bottle. a It exerts the most won derful stimulating ^ and invigor ating influence on the liver, that reatest gland of the human system, which as been not inaptly termed the “house keeper of our health.” Through the in creased action of the li ver and other emono- tory organs of the system, all poisonous germs are rendered inactive and gradually expelled from the system with other impuri ties. In some cases, where there are un healthy discharges, as from the nostrils in cases of either acute or chronic catarrh, the use of Dr. Bage’s Catarrh Remedy, a mild and healing antiseptic lotion, should be associated with the use of the Discovery. It is also advisable to use this lotion in other local manifestations of disease of mucous surfaces. By thismieans the germs of disease are destroyed and the membranes cleansed before any of the poisonous bacilli are absorbed into the blood. In sore throat, quinsy or diphtheria, the Catarrh Remedy hqnid should be used as a gargle, and the Golden Medical Dis covery taken freely. In women where weakness of speoial or gans is common and almost certain to be developed, attended by backache, bearing- down sensations and other local symptoms, the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion in conjunction with that of the Dis covery, speedily restores the healthy func tions and assists in building np and invig orating the system. In any case where the bowels have been costive and are not regulated and acted upon sufficiently by the mild laxative propert-es possessed by the Golden Medical Discover/, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets (little liver pills), taken in small doses of only one or two each day, will aid materially in estab lishing healthy action, and in expelling the disease-producing germs from the blood and system. At the risk of repetition and by way of re capitulation. we may truthfully say that Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors, from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipelas, salt-rheum, fever sores, scaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, puri fying and invigorating medicine. Great eat ing ulcers rapidly heaTunder its benign influ ences. Especially has it manifested its po tency in curing tetter, rose rasffilimls, car buncles, sore eyes, scrofulous sores anfl swell ings, white swellings, goiter or thick neck and enlarged glands. “The blood is the life.” Thoroughly olease this fountain of health by using Gold en Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and sound ness of constitution are estab lished. Consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs induced by the deadly disease germ bacillus, is promptly and positively ar rested and cured by this sovereign remedy, if taken before the last stages of the disease n re reached. From its wonderful power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public, Dk. Piebce thought favorably of calling it his “ consumption cure.” but abandoned that name ns too restrictive for a medicine that from its wonderful combination of germ- destroying, as well as tonic or strengthening, alterative or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properties is unequaled, not only as a remedy for con sumption of the lungs, but for all chronic diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. If yon feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have sallow color of skin, or yellowish brown spots on face or body, frequent headache or dizziness, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or chills, alternated with hot flashes, low spirits and gloomy forebodings, irregular apiietiteaiid tongue,coated, you are suffering from indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liver or “ biliousness.” In many cases only part of these symptoms are experienced. As a remedy for all such cases, Dr. Fierce’s Gold en Medical Discovery has no equal, as it ef. fects perfect and radical cures. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, short breath, consumptive night sweats and kin dred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. In the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and consumption, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce it the greatest medical discovery of the age. The nutritive properties possessed by cod liver oil are trifling when compared with those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It rapidly builds up the system and increases the flesh and weight of those reduced below the usual standard of health by wasting diseases. The plan of treatment that we have so briefly outlined in this article for the large class of chronic diseases referred to, has long been acknowledged to be the most success ful, based as it is upon the belief shared by the moet skillful medical men of the day, that the only way to got rid of the nox ious disease-producing germs in the blood and system is through the liver, kidneys and bowels, and therefore that those agents which are known to act most efficiently in re storing healthy action of these organs are the ones most to be relied uixm. For this pur- l*o*o the Golden Medical Discovery is p; c- eminently the agent that fulfills every indioa- tion of treatment required. Private so were should never be made with brick, for not only is there always certain danger of leakage both of flqid and gaseous contents, but they can be eaten into or through by rats who thns not only carry the sewer soil into the houses, but their runs form convenient exits for sewei gas. Instead of oil, which thickens and makes whetstones dirty, a mixture of glycerine and alcohol is used by many. The proportions of the mixture vary ac cording to the instrument operated upon. An article with a large surface, a razor, for instance, sharpens best with a lim pid liquid, as three parts of glycerine to one of alcohol. To fix pencil marks so they will not rub out, take well skimmed milk and dilate with equal bulk of water. Wash the pencil marks (whether writing or drawing) with this liquid, using a soft flat camel hair brush, and avoiding all rubbmg. Place upon a flat board to dry. _____ The greatest natural cold eytr experi enced a as 74° below zero. AGRICULTURE. Have a Plan in Faknino.—The great fault with American farmers is a con stant desire for a change. The farm is rarely thought of as the home \. hich the children are to occupy daring a life-time and then leave to J^eir heirs. There is too much ohamrieg with the crops—first one thing and &en another, the result of which is a shifting whioh is profitless. For a few years it may be that sheep raising is the leading feature of the farm soon to be followed by rearing a breed of cattle, or cultivating hops, tobacco, er even rhubarb. Tne general manage ment of a farm should be planned once for all, it only being subject to those changes that an improvement in agri cultural methods suggest. The work of a farm should go on regularly year after year, so that even in mid-winter the farmer may make his arrangements, and complete his scheme of work, for the whole season. The man who is trying to sell his farm, has his heart in some other locality or business, and he wUo is ready to devote his energies to some new crop or method, is seldom on the highway to snooess. It is well to try that which is new, bat not by giving up the old and well-tried methods. The horse’s hoof necessarily sees the hardest service of any portion of his structure, and is the only part that mn be mutilated by cutting and burning, as is the common practice by men calling themselves shoers, by nails made too large and driven too deep. Every horse owner of experience will, whan he has occasion for the first time to have a colt shod, select a snuth who will do as the owner directs, and not follow the prac tice generally in vogue in times past and still too commonly practiced. It is probable iliac outside of tne farm more horses are detective in the feet than in any other part. This comes from the combined influences of hard usage and mutilation in shoeing. Large ly from the latter, becanse a hoof prop erly trimmed and shod will stand an extraordinary amount of contact, how ever rough, with every sort of pavement in use, Some of the Western jonrnals give an account of the extensive and well man aged strawberry plantations of Parker Earle, of Cobden, Hi., who is widely known as one of our most skilful fruit cultivators. He has 20 acres of the Orescent, and several acres each of Downing, Captain Jack, Bharpless and other sorts. The Crescent succeeds ad mirably in wet seasons. His entire 80 acres are liberally treated with manures. Before being sent to market, the fruit is thoroughly cooled in cooling houses, and it is then shipped in refrigerator care, by which soft berries are carried with safety. Beside the wide strawber ry plantations, there are 30 acres of the Turner raspberry, and 16 acres of black berries, Mr. Earle has also 80 acres of pears oa another farm, ot which fifty acres are in bearing, and one half are Bartletts,but many have died of blight. If Indian corn has a value of 64 as compared with 10d, the stanpard of hay as a ration for stock, then potatoes would rank at 246; that is, it would take 195 pounds of potatoes to fatten as far as 64 poands of com, or nearly 4 times as much. Beets are rated at 336 pounds in the scale; thus, theoretically,it would take five times as many pounds as of Indian corn; bat fattening id not in question, but health. It is found in practice with farm animals that the ra tion of succulent vegetable food largely increase the digestibility of grain; and this is especially true with swine, to which roots are a natural food. For 40 years I have been employed by my neighbors wbo have had cows with stoppages in their teats to lance the obstructions, and have been success ful in curing many bad cases. 1 was at first troubled to hit upon a plan of con fining a cow so as to be in no danger myself and at the same time not hurt her, but at last succeeded, I used a strap three-quarters of on inch wide, six feet long with two loops and a buckle; one loop quite large. Now I loop tnis onto the right leg above the gambrel, pass the strap around the other leg, then cross it back and forth a few times and buckle snugly and ’tis done. Bach a strap is very valuable in breaking hei fers to milk. The lands of Western Kansas; here tofore regaided as worthless for larm purposes, are to be irrigated and made productive. Water is to be retained iu reservoirs from the spring floods on the Arkansas River, and conveyed to ditch es as needed. The experiment has suc ceeded on a small scale, and 3 companies have been organiz ,d with large capital to begin the work of irrigation. It is believed that after a few years evapora tion from the side ditches will increase the rainfall. This has been the usual result of attempts at irrigation iu other seetions. ’•Draco” says: "When farmers learn from experience that by bousing their manure and thoroughly working it over mixing with absorbents suou as muck, earth, road dust, leaves, etc.,to take up the liquid and the ammonia set free, its value is double what it now is, and,too, at an expense much less than the same amount of plant food could be obtained in an artificial fertilizer, a new era will have been reached in agriculture, aud we shall see the fertility of our lams brought back to where they were hlty years ago.” Did any one ot oar readers ever think how many steps a farmer takes in a year? Take tiie simple planting of a field of corn. Take a five acre field. To break it up would require walking some forty miles: harrowing it, ten miles:fur rowing it, 20 miles, planting, 11 miles if with a planter, and if dropped by hand and then covered, 20 miles. Thus it will be seen that it takes about 100 miles of travel to pat in a five acre field of corn, to say nothing of cultivating and harvesting, rnd the goiug to and from the field while planting. The hog, l;ke the horse, has no extra stomach to store away food, therefore If fed but twice a day and what he will eat, he overloads hu stomach, and if the food is not poshed beyond the point where it will digest, the stomach is so full that a considerable portion of the food fails to come m contact with the lining of the stomach, and thus a very large proportion of the nutriment in the food is lost Experiments prove that a hog thns fed wastes more than one-half of the meal given him. We have no doubt the same ii true of the horse, when fed large quantities of hay aud grain, and fed but twice a day. DOMESTIC. Almond Mtt.h.—Poor a quart of boil ing water upon a quarter of a pound of shelled almonds, and when the skins soften, mb them off the karales with a dean towel; pound the almonds thus blanched, in a mortar, patting in three or four at s time and adding four or five drops of milk, as the almonds are being pounded, to prevent oiling; about a tablespoonful of milk will be required for the quarter of a pound of almonds; when the almonds are finely powdered, mix them with a pint of milk, two ta- blespoonfnls of sugar, a level teaspoon- fu\ ui salt ana the yellow rind of a lem on, and place the milk over the fire to boil; meantime beat three eggs smooth ly, and strain the almond milk into them, stirring the mixture as the milk is strained in; return it to tne saucepan, and place it, in anothi r pan of hot wa ter, over the fire stirain it constantly until it begins to thicken; then remove it at once from the fire, strain it and use it. This is an exceedingly nutritions beverage, useful in most conditions of illness. The latest flat-houses in the Oity are finished in hard wood—mahogany, oak, and cherry being favorite combinations —and have exceptionally handsome gas fittings. It is the fashion now to have the latter of very light workmanship, and to ornament them with crystals-and jewels of colored glass. The central portions, from which the branches radiate, is often beautifully enamelled or painted and adds greatly to the ap pearance of the chandelier. Even on stairways the branch brackets are of the some light style, the shades being particularly handsome in engraved de signs. A vbbt comfortable lounge for a morning room or boudoir is in rattan. The seat is exceptionally wide and the upper end rolls over and forms an ad mirable support for the head or tor the reception of cushions. Footstools to match are decorated in bright ribbons. Very effective tidies are made in strips in haherman’s twine, crocheted in open link and joined together at regular in tervals, They are made very effective by the insertion of gay satin ribbons of every color, finished off at the ends with little bows. Effective hangings for small win dows can be made oat of fashion drap • ery of dark color by placing deep stripes of lighter color in felt or cloth across' the top and bottom within six inches of the edges. When the stripes are in position they can be sewed on in fancy stitches in colored crewels or silks, the stitches reaching some distance over the edge of the stripe on to the body of the materi: 1, and so forming a sort of bordering, which can be made very effective. A handsome cover for a grand piano is in plush, velvet, and silk; the centre being of dark plush, has a deep border ing of olive velvet, triangular pieces of rioh-ooiored silks being placed at inter vals where the bordering is sewed on. Upon each separate triangle a design is worked in raised embroidery, while in the centre a handsome pattern is carved out iu very elaborate nbbon-work. A fashionable quilt is made of silk patch-work m every variety of color. Pieces of embossed, shaded, end gross graiivailk of every possible shape aft joined together with gold silk in elab^ rate feather stitch, and form a square, which is edged with a very deep bor dering of dark plash and lined through out with quilted crimson sarin. s A very handseme tire- scr^n is on exhibition in which a landscape design is worked in long stitch in filoselles up on a square of shaded crimson silk, the shades graduating in scch a way as to represent the appearance of light and shade through the foliage. It is lined with embossed leather and mounted in a handsome frame work of carved ebony. The latest novelty in baby carriages is in the shape of l canoe, and is of close wicker-work, Raised upon double springs above high wheels, it is lined with tufted velvet or plash, the seat and cushions being of the same material, the latter edged with a cord and laee and finished at the corners with hand some tassels. A novelty in photograph frames is in the shape of a Gothic gateway, brick work and ornaments being alike carved in hard wood, oak, mahogany, or wal nut. The effect is singularly good, and they are specially adapted for large- sized portraits to stand on a shelf or mantel. Fashionable pertieres are now of striped material iu graunated shades, a bar of silver or gold thread dividing the stripes. They are out exactly the right length and reach the floor and fall in straight heavy folds, no attempt being made to drape them. A hanging cabinet is covered with stamped terra-cotta plush, and has eight irregular shelves, each one deco rated with a handsome railing In fine open brass-work, and containing com partments large enough to hold a mod erately-sized piece of brio-a-brao. Colo bed table-cloths for the dining room are of jute plush, but are no lon ger plain in the centre. In addition to a hanosome printed border in Moorish or Arabesque design, they now have an effective circular design in the centre. • A novelty in screens is seen in the introduction of panels of matting. This material takes oil color well and forms an admirable neutral backgrounds for floral d&eign*, landscapes, or allegorical representations. Frames for this ma terial are usually of dark woods, mahog any, red wood, or ebonized cherry. Herb is a recipe for steamed brown bread; One qnart of Indian meal, one pint of rye flour; stir these together and add one quart of sweet milk, one cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda; add z little salt, and steam for four hours. Very pretty shapes in Dresden and old china ware are now used for grow ing bulbs for table deooration filled with mold. The surface is covered with fresh green moss, and the effect, as the plants put forth their shoots, is very happy. Lamp shades are made in tinted glass, semi-opaque, and painted in floral de signs in vivid colors. Yellow, pink, and blue are the fashionable tints, which form admirable backgrounds for roses, lilies aud violets. A very handsome suit of parlor fur niture la in peaoook-blue plush, deep stripes running across the' backs and along the seats in a handsome design embossed upon the same material and in-the same odor. HUMOROUS. “Do you mix anything with your candies?” he asked,as he lend his money down and picked up the package of gum drops. "Well—ahem—a little glucose, perhaps.” "Anything else?” ".Perhaps a little clay.” "Any chalk ?” "Only a vary little—not enough to speak of.” "It is of no intereat to me, you know,” continued the stranger, "but I was wondering why you didn’t have your candies made at a regular brick-yard, of the regular material, and have something yon could warrant to your customers.” k B«*mmrU»b*e Care of * crolala. William R Baker, of Lem*. Ve.ro county. Ind.. writeeaafollows: "My win was taken with acrofuli in the hip when only two years old He tried eev eral pyaidans hut the boy trot no rell f from theij treatment Noticing your Soovlll's Sanaparllla and Stillingia, or Blood and liver Syrup, recommended «o highly, I bought somo -of tt vtUxau ip the 1863, and contlnuod taking it till the eorea^naU> he-iled up. He ia now twenty-one yean of age, aud betrj< satisfied that your medicine did him so much goodwhenheuaedft wewjuttotrv it again in an other oaae, and now write to you to get some more of it" Baker’s Pain Panacea onrei pain In Man and Beast Dae Externally and Internally. Scene in court: "Now, Mrs. Blank, yon say that on that day at noon you 'taw a woman ride past your house at a furious pace, and yon have given ns a detailed description of her costume. Please tell us what was the color of the horse.” "I do not remember.” "Well, was the woman white or black?” "I did not notice; she went so fast that I only had time to see how she was dressed.” Que-rious that the Chirese men should have such long hair. Ladies if you would have your hair as long ns the Chinese and as beautiful as a Eouri’vosc Corbeliue, the deodorized petroleum hair renewer and dresser. _ A New Yobk lady while visiting in the West had some experience with a cyclone. While asleep at a friend’s the boose was blown over and the lady pinned to the earth by a heavy rafter. It was supposed that sue was crashed, but when they dug her out, she opened her eyes and sleepily murmured, "Jane, I feel a little uncomfortable; unfasten my corsets.” Pure cod liver oil. from selected liven, sn the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard A Oa, N Y. Absolutely pure and sweet Pa tients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough •km cured by using Juniper Boap, made by Uaswell. Hazard A Co.. New York. A mournful affair: Converaation over heard in the horse-car the other day; Edith—"Are my shoes crocheted?” Mother—"Certainly not, my dear.” Edith—"They are black, ain't they?” Mother—"les, that is nndonbtedly true.” Edith (triumphantly)—“Well, then, isn’t that coow shade?” Silence on the part of the stern relative. V ROKTiN k is now prescribed In cases of Scrofuia, aud other diseases of the blood, by many of the best physicians, owing to its great success in coring all diseases of this nature. When you see a prominent citizen, a bright and shining light in society and an energetic man in business, and all that sort of thing, pause in the side walk and gaze about him with a glassy look in lus eye, yon needn’t think of apoplexy and paralysis. He is simply trying to remember an errand his wife told him to do. “ Bnchu-Pai ba.” The quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder aud Urinary Disease*. $1. Druggists. Now is the time when the country editor acknowledges the receipt of a "beautiful almanac'* from an esteemed rural contemporary, and says its typo graphic exfoutioa reflects great credit on the office, but neglects to add that the whole business was purchased ready made in New York. On Thirty Day*' Trial. The Vol’aic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Electro- Voltaic Belts and E ectric Appliances on trial tor thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaran teeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor.—Address as atiove.—N. B.—No risk is incurred, as thirty days’ trial is allowed. He was a lisping drummer and had a pretty good opinion of himself. He said to his partner at a dance in a town not far from Boston: "I wanth you'th to undent an that I me no ordinary wunner. I belong to the firm of Jones & Thun. My father is Jones and I me thee Thun.” Malaria, chills, positively cured by Emory’s Bland ird Cure Pills. Their equal unknown; sugar coated; no griping, 25c. A woman in Akren, O., bothered the central telephone office for an hour and a half trying to get her husband’s ear, to tell him an important piece of news. When she was pat in communication with him, all she had to say was: "Ba by’s got a tooth through.” Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer is tne marvel or the age for all nerve diseases. All Dts stopped free. Bend to 981 ArcU street, Philadelphia, Pa. In a Cincinnati court room the other day a witness swore that he never saw lus mother-in-law and did not know her name. It made the jury so wild with envy that they forgot all about the case and oould not agree on a verdict. Ladies and children’s boots and shoes cannot ran over if Lyon’s Patent Heel -Riffenerg are used. A MAN who can sit still on the street oar and let a lady look at his feet for two minutes is either a loafer who doesn’t care, or a statesman with his mind on the doings of Congress. “Best Cough Balsam in the World.-’ Try it. Price 10c. F. W. Kinsman A Ca, Augusta, Maine. An In tiana woman gave a patient $40 worth of professional nursing, but pre sented him with a receipted bill on Ins promising to marry her. Now that he has broken tue engagement, she sues for the pay and $2,500 besides. Mother Swan's Worm Syrup. Inlal Ible, tasteless, bsrtuleas, cathartic; for fe- vertshnesa, resUesanesa, worms, constipation. 35c. "Grandpa, does hens make their own eggs ?’" "Yes, indeed they do, Johnnie,” "An’ do the^ always put the yolk in the middle?” ’•Guess they do, Johnnie.” "Ah’ do they put the starch around it to keep the yellow from rubbing off?” '•Quite likely, my little boy.” "An* who aews the oover ou ?” This stomped the old gentleman, and he barricaded Johnnie's mouth with a Idlipop. An Iowa Judge refused a woman a divorce which she wanted because her husband kissed her pretty servant, He said she ought to be thankful that her husband bad found a way to keep a servant-girl. Never intermp any conversation wU*» a hacking Cough ; it creates a had im pression." 3 Better invest a quarter oi a dollar in a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Byrup and cure it. A Missouri maiden’s mistake; One of the sweetest-looking girls in the State of Missouri dislocated her shonlder the other day by kicking a cat. Handsome is as handsome does, but she should not kick with her right arm. Jennie June declares that there are no scientific dressmakers in this coun try, The tionble is, the fashionable dressmaker lavishes all fler scientific making out the bill. Tnere’s where all the scienbe goes. “Rough ou Rata." Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Druggists "Ah,” said a fond me iher, "I should be glad if my boy were to marry—then I oonld train his wif"!” It seems to oome natural to a woman to be a moth er-in-law. New Yobk papers are busy assailing each other for using bad grammer. This looks like a move in self defence to distract the attention of the pnblio from their other outs. Vegetine JUST WHAT I NEEDED. Baltimore, Md., May 4,1879. IfR. Stsvkns : Dear Sir: I have, In the spring of the year, a faint, sinking feeling In the stomach, ami this spring have been so weak that I felt the need of something. A friend who had used VEGETINE advised me to take some. I did so, and It proved to be just what I needed, it builds the whole system up, aud makes one feel like a new person. Yours respectfully, Mrs. ELIZABETH PORTER, 126 Chestnut Street Bheumatism, Indigestion. • Baltimore, Md., April 29,1879. Dear Sir: I have been suffering from Rheuma tism aud Indigestion for over two years, and since I nave commenced taking your VEGETINE I have received great benellt 1 have taken but two l>ot- tles, aud I think with the aid of a few more I will be restored to my hi altli again I can recommend the VEGETINE for a dial ,t has done for me. Kespectlullv yours. Airs. E. J. LEWIS, 112 N. High St. Loss of Appetite, Yaasitude and General Debility. Boston, Mass., May U, 1879. Mr. Joskph R. Gross : Dear Sir: Your cordial recommendation of VEGETINE as a Spring Medicine and Blood Puri fier Induced me to give It a thorough trial, and 1 candidly admit that In my experience It Is all yon have claimed for it daughter has alwavs been aflllcted with Scrofula humor in a very'severe form, and particularly In spring was badly troubled witb Loss of Appetite, Lassitude and General De bility. The VEGETINE nad the desired effect and we are never without it. Its success was so ap parent in this case that many of my friends and relatives have also tried It, with general satisfac tion. Any further Information will be cheerfully given by Yours truly, GEO. R. WILLIAMS, Health Department City Hah Vegetine* IS THE BIST SPRING MEDICINE. Yegetine is Sold by All Druggists. DIBULL’S SYRUP CANCER IN8TITUT! Prof. .lectures, luvi ^ BClentiho treatments am. «Immense practice, stand* pre-eminently tmrivaled, and is acknowledged authority on Cancer and ^Eit* kindred. The moet ex- K-g Inordinary cores by his S- great Chimical Cancer SfAntidotre are recorded. 4 JVo knife. cantHa, lose of ” — % blood <rr fffirfnl treatmcnti S31 required in removing the 2P* Urgent of Cancers or W * Tumors. For particular*, P g. send for free treati*e or call on DR. KLINE, KU Arch St.Philadelphla^a. mm ANAKESIS Dr. S. Silsbee's External Fils Remedy Give* Instant relief and 1* an Iffallible * CURE FOR ALL KINDS OF PILES. <* w ONX.Y S2 ’ for a PHILADELPHIA 81 i of tbi« etyio. Equal t MSinger le tbo mark L * tncinlii-r, tee scud U cxnuUir /I before ym for it, Thiii* the mm other compenio* retail foi All Mochince w rranta ye»r*. Send Sir liltutmt i cularai dTeetimonialaA k COARLFS A. W90D A HJOeotMUbWeii as TTt’ftC’ USE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. T'aateegood. U«e hi lime. Sold bydrugjrfeta. COrsJSUMPTIOM ERCC I RETURN MAIL—A full ueecriutiwa o ritCC I Moody’s N*w Tailor Syitem of Dan Cuttino. P. W. M tody A Co, 3| W. 9th, Cincinnati, O <72 SIR Da. “ J. ttrivH hi IU eflceey, that! will aenil TWO BOTTLKS F gjSvwtth» VALUAni.B_TKKATIRKon l™, MtUeror. uiveK VM.X. I Ka .n*«a hi.4 p. o. a,|,ire,; u1 ' A.UOOUM. Yital Questions! t Ask the inoci eminent physloian Of any school, what is the b» st thln( he world for quieting and allaying all i iation of the nerw-is and curing all fo of nervous complaints, giving natu childlike retreshragV-wp always? And they will tell you unhealtdingl "Borne form of Hops l” OHAPTKB 1. Ask any or all of the most eminent p sicians: "What is the best and only remedy 1 can be relied on to cure all diseases of kidneys and urinary organs; such as Bri; dwase, diabetes, retention or inability re* nn urine, and all the diseases and menu peculiar to Women”— "And they will tell you explicitly \ emphatically ‘•Buchu.” Ask the same physicians "What is the most itiiable and cure for all liver dreases or dyspe^ stipation, indigestion, bilioi^pi fever, ague, & etc. J^-aadlhey wi - Mandrake-l -of Dandelion 1 ” 1 Hence, when these remedies are c blned with others equally valuable And compounded into H ip Bitters, s a wonderful and mysterious curative p< er is developed which is si varied in operations that no disease or ill health possibly exist or resist its power, and yet Harmless for the most frail worn weakest invalid or smallest child to use CHAPTBB II. “Patients “Almost dea 1 or nearly Uymg” For years, and given up by physic! ot Bnght's andother kidne y diseases, It complaints, severe coughs called consuu lion, have been cured. Women gone nearlv crazv 1 From agony ol near drill, nervousness, wake ness and various diseases p c d ur to women. People drawn out of shape from excruciat pans of Khemua s.u. Inflammatory and chronic, or suffering ft acrofuLI Erysipelas I bait rheum, blood poDonimr, dyspepsia, ludlf tion, and in lac' almost ail diseases Iran Nature Is he.r to Have !>een cured by Hop Bit ers, proof of wh ran be found In every ucishuoraoou m the knu world. Is anfalllug and In liable iu curing t eplic Fits, Spas Convulsion*, 8t. V Dance, Alcohol li Opium Eating, 1 you* debility Aero! and all Nervous < Blood '• Clergymen, Lawy Literary men, 1 chants, Banker*, die* and all wboae dentary ampio/m cause* Nervous Pi tration, Irregular) of tbe blood, stoma bowel* or klndeyi wbo require a ne tonic, appetiser Rtlmulaut, Bam art Nervine is htvalua Thousands proclali the meet wonderful IMITATION STAINED GLASS. Indeecribably beautiful Karaly applied to wind glaae LaSurefen-nre*, samriee, etc.. 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