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FARM, GARDEN A>'I) HOUSEHOLD Smsiiniiblo Illntn about Work. The increase in the machinery use( upon farms makes it desirable to have i properly furnished workshop. It wil not piiy to run to the carpenter or th< blacksmith when a little repair is need <\1. Tlie time lost is too valuable, anc the yearly bill for repairs is a seriou; item. One of the useful results of ma chinery is to increase the value of J man's timo, and this should bo pro vided for. Plonninrr nr> 1*<3 nrt imriOrtant 10b, BUC can be done during rainy days. Clear out tho potato bins, select seed pota tncs, thoroughly clean and whitewash tho cellar, put the dairy into good con dition, sweep the graDary; every cob web and hidden place for weevils and grain moths to deposit their eggs in phonld be explored and filled with white wash; tho feed roomsaud mixing troughs nhould bo swept or scraped, the yards scraped, and the rubbish burned; the plows painted, and the shares and mold boards polished; the harrow teeth sharp ened, *and everything that can be done now should bo attended to. A little for. thought is worth a great deal of afterthought. Manuro may bo hauled on to fall ..i 1 ?intnn/icri fnrsnrincr crops. VV? ^ V'UUH VV UV4VW -> w ^ . upon the lato snows or on the frozen trronud in the early part of the day. That intended for corn should he care fully turned, and well mixed, to equalize its valuo. Mix the droppings from the poultry roost evenly in the heap. A few bushels of wood ashes thrown in will not hurt the manure if the whole is well mixed together, and they will help to decompose it, bnt this should be cau tiously done. Coarse, fresh manure for fall crops may be hauled or.t, and made into a compost near where it Will be used. Turn the wash from the public roads into the fields where it can be made to spread over and fertilize as much sur race as possible. fence posts may be made firm by tamoine with a rammer; a flat stone rammed down against a loose post ^ill be useful, aud as "many stones as possi ble should be thus driven around the posts. Stakes should be driven down firmly while the ground is soft, after the frost has disappeared. No plow should be put into the ground until the soil is dry. When a spadeful of earth thrown down crum bles into a loose mellow heap, the plows may be started, but not while the spade comes out of the ground smeared and soiled. A few days delay is better than being a day too soon. The first in the field is often the last at harvest. In the Southern and Middle Sta.es whore grass or clover have started growth, guano or plaster may be ap plied now; the best time is when the fields have a green and fresh appear ance, showing that vegetation is already active and ready to beassisted; one hun dred pounds of each, or both together, may be sown over an acre. Plant early potatoes as soon as the ground is dry and warm. A few early froats will do no harm if the young shoots are kept covered by the hoe or the plow when a frost is feared. The earlier the crop, the higher the prices. A difference of a week may make a dif ference of $1 a bushel. It is now that vermin give most trou ble. Whenever "cow licks" are seen upon cattle lice may be found. A good remedy consists of an ointment made of a pound each of lard and crude petro leum mixed together with a quarter of a pound of flowers of sulphur. This nibbed along the spine and the inside of a? rtolrmo oncl nofflo tttJII cnnn fron them from lice. It 'will also free hogs and poultry from fleas, and is not injuri ous in uny way. Bare irritable spots upon the tails or necks of horses may be also treated with this.?American Agriculturist. Ilonteholil liluts nud Helps. Homemade Yeast. ?Three tablespoon fuls of hops, two teacupfuls of yeast, ten potatoes peeled and boiled in a large pipkin of water. The hops to be con fiued in a thin muslin bag, securely tied. A coffeecupful of white sugar, two eaucerfuls of flour, a proportion of salt. Put in a largo tin pan to rise for two or three days; then transfer to a covered stone jar, in a cellar, refrigerator, or any cold piace. To Cleanse Refrigerators.?Scald with hot stid3; rinse with vinegar and w.iter first, and after with soda in clear cold water, and wipe dry. Blanc Mange.?There are various ways and materials for making blanc mange. The simplest, and als? excel lent and never failing, is a package of gektiue. Dissolve the gelatine in one pint of sweet cold milk about twenty minutes; boil two pints (in cold weather rather more) of milk, flavoring and sweeteniug it, add the gelatine and extra pint, and barely let it come to a boil all together; vanilla or bitter almond flavor ing. Lemon Pib.?Grate the rind and squeeze the juice of one lemon, two eggs, one tablespoonful of corn starch in one cup of boiling water; dissolve the corn starch in cold water; one cup white sugar, one teaspoonful of butter dissolv ed in the corn starch; a meringue frost ing on top. Corn Meal Muffins.?Two cups of eorn meal (yellow meal is best), one of graham or white flour, one-half cup of sugar, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, all rubbed through a sieve. Then with tho hands rub in one-half cup of butter, or lard well beaten, a little salt, one egg beaten light. Then stir in with a spoon one and a half cups of either milk or wa ter, in which is dissolved one teaspoon fnl of soda. Bake in muffin rings. These are nice without the egg, and can bo made with sour milk and soda, omit ting the cream tartar. Tomato Toast.?Prepare the toma toos as for sauce, and wjile they are cooking toast some slices of bread very brown, but not burned; butt8r them both sides and pour the tomato sauce over them. Mildewed Linen*.?To restore mil dewed linen aoap tho spots, and whilt wet cover them with fine chalk, scrapec to a powder, and well rubbed in. The Unemployed. Tho Boston Commercial Bulletir prints the lonowinc: ia:?te snowing tn< number of men employed in the prin cipal trades in that city in the years 187( and 187G as compared with 1872: 1875. , 1878. Lumbermen.... Two-fifths One-fifth Carpenters, etc.Three-fourths Three*fourth! Brick Masons...One-third One-fourth Stone Cutters. .One-half One-half .Marble Cutters.Two-thirds One-third Parlor Organs.. Same Same Pi?no-fortes. ...One-half Three-fourthi BUliard Tables..One-half One-half Locomotivoa. ...One-tenth One-tenth Steam Pumps. .Same Four-fifths j.eckemiths ... Two-thirds Two-thirds Gas Fixtures... '"> e-lialf One-half Stoves etc vFi /e-aixths Two-thirds Blacksmiths (Same Same Home i'aiutora. fcauio aame Butchers Two-thirds Two-thirds Hattera Same Same Jewelers 0 'e-half One-third Expresses S.imo S.mo Dry GimxIs Three fourths Throe-foarthi Clothing One-th rd One-third Printer* Three-fourths Three-fourthi Carriages 180 to 200 180 to 200 Furniture S<une Same Roofeis Same Same J3oots and Shoes. Same Same Watchea S<me Same All Were to Pay. The St. Louis Republican learnf from gentlemen from Fort Sill tbafc the developments at Washington created no ^urpriso out there. Everybody at the post has for a long time been cognizant of the fact that the traders havo been re quired to send henvy monthly contribu tions East, rnd they were urged in or der to enforce monthly collections from *th9ir patrons the necessity for making these remittances, explaining that they were required to pay for the privileges they enjoyed. Lee and Reynolds, post traders at C.imp Supply, make no secret of the fact that they hold their franchise us a thing purchased, and at large fig ures. SOME SXOTV BUCKING. Running Trains Through Forty Feet of Snow?Engine* Burled In Avalanches. * The distance from Wells to Toano is , not great. It is only thirty-seven milos. " The old man," as the boys call him? ? that is, Division Superintendent Cod j dington?had ordered a freight train to move up to the latter station, -with four 3 locomotives to draw it. Nate Webb, the champion snow bucker of the Sierras, 1 had just came up from Truckee, with j\o. 8 enow piow to clear tlie track of the snow that had so long obstructed ' the traDS-continental route, but had ar rived only when the work was done, and had been ordered up to Toano on this train to see what was the matter with the plows that had proved themselves so efficient on this division. A reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle was also a passenger in the caboose attached to the train, and gives the following ac count of an interview with Webb : Six miles out from Weils the conduc tor pointed out the drift and cut in which No. 2 passenger train stuck for twenty-four hours a couple of weeks ago. Nate looked at it a moment criti cSly, and then with a disdainful expres sion remarked : " Do you fellows call that a drift up this way ? Why, men, that wouldn't 8top a handcart in the Sierras. Our boys would laugh at such a pile of snow as that. When we have -nothing be yond six or eight feet of snow down in the mountains, we think nothing of it. That is a drift ? Why I can show you fifteen feet of snow on a level now down ?? I our way. "Wnafc do you call a good fall of sdow there ?" asked the reporter. "Well," replied Nate, "I suppose there is now fifteen feet of snow from Truckee over Emigrant gap. But then we don't have to buck against that snow, though we did when the road was first built, and before we had any enow sheds. But now the worst places are covered with sheds. But we wouldn't think of building a ahad where there waa no worse trouble that you show here. Why, a good eight wheel engine ought to buck through any drifts you have got here, and not make any fuss about it." " How deep have you seen the snow in the Sierras?" asked the reporter. ?? UVvrfTT fofif " eoi/1 "Nttfj* orrn-oolv anrl O. wiwj when the reporter expressed incredulity, he added : "I can show you twenty feet there now,-and nobody per tends that we have got any snow so far this winter. The time hasn't come for that yet." The reporter mildly suggested that, in his opinion, twenty feet was a very re spectable depth of snow, though he ad mitted that his experience had not been very great. Nate looked at him with a compassion ate expression, and, after a moment's re flection, proceeded to relate some of his experiences. "I remember," he said, " in 1869 there came on a heavy storm. It didn't blow any, but the snow just came down everlastingly. Is was not a dry snow either, nor yet wet, but just damp enough to be sticky. I was sent nnt with a nlow and seven engines to open the track. We got along pretty well until we reached the Bine canyon. Here the road skirts around the sides of the mountains. On one side you look straight up, and on the other side straight down. The track just forms a sort of a step in the rock. But when we got along there there was no track or step to be seen. I reckon the snow was forty feet deep on the track. That is, it was piled up on a line with the face of the mountain, growing thinner toward the top. Well, I told the boys to go for it, and they put on all steam and let her have it. Bat you had ought to have seen that snow fly! You couldn't see no plow, nor engines, nor anything else for that matter but just snow. The air was filled with snow, the whole canyon was filled with it. But the mass was too much for our power. The train gradually slackened, and when we had got about three hundred feet stopped altogether. I was just going to back out to get head way for another buck, when the snow on the face of the mountain along which we had passed began to slide. It came down on us before could reverse the ! engines, and before we knew it the plow and the seven engines were buried out of sight. I had about one hundred Chinamen following us up with shovels to clear up the track behind us. These I ordered up as quick as possible, and oof. thorn at urrvrlr ilitririncr t.ViA anarinaa ? " DO O ?~ w?0?ww out. As fast as we got one oat I sent it back to stand on a trestle that -was about half a mile behind us, because I -was afraid to leave them where they would be exposed to another slide. We got the eDgines all out after a while, though it was a tough job, I tell you, and the engineers and firemen were nearly smothered. JuBt before we got the last engine out I heard a prolonged whistle down the track. My first impression was that the trestle had given way under the weight on it, and I started back to see what was the matter. I wore snow shoes, and traveled on the outer bank for fear I might be caught in a slide. The whistle ACjJV LrlUVYlUg a WiitUiUUUO) rnuiucu kind of a sound that puzzled me a good deal. When I got about half way back to the trestle it seemed to me that the sound didn't come from there. Then I began to try to locate it, and was more puzzled than ever. I couldn't make out whether the whistle was down in the bottom of the canyon, or where it was. All of a sudden I located the sound right beside me, and on the track. Then I knew what the matter was. One of the engines had got caught in a slide and was buried right there in a Bpot where the road made a cut through a little spur of the mountain. I brought up a gang of men as quick ad I could and went to work digging the engine out. There was more than twenty feet of snow on top of her, and before we got down to her the engineer and fire man were senseless. They were lying flat on their faces, and all the air they had to breathe was that in the cab and under the trucks. The snow in falling had pressed down the lever that worked the whistle and set that blowing, and by that accident called attention and help. If it hadn't been for that these boys would have smothered sure. Reporter?Then nobody was hurt se rionslv ? Nat??No; we got the men out, took them into a caboose and gave them a little refreshment, and in a conple of honrs started on again. 8ome folks would have given that up as a bad job, but none of the boys there ever thought of giving up. We stuck to it all that day and all night, and the next morning got up to Cisco all right. Reporter?That was a fair snow expe rience ? Nate?Fair, but nothing extra. T was caught along there another time, and fonnd the snow worse than we ex pected. We bucked and bucked for hours with seven ongines, but couldn't seem to make an impression on it. I made up my mind that we had got to stand a Biege. So I started a man on snow shoes up to Cisco for grub and kept at the work. Pretty soon, with the help of shovels, we began to make head way, and when I least expected it we were through the worst obstruction. Then we started on at full speed, so as not to get stalled again. All of a sudden the brakes were whistled down. We picked up the messenger and tossed him clean over t' e telegraph wires. Luckily he struck on his feet and stood there buried in the snow up to his waist, but not a bit hurt. He motioned us to go on, and we did so, and got through to Cisco all right, leaving a clean tracking for the passen ger trains to follow. Reporter?What is the deepest |snow you ever encountered in those moun tains ? Nate?That's bard to tell. I've seen i it thirty feet often. Once I had to blast > it out. I sunk a shaft thirty feet deep i and ran a little drift along parallel with i the track and against the side of the ; mountain, and then put in half a dozen kegs of powder. That was funny I How the snow flew I But it did the business for that place. Reporter?Did you often meet as much snow as that on the track? Nate?In some spots it would always fill up; then again tnere would be plaoes where we never had any serious trouble. I ran a snow plow onetimeright through one of those big snowbanks, making as nice a tunnel as you ever saw. Reporter?How long was it ? Nate?Not very long, of course; may be live hundred feet. I was just making for that bank with eight engines and all the steam we could put on. When we struck it the snow began to fly, and for a little ways we made a nice cut in it. Bnt then the bank got higher than the plow, and pretty soon we were all buried. The engines were puffing their best and kept at it. We had good headway to start in on, and the boys took care not to lose more than we could help. And so they kept headway on her until we burst through on the other side of the bank. The snow just formed a sort of an arch over us, and we left the prettiest kind of a tunnel behind us just big enaugh for a train to pass through. " An Ax to Grind." We owe more of our common sayings and pithy proverbs to Dr. Franklin than many of us think or know. We say of one who flatters or serves us for the sake of some secrets, selfish gain or favor : " He has an ax to grind." In j the doctor's " Memoirs " is the follow ing story (much after the manner of the " whistle" story), which explains the origin of the phrase : Franklin sars : When I was a little boy, I remember, one cold winter's morning, I was accosted by a smiling man, with an ax on his shoulder. " My pretty boy," said he, " has your father a grindstone?" "Yes, sir," said I. " You are a fine little fellow," said he. " Will you let me grind an ax on it?" Pleased with the compliment of "a fine little fellow," " Oh, yes, sir," I answered ; " it is down in the shop." "ind will you, my man," said he, patting me on my head, "get me a little hot water?" TTnxiz Annl/1 T rofnon 0 T ? ? ?> , wmam mb *v*uw * a iau auu ovuu i brought a kettleful. " How old are you, and what's you're name?" continued he, without waiting for a reply. "I'm sure you're one of the finest lads that ever I have seen. Will you just turn a few minutes for me?" Tickled with the flattery, like a fool I went to work, and bitterly did I rue the day. It was a new ax, and I toiled and tugged till I was almost tired to death. The schoolbell rang, and I could not get away. My han*!s were blistered, and it was not half ground. At length, however, the ax was sharpened, and the man turned to me with : "Now, you little rascal, you've played the trnant; scud to sohool, or you'll get it I" Alas I thought I, it was hard enough to turn a grindstone this cold day, but now to bo called a little rascal, was toot I much. It sunk deep in my mind, and often have I thought of it since. When I see a merchant over polite to his customers, begging them to take a a little brandy, and throwing his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an ax to grind. When I see a man flattering the peo ple, making great professions of attach ment to liberty, who is in private life a tyrant, methinks, look out, good people, that fellow would set you turning grind stones. When I see a man hoisted into office by party spirit, without a single quali fication to render him either respectable or useful, alas! methinks, deluded peo ple, you are doomed for a season to turn the grindstone. The Young Lawyer. The tie which bound a certain Detroit youth to a lawyer's office was severed yesterday, and his parents were happy. They wanted the boy to make a great lawyer, but he was getting along too fast. He pursued his studies with an jmlnr which i^ast a hidinial shadow o'er the household and created considerable neighborhood talk. He got trusted for candy and repudiated the bill on the grounds that he was a minor. He bought a dog and went into bankruptcy. He bonowed a pair of skates and defied the owner to get out a wait of replevin. He borrowed fifty cents and then made the lender his assignee. But the worst of it was in the family. He had a legal name for almost every thing, and his desire was to prove to his parents that he was just absorbing dead-loads of law. If he wanted a potato at the dinner table he would remark : *' Father, file my claim against that baked potato and I'll prove the indebt edness this afternoon. If he wanted bread he said: " Moth er, get me out a writ of attachment for a piece of bread." It was expected of him that he would 1*1 i ii- ? 1 i ouua me morning nres, uui uu ?uuiier had he gained an insight into law than he Baid to his father : " I'm going to move for a change of venue unless some other arrangement is made." He mored for a stay of proceedings when asked to go the grocery, and if ohided for being out nights he replied : " File your declaration and give me a chance for a jury trial." When he was ia good humor he would Bit and regale his mother with stories about how Old Chancery was going up town one night and met Old Equity and asked him how Decree was getting along. Old Pleading and Expectations oame along just then, and there wss a big fight, and the young lawyer would slap his leg and add: "If Indictment had only been there he'd have whaled the whole crowd 1" The other day the long-Buffering father severed the tie. He was trying to bear up, hoping for reform, but as he sat down to the tea table bis son bright ened up and remarked: " The defendant will now take the stand and be sworn. Now, sir, did you or did you not oome out of Gnswold street saloon at eleven o'clock this morn ing, wiping your mouth on the back of your hand ? Tell the jury all about it, sir!" It was a little too much, and tha boy doesn't study law any more. He plays with a woodpile in the back yard. Bullion Products of the United States. The following are estimates made by different writers of the production of gold and silver in the world since 1848: By E. B. Elliott?All sources, gold, 83,206,100,000 ; all sources, silver, 81,996,600,000; total gold and silver, twenty years, 8^,902,700.000. By Dr. Soethur ? Gold and silver, nineteen years, 83,518,200,000. By Professor Blake?Gold and silver, nineteen years, 83,751,000,000. By Joseph S. Wilson ?Gold and silver, nineteen years, $3,496,100,000. Estimate of the pro duction of precious metals during the same period, nineteen yearp?from 1849 to 1867 : By Professor Blake?Gold and silver of the United States, nineteen years, 81,073,000,000. By J. 8. Wilson ?Gold and silver, ninteen years, 31,115, 000,000. By J. R. Brown?Gold and silver, nineteen years, $1,255,000,000? thus showing that the product ot bullion of the United States has been about one third of the total product of the whole world for the last twenty years. From j 1870 to 1876 it is safe to estimate it at one half of the product of tho world, j and it is steadily increasing. A Terrible Death. At Lagrange, Ky., John Finnegan, ar engineer on the Short Line railroad, met with a terriblo death. Finnpgar was on a freight train when an axle broke and precipitated the engine and cars down a slight embankment. Finne gan was by some means canght fast by the machinery and held so that his com panions could not release him. Two streams of hot water ponred upon his face and body from a broken boiler. No relief could be extended to the sufferer, and after the most horrible agony he bo came unoonscious and soon died. The skin from the face and body peeled off before his own eyes. When a physician from Louisville arrived the sufferer was dying, with his tongue almost dropping Off from the effects of the hot water which had foroed itself into his mouth. To OiJSAJi CjLrpets.?To remove grease spots from carpet with potter's clay, wet with cold water to a thickpaste, and spread on the carpet with several thicknesses of heavy brown paper tacked ever it; to bo left a week and then brushed off. If not entirely removed, apply again. It never fails when prop erly used. GENERAL HAZEX ON THE SUTLER SHIPS. The Statements he Is Said to HaTe Made Four Years Ago, and the Reception they Met With. Tho Cincinnati Commercial prints the following: In view of all the facts of the relation of General Belknap to the sale of sutlership8 at army posts, it is surprising that he was not convicted a long while ago. The first notice of these transactions came before the pub lic in the following manner : In the year 1872 General William B. Hazen was on inspecting duty at Fort Sill, in the In dian Territory. In the course of his la bors he came to Know that the sutler of the post had been suddenly notified by a stranger living in the Eastern States that he had obtained from the War de partment the sole right to trade at Fort Sill, but that he did not wish to come there and do the business in person. He. would, however, permit the occu pant to remain if he would pay an annual rent of so many thousand dol lars. The post trader was in a position which forced him to accede to the de mand. Large amounts were due him by those with whom he traded. To be turned out of the position was ruin. So he paid and staid, and in order to make good the sum of which he was black mailed, he put up the price of the goods ho sold. Thus tho soldiers were made to pay the money which finally went into the pockets of the secretary of war. All this came to the knowledge of Gen. Hazen, and he was soon informed that other military posts were suffering the same kind of robbery. Most offioers of the army, under such circumstances, would have shrunk from making any charges about this business. Indeed, alf.hrmjrh it mriRfe havpi bfi?n within the knowledge of many of these gentlemen, yet they did not dare to bring it home to the secretary of war. Hazen, how ever, as soon as he thonght he was cer tain of the facts, wrote a letter to Gen. Garfield, then chairman of the oom mittee on military affairs, and told some thing of the store. This was in the spring of 1872. For the moment not mnch attention was paid to the story, but in due time Gen. Hazen was sum moned before the committee. He was sharply questioned. He answered the. r questions clearly and circumstantially. He gave names, dates and amounts, and it was probably quite as much within the power of that committee, at that time, to have brought Belknap to book as it has been of this other committee within the last few days. The morn ing after the testimony of Gen. Hazen was published, Secretary of "War Belknap entered the presence of the President. " Mr. President," he asked, " do yon believe the story of Gen. Hazen ?" "No, I do not," answered the Presi dent. "Because if you do," continued Belknap, " I am not fit to be your secre tary." For some days there was some talk in the newspapers about Hazen's evidence, his honesty and temerity, and to satisfy public opinion an order was issued by the secretary of war to the effect that sutlerships should be held only by those actually at the posts. At the time this order was made, and ever since, the actual sutlers at Fort Sill and other posts continued to pay tribute to the central authority at Washington. After that order the whole affair was forgotten, or passed over by the public, and action halted, as far as the gentle men in Washington were conoerned. But it became a sorry jest for Hazen, who soon found he was unpopular at the war office. He was at once relieved from duty at Fort Hayes, and sent to Fort Buford, in Dakota Torritory. Names of Countries, The following countries, it is said, were originally named by the Phoeni cians, the greatest commercial people in the world. The names in the Phoeni cian language signify something charac teristic of the places designated : Europe signifies a country of white complexion, so named because the in habitants were of a lighter complexion than those of Asia or Africa. Asia signifies between, or in the middle, from the faot that geographers placed it be tween Europe and Africa. Africa signi fied the land of corn or ears. It was celebrated for its abundance of corn and all sorts of grain. Siberia signifies thirsty or dry?very ' characteristic. Spain, a country of rabbits or conies. It was once so infested with these animals that they sued Augustus for mi army to destroy them. Italy, a country of pitch, from its yielding great quantities of black pitch. Calabria, also, for the same reason. Gaul, modern France, signifies yellow-haired, as yellow hair character ized its inhabitants. The English of Caledonia is a high hill. This was a rugged, mountainous province in Scot land. Hibernia is utmost or last habi tation ; ror oeyona tws, westward, me Phoenicians never extended their voy ages. Britain, the country of tin, great quantities being found on it and adjacent islands. The Greeks called it Albion, which signified in the Phoenician tongue either white or high mountains, from the whiteness of its shorec or the high rocks on the western coast. Corsica signifies the footsteps of men, which it resembles. Syracuse signifies bad savor, so called from the unwholesome marsh on which it stood. Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which it produced in abun dance. Sicily, the country of grapes. Scylla, the whirlpool of destruction. jEtna signifies a furnace, or dark and smoky. Getting Their Dinner. The Greon Bay (Wis.) State Gazette relates the following fable : A large dog belonging to one of our citizens, and who usually accompanies his master to market in the capacity of porter, was in trusted with a fine steak, securely wrap ped in paper, to carry home. The ani mal grasped the parcel between his teeth and trotted homeward beside his master. A short distance from the butcher's the gentleman entered another store, leaving the dog with the parcel standing' on the sidewalk. Shortly two vagabond look in C ours arrived on the snot and becan snuffing about. Finally, the larger of the two curs began growling and bark ing at the guardian of the steak, who stood this sort of thing for some time, in a calm and dignified manner, till, finally, his bullying tormentors, probably hav ing applied some opprobiious epithet to him, he opene#his mouth to reply, and, of course, dropped the steak to the ground. The vagabond car retreated, and the other dog, now fully exasperated, set off in pursuit of him. In an instant vagabond cur No. 2, who had been standing off a short distance, apparently a silent spectator of the scene, sprang forward and seized the steak in his mouth and put off in an opposite direction. Not long after, and in an alley not far from the scene of this little episode, were two curs holding a high festival over a rich, juicy steak, and those two ours were the identical ones engaged in the transaction previously related. A Newspaper Prince. Among tho many amusements which James Gordon Bpnnett, of the New York Herald, prepares for his friends, the Home Journal notes the following: Among the most enjoyable and unique entertainments of the day are the riding parties given every Thursday by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, at Dickel's academy on Fifth avenue. Gilmore's full band is n attendance, and the guests oi ivir. Bennett usually numuer about twenty, although Jio does not limit? his invitations to fliat number. Eaoh guest, mounted on a horse, causes the animal to engage iu a rrgnlar dance, the Virginia reel being a favorite one. Leaping, running, playing "taar," etc., are indulged in, the horses at a full canter. A Sea Captain's Reward, Oapt. Cloos lives at Valley Stream, Long Island, and enjoys an income earn ed by his humanity A number of years ago he commanded a merchant * vessel, and whilo entering a Russian port saw a small yacht, with two men in it, capsize. He sent a boat and rescued the men. One proved to bo a young Russian grand dnke, who, with a friend, was on a sailing excursion. The Rus sian government bestowed a pension upon Cloos of $250 a year for life, with reversion to liia childrou. Dangers of DirJng, It appears that the people on board ip which sunk on the northeaster; ast of Ireland, says Frank Bnoklam his " Log Book," had tried to escape .ving first filled their shirt sleeves wit] liars; bnt in getting np the rocke my of them had fallen back and me th an untimely end, as the weight c e dollars had kept their heads nnde iter. No one had ever disturbed th eck since the vessel went down, s r. Wood, a famous diver, and hi ends set to work to find out where sh is. They put on their diving dresses d for two or three days walked abou and fro at the bottom of the sea, ft out forty feet of water, searching fo b treasure. This they did by clearing ray the weeds and turning over th >nes with crowbars, and feeling for th liars with their hands, as the wate is too thick to see. The wood part o 3 wreok itself had nearly perished rough lapse of time and ravages of sei >rmB. After a long and careful searoh last they came upon the dollars; the; ire mostly spread about among th< >nes, but many had slipped dowi long a heap of iron ore which lia< i ii i ?i__j. ai. _ nr? mea me Dfuiasi 01 mo ump. mmr the dollars were worn thin by th( iion of the water. When hunting among the wreck to: 3 dollars, Mr. Wood had some curioui ventures. One of the divers com lined that he was annoyed by a lobste: d couldn't work. Mr. Wood learnec i wheraabouts of the lobster and wen wn after him. He soon discovered 3 lobster, sitting under a rock, looking savage as a lobster can look. Hi ilers were pointed well forward, anc held out his two great claws, wid< en, in a threatening attitude. Wood owing the habits of lobsters, offeree a fellow his crowbar, which he imme itely nipped with his claws; then tching Ins opportunity, he passed hii nal-line over the lobster's tail, made fast, and signaled to the men abovtf U. iaul away." This they did, and awaj w tne lobster, flying through the watei o the air above, with his claws stil sanded, and as scared as a lobste] lid be. A great conger eel also paic s diver a visit. He was an immens< low, ana Kept swimming arouuu vvuuu, t would not come near him. Wooc 9 afraid of his hand being bitten, as i lger eel's bite is very bad. He onc< aw a diver whose finger was seized bi onger; this brute took all the fleet an off the man's finger. A conger it ery dangerous animal to a man wher ring in the water. However, the con r kept swimming round about Wood, he took his claspknife out and triec stab him; but the conger would nol ne near enough to be "knifed." II s a long time before the oonger woulc away; and evon after he had gont ay, Wood could not go on working, jause he was not sure that the bruk b reauy gone ior gooa, aiiu no uiigui ire come out of some corner at anj ante and nipped his finger. How a Cobbler Made a Will. Many years ago the husband of ai I lady living in England died withoul .king his will, for the want of whiot jessary precaution his estate woulc 70 passed away from his widow, hac j not resorted to the following expe snt to avert the loss* of the property, e concealed the death of her hua ad, and prevailed on an old oobbler r neighbor, who was, in person, some at like the deceased, to go to bed ai - > a u; iracter it was agreed that he sboulc state a will, leaving the widow the es ein question. in attorney was sent for to draw uj 3 writings. The widow, who, on hii ival, appeared in great affliction al r good man's danger, began to asi estions of her pretended husband, culated to elicit the answers she ex 3ted and desired. The cobbler, groan ' aloud, and looking much like a per 1 going to give up the ghost as sooi possible, feebly answered : " I intend leave you half of my estate, and ] nk the poor old cobbler, who livef posite, is deserving of the other half, he has always been a good neigh r." The widow was thunderstruck al seiving a reply so different from thai ich she expeoted. but dare not nega e the cobbler's will, for fear of losing > whole of the property, while th I rogue in bed?who was the poor old iDier living opposite?laugnea in nit eye, and divided with her the fruit* a project which the widow bad in ided for her sole benefit. United States Currency. Che following statement, exhibiting ) amount of paper currency issued 1 outstanding in the United States on 1. 1, 1876, the amount held in the ited States treasury on Jan. 26, 1876, ) amount held by the national bank* Dec. 17, 1875, the date of the lastre rt, and by the State savings banks 1 trust companies, as noar as can be ertained from official sources, ^a? jpared by the controller of the enr icy. This statement shows the amount paper currency now in the hands ol > people to be $532,061,165. Paper money issued and outstanding is o&ah in the treaa ry Jan. 25, 1876....$60,233,826 ih in national banks, , >ec. 17,1875 121,797,290 ih in other banks... 48,431,409 *1 amount to be dedaoted for ash in the treasury and in 44,147,075 871.827.212C 846,479,75 69,645 Total (762,623,69C auks $230,462,52E Leaving the amount of paper money iu circulation $532,001,16? ggested by James Parton's Ma rriage [ married a widow who had a grown step-daughter. My father visited ' house very often, fell in love with ' step-daughter, and married her. Sc ' father became my son-in-law, and ' step-daughter my mother, because } was my father's wife. Some time er my wife had a son; he was my her's brother-in-law, and my nncle; he was the brother of my step-daugh . My father's wife, that is, my step ighter, also had a son; he was, ol irse, my brother, and in the mean le my grandchild, lor he was the son my daughter. My wife was my mamoiaer, uecause hoo was mj other's mother. I was my wife'if hus 3d and grandchild at the same time, 1 as the husband of a pe rson's grand ither is his grandfather, I was my owe indfather. Had a Question. [n ono of the Detroit schools recently eacher departed for half an hour from ) usual programme and aaked her lolara such questions as might inter them. After she had asked " What ,kes the wind blow?" " What causee n?" "Who invented the locomo es?" and eo forth, and helped to ex on them, she said: 'Now, children, any of you who sc sire can ask me questions." So one seemed to think of anything ;ept a frecked-faced boy about four in years old. He raised his hand, 3 the teacher said : 'Well, Robert, have you a nues n?" 'Yes, mum. I'd like to kDOw what )y mean when they say to a feller : h, pull down your vest I rhe teacher had to admit that she was liind the age. A Sad Affair. Montana paper tolls the following; lia Bernard, a passable vocalist, ver dunseuse, and a very pretty girl, it with a tragio death in Helena the ler day. She was standing against ) board while an actor was showing i dexterity in hedging her in by hurl ' knives into the board. Six knives i been rtrack beneath each arm, jm t :)ve each shoulder, at each side of the id. One more waited to be plauted it above her head. The aim of the owei* was too low. The knife peue ted the brain, and the girl sank down die on the stage. The actor is under est. GRADUAL RESUMPTION. The Specie Payment Bill Aanreed Upon bt the Majority or the Democratic.Cancna Committee at Washington. Subjoined is a fall copy of the bill agreed to by the majority of the Demo cratic caucus finance committee, and re ported to tho caucus by Mr. Payne : A Bill to provide for the gradual resumption of epecie payment. Be it enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, during each and every year from and after Joly 1, 1876, and until tho legal tender notes of the United States shall be appreciated to par value with gold and shall be convertible into coin, to cause it to be set a.iide and retained in ooin an amount equal to three per centum of Buch legal tender notee outstanding, and from the date of such convertibility as aforesaid, the amount of ooin set aside and retained as afore said shall be held as a resumption fund in respeot to said legal tender notee, and shall at no time be less that thirty per centum of sach outstanding logal tender notes; Provided, however, That the coin so set aside and re tained as above provided ehallbe counted as a part of the sinking fund fdr the purchase or the payment of the pbblic debt as required by soction 3,691 of the revised statutes. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of each national banking association during each and every year from and after July 1, 1876, and until tho full and complete resumption of the payment in specie of its circulating notes, to set aside aud retain from coin receivable and interest on the bonds deposited with the treasurer of the United States as socunty for its circulation, an amount equal to three per cent, of its circulating notes issuod to such association and not surrendered, and from the dikte of its resumotion of speoie payments as aforesaid, the amount of coin to be beld and so n r?anmntinn fund shall at no time be leea than thirty per oent of ita out standing circulation ; that the coin by this sec tion direoted to be sot aside and retained shall be as part of tbe lawful money reserve which said association are by existing laws required to maintain. Szo. 8. That so mach of seotlon three of an act entitled " An act to provide for the re sumption of specie payments," approved Jan. 14, 1875, as "required the secretary of the treasury to redeem legal tender notes to the amount of eighty per oentnun of tbe sum of national bank notes issued to any banking association increasing ita capital or ciroula tian, or to any association newly organised as provided in said section, and also so much of said seotion three as relates to or provides for the redemption in' coin of the . United States legal tender notes on or after January 1, 1879, and all other provisions of law incon sistent with thiB act, are hereby repealed. A. Clever Expedient, A Paris paper tells how an. ingenious 1- ? ?? UiwoaIf fn fliA HUUp&eoptu una aua[/vcu lumoqu w vuu exigencies of the hoar, -which demands in everylJbing a spice of politics, by hanging oonspicnously a placard in his parlors inscribed: " Sooner or later he will return." The Bonapartists look np at it and say: " Ah ! fih! That means our boy "-?the young Napoleon. The Orleanists think the allusion is to the Count de Paris ; the Legitimists opine that it can only mean the Count de Chambord ; while the Republican are convinced that it refers to "little Thiers." So all are pleased, and the honest quiz when questions are asked merely smiles, winks, and shrugs his shoulders, " He" really means his Zouave boy on African service. Deaf to Cries for Help. The Portland Oregonian makes this statement: One of the crew of the ill fated Orpheus is now an inmate of the Good Samaritan hospital, receiving treat ment for injuries sustained by a cask of naraware roumg uver nun, wuxio tuKuair ing to unload a vessel in this port. He is -very emphatic in asserting that cries of distress were distinctly heard by the officers and crew of the Orpheus, after the unfortunate collision with the steamer Pacific. He also says that they saw the blue lights?signals of distress ?while they were yet near the sinking steamer, and that thongh it was well known that the Orpheus was unin jured, the captain turned a deaf ear to the call for help, and steadily bore away from tho scene of horror. Railroad Accidents. There were in January last sixty rail road accidents in the United States, whereby eight persons were killed and x x ? i a: twenty-nine mjureu. du ucommiwi caused the death of one or more persons, ten injury but not death, while forty four, or seventy-three and one-third per centum of the whole, were not accom panied by any personal injury serious enough for record. During the year 187 there were killed 232 and injured 1,040 persons by railroad acoidenta. Sate at Laot.?We have got our safe fixed now, says the Danbury News. The keys are so distributed that five persons are necessary to open it. One of these is the mail clerk, another is the chief of police, the third is a tax collector, the fourth is a butcher and the fifth is the jailer. With this combination it is simply impossible to get our poetry. Little Phid.? Phil Sheridan is get ting fat. Lincoln once said to Welles that Sheridan was "a brown, ehunky little chap, with a long body, short legs, not enough neck to hang him, and such long arms that if his ankles itch he can scratch them without stooping." xne general talK is Dobbins' Electric Soap (made by Oragin & Co., Phila.) There never was a soap so highly and generally praised. It tells a story of its own merits that cannot be contradict ed TVv it * " Know Thy Opportunity." The grim monster, death, was stealthily approaching. I could almost feel his hot, fiery breath upon my forehead. My faithless goddess, Hygela, had uttorly deserted me. Only now and then would Morpheas befriend me, bat on this auspicious day he hud deigned to moisten my eyelids with heavenly ambrosia,, and I slept. As I slept, behold, I had a dream! I thought that I was roaming on foreign soil whither my physician had sent me to recovor my health. I was in a great metropolis?one of the graud marts of the world. In one of my strolls I chanced to meet a man who had in his hand a handsomely bound volume, en titled "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," and who said that he was an agent for the sale of the book. The title was Each a novel one that I was inpolled to give the work it casual notice. As I hastily glanced over its pageB, I observed that it contained treatises not oommonly found in medical works. But I had too many times been hoaxed oj appoarancaa, ana x umuimiutu buau x nuuiu havo nothing to do with it A voice within me, like a faithful mentor, whispered : "Know thy opportunity; iu that book ia thy salvation!" I began reasoning wlfh myself. Although doubtful and distrustful, yet I put forth my hand to take the book, and, lo! the agent was gone! I was miserable. In my agony I woke. Great drops of perspiration were upon my brow. By my bedside was a friend who had called during my slumber to eee me. Said my friend : " I have brought with me a book, Just published, which I thought might interest you." One glance at the work, and I waa as sured that it was "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser,"byDr.It. Y. Pieroe, of Buffalo, N. Y. Surely, this was the veritable book whioh I had seen in my dreams. My friend loaned me tho work, and every day, as my strength permitted, I perused its pages. Although jt contained very interesting trea tises on biology, cerebral phyeiology, human temperaments, nursing of the sick, etc , yet, being an invalid, I was mo?t interested in the subjeot or dieeaeea ana remeaiee. x ueuevta that Iliad a liver affection, aud yet more than one medical attendant bad pronounced my disease consumption, and that I would fall with the autumn leaves. In that book I found m7 symptoms perfectly portrayed. I was then confident that I had not deceived myself. I reasoned thus : " Any mm who can so truth fully depict my feelings, and apparently under stands my constitutional tmdoncica, muut know juet what my physical nyBtem demands. I will taut my caae with Dr. Pierce. I will tako his Golden Medical Discovery as recom mended for my diseaao." The result is, that after J aviug peraeveriug'y followed his pre scribed treatment, I onto ng?in c-ujoy tho blefbiDgfl of health. Ther.fjro, I would cay to the afflicted: " Know thy opportunity," and take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. - Qois. " Vegetine," says a Boston physician, " J1&8 no equal ae a uiuuu jjunuei. uusuuj; of it* mauy wonderful cures, after all other remedies had faikd. I visited the laboratory and convinced mynelf of its genuine merit. It ia prepared from barks, rootti and herbs, each of which in highly effective, aud they are com pounded in mi. h a matiLer oh to produce as tonishing roflultB." Important to Persons Visiting New York or the Centennial, Tho Grand Union Hotel, New lork, oppo eite the Grnud Central depot, kaa oror 350 olo gautly furnished rooma. Elevator, steam, aud all modarn improvements. European plan. Carriage hire ia saved, as baggage is taken to aud from the depot, free of expense. The restauranta tupplied with the beit. Gneats cau livd better for leas money at the Grand Union, than at any other flrat-claaa hotel. Scages and care pass the hotel oonatantly to all parts of tlio city, au3 to Philadelphia depot. * Pimples on the face, rough skin, ohappod hands, saltrheom and all cutaneous affections oared, fc'je akin made aoft and i smooth, by the ose of Jmnrza Tab Soap. That made by Caswell, Hazard A Go., New York, Is the only kind that oan be relied on, as there are many imitations, made from oommon tar, which are worthless.? Com. > Dr. SCIIENCK'S STANDARD KKMKME8, The standard remedies for all diseases of the langn an Schznck'b Pulmonic.Stbcp, Sceonck'b Sxa Wete Tonic, and Schxnck's Mavbbau Pills, and, if uken before tte longs are destroyed, a speedy cure U effected To these three medicines Dr. J. H. Sohenok, of Phil* dalphlft, owes his unrirnled success In the treatment oJ pulmonary diseases. The Pnlmonlo Syrup ripena the morbid matter In thi Itmgi; nature throw* It off by an easy expectoration, foi when the phlegm or matter Hi ripe a light oough will throw it off; the patient has rest sad the lungs begin tc heal. ~ ?... iv. T?_, . e. iU> Bihsi.l'i "AO BDIDM Ul? ruiuiuuiu DftU|l W UV I I I | uwmv*v Mandrake Pills and Bchenek'e Sea Weed Tonlo moat b? freely uaed to cleanae tha atomach and llror. Schenoki Mandrake PUli act on the Hvtr, removing all obatrao tlona, relax the gall bladder, the bile atarta freely, and the liver la soon relieved. Schenck'a Sea Weed Tonlo la a senile ttlmnlant and altera tire; the alkali of which it la composed mlxet with the foed an prevent* eoaring. It aariit* the dtge* tlon by toning np the itomach to a health; condition aa that the food and the Pulmonlo Syrup will make good blood; then the longs heal, and the patient will rorelj get well if care ii taken to prevent freeh cold. All who wlab to ooasnlt Or. 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Writ* to E. O. BRIDGMaN 6 Barolay St., New Yoric, or j 74 Kim 8t .Ulnolnnatl.O THE DETROI^V Weekjy Free Press. PRICE, 12.00 PER TEAR. ;:i (SPECIAL RiTlf to CLOM.) _____ All Poa till niter* are Anal a. So!d by all Hewwlsalea. >' Kpecltn?a OM?tea seat Fre?. ;,j.u 1- Ajtaw PEEK rag88 OO., Pmtoir.MlCK. finloWffi OR SENSATIONAL iy I I ftorlea la The PEOPLE'S LEDGER* IIU .' J. Hoftnea. Olirer Optic, and Waabjr ooatrl UljfYS5U UKHT TilUJi JfOB ?H^^C^T18jPnbllrtgKjE^ ?MTU MMTUV wain ivivniiA <T77l' By sending (I4.TS for u; S4 Macula* tad TAX WEEKLY TKIUUHB (reculsr price 06). or 8&.7A for the Miiulst and THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRI BUNE (regular price 08;. Address THE TRIBUNE. New.Y?rt. 80 Look as they Lire, Every Family eu Hi- ve at Cast BUSS' Patent Fire Kinkling PELLETS. On receipt of On* Dollar I will Mod by retort: nail mold preu, with fall lmtruotiona for mating the Pallets, and a Family Patent Kfffht to make add uie these oneqaaled Wrr Kind tare. Over 300,Q()0 Pellets have- already b en (old. A boy or firl can make them. Oott fire co.ita for kindling one handled fire*. Sample rolls of .Tea Pel leu ready for ou unt post-free on receljt of Twenty Cents. Send stamp forOiroular. Address -j K. BURS. Patentee. Springfield. Olile. CENTS (koold writs for Apacy for d*w keek by Ann Eliza ESIQHAirS WIFE Wft.lfl. fa?lllnr?t tb?raUo(|,o60 ?*M*. MJ txpoM of tb< kJfrt el? ijiura of Poljfimy. UJuiiraud CircuUn, with eeajpilU Information trto to *11. Additu nrtrni offl? of DUfttlPt Oilman A Co..Hartford,^t*lo?p>,lll.,Clod!in*n, d. orpMseHaDit Am. / Speedily cured by I'R. BECK'8 only known and sure Remedy. NO i'HABOK for treatment until cured. Call on or address Dr. J. C. BSCS, 112 John St., Cincinnati, 0. POUTZ'S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS, % , ! 'i'l oar* o* prerent Piaoas*. PORTABLE GRINDING HILLS. BMiViMK* Bor*.Uir?pin. dl? uoil*r-rujm#r?f cock faaad rior Hill IUoimi oV?a llMOotehAn ?.rs9 Shafting, all kinds F1?k* Clean ei rk' Gearing, Shafting PnlllM. Haogera. ?tc- ait klnd_ ofillllWhm.ry ana Mf Iters' supplies. Send for Pamphlet. ^Jt^ssari: / N AGENTS WANTED FOR THE ( CENTENNIAL w HISTORY of the ii. $. at Interact In ths thrilling history of onr ooun thla the fastest sailing book ersr pnbllshed. i a full acooant of the approaching grand uenionnuu exaiuiuuu. CAUTION.?Old. IsoomplM* ud Unreliable works are bains circulated; aee tint the book 70a bay oontalna 442 fine RmrrRfinm ud 925 face*. ttoad for clroalAr* ?nd extra term? to Al*"1*, tMw NATIONAL PUBLISHING Ott, Phlla3ilpbia. 1? Oldest, Largest, Cheapest, Best. Great Reduction in Price. The only Illaatrated Family find Literary Paper la Phllnd' ipbia LuiKtr than the N. V. Ledger. Only $8.00 (X Year. SPECIAL CLUB EATBfi: 4 eoplea, one jB*r | ^eo(to?,oneyear....91 An extra copy Fur* to retter ap of club of tm or iwmlf. Sample copy and circular* Far*. Aceatu Wanted. GoH Premium*. All inbecrlpUooj can begin with a new (tory. Addreea TBS SATURDAY EVENING POST, 7XU Hnnmamo Kir cot, fblla. DOMESTIC SEWING vrtm nrcs \i Liberal Termsef Xx changcfor Second-hand Machines of evtry des cription. "tOMESTIC PAPEI? FA8HION8. V-e Beit Pattern) made. Send 5ct?. for CaUlofM. Address DOMESTIC SEWING HAOHQTZ CO. Acm?Viwp.,et HEW IOR1L SMITH ORGAN CO. flOlBtOXL, MW. l/IC#r Ot?Ul??MU w Jirvvfi wmcmv Sold by Music Dealers Everywhere. A? 3nt? Wanted in Every Town. Sold throughout the United BUtes oa th* IN ST ALUYLENT PLAMi That!?, oa * Br*tsm of Moathljr P*ymsnU. PurohaMr* should uk for the SlOTH ttnWHI OUil Ofttaloffiiwi *n<1 fall otrtionltn on iDDllottloa. WTLBOK'8 OOKFOmn) 07 PURE COD LIVES | OIL AND LIME. Wllbor's Oil JJYer Oil and Limr.?The great popularity of this safe and efficacious preparation Is r - x, i-.-i?4 ? ? In fh* AnratAf alone at.rlD'inoio 10 I'luKnuiuu -w. ... ? Coughs, Asthma, lironcbltis, Whooping Coogh, 8crofaloin Humors, ana *11 Consumptive Symptoms, tt has no superior. If equal. Lot no ooh neglect the eari/ symptoms of disease, when an agent I* thus at band which w 11 alleviate all complaints of the (Jheat, Lacs* or Throat. Manufactured only by A. R WILBOR, Chemist, Bmtoh. Sold by all drajortsts. $500 to bo divided amour the six most hncoessful mrmm who shall n)ducn thfl largest quantity from b. of BtBY and AI.PiM potatoes. Price of each, $1 per lb. ?CUTCIIIII?| DDIMIMHR 91.SO to bo awarded for tho best collection, on* pock each, ofpot* toflfl introduced by us since 1867. 950 for tho hes* and moat prmn istn* seedlinrsraiiiedthis 7 pat from Prlnjln Hybridized Potato Heed. Packets of 25 seeds. 60 eta. Tho collodions for which the Jut at two premiums of 9200 sro offered will bo exhibited at theContennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia, in October and premiums will bo awarded by their committee. For conditions and fnll[particulars wind for our Potato Premium Circular, mailed free to all. Bllas's Illustrated Need Cntalocve and Ama teur's Guide to tho Flower end Kitchen Garden,con tains adescriptivo list of 2^ varieties of Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, with or;.licit directions for culture, SOOpaces, several hundred . nftravinc*. and a beautifully colored lithograph. Sent postpaid, for 35 cents. Bills'* Gardener's Almanac andyCrvi?*.'Oiln Inguro/flnrrlm, Fi'l'l'ind Fto'rtr 116 paces, beauti fully illustrated. mailed to all applicants inolosinfflOct*. HHsa'alltustruted Potato Catalogue contains adescriptivo list of all the new varieties recently intro duced.with many other desirable sorts,also much useful Information upon their cultivation. silpagwslOoenta. B. K. BLISS & SONS, P.O. Box No. 5719. 84 Barclay Bu, N.Y. NSIONS ARE PAID. Dliabled U thettrvlce of the United 04*t?L flffibef _ by accident or othenrlae, grU a peaalon. tm Totf ; the Iom of as eye, the lou ola, toe, or any iun-?ho? mt alight. Wfll glr< a pension. Alto raptured aaM. or " s^udkj. If you are enflfliea to rpeadon, dor* ittup Id to all Midlers dUcbartred on account of wound*" ^ryjtlwaamea?Jf^jr aerred their full ftoe,ft?d ouity acta. A B the Pension, Bounty and ERALD, Indlanapotl* I tld., irlred U. 8, Claim Agencjr ?lit :? >8 OF TABLE CUTUMttt' ' lluloid ] 49_C?uMH?erB Hu-cc*. iiJLX" cut trot ru!i) C1 1 111 ' a - meflCO I EDM FOR Sl.Ofl, POSTPAID. INCEST,. HAii0TO^fi:.I^W,;V',: ad mott wldaly dreoUtad X?np?pv ta ttp W?? f BMdBOOtfMiaiMHKl " " THB IigPOKR, CmaiMD. life "?- . The Wonders of Modern 0?W!iW. ; r~T- aU . .fcTjin SarviM aMIts Associate, ? CkanfM u fieti and Felt bA Titer D?ltr Occur attar Ciiai a Few Qom* mf I to -.o) - ,1.x i ,lwrru<uii jumjii Dr. Radway's Sarsaparillian Da6a1uah4 IVU9UIT^II|| THE GREAT BLOOD PURJKE^ . / >yr> -Jit! iin in yjiti) L Good tptriu, (HuppkinuiM of w?? ?*?, li#mw/ m?Uiwhnlj; tacww ml. Ummjff of.fy# >bi1 Jy,; - Strength InorawoB, xppoljto Improve*, niliih lor ! fostion, 0*1111 ut anaUturooa tlocp, It&ua XmB *M VlfofM*. * DU*p cassis ntloc of aiunUt* Md fraqatoajr of .Id* dtaehxr??(W ssmtiflttssssfies, isra&ffls UioojrTMtoft<4 to th? evtitTorfUis. ."-j : i' j . LtoIt, oi.dbe?lttir color. ssss itiMfs . of a"'nc'r oFSSgS! tmiiiii utkkSmgiBt ihotildvni) etc. J coaaattou of Mid tad eMBs, -ooom oc - (uffocAtlon; hard breathing aad paroxnma of oooc&aa ljria* down orarbdnff la fhu raornlny. TjttwBBC ' H dlsappoaft ' " i.l-.: Hljlorl . '. .U-*.S w?raaswft5ss.l's,Jsas??tat: XSS^SS^^^SSSSIsmm-''. d and be<omn dftpaaltod fat the bono*, ?jUfcJ?Wfy c?tulnx carta* of tbe bonaa, rleluU, iptaal cttmtorw. ontortiooi, white swellings, vaticoM Tem?, ?t4., A* ' MA ItM A P A KI I.I.IAN ?iILMolr? Hlf tbcss do poalu and sitterminato tha Tiro# of tho diMM* lion tbm ^i^Ifthow) who firfi titing thaae jnodlMdta/for tbXar* ?r?i healta ixnprroUr.tbotf fleah ud weighttonrwllg or even kerpingiM own.ttiaaiare slgTi l?*t the ott/oU procrenlng. & theao ilmiw tho yrtt>itilt^|ii i t Bettor orwcrao?tho Tim* of tbollwaMlinotJuctMi? U sot km*tod and Driven from the bloodTlt will ipiniMf and coatla'M to ncdermloa tfao wilUtlon. A??ooa . .a croaM in b4a2th, tUbopth andBmlr. jj f 1 thTent?^Je?fti-^i* Jtt Co3i "tton'oVumTlBSE* '31* ' TulifttttUoo* Pkthisi*. Scrofyl*. Krphtyld CUnir^ 7 / Wilting, Pog?D??tlont nod Ulewratkio of tUnJUm, DUbetM, Stoppage of W?ber (Inetintuwoe ii5e<Ui>J'> forttod where ?uhet?rt h#*e to be uwcLloa* doing*w?y with the painful eponllon of using th??e la?tmroe?rt?), dUsolrlag stOM In th? hiidder, ?d in ill cwei pi Ipn fljumnjition ?l the Bl?dd_er and Kldoej*, la CUicnlo owe* of LeucorrhA *011 Uterine dl?)?M?.' 1 In tumor*, andee, h*M lamp* ?nd ijpiillotd alwnji la ; iropny; la ruaereal ?ore tbroit, ujcen, *nd In tubere'ee of the Ian**: In goat, drapepu; WimWilH, litMl;. ' I In ntatourial depoalte?it U la the** terrible lotto* of dUeaie, where the human bod; ku Ix-come* oomplef* irreok, sail where every boer of extotenoe t*.tcArtawL[ i ffhwin this fTttt rwnedy eliftlleani Um MtoalihjnttU ind idmlratioa of the mcV. It U in atich wSCi ill the pieuareeof exUteaee appear cat 08 fronj.th? ;;; unfortunate, god by 1U wonderful. alooet aapgm?t*ral igency, ft reetorea the hopelw* to a new Ufa WU-gW ixUteaoe where thU great rettody gtgo4a <U?M fta , (ho*orflnl^'sldn dlaeaaee tt??t mty?nliluwM^a R^^^teS^(SSW?lSlb sr dtoS'^,55& i TbottieM,<1 RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF WELL APFOBD INSTANT EASE. ' H JliM ,li'fit ;U ^ AMMAWON OP THK KtDXKTS. Ju t Au miin Of * rtnotj TfuTTOfcL8. CONGESTION OF TRJC LUNGS, .1 ro?M??N0' HY8TERIC8.OBOUP DIPHTHERIA, CATARRH, UTFXUF.NZA, IEADvCBlS. TOOTHACHE. MVMPll^lo ' NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, (IOLD cklLLfi. AGUE CJiliLS. Th? appUaaUon of tba BRADY RBUBP to Ito nut or p*rt? wbm tho p*ia at (Hfttmlty ?xl?U ?U1 JJord eiM ud comfort. Twenty drop* In half a.tamblBr?f water will, tn a fait Donwau. ?ar? CRAMP8, SPASMS, SOUR 8TOK ICH, MARTBTJRK. stOT H!?Afr A CHE" DTAR tHEA, DYSKNTKrV, COIJjC, WIND tit THE JOWBLS, ivnd ait INTERNAL PAINS. _ Trrr?l?n thnuld alwaya carry * bottle of RAJK. rVAY'S RELIEF wiUi th?m, A faw drop*la water rill prarent a'ckcvu or paina from chsAf of watar. T IS BETI^T&AN FRJNC&. J^AXDY OR JOlViOOO AO A OHJlUllim*. Price AO Cenu. Sold by Drtfitttii DRj RADWAY'S ;/ _ , . . , - ( ' met*potiUTvm* Metrrfo d containing bo marcary, minora!-, or tar* Almwa ihh fi llnldfitf rmobwu lllltttll# frpgfc Unorder* oft lis blffVttiva Organ*' "I Oowtipatlni^IuwMd Pile*, FuJIm** of tba Blood h Soar Kructatlorw. Sialdn* or Ft?U*rlac at Um Pit of ho Stomach, Swicmiln* or tUs Head, Hurried* Icnlt Breatblnr, Flotterln* mt it* Heart, ( Inttocatinm 8enutius? when la s IfflaM Pcxtui let* of Vlnou. Dot* or Web* befir* Uw? ad Dal] Pais in tba Head, Deficiency of Paraoiraitos, ' aft Ifellownroe of the 8*1 u and Kyea, Ptia Ini ttuMSfcR , Jheet, limb*,and Sadden FtuataM of East, BurnlcgU boFleih. TH' A few doaea of RA DWAY'S FIM.S will fn? tba ' 171 tern from all tba above named iUorderm. Prt? 23 Lean per Box. SOLIXJJY ORUQGISTS. Read *FAL8E AND' TtXJtJ* * Sand ana lettar-*taj*p to RAJDWAY it CO., Ka. 32 Warren Street, New Yoric. In formation rortb tbooaacds wtll bo aent jon. HALE'S w Honey or Horehound and Tar fob the curb of Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoxbmt ' new, difficult Breathing, ahu all Affections of the Throat, - Bbonchial Tubes, and Lungs, leading to Consumption. This Infallible remedy is composed of the Hoirar of the plant Horehound, in * -i ?ti? B itw CQCmiCaiUIIIUJI t1mu* lnn-uau.,v.u?vr' ed from the Lm Phinctplk of the forest tree Abies Batjawka. or Balm of Gilead, The Honey of Horehouod soothes xm> scatters fi.11 irritations and inflam. inations, and the Tai*Batm cleaksm ^ tt??t fhn throat and air-nasaatfet leadings the lungs, Fvrz addition*1 ingredicntb keep the organs cool, tuJiz*. and in healthful action. Let no pre judice keep you from trying this great medicine of a famous doctor, who hat saved thousands of lives by It in hlf .arge private practice. K. B.?The Tar Balm has no bat taste or gmelL psrcaajW cents jlnd $1 per bottle,. Great ntlsg to bay latgo aiza. Bold by all Druggists. "Pike's Toothache Drops'1 core in 1 minnte. wtnd Wo It HTTHEN writing to ADVEHTISBH8. *" plMM ?ty that yon taw tfa* adTtrtiaantQ t a ?kia paptr.