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r r Mil 11 i??????????j?????? The Rime of the Modern Editor. To editor Merrily buzzed the mosquito, crafchttb at Cheerily scratched the quill, XuJdn'f ht. And fur iu the night his wrong* to ! write, j Scribbled the editor still. Entereth to A noiseless step on the door sill tiiui a venera- Aud opeus ye sauctuui door, b!e ghost. Aud a spectre whose age would cover I a p;-ge, Walked over the sauctuui floor. Ye editor Ye editor raised his aching head ; [ ?uppoi>(-th of A? the iuau of years he see. ; course he "Now by thy hoary beard," he said, j w a n t e t b " What wouldst thou have of nie ?" j fcomtthiug I It tateth Grimly he creaked bis leathern Jaws, j je ghost some Slowly he wagged his head; tlni" to say And h? hems aud haws, and attw a! anything. panae, " Ha, ha!" were tho words he sai l, j But he flow- " Oh ! I am the old man," the spec- I etb ou like s ter saved, ca n d i d a t e " Full well thou knowest of me, when he get- My hundred and seventh natal day [ r?th a goo.l I never again will see. start. *T- 1 ?? rtn nn,1 lijfAii tlmu knoWt'at I Ill* UrtMl- V'li, UIUVUMU eth himself to now, J be a 11 e w s Full oft at the rosy morn, item that is Ere breakfast I shuck, and I have ! known of all good luck, men. Full ninety-two bushels of corn. I And vaunt- "Older am X than the century's j etU himself spun; because of his My eyes aud my to-'th are good; i funic and 'Tis only for play thit iu half of the j htrengtb. day I chop "up the cord of wood. I He bloweth "Full oft I walk, tor to make men , the harder ns talk, ho yoeth on. A score of miles ere noon; Aud never I wear an urnbrellura Iu the scorching suu of June. And sayeth " And all men kuow, for the records i his boss lie show, oven for the That on both sides of the fence, last. From Washington*!* days to the j reign of Hayes, I've voted for all presidents. j to editor " Thou knowestme now ?" The edi- ! Joyfully rec- tor emiled. o^nizeth ye Aud he mended the nib of his pen. j r.?,in.? ?t,i rtnoil ?neptpr.''he said. " thou art ! fossil. par! of my bread. I'll chuck thee iu ouce again." Ye cry in. And yet once more ye sanctum door, 1 Ktill t'hey It turned with dismal creak. come, by the And the woman who spoke, the si- ; yard, quart lcncc broke and gallon. With a tremendous, quavering > squeak. And auoth- " Now year alter year I help thee," | eroldsetiler Hhe sayed, , ?ppeare<a on " For I am one of these three, thoRCCU". I.oug since, I'm at raid, had tby pa- ; per been played, And thou wer: not beholden to me. j Aud lieth "The years of my age are one li;mw i t h the dred and nine, graceful cise And Rpectaclm never I use, of a politician Aud I thread every time the needle j so tine? With lay third set of molars I chews, j And In vain "Aud listen," she sayed, "I have j sho striveth cut out and made to eclipse her For the wife of my granddaughter's J rivals with sou startling A quilt that is uiakin', fine stitches I whoppers. I've taken, Eighty thousand twelve hundred , and oue." The specter, Aud more had sh? sayed, but there j another good patiently stayed, old d t f.news Awaitiug a chance to be heard, item, limpctb A woman who came with the limp of I iu. the lame. And she sighed as she uttered each word. And r ?> " You hear me, good people, I swalhearseth ye lowed a needle, lie about swal- Iu a fit of childish laughter; lowing y e Oh woe is me, it came out of my darning knee, needle. Tvonty-uine long years after." Specters of And more, yet more, at the swinging j yet other door, standing Came trooping into the room; news items And specter aud ghost and their I .end up their merry host T Ia'.'I fh a flft.nntlim'ft curui, X#4UKU?rvft tvuv - __ doom. Ye man with "Now who cometh here? good yc snakes in friend, what cheer ?" liis stomach " I drink from the swampy hurncomoih in mock, with groan-. And for thirty-two years, behold these tears, I've lived with a snako in my stomach." To babe tint " And I, good editor, I am the babe was often That was born in a neighboring l?orn with town, Uairand teeth With twenty-four teeth and long < asserteth It- black hair, self. That reacheth my feet when it's i down." They swear " No more, no more," ye editor | un:o each cried, other eternal " Ye are all of ye friends to me; friendship, No power our friendship can over I whensudJeu- divide? ly But who cometh now that I see ?" I The boss "Good editor, see, thou art looking i liar cometh in for me; I come on an urgent'ralssion, Much copy I bring, for I've {been ' visiting The I'uris Exposition?" I And straight " Out, fiend ! A vaunt!" with savage way they ad- bowls, minister unto ADd scowis most fierce to see, h'm the I'.ist With yell and shout, they hurl him WortbyGrand ont, Bounce. At tha back door of the fifth storee. And tJir-y " Xtiere is oniy one c.ass 01 ncnuu, Tvill have 110 they said, innovations "Of wliicii t&o great world never ; In news items. tiree, It is year after year, to read and to | tear The good old reliable hare." ?Burlington Uaickeye. j WASHING DAY. "Oh, dear me! what shall we do?" , said Mary Lennox. "It's just exactly liko those working people, to go and fall ill just when wo need theai rco*t And every napkin in the wash, and not enongh tablo linen to last two weeks, j You must be a very poor manager, grandma, not to have more of such things!" Old Mrs. Lennox sighed as she rubbed the glasses of her spectacles. i "My dear," said she, "I should have had more if I could have afforded them. But times are hard, and " I "Yes, I've heard all that before," j said Mary, irreverently. " But the question is, grandma, what shall we do . about the washing, now that Katrina cannot come?" Mrs. Lejinox heaved another sigh. She was old and rheumatic, and the i great piled-up basket of clothes seemed u terrific bugbear before her eyes. "I'm sure I don't know," said she. i ' But if you girls will help a little about J the dinner, I will try and see whut I j can do. It must begot out, I suppose, and " But here a slight, dark-eyed girl, with a clear, olive complexion, and wavy black hair growing low on hor forehead, turned from the table, where I she was rinsing china. "You will do nothing of the kind, t grandma," said she, as resolutely as if j she had been seventy instead of seventeen. "You attempt a day's washing, j at your age ?" " But my dear," saiu granama jj?uuox, feebly, " who will do it?" " I will," said the dark-eyed lassie. "Georgie, I'm surprised at you!" Raid Mary, " Why you never did such a tiling in your life !" " That's no reason I never should." " But, Georgia? if any one should see you I" " We don't generally receive company in the kitchen," said Georgie Lennox. "And if any one should come in " " Well?" "If they like mv occupation, I shal 1 hr? very mu?h pleased; if they don't, they are quite at liberty to look the other way !" j Aud Miss Lennox tied a prodigious crash apron around her, rolled up her ; fi'.eeves, and resolutely took her stand j iu front of the wa?h-bencb. "It seems too bad, my dear, with i those little white hands of yourj," said j old Mrs;. Lennox, irresolutely. "Oh, my hands!" laughed Georgie. j "What are they good for, if not to make themselves useful ?" Mary drew hereelf disdainfully up. "Well," said she, "I never yet stooped to such a degradation as that I" "It would be a great deal worse degradation to stand by and let my rheu- ! ma tic old grandmother do the washing," j observed Goorgie, with philosophy, as , she plnuged her hands into the tnowy ; mas* of suds. OKI Mrs. Lennox had been left with a j picturesque farm-honse on the edge of j Sidonia Lake, and nothing else. And \ ho old Mrj. L?nnox bethought herself to eke out her slender means by the roception of snmrner boarders. And in Saptoraber, when her two grand-dan^h- i terfl Mbfc-?ined their fortnight's leave of , abseucefrom the type-setting establish- i ment in Troy, where they earned their j daily bread,they came home for a breath j of fresh mountain air, and helped grand- I ma Lennox with her boarders. For | there was no girl kept at the farm hous3, j and no outside assistance called in, except as German Katrina camo once a week to wash and scrub. "It's drudgery," sighed Mary, who was tall and slender, with a fair com- ; plexion, doll-blue eyes, and a Byronio 1 make custards, Trash china, and decorate the tea-table with flowers. "You'll hang out these clothes for me, Mary, won't you ?" said Georgie, as she flung the last red-bordered towel on the top of the clothes-basket, "while I wash the pillow cases ?" " Indeed I shall not," said her sister. "With the Miss Pooh;.s playing croquet in plain sight ? Nev;?r." "Tlmn T mnot ilf? it nivself." said Georgie, with a little shrug of the shoulders. "Ami"? But just as she spoke there came a tap at the kitchen door. " Come in !" cried Georgie, valiantly, while her sister, with burning cheeks, endeavored to hide herself"and her occupation of peeling onions behind the big roller-towel. And Mr. Raymond Abbott " walked in" jiccordiugly. "I beg your jiardon, Miss Georgie," said be, rather blaudly. " I didn't know I should disturb you." "Oh, you're not disturbing me at all," said Georgie, serenely, resting one dimple-dotted, rosy elbow on the washboard, and looking at him like a practicalized copy of one of Guido's angels, out of a cloud of soapy steam. " But," he went oh, " I was going to ask one of the servants for a baSket to bring lish home in." "I will get it for you with pleafrtre,' said Georgie. And as she turned to the dresser, licr sister answered the puzzled expression of Mr. Abbott's face. "You are surprised to see Georgie doing that?" Raid she, with a gesture toward the plebeian tub. "And I don't wonder. But it's only for a frolic?a t I_. _m ?~i. wager, \jrins wui uu oihj?i luiugo, j know!" But Georgie had lier rd the last words, and turned around with crimsoned cheeks and sparkling eyes. " It is not a frolic," said she. '' And it's not a wager. It's serious, sober earnest. I am doing the washing because Katrina has sprained her ankle, and there's no one else but grandmamma to do it.' "Indeed!" said Mr. Abbott. "And can't I help you ?" "Xes," Georgie promptly made answer. " Yon can carry that basket of clothes out to the bleaching-ground for me." " Georgie 1" exclaimed her sister, as Mr. Abbott cheerily shouldered the load and strode away in the direction indicated by Georgie's pointing finger. "Hea&ked me," said Georgio. "1 shouldn't have asked him !" " Judge Abbott's son I" groaned Mary. " The richest man in Ballston I He'll never ask you to go out rowing on the lake with him again." But the reappearence of the gentleman in question put a stop to the discussion. j "Miss Georgie,'' said he, "I would have hoisted them upon the riggings for you, but the wind takes 'em off so." . i "That's because you needed the clothes-pins," saifl Georgie, handing i them to him with alacrity. " Couldn't vou come and help ?" Baid Mr. Abbott, wistfully. " Two can manage so much better than one." " Oh, I'll come and help," 6aid Geori gie; " and be glad to get my clothes out drying." She tied on her small gingham sunI bonnet, and rau out into the yellow Sepi tember sunshine, while Mary burst out | crying with mingled vexation and anger. " I shall never get over the disgrace | of it in the world," she said?"never, ! never;! Georgiehasno lignity?no prop| er pride! No; don't speak to me, | grandma, or I shall 6ay something I dreadful! I declare I've a mind never to own her as a sister again !" ? * "Have you finished the wushing?" said Mr. Raymond Abbott. " Yes, I've finished it," said Georgie Lennox. "But I shouldn't like to earn my living as a laundress. It's a very tiresome business." Georgie was " cooling off," under the shadow of the frost grapevines in the woods, with a book in her hand, and the curly locks blown back from her pretty Spanish forehead. Mr. Abbott looked admiringly down on her. All his life long, his experience had lain among the smiling, arti-) ficial dolls of conventional society. He had admired Georgie Lennox the first time he had ever seen her; but that day's experience of her frank, true nature had given depth and earnestness to the feeling. " Miss Lennox," said he, "do you . know what I have been thinking of j since we hung out those towels and table ' wuuuo i " Haven't the least idea," said uncon- i seious Georgie, fanning herself with ; two grape-leaves, pinned together by a thorn. "I havo been thinkiug," said lie, " that I should like my wife to be just such a woman as you are." "A washerwoman?" said Georgie, trying to laugh off her blushes. " I am quite in earnest, Georgie," he said, leaning over her. " Dear Georgie, will you be my wife?" " But I am only a working-girl," Gaid ingenuous Georgie, beginning to tremble all over, and half inclined to cry. " We are type-setters, Mary and I, and we are very poor." " My own love, you 'are rich in all that heart could wish!" pleaded Abbott, taking both her hands in bis; "and I want you for my own!" Raymond Abbott had fancied Georgio Lennox when he saw her playing croquet, in pale pink muslin, with a tearose in her hair; but the divine flame of love first stirred in his heart when she looked at him through the vapory clouds of the wash tub?Gnido's angel folding her fair wings in a farm-house kitchen. Just so curiously are romance and reality blended together in the world. An Infernal Machine. Tnfomnl /nnf?hinpR hfivfi been enmloved of late with fatal effect in several cities and towns of Mexico. A New York paper says : At San Angel, a little town Ave or six miles from the capital of the country, a party of six ladies and three gentlemen assembled to open a box assuming to liave come from Southern France, and to contain Lourdes water and a number of rosaries that had been blessed by the Pope. One box opened, another was disclosed, and as t ;ey were trying to g?-t into the second a tremendous explo.-iou took place, and every person but one was instantly killed. The box contained nitro-glycerine, and was evident .y prepjyed for assassination, though why any of the party mentioned should have incurred any such deadly enmity it is impossible to tell. The terrible box, it is said, was sent to one of the ladies, remarkable for her amiability and benevolence. She was unmarried, and a great favorite, and it is surmised that a semi-adventarer who had proposed to her and been rejected had adopted this method of revenge. Such a thing scarcely seems credible to us; but in Mexico anything criminal may happen, with or without provocation. There are men there who appear to practice assassination lest they may grow rusty in their^murderous art. In the Reuiou of the Midnight Sun. A Norway correspondent writes: At one place the snow was even below us, nlfn.A t<. tlifl water, and vet the country round about is beautifully green, and in the sheltered valleys quite fertile ; about Throndbjem the flowers are wonderful?whole fields ot flowers?the ground is entirely covered for almost miles in some places, the pansies being most beautiful. I saw at one place nearly an acre, the blossoms entirely covering the ground, making it beautifully imrple, and their fragrance filling tie air. I never have seen fo mauy flowers before. Of course they are entirely uncultivated and uncared for ; consequently one may gather them by basketfuls, if he wishes so to do. From Throndhjem we took steamer to Tromso, which is in about latitnde 70 degrees, and more than 200 miles north of the arctic circle. We are in the region of the midnight sun, and it is .never dark, and, if clear, the Bun may be seen at any time. Last night it was shining brightly from twelve to one o'clock, and we saw the sun rife and set in one short half hour (only it did neither). I have not been able to see a star for two weeks, and yet I have been up, MNflMUMIi A TERRIFIC FIGHT FOR LIFE. Nathan Ksgen' Fenrful Combat with i Grlaaly Bear?Brute Ferocity aud D? termincd Human Courage, On Thursday of last week, says a lat! issue of the Calaveras (Cal.) Chronicle i Mr. Nathan Rogers, who owns and live j upon a ranch in the mountains, abon I nine miles above West Point, near th< [ North Fork of the Mokelumne, had th< j most terrific encounter with a grizzl; j we ever heard or read of. Gray sqnir j rels are quite numerous in that vicinit; i this season, and after dinner, Thursday i Mr. Rogers went out for an afternoon' | sport shooting them. He was ormei i with a light rifle, and fortunately ha< I upon his person a large knife which h ' occasionallv carries. In leaving th I timbered ridge upon which he had beei shooting, Rogers had to cross a patch c comparatively open country, the onl; | growth it supported being a species o : furze and an occasional bunch of chapar j ral. He had gone but a short distance 1 when, in descending into a little blim ravine, he came upon a huge grizzl, feeding on the carcase of a sheep. It i needless to add that he did not procee any further in that direction. The bea was not over twenty feet distant ? | space that Rogers had not the remotee I desire to diminish. Man and beast die ; covertd each other's presence at th I same instant. For a moment Roger j stood irresolute. His first impulse wa | to run ; but his better judgment tol ! him that if he did so, and should b j pursued by the grizzly, escape was im j possible. Dreadful as was the alterns I tive of boldlv facing his terrible enenrv I it was his only hope, and Rogers firml j resolved to stand his ground, and if th ! worst came to the worst, to at least sei | his life as dearly as possible. Ther was a chance that the grizzly might nc | attack him if he maintained a bold att; j tude, but whatever hopes Rogers bui] | upon that foundation were speedil j dispelled by the bear giving a low grow] | dropping his mutton and advancing t< 1 ward him. The hunter's heart leapt t ; his throat as the threatened struggle be 1 came an unavoidable certainty. Th | weakness was but momentary, and the ' with every muscle and nerve in his bod ; drawn to their utmost tension, the ma [ awaited tbe onset of the beast with o I much coolness as though his life wer : not the stake in the unequal contest. A ! the grizzly slowly camo toward lum an | had got within a * distance of abon fifteen steps, Rogers threw his rifle t ' his shoulder and with steady aim plan I i ed a bullet in the bear's breast, just ii , side the point of the right shouldei The animal was hit bard, but no sixtj to-the-pound bullet ever stopped grizzly. With a growl so ferocious the it resembled a roar, the infuriated an mal rushed forward . to the attacl Throwing aside the now useless rifl< and drawing his knife, Rogers brace himself for the death straggle. As tb ! shaggy monster reared upon its hauncl I es, its great, black, convex head towei i ing two feet above Rogers, the latter ii J voluntarily threw up his left arm like I pugilist on guard. The bear seized tb j arm in its mouth, and throwing its gret I paws over tne shoulders of the huntei ; hugged him i^ an embrace so cruel th? . his eye3 seemed starting from thei sockets and the blood gushed from hi nostrils. Rogers's right arm was free and he drove the long, keen blade of hi knife to the hilt in the side of the grizzly j close to the shoulder. The blade reoche ; a vital point, inflicting a fatal wonnc | but its immediate effect was only to it ! crease the grizzly's ferocity. It hugge ! Rogers the closer, its long, sharj I chisel - pointed claws tearing gapin i wounds in the unfortunate man's bact ! while with a sickening sound the bone i of his left arm were crunched an i ground to powder in the vice-like jaw j of bis terrible antagonist. Wild wit ' tli? acrouv of his wounds. Rogers pliei . his knife with the energy of desperation ! driving it again and again into the vital ; of the bear, literally carving it alive ' while the "latter, with claws and teeth ! lacerated its human foe in the mos j frightful manner. It was indeed a strug ! gle to the death. Rogers, weak frot j the loss of blood and half delirious wit] i pain, now fought more from intaitioi i than anything elee, having only a vagu J consciousness that his life dependod up 1 on putting an end to that of the bear The terrible wounds of the grizzlj wer also commencing to tell upon its vitality Rogers' senses were not so dulled bu that he could distinguish that the grizzl; was gradually relaxing its hold, and th' ray of hope the knowledge affordei stimulated him to renewed exertion with his knife. The bear endeavored to support itself despite its cruel wounds wavered for an instant, and then, with i low moan that sounded almost human ii its expression of pain and despair, th huge monster toppled over, draggin; the man with it, the latter falling par tinlly underneath. Summoning all hi i remaining strength, Rogers plunged hi 1 knife into the grizzly's abdomen, th i hot life-blood and viscera spouting ful ' in his face. The bear relinquished it hold, and Rogers, torn, lacerated am j bleeding, crawled far enough away t escape Deing rent to pieces oy tue terri ! ble death straggles of the grizzly. A1 1 though victorious, Rogers' conditio] ! was critical iii the extreme. He was i j mile and a half from home, so weak an< | faint he could scarcely stand, and ii j danger of bleeding to death before h | could reach help. His left arm huni crushed and lifeless at his side, his lef 1 scapula and clavicle were broken, th ! blood trickled frot, tlio terrible wound j in his back, and his legs wero literall; I furrowed by the crooked claws of th ! bear's hind feet. Conscious that h j must soon have help or perish, he sum ; moned all his resolution and staggerei | along in the direction of home, mor dead than ulive, a trail of blood mark ; ing his footsteps. He managed to read ; a spring in sight of his own house, whe; his endurance at last gave way, and h fell in a dead faint by the water's edge | Fortunately he was soon discovered b his son, a lad of some twelve years, whimmediately gave the alarm. Roger ; was taken home and his wounds tern ! porarily dressed, an express in the mean j time being sent for a physician. The grizzly was the largest eve j known to have been killed in ttio count j : It measured nine feet in length, "ove : all," and weighed 1,400 pounds. Th i left side of the bear was literally cut t ; pieces, there being no less than twenty two knife-wounds, nearly every one c i which reached a vital point. Mr. Roger ; is lying in an extremely critical condi I tion. In addition to his horrible wounds ! iU/? /.I.aaU ^/\ liio orofAirt tt?oa a forrihl tilO BJLlUUIk lA-r ilio aj ouom nwo one. His left arm literally mangled an torn to shreds, has been amputated a the shoulder. His left clavicle and sen l pula were fractured and the three lowe ! ribs on the right side broken. Th i flesh und muscles on his back are to tor ' and abraded that the vertebra) are actu ally visible in many places, while, as be ' fore stated, his lower limbs are literal! | Beamed and furrowed. Despite hi , frightful injuries, the attendant physi eian is of the opinion that Mr. Roger I may recover if erysipelas does not intei ! vene. Chinese Drugs and Medicines. Among the moBt highly reputed drug i and medicines which the Celestials es i hibit at the Paris exposition area variet ! of exceptional medical curiosities. Th j larvre of grasshoppers, for iustanc? dried and roasted, are prescribed fo headaches ; dried fowls' gizzards for in digestion ; the inside of a stag's hor: for rheumatism and bronchitis ; aglutin ous decoction of donkey's skin is labelei as having a great reputation, beinj taken in cases of pulmonary diseases while a powder prepared from the sku of the elephant is recommended fo rheumatic pains. One of the stimulants ? * _ A- i.1. - T ,'n , accormug IV 111w jui/uuuu un>w , xr? I tincture of scorpions; aud for tonic pui poses, the best, though a very co3tl; mediciue, is the gelatinous decoction o tigers' bones. For a general antidote, ii many cases tho bear's gall is mucl admired. The gem of the whole collection, however, id curious enough, i number of live toads are imprisoned in i jar half filled with flour, and when thi flour is moistened with the saliva whicl these creatures emit, it is dried and kep as powder. The special use to whicl this preparation is put is to take it ai snuff to prodnce sneezing, and in tha way it is regarded as invaluable in restoring persons suffering from fainting HOW TIMBER IS COHSUlfED. * I loot of the Unconsidered U?to to wblah QC Wood la Put. CC 0 ; It is usual to refer the consumption fcI] t | of wood to such causes as the demand s j for building and engineering purposes, b. 11 also such minor demands as the lucifer ct 0 I match and road-making industries dl e | make. It is true that these are the ^ 5> | principal means by which wood . I io nmicnmnr! in thin find other COIin y | tries, bnt there are countless other A t I ways which go to swell the sum total j*' e : in no insignificant degree, and yet J1' ] I which are left in comparative obscur 3 | ity, for few persons think of them. As, e for instance, in Amerioa tulip-wood is 'j1 e much used for making wooden bowls, q j and for the heads of hair brooms or 8* ,f | sweeping brushes, for eating and drink- r? y i ing troughs of cattle, and no inconsid- r* ,f erable portion furnishes wood for In- ?' .. dian canoes. One of the principal ^ ,t uses of the holly, dyed black, is to be fr j i substituted for ebony, in the handles i0 y of teapots, etc,, and the strong, r( s ; straight shoots, deprived of their bark, Vf_ J j are made into whip-handles aud walk- 8 r ! ing-8ticks. The lime tree forms the a j best planks for shoemakers and glovers c< it j upon w-iich to cut their leather, and is ? i. j extensively used in the manufacture of " e toys and Tunbridge ware, aud by the ftl s turner fbr pill-boxes, etc., and the in9 nor bark is made into ropes and mat- ai j ting. The sycamore furnishes wood f e j for cheese aud cider presses, manglee, " L_ etc#, and when the wooden dishes and tl i. spoons were in common use they were il . ! mostly made of this wood. * It is now n y I used for printing and bleaching works, a e for beetling beams, and in cast, iron r< II foundries for making patterns. The 0 yew is used by the turner, and made in- " -v. , 1 ;?l {( (J tO vases, Snun-DOXtiS ULIU uiumuni iui. struments, and it is a common saying [t among the inhabitants of New Forest t< y that "a post of yew will ontlast a post T [( of iron." Where it is found in euffi h ,! j cicnt quantities to be employed for n 0 j works under ground, such as water n y j pipes, pumps, etc., the yew will last h e ! longer than any other wood. Gate o: n 1 posts and stakes of yew are admirable g y j in wear, and in France, the wood makes n n : the strongest of all wooden axle trees, ti lS 1 Of the beeoh are made planes, screws, si e j wooden shovels, and common fowling 8 ! pieces, and muskets are also stocked ti j . with it, and beech staves for herring ti | barrels are not unknown. The sweet or " i0 | Spanish chestnut furnishes }.;ate and e: I;. | other posts, railing and barrel staves, w | hop poles and other such matters, as tl r# j strong and good charcoal, though scarcer'_ j ly equal to thp* of oak for domestic C Q j purposes, but considered superior to C | that of any other for forges, for which ^ j. i purpose it is much used in Spain, and al- o. j so in Switzerland. Horn beam is the c< j' I best wood that can be used for cogs of t< j j wheels, excelling either the crab or the ! tl e ! yew, but its application in this manner n: j. ! is about at an end. As a fuel it stands "V r. j in the highest rank, emitting much n: heat, burning long, and with a bright, c< a ' clear flame. In charcoal it is also w q I highly prized, not only for culinary h ^ | purposes and the forge, but also for the b r manufacture of gunpowder, into 1 which, on the Continent, it enters in ai [r j large proportion, In Russia, many of tl i8 | the roads are formed of the trunks of fi ? : the Scotch pine, trees from six inches g j to a foot in diameter at the larger end e p j being selected for the purpose. These n (J are laid down side by sido across the t< I ! intended road, the thick end of one al- ci 'm j ternating with the narrow end of the fi j : other, the branches being left at the d ( I end to form a sort of Ledge on each j ii ' ' ide of the road. When thus laid, the j p r hollows are filled np with earth, and j d '' the road is finished, being analogous to ci j the corduroy roads of North America, is B In Germany, casks are made of larch, o Ij which is almost indestructible, and al- C ^ lows of no evaporation of the spirit- b1 ( i uous particles of the wine contained in tl ' | them. In Switzerland it is much used ri , | for wine props, which are never taken p ' I up, and which see crop after crop of , t] ! vines spring up, bear their fruit and j b u ! perish at their feet, without showiup ! v ^ | symptoms of decay. The uninjured j ?i ^ i state in which it remains when buried I a Q i in the earth or immersed in water ren- j a e 1 ders it an excellent material for water- ; e j pipes, to which purpose it is largely j , j applied in many parts of France. The j is ' I butternut is esteemed tor the posts and : p ! rails of rural fences in America, for : tl {. ; troughs for the use cf cattle, for corn j c: | shovels and wooden dishes. Shell-bark i li *Q j hickory provides baskets, whip-handles ; si ^ i and the backbows of Windsor chuirs. ; r ! Tlio nicrnnt ln'nkorv is preferred to any j b g j * r-o ?? ? jl? | } other for axle-trees and ax-handles. ! p i The sugar maple is used by wheel- j li ? ; wriglits for axle-trees and spokes, and ; p { for lining the rnnners of common eleds. j s . I Dogwood is used for the handles of ; si : light tools, such as mallets, small vises, : 1 I etc. In the country it furnishes hard ' f< *; row teeth to tho American fanner, an - \ j supplies the hames of horses' collars, : 0|etc., also lining for the ruuners of | I j sledges. The monutain laurel is selected ; 8i 8 | for the handles of light tools, for small | c, j | screws, boxes, etc. It most resembles j e 0 j boxwood, and is most proper to supply | j, _ j its place. Bowls and trays are made of ! j, _ ' red birch, nnd when saplings of hickory : e ^ ' or white oak are not to be found, hoops, j fl ' particularly those of rice casks, are made J 8( j | of the young stocks and of branches not j w ! exceeding one inch in diameter. Its ; r: 1 twigs are exclusively chosen for tho ; a : brooms with which the streets and court- ! f( | yards are swept. The twigs of tho other } M j species of birch, being le&s supple and e a ; more brittle, are not proper for this use. j f( ! Shoe lasts are made from black birch, j s! ^ j but they are less esteemed than those of j ^ beech. Immenso quantities of wooden j ^ _ ! shoes are made in France from the wood ; n j ! of the common European alder, which j jj 0 j are sensoned by fire before they are sold, j n ' The wood of tho locust is substituted for j ~ [j box by the turner in many species of ^ j light work, such as salt-cellars, sugar- | ^ j bowls, candlesticks, spoons and forks for j C] ( salad, boxes and many other trifling ob- i ^ ' jects, which ure carefully wrought into j a J i pleasant shapes and sold at low prices, j Q 3 ; The olive is used to form light ornameni- j r( _ | al articles, such as dressing cases, tobac- ! ^ "1 co boxes, etc. Tho wood of tho roots, ' gj l" which is more agreeably marbled, is pre- j r ferred, and for inlaying it iH invaluable. , ' Of persimmon turners make large screws, ^ 'v and tinmen mallets. Also shoemakers' j e j lasts are mado of it equal to beech, and j g, 0 for the shafts of chaises it has been found ! | preferable to ash, and to every species 8j of wood exept lance wood, The common j 3 ! European elm is used for the car-1 : riages of cannon, and for the gnu- J t i wale, tho blocks, etc., of ships. It I ' | is everywhere preferred by wheel- , ? : wriRht9 for the naves and fellies of j ? i j wheels, and for other objects. White [ ? | cedar serves many subsidiary purposes. > , l" j From it are fabricated pails, wash-tubs i I and chums of different forms. The } ; ware is cheap, light and neatly made ; | _ j and instead of becoming dull like other I wood, it grows whiter and smoother by ' I* j use. The hoops are made of young j ' oedars stripped of the bark, ami split ; into two parts. The wood also supplies p I good charcoal. The red cedar furnishes m , 1 staves, stop-cocks, stakes, and is also i t? " | used for coffins. ! g A few others may bo briefly named, ' a separating into trades as follows, apply- 1 ri ; ing to the American manufacture : 8 | Sieves, usually of black or water ash p for the bottom, and oak or hickory for fi( 7 i the circle ; whip-stocks; white oak and jr 0 J shellbark hickory; picture frames, white tl > ! pine and sweet gum ; saddle-trees, red r ' maple and sugar manle ; screws of book- p, i binders' presses, hickory and dogwood ; a] Q j hatters' blocks, corn shovels, butternut; 01 | shoe lasts, beech and black or yellow ^ i birch, etc. : te S ; This slight sketch, which is by no ! g: ? , means complete, will sprve to give un j jp a J idea of some of the ways in which tim- ai r ! ber is consumed, beside being wasted '? ; and put to its legitimate purposes in sj u i otner manners. xne limns may Heem '*! beneath notice, bnt the aggregate must f'r r | be something important.?Lumber Tim- tc * i bet Trades Journal. Sj ? ei - ' People have different notions of time. :, i j A landlord, who is his own rent col- j. 11 lector, recently called on an old tenaut, ;ln ? who, with pale, trembling lips, faltered:;. i " I am very sorry, but times are so bad, !,T t and?and?I am not qnite ready. If you j i conld only give me a little time/' "Well, j, i well, yon have always been a pood 1 ? fc payer," said the landlord. " A little J 'a - time?eh? Certainly. I am going np-i j stairs, and?I will look in as 1 come Customs of the Cypriotes. In an artiole on Cyprus, the territory squired from Turkey by England acting to the terms of the Berlin treaty, le London Standard says: Many of the istoms of the Cypriotes are governed y tho rules of the Roman and Greek lurches, and even up to the present ly tho Greeks of the island interweave ith their Mariolatry various superitions, the origin of which may be aced to the old rites of Aphrodite. b, for example, the custom of offering jves to the priests. Out of a populaon of about 180,000 inhabitants, about FO-thirds are Christian, and rather less ion one-third Mohammedan. The latr, of course, scrupulously adhere to 10 precepts of the Koran, and in the ;udv of this, their sacred volume, find jason for those customs which have a iligious character. Thus, at the birth ! a male child a little salt is put into h mouth, and a few words are repeated om the Koran, the meaning of which : "May the blessing of thy existence .'uder dear to thee the name of God, to hom thou oughtest always to give lory." For eight days, Mariti tells us, prejding th.> ceremony of circumcision, 10 family hold a grand festival, when ley indulge in every kind of pleasure, ad give balls and various kinds of en rtainments, at which all their relatives id friends aro invited. When the rentful day arrives the ch:'ld is clothed 1 the richest attire, and is conducted irough the street on a horse most gaud y caparisoned, the standard of Mohamled being carried before it. A band of msicians Jfollow, and the friends aud datives close tlio procession. On jaching the mosque the people engage 1 prayer, and the*ceremony itself isper>rmed amid universal rejoicing. Their marriage customs aro similar ) those practiced generally by the 'urks. A wife, wo are told, may demnd a divorce if her husband does ot give ber enough to eat, refuses iier loney to go to the bath with,or absents imself from ber. Female slaves are oly allowed to claim separation on tho round of deprivation oi the cocimon ecessaries of life. The women, Marinarrates, are guarded with every posible strictness before marriage. Their >vers often indulge in all kinds of exravagances, such ab passing twenty mes a day before their windows, and, i order to attract their attention and scite their sympathy, they publicly ound themselves with the poignard icy carry as a token of their devotion. Referring to the burial customs of tho !ypriotes, we may mention that Gon. lesnola found in a tomb in Alambra, hich is about twenty minutes' ride west [ Dali, some little figures, which he Dnsiders to be purposely placed there ) indicate the profession or the sex of 10 person buried. These consisted of lodels after the image of the Cyprian renus, in ttio earliest style of art, horseien, warriors with shields, and chariots jntaining men and women. There ere also spear-heads, daggers, knives, atchets, mirrors, needles and circular owls. Speaking in another place of their Qcient modes of sepulture,, ho tells us lat tho depth of the tombs averaged rom only five to eight feet; they were 11 of one shape, and measured about ight feet in diameter. Moistened clay, lixed with triturated straw, was used ) consolidate tho walls aud root of tlia avity, so as to prevent the earth from illing in. A platform made of sunried bricks was then built round its inor base, upon wliich tho dead were luced, with their heads turned in the irection of the entrance. In some uses a reversed elate, made of earthen rare, was placed tmder the head, vidently meant as a pillow. The lypriotes are not without their supertitions. In some parts may be found iie Lignum Cyprinum, called also the 3se-wood, from which they obtain fine erfumed oil; this, and the wood too, iiey believo fortifies the heart and rain. The common people cut ofT the rood and bark together, toast it in the re, and then suck it, as it is regarded j s a sovereign specific against fever, nd is supposed to have a miraculous fleet. Among the venomous animals there } a serpent which the Greeks call kobias, from a notion that it is deaf; but [lis, says Mariti, is by no means the eiso, for the mowers drive it away by ttlo bells, which they fasten to their cvthes. There is a Greek family in rhich the power of curing the person itten is said to be hereditary. The laut ladany (the CiituR ledon) is beeved to have magicnl properties. The easantry carry it in their hands and mell it, under a notion that this will erve as a charm against the plague, .'ho smoke of it, too, is considered good ar the eyes. " | How Plants ProTidc for the Future. Each speoies of plants must, of course, olve for itself the problem, during the ourse oI its development, whether its nergies will be best employed by hoardig nutriment for its own future use in ulbs and tubers, or by producing richly ndowed seeds which will give its offpring a better chance of rooting themelves comfortably, and so surviving in afety amid the ceaseless competition of ival species. The various cereals, such 3 wheat, barloy, rye and oats, have mnd it most convenient to grow afresh 'ith each season, and to supply their mbryoswith an abundant storo of food :ir their sustenauce during the infant tnge of plant life. -Their example has eeu followed by peas and other pulses, y the wide class of nuts, and by the injority of garden fruits. On the other and the onion and the tiger-lily store utriment for themselves in the] under ? . . i-i i ^ : _ # rouuu stem, anrrountieu uy a mans oi verlapping or closely-wound loaves, rhicli wo call a bulb; the iris and the rocus lay by their stock of food in a oody or fleshy stalk; the potato makes rich deposit of starch iu its subterraean branches or tubers, the turnip, carjt, radish an x beet uso their roots as )e storehouse for their hoarded foodtuffs; while the orchis produces each ear a new tubercle by the side of its listing root, and this second tubercle eeomes in turn the parent of the next ear's flowering stem. Perhaps, how- j ver, the common colchicum or meadow iffron uffords the rn<;it instructive iu;ance of all; for during the summer it }nds up green leaves alone, which deote their entire time to the accumulaon of foodstuffs in a corm at their de; and, when the autumn comes rand, this corm produces, uot leaves, nf o Tinlrr>il flntopr kIilII: wliinli rtn?)ipa 3 way through the moih't earth, and ;ands solitary before the October inds, depending wholly upon the stock f nutriment laid up for it. in the conn. -Popular Science Monthly. w^m ! Estimating Measures. It is often useful to have a few aproximate data to dcduce weights aud [ensures from. Here is a corrected iblo, which however, does not aim at reat accuracy, but may servo to make rough estimate when it is necessary to nluco measures: A pint of water weighs nearly one ound and is equal to about twenty >ven cubic inches or a square box three iches long, three inches wide and ireo inches deep. A quart of water weighe nearly two nunds and is equal to u square box of bout four by four inches and three and ae half inches deep. A gallon of water weighs from eight to m pounds, according to the size of the illon, aud is equal to a box six by six iches square, and six, Feven, or seven ! ill a half incln s deep. A cubic foot of water weighs nearly j xty three pounds (more correctly nix j two and a half pounds), and contains j ora Feven to eight gallons, according I > tho kind of gallons used. A peck is equal to a box eight by j ght square and eight inches deep. A bushel almost fills a bos twelve by ; irolvo inches square, and twenty four ches deep, or two cubic feot. A barrel of water almost fills a box to oy two feot square nnd one and a ilf foot deep, or six cubic feat. Petroleum barrels contain forty gains, or nearly five cubic feet.?Manu* cturer and Builder. A mule's hind legs has only one sean. It ia always a beautiful spring. SUMMARY OP NEWS, t V Eastern and Mid die State* 6 Tho Massachusetts Democratio State conTention was held at Worcester, and after a stormy session the following ticket was nominated : t For governor, Benjamin P. Butler ; lieutenant- a governor, John F. Arnold; secretary of State, c Charles M. Strauss; attorney-general, Caleb i Cushing ; auditor, John Boyle O'Reilly ; treasurer, D. N. Skillings. The resolutions" adopted f denouncs the installation of President Hayes ^ as a "monstrous wrong," declare thore ought c to be a change in the government of the State, favor tho free oxerciae of the right of suffrage by all alike, and call for pnblio economy ana l reform. While tbo proceedings which resulted c in the nomination of the above ticket and the passago of the foregoing resolutions were in progress, the Democratic State committee, which refused to acknowledge the action that had been taken, held a meeting and issued an address "to the Democrats of Massachusetts," reciting that the convention hall w?b " in possession of a mob publicly announcing itself as acting in the interest of Benjamin P. Butler," and proclaiming that the convention be postponed, to meet at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on tho twonty-fifth. Tho Connecticut Democrats met in convention at New Haven and renominated the present 8tate officers by acclamation. Colonel Loomis declining a renomination for lieutenant-governor, Charles Durand was substituted in his place. The platform adopted declares the action by which President Hayes was seated " a bold plot and unparalleled fraud," favors hard money and honest payment of tho debt, deuounces'the resumption act and declares that " whatever curroncy is issued should be for tho benefit of tho people." Ex-Secretary Robeson, of New Jorsey, and ex-Governor Curtiu, of Pennsylvania, have been nominated for Congress?the former by tho Republicans and the latter by the Democrats. Edward Malloy, a private detectivo, was shot and instantly killed in New York by "The." Allen, a notorious local politician and gambler, who recently was prominent before tho public as a friend and supporter of Shupe, the bankrupt oditor of the Advocate. The shooting was dono in the gambling house of Allen, who claimed his pistol had gone off accidentally; and as thore wero no witnesses to the tragedy, tbo truth of hit' statement could not be ascertained. The Massachusetts Republican Stato con- i vention met at WorceBter and nominated I Thomas Talbot for governor ; John D. Long, i lieutenant-governor; Henry B. Pierce, secretary of 8tnto; Charles Endioott, treasurer ; Julius L. Clarke, anditor, and Oeorge Marston, attorney-general. The platform adopted favors | hard money and the resumption of specie pay- | ments, commends the President and his administration, and oalls for publio economy and , civil service reform. 1 While laboring under mental derangement, 1 Gcorgo H. Moore, aged forty, principal of a ( New York city public school, committed suicide by nhooting himself through the head, at Mount Vernon, N. Y. The fashionable world has boen stirred by the marriage of Mis* Jeannette Beunett, sister of Jarnes Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, to Mr. Isaac Bell, Jr., of New York. The ceremohy was performed at Mr. Bennett's summer residence at Newport. B. I., and the numerous presents displayed were estimated to be worth a hundred thousand dollars. Charles E. Lubnrg, paying toller of tho First National bank, of Maboney City, Pa., has been convicted of embezzling about $2,000 of tho funds of the bank, and of altering its books to conceal his operations. The Yanderbilt will case in New York city has been reopened after a long season of repose. David N. Skillings and John Boyle O'Reilly, who were nominated - at the Worcester (Maes.) Democratic convention for treasurer and auditor, respectively, havo declined to run. David Bell, aged nineteen, living in Fishkill Landing, N. Y., was bitten by a dog over two months ago, and died in terrible agony the other day from tho effects of tho bite. The Union savings bank, of Saratoga 8pringB, N. Y., has closed its doors, by order of the State bank superintendent, who found a deficiency of $4,000 on overdue interest. The Now York board of aldormen have been listening to propositions to heat the city's business houses and private dwellings by steam. Hngh A. Mullen, editor and proprietor of tho Philadelphia Sunday World, was struck with a whip by Richard N. Price. Tho assault took place on the street, and Price claimed that his father, a prominent local politician. j had been aspersed in an article winch appeared i xix iuo rr is# t'jt. The first frost of tho season appeared in the Hudson river valley and lowlands of Orange county, N. Y., on the twenty-third. The Connecticut Republican State convention was held at Hartford, and resulted in tho nomination of Charles B. Andrews for governor ; David Gallup, lieutenant-governor ; David Terranco, secretary of State ; Talmago Baker, treasurer. Tbo platform adopted favors bard money, declares tho question of tho presidential title permanently settled, and supports tho administration of President Hayes. Adolph HofTman, with soveral aliasen,, who has four wives living, aud had promised marriage to Ave other women, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, in a Now York city court. Addison L*tlin, ox-member of Congress, and naval ofticor of tho port of New York during President Grant'ri administration, committed suicidc by hanging himself in the garret of his house in Pittsfleld, Mass, He was fifty-four years old, and for Bome time had been in bad health. Western and Southern States. J. H. Slater, a Democrat, has been elected United States Senator from Oregon by the legislature of that State. Edwin French, a well-known citizen of Cleveland, O., died at Willonghbv, a town near that city, on a recent Saturday. " Fearing that the grave might be robbed, Mr. Julius E. French, j a son of the dead man, hired a young man of the place named E. Bliss, to watch it. Bliss visited the grave several times during the early part of the following Monday night. Ha went there again about one o'clock, when ho discovered that the body of Mr. French was gone, [ and saw signs indicating that the robbers were I Hot much more than est of sight. By the side of tho empty grave was found an old'coat, and j loaJing from it were fresh wagon tracks. The j grave had been hastily opened and the body Hrmr(7i>rl nut liv the neck. The trail showed "OO? [ that it bad been dragged some distance on the graaB and then put into a wagon. On the way the fine broadcloth coat in which the body had been clad had been drawn off and loft, The traiks of at lcaat two men were plainly risiblo. It was found that the body had been stolen by a young man and a professional grave-robber named Joiner. The latter was arrested, and said the body was at j the Homieopathic college in Cleveland,'which j was searched. The sawdust on the floor of the dissecting-room, which was about four inches thick, was found to have been disturbed. Prying up the boards, the bo^y was found in \ a box ready to be lowered into the pickling vaults. Warrants were sworn out for the arrest of J. V7. Covert, a student, H. L. Sumner, janitor of the college, and T. G. Miner for secreting tho body. Dr. N. Schneider, J. E. ' Smith, 8. A. JBoynton and H. H. Baxter, mem- ] 1 born of tho college faculty, were also arrested, j Mr. French had been a fiioad of the college j and had given $100 towards erecting a new j building for it. AU Indian GUlOrOttK ;m V?e?ieru aauoan I , canned intenso excitement in Dodgo City and the surrounding country. Roving bands of i, hcstiles attacked and murdered farmers, burned their bonnes and drove off the stock. . A band of 300 Indians attacked a cattle camp j j twenty railes from Dodge City, killing one man j ( and dispersed the rust. So bold were the sav- I j ages that they attacked and destroyed a farm- j ( houso within" two miles of Dodgo City and in i plain sight of tho inhabitants of that place. A j i party of citizons. together with a company of ] United States troops, numbering seventy-seven j , men in all, engaged with a largo body of In- j , dians and were routed, losing one man. The j , Indiana fought with umiBual bravery. Couriers j . were dispatched to all points to warn the peo- ' pie, and the running of trains at. night was j stopped. ' , | Fivo men ontorcd tho Bank of Baltimore, in j ] Baltimore, lid., and while some of them en- | j gaged tho caabior in conversation, ono of their I | number entered the safo in tho president's ] room and removed two tin boxes containing ] bonds and bank notes of the value of $62,000. ] Sherman City, a small village in Isabella county, Mich., has been ntterly dostroyed by a ] terrific tornado. Every building in tho village, J oxcept ono frame dwelling, was swept away, I and that was partly demolished. Tho air j I was thick with timbers, boards, bricks and J < atones, and the inhabitants took refuge in eel- j 1 lars. Mr. Tryo, liia wife, little eirl and a baby j1 were badly injured. Considerable damago was j l also done at Coleman, Mich., where C. Doan ' J had his skull fractured by a falling tree. I 1 A few days ago about thirty of tho garrison ' ' at Mior, a town on tho Mexican side of the i Rio Grande, attempted to desert into Texas. | Several were drowned, one was shot in tho I * pursuit and tao were recaptured and shot by J' order of the general in charge. Darnel McBride, a colored man confined in ! jail at Athens, Ala , on charge of having mnr- 1, dered a white man. was taken from prison by a ! j crowd of about 100 men and hung to a tree "on j f the spot whero tho tv.nrder was committed. I c Tho reoovery of tho body of Edwin French I 1 from tho vault of tho Homeopathic college iu t Cloveland, Ohio, where it had been taken from I ' " ? t?11 ino grave ny 1110 ruwunci;iiuuini.n, iui uimi?.uuil ; t purposes, has been followed by tho discovery i * of the bodies of two old ladies in tho same in-11 stitntion. Tho remains had been put in pick- } c lintf water, preparatory for dissccUon. Ono of ; f tho bodies wan Mr*. Angelina Higby, late of i t Garrett villo, a small town aliout thirty miles j ^ from Clevclitid. while the other proved to be a I t Mrs. Tease,|of Itavonna, Ohio. Toe bodies were J t reintVrrcfl, and warrants were sworn oatagainat j < the collegc faculty and tbe body-snatchers. j f The Odd Fellows' bank, of Sacramento, CaI., , c has decided to wind up its business, and has t made an assigumont of its assets, which, it is j ' boliovcd, are sufficient to pay tho depositors. F Tho boiler of an engine attached to a train j exploded near V.mghan's Station, Miss., killing f tbo fireman, severely injuring tho engineer, and wrecking five cars. Tbo Nevada Democrats have nominated L. H It. Bradloy for governor, upon a platform fa- r voting hard money and advocatlrg the removal ^ of all restrictions on silver. a Whilo witnesses were being examined at o Marqnetto, Mich., in tho income case of the ti United States against Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, t wo men suddenly entered the office, seized the *u looks of the New York Iron Mine company, ca rhich had jnst been used by Mr. Tilden's conn- B1< el, and made their escape with them. aE ca From Washington. ac Isaac Oohen, a labor agitator, was arrested he other day, charged with making an assault *' ,nd creating a disturbance at the agricnltural ^ lepartment, the complainant boiug Coinmialioner Le Due. CV VI The 8mithsonian Institnte reportB that Proessor Paters, of Oiinton, has announced the j liscovery of a now planet of the eleventh maglitude. Edward McPherson, chief of the bureau of ingraving aDd printing, has resigned, to beome political editor of tho Philadelphia Prtaa. fc>< According to a statement prepared at the h: rananrv dflnartmont tho cost of collecting the fl Juited States revenue in the fiscal year 1877 "" van -<3i6.255.614,10, and in 1878 tho cost was i5,526,787.82. The total number of persona w mployed in collecting the rovenuo is 3,565. Si Several companies of United States troops ffl vere ordered to Washington in anticipation of fc rouble with dissatisfied laborers. j. According to a report received at the departnent of State from our consul at Hamilton, )nt., the following are the daily rates of wages ? )nid at the present time in that vicinity. The o :onsul says nothing concerning the etato of aj he labor market. Holders, glass-blowers, Ji mckiayers and stove polishers, S2.25 , sewing 0j naoliiue makers, stone-cutters and woodurners, $2 ; clerks, ?1 to $<!; farm laborers, r< 31.25 to $2 ; plasterers, $1.75 ; printers, $1.67; VI :arpenters, coopers, trunk-makers, cabinet a Bakers, shoemakers, harness-makers, tin- ^ imiths and blacksmiths, $1.50. Railroad em- , iloyes?bridge builders $1,75 to $2; bridge aborers, $1.25; switch repairerp, $1.25 to c< J1.50; yard men, $1.20 to $1.50 ; common & aborers, $1 to $1.12. K The four members of a commission appoint- d 3d by the German government to visit this :ountrv for the purpose of inquiring into the l American system of taxing tobacco, have had ^ i long consultation with Internal Revenue I " Commissioner Uaum and Dr. Kimball, chief of r< :he tobacco division in that bureau, in regard a .o the subject of examination. jf Late advices from Mexico indicate that the J ^ political situation there is becoming precarious tor the government of President Diaz, as revoutionary movements are occurring throughout i D h? mnnirv with uncomfortable freanencv and i :he national treasury i3 depleted. In*hie rocont nesaage to the Mexican congress Diaz asserted :bat Mexico desired to be at peace with all ^ nations, and especially_yvith the United States, b a Forelcn News. !c Tho sum of $G,000, subscribed in France for j the yellow fever sufferers, has been remitted 1 by Minister Noyes. The recent elections in Canada have resulted j n in a Bignal victory for tbe Conservatives. The a jovernmont party iB largely in the minority. a ' Protection againbt the United States" was j h the election cry. ' jj President and Mrs. McMahon have contrib- b cted $1,000 for tho yellow fovor sufiftrers. ! d Four hundred of tho 2,622 British troops in j & Cyprus are hick of fever. j * Tho printer of a phamplet libeling the em- I J peror of Germany has boon sentenced to eight- c een months' imprisonment and $100 fine, and I g the author, in default of bis appearance for j a trial, to five years and $400 fine. A British mission to Cabul has been refused j a permission to go through Khyloer Pass by the j f Ameer of Afghanistan, and a war between that i t; country and England is threatened. A largo j n force of British Indian troopa ha:; been ordered j c to the frontier. | n Mount Vesuvius is reported in a state of | d eruption. - ELL The Yellow Fever Hcource> j11 While (he fever was abating at New Orleans ? on the seventeenth and tho rejoicing there was j ^ great at tho constant decrease in the death- i j roll, yet in other places the indications wero ! ? not bo favorable as on previous days. Mem- ] E phis was still suffering terribly, the number of j j. deaths on the date mentioned reaching 101, 11 while the disease was spreading in the suburbs | j, and surrounding country. Tho following pain- [ j. ful incident shows how terrible have been tho j ^ ravages of the disease in some instances : The r mayor of New Orleans received a telegram j j. from Bev. Marks Moses, formerly of a syna- j j fogue in that city, but now of Providence, B. j ,, requesting information regarding his family, i ( who hvo in New Orleans, and from whom the I j alarmed father haa not neara ior Heversi uujn. i a An inquiry elicited the sorrowful fact that Mr. > a Moses' wifo, two eons aged twenty-one and ten ; years, and danghter aged twenty, had all died j the week previous, the only remaining mem- ; j ber of the family being a four-year-old daugh- j " ter. | t A Cincinnati dispatch states that in the lum- ! j ber camp of Wells & Co., near Elmore, Mont- i g calm county. Mich., an epidemic had been rag- : ing among tho men for a week past, which Dr. j ? Lovaly pronounced black jaundice, or yellow j t fever. One of the men, Thomas McGuere, J E was taken and as no one would nurse him or give him medicines, the unfortunate man was i soon delirious. None of the citizens of Elmore ; li would receive him into their houses, and tho a patient was placed under a tree in a drenching {I rain, and soon after died from the disease, I fc which, tho doctor eaid, was cloarly yellow fever. J p The remains wero placod in a box and buried fc under the tree where he died. : t The continued falling oft in the death-rate ; f on the eighteenth indicated that the disease I <j had done its worst. There were ninety-one ! deaths in New Orleans, twelve in Vicksburg, and thirty-eight iu Memphis up to noon, j Among the dead in Now Orleans was E. & Gay, a millionaire sugar refiner, who was connected with some of the oldest families in tho State, and had b-en identified with every groat commercial enterprise tho city has known since the war. A case without precedence in yellow I fover annals was presented in tho person of an j g Italian fishmonger in New Orleans, who had 6 been taken with yellow fever six weeks previ- v ous, was pronounced entirely cured, was taken f down again on tho sixteenth and died on the 1 eighteenth. * On the nineteenth the reports showed that j e while the fever was decreasiug iu tho towns it was spreading in the rural district* of Louisiana j _ and Tennessee. The plantations were suffer- j j, iug heavily, and nurses and physicians were j j called for. In Canton. Miss., trie fover had j ? abated to such an extent that a card was ; ? issued by the citizens of the town, declaring > they were in no further need of provisions or money, and heartily thanking the people of all j L sections for the aid so generously extended in r time of need. j g A Greenville (Miss.) dispatch of the twen- j I tieth discloses a sad condition of affairs. Out 1 n of 500 people who remained in the town nearly I 400 had the yellow fever and 162 deaths had . occurred up to date. " We are cut off entirely 1 from the world," says the dispatch, " as the tol- 1 c egraph office in Vicksburg cannot take our j p business, there being only ono operator there. | Wo aro out of medicine and ico, and have not been able to get one message through j for nine days. The fever must soon abate for want of material." There was B a slight increase in tho fever at Now Orleans, i . While the disease was moderating in th? con- j " tral part of the city it was extending ia tho ; S suburbs. The deaths numbered eighty-six and j s new cases 211. In Grenada, Miss., there were . no deaths and only two new cases. Up to tho i ? twentieth tho wholo number of deaths there was , tl 271, of which 214 wero white and fifty-seven ! colored. Holly Springs, Miss , is another plague- j j, ridden tcwn. Colonel Falconer, secretary of ; T State, was among those stricken down, while | 0 tho death list contains the names of many j(1 prominent citizens. The following dispatch j Jf from Holly Spriogs will give an idaa of the T aitualion there: "Tbe silence of tho tomb ^ pervades the heirts or our nine Dana. me . bent have gone down, and we have asked others to take their places. In not an instance have 1 ^ we seen tbo one that would refuse to take his ' ? place wherevor wa assigned him. This is no N time f?r compliments : but when tho day comes the public shall know who has stood by us. We said wo had no tears ; but there is a time when , they flow, and that i.s when we road tho telesrams and tho letters from friends far away. . fll Toll them they give us heart and make us jj stronger, better and brighter. But for this wo n would feel heart-sick and weary, and our Buffering peoplo tender their prayerful thanka for ?S! tho kind and generous assistanco thoir friends ^ in all parts of tho Union have given." ?' Tho reports oa the twenty-first and twenty- ' 1 aecoud showed a marked improvement in all \$ ;he principal yellow fever centors. Up to the ' !attcr-namod "date tho whole number of deaths i B; in the various infected districts wan as follows: i p; Now Orleans rorry, Miss r>! Bitou Rouge, La.. 12 ftreeuville, Miss. 183 I Plaquemino. La... 37 f.ako, Miss 32 g Pattersonville. La. 13 Brownsvil'f. Tex. 44 j &; Morgan City, La.. 21 Hickman, Tex... 7!) >7 Port Eads, La.. . 10 Louisville, Kv... 20 P< Delhi, La 0 Qallapolis, Ohio. 14 ^ Memphis, Tenn.. .2,273 Cincinnati, Ohio. 13 Chattanooga, Tcnn 2 St. Louis, Mo.... 10 , Grenada, Miss 273 Chicago 1 Holly Springs 93 ''ario, III 4 ttcksburg. Mies... 743 Motile 5 W Canton, Mias 94 Key West 5 Port Gibson. Miss. 9G. K Flernand, Mtea S- Total (5,557 Deean Springs 12 Tiiero have been a number of instances of a ( j 'ew doaths in ei-ven:! small placeis. The numjor of cases at New Orleans up to the twentyiecond was 8,050. At Vicksbnrg it was over 1,000. In Memphis about 0,800 people have jeen taken witl: tiie fever. An unfavorable cliango in tho weather vas reported from Memphis on the twenty- ' qJ bird, whilo in New Orleans there was also 5, i material increaso in tho number pf new i>j tares of yellow fever. Tho following ; ife rT>l..nr.on,i?n T ft !. ' s a Vllti .lUU. i.iil story of wellness and 8i:f!"ru:g: T~ ' The total cases of yellow fever are 175, and W ho deaths to date sixty-flve. Ti:e fever is now spreading in the rear of the town, causing din- Ci re-is and woo to tho moi-t bumble. Even 0e :olored people are taken down rapidly. tDr. j>e chwing in recovering. Ho lost iii-< brother and . w< wo children. Tiio Howard Association sent up uth Dr. Mngee tuolve nurse*, and the first i reek they were h?ro tlvo of them were taken i [own and one died. Several families hud every j >ne down ? numbering from tivo to ten in a j J'(h aniily. This is the most gloomy town I was : iver in. Thero is no work for the poor ; no j radeor business for tho merchant. Everyday I (j* ooks liko Sunday. God only knows what tho j W( toor would have to Buffer h:ul it not been for ! ho generous contributions which enabled tho j Toward Association to como to their relief, as | I3e hey have done for the third time " i jft A Memphis dispatch of the twentv-fonrth ?? ives the number of deaths for the past thirtyix hours as seventy-eight, and eavs : " Tho | isual activity prevails at all tho "association i ieadquartors, and every one K-ems to realize , id feel that it is now a il^ht for life. No hope I ? l the abatement of the diseacecan l<n expected ! . ill a killing frost comes, which, judging from , U he present warm weather, is yet far ia the l ? ture." In New Orleans the number of new I ses was 333 and deaths aeventy-three. Oat- i lo the city the fever was still spreading ' ong the plantations. At Milan, Xenn., a j se of the dreaded scourge made its appear- J ice and immediately there was a stampede om the town. Whites and colored people < ike fled, and business was entirely suspended. - I Greenville, Miss., over 300 cases of fever ( id occurred, and 210 deaths. Tho mayor and by marshal of tliat town were among the ( otims. Bnt few people were left in the place, * id thore was great difficulty in burying the ( jad. i i. ? . , American Officers in Egypt. ( The bankrupt khedive of Egypt has ! sen forced to disband seven-eighths of I is 40,000 or 50,000 men, including all I le Ameriaan officers who organized it, ' rcept Gen. Stone, chief of staff. There I as quite an exodus of Northern and ; onthern officers (some of them recom- < icnded by Gen. Sherman, whose daugh- ' tr tho khedive presented with costly ' iamonds in return) to Egypt between 369 and 1875, " where the richest j rince in the world," as tho khedive was elieved to be, received them with open ' :ms. Not only were they given prom- ^ lent positions, but the most influential i them were furnished with private J 3sidences and retinues of fellah ser- i ints. They overcame many obstacles, ( nd built up an army that was a credit ) Egypt, though a costly one. Some I the American officers conducted sue- I Msful expeditions of exploration or t mquest, that of Ool. Long to the J 'yassa lakes and of Maj. Prout to Kor- j ' mi I Knwa UI nil. JLiiuy utjuaiuu paauuo, uojo ?uu , jeser dignitarieB, bnt many of them ave left the service since the khedive's f nancial troubles began. Those who ? smained to be discharged have been J nable to get anything from the Egyptin treasury for some time, and most of i aem are still trying to settle up their ocounts with the government and tho ative traders. Joy is a shy bird, but when a man omes unexpectedly upon a two-dollar ill in the pocket of an old vest laid 1 side last winter it flaps its wiugs and j rows aa loud as anybody's chicken. _ j! Knrlronrd with Dancer. I I The dwelltr or temporary sojourner in r j ia!arious region of country is environed with {, anger. Besides inhaling at every breath an ] tmosphere saturated with an infections poiBon. o also drinks water which is in moat instances kewiae impregnated witn the fever and agne reeding miasmata. If a bilious subject, oflcient in f>tamiii:i, or irregular in habits of ody or digestion, his peril is much increased, a these abnormal conditions aro extremely ivorablo to the contraction of malarial disase. Bat this danger may be safely en- I ountered with tho assistance of Hostetter's tomach Bitters, which completely nullifies the 1 tmospheric virus, and neutralizes the continents of miasma-tainted water. Thia benign ntidote to disease eradicates and prevents evers of an intermittent and biliou* remittent ype, besides effecting a thorough and permaent reform of tboae enfeebled or irregular onditiona of tho system which invite net only lalaria, but other diseases equally to be readed. Two Noted (; rave Robbers. Oar readers will remember the account given a these columns of tho robbing of the grave | f the Hon. Scott Harrison, in Ohio, last May, i he body being found in the dissecting-room of he Ohio Medical College. Public indignation [ ustly brands any man is a scoundrel who will ob tho grave of the dead. But there are two toted grave robbers in the country, so far from icing the subjects of tho people's wrath, are iniversally lauded for their virtues. The reason s plain. While the former class steal tho todies of our loved ooes to submit them to the lissecting knife, these only rob tho graves to estore tho living victims to our hearts and lomes. Their names ? Dr. Pierce's Golden ledical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pelets?are housatold words the world over. The Jolden Medical Discovery cures consumption, n its early stages, and all iironchial, throat, .nd lung nffections ; PleassmPnrgative Pellets re the most valuable laxative and cathartic. Prom J. M. Pettengill, of Salisbury, Mass.? have sold more boxes of Grace's Salve during he last four months than any other like prelaration in my store; in fact it is the only lalve for which there is any sale. This bepeaks the confidence of tho pablio in its virues, and is in my opinion a valuable recommendation of its leading properties. Clock work is not more regular than the iver, the stomach, and tho bowels when tbey re put in order with Dr. Mott's Veeetable jiver Pills, a supremely effective and safe alerative, cathartic and blood depurent, which | iromotes thorough bilious secretion, a regular ,nhit nt hrvW Bound digestion and of nervous | ranqnility. It in the bett poaMible substitute I or that terrible drug mercury. For eale by all [ruggiBts. CHEW The Celebrated ' Matchless" Wood Tag Ping j Tobacco. The Pioxeeis Tobacco Company, New York, Boston, and Chicago. I Kor upwards or thirty years Mrs. WINSLOW'8 j IOOTHING8YRUP has been uflod for children > pith never-failing success. It corrects acidity i if the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates j ho bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. ! m old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle, j For the benefit of our readers we give this reek a sure euro for colic or bellyache in I lorses. To one bottle of Johnson's Anodyne < .liniment add same quantity of molasses and j ame quantity of water, and pour down the j lorses's throat. A man recently askod in a drug store for a j ox of rough diamonds; but the druggist knew J 10 such remedy. After much parley the drug- j ist found that his customer wanted Parsons' i 'urgative Pill*. He says, "That's the only fit J ame for 'em." To cleftnse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten he breath, nse Brown's Camphorated Saponaeous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cent* a bottle 'ocketGatIingGun$5, Arms Co..Lawrence,Sis. j N. E., N. V. & PA,P7O. DIRECTORY. ! J. J. Pike 4 Co., of Che'sea, Mas*., are arranging a ' usiness Directory, in which will be recorded one trader j i each town and city who has for sale Pike's Centennial j alt Rheum Salfd. For diseaaoa of the akin, such m alt Rheum, Sore lips, Chapped Hands, Cuts, Burns, . calds, Pilot, Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails, etc., | , lis salve has no equal. . IMPOKTANT NOTICE.-Farmer*, Vnoilssand Others can purchase no Remedy equal to Dr. I , OBI AS' VENETIAN LINIMENT for the core of | | holera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Uroup, Colic and Sea- ' ckna.ni, taken internally?(it is perfectly harmless ; j . >e outh accompanying each bottlo) and externally for , I hronio Rheumatism, Heiductio, Toothacho, Sore j > hroat, Cnts, Burns, Swellings, Bruises, Mosquito ites, Old Sores, Pains in Limt.s, Back and Chest. The liNKTlAN LINIMENT was introduced in 1W7, and , j one who has u*ed it hut continues to do sn. many ? ;t i. T..n TVilura ?. Bottle they would not > without it. Vhoug&nds of (Jertiliciite# can be scon at 10 Depot, aphakic; of ita wonderful curative propertinx. o!J hv the Drutftfio'.j Ht 40ct*. Depot li Murray,fjt. | nw York. . j i i Tlio Markets. SBW loax. ! I a?: o?m<?Witlre OS & (9* j rezvBadCh6rofc#8.. QG (ct, 10 ' ( Jich Go*? 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Wcilw...... ... W. (-4 0. ;g3?St*:* end fsnm/'rapt '.'1 (t$ '2 . ll'-VFALO. . our f 35 OS 5 fl i | ileal? Rod Western I C'i <j? 1 00 I ).n?Mist-.! .. <i <? <3 i it* ..., '!" !<* M 'C t0 (.4 '<5 irliT . fi'J " ; .riey I t? '<? t (0 VHIMCSLPHU onr ?Pev?r-'v?n!? Rr'n 1 Wl <3 1 i 0 ; acai-KotJ IVninvlvaniii 1 ?*?$ 1 O^tf re CO <4 &) ! <ri.?' o'fctw 6 4 (3 j Sail tfJssrf f 2 (4 I'J j .-3?iii ..... 1.1 iroloars?Orr.io r;7?, ;u.7H' r?fio?c?...,(!);< soi? Colorado 2>3 'j>i T?s-s ; '? ? 2<i ! SO 25 tlt'STO*. ?<) <s cm'x ?? 08><.$ M* ' & (?*,? 0t?f ocr?Wlscoaiisi6i:d liiu."l i;c <3 9 to " a?Mised f4'i<& 11 | ' Si <4 I1 I :ji?Ollto S.X 'B tai 87 ! j Oa?foro:?Sj>rin(? i'J 4 :2 j | . fOstiio .=, it3* i W.?, C4JJ i-f) m"o3,...c.... (4 <4 T6 iso 5*3 CIM : XATfcBYOTTK, E-IKJ. if 0*tt!o?Pocr t'lOIsviQfc (63** icj< I M>! C1X4 fil ~v? . 1 iH ?> n?y | if 1 MTrn Men for one .renr.to bopln work nt 1 I Q TV I F II Olice. tlnrj lull. Buitint'** tlrnt cIiim. i WoUU.ClVCIIIATI.UBl*. I C ' - '>v n i hi - - iii ilOWl BaOWCnAL TBOCgr?, fOTOOnyfae m<l ttnhy IPUAM'Q AMTHfttA .nw/XI*. Sold by' JrriftlYI 0 CUKE tlldrniiit^ Me. a bo*. 1 pMt day canraaainjc "The Naaaan *" lgenfTrofit. Samplafree. Fred. Jonee.WanaC.W.T J>A a day to AjpnU to tell a Hotuehold Artlt'l* p?7 Address Buckeye M,Vm Co.f Marlon.Ohio,ITT'MQ KKVOLVKKM. Prto?UatfrM. Addrea T U Xl O Great Weatarn Pan Works, PiUabOTg. P* 2WEET Generleve?Medler Lancashire CJ1ocfor 3 lQo . po?t-pald. J. OHADBIT, Chatham Centre, H. Y. flARA A MONTH?Agenta Wanted?SO beat S.lnll Mllinjt article* Is the world: ooaJ4mpl?/f*?. (WWU Addreaa JAY BBOWSOW, betrtit, Mich. A mm A DAT to Amdii saTseslneforths rireeMy fc7 VUltor, Terms and Outfit Fre?. A4&M yi P. O. VIOKEBY AnrMtw,?totM HI A PAY.-With Stonoil Outfit*. Whatoorte 4 KIH eta. srlln rapidly for oOctn. OaUlotrue ft*4* Mill H.M.8PENCKB, 112 Waah'a8t,Bort?n,Ma?. rtnfl 1 mn retail price 8280 onlr 865. PIAJIO0 Something New for Agents wona? ranted in erery Tillage, addreta Box 788? 5ew York. DIt. HOOTK'8 HEALTH MONTHLY.-16 ocUto pi get- Edited b* Dra. E. B. Foot*. Sk, md Jn. Seiton trial for blx montha tor FOUR 2c, irAMPS! Marray Hill Pab.Oo .129 B.28th Bt,.lCT. j fin fn tf>mnn l?t#rt?oid wuiouoiwu j)lu lU u)l(JuU fortnnM erery month. Book MBt- i r fr?-e eiDUinlo* ?Ter7thin?. Iddreaa BAXTER A PP., Banton, 17 WajTSfc. 5. T. SI OS $25 wiling om Flne/il Novelties Outfit Free i^<lioati?a to J f. H. BUFFORD'S SOWS. Manufacturing Pn 141 to 147 Franklia Stwot, Boaton, Mam. I Ettaljllahed noarly fifty years. CIDER tig???S* SWEET or 7ear?, or fermentation can bo arrested it say desired itage by using Ford's New Preservative. Material or 3 bbl?. 60 ota., for 7 bbli. 11.00. Bent by mall, with 1 nil direction* for use and b'>w to oleaa old banal*. Sole Mannfactnrer. PRANK FORD. HaTenna,Obio. Lightning LETTER WHITER A (.ic-simile copy made wbiK writing original.^ Ko < utra work. Cheapest in me. Send for circular*. K*jry >UMne?a man wauta it. Agents sell them at ?i*nt, ? h CilAH. JONJBSdc B'O.r Kocfc frrd. IMi BRACE'S SALTB. I JOHZSTOLZ, Miob.,DM. 27,1897.?Jf??r?. TovU*-. V H wot you 60 ota. for two boxee of Grace's 8a1t?. I h*r* B lad two and hnru used them on an uloer on mr foot-An <3 M t is almost well. Respectfully yours, 0. J. Vm nmm, Q Prioe ?5 centa a box at all druxxists, or aaatbr ngfl H m receipt of 33 cents. Prepared bj SETH W. U ^OVVli & WO**, 88 Harrijon Art.. Boston,Ma?s. U LiUUiiAAiMifli? Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion'. Sour Stomach, Sick Headache* MYff U 39 Dr. CRAIGS KIDNEY CURE The Great Remedy for* All Kidney Diseases! lUftr by rptcial per minion to Rer. Dr. J. E. Rackio, WnsbinKt'-n, D. (J.; O. T. Heston, M. D.. Newton, Backs Co.. Pa ; John L. Roper, Esq, Nonolk.V*.; Dr. J. )I. Whits, <17 Fourth Are , New York; Dr. O, A. Dean, Charlotte. N. Y.; Hon. O. R. Parson*, prwont Mnyor of Rochester, N. Y. Atk your druggUft. 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Established lsJO. | :vcsi^.oH;^.3srfT's |mB | Gargling Oil Linimenfl J"c!iov.- Wrapper for Animal and White for Human Flesh. I Burns :in<i scalds, Sprains and Bruises, S Chilblains, Frost Kites,Strin^hult, \VtndgaJll^H|^^| ; S. rat. -ics or (irease, Foot Rot in Sheep, Clt ipf d Hands, Foundered Feet, 1'U'jl: Wounds, Roup in Poultry, External Poisons, Cracked Heels, HHHH S.itiJ Cracks. Epizootic, G ills ot all kind*, Lame Back, Sitfwt. Ringbone, Hemorrhoids or Piles,^^BB^B Poll Kvil, Toothache, Swellings, Tumor*, Rheumatism, Garget in C..ws, Spavins, Sweeney, QRSBH Cracked Teats. 1- istula, Mange, Q^HH CaI!ou>, J.aincpesi, Caked Breasts, Horn Distemper, Sore Nipples, Crmvnscab, Quittor, Curb, Ola Sores, Koul Uicers, ! a rev. Corns, Whitlows, Abcess ot" the Udder, Cramps, Boils, ( U.swelled Legs, Weakness of the | Thrush, Contraction of Musde^H^Bj^l \ Merchant's Gnriflln* Otl is the standam^^HH 11.iniment of the United States. Large fltfi: medium, 50c; small, 25c. Small size I family use, 25c. Manufactured at Lockpor^H^^^H B N. Y., bj" Merchant's Gargling Oil Compan^^^^^H I ' jony IIODGE. Sfc'y.^mjj