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FARM AND HOUSE. r TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. \ f Draining the I-and. It is a wrong policy that prompts many "* ^Unir xn/)f lor?H ^ ianners i-o put ujl muuui^ tuw on the ground that the outlay involved will not be compensated with large re- n turns. It is an established fact that crops o cannot grow to advantage under an excess of moisture, any more than than they t< -will yield largely on a dry and parched n soil. There is no danger of draining those lands so much that there will be no ^ moisture left for the proper support of vegetation: but, on the contrary land ^ well pulverized and thoroughly underdrained will hold sufficient moisture for this purpose much longer than where the water is allowed to stand until it evaporates. As to the method, this must depend on circumstances, though underdraining is generally regarded as the best, el It is very important that ditches should b be run closely enough together to drain a the land thoroughly, the distance apart to be governed by the nature of the land, fi The open ditch has several disadvanta- is ees. It takes up much land which could w otherwise be cultivated; it hinders til- s< lage: the banks cave in by the action of frost after a few winters, and it is a "catch basin1' for leaves and litter, which are blown into it every autumn. But it f is simple in construction, and inexpen- ^ sive, often answering very well for free- g] ing the land of surface water. Tile is the best material used for drainage pur- , poses; boards often decay early, and stone fills with dirt so readily that they ^ are unsatisfactory and often require taking up. ? Ctilticatov. ? 1 ai r.i Philosophy of S?ed Potatoes I O" The potato eye needs enough of the potato to supply it with nourishment un- jr til the roots can be sent off and become ai established so as to support the plant and tj supply it with nourishment. There are w about the same number of eyes in a small potato as in a large one; the small will ^ liimlimit ;is manv SDrouts as the I fT large, but feebler: the small will not get ^ so firm a hold of the soil, and the stems being less with fewer and shorter roots, , will develop smaller tubers. Also, the . large potato sends up too many stems; ^ they crowd each other; some of them , from the part of the potato where there are few eyes are much stouter and will | Pj produce some good-size tubers, but the I struggle for room and food and sunshine i ' among so many competitors will assured- w ly diminish the size of all. Potato hills eighteen inches apart should not have ]n more than four strong stalks; each stalk m will then under favorable circumstances 01 throw off from two to four good-size m tubers. Hills one foot apart cannot de- " velop to percecpion more than two or three stalks. h( .v. Large potatoes cut with one eye to a " cutting will afford plenty of nourishment to the plants until they become estab- pi lished, several of the numerous eyes at tl: the stem being destroyed. One cutting S? in a hill when placed a foot apart will be tl: sufficient, or two when eighteen inches d< or two feet apart. If medium-size pota- hj toes are \ised cut them with two eyes to oi a piece, except the stem end, which a< would better be rejected. Usually the cc medium size cutting with two eyes will sc about equal the large size cutting with S one eye because it has stronger stems, o] Small potatoes can all be used to good d< advantage for seed bv cutting all the eyes d but two or three. Yet the small potato w will not send up so good a stem as the lo-rrrr. onftino' r?f fhp Siimp S17.fi bfiCflUSe the ,WA6V VWVWMb ~ ?? branch in the small potato begins its growth as a dwarf, and no amount of food or favorable conditions will over- j come this poor beginning. The true philosophy appears to be to plant only ^ enough to secure three or four strong ' stems to a hiil. This can be best accomplislied by cutting large potatoes into Cl pieces with one eye. or medium-sized to two eyes, or use single small potatoes with all eyes cut out except two or three. C! ?T. Wilson, in Hew York Tribune. P ti Hints in Poultry Culture. 11 Everyone interested in poultry culture, ^ and especially in raising and breeding thorough-bred fowls, is acquainted with sc the name of I. K. Felch, of Natick, Mas- a; sachusetts, a specialist in poultry-breed- ii ' ing, and a frequent contributor to agri- ai cultural papers on that subject. Mr. w Felch has just written a book which, says a] the New York Observer, comes nearer tl being a complete mauual on tne suojecr ri of poultry-raising than any work we have ei seen. It is the result of long and sue- tl cesssful experience in the business and p may be relied upon as accurate and trust- tl worthy. "We make a few extracts for the b benefit of our readers. In regard to roosts pi and nesting-places, Mr. Felch says: w "Avoid all permanent or box-made nests, which become harbors for lice. Avoid g also the old plan of an inclined plane for p, roosts, for all the fowls will strive to oc- n cupy the highest perch, and many a fight ^ and fall will be the result, which will vastly increase the list oi casualties, ^ while the low and level plan saves g( many from lameness and internal injury; for while a hen will walk up to a) her perch, if she has the chance she will n invariably fly down. The floor of the AV house should be kept covered three to e! four inches deep with a coarse-fine ir gravel, not so tine as to be called sand, jj yet having a loam mixture in it. This s( will deodorize all the filth and stench, ^ beside making a loose and soft substance ^ to alight upon in descending from the ^ roosts. Nests so low and easy of access ^ that a fowl can stand upon the floor and reach tne egg are conducive to egg T" 1 - 1 ? - ? Ml 1 _ A. eating. Jl you nave oniy a village ioi, and are limited in space, and the flock j has from necessity to be confined upon j the least possible amount of ground, ea h house and shed should have two yards, that one may be sowed with oats while n the fowls occupy the other?and when ^ the oats are four to five inches high, let j the flock occupy this yard while the J other is treated in iike manner, thus furnishing the raw vegetable food so necessary to them. Beside, this treat- Sl ment keeps the yard clean and sweet. These fowls, so yard. d, wilT eat all, even 11 scratching the roots out of the ground, 11 giving them a needed exercise." v On the subject of feed for young ! chicks the author, siiys: "The first meal * for chickens after being taken from the v nest should be boiled eggs, chopped a fine, shells and all. also baked corn cake 'l or excelsior meal cake crumbled into |J scalded milk. No fluid as drink but the * scalded milk. After the first twenty- 11 four hours, after their gizzards have be- }J come filled with egg-shell, gravel, etc., let their meal in the early morning be ex- I1 celsior meal, bread and scalded milk; at 11 10 o'clock granulated corn; at 2 o'clock 8 the excelsior, bread and milk, and at G v - J ?:u_t o ciock canary sueu, unuut sctu, .mvt granulated corn. This if the hen be a confined and the chickens have their s liberty to find grass and insect food. Thus q feed till two weeks old, when it will be n found that few or any deaths will have t occurred, and the chickens .started well i for rapid and vigorous growth." n ? * f Farm and Garden Notes. Never feed cornstalks uncut. Even for nanure making cutting is far better. Bran, sprinkled with pepper and mixed j rith milk, is excellent food occasionally j or laying hens. - *?" 1?-i?T u JjCC no ammai or piacuu wm:ic n. wn. iclplessly threatened by a stronger one j fith no chance of escapc. An elm transplanted is said to make no j lore wood in twelve or fifteen years than j no in mother soil will in ten years. A lamb will begin to cat when it is j 211 days to two weeks old. There is j othing better for them than whole oats. J If a horse coughs, dampen his hay, wet j is mixed feed, keep him out of a draft, | fter exercise blanket him, and give him i little ginger in his feed. You want a dozen or two of early pul- j ;ts, so as to have them commence laying ext fall. Early pullets will pay you well , 3r all the trouble of raisin? them. When cows gnaw boards give them ! harcoal mixed in the meal and ground- j one. They should also have roots and on.ini'ii'nirnf n?lip*f>n them. o|;nui\uu^ VA ?rvv\4 ~? If, from improper care or feeding, or om some unavoidable cause, your horse i out of condition, you should dose him ith a little medicine and much common i :nse. Cattle have four stomachs; the barn- ! arc! fowl two, the crop and gizzird. 1 ravel acts in the place of teeth in fowls, i his serves to help grind down the food ; 1 the gizzard. Keep them supplied. The j larper the gravel the better. The man who drugs his horse to make * is hair sleek and "shiny" shows little ! 2iisc. The bet means to keep the coat ! lossy is careful and daily grooming, j his, with plenty of oats and water and j a occasional bran mash, is all the horse i eeds when in health. The arsenic ! room should be discharged. To save eggs for hatching put them j i a box of oats, small end downward, i id in a place of even temperature, and ; ley must not freeze nor be kept too j arm. Padded carefully they will keep j ell for quite a length of time, and will ' atch when two weeks old, but the j esher they are when placed under the i ens the better. It is best to set cut the most vigorous \ rawberry plants, as a dry season will in- I ire them. Old plants are not good, and j ay be known by the dark-colored roots j tat adhere to them. If it becomes nec- I sary to use old plants break off the i ack roots with the stem to which they ay be attached. Young plants have hite, fresh-looking roots. Cows give bloody milk on account of flammation of the udder. The inflarnation may be caused by cold, bruises, rer-hcating or over-feeding. The treatent of the cow should be according to te circumstances. Bathing the udder ; equently with hot wuter, or better yet, | at vinegar, is always good. If the udder i as been over-stimulated, feed less. In cleaning ivies, oleanders and like ! [ants that are subject to scale insects, I le means employed for destroying the j ime are frequently insufficient to destroy j le young broods, so small as to escape etection. To prevent such vexatious | ippenings, use water in washing plants \ I nearly 120 degrees of heat, and by the j Idition of tobacco juice to give it a j >lor like weak tea, or else whale oil '< >ap or common soap to create suds freely, nch a liquid starts up the young and d insects alike. The washing thoroughly one, then wait a little, alter which rench off the strong liquid with clean ! ater. Recipes. Crackers.?Butter, one cup: salt, one ;aspoon; flour, two quarts. Rub loroughly together with the hand, and et up with cold water; beat well, and eat in flour to make quite brittle and ard; then pinch off pieces and roll o ut ich cracker by itself and bake. Celery Si-aw.?One-third celery, twolirds green apples, chopped , tine like ibbage; place this in a frying pan ana our over it a little hot water: cover ght and let steam five minutes, then relove it from the lire, pour over it the bove dressing and serve cold. Apples witii Rice.?Peel and with a ;oop take the cores of as many apples 5 is required for your party. Pat thetn l a baking dish with a little lemon peel, ad a syrup of sugar and water. Cover ith a baking sheet or plate, and let the pples bake very slowly until done; but icy must not be the least broken. Place le apples on a dish, fill up the center of ich with boiled rice, and if you wish ?/\ ^,VV. Krnff-V ut ? crmill pvnpllJSP. U.13AA I.V/ k\J\J rw wivtfcj ut v? v?|,v , lace a dried cherry on the t< p, or a lite preserve of any kind will do. Put oiled rice also around the apples, and our over it the syrup in which they ere cookcd. Fish Balls.?Pick boiled tisli into e pieces; take mashed or cold, grated otatoes, using half of each is a good lie, or a third fish and t'.vo thirds poitoes; if you have any dressing from oiled lish mix it with it; if you use lashed potatoes that have been nicely jasoned with butter you need not use ly more, but if you use grated potatoes Id a piece of butter the size of a butterut; season with salt and pepper and one ell beaten egg; if rather moist, add lough flour to make in little balls, and ?i-" -i u.i-. i ? lilMl UUWll 11 ill , IUt>C JU II VJUg-jJuu a ttle butter, as hot as it caa be without torching; fry the balls in it until a light rown. For dressing to fish, use the 'ater it lias been boiled in. You can lake calculations when boiling fish to ave enough for balls for breakfast. Household Hints. Tarnished Brass and Copper.?To riorliton iiirnishod brass and conner. lean the brass by warming it and dicing in water charged witu washing )da, then into clear water to remove the reuse. Next dip it in a bath of one art by measure of sulphuric acid, one art sal ammoniac, two parts nitric acid nd four parts water. Dip for a moment, len dip in clear water and dry in hot iwdust. How to Preserve Milk.?Pour the lilk into'a bottle and place the vessel p to its neck in a snucep inful of water, rhich is then to be put 011 the fire and Mowed to boil for a quarter of an hour. 'lie battle is now to be removed from the ater and carefully closed with a good nd tight-fitting cork, so as to render it s air-tight as possible. Milk which has een preserved by this process has been ;t*cp for more than a vear without turn \.l.? 1 .,1 I ug sour. .'nils iu:n ;u>i> i.?v. |m i I V putting a tablespoon fill of iiorseradili. scraped in shrcvls, into a panfnl of lilk. When milk thus treated is kept ti a cool place it will be found to keep ;ood for several days, even in hot reat her. ?Household G u Ulc. Ax Important Caution.?An importnt caution is needed in the use of oil toves. As recently improved, they are [uite free from disagreeable odors. But icarly all burning implies the consumpion of the oxygen of the air and replacing j i with carbonic acid, carbonic oxide, j litrogen, etc. An oil stove or lamp in j a room is constantly depriving the air of its oxygen, and vitiating it with the deleterious gases named. In summer, with the door.'? and windows ajar, the continued renewal of the atmosphere of the room by admixture of fresh air from without, renders the use of pipeless oil stoves and lamps quite harmless. But in close rooms, in cold weather, it is important . to have over an oil stove, and over every large lamp, a hood or inverted funnel, opening at its top into a pipe?a stove-pipe or a tin tube?to convey the rising vitiated air to a chimney or other outlet, and thus fresh air be admitted from some source to replace that carricd away. If the escape pipe cannot be supplied, be sure to have full, free ventilation, especially in small rooms. An ordinary lamp probably consumes as much air as three grown persons do in breathing; a large one much more: while a fourburner oil stove will use as much air (or oxygen) as thirty or forty persons breathing in the same room. Therefore, always look after fresh air by using an escape pipe or ventilator; better provide both.?Prairie Farmer. Eggs Worth $100 Apiece. Perhaps the most valuable collection of birds' eggs in this country is the property of Professor Thomas G. Gentry, of Philadelphia, who is the author of "The Nests and Eggs of Birds of North America." He spent four years collecting the specimens, some of which arc worth to collectors $100 apiece. He recently showed them to a reporter for the Rceord, in Philadelphia. The handsomest eggs in the collection are a set of six laid by the white ptarmigan, a bird related to the grouse family, and which is found in Labrador. The eggs are a beautiful shade of golden brown, with black dots and liues, no two of which are alike. The foolish guillimot, a bird which only lays one egg and leaves that upon stones, depending on the heat of the sun for incubation, except in cloudy or stormy weather, when the female covers them until the sun appears, is represented by seven beautiful specimens. Of the Greenland cider duck, five eggs of an olive hue arc found in the collection. The nest accompanied them, and is made of feathers plucked from the body of the bird. Two eggs of the Iceland gyrfalcon, about the size of an ordinary chicken's egg, of a deep amber color smeared with a darker shade, and valued at $20 each, - * - f - J. i lie along side oi two eggs 01 me luriveybuzzard of Florida. These are blue with blotches, and are laid in the cavity of a log. Both the male and the female take turns in performing the imcubating process. A peculiar egg is that of the red flamingo, found in the Bahama Islands. The soft shell is like chalk and leaves a white mark wherever it is deposited. An egg of the golden eagle the size of a goose egg, two eggs of the bald eagle, two eggs of the gray sea eagle, and three eggs of the fish hawk (which builds a nest five feet wide) are among the curiosities of the professor's collection. As a natural curiosity in egg-laying the professor exhibited a set of eggs of the piping plover, found on Seven Mile beach, New Jersey. This bird does not build a nest, but scoops a hole in the sand in the midst of broken shells, always laying eggs with the points together. They are the color of the sand, covered with dots to resemble foreign substances, and are Antiiltr IJUl CilOllJT 1 "This nest is worth fifty dollars," said I the professor, as he opened a handsome cabinet and took out what appeared to be seven large beans. The collection was however, a complete set of eggs of the golden-crowned kinglet, found on the coast of Labrador, only two sets of which can be found in collections in the United States, and are highly valued by egg collectors. A set of eggs of the least tit of California is highly prized. This bird, though only the size of a wren, builds a nest twenty-two inches loog,four inches wide, and ten inches deep. Its eggs are about the size of peanut kernels. Next to them in the cabinet is a set of eggs of the cactus wren of California, which builds a nest the size of a halfbushel of cactus spines to protect its little ones from intruders. i Por-ilnilC AdvATltlll'O A IT Will iin ,-j jl iwi.j A woman named Elizabeth Mouat, aged GO years and unmarried, recently had a narrow escape from death. She embarked from one of the Shetlands on the fishing smack Columbine to visit a niece at Lerwick. The smack had on board the captain, two sailors and the old lady. The sea was very high, and the captain advised her not to start. She insisted, however. The captain was washed overboard and the two sailors lowered the boat in the hope of rescuing him. They did not succeed, and when they turned back they found the smack was two miles away going out to sea. They pulled after her, but found she rapidly gained on them, and were obliged at last to pull back to land. The smack soon diappeared. Steamers were sent in search, but could find no trace of the Columbine,and all hope was given up, as no one supvneunl r-nnlil livp. in such a fear uu\/ T WX.. ? .. . fill sea. The smack, however, was not lo>t. It was blown across the North Sea and, after a terrible experience of seven days, stranded at Lepso, and the old lady, nearly dead from exposure and pri- . ration,, was rescued. She was unable to , sleep ail the time she was on board. Sue | suffered more from wet and thirst than , from hunger, and she quenched her thrist' so far as she could by licking the drops i condensed on the window. Gradually she became weak. Her legs were so | swollen she could scarcely stand. She < therefore lashed Jierselt cio.se to tne hatchway, fearing she might roll away , and he unable to get back so as to look . out. Safety of Registered Mail. "Some people imagine/' said a post- i office official, "that if they register a letter it is the same as putting money in , the bank?it's safe. Then there arc those i who believe that registering is no gauranty. They quote the backwoods maxim 4-1. <? !,? rr/ifni-nnmnf-. ivil] ll*SlC!C 111') a lost I luui mv 6w.v registered package and tell you whore it is lost and you can get it yourself?if you can.' That is a mistake. The understanding now is that the man who can be proved to have handled the package last before it was lost must make it good. If he doesn't he may hand in his resignation and let his bondsmen get out of it the best way they can. Only last week a package wa< lost here. There were but two men in the department when it arrived and the agent got his lvceipt from them. The people who sent the package made affidavit that it contained $.100, 1 if rrnnrl rnflwn' ilUU Mil! IWII Jiiun uniuu " than lose their placcs and be disgraced. I guess you'll find the registered mail pretty sate."?Chicago Herald. Cures of sciatica arc reported as having taken place in Paris after a single ap plication of Dr. Dehove's method of freezing the skin above the painful parts > with a spray of chloride of methyl. The operatim is said to be applicable also to facial neuralgia. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. The first circumnavigation of the globe was made in 1519-22. The voyage occupied three years and twenty-nine days. Individuals have been cured of stammering by always filling the lungs with air by a strong inhalation before begin- 1 ning to speak. Accordinc to a popular belief current in years past, a trembling of the body was supposed to be an indication of demoniacal possession. In Siam the cats have their tails banged and are dyed bright yellow; the forests abound with pink and white albino monkeys; the python and boa attain to gigantic proportions, and the people are singularly temperate. The largest tree in Georgia almost rivals the giants of California forests. It is twenty feet in circumference at the ground, and its girth a short distance above is four feet greater. The great tree is 155 feet in height. A practice called a "peascod wedding" was formerly a common mode of divin ition in love affairs. The cook, when shelling green peas, would, if she chanced to nna a poa naving nine, lay it on xne lintel of the kitchen door, and the first man who entered was supposed to be her future husband. The first umbrella ever seen in England was carried by a footman named John McDonald in 1777, and it is a remarkable fact that it belonged to somebody else, and was taken "by mistake for his own," and that has been its fortune ever since, says the Philadelphia Record. This will astonish many persons who don't know that the first umbrella is still in existence. A Tallahassee Floridian had forty-two alligators, ranging from one to three feet in length, in a shallow pool back of his store. When the cold wave came the pool froze solid and the alligators were imbedded in the ice for four days. Every one who saw the reptiles pronounced them deader than Hector, but when the ice thawed they began to show signs of life, and soon all but three crawled out as gay as larks. It appears that in clays gone by neither sowing, planting or grafting was ever undertaken without a scrupulous attention to the increase or waning of the moon. Scott, in his "Discovery of Witchcraft," notes how "the poor husbandman perceiveth that the increase of the moone maketh plants fruitful, so in the full moone they are in best strength, dec-aieing in the wane and in the conjunction do entirely wither and vade." Of the long-forgotten cities, discovered in the present century by their walls,little else remains but extensive cemeteries, which, as repeatedly happsns among the ruined places of the earth, have outlasted oy more than 2,000 years the dwellings of the living. The streets and buildings of settlements already in ruins during the time of the ancient Romans havedisappaared almost without a trace, while the monuments of the dead are so-well preserved as frequently to give informasion concerning even the domestic architecture ef their builders. . The Liquor Traffic. Some statistics as to the retail liquor trade of the United States are interesting and instructive. There arc in all the States 201,433 persons selling ardent spirits at retail under United States licenses. The proportion of saloons to inhabitants in some of the States forms a curious study. In California there is a saloon to each seventy inhabitants, or to each seventeen voters. In Illiuois there is a saloon to each 280 persons, or about one to each sixty voters. In New York the proportion is one to 150, in Ohio, one to 204, in Pennsylvania one to 205. The prohibition States show the following re suits: InhabStates. Saloons, itants. Voters. Maine, 1 585 100 Iowa 1 4(X> 83 Kansas 1 448 'JO Illinois stands ahead in whiskey production, with 36,488,5338 gallons of ardent spirits annually. Its annual malt liquor product is 37,339,273 gallons. In whisky, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio follow next after Illinois. New York is the Empire State in beer as in other things, except whisky, with the enormous production of 200,000.000 gallons a year. The revenue derived by the government from the manufacture of spirits and malt liquors is $85,742,052 a year, of which about seventy-eight per cent, is from snirits and twentv-two per cent. I ^ -- V A I from malt liquors. Illinois pays one- I quarter of this total tax.?Chicago Journal. The Mind Cure. The mind cure Avas practiced by Dr. Benjamin Rush over a hundred years ago. In his works is the following interesting'case. He says: "During Ihe time that I passed at a country school in Cecil couuty, Md., I often went 011 a holiday with my schoolmates to see an eagle's nest upon the summit of a great tree, in the neighborhood of the school, during the time of the incubation of the bird. The (laughter of the farmer in whose field thp tree stood, and with whom I became aecame acquainted, married and settled in tliis city about forty years ago. \Ve now ind then spoke of the rural pleasure* and incidents of our youth, and among others the eagle's nest in her father's held. 4<A few years ago I was called to visit this woman when she was in the last stage of typhus fever. Upon entering her room 1 caught her eye, and said in a cheerful voice, 'The eagle's nest!' She seized my hand without being able to speak, or discover strong emotions of pleasure in her countenance, probably from the sudden associations of her early domestic connections with the words which I uttered. From this day she beGfan to recover. She is now living, and seldom fails to salute me with the echo of 'The eagle's nest.' *' A Claim for Sale. "I want to make a square business proposition to you,"' said a stranger to the occupant of an office on Griswokl street the other day. Til hear it. sir.'1 "I'm heir to at least $:>0,000,000, and I'll sell?" l . 4 r 11.r 'iv "Al t' UMi UMI* m i lie ijuwiviirr- I 11ley claimants?" 'I am. My family runs bark to the Crusaders. As 1 was saying, being temporarily hard up, I'll sacrifice? " i;Xo use?110 use!'' "But I'll take $10 for my chance.v "No use, sir! One of this heirs, who is good for $45. OOO.O'JO, was in here yesterday and sold me his claim for $7, and I don't care to invest any further. I've only got about twenty years to live, and I can't possibly spend that $45,000,000. Good day, sir. Yon might go across to the tailor shop and try him. I guess lie's the only man on the street who hasn't bought one of the claims."?Pet mil Free 1 / Capital Celebrities at Home. The families of justices of the United States supreme court receive calls upon Mondays, the Speaker of the House of Rnnresentatives. the members of the lower House and the general of the army are at home on Tuesdays. Wednesday is set aside as cabinet day. Thursday is the day set apart for calling upon the families of the Vice-President and Senators and Friday is the day chosen to receive by all those who are not in official rank. Saturday has heretofore been the day of reception at the White House. The Harvard college catalogue says the expenses of a student there are: Least, $484; economical, $592; moderate, $812, aud very liberal, $1,360. Prof. C. A. Donaldson, of Louisville, Ky., the well-known pioneer, in eighteen years spent $10,000 in trying to get rid of his rneumatism and failed. At i 1 1 1 CIA T 1 A!l I last ne useu or. .jacou-s v^n, ? aa i,uicu and sold his crutches. Mr. Whittier says that yellow is his favorite color, b'cause he can always distinguish it, while the red apples and green leaves on a tree all look alike to him, as far as color is conccrned. The late State chemist of Delaware, Prof. Chas. P. Williams, says that Red Star Cough Cure is safe and valuable and contains neither morphia opium nor any j other narcotic poison. The price is only 25 cents. Erastus Corning, of Albany, rides two hobbies at once by keeping his collection of 50,000 butterflies in his greenhouse containing over 1,100 orchids. Certain Minerals, once forming a part of almost every medicine, are now regarded dangerous and unnecessary. The evils they produce are worse than the diseases they were supposed to cure. Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters contains nothing but the juices of plants?and cures all disorders of the liver, skin, kidneys, digestive organs, and blood. ' In the United States there arc now 137 normal schools, with more than 25,000 pupils. When a man escorts his wife and children to the depot,.bids them good-bye for a month in the country, he should provide them with a bottle of Allen's Lung Balsam, the best remedy in the world for coughs and colds. Price, 25c., 50c. and $1 per bottle, at Druggists. A Buffaix) firm has been awarded a contract to build a railway in Australia for $3,000,000. "Hope on, hope ever." How many delicate ladies there are who, while they attend to their daiI v duties, do so with achinc heads, a sense of fullness, pain in the back and depressed spirits, who are "only keeping about," as the phrase is. Some day they "go into a decline," and leave their children motherless. To such we would say, "Cheer up," Timely use of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" corrects ail female irregularities, weaknesses, and kindred affect ons easily, pleasantly and quickly. Professob Felix Adleu claims to have discovered that heat engenders crime. * * * * All diseases of lower bowel, including pile tumors, radically cured. Book of particulars, 10 cents in stamps. World's Disg;nsary Medical Association, 668 Main street, uffalo, N. Y. Sharon, Ohio, boasts of a five-legged lamb and-a four-legged duck. Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by Dr. Sage's Remedy. The death rate in Colorado is eight per thousand. A New idea embraced in Ely's Cream Balm. Catarrh is cured by cleansing and healing, not by drying up. It is not a liquid or snuff, but is easily applied with the finger. Its effect is magical and a thorough treatment will cure tho- worst cases. Price 50 cents. At druggists. 60 cents by mail. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. I have been troubled with Catarrh of the head and throat for the last live years. About three years ago I commenced the use Ely's Cream Balm. and from the first application I was relieved. The sense of smell, which had been lost, was restored after using one bottle. I have found the Balm the only remedy for Cutarrh I have used with satisfaction, and it lias accomplished a cure in my case.?H. L. M yer, Waverly, N. Y. Having used Ely's Cream Balm for about a year. I can say it is just the thing for cafarrh. Miss Mattie A. Baker, East Templeton, Mass. One word: one step may make or mar one's who e future. Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic is the proper move when you have dyspepsia, bad breath, piles, pimples, ague, malaria, low spirits, headache, or any stomach or liver troubles. RH r>Ant<i A 50 cent bottle of Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure will promptly and thoroughly cure the worst oasc of recent cough, cold, or throat or lung trouble. Buy the dollar bottle for chronic case^. Pleasant to take. The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil In the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard dc Co., New York. Chappkd hands, face, pimples and rough gkin enred by using Juniper Tar Soap, u)ado by Caswell, Hazard &Co., New York. The best Ankle Boot and Collar Pads are made of zinc and leather. Try them. One pair of boots can be saved yearly by using Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses 01 l^l?o s uure lur 1/uusuiuj.Jtiuji, hed star TRADE MARK. |qush@e Free froM Opiates, Emetic* and Poison, IURI'. O KCts. PROMPT. Jlt DauoottTt akd Dcalcm. THE CHARLES A. TOOELER CO.. BALTUOBB. MP. rt iimncnn GEtoiSS J" _ n ^ uures nneumausm, neuraigia, L. nf (J ft I Mi Backache. Headache, Toothache, rill * #41111 Sprains, Rrnl?*?, ctc.. etc. 9 ill I (Jill PHJCE. FIFTY CENTS. VI MB IB XT DRUGGISTS AND DKALKfti XU5 Oil A.EXES A. TOOELER CO.. BALTIBOBE. HJ). IOcents /7 fo^copr or rf = 205 = // $ 1.00 BROADWAY N tW-yORK' TOR^N C yCAR.' ine besr aid to qoad turitinq published. HKBHraWHrnn I Prepared from entire medicinal virtue of Fresh Hops, Burgundy Pitch, Balsam f A natural color, that defies detection, is pro" duced by Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers Leading physicians testify to the value of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, as a specific for colds. There were 4,307 new books published in England last year. Something About Catarrh. A great many people are afflicted with Ca tarrn wno ao not Know wuui una mum , auu * great many more continue sufferers who might be cured. Thickening of the membrane which lines the nasal passages, thus making breathing difficult; a discbarge from the nostrils, more or less copious, watery or thick, according to the stage of the disease; a sense of fullness in the head; a constant inclinatien to spit; and, In adranced cases, a dropping of intensely disgusting matter into the throat, are a few of the prominent symptoms of Catarrh. Deafness, inflamed eyes,neuralgic pains, sore throat and a loss of sense of smell, are very often caused by Catarrh. All these troubles are cured by Piso's Remei dy for Catarrh, Relief is had immediately | after beginning its use, but it is important that I it be continued without intermission until the I catarrhal virus is expelled from the system and healthy secretions replace the diseased action of the mucous membrane. Manifestly it is unreasonable to expect a cure in a short time of a disease that has been progressing for months or years. This question of time is provided for in the putting up of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. It is so concentrated that a very small dose is directed. The quantity in one package is sufficient for a long treatment, consequently the expense is a mere trifle, and there is no excuse for neglect nor reason for it but forgetfulness. A cold in the head is relieved by an applicacation of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. The comfort to be got from it in this way is worth many times the coat. The following letters are specimens of those received every day, testifying to the worth of Pito's Remedy for Catarrh: Allegheny, Pa., Sept, 28,1835. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is doing wonders for me. I believe it will cure any case of Catarrh, if used according to directions. Mrs. F. JOHNSON, 49 E, Diamond St. Spring Hill, W. Va., Oct. 20,1885. find nns Hnllnr fnr t.wn ruir-lf ncfirt of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh, tfhe sample package, received in June, gave perfect satisfaction. GILL MESSER. * Hartford Mills, N.Y.. Aug. 8,1885. I have used a little over half a package of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh, and it has helped me more than any of the different medicines I have used. I feel confident that it will cure me. I can and do recommend it to others who are troubled with that disease. Rev. A. DAMON. The Secret of Living. Scovtli.'s Sarsaparilla. oe Blood akd Liver Syrcp, will cure Scrofulous Taint, Rheumatism, White Swelling, Gout, Goitre, Consumption, Bronchitis, Nervous Debility, Malaria, and all diseases arising from an Impure condition of the blood. Certificates can be presented from many leading physicians, ministers, and heads of families throughout the land, endorsing it In the highest terms. We are constantly In receipt of certificates of cures from the most reliable sources, and we recommend it as the best known remedy for the cure of the above diseases. The brightest life has its shadowy side. "As a Last Resort" A Little Girl in Albany, N. Y., Terribly Afflicted, Wonderfully Cured. One of the most remarkable cures of scrofula on record Is that of the little daughter of Mr. M. J. Quinn, No. 285 First street, Albany. She was afflicted with scrofula from birth, and physicians said It would be better for her If she was dead. Her father says: "She had thirteen running sores on her body, besides being absolutely blind for months. She lost the use of her limbs and could not walk; in fact, wiis a mere skeleton wasting away. The smell from the sores was terrible. Seeing in a newspaper some cases of scrofula cured by Hood's Sarsaparllla I said to myself, 'I will try a bottle as a last resort.' When she had taken the first half bottle I conld see a change in her, and when the whole bottle was taken the abscesses almost entirely healed with the aid of Hood's Olive Ointment, which I must say is the finest I ever used. I kept on giving her Hood's Sarsaparllla, till now she is well and healthy, running around. She has a splendid appetite." Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar CONTAGIOUS! I am a native of England, and while I was In that country I contracted a terrible blood poison, and for two years was under treatment as an out-door patient at Nottincham Hospital, England, but was not cured. I Buffered the most agonizing pains In my boned, and was covered with sores all over my body and limbs. Finally I completely lost all hope In that country, and nailed ror America, and was treated at Roosevelt In this city, as well as by a prominent physician In New York having no connection with the hospitals. I saw the advertisement of Swift's Specific, and I determined to give It a triaL I took tlx bottles and I can say with great joy that they have cured me entirely. I am aa sound and well as I ever was in ' my life. L. Fbid. Haxjoed. New York City, June 12U>, 1685. TreatiM on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. 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