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* EATING HOUSES. SOME OP NEW YORK'S NOTED RESTAURANTS. A Scottish Spread ? "Piff Foot George's" Dining Room?Stealcs Jtsroiiea in an aiiviciu aum.? Boothblack's Delight. In an article describing some of the noted New York restaurants Amos J. Cummings and Blakely Hall say: A restaurant in Jolm street has been kept for a quarter of a century by Captain Farrish, an old Scotchman. Its specialty is chops, steaks and sauces. The steaks and chops are of extraordinary thickness. Farrish has a contract with a "Washington market dealer, under which lie secures two choice chops from each sheep killed by a certain butc".:er. These chops are b oiled to a nicety, and then served with immense roasted potatoes, which are scooped out and buttered on a plate with the chop by a waiter. To add zest to the meal Fairish has pure barley wine, bn;wed by Bass, and served in pewter mugs. It is superior to the once-famous old Burton ale, and is quaffed frequently by the oldtime jewelers and paint manufacturers in and around John street. A few ladies, once a week, join their husbands and lunch at Farri?-h's. For their delectation he sells a brand of fine old port wine at - 40 cents a glass. The tumblers are so email that they hold not much more than 1 thimbleful. The proprietor is sa:d to be worth nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. Farrish, however, has his rival in George Hopcraft, of Franklin street, bet-1 ter known as ''Pig-Foot George." He fceeps a colored cook almost as famous in his line as the old eastern shore colered woman who does the cooking for the Carle on club. Hopcraft's steaks and chops are on a par with any sold by the Scotchman. He serves with them *V.? .??1 TTocf Tn/lia olllltnah SflUpe. b'.lt iug ivai uujv AUV?.% 7 neither barley wine nur rare old pjrt. The colored ccok's great specialty is frle l pigs' feet. They are simply delicious. Wholesale merchant'? and others, while x on their way uptown in the evening, frequently drop into Hopcraft's, and carry away a dozen of them for u-:e at the family dinner table. Another specialty here is roast '-'possum," In the preparation of this de.ieacy the black cook surpasses the b.-st old plantation hand. He parboils the animal first, and then fills him with chestnuts. It is then roasted to a turn and set upon the table with a flavor so savory that it beats all the glories of a delicate sucking pig. Another remarkable restaurateur is old Miller, of Market street. Fifty years ago he picked up an aged stove that had done service for Major Andre in the Revolution. Miller's place stood near ;v excellent fishing ground on the East v Kiver. lie began 10 d:ou sxeass ju me stove for amateur fishermen. The march of improvement destroyed the fishing ground, but nothing could destroy the fame of old Miller's steaks. He kept the antique stove,"and it does duty to-day. Night after night swell parties of ladies and gentlemen gather around it on threelegged stools, and with napkins on their laps, eat the su culent steaks, with juice-dropping fingers, and the meat is drawn from the bed of hickory coals. No man is thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of New York life uutil he has attended one of these beeksteak parties at Miller's. The proprietor does all the cooking himself, and has amassed a fortune while squatting in front of the ?Id stove. While writing of quaint New York restaurants, uiiver hiicqculk b must, nut, be forgotten. He keeps what is known as "The Bootblacks' Delimonco's," where pork and beans are called "fried sleevebuttons." Thirty-five years ago Oliver was a waiter boy for "Butter-Cake Dick," who kept a coffee and c ike saloon in Spruce street, next to ti e old Iribune office. Greeley, McElrath, Dana, Bayard Taylor, Henry J. liavmond, James . Watson Webb and James Brooks were among Dick's patrons. Dick finally left the business and broke into the field of politics. His last political exploit was in the heyday of the Tweed ring, when he stole the tall iron fence that enclosed the City Hall park. He -cold it for eld iron, and got over $1,000 for it. The money, however, led him to the grave. It set him on a spree that ended only in death. The boy Oliver bought out Dlick's saloon, and transferred it to the cellar of Matthew Goo3erson's famous hostelry. Here he presided night and day, keeping open at all hours, except between 8 o'clock a. m. and 9 o'clock'p. sr. on Sundays. No man ever attended to business so earnestly. He fairly coined money in the little basement, and saved every cent. Gradually he be an to make investments in real estate. His capital was tripled and quadrupled year by year, until today he is estimated to be worth all the way from $300,000 to $750,000. Two years ago he removed his beanery to the basement of what was cnce known as Lovejoy's hotel, opposite the ground formerly occupied by the old World building. He now owns some of the fastest trotters on the road, but he never attends horse-races, and has never been seduced into betting on his own horses. Despite his great wealth, he visits his bcanery every day, and spends hours in slicing corned beef and ladling ou plates of the Boston delicacy to his customers. lie has taken his boys into partnership, and, as they have inherited the old man's disposition, the whole family is growing rich. A Use for Blue Bottle Flies. A gent'eman, making a call at the house of a lriend, was astonished to find the rooms and passages in confusion; and, on inquiring the cause was an8\vered: -'Oh, wo are very much annoyed here; a rat has come to finish his existence under the I'oor of our large drawing roam. We do do not know the exact place, but we cannot endure the stench any longer, so we have removed the furniture, rolled up the carpets and called.in the carpenters, who are just beginning to take up the floor." ".Now' don't be to hasty," said the vssitor, "you need not pull up more than one board. I will show you what I mean presently; and, meanwhile, shut down the drawing-ivoin windows and close the door." He then stepped down into the parden, walked round to the horse stables, and after a few minutes absence came back to the drawing-room, he opened his hands and out flew two large, bluebottle flies and buzzed around the room for a second or two. But presently one of them alighted on a certain plank of the floor, and was almost immediately followed by the other. "Now then," said the visitor, "take up that board and I'll engage that the dead rat will be found beneath it." The carpenter# applied their tools, raised the board, and at once found the cause of the unpleasant smell.?Sanitarian. | "WORDS OP WISDOM, . Sue:ess in life is often achieved by making good use of adverse circumstances. For drunkenness drink cold water ; for health, rise early; to be happy, bo honest; to please all, mind your own business. The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, bat very powerful manner; so that we are little aware of them, and less able to withstand them. He that docs good to another man doealso good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for the consciousness of well doiug is an ample reward. If the poor found the rich disposed to supply their wants, or if the weak might always fin:l protection from the mighty, they could none of them lament their J own condition. I Cotirn is n snrf of class. wherein be- I holders generally discover everybody's face b it their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room like a beautiful firefly, whose happy convolu- i tions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. If you cannot be happy in one way, be in another; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent-minded man hunting for his hat while it is in his hand or on his head. Drinking: in Persia. The manufacture and sale of wine and liquor is carried on in Persia exclusively by Armenians, who almost invariably grow rich at it, says a correspondent of the Chicago JVeuw. Indeed, it is held I here the best paying business?that ol selling drink. The Persians, being for the most part Shutes, are forbidden by the Korau to make or drink wine and spi'.its, and the small fraction of Sumistes in the North are just as strict in this respect. I say they are forbidden, which does not mean, however, that they all obey. Quite the contrary; it is only the poor who do not infringe the iniunc* tion laid upon them by the prophet. Among the well-to-do and powerful there are but few who do not openly or secretly "- -1 i 1 ~ TWa-ma ova montr Mnfl. viuKiie uu> ia?. iucic ?>?? muu; lems, besides, who maintain that beer and spirits are not forbidden them by the Koran, and in Turkey they call champagne by the euphemism cider so as to get over the wine clause in the holy book. However, the mullahs and all thoso learned in the sacred law are nearly unanimous in interpreting the passage in question as including the aforementioned species of "booze." There are two passages in the Koran which are considered to settle this question pretty effectually. I had the curiosity to look them up in the Koran (which is always printed in the original Arabic ol 1,250 years ago, it being deemed sacrilege nffnmnf a trQT1 clOtlftn lflto ft modem vulgar tongue) and get a literal translation. They read as follows: "They will ask thee concerning wine and games of chance. Answer: In both there il great sin. aud also some things of use unto man, but their sinfulness is much greater than their use." This, you will remark, is not a direct prohibition. But the second passage is. It reais: "Oh believers! Surely wines and games of chance and statues ana the divining arrows are all abominations of Satan's work! Avoid them, that ye maj- prosper!" You'll notice that this only speaks oi wine,alth.ugh in Mohammed's time they had already the date brandy (which is consumed in large quantities to this present day ir^ Arabia, Persia and Syria), but the aforesaid wise men of the East think that Mohammed had so much to "write and think of that he forgot to put in an amendment covering spirits, however that may be, certain it is that the wealthier Persians are hard drinkers. A Story of General Hancock. I heard not long ago from the lips of an old timer a story about G>en. Hancock which I have never seen in print, and which illustrates in a striking light the high character of that lamented gentleman aud soldier, writes a Los Angelos, (t al.,) correspondent. In 1858, General, then Capt. Hancock, was stationed at San Pedro barrack. At that time tin ore had been discovered in the Temescal range (near the present town of Riverside), and there was a big rush of prospectors and speculators to the new district. Among the prospectors was a discharged soldier of dissipated habits L-nr?urn n<j "Rpotfv." who had been a member of Capt. Hancock's company Scotty was tarly on the ground, and secured a good location. In a sho:t time he was approached by some San Francisco speculators, who made a trade with j him for his claim, agreeing to pay him i therefor $2,000 or thereabouts. They offered him drafts on San Francisco for the amount, which at first Scotty refused to accept, saying he wanted the coin, but finally said that if Capt. Hancock would say that the drafts were all right he would take them. Hancock had no interest whatever in the speculation but | the San Francisco parties were friends oi | his, and he told the soldier that the drafts would be paid. In a shott time the drafts came back protested, owing to some financial hitch in the affairs of the San Francisco Company, and Scotty fail.'d to get his :ioney. When the General learned this fact he sent for the soldier and paid him the whole amount out of his own pocket. Hancock was never reimbursed, but he had given his word to the poor soldier, and his word was his bond. Life Depends on the Liver. Youth?"I have come to ask for the hand of your daughter." Physician?"You have?" Youth?"Yes, sir. I have enough of this world's go~>ds to support her in comfort?even in luxury." Physician?"Yes. I am aware of that, K..4 W Will vm< UUb WJIl ?VU (1UUV H'-i iiiuuij ( ? t *? juu j be a gentle husband?" Youth?<4I swear." Physician? "Oh, never mind swear- j ing. Your intentions are all right, no doubt, but I must be sure that you won't worry and fret the life out of her after you get her. Take off your coat and let me sound you to see what kiud of a liver you've got."?Boston Courier. In the City of Brussels telephones are applied to a novel use. The central bureau has a "night office," where a special clerk attends to the business of waking early risers. Persons calling up that clerk or his substitute after 6 i\ >r. arc booked for any desired time of the next morning, and at the appointed hour have to acknowledge the receipt of the reveille call before the alarmist ceases to repeat his summons. The Story of Biff Jim. "He's a.bully!" "lie's a coward!" "He's got to hang!" "That's his third man!" The one narrow street of the frontier i town was filled with a surg'ng crowd of excited men. They were Indian fighters, scouts, gamblers, tramps, miners, speculators?everything and everybody. Every town has its bully?every fron- j tier town. Big Jim was the bully ?' i Hill city. He could drink more, curse louder, shoot quicker and start a row sooner than any other man. When he shot Limber Joe it was a stand-off. It was rough agai nst rough. Whoever went under the town would be the gainer. The death of his second victim brought him a certain respcct, for he had given the man a fair cVinw Thorp woe n limit, trt the number of men one might shoot in Hill City. It was three times and out. j Big Jim had killed his third. Two hundred men?all cxcitcd?some half-crazed?all indignant?some terribly aroused, surged down the street to the Red Star Saloon bent on vengeance. Big Jim and the man he had killed were alone in the place. "Bring him out?" "He'sgot to hang!" "Bringout the bully and coward!" There was a rush, but it was checked. Men had knives and pistols in their hands, but the sight of Big Jim with a "navy in each hand cooled their ardor. A life for a life is no revenge. They lied when they called him a bully. Bullies strike and run or bluster and dare not strike. They lied when they called him a coward. Cowards do not remain to face death. Big Jim advanced a little. The crowd xeii back, we stooa in the door ana surveyed the mob as cooly as another man might have looked up at the pine-covered crest of Carter's Peak. The mob grew quiet. There were 200 right hands clutching deadly weapons, but not a hand moved. Two hundred to one is appalling odds, but the one was master. Seeming to face every man of them? seeming to cover every breast with the bla k muzzles of his revolvers?the man backed away up the road into the darkness, out of their sight and hearing. Ho said not a word. There wasn't a whisper from the crowd until he had disappeared. Then men drew long breaths of relief. A terrible menace had passed away. Out into the darkness?down the rough road?over the rude bridge, and there Big Jim put up his revolvers, turned his face square to the West, and stepp.d out without a look back at the camp. It was ten miles to Harney's Bend. Men driven from the one camp took refuge in the other. The half way landmark was a bit of a valley skirted by a creek. Wayfarers who were journeying by team many times halted here. On this night there was a lone wagon. Uuder the canvas slept a mother and four children. Besting against, a wheel was the husband and father, his eyes pccrii.g into the darkness?his ears drinking in every sound. Big Jim had not reached the valley rpf wtien thpafill nirrVit ftir was r?nt with war-whoops?the crack of rifles?the screams of a woman and her children. Indians had discovered the lone and almost defenseless family. There were five scalps to adorn their lodges. The bully and the coward had not been discovered. He could find a safe hidingplace. Did he? A half-dozen screaming, yelling fiends were dancing about the wagon?shooting?striking?dodging?closing in on the white man who somehow escaped their blows and bullets, when there was a cheer and a rush, and the Navys began to crack. Sixty seconds later dead silence had fallen upon the valley. One?two?three dead Indians. The immigrant leaned against the wngon, faint with a wound in his head. The wife looked out with an awful terror at her heart. Bullets had chippcd and splintered wheel and body. "Who are you?" asked the immigrant as a figure approached him from the darkness. "Big Jim." "You have saved us from a massacre." "Yes, it was well that I happeued along. Rouse up the fire, for there is no further danger." When the blaze caught the fresh fagote anrl linrVifnd nrv tlm littlo vhIIatt lmmi grant counted the dead Indians againone?two?three. He turned with extended hand, bat Big Jim had departed. Next day, when men from Hill's and Harney's found his dead body beside the rocks a mile away, with live wounds which had let his life-blood out, they whispered to each other: "We thought we knowed him, but we didn't." - Detroit Free Press. Fighting on a Fast Train. Western newspapers tell of a fight on the Sunset Railway, recently, before daylight. The train was a fast one, and the road rough. In the smoking car were two blanketed Mexicans, who, beyond getting up a few times to light cigarettes, did not move. Just before daylight the train pulled up at the little way side station of C'linc, twenty miles west of Uvalve, Texas. The tiain stopped just a minute, but long enough to allow Deputy Shcrilfs Baylor and Nimmo to spring aboard. As their feet touched the top steps they threw opan kuv uwi, auuj ujiuing a lwuj/iu ui ers at the Mexicans, ordered them to throw up their hands. There was only a single lump swinging in the car. The sleepy passengers heard the curt demand, and looking forward in the dim light saw the shroude:l forms spring hastily up; the blankets fell from their shoulders. and the ball begun. There was an incessant explosion that in the cramped and confined space of the coach sounded terrific. The officers stood with their Lacks to the door and worked their revolvers for life. The despeiadoes?one standing full in the middle of the aisle, the other with one hand resting carelessly on the back of a seat and swearing shrilly in Spanish? were enveloped in the smoke of their own revolvers. Amid the ripping of plush and tinkle of shivering glass, the screaming ar.d cowering men saw the tall form in the aisle plunge backward to the floor a dead man. The other desperado, wounded, one hand pressing his side, the other holding his empty revolver over his head, with a yell burst by the officers through the door and leaped to the prrouncl. Daj' had broken, and the slowill'' train camc to a stop. One of the officers sprang after the fleeing, staggering figure, and called on it to halt. It turned and snapped the empty weapon at its pursuer. Then it went down with a bullet in the breast. The officers took an inventory of themselves Though bleeding slightly in several places, they were unhurt, but their clothes hung in tatters. Baylor, who stood nearest the Mexicans, had his clothes literally ribboned; his hands and me siae 01 nis necs were puwuer uurnea. Nimrao had not. suffered so severel)'. The Mexicans were horse thieves, for whom the officers had warrants. A poll tax of f 50 a head is imposed on all Cainamen entering South Australia. I MOUNT VERNON. A VISIT TO THE HOME OP GENERAL WASHINGTON. Tho Tnmho nf Reorce and Martha Wafihiiiffton?A Tour of the Booms Once Inhabited by the First President. The swash of two big paddle-wheels, a mutitude of people upon deck chairs; a sun-lit brown river; and the widemouthed cannon, peaceful sward, and white soldiers' quarters of the United States Arsenal slipping past. Itisthedaily pilgrimage of the VV. W. Corcoran down j I sixteen miics of the broad Potomac to i Mount Vernon, the shrine of American I liberty, the Mecca of the democracy. After puffing sleepily along some halJ: a dozen miles, the W. W. Corcoran effects a landing at the time-forgotteri old - "? mL _ 1 jj wharves of Alexandria, xne lanujng > appears to be purposeless. Nobody era - I barks, nobody disembarks. During the I irresolute, three minutes pause the steamer makes, we note that Alexandria I is given over to moss and inanition. I There is not so much as a cloud of dust j on the wide road that used to debouch I such lusty commerce upon the river [ when the city rivaled Baltimore and put forward no mean pretensions to be tha seat of the Federal Government. Washington cast his first vote here in 1754, and his last fo;ty-five years later. As we leave Alexandria the ubiquitous photographer, who is also a statistician, in J ?i? I I forms us that "sue nas mcreasea iurtjseven in ten years, mostly niggers at that." Past Fort Foote,the town's dismantled defence; past a shad-boat with a ere1? pulling like a man-of-war's; past grayold Fort Washington, blown up and abandoned by our men in 1814, when the British sailed up the river in red-coatei j defiance and captured Alexandria; and we are four miles from Mount Vernon. From this point one gets a lovely glimpse of Washington, twelve miles away, the twisting river, between, the great dona e of the Capitol swelling superbly above the city, the pure shaft of the Monument striking the faint sky with a sublime audacity that gains by distance. Our rear ward contemplation is so ecstatic tnax a n unpretending white country-house on the I Virginia shore slips by unnoticed, until the tolling of the steamer's bell and the j hoisting of heir flag announce Mount Vernon. The tombs of "General George "Washington''and "Martha, consort of Washington," need no description. From the guide's remarks, however, I select the facts that both bodies are above ground; that the bodies of thirty relatives of Washington's family and his wife's repose in the inner vault, of which the key I is cast into the Potomac; and that since the theft of one of the eagle's talons on the coat of arms which surmounts the tomb of the first President a double iron guard lias been placed upon tne entrance to the vault. Washington's body rested in the original family vault until 1881, when an attempted desecration induced i a tardy fulfillment of his wishes as to his final burial. Just outside the present vault stand lour plain white marble monuments to Bushrod Washington, the nephew and heir of the General, John Augustine, his son, Eleanor Parke Lewis, the daughter of Mrs. Washington., and Mrs. M. E. A. Conrad, her daughter. Then we troop to the house, an:l travel in droves from room to room, ever marshaled by the oratorical guide. To say that the "Mansion-house" is an irregular ' pillared wooden structure, painted to imitate white marble, ninety-six feet long and thirty deep, is to convey its appearance as correctly and inadequately as possible. It is a rambling old structure, many-roomed and many-windowed. The wide cast piazza is paved with flags brought from the Isle of Wight, and commands a magnificent view ol' the i river. The family and state kitchens are conncted with the house by curved colonnades, but the servants' quarters are detached. Each room is the charge of the vice-regent of a State, the name of which is lettered above the door, like the patron association of a ward in a public charity. Some few original articles remain in the house, but the furniture, which is complete, is mainly a reproduction as nearly as possible of the pieces that were probably used by the family. In most cases the taste shown in this motfap ia orrollpnf And fchft hftd-hftnf? lUUVlVk vavv.v^v, w|"~ ~~ o ing8, prints, candlesticks, and timepieces are quite in the spirit of a century ago. A melancholy exception must be made to the this in the case of Georgia, however,-whose vice-regent has garnished Lady Washington's sitting-room with a crimson Brussels carpet and plushtrimmed furniture of unmistakable modernness. In the main hall hangs a glass case < containing the great ponderous rusty key ' ' 4.-j 01 me uasmc, presentuu iu rr uamu^iuu by Lafayette when the prison was destroyed in 1789. In the banquet hall is a model of the Bastilc cut from one of its granite stones, also the gift of Washington's gallaut aide. The liquor case Lord Fairfax gave Washington is here too, and a genuine Mayflower chair, and Rembrandt Peale's famous pictuie of the General rebuking a subordinate. In Nelly Custis's music room the harpsi-! chord her step-father gave her on her wedding-day still remains, and Washington's flute rests upon its antiquated /.nvnr TTnafftira thp nrnt.or linerers lonsr est and the crowd gathers thickest about the door of the room the Father of his Country died in. Almost everything here is as it was on that day. The square ; four-poster, the queer little oval medicine: stand, the secretary, the mutilated chairs, the fire-irons with the blackened coat of arms behind the hearth, even the cracked shaving-glass, snuff and match-boxes, stand as they stood then.?Harper's I Weekly. And Then He Went Away. i. A cool piazza Somehow lias a Magical effect at niglit; Soft t he skies arc? Lover's sighs are Sweet and sentimental quite. IX. Winds are rippling, And a strippling Kits besi-.ie a dainty doar; Could th'i ilark air But a spark bear Of his passion, 'twould look queer. hi. Sure no harm is When his arm is Bound about her slender waist, And a bliss is In his kisses, Harmonizing with her faiste. IV. But vexation, Consternation Follows when a voice has said: "Here, my daughter, You hadoughter Come inaiae and go to bid!" -Tid-lUtt. t Live and Dead Ivorv. t "That kuifo handle is worth twice as much as the other," said an ivory dealer to a Sun reporter as he pointed out two handsome knives in a case. They looked exactly alike, so the reporter asked in what the difference lay. "Well, one handle is formed of live ivory and the other of dead," replied the merchant. "By live ivory I mean ivory taken from an animal recently killed. That sort of ivory is expansive, because it is hard to get. It is strong, bccause there is life in it, and it is used for the handles of the best knives, and where dead ivory could not be used. When an elephant loses a tusk that tusk becomes what we chII dead ivory. He sheds the task, and it has no strength in it. It is brittle, and breaks easily, and can only be used for the handles of pocket knives, or in other forms where the ends are protected. If they were not, the ivory would split and crack in a very short time. The ivory tAken from the tusks ( of the ante:liluvian mammoth? buried in the soil of Siberia is, of course, all dead ivory. Its uses are. therefore, limited. If you ever want to buj any Ivory good5, be sure to ascertain whi ther it is live or dead ivory before purchasing. If the former, it is strong and durable; if the latter, it is brittle and liable to crack, even where fastered. ' ' The same rule applies to liorn. Deerhorn and buckhorn, so commonly used, especially in the handles of pocket knives, is much of it made from the horns shed by the deer, and of little value. The live horn is more expensive." TkT "IT. ~ 7 ??\cw dur/k>Aju/v. A Question of Pronunciation. Several correspondents of the World have joined is:ue with its statement in rugard to the pronunciation of the word Arkans^B. and requested the proof of its statement that it should be Arkansaw. This will be found in a copy of a concurrent resolution passed by the Legislature of that State, Man h, 1881, a duly attested copy whereof has been kindly furnished by the Secretary of State for the use of the World as a proof for doubters. It rends: Be it Resolved, by both houses of the General Assembly, That the only true pronunciation of the name of the State, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French from the native Indians and committed to writing in the Frenoh word representing the sound; and that it should be pror.oun?ed in three syllables, with the final "s" iiilent, the "a"' in each syllable with the Ital"amw/I ooront. nn tho first nnd lost syllables, being the pronuncation formerly, and now still most commonly used: and that the pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable, with the sound of "a" in man, and the sounding of the terminal "s" is an innovation to be discouraged. If any on;; thinks these reasons are not lound, let him write to the Governor of the State.?Neio York World. Bowen's Budget, Fort Plain, N. Y., for March, 1880, says: In the multiplicity of medicines placed upon the market, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the meritorious and the worthless. There are at least two excellent remedies widely used, the efficiency of whioli are unquestioned. We refer to St. Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure. a Chicago jeweler has invented a self-winding watch. By an arrangement something like the carefully balanced lever of a pedometer,the watch i* wound by the motion of the woarer whon walking. a walk of seven minutes will wind the watch to go for forty-two hours. Solicitor of Patents, F. 0. McCleary. of Washington, D. C., says the only thing that did him any good,when suffering with a severe cough of several weeks' standing, was Red Star Cough Cure, which Is purely vegetable and free from opiates and poison. The average London inhabitant eats thlrtvtwo times a? much fish as the Berlin person, and Paris, with a population of 2,200,000, uses more fish than all Germany, with a population of 47,003,000 Where Are Y?u Golngf If you have pain in the back, paie and sallow complexion, bilious or sick headache, eruptions on the bkin, coated tongue, sluggish circulation, or a hacking cough, you are going into your grave if you do not take steps to cure yourselt. If you are wise you will do this by the use of Dr. Pierce's '"Golden Medical Discovery." compounded of the most efficacious ingredients known to medical science - for giving health and strength to the system through the medium of the liver and blood. Owing to the drought, the oors orop of .Louisiana will be fifty percent, less than last year, and the oat crop seventy-five per cent. lees. Life seems hardly worth the living to-day to manr a tired. unhaDDT. discouraged woman who is suffering from chronic female weakness for which she has been able to And no relief. But there is a certain cure for all the fiainful complaints to whioh the weaker sex is iable. We refer to Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription," to the virtues of which thousands of women can testify. As a tonic and nervine It is unsurpassed, All druggists. A historian of California sums up the aualifcies of that country as: "All in all, it is a land of solid realities and glittering frauds." Sick and bilious headache, and all deranger ments of stomach and bowels, cured by Dr. Pierce's "Pelleta"?or Anti-b.lious granules. 25 tents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste of virtues. By druggists. A poll-tax of $50 a head is Imposed on all Chinamen entering South Australia. Can Conmiifllti be Cared f We havo so oftoa seen fatal results follow the declaration that it can b? cured, that w< ht.ve unconsciously settled down in the beliel that this disease must necessarily prove fatal. It is true that occasionally a community has witnessed an isolated case of what may appropriately be termed spontaneous recovery, but to whal combination of favorable circumstances this result was due none have hitherto j been found able to determine. We have now the gratifying fact to announce that the process by which nature effects this I wonderful change is no longer a mystery to | the medical profession, and that the change* brought about in the system under favorabl* circumstances by Intrinsic causes may be mad? as certainty and more expeditiously by the use of the proper remedy. In other words, natur* is imitated and assisted. Tuberculous matter is nothing more or lev than nourishment imperfectly organized. Now. if we can procure the organization of this food material so that through the process of elective affinity it may take its placo in the system, we oan cure the disease. This is just what Piso's Cure for Consumption does. It arrests at once the progress of the disease by preventing the further supply of tuberculous matter, for while the system is under it? influence all nourishment is organize'd and assimilated. It thus controls cough, expectoration, night-sweats, hectic fever, and all other characteristic symptoms of Consumption. Many physicians are now using this medicino, and ail write that it comes fully up to ifc recommendations and makes Consumption one of the diseases th?y can readily cure. The forming i-ta^e of a dineaso is always the most nuspu-ious for treatment. This fart should induce persons to resort to the use of Pico's Cure when the cough is first not ced, whether it ha* o Prinoimnliv* r! nlhnaiit for its causa or not. forthis reined v cures all kinds of couifhs with unequalled fKoilit v and pr< inptness. In coughs from a simple cola, two or three doses of the medicine have been found sufficient to remove the trouble. So in all disoa>es of the throat ' and luti^j*, v\ ith symplomi simulating tlvse I of CofiMuiiMtio:!, Piso'b Cure is tlie only infal| lililc reu:viiy. j The iollo'.vinjj letter lecommcntling Pi.*i'H Cure t'oi Consumption, isa fair sample of the certil:cu!cs received daily by I he proprietor of this medicine: Albiox, N. Y., Dee. 20,1885. I had a terrible Cough, and two physicians said 1 would never get well. I then went to a drug store and a>kecl for a good cough medicine, rhe druggist gave me Piso's Cure, and it has done me more good than any thing ! ever used. Ido not bolieve I could live without it. T.EOXOR A VERM ILYEA. A Most Liberal Oiler! Toe Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., offer to send their Celebrated Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on thirty days' trial to any man afflicted with Nervous Debility, Loss of Vitality, Manhood, &c. Illustrated pamphlet in sealed envelope with full particulars. mailed free. Write them at once. No ladv should live in DerDetual fear, and suffer from the snore eerious troubles that so often appear, when Dr. Kilmer's Complete Female Remedy i?c?rtain to prevent and cure Tumor and Cancer there. As a hair dressing, Hall's Hair Renewer has no equal. Ask your druggist for it. The only warranted cure for chills and fever is Ayer's Ague Cure. Nothing Like It. No medicine has ever been known so effectual in the cure of all those diseases arising from an impure condition of the blood as Scovill's SAnSAPARHXA, oh Br/iod and llver j Syrup, the universal remedy for the cure of ( Scrofula, White Swellings, Rheumaiism, Pim- J pies, Blotches, Eruptions, Venereal Sores and ! Diseases,Consumption, Groitre, Boils, Cancers, and all kindred diseases. There is no better means of securing a beautiful complexion than by using Scovill's Sarsaparilla, or Blood and Liver Syrup, which cleanses the blood and gives permanent beauty to the skin. For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits, general debility,in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers,the "Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Haz- , ard & Co.,New York, and sold by all Druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering 1 from fever or other sickness it has no equal. You get more comfort for 25 c-ts. in Lyon's Heel Stiffeners than in any other article. Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. i No Words of Ours Can te'.l you the benefit you will derive from Hood's Sarsaparllla, If you are In need of a go.d medicine. It will >train all Impurities from the blool, rouse the torpid liver, Invigorate the digestive organs, and Impart new life to every functlo.i of the body. We only asic you to try a single bottle to prove the positive merits of Hood's Sarsaparllla as an honest and reliable medicine. "My daughter received much benefit from tho use of Hood's Sarsaparii'a as an excellent tonic after a protracted attack of bronchial pneumonia."?F. H. Adams, New Hartford, Conn. "I cannot find words strong enough to express my feeling In favor of Hood's Sarxapirllla. It hai done everything for me, curinj me of dysprps'a with which I had suffered for many year*.''?Mrs. S. M. Beeds. Marblehead, Mass. "I have used Hood's Sarsaparllla for a blood purifier In my family several years, and cannot speak too highly of It."?J. E. Collins. Plqua, O. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggist*. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by C. L HOOD tc, CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar ASK FOR THE W. L. DOUGLAS Best material, perfect fit, equal* any 15 or $6 shoe, every pair warranted. Take none unless stamped "W/L. Douglas' $8.00 Shoe. Warranted." Congres*. Button and Luce. Boys ask for the W. L. Douglas* . . 2.00 Shoe. Same styles as \JJr "~3f the $3.00 Shoe. If you cannot <h f Ja get these shoes from deal- -JR! gfl ers, send address on postal rffa j _ card to W. L. Douglas. SP/Tr A* Brockton, Mass. ^ $3-^ki' want B. W. PAYNE & SONS. Drawer 1850. Elhtb iN. Y.. or New York City. Eastern Agents. HH. Clarke & Co.. Boston, Mass. Our patented Vertio* Boiler will not prime. No danger of burning fluer -- - #, Ladles! Those dull a tired looks and feelings v v speak volumes I This V Kemedy corrects all con .v* JKCT ditions, restores vigor v JnKfl and vitality and brings back youthful bloom rV # and beauty. DrugaUts. Prepared at Dr. Kilmer* db?.? va, pxkhary, Bingham ton, N. Y. Letters of Inquiry answered. " Guide to Health (SentFree). ^SSSJa STEP IN ADVANCE OF ALL OTHERS. ^fbttttn Instruments. A S400 LOWER PRICE8. ^^^^^^ "V^^S^rEASICRTCIIMS INCLOSING Stamp for Full Pawticulaw8.^^^^> ... x/jkcjea'a BEIN BROS. 4 CO.^%^WS""P*Y NEWARK, N.J. A EDM AW DICTIONARY? ULiimnii 694. PAGES I; FOR ONE DOLLAR. flratclas* Dictionary gotMn out at small f price to eacourags the study of U?s 0*naan f.angnage. It gives English words with Itw (li'rmaa equivalents, and Strmia wordi with En jllah definitions. A very cheap book. Send S1,?0 t*i BOOK PUB. HOUSE, 131 L,e*aar4 St., N. Y. City, and get one of theae book* by return mall BOOK AGENTS WANTED for PLATFORM ECHOES r LIVING TRUTHS FOB HEAD AND HEABT, By John B. Gough. Hli but and crowning lift work, brim fall of thrilling latertat, humor and p?tho?. Bright, pure, and good, full of "laughter and teari." it ttlU at iifklto all. To it is added the Life and Death of Mr. Qough, by Rev. LYMAN ABBOTT. 1060 AgtnU Wanted,?Hen and Women. $109 to $809 a month made. ?7*DUtanc* no iMf<ii?ai?t girt Kztra Ttrmi and Piy PrriilUt. Wntefor circular* to , A. D. WOHTU1NOTON A CO, Hartford, Com*. I Pimples. Blotched, Pcaly or Ollr Skin, I Blemlnhes and all Skin Diseases Cured and Complexion Beautified by 1 Beesou's Aromatic Hum Sulphur Soap, f Bold by Druggists or gent by mall on receipt of 5 S3 ccnts by WM. DREVDOPPEL, Mrdu-I facturer, tiOS North Front St, Philadelphia, Pa. f WANTED-AGENTS, male A FAIT O and female.to sell prettiest AlapH I V pcture of this century, en- NUkll I W titled "Little Sweethearts:" site 19x27. Over one hundred thousand sold In London, England, In on* day. Now ready for America. Everybody will wan one. Lots of money to be made during summer month-. For particulars write Uraham & Millar. Art Publishers. 146 Centre St. Box No. 790, New York City. ; Salary and Expenses!' trains- PORTABLE FORCE PI'HP. Itputaout (Ire*, vuhw wagvnx, window*, etc., trorlnlcle? lawn*, streets, garden*, kill* bug*, tn*ect? In plant, Tine, tree, bails out boat*, whitewaiheahen-houre*. Throw* water CO feet (12 rallons ' a minute, if needed!. Pricc, (2. To introduce it will nend for 11. AilENTS WASTED on tutlaiy and expends*. Sam- i pie free to ayent*. A. L. SPEIKS, North Windham. Maine. [ nPHIM morphine urilllvl habit cured. "WHWB A (jew METHOD DR. J. C. HOFFMAN", Jefftraop, Wlgconx.n ICIVEN AWAY! I llera* la poMn * !* * r*T vulliac vnpplac, Wrp pw!? I ' a by J8 ImW; vorth g 1ST" Vtc an mt to Ifcto famiMtJ ikMld nod fl IwtUltl? tbr Mlt wl ?e*n tk? H?"J rf Oy W? otla* bMk m p?US?b.1 d, "TIM Uw ud Onna of Our ItmUmu." Buwlnda ir mflmm wtmM W*. liinm hjm fn. Co., 164 WtW^ At., Oikf | A 4% A J1UMTM TU C'A.N V A3tt ISO tale (m " | (I order* (or Hows'* Patk.ht acji>i m I ABLt Sliding Window Sc*ienb H Best stllln* goods ever offered to U I 1 M B M Agents Term* and Outfit riis. Orris F. Howt ft Co.. aufrusui Jte. A* to 98 n day. Samples worth #1.5-> FREE, rail Lines not under the horse's fest Addreu WW BatfWsTKtt's Safety Htix Holder, Holly,illch. I 0,000 PER CENT PROFIT NO HUMBUG. SEND $1.00. D. S. JOHN'S cocl-, 1-iinciiKtrr Co.. Pn. ft to Soldiers & Heirs. Sendftanso I^AnCSAnC^r Clrvulan. COL. L, HLV3I Vllwl Ivllw HAM. Att'y. Washington. IXC. PI<2Jr/<? PSSlo Great English Gout and matt ? B lsa?i Rheumatic Remedy. ISox M.iid; loilml, ."iO c??s. CI r.\T n NAM': Ql'ICI for Prof. Moody's New llluitraied VLi.1 U Book on Drrta Making, Sew tjulmmu, aui Msiitle KJCyiunj, ?lo. i|uu acU 10 ainj. rrtr.JiUUDr.Uaalaaail.O. MiLfiJUUM magazine For larye or itwdl game?ail i!ui. Tie itroogcit shootli accuracy guaranteed, and tbe only abiolutely life rifle od BALLARD CiALLKItY, SPORTINO AND TAUC IUiulraled Catalogue. MARLIN FIRE psOci Kon# twain* nnien Don't wasta jroar money on a Humped wlU? the above j# ?li?olutelr vntrr and tit'nrf rao tBAca naaK. Aiklortha^FISH BRAKD"a? lii'iiiiTiilMrii'ii-fir"''''"'0' RRR-4, j uuuui ,jggm ?''' In from one to twenty mlnnte*. new falls to "3 lleve PaIN with one thorouxh application. No mat* . terhow violent or excruciating the pain, the Rheumatic, Bedridden, Infirm, Crippled, Nervou*. Nen- ';*<? ralglc, or prostrated w;th dl-ease may suffer, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF will afford Instant ease. bowel rafpuniis, DYSENTERY, Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus. :;||1 It will, in a few minutes. wh?n taken Internally, -M ccordlng todlrectlons, curc Cr.imps, Spasm*.Soar . " Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache. SUMMER COMPLAINT, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind la 5?! the Bowels, and all internal pains. THE TRUE RELIEF. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Is the only remedial agent In vogue that will InMantly stop pal >. It In- vrfl stantly relieves anil soon cures Headache, whethet ' / -*> sick or nervous, Toothache, Neura'gla, Nervousness , y^and Sleeplessness Rheumatism. Lumbag" Pains A .4 i_ !.? t>.. .. i. lt .!?... > v ilna ?r T ami Yvrtti&ilcrtQ lu me DOI.'I, ouuit: wr i\ uu>:;9. i ium around the Lher, Pleurisy. Suetling of t> e Jjlntt. ' f Sprains, Bruise*. Bite* of insects. and Pains of mil kinds, RADWAY'S READY KELIEK will afford lmmediate ease, and its continued use for a few day* > ? effect a perment cure. rjfR MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS. FEVER AND ACUE. There 1* not a remedial agent In the world that will ' <9 cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarious, BU- . > lous. Scarlet and other Fevers(aide*; by RADWAYTI . -J, PILLS) ho quick as RADWAY'S KHADY KELIKF. .? * Price Fifty Cent*. Sold by Drunlsta. r, DR. RADWAY'8 i '?f| (The Ouly Genuine) ^ SARSAPAMIAK RESOLVEHT! The Great Blood Purifier, For cure of all chronic diseases, Scrofula, Btool i S Taints, Syphilitic Complaint*. Consumption. Qlandnlar Disease, Ulcers, Chronic ltueumatlsm. Eryslpelas, Kidney, Bladder and Liver Complaint*. Dy?> "tSS P"P?la, Affections of the Lung* and Throat, purine* the Blood, restoring health and vigot THE SKIN, After a few days' use of the Sarsaparilllan. becomea clear and beautiful. Pimples, Blotches, Black Spota and skin Erupt Inns are removed; Sores an? Ulcer*. -'ty soon cured. Persons suffering from Scrofula, Erjp- -:-.y tlvc Diseases of the eye*, mouth, ears, legs, throat and glands, that have accumulated and spread, > * either from uncured diseases or mercury, may Ttlf r .?/. upon a cure if the SarsaDarilUan is contlnaed sufficient time to make its impression on th - system. Sold by Drunrlatii. 81 per Bottle." DR. RADWAY'8 PILLS fl *L _ n 1 ! -.J I no urcai Liver anu oiuuiauu nsm; j; -~ For tbe cure of all disorder* of the 8tomach, TJvm. ' '-a Bowels. Kldnevs. Bladder.NervousDisease*. Low of Ap|>etite, Headache, Costlveness, Indigestion, BU- lousnese. Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Pil? and all derangement* of the Internal Vlicera. Purely veg table, containing no mercury, mineral* or ? J.? deleterious drug*. -<OX Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggist*. r'M CVSend a letter stamp to DR. RAD WAY 4k -'i CO., No. 32 Warren Street, New York* toe ^ "False and True." *,* BE SURE TO GET RADWAVS. N Y N v~ur SllJi ~Z 1 Book telling yon how to DETECT aM ' fn mm CURE DISEASE In this valuable ask ";.$S mal. Do not run the rl*k of loslng^yonr Hony fei r-g want or knowledge to cure aim. wucn iw. w.. ? for A Treatise. Bnj one ana inform yoarwrit . Remedies for all Horse Dlseaaes. Plates showtif bow to Tell the Age of Horses. Sent postpaid tm 4 ,ij\ M cents la stamps. WlB N. Y. HORSE BOOK CO, 134 Leonard St, N. Hlnm Inm, Sim I tnrlaft, M ' Tin Bmb U4 l(ia lift ' 960" 1 JONnt?y?x?tk*fr<l(kt?fcrtoe . frlc? No Rope to Cut Off Hones' Manet kV Oeleiri e l ECLIPSE' HALTER JUL -1 anil BRID LE Coirfblned. cannot J)FJ~ JfW be slliped by any horse. Simple >Ky UW Halter to any part of U. 8. free, on recelptoffl. Soil by all Saddlery. ':j? H trdware and Harness Dealers. jfJSf Special discount to the Trade. Cm \w Send for Prloe-LUt -' j J' fe^jglSSi.W' 4 CONSUMPTION. ? I hsrs a poiltlTe remedy for the above disease;b? Us oaa thoaisndsofcasesol tbs worst kind snd of leaf tsodlnKhsTo boon eared. IndMd, oitroBfliBTfaitt ixiii.Mnn th.t Twill und TWO BOTTLKfl Fill tos?th?rwlt? a VII UABMTBEATISB on this -""itt to anj lufferar. Girt szprais and P. O. addrtas. DK. T. A. 8LOCUM, lit r.axlSL, Vtw Twk. V.i.ry [3 In time. Sold by druggets. fS| nyririiTii-fcflih'iifi jBftffirinri im ?*" ^ . A?0 U HeaLJpter Sbella, JHH^OBAHAM floor aa^ Can G<2fHKj 01ntbcfSZIAjrX>MXUCi Wilton's Patent). lOO pir "" } cant, more made In keeping try.V irto POWER MILL* uD fiS J F?eH MILLS. Circular* and Testimonials <** on application. WILSON BBOt.> Eaitoa, ra, JAMS lMcldesf' JELLY 1 Vinegar, Catsup, Preserves, Caning u4 KrauMniking for farmers' wive*, mailed Free with every dime n ek of Fall Turnip 8eedjany kmdj - . Or PAPER OF WINTER BEETS THROWN Dt JAMES HA3LEY. Seed Grower, Madison, Arfc FRAZER axle j L"thTW?R" GREASE XT Get the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. I O DOLLARS each for Kew and I I Perfect Sh\nSQ MACHINES. -^S^b I m Warranted five yari. Sent oa trinlifde- HH IflH I HHsirrd. Buy directand ? $] 5 to $35. i^CTaWp Orraa? (riven a* j.femiunn. Write for FREEcircufar with 1000 IcitlroonUIr fmm tvrrv aUlt. jMUfPiX CEO. PAYNE * CO. 44 FACE, HANDS, FEET, ; Jffv3B and al] tbtir lmp?rf#cUon?, loclodJnr Pad*], llSfc D#v?Iop?nj#nt, Sup?rflooo? Hair. BItA U .IP Mol?, ?ult, Moth, Fr?ekl?, R*i No*, Atat, C* N*v?rJ Bluk HMdi. S?n, Piuinr Hid (btlr tmtmal Dr. JOHN H. WOODBURY, .37 X. rMrlftt. 4lbii7.1T. Y. Eifb'd 1<*0. BwdlOt. ftrkwk. riDUC Hotels, Stores, Mill*. A11 kin<l? of Heal v rRnlflO Entnte for Sale or Exchange. KncloM st imp for Huff. W.8. Hotchkln.Farm 4 Exchanw Agency. BINQHAMTON, N. Y. Mention thU paper. oiinr nnnr r dyspepsia * indi. XIIRp lilIRr GESTIO.V. Addr<*M J. M. lIUIlL UUHb SHELLY,Charlotte, N. C. TIRSTOrSSTOOTH POWDER ? ~ " -? ^ Krrplnt Teetb rerun ana umm m?i?? RATCMT6 Obtained. Send stamp [or IIA I Cll I 9 Inventor"! Guide. L. BisaB bam. Patent Lawyer. Washington, D. C. M ? hls taken th? lend la thebaic* of that cla?? of C?r??ln^^Si reinedie', and ha< t ren frsqKr 1 TO S DaTS.^H almost universal w:i?f*o AMffioituutd not > V <"? . : JfiV ?auc? 8trlcture. MURPHY DRO^.. RJjH Vrdoolj by tb? ?li?lwon the Uw of BMt - tte public and r.ow tanks IBr'**1 Calfflltti Ca. a.-non/ the 1-adiiij McJitheoldorn^ ^ SKKTOCSfl HMHKorl HlfiCAhStCSb XHD DEBILITY HfrkliLKW DJCCAY. life xj cricace. R<m*.rkmbie aa<S quick eer??. TrUl peakarcs. 9?n<l 8ump for ?e&lcdp?rtlciltra. l^rm, Dr. WARP A CO., LOUISIANA, go. ^ BEST IN THE J WlM^ WORLD. 3 Rifle. j* rifle made. V*rUcl /I^^^^pBSsEB3Bi? the market. % SET RIFLES, world rtnownM. Send for ARMS CO., New Haven, Conn. IIPII isTHeBest | 11H Waterproof Coat iikH Erer Hade. gum or rr.btxr coat. The FISH BRAND PLICKEP or, and will ktep you dry in th? hardest (torm 4cui and uke no other. If j onr rtarek?<p?r doei ?