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ft. AGRICULTURAL." TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Experiments in Feeding Sheep. Four pens of eight sheep each were tested during a period of 106 days. The foods were all of good quality; the linseed cake was a pure and superior one. During the first period of thirty-three days, the several pens increased in weight from ,l(i ourwns tr> 7 fi rmnrps dailv apiece?the mixed linseed and cotton cake doing worst and the mixed oat and barley meal the best. In the second period of similar length the sheep increased in weight only from 1.5 ounce to 2.5 ounces daily. The period was one of severe weather and the results prove what a waste of food is inevitably incurred in the winter sheepfold. The combined oats and barley now did the worst and the linseed cake did the best of all the foods; the wheat flower being, however, almost as bad as any of them. Several of the sheep during this period fell ill and some of them died or were slaughtered. In the third period the increase per head varied from 8 ounces to 14.7 ounces daily, and here the wheat stood highest of the whole and the crushed oats and barley lowest.?Dr. John Yvelcker. A Fertilizer Hint. J. B. S. has a light, gravelly and poor soil which he proposes to seed to wheat with grass, and has suit, lime, plaster and --t __ 1 r A?i; A ? il.. usuus as a ieruu/.rr. vvs mc i?uu iius never had salt or lime, their application, may be very beneficial. We advise sowing alternate strips with the salt, lime and plaster, to sec how they act. That is the only way to tell?experiment for yourself. Nor should we bother to mix these with the bone and ashes, but apply them separately and in varying quantities; but don't get on more than two barrels of salt per acre, and less may be as well. The ashes, if pure and unleachcd, will contain about six per cent, of potash and two per cent, of phosphoric acid; pure fine ground bone contains about twenty per cent, of phosphoric acid and four per cent, of nitrogen (commonly called ammonia). Mixed together in equal proportions, we have a fertilizer running two per cent, of nitrogen, eleven per cent, of phosphoric acid and three per cent, of potash; apply this at the rate of 500 pounds to 2,000 {tounds per acre, according to your purse, aud you should get results that will please you. The bone and ashes should be composted and kept moist for two or three months before using, so that t he potash will cut and i soften the bone. We should drill this in, and broadcast and harrow in the salt and plaster, though broadcasting for both may be better.?Farm and Garden. How Horses are Spoiled. When we have succeeded in inspiring the horse with entire coniidence in himself and in his master also, there is but little likelihood, unless he is a very nervous or a very perverse horse, that he wili bccome troublesome through any vicious act, or want of honesty. "Balking," that ono vice that pretty nearly takes all the virture out of some horses, is undoubtedly always, or very nearly always, chargeable to indiscreet management on the part of those who have had the breaking?training?and after management at work. Thus, if a horse is overloaded while yet young, stops to rest without being told to do so, and finding the rest agreeable, and the starting?being weary?disagreeable, it is not to be i wondered at that he forms the habit of Stopping, and thenceforward becomes a "balkcr." If, when this first inclination to stop.and hesitate is observed the temptation be taken away by getting onto an easier piece of road, lightning the load, or giving the horse rest, and feed if need- j ed, after avoiding a similar occasion for | stoppiug, the danger of having a con- j firmed balky horse may be averted. But when under these circumstances the horse is hit with a whip, and sharply reprimanded, then look out for a retaliatory effert. The horse assumes that you are his enemy, and from that moment he places himself itf an antagonistic position, looking upon his master as an enemy. The question is often asked whether a confirmed balker can be curcd. This admits of a double answer?yes and no. If the horse is in good hands, managed by 6ome person who has firmness and judgment, he can spmctimes be cured by driving a stake and hitching him at the spot where he stops, until he is glad to move along to where his rations arc. Horses have been cured by, as the saying is, "taking them at their word," and if they want to buck, then keep them backing, giving the animal to understand that that is just what you want him to do. You can, in half an hour to an hour, convince him that backing is a very much harder motion than going forward.? National Lice Stocl Journal. Live Stock Xolcs. It is recommended that to prevent cows or steers from jumping over fences a horseshoe be nailed to one of the forefeet, which prevents the hoofs from spreading and consequently renders the animal unable to spring. To train a flock of sheep take a lamb to the house and teach it to came at the call nf a rprtnin sound, sincl flifin nut it witli a flock. As sheep follow the leader, the whole flock may he called by the obedience shown on the part of the pelted sheep. An excellent mixture of hay tor all classes of stock is one-third clover hay with timothy and red-top, which is much better than either one alone, as the mixture is more complete in food elements. It should be fed with an allowauce of ground grain also. IIow to induce cattle to eat cornstalks is a difficulty that has 5?ccn overcome by a Maine farmer, who sprinkled hot brine over the stalks. The cornstalks are fed, with the fodder and husks, without cutting, and if well cured, lie says the stock will leave but little uneaten. It is more economical, however, to pass them through a fodder cutter. Estimating the value of the hog as a producer of manure, a practical swine breeder states that a hog. if kept to the age of twelve months, will convert a cartload of material per month into an excellent fertilizer for i urn. lie thi:iks that with twelve load-; of manure a year l'fom each hog on tl".* farm, the hogs should provide enough fertilizer to pay for the corn they consume, and that by estimating the value of the manure the hog is i - ? ?. i. Kept ar a icss co.si ui;ui uu i> u'.-iimu. To indicate the influence of the fond upon the growth of bone in animals. Professor Lehman fed a young pig 12<i days upon potatoes alone, the result being rickets or softening of the bone. Other pigs, from the same litter, fed upon potatoes, black oat meal and additional ) phosphates for the same length of time, had normal skeletons, yet there was a difference according to the phosphate added. Two that were fed on phosphate of potash had porous boues that were spe 1 cificallv lighter than others that had been . ! fed upon phosphate and carbonate of ' j lime. The experiment demonstrates the j | importance of feeding a variety of food, j "The Curious in Dairying.M An Ohio farmer says in the New York Tribune: One comes across "queer wrinkles'' in dairying; some of them really have a "scientific" side, but the operators for the life of them can give no reason for their practice. One lady says she always puts a pint of cold water in the centre of each milk pan when she "sets it;" why, she does not know, but she always has good luck getting cream. Now there is more science about this than appears on the surface. Milk contains more or less albuminous matter which makes it slightly "sticky." In some instances this is very marked, and amounts to pronounced viscosity. Water is a solvent of it, and the addition of pure cold water makes the j milk get more fluid and enables the butter fyts to rise with more resistance, and hence the better cream. The cooling effect of the water at the centre of the milk might aid more than one would think possible. The only effect would be that of making the milk more limpid, and would not be objectionable, but the question'comes up, would there not be more certainty about cream rising if the milk were put in can-pails and set in tanks of cold water, and the lower, uniform temperature of the milk secured? Another curious custom lately came to my knowledge?that of washing out the butter with sweet skim milk, as it did not give the butter a ''flat" taste like that imparted when water was used. If old or strong butter be washed out with sweet milk, it dissolves and liberates some of the elements, notably acids, that cause the change in butter. I suspect this lady churned very old, or sour cream, and the sweet milk takes out the elements wrought by the chemical action of sourinc, and leaves the butter with a flavor not influenced by these objection able features. The thing that all authorities now say makes butter bad (caseine) has not been got out of the butter, and, with the little remaining decomposing caseine and sugar, it must be sooner hastened on its road to questionable flavor, and consequent low price. Had this lady churned oftener, and used cream less acid, she would have found that salt and water is everyway superior to sweet milk as an aid in butter-washing. It is always safe and more profitable to let the consumer judge about the 4 fl it" taste in butter than to try to force upon him a flavor he has learned to avoid. The market is strongly drifting toward fresh-made butter, churned from slightly acid cream, washed free from buttermilk with weak brine, and salted not to exceed a half ounce to the pound. Fattening Pigs on Pasture. A notion prevails that pigs cannot be fattened unless closely shut up in a pen. Along in September, as soon as corn is large enough to be fed to them, the pig9 must be confined in a stuffy little pen, where they cannot get a sniff of fresh air oiwgreen grass. This is an unnatural and unreasonable theory. Animals that have had the freedom of a pasture range all summer, cannot be contented when thus suddenly deprived of it; and when not contented they will not readily take on flesh. I think the idea must have originated in the fact that a few hogs, shut away from the main drive, will do better 011 the same feed than the others. This separation usually occurs at fattening time. The advantage gained in this way may sometimes exceed the loss occasioned by removal from grass, and thus give rise to the notion that close confinement on a plank floor is iust the tiling for fattening pigs. Again (bore is a breed (I am glad it is now almost extinct) that can never be fattened unless tbev are ringed, hamstrung and tied down, for they are inevitable land-sharks by nature as well as by i name, and will root themselves down to bristles and bones if given space enough in which to do it. In times when this breed (?) was the prevailing one, it was quite likely to cause the farmer to think that a hog could not be fattened while allowed any degree of freedom. But, as I have said before, we have now gotten out of this kind of stoek, and as a natural consequence, we want to get out of this way of managing our swine. A modern, resectable, well bred pig will not root his flesh off if he is fed in satisfying quantities, as fattening pigs out West usually are. In fact, it has been clearly demonstrated that he will take on fat much faster if allowed room to exercise and a ; chance to add something to his diet of dry corn. Ilogs of this kind do not root much if given a good clover pasture. Unless given something besides dry corn, they ought to root, for their systems denvitid something more than the corn contains. They will not root for fun, nor for food if they can find what they need on the surface of the ground. As to the quality of pork fattened on a dear com diet, while the pi#; so fed are closely confined, little need be said. The diseased pork that is inflicted upon the country is grown in these same putrid, infected holes. Pure, wholesome milk or flesh cannot conic from filthy food or filthy surroundings.?Practical Farmer. Eskimo Traditions. But, speaking of traditions, I migh say that these people possess a grea many of them. It is. however, verydifli cult to induce an Eskimo to speak of such things or of his religious beliefs. The only way of extracting such information from an Eskimo is to make him your friend, and then getting him away from his companions promise that you will not tell them what he may tell you, and having done this to draw him step by step into the line of conversation you want to get at. One of their traditions is about the flood, and 1 think it is particularly interesting, as it is one of many similar legends held by the savage tribes. The E>kimos say that a very long time ago there was a great ram, which flooded the earth and destroyed all men except a few who constructed a large boat out of a number of small ones and used it as a moans of escape. After a while the poor creatures, being exposal to the fury of the storm in their open boat, began to be cold and uncomfortable; so their chief, standing up, threw his spears and ornaments into the waters, and this was sufficient to pacify them and they subsided. They have also a romantic legend about the origin of the sun and moon. ?Toronto M'lii. To keep postage stamps in the pocket or memorandum book without sticking, a New Orleans post office clerk advices people to rub the sticky side over the hair two or three times. The oil of the hair coats the mucilage and prevents it from sticking. A small and retrousse nose, betokens cunning and tinesse; a straight and thin nose taste and delicacy; an aquiline nose judgment, reason and egotism; a shapeless, clumsy nose intellectual dulness and want of savoir faire. r A CUP OF TEA. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT A UNIVERSAL BEVERAGE. ! Where Tea Comes From ? What It Co?fs ? How It Is Grown ? How It Is Made. ! The pcopjc 01 tne umieu oiaies are | said to be coffee-drinkers, whereas the people of England are tea-drinkers; but I for all this, we consume in this country something like 75,000,000 pounds of tea every year. Taking the old wife's rule, that to mnke a good cup of tea you must ! put in "a pinch" for every person at the table and a pinch for the pot, this would allow seventy-five cups of good tea each year for every man, woman and child in the country. The taste for tea has lasted in our race for about two centuries. Before then our ancestors drank small beer and sack at their breakfast. The first teas brought to this country came from Great Britain, and had originally been imported from the Dutch East Indies. The Chinese teas did not make their appearance till much later, and the Japanese teas are of yesterday. In the old days tea was dear and only used by the rich. The gradual increase in the consumption of tea must be ascribed partly to the increase of wealth among the people, and partly to tne growing conviction mar, on the whole, tea is a wholesome beverage. It contains, however, but two elements which possess alimentary value, and these in small quantity, thus differing widely in this respect from chocolate, which is one of the most valuable articles of food we have. The elements in question are theine, which has the property of lessening the waste tissue in the human body, and thus taking the place of other food, and tannin, whose value as an astringent is known. It is hard to imagine any one living on tea alone, bnt it is certain that numbers of ladies, especially those in delicate health, derive a large part of their nutriment from tea. Perhaps the milk and sugar with which we adulterate tea may be the source of nourishment in the cup. Doctors agree that drunk to excess it produces nervousness; in experiments upon the lower creation it has caused paralysis; and the same disease occasionally attacks tea-packers. In France, where tea is seldom seen on the breakfasttable, it is frequently drunk by students who desire to keep awake. It is mixed, not with milk, but with rum. According to Dickens, monthly nurses and women of that glass in England mix gin with their tea, and drink the compound out of the spout of the teapot. In China, country people add ginger and salt to their tea, in order to counteract its tendency to produce lassitude. The higher classes in China always drink it pure. In Russia, .honey is often mixed with tea to sweeten it. Jn uaJnorma, tea is cmeny arunic oy women, and it goes without saying that sugar and milk are the only articles with which it is mixed. Few people nowadays need to be told that the black and the green teas are grown on the same shrub, and the leaf in both is green when it is gathered. It is by manipulation and by inducing a partial fermentation that the green leaf is turned black. Both are the product of the shrub known as the Thea; in Southern China it is known to botanists as the Thea bohea; in Chckiang it is known as the Thea viridis. The different nomenclature merely reflects the change produced in the plant by a transfer from a temperate to a hot climate; its characteristics are identical in both cases. A cer-, tain number, indeed uearly all the teas exported from China, are colored by artificial processes; these arc supposed to be harmless, but it is possible that they may not always be so. Half the battle in tea is knowing how to make it. A careless housekeeper throws a handful of tea into a pot and pours a lot of warm water on it; then she is surprised that the guests at the tea table make wry faces, and behind her back called her tea "slops." It is with tea ns with coffee, the secret of cxtraeting the essence and flavor is in insisting that the water shall be actually boiling when it comes into contact with the tea. This is very rarely done. Even good tea-makers think their duty done when they put a certain quantity of tea in the pot, then pour over it a cup full of water which was boiling two or three minutes before, then leave it five minutes to draw. They certainly get sometning of the taste and fragrance of the herb, but nothing like what they might extract if the tea were made in the kitchen by a good cook, who poured the water in by driblets, stopping the supply whenever ebulition ceased, and then resuming the flow after letting the kettle remain a few seconds on the lire. The Chinese, who know how to make tea, arc particular about the water that is used. Says Tung Po, the Chinese Soyer: ' Whenever tea is to be infused for use take water from a running stream and boil it over a lively lire. It is an old custom to use running water boiled over a lively fire; that from springs in the hills is said to be the best, and river water the next, while well water is the worst. A lively lire is a clear, bright charcoal fire. "When making an infusion do not boil the water too hastily. First, it should begin to sparkle like crab's eyes, then somewhat like fish's eyes, and lastly it boils up like pearls innumerable, springing and waving about. This is the only true x ? l^'si xl.. i.? ? rpk/. >\ay iu uon inu uiuui. iiiu v/muuac i generally make their tea cup by cup."? | titai Fivncm Call. Carried It Herself. Mrs. Hettie Green, the Wall street woman of many millions, has always been known for her moderate expenditures, and this was illustrated when she called at the officc of Brown Brothers & Co. Mrs. Green had with her in a well-worn satchel which she usually carries in the street, $1,000,000 of Philadelphia and Beading stock. She wanted the stock transferred, and was told that the transfer office of the company was in Philadelphia. and furthermore that it would cost $100 to send the $1.0(10,000 Beading to Philadelphia by express. ' One hundred dollars!'' Mrs. Green exclaimed. "Why, young man, the fare to Philadelphia is wily $4. Just you hand me back that Beading." Mrs. Green put the stock back into her satchel and went i.... i <? r ?.i iu i Jiiiuuri jiiiia ii# uu\u 11 uaii?ttiivu.?- i JVeto Yuri Sun. An Ancient llelio. ? Groping through the dust of ages, Archii'ologist now delves; Seeks for relics of the sages, Ixuig since laid lijuin their shelves. Ah, he finds a bit of jiarehmeiit, Written t housand years ago; Finds it 'neath an ancient arch l>e?t, Now brought forth to sunshine's glow. 'Tis a joke, told in times olden, At which patriarchs had laughed; 'Tvrns quite old in days called Golden," 'Twax so old it had been chaffed. Since that joke first earae to reason It's been traveling down; It's {>een heard since, every season, UltfWl by some circus clown. ? Ucotlairs Sun. WORDS OF WISDOM. Children have more need of models thfiii critics. He who rules must humor full as much j as he commands. It is no shame for a man to learn what he knows not, whatever age he may be. "We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. The moment a man begins to rise among his fellows, he becomes a mark for their missiles. Health is the second blessing that we mortal are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes of they could govern their tongues. The talent of success is nothing more than do'ng what you can do well, without a t! ought of fame. It is r o m ire possible to make people intelligent and prosperous, than it is to make them ignorant and wretched by society's best devised machinery. Happiness is defined by Madame de Stael to be "astute of constant occupation upon some desirable object, with a continual sense of progress toward its attainment. Eat, digest; read, remember; earn, save; love and be loved. If these four rules be strictly followed, health, intelligence, wealth and true happin ess will be the result. The drudges may grow weary of work; but it is a healthy fatigue compared to the utter weariness which falls upon the men or women who are weary of having no work to do. The Sealing of Letters. How were letters sealed before the invention of gummed envelope? In oue of the last numbers of Le More, Mr. S. Blondel has an interesting article upon this subject, in which he describes all the methods of sealing that have been successively employed from the remotest antiquity. The first seals consisted of a ring that was affixed to clay or bole, and later to chalk or creta astatica, a mixture of pitch, wax and plaster. The use of wax did not begin to become general till the Middle Ages. Beeswax, rendered yellow by time, was the first material used. Then came scaling wax mixed witn a wmte suostance. xtca wax organ with Louis VI., in 1113, and green wax made its appearance about 1163. In the thirteenth century, yellow, brown, black, and blue were added to the foregoing colors. Black wax is a rarity met with in the seals of the military religious order*. Among the ancients, ring seals were used not only for sealing letters, but also as small locks were not common, for scaling caskets and chests that contained valuable objects; and they were even employed for sealing the doors of houses and apartments. Under i:he First Empire, people began to use wafers, which were brought from Italy by the soldiers and officers of the French army. These wafers were cut with a punch out of a thin leaf made of flour. Finally, gummed envelopes gradually began to replace scaling wax and wafers nearly everywhere. The first envelopes, which were manufactured in England, date back to 1810. The machine for folding them was invented in 18-13, by Messrs. Edwin Hill and Warren dc la Rue, and in 1849 was so improved by the latter that it was capable of folding and gumming 3,GOO envelopes per hour. Since 1800, the animal production of envelopes has been greatly increasing, and there are now being daily manufactured in Paris alone, 1,/300,000 daily. i ? i Origin or common Jt'lirases. "Right Foot Foremost."?In Rome a boy was always stationed at the door of i mansion to caution the visitors not to i cross the threshold with their left foot, j which would have been an ill-omcn. "To Crop Out."?Rise out of, appear it the surface. "To crop out" is a mining term. Strata which rise to the surface arc said to crop out. We also say such and such a subject crops up from time to time?i. e., rises to the surface; such and such a thing crops out of what you are saying?i. e., is apropos thereof. "A Fool and His Money Arc Soon Parted."?This is probably one of those old popular sayings or proverbs which came into existence of itself, and can be credited to no particular author. It has been attributed to Solomon, but of all the sagacious sayings which emanated from the "stylus" of the wisest of all wise men, that of "A fool and his money are soon parted" is not one. It has also been falsely regarded as one of Benjamin Franklin's celebrated maxims and apothegms.?Ghl'C Democrat. The Sneezing Spot. As a Journal representative sat in the chair of a Maiden Lane barber the other day, the genial artist of the brush obsoxi.A/l <lmf the innrniiUst sneezed when Iiis hair was combed. "Did I touch the | sneezing spot?" inquired the barber. He : then proceeded to explain that +hc j "sneezing spot" was a sensitive place to the left of the middle of the forehead. ,'Why," lie said, "there arc men Mho sneeze regularly every time I comb their hair or shave them, just as soon as the comb passes over that spot. I had a man in here yesterday who sneezed three times just as hard as he could, all because I touched the 'sneezing spot.' It must be a very small nerve that tickles the nostril."?Albany Journal. A Turtle's Tenacity. In regard to such animals as frogs, etc., It is pretty hard to say at wliat time they are dead. I remember the case of a snapper which I caught in a creek fin New ; Jersey. We began by cutting off his head and going through the usual process { in sudi cases. Some time afterward I j found the heart ("which had not yet been : disposed of) still contracting. I take it I for granted tin- animal was really dead, i iKrcause it had been cooked, and I had j paten it during the interval.?I'/iil/uMjihin i l.edoer. C i rrr nlssii ncr o' heels f r a'l tha Stat&r | ' Mr. < . H. Ueavdon. Balfin.ote Md., writes j tlia! he>-iilTi red for ft : n {time >? ith rheuma- j tism. whi h yielded to no tr atmcnt until ho J ai>|ilio I *>t- Jacobs Oil. A nri.NKSS in crime thiouchout England is revealed by comparisons of ihe ollcial reports for the last two >eirs. _Io l?Ho-*?? the number of commitments was 147.KK. 12,(Kl i less tlmn in the previous twelvemonth. Theavcrasred;iily prifo i p<p ilatiori was l."?,:Kt, a;ain>t in 1SSJ '85. _ Kx-Congieis:nan Weaver, Postoflice Department, AVa-h ngt *n, D. C.. consider* It d S.ar f'< ugh Cure a remarkablo remedial agent. It contains no d.-intferi u1 na"toti< s, and co-:tshut twenty-five cents Ok the seventy-six members of the present United States .Senaie there a-e mven wlit fought < n the (.'iron side during the l&te war, while fifteen bore amis umie? the Confederate fasr. IS THERE ANY HOPE? New nod Important Opinions of Pulmonary Kxpcrtn! CAN THE UNIVERSAL CONSUMPTION BE SUCCESSFULLY TREATED? Dr. Burgeon, a leading French doctor, has a new treatment for consumption! Ho gives an enema of carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen gases, the latter gas carrying the former into every part of the throat and lungs. This treatment, too, Is directed at effects ?the cause remains undisturbed. What this cause is has been stated by perhaps the highest pulmonary authority in the world, t. ?., the Brompton Hospital for Con- ] sumptives, in London, Eng. This malady every year carries off from one-seventh to one-fifth of the entire population of England. Dr. Payne, M. D., M. R. C. P., London, is authority for this statement. The same or a greater proportion of deaths obtains in America. Dr. Payne also says that one-half the total number of deaths from all other causes have seeds of this disease in the system which only require some irritant to develop! Dr. Hermann Brehmer, an eminent German authority, says that consumption is caused bv deficient nutrition of the lungs, by poor blood. These authorities cannot be disputed. The medical world recognizes them. The uric a id is the irritant in the blood that causes the development of the s?eds which Dr. Brehmer says lie dormant in the blood. Every [ article of blood which passes through the lungs and heart, also goes through the kidneys, and if they are in the least deranged they cannot rid the blood of its killing poison. The thousand little hair-like sewer tubes of the kidneys very easily get blocked up and diseased; and when they do they corrupt instead of purifying the blood. Kidney disease may exist, and yet no pain occur in that organ, because it is deficient in nerves of sensation. Dip your finger in acid every day and it soon festers and is destroyed. Send acid-poisoned blood through the lungs every second, and they soon give wav. 'ihe Brompton Hospital investigation showed that 52 per cent, of the victims of consumption were afflicted with deranged kidneys, which permitted the uric acid poison to remain in the blood and irritate the lungs. This uric acid is always fighting every vital organ, and if there be any inherent weakness in the lungs it inevitably cause pneumonia, cough and consumption. The real cause of pulmonary troubles being so authoritatively shown to be faulty even though uususpected action of the kidneys, ' explains why, in order to master the dreaded consumption, one must rid the blood of the uric acid irritant which inflames and burns up the lung substance. For this purpose there is nothing equal to that great specific, Warner's safe cure. The remedy has now the favor of medical men all over the world purely on its merits. "We have no doubt that if the kidneys are keptin natural action, con- j sumptiou and a great many other diseases, | caus:d by uric acid, will not only be cured but will be prevented. When the kidney is healthy, no albumen appears in the water, but albumen is found in the water of more than half of those who die of consumption! This, then, is the condition of things that always precedes consumption: First, weakened kidneys: second, retained uric acid, poisoning th> blood; third, the development of disease in the lungs by the irritant acids passing through them. Then there is a little ccugh in the^ morning; soon thick, yellow matter is spit up, followed by loss of flesh and strength, with dreadful night sweats; and when the patient goes to his school physician for help, he is put on cod liver oil, which his stomach, weakened also by uric arid in the blood, cannot digest. Because there is no pain present in the kidneys, j i lie patient noes not ididk tney are auecteu, but the kidney acid is doing its work every miuute, every hour, day and night, and byand-by the disoa.se or the lungs has advanced uutil pus is developed, then come hemorrhages, and at last the glassy stare which denotes that the eud is near! A post-mortom examination of such cases shows that the terrible uric acid has completely destroyed the substance of tho lung. It is impossible to cure lung diseases when the blood is poisoned with uric acid. The Placc for Cliftir Makers. Lust winter, when living in the City of Mexico, I tried to buy a better chair than the one assigned me in my room at the middle-class hotel, where I was stopping. I But, to my dismay, I found the furniture man wanted me to pay $10 for a chair which could be had almost anywhere in the United States for $2.50. I spoke to our Minister about it one day by chance, when he explained to me that the duty on the cheapest of chairs was at the rate of $(50 per dozen. Let some few enterprising young American mechanics or carpenters act upon this, i Go down to the capital of Mexico and make furniture. All the fertile valleys of Mexico arc lined with willow trees. All the little mountain streams come tumbling j down through lanes of little willow trees. Take a hint from one who knows the land well and go down there and make willow ware, chairs especially. The only possible thing that could interfere with your certain fortune would be a revision of their tariff laws. And this I do not think likely to take placc. Mexico is trying hard to inspire home industry with iile ana ucaitny action; ana protecuuu is fax* more likely to be encouraged tlian set aside, as things now stand.?Joaquin Miller. Chinese Quail. Five hundred of the small Chinese quail from the Swatow district have been imported here and distributed in lots of 100 on the ranches of gentlemen interested in sporting. They are not more than half the size of California quail and are somewhat smaller than New England quail. They are rapid flyers and it takes a good shot to bring thcin down.?San Francisco Letter. You Cnu't Itcnd This without wishing to investiga'e, if you are wise. Send your address to Hatlett & Co., Portland. Maine, And you will rcccivo free, fnil information about work that you ran do. ar.d live at home, wherever you arc located, at which you can rece.ve from $5 to $:ii and upwards daily. Some have earned over $"0 in a day. Capital not required; you are starred free. All in new. Both sexes; all ages. Snug little fortunos await all workers. If you have tumor, (or tumor symptoms) Cancer (or cancer syinptoms),^>croiuia,r,r> Mpelas. jjiiU-Kheum.('lironic weaknesses,Nervousness or other complaints?Dr. Kilmer's Feijai.k Kkmkoy will correct and cure. 'Royal Glck' mends anything! Broken Chi. na. Glass, Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & (Jro If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isa c Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists ?cll at?>c. perbottlo Prepare for Spring It Is none to early to be getting ready for spring, and the flnt thing which should receive attention la your own system. If you hare not been well during the winter, have been troubled with scrofula, alt rheum, or other humors of the blood, you should purify the blood by taking Hood's Sar*aparlila. You will then escape that Indescribable tired feeling which Is fo prostrating and often so unaccountable In the spring months. Do not put ofT taking a re-, liable medicine, but take Hood's 8arsaparilla before It Is too Inte. " I lake Hood's Sarsaparllla for a spring medicine, and 1 And It just the thing. It tones up my system and makes me feel like a different man. My wife i taken It for dyspepsia and she derives great benefit | from It. KUe says it Is the best medicine she ever took."?>'n*5K C. TcnsF.R, Hook * Ladder No. 1, Friend Street, Boston, lias*. ,Mr?.C. W. Marriott, J.otvell, Ma**.. was completely Hired of .?lck headache, which she liad hod 16 years, by H cd'B sarsarm llU. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all drugglats. $1; six for (S. Prepared bi C .L HOOU & CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, llau 100 Doses One Dollar Why did t\ of this country use over f, Procter & Gamble's Lenox 5 Buy a cake of Lenox and you "Isn't that Mrs. Holmes? I thought the doctors f?ave her up. She looks well now." "She li well. Alter the doctors gave up her case she tried Dr. Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription' and began to get better right awny. I heard hersay notlong ago thatshehadn't felt ?0 well in twenty years- .She does her own work and says that life seems worth living at last. 'Why,' said she, 'I feel as if I had been raised from the dead, almost.' Tims do thousands attest the marvelous efficacy of this (jodgiven remedy for female weakness, prolapsus, ulceration, leucorrhoea, morning sickness, weakness of stomach, tendency to cancerous disease, nervous prostration, general debility and kindred affections. Professor Huoiies says a silk ribbon is a better lightniDg conductor than a metallic rod. If yon experience a bad taste in the mouth, sallowness or yellow color of skin, feel stupid and drowsy,appetite unsteady, frequentheudache or dizziness, you are "b.lious," and nothing will arouse your live- to action and Bt.rpn<?thAn nn vonr svstem like Dr. Pierce's "Golden Med Icat Discovery" By druggists. In attempting to en erthe car a! at Menasha Wis., a liO-pound sturgeon grounded on a andbar and was captured. Delicate diseases of either sax, however induced, speedily aid permanently cured. Book of particulars 10 cents in stamps. Address -WerlA's Dispansary Medical Association, 663 Main strjet, Buffalo, X. Y. There are 113 farmers in the Connecticut Legislature. A Tribnte to" American (>eniu? j Were ti e reccnt awards at Liverpool and Ed] inburgh of silver meda a to Seabury & Johnj ton, Pharmaceutical Chemists, a d propriei tors of Be: son's Capcine Plasters. These plasters are endorsed by 5,000 pliy.-icinns and ' pharmacists as the only reliable exlernal j remedy for coughs, lolds, rheumatism, <&c. Beware of nostrums advertised bv quaclts. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable to use. It is not a liquid or a snuff. 50c. Suffering Womanhood. Too much effort cannot bo made to bring to the attention of suffering womanhood the great value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for the diseases of women. Such au one is the wife of General Barringer, of Winston, N. C., and we quote from the General's letter as follows: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Please allow me to add my testimony to the most excellent medicinal qualities of your Vegetable Compound- Mrs. Barringer was treated for several years for what the physician called Leucorrhoea and Prolapsus Uteri combined. I sent her to Richmond, Va., where she remained for six months under the treatment of an eminent physician without any permanent benefit She was induced to try your medicine, and after a reasonable time commenced to improve and is now able to attend to her business and considers herself fully relieved." [General Barringer is the proprietor of the American Hotel, Winston, N. C., and is widely known.] COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, THE GREAT ENGLISH EEJLEDY For Llrer. Bile, Indigestion, etc. Frt* from Her cury; con t al n *o ure Vejgta b le Io^rvJIentl. Ageni: t> n< vuii i d.i iu.i| ?? ? > > A PITIABLE SIGHT. 1 LlttU Child Scarcely Three Year* Old Draw* < *t of Shape by Inflammatory RhenraatUm. Rochester, N. T., May 18, 1880. Pardee Medicine Co., Gentlemen:?We desire to express our feelings of gratitude for the great blessing received at your bands in restoring to us in perfect health, our little three year-old aon, who for weeks has been a very great sufferer with inflammatory rheumatism. His little hands and arms were badly inflamed and so drawn out of shape that we feared he would never again have the use of them; but thanks to Dr. Pardee's excellent remedy, he is now entirely free from pain and has free use of his bands and arms; in fact is in better health than ever before. We feci that your remedy has performed almost a miracle, and believe it to be the best on earth, and recommend it ; to any afflicted with rheumatism. We are very truly yours, Mr. & Mrs. H. KLEEHIMER. Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured. Rome, N. Y. Gentlemen:?I willingly give the following testimonial: I have used Dr. Tardee's Rheumatic Remedy and I can truthfully say it is the best medicine that I have ever taken. I tried doctors and many preparations, but they did me no good. This is the remedy that has cured me of j InflftmTnntfirTT' rlinnmoficm T wnill/l likfl ! to tell those who arc troubled with it, that this is the surest and cheapest cure for them to buy. Yours respectfully, BENJ. J. BASENFELDER. John Adams, of Engine Ilouse No 3, Rochester, N. Y., was confined to his bed with inflammatory rheumatism. He used fcthree bottles of Dr. Pardee's Remedy and is now able to be about. Can walk without crutch or cane. He says: "it is the best remedy on earth. I am recommend- I ing it to every one I see that is afllictcd I with rheumatism." i Ask your druggist for Dr. Pardee's ! Remedy, and take no other. Price, $1 per bottle, six bottles, $5. Pardee Medicine Co.. Rochester, N. Y. BEN^OJvflS ?(CApc,NE)?| W poroiMster llifhe*t Award* of in Faropt and AaifHra* The neatest, quickest, safest an I most powerful remedy known for Rheumatism. Pleurisy, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Backache, Weakness, coltl In the cheat and all aches and pains. Endorsed bv 5.<K?) I'hyslclans and Druggists of the highest repute. Benson's Plasters promptly relievo and euro where other plasters and greasy salves, liniments and lotions, are absolutely useless Beware of Imitations under slm lar sound ng names, such as "Capsicum," 'Capucln." "Capslclne," as they arc utterly worthies* and Intended to decetve. Ask for Benson's aso take soothers. All druggists. 8KABCRY & JOHNSON. Proprietors, New York. GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA (ttl/t will lmy a lot -WxllS'in the Vlllaife of Rut ?5JLIJ ledge, six miles west of Gainesville. Mill, Postofllce, Stores. church Ser IciS. Fine Orange, Fruit and Vegetable Lauds. Good for Tobacco Cul ture or General farming. High, Dry, Healthy, Beautiful Rolling Country. Just the place for an economical Winter Home, or for a permanent settlement. Muuy Cures of Throat and I.ung and Nervous Complaints have been made. Send ten c?nt< In stamps for a county map. village plot and circular to ().ll.\ Ul'TON, <ininrnvlllr. Fin. THURSTON'S' earITOOTH POWDER Keeping TeetUJPerfrci andliuntM Healthy. ; VCAI CALVES, POI LTRV, FIXTe HI T- I CHU TKU. A ton a day wanted at tho Wall, about Market. Big protlt to shippers. For instructions address J. SMITH, 75 Fast Ave., Brooklyn, N.V | AP toSSn day. Samples worth Jsl.VJ l'RKIi | Lines not under the horse's feet. Address WU lihiwhteh's Safety Rkix Hoi.dek. Holly Mi,-n pinup on James River Va., In Clnreuioiii ^ MKMI.X l oiony. iiiu~tr.tt> <l ir.-ulcrfree. I Mil all V .1. K. IIA \CIIA * ?laMinut V:i, #lfl|IIMan'' 3lori?liinr Habit ciiml inn llrflllnl tttW?lay%Mcr-rt??ii?w|..iii niM-ur-J VI IV III inull p.irt . l>ic. >1 iltsii. jiiiii y. ,?hWi to Soldiered I Mr*. S.'iids:;im'i j ??0 H C If)HQ for i-lri-nl;iis. Cm. I,. ISI.VJ I wllwlUllw HAM, Alt'}, SV;i>lii'i','l'>n. I>. 0 WANTS??) ImiHP'lliitfly. I<IU S:ilr?incii. <S"-jI VVHUICU I'av. Oiiiill l''rct'. Address II. I*. FKKfe.MA X ?V < (?., .\iir??'r>ini'ii. i iigiiloii, X.V. I Ukwixh JUi'iiiscKUKK! Toiiifrotluo . Send fullnd OUrfssltumt-ill.iIely |>> Favorite Co.,.lersoy <.'ity,X.J. ADIIIkl llubit Ciirod. Treatment . rut on trla UrlUffl IIOJANK RKMEDY CD., J-jfuyett , Ini ie Women hirteen million cakes of soap in 1886 ? 1! ! I 1 will soon understand why. j I - : A - . - ? ----- Hi ' CURESWHMEALi-ll^WL&L^^a 'j M Best Cough Syrup. Tag tea good. UM Q . - 4B Ld In time. Sold by druggists. gj I Igpfi r n'in ai Ir?i f mjfi . .. , imM HAINES VTIJ.E, N. J., ) I . '--fM I October 15, 1866. J I \ J| E. T. IIazei.tine, 9 1 I was taken with a very n j severe cold last Spring, B and tried every cure we H bad in the store, and could | j I had our village doctor .. prescribe for me, but kept getting worse. I saw an- ,^D other physician from Port .JBH| Jervis, N. Y.; and he told <^..^9 me he used Piso's Cure for ;:^j Consumption in his prac- " ijj I bought a bottle, and before I had taken all of it I there was a change for the better. Then I got my em- > Jj ployer to order a (,uantity i of the medicine and keep i it in stoak. I took one 1 more bottle, and my Cough .! was cured. " sJiM Respectfully, Frank McKelvt. hn u?8 t^| OAKLAWN The Great Nursery 01 : PERCHERON HORSES. from France, all recorded with extended pedUrreee la tke Percberon Stud Books. The Pcrcheron U the only draft bi-eed of France ponxenlng a Btodbdok that ha* M ..yj fupport and endorsement of the French Gorernmfia BenS for 120-pago OtAlograe, lllngtrationa hj KmI Bonhaur. M.W.DUNHAM* Wayno, PuPcgo Co.. Illinois* ifnrosi il IT 11114/nunui i --m U Ilk L^In amounts of .-^3 I I Jlrj50 to 8300, on j B 11 to Ten years time. l U JrQur new plan?available to V '~M m9ra.i. burdensome to none. State >3 9^amount you can safely use, also Htuje and occupation. The System In $2 Full, with Forms, etc., Free, on re- ^ . g celpt of stamp. No postals answered. ' A | I. BUTLER, Sec'y, - B Bradford Pluck. Cor. Sixth & Vine, ' iejs CLXCIffHA 71, OHlOMBBMi / Large and complete ,'^E # stock of Imported stal- .'-yij I Hons and innres. of all j I iKetl- ?ver 175 prize* | I ^MUUHn H twarded my horses in -?rg \ four yean. All stalllunsxnaranteed breedBr er.i. VuMhoi ntock -I \ recorded with pedlgre* ,^ >Ba \ In Ferchcrou *rud -%fl N. t o >ks. I guarantee to V tell flrst-clas. stock as low or lower than any _1 Importer In the U. S. Station Enslnore, on Southerm Central K. R. JOHN W. AKIN. 1 F. O. Box 36. ftctplo N. Y. DR. HAIR'S '-m ASTHMA I | | n Has ab olutely cured tens of th .uK. a 11 f< t, sands. The only Asthma Cure and Treatment known to the medical world that will, positively, permanently cure A nth- . .igS nin and liny Fever, unquestionable evidence will be found lu my 64-^age Treatise, sent free. uit> if, u. imih> w ??. o>,., v?uv.u?..^, WELL DRILLING kl Machinery for Wei Is of any depth, from J 0 to 8,000 feet -Sj for Water, Oil or Ua*. Our MuunUd Steam Drilling and' Kjj Portable Horse Power Machine* set to work in iO minute*. . Guaranteed to drill brier and with lew power than any * other. Specially adapted to drllHng Well* In earth or - y Vf roclt JO to 1,000 feet. Farmers and othsrs are making $tt 7, -5 to $40 per day with our machinery w>d tooln. Spfcndld bu?ine?i for winter or Summer, we are the oldest m A-"Jj largest Manufacturer* in the business. Send 4oeatS la Stamps forillustrntcd Catalogue H. Addkess, -.<*38 Pierce Well Excavator Co.. New York. ft Ladles i Thoec dull 4-* tired looks and feelings v-jfTiflR V speak volumes! This V1 Jfk Wg Remedy corrects nil con --flM ditions, restores vigor ,^*2 v JnRfl . and vitality and brings j'**\ Kcr back youthful bloom ?:S& &?>' ' and beauty. Drwjuixts. " -< Prepared at Dr. KUmerMDis- *t-w| o rrssAr.y, r.lntchamton.N. Y. Cj - V letters of inquiry aniwcred. i X * *3 uuide to Heulthi Sent Free). . '?? ICET HO^LASTER^ THE I Are superior to all other plasters be- -- jJ ____ cause of their soothing and pain-UIi-H I Dtol. jag properties; virtues of fresh bops. 1 ^^^^ "balsamnndUcmloolc. Noaches,strain,! ~ rheumatic, neuralgic pain, ztifT muscles, aching | back or side, crick, kidney trouble, sore chest or , : '? sudden, sharp pain can long resist their magic ac- H tion. A wonderful strenfrthencr. Of druggists 30c. H Ono Agent (Merchant only) wanted In every town r.>r -.4 Although I was paying Srt.'.OO per 1,000 for lny leodlns ?. brand inv sales ore more than twenty live times as large sin.-e I put In your "TanslU's Punch" g 5o. el?ar. 1 could not have believed It Youre r?spectfully, Wji. M. Pale, Druggist, Chicago. Ad tress K. W. TAXS1LL & CO., Chli-iiso. FRAZEReAXL| 1 BEST IN THE WOULD UfltMOC >j |3T"Oet the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. Qfl| Plso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the H |H Beat, Easiest to' Use, and Cheapest, Also good for Cold In the Head, Headache, Hay Fever, <tc. SO ceuta. Bp F&Bfl PA I ,,K* ?n,M.niy PILES " ,nd-an pi,e O^tment I BhbV 1 will cur - any ca>e of It.hiiig. HVi'ilins. I li'i'i-.iiH or 1'rntnidiug I?jI(*h? ( I KK A KANThKI). i'r-pared fur Pl!'? nl>. i 1* 0>i -IuiiV jars by c-xprf.is. |,re- "S l.aid, I l r!i < |m i- box. 3?c. an I SI. Soi l l.v drag :I>1? in iil< d <?i r.'ivlut of iirltv l.v" flii ' ;. \\ 11,1.1 A tl l'-<; t McvHiti.il. Ohio. zttzs&fXPffraBsa.^ e* dirunn a lOiitse P4?I j ft ffjk w J re A?llim? Cure nrvcr /.?>'i m ;i?v? 23 ^ g ? r(/if/in iSip wor<ici'tei. -uru-M fv 9^1.00, of PrucslKt* cr tor null. KUKK P.rl flH [stamp, DK. 1L >Clliry \1\Nt M. i'nuU Minn. J rlrTr^rSlil^i^irwf f J^fi |i !|k\ I J t^flF^^TVr # JsQ tflll B 1^1 apjmi^H We WANT YOU! ftllTcor",nMicmm ..fl " " " * or *oiuon iteed.og . .* prntit.nlilc employment to represent ua In every / ciitnstv. >ulur.v per month and expends. or a larvo commi'-lon on sales if preferred, Good- UAnl* Everv <?r bnv*. Outfit and particulars Kree. STANDAKD SlLVfcKWAllE CO., BOSTON, MASS. riATCriM T ft Obtained. Send *tamp for pA I Cll I 9 inventors' Guide. L. lfixuI ham, l'atent lawyer, Washington, a C. Dili* Great English Gout and -J Dldir S 1119b Rheumatic Remedy.* JH Oval Box, SI.00 i round, 30 cl?.