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POPULAR SCIENCE. J Zoologists are preplexecl by ths\rc-T"urn this season of enormous shoals of herring to a point on the northwest coast of Norway, from which they suddenly and completly disappeared twenty-five years ago. Dr. TVelander has found mercury in the body from six to twelve months, and even more, after its use was discontinued, but discredits the statment that it may remain for twelve or thirteen years in the system. Iodine, hitherto found in nature only in combination with other elements, has been discovered in a free state in the water of Woodhall. Spa, near Lincoln, England. The iodine colors the water a decided brown. A new discovery, by the use of citric acid or citrate of silver, seawater may be made drinkable. By this means chloride nf si Ivor is nrermihited and a harmless mineral water is produced. An ounce of citrate makes a half pint of water drinkable. It is not necessary to have different metals to obtain a current of electricity. Iron in nitric acid and iron in sulphuric acid, the two fluids being separated by a porous partition, will give a curreut. one plate wasting away while the other is thickened. A remarkably practical application of a well-known scientific fact has been made in the soda locomotive. These engines are now used in the St. Gothard tunnel, Berlin and other European cities, and are now to be put iu Gyration in Minneapolis. -a t 1 _i.i. mere are DOW uov local ^wctncai naming companies in the country. The capital invested in manufacture and supply, according to the Electrical Retieic, is between ninety and a hundred million dollars. There are lighted every eight in the United States 123,000 voltaic arc lights aud GoO.OOO incandt-scent lights. Mary E. Tousey, on the study of insects in the American Teacher, concludes that every insect has its use iu the world. Many live very romantic lives?some are wanderers and s?>me are social in their habits, all are wonderful. It is possible for us to discover the secrets of their lives and the mysteries of their homes if we carefully stud.y them. The variable star Algol is so infinitely distant from the earth that it takes thirty years for its licrht to reach us. So we see it as it was thirty years ago, not as it is to-day. When one of its obscurations occurs, therefore, the one that is visible to us occurred a generation ago, and about 4,000 such obscurations have taken place and started on their way hither since the one we see happened. M. Hermite.a French astronomer,states that while the total number of stars visible to the naked eye in both hemispheres uoes noi exceea o.i'uu, iu? uumua uciu^ 2,478 for the Northern and 3,307 for the Southern hemisphere,20,000 may be seen with an opera glass, 130,000 with a small telescope, and with the most powerful telescopes that' have been constructed more than 100,000,000. Of course no one ever did or ever can see so many; but that is the computed number of stars that a powerful telescope could bring to view. Japanese Religions and Customs. The two great religions of Japan are Shintoism and Budhism. Shintoism is ancestral worship and sacrific to departed heroes. In many of the temples there are enormous and hideous idols representing evil spirits. To placate these demons the Japanese writes his prayer on a piece of paper, chews it up, and then throws the spit-ball at the idol?if it sticks the god is satisfied. In regard to morals, it is perhaps not quite fair to judge the Japanese by the standards of other countries. Their code of morals seems to have left out morality. The relation of master and concubine is con sidered perfectly honorable, and though parents sell their daughters to lives of shame, it not infrequently happens that a man will take to wife an inmate of a brothel, and she will pro*? a faithful helpmeet and devoted mother. As a rule the Japanese are very clcanly and industrious. Every branch of trade has its guild, arising from the fact that originally the Government farmed the collection of taxes, and each kind of labor was differently assessed. The wages of an able-bodied farm hand, with board, is per year, and without board $50. His clothes cost about $4 a year, and he can live on $2 per month. There nevei were two Emperors?a civil and ecclesiastical. The Mikado was always the real head of the Government. In 1890 there is to be a great assembly, and a constitution is to be promulgated, and the court will probably embrace the faith of the Christian religion.?Sun Francisco Alta. The Coffee Tree. Coffee is not a bush, as is popularly eupposed, but a tree, which, if permitted to grow, will shoot up thirty or forty feet. I "When uionerlv cultivated it is nipped ofl i about six feet from the grouud. thus presenting a surface from which the berries are easily picked and allowing the main to gain greater strength. The tall shrubs somewhat resemble the magnolias with their shining dark-green leaves?but the starry, snow-white flowers remind one of orange blossoms in all but fragrance. The phenomenon is constantly displayed of buds, blossoms, green and ripe fruit, all on the same stem: but though always flowering and developing fruit, the true harvest season is from April to November. When fully matured the berries are dark red, looking precisely like a common variety of sea bean. They turn to fl dull brown after having been picked and become almost black by drying.?Providence Journal. Childish Precocity. Here is a story of childish precocity from the Boston Bin/yet, illustrating the way these little ones puzzle theii elders. Paterfamilias, in a spirit of mischief, was attempting to confound the knowledge of his six-vcar-old by asserting that the fnce of a clock was not a face, because it did not have eyes; but the alphabet was fresh in the child's memory, and she immediately upset her parent's argument by pointing triumphantly to the Roman numerals II upon the dial, with the convincing. *'Oh, yes, they have; there are two Is!" A Watery Cow. In a milk-adultcratiou ease at Cheltenham, England, the other day, a sample of "babies' milk" sold bv the defendant was proved to contain ten per cent of ? A t tl,? ,U? /!? auut'u water. xii *.jxc iv^uwt ui mc viefendant, however, the cow, responsible for the sample was milked in the presence of the inspector, and the bulk, in legal phraseology, proved to correspond exactly with the sample. The inspector said (presumably): " How shall we deal with a watery cow? The law makes no; provision for punishing a cow guilty of watering her own milk." Cultivate rot only the cornfields ol jour mind, but the pleasure grounds also. | AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AXI> GARDEN. Sowing Grass "Without Grain. On good, moist, rich land I have had excellent success in seeding grass in spring, upon greensward turned over me previous fall, and the surface thoroughly pulverized before winter and again made fine and mellow before spring. By this method grass land may be kept producing full grops of grass every year without planting. But it will need reseeding oftener than if an occasional hoed crop is grown. Timothy is one of the poorest kinds of grass for spring seeding without grain, but if sown in August it will produce a full crop the $ext summer. Orchard grass is a gooi variety for spring seeding. A great amount of grass seed is annually lost by sowing it in connection with spring or winter grain. The grain crops being harvested in the hottest part of the year, leave the tender and previously shaded grass plants to be burned up, leaf and root, by the scorching sun.?Matsaeh usdts Farmer. Corn Culture. Shallow and level culture of corn has been proved the best method of growing .1-:- -1-1-1- Tlw. tViic (ins vaiuauic i uc iuvio vi uno tropical plant seek the surface, where they luxuriate in the sun's heat. It is a highly carbonaceous plant, as are ail the tropical varieties, and needs heat and moisture. A loose surface is quickly heated by the sun's rays and readily absorbs the moisture from the hot air, which is condensed in the somewhat cooler soil, especially at night, when the heat is radiated from the soil and the dewis copiously deposited on the cooled c.irth. The feeding roots of this plant spread freely close to the surface; hence, deep cultivation is an injury, by leaving these roots and checking the growth. There is no good reason for hilling up corn: the alleged reason that it supports the stalk? against high winds and beating rains is not well founded, for a hilled up crop is as easily prostrated as one on level ground, and it recovers itself less easily. Good practice and common consent of successful growers both favor shallow and level cultivation of this crop.?.Acre York Times. How to Feed Hogs. Construct your troughs for feeding hogs, says the Lite Stock Register, of Kansas City, so that each hog cannot appropriate more than a foot to himself. Have divisions by means of small fenced yards so arranged that at least three sizes of pigs can slip under and be divided into three grades and each have a trough to eat from. Now, by pouring the swill into the troughs for the small pigs they will crowd into their pens first and be out of the way of the older ones, safe, eating. Then take the second grade, and they will all be on an equality and out of the way of the still larger ones. In this manner a feeder can regulate the feed and grade his hogs in eating, and manage a large number and have each get a proper share of food, and not get hurt. Do not undertake to raise your hogs on grass alone. They need at least one ear of corn per day to give them heart and to neutralize the acid arising from eating the grass. A full supply of ashes and salt should be kept in reach all the time. Charcoal is a great neutralizer of acids. Burnt cobs are good. Remember that clover is full of acid, and a sour stomach soon leads to disease. ''An I ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" in this case. Tho Pnmino' Choon The New Yorkers nre ^waking up to the idea that we should have more American breeds of sheep. Some of the best breeders of the Merinos are going to try to establish a breed of mutton Merinos. A Mr. Maikham, of Rochester, N. Y.? has in his carc several full-bred French Merinos from the famous flock of the French government. They were sent here to sell. They are much larger than any American Merinos; have larger legs and bigger heads; the wool is not as tine. They do no have any wrinkles or folds, except it may be a dewlap. These sheep j have a value to cross on the American Merinos, to increase the size of the latter. They have been bred in France for a century for size of body and length of staple. Fine wool?that is, exceedingly I fine wool?never grows on a large body. The wool may be long and wavy, or it j mnv he well rrimrted. but. fineness of I staple is arrayed against a large fleece. It j is possible to have a thick fleece on a f large carcass by a judicious mingling of ! blood, such as the Merino and Oxforddown. The. latter produce wool long enough for combing and a thicker fleece than the large coarse wools, and when crossed on the Merinos the fleece is long and exceedingly compact. A good sheep j can be made by this line of crossing, I with a measure of blood, one-fouith Me-1 rino and three-fourths Oxford. The | face and legs are brown and the head j clear, with only a prominent tuft over' the eyes.?Our Country Home. Rust on Pears. The rust on pears begins to show early j in the season as small brownish spots, I which gradually enlarge, and if numerous > may nearly cover the surface of the fruit. , The rust sometimes reaches its maturity j and partially or wholly dies before the ' fruit is fully grown; in such cases it is ' cast off. the spot becomes more or less , perfectly healed, and the appearance I known as "scab1' is the result. In either ' case the fruit is injured in market value, j and if the attack is severe is rendered almost worthless. The cause of the in-1 jury is a fungus. Fusicladium pyrinum, which grows just beneath the skin and ' pushes its fruiting threads out into the : air, producing myriads of spores for its further propagation. The rust on the \ leaves of the pear is due to the same fun gus, and to keep it from the fruit, there-1 fore, will necessitate keeping the fblia^e free also. The only preventive or remedy that I seems feasible and economical is some application to the young leaves and fruit that will prevent the fungus from getting a foothold. The fungicide in solution should be sprayed upon the trees several j times from the bursting of the buds until j June, especially just after rains. AVhat t is be-t to? use yet remains to be d?-t?-r- ' mined. >Ir. (.Joff, of the New York Ex-! periment Station, found much benefit j from hyposulphite of soda at the rate of one pound to ten gallons of water. I Sulphide of potassa will, no doubt, also j prove valuable. If the trees are sprayed with Paris green the fungicide may be j added and applied at the same time.? j Neio York Herald. Destroying Annual Weeds. Annual weeds may be mo?t easily killed when they tirst show themselves above ground in starting from the seed, and to the seed, or parts of the seed, it clings for nourishment and support uutil it is well established. Many of the worst weeds a:c in tbisstaire very small, and if ! in the mr?ist spring time, plowed land j has lain quiet for a few days, the surface ! may on close inspection be seen to bs i covered with minute plants, frequently j exhibiting some bright color, red or brown or green. At this time a light I harrowing, or any thorough disturbance ! of the surface on a warm, bright day, j will destroy myriads in an hour. A week later the piece might need plowing again to kill them, and then ten times as many might escape. Tillage implements cannot be expected ! i to stir the whole soil where a crop is growing, but while the rows or drills are well disturbed a good portion of fine earth is thrown upon each side, and so i ) the whole surface is renewed. It is very fortunate that of these little weeds many are smothered by being covered by a | small quantity of earth, so that those j which survive and are subsequently found j growing in the rows are comparatively > few, and usually such as were protected ! by standing close to valuable plants. | Weeds in the seed leaf are therefore : i killed by being uprooted, disturbed, cut I I up, or smothered. If allowed to live 1 I they gam strength daily, and must or- 1 dinarily be cut up below the ground, or ' up-rooted, operations involving much labor?plowing, tilling by the cultivator or horse hoe, or hand pulling. This class of weeds is especially annoying in ! ground under plow and summer tillage;' those of a more permanent character oc- ] j cur chiefly in grass land.?American Ag- i | riculturist The Farm Workshop. Have you a workshop on the farm? If ; | not, why not? Many jobs can be done i I on the farm in less time than it would j take to order them of some person, per; haps miles away, and then wait for them, | or perhaps make another journey after ! them. Every farmer is not handy with | tools, but he may soon become so by their handling, at least to such a degree 1 us to perform jobs sufficiently well to ! compass the end. Nowadays any repair about the farm may be had already I shaped and only needing fitting. If you ! .are distant from where such things may he bought, when in the woods look out for crooks that will make a piow handle, ! or timber tliat will split into plow ! beams, harrow frame?, wagon tongues, j cross pieces for a hay rigging, a log for ! a roller, or any other material needed, j The broken implement will serve as a ! pattern to hew or otherwise work by. | AVhen found, prepare roughly and pile in ; a loft, where the wood may become j thoroughly seasoned against a time of want. Many a job may be nicely done in the workshop in inclement weather, i especially in winter. Provide a few necessary tools and a stove to keep the shop warm. At odd times make duplicates of articles or parts to implements j likely to break. Many minor implements ! are now more cheaply bought new than repaired or made on the farm. Handles j to any of the implements, rakes, etc., are j among the number, and when they may j be bought ready shaped, they are cheaper ! than to hew them down from timber, j It takes little labor to tit these properiy | to their places. Tn Wfirkuform Vkrnlr*>w Viarnr?cQ mnr I be mended by means of rivets or 'stitching. Many implements of use or convenience in the family may easily be made. Here the children will make play in learning to become handy with tools, i The hired men will also take kindly to I this work, since it is sure to keep them j out of the storm. "With a good stock of timber poles may be prepared for making sheds; lumber may be fitted for pig-pens: posts may be prepared by boring or hewing; rails may be sharpened; mangers may be fitted, feed-boxes prepared, stanchions made ready for fitting together, and tools I and implements may be sharpened. These are a few of the uses to which the workshop may be put and the ingenuity of the master and man exercised. If they prevent a visit to the village grocery for drink and card-playing when time drags heavily, the small economies will ! carry joy to the household, honor to the | head of the family, and money into the purse against a rainy day.?Chicago Tribune. Modes of Strawberry Culture. The question is often asked: "What is the best mode of cultivation for the strawberry, in hills, rows, matted beds or anuual renewal system?" A general answer is. all of these modes will, with productive varieties on good soil, produce good results, but different varieties often require different modes of culture in order to gaiu the largest yield and the largest berries. Mr. jailer in his revised edition of the "Strawberry Culturist," makes plain these different requirements and the various modes of meeting them. r onowing are, in oriei, siaiemems maue by him in this matter: The large, coarse-grown varieties succeed best when grown in hills or single rows, and these are usually quite unproductive if the plants are permitted to run together and become in the least crowded. The Triomphe de Gand, Jacunda, Champion and Agriculturist are wellknown varieties of this type, while others, such as Charles Downing, President Wilder, Green Prolific and Manchester will yield well, either in narrow rows or wide beds, and where the plants become matted. In the hill system the plants are usually set out in rows three feet apart and the plants eighteen inches to two feet in the row. The ground is kept thoroughly cultivated among the plants during the entire season, and all the runners removed as soon as they appear. When grown in single rows plants thrive if set about twelve inches apart in the rows, and in garden culture the rows ought to be three feet distant, with a little more space for feed culture. TVirinrr fir<t concern tV>r> nhmt-C miKt v M* 'v vvwwv" ^ r receive good cultivation, care being taken, however, not to disturb the roots while giving the cultivation. In the bed or matted system two or three rows are planted in beds four feet wide and the plauts allowed to cover the entire surface until these form a close mat or bed. One or two crops are taken and then the plants are ploughed up. By thinning out occasionally, however, the beds may be kept in a moderately productive condition, with some of the more slender growing of our native varieties. Some cultivators who raise strawberries for market adopt what may be called an annual system, setting out plants in the spring, either in single rows or narrow beds, giving these extra care during the lirst season; then, after the fruit is gathered the next summer, the beds are plowed up. This mode necessitates the making of a new plantation annually. On very rich soils and with the larger varieties, which generally command the highest price in the market, this system is an nvnilIrinl- mwl nrntilaliio nnr> Rut. nm;t teurs ami others who have only limited space to devote to this fruit will prefer either the hill or row system, because by devoting a little more labor to cultivation and removing the runners the beds may be kept in good condition for fruiting half a dozen years. By au occasional top-dressing of old and well-rotted J t in tV? P m Q fpri Q1 11CP/1 f uiuuuiv; auu ivinxu^ j** t>w?? > for protecting the plunts and mulch, the j j soil will be kept in line condition. Old j 1 beds are, however, more likely to be in- i fested by noxious insects than are new i ones.?JV?e York World. The Mosquito. " While people think themselves perfectly familiar with this common inscct, they know next to nothing of it," 1 said Entomologist Lint in the course of a lecture on the mosquito, delivered in Albany N. Y., the other night. \ "Mosquito is a Spanish and Portugese word, and is probably the diminutive of j the Spanish mosca, fly. In England Mosquitos are known as gnats. The mosquitos and associated gnats belong to < the order of diptera, or two-winged flies, j and to the family of culicido;. This 1 family, from the high degree of develop- 1 mcnt of its mouth parts, has been placed at the. head of the diptera, as are the j 1 cicendelids, or tiger beetles, at i;he head 1 of the coleoptera, snd the papilionidte, j the first of the ledidaptera. The principal characteristic of the family is its long and slender beak, or proboscis, ! nearly half as long as the insect, appearing as a simple organ, but really composed of several pieces peculiar.y fitted for their functions of forcing their way into the flesh and drawing blood there- j from. 1 "The effects of the bite varies greatly I 3 in different persons. There are those I j who are scarcely affected by it, and, in- < deed, are rarely bitten, either by this in- j sect, the bedbug or the flea. I have no ' i explanation to offer for the attractive- | ncss of some persons for these pests and ! i the reverse in others, but it would seem , ' that it might rr v.ilt. from some peculiar ' emanation from the person. The severe ] stinging sensation and subsequent inflam- ] million and itching of the bite is believed . J to lie owing to a poisonous fluid injected I , into the wound through the proboscis at j the time of its insertion to affect the ' blood and cause it to flow more readily. |] This opinion, advanced by Reaumur, has been verified by discovering the fluids or | the glands for its secretion correspond- | itig to the poison-sac, which secretes the < venom injected through the sting of the ' bee. yet it has b:.-en largely accepted as ' J the feasible explanation of the attendant , phenomena. i All the annoyance, pains, tortures, i which the world endures from the mos- ' quito is solely chargeable upon Mme. j Culex. I cheerfully admit that the riatu- j j ral taste of Mr. Culex may be equally , bloodthirsty, but, alas! poor creature, he ] has been left without the means of grati- | fying a sanguinary desire. He is, there- 1 fore, compelled to forego the exquisite 1 relish his companion may indulge, and is i *?.. -:a L'UIJIUIIL 1111 II1C |Uli;C9 U1 |f luu 13. "We do know one purpose which ' the mosquito serves, nnd one of consid- j erable importance in a sanitary point of view. It serves to purify standing j waters, and, to a great extent, to lessen ; their malarial influences. Th* natural | habitat of the larval mosquito is the stag- . ' nant water of our miasmatic swamps. ' The entire food of the creature, from its J birth to its majority, is believed to be decayed vegetable matter." Gypsy Horse Dealers. The main dependence of American gypsies is upon horse trading and dealing, says an article on the nomad tribes in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Every gypsy man, woman and child is a master of horse lore and horse care and horsemanship. A lad of twelve, or lass of fifteen, is a trader, a jockey and a veterinarian. A large number of animals besides those in actual use always accompany the band. These arc traded, sold or their number added to at a moment's notice. Of the keenness, cunning and wonderful proficiency of this race in horse j r-nre tr;idin<r and doalincr. I could relate I innumerable incidents But it is an interesting general fact in this regard, that gypsies are gradually taking the place of all others as middlemen between the farmers of our country and our final markets. Nearly all the draft horses used in our large cities are gathered together by gypsies from farmers in straits for money, cared for a little time, got into excellent form and training, and then sent to the city dealers, who, supposed to belong to other races, are gypsies themselves. Not only is the famous Tattersall of London, who furnishes nearly all the nobility of England with thoroughbred studs, a gypsy, but three of the largest horse markets in this country, in Boston, New York and Washington, are owned and conducted by gypsies, while in the smaller cities of the country these patient, quiet people are gradually securing property with livery and sales stables attached, to which the thousands upon thousands of animals secured during the summer wanderings are shinned. Every one of these animals is purchased for the lowest and sold at the highest possible price. The gypsy is welcomed by the farmer, for the farmei always needs and the gypsy always has money, while the city is becoming more and more used to relying on gypsy selected animals. For, while in a jockeying tourney the gypsy will perform 3ome marvelous swindles, in legitimate purchases and sales his word and guarantee are sacred and inviolable. Grant in 1857. General Averill, the Union cavalry leader, tells an interesting story of the first time he ever saw Ulysses S. Grant. T> in 1857 while General Averill was on his way to join his regiment in New Mexico. When he got fourteen miles 01 so west of St. Louis, leave was given him to go back for a few days. He had to wait nearly an hour at Ivirkwood for a returning train, and he passed the time chatting with Lieutenant Craig and his wife on the porch of their cottage. Craig was the commissary of the expedition. While they were sitting there there came up the country road which skirted the railway a single horseman, wearing a blue overcoat, such as private soldiers wear, and a black felt hat rather broken and worn. In his hand he carried a small black-snuke whip, which he applied to the pot-bellied mare he was riding. The animal's mane aud tail, it was noticed, were full of burrs. The brownishred face of the stranger was covered with a stubby, sandy beard. When he reached the gate lie halted, dismounted, and fastened his animal to the picket. Lieutenant Craig tvent down to meet him. After an ear rest conversation the man unfastened his animal, slowly mounted, and rod?J away. When the lieutenant returned to the porch he remarked: "Avcrill. would you believe | that that man had ever belonged to the army?" "Yes," was the reply, "he might have been an old soldier." "No," said Craig, "as an officer and graduate of the military institute." "He doesn't look it now," Averill rejoined. "Who is he?" "That's old Ulysses Grant of the Fourth Infantry," the Lieutenant an- j swered. "He wanted to t e employed as j commissary clerk tc drive the beef cattle and issue the ration* while we are crossing the plains. I couldn't employ him." ?Nao York tiun. The largest table ever made from a single plank belongs to the Illinois Club of Chicago. The plank is fifteen feet long ind six wide, and was cut from a California redwood tree. "Rv flip nrntflctivfi tariff on <?lass Charles De Pauw, the plate glass manufacturer, who recently died in New Albany, Ind.. was able to accumulate a fortune of $5,000,000 in twenty years. A veteran, Mr. George McKona, Ashburnbam, Mass., writes: "While su2C;ring with chronic rheumatism (result of Andersonville), I used St. Jacobs Oil which gave immediate relief." So'.d by Druggists and Dealers. A machine has been put in use in Auckland New Zealand, which is warranted to trap and :arry off ninety per cent, of the rabbits on a jiven square mile, and land them into a light freezing apparatus, which freezei the pe.?ts into such condition that t!iey may be transported to England and ufed as food. Carl Otto Schoenrich, Captain Oriole Yacht Club, Baltimore. Md., writes: "The Club, during practice cruise, used St. Jacobs Oil and it cured seve al cases of sprains and bruises." Sold by Druggists and Dealers everywhere. The plan of Colonel Landes for fertilizing the De-ert of Sahara by wells is ft-presented to work well. Tiie Bey of Tunis has conceded to the company 25,000 acres of land, to bo selected by themselves from districts which are at pressnt of no value. 'All illrn Are Mnrs," Said David of old. He wa< probably prompted to make the above remark after trying fome unreliable catarrh remedy. Had he been perfn livn unfit thfl nroQOtlf. rlllA*. Anfl tried Dr. Sage's Remedy, he rait'ht have had a better opinion of mankind. We c'aim that no :ase of catarrh can withstand the maRic effects of this wonderful medicine. One trial of it will convince you cf its efficacy. By druggists; fifty cents. There is to be a Scotch Presbyterian church in Boston in which the services will bjconlucted in Gaelic. . . * * * * Delicate diseases of either sex, However induced, speedily and permanently tired. Book 10 cents in stamps. World's Disl>en?ary Medical Association, 6615 Main Stieet, liuffaio, X. V. One of I he most successful rarmersof Sierra Valley, Xev., is Miss Ellen Callahan. Xo Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption litres where other remedies fail. 25c. The Off Told Story the peculiar medicinal merits of Hood's Sarcawri'.Ia is fully confirmed by. the voluntary testluon.v of thousands who have tried it Peculiar lu he combination, proportion and preparation of Its ncrrtHents. Hood's Sar>nparllln accomplishes cure# vhere other preparations enrirely fall. Peculiar In he unequaled good name 1c has made at home, vhich ft a "tower of strength abroad," peculiar n the phenomenal sales It tas attained. Hood's loraaDarllla In the most nnnnlar medicine before the >ublic to-day for purifying the blood, Riving strength ind creating an appetite. Hood's Sarsaparilla told by all druggists. $1: six for $5. Prepare 1 only >y C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mat*. 100 Doses One Dollar NT S COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, rHE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY Tor Liver, Bile, Indigestion, etc. Free from Mi-r:ury: contains only Pure Vegetable Ingredient . igent: C. N. CR1TTJENTON, New York. 1^" ' !' '.j - , The following words, In praise of Dr. nesses peculiar to women, must be of lntt expressions with which thousands give utt restored to them by th6 use of this world-f John E. Segar, of M\ Ml AA "My wife had been auff iDlvv years with female weal m m out one hundred dollar Thrown Away ?ut re1***- she t00*] i nnunn mwbi. prescription and it did t^e medicine given dans during the three years they had been ] Mrs. George Heiige: The Greatest rhea, beai-inff-downV _ n ually across my back. ' rARTHLV HOQN 'Favorite Prescription' LflmilLI uuun. fect health> i treated nine months, without r The ' Favorite Prescription' is the greatest poor suffering women." TREATIN Many times women call on their family another from liver or kidney disease, ano this way they all present alike to themselvef for which he prescribes his pills and potioni womb disorder. The physician, ignorant of patient gets no better, but probably worse by like Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, dirt distressing symptoms, and instituting comfc Mrs. E. F. Morgan, of PHYSICIANS East Boston, Mass., says riHQIUMIW waJJ a dreadful sufferer t rAILED Having exhausted the slclans. I was completel) weak I could with difllc t ^ TV- DUw/wv'a r<i?TA* BJOUe. 1 LTOgOli ULAUift XJl. 1KIU1 uainsr the local treatment recommended In Medical Adviser.' I commenced to lmprov< months I was perfectly cured, and have had wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly health had been restored, and offering to sen' to any one writing me for thom, and en velope for reply. I hare received over f< In reply, I have described my case and : and have earnestly advised them to ' do like many.I have received second letters of than had commenced the use of ' Favorite Presci ! 11.50 required for the ' Medical Adviser,' a: ocal treatment so fully and plainly laid doi much better already." THE OUTGRCT The treatment of many thousands of cases of those chronic weaknesses and distressing' ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapting and thoroughly testing remedies for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies. Dr. Plercc's Favorite Prescription is the outgrowth, or result, of this great and valuable experience. Thousands of testimonials, received from patients and m ?1 Kqi-A If fK/? XrOIU pujeiuiauo nuu uatvi w.ouvu iv vu?v more atrsrravatcd and obstinate cases which had baffled their skill, prove it to be the most wonderful remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of suffering- women. It is not recommended as a "cure-all," but as a most perfect Specific for woman's peculiar ailments. As a powerful, Invigorating tonic, It imparts strength to the whole system, and to the uterus, or womb and its appendages, in particular. For overworked, "worn-out," run-down," debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-ffirls." housekeepers, nurSintr mothers. and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the" great- : est earthly boon, being umy>uallcd as an < appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. ft i promotes digestion and assimilation of food, 1 Address, WORLD'S DISPE! iissrnr I N"t?# ffnnlne unleit Don't waste Tour nonev on n ^tUiuptd with th^abore absolutely T?AI'? ?ik?. lAqk fortliai'TISIl JtliAau s Why did tt of this country use over tl Procter & Gamble's Lenox S Buy a cake of Lenox and you A Prize in the Lottery Of life which is usually unappreciated until it ie lost, perhaps never to return, is health. What a priceless boon it is, and how we ought to cherish it, that life may not be a w? rthless biank to us. Many of the diseases that flesh is heir to, and which make life burdensome, such as consumption (srrofula of the lungs', and other scrofuious and blood diseases, are completely cured by Dr. R. V, Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" alter all other remedies have tailed- Dr. Pierce's treatise on consumption mailed for 10 cents in stamps. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, 003 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. The Emperor of Japan I" ?s_ been making a tour or the cmer cities or ms Kingdom. A Wonderful Machine find Offer. . To introduce i liem we give a way l.OJO Selfoperatiug Washing Machines. No labor or washbmid. Best in 1 he world. If you want one. write The National Co.. 27 Dey St., N. Y. 'Royal Glue' mends anything! Broken Chi. na, Glass. Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & Gra If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at25c. per bottle MflSON^AMLIN ?PP.,'4to; ambush warn. *n>. w. 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Dr. Pierce's Favorite ^ her more good than SUPPORTER. j25 to her by the physi- i?? and feel well i sufferer from leueor- ? ii|__ Mrs Ins, and pain contin- IT WRR^S Mich., Three bottles of your "unfc? has v ' restored me to per- WniinrRQ Agn with Dr. , for IfUBUtno. ties o ecciving any benefit. gnine< ; earthly boon to us ment of myself and f attending1 to the dutie G THE WRONG E physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one fr ther from nervous exhaustion or prostration i and their easy-going and indifferent, or overs, assuming them to be such, when, in reality, the cause of suffering, encourages his practice ' reason of the delay, wrong treatment and com xted, to the cause would have entirely remove ?4- ft# Inn rrnA miCArtT. 'I U UiOk^aVI UJL ^/lUtVUQVU - - J , JVo. 71 Lexington St., ? 3* ^ar,??u*ffci Jealous ' discouraged, and eo I Doctors. eta ulty cross the room l__l anny %t ite Prescription and 0f money, but receive his Common Sense persuaded me to try 3 at once. In three because I was prejud no trouble since. I they would do me nc mentioning- how my he would get me soi d the full particulars against the advicc of n closing a stampecLai- Favorite Prescription, )ur hundred letters, ten dollars. I took t the treatment used, Favorite Prescription, wise. I*om a great years. I then gave the ks, stating that they waa troubled in the s ription, had sent the time. I have not ha nd had applied the four years." vn therein, and were WTH or A VAST ] cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indigestion, bloating and eructations of gas. ii Am a soothing and strengthening \ nervine, " Favorite Prescription " is un- s equalled and is invaluable in allaying and ii subduiog nervous excitability, irritability, c exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms II and other distressing, nervous symptoms a commonly attendant upon functional and 0 organic disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx- ii iety and despondency. t Dr. Pierce'* Favorite Prescription t la a legitimate medicine, carefully (J compounded by an experienced and skillful I physician, and aduptca to woman's delicate r< organization. It is purely vegetable in its e composition and perfectly harmless in ite b; effects in anr condition or the svstem. "Favorite Prescriptionn is a posl- n live cure for the most complicated and a obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or "whites," 11 excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain- ti ful menstruation, unnatural suppressions, ft prolapsus or failing of the womb, weak 01 back, "female weakness," anteversion, re- ri troversion, bearing-down sensations, ehron- (1 Ic congestion, inflammation and ulceration $ nf the womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness in ovaries, accompanied with "in- P ternal heat." pi WARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. < I# P m... }S TMesO I H &- 6? waterproof war iVLBl ErerKaie. , irum or rnhber cnat The FISH BKANP-C [)or, and will kft-p you dry in ihe liar LiCKSR anil take: no other. If >",irJ7" le W \irtcen m<. loap in 1886. will soon under:. ^ vs ' ' ?? ? ??M ^R.^RD ^^ . REMEDY, $ (The Only Sellable Blood Purifier.) A SPECIFIC FOB RHEUMATISM, Scrofula, Salt Rheum,. Neuralgia, RlngWorm And all other Skin and Blood Disease*. IT BZ0ULA.TX8 THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS. 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Treatmont tencon alt UrlUn HUMANE REMEDY co., Lafayette, In4 nrilOIAUC Ofllcer*' pay. bounty pro- '/} n h NNlI INS cured:de*ertera relieved. ?w tllOILIIlOj 21 years' practice. 3ccce?<W I no fee. Write for circulars and new law*. # a. W. McCormfrU it Son.Washington,D.<X M ledy for those delicate diseases and weakThey are fair samples of the spontaneous [estimable boon of health which has been rs. Sophia P. Boswell, White Cottaoe.O* 'i\ tcs: "I took eleven bottles of your 'Faite Prescription' and one bottle of your llets.' I am doing my work, and have been 8ome.time. I have had to employ help for . .. ut sixteen years before I commenced takyour mcdlcine. I have had to wear a porter most of the time; this I have lai'* is I ever did." . Mat Gleason, of Nunica, Ottawa Co, x , writes: "Your 'Favorite Prescription* rorked wonders in my case. .in she writes: "Having taken several Dotf the 'Favorite Prescription' I have reft my health wonderfully, to the astonishrienas. I can now he on my feet all day. s of my household. IISEASE. I om dyspepsia, another from heart disease, , another with pain here or there, and in busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases, they are all only symptome caused by some ; until large bills are made. The suffering sequent complications. A proper medicine, ;d the disease, thereby dispelling all those . $ . *Jr arvelons Core.? Mrs. G.' F. Spraotj*, iaL, Mich*, writes: "I was troubled with weakness, leucorrhea and falling of the for Bcven years, so I had to keep my bed >od part or the time. I doctored with an different physicians, and spent large sun* d no lasting benefit. At last my husband your mcdicines, which I was loath to do, iced against them, and the doctors said good. I finally told my husband that if ne of your medicines, I would try them iy physician. He got me six bottles of the ' , also six bottles of the ' Discovery,' for ;hree bottles of 'Discovery' and four of ' and I have been a sound woman for four t balance of the medicine to my sister, who ame way, and she cured herself in a short d to take any medicine now for almoct RYPEMENCE. In pregnancy," Favorite Prescription 3 a a mother's cordial," relieving nausea, reakness of stomach and other distressing ymptoms common to that condition. If . rs use is kept up in the latter months of cstation, it so prepares the system for delivery *a to greatly lessen, and many times Imost entirely do away with the sufferings f that trying ordeal. "Favorite Prescription," when taken n connection with the use of Dr. Pierce's ; olden Medical Discovery, and small laxaive doees of Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets Little Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney and tladder diseases. Their combined use also ercoves blood taints, and abolishes caD pro us and scrofulous humors .from *' fstom. "Favorite Prescription? is th irdidne for women sold, by ?* nder a positive guarantor lanuiacturers, mat it win v on in every case, or mor jtided. This guarantee >n the bottle-wrapper, r cd out for many )'< ' no doses) $1.00, ' 5.00. &T Send ten ieroe'8 lar?r igres) on I)' , i63 Mr ~r 4 %