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% WMsTlUGGETfl A RELIC OP CALIFORNIA'S GREAT GOLD DISCOVERY. It is Now Kept in San Francisco? Jealously Guarded l?y a "Woman for Twenty Years?How It Was Found, Etc. The San Francisco Examiner $ ays: In one of the glass cases of the State Mineralogical Bureau is a small gilded cast representing a gold nugget. A card underneath designates it as a model of the first gold nugget found in California. The eye of the strolling reporter was caught by this announcement, as he hastened to make inquiry of Secretary Durden as to the possible truthfulness of of the statement and the genuineness of the relic. Mr. Burdon stated that he had every reason to be convinced that the cast was from the original nugget now in possession of the city. Mr. Allen, when called upon, said: "Yes, I have in my possession what I have no doubt is the original gold nugget found in 1848 by Marshall and Wemmer in the tailracc of the Coloma sawmill. I have held the valuable relic in trust for the Wemmers since 1877. "In that year I was engaged by some settlers unon some disputed lands in the southern portion of Los Angeles County to contest their claims. One afternoon while in their colony I ran across a very old man, named Peter Wemmer, bent almost double with age, but withal a very intelligent fellow, whose mind and mem- j ory were singularly clear. Our conver-' sation drifted from law to generalities, J and I found him an exceedingly interesting character, with a memory stored with many reminiscences. He told me he was one of the oldest pioneers, and also that he was with Marshall when he picked up the famous gold nugget. He added casually that his wife still had the nugget in her possession. "A few days later my wife and I drove j nut tn Kic nl'i/>o When T reniH-stid to " ? "? r'"vv - 1 - ; see the nugget Mrs. Wemmer became somewhat excited, and finally, upon my j pressing my request, she took from her ! dress a bundle of cloth, wrapped tight, and perhaps larger than my fist, it being suspended by a string around her neck. The old woman, trembling with excitement, proceeded to take out the numberless pins and unwrap the bundle, lioll after roll was unwound, and finally she i reached a tightly folded stocking. This j she slowly unwound from a hard sub- j stance, which fiually she laid in the palm of my hand. "It was the nugget. " 'Wife has carried that ball around h'.r neck day and night for over twenty years,' said Mr. Weinmcr. 'I guess you are the first she has ever let touch it for many years.' "It is the same that I now show you," said Mr. Allen, passing to the reporter the lump of gold. It was small, almost flat and a rather much niece of <rold. iust one inch across I 7 ??? i ? o 1 . . its longest way. It was quite thin I around the outer flange, with a con- 1 siderable depression on one side. It j weighs between a third and a quarter of I an ounce, and contains $).0j worth of gold. "When we left these old people," continued Mr. Allen, "Mrs. Wemmcr placed | the nugget in tny hand and begged me \ to take itwitbmeanu put it in some sate place?a bank or safe. She said she was | almost afraid to keep so valuable a relic ! longer herself. So 1 took it, and it has | been with me ever since." The Wemmers crossed the plains to ! California in 184G. "While living at Sut- j ter's Fort they made the acquaintance of , James Marshall. He came to their cabin ! Bick and was taken in and cared for by I Mrs. Wemmer. Afterward Colonel Sut-1 ter suggested to Wemmer the project of j building the sawmill on the American river. They accepted, and with a gang | men went up to the designated sp t. "Wemmer was millwright of the expedi- j tion and Marshall was foreman of the 1 work. | Mrs. Wemmer was cook, and a'.l the i men employed boarded with her. They ; first built a dam across the river, and. j from this a sluice was run. In diffffinjr \ out the river bed for the mill the clam would be closed and the dirt -would lie Bhoveled into the sluice. At night the water would be turned on and the earth washed away. It was not long before numbers of bright specks were noticed sticking in the crevices of the sluice in the morning when the water was turned off,and a discussion arose among the people of the camp as to what those bright specks were. Mrs. Wemmer had lived for some time in the Georgia Gold mines, and she pronounced them gold. This theory was pooh-poohed by the men, including Marshall. One morning Marshall and Wemmer went out early to shut off the water in the sluice. They were walking down the tailrace, when Marshall suddenly stooped and picked up something from the box. "There, Wemmer," he said, "what do you call that?" Wemmer took the piece of metal, glanced at it, aud said: "That certainly is gold." "Well, it looks like it, I confess," re{"oined Marshall. "It looks much more ike the real stuff than anything we have seen yet." Wemmer's boy, a lad of 10 or 12, had come up just at that moment, and Wemmer gav? him the nugget, saying: "Take this to your mother aud tell her to boil it in the soap kettle." Mrs. Wemmer was at that time making soft soap, which, you know, is done l>y Knilinrr hnnoe mifl rrrc'isn witli and forming a strong alkaline solution. She threw the nugget into the boiling mixture. The next morning at breakfast conversation recurred to the incident of the finding of the nugget, and Mrs. Wemmer was asked what she had done with it. "I'll fetch it," she raid. She ran out back to the log which had been hollowed out, and into which she had poured the soap. From the bottom of this she drew out the nugget. She carried it to the breakfast-table and it was examined by the men. It was not blackened, but more burnished by the test. Even then Marshall had doubts. Wemmcr, however, insisted that some one should take the nugget to the fort at Sacramento, about sixty miles distant, aud have it tested. "fto Yourself." said Marshall. ~ J J Wcmmer went out to catch his horse, but the animal had strayed. He, however, found Marshall's horse and brought it lack to cainp. He did not want to ride Marshall's animal, and urged that Marshall himself should go. Marshall finally consente 1 and went. You know the rct-t. The whole world knows it. Marshall returned with the startling tidings. The place became a mining camp. Marshall placed the nugget in Mrs. Wemmer's keeping. Colonel Sutter insisted that as the men were miniug on his ground, and he was their employer, half the profits should go to him. Marshall and Wcmmer worked together for some time, but later they quarreled about a di* vision of some sort,aDd separated. Wemmer gave up mining, and started a store at Coloma. How News of ft Hanging Was Sent Out of the New York Touibs. When anybody in New York does anything that entitles him to publicity he very soon gains an idea of the imrr.?r.c;?-T r\f tlifit pncrillp f>f llllItlfln IirOfiTrCSS I UJV4JOAIJ V* V "p. X O ?the newspaper. More than forty reporters will besiege him, and his life will be made a burden until he ceases to be of public interest. One of the most striking recent cases illustrating newspaper enterprise in the Metropolis was witnessed at the hanging of the murderer, Peter Smith. A New York afternoon paper had arranged to publish an extra as soon as the doomed man had been hanged. The execution took place in the yard of the Tombs. In accordance with the | statute only twelve reporters were ad mitted to witness the hanging, ana tney were given ingress to the prison enclosure only as members of the jury of inspectors. They had to remain until the execution had taken place, and then sign their names to the certificate averring that the criminal had been duly and thoroughly hanged. Not until eachreportei had signed this document was he permitted to leave the jail yard, and it was fully twenty minutes before the forms of the law had been comnlie.l with. The representative of an evening paper, , foreseeing this delay,arranged in a unique I manner to send the news of the execution to his journal. He purchased a big base- I ball, which he carried in his pocket I I within the hierh-walled inclosure of the | Tombs. By u 'preconcerted arrangement at the office a boy stood outside the inclosure, having been warned that as soon as he should ?ee the bill come over the wall he should note the time and run to the office of the paper, live blocks away, and carry the news, thus enabling his paper to get out an early extra cdiiion announcing the execution. The b:>v stood outside the high walls that sunound the Tombs, and never turned his eyes fr.jin i the point where he had been informed the foil would be tossed over. The inj stunt that Smith was hanged the reprei sentative of the paper, whose boy stood outside the prison wall, dashed away from the gallows and hurled the ball over the Tombs wall. The boy, seeing the ball come over, noted the time, ran to the office, and gave the news. Within five minutes J alter me muruvrcr u?u u?u uwug^v. an extra edition of the paper in question, announcing his death,-was being sold oa the streets. The boy who had taken the news to the office had not stopped Jo pick up the baseball thrown over the wall by the reporter, and a dozen lads of the crowd of boys who play about the Tombs walls, darte.l forward and seized the ball.?Amos J. Cvmmiwjs. Cat Furs. It is estimated that notlessthan 9,000,000 kittens are annually brought into this sinful world. Of these the great majority arc miserably drowned?a practice which is destined shortly to be done away with by a recognition of the cat as a fur-bearing animal. Hugs of selected Maltese and tortoise shell are already quite expensive, and excellent imi'ations of various furs are made in this material. Taxidermists, too, are advertising for kittens by the thousand to stuff for ornamental purposes. At present the only purpose to which they are applied in this country is the manufacture of carriage robes, but vast numbers of them are sent to Europe, where they are in great demand for coats and hats, dressing-gown linings and other garments. The pelts come from all parts of the country. They are gathered by professional collectors, who supply them by the quantity at regular scheduled rates. A common cat skin is worth 5 cents, a pure Maltese 10 cents and a black one 25 cents. The cheap kind must be dyed before making up, but the black and Maltese are prettier with their color unadulterated. A carriage robe of the best cat fur is worth from $40 to foO. rrl /-wf effnr /"?Qfc run. iiK'i u arc ui w ii> ? jiuutj u? ou?j v?i.w ? ning wild in the rural district. The Maine woods are full of them. They breed wonderfully fast, and it is good sport popping them off the fences and stone walls along the roadside.?Boston Post. Postponed His Wedding. II( ating by electricity is one of the j great problems of the day, and the Philadelphia I'rcsa relates how it caused the great wizard ofMenlo Park to even postpone his wedding and forget bis wife: Edson told inc recently that he took it up regularly about once a month md 1 worked at it for several days, at the end of which time he secmeil to run against a stone wall, so to speak, and all hope of achieving a result disappeared. That was the problem which caused him to postpone his wedding trip forty-eight hours. On the day he was married to hi9 i tirst wife, some ten years ago, his car- | riage had to pass his laboratory on the i way from the church to the railway sta- i tion. An idea had come to him in church, and the temptation to test it was : too strong. He got out at the laboratory, ' i promising to overtake his bride at the j station. That was the last she saw ofh'm I for two days. Once at work, he was ob- | livious to everything, and he would have j gone without food had his assistants not i given him crackers. The Poison in Ice Cream. The Journal of Analytical Chemistry, edited by Edward Hart, professor of i analytical chemistry of Lafayette College, contains an article by Professor Victor | C. Yaughan upon tyrotoxicon, the poisonous substance sometimes found in ice cream. This substance was discovered by Professor Yaughan about a year ago, and he has since spent a great deal of time in examining it. He has discovered that tyrotoxicon is identical with diazo-benzol, a substance which has been known for many years, and which was first prepared from aniline by Peter Gricss. a German chemist. The poison ( is caused by a peculiar fermentation of the cream before it is frozen, and it can be separated from the cream by treatment with soda and then with ether, r1iccnlvi>c tho ltnlsnn An imnnrtnnf ! point brought out by Professor Vaughan's ! researches is that the poison is entirely destroyed by boiling the ice cream mix- _ turc before it is frozen. ? By the Murmuring Stream. Two children loitered by a murmuring I stream That hurled briskly onward toward the sea, And dreamel as even children oft will ^ U1CU1JI Was it of life, Its joys and strife? Well, not to any dangerous degree. A moment thus they stood upon the bank, Gazed wistfully in the cool depths l.elow; A strip?a plunge?two shouting urchins sank Beneath the tide? ********* Their hair they dried, And later vowed they swimming did not go. , ?Binghamton (N. }*.) Republican. ] , thr \vwr rrfflftRF.ss.i llliJ X* AU I 1 | MEMBERS WHO WILL SERVE FOR THE FIRST TIME. | The New Faces in Both Houses vill Number 141?Some Intersting Facts About the i Budding Statesmen. A Washington correspondent of the New York Sun says that in the Fiftieth Congress, -which meets for the first time on thn first Mondiiv in December next. there are 141 new Representatives and i Senators. Of these 4(J are lawyers, 38 j have 6erved in the Legislatures of their States, and 32 are college graduates?a ' high average of ability, and one that bespeaks from the old members of Congress very polite consideration. The average age of the new members is about forty-five. James Phelan, of I Memphis, will be the youngest man of the Fiftieth Congress. He was born December.1;, 1856, and will lack two days of being thirty-one years old the day he takes his seat. His father was a Senator in the Confederate Congress from Mississippi, and young Phelan enters public life with only a boy's very faint recollections of the war period. The oldest member is General Vandever, of California. He was born March 31, 1817, and will be well on in his seventy-first year when he takes his seat. Judge Miles Toby Granger, of Connecticut, will also be seventy veers old | when he takes his seat, but he is five i months younger than General Vandever. Judge Granger and Governor Davis, of j Minnesota, are the only LL. D.s. There are nine ex-Confederates among the new members and thirteen Union soldiers. The Confederates are not Brigadiers by any means, the highest rank attained by any of them belonging to Senator Daniel, of Virginia, who was Adjutant-Geueral of Jubal Early's division. Most of the ex-Confederate members were Lieutenants or Captains. The highest rank atta'ned by any of the T'nion soldiers was Y:i?dever. I Going into the war as a Colonel, he was made a Brigadier in 18C2 and a MajorGeneral in 18C5. Congressman Boothman, of Ohio, lost his left leg in the service. He seems to be the only maimed man among the new members, with the exception of Congressman John Lind, of Minnesota, who lost his right arm in a threshing machine. An interesting fac t appears in the nativity of the new members. Most of them were born in :he States thev renre sent. Conger, McDonald of Minnesota, Kerr of Ohio, and "White were bom in Scotland. Congressman Hagen, of Wisconsin, was born in Norway. Congressman Lind, of Minnesota, was born in Sweden. Mr. Lagen, of Louisiana, and Judge "Wilson, of Minnesota, were bom in Ireland. Fifty-four new members were born in the States they come from. Very few carpet-baggers appear in the list. Perhaps George Vandever, of California, is best entitcd to this name. He went to California from Iowa in 1844, and was elected to Congress before he had been there two years. He served in Congress two terms from Iowa before the ? i war. The literary men shew up well in the additions to the Fiftieth Congress. Henry Cabot Lodge says: *'My business is literature." Senator Daniel alludes to the fact that he is author of "Daniel on Negotiable Instruments." There are not many clergymen in the next Congress. Stewart, of Georgia, and McKinney, of New Hampshire, are ministers. McKinney served through the war and went through college after he was twentyeight years old, in order to enter the ministry. The list of editors includes Mr. Amos J. Cummings, editor of the Evening Sun; Mr. Carlton, of the Athens (Ga.) Banner; Euloc, of the Jackson Tribune, and Mr. Thompson, of the Sonoma (Cal.) Democrat. There are two Mexican war veterans? Rice of Minnesota, and Hare of Ohio. There is one ex-Senator in the new House, Buckalew, of Pennsylvania; and two ex-Governors appear in the next Congress, Senator Davis, of Miunesota, and Governor Gear, of Iowa. Among the laboring men is Senator Blodgett, of New Jersey, who began life ns an annrentice in the Amoskeatr Engine Works: Congressman Nichols, of North ] Carolina, who served six years as an apprentice in a printing office; Henry Smith, of Milwaukee, who is a millwright, and was elected by the People's Labor party, and J. B. White, of Indiana, who was a calico printer in Scotland, and has been a tailor for many years in this country, although he is now a manufacturer of carriage wheels. Beu Holiday and the Staje Robbers. "Ben Holliday used to enjoy tellingthe story of one of his adventures," said T -- 1_ _ T 7 1 _ r T - - 1 t I,UKU vuouiufSj ui j^anuuit.', spumung oi j the dead pioneer. "Along about'G3 Ben ] and his wife were together making the trip in a special coach from Califorrnia. They had about $40,000 in gold of their own money hidden in the coach. ( Out here at Rock Creek the coach was held up by two stage robbers. Ben was ( inviteu to stop out and ordered to hold ^ up his hands. Of course he did so. | Ben wore a big"mustauche, and some of ( obstreperous hairs crawling up the side ( of his nose tickled him so that he was ( soon in tortures. , "Great Scott!" said Ben, with his hands above his head, 'won't you let me j scratch my nose?" , " Keep your hands in the air said one ' of the robbers, significantly glancing along his double barreled shot-gun, which had both hammers raised. 'If you want your nose scratched so bad I'll ( scatcli it for you.' With that he shoved t the shot-gun urder Ben's nose and rubbed it so vigorously that the tickle soon disappeared. The robbers did not get Ben's big lot of gold, but took his watch and whatever money he and his wife carried about them. Whnt New York Drinks. Under ordinary circumstances New York manatee to consume daily about 340.000 gallons of ale and beer, nnd " "7" V P"' - ? 1 I some days the grand total must show up ( something like 500,000 gallons. New ( York disposes of 12,000 gallons of brandy, ( whiskies and other distilled liquor per , day. During Juiy and August the aver- t a^e falls down to between !),000 and 10,- f 000. With this falling off there is a ] proportionate increase of non-intoxicants. About no,000 quarts of iced milk are j drank in New York and Brooklyn per j diem. As to the business done in soda ( water it is something enormous. At Hudnut's, on Broadway, 5,000 glasses are handed over the counter every day. At other points on Broadway, which need not be mentioned, the sales range \ all the way from 1,200 to 3,500 glasses. At one establishment on Park Row, the ^ small room is crowded constantly bv ! patrojjs ot vanilla and lemon.?jfytt Yuri 1 JLciicr. ' FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. There have been 267 Popes of the Church of Rome. Bread was first made with yeast by the English about IGoO. Athclstan, in 928, first established uniform coin England. Shakspeare's life and works have called forth comment to the extent of 10,000 varied volumes. The Chinese inoculatcd for smallpox 100 B. C. Dr. Jennner made the first experiment in vaccination in May, 1790. The highest silver deposit in the world is on King Solomon's mountain, in Colorado, fourteen thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean. At feasts, three centuries ago, every guest brought his knife, and a whetstone was placed behind the door, upon which he sharpened his knife as he entered. Smoothing-irons arc of late invention. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth ana James I. very large stones, inscribed with texts of scripture, were used for the purpose. The admitted history of China began in 1122 B. C.t and the Chinese claim twenty-two (ynaslies of emperors, two of them, Hia and thang, before the age of Samuel. It is estimated that COO insects a day are destroyed by a pair of wrens. They have been observed to leave their nests and return with insects from forty to sixty times an hour. The soil for house p'auts should receive attention, as medical men have found that malarial fever is propagated among occupants of rooms containing pots of malarious earth. Turnpike roads were first established in England during the reign of Queen t ?11 - e?? Anne, anil were so uu.iuu uuiu jjuit-j ui bar> swung on a staple, and turned either way when dues were paid. In loG4 a Dutchman named William Booner brought the First coach into England, and, it is said, the sight of it put both horse? and men into amazement. Some s.iid it was a crab shell, brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples in which the cannibals adore.l the devil. In the early age of Rome women were prohibited from using wine, and hence their near relations were allowed to salute them with a kiss, in order that they might ascertain by the sense of smell if they had been drinking it. They were so fond of it, however, that Romulus, the first King, made a law that a husband might kill his wife for drinking. IVaj.res in 1800. In the great cities unskilled workmen were hired by the day, bought their own food and found their own lodgings. But in the country, on the farms, or wherever a hand was employed on some public work, they were fed and lodged by the employer and given a few dollars a month. On the Pennsylvania canals the diggers ate the coarsest diet, were housed in the rudest sheds, aud paid a month from May to November, and a month from November to May. Ilod carriers and mortar mixers, diggers and choppers, who, from 1783 to 1800, labored on the public buildings and cut the Btreets and avenues of Washington City, received $70 a year, or, if they wished, $G0 for all the work they could perform from March 1 to December 20. The hours of work were invariably from sunrise to sunset. Wages at Albany and New York were 3 shillings, or, as money then went, 40 cents a day; at Lancaster, $8 to $10 a month; elsewhere in Pennsylvania workmen were content with $6 in summer and ?5 in winter. At Baltimore men were glad to be hired at 18 pence a day. None, by the month, asked for more than $0. At Fredericksburg the price of labor was from $5 to $7. In Virginia white men employed by the year were given ?16 currency; slaves, when hired, were clothed and their musters paid ?1 a month. A pound Virginia money was, in Federal money, $3.33. The average rate of wages the land over was, therefore, $G5 a year, with food, and, perhaps, lodging. Out of this small sum the workman must, with his wife's help, maintain his family.? McM(Uiter''? History. Friendly Hawks and Owls. A correspondent of the New York m :l ?? Tt nat;. A rvnuie WlllUS UO ivuuno, AW vj**- [ muted thut about $00,000 1m? already been paid from Pennsylvania county treasuries under the act of the Legislature of June 23, 1885, awarding premiums for the destruction of hawks, dwIs, etc. The Microscopical Society of West Chester took great pains to examine scores and hundreds of the diirerent species of these birds, brought for the reward or otherwise obtained, and the result of Dr. B. H. Warren's assiduous examination was that of live species of hawks taken in Chester county, and of three others, only two small kinds, the coopers and the sharp-sliinned, contained any remains of chickens, while all had eaten chiefly field mice, grasshoppers, etc. ine scrceon owi or oau-owi is exempted from destruction by the law, and ill the other owls feed on mice, beetles, sparrows, etc., only that the great horned 3wl and the barred owl sometimes take chickens. All are shown to be far more beneficial than injurious to the farmer, the hawks serving him by day and the 5wis by night. The opinions of leading Drnithologists all over the country, many 5f them in State or National service, nnd with reputations at stake, unite in assent ind warm approval of the strenuous and (.ffnris nf the West Chester society to secure the repeal of the illid vised act. Longevity in America. If there were not in every community me or more spared monuments in the form of persons who have reached fullicss of years, the conclusion would be hat our eager civilivation was too much ror any reasonable expectancy of attainug n venerable age. The feverish activity of this generaion, the race for place and wealth, the mpatience with delay, the readiness to sacrifice health maxims, in order to take i short cut to success, make a prophecy ! lint the-?e swift-paced individuals reach >ld age an exceedingly venturesome prediction. Probably if young men about 1 edding on a calling should consult a lootor for aclvicc as to uie vocation most :ondii(ivc to longevity, their graves ivould not opcu as early, but what about heir wOtk? No doubt if any of the men md women over eighty now living iu S'ew England were asked their recipe for u tabling old age their answer would be, n part: Work as hard as you can, and hink as little as possible of breaking lowu. ?Boston Advertiser. Unhappy Fate. iVhen night's dark curtains upward rolled .Show bol arising in his pride; iVhen fair Aurora, robed in gold, Trips down the misty mountain's side; iVhen still in slumbers steeped our sense And peaceful rest our couch o'erspreads, Jur neighbor's hens fly o'er our fence, Ami ruin all our garden beds.' ?Boston Courier, j A Cat's FIffht Withi Sparrows. A stray tabby strolled into the re9ij dence of Mrs. Captain H. H. Drown a few weeks ago, and at once made arrangements to st:iy permanently. A ! number of sparrows have long been in the habit of nesting unaer tne eaves 01 the Methodist Book Concern and in the rear of the C., H. and D. offices and on i the roof Sunderbruch's floral establishment on West Fourth street, which ' overlooks Mrs. Drown's backyard. ; Crumbs of bread were thrown out, and the inquisitive sparrows were not j long in learning the fact. Yesterday ; ! pussy made up her mind that sparrows i were good to eat, and squatting close on j I the brick pavement watched the chirp! ing, fighting fellows as they gobbled up j the bread crumbs. She selected a fat one j I and pounced on it with a spring. The ( | flock all arose a few feet in the air, and j I ma i C fnrf < Vl fit HDP | as 11 1 tV/Ug I U?j<li-i?^ VUV AUVV ???- ? I of their number was attacked, all j circled and pounced on the cat's back. Then the circus began. The cat scratched, bit, jumped and pawed. Her back was I black with the chirping, fighting, pick- ' ing nuisances. The noise they made aroused a Scotch terrier, which rushed out of a dry goods box and barked j vociferously. The cat flew at him and scratched him severely in the right eye. I The sparrows chirped and flew, and the cat struck right and left, and at last lay j down and rolled over, crushing several | with the rapidity of her motions, and tearing the feathers off from a score or more as they flew about her head. At \ last they flew away, and tabby quietly mouthed her bird and marched into the ' front parlor, purring with conscious pride, while the yard was strewn with ! feathers enough for a good-sized bed.? Cincinnati Enquirer. i What Mexican Farmers Raise. Between San Juan del Rio and Queretaro the Mexican Central traverses the fields of one Mexican farmer who raises 20,000 bushels of wheat a year. There are six or seven haciendas in the siime locality where the crops reach 10,000 bushels; and 10,000 bushels of wheat means 40,000 bushels of corn, 2,000 bushels of peas, and C.000 bushels of beans on the same hacienda. That is the way the Mexican farmer of this part of the country diversities his crops. He raises wheat, corn, beans, and peas in about the proportion given. Occasionally there it a specialist like the farmer near Queretaro who goes into the raising of chile, the hoi. peppers of this country. This man usually has 60,000 chile plants or vines. ? Globe-Democrat. Ten years ago there were 3,800 men practising as physicians in Illinois without diplomas; to-day there are but 476. ; This healthy condition is due to the median] nenntiVn o/.f nf "J ft77 H\, U A |/IUVblVV HW AVI Excitement. I Moxie bids fair to cteate as extended an excitement through the country as the discovery of the telephone. Its extreme harmless simfilicity and extraordinary power over the liquor ! labit, and nervous exhaustion in weakly wo- j men. areenough to make anything so. It seems to cover a field medicine, tonics, and stimulants cannot reach, while it readily recovers from their abuses at once, seeming to act like a food, as it creates no reaction, nor loses its effect. Its sale is marvellous. Druggists all keep it. The Constitution of Costa Rica prescribes hospitality as a sacred duty, and declares citizenship to be forfeited by ingratitude to parents, the abandonment of wife or children and neglect of any obligations due the family. "What In Woman's Worth?" Asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor He did not know, so she said: "W. O. man" (double you, O man). But a woman feels worth little if disease has invaded her system and is daily sapping her strength. For all female ( weaknesses, Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrlp- , tion" stands unrivaled. It cures the complaint and builds up the system. Send 10 cents in stamps for pamphlet to World's Dispensary Medical Association, 863 Main Street, Buffalo, < N. Y. , Beware of the man who listens much and talks little. He is getting your thunder and saving his own lightning. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," Positively Popular; rrovoKe rraise; riuto Priceless; Peculiarly Prompt; Perceptibly Potent; Producing Permanent Profit; Precluding Pimples and Pistulea; Promoting Purity ana Peace. Purchase. Price, Petty. Pharmacists Patronizing Pierce Procure Plenty. Never fear to bring the 6Ublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. Use the great specific for "cold in the head' and catarrh?Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people. That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory. Files Cured for US Cents. Dr. Walton's Cure for Piles is gnaran- I teed to cure the wor?t case of piles. Price 25 cents. At druggists, or mailed [stamps taken] by the I Walton Remedy Co., Cleveland, 0. 3 months' treatment for 50c. Pi60's Remedy for Catarrh. Sold by drnggieta. 'Royal Glue' mends anything! Broken Chi. na, Glass, Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & Gro Tired Languid Dull Exprvsscs the condition of thousands of people at thin season. The depressing effect* of the worm weather and that tired feeling are Quickly over- ' come by the use of Hood's SorsaparUla. It gives < strength In place of weakness, gives ton* to every j organ, creates an appetite and purines the blood, i Give It a trial now. ! Vl-" rxnnhla^ tnr manv tmm with violent ! headache. Hood's Sarsapartlla did me so much good 1 that I feel like a new being. I earnestly recommend j Hood'i Sartaparllla to all who offer with headache*." ?Mrs. E. Satchkll, Gate* Avenue, Brooklyn, S. Y. I Hood's SarsaparMla ,1 Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $S. Prepared only ' by C. I. HOOD * CO., Apothecaries, T/Owell Masa. J IOO Poses One Dollar j COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS > PILLS, THE GREATENGLISH REMEDY For Liver. H!le, ImllKestlon. etc. Free from Mercury; contain* onlyVegetable Ingredient*. Agent: (J. >. VKl'lTBiirum new i uih, DR. HAIR'S ASTHMA f \ a IIu? ab olutely cured Ions of th >u tall fC P. sanil?. The only Axthtiia Cureand I Treatment known to the medical world that will, positively, p ruianentlycuru A Nth- , mil and Hay Fever. Unquestionable evidence r will be found In my w page Treatlic, sent free. I l)IC. li. W. HA lit. SH U'.4tli St.. (Jluclnnutl, 0. ! < %-p;V FINE Blooded Cattle. Sheep, Hogs, ^2H23X Poultry, Ddks for sale. CaraloKUes with 150 I encr^vinics free. N. P. Jioyor i: ( o. Coutexvllle, Ha. I FRAZER^ i CEST IN TIIE WORLD U 11 L ft V |g i tV~ Get t!:e Genuine. Sold Everywhere. J THREE" A?L lurau urcnaranaiei Genuine Crab Orchard Salts In scalpd pickarres at 1 CRAB ORCHARD WATER CO.. Prop'ra. Why did tt of this country use over ih Procter & Gamble's Lenox S Buy a cake of Lenox and you KIPPER'S IIIHK1IIIIH A SURE CURE FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. , Over 5,000 Physicians have sent us their approval of j DIGESTYLIN, wj itiK that It Is the best preparation j for Indigestion that they have ever used. i We have never heard of a case of Dyspepsia where . DIGESTYLIN was taken that was not cured. I FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. IT WILL CURE THE MOST AGGRAVATED CASES. IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PREGNANCY. J IT WILL RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. For Summer Complaints and Chronic Dlarrhcea, which are the direct results of Imperfect digestion, 1 DIGESTYLIN will effect an immediate cure. Take DYGESTYLIN for all pains and disorders of 1 :he stomach; they all come from Indigestion. Ask \ rour druggist for DIGESTYLIN (price $1 per large I x>ttle). Ir he does not have it send one dollar to ut c md we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid. ^ aan/l vnur mnnpv Our nnusd la 1 ellable. Established twenty-five year?. t WM. F. KIDDEIi & CO.. mr i Unnnfacturing i'hrmli>t>iS3 JounSt.>ft. Y. WHAT i AILS ; UAII 0 ' 1 W g 1 Do you feel dull, languid, low-spirited, life- P less, and indescribably miserable, both physi- 1 cally und mentally; experience a sense of Fullness or bloating: after eating, or of "gone ness," or emptiness of stomach in the morning. tongue coated, bitter or bad taste in I mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent " headaches, blurred eyesight," floating specks " before the eves, nervous prostration or exhaustion, irritability of temper, hot flushes, 1 Uternating with chilly sensations, sharp, I siting, transient pains here and there, cold Jfeet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or I Jisturbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant, i ndescribable feeling of dread, or of impend- t ng calamity? , If you have all, or any considerable number I )f these symptoms, you are suffering from v :hat most common of American maladies? r Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated ivith Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more ^implicated your disease has become, the . jreater the number and diversity of Eynip- J oms. No matter what pto ere it has reached, E Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery f Till subdue It, if taken according to direc- i ions for a reasonable length of time. If not <5 :ured, complications multiply and Consump- j f, Inn nf fKo T.nncrs fllrfn DiRPAHpfl. Hpflrf I 1' fiheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave i g naladies are quite liable to aet in and, sooner ' c )r later, induce a fatal terminntion. I \ Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dl?- ; i covery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and j ? :hrough that great blood-purifying orgun, ! cleanses the system of all blood-taints and 1m- j , purities, from whatever cause arising. It is dually efficacious in acting upon the Kid- I iieys, and other excretory organs, cleansing, ! t itrengthening, and healing their diseases. As } in appetizing, restorative tonic, it promotes digestion ana nutrition, thereby building up both flesh and strength. In malarial districts, this wonderful medicine has gained great jelebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases. Dr. Plerce'a Goldea medical Dla CURES ALL HUMORS, from a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum. "Fever-sores," Scaly or Kough Skin, In short, all diseases caused by baa blood are conquered by this powerful, purifying, and invigorating medicine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influence. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing Tetter, Eczemn, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles. Sore Eyes, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease, "White Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck, rod Enlarged Glands. Send ten cents in itamps for a large Treatise, with colored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount for a Treatise on Scrofulous Affections. "FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." Thoroughly clpanse It by U6ing Dr. Pierce's Goldeu Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and bodily health will be established. CONSUMPTION, which is Scrofula or the Langs, is arrested - - * -? A1.J- 10 U ana curvu vy miO irmcuj, II Lo>ru iu un earlier stages of the disease. From Its marvelous power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public, Dr. Pierce thought seriously of calling It his "Consumption Cube," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine which, from its wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequaled. not only as a remedy for Consumption, but for mil Chronic Diiewi of tho Liver, Blood, and Lungs. For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. Sold by Druggists, at $1.00, or Six Bottles for $5.00. Ep Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce's hook on ConsumDtion. Address, World's Dlspansary Medical Association, 663 Maiu St., BUFFALO, N. Y. EXHAUSTED VITALITY k Graat Medical Work for Young j and Middli-Ageii Man. f KNOW THYSELF, DUBI.ISIIEI) br tbe PEAliODY MEM- , JT CAL INSTITUTE, No. 4 ItiilldBcb SU.f J Bom on, Mass. WM.Il. I'AKKKK, M.O., ( 2onsaltiug Physician. More than one million opies (Old. II treataupoa h'erroas ami Hhrslcal 0?I>iutjr. S Premature Decline. KshausU'd Vitality, Impaired ? /Igor, and Impurities of the Blood, and the untold <1 nlftertM consequent thereon. Contains 3K) pages, lubttantlal em low d binding. full gilt. Warranted iie best popular m?llcal treatise published In the Imrllsb langunKe. Pricf only t 1 l>y mall, postpaid, ind eoaeeatad in a plain wraiijM-r. lUuttraiiv* \umplcfrtt If you send now. Addreas a< aboTe. Same thUpayer. MARLIN REPEATING , ^ RIFLE *ed T surate and absolutely WORLD! a iAf?. Made in sdl aiaea for aiga or small game. BALLARD x J Sallery, Hunting and Target Rifles. ' Rend for lllastrated Catnlogtie. Karl in Fire Arma Co., Newlluven. Conn. * " ~f% JOJMES fr*WpAYSt*?FREICHT i JaL, Wl S Ton Wagon Scale*. j !rou l.r<ir?. Kuel Rcariafa. Bru< JJUHmMX Tare Bean ?nd Bum Bos for C hUuI^9H|^^ Xrrrr alir Sralr. Kor trre pr,<l lift r ' V??IPrS. mei.ilon ihl. pauer nod aijdrfM m <. If JONES OF IIHCHAMTIN, w _ B IN ( H Aiff TON. N. T nATCUTC Procured at LESS I'M I Ik IV W enst than obtainable* elseI where. Host of rt-fen ni'cs and luv.iiiors' liuide nallcil froi*. .1A .JIKS H. I.A X<A ^TK It. I'mi 'Ill Aiinnirj. i.-f t imiisjr IlHbit Cured. Treatment seat oa trial A jrlUiii HUMANE HEilEDV CO.. Laloyotto, lad DIaSw'a DSIU Gi eat English Gout and I tJlall S I IIISi Rheumatic Kemedy. 1 Ovnl Itox, 34| round, I I I' 11%. nrr B/return mail. Full Deacrlptioo U U# BuoJi I Nr* Tailor *> <- ? or tlrr? I I labb CuMl**. XOOV* "f <> I PA Ij!WS* IliiaineiiM College, I'hlln,. Pa. 81tua lion* furnished. Life Scholariiiiip. 840. Write. DYSPEPSIA, b fl s ? CK HEADACHE, M | , CONSTIPATION, B IfegwHl Q A RemedvforiiJI Diteapes of the Lircr. Hid. H rnejl. Stomach and Bowels. A positive cure for DjupeMla, Wick Hfjulaehe,! , CoaaUpatlon. f>oiie,onetolwoti*ai.p<.toiiful?.B I 10 and 2:?>ct?. No genuine (alls wild la balk. J SIMON X. JOlfKS, Manm*tr. I.o?U?IIIe. E|l | 1 & KI ip Women ? L v/ ? - ? ? 14 i \irteen million cakts of * M oap in 1886? V I will soon understand why. Rn n Badwafs :M K K Read? Li:L!:LL CURES THE WORST PAINS In fro?i mm ^ to twenty inlnntea. Not one h?ar '-Zi after rendlnjr tbla need nnyone SUFFER WITH PAIN. BOWEL COMPLAINTS % It will In n few moment*, when taken according I* ilrectlou*. cnre Cramp*, Spasm*, Sour StoratA, " Heartburn. Sick Headache, Summer CompUUd; Dlarrbcpa, Dvnenterv. Colic. Wind in the Boweli uid all other Internal Pain*. ~ MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS CUBES ANn PRCUCMTCn There Is not a remedial cent In the world thai rill cure Fever and Ajftie ana all other MitlarioaL "fa? SIllouR and other fevers, aided by ltADWAT'd 1'ILLHt so quick as RAD WAY'S READY % RELIEF. R R. R. not only cures the patient netted with Ka aria, but If people expose to the Malarial op baa rill everv morning take 20 r 30 drops of Header tellef In water, and eat. w.v a cracker, before (oiaf >ut, they will preven: attacks. It Inntautly relieved and soon cures Colds, losa '/Jtj rhroat. Bronchitis. Pl.'urlsy. Stiff Neck, all Coaaya- '?3S Ions and Inflammations, whether of the Lunga, KM- leys or Bowels, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, ' W leaflache. Toothache, Weakness or Pain In U? Bask jS "best or Limbs by one application. Fifty cent* per bottle. Hold by druggists. ' JjfiS DR. RADWAY'S iARSAPMLUX RES0L7EVT1 The Great Blood Purifier, For curt'of all chronic diseases, Scrofula, Bltyyl '33 alnts. Syphilitic Complaints, Consumption. OUaA- ',,>3 ilar Disease, Ulcers, Chronlo Rheumatism. Erytfy1m, Kl lney, Bladder and Llrer Complaint!. Or*>. piJa. Affections of the Langs and Tliroat, puuU* -v?S he Blood, restoring health and vlfon Sold by llrutcuiniM. 91 per liottle. RADWAY'S PILLS ?? The Grea1 Liver and Stomach Rem id# or the euro of all disorder* of tho Stomach, Tim. - i'Sg Sowels. Kidneys, Bladder,Nervous Diseases. Femate 'oinplaliitt. L ?w of Api elite, Headache, Comttip^ ion. Co?tiveue*a, Indigestiin, BlliousaeM, Ferae. :'5g nflamniatioii of the Board's Pllei and al! deranc? 'AS aents of the Iuter .al Viscera. Purely yegetableLOO?lining uo mercury. ralaeraU o.- deleteri ;ns dru*fc ''nfll 'ERFECT D GESTlON SuBSSBrS! 39 ray's Pills every ni-irnlii^. .-.bout 10 o'clock, (u a dialer pill. Py so do'jijf SICK HEADACHE, lyspepsla. Foul Stomach. BlilouKneps will te avoided. nd the food that Is eaten contributes Its nourishing iro^ertles for the support of the natural waate ?t vis tir Observe the following symptoms r sultlngfrom ? iscase of the Digestive Organs: Constipation, lnwartf 5 'lies. Fullness of the Blood In the Head, Acidity of he Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food, ullness or Weight In the stomach. 8our Eructation* a Inking or Fluttering of the Heart, Choking or Suffl* .<-2 atlng sensations when In a Iritis posture. DlmneaaC 'Hon. Dots or Webs before the light. Fever and DuM .1& 'ftln in the Head Deficiency of Perspiration. Yellow- - ;W< iess of the Skin and Ey es.Paln In the Slde.Chest.Umba vfi ad Sudden Flushes of Heat. Burnlnjrln the F eak. A few doses of R A I) WAY'S PILLS wll fiM -'-.Tjj he iv ten of all the above named disorder*. "r-aK Price 23 canupar box. Sold br all drngglsta. orfiend a letter ?tamp_to DR. JtADWAYji| r ^O., No. 3*2 Warren (street, sew ior?, w >ur Book of Advice. BE HL'KE TO tiET RAPWAY'8. ST* U-31 L*ctur* This ia what killed your poor father. Bhnnfc, . Avoid anything oontalning It throughout jam future useful (!) careers. Wo older heads object to its special 'Bough'ness,' DON'T FOOL andmoney Id futile efforts with insect pow-w^HT^ '> -ffa der, borax or what not, used at 1 random all over tbe bouse to get rid of Roaches, Water-bugs, Beev-lfr^^ISk lee. For 2 or 8 nights gnrfukle wnf^m?%f "EodohosRaw' drypowder,L , # 'X about and down the (ink, drain V w pipe. First thing In the morning wash ltd away down the sink, drain pipe, when all tfca Insects from garret to cellar will disappear. The secret is in the fact that wherever insecti are in the house, they musl B A A All CO drink during the night llUAvnCO Clears out Eats, Mice, Bed-bu*s. Fliee, BeeUec a? Mitb " |? wild all around tte world, In every clime, fa the most extensively adTWrtfaed ud has the largest ? ? otanj article of its kind on the faoe of the |W?l DESTROYS POTATO BUJ8 For Potato Bugs, Insects on vtaesletc.iatahl? spoonful of the powder, efl shaken, m a fcy ofwater. and applied with sprinklin* po? spray syringe, or whisk hroqm. jCecpttwM sfcrednp. lk,86c.and91 Boxea. Agr. ^lOtH-RATf ?CLEARS OCT- , BED BUC8, <aPP FLIES. , '2*Ji Roaches, ants, watering*, moths, rats, rntaa, ?nhblte. scmlrrpja. ropbcra. lBo. . . r-k-n t? i mT\iP( nn A "VTTTT PCI uxt. UAJJura crxiiUN uiiiio ? REGULATE TH1 BOWELS, PURL FY THE BLOOD, CURE DYSPEPSIA, PILES, MjL LABIA, HEAD. ACHESLCfflBt ^ One patient write*: "Bert thli gf^evj-r ii?ed t regnlaM Another: 'They are l> deed wonderful. Tfcey 4* not Physic. but act xs tomSm and cure." Dr. W. M. BAIRD, Physician and Surgeon. Offloei VaKhlnjrt n. N. .1, and 157 West 23d St.. Vow York. Speaker N.J. House Assembly. ex-Presl<lent W * ngton. N. J., Board of Health, ex County Phy* l?n. Ac.. Ac. Another: "I was cured of a severe attack of pile? y their use. Cannot too h'ghly express my regard or them." . JJ&. Ensy to take, aa they are no larger than a most 1# Tal25c. per box. 5 boxea, $1; of druggist* orb? nail, postage prepaid. Trade supplied by wholesale Inuelst*. TRY THEM AND YOU WILL EE CONVINCES. W. L. DOUGLAS | $3 oriut, i rhe only ?3 SEAMLESS rW3 Shoe In the world. I jyvW^j finest Calf, perfect fit. and .E?M?\ rarranted. Congreis, Button f/v BO] t-1 ad Lace, all tylos toe. |X| 2 m tyllsh and durable a* *iy gjEf ? m hose costing $5 or $6. *r. u. UOCOLA8 tr y?9 a IS.50 SHOE exceU X ^ he S3 Shoea adver- M lied * tow* ?' IW Bon all wear the W L* DOUGLAS ?2 SHOfc ine Aaeut (.Merchant onlyi wanted in rv. ry townf* ^tmSPlWUrfMl1 dill. 1 iHUl'JI , I have et lieu i'pn> ( r >ix;c a ve in and I r>:iMileryour "TaiHilV I'unch" .lie e?t Sc. tisarl ver*iw. John \Y. AiTKfc*. Urug^ut C roondale. pa. V ur "Tansl l e 1'iiin-li'' V. c xar li? b-oom'n,- m ? - <2. ptiltir i Tor day. Civnr dr .mm* r? <lon 11 of r urn y wore. Iirnu .niir:i:s.?k.v, luav. r. Pa. dilriMi |{. W. TAXSILI, ?V C'0.? Chicasfc M Cllll WHtm AU list FAUS. CI B?at Couch Syrup. Tantes good. Use HI j Ed ln t|tnc- Ko'd by drugglata. Ml 1 fcA??/iW, D. C. A Dill ACCCD Tolntrodu-e them, we wm H oiu urrtn. a why uw> sf? Operating \W.t>hlnt; Ma-hln ?. If you wul oneMua us your uaiue.l'.t l.un.l i-*i>r?'(wortl ? watonce. The National Vu.,27 > ey St..S.Z. SSS ROOT BEER tig, wholesome beverage. Sold by <lruargl>ts; maUe* ri>o. C. K. HI:<Ejs. N. Dela. Ave., Phlla , iX * I? to SS it day. Samples worth SIJVi. KHHt fc % (.liter' i:ot I'.iuler the hor>e'? fe.'t. Write 0%M l!rev.-st<TS..r.'!v K?|n IM-I-Co.. Holly. iioooa leiilul or Pli.nlcal wrtkunh lh*t IUXnbm rrvc lllllrn fail turur*. SOC'll, Herb Mfd <\ti? Ok iJt, I |i It SI.. I'hiladelphia. Pa. Sold bj all DrutpM*. / VC LTCRAPUY I-onrn here and raia Mrn ' good pay. Sim :; a I funiibhod Write Valentin- B;01 . Jxi>#tr, '.. Wmi -