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TnoteiT prison. EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF THE NEW VORIv TOMBS. A Tour Through the Sombre Building ? The Female and Boys' Departments ? Murderers' Row?Tweed's Old CeJL A New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer describes a visit to the city's noted prison, the Tombs. He says: Built of massive gray masonry, the huge columns, almost clumsy in architectural strength, present to the eye nothing of beauty or symmetry, but rather of bondage and captivity. The building, is at random guess, ninety feet in height It incloses a square of ground, covering four streets, on either side of which looms up a solid wall of masonry, Jaeavy in square blocks of cold gray stone. In architectural design it is of the pure Egyptian. The entablature, severely plain, is relieved at its main entrance on Centre street by ten or twelve Corinthian columns. At the apex of each is rampant a serpent of smallish size, twisted in contorted shape. Outwardly the grime and dirt of many years have collected on the columns, which, with the natural damp of the stone, give its exterior a repugnant look. On all sides of this celebrated prison crime and vice hold high carnival. Whatever the original intern 01 iuv muauim, tiv/oc contiguity to the criminal class makes it most appropriate. I visited the famous prison one day this week. At the entrauce I met with rather gruff cordiality. The pass I presented gave me entry into a narrow hall which debouched at the Center street side sufficiently underground to afford office room for several officers working % at desks, all of whom wore a bluish uniform, with some gold gilt to give it a farish effect. At the end of the narrowall was an iron swinging gate, behind which stood a spectacled officer who at the time was surrounded by a squalid ! group of males and females, whom 1 to >k j to be the friends of the unfortunates within. In the course of ten minutes I was turned over to a dejected "runner," as they called him, and with him was to do the prison. lie first led me to what he informed me was the "Female Department," and turned me over to the Inspector, who proved to be a good-faced woman, suggestive of matronly instincts. The inmates of this department numbered forty-three, and a dozen or more of them, wholly indifferent to the intrusion of a stranger, kept at their sewing or reading. Those I saw were rather an inanimate lot, not at all repulsive in outline, but still of a class one would scarceiy put on the visiting list. To ihe question as to the nature of the transgressions of the female hostages, the answer came that their derelic^ons were as manifold as the female temperament, mostly shop lifting and confidence schemes, until it ascended to black-mail ing and infanticide, and in one case a murderess. The women bore a contented look. During the day they are allowed the freedom of the corridor, but at night they are locked up in narrow, ! well-lighted cells. They take their meals j en famille, in a rather sunny, clean room allotted for the purpose. They are confined in a new addition to the building, having four galleries for cellular space. Once more in the hands of my shambling guide. he led me up three pairs of iron steps to the boys' department. It required no label to designate this "alloted 6pace. There was pandemonium going on. About thirty boys, the eldest of,s whom, I should say, not over fourteen, were locked up in cells in pairs. In the one cell from whence the noise notably came three were confined, and a dispute was on touching the result of a game of gold sledge," in which they were engaged. The so-called officer with me made no effort to reconcile their difference*, but rather enjoyed it,and we passed them on to arbitrate their disputes as best they might. The boys seemed to be rather a bright-faced set, not with hardened outlines of face, but pestiferious beggars. Each wanted a chew of tobacco and a nickel thrown in. "What are these boys in for?" I asked. "Oh, for everything," | said my spbynx, "ana," ne ariaea, "some of them are a hard lot, and some of them are a smart one." Descending the steps again, I was led to the court-yard of the prison. This gave me the better chance to judge of the interior. The buildings are four in number. The Tombs proper is of two angles of square-cut stone, built to stay, years and years asro. The other two are of a yellowUh brick, recently put up to accommodate the one the female and boys' prison,and the other for offices and the like connected with the Police Court. The inner yard is paved with granite blocks, square in cut, with the look of age about them. Not a vestige of grass, or flower, or shade met the eye. Simply the blue sky of heaven overhead, to see which one must overlook the high prison walls, with apertures cut in them acrs?s, instead of lengthwise. In one of the angles of the yard is the alio ted space where New York murderers are executed. My guide took me to a stone about the center of the lateral, i notably larger than all the rest. ''Right about here/' he .?aid "is where the condemned man stands to meet his dentil." A life goes out from hence liaving for the la-t lingering look only the forbidding high masonry of the walls which flank the inclosure, a veritable place of desolation and slough of despond. Retracing the stejw we had taken I entered the old building. "Now," said the guide, "you are in the genuine Tombs. Over there," he added, "is murderers'row." Eight cells numbered in sequence, with bold figures ip white paint, made up the row allotted to the ] followers of Cain. They were, for the nost part, dreary and dark, about four Jeetin width and eight in length, the light entering from a slit overhead. In !he third cell the celebrated Boss Tweed leas confined. Here he fared as the less iistinguiahed prisoners, save that he furiished his own cell, a privilege granted my inmate. In lace and drapery^ with rugs and plaques, the cell of Tweed :ould not have been made inviting. The balance of the cells in the Tombs proper are the same as in the eight called 'Murderers' Row." There are four galleries, with about twenty cells on either fide. These, more inviting than the ?thers, were made so by the handiwork of the inmates. Here are confined all the Mies save the boy*. They arc imprisoned ji pairs. Two hours each day the prisoners in detachments are allowed the freedom of their respective galleries for ixercise. The remaining hours they are locked up. No work of any kind is exicteo of them. Books and magazines are furnished by the authorities, but newspapers are forbidden. The murderers lentenced to death are all confined here jntil they walk out in the back yard to be executed. Here they haag men by raising them by heavy leavers from the earth, instead of mounting the scaffold So be dropped. The commitments of tbe Tolice Court I are to the Tombs. It is the resort of saf refuse for those whose crimes have only been preliminarily heard by the committing Magistrates. When sentenced those 1 here recruit lilaokwell's Island, Sing Sing and- the penitentiaries at Auburn and Clinton. The day I called there were . 1.453 inmates. Of these twenty-live were murderers awaiting trial or convicted. (>nc was a woman, whose name escapcs me, a forlorn creature, whose lease of life had been extended by Executive interference. Singular Action of Wolves. With reference to wolf children a cor- I respondeat of ChamberJournal writes i as follows: "While lately on a visit to ' Melbourne, the writer went with his wife j and two little children (aged two and | four) to see the Royal Park, where the J wild animals are kept. There, among j others, they came upon a cage with four | large wolves, lying sleeping on the ground. They took no notice of the j writer or his wife or the elder child; but the moment the younger toddled up, they j sprang simultaneously to their feet and made for the comer of the cage nearest her. Not content with this, two of the largest stood oa their hind feet and pressed themselves flatly against the cage, pushing their great fore paws through the bars toward the child, as though to get at her, and wagging their tails and barking frantically the whole time, their ej-es riveted on her. As she walked away, they rushed across the cage to the other corner and repeated their antics. When the child uttered a word or two it seemed to affect the wolves singularly, and they redoubled their efforts to get near her. The writer went again with the same party and infant, and with the same result. Now, the aspect of these wolves, in spite of their barking and excitement, was decidedly not ferocious, but more resembling a great collie when at play; and the writer felt convinced no harm would have happened to the child had the wolves succeeded in getting to her. Po.-sibly in some wolves the maternal instinct may be very strong.'' Carriers of Contagion. Flies, aside from being pests, are actual conveyors of contagion. The tiv , eau communicate virus from an open sore; and can carry this from one person or place to another. This may not be credited, but it has been proved by direct experiment to be not only possible but an actual fact. The common housefly, by alighting on a diseased spot, cither in an animal or a man, and thence passing to a healthy subject, has been known to impart the infection to the latter. Whether the poisonous matter be an animal virus or a germ of disease, a bacillus, does not matter; and in this ormnr./Mirtn it. is tvpll to SHCilk Of Other common methods of disease-infection. A postage stamp may in various ways convey cautagion. One of the simplest and most plausible is that in which a postage stamp, partially attached to a letter to pay return postage, is sent by a person infe. ted with some disease to another person. The disease is transferred in the first place to the adhesive stamp through the saliva, and in being attached to the letter by the receiver the poison may be transmitted to him in turn through the saliva. Another case may be the infection of a stamp with disease germs. The stamp, having been exposed in a room where a diseased person lies, may become slightly moistened, and thus retain the germ. That this is true can be proved very simply by a microscopical examination. It is even possible that an active and tangible poison, as arsenic, may accidentally or intentionally be attached.? London Review. American Tools Abroad. Our American contemporaries have every cause to be surprised at the astonishing fact that thousands of tons of scrap-iron are every year taken to the United States and there converted into the simplest of American manufactures, the sad or laundry iron, and then exported back to Europe at no small profit. There is no one corner of Europe where American small cast hardware is not on sale. The tool makers and the machinists of Europe?such as Krupp, of Germany; Whitworth & Armstrong, of London, and Hotchkiss, of France, with their vast resources?arc unable to produce a monkey or a screw wrench equal to the American wrenches, and consequently they have to import these tools from the i States. It is stated that there are no less j than 80,000 dozen of them exported to , Europe alone every year. It is interesting to note that Charles Moncky, the inventor of this screw-bar wrench, received only $2,000 for his patent, and is now living at Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a small cottage bought from the proceeds of this sale. In the matter of the common pocket boxwood rules, also, the American manufacturers so far excel all others that, if not all European nations, certainly all nations outside of Europe are supplied from America, me manu- s facturers there print on the rule whatever system of measurement is followed by the country for which - the goods are intended. American augers and auger-bits are used the world over, no other nation being able to compete. The Americans, with such facts before them, may well be proud of thtir manufactures.?London Iron. A Ghastly Performance. A Buddhist priest, about thirty-five, stone blind (and no wonder), was led on by two showmen, and the trio crouched in a row. A variety of objects grouped about them of varying size and weight. One borrowed my hat, a so.rt wide-awake, attached to it by a hook a noosed string, and held it in readiness. The blind piest eat for a time impassive, old men banging drums. Then at a signal he fX&ve a howl, forced with two thumbs his right eye out of the socket, while the attendants hung my hat upon the ball! | To show that It was unsupported, except by the string, he held both hands aloft, then allowing the eye to sink iuto its place relap-ed again iuto listless lethargy. The trick was repeated again and again with other objects, the period of suspension being shortened according to increase of weight, until at last there hung from his eye, which loikcd like an iincanny onion, a bell of sculptured bronze. "With a groan of horror we turned and fled, seeking oblivion of the nightmare in the theatre devoted to farces. ?Murray'* }f<t'ja:ine. The Unruly Member. The same Book of books that calls the e?ir?K a lnnrl\lv onnrAnrintu lUUyuc VJ .. name also says, most aptly: "Behold, Jiow great a matter a little fire kindleth." A careless statement by repetition, and the unconscious or malignant coloring of the persons who pass it along, becomes so enormous in its power to hurt that trnly one should set a guard upon the lips, remembering the harm that idle words may do." It is not always necessary to repeat a fact respecting another, and doing so seldom serve? a good purpose.?(Jood 1 (Jhttr. ' j HISTORIC TREES. I OAKS AXD EIj>IS THAT WERE HIGHLY ESTEEMED. The Poet Pope's Weeping Willow at Twickenham?The Tory Tulip Tree?Charleston's Beautiful Council Tree. This is said to be the age of trees, and in our country there have been and still are many that would seem to command respect fronl their close connection with our history as a nation. On Boston Common there stands an elm tree, evidently of no great age, and, consequently, not of great height, and with nothing particularly noticeable about it, excepting that it is enclosed by a circular iron fence, and appears to oe an oujeci ui ?ulicitudc on the part of those whose duty it is so attend to the arboriculture of the city. This tree is a shoot or "sucker" from its parent, the celebrated "Old Elm," for many years an object of veneration to Boston people. Why venerated ? Simply because of its age, for it had no history to be proud of. lis origin is unknown, but it is supposed to have grown spontaneously before the settlement of Boston in K?!?0. Tradition says that as far back as mankind knew anything of Boston the tree was there. It was used as a gallows for hanging criminals in 1G59, and it has been asserted that so-called witches were hanged upon it The Boston tree that had most of a history, however, was the old Liberty rn A 4- r\f TV ? clll ri Off fit) flTld irec. jr\.L iiic tutiiv.1 va .. w,?...0.w Essex streets stands a building in whose wall is inserted a tablet bearing the form of a tree in bas relief. This building covers the ground where the Liberty Tree grew. The jtree was said to have been planted in 1046. A century and a quarter Inter the Sons of Liberty held meetings UDdcr its branches, and in the days preceding the outbreak of the revolution the ground on which it stood was a place ot assembly for the men who conspired to throw olf the British yoke. In 17 73 an anti-tea party was held beneath it, and it became so obnoxious to the British that in 1775 it was cut down by a detachment of soldiers of the invading army, one of whom was killed. ' There is the great oak which stood on the banks of the Genessee River. near the villace of Genescee, N. Y. It was so re vered bj the Senecas that they named their village the Big Tree. The trunk of this tree measured twenty-six feet nine inches in circumference, and at the time it was destroyed it was thought to be 1,000 years old. During a flood in the Genessee Valley in November, 1837, the Big Tree was washed away. The Charter Oak, of Hartford, Conn., was undoubtedly the next in age to the Big Tree, and was estimated to be about GOO years old when Hooker laid the foundation for a commonwealth there. It was at one time kno?vn as Wyllys's Tree, as it stood in front of the house occupied by Hon. Samuel Wyllys. It measured twenty-six feet in circumference a foot from the ground. The cavity in which the charter was placed on the night of October 31, 1687, was near the root and large enough to admit a child. The cavity gradually became smaller, until it would scarccly admit a hand. Tbe oak was prostrated in August, 1854, and nearly every partic le of it was worked into some pleasing form and cherished as a memento of a singular incident in Colonial history. The Treaty Tree was a large elm which Btood on the banks of the Delaware river, near what is now known as Kensington precinct, Philadelphia. It was under this tree that William Penn formed his treaty with the Indians in 1G82. The tree was long protected with care, but was at last blown down in a gale on March 8, 1810. It was found to be 2*3 years old, and its trunk measured twenty-three feet in circumference. The Penn Society erected a monument, with proper inscriptions upon its site. The poet Pope had sent to him from Smyrna a drum of figs. In it was a small twig which hcstuck in the gronnd near his Twickenham villa. It took root and grew rapidly, and was the admiration of himself and his friends, and it proved to be the Salix Babylonica, or weeping willow, and it was the parent of all its kind. After the death of Pope, Lord Spencer became owner of the Twickenham esta:e, and it was finally purchased by Lady Howe, who had the villa torn clown, and the willow tree pulled up bv the roots, and everything the poet prized was suffered to fall into decay. A British officer who came to this country in 1775 brought with him, wrapped in oiled silk, a twig, from Pope's willow, intending to plant it himself in American soil. The young officer became acquainted with Custis Washington's stepson, and he gave him * -??- Z4. tllC WlllOW IWJg. i/UMls piaiucu il ut Abingdon, in Virginia, where it grew vigorously. In 17!fOGen. Gates brought from Abingdon a shoot of the Oustis willow, and planted it at the entrance gate to his estate on Manhattan Island, and it was known as Gates's weeping willow. There was the tory tulip tree in South Carolina, so called because in 1760 ten tories were hanged upon two of its lower branches. During the siege of Charleston by the British in 1780, General Lincoln held a council with his officers and leading citizens of Charleston under the branches of a beautiful magnolia tree, and it was called the council tree ever after by the loyal inhabitants of that city. A.t the time the tree was cut down for firewood in 1840, its branches spread over more than 200 square yards. There is the grand old elm at Cambridge, under vfhich "Washington assumed command of the continental forces on the morning of July 3, 1775. It stands in the midst of a busy city, a grand living reminder of that imposing and important event in American history.?Boston Herald. The New York Hotels. It is some years since the hotels were so well patronized as now, and the fact is evidence of the general piospcrity that is prevailing throughout the country, as there is com) arativcly little travel in hard times. All the leading hotels are crowded, and often guc:>t9 aie quartered in neighboring boarding houses. In consequence of the high rents the rates in the hotels keep up to the top notch of war times. It must be stated, however, that the accommodations in the leading hotels arc first class, and leave nothing to be desired. There has been a great increase the past two years in the number of minor hotels on the European plan, and consequently there is a choice for travelers according to their means.?Niw York Timet. Not the Answer He Expected. I cannot see What there's in me To make you love me, love, said be; Then answered she, Quite candidly. That's what my friends all say to me. ?Boston Co 'rifr ? HOUSEHOLD MATTERS The Laundry. Prc?s satin on the right side. Press cloth under a. damp cloth. j f "White zephyr articles can be cleansed } by shaking in a bag with flour. i Black lace may be made to look fresh I and new by being sponged with tabic J beer. Before hanging the clothcs out wipe the line with a cloth to remove dust or dirt. J If black pepper is put in the water ? for gray and brown linen sit will prevent s fading. Use cold water. c When velvet gets crushed from pre*- I sure hold the parts above a l;asin of hot j: water, with the lining next the water. Always use cotton holders for irons. Woolen ones are hot to the hands, and if scorched smell disagreable. A piece of r./M? oawflu oo o nAn.nnnrlii/?fnr asucaiAJO ogi ivo ?o ? uvu vvumuvwi of. heat and will not burn. The most serviceable house rags are old flannel or merino underwear, or old canton flannel. These never show lint can be wrung out nearly dry from hot water without losing their moisture and warmth. Another disadvantage in having too many clothes for children is than they can only be worn one season, and in the rapid change? of fashion, even if there is j another coming-up child to step into its J older sister's clothes, they look out of \ style and require as much trouble and i time to alter as to make an entirely new \ outfit. ( When there are small children in a ( family unless a second washing during i the week is arranged for there must be a J large supply of clothes. A suit of gar- t ments can only be worn a few hours be- 1 fore they are ready for the tub, and as ! most little children require at least ] changing twice a day, the articles for the wash accumulate iuto an enormous 1 heap. In most families Monday is set apart J for washing. Tuesday for ironing and ! Wednesday, if not baking day, is the 1 ".lack of all trades." Some housekeepers, however, especially duriug the sum- ] mer months, prefer to wash Tuesday. 1 One reason is that the Sunday white 1 dresses are not soiled but they may bear j one more day's wear in the afternoon J and evening, and this is quite a consider- i ation in a large family of daughters. 1 Other families have a .ieoo:)d washing ' during the week of the better white gar- ! ment8. Of course each family must ar- ; range this to suit itself?Detroit Tribune. Ilecipes. j Ginger Snaps.?Boil slowly for fifteen , minutes two cups of molasses; add one- 1 half cup of butter, cool and add two ' spoonfuls of cold water, one heaping teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of j ginger and flour to roll. 1 Cottage Pudding.?One cup of sugar, one egg, one cup of sweet milk, three , tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one tablespoonful of baking powder, 2$ cup3 l of flour. Bake about forty minutes. J Eat with sauce while warm. t Spiced Grapes.?Mash the grapes. 1 and cook until soft* rub throug a sieve; to one quart of pulp add one pint of brown sugar and one teaspoonful each of cinnamou and allspice, half a teaspoon- ' ful of mace and the same of cloves. s Cream op Tartar Biscuit.?Rub a * piece of butter, the size of an egg, into x a quart of flour; one teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfule of cream of tartar, one pint of cold water, in which one tea- I snoonfulof soda has been dissolved, one : tablespoonful of sugar; stir quickly with a knife; roll out and cut for the oven. c Chipped Pears.?Take pears not * quite ripe; pare and core, and cut them " in long, thin strips; to four pounds of 0 the fruit put three pounds of sugar, the r rind of two lemons cut into strips, the ? juice of the lemons, one-eight of a 1 pound of green ginger and a gill of * water; boil until the fruit is transparent. * C Smothered Beef.?Take'three pounds ? of beef from the under part of the round, cut it into small pieces and place in an < earthen bean pot, season with salt, pepper ' and a little clove; then cover closely and cook in a moderate oven two or three hours, or until the meat is very ' tender, then add a half pint of water and a dessert spoonful of vinegar, and thicken with flour; serve, while very hot, with sweet potatoes. i > Pie Crust.?Sift one pound of flour | 1 with one teaspoonful of soda and two j teaspoonfuls of crcam of tartar, or two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; chop six ounces of butter into the flour until it is thoroughly mixed; work with ice water into a stiff dough; roll into a thin sheet; spread with two ounces more of butter;, fold up closely into a long roll; flatten and re-roll, then spread again with butter; repeat the operation three times: lay it aside for a while iu a cool place then roll out your crust. Touch the crust as little as possible with the hand. l A Novel Invention for Sailors. 1 To sail against the wind without much 1 tacking about has hitherto been impossi- j ble, but an invention by Baron von Schliebcn, of Berlin, Prussia, pretends to render it not only possible but very easy. j He has applied for patents from all maritime powers for his "wind-wheel to pro- j pel vessels of any kind by wind of any j direction." There are two vertical wheels i attached to a horizontal shaft fastened 1 to the deck, fore or abaft as the mariner ! may desire. The two wheels are self ad- ' justablc in a manner to always receive the full power of the wind. The horizontal shaft moves a vertical one which turns the propelling screw. The stronger the wind the quicker the vessel will go either with or against the wind in any direction maintained by the rudder. The wind-wheel can be used to produce electricity for lighting or other purposes. Vessels supplied with such a propeller will require neither sails nor masts. The management of the ship will be very little work, as the wind-wheel can be turned off by a lever movable with one hand. To Tan Fur Skius. A Western hunter speaks in high terms of the following method, which he claims will preserve them from moths: "Stretch the hides tightly with the flesh side out, clean oil all the meat and let them dry in the shade. When dry put in soft water twentv-four hours unti. I 1 quite soaked, then squeeze them as dry ' . as possible. Prepare a solution of vitriol, " salt and water iu an earthen vessel in the proportion of one ounce of pure vitriol, one-half pint of salt, three quarts of soft water. Prepare a sufficient quantity of the liquor to cover the skins, then immerse them and let them sleep i forty minutes or more; if large dog skins, , ' stir them with a stick. After steeping ! from forty to sixty minutes take the j | skins out and hang theni in the shade j without wringing, until they are dry, j when no further treatment will be re- j f)u:red.'f? Culticntor. > How Yerdi Escaped Annoyance. A German newspaper relates a capital tory of the composer Verdi. Some ears ago Verdi was visited by a friend n a small bathing place, where he was ound quartered in a little room, which, ic said, served at once as dining, dwellng and bedroom. As the visitor ex>ressed surprise, Verdi broke in: "Oh, have two other large rooms, but I keep he articles hired by me in them." With his the composer rose from his seat, tpeneda door and showed his astonished 'isitor ninetv-five barrel organs, remark ng: "When I came here, all these organs played 'Rigoletto,' 'Trovatore,' and imilar stuff. I have hired them from the wners. I pay about 1,'500 lire, and now can enjoy my summer rest without beng disturbed. Mistaken Identity. O'er the top of the high-backed rocker, I could see her dainty head, My lovely, darling Emma, She whom I was soon to wed. I crept up closer to her, Hoping to surprise her there; My heart was thumping wildly, As I softly stroked her hair. I kissed one rosy, dimpled cheek; As I went to kiss the other, I got a better look at?him! Great guns! It was h?r brother? ?Detroit Free Press. Wc have a treat in store for our artistically Inclined readers in the advertisements of the Ivory Soap. The first of the series of elegant Announcements of its many virtues appears in this issue. The Ivorv soap must innecn De a loap of rare merit if continuous good tilings :an be said of it, and we predict our readers will become so interested in the beautifully irawn pictures that they will be the first thing looked for in the paper, even to having the prerirence with our lady readers over the marriage notices, and our business men will soon be convinced that advertising is not a lost art, nor is irt lost when applied to advertising. The fact that the space has been taken by such discriminating advertisers as Proctor & Gamble is an indorsement of what we have always claimed: ?no better advertising medium exists than this paper. Town Clerk Whittaker, of Salem, 111.,has i young Leghorn rooster that has a line ear for music. When Miss Whittaker seats herself at the piano to play he hurries into the room through the door or window, flies upon the instrument, and, after looking at the keys for a short time, hops upon them and pounds out notes that seem to 1111 him with delight. ProfcMKional Etiquette prevents some doctors from advertising their skill, but we are bound by no such conventionbI rules and think that if we make a discovery that isof benefit to our fellows, we ought to spread the fact to the whole land. Therefore we cause to be published throughout the land the fact that Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Golden Medical iJ^covery" is the best known remedy for consumption (scrofula of the lungs) and kin3red diseases. Send 10 cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce's complete treatise on consumption.with unsurpassed means of self-treatment. Address, iVoi.i/i'o niciu.noorv "MorUnn 1 A?s/v?ffttinn. 663 Main Street,'Buffalo, N.^f. It appears that the number of university students in Germany, which twenty years ago ivas 13,400, had risen to 17,800 ten years ago,and s now 28.000: during the last nve years the dumber or students has increased 28 per cent., tvhile the increase of population was only 5 per :ent. Woman and Her Diseanea s the title of a large illustrated treatise, by Dr. it. V. Pierce, Buffalo,N. Y.,sent to any address 'or ten cents in stamps. It teaches successful iclf-treatment. A Texas wom&n has a pet alligator that vags his tail when his name is called. Unlike other cathartics. Dr. Pierce's "Pelets" do not render the bowels costive after iperation, but, on the contrary, establish apernanently healthy action. lie.inu entirely reyeflMe,noj>art 'cular care is required while using | hem. By druggists. Gehmany has discovered that in a high sea ler torpedo boats are useless. Extraordinary but nevertheless true. We reer to the announcement of B. F. Johnson & :o? of Richmond, in which they propose to how working energetic men how to make from >100 to $300 a month over and above expenses. 'Rotal Glue' mends anything! Broken Chi. la. Glass, Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & Gro FLORIDA ; "Its Advantage* and Drawbacks." For his book free, or Florida maps, boolu, lands or ticktt, address O. U. CROSBY, Box J,887, New York. What Is the Use ?f your dragging yourself around, day after day, rltbout any life or activity, feeling all tired out and ulserable, when you might be as quick and llysly nd strong as ever ? Take caro of yourself Jt onee, >r In the depleted oondltlon of your system, a comilalnt otherwise trivial may fasten upon you with erlous or fatal results. Hood's Sarsaparllla is Juil he medicine you need to build up your entire syaetn, to purify and quicken your blood, and to give rou appetite and strength. "Hood's SarsapariHa as a blood purifier has no iqual. It tones the system, strengthens and Invlgirates, giving new life. I have taken it for kidney omplalnt, with the best results."?D. R. Saundus, II Pearl Street, Cincinnati, O. Hood's Sarsaparllla iold bjr all druggists. $1; six for |5. Preparod only >v C. I. HOOD 4 CO., Apothecaries, Lowell Mass. 100 Poses One Dollar COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, rHE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For Liver, Bile, Indljrestlon, etc. Free from Merjury; contains onlv Pure vegetable Ingredients. Vgent: C. N. CKlTTKKTON, NewYork. KIPPER'S A SURE CURE FOR INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. Over 5,000 Physicians hare sent us their approval of , DIGESTYLIN, saying that It Is the best preparation for Indigestion that they have ever used. We have never heard of a case of Dyspepsia whm DIGESTYLIN was taken that was not cured. FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. IT WIJ.L CUKE TWO MUST AGGRAVATED CASES. IT WILL STOP VOMITING IN PREGNANCY. ' IT WILL RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. Kor Summer Complaints and Chronic Diarrhoea, irhlch are the direct results of Imperfect digestion, DIGESTYLIN will effect an Immediate cure. Take DYGESTYLIN for all pains and disorders of < 'ho ntjimAi'h ! thov all mm? from Indlcestlnn Aitr roar druKelVt for' DIGESTYI.IN (price fl porlarjfe jottle). If he does not have It send one dollar to uj j md we will send a bottle to you, express prepaid. , Do not hesitate to send your money. Our house U ellable. Established twenty-five years. W.n. F. K I n PER 4: CO., 1 Uanwfactorlng t'bemUf. S3 John at.. N.Y. | l?attekn ' 7 i gil di?:?'a dmi? great enfl,,sh i i Qmir s i iiisa Rheumatic Rem?i/. I OvalJBox"34| roond> 14 Plll?? __ | SlOOOl^I i "T J THAT is meant by * free alkali,' Do V V *n *he advertisements of Ivory S< "'Free Alkali,' Madam, is the alkal with the fats or oils of which the soap is m rtr rarplpccnp^s of the soao maker. Soap: present are decidedly injurious to both t when habitually used. I have seen reporl Ivory Soap by men eminent in our profes: to contain no ' free alkali,' to be made wi terials of the best quality, carefully selectee ommend it for every purpose about the he is required." A WORD OF WAR] There are many white soaps, each represented to be they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peci the genuine. Ask for " Ivory " Soap and insist upon Copyright 1886, by Procter & ( hSSLICI fi I ? _ The FISH BRAND SLICKED If M | U \l in the hirdett itorm. The new Pi /.X KF UK u ft" amntheentiianddle. Brm Jj L> "FlihBr*n4"trid?-in?ik. J"!!urtrr 31 THOUSANDS IP Kut-. RAV THAT tftwl! fepJl ELY'S CREAM BALM |J|f fe /^5ll ct,RED THEM 0F ijjjr AY-FEVER. W Apply Balm into each nostril. f 'U |||i k lilments ] | ?\ Hotel an 1/ v ?r Qscr^rV jB^V tiaa affor< J-fjK x^^55\x\<dzf \ ill valuable / W/l)) 7l\ li 1 nlals, rea M , ~)p)J ?V VA 11 clans wh< ^7 *-i/i( 711 u vated an J? V^VA Jf remedy? /IS^ Itf/A/yJ / \! y J V III // Ml woman's /1//} Don't allow yourself to break. Keep up XOUta, neoiLU, vucur. ai> mn WJJ111I VI ((Uliig j, . back, be pin use orw ells' Health Rxkewkh. , For weak men, delicate women. Renews energy. Cures Dyspepsia, Mental or Physical Weakness, Nervous and Gen ere 1 Debility. Fever and Ague. Nice to take, true merit, un- J?, me?? equaled forTORPIO LIVER and NICHT asanapp SWEATS, Leanness, Nervous Prostra* n, JL heavy labored or restless sleep, exhaiu.cd, ?f?,J.* ?' tired, languid, faint, "ALL GONE" feeling, 9"??d * distress in the back or head. Wind on bowels PJrJJy. JJ' or stomach. 81., 6 for ?5. Druggists or Ex- J5V, press. B. 8. Wells. >n-?' Clf-.TW. J.. U. I. A. ^[v ^ " disease o: Florida rorr ss HOMES AND f fl f f SKKS ORANGE GROVES 11L k; ^ j effects in 10 Orange Orove Tracts of 40 acres. ' Suae arl 20 Orange Orove Tracts of SO acres. | 40 Orange Orove Tracts of 10 acres. i C"^Far< ^ w - ? f ~ ~ ilvA rm <f**u wange urove i rutca uj u j ? _ _ f fltlnate cf 400 Orange Grove Tracts of 2%acres, painful n 100 City Building Lots. I R^Upiui bearing-<3 We are giving away a portion of our landi that the lnflamma remainder may be greatly increased In value. Ad- flamraati* lertUlng spacc cosu too much to give full partlcu- ' accomDai lars here; but send your full name and po?toflloe I ? _ L . address to our Northern office. where all deeds are I J made, and we will send you by return mall, in a ! ??nal ?CJ italtd envelope, a I irom girl Bcrlptiou NUMBERED Land Tnrr CERTIFICATE I I) L L menu lm WTilch certificate will enable you to secure one of the above divisions of valuable Florida propeitv, . * free. No charge of any kind is made for either the In COQflC Numbered Land Certificate or the Property it dr Golden \ rignatca. A M, Fit KE. Address W. H. \Vbet- doses Of itone, Sec'y, 'i'li Main Street. Cincinnati, Ohio. Liver Pil YOU WILL BE A TKAITOtt to your own diseases, interests and to those dependent on you If you fall uiooa ia io avail yourself of this Ureat Free Laud Oner. So- BCrofulou :ur? It for your children. MFliV< Send your application not later than two weeks 'rom the date of this paper. a 1> O 811 ? ? facturers FJM. . 5ALT HAMMERIESS. E DALY THREE CARREL. ^ World S MANHATTAN HAMMERIESS. IPIEPER IREECH LOADERS Send for Catalogue of Specialties. i cnoVEBLlNG, DALY <fc OALM, 84 and 00 Clumbera Street, New York. ?% JONES j PAYS theFR EIC HT jn 5 Ton Tart Br?m ? :<! Rram Bo? tot 'Between C $0O. between Ch llKv8l6?^^ K"r-?lirSri!r. Forfrrrpri^Ud Two 1-1 SBiKSsSffifc ' "mm. MARRIED or SINGLE.! JS"? An nrtlc-li- of in-cut value n?d universal need lent free for 1 5 ?eiil?(Mamps). with privilege?t mi u fur tin* same. Money III it. Sr.l.ll.iTMd 3hiipVn*aiV.Vl Ik. < o.. 100 wiilln.n St., Newjrork. $100 fo $300 OPIU 7h<> cxn turnlsh their owu horses aud give their time _ i, the business. Sparc moments may be profitably PC,, iiuloyeil als"- A few vacancies 111 towns and cities. 71 k 1 I p JOHNSON & CO., till:! Main St.. Richmond, Va. W Brew FRAZER^M S3 JEST IN THE WORLD UdUHOb ?YIL*1 tW Get the Genuine. Sold ETerywhere. 4% AI 1ATPNTB Obtained. Send rMmp for \ULU w~ " I ? InvootorV Guide. L. w*o- W relieved I ham, Pitent Attorney, WanhmRton. D..C. t.?*r mm frer. ctor? I see it mentioned -Jsj i which is not combined ade, due to the ignorance qaj } in which ' free alkali' is CffiB ne ciotnmg ana mc skui isn ts of analysis made of the ,, ;ion, and all pronounce it rJjS;' ith great care and of mad, so I unhesitatingly rec- ,$jj8 >usc for which good soap tf!NG. M "just 2>< good as the 'Ivory'j* j|L-r and remarkable qualities of getting it [f F1 ft Ito Best I ' ijk KERnr niranted witerwootwd will ke*pyoQdiy 'c3{? >l.v EL SLlCKJilt 11 a perfect riding oou, tntofImitation*. irithontth* . iflCita'-ojucfrw. / cr, TV>ton,MMf, ? I atment of many thousand* of cam : i *3 chrocilo weaknesses and diitressirur peculiar to females, at the Invalid? V58 a Surgical Institute, Buffalo N. Y., .^SaB led a vast experience in nicely adapt- . vSM thoroughly testing remedies for ths ^ jjKj oman'a peculiar maladies. j eree's Favorite PrescrlpUoa >^| growth, or result, of this great and .'j experience, luousands of testlmo- 'Vj:vj Jived from patient* ana rrom payn- ? > have tested it in the more tnr*d obetinate cases which had banef "ffM 1, prove it to be the most wonderful 1 ver devised for the relief and corsoa - jjaW women. It is not recommended as -'.jjsgM but as a' most perfect Specific for j peculiar ailments. . owerfal, invigorating tonic, I ts strength to the whole system, ' - &5U the womb and its appendages la ' * r. For overworked, "worn-out,'* . rn," debilitated teachers, milliner* X era, seamstresses, "shop-tfrls," house* a Duraingr mothers, and feeble women | , Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription j tttest earthly boon, being unequaled I etizing cordial and restorative tonic. "ig loothlnf and strengthening | s. "Favorite Prescription" is una- 1 id is Invaluable in allaying and sub* I irvous excitability, irritability, ex- 1 prostration, hysteria, spasms and ' itressing, nervous symptoms comPendant upon funotlonal and orgnnlo f the womb. It induoes refreshing 1 relieves mental anxiety and d*? . ^ itrce'i favorne rreicripuaa . itltlnate medicine, carefully j ded by an experienced and skillful i, and adapted to woman's delicate "jj ion. It is purely vegetable in Its 'J ion and perfectly harmless in it* f any condition or the system. For J sickness, or nausea, from whatever - * sin?, weak stomach, indigestion, dy?- _> d kindred symptoms, its use, in small 1 prove very beneficial. orlte Prescription " ie a poib - gg re for the most complicated and ob? J isesof leucorrheo, cxccsslve flowing, j xenstruatlon, unnatural suppression* -1 I, or falling of tho womb, weak back, jS weakness, antevereion, retroversion, ' : lown sensations, chronic congestion, tion and ulceration of the womb, to- 1 )n, pain and tenderness in ovarie* lied with internal heat." regulator and promoter of funo* ,.J tion, at that critical period of chang* Jc hood to womanhood, "Favorite Pre" is a perfectly 6afe remedial agent; I produce only good results. It w ' mcacious and valuable in its effects ^ en for those disorders and derange* indent to that later and most critical ' J aown as " The Change of Lire." ^8 jrltc Prescription." when takes % ction with the use or Dr. Pierce'? - v-3 [edical Discoverj-, and small laxative -TT3 Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets (Littto ...3 Is), cures Liver. ICidney and Bladder ' Their combined use also removes iu ts, and abolishes cancerous and s humors from the system. >rile Prescription" is the only for women, sold by drug-gists, under Ive guarantee, from the manu, that it will give satisfaction in every loncy will bo refunded. This gunranHxn printed on the bottle-wrapper, ifully carried out for many year*. bottles (100 doses) $1.00, or six tor $5.00. _- v~3 to, illustrated Treatise on Diseases of ICO pages, paper-covered), send ten itamps. Address. ; Dispensary Medical Association, -. J 663 Ulaln St, BUFFAJLO, X. Y. :l J n y .n u?to Minnesota and :j Northwestern R. R. hlcago. St. Paul and JUnnoapolls and .leajio, D iliu'iue ami Don .Moim's, Iowa, mil' <1 Trnin* each way I'ttiiy. FACE, IIAMIS, I i.LT, and all th?*ir imprifVftions, Jru !i:i!Jnc Fa vial :.t. lis rnid : j-,i;perIIuouj Hair. 1 nil Mr. '.s J Vs. Vnrta, . J!nth, Fnvklr*. N"M'. Ai -.O, Black ! Hend*. fk-.-irs, PitllnK nnil i!;oir treatment, ttSend JOc. lor rr.r ) <th bury, 87 X. Pe.irlft..Ali:any.:;.Y., r.<-b'd 187%, M Morphine Habit Cured In 10 I lo 20 dnya. No pay till cured* A Or. J. Stephen*, Lebanon, Ohio. I IS a day. samples worth il.50, FREB H * not under the hurao's fc.-?t. write '8to.' Safety Rein Holder Co.. llolly. Mich. ^ worth $5JU per lb. I>ttlf# Eye Salre U J l.ilK), but Is Hilil at '?>? a l?ox uy dealer* I to Soldiers ? n?lrs. Send stamp * Alls for circular., COT.. I.. BINCh IWII w HA'it, Att'y, Wa?liiij?tcn. D. C. irnC?n ?? Pensions. if Wdtw IpMVbled; Officer*' travrl pay, I La I Iv bounty collected: Dmerter# | i; 22 veara'practice. successor nofe?. A. W. KcCcrrcick St ion. 3 M