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I\ \ ~ [ iOD?~GlANTST" 3TERY TALL PEOPLE ARE SAID TO i BE BECOMING SCARCE. 1 {The Heaviest Giant Was an American and the Tallest an Aus trian?Other Giants? A Tall Couple. I Complaints are frequently made by men in the freak business that giants are becoming scarcer every year. This is to be taken with a good deal of allowance, although it is true that dwarfs are more I numerous, as undersized men are more frequently met with than men above the average height. Living in cities is apt ?o stunt the growth, and as a larger portion of the population is constantly [coming to live in that way the average : Btature is apt to be steadily diminished. It is perhaps not generally known that the heaviest giant of whom we have any authentic record was a native of this jountry. Miles Darden was born in orth Carolina in 179S, and died in Tennessee January 23, 1857. He was seven eet two inches in height, and at the time 'of his death his weight was upward of 1000 pounds. Until 1853 he was active and lively and able to work, although his weight was then 875 pounds. He was finally obliged to remain at home or to be drawn about in a two-horse wagon. In 1839 his coat was buttoned around three men, each weighing more than 200 pounds, who walked in it across the public square at Lexington. His coffin was eight feet long and three feet deep. Another eld-time Western giant was Charles Freeman, of Michigan, who somewhere in the '40s visited England and was put into the ring as a prize fighter, his adversary being William Perry, who afterward became champion of England. Freeman was of enormous strength and ?* J -!-Vi r?J. ' measurcu eiguc iceu m ucigui auu wag feet across the shoulders. He became somewhat noted as a circus rider, but died 'at a comparatively early age of consumption in London. The recent death of Colonel Ruth Goshen removed one of the largest and best proportioned giants ever exhibited in Ameriffa. At the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Clyde, N. Jj., from dropsy, his weight was Bome!Vaing over 600 pounds, and during his feast illness it required the services of four taten with a hoisting apparatus to turn him im bed. Contrary to most giants, Colonel (Goshen attained the advanced age of [seventy years. He was born in Egypt land had been one of Barnum's greatest 'attractions for many years. , | Among other giants of modern times jperhaps the most intelligent, and certainly one of the most gentlemanly, was (Colonel Orr, who died some seven years iago.. He will be remembered by many .who witnessed his performance in "Jack, the Giant Killer," a drama which was ? resented by Colonel Orr and a company _ f Lilliputians and attracted much attention. Colonel Orr was seven feet four inches in height and weighed 520 pounds. iAt the time of his death he was a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight of Pythias. The Chinese giant, Chang Won Gow, was doubtless the tallest man ever exhibited in America. He claimed to be eight ifoa* 4-mn fcirrb. hut. lucked the fine proportions of some of his predecessors. IChaag is the son of a wealthy silk and $ea merchant of Pekin and is well educated, speaking several languages. He jhas been exhibited in Europe and Australia, and when in Australia wore a solitaire diamond ring given him by the Emperor of Russia, which was valued at over $1000. He was also the possessor of a gold medal awarded him by the Berlin exhibition attesting him to be the tallest living man. According to an English newspaper, however, the Chinese anomally cannot rightly claim this pre-eminence in stature, since there appeared in London some three years ago a giant, who far surpassed any other whose height has been recorded ' in modern times. This giant was an Austrian by birth named Weinkelmeier, H Troa oirrlif foof. nino I QUU ??? naj viguv&vw **??w mvuw* He was bora in Friedburg, in 1865, but 1 showed no development of this extraordinary growth up to the age of fourteen, ' when he began growing rapidly. At the time the account from which we ' quote was written he was on exhibition at the London Pavilion, where a huge bed had been constructed for him, and which ' was expected to be his home for some time. The successor of Chang, with Mr. Barn urn's show in 1885, was a Norwegian named Brustod, who was only a few inches shorter than Chang, but considerably below him in intelligence and accomplishments. He spoke English fairly well, however, and was very muscular, though not more fleshy than his Chinese contemporary. Of all modern giants, however, Captain Martin Van Buren Bates, of Kenitucky, and his wonderful wife, are the taiost interesting. Captain Bates's weight has been given at 496 pounds, and his height at 7 feet 11-fr inches. He wears a ^6-inch collar and a No. 15 boot. A .writer, who met him a few years ago in private life, describes him as dressing neatly iin black and wearing a massive gold chain find watch, presented to him by Queen Victoria; a brilliant diamond in his shirtbosom, and a fashionable coliar and scarf. STio facet mos and healthv lookinff. p-"? " J V o, end lra smile pleasant and winning. When in England, in 1875, Capt. [Bates met the famous English giantess, Miss Anna Swan, to whom he was soon {married. Mrs. Bates was exactly the same height as her husband, and, together, they made a handsome pair. Her weight at that time was a little over 400 pounds and her form was very charmingly proportioned. It may interest lady readers to know that 65 yards of goods were required to make this lady's wedding gown. ; A reporter who visited the giant couple at their residence in Seville, Ohio, several years ago, gives a vivid picture of the domicile of these mammoth people: |"It is a difficult matter to convey an adequate idea of the proportions of such a dwelling as the one occupied by the Ohio giants. A door that is six feet six inches high is a large-sized opening in the side pf a house?that is, a dwelling house, not a cathedral. But the door of the domicile of the Bates giants are ten feet high, and the knobs are nearly as high as the reporter's head. The house was jbuilt by Captain Bates in 1876, and is ^elegantly furnished. The couch upon which the big couple sleep was made (especially for them, and is a curiosity to look at. It is extensive enough to give the great big people room enough to etretch in, and it looks as big as an ordinary-sized floor. It is really ten feet Song, wide in proportion, and about twice as high as a common bed. The magnificent dressing case ' is also a huge afiair, with a glass upon it nearly as big as the side of a house. In the sittingroom is a piano of ordinary size itself, but it is mounted on blocks two feet high, so that the instrument is away up in the air, out of the reach of common folks. There are two rocking chairs in this room that are so big that the reporter had to climb into one of them the same as an infant would clamber into a high chair. It is very expensive for the giants to live, as they have to pay such exorbitant prices for everything they wear. For instance, it costs the Captain $30 for a pair of boots. It is a most astonishing sight to come across the two giants out for a drive. City folks who have seen the ponderous wagons with wheels reaching to the second story of a house, used to haul stones weighing tons and tons, can form an idea of the vehicle used. It is pulled by six stout Norman norses, ana ic is enougn 10 mase a man think be has got 'em sure to suddenly meet such a spectacle on the road out in the country. Passing wagons have to let the rails down and drive into the adjoining fields until the giants go by."?New York News. Pike's Peak Ascensions. Pike's Peak ascensions are no longer at all hazardous. On the contrary, you take a morning train at Colorado Springs or Manitou for Cascade Canyon, where new and perfectly comfortable carriages are in waiting. The trip is made behind a four-in-hand team of strong horses to the Halfway House, where mules are substituted. The first two-thirds of the road is as good as any turnpike. Near the top there is such a scarcity of coil and such an abundance of water that the i road in many places is rocky, but in no place is it unsaafe. The grade is very easy, the maximum being ten per cent., I or a rise of ten feet in one hundred. The I views, of course, are magnificent, not ! only from the summit but at all points on the journey. An hour is spent on the summit, where one can see Colorado Springs laid out on the plains like a checker board; also Manitou, the Garden of the Gods. Denver and Pueblo may be located and the mountain views north, west, and south of the continental di vide, the Sangre de Christo range and of the snow crests of the Spanish Peaks must be experienced to be appreciated. The trip to the top is made in five hours, giving thirty minutes for a very fair 75 cent dinner at the Halfway House, and the descent requires three hours. The top is a waste of brown stone. Flowers and grass grow as high as there is any soil. Wild forget-me-nots, with full sized flower, and scarcely half an inch of stem are very abundant, often being found under the snow, far above the timber line, which is about 12,000 feet. The old Government signal station was abandoned last October. It was found that observations at so great an altitude were of no practical value to the service at large. A man is in charge of the | property with nothing to do but draw ; $60 per month, charge $1 for poor meals, ! 25 cents for coffee, and $1 each for pho- j tographs. The trip, however, is a grand ; one and is well worth the $5 per head charged by the carriage owners. The climb to and from the elevation of 14,147 feet is made between 8:30 a. m. and 6 p. m. , and is no more fatiguing than any other carriage ride of thirty-two miles.? Chicago Sun. Walking Down Hill Makes Bow Legs. "Bow legged people are generally thought to have involuntarily deformed themselves by crawling when in infancy," said a physician and surgeon to a Dispatch writer. ."Not so," continued the M. D., 'for in a number of years of practice I have paid attention to the many malformed people who have had their 'limbs bowed,' even after maturity." "Why?" was the inquisitive interjection. "Well, it is a peculiar fact that persons residing in altitudinous houses?of which there are numberless in both Pittsburg and Allegheny?are the ones to whom I refer. The daily ascent and descent of hills, where the horse cars or inclines do not traverse, has been the cause of more crooked limbs than was ever , thought of. The ascent of a hill, of course, makes muscular development; but in the descent a person throws the entire weight of his body upon the knee and ankle joints, which relax in order to ease the strain upon the forelimb, and the main weight falls for support upon the ankles. There is a superabundance of avoirdupois bearing down on them, which naturally causes them to crook, thus throwing the limb from the ankle to the knee into a 'bow' shape. "The only remedy I could suggest would be for all hill denizens to descend." ?Piitsburg Dispatch. Bngs That Laugh at Heat A few days since Frank Woodward, of Albanv. N. Y., who wasvisitiag Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Smith in Fair Haven, received a peculiar present from California. It was sent to him by Leland Stanford, the millionaire Senator, whose wife is an aunt of Woodward, and also of Mrs. Smith. Mr. Woodward opened the box and found three salamanders packed in cotton. These bugs are more read about than gazed upon. They were found in caverns by some of Mr. Stanford's employes, and Mr. Stanford sent them East. The three bugs traveled the 3000 miles without "visible means of support," unless it was the cotton, but on arriving they were very frisky and evidently in good spirits. They are chunky little fellows about two inches long, and resemble nothing as much as they do a piece of steel. They look like raw steel and act like it?that is, they seem to be metalic and invulnerable. They are alike insensible to heat and cold, and can be toasted on a red-hot stove or seated upon an ice cake without their composure being in the least disturbed.?New Haven Palladium. The Japanese Cooking Store. The Japanese, with all their ingenuity, have never produced anything that an American would consider satisfactory in the way of a cooking stove. The Japanese kitchen has a little range or furnace, made of plaster, with three compartments for fire and a circular orifice above each, in which to place a pot or kettle. There is no chimney flue and no draught. The faggots are placed in the open furnace and lighted. The smoke issues from the opening and fills the kitchen. The Coreans use a similar stove or range. For heating the Japanese have little portable braziers or boxes, hibaches, in which charcoal is burned. If a man gets cold, as he frequently does, he clasps one of these boxes in his arm and then wraps a blanket around himself and the box.? Washington Star. ' j ' x, , . '* ' . - Vv-A - - * " ~r"" *\:f- f ' ;'.*> AGMCUWURiL TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. CABBAGES THAT DO NOT HEAD. The defective cabbages in the fall are those that have been checked in growth during summer. To head properly a cabbage should grow without ceasing after it has recovered from the shock of transplanting. The shock is perhaps useful, as it supplies the plant with a new set of roots. If a dry time comes on, water liberally with water in which commercial fertilizers have been dissolved. No crop grown will prove better for this labor than cabbage. It may make the difference between a cabbage head and a mess of unsalable leaves.?Boston Cultivator. BRITTLENESS OP THE HOOP. A hard hoof is desirable rather than otherwise, as the foot will not wear so much when the horse goes unshod in the summer; Dut it tenas to Decome Dnrue and break away under the strain of the shoe nails. If the hoof is brittle in this way it is an advantage rather than otherwise, as the injury by breaking can easily be prevented by keeping the hoofs dressed with a mixture of vaseline and glycerine. If the hoof, however, crumbles at the sole and around the walls into soft powder, this indicates disease of the horn induced by an inflamed condition of the foot, and often follows an attack of founder (laminitis or fever of the feet). This should be treated by the use of a cooling laxative, as a pound of cpsom salts and bran mashes for food for a time; the feet should be poulticed with linseed meal until all heat about them is removed, and then dressed daily with the vaseline and glycerine mixture. This condition of the feet is frequently produced by the horse standing in soft manure, which rots the horn and causes the brittleness complained of.?New York Times. CHICKS ON THE FABM. Poultry reared with free range of orchard and meadow are the largest and also finest in plumage and symmetry. They have a prouder carriage and a look of thrift and health not often seen in chicks reared within the limits of town lots. If the breeder must, of necessity, limit the range, he must provide artificially the advantages which the country supplies. Insects he must replace with chopped meat, and lacking grass range, he must cut grass and clover daily. Shade must be provided during the summer, otherwise failure is sure. Poultry raising and fruit culture go hand in hand, and may be combined 011 the same ground. An ofchard is much benefited by allowing fowls freer range, as the crop of harmful insects is kept down. In the heat of summer the young chicks will grow and thrive in the shady orchards, and pick up much of their living in it. If the breeder lacks these advantages, and is compelled to raise his fowls in confinement, he may, by extra care, raise fair birds; but even with the best attention they will never equal in beauty of plumage and vigor of constitution and size the country-reared chicks that have developed their muscles in many a foraging expedition.?New York Witness. IMPROVE THE PASTURES. One of the greatest neglects in American agriculture, is that of not properly cultivating pasture lands. In England farmers pay almost as much attention to these as they do to their meadows; and there is very little difference between them in the annual yield of grass. There are lanas so stony or rougn or suriace that they cannot be prepared for improved pasturage except at too great expense. These must be left to their natural state and to yield such grass as they can without cultivation. But when the Boil is moderately good, and not too hilly or rocky, it should be put in fine condition, and the grass thus made to come forth early in the spring, endure through the summer heat and last till late autumn?in fact the same as in the meadows?so that large instead of scant profits may be annually obtained. Greater attention should be paid when stocking the land by using a variety of seeds, and sowing twice or thrice the quantity generally allowed. There is gain instead of loss made by this, as a good, thick stand- is secured the first season, instead of being obliged to wait the second or third year for the grass to spread fully, and fully cover the surface. By sowing a variety of seed, the sort best suited to the soil will gradually take precedence and become permanent. It cannot always be told, even by the most experienced farmers, which sort will triumph; it must be left for time to determine.?New York Tribune. THE POTATO ROT. Every year the farmers dread the potato rot, which has done great damage in seasons past. The rot first appeared in Ireland in 1847 and was imported into this country but recently. It is a fungus which grows within the plant, filling the cells with white threads,'which bear small balls or capsules containing black spores. It is these black spores which discolor the potatoes and from which the new plants spring. If diseased potatoes are left in the ground they infect the land and propagate a pest for the next season's crop of potatoes. When the potatoes die and rot in the ground the small spores turn into dust and rise in the air to be carried away to some other field. The disease spreads rapidly in this way. The best way to destroy the germ is to gather up ail of the potatoes, small and large, and boil them for the fowl and swine. This will kill the spores and prevent the spread of the disease. Never feed them to the animals before boiling them. The damaged potatoes should be kept from the sound ones after they are dug. It is well, then, to dust the sound ones with fresh, air-slaked lime, which will destroy any adhering spores. Keep the potatoes dry, too, as this will tend to keep the spores dormant. In selecting seed potatoes never take one that shows any black placcs; then roll the cuttings in air-slaked lime. The potato rot is strictly contagious and it should be killed wherever it manifests itself. If every fanner would be as careful in dealing with his crop of potatoes the rot would 6oon bo exterminated and never heard from again in this country.?Washington Star. DIRECTIONS FOR CifKESE MANUFACTURE. The materials employed in making cheese are "milk and rennet. The milk may be of any kind from,the very poorest to that which is rich in <rerm. The former will make very mean the \ \ \ k ... 1 * ' '.; j~'l?V' ' - ^1 . ,'"* * * latter will make the richest sort. Pat, two-thirds of the milk into a large tub, and raise the temperature of the last third to that of new milk. Tie whole quantity is then whisked together, the rennet added, and the tub covered over; in this state it is allowed to stand until it is completely turned, when the curd is struck down several times with the skimming dish, after which it is allowed to subside. The vat covered with cheese cloth is next placed over the tub and filled with curd by means of a skimmer; the curd is pressed down with the hands and more added as it sinks, until the curd rises above the edge of the vat to about two inches. Now add the proper quantity of salt, after which place a board over it and under it and apply pressure for two or three hours. The cheese is next turned out and surrounded by a fresh cheese-cloth, and pressure again applied for eight or ten hours, when it is commonly removed from the press, salted over again, and pressed again fnr frnrelvp to twentv hours. The aualitv I of the cheese depends on this part of the process to a great extent, as if any of the whey is left in it, it will not keep. Further, the cheese must be washed in warm water, wiped dry, and placed in a cool place to ripen. This is a bare outline of the process of making cheese. Experience will quickly teach more than we could tell in a column. It is impor tant to have a good rennet, which should never be taken from a calf that has not sucked, or that is not at least two days old.?Courier-Journal. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. It is a mistake to stop feeding young turkeys when grown. A noted English agriculturist advises farmers to try ensilaging instead of haymaking in securing the hay crop. The best and strongest chicks are hatched?some will be raised two months hence, but they are not considered as good as the early birds. If too late to set out cabbage or celery where the early vegetables were grown, clear off the land and sow rye, it will be fine to turn under this fall. Ripe timothy hay is worth very little more than straw for milk and butter, while timothy cut when the grass is in early blossom is much more productive. John Gould says in the Western Rural, that he sold $114 worth of milk from one acre of ensilage, and $22 worth of bran and clover. The milk brought $1.60 per cwt. There is no more dismal sight than a sparsely painted farm house without the sheltering shade of a small tree and with 1 *1. ~nna oT>nii1/3 utuc cuibu vvjuci u iUAiuxoav ouvuiu abound. Have the fair in mind while at work about the garden, any fine specimens oi vegetables, crowd?exhibit at the fail and then save the seed for nejt year's planting. According to Professor E. Morrow it ia better, in draining wide, nearly level tracts, to have two, three or more linei parallel by each other than to have on( main drain with short ditchcs at right angles. ' , Where animals?horses and sheep, tc wit?have their teeth sound and complete, it is claimed there is no advantage to be gained by crushing their grain rations. It is otherwise in the case of old horses, cattle and pigs. If you have a few choice cut plant* that are endangered by cut worms yoi; can save them by winding a strip oi folded paper round the stem. Cabbage, sweet potato ana tomato plants can d< fully protected in like manner. In old garden land which has been for years heavily manured and cropped the most troublesome weeds are apt to b? purslane, barn-yard grass and chickweed, these are all annuals and if they art kept from going to seed they may b< soon got rid of. The habits of the crow form an interesting subject for the study of the or* nithologist. The crow has a largei brain than most birds, and all his energies are directed toward procuring food. Crows will destroy the nests of quail it the absence of the old birds. m The cost of harvesting timothy hay^ii less per ton when the, crop is heavy than when it is light. J. N. Muncy, in th? Rural New Yorker, gives the following estimates when loaded by a loader and pitched off by hand: When the crop is light, $1.08 per ton, at 1000 to 1500 pounds per acre; a crop three times as large, sixty-five cents per ton. E. R. Root tells in Bee Qleaninqs that tho imported Italian bees aru not only the gentlest bees he handles, but just as good and a little better honey gatherers. He says there is something in the climatic conditions of Italy that produces a hardy, gentle and industrious race of bees. Mr. Root's impressions of the Carniolans thus far appear not very favorable. A correspondent of Garden and Forest thinks it a question whether it pays to stake tomatoes. In the home garden it is well to stop the growth of the vine by unmnroofs pari v fniit.! hut for |WU\,U4Ug W VUW^-jjv J , late fruit he lets them run at will. Thinning out the laterals to give free circulation of the air is good practice and helps to prevent rot, but the fruit often scalds if exposed to full sunshihe. High Speed on Railroads. There are many things connected with high speeds on railways which tax the ingenuity of locomotive engineers to the utmost. The lines have to be made strong enough to withstand the heavy blows of the locomotive, for the other portions of the running plant are light in comparison. A railway train at sixty miles an hour may be compared to a huge projectile and subject to the same laws. The momentum is the product of the weight of the train, multiplied by the square of the velocity of feet per second; and if we allow a train of 120 tons, traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour, thou the work required to bring it to a standstill would be 14,400 foot tons exerted through one minute, or nearly a thousand horse power, which gives some idea of its destructive force if, unhappily, it should come into action; and yet this terrific power is so entirely under command that the strength of a child turning the small handle of the vacuum brake can bring the train to a stand in a few seconds.?Chambers'& Journal. A Big Trout Farm. Pennsylvania has a big trout farm near Emans station, on the East Pennsylvania Railroad. There are eight ponds at the farm, "which number by actual count 24,700 brook trout and 2500 California trout from one to four yesia of age." v?-?? [ Cheese fTFatTSubstitute^for Heat 7" In the dietary of the laboring classes, cheese plays a not unimportant part; it has been pronounced by a high authority to afford a concentrated and economic food. It can be always at hand, it requires no cooking, and may be considered a fair substitute for meat, combining heat-giving and flesh-forming elements in very useful -proportions. From the great variety of cheeses thrown upon the market at the present day, no exact estimate can be given of its nutritive value, for this depends upon the amount of butter and casein which it contains. One cheese may be made from the richest of unseparated milk, produced from high-class cows, fed on rich pasture; another may be made from the thinnest of skim-milk; and ingenuity can now make cheese with very little, or, indeed, without any milk at all. Beans are said to answer the purpose. It does not appear that any injurious ingredient are employed in the falsification of this article; simply substances foreign to that which it professes to be. A fair sample 01 cheese ought to contain two thousand six hundred and sixty grains of carbon (besidfes free hydrogen), and three hundred and fifty grains of nitrogen in each pound. It is an economical food, especially if, as Sir Erasmus Wilson maintained, not more than one ounce ought to be eaten at a meal, But this limit of quantity is surely only the fad of a particular mind.?Argonaut. A Persian Solomon. The Shah of Persia has "a numerous family. His firstborn is Massoud Mirza, whose official title is Zil-es-Sultan ("Shadow of the King"). He has been Governor of Ispahan for many years, and has amassed enormous wealth, if all reports be true, by means the most despicable. He lacks, it is said, the "humanity" of his father, and of the many "practical jokes" told about him, the following is a specimen: During the melon season a soldier had picked a melon and devoured it without paying the peasant for it the stipulated price. The peasant went to complain to Massoud Mirza, whose ear is always open to the lowest. After listening to his plaint he said: "Well, you shall have justice. I will test this mafrter to the core. Bring in the soldier." The gormandizing soldier was brought in. "Cut this man open," he said to his executioner. "If there is a melon inside," he added to the peasant, "you will get your money; if not, off goes your head." The soldier was cut open, the melon found, and the peasant paid.?New York Observer. Mankind's Average Age. The average age at which mankind die is now forty years, and is steadily on the increase. 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DUTCHES, 8t Albans, Vt. #7R 70 9250 A MONTHftn be made working # l v for us. Agents prefaced who can furnlifi a horse and give their whole time to the btutlnese. Spare moments may be profitably employed also. A few vacancies In towns and dtles. B. P. JOHNBOX ft CO., 1009 Main St, Richmond, Va. A". B.? Please state age and business experience. Never mind ubout tending stamp for reply. B.F.J, ft Co #Vw sm n,A h**? need Plso's llTi.PDP Cure for Con*umption PEEBLESS BYES rrWraiwisifc fumMm BEST IN THE WORLD O lltM W ? t3f Get the Genuine. 8o4d Ereryrrhera. UAUB STUDY. Bcok-keering, Basinets Forms UnIC Penmanship. Ar! hm-tic, Short-hand, etc I thoroughly taught by MAIL. Clrcnurs fr*e Bryant's College, 437 Main 8t,Bnflalo. N. Y ^SLP WANTED.?Johnstown Book In lots of fifty. 60 per cent. off. Retails ftl.25. JOHNSTOWN PUB. CO., 19 S. Ninth Street, Philadelphia. MlNSSOKUS DUE*11SOLBfERS PUS Ea HI O ivln ?3 ir s iiuMtd: p*T, ?u. If* Uturtert rontrcd. L?w? frae. A. YT. CORSICIf A SQK*, QlTl.nU, 0., A Waaiilagloa, U. C. Xrfitloa Otis Bi^m^ssssssssss lUilAl wjj1 votc? HbUII I U *t? cured at homnrtttt OJjiPrss: AUaata. Oa. QgQO 66& WhttCtoU g>. forall domestlcarilmalj^ii stlpate, rather acts as a ltu In more than 3000 cases, * treated promptly. Et close SO cents for sample b the best coHo medicine I ha Two servants in 1: neigliloring house Riil* rlitforpntlt/ tfioi JWUI ui||giwmy iiiui daily labor f4| Jaded and THE BOOT ON T1 / Jfc: , t . J DADWAY'S 11 REW RELIEF. THE 8REAT CONQUERER OF PAIN, Applied euernalln instantly relieves Sprains, Braises, Buki-ehft Palm tn the Chest or Sides, Headache. Toothache, or any other external pain, CONGESTIONS, INFLAMMATIONS, Rheumatism, Nearalgia. Lnmbacn, Sciatica* Fains in toe Saul of the Back, etc. CURES ALL SUMMER COMPUMTS, Cramps, Spasms, Soar Stomach, Naasea* Vomiting, Heartburn, DIARRHffiA, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Fainting Spells. later* nally, half to a teaspoonful in half atON blcr of water. 50c. a bottle. AllDrnggist*. DADWAY'S ? PILLS, An excellent and mild Cathartic. P*r?lT Vegetable. The Safest and Best Medicine in the world for the Cdre of all Disorders of the , . , . , LIVER, STOMACH OR ROWELS. Taken according te directions they will restore health ana renew vitality. Price 25 ct?. a Box. . 8old by all PrngglitM. V --t.; .y Y N TJ-S1,. -v; Btr LATEST IMPROVED HORSE POWER Machines te THRESHING *CLEANING Urcln, also Machines te HAWING WOOD ' fn with Ctrealar and Cne*. Acknowledged UR. . Cat Dric Aw*. bv al) to ha _ A- A regirdiar gsssS * FAZXHZSSS AMD 80UC XWTilUUIil, mipdlbtowh springs, yr. REVOLVER *7: vl>|.ln gcicbMe one of the cele- W]CJV* orated SMITH ft WESSON H V I ''CIMIm urns. The finest small urns a yfjf ever manufactured and th? Ji -. first choice of all experts. ^KB| Manufactured In calibre* 82, S8 and 44-18* Sin- HI durability and accuracy. Do n otbedectftedDT cheap malleable captflr** wblM are often sold for the genuine article^ and awi n*W onlv -unreliable, but dangerous, ine oali io. m?t)C<riK7 Dav^liraM AM ftll tttlTnTV^ TinOTl thfllAN ' ITI/OPUil UO?V??MB MOM. ? > M-~ ? ? relfl withflrm7? nsme. sddrese and dnas of patoxrag *nd ar* raaranteed prjfcct In t*ery detail. Infist upon having- the Pennine article, axuv if m . dealer cannot supply yon an order sent toadcrasa below will TecsiTB prompt and cartful attention. Descrptlvecatalo*aa and. prices furnished opoa ?' SMITH & WESSON; jyatcnUon this paper. Spring! eld,' Mm. , R'S FAVORITE COLIC JOIXTTBE . rill curt 99 out of every 100 cases of oollc, whether flatly more than l or 2 doaea necessary. It dees apt eoacatlve and is entirely harmless. After 20 years *f trial or guarantee Is worth something. Colic apt pend a few cents and you have a cure on hand, ready ips save a valuable horse.. If not at your druggist's, Mr ottle, sentprepald. KOEHLER ?fc CO., Bethlehem, F?. ivortte CoHe We cheerfully recommend Dr. KoMf?~ ruccest. It it "Favorite Colic Mixture." .Would not to ve ever teen, xeithovt it at long at iee have k^net. i Dealer, ISAAC MOSXS & BRO? New York. Sale and Exchange Stable*, Button, J*. . : #-3 i JFjtZf.* so'scureI ?ALE BV ALL DRUGOtSTS, _HT _ ^lwa/si work and syetTuas never Jont .Vfflie oilier walked ffouhnujhl'ly with |||tierljeauH5ul* fvfhen she cleaned rouse with Sapolio. JE OTHER FOOT; BUT THAT IS NO REASON WHY YOTJ SWOTTT.n NOT MATTE! YOUK Chickens EARN HONEY, 1 AS THET WILL IF YOU KNOW HOW ro handle them. Bat It la wrong to let the poor hinga Suffer asd Die of the various MaladUn .vhlch afflict them when in a majority of cases a Jure could have been effected haa the owner assessed a little knowledge, snch as can be procured from the ONE HUNDRED PAGE BOOK ~ Ye offer, embracing the practicai, experiences of a man who devoted 25 years of hie life to conducting a Poultry rarct as a Business, tot as a pastime. As the living of himself and. amOy depended on it, he gave the snbject inch ttention as only a need of Dread will command, nd the result was a grand success, after he had pent mnch money ana lost hnndreds of valuable lilckens in expenmsnting. What he learned in all hese years is embodied In this book, which wo end postpaid for 25 CENTS a " or 2c. stamps. It teaches you ho>v to Detect nu Care Diseases, how to Feed for Eggs and also ar Fattening, which Fowls to Save for Breeding y 'orposes, and everything, indeed, you should know / n this subject BOOK PUB. HOUSE, L34 LEONARD ST.. N. Y. 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