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raised and prepared.
SHMvative of the East India Islands?
SKHk Cultivated Now in Other Places?
Nutmeg Growing a Very
Profitable Business.
^ Nutmegs grow on small trees resem*
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twenty feet in height, said "VV. D. Bennett
before the Grocers' Association of
/ Boston. The flowers are very much
like those of the lily of the valley; they
are pale yellow and very fragrant. The
leaves stand alternately on short footstalks;
are oblong, pointed, entire
bright green and somewhat glossy on
their upper surface, whitish beneath and
of an aromatic taste. The fruit, which
appears on the tree mingled with the
flowers, is round or oval, of the size of
a small peach, smooth, at first pale green,
but yellow when ripe, and marked with
a longitudinal furrow.
The external coveriug, which in at
first thick and fleshy, and abounds in an
austere astringent juice, afterward becomes
dry aud leathery, and, separating
into two valves from the r.pex, discloses
a scarlet net-like membrane commonly
called mace, closely investing a thin
"brown shining shell, which contains the
iemel or nutmeg. The nutmeg tree is
a native of the Moluccas and other
(neighboring islands, and abounds especially
in that small cluster distinguished
'by the name of Banda, whence the chief
Eupplies of nutmegs were long derived,
i But the plant is now cultivated in
Sumatra, Java, Singapore, Penang,
.Ceylon and other parts of the East Indies,
and has been introduced into the Isles of
rbprance, Bourbon, Cayenne and several
fc'f the West India islands. A fine tree in
^Jamaica has over four thousand nutmegs
on it yearly. The tree begins, to bear
when ten years old, and goes on improving
for a hundred years. The fruit is
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Three sorts of nutmegs are distinguished
?namely, the male or barren, the royal
end the queen, the last of which is small
and round.
The nutmeg is propagated from fresh
seeds (nutmeg), and these vary in size and
shape, just as apples and pears do when
raised from seeds. There can hardly be
a more profitable crop than the nutmeg at
present prices. The annual yield of a
good tree of sixteen years' growth is
about ten pounds, covering about 500
square feet surface, which, at an average
of forty cents per pound, gives a value
produce per acre; per annum of over $300,
including mace.
: The fruit of the nutmeg takes nine
months to mature, and one hundred
pounds of nutmeg produce one pound of
mace. A good nutmeg should be large,
round and heavy, of a drab or light-brown
color and finely marbled in the cross
section. Its virtues are extracted by alcohol
and ether. Eighteen ounces of
good sound nutmeg will yield four
ounces of oil. The volatile oil is obtained
by distillation with water.
; By pressure with heat an oily matter is
procured from the kernels, which becomes
solid on cooling.and is commonly,
though erroneously, called mace. Nutmegs
have been punctured and boiled in j
order to extract their essential oil, and
tiie orifice afterward closed so carefully
as not to be discoverable unless by breaking
the kernel. The fraud may be detected
by their lightness. The Dutch
were formerly said to heat them in a
stove in order to deprive them of the
power of germinating, and thus prevent
the propagation of the tree.
| The Dutch used to have all the nutmeg
trade, as they owned the Banda Islands
<&nd conquered the other traders and destroyed
the trees to keep the price up.
They once burned over three piles of
nutmeg, each of which was as large as a
church. Nature did not sympathize with
such meanness. The nutmeg pigeon,
found iu all India Islands, did for the
world what the Dutch had determined
should not be done?carried these nuts,
f. which are their food, into all the surrounding
countries, trees grew again,and
the world had the benefit.
The practice of liming nutmegs has
been sadly abused; it is used principally
for making sightly and marketable those
nutmegs which at one time would have
- been altogether rejected. The long or
wild nutmeg is distinguished from that
just described by its greater length, the
absence of the dark-brown veins, and its
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WM taste. It has been called male, wild or
Jong nutmeg, the other being designated
|99 as the female, or cultivated nutmeg.
SS The concrete or. expressed oil of nutMn
meg, commonly called oil of mace, is
W obtained by bruising nutmegs, exposing
them in a bag to steam and then comraB
^pressing them slightly between heated
|H plates. A liquid oil flows out which bell
'Comes solid when it cools. Nutmeg6 are
gBttffH to yield from ten to twelve per cent,
this oil. The best is imported from
the East Indies in stout jars; it is solid,
soft, unctuous to the touch, or yellowish,
or orange yellow color, more or less
mottled, with the odor and taste of nut^B^^^Hj^rtificial
preparation is sometimes
99 made from genuine oil; it is made by
Bi mixing fatty matters, such as suet, palm
B9 oil, wax, etc., adding some time coloring
S8I ?ubstance and giving flavor to the mixture
by the volatile oil. Nutmeg unites
B| with the medicinal properties of the ordiH|
nary aromr.tics considerable narcotic
99 power. In the quantity of two or three
[H drachms it has been known to produce i
H9 stupor and delirium; and dangerous, if
not fatal, consequences are said to have
IH followed its use in India.
(is employed to cover the taste orct
the operations of other medicines,
aorc frequently as an agreeable ad1
to farinaceous articles of diet, and
irious kinds of drink, in case of
lid appetite and delicate stomach,
tegs imported to this country are
ally limed and packed in cases of
5 and half piculs (a picul being
lbs.), and the mace in half picul j
and packed very tightly; but the j
and brightest kiud is usually ;
ed to Europe.
Preserving Fruit in Sand.
j Italians have a method of preservuit
in sand, alternate layers of fruit
rnd being put down. Oranges are frely
kept for months by this process,
ruit is cut, not torn, from the tree,
ilar method has been adopted by a
ir of oranges in South Africa, and
uit comes out of the "silo" in fine
lion at a time when oranges are
and yield good prices. Sweet
>es may be preserved in the same
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Fate of a Glass Eater.
Mackay Holmes, described by persons
J -who have frequently seen him as a typical
pure-blooded American, was killed at
Sweetwater, Miss., in a brawl brought
about, it is said, by the jealousy of a
local merchant, whose customers were
being attracted from his store by an exhibition
of Holmes's peculiar accomplishments,
which consisted solely in his
ability to swallow with impunity or
pleasure articles that would be dangerous
or repulsive to the ordinary stomach.
In the squabble Holmes received a fatal
shot from some unknown person.
Holmes's appetite for tacks and other
pointed hardware was remarkable; but
if he doted on anything it was soda water
bottles, although he never turned away
from glass articles, and had a welldeveloped
taste lor forty-rod whisky.
Upon occasions, and for a reasonable
purse made up by a crowd, he repeatedly
ate raw chickens, beginning on the unhappy
fowls while they were still alive.
At one town in Delta (for he was in
the habit of going from place to place
exhibiting himself) he varied the monotony
of his bill of fare by drinking two
gallons of water as fast as it could be
dipped out and handed to him. It must
be told, however, he did this to win a
bet of a pint of whisky. In the same
town, after eating $ live chicken, he announced
that on the following day his
bill of fare would consist of a lame and
especially mangy dog that was then a
familiar object on the streets.
The gorge of the community rose at
this, and Ilolmes was ordered to leave
the town at once. It does not appear
that he had cny aversion to ordinary
food, but rather that he used the trifling
articles already mentioned as other
and ordinary men do pepper and fiery
sauces, solely as condiments.
Recently a circu6 offered him $50 per
week to travel with it, but he indignantly
rejected the offer when he learned
that to earn the money he must subordinate
his will and pleasure to that of the
manager.
There is abundant evidence that he
practiced no sleight-of-hand tricks on his
audiences, out actually crushed with his
teeth and then swallowed glass and other
hard substances.? Vickiburg Commercial
Uerald.
The Indians of Guatemala.
The Indians of Guatemala are a strong
and hardy race, and although small in
stature are capable of almost any amount
of work. But they seem to have an antipathy
to progress, and to wish to be
neither producers nor consumers, except
to the smallest possible extent. They
are unwilling to go seriously to work,
wages and money being no inducement
to them. Many of them have their little
plots of ground on which they keep a
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little corn. Some of this live stock they
sell, but they have no sense of accumulation
and never seek to do more than supply
their present wants. To live costs
them a mere trifle, and they are satisfied
to spend their existence in this way,
looking after a few domestic animals,
harvesting a few handfuls of corn, and
for the rest living upon the profusion of
fruit which nature provides for them.
When they can be induced to engage
themselves for farm work it is never for
more than a month, and seldom for more
than a week, at the end of which time
they return to their villages. So a farmer
no sooner gets enough hands to work
his land than he has to begin looking
about for others to take their places.
These Indians are often engaged at a
considerable distance. They will set out
long before daylight in the morning for
their place of labor. Men, women nnd
children alike will walk perhaps twentyfive
or thirty miles to the plantation
where they have been engaged, carrying
a week's provisions on their heads.
They will arrive at the farm at about
noon, and begin their duties at once,
working all the remainder of the day in
the hot sun without resting and without
seeming to be in need of rest. Fatigue
seems unknown to them, and their capacity
to carry heavy burdens is probably
not exceeded, if equaled, by that of
any other people in the world. Their
wages ordinarily range from twenty-five
to thirty-five cents a day on the coffee
plantations and farms, but a considerable
proportion of the work is done by the
piece, under which system they earn
j much more?for when an Indian does
take it into his head to work he can accomplish
an amazing amount between
sunrise and sunset.?New York Tribune.
His Wonderful Ears.
Everybody who travels on the Pittsburg
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
knows Conductor John Dinges.
He is one of the greatest jokers in the
service, and when not punching tickets
is busy telling stories or perpetrating a
joke. Conductor Dinges's ears are historical.
They are remarkable not for
their size, but for their wonderful pliability.
Kis favorite trick is to double up his
ears and then stuff them farther into the
orifice. This makes them look as if they
had been mashed with a crowbar.
The other night, while the train was
speeding along toward Altoona as the
rate of fifty miles an hour, Dinges
doubled his ears and passed through the
fourth car. Nearly all the passengers
were ladies. They regarded Dinges with
amazement. The conductor's face wore
a look of superb unconsciousness. One
old lady, with iron gray curls and a pug
nose, could not take her eyes from the
ears. When Dinges passed through the
car again her curiosity was so great that
she could not resist the temptation to
stop him.
" What s the matter with your ears,
conductor?" she asked.
''Nothing," he replied, innocently, as
he elevated his eyebrows, and the ears
fiew back to their normal postion.
The old lady nearly fainted.?Philadelphia
North American.
Modes of Execution.
A contributor to American Notes and
Queries summarizes the modes of execution
in different countries as follows:
Austria, gallows, public; Bavaria,
guillotine, private; Belgium, guillotine,
public; lirunswick, axe. private; China,
sword or cord, public; Denmark, guillotine,
public; Ecuador, musket, public;
France, guillotine, public; Great Britain,
gallows, private; Hanover, guillotine,
private; Italy, capital punishment abolished;
Netherlands, gallows, public ;
Oldeuburg, musket, public; Portugal,
gallows, public; Prussia, sword, private;
Russia, musket, gallows, or sword,
public; Saxony, guillotine, private ;
Spain, garrote, public; Switzerland :
Fifteen cantons, sword, public, two cantons,
guillotine, public, and two cantons,
guillotine, private; United States, other
than New York, gallows, mostly private.
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CHINA^COURT.
TRAINING THE YOUNG RULER OP
THE CHINESE NATION.
The Little Prince Taught Constantly?His
Various Teachers?The
Imperial Harem?A Yearly
Court Banquet.
I
Kwang-Su, the Chinese Emperor who
ascended the throne March 4 last, was
I just seventeen years old on July 23.
Nevertheless, says the New York Sun, he
j probably has as much miscellaneous learni
ing in his head as any three European
| princes, who, at his age, are usually dig
i giag deep alter ijreeK ana .Latin roots or
j hammering away at elementary problems
I in Parliamentary Government and finance.
The young Chinese Emperor's precociousness
is due for the most part to the
thoroughness and strictness of his very
early training, for in China little princes
are compelled to cram their small noddles
full of all sorts of knowledge during the
years which American boys always devote
to marbles, scrub, and holey-bowley.
They rise at 4 o'clock in the morning to
take lessons in Chinese literature. The
teacher who gives them this lesson bears
the title ;'shifu," and is a very big man,
l so big in fact that the princes upon enI
tering their recitation room must bow to
him first. As soon as a prince has learned
his lesson he places his book before the
teacher, sets down before him, and repeats
without interruption all he remembers
of what he has been studying. If
the teacher finds that the prince does not
remember enough he sends a eunuch out
for a whip and makes a great show of preparing
to whip some one. The whip
when it comes, however, falls not
upon the shoulders of the prince but upon
the shoulders of eight other little Chinal
men called "ha-ha-tschu," who accomi
pany the prince to his school daily and reJ
cite the same lessons as he. Through
I these ha-ha-tschu the prince is thrashed
I or praised according to his deserts,
i Should vicarious floggings not induce a
! nrlnco m stnw awflv the reouisite amount
of Chinese learning he would be taken
| before the Emperor, who would comJ
mand a eunuch to pinch the young lazyI
bones's cheeks. The Chinese lesson lasts
j two hours. It is followed by other less
important exercises, which are superintended
by another teacher. Still another
teacher instructs the princes in several
Asiatic languages and Chinese dialects,
j After school hours the princes shoot with
the bow, on foot and on horseback,
| fence, run and jump, under the superinI
teudence of special teachers. In short,
i their whole day is taken up with the
I performance of prescribed mental and
I physical exercises. At fixed hours their
I food is portioned out to them. None of
| them is allowed to use his own judgment
j as to what and how much he may eat.
j They are always tucked away in bed
| with the hens, so that they may be ready
| for the four o'clock dose of Chinese
j literature the next morning.
j At the beginning of his fourteenth
year the heir apparent to the Chinese
throne is put in training for bis marriage,
which takes place in his fifteenth year.
The young woman who teaches him all
about the duties of married life is selected
from the inner circle of the imperial
official household, and mast be
just one year older than he. After the
Prince has become Emperor this preliminary
wife receives the honorable title
of "Sli," which she alone of all members
of the harem is allowed to bear.
The daily leisure hour of his Imperial
Chinese Majesty is from four to five
o'clock in the afternoon. During this
hour a eunuch brings the Emperor a box
of little white tickets, each of which
bears the name of a court lady. The
Emperor draws a ticket, hit or miss, and
gives it to the eunuch, who immediately
orders the houri named on it to the Emperor's
apartments. She is conveyed
thither in a litter by four servants.
Most men are not allowed to pass the
most remote of the five doors which lead
to the imperial chamber. Members of
the Imperial Garde du Corps, who guard
the fifth door, are under orders to oppose
with drawn swords the entrance of all
men, even the highest imperial officials,
who cannot give the password. Not
even eunuchs are allowed to pass the
j three inner doors. If a lady of the court
! wisnes to buy anything or communicate
: lo any way with the outside world, she
! tells a maid servant all about it. The
! maid servant then goes a safe distance
I away from all court ladies and summons to
! ber the eunuch in chief by striking a gong
! or turning a "clapper." After learning
j what the court lady wishes, the eunuch
| in chief passes along the errand to an
under eunuch, who secures the desired
article or information.
Once a year, on New Year's Day, the
Emperor and his real wife preside over a
Teat court banquet. The Empress then
's at her husband's left. This is the
ly occasion in the whole year when the
.nperor has all his quasi-wives together
and under the eyes of his real wife. The
Emperor himself hands the viands to the |
eunuchs, who receive thein kneeling.
Most persons address the Emperor as
"Kwang-Tschan," that is "Majesty."
The members of the household, however,
use merely the title, "Chu-tsz" that is
"Dominus" or "Lord." The eunuchs
Usually address the Emperor, Empress,
and court ladies as "Fo-Ye," that is.
"Buddha," and a royal prince as "Ye"
or "Most Gracious Lord."
The Cabinet Ministers at the Chinese
Court don't have so much fun as their
lord. They have to get up at two o'clock
every morning to present themselves at
court one hour later. They receive their
meals, free of charge, in the Emperor's
dining room. They pass the whole day
in the imperiul palace up to four o'clock,
and when military affairs are under discussion,
up to six o'clock in the afternoon.
Only when seriously ill can a
Minister excuse himself from the laborious
duties of his office.
A Profitable Hole.
An old farmer in the Granite State ono
Sunday morning started to wind up nis
^re.'it silver watch, and found that tlio
cey was iilled with dirt. Being unable
o dig the latter out with a pin the farmer
drilled a hole in the key, and with a
single breath blew all the dust out. Theu
he sat down to think, and within a month
had patented that hole. To-day in Lelinon,
N. H., there is a large factory
running by electric power wherein are
manufactured daily thousands and thousands
of watch-keys of every possible
size, shape and design. Each one of
these keys contains the hole which has
been patented by the farmer. The latter
. -is already made a fortune.?New Tor I
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~~ HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
COLDS AND HOW TO CURE THEM.
Everyone is more or less susceptible to
cold, and now that the cold season has
come the utmost precaution should be
exercised beforehand to prevent colds,
instead of taking numerous doses of
medicine afterward to cure them. To
relieve colds or hoarseness grate horse 10
dish in a cup of vinegar, let steep
awhile and add honey or crushed rockcandy
to sweeten; or, pour hot water
over pine tar, cover and let cool, or drink
warm with lemon juice and sugar. For
singers and speakers this last is excellent.
Persons troubled with rheumatism
will be relieved by rubbing briskly with
olive oil, or olive oil in which is dissolved
salt and potash in equal qantities.
The parts most sensitive to cold are the
chest and back which should be covered
with flannel. Many men when wearing
overcoats, either through disregard for
health or negligence, leave the fronts unfastened.
and expose the chest to the
cold, which penetrates to the oack and
lodges there and is afterward felt in excruciating
backaches. The same way
with some women.?Detroit Free Pras.
BEDS.
The care of beds may seem a very simple
thing, and doubtless every womau
thinks she knows all about it; but in
this many are mistaken. It is by no
means sufficient to hastily spread up a
bed, and be content if it looks smooth
and neat. Once a week at least the mat
tress and bedding should be removed
from the bedstead, and it dusted and
thoroughly cleaned. The mattress
should be uncovered and aired even
morning. When ready to put in order,
the undersheet should be spread an^i
folded under at the top and bottom, the'u
at the sides. If a wide hem is put at
the top of the sheet, you can alway>
sleep with the upper part at your head.
Spread the upper sheet so as to leave
sufficient room to turn down, lay ii
smooth and straight, when the blanket
and comforts may be put on and folde.
under at the foot. The outside spreat
should be put on evenly, and the uppe:
sheet turned down over all. .Then thi
pillows, well beaten, should be laid on
A bed thus cared for will be pleasani
and comfortable to sleep in, and healthful
rest will be likely to come to the occupaut.?Courier-Journal.
LAUNDRY HINTS.
Buttermilk will remove tar spots sometimes.
Rinse in soapy water.
A paste of soft soap and starch will
take stains out of bed-ticking. Sprau
it on the spots, and when dry scrape o!
and wash with a damp sponge.
To remove grease stains from silk hat;;,
use turpentine and then alcohol.
To iron a silk hat: Holding the hat in
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around, following the lay of the nap.
To clean silk: The garment must b<
first ripped and brushed. Spread on i
flat board an old blanket covered with a<
old sheet. Then sponge the silk on botli
sides, rubbing any dirty spots particular
ly, with this mixture: One-half cup o
gall, one-half cup ammonia and one-hal.
pint tepid soft water. Roll the silk on is
stick, an old broom-handle will do, b(;
ing careful that no wrinkles are left 01
it. Let it dry without ironing. Wooler
goods may be treated in the same mau
ner.
All fancy hosiery should be put into a
strong solution of salt and cold water be
fore wearing, well saturated and dried
without wringing, either in the shade or
in a warm room.
To clean coats: Take of ammonia twe
ounces, soap one ounce, soft water one
quart, and a teaspoonful of saltpetre
Shake well and let the mixture stand u
few days. Four enougn on a coat u
cover the grease spots, rub well, wash oh
with clean cold water.
Two ounces of common tobacco boiler"
in a gallon of water, rubbed on with
stiff brush, is used to renovate old clotl
clcthes. It is said to leave no smell.
RECIPES.
Baked Custard?Two tablespoonfuls of
flour beaten with two eggs; one pint of
milk and sugar to sweeten; flavor with
nutmeg and bake.
Jumbles?One cup of sugar, one cup
of butter, one-half cup sour cream, one
egg, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in hot water, one-half of a pound of desiccated
cocoanut, flour to roll.
Corn Gems?Stir one pint of boiling
milk in one pint of corn meal, add half
a cup or less, according to the taste, of
sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, and let
cool, add three eggs and bake in gem
pans.
Ringed Potatoes?Peel some large
sized potatoes, then cut them round and
round as an apple is pared; fry in clean,
sweet lard like fritters until brown, drain
on a sieve, sprinkle fine salt over them
and serve.
Puddiug Sauce?One cup of sugar,
butter tiie size of an egg, one egg; beai
the butter and sugar to a cream, add th?egg;
set on top of boiling tea kettle, 0'
some vessel of hot water, and stir until it
is like cream.
Cheese Scallop?Soak one cup of urj
breadcrumbs in fresh milk; beat into it
three eggs, and add one tablespoon of
butter and a half pound of grated cheese:
stew upon the top sifted breadcrumbs,
and bake in the oven a delicate brown.
Apple Tapioca Pudding?Soak ovet
night one cup of tapioca in six cups of
water. Next morning add one cup o?
sugar, one egg, and beat well together
Then pare, core and chop five, six 01
more apples and stir with the tapioca iu
a pudding dish and bake slowly.
Boiled Salmon?A piece of salmon four
pounds in weight should suffice for eight
persons. Put it to boil iu spiced acidulated
water, cover and keep it simmering
for thirty-five minutes. Then take tta
fish from the water, skin it, remove the
bones, mask with a little cardinal sauce,
and send it to the table. The sauct
should be separately served.
Chicken Puree?Pick into small bits,
cold roast or boiled chicken; salt and
pepper. Boil the bones and skin in
enough water to cover; strain and return
to the lire. When it boils, stir iu lor
each cupful of the stock a small teaspoon
flour rubbed in one teaspoon butter; add
a little celery salt, and stir in the meat.
Serve with small triangles of bread previously
fried crisp in very hot lard.
John Garnett, a British sailor, died in !
the Seattle hospital recently. He told .
his attendants that there was a cache on
Apple Island, lying between Vancouver
Island and the mainland, that contained
$160,000 in gold dust that came from
Fraser River. He had no map to give
the exact location, but the island is
email one.
Judging Distance by Sound.
Some experiments in judging distance
by sound were carried out on Saturday
last by one of the London brigades of
the Metropolitan Volunteers. This
branch of military tactics is quite a new
departure in volunteering, and one which,
if it is to made of service, will require
more than an ordinary amount of practice.
It was first explained to the men
that sound travels at the rate of 1100
yards in three seconds, and on this basis
they were to estimate the distance at
which some rifles were being discharged
in the darkness. The answers at first
were very wide of the mark, some of
the men being as much as 150 yards out
in their calculations. With a little practice,
however, a great improvement was
shown, many of the men guessing the
distance exactly. I am told, however,
that the experiments are not as satisfactory
as was hoped, and it is thought some
time must elapse before judging distance
by sound can be relied upon with any
certainty.?London Life.
Things Are Seldom What They Seem.
Half a dozen school boys were worrying
their" brains in a sidewalk congress
the other day over a difficult problem in
quadratics. When they had fairly given
it up a battered old individual who was
shoveling coal a door or two away and
who had overheard the boys' dispute
came up and asked leave to try. Then
picking up a bit of coal he soon spread
the values of X, Y and Z on the flagging
before the astonished boys.
Again, a party in a hotel not long ago
were drawn to watch the emotion of a
dirty and half-drunken tramp who sat in
the barroom while the sound of the piano
came from an adjacent room. As the
music ceased the vagabond rose slowly as
if in a dream, walked into the parlor, and
Beating himself played for half an hour the
choicest classical music with an exquisite
and marvelous touch. These incidents
show that things are seldom what they
seem.?New York Sun.
Governor Shoup, of Idaho, reports
that the population of his Territory is
113,777, a gain of 81,167 since 1880;
that in the past year the assessed valuation
of property has increased $3,000,000,
and the production of gold, silver,
lead, and copper $8,000,000; tha 600,000
acres of land are under cultivation,
and that the total railroad mileage is
888.73 miles.
The American Economic Association
has received a sum of money to be
awarded as prizes for the best essays on
the subject of women wage earners.
A New Kind of Inxurnnce
Has b en put in operation by the manufacturers
of Dr. Pierce's medicines. His "Golden
Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription"
are sold by dragidBts under themanu
facturers' positive guarantee. Either benefit
or a complete cure is thus attained, or money
paid for these medicines is returned. The certificate
of guarantee given in connection with
eale of these mcdicines is equivalent to a policy
of insurance. The "Golden Medical Discovery"
cures all humors and blood taints, from
whatever cause arising, skin and scalp diseases,
scrofulous sores and swellings. The
"Favorite Prescription" cures a 1 those derangements
and weaknesses pe.uliar to women.
Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, disgusting
everybody, but uso Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. "
Private Secretary Halford is anxious to
resume newspaper work.
Mediocrity alicaga copies tuperiority. Dobbins's
Electric Soap, first made in 18G5, Las
been imitated more than anv soap made. Ask
your grocer for Dubbinn's Electric Soap, all
other Electrics, Electricity, Magnetics, etc.,
are imitations.
Oliver Wendell Holmes refuses to write
any more poetry.
Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock country
in the world. Full information free. Address
Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland, Ore.
A 10c. smoke for 5c. "Tansill's Punch."
Dangerous tendencies
Characterize that very common complaint, catarrh.
The foul matter dropping from the head into the
bronchial tubes or lungs may bring on bronchitis or
consumption, which reaps an Immense harvest of
deaths annually. Hence the necessity of giving catarrh
Immediate attention. Hood's Saroaparilla
cures catarrh by purifying and enriching the bloai,
restoring and toning the diseased organs. Try tha
peculiar medicine.
"Hood'sSarsapariila cured meof catarrh, soreness
of thebronchlal ?ubes and terrible headache."?R.
Gibbonb, Hamilton, Ohio.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. |3; six for $3. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
DR. KOEfl I.K
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, |P HOLIDAY NUMBED
WB"BB 45 Addr<
What Women Can Do.
Every wile or daughter living near a village
or large market, can make many dollars
each year raising eggs. Just as surely as that
a woman can tend a baby better than a man,
just bo certainly can she care for any animal
better. For example, Mrs. Eunice Goodwin,
East Livermore, Me., says: "In four weeks,
last autumn, my thirty hens laid 131 eggs.
I then fed them Sheridan's Condition Power,
advertised to make hens lay; and in eight
weeks they laid 478. Having sold twelve, the
remainder laid 815 eggs in eight weeks, by
feeding Sheridan's Powder. I sold the eggs
for $15.93, making clear $13.38 from only
eighteen hens in eight weeks. One of my
Polish hens which I could not buy for $2.00
would have died but for Sheridan's Powder.
I. S.Johnson &Co., 22 Custom House street,
Boston, Mass. (the only makers of Sheridan's
Condition Powder), will send, postpaid,
two 25 cent packs of Powder and a Poultry
Guide, for 60 cents. For $1.00, five packs and
a book; for $1.20, a large 2% pouna can and
book; six cans, $5.00, express prepaid.
Send stamps or cash, interesting testimonials
free. For five cents a copy of the best
Poultry paper sent. '
About 2300 miles of main for carryng
natural ga3 have now been laid in
this country, and the total capital invested
in the business exceeds $50,000,000.
k Pen; PuiuFfH.
The recent statistics of the number of deaths
show that the large majority die with consumption.
This disease may commence with
an apparently harmless cough which can be
cured instantly by Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lung-1,which is guaranteed to cur;
and relieve all cases. Price 50c. and $1. Trial
size free. For sale by all druggists.
There are 210 co-operative buildingandloaf
associations in the State of New Jersey.
Beware oi Ointment* for Catarrh Thai
Contain Mercury,
As mercury will surely destroy the sense o1
smell and completely derange the wliole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except
on prescripiions fro u reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten fold t<
the good you can possibly derive from tbe'm
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactuued byF..I,
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains no mer
cury, and is taken internally, and acts directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of th<
syBtem. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be f ur<
you get the genuine. It is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by K J. Cheney &
Co.
%ST Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle
P. T. Barncm was born in 1810. Hebrojgh
Jenny Llnd to this country in 1849.
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CATARRH.N/1
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ELY BROS., 36 Warren St, N. Y KHtX^^'50jC
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iR'S FAVORITE COLIC MIXTURE
'IU care 9s? out of every 100 cases of colic, whether flat
ly more than 1 or a doses necessary. It does not con
xatlTe and Is entirely harmless. After 20 years of trial
ur guarantee 1b worth something. Colic ma at be
pend a few cents and you have a cure on hand, ready
aps save a valuable horse. If notatyour druggist's, en
ottle, sent prepaid.
KOEIILER ?fc CO., Bethlehem, Pa.
ivorite Colic We cheerfully recommend Dr. Koehler'i
kvcccs>. Jtia "Favorite Colic Mixture." Would not bt
ve ever teen, without it as long at we have hones,
t Dealer, ISAAC it OSES ? BKO?
New York. Sale and Exchange Stable), Easton, Pc
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ouse-wife's best friend,
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All Internal Paint, Diarrhoea, Colic,
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Nervous Complaints, Blight's Llseaae, Stricture^
Lmpotency and kindred diseases, no matter of how
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,? wiati m. . lu ?.uj* ana fully em.
dorse Big t? as the only
Cam I a specific (or the certain con
^^Fl to t 0f this disease.
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D'B'DTCChf * C?ilt " '*"*
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elief la immediate. A cure is BHS
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