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/ CURIOUS FACTS. Dr. P. H. Gardner, of Washburn, Me., j wears a coat made out of dog skin tanned j by himself. ^ ^ Catoni, the Italian giant who has just | * died, sold his skeleton to a museum ol anatomy for $2000. F. M. Z. Jolly, of Alpharetta, Ga., killed twenty-four black birds at one shot a few days ago. England has got an oldest Free Mason. His name is William Salmon; he is a doctor and is 100 years old. A Rhode Island lady owns a talking canary bird. It acquired language ! through association with a parrot. Mrs. John Louri, of Charlestown, Ohio, has given birth to four children. Several years ago she presented her husband with triplets, and a year later with twins. A century ago only three hundred species of orchids were known, and those very imperfectly. Now the latest authority gives the number of known speccies as ten thousand. A man with a penchant for statistics has computed that more than four million miles of blood pass through the veins of an ordinary human being during a lifetime of seventy years. The largest library in the world is in Paris. It contains 1,400,000 volume's, 175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts and 150,000 coins and medals. It was founded by Louis XIV. To take off his hat on entering the room of a friend or an acquaintance would be a breach of etiquette on the part of a Chinaman. To keep on his spectacles when on a visit would be so p too. \ A horse fell into an abandoned shaft at r Silver .F'orK, .tNev., auu uvcu uiuciccu days without food or drink. WheD rescued the animal was able to walk, and in a few hours was able to move about all right. A New York publisher is shipping ?very year 50,000 American school books for the schools of Japan. The English classics are daily read in countries of which Shakespeare and Milton never heard. The largest tree in the world is reported to have been recently found in California, measuring 176 feet in circumference at a distance of six feet from the ground. This would give a diameter oi about sixty feet at that point. Two sons of Hart Frain and a companion killed a grizzly near Shovel Creek, Col. The boys got a reward of $100 from the 6tockmen, who suffered foi three years by this dangerous animal. It weighed, dressed, 570 pounds. ic nr/>PP^inor!\7 nrnlltlP. Aire uiivts uww *vuvwv?.?a.j t under cultivation; the fruit yields about seventy per cent, of its weight?exclusive of the kernel?in oil. Italy is said to produce 33,000,000 and France 7,000,000 gallons of olive oil annually. In the Medical Museum in Washington, D. 0., there are two skulls lill cracked up like a couple of egg shells that had been knocked together. They formerly belonged to a couple of Norfolk, Virginia, colored men, who butted each other to death because a woman couldn't decide which of the two she liked best j giving Shape to Feet. ^ " Every one, but especially children, ehould wear properly fitting shoes, no matter how common their material. They should be neither too large nor to > small, and ehould have low, flat heels * - ? I that muBt be promptly "rignieu as Boon as they begin to wear on one side. If the toes of the foot show a tendency to overlap they should be rubbed with the hands once or twice a day; and if this care be given when the curving commences, it will, as a rule, prove sufficient to correct any irregularities of this nature. If a nail is wayward in its growth, trim it only lightly at the ailing corner, but fully at the opposite corner. If both corners grow too deeply into the flesh, clip them carefully and lightly, and then scrape the centre of the nail from the tip to near the root until it is thin and flexible. This process seldom fails to correct refactory nails?provided, of course, they are not neglected too long.?American Cultivator. IPurify Your Blood | ! At the coming of spring ths blood should be puriB .fled, aa impurities which have been accumulating M 'for months or even years, are liable to manifest I them.-:elvcs and seriously afreet the health. Hood's k Bariapai'iiia is undoubtedly the best blood purifier. B lit eipelsevery taint or imparity, drives out scrofuS lous humors and gcrnusof disease, and gives to the H I blood the quality ai:d :ose essential to good health. 1 Hood's Sarsaparilla w j "My daughter suffered terribly with sore ryw, I caused by scrofula bumor. \Ve were obliged to keep Bk her out of school for two year.v. We bad medical K jattendaiice, but she failed to sain relief. At last, "knowing tost Eood'i Sarsaparilla had cured my mother of rheumatism, and believing it must be good for the bicod, i concluded to have my daughter try It, and it haa entirely cured h?.-."-C0RNKLlcs VEit-ca, 412 East Main Strest, MaxyURiltawn, Iowa. Purifies the Slood "Hood's Sarxapariiia cured me of salt rheum, which I have kad for ye;?f 1 do think It Is a splen. did medicine, i am 40 jiirs of age and my skin if just as smooth and fair is*a piece of gloss.'?ilo6. .,lJt I ? Claxk, South Xora-?lk> Conn. Hood's Sarsaparilla t Bold by all drugykt* H: ny for $5. Prypared otlj by C. L IJOGL) ?. CO.. Low*e. Mass. IQO Poses On? Dollar ttiTER 8&-f*TERN*V i Instantly Stop Pain | I *Ht, 'MuswtygrwwAtt _lf.rfi, 1 i a representation ol the ecgrtrtue on ou , ynppert-RADWAl & 00. HEW YORK* flPHIM w%<WC "I VriVlfl jVL, I , AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. ORNAMENTS OF THE DOOR-YARDS. Nothing is more attractive around a farm-house than a flock of evenly-marked and handsomely-plumaged fowls. They are an ornament to the door-yard, and of iuterest and profit to the owner, while a flock of mongrels have no beauty. If the boys aud girls are allowed a small flock of fine birds, as their own, to care for and manage, you will find they will make them pay. Just try it and be convinced.?American Agriculturist. RUNNING WATER. Those who never have had the luxury cannot realize the importance of having running water in the farm-house. Even though not introduced in pipes through the building, a small stream of sweet xi_ : spring water constantly ruuamg iu wc kitchen or at some near-by convenient place, is a wonderful convenience and source of health. Even if the stream only comes to the outside, near .the kitchen door, it is a great improvement on any well with a pump or windlass for drawing. And in how many instances might the farmer, with comparatively little expense, enjoy this luxury by clearing out a spring on the hillside or other ground higher than his house? Pipe is not very expensive. The opening of a ditch in which to lay the pipe may be dug to below frost line at intervals when little or nothing else is crowding, and when done, if the work is well done, it will last for many years and save many jtops and lots of trouble and inconvenience. It is best for the health of the. women' folks, by all means, to introduce :he water into the kitchen, so as to present their taking cold by going out at mproper times or when in improper conlition. The waste water can be conlucted away and utilized for other purjoses.?New York Herald. CABBAGE GROWING. The cabbage is one of the most vallable garden vegetables, and, when properly managed, it will afford very desirable food during the whola year. The early varieties begin to come in in June, and by growing a few varieties which come in later a constant succession of fresh ones may be had until the hard frosts compel the latest ones to be gathered and put in the cellar or in pits for winter and soring use. This vegetable I - X s? w is healthful and nutritious. It contains more nitrogen than potatoes, and twice as much sulphur, the latter giving it a high value for early spring and summer consumption. Its ellects are laxative and alterative, and for winter use it is especially valuable as a corrective when much salt food is consumed. Thus salt meat aud cabbage are rightly considered as complementary foods, and the latter is a specific against such diseases as scurvy and other blood disorders which affect the skin. The Ohio experiment station shows by tests that the best early kind is the Wakefield, which is not only as early but more prolific than any other early kind; the best second early is said by the station to be the Henderson succession; Winningstadt is awarded the highest place as producing the most and solidest heads, and the writer has found it tn afford n rnnstAnt snnnlv until the Brunswick comes in in the fall, and this is succeeded by the latest varieties. The Savoy is by far superior in flavor to any other variety.?New York Times. GARDEN SUGGESTIONS. In the preparation of the flower or vegetable garden one should try to get the start of his neighbor. Competition is the life of trade, and it should enter more largely into the life of cultivators of the soil. To outdo one's neighbor in raising early and better plants and fruits, and to make the garden premises around look prettier and more tasty, all are ambitions worthy of nourishing. There are j some garden hints which may be of use to beginners at this time of the year. Beginners always have the disadvantage of the old ones who have years of experience to fall buck upon to guide them in their work. . It is generally understood now that all quick-maturing crops require much richer soil and cultivation than those that are longer in maturing. The peas are a good illustration of this. The early peas de mand much richer ground than the Champions or Marrowfats, which come later. If the early peas arc furnished with an abundance of plant food in an available form, the later peas will flourish on the same soil without any additional manure. What is true of the peas is also true of nearly all of the other .garden crops. Crop3 that come up thick should be thinned out as soon as large enough. Every day that this work is put off reduces the yield of the crop. As soon as the beets, lettuce, radishes and parsnips have come up so that they can be pulled up with the thumb and linger some of them should be thinned out. These hints may be of practical use to those who ij; wish to get an early start in their vegetable or flower garden.?American Cultii >vatcr. THE -SEED POTATO PUZZLE. Jn potato growth, although the plant imay be.indefinitely propagated from top cuttings, we are not after top growth, as in the ease of the rose geranium, but after tubers. Persistent propagation from top cuttings, without ever giving ajxj of the plants time to develop tubers, would, I believe, breed tl>o habit of tuber formation entirely out of a potato plant. How long this would take.I propose :to learn by experiment. The potato pbmt has deteriorated. Imperfect development of flowers absence of itrue seed; necessity of fr&juent renovation by seedlings; utmost unanimous verdict of the growers?all contribute proct The average yields, even Avith the better systems c>f cultivation $,nd under the h\gher cultuj'? now given, and with the best improved varieties, we decreasing instead of increasing, they ought. ProtVscir Goll, by a series rvf oarefuUy condivtf^d experiments, has 4"hown tha6 persistst selection of tubers from the most productive hills for seed perceptibly incrw^ees yield, while such celection from the liVt productive hills perceptibly decreases yield. Nobody nowadays dares to deny that single ey.e plantings give the smallest yield per hill, while whole tubers give the largest. Single eye planting, therefore, must necessarily result in awjirfing, gradual decrease in *'*?;!d and deterioration. I have for ten ';? tried every possible way (except .i^ing ia rows so oiosejtfcat the whale field would have to be cultivated by hand) ' to raise as good and as profitable a crop from single ejes as from whole tubers, and have signally failed in every instance. "Wherever comparative trials have been made and reported in recent years, the claims for heavy seeding were indorsed. The country is fast going back to the old and safe method of usintjseed more liberally. The saving of a few bushels of seed is in most cases "penny wise."?New York Tribune. FEEDING FOH PROFIT. For one who keeps horses for speed or pleasure the main point in selecting food material is quality, cost being secondary. The same is true in a large degree of those who keep fine stock for breeding purposes. But the farmer who is feeding and fattening stock for the market must study economy as well as quality. "With him it is a vital question how to keep his animals in thriving condition and fit them for the market at the least cost. To starve or underfeed stock leads to ruin ~^ Tf orfl ic morn ofnr?lr UUU uuurviu|nv,v. ** iuv.v ? than feed, it is far better to sell off the surplus at once and keep only what can be well and sufficiently fed. A great deal of valuable forage is either allowed to go absolutely to waste, or is fed in a very wasteful manner. First among this is corn fodder. It may be cut up to advantage only where there are appliances for steaming it. For horses the tops and leaves of corn fodder, fed without cutting, are the best coarse forage that can be given. Hay and straw are best cut, wet, and mixed with ground feed. It is good economy to grind all kinds of grain before feeding. I grind corn, cob and all; fine for horses and hogs and coarse for cattle and sheep. Oats, barley, rye, and wheat offal should be ground fine. My way of feeding horses nnd milch cows is to take two parts of cob-meal to one of oat-meal, wet thoroughly, and mix with fine-cut hay, male siopping wet. I never feed dry food to horses, and wet is much the best , for milch cows. Millet is coming into general use. It makes good cattle-feed, but should be fed to horses sparingly, and with care. I am not so much afraid of the danger of founder as of the fuzz on the heads. The cheapest feed for stock-hogs and breeding-sows is ground feed, mixed with ciover-nay cut snort. Nothing surpasses this in cheapness or health, and a sow fed on this mixture will be likely to have a large flow of milk. It should not be fed to fattening hogs, as it will give the lard a greenish cast. Poultry of all kinds can be given clover, cut line, and then mixed and cooked with chop.?American Agricul turist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. See that all drains are clear and in working order. Sow the early peas as soon as frost is out of the ground. Cabbages thrive best in a rich, deep, well-drained loam soil. Have you a good seed drill for the garden? Have you a larger one for the field? Sow lettuce in rows sixteen inches apart, and when it is well started grow radishes between. Do not try to repair a rail-fence by piling rails on top. In this work go to the bottom of things. Push the lambs that are intended for early market. Qive a little fresh cow'a milk daily j from a dish. Soft coal ashes contain a little plant food in the 6hape of phosphate of potash; hard coal contains none. A good asparagus bed is a good thing. It takes three or four years to get a bed established, but it pays to have it. f It isn't a bad idea to have a small and well-kept flower bed in the vegtable garden. Contrasting colors are always beautiful. The supply of nice dry, fine soil for sowing seed, at hand when wanted for window-boxes, etc., is a convenient thing. Fine dust and flour of sulphur mixed in equal parts and dusted into the hair ot cattle is said to be an excellent remedy for lice. When the law requires a man to restrain only his own stock, he does not need half so much fence as when he must fence against somebody else's animals. Have you a row or two of nice raspberry plants near your home? Don't you know it is simply delightful to have this excellent fruit fresh and near at hand? A glossy, shining coat is evidence of thrift, and it is in either horses or cattle as often the result of thorough grooming as of high feeding. The two ought to go together. Farmers in sowing grass seed, and especially clover, should examine closely to see that it is free from seed of plantain. This weed has gone almost everywhere, and a great deal of the clover seed sold contains it. No more pestilent weed is found for clover growers, as its seeds are very small and numerous. Every dangerous bull should be dehorned. The operation is best performed on young calves, but can be done on mature animals without injury. Bulls should be exercised aud trained to work. Idle bulls indicate extravagance in farming. A bull can do as much work ae an ox without injuring his breeding qualities. There is a popular belief among farmers that oats sown broadcast do better than those put in with a drill. If the ground hac been thoroughly pulverized and is dry, the drilled seed will probably be covered too deeply. Grain generally needs to be only slightly covered, especially an spring., when thesoil isaiways moi?t. Two Thousand l'cars Behind the Times. To the-cost of and adjoining the colony farm La Logia lies a Mayo Indian settlement, Muxocoba, where live upon a traet of perhaps 2000 acres some 300 descendants ot tLe branch of the Aztecs called Mayos, now intermixed with a considerable percentage.cf Spanish blood. Most ,<rf the land is uncleared, ii few acres beisg all the laud required ?or cultivation by the natives, and being *11 they can till with the ancient means and methods employed by them. These people are quiet, docile, honest, unleawed, and, though, more industrious than t&tf northern IadLans, are by no means enterprising. Their needs are few, their surroundings the most primitive. Their carte, their cooking utensils, theii plows, their ox yokes, their contrivances for spinning and weaving, their water jars ?everything about them is as ia the ti%t of Christ. The active civilization he? is like ftelesttat'j ieaxt&%Q,-=r Credit Fmc&r. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. CHICKEN IN JELLY. Put a fowl on to boil in cold water enough to cover it. add salt and peppei and a saltspoonful of sage, allow it to cook until all the bones can be easily removed, reduce the liquor to a little less than a quart, strain it, and when cold remove all the fat. Cut the white meat into strips and the dark meat into dicelike pieces, boil three or four eggs hard and slice them thin, dissolve one-half a package of gelatine in one cupful of cold water, heat the broth and add the gelatine with a saltspoonful of mace. Place strips and dice of the meat in a mold and a layer of egg slices, with a good supply of capers sprinkled over; let the broth become nearly cold, then strain it over the chicken, and place the mold where it will become thoroughly cold. This is an attractive dish. Serve, cut in slices, dip the mold lightly into hot water in order to remove the contents well.?American Cultivator. SPINACH. There is only one way known of cooking spinach in this country. That is boiling it in an abundance of water. The French have a number of ways. They serve spinach in a delightful cream soup, and a la creme as a vegetable, a manner of serving entirely unknown to us. As a rule, greens of all kinds, are cooked too much in this country. Tender, young spinach will cook in ten minutes if it is plunged into boiling water; twenty minutes is long enough to cook older, tougher greens. The addition of one quart of tender, young dandelion leaves to a peck of spinach leaves gives a pleasant and wholesome bitter flavor to the dish. Only the young heart leaves of the dandelion should be selected for this pur pose. After cooking and draining spinach leaves the French cook pours cold water over them to freshen them and brighten thei r color. Af ter this they are again drained and heated up, with a little butter and half a cup of cream or rich milk and well-seasoned, and are then spinach a la creme. They may be eaten simply with butter, or if heated in stock instead of cream, in the American way with vinegar. A wreath of slices of hard-boiled eggs served around a mould of spinach adds to its appearance and is an addition to the flavor of the dish. A spinach soup is almost as good as the sorrel soup of the French, which is dignified by the name of "soup a la bonne femme," or good woman's soup. For a spinach soup cook a quart of ten-1 tvxinn^Ao i n KaiKm Ct ucr bpiuauu xur ten rniuu^o m wiuug water. Drain it; throw it into cold water and drain again. Chop it fine with a knife and press it through a puree sieve. Take this strained spinach and add to it three pinto of white stock heated to the boiling point; add twotablespoonfuls of flour mixed in a tablespoonful of butter and stir the soup constantly till it boils. When it has cooked ten minutes, add two pats or tablespoonfuls of butter, and a cup of cream, in which the yolks of two eggs have been beaten. Remove the soup to the back of the stove before adding the cream and eggs, and serve it with little squares of toasted bread in the tureen.?New York Tribune. HOUSEHOLD HI3T3. The best liquid for cleaning old brass is a solution of oxalic acid. A damp cloth dipped in common soda will brighten tinware easily. Glaze bottom crust of fruit pies with white of an egg, and they will not be soggy. A wash of equal parts of glycerine and lactic acid will remove moth and freckles from the face. The mending of kid gloves shows far less if done with cotton thread than it does if done with silk. To iron a silk hat: Holding the hat in the left hand, pass a warm iron quickly around, following the lay of the nap. If a dish gets burnt in using, do not scrape it; put a little water and ashes in it and let it get warm. It will come off nicely. Iron and polished steel, when not in use, may be kept from rusting by wiping with a cloth on which a little kerosene has been poured. Paint stains that are dry and old may be removed from cotton or woolen goods with chloroform. First cover the spot with olive oil or butter. ' A heavy under-tablecloth of white cotton felting should always be used under the white damask. It throws out the pattern of the damask clearly and prevents the table from wearing the linen. Crocheted mats of heavy white cotton are the daintiest choice for ordinary use. A little powdered potash thrown into Tat holes will drive the rodents away that are so annoying in cellar or kitchen; cayenne pepper will have the same elect on rats and cockroaches, and a mouse will never gnaw through a piece of cotton sprinkled with cayenne, that is stuffed into his hole. Six Novel* Free, sent by Crag in & Co., Phil*., Pa., to any one In U. S. or Canada, post paid, apon receipt of 25 Dobbins'a Electrical Soap wrappers. See Hat of novels on circulars around each bar. This soap for sale by all grocers. Washington, D. C., is to have a pneumatic itreet railway a mile and a half long. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Greai Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first dav't use. Marvelous cufes. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St., Kiiia., Pa CURES PERMANENTLY NEURALGIA. Instant Relief, First Application. Boonville, Mo., Dec. 28,1885. 1 suffered dreadfully with neuralgic pains In head which affected face and eyes. I could -not attend work. I obtained instantaneous relief from first application of St. Jacobs Oil H. M. CLARK. Suffered 4 Uays Severely. 4626Tenna. Ave.,Pittsburg, Pa.,Feb. 18,1889. I suffered very severe pains from neuralgia for four days, but was cured by St Jacobs Oil. Mrs. JOHN ICLEPPUE. At Dp.ugh.sts and Dealehs. IKE CHARLES A. V0HELE8 CO.. Baltimore, Wi. Ely's Cream WILL CURB SM'DMS0] BATARKHjNi f Price"?6 Conts. I Apply Balm Into ?ack noitrll. ELY BBOS.. 55 Fanta fr., N. Y Safely Bicycles &?, E. B^LL '" ': J ' ' ''.**' . '" Catarrh Can't be Cared With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you have to take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c. All the bank note currency of ths Italian Government is engraved and printed in the i United States. Fifteen contestants clad for the fray, Armed with good steel and in battle array. Striving for lucre, as brave Knights of old Strove for their honors and medals of gold. Driving each shining pen over the paper. Seeking to sound, as the most proper caper. The praises of remedies known the world over? From Paris to Calais, from Calais to Dover: But each Knight vainly strives?language fails in description Of the manifold virtues of "Favorite Prescription." When ill or depressed with that "draggingdown" feeling, consequent upon weakness, suffering from headache, weak or lame back, and thfc many ills common to the weaker sex, take Dr. Pierce's Prescription, which is guaranteed to give satisfaction or price (Jl) returned. See printed guarantee on bottle-wrapper. Dr. Pierce's Pellets?gently laxative or actively cathartic according to dose. 25 cents. VT IT aaflrtfvtf) errrrc X^JEYV xunik VUI vuuouu.63 VQQL dally daring Lent. Different to Everybody Else. Mabel?"Mamma, dear, in what way am ] not like most people?" Mamma?"I am sure I cannot tell you, d&rlingl" Mable?"Because most people alwayB like new things best, and the other day, vou know, you said, when I fell and hurt my knee, that Dr. Tobias's Venetian Liniment was a very old remedy, that your mamma always .used it when yon were a little girl for aches and pains, and I think it ft just splend id, too. I don't care how old it is, 'cause my knee is all well again." All druggists sell It. Old smokers prefer "Tansill's Punch." Tendency to Specialism. The increasing tendency to specialism in all the trades and professions is nowhere more marked than in the medical profession; where the young M. D. finds himself, before his sheep-skin is fairly in his hands, considering the desirability of the "throat and lungs" or the "eye and ear," or some other equally profitable combination of disorders. The result is that the "family doctor" of the old time, who attended a family from birth to death and who was the repository of all it woes and weaknesses, is no longer a real existence. And the average welldoctored mortal who wishes to be reasonably careful of his health finds himself strangely divided up among half a dozen specialists. To one he intrusts the care of his eyes, to another his throat, to a third his digestion, to a fourth his nerves, t\v>A if if nloaco VioniTPn in affiipfc him CtUU, 11 IV ~ with more disorders than these, he finds a "specialist" wuiting down the road to welcome each one. No doubt there is a good healthy reason at the bottom of all this and real benefit to be derived therefrom. No doubt the marvelous strides of medical science within the last fifty years have made the necessity for the specialist, but it touchcs one's sense of the comic to have the experience of a young woman who wished not long ago to consult Dr. Smith, an eye and ear specialist. She went to a large building given up to the use of physicians. "You mistake, madam," said the first physician to whom she presented herself. "I am not Dr. Smith for the eye and ear. I am Dr. Smith for the throat and lungs." "And that is Dr. Smith for the eye and ear across the hall?" "No, madam," he answered gravely, "that is Dr. Smith for the heart and stomach. Dr. Smith for the eye and ear is five doors down the corridor."?New Tori: Sun. ONE ENJOY? Both the method and results xvhen Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figa is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIB SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. r UHJISVILLE, KV. VEW YORK, N.t. V Y N U?15 A VULCANIZED FIBRE XLE WASHERS. CHEAPEST AND BEST. ! OUTWEAR FOUR LEATHER ONES. Ask your Hardware Dealer for them, or write to i Vulcanized Fibre Co.. 14 Dej St., New York. best in the world u n t. m o c KBT a et th c Genuine. Sold Everywhere. DiTCIITC No 1'atenti No Par' Book Iree frM I CH I a X. W. Fitzgerald " C AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL CONSULT UK. LOBB, 3i9 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia. Tiventy years' experience in special diseases; cures the worst cases of .Verroui Complaints, Blood Poisoning, Blotches, Eruptions, Plies, Catarrh, Ulcer*, sores, Impaired Memory Despondency, Dimness of Vision, Lung-, Liver Stomach, Kidney (Brlght's Disease); confidential. fyCall or write for question list and book. t\ irihflti*- b 1 prescribe and fslly cm. dorsa Blf O u the oaiy dssctrOiMlt^i specific for the certain cor# Jffifl TO 6 SAl&V of Ail disease. O. H. INGBAH AU. M. D. FfCa ??Amsterdam, K. Y. o wfd*iyby*? Ws have told Big 6 for WTXm many years. and it has Mttwawaiai best of satis TrxJt^BKPZmil miw / prwffiM*. - . I'Tt- . V * $10,000 FOUND IN A New York rag-picker is reported to k&T? found $10,000 in greenbacks in an ash barrel This was a rare piece of good luck, but how much more fortunate is the sufferer from consumption who learns that, although the doctors may have pronounced his c&sa hopeless, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will cure him. Consumption is a scrofulous disease of the lungs. The " Discovery," which is the most potent bloodpurifier of the age, strikes right at the root of the evil and there is no resisting it, if taken in time and given a fair triaL In the cure of all scrofulous and other blood taints, no matter from what cause arising, scalp diseases, old sores and swellings, it absolutely has no equal $soo g M?y iS^I SYMPTOMS OF CAT A RE Er/TwoSlk' falling into throat, sometim ITS ' tenacious, mucous, purulent fif -fit y|f deafness, difficulty of clearii Pjidgl jJ breath offensive; smell and few of these symptoms like ^ result in consumption, and < By its mild, soothing:, antiseptic, cleansing eures the worst cases. This infallible remedy "creams" and strong caustic solutions J7ith \ simply palliate for a abort time, or drive the d im the use of such nostrums, but it produce* went I CBWI 9I tur UUIU vwriii) u tnu la cured with & few applications. Catarrhal narie. It removes offensive breath, loea or ii infr. waterinr or weak eyes, and impaired mer aa they aH frequently are. Br druggiata. SO < "Oh, So Tired!" is the cry of thousands every Spring. For that Tired Feeling take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and recover Health and Vigor. It Makes the Weak Strong. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED ANCIENT EDITION. A so-called " Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" isbeinaoiferedtotbepublic at a very lowprice. The body of tbe book, from A to Z, is a cbeap reprint, page for page, of tbe edition of 1847, which was In its day, a valuable book, bnt in the progress of language for over FORTY TEARS, has been completely superseded. It is now reproduced, broken type, errors and all, bvphoto-Iithegraph process, is printed on cheap paper and flimsily bound. A brief comparison, page by page, between the reprint and the latest and enlarged edition, will show the great superiority of the latter. These reprints are as out cf date as a last year's almanac. No honorable dealer will allow the bayer of such to suppose that he is getting the Webster which to-day is accepted as the Standard and THE BEST,?overy copy cf which bears our imprint as given below. If persons who have been induced to purchase the " Ancient Edition" by any ? ??tmll no nf fhft 12118r0pr0s9u(iuvua nut auviow w? v* facts, wa will undertake to see thai tiza seller Is punished as ho deserves. G. & C. MERRIAM & CO. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. X Y NP?is; * ' GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge of the natural Iawj which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Kpps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It Is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortlfled with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."?1"Civil Service Gouttte. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only In half-pound tin.*, by Grocers, labelled thux JAMES EPl'Ss CO.. Homoeopathic Chemists, London, Enoulxd. Northern pacific. LOW PRICE RAILROAD LANDS & Cnvernment LANDS. MILLIONS OF ACiVEsS in Minnesota, norm Dakota, Montana. Idabo, Washington and Oregon. Apun far publications with maps describing the SCHU PUil ocst Agricultural, tfraaln* and Timber Lands now open toSettlers. !^ent Iree. Addreas cms. b. umborh, (CArt for SI. Send Sc. for list of prices we pay ?OUU for rare col ns.ito. MERCER, Clncla??tl. O. DCtiSEflUC SUItE t on ALL or NO PAY. rCHClund \\ \V. Fitzgerald, Att'y, Wash., D. 0. #for nil domestic animals w atipnte, rather acts as a .a: in more tiiau 3MJ cjwi oi treated promptly. Ex; whin needed, anil perhi enclose SO cenu for sample J use Dr. KoctUer'e "fc Mixture" right along with the ItJt^colic medicine I he Brooklyn, flggj piSO'S REMEDY FOE C. _ HhHB Cold in the Head it has 110 equ; K3i It is an Ointment, of which |jg nostrils. Price, tte.^Sold by ( AN ASH BARREL *** Thoroughly cleanse and enrich the blood. ht uaa of Dr. Pierce's Golden Discovery, and good digestion, a fair akin,' buoyant spirits and bodily vigor and health will be established. For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. "Golden Medical Discovery" is the only blood and lung remedy, sola by drugriste, and guaranteed by its manufacturers, to d* all that it is claimed to accomplish, or money paid for it vrill be promptly refunded. - ' ~SS? World's Dispensary Medical Associa- ' now, Manufacturers. No. G63 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. i.' I.' WR TSTi for an incurable cue of Catirrh in th? Hta4 by proprieton of DR. SAGE'8 CATARRH REMEDY. ?Headache, obstruction of nose, disobargea eg profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, , bloody and putrid; eyes weak, ringing in ear*, '*39 ag throat, expectoration of offensive matter; taste impaired, and general debility. Only a ly to be present at once. Thousands of cues vijM ;nd in the grave. r, and healing properties, Dr. Sage's Remedy -53B does not, like the poisonous irritating snuffs, tf hich the public have long been humbugged, itectse to the lungs, as there is danger of doing perfect sad permanent cores of tks usands caa testify. "Cold in the Head" Headache is relieved and cured as tt by npainnent of the sense of taste, smell or hearaory, when oauaed by the violence of Catarrh, $3 SHOE,o?W*l8ehS&. And Other Advertised Specialties Are the Ont la the WerUL 3 K<me ggnolne nalgw nmm and price are stamped on bottom. SOLD everywhere. If your deal* will not rapplr you, send postal for instructions how to buy direct from factory without extra charge. W. 1j. DOlfGLAS, Brockton, litis. i KEMtfcBAMM I NQI SomethineJuiit<PS?o<t'. M* KEMPS BALSAM , IS OUR FAMILY MEDICINE:' Care* Coajlu, Celdi, 8ore Throat, Croup,Who#pia| Coafb, Broaehitia ui Aithma. a mrtaia car* *m Censuaiptien in firrt lUfti, led a ion rtilef U adraaaW attgei. Un at once Tau will fee the exoelleat effaaf after takiar the first due. Soli by dtaitn iwjtfi Large botllei,aOctouand fl.QO. ?wjjf OR- SCHENCK'S fel OEAWEEO 0 g * TONIC - ji IB Is a Poiltlre Cure for UwUMaiw ? j a mjHpflj DYsrtrom v BO And ail DUorders of tha Digeat* 11 /lhfz/t*?K iSl, ire Organi. It is llkewUe I ' -:7,r, ... BrS corrobor?tiTf, or utrengthear 4?dl ic( Medicine, and may b? . ^ jtSf taken with fcreat benefit la all ctiMof Debility. Tor Sale bf all Druggi?t?. Price, 81.00 per bottle. Dr. Schenck'a New Book on Lunga.LiTer and Stomach mailed fraai Addrui. Dr. J. H. SCHENCK & SON. Philadelphia. '. G 5 a ? tic us Wa rttail it tha itxtst uholeMUe/urUrvpriceiy/fQfZVawL^T1 PRFF and eii'j foodstoba wViT,WAS nairf for om deliTerj. 1^111^7* Bend ituap for CaU- ?<*2.?7| i<*uc. A-atx goc&t d-jirejCx^Az! ?ILITSK? Lcntme UFO. ca, us k. nth it. rwuca-.r*. :a'S FAVORITE COLIC MIXTURE ^ ^ ill cure mf out ot every iw cams* ui w??, nuov^ y more thai 1 or 2 dosas necessary. It doos not coa:*tive aud U entirely har.nless. After 20 vears of trial ir guarantee U worth aomctain?. Colic must k* yeud a lew cents and you have a euro ou band, roady ips sava a valuable horse. If not at your druggist"* i oottle, sent prepaid. v KOEULEK ?fc CO., Bethlehem, Pa. ivorite Colio I We cheerfully recommend Or. Koehlei't success. It is I "Favorite Colic Mixture." Woul-i not ive ever seen. I be without it as lon'j a* w have iiorta. <e Dealer, I .ISAAC MOSES <fr BRO., New York. | Sale and Ixehange Stable*, lotton Pa. \XAKKU,?Best. Easiest to use. iedtate. A cure is certain. For a smal^ parti clevis applied to the Tffia Wan-en. Pa.