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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first dav't
use. Marvelous cufes. Treatise and $2 trial
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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.
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Apply Balm Into ?ack noitrll.
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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.
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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.
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Both the method and results xvhen
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
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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
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effects, prepared only from the most
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its many excellent qualities commend
it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
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Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
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A New York rag-picker is reported to
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M?y iS^I SYMPTOMS OF CAT A RE
Er/TwoSlk' falling into throat, sometim
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Pjidgl jJ breath offensive; smell and
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^ result in consumption, and <
By its mild, soothing:, antiseptic, cleansing
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"creams" and strong caustic solutions J7ith \
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For that Tired Feeling
take
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It Makes
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in more tiiau 3MJ cjwi oi
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whin needed, anil perhi
enclose SO cenu for sample
J use Dr. KoctUer'e "fc
Mixture" right along with
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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
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buoyant spirits and bodily vigor and health
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For Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood,
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Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is
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?Headache, obstruction of nose, disobargea
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ag throat, expectoration of offensive matter;
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r, and healing properties, Dr. Sage's Remedy -53B
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itectse to the lungs, as there is danger of doing
perfect sad permanent cores of tks
usands caa testify. "Cold in the Head"
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i
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IB Is a Poiltlre Cure for
UwUMaiw ? j a
mjHpflj DYsrtrom v
BO And ail DUorders of tha Digeat*
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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
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ir guarantee U worth aomctain?. Colic must k*
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ips sava a valuable horse. If not at your druggist"*
i oottle, sent prepaid. v
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ivorite Colio I We cheerfully recommend Or. Koehlei't
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