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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE j
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
gK TRANSPLANT IN Q POT.
/ A valuable addition to the working
" outfit of a gardener is a new transplanting
pot made in three parts, the body being
divisible and the bottom removable.
In transplanting the bottom is removed
from the body, the pot inserted in a hole
in the ground, and the keys which control
the grip of the 6idc pieces withdrawn,
when the valves are pressed
laterally apart and raised from the earth,
leaving the earth and plant it hvad contained
in the new location.?-New York
Herald.
j. CAPTURING ABSCONDING SWARMS.
t: Swarms sometimes break cluster and
take wing before the beekeeper has hived
them. Throwing dirt among them will
sometimes cause them to alight again.
ProfessoY A. J. Cook advises throwing
water in the form of a fine spray among
them. For such purpose some handpump
is very desirable. Another important
use for such a pump, mentioned
by the Professor, is this: If the swarm,
when clustered, be sprinkled occasionally
it will remain clustered indefinitely.?
New York World.
60FT-SIIELLED EGGS.
! The shell of an egg is deposited over
the egg very rapidly from a secretion exuding
from the membrane of the egg
passage, and after the egg with its
fibrous covering (the soft shell, socalled,)
has been formed. When the secreting
membrane is diseased, as by inflammation,
its function is disturbed.and
^ the hard lime shell is not formed. Over's
feeding and excessive fatness will pro
S idace this condition. Give the fowls
plenty of grass but no grain for several
days, then give plenty of bran with
scalded oatmeal. A few days'imprisonment
in a coop without any food will
work an unfailing cure.?New York
Times.
HUGE HORSE VS. TWO ACTIVE IIOBSE8.
h There is a contest among some breeders
of draught horses as to wh? can produce
the largest animal. The argument
advanced by these men is that the time
must shortly come ,when the increased
trade in city streets will compel expressmen
and others to dispense with their
two-horse wagons and substitute smaller
wagons drawn by one large horse. This
Is a plausible theory, but it does not appear
to agree with the statements made
py the expressmen who are to try the
poises. The Rural New Yorker has witnessed
a number of them in New York
city, and all that have been seen agree
that they prefer two active horses to one
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nuge ueasc. i ue iu.rge uursua uro iu
good demand for trucking purposes, but
those who breed them with the thought
erf driving out the active express horse
are sure to be disappointed.
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r rLAKT FODDEE-COEH.
! It is probable that every August thousands
of farmers resolve that the next
spring they will put out afield of f oddercorn,
yet break the resolution when
spring comes. * It is the rare exception
. that July and August do not shorten the
pastures. Some seasons the pastures are
L almost burnt up; if there has been no
^ provision made for other feed at this
season, the animals must lose flesh, and
the cows must fall off in their milk product,
or else grains and purchased food
must be fed liberally, a Fodder-corn is
cheaper than loss of flesh or grain. Allowing
the animals to lose flesh is very
twaste!ul. it -will require twice as much
food to regain the flesh as to retain it.
Every year the testimony becomes
stronger that fodder-corn should not be
sown broadcast. It may be planted in
hills, but the largest crops, except on
very foul land, can be raised by planting
in drills. Fodder-corn should be planted
in rows at least three apart and as well
cultivated as field corn.?American Agriartturiit.
SQUASHES.
If you want nice squashes in abundance
follow the method experience has taught
me is the best. Plant on good, warm
soil. I prefer greensward. Manure
liberally, spread eipfht or ten cords to the
acre and harrow it in thoroughly. If
you have any night soil use this for
squashes and harrow it in. During the
final week in June make the hills eight
or ten feet apart?no nearer?and thoroughly
mix with the soil a handful of
good phosphate. Put in these hills
eight or ten seeds and cover with about
an inch of fine earth. When the young
plants come up keep a sharp lookout for
all bugs. The first will probably be the
email striped bugs. For these use plaster
. sifted on the vines when wet. Then for
* the pumpkin bug, a large black one, I
have found nothing surer than hand killing.
When the vine-3 have five leaves
there is not so much danger of these
bugs. One must see to thera every day
'before this or his crop will be ruined.
About this time or later the squash borer
and cut worms get in their work. For
these I use the saltpetre solution?one
iablesDOonful to a pail of water. A piot
or less put about each hill around the
vines does the work. At the last hoeing
or when all danger of bug is passed pull
out all but two or thiee plants in each
hill. It is seldom I lose a hill of
quashes. There is no need of it. Be
sure and plant pure. seed. After I find a
kind that is good I buy by the pound.
'What is not used this year is just as good
nextyear.?New England Homestead.
BREEDING GEESE.
As geese are great grazers it is useless
to attempt to breed them unless one has
.plenty of room. They require unlimited
Igrass runs and ought to bo kept apart
from the poultry yard containing young
chicks. Where one has suitable facilities
for raising geese, they return good profits,
as, if set early, two broods may be
obtained from each female, thereby securing
flocks for each season's sales. The
Toulouse and Embden varieties are to be
preferred to other sorts, where breeding
ifor profit is in order. These attain heavy
weights, mature early and are hardy and
(prolific. While geese are setting they
should be thoroughly dusted with sulphur
; ^ or pyrethrum once or twice to cleanse
Mthem from vermin. A good plan after
the goslings are hatched is to make a
> jtriangular pen with three long boards,
where the grass is short but fresh aud
: green, and move to a new place every
jduy. A shallow dish of water must bo
[placed bo they can get into it, and be rcjfllled
A9 often as it gets foul. Feed a litI
I tic fit ft time, but often, while they arc
small, and at the end of a week they will
have gained strength so they may be
turned into their pasture, if sheltered at
.night. If a gosling gets wet so as to
look drenched, and it begins to droop,
it must be dried. If goslings are taught
to eat, then well fed and kept dry till
well feathered, success is almost certain.
When fully feathered they arc able to take
care of themselves and on a large farm
can do their own foraging until fattening
time, when they should be penned up
and fed all they will cat.?New York
World.
FARM WELLS.
The wells on the farm are a great
source from which come many diseases.
Some wells are never cleaned. When
dug they are carefully boarded over, the
pump made tight and snug, with the
ground sloping away on all sides so as to
allow the surface water to liow from the
opening. There is no well wter that is
pure. Something depends on the
character of the soil. If sandy, and the
water will disappear quickly from the
I surface after a rain, the well will drain
lm fnr n lonrr distanpe around it. I
and the consequence will be that a large
portion of the filth of the soil will find
its way into the well, although the water
may appear sparkling and bright. It is
contended that the soil removes all the
impurities from the water, but this depends
upon whether the soil, by longcontinued
absorption, be not already so
thoroughly saturated with impurities as
to refuse to take up more. That the soil
does not remove all the impurities, even
from new ground where a well has been
recently dug, has been demonstrated by
saturating the surface earth at a distance
from the well with kerosene oil, which
gradually found its way to the well,
(having been washed down by the rains),
and imparted its odor to the water.
If the soil be of heavy clay the danger
will be lessened, but on all porous soil
the liability of pollution of the water is
great. No manure heaps, privies, sinks
or other receptacle for filth or refuse of
any kind should be within 150 feet of
the well?the further off the better. No
matter how tight the well may be, the
tnad will sometimes contrive to cret in.
Many wells contain toads that die, and
are swallowed in the drinking water unknowingly,
under the supposition that
the well is tight and "toad proof." Wells
should be cleaned at least once a )ear,
and especially in the fall. For a distance
of ten feet around the well the
surface should be cementcd, and the
pump itself should be cleaned occasionally.
Toads, flies, bugs, worms and even
gnats will get into the water, while even
a few drops of solution from a filthy
drain or sink, finding its way into the
well, carry bacteria enough rapidly to
multiply and contaminate all of the
water. Roots of trees and vines also
6erve as drains into the wells, as they
loosen the soil, and for that reason they
should never be planted near the source
of drinking water.?Sanitary News,
farm and garden n0te8.
Hitch your horses in the shade.
Protect jour animals from flies.
Start the cultivators in the corn.
"Waste apples may be profitably
changed into vinegar.
Sprinkle hellebore and water on rose
bushes to kill the insects.
Burn all cuttings or plucked leaves
that are infested by insects.
A good lunch about 5 p. m. is very refreshing
these long, hot days.
Do not allow your cows to be driven
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A few tomato plants among melons
and squashes will drive away insects.
The proper preparation of the soil for
the crop is quite as important as proper
cultivation afterward.
Do not keep the cream too long, for
if you do it gets old and too sour, and
the result is poor butter.
All small fruits require a complete
fertilizer,either stable manure or a chemical
compound, on old soils.
To keep a tree from growing too late
in the fall pinch of! the terminal shoots
as far as they can be reached.
Good roads would reduce the cost of J
hauling farm products to market at least
one-half for the whole country.
Early potatoes are better if dug as
soon ns ripe, and either sold or stored in
a cool, dry, well ventilated cellar.
The most valuable food is the most
valuable as a fertilizer, and when fed
produces the most valuable manure.
Man and tree were made for each
other; where the one does not grow the
other does not abide in his best estate.
Wheat is found as valuable for stock
food as for human food, but it-needs
to be fed in conjunction with bulkier
food.
Do not be afraid to use the harrow
freely. It pays to pulverize and powder
the soil, as well as to keep down the
weeds.
Put your slop-water and soapsuds on
the ground among the growing plants of
the garden. It will help fertilize the
ground.
Animals ought to have twice the stable
room that is generally given them. There
is nothing gained in crowding animals
or crops.
It is said the best sweet corn grows on
rocky and strong soil; better than in
sandy or light black soil filled with vege-'
table fibre.,
Professor Davenport of the Michigan.
Agricultural College says: "We fail, as
do others, to secure the best ensilage
from the large, watery sorts of corn destitute
of ears."
If farmere will pick up all the loose
bones, old boots, etc., around the place
and burn them, putting the ashes after
being pulverized around their small
fruits, it will be greatly to their advantage.
The best remedy for apple tree pests
this year is as follows: "Soft soap, one
pint; carbolic acid, four teaspoonfuls and
wntet, and cold, to make four
quarts." This is also good for lice on
cattle. It works like a charm.
One man will use two minutes three
times a day for six months to prop up
and securc a broken gate because he has
"no time to repair it," while his neighbor
will take a whole hour for repair at
the start and save at least a day and a
half in a year.
Grain and grass is the natural food for
poultry when accorded full liberty, id
confinement if given almost entirely thd
former and deprived of the latter, trouble
will ensue. We have found it advantage*
ous to have every other feeding a dry
food as our birds have done uniforml}
better^. '
WORDS OF WISDOM.
We carry our jails with us. j
There is a sunshine of the heart.
A clear conscience defies a cloudy sky.
Convenience generally keeps her word.
It is too bad our strikers cannot make
a hit.
To possess one's self is to be a great
owner.
Trust your fellows and keep your eye
on them.
Circurastancc gives coloring to our independence.
Accept your friend's tongue but not
his ear, lest you hear from him again.
A pretty young lady always wishes to
sec what is in the store windows as she
passes.
There's no man who does not expect
his Maker to be more merciful to him
than he is to his fellows.
A man may be honest and not virtuous;
when he is so he leans upon his
honesty as an atonement for his imperfections.
It is usually the man of money who
discourses on the bene6ts of poverty.
This is proper since the poor are other
YYXOC gii^U^^Ui
A wise mail plays the fool when he enters
into an argument on the street corner,
for it is easy for the jester to get a
corner on the merriment when logic is
slain with a smile.? West Share.
A Woman's Long Swim for Life.
By yesterday morning's Australian
mail, says the Pall Mall Gazette of recent
date, we have for the first time full particulars
of the Qaetta disaster, and the
narratives of the survivors. We subjoin
the principal points in the graphic statement
of Miss Lacy, undoubtedly the
most interesting figure in the events of
that calamitous night in Torres Straits.
Miss Lacy says she was sitting in the
saloon writing a letter, the other ladies
practicing for a concert, when, without
a moment's warniug, they heard a loud,
grating sound, the ship rocked violently,
and a chorus of confused noises broke
out on deck.
Miss Lacy rushed on deck, and already
the ship was sinking. "Going
aft," she says, "was like walking up a
hill. The part to which I was making
my way was high above the water." But
hnrdlv had she reached the aft Dart of
the vessel than it rapidly sank, and in a j
moment 200 human beings and a large j
number of sheep "were all in the water
in a heap, the people struggling and
Bhrieking terribly." Miss Lacy with
great difficulty managed to extricate
herself from the confused mass, and, being
a practical swimmer, succeeded in
getting clcar of the whirlpool caused by
the sinking ship. She then relieved herself
of all superfluous clothing, and
swam about for two hours in the hope of
coming across some of the survivors.
At midnight she heard a cry from a
distance, and swimming toward it,found
that it came from a raft rudely and hastily
constructed by the chief officer. She
availed herself of this temporary refuge
and remained on the raft until noon next
day, when, finding that it was making
no progress, and fancying thi.t she saw
an island on the verge of the horizon,
Miss Lacy determined to trust once more
to her swimming powers, ana in spite 01
the strong remonstrances of the chief
officer she dived into the ocean and
struck out in the direction she hid
marked out for herself. But she had
grievously miscalculated the distance of
the island.
All the afternoon and far into the
night she was in the water without lifebelt
or support of any description, relieving
herself by swimming alternately
on her face, back and sides. She said
she felt no fear of the sharks that abound
in these tropical waters, but the fearfully
hot sun scorched her terribly, and every
now and then she had to thrust her head
under water to save herself from sunstroke.
She is under the impression that
for a part of the time she was asleep in
the water.
At length, after being for twenty-four
hours altogether in Tor.ei Straits, she
was picked up in an almost exhausted
condition by a boat belonging to the
search steamer Albatross. For some hours
after her timely rescue she was delirious,
and fancied herself living.in a submarine
hotel. No more signal proof of the
value of swimmiug as a lady accomplish
merit has been furnisnecl lor many a
day than this extraordinary experience
of Miss Lacy's.
Paralyzed by a Scratch.
4'I.have read of men being paralyzed
by a wound and unable to move," said a
well-known prominent Maine officeholder
to a reporter of the Lewiston
Journal, "and I believe it. I know that
there have been many cases of the kind,
and one of them in particular has such
a personal twist that I have good reasons
to remember.
"It wts at the battle of Chantilly, in
the oarly part of the fight. We had approached
a low, rambling fence?a Virginia
fence, as they were called, and I
had my gun through it and was doing
what service I could. I saw the splinter
fly from a piece of that fence under the I
impulse or a uau irom ine enemy. in
the lightning flash of the flying wood I
seemed to find time to dodge, and then
there was a quick pain like the searing of a
hot iron and the splinter was through my
hatband and along my scalp, penetrating
it, but not injuring the skull.
4'The blow was severe and stunned
me, and I remember as well my last look
at the scene?the fighting troops, the
smoke, the battle and the tramping men.
I fell back, my legs half doubled up beneath
me, and in a moment my strength
was gone and I was powerless. I saw
everything. Men fell upon me. Men
trampled upon me. Horses reared around
me. The battle was on all sides.
*'My wits were clear, my brain unclouded,
but there was I, dying a death
momentarily, alive, yet dead, and suffering
more tortures than I thought life
could have. I lay there perhaps half aa
hour?every moment a year of agony?
when I felt some one's hand oa my
collar, and I was draped out and turned
on my face, where I lay for a moment as
some one rifled my cartridge box. The
motion saved inc. My pulse seemed to
stir, uiy heart beat, my will to re-exert
itself, and in a few momcuts I was myself.
The wound was so small that I
stanched it with my handkerchief and in
half an hour I was as well as ever.
"If the hand li;id not found my coat
collar I should have been blcachiug iuy
bones on Cbantilly at this moment instead
of being here talking to you, and
it would have been tongli to have passed
in on such a scratch." v -"S.
WESTERN CYCLONES.
A Tornado Cuts a Wide Swath
in Illinois.
A Score of People Killed and Paw
Paw Destroyed,
A tornado swept over the county about
nine mik s north "of Mendota, 111., intheafterternoon
and did great damage. The storm
started west of Sublette, HI., and traveled
ftbout ten miles in a southeasterly direction,
hewing out a path about half a mile wide.
Hundreds of people were injured, and it
was reported that ten lives were lost.
Ten nouses were blown to kindling wood
in the village of Sublette. A schoolhouso
near Philip Slassinger's, north of
Mendota, 111, containing twentyfive
children, was blown to atoms, and the
teachers and pupils were found bruised and
bleeding in the debris. Manv farm houses
were blown to pieces near West Brooklyn,
111.
The town of Earleville, 111., was struck by
a tornado an i eight persons killed. Many
were wounded. The town is said to have
been almost entirely destroyed. It is about
twelve miles from Sublette, 111.
The tornado passed through Lee County,
111., south of the track taken by the one of
twelve years ago, which wiped out the town
of Loe Center. After a heavy storm of
twenty-four hours a large cloud was noticed
in the northwest, which soon developed into a
tornado.
The cyclone also swept over the little town
of Paw Paw, in Lee County, 111., destroying
it and killing seventeen people. The news of
the disaster was brought in by a courier,
who rode with all speed to Dixon, III., for
physicians to take care of the wounded.
The courier says the town of Paw Paw
was swept from the face of the earth.
Scores were wounded by tha flying timbers,
and many will die of their injuries.
About 4 p.m. the tornado swept across Vermilion
County, in Illinois, crossing the Chicago
and Alton Railroad^ about five miles
north of Pontiac. Great damage was done
to crops, and it was said many lives were
lest.
The same tornado passed west of Cornell,
111., in a path eighty rods wide and about
four miles in length. Everything in its path
was either totally wrecked or badly damaged.
Four people were fatally injured and
several others slightly hurt.
The storm struck tne house of S. Plymire,
tearing it to pieces and terribly injuring Mr.
Plymire. The residences of William Vincamp
and J. M. Bradley were unroofed, outhouse
destroyed and Vincamp and Bradley
slightly hurt. The house and barn of William
Sutcliffa were badly damaged, but the
family escaped with a few bruises.
The most* extensive wreck was at W. D.
Connor's. His house, barn and other build
ings were demolisnea, ana jut. uonnor ana
wife received fatal injuries. The schoolhouse,
a short distance east, was blown
to pieces, not a timber being left
standing. Fortunately the school was not in
session at the time. A son of Mr. Morrison
was badly hurt by flying debris. 0. 0.
Leonard's house and other buildings were
badly damaged, one of his boys being fatally
Injured.
Severe electric storms accompanied by
much rain and heavy winds prevailed In
Northeastern Kansas and Western Missouri.
At Atchison, Kan., the fall of rain was
exceptionally heavy. The water forced
itself into the water mains, several of
which burst and flooded the cellars all along
Commercial street. The greatest injury
was occasioned to the offices of the Atchison
Champion, the Globe and the Patriot,
whose press rooms were flooded.
At St. Joseph, Mo., the rain fell in torrents
and flooded the streets and burst several
sewers. Joseph C. Coombs, while attempting
to keep an inlet clear, was overcome by
the force of the water and carried into the
sewer.
At Moberly, Mo., lightning struck Governor
Fry's house. The members of the
family were stunned, but were not severely
Injured. J. W. Allen's house was also struct
by lightning, and two small children were
prostrated.
TURBULENT* SALVADOR,
Death oi President Menendez and Assassination
of Several Officers.
President Menendez, of San Salvador, died
suddenly, soon after the conclusion of a banquet
given on the occasion of the fifth anniversary
of the entrance of General Menendez
into San Salvador and the defeat of tbe
Zaldivar faction. During tbe panic caused
by the President's death General Alarcial and
several other officers were killed at the barracks.
General Carlos Ezeta, the leader of
tbe forces, is now in command. All is quiet
at present. _ ..."
General Francisco Menenaez was eiectea
Provisional President of San Salvador in
1885, after having defeated General Figueroa,
and spoiled the schemes of Generals
Barrios and Zaldivar for organizing a Central
American Union, to which San Salvador
was bitterly opposed. General Menendez
was re-elected President in 1887, and his terra
would have expired in 1891.
He has been accused of tyranny in forcing
into the military service the sons of some of
the best Salvadorean families, and in imprisoning
them and even causing them to be
flogged when they resisted.
THE LABOR WOELD.
All Denver (Col.) building workers won
eight hours.
Nxxe thousand miners are on strike in the
St. Etienne district in France.
Chicago belting manufacturers are opening
up a big trade in South Carolina.
A score or two of fertilizer factories are
being erected in South Carolina and Florida.
In nearly all Russian factories the employes
are required to work thirteen hours
per day.
There are forty brick machines In Phila
delphia, each of which can make 30,000
bricks_per day.
A Brooklyn (N. Y.) employer settled a
strike by paying the $209 owed the union by
eight of his men.
There are 45,000 colored people in New
Jorsey whose children are without an industrial
training school.
Brooklyn (N. Y.) tin and sheet-iron workers
struck for $3.50 for outside work, $3 for
inside and eight hours.
During the last twenty years 1201 lives
have been lost in Pennsylvania while mining
110,353,715 tons of coal.
Over 40^000 carpenters are said to have
been benefited as the result of the recent
eight-hour fight in New York.
A World's Congress of the seafaring
fraternity will be held in Glasgow, Scotland,
during the first week in October.
The cigarmakers' unions have gained
nearly 39DO new members through winning
forty strikes in the last few montlis.
The strikes at Truman, Moravia, and
Gratz, in Styria, ended in a triumph for the
men. Tho employers acceded all their demands.
The International Shoeworkers' Union
has 23,000 members, is young and has raised
wages $300,000 a year, gained other
points.
It has been decided to order strikes In all
carpenter shops in Brooklyn, N. Y., where
tho eight-hour working day has not been established
.
Perhaps tho strongest and most cohesive
labor organization in the world is the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, numbering
nearly 50,000 members.
But few Chinamen assisted in jrnthering
cherries at Hay wards, in California. Girl3,
twelve years old, made during the season
from $2 to S3 a day picking cherries.
The annual union of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers was held
at Rock Point, Penn., recently. Between
16,000 and20,0JO people were present.
The typewriter has invaded the British
war office, and with such success that it is*
proposed to transfer some Of the work at!
present done by clerks to women with their
machines.
Governor Abbett; of New Jersey, has
eigned the bill prohibiting the employment
or private detectives to quell strikes. It forbia?
the appointment of non-residents cf tho
Stats 03 speciaU>33cers,
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The Monarch of Gluttons.
Louis XVI., "The Grand Monarch,"
was a grand eater. His 6istcr suid of him :
<41 have seen the King take at a single
meal four plates of different soups, an
entire pheasant, a partridge, a great
plateful of salad, two large slices of
ham, a huge quantity of mutton with
garlic, a whole plate of tarts, piles of
fruit, and finish up with hard boiled
eggs." The appetite of Louis XV. was
scarcely less Gargantuan, though more
particular. He paid his cook ?5000 a
month. No price was too costly for
anything he fancied. He is said to have
once paid $2250 for a turtle, which was
procured from London. The chief cook
of Louis XVI. had a stipend of $15,000
a year. Louis XVIII. used to get up in
the middle of the night in order to cat a
hearty meal. Even the Citizen King,the
head of the Orlcanists, was a great eater.
Commercial Advertiser.
Twenty Million Stars In View.
Astronomers say that the. fabulous
number of 20,000,000 stars, all aglow,
can be seen with a powerful microscope.
When we consider that the nearest of
these is 200,000 times as far from us as
the sun, and that it would take from
three and a half to twenty-one years for
the light which reaches us to cease if
they were extinguished, we cannot
grasp and hold the vast conception in
our minds. Yet it is supposed that each
ot these is a central sun, with its own
colony of planets circling round it,
which in size are vastly superior to those
of our own solar system, and are traveling
through space with such speed that it
is impossible for us to comprehend it.
The star Sirius is said to be moving
fifty-four miles a second, or 194,400
miles per hour, a flaming mass, leading
its brood of planets through illimitable
space.?New York Telegram.
A Dnriuj* Mountain Climber.
Dr. Hans Meyer, the German mountain
explorer, intends to try to reach the
top of Kcnia, the second highest
mountain in Africa. Kcnia is about 19,000
feet high, only 700 feet lower than
Kibo, the higher summit of Kilima
Njaro, and is perpetually snow-crowned.
Dr. Meyer will be accompanied by Ludwig
Purtscheller, and will go equipped
with ice axes, snow spectacles, Alpine
ropes, climbing irons, rubber coverings
and sheepskin sleeping bags and blankets.
?New York Sun.
Among the passengers on the La Bretagne,
which recently sailed for Europe, was Mr. Alfred
B. Scott, of Scott & Bowne, proprietors of
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. This is one
of his periodical trips to attend to the affairs
of the firm, which has branch houses In London,
Paris, Barcelona, Milan and Oporto.
A submarine cable is to be laid this summer,
between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Bermuda.
An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption.
When death was hourly expected from
Coiimmptiim, all remedies having failed and
Dr. H. Jam C8 was experimenting, he accidentally
made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which
cured his only child, and now gives this recipe
free on receipt of two stamps to pay expenses.
Hemp also cures night sweats, nausea at the
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hours. Address Craddock & Co., 10J2
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While Decorating Your Homes
Do not forget that the toilet table is an important
affair, still more Important what to
nave on it.
Every good housekeeper will acknowledge
the value of having a reliable remedy at band
in ease of ncc<l, and there is nothing better in
the world than l)r. Tobias's Venetian Liniment,
the sovereign pain reliever, besides
which a single trial will convince any lady
that it is indispensable for the toilet table as
it quickly removes pimules and blotches from
the neck, facc and nanas, while for the stings
of insects it is infallible.
All druggists sell It.
The Fire Department of New York is larger
than that of London, but smaller by one-half
that of Paris.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompten's
Lve-water. Druggists sell at25o.per bottla
1 OXIJ ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acta
gentlyyet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys*
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aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever producM,
pleasing to the taste ana acceptable
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i i? 1 i 1 O If ?
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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 Figs is for sale in 50o
tnd $1 bottles by all leading druggists.
Any reliable druggist who
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Health and Strength
Soon replace weakness and languor If that rellaolj
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"I think Hood's SarsaparUla Is just the medietas
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?. Smith, East Broad Top, Pa.
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ty C. L HOOD A CO., Lowell, Mass.
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