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AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. - BREED 'WITII JUDGMENT. Fashion in trotting stock is constantly fluctuating. The family which stands highest in popular esteem to-day may be greatly overshadowed by some other family some years hence. For this reason the young breeder should guard against becoming wedded, so to speak, to any one family of trotters. The breeder who has the best judgment and keeps the best posted by the records will be the first to dctect the coming trotting sire or family, and will be likely to have a little of that stock to sell when the tidal wave arrives. FEEDING FOWLS BY CLOCKWORK. It is in print that Fred Leach, of Ansonia, Conn., has some fine poultry, and : believes in feeding them as regularly as he eat? his own meals. He is unable to be at home nights when the chickens go to roost, and in order that they may be fed without fail, he has rigged up an apparatus which works like a charm. The usual quantity of corn is placed in a tin can, which is suspended from a string and weighted. An alarm clock in the outer coop releases the string at a certain hour, the can turns bottom side up, aDd the com is scattered. There are four coops and each has its can, all working at the same time.?New York Witness. FEEDING A CALF. In feeding young calves it is necessary to stint them to a safe quantity. When i a calf sucks it draws the milk slowly and ^ gets tired by the time it has got enough ^ of it and stops, but when drinking from n 'if f mol 1ah*p Atit'/tlrlr on/1 rrill rrrwrrn a pan otvaiunio vjutvi\ij uuu n?u itself if permitted to do so. Ilence the food should be graudatcd to its necessities only, which are satisfied with three quarts of warmed skimmed milk at a meal,. This may be given twice a day to a calf a week old up to four weeks, when four quarts may be given, and five later on when it can be digested. Milk feeding should be contined for three months at least, and a little grain, oatmeal or oats, or bran or corn meal, may be given once a day. If the calf acquires a habit of -sucking things this will be cured by giving the meal iu a shallow box or trough.?New York Times. WATER FOR EEES. When the apiary is not located near a stream, where bees can sip from its gravelly banks, it should be provided for them in the apiary, if possible in some sheltered nook. Bees are carrying much water now, and as the old paint kegs which I formerly used for this purpose had their bottoms bursted out with freezing during the past winter, I looked j around and found a much better substi- t tute in a large keg which had held maple j sugar. This is free from paint and has . a much larger surface for the bees to sip from, while sections float on the surface, and old muslin strings hang on the sides, to act a3 6yphons for the bees to sip from. A large pitcher, minus a handle, holds water?a little brackish; a teaspoonful of salt to a pail of water is sufficient. Bees need salt-water more in the country than they do in the city, where there is so P much they can obtain. Bees are often Been around manure piles, especially after a rain, sucking the moisture, and mortar is a great favorite with them.?Prairie Farmer. CHESTER "WIIITE SWIXE. ' Mr. T. B. Evaus, of Geneva, HI., a breeder of improved Chester swine, tells that the following are points one ought to aim at in the breeding of these ani mais: Ham, twelve points with meat to hock joint. Loin, ten points, full and wide. I Shoulder, nine points," wide and deep. Heart, nine points, full back of shoulder. Rib, ten points, well sprung at back and rounding. Flank, eight points, deep and full to leg. . Quarters, five points, long with a gentle curve to tail. ; Legs, ten points, placed a proper distance under body, and straight. Neck, fire poiuts, short and deep. Head, four points, broad, medium length, with medium ear. Jowl, five points, deep and short. Feet, five points, stand straight on their feet?not back. Back, three points, broad and straight. ! Tail, two points, small and fine. ' Hair, three points, silky, wavy or straight; color, white, no dark spots on skin. ; a 8ure thing ox k0se-bt7g3. i A. "W. Pearson, a noted horticulturist of Vineland, N. J., says lie kills rosebugs by smashing them. lie avers that he knows of no insecticide which is also an insecticide for a rose-bug?that is, /which will kill the bugs and not injure the plant. Pyrcthrum will intoxicate or stupefy them; they will fall from their perch and after a time recover and fly again. He has experimented with all the poisons procurable in the dmg shops, and tvithout desired results. In dealing with rosc-bugs in his vincyord Sir. Pearson sends his men along the trellis early, from 6 to 10 a. m. Tiiey strike the vines withpaddles; th? bugs fall on the ground, and then they smash them with the paddles. The vines arc trained upon a single wire, and the ground is made smooth and clean beneath, so that when the bugs fall they are easily smashed. This job must be doue every morning until the ibugs leave the vines foi other foods. Even if something medicinal would be found to kill the bugs, it would be of no use during such an invasion as Vineland has had for the past three years. Kill one and four more wiil come to attend [the corpse. They migrate and travel onward like the army-worm. They must 'be fought end killed as fast as they come. By constaut work for two or three weeks cach year, Mr. Pearson has 6aved most of his vines.?New York Witntis. Otni COMMON ROADS. There is one subjcct vitally affecting ;the farmers of this country, in which in imoat sections there has been no improve* iment and no change except from bad to worse. It is the general testimony that 'in large districts of most of the States ithe country roads are in a deplorable condition,and during the seasons of win, ter and spring so impassable to farmers living a few miles from town or railroad L station as to shut them off from market And compel their families to live virtual ly isolated from the outside world for months. As a result farms thus situatec depreciatc greatly iu value and are often wholly abandoned. It is well known that good roads can be made from hard materials at a large cost,buthowtomakcadirtroad that shall be reasonably useful at all seasons under a moderate amount of travel is the great want of the farming community, and our State experiment stations can do no greater service than by causing short sections of bad roads to be improved experimentally, as samples of what may be done without being too expensive for geueral adoption. There are many causes of bad roads, but the leading one is a failure to keep the roadbed free from moisture and wet. Rows of large trees along a roadside will by their shade intensify its bad condition and keep it muddy for weeks after it would otherwise become passably dry. Water standing in the ditclfts by the roadside is a fruitful source of bad roads, on the same principle that a cellar often becomes wet though covered with a roof. Another cause of our bad roads that is seldom or never taken into the account; and for which it is doubtful if there is any remedy, lies in the construction of the wheels passing over them. Narrow tread is the general rule and a broad tire the exception. If they could be reversed the travel would be less damaging, for it is the wheels more than the team that draws them that make the worst ruts, and on a softened roadbed the narrowtread wheels cuts down into it like knives.?-Neva York World. ? FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. See that the coUar .Gts ttsiprs*^ By the way, cut and kill bushes. Sharp tools save time and muscle. Avoid the damp grass after sun-down. Poultry hatched in hot weather do not thrive well. Avoid having stale eggs by gathering them every day. The way to make horse-raising profitable is to breed and feed for the best. An animal raised on the farm will not introduce disease from an outside source. rv- - 11 ? ?~ ? A ? rtrPOP DO Ull you QLl LU jllUlUCb lug nviow from flics. At least, provide good flynets. Grub in the hend and lack of grub in the stomach are two deadly enemies of the sheep. Do not feed corn alone during tl^p summer; it is too heating and fattening at this time. First-class roadsters are comparatively scarce, and likely to be in demand for some time to come. There is no danger of giving too great a variety of food, but there is danger in too small a variety. Goose feathers should he kept separate from the duck and chicken feathers. They sell for the highest price. Do not depend on borrowing the ordinary farm tools from your neighbors. Own them and keep them in good conditinn When you get out the mowing machine put a little good axle grease on tha cog-wheels and be sure to keep the knives sharp. Clover hay fed to the stock makes a better manure than timothy, and if hay is to be sold from the farm, let it be timothy. By cutting the flowers from your shrubs and plants you prevent the exhaustion of their vitality by its use in maturing seed. If poultry can be given the run of the orchard from now on they will be able to destroy a large number of insect pesta that prey upon the trees and fruits. A liberal supply of coarse sand or gravel, and a liberal feed of burnt bones pounded fine, and lime and ashes, all tend to keep hens from eating eggs. Remember that the season for the development of microbes is at hand, and keep every corner and crevice scrupulously fl/wn Von rnrinnfc fret VOUf Cellar too clean. The cheesy taste in butter is said to be due to the imperfect cleansing of the buttermilk from the milk. It is only another degree in the scale of buttermilk flavor. "The more tests I make and the more seeds I sow, the more I am convinced of the importance of securing seeds with good pedigrees," says S. B. Green, of the Minnesota Experiment Station. The Iowa Experiment Station found that milk showing eight per cent, of cream gave a larger yield of butter than was obtained from milk giving ten, eleven, twelve or even thirteen per cent, cream. Breed is not a guaranty of quality? the difference between two cows of the same breed being frequently as great as between the averages for different breeds, even lor inose 01 very uduku average | quality. A mulch in dry -weather prevents the j sun from extracting the moisture the plants need. To keep an inch of the surface stirred is the same a?s to haul on leaves, straw or other mulch. The loose soil is a mulch to that below it. Did you ever hear the boy's definition of salt? It was: "Something that made potatoes taste bad if they had none on them." How do you think that would suit the cow's taste, if you substitute grass for "potatoes"? Give them what salt they want. If any one doubts the beneficial effects of buckwheat in your orchards, let him sow half of the orchard -with this crop the last of June and plow it in, and treat the other half in ordinary ways. He will find in three years a difference in favor of the buckwheat portion that can be seen a mile distant. If a cellar has a damp smell, and cannot be thoroughly ventilated, a few trays of charcoal Bet around on the floor, shelves and ledges will make the air pure and sweet. If a large basketful of charcoal be placed in a damp cellar where milk is kept, the milk will be in no danger of becoming tainted. A Floating Church. Parisians have been rather surprised to see a floating church on the Seine, between the Pont de la Concord and the Pont de Solfcrino. The nautico-ecclesiastical construction is owned by a British evangelizing society, and is no doubt intended .'is a temporary place of landing for the barges and general riverside people, some of whom are badly in want of conversion.?Mail and Express. In Great Britain and Ireland the Baptists have 2786 churches, 1881 pastors or missionaries, 329,126 members. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. UTILIZING "WOODEN PLATTERS. Talle Talk tells us how to utilize the little, thin, wooden plates now used so extensively in sending out lunches from restaurants and bakeries. Take two perfect plates; cut one in heart form, gild or bronze it inside and out; fasten it to the other plates by means of small holes about three-fourths of an inch from the edges, through which are run silken cords. Sketch a pretty design on the upper plate, and the result is unique. ORNAMENTATION OP IIOUSEIIOLD LINEN. The ornamentation of household linen should be of a kind that will not deteriorate by wear and tear or by frequent washing. The popular style of open work now claiming much attention from housewives who desire the latest fancy resembles Renaissance or Richelieu guipure. For this the embroidery is done with colored threads. The main portions of the design touch each other, or are drawn so as to be connected by small bars. The outlines are covered "with n ofr?V?oc onrl tV?n -natfnrn fillpfl UUl>tUUUUlV> onv.v^u\-o uuu VUV/ 2#UI'VV< M ?? %?. I in with various fancy stitches, as may be | required, lace stitch, French knots, etc. When the design is embroidered the material between the portions should be cut away. Care should be exercised in selecting both the design and the colored threads, that the former, when finished, may be sufficiently close to prove durable and thut the latter may not fade. ?New York World. BAMSTIIKO FLIES. Flies will not pass through a net made of. .thread, fine silk or wire stretched across airopcn wmaow, eveh~t rK):^^I'C . meshes are an inch apart, unless there is | a window or light behind it. 'inis affords a ready means of excluding these insects from all our rooms which have windows on one side of the rooms, flies can only be kept out by using fine gauze for the purpose. The best way to destroy flies in a room is to expose on a shallow plate the following mixture: Quassaichips (small), one-quarter ounce; water, one pint; boil ten minutes, strain, and add of treacle four ounces. Flies will drink this with avidity, and arc soon destroyed by it. Cold green tea, very strong, and sweetened with sugar, when set about the room in saucers, will also attract flies and destroy them. An ingenious person has devised the following plan: Observing that a fly always walks upward, he made a window screen divided in half. The upper half lapped over the lower, with an inch space between. As soon as a fly lighted on the screen it proceeded to walk upward, and thus walked straight out of doors. Not being able to walk down it had no way to return to the room. By this means a room ctn be quickly cleared of flies, which always seek the light. BOrQUET MAKIKG. The most graceful bouquets hare the least method in their arrangement; a few sprays of bloom put in carelessly often are the most artistic in cffect. A bunch of misty gypsophilla with a half dozen or more coreopsis blossoms, placed in a dark brown vase and set before a mirror was a combination which demonstrated this. Pew large flowers ate capable of more arrangement tban the peony. The old time, rich, red variety forms a gorgeous bunch by itself, or is equally beautiful lightened with sprays of white; with its own bronzy-green foliage, it is mcst effective. The lovely and fragrant Chinese varieties, with their delicate shadings and exquisite tints, when massed on a platter and bordered with ferns are almost as handsome as roses and make a pretty and lasting table decoration. There is an early single peony, between magenta and rose in color, and with a deep golden heart. It is contemporary with the first sturdy growth of the ribrrroce onrl flnmhinpo wifh it 1 fl mi rn - I bly, although, by tradition, lemon lilies and ribbon grass are affinities. An old ginger jar of just the right shade of blue, filled with a large bunch of these richly odorous lilies, their exquisite yellow relieved by the creamy white and delicate green of the grass, may quite content the artistic country maiden who has no royal Worcester and orchids at her command. ?VicW* Magazine. RECIPES. Quick Biscuit?Two cups flour, one tablespoonful mixed lard and butter, one cup milk, one heaping teaspoonful baking powder, pinch salt. Handle little, roll out and cut quickly, and bake in a steady oven. 1-1- f 1 11 ,1 unocoiaie icing?aiiow iuic |juuuu ui icing sugar to every two ounces of chocolate; grate the latter into a saucepan, and mix -with it eight tablespooufuls of water; stir well, and let it cook gently for ten minutes, then add the sugar, and use while warm. Potato Soup?Three pints of rich milk, one pint of mashed potato, two tablespoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper to teste. Boil the milk, add the potato and boil again, stirring frequently, that the potato may become thoroughly dissolved, and season just before serving. Serve very hot. Puree of Celery?Boil two heads of celery in plenty of salted water with an onion, a blade of mace and some whole pepper. "When done drain them and pass them through a hair sieve. Melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, mix a little flour with it, then the celery pulp and work it well on the tire, adding a little cream of milk and some of the gravy of the ducks. Horseradish Sauce.?Mix two or three heaping tablespoonfuls of fresh gMed horseradish with twice as much cream. Rolf if lirrlifltr n*irl in nn nnilfll Yllim. ISVi* .v cw. v., ber of dessertspoonfuls of vinegar with a teaspoonful of sugar. Add a little peppersaucc or cayenne if very hot. sauces are liked. This sauce is good either hot or cold. If preferred hot, it must be warmed in a double boiler, taking carc that it does not boil, or it will curdle. It is especially good with roast beef, either hot or cold. Marbled Chicken.?Take a fat fullgrown chicken, and, after dressing it in the usual manner, wash and boil until very tender, using only a small quautity of water, aud season with pepper, salt and butter. Cut all the me^t from the bones, keeping the breast and dark-colored meat separate. With a sharp knife chop the meat moderately fine, and press in a large bowl, putting the white and dark meat in alternate layers. Strain the liquor in which the fowl was cooked and pour it over the meat. Set on the ice until thoroughly cold; turu from the bowl, cut. in thin slices, and serve with I sliced lemons. _ CURIOUS FACTS. Punctuation marks are less than 400 years old. One million dollars, gold coin, weigh 3G5.8 pounds. Triplets born in Newman, Ga., have been named Red, White and Blue. Measure 200 feet on each side and you will have a square acre within an inch. A cabman in Philadelphia found $20,000 in his cab and returned it all to the owner. Only one book out of 40,000 in the Boston public library fails to be returned. The first knives were used in England, and the first wheeled carriage in France in 1559. Criminals are executed by the sword or guillotine in Switzerland. The mode differs in various Cantons. The lark does not rise until after tbo chaffinch, linnet and a number of other hedgerow folk have been merrily piping for a good -while. Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867, for $7,500,000, aod the UDitcd States government has already received that sum from the seal fisheries. The District of Columbia, located on both sides of the Potomac, was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia, and accepted in 1790 as the seat of government. The twentieth anniversary of a wedding is never celebrated. It is considered very unlucky to do so. The Scotch think one or the other will die within the year if the twentieth anniversary is even alluded to. The Valley of the Amazon is larger 'tBafr-ihat of the Mississippi, the former r'ver draining ?-33^,000 square mile3; the Mississippi 1,244,M0 squaf?>eftiJ?^ The Amazon drains a greater area than j any river on the globe. The greatest length of the United States from the Atlantic; to the Pacific, on the parallel of forty-two degrees, ia 2768 miles; and its greatest breadth, from Point Isabel,Texas, to the northern boundary near Pembina, North Dakota, 1611 i- miles. The Anglo-Saxon Godric, Sheriff of Buckingham, England, according to the old chronicles of the reign of William the Conqueror, "granted to Aleuid half ft hide of land as long as he should be Sheriff, on condition she taught his daughter the art of embroidery." The library of Cornell University possesses an oriental manuscript written on palm leaves, consisting of 195 strips or leaves, each seven by one and a quarter inches, fastened together by a cord passing through a hole in the center of each leaf. The writing is done on each side of the leaves by etching the characters with a sharp instrument on the palm leaves, which have been afterward rubbed a lvlanl* ninrmPnf U V CI TViIU a The Watsonville (Cal.) Transcript says: An ancient coin was picked up from the bed of the Pajaro River by Anna Peckham this week. On one side is the head of a warrior and on the other four war horses attached to a chariot driven by a soldier. Records prove it to be a coin cast in the time of Herod Agrippa II., with the head of Nero. It is in a good state of preservation, with the exception of the superscription, which is incomplete. At average speed a man walks three miles an hour, or four feet per second; a horse trots seven mile3 per hour, or ten feet per second; a steamboat moves eighteen miles per hour, twenty-six feet per second; a moderate wind blows seven miles per hour, ten feet per second; a storm moves thirty-six miles per hour, fifty-two feet per second; sound travels 743 miles per hour, 1115} feet per second; light moves 192,000 miles per second, aud electricity 288,000 miles per second. A marvelous lace wonder is reported as landed in the United States. It is a unique specimen of embroidery and Irish lace,specially manufactured for the great international exhibition of 1851, atwhich it took a first prize. It took twelve girls twelve months to make this perfect specimen of the old hand embroidery and lace of Ireland. The cost was ?>2000. No work of to-day is so fine aud exquisite as the drawn aud embroidered border of this wonder. The main design i3 a chaplet of fern leaves, entwined with the rose, the shamrock and the thistle. Statistics Abont tlic Echo. Some one has recently figured out the exact distance that a person may be removed from a reflecting surface and yet hear the echo of his own voice. Five syllables a second is said to bo the limit both of distinct pronunciation and distinct hearing. This gives one-fifth of a second for each syllable. "When the atmospheric temperature is sixty-one degrees sound travels 1120 feet a second. In one-fifth that time it will cover a distance of 224 feet. Hence, if a reflecting surface is 112 feet distant the initial sound of an uttered syllable will be returned to the ear just as the next syllable starts on its journey. In this case the first fifth of the second is consumed in the utterance of a syllable and the next fifth of the second in hearing its ccho. Two syllalles would be echoed from a reflectiug surface 224 feet distant, three syllables from 33(i feet, and so on within the nf onriii-iionpcc "Veuj York Pi'ess. Fishes in lligh Lakes. It is a mystery how fish get into the little lakes upon top of the mountains. There was never a lake so high that it did not have fish in it. Bearfoot Pond, not many miles from Lake Hopatcong, N. JM is over 1300 feet in the air and yet it is chock full of bass and perch. They certainly did not get in by going up stream, and if anybody took the trouble to carry them up,he had a mighty hard time of it, for the lake is two miles straight up from everywhere. Fish -will get into lakes without being fnrried lir men or without swimming up stream. It is well known that water fowl will distribute yelllow perch by carrying the sticky eggs on their feet. Bass do not become distributed except by the hand of man or going up stream. Trout go anywhere where there is water enough to float a chip, and pickerel get moved around from place to place the same as perch do.?Pittsburg Dispatch. Cnre for Insomnia. If you can't sleep at night as well as you wish, find some special reason why you should get up ear.y. It is a sure cure for insomnia. You will go to sleep the moment you get to bed, and sleep long 1 past the hour you wanted to get up.? i Atchison (Kan.) Globe, if-, iii . < : ;.Vv~- , -T-? Half a Century of Inventions. "Those of us not yet fifty years of age have probably lived in the most important and intellectually progressive period of human history," says Jron, and names the following as a few of the inventions and discoveries which have orignatcd or been made practical within the past half century: Occan steamships, railways, street-ear lines, the telegraph, ocean cable, telephone, phonograph; photography, and a score of new methods of picture-making; aniline colors, kerosene, electric lights, steam tire-engines, chemical fire extinguishers; anaisthetics and painless surgery; gun-cotton, nitroglycerine, and a host of other explosives; aluminum, magnesium, and other new metals; electro-plating, spectrum analysis, and the spectroscope; audiphone, pneumatic tubes, electric motors, electric railwavs. electric bells, type-writers, steam-heating, steam and hydraulic elevators, vestibule cars, cantilever bridges. To these may be added the vulcanizing of rubber,'the Bessemer steel process, bieyclcs, the Monitor type of war vessels, the dynamite gun, and doubtless the list does not now include all of the most important even. Candy's Ingredients. The ordinary New York candy factorj will employ about 100 to 150 hands, who arc largely adults and make vciy good wages. In the summer fifty barrel) of sugar per day will be made up intc sweets, and in a few months more, whet preparing for the holiday trade, and when the rush is at its highest, 200 barrels daily will not be considered a verj 1 - - c Tl.. +V.O c.inoi I ingll ug uic. 1 1iu ^iuub uuia \jx vuv augu, used in candy-making is of a specia grade of granulated refined especially fo: the purpose. A little corn syrup or glu cose is employed in the manufacture o; ^C2ie<kinds of candy, but outside of thai mtt s oi^ seeds, gums, choco late, etc., are the only ^Tfia&uiidsfound necessary. Starch is a prominent aid in manufacturing sweets, and the ordinary factorj will need about 100,000 pounds of it foi daily use. This may seem strange tc candy caters, bnt it is easily explained In the factory everything is laid out in starch. The moulds for gum drops, jolty beans and all such articles are all made in starch, and these moulds are among the most essential needs of the candj maker.?New York News. He Got His Price for the Book. J. Fletcher Williams, librarian of the State Historical Society, while in London recently, called on a dealer in old I books from whom the State Society has been buying books occasionally for the past twenty years. Mr. "Williams relatei that the presiding genius of this particular place, was a queer old piece of humanity, and illustrates it by the following incident : Agentlemau in search of a rare old English black letter volume found it in the store refeired to. Hf was much pleased at his discovery and asked the price. "Nine hundred dollars," said the proprietor. "Nine hundred dollars!" exclaimed the would-be purchaser of the volume, "that is too high. Now I think this book?," but here the vol umc was snatched from his Lands, ana | the proprietor threw it on the counter, exclaiming: "it'll be a thousand to-morrow!" And it is an actual fact that the book buyer, after along and vain 6earch, actually came back and paid a thousand dollars for the volume.?St. Paul Pioneer rress. Ste-Yore's Free, will bo sent by Crania & Co., Phila.t Pa., to any one in U. S. or Canada, postaye paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins's Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers. Stanley found Livingstone in the region ol Lake Nyassn, Africa, in October. 1871. Rock City Falls, I Sakatoga County, N. Y. J Dr. Tobias, New Yorl;: I have used your Venetian Liniments for a number of years, and consider them, without exception, tne best and most reliable before the people. Asa family medicine applied externally oz internally it is invaluable, its application harmless and the effect produced truly wonderful. They are indispensable in the household 01 the stable. Very truly yours, Chauncey Kilmer, Of the firm of C. Kilmer & Co. 1 oivis k.ntjovs Both the method and results when SvrunofFiesis taken: it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gentlyyetpromptly on the Kidneys, Liven and Bowels, clcanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs ia the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial mita effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and xhave made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Cd SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. UV/SVILU Ki IIEW YORK, N f. N Y N C?^8 ? _ CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS /r~^. RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND. 8?fe tod alvaja rrli?ble. Lidlct, A ? U ttl Drafgtu for Diamond Brand, la a\ **** loculllc bozei, ?c*led with bloc/9V\ ' ^ ?^6?rllil)00, Take no ether, ill pllli \\jy . a In paittboard bcxaa, pink wrappers, art \SjT ^7 ~ 0rdaa(traii conattrftlU. S?d 4<< L m (utampi) for parilculara, ttiUnoniall and i m 0 "Kollef for Ladlea," in UtUr, by rctara Jk /[f null, t/cmi Paper. CbltiinUr Cfram'l Co.. Hadhon Sr . PblU..P? l prescrlDe ana tuny ou. dorae Big (i as the only , ^flHrCarta lo specific (cr ttae certaineuro 70 & DaTB.^H of this dl'oaso. JHbamnntMd n? ?1 Q. H. IN: iRAIIAM, M. I)., Pj wnoBtrtitaw. ? .iiastcrdnm, N. Y. jjrdoalyby tka < V?Tn have sold Big G for VSdVniii Omlftl C* many years, and it bnu rivon tho best of uti* OuicIiiiaoJ^^m faction. D. R- DYOTE k CGj 1 ersd^^^Ml^^trkiSl.OO. SoldbjDmec'lflt*: v., ?- " -^5 Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken* internally. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Thb royal famOy in England usea the German language. Please Don't Forget It. That Dr. H. James" Cannabis Indica is prepared in Calcutta, India, from the purest and best Native Hemp, and is the only remedy either in that country or this that will positively and permanently cure Ommmfitimu Bronchitis, Aftlima, Natal Catai rh and Nervous Dcbilitu or break up a fresh cold in twenty-four hours. a bottle, three bottles for $6.50. Craddock & Co., Proprietors, lufii Race 6treet, Philadelphia. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch -St., Phila., Pa. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's live-water. Druggists sell at^oc.per bottls Good As Cold So enthusiastic are thousands of people over the benefits derived from Hood's Sarsaparllla that they can Hardly nna woras to express men ? and gratitude for this medicine. "Worth Its weight lo gold" Is a favorite expression of these warm friends If In need of a good medicine to purify your blood and build up your strength try Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. (1; six for $5. Prepared onlj by C. I, HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass, IOO Poses One Dollar I sr WORTH A C For BILIOUS ft NEI ( Such as Wind and Pain in the Stom ( Dizziness, and Drowsiness, Cold Chi (t Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, l ? Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all N ( THE FIRST DOSE WILL CIVE > BEECH AM S PIUS TAKEN AS DIRECTEL ( For Sick Headache, V i-^-O Digestion, Constipatioi ACT LIKE MAGIC, Strengthening the ! ( p leri""* Kwwplug back the keen edae oft I HEALTH lhowiwIe1fit^caJ ene^jjotjtj^ ) to the Nervous and Dernlltdt'edla that BEE ( ANY PROPRIETARY MEDICINE IN THE Wl / Prepared only by THUS. BEECH 1 Sold by Druggists arnmilly. B. F. / \ Soje Agents for the United 8t?tes}ir&o (if j ^^^^XdiStto tf -^TryJhJnyour Even the little pig i aeree able comoanion t collar or a woman whc house. But nobody wan a pig under any circume 5 EVERY WATERPROO i??? THA BE UP Not t< THE MARK L__J i NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN THE ONLY LINEN-L rni i ar IN WALL PAPER BARGAINS! We will guarantee all the^e clean new gooh Jiu: made, and full length?3 yards to the roll. An S-yd. roll White back Paper. 3 to Oj. An 8-yd. roll Gilt I'aper, 3 to 10c. An S-yd.roll Einbo.i?eil Gilt I'nper, Sto 13;. [ Gilt Borders. 4 to IS Inches wide, ? and j 3c. per yar.f. Borders without Gilt. If to 9 inches 1c. per yard. Send 4c. In stamps for samples of Ihe beat anl greauet bargains In the country. P. H. CA.DY, 305 HIGH STREET, Mention this paper. I'rovidcnce. R. I. . M MONEY IN CHICKENS. # M For 25c. a 100-page book, experlenco of a practical poultry raiser during WSm 2 yearn. Itteacbe3 how to detect yy jx* nnd cure diseases; to feed for egg* and for fattening; whictt fowls to lave for breeding, &c., &c. Address untw uiTii I'U 1 onnnrd St N. Y. CltV. nFIIOIAIIA S40.000.000 to be paid PPlVMIIIIX out toN year under the new ! Ill WIW Dltabl Ity Pension Act Every soldier Included w.io served au days and Is now disabled, no matter what the cause; or In ease of bis death bis widow aud minor children. Dejendent parents also benefited. Write at once for blanks and advice to UEO. 1>. MITCHELL, Soliclter or Pensions and Patents, Box 253, Washington, 1). C., Clerk Committee on Pensioas of the U. s. Senate tor tbo last seven years. PENSIONS.0a?pMt Invalid, Widow's or Minor's, or are you drawlnj Ins than 112.00 per month f Have you a claim pending but want relief?note 1 Write us and receive by return mat; appropriate blan'< and full Instructions for yourca e, withacopyottho new and liberal Law. LONGSHA W & BALLARD, Kef(*etues given. Loi <G, Washington, D. C. Plso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the B Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest S3 Sold by druggists or sent by maiL Kj 50c. E. T. Hazeltlne, Warren, Pa. || ERAZER^l BEST in the world UIILflwP CVGot the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. TUC ncDCiincNT PCN^mw Rll I I ML ULI LI1ULI11 I biiuivn uikb Grants pensions to Noldlcr*i I*a1lor? and their Widow* and Children. 1'ro cnt I'enslou* Increased. Write lm ti edlately, statlDg your can?. J. C. DP.K.UODY. Att*y-ntrLaw, Chaunccy Building. W A?*HIX<?tON, D. C. UClIf DCIICIilU I AW f 300.000 names to Hen rtnoiun LA1T . be added to the Penilon list Heject 'd and Delayed Claims allowed. Technicalities wiped out Havo your Claim settled w.thout delay. Patrick O'Farreil, Washington, D. C, I f|||C STUDY. Hook-keeping, Business Forms, NUInC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-nand,etc., I thorou-nly taught by MAIL. Circulars free. Bryant'h C'olie&c, *157 Main tit, Bu.Tnlo, N. Y. BATmiTC F- A. LEHMAN'S, HA I till I a Washington, D.C. m m m Sg.lD TOK CIBCTLAR. DCA10IDM0 ^ ii t PENSION Bill rtlioiuilo is Passed, en and Fathers arc entitled to SIS a mo.? FeetlOwhen you get yourmonry. Blanks frco JOSkTH U. HINTEH. Al'j, PukUftw, It. C. h ? v ; r " Martinez, Cul., October 2,1888. I could hardly walk or lie down from lam?. ' :-gb back ; suffered several weeks. St. Jacobs Oil I '-aigfl permanently cured me, other remedies hay* lug failed to do so. FRED. HITTMAN. M Cloverdale, Ind., Feb. 8,1887. ' '>? From a bad cold pains settled In my back I . 1 and I suffered greatly ; confined to bed and ! '-TS could hardly move or turn. I tried St. Jacobs ' *3HH| Oil, which cured me. I do not fear recurrence. ' MRS. P. M. REINHEIMEB. A NEW PLAN FOR INVESTORS 1 NO RISKS. SURE PROFIT8. JIM 70/ Guaranteed Bonds for Small Sums. -mk ' O Write for Full Information. -.'JjjflQ Unquestioned References East and Wert. * The Arapahoe Investment Co. 9 Incorporated:?Capital, 200,000 F. B. HILL, - - President. S CHAS. H. WOODMAN, Vice-Pres. CHAS. If SAGE, - Treasurer. jH TFAf. LLOYD, - Secretary. fl FRANKLIN PL ATT, - Counsel. Lock Box 2063, DENVER, COLO. fl SAM $ Lkla^EFFECTUALT*) j jUINEA A BOX.-^e < | WOUS DISORDERS I orcA, Fullness and Swelling after Meals, t lis, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, C Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed c ) ervous and Trembling Sensations &c. / I RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. ) I RESTORE FEMALES TO COMPLETE HEALTH > Veak Stomachy Impaired J i, uisoraerea Liver, etc., > muscular Syrtem, restoring long-lost Com- S ippetite, ft nil arouglag^wlth mn (TPfiriirP flir f 1 ^CHAM'S PILLS HAVE THE LARGEST SALE OF > A M. St. Helena, Lancashire, Englnnd. / ILLEN CO., 365 and 367 Canal St.. New YortL ) i/nur drnggistdoes not keep them) WILL MAIL S 'RICE,25cu. A BOX. (mention this papxs.) / v^^W^^WWVWWA/ hh&r&ch&rrnfrs imgs cle5.n edfby aJke of scou^in^|soMh nex^Jlouse-cle^ing'i^r=* n the picture is a more fi han a man with a dirty' > presides over a tawdry || ts the reputation of being' . ^ stances. F COLLAR or CUFF :|H T CAN BE RELIED ON 3 stoiit; ?t to Discolor! SEARS THIS MARK. ; trade ^ .LULOiy I mark. ; BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT/ IN E D WATERPROOF THE MARKET. l HOW j J|1 itecnre, or every mm a (simplote uuuaer.yreumy* r. byPatliser, Palligcr k Co..the weUknownarekitectfc , There la not a Builder or any one lntendm* ? bnlld or otherwise Interested that can afford to M without It. It lit a practical work and everybody buy* it The beat, cheapest and moatpopuUr yortcerit lamed on Bu'ldin?. Kearly 1 jur hundred drawlnrfc A ?i book In size and stile, but wehire detwminodto make It meet the popular demand, to ault the tlm?Mb o thatitcan be *a*lly raachea oy all. . . . Thl.book contains 104 pajres l,x14 *nd eoualsta of larfe?xl2 plate pages. elevations. perspective viewa. deacriptlone, owotir nun as, actual coot of coratrnotlon, no gnem and irwtnictlona Now t?? lJiilld TCColt?(W. VLLIM, Double Houses, Brick Block Housee, suitable lot v ' citv suburbs, town and country, houses ror the f?BI ana workingrmen's homej for all auctions or tM country, and coatlnfrfrom t300toffl.M0; al?o tarni, btablos, ftchool House, lown Hall, Churches MM o:her publlo bulldi/i jra, together with^ecifiM.tion% form of contract, ana a lir.e amount oflnforpiauoj on tho erection of hnildiajr*. selection ox site. ?Bt ployment of Architects, ft is worth $4 to any onfp but we will send itia papor cover by maO, postpau^ on receipt of $1.00; bound In cloth S2.00. ARCHITECT CO.. 15 Yandewater St.. new To** CJrslenUoa Xuia Paper._^| ~m I EWIS' 98 S LYE L Powdered and Perfumed. (PATENTED.) ^H*Li The strongest and purest Ly? A made. Will make the best per fumed Hard Soap in 20 minutes u'ithoutboiling. It is the mW best for disinfecting sinks, JV closets, drains, washing bottle^ ffl barrels, paints, etc. 1JL PENNA. SALT MT'G CO. t>en. Acif,, I'liila.. I'a. nrnrunrilT ncucinu Dill UCrCRULni rtngiun uikk tax income a law. $1 'A PER MONTH to aQ honorably discharge J Soldiers ami Sailors of the lata war, who arc incapacitated front earning a support. Widows the same, without regard to cauxe of death. Dependent Parents and Minor Children also Interen ted. Over Ai years' experience. References in all parts of the country. No charge if unsuccessful, write at once for"l*>py of Law," blanks and full 1? ttiuctlon* Aixraxx to it. McA I.MSTEK ?fc C'0. <i ucceswrs to ffm. Conard & Cc.), I*. O. B*x 713. \\ wahlnglon, 1). C. WM. FITCH & CO., 1OZ Corcoran Building, Washington, I). C. PENSION ATTORNEYS of over US years" experience. Successfully proa?cute pensions und clalnn of all kinds In shorteat [nxtslb.c time. FtrSo ^ EE uklbss successful. /B\ /^jom\ , / TON SCALES \ / OP \ $60 BINGHAMTON \ Beam Box Tare Beam J V^i N. T. \ r> ALL SIZES fc/ \ y<J jk /j1/ ' X?5^/ AnillBJ HA HIT. Only Ccrmiti aaA IIHIIIm > '? *> C'l'UG la the World. Or. Ul mill J. I,. (j'fF.l'HEXS Lebanon, a ^ fl CAIGI n M Julf n w.nuiiiiU) ICIMOI VIY M'usliington- D.<? 'Successfully Prosecutes Claim?* Late Principal Ei?mlii?r C S. Pension Burenk 3 jts lb laat Wisr, IS m^mhcallag cl&liEa, altv nlltttt. J . r' ?