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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
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A piano tuner tells that the instrumei
suffers from too great dryness. This \vi
be new to many who have heeded to
well the oft-repeated advice not to le
the piano become damp. The following
:is the remedy offered: Keep a growin
plant in the room, and so long as you
plant thrives your piano ought to, c
else there is something wrong with it
Just try it and see how much more wate
you will have to put iu the flower pot i
the room where your piano is than yoi
use in any other room. Some peopl
keep a vase or urn with a sopping we
sponge near or under the piano, am
keep it moistened, just 93 a cigar deale
keeps his stock. They keep this up al
the time the fires arc on.?Brookly,
Citizen.
MOISTURE-PAX IN OVEX.
In our own experience in baking, wi
find that a small pan of water placed ii
the oven, and filled as often as it be
comes dry, is a great help. It prevent
the bread or cake from burning, eve
with a full oven and very hot fire, save
nearly one-half the labor in watchin;
and turning the loaves, and prevents
thick, hard crust. It is usually fillei
with water from the teakettle, but if thi
oven seems too hot, tarow out the ho
water, fill with cold and put back. Th
pan we use is ten inches long, oue incl
wide and one deep, It is made by fold
ing the tin at the end9 and poundinj
lightly until the folds are so close tha
the pan is water-tmht. A pan mad<
with solder will not do, for with thi
best of care it will sometimes become dr
and the solder melt aud run out. Thi
pan slips in beside the pans of bread
next the fire box, aad takes very litth
room, Always have a holder to handl
tt with, and handle carefully when pour
ing in water after it has become dry, or i
bad scale will result.?Albany Cultivator
CAKE OP HARD-WOOD FLOOR9.
An expert in hard-wood floor3 say;
that it is a common mistake for peopl<
a orvr\ltt xoqt ir\ on nllp^ flnr\p hp far A t.hf
v "ry.j ???.
coat of oil has become thoroughly dry
The wax surface is undoubtedly the besi
finish a hard-wood floor can have. I
requires continual polishing with a was
polishing brush, when it is new, bu
when the wood has finally been broughl
to a high state of polish nothing is more
satisfactory. A great many people whe
hare laid down hard-wood floors in theii
kitiheas have become dissatisfied witl
them bscasuo they crack and fall off ir
in splinters when they are scrubbed anc
treated in the ordinary way. Such t
result is likely to follow such a method
of treating a hard-wood floor. Scrubbing
any sudh floor with alkali soaps 01
strong alkalies is sure to produce suet
results. A hard-wood floor must be finished
in oils, was or shellac, and foi
obvious reasons the oil finish is the best
for kitchen use. A dirty floor may be
wiped with a moist cloth, or, if necessary,
a little soap and water may be used.
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1 lie spuu LUCU ill US U U'J UliCU lUUiUU^UIJ
and rubbed with a little parquet oil.?
Nui York Tribune.
APPLES.
The season for th<" summer fruits having
passed, writes Mrs. E. R. Parker, ap^
pies will now be found a great resource
for the table, and may be served in ?
* variety of ways to render them accepta^
ble to every one.
Fried Apples?Slice tart, ripe apples:
make egg batter, very thin; sweeten auci
Savor with nutmeg; dip each slice ir
ind fry in butter.
Fried Apples with Breakfast BaconPry
thin slices of breakfast bacon; take
ap; set to keep warcu; slice ripe, tart
ippies; iry in tne drippings until Drown;
tgke up, and serve wita the b^con.
Brown Betty?Pare, core and slic<
half a dozen large tart apples. Pat i
layer of stale bread crumbs in the bot
torn of a bakiug dish, thea a layer of th<
apples, and more brearl crumbs until thi
dish is full; leave the last layer of breac
crumbs; mix half a cup of watei
and half a cup of molasses
stir in two tablespoonsful o
brown sugar; pour it over the top, an<
bake in a moderate oven for one hour
Serve with sweetened cream.
Marlborough Pudding?Strain a pin
of stewed apples; beat the yolks of si:
eggs and two cups of sugar together; adi
a quart of milk and flavor with vanilla
add half a cup of butter to the apple
while hot; then mix with the milk an<
eggs; pour into a baking dish, and baki
in a quick oven for half an hour. Bea
the white3 of the egg? until frothy; ad<
six tablespoons ot sugar, and beat unti
ihev stand alone. H-jat) them over th
top of the pudding and put back jut
the oven to browa. Serve cold wit
sugar and cream.
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is the proper duty of medicine.
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stomach and bowels, end invigorating the kldne:
and liTer. Therefore, If you are lu poor hcaltl
take Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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AGRICULTURAL.
! TOPICS OF IXTERKST RELATIVE
il TO FARM AXO GAKDEN.
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|t EREEDiXG DUCK.
j The ducks for next year's laying, to
g be used as breeders, should be selected
tr from the flock now, and the culls sold,
ir As a duck will lay about 150 eggs, but
a few are necessary for supplying all the
sr eggs needed for hatching. A drake and
a five ducks make a fair proportion, but
a two drakes and ten ducks may be kept
e in one flock if preferred.?Farm arul
t Fireside.
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ir THE WEIGHT OP ROOT9.
11 The weight of a bushel of roots varies
& in different localities. Potatoes are
usually estimated at sixty pounds to the
bushel, and this weight is commonly accented
as that of all other kinds or roots.
g It is a difficult matter to get as uccurate
Q measure of the various roots, on account
of the shapes that are so irregular, and
g thus it would be a convenience to have
a some standard to lollow. As there is
3 none that is at all certain, it is the best
? way to sell them by weight.?Neva York
? Timet.
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B TO GET RID'OF MOLES IN THE GARDEN,
t Moles are a great nuisance in the gare
den, and it is desirable to rid the garden
i of them. It is well known that the prin.
cipal food of moles is grubs and other
j Visects of the soil, and they do not att
tempt to eat seeds of any kind so long as
? they are hard, but a writer in the Amtri8
can Garden has learned from experience
j that if grains of corn are soaked in
s "Fowler's solution of arsenic" (kept in
t any drug store} until they become soft
3 and then dropped in the "mole runs'' the
a moles will suck it sufficiently to produce
. death.
i There are other methods of exterminatfUnm
UntoAnAH A m AllfVi
lllCLLl) liUWCVCi. A iai^CMUUUtUUU
jar placed in the run or a cow's horn are
frequently used with success in catching
them.
A dead-fall with sharpened spikes is
used also with successful results.
CHARCOAL FOR PIGS.
Now that the corn-feeding season has
come care should be ta&en to provide
fattening hogs with charcoal. Its alkali
helps correct the acidity of stomach which
often makes fattening hogs' teeth rot
when they are fed all tbey will eat of com :
on the cob. It is not the hardness oI th?
grain that does this. Soft corn makes sore <
teeth, though it may be very easily
ground with the teeth. The seat of the
| trouble is in the stomach, and wood ashes
! and charcoal are the cure. The charcoal
a'.so probably furnishes some nutrition.
It is nearly pure carbon, and the same
I chemically as the starch of corn or other
i grain largely composed of starch. Buraed
i nr\rn An fKo flrtK yo an DTA^Ilonf tA
i VUiU UU bUV WU iO Ua (.AWWItvUW " UJ wv
; j feed charcoal to pirs. The burned corn
i | is also good as occasional diet for fowls,
] though these when given a run rarely
, ! suffer from indig<?stion.?Boiton Cultir
valor.
PEOTEq^'XG VISES FEOM FB0ST.
R. A. Piatt, who is an old newspaper
man, but now foreman on the celebrated
Biggs vineyard, incidently gave us some
valuable information this afternoon, rela!
tive to the preservation of the vine when
i it is subject to the frost. As it is known
by every viticulturist of the country that (
small particles of frost sometimes fall in
; certain districts at this season of the year,
I and as the young vines are very tender,
i serious damages are often sustained by its 1
ravages in a single night. Mr. Piatt, who
. is considered one of our wide-awake men,
5 is ready for the frost should it come.
jtus meory, wmcn is saia 10 De correct
in every sense of the word, is to have
piles of straw or manure covered with
tar placed at different points over the
? vineyard, and if any indications of frost
i ' appear he simply touches a match to the
- j matter, and the elements for several feet
j j above the earth's surface are soon com3
] posed qf one dense mass of 'smoke,
1 \ which continues until after sunrise,
r | when all danger is passed. This is a
; simple but nevertheless a positive protecf
! tion against the ravages of the frost.?
i Woodland, Democrat.
ROTATION FOR GRAPES.
The practice of changing crops more
s or l3ss systematically nas always been
^ ' found advantageous, and various theories
i have been offered explanatory of the
3 ! principles upon which the benefits of ro*
i tativc cropping depend. The same re3
I suits have been found in the culture of
it; j the grape.
* As stated by Mr. Saunder3, the Superl
I iritendent of Gardens and Grounds at
/? I TTT_ _l_ i. ii. 1 1 i. r
wasmn^ion, 11. uas ueeu uusiumary lor a
0 number of years for the Department to
h propagate several thousands of plants,
embracing varieties of grapes. These are
mostly grown from single eye cuttings in
~ sand beds under glass, and placed singly
in pots, when rooted. About the end
of May they are turned out of the pots
and planted out in the open field, rather
"> closely, in rows which are about three
l* feet apart. When they have finished
their growth for the season they are
lifted and removed from the fieU', tLe
ground receives a coating of rotted ma?
nure which is worked in, leaving the
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r9 surface rough to be acted upou by the
ti, frost.
In the following spring the soil is
placed in good order for planting, and
at the proper time young grapes are
l~ planted as before. These are removed
? at the end of the season and the ground
^ receives similar treatment to that of the
previous year. Notwithstanding this
treatment the third crop is very indifferent,
and if a fourth crop is planted it
will prove to be an entire failure. In
view of such diminishing growths upon
the same ground, the question naturally
arises that if a deterioration of growth
becomes so marked in so short a time
and with such attention to the soil, what
may be expected when acrcs are closely
planted with grapes, as in the case of
vineyards, where the entire soil speedily
becomes filled with roots? It need not
be a matter for surprise if vineyards buc
ome unproductive after producing
< ' several unsatisfactory crops.?New Yvrk
- World.
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^ GREEN MANURING FOR WHEAT.
At the North Carolina Agricultural
^ Experiment Station they have been testing
the value of green manuring for
) wheat by the plowing under of pea vines.
^ The land was "very poor and close, cou
sisting of a sandy loam with a yellow
clay subsoil." Two bushels of peas per
acre were sown broadcast June 7, and
t- plowed about the middle of October,
* and on November 12 the fertilizer and
wheat were sown. There was much injury
from winter-killing, but the plant!
injured were those where no peas had
been plowed in. The stronger plant'
where the pea vines were did not yield
to bad weathei.
The fertilizers used were kainit, acid
phosphate, cotton-seed meal, each 30(1
pounds per acre, and a combination ol
300 pounds, consisting of 175 pounds
acid phosphate, S7? pounds cotton-seed
meal and 37| pounds kainit, and another
combination of double the strength
of the last named. Similar plats with
the same fertilizers were sown where no
pea vines were plowed under.
The seven acres without pea vines had
an average yield per acre of four bushels
forty-four pounds, and the seven acres
with the pea vme3 plowed in had an
average yield of twentv bushels fifty-five
pounds of wheat, with nearly a correspondiug
increase in amount of straw.
Where no fertilizers were used,'excepting
the pea vines, there was in 1888-89 a
gain of about ten bushels per acre over
the unfertilized plot without the green
manuring, and in xooa-au tne gain upon
two plats was nearly the same.
The best results were from the use of
300 pounds of acid phosphate with the
pea vines plowed in. Of the compound
mixtures of kainit, acid phosphate and
cotton-seed meal, the double strength
made but a slight gain over the other
where the pea vines were put, but a decided
increase where no pea vines were.
The cost of the acid phosphate was but
little more than the kainit, and less than
the cotton-seed meal or the 300-pound
mixture which produced but a little
less.
They make the following deductions:
Average increased yield of wheat due jto
pea vines in 1889, ten bushels one
nmm/l A ppmiia innrpase diip tn np?
vine3 in 1890, sixteen bushels eleven
pounds. Acid phosphate showed better
results with or without the pea vines
than any other fertilizer tried. To obtain
the same results upon wheat iA New
England or the Middle States peas
should be sown early in the spring and
plowed under in July. There are
probably other crops that will do as well
here as the pea vines, of which clover is
the most used.?American Cultivator.
FAKJI AXD GARDEN NOTE9.
A garden must have good drainage.
Fruit bruised in handling soon rots.
It never injures an orchard to manure
it.
Shade trees are an iDjury in the garden.
Make a garden of your farm as far as
possible.
Hens, hogs and sheep are all beneficial
to an orchard.
Cban out the currant bushes and other
small fruit plants.
If you cut weeds now, burn them to
destroy their seeds.
A family without a garden deserves
puolic commiseration.
If your cabbage is heading too rapidly
loosen the roots a trifle.
One fowl with scurvy legs is apt to
impart the disease to others.
Ducks and geese are the the best fowls
to raise on wet, low-lying lands.
"When the hens lay soft-shelled eggs
they either need lime or they are too
fat.
Destroy all weeds and keep the ground
clean around your house and outbuildings.
A sudden change from one kind of
grain to another will often stop hens
from laying.
One advantage with ducks id that they
are less liable to disease than almost any
other kind of poultry.
Poultry manure is the richest that can
be secured on the larm and it should be
carefully stored away. ,
Clean hay or straw makes a good covering
for the floor in winter,an i will add
materially to the comfort of the fowls.
Take care of your poultry as though
you expected some eggs through the fall
and winter, and you are sure to get
them.
Give the hennery a gooi cleaning up
and whitewashing to begin with, and
then keep it up through the fall and
winter.
Experiments recently made in growing
plants and vegetables in greenhouses by
electric light show splendid results in
favor of the system.
One of the things to be done for the
benefit of hens at a later date is to scgop
into a large box a big lot of road dust.
It will be esteemed a luxury in the winter.
A barrel of sand, gravel, or grit is a
splendid resource for the laying hens. If
it is not furnished for winter use by the
thoughtful farmer then his flock of hens
fail of one necessity.
The lime to fatten fowls is when they
are wanted for the table, not when their
eggs are wanted. The regularly laying
hen is the brightest looking and most
active one of the flock.
Tho best medicine .for cholera and
croup in the flock is in the form of a
preventive. It consists in a reasonable
degree of cleanliness, and that is reached
by a few minutes' work each day.
There is always a time in the winter,
when the ground is frozen hard and
there is no snow, when all stubs that
have grown since the after-harvest cutting,
and anything that was left over,
may be attended to. Use a heavy hoe,
and whatever you strike will break like
pipe-stems. Keep the farm clean and it
will be a bad place for berry-pickers to
make a living,and there will be nc cause
for a trespass suit.
Horse blankets are now in order.
Hunt up those which you laid away lust
spring and use the poorest of them for
cold, rainy days. Don't be afraid to
spend a few dollars if your supply is
short, and don't overlook the fact that
in buying horse blankets, like in buying
anything else, the best is the cheapest.
You might just as well go through
the winter without an overcoat as without
good blankets for your horses.
Eight or tea quarts of seed are about
the right amount to use when sowing
timothy with wheat in the fall. If sown
in the spring it may be sown with spring
grain or alone. In the latter case not
less than lifteen or twenty quarts of seed
should be used to the acre. Timothy is
a good hay grass to grow for market, as
it is always in demand, but it is one of
the poorest pasture grasses, as it is easily
injured by being pastured in the autumn.
Orchard grass is much to bo
preferred in this respect,and we are glad
to see that formers are beginning to appreciate
its merits. ...
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CURIOUS FACTS.*
I Sunday street cars run in Canada. 1
> <.;erivinn silver was invented in China. 1
' San Francisco lias a ?3,500,000 resi- i
dcnce. ,
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I I There are 527 members of the British
. House of Lords. ]
, ' Thieves mowed a Germany (Penn.) s
meadow at night and t<> : the hay. i
One Pennsylvania m i*s memory has (
i just come back after a . i;)>e of sixteen '
years.
A doll that writes le" on a slate is
a rononf intronfinn ltt'1 r*llS nitiLf. iri
Nuremburg, Germany.
A clock at PortHuro . Mich., recently
made its first stop in i ..:ty-four years,
breaking the mainspring.
Indians who live aloag the Pacific
Railroad in Western Canada make a living
by selling polished buffalo horns.
The doors in a house of a wealthy
widow in Philadelphia all open and close
in obedience to a touch-button apparatus.
A wild goose in California when killed
: had a grain of wheat in its crop which,
when planted, produced a variety hith!
erto unknown.
From eleven squash seeds which
weighed not half an ounce John P.
Staples, of North Berwick, Me.,1 raised
1 ftfin nnnnrlo of cnnuoli i
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The marble Capitol Building'at Hartford,
Conn., is 300 feet long and the
engineers declare that it is three inches
longer in summer than in winter.
Last year there was a potato famine.
This year, in one California district near
Sacramento, 60,000 bushels of potato'ss
! were not dug up because it would not
i pay to markec them.
| "Bear," the old dog that was taken
to the Arctic regions by the Greely expe|
dition and survived all its horrors, is
: still alive, and is owned by Commodore
Gridley, of Erie, Penn.
It is known that wasps' nests often
take fire, supposed to be caused by the
chemical action of the wax upon the
| paper material of the nest itself. May e
1 this not account for many mysterious ?
fires in barns and outbuildings? j
A sunflower fifty-two inches in cir- <
cumference and weighing eleven and a i
half pounds bloomed in the garden of a t
farmer in Garfield, Washington, this sea- t
son and was hewn down and sent(to the ?
editor of the local newspaper for a bou- <
tonniere. s
A Bridgeport (Conn.) boy was recently *
treated for a cut in his foot at the
Emergency Hospital. After probing to ?
it _ _r i_ _ .... ^ t^\*. t
ine ueptu 01 an mcu mu sur^cuu iciu uu
object that was removed with difficulty. c
It proved to be a live snail about the size ?
of a hazelnut.
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Mr. Gladstone is the owner of the t
i' largest lead pencil in the world. It is" r
I the gift of a pencil maker at Keswick,
and is thirty-nine inches in length. In
place of the customxry rubber cap it ha3
a gold cap. *Its distinguished owner
uses it for a walking-stick. ]
After being speechless for nearly seven- t
j teen years, Otto Wirthner, a well-known ]
I German, of Youngstown, Ohio, recently t
began conversing fluently in both English s
and German. He traveled throughout f
the country selling pencils and notions. ?
His speech'was restored by the use of *
electricity. *
A remarkable example of the enduring 1
I *Via r?novrnrvf rrrvQ l'a frt Via 1
VI bUU unguuiivi/hj^/v AW W MW
found in the old graveyard at Waterford, (
Conn. In the headstone that marks the 1
grave of a woman who died more than
forty yean ago her portrait is inlaid,
covered with a movable metal shield.
The picture is almost as perfect as when ?
it was taken. ]
Starch From Potatoes. t
We have been shown by B. F. Pritch* 1
ard a sample of starch made at Buena e
Park from potatoes raised in that neigh- 1
I borhood. The starch was made by hand, (
1 V*n T>*Dnti/>oK! Iif-Tr nf tKn C
UCUlUU9liabC bUO Vi I.UV
process, and the result is flattering in- t
deed. The starch is as tine as any in ^
i the market, and its manufacture will no F
doubt prove one of the greatest indus- ^
tries of thi9 section. Mr. Pritchard is
fitting up starch works at Buena Park,
which will be on a small scale compared J
to what he contemplates for next season. 1
He will be ready for operations in a
week or two, and will produce 500
pounds of starch per day. He, hus 100
tons of potatoes on the track, having
planted 600 acres of the tubers this past
season, and he can get any quantity of
spuds from the farmers in the neighborhood.
It is Mr. Pritchard's intention to
go into the business on a large scale next
year. He will form a stock company,
with a capital ol ?12,000 or $15,00U,
and produce from two to four tons of
starch per day.
The manufacture of starch from potatoes
is destined to be one of the biggest
industries in the State. During ths
present year hundreds of tons of pota- -
toes have rotted in the ground. And it
was, perhaps, the only season wherein
California potatoes were shipped to the
East in any considerable quantity. The
year before we imported potatoes by the
trainload, but this year we returned the
compliment. We furnished the East
with potatoes during several of the early 1
months of the year. Although several
thousand carloads of the tubers were sent (
East, still the acreage planted to them c
was so large that hundreds of tons of kthem
rotted in the ground. Their munu- :
facture into starch will furnish a ready
market for them, and at the same time *
furnish one of the i;reatest factors in the ^
upbuilding of th? State. It is to be .
hoped that Mr. Pritchard will achieve a *
tremendous success in his undertaking. ]
?Anaheim (Cal.) Quzilte. ^
The World's Oldest Rosebud.
The oldest rosebush iu the world is at
Hildershim, an old town in Hauover,
i capital of a Prussian administrative disj
trict. It was planted more than 1Q0J I
| years ago by Charlemagne, in commemo- J
| ration of a visit made him by the Auj|
bassador of the Caliph Har>un*al-Ka?chid H
of ''Arabian Nighcs" fame. After it J
had become a flourishing vine a cathedral was
built over it, the date of building
being doubtful. It is known, however,
that a coffin shaped vault was Imilt
l arouud its sacred roots iu the year ?>15>,
,1 the vault and bush surviving a tire whieu
destroyed the cathedral in 114(5. The
bush is now said to be twenty-six feet
high, and to cover thirty-two feet of the
wall. The stem, after 1000 years'
growth, is only two inches in diameter
iit. Louis licpubtic.
There have been 11,000 applicants fo:
i admission as students to the new Leland
j Stanford, Jr., University in California.
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Is There Snow on the Moon?
Remarkable discoveries have been
nade at the Lick Observatory, Califoru.i.
Professor Holden, the director,
las secured through the big telescope j
jetter photographs of the moon than,
lave been taken anywhere else, and the I
work of photographing goes on every
lour when the satellite is visible. By
;tudying these photographs with a maglifying
glpss and comparing them any
ihangcs taking place on the surface of
:he moon may be discovered.
The astronomers on Mount Hamilton
lave dhcovered some things that nobody
;lse ever saw, but they have not deternined
whether these are new features or
hings that are too small to have been
leen through a less powerful telescope.
i or example upon the top of one of the
nountaius of the moon the photograph
ihows a luminous white spot which looks
ike snow. If that is snow, and if it
vas not there before, the presence of an
itraosphere is indicated. It has been
)elieved that the moon has no atmosihere,
and therefore is uninhabitable;
lut if it should be demonstrated that
now falls upon the surface of the satelite
the accepted theory would be upset,
ind astronomers would begin to study
he moon with new and greater interest.
Objects upon the moon are detected
>y their shadows, and a projection or
minence fifty feet high cost6 a shadow
arge enough to be seen through the
Liick telescope. If Professor Holden,
itudying his series of photographs,
ihould discover some day a new shadow
vhere none had been cast before when
he moon was in the same position and
mder the eame light, he would know
hat something had been erected upon
he surface, either a part of the crust upleavea
by some internal movement, or a
juildinw nut un bv living creatures. The
o i r o
noon appears to be a dead, desolate
vaste of played-out volcanoes and cooled
)ff lava beds, without atmosphere, and,
ike Arizona, rather short of water and
jood society.?Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Telephone Forcasts Weather.
The telephone is about to have a new
ipplication, namely, that of fortelling
itorms. A new discovery has been made
us to one of the properties of this means
>f transmitting sound. By placing two
ron bars at seven or eight meters disance
from each other, and then putting
hem in communication on the side by
i copper wire covered with rubber, and
>n the other side with a telephone, a
itorm can, it is said, be predicted at least
welve hours ahead through a dead sound
ieard in the receiver. . According as the
itorm advances the sound resembles the
jeating of huilstones against the winlows.
Every flash of lightning, and, of
:oun>e, every clap of thunder that ac:ompanies
the storm produces a shock
imiiar to that of a stone being cast beween
the diaphragm and the instrunent.?.New
Tori Journal.
.
Valuable Mineral Discovery.
A m /I rxr\r\o! f a( mnfol
xxu iui|jui iauL ui iuuu miv. uugi>ai
jnown as vanadium has been fouod in
he Province of Mendoza, Argentine
Republic. This metal is one of the rarest
md most valuable known and is used for
letting dyes in silks, ribbons, hosiery
ind other fine goods. The principal
iource of supply until recently has been
i small deposit in the Ural Mountains,
ind it has been held as high as $1500
)er ounce. This newly-discovered de>03it
in Mendoza will therefore be re:ognized
as of great importance. ? Chi ago
Herald.
An India Rnbber Plantation.
A plantation of India rubber was
itarted by the Government of Assam in
1873, in a forest at the foot of the Himilayns.
Seedlings were planted in the
orks of trees, and by 1885 they had
eached the ground. The trees were
mbsequently pluced in beds forty feet
vide, protected by the surrounding for
sst. In 1890 the plantation extended
>ver 1106 acres and contained 16,054
lealthy plants, besides 84,000 seedlings,
rhe experiment will not begin to be
jrofitable for several years.?Aeu> Orleans
?icayune.
The actual length of the new St. Clair
runnel is 6026 feet. It cost $1,460,)00.
[ Tost
| matism of the hip. 11
8 St. Jacobs Oil.
I * " ALL RIGHT! ST. ,
DONALD KENNEDY.
Of Mtiry, Mass,? says
Kennedy's Medical Discovery
:ures Horrid Old Sores, Deepseated
Ulcers of 40 years' I
itanding, Inward Tumors, and
jvery disease of the skin, ex;ept
Thunder Humor, and
dancer that has taken root.
Price, $1.50. Sold by every
Druggist in the United States
md Canada.
R-jTBLpr
Sena <it once tor our Catalogue xx testimonials
C.N Newcomb,Davenport,low*
r* a b# Witaic, Nek vol's Wkktciikh moriats kci
KIIJK well uuil keep well. JUaltn Ueli-tr
tJ| Wl? lellK how. a.'ccs. a vciir. Sample copy
roc. I)r. J. II. I>YE. Ku tor. Huiliilo, N. V.
?m jpiSG'3 iiil? I you CA
fi?| Colcun.2:ue iieac. i; oas no eoual
nostrils. I'nce. ooc.^ JSoici by ch
/iEX. CmCHESTiR'S FNQUoih
rEumo
^ eMt . tHt ORIGINAL AND GCNUIN
=7 "JiT fJ) Ladle?. uk Dru(?iit for Chichettrr i 1
/ jtj boiti ac.ied with blur ribton. Taken
^ mi *11 pills In pasteboard boxei, pint wri
, ^ iv **'ln (UmP> 'or particular* tefilmsol
_X If 19,000 Tntlmoniali. h'amt Paptr.
> *?ld by all Loczl OrugglsUi
<
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A Fox Story. |
An island off the Irish coa9t was in- j 1
habited by large numbers of rabbits, J *
aud could be reached at low tide by !
wading, the water there being only a few j [|
inches deep. One morning some fisher- I |
men went in their boat quite early, it be- !
ing high tide, and on landing saw a dead j
fox lying on the beach. The animal
seemed to have been drowned. One of
the men, remarking that his skin was
worth something, pitched him into the
boat. Procuring their bait they returned
to the main land, and the man who had
possessed himself of the fox seized him ?
by the tail and flung him on shore. T
As soon as the animal struck the beach n
he picked himself up with considerable
ability for a dead fox, and shot off like
a flash up among the cliffs. The men
concluded that he had crossed over to
the island during the night when the
tide was low, in search of rabhits, and
finding in the morning that he was cut ^
off from the mainland, counterfeited ?
death, with the expectation of thereby
procuring a passage to the shore in a 81
boat, an expectation which was fully ga
realized.?National Labor Tribune. hi
? c
Cuba has the largest sugar crop this Bc
year ever known in its history. ^
E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's Ca- w
tarrji Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen 0
years ago and she has had no return of it. It's
a sure care." Sold by Draggfat8..75c. 6^
Chinese will run a salmon cannery on the IS
Frazer River, Oregon.
Children Tease For It. n]
Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure is a boon to j
children who are attacked with croup or acute UJ
congestive colds. Sold by druggists or mailed c?
on receipt of 60 cts. Address A. P. Hoxsie,
Buffalo, N. Y. ' n<
FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Gkeat
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day's use. m
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle ?
free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. IC
]f afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's
Eye-water.DruKgists sell at 25c.per bottle, f j
ON^ ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is tak en; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acta
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sy?
tem effectually, dispels colds, headaches
and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro*
duced, pleasing to the taste ana ao
ceptabie to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable pubstancee,
its many excellent qualities com- mend
it to all and have made ft
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o
^ d>i * u J: J
Biiu $ A cwjiuee ity an icouia^uiuggists.
Any reliable druggut who G
may not have it on hand will procure
it promptly for any one who wishes
to try it Do not accept f
any substitute. R
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 1
HAH FHAMCJ8C0, CAL.
wmvnit.Ki. kw toMK ??. ^
elys catarrh i
CREAM BALM I
is worth w catarhvoI s
$500 l
TO ANY MAN, Fhayfeverh>^J s
Woman or Child jj* *VWfl| t
suffering from _>e, v_
CATARRH aBMMs, [
LIQUID or SNUFF. HAY-FEVER j I
A particle Is applied Into each nostril and Is agree
able. Price 00 cents at Druggists or by malt
KLY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York. |
TIME. [
Newton, 111.
n 1863 to 1S85?about S jjj
rs?I suffered with rheu- |j 1
9 e(3,
bvas cured by the use of | "jj
T. C. DODD. I I
JACOBS OIL DID IT." $ | "
tgiu Hesnr TnoMPSo*, the Mc
most noted physician of Eng- y
land, says that more than , *5
half of all diseases come from I I
Send for Free Sample of i H
Garfield Tea to 319 West kg
45th Street New York City. B
Sick Headache;
rcutor0?Comploxion;cnrvkCon>tipatlon? PJ
^^Mfc^WOODBITBY'S FACIAL SOAP,
lor the SMo, Xtalpai'd Complexion. Re- ?
7Wsultof iuvenrr exjiorieme. For wile
J tMtoXk at i)rugt;miB or by mail. 6(v. Smnple
Cake nntl lis p. bonk on Dermatology
I _ -.jml jgJjfA nml Beauty, iiiiuk.;: on Skin, Smlp,
y3 ?c *11 nmoiin nnd kiimkj d'nen^c nnd tbrlr
1-7 :-3e treatment, frnt enled for l"f.i also
\/rv C7 IIIM'Mil'IIKaiiM* llki-BIHTII BARKS,
Moles W?rt?, India Ink and P>mi!rr
J!?rk?. S?nr?. miliars ItrdafW of >o??, So>
nrrOitou* Hair, P1mul?, kt. removtd.
JOI'N II. WIKinBI RY, HERB ATOI.IIGHil
fllSTITTTE, 12."i <y??f44nd Street. S. V. I'll*. Consultation
tree, at oflice or by letter. A;;ent want d In each place. |
W'JrtiiTiO AivQ WOOLEN BEMHA3TS!
buillnjHaiid Wanting*, ?l*rt-?-t from Mills. Send .stamo |
I or Ml III I les. it'TH. ]. W itsTKDMlLl.s.Hopkiliton.R.l.
I Art 0/ profit. Agents Wiaitod. Household Novelty ,
I UU, Usanmlc.'?* . M. .1. Kotchklss,New Uaveu.Ct. j
MAY FFVFR ' ursd to Stay Cured.
I ill 1 I L. I L>lll Wnut the name nnd a idres
_ . A . oi e very Miilcrer In the U.S. and
Vjh yTliji/|A Canada. Addre.se i*. Harold '
(XnU i Ililln lime*. .?i. Buir.ii.>. n. y :
Ct
1 " _____ ? Is
, Red CR0S6 Diamond Brand a aii
YMi * PviiUS A 1
* ? P'S,?"'' Sttre, and rettaMe Pill for ??la I
totllth Diamond Brand In Ked and UoU mciiillo \V ?t?
oatncrklnd. Jit/iue Suistitvtloiu ana/mitniiatu. * j
SF?:5"S?'VFV0.M^"?,?rfc,t* At Bmifliu m ?fpd tu hr
ri,,JfSSS, fop Ladlea." in letter, bj return Mall , 1
Chichester Chemical Co , Hadloon ??nare ! 1*
I'll U. ADKJ.PHI A> a I
I
codyriga 9*
AH over
-your Bufferings from Catarrh. ; J|
'bat is, if you go about it in the.fM
ght way.
There are plenty of wrong ways, yMjm
lat perhaps you've found out.
hey may relieve for a time, but fijj,
ley don't cure.
"Worse yet, they may drive the
isease to the lungs. You cant '^1
lord to experiment.
But there ia a right way, and *'
ire wav, that does c?re. Thou- ;
inds of otherwise hopeless case*
ive proved it. It's witn Dr. S3ge?i
atarrh Remedy. By its mild,
tothing, cleansing and healing :-a
roperties, it permanently cures the
orst chronic cases. Catarrhal
eadache, "Cold in the Head"?
rerything catarrhal in its nature :
cured as if by magic.
It's a way 60 sure that the pro- ;j?jB
rietors of Dr. Sage's Remedy
ler, in gooa laitn, $?>uu ior & / v3?Ji
iso of Catarrh which they can- rMj,
)t cure.
If it's sure enough for them to
ake the offer, it's sure enough
>r yon to make the trial.
They risk $500. Vhat do you
'August
Flower"
" I have been afflictilllousness,
" ed with biliousness
"and constipatioa-'l^
:onstlpatlon,?4 for fifteen years;
inm3?h " first one and then ,;K
itomacn ?? .? ;
" another prepare-'ains.
'' tion was suggested
"tome and tried but
to no purpose. At last a/riend
recommended August Flower. Iv,'|jjj|
took it according to directions and
its effects were wonderful, relieving
me of those disagreeable ;.'J
stomach pains which I had been
troubled with so long. Words
cannot describe the admiration :A||
in which I hold your August
Flower?it has given me a new
lease of life, which before was a
burden. Such a medicine is a ben- w
efaction to humanity, and its good "[>M
qualities and , '
wonderful mer- Jesse Barker, - ,;4jl
its should be
made known to M Pr,nter#
everyone suffer- Humboldt,
ing with dyspepsia
or biliousness Kansas. |
. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr, Woodbury, AT.JL
ORATEFUL?COMFORTING,
iPPSSCGCOA
dkcakcasI?
*By a thorough knowledge at the natural la*** , \
alch govern the operations of digestion and a?M*1'"2|gg
>n, and by a careful appUc atlon of the fine proper*
of weli-s.lected Cocoa, Mr. Epos has provMe* ,
rbreakfast table* with a delicately flavoured ;/y?
ige which may save us many heavy doctors* bOI?? ; ,'jr
la by the Judicious use of such articles of
at a constitution may be gr dually oullt upnaflU .wj
ong enough to resist every tendenoy to dlsaaafc ' fiJ
indreds of subtle maladies are floating around at ''.f
adyto attack wherever there Is a weak point.
e may escape many a fatal shaft by Keepingomt- * SH
Ives well fortified with pure blood and a property i
inrlshed frame."?"Ctru Service Gazette. .-..S
Hade simply with bolllnj water or milk. SoM /
ily In Half-pound tins uy Groctrs, labelled thus: '
LME8 KPPS <fc CO.. Homosopathlo OhemlafcL ..
Loapos, gxomtp. >S3
= ?FUliliY WARRANTED?=
5Ton Scales $60 Freight Bud 4-J
" ^elONESK BiNGHAMTON.NY , |
HOW TO SAVE
J perct? or more in CASH and get trees, plant* W
j., with trifling effort FREE. Agents wante*. \)
ir cataloeue with valuable Information, addiees
J. HAMMOND, Ncrsebymah, Geneva, k. y. . jjpj
UE PAY SALARYtS&iB
W men or women. Work Steady. BIO PAY toe ' J<Sj
W part tlm-. Outfit Free. Experience not need
, J. Eugene WUItnev. Uochfiltr, N. If. -'j -j
tPIICyAMJOHM W.MOBBU
NGalvdIUIl Wathln^on, D.C,
'Successfully Prosecutes Claims^
Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureaa, %
3yrslala<it war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty sine*. , ,-5
SGENTS WANTED ON SAURY. ;l
commission to handle the New Paten: Chemical ?
c Erasing Pencil. Agents making <50 per week. v>*ft
nroe Kroner Mr 'g Co., La Crosse, Wis. Box 831. 1'
X X INTER-AIR SPACE x X Q JS
< Adapted to all climates and variations of tem-H.
erature. Sold by Leading merchants in principal/
itles. Illustrated catalogue mail>*d tree on appH-j
?t.on to Harderfold Fabric Co., Troy, N.Y?J .
= t
Lydia E. FinkhanVs
Vegetable
Compound
rts in perfect harmony with the laws that trovers
c female svstem under all circumstances. Its suess
in quickly and permanently curing all kinds of
Female Complaints,
unparalleled in the history of medicine. It is
most infallible. Use it with confidence in cases of
urorrhira. Hearing-down Feeling. Weak Hack, Fallingond
placement ofthe Womb. Inflammation. Ovarian Trouble*.
il all Organic Diseases of the Uterus or Womb It fe
aliiahle to the Change of Life.
)i?so!ves and t*xpc!? rumors from the Uterus at an eaxty
re. and cheek* any temlunev to Cancerous Humor.
tulxiues Faintnos". Excitability. Nervous Prostration, Exnation,
Kldrirv Complaints, and tones the Stomach.
Ill Druggist* "sell it. or sent by mail, in form of Pilli ?
zences. on receipt o| St .OO. I.ivcr Fills. Site.
LYDIA K. PLNKIIAM MED. CO., LYNN, MAS*.
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