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' :" CURIOUS FACTS. I A snail has 30,000 teeih. Spider3 usually live two or three years. A coal black deer was recently seen by a party of hunters in the woods of Maine. White deer, which was once extremely rare, are now said to be plentiful in eastern Maine. A prominent Indianapolis (Ind.) business man has two cats that are better retrievers than most dogs. Each year about ?50,000 is expended > Tn Qririni'iincr the junhalt-naved streets of "* "f*** ???? 1 1. London, England, with sand to prevent the horses from slipping. A valuable find of skeletons belonging to the fourth dynasty was recently made in Egypt. This is the earliest known date of Egyptian remains. Chess was played by the Chinese 170 years before the Christian era,and probably long before that, for the ancient Persians are supposed to have known it. The Hindoos have a cocoanut festival every year at the end of the monsoon. During the festival athletic contests take place and wandering minstrels recite their tales and poems. ^Esop's fables were not written by their author. They were related and handed down until the fourteenth century, when they were collected and published by a monk. A cribo snake is one of the interesting pets at the Central Park (New York), menagerie. It has a taste for devouring other snakes and it is feared by them all, even the poisonous. Acorns are nrized as an article of diet among some tribes of Indians. They are pounded into meal, which is mixed with water and kneaded into dough for bakiDg in the style of hoecake. An enormous crab of the Malay Islands i lives upon the fruit of the coconut which it secures by climbing the tree. It breaks the nuts either by hauling them down or -? by beating against the rocks. On tbo old Boston and New Haven turnpike, in the southern part of New London County, Conn., is an old milestone, notched and mossgrown, that was set there by Bsnjamin Franklin. A number of the raining companies operating in the Black Hills, South Dakota, have adopted a system of aggregating their shipment of ore, and sending to the smelting works in Illinois a long train of loaded cars of ore drawn by two locomotives, and each car decorated and marked with the name of the mine from which it came. A Fish Swallowed His TFafcIi. A rathftr atrans-e as well as amusincr ~~ O w incident happened on board the schooner Emma Clara while at sea last Saturday on her way up from Rockport. They were well out at sea where the water was blue and clear and the wina very light, when one of tho passengers discovered a large fish which is known in those waters as a linn, following close behind the boat. Several of the boys were soon leaning over the stern admiring the fish, when one of them accidentally dropped his watch overboard out of his overshirt pocket. It was a large old-fashioned Swiss silver watch, and when it hit the water it glanced off sideways and darted on its voyage to the bottom of the sea, but the linn saw it, and as he is a fish that bites at everything that shines, regardless of flavor or taste, opened his nnrl ciDallniffpH Wl.t qfc 1UVUWU uuu one gulp. The surprised and chagrined young man sajs that the watch had just been wound up and was good to tick away for twenty-four hours at least. The fish seemed to cojoy the meal, and followed leisurely after the bout for soma time.? Vaatoj (Cal.) Times. Chronic Rheumatism And serious disorder ot the liver and stomach, bare troubled me for more than ten years, during which tpne I have used almost every medicine recommended, without finding any relief whatever, tin til I tried Hood's Sorsaparllta. This has done me more good than anything elso that I have ever taken, and I take pleasure In recommending It In the highest terms. It has been worth its weight In gold to me." Frederics Miller. Limerick Centre, Pa. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maaj. IOO Doses One Dollar Sheridan's Condition Powders ti&STK HENs C A> Ik yon can't set It send to n?. We mail oik> pack 25c. Fvrn $1. AS 1-1 lb. can 11.20. 81*, f. Ex. paid. Pmiltry Raining Gvide. frf*. with 81 orders. B. Boston. mmr. "August Flower" This is the query per What Is petually on your little i _ 1*-- a 3 r._ DOy'S lips. Alia lie is It For? no worse than the bigger, older, balder-headed boys. Life is an interrogation point. "What is it for?" we continually cry from the cradle to the grave. So with this little introductory sermon we turn and ask: "What is August Flower for ?'' As easily answered as asked: It is for Dyspepsia. It is a special remedy for the Stomach and Liver. Nothing more than this; but this brimful. We believe August Flower cures Dyspepsia. We know it will. We have reasons for knowing it. Twenty years ago it started in a small country town. To-day it has an honored place in every city and country store, possesses one of the largest manufacturing plants in the country and sells every where. Why is this? The reason is as simple as a child's thought. It is honest, does one thing, and does it right along?it \ cures Dyspepsia. ? V G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr.Woodbury.N. J. V 1 i jr .. AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. IMPORTANT DISCOVERT. Microscopical examination of pus taken from the jaw of a bullock suffering from lumpy jaw at Peoria, Illinois, recently gave the startling discovery that I the spores are smaller than the blood I - 1-- mi _?JJlw /?;? - corpuscles, mey cau mus reaunj v?. culate through the veins to all parts of the body. And it is thought this fact makes the disease highly contagious, though we do not quite see that this should follow. However, we believe it good policy to destroy any animals known to be affected.?Nebraska Farmer. ! STERILIZED MILK. Considerable interest is taken in i "sterilized" milk, which means milk with the germ of bacterial life taken out of it. This is done by heating the milk to 160 degrees F. It is claimed that this will cause the milk to keep sweet at least twenty four hours longer than it otherwise would. This is one method of preserving milk that appparently has no harm in it. The English go farther, and preserve milk by chemical compounds that are not at present tolerated in this country, but the fact is admitted that this food product must be preserved.?American Agriculturist. ' I GOOSEBERRY MILDEW. The New York Agricultural Exper^ QinftAn Una 4, . ? fka r\Oflf f iLLkCUW ??iaiiuu uaa x \jx buv> ?u*w years successfully combated gooseberry mildew, by commencing to sppy as toon as the young leaves begin to uptold, and continuing at intervals of fron eighteen to twenty days, except in ca? of heavy rains, when it is necessary to pray more often. The fungicide \xsed i| potassium sulphide (liver of sulphur)! one half ounce to one gallon of water! By using hot water the sulphide will dI:solve more readily. Commercial liver! of sulphur costs but from fifteen to twenty cents per pound, and one gallon Ijf the solution is sufficient to spray tell or twelve large bushes if applied -with a force pump. The ammomncal /solution and the bordeaux were also effective.?-Ntw York Observer. THE CHEAPEST FEEDING MATERIALS. Linseed cakc is the staple food with many farmers. It is not improbable that this article will advance beyond a reasonable price, and the farcer should cast about to see if there is n'oA; some food -which can be bought so as to pay him better. . A good linseed cike is the best food for general purposes, because it contains a fair proportion! of the different forms of feeding iria'ter that animals require; and one of its great features is the oil, a substaince not strongly represented in grain antjl pulse. It is only because toe ieeaing comsituents are weu balanced that it is or:furred to <pther foods, and if other toads are mixed so as to possess the same jpoperties equally good results are obtafimd. The oil is the chief difficulty, pit that may be easily arranged by buyiig the linseed instead of linseed cakcjfrr then the whole of the oil is obtained! 'Linseed contains about four times as Eju:h oil as linseed cake, so if in making t mixture we bear this ]3oint in mind, the most difficult portion of the problem will be solved. Of course, the linseed oil must be crushed or soaked. To supply the albuminoid matter wluch is found in the cake we have to turl to the pulse crops, beans, peas, lentils, I Jaaize and barley.? Mark Lane (Eiiglanmj Expreu. WTKTEB MAM (HE METHODS. At the beginniw of winter a thick layer of straw or ?hor material should be spread over th?aarnyard. If the yard is too large to wa*ant this it is too large for profit. Withmt some receptacle to retain it, most oflhe liquid excrement of domestic aninms is wasted. This means the loss oi:he portion of excrement that is ricBst in ammonia, and, therefore, moss stimulating to plant growth. Freshfcne is often so caustic that it burns vAtation to which it is applied, but it fles this injurious effect when fermenteM If the barnyard is small, as it ougM to be, then successive layers of beddMj may be thrown down, toe stocK eatiim want it wisne3. ii grain is givenBnore straw and other coarse feed wim be given, thus taking the place of glod hay and making richer manure. Befmfe spring this accumulation of beddMij with liquid and solid excrement m A:d should be piled in heap3 to ferment. is a good plan to add a small quantjp of phosphate well distributed thrtffch the heap. Stable manure is gene?jily deficient in phosphate especially iwStrgely mixed with straw. If the txvomf applied separately neither does the gm'd it should, though after the stablo Manure is distributed grain crops shouB' have an additional dose of phosphate? s with the drill it can be distributeAn contact with the seed so as to do it nKt good when the plant begins to stK. But the phosphate mixed with mwe is most certain to do good later in tB season, as it does not revert or beconSinsoluble.?Boalon Cultivator. directMnb for laying out grounds. The mMitntry Gentleman gives the following Heneral rules fcr laying out t;door-^Vds" and lawns in accordanca with tbKirmciples of the best landscape garderBr; 1. Be attenlion first to securing a smootlMawn, and well laid out and well dresscpRwalks. 2. Evoid parallel walks, because expensive and needless, unless entirely separated in view from each other by dense planting or abrupt ridges of land, and rorsfer few walks to many. 3.f Every curve in a walk should have an o;bvaous reason, or turn aside from some ]ilain object or obstruction. Curves without reason arc a deformity. 4. Short curves approaching angles are to'be avoided, and longer and more gracejful sweeps preferred. 5.'In setting out tree?, observe carefully! what their effect will be in future year? when they spread abroad their branches. 6J Leave a part of the grounds unplanted with trees, to allow a sufficient breadth of lawn in future years, and to avoid regular irregularity, but prefer a constant variety or change. 7. Heavy grading is expensive, and a roiinded and graceful variation of surface may be more pleasing thau a level, and itlcosts much less. 19. Dwelliugs may front streets squarely, wheu the streets are important and the dwellings small; but lar.'e mansions, J V . -SJ i - > . J V j i ' at a distance from obscure streets, should show less attention to them. 9. Begin small, and make peffcct work; avoid the mistakes of laying out great expense; let the lawn be a smooth carpet, and the walks have perfect finish, even if small dimensions. SUBSOILING. In the June report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture a plan for testing the merits of subsoiling wa3 given, which was subsequently recommended on this page as worthy the attention of farmers, who may in this way determine without subsoiling a whole field whether it will be sufficiently profitable to justify the additional expense. Briefly stated, the plan consists in subsoiling narrow strips, say about two rods in widths, through a ? ? -1 ? ^ ~ onrnQO t.h P iiClU mill piaULiU4j lUC Oi avtvvw strips subsoiled. Then note the difference in yield caused by the subsoiling. According to a more recent report the theory and practice of subsoiling has been thoroughly and practically tested at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, during the past summer by the United States Government on grounds leased at that place for experiment purposes. About forty acres were plowed and subsoiled to a depth of eighteen inches and planted to cane. Another piece of ground was plowed the ordinary depth, but not subsoiled, and also planted to cane of the same variety. Both fields received the same care and cultivation. The grounds which were subsoiled yielded about eighteen tons of cane to the acre; while on the other ground, simply plowed, the best yield wa3 only about ten tons. Mr. Mohler, the Secretary of the Stats Board, recommends that farmers who intend to sow alfalfa should by all means subsoil. If the soil is upland it is all the more important. This plant sinks its roots down from five to ten more feet into the subsoil, provided the hard and dry condition of the subsoil allows. It is this deep rooting which enables alfalfa to endure the severest drough, hot winds or any other calamitous thing that comes along. When a good stand of this plant is secured, it, will last for a generation or more, yielding valuable crops each year. ?New York World. FARM AND GAKUK.N XHUi'H-3. Look out for bee moths. ' Look out for queenless colonies. Young guinea fowls, if fat, make nice table fowl. Too much linseed meal will make the hens too fat. Turkeys will degenerate very rapidly by imbreeding. Do not allow the poultry to run with the fattening hogs. Tou will find farm-yard manure a good mulch for old apple trees. If it pays to work with and run an incubator at all it will pay to manage so as to get all there is in it. In order to have good, healthy, vigorous chickens it is necessary to have strong, vigorous breeding fowls. One of the best crosses for common hens when it is desired to increase the size is to use a Brahma or Cochin rooster. Sorghum seed can be used to good advantage in feeding the incubator chickens as soon as they are large enough to eat it. A faster growth can be secured with chickens raised in the brooder if they are fed on cooked food rather than | ACfrVY* When you have decided upon the garden crop for next season select youi eeeds and order earl; those you have to buy. When that fine squash is used it may pay you to* save the seed. If so don't think of it after they are thrown away. Eggs generally bring good prices from this time on and care must be taken in managing so as to secure as large a supply as possible. Coarse light hay thrown over spinach will usually carry it through the winter in open ground, provided water does not stand on- the land. It is the freezing and thawing in the months after January 1st that hurts the strawberry beds?if you have not yet given them protection do it now. Trim out the rough and tangled hedge. Burn the trimmings on land that is to be plowed, or at least where it will not kill grass in pasture or meadaw. Snyder, Agawam, Stone's Hardy and Western Triumph are reported as varieties of blackberries that prove hard " * I*'* f t*ta /Por o/lo\ afotiAn leSL m Luc VUttiYa ^vamuay ovuuuu farm. If the quince tres did not bear the la9t season, whose fault was it? Did it have plenty of manure? If not, why not? Have you given it any for the next crop? If you have good keeping apples there is no need of rushing them to market. There is no doubt but that it will pay you to hold them till later, if not till spring. If an accurate account was kept, we think it would show that more house plants are killed in winter from an over supply of water than a shortage. See that yours have ju3t the right amount. The Rural Nexo TorJcer calls attention to the Palouse apple, a seedling ot great { hardiness, a good keeper and tine as regards quality. The original tree was j raised from seed brought from Illinois j in 1S79 by George Ruedy, of Colfax, : Washington. Pumkins are easily injured by freezing, and much valuable feed is thua lost every | fall for lack of care. If put in a barn j basement they may be kept until January, ! ana so ioog as iauy a uueap, rich food for milch cows, especially if the seeds are removed before they aie fed. The seeds are diuretic and decrease milk flow. Some years a^o, when grafting the grape wa3 first advocated as a mean3 of protecting certain varieties against the phylloxera, the editor of the Rural New Yorker tried many experiments. He now say3 "but one method proved practicable, viz., cleft-grafting in early sprinsr below the surface and heaping tne earth about the stock, after they had been firmly bound together without the use of wax." Peas when grown as a field crop should be sown about four inches deep, which can be done with a seed drill, or by sowing upon tne suriace ana men plowing four iuches deep with narrow furrows. They yield about tons of seed to the acre, which, when ground, make one ot the best grains for stock feeding, and particularly for milch cows. Two pounds of pea meal is supposed to have a feeding value equal to six pouuds of : wheat bran. TJte Destruction of Forests. [ Engineer Arras,of the Government service, states that the beginning of the end \ has come so fer as white oak in Pennsyl- ^ vania is concerned. The Government , lately gave a contract in this city for j some square white oak timber, of a size , iU.i _ 'J-rraa-rs aim Ontlld have bedi IUUO U UUliCU J6?io ?1,V found in the hard lumber yards hereabouts in an hour's time. After a per sistent search the contractor threw up J his contract, stating that he could not ( fill it. It was then given to another,and , at the end of a fortnight fie reported that , he had secured all but two pieces, and ] that they were not to be had. Mr. Arras , then got the order modified, and as changed it was filled after all the log rafts lying in the river had been inspected. , Owners of what hemlock timber is left , about the headwaters of the Allegheny ( have finally learned 9ense enough to refrain from allowing the trees to rot after , the bark is peeled, but a few years ago ( that country was covered by half rotten ^ hemlock and rock oak trees. Now, too, ( the immense freight on bark is saved. , The tannin is extracted in the woods , where the bark is obtained. It is csti- , mated that there are still between 1,200, 000,000 and 1,500,000,000 feet of mer- ] cbantable timber in the Tionestu Valley, j This is equivalent to 1,500,000 two-horse . loads, but while somewhat bewildering \ in a "figurative" way, it will not be many years until the last tree is slain. There is very little forest left in this State that is worth anything for lumber, j and meantime the railroads are consum- j ing all the hardwood large enough to make j ^ A WO. a tie, SO Uif.c mere is uu pruapcv-u ui ? ?tnewal of our hardwood timber in a cen- , turv, and the pine and other f persistents , do not readily reclothe the wastes. But 1 worse than the loss of timber, for which ] substitutes may be found, is the fact , that since the denudation of the forests j our climate has become so uncertain that ( even with the aid of the Signal Service no business calculations can be based on | the weather, and birds and animals have not yet acquired new instinct such ae , will enable them to serve us as barometers. Even the hoot owl misses it as often as the Weather Bureau.? Pittiburg JDupatcJi. ' Might Make the Ideal Soldiers. "I see that Creed Raymond, of Cali- i fornia, stated in an interview the other dav that General Grant once told 'him ( that the Chinese would make the best soldiers in the world, with proper military discipline and training," said Colonel W. fl. Brind, of the British army, at the Trtmont Hou93. "This was true because the Chinese soldiers could live for weeks on the small rations they could carry in their knapsacks. And in these days of modern warfare j when it is essential to more immense < bodies of troops with rapidity the Chinese soldiers could be moved with an extremely small base of supplies. However, the Chinese soldiers lack dis- j cipline. General Grant > stated that a single brigade of American soldiers i could march through the empire i of China without being repulsed. Well, General Grant formed the cor- ( rect opinion of the Chinese soldiers. < But to give the Chinese soldiers die- ; ciple is sometimes a hard task. . I fought < under 'Chinese* Gordon in China wheD i he disciplined the Chinese imperial forces and put down the Taiping rebel* lion. The Taipings had conquered two or three provinces and put the imperial forces to rout on every hand. The Chinese imperial force* were disc mraged * 99 *?-a ?i if-;? n ana disorganized wucu iuajui uutuuu,, i of the English army, took them in hand. : In the first battle with the Taipings the imperial forces turned and fled, panicstricken, at the first charge of the enemy, i Gordon bad a large number of English i troops under his command. He issued an order that the next time the Chinese imperial soldiers turned their backs to the enemy in a battle they would be shot down by their own allies, the English. In the first battle after this order the imperialists fled, as usual, but the English troops did not have to shoot many of them down before they were halted. After that the imperialists Baw that Gordon would make his word good, and t.hflv stood before the enemy and foucrht with bravery and determination. The Taipings were soon driven out of the country. But that method is a sample of enforcing discipline among Chinese soldiers."?Chicago Herald. The Crescent as an Emblem. The crescent has been known sinco time out of memory. In ancient mythology it decorated the foreheads of Diana and ot Astarte, the Syrian Venice. In tho days of Rome's greatest glory the ladies wore it as an ornament in their hair. Since the foundation of Constantinople (the ancient Byzantium) it has been the emblem of the city, and as such adorns it3 walls and public buildings, besides being stamped on its coins and postage. The legend which accounts for its universal adoption in Turkey, and Constantinople in particular, is as follows: Philip of Macedon laid siege to the city in tne year aau n. yj. ne caose a uigut of uuusual darkness fot the proposed assault, but was foiled by the moon suddenly breaking from behind a cloud. In commemoration of this providential deliverance the crescent was adopted as tbe symbol of the city. The Mohammedan Sultans were slow to assume this emblem until some one mentioned that it was the symbol of increasing greatoes?, powei changing as rapidly as the phases oL the moon.?-Si. Loicis Rtpublic. Valuable Birds. The State of Illinois, which ha? proven a most favorable spot for the propagation of tbe imported pe3t known as the English sparrow, has at last grown restive under the infliction and has put a pricc unon their head*?two cents each. The Chicago Herald gives some figures to show the magnitude ot the job that Illinois has tackled. It says: The Department of A^ffculturo is authority for the statement that tlic posterity of one female soar row in ten veaas is something like 270,000,00U,000 birds. These at two cents apiece would cost the public treasury ?5,520,000,000, or a lit- ( tie over a half billion dollars a year. When you multiply this by the number ' of female sparrows in and nround Chi- < cago you get some idea of the breadth and scope of the new undertaking. -And it is quite possible that the fecundity of . the sparrow will he increased by care and cultivation. A bird which represents ] an income of a half billion dollars a year i will be provided with a warm nesc and every facility fur a pleasant auJ active | life. ! i 4 The Grand Canon of the Colorado. I have spoken the Grand Canon of the Colorado as a gorge in which all other famous gorges could be lo9t. Some of you have ridden through the "Grand Cannon of the Arkansas," on the Denver find Rio Grande Railway in Colorado, ind many more Lave seen the White Mountain Notch and the Francoma Notch, in New Hampshire. All three ire very beautiful and noble; but if any one of them were duplicated in the wall of the Grand Canon of the Colorado, and you were looking from the opposite brink of that stu|>endous c&asm, you would have to have your attention called to "those scratches" on the other side before you would notice them at all. If you were to take the tallest mountain sast of the Rockies, dig down around its base two or three thousand feet, so as to get to sea-level (from which its height is measured), uproot the whole giant mass, and/ pitch it mtothe deepest part jf the Grand Canon of the Colorado, its jranite top would not reach up to the iizzy crest3 of the cliffs which hem the iwful bed of that great river. If you were on the strean, and New York's aoble staute of Liberty Enlighteuing the World were upon the cliff, it would took to you like the tiniest of dolls; and if it were across the canon from you, 70U would need a strong glass to see it it all! The Grand Canon lies mainly in Arizona, though it touches also Utah Nevada, and California. With its windings it is nearly seven hundred miles long; and m many places it is over a mile and a quarter deep. The width of this unparalleled chasm at the top is from eight to twenty miles; and looked down npon from above, a river larger than the Hudson, and five times as long, looks like a silver thread. The Yosemite and the Yellowstone, wonderful as they are in their precipices?and the world outside of America caunot match those wondrous valleys?are babies beside this peerless gorge. As Charles Dudley Warner has said: "There is nothing else on earth to approach it."?St. Nicholas. n Death From Wild Beasts in India. Interesting returns have just been made of the deaths due last year in India to laceration by wild beasts. It is almost entirely among the native tribes that these deaths occur; and wheiP it is considered that the vast majority of the rural or upland Hindoo population live in wattled huts and sleep either on the ground or within a few inches of it, the wonder is that more of them are not killed in this way. A3 many a* 2460 native Indians owes their death t? wild beasts in the course of 1890, 798 having been destroyed by tigers and leopards and eighty-seven by wolves, while :he cattle that fell a prey to these animals numoerea 04,duu. The returns for 1889 give a larger proportion of death3 from wild beasts? 2724. But then it must be remembered that rewards held out for every beast Blain tempt thousands of natives to procure the license to bear arms ad hoc,and that the Government gives every encouragement to sportsmen, military or civilian, to hunt the tiger, the bear, the leopard and the wolf; so that the war of extermination against these denizens of the jungle may be expected to diminish their numbers year by year. As a matter of fact, 00,000 native Indians hold the license to carry arms for wild beast destruction, but (it may also be staged) they did not obtain rewards for more than 14,604 of Buch animals killed. Snakes are still the most fatal enemies the Indian native has to encounter. The deaths they caused in 1890 were 21,412, while of snakes themselves as many as 510,659 were destroyed.?Pall Mall Budqtt. m* Bo(b the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, head* aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is die only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana ao * ceptabie to the stomach, prompt In its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from tJtie most healthy and agreeable pubstancea, its many excellent qualities oommend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for saltf in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading drug* gists. 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 COL VAII FRAHCI800, CAu VtmVlLLt. KV. HEW fOMJL. ??. ~~~~ KYN DONALD KENNEDY Of Roxbury, Mass., says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, DeepSeated Ulcers of 40 years' standing, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, except Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root, Price, $1.50. Sold by every Druggist in the United States Bnd Canada. if ANTED! Salesmen for Nursery Stock. AdW dress the ONTARIO NURSERIES. Geneva, N. V. PBZVSXOlfS-Dae nil KOLDUBa: M disabled. ?2 fee for increase. years expM'once. Write for Laws. a.W. McCobmick" k Sun's. Washington, d. C. & Cincinnati. O. " : v'"; ^ Age of Trees. The German Forestry Commission assigns to the pine 500 and 700 years as a maximum, 425 years to the silver fir, 274 years to the larch. 245 years to the red beech, 210 years to the aspen, 200 years to the birch, 170 years to the ash, 146 years to the alder and 130 years to the elm. The heart of the oak begins to rot at about the age of 300 years. The holly oak alone escapes this law, and there is a specimen of this aged 410 years in existence near Afachaferburg, in Germany. But in England there are several famous old oaks of gigantic proportions, and with ases variously estimated at from 700 to 1800 years. The latter age, however, scenis- incredible.?New York World. There are 3UU,UUU blind people in Europe. There is more cararrn in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors f>ronounced it a local disease, and prescribed ocal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it 'ncurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfal. It acts directly upon tbe blood cud mucous surfaces of the system. They cfftl- ?100 for any case it fails to cure. Sena for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. El" Sold by Druggists. 76c. Children Tease For lb Dr. Hoxsie'8 Certain Croup Cure is a boon to children who are attacked with croup or acute oongestive colds. Scld by druggists or mailed on receipt of SO cts. Address A. P. Hoxaie, Buffalo, N. Y. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No (its after first day'* use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St.. Phlla., Pa. ' A cure for nearly all of the common ills? what, doctors? Pshaw! Take Beec ham's Pills. For i?ale by all dm -gt<t?. 25 cents. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thnmo?rvn VKv?_w?.tflr.Dru(nri!itB sell at 25c.Tier bottle. . ; | How About1 t Scrofula or Kings Evil is thi fections, Whether inherited c and cannot be permanently c A GRATEFU My Mother was sorely afllloted wit! during that time the glands oo her ne< openings were small and healed right break open anew, about everyjtwo we* prostration. She was so reduced in st be generously used to keep her aliv?. Improved from the start, the first bott the finished the fourth bottle her necl Me Books oo Blood lad gkta dliesmw tree. il 'i ??. en. i?, 11 iuit? I tEer. Dr. A. M. Whetstone, St. Jat "I waa a victim of Kidney D1 ccntantly growing worse. Six tx Forestine Bloc Have made me t WELL MA5. 1 change with each new bottle and AlBMtalliiie battle a Druggists. > _ THE SMALLEST PIU. IN THE WORLD! ^ 9 XUTT'S * tiny liver pills* have all the virtoea of the larger one* j ^ equally effective; purely vegetable. V Exact alzeahown In thl* border. 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Health ?fc Convenience Co., Box A 25, Akron, O. | B1 VOU WANT A HANDSOME and useful article send for our Ladle.' Toilet Csaei it contalnsover 230 articles, retailing for over 90c. To advertise we will send tills case complete, prepaid, for'iSct*. WE WANT AGENTS to know that they can make t'> per day with our goods, as easily as they can make $1 In other business. L. MOXHOEM'F'G CO., Box9S, Rochester,??. Y mffll |A S1-00 P" Year. Send 25 cents for ~UMU? three months' trial. Big money to Afrfs. MIMICAL, JOURNAL. WHITESMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.. Boston-, Mass. # Want Name and BbIuViV Addrm of Every *-1*1 8 11 B 1.1 ASTHMATIC F-P.HaroidHayes,M.D. | CURED TO STAY CURED. | BUFFALO. N.Y. W.JTIOKKISL Wafthlneton, D.C. "Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.8. Pension Bureau. 3 vrsiulast war 15 uUiudiculiuc claims atty silica, AfiP A MONTH for 3Bright Young Men or |jLadles In each county. Address P. W. ZIEGLERACO., I'lilla., Pa. tfinBHIM Morphlno Habit Cured In 10 II If I |I|M to 20 day a. No pay till cured. Ul 11#III DR. J.STEPHENS, Ltbanon.Ohio. jl- ii iiimiiibm J Consumptives and people who hdve weak lungs or Asthma. should use Plso's Cure for Consumption. It has cared tkoauuidi, It has not Injur- H ed one. It is not bad to take. It is the best cough syrup. jj| gold even-where. *6e. SB 31 (DMUUr iMi All the year round la the time when Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery works the best. It purifies the blood. It's not like the uarsaparillas, which claim to do good in March, April, and May; you can depend nnon it nlwaiia. That's whv it is guaranteed, fa it doesn't benefit or tf cure, in every case for which it's recommended, you have your money No other medicine of its kind \ says as much?but no other does as much. ? It cleanses, renews and invigorates the entire system. For all skin, scalp and scrofrlouc affections, as Eczema, Tetter, Salt-rheum, White Swellings, Hip-joint Disease, and kindred ailments, it's a positive . cure. . The proprietors of Dr. Sage's ; |s Catarrh Remedy offer $500 for an incurable case of Catarrh. It isn't I mere talk?it's business. They mean to pay you, if they can't cure you. But you'll find that they can. /our Mother. e most stubborn of all Skin af>r otherwise, it is a blood disease :ured by anything but S. S. S. L DAUGHTER. b Scrofula for three years and a half; >k burst open In five places. Thr?? of the up, but the other t^o would fill up and ;ka always causing severe pain and often rensjta, snai tonic* auu iw? ?iuw ? # , , x.-wj She commenced taking S. S. 8., and le gave her an appetite and by the time t healed up, she Is now entireUy well. is. E. J. Row ell, Medford, Man. THE 8WTFT SPECIFIC CO, ATLASTA. UA. :/.&j| .engtr?Until Maroh 1*1, 1892. net') Church, GloverrrlUe, N. Y.: jeaae^ror leven yetr*. Could got do bolp and waa r:?Jt id Bitters and Plasters rell it to alt" Put the Piaster acroaa the KiOaeyt, i take Medicine aa directed. ' m^_ dd Uc. Fluter In one wmpper, owe. ah Beau^POUS^?1^^^^^ saving Labor, cleanliness. i DDBABIXJW8cCHEAPNESS,UHE0I1AIIH)1 Ho Qdob WhekHeated. T ORAT^PUL-COMFORTiNCU EPPSSCOGOA BREAKFAST. "Br a thorough knowledge of the natural law# ' which govern the operations of direction and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine proper- <j& ties of well-selected Co<x.a, Mr. Epps bas provided li9g our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured be*> '"-iMS erage whtcn mar save us many heavy doctors' bills. It Is by the Judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up untfl . ' stro^B enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds or subtle maladies are floating around 3ft r A ready to attack wherever there Is a weak point. ' We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly - ' , . :.l nourished frame."?Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with Do 111 n* water or milk. Sold only In half-pound tins ov Grocers, labelled thus.' J A.VEH EPPM de CO.. Homoeopathic Chemists, , uoroox. EnoLAirn. .J sgj -- ? 8m fimt Thoxmox. to* most noted physician of ?nf' v.land, says that more than from Send fit Wtt? Sample of Garfield Tea to ?1? 46tb Stmt, New York City. GARFIELDTEAS riitorNCoBPlnloB ;curmC?Mtlpfttlo?. HDAfiFNTC ??d ,or H<>7*L * Made a i (flQCnII d tianie aid Let In Una ? T*W? Oui copyrighted methods free to all jl desiring a Home, or business chance %7i 1'. VI to fioe Monthly Teachers and Ladies find l biff pay lot i pare hours. Tkkasvrv Puv CHAflNG Aoxxcy, T) ?th Ave^ hew York, - - QBMQ for oar lljtof 19 Cat* * altgi at Ma ale and SggglSO ?.MUSICAL Instruments. W. Stoby, 28 Central st, Boston, Man. Wwcf ellsbc w.50c a a r. FRFF T . 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