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A Book lor llvory Woman iu America.
WOMAN,
AND
Her Thirty Years' Pilgrimage.
By W. W. BLISS, M.D., Now York.
'Dm- design nml scope ?>f this vhbfhhlo work may he
ji'HiUl\ umU'isiood frotu the title. The olijtHi almeil at la
to produce i volume which m:i\ contiitn information :ul\anfatfeotts
and n?t unacceptable t ? Woman; to instruct
hot a* roj.mli hoi organUatlon ami those laws Hint tegulutc
its functions, and of the gioat purpos-vs of liei existence
mil th" causes that defeat thorn; to Impa-t u knowledge
that is inilmai ly connected with the health and wcll-lielng
of iIimv who uii' mother*, not only ol imlivelan but of I
nation?, nu t who by thoir strength and Uxor oi coiuitttutlon,
l>v th it phytli'itl ami iiwritl jverftvllon, tiuns'iilt
highly-developed physical, ui ntal, nnd moral until ilea
t. their vflkpiing; or, !J woakunitl ftttJ enervated by ?-\CC*se*
..1 .|K. a> -, llteir soul an .-U 'dy destroying logacy
to an unolVi'ititlii- progeny;ami t > tbrow a rav of 1 iglit
over tho diseases iMjculiar to Iter sex, tliolr soitiees. ?ytnptuiiia,
resitl;*, an.I tho tiue Indie allons of ire .dim at.
Woman needs an Instructor. Thin book ?ee!t* to advise
thoui; seeks to rii iw ivii.it oxpertclice liastaught. It gives
>v. ui.t'i ibo lu ll. ;U oflb.it cxporlcu at.
]>?. Ht.iss, the author of this wot Is, a graduate of
the I'til vet ally i t rctmsylvHiila, Philadelphia, Class of 1HU
lias tor many ycats tnado I'oiiPilo coinplaints and eimntle,
diseases in general a specialty, an 1 Is in every way
ijunlliUM for \vtiUn< a bock ?>f ilm kind for the Qcnrral
rtm'ii. 'Ibo tusk though U a lUillcult ttntl dellealo one,
for to l>e of sai i Ice, to bonellt, to warn of danger, IruUs
t/iutt t>f st'iilfM, but with a dollcney of illetl in. a discreet
eli ilce of iv.ails, anl a veil -.1 tn inn -r of expression that
v. ill \v. irl lis way to the tut Unstanding without wounding
semuh. ill v. or ranslnx a blush to in tittle Ibo cheek of
the trtcsi I'aatl.lions. The tea lor is rcinlti led, however,
ltow al.ii >t nn,) issilile it it to liv.t t the path that Ibo author
vet i at upon, an 1 not s.cm to violate those conventional
hum a ?.t 1 in 'lure to which Aiueriean leaders uro
in <sth :tvi asilitn l. an I, whether tn d or fun tie, It nd?
uionisti.il, that if i lie book betsh it up with the expcot atlon
id find!lie n . thiii - hut a tcli i-h oi those (oii'/ihlc mallets
thai have he u IhuHitiU of l ui ? before nilllen upon,
they will is they proceed Hn l ilielt mistake. The matter
toast tln n be prep trod t . It si in\uy slriyul nltio*; and If
they bhouU appear rather the offspring of a (icrvortod Imagination,
than Just and lentlfl.- conclusions, he or elio
is at lih??t\ to rate them necor linjly. liven one has his
own manner of thinking, and ths a.ithir hut his. It la
he'.cv.al, li wovcr, that it the book ik> read i\ coi iise anil
in the l uoi'Ex spirit, h,v tliosi at nny rate who, like tho
.. ithur, h ice de.llberated upon hum m happiness and tho
. ins< s that oppose It; by those who have striven to aseor
i in the ir ;iv. a cl woman's mulliplielly ol infl i nil tics,
ad who have ever been <1111 ;etii in seckln ; to uun llomto
l r s-if riu rs, m my valnatde l"csotis. to say the least, may
-. in r en iis counsel upon subjects intimately eon
. :< ! v illi ill limit]), happitt ss, and well-being of tbo
( in ilo portion of our race,
i i ' Wti'd inteiiilc 1 f>r youth, but lho*o of inaturcr
. >; 111 -hi osp -oinlly the married, parents, and those liitw
. ; the direct! <u of youthful iuexpo'lencc.
Space avill not permit nor Is it necessary to
present a Ion;; list of TliSTI MOM A I.S; n
IViv will indicate tlu? universal favor with
winch the work is received.
M ANf>rt!*Lt>, May 12, 1S70.
I have jiertwed IM. hllxs's work. " Woman, and
her I III ft j ^ cars' i Mltfrl ioiijcc." with deep interest.
I t .'licvo it a book ot great value to those for wliotii it n ?u
ii '-iu'ttej, and liopo it will meet with Unit extensive ?hcui.itioa
which its merits so well deserve.
M. S. CAKPENTEIt, M.I)., Fellow Mass. Mod. Soc.
Boston, May 13,1170.
I have examtnod the book entitled " Woman, and
her Thirt y Years' I'iljjrluiMKc," written tiv W. \V.
H! s. M.II., of New York, .111.1111 my judgment, I Us a vo?y
\:dunhle work, and ealeulited to bo useful, (specially
among women, where ill health .'.a quite too prevalent at
present.
it '* jdiilosophlcnlly, sclent ideally, anatomically, plivstol
.'dually nud pathologically correct in Its descriptions of
the organs of the body, causes of female diseases and their
cure; or, what Is much better, their prevention : and the
iiuoiattons (somewhat numerous) uro hum standard vvrltct
s, eminent, in the medical prolosslon.
WM. M. COI4NELL. M.I).. LL.D.
Tlio volume entitled "Woman, and her Thirty
Youth' I'iljrrhimtfe," by \V. \V. bliss, M 1?., an 1 design.
.1 espeiTnllv lot utarrled women, Is s:u.l by medical
men to tie of gicat value lor the Information it imparts. ?
Dost on Journal.
" Woman, ami her Thirty Years' I'lljfrimn
Is die title of a book just thrown upon the market
w:ili tha motto," J/vtii soil qui ttml y pt.nse." It In a tar
:u id and better attempt than tin piedecessors to neat
p..|.ul.uly and vet duvcntlv and with holiest purpose of
, ... ft lie most delicate of subjects. . . . The literary and
pu .lv sclent itlc qualities ot the l>o.ik Indicate a careful
and intelligent plijsloliui to l>e the author. ? Jit ami Daily
Adctriiur.
" Woman, and her Thirty Years' lMlgrrimagre,"
I.* W.W . bliss, M.li., Now York. 'fins hook is a most vatul.ol.:
one upon a subject of which onlv to . liltle ts lllulcis.
od outside the medical professlmi, und would rave a vast
::iii>.utit ot the si'tleiiug which la imw caused l>> Iguorutu-o
. t the most vital laws, ot health, if it were in tin: hands of
f\ 01 v woman. The volume Is the wotk of a phytiii lati ovary
w ,<v qualified lor lliu itisk, having made fu many years female
complaints Ins specialty. It thiows light upon the
.. -. ases iioetiltai to the sex, and suggests the prupM luineiiies,
ami is 111 every way invaluable loi instruction and
v . usultattoii. ? Dosloii l'otl.
............ ...... uor xnmy ream' I'iljyrlmIhi-.
Woik, by a N.-\s York phvsician ..1 ;?t-ii?
i. .* ami nolo, treat* a delicate and Important subject
I'll f.ci hup* mm li delicacy as the ...itiue oMhe ca.su
oil admit, and it ci-i tainly brinks out 11 ut lis lit at evn \ w o
.nn, ami < specially every mothci should I.now, Intimately
. nneotcd as they ure with her own health ami that of Iter
. Mspimg. There can lx? nodouhtth.il a kic.tt rharu of
t ne ?li*uas.. ami sulleiing entailed upon hnili, aii-. > bom
. .uses tliat might 1k> avoided, ii women liillv undo;stoott
thair own constitution and the kiws ..| h. ilil: w hit h cannot
! <; violated with MDpaiilly. /SpringjieUt JJaihj Union
" Woman, ami lior Thirty Years' riljfrltnnue."
by \V. \V. Jtliss, M.I>., is a medical treatise upon tins
p uliar nature, diseases, needs, and ciiltme . I woman,
tvlm-h his the commendation of icspectahle physicians
l- lis therapeutic viiluo, and w lileli seems to he m a moral
jHiinl ol \ lew, unexceptionable and so calculated to be usolul.
? JJostuu Uvi ifreyiiitonatut.
"1 l?e hook contains 415 pages, V2m<>, illustrated l.v a line
bice) cngiuvlng, and is substantially hound in luusUu.
ERIEF SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
IN Xlto DULTOR V.
Undeniable increase of female invalids. What I llio
rauteV l. i ndue cultivation of the mental powers, the
m nlilnents, and the , assions. 2. 'I he letlnemeiits, Inxti)
its, and ehaiaeter of social lntercouse. It. lite want
ol puio air, proper food, and hcaUhdil nut-door exorcise.
4. 'I he dissipations of society, the follies of fashion, and
the injurious modes of dries." 5. l.xcitink tin.- imagination
by the perusal of niurifrit hooka, passion-stilling pbt
ares," statues, Ac. 3Vie rrant oj proj'tr vhi/nical. mental,
ami tnoral trmuing, lcsulluig In a great degree Horn eiror
mid ignorance. Tlio object of this book to giv e Information
uiKiu diseases peculiar to women, their sources, symptoms,
results, aud Indications of treatment. The. task a
delicate and dinicull eno. No Impropriety In imparting
knowledge to those who uro to Iks the mothers of nations.
Not wise, to suppress Inquiry in regard to natural laws.
Disease and misers follow close upon ignorance and inys-.
lery. The work submitted to the candid conaideiution of
w o'mcu. " To tht pun-, all things ut e pure-"
I, PUBERTY.
The great crisis In woman's existence. The mind exl-amls,
tin-heart awakens, and the liody l.ccotnes de.vi loped.
? hi Id i ?t amusements lose their attraction. Ilei mission in
lite. Will it lie fulfilled ? i he question an important one.
1 icdonnined by* her physical vigor. The most important
,i hct rUscascs those ol the menstrual oigans.
| II. MENSTRUATION.
What Is It? The ovarian organs anil their oftlees. Duration
of ovarian intlin nee in dlllerent climates. Alice led
by teinpciament. Influence of city lite aad stimulating
bind. '1 rte country preferable to the city. Htatlsiles < t eminent
physicians, lleradilary influence, customs m India.
J rcquency ol the menstrual period. Affected by pregnancy
and lactation. The qimnlity varu s, l ruointuro
ill he discharge. Its cause. Indict* of the ancients, llio
story of Jacob and l.aban. Iletirew Jaws. M|>eutilaliou
and theories of the early physiologists. Ovulation. Chaste
and Iteaiififiil lunguugc of TrolcSSOl Meigs. The organaof
menstruation.
III. INFLAMMATION OF MENSTRUAL
ORGANS.
Acute and stilr-acnte formR. Chronic Inflammaiton. Its
causes. Opinions ol various practitioner*. Exposure to
nici lianicai lniury. The Oraahun vesicle lgnoiancu In
iegaid to ovarian Inflammation. Multiplicity of opinions
j: leganl to woman's chief it flrnitty. Hclation of the
1'ulJ jplan tabes to tlie womb. Woman s sufferings for tblr
.. j<.<uo. < limine ui m?, ViolCieil peiKKt Of e,X1
-t<nee. Disease of the ovaries more common Hum genei: !Iv
admitted. Their importam i in the sexual system,
l.' Uttuu t<> pregnancy. Inlluenoct i the complexion, the
and tlie llgme, f'oritrol the development of the
train, and affcet the Judgment. ilonstruation dependent
upon the existence of the ovaries. Melancholy picture of
a ( tnnlolii which these organs have no existence. Their
dtsoaso seriously Impairs Hue whole nvsiexn. Causes the
development of the reproductive organs. Upon their teti.o
-.l or loss, the female approximates the opposite sex.
to in . k iMe cases recorded by medical men. The primary
giy<4i<s (>J the ?tj ual tytlem.
\V. SYMPTOMS OF MENSTRUAL. I?ISEASE.
r->fAt,HmrTOMs. ? Variousdopreosofpain. Morbid Ini'
j?-r?? ? f oIscammI ovaries over the womb and vx/inti.
J olapsas uteri t Its cause and tieatiaent. irritability of
the Id. dir. Painful evacuations. liepnpnanee t . .seixotJ
iiiro.' cirse. Sensitiveness of the geneiauve oi gan*. T)lsu'h.,.,/
ihat have their >lso aud oitgui in the cranes.
- I ,, *tJWi II i ?
WTT * Ar.
T il J
ill
Grateful Thousands proclaim \ ineoau
Bittkks tho most wonderful Invigoraut
that ever sustained th-* Kinking
system.
No Poison can talco these Pit t ors
according to directions, and remain long
unwell, provided their bonos are not do
etroycd by mineral poison or other
means, and vital organs wasted beyond
repair.
Bilious. llomittont anil Intormiitoilt
1'OVOl'S, Which arc bo prevalent
in the valleys of our great rivers
throughout tin; United States, especially
those of tho Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri,
Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas,
Hod, Colorado, Brazos, ltio Grande,
Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke,
James, and many others, with
their vast tributaries, throughout our
entire country during tho Summer and
Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons
of unusual heat and dryness, aro
invariably accompanied by extensivo derangements
of tho stomach and liver,
and other abdominal viscera. In their
treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful
influence upon these various organs,
is essentially necessary. There
is no cathartic for tho purpose equal to
Dm J. Walknil's Vinegar Btiters,
as they will speedily remove tho darkcolored
viscid matter with which tho
bowels aro loaded, at the panic tiiuo
stimulating tho secretions of tho liver,
and generally restoring tho healthy
functions of tho digestivo organs.
Fortify <lio body against disoaso
by purifying all its fluids with Vinegar
Bitters. No epidemic can tako hold
of a system thus fore-armed.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache,
Pain in tho Shoulders, Coughs,
Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Sour
Kructations of tho Stomach, Bad Taste
in tho Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatation
of tho Heart, Inflammation of tho
Lungs, Pain in the region of tho Kid
noys, and a hundred other painful symptoms,
aro tho offsprings of Dyspepsia.
One hottlowill prove a better guarantee
of its merits than a lougtby advertisement.
Scrofula, or King's Evil, White
Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck,
(loitro, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent
lnlimnnmtions, Mcrouriul A ffoctions, old
Soros, Eruptions of the Skin, Soro Eyes, etc.
Jn these, ns in nil other constitutional Diseases,
WaIjKKr's Vinegar Bitters Imvo
shown their great eurativo powers in tho
most, obstinate and intractable eases.
For Inflammatory and Chronic
Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent
and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of
the J Hood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder,
tho so Hitters have no enual. Such Diseases
uro caused bj* Yitinted Blood.
Mechanical Diseases. Persons engaged
in Paints and Minerals, such as
Plumbers, Typo-sett ora, (]old-boaters, and
Miners, as they advance in lii'o, are subject
to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard
against this, take a dose of Walker's Vinegar
Bitters occasionally.
For Skill Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter,
Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples,
Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms,
Scald-head, Soro Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch,
Scurfs, Discolorations of tho Skin, Rumors
and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name
I or nature, arc literally dug up and carried
out of the system in a short time by tho use
of theso Bitters.
Fin, Tape, and oilier Worms,
lurking in the system of so many thousands,
are effectually destroyed and removed. N'o
system of medicine, no vermifuges, no antnelniinitics
will lice the system from worms
like these Bitters.
For Female Complaints, in young
or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood.
or tho turn of lilo, these Tonic
Bitters display so decided an influence that
improvement is soon perceptible.
<linnn?o 1 ho VHLBed It Lwtd
eve\ you liiul its impurities bursting through
tho skin in Pimples, Emotions, or Soros;
j cleanso it. when you find it obstructed and
sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is
foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep
the blood pure, and the health of the system
will follow.
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Druggists unit G?mi. Agts., San Francisco, California,
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An Eccentric .Member.
Some thirty odd years ago, says uold
stager,Illinois sent an uneoutlt, ill terate
man to Congress named ReylWllllo
It., linil ., L'l ....... /.I' .......
i iv/ MUM u n i i \?11 ^ > V" i 11 V'l
inoii scr.se, much natural shrewdness,
with some comic humor. Ho had
bean Governor ol the State, and Fund
Commissioner, and seemed to have
been uncommonly popular with his
people. At that time Illinois was a
frontier State, sparsely populated, deficient
in the means of education without
refinement or much culture of any
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always provoking merriment, in Mhich
he joined, without caring, apparently,
whether the House was laughinh with
him or at him. His prhraseology was
tinged with the odities and qunintness
of a backwoodsman. Everybody was
his "worthy friend*" In opposing an
appropriation for the navy he provoked
the satire of Mr. Winthrop, of
Boston, always one ot the most courteous
of men. He spoke of the want
of appreciation of usefullncss and necessity
of a respectable armed force
for the water, so often betrayed by
Western men. Mr. Reynolds rejoined:
"My worthy friend from Boston does
me wrong in saying I'm again the
navy. On the contrary, 1 love and
admire the navy. Didn't our gallant
sailois win unperishable honors in
fighting our worthy friends, the British,
in the last war? Didn't them
dashing young fellows, Perry and
Macdonough, drive a hostile Hag from
off the great lakes, and niako the
British lion put his tail between his
legs?"
Visiting Baltimore soon after he
came to Congress, he was amazed at
many things ho saw. The size ol the
city bewildered him, and the crowd of
people in the streets nearly drove hint
wild. Passing down Prratt street
early in the morning, he came to the
Patapsco at the time when t he tide
was running strong flood, it being
nearly high water. Some six hours
afterward he took another look at the
river, when it was almost low tide.
This rather puzzled him, so toward
night lie made another visit to the
wharves, and found the tide coining
in again. This was too much for him.
"Dang me," said he, "if this don't
beat all my calculations?two freshes
in one day and naiy drop of rain!"
Going to New Nork for the first
time on business connected with the
1874.
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luties of his office as Fund Commis- t
ioner, lie put up at the Astor House. 1
Such things ns gas and bell-ropes
ivere far beyond his comprehension.
Lying on the bed, there being a briliant
light in the room, he began playng
with the bell-handle, and finding
t to yield on pulling, he gave it a vig
>rons jerk. It was responded to immediately,
"What did you wish, sir?'*
'Nothing at all. Come in. I'm glad
lo see you. Take a seat. I was gotil.w*
>> HM.n
llf IVIU C?VM 0 1)1 II H I t*M/111V. I
waiter, slightly astonished, net down
without a word. Tho Governor had
taken ofV his hoots, and John Thomas
took them out to ho polished without
attracting the attention of lhe Fund
Commissioner. Alter repeated etlbrts
to blow out tho gas, and finding it
impossible lie went to bed.
In the morning he missed his hoots,
llushing into the hall, halt undressed,
ho shouted and shrieked until he
brought up one of the proprietors, and
a hoarder or two, and no end ol waiters.
"My hoots is stole! my hoots is
stole!" lie was asked what kind ol .
hoots he wore. "Number thirteen,'
he screamed, "and pegged at that."
The Prohibitory Liquor haw.
Wc at length reached the hotel
again, and I proposed a glass of brandy
and water. My friend looked at
me and then at the landlord; and
the landlord looked at my friend and
ther. at me. Perplexity overspread
the countenances ol both.
"Such a thing as a drop of liquor is
not to he had in the place," said the
landlord.
"Nought, you mean," retorted my
friend.
"Nought, I mean," was tho answer.
Then both eyed me significantly.
"Does anybody give it away?" I
inquired, greatly pu/./.led by the mystery
that appeared on both their countenances.
"Not exactly. You see the State
constables would he after me in no
time il I sold liquor," explained the
landlord. "Do you want some very
badly?"
1 could not explain how badly 1
wanted it, and could only give vent
to my feelings in a sigh.
Without a word the landlord dis
u|>[>v;iri-u \vu::m i no 1 crosses ol a small
room behind tho otlico desk, and presently
canto forth with two empty
tumblers in his band. These he
placed upon the desk.
"But where is the liquor?" I inquired.
"The law lot bids nm to sell it," he
said. "I dare not disobey the law.
If you can find any here you are welcome
to it," s,tying which he accidentally
turned hack the breast of his
coat. The neck of a bottle peeped
forth Irom the inside pocket. He
winked bis eye at mo, and 1 winked
my eye at him, after which I drew
foVth the bottle, lie faintly struggled
with me to prevent the daring
robbery upon which 1 was bent, but 1
proved inexorable.
"My private bottle kept for medicinal
purposes, and not lor sale," he
moaned, as he poured out the liquor
(or myself and the worthy chairman
ol the parish committee. "Have
some water, gentlemen?" he added
with alacrity.
We drank, and I replaced the bottle
in the repository whence I had taken
it. Then I put a dollar in his hands.
"What is this for be asked, as be
deposited it in bis waistcoat pocket
and gave me half a dollar in change.
"For a bushel of oats," I answered,
"Keep them until I send for them."
"Ah, sir," said the landlord, with
an air of virtuous resignation, "the
Prohibitory law has done a world, of
good in stopping the sale of liquors.
It's a severe law on us, but it's a good
one.
The Spirit of Discontent.
The other day we stood by a cooper
who was playing a merry tunc with
bis adz around a cask.
*Al?r lie saiil, 'mine is a hard lot
? forever trotting like a dog?driving
a hoop/
'ileigho! sighed the blacksmith on
a hot summer day, as he wiped the
perspiration from hits brow, while the
red iron glowed on the anvil; 'this is
life with vengancc?melting and frying
one's self over a tire.'
'Oh, that I were a carpenter!' ejaculated
a shoemaker as he bent, over
his lap-stone. 'Here I am, day after
day, wearing my soul away making
soles for others?cooped up in this
little seven by nine room, lli-hohuml'
'I'm sick of this out-door work!'
exclaimed the bricklayer?'boiling
under a sweltering sun or exposed to j
the inclemency of the weather.'
'This is too bad!' perpetually cried
the tailor, To bo compelled to sit
perched up here plying the needle all
the time. Would that mine were a
more active life!'
'Last day of grace?banks won't
discount?customers won't pay?what
shall I do?' grumbles the merchant.
T had rather be a truck horse, a dog,
or anything else.'
'Happy fellows!' groans the lawyer
as ho scratches his head over some dry
musty record?'happy fellows! I had
rather hammer a stone all day than
puzzle my head on this tedious, vexatious
question.'
And through all the ratifications of
society all are complaining of their
r'Aliilil A' u
v.w..?iiuuiii^ mult with their
calling. "If it were only, this or that,
or the other, I should be content,' is
ho universal cry "anything but
what 1 ain.' 80 wags the world.
What Killed the Ingham Herald.
Fifteen or sixteen years ago a man
named Harvey started a weekly paper
at Williamstown, Ingham county, _
called the Jlerahl. 'Ishe town was
small, the times dull, and Harvey was
probably the laziest editor whoever
had anything to do with a .Michigan
paper. The citizens encouraged 1dm
all they could, and finally the geni
1 ^ lv.%-1 t It Kit ?? * Act /\l
Ill lllill' ? IIU 11UU nil uinuvu va kiikj
capital Stopped into the ofliee one Friday
to Fee Ilarvey and spur him up a
little. It was publication day, but the
outside, only half made up, was on
the stone, and not a lino had been set
for the inside. Ilarvey was in the
yard back of the ofliee digging fishwornis,
and was called in.
"See here, Ilarvey, you arc not
doing as you should," commenced the
gentleman; "here it is Friday, and
you havn't, even worked the first t?ideN
ol your paper."
"I?see?I?havn't?!" slowly re- ,
nlied the editor, looking in the drawer
f >r a fish line.
"Well, when are you going to get
the paper out?"
"Some?time?next?week."
"Hut this is no way to do business,
Mr. Ii: irvey. When you came hero
didn't you agree to issue the paper
every Friday?'
"I?presume?I?did drawled Harvey,
4but? 1?didn t?know?that?the
?fishing ? was? so?good.
Ho took his rod and went to tho
banks of the Cedar, and when he returned
the ofliee was packed up iti
boxes marked "old type and a note on
the door read: "The Herald is dead?
too many suckers killed it."?J>itroit
Free d>rcss.
How to Protect Fruit from llirils.
A correspondent of tho London
Ticld says that his method has proven
entirely eflicacions: "And what, you
will ask, is my talisman? Simply a
ball of gray, white or brown linen
thread. I take a ball of this in inv
hand, fasten the end of it to one of
ii..* ? ...t.^ f i t. . . \
iiil- i-wig? ui mi' guoseuerry or currant
bush, and then cross the I broad backwards,
from twig to twig in perhaps
a dozen dillerrenl directions, fasten
oil', and the thing is done; and it will
last two years?the thread on the
trees, I mean. It. is not necessary
that the thread should be white, of
course; it ought rather to be line and
dark?a thing to be felt, not Seen.
1 have watched the birds after performing
the operation; they come
boldly to settle on the trees, and they
strike these, to them invisible snares,
for such no doubt, they seem t*? be;
they 11 y off in a terrible hurry, and
settle on the walls and trees around
about, longing and getting hungrv,
until they disappear and you see them
no more.
As regards pens and other seeds,
which I always sow m drills, I simply
stretch a thread, sometimes two,
along each drill, at about two inches
from the ground, supporting it at
that bight by little sticks. Il you put
it much higher than this, the birds do
not. seem to care for it?it does not
tuch them; this is the grand secret,
something they do not well see, nor
k^iow what it means. I have seen
peonlo nut a thick white string, with
leathers tied to it, and perhaps two
feet from the ground. The birds
soon understand these, and care little
for them; in short, 1 know to my cost
it sometimes acts as a lure, as a notice
to the birds that there is something t<>
be had worth looking after. 1 will
answer for it, any one adopting the
plan I recommend will never have
cause to complain of the birds, however
numerous they may be."
Queen Victoria in a Hull'.?A
London letter on that "wretched
quarrel about precedence," says that
the Queen has gone oil* to JJalmoral,
leaving her imperial guest, the Kinpcror
of Russia, in London. She is
suffering trom one ol her periodical
attacks of what Air. Disraeii calls
"mental disability/' and that it has
been caused mainlv hv Muummh i>?
J "J
being compelled lo yield. It i*
amusing to observe tlie zeal with
which the English people take up the
Queen's side in the lilile la mil y quarrel,
and insist that the Grand Duchess
has been 'honored' by being introduced
I into "our royal family." The result,
however, is that the Court Journal
has been compelled to announce that
hereafter the young lady shall bo
styled "Her royal and imperial highness
the Grand Duchess of Kussin,"
and thft "she shall take precedence
immediately alter the Princess of
Wales," This concession has been
gall and wormwood to the Queen and
to her daughters, and the mortification
arising therefrom is the real
cause of the present illness of her
Majesty and of her untimely tlight to
Scotland.
The New York Herald, poking fun
at id ay a rd Taylor's Egyptian discoveries
per Utters to the Tribune, says
that li. T. has secured the correspondence
between Joseph and Potiphar'a
wife, and wants to translate it; but
Chicago people want to buy-it untranslated,
for feav-Qia will make it as dull
as one of bis own books. It appears
by the correspondence that what has
been hitherto heard of the story was
only Joseph's version, as Le reported
it to his wile,