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Stony Poin*. Stony Point, a strong fort on the Hudson river, was stormed ano1 taken, l during the war of the Revolution, by II twelve hundred men, under the comi mand of Gen. Wayne, a brave Pennsyl- a vania soldier. Twelve o'clock was the o time for the aotual charge to begin. To ni reach the Point within assaulting dis- 11 tanoe It was necessary to cross the in- 8 tervening marsh as qnickly as possible. 4 Here there was an unexpected ob- 81 stacle in the overflow of the title, and a twenty minutes were lost-valuable t' time Just then, but fortunately not fatal 1 loss. As the two colums neared the a enemy, Murfree and his North Caroli- tj nians, by previous instructions, took c position directly in front of the British s< works, and opened a rapid and contin- h1 uous tire, for the purpose of drawing at- P' tention to themselves, while the storm- fj Ing parties moved on silently on the tl right and left. This ruse conributed " largely to the night's success. In- 8 mediately there is hot work in pro- a gress. The hoped-for surprise is out of e the question, for the enemy's pickets tl haye given the alarm. III ten minutes U every man of the garrison lb up, coin pletely dressed, and at his proper sta- h1 ion. If the fort Is to be taken now, o only hard fighting can do It. Mean- tc while a mighty courage and resolution f( Li seem to urge on the American infantry 0 with an irresistable momnemtuin. The n vallent Wayne, determined to share 11 the perils as well as the glories of the a enterprise, leads the right column, spear in hand. Not a man falters. As they approach the two formidable lines IC of abatis whi-,h stretched across the a Point in front of the main works, the It fire from the enemy's musketry be- 8: comes "tremendous and incessant." t( ti Although on account of the darkness tj much of its effect is lost, men neverthe- n less here and there begin to fall In the % ranks of the light infantry. Lieut. I Colonel Hay, of Pennsylvania,"bravely i fighting at the head of his battalion," tI Is wounded in the thigh. Captain 11 Ezra Selden, of Lyme, a handsome p young officer, fresh from Yale College s at the opening of the war, but - now a veteran of four campaigns, and belong- ti lug to Colonel Starr's First Connecticut 11 receives a well nigh fatal wound in the n side. Though weak from loss* of blood y be makes his way into the fort. A s shot breaos the standard of Melgs' reg- t inent, but Ensign Ichabod Spencer a tears the colors off, Ninds them round 0 his arm, and keeps charging on. Ot e of twenty of one of the advance parties, seventeen are either killed or wounded, a But on, on, the two columns go. The la acent Is rocky, even precipiteus. It L takes time to open a passage through d the obstructions, and men continue to a fall. At the second abatis, Wayne re- e ceives a flesh wound in the head. Thinking it fatal at the moment, he calls on his own aids, Captains 'Fish- i born and Archer. to carry him a.ong, o that lie may die in the fort. In live 11 minutes more the work is done. The b head of the right column reaches the sally-port of the main fort first, and f, the head inan in it is DeFleury. "T1he d fort's our own I" he shouts and then a strikes the enemy's colors wit h his own d along-and climbing over the parapet, follow the forlorn hope and the main nx oum.Lieutenant Knox is the see- b gndian wonde foeren Baker, of Vir- t~ gina, ouned ourtimes during the assault, is the thirti. Sergeant Spencer a from thme same State, Is the fourth, t with two wounds. Wounded twice I also is Sergeant Dunlap, of Pennsylva- i' nia, the fifth man over the works. The rest came swarming in. On the other y' .side the left column appears at nearly ia the same time. "The fort's our ow n !" t resounds from every quarter. The i Americans dash in among the aston ished British, and ply the bayonet a with terrible energy, driving them into s the corners of the work, and compeling c their instant surrender. 1: Last Wager of Battie. On the 26th of May, 1817, a beautiful I young woman named'Mary' Ash ford in .c the bloom of her youth, being but twenty years of age, went to dance at y a,vllage called Sutton 'Coldfleld, near a Erdington in Warwickshiire. It was a yvilage gathering held by a miscellane -ous party at The Ty,burn Tree tavern. ii Cakes and-ale here provided in plenty, a and the swains of the neighborhood " * there collected by degrees became bols- h * terous and riotous. Th'le girl there met a farmer's son named Abraham Thorn ton, who resided in the ,inimeodiate I vicinity, and with whom she danced during the evening. She did not leave v the gay scene until a late hour, saying a she would pass the n ight at her grand- o father's hente, which was handier to v reach than her own home; and on g leaving, she was escorted by Abraham p Thornton as far as a stile in the vicini- e ty of the village, where Lthe two were p seen talking together. It was the last k time the poor girl was seen alive, for ii *the netL morning she was found dead t: * in a pit of water ; and there were evi- n dences on her that showed hei' death to C have-been caused by another. General y suspicion pointed to Tihornton, and this o became so intensified, that. he was ar- fi rested and tried for the~ murder at the n ensuing Warwick; .assiaes in August 11 followving and acquitted. A new trial o was granted, and on that trial the pris- 1 oner'pladet "niot gu-ilty," 4hd ghbal- p * enged'his accuser to singlit dombat, to o decide his Innocence of guilt by the an- p edent custoin of "the wager of battle." '1 Hie accompianied his plea by the old c form of taking off a glove (a large horse c and throwing it down on the floor of fi then c6urt asa ;gage '.The law be- c ing in Thrto favor, the ttpjellee, h William Ashford) tlirou gh -his counsel l. I informed the courtj ,o did,not, new fee1 q hliiiff justflfed hi accepting th'e chl- c4 long.; and the pr4gerer was thereupon i1 discharged frorei custody.' He after. 1 - ward1a esteldAnd-leff this country for ta Arnerla1*herenhbidied inrobscurity,. Ai 'This,W h' isuassieffwagendf bat- e ties as $#p law was repealed at the next ii ssiotn oarloiaent. v- ti -e ~OIENTIFIO. Use of Electrtcity. - If electricity nds its aid in the raising of ships, it a so contributes to their destruction i irough the ignition of torpedoes by v ectrio wires. It Is at once the bane d id antidote, so to speak, in this species I warfare, since our iron-clads are t< )w fitted with electric lights and re- 1] Doting apparatus, likely to be of good a irvice in protecting them from night r acks of torpedo boats. The electric U1 ghts provided on Admiral 11ornby's li lips are described as appearing ats g bright as a star of the first inagni- t ide at a distance of thirty miles on a 'I ear night. In this powerful light the i noke of a steam launch betrays itself b a distance of two hundred yards, so t tat its value as a preservative of our it )stly war vessels from destruction can t, ,arcely be overrated. Electricity, a owevOr, can equally be adapted for It urposes of attack as for defence, for it Ii tems that on board ship the electric d ise is superseding the old lanyard in d to firing of heavy cannon. It Is, as u e-have on former occasions shown, 0 )ecially convenient for turret guns, d it is not only possible -to take better s i by this uue of electricity, but the s Fect of the shots is more terrible, e trough the concentrated fire of a stil- t Ltancous discharge of several project- dI es, which will penetrate heavy armor o hen single shots are comparatively 1i irinless. As, owing to the smallness ; I port holes and the nearness of guns 0 > the water. the sighting Is better per- I >rmed by an officer stationed above I cm, lihe can by electric wires dis- t large the guns simaltaneously at the 8 onient lie thinks fit, while being l, kely to act with all the more coolness e d judgement front being out of the j ay of the smoke and bustle below. g .a al illuminator fot military purposes, a te electric light will probably ere f ing prove equally useful. The Rus- a an government has been experiment, 1 ag recently at St. Petersburg with the a )eelal object of increasing the distance > which the light produced by elec icity may be khrown. The power of t te light was found to be greatly aug- f Lented by covering the carbon burner f 'ith a thin sheet of copper. By this 1 teans the Alteneck lamp was made to icrease the power of light from ten C iousand two hundred and ten to six- 1 ten tlousand two hundred and fifty- E ve candles; and even this increased I Dwer was again raised to that repre- I nited by the light of twenty thousand I vo hundred and seventy-flve candles, 1 y a slight alteration in the position of I to carbon and its coverig. By this I ght, objects are clearly visible at 6 ight at a distance of three thousand t ards. Front such experiments it t temns that the improveinents in the E 'stcmi of electric lighting are largely i > produce important effects on the t rt8 of war and peace. Such are a few I r the uses to which this strange pow- I r has already been applied; and yet lectrici,y, like stean), may still be con- i dered in its infancy. In a futire rticle we shall have the pleasmro - of ;ying before our readers some further Dtes o- this Interesting subject, inclu lug what has been done and what Is kely to be done in the way of iluImin ig large cities such as London, by Cetrlcity. Dr. Manouvrieg, a French physician, t is published sonic novel obsQrVations I it a disease peculiar to bonk clerkp. t has been noticed fol y zars that C inkers' clerks, after handling for I mie days in succession large quanti es of. silver five-franc pieces, suffer t 'om disorders of the respiratory and s igestive organs. These have been I scribed to a dar'k-greenishi metallic I uist, which Is raised by taking the t >ilns from the bags where they are C enerally kept, weighIng themi andi a utting them back. This dust implreg- I ates tile atmnosp)here of thle room,e lackeiis the skini, aind penetrates into me respiratory and digestive tracts, )gether with the air and saliva. In ( ie years 1872 and 1874, when thet toney whlich had beeni paid by France > Prussia as a tr'ibute was returned to ( 'rance thlrough mercantile transact )n5, the clerks spent. an unusuallyt >ng time in handhng the coins, wvhich ad not been taken out of their bagst 3r some years) and the affection was E lore marked than ever. Owing to I toe peculiar circumstances under I rhich this afiection hias been observed, ltore can be no doubt as to its beIng ue partly to the copper (verdigris), nd partly to the oxidized state of the lIver; both metals are used( in tihe olnage of the five-frantc pieces, In the roportion of nine-tenthIs of silver and ne-tenith of copper. During the past year, 1878, Herr 'uchs btates th'at the number of vol snic eruptions over the world reached de unusual high number of twelve; tat they were at places far apart, ahd rere mostly from little known and in-I ecessible volcanoes. The so called "parallel roads'' found t many p arts of the world, biut whIch * re especially characteristie of Scandi avian coast scenery, are said by Dr. ehmnann to be due exclusively to reaker action. Hygiene of House Plants. It is well known that the animal and 1 agetabile world -are .balanced over gainst each other. The former throws I utt carbonic acid, whieh the lattet ' ~orks up into wood, while the latter Eves out oxygen, which'the former em. I loys In purifying the blood and gen- 1 rating heat. Hence I t has been sup- I need that plants in a room help to I oop the air in it pure. This, however now foutnd to be a mistake. Among 10 experIments in proof are some ade in thie extensiye Rloyal Winter rarden at Munich, which is fild with< egetation, and is completely covered vern with a huge dome of glass. Care 11 testing. shows that there is very 1 early as much carbonic micid hero as< i the open air, and only slightly more J icygen. Of course a few dozen plants,t an ordinary room can make no apy - reotable difference in the composition i r the air. The real good of house lants is in their effect on our feelings. hey gently turn our minds from their j nmmon ruts of thought. They be- ~ mee cherished companions of our aSs. 1 etic nature. They call up cheerful ~ meings'in plac9 of -those that fret and ~ rrodoe The -very love for them Is ~ umnizing. Now all this Is physical- I as Well as morally heahtjtful' It Is ~ uIte true, h,QWever, that, the al-eni )mpassing ocean of air Is kept pure parL.aassated by other agencies-by 1 e act! o ve taton,aid .ths ighWlle al iihe so ik ull te I mosykete'(ikt (' i aktu am~'sit eean as on:tle 1(nds n'aho. dei'4 j . th~ foi-eie;$ud a 61i' 'Ind well ven iiutei1duy as !n't1he4aountry. AGRIOULTURE. TRAININO SADDLIC MoRs.-In an wer to the question on training saddle th4 orses, says the Country Gentleman, it is m ot a good rule to use a flrst-class sad- we 10 horse. In harness or vice versa, and foi orsemen all know that to use a trotter pr4 ) saddle, is to shorten his gait and get rh im in the habitof cantering. Assoon ve 3 a horse finds it is easier to canter, or sw un as it is commonly called, when go- a s ig fast, hIu will invariably take the Pa ttter galt. But with the ordinarybug- is 1 y horse, or saddle horse If properly it 4 ained, it will not inake any difference. is! 'he writer has tralned a great many ho orses for saddle and hardess purposes, loi oth in Europe and America, and knows Irc iat the best saddle horses In the world ac re never harnessed until their services to ) saddle are over. In England. when th< horse has hunted four or live seasons, ap e Is sold to some tradesman, and then wi e is good for four or live seasons for To og-cart or gig. With regard to the of evelopmont of the muscles of a horse spi ndergoing training for either trotting off r running, his muscles will be fully a ) eveloped. The horse of all work spi liould be first thor6ughly trained to wi ddle and then to harness. as in my ofi xperience he will always work to tu: [lose galts; that is to say, when in sad- gu le to trot and canter, but never to pace sh r single foot, when in harness lie will eil 3ar the two latter too soon. Some da eopie think a saddle horse ought to tLi ace, but this is a ailstake, as the canter kI4 i by far the best for horse and rider. T1l speak from experience, as for the last th, wenty years I have been in the saddle i ix day3 cut of seven. In traveling a tij >ng distance the horse which trots or anters will take you over the road with tore ease than the pacing hotse. A ne ood trainer can train a horse to the po addle gaits so that these will never con- sk let with each other, and on the proper gr pplication of the bridle hand and the th 3gs, the horse will change his gait at po ny-Ioment. ik of OLD-FASHIONCD FLOWRS.-Many of of lie flowers that were popular forty and o ifty years ago are again coming lito 01 ashion. For several years holly hooks fo ave been ignored, but the double speol- v iens grown in Germany, and intro- oi uced into this country, are now sold th y most seedamen. They are not so to asily raised from seeds as might be In- re erred by reading the catalogues, but g vhen once started, with proper culti- ci, ation they amply repay all the troub- cc 1 they require, . It rs said that by a lanting the seed early in the season, fi lowers may be obtained the same sea- St on.. This may induce hopes not al ways W o be realized. If started in a hotbed tN he changes are fair, but they iature P lowly. The new varieties of asters are in cry beautiful, and are easily brought 00 o perfection with care. They should iot be crowded, and mulching in July g, 3 very advantageous. Some of the arieties Introduced within a few years re very large and showy. 1oRisS ON THIE ROAb.-If a horse Is or equired to travel a long distance and st lie Journey must lie accomplished with- ta lut stopping to balt, it exhausts the I torse less to increase the pace up to his W lest average gait, thaii to permit *a low gait, consuming a much longer i ine in going over the ground, and on ,i enipty stomach. In other words, if - wo horses are drIven flfty or sixty wV niles, under similar conditions as to dt lie weight they have to draw, and the ie is taken at the rate of six miles an our, which will keep him fasting from W ight to ten hours, while the other is H raveled fast enough to do it in six to even hours, the latter ivill be less ox Liausted than the former, though even su1 n this latter case tihe horse would be su1 .11 the better for a feed in the middle- h< f the journey, the -time devoted to 5p uch baiting being easily mlade by the bi u.creased energy that would be suppli- cil d by the grain, ori - bi FERTILIzINo IN THlE Iill.--A small w; Ltuantlty of active fertilizer applied in bi lie hill at planting will be beneficiah. t hlandfull of a mixture of 100 p)ounfds f fine bone dust, one barrel of wvood h<4 shes and a b,arrel of poultry manure, hrowin near bitt not onl the seed and te veIl mingled with the soil, will hasten as 1he young growth. The earlier the se tart anld the more vigorous the young. Crowvth, the more rapidly the crop wvill nature. .t GRASS LADs.-Rolling the mieadowvs am vith a hleavy roller will level the sur- bi 'ace by reducing the hummocks, sink- th ng stones and-st icks, or roots, and com- cc >act the soil about tihe roots and so fa trengthen the grass. A light dressinlg, di 00 lbs. nitrate of soda per acre, for ib:- d< Ltance, ill encourage tile growvth and tdd largely to the yield.. of *Use of the Bath. 01 For the last ten or fifteen years, the d' mublic has been stimulated to the use of wv he bath. "Water, water everywhere,"' is Lnd for all diseases, was tihe cry of the te iydlropathists., A retion has began, g ind not a few physicians no,w -protest Igailist the intemporate use of the bath- la ,ub. Amonlg these is Prof. Hlebra, of si iienlna, who thlinks that much is said st oncerning the beneficial influence of IC vater which .is not endorsed by facts. h 1'his eminent German is' a decided keptic as to the favorable effects of ha >itual bathing upon the healthy skin. Against the general opinion, he denies hat frequent cold and warm baths,sand bI v'ashing the skin with cold water, fol owed by friction are conduelve .to T mealth and do no har'm. Millions of 'bi nen, lie says, take no baths, and, at 0o nost, only slightly wash their face and tands once a week, and yet live to old ge in the employnmnt of good health. p1 lesides, he continues, no one can prove of hat the bath wards off disease, or that mf vashing An cold water protects against *1 :atarrh, rheumatism, and other diseases a upposed to arise from catching cold.. Dhe professor does not object to the ath as an amusement or as a means of >ceasional cleansinig. But he does ob-. oct to eocaking 9ne's: person . n a bath- G ub, and to that rep.eated rubbing Which pt mnder the shape of shampooing, brush ng with a.lAkir-brush or coarse towel, a popularly thought to add to the vir nes of the bath, Hie says that tihe itch- ai ng of the, skin which follows such.fric- ' ion is.gls Vrotest tl}atth ,i\ rdtment' is a njnring it. If the protest is not heed- t< d, the bather may find himself' the 11 ictim of a skih-disease which will re- ce uire nientpus if not years to ure. Prof. I' zebra's objections~ ai-,, worthy 4f,at.. ention.. 1 OLEUANUU 1133 loomet ot all impufittes, and o b eutraliie ls mlnan s es at tei 5u~Ti~~ ror tile InteGands ones, all Sertoii o m ItsVn n* rF. aye's AlteraeIs a 0Slr4u~Ae DOMESTIO. L'oILLr AND HEALHru HINTS.-To keep ) hands soft mix honey, almond al and olive oil into a paste; use after shing with soap. Castile soap is best use; i will cure asoratch or cut and vent any -spot. For inflammatory umatim, take half an ounce of pul rized saltpeter, put in half a pint of ect oil, bathe the parts affected.and Dund cure will speedily ensue. The risian method of cleaning black silk ;o brush and wipe it thoroughly lay )n a flat table,with the side up which intended to show, and sponge with t coffee strained through muslin. Al v it to become partially dry, then n]. The prudent housewife who, on wount of hard times, has decided not re-paper the sitting-room, will find old paper very much inproved in pearance by simply rubbing it well th a flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal. remove grease from silk, take a lump magneaia, and rub it wet over the t; lot it dry, then brush the powder id the spot will disappear; or, take risiting card, separate it and rub the )t with the soft internal part, and it 11 disappear without taking the gloss the silk. A moth destroying tinc re is made as follows: One ounce of in camphor, an ounce of powdered ell of red pepper, are macerated in ,ht ounces of strong alcohol for seven ys, anid then strained. With this icture the furs or clothes are sprin Ad over, and rolled up in sheets. Is remedy is used in Russia under 3 name of "Chinese tincture for ths," and is found to be very effe 0. NfLK PAINT.-(I) Put six ounces of wly slacked lime in a clean pall and ur over it part of two quarts of sweet imimed milk. Stir it, adding by de ees four ounces of oil of poppy, and en add the rest of the milk and three unds of Spanish white, powdered ie and added slowly. (2) Four quarts skim milk, one pound of ft esh slacked ne, twelve ounces of linseed oil four nces of white Burgundy pitch, six nces of Spanish white, to be mixed as [lows: The lime to be slacked in &ter, exposed to the air, mix in about c-fourth of the milk; the oil in which e pitdh must be previously dissolved, be added a little at a time, the'n the at of the milk, and afterwards the >anish white. Tais quantity is suffi mt for more than fifty square yards vered with two coats. (3) For a drab int use cement-the kind employed building clsterns-instead of lime. ich i paint co.ts but little-fifty cents' :rthi will paint a large barn. We put *o quarts of cement into a six quart 11; add two quarts of skimmed milk; ix well and it i8 ready for use. Stir casionally while applying it. We int one or two boards at a time, be ining at the top. S-ONOR CAK E FnIITrEn.-SIx or eight uare (penny) sponge cnkes, one cup eam, boiling hot, with a pinch of soda irredi in, four eggs whipped light, one blespoonful cornstarch, wet in cold ilk, a quarter pound of currants, ished and dried; pound the Ckes te and pour the cream over them ; stir the cornstarch, cover for half an >ur,then beat until cold ; add the yolks light and strained, the whipped bites, then the currants thickly edged with flour; beat -all hard to ther; drop in spoontuls into the boll g lard; fry quickly, drain upon a rmred sieve, and send to the table >t. BI.ACK GINGEnBnIEAD.-Onme cup of garn house umolassos, one cup of browvn gar, one cupi warm water, eleven aping tablespoonifuls sifted flour, tea oonful soda; mix with the flour a ta espoonful of ginger, a teaspoonful of rinamon, a tablespoonful of butter and e egg ; mix the molasses, sugar and tter wvell together with the wvarm ster, thien the other Ingredients, and ke in Saratoga roll pans. No H[osserrAL NEEDED.--No palatial >spital needed for llop Bitter's p)atients r large-salaried talented puffers to 11 what Hop Bitters will do or cure, they tell their own story by their rtain and absolute cures at home. LEAK Y ltOOEs.-Coat tar ap)plied hot a roof .will cure it of leaking. T1ake old broom, or tie rags on an old oomstick, and use this for spreading e tar over the desiredl surface, Of urse this will effect the water that hIs on and runs off tihe roof, and if you siro to keep such a supply of water, not use the tar. MUcILAG.-If, to a strong solution gum arabic, measuring eight and e-third fluid ounces, a solution of irty grains of suilphiate of' aluminum, aolved in two-tImIrds of an ounce of ater be added, a very strong mucilage formed, capable of fastening wood gethier, or of mending porcelain or ass. BEATEN hlIsCUIT.-One quart of flour, r i the size of a lien's egg, one tea oonful of salt. Make iinto a moderate 1ff dough with sweet milk. Beat r half an hour.- Make out with the mnd or cut with a biscuit, Stick ith a fork and bake in a hot oven, it not pufileiently hot to blister the scuit. TooTu-BnusuEs.-In buying a tooth 'ush select one consisting of three or ur rows of bristles, with a little space itween, and of moderate hardness. is wil-l allow the bristles to spring in tween the teeth, and thus free them tartar in places where it is most apt accumulate. HOMINY GnIDDLE CAKs.-To one nt of warm, boiled homuiny add a pint milk or water, and flour enoug to akeia thin batter ; beat up two or three 'gs, and stir them anto the batter with kittle salt. Fry as any ethmer grididle kes. GRIDDLE CAICEs.-.-T wo coffee cups~ of ur milk or buttermilk, one teaspoon l of saheratus dissdlved in a little hot iter, .and flour enough to pour. l'ease the griddle with'a piece' of fat' >rk) and fry the c&kes a light brown. Ulow To Be Beautiful. Many hundred thousand dollars are nu ally expended by ladies, for "arti alal" appliances to hide the shrunken id wasted form, er the sallow skin, lotohe4,.or liver spots, which are due female Weakness, dyspepsiam, torpid Ver, anid Congtlpation. If arsiihall per mt. of this sum were investeil in Dlr. ierce's Favorite Prescription, ladhies ould soon really be ,what they iAow en to be.. *t readl ly coreots dhoso eaknesses 4nd diseases, upon which hhaoistion dlepqjnd. It Iorr dyspopsia. r toning up the aoms andh when, med in connection with. Dr. 1Pierce's. leasant 1Purgagye PelletE,.speedhily reroomes all itregulrities 01 the-liyet mcd bowels, Nohloo of youthi'ho rJihre1 ce'i imth l#n HUMOROUS. STRIOTVIOETARIANI5M.-A man wan dered down Calhoun street, and ap.. wi proaching Irey's grocery store asked wl: of the proprietor: hIo "You got some greens, don't it?" fo "Greens? '.Les, sir." "You got rooting bakers?" As "Rutabagas? Yes, sit; how many Wa will you have?" le "Got some little red plates mit green his ope ?" "Rod plates with green tops? Well, o no, sir; I suppose you will find them at On the china store up town." for "Don't got no little red plates? hal guess it was better of you got some; ros guess you was a liar. Vich you call mo [ose?' "Why those are radishes." tr "Red Aishes-"dot's vat I said. Say, t" maybe I got some letters of you to-mor- th row. You got it?" egi "Letters? There are no letters here futl for you; you must inquire at the post ch1 office." "Ankwire mid the boat office for let- or ters? Dose was a fine skeoms. I vas wr up town and vent auf a bake shop and to vant sum bums, und do man said, 'Get in out, yer old bum, or I'll fire you troo do door.' 0o "You should have said 'buns.' He -" Th "Bums? Dot's vot I said-bums; und 001 don I comes and vant some red dishes, to und you dell me to go auf a china store; I vant some letters to eat und you say go mid de posd office; I ogspect,off I Of vant some beats you tole me to go to de the station house. I tell you vat I do-you re can go to de tyfel. Of you vas a nice atl man I vant some injins, cowoumpers, im, und blendy dings, but I guess I go to de bo drug s.tore and buy a brick und beddels )' rat pizen1." al th WHAT DAY ?-The following stor 1| 00 told of a Methodist minister namT. Di S. Day, who received an appointment ra on a circu!t in a Western State: CO On the first Sunday morning, he va started from his domicile to the meet- bo lug house, half a mile distant. The aP minister observed'several boys playing re in and about a pond ot water bathing, an making "'mud pies," and indulging in divers other thitugs incident to the rock lessness of' youth. or He advanced slowly towards the 60 crowd, and addressing an intelligent looking boy, bright as a prairie flower, said: "Come here, my son." The boy stepped up to him, and the others collected around. d "Do you know," said the minister, K, "what day this Is?" "Oh, yes " they all shouted, "it h c Mr. Day, our new Methodist minister." ot at A GnxAT ENTERUPRISC.-The ]op V Bitters Manufacturing Company is one ka of Rochester's greatest business enter- sB prises. Their Hop Bitters have reached th a sale beyond all precedent, having ro from their intrinsic value found their at way into almost every household III the hn land.-Graphic. al AlC fal Ax INmrossiLIT Y.-'There were two r men got into a fight in front of the wr store," said a North end man at the bu supper table, and I tell you it looked he pretty hard for one of them. The big- N. ger one grabbed a cart stake and drew u It back. I thought sure he was going to knock the other's brains out, and I jumped in between them." da The family had listened with rapt ph attention, and Ps the head paused In his to narrative, the young heir whose re- fo spect for his father's bravery Was Im- l measurable, proudly remarked: "iIe couldn't knock any brains out of you, could he father ?" o Tehead of the family gazed long and E. earnestly at the heir, as it to detect evi- pL deuces of a dawning humorist, but as a the youth continued with great inno conce to munch lisa fourth tart, liea gasped aned resumed hisa supper.a PTwas helping Mr. Blank recently n< togta safe into his office, and not being a acquainted with thce article, inquired what it was for. "Tio preve nt papers and other articles ,that are placed in it from being burnt up," replied Mr. Blank.m "An' sure wvill nothing ivlr burn that is put in that thing?" "Well, thin, yer honor, ye'd better be afther getting into thaet same whein TJ ye die." G 51 THE gallery of the Louvre seems to be a school of morals as well as of art. G~ A mother in showing her little boy the "Venus of Milo," was asked by him, a3 "What did they cut her arms off for ?" "Because she would put her fingers in the sugar bowl," was the reply. Lit tie Jacky seoretly resolves to be no al longer liable to such a terrible affilc- *' tion. MRs. O'BRALAGHAN-"Shure, an' It's al the thruth I've been tellin' yer, Mrs. to Muggins; you never catohed a lie a comin' out of my mouth." Mrs. Mug gins: "No, indeed, Mrs. O'Bralaghan; they comes out so fatst nobody couldn't catch 'em. A LITTLE follow who recently had a "pineapple out" on his bead, kept feel ing his~ short hair, rubbing hi s hand I back and forth over the top of his head. L is father asked why he did so and the urchin replied, "I want to feel the cut ness of it." "A HAIRPIN,'" says an exchange, "Is a very usef'ul thing to a woman. It serves tihe purp.se of a toothpick, but tonhook snd hair-fastener, but all this is no excuse for having one in your vest pocket when your wife don't know where it comes from." SoME railroads are run on narrowv gauge, some on broad gauge, but all on mortgage. ih - sa 1M1ILLIoNS 01. mt,ligem womensa that D)obbln's Electric Soap, (rnade by Cragin & Co., Philadelpi,ba,) Is In every respect, the best soup ever~ made, and wvill do three times the work of ainy other. Try it. Quaek Nostrums are pronounced bythe medical profession * 'The bane of society but, the Bible says "To him who is afflicted piyshould be shown" and t, Di. Silabee, the discoverer of "&iakesis" the only infallible pile cure known tomedical tt deserves a monument at the hands of afflicted * millions as a bermefactor of the human race. If P' as Jean A'aul Riohter says-"appiness is the Ui absence of pain-" what shall be said of a~ " remnedi' that will reli6ve instantly such pain as those endure who suffer from pusandof how munch happiness. inst "Anakqsma" be the author. @0,000 of the ollions afflicted with plsgadly ttify to It healing vituse. Dee none have used It 6~ih1 .bnefit. Qmbin in the virtue of a mla ,i tits me aatful in all eae it nslqe At one~ ets 4mt6iitm y e h A Terrible Fate. W L man of the nane of Rowaleff lived ;h his family in a small building loh*had been erected in tie nelgh- 3 id of an exhausted naptha spring, the storage and refining of naptha. 18 the custom in Russia, Rowaleff v a In the habit before going to bed of sing all the doors and windows of house, so as to exclude as much as sible the external air. This he did the evening of the itccident. At r o'clock the next morning, his wife ring occasion for a light, Rowaleff o and struck a match, The next G ment the air was on fire. The gas in the old naptha spring had risen ough the interstices of the loor into house, and finding no meanus of ess, had filled it with inflamnable nes. In a few seconds all the eight ldren of Rowuleff were either stilled burnt alive in their beds, and the etched father and mother managed 3rawl to the door, their skii hang shreds from their scorched bodies, ly to die miserably a few hours later, e entire stock of naptha wias of trse destroyed and the building burnt the ground. A Partial Blockade the main avenue for escapo of refuse from human system is utterly subvorsive of ularity among the other organ. Lot con ,ation become chronic, ani, leaving out the minent danger of inflammakion of the NelG and their total obstruction occurring, ndico is almost certain to onsue,the liver is i ble to beComo ongorgod, the blood and urine ipoisoned by the 'bilo, which also vitiates juices of the otomaoh, and other unhappy isequences follow. Ilostolter's Stomach - ters, a prime tonio alterative, prevents or nedies thoso results and their cause as the io may require, and is also signally effia us in ovoro ming flatulence, heartburn and e1able as well as constipated action of the fvels. It renews nervo power, improves the petite, stays the progress of early decay, loves the infirmities of ago, and is a pleats t appetizer. 1E1EW]EL's Totter Ointment will Cure Bore 'elids. Sore Nose, Barber's Itch on the face, F Grocer's Itoh on the hands. It never fails. cents per box, sent by mail for 00 cents. Johnston, Holloway & Co., 602 Arch St., Phila., Pa. U Woitm. W OR11S. WORRIS IL. F. Kunkel's Worm Byrup never falls to stroy 11n, st and Stomach Worms. Dr. ikol, &be only successful physician who re )vos Tapo Worm in two hours, alive with c ad, and no foe until removed. Common z use teaches if Tape Worms can be removed all 11 ier worms can be readily destroyed. Advice ofilco and store free. The doctor can tell oi tother or not the patient has worms. Thou- I ads are dying, daily, with worms, and do not ow it. Fits, spasms, cramps, choking and ffocation, sallow complexion, circles around p a eyes, swelling and pain in the stomach, . itless at night, grinding of the tooth,picking the noso, cough, fever, itching at the seat, adache, foul breath, the patient grows pale d thin, tickling and irritation in the anus these symptoms, and more, come from irms. E. F. Kunkol's Worm Syrup never Is to remove them. Price, $100 per bottle, six bottles for $5 00. (For Tape Worm, Ite and consult the Doctor.) For all others, y of your druggist the Worm 8yrup, and if has it not, send to.Dr. E. F. Kunkol, 259 Ninth, street, Philadelphia, Pa. Advice by Lil, free; send three-cont stamp. Spoepsa! Dyspepsia I Dyspepsta E. F. Kunkel's Bitter Wino of Iron, a suro ro for this disease. It has been proscribed ily for many years in the practice of ominent ysioians with unparalleled success. Symp ns are loss of appotite, wind, and rising of )d, dryness in mouth, hendacho, dizziness, -plossnosa, and low spirits. Got the genuine. >t sold in bulk, only in $1.00 bottles, or six - ttles fcr $5.00. Ask your druggist for E. F. JNKEL'8 Bitter Wine of Ir9n and take no ier. If lie has it not, send to proprietor. F. KUNKCEL, 259 N. Ninth St., Philadol Ia, Pa. Advice free ; enclose three-cent imp.. HIIESERIL's TETTER OINTMENT will cure all a by or scaly diseases of the skini. l'wENTY-FIvE dollars will buy our new "Mig nette" parlor organ, bran now ; stops and ella. Our own make. Soi.h for catalogue. Bss. ORGAN Co., 43 Washingto'n st., Boston. [UP YOU ABE NERvoUs AND PEPREPSSED take >oVLIND's GERMAN Bn'nnas.G 'i SUMMER MUSIC BOOKS! For the Ssnday School. INGSPEL OF JOY I S6ots. Just out. Great IOD NWS ws M 5ts, wVell known; always good. LINING RIVER 1 35 ets. Very beautiful songs. P,rsa shore or' Mountains. oM CU onENGLIsH SONG I @2.50. Best SongG IURTER 0O' GEMS I #2.80. Capital Piano Piece. 18M8 0 TILE DANOE I *2.e0. Brilliant 1What Books to'Read. [.tveeot BIEI%Ti OVEN,, 200)i,MoZART,(Sl.7s), i Uo ITTC Is STR O MUIC, 2vole. MUSIcAL RECORD. (62.00). Good reading; ee a week, alt the news and fine selection of music. DEse4RIPTIVE CA TALoGUE 5(10 ets.) of almost 1 3 Musi iloks ht are ublished. Very valuable any book mailed, for retail price.t Oliver Dltson & Co, Boston. a 5.. 3. DITRON * (10., eS Chestnut Ut.. Phil. IABHTIS' SEEDS ARE TUE IM. mi 35 oath BIT Ut. Ph a eluht 100D ADVERTISING CHEAP. 10 CAsH, wihhoarwl insrin I mont occupying one inchl space, one time; osix tines two times; or tree lines four 20 CAsr n dan, will insert in eso tih oment of one inch space, one time; or six lines two times; -or three lines four timus Address 8. N, PETTENGILL & 00., '7 Park Row, New York, Or, 701 Oliestunut St. Phaila. Audvertising don., in all newspapers in nl.ed states and Canadas at the lowest rates. L.. 2t8p1o HlareW8re Seilis e. agdirespre k n e ay [VNsO & b.', Iron Founders, Pttsb'g, Pa. 1'hose anslenn an Adverttoement wil nfe a avrUn the Advertiser and thme abihry tat thelsaw theuadve. lement I Jjovals (namIg th e paper hen Trade is Dull, Judicious Advertising Sharpens It. OW TO ADVERTISE. 4C- Heo IETTENUILL. rHEN TO ADVERTISE. 4w- See PETTFNUILL. rHERE TO ADVERTISE. If See PETTENIALL. MOD&V TO) ADVERIITSH T111101501E. fi See PETTENGILL. 0 TO 37 PARKi ROW, NEW YORK, and &- See PETTENGILL. HOP BITTERS. (A Medicine, not a Drink#) OORTAIXG VOPS, BUCIU, rdANDRAK, DANDELIONf, W T=0 PUMsT A" BXWr MxriQDOA. QV Or ALLe OTIIRX BITT115. I Diseases of the 8tomach, Bowels..Blood, Liver Idneys, and Urinary Organs, Nervousness,.Wep isnewg sad especially Female Complaiat& 010 61000 IN GOLD. IL be paid for a case theywill not oure or help, o r anything impure or injurious found in them. Ask your druggist for 1op Bitters and r th fore you sleep. Take no other. or Coven 0vx i the @weetes safest And best 10 HOP PAD for Stomach, Livev ond Kidne superior to all others. Ask Druggits. &01 an absolute and irr leslob to 9WO pium, tobacco andnaot6 - Send for circular. 1 ab&sdd by dWss. Hop HBlus Mfg. otrAcer,N.y )R. M. W. CASE'S Liver Remedy -AND ILOOD PURIFIER Is Tonie, Cordial, Anti-Billous. RESA11F. IOXIIFD *CIP,Nx 11 KVEHi AND Apum. PALsPITATION. ONHUMPTIOA: :YSPEPSIA 'I D NOUf1"3 d of Vho*ito'.ch' ti aleid lc ot sikt,upt o systew.fell 8n tte sien g1ivrilal. 1or leavoeoaystem cor. 1pated, as oiher meoAiesat ourlv#.slv HOW TO BE an"yourlod,ai* ou 1118y save your don. rOUR OWN bi a. Ta Iteiedy DOCTOR. i"u'i*ta,"tenoe I mc froin hi favorito prescri on, Used it hie Own tousive practleo for over N, Years. Suterior to I known rewedles. lee v iceese is sfay)(ty wondlerfuil. F GENERiAL, LOCM.AIL, * Ia r) JANVANSIN00W J W_H1VIrAOI,I)INAIt NDUUEt C1 2AR rred. ei d for dircular and erms to Na ONE EADICINE C0.!,llad0ke1u1Af. old by all Drtggists, 0eneral Storp ents. ricq$ 25c.; Lar at~Intles Pni haan" ox of (0 Large for ,3.75p sent L) exprons.prepn rlail lottl6fre. Asoa rruims tf. i. WNTABLKED 184. MORGAN & HEADLY, Dpoers of Diamonds AND lauk~tarrs df Sneackn USa SANOIK Stroes, Palladelphta. lustratd Price List sent to the traft a applIation. PIANOB as*i:rs ors N rights in mnerca12.Ot in s-I anos M eno Ial-atlogue ree MaxaD3i.. on at 15u.Dotb e-barrel Brec loaders at 621 t.orle afnsd Blroeol oadignus, Bi es and akes. All kinds of sporting Impleqoents and arti g uns yet made for the price. Prices on .J0S, C. GRUBB & CO., 12 Market St., Philada., Pa. 1 31. PETTENOILL &t 0. Advertising la Agents, 8? Park Row, New iYork, and 701 teatnut Street, Philadelphia, receive adver ieionts foWerpublicatIon in any part of the A DVICE as to the most judicious advertising 10 the best mediums and the manner of doing -ESTIMATES for one or m ire insert ions of rader osn app ifcaion.l number of papers, A RARE tIEANIJE FOR AGENTN. PHE COMPLETE HOME I By Mrs, JULIA MaNAIR WR IG HT. barih ruts of re of researh, obsera'lors The full paged colored plates, iusirat ng Ancsent od taste. Nowork teing thi sut o detail ae alerrr n1,. ompetent critics pronouce I o fur dt ?oan~ ' address the Pub she,. J. O.lhlctJ1l) Y 0. EXODUS 3,000,000 A CR ES ,Mainly in the Famous tED RIVER VALLEY OFTHE NORTH. On long time, low' prIces and easy paymente. amphlet, with full information maIled free. Apply to D. A. MbKINLAY, Land:Corn'sr, Mt. P. MI. & . 'y, Mt. PmtlI, t'inr. TO ADVERTISERS. 1W" We will furnisha ON application, *tianates for Adver.tisang in h.e beat ud largest eireuiated Newspapers in. he Unmited States and Casuada. Ots aetities are usaurpassed. We mnake s aitomerm' inuterests our own, anud tudy to please and snake their Ad ertising profitable to themn, am thou.. anuds who have tried us cau testify. Call or address, -. 1. P'ETTENGaILL & CO,, 87 it N1RW. Now Y'ork, '101 CHEJBTNUT Street, Pniladoiphia. BAM R MA Ois Si, the herplser t beetited the sem S 'qi' o7sztas r ase iti (~r*a l ~ ;i~~ me not is Itmeek