The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, August 02, 1879, Image 4
An Unlucky Trip.
Engineer James Wood, of the Ifud.
Von Central railroad, than whom n<
more reliable, careful or experienced
man does handle a throttle valve,
met with an unsought-for e:-erlence,
and one in which 1iO possible blame car
attach to him, on his trip from Roehes.
ter to this eli y, recently, not ti6 lot ol
many engineers, and one which is suf
fielnt for a lifetime. Engineer Wood
left Rochester with the special Chicage
express, a heavy train, somewhat be
hind time. In order to reach Syracise
on time lie was compelled to ru uu ills
ually fast. On reaching Newark a
nia was scen driving a horse and
wagon, and despite the warling of the
track hands at work at the crossing he
whipped up the horse and attempted
to cross the track when the locomotive
was upon the moving vehicle. The
lorse was Instantly killed, being
titrown to one side of the track. The
wagon was smashed to atoms. Engl
neer Wood stopped the train as soon as
possible, and, on looking the body of a
man was fouid lying lit front of the
boiler, dead. IIe was an aged man,
but his identity had not been establish
ed at the time the train left. The train
was backed up to the etatioin, and the
body removed to shelter. Nothing
further happened until the train was
near Port Byron, whei the engineer
saw another n:an driving an ageu and
poor horse. Seeing tie tihe train, the
driver began whipping up hIs poor old
horse for the purpose of crossing the
track before the train. Seeing Ie
would be inable to do so, Engineer
Wood blew Iis whistle, reversed his
engine, but, the mua only whipped the
harder and had nearly got across the
track, when the engine caught the
rear wheel of the wagon and in an in
stant the vehicle was reduced to kini
dhng wood. Tihe horse e-Seaped serious
injury, but the man, an ol! 0110, wits
thrown Into the air to the height of the
smoke stack. In deseciding the man
landed, on the ground on his head
and shoulders. The train was stopped
and It was found that the man was in
sensible and had sustained severe scalp
wounds. lie was taken to Port Byron
and left. lIe was still unconscious
when the train left, up to which time
his name had not been ascertallied.
1101)1g his tnipleasanit and iunsought
experience wias at an eid, Enghneer
Wood )Xas soon under rapid head way
for Syracuse lut lie was not to es
cape without another severe Ohock to
his feelings, for as le was nearing
Weedsnort lie discovered walking ahead
of him on the track a man going in the
same direction as the train. Immedi
ately after lie saw a wolimanl with a long
sun-boi:net on her head, approaching
the Ian, and a I'rellght trainl was pass
Ing along abreast of the man and wo
man, the latter looking down and ap
proaching certain death unless sue
should see the flying express. To re
verse his engine was the first move of
Engineer Wood, after which by dint ol
successive tootings of the whistle, he
filially snuceeded In maklg the man
look around( and see his danger. For
tunately lie had the presence of mlid
to yell to thme woman, who it h the
man, barely had time to get clear of
the track when the slowinig down train
still at a hIgh rato of speed, dashed by
them. Engineer Wood says tihe exipe
rience of one miornlig Is su dIhelent to
last him a lifetime.
The Custer Battle Field.
On a bright clear morning, two news
paper mien accompa niedl Lieu tenanimts
Clark tand Pope, of, tihe Second Cavalry
andh Fifth Infantry ; Jackson a scout,
andl two of Sitting Biull's fo)rmeir braves
over thme divide and dlowni Custer's trail
beside a little stream to the battle
ground. This part of the traIl hmad
never beent t.raced since the battle, In
going down time creek valley we passed1
the spot where Custer flrst heard the
Indians were located, an<it sawv the
tdge poles of tihe large vIllage whieh
had moved two d1ays beforo he .came
down to the oilher side of the LIttle
Horn river. Here I pIced up thme
skull of Little WIng, an Unenmpapam
Sioux Indian, who had been killed in a
light wvith General Crook, a few days
previous to the Custer light, lie was
known to the Indians wvho gul(ded us,
and his death was described by them.
A little further on we came to -the
lace where Custer left Rleno anti made
lisa long, wild charge that ended in ai
glorious but disastrous decath to him
and all his command. Th'lis trail we'
followed for four or' fve miles te
Keogh's, Calhoun's and( Custer's lills,
where we found thme bleaching hones of
the muen and horses of the troop. Here
we joined General lles and the party
who had gone with him on his tehe
graph trip two days before, andh shortly
alter the train and the rest of tIhe comi
pany came up from thme last camp onl
Tfullock's. By two o'clock the tents
were pitched on the spot across the
Little Horn where tile largest pJortlonl
of tihe Sioux were encamped tIhe day of
the light, anid the rest of the day was
spent in discussing the massacre, bath
ing in the river and taking a rest. Next
morning the train-was startedh down the
river to Fort Custer, and the party
miouined and rode uip to the plaec
where Reno halted on lisa charge;
* thence to the wood wvhere he retreated;
thence to the high lull east of the iiver
- where he dug the rIfle pits, wvas joined
by liepteen amid resened by Terry the
day Catet'pthe .flght.. -Krom there all
rode along the ridge of hilus that over
-looked the canip down to Custer's 11111,
and thus compteted an exact study of
thes feld, akied by scouts and Indians
* who top)C1part on botfraides dring the
batt*'thd le skilful disqu.sions of
veteran; s1diers' and Indian fighters.
After hayaqg ,d#ie ttils we ' all rode
tMelve miles 4o''n. t.o,ldrt Custer, a
A~rge $st wh!eh has been recently
40oai4th Juetin of the Big h(O)'n
*, nd titI fly 'iers.
re...lhrin It)rld'of growth Indiani
to)J hiry-six
SCIENCE.
The Vedars of Lebonon.-I vilited th
codues for tle fIrst time ill the summe
of 1860, and was struck by the shubiiar.
Ity of cedars to fIr trees. A cedar is III
fact notiing but a big flr treo, of which
there are many specIe, all closely re.
lated to each other. aving been born
in a fir tree country, and knowing that
those trees are not generally among
those which take many years to attain
their full size, I conceived some doubts
as to any of the ecars, even the most
enormots, being as old as Solomon's
time. But the next year I was able to
set that question at rest, to my satis
faction at least, for [ must confess that
I am not in any special sense a botan
ist. I revisited the cedars in 1861,
and foun( one of the live or six prin
cipal giants, at whose stupendous pro
portions I had wondered the year be
fore, lying on the ground, having been
rooted out by the snows and storns of
the winter. Monks were busy sawing
It into pieces, and had already severed
from the truuk one of the two nearly
equal steis into which it branched at
about tenl, certainly not more than
twenty feet Irom the ground. I counted
the rings at that Place, and to my sI
prise they were only two hundred or
thereabouts. I confess it was diilcult
for me to believe that liht etrrmous
branch was only two hundred years
old ; and if it wis only that age, the
whole tree could not have beeni much
older, for flr trees, so far as I am aware,
never grow new branches below older
ones; and when that bralIch was first
projected, at twenty feet or less from
the groutind, the tree could not have
beeni mucl more than twenty years
old.
C'olored GlasS Pictures.-The anients
had a m1ost singular art of forming
pictures with colored glass. It con
sisted iII laying togetiuer fibres of glass
of various colors, fitted to each other
with the utmost exactness, so that a
section acro?s the 1ibre represented tile
objects to be painted, and thOen cement
lig them by fusion into a ilornOgeneous
solid .11ass. In the specimens of this
art Which were discovered about the
middle of the last century, the paliting
has on both sides a granular appear
ance, and seems to have been formed in
the manner of mosaic work; but the
pieces are so accurately unlited that not
even by means of a powerful magnify
ing glass could the junctures he discov
ered. One plate described by Winkle
man exhibits a duck of various colors,
tile outlines of which are well declded
and sharI), tle colors pure and vivd;
and a briffiant ell'ect has been obtained
by tle artist's having employed in some
parts inl opaque, and iII others, i trans
pariit glass. The picture appears to
be continued throughout the whole
thickness of the specimen, as the re
verse corresponds in tle minutest
points to Lie face; so that were the
glass to be cut transversely, the samne
picture of tle (luck would be found ex
hibited on every section. It is conl.ject
fired this curious process was the first
attempt of the ancients to pireserve the
colors, by fusing them into the internal
part of the glass ; which was, however,
but, partially done, as the surfaces have
not been preserved from tle action of
tle atinosuhIere.
At a recent meeting of the French
Biological Society, M. Delaunmay read a
paper relative to the habitual use -of
tie right side of the system in profer
to tine left.. lie attributes tle fct to
the preponderance of the left frontal
lobe of (lie brain. Anatomists have
clearly provedI t lie fact (liat the muecles
and( nierves of' 0310 sidle of the body ar-e
controlled by thie section of (lie brain
on (lie opp)osite sirle. Ini considering
the question whether this peculiarity
had any iniluenice on (lie line an indi
vidlual takes in walking, M. Delaiu. y
menitioned an experiment lie had 5 :
quently seeni triedi. In the paIrk of Ver
saillIes is a large piece of grass plot
kniowni as (lie TI'apis Vert. At its edgc
is 1)laced( any person, young or 01(1,
with thie eyes bandaged, anid they are
told1 to wailk straight across, but tiht
foat hias never been accomplished.
After twent-y oi' thirity steps, often less,
they3 b)egini to dleviate, sometimes to th<(
left., buit generally to thie right, and( in,
variabhly end their course at, rome parii'
of one of the sides. M. Deliaunay hasi
studIed the Inluelnce of agc, sex ain
r'ace on thisa peculiarity, and beileves
he can establish (lie fact (list hiealth3
adult men03 move spontaneously to thi
right ; while children under three, ok
men and1( womeni seem) to inclille to the
left.
"Sympathetic pipes" are a recent nov,
city. Tihe bowl of' a meerschaum 1ma3
be colored in five minutes, by first tint.
iug it with a solution of nitrate of all.
vein Inther and3( alcohol, to which es.
sen1ce of r'oses and( !'camphor are add1(ed
FIgures of anyi paItterni are p)roducu~
by (lie heat of thie tobacco, and1( w~her
lu oumedu are permanent.
How to Have Perfect Feet.
Coarse stockings are taking (lie plac(
of bathiing shoes, (liat ar'e always getting
full of sand however carefully tied
They are thought to be0 suiperioi' li
point of modesty 1also, but (his fastid.
louIsness rises possibly from the faci
that so fewv women, eveii among thi(
young and1( handi(some, plreserve thi(
shape andi~ elasticity of (lie feet. Oi
perfect hands and throats, and busta
there may be nmany and( varIous, bui
rarely indeced, dot,h (lie sculptor find i
foot like that of (lie rincess Paulinc
Roiiaparte, fit to be modeled in miarb.
for (lie delight of all (lie world wh<.
have seen it. .If Aingellca's foot wver<
as' perfect in its way as her dlmplec
shiotulder, she might be as liberal In hei
display of (lie former as she goes acr'os,
(lie shilninig sands to her bath in tln<
morning as she is of (lie latter, en
grande tenue, in the ball-room al
nikght. A clever writer says, to th<.
feet should be given as nice care as t<
the hainds, beginning with a bath 01
fifteen minutes ini hot soap water, fol.
lowed by scraping with an ivory knife
and( rubbi ng it with a ball of sandstone,
Theli nails may be left to take care of
themselves, with constant bathing and
wvell fitting slioes, unless they have be.
gun to grow 131(o (lie flesh, when all t<
be done Is to scrape 'a groove length,
wise in each corner of the nail. Th<
whole foot should be annointed wIi
purified olive oil, or oil of' sweel
ahp~onds, after such a bath. 'The oil
will soak oft' the -'old skin, un weal
1 Way the scaly tissue about~ the nails
wille is renders the soles' as soft and
pliant d&those ofla younag child. Suehi
treattnent perlsted in will make thc
foot as supple and elastie as the 'Arab'a
h,4)4ip, toQ realize (lhygthigh bted
iddal flgano the at of* womenOv u a
FARM AND GARDEN.
HOw TQ RAISHe l1On1ERADISH.-Th1e
general opiion that horseradish re
quires wet ground is erroneous. Any
surface is suitable, If it is only rich
enough. 'I'o meet this necessity, ordin
ary soil requircs an applicatiot. of about
100 toads of manutre per nere. Then
thoroughly plough deep, an also sub.
soil, making the ground as loose as pos
sible. Some early crop, as beets, cab
bage or potatoes, can .be plaetd, and
the horseradish put in as a second crop.
The sets tire first prepared by taking
roots about as large as one's linger and
citttig them In pieces six inches in
length, cutting the lower end slanting,
so as to place them righ t 81(le tit). Now
take a light crowbar and in the line of
the row punch holes betweei every
two potato-sets or cabbage-plants, abott
4)ne foot deep, and drop the set in the
bottom, filling the hole with the foot..
The deeper the set can be planted and
come up, the better, smoother and
straighter will be the roots. It is to be
understood that the rows are to be from
2 to 214 feet apart and the plants froil
I to 1)( feet distant. At the depth
named the plants will be some six weeks
Coming tip. Should they interfere
with the other crop, chop the tops off
with a sharp hoe. This will not liijutre
thei as the main growth Is made in
the Autumn. As soon as the first crop
is off, plough and hoe the horseradish,
and so continue until the large leaves
shade the ground. As late as possible
dig what is needed for Winter and pack
in earth in tile cellar, or pit in the open
ground. Diggirig is the most laborious
part, ts the small roots spread till over.
'TChose should be saved for sets. I have
had a splendid crop the second year
from these roots left in the gronU. I
have had specimens weighitng two
poinda, but tile avcratge is about a half
pound. Of late yetits tile market lits
been overstocked, and the only way I
could dispose of mine prolltablv was
by bottling, Even then tile demand Is
very limited, is a bottle will go a great
way in a family. A small patchli hts
paild better for tie labor and land than
any other crop I have ever grown.
Last Spring, haiving a surplus., I sent to
New York, and received reply that
there was no dennd, ts the market
was overstocked, At pr6sent it is hard
ly brInging enough in that market to
pty for digging.
SUNF.owFn 1SEEDs FOx Fow.a.-Sun
flowers and parsnips call, ati ought to
be, made two of tihe iost profitable of
crops. Six hours spent in planting
sunflower seeds ott waste lands, it the
fence conters and aroit ad stumps anld
rocks in the corntilelds and on the bor
ders of marshes anti swales ii meadows
will Insure at crop equal lit valtue to live
acres of corn. They require no culti
vtitlon whatever; and they will grow
an( flourish on any kind of groud,
though, of course, rich cultivated latnds
will prothice lhe largest crops. Any
ordintry fIarier ean produed a tutndred
bushels of sitlower seeds, and gather
theim In on his barn floor for less than
$5; and for feeding and *attening fowls,
chickens, turkeys, ducks or geese, t
bushel of those seeds is worth more
than two bushels of corn. It is not
necessary to shell and clean the seeds.
'ile heiads should be cut otr and gath
credh into a dry place before they are
fully ripe; for it left to ripen on the
stalks tile birds will gather the harvest.
The sunilower heads may be thrown to
the fowls. They will do the threshing.
It I. well to plant sunilower seeds early
in the spring, or even in November
preceding; but if planted at any time
before the twentieth of May tihey will
freely mtuttre bel ore thte auiitum n itfreeze.
Ordinatry frosts do nlot utfect thtemt.
Fatrmletrs who( do0 not care to raise sitn
flower seedsi for p)roIlt shtoutld plant thtetm
for the wild b)irds. Every bitd front
thte wretn and thte reed-bird to thte filk
er, the bhite-jay, the qutali and tihe par
tridlge will go for- them with avidity.
Seeds for latitng cnn be procured at
any couIntry site whtere other garden
seeds are kept; tand tett cents' worth, i
produlce twventy-flve bushels.
FonIMArIoN oF Sorts.-Thesutecessf'ul
cultivtion of the soil depends upon01
chemical princiles. Our soil is comn
posed of orgate atnd inorganic sub
stances. Red heat will (destroy the or
ganic p)art, which consists of two
groups ouf umattter. 'lThe one contains
nittogen ; the other is destitute of this
element. All plants produitntg soils
mutst contain a suplply of these sub
atancs. The important inorganic ele
tments in thte soil are pottash, soda a,tg
ntesla, oxide1 of iron, sulphturlc acid andl
phosphriei acid. A healthy plant con
tain,, thetm all. Ifatny of these eletments
are wa'tnting in any soil, they must be
re prodiuced by tihe aippllcatlin of for
tIlizetrs.
FENCE PosT's.-Char the endJsof your
pos5ts before put ting thtem into the holes.
They w111l last mTuchi longer. They may
be charred a tittle higher titan the
ground,, althotugh thtat Is likely to
mlake them a little utnsighttly. Thlere
are far ners wvho even after charring
make an application of thin tar.
To Skeletonize Leaves.
Select well-grownt leaves, and exam
ine carefully to see if they be perfect
before soaking. Ptut Into an earthen
watre dish or woodIen tub, keep coveredi
with raitn wterc and sttand in tihe 8s1n.
In from two to three weeks' time the
skIn and fleshy ptart-epidermis and
pareneihyma-w ill be round to be pulpy
and decayed. Provl(de yotrself with
some cards as laurge, or larger, than any
of thte leaves, a soft camlel's-hair brtilsh
as wvell as one a little still'er. Gently
float a leaf uiponi a card, and with the
sof t brush carefu.iy remove the skini on
one side, IIave ready a pan of clear
wafer, reverse tihe card in t,he water
and slip it under tite leaf so that the
other side is utppermlost. Brush ti to
remove tile skin, whten most of the pa
renchtyma, or fleshly part will come
wVithl It, butt if inot It maty generally be
washed in thle wtater. If the soft brush
fails to remove all thle green particles
adhering to thle frameworkc, theo hard
brush may be utsed, but witih great care
Any brushling action or horizonltal mo..
thon will surely bacak tile veins, andi
thte use of thle atifY brutsh can only be
successful ill a perpendicttlar direction
-at sort of gentle tapping-te looseni
tile tissue so thlat it may be washted out
with the soft brush. IIolly leaves
makeo beatutiftul skeletons, bitt thley
shtould be sotaked in a dish by them
selves, as their spines are apt to dlam
age the more delicate leaves.
OLsANsE THE BLOOD of all impuritie8, and o
neuttralize the virus of man ala ases' at thor
source. Ini all disorders of we flcn the Glan
the Fleshy~ Flbre ,the SecretivT d~h?
D 't Aiterat vs A stani'a ourauve
roatrted y reoeyh no drws ol
DINNs. - Sunday - Roast beef,
111Iaslied potatoes, mashed turnips,celery
or a coldslaw, and a maccaroni; des
sert, rice pudding or apples. Monday
--Soup made of a knuckle ot beef or a
shin of beef, whioh ought to be enough
for a large family two or three times;
the roast beef cold; roasted potatoes,
stewed onions; dessert, peach or apple
pie. Tuesdaiy-Stewed mutton, plenty
of gravy,with potatoes, carrots, onions,
commonly called an "Irish stew ;" des
sert, apple dIniplings, the crust made
of potatoes, and only as much flour as
will hold the crust together. To be
eaten with milk or cream and molasses,
or molasses only, or sugar as to taste.
Wednesday - Soup as for Monday,
corned beet and cabbage, with side
dishes, or turnips and potatoes whole ;
dessert, an Indian ineal pudding sweet
oned liberally with good molasses; an
excellent and " holesome dessert.
Thursday-A leg or quarter of mutton
roasted, I with potatoescooked under the
'icat, mashed turnips and coldslaw;
dessert, peach or apple pie. Friday
Pork and beans, potatoes boiled "In
their jackets," and what remains of
Wednesday's dinner; dessert, apple
dumpillings. Saturday - Soup, which,
if there should be none of the "stock"
on hand froni the knuckle of veal or
shin of beef above referred to, can be
mttade trom scraps on hand. Then the
remains of the mutton on Thursday and
tile pork on Priday. with potatoes, cold
slaw, &e.; dessert, a bollod bread pud
ding, mnale of riseun bread dough, as
light as possible, with plenty of dried
currants or raisins or both.
To lion. APPLE.-About tile nicest
morsel that ever tickled tihe palate is a
boiled apple-not boiled like a potato
nor steamed like a pudding, but as fol
lows: Place a layer of fair-skinned
Baldwins or any other nice variety, in
tile stew-pan, with about a quarter of
an inch of wiater. Throw on about half
a cup of stugar to six good-sized apples,
and boil until the apples are thorough ly3
cooked and the syrup nearly thick
enough for jelly. After one trial, no
one would, under any consideration,
have fair-skinned apples peeled. The
skinls contain a very large share of the
pletous (jelly making) substances, and
impart a flavor impossible to obtain
otherwise. A wise housekeeper, lin
stead of throwing away the skins and
cores of sound apples, would use them
for Jolly. A tumblertul of tile richest
sort can thits he obtained fromt a dozen
apples. Boil the skins, etc.,a few min
utes and strain. Add a little sugar to
the liquid, and boil until ready to turn
into tile tuibler.
SwEETInRADs, it properly cooked,
make one ofi the most delicate dishes
that can be put upon tile table; but care
inust be taken in selecting tihein, - as
there are two kinds, aid it is only one
kind that is really good. That one is
found in tile throat of the-cal, and
when fresh anid in perfection it Is
pimlup, white and fat. Thie other,wlich
does very well for croquettes or any
dish which may be chopped, lies below
the diaphragm and is really tile pan
creas. However the sweetbreads may
be cooked, they should be always first
soaked for three hours in cold water,
which should be two or three tlines
chlanged ; then they should be put into
boiling water for half an hour or longer
if that doqs not make them firm; then
they may be dried in a towel and
pressed flat by putting between two
pans or boards, with a pressing iron or
other weight on top.
Fnmn BREAD CAKEs.-Take bits of
bread you may hlave left after meals,
soak them in mik, or milk and water,
until p)erfectly soft and mash fine; add
two eggs, a pinch of soda, salt to taste,
and enloughl flour to make th4m fry
nicely ; dr'op tile -spoonfuls into hot
butter or lard. These are Inexpen
sive and very good, and it is a munh
better way to use dry bread than in
A NICE BRIoTH FOR A SiCK PERsON.
Take a lew slices of lean dried beef, pult
to boii in a quart of water or a little
more ; washl two tablespoonfu.ls of rice,
put it in wvith the beef and simmer
slowly till tIhe r-ice has boiled very ten
der ; put in mlor'e water, if necessary,
whlile boiling; when done take out the
beef and adld one or two teaspoonfuls of
riech swveet cream; boil two or three
minutes, pour into a bowl, and when
cool it is ready for use.
OATrIEA..-Oatmeal Is an important
andl valuable article of food. With the
exception of Indian corn, it is richer in
oily or fatty matter than any of the
other cultivated cereal grains, anct Its
proportion of protine compounds ex
eeeds thlat of the finest wheaten flour.
So that both with respect to its heat
amnd fat making, and its flesh and blood
making principles, it holds a very high
rank.
To REMfOVE LIMiE FROM THE EYE.
The highlly-injurious caustic eff'ect of
lime aceilentally introduced into the
eye, as frequently occurs to those en
gaged in building, may be entirely neu
tralized by the use of cold sugar-wvater,
owing to the formation of a compound
of thle lime aI(n gar,wvhich is without
any action upon the eye.
PasTJ1Y.-Fruit and cutstard pies are
almrost invariably spoiled by having a
soggy unudercrust. This may be reme
died( by coating the top of thle lower
eruist of the pies iih the wite of an
egg; this ill absorb no moisture
from the frutit or cumstard, iil come
out of the een crisp and will relnain
so.
To nAKx p)otatoes quickly, pour boil
ing water over them and let stand a
minute or so before putting into tile
oven.
A OnEAT ENRPRrsE--The Hop
Bitters Manlufacturing Company la one
of Rochester's greatest business enter
prises. Their IIop Bitters have reached
a sale beyond all precedent, having
from thleir intrinsic value found their
Way into almost every household In the
Iand.-Graphlo.
Qunaok Nostrums
are pronounced bythe medical profession
'The bane or societ" but the Bible says ''To
hlim whlo is afficted pIty should be shown" and
Dr. Bisbee, the discoverer of "Anakeals" the
only infallible pile cure known to tuodical art,
deserves a Inmulment at the hand&f. aficted
m.lhions as a beliefactor of the )i%n race. If
as Jean Paul Rliohter slays--"llapidees is the
absence of pain," what -shall besaid of a
remnod- thlat will relieve Instantly such pain as
thlose endure who suffer from pieand of how
muchhapines innst "Anaesis" be the
autor.600000of the millions 'aifoted with
pils lady estfyto its healing virtues. Dco.
toso l col rsrb it and in 20 'years
non have used i6 without benefit, Combin
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and medicine easy of ?pplication, safe and
useful in all cases;16t rolleves -pain at once,
tioids tip the tumors and ultimately eutee the
worqtse of piles and wh i equlyworth
strtmoions a a 1
hsufl oen.f at
WIT AND HUMOR.
How Un DIsCuImD IT.--he was a
bald-headed bachelor, whose heart for
the first time had been moved by the
tender passion.
"Then you confess," he said, in a
trembling -voice, to the object of his
regards, "that You like me a little
that you admire certain qualities of my
head ?"
"Yes," shyly responded the young
lady.
"And imay I ask," he continued, in a
voice of emotion, "what those qualities
are?"
"I can hardly explain," said the
young lady,. bashfully; "but I really
think it Ii becatse your head is so
mellifluent-I can't express it more
clearly."
"And you can never know how I ap
preciate your high opinion," exclaimed
the happy bachelor, as lie pressed her
hand.
le didn't know just what "melli
fluent" meant, but he was sure it was
the synonym for something grand I
and ennobling; and, when he bade her
good-night, lie rushed eagerly home,
excitedly took down the dictionary,
and feverishly turned to the endeared
word. Ills blood changed to ice as lie
read :
1Smooth, soft, mellow."
"IN selecting a bow," advises a sport
ing cotemporary, "be sure and get one
that will ilt you in weight, length,
etc.'' How many girls think of this
when selecting a beau? Not one in a
dozen cares a cent whether the beau
lits In weight, length, and so forth,
provided his bank account is of the
right dimensions, while some are
guided by the quality of his clothe
and the size and color of his nious
tache.
A PARISIAN DICToU.-For the last
eight days one of X's creditors has had
a daily appointient with that amiable
spendthrift for 10 A. M., sharp, and X.
always apologizes and asks him to call
next morning at the same hour. Fi
nally the creditor says very politely:
'Poriapi if I wern to call at a later
hour- " X., with great effusion :
"No, no; come to morrow at 10 o'clock a
sharp I wish always to be calleil at
that hour."
"Ai, by-Georgel" groaned young
Mr. Lethered, sinking wearily into an
ofllce chair, "Ah, by George, my head
aches fearfully." "Possible?" asked 1
Mr. Ilardfax, his emplo er, with a
look of curious interest and sy mpathy.
" Possible? Something must have
got into it." And then for a long time
nobody said anything, and the room
seemed to grow about lifteen degre8s
colder.
Tic Topic OF THE HOUR.-A good
story Is told by a teacher of a Sunday
school. A sunday or two ago she asked
her class of little girls who went Into
the ark with Noah. None of them
seemed to know, but one little giI
thought she must say somnethin g, and
not knowing, used her natural born
right of guessing, and to the amusement
of the teacher replied, "Ills sisters and
his rousins and his aunts."
NOTHING can reach out farther than
a cough at church. It may cone from
the remotest corner of the rear, but its
echo tickles the throat of those in front,
and then creeps down the aisle and
touches the ushers, and floats from the
choir to the minister, and never re
leases its hold until it nas wrung a sym
pathetIc explosion from every victim.
Perhaps you've noticed It.
A DE~TrrE cured a long and severe
attack of neuralgia by falling down
stairs. That's nothing. Some years
ago a Norristown youth was cured of' a
bad habit of swearing by fallIng off a
cherry tree. Not a singe Qath eacamped
his lips since. The fall broke his
nock.
MILLIONS of intelligent women say
that Dobbin's Electric Soap, (made by
Cragin & Co., Philadelphia,) is in
every respect, the best soap ever made,
and wvill do three times the work of
any othier. Try it.
A YOUNG Scotch man at Aldershot
fell ill, andh was sent to the hospital. A
bath was ordered. It was brought into
the chamber wher'e the invalid lay. He
looked at it hard for some time, and
then hie threw uip his hands and
bawled: "Oh, doctor, doctor, I canna
drink a' that?!"
A DIsTINGUIsIIED Detroit judge was
asked a day or two ago to write in a lIt
tle girl's autograph album. Hie com
plied, as follows: "My pen is poor, my
ink is pale, my heai't it trembles like a
little dog's tail."
OMNIBUS DRIVER: Well, you see, sir,
if you travels in a train and gets
smashed up, wtere are yiou? But, if' so
be. you rides oni my 'bus, falls off and
break your leg, say, why there you arel
CHARLIE: "Where did the parrot
conmc from,mamma?" Mamma: "From
Africa, my dear." Charlie: "Then,
when it knows how to talk, wvill it tell
ui all about the Zulus ?"
AN honest Hibernian recommending
a cow, said she would give milk year
after year wvithmout having calves. "Be
cause," said lie, "it runs in the brade;
for she came of a cow that never had a
calf."
"Isi THAT dog of yours a cross
breed ?" asked a gentleman receutly
of a counaryman. "No, si'," was the
reply, "his miother was a gentle, afl'ec
tionate cretur."
"You follow the legal professioni I
believe, sir?" Lawyer Pompous; "No,
sir ; filead it."
A YOUNG man adlvertises for a position
as son-in-law in a family of means.
No hIosP'rrA L N -EDEuD.-No palatial
hosphil needed forho Uiter's patients
nor large-salaried talented pufers to
tell what Hop Bitters will do or cure,
as they tell their own story by their
certaini and absolute cur.es at home.
'How To Be Beaulral.
Many hundred thousand dollars are
annumally expended byladies, for "arti
ficial" appliances to hide the shrunken
and wasted form, or the sallow skin,
blotches, or liver spots, which are due
to female 1yeakniess, dyspupsia, torpid
'liver, and constiphtion. .1f a small e
cent. of this sum were invested in Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Pifescription, ladies
would soon rcally be what they now
seem to be. It readily corrects those
weaknesses and diseases upon whie
emaciation depend. ltoeurer,dyspepsIa
by toning up the system and when
usedl in connection wa braPierec's
Pleasant Porkative F6los sedil
Overcomes all- Urolatities of la~ Wvr
'fnd bowels.; No'iqm9 yuh no
'beAuiir ofthe u~14~o~on im.
ehti atid nayant bannad
The Albatros^a
Sonebody who has been studying the
jabits of the albatross, largest of the
iea-birds, in the 8outh Atlantio, has
iomo to the conclusion that it feeds al
nost entirely on dead fish, and is a sort
>f marine vulture. When it is feeding
on dead ish, it Is so greedy that a gun
lsoharged cannot make it fly. Like a
rulture or raven, it seems to know when
iny creature is lytig or dead, and ni
nense flocks of the birds will gather
vhen the carcass of a sheep or beef or
torse is thrown overboard. They ap
)ear to be able to see and to suent car
'[on for miles, and when it Is floating on
he ocean, they will cone In clouds from
ivory point of the compass. They spend
he greater.part of the year far away
rom land; but they go to barren and
velil-igh inaccessible rooks to breed.
'he female lays her soiled white egg on
he bare earth, the fetmales often hatch
ng so close together that they seen to
iave one nest In common. Then they
Lre perfectly indifferent to the presence
>f man, at whom they merely snap when
to invades their sanctuary. The nale
lbstross is very gallant, sharing with
he female the labor of incubation and
it rearing the young, which, when fully
ledged, puts off to sea with its parents,
Lnd with them plays Its part of seavon
(er of the ocean. Many sailors are still
uperstitious about killing the albatross.
A Partiad Blockade
)f the main avenue for escape of refuso from
,ho human system Is utterly subvorsive of
,egularity among the other organs. Lot con
itipation become chronio, anti, leaving out the
imminent danger of inflammation of the
>owols and their total obstruction ocourring,
anvdic, is almost certain to ensue.the liver is
iable to bc como engorged, the blood and urine
iro poisoned by the bile, which also vitiates
he juicea of the tomach, and other unhappy
onsequenoes follow. Hostetter's Ktomach
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emedies thoge results and their cause as the
tase may require. and is also signally offica
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rariable as well as constipated action of the
iowels. It renews uervo power. improves the
ppetito, staVs the progress of early decay,
eieves the infirmities of age, and is a ploai
ut appetizer.
IIIERKEL,L'S TETTER OINTMENT will ouro all
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)ther worms can be readily destroyed. Advice
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whether or not the patient has worms. Thou
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now it. Fits, spasms, cramps, choking and
mIffocation, sallow complexion, circles around
he eyes, swelling and pain in the stomach,
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il these symptoms, and more, come from
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Lyspepula! Dyspopsia I Dyspepsal!
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r Grocer's Itch on the hands. It, never falls.
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