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Queer Habits of Gul#. Cl1thed with a mass of close feathers, the gulls appear larger than they are in reality) as seen when, on ample, slowly-flap ping pinlons, they sail along in a circling course, intent on-the waves beneath. Rapid though their flight undoubtedly is, their powers are rather calculated for endurance and. the ease with which they make their way. Opposing the head in a direct line to the wind, they ride out the severest ton pest; and the higher and rougher the waves, the more abundantly is their prey brought within reach. All gulls prefer a fish diet, but.gulls cannot dive to get below the sur face. The gull must rise on the wing and drive herself Into the water by main' force. She is thus denied the power of selection which the diver posseses, and nutst take hold where she can, provided the fish Is not too large to swallow. Jn the season when her brood Is growing this would prove a serious drawback on the parent's eiliciency but for an Internal provision. Fish do not always rise to the surface. At certain sea sons of the year and in severe weather at any season, fish generally swim (ldp in the water and give thesurface fishers no chance. At such times, the gull must depend on shell-fish exposed along the shores by the ebbing tide; and here, too, the gull seems placed at a disadvantage. The crow, if fortunate enough to find a shell-fish, rises with it into the air, letting it fall on a stone, whereby the shell is broken and the fish easily obtained; but the gull either does not know of this plan or considers it a waste of means as she invariably swallows the shell fish whole. But shells are indigestible even for a 1rull. The gull, if so fortunate as:to catch , small bird (at a pinch, any thing that can go down, is acceptable), (oes not pick its bones like a crow, but swallows it entire, and feathers are as indigestible in their way as shells. Further. the gull, if very hungry, will feed on grain for a time and seem none the worse, while a bird with a stomach adapted to iasticatc-aninal foo(i only could derive no benefit from grain, but ,positive harm. The gull way be said to hqve three stomachs. The first stomach begins at the mouth, or mandibles, extend ing to the entrance ait the breast, where the second or stomach proper, begins, and which terminates in the third, or gizzard. The entrance at the mouth is more than twice the size of the entrance to the other, so that a fish or other object too large to en ter the second stomach is safely swallowed and retained in the first, either till reduced so as to pass easily, or to be vomited when required to feed young ones. Shell-lIsh are retained In the first stomach until the 11sk is wasted out of the shells, which are then vouilted. A small bird is retained in the sane way, till only the feathers and harder honL-s remain, and these are thrown upi in like mantier. And so with every other in digestible substance taken along with food; it never goes into the second stomnch, ex cept grain. These, after a time in the first itomach, pass on through the second to the gizzard, there to be pounded into nourish nent for the bird. The advantages of this remarkable provision in the gull are no doubt many, but the following is instinctive and clear. I have seen a gull come to her. nest and vomit a big fish for her young gulls. In less than a minute she swallowed the fish, flew to a projecting crag inl sight of her nest, and Pat down for half an hour, after which she flew back and volited the fish to her hungry family. Now this strange proceeding was simply a necessity. A fresh fish will not pick easily ofit tile boIes, -and the beak of the young gulls is soft. ihe fish in the case before us had been too short a time in the parent's stomach to be easily devoured by the young guils. Be aides, herring is the common fish obtained and herring have more or les oil below the skini and about the tins. TIhis oil is very hlurtful for.yong birds--mtakes thenm sick andt miserable; but a short time in the first satomach of the old gull extracts this o,il, sending it on to the second stomach to feed the parent, while the fish is not, only ren dered more wholesome for her family, but she can afford to give Il''nm the whole of it, being herself sustained b~y the extract, In feeding tame gulls I had to avoid her ring, although I knew it was much valued by parent gulls; and 1 failed, as 1 at last discove~red, because I could not extract the sickening oil without spoiling the fish. TFhe process of mastication in the first stomach of the gull is not a little remuarka bIe. Take, for examipie, a small bird. The secondl day after the gull has swallowed it, she vomits an object :ound( ijs a bqbbin, . .about an inch a'nd a half long, or it niay be two inches, andl tapiering to one endl like a neatly-formed plug. When this is drly, as it is soon, examine it. It, is a compilound of feathers, with the legs, feet, bill, anad a bit or two of the harder wving hones of the bird, carefully folded in the center. D)ur lng the time since the bird was swallowed a ceaseless process 11am been goinag on to convert tile bird into pulp and send it on to the second stomach. But the entrance to the second stomach is small, hence a pro cess like whlittling a plug-only the reduac tion goes on in1 tIle center of the plug, n(,t on the surface--until everything nutritious is extraicted, and then the refuse is alt once rejected. This process is evidently enijoyedi by thle bird all the time. Nowv suppose you give a gull fish1 wile theC bird is inexhauasted in her maw. Bhe taikes thle fish reaidily, and apparently~the bird lies in hecr stomnalb neglected, until thle fish is disposed of, andi then the bird is put luto tIle miii afresh and funishled, the only difference being a (lay later erc tile feathery stoppher is throwna up. If a gull is in dlfficullties 51he alt once throws out the contents of haer first stomlach-never whlat has passed into her second. Does nature anticipate suchl ditliculties by a p'ress of work inl tIle first stomachl with the object of hlaving its contents stowedl away in the second am soon as possible? A Miraole. During a village school inspection the ex aminer is trying to. explamn to the fat hleaded listeners the character of a miracle. lie asks a schlolar: "What is a miracle?" "I don't know, sir." "If-all at once-the sun ap)peared in the heavens at night, what .would you say "Tile moon." "But if you were told it wvas the sun, what would you say?" "I'd say it was a lie." "Now, I never lie. Suppose I told you * t was th ansn." * The tholar, after ht moment's deep re flection, bobbed lia head. "lease, sIr, I'd say you wvere drunk.'' CREAM SAUOx.-IIalf pound sugar, one tablespoon butter, and haivor to suit the taste.. * . fel,p in Time, * O to eefeetive, should be mely. Whoa i is a16 ble and he b 1iil e addudibEtmed(bMi'aid in' erformin 6noi ver important fnttons. Tao requg Ait4~tte~i la into their oparation, - nqlBitters as a diurete, Fd~d'fd t*iuln~sare rather .ealeulated to injure thana benefit the klda7e -Andi,Iadde Sbust this reliable. -oso of eaerg fhpar~ AGRIOULTURE. LEVEL 1QLTURtE9.-At the beginning of farm life,*in order to learn the most 'improved methods, I employed a, first class farmer and gardener, fresh "from England. lie poisisted In a mode of culti vation precisely the reverse of what I had been used to see-allowing the mangels and sugar beets, the corn, potatoes, peap, beans, cucumbers, mel onw, tomatoes, cabbages, etc., to go without hilling up. Mangles and sugar beets stood high above the ground, 'the bulbous parts exiposed to the sun, iany of the mangles failing over and grow ig crooked. The part of the cucum bert,above ground which I insisted was rather'a root than a stem, and should be surrounded by earth was left entirely exposed to the sun. I thought the still would parch the roots and they would breatc or be inJured whe the stem should fall from the upright to a horizontal position. The. P1nglishmall would have his way, but agreed I should treat somo of each sort of plants in my own way. ,So a few of all sorts Were hilled up, and fully as well worked in other respects as his, during the season. For a few weeks minie grow as well as his and the cucumbers, peas, etc., bloomed as early. After one gathering of cucumbers, pleas, etc., the dry season set in, miic perished, while his continuQd to bloom and bear; and so of the melons.. My potatoes made about half a crop of small tubers, dug from dry hills; his yielded bouiteous ly of large ones, dug from moist earth, at the s%me thr.o and lin the same fi4ld. So. with the mangels, sugar beets, etc. they fired early in the season aId suc cumbed to the drought. Without this experience, if one had said that hilling up growing pliantks would have killed them, I should have joined in the re sPonse of a million farm ers, denouncing it as false and contrary to experience, because they (lid not perish on tie day they were hilled ul). Ever suce I have avoided hilling and ridging About grow ing plants, and cultivated the soll as level as possible. Txm osler willow will grow in almost any sollor situation but to produce long switches the ground must be good. They are very easily Propagated from cuttings of last season's growth. Make them ten or twelve Inches long and plant very early In the spring; as soon as the ground is settled. If they are to make trees, plant them from 6 to 1" feet apart. If planted about ten or twelve inches apart oA the ban of a ditch and kept trimmed they will make an excellent hedge in a few years, and the roots will provet the l)anks from washing awity or beng broken down. The young growth nmakes excellent withes for tying bundles and many things for willch strings are usually emlploye(. Nrrserymen appreciate their value for this purpose and use them amOUost excldsively for tvhng bunl dIles of trees. We would particillarly call the attention of fa11rmers to this cheap tymng material for binding corn fodder. For this purpose they slhould be cut down every year anil allow you ig suckers to start from the root; these will grow from four to eight feet long (uring the sumer. We cannot give any inforn-mation as to the value or prolit of theimi as an article of Juerchan dise, exep1t that seome ipersonms tried it a few years ago, said they had no (11111. culty In raising or preparing the wil lows.for market, but they did not find ready sale for them. There are several varieties of osier willow in cultivation, but Salix Viminalis Is the best. W 'A RTiS ON 11 oniaza.--A correspond ent of'an Eniglish agricultural journal gives the following simplhe remedy for cutring warts of dlifferent kind(s on horses, mules, and i*attle: Ammoinut the wart thiree times with clean, fresh hog's lard, about two days between tines. I have hamd warts on my horses-bleeding warts of large size, rattim.g w%arts, and1( seed warts, to the niumnber of more thani cne huiindredl on one horse's head. I have never been able to (ind the warms after the thmirdl aplicationm of thme lard. All (11s appear after the secondi application. For cuts, bruises, galls, &c,, the appil cation of fresh lard--either for man or~ beast--is worthi more thanm any patenit liniments In use. .it will remove pamn instantly, and doces not irritate raw Ileshm, as all liniments (10. Favrumr mN UmI.Ain.--Fru*it in cellairs is likely to suffer' from heat ratheri than cold. In time slow operation of ripen ing, heat and carbonic acid are given oil. Whenever the temnperature ap proaches 401. degrees, the outer air, if colder, should be let in to reduce it. in the house cellar the accumulation of carbonic acid would be injurious to the health of tie family, and it is highly imp)lortant that this be recmovedl by von tilattion. In fruit cellars ap)art from the house, this Is not necessar'y, as the. p)res9ence of this gas, so injurious to anii umlals, isa neutr'alizedl by the atlnospheic air. T.l'mm use of dynmate for slaughtering purposes is meietmug with mnuch opposi tioni in Europe, since such a muethmod' damages the heads of animals valuable for sale as food, besides the time' oceu p)ied in arranging its aplienation and tile risk of injury to persons and p)rop) erty rendler the system less exp)edhtions thamn that of killing by tihe old method. Quite a Useful Engine.-A young grad unto ini mechanical engineering of the Polytechnic College, In PIlapelphia, has recently desi gnedh a steam fire en gine, esp)eclally adapted to small towns, wvhere power can be profitably used for driving a grist miil, or saw amnd sash mill. The nmaechine is without orna ments; it has all the essentials of- tihe best steam fire engines, and it is sb ar 1;anged that when run into thme enagine house it can be blocked uy, thme weight taken off the springs, the 1)ump)1 discou.. neted, and by a band on tihe flow-heel it can be made to run a set of atone, a planer, or other mills, according to the size of time engine, If ani alarmn of fire is sounded in thme day time, the belt can be thrown off, the blocks knocked out and pump connected in less time than it takes to tell it, aind the engine, with a fire burning and steam up, Is rea ly upon arriving at the seeo of conflagra tion to go at once into service. If thme alarm be at nigiht, the engine Is rdady to run out, for thme fires weore "banked" when the miller quit'work, the belt thrown off, tihe boiler filled, and every cause of delay removed. The engine being ini daily use is always kept in order and ready for service. The etol page of time mill wvhile thme engine is at the fire can.occasion but little unusual inconvenienice, for in suoh towns, Im3 ease of fire, everybody, even the niiller, leaves his womrk andl turns out to assist his unfortunate neighbors. ON. DoL.tAA EJXPaxiinu NOW i 1 r nfl bottle of J ano' EuJxseotorant by those troubl tubes, the usual ymtms ot oh are lore men f sufferlW BOMESTIC. WuY SOMN' PEOPLaG Aic Poon. Brooms are nicvti hung up and are soon epoiled. Nice-handled knives are thrown into hot water. Cloths are left, on the line to whip to pieces In the wind. Tubs and barrels are left in the sun to (ry and fall aipal t. Dried fruits are not taken care of in season. and bec6me ivormy. lags,strings and paper are thrown into the fire. Pork spolls for want of salt, and beef becatise tie brine wants scaldin'g. Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are left to stand open and lose their strength. Potatoes in the cellar grow, and sprouts are not .ernioved .until the pota toes become worthless. The four Is sifted iII a wasteful mai ner amnd tihe pani Is left with tihe dough sticking to It. Bits of meat, vegetablesi broad and cold puddings aro thiown away, when they might be warmed, stpamned and servedi as good as new. THR CHANBERUY AS A HlOUsE PLANT. .-Trlle common oranberry is a most at tractive plant when properly cu tivated In pots, and canl endure a good deal of neglect which would be fatal to other plants. A compost of muck and sand is the proper material for p9tting it in. Althdugh usually regarded"as 'aquatic in its nature, it will not do to have the soil saturated with water. IV hat it re quires Is that watqr, be within reaci of its roots, and that the soil shall be one through which water canl rise readily by capillary attraction. Let the pot staid in about an inch of water and it will thrive better than at any greater depth. - Tie cranberry roots readily from cuttings, or it can be propagated by bending down tihe spraysand cover ing them with moist compost. It Is beautiful at all times of the year and especially so after time fruit commences to ripen. Its red berries will remain o01 the vine for a long time, and are highly ornamental. CLEANINO TIN WAm.--Aclid1 should never be employed to clean tin ware, because they attack the nietal, and re move fromn the iron of which It forms a thin coat. We refer to articles made of tin plate, which consists of Iron covered witi timl. Rub the article first with rotten-stone anid sweet oil, then finish with whitening and a piece of soilt leather. Articles made wholly of tin siiuuk bot oLieied in the same mannor. In a dry atmosphere, plamnishel. tin ware will remain bright for a long period; but they soon become tarr.ish ed in mmist air. DRINKING WATi'.-Water can be kept cool for drinkinsc iI warm weather by the followilig method: Get fresh water, let it be kept in an unglazed earthenware pitlier wrapt around with two or three folds of coarse cotton cloth kept constantly wet. The theomy of cooling water iI this manner is tihe absorption of heat from it by time e% ap oration of the moisture in the cotton cloth. Expansion produces cold ; com prcsslon, heat. CREAM FRUIT Pix.-Make a pic of fresh, canned or Jam strawberries, ras betries or peaches. One cup new mI or ~cieam; one-half teaspoonful corn starch, dissolved in a little cold milk; opQ tablespoonful of sugar, whites of two eggs, boaten to a stiff froth. Boll three minutes. Whemi quite cold take top crust from pie, pour on time mixture, replace crurt, sp)rinlkle'with powdered sugar, and set away to cool. Vory nice. EaGs FOiR BREAKFAST-Take four or five eggs, boil themn three and a half nmites, then take them out of the suhl anid beat themn up in a basin with pieces of beitter the size of a quarter; salt and pepper to taste. After wveli beating, spread the mixture on hot but tered toast; place In ml hot ovemn for about five minutes, and serve hot. PoxsoK ANvTXgoT.-Po1ions of most an etd-&ereo wr taken into thQ stomach may be neutralized by swallowing instantly nearly two gills of sweet oiil-a strong, healthy person may take twice that qumantity. It is alleged that time oil will destroy the ef fects of any form of amuimal, vegetable, or mineral po01son. IcE'D CHOcOLATEm.-Set four ounces of grated chocolate over a slow fire with tw o tablespoon fuls of wvater. When dissolved, remove from the lire, acid a cup full of warm wvater ; mix wvith cold syrup, freeze and serve, PUDDINO.-A bread pudding should be tied loose, if batter, It must be tied tigh t over, anid a batter pudding should be strainied through a coarse sieve when all is mixed ; in others, the eggs only. If you bo011 the pud4ing.in, a .basin'.. or pan take carp It is always well buttered. DaRK CAEE.-Three eggs, tV cuips 'of sugar, ohenyu of butter, one cuip of milk. If the milk Is 4our, leave out oreamn of' tartar ;one teaspoonful diff'er ent spIces, two cuiss of rasins, one of time two cups chopped fino.. Tu'IosE COMPIcAININO of Sore Throat, hioairsenessor '"taking cold,'' should use "BDrotn's .Bronchid~ T1rochea.'? 'TUhe effect is ,extr;aord inaryF. particularl y wihen used biy simngers amid spealkers for clearig the.voice The price o1 soap is raipidly advanc hng. A year's supply of DonIBINS' EI,EcTR1IO bou lit now at t,he old price will be a very )diolous'purchiase ANswuR THIs.-Didl you ever know any pesm .e iii, withiout inactioml of the S8ttc, Li r or KiCdneys, or did you ev' -kmi'w dhuo.whofas well when either was obstrueted or inactive; amId did you ever know or hear of any ease of the kind-that M.ofb Bt, r, would mnot' e1nre,. *h,. yo1t r1elglb 0,ihs same que onA.Jcoynii8~ ~ oo pains ini the Lungs were depressed, weak'zrWhfifr.o( Offh$inptoms tend ing W bat-'dleasq ,jyot there was no structural nomtuqq the Lungs, all theM8 ~y~o~6 caused by tM. Liver being si uggish, and time st-oma h. e dhe ddsoas o Liver Rlo u ator, and the patient is ~ variably brought back to hlth. d own ten aears pain insm <eft sidea bech iu seo agflna d1.ers i 7 ~ toimyb sent ear me~dJ ein,. sL -1uls HUMOROUS. WHAT MAICICs THI TowiEn LEAN? They were deeply interested in anclei history and were discussing the pecul arl,ties of 6- piture of prominen places, wholf he suddenly exclaimed as lie polited to a building which al peared rather weak in the knees: "What a funiy-looklug house ! Wha is it called I" She looked at him as if pitying hl ignorance, and said: "Why, that's the celebrated leanin, tower of Plea." He studied the picture intently fo saveral moments, and than asked. "What do you supposo made it lean? "Well," said she, "I Suppose the Iac of ple, sir, caused a great famine in th land. and miust necessarily have mad it lean." And now, whenever lie Is called upoi to address a Sunday school, he alway works this pungent point for tihe bene fit of the children. A MAnYLAND farmer, the other day vent to Baltimore and permitted him self to indulge overmuch in the flow Ing. As a propitiatory offering to hi wife he bought four pounds of sausag4 meat, and, as a handy place to carry it he placed It in the crown of his hat On reaching his station and atteiptinl to alight from the care, the overloade< granger stumbled and went headlirs to the ground, bursting the high ha and scattering the sausage meat. Thi conductor horrified the passengers b3 singing out for "llelp In Ileaven'i namie--the mai has dashed out i brains !" And so it semned in tihe dark until a light was brought and an inques held--the Jury rondering a verdict o: "whiskey and sausage." LEAP year Ims various effeets on var lous girls, A young lady at Sand13 11111, N. Y., ran Into the oflice of a stait old lawyer, hugged and kissed hin and said that she accepted h is offer oi marriage, though lie hadn't made any She was crazy. The fact that she ram into a lawyer's ofllco instead of an ed. Itor's proves that. THEX following story illusttates thi disadvantage~of having an article im comimon use called after one's name, The chief of the clean MlcIntosh one had a dispute with a cabman about tho fare. "Do you know who I amn?" n1m. dignantly exclaimed the Highlander, "I am the'lintosh." "I don't carc if you are an umbrella," replied tho: cabby; "I will bave my rights." A REL[GIOus body haying resolved to build a new church, tihe pastor wei about begging very zealously, accept Ing not only the widow's but the child'm mite. In the school one Sabbath, whilf instructing the children lie comnpared himself to a shepherd, and then Iin quired wima the latter did wieth his flock. Ont bright-eyed little fellovv promptlyreplied, "lie she ars them.' A CMrAIN Scotch gillie, it is said, If not often ill; but once lie had time tooth ache. "And what did you do for it?' sal(l one to him. "Weel, I just broughl sax penn'orth o' laudanumn and mixed it wi' a pint o' whisky, and drink it but it wAs nit good." Here there wau a paus6, after which the sp aker re Bumnied: "So then I got anothe-r sax. pen n'orth o' laudanumn and pit it Ito v quart o' whisky." "Well?" "Weel, when I woke two days alter there wai na toothache." LrTLn henry returns fmoni cate chismn. He wears an air of mnelmancholy, "'Whmat's the matter, dear?'' asks Aun Augusta. "Mfomsieur lo Cure is alwvayi seolding mec. To-dmay lhe asked me how many Godls'there were." "Well, yom told him onme, I suppose ?" "Oh, aunty I told him live, amid even that nman.) hdui't satisfy hiim " (OvERHEnh at a restaurant.)--,o. quacious lady-"'And you Oinimese act. umally Cat rice with chiopsticks? Hlowi funny I" Chinaman-"You tinkee so?' Loquacious lady -"Ofcoumrse. "Why, we use a spoon."' Chinamany-'dide( we, miadam, long 'go when Cinmci muchmee barbarian too I"' AnlTEMAS WAn1D once said gravely, almost sadly,-"I have done too muel foolimng; too much trilling; ( am goingj to write sommething that will live.' "WVell, what, for instance ?'' In the same grave way be said, "A lie." "DoN'T I make a pretty picture?' exclaimed Jones, rathmer ruefully, as hi stopped upon the river bank after ii baptism through the ice. "A picture ?' repled is rien Sndgrss."I shmoult EFFxIE (sitting on the mantelpieCe) "N~ow I'm the clook. I'll tick, arid you tell me whemi to strike, anty. Tick. tick-tick-tick," etc. Anty: "o strike I" (E fie boxes her Aunty's ears. WHEImN you see four or flve chilidreri who ned combimng, washing and patch ing, holding a convention on a fromi door-step, you have come to a houms where the mother,'paints pottery. V EoETI'NE has never failed to efYee a cuire, givig tone amid strenmgth to thi system dlebilitated by disease. WE CAN insuire any person having bald head or troubled with danidrufi that Carbmoine, a deodorized extract o peti-oleum, will (10 all that is claime< for it. It will not stain the most deli cate fabric and is del jgh tfully perftumed Free Shade, Middilesex Co., Va. Havimg used Dr. Bull's Baby Syruj in my family with the greatest degrei of satisfaction, I unhestatingly recomn mend it as the best remedy that I knov of for children. Tuomas Y. L&wsoui The Ladd' Favoite. Among thme many thmousands ot ladie wvho hYave -used Dx'. Pierce's Favoriti Preriptmon anld propouilced: It thuc) favorite remedy, because so effihlent.im the .d mseages and C weaknesses peculiar t4 womdft,' at'e tany who are welhl an< favorably known in the iworld of let te, as well as artistS, miusicians, anm a whole host of namnes from the. bil hiant ranks of wealth .and fashion. I prstidfy e l14dies Favorit< riyion' .gs 'hIe being fa' ill ~ sfQ '~11~ome, expnptinj tl)qm~iJJ~~ ~ al'odustle opera 4ip ~14~oT~~iifl#.of-.thob6 me oih~cop h4es mnade like Pete, ,,i~r S a2% ller'g ragors-.40J sell e tila , a 1LLMRM(Igl.Miaroh 2fh 1S78 P ur Rv6rite P'rescriptior t pe oqt hqath. r ~vo lZ~illY~O~ red h rFa Thankfu lly yotirs, II T, rbY Piotography Under Water.--Mr. W1i liam Morris, of Greenock, has made a - discovery by which he can photograph .t underneath the water at a depth of ten - fathoms. Two of the negatives he has t secured are remarkable distinct, but the others are rither dim owing to de fects in the apparatus,whichi he hopes to renedy. The camera is enclosed in t a water-tight glass case, suspended by the centre and encloset in a cover, s that is drawi off after the canuera which Is fixed on a tripod-has reactied C its position. One of the views, taken in the bay, shows a sandy bottom, with r a number of large boulders covered with sea-weed, and an old anchor; and, in the shade, three mooring cables be k longing to small yachts close at hand. o When the weather calms down and the e light becomes stronger Mr. Morris in tends to carry out his investigations 1 with improved apparatus, when lie ex s poets to achieve still greater results. A Novel L/ght.-Tjrake an oblong phial of the whitest and clearest glass and put IntA it a piece of phosphorus about - the size of a pea. Pour some olive oil, - heated to the boiling point, upon tWe a phosphorus; 1111 the phial about one third full, and cork it tightly. To use this novel light, remove the cork. allow the air to enter the phial, and then re cork it. The empyt space in the phia al beomes luininous, and the light od L tained will be equal to that of a lamp. t When the ligh t grows dlin ts power can be Increased by taking out the cork and allowing a fresh supply of air to enter the phial. In winter it is sometimes necessary to'heat the phial botween the hands in order to increase the fluidity of the oil. The apparatus thus pre pared may be used for six months. A Neto Use for the Electric Lwnp.-A correspondent of the London Nature suggests a novel way of g6tting at the nature of an ailing person's complaiut. Bringing the electric lamp to his aid, lie would so construct an instrument as to have a series of persons arranged in the form of a semi-circle. These would each be so refractive as to secure achro iatism, while the rays of 11ht being bent, would enable the obrerver to peer Into almost any part of the human frame he might please. Always sup posing the savant's idea to be practica ble, a wide field of thought opens up on such a subject. Benzol and benzine have been gener ally regarded as synonymous, but cer tain pharmaceutical works now apply the termn benzine to a light petroleum procluct. True bevzole is soluble in half to three quarters of its weight of alcohol, while the petroleutu spirit re duires six limes its weig'it. ToM, Vick and Harry are now appear. Ing with their Grandfather's recipes for Coughs, etc., and seeking a fortune through advertising, but the people know the value of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup and will take no othjr. Price, 25 cents a bottle. FArER . is GETTING WELL.-by daughters say, "Iow much b6tter father is since he used Hop Bitters." He is getting well after his long suffer Ing from a disease declared incurable, and we are so glad that he used your Bitters.-A lady of Rochester, N. Y. Farming for Proit. A now and comprehensivo agricultural book with the above title has just been published by J. 0. MoCordy & Co., of Philadelphia. Pd. Written in a clear and vigoroos style, by John E. Read, a praotical farmer, who h,as also been editorially connected wvith the agricultural press for many years. thIs book will exert a strong influence forgood. It will show men how to make mere money and load happier lives. Farm life is touched at all points ; gen oral agriculture, live stock, 1'ruit growing, business ->rinciples and home life are all care folly and itaborately treated, and the work is adapted b> meet the wants of farmers in all sections of the country. It contains 860 pages, with 140 ilhl .ations (manyvof them very fine) a full index, is nicely printed and handsomelv b>und. A full description of thIs splendid volume may~ be had by addressing the pub lishers. VEG ET INE. For all Ladies WHlO ARE SUFFERERS. Mit. H. R. CTENcINNATI, ohIo, March 28, 1877. De ar Sir.--I have taken several b0tiles of your Vegotino for Female Weakness and in justice to the medicine, and to all ladies who are suf fers from suoh complaints, I will recommend the Vegouino. I must say It has helped mec very much; indeed; It Is av.luable for such comi plants. MARY Ef. MER EDI 11H, 180 Eastern Avenue. FEMAL.s WRAKN$S.-vegetine acts directly up m the causes or these compi.u;nts. It f avig orates and strengthens the whole system, acts upo th seretvo rgas,allays inilammation, [censancu-sucration, cures const i a' lion, regulates thne bowels; hoadache and pa ns in the back cease; In fact, there ms no diseaseo or complaint where thme VoteLino gives so quick relief, and is so effective in it i cure, ats in what all teme onen neWakness. It has n9ver. VElGBTINB. It is What .is Needed, FEMALE WEAKNESS, H. R.STE s M omNEs, Iowa, sept. 8, 1978, Dear Sir-- orcm a long time I hive been troubl 'd wvith Female wVeakness amid a wveik. sinkc.ng feeling at the stomach, and through the adivice of a friend, I tried your Vetgotine, and hlnn: it just what is needed. I eani recommend it to all sufftir1n.erom those comp.aimnts. 3 rs ANALA IIARWOOD, 812 Fourth Stfreet. See-ofala, liver Coanplagnt, Dyspepsia, i tlaeumatimno, WeaSkeess. II. IR. STEvENs, Bloston: l' Ibhave been practising medicine for 25 years, and as aremedy for sorofulpa Liver ComplaInt, I Iyspepsia, Rtheumati m, Weoakness, and all dis. - oases of the blood I hi Iwo never found its equal, .I have sold Vegitine for 1 years, an'dl have never had one bottle returned. I .would heartily re comnmendit to tin )so in need of a blood purifier. Dr. Wv. RO08s, Drum1gist, Sept. 18, 1878. Wi ton Iowa. VE*ETINE P ~ PREPAREDBY El- R. STtEVs, Boestenu, Mass. 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They are uot properly Prinmers, but Insruotion flooks, witlh practical trea tises on the inetrumnts. nd a bufidat picture end musieal Iiustrationo, a blotory of the organ, @to Valuabie books for any one aterestod in Lnt,io. W1[VITE ROBES 30 o(s.) Unoxcolled as a Sunday School Song Book TEMPEIRANCE J JW1L,S7. (30 eta.) uoxcelled as a Toin peranco Soug Book. AMERICAN ANTHEM BOOK. (11.25, or 912.00 por dozen.) Contains onough easy Anthems, of Iluo quitlv to provide one per Suntay for two vears. Comnpiled by A. N, Johnson, J. LI. enuoy and A. J. Abbey. Any book mailed, post-freo, for the retail price. Tb, 'g eokly BiIUMd""AIj itV.RlD " ,l>es noarly goi pagej Q! *oVd luus;o per moth. 62.00 per year. Oliver DItson & Co., Boston. J. N. D1TSON & 00. 12280hestnut St., Phila. ARCUNEOWIHNON:CONDUCTINDCEMENT R TAINTHrlE HEAT LONG R. DO NOT BURN THE HAND. IRON BOTH WAYS. CH EAP HO I P 31Tj u.ig, S0Vto. MA" aa DANDELION, Ir A CI o 73E 41uan Disse Se tee11 a,9905 JowsJZe)0.,A and Urfmary Organa, N ' MAn sa lU eill Fenas CONVIaatL S10 IN SOLD. er athing impure .'/ a$arisessto,a la ea Asay oerdressiss9e Rep BNtare and tye 3w P.. k SeOteae, geasasatb umuuan en LI ht.Ankd tiS m me eie cern t:to aci ii complooand uthon i ) it fthreatatorlo GRANTAROUNDH ORLD nt desribs lo.tl Palace uireOriosities, Wealth fowant it. Til s rte beat ebance of an ttont ie onl d63.00. Send for ciorr en Aem ToAeLg ULSHNG Co., Philadolishia. CHASE G. BLATCHLEY, Man4facturer of aLATCHLEY'S STANARD PUMPS, Occupies Jan.5 Isi, TIlE SPACIOUS WVAltOOMS, 308 MIARKET Street, PHILADELPHIA. pltoto la rgoRt, assortmen te host cno mn et towan ti fouratomners for Cli epths umps plain Galvaized Iron Porcain or per i ned. ijils, Graiton, W.Vn. Oi 146 correspond sutdot potco,apyo DR.N. C. GRAY. 1tln. Philadelp.aia, 1a. DIPHTHERIA!!i 1 Johnsoh's Anodyne riniment Will post. 0ivel prven thi terile disease, and Will has il sve nany lives Bent free by mall. nt nddar 0a nont.. Prevention Is better I. B..J03%NSON & CO., flangor, Mie. E RDitycas - in Uoerated t0smdfilstocfe O of lohg staniding in1wek r. pice'a, Gdet edia ebiscovery ce and lSlkit:ecot~ ors am e oplce 9) Wdy fotenSahe rd ha e f6kiAs~ et* to a o tair ~~t HEALTH IS WEALTH. &081t% of Body t Wealth of ItI. Rdway's Sarmprillian Resolvent. Pure blood makes sound fosh, strong bone and a otear k. If you wouldhave you nesh ran, your bones souud, without carlos, and your 0?11 texon fair, us Radways s areaparillan A GRATEFUL RECOGNITION. " TO OUrO a (NRONIO or LONG STANDING DISNASU is truly a victory in the healing-art; that realpn. l0n power that clearly disoarns DRrXor and sup. ' ( a remedy; that restores step by step-by egrees-the body which has been slowly at, tacked and weakened by tn insidious fiseae'o, not only commands our respect but deserves our gratitude. Dr. Radway has furnishoI man kind wi ithat wonderful remedy, iadWay's Sarsaparil-ltsa eSolvent. which accom plishes this result, and suffering humanity, who drag out an existence of pain and disease. through long days and long nights, ow6 him their gratitudo."-Afddew .Mescngr. FALSE AND TIRUE. We extract from Dr. Radway's "Troaatli6 on disease and Its Cure," as follows: Iiet of Diseases oured by l Railways Srsaarillian Resolvelit. Chronic Skin Diseases, Carles of the Bone, Humors in the Blood, Scrofulous Dise ises. Bad or unnat ural Habit of Body, Syphilis and Vene real, Fever Sores, Chronic or Old Ulbors, Shet theum, Rickets, White Swelligg, Soal i lleid, Uterine ATect,ions. Cankers Glanduil'I Jwell ings, Nodes, Wasting and Decay of th6 Body, Pimples a ad Blotches. Tumorb, Dysvepsia. Kid noy and Bladder DIseases Chronic Ih- umatism and Uout, Uonsumption. bravel and Calculoiu Deposits, and varieties of the above complaints to which sometimes are given speclqui names. we assert, that there is no known remedy that possesses the curative power over these dis eases thAt HADWAY'S HEsOLVENT furnishes. It cures, step by step, surely, from the founda tion, and restorgs the injured parts to their sound condition. The wasten of the body are stopped and healthy blood to sup plied to the system, from which new ma torial i4 formed. This is the 11.st corrective power of RADWAT's REsoLVENT. In oases where the system has been salivated. and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Sublimate have acoumu lAted and become deposited in the bones, joints etc., causing caries of t1he bones, rickets. spinal curvatures, contortions, white swellings, vArl cose veins. etc., the SARSAARILLIAN will resolve away those deposits tin i citerminato the,virus Of the disease from the system. If those who are taking these medicines for the cure of Chronic. Scrofulous or Syphilipto dis eases, however slow may bt the cure, ieel bot ter," and ftnd their general health improving, their flesh and weight increosing, or even keep ing its own is a sure sirn that the curo is pro gr Ing.0fn these dise,o,s CiA6or get better or worse-the rus otho disease not inactive; if not arrested and driven from the blood It will spread and continue to under mine the constitution. As soon as the SARsA PARILLIAN makes the patient "feel bet ter," every hour you will grow better and increase in health, strength and Besh. OVARIAN TUMORS. The removal of these tumors by RADwAY's 1SOLVXNT is now so certainly established that what wits once co.sidered aliuo5t tulractilutis s now a common recognized fact by all parties. Witness the cases of Hannah P. Knipp, Mrs. 40. Krapf. Mrs. J. H. Jolly and Mrs. 'P. D. ldhdrix ptublishet In our Almanac for 1819; also that of Kra. (. 8. Bibbins. in the present edition of our "alse and True." - One Dollar per Bottle. MINUTE REMEDY. Only requires minutes, not hours, to relieve pain and cure acute disease. Radway's Ready Relief, In from one to twenty minutes, never falls to relieve PAIN with one thorough applic tion. No matter how violent or excruclating the rain the RLIEUMATI, Bod-ridden, In(Irm. Crippled, Lervous, Neura to, or prostr ited with disease may sulIer, RAWAY'd READY RELIIF will afford instant ease. Inflammation of the Kidneys, Inflamiua tion of the llalder. InilaAnination of the Bowels, Congestion of the Lungs, Sore Throat, tDificult Breathing, Palpimition of the Heart, _ysteris, Croup, Dipltherlia, Catarr-h, Influenza, ileaduachie, T.,oth,ache, Neuralgia, Rhleumnatismn, Cold Oliills, Ague Chills, Chtiblains, Frost Bits, Bruise.. Summer Complaints, Cough., Cold, taprains. Pains in the Chest, Baok or L,imbs, are instantly relieved, FEVER AND AGUEs lever and Ague cured for Fifty Cents. There is not a remedial agent In the world that wilL cure Fever anad gue, and all other Malarious, Bilious, Scarlet, 'lyphold, Yellow and other fevers (aid by IIA AY's PILL.) so quick as It will In a iow moments, when tisken accord Lug to directions, cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, sick Headache, Diarrhrsi nYeftiy 110,iO Wind in the Bowels, and all Travelers should always carry a bottle of R AD WAY 5 READY RELIEIF with them. A few drops in water will provent sickness or pains from change of water. It is better than French brandy or bitters as a stimulant. be rsad immbranen should always CAUTION. All remnedial agents capable of destreying life by an overdose should be avoided. Morphine opium, strychnine, arnica, hiyosciamus, and other powerful remedies, does at certain times, in very small doses, relieve the patient during their acU,on in the system, But perhaps the second dose, If repeated, 'may aggr*avate and iii crease the attfrerilag, and arnother dose catuse death.}l'here is no necessity for using these .uncertain agents when a positive remedy like RADWAY's BEADY Riii.iEP will stop t.he mots) ex erucatn pain quicker, ithmt entaiing the TEIE TRUE RELIEF, RADwAY's IIIEADY hmB.rsE is the only remedja. .igent in vogute that will Instantly atop pain. - , Fifty Cent. per Bottle, Radwayfs Regulating Pills. Perfect Psurgatiyes, Bootiang Apert. ents, Act Without Pain, Always Rella ble and Natural in tlaeir Operation, A VHGENTABLE BUBSTITUTE FOR'CALOMEli. Perfectly taeteless, elegantly costeti wi,, "awae*surn hpurge, regu,ate, purify, cleans RADWA PI,S for the cure of all disorders of the Stomach iver; Bowels Kidneys IBiad der, Nervous D?seases Heada io, ConstIpat.ion, rsa, Fever I fla mmat ofoo li iPowo ls Plies, and:anll derElngenmeas 6f the 1nternat '/scra. Warranted to effect a perfect, cure. Pure veg *Lbi6 containing no mercu fy, milierais or del F*Oberfdthefollovwing syitaptots result. in from Diseases of the Ja geetive Organs; Con attion, nw-ard i'ies, Vullness of "h 'Blood n ea,Aidit,y 'of the Stomach, ausoa Heart,burn, Disgust, of Focod, Fullnesa or Weiklil in the Stomach,e tior Ertn0th iona; Slhking or Fltertig at thinar lynho 0n or 8 ifrng Vision, Dots or Webs before the 'Sight, Fever and Dull Pain In th9 Head, Defleioncv pf Per. piration YellowneSs or the Skin atnd Ifyes, Pain Df Heat Bu'rning in thOFle Bddeiiluhe Afow'doses ot IRAuwAT's P'tuW Vil free the. mystemn from All t4e Above-namdd diser.dOrs, **BOLD-BYiDIJUG(GISTS-.:. RUiAD /* ALpE A!4,ggyB.. No. a WAl , . R 11 Il, New yorI informat10n' orth tlIQu(an'will be lent yoth fisapwern'g h Ad?ertisentoe i wal d a o q I~s poWerUttl, 3t1fg,tr,Bs ah Bol,tr SwiIg,4f# 8 8