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How Mushrooms Grow: A41aW years ago the banks of the lot opposite the Brunswick Hotel, Roston, were sodded and the land leveled to its e presnt grade. As the pick of the workmati broke up the soil, a white a substance ran through every piece. Starting with large branches,it divided I and snbdivided like the velis on the I back of tho hand. Tihe smell was very t C strong"quickly noticed on the opposite side of the 'way. This subterranean white vein : for it had that appearance: i was nothing but the hidden part of the t Coiprinus comatus, a mushroom freely E eaten now, although twenty years ago . thought to be poisonous. The common u name Of this substance Is "spawn.'' t Just as a cutting of the grape vine 1 placed in conditions favorable to growth b will shoot up. put forth branches and It bear fruit, so a part of this corprinus 1; viie., transplanted will continito to b ramifyand in time show the result In P It the .for'm of mushrooms. The whole earth beneath your feet, on a country t walk,ii alive wath vegetation to at great i depth. This vegetation is just as real, c and the various vines-or, la other L words, the thousand varieties of mush room spawn-are Just as distinct as the d hop vine and the woodbine,the ivy and c the virgin's bower that twine their a tendrils over your head. Just where 0 grew this year a peculiar kind of toad- U stool, there next year, and so on for e successive harvests, will you find the e same plant. There Is no more mystery b about its appearance than in the growth v r4 of the chestnut on the tree that shades v it. Rapidity of growth is not near so p general as It is thought to be. The a common mushroom aud many others c form for (lays Just below the soil. A * heavy dew or an evening shower ivill k straighten the sten of the inngus and e expand Its top. It bretks the earth in a : the night, atid the gatherer Is able to 8 find in the morning the white buttons a where he could see nothing the day before. So, popular error hai made p mushroom growth proverbial for a u superficiality, which, by the fungi, at a least, Is undeserved. Further, the va riousvarietiesof toadstools succeed enioh It other In rotation, Just as the bloodroot and anemons of spring are followed by a the roses of summer and the cardinal or b geutlan of fall. Those are not theories that-are here advanced; they are the e results of several years' careful watch- e Ingof the grow th of this order of plants. t On the very spors where, in 1874, 1 v gathered mushrooms, there, In 1879, 1 v found the Identicalvariety; so that the d lover of fungus may have his regular f, harvest with all the certainty of the 11 farqier who looks for a return of his 0 wheat'crop, or the results of his oran berryi culture. With Just that degree a of certainty, no more or no less, for, as t certain years are fqvorable to the pro- a duction of certain fruits, as the potato 0 crop sometimues fails, anld the apple orchard Is barren, so the mushrooin 0 spawn, usually producing abtundantly v Its expected variety, may pass a year, s or even, under dillculties, become ex- e tinct. Th'le blight which may visit all i life, animal or vegetable, does not fail a to fall at times upon my humble frienids. Catacombs, of J'alermno. 8 T.lui strangest of all strange sights at Palermo are the catacombs of the Capu. a: chins. Wec are all familiar with the character of' the Roman andl Neapolitan catacomibs-undergrou nd excavations, remarkable for their great extent, and C for their associations with the history of' the early Christian Church. Tihae Palermo catacombs have a frightful peculiarity of thir own. You descend from the little church, just outside theC walls, not by deep, subterranean pass ages, but into a succession of' vaults, well lighted, and of no greater depth than an ordinary cellar. Tihese vaultsf are long and narrow corridors,on either i side of which, in niches cut out of the a wall, ranged in ghastly raanks, are pre served the bodies of the dead, not con lined out of sight, but cacth In the garb appropi:iate to it while living, or else lai a long robe or winding sheet. Below those niches are wooden coffins, with windows at the side to showv the faces ~of the occupants. Overhead near the ceiling are skeletous of ch iilren sitting, or of men reclinilng; all perfectly pre served, some with the skin still cover ing the bones, others haviaig nothing loft but skull and shoulders and ria> bones, with the arms in front, pionely crossed. Some peculiarityv of the sol prevents the ordana.iy decomposition, and men buried nearly two hundred years ago still survive in this skeleton company. Strange to say, thtey are not permitted to rest in peace. On the 2di day of November ian every year, the four de rnorts, or festival of the dead, their relatives flock to this dismal place and the well-known mumumeries are taken out of their glazed cofins, andt I dressed in gala costume. They number 1 otless tihan sax thousand in all; anid I know of' nothing rte 're fearful thani a lvng man to find himself, as I did, unexpectedly among the army of dry bones. The most horrible feature of te whole exhibition is dint nealrly every face wvears In its fosail decay and ri a dreadfully luidlerous and comic expression. The lack-lustro eye-sockets1 which gazo dJown upon you have a sort ~of a grim vitality of' their own, and (through the entire array there seems as if there was a dumb intelligence:i a mute correspondence and sympathy id'the uinlster anud almost wickedi way In which they return the curious stare hf4heginpruders. Yet you cannot help stgring in spite of all this, and the eye Iwaidersj from one group to another I Ith a strange and-rapor bid fascina tion. Ahtre large-limbed, thick-skulied, tele in tholie successful.preserv Sot neis,who seem to have twisted *rh gled their joints loose, and sta ~a dp~tUy stJ 1, or fall to '~ee tlior4,.w41) thelf ~'ined heads bgo~ rtusht:n eon tm plation of h i ledearthly life~ and others k v ~ha,6%ante fa 911 Wit ~ rl $$ki'aii bell 40 0 alllu~t geeg AGRICULTURE. HCIENTIvlo FARMING PRACrIOAL. .'he farmer who drains his land or tries now man1re, or a new machine or a Low crop, calls himself a practical man to despises all experiment, ahd laughE t the teaching of scientifle meri. He inot conscious that when he Is think ng over new plans and adopting new iothods of cultivation he may be Ilipi rating in his daily work a series. of hemical and physiological experi ionts of extreme complexity and in. ortance. Men of the highest order of itollect and wlioe researches were 1e most original, have been practica ion. Practice and theory are - Nl iases of the same form of-thought, 'he practieal farmer, if he ever per lits his mind to rise above the tradi. lons and empirical rules of ils fore thers, and asks, "Could not that have een done in a better and more porfoct ray; would not this be an improve. lent?" becomes a theorist, and wher) e tries to realize these conceptions ncomes a practical man. Theory and ractice are inseparable In every art owever much men may try to disunit :in. The most practical man is oftel Jo most theoretical. 'Every operation iwith him attheory. He recognizes nc hange; lie will admit of no trial amid xperimncnt, because that would be an oknowledgment of science. Every :ience is built up of principles, and acse principles carried into work ailed practice. There Is the science of sitronomy and navigation - the science f amry, and the art of land incas. ring; the science oi mechaniles and to art of making machinery; the sct nec of ciemistry and the art of agri ultu'e. Almost every science Is the usis of a cognate art. The most ob lous and natural way of arriving at a !at knowledge of the art of agriculture 'ould be to know something of those rinciples oil which the art is based, rt being nothing more than the appli irlon of principles previously acquir 1. A farner who Is able to unite a erfect mastery of prilciples with at nowledge of practical details Is anl lucated and scientific farmer. It ilght reasonably be inferred that the iortest and easiest method of learning iy lidustrial art, and the surest guide new discoveries in the art, would be knowledge of those fundamental rinciples upon which the art was tsed. No amount of practical skill id xj 'rience co(uld ever replace the ant 01 scientlilo knowledge in farm g. WERDS.-Weeds Cat up the farmer's 'bstance. The truth of this ought to a apparent to every one who would gure up the cost of eradicating them on the crops. And yet it Is not an nemy who hath done this. The farm r himuselft s the one to blame. Just as to flelds are white with daisies and hlite seed, tie stubbles green with rag 'eed, the road sides clothed with gold a rods, thistles or creeping briars, the oor yards, nooks and corners of the trm bear their burdens, and these urberies of weeds are neglected with 1e greaest care. Timothy cut for seed i gatheret with the dalsies; clover is Ailected with rag weed or thistle down, nd the seeds arc sent abroad for sale, ius polluted with foul weed which re spread far and wide. The thought f this fact recently camne homne to ime a leading seed store as I examined a ag of flungarlan grass seed. of which ie-ourlh at least consisted of seeds of Peeds. The truth is, we rarely sow !eds of plants desired for crops with ut sowing with them .many kinds 01 reeds. And if we should ask our elves. "whence came these weeds?' ro should in truth reply, "sown by oum wn hiuands ! ' Tihe ground is more thai ilfilciently stocked to give us worki noeugh to keep dowai weeds for the armi of our natural lives, but that we hould negligenely sow fresh seed o1 ermlit weeds to ripen their seeds, is ii lonstrous mistake. There is time niow o avoid thuis the present season in a reat nmasuro. Numerouas pestiferottm v'eeds are constantly maturing; thiey ould be gathered andt burned, and we ould easily remedy tihe other mistake 'y ordering onily clean seed, and re usin~g to accept any other. If -thu vore always done, the seedsmnen woulk >c chary of purchasing foul seeds ant /ould avoid supplying them to theou Listoin~ers. ORCHAnD AND N4UnsanRY,-WhoeVel ets out ana orchlard of course does ii vith tihe expectation of a return ir ruit. No one plants corn or potatoem nithont irat considering if the land wil ;ive him a crop; if the soil is not ill hoe proper condicon he knows that hi oust make it so, or lose his seed an ti' labor. Much less than eorn ant iota toes can fruit trees make a crop or loth lng. The trees wvill struggle along lo thme best they can, but snob orchardi to not pay, and "run out" early. Un, ems the land is suflciently fertile foi n ordinary farm crop, it should bE nade so; no soil too wet for such crop] viil answer f'or fruit trees, which, ti ucceed, need well drained land. 'Thi >dewing should be as deep as tihe char. .cter of the soil will allow, anid the sub oil plow may generally follow th<i >thler with benieft. IF' you want to raise a vegetable tha vill take the place of meat, set on regetable egg plants 3 feet apart each v'ay, ini good ground, and you wil ayo It. Sugar and C7alome,-To the reearchei nade by M. Jolly appears to be due thi 'ahuable discovery, as relating to thi hanges that may take place in thi tomach, that'really nure sugar has n< iYect on calom(-l, but that many sugari ,e sold1 in whieh a sniall portion 0 ine hydrate Is left;Nhey are white mt have only undergehae the first erys allization. Furzther, some of the sugar >f commer'ce aire acid, and the faet i1 ist iblished thlat either acids or alkalIc vill determine the change of ealomel hI. Jolly has found that cahomnel lozen ges made in Paris are free from bichm 0oride, but it is knowna that ini [tala everal cemists have detected it ii ozenges; tis'latter might to due ti lie use of ani impure sugar, showing hierefore, the necessity of that Articl< cing teste d by pharmacists mand lozeng, nakers. Thme greateat feat in the way of rapli -allway mnsking is said to be that 01f $1 1. Temple, in tihe late Afghan cam )aign. One hundred slnd thirty mile f railway was constructed in one hun tred and one days. Thme Fol'ndaition of Health. Without a substratum, a foundation c vigor, thero can be no true heahh. 'The pun macd the weak have all sorts of aches an pains, not necesarly because they are post Lively diseased, but becausse the vital mu Lhinery hitebes and halte for-want of 'the hr petus which abundanm vitality would give ii Lime blood enriching tonIo, Hiostetter's Stomac this is the ditribution of ater of ?,taity t the remotest parte of the aystgl an i1net~au of muscolar energy and the disappearance c bowbie, torpidt of tie live 7 ofdai meat and mafaawal fame.a.n... I DOMESTIC. (OFFER Ix TYPerD Fuvxn.--Dr GuIllasse, Of the French Navy, in a re cent paper on typhold fever, says "Coffee has given us unhoped-for sat isfuction ; afterihaving dispensed wih I wefind to our great sui-prise, that its action Is as prompt as it it.deelsive. Ni sooner have our patients taken a f'eu table-spoonfuls of It than! their feature becomes relaxed and they come to thel: senses. Tihe next day the Inprovemen Is such that we are tempted to look up on coffee as a specific against typholt fever. Under its influence the stupo is dispelled, and the patient rouses fron the state of somnnolency iII which hi has been since the invasionf of the dis ease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he onters upon con valesence." Dr. Guillasse gives to an adult two or three table-spoontuls of strong black cof'ee every two hours alternated with one or two teaspoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia shouk be taken dailf, and after a while qui, nine. From the fact that malaise and cerebral symptons appear irst, the doe. tor regards typhold fever as a nervou disease, and the cofuee acting on tle nerves 1s peoulharly indicated in th early stages before local complications arise. SALT C4o WITn PAnsINui S.-Soal< three pounds of salt fish over night with tile skin uppermobt, and bull It about one hotir, putting ito it plenty of cold water. Meantime, pare a dozen parsnips and cut. then In quarters, boll them half an hour Or longer, until tender, drain them, and dish then around the fish; while tile fish and parsnips are cooking make the follow, ing sauce: Mix two ounces of flour and one ounce of butter or sweet drippings over the fire unt-ll a smooth paste 1. made, then pour in half a pilt of boll ing water gradually, stirring until tihc sauce is smooth ; ad([ three table spooifuls of vinegar, season with one I Ilf salt spoonful of salt and half the quantity of pepper; let the sauce boil up thot oughly for about three minutes, and serve it with the ilsl' and parsnipsi a hard-boiled egg chopped and added to the sauce improve It. ORANGE Pac.-Ordinary Dundet marmalade ianswers every purpose, providing you thin it first with a littic water. Tako four eggs and beat ni: whites and yolks apart ; to the yolks add four ounces ofi pulverized siigar: pound very itne four soda-crackers, indi mix It-with your thlin ned marIa 1 wde; shako it well together, and put.itn ,he yolk of eggs which lots been sugar ed; make a puff p-ste, and line a (1111. Bake the crust first ; then line with the marmalade mixt ure, havInst added a very little butter to it. Just before taking out of the oven put on top the beaten whice of eggs. The oven must be very hot. Just when the white of eggs commences to harden remove the pie. Eat hot or colU. HINTs ON TnHE CA RE OF 'IHE EYEs.-I, Rest the eyna for a iew minutes wihen the sight becomes in the least pintiul, blurred orindistinct. 2. IivsmuneCeni light; never sit facing it; let it come from behind or from )ne side. 3. Never read in horse or steam ears. 4. Never read when lying down. 5. Do not read much during convalescence from Iil ness. 6. The general health should be maintained by a good dlet, air, exer cise, amusement and a proper restric tion for tihe hours of hard work. 'I Tiake plenty of sleep. Retire early andl avoid the painful. evening lIghts. T1eui hours sleep for delicate e-yeS is bettez than eight. UsEFUL lhINTs.-Set a cup of watet in the oven while baking, and it wvi1) prevent meat or bread fromi burning. Fumigation wilth burning sulphur ih tihe Only effectual way of disinfecting muouldy casks. To make oldplaster-of Paris busts that h ave become dIirty, looli like row, give them a dlead coat 01 china white. T1hose who suffer fron: puethora, and . consequent head aymp. tomus, from chronic cough, or oppres. sion or breathing, from gout, gr-avel, or ij~lluhl'.oidity ro( tb e stomach should hoverlouch either ale'or beer, Tro keep upper rooms cool in sumnmer and warm in winter, paint the rool white. .CHEEsE FONDU.--One cupful of stah bread crumbs, two scant cupfuls .o2 milk, one-hair pound of cheese, grateil three eggs, one small tablespoonful ci melted butter, pepper and salt and a pinch of soda, dissolved in hot watet and stirred into the milk. Soak the crumbs in the milk, beat into these the eggs, the butter, the seasoning. anc lastly, the chleese. Butter a baking, dish, pour the fondu in lto it, and sete dry breadcrumbs on the top. Bake il a delicate brown. Serve hot. CURu FOR floAnsENzss.-Bake a 1em on or sour orange for twenty mlnutei In a moderate oven, then open it at oni end and dig out the inside, whicl sweeten with sugar or molasses, amt -eat. Tihis will cure hoarseness and re move pressure from the lungs. FoR THROAT ' 'JsE~5Rs AND COUGHS "BDrown's Bronchti Trochaes," like al, other really goodt things, are frequenatly Imitated, and purchasers shaould hb carefult~ ogni~ the genuine articla prep~ared Johli 1. Browaf& Sons. IMPURIBL6dOD.-In morbid conditlot cls oes, ulcers andi pimples. Ii this condition of tihe blood try thn YEGEOTINE, and ctirem these affectiops As a biood-purlier it las no equal., It effects are wontierful. No more *Eard T.mes. - If' you will stop spendiing so much 01 fine clothes, 1f~bkfoodl Jnu style, bu, good, healthy food, chapaer and betti olothing; get more recal and substan' lal things of life every way, and es ' ecially stop the foalish habit of em ploying expensive, qua~ok.dl.Qctors 0 using so niuch of the -vle humlanguu med icir:e that does you only harmn,'hU put your trust fn that simple remedy H op Bitters; that cures alWanys at ; riniing cost, and yotu will see, gpoa times and have.good health .-horncle Expersmset have lately been mad, With the electric light on the eyes of .number of personsfor the putrposo o -beent'oun tliiletors p a d do ors are perceived at a. much grete distande through the piedium of thm electiio light.lhanbyday or~ gas .1igh The sensation of yelliow wvas ihdesen W ixt pd d~ia i ologe IT CANNOT be affordad, it would not pay after so much labor and capital has been expended to build up this medicine to allow it to depreciate. You can take Simmons' Liver Regulator with perfect faith as it is made by no adventurers who pick up the. business by concocting medicines, but by educated, practical druggists, who have made the study of medicine and its compounds a labor of a lifetime. The care, precision, neat ness and perfection exhibited by the i very appearance of Simmons' Liver Regulator proves that it' is the best pre Dared medleine in the market., and J. II. Z-ilin & Co. fully carry out their motto: Purissimia et Optima (purest and best). New Life, 1aft.-A iew life raft was recently tested on the Thames river, London. The apparatus consists of a long metal cylinder with two stretch era, and an oval air tube. Attached to tle tube are cork and india rubber floats. Should an accident ocaur at sea, the cylinder and stretchers can be fixed in two minutes and a half, and the apparatus, being thrown Into the water, la then ready for Instant tise. Wkei tie crew of the raft are in her, they increase the buoyancy by inflating the tube by means of eight or ten valves, which are worked by hand, the full in flation occupying a quarter of an hour. The buoyaucy of the raft was satisfac torly shown, for thirty-five men were upon It as It floated down the river from Lambeth to the Temnple Pier, casting anchor off the House of Parliament, for the purpose of showing the handiness of the craft to a number of honorable members assembled on the'Terrace. As r a test of buoyancy, the whole of the i crew and passengers stood at one aide a of the craft, yet it remained as trim and even upon the water as if no person t were in it. The craft will cost $500, and is capable of holding one hundred persons, can be easily made up into a i deck sent, so that very little can be said against it on the score of clumsiness, and, the weight being only 400 lbs., the launching would be easy ; while the sides being constructed of India rubber, a heavy sea would not crack it to splint- , ters against tile ship's side, tia in, the case of an ordinary shi p's boat. The main cylinder is hollow, for the pur pose of holding oars, sails, and provi sion, and the bulwarks are of netting and canvas fixed to iron stanchions. IT Is asserted that Misses Kellogg, Abbott, Oates, and our other famous songstresses immao ta k'op hpir voices clear by the use of Dr.' Bull's Cough Syrup. Price, 25 cents a bottle. Transporting Fresh Mfeat.-Thle Vienna method of sendiig fresh mutton and beef to the London and Paris markets appears to have met with considerable success. Attached to the slaughter house is a cooling room with well fitting double doors, and as nucl as possible protected against external in fluences of temperature. At one end of tie cooling-room Is a large blowing engine 1-5m, In diam., which sucks the alt from the roof of the room, and then forces it through a tube 35ctm. wide behind the lee-holder at the opposite end of the room. There is a large lce case, to be filled from without, in which the air to be cooled conies dir ectly into contact with the ice. Before the flesh has quite stiflened, it is trea ted with chemically piare borax. This is applied to the meat, in the form of fine powder, by means of a bellows similar to that used in France for sul pliurization of vine-stocks. It is pour ed throuh a funnel Into the bellows, the fIlling hole is stopped, anid thd sub staince is then blown ouit through tihe dulst-producing apparatus Introduced at the point. The quantity of borax used is so small that It is presently dis solved by the moisture on the surface of the meat. It is, therefore, not per ceptible by the eye, especially as, also, it does not in the least alter the asoect of the moat. After complete cooling, the meat is bound in linien sacks, anui is ready for being sent oft'. The cool ing-house is situated close to tihe rail way, and it is of the highest imupor.. Lance that thecooled meat be put direct. ly into the ice wagons. The cololinlg in these is, similarly, air-tight olosure, steady motion of the inner air, and the forcing of tais through an ice-chest. lTe air Is drawn through a funnel In the root of the wagon, passes throught a tube into an air-big, and from this through sats into the ice-chest, filled with ice, which it leaves on the other side. French Treatnment of Neuralgia-In a recent communication to the Academle de Medeine, M. Fereol asserts the pe culiar value of amumonical sulphate of, copper in the treatment of neuralgia. le states that in cases where every other resource has failed, even the ad ministration of gelsemin um and aconhia, a cure or remaricable relief may be ob tained to the most severe symptoms by means of this drug. Among the ex amples lhe gives of Its use is one of tri ficial neuralgia of two months' dura tion, with great insomnia, was unre lieved by the extraction of teeth, quinine, bromide, aconita, or tincture of gelseminumn, hydromerie injections of morphia or arsenic. From the first day of the adminstration of the sul phate of ammonia, however, there was a notable remission in the symptoms and cessatIon of insomnia., -in another severe case the dose was pushed to as mapy as eight graIns wIthout any other accident than nausea. For Thirty Years, I have been afiloted with. kidney complaint. T'wo packages of Kidney-Wort have done me more'good than all the medicine and doetors I have had before. I believe it is a sure cure. So wrihes an old lady from Oregon. A A RD-To all who are sutt'erlng frotn the errors in oindiscreionms of youth, nervous eaknos erl that will cure o, FIIUA 01 UIIARGE. This gre-et remedy Wa-, tovered by a. mii.uionary in outha merit' ase f-a ald to D. po tnth# ItoY. ii A Valuale Uirn Uree, A bogk on the Liver, it. diseases andi their treatment sent free. Iucluding treatises upon Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Bilicousness. Ha adacihe. Constipation. Dyspep-. sia. Mdalmria, etc. Address Dr. Sanford, 162 Broadway, Neow York city, N. Y. The Voltato Belt (Yo., htarshall, artieh, Will send their celebra'ed Eheotro Voltafo Belte to the aillicted upon 80 days's trial. dyursguarantesi They moan what ey sy. Witeto thoem without delay. Glas uf, T1heromneteea 8 otoueopoq, as'ra uedP S1~. 3EOIC. f HUMOROUS. - Tun other day T. U. met an old friend, who was formerly a prosperous young lumherman up north, but whose bad habits of drinking resulted as they 'often do, though he has sirce reformed and la trying to do better. "How are vou ?" said 'T. 0. "Pretty well, thank you, but I have Just been to a doctor to have him1 look at my throat." "What's the matter?" "Well the doctor couldn't find what I wanted him to find." "#1 hat did you expect him to fiud ?" "I asked him to look down my throat for the sawmill and farm that had gone down there." And did he see anything of it?" "No, but he ad vised me, if ever 1 got another will, to run it by water." A STorcu gentleman, visiting some friends in .England, displayed in con versation such contempt for the memory of England's most illustrious sons that one of the family resolved to pay him oil In his own coin. He therefore took down a steel engraving of John Knox which adorned . the dining-room wall and hung it up in a lightless lumber room. Thie Scotoliman, missing the pIcture, asked what had become of it. "We no longer consider your reformer worthy of a place here," said his friend, "therefore we have hung him up in a dark closet." "You could not have done better," said the Scotchman. "I cnisider the situation very appropri ate, for if ever a mai could throw light on a dark tiling that was the man." CLICIOYMAN. "I wish to complain, Mirs. Di)ggins, of the conduct of your daughter in Sunday school to-day; it was rude in the extreme." . Mrs. D. "Alh, it's what they teaches her at that there public school as dun it; yesterd,y she eame home, and she said, 'Mother, they are a-teachin' of me vulgar traxshuns.' What can you ex pect after that, sir T" BEYoND EXPEcTATIo.-Pat. "Well, Dan, and have ye heai'a the news-have ye heard that Rory the miller's dead?" Dan. "Rory the wilier Is it that's dead now ? Jabors, but ye don't say so! A nd lie was a young man too." Pat. "Faith an' that's true for you, Dan; he was a young man that I thought to see him at me own funeral, Instead of me going to his." Fisnin's EUCLI,.--An obtuse angler is 0110 who fishes for pike with paste. Aln acite angler is one who uses 1ly or live bait as the case requires. A tri-angler is a tyro in the gentle art. Al equilateral tri-angler is one who lisbes on eaci side of the river with ab qolue linmartiality. JosmPU (1OOK 6allsN 1akarai Falls a ''dateless roar." He has not yet invent ed a term to apply to the Niagara hack men, whose roar Is of mnore recent date. Nothing less than a six-syllabled word, with sharp corners and Jaggwd edges, will do theim justice. ON the Emperor William's birthday congratulhItions flocked in as thick as cheers when a bail player makes a tal ly on curved pitching. It means some thing now-a-days wheu a king scores another ye.tr. A BOSTON lawyer told another law yer, who asked film a question, that lie usually relved pay for his advice. "Thben,'' said lawyer No. 1, extending flifty cents, "tell me all you know and give me baick the chlange." TiiE Chicago,board or education will not permit married women to teach school. Th'iey thlink that the young idea willl do better shooting if there's an unrr.arried woman in tihe case. Per haips they are righ t. HoME-a private 'shelter to cover two lovi ig hlearts, tihe corner-stone of which is tile virtue of woman, and trom wvhose dloors all blessIngs of life are to be traced. A NY young lady who goes to more than $30 expense to got ready to be married is throwing away cash which shlould be invested in June butter and salt meat. LA&TELY a gentleman <ij nearly 90 years harl the grief of losing his wife. "I cannot complaln," he said, "for she was Learly 65." "I AM a broken man," said the poet. "So I should think," was the answer, "for I have soon your pieces." GRENLAND hlas no cats. Imagine cats in a country where the nights are six months long!i BATHING will be popular in the wvest tils suimmer. Westorn people always did like novelties. ~IaEN are geese, women are ducks, an~d birds of a f eatner flock together. THEs most fashionable "morning wrapper" the milkman. To raise sorghum-Go to a dentist. Guilty of Wrong. Some people have a fashion of con fusing excellent remedlies withl tihe large mass 0of "patent medicines," and in this they are gulilty of a wrong. There are some advertised remedies fuliy worth all that is asked of thoem, and one at least we know of-Hop Bit ters. Theo writer has had occasion to use the Bitters in just such a clinate as we have most of tihe year In Bay City, and has always found thiem to be diras-olass and reiable, doing all that 5 claimled for themn.-Tribune. CLOTHES last longer -wvhen washled withl Dobbins' Electric Soap, (made by Uragin & Co., Philadelphia,) because rb ing ta neded. Clothes are worn out more onl the washboard than on tihe perso n. Try it, QUE--R~oUs' that the Chinese men should have such lonlg haIr. Ladles if you would hlave you rha ir as 1011 as the. Chinese and as beautiful as a nour's, use Carboline, ,the deodorized petro leum hair renewer and dresser. THEsfs and most reliable remned for th'e usual diseases of tihe baby i Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. It contaIns nothing inyjurious. Price 25 cent's a bottle, / /1) I The Marwket Prilo of Butter is increased 8 to 5 o. nts a p01nd( 'by t~'ising Gl rg B utter Maker. inl .o't lng i rase protu p 6 to 10 per eunt.s deb'ue Oiking en -rirfeeps butter fromn beconi I.Glies W rlJ) vd* 1 9. .O8a1 y~r Vegetile. SCR~OFUfLA. Completely Cured Me NEWPORT, KY., Fob. 20, 18f7. in. Ii. It. STRVENS: Dear Sir-1] write to say that SevR bottles of ,our VRETI1g have completely cured me fromn ve severe case of UoaOFULA of many yars' Itanding, after trying many medleines, and de oring a great deal. I am now free from all iores, and can work< is well as ever, and think 1he YZORT1NN is a godsend, and no one ought to 1o without it. I remain, rospeotfill your. Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor. THE WATOHMAKER'S REPORT. EVANSVILLE, IND., Doe. 21, 187?. ]). H1. Rt. STEvENs: I have suffered witi Scrofula and Scrofuda riumors ever since I could remember. It has )eon in our fatity for years before I was born. inheritpd it. I have tried all kinds of Inedi no. After having used a great many other latent modleino4, after having paid many large ioetors' bills, I heard from a neighbor that EGowTINK had cured him. I had good faith, be ause I saw it and so I went to the Dudden kauso Engle Drug 8toro to purchase a bottle 4 tile VaOr.TINC. I koit taking the VEOETINE, Ld, in fact, I beenme better an([ bettor. When had taken sevoral bottles, all Srofula Mres nd marks were gone; my health very good. It a the best blood purliler I ever tried. It, will ure &rofula. It, took the sores and humors off ny face; it, gave me a clear skin. Everybody who has got croftda Ilumors should try it. 1E3ltDINAND SUWINWIC. Watchinaker, Main street. I know the above to be true, DR. CHAB. M. DUDDIINHAUSEN, Apotheeary, 619 Main street. SCIROFWULA. Cured Her. )n. ii. 1 Sva~s :- BELLEVUa, KY. Dear Sr,-[ must, state that your Vegetino de erves to be called a valuable blood puritier, enovatir and invigorator of the whole system. fy wile a .Xlored for a lelingth of (lime with a crefula Sore on tihe leg. 8te took several bottles I Vegot ne. The results were surprising: it ured her while all the forner remedies failed 1 give sat'sltAction. Respoutfully, T. F. TRICK. I know the above to be true. IENRIY WElTRIEIMER, iruggist and Apothecary, 189 Monmuout~h St.. VEGETINE IS TII 10 EST WPRING MEDICINE Tegetino is Sold by All Druggists. O "Vr: d Crono, rd, or 20 all rcdMotto, with naiolilo, ' ca. Nassau. ard Co., NassauaN. Y. The Only Remedy That Acts at the Samo Time on The Liver, The Bowels and The Kidneys This combined action gives it wonderful jJower to cure all diseases. Why Are We Sick? Because toe allow these great organs to be e clogged or torpid, and a)osonous Au. more are therefore forced into the 1o that ?hould be expe Ui n aturally. Biliousness Plies, Constipation, Kidne Complaints and Diseases, Weak nesses and Nervous Disorders. by causing free action of thes organs a restorin erpower to ?Arow of disease. WhySufer Bilons pains and aches I Why tormented with Ille, Constipationt Wh frightened overdisorAered Kidneys I Ly endure nervous or sick headacheal Why lhave sleepless nights I Use KIDNEY WOUT and rejoice in health. It is a dry, vegetable compound and One packagewill make six qtsor Medicine. Get i4 of your Drugqist, he still order it WELLS, B 8D0NI 100 reos (Wittend post paid.) rtnlington, Vt. Es the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye for FAM ILY WO nAK iN. D roctions accompy eaeh can Et Is lull weight a'nti str. ngth. AS FOIR MAPONIFIIBIS AND TAK1E NO OTliER. PEN N'A SA LT MANUPG CO., PHIL R'A MAKE HENS LAY. taveilg:h li thuountry a) that mat of th lor.* tad Oattle Powders here are worthless trash. He lay a that t-huridan's t ondition Powders ar abso arth wlil mai etas lay Irake fold evr.whee, ors sent bYmall fnor eight lete tamps. I. Ii. JO11SO0 A 00., Banger, Me, Sturiat's Groat Catarrli Remedy .the safest most agreeable and efectual remed In rom what cauass, or how long standing,.by giv ng STURDIVANT'S CATARRH. REMEDY fair and Impartial trial, you will be eonvinced of histae Tby hnaillet is vaer pleachsant and can lIrert laeaeindby 11LLOWAY & 00., 002 Arc HOP 'BITTERS. (A Redicine, not a.Drinho) oOEYa1ne ops nUCnu, mfANDRARKN DANDELION, .m~ Ptnaman BusT Mrnoax. Qtwusa 01 ALLx OTufan Bavrnaa. 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