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A PrIneess of IIlas, Among the passengers ou the las steamer arriving in San IFrancisco from Australia was Mane. Aida Zilelka Wyse, a lady of romantic antecedents and a history of whose lineage might form a fruitful subject for the novelist She li the granddaughter of a princese of Inula and the groat-granddaughter of one of the inust powerful.1t,ajahs that the torrid country of exclusive oastes and autocratic rulers has had Ii: modern times. At the request of Mme. Wyse, the inaimne of her great-grand. father is withheld, as the familly at pre sent hold a high position in 'Mnglaand This Rajah ts said to have been the pos sessor of one of those fortunes that to us secan fabulous, because so enormous. Io numbered his elephants by hun dreds, his palaces by the scores, ani preelous stones, with whill, the former rulers of India were so lavish, ho had in such quantitles that evean yet one 01 the histories treating of ndlta ink ith time speaks of his Jewel-etnbrolereti robes. Withal, he wi.s the wa rii, friend of hord Uilve, whose Iron hanid held his e untry under the control oI Great Britain, and exacted allegiaict to the English King, ati to his friend. sh li he sacrlilced his life. Tile it ,jahL had a brother whose hostlity to tint British wais bitter and inrelont,ing. For years he tried to persuade th Rajah to array his retainers agamans the invader, but in vain. At liat tie brot,her, who was powerless to carry out his sohines of vengelnce agalait tine hated friend, determined not only to removs hin from his pat,h, bit to ex terminate all his direct heirs, so that the rank and the power of at it ijab might be his. lil imn urderots plot partly succeeded. The It ijith wias as Baspinated iII a ihutihiltig-1ild, anld his family attacked in their home. lint 0111of tihe intende(t vietlhuls escaiped. For sotne time before tihe eininliatiom of the consIiraey a 11rit.0is otlCr had beeni enamored of tihe P'rincess ter glieniaye, t he young aid lovely daugh ter of tile It J.01, but le had newver dle olared his love. The Princess, it seems, was not with the rest of her lathers's family when they were aAssiacred by the inerelless Tuiigs, whom religiois fanatleism and prido of' riat had 1ans formed lnto demons, ind beforo tihe-y could disoverl her i ding-paeo, iher English lover had 1ound it anI haasten ed to her, broke the news of her fiathier's fate, declared his love and persiaded her to fly with ilm. Fleet. Arab horses were procured and they rode to tiv nearest cantonment,, a distaneo o1 30(1 miles, In six days. Shortly after they arrived they were married by thme regi mntal el.apaian. Five yea's lite tihe Princess, whose husband had been prt imoted to it colonley, fell a V1timi to coilera at. Secunderabad. Sine wits tle last PrinCess of the It jah's falmiily. Sihe left two sons. One of them relkeal ed the rank of a imijor in time rIiitishI army anid was killei in netlon at, Li horoi wile leadilng a "forIon hmone" int the great I nitan muntinmy of idas. Thie other soni entered time lC~asa. Inmdimi Compmay's navy, becamne a eampi tain of a sipi, and was drownemd lam the iloogly River wilie attempmitiang to save time mbe of amn tulleer' of mite mmarin aes. Mame. Aida Zuleika Wyse Islimoh dinaught er of tihe last menmitiomned atlicen' ammIni e lasa survivor' of time Riajak 's. She( Isaa peatite diemni-blondte, ithii grey' eyes thmat hamve a fair-awiay lok has* nas soft, lighmt-bron'cia hair anid a sadl, sweet, face. Sine wvas married Ian Calecntta. to anm iCagih olleer, amid hans iiow, wIt.h lier' huaahand, comnimenced a (ourn of tihe lInmted Slates. She Iantlends to returnm'a to Inmdia withain two years. nlowt a s4omu'nn Ciy Awtvanco,. 'i'here armocoampratively fewv resal denits of tho iOwan who know whati takes place duraaing ti.e inours bet."eeni tine peep-oO'-day amid fulil sunrnmise. 'imose' first to appemjr can theo at r'eet., whinieh is julst iabout, time timue thmat t he combai betiween (day amnd anigit t islamtally bal amned, mare nearl'y iiatys lhailw ay di a. guised, and( areo ainxlous not, to be r'eco. gnized wvhemn met. ii r'eeogan I z.d and ace sted, man excuise Is al ways ready to accoaunt. (or thnelir early aplpenaraance. Thiese p ole ha.ve sleepy eyes amlm languid looks, bnetokenming thatt ti dr'owsy god had beenn ngiieted in tihei laset night's <ffer'inmgs. WVitha light aunf humrried atep thmis chniss sooni disapjpairs and "ill appearn' no more iuntil ate ian time day) 0or time nnext imonaiamg. Now the damy is begha.naing to gainl time adivantiaga of' thme night. Th'ie birds begham to slang amid scen a full ebnors t'ronm tim i'emme, tory surges toward amid t1 i at sreets with the melody oi' thira songs. Slang. era perched nin the trees of lIme bowal lend theoir voices to swell ithe volumne, The necxt people to appetar mire time oh negro womna oan thinra way3 to tine plaicei where thmey are emmpioyed. Ilei'ore thmey have disappeared the older negro menmi wvho wait umponi the stores, comii uap :i:nna stand in grouaps, wvaitiang thae timem tc rouase tine ler. a, for thmey daire not. d It so early'. Time butchmer-shaops arte thnt first to opean. TIhe scanund oft thecir saw: amnd kani,es can be hneard before time dis, guised claiss hardly disappeair. Abown the time the othner negrees come, tint oustonmiers of thme butchers begian tao droi in. These airemold wihite geantlemem who believe thmat thme earaly cuastomner: get thne tenmder stake. Nowv day ham giained the victory, amid nIght ie faas retreating west ward. A general rat thing of doors begians, theo youanger ne' gro men amnd wonmn till tine streets going Ian various directloans. Uandress ed clerks apmpeair anad with a lazy yawa oehainge mnornming saliutatioans with timeir neighbors, Some hnalf-dresset proprie tors ih last night's ilmsn ye upon thmem, comie. Shutters are openm ed, blimnds am e raised speemensof wvar pumt upon tine sireet ; the sun hama comnu in fullseplendor; time stages are mak lng ready to leave ; t ravelers are tank inj their. places; somne are going to, amn some1 connmig fromm breakfast; tine latei storts are openn; tine streets are fillet with vehicles amnd people, amnt R:chm moand is on the full tide of anothe day. AUROULTURR. TOMATORS.-T1e tomato has great improved in size, smoothness and qui ity within our recollection. It h also changed from a more ornamen like some other Solanums, to an artic of necessity and general use In th country while it is working Its wf iteadily but surely to favor a Iover tl -Avilized world. In a cool moist ol nate, like England and bootland, tt tonato ripers fin the open ground oni under the most favorable alrouistani and seems to require about such trea mont as the peach. Tomatoes ar therefore, grown In houses, like fo 1lign grapes, trained to the rafter l'fxose who have hItd no experience Ca wearcely realize how large a pil4nt tL tomato will make when a little pains i utken In giving it plenty of nutrinier and proper training. Once we trait. one to the side of the building, and covered a space sixteen by twenty fee tnd had several hundreds of ripe fru on It at one time. It seemed a marv4 to many, and we had plenty of appli cations for seed, on the supposition ths it was a new and ',Improved varlet3 Some years sitce we sent the Ilathi way Excehlor tomato to England, an it has proved for in nf years the mo popular variety in that,country. Fror it, by stome freak of Nature, was prc duced a kind called Green Gage, yel low, oblong, small, but rich and prc Ituctive-too sinali for market purpose nore. Liater we sent a new variety which we liad not nanied, and whici received a lirst-class certificate frot the Royal llorticul,ural 8ocieLy. Ou friends In Elgland named it Vick trierion. This, too, has become ltiading anld popular sort 1'1, it I cale,raud, excels all oihers fo. forcing F'roim this "Ricliard Nisbet, agardene it Aswarby Park, has producedi a vi rt.y calle NIsbit,'s Viuto.ia, which I sald to excel all others for fruitfulnesk Ilo fruit, is oval, less thnti two inchie by two and a half,in dhimeter, growin Ili bunches antid each bunch contaliini from eight to twenty speein1s, of Lit sizo and color of a Viotoria plu,it. I contalns but few seeds and for flavor I unsurpassedi. The original plant cov oredt a space fifteen feet by six, and It a pon it at,one Limle 000 bunches of fruit as many more have been gathered dur ing Ie auimer.'' We shal give til a trial next suminer; but think It ma be too small for general use in tilt colintry, where tomatoes grow a abuitdantly it the open ground, o grealt size and wonderul beauty. CI.ov't ON 'rn FAt1t0.-One UighI sippose as Imng as clover has been rec ogizoli as ''par excellonoe'' the be fortilzing plant lin America, if not Ii Lite world, thant, it would be a work o supererogat,ion to say anything in it faavor. This seemis to be, however, on of the maty pohits where theory an practice are at variance, for there ar ,tousaids of farmers who aoknowedg the value of clover and yet neglect t sow it. on their wheat fields, if the pric of clover hail pens to be a dollar or tw a bushel abovo the average. It seem to me that, nothing could be mor "peniy wise an1d pouId foollah." It I sehi 1,m 1 that seed gets so high that a Will cost one dollar an icre to seed deld, and generilly I roin fifty to sev enty-live cents will cover the expense Now let a fairmer uidertako to fortlliz an acre li atty other way and see whi it will cost hii. Ten two-horse load of stable mi1amiure Is about as littl an animouit as I ean dress an acre witl atnu I cannhot buy anid aipply thi) aumout, to liy land for less thani tel 'lotlairs, coutin.. a httd and teami a only3 t wo dolfari at day. Or suppIose l'.ave the manuire onl nIy own farmi made by may own stock ; it will be goodf (1ay's work, worthi at least twv rdollars, to draw to the field and preal muau t ti enotigli to di ess an acre, anl iis is I romn two to fotar timnes what I hats cost to act a stand of clovei ('here canb 0 que<t.iot as to its belin a chleap fertilizer, but 1a it a geood one [ Presumoii that till farmers, under al cir'ettuustanices, would answer yes; bi undttiedlly its vahl anIs much greate onl somte sola Lhan on others. I at family3 conyvlneed that oii clay limiestont ujplandts a crop of clover Is ofteni wort auore than a liberal coating of stabi mlaniure, and In this opinion I am sut Lalied by inany of our b>est farmer: In fact, lIa a grain-growing region ocover' Is absolutely iindispenmsab'e, anl wvit.houit it our av'smem of farminug mmt change or our lands will become hai llow MA\r 1KoOS Prn ANxuV.-Hoa mlanay egg s per annt will the bei nion-sl'.tlig tariettlcs of liens lay ? have hierid of' single llamlbulrg all i,cghiorn, henis p)ro,Iucing 250) to 300 egg eaich per alimnum; bitt what we wvoul lIke to know is, can a fiock of lenu t lilty average this ? Tlhere Is noe (10ul iit proper carent to i electing to bree (tom, anad In ,imo, suceh a flock could I brouttghi. up to t his great average. Th dillcum.y', however, in selecting breet ers (reim a flock, is to ascertain wvhle fiens ouit of' It lay the ltist eggs; f( there are sottoe, eiven amongtl the no0t altters, that lay few ; and If their eg, are hantchm'd. lie chickens, like thei im ters, wotti p)robably' grow up poc lyers. In order to Increase the avel age layling Of' ai fik, eggs f'or hatchin mt,ll be selected 1' o nthlose hen:/,whic ia, the greatest number. Now, wvh will go lute thtis, and give us htens thxi wot 1,nn deplendi upon3, every one, to lai ani xasuredl nuimber of' eggs per antnuni as with cowvs whi-h wif give a certali quant.ity of mblk or butmer per annunti Y'et, o be certain of thIs, thte larine like the latter, miust be kept separati Who will take the particular trotuble do this? it would be wvell worth one wile; for lhe could( rapidly sell Li chickens thus p)roduiced, at a large prlc PL,ANTs nuist be allowed air;i eve thoMu that wIll not bear the outer a mnust have the air of the room~ I requeni zy l res 'cined by ventilation, to p esera lthem in health. Caire shtould be4 taikt 1no1 to let plaints stand in a draught, ft wi'hetn so stttuated one strong gust cold wind wvill ofteni prove sitlliclent, destroy them. A Puasted Jus~tiee. A man named Join was brought b fore a country sqitire for stealing a h andh three witnxesses being examinei s wore tihey sai whbin steal IL, A iv having volunteered is counsel fi Josh, knowving the scope of the squire brain, arose and addressed hiltu as fc lows: "May it please0 your honor, I can e tablish this mnai's honesty beyond shiadowv of a doubt, for I have twell iinesses whio are ready to swear thi they (lid not see hIm steal it.", 'Te squire rested his head for few momuents as if In deep thouagh andt with great dignity arose, nn0 brusahinig back his hair, said: "If there are twvelve who did not a htim steal it, and only three who dl I discharge the npr.son..," DOMESTIO. - ly A NEW SANDw10.-A novelty Ii the I- way of sandwiches can be made with as canned salmon, by using mayonnaise i ,t, sauce instead of butter. First raake I le some good thloickmayonnalse sauce by I is droppIng oil, drop by drop, in the yolk y of an egg, carefully separated from the t. white, and beating it with a fork, Do I. not use any vinegar or pepper and salt te at starting, or failure may result. Keep y. 'adding on and beating till the mixture I .a gets as thick as butter. Now add some I t- vinegar about a teaspoonful will stuf o, floe, and a little white pepper and salt. r- Butter some thin slices of bread with a s. tils sauce and place a very thin layer I n of salmon between them, having first I io thoro.ighly pounded the salmon in a a is mortar or basin, and then, after gently I it pressing the slices of broad together. d cut, the slice4 into triangular itleces'and it p.le them upon a plate, ornamenting t, the dish with nice bright parsley, and it placing a few small crayfish, with out i stretched claws, round the base, with one on top. It Is a pretty, delicious it and inexpensive dish. Good-sized prawns may be advantageously substi tuted for crayfish. t ' AvOID using those remedies contain- I n lng Opium, Morphia, etc: but when < the Baby is sick use Dr. Bull's Baby I Syrup-perfeutlv safe and always re liable. Price only 25 cents a bottle. CHINEH STARracH Poaiiu.-Sper maceti four ounces; white wax, two ounces ; stearine, or parsillne, one-half r ounce; ultra marine blue, one-half a grain. Melt together and let cool; use a i piece the size of a hickory-nut, for one-half dozen shirts pumt in the starch while cookIng,-alo add one teaspoon r full of kerosene. The clothing should be dried first, and then (lip bosoms and wrist-bands, cuftr, etc. in whilo it is as hot as you can bear your hands in it, and rub it thoroughly into the cloth; dry the articles. Then make a thin, 9 cold starch ; dip them In and loll themi 0 up about two hours before you wish to tIron theim. To do it well, you should have a polishing Iron, which costs 40 v cents here. First iron the boson the t usual way; thein take a olena cloth ; 1 dip it in warm water, and slightly c n iolsten the bosom,; take the hot polish ing iron and rub it quickly back and forth over the goods, not making long storkes. TuE ladies will find Dobbins' Elee trio Soap, (made my Cragin & Co Philadelphia.) the best of all soaps for t general washing, from blankets to laces. It is pu'e, uniforn, saves time t and clothes. Try it. CURING BER.-To every one Iun dred pounds of beef, take eight pounds salt, (if for winter use, seven pounds,) two ounces saltpetre, two and one-hall pounds brown sugar, two ounces soda, two ounces cayenne' pepper, six gal. lons water. First dissolve the salt in part of the water, skimming It well; D then add the other ingredients xcept the saltpetre, set It off to cool, then put I the remainder of the water into a clean t wash-boiler, and add the saltpetre. t t When it comes to a boll, immerse each C piece of beer in the boiling water, hold- S I ng it with a carving fork; let it re main a few seconds until it looks a lit tie white; when finished add the wia a ter containing tho saltpetre to the other s brine, let mneat and brine cool, p ick in t a barrel, pour oin the brine, Iuy the t barrel-head on the nitit, anti over it a large stonle to hold it diowni. Molasses i, tbarrels are best. * EssENcE oF BERF.-Onie pounid of gravy beef, free from skin and fat, I Schop as tine as minlce mtent; pounid in a I mortar, with three tabtlespooniful ot soda water andt soak for two hourst i.hen put In a covered ear hent jar, with 1 a little r-alt, cement t,he edges of the cover with pud:ting paste, and14 t,Ie a >iee o clthover the top; place the )i n ot half full of boiling water, and keep the tile pot oRi the fire four or a f ive hours, si-umeriig ; stratin off the I liquid essencVe through ai coarse sieve; ~ e it will be about five or siK ounces in I quantity ; one teaspoon ful of ci e am may Soccasionahl be added with adynantage to four ounces or the esseaice, or Is may be I thickened wvith flour, arrowroot, or 'sage. S VEGETIRm ia i,ekiouwiedged by all I tcla"ses of people to ')e the best an(t most -reliable blood purifier in the world. CORNING IIAMs.-For one hundred I v? pounids mieat, take teni pound1s salt, ut tour pounids sugar, four pints molasses, e four cuncees salipetre, four Ounices pep-1 El per. twoouncees soda. Dissolve the salt is in four gallons water; boil and skim, dI then add the other Ingredients; pour 0 on while warm. In :-Ix weeks they )t will be ready for smoking; some pre d fer to take thenm out in three or four '0 wveeks, Smoke with corn cobs or hickory e chips. ______ I h WREN making bake or omelette, take r your discarded egg-shells, crush them -inito small bits, put them into your tie a canters three parts tilled with cold r water, and thoroughly shake them. r Thie glass will look like new, anti all e- kinds of glass washed in the same wa: g ter wvii look equally well, h o To PaavINT F~Lit-s FROM INJURING it PICTURE FuMAMs, GLAssEs, E re.-Hoat ythre*e or tour onions in a phint ot water; ithen wIth a gliding brush go over your a glasses and frames, antd the tiles wvl i 1. not alight Onl the article so washed. rThic may be usetd without apprehen :s. sion, as it will not do the least injury :o to the frames. le TRE Baby's cries are its only method 3.o letting you knowv that it suffers andt needs Dr. Bull's Baby syrup. Price 25 cents a bottle. ir STAIR carpets cant be madei to last a t- long time by having a yard more than ite the length Rneetded to cover the stairs, n for thent you1 can ehainge it so that the wr same place in the carper wvili not omea of upon the edge of the stairs every ti me to lt is put down. To make baking powders: One pound of bi-carbonate of sods, twelve ounces of tartarlo acid, two ounces ol cream of tartar, and one youtnd of hlour ; 0- imix well through a sieve. In making g bucuit use one teaspoonful of the ti, powder to one piunto: flour. igWHEN you clean your lamp chim or tncys, hold thenm over the nose of the 'a teakettle when it is boiling furiously. 1. One or twvo repetitiotns of thIs process will umake them beautifully clear. * POTATO water ini which potatoes a have been scraped, the wacter being al re lowed to settle, and afterwards strained, at is goo .i for spuiRging dirt out of sIlk. UsE white oil cloth, bound with re d a for wall protectors back of the kitchen t, table, and1 untder the nooks where panis, j, etc., are huenr. gg 70 MAT Eicars :01.. lJAasos fronm attacks se t Dtmhdea. l'y -entery. u-r bhoiera Mob as. bY ,a 1.1tfor, the Uaht-, in provIding yourself I b Dr. Jj.ne',V retnatve Balam-an old remedy HonsO NoTz.-"For Collo and rubs i my mules and horses I give tem about half a bottle of the liquid Immons' Liver Regulator-at a time. have not lost one that I gave itG to. ou can recommend it to every one that as stock as being the best medicine nown for all complaints that horse esh is heir to. E. T. TAYLOR. " Agent for Grapgors of Georgia." "MY mode of using Simmons' Liver tegu lator for horses Is as follows: O..e 'aspoonful of the powder, Simmons' .iver Regulator, in a mash three times week. For Cough, Hide Bound or 'neumonia it will be found Invaluable i such complaints as above named. In sing it with niy chickens for Cholera' take a package of the Regulator, mix Sith the dough and feed it to them nee a day. By this treatment I have ever lost from Chicken Cholera or tapos a single chicken in the last five ears. " T. G. BACON, Edgeffeld, S. C.' A Neto Measuring Implement.-A re. arkable Instrument was lately de )ribed before the " Societe d'Encour cement pour l'Industrie Nationale." is called profilograph, because when k use it mechanically traces on paper te outlines of the ground over which travels. A fore git contemporary ascribes it as 6 small carriage mounted a two wheels, drawn by one man, ad attended by another who marks te levels of the proper places, and nderneath hangs an iron rod with a rge ball at its lower end serving as a rndulum. This pendulum maintains constant vertical position, while the achine inclines in one direction or the ,her, according as it ascends or e ,ends a slope. To the upper end of le rod is fitted a pencil, which marks i a sheet of paper the up* and downs the country traversed, whether on 1 ordinary road or across trackless )lds. The exact profile Is thus recor !d to a given scale. At the same time ae of the wheels acting as a chain iarer measures and indicates the stances Iravele-1 throughout the sur y. A Losing Joke. A prominent physician of Pittsburgh id jokingly to a lay patient who was >mplaining of her continued ill .alth, and of his inability to curelaer, try IIop Bitters I" The lady took It earnest and used the Bitters, from hich she obtained permanept health. le now laughs at the doctbr for his ke, but hd'Is not so well pleased with , as it cost him a good patient.-Iar sburg Patriot. Some neto alloys or composIt!ons, in nded as imitation of the precious met s, have been brought to notice in rance. One of these, designed as a sub itute for gold, is produced as follows: 'ght hundred part of copper, twen ,-elght of platinum, and twenty of 'ngstlc acid arv melted in a crucible auter a flux, and the melted mass )ured out into alkaline water, so as to rautilate it; it Is then melted together ith 170 parts of gold. For a silver loy, sixty-flve parts oft iron and four irts of tungsten are melted together id granulated--also, twenty-threu irts nickel, flive of aluminum and five copper, in a separate crucible, to hich .is added a piece of sodium, in or 3r to prevent oxidation, and the vo giranulated alloys are then mel d togelater. Both alloys resist the 3L,ion of' suiphauretted hydrogen. lJe med y foir llkdrophobia.--M. T orres olcedo, Nitilster iroma Salvador, haas 1st nande a gilt to the Pair;s Zoologi al Gardens, of two curious plants, the wco and the cedron, whaich have so >iig beena extoiled as an antidote to *ake- bites and hydrophobia. Th'Ie lecovery of the value of the plants was uito sin)gular. Some Indians observed iat sonic birds of prey, which cap are and feed on snakes, soughat out th~e iiae of the guaeo, ate its leaves, and plas 'red them ove r their plumage. This led the discovdry of thie iherapeutic.vir na sof the plan t,and by its use marvelous tares wt rd eflred in cases of hydro hobia. snmake bites and maarsh levers. Ir. Traffray also dliscovered thec pro erties of these t2vo plants d'iring a oyage by haim through New Grenada, a 1869. Coal is othaing else than ferns, mocs as and sea-weeds, petrilled beneath lie surt'ace of water in the absence of hr. T1here are no less than 850 different peeles of plants petrified into coal, f which 250 at least are gIgantic B rns. A Viracle. Anthony Atwood, a retired minIster of the hi. E. Chaurch. 800 Norih 8eventewith street, ~hiladelphia Pa , sys : "Hunt's Remedy has ored my wife of Dropsy hn its worst form. thi hope had left us for months. All say that t is a mirac e. Water had droppd from her 'I ht limb for months. Forty-e tht hours had aken all the extra water from her system. Ul other moans had been tried. None sue eeded but Hunt's Remedy." Trial size, 75 ents. AN oUNOR of provention is worth a pound of ure, tSatteen "tances of prevent on In eac h x of Kidner-Wo ft. Try it. Kidney-Wort is he ene.nay of Inoigestion an-i bahousness. It a sure to conquer them. .Why not try It ? AZUTrE. A CA lRD --To anl who are suftferins 1, om the errors en indsrna hf )th,nervon, weakness e'.i hat willenure yon,FIiiEE OFbIIitRJE. This ure.t sericawaS a d atifad ressoe : , iar tolbn ieo. 08El'i I IhhMAN. titation D.oworlct. A Valuable (lift Faree. A book on the Liver, its diseases and their reatment, sent free. Including treatises upn Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundie. Bileusness, Hie adaobe, Constipation, Dye nta. Malaria, etc. A ddress Dr. Banford,12 Broadway, Now York city, N. Y. The Veitalo Beat Co., marshall, Riek. Will send their elebra-ed Eleetro Voltaie neuLe to the afflicted upon 80 days's trial, Sedy curee: guaranteed. They mean What hey say. Writ., to them without delay. Stnrdiv8ul's Groat Uarh Remien I.te, woafest, most apreeabie and effct emey in Irum what canse, or how long stanading.br giving STURDIVANT'S CATARBH IEMEOY 16fair and impartiai trial, you will be Convinced of etake by the most dliScate stomac. 'ror eb al rert hitaon' by iloL.OwAV a co.,602 Arc,> j\ELGIN WATCHES I A' ib. Cl Ahs etc. At ta. 0. 0.t dJo., Pitisburghi, Pa. C I Nh ael p 3is l ii. x eta~1. ntttr . N W YoaK nANK INo AND MlatNisa Ott.$ fur a . ..' to t i. A d eesut. a nmonth S176 WA .iINAo To.' S tret, Now York. suIted with spectacles, apply of Dorrespond to DR. N.0 GRAY 0 elan, 'p.T us t PhlaUdeint# HUMOROUS. On returning from the theatre the t! Fhompsons find their housemaid in 2 Creat distress, with her arm bound up [ n her apron. Mrs. Thompson: "What I a the matter, Ann? Have you hurt h rour hand?" Ann: "W-w-w-worse 1 .han that, ma'am I" Mrs. ThomRpson: tJ 'Good heavens? What ls it?" Cook: 'ile fNot is, ma'am, the silly girl has een tryin' on your new bracelet, and I ione of us knows how to got it off t Igain. I a A JENTLEMAN once asked a little girl, I n only child, how many sisters sp I kad, and was told "three or four." Her u nother asked Mary, when they were I done, what Induced her to tellsuch an I Intruth. "Why, mamma," cried o Klary, "I didn't want him to think ri you are so poor that you hadn't but C me child. Wouldn't he thought we y Nere drefful poor?" - AN old Scotch lady was told-that her Dinlater used n6tes, but would not be- n love it. bald one, "Gang into the gal- si ery and see." She did so, aid saw a he written sermon. After the luokless 11 reaher had concluded his reading of i he last page, he said "But I will not tI nlarge. The old woman called, out it I om her lofty position, "Ye canna, ye d anna, for your paper's give out." o a Advertising Cheats. It has become so common to write t lie boginning of an elegant, interest ug article and then run it into some a dvertiemuient that we avoid all such n heats and simply cill attention to the tierits of Iop Bitters in as plain,lhonest , erms as possible, :o induce people to ;Ive them one trial, as no one who now-i their value will ever use any- 0 lung else.- Providenco Advertiser. a 11111 11 A LAWYIR was comelled to apolo- d izO t) the Court. With ktatily dig- ol iLy Ie roso in ls la ice and said: b Your Honor Is right, and I am wrong (1 a your lionor generally is." There V4 ras a dazed look In the Judge's eye, lid he hardly knew whetlier to feel appy or tlie tile lawyer for contempt f court. at THAT was a thoroughly charactersi. c4 le and sincere reply whlch a surprised h ailonnkeeper Is reported as making the Lher day to a religious worker who Ii 61e!61 hln in his place of business ai.d V sked him Whether Ie expected to g I lieaven. "To be sure," he replled ; .c 'zum titme; bine-by. Vy vudn't ?" It ri "My friends," said the political peaker, with a burst of ingenuous elo tlence, "I will be honestc-" There t( vere a large number of 1I1s neighbors a! oresent, atid the terrille out-burst of F piiauae which followed this retnaek at attrely upset the poiut whileh the ora- ]E )r was aout to Iintroduce. t ti "Now," salid the extmininig physi- u an to the unillihaipy pilot, "you must P ick out all the roils you sec.'' Thie g Hot commenced by graspig tle learn- N d Professor's nose, which was worst, a d. "That Will (10," said the Profes- P Dr; "your certileate Is ready.1' a P "Is this my train ?' asked a traveler t the Kansas Pacitle depot of alounger. (1 'I don't know, but I 'guess ot," was lie reply, "I see it's got the name of t( be railroad compainy on tie side, and a< exnect IL belongs to them. Have you~ )st a train anywherle?" CAunIou!NR, a deodorized extract of C. letroleuin, cures baldness. Th'lis Is a l >ositive fact, attested by thousands. No e~ >thier hal,r preparait.on in tihe world wvill g eally do0 thIs. Besides, as now im- i1 >roved it is a delightful dressing. WhEN a ianl's wile comnesin ut,d(lsees tima ra z>r in tind, and with his face il lother, a.t(d asks him, "Are you having?" it's a nroqoking thmng in " imi to answer, ''No, I'm blacking tihe ~ tove"; but it's human nature so to eply. c GRANNY (froin the country, at a city >art.y): "Butt why do they all show le tous of their arms in that rlou- r ens man ner ?" Facetieus youth : 'The fact is, grandlma, they're all go- i ng to be vacciuated alter supper." T UTOn-"Come, now, Mr. B---, give .s ne a familiar example of Ilogartht's ~ ine of grace. Can't you thin k of it ? ~ L's a ecurvedl article that you see every ~ hay," Mr. B----(desperately-"A- C L-pretzel. " How are the mighty fallen ! Michael ingelo arrested for seillng stale beer vithont a liceuse I Alt, Mike ! you !hould have put less spirit into your york. Two old friends at Mount V crnon, ilinois, woui have had a law suits if me had not shot the other one in open ~ourt. Th'is is an easy way to prevent ng la wsuits. A PHsICIAN says cheWing gum is niade of u'y rospermum tal uefernum. We suspected as much all along. That a what makes it so tough anid elastic. A PILADELPHIA maln, arrested for 'Iubbing his wifte, tried to excuse him teif on the plea that lie was merely banging her htair. A DItoMrO! What Sr a dromlo A iromlo is a person iiho looks like Robison and talks like Crane, or vice versa. IT Is said that the title of "Lord of the Aisleu" Is about. to be conferred upon Mr. Brown, of Grace Church. "MiKE, did you ever catcht frogs ?" "Yes. surr." "'What (did you t'att with ?'" "Bate 'emt, wid a stick, sorr." Jr we could se e o rs as we see ot'r selvee, there would be more good-loor ing people In the wvorld. Tus Chinese iln Califorl,la are per htaps like clocks ; when they are run dlown they don't go. YOU nev"r can persuade a man that a paper theit has lis tname in it istn't worth readinug. WHY is a dog's tail like the heart of a tree ? Because IL is farthest fronm the bark. WHEN i6 a nose not a nose? When It is a little turn up, or a little reddish. TaEv will imnmorteliza Bennett In Erin now as the "Jim of the say." Cata,rrh somuettimu commences with a cold, but its cure ahways commences wvith the use of Sage's Um art h Re.medy. This old, reliable, and well-known remedy has stood the test of years, and was never more popular than now. VEGETINE Puriges the Blood, Renovates and Invigorates the whole System, ITS MEDICINAL PROPRTIES AR Alterative, Tonio, Solvent and Diuretic. Vegettne is made oxclusvelY fro1 the juices of carefully-selected bark" roots and herbs, ai4 k1o trongconcentrated thlat it will effectual Y eratafr the sybtem every toint of aere. Irula, Seroflios iumuor,Tusorl, Can. cer. uscerous dssenor Eryslpelas, Halt Rbesnns. bypbslill DIseases, am. ker, Festutness at the bIssmeb. and all aiseates that arise from impure blood. Set. Mties, 1sslaanmatery and Chronic 11tea Ma0s1st1 Neuraigia, tosat and spinal gomp lnbu can only be ofteoLually Qured through the bloOd. For Uleers and ErItive Diseasen of the GSt, Pustales Isplies, Bltehses, 1olie, Tetter iealdheao and Stag worsa, VaGhIETNE a never fatted to effet a permanent cure. For Pains In the Back, Kidney Complaints, Dro sy. Female weakness. Leueorrhcea, arising frou9 internal ulceration, and. uterine diseases and General Denility. VEZOTINE acts directly upon thoi causes of these complaints. It livigo. rates and stren gtens the whole system, no-te upon Ihea cretive or- ans, allays inflammation eures ulceration and regu;ates the bowels. For Catarh y ls, abitnal Cstiveness, alpitatton of tlie lert.lHeadache. lies,Ney eusuess and General Prostrat ion of the Norvous itystem. no medicine has ever Iven such per. teot satisfaction as the VEOETVNE. It put les the blood, cleanses all of the organs, and pos. sesses a contiolling power over the nervous system. The remarka'le cures effected by Veget'ne have induced niany physleians an apotheca. les whom we know, to proscribe and use It I their own famlies; In fact. Vegettne Is the best remedy yet dis. covered for the abvo di4eases, and is the only reliable BLOOD PUtIFIJI yet placed betore the puolio. Vegetino.. PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, Bostom. Mass. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. The OnI. Medicine That Ats at the Same Time on The Liver, the Bowels ald the Kldneys. These great organs arc the natural cleans era of the system. If they work well, heai will he terfect. tIt they become clogged dredful i seases arc sure to follow with TERRIBLE SUPFERING. BIllosnes, Headache, Dyspepsia, Jan dice, Constipation and Piles, or KId ney Complainti, Gravel, Diabetes, or Itheuatic Pains and Aches, are developed because the blood Is poisoned with the ntiora that should have been expelled naturally. KIDNEY-WORT will restore the healthy action and all these destroying evils will be bantihld; neglect thein and you will live but to anter. Thousads havobeneured. TryItandyou WI add one more to tie number. Take It and health willonce more gladdenyour heart. Wh erlo"rfkm Th*torment ofs aA -110*11& KIDNXT-WORWIII cnre you. Try a pack age at once and be satisfied. It is a dry eegetable compound and One Packagemakessix quarts of Xedleln,. Your Druggit has it. or tri 9t for YOU. Jn*i89tjupo19haV1ngf1. A'rlCe,*41.00..1 WZIT, RICEARD3ON CO., lroprietmrs. "eleiarea mn Ityou,ara enod by th tin of tet' toiling over n stImulantsaand use tore braln nerve and Hop Bitters. waste, se Hop . discretio or nisp Uti ronmae. poorberalsh o sais lug on g be om ness, rely on o p Bittore. wThovr you aro Tosnds de an. needs ceaunsin t ton 0 out InOI4ti,ne se t akeo Ho0p HopBitter. Bitters. *pfat,t"e5isa bslt You w Ill be sot'ro saved htun-eeetr . desge STTOHACUR A ppetite, refrrshing sleep, the acquistion of fieslt anl ,f.or, re b,le~t, air te a,,t t pn tle repra tnsea nnel carries Ia ae c,stileneluslon c..et lie-*snstaining orreen . hoe BI ters wlj ch is nfene os.14 te fen u alate, VSgeta 1loin For sale by all DruggIsts and Dealers generally. This pewdet se.-sense a quaity at l half. Prest valeS to 54 ingredients. ent# werth mnarket rale af imitatles mark of da byOrecess a Olar book "1 HZDNTEY DISE are uicly nd atey eredby ite use of KIDNNT. htavng snoh atn menesale in alt parts of thte count and tone tc te diseased orut. and through thtom hunters. 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