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SWow ]aiR Restorer. It WSA one of the by-laws of Heart ache's Heavenly Hair Baiser that it be hied liberally before retiring, rubbing it well into the scalp. Just before he went to bed that night the man bolted the back door, put the cat in the wood shed, came in whistling the "Fatin itza" waltz, danced up to the clock shelf, and pouring out what he sup posed to be his hair fertilizer he mop ped it all over his scalp and stirred it well in around the roots of the little hedge of hair at the back of his neck. The glue bottle, by an unearthly coln cldgnce, was nearly the same shape and size as the hair sap bottle.. He went to bed. "George,!' said his wifeturn Ing her face to the wall, "that stuff you're putting on your hair smells like a pan of soap grease." "Perhaps I had better go up stairs and sleep," snarled George. "You're mighty sensitive I You wouldn't expect that a man can put stuff on his head that will make his hair grow and have it smell like essence of wintergreen, would you?" They went to sleep mad as Turks. This par tioular baldheaded man, like a good many other baldheaded men, had to get up and build the flres. Wb q arose next morning, the sun pei at the ivindow and saw the I cling to the back of his head iI&,. great white chignon. At first he did not realize his condition; ho thought it must have caught on a pin or shirt button. It looked ridiculous, and he would throw it baci on the bud before his wife saw it, so he caught itquickly by one end and'yanked.' Oh I oh I Dar nation to fIlhhooks, what has been go ing on here? Thunder and lightning 1" and he began to claw at his scalp like a lunatic. His wife .sprang up from her couch andt began to sob Jhistorical ly. "Oh, don't, George. What is it? What's the matter ?" Qeorge was danc ing about the room, the pillow now dangling by a few hairs, his scalp covered with something that looked like sheet copper, while the air was redolent of warlike expletives, as If a dictionary had exploded. With a wo sman's instinct the poor wife took in the ituation at a glance, and exclaimed: "It is the glue I" The baldheaded man sat down in a chair and looked at her a moment in contemptuous silence, and tnen uttered the one expressive word, "Glue I" Now began a series of processes and experiments unheard o in the annals of chemistry, "Jane, you must soak It off with warm water. I've got togo to Utica to-day." "I can't, George," she replied,in a guilty tone, "It's waterproof." "Yes, J might have known it, and it's fireproof, I sup pose, too, ain't it?" He scratched over the smooth plating with his finger nails. "It's hard as iron." he said. "Yes-he said it was good glue," re peated she, innocently. Can't you skin it off with your razor, George ?'. "Don't be a bigger fool than yp3Ij- h.re Jane. Get me that coar A'in the woodshed." It my).' 1ie imagined what followed. A nfITiow, as the bald headed man S9iMtI dihis cflicehe never renoves ,As'~hat, for his entire skull is a howl ----------~ ing waste of blIstered desert, relieved here and there by eases of black court plaster. Buoys, for use in Winter. Iron buoys--both cans and nuns, the conical, the former a truncated cone, almost a cylinder-are incapable of re sisting the pressure of floes or ice, to which they are repeatedly subjected. They are torn from their moorings and carried off or under, generally never to be heard from again. This has caused a heavy drain on the funds of the Lighthouse Board, so heavy indeed that a few years ago it felt compelled to take them all up in winter and re place with spar (wooden) buoys. The latter, shaped like a yessel's yards, are much cheaper, and when pressed by the floating ice they easily go under and come up again after it has passed. They cannot, however, owing to their small diameter, be seen in murky weather until close at hand. For this reason the Lighthouse Board was be sieged with petitions from the shipping interest to keep the iron buoys in place. The request was granted,but the Board it-is understood, has been trying ever since to make both ends meet by seek ing the invention of iron buoys which can hold their own against running ice. The spar buoy furnished a clew, and now the so-called ice buoy is the result of many experIments. It is a compromise between the spar and the run buoy. It is about forty-five feet long, is made of boiler iron in lamin.. ated sections, and is shaped like a cigar torpedo. Near the center is a large bulb or protuberance, with a diameter of three and a half feet. Th'iis enlarged section tapers at its ends, which is de signed to insure its ducking when hard pushed by the ice, and its increased diameter is ex pectedto give is the no ces Sary prominence, it is constructed with four water-tight compartments, so that should any of them be cut through and filled thme others will keep -it afloat. One of the buoys has been placed on Craven's Shoal, another at Southmwest Ledge. What the result will be is yet to be determined, but, in conversation with the master of thme buoy tender (Captain Summers), lhe expresse(d his doubts that it will prove better than the spar buoy. Teompering Uhisols. In hardening and temp~ering a cold chisel should be taken to have a grad ual shading of temper. If there is a distinct boundary line of temper color between the hard cutting edge and softer shank portion, mt will be very apt to break at or near that line. Thek cutting edge portion of the ebisei should be supported by a backing of s'esl gradually <(iminishing in hard ness; and so with all metal cutting bools that are subjected to heavy strain. Not every workman becomes uniform ly successfi in this direction, for, in addition to dexterity, it requiresa nice perception of dlegree of heat and of 9olor in order to obtain the best result. AGRIOULTUJB. BUTrnR,-In Swed6n the dairy inalds are sent to college and educated in dairy management for six months, at the . end of which time they recoive certificates and are considered compe tent to work in large dairies. Their instructions are very definite as to every feature of the operation of butter making, includin. the quality of the salt and the coloring matter, and the food Of the cattle; the quality of the butter Is consequently uniform. A part of a lot of Cork butter may sonie times be sent back by the wholesale dealer because it Is not equal to the rest, but this Is said neVer to have hap penedwith Danish butter. The selection of the cows and the feeding of them are the first important 'point In the busi ness. The Danish dairyme'n keep their cows tethered during the summer in "splendid clover and rye grass," and feed them in winter exclusively with clover hay, linseed cake, and rape cake. The milk is set in such a way that the cream shall be got off while it is still perfectly sweet, for they will not churn it if it is in any other condition. The proper temperature for churning, which is from 57 to 60 degrees, is es sential, and the churning should not be continued too long. The best but ter makers stop churning at the very moment the butter appears in the form of grains like shot. They pass off the buttermilk through a strainer, then put the butter back with water. give it a few more turns in the churn, strain again, and repeat the operation till the w% ater runs off as clear and bright as when it was put in. Salt is added by weight, at the rate of six pounds of salt to a hundred-weight of butter, by being sprinkled over the butter after It has been spread out in layers; a few turns are given the mass with the but ter-worker, and the process is com plete. BUILDINGS MADE OF GONcRETE. Few farmers know how to build a con crete wall, yet it is very simple job, and in many cases would prove an ex cellent wall for buildings and cellars. To build such a wall you need to set 3x4 joist at the corners, then at inter vals of about eight feet along the out side of the wall, placing the joists op posite and about eighteen inches apart. On the inside of the joist set up plank about a foot wide. There will be fifteen Inches between these planks, which will be the thickness of the wall. For a large building, which would have heavy floor timbers, the wall might be two feet thick; for a piggery or other small buildings it need not beso thick. Have a cement made by mixing three barrels of line plastering sand and four barrels clean gravel. Wet this when mixed so it will be thick enough to pour, and fill between the planks, about three inches deep, then in that pack small stones as closely as possible-the more closely the stones pack the less cemeat it will take. Then pour on more cement and put in more stones until your space Is full. The work must be so planned as to use your ce ment and get the stones in it before it has time to harden. For a heavy wall planks may be raised in twenty-four hours after the space is filled. Raise them about ten Izh% amil go on w be fore. We IxVe seen a barn built in that , which has stood many years; costs about the same as timber wall when built, and needs no paint, no shingles, no repairs of any sort, while the walls are fire-proof and rat-proof. Bors IN Hosis.--This trouble is due to the maggots or grubs of a fly which fasten themselves upon the lin ing of the stomach and sometimes that of the intestines of the horse. The fe male .fly deposits her eggs simply upon the hair of the lower jaw, neck and forward logs of the horse. They hatch in a short time, and the tickling sensa tion prodluced by the young grub caus es the horse to lick the place, and thus the grub passes into the horse's mouth and from thence into the stomach, where they soon fasten themselves by numerous minute hooks in rows upon their white wrinkled bodies. After about two months the bets pass from the horse and bury themselves in the dung and remain in the dormant pupa state until the next season, when the fly begins the round of trouble again. Th'ie maggots irritate the coat of the stomach and cause the formation of puss upon which they feed. A dose of physic may help to dislodge them, or hasten the time of their removal from the animal. SHEEP are peculiarly sensitive to good treatment. A good shepherd is always gentle among his sheep, Ewes which are to lamb early ought to be by them selves and have better care as their time approaches. Feed a few more turnips and give them a little more liberal sprinkling of corn meal and bran, or oil cake. SwEET cream is usually churned at a lithle higher temperature than sour cream, and the same rule holds good for churning whole milk. Sweet whole milk churns best at a little above 60 dog. IT Is said that if a groove is made in a hen roost, and filled with a mixture of lard and sulphur, tne fowls will not be troubled with lice. An Old1 Church. isle of Wight county,'Va., has the honor of having within its limits the oldest church in the United States. It is St. Luke's Church, and stands not very far from the main road from Smithfield, about twenty miles from Norfolk. it was erected in 1032, of bricks imported from England ,In 1762 it received its dlenominational name. The Rev. Mr. Faulkner was one of its first pastors, and there are re jords to show that lie was engaged as late as 10441. All of the material of the church was Imported, even to the lime and woodwork. Tihe timber is of English oak, and was framed previous to ship mont. Where it has not been exposed too much to the elements it is still per fectly soumnd, while thme mortar is so hard that steel brought in sudden con tact with it produces sparks. On the eastern side there is a window twenty feet high, of stained-glass representing Scriptural subjects. The pillers which strenghten the walls, are wide at the base,and taper towards the eaves -have somewhat moldered, and varn onis shrubs and vines, and even small trees, have rooted themselves therein. In 1727, or one hundred and five years after it was built, it was given a new roof of shinigles, and in 1827 it received Its third covering. An effort is now being made to raise means to repair the old church,. and it is to be hoped that the laudaible enterprise will meat with the fullest success, DOMESTIO. 1oi0AX.-tady readers who have not tested the makio properties of borax have been losing a great help and com. (orb. 'If onob used you will never be without a bottle on vour toilet table. It removes stains and dirb from the hands'better than soap,, and at the same time sottens and smooths the skin. It is splendid for washing the hair, and will, without injury, cleanse brushes and combs in a few moments. For washing purposes it saves both soap and labor. It will extract the diet from'articles of delicate texture without rub bing, it being only neoces sary to put the articles to soak with a solution of borax over night,, and need only to be rinsed'in the morning. Two tablespoon fuls of pulverized borax dissolved In a quart of water, to which water enough is added to cover a pair of blankets, will cleanse them beauti fully. It also saves great labor in washing paint. It is said to drive away ants and roaches if sprinkled on the shelves of safes and pantries. BEEF TEA WITHOUT MEAT.-Take one-third of a pound of fresh beef, mutton, poultry, or game,minced very fine; place it in fourteen ounces of soft cold water, to which has been added a pinch or about eighteen grains, of table salt, and three or four drops of muria tie acid; stir all with a wooden spoon, and set it aside for one hou', stirring it occasionally; then strain it through a gauze or sieve by means of five ad ditional ounces of cold soft water, pressing it, so that all the soluble mat ter willbe removed from the residue; mix the two strainings, and the ex tract is ready for use. It should be drunk freely every two or three hours. MAIDs OF HONOR.-Take one cup of sour milk, one cup of sweet milk, a tablespoonful of melted butter, the yolk of four eggs, juice and rind of one lemon, one small cup of white pounded sugar candy. Put both kinds of the milk together In a vessel which Is set In another and let it --be come suficiently heated to set the curd; then strain off the milk, rub the curd through a strainer, add butter to the curd, the sugar candy, wel beaten eggs and lemon. Line the little pans with the richest of paste and fill vith the mixture; bake until firm in the cen tre-from ten to fifteen minutes. PUMPKIN PIE.-Stew the pumkin very dry, indeed; take a pint of rich cream, or if this is not obtainable, half a pint of warm milk with one quarter of pound of butter stirred well into it; beat eight eggs very light, and stir them into the other ingredients, to gether with sugar enough to make it sweet; add to this a grated nutmeg, a large teaspoonful of powdered mace and cinnamon mixed, a wine glass of rosewater, and a glass of wine mixed together, and a tiny pinch of salt; beat all together, and bake in a rich paste. BLACKING STOVEs.-The line polish given stoves by those skilled in the art is produced as follows: Have a thin mixture of black varnish and tur pentine; apply this with a paint or varnish brush to a portion of the stove, then with a cloth dust this over with pulverized black lustre or stove polish, then rub with dry brush. The stove Yrust be perfectly cold. The stove dealeys buy the pulverized stovo polish, which is carbureA OC 1-ron, in twenty-five pound packages. The process conducted in this manner is quite brief, bus gives beautiful results. HOT SLAW.-Cut the cabbage fine and ini long ploos, but do0 not ehop it -use a thin, sharp knife. ll for thirty minutes in enough water to cover it, then dIrain It off, season with one teaspoon of flour stirred in one tea cup of strong vinegar; beat one egg and put in one large teaspoon of sour cream, with pepper andl salt. Tihis is for two quarts of raw, cut cabbage. To CLAAsE GrM&s Oions.-If the globes on a gas fixture are much stain ed on the outside by smoke, soak them In tolerably hot water in which a little washing soda has boen dissolved. Then put a teaspoonful-of powdered ammonia in a pan of luke warm water and with a hand brush scrub the globes until the smoke stains disappear . Rinse in clean cold water. They wIll be as white as if new. "VEoETINE," says a Boston physi clan, "has no equal as a blood purifier. Hearing of its many wonderful cures, after all other remedies had failed, I visited the laboratory andl convinced myself of its genuine merit. It Is pre pared from barks, roots, and herbs each of which is highly effective, and they are compounded in such a manner as to produce astonishing results." WArFRs.--One pound of sifted flour, two tablespoonfuls of butter, a little salt, enough milk to make stiff dough ; rub the butter into the salted flour,wet with the milk, roil thin, cut into small round cikes as large as a tea-plate and as thin as stout writing paper. Lift carefully to a floured pan and bake quietly. They keep well. BmEzE PU DDINo.-Uissolve one-h alf of a box of gelatin in a pint of boiling water; add two cups5 of sugar and the juice of~two lemons. After this has be come cool (not cold) break into It the whites of thre~e eggs; adding three others and -a quart of milk. Pour the whites into moulds, and when ready for use turn them out, pouring thecus tard on. SPICED QRAP'Es.-Fhve pounds of grap~es, three pounds(1 sugar' two tablespoonfuls cinnamon and allspice, half a teaspoonful cloves; pulp grapes bcoil skins until tender, cook pulps anid strain through a sieve, add~ to it the skins, put in the sugar, spicechnd vine gar to taste; boil thoroughly and cool. COTTAGE BAE ED PUDDING. - Two eggs, two cuptuls of sugar, half a cup fulI of butter, ,one teasp~oonful of soda sifted In two cupfuls of flour and three cupfuis of buttermilk. Stir this last into the flour, etc., and mix light ly. Bake and hour in a pudding dish. PRlUNE WHIP.-Swveeten to taste, and stew three-fourths of a pound of prunes; when perfectly cold add whites of four eggs beaten stiff; atir all tis together till lightly; put in a dish and bake twenty minutes; wheni cold serve in a larger dish and cover with whip ped cream. Fnorr CAKE.--One pound brown Bugar, one of butter, ten eggs, one of flour, twvo of raisins'and two of cur ran thalf pound of citron, a- nutmeg, table poon cloves, one of allspice, halr pint brandy, two teaspoons baking p~owder; after baking, pour over cake nalf pint of wine. Pusr one or two redl peppers, or a few pieces of charcoal into a pot where liam, cabbage, etc., is boiling, and the house will not be filled with the offen diye odor, ............. HUMOROUs. You b e seel Victur rdA with th proverbial K- tieir hands. didn't think a could be a she erd without this orook, any more th a man could be a leader of an orche tra without a pair of pants. I was glad that the first man whom I saw tending eep had one of these crooks. didn't w what a crook was for,but always oved that it was a badge of the oeeu ation, whose origin I could not fath , handed down from con tury to ntury, since the time when sheep re invented. Imag ine my genuine disgust when I saw this shep herd us the sacred crook to capture the stra ng .nimals by catching hold of one of their hind legs and tripping them up The awful truth came upon me like flash, and I sat down heavily a broker =hearted man. I had thought it a ucat iful ewblem,-and it proyes to be a hin( leg snatcher. Thus floated the winC from another sweet vision of youth. must have more salary or I'll die, fear. A GEN LEMAN made up his mind that he woui give his wife a pleasant sur prise by pending theevening at home. After su per he settled himself down for a cor time In the bosom of his family. e had no more than comfort ably fix himself when his wife ab ruptly a ked him if his friends didn't want bi any longer. Then his mo ther-In. w asked him if he had ex hausted is credit. The servant asked him 11 hb was ill. One of the neigh bors watted to know if lie had any trouble 4nd was afraid of the law. All of which occurred in 20 minutes, for in exactly halt an hour he was beyond questioning range in his club. THERi is a good deal of human na ture in a ten years' old girl. The Brown's were discussing at the break fast table how many conference dele gates they would try to entertain. Two four and six were the numbers before the house, and the general sentiment seemed to be in favor of the smallest number. Little ten years' old, how ever stoutly advocated the maximum number. "We have three spare beds, and might as well take six. Take six, mamma. Please do." "well," e sponded the matron, "If you will wipe the dishes each time, we will." Ten years old immediately began to sink down in her chair until her head al most disappeared under the table. "Ihow many shall we take?" asks mamma. "One," was the whispered answer. TloUsANDs upon thousands of bottles of Carboline, a dcodorized extract of petroleum, have been sold, and from all over the land comes one universal cry, "Carboline, as now improved and perfected, is the best hair restorer ever used," Sold by all druggists. "Anx you a carpenter, sir?" asked a citizen of a man with a box of tools. "Best carpenter you ever saw," was the quick answer, with emphasis on the last word. I'he citizen winced slightly, and said: "A plane spoxen man, too." This caused the other to open his eyes, and he said cautiously: "Ex screwse me. but I auger that V9 . good can come from-st1li1talk. Iam'er right?" The citizen moaned slightly and leaned up against a lamppost for sup port, but came to the attack at last with, "ax yer pardon, and chisel soon drop this if. your words mallet me, so scratch awl you will on that." The poor carpenter turned pale, and oould only ataniuier, "Oonio in and got a bit and brace up." And they walked in and gouged the barkeeper for the drinks. A NwcE young man at a church fair recently took the place of a young lady who was selling kisses at twenty five cents apiece, and doing much to wards replenishing the church trea sury and promoting religion and so forth, le said Leap Year sanictioned the change. The only customdra lie had during the next hour were two old maids, one with a wart on her nose, and the other sans front teeth. TIhe nice young man thereupon raised the price of his wares to $1000 per kiss. Somne things can be done better than others, but young men are not the parties to do them. T&EY were sitting silently by the parlor fire,intently watching the hands of the clock as they slowuy era wled around to the biggest striking place. Suddenly she said: "Mr. Lordand, can you tell me why you are like a cen tury plant?" Mr. L. nervousiy ad justed his eye glass, w! gled about in his chair and stammered; Because Ihive for -for -forever ? "No, you dunce; It's because It takes you so long to leave." THEREx has recently arrIved at the Washington monument site a stone from the memorial chapel of Willam Tell, in the Canton of Urn, Switzer land, erected in 1388,on thme spot where 'rell is said to have escaped Irom the tyrant Gessler. And yet tihe scientists will have It that there neveir was anyr such person as William. If you don't believe there was, just look at that stone. GILm~uooLY had bought a barrel of apples from DeSmithi's grocery, which did not give satisfaction. "What's the reason," saidl Gilhooly, Indignantly, ''that the further down I go into the apples the worse they get?" "The reason for that is that you didn't open the barrel at the other end. If' you hadl only done that the apples would be getting better all the tIme." YOUNG men in going West should steer clear of Chicago, where thme male population is already in excess of the female, in most of our cities the re verse is the case. San Fran cisco is the only other fIrst-class city where the males preponderate, this condition be ing due to the number of Chinese, among whom there are very few we "WurAr Is home when papa's ab sent?" sings a Lake county bard. We (10 not know ; but in Chicago, without a majolica Jar in the front hall for folks to stumble over, home is us ualily very quiet. "WaLL, Bonny; wherie did you get that black eye ? ' inquihredl a kin dly gentleman of a street urchin. "Oh, a follow called my brother's hant a swill (ipper, and lie was bigger than I th:>ught he w as." TuB idea that gunpowder and whisky will make a soldier feel brave is all nonsense. Put him behind a stone wall if you want to see his spine stllfen. After all, whuen you come right down to honest pedestrhantsm,the Americans can ride more miles in the street cars without getting tired than any other people in the world. In ia ibaughtalt ddress at the Mtlet Ing ot-the britloh Assoclatioiat MWtlU sea, Professot A. 0. .itamsay, director general of the Oeological Survey of the United kingdom, dwelt at length on the recurrence of the various pheno mena in geological time. His Anal conclusions as to the origin and age of mountain.ranges were thus summed up: "If the nebular hypothesis of astronomers be true (and k know of no reason why it should be doubted), the earth was one time in a purely gaseous state, and afterward In a fAld condi tion, attended by intense heat. By and by consolidation, due to partial cooling, took place on the surface, and as the radiation of heat went on, the the outer shell thickened. Radiation still going on, the interior fluid matter deoreased in bulk, and by force of gravitation the outer shell, being drawn toward the interior, gave way, and in parts, got crinkled up, and this, according to cosmogonists, was the origin of the earliest mountain chains. [ make no objection to the hypothesis, which, to say the least, seems to be the best that can be offered, and looks highly probable. But, assuming that it Is true, these hypothetical events took place so long before authentic ge ologlal history began, as written in the rooks, that the earliest of the phy sical events to which I have drawn your attention in this address was, to all human apprehension of time, so. enormously removed from these early assumed cosmical phenomena, that they appear to me to have been of comparatively quite modern occur rence, and to indicate that, from the Laurentian epoch down to the present day, all the physical events In the his tory of the earth have varied neither in kind nor in intensity from those of which we now have experience." I i ,The vinute lines and furrows on per sons' hands are likely to receive a far more useful attention than the obser vabion of the great lines * by fortune tellers: There is reason to believe that the spiral whorls on the thumb and finger points are peculiar to indivi duals and races,and may be as certain ly used to define the ethnological class or positive identification of the being possessing them as the measurements of the skull or the examination of a photograph would be. Dr. Henzy Faulds> of Tsukaji Hospital, Tokio, Japan, in an interesting, but sometime illogical and confued letter in the Na ture, directs attention to this subject in a way which wili, however, attract the notice of naturaligt and students of the theory of development and here-. dity. The value of well-based rules of hand maaks in judicial inquirieG can hardly be over estimated. A Loing alo(o. A prominent physician of Pittsburg said jokingly to a lady patient who was complaining of her continuedi ill health, and of his inability to cure her, "try Hop Bitters I" The lady took in in earnest and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor for his joke, but he is not so well pleased witlh it, as it cost him a good patient,--iar risburq Patriot. 4rmawrkable instance of the freezing 'o' water in consequence of the radia tion of heat was remarkable in the Lake of Morat, Switzerland, after the weather of March last. The lake, of which three-fifths of the surface had been covered with ice, was clear on the 8th of March, and the weather had be come warm. During the night of the 10th of Maroh the thermometer did not descend to the freezing-zotult; yet on the morning of 11th the lake was cov ered over wvith a thin sheet of ice. The lakes of Nfeufchatel and Constance were similarly covered. The freezing is accounted for by supposing it to have been occasioned by the rapidI and great radiation of heat which took pliace on a'perfectly clear night. An mntense degree of cold had been neces.. sary to cause the lakes to freeze during the cloudy weather of the previous cold spell, and the freezing was then very irre'gular and unequal. Advertising Clieats. It has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interest ing article and then run it Into some advertisement that we avoid all such cheats and simply call attention to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give themi one trial, as no one who knowvs their value will ever use any thing else.-Provdencc Advertiser. An'amazing assertion in regard to the effect of large doses of strychnine has been make before the Paris Academy of Sciences by Mons. Rlichet. This is that "when artificial respiration is maintained, a dose of strychnine one hundred times as large as is ordina rily fatah,may be administered without causing immediate death.'' He adds that in such a ease the physiological effects of poison differ greatly from those produced by an ordinary dose. Daniel Ruggles, of Fredericksburg, Va., has recently taken out a patent for what he designates as a new and useful method of precipitating rain fails from raini clouds. Hie proposes the em ployment of small balloons pro vided with explosives and arranged for simultanieous explosion. He contem plates not only to precipitate rainfalis, but also to check its fall in a given Jo. cality by causing the rain clouds to discharge rain before the given locality has been reached by such clouds. Card clictors liease buy seven bars Dobbins' Electric Seal) of any grocer and write Cragin & Co., Philadelphia Pa., for seven cards gratis, six colors and gold, Shakespeare's "Meyen Ages of Man.' Ordinary price 25 cents. A mseum in the city of Mexico coti talus a remarkable sword, made from an aerolite or meteor that foil in the State of Durango, Mexico. A slab, weighing two pounds, was sawecd from the meteor,and presented to Gen. Ord, of the United States Army. Geni. Ord sent the piece of meteoric iron to the national armory at Springfild, where after considerable trouble ini anniealing the metal, it was at length fashioned into a small fancy dress sword. AMr. 0. V. Rlley maintains that the army worm in the latitude of St. Louis dievelop~s four generations annually; that its common mode of hibernating is not in the egg or chrysalis but ini the larva state, and that the injurious brood is that which succeeds the lhmber nating one, or, in other words, the pro geniy of the moths of the hibernating larym. Wa needl not be physicians to knon~ when we have and how to cure a Cold. We can have a special physician alwayA near, by keeping convenient a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Prico 25 TAVJnier9hi O1cn00 i 0d W fyiig oimmorts'LIVOt Ogulato# -1 bottles for fear of bfeakingj -te 1n . formed that the p6wdbr Regulator will be found an unexceptionably good aperient, by pouring half of a tea cupful of ordinary drinking water upon a teaspoonful of the powder and drinking the mixture; or, a teaspoon ful of the powder taken into the mouth, chewed and swallowed, will produce the same effect. That effect Is well known to fully a million of our people, who find the Regulator invaluable as a gentle Cathartic. A certain ctire for Headache, Indigestion. Feverish and Bilious Symptoms, Costiveness. Colic, Slk and Sour Stomach, Low Spirits, and like evils of a disordered Liver and Stomach. See that you get the genuine, prepared by J. H. Zeilin & Co one Box or six iottem. If you are suffering from a combination of Liver or Kidney diseases and constipation, do not fail to try tue celebrated Kidney-Wort. It is a dry compoundi, as easily prepared as a cup of Ooffee.- Adanoe. THE GREAT REPUTATION Which Vegetine has attained in all parts of the country as a GREAT AND GOOD MEDIOINE, and the large number of testimonials whtio are constantly being received from persons who have been cured Dy its use, are conclusivo proof of its great value. It is recommended by phy siolans and apothecaries. As a Blood-Purifer and Health-ltestorer It has no equal. - Vegetine is not prepared for a fancy drink, made from Cor liquors, which debilitates the system and uds to destroy health Instead of restoring it. Are not the many testimonials given for the difforent complaints satisfactory to any reason able pereons suffering from disease that they can be cured ? Read the different testimonials given, and no one can doubt. In many of those cases the persons bay that their pain and suirer ing cannot be expressed, as in cases of scrofula, w here, apparently, the whole body was one mass of corruption. If Vegetine will relieve pain, cleanso, purify and cure such diseases, re storing the patient to perfect health after try. ing ditilerent physicians, many remedies suffer ing for years, is it not conclusive proof, if you are a sufferer, you can be cured ? Why is this medicine performing such great cures T it works in the blood. 'n the circulating fluid. it can be truly called the Great Blood Purifier. The great, source of disease originates in the blood; and no medicine that does not act dI rectly upan it, to purify and renovate, has any tus claim upon pubdc attention. When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant. either from change of weather or climate, want of ex ercise, Irregular diet, or from any other cau e, the Vegetlne will renew the blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the stomach. regulatc the bowels, and impart a tone of vtor to the whole body. The conviction is, in the public as well as in the medical profession, that the remedies supplied by the Vegetable Kingdom aro more safe, more successlul in the cure of disease, than mineral tpedicines. Vegettne is composed of ruots, barks and herbs. It Is pleasant to thke and is perfectly safe to give an infant. D i you ,xeed it? Do not hesitato to try it. You will nu.er. regret It. 7e getings. An Excellent Medioiie. SPRINOVIRLD, Ohio, Feb. 28, 18TT. This is to certify i.hat I have used Vegetine. manufactured by H. R. Stevens, Boston, Mass., for Rheumatism and General Prostration of thq Norvous System, with good success. I recom. mend Vegetine as an excelloat medicine for such complailts. Yours very truly, 0. W. VANDEGRIFT. Mr. Vandegrift, of the firm of Vandegrift & Huimluan. is a well-known business man In this ptace, having one of the largest stores in Springfield, o. "17etinae, PREPARED BY H. n. STIEVIDNS, BosToN, Mass. Vegete is 80411 by All Drugglets. There is no civilized nation in thb Western Hemisphere in which the utility of Hl'stetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic, corrective, and anti bilious medicine, is not known and appreciated. while it is a medicine for all seasons and all climates, it is especially suited to the com plaints generate aby the weather, being the pu rest and best vegetable stimulant in the For sale by Druggists and'Dealers, to whom apply for ilostettor's Almanac for 1881. The Pur and Best Mediceine ever Mlade. dacea iatin of Hp, BUhu Man most o ura tivo properties "of all other flitters, mak los the greatest BloodPurifier, Liver Reg ui a tor, and Litoeand ealth Rtestoring Agent en earth. No diseasO an possibly long exist where flop Ditt, re us ad,sovaried and perfeot are their They give now Iifoadgroheg ndnf. Tob all whoso e ploymientsecause irregulari ty of the bowelsor urinary organ., or who re quire an Appetizer Tonic and mildI Suimulant, Hop flitters are inval uabie, without intox iehting. No matter whatyour te elings or Nymplomn are what the diseaso or all mnons is use Hlop flt tors, Dontwaituntilyoua be sick bitt ifto only feel bad or miserable, Uso them at one.u Itnmaysaveoyoun'life.It ha. sav ed htxndreds. - $500iwill bo paid for a a so they Wilno euro or help. Do not sufter or let your fricnit suirorrbut usoandt urge them to use Hop 13 Rlememeber, flop flitters is no vile, drut god - drunken nostrum, but the Pur-est a nd Begt Medicine over made the "iNVALIDS PRIEMD an 110o3' and no person or family nll ann o'bsluto ad ireistible euroe narcotics. A~lct d rugg'its baie nd to Circular. Sep iters Mrg. cs.,"" ochestorN.Y end Torontn. (nt ?raa 8 priesLeyst omaY, lit BAx 12i. Thoe otasw erit g Agvrrentate ever heebs ueen lsc thwsse dane-sn Thsea seinge a ln Adituenen l 7, W717 RMANENTLY OU *6 KIDNEY CIBEASES. LiVER COMPLAINT, Constipation and P1e. our ST HAS WONDERFULWY POWER. 3ewwuUAtAmts n1.1I33 the 30WUL.aa - hEDNUTI at th sme thee. 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