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BEMINI8CENCES OF PUBLIC MEH. BY BEN RERLEY POORE. TJntil Dagnerre made MB discovery, the wealthy had their miniatures painted on ivory, but the cheaper por­ traiture invented by Silhouette was i. Very common. Profile cutters, as they were called, were found in all cities *nd large towns, while others went about the country from house to house, *o that it was rare to find a sitting- room in any decent house that did not boast of a framed silhouette, one look­ ing to the right and the other to the . V There were different ways of ar­ riving at the same result, but the work -was chiefly done by cutting the profile out of white paper, which was backed With a piece of blaek silk or black pa­ per neatly mounted. To insure suc­ cess it was necessary to have a steady Band and a correct eye; with these 'qualities one could cut a likeness in a few seconds. There were also several mechanical contrivances for producing silhouettes, one of which Sam Weller doubtless had in his mind's eye when, in inditing his valentine to Mary, he likened the growth of his love in its rapid operations to the "profeel ma­ chine," which "does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on com­ plete, with a hook at the end to hang it up by, and all in two minutes and a . quarter." Mr. Benjamin Harris Brewster, who -was appointed Attorney General, was remarkable in his personal appearance. His face had been disfigured by a burn, received while he was heroically rescu­ ing a relative front a fire, and personal appearance had won for, him the appel­ lation of "Beau Brewster." His coats were almost invariably light colored, his vests were of velvet, and being cut low exposed a shirt front of the finest cambric ruffles. His pantaloons, be they neutral tinted checks or sombre blacks, were models of the tailor's art, and his gaiter tops were invariably the Whitest of white. He wore standing collars, a black stock, ruffled cuff's, and an old-fashioned fob chain with a heavy gold seal. His white fur beaver hats, made on a modification of the old bell style, were worn alike winter and sum­ mer. His hats, clothes and shoes were Xhade in London. In his study Mr. Brewster sometimes wore a blue cloth cutaway coat, but he oftener appeared in a fancily-embroidered velvet jacket, out of the short sleeves of which pro- tuded his ruffled cuffs. Notwithstand­ ing the fact that his costumes were of antique styles, Mr. Brewster could not be called anything but a well-dressed man, and the dignified manner in which he carried himself on a crowded thoroughfare showed that he was aware of tlie.tflct and didn't care a fig for contrary opinions. His expenditures for books and works of art were lavish. His capacity for hard work was posi­ tively marvelous. Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of the mar­ tyr-President, returned from Europe in October, 1880, and went to Springfield, 111., where she was the guest of her sis­ ter, Mrs. Edwards. During the follow­ ing holiday she shut herself up in her room, mourning the, .extravagance) of the times, and chiding those about her who displayed gifts of jewelry and the like; and there she stayed, like a verit­ able silk-worm in its self-woven cocoon, for many months. What did she do there all that time? Principally she overhauled her many trunks, com­ plained that she was very sick, and ate full meals of substantial food three times a day. She reconciled ill health and hearty eating by insisting to the few friends whom she admitted that her malady was a peculiar one, compelling her to consume large quantities of food. She would rise from a repast of roast beef, coffee, etc., and very dejectedly inform her attendant, or visitor, that in all human probability she would not see the light of another day, and often, in literal verification of her prophecy, she would close the window-shutters, increase the opaqueness of the curtains by pinning up sliaws or quilts, and light a plain tallow candle. She rejected the use of gas as of the devil. If asked to specify where she felt bad in body, she would reply sometimes, "I'm on fire, burning up; just feel of me, and see liow hot I am!" At the same time her temperature would appear perfectly normal for a lady above sixty years of age. At other. time she would insist that she was "being all hacked in pieces by knives; just feel that gash in my shoulder; you think I can- stand such wounding long, do you?" Yet tender and commiserating friends assured her that there was no trace of either blood or scar. The next year her mind wandered so that her rela­ tives were forced to present her to the Probate Court, and to ask an order that she be committed to a lunatic asylum. She was attired in plain mourning black, the full figure of her Washington era had dwindled till she appeared quite a slender lady, whose shrivelled face expressed no concern in the doings of the hour. She was gen­ tle and yielded without a murmur to the sad-faced wishes of her son and that always firm friend of her great husband, the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, who appeared in Court as her counsel. She had then been occupying rooms at a prominent hotel for some time, and the testimony before the jury of con­ spicuous citizens ran chiefly to her vast accumulation of unmade "dress-goods within her rooms, and that she would carry too much money about the streets upon her person, even the sum of $3,000 being found loosely pinned within the folds of her walking dress. The Court awarded restraint that should be only kind guardianship of her personal safety and financial interests, and she was led away amid the tears of many bystanders, and was made at home for a time at a private asylum of high re­ pute. , clothes of Egypt. In all, some sixty groups of these lava villages were found, there being twenty houses in each group. The evidences of civiliza­ tion M ere similar, but removed, by their crudity and evident want of skill, a good deal from the articles found in the cliff-houses, which have been so fully written up in the reports of the geolog­ ical survevs. Oldest Habitations In America. Major Powell, chief of the geological survey, discovered in New Mexico, near California Mountain, what he pro­ nounces to be the oldest human habita­ tion upon the American continent. The mountains in this vicinity are covered with huge beds of lava, in which the prehistoric man and his comrades exca­ vated squa«c rooms, which were lined with a species of plaster made from the lava; and in these rooms were found various Evidences of quite an advanced civilization, among them a species of cloth made of woven hair, and a large number of pieces of pottery. In the sides of the room, cupboards and shelves were excavated. In one room, sticking out of the bare face of the wall, was a small branch of a tree. When this was pulled out it was found there was a hollow space behind the wall. Col. J. H. Stephenson, Major Powell's, assistant, broke this with a pick, and found a little concealed niche, in which was a small carved figure, re­ sembling a man, done up in a closcly- woven fabric, which, with the touch of the hand, turned to dust. . Jt, was blackened and crisp, like the rjnmmy- The Discipline of the Wood Pile. Every human male man who posses­ ses even a lingering taint of temper, should keep an ax and wood pile handy that he may rush out and work off his wrath when it waxes fierce. There is nothing in this vain old world that will send a man back to his appointed work, with a more wilted collar and a truer comprehension of himself than thirty minutes wrestling with a full flavored ax. He can use it so fiercely on the wood. All the fury of his nature, all the hate he feels for his enemy, he can infuse into that ax handle, and how the chips will fly. Not very artistically probably, but how they will fly. And presently it begins to dawn upon the man that he is feeling more calm. Evidently he is experiencing a change of heart. He does nojt hate his enemy so bitterly, after all. The ax weighs about eighty-one pounds on the up stroke. He does not hate his enemy at all. He changes his stroke and begins to chop on the system of Italian pen­ manship, the up strokes heavy and the down ones light. He rather loves his ™emy now. At last he puts all his failing strength into one terrific blow. He misses his tip with the ax and smites ,t he chopping bloc k with the handle. A tingle as though he had swallowed an alarm clock goes from elbow to hip and back again, the ax drops from his pow­ erless hands, aud a weak, limp, nerve­ less, perspiring, trembling, gasping thing, he staggers into the house, lies down on the first thing that looks like a lounge, and is ready to die. There isn't a fear or fault in his heart. Death has no terror and life has no tempta­ tion for him. He has chopped out all his baser nature, and is just as ethereal and spiritual as he can be on this side of the Jordan. It is great medicine. People with whom I have been quar­ reling all spring would be amazed to see me now. I foolishly contracted, two weeks ago, to keep a camp fire going. I didn't know then that it took all the forests in the Adirondack spurs to keep up one little camp fire. I am not a large, broad, sinewy man, and the ax they gave me might have beaten down the brazen gates of what you may call it that what's his name besieged, if lie ever did besiege it. I have fallen trees with that ax that would have made Mr. Gladstone shudder. They tell me I must say felled, not fallen, but I know better, because I only cut down fallen trees. My wrists are larger than my knees, which goes to show that I don't pray as hard as I chop, but I haven't strength enough to hate any­ body; I am too limp to commit the lightest sin, so I haven't much need of prayer. I didn't write last week, he- cause I couldn't close my fingers over anything smaller than an ax helve. We tried tying the pen-holder to my elbows. but they wouldn't bend with that kind of an implement. My hands are a lit­ tle better this week, but I am as badly ax ridden as ever. I hear voices calling eves now for "more wood," though I assure you I have cut a cord between every paragraph. At least, I think I have. Farewell. I will go out and chop until the ax flies off the handle, which is every five minutes, and then I am going to heap high the faggots, and crawl into the camp-fire and show the old martyrs liow sweetly and joyously a man can roast himself rather than cut one solitary single other stick of wood more,--Kobcn J. Burdetie, in the Brooklyn Eagle. Where Laces ore Made. The most of the hand-made lace is manufactured in Belgium, France, and England. Large quantities of lace are also made by machinery in the two lat­ ter countries and in the United States. The application of machinery to this delicate and intricate work has made many kinds of lace very cheap, which, when made by hand, never could have been otherwise than expensive because of the labor required to complete them. In Belgium, where a very large part of the real lace is made (the hand-made laces are all called "real," and machine laces "imitation"J, over 150,000 women are said to be employed in lace-niak- ing, and the majority "of these work at heme. There are 000 lace schools in the country. Probably the most im­ portant center of the work in that country is the city of Brussels. A very expensive kind of lace is made here, known as Brussels lace, which is of very fine thread and intricate design. Mechlin lace, which is very fine and transparent, is made at Mechlin, Antwerp, Lierre, and Turnhont. The manufacture of Valenciennes, another favorite lace is extinct in its native city --whence it derived its name--but has attained much prosperity in Flanders. It is now chiefly made at the towns of Ypres, Bruges, Courtrai, Menin, Ghent, and Alost. The productions of Ypres are of the finest quality. In France, a few years ago, the nuiylier of lace- makers was estimated at 250,000, but this total had been considerably reduced by the use of machinery in recent years. The point d'Alencon lace, which is a very beautiful lace, made entirely by hand with a fine needle, in smail pieces, which are afterward united by invisible seams, is made principally at Bayenx. The towns of B'ayenx and Caen are especially noted for the man­ ufacture of fine black laces. Chantillv lace, which was formerly made almost altogether at Chantilly, is now made quite extensively at the two towns mentioned above. The productions of the towns of Lille and Arras are also well-known. Lille lace is very simple in design, but very fine and beautiful. The lace of Bailleul is strong and cheap, and extensively used for trimming. The lace manufacture of the district of Auvergne, of which the town of Le Puy is the center, is considered the most ancient and extensive in France. Over 100,000 women are there em- p'oyed, and nearly every kind of lace is made. The hendquarters for machine- made laces in France are at Calais. In England the manufacture of lace is car­ ried on chiefly in the counties of Buck­ ingham, Devon, and Bedford. The best-known of the English hand-made laces is the Honiton, so-called from the town of this name in Devonshire, where it was first made. In the eity of Not­ tingham the manufacture of hand laces was an important industry some years ago, but this has been almost destroyed by the introduction of machinery for lace manufacture. The town is now the headquarters for some of the finest designs in machine-made laces that are known. Lace is made to some extent in Ireland, especially in the town of Limerick, also in Scotland, and in nearly every country of Europe, to a ] a limited extent.--Inter Ocean. POPULAR SCIENCE, young of the condor, at their home in the heights of the Andes, re­ main in the nest for a year, being fed by the parents until they are able to A MCR08C0PIST of the Smithsonian Institution, who has investigated the subject closely, declares there is noth­ ing harmful in the green coloring mat­ ter sometimes found in oysters. THE bed of the ocean, says a foreign writer, is to an enormous extent cov­ ered with lava and pumice stone. Still more remarkable is it to find the floor ' ol the ocean covered in many parts with the dust of the meteorites. A MEMBER of the Royal Horticultural Society of London has observed that dahlias collect much dew on their leaves; the peach rose and evening primrose very little; while the quince and mulberry are only very slightly wet.' IT has been found by Dr. Tait that the ear in women can perceive higher notes, that is, sounds with a greater number of vibrations per second, than the ear in men. The highest limit of human hearing is somewhere between 41,000 and 43,000 vibrations per second. Few persons have equal sensibility to acute sounds in both ears, the right ear usually hearing a higher note than the left. The lowest continuous sounds have aboiit sixteen vibrations per sec­ ond. - " CAPT. H. TOYXBEE, of the London Meteorological Society, has arrived at the conclusion that clouds of less than 2,000 feet in thickness are seldom ac­ companied by rain, and if they are it is very gentle, consisting of minute drops. With a thickness of between 2.000 and 4,000 feet the size of the drops is mod­ erate. With increasing thickness comes increasing size of the drops, and at the same time their temperature becomes lower, until, when the thicknecs is greater than 6,000 feet, hail is pro­ duced. IN ft recent lecture in London, Mr. J". G. Baker estimated the total number of characteristically tropical plants as from 40,000 to 50,(MX). The plants of the north temperate zone embrace about 20,000 species. The artic has less than 1,000 species, while the higher mountain regions possibly furnish 2,000 --a total of 3,000 species of what gar­ deners call alpines, that is, plants spe­ cially adapted to a cold, damp climate with a short summer. Mr. Baxter es­ timates that 46,000 species of plants are represented in the possessions of Great Britian. PLANT growth is always accompanied by the consumption of food, and in no starved part of a plant can growth take place by the absorption of oxygen, growth stopping when the plant is de­ prived of this. A pretty v ay to show the liberation of carbonic acid as a waste product is by planting different seeds in wet moss or saw dust on a piece of marble polished by friction and not l>y the oxalic acid method. Marble is insoluble in pure water, but soluble in slightly acidified water, and the tiuv growing roots wander over the surface of the marble, leave an autograph belined in corroded lines, each peculiar to the plant which made it. - Definition of a Bore. Ex-Senator Charles H. P.ussell was the principal orator at public school No. 13, South Second and Tenth streets, where closing exercises were held. There was a large attendance, and the ex-senator was so loudly applauded when he arose to speak that he dropped at once into his most, pleasing vein, and related a humorous story of a man who spoke too frequently and too long at school commencements, and was there­ fore called a bore. "Now, children," asked ex-Senator Bussell, "what is a bore?" There was no response. "It is not possible children," said the ex-senator, "that you are unable to tell me what a bore is. Now I see a bright looking little fellow sitting in that front row. I am sure he knows. Tell me, sonny, what is a bore ?" The bright boy looked just then a trifle bewildered, but said nothing, and Mr. Russell to encourage him,remarked: "Come, my boy, speak up; I know you can tell me. Now what is a bore?" * The boy's face reddened. He seemed anxious to avoid observation as he twisted uneasily in his chair, but the whole school, with parents, friends, teachers, f principal, and distinguished guests, awaited eagerly and in dead si­ lence his answer. There was no escape for him, aud just as the long paijse was becoming painful he blurted out : "A senator!" Such a shout of laughter was never before heard in a Brooklyn school build­ ing. It was so prolonged that ex-Sena­ tor Russell waited three minutes before attempting to renew his speech. Then the audience roared again, and again the ex-senator was compelled to wait till the laugh rolled by. A few minutes later, during the course of his speech he tried to aim a witty shot at the boy who had knocked him out, but the audi­ ence was in sympathy with the bright boy, and for the third time the laugh was against the ex-senator. Mr. Rus­ sell says that he would now rather de­ liver an address to a hostile political mob than attempt again to catechise an audience of school-boys."--Brooklyn Eagle. A Clock that Strikes Thirteen. The Duke of Bridgewater was very fond of watching his men at work,^es­ pecially when any enterprise was on foot. When they were boring for coal at Worsley, the Duke came every morn­ ing, and looked on for a long time. The men did not like to leave off work while he remained there; and they be­ came dissatisfied at having to work so long beyond the hour at which the bell rang, and Brindley had difficulty in getting a sufficient number of hands to continue the boring. On inquiry he found out the cause and communicated it to the Duke, who from that time made a point of immediately walking off when the bell rang--returning when the men had resumed work, and re­ maining with them usually until 6 o'clock. He observed, however, that though the men dropped work promptly as the bell rang, when he was not by, they were not nearly so punctual in re­ suming work--some straggling in many minutes after time. He asked to know the reason; and the men's excuse was that, though they could always hear the clock when it struck twelve, they could not so readily hear it when it struck only one. On hearing this, the Duke had the mechanism of the clock altered so as to make it strike thirteen at 1 o'clock :--which it continues to do to this day. A Swiss scientist estimates that in 1970 there will be 8,600,000,000 people in the world speaking English, 124,- 000,0W Gernypi, t>«,508,000 French. • *" ' •***•*?•»•*• - "Featfeerboae." Th® scarcity of whalebone, its high price, and a demand for an article in its stead, led Mr. E. K. Warren to in­ vent "Feat her bone," a substitute pre­ pared from the quills of geese and turkeys. The factory is located at Three Oaks, Mich., and, in the short space of two years, the enterprise has grown to a large industry. As the dis­ covery brought to existence a new sub­ stance, it became necessary to invent machinery required in its manufacture. These operations have passed the stage of experimental existence, and "Feather- bone" is now an article of commercial value. The quills of turkeys and geese only are ti&ed. The first process sciips the plumage from the quills. A set of revolving knives then divides the quills in halves. Rapidly revolving sand-pa­ per i oilers then remove the pith. The quills are then passed to an ingeniously constructed system of interlocking knives, which reduces them to fiber. These fibers are then f«id to a machine which twists them into a fine cord wrapped with thread. Another ma­ chine wraps four of these cords with thread and forms them into a flat tape. A sewing machine places a row of stitch­ es between each cord, which gives the tape increased strength and adds to its elasticity, and the whole is then passed between two large rollers, which gives it a uniform thickness, and makes it ready for market. The article is said to be unbreakable, and, if bent double, will retain its stiengtli and elasticity. In dress-making it possesses the ad­ vantage over whalebone of being light er, cheaper, more durable, and needs no . casings, as it is sewed tc the goods. It' is superseding whalebone in the martu- facturing of whips, and a large whip- factoiy is the outgrowth of Mr. War­ ren's discovery. The plumage of the leathers is used for making a very good quality of mattresses, and the pith, be­ ing shown by analysis to be rich in ni­ trogen, is used as a fertilizer. About 300 jobbing houses handle their goods, and the factory gives employment to 150 persons, and consumes 30,000 quills and 125 miles at r thread diaily.-- The Current. A Wiisliingrton Idyl. She was a Congressman's only child, young and beautiful, and Reginald de Moriarty loved her. This is not unusual in Washington They stood in the gloaming, upon the portcullis of a swell boarding- house. They would have sat dowD, but there was no chairs. He bent over her tenderly, very ten­ derly. He had to do it that way, for he had taken his first horseback exercise- the day previously, and he was as stiff as a hitching-post. "And you love me Reginald?" she whispered fondly. "More than words can tell," he re­ plied, with mad enthusiam. "I am. so glad," she murmured, "so glad, because your love is noble and generous, and not like it might have been if papa were rich." Some women have a very pbor opinion of some men. « "Indeed," said Reginald, growing suddenly less madly enthusiastic. "Yes, Reginald, papa ,is poor, and we are proud of it, very ptoud? for he is honest." This was "fresh news" to the young., man. ^ "And a Congressman?" said Reginald, in a reflective tone. "Yes, Reginald, but as poor as he is, he will have a glorious record to leave to his child." Reginald picked up his hat and cane, brushed the powder off his coat-front, smoothed his tangled whiskers and drew himself up to his full stature. "Celeste," he said, coldly; "Celeste, I regret exceedingly that I have been mistaken in you. I, too, am like your father. I have a record. Too much record in the family is not beneficial. .If you could mortgage your father's record and raise--but no, Celeste, I s$all not worry you with prosaio busi­ ness matters. Let us forget we have ever met. Farewell, Celeste, farewell." And Reginald was gone. The girl was left-- Washing ton Critic. r .. A Healthy Body and a Clear Mind. It Indigestion, constipation and biliousness torment tho body, the bead cannot be clear. These disorders react upon the brain most hurt- fully, aud produce a cloudiness in the organ of thought not experienced by a healthy man. Happily these brain oppressing maladies may be entirely dispelled by that peerless alterative, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which cheers, re­ freshes, and invigorates the brains and nerves, while it regulates the organs of digestion, as­ similation and bilious secretion. It expels the morbid humors which poison the system through the bowels aud urinary passages, and exerts a powerf ul invigorating influence as well. Its cathartic action is never irritntinp, violent, or painful, but even, natural, and progress is®. As an appetizer and sleep promoter, the Bitters is unrivaled : it mitigates the infirmities of age, relieves tho ailments peculiar to the gentler •ex, arrests premature decay, and builds up an enfeebled physique. Important. When yon visit or leave Mew York (Sty, eare baggage, expressage, and |S carnage hire, and stop at the C»ra*<i Uaioa opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a oost of one million dollars, II and tip wards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best Horsfr cars, stagey aud elevated rail­ road to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. The Screw. It kl not clearly known how far the mechanical powers were known to the ancients. There is no doubt that they comprehended the lever, the wheel^ and axle, atid the pulley, and an ac­ quaintance with the principle of the inclined plane, seems to have been nfecessary to the Egyptians in moving the huge blocks of stone of which the pyramids are built. Archimedes, about 233 B. C., invented a puruping-screw, or spiral-shaped cylinder, for raising water. The writings of this mechani­ cian and philosopho.* form tbe clearest index we nave to the extent of knowl­ edge of his time, and, indeed, his own intelligence was so far ahead of that of his contemporaries that much of his reasoning was not fully established as. part of the world's stock of knowledge Until centuries after his death. Ap­ parently Archimedes did not under­ stand the inclined plane, for he makes no direct mention of it, and we have no evidence to show that it was included in the knowledge of mechanics pos­ sessed by the Romans. The true dis­ covery of the use of the inclined plane dates from thd latter part of the six­ teenth century, when the minds of men were just awakening from their long sleep during the dark ages. The dis­ covery is generally ascribed to Galileo, but Steyinus, one of his contempora­ ries, a mechanician of Holland, was the first to explain in a treatise tho true theory of the power. The scrOw is an application of the inclined plane, as may be seen by winding a triangular piece of paper around a cylinder. The screw and the wedge are alluded to by tporg than one writer of the sixteenth century, showing that a knowledge of these secondary pdwera formed a part 'of the revival of physical science in which Galileo took a most important part,, if he did not wholly inspire it. The principle of the screw propeller was first enunciated by Hooke in l(»sl, though it was not su«cessfully applied to the movement ol vessels until the nineteenth century. The first use of the screw was in the screw-jack for raising heavy weights. The various modifications and applications of this power belong to the era of mechanical discoverjrin thfr preaent century^-- Inter Oct tm. J, V ' -- -- • -- a ' * Any Small Boy, with a Stick, Can sJull a tiger--if tho tiger happens to bo found when only a little cub. So consumption, _ tOat de ulliest ami most feared of diseased in tikis ;country, can assuredly be conquered and de­ stroyed if Dr. Tierce's "Golden Medii covai-y" be employed early. TRK play's the thing Wherein I'll reach the conscience of the king. And equally true is it that Dr. Pierce's "Pleas­ ant Purgative Pellets" (the original little Liver Pills) are the most effectual means that can be used to reach , the seat of disease, cleansing the bowels and system, and assist­ ing nature In her recuperative" work. By druggists. "IN science nothing can be permanently accepted but that which is true." This wotld seem to shut out the lawyers. 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Caswell, Hnzard & Co., New York, and sold by all druggists, is tho best tonic, and for patients recovering from fever and other sickness it has no squaL Prwerrw, Canning ret? with evtry dinii paper of Fall Turnip rW-Paper ot' WINTKK MEETS thrown in. JAMKS HASLEY, SM<l-Urow«r, ktftdiaou, Alfc. MlllfCOTI^COC oroth*ra,wnewt*h touxamins All VCII I IJCHO this paper, or obtain astimata* on advertising spaco when in Chicago, will find it on fila at 45 to 49 Randolph St., | |tn|| &TUAM1C the Advertiting Agsncy of LUItIV tt I IIUMHwi PACE, HANDS, FEET, and all their h-nperlectioa*, including Fadal« DvTelopement, Superfluous llair, Hirth Marklp Moles,\VarU, Moth, Freckles, Hed Note, Acne, Black Hemls. Scan, Pitting and their treatment* Dr. JOHN H. WOODBURY. St, AtUany, N. V. En'hM Send UK. tor (»ook* OLD SOLDIERSfN^iM'Ts and KXPERlENl'KB for each issue of THK CHICAGO liKIMiKR. One whole pa^te Is de­ voted to War Sketches every week, and they are all true to life. Kend tliem. You eiiiinot fail to appre­ ciate them, for tliey arc furnished l>y "JOHNS Y" aod ••YANK," and irive interesting experiences In the I'nion and Confederate armies. Sena two letter atniuiiK for a Kiunitle copy ot the best Family Story Paper in the Wept. Only >1.50 per year. Address CHICAGO l.KIM;Elt. Chicago, 111. No Rope to Cut Off Horses' Manes, Celebrated '!•;< IJI'Sli' HALT Kit aud BHID I«I5 Com blued, cau- not t>e Slipped by any horse. Sample Halter to any part of U. S. free, ou receipt of $1. Bold by nllSadulery, Hardware and Hnrness Dealers. Special discount to the Trade. Seudi (or Prlee-IJst. J-aUGUTHOrSE,Rochester,N.Y MENTION THIS PAPER WMN WKITIKU Editor Chicago Ledger: TONGANOXIK, Leavenworth County, Kan., Feb. UL 1886.--Dear Sir: I received in dne tirae th« Woldlary Reivrd. aud am tree to say that it is a superb picture, and should be in the home ot every old soldier. How I a soldier could be without it for the trifle it costs can ' only lie accounted for upi n the uronnd that, he ba. I never si en the Kecord. and consequently cannot r®> ! alize its merits'. Many thanks for your kindness ia forwarding same to me. and will call the attention of our Post t<> the opportunity presented tliem bv yon. Respectfully, K, E. HALLENBF.CK, P.O. Chicago Ledger: ST. JOHNS. Mich., Feb. 15.1886.--Tour Soldiers' Rec­ ord is at hand, and is the first and only one I hay* ever seen that I would keep or frauie. Almost id] of the records published seem to be constructed OB the idea that a soldier was a lurid picture in which impossible battle scenes and hi*!h colors are the prin­ cipal features. This one is neat and appropriate, tha pictures of the (ienerala anil Lincoln accurate, ana • whole effect pleasini? and satisfactory. It will tly meet with great favor and a large sale. ; 7 " - S. B. DABOIX, ; Commander Poet U& 8t. Johns, MMK' . WARREN' Maoe tmm the* >tron^st «la*tic fubetanc* In Nature'* realm, vie.. ^i ii.L*. The W>t <-lfcJtic (tone In the world for Drimi, Wairtf, and Or«fU. Tlu- only l>re«t Stiflener suitable for rammer wear. Perspiration atid lNUtuirrinjr d<>e* not Injure It. Made In whit* atid all color*. nre delighted witb It. For sale «>vervw her*, nt w hnltf*1r nt<d retail. Sniuide* frfe. Addreu W Ate REV KKATHKUKONE a Tlirt* OaU. Mich. MFVTLOV THIS PAPFR WHIN wan ADVtRfWIR*. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW 1,001 T mportant. things you never knew or thought of about the human body and its curious organs, Jfow I i/e in perpetuated, health veil,disease i ndueed Mow to avoid pit falls of iffnorance and indiscretion, Jfou- to apply Home-Cure to ali formn of tlixeaJie, How to cure Croup, old Eye#, Rupture, I'h trno«i>, etc., How to mate, he happy i n marriagth have prize babies SEN I FOR on Murray Hill Pub. Co., 129 E. 2Sth St.. Sew fork. ow iocurei roup.'iia nyex, tcupiure, /'/< ere., ow to mate, be happy i n marriagth have prize babies f'FKfife- foMPilLETS A Skte of Beauty la m Joy Vor«W DR. T. FELIX GOUBA UVS chipmunks, oleared out by "ltough on Kats." 15c. W A Legal Document. Lawyer W---, of the Middlesex bar, was a young man looking to build up a practice, and willing to adopt all proper means to that end. Partly, perhaps, with that vjew he joined the orthodox churcli, and at once began to take an active part in its affairs, sug­ gesting that the church ought to be r#- jiaired, the pastor's salary raised, the debt paid, and other things undertaken which would call for the expenditure of considerable money. The congrega­ tion "fell in" pretty well, and appoint­ ed our legal friend to draw up and cir­ culate a subscription paper to raise t^e funds. His training in * the law had been longer than in the gospel, and the phraseology of his appeal to the pock­ ets of the faithful was decidedly mole judicial than evangelical, for after in­ troducing the matter in the first line as something to "promote the worship of God," he was careful afterward, throughout the whole document, when­ ever the holy name was again used, to guard against all possible misunder­ standing or obscurity by speaking of BKb-^ll di, IXIK8. - . . . -n .. - v--t Flics, roaches, ante, bed-bugs, water-Imps, i Oriental Cf68HI Or MljiCftl Be&UilftOT moths, rats,mice,KparrowH.jack rabbits,gophers, tfl •- a ' Removes Tan, -- -- *" m I>>nipies, Free- lsk*s, Motli-pat- ches, Hash and Skin diseases, and every ble­ mish on beau- tv. and defies detection. It ha* stood the tent of thirty yearn, aud ts »o harmless we taste lt to he sure the prep­ aration is prop­ erly made. Ac­ cept no coun­ terfeit of Kiini- larname. The distinguished Dr. L. A. Sayre To Editor Chicago Ledger: GOSPOBT, Ind.. Feb. XR, Qear ftlr: I the Record you sent, and ain highly pleased wii and think it is superior to any 1 liavtj seen. battle scenes are well gotten up. ami the portraits flood. The spaces for enlistment ami service are fully artre enough. Every ooUiier should have one, ft beinu the best way of preserving a history of the part taken by himself in the great civil war, and also aa an ornament to his home and one that hie children and grand hildren o.?n point to with pride after he has fought his last battle and«uawered his last roll-calL Yours,«tc„ HIHAM MDWHT™ i- • BUCHU-FAIBA. Cures all Kidney Affectations, Soalding, Irrita­ tions, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of the Bladder. |L ROUGH ON KATS clears out r«te, mice, coaches, flies, ants, bed* bags, vermin, water-bags, sknnks. 16a 'Rough on Cams " bard or |oft corns, baniona. lit "Boagh on Toothache." Instant relief. 16a IJJ'OU'N Patent Metallic Stlffeners pre­ vent boots and shoes from runniDff over, ripitfng in tbe warns, or wearing unevenly on tho heelw. IK afflicted witb Soro Byes, use Dr. Isaao Thompson's Eje Water. Drugirlstsaell It. 96a H m S __ Pg £ ic 0)3 b 5 1 ! * ta Editor Chicago Ledger. Chicago, nt.: Bio .RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. M.138B.--Dear-Sir r line Soldiers' _. _ingly thankful to you for the same. I pfonouno» Record is at hand, and lams*- -very ceedi . _ the Record a fine piece or workmanship and art."and it reflects great honor upon yon, as well as the da- siimer. It is a record that ought to grace eVerv *51- dier's home and Post-room of ti»e eiraud Armv of tb* lie public, and I would highly recommend all <32 soldiers to procure one. I remain yours in F, (J snd L„ ADOLPHK T. CAMPAU, First Lieutenant and Adjutant P >st French, No. Department of Michigan, ll. A. H. 3 months' treatment for 50c. Piso'i Rem- for Catarrh. Sold by druggists. • eaid to a ladv of the h'tut tun t a patient I, -.4* you hu'tte* tcill w*e them, [ reeommetul ' <;<>m au l'n Cream' an the . leant hai n\fitl of nil Skin preparation*." One bottle I will last six months, using it every day. Also Poudre : Subtile removes superfluous hair without injurv to | the skill. FERD. T. HOPKINS, Manager, 48 Bond'St., N. l. For sale by all druggists aud Fancv Oooda • lJealerg throughout the U. S.. Can atlas, and Europe. Beware ot base imitations, fl.000 Reward for arrest any one selling itaa same. and proof ot i THE Frazor Axle Grease is the very boat A trial will prove we are right. PJEJRELY VEGETABLE It Will cure aU Diseases erased by <!e* rangeiurnt of th# UWRi , *M.. ilie SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a bit- pal sides, or joints, often mistaken for , . ,, - . . - - - »our stomach: loss of »|>iM-tit»*; bowels alter- nitn in full legal pnraso as tho afoire* liately costive «ud lax ; lie»(la«'lic; losaof mem- teror bail taste in the mouth, pain in the back. Rheumatism ; said God."--Boston Record. "A Great Strike.** " Among the 150 kinds of Cloth Bonnd Dollar Volumes given away by the fiochester (N. Y.) 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It is recommended by j Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, Hon. B. H. Hill, Rt. Rev. Jno.W.Beckwith, Hon. J. C. Breckenridge, i Bishop of Georgia, Prof. David Willis, D/D., den. Jno. B. Gordon, U. 8. Chief Justice Hiram War- Senator , Ser, of Georgia, Rt. Rev. Bishop Pierce, lew is Wnnder, AH«"t P. Hon. Jno. Gill Shorter, Philadelphia, Pa., J. Edgar Thompson, And hundreds of others. SIMONS LIVER REGULATOR' ASK DROPSY TREATED FREE. I ] I»R. J*. II. GREEX «V Spwialltitu for Thirteen Years Past, I Have treated Drop y and its complications with the I I DQoet wonderful nitrceM; une vegetable remedies, entirely hatinie-R liemove all symptoms of dropsy in eight to twenty d*yn. Cure patients pronounced hopeless by tbe best of phy OCIKIIH. From the first dose the symptoms rapidly disap- , pear, and in teu days at least two-thirds of all symp­toms *re removed. I Some may cry humbug without knowing anvthing ! at tout it. Reinenib r, it does ii'it cost you anything to j realize the merits ot our treatment foryourse.t. In j teu days the difficulty of breuthing is rel • ved. the i pulse regular, the urinary orzans made to disrhar-re 1 their fu.l duty, sleep is restored, the swelling all or j nearly gone, the strength increased, and appetite ill wle ! (rood. We are eon-tantly curing esses ot long stand- i ing--cases that have l»-en tapped a number of times, i and the patient declare I unable to live a week. Give full history of ca*e. Name sex, h >w long afflicted, how badly swollen and where, are bowels costive, have legs bursted and dripped water. Send for flee pamphle*. containing testim mials. questions, etc. Ten days' treatment furnished free l>y mail. Epilepsy (Fits) |iii»>iir«Iy cnrwl. If jou order tria1, -• ud 1(1 cents in stamps tolwr postage. M. M. (iKKEN it SONS. M. I>*.. 05 Jones Avenue. Atlanta, tia. To every person who semis us SO rents October 1. 1886, we will mail The Chirac*. evert' week for THREE MONTHS, aud will send FREE, postage paid, one ot our uew and elegant Soldiers'Records Re id the testimon als above, and, see what old soldiers say about the Record. The Chicago I.»*«lKor is the best Family Starr Paper in the United states. One whole page is ftllea every week by contributions from old soldiers or both Vnion and Confederate armies, giving true in­ cidents of lite in camp aii.l ou the field of battla. Everyliody enjoys reading THE LEDGER. Many veterans have been surprised to see fta names of old army comrades, who were supposedly be dead, among the list of contribut,>rs to the "War Memory" department of Tin* Chicago Ledjnr. Now is your time to get a Record FREE. Send in your name and money before it is too late, for tMm offer will nit hold good alter October 1. IM>. Send money bv postal note, poBtofflce or exprflM money order. 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