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pr^fiW^*rv\ <V w *<vJ *«•'* .p#^> % - •'-, >$*Cy v , -t- *, " ' - \ • W^roltlB ** BB* ; PEELKT POORE. ̂ Batter, witness u. #. B. S. Ffoohback, the.mafottc* *k° figured largely ia national politic* dnr- tke Grant and Bares admin igtrttiou, ™ born a slave In the State of Lonis- iana alxrat the year 183a His father's name was Pinchback, and he held a number of slaves. Among them was a female nearly white, of striking beauty and intellect. By this lady old Pinch- back had three children, two girls and one boy. These children, with their mother, he sent to Cincinnati to be educated. The girls applied them- selYes very closely and learned very fast; but young Pinchback was wild and reckless, and took more interest in feats of daring and games of hazard than he did in his books. His mother, •oon after coming to Cincinnati, formed the acquaintance of a gentleman by the Same of Stewart and parried him, after which Pinchback' wis called Pink Stewart. • In the spring of 1856, Mr. Alfred Jsackson, a barber of Dayton, being in Cincinnati, met young Pinchback at the Dumas House. Taking a fancy to the boy, wtio was then about sixteen or seventeen years of age, Mr. Jackson asked him if he would not like to go with him to Dayton and learn the bar­ ber business. He readily consented in case his mother was willing. His mother's consent was obtained and he (Dame with Jacks6n to Dayton. Pinch­ back made an agreement with the land­ lord of the Phillips House to board and lodge him for his services in waiting on the table. At other times he was to •erve Mr. Jaekson in the capacity of bootblack, and to gradually learn the bartering business. At first he at­ tended to blacking boots for Jackson pretty faithfully, but gradually dropped off, and at one time was absent for sev­ eral weeks. Mr. Jackson, feeling un­ easy about the boy, made inquiry of his whereabouts, and found him in a hay­ mow playing "seven-up" for money. The report among the boys wfes that "Pinch" had extraordinary luck, for, in spite of all they could do, he would manage to rake in the stakes. Mr. Pinchback'^ good fortune was pncli at cards that he rose rapidly, both financially and socially, and disdained •ny ionger to be the bootblack of any man.3 Accumulating some means ahead, lie. concluded to enlarge his field of operations. So he made a trip to La­ fayette, Ind., where he opened a faro bonk. After relieving the boys of their tfeady cash in Lafayette, he returned to Dayton, where he remained more or lens for some three years, and then left for his old home in Louisana. Soon after his return to Louisiana the war broke out. Mr. Pincliback's manly bosom swelled with patriotism, and, true to his native section, he raised a colored company i<>r the Southern 4ause, and drilled it for the defence of Kew Orleans When the city sur­ rendered to the Northern forces and Butler took possession, Capt. Pinch­ back, with a patriotism rarely equaled, readily submitted to the great Ameri­ can principle that thq majority should rule, and carried his entire command over to the Union forces. It is to be regretted that history is silent as re­ gards the dead and wounded that fell tinder his command, both in the Con­ federate and Union causes. Capt. Pinchback was at one time Lieutenant-Governor and aoting Gov­ ernor of Louisiana, and he came within two votes of being admitted to a seat In the United States Senate. Lawrence M. Keitt, of South Caro­ lina, who Was with Preston S. Brooks When he assaulted Charles Sumner in the Senate Chamber, and who resigned to escape expulsion, made a parting fipeech denunciatory of Mr. Sumner, which has had few parallels in Congress go far as abuse is concerned: "As the Wilderness produces," said Mr. Keitt, "so must the concave arch itself bear specimens of his rhetorical sprouts. The earth is two lowly a theater for the ambitious reaches of his speech. He affects the 'heavens' themselves for .the very pretty diversion of 'filling' them with 'shining towers of religion and civilization.' 'Shining towers of religion,'Mr. Speaker! The towers of Massachusetts religion, topped by the predominant weather-cock, pointing to the changes of her people, veering with each wind of doctrine, and passing, without concern, from dark religious fanaticism to wild and God-defying blasphemy! 'Shining towers of civil­ ization,'Mr. Speaker! The towers of Massachusetts civilization, which hypo­ critically nestles the rank and sensuous African to her,bosom, thirsting aside thousands of the children of her loins, who can scarcely draw the support of their existence from an overtaxed in­ dustry. The towers of Massachusetts civilization, which, not satisfied with its own sickly results, would, pregmatic fmd intrusive, steal into our borders ' to force upon us its baleful fruits! Yes, Sir, the towers of Massachusetts civili­ sation, cruelly organizing human mus­ cles and bones into living machines, and remorselessly working away the impress of God's image from men and women of kindred stock and blood, doomed to wear out the energies of life to keep up the greed of task-masters who, 'like the daughters of the horse­ leech,' have never learned to say •enough.' Massachusetts civilization, the inephitic air of whose workshops ^ats its way through the lungs of the victims of avarice; and when they die, they die with their last wishes turned to the free winds of Heaven, with their last words 'babbling o' green fields.'" Gov. Seward used to tell a story about Gov. Draper, of New York, who Was dining one day at the Congress jSall hotel, where the butter happened to be particularly rank. "Here, John, . said Draper to a favorite waiter who was standing behind him, "John, take •this plate away; some people like their Jmtter stronger than others." John ook the plate, held it up to his noee a luoment with the air^ of a connoisseur, then put it back again in its place, and observed in a firm voice: "Misther Draper, that is the strongest butter in the house." y<m ate not It is Prof. Horsfard, of Cambridge." Whereupon the terrible advocate, fixing an eye llgion each, replied: "Oh, yes, your ho&or, I know, a Harvard professor; we hanged one of them a while ago." What Becomes ef Cigar Staatglb A little old Hebrew, bent and shrivelled np with age,haunts the Bow­ ery and parts of Park Row every day. He carries a dirty little eanvas bag under his arm, and pokes around in the dirt and rubbish with a short crooked stick. Most of the people who notice him at all think he is a rag picker, but he isn't. If you were to stop and watch his operations you would see him leave rags and paper alone, and carefully pick out of every corner and pile of rubbish every scrap of tobacco he can find. All- the old cigars and cigarette stumps he runs across are carefully treasured up and thrust into the canvas bag. The old man lives in a miserable room in a back street near the Bowery. The writer followed him np into his quarters the other day, and saw a sight not particular appetizing to smokers. The room was filled with an intolerable odor of half-burned tobacco. Cigar stubs were piled up in heaps in the corner. Strips of dirty tobacco Were drying over a hot fire. A dirty boy was sorting the "snipes" into four piles. "What do you do with all that stuff?" asked the reporter. "Oh, sell it to the dealers to work back into cigars and cigarettes. The boy thero sorts out the stubs according to their looks. Some will be made into good cigars that will sell for ten cents. The next pile there will go into five-cent cigars. The third pile will only do for the filling of cigarettes, and the last pile will make cheap smok­ ing tobacco. We cut off all the burned part of the cigar very carefully. Then we unroll the stub and put the leaves over the stove to dry. Then we clean the dried leaves off* again and furbish them up as much as possible. Of course you can't get all the burnt smell out of the leaves, but this stuff only goes for fillers and such things, and after the cigar makers have flavored and per­ fumed it, nobody can tell the difference. Very likely we may have worked over the same stuff two or three times. That's a queer thought, isn't it?" "Are there many in your kind of business in New York?" asked the re­ porter. "Many? Well there's too many to leave any great profit for any of us. We clean the streets of everything in the shape of tobacco between us all. A few years ago there was money in it. I was the only man in tho business then. It will never be like that again. Of course it isn't a very nice business, but I got used to the smell long ago, and it isn't so bad as you think it is after alL If it wasn't for us how would you get your real genuine im­ ported Havana cigar for ten cents? The most common use for the stuff, though, is in the all-tobacco cigarettes. Besides selling to the dealers, I make a kind of smoking tobacco myself out of some of the leavinga Sailors buy it. They like it because it is strong. The license I have to pay,* though, knocks all the profit out of it. The tobaoco isn't so bad as you think it is. Won't you try a pipe-full?" The writer hastily excused himself and withdrew.--New York Paper. Freddy's Earnest Appeal. Little Fred did not like Sunday. He never had thought much about it ex­ cept that the bells rang and big folks went to church; that mamma told him Bible stories, when he somehow felt very good and peaceful, and that papa was home all day, and in the afternoon, if it were clear, took him out for a walk. That is, until he lived next door to some children and discovered that on Sundays he could not go to their house to play. From this time Sunday was a great trial, and frequently for days be­ fore he would talk of little else. "How many days till Sunday, auntie ?" he mournfully tisked one morning as he sat by the register, vainly trying to button his shoes. "Why, three whole days, Freddy," cheeringly answered auntie. "Only free days?" wailed Fred, in tones of deepest woe. Then energeti­ cally, "I don't see why you have it so often for!" " Why, Freddy, Sunday is one of the days of the week. It is God'e day." "God makes the Sunday," said Fred. "Yes," said auntie. "He has a kind of wheel,"soberly ex­ plained the little fellow, "and turns it 'round till he turns out Sunday. It just comes; but I don't see why he has it so twick, and" he added, after a mo­ ment's thought, "if he is going to have it so twick all the time, I'm just going into Crowell's to play anyhow." This idea appeared to cheer him, for he vigorously reattacked the buttons and began to hum a tune. Presently he began to talk to himself, and auntie, who was just going out of the room, heard him softly say: "God! God! Don't make Sunday come so twick!" Then, after looking expectantly a moment at the ceiling, he slowly and in the deepest bass he could command, answered: "No, I won't; I won't!" Again, as shaking with laughter auntie started toward the stairs, she heard in accents of the most earnest en­ treaty : "God! God! Please don't make Sun­ day come so twick ?" Then in stentorian tones: "No; I wpn't; I won't." The Universal Language. Yolapuk is the invention of the Rev. Father Johaun Martin Scheleyer, of Constance, Baden, Germany. He is an accomplished linguist, having for forty- six years been interested in the study of language. He can speak and write twenty-eight tongues, including the Chinese and three African languages, and is also eminent as , a priest, hym- nologist and religious editor. He in­ vented the universal language in 1878, announced it in 1879, and had so far "I once had the honor," said Horatio perfected it in 1881 as to publish in ~ ' that year a small book, entitled "Ent- wurf einer Weltspranche fur alle KiS.fe Oreenough, "of hearing a President of the United States talk of sculpture, fie spoke of several works which he liad seen, but declared that the statue *)f a royal governor, still preserved Somewhere in Virginia, was tho only work that gave him a full idea ef the bower of art. 'The wrinkles in the boots, sir. are perfection.' Lest snv fnsn should suppose that he or I were inclined to amuse ourselves at the ex­ pense of sincerity and truth, I do de­ clare that these were his Words, acd tittered with mtich warmth." Gen, Butler is merciless when cross- examining witnesses. Once, on a trial In Massachusetts, at which Prof. Hors- ford. of Cambridge, a compeer of Dr. Webster, the eminent anatomist, was a witness, he used the distinguished gen­ tleman sO roughly in his cross-examin­ ation that the court interfered, saying: Weltspranche gebildte Erdbewohner" (Plan of a Uni­ versal Language for all the Civilized Inhabitants of the Earth.") Thus the name, Volapuk, vola meaning the world, and pule, language. The Vola­ puk grammar can be learned in an hour. an,d, as the variations of the nouns and verbs are indicated by the vowels taken in their regular order, they are not easily forgotten. The principal labor necessary to acquire the language con­ sists, therefore, in memorizing the vo­ cabulary. On the continent it has gained in popularity very rapidly dur­ ing the last two or three years, so that there are now at least 10,000 persons who are familiar with and use it. There are eight monthly periodicals prrited partly in Volapuk or partly in other languages.--The American Magazine. A OUM Mrs. MeXtalty UaaM Be* Vadar- •Uiri> There is one lady in Tndiaaapolia who will probably never become an enthusiastic admirer . of our nktional game, says the Detroit Free Press. The individual to whom I refer is Mrs. MeDuffy. I had the misfortune to occupy a seat adjoining hers during the opening game between the Detroits and the home club, and the following were the remarks on the occasion re­ ferred to: "I don't see why some Women can't understand base-ball. If there is any­ thing about it thut I can't see through it will be strange," she said to her husband. "Who are those big fellows over there ?" "Why, the 'big four,' of course," said he. "O, yes, how stupid I am. I sup­ pose that is Jay Gould watching the big four so closely. Didn't he say 'one strike?' He is responsible for those dreadful strikes, isn't he? Do you think the men will strike to-day?" "Great heavens, woman, are you crazy? That is the umpire. Can't you keep quiet and watch the game?" he growled. "Certainly I will," she said. "But where is the Detroit team? I haven't seen a team to-day any different from Indianapolis horses. Do they bring them right out here on the grounds ? I should think they would get frightened in such a crowd as this and kick and cut up awfullv. Do you think thev will?" "It is possible^" he answered re­ signedly. "There are some kicking teams." "I am so glad I am np here out of danger. What did that man do then?" "Struck a foul " "Struck a poor, innocent fowl! The hateful thing! I didn't see any fowl. What kind was it? What are they cheering for?" "Thompson caught a fly." . , "Now, Mr. McDuffv, don't sit there and tell me you could see anything so small as a fly at this distance. Besides, it is too early for flies. What do they want to stop a game of base-ball to catch flies for, any way? Do tell me what that man is acting so silly about?" "Trying to steal a base." "The wicked thief! Where is the base?" "Over there," explained MoDuffy. "That is the first base, the other the second, and this one, nearest, the third." "Are they, indeed, and that is the soprano in the middle, I suppose ?" "Ah, yes," groaned MeDuffy, "you're getting it down fine." "See, that naughty man has knocked the ball clean out of sight. Wasn't that mean! Don't you suppose they'll discharge him ? What are they cheering for now? Making a home run? Well, I should think he would, and stay there, too, after such an exhibition of temper. What! Did you say they were going to whitewash them? Do they just white­ wash them all over--face and all?" "Ah,"said MeDuffy, savagely, "you've got it now. That's the way they fix them, and afterward calcimine them, and fresco them, and dodo them, and put on French roofs. How proud I am of you, Mrs. MeDuffy. All you need is a whitewash brush to be a full-fledged member of the Lime Klin Club." "How funny you are, Mr. MeDuffy. Did that man say they were giving the visitors goose eggs? Now, what do they want with goose eggs in a game of ball? It's getting worse and worse. I don't see what people go crazy over base-ball for, any way. I understand the game, as far as that is conccrned, but there's nothing in it. If there is anything smart in bringing out thousands of peo­ ple to watch them catch flies, and try to steal a base, and goose eggs, and muffs, and crack pitchers, and the Lord knows what else--I can't see it The next thing they'll be bringing in that team and they'll kill somebody, and I don't propose to stay to see it. If you'll just Bee me to the carriage, Mr. MeDuffy, I'll go home. I've hud all the base-ball I want." The disgusted lady departed, to the evident satisfaction of her husband, who soon returned to enjoy the remainder of the game in peace. A Japanese Fairy Tale. Onee upon a time there were eighty- one brothers, who were all princes, and all in love with the Princess of Yakami One day they set out for the palace, making the eighty-first brother, whom they aU hated, carry the baggage. On the way they met a hare who had lost his fur and was in a bad way generally. They were wicked men and knew noth­ ing of Mr. Colam and the Society for the Protection of Animals, so they ad­ vised the hare to take a sea bath and then dry himself in the sun. This prescription reduced the patient to a worse condition than before, and when Prince Eighty-one came up with the general portmanteau, he found the hare rolling and yelling in an agony of un­ rest and pain. The prince, who was not a bit like his eighty brothers, was moved to compassion and inquired of the hare how and why he had lost his fur. The creature's story is an ex­ ample of the perils of deceitfulness. He had had occasion to cross the sea from Oki to the mainland, and as he could not swim and there was no bridge he suggested to the sea crocodiles-- amphibia, it seems, of a statistical term of mind--that it would be a good tiling to count how many of them there WAS in the water and how many of his qwn kind on the land; after which they could compare notes and discuss the difference in a scientific spirit. The idea was as well receivedQby the croco­ diles as it would be by certain human beings. They drew themselves up in a line from shore to shore, and the hare ran along their backs as upon a bridge, counting each one as he went. Just before he got to land, however, it oc­ curred to him that the jest would hard­ ly bo complete unless the victims were admitted to participation. So lie told the crocodiles what a humorist he was; and the last of the chain was moved to lay hold upon him as he landed and emphasize his own and kinsman's en­ joy men' of the joke by plucking out the joker's fnr. The result of his ap­ peal to the eighty merry princes lias already been told; so that twice in suc­ cession had the poor wag seen the laugh turned very much against him, and the proof that cheating never pros­ pers brought home to him with every circumstance of ignominy. Readers of fairy stories scarce need to be told that Prince Eighty-one healed tho hare of his wounds, or that it was by means of the hare that they were baffled, and iltfi prize awarded to the proper per­ son.--Saturday Review. ACCORDING to M. Lagne^U, a well- known statistician, after 22 years of age married men live longer than bachelors. Among every 1,000 bachelors there are thirty-eight criminals; among married men,* eighteen per 1,000. Pub- Ghie, Mr, K. SchnH* wxttsif "We keep BtJaoofas Oil en hand, sad eeositer it most vtfaa&e in case of burns, scalds, ete." Use aooorffln* to directions. The Cersleaa Upstart. The. French revolution had not only shocked and horrified the sober-mind­ ed folk of Europe--and, we may say, of America also--by its atrocities and bloodshed, but it had brought about a state of things which was to the ruling classes of the continent and England a standing outrage upon the fundamental principles of society and government. Here was a "Corsican upstart" at the head of France; his ministers were men risen from the ranks; his code, which he rigorously imposed on all the territories which he either conquered or annexed, made all men equal before the law, and rendered an aristocratic government impossible. The walks of life were thrown open to all; any man, no matter how humble his origio, .might be an officer of the army, might even become a marshal of France. 1 he Bpdctacle which the empire of Napoleon presented, moreover, was most encour­ aging to the growth and spead of the new ideas and the new system. France, Belgium, Holland, the German States on the Upper Rhine, Italy, had all adopted, to a greater or less extent, the new doctrines, and they were all in a condition of unexampled prosperity, despite the wars of the last dozen years. The new monarch, too, was plainly a restless, scheming, ambitious man. He and his system ought to be overthrown; the safety of society, the interests of public morals, demanded it, to say nothing of the balance of power, which was greatly disturbed by the excessive prepondeiance of France. The state of feeling at this time in Europe was, as respects this subject, wholly different from that* which exists to-day. It has now been found, by ex­ perience, that these contrasts in the ideas and forms of government exist­ ing in contiguous countries do not necessarily, or even generally, lead to war, or even to the introduction into the more conservative countries of the liberal notions of their next neighbors. But in the last years of the last cen­ tury, and the first years of this, almost everybody in Europe thought diflerent- ly.--Scribn.r'is Magazine. MR. J. W. METIS, 38 Bock street, Lowell, Mam., writes: "I was taken with a ciick in the neck and suffered agony. St Jacobs Oil cured me." For sale hy drag {Flits and dealers. ' Bored hy Aats. The most dreaded insect invader ia the white ant. In Africa, their houses are dome-shaped mounds often eighteen feet high. These insects erect pyramids one thousand times higher than themselves! The ants on their travels so conceal their approaoh that theit presence is not expected un­ til the damage is done. They usually tunnel into anv object which they afc- ta k, often reducing it to a mere shell. In this way they have been known to ascend within the leg of a t ible, de­ vour the contents of a box upon it, and descend through a tunnel bored in an­ other leg, all in one n £lit An officer of the Euglish armv while calling upon some lad es in Ceylon was startled b; 3 a rumbling sound. The ladies start with affright, and the next instant they stood with only the sky above them; the roof had fallen in and lay all about, leaving them miraculously unharmed! The ants had made their way up through the beams, hollowing them out until a great part of the frame- woik was ready to fall at the slighest shook.--Charles Frederick Holder, in St. Nicholas Summer Excarslons* At tff principal railroad ticket of#ee» WW! be fonnd on sale, at low rates, daring the tourist Beauon, rouucl-trip tieketa, via the Burlington Route, C , B. & Q. 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Wo earnestly Invito you to come, sec and examine for ywrarf/, our institutions, appliances, advantages and sucocss In curing chronic diseases. Have a mind of your own. Do not listen to or heed the counsel of skeptical friends or jealous physicians, who know nothing of us, our system of treatment, or means of cure, yet who never lose an opportunity to misrepresent and endeavor to prejudice people against us. We are responsible to you for what wc represent, and if you come and visit us, and find that we have misrepresented, in any particular, our institutions, advantages or success, we will promptly reload >0 jrMi •II expenaea of your trip. We court honest, sincere investigation, have no secrets, and are only too glad to IbOV •!! interested and candid people what we aro doing for suffering humanity. NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE PATIENTS. §1 Vv - -- V ..By our original system of diagnosis, we can treat many chronic diseases just as successfully without as with a personal con­ sultation. While we are always glad to see our patients, and become acquainted with them, show them our institutions, and familiarise them _ seen one person In nve nunarea wnom we bave cured. The per­ fect accuracy with which scientists are enabled to deducc the > with our system of treatment, yet we have not 1 In five hundred whom we have cured. The per- _ rith which scientists are enabled to deduce the most minute particulars in their several departments, appears almost miraculous, If we view it In the light ot the early ages. Take, for example, the electro-magnetic telegraph, the greatest invention of the age. Is it not a marvelous degree ot aocuracy which enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in a sub­ marine cable nearlv three thousand miles long? Our venerable "clerk of tho weather" has become so thoroughly familiar with the most wayward elements of nature that he can accurately predict their movements. He can sit In Washington and foretell what the weather will be in Florida or New York as well as it leveral hundred miles did not Intervene between him and the places named. And so in all departments of modern science, what is required is the knowledge of certain sign*. From these scientists deduce accurate con­ clusions regardless ot distance. 80, also, in medi­ cal science, diseases havo certain unmistakable signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, we have been enabled to originate and perfect a sys- SlMSOF examining our patients. Ia recognising diseases wttboOt iM personal examination of the patient, we claim to possess no powers. -- • miraculous powers. We obtain our knowledge of this patient's disesse by the practical application, to the practice of medi­ cine. of weU-establishcd principles of modern science. to to the accuracy with which this system has endowed us 1 . ulatlon of skillfully owe our almost world-wide remits or chronic affections. This we owe < flogging Ninons tern of determining, with the greatest accuracy, ON nature of chronic diseases, without seeing and personally COMMON SENSE AS APPLIED TO . system of practice. the marvelous success which has been attained through it, demonstrate the fact that MM display certain phenomena, which, being sub­ jected to scientific analysis, furnish abundant and. unmistakable data, to guide the Judgment . of the skillful practitioner aright in ifcli iiiiliikig the nature of diseased conditions. The most ample rcaourcoi for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skllL are thus placed within the easy reach of every invalid, however distant he or she may reside from the physicians the treat­ ment of such affections a specialty. Full particulars of our origi­ nal, scientific system'of examining and treating patients at a dis­ tance are contained in "The People's Cons •son Sense medical Adviser,'* By R. V. Pierce, M. D. 1000 pages and over 300 colored and other iftustratkms. Sent, post-paid, for $1.60. Or write and describe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents in stamps, and a oomplete treatise, on your particular disease, will be seat you, with our terms for treatment and all paitiouk|% JJ " 3? 'P. , i '4 lit is a well-known fact, and one that appeals to the Judgment of every thinking person, that the whole time to the study and investigation of a certain class of diseases, must become better ou ases than he who attempts to .treat every ill to which flesh is heir, without giving special attention to _ ien in all ages of the world, who have become famous, have devoted their lives to some special branch of science, art, or kgwhc diseases physician who derotsg luallfled to treat such any olass of diseases. ' _ture. By thorough organisation. _ and subdividing the practice of medicine and surgery in this institution, every invalid is treated hv a anecialist--one who devotee his undivided attention to the particular class of diseases to which the ease belongs. The advantage of this arrano w~ ~w"'-- **"'-* -- -« within toe brief limits pf jment must be obvious. Medical science offers a vast field for investigation, and no physician can, a life-time, achieve the highest degreo of success in the treatment of every malady incident to humaBtty* OUR FIELD OX" SUCCESS, The treatment of Diseases of the •ifll TBIfllT Air Passages and Lungs, such as MMI* IMWI Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Laryn­ gitis, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption* both through corre­ spondence and *ar. our institutions, consti­ tutes an important s|>ecialty. We publish three separate books on Nasal, Throat and Lung Diseases, which give much valuable information, vln: <i) A Treatise 011 Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis; price, post-paid, ten cents. 00 A Treatise 011 Asthma, or Phthisic, •riving new and successful treatment; price, post-paid, ten cents. |W A Treatise on Chronic Nasal Catarrh; price, post-paid, two ecuts. Dyspepsia, " Liver Complaint," Ob- jtluatc Constipation, Chronic Diar­ rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections are among those chronic diseases iu the suc­ cessful treatment of which our specialists have attained great success. Many of the diseases DISEASES OF DISEASES. Infrequently'mistaken by . --- . ., . , , , maiadtes. And treatment is employed diroctod to the removal of a which docs not exist. Our Complete Treatise on Diseases Of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. BRlOffTS DI9EA8E, DIABETES, and kindred maladies, have been very largely treated, and cures effected in thousands or eases which had been pronounced beyond hope. These diseases are readily diagnosticated, or determined, bv chemical analysis of the urine, without a personal examina­ tion of patients, who can, therefore, generally be •aecemiully treated at their homes. The studv and practioe of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of esses, with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long sgo became famous, has naturally led to a very extensive practico In diseases of tho urinary onrana. Probably no other Institution in the world has been so lanrelv patronised by suffers from this class of maladies as the old and World-famed World's Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel. Our specialists have acquired, through a vast and varied experience, •Teat cxi>ertness in determining tho exact nature of each case, and. hence, have been successful in nicely adapting their remedies for the cura«f each individual case. These delicate diseases should be carefully treated specialist thoroughly familiar with them, and npetcnt to ascertain the exact condition or advancement which the disease has I- . These MIS: and eta eoini and stage made (which can only be ascertained by a careful chemical and microscopical examination of the urine), for medicines which are curative in one stage or condition are known to do positive injury In others. We have never, therefore, attempted to put up anything for general sale through druggists, recommending to euro these , although possessing very superior remedies, knowing- full well froin an extensive experience thut the only safe and success­ ful courso is to carefully determine the disease and its progress in each case by a chemical and microscopical examination of the urine, and then adapt our medicines to the exact stsgo of the dis­ ease and condition of our pationt. To this wise course of action we attribute tho marvelous success attained by our specialists in important and extensive Department of our institutions devoted exclusively to the treatment of diseases of the kidneys and bladder. The treat­ ment of diseases of the urinary organs having constituted a leading branch of our practice at tho Invalids' Hotel •nd Surgical Institute, and. being in constant receipt of numerous Inaulrlcs for a complete work on the nature and curability of these maladies, written in astvle to be easily understood, we have pub­ lished a larnre Illustrated Treatise on these diseases, which will be •ent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stumps. THE SUCCESS. DISEASES. OF BLAD. INFLAMMATION DEB,. STONE IN_TME BLADDEI*, Urinary Diseases. | gTOITlWE. I GraVel, Knlaraed Proatato Gland, Ite- tentlon of Urine, and kindred affections, may be Included among those In the cure of which our specialists have achieved extraordinary sue- These are fully treated ct in our illustrated pamphlet on Urinary Diseases. Sent by mall for ten cents In stamps. 1 STBICTITBES AND PRINABT FIS­ TULAS.--Hundreds of cases of the worst form of strictures, many of them greatly aggravated I by the aarelcss use of instruments in the hands ibrt »o ccuc of tW« olaa k too difficult (or tin •£<11 Vf our specialists is proved by cures reported in our illus- Md'(SatesonthS» makdies. to which we refer with pride. To toteSst this class of case* to physicians of small experionoe is a Jfitnirproua proceeding. Many a man has been ruined for life by so ST^hllc Vhoasanas annuallr lose their lives through unskillful treatment. Send particulars of your case and ten cents In stamps fSra huge, illustrated treaties containing many testimonials. Epileptic ConTUlaiona, or Fits, Pa. ralysls, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia, St. Tltna'a Dance, Insomnia, or inability to sleep, and threatened insanity, Nervoua Debility, arising from overstudy, excesses, and other causes, qnd every variety of nervous aOfeo- lon are treated by our specialists for these diseases with unusual DISUSES. success. See numerous cases reported in our different illustrated ten cents in postage stamps, when request for them Is 1 with a statement of a case for consult ate atten which have not pamphlets on nervous diseases, any one of which wfH.be RRgk^tat uest for them is accompanied tatiou, so that we may know which one of our Treatises to send. We nave a special Department, thoroughly organized, and devoted tjechuively to the treat­ ment of Diseases pt Women. Every case con­ sulting o jr specialists, whether by letter or ia person, is given the most careful and consideiv tion. Important oases (and we get few skill of all the home physicians) has the benefit of a full Council, of skilled specialists. Rooms for ladies in the Invalids' Hotel are very pri­ vate. Send ten cents in stamps for our large Oomplete Treatise on Diseases of Women, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and colored plates (M0 pages). HERNIA (BreachX or BUPTURE, do matter of how long standing, or of what slse» is promptly and permanently eured by our specialists, without tho fcnlfe ana without dependence upon trnsaes. Abundant references. Send ten cents for Wi' m': RUMLGME OF RwriK. DREUES. Illustrated Treatise. PILES, F1STVLJE, and other diseases affecting the lower , :f? -I'M bowels, are treated with wonderful success. The worst case* of f • . m pile tumors are permanently cured in fifteen to twenty dhy*. ^ ^ V ' Js Send ten cents for Illustrated Treatise. ^ f,; Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature- \s,v " ^ decline of the manly powers. Involuntary vital v. 7 -J;J kisses, impaired memory, mental anxiety, absence ' • ,'m of will-power, melancholy, weak back, and kin- dred affections, are speedily, thoroughly end per- --- manently cured. ,, ' ^ * To those acquainted with our institutions, it is hardly necessary . • •Vis to say that the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, with the branch establishment located at No. 3 New Oxford Street, London, England, F the the arise from youthful indiscretions and perniekma, solitary practices. We, many years ago, established a special Department for the treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of" the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order- that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a full. Council of the most experienced specialists. WE OFFER Ho Apvlobt. for devoting so tnuch Wo offer no apok„ _ attention to this neglected class or diseases, believing no condition of humanity Is too wretched to merit the sympathy and best services of the noble profession to which we belong. Many who suffer from these terrible contract them innocently. Why any medical man, intent. on doing good and alleviating suffering, should shun such esses* wo cannot imagine. Why any one fhould consider it otherwise than most honorable to cure the worst cases of these diseases, we cannot understand; and vet of all the other maladies which afflict mankind there is probably none about which physicians hi general practioe know so little. We shall, therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat with our best consideration, sy mpawy,and skill, all applicants who are suffering from any of these delicate discuses. a„„. Unur Most of these cases can be treated when at a UUREO AT HOME, dhtance just as well as if here in pctson. A Complete Treatise (136 pages) on these dtosuss mtSMdM in plain envelope, tecure from observation, on receipt of only m • cents, in stamps, for postage. Hundreds of the most difficult opentkmsknowa to modern surgery are annually performed in the most skillful manner, by our Burgeoa-speetak lata. Largo Stones are safely removed from the Bladder, by crushing, washing and pumping them out, thus avoiding the great danger of cutting. Our specialists, remove cataract from the eye, thereby curing Mind* nt*a. They also straighten cross-eyes and Insert artificial one* when needed. Many Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the - * f ' a i• PRACTIOE. 3d. Many uvartan ana aiso no Uterus are arrested In growth and cured by with other means of our invention, whereby tna gnat cutting operations in these cases is avoided. the success of our improved operations for Vari- hydrocele. Fistula?, ttuptured Cervix Uteri, and for Rup­ tured Perineum, been alike gratifying both to ourselves and our patients. Not leas ao have been the results of numerous operations for Stricture of the Cervical Canal, a condition in the female gen­ erally resulting in Barrenness, or Sterility, and the cure of which, by a safe and painless operation, removes this commonest of im­ pediments to ue bearing of of" by a safe and A Complete Treatise on any one o: sent on receipt of ten cents in stamps. the above maladies will be LU CH0H8 1 SKOUTT. Although we have in the preceding para­ graphs, made mention of some of the special ailments to which particular attention is given by the specialists at the Invalids* Hotel and Surgical Institute, yet the insti­ tution abounds in skill, facilities, and afe paratus for the successful treatment at everv form of chronic ailment, whether ISK quMng for its cure medical or surgical means. Aij letters of inquiry, or of consultation, should bo addnsnH|,. vsiurt MSPEHSUNR MDIML JSSWUTIBI, AOS Main St^et. BUJTAI.O. H. PENSIONS $5 lnm Send for Pen BOH Lftwa to 0, S. 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