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Batlonal Traits of Japanese Gentleness mad Klnrineaa to Children and Animal*. Nothing commends itself more to the traveler as a national trait among the Japanese than their gentleness and kindness to children and animals. It is in conaeefuence of this that not only the domesticated but the so-called wild animals and birds of this country are far bolder and easier to approach'than in other parts of the world. There is here a species of swallow, much re­ sembling the chimney swallow of Europe, which actually frequents the houses and twitters and circles about the heads of the people^in the different apartments, as we have sean tame ca­ naries when set free from their cages in the house where they are kept. Only in this case the swallow is free to come and go through the open window or door, and gets his own living in the open air. Even in Europe and America this beautiful little bird is a favorite. Humphrey Davy says of it: "The -• swallow is one of my favorite birds, and a rival of the nightingale, for he cheers my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of the year, the harbinger of the best season. He lives a life of enjoyment among the loveliest forms of nature. Winter is unknown to him, and he leaves the green meadows and forests of England in autumn for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa. He has always objects of pursuit and his suc­ cess is sure. Even the beings selected for his prey are poetical, beautiful, and transient. The ephemera are saved by his means from a slow and lingering death in the evening and killed in a ' moment, when they have known noth­ ing but pleasure. He is a constant de­ stroyer of insects, the friend ,of man, and a sacred bird. His instinct, which gives him his appointed season and teaches him when and where to move, may be regarded as flowing from a di­ vine source, and he belongs to the oracles of nature, which speak the awful and intelligible flats of the pres­ ent Deity." Of course, this character of symbolic grace and modesty goes far to recommend the bird to so artistic a people as the Japanese, and it is, in consequence, almost a national emblem, being a favorite subject with their dec­ orators, and finding a place with the crane and the lotus as a religious type. It is, however, in the building of" its nest and rearing of its young that the Japanese swallow pays the highest compliment to and exhibits the greatest amount of confidence in its protectors; for, however incredible it may seem, its habitation is built and its little family is brought up in the living-rooms of Japanese families, and this not only in unfrequented parts of the country, but, as Prof. Morse assures us, in the midst of their largest cities. The Professor, than whom no more interesting and acute observer of Japanese life exists, in speaking of these nests, says that they are not built in any remote part of the house, but in the principal and often-visited rooms, where the inmates are the busiest about the household affairs. He adds that the children take great delight in watching the nest in process of construction, and in the rear­ ing and education of the young birds afterward. As soon as a nest is fairly begun some member of the household puts ut> a neat little shelf beneath it to prevent the litter on the floor, and the bird, accepting this as a "locus in quo," returns, year after year, to rebuild or repair and reoccupy the old nest in the Same place. A Hail Once a Tear. ' Gen. Sherman, in a speech at San Jose, Cal., related the following: "Few of you, if any, were here in 1847. At that time Gen. Kearny arrived in Cali- fornia after a wearisome trip of eight months duration across the plains, dur­ ing which he and his troops were sub­ jected to many hardships. He did not arrive in San Diego till March, 1847, and then he was obliged to send a mes­ senger to San Francisco, then called Yerba Iiuena. The messenger was obliged to drive before him a herd of horses in order to change from one animal to nnother. In that year Gen. Kearny established the first line of mail roiutcs on this coast He established four posts, apd we were then afforded the great advantage of a semi-monthly mail in the State and a yearly one to the 'United States' by way of Cape Horn. The first courier went from Yerba Buena to Monterev; the second from Monterey to San Luis Obispo; the third from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles, and the fourth from Los Angeles to San Diego. Among those mail couriers there were some strange characters, one of whom was called Jim Beckwith. Jim was a half-breed Crow Indian, and in some manner he drifted across to California and became a mail rider, carrying from Monterey to Danos Ranch. I was Adjutant General at the time. Jim, who was the biggest liar in the world, came breathless and trembling to my room at 10 o'clock one night and ex­ claimed: "They killed every one of them and didn't spare even the baby.' 'What's the matter with you, Jim?' said I; 'you're lying like thunder. "Who's killed and who killed them ?' Finally it was elicited that Mr. Reed and his family, of a sloop-of-war at San Miguel, had been murdered." The General then related how he had in­ formed Gen. Ord, and this officer had hunted down the murderers, who were found to be four sailors. A fight en­ sued when they were overtaken. One of them was Ihot and the three others were tried in an Alcalde Court, con­ victed, and shot inside of one hour. The men were deserters who had started for the mines. Reed had taken them to his quarters and told them of wonders of the gold mines and gave them instructions how to reach them. He gave an intimation of a big chest he hod, and excited their desire to steal. One of the men went out and got an ax under the plea of getting wood to replenish the fire. With it, however, he came in and clove Reed's skull, and the other members of the family and the servants, nine or ten persons in all, were killed. "These facts," he said, "were called to my mind reading in a paper to-day that San Miguel was still in existence." The Fickle Nature of Woman. I have never met but one woman that 1 was satisfied that Providence should have decided her sex for her. Every other skirted sister longed for trousers. It's not so strange they are dissatisfied. The majority of women do have a hard time of it. Men cannot understand, even though they love her. She is called capricious, fickle, heartless, when her very being t;*ems with love and de­ votion. Man's nature in ordinary is not xtne enough to know her, and so thou- tands of women go through life con­ stantly looking for an idol that has never been carved. Happy is she who can sip the froth from the cream, and mold heraelf to satisfy another's ideal. All women are not so plastic. These are the ones to be pitied. Men who should by reason of the many women sacrificed to their pleasure and selfish­ ness be kindest are most unkind. Balzac, the wretch, floats the sex in saying "woman is a charming creature who changes her heart as easily as her gloves." If Balzac's friends had worn shoulder-reachers at f5 and $6 a pair, it is possible he would have had less reason to complain of the fickle nature of the fair.--San Francisco Report. A Boy's Timely Bide. It may seem at first that the boy men­ tioned in this incident, which is given by Edward Everett Hale in his uBoy Heroes," did nothing either heroic or remarkable, but it is a good illustration of the value of doing one's very best under all circumstances. There was a boy whom I will name Luke Varnum. He was 15 years old, and he was lame of his left foot. So, when every other boy in Number Five, and every man, old and young, shouldered his firelock and marched off to join Gen. Stark, and go and fight the Hessians at Bennington, Luke was left at home. He limped out and held the stirrup for Lieut. Chittenden to mount, and then he had to stay at home with the babies and the women. The men had been gone an hour and a half, when three men galloped up on horse­ back. And Luke went down to the rails to see who they were. "Is there nobody here?" said pne of them. "Yes," said Luke, "I am here." "Isee that," said the first man laugh­ ing. "What I mean is, is there nobody here can set a shoe?" "I think I can," said Luke. "I often tend fire for Jonas. I can blow the bellows, and I can hold a horse's foot. Anyway I will start up the fire." Luke went into the forge and took down the tinder-box and struck a light. He built the fire, and hunted up half a dozen nails which Jonas had left un­ intentionally, and he had even made two more, when a fourth horseman came slowly down on a walk. "What luck." said he, "to find a forge with the fire lighted!" "We found one," said Marvin, "with a boy who knew how to light it." The other speaker flung himself off the horse meanwhile. And Luke pared the hoof of the dainty creature, and measured the shoe, which was too big for her. He heated it white, and bent it closer, to the proper size. "It is a poor fit, " lie said, "but it will do." "It will do very well," said her rider. "But she is very tender-footed, and I do not dare trust her five miles un­ shod. " For pride's sake, the first two nails Luke drove were those he had made himself. And when the shoe was fast, he said, "Tell Jonas that I het up the forge--and put on the shoe." "We will tell him," said the Colonel, laughing, and he rode on. But one of the other horsemen tarried a minute, and said, "Boy, no ten men who left you to-day have servetl your country as you have. It is Colonel Warner." When I read in history how Col. Warner led up his regiment just in time to save the day at Bennington, I am apt to think of Luke Varnum. When I read that that day decided the battle of Saratoga, and determined that America should be independent, I think of Luke Varnum. When I go to see monuments erected in memory of Col. Warner and Gen. Stark, and even poor old Burgoyne, I think of Luke Varnum, and others like him. And then some­ times I wonder whether every man and boy of us who bravely and truly does the very best thing he knows how to do, does not have the future of the world resting on him. Pointers and Setters. The ordinary bird-dog consists chiefly of ribs and legs. There are two kinds, the pointer and setter. They are so named from certain personal peculiari­ ties when searching for game. They are used chiefly to locate prairie-chick­ ens and bring fleas into the house. When the pointer sets out to find a bird it puts its nose to the ground and starts across the prairie at a very rapid rate. Before going far it invariably experiences a change of mind and comes back. The program is then repeated, with a few miscellaneous curves dropped in to throw the prairie-chicken off her guard and get up an appetite for dinner. While making these evo­ lutions valuable pointers have fre­ quently been injured by having their nose drop into a gopher-liole and break off. After that a pointer may make an excellent parlor ornament, but seldom amounts to much for hunting purposes. When a pointer stumbles onto a chicken which it can't well avoid, it has a habit of raising a fore leg to call at­ tention to the fact. One which would point out the bird with the hind leg would be a curiosity, and command a high price. A good pointer after having struck this attitude, will keep it for a long time if no sportsman comes to its relief and scares' up the bird and shoots a calf over in an adjoining field. The setter is another breed of dog. It has more hair, and consequently fewer ribs. The chief use of the setter, like that of the pointer, is for the hunter to swear at when he misses the bird. The setter is so called from its manner of making known the fact that it has sighted game. This is accom­ plished by carelessly taking a seat as if nothing had happened and acting as if it had sat down to remain, very much like a carpenter working by the day. We have heard of setters which, after being seated, would take out a cigar and begin to smoke or commence to look over the morning paper, but never fully credited the story. We did, however, once see a setter which habitually carried a camp-stool around in its mouth, and upon sighting a covey of chickens would calmly sit down on the stool and cross its legs. We act­ ually saw this several years ago, so there can be no mistake about it. A fine Irish setter belonging to an Estelline gentleman once went into a blacksmith shop during chicken season, and happening to sight a recently- killed chicken in the belt of a man in the shop, immediately began to set it with more haste than caution, and in so doing by mistake sat on a red-hot horse­ shoe which the blacksmith had just dropped. Its owner afterwards paid the blacksmith $1.50 for the window- sash and telegraphed to the next town for his dog.--Estelline Bell. ---- -- i J," ' Tennyson and the Gushing Girl/ ' A romantic young lady obtained re­ cently the desire of her heart--she met the poet laureate at dinner, and the sympathetic hostess even arranged that she should be placed next to him." One remark, and one alone, did the poet ad­ dress to the gushing maiden at his side, and it was this: "I like my mutton in wedges."--London letter. USEFPL INFORMATION. j HOT WATEB Goon FOE SPRAINS--Hot water is the beat thing that can be used to heal a sprain or bruise. The wounded part should be placed in water as hot as can be borne, for fifteen or twenty min­ utes, and in all ordinary cases the pain will gradually disappear. Hot water applied by means of cloths is a sover­ eign remedy for neuralgia and pleurisy pains. For burns or scalds, apply cloths well saturated with cool alum- water, keeping the injured part covered from the air.--Philadelphia Call. THE CARE OF LACE CURTAINS.-- Never iron lace curtains, not even em­ broidered muslin ones. Have two long, slender boards, as long or longer than the curtains. Tack on to these a strip of cloth or wide tape~the entire length. Place them outdoors on chairs, as you would quilting frames, and carefully pin the wet curtain between, stretching it until it is entirely smooth. Every point and scallop should be pulled in shape and fastened down. It will quickly dry, when its place can be filled with another.--Chicago News. DOWN DRAUGHTS IN CHIMNEYS.--An English firm has introduced a new chimney top which is said to effectually perfect down draughts in chimneys. They are made from a number of grooved rings placed one on the other, but having intervening spaces between each ring (the rings, when made of metal, are tied together by rods, but when made of clay they can be burned together.) When the wind strikes the grooves it will return, and in doing so will draw air up the chimney and up through the spaces at the top, thus pre­ venting a down draught and compell­ ing up draught. No cowl or cap is needed; every action of the wind is pro­ vided foij. The appliance is stationary and easily fixed by any bricklayer. When made in clay it is certainly less ugly than most similar contrivances. A STRONG-ADHESIVE CEMENT.--One of the most adhesive and durable of ce­ ments for uniting iron surfaces is found to be the oxide of iron itself. With this a joint can be made so perfect and sound that the iron will break before the cement will part. As an illustra­ tion of this statement the fact is cited that, in removing the cast-iron pipe of a bilge pump from a ship that had made four Atlantic voyages, it was found nec­ essary to take the sections apart; the flanges had been pasted with a cement of cast-iron drillings and filings mixed with sulphur and sal-ammoniac mois­ tened with water; then the nuts, three in each flange, were set up on the bolts, and the union was completed. The four voyages occupied nearly a year, and, on the separation of the parts be­ ing attempted, even the cold chisel failed to make a division between the solid castings and the cement that in­ tervened. • The Rainbow. A rainbow occurs when the sun or moon, not too far above the horizon, throws its beams upon a sheet of fall­ ing rain-drops on the opposite side of the heavens. Tims, a ray of light from the sun strikes a rain-drop obliquely; part of it is reflected at the surface of the drop, the rest, passing into the drop, is refracted; on the other side of the drop part of the ray passes through and the rest is again reflected; on passing from the drop on the same side that it entered, a second refraction occurs. These successive re­ flections and refactions separate? the ray of white light into its component colored rays. Mid as the angles of inci­ dence and emergence vary for each color, the eye of a spectator perceives them as distinct bands. Now, every drop in the sheet of falling water which has equal obliquity to the spectator's eye, will send to it rays of the same color. But, the only drops which cans fulfill these conditions of like obliquity of reflected rays, are those which define the base of a cone whose apex is the eye, and the center of whose base is in a right line, passing through the sun and the eye of the spectator. A rainbow can only be seen when the spectator stands between it and the sun; its center must always be directly op­ posite the sun, moving with the sun's motion, falling if the sun is rising, and rising if the sun is declining. At or near sunset, when the sun and the ob­ server are in the same horizontal plane, the bow will be seen to form a complete semicircle; when the sun is higher in the sky, a smaller arch is seen; the entire circle could only be visible to a spectator on the top of a very high and narrow mountain peak, which elevated his plain much above that of the sun's rays, but did not cut off their light. A complete circle may also sometimes be seen in the rainbow formed by the sun­ light on the spray arising from catar­ acts. When the sheet of falling drops is large, and the sun-liglit very bright, the double rainbow is seen. When the snn is obscured by fine rain or fog, the rainbow proper is replaced by a bow formed bv the reflection and interfer­ ences of light from these fine particles of water. This bow is, of course, with­ out the color. A lunar rainbow is also colorless.--Inter Ocean. Diseases Caused by Tea. It is not a little curious, Say* the Lancet, that the diseases arising from the wrong use of tea should be met with in greater frequency in countries foreign to its growth. The diseases due to this cause are well known to doctors, but the public seem to be strangely indif­ ferent to the teachings of their medical advisers in these matters. Recently in France, M. Eloy has reminded medical men how vast is the number of diseases owing an allegiance to the dominion of queen tea. America and England are the two countries that are afflicted most with the maladies arising from its ex­ cessive consumj>tion. Individuals may suffer in a variety of ways. It is cus­ tomary to speak of acute, sub-acute, and chronic "theism," a form that has no connection with theological matters. The predominance of nervous symptoms is a characteristic of theism. General excitations of the functions of the nerv­ ous system may be observed, or the weakness may be noted more especially in the brain as distinguished from the spinal cord. Perversion of the sens^, of hearing is not at all a common symp­ tom, patients hearing voices that have no real or objective existence. The irritability that overtakes women so frequently may sometimes be clearly traced to an excessive indulgence in afternoon tea. No doubt the tannin which tea that has been standing con­ tains does a great amount of mischief; but theism belongs rather to that class of diseases in which morphinism, eaffe- ism, and vanillic are found. The habit of tea-drinkmg is one that grows on its victims like the similar ones of opium and alcohol. Talt en in strict moderation and with due precautions in the mode of preparation, tea is, like alcohol, a valuable stimulant; in its abuse there is also a certain analogy.-- Bad Schooling for Children. "Stop your crying, do you hear!" The cross words from a well-dressed young man were spoken to his little girl who seemed almost too tired to drag one foot aftet the other. The four-year-old "tot* continued crying until the father, pretending to look up and down the street for a "cop," said, "Where's the policeman?" when the sobbing ceased. Bat the check was cruel, as the frightened look of the lit­ tle one Mtestea. Possibly the child still lives; albeit if the father had in­ tended to shorten her life he could hardly have taken a more effective plan to accomplish his purpose, and it wouldn't be strange if the little thing were not sleeping in the cemetery. Mischief is sure to follow in the wake of such treatment. "Charlie, come in this minute, or the bad man will cut your ears off," I once heard a young mother say to her little boy who was playing in the garden. Charl e, come in -hurriedly, having a hand over each ear as if fearful of losing them. The little fellow never learned that his mother was only frightening him. He was taken sick and soon was at rest under the daisies. Even when a child so treated escapes physical injury, there is danger of moral hurt. "Good-bv, Johnny, will 'take you to-morrow," said a lady, as, with her hnsband, she rode by a group of boys who were playing at marbles. Johnny's face flushed. Pointing to the occupants of the carriage, he said, angrily, "Boys, there goes two of the biggest liars in town." That was bad in Johnny, especially as the "two" he had spoken of were his father and mother. In measuring the boy's offense, however, we must remember that he had been taught in the school of parental untruthfulness. Again and again had his parents promised him a ride, saying, "To-morrow we will take you," but, so far as the ride was con­ cerned, the "to-morrow never came," and that last "good-by, Johnny," in connection with other broken prom­ ises, and the boy's ugly response, were legitimate cause and effect. Truly a dangerous schooling for the little ones. The Pioneer Women of California. Thirty-five years ago an ox team was creeping across the plains to California. By night the men walked, on guard against the Indians. By day the women tramped beside the patient beasts. Food was scarce, and it was necessary to save the cattle. At the head of one of these teams trudged a young woman with eyes alert for foe in form of red­ skin or friend in shape of water. Blis­ tered bare feet--for shoes were worn out early in the tramp--sun-scarred faces and hands rock-hardened through constant exposure bespoke the hard­ ships of the trip as they painfully dragged into Truckee after months of travel. That trip seared itself into a memory that never grew dim until three weeks ago. Then a palace sleep­ er, a baggageman, a transfer company, and a telegraph rubbed so heavily upon the indelible mark of "51" that now but the faintest outline of the figures remain. The terrible trials endured by our pioneer women will never be ap­ preciated by the palace-hotel-cable-car- telephone generation. The girls of to­ day cannot understand why their mothers and grandmothers were in such a hurry to get here. The fact that many came to join husbands does not seem to figure with Miss Shallow. But add a year or two and a share of love to Miss Shallow's experience, and even iu this "good-match" day she herself might travel from ooe&n to ocean to join a dear one. Our present-day women are just as noble, just as brave, and just as true as those who lived in the nauseatingly praised "good old times."--San Francisco Report. A Mother's Device. The son of the millionaire Bellar, living in Rome, intended to travel around the world. The young man's mother was very much troubled about her only child leaving her, and tried to secure a safe traveling companion for him. Advertisements appeared during several days in all the principal papers inviting young men who wished to accept such a position to call at the house. Of the numberless candidates, three were taken into consideration, and they were invited to dinner, under the pretext of discussing the final arrangements. When they had passed a merry time over dinner and the dessert was served, the lady of the house then suddenly threw herself on her knees before her husband, crying oat: "I am a miser­ able wretch. Despair has made me a murderess. The pine-apple cream is poisoned. You have all to die." One of the young men began to lament his sad fate, the second one remained sitting on his chair, like one turned to stone wit)) fright, and the third one ran to the door, calling out: "There is an antidote for every poison. I will run to the doctor." The signora stopped him on the threshold, saying: "The story is invented. I see you have pres­ ence of mind. You shall accompany my dear child."--Foreign letter. • | * A Shrewd Dog. A family let their house furnished, leaving in it a large dog. The tenant was an old lady who liked to sit in a particularly comfortable chair in the drawing-room, but as the dog was also very fond of this chair, she frequently found him in possession. Being rather afraid of the dog, she did not care to drive him out, and therefore she used to go to the window and call "cats!" The dog would then rush to the window and bark, and the lady would take pos- j OI , session of the chair. One day the dog a entered the room and found the old lady in the chair. He ran to the win­ dow and barked excitedly. The lady got up to see what was the matter, and the dog instantly seated himself in the, chair.--Youth's Companion. PlPted ntt pvvbfettar for otel than at Whan yen visitor leave Mew YotkGty, save baggage, expresKge, and 98 carriage hire, and stop at the Ctanud Ualma Hatel, opposite Grand Celual Depot 613 raws, fitted up at a ooat at cue million doM"\ik£rd leas mone^ at the Grand Ui anjother frst-clasa hotel £ the American feUand. £ I will defend the American husband. He deserves a very large letter. All jestings aside, a few weeks at the sea­ side are enough to convince the great­ est unbeliever that the American hus­ band is the nearest approach to a plump cherub that we have. He does so much and asks--nothing. He is a more abject slave to his woman kind than any that were ever sold "befo' de wah* and lie receives more thankless- ness. Now, dear, I am not going in for saying women should be Griseldas altogether, but a little consideration for these so-called masters ( ?) would not be bad. Here mankind gets up very early in the morning, eats a hurried breakfast, rushes for boat or train, is busy all day in the city, nervous for fear he will miss the special boat or train, gets down in time to see his wife (for the first time that day) in evening toggery, and is so tired out of himself that she accuses him of stu­ pidity. What do I propose as a remedy? This. When, men cannot afford to take an All summer vacation then the gracious dames should stay in the city until they can all go off together and have a really good time. At least it is as little as a woman can do to get up and breakfast with a man when half his life is spent on the trains, or rushing for them, that she may be made happy. A man Jack knows said: "What do American men marry for? They get no settlements " Here he was interrupted and it was suggested that "they married for love." "But," said he, "if these women 1 see loved the men they would make things pleasant for them and not think quite so much of themselves." It is sad but it is 'true. The cause of the American man shall be embraced by me, and I can assure you his rights shall be regarded as only secondary to the fit of my gown. Husbands, be brave, I am on your side; wives, trem­ ble in your boots, for I am going to reform you.--Exchange. A Yellowish Coat •«!«• toujrWB, pattlettiarly near Its VMM^il j of Itself Sufficient to demote biliousness, an ail­ ment to the development of whidh the hot Weather-r-it may be. remarked in passing-is extremely favorable, and which autumn often brings in its train as a lingering legacy. If not remedied--which it speedily may be with Hostettor's Stomach Bitters--then follow ag­ gravated disorder of tine stomach and bowels, dull pains beneath the lower right ribs, nausea and headache, A prompt use of this in­ valuable specific is always desirable, no matter what the season. Upon the liver it exerts an Influence directly beneficial. The bile, the obstruction to its flow being relieved by the relaxation of the bowels, returns to its natural channel, and the portion of it which hat) forced its way into and contaminated the blood, in expelled. The stomach also resume* its digestive tanction. Rheumatism, fever and ague, and kidney trouble* also suocumb to the Bitters. Helling Her Hair* I found a sweet little girl at Monroe, while I was in North Carolina, whose name was Fairfax Payne. Not long ago she became troubled because the money had given out and the little church was unfinished. So she begged her mother to let her cut off her beau­ tiful hair and sell it. She had read about a girl selling her hair for $20, and at last the little girl's mother con­ sented, and the hair was sent North to the editress of Harper's Young People, with a timid little letter, and the Har­ pers advertised it, and told how the money was to be used, and published the little girl's letter, and while I was there the contributions that had already come in from the kind-hearted people up North amounted to over $200, and they were still comingC--Atlanta Con- utitutioru MR. J. E. BONSAI., New Bloomfield, Pa., clerk of the several courts of Perry Co., <Pa., was afflioted with rheumatism for more than thirty years. After spending hundreds of dollars with different physicians, and trying every known remedy without b >n?iit, h$ used fit. Jacobs Oil, which effeeted an entire cure. "We is &e title of (160 pages) stamps. 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Price 50cts.. b; e*'h nostril and in reeable to use. Price SO eta., by muil or at droggtata. Send for circular. ELY BROTHERS* Druftffiats. Oweffo. N. Y. WOVEN WIREFENGiHe Me. FEB HOD. THE sense of smell is so little thought of that its extreme delicacy even is not reciated. A recent writer says: pite the comparative insignificance is sense in man, its delicacy ia most arvelons, and by it we can appreciate more minute subdivisions of matter than by any other avenues to the brain." Prof. Valentine has calc ulated that the actual amount of oil of roses necessary to excite a sense of sme|l, or be detect­ ed by the human noae, is only one one- hundred and twenty-tliousandth of a grain. Other experimenters have dis­ covered that there are other substances of which even a less amount will make itself known to "the olfactory sense. For instance^ mercaptan, or sulphur­ ated alcohol, will impress this sense when subdivided to the extent of one- billionth of a grain--a subdivision more easily calculated than comprehended. Therefore, if any one should work out a complete and practical system of osmic therapeutics, oi; nose cure, the infinitesimal portions of substance re- Full particular* by mail free, to aM who act 158 and 160 W. L»k« St., CHICAGO, IB BLUKBERRY Plants.--Descriptive circular and any Information free. 8. A.Herrick, New boston, N.H. tlOUC STUDY. Secure a Business Education bv IIUMC mail. COLLEGE or BUHINKSS, Buffalo, N. Y. flDIIIU Habit Cured. Treatment sent on tnaL UrlUM HUMANC HBKBDT CO., LAKUYette,Ind. na vcMT SAI.I<:. THE ADAM- I EBIW I SON Co.. Solicitors, Muncie, lnd. OFFICEl< W Pav, Bounty, • etc. Write for rimilars and laws. . MoCOKMICK L SON, Cincinnati, O. Learn nere and can good pay. Situation* Bros.. JaassvlU*. Wife and Mmyhtae Habit 8'ared in 1® to PENSIONS r A.w.U TELEGRAPHY I furnished. 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Hahnemann, the father of hom i opatliv, resorted to this method of treatment, but did not re­ duce it to a science, or cven develop it enough to encourage a continuance of the practice among his disciples followers.--Dr. Footers Health Monthly., - CURE FOR GOUT.--Take a thousand dollars, worth of newspaper bills and try to collect them. "Delays Are Dangerous.* No Ropt to Cut Off Horses' Manet. Celebrated <I}CL1I*SK> HALT EH and BHIDLE Combined, can not be 81ipped by any horse. Sample Baiter to any part of U. S. free, on receipt of $1. Bold fcy all Saddlery, Hardware and Harness Dealers. Special discount to tlie Trade. Send lor Prlcc-L'st. JX.UfiH1SIOUiI,loche8ter#.¥ lUNTlOM THIS FAFKR »>a» EHMI Dr. WiJlisms' Indian Pile Ointment a sure cure tor blind.bleedinv: or piles. Cure guaranteed, 'ice 50c and #1. At drugsiat's or ^ MFO. CO., Cleveland. Precisely. The addresses of a certain young man having been declined by a young lady, he paid court to her sister. 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