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The Romauisch population speak with Eide of their tongue as the key of iguages. There is truth in tills boast; for Romanisch exhibits a remarkable rickness of vowel sounds, which en­ ables those who use it to catch with ease* the accent of other races, while its vo­ cabulary has much in common with French, Italian, and Spanish. In the aehools German is taught, and sermons are occasionally preached in that lan- Sage for the baneht of resident ents. The inhabitants of Granbunden •peak, for the most part, German; about 30,000 speak Romaukch; and a smaller section, belongii^ to the valleys of Mesocco, Bregaglia aud Posciiiavo, use Italian. Now the same education is given in all districts; and among the Italian Graubundeners there are b »th Protestant and Catholic Villages. It is therefore a frequent custom for German families to send one or two of their sons during the winter into an Italian family, receiving an equal number of Italian children in return. Business communications, which are continually going on across the passes of Berninn, Maloja, and Bernardino, facilitate tbis exchange; and thus, without any additional ex­ pense except that of the journey, two families may obtain for their lads the advantage of acquiring a foreign lan­ guage. It should be mentioned that the schools in mountain villages are only open during the long Alpine winter-- that is, from the middle of October till the following Easter. This, though it somewhat retards the scholars' advance in learning, I'B excellent'for his health. All through the summer lads and boys tend sheep or cows upon the fields, help their fathers to make hay, roam in the woods and get their fill of air and sunshine. The schoolmasters have gone to the villages, where they mow and gather in the crops like other Kasants to Vhose households they be-ig. Such being the arrangements for Swiss schooling in the mountain districts a handy lad of 14 or 15 mar have the glorious opportunity of being taken to the breezy pastures where the cattle pass their summer, He will go as help to the Senn, or head herdsman, whos8 business it is to collect the milk and tUake the cheese for several fami­ lies. Or he may be employed as goatherd, or be used to prevent the cows straying beyond boundaries. No English child, setting out for a holi­ day at the seaside, departs from home with a keener sense of exhilaration than little Melohior did one June morn­ ing in 187-4, under the care of his fa­ ther's friend, the Senn. They were bound for those high meadows above Panix, in tlia Vorder Rlie'nthal, which ...TT gtavm \.»v, £.-«/, - this translation of the cattle from their winter quarters to the highlands, 6,000 feet above the sea, above the forest jne, within sight of glittering glaciers, id under overhanging crags of mighty irecipices. The whole village is astir ing before davbreak; and the animals, io know well what a gond time is in tore for them, are a3 impatient as their The procession sets forth in J along train, cows lowing, bells ting- '• ping, herdsmen shouting, old men and '/women giving tho last directions about \their favorite beasts to the herds- 'men. Rude pictures of the Zug auf die Alpen, as it is called, may some­ times be seen pasted, like a frieze or bas-relief, along the low panelled walls of mountain cottages. These are the work, in many cases, of the peasants themselves, who write the names of the cattle over the head of each, attach preposterously huge bells to the proud leaders of the herd aud burden the hinds with vast loads of bread and household gear and implements for w»Hncr cheese. Jenkins and Hi* Children. Jenkins is always urging that the cares of women are trivial compared to the trials that daily beset men while in pursuit of their ordinary vocations. He says that the women have "nothing to do but to look after the children, and little things like.that," and it puts him quite out of patience to have Mrs. Jen- kins intimate that the children are a care to her. "After a child is able to walk it looks after itself, and it is no more trouble," argues Jenkins. He was unexpectedly given a holi­ day not long ago, and his wife said: "Now, John, I think I'll take this .opportunity of doing my shopping, if you'll stay at home and take care of the children while I'm gone." "Care!" sniffed Jenkins. "There won't be any care about it I'll just give them their playthings and they'll take care of themselves, while I read this new article on the tariff I brought home with me." Mrs. Jenkins departs. There are five of the little Jenkinses, ranging in years from 2 to 9. Jenkins gives them a ^ bushel of playthings and says: *'Now you're fixed for to-day." Then he settles himself in his easy chair with a cigar and his article on the tariff. A moment later he says: "What are you crying for,* Jimmie? Johnnie hit you? Well, he won't do it again. Minnie, don't you upset an­ other chair, and take that new maga­ zine away from babv." /^Then he begins again: "The protective tariff question is one that Johnny, get off that sofa with your feet! What is tho baby screaming so for? Give him what he wants, Hattie. Ain't you big enough to wipe your own nose, Johnny? Minnie, what are you doing to the baby ? Now keep still, all of you The protective tariff question* is one that must interest What on earth are you young ones doing? You're enough to drive "a man raving crazy! Johnny, you go and sit in that corner until you can learn to let Jimmie alone. What is the matter with baby ? Hattie hit him? What did you do that for? No, Jimmie, you can't have my knife. I don't know what possesses you chil­ dren to- day. Now don't let me speak to you again. ' "The protective tariff Do you ' want to drive me wild? Who upset that table? Who tore that new maga­ zine? What set the baby's nose to bleeding? Get a rag, some of you. Let my cigar alone, Jim! I'll trounce the whole lot of you yet. Stop jour noise! You boys stop scuffling. Minnie, give Hattie that doll if it is hers. There, now you've broken it Who broke that glass? There goes your mother's workbasket. What's that the baby has torn up? My article on the tariff, as I live! If your mother don't come home in ten minutes shell find me a raving lunatic. I'd rather hoe potatoes a week than tend babies five minutes. Now, I'll whip the first one of you that speaks for three hours 1"-- London Exchange. 1 The Dram Mnjor. Bo yon, my dear sir, who read this fancy that you could be a drum major? Cau you fancy anything more exquis­ itely foolish than you would look in that dress? No. Preposterous as our conceit is in most directions, we know that a limit is set to all human achieve­ ment. You could no more march in review for miles before thousands of people and flourish your rattan in their faces with the debonair grace or easy insolence of a drum major than you could fly. You would certainly suck it, and probably drop it, and possibly' run somebody through with it. You would look positively purple in your hideous embarrassment, and sigh for an earth­ quake to swallow you or the spectators up as you shambled awkwardly along iii uiter wretchedness, but, unlike Alice Ben Bolt of ballad fame, you would not make the multitude weep with delight by your smile or tremble with fear at your frown, and not for all the gold of Arabia and the gems of Samarcand would you put yourself in such a posi­ tion. Have you, par hasard, has any­ body, ever seen a dead drnm major ? Can you lay your hands on a living one ? What is he like in private life? Is he as good as he is great ? Has he qny oc­ cupation except "to exist beautifully," a dwelling-place, associates? Like a king, he can have no frien&fci, for he has no equals, but he may have a family, though to imagine him a Bene­ dict smoking his pipe on the back steps of a tenement-house in his shirt sleeves, while a half-dozen dirty drum major- kins swarm about him is quite impos­ sible, and to fancy him deshabille, in a red-fiannel night-cap, his face swelled up (instead of his chest, with toothache, warming the baby's l'ood at twenty min­ utes of 2 a. m., gives the mind a shock from which there is no recovery. It is a question, of course, whether he in­ spires anything like the terror at home that he does abroad. I opine that Mrs. Drum Major is a small, vary small woman, who iias that blustering braggart of a husband, be­ fore whom we tremble, completely under her thumb. She has got the length of his foot long since. Stamps on it porsistently and who makes him take it away. She Knows who is afraid and can bo made to roar as gently as any sucking dove. Are, then, the wives of drum majors the real rulers of the world ? This is a most alarming idea; for who rules them ? Their priests ? Their physicians? A baby? A lapdog? Gracious powers! What is the use of magna charta, trial by jury, or the De­ claration of Independence, if what pol­ iticians (with a reporter behind the plat­ form, taking notes) call "the sacred lib­ erties of the people" are at tho mercy of such obscure and irresponsible parties as those last named ? Shades of our revo­ lutionary forefathers, was it for this that ye bled and died ? Such as they are, however, we have got to accept them. The barbarian in I\S IOVPS FLITTER AND SHOW, AMI I}S LONG. -- rs«*•"*- - "•*" --r --- • r»~ as a single procession winds along the path of glory, the drum major will be found entrancing 9nd dragooning the hvdraheaded monster as we see him in Det aille's great picture, so- Here's health to all gentleman drummers. That ever have thumped on a skin. --Frances C. Baylor, in LippincoWs. The Wilbcrforce Wit. Mr. William Wilberforce, who died not long since in England, transmitted the family wit to a daughter, who is a worthy nieee of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, one of tha witti­ est as well as ablest prelates of modern times. Mr. Wilberforce once contested a large Yorkshire borough, and when he mounted the hustings on tho day of the election, he left his daughter Beated in the carriage. The Conservative mob recognized her, and surrounded her with shouts of "Miss Wilberforce forever." The lady letdown the carriage'win­ dow and replied, with a laugh, "No, my friends* not Miss Wilbcrforce forever!" An eminent ̂ English divine said of Mr. Wilberforce that "he enterel a room with all the sweetness of an angel and all the agility of a monkey."--tit. Louis Magazine. Complication* or Justice. "Jim Richardson, aro yer guilty of feloniously an' uncerimoniously and premeditonously stealing Sam Weasel's chickens wiaout askin' his permission?" asked Judge Johnson. "No, sali," re­ plied the prisoner. "I never took 'em." "But the chickens were found in your possession. 'Splain dat" "Well, boss, I didn't take 'em. Another nigger stoled them all, and he gin me half of what he got for gwine 'long an' holdin' de lantern; but, Jedge, joyi couldn't hire a respectable nigger like me to steal things." "lteleasa the prisoner," cried the Judge; "he has been adoin* nothin' worthy of "condemnation. It would be a check on de liberties of de world ef dis Court should say that it was unlawful fer a man ter hire eut ter hold a lantern fpr another man, whether de other man 'grees to pay him in chickens, ole clothes or, money."--Mil­ waukee Sun. A Hasheesh Oinb. Hasheesh is superseding morphine and vaporized ether, it is said, in the affection of the Parisian dilettanti drunkards. They have founded a Has­ heesh club on the Rue St. Michel, where they meet every Friday. The amount of the drug which each shall take is prescribed by a doctor, and the dose is prepared by a chemist, both lhembers of the club. It is taken in pills, and not chewed, drunken, or smoked, as are the oriental fashions. Each of the members is bound to de­ scribe to the others, either in writing or verbally, his sensations as the drug gains its influence over him.--New York Sun. Sliall It lie a "Penny Counter" Next! When any one not familiar with that peculiar institution walkq through what is known as a "five-cent store" he is amazed at the thousands of articles of real value that can be bought for that triHing sum. The manufacture of goods of this kind is becoming a distinct line of business. Shall we not have "penny stores" next ? It is said that almost as gre.it a variety of goods can be shown at a penny each as at the higher price. Would it not be a good idea for some of the larger houses to try the experi­ ment of a "penny counter?"--Philadel­ phia Time*, flow Exploring is Done. Sometimes the advent of exploring parties inflicts much suffering which the visitors are not responsible for and cannot prevent. The Stanley expedi­ tion has just furnished a case in point. When Stanley and nearly four hundred of his men reached Yambuga rapids in the Arnwimi River all the inhabitants of the large villages in the neighbor­ hood fled into the forests leaving hun­ dreds of huts without a tenant, and abandoning their gardens and fields to the intruders. Their precipitate flight could not be prevented, though with­ out doubt it brought great Buffering upon them. Stanley was willing to pay for food, but as the owners of the fields fled ho had no other course that to take from the fields such supplies as ho needed without paying for them. A fjj^ of the fugitives wore caught and dismissed with presents, and Stanley hoped that in this way the men he left in charge at this place" would gradually win the confidence of the natives and . induce them to return to their homes. The late Sir Peter Scratchier, formerly the British Commissioner in New Guinea, investigated some time ago a number of cases in which white men had been murdered by the s ivages of that big island. He reported that in every instance he found that, the white men were the aggressors. They had tried to kidnap natives, had wan­ tonly killed some of them, or in other ways had inllicte I bitter wrongs upon them. Though in all cases lie considered it his duty to give the natives to under­ stand that they must leave to the whites the punishment oi men Who injared them, he said that soma of these men richly deserved their tragic fate. There is one white man, the Rev. Mr. Chal­ mers, who goes in and out among these same natives with perfect fearlessness. He never carries a weapon of any sort, but he has inspired the natives" along hundreds of miles of tha southern coast with so much confidence and esteem that his coming is always welcomed. While Mr. Bouvalot, the French traveler, and his companions were crossing the Pamir table-land in Central Asia last spring lie treated the natives in a very high-handed manner. The party were in sufficiently strong force to bo able to do as they pleased in the thinly settled highlands. As they ad­ vanced they appropriated all the port­ ers and camels they wanted at the point of the revolver. According to their own story they must have stolen about all the useful beasts they came across. Bouvalot 8ay8 that for a month they could obtain porters and pack animals only by using their sticks and revolvers, and he seeks to justify his cruel usaie of the natives on the ground that his necessity compelled him to act with se\ erity. Explorers who have the gentleness and tact of Livingistone and Junker rarely have any serious trouble with the savage tribes they meet. Dr. Junker said a few weeks a^o that he never entered a native village without sending messengers in advance to an­ nounce his coming and without obtain­ ing permission to visit the pi ace. He was always very careful to explain the purpose, of his visit, and he found an accortiion, which was the constant com­ panion of his travels, a very valuable aid in calming and delighting natives who were disposed to look upon him with suspicion. The only blemish upon the brilliant record of Prejevalsky, the Russian ex­ plorer, is the fact that on his last HARHOHT AMONG ANIMALS. w acta Members of the Brute Creation Win I«M Their Fear of Man. Instances of individuals gifted with an exceptional influence over animals have been very numerous, and the sto­ ries told of the strange sympathy whicn existed mutually between them and their friends in fur, feathers or scales are familiar to most readers of books of natural history. * This power over the lower orders-- a form, perhaps, of intellectual "mes­ merism"--is exercised for many pur­ poses, sometimes for money making, as When professional "tamers," like tho famous M. B^ael, who has a grand mansion at Asnieres, show their com­ mand over wild beasts, from the man in spangleB who goes into the lion's den and makes the huge brute perform tricks, to the humble exhibitor at street corners who has a cage full of canaries trained to fire off popguns, and take libertiec with a furry, sleepy old cat. At other times it is for personal pleasure, as when a Thoreau goes into his woodland hermitage and spends his iife in communion with all the wildings whose natural home he has come to share, or a Gautier takes ponies, dogs and cats into his confidence, and talks to them and of them as if he and they had arrived at a perfect understanding. It is interesting to contemplate the possible results if man could only re­ vert again to that condition of universal amiability which i«» xeputed to hive' been the charm oI life in E<Je»/iand which is promised as one of thespecial joys of the millennium. Before man, however, could live in perfect harmony with other animals, it would be necessary for the lower or­ ders to arrive first at mutual under­ standing among themselves. Hounds would have to take pleasure in hunting hares only tip to the point when the hare grew weary and did not want to be hunted any more. Or a particular fox, on being discovered in his covert, should explain to the pack that he was a little out of sorts that morning, and his friends must really excuse him showing them any sport. In return, foxes would have to take to eating grass among the geese on the common and not interfere with the goslings. It would be expected of them that they should bear no ill-will toward chickens and ducks, but, on the contrary, be aimable and neighborly with the inmates of the poultry yard. Tne terrier and the cat slioufd let bygones be bygones and, except for amusement or healthy exercise, give up running after each other and spit­ ting and scratching. Canaries in their cages might be left in the room with puss, and the door being open would make no difference. Having got as far as this, we might then set about putting ourselves in thorough accord with the rest of crea­ tion. Special embassies would be sent to the jungles of Asia and the forests of Africa, and matters arranged with the beasts for future harmony; and once preliminaries were satisfactorily set­ tled with the lion and tiger, the pacifi- t on of the other animals would rapidly follow. No doubt the difficulties to be encountered at the outset are great, for carnivorous animals might be natu­ rally expected to entertain very grave objections to becoming vegetarian. As it is now, everything hides itself, the beasts get behind bushes, rush into their holes or B -.ulk into the grass, while the birds vanish out of sight jourm^y'lie ttiftect thirty orTorty naffves J eitteiC sudden flight or swift disap- of a tribe that opposed his ad van t-e to pearanC^^11011? foliage. All this would be changeu.% In India, for instance, the mon< eys come out and gam­ bol in full view, ffiegjeacocks brighten the high roads and ,, -Vxthe curious email life in fur and feuiiierirv.. Thich at present no one ever sees, woia4 come forward and fill the whole day \ with lively incident, and banish dullness by giving every one plenty to look 0$, watch and think about--London Ex*, change. opposed the head-waters of the great Hoang- Ho River of China. He asserts that the accomplishment of his mission and the safety of his command compelled him to inflict severe paaishment upon the natives. Oil Quelling an Angry Sea. A frequent cause of disaster to ship* is the breaking of seas over them, and on this point the hydrographer of the United States has published within the last two years, in pamphlet form, di­ gested from the "Monthij Pilot Chart," a list of a hundred and twenty authen­ ticated cases in whifih furious seas were allayed by the use of oil; the last proof of which is furnished by Capt. Wales, of the British steamer, "New Guinea," as follows: "In January of the present year, making passage from Baltimore to Antwerp, encountered a very heavy western gale, accompanied by a tre­ mendous sea. Considerable damage bad been done to the boats and about the decks by the seas doming over the side, and the captain, wishing to avoid heaving the vessel to, if possible, de­ cided to try the effects of oil, his atten­ tion having been called to it by the perusal of printed accounts. Two men were stationed forward--one at each closet--with ordinary soup and bully cans filled with raw linseed oil, the bottoms of the canrs having been punched with two or three small holes. The oil was allowed to trickle into the bowl and thence into the sea, with what seemed to the captain a wonderful effect. The oil-slick extended well out on either-quarter, and so far astern that not a single sea broke on board after the use of the oil was begun." The captain described the manner in which the great white-crested seas would come roaring after the ship, as if they would sweep her decks fore and aft; and how, on meeting the oil-slick, the crest of the sea would apparently ba shattered into fine spray, and noth­ ing left of the tremendous breaker but an enormous swell, over which the vessel rode easily and without taking a drop of water. The captain gave his personal attention to the expenditure of oil, regulating its flow by stopping one or more of the holes in the can when more than was necessary ran out, and in this way he succeeded in making seven gallons of oil last twenty-four hours. All this time his decks wero almost absolutely dry, the only water coining on board being the fine spray from the crest of eich wave as it came into contact with the oil-slick, and was blown on board. Captain Wales adds that, he makes a point of using oil when even not absolutely necessary, as it adds so much to the comfort of all on board, and eases the ship. It would seem to be the part of discretion, now that the question of using oil in such cases is finally settled, that all ships be regularly equipped with appliances for casting oil on the water, just as they are comp died to oarry lights and compasses. "Seabreakers"--appliances for the distribution of the oil--have been patented both at home and abroad, and are now used by all cattle-carrying steamers and some other vessels. Special oil is now manufactured for this purpose. --Lieut. V. L. Cottn\an, in the Forum. GOVERNMENT is the creature of the people, and that whioh they have cre­ ated tli^y surely have a right to ex- "maine.--fSobert Hall. Tait purpose of the patient fre­ quently prptcpqts his ourav--jfimmer- mann. ' * 4 Many Ways of Bating. Anybody can, and everybody does, eat after his or her fashion. That the fashion of doing what is so natural and so necessary to the continuance of human existence should often be so vile that man's meat becomes his bane is a fact accepted quietly because it is BO common. Sufferers and their friends talk of indigestion as of una­ voidable friction of machinery. The processes of the stomach in its normal state are adjusted and regulated with an admirable regard for causes, uses, and effects that reduces needful wear and tear to a minimum. Eating and walking are both natural operations of the human body. There are as many ways of doing one as the other, but the wrong way of feeding is attended by far more serious conse­ quences than a slouch, or stoop in car­ riage, or a hitch in locomotion. The fable of the Belly and the Members has a profound practical application which .'Esop may or may not have dis­ cerned. It goes without saying that the pri­ mal essential to digestion is to furnish the stomach with material that may be easily assimilated by the gastric fluids. It is equally pateat that this point can­ not receive justice now and here. The thought of the undertaking suggests the apostle's magnificent hyperbole: "I suppose the world itself would not contain the books that would be writ­ ten." We must spur thp imagination^ to take for granted that one out of ten Christian families in easy circum­ stances sits down tri-daily to meals properly prepared and served. 1 heard a member of the above-ad­ mitted tenth family congratulating himself the other day on his ability to fast without discomfort. According to his showing, his stomach was as man­ ageable &s a stop-watch. He took his breakfast at any and all hours, dis­ pensed with the midday lunch as often as not; and shifted dinner-time to suit his convenience, or that of his custom­ ers. Men of business are the chief of sinners in this respect. The noon £pell--a beneficent institution be­ queathed to us by our forefathers with the now almost everywhere obsolete 9-o'clock curfew--shuts up the me­ chanic and day.laborer to the whole­ some necessity of dining at a given hour the year around. & any women have "hunger headaches," angels in disguise, that remind them of the void and faintness which are enfeebling their nerves and vitiating their ^ physical forces. Such a constitutional infirmity, instead of being objurgated by the possessor, should be regarded as an alarm-clock hung in the citadel, faith- I ful to the duty of signaling the ap-1 proach of danger. It is a proof of j weakness, not health, when the stom­ ach gives no token of consciousness t that the sea-on has arrived for renewed supplies. J t should rest after dispos­ ing satisfactorily of ea. h meal. At the end of a reasonable period of qui­ escence it will, if all be well, awake and cry for more. In this day of com­ mon sense and plain speech, it should be an established truth that there is , nothing degrading to the higlier nature in the reasonable activity of a natural animal appetite. It iB not disgraceful to be hungry.--Journal of Recon­ structive*. " • Lord Lyens. -' Lord Lyons was fond of good cheer, but a water-drinker only. Wine was poured into his glass at his own table to encourage others to imbibe the vin­ tages offered them, but it was not BO much as taBted. This may be one of the reasons why his head in the most trying situations kept quite steady. He spent perhaps six hours a day at his desk. His writing was like a latly's of what was formerly known as the Italian kind, and covered a good deal of paper. • It was a liberal, orderly, and strongly characterized hand, albeit ladylike. In paying visits he took a good deal out of himself as he got on towards 70. No aversion to exercise stood in the way of his calls or pre­ vent ed him going the round of these social "gayetiea" in which he was ex­ pected to join. He must havo been bored, but I never, nor any one else, either, saw him yawn when he was in a drawing-room or at a concert. He often sat with his chin resting on his chest, and his littl# humorous eyes looking out from a face the muscles of which were trained to hide expression. Nothing escaped those twinkling eyes. It tickled him to hear a bit of crisp scandal--one saw this in his laughter. ^But no mortal could get his tongue to say^what he thought about it.--Far is Lettbr. ' V In the Fntnro. Mr. Politician (addressing impromptu mass-meeting in the penitentiary yard( --Fellow-criminals: At last, after years of labor, I have succeeded in obtaining for you your rights. You are all citi­ zens, and are to vote at the next elec­ tion. You all know how deeply I sym­ pathize with the down-trodden man­ hood I see before me, I never had the honor to be a convict myself, but my father was once jailed for contempt of court, and my grandfather was lynched for murder. It was reported that he committed suicide, but I have no doubt the noble old man was hung by his neighbors. I myself have lacked the courage to murder and rob, but I ad­ mire bravery in others, and when I look upon this vast assemblage of he­ roes I am filled with feelings of vener­ ation. If I am elected I will not forget those who have honored me with their votes. Now, fellow-criminals, time is pressing, so we will close this patriotic outpouring with tln-eo cheers for Minks, Winks, myself, and the whole ticket.-- Omaha World. Virtue Alone Is Successful. The success of vicious and immoral women is only spasmodic, and always unsatisfactory, aud a doubtful reputa­ tion follows them wherever they go. If virtue and worth sometimes suffer and rest under a oloud, these qualities are certain to bring their reward in the long run. There is no society so friv­ olous or base that a true and pure woman is not respected and admired.-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox. TBE famous floating island of the Derwentwater, England, has come to tho surface again after a long disap­ pearance. This is a mass of decaying vegetation forming a layer of peat, on top of whioii is a thin covering of clay bound, together by the roots of vege­ tation. \ It rests on the bottom of the lake, but sometimes some force, sup­ posed to be tho gases generated by the decaying matter, causes it to rise to the surface. Its extent sometimes reaches half an acre, and it rises and falls with the water, until finally it sinks out of sight again, to be gone probably for several years. A LEATHER strap two inches wide and eighteen long, fastened to a hickory ihandle two feet long, with a string to ythe end bv which the handle could be fastened to the wrist, was found be­ tween the log walls and the weather boards of an old farmhouse near Mon- ticello, Ga., that is being torn down. It is an old-fashioned slave whip. THE only thing certain about litiga­ tion is its uncertainty. A Good Investment Is that whioh yields largo returns from a small outlay, lteader, tho way is cloar! No speculation, no chance, big roturus! If you are like most of mankind you have somewhere a weakness--don't feel at all times just as you'd liko to--lieadacho to-day, backache to­ morrow, down sick next wefik--;aW because your blood is out of order. A small outlay and what large returns! You invest in Dr. Pierce's Goldeu Mo.Ileal Discovery and soon pure, fresh blood coursos through your veins, and you are another being! TAKE care of the pence and the abscond­ ing cashier will take care of the pounds.-- Fuck. A Great Legacy To bequeath to your children, is a strong, clean, pure conBti'tution--better tlian ^ealtii, because it will never prove a curse. You can­ not give what you do hot possess, but mothers Will find in Dr. l'ierce's Favorite Prescription a wonderful help--correcting all weaknesses, bringing their hystenis into perfect condition, so that ttieir children, uD tainted, shall rise up to call them blended! There is not a druggist in all the land But always keeps a stock on hand. EVERY place has its boom, Buch as it is; but the banner town is where the banner hams is cured.--A'eic Orleans Picayune. •* 'Ilrown'* Bronchial Troches* are excellent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore T.iroat They are exceedingly effective." --Christian World, London, Eng. GOOD resolutions like s squalling baby at church, should be carried oat--Boston Advance. COAL AND COKE. Another Splendid Chrlntma# and New Tear1* Annual for 1888--The Latest Mid Best of the Kock Ialaud Srrios. Thousands who have perused with delight­ ed interest the pages of "Watt Stephens, ine I Genius of Steam" (18S5), "Voltagal, the Genius \ of Electricity" 0^. ft,ld "^t role urn and , Natural Gas" tlSSJ), will be pleased 10 know ( •hat the CHICAGO, KOCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC liAlLWAY w.U issue another magnificent sou­ venir for tho Christmas and New Year eeasou | of 18S8, wliicli surpasses in many respects anything of the kind heretofore published. "Coal and Coke" is the tide of the work, and | tho subj ct has boea exhaustively treated It ia wr.tteu in a capt vating colloqu al style, embodying a vast amount of iuiormation in regard to eoal strati; their relat.vj position in the earih's crmt; where deposits occur, their nature and extent; the d fferent pro- res-ei of underground mining; how coal is converted iuto co»e, and some of its varied and multiplo uses. The l»)ok is profusely illustrated from original sketches. Although the expense has been very groat, the HOCK ISLAND has con- eluded to supply "Coal and Coke" at the nom­ inal ra;a of ten can's- ( or postage) per copy. Enclosj your address pliinly written (also ten cents in stamp") to E A. Holbrook, Gen­ eral Ticket and P.isssnger Agent at Chicago, Id, and a copy of "Coal and Coke" will be mai ed to you, prepaid, to any part of the world. Catarrh Cored. A clergyman, after vears of suffering from that loathsome dm.-ase. Catarrh, and vaitiiy trying nvery known remedy, at last found a prescription wliSch completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending a velf-addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, East Ninth street, New York, will receive fb» recipe free of charges v Living Witnesses! Ask anyone who has used Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets as to their merita. They wdl tell you that pimples, blotches and eruptions disappear; that constipation--tbat breeder of disorders--is relieved; that the aD- petite i* re-to red; that the who.a system is renovated and regulated beyond any concep­ tion by these little wonder-workers. Being purely vegetable, they are perfectly harmless; being composed of concentrated, active in­ gredients, they are powerful! Pane and purify the system and disease will be un­ known. Of all druggists. THE life of a Sultan is a harem-scarem existence at best In General I>eblllty, Emaciation, Consumption, and wasting in children, Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypo- phosphites is a most valuable food and medi­ cine. It creator an appetite for food, strength­ ens tho nervous sy.-tem, and builds up the body. Please read: "I tried Scott's Emulsion on a young man whom phvsicians at times gave up hope. 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For pamphlet entitled "South­ ern Home Seeker's Guide," aud circulars concerning the above named points, ad­ dress the undersigned, at Manchester, Iowa. J. F. MERRY, Gen. West. Pass. Agt. A Popular Thoroughfare. The TVisconsin Central Line, although a comparatively new factor in the railroad sys­ tems of the Northwest, lias acquired an envi­ able popularity. Through careful attention to details, its servico is as near perfection as might bo looked for. The train attendants seem to regard their trusts as individual property and as a result tho public is served par-excellence. Tlio roul now runs solid through fast trains batween Chicago, Milwau­ kee, St Paul and Minneapolis with Pullman's best and unequalled dining cars; it also runs through, solid sleepers between Chicago, Ash­ land, Duluth and the famon-» mining regions of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Itching Pile*. Symptoms--Moisture; intense itching and stinging; most at night; worse bv scratching. 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Vi ArpK Balm into each nostrils. ELY BROS.,215 Grtcswtch St., N.Y«. v \Veis PILLS. : BEWARE Or IMITATIOXS. AZWAjB ASK FOR DR. PIERCE'S PELZBTB, Ofe . LITTLE SUGAR-COATED PILLS. Being entirely vegetable, they op- 1 crate without disttn lmnoo to the system, diet» or occupation, l'nt up in plass vials, hermeti­ cally eculed. Always fresli and reliable. At n laxative, alterative* or pnrgaiiTly these little Pellets giro tho most pcrfew satisfaction. ^ - SMiiMi. i nilioti* Headache, Dizziness, C*<»tMti {ta­ il on, Indigestion, tiiliouN Attaeks.andnli <ieriin«vnunt8 of tho stom­ ach and bowels, nrc prompt­ ly relieved and pormiincntly cured l>v the use o f I»r. Picrcc'a Pleasant Purgative PolIet£ 1 n explnnation of the remedial power of tlicM . I'ellcta over so great a variety of diseases, it may truthfully l>e said that their action upon the system Is universal, not n gland or tisau* eseapinjr their sanativo influence. Sold by drup-gipta. 25 cents a vial. Manufactured at tlM Chemical Laboratory of WORM'S DISPENSAJHT MEDICAI. ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. jRiumtiiit is ottered by the manufactur­ ers of Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy, for a case of Chronic Nasal Catarrh whleh they cannot cure. SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.-: heavy headache, obstruction of tho passages, discharges falling- from into the threat, sometimes profi and acrid, at others, thick, tonaeio purulent, bloody and jju^rid; th( in the eura. dt'afnes^rTiiH'kinpr rfeeo clear the throat, expectoration of matter, tog-ether with scabs from u voice iB changed and has u nasal twang-; tbo breath is o(tensive; smell and taste aro im­ paired; there is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a backing eou^h and gen­ eral debility. Only a few of the above-name^ symptoms are likely to be pretvnt in anyone ease. Thousands of eases annually, without manifesting imlf of the above symptoms, re- tne grave. No disease is so common, more deceptive aiMt suit in consumption, and end in danjrerous, or let's understood by physicians. Ily its mild, soothing, and healing property Dr. Sage's Catarrh lteniedy cures the eases of Catarrh, "cold in tho lie .'rtioi, worn CWSITJ IN T/aiamii "vuiu 1II IIIU U«ad^ Coryza, nnd Catarrhal Headache. Sold by druggists everywhere; 50 cents. • ; "Untold Agony from Catarrh." ^ Prof. W. HAUSNER, tho famous mesmerists of Ithaca, N. 1'., writes: " Sonic ten years ago. I suffered untold airony from chrouio nasal catarrh. My family physician gave mo up as. incurable, and said I must die. My case was. such a bad one, that every day. towards BUD-. set, my voice would become so uoarso 1 couid barel v"speak above a whisper. In tlie morainv- rav coughing1 and clearing of my throat would almost strnng-le inc. Hy the use of Dr. Sago's. Catarrh Remedy, in three months, I was a man, and the curc has been permanent." "Constantly Hawking and SplUtaf^ THOMAS J. llrsniNO, Esq., S90* Pine Street St. Isiui*, Mo., writes: "I was a preat suffers from catarrh lor three years. At times 1 could hardly breathe, and was constantly hawkinf jiud spitting, and l'or the last eight months* could not breathe through the nostrils. I thought nothing could be done for me. Liiek*» ily, 1 was advised to try I)r. Sago's Cutarrte ltemedy. and 1 am now a well man. I belieyfr It to be the only sure remedy for catarrh no# manufactured, and one has only to give it i§>v l'air trial to experience astounding results an# A permanent cure." < Three Bottles Cure Catarrh. ELI Ron BINS, rtuni/an P. O., Cohtnbia I SI?.. she was five years old, very badly. Sage's Catarrh ltemedy advert ised, and 1 saw Dr. pro­ cured a bottle for her, and soon saw that tfc, helped her; a third bottle effected a Pcrma-'ni. nont cure. She is now eighteen yean old and* Eouud and hearty." 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