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fi r Hits Cwiev«i»» Bawtt M4 CANAL to cost 145,000,- 000, and which will connect Manchester, England with the sea, I s about three- fourths com­ pleted. In length it Will be 33 J miles; depth, 26 feet; width at the bottom, 12 0 | feet; width at the surface, 320 feet. AMONG re­ cent. inven­ tions it is no­ ticed that electricity is now in use for heating flatirons used bv tailors, and its employment in therapeutics is con­ stantly on the increase. A NOVEL portable electric lamp has been invented which finds a great de­ mand in mines and for the use of firemen and workers in gas works, and chemical fact-ories. It burns several hours, can be readily charged, is light, handy and comparatively in­ expensive. A NOVBI Instance of spontaneous combustion was a short time ago re­ ported from Irvine, New Brunswick. It appears ,that a wagon of limestone, having been exposed to rain at night, took Are and was quite burned. It is supposed that the slacking of the lime was sufficient to set fire to the wood­ work of the wagon. TTIE experiments made at Cornell University and in France to ascertain the effect of electric light upon vege­ tation have demonstrated its wonder­ ful property of greatly stimulating almost every variety of vegetable life. The colors of flowers are intensified and an increased yield ot fruits and vegetables of nearly 100 per cent, has been obtained without diminishing the odor of the former or the flavor of the latter. The parts of the soil are more actively dissolved bj the action of the light and are thus brought within reach of the roots. IT has been estimated that one ton of coal gives enough ammonia to fur- alsh about thirty pounds of crude 6ulphate, the present value of which is about $12 per t<?n, and there being 10,000,000 tons of coal annually dis­ tilled for gas, no less than 134,929 tons of sulphate, of the money value of $1,607,148 are produced. Too MANY engineers behind the time still use tailow as a cylinoer lubricant, says an exchange, and by so doing run a trreat risk of eventu­ ally destroying the engine, as the several fatty acids, stearic, oleic, mar- garic, etc., of which tallow is com­ posed arc almost sure to eat out the valve seat, piston rings and other jM»rts of the cylinder. Some good mineral oil should be used, which is lepown to have a reputation.--In­ vention, London. IT is claimed by an expert that a speed of thirty-five knots per hour could be obtained for large ocean vessels if the same relation of power to weight were observed as in a small •team launch now in New York Har­ bor. The boiler weighs only two and a half tons, but gives out an indicated energy of 400-horse power. And this opens up other possibilities than rapid ocean transit. Does it not point to achievements in the air as well as on the water? A PNEUMATIC Inner sole or sock for boots and shoes has been brought out to confer great benefits upon people who have tender feet, etc. It is made of hollow India-rubber, inflated with air or gas under pressure, the external fMrotective covering being canvas, inen, skin, or other suitable material, to adopt it to withstand the internal pressure of the compressed air. or gas. --Invention, London. MANY uses have been proposed for aluminum, and in some instances this metal has been brought into actual use. One of its latest applications is in the making of photographic flash lights in the placavof magnesium. A mixture of powdered aluminum and chloride of potash is said to give a brilliant flash without the smoke that is produced by magnesium, and this quality is iu itself a strong recom­ mendation. PEROXIDE of hydrogen, or oxidized water, is rapidly taking an important place In medicine, and is already de­ clared to be necessary, and not merely good or useful. As ordinarily sold, the peroxide of hydrogen is a three and two-tenths per cent, solution, yielding llfteen times its volume of oxygen. In its applications this so­ lution is said to be nearly as bland as water, causing smarting only on such surfaces as the interior of the eye or the nose, yet it acts so powerfully as a germicide as to kill anthrax spores in a few minutes. The chief value of the peroxide is in stopping suppura­ tion and sterilizing wounds, which it does more effectually than any other substance. It cleanses all pus from i&mties not easy to reach, as in abcess of the brain, and so thoroughly are the microbes devitalized that one ap­ plication only is often quite sufficient to stop abruptly the formation of pus and cause the speedy healing of large surfaces. It has been of especial ser­ vice in operations on the eye. It is also claimed to bring away diphther­ itic membrane very quickly and easily, and may be snuffed up into the nose to render a fetid discharge odorless. The peroxide of hydrogen is a very unstable compound, with powerful oxidizing and bleaching properties, but may retain its germicidal power for montl& if kept cool au4 tightly corked. ^ A Knitlan MIMT. An eccentric nobleman died in St. Petersburg leaving a fortune of 6,000,- 000 rubies, besides his large patri­ monial estates. He occupied a very large old house, but lived only in one room. All the other rooms he kept locked and sealed. These were found filled with antique furniture, china, bronze, and silverware vtfiich he had inherited from his noble ancestors and buried beneath heaps of dust and cobwebs. He lived on the cheapest kind of bread with tea, which he •bought hiii self. In the winter he sat in his room dressed in a heavy fur ooat, with thick felt boots on his lie w;w fiometime ior monui wan- out a aenrant to do the rough house­ work for him. When he had a serv­ ant he made him sleep on the floor in the same room with himself. His great fortune is claimed by a sister, an old maid, who is as eccentric as he was^x-Koatreal 'Star. mm**- ITadar tha W haala. :> '•Too see," said the freight conduc­ tor. after we had been talking a bit, "there are plenty of occasions when I would like to be tender-hearted, but the rules of the road are very strict. We are ordered to look the train over at every stop, and to summarily bounce every one trying to steal a ride. It is expected and understood that we do this, but there is never a train comes tlyough without two or three poor devils on,the bumpers. If thefe are not too many, and they don't show themselves too boldly, we don't see them as we pass along. It isn't anything out of the company's pocket, and in some cases a change of location may give a tramp a start to do better." "That's true; but what I was go­ ing to ask you about was the boy who got killed by your train a few weeks ago." "It hurts mo to think of it. we'd stopped at 9 water tank, and there must have been a dozen tramps in waiting to get on. This boy was among 'em. He wasn't over 15 years old and pale-faced and ragged. When we drove the mob off he came back with tears in IIIN eye* nnd L»egged (uite to let him ride Into Chicago. Iie'd been tramplng--i' vunawny boy--but was going homo. There were too many of them, mul 1 ordered theni off. Tills I toy was one of three or four who made a break to catch on as the train started, mid he missed his hold and went under the wheels. His screams were something awful to hear as we lifted him up and carried him to the caboose. Both legs had been crushed under a wheel and he hadn't ten minutes to live when we picked him up." "Was he conscious?" "Perfectly so. The pain was too great to be felt, but he knew he was dying. We did all we could, which was little enough. H6 said never a word after we pickcd him up. It didn't need words of reproach, how­ ever, to cut me to the heart. He looked at me in a way which plainly said 1 had refused to give him a show, and that my meanness had brought about the awful accident. I was so broken up I couldn't stay in the car to see him die." "And what did you do writh the body?" "Carried it into Chicago, and who do you think was the first man to see it? The boy's own father, who was a switchman in the yards! He didn't say a word in reply when I told him how it came about, but I knew his thoughts. If he could live a thousand years he'd never forgive me. He'd alwavs look upon me as the murderer of his poor Tom." "But of course you are not." "Technically, no; morally----" And he flung away his cigar, but­ toned up his overcoat; and went away without another word.--Free Press. VO(CD and Sound. It is a curious fact that musical sounds fly further and are heard at a greater distance than those which are more loud and noisy. If we go on the outside of a town during a fair at the distance of a mile we hear the musical instruments, but the din of tie multitude, which is so overpower­ ing in the place, can scarcely be heard, the noise dying on the spot. To those who are conversant with the power of musical instruments the following observation will b<f under­ stood; « The violins made at Cremo­ na about the year 1600 are superior in tone to any of a later date, age seeming to dispossess them of their noisy qualities, and leaving ribthing but the pure tone. If a modern vio­ lin is played by the side of one of those instruments it will appear much the louder of the two; but on receding a hundred paces, when com­ pared with the Cremona, it will scarcely be heard. Thfe voice of man is endowed with the purity of tone in a higher degree than any of the vocal animals, by which, in a state of nature, it en­ ables him to communicate with his fellows at a distance very remote. Providence has bestowed upon chil­ dren a power of voice, in proportion to their size, ten times greater than the adult. In a state of nature this serves them as a defense and protec­ tion, for it is well known that chil­ dren have sometimes, by their cries, alarmed and kept off the attacks of the most furious animals. Texas Idtu of Chicago. flare is a citizen of ' Galveston, Texas, who relies upon the funny columns of the local papers fiar in­ formation concerning Chicago and the facilities for divorce existing in this city. With callow simplicity T. W. Harry wrote to "Attorney-at-Law, Chicago, 111.," and the letter came into Postmaster Sexton's hands." Col. Sexton told a carrier to give the let­ ter to the first attorney he met on the street. This is what the poor lone man from Texas wrote: "I have been a grass widower for two years, and my wife has refused to live with me for three of four times, and the last time I heard from her fehe'had run off with a man. So yon will let me know what you will give me a divorce for and how much will you charge and how long before you can send it to me. I will never live with her any more on no terms. So let me hear from you at once, and oblige; et&" Of tioud (lulltjr. What is often used as a weapon of discourtesy that it is doubly pleasant to meet, as we do now and then, with a case of the opposite kind. Some of the English nobility were traveling in the West of Ireland, and one of the company, who had been told that the natives would be sure to agree with everything that might be said to them, ^determined to test the turth of the assertion. Accord­ ingly, in one of the coasting trips with which the tour were diversified, while the wind was blowing half a gale, be shouted to the Irish pilot: "There's very little wind." The answer came back at once: •Thrue for you, sir. But what there is is very stronsr." spp'spifti 8« Dasrwd Hot Ii«ld to Bit Imagtaattwi ] Mil Ito Killed a HM. j "No, I don't believe in ghosts," said a locomotive engineer on one of the trunk lines to the Kansas City correspondent of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. "Most of the phenomena we run across can be explained on some better hypothesis, and of thoj?e that can't, the majority are due to illness. Yes, I have had some ex­ periences myself that I could not ex­ plain at the time, and have never since been able to, but I still believe they must have some rational explan­ ation. One of the strangest inci­ dents in my life occurred when I was running an engine on the Chicago & Alton from Slater to Roodhouse. You know there is a little station near Centralia, Mo., called Clark, where the Chicago & Alton and the Wabash cross. At this crossing we always have to come to a full stop, and though I have gone over it a thou­ sand times, I never go over it without a shudder. Whenever I take an en­ gine over that crossing, a lady's voice as clear as a silver bell always says to me plainly and distinctly: 'All right; go ahead.' There have been only three times that this has not been done. Once in 1883 she said to me: " 'Stop! wait a minute!' "So Accustomed had I become to obeying her that I stopped at once at the unusual command. Looking ahead I saw by my headlight that a man had caught his foot in the frog just ahead, and^would have been crushed if I had gone ahead. He himself said it was a d-- close call, but on learning that he was the edi­ tor of one of the little country weeklies of Missouri, I didn't tell him why I had stopped, for I had no desire to have it published, my .'queer' imagination having already caused unfortunate talk. A "After that, for a year, everything went as usual, and I always heard the same gentle voice say: " 'All right! go ahead!" "One day after 1 had come to a dead standstill, and had started up again, this lady's voice said to me iti quick, auxious tone: " 'Stop! Wait a minute! You'll be too late! Reverse!' "I followed her commands ss quickly as possible, and a little gol­ den-haired fairy was picked up from just in front of the wheels of the lo­ comotive. The mother, who was waiting for a Wabash train, fainted and was still unconscious when we went on, but she afterwards sent a handsome check to the division Su­ perintendent for me, at Slater. Now the strangest part of all this is the fact that 110 one ever heard these commands of warnings except me. When we had saved this little girl I mention, the fireman asked me if I saw the child and I at once said 'N6,J and of course I then had to explain why I had stopped and reversed, and this revived the talk which had been very common a year or more before in regard to my 'queer' ways, but which had lately been dropped. When the Superintendent at Slater had sent for me to give me the check that had been sent, he asked me the facts and I told him the whole story just as it really existed. He looked at me a little queerly when I got through and said: " 'You have been too long with us, and are too serviceable, for us to want to lose you, but we can't have any stories like this circulating. It will injure our service too badly.' I sug­ gested that only twice had it inter­ fered with my Vun for a half-minute, and in both cases had saved a life, but this did no good, and I saw that a repetition of 'yielding to my im agination,' as he called it would prob­ ably mean resignation. It happened that I was requested to take the place of a friend, and run back over the road that very night, and though I had lost a great deal of sleep, I couldn't refuse. When we approached the Clanc switch and crossing I was very uneasy and nervous and felt that my imagination was just in con­ dition to serve me any sort of a trick. "We stopped, and as I started up again I heard the voice I knew so well say, with perfect distinctness: " -Stop! Wait a minute!' "Now, I thought to myself, I must not yield to my imagination, like a child. So I made no movement to stop, "She spoke again, and said in agony, as it seemed: " 'For heaven's sake, stop! Re­ verse!' "But, instead of doing so, I gave her more steam, and as she went for­ ward I imagined I felt the engine crushing something and I knew I heard the warning voice in tears, cry­ ing, 'Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!' When I came back on my return run I learned that our train had run over an old man, who lived a few minutes, but was never iden­ tified. I went over the run once or twice afterward, but that heart-rend­ ing cry of Oh, dear! Oh, dear!' rings in my ear every time I go past Clark, and so I told the Superintendent and handed in my resignation." "And yet you don't believe in ghosts?" said a listener. "No," he replied. "Of course, I can't explain this, but it must, have some reasonable explanation." At Any PrlM John Gill, an old fisherman "down East," was exceedingly fond of a bar­ gain. One day he came into the midst of a set of Jolly campers who were sitting about the fire cooking their supper "Any fish to-day?" quoth John, dis­ playing a basketful of beauties. "No, we caught our own," said Doctor G., the head of the party. •'Splendid luck to-day!" "Now, I tell ye, doctor, your fish ain't a circumstance to mine. Jest try 'emi" "Don't want them. Haven't got any money either, John." "No money? Do tell! Well, just give me a bottle or two of doctor's stuff, and we'll call it square." "Oh, we don't bring much medicine into the wilderness. I don't believe we c^n trade to-day, John." . The old man leaned forward, and said, with a shrewd twinkle of the eye: "Then you jest pull a tooth for me! 1 don't rightly know as I've got any that ain't sound, but mebby you could pinch on one!" One iti iuu sins which men are con­ stantly commit tine; is that of keeMng secret fiom their families all knowl­ edge of the true state of their private affairs, so that in case of death or ac­ cident which deprives them of the power of communicating their own knowledge or wishes, those dependent upon them are left in total ignorance of their circumstances. Often the want of such knowledge is the cause of great inconvenience or even suffer­ ing, and not infrequently it is the cause also of no inconsiderable loss. Ignorance of the state of business of the husband or father or brother who has been suddenly taken away fre­ quently results in entanglements, missteps and other complications which could easily have been avoided had there but been confidence be­ tween the one who is gone and those left behind. It is singular that there should so often be so strong a disinclination on the part of business men to allow their wives or their sons to know anything about their affairs. It is one of the most common of occurrences for a widow to say: "My husband never told me anything about his business, and I do not know anything which will help in the settlement of his af­ fairs. I do not know whether he has left me anything or not." A man has no more right to expose those de­ pendent upon him to the chances of a catastrophe of this sort than he has to keep them in want while he is alive and able to support them. Some­ times this reticence on the part of men is the result of surliness or of vanity which is not ready to be taken at its true valuation, but oftener it is the result of indolence, of the habit of not talking of business details to women, or of the disinclination to bother with business during the re­ laxation of home life, A man comes home wearied with the severe strain of the ever-raging struggle for a com­ petence. and he Is but too glad to put the whole matter of business out of his head until the next day shall call him back to his place in the fight. At least he does not wish to be obliged to explain to a woman who does not, in nine cases out of ten, understand anything in particular about business the details of his af­ fairs. Sometimes he intends to do it, postponing the matter indefinitely from day to day; but oftener he is never impressed with the idea that it is at all his duty to do anything of the sort. This has been illustrated so often by the awkward and painful condition of ignorance in which families have found themselves after the death of the head of the house, when a little knowledge of the business of the de­ ceased would have prevented all diffi­ culty of that kind, and in the course of their business experiences men of affairs are so liable to come across in­ stances of this nature, that it is strange that there should still be necessity of saying all this. The facts, however, speak for themselves, although men are so slow to make a personal application of the moral in any case. It has been seen how much harm reticence does, vet men seem as little inclined to speak as ever.-- Boston Courier. Mr ttlchard Grwnvtl*. This teeling, originating among the Spaniards and Portuguese, -- es­ pecially the latter, who were most bold and successful navigators-- thence by degrees extended to other countries, until, in 1584, nearly a century Afterward, we find two Eng­ lish captains, Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, making the ffret voyage to Virginia. On their return they gave such a glowing description of the place to Sir Walter Raleigh that the gallant sailor fitted out four vessels on his own account and put them in charge of his cousin, Sir Richard Grenville, bidding him pro­ ceed to the favored land, and there found an English colony. Now, Sir Richard was the man to do a thing thoroughly. He made straight for Porto Rico with his small squadron; called atllisj^aniola, where he had a friendly interview with the Spanish Governor and also with a friar, and sailed thence to Florida, exploring in a flatbottomed boat a totally unknown river for more than fifty miles. He soon planted his colony securely, as he thought, and returned to England, picking up a few unconsidered trifles in the way of Spanish galleons on his voyage home. The daring manner in which one of these vessels was capturcd is a good illustration of Granville's reck­ less courage. He and his men boarded her by means of a raft made out of sea-chests, which fell to pr ices assoon as it touched the Spaniard's side. Sir Richard was then 45 years of age, but his impetuous valor was as little tempered by discretion as when, a flery youth of 16, he volunteered for the German army, and served through a whole campaign against the Turks. The Virginian colony did not pros­ per, and Sir Richard, making a second voyage out there with three ships, to succor the men he had left behind, found to his dismay that all trace of the littje settlement had disappeared. The colouists, in fact, becoming alarmed by the increasing swarms of savages that surrounded them, had been only too glad to get a passage home by an earlier ship. This was certainly disappointing; but Gren­ ville, who was determined to retain a hold on the country, settled fifteen other men on the spot, with plenty of arms, and provisions for two years. T*sere was a good deal of the old viking spirit in Grenville; he came of the same famous Western stock that produced Sir Walter Raleigh, his near relative, and many another skillful seaman and dauntless explorer.--St. Nicholas. Tills In New. A rancher, from away back on the ranges, engaged a room at the Occi­ dental'Hotel, in Seattle, a few days ago. The hotel is lighted with elec­ tricity, and the bell-boy turned on the light in the old rancher's room. The farmer did not know how to ex­ tinguish the light, and, after ex­ hausting his ideas, uncoiled the length of the wire by which the light hung and stuck the lamp in the bureau-drawer, smothering it under his clothing. The next dar, the lamp was found stowed away there and still burning. BLIND people cannot be carpenters, because they never saw. history ot tteMiW the cultlvwticm of maeele *»c<ive 'nek aiwul attention and sneoaMc*. meat. M-tmn the frtlw we matte-- mntf branch of eaUaftofcte affected bjr tba trousered fender. This of course it wall, /or exercise la an essentia! of health. But to the faebie, tfeo Bervons, aad the dyspeptic, Hostetter's Stoas- *ch Bitters affords a gnasaaty of prim*! -rigor wpon whiefe » inperstraetaie of mnacularity may advantageously bo built Moat genial and speedy of tonics, ilia alio the^nost thorough of lef&laton, entirely rectifying mora of diges­ tion and bilious secretion, and promoting a healthy habit of body. It conquers and prevents intermittent and billons remittent fever, rheu­ matism, kidney and bladder trouble. The aged, infirm, aad oonvalessing derive immeasurable beoaftt fro 'i its a so; it imparts a hearty nU for food aad overcome* insomnia. Lone Fiber. The longest continuous fiber tmeWn at the present time is that of silk. A co­ coon of a well-fed silkworm will often yield 1,000 yards long, and in one in­ stance one has been produced 1,395 yards without a break. THE LOVELL SAFETY?* A Hew Bicycle Which the Public Like*. While thousands within the last decade have enjoyed the spcrt of cycling, the fact is nevertheles obvious fcijF&t many thounands more have been determ) from enjoying it In consequence of the high prices demanded for a really good wheel. It remained for the John P. Lovell Arms Company of Boston to chantre this state of affairs. It was last year that the public first became aware that there was a new low-priced safety bicycle on the market, a wheel strictly high grade and equal In every particular to any manufactured in America or Europe. As previous to this all manu­ facturers had charged a very large price for a flrst-class wheel, the John P. Lovell Arms Company is therefore the first house that has ever offered the public such a wheel at a price that does not place It te- yjnd the reach of the average person's purse. The company that manufactures this wheel (the Lovell Diamond Safety) la one ot the oldest of all the manufacturing and mercantile houses in New England, baring been established in 1840. * Besides being now one of the leading bicycle firms In the United States, the John P. Lovell Arms Company is and has been for years a well-known manufacturer and dealer in firearms and sporting goods of •very description. On June 13 of last year, the firm celebrated Its half-century anniversary. The founder Of ibis enterprising house. Mr. John P. Lovell, although over 70 years of age, la still an Important and active member of this world-famed house. • w«i«a» m *«•#» larwyarWa, Seinf a v . UMMI Jlanii), Headilp Mtwehm •M Cure* It. "A aease of gratitude and a <lndr> to benefit thee* afflicted prompts m > to recommend Hood's Bates, pari Ha to all who have catarrh. For many year* I was troubled with eatarrtt and indigeatioi and naa* era! debU.tr. I not so low I eootd not net atooat the bonne. I tried about everythlnf t avw recom­ mended for eatarrh; but failin; la ever/ laataaoe of being relieved, 1 oecame Very Much Discouraged At laat I decided In take Hood'a Bar apart la aad began to get relief. I have no* «*ed, within two ye.ru. tea or twelve bottl-a, aad I feel better :ban I have for years. I attribute my improvement wholly to the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla MM. CHAS. SBISI. comer York aad Wassast Sis. Hanover. Pean. Hood's Pills--For the liver aad bowels, " traalir rat promptly sad aftoieatJr. Fries SSe. A SIMPLE remedy for round shoulders Is to stand facing a corner of the room, and with hands extended on the wall In either direction, and the feet firmly placcd, to move the body slowly toward the corner. This exerciso faithfully re­ peated evory morning will make the form beautifully erect How'e This! Ws offer One Hundred Dollars reward for aay ease of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall'p Catarrh Cure. &' F, J. CHENEY & CO.. Props, Toledo, Ohio. M e, the undersigned, have known F. J. Chenay for the last. 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to earry ont any obligations made by their firm. WEST & 'lltuAx, Wholesale Drnggiata, Toledo,1 Ohio. WALPINO, KINNAN St MARVIN, Wholesale Dros- gtsts, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act­ ing directly upon the blood, and mccotis sur­ faces of the ayetem. Testimonials sent, fres. Price 75 cents per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. OUR grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what Ue% clearly at hand.--Carlyle. The Favored Cla<S39. Teachers, ministers, farmers, maehantes, merchants, as well as their wlve9, daugh­ ters and sons, who would like to devote at least a part of their time and attention to a work that would bring them In a lot of ready money during the next few montha, would do well to look up the advertise­ ment of B. P. Johnson A Co., Richmond, Va., in another column, as It may be the means of opening up to many new life and larger possibilities. These gentle­ men have been extensively and success­ fully engaged in business for many years, and they know what they are talking about when they tell you they can show yon how to better your financial condition. Tka Oaly One Beer Prlsted-Csa Yea Find the Word? 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Syrup of Figs is for sale In 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug­ gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro­ cure it promptly nny one who wishes to try it. Do not aooept any substitute. CALIFORNIA Flfi 8MUP CO. SAN FRAItrifOO, CAt, UmvtUJE. Kf. M'W YORK. ** A SORE THROAT OR COUGH, if suffered to progress, often results in an Incurable throat Or lung trouble. "Brnum't Bronchial Trochtt" give instant relief. COTTOH AWAT IP Too WAKT TO, but If net, use B*Z.R'B HOMEY or HOHEIIOOND AND TAB. Pm'a TooTuACHBDnorsOnre In one Iflnate. PATTI was born Feb. IS, 1847, says her family Bible. The word "WIFB" Is first foand in the Blhle In the Second Chapter of Genesis, Mth Verse. FITS.--All Fits stripped fren bv Dr.Kllne's Qreat Nerve Restorer. No Fits after finrt day's use. Mac- vellctue cure*. Treat!** and $ .̂00 trial bottle free to fUtcaaeg. 8end to Dr. Kllue. (Si Areh St., Pbila- Pa. SHILOH'S /CONSUMPTION CURE. The «accm of this Great Coagh Cam )• without a parallel in the history of medicine. All dnifgists are authorized to sell it on a pes* itive guarantee, a test that no other cure can sic* ceasrally stand. That it may become known, the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home in the United States and Canada. If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for it will cure you. If your child has the Croup, or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief : is sure. If you dread that insidious disease 1 Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for i SIIILOH'S CURE, Price io cts., 50 cts. and $1.00. If your Langs are sore or Back li nse Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Price 25 cts. SIB Bnrar TBOMPSOK, the Most noted physleian of Eng­ land, says that more thaa half of all diseases eooe flroaa errors In diet Send for Free Sample ef Garfield Tea to 310 West 46th Street, New York City. IELDTEA™ afbadi jatlnfjcatN Sirk Htadaikf; raMrMConi|>lexi«njCBruGaa>Upatlea< ^ »•« every county (n the IT. S.,| A MONTH t« introdnoM artlclel * , V* ••MnrllidairHh. . Adapted to town or country. No patent I medicine or cheap jew«!ry. Splendid np<-ttfii|r fori tku right person. Good Jefea are aeareel and aaa'l wail Ion* (tor takers. Even if I vou can spare Imt a few honrs u week, write atl once to B. If. JOHNSON & CO.. liu hmond. Va.. I for Information about the blmreat thla( aaI ••rtfc--something that will open your eyes and I keep tneui open. I Hi ST. JACOBS OIL, FOR HORSE AND CATTLE DISEASES. CUBES Cute. Swellings, Bruises. Sprains, Gali, Strains. Lameness, SUV. nass. Cracked Heels, Scratches, Contractions. Flesh Wounds, Strinqhaif, Sore Throat, Distemper. Colic, Whitlow, Poll EvM, Sg: 8pwl" DISEASES OP HOGS. •W-GKXKRAL DIRECTION!?.--Use freely in the hoaswfll. If they Vi*l not eat, drench with milk into which a small quantity of the Oil is put. DISEASES OP POULTRY. GENERAL DIRECTIONS.--Saturate a pill of doueh, or bread, with ST. JACOBS OIL and force it dovrn the fowl S throat. D A D W A Y 11 REM* 1EI R. R« Ra '8 RELIEF. CUIla AMD PBS VENTS CaMs, CMflks, Sera Throat, Influenza, BTM- etiitis, PnMMtnia, SwellinR of the Joints, Lumbago, inflammations, Rheumatism, Neuralgia* Frostbites, Chilblains, Headache, Toothache, Asthma, DIFFICULT BREATHING. CURES THE WOH8T PAINS Ss from one to twenty minute*. NOT ONE HOCK after reading thin advei^ tUement need any ene BU1TFER WITH PAIN. Bsdwayl Beadr Belief Is » Sure Cure AMR Bvenr Patn, sprains. Braises. 1'alnn In the Back. Chcut or iLiaatM. It wag That insiautiT stops the meet excrucUtiwr pains, alliya inflammation, and ctire'* Congestion*, whether of the Ltiiura, Stomach, Bowels, or other glands or erg: nil, i.y one apphca': r>n. A half to a teaapconful ia half a tumbler of water fill in a few mfvutes cure Cramps SpaeniB, Hour reach. Heartburn, Kervou*ne»s. SleeplePBUeae, Sick Headache, Diarrhea. l>yaetiter.. Colic, Flata- legr.v. and afl internal paine. • Ihere la1 not a remedial aif-nt In the world 'bat W'li cure Fevvrand Agoe and all other M»larl"u«, Bilious and other fevers, atoed bv KAI)WAY*« BELIEF*0 a°Ck " KAmVAVS KEADI Fifty Cents per Bottle. Sold by Druggleta. V BE 8UBE TO GBT KADWAVS. IJromr W.MOHBIS, _ J Wsusliliieton, D. C. , •fistfmss'fjfiss: I Syrainlaat war, ttadjodlcattns claims, atty aiaoa PATENTS! I WAaHlMfcTON. I>- A month and board, or highest com- miM>ton »nd 90 days' cred.t to agents. V«. Zic^.-cr & PO~ ST. Louis. Mo. -'-li, $$ '* L.i I £ i"; ' $65 - fv'V* ,.; ; 4 ?1 " * jf - Y , •' V*. "v t J* BRAZIL. Our neighbor, Brazil, has had an­ other revolution. Wbw these South American republics are not quarreling with each other they are remodeling their own government. Brazil had just passed a series of complimentary resolutions on Dom Pedro when it re* lieved the monotony by kicking him out of office. Now it has established a dictatorship. Those are the signs of an unquiet and restless people. In private life such acts betoken a fever* ish condition of the body, caused often by pulmonary disease. For all mala­ dies of this sort take REID'S GERMAN COUGH AKD KIDNKY CURB. This it the best remedy for all maladterthat attack the throat and lungs that was ever put upon the market. The rem­ edy is perfectly safe, and can be given to old and young without danger, but with marked benefit. For sale by all druggists. SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Feori* 111. PATENTS Advice Book fn CLUE MTEIT16C I Wa»h . D.C. P" a»r«iows-DM tail S4B>i*iwE®at M disabled. #3 fee for increase. 26 years ex­perience. Wrste for l.awa. A W. MCV'OKMu K ABoaia, WisaiKarov, D. C. & Cincihnati. Ow PILES " t J, ^ ' V If ^ "H 4 h & INSTANT MLItr. Currlu tsdajra. Aever rvuirna. >VI>UIKV- >O SaKc. sBnwd*M7jcsaw\juiun»v!£BC. Addrea pCKiuiyn.iiiii «w.y«w y<H*aty.KY. v.:rp »*!? " ? V/1 ; Syrup' Martinsville, N.J., Methodist Par- sonage. " My acquaintance with your remedy, Boschee's GenaMi Syrup, was made about fourteen ^ years ago, when I contracted a Cold + which resulted in a Hoarseness «aA ̂ '• a Cough which disabled me fiom ,•>*' j* filling my pulpit for a number ^ Sabbaths. After trying a Physidan* ^ without obtaining relief--I cannot \ say now what remedy lie prescribed : --I saw the advertisement of your remedy and obtained a bottle. X received such quick and permanent 7 Ji help from it that whenever we have ^ 4^1 had Throat or Bronchial troubles - since in our family. Boschee's Ger> man Syrup has been our favorite; ̂ remedy and always with favorable | results. I have never hesitated t» Up, report my experience of its nse to . VS others when I have found troubled in like manner." W. H. HAGGARTY, of the Newark, New Jersey, M.E. Confer' enee, April 25, '9a ' - ] ASaf* Remedy. G. G. GREEN, Sole Man*fir,Woodbury,KJ. DO vovi CROUCH don't DELAY keM PS BALSAM 'VIrtSSV- It Cares Colds, Coaghi. Sara Kflueaaa, WhooptxiK Comh, Asthma. A certain core tor ConnaraptMi m staves, and a for . relief in adn«need ataareK at nnoe. Yoa will M« the •xr»Ue>>t MSHS taldiuc the Unit dose. Soid by dealers are Large DOTT so, #'J cents aad 11.06. D Si *i" . • -V • > RELIEVES all Stomach REMOVES Nausea, Berne of FnfiM% CONGESTION, PAIW. REVIVES FAILIHO ENERGY. RESTORES Normal Circulation, eair Wiaxs TO TOK TIPS. SR. HARTM MEDICINE «©. •» ImIS. •»? >'4 V1 IN THE SELECTION OT A CHOICE GIFT or ef aa addition to one's library, ilissnss and usefulness will be found combiaedte i° WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY SUCCBSBOB OF THE VNABRXDCm Tea years revising. 100 editors employed. Critical examination inrited. Get the MM. Sold by all Bookseller*. Pamphlet (Tea. G. A C. NBRRIAN & CO., Springfield, MaK. $loo.ooof GOLD for a win b tts flntlOOMTMUMiiac to tts tamet imr«l« tts WOT* ' 'WOTFII ftnt Aiui U Us WWt, tks strn taaut if MU> Mially tirUUd. 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AWOMM BEST UNOERSTAMOS A WOMAN'S Th* experiments of Lydia E. Plnkbana years Ago gave to the world the VejfetaWe I Bound, were made through a feeliiuj of l<mn>tkf nr the afflicted of her $ex. She discovered thai aearIT all the diseases of woman have a eoaHMfe origin, and mav have a eoamw ear*. LVOM L PINKHAH« is a sure care for sit those palatal eoaapMats aai weakiies^e* of women. Sold by all DnHbti M a standard article, or *eat bt atii, tainai ef Pills o • l.«'/enge.«, on receipt or tl.OOk kdr >niinaiiijMia•>»<.«-- ^Tdia S. nitklwm HtmA, Oo.t l|aH|teNk ^4 , ^ V ' * ** "L< * / i' i, *t\ v * * - j m