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it looee •stl m-- Th* OFTHEAOFCUTTSTAFEGIV,. • "" pH0t'&} A i it to and bay an- provided he •CM** from the ground the cost »ttfeMd more easily than he could 'farthe feed of one &it » week or it k related ttet on the an emigrant sold bis mti • pur of oxen to * Frenchman for Hie gold Drtts weighed in im- , _ laoelee, and the emigrant fan- ~*4bdehe Frenohman was cheating him, Imt he miA nothing. On reaching Sut- v tart Fort he weighed the gold again and found It worth 12,000. Of •roues ill cOatiuuiu r^juoSt SwS " are reported of floor at $800 a barrel and of mgar, coffee, and pork at $400 :-f for the same bulk. A pick, shovel, tin pan, pair of boots, blankets, and a gal- ! • Ion of whisky brought $100 each. Eggs were $3 each; drugs in liquid form, $1 a drop; pUla, $1 each; a doctor's visit, 0: $100, or $50, or nothing; a cook's wages, s $25 a, day; the hire of a wagon and , team, $50a day; the hire of a rocker, .'4: $150 a day, A box of sardines in 1848 cost at a Colima store, f 16; a pound of hard bread, $1; j| bottle of ale, $8; total, $26 for a moderate Itocbetm. Now, for the resultant prices even in ; the great market and port of entry, '$i San Francisco--this, too, although food | was abundant at the sources of supply, f, the cost accruing mainly from the dif­ ficulty in conveying it. At the City hotel you paid $1 for a meal consisting of a small slice of boiled beef, indifferent bread, and worse coffee. Now and then a guest would buy a potatato for 25 cents. At Ward's .Hotel a plate of Julienne soup cost $1, an omelet $2. At Ward's the price of a room, without board, was $250 a week; for one of a dozen or fifty bunks in a lodging-room you might have to pay $50 weekly. Offices and stores were leased for sums ranging as high as $6,000 a month. A cellar twelve feet square could be had for a law office at $250 a month; for k-~\ . desk room of five feet at the end of a |||pA counter the price was $100. A moderate k 1 r ' charge for board and lodging of the , humblest kind was $50 a month. On ^the other hand the prices of wine were *T „ low compared with those of food and ' * malt ] iquors, owing to large importations. Thus, although ale, porter, and cider P^M'were quoted at $2 a bottle, claret, 1" sherry, and Maderia stood at $2, $3, and ^ 'l $4, respectively, while champagne and b", ».{'; old port could be had in pint bottles at P£> *' $6.50 and $1.75. Whisky and brandy If'-1 . w«re very low; so were raisins and 1;/: • cigAra. ?,*o " Naturally tile rise in the value of San _ Francisco real estate would be analo- jvv gous. More than one instance is *e- . s corded of property selling at $40,000 or more which two years before cost $15 |4;\ ' or $16. To a sailor named Hicks the |*, gold excitement recalled the unwilling , purchase in Yerba Buena of a lol\vkich, f't • on coming back in 1849, he found worth lo • a fortune. His son sold half of it some P . , years later for nearly a quarter of a p; , million. There is another story of a lot §/' / ,sold for $18,000 which two years earlier p<l)' had been bartered for a barrel of whisky. Borne interesting data bearing ;y*v . on the building of San Francesco are presented in the statement of H. F. frl ^ .. Williams, who opened a carpenter's shop in 1849. In November of that ; year he paid $12 a day to any hand who jbrI; • ' could handle'a saw or hammer. Build* jj*sV.C," ings now costing $2,500 were then con- l*"*« , tracted for at $21,000. The cost even W.i-•'*•>' of sidewalks may be inferred from the ^ *Y fact that one laid from Montgomery ^' street to the mail steamer office WHS made g? of boxes of first-class Virginia tobacco, ft;, • containing 100pounds each, that could vi • have been sold for 75 cents a pound. ©4 - Tobacco (in boxes) was found to be the !>>fv cheapest foundation for small buildings. Some Chili beans sunk for a crossing on broad way would have made a fortune for the owner a few weeks later. iti-iV./' & j iat IMr. of logs In/rkA. Strife•\ . W*W -iJffW.; «HB» that we ue no*: obliged to Harper-s Magazine. * A Contribution to Science. It will be remembered that X#eary started an immense raft of logs from Nova S6otia for New York iiv^De cember, 1887, and that it went to pieces * on the way. The raft was composed of , thousands of logs, and of course when < it broke up each log became what may be termed a special observing station S for the Hydrograpliic Office. Since the •V raft was wrecked each log that has been ; observed has had its position noted by ft passing vessels, and now, after tne $ lapse of several months, the office at Washington has compiled these obser­ vations and issued a carefully prepared pilot chart. This chart, which represents the courses which the logs took after the ! raft was broken up and the points in : mid-ocean in which they were found, f shows at a glaace the general direction of the currents, and gives an object les- ' son to the mariner that could scarcely . have been given in any other way. Oi course, Mr. Leary's contribution to science was an involuntary one, but it , has been no less valuable on that ac­ count, and has advanced the study of ocean enrrents in a way that no one deemed possible before the disaster oc­ curred. One of the peculiar features of the af­ fair is that what happened was just what scientists had long desired to do, but it was rather too expensive an experiment to be made voluntarily. Thousands of floating logs on the Atlantic meant too much damage to shipping to permit of the Government's placing them there. However, no serious accident has oc­ curred from collision with any of these logs, and the wreck of this great raft . has, therefore, been both instructive and harmless, except to the gentleman : owning it.--Ckiiveston News. y,#,'. How to Write a Good Letter. / A letter, whatever its faults of : pression, is a good one if it makes the ; reader feel that the writer is speaking with the pen out of the fulness of the heart, not composing something to be , reifJ. When we hear that Lady Duff Gordon said, " I never could write a good letter, and unless I gallop as hard as I can, and don't stop to think, I can say nothing, BO all is confused and uncor­ rected," we feel sure that-her letters are agreeable reading. When Swift writes to Lord Bathurst, UI swear your lord­ ship is the first person alive that made me lean on my elbow while writing to him, and by consequence this will be the worst letter I ever writ," we expect to find Swift in his correspondence. When, on the other band, we are told thafLord Orrery, Swift's "noble bio­ grapher," made transcripts of Ms let­ ters, "following regular rules of compo- aition,* "adding chapter and Verse for model, and pointing out the elegance of las own conceits," we are glad that Lord Orrery does not write to us. When we read that the letters of Mr. Day--the mho talked like hk o^ JSandford Superstition Aboat ; The beBef, so very general in the United States, that any and every spe­ cies of snake is poisonous, and the Cite or "sting" therefore dangerous, is also prevalent in Nova Scotia, and it is. there thought that the wound of a snake is oertajn to be deadly unless the victim can manage to reach water before the snake can, in which case the latter will die, and the person bitten will recover. A common warning throughout 3Sew England is, "You mustn't let a snake spit ia your mouth, or it will certain!v kill you!" The idea that a snake's saliva must be poisonous is quite in keep­ ing with the host of other misconcep­ tions concerning the powers and quali­ ties of the animal, but the utter impos­ sibility of such feats of expectoration wonld seeih self-evident to the most un­ trained observer. One not familiar with the unreasonable horror which usually impels people to flee from even the most harmless snake might infer from the form of this injunction that the much- slandered reptiles are frequently kept as pets, and are therefore on such terms of familiarity with human beings as to make it easily possible for this fabled spitting into the mouth to oc^ur. In Peabody, Mass., I have heard of a no­ tion that I have not met with elsewhere --viz., that a snake will not go near where geraniums grow. A physician formerly from DeKalb County, HI., reports that, illiterate people there believe that a whiff, how­ ever slight, of the breath of the "blow- snake" (Herterodon platyrrhinus) is "sure death." A stalwart young man, while out hunting, has been known to faint simply because he fancied that a "blow-snake" which his companion was ^easing, had reached him with its fatal breath. The blow-snake of Illinois is variously known in other localities as hog-nose, flat-head, viper, and puff- adder. This quite harmless snake af­ fords what I think we may unquestion­ ably call a fine example of protective resemblance, for so cunningly does he mimic the appearance and behavior of some really venomous snakes, that his threatening aspect in general strikes terror into the beholder. In Maine, if a cow that has been grazing gives less milk than usual, or than is expected, it is often believed that the common garter- snake has sucked the-cow. This strange belief, doubtless is of remote origion, as it is very common among the house­ wives of the Russian peasantry.--PQg)U~ tor Science Monthly. '" A NovelMurhieBattle. The swordfish w-^Kebiilldog of the sea. As is well known, the latter ani­ mal will attack a tiger or a locomotive with equal courage, while the swordfish is just as ready to stab a ship as a whale. When he tries his powers against a vessel, t>he is always worsted, but he is more successful against whales, whose large, unwieldy bulk plaoes them at a great disadvantage with their active enemy. The first officer of the schooner Maggie Moore tells of this combat, which he witnessed about seven hundred miles northwest of Cape Flattery: "Blood was noticed floating on the water, and speculation was rife until a whale was sighted, blowing and spout­ ing, on the lee side of the schooner, and soon after a sword fish darted up close, and, following that terror of the seas, came the <raemy of whaledom, the thrasher (or killer, as the fish is some­ times designated). "The thrasher sprang from the water some ten feet into the air, and, with a penetrating crash, alighted upon the whale. A fierce conflict ensued, ftnd the result was that the whale appeared to be exhausted from the attack the thrasher made upon him. "Recovering himself, however, the whale, after several efforts, succeeded in diving below, and came up on the starboard side of the schooner. The crow then took their whaling iron and struck at the thrasher, but unfortu- ately, did not hit on a vital part. "The thrasher, following the whale, made another savage attack on his vic­ tim, and hit for a second time within the sight of the crew. "The whale appeared at this juncture to be in the extremities, and the sword- fish, realizing the position, made a fur­ ther attack at the common enemy, and stabbed the leviathan. "All was now over; the whale's re­ maining strength was gone, and he was compelled to tfUccumb to his fate with the grace of a doubly-assailed warrior of the deep. After death, he floundered topsy-turvy, and the thrasher was ob­ served to be luxuriating on the choicest arts of the conquered dead."--Qolden . A iffew XiMHHiliHMHili the mam* which is resemb- ®pon windo% pwaeain the cold weatbor. The glass is fixat given a ground surface, either by the sand blajt or the ordinary method, and is then coated with soft varnish. The varni& contracts strongly in drying, taking with it the particles of glass to which it adheres, and this re­ produces very accurately the branching crystals of frostwork. SOME experiments are being made in Shropshire with a view to test the practicability of substituting locomotives for horses in canal traffic. A set of rails about a mile in length was laid along the canal bank. On this was placed a small locomotive from Crewe Railway Works. When steam was up, two boats were attached by ropes to the locomotive, which drew them along easily at about five miles an hour. Four boate were then attached, and the same speed was attained, the engine working quite smoothly. The experiment was very successful. ; IT is found that in painting wood* one. coe.t takes twenty pounds of lead ana four gallons of oil per 100 square yards; the second coat, forty pounds of lead and four gallons of oil, and the third the same as the second; say 100 pounds of lead and sixteen gallons of oil per 100 square yards for three coats. The num­ ber of square yards covered by one gal­ lon of priming color is found to be fifty; of white zinc, fifty; of white lead paint, forty-four; of lead color, fifty; of black point, fifty; <oi stone color, forty-four, of yellow paint, forty-four; of blue color, forty-five; of green paint, forty-five. ; IF we are to believe an Austrian paper, says La Lum ere Electrique, the first lightning-rod was not constructed by Franklin, but by a monk of Seuften- berg, in Bohemia, named Prohop Di- wisch, who installed an apparatus the 15th of June, 1754, in the garden of the curate of Predditz (Moravia.) The ap­ paratus was composed of a pole sur­ mounted by an iron rod support­ ing twelve curved-up branches, and terminating in as many metalic boxes filled with iron ore and closed by a box­ wood cover, traversed by twenty-seven sharp iron points, which plunged at their base in the ore. All the system was united to the earth by a large chain. A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia Record vouches for the wonderful effi­ cacy of the common cat-tail as a remedy for burns. He says: Take the down, and with just enough lard to hold it to­ gether, make a plaster and lay upon any burn, and it soothes and heals so soon that it seems a miracle. Put upon a ft-esh burn, and in less tha^i half an hour the smart is gone; if it is an old burn, the healing will commence in twenty- four hours. "Cat-tail" is also the In­ dian remedy for scrofulous sores of ul­ cers. Age does not destroy its healing virtues. It can be laid away and kept for years wit!y?ut losing any of its rem­ edial properties. Told by Artint Conant W1M» Pain tod Itla Portrait. . A. inte: p o . . . hibitiO& df ftse in St. Louis, raid, in coin's Mr. Lift, busied not find first time coin for this pression u some ... whose for the ifafot ex- Acn^eBay of Art his oostoia, he . go to Hr, Lia- &£atebtiiflJng, as was at thai time (I860) political aflUf* and could lor loarmal sittings. The Coiuimt Visited Mr. Lin- he found the ex- qtiite the revefse " A» era of at hand, safar „ ootuwraed. Frota lmt 7, remaxkabty average of an A par 2)a ys. . • -1 ' j - ' „ ' \„-1 . « . -,(• 4 vf > 5 ^ , v » v. "Bird of the Shade." In the Soudan the respect for the "Bird of the Shade" is unbounded; he is endearingly known to the Arabs as their "Uncle," and they are more ex­ orbitant in exacting blood money for his chance slaughter by the hand of the stranger than if it were really the rela­ tive in question. Shoot their dove, their ostrich, their varied scavengers of the vulture kind, their once sacred ibis even, and then grin and bear it; but once aim a bolt at the "Noah Bird," and a hundred lean but muscular brown arms will be raised, and the be­ reaved white-teethed relatives will ges­ ticulate and shout round you, while they explain how black-hued was your accidental crime. Apart from this, the raven, with his jetty plumage, will al­ ways be a point of interest in the Sou­ dan, from the strong contrast he pre­ sents to the ordinary "desert-colored" birds which preserve a neutral tint of gray or fawn, which renders than al­ most invisible. » He Does Not Whistle. Some vile slanderer has started the story E. W. Haliord, late managing editor of this paper, and now President­ elect Harrison's private secretary, is an inveterate whistler and can whistle the most difficult music after one hearing, says the Indianapolis Journal. The falsity of this tale is apparent on its face. Everybody who is acquainted with the peculiar sensitiveness of the journalistic nature knows that no self-respecting staff of a respectable newspaper would permit a whistling associate to live, much less to remain and "manage" them for twenty years. / In justioe to itself, as well as to remove a stigma from the re­ putation of an honored and honorable gentleman, the Journal hastens to say that Mr. Halford not only does not whistle, but there is reason to believe that he cannot. At all events, if he knows even one easy tun© from another he has never proved it by vocal demon­ stration. All reports to the contrary are ^ : , ' - ji; «• radually lapse of in1 A Industries in Ancient Poets and rhetoricians have in their usual free an<J easy way exaggerated the material prosperity of ancient Ire­ land. Much of the splendor attributed to Keltic kings and bishops and bards fades under the cold light of historical research. But this very research has put beyond all doubt that beneath the exaggerations of rhetoric and song there lay a solid substratum of truth. Thus the publication by a Parliamentary com­ mission of the immense and previously almost unexplored mass of legal insti­ tutes known as the "Brehon Laws" has verified the fact that at a time when Britons were almost naked savages the Irish Kelts were clad in woollens and linens of their own manufacture. The Brehon laws abound with references not only to woolen and linen goods, but to carding, weaving, dyeing, and the other processes of manufacture. Again, in the remarkable metrical account of the rights of the monarchs of Ireland and of the provincial kings, attributed to a contemporary of St. Patrick, and known as the" Book of Eights, we find that tribute was paid to a large extent in cloaks, tunics, mantles, and other ar­ ticles of woollen and linen manufacture, some white, some brown, some trimmed with purple, some with fur, and some with gold. We can see for ourselves Something of what was done in the more durable materials. Textile fabrics, except of the coarsest kind, perish in far lesi time than twelve hundred years. But metal-work, if good in material and design, survives. Accordingly we have abuntant specimens of such work come down to us from the Keltic period. Many of these are rough, but many are rich in material, good in design, and ex­ quisitely skilful in workmanship. Some were found deep below the surface of our bogs, where probably they were dropped in flight, and got gr covered with peat in the slow centuries. Others were found in' stone chambers made for their reception, and forgotten for more than a thousand years. Vast quantities of the gold-work were consigned to the crucible. Some goldsmiths estimate that they purchased and melted down as much as £10,000 worth of ancient Keltic gold-work found from time to time in Ireland. But for­ tunately much also has been preserved. There is quite a magnificent collection of works in gold, silver, and bronze in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. Besides these there are many fine specimens in Trinity College, Dublin, and in the British Museum, London.--Commissioner MacCarthy, in Harper's Magazine. Oil ojT Sassafras. The manufacture of the oil of aassa- fras is becoming an important industry in some parts of the country, especially in the Southern States, where this tree is common. Only the roots are used; they are chopped into Bmall pieces by a machine constructed for the purpose, the oil being then distilled from the chips by the aid of steam. About one gallon of the oil, weighing nine pounds, is obtained from 1,000 pounds of the' chips. The uses for which the oil of sassafras c&n be employed are numer­ ous and varied. It is a favorite perfume for soaps and candies; it is used as a solvent for different gums, and as a liniment. It is also very largely em­ ployed in the manufacture of several popular proprietary medicines. The im­ portance of this industry may be ex­ pected to increase rather than diminish, as the sassafras and the persimmon are the two trees which are spreading most rapidly over the old and abandoned fields throughout the Southern States outside of the pine belt proper; and at present prices good wages can be made digging out the roots.--Garden and Forest. _ • TWO-THIRDS of the things of this life are shams, and the other third are not what thev seem to be.--Oil City Bliz- ~ *y «V1 ' • *< */ '2 v, »jjvS r i " of the me' !#ncfooly and serious one he had supposed 1*®, wore. It was so bright, animated, ttd genial that Mr. Conant %t once made up his mind to depict it if te could. With this In view, it was his cus­ tom to tell huoxorous stories, which, when thsy Bfe T.iticoin's fancy: made him forget for the time his absorb­ ing affairs. One day Mr. Lincoln told how, when "running." as he termed it, his grocery store at Salem, near Spring­ field, he got his first taste for law. A farmer drove up with a broken-down horse and a wagon filled with household "plunder," and asked him what hd would give "for the hull load." Lincoln looked over the lot of old pots, pans, kettles, and stuff, and gave him half a dollar. The man went off and Lincoln stored the stuff. Some weeks after the purchase Lincoln had occasion to use one of the barrels, which was filled with some of the old "truck" bought in the 50-cent purchase, and as he turned out the contents of one of them, under the old rusty pans a dilapidated copy of Blackstone's Commentaries came to light. Lincoln eyed it curiously and laid it aside. . Later in the afternoon he picked the book tip and began to read. He soon became absorbed in . it, and from that day on he read all the long ich fall to the lot of the This was the first ink- iy taste in the direction ward attained such suc- leisure ho' country g ling he had in which h6*j cess. Another story tlie artist told was one which he said he had himself told Lin­ coln. and which he had used on several occasions, on two of which he had been interrupted before he got to the point, "and," said the artist, "if there was any­ thing which annoyed Mr. Lincoln it was this. It caused hint to always remem­ ber the man from whom he got the story. The story was of a Missouri man who went to a stable to get a horse to take him to a convention to which he was going as £ delegate with a hope of nomination. The stable keeper was n man of different political persuasion and gave him a horse which he calculated would break down before he got there. His calculation proved true and the man lost the nomination. On his return to the stable, the disappointed Missourinn asked the stableman if he was training that horse for a liearso. The man said "Kinder guessed he wasn't." "Well," said the man. "if you are, he'll never do it, for he wouldn't get a corpse to the cemetery in time for the resurrection." This story Lincoln had twice tried to tell, once from the rear of the train, and was carried away by it before he got to the point, and a second time, when present at a gun testing, when the gun was fired just as he reached the Mis- sourian's reply. Mutual Admiration Societies. ' Mutual Admiration Societies ate aT- ways informally organized wharevp two or three are gathered together. Hunger for praise seems to be as uni­ versal as hunger for bread; thirst fot notice and attention, is stronger and more universal than the alchoholie thirst. The lover and the maid form the smallest, but, perhaps, the most en­ thusiastic of the Mutual Admiration So cieties. Love is fed on praise and thrives on adulation. The lover whe does not worship and adore, and the maid who does not praise and flatter, have not drank very deep of the wine oj romance, or quaffed very much Of the mad exilarant of love. * The happiest and best-conducted fam­ ilies are compact Mutual Admiration Societies. Judicious praise and appre­ ciation is the balm that heals all do­ mestic troubles. A man who does not praise his wife has no business to praise God, for the hypocrisy of such an action, on his part would be as trans­ parent as plate glass. He is an ingrate and an egotist by nature, and all wor­ ship of the higher powers on his part is induced either by selfishness or fear. Most societies, whatever name thev may bear, are, in their nature, Mutual Admiration Societies. Men go to the club because they hope to find there congenial spirits who will appreciate their own qualities. Much of the powei of the church over women is due to tho fact that in the church, the meed of ap­ preciation and sympathy is awarded their efforts, which too many of them fail to receive at home. But this thirst for praise, like many other appetites, may be gratified too much. The world is full of men as col­ orless as water and pliant as bending reeds, whose intellectual subserviency has been induced by their chronic habit of pleasing everybody. There is no chance for such a man to develop along the lines of his individuality. A man should no more be led by his neighbor's brains than he should breathe with liii neighbor's lungs, or walk with his neighbor's feet. A personality that is pulled out of its Own orbit by another Krsonality has not outgrown its intel-stual babyhood. A man who expects praise for everything he does, who hunts for compliments and feeds on flattery, has no time left for real work. "Do your work without a thought oi fame," said Longfellow. This is a good motto. One's best work is its own loudest praise, and does not need the advertisement of another's flattery.--* --Yankee Blade. Divorced Women. What becomes of divorced women? A vast field of imexplortit territory is opened by the question. Just as mules are supposed to seek lor their death some spot where no eye can behold them, so divorced women, once divorced, are believed to withdraw to some mys­ terious limbo in which the rest of their lives is spent unobserved. But the Tribune has been at the pains of col­ lecting statistics about them, and it finds that they can accurately be divided into the four following classes:. Remarried within a year, 75 per cent.-; waiting for an offer, 10 per oqpt.; fallen into evil ways, 10 per cent.; devoted to celibacy, 5 per cent These figures have been oompiled from a comparison of the divorce lists with the marriage registers; from the statements of judges, justices of the peace, clergymen, lawyers, and court officials, and from personal inquiry among those who have been divorced. They can be accepted as fairly and sub- staatially correct.--CJiicaflfO 'JFrUrune. g seests to be lopMBtB' we to shoe vliile the •ye of an African cAdelt there are but lew that commend themselvee to man «t modest tastes. Eteii Solomon in all fcu| glory was wm* arrayed in neck (ear approaohing the gorgeous styles of W. Atiman may Jpay 50 cents or $3 farhie tie, but the chances are that he will have to look twice before finding » quiet, tasty knot. Wo to Another WarT •MM polittoal propbata avwr that waahalL BettatMit, raay.ttaa lMtttavagadtymatied ag»ta« dUaaaa will mum aaua anttt w« at that atopian «pooh wkm tto fcuftan Subtly •hall CUM to be afllietal vrltk bodily atlMita. Oaa of tha most p&tmt woapon« Whlah 4ha armor? of medlcina fomlaba* ta Soa- •attar*a Stomach Btttara, wfcich ia ot apMlal MUttMo, ftv% nmady, aa it to riayMito tka tan*ftiat« raUat aat nHlniata euro oi tfcoaa of tha atomaeb, livar and feowala Which am of c mmonaat oecwTaae#. Indlgaa- ttao, biiioBisata and constipation ara inaapet- aWajcompanions, ant thasa ailmaata ara torn- plaUjy arndioatad by tha Bittarm. Bat tha lamaoial scopa of this superlatively wholesome medicine takes In also nsrvoas ail- •Mfts. rneuuiattsm and kidney troubles; its action in these, as in tha other compl%>nt«. be­ ing ahsfactorlzed by aneqaelsd thoroughness. The Wife's Deference. If a wife respects her husband she is ready and willing to adapt her daily life according to his wishes She looks up to him for advice and guid­ ance, as knowing more of the world and its ways than she does herself. It is woman's nature to reverence the one she loves and submit herself to the wishes of her husband; but it is not done as a slave in bonds, but as a ftee offering of affection.--Qn& a Week. A Radical Cure tor Epileptic Fit*. To the Editor: Pleaso inform your read* ers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease which I warrant to core the W6ret cases. So strong is my faith in the virtues of this medicine that I will send free a sample bott'e and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P. O. and Express address. My remedy has cured thousands of hopeless cases. H. O. BOOT, M. C., 183 Pearl street. New York. A Base query. v no girl can dress nowadays without a set^f reeds, is that any rea­ son for calling her a reed organ ? Catarrh Cored. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last round a recipa which completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending a self-ad dressed stamped envoUrpe to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warren street. Now York City, will re­ ceive the recipe free of charge. * A LADY has been appointed professor of wood carving in a Western College. Her first labors shonld be to teach th< young ladies how to sharpen a lead pencil. - Now* About Town. It is the current report ubout town that Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is making some remarkable cures with people who are troubled with Coughs, Sore Throat, Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption. Any druggist will give you a trial bottle free of cost It is guaranteed to relieve and cure. The Large Bottles are 60c and $1. "EAT all the ice cream you want to,* says a physician. This the pretty girl thinks is the best summer's cool-off phi. losoph;.T--Boston Courier. The Difficulty Experteneed r; In taking Cod Liver Oil is entirely overcome In Seott s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites. It. in as palatable at milk, ana the most valuable remedy that has ever been produced for the cure of Consumption, Scrofula and Wasting Diseases. Do not fail to try It. IN teaching a boy drawing give him the premises and let him draw his own eon- elusions.--Texas Siftinga. IVo Safer Remedy can be had for Coughs and Colds, or any trouble of the Throat, than Brown's Bronchial Troche*. Prioe 25 eta. Hold only in boxes. CnmiNAiiS and old books are bound ever, but mummies never. WZLUAX YOUNKIN. Custer. Neb,, says: "1 hare used Wizard Ofi for the past five years and find it invaluable. I would as soon give up my 'Winchester' as to go on the range without a bottle of Wizard Oil with me." Br mistake a New Orleans paper print­ ed a list of coming weddings, under the head of "The Sugar Crop." Dr afflicted with Bora Eyes, use Dr. Isaae Thou peon's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 26c. Pains and Aches Us various parts of the body, mere particrJsrly In the back;, shoulders, and joint*. »:*.> the unwelcome indications thst rheumatism has gained a foothold, and you ara *ln for it" for & longer or shorter period. Rheumatism is caused by lactic acid in the blood, and is cured by Hood's SarsapariUa, which neutral­ ises the acidity and eradicates every impurity tram the blood. "I suffered from an acute attack of rheumatism in­ duced by a severe sprain of a once dislocated ankle joint, which caused great swelling and intense pain. One bottle of Hood's BarsapatUla restored circula­ tion, cleansed the blood, and relieved the pain." L. T. HUNT, kipringttelU, Ho. Hood's Sarsapartlla Bold by all druggists. $i; six (or |5. Prepared only kor C. I. HOOD a CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Maw. IOO Doses One Dollar RWtlllaif. MSmm$SS9m AST MMMll An «nt OUKus*. vMcua ce^ D,AMS?f?rXSR&cu»t* , „ AndAUgtomsOi Bisjse ia Ike THE CfUtUEVA. ELTS CREAM BALM COLO in MCAB, tMUFFL.ES CATARRH. FARMS! STImTs um ate. worangftlr BBYJLVT'S Bcsnrxas WANTED or CANADA, sse to S400a month uid expenses •Mil 111 y 'TV1""" 'im ENGLISH. T.H • Asthma lef in TIX Himrrxs. WM.Ctumnoai«, Gardner 111., writes: 1 have not had up an hour for three . I hope the man that vented the 8P*CI»IC may are everlasting lite and Oot'i blessing while he lives * Soldbyall dragRlsts. stpaid AcMrewi, enclosing stamp, T. POPS AM. 1'niUMtLPMiA, PA BREAKFAST. SwirtN of mftflrnaBt Blond stflw 1 Wrn tre&teU ta vain with old »o-<r*nMi r«nne4k!$ of Mercery Ma lVtMf!. S. S. S. not only cured the H.cod IVIion, but relit Hk*uin*Ufttu whtcb wm cftiurd hv ib« f>o!&miPu>- nttoernU. BOVELL, TUr4 Avtum. X. 4*. $ Nine vtftr* are Scrotal* ittnrM two my children And (key wer^Tjadlv afflu ted with that dimte. which resitted the tr*»tmenS twill? phytMan, i wa» p-nsedes m owuvt ey teeing an atvoutii of cure* In my county ftper. The tnprovene&l Wft- appartr.t frons fir»% frw "dow, «na iutthan Um mf «ktt- wen cvr«l tad art stilt eoavd and we)). JOHN WILLIAMS, US****, TFT» BWIPTS SPECIFIC U entirely A VEGETABLE remedy, ui H the «*ly medicine which permanently cure/ bcttfala* Btoad Hniuiit Cancer and Coatajfiout Blood Pot«m, £end (>rr took* ta HMA MM Skin Dteeate*. mailed free. THE SWIFT ftTBClFtC CO», Diswer 3, AUnts, U* 3E&SR9B WMBJWi wHMI ml*. Poa't waste roar laoasraaagaifaor ntbbsyasafc. TtMratteKAKBUJCni tsabsolatelf JOHN A. SALZERiLsfmsi.wti. ESTLB ess SMMSH JkMM (iMiMrtiimi •IIM TV.** avardyoahsretS ehiMM The moet cer­ tain and safe pain REMEDY in the world that instantly stops the moat ox or ut latins PAINS. H Is truly the great CONQUEROR OF PAIN, and hasdonemore good than any known rem- For SPRAINS, BRUISES, BACK­ ACHE. PAIN In the CHEST or SIDES, HEADACHE. TOOTHACHE, or any other EXTERNAL PAIN, a few to- Slleatlons aet like maglo, causing lePAIN to INST^NTLY STOP. For CONGESTIONS, INFLAMMA­ TIONS, SORE THRO XT. BRONCHI­ TIS, COLD In the CH^ST. RHEU- MAVISM, NEURALGIA, LUMBA­ GO, SCIAYICA, PAINS in the Small of the Back, etc., more extended, longer continued and repeated ap­ plications are necessanr to effect a cu£ All INTERNAL pXlNS«lntt»e Bowels or .Stomach), CRAMPS, SPASMS, SOUR STOMACH, NAU­ SEA, VOMITING, HEARTBURN, DIA&RHCEA, COLIC, FLATULEN­ CY, FAINTING SPELLS, are relieved instantly and QUICKLY CURED by taking Internally as directed. Sold bv SrusKlsts. Price BOc. N. U. bo and tally aa> aa the only acertaincaca I pnseriba i dona Big » specific for tit of this disease. O. H. ING&AHAM, K. D., Amsterdam. H. T. We havs aold Big G far many years, and it baa Bctfw the bast ot satia- D^B!'DYCHK A CO.. Chicago, 111. lsi.tt. Bold by Ho. 3-8® -UTHKN WHITING TO. API WjjUg.-,,- --- IT NEVER FAILS. Bad blood means an Inactive liver and • sympa­ thetic or unnatural action of the stomach, boirai and kidneys, and as a result BILIOUSNESS. "lie symptoms are drowsiness, loss of appetite, eadacne, lack of energy, pain in the back, costhre- ness or diarrhoea, sallowness of skin, furred tongue, generally attended with melancholy and GENERAL DEBILITY. To cure these diseases means to restore the action' of the liver and other organs, and to Mil the poison In the blood. A remedy containing Mandrake, Cul­ vers Root, Burdock and Cascara Sagrada, acting especially on the liver, stomach, kidneys and sweat glands, is the proper one. CONSTIPATION pancreas and glands which supply tho bile anc The process of digestion, assimilation _ B removal needs the healthy action of tha liver, I pancreas and glands WHICH supply in® owe and other fluids, in order to stimulate them toproper I action. Hit)bard's Rheumatic Syrup combines ali the best medicines, with tonks to restore all | secretions and supply the needed action. HIBBARD'S RHEUMATIC SYRUP. IT NEVER FAILS. _ \ 5#t TESTIMONIAL® POSITIVELY TRUES Both myself and wife have bMb wring HH»- hard's Rheumatic Syrup this fall asl wiatar with excellent success. " "" For over twenty years I h*ve been a great suf­ ferer from the e fleets ot a diseased stomach, and for three years past have been Bnable to do any 5 business. Two years ago my caaa was pro­ nounced by the oast medical skill incurable, iLast June 1 began using Hibbard's Rheumatic I Syrup, and at once began to feel better. 1 have i used thirteen bottles aod am a well man. EDWARD BAKE*, Master Mechanic and Blacksmith, sos Jackson Street, Jacksoo, Mich. We kaow ft t» baa | great medicine. For constipation, iysys or indigestion it certainly has oo Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 4, Ko remedies known so its home people. OvMtdkal ir.if on all diseases, seat fretf O RHEUMATIC SYRUP COMPANY. Jackson, Mlctt. GREATBLDODPURIFIER ASE ANY NEWSDEALER •t»/" .v*" POSTMASTER fwiriontJenmca. Karoo mii--l >a*>1 -- aala 1 yoarPigotorPWi l-- y o v r t t U B S M i d s d d w w s w p o o s p o s t a l X K K J L t X C M N f l f c ' I f t t t e f c i o bst W*mn? ftsw in Wsst sad shoal* bs in rmt * whoTit Attmi THE CHICAGO LIOCIR, Chicago, M. vl Kifft A • '* /*' k v ! ' •:Au. t-'iv is*, • - /