West India Docks.
You approach the West India Docks
through the Great Eastern Railway Com
pany's terminus at Fencliurch street; and
nowhere in England are railway appoint
ments more abominable. Greasy platforms
under rickety sheds: trains like that "siring
of second-hand coffins" in which Artemus
Ward travelled to the south; servants who
look as if they had been rigged out at ran
dom by coutract with the second-hand slop
dealers in Houndsditch. The mixture of
your fellow-passenger is picturesque, though
you may be surprised to meet most of them
in first-class carriages; and already you are
conscious of some reflections of the sunshine
of Eastern lands. The diamond that adorns
the middle finger of that shipbroker oppos
ite has a barbaric look; and the talk of the
gentleman in shaggy pilot cloth, with the
slight gold circlets in his rosy ear, is of reefs
in the Red Sea and the bars of Chinese riv
ers. It is characteristic by the way that
he presses a full flavored manilla on the
good-humored woman who is hugged under
nis arm and who is evidently his lawful
wife; while as for the ladv, she bites the
end of the cigar as if she were used to it,
and laughingly proceeds to light the weed
at her lord's! The steep descent from the
platform of the dock station is like diving
down the companion hatch into the fore
castle, except that you emerge into space
and comparative light. The sun is blinking
teebly through a watery fog, and as yet the
scene is intensely British. There is a cease
less roll of heavy traffic on the thorough
fares; the driver of the trucks and wagons
and frollies are swearing with Anglo-Saxon
energy as they choke in the gulf stream be
fore the narrow bridges; there are gangs of
laborers busy under the crimes that creak
hoarsely from the dock lofts overhead. As
you pass the gates where the policeman
stand sentinel, the first appearances are de
cidedly depressing. Considering the damp
that pervades the murk}' atmosphere, you
do not wonder that the adjacent public
houses are doing a lively trade. Dimly
through the veil of vapor you distinguish
the masts and spars of the tier of shipping,
while the solid cordage of their riggings
shows like the delicate tracery work in a
cobweb.
But, in connection with the East, what
strikes one most in the docks nowadays—
especially in the Victoria Docks—is the en
ormous number of Oriential seaman. All
the stearners passing through the Sue/. Canal
are manned by crews of Lascars; and the
Canal and the 1-ascars together have wrought
a complete revolution in the Eastern traffic.
Within the memory of man it has passed
through three distiuct stages. First were
the goldeu days of the East India Company's
navy, when happy officials were shaking
the pagoda tree, and freights ol priceless
value were being shipped from a country
that was popularly believed an El Dorado.
The very pickings of the trade were so val
uable that a captain could gain a compet
ency in a single trip; and we believe that,
after making the fortune that three voyages
insured him, he was compelled to retire in
favor of his juniors. The came Waghorn and
his exploration of the Overland route, and
the establishingof the Peninsular and Orient
al Company. The men who used to furnish
their cabins sumptuously for the long voy
age around the Cape, who used to victual
themselves with all manner of private de
licacies and lay in cases of wine and casks
of aerated waters, were precisely those to
whom time seemed valuable and who did
uot gtudge the prices of the new route. The
Peninsular and Oriental Company for years
had a monopoly of aristocratic business:
and, it may be said, they well deserved it.
If they charged high they gave value for
the mouey in the shape of switt aud punc
tual passages, with every reasonable luxury.
The passage paid, you travelled en grand
seigneur. It gladdened the heart of the
share-holder after the railway had been
opened across the Isthmus, to see the crowds
of passengers at the meeting of the tides
that overflowed the hotel accommodation of
Alexandria. And, though their vessels
were built for the accommodation of pass
engers, what freight they carried—in handy
little packages of silks and muslins—was
extremely valuable. M. Lesscpa, in his
character of cosmopolitan benefactor knock
ed that lucrative monopoly on the head.
Henceforth the company had to compile
with rival associations whose steamers had
been built especially for the canal trade.
It has been forced to rebuild its fleets, re
duce its charges, cut down the salaries and
Day of its employess, and man its ships with
Lascars on both sides of the Isthmus, The
public generally have cause to be grateful,
except for the single drawback that the
comfortable old paddle boats are done awHy
with. It must be allowed, however, that
several of the newest vessels, such as the
Kaiser- i-Hind, with her saloon that can uiue
180 passengers, her spacious sleeping cabins,
and her ten bath rooms, are magnificent.
And the Kaiser, for example, is built to
carry 3000 tons of cargo without in any
way affecting her speed. It used to be said
that the Lascars were irritable and revenge
ful, so that they were generally kept in a
minority in the crew, bo far, however, it
has been found in practice that they are
sober and amenable to discipline. But
the first thing done with them is to deprive
them of the knives they carry. They are
berthed tier over tier in a great saloon in the
forecastle, screened off from the quarter
master's cabins behind by canvas that may
be raised for purposes ot supervision. They
include men of all the manlier Indian races
Sikhs, Patlians, and Afghans amoug the
rest —and no fewer than 18,000 of them
have been passed already through the books
of the Peninsular and Oriential Company
alone.
Cheap Way t Get a Will.
A millionaire who lived and died in the
vicinity of New York, as he felt his last
days drawing nig'ii, summoned a distin
guished neighbor and lawyer, who since
has occupied one of the highest positions in
the gift of representatives of the people, to
prepare a last will and testament. When
the will was drawn the dying man said:
4i l propose to makeyeu my executor, and
I shall require no bond from you. Write
that also."'Jhe ex-Judge complied, after
thanking his client, and promised to exe
cute the will to the best of his ability.
- "What is your bill for drawing up my
will?" asked the millionaire.
4 'Oh, under the circumstances, of course
I shall charge you nothing," was the an
swer.
4 'But," said the other, "that is not my
way of doing business. Make out and re
ceipt a bill for your services and I will pay
vou now."
"Well, since you insist. I will make
out a bill for a nominal sum—say $25."
And this member of the Bar, who seldom
draws breath without charging some one
for the respiration, made out and receipted
for $25, a bill which under other circum
stances would have been SSOO.
The good man died and was buried,
when the will was read it was found that
the name of his son had been inserted in
place of that of the distinguished lawyer.
The ruling passion was strcyig in death.
The man who knew how to accumulate
wealth understo<xi the value of a tightly
drawn will and the difference betweeus2s
and SSOO. He had merely copied the
words in the order they were written by
his legal friend and thus obtained an
executor of his own choosing.
OLD maid's laughter—He Jhe! he !
How TO MANAGE CUTTINGS.— In se
lecting a cutting, a great deal depends
upon the judicious choice;, if the slip is
too young and full of fresh sap, it will
fade away from too much evaporation ;
if it is too old, hard and woody—it
will take a great while to strike root.
You must take a cutting that is per
fectly ripened and is from a vigorous
shoot, yet a little hardened at she base.
It is also essential to have a bud or joint
at or near the end of the cutting, as all
roofs strike lront it, and the nearer it is
to the base the greater your chance of
success. Plant your cuttings in com
mon red pots, tilled half full of rich
loam and two inches of sand on
top (scouring sand will do, but not
sea sand); wet tills thoroughly, and
put the cuttings close around the edge
of the pot, for if the bud or joint comes
in contact with the sin face of the pot It
seems to strike root more quickly. Pull
off the lower leaves before you plant
the cutting. Press the wet sand tightly
about the tiny stem, for a great deal of
your success in raising the cutting de
pends upon the close contact of sand
with the stent. When the cuttings are
tirnily planted, cover them with a glass
shade if possible, as it will greatly pro
mote the growth of the plant- Mois
ture, light and heat, are the three es
sentials to plant lite; without them no
cutting will start. Shade for two or
three days from thesunlight, but don't
let the sand become dry ; then give all
the sun you can obtain, keep up a good
supply of moisture, and you can hardly
fail to root most of your cuttings.
CHEAT SHEDDING FOR STOCK.— In very
manv sections of our larming com
munity, cheapness rules the day gen
erally, and often of necessity. Where
cheapness may serve the same purpose
as tlie expenditure of considerable
hard-earned cash, then it is best to
adopt the former. In this matter of
shedding, where lumber is both scarce
and high priced, and where thecashou
band is needed for other things, tem
porary, as well as comfortable, shelters
for stock can be erected at no other
expense than that entailed by the labor
expended. Stout timbers, six or eight
Inches in diameter, of oak, maple or
other strong wood, are planted about
ten feet apart, and about six to eight
feet out of the ground, having
"crotches" or forked ends at the top 011
which to lay other timbers parallel
with the ground. Across these old
rails are laid about two teet apart and
on them is piled the corn fodder as it
comes from the field* in bundles,
These bundles are laid on from Ave to
ten or more in depth, and so arranged
as to carry oft' the rains. These make
excellent shelters lor the stock, if built
with the open side facing the south,
and bv the time the fodder is used off
them, the warm days are upon us. We
recommend the above to those who are
short of stabling room for their cattle.
STRAW AS HORSE FEED.—I have fed
many horses all winter 011 straw and
grain—no hay —with entire satisfac
tion. I have even fed so, with great
advantage, when the horses have been
steadily employed at neavy work, and
in other instances when they have had
only occasional light road work. It
lias been said that nature made two
animals glutcons—the horse and man.
It is true of the horse. But fed on
straw the horse is not likely to eat too
much. The nutriment shouli be sup
piled mainly by grain, the purpose of
the straw being mainly to distend the
stomach and aid the animal economy to
maintain thrift otherwise than by the
nutriment supplied in the straw. In
taking horses from hay to straw,
are likely to show un< asiness for a few
days, but not long. They soon become
contented and thrive just as well as
when stuffed with the best hay, and
they are far less likely, when kept idle,
to become injured in wind. 1 believe
most cases of heaves are caused directly
by over-eating when the horses are
kept with insufficient worn.
A WASTEFUL INTEREST PAID BY
FARMERS. —There is no disputing the
fact that any farm implement, be it
wagon, plow, harrow, reaper, rake, or
what not, if left exposed to rain and
sun for ten years, will be practically
good for nothing. We might say at
five years, but if any choose to cavil lit
five we will say ten. This is ten per
cent, per annum. At a cost of less than
one per cent, these tools can be kept al
ways housed, or under cover of some
kind, even it but rough boards, that
will shut out sun and rain. Because
we do not see the sile<t, slow but steady
waste, we are apt to forget that it is
ever going 011. Ir is unnecessary to
suggest the "application" of this short
sermon. Xine pet cent, interest saved
is not to be despised, even if better
times are at hand.
TREATMENT OK FROZEN PLANTS. —In
times of severe cold, the more ten
oer plants in the window will some
times be chilled and frozen. Such
plants should not be put near the stove,
to be thawed out; but kept wheej the
temperatu'e is a trille above the freez
ing point that the thawing may be
gradual, and in the dark, that deleteri
ous chemical changes may not take
place. If severely touched with the
iroot, it is best to remove the ftozen
pirts, that new steins may be forced
out from the buds below. Water free
ly, and finally bring them to the ordi
nary temper tore for house-plants;
sixty-live to seventy degrees.
CATTLE AND THEIR FODDER.—Some
times cattle get the liubit of tossing
their fodder out of the manger and
under foot. This- generally happens
when they are too well-fed or have too
much room. There was no trouble of
that sort in the old fashion of tying
thein close together with their horns
knocking together, almost on the barn
floor. Animals are not likely to poke
their feed toward one anotheryou will
observe, but they are very apt to draw
more hay toward themselves —if there
is any chance —than they can possibly
make use of. A slat or two nailed
across a manger stops all that flirting
of the head and holds the hay better
than mere sideboards will.
If they are going to rebuild the
bridge of Tay, as expected, wouldn't it
be a goqd idea to use something stronger
—coffee, for instance.
Correot Your Faults
Of digestion with Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters,
a medicine which removes flatulence heart
burn, irregularity of the bowels, poverty of
the bl od, and all shifting, harassing, per
plexing symptoms of dyspepsia, as well as
their cause. A conspicuous change in the ap
pearance as well .is in the feelings of those
who use the Bitters takes place as the distres
sing symptoms disappear, and the stomach,
liver and bowels reassume their function in
full foree and activity. The haggard appear
ance of the countenance and sallowness of
dyspep ics are supplanted by a healthier look,
and as the food is assimilated, the bodv ac
quire substance. Appetite, without which
food does comparatively little good, is re
st red, and the nerv us system refreshed
with much needed slumber, through the use of
tiiis medicine, wh cli is also beneficial to per
sons of a rheumatic tendency, and au inesti
mable preventive of fever and ague.
DOMESTIC.
SEASONING —The excellency of the
French cooking is due mainly to the fact
that they season everything well. They
use a variety of herbs and spices by 110
means costly. They get a small quanti
ty at a time and keep adding by little
and little till they have a good variety,
in the season when sweet herbs are
plentiful in market it is easy to get
sage, mint, sweet majorani, thyme,
sweet basil, bay leaves, parsley, celery
seed and tarragon. From one bunch
of tarragon a gallon of that desirable
sauce could be made. By rubbing the
dried leaves ot herbs through a sieve
and corking them up in air tight ves
sels, they will retain their llavor for
many months, and by drying the
leaves and roots of the celery and pars
ley in a cool ovcii, grating the roots
and rubbing the leaves through a sieve,
and then corking them up tightly, tin v
can be kept as a flavoring from season
to season. Parsley and tarragon are
best dried in June and July; thyme,
marjoram aiul savory in July and Au
gust ; and basil and sage in August and
September, Window boxes are often
made to supply flavoring, and even
through the winter months some house
keepers manage to keep growing many
sweet herbs which they have always at
hand to flavor with.
COUGHS AND COLDS are often over
looked. A continuance lor any length
of time causes irritation of the Lungs
or some chronic Throat Disease.
"Brown's Bronchial Troches'" are an
effectual COUGH REMEDY.
-
How TO SELECT BLACK SILK. —Look
carefully at the evenuess of the ribby,
holding it up to the light. In that way
you caii see if the texture is close and
even. Crush a haudlul ot the silk in
your hand, pressing it with all your
force, then release It and see it it will
crease. It it does, the silk is of poor
quality. A good Bilk will be elastic;
it will have erve, and when released
from the grasp of the hand will show
little or 110 trace of creasing. Gros
grain should he light, though full in
the hand. The grain need not be ex
amined so closely as the floss pulled
outofitr When no opportunity offers
for doing this,-the specimen should be
pinched 011 the cross, then pulled in a
contrary direction. If the crease looks
like a fold in paper, that piece should
not be selected; but it it readily smooths
out, the silk is good. The presence ol
iron in the dye can be detected by
touching the sample with the tip of the
tongue. These are rules laid down by
an authority on the subject of black
silk, who farther says w th regard to
color: *'A black, singularly enough,
and without the slightest desire to ap
pear ridiculous, should be blue. The
raven's wing has a blue haze over it.
It is very difficult to get a glossy Jjlue
black.
The price of soap is rapidly advanc
ing. A year's supply of DOBBIN'S'
ELKCTKIC* bought now at old price
will be a very judicious puachase.
XOODLK Soui*. —<Jut line all THE flesh
from the bones of rvo fowls, and to
gether with the frames put the meat
on to boil; about half an hour belore
dinner take out the bones or frames ; at
the same time put in tome noodles
made, as follows: Four eggs well
beaten, mixed well with flour and a
pinch ot salt, stifl enough to roll very
thin ; make two hours belore you are
ready to use them; cut into the thin
nest possible strips; season the soup
with salt and pepper.
ANSWER THIS. —Did you ever know
any person to be 111, without inaction of
the Stomach, Liver or Kidneys, or did
you ever know one who was well when
either was obstructed or Inactive; and
did you ever know or hear of any case
of the kind that Hop Bitters would not
cure?— Ask your neighbor this same
question.
OATMIAL BLANC- MANGE.— Take cue
quart of nulling milk, slightly salted or
boiling water will do, and tw o heaping
table-spoonfuls of oat liour, mix in a
paste, and stir into the boiling milk,
and continue to stir it twenty minutes.
Turn it iuto a mold. May be eaten
either cold or warm, with sugar and
cream. Total expeuse, 14 cents.
AMBROSIA. —One-half dozen of sweet
oranges peeled and sliced; one large
cocoanut, grated. Alternate the layers
of cocoanut and oranges. Sprinkle
powdered sugar over each layer.
PEOPLE LEARN WISDOM by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh, but always keeps Dr.
Bull's Baby Syrup handy.
To STAIN WOOD A MAHOGANY COLOR.
—Take half a pint of nitric acid, a piece
of alum about the size of a Spanish nut,
and as much logwood as will give the
desired color.
CREAM SAUCE.— HaIf pound sugar,
one tablespoon butter, and flavor to
suit the taste.
THREE or four bushels of corn ineal
with a quart of salt, in a hog-head of
water, stirred occasionally for three
or fodY days until it ferments, is much
better and far cheaper tluin feeding
either meal or corn to growing pig.
You can add bran or middlings or
slops to it; and, when half irsed. till up
with water, and s* repoat, adding meal
when needed, and a little salt. This
will bear a good deal of thinning, and
it is the cheapest method known of
making pork.
FENCE posts or timber cut for other
purposes, in September, will be more
durable than if cut at any other season.
Many farmers give it as their experi
that fence posts cut in August or Sep
tember will outlast by many years
others that are cut in Winter or Spring;
and if the ground ends of gate posts
are slightly charred before sinking
they will not rot for years.
THE most thoroughly seasoned wood
contains at least one-tenth of its bulk
in water.
A BUBSTITT7TK for chewing tobacco is
in the market. It sells flrsc-rate the
first two weeks in January.
A MAN having fallen down in a fit in
a tailor's shop, an envious rival sain,
"That's the only fit ever seen in that
establishment."
53.00 Made From 25 Cents.
25centa' worth of Gilt-Edge Butter
Maker will increase product and market
value of butter produced $3.00. Gives
butter a rich golden color the year
round. Increases product 6 per cent.
Increases qualitv 20 per cent. Prevents
butter from becoming rancid. Makes
July, August and Winter butter equal
to best June product. Sold only in
boxes, by druggists, grocers and gen
eral storekeepers. Send stamp for
"Hints to Butter-Makers." Address,
Butte* Improvement Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HUMOROUS.
"WELL, how are you?" inquired a
doctor, as he stood by the arm-chair of
his patient, an old man who was troub
led with deafness. "Oh, very bad,"
was the reply} "I can scarcely hear a
sound." "Well," remarked the doctor,
"you know how often I have Impressed
upon you that you must give up spirits.
Do that and you will get all right."
And uway he went. A fortnight later
he paid his patient another visit, and
inquired after his ailment. "You don't
need to shout so, doctor," said the old
man, irascibly. "1 have followed your
advice, have given up my grog, and
can hear perfeotlv." A week Inter the
medical man paid his patient yet an
other visit, and found him almost stone
deaf once more. "Ah," said the
former, "I suppose you have been In
dulging again.'' "Well, doctor," an
swered the pal lent, "1 must confess I
have, lor I didn't consider all that I
heard worth a single glass of brandy
and water."
CiKNERAL DKHII M Y. — 111 this COlll
plaiul the good ell cots of the VKGKTINK
are realized Immediately alter com
mencing to take it; as debility denotes
deficiency of the blood, and VKOKTINK
aeltsdirectly upon the blood. There is
no remedy that will restore the health
tr4>ni debility like the V ROUTINE. it is
nourishing and strengthening, purifies
the blood regulates the bowels, quiets
the nervous system, acts directly upon
the. secretions, and-arouses the whole
system Lo action. It lus never failed in
this complaint.
AN official who has lately returned
to Washington from a trip down the
Mississippi, tells the following story:
On a Mississippi steamer, as on every
railway or steamship line, a passenger
is allowed a certain amount ot baggage.
One day a man lrom Texas came on the
wharf at New Orleans with his bag
gage. lie was a wild-looking fellow
such as only Texas can produce, lie
went for a man to check his baggage,
and coming back polnte 1 o it Ins valu
ables to tne b ggago-master. "You
will have to pay exit a baggage on some
of those boxes," said the baggage-man.
"Why, I should like to know?" said
the Texan, beginning to look belliger
ent. "Because a passenger is only al
lowed a certain amount of baggage,"
answered the obliging baggage-mast -T.
"How much Is that?" inquired the
Texan. "Sixty pounds." was the re
ply. "Sixty pounds!" thundered
the Texan, "why, my God, man, a
gentle nan's 'weapons' would weigh
that much?"
A MAX was arraigned in Little Nock
on a charge ot carrying a revolver.
"Haven't you got better sense than
to carry a pistol like this?" naked the
Jildge, holding up a pepper-box pistol.
*"Yes air."
"Don't you know that the law says
you shall be tlnetl $25?"
"Yes, sir; but I didn't know it was
any harm to carry such a pistol."
"But it is, sir. Any man that would
carry such a pistol ought to go to,the
penitentiary tor life. Suppose /Von
were to get into a light, having such a
pistol. While you were trying to shoot,
the other fellow would run away. You
may go this time, but it 1 ever bear of
you carrying such, a worthless pistol
again I'll get up a petition to the Gov
ernor and have you hung. No wonder
we are slandered at the North when
such trilling men as you are carrying
pistols that could Only hurt a man lying
on ids stomach and refusing to digest."
WE often hour people pay, there is
only ore good cough medicine and that
is Dr. Boll's Cough Syrup; it is cheap
too, only 25 cents per bottle.
"WILL 'OO know me, mamma; when
we get to heaven v " said a little three
year-old. "Oh, yes, dear, of course; v e
shall know each oilier there. Do
you think you will know your mam
ma?" "Oh, "es, I'll know 'oo by'oo
wed hair."
"Toe are my treasure, after all,"
said au old reprobate, striving to pla
cate his wife after abusing her for an
hour or two. "Oh, yes," she sarcasti
cally answered, "that's the reason, I
supppose, you wish me dead so often ;
you are seeking to lay your treasure up
in heaven,"
PROFESSOR: "Can you multiply con
crete numbers together?" The class
are uncertain. Professor: "What will
be the product of five apples multiplied
by six potatoes?" Pupil (triumphant
ly): "ilash."
"THE moon Is always just the same,"
he said languidly, "and yet I always
find some new beauty in it." It's just
with the circus," she answered. He
took the hint and bought tickets for
two.
FATHER IS GETTING WELL.— My
daughters say, "How much better
father is since he used Hop Bitters."
lie is getting well after his long sufier
ing fro in a disease declared incurable,
and we are so glad that he used your
Bitters.—A lady of Rochester, N. Y'.
ART EMU B WARD once said gravely al
most sadly, "1 have done too much
tooling; too much trilling; I am going
to write something that will live."
"Well, what, for instance?" In the
same grave way, he said, "A lie."
IN sixteen months forty-six mission
aries have been sent to the Mouth Sea
Islands, and twenty more are going. It
is not expected that any report of
famine will come from the islands this
year.
PHELEM (to touristy who has taken
shelter in a leaky shebeen): "Dade,
and its soaked to the bone you'll be
glttln' wid the strames through the
roof. Gome outside, sorr; its drier in
the wet!"
A CHAP made himself sick by riding
five hours in an English railway coach
with his back to the engine, lie said
he couldn't change his seat with any
body because there was no one else in
the car.
MURDER will out, so will the fact
that Garboline, a deodorized extract of
petroleum, the natural hair renewer
and restorer, is the best preparation
ever invented and excels all other hair
dressings, as thousands of genuine cer
tificates now in our possession abun
dantly prove.
A SENTIMENTAL young man thus
feelingly expresses himself: "Even
as nature benevolently guards the rose
with thorns, so does she endow women
with pins.
Avorn A COSTIVB HABIT or BODT, not only be
cause • f the attending discomfort, but lest it
engender more serious consequence!. Dr.
Jayue's Sanative Pills we either Laxative or
Cathartic, according to the dose, and, may be
depended upon to produce Meal thy secretions
ot tbe Liver and StsouWh-
LLNW TO titer A II I*HR AND —Take OF
modesty & large i>oMioii; unite It with
urbanity &ud good humor; to which
add good sense and ptenty of love, \A tth
a virtuous heart and a pretty face. Bet
ter than a cosmetic to make the skin
fair and clear, to brmfe bloom to the
Checks and light to the eyes, and re
move Pimples, Boils, Eruptions, Bill
low Complexion, thick, yellowish ap
pearance of the skin and eyes, Bad
Breath, Irritability and low spirits.
Take Simmons' Liver Regulator in tune.
"I was so greatly troubled with Boils
on the neck and body that I was hardly
able to move my head, and suffered
great pain without being able to cure
them, until I was induced to try Sim
mons Liver Regulator, which entirely
cured me, and I have had no return of
them since, now over a year.
"JA.MKS M. CLEMENT, Agt.
for So. S. S. Co., Phila."
A Tmpl ut MUHOOW.
Next, August at tiie tilth anniversary
of the Emperor's corona lon, the new
Temple ot Our Saviour, at Moscow,
will probably be dedicated. It was be
gun in 18J3 us a commemoration of the
retreat of the French from Moscow.
Nearly 4,000 laborers were employed in
dlgiug the ground for the foundations,
but after a while the worTc ceased. Then
It was resumed again, and at intervals it
has since gone on with greater or less
rapidity. The architecture of (lie build
ing is Kusso-Byzautlne. It is surmoun
ted by tlvc cupolas, one at each corner,
and a large one, or dome, in the centre.
The roof ami framework of the cupo
las has already consumed, it is said,
more than half a ton of gold-leaf.
Above the centre cupola is a massive
bronze cross, which can be seen lrom
every part of Moscow. The bronze
frames of the windows, each nine
yards high, weigh nearly three tons,
and the hinges of the bronze doors
have to support 5> 4 ' tons of metal.
Inside, the walls are gorgeously deco
rated in tlie usual style ot Russian
churches, and contain a number of
jasper pillars, each ot which cost up
wards of SIO,OOO. The total co.-t of the
structure is estimated to exceed $13,-
000,000.
CouiuinpHon Cured.
Ax old physician, retired from prac
lce, having had plaeed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure for Con
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
and all Throat and Lung Affections,
also a positive and radical cure for Ner
vous Debility and all Nervous Com
plaints, after having tested its wonder
ful curative powers in thousands of
cases, has felt it his duty to make it
know to iiis suffering fellows. Actu
ated by this motive and a desire to re
lieve human sufiering. I will send free
of charge to all who desire it, this re
cipe, in German, French, or English,
with full directions lor preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing
with ♦stamp, naming this paper, W. W.
SKKKAK, 149 Powers'* Block, Rochester,
New York.
A Alchu Man.
Almost every city and town lays
claim to the meanest man, but we be
lieve that about the smallest eptclmen
of a mean mau resides In Newburyport.
A few days ago he called at a hard
ware store and represented that he was
troubled with a noise in his pantry at
home, at the same time asking the clerk
for the loan of a mouse trap to catch
the animal. The clerk replied that was
hardly the way business was dona at
that establishment, but informed the
gentleman who was being impove
rished by the mouse that a good trap
could be purchased for twenty cents.
After some dickering, the bargain was
concluded. A few days afterward
however, in walked the. owner of the
trap with the imformation that he had
been successful in catching the mouse,
and that the article would be of no fur
ther use to him. Tills was followed by
a request that the store-keeper take
back the trap and return hun the origi
nal price. This was rather a staggerer
in the way of check, but the man be
hind the counter quietly took out twenty
cents, passed it over to the M. M., and
remarked that he would refund the
money, and at the same time present
him wiph the trap. Gracefully thank
ing Uiiu, the M. M. quickly pocketed
the cash and trap, and walked out with
the satisfied air or conaficus rectitude.
yuack XoHlrutna
are pronounotd by thj medical profession
"The bane or society" but tbe Bible ♦-ays "To
bun who is afflicted p tv should be shown" and
Dr. Hilabee, tbe discoverer of "Anakeaia" the
only infallible pUScnre knbwu to medical art.
deserves a monument kt the bands of affl.cted
millions as a benefactor of the human racei if
a Jean i'aul Rich tor sav#- "Happiue-gr ia the
absence of pain." what shall be aatd of a
remedy that .will relieve instantly such pain ae
those endure who suffer from piles sndof how
mi.oh happiness must "Anakesia'' the
author. 5 0.000 of the millions afll.cttd with
piles gladly testify to its healing virtues! Doc
tors of all sohools prescribe it and in 20, years
no 1 ehave.used it without beuetit Combin
ing the virtues of a poultice, an instrument
and medicine eaav of application, -safe .and
usefulinallcases.it relieves pa n at once,
„ bolda up tbe tumors and ultimately cures the
worst cases of piles and what is equally worth
knowing, by following tbe Doctors printed in.
•tructionn as to diet, habits etc., keeps then)
sored. Samples of 'auskesia" are senfc/restc
all sufferers on app icattou to P. Neuar*edt< 1
It Co.. Box 8946 New York. Sold by druggist*
lv> rvwheift. Price tl 00 per box.
1F WuUU) Bi£ PtvUpiwCL
v_iaC suited with spectacles, apply
orrespond to
DR. N. C. GRAY. Optician,
SS N. TWELFTH street,
Piuladelp la. Pa.
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VEGETINE.
' - - ' mf I>■ - -
A Homa in the Celestial City.
Minnrapolis, Minn., Deo. 18,1878.
Mk. H. R. Stkvrks, Boston s
About nine aud ati .lt years ago I had a fever;
the d ctorirave me some poisonous medicine,
drove the disease into iny leg, and It broke out,
andhasbeen romtwotot n running sores ever
since. 1 could not sleep a fourth of a night once
in six months, and a great many nights was
compelled to got up and take o turn—a piece as
large as a pea—to dead, n the pain. 1 have triad
everyth ng I could hear of, In f ict, I have ptld
out hundreds of dollars, and found no relief
until I commotio d taking Veg tine, and now I
can go to bed at 8 o'clock at night and uleap
u itil seven o'clo k In the raor dug. and no oc
ean on to waken from p.dn. I was med up, per
fectly dead inwardly, and frequently when I
w .aid fret up. would be dlz/.v, and have to put
iny hand n s to keep me from falling;
but since I commerced taking Vegetl e. It has
all dl appeared, and f feel like a new man. My
lion.-st. conviction s that it will cure my leg en
tirely, from th.- presen'. looks and feell gs. I
hall continue taking Vegetlne, and recommend
It to all whom I come a rose; and I hope the
man who introduced Vegeilne into the United
States will have a home In the Celestial CI j.
Yours, moat sincerely,
W. 8. LEACH.
Mr. Le&rh is a gentleman well known here,
and la the owner of the celebraied inrbiue
viaier Wheel.
Completely Cared Me.
NswrosT, Kr., Feb. 26, 1877.
Mr B. U. Stbvrns:
Dear sir.—l write to say that seven bottle-* of
your v.-g tin'* have completely cured me from a
veiy a vere case ..f hcroiuia, of many yea.s'
•standing, aftei trying many medicines and doc
toring a great deal. I am n>w free from all
sores, and can w.irk as well as ever, and ihlnk
the Vegetlne la a god-aeud, aud no one ought to
do without it.
I remain, respectfully yours,
J. A. PATRICK.
Vrortiwr Is now prescribed In cases of Scro
fula, an ioh r dlae .ea of the blood, by maby
o. the be-t pi.y-ucUu-*, owint to tta great suc
cesa in curing all dlaeasea of this na ure.
VEGETINE,
FKKPAKRD BT
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Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
Rep.r*n' eelebr ited B'ngt B-arch-loading Shot
■'en at f.6 up. D<>uble-barrol Breach loaders it
f up. Mutili and Rr*eH-l >adiut Gnus, Rifles
and F.itl..i mm: appruv—l Kngliah and Americjui
makes. Ail kind, of ap >ritnc iiiipl-mnt. aud artl
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rheumatism, by w.arlud a pan of
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Being tb n.aro ea.il y worn In tba shoos of any
person, with great comfort. Aeenta wanted every
where. 1 niorrontion by writing for it. Sample. •
mail for It cent*. State aiaa of .hoe worn.
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323 Aacit St., Philadelphia, Pa.
THIS NEW
TRUSS
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gk ■■ JN ' ■—lh BUl** l>vrfM Disease. Its fearful effects—
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