New Plan for smult fiemlttaocei,
The satisfaction with which the with
drawal of fractional currency in paper
was greeted,a few years ago, was mea
surately terapei ed by regrets for the loss
ola convenient means lor remitting
small sums. For such purpose coin is
not at all suitable, and postal-cards are
at once inconvenient and relatively
very costly for small amounts. Pos
tage stamps of the larger denominations
uilght answer the purpose imperfectly,
if they were exchangeable for stamps
of smaller value, as it is this method of
remitting usually subjects the receiver
to inconvenience, if not actual loss,
since few people can make use of the
larger stamps in any considerable quan
tity. Several more or less clever de
vices for overcoming the difficulty have
been suggested by correspondents of
different papers,but none seem to have
received the approbation of the postal
authorities. Possibly something more
may come from the plan proposed by
Mr.Chetwyml,receiver and accountant
general to the British post-office. It
appears from a late report of the postal
department that a large part of the
17,800,000 money orders issued in the
year ending March, IS7O, were issued
for sums for which commission was
less than three pence; and ou all such
orders there was an absolute loss to
the department, thus compelling a re
adjustment of the rates. With the
withdrawal of the lower rates, the
money order ceased to be economical
to remitters of small sums, and some
other cheap and convenient remitting
service was urgently called for. Ac
cordingly, Mr. Chetwynd, who for
more thau forty years has taken a pro
minent part in the improvement of the
postal service,and is particularly known
as the author and joint organizer of
the system of government savings
banks so successful in England, has
suggested a system of post-office notes.
As described by the author of the sys
tem, the new note is designed to com
bine the simplicity of a postage stamp
as the subject of an account, with the
advantages of a small bank post-bill,
a circular note, and a check issued by
what may be called a government bank,
and payable at any one of the live
thousand Government banks through
out the Puked Kingdom to the order
of any person named by the purchaser
ot the note in writing on the back of it.
To begin with, it is proposed to issue
four classes of these notes—namely,for
25., Gd., os., 10s. and 20s.—at Id. com
mission for the former two. and 2d. the
latter two amounts, and it is !he in
tention ot the post-office to Issue them
in books for use as required, as well as
singly. These notes will differ in
character from our abandoned postal or
fractional currency in several particu
lars. They will not be legal tender,
and will be limited in their period of
currency. Besides, though in the first
instance an open note payable to the
bearer on demand,a note may be crossed
at once, giving it the security of a
check similarly dealt with, or it may
be localized in the same manner as the
money order, by the simple insertion
of a particular post-office, at which
alone it will then be payable; while
the mention of the payee's name adds
further security to the note. But,
whether open or otherwise, tne postal
note will require to be indorsed by the
bearer before it will be cashed, so that
any fraudulent attempt to get payment
of it will thus involve forgery, and be
subject to heavy penalties. A bill to
introduce this system was brought be
fore Parliament just before the recent
dissolution; and the scheme will doubt
less be brought up again at an early
date.
Oar Diet. •
It is a well established fact that in |
every effort we make, however slight,
w nether it be muscular, respiratory, or
mental, there is a corresponding loss of
tissue. Now this waste, as it passes
out of the body by the various execu
tions, is found to contain certain con
stituents, as nitrogen, carbon, various
salts, Ac., which are exactly similar
to those which enter into the composi
tion of the blood and tissues of the
body; and therefore It follows, that in
order to repair the waste which is con
tinually going ou, these constituents
must enter into the food taken. Some
articles are rich in nitrogen, as for ex
ample, meat and peas; some are rich
In carbon, as suet, sugar, Ac., while
others contain both these elements In
various proportions, and are called
mixed, of whicH the best examples are
milk, rice, potatoes, and various meals,
as oat meal, wheat meal, barley meal,
Ac. Nitrogenous food builds up and
repairs tissue, as flesh, muscle, Ac.,
while carboneous fooi, by a process of
combustion, serves to assist respiration,
and is called the respiratory food.
Certain salts are also necessary, to
form and sustain the solid frame
work and nerve and tissue, and these
are found in common salt and various
vegetables. Diet, therefore, to be
wholesome and nourishing, must con
tain these three elements as well as
some fat and water. But there are so xie
other points about diet as well as its
chemical eompositions which requires
some notice. First, it should be regu
lar and not hurried; second, it should
be sufficient in quantity; third, it
should be adapted to age. Regularity
of diet is most important, as nothing
contributes so much to produce indi
gestion as irregular meals,and too much
haste in taking them. For an adult,
three meals a day are sufficient and the
hours should be so arranged as to have 1
as far as possible an equal interval be
tween eaeh meal. Children require
food more frequently. With regard to j
quantity, much depends on the nature j
of the work done; the greater the work
the greater quantity of food required
to repair it. The quality of the food
must always be good, and be of a
mixed character, to fulfil the condi
tions already mentioned. Children re
quire a different diet to adults. In ln
lancy milk contains all that is necessary
for its nurture; as they grow older,
other matters have to be added, to give
it a mixed character. Finally, a
healthy diet should be free from excess
generally, and should not consist cf
$ .e class of food only, to the exclus'on
others.
FARM AND GARDEN.
AN AGRICULTURAL CREED. —Accord-
ing 10 the Canada Partner, tne agricul
turists of Cauada met in convention
not loug ago, and adopted lor them
selves the following creed: "We be
lieve in small farms and thorough cul
tivation; we believe that the soil lives
to eat, as well as the owner, and ought,
therefore, to be well manured; we be
lieve in going to the bottom of things,
and therefore deep plowing, and enough
ol it, all the belter if it be a subsoil
plow ; we believe in large crops which
leave the land better thau they found
it, making botli the farm and the tunn
el rich at oucc; we believe that every
farm should own a g*od farmer; we
believe that the fertilizer of any soil is
a spirit of industry, enterprise and in
telligence; without these, lime, gyp
sum, and guano would ba of Utile use;
we believe in good fences, good farm
houses, good orchards, and good chil
dren enough to gather the lruit; we
believe lu a clean kitchen, a neat wife
iu it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy,
and a clear conscience; we believe that
to ask a man's advice is not stooping,
but of much benefit; we believe that
to keep a place for everything, and
everything in its place, saves many a
step, and is prettv sure to lead to good
tools and keeping them in order: we
believe that kindness to stock, like good
shelter, is saving ot fodder; we believe
that it is a gt oil thing to keep an eye
oil experiments, and note ail, good
and bad; be believe that it is a good
rule to sell grain when it is ready; we
believe in producing the best butter
and cheese, and marketing It when it
is ready." All this may certainly be
commended as "sound doctrine."
BEE-HIVES IN PARIS —1 lie establish
ment of large apiaries in Paris in the
most crowded quarters, such as Sare
and Vilette, is a fact to which Dr. Del
peeh has recently called attention In an
interesting report. This proves to be a
very lucrative industry at the expense
of the sugar-refiners, and a source of
much risk to the population, Dr. Del
pech found in one establishment two
huudred bee-hives at the beginning of
winter, and the number is more than
doubled at the proper season. As a
hive In good working order contains
forty thousand workers, one may judge
of the amount of sugar carried away.
The proprietor lives in the country,
aud only comes to receive the yield of
houey. The bes' stings suffice to make
them respected. The sugar-re liners
furnish the raw material, and the bees
convert it into honey without expense.
The manager of the sugar-works says
that in spring the court-yard swarms
with bees, and that they are collected
by the hectoliter in sacks and consider
able sugar recoveiel from them. The
windows of the refinery is coated with
oil, and a man specially employed lor
the service. Notwithstanding all pre
cautions, the bees obtain entrance into
the rooms where the men are employed
almost in a naked state, at a high tem
perature. Workmen are often stung in
grasping the molds. This happens so
often that a man is engaged to go round
with a bottle of ammonia to aid rhe four
hundred workmen. The bees show re
markable instinct in presence of molas
ses and pure syrup, as they prefer the
latter; and when the molasses from
cane and that from beet are both treated,
they neglect the former and eat with
avidity the latter.
FARM NOTES. —MeaI will make more
milk thau bran. The change in the
butter product is remarkable; in
changing from meal to bran, there was
a loss of 17.7 per cent, iu the butter
producing capacity of milk; in chang
ing from bran to meal, there was again
in the butter-producing capacity of
milk of 21.8 per cent. There is a sub
stantial agreement in the two changes.
Every farmer who has not, should try
a patch of sugar beets or mangels this
summer, for his cows to eat next win
ter. He will know then what to do on
a larger scale next year. It is a good
and profitable plan to grind ihe cob
with the corn. Pure eob meal has no
perceptible nutriment it. it, but it
seems to have a mechanical effect, so
that its value is about equal to bran
mixed with corn meal. The quantity
ol the feed improves the the
milk, but only by slow and persistent
efforts can this be done with the aver
age cow, and it may be considered use
less to try and make a Jersey out of a
Ilolsteiu by feeding straw alone. An
advance of one cent a pound in the
price of butter would add nearly $lO,-
000,000 to the total value of the product
of the countrv for one year. Orchards
on low or flat ground in a heavy soil
should be under-drained if the trees
are expected to be healthy and prolific.
All seeds grow best from having the
earth pressed over them. If the soil is
damp it should be more lightly pressed
than if dry.
REVIVAL IN THE SHEEP INTEREST.—
There aie at present more calls lor the
names of raisers of pure-blooded sheep,
than for a long time. A short time
a g°.* a gentleman wished to know
where he could purchase several car
loads of the best Merinos, mostly rams,
for shipment to the Southwest. Not
only is there a revival as regards the
number of sheep to be raised, but a
strong tendency to grow only those of
the best breeds. The "boom" In sbeep
raising, as the slang of the day has it, is
a healthy one, and one to be encouraged,
moreover it seems likely to last for an
indefinite period of time.
WHEN COWS are becoming too fat,
stop the meal and increase the bran. A
very fat milk cow is a losing piece of
property. Ask any grazier if lie would
be willing to buy a lot of old dairy cows
to fatten tor market, it is only where
there is more pasture than the regular
herd can clean, that such cows should
be accepted as a present.
ALL kinds of herbs, such as mint,
balm, lavender, sago, etc., that are
gathered for drying or distillation or
other purposes, should be cut when
just beginning to come into flower,
and layed in the shade to di y gradually,
which will render them much better
for any purposes thah if they were dried
in the sun.
An important Scotch interest has
loomed up ijamely, the production of
naptha. parraffing and ammonia from
shale, the latter being found in immense
quantity in various localities, the most
famous being remarkable for its rich
ness in oil. It is found traversing the
npper Devonian shale, but it is met
with most extensively in connection
with the coal measures. The oil is in
great demand, and realizes a good profit.
The value of solid parraffine is well
knowu. Liebig, the great chemist,
said that if any one succeeded in pro
ducing it from coal it would be one of
the greatest discoveries of the age.
This has been accomplished, and from
shale is obtained a white, dry colorless
substance, portable, and capable of be
ing burned in a lamp. Among the vari
ous works in Scotland, nearly 800,000
tons of shale are distilled annually,
producing nearly 30,000,000 gallons
of crude oil, from which are ob
tained some 12,000,000 of refined
oil.
DOMESTIC.
CAKE AND FEED OF DUCKLINUM. —As
soon as the ducklings are well out of
the shell, whether the mother be h< u
or duck, coop theui up lu a coop with a
pen. The ducklings cannot climb over
the side of a pen, and should be con
fined to it about a week. Water that
has had the chill taken off* may be sup
plied in shallow pans, and the duck
lings will dabble around in it and en
joy it. Have your duck coops as far as
convenient from the stream or pond,
and they must be moved at least three
times a week to fresh ground. After
the ducklings are a week old, if they
had a hen mother, the pen may be
opened on pleasant days after the dew
Is off the grass, and the mother and her
brood allowed liberty to wander Around
In search of food. By the time they
are six weeks old their under feathers
will be out, and they may be allowed
unlimited range. Rats, cats and
weasels show a remarkable fondness
for ducklings and you have to look out
for them. You can trap the weasels,
circumvent the rats by housing the
ducklings at night in ratproof coops,
and when you catch a stray cat making
a dinner of young duck, give her a lead
pill to help on digestion; amputation
of the tail just bacx of the ears will also
cure pussy of this bad habit. Duck
lings are great eaters, and will eat al
most anything in the shape of feod.
Feed cooked food with plenty of green
food, until they are old enough to give
free range. Almost any kind
of food which you would
give to chicks and young turkeys
is good for kucklings. Until ihey take
to the Dond or stream, unless insects
forage is plenty, feed a little cooked
meat. Feod olten, but never give all
they can possibly swallow, sometimes
ducklings will eat uutil they kill them
selves. After they take to the water
the duckling wlli pick up a large
amount of the food that > tilts th< m best,
and for this reason ducks are most
economically raised in the neighbor
hood of ponds, streams, wet marshes,
or near to Lite sea. Duck - can be succes
fully and profitably raised with only
water for drinking, but when they
have plenty of water to swim In after
they are old enough, they will be
cleaner In plumage, and no doubt,
aside from the food that they pick up
in such places, they enjoy sporting in
the water.
TIIK DEADENING preparations or
Opium for the Baby are rapidly dls
apnearing before the use of Dr. Bull's
Baby Syrup. Sold bv all Druggists.
Friee 25 cents.
BARLEY WATER. —Wipe very clean,
by rolling it in a soft cloth, two table
spoonfuls of pe rl barley; put It into
a quart jug, with a lump or two of
sugar, and a grain or two of salt, fill
up the jug with boiling water and keep
the mixture gently stirred for some
minutes; then cover It down and let it
stand until perfectly cold. Iu twelve
hours, or less, it will be fit for use.
After the barley water has been
poured oil* once, the jug may be filled
with boiling water a second time, and
even a third time with advantage. If
not unpalatable to the invalid, a strip
ol lemon peel, cut thin, may be added.
A glass of calf's foot jelly Is a great
improvement.
DON'T SCALE BEFORE YOU Cook.—
The following is an English method of
cooking fish. It will apply toill fresh
water sixties: "Without scaling,
throw some flour over thein and lay
them ou a gridiron ovei a slow fire; as
they grow brown a cut is to be made
on the back, not more than skin deep,
from the head to the tail, and the fish
is then replaced on the fire; when suf
ficiently broiled the skin and scales
will peel off and leave the fish cleau
and firm. The jelly is then to be opened
and the inside will come away cleanly.
Scraping and water washes alwaj' all
the fiavor and firmness of the fish."
HARD SOAP. —A lady sends the fol
lowing recipe to an exchange. It is
much easier than the old way of boil
ing, and the writer says that she has
used it for three years with success;
one pound of concentrated lye dissolved
in two quarts ol sof*. water, pour into
a large pitcher to cool. Melt five
pounds of grease of any kind, have it
uiilkwarm and pour in the lye slowly,
stirring rapidly until it begins to
thicken. Add one or one-half ounce
oil of sassafras. Pour into a box one
foot square and cover it, leaving it in a
warm place for three or four days.
"Cut into squares and it is ready for use.
VEGKTINE is acknowledged by all
classes of people to be the best and most
reliable blood purifier in the world.
CHOWCHOW.— Cut fine one large head
of cabbage, one dozen boil peppers, one
dozen w bite onions. Put these, with
three roots of horse-radish,grated, into
a kettle, cover with strong salt-water,
boil till the cabbage is tender, and then
drain through a hair sieve. Boil, in
three pints of vinegar, half an ounce
of tumeric, and one fourth pound of
white mustard-seed ; and pour this hot
over the vegetables. When cold, add
a tea-cupful of salad-oil, and the same
quantity of mustard, mixed as for the
table. Cauliflower may be advantage
ously substituted for the cabbage In
this receipt, taking care to break up
the cauliflower instead ot cutting it.
For the manulacture oi opal and ala
baster glass the following mixture is
now used : Felspar 20 to 78 per cent.;
blue lime, 17 to GO percent.; and heavy
spar, 5 to 40 per cent.
Proclamation by the President,
Fault-finding is so seldom Indulged
in by those who use the medicines
manufactured by the World's Dispen
sary Medical Association that the Presi
dent of that corporation, the Hon. R.
V. Pierce, M. D., has issued a special
request or proclamation to any and
all persons, if there be any such, who
may have taken or shall hereafter use
any of the family medicines now made
and sold by the said Association, in all
countries of the world, and who have
not derived full benefit from said
medicines, that if tbey will write the
said Association a description of their
maladies the Faculty of the Dispensary
will advise them with respect to the
successful treatment of their diseases.
Dr.Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
is guaranteed to cure all humors from
the common blotch, pimple or eruption,
to the worst scrofula or king's evil,
and those virulent poisons that lurk in
the system as a sequel or secondary af
fection resulting from badly-treated or
neglected primary diseases.lt also cures
bronchial, throat and lung diseases.
Favorite Prescription is guaranteed to
cure female weaknesses and kindred
affections. Extract ot Smart-Weed
cures bowel affections, colds, and all
painful, rheumatic and neuralgic affec
tions. l>r. Pierce's Pellets (little sugar
coated pills), are the little giant cathar
tic. Address, World's Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., or
Groat Russell Street Buildings, Lop
don, Eng.
fIUMOROUF.
IN a Cohoes street-car the other day
a near-sighted man was sealed near the
farebox reading a newspaper, when a
lady passed up the aisle and accidently
dropped her handkerchief In the lap of
the near-sighted man as she paid her
fare. She did not notice her loss, and
after she had taken iter seat a gentle
man sitting opposite the near-sighted
man looked down, saw the white hand
kerchief in his lap and immediately
cofered it up with his paper, blushing
as he did so. Then he inserted his
hand under the paper, tucked the
handkerchief In out of sight, aud went
ou reading.
A MAN was sawing wood recently in
a back yard. lie severed two sticks as
thick as your wrist, aud then went into
the house. "Mary," said lie to his
wife, "my country needs uie; there's
no use of talkiug; we've just got to
slaughter all these Injuns; no true
patriot can be expected to hang around
a wood-pile these days.'" "Johu,"
said his wife, "if you tight Injuns as
well as you saw wood and support
your family, it would take 118 like you
to capture one squaw, aud you'd have
to catch her when she had the ague aud
throw pepper In her eyes." John went
back to the wood-pile.
From tlui Hub.
1 here is perhaps no tonic offered to
the people that possesses as much real
Intrinsic value as the Hop Bitters.
Jusi at this season of the year, when
ihe stomach needs un appetizer, or the
blood needs purifying, the cheapest
and best remedy is Hop Blttersi An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
ot cure; don't wait until you are pros
trated by a disease that may take
mouths for you to recover in.—Ronton
Globe.
A MAN in Helena, Texas, who bt
lieves that the whole face of the earth
will be covered by a flood next Novem
ber, is building an ark, which w ill hold
fifty persons, and food enough to last
forty days and forty nights. Tickets
for the round trip. s.">oo each. This is
very reasonable, considering the risk a
man runs by not taking passage. And
yet the builder has not sold a single
ticket. People are evidently afraid of
sea-sickness.
A MAN, his wife and daughter weut
into a Hartford lawyer's office recently
to arrange for a mutual separation.
The man had some education, but the
woman was evidently illiterate. The
lawer asked what the difficulty between
them was. The man replied "incom
patibility of temper." The wife aud
daughter fell back in their chairs,
threw up their hands and "xclaimed,
"Good heavens! only hear him."
THE country papers are telling a
story of a woman who swallowed a
needle and two days later it appeared
in her arm and later in her throat,
when she extricated it. That's nothing.
We know a lady who once swallowed a
r.eedle and one day later they took a
sewing machine and a work basket out
of her throat. We think there were
also three spools of thread and a thiuible
with her name on it found, but we are
not quite postive and don't want to mis
lead our readers.
BJI.IIIIK.IDKD men are inlormed tha
there is but one avenue ol escape from
their affiiction, and that is CAKMOLINK,
a deodorized extract of petroleum, the
f'reathair renewer, which being recent
y improved, is more efficacious than
ever aud is absolutelv faultless.
THK people of Arlington, Minn.,
complaiued that their town was weak
in industries,) and when a stranger
came there soon aiterwards and started
a Li in burger cheese factory, the town
was strong enough in industries —a lit
tle too strong for some of the citizens.
A "GOLIAH CLUB" has been started
in New York. Each member must be
at lea*t six feet two inches in height.
Although they won't admit short men,
some of the mefnbers are "short"
enough when the butcher and tailor
send in their bills.
"Do you see that spring over there?''
said a settler in Arkansas to a stranger.
"Well, that's an iron spring, that is;
and it's so mighty piwerful that the
farmers'horses about here that drink
the water of it never have to be shod.
The shoes just grow on their feet
nat'rally."
HK had one son hanged, another son
in the penitentiary, and his wife eloped
with a chromo peddler. "Have you
any family?" he was asked by a fellow
passenger. "None to speak of," was
the prompt response to the census man.
To suffer and be pleasant i.s aiiuosi
Impossible for an adult, and quite so
for a baby. When it is afflicted with
Colic, Diarrhoea or other troublesome
disorders, use Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup.
Price 25 cents.
A LITTLE boy once called out to his
father, who had mounted his horse for
a journey; "Good-bye, dear papa. 1
love you thirty miles long." A little
sister quickly added: Good-bye, dear
papa, you will never ride to the end of
my love.
LADY— "Four of these chairs which
I so lately purchased of you are brok
en." Upholsterer—"lndeed, madam!
The only way in which I can account
for that is that some one must have
been sitting on them."
"GOOD morning, Patrick; you have
got a new coat at last, but it seems to
tit you rather too much." "Ooh.
there's nothing surpriti ig in that; sure
I wasn't there when I was measured
for it."
"How do you define 'black as your
hat' ?" said a schoolmaster to one of
his pupils. "Darkness that may be
felt," replied the youthful wit.
WILLI NS of intelligent women say
that Dobbins,. Electric Soap, (made by
Cragin & Co., Philadelphia,) is in
every respect, the best soap ever made,
and will do three times the work of
any other. Try it.
IN concluding an article on the last
corn crop an Alabama editor remark
ed : "We fiave on exhibition in our
sanctum a magnificent pair of cars."
"SOME white felt hats for summer
are seven inches high in the crown."
They probably ' till a "long felt'
want."
IT is strongly suspected that it was
Ananias who invented the circus-pos
ter.
A SAFE STAND BY for the family, during
the season ol Cholera Morbus, summer Com
plaluts, Cramps, Diarrhoeas. and all Bowel Com
plaints, u Dr. Jayne's Carminative Balsam—of
admitted emcacy, and if occasion should arise,
eure to pi ove useful.
THK cause of suicide is often hard to
deflue, and many have no idea just
what prompts the rash act. The catise,
however, can be traced unquestionably
to despondent feelings, produced by
Torpid Liver. To destroy despondency
and create a cheerful feeling by taking
Simmon*' Liver Regulator would be the
suvingof the would be suicide trout an
untimely end.
It seems almost like waking from a
dream to And oneself so clear headed,
so light spirited and so full of gay
thoughts, when despondent feelings
tvbtcd un II taking Simmons' Liver
K<-gulutor, when they were dissipated
I ke a cloud before sunshine and it
seemed as though life was worth living.
Paper Car Whtoli,
The paper used is straw-board ol
rather line texture. It Is received in
the ordinary broad sheets, differing in
one particular from those usedforst raw
board boxes or other similar work.
These sheets as they come from the
paper mill are square, and must tlrstof
all be cut to a circular pattern. This
is rapidly done on a board table, with
a knife which is guided by a radial arm
that swings freely over the surface ot
the table from a pivot at the centre.
A small disk is also cut from the centre
of the sheet u> allow for the iron hub.
Being thus reduced to the required
shape and dimensions, the paper must
now be converted from a mass of loosV
sheets into a compact,dense body,capa
ble" of withstanding the tremendous
crushing force to which it will be sub
jected in the wheels. This Is accom
plished in the following manner: Ten
sheets are pasted together, one upon
another, making a disk about one eighth
ot an inch thick. Enough of these
disks having been prepared to fill a
powerful hydraulic press, they are sub
jected to a pressure ol 1,800 pounds to
the square Inch. When removed, the
disks are hung out on poles in a steain
heatied loft, and left six days to dry.
i bicker disks are then made, each form
ed by pasting together two or three of
those already finished. These are pres
sed and dried as before, and the pro"
cess is repei.tid until a block is built
four inches thick, and of about the
specific gravity of lignum vita*. A tier
each pasting and pressing six days are
allowed drying, and when the block
is complete it is tell in a di a wing-room
until thoroughly seasoued. The next
operation is that of turning the pap_T
blocks to fit the steel tires and iron
hubs. This is done in lather with t>B
much accuracy and in exactly the same
manner as if the material worked on
was iron or wood. The circumference
is turned to a perfect circle or the pre
cise diameter required, a bed or recess
is worked out for the web of the tiie to
rest In, aud the surfaces are left hard
and smooth and the edges sharply de
fined. The block is then painted and
is ready for its place in the wheel,
l'he iron hubs are turned in a lathe to
specified gauges: and a hub of any
given gauge will therefore answer for
any wheel of the corresponding size.
The tires are of steel. They are bolt-d
to the paper by an inner rim or fiange,
and are turned to a perfect circle.
Plate? of thin boiler iron are bolted to
the paper to prevent expansion.
wow.
"She insists that it is 01 more impor*
ancc, that iter family shall be keot in
full health, than that she should have
all the fashionable dresses and styles of
the times. She therefore sees to It,
that each member or her family is sup
plied with enough Hop Bitters, at the
tirst appearance of any symptoms of ill
health, to prevent a fit of sickness with
its attendant expense, care and anxiety.
All women shoilld exercise their wis
dom in this wav." — Xtio 1/acen Palla
dium.
Annealing Tools. —lt is well kuown
that glass acquires remarkable tough
ness by being annealed In oil and,that
aliigh degree of hardness Is conferred
upon metals by a similar process. It
is said that engravers and watchmakers
of Germany harden their tools in seal
ing-wax. The tool is heated to white
ness and plunged in o wax, withdrawn
after an Instant and plunged in again,
the pro -ess being repeated until the
steel is too cold to enter the wax. The
steel is said to become, after this pro
cess, almost as hard as the diamond,
and when touched with a little oil or
turpentine, the tools are excellent for
engraving, and also for piercing the
hardest metal.
IF THK bowels AT® torpid, if pile® torment.
If the back is full of pain, get a package of
Kidney-Wort, and be cured without mor® Buf
fering. Ju disease® of tbe kidneys or liver, a
cure?® worth nothing, nnlea® radical and per
manent Ki Inev-Won ha® lust that effect
A Val aable Gift Free.
A book ou tbe Liver, it® disease® aud their
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Liver Complaint®, Torpid Liver, Jaundice,
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Will send their oelebra ed Elect re Volts*
Belts to the afflicted upon SO davs's trial
Rod y cure# guarauteed. They mean whs*
y say. Writ* to thai* without daisy
Excruciating Fain.
Edwin Freeman, of Norton, Mass., says:
" 1 have suffered the most excruciating pain
in my kidueya for yea s, and physicians or
medicine could not relieve me until about
three years since I comma ced taking Hunt's
R -medy. 1 purchased a bottle at Blanding'e
drug store, in Providence, aud I took (he first
doee there, and after using one bottle I was
free from all pain, and although this was three
years ago, I have seen no trace of disease and
have not had to take auy medicine since. 1
believe Hunt's Remedy to be the beet Kidney
and Liver medicine ever known, and I cheer
fully recommend it to al sufferers from this
t -rrible disease." Trial size, 75 cents,
17
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Those answering an advertJaement will
confer a favor upon the advertiser and the
publisher by stating that they aaw the adver
tisement In thlsi ouruaT(nainlng the paper
VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates and
Invigorates the whole Sy stem.
ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARB
Alterative* Tonic* Solvent
and Dinretie.
▼egettne is made exclusively from the Juices
•f carefully-selected bark*, root* and herbs, and
ao strongly concentrated that tt will effectually
eradicate from the system everv t tint ol Hero*
Tola. Scrofulous Humor, Tumor*, Can-
Mr. tanceroei Humor, Erynlpolnn,
Suit Rheum. Mjr|bllltle Disease*, (an
ker, Ftil nines* ut tbo Stomuelk. and all
aig< a>ea that arise rmm impure bb od. Nrl
aties, Inflammatory and Chronic Rbeu
lUMilaiii, Neuralgia, Gout and Spluul
Complaints, can only be effectually cured
through the blood.
For Ulcer* and Eruptive Disease* of the
Sklu, Funtulon, Pimples, Blotches,
Holla, Tetter, Mcaldbead and King
worm, vruntime ha* never failed to effect a
permanent cure.
For Pains In the Back, Kidney Complaints,
Dropsy. Female weakness. I.eu orrhasa, arleing
f rom internal ulceration, and uterine diseases
and General Deolilty, VKUKTINK acts directly
upon the causes of these complaints. It Invigo
rates and strengthens the whole system, .<cls
upon ihe s cretive or.ans. allays luilauimatloa
•urea ulceration and regu.ates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costlveneee,
. alpltatlon of lieurl. Headache, Piles, Nerv
ousness and Ueneral Prosirailou or the Nervous
Pyslem. no medicine itas ever given such per
feet satisfaction as the VKuETINK. It puilfles
the blood, cleanses all or the organs, and pos
sesses a conti oiling power over the nervous
system.
The remarkable cures effected by Veget'ne
have induced many physicians and apotheca
ries whom we know, to prescribe and use It In
their own families.
In fact, Vegetlne is the best remedy yet die.
oovered for the above diseases, and is the only
reliable KLOOD PURIFIER yet placed before
the puoiic.
Vegetine.
PREPARED BY
H. R. NTI'VEKN. BONIOH, lIHMI.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
■
Q KIDNEY DISEASES, H
■ LIVER COMPLAINTS, ■
U Constipation and Piles. I
Dr. R. H. Clark, South Hero, Vt., says, "Incase, I
M of IMvj TrMMn it hu acted like a charm. It I
fij has cured inanj Terr bad cases of iniea and haa El
■ nerer failed to act efflcie rrtly." Rtf
Nelson iairchild, of St. Albans, Vt., says, "It 1* ■
J of pnoehia. value. After sixteen yean of mat PI
■ suffering from Pike and OaeUvencß it com- U
■ pletely cured me."
H C. a Hogabon, of Berkshire, Bays, "One pack- I
|J Sf •• has done wonders for me in completely our L
■ ing a severe Liver and Kidney Complaint."
fl IT HAB U/UV9 I
I WONDERFUL V 111 I ■
POWER.
Baeiui (t Acti on the LITIS, the BCWKLS tad
the ZHI7E7S at the use time.
Because It cleanses the system of H
■I the poisonous humors that develops H
3 In Kidney and Urinary diseases, 81l- U
I {ousness, Jaundice, Constipation, I
I Piles, or In Rheumatism, Neuralgia I
H and nervous disorders.
KIDNKV-WOKT la a dry T eye table na I
■ Pad aad eaa he seat hy mall prepaid. M
U Oneparksge willtnakesix qtsof medicine. U
TRY IT NOW S
J CP*Buy It at the DngfiiU. Price, ll.ee. fl
■ WILLS, SISEASSSOK h CO., Proprietor,
I 12 (Will tend post paid.) Burlington, Yt. P
6|ffEB s
Serve ait Injnneilon on Disease
By Inv goratlng a feet) e constitution, renov&t
lDg a debi'ttated ptivs que. and enriching a thin
an i innut'itloui circulatl <n vvltli llostetier's
Stoma •11 B ttera. the rinest, the most highly
sanctioned, and the most pipul <r tonic and
preventive liex steoce. For s ile by ail Drug
gists .ind Dealers generally.
■■■pNHEßeßwaKßHiHßaunfeKaaßßiUß
Tkell'arv.sLknd licet Medicine ever Made.
Acotmbin&tion of Hops, Buchu, Man*
drakle nd Dandelion, all tne best and
uii*.t c%ura live proiicrties of i ll other E.ttcrs,
mukceVthegreatest Blood Purifier, Liver
Reg u l\ator, Life and Health lie*taring
Agent earth.
No diwase possibly long- exist where Hop
Bitters are varied and perfect arv th ir
opcrationadHM
Thty gin tew liVs ted ripe: to the t ?ti ltd laflrm
To all whose e%mployment* cause irregular!
ty of the bowels o.V urinary organs, or who re
quire an and mild Stimulant,
Hop Bitters are without intox-
No uuSter wbat^ur^^L e '' n,r * ° r *T m Pfe)nis
are what the disease or tiiwurut 1* use Hop Bit
ters. Don't wait until you aW ,,e " lc,c but if you
only feci bad or miserable,* use them at once-
It may save yourlife.lt hasl ** ved hundreds.
$5OO *HI be paid for a cal 'hey wUI not.
euro or help. Do not suffer%' url et y°ur friends
suffer,but use and urge us ° Hop B
Remember, Hop Bitters is noVj
drunken nostrum, but tbe n d Best
Medicine ever made j the
and HOP*** and no person or
should be without them. HHBhA
D.1.0. Is an absolute and invxtsble enrol
forDrnnaeness, use of opium, tobacco and I
narcotics. All sold by druggists. Send M r M
for Circular, Hi, klltm lk> Oa, y
Rochester Jf.T and Toronto, OnL
KIDNEY DISEASES, C WFMB£ H
im quickly and rarely oared by the nee of KTDNXT-WOBT. This now end wonderful remedy which io
having euchan immenae sale in el>perta of the ooontxy, works on natural principles 7t restores strength
and tone to the rHeweeerl, organs, and through them cleanest the system of aooomnlated and poisonous
humors. a !■■■■—thirty yaarastaTi<iTij>is— been crured, also PUee, Constipation, Bhramatism,
go., which have distressed the victims for years. We have volumes of testimony of its wonderful curative
power. No longer nee Alcholio Bitters, which do more harm than good, or drastic pills, but use natures
remedy, KIDTTET-WOBT, and health will be quickly regained. Get It of your Druggist, Prion, $1 •
(Will send poet paid.) WELLS, HICHAKPSON M W., Pref% Partington, Yl.
The remedial management of those diseases peculiar to women has afforded a large experience at
the World's I)is;x'iisary and Invalids' Hotel, In adapting remedies for t|i-lr cure. Matty thousands o|
cases have annually l>een treated. Dr. Pierce'. Favorite Prescription Is the result or this extended
experience, and lias become Justly celebrated for its many and remarkable cures of all those chronic dis
eases and
WEAKNESSES PECULIAR TO FEMALES.
Favorite Prescription is a powerful Restorative Tonic to the entire system. It is a nervine of un
surpassed efficacy, and while It quiets nervous Irritation, It strengthens the enfeebled nervous system,
thereby restoring it to healthful vigor. The following diseases are among those In which the Favorite
Prescription lias worked cures as If by magic, and with a certainty never before attained, viz: Leneor
rho-a; excelve flowing; painful menstruation; unnatural oupprcoolono; weak back; prolapaua, or
falling of the uteru. | unteverslon; retroversion; bearing-down sensation; chronic congestion. Inflam
mation, and ulceration; Internal beat; nervous depression; nervous and slek headache; debility;
and barrenness, or sterility, when iiot caused by stricture of the neck of the womb. When the latter
condition exists, we can, by oilier means, readily remove the Impediment to the bearing of offspring
(see Invalids' Guide Hook, sent for one stamp, or the Medical Adviser).
Favorite Prescription Is sold under a positive guarantee. For conditions, see wrapper around bottle.
•* DO LIKEWISE." Mrs. E. F. Morgan, of New Castle, Lincoln Co., Maine, says: *• Five years ago I
was a dreadful sutrerer from uterine troubles. Having exhausted the skill of three physicians, 1 was
completely discouraged, and so weak 1 could with difficulty cross the room alone. I began taking
vour 4 Favorite Prescription' and using the local treatment recommended In your 4 Common Sense
Medical Adviser.' 1 commenced to improve at once. In three months I was perfectly cured, and
have had no trouble since. I wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly mentioning how my health had
been restored, and offering to send the full particulars to any one writing me for them and puloeint
a stamped envelope for reply. I have received over four hundred letters. In reply, I have deserllied
my case and the treatment used, and earnestly advised them to 'do likewise.' From a great many 1
tiave received second letters of thanks, stating that they had commenced the use of Favorite Prescrip
tion, sent for the 4 Medical Adviser,' and applied the local treatment so fully and plainly laid down
Iherein, and were much better already." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sold by all druggists.
EVF.K V INVALID LADY should read 44 The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." In which
over fifty pages are devoted to tire consideration of those diseases peculiar to Women. Sent, post-paid,
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An Englts Vetsrnary Surgeon and Chemist, now
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Is the safest, most agreeable and effectual remedy tu
the word for the cure of CATARRH. No matter
f rom what cause, or hs long standing, by giving
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a fair end Impartial trial, yon will be eonvtneed ef
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