AGRICULTURE. FORWARDING MELONS. —AII our melons, squashes and other plants of that family, come from tropical or warm countries, and in order to yield the best returns in our northern gardens, need eveiy advantage we can give them. Every one may not find it convenient to stait his cucumber, melon, and similar seeds, on pieces of sod, or in pots, in a hot bed or frame, but he may greatly hasten, or forward the same in the open ground. All the expense or trouble required is, to make a lot of frames, one for each "hill," of six or eight inch boards, and a foot square. It may be more convenient to get boxes from the store, at little or no cost. It makes no difference it the boxes are somew r hat larger than the size named, the object is to get a box without top or bottom. Over such a box frame, tack a piece of thiu muslin or cotton cloth, and the thing is ready. Sow the seeds in the usual way, and every afternoon, when the day begins to be cool —soon after 8 o'clock usually—turn these frames over the "hills." This will hasten the germination of the seeds, and wheu the plauts come up, continue to protect them in this manner. If a cold windy day occurs, it will oe bet ter to leave these covers on than to expose the plants to the weather. This use of the covers or frames may be continued until the plants gel too large for them. Mot only will plants thus treated be much ahead of those without such protection, but they will also be largely preserved from the at tacks of the "striped bug" so injurious to melons, cucumbers, and related plants, es pecially wheu young. FARMERS BREEDING FAST STOCK. There is a good deal said by the agricultural jour nals about this question, and there is a pre vailing opinion that farmers should not breed fast stock. We can likrdly arrive at such a conclusion, if there is more money in breeding thoroughbreds than there is in common horses, we say breed the thorough breds. It is claimed that fast horses means idleness, race-tracks, gambling, whisky drinking and swindling. Thai may be so, but no one ever objects to the farmer raising barley, corn, rye and hops, because such products are lequired f< r the manulaeturing of whiskey ami malt liquors. There is as much propriety iu one as there is iu the other. YVe believe that horse-racing is pernicious in its tendencies. We have the same opinion in regard to drinkinc hqnors, Unless used for medicinal purposes, but that is no reason that barley, rye. corn and hops should not be cultivate*!. The farmer can breed fast horses and yet not patrouize the race-tracks, unless he chooses to do so. If he can raise a horse that is worth—when four or live years old—live hundred dollars, is it not his privilege, and is it not better than to grow a plug, or a dung-hill, that is only worth seventy five or a hundred dol lars at that age $ We say let the farmers make all the money they can off ot their farms in a legitimate way. The more they make the better it is for all of us. PATIENCE WITU ROSES. —If the new roses you have set out do not bud and bloom satisfactorily at first, do not be discouraged. Give them time. First blooms are frequently single and imperfect, and deficient in eoior and fragrance, because the roots are not sufficiently established to furnish the full amount of nourishment required. Other causes will also produce like effects, as for instance poor ground, shade, and insuffi cient light, too much or too little moisture, too close proximity to buildings or larger plants, trees, tfce. Anything that interferes with the growth of the plant will lessen the beauty and color of the flower. All roses do best when planted in open ground in summer. Give them a chance and they will repay all care and trouble. OLD tan bark makes a cool and delightful walk under the shade of trees. It must be laid on a dry bottom, or it becomes very unpleasant in wet weather. Slag from furnaces ground up with ashes is the very best material for garden walks, and the color is more agreeable in hot weather thau graveL Notwithstanding its dark color, it is not so hot, and it does not pack quite so hard as the regular road material. Sand, on the other hand, though it does not pack at all, is very hot, on account of the very hard nature of its particles. WEEDJ on graval walks may be destroyed and prevented from growing again by a copiuos dressing of the cheapest bait. This is a better method than hand pulling, which disturbs the gravel and renders constant raking and rollmg necessary. One applica tion early in the season, and others as may be needed, while the weeds are sma.l, will keep the walks clean and bright. IT is of the very utmost importance that stock shouid have good, pure water, and plenty of it. The thirst of animals during hot weather can readily be imagined from judging it by the human thirst; and to de prive the animal of sufficient drink is about the worst sptcies of cruelty that can be in flicted upon the brute creation. The agony of excessive thirst is simply terrible. To obtain a good night's sleep, sponge tne tniire length of the spine with hot water for ten or fifteen minutes. Astrology and Astronomy, Astrolo gers have spent their strength in forebod ings concerning this disastrous year, and memorable events thus far chance, says a correspondent of The Providence Jour nal } to accord with their predictions. But intelligent observers of the political condi tion of Europe would have drawn a similar picture of the events shadowed forth in the coming year, and studerts of astronomy familiar with the results of the sun-spot period would have expected the advent of storms, earthquakes, and epidemics in varied forms, for there is little doubt that the disturbed condition of the sun is re flected in the meteorological condition ol earth. And yet at this very time, when astrology as a science has nearly exploded, astronomy is discussing the question wheth er these planets whose positions were sup posed to rule the destinies of men born under them may not be the exciting cause of some of the phenomena agitating the globe, their attraction acting upon the sun, and the sun in turn acting upon the earth. Plane;ary action is thus made the indirect agent in the death of many thousands of human beings, the vie imsof the unusual elemental warfare that will make this year long to be remembered. It is only a theory, like almost everything connected with as trononiy, and the giant planets must swing round to perihelia many times before the question can be decided. There may be something in it however, and if so, as trology, in a new phase, will shake hands across the intei vening ages with the ancient science which saw in the beaming planets, as they tracked the heavens, fiiend and foes, watching over the nativities of the human race. A recent investigation has led to the dis covery of the remarkable fact that intense cold may deprive magnetized steel bars of nearly all their magnetism. This fact has an importaut bearing upon observations of the magnetic condition of the earth taken in high latitudes ; for what appear to be daily and yearly changes in the earth's magnetism may be due in large part to conditions of temperature, which affect the Biegnets used in the observations. DOMESTIC. MILK FOR THE SICK. —Milk is a perfect food and the only perfect food that exists. It contains all the ele ments that enter into the human body. Should a man attempt to live on bread alone, or flesh alone, or fat, or vegetables, be would sooner or later starve, through lack in these articles of diet of some one or more of the properties that are necessary to the nutriment of the human body. But on milk alone most persons can live,thrive and grow. Mdk'hasa value, beyond the period of infancy, much greater than is generally thought. The old notion and practice was to starve a fever. The re sult was that the patient was starved, and had no streugth to rally when the fever was subdued. Fever patients are now carefully fed, advantage being taken of the daily "remissions"—that is, the hours of low temperature— and the digestive power of the stomach being aided by pepsin. The bland ami nouiishing properties of milk make it the main food for such pa tients. It is equally the bust food in many cases where the digestion has been im paired through overtaxing of the nervous system. Some patients, however, have found that it produced "biliousness," as they expressed it. But this lias been largely due to using it as a drink between meals, instead of as the principal part of the food at meals, it lias thus only in creased the stomach's burden. Still, veiy weak stomachs have heeu unable to bear it even as an article of food, especially in wiuter. The difliculty is that the cold teuipeiatuie of the milk has still further reduced the impaired vitality of the stomach, lu such cases, let the person use it warm—sipping it as hot as it can bo borne. This heat furnishes just the stimu lus needed for the process of digestion. An exclusively milk diet, with bread or boiled rice, for a few days, will often help a per son speedily through a cold, or enable bun to rally trom a temporary attack of indi gestion. HEALTH OK CHILDREN. —One of the sim plest aud best remedies to be given to children if they are troubled with worms is poplar bark. A well kuowu physician has used this for years with walked sue c. ss. It eau be bought at any drug store, and a little paper costing five cents will olten prevent sickness and possibly save a large doctor's bill. If a child looks white around the mouth, with tlushed cheeks and bad breath, it is safe to infer that he is afflicted with worms. 1 take a little pinch of bark, about as much as one would naturally take up 011 the point of a penknife, aud give it before breakfast; it has a clean, bitter taste, and there is no difficulty iu getting a child to take it if you explain what it is for. A good way to regulate a child's stomach and bowels is to give him a little bowl of oatmeal and milk every day, for breakfast or dinner; see that it is well sailed, as salt promotes di gestion. The ailments of a child always proceed from the stomach, and much may be done for our children by paying some attention to their diet and so avoid giving medicine as much as possible. "My little boy eats everything just the same as the rest of us, coffee and tea and all,*' suid a lady to me with an air of pride and satisfaction. Now mi/ little boy did not eat everything and never tasted of cotlee or tea, and at the age of six years he was a perfectly healthy child aud lull half a head taller than the sallow dyspeptic little fellow who ate everything. MILE CEMENT. —it may not be well known that new milk makes a good ce ment for broken crockery. One good method of using it is to snugly tie together the different parts aud lay in the pail while milking. After thoroughly drying, the pieces will be found to be firmly united,and will remain together a long time if not soaked. Another way is to take warm, fresu milk aud turn into a basin over the fire; into this lay any dish or toy, firmly tied together with thread or twine. Heat until scalding hot, remove and dry. A milk pitcher mended in this way was in daily use for weeks. I had a large yellow nappy cracked so badly that it leaked. One morning I tilled it with milk and placed it on the stove ; it soon stopped leaking, and after the milk was turned out the parts were so firmly le-uuited that it rang like a whole dish. HARMLESS FACE POWBERS. —Rice pow.- der, though expensive, is warranted per fectly harmless. Refined chalk is the safest thing to use, aud costs far less than if put up under some other name ami sold in boxes. Cascarilla powder is much used by Cuban ladies, aud is considered harm less. Wash the face with thick suits from glycerine soap, and, when dry, dust 011 the powder with a puff or piece of chamois skin. JELLIED CHICKEN. —BoiI a fowl until the flesh will slip easily from the bones; pica the meat from the bones in good-sized pieces, leaving out all the gristle and lat; place iu a wet mold ; skim all the fat from the liquor anil add a half ounce of gelatine, a little butter, pepper and sait; when the gelatine is dissolved pour all over the chicken while hot; seasou pretty high; serve cold, cut in slices. To REMOVE WKINKI.ES.— Put pieces of court plaster 011 the face where the wrink les are inclined to come, just before going to bed and remove in the morning. The plaster contracts the skin and prevents its -inking into creases and lines. It also pro tects and softens the skin. Warm water should always be used to wash the face iu, as it keeps off wrinkles. RUSKS —Three tablespoonfuls of sugar, two eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, one pint of sweet milk, and two or three table spoonfuls of yeast. Set at night, mold 111 the morning, let it rise, then make into tins. NOVEL CRUMB TRAY AND BRUSH. —Take a tray or dust pan, in any preferred shape, cover with linen, working a des'gn in chain-stitch on the sides and bottom of the tray in black and red silks. The back of the brush is ornamented in a style to cor respond. CREAM COOKIES. —Two cups sugar, two eggs, one cup cream, one cup butter, one teaspoonfui soda, one teaspoonful lemon extract or one-half a nutmeg, grated; flour enough to make a dough as soft as it can be rolled. A CERTAIN cure for a felon is to wind a cloth loosely about the finger, leaving the end free. Pour in common gun-powder till the afflicted part is entirely covered. Keep the whole wet with strong spirits of camphor. Yoc will not be troubled with carpet moths, if you scrub your floors with brine before tackiDg the carpets down and once a week scrub your carpets with coarse salt. To keep seeds from the depredations of mice, mix some pieces of camphor with them. Camphor placed in trunks or drawers will prevent mice from doing them injuiy. To REMOVE PIMPLES. —Two ounces of bi-carbonate of soda, one drachm of glycer ine, one ounce of spermaceti ointment. WIT AND HUMOR. A TRAVELING Irishman, who lmd none the whole round or the Continent, was re turning home satiated with having "seen nothing," when, in a field by a road, he saw a dght; he stopped his carriage, Hur ried to the scene of action, took his side, with small reference to the question at issue, obtained his due amount of blinding bruises, ami groped back to his carriage, exclaiming, "By Jove, this is the first bit of pleasure 1 have had siuee 1 have been from home." "WuY do women so often wander aim lessly iu the murky solitudes of the depd past, brooding over the days that are for ever gone ?" asked a young of her practical lover, who is a widower. "They don't," he replied. 4 On the contrary, they wander around the dry goods stores of the present, pricing things they have uo idea of buying. Women are not dreamy or poetical, but when it conies to getting as 2 bustle for SI.UO they keep right up with the procession." [Qutncy, (111.) Dally Herald ] *1. UHtnu "ly Hi# C. 11. Wood, K q., of the C. AT. lly., Port Huron, Mich., lavors our correspondent with the loliowing: After buttering lor nearly a year with rheumatism, receiving treatment froiu most ot the best physicians of Michi gan and tin West, 1 happened to try a bottle of St. Jacob's Oil. Upon the first application 1 used fully half u bottle, and its effect was almost in stanlaueous. 1 immediately dropped all other treatment, and confined my self to its use alone. After the use of three bottles, instead of being driven to my business, or moving about on crutches, 1 walked lrom one to three miles dally about business, and have been tree lrom this horrible disease for over a year, not having the slighest twinge of it. llence, 1 say that ail medicines known to uio arc useless when compared with the Old Herman remedy. Use this statcmeui when uuJ where it suits. THE boys of Detroit seems to be going down hill In their morals, of late. On Sunday one of the legion, who has always been noted tor his respectful demeanor to ward the great public, observed an old citizenyawmug and gaping on a street corner, and said to him: "Better not open your mouth too wide." "Why?" was the surprised query. "There's a law agin opening a saloon on Sunday," con sulted the sinful child, as he slid for the middle of the street. CONVERSATION betweeu two school boys: "I've been down to have my head felt by a phrenologist. M "What did he say?" "Oh, he said I had a great braiu, but my body wasn't equal to it, and told my gov'uor'he'd orter take me out o' school for a year, and just let me play to rest and develop my physique, and the gov'nor's going to do it." Tue other boy is pestering his latlier to take him to the phrenologist's. "BY Gawge, fellahs, I had a delightful dweam last night. I dwemt, you know, that I was invited to a banquet. The table was just fweighted down with tempting gwub and costly wiucs. Ah ! it was a delicious dweam." Just at this moment a hungry looking tramp, who had paused to listen, bawled out: "I say, Mister, if them's the sort of dreams ver hev, l'djestliketo buna with yer to-night." [Phllodephta Times.] l'olice The Philadelphia Lt'tljcr of Decem ber 29, 1880, mentions among many others, the case of Chief of Police of that oity, Samuel 11. Given, Esq., who says he used St. Jacob's Oil 111 his family, for various painful ailments, with excellent results. He has aiso heard from many who have used it for rheumatism, that it aiouj oi nu reme dies did them goo*. "HAVE you given electricity a trial for your complaint, madamef" asked the min ister, as he took tea with the old lady. "Electricity !" said she. "Well, yes, 1 reckon 1 has. I was struck by lightning last summer aud hove out of the window, but it didn't seem to do me no sort of good." "DON'T waste your time in clipping off the branches, but lay your axe at the root of the tree," said the woodman to his son. And the young man went out and laid his axe at the root of the tree, like a good duti ful boy, aud then went fishing. A DEAD WOOD miner expired bust week after a brief illiness. He had an argument in a bar-room, and never rallied from the effects of it. His last words, addressed to his wife,were: "I ain't got nuthin' agin no man, so don't you be fooiin' around after another pard when I'm planted." SHE raised a paper to strike her husband and as it happened the rear end of it grazed her chin and drew blood, where upon she tumbled all in a heap in the middle of the floor and howlcvi piteously. But he on y remarked with the utmost composure: "My love, it's a poor rule that won't work both ways," l'rotii sl,l-00. "To sum it up, six long years of bed ridden s!ekue.-s, costing $2-JU per year, total $1.2 'o—ail of this expense was stopped by three bottles oi llop Bitters taken by my wile. She has uone her own housework for a year since, with out the loss of a uay, aud 1 want every body to know it, for their beneflt " A DIFFICULT question -Squire's (laugh - ter—"What is this we hear about your father and mother quarrelling so, Peggy?" Peggy—"They've both had a little money left'em, miss,and I think feyther he wants the lot. Anyways, they can't agree no how whether her money is his'u, or his hern, or his'n and hers hern." "I CAN'T find a place in ihe city to suit me,"' despairingly remarked a house hunt ing lady to her husband. "Why, so my dear?" "Why, because —because —well, if you must know, I can't find a mantel long enough for the crewel lambrequin I made last winter." AN old angler says that a fish does not suffer much pain from being hooked. Of course not. It is the thought of how his weight will be lied about which causes him anguish. "YOUNG HUSBAND." —House cleaning means for the women to tie towels around their heads and ruu the men into the street without any breakfast every morning for a week or so, while they break lamps and spill whitewash on the stairs. "WHAT is love?" asks everybody; and somebody replies:—"lt is a feeling that you don't want another fellow fooling around with her." Labor .laving. Tli demand of the poop e for an raster method of preparing Kidney-Wort has in duced the proprietors, the well-known whole sale druggists, Wells. Richardson Co., of Burlington. Vt., to prepare it 1( r sale iu liquid forui as we las iuury form. It saves all He labor of prepating, and as it is equally effl oient it is preferred by uianv persons. Kid ney-Wort always and everywhere pro.es liaJf a pel feel ruuody.— BUFFALO NEW*. WHAT IS the difference between a man who awards a prize, and an opener of oysters!/ One shells out the prize, and the other priis out the shells. HINT in punctuation —exclamation points are always placed at the active end of a bee's sting. W IIKN the swimming season comes there will he a re-nude activity among young Auiei leans. AN Illinois girl has bought an omnibus line. Bound to have u "bus" if she don't lay up a cent. Vegetme Tlic Best Hfeiliclue, GENERAI/DEBIEITY. FKKKCOKT, His., Sept. Hi, isia. 11. R. STEVENS, Boston: Dear Sir.—l have been using your valuable medicine, "Vegellue," furtlencr.il Debility, and have no liesltutlon In Faying thai I i-onsider it one of the best,if not the best medicine In th" market lor a general iuvlgnrnu>r and Blood i'uruier. J. u. POUTER. Vogotino, GIVES GENERAL SATISFACTION. Eiuptions of the Skin, Chronic Sore Eyes, and General Debility. Read what Dr. Stannous says: VBKONA, Miss., Juue 6,1575. O. It. STEVENS, Boston: I li ive used "Vegettne" In my family for two yea s and cordially reconcile: d it us a remedy for Eruptions of the skin, Chronic Sore Eyes and General Debility. 1 have also r com mended il to a great many persons in this sec tion, and 1 think It has given general satlsiac- Uou. Very re-pectfully. DR. J. J. SIMMONS. Your very valuable medicine. "Vogetlue," re stored the sight lo my little daughter, saved hr trotu being blind, and 1 have no doubt saved her lite. Very gratefully, MRS. J. J. SIMMONS. WITH SUCH BENEFIT SIIKBOTUAN, WIS., Nov. 15. 18T9. C. R. STEVENS. Boston: Deai Sir.—l can fully testify to the efficiency of your Vegettne as a Great Blood Purifier, havnia used It during the last seven mouths with tu. h benefit. Yours truly, W. O. ST. SURE. Druggist. Vogotino. PREPARED KV 11. K. SI'KVEKM, lioNton, Mam. VeKrllne laNold by All llrnx|lt. MRS. LYNN, MISS, , ~ LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEQETABLE COMPOUND. In a Positive Curo fur all those Painful Complaint. and WritnMM Mroaaoi toour bi-.t fiutulc papulation. " It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Com plalnta, all oTariaa trouble, Inflammation and Ulcera tion, Falling and Displacement a, and the consequent f.jiinal Weakness, and la particularly adapted to the Change of IJfe. It will dissolve and expel cumora from the uterus in an early stage of development. Tho tendency to can cerous humors there la chocked very speedily I -y its uae. It removes falntnoes, flatulency, destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weakness of ths stomtch. It cam Hloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi gestion. That feeling o. bearing down, eausing pain, weight and backache, la always permanently cured by its use. It will at all times and under all clrruinstancsa act In harmony with the laws that govern the female system. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COM POUND Is preiared at 233 and 235 Western Avenue. Lynn, Mass. 1 Ylce sl. Six bottles for Sent by mail In the form of pills, also In tho form of locenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. Pinkham freely answers al i 'otters of inquiry. Send for pamph let. Address as above. Mention this Pttper. NO family should be without LYDIA F- ITNKHAMV LTVTCK PIUN. They cure constipation, AND torpidity of tbolivr. 25 cents PER BOX. YJ- SOM BY OIL llrnffsisr*. Card Collectors! Ist. Buy seven bars Dob bins' Electrio Soap of your Grocer. 2d Ask him to give you bill of it. 3d Mail us bis bill and your full address. 4th. We will mail YOU FREE seven beautiful cards, in six colors and gold, represent ing Shakspeare's " Seven Age of Man." I. L. CRAGIN & CO., 116 South Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 218 * amplest, t. |! jss"uu"t it* tuvkMs <4*4ch A. h- ivrk, JM. U "GOOD night, darling," he said to her as lie trotted uown the walk of a Third street residence the other evening, and he had the words hardly out of his mouth when his feet struck a slippery place on the walk aud he cauie down with a crash. It was astonishing to know how suddenly that young man's voice of tenderness could change to the most vehement emphasis. Grateful Women. None receive so much benefit, luu none are so profoundly grateful and show such an Interest in reoommend lng Hop Bitters as women. It Is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to the many ills the sex Is almost universally subject to Chills and fever, indiges tion or deranged liver, constant or periodical s'ck headaches, weakness in the buck or kidneys, pain in the shoulders and different parts of the body, a feeling of lassitude and des pondency, are all readily iemovedt>y these Bitters. "MY DEAR," said an anxious matron to her daughler. "it is very wrong for young people to be throwing kisses at each other." "Why so, mamma? I'm sure they don't hurt, even if they do hit." "LITTLK baby is very ill, Charlie; 1 am afraid he will die." "Well, if he (lies, lie won't go to the bad place." "Why, Charlie, how can you know that?" "Oh, L know he can't, mamma, lie's got no teeth to guash." MOTHCK SHEPTON'S prophecy is sup posed to be about lour hundred years old, and every prophecy lias been I'ull lilled except the last —the end of the world in ISBI. Buy your Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, the great natural hair restorer, before the world comes to an end. SOUKH I aiagraphists seldom get into trouble, but when one is a rum-'un ami the other a c&rt-o'-giu-iaii they are apt to excite pun ic war. THE blossoms ou tbe trees indicate the spring, but the blossoms on a man's nose denote the fall. WHAT kind of music does an excessive tobacco masticator remind one ol f Why an ovei-chewtr, to be sure. To remove fruit and wine stains—es pecially peach and claret—from table linen, moisten with dilute sulphuric acid, and then rub with a strong aqueous solution of sulphite or hyposulphite of sodium; or soak for a short lime in a strong aqueous solution of bleaching powder—calcium hypochlorite—press out excess of the liquid, and immerse in dilute sulphuric acid—one part to ten of water ; rinse m cold water, dip in hyposulphite of sodium solution, and afterwards wash out thoroughly in hot water. THOUSANDS SPEAK- —Vcretine Is ac knowledged and recommended by phy sician s and apothecaries to be the best purifier and cleanser of the blood yet discovered, and thousands speak in its praise who have been restored to health. The fact that uutmegs have strong nar cotic properties has long been known; but they are in such common use as a favorite condiment used in small quantities that their dangerous nature when taken in large quantity is apt to tie overlooked and for gotten, eveu by those who are aware of their tendency. Nutmeg in the quantity of two or three drachms has been known to produce both stupor and delirium ; and dangerous aud fatal consequences are said to have followed its free use in India. Mace, the outside covering of the nutmeg, possesses essentially the same properties. THE invalid finds in "Dr. Llndsey'S Blood Searcher" nature's great re storer. It is wonderful. With a single telephone held, say, to to the right ear, the transmitted voice ap (>ears to come from a distance to the right; while with a telephone held to the left ear, it seems to arrive from the left of the list ener. With a telephone to each ear, if one ear be less sensitive than the other, or if the telephone be held farther from that ear, the voice apparently shifts to one side of the other ear ; and, it both ears hear alike and both instruments are equally near their respective ears, the voice apparently pro ceeds from iu front of the observer. WOMAN'S Triumph! Tho discovery of Lydia L. I'uikhaui's Vegetable Com pound. A patent has been taken by Mr. Hansell of Philadelphia for a novel car-starter, which stores up the momeutum of the car when stopped, by means of a spiral spring, in such a manner that when the horses begin to pull it is immediately propelled about a yard forward; and the horses, in stead of wasting their strength by a pull against the usual dead-weight, require to apply very little more force than when the car is iu foil motion. M. de lioßtii has been led by certain ex periments to believe that explosions of fire damp are preceded by slight undulations and noises too small to be detected by any means except the microphone. He thinks that by the aid of microphonic observations in collieries the presence of large quantities of intlammable gas in the earth might be de tected in season to prevent disastrous con sequences. "SELLERS' Liver Pills" are the secret to perfect health, long life, aud abso lute happiness. Sold by all druggists. A report by Dr H. Triuien, of Ceylon, on india rubber, states that the plant which produces the (Jeara rubber is very hardy, and will grow in a dry, rough soil and in a moderately dry, hot alnn sphere, while the Para and West India rubber plants require a rich soil aud a constantly hot atnu>sphere. The tree grows to a height of about thirty feet, and has a dense rounded crown. In two years it attains a diameter of four or five inches, when it may be tapped. The cultivation of this tree will reduce the price of rubber to a reasonable rate. Ladlei Attention. We want intelligent, energetic Lady Agenu to sell to women only, au article of roal by gienio merit. For particulars and liberal terms, address WAGNER A CO., Chicago, Dl. Eminent Physicians are prescribing that tr.ed and true remedy, Kidney-Wort lor tho wort cases of bilious ness and constipation, as weli as for kidney oomplaints. There is tcarcely a person to be found that will not be greatly benefitted by a thorough oourse of Kidney-Wort every spring, if you feel out of sorts and don't know why try a package of Kidney-Wort and you wiJ feel like * new creature—IN DIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. MESSRS. MORGAN & HKADLY, Mutuu Lie Building, Tent h und Chestnut stree s, haye on hand a superb stock or extra fine quality Dia monds, which they offer at as low prices ai stones or the first quality, alike In color and shape, can be sola lor. I— — No Pre pa nation on earth xjutli KT.JICOIL OIL M • arra, •CKK. Bin I*LI: md en LA F Eiterual Remedy. A trial entails but 0i cuiu(ar>tiitll trilling outlay of iUClBti, and otie lufleriug with paiuceu have cheap and positive j roof at IU OIAIIUA. MAENOW U KLKVK.* LAMJIAUK*. SOLD If AU DRUQ3ISTS ARB DEALERS l MIDICWI, A. VOCELER A CO. itcV(mr, Mil.. U. 8. 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