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.
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It will dissolve and expel cumora from the uterus in
an early stage of development. Tho tendency to can
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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
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"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
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Eminent Physicians
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Kidney-Wort lor tho wort cases of bilious
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spring, if you feel out of sorts and don't
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DIANAPOLIS SENTINEL.
MESSRS. MORGAN & HKADLY, Mutuu Lie
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stones or the first quality, alike In color
and shape, can be sola lor.
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No Pre pa nation on earth xjutli KT.JICOIL OIL M • arra,
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RHEUMATISM
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' SPRING MEDICINE. ►
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Against tin* contingency or Illness by tak ng
with lilm Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, has oc
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when lie sees 01 hers who have u<*gleete<t to do
s 1 suffering from some one or llie maladl s lor
which it Is a rem dy and p- even' ve. Among
these are fever and ague, biliousness constipa
tiou and rheumatism, diseases often att< udant
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Remember, Hop Bitters Is noWa vde, drugged
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and HOPI" and no person or
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DMETTAURS •
Dr. METTAUR'S HEADACHE PILLS cur© most wonderfully in a very
short time both SICK and NERVOUS HEADACHE; and while acting on
the nervous system, cleanse the stomach of excess of bile, producing a
regular healthy action of the bowels.
A full (size box of these valuable FULLS, with full directions for a com
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AND
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aaa : " Dr. Flower, the world-renowned magi.etUt,
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last week are truly miracul >u. D aeaxe hi* been
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M Over two hundred an fifty nattenta were turned
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CHAB. G. BLATCHLEY, Manufacturer,
308 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa.