Indian Medicine Dance.
The Indian dances celebrated in the
Indian Terrilorv, in June, were wit
nessed by fully 6,000 Indians. The
number of persons who take part is un
limited. When the performance begins,
the company having assembled, ihe per
formers at a given signal rush into the tent
from various points of the compass with
shout 9 and yells, and as they reach the in
terior I hey fire their guns at the effigy
suspended from the pole—intending thus
to destroy the evil spirit—and immediately
they set up their dance. This consists in
the main of a light springing up and dowu
to the monotonous music furnished by a
peculiar song unvaried in words and music,
which accompanied the pounding. It goes
on till the bodies of the musicians weary,
and at a signal all stop sad take a rest.
That done, the dance proceeds again. The
programme is changed a little in some oi
its details, so as to give a variety. Each
dancer has a sort of 'trainer,' or attendaut,
who sees to preparing him for the exercise.
During the rest of the dance the perform
ers will arise, lay off their shawls or blan
kets, take off their other garments, and
barring breech-clout, reduce themselves to
a state of complete nudity. Tnis is done
in the presence of thousauds of men, wo
men and children, and nothing is thought
of It. The attendant then paints the
dancer, using a weed for a brush. The
entire body is covered with rings, forks
and other curious devices. Sometimes
the legs from the top of the hips and the
groius are painted to the foot with white
or light-colored pigmeut, and then rings
and stripes are ruu about them at int rvals,
producing a very striking effect. Tue
back, arms and chest are also covered wiih
similar representations. As the body is
partly dry a shawl or blanket is thrown
ovtr the shoulders, and the legs are left
bare. Meanwhile the audience keeps up
its chatting, laughing, eating and fanning
itelf to keep cool, and pays but little at
tention to the spectacle of preparation.
The chief mediciue man, or the mau who
has the lead in making the medicine, goes
around the lodge about midway of the
radius, and deposits at intervals pieees of
sagebrush; another follows aud deposits in
the same spot pieces of bread aud nuts.
What this was for I did not learn. The
dancers also place wreaths of sage brush
or of leaves ou their heads, and a wreath
around the waist and acn.>ss the shoulders.
Those who do this last wear no blanket or
shawl, but are nude except as to the wreath
and hret ch clout. A person who has never
seen the dance can scarcely realize wuat a
hideous appearance the leaves autl wreaths
and paint give to the naked savace. lie
looks like a typical cannibal who has just
roasted a fre-h missionary aud is about to
devour him. Everything being in readi
ness, the dancers put iuto their mouths a
small bark whistle, about five inches loug,
having a shrill sound, and ornamented
with a tuft of horse-hair, which adds to
the grotefquenesa of their make-up. The
signal is given and the dancing begins
again, accompanied by the drum, singing
and whistling. During the whole of the
exercises the participants give not the
slightest indication of mirthfulness, but
are as solemn in visage as any one could
possibly be. To them it is evidently seri
ous business, and the chief priests in this
ceremony have no trouble in lookiug one
another in the face without lajghtng. To
them it is earnest. Some of the dancers
show signs ef physical exhaustion from
went of food, and when they are resting
they lean on their hands at- if they were in
praver or suffering from a headache. One
stra lge part of the medicine dance is the
tortire. An Indian will cut two parallel
peipendieular slits in the skin, on the
breast and just abuve the nipple, and under
the skin from one slit to the other he will
run a stout stick. To each end of this
stick he ties a long string. The other side
of the breast is fixed in the same way, and
the springs have their free ends passed
around the centre pole and tied. The In
dian will then lean back and thus pull on
the sticks until he tears the skin out and
releases himself. The sight is a revolting
one. The blood streams down Lis breast
and legs from the cuts. The skin is usually
tough and refuses to yield, and frequently
the man has to brace his feet against the
pole and push with all his might. The
thongs still hold and the skin is ofteu pulled
away from the breast bone, and stands out
at an angle of about fifteen degrees clear
aeross the breast and from the cuts down
to the lower ribs. It sometimes happens
that the torturer faints before the skin
pulls out; it more frequently happens that
he faints as it pulls out, and, weak from
want of food and loss of blood, he requires
careful attention until he recovers. Others
come through bravely and go on with the
dance. One fellow, the other day, unable
to endure the suffering while both thongs
were pulling on him at once, tried to break
one out at a time, and when he succeeded
the crowd dressed him in squaw's clothes
in contempt. The fastiDg and torture, as
I Lave said, is not to test whe her the
torturers are brave warriors, but is intended
to placate the Almighty and win his aid
for the accomplishment of some particular
purpose. The torturer has bis own benefit
in view primarily, although he thinks that
it results also to the good of bis entire
tribe, since he thinks that it is pleasing to
God; and what puts God in a good humor
will necessarily bring the entire tribe in
for their share of the results.
A New Exhilarating Substance.
Dr. Luton, of Kheims, calls attention in
a French medical paper to the exhilarating
properties of the tincture of ergot of rye
when associated with phosphate of soda.
The circumstances of the discovery were
as follow: A woman of 62, at the infirmary
of the Maißon de Retraite , in Rheims,
was receiving tincture of ergot of rye for
disease in the knee. Fearing an unfavora
ble turn, the doctor thougnt to strengthen
the action of that medicament with phos
phate of soda, and accordingly combined
a little of the two substances in a quarter
of a glass cf sweetened water. The pa
tient, about three-quarters of an hour after
taking this, surprised the inmates by burst
ing into loud laughter, without obvious
reason, and this continued lor more thau
an hour, with brief intervals. The laugh
ter seemed to be associated with merry
ideas, and to indicate a kind of intoxica
tion. For some time after it died down
the woman was in good spirits and good
humor. Dr. Luton had not witnessed the
scene, but the coasequem.es to the patient
being good, he administered tha substance
again, and a third time, observing the
same effect. The experiments were fur
ther repeated on seven or eight women and
girls with like results. In the case of
men the action of the substance is less
marked; it appears only in coloung of the
face, giddiness, and slight headache. The
effects in question have probably a common
origin, it is thought, with those from eating
rye bread when, in rainy years, the cereal
contains as much as five per cent, of ergot.
A sort of intoxication is produced which
the consumers by no means despise.
New Safety Lamp. —A scientist lately
exhibited aud explained before the Mining
Institution of Scotland recently, h:s new
safety lamp, which is constructed to emit a
loud sound when an explosive mixture of
gas and air enters it, and thus consequent
ly readily indicates tire damp m collieries.
AGRICULTURE.
CARE OF CATTLE IN WARM WEATHER.—
AS the days grow warmer tne ticks will
ii crease upon the sheep, and become
n ore troublesome. A strong decoction of
tobacco in water used as a dip, or poured
along the back, will destroy them.
As the lambs increase in size the dams
suffer, and the l imbs must either be fed
some meal daily, or the ewes must be
given an abundance of rich food. Lambs
can begin to cat at four or five weeks, and
thns relievo the ewes. Pigs need a clean
place, and breeding sows should be by
themselves, with an abundance of cut
straw or chaff tor litter. Horses that have
had good care will come out in the spring
in good trim for the season's work. As
the coat begins to loosen the skin irritated.
An ounce of equal parts each of sulphur
auq cream of tartar, given with the food
for a few days, will correct this. Good
grooming with a soft brush should not be
ueglected. Ground feed, mixed with cut
hay, is an excellent food in the spring for
working horses. Three quarts of equal parts
of corn and rye (or oats) mixed with a
paiifull of moist cut hay is enough for a
meal. An occasional feed of cut beets or
potatoes is useful. With many exper
ienced horsemen an occasional feed of half
a peck of potatoes is regarded as a remedy
for worms iu horses. However this may
be, thev improve the general condition of
the animal in a most positive manner. The
main points is to keep the horses in good
health and strength, for upon them de
volves a great part of the spring work. As
foaling time approaches, brood mares
should be turned loose iu a box stall aud
receive the most gentle treatment, as the
temper aud disposition of the colt is
thought to depend much upou this.
How TO ABBAXQE A MILK HOUSE. — IJOCHTE
the building on a uort uern slope. Make ii
substantially as you would au icehouse,
and then plant morning-glories or any other
climbing plants around the building and
induce them to cliuib the sides of the build
ing and over the roof, so as to furnish as
much shade as possible. If the ground is
level, construct a building twelve by twelve
feet square and let the potts be uine feet
in height Make a door of plank, and after
boarding up the outside, put up more up
rights eight to ten inches, inside of the
outer wall all around, and till the space
with sawdust, chaff, or st -aw. put in as
compactly as possible. Make the ci eling of
the room sufficiently strong to supp >rt a
layer of chaff, sawdust, or taubark to the
depth of fouiteen to eighteen inches. Make
a ventilator one toot square in the floor
overhead, pa>smg up through the roof, so
fixed as to keep out the rain, anil to be en
tirely closed wheD necessary. Cut the door
way th:ougli the north side. The doors
should be double, like tne walls,and should
be tilted with heavy hiuges. A small win
dow at one side, having a sash in the out
side wall, as well as one iu the inner wall,
will be of advantage. This can be inserted
in the door if prelerred. It no ice is used
in the house, cold water in shallow tubes
must be furmsned from the well. In this
case, late each evening during the hot
weather open the door, aud close the one
made of lattice work, and open the window,
which should be protected by laths or wire
screen. At daylight each morning close
both door and window, and keep them
closed during the day as much a9 possible.
CHABOOAL TOE FLOWERS.—There is one
thing which nature does not supply and
whiah civilization renders quit* necessary
to fowls. It is charcoal. Charcoal made
of wood does nc-t answer the purpose; it has
no taste ot fo >d, it is not attractive to fowls
and is seldom eaten. But if any one will
put an ear of ripe corn into fire until the
grains are well charred, aud then shell off
the corn and throw it to the tiock, he will
see an eagerness developed and a healthy
condition brought about, which will make
a decided improvement. All pale combs
will become a bright red the busy song
which precedes laying will be heard, and
the average yield of eggs greatly increased.
A FRENCH statesman, after carefully
studying the beet sugar question, as long
ago as 1853 said: "Tne beet, requiring
frequent haud-boeing and considerable fer
tilizing, improves the soil, it is a fa< tthat
wheat sown after a crop of beets produces
10 per cent, more than alter other culture.
In tact, everywhere that the beet is grown
the selling value of the land ha 9 consider
ably increased."
ASIATIC breeds of fowl lay eggs from
deep chocolate through every shade of
coffee color, while the Spanish, Hamburg
and Italian breeds are known for the pure
white of the eggshell. A cross, however
remote, with Asiatics will cause even the
last named breeds to lay an egg slightly
tinted. #
Famous Cobblers.
No ODe but a shoemaker could have
thought Coleridge serious in his straDge
saying that the shoemaker's bench had
produced more eminent men than any other
handicraft. The Shoe and Leather Re
porter has, however, compiled a "bill of
particulars" in the shape of a list of fa
mous cobblers which seem to act as an
effectual estoppel on all jealous craftsmen.
Hans Christian Ande son, who needs no
introduction, may head the list, and Hans
Sachs, of Nuremberg, who though he
made shoes all his life, yet also made 6000
poems, plays, larces and rhyming tables,
may be put next. Sir Cloudesley Shovel
was a shoemaker until he 'listed in the
Davy, and so was Sir Christopher Minns,
another English Admiral. John Heweon
one of Cromwell's Colonel's, and a signer
of dories I.'B death warrant; Samuel
Bradburn, the "Demosthenes of Method
ism," as well as a Bishop; James Lacking
tOD, whose catalogue of publications reached
the total—enormous for that time —of 30,-
000 volumes in 17b7—all these were cob
blers at first, if not at the last. Continuing
the English list, William Gifford, whose
memory is preserved by a complimentary
allusion in Byron's "English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers," and whose body is
buried in Westminster Abbey; George Fox.
the arch-Quaker; William Carey, a mis
sionary famous a century ago, and who
read the proofs of the Bible in twenty
seven Oriental languages; Samuel Drew,
"the Locke of the nineteenth century,"
whose experience as an author led him to
formulate the sad truth that "the man who
makes shoes is sure of his wages, but the
man who makes books is never sure of
anything;" Thomas Holcrcft, whose name
is not nearly so well known as that of a
single one in his plays, "The Road to
Ruin; John Pounds, whom school children
cried at being turned away from—all
these, and lesser lights too numerous to
mention, were English shoemakers. Com
ing to our country, Roger Sherman, one
of the "signers," leads the list in time,
but Vice-President Henry Wilson in rank.
Besides these were Congressmen Sheffey
and Noah Worcester, not the lexicographer,
but the founder of the Massachusetts
Peace Society. And ex Govs. H. P. Bald
win, ot Michigan, and William Claflin, of
Massachusetts, if they never made shoes,
at least dealt in them largely enough to be
named here. Altogether, the list is suffi
ciently imposing and convincing to justify
a verdict in favor ot' Coleridge's saying.
WIT AND HUMOR.
JOHNNY BOONSPII.LKR goes to school ami
he loves eggs; but, during the recent egg
famine, when the price was at such a point
that one wouid have to mortgage his house
to buy a straw out of a hen's nest, Johnny
had to give up lus favorite feed. About
this time the class of which he was a bril
liant member was called to give definitions.
Said the teacher;
"Tommy Tompkins name something
very high."
4, The big trees of California," said
Tommy.
"And you Jimmy Jackson."
"The Himalaya mountains,'' answered
Jimmy.
"Aud you Rillio Jones."
"The clouds in the far-away sky," tri
umphantly replied Uillie.
"And you, Johnny Boonspillor."
"Eggs," sententiously remarked that
young man, and, as strange as it may seem,
the teacher told him to go up ahead.
TCPNOODY made up his mind that he was
not going to be bossed any longer by his
wife, so when he went home at uoon he
called out imperiously: "Mrs. Topuoody,
Mrs. Topnoodi!" Mrs. T. cainu out of the
kitchen with a drop of sweat ou the end of
her nose, a dislirag tied around her head,
and a rolling pin in her hand. "vVell sir,"
she said, "what 11 you have?" Topuoody
staggered, but braeed up. "Mrs. Topuoo
dy, 1 want you to understand, madam'* —
and he taj perl his breast dramatically—
"l am the engineer of this establishment."
"Oh, you are, are you? Web, Topuoody,
1 want y >u to uudertt.ind thai 1" —and she
looked dangerous—'am the boiler that will
blow up aud sling the eugiueer clear over
iuto tl-e ucxt couuty. Do you hear the
steam escaping, Topnoody ?" 'I opnoody
heard it, and he meekly inquired u there
was any as-tstauce lie could render iu the
housework.
THF.BE can certainly be r.o pleasanter
moment iu a clergyman's lite tlmn when
he utters the taiismauic word '"Finally
and at the souud of that word the most
listless of his congregation open their eyes
and betray uuatUcted interest, and all
straighten up, with eyes riveted on the
speaker. It is not strange that the preacher,
having at last gained the attention of all,
should talk on for another half hour.
There is Parson Smith, for instance, who
brings in his "dually" as ofteu as his hear
ers show symptoms of uueasyness, which is
quite often, always with telliug effect
Sometimes he has recourse to the word six
several times during a discourse.
PAT felt seriously aggrieved, "Bedad,"
said he, "it's by false pretentions entire'y
I've, been drawn to the counlliry, for me
uncle, me own mother's brother, the alder
man, you see, he enticed me with his prom
ises. And what has he made of me after
all ? Nothing hut a paltry commissioner of
schools. And there's Mike, me cousin,
he's made htm assistaut bar keeper, and
it's a fortuue he'll have of his own. B.*-
gorra, I might as well have staid in ou.d
Ireland, surely."
A GOOD wife greets her husband at the
door with a smile and a kiss—provided lie
gets it before midnight, aud his breath
don't perspire the fumes of poor whiskey.
But after that hour the fountain of her
friendship freezes up, and she stands on
the top stairs with a broken wash dish inone
hand aud her marriage certificate in the
other.
A WISCONSIN father chanted his disobe
dient little boy naked to the floor of the
barn and kept him there on bread and
wuter for five days* When it is remem
bered that Griscom the Chicago faster, has
lived over thirty days on nothing but
water, it looks as if the Wisconsin father
hail wasted his bread
"GOING away this summer?" queried a
boot-black of a fellow mortal at the post
office yesterday. "Naw! " "Well, you
needn't IKJ so short about it." "Maybe 1
needn't, but the idea of our going off to
Saratogy when we can t raise #lO to get dad
out of the work-house does us injustice as
a family."
SAID the auctioneer. "Come now, ladies
and gentlemen, these goods are for sale.
Will somebody give me a bid ? Anything,
ladies and gentlemen. All I want is an
offer." "Alas!" murmured an elde:ly
woman in the crowd, "that's what I've
been sighing for all my life,"
A BAGGAGE agent was killed at Fishkill
station, N. Y., the other day, by a heavy
trunk falling upon him. it was very s°d;
hut at the same time "turn about is fair
play." The baggage man had mashed
more than one truna, and at last the trunk
mashed the baggage man.
"Hi! where did you get them trousers?"
asked an Ir.shman of a mau that was pass
ing with a remarkably short pair of trous
ers. "I got them where they grew," was
the indignaut reply. "Then by my con
science." said Pat, "You've pulled them
a year to soon I"
AN elderly lady said her husband was
very foud of peaches, and this was his only
fault. "Fault, madam," said one, "how
can you call this a fault ?" "Why, because
there are different ways of eating them,
sir, My husbaud takes them in the form of
brandy."
AN old couple were walking down the
street the other day, reading signs, when
they ran across one which the old man read
thus: "Johnson's Shirt Store." "Well,
I declare!" exclaimed the old Jadj, "I
wonder how he tore it ?"
"IN what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of his life?" asked a Sunday
school teacher of a quiet lookiug boy at the
foot of the class. "Dead," calmly replied
the boy.
ONE of the most delightful periods of a
man's life is the moment when be drops a
slippery cake of soap into the bath-tub and
runs his fist up and down the zinc hunting
for it. •
THE meanest woman on record is the one
who boiled codfish in a fire-proof safe to
keep her neighbors from getting a smell.
"Ye pays no more attention tome."
said Patrick, "than as if I was a dumb baste
talking to yez,"
Gun Cotton Thread. —At the Royal
palace in Berlin forty thousand wax cau
dles are instantaneou ily lighted by a siugle
match. The wicks are previously connected
by a thread spun from gun cotton, on
lightning one end of which all the candles
are lighted simultaneously, and thus the
whole of the seven hundred apartments are
lighted at once.
Air tight Stoppers. —Gutta Percha
cuttings are very useful in the laboratory.
By dissolving them in benzole and adding
a little carmine or aqy other pigment a
solution is obtained which, when
brushed on the cork and neca of a bottle,
forms a tight-fitting cap,inipentrable to air
dampness, alcohol and acids, and can be
taken off without much trouble.
Among the curious articles in the Indian
Court of the Melbourne Exhibition art two
hollow elephant tusks, fitted with a gold
cover. They were sent to the Viceroy of
India by the Rajah of Bunnah, who used
them asau envelope for an official commu
nication, They aie valued at SIOOO.
I St. Louis Evening Chronicle.]
reoulo lu Ola*" Houses, etc.
While it may be proper that those "liv •
ing in glass houses should never throw
stones," we think it is eminently proper
that those working in glass houses should
say A "good word" for anything of benefit
to themselves. In this connection, Mr.
Isaac Correy, Manager Salem, N. J., Glass
Works, remarks : 1 am pleased to say that
1 have,used the the Great Remedy, St,
Jacob's Oil, for Rheumatism with excellent
results; other members of my family have
also been greatly benefited by its use.
Band* of music are forlsdden to play on
niost of the large wire bridges of the world.
A constant succession of sounds waves,
especially such as come from the playiug
of a go- d baud, will excite the wires to
vibration. At tirst the vibrations are very
plight, but they will increase as the sound
waves continue to come.
[(lrion) Ihtpuis limes 1
A lttiilUt'i-'c Testimony.
Clias. 8. Strickland, Esq , of 9 Boylston
Place, Boston, Mass., alter relating his
surprising recovery from rheumatism by
St. Jacobs uil, says: I cannot find words
to convey my praise and gratitude to the
discoverer of ttiis liniment.
VILLAGE postmaster to his wife: " Here
is a postal curii lo Mr. Jones saying that
his brother utul five children will be here
ou batuiday. Now keep that card back
till theu, and I will be at the station, and
when they find no one to meet them I will
take them all over for $3."
A NEW YORK man calls his sweet-heart
Kitty, because she gets her back up so
often.
mmmmmm^ mm ———
V egetine
KII>\KY COMPLAIXTS.
DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS.
Tho symptoms of an acute attack of Inflamma
tion of the kidneys are as follows: Fever, pain in
the small of the back, aud thence shooting down
ward ; numbness of the thigh, vomiting, usually
at flrst a deep red color of the urine, which be
comes pale ami colorless us the disease Increases,
and is discharged very often with pain and dim
cully; costtveueas, aud some degree of colic. In
chronic diseases of the kidneys the symptoms are
pain m the back and Uuibs, dryness of the skin,
frequent urinations at night), general
drop-v, headache, dizziness of sight. Indigestion,
and palpiumou of the heart, gradual loss of
strengtn, paleueas and puttluesaof the face, cough
and shortness of breath.
In diseases of the kidneys the VKOKTINK gives
Immediate relief. It has never failed to cure when
it is taken regularly ami directions followed. In
man? oases it may take several bottles, especially
cases of long standing. It acts directly upon the
secretions, cleansing and strengthening, removing
aU obstructions ami Impurities. A great mauy
can testify to cases of long staudlng having been
perfectly cured by the VKOKTINK, even after trying
many of the known remedies which are said to be
expressly for this disease.
kidney Complain!*.
CINCINNATI, 0., March, 18, 1877.
H. R. STEVENS:
Dear Sir l have used your VKOETINK for some
time, aud can truthfully say it ha> been a great
benefit to me; and to those suffering from dis
eases of the Kidneys, I cheerfully recommend it.
Respect full v, O. H. SMITH.
Attested to by K. B. Aslitleld, Druggist,
Cor. Eighth aud Ceutral Avenue.
CINCINNATI, 0., April 19, ihtt.
MR. 11. R. STEVENS:
I have suffered several years with the K ninny
Complaint, and was induced to try VKOETINK. I
have taken several Iwttles of your preparation,
ami lam convinced It Is a valuable remedy. It
has done me more good than any other medicine.
1 can heartily recommend it to all suffering from
Kid i try Coin pi Hi Mis.
Yours Respectfully, T. f*. McMILLEN,
First Book-keeper fur Newhall, tiale A Co.. Flour
Merchants, No. 86 West Front St., Cincinnati, o.
VKOKTINK has restored thousands to health who
had been long aud painful sufferers.
Vegetine-
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Vegetlne is S<ld by All Druggists.
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Struts
LYDIA E. PINKHANI'B
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
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tar all these PalnfNil Complaints and WsafrneeaaS
eocomusoa toourbul remain population.
It will cum entirely tho worst form of Female COS*
plaints, all ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Uloara
ti on, Falling and Displacement#, and tho consequent
Spinal Weakness, and U particularly ADAPTED to ths
Changs of Life.
It win dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus la
an early stage of development. The tendency to earn
serous humors there Is checked rery speedily by lta use.
It remores falntneas, flatulency, destroys all era ring
for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach.
It cures Bloating, H sad aches, Nervous Prostration,
General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi
gestion.
That feeling of bearing down, reusing pain, weight
and backache, LA always permanently cured by Its use.
It will at all times and under all circumstances 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. PIN KII AM'E VEGETABLE COM*
POUND Is prepared at US and S6 Western Arenas,
Lys I, Mass. Price |L Six bottles for *6. Bent by mall
In the form of pills, also In ths form of losengee, os
receipt of price, |I per box for either. Mrs. Pink haw
freely answers all letters of Bend for pemph
let. Address as above. Mention IN* Paptr.
H family fhould b< without LTDIA E. PIKIHIMI
UVEH PILLS. They cure constipation, blllou**
and torj* Uty of the Uvar. t& cent* per box.
T Hold by nil "S*
I Everyone who owns a wagon
p B wants aEureka Folding
l| Canopy Top. Folds up
Alike an umbrella. Weighs
- ffargt dEfld Tless than 12 lbs. Can be
/ 1 V taken off or put on in one
f <.l , ,/\ minute. Affords superior
1— 'A <P^llCsi?/CT<l /x j protection from sun and
\7!y\V7/' ra^D - Mad® in different
Y/ \ V^TV/K^ l/ /iV sb eß t°fit business wagons.
\m" Y/ \ wagons, and Dug
gie9. Send for illustrated
circular and price list. Agents wanted everywhere.
State where yon saw this. D. G. BEERS A CO„
Patentees and Manufacturers, Sandy Hook, Ct.
MEN WaN TED to learn the trade of Electro Gold
and Silver Plating. Money made at home or by
travelling. Outfits furnished. CANON CITY SILVER
PLATE WORKS, Canon City, Colorado.
ENTJI' STYLISH MIOKS RETAILED
T at Factory prices. On receipt of $3 we will send
post-paid, to any address, a pair of tine calf shoes any
size, either Button. Lace or Congress. Worth at retail
price $5. Send to H- WHITING,
104 Duane Street, New York City.
T&ow uuwrui| en Aavercuemeni wll
confer • bvor upon the Advertiser end ti?l
Publisher b / stating thet they sew the ndee
Wunest a .bi ieuraal (eeeslnc the pee*
Sleep and Sleeplesmeti. —Habit great
ly helps the performance of the initial act,
and the cultivation of a habit of going to
sleep In a peculiar way, at a peculiar time,
will do more to procure regular and healthy
sleep than any other artifice. The forma
tion of the habit is, in fact, the creation or
development of a special center, or com
bination, in the nervous system, which will
henceforth produce sleep as a natural rhy
thmical process. If this was more generally
aecognized, persons who suffer from sleep
lessness of the fort which consists in simply
beiug 'unable to go to sleep,' would set
themselves resolutely to form such a habit.
It is necessary that the training should be
explicit and include attention to details.
It is not very important what a person does
willi the intention of going to sleep, but he
should do precisely the same thing, in the
same way, at the same time, and under us
nearly as possibly the saifie conditions,
night after night for a considerable period,
say three or four weeks at least.
No IloN|iltul .Needed.
No palatial hospital needed for flop Bit
ters patients nor large salaried talented
puffers to teil what Hop Bitters will do cr
cure, us they tell their own story by their
certain and absolute cures at home.
The obscure poison which produces hy
drophobia has been known to lie latent in
the human system for years liefore develop
ing its fatal results. M. Pasteur declares
the supposition to be well supported thai
the virus does develop in certain organs,
and not, as in other similar maladies, in the
blood; and that when—after a periml vari
able according to circumstances—the or
ganised poison passes into the blood severe
symptoms come on rapidly, and the victim
soon dies. An explanation substantially the
same as this hud long been advanced as a
mere theory, but now M. Pasteur advances
it as an ascertained physiological fact.
Ah Cure for Piles
Kidney-Wort acta lit at by overcoming in the
mi id i hi maimer all tendency lo constipation
tin u, by ua great tonic and invigorating pro
perties, it restores to health tbe debilitated
and weakened parts. We have buudreds of
oertuied cures, wheie all else had failed. Use
it aud Buffer no longer.— Exchange.
3/r. Peter Jfendtrnon , of .Jersey City
Heights, N. J., does not believe that the
so-called insectivorous plants derive any
more nourishment from their victims than
the hemlock, which destroys millions of
gnats on its resinous exudations, or the
thistle and burdock, which impale so many
butterflies, moths, and bumble bees on
their spines. In the summer of 1878 he
and Mr. W. I. Tait made two experiments
rising one hundred plants in each test,those
chosen beiug the well known Carolina fly
trap. The plants which received no in
sects were just as vigorous as those which
bad teen treated to tue supposed animal
diet.
Cakb u.ink, a deodorized extract of petro
leum, cures baldness. This is a positive
fact, attested by thousands. No other hair
preparation in the world will really do this.
Besides, as now improved it is a delightful
dressing.
The Pish Commissioners of Maine have
adopted the plan of marking salmon to ob
tain data with regard to the development
and migrations of these fish. Several hun
dred salmon lately set free in the Penobscot
River have been labled with light metal
tags, the number on each being recorded.
The commissioner ask that whoever catches
a labeled salmon in any waters of the State
will forward to them the fish, for which
they will pay an extra price, or else for
ward the label and whatever they know
about the fish that wore it.
Jif a paper on dew and fogs, Herr Dines
says that morning tog along the river course
arises when the water is warmer than the
air over it. the evaporation going on more
quickly than the vapor can be carried
away, and is therefore, condensed and
spread as fog. The evening fog on moist
low-lying meadow land he attributes to a
lowering of the temperature of the grass
surface by radiation, and a consequent con
densation of the aqueous vai or in the
lowest layers of the atmosphere.
Safe and Reliable. —There is no dis
ease of the human system for which the
Veoktink cannot be used with perfect
satety, as it does not contain any metallic
compound.
At a recent meeting of the New York
Academy of Sciences. Mr. G. F. Kunz read
a short paper upon the new mineral "hid
denite." discovered not long ago in North
Carolina by Mr. William E. Hidden,
mineralogist. The mineral constitutes a
new gem, of the emerald class, and is
known in the trade as lithia-emerald,owing
to the presence of hthia as one of its chemi
cal constituents. The stone has a delight
ful green tint with a liquid brilliancy that
is quite distinctive and remarkable. It
sells for about the same pri e as the dia
mond.
MRS. DTKKS, of Colfax. Indiana, had
running sort- on her ankle for two years.
"Lindsey's Blood Searcher" cured it.
The Mekarski air engine is to be intro
duced for street railroads in England. It
weighs about seven tons and a half, and
consists of cylindrical steel reservoirs,
charged with air at a pressure of 450
pounds to the square inch before starting
a special regulating apparatus, and the or
dinary cyliednrs and driving gear. The
air passes to the cylinders through a reser
voir of hot water and steaui and the regu
lator, thus increasing its volume and pre
venting the freezing of moisture in the
exhaust passage. The engine works with
out noise.
THOSE weaknesses so common to our
beet female population can be speedily
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound,
The Swan incandescent lamp, essentially
identical with the I)axim, Edison and
other electric lamps in closed globes, is to
be introduced as a safety lamp into some of
the English collieries.
It is remarked that Captain Markham,
who collected not less than 67 species of
Arctic plants in Novaya Zembla in 1879,
including 87 phanerogams, did not hit upon
one variety of gentian, although Continen
tal Russia near by has not less than six
species of that plant.
Nature's Sluice-Way.
The kidneys arts nature's siuioe-way to wash
out the aebr s of our constantly changing
bodies, if th.-y do not work properly the
trouble is felt everywhere. Then be wise and
as soon as you see si. ns of disorder get a
package of Kidney-Wort and take it faithfully.
It will clean the sluice-way of sand, gravel or
slitne and purify the whole system. Druggists
sell it, both iu liquid and <iry,and it is effioient
in either form.— Independent
Flies and Mosquitoes.
15c. box "Rough on Rats" keeps a house
free frtm flies, bed-bugs, roaches, rats, mice,
Ac.
MESSRS. MORGAN & UK*DLT, Mutual Life
Bulhl.ng, Tentn and Ghesmut stree s, h tve on
hand a superb stock oi extra fine quality Dla
monus, which they offer at as low prices as
stones or the flret quahiy, p riect alike in color
and shape, can be sola lor.
A photographic sunshine recorder has
been invei ted by Captain Abney. It C">r
sist- of a scini-cylindricul box, with a flat
lid, in the centre of which is a small hole.
Round the inside of the cylinder strips of
sensitive paper arc fixed, and the instru
ment is then so placed ttiat the sun, the
hole and the centre line of the paper are in
the same plane. As the sun moves, there
fore, its truck will be recorded on the
paper.
A flrewt Enterprise.
The Hop Hitlers Manufacturing Com
pany is one of Rochester's great est business
enterprises. Their Hop Bitters have
reached a sale beyond all precedent, having
from their intrinsic value found their way
into almost every household in the laud. —
Graphic.
According to the Birmingham Medical
Review , a certain antidote of phosphorus
poisoning is carbonate of magnesia in
dranchm doses every fifteen minutes, until
no odor of phosphorus is precept ible in
the breath. The phoephorm combines
with a portion of the magnesia, and the
uncombined magnesia by its mechanical
action protects the coats of the stomach
from any further action of the phosphorus
and any free phosphoric acid is neutralized
by it as it is formed.
IT is simply marvelous how quickly con
stipation, biliousness, sick headache, fever
and ague, and malaria, are cured by "Sel
lers' Liver Fills."
An ostrich feather, dyed in shades with
methylvio'et, that had been laid upon a
paper which had once been moistened with
ammonia but was then dry, was found
after a time to be partly green and to then
gradually turn to a beautiful violet. This
accident is being utilized in the dyeing of
feathers in Germany, and may, it is
thought, be turned to account in making
artificial flowers.
THE GREAT CURE
I 1 FOR <
RHEUMATISM
t ■
>' AM It 1* for ,11 discaaea of the KIDNEYS,
, LIVER AND BOWELS. >
i It oltuiM* the system of the acrid poison I
' that uauaes the dreadful suffering which <
>' only the TIOUISI of Rheumatism can re alias. <
THOUSANDS OF CASES ;
I of the worst forms of this terrible disease
have been quickly relieved, in a short tuns *
F PERFECTLY CURED. >
has had wonderful success, and an Immense I
, sale In every pari of tiie Country. In hun
> dreda of cases it haaoured where all else had <
failed. It is mild, but efficient, CEKTAIN >
, IN ITS ACTION, but harmless In all rases. 1
' |W"lt cleanses, Strengthens and rives Now I
I* I-tßs to all the important organs of tha body, I
( The natural aetion of the Kidneys Is restored. |
1 The Liver is cleansed of all disease, and the <
Bowels move freely and healthfully. In this >
< way the worst diseases are eradicated from
* the system. <
AM it has been proved by thousands that
( is the moet effectual remedy for cleansing the
L system of all morbid secretions. IT should be <
used in every household as a '
SPRINC MEDICINE.
Always cures BILIOUSNESS. t ONSTIPA
, TXON, PILES and all FEMALB Diseaaea. \
* Is put up in Dry Vegetable Form. In tin cans, I
onepacfci r,e - *
. > Also ill I.lquid Form, very Concentrated for ,
' the eoti>wiuehf of those wr no cannot readily pre- >
\ pare it. Itactucilh tqnal effltieuey m ritkerform. '
, GET IT OF YOUIT' PISL'GGIST. PRICE. TL.OO \
' WEI.LS. KICIUirPSON .V Co.. Frep't, >
(Will send the dry nose nsAd 1 W it' IXffTML VT. ,
({OSTETTtjjj.
OITTEBS
Feeble and Sickly Persons
Recover their vitality by pursuing a course of
lJostetter"s Stomach Bitters, the most popular in
vigoraut and alterative medicine in use. Oeneral
debility, fever and ague, dyspepsia, constipation,
rheumatism, aud other m'al.idies are completely
removed by it. Ask those who have used it what
it has done" for them.
For sale by ali Druggists and dealers generally.
A coltnblnation of Hops, Bucbu, MAN'
drakl U uid Dandelion, WITH all tneoest and I
mMtclure tive propertiea of all other Bitters,
makos\t he greatest Blood Purifier, Liver
Reg U L\a tor, and Life and Health Restoring
Agent earth.
No DISEASE powdbly long exist where Ilop
Bit tors art- ÜBW-DR#O varied and perf act are their
ojiei-aUonjugggM
Thtf pri li Y° 814 T *P crts I £ tl laim -
To all whose mnployrnentscause Irregulari
ty of the bowelaor% urinary organs, or who re
quire an APPETISE^LTO OIO and mild Stimulant,
Hop Bitters are mvalV L * ILE > Without IntOX'
Icating. mnmA
No matter whatyourfewling* or symptoms
are what the disease or AILMMENT is use Hop Bit
ters. Don't wait until you AR'* SICK but If you
only feel bad or minerable , ■ USO tuem at once.
It may save your llfe.lt hasß* * V ed hundreds.
SSOO WIU be for a CAFTSE they will not
cure or help. Do not suffer your friends
suflVr.but use and urge to Ulie Hop B
Remember, Hop Bitters is drugged
drunken nostrum, but the N D BEST
Medicine ever made ; the "LI V FSDEND
and HOPE" and no person or
should be without them.
n.l.C.t' N absolute and irresistible curefl M
forDrunkenness,usjeof opium, tobacco ANDFLFWH
narcotics. Ali sehl by DRUPEL *TA Send
for Circular. Hep Bitters Mfg. Cs., W
Safe. Simple. Posit t> O Remedy for Epl ■
leptlc File, mailed on receipt of one dollar.
K. FARINA, M. D„ 262 W. 17th St, New York.
221
DMETTAUR'S •]
T>r. METTAUK'S HEADACHE PHLS cure 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.
••HEADACHE
A foil sizo box of these valuable PILLS, with full directions for a com
plete cure, mailed to any address on receipt of nine three-cent postage
•tamps. For sale by all druggists at 25c. Sole Proprietors,
v BIiOWN CHEMICAL COMPANY, Baltimore. Md,
• • • PILLS
— — ■— — —— — —
No Preparation on oaruMttls St.Jaoom <>*• l
•ct>, amPUt and CHEAP haumnl It* mod r.
Wot ttir oompnrntiooly trifling outlay of ** 7/*J
•no ouffonnf with paiacaa ha# ohoap amd pooiuro proof m
lu claim*. oiucriOKlt II KUtTN LASOCAfiIS.
Mil It ALL IAIIBISTS AH KALCIS I* ■mm.
A. VOGELER A CO.
Haiti more, Md., U. A JL
YOU CAN BUY THE BLATCHLEY
PUMP
t7illipd f or wttlx Copper, Porcelln/>r I rem
Llnluic*. Each one stenciled with my name at
manufacturer is warranted in material and con
■trnction. For sale by the best houses in tha
trade. If you do not know where to fret this
pump, write to me as below, and I will send
name of agent nearest you, who will supply yot
at my lowest prices.
CHAI. 0. BLATCHLEY, Manufacturer,
v/ouNU M an howr* T*iHr*>n7< t*r aw to
F IL0 n month UradnaiM saaraaUcd payiag
Ac~ Aidr— VALENTIN A B&OS., Jaaesvtlle,
Winooania.
ALIK.S'K Brain Food cans Nervosa De
to.it) ana W-afciie* ui tisurrailve <>rgn, 11—
all druggmi*. Send for circular to AUenh Phar
macy, Ji3 First Avenue. N. I.
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This wonderfully successful book still sells largely,
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A good instructive course, very fine selections and ar
nuigeiuents of good Reed Organ Music, aooount for the
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IN PREBS AND NEARLY READY:
A New Book for Choirs.
A New Book for Singing Schools,
BY L. O. EMERSON.
A New Book of Trios for Female
Voices.
BY W. O. PERKINS.
AMATKTTR ORCHESTRAS should send for Winner's
Band of Four ($1.00), with music for four to six instru
ments, or QUINTET ORCHESTRA (6 books, each
$1.25).
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MASCOT (50 cts.) BILLEE TAYLOR (50 cts.): are
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