Odd Thinn by the #e. Here we hare a little crab, who backs into his house when we pick him up and presents us with his fist. How came a ciab in a mollusk's ehellf The next shell we pick up contains its rightful inhabitant. It makes no attempt at escape, but as we touch it a broad and soft disk, the so called foot of the creature, is retracted safely into the shelter ot the outer whorl of the shell. Clearly the crab is an in terloper. Did it devour the defenseless owner and builder of the marine residence, or aid it walk around house-hunting, find au empty shell and quietly appropriate it? One of our party stoutly maintains the former, but the other, who at least can say that he has watched their actions hundreds of times, has picked up large quantities of vanous kinds on different shores, and has read extensively on the subject, holds firmly to the latter, though he haa not proved the point by keeping a number alive. The claws of the crab are not fitted to draw out an obstinately re tracted mollusk, and empty shells are plentiful enough. For a moment the crab remains quiCt in the shell, but being naturally of an active disposition, and not feeling itself hurt, though inconvenienced by the absence of water, it soon protrudes its feet and begins s perambulation upon the hand, dragging the shell behind it. An examination shows a pair of large claws terminating in pincers and not used in locomotion, followed by two pairs of longer but more slender ambulatory legs. Behind this point the shell hides the ani mal but if, when its attention is devoted to walking, we give it a sudden pull we shall succeed in detaching it from its tol erably firm hold upon the interior of the shell and shall find that the hinder part or abdomen of the little creature is soft and twisted on one side—that in fact it Is un protected by hard plates such as defend the long abdomen of its larger distant rel atives, the crayfish and the lobster. Here, then, we have the secret of its parasitic habit. It is to protect its soft body that the crab endues itself with the cast-cff shell of a univalve mollusk. As yet we have seen but six legs, and we know that crabs, lobsters and shrimps have ten —whence their name—Decapod a—ten footed. Ihe two hinder pairs are present, but they are small, and by their pincer iike ends capable of holding firmly to the columella of the shell. The creature's hold upon the shell is increased by a pair of claspers at the end of the abdomen, taking the place of the swimmerets of the sixth segment of the abdomen of a lobster. Tiie lobster has a pair of swimmerets on each segment—m this little crab most of the appendages are aborted, while the sixth pair are in function—a good example of the manner in which, throughout the realm of animated nature, the same orgau is made to serve different uses by means of modifications in struc tural detail. A familiar example of this is the lore limb of a vertebrate animal, fin in a fish, wing in a bird, flipper in a whale, fx>t in a quadiuped, hand in a man. But to return to our crab, which, during this digression, has fallen upon the sand and is making good time towards the water. Crabs that, like these lively little ones, inhabit shells, are known as hermit crabs, sometimes as soldier crab?. Be;- nard PHernnte the French call them. This species has the right chela or first pair ot legs larger than the left and be longs therefore to the genus JEupagurus. Tiitre are many sorts, with various dif ferences in their limbs and other parts, forming numerous genera and species. Among their new relatives is the huge robber crab of the East India Islands—a tellow more than a foot long, a dweller in the crevi es of the rocks by day and a devourer of fallen cccoanuts by night. But another tenant of the sand bank now makes its appearance. Close to the surface, but in a circular hole, we no tice a white fleshy something. We clear away the sand and try to pull it out, but it holds firmly to its burrow and we ou : y succeed in crushing the delicate valves of the shell. Not far away is a second, which becomes our prize with e&te, since, seized by an ambition to walk around, it lias come up entirely out of its hole and lies prone upon the sand. A long tube, the siphon, hangs from one end of the long, narrow and exceedingly tender brownish shining shell, while from the other depends an elongated firm and fleshy organ, the foot of the mollusk, We have a perfect spe cimen of tSolon ensis, the razor shell or razor fish, so called from the length and narrowness of the blade-like valves. The wcrd ensis means a curved sword or scimitar, aud is applicable to this spe cies, but not to all razor fishes, many of which have straight shells. Through the siphon, when the animal was under witer, a constant current passed, inward tiuough the lower of the two tubes into which it is divided, outward through the upper or thai nearest to the hinge of the shell. This water supplies the long lines o! gills with oxygen and keeps them moist, so that they can perform their respiratory lunction; and it also brings nourisument, in the shape of animal eu es, to the toothless, liple9s mouth that lies perdu near the foot. On the inside of the empty shell can be seen, under the ligament that unites the valves, the 1 mg narrow mark of the anterior muscle, and near the opposite end the more round ed mark of the posterior one. These two muscles close the shell at the creature's will. A more careful search and more heedful digging reward us with two or three more specimens, but they are not numerous, for the colony is near the town ana the mischievous small boy has t*en at work, pulling them up for fun ai d leaving them to die. Walking on we pick up what might pass for a rosary of peculiar pattern, a chsplet of flat pouches attached to a string. The whole affair is about a foot long. Can it be that a devout mermaid, while conscience-stricken for the havoc she had wrought by luring a ship to de struction, she counted her ocean beads, dropped them by accident into the waves? The flat pouches rattle as we pick it up. What if it is the rattle of some huge sea serpent, some rattlesnake of the Atlantic? At a shake some small object drops out, and we observe at the back of each pouch a small, roundish hole. The application of a lens to one of the objects t hat has fallen shows it to be a very small, but perfectly formed univalve shell. Open ore of the capsules and count the contents. Sixty-six email shells. Multiply this by fifty five, the number of separate pouches foiming the ocean chaplet, and we have a total of 3,630 little shells. This rosary is the string of egg capsules formed by pyrr hula caurica, a large univalve mollusk or yatkropod, the shell of which we have previously picked up and have safe in our bag. Each ©f these little shells is the product of an egg and would have grown to a conch several inches long had not the fat etui wave thrown it upon the beach to per ish and had it escaped all the devour ers that lie in wait for tender baby mol - lnsks. JLEIGH Iliarr was asked by a lady; at dessert, if he would not venture on an orange. 4 'Madame," he replied, "I should be happy to do so, but 1 am afraid I should tumble off," AGRICULTURE. RATS IN POULTRY YARDS. —An Illinois correspondent writes on this subject: Pro cure an old eight! en-gallon lieer or any other cask, "not smaller,'• which will hold water; Knock one end out and cut a piece of boaid of the shape of the cask to lodge on the top standing end wise. Then cut a nine inch diamond-shape, with a key-hole saw, out of the center of the piece lodged on, and balance it properly with two stout darning-needles, at each side of the dia mond, which will work up and down free ly if correctly done, and make a level top, then bend a piece of stiff wire in au arch about one foot high, directly over the dia mond ana suspend m the center of it the bait out of the rat's way so that they can see and smell it well. Also place four gallons of water In the cask, and grease the sides, and in the center, place a brick or stone only sufficient for one rat to sit on with comfort half an inch above the level of the water. The first rat landed, find ing itself like Robinson Crusoe on an is land, commepces squeaking, aud draws all his friends and relations. The strongest rat lives the longest, as they all fight for this position as they drop one by one into the tub, ard drown each other. The rats should be fed for a few days on the top of the cask to give them confidence, and the balance made firm for that period. I have seen as many as a dozen caught in one night by this wholesale drop. As a rule, where poultry are over-fed there are plen ty of rata. SKIM-MILK AND FLAXSEED FOR CALKKS - Skim-milk and grass alone will raise good calves if the milk is abundant and not allowed to get too sour. When too sour it causes calves to scour, and thui. counteracts its good effect. Skim-milk is well adapted to raising heifers for the dai ry, as it • rich In albuminoids and phos phate of lime, to give a strong muscular and bony development. A little more oil would improve it, and tor this purpose flaxseed is a cheap addition, effectually replacing the cream akimmed off. The large percentage of oil it contains prevents constipation, as well as scouring. Flax seed should be boiled iu four times its bulk of water, and it then forms a gelatinous mass. A little of this—say a tablespoon ful of the jelly—mixed with warm skun mi'.k is enough for a calf from one to three weeks old. As the calf grows older this amount is increased. If oil meal is used it should be linseed meal aud not cotton meal for calves. Cotton-seed meal is not so easy of digestion is ratfier constipating— thus tdds to this quality in skur.-milk. With the skini-milk and flaxseed we raised grade Jersey heifer calves to five hundred pounds weight at six and seven months old last seasun. It is doubtful if they would have been better fed on new milk. VYhen the milk becomes short linseed meal may very profitably be added. To PREVENT BROWNING ORCHARDS.— Last season, during the prevalence of the unusually hot summer weather, the j>ear trees in the orchard had the upper half of moat of the leaves turn brown as if scorch ed. This indicated thai the moisture from the leaves was being drawn faster than the roots could supply it. The best remedy seemed to be to keep the trees as cool as possible. When the hand was placed on the trunks it seemed warm. In the nor mal condition the bark seems cool, even on the warmest day. To cool this bark the tree was at once : ime-washed. This seemed quite cool in comparison with the bark Dot whits-washed. Though there were many succeeding hot days, there was no more leaf-browning. It w s remarka ble how well the trees kept tfirough it all. This season the trees look wonderfully well. The bark of all the trees white washed have a smooih, succulent, healtfiy look, such as all who know a healthy tree when tney see It, love to lcok upon. This question of coolness enters largely into successful culture. Ii is because the iu jurious effects ot high temperature iu the •oil is checked, weich gives one of the great advantages to the culture of orchards PIARA PLANTS. —PIants set against walls aDd piazzas frequently suffer trom want of water at this season, when even ground near them is quite wet. Draw away the soil around each plant so as to form a basin; fill In with a bucketful of water, albwing it lime to gradually soak away, and when the surface has dried a little draw in lootely the soil over. It, aud it will do without wa'er for some weeks This applies to all plants wanting water through the season. If water is merely poured on the surface, it is made more compact by the weight of water, aud the harder the soil becomes, the easier it dries and the result is, the more water you give the more is wanted. IN order to prolong bearing, peas should not be gathered indiscriminately, as is often done,but tbe oldest of the pods should be removed as often as possible after they have become fit for use, inasmuch as oae pod allowed to get old will weaken the bearing properties of the plant more than as many young ones, therefore it is better to gather and throw away than allow them to remain on the plauts after tney are fit for use. In plucking the podi from the haulm, both hands should be used, so as not to break and damage the plauts, pick ing only such pods as are moderately well filled, for if young and old be gathered to gether, they boil unequally. AN Irish farmer who allowed his fowls to run upon his grass meadow, was asked at what he estimated the damage done by them to the grass, answered "Damage, man! whjr, none at all, on the contrary, they do a world of good; the grubs they eat, and manure they drop quite alters the charac ter of the herbage after them. I have no betier grass land than near my dwellmg, which, as you know, swarms considera bly with poultry. THE cotton piant Is destined to become of greater importance than ever. Farmers have learned that cottonseed meal is a good feed fer most kinds of stocß,and that after feeding, it makes the most valuable kinds of manure. It requires some care in using, and is better if mixed with at le'.st half its bulk of wheat bran. SOME poultry keepers make a good set ter do double work, by removing her first hatch, giving them to some other hen, and then putting her on another setting. Where this can be done the number of chicks in the flock may be materially increased in a season. DURING a great tnany rainy days in sum mer, stock are mucn more comfortable it allowed to run to the barnyard and shelter themselves under sheds and in the stables. But when they do this they should be fed as liberally as in winter, and, if possible, with green food, as good at least as they get in pasture. AT three feet apart each way there are 4,800 hills on an acre. Potatoes yielding only one bushel to every thirty bills would give upward of 100 bushels per acre. That this is much above the average crop even In good yesrs shows how great are the possibilities lor improvement in potato growing. PUT in a few sunflower seeds for pro ducing an occasional feed for the poultry next fall and winter. DOMESTIC. GLYCERINE LEATHER COMPOSITION. — It is a well known fact that glycerine has found extensive application in tnn niug, a* it lias been proved that it adde materially to the elasticity and strength of the leather. Especially has it been found of great value in protecting leath er bands of machinery from cracking aud drying. The partially tanned leath er is immersed for a considerable time in a bath of glycerine, by whioh the pores are tilled, and such an elasticity aud softness is imparted to it that it is ren dered far more durable and lasting. In order to prepare a neutral guttapercha paste composition paste with glyoeriue, take from three to four pounds of lamp black, half a pound of ivory black, cover up in a suitable vessel with 5 pounds of glycerine, 5 pounds of oommoii syrup, aud stir well, until tho whole is intim ately mixed and free from lumps. Four or tlye ounces of gutta-perciia, finely out, are to bo put into a kettle, and after melting must be mixtnl with twenty ounces of sweet oil and dissolved, and two ounces of stearine acid. While still warm tho gutta-percha solution must be incorporated with the syrup and lamp black. and after this is doue ten ounces of Senegal gum dissolved in one and a half pounds of water is also added. In order to iinpiu-t an agreeable odor to the mass, a little rosemary or lavender oil may be added. In using, dilute with three or four parts of water. It gives a tine lustre to harness, makes the leather soft aud elastic, and being free from acid adds very much to its durability. A rorD Pu'M Pt DDLNQ. —OuO pOQQd suet, one pound currants, one pound stoned raisins, eight eggs, half of a gra ted nutmeg, two ounces sliced oanuied peel, one teaspoonful of ground sugar, half pound bread crumbs, half pound flour, half a pint of milk. Chop the su et flnelj; mix with it the dry ingredients; stir these well together, and add the well beaten eggs to moisten with. Beat up the mixture, and should the above pro portion of milk not be found sufficient to make it of the proper consistency, a little more should be added. l*ress the puddiug in a mould, tie it in a floored cloth, and boil for five hours, or rather longer, and serve witn brandy sauce. HARD MONEY CAKE. —Gold Part—Take two cups of sugar, a scant cup of butter, and work together to a cream, thou add the yolka of eight eggs, four cups of flour and one tablespoonful of corn starch; one cup of sour milk, with a teaspoouful of soda iu it, added the last thing, ex cept the flavor, which may be leiuou and vauiHa. Silver Part—Take two cups of sugar aud oue of butter, four cups of flour aud oue tablespoonful of corn starch, the white of eight eggs, one cup of sour milk, tuaspoouful of soda; flavor with almond or peach. Put iu tho bak ing pan alternately oue sp ouful of gold aud oue of silver. DANDELION TEA. —Pull up six or eight dandelion roots, according to size, aud cut off the leaves; well wash the roots and scrape off a little of the skin. Cut tiiem up into small pieces and pour on one pint of boiling water. Let theoi stand all night, then strain through mus lin, and the tea is ready for use. It should be quite clear, and the color of brown sherry. One wineglass should be taken at a tame. Tho decoction will not last good for more than two or three days, and therefore it must only be made in small quantities. POTATO croquettes are nice for supper, and are prefered by some people to the much praised r*aratoga potatoes. Take two cups of cold mashed potatoes, two eggs, a lump of butter half the size of au egg, salt aud pepper to taste and half a cupful of fine cracker crumbs. Mix well, roll with your hands on a knead ing board in round cakes or long ones, scatter a little flour on the board, drop the cake in hot lard and fry until they are brown. MOCK MAYONALSE DRESSING : Beat 4 eggs very lightly (yolks and whites to gether), add 2 small tublespoonfuls of mixed mustard, 1 teaspoouful silt, * teaspoouful white pepper and a very lit tle cayenne pepper, 1 tablespoonful butter(hard), and nearly a teacupful of sharp vinegar. Cook these ingredients in a custard kettle, stirring unt 1 they form a thick custard. Be sure and not curdle it. MACARONI SOUP.— Six pound of beef put into four quarts of water with one large onion, one carrot, one turnip, and ahead of celery, all boiled three or four hours slowly. Next day take off the grease, strain eut the vegetables and pour into soup-ketttle. Season with salt 10 taste. Boil one-half pound of maca roni unfcd quite tender and place in the soup. Pour over it—the last thing— and serve. MACARONI AND TOMATOES: Peel and slice some fresh tomatoes. Stew them with butter, salt and pepper a> d a few speonfuls of strong gravy or stock; add one rolled milk oracker. Pass the whole through a sieve and mix with the boiled macaroni. Cover the top with grated cheese and a sprinkling of line bread crumbs. Place the dish in the oven just long enough to nicely brown. POOR MAN'S FRUIT CAKE.— This cake is excellent as well as economical. Take one and a half cups of brown sugar, two cups of flour, one of butter and one of chopped raisins, three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sour milk, half a tea spoon of soda, half a cup of blackberry jam. Mix the sugar, butter and eggs together first, then the flour and milk and fruit. Bake in a moderate oven. PINEAPPLE PlE. —One large pineapple, pared and grated, one cup of sugar, one half cup of butter, five beatou eggs, a little nutmeg; cream the butter and su gar. Beat in the egg yolks, add the pineapple and spice, lastly the whites of the eggs beaten to a froth. Bake without upper crust. VEAL PlE. —Line a deep tin pan with a good crust. Parboil the meat and season high, first cutting it into small pieces, nearly till the pan with water in which the meat was parboiled; sprinklo flour over, add a piece of butter, and cover with a tolerable thick crust. Chick en p e may be made in the same way. CABBAGE FRIED WITH CREAM. —Chop a quart of cold boiled cabbage, fry it fif teen minutes with sufficient butter to prevent burning, season it highly with pepper and salt, and stir into it half a cuplul of cream or of milk with a tea spoonful of flour mixed with it; let it cook five minutes longer, and serve it hot. MILK CAKES. —One pound and a half of flour, two ounces of butter, a pinch of salt and a of baking pow der; roll out the paste thin and divide into flat cakes; bake in a qu ; ck oven. HUMOROUS. THE litile daisy: Scene —Beneath the apple Ir< e just back of the house. Farm er grinding his scythe. Small boy doing the circular work at the grindstone crank. Sudden flutter of starched skirts around the corner of the house. "Oh, good morniug, sir," from a bright eyed youug lady. "Would you kindly allow us to pick a few bunches of those daisies in the lot yonder? They are so lovely." "Yes'm. You can pick 'em, the hull on 'em, if you like. And if you'll tear the pesky things tip by the root and rid the place of 'em I'll give you board and clothes for all summer." "Why, don't you admire daisies?" And the farmer laughed a most uuiesthetio, riugiug laugh that made the young lady feel as though she had sti uck something uncon genial. I*l oof Kvrrywhere. If any invalid or sick pjrsou has the least doubt of the power and tfficacv of Uop Bitters to cure them, they can find cases exactly hko their own, in their own neigh borhood, with proof positive that they can be easily ami permanently cured at a tri fling cost—or ask your druggist or physi cian. GitßKNWion, Feb. 11, 1830. ]hp Bitters Co. —Silts--1 was given up by the doctors to die of scrofula con sumption. Two bottles of your Bitters cured mo. LEItOY BKEWEK. OWELTY to a calf: He must have done something that made him un popular with her. They were sitting "in the draft" on the fiont doorstep. "I have not quite made up my mind what profession to follow," said he running ius lingers through his hair in a careless, Bohemianistic way. "If I should take to literature I should be a second Haw thorne." "Bunthorne, did you say?" The moon might have gone down at that moment for all the good it would do that couple. The seperatiou was forever. My Good Woman, Why are you so out of sorts, never able to tell folks that yoa are well? Ten to one it's all caused ia the first placj by habitual constipation, which no doubt finally caus ed deranged kidneys ahd liver. The sure cure for constipation is the celebrated Kidney-Wort. It is also a specific remedy for all kidney and liver diseases. Thous ands are cured hf it every month. Try it at once. Toledo Blade. A COMZ-DOWW: Eady customer— "What are the strawberries to-day?" Tradesman, who thinks he has a grand order— 4 Two shillings a basket, mad amo." Lady customer — 4 -And what are the beans?" Tradesman—"Three and six the bundle, m&daine." Lady cus tomer—"Well, ahem! I like parsley when it's froth, so you can send a bit every day and when it comes to a puiy worth just put it down to me." Tableau, Afthuia aud Hay Kever. For the newest and most comprehen sive treatise on "Asthma and Hay Fever; their cause and cure"—write to the L. A. Knight Compaoy, 697 Broadwav. New York City. Knight's Asthma.and Hay Fever Cure is the most successful remedy yet discovered for these diseases. See testimonials in another column. ACTUAL and possible: I heand an an ecdote at Oxford of a porter encounter ing uu his rounds two undergraduates who were without their gowns, or out of bounds, or out of hours. He challenged one: "Your name and college?" They were given. Turning to theoiher: "And pray, sir, what might your name be?" "Julius Caesar," was the reply. "What, sir, do you mean to say your name is Julius Caesar?" "Sir, you did not ask me what it is, but what it might be." Relief from Gravel. WILLI A MSI* *RT, Pa., July 20. 1881. il. H. WARNKK it Co: Sirs —Your safe Kidney and Liver Cure has given me per manent relief from gravel. W. JE HAWLEY. THE way to treat a man of doubtful credity is to take no note of bim. A "POWDER" Magazine— A druggist's sbop. NATURES RZ;v£dT"V YEGBTINpt TjjECau^i£oMjuain£j^r WILL CURE Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor, Cancer, Canoerous Humor. Eryslpelia, Cakner, Salt Rheum, Pimples or Humor In the Face, Coughs and Colds, tT.cere, Bronchitis, Neu ralgia, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, J'alns in the Side, Constipa tion, Costlveness, Plies, Dizziness, Headache, Nervousness, Pains in the Back, Falntness at the stomach. Kidney Complaints, Female Weakness and Uenerai Debility. This preparation is scientifically and chemically combined, and so strongly concentrated from roots, herbs, and harks, that its good effects are realized Immediately after commencing to take it. There Is no disease of the human system for which the VKOKTINK cannot be used with PERFECT SAFETY, as it does not contain any metallic com pound. For eradicating the system of ail impuri ties of the blood it has no equal it has never failed to effect a cure, giving tone and strength to the system debilitated by disease. Its wonderful effects upon the complaints named are surprising to all. Many have IK-en cured by the VBOBTINE that have tried many other remedies. It can well C&llOil The Great Blood Purifier. Dr. W. Ross Writes: Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspep sia, Jlheumatism, Weakness. 11. 1L STEVENS, BOSTON: I have been practising medicine for 25 years, and as a remedy for Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dy*- pepsin. IthetimatUnn, Weakness, and all diseases of the o/ood, I hafe never found its equal. I have sold Vegetinc for 7 ye irs and have never had one bottle returned. I would heartily recommend it to those in need of a blood purifier. DR. W. ROSS. Druggist, Sept. IS, IS7B. • Wilton, lowa. Vegetine IS THE BEST SPRING AND SUMMER MEDICINE. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. DBS. J. N. & J. B. HOBENSACK. THOSE AFFLICTED WITH THE EFFECTS OF INDISCRETION AND MERCURIALIZATION should not hesitate to consalt J. N. and J. B. HO BENSACK, of 206 North Second street, Philadel phia, either by mail or by person, during the hours from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. and 6 to 9 P. M. Advice free. Whosoever woold know his condi tion and the way to improve it should read "WISDOM IN A NUTSHELL." Sent on receipt of three-cent stamp. #47 A MONTH and board in j our county. Men OT • Ladies. Pleasant business. Address, JP. W. ZIEGLER & CO., Box 96, Philadelphia, Pa. 976 Those answering aa anverniemeut will confer a favor upon tlie advertiser and the publisher by vtwtl"g that they aaw the ad vertlsenient In ula journal (naming paper I KDIONATIOTTJ "Ifc is IlOt Only fooliall but positively wicked for these men to attempt to coerce their employers," re marked the good Deacon Jones in refer ence to the strikers. "Why are they not content with what is given them, without attempting to ruin the business of the country just when the new crops are so promising and prosperity is every where ready to smile on this fortuuate land? It's like flying in the face of Providence." The Deaoon paused a moment, overpowered by the force of his emotions; but he recovered his speech again to say: "And while I think of it, Johu, you might as well mark up them potatoes another quarter." Advtoa to Couumotives. On the appearance ot the first symptons —as general debility, loss of appetite,pal lor, chilly sensuuons, followed by night sweats aud cough—prompt measures for relief should be taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs; —therefore use the groat anti-scrofula, or blood puri - tier and strength-restorer,—Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discoviry." Superior to Cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsur passed as a pectoral. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, and kindred affections it has no tqiai. Bold by druggwts the world over. For Dr. Pierce's pamphlet on Consumption, send two stamps to World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. DATES worth remembering: Gin cock tails invented by Confucius, iu Cochin China, B. C. 800, Shampooing intro duced by Barbarossa, 1222. Quail on toast first Berved by the Israelites, 65. Free lunch OH introduced by Joseph iuto Egypt, B. C. 400. Bricks first worn iu the hat by Npali, B. C. 200. Bicycles first used by Ixiou, 201. Weather pioph- Qcies invouted liy Ananias, B. C. 300, Aprons first woru by Eve. 1. Circulation discovered by Harvey, 1540; lied about by editors ever since. First great moral show started by Noah, B. C. 500. Citucom itrnl other Tumors. are treated with unusual success by World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. if. Seud stamp for pamphlet. ACROBATIC: A news item says that the bett female circus rider IU Russia is Dounedretisky, who ''turns a double somersault through a hoop and carries her name, which is painted in the centre, along with her." To turn a double som ersault through a hoop may not be very remarkable feat, but to get her name through without knocking off some uf its corners is certainly an astonishing per formance. _______ FIU, Fits, Fits, successfully treated by Workl's Dispensary Medical Association. Addresss. with stamp for pamphlet, Buffalo, N. Y. "MAMMA," said a wee pet, "they sung 'I Want to be an Angel' in Sunday-school this morning, and I sung with them." "Why, Nellie," exclaimed mamma, "could you keep time with the rest?" "1 guess I could," proudly answered little Nellie; "I kept ahead of them most all the way through." Suffering Women, There is but a very small proportion of the women of this nation that do not suf fer from some of the diseases for which Kidney-Wort is specific. When the bowels have become costive, headache tor ments, kidneys out of fix, or piles distress, taks a package and its wonderful tonic and renovating power will cure you and give new life.— Watchman. "Hi! Hullo I Stop there," Rliouted Sozzle, as he ran along the sidewalk wildly gesticulating at a loaded Herdic. "That 'buss is full, sir," said a by stander. A good Baptist clergyman of Bergen, N. Y., a strong temperance man. suffered with kidney trouble, neuralgia and dizzi ness almost to blindness, over two years after be was told that Hop Bitters would cure him, because he was afraid of and prejudiced against "Bitters." Since his cure he says none need fear but trust in Hop Bitters, THB Charleston "News and Courier" is displeased withe the picture of the South given by Judge Tourgee in "A Fool's Errand," which is read there "with regret, if not Indigna'ion. Thousands will bear testimony (and do it voluntarily) that Vegetme is the best me dical compound yet placed before the public for renovating and purifying the blood, eradicating all humors, impurities or poisonous secretions from the system, invigorating and strengthening the system debilitated by disease; in fact, it is, as many have called it, 'the Great Health Restorer." THE Authorship of "A Reverend Idol' is now attributed to Miss Lmoretia Noble, of Wilbratiam, Mass., who has contrib uted essays to various journals, but has never before written a work of fiction. Mensman's Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its en tire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force generating and life sustaining properties; invaluable for indi gestion, dyspepsia, uervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting ft om pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York, bold by all druggists. WHY is a certain kiud of window o.dled a bay window ? Because people go there when they look out to st e. Thousands up >n ttuusauds of bottl :s ol Carboline. a deodorized ex;r*ct ot petro leum, have been sold, and from all over Ibo land comes oue universd cry, ' Carbo line, as now improved and perfected, is the best hair restorer ever used." bo.d by all druggists. PERHAPS the reason why the voice of truth is so rarely heard is because, liv ing in a well, she is apt to have a cold. Flies and Dugz. Flies, roaches, ants, bedbugs, ra's. mice gophers, chipmunks cleared out by "Rjugh on Ra'fl." 100.. THE man who "retired from active pursuits" had on several occasions failed to catch a railroad train. Write to Mi* Lydia E. Pinkham.Lynn, Mass., for names of ladies cured of female weakness by takiDg her Vegetable Com pound. A FASHION note says there is a tenden cy to drop overskirts. This is appalliDg. Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer is the marvel of the age for all nerve diseases. All fits stopped free. Head to 931 Aroh btree% Puiladeli'hia. Pa. THE biggest thing on ice—The profit. MRS. LYDI& E. PINKHiM, OF LVHH, MISS., g /dru*/ LYDIA E. PHMKHAWB iVEGETABLE COMPOUND. In a PowUlvw Cure for *ll tku Painful CoafUliiM aA lV*linMM so cum won to our beat fsua lo population. It will cura entirely the worst form of Fstuals Com plaints, ail ovarian troublea, Inflammation and Tllcera Hon, Falling and Displacements, and ths consequent Aptnal Weakness, and la particular)/ adapted to tba Change of Ufa. It will dlaeolfe and expel tumors from the oterneln an earl/ etage of development. Tlia tendency to can cerous humors there Is checked vary i>eedUy by ita use. It remove# faint usee, flatulency, destroy# all craving for ctlmulantc, and relieves weakness of the etomach. It euros Dloatlng, fleadaehae, Nervous Prostration, General DehUlty, Bleep! seen see, Depression and Indi gestion. That feeling of hearing down, canting pain, weight end backache, la alweya permanently cured by Its Use. It will at all Mruea and under all circumstances act In harmony with tbe laws that govern the female system. For the cureof Kidney Complaints of either sea this Compound is unsurpassed. LYDIA K. PIXKII A M'fI VEGETABLE COM POIMIIs prepared at 133 and 136 Western AvedMe, Lynn, Maes. Price sl. filx bottles for $6. gent by mail In tbe form of pills, also In tba form of locengea, en receipt of price, gl per bos for either. Mrs Ptnbham freely answers all letters of Inquiry. Bend for pamph let. Address as above. Unit ton thit tajmr. No family should be without LTDIA E. PINEHAJff LIVER PILI-S. They curs constipation, biliousness | and torpidity of tb liver. 35 cents per box. c T Hold bv all llrnaslste. ft HOSKPTLFT BITTERS !*br a qflarrer or a century or more Hoatetter* Stomach Bitters has been the reigning apeciflc for tnKeation, dyspepsia, fever anu ague, a lots of physical stamina, liver complaint and other dla oruera, and has been nvwt emphatically Indorsed by medical men as a health and strength reatora ttve. It counteracts a tendency to premature de cay, and sustains and comforts the aged and lo flrm. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. JHOP BITTERS?! (A .Medicine, not a Drink,) CONTAINS M nors, BUCIIU. MANDRAKE, L* ANDELION, I ANbTHP. PTKKST AND BKSTMmiCALQCAU- I TIKb or ALL OTIISK HITTKUS. THEY CURE I || All Dleenfrsof thcStomach, Bowels. Blood, I ■ Liver. Kidneys, and Urinary Organ*. Ner- ■ vouoiicts, Sleeplessness and especially Femaie Complaints. S SIOOO IN COLO, -sga H Will he paid for a caae they will not cure or^B ■ help, or for anything impure or Injurious found In them. B Ask your dnjpgist for Hop Bitters amd try I St 1 lieiii before you sleep. Take no other. I J DI. Cis an absolute and Irresistible cure for I a Drun&eni'Css, use of opium, tobacco and narcotics. £ 9HBEOBB S*Xl> FOB CiKcrLAR. oNMDH v All obowo sold 1-j drtWKUte. 1 Hw Rlllrn Mf/. CII., N. V., A Twelo, Oat I piM c THE GREAT CURE J I FOR | | —RHEUMATISM— i As it is for all tho painful diseases of the u £ KIDNEYS,LIVER AND BOWELS. § Q It cleanses the system of tho acrid poison OB that causes tho dreadful suffering which 9 0 only the victims of Rheumatism can realise. > £ THOUSANDS OF CASES J T of the worst forms of this terrible disease ej have been quickly relieved, and in short time >, 2 PERFECTLY CURED. rtUCE, fl. LIQUID OR DRY, SOLD BY DRUGGISTS, jj < 11- Dry can be sent by maiL 3 WELLS. RICHARDSON & Co.. Burlington Vt. * (■MVASTOPPEO FREE ■ Marvelous success. ■ w Insane Persons Restored, I I U DR. KUNE SGREAT M . NERVE RESTORER mfor aM Basra A N k.RTK DISEASES. Only sure ™cure for Fits, Epilepsy and Nerve JJfections. INFALLIBLE If taken as directed. No Fits after frstday'suse . Treatise and $2 trial bottle free to Kit patients, they paying expressage. Bend name, P. O. and express address to DR. KLINE, 9A| Arch Sl Philadelphia. Fa. Seepnncixnldruas/utta TBI" B£\ ' n abundance.—Bs Million ponnds 1 L II V Imported last year.—Prices lower | r U -Nl than ever.—Agents wanted.—Dout I la II waste time.—Send for circular. 10 lbs. Good Black or Mixed, for sl. 10 lbs. Pine Black or Mixed, for $2. 10 lbs. Ckoice lllacK or Mixed, for $3. Send for pound sample, 17 eta. extra for postage.. Then get up a club. Choicest Tea in the world.— Largest variety.—Pleases everybody.—Oldest Tea House In America.—No chromo.—No Humbug.— Straight business.—Value for moDey. liOB'T WELlii. 43 Yew* St., N. Y..P.0. Box 1287. •x* OH TU IB mOHTT. Prof. MARTINIS. ■ I. VP I I, tho Greol Spanish Sear, Astrologer f ill Psychologist, will, (or 30 csots, with age, height, / \ color oftjes ud look of h.ir, send . CORRECT rIC-' .NH 1 TURK of jour future husb.rd or wife, with Mm., time! jg. M al .**ll ud pl.e. or ui.ttior, ud date of marnsgs. psjobokw loallj predicted. Money rwturhod to, .11 DO: Mtwiad. wßßraw flidww Prof. P.knrttagg, IUMOPt j ti.,Bww, Msw. TMmCW mHMA CURED. "I have had Asthma for 22 years, suffering n thousand deaths; have been so that 1 could not go out for four months at a time, but sat in a chair night and day. I have tried every remedy I ever heard of, and spent thousand* of dollars in aearch of a cure; but all in vain until I found Knights Asthma Cur*. That was in February last. My Asthmn had been unusually bad alt winter. Six bot tles of this medicine have made me feel lika a new man. I call myself well. 1 have not been oppressed for breath all through this trying spring, and can not express in words what this wonderful remedy has done for me." A. 8. Bradford, Arlington, Mast. " I feel Wee thanking Mr. Knight for Ma urn cedent Asthma Curt. It has done very much to relieve me of a case of Asthma; and, from my present improvement, I ex pect to be under still greater obligations." Pres't R. Heber Holbrook, of the National Normal University, Lebanon, O. ** I was severely afflicted with Asthma from 1865 to IKM2; tried many remedies fso called), and spent much money fn vain, seeking relief. In February, 18K2, I received the first bottle of Knights Asthma Curt. 1 commenced to improve at once, have had very few Asthma symptoms since, and am now as free from it as a person who never had it. I can say with certainty that Knights Asthma Curt is the best yet discovered." E. C. Weaver, Lawyer, 930 F St., Wash ington, D. C. " I have traveled north, east, and west, and spent four years south in order to relieve myse'f of this terrible disease, Asthma; ana, until I received Knights Asthma Curt, found no permanent relief. After taking this medicine but a fortnight I obtained the greatest relief, and can say I am now cured entirely, and that my cure is considered al most a miracle by my friends. You can re fer to me at all times." Prof. Q. W. Hawxhurst, 12 Willow St., Peterson, N. J. •'My wife has found Knighfs Asthma Curt a perfect success where all others hard proved a failure Having been a great iu£> (erer from Asthma, and having taken as much medicine for the disease without ob taining any permanent benefit, she hesitated to try any more. But she eras induced to try a bottle of Knight s Curt, and from Ike day she commenced taking it regularly she has not had a single.attack. This medicine is a great blessing to suffering Asthmatics.** D. 0. Drake, Supt. Schools, Mt. Washing ton, O. "I m over 00 years old, and have had the Asthma over 85 years. Have tried many remedies, but obtained only temporary relief. Knight's Asthma Cure has helped me more than all others put together Since I com menced taking it, 1 rest well at night, and "he neighbors all I eck better than for many years." W. A. Chandler, Traverse Gty, Mich. KNICHT'S ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER CURE Is the Cheafest as well as the Best Price. 91.00 per Bottle, or six bottles for $5.1)0 IBT Write for Knight's new treatise on "ASTHHA; ITS CAUSE AND Cuitß."" If your Druggist has not the medicine, send direct for it (inclosing money) to THE L. A. KNIGHT COMPANY, 697 Br*iear Tela afc? isztii asgF ,/j ~'* TAa CII LET MIICIP C H *petintlie world. \nCC I VYlUwlU Samplecopy dr catalogue "ww—- 6c., ov Catalogue only, free. Addrcas l T rle B. Kntrie,Box 200, Mar etta Pa Engines. IMlable, Durable aud Economical, wtafurnielk a harm ptmer t *U\ 4 lem fust mud i eater tham amy other h)tyt*4 (mitt, aot fitted with aa Automatic Cut-aC Bend tor Illustrated Urtees. B. W. farNx Qssmng. X.X. Medical ai Sargical Institute. For the treatment of diseases of men cmly. Dis eases of the generative organs recent or chronic, blood poison, pains in the flesh and bones, red spots, ulcers, strictures, kidneys and bladder, weakness, nervous ane general debility, prema ture decay, mental and physical prostration, aDd other special diseases speediiy and permanently cured. Patients may send a description of their symptoms, etc., and appropriate remedies with di rections will be sent to any address, DRS. J. W. GRIN OLE and A. D. GREY, Physicians and Surgeons, 171 West 12th Street, New York. ~~ N 11HYII N R CPRE OWUMD BJ j. a KATXE-B KL IV B SLKP Method. PwßOoant Cun for CIMIL |fU| I unt.l ivtiontj of both DON ud Unety AF. OWTODJ Cored by thu TRAM-nt. Tm**mt+o (WMl WED Add— FM. OA— T—O. 4 A.M. to 4 P.M. SSI IME ETC PHI). SAW MILLS^S I'HH AULTMAJN A TAYLOR CO.. Mane&ald, Ohio.