African Barbarities. An African correspondent writes as follows: The part of Africa of whose burial customs I write is on the west coast, under the line of the equator, a region ly ing along the course of the Ogove river, with which many of your readers have acquaintance through the writings of Paul I)u Chaillu, and more recently by the ex plorations of Count Pierre S. De Brazza. There are local distinctions here of rich and poor, higher and lower classes, just as there are and always will be all over the world, Communism to the contrary not withstanding. And these distinctions fol low the subject to their grave, just as in our own civilization one is laid in the sculptured cemetery, and another in the Potter's Field. The burial grounds are mostly in the forest, in the low lying grounds and tan gled thickets, along the banks of rivers. Bills and eligible building sites are re served for villages and plantations. If a traveler, in journeying along the main river of a country, observes long reaches ot uncleared thickets, he will probably be correct in suspecting these are burial grounds. His native crew will be alow to inform him 0/ the fact, or to converse on the subject unless to object to going ashore. Home of the interior tribes bury all their dead under the clay floor of their houses. The living are thus daily actual ly treading on and cooking their food over the graves of their relations. This dis tinction is reserved in the case of the coast tribes, for only a very few of their honored chiefs. Most generally the loca tion for burial, as before mentioned, is in the forest Over or near the graves of the rich are built little houses where are laid the common articles used by them in their life, pieces of crockery, knives, sometimes a table, mirrors and other goods obtained in foreign trade. Only recently, in ascending this Ogove river, I observed tied on the branches of a large tree extending over the stream from the top of the bank, a wooden trade chest, five pitchers and mugs, and several fathoms of calico prints. I was informed that the grave of a lately deceased chief was near, and that those articles were sign 3 of his wealth, and were intended as contributions to spirits to induce them to draw trade to the villages of his people. A noticeable fact about these gifts to the spirits is that, tiowever great a thief a man may be, he will not steal from a grave. The coveted mirror will lie there and waste in the rain, and the valuable garment will flap itself to racs in the wind, but the hunmu hands will not touch them. Actual interment is therefore given to all worthy of respect. The implements for excavating being few and small, the mak ing of a grave is quite ati sk, and it is made no deeper than is actually suffleient for covering the corpse. This, according to the greatness of the dead, or the wealth of the family, is variously encased. Some times it is actually placed in a coffin made of the ends of a canoe, or even so expen sively as to use trade boxes, making one .ODg by knocking out au end from each • and telescoping them. Several years ago I was ascending the river, and had unwisely refused the wish of my crew to stop for our morning meal at a dtßirable ulako, or camping-grounu, as the hour was rather early, and i deter mined to go on and stop at some other place. But I regretted presently, for, in stead of finding forests and high camping ground, 1 bad come to a long stretch of papyrus swamp. We pulled on a mite af ter mile, the sun growing hotter along the unsheltered bank, and we were growing faint with hunger as the hour verged to noon. Becoming desjierate, I directed the < rew to stop at the very first spot that was solid enough for foothold, intending to eat our dry rice without fire. Presently we came to a clump of palms, and I ran the boat ashore. The crew objected —huDgry though they were—that'll was not a good place;" but they did not mention why. 1 jumped ashore, however, and ordered them to follow and gather sticks for fire. As they were rather slow mse doing, and 1 overheard murmuring that "firewood was net gotten from palm trees'' (which is tiue), I set them an example by starting off on a search myself. I had not goue far before I observe d a pile of brushwood, and rejoicing at my success, called out to my crew to come ami carry it. While they were coming 1 stooped down and laid hold of en eligible stick. But its odor startled me; and the other sticks that I had dislocated falling apart, there were revealed a human foot and shin, which, from the Jornaments still remaining about the ankle, I suppose was a woman's. My attendants fled, and 1 rc emb&rked in my boat, sufficiently uncon scious of hunger to await a late breakfast that was not cooked until we reached a comfortabl towoe. A less respectful mode of burial (if in deed the term be not a misnomer) is ap plied to the poor, to the friendless aged who have wearied out the patience of re lations by a long sickness, and to those whose bodies are a leprous or otherwise ulcerous condition. Immediately that life seems extinct (and sometimes even before) the wasted irame is tied up in the mat on which it was lying, and, sluDg from a pole on the shoulders of two men, it ia flung out on the surface of the ground in the forest, to become the prey ot wild beasts and tne scavenger "driver" ants. Of one tribe, in the upper course of this O-gove river, I am toid who, in their in tense fear of ghosts, dread tho possible evil inhuence of the spirits of their own relations. With a very material idea of a spirit, they seek to disable it by beatiog the corpse until every bone is broken. The mangled mass is hung in a bag at the foot of a tree in the forest. Thus mutilated, the spirit is supposed to be unable to re turn to the village to entice to its fellow ship in death any of the survivor . Some dead bddies are burned, particu larly of criminals. Persons convicted of a charge of witchcraft are almost invari ably killed. Sometimes they are simply beheaded. I have in my possession some of the carved knives with which tnls op eration is performed. Sometimes torture is used; a common mode is to roast the condemned over a slow .fire, which is made under a stout bedstead built tor the pur pose. In such a case the entire body is reduced to ashes. When I was clearing a p:ece of ground in 1875, for that I aiter ward occupied, my workmen came on a pile of ashes, charcoal and charred bones, where, they assured me, a criminal had been put to death. The last method men tionable of disposal of the bodies of the dead is to eat them. You must remember when I say this that lam living with a cannibal tribe, the Fang we. The opinion is confidently expressed by- Professor Wiliiam King, of Queen's Col lege, Galway, that the geological forma tion through which the channel tunnel be tween England and France must run is such as to expose the tunnel to water leak age, which will greatly interfere with its success. He thinks the proposed lining of concrete will not answer at all, and says it should be lined throughout with impervi ous stone of the most endurable character. This would increase the expense of the work enormously. AGRIC CFLTURE. VINEGAR. —The use of acid m or with the food is necessary for health. The di gestive ageDt of the stomach is an acid and consists chiefly of that kind known as bydio-chloric, or muriatic; and commonly as spirit of salt, because it is produced by the decomposition of salt which is a com bination of this acid and soda; or a muri atic of chloride of soda. When salt is taken into the stomach and is digested or dissolved and becomes associated with an acid or sulphur, the sulphuric acid com bines with the soda ot the salt, forms sul phate of soda, that very useful anil health ful medicine known as glauber salts, and leaves the hydro-chloric acid free to strengthen the gastric juice or solvent acid of the stomach. But this is not what we set out to write about; that is vinegar; which is another acid, viz., acetic acid. Acetic acid is produced by the decompo sition of starch or sugar. Wen bread turns sour in the making, vinegar is formed m it, because the feimentation produced by the yeast has gone too far and has changed the starch ot the flour first into sugar, aud then into vinegar. No vinegar call be produced without sugar aud any liquid sweetened with sugar can be changed into vinegar very quickly by the use ®t yeast, or even by exposure to the air more slowiy. The best vinegar is made from cider, be cause it is quite pure; au excellent viueg ir is made from alcohol, largely diluted with water aud exposed to the air freely, by causing it to drip in small streams or drops through beech shavings or birch twigs. The common vinegar of the shops is thus made, or rather should be, but sad to say, the greed of men is so strong, at least among the vinegar makers, that a good deal of the vinegar sold is largely diluted with sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, which is the sourest acid known, but is a most cor rosive and injurious and poisonous sub stance. Vinegar so made will very soon rot cucumbers and other pickles uutil they are a mere soft paste. The only vinegar used in a household should be apple or cider vinegar, or otherwise made Iroui ma ple sap boiled down one half, or from water in which sugar or molasses is dis solved uutil it is distinctly sweet; the sweeter it is the stronger the vinegar. Put a few gallons of this in a jar and keep it in a warm place; and put iu it a piece of brown paper covered with yeast. Iu a few days the paper will oe covered with a sort of Jelly, which is called the vinegar mother and this soou changes the whole liquid into pure vinegar. A piece of tbiß mother put in a new hatch will agaiu make vinegai: but all tnat is ueeded is to add sweetened water to the vinegar jar or barrel to repleuish it as it is drawn upon. TIME TO SECURE BETTER ST. OK. —Every year of prosperity among the farming class brings to the surface men who ip.cllue to put up better buildings, to stock up with improved farm animals, or to do both these very commendable acts. Accumulated money burns in the palm, and mauy right thinking even see away to keep the grown up boys at home, by giving them au op portunity tq care for improved animals, especially if they are made part owners in these. Now, to all who are so inclin. d, the present sale season will afford most excellent opportunities to place breeding stock upon the farm, that, if selected and bought with discretion, and managed with fair care, will quite surely bring both plea sure and profit. Many men hesitate to buy, under the mistaken notion that, to care lor thorough breds properly, will require them to keep a protessional herdsman, who is expected to be about the cattle barn pretty much all the time, at all seasons of the year. No mistake could be greater than this, so far as it applies to the farmer who proposes only to keep a herd of moderate pretension a collection of moderate size as well as one that has cost only a modeiate sum. Good healthy tnoroughbreds, of any breed, are as capable of taking care of themselves as are any other description of stock what ever. Good farm keep is sufficient for high-bred stock, kept for breeding purpos es, and is sufficient for the tax upon the bodily powers through the demands of maternity, and suckling the young. Good farm keep, of course, means a system of feeding equal to that given to the dairy cow expected to make a profitable yield at all seasons when in milk. The thorough bred cow, kept at breeding, needs nothing more\ good pasture during the season for tins, and such rations during the winter as will prevent shrinkage. THE BATTLE CF THE BREEDS. —The com ing season will probably witness a genuine revival in the live stocK business, especial ly as applied to the breeding of pure blood cattle. European purchases during the past winter, have been larger thau at aoy time for years past, and the cattle secured for America are the very highest pedigreed stock. It has become evident that the grand struggle for supremacy between the different families of beef cattle has become one of great proportions. The short horn fanciers are certainly intent upon preserv ing their present position, while the men who perceive beauty and profit only in the Herefords are equally bent, upon forcing tbeir favorites into the front iank. Loet, but not least, are the pooled Angus, or Aberdeen fanciers, and this breed ot hardy Scotch cattle is gradually winning its way, its growing popularito being based on many points of excellence. Black polled cattle are bringing fabulous prices, the best of the tribe being secured for American bree ders. English exchanges assert that the rage for the cattle is unprecedented in the history of the county, and the natural con sequences will be to spur other breeders to renewed efforts. BI.UE GRASS PASTURE. —BIue grass flourishes best in strong, lime-stone soils. Before sowing, the land should be made veiy rich, and the surface should be finely pulverized. It starts very slowly, and re quires three or four years to develop fully. Owmg to the length of time required to get a perfect stand of this grass, it is al ways best to sow with it white clover and orchard grass, in about these proportions: Six quarts of blue grass, eight pounds of clover and one bushel of orchard grass to the acre. The blue trrass in time will take possession of and crowd out the other grasses, at which time you wid have a most excellent and enduring pasture. A Swiss process of removing the bran of wheat, without loss of nutritive matter consists in moisteniDg the wheat before grinding with a solution of caustic soda in water. The solution is prepared by dis solving six aud two-thirds pounds of caus tic soda in 138 pounds of water. Tbe steeping may be from fifteen to twenty minutes, and may be dene in vats similar to those used by brewers. The caustic so lution Bwells and loosens the hull proper, so that It may be removed by the slight est friction, leaving the gluten with the body of the gram. * THE wire worm lives five years, and changes its skin three times during this period. It then retires from business lor a short time, and comes out a snap-beetle to propagaie its species. GooJ, enriching culture, in connection with rotation, tends to redu< their numbers. DOMESTIC. CURRANT JELLY is so much Iwtter made at home and cheaper than tho ready made article, which is, as likely as not, to lie gelatine and currant flavor, that a little trouble oarly in the morning ought to secure a goodly row of jelly tumblers by noon. Usually the Fourth of July is the height of the currant season; thi** year the gardens are late aud the fruit should be at its height at this time. Take a pail of red currants, uot dead ripe, strip them from the stalks into a deep stoue (pickle) jar. Sot the jar in a kettle of cold water; when it boils the currants will begin to "coddle," and as soon as they show shrivelled anil the juice runs remove the jar from the tire. Ladle the juice and all into a gauze flan nel or linen jelly-bag. Stroke tho bag tirnily with your hand to expedite the running of the juice. The currants should turn out of the bag entirely dry. Measure the juice into your preserving kettle by tumblers, and allow a pound of broken loaf sugar to a piut of juice. Skim quickly as soon as the scum begins to rise, its jelly needs quick cooking. From the Arst boiliug up, count twenty miuutos by the clock, aud it is done. Fill your tumblers immediately while the jelly is hot, and you will have no difficulty iu finding it will "jell" bright and firm. FRUIT SYRUP. —Four pounds red gooseberries, not quite ripe ; one pound cherries, half pound raspberries. Clean from stems, tips and stones ; bruise all together and place in a deep earthen ware pan for twenty-four hours. Bruise with a wooden spoon and squeeze with the hand. Strain the juice through a cloth or sieve that will not let the pulp pass through. Strain again till clean. To every pound of juice add one and a half pounds of sugar. When it is dis solved put all into a kettle and boil. Skim uutil the scum ceases to riso. Bottle the juice aud cork as soon as cool. You can use currants and rasp berries together in the same way. THE so-called carpet-bug is a very voracious beetle, which devours not only the wool of the carpet, but cuts the linen back, aud working along the crack of the floor iu which it hides, cuts the fabric into strips. One measure i f safety consists in closely filling the floor-cracks with putty aud paint or with plaster of Paris aud oil ; the carpet should not be tacked down but left loose, aud at least a few inches from the base of the wall, so that it can be turned back and swept vigorously. MINCED VEAL. —Mince cold veal with fat and kidney. Add pepper and salt and a little cayenne; also chives and a little parsley, chopped tine; some mined cold humor a few whole oysters. Put these into a deep pie-dish, lined and edged witli pastry. Beat up the yolk of one egg, with water enough to moisten the meat, and pour it over. Cover it with grated bread crumbs about au inch deep. Stick very small pieces of butter on it aud hake it in on oven till it is all a light brown. FISH ITS OWN SAUCE. —Remove the bones from a haddock and b >il fish and bones together iu a quart of water for half an hour. Then add a piut of milk and boil for a quarter of on hour longer. Take out the haddock aud cut it iu pie ces. Strain out from the broth any pieces of bone that are not dissolved. Mix two of browned flour and a little pepper and salt with the flsh broth, and boil up for five minutes. Re turn the chopped fish, add sauce, par sley and dish in a tureen. FISH SALAD. — A dinner of cold fish is not to la? despised, if it helps to keep the kitchen cooled off too. The follow ing sauce can be used on cold halibut, codfish, haddock, salmon or sheepsliead, for either dinner or a supper dish: Take the yolks of two eggs, half a teacupful of cream or rich milk, a little cayenne pepper and salt; mix together and sim mer in a pan, stirring all the time until it thickens; when cold add two table spoon fuls of vinegar. BURDOAN STEW. —Take the remains of a cold fowl, cut it in pieces and put it in a stewpan. Add two ladlefuls of soup, one tablespoonful of anchovy sauce, one tablespoonful of flour and sufficient water or stock to cover tho meat; one large cut onion (first fried in butter), cayenne pepper and pickled oysters. Stir it and stew it gently for two hours. Cover it close and when serving up squeeze half a lcaion over the whole. LLSDON BISCUITS. —Beat up four evrgs with five spoonfuls of flour and one of powdered white sugar, and pour it over a sheet of white paper previously sprin kled with powdered sugar; sprinkle more sugar on its surface, and bake it at a moderate heat. When done cut the biscuit into pieces and remove the paper. MUSHROOMS WITH WHITE SAUCE. —Pre- pare the mushrooms as below. Melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, moisten with a little white stock and water, add grated nutmeg and finely powdered ■weet herbs; putin the mushrooms, stew from eight to ten minutes, then stir iu off the fire the yoiks of one or two eggs beaten up with tho j nice of a lemon and strained. RED ants may be ban'shed from a pantry or storeroom by strewing the shelves with a small quantity of cloves, either whole or ground. Some use the former, as not being so likely to get into food placed upon the shelves. Tho cloves should be renewed occasionally, as after a time they lose their strength and efli • cacy. VEGETABLE SOUP, —Fry leeks, onion, parsley, carrots cut up fine, turnips also cut up, until they are brown ; add two quarts of quite ordinary stock. Let this simmer very gently for three hours; small slices of toast added just as tho soup is served. It should not be strained. COCOANUT PUDDING.— One-half pound grated cocoanut, oue ounce butter, half the juice of one lemon and the rind grated, four eggs, the white of one left out, one-half pound grated sugar. Mix all together, then put into cups and bake them. PRESERVING CHERRIES.— Pie cheiries make the best preserve. Carnations are pretty, but require longer boiling, as the juice is more watery. Oxlieart cherries make a beautiful amber pre serve, available in decorating cakes atd puddings for dessert. A pint of fruit to a pound of sugar. Cook thirty min utes, and boil syrup longer after fruit is taken out, unless it is a thick jelly. BOILED CHEESE. —Put one tablespoon ful of milk in a saucepan, with a bit of butter tbe size of a nutmeg, and half a pound of good cheese, grated tine. Put the whole on a slow fire, until it boils, then add one egg well beateu. Stir all well together, turn it into your dish and "brown it. Serve very hot. HUMOROUS. WK overheard recently a conversation between two little urchins. One of them, it appears, had been engaged in a mor tal combat with a companion, and was relating what ocoured. Said he: "You ses, me and Bill went|down to Turner's tobacco manufactory aud fished off that old boat, but we didn't catch any; I got one bite and Bill told me to scratch, but I didn't. Well, I felt in my pockets and found my knife, and he said that I was another, and I said go there yourself, and he said that it was no such thing, and 1 said he wus a liar and I would whip him if I was bigger'n him, and he said he'd rook me to sleep mother, and I said he was a bigger one, and he said I never had tbo measels, aud I said for him to fork over that knife, aud he couldn't see the fork, and I said I'd fix him tor a tombstone at Volk's, and he said my grandmother was no geutlemau, and I said he daren't take it up, but he did, you bet; then I git up again, and he tried to, but he didn't, and I grabbed him and threw him down ou top of me like several bricks, and my little dog got behind Bill and bit him, und Bill kicked at the dog, and the dog ran and I ran after the dog to fetch him back, and didn't catch him till 1 got home, and I'll whip him more yet Is my eye very black?" Suffering; Wuinni, 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, taka a package and ita wonderful tonic and renovating power will cure you aud give new life.— H'atc/iman. LAST week a boy down in Lee county rigged himself up in a sheet one uiglit ami sneaked around the house to stand at the window of his brother's room and play ghost. But he forgot to count on the dog, who didn't believe in ghosts, and pretended to sleep by the kitchen chimney. The ghost materialized about five feet from the ohimney, and when the doctor came he cauterized niueteeu holes in it, while the dog, with his tail standing straight up in the air like a mast, walked around the yard on his tip toes, and talked boss, and asked every body he met what he should fly at uext. A good Baptist cjergyman of Bergen, N. 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This should teach you, gentle reader, never to ask questions of the conductor. The boy who brings water through the cars, however, will furnish the full particulars, with liberal embellishments born of his boundless irnagit ation, Cancers and other Tumors, are treated with unusual success by World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Send Btamp for pamphlet. Fits, Cits, Fits, successfully treated by World's Dispensary Medical Association. Address, with stamp for pamphlet, Buffalo, N, Y. Proof Everywhere. If any invalid or sick person has the least doubt of the power and efficacy of Hop Bitters to cure them, they can find cases exactly like their own. in their own neigh* borhood, with proof positive that they can be easily and permanently cured at a tri fling cost—or ask your druggist or physi cian. GREBKWIOU, Feb. 11, 1880. Hop Bitten Co. —SIRS- -I was given up by the doctors to die of scrofula con sumption. Two bottles of your Bitters cured me. LEKOY BREWER. 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It is also a specific remedy for all kidney and liver diseases. Thous ands are cured by it every month. Try it at once.— Toledo Blade. FEMININE biography: Some latter-day philosopher has said: "Send me all the dresses a woman has worn in the course of her life and I will write her biography from them." Aithma and Ray Fever. For the newest and most comprehen sive treatise on "Asthma and Hay Fever; their cause and cure"—write to the L. A. K night Company, 697 Broadway, New York City. Knight's Asthma and Hay Fever Cure is the most successful remedy yet discovered for these diseases. See testimonials in another oolumn. RESORT item: The hot weather has had the effect of crowding all the watering places, with the exception of Wall street. Thousands will bear testimony (and do it voluntarily) that Vegetine is the tiest me dical compound yet placed before the public for renovating aDd 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.'' WANTS it from the krg: "Don't put in no nmskeeter nettin' for me," said Aunt Hannah. "I don't want to breathe no strained air." 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, nervous 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 from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard•& Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by all druggists. NAUTICAL: The young skipper who takes a party of girls out sailing should content himself with hugging the shore. Flies aqd Bugs. Flies, ror cites, ants, bedbugs, rats, mioe, gophers chipmunks cleared out by "Rough on ltats." 15c. WESTERN advertisement: A Western farmer advertises: "Two cows lost, one of them a bull." Write to Mrs Lydia E. Pmkham, Lynn, Mass., for the names oi Jadies cured of fe male weakness by taking her Vegetable Compound. DARWINISM: "YOU can't tell me that I descended from a monkey," said Brown. "And you wouldn't want to wound his feelings by telling it to the monkey," added Fogg, MRS. LYDIi E. PINKHIM, OF LYNN, MISS. i LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B VEQETABLB COMPOUND, I^^oßltlToOure fur all lke Painful Complaint* and Weaknesses ao common to our boat female population, tt will cure entirely tbe wont form of Kctual* com plaint*, -Ul ovarian trouble*, Inflammation and Ulcera tion, Falling and Dlaplaoetncnta, and tbe consequent Spinal Weaknt-aa, and la particularly adapted to tba change of Life. It will dlatolve and expel tumor* from tbe uteru* In an early stage at development, Tbe tendency to can *rvus humora there la checked eery speed!) j by It* una It remove* faintneoa, flatulency, destroys all craving for atlmulanta, and relieve* wraknem of the stomach. It euro# Bloating, lleada-boa, Kervous I'roet ration. General Debility, £leepleusatKt>a, Depression and ladb gestton. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, Is always permanently cured by lie use. It will at all times and under all circumstance* act in harmony with tbe laws that govern tbe female system. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PINKIIAM'H VEGETABLE COM* POCK D la prepared at 2XI and ClT> Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Prico fl. Hlx bottles for $5. Kent by mall la tbe form of pills, al.*> In tbe form of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for ell her. Mrs. llnkbam freely answers ail biters of inquiry. Bind for {sunph* let. Address us above. MmtUm this pai*-r. Ho family should '*> w.-Jtout LYDIA E. MMUIAM'S LIVEH lILLH. They euro biliaUiACM, and toixiidltjr of tbe UTCT . K> CENTS PER boi* tTJ- Hold It all Urumilsta *| jayny^frTf--1 mi r Ihop bitters^ IA Medicine, net a Drink.) CONTAINS HOPS, nrciir, MANDRAKE, DANDELION, And thr Prr.ssT AND PrT M epical QcalA- I TICS JF .Lb OTUJCk 111T'l'XKtt. THEY CURE All Diseases of the Stomach, Bowel*. Blood. I Liver. Kid IK-vs. and Urinary organs, Ner- rf trousuess, feleen|ci-sneian1 r THOUSANDS OF CASES Ll the wont forms of this terrible disease] | © have been quickly relieved, and In short time • PERFECTLY CURED. PRICE, sl. UqiTDOR DRY, SOLD BY DBCGGISTB. hjj I<| At- Dry can be sent by mai L CI [WELLS, BICHABD3QN & Vt.l* RUPERTUS' Celebrated Single Breecb Loading Shot (luut at 912 up. Double Barrel Breeob Lioaders, sl6 Dp. Foreband A Wadsworth Choke bore Sin gle Breech Loadlsf Man a, at 914.50 up Hassle and Breech Loadins Clnns and Pis tols of most approved English ana American makes. All kind* of Sporting Implements and arti cles required dv sportsmen and Gun makers. JOS. c. GRIJBB A CO., 712 Market St.. Bend 8-ceut stamp for Price-List Philadelphia. •47 A MONTH and board In your oounty. Men or ♦ Ladies. Pleasant business. Address. P. W ZIKGLEB h CO.. Box 96. Philadelphia. Pa. vni ITU ia MIOHTY. erot. aaRTINEZ, I ItU I ™ (t>e Greet Spaniel. Seer, Attrologer / SHjsjSG end will, for 30 cente, with eye, height, / QfJ 1 oolor nl eye, aud lock ef heir, tend a COKRKCT lIC- laiJw - • TIiRK of* your fur.ire bueband or wife, wilii name, time{- w 37'1 and plaee of nietinr, and ilau of marriage, paycholoe- . „ atMLj/ teally ftwdieted Money returned to ell nut eat'isSea. JeWt Atom Prof. L. Met tinea. 10 Mom', PI., Boatou, Meal. * ASTHMA / T"P iwi ■ ■ % Vy LJ JL msJr* I, ■■ 3m " I have had Asthma for 22 yean, suffering a thousand deaths; have been so that 1 could •ot 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 thousands of dollars In search of s cure; but all ia vain until I found Knights Asthma Curt, That was in February last. My Asthma had been unusually bad all winter. Six bot tles of this medicine have made me feel like a new man. I call myself well. I have not been oppressed for Breath all through this trying spring, snd can not express in words what this wonderful remedy has done for me." A. 8. Bradford, Arlington, Mass. " I feel like thanking Mr. Knight for his ex cellent Asthma Cure. It has done very much to relieve me of a oasa 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 18&5tol882; tried many remedies {tocalled}, and spent much money fn vain, seeking relief. In February, 1882, I received the first bottle of Kntgkts Asthma Cure. I 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. 1 can say with certainty that A'night's 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 reliev* niysc'f of this terrible disease, Asthma; ana, Until I received Knightt Asthma Cure, 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. Hawxhurtt, 12 Willow St., Paterson, N. J. My wife has found Knights Asthma Cure a perfect success where all others have proved a failure. Having been a great suf ferer from Asthma, ana having taken so much medicine for the disease without ob taining any permanent benefit, she hesitated to try any more. But she was induced to try a bottle of Knights Cure, and from the day she commenced taking it regularly she has not had a single attack. This medicine is a great blessing to suffering Asthmatics." D. Q. Drsko, Supt. Schools, Mt. Washing ton, O. " I am over AO years old, and have had tht 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, I rest well at night, and the neighbors all say 1 look better than for n-any years." W. A. Chandler, Traveiue City, Mich. KNIGHT'S ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER CURE Is the Cheapest as well as the Best Price. SI.OO per Bottle, or six bottles for $5.00 AD" Write for Knight's new treatise on " ASTHMA ; ITS CAUSX AND Cußk.' nai If your Druggist has not the medicine, send direct for it (inclosing money) to THE L. A. KNIGHT COMPANY, 697 BrtMktlWHj. New York, or JOHNSON, HOLLO WAY A CO.) II ENRY i OTTKN, V Philadelphia, Pa FRENCH, RICHARDS A CO.J Prepared for immediate Use. Buildings painted with Pa'nts mixed by hand have to be rejainted every three years. The best Paint cannot be made by hand mixing. The Paint used is the smallest Item In coat of painting, labor the largest. Any building will be repainted at oar expense If not satisfactorily painted with oar Paint. For sale by one dealer in every city and town In the United States. WRI *I%STOPPED FREE I ■ sVT. Marveioui ntaxst. ■ I JrtainrftiEr ■aJShS™ i^r.n^S!£."JS?iS! w, l&Xrprj *rui Xtrm AftctUmsi ■ nrrALUBLi if taken aa directed. NeFiUefUf ■Jtofday'ttue. Treatise and S3 trial SotUebeete V%l inTI I f%f ocai awa.i i. a mrain KUrTUHci mtr i] Corrf Mr d>iMT?-*t>r...nt S—d Bup fty Tiitliiiilih rff—M mi Udafn eahn.eaJLi>et>S. a akes sr. ?ua. I)RS. J. N. & J. B. HOBEXSACK. THOSE AFFLICTED WITH THE EFFECTS OF INDISCRETION AND MEKCUKLALIZATION should not hesitate to consult J. N. and J. B. HO BENSACK, of 2t>6 North Second street, Philadel phia, either by mad or by person, during the hoars from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. and 6 to 9 P. M. Advice free. Whosoever would know his oondt tion and the way to Improve It should read "WISDOM IN A NUTSHELL." Sent on receipt of three-cent ttamp. Swedish Insect Powder Kills POTATO RUGS MD ILL TROUBLESOME VERMIN. It will thoroughly exterminate Roaches, Ants, Bed Bugs, Fleas, Lice, Tobacco and Cotton Worms, Moth, etc. It Is safe, sure, cleanly and cheap. It will not poison animals or fowls. Sample pack ages by mall 30 cents, post-paid. Stamps taken. Circulars free. Agents Wanted. Address, J. H. JOHNSTON, Swedish Insect Powder OoJ, Pitts burgh, Pa. NO. 829 NORTH FIFTEENTH STREET, ' Philadelphia, Pa. 15 years' experience. (Estab lished for treatment with purely vegetable medi cines.) Dr. Lobb's long experience In the treat ment or diseases enables him to guarantee a core in all cases. Consultation free and strictly con fidential. Call in person or by letter. Office hours: 11 to 8 and Tto 10 evening. Medical aid Surgical Institute. For the treatment of diseases of men only. Dis eases of the generative organs recent or ohromc, 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 nhysical prostration, aud other special diseases speedily 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. GBINDLEand A. n. GREY, Physicians and Bnrgeons, 171 West 12th Street, New York. CUCCT M3ICIP Ohapestafc® world. \iIEC I muaio Sample copy