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. Y., a strong temperance man. differed
with kidney trouble, neuralgia and dizzi
ness almost to blindness, over two years
after he was told that Hop Hitters would
cure him, because he was afraid of and
prejudiced against "Bitters." Since his
cure he savs none need fear but trust in
Hop Bitters.
A YOUNG scribe, employed to write up
the Uuiteau hanging, and who fondlv
imagined that his work would meet with
unqualified praise, was astonished at the
reception accorded him by the editor of
his paper.
"What kind ot a job do you call tha*?"
was the question thut startled him when
he reached homo.
"Why, I thought it was all right," he
falteringly responded; "all the fellows
said it was first-rate."
Relief from Gravel.
WILLI A MSI' irr, Pa., July 20. 1881.
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ART of advertising: "Yes," said the
Georgia editor. "I'm going to fight a
duel. Not that there's anything to fight
about, but all the other papers are ad
vertis ing that way."
Thousands upon It ou sands of buttles of
Carboliue. a deodorized extract ot petro
leum, have been sold, and from all over
the land comes one universal cry, "Carbo
line, as now improved and periectcd, is
the best hair restorer ever used." fcjo.d by
ail dru.'glsta.
SAMRO'S heaven: The Arkansaw Trav
eler's ageel colored person says: "My
idea of de better worl is whar dar is a
election goin' on all de time, case don de
white folks is allers perlight."
Dr. Kline's Great Nerve neetorer is IK©
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Hw grandmother: Young Skeesicks
liad just received a severe punishment
at the hands of his mother, one of those
recherche affairs in which the bottom of
a slipper gently ricocheted over the im
portant part of his anatomy. Of course
hkeqsicks was crying when his father
came in the house. "Well, sir, what are
you blubbering about?" was the cold
unfeeling inquiry. "I'm a crying—boo
hoo—because 1 hain't—boo hoo—got
any—any-boo hoo--grandmother. Most
of the—boo hoo—boys have." "Young
man!" said his mother, reprovingly.
"Well, I ain't crying 'bout that other
thing now." But the fact of the browsing
did not escape the old gentleman, who
hadn't the heart to add to the boy's dis
tress.
Ativlc to Con* .uietivei.
On the appearance ot the first sympton*
—as general debility, loss of appetite, pal
lor, chilly sensations, followed by night
sweats and cough—prompt measures for
relief should be taken. Consumption is
scrofulous disease of the lungs; —therefore
use the great auti-serofula, or blood puri •
fler and strength-restorer, —Dr. Pierce's
"Golden Medical Disoovtry." 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 equal. Sold by druggists the
world over. * For Dr. Pierce's pamphlet
on Consumption, send two stamps to
World's Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
IT is almost impossible to get any in
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comes a shrill whistle, followed by a
tremendous shock. You ask the conduc
tor what's the matter, and he is unable
to guess, notwithstanding half a dozen
cars arc off the track atd knocked into
kindling wood. This should teach you,
gentle reader, never to ask questions of
the conductor. The boy who brings
water through the cars, however, will
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embellishments born of his boundless
irnagit ation,
Cancers and other Tumors,
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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
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sumption. Two bottles of your Bitters
cured me.
LEKOY BREWER.
"First-rate!" howled his scowling em
ployer. "They said it was first-rate,
did they? Aud you believed 'em. Where's
your dull thud? Eight oolumns of matter
and not a dull thud in the lot! What do
you suppose I sent you there for? Is
mine to be the only paper in tho United
States whose idiotic correspondent did
not know that Guiteau fell through the
trap with a dull thud ! Git out of my of
flee ! Git!" _____
PRECEPT and practice: The Congre
gationalist tells of a school committee
man who told a class in grammar, "You
should never use a preposition to end a
sentence with." This reminds us of th
other school committeeman who said
that the auxiliary "had" hadn't ought
to be used liefore "ought."
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 in the first place by habitual
constipation, which no doubt finally caus
ed deranged kidneys and 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 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.
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their cause and cure"—write to the L. A.
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places, with the exception of Wall street.
Thousands will bear testimony (and do
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debilitated by disease; in fact, it is, as
many have called it, '"the Great Health
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WANTS it from the krg: "Don't put in
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or acute disease, particularly if resulting
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content himself with hugging the shore.
Flies aqd Bugs.
Flies, ror cites, ants, bedbugs, rats, mioe,
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WESTERN advertisement: A Western
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DARWINISM: "YOU can't tell me that
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monkey," added Fogg,
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i
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It remove* faintneoa, flatulency, destroys all craving
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tTJ- Hold It all Urumilsta *|
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Ihop bitters^
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CONTAINS
HOPS, nrciir, MANDRAKE,
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And thr Prr.ssT AND PrT M epical QcalA- I
TICS JF .Lb OTUJCk 111T'l'XKtt.
THEY CURE
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SIOOO IN COLD.
Will be paid for a case they will not cure
help, or for anything Impure or injurious R
found In tbcui.
Ask your druggist for Hop Bitters and try H
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D *.£. Is an absolute and irresistible ore fo I
Drunkeuueaa, use gf opium, tobacco and I
narehtlra.
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r THOUSANDS OF CASES Ll
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ASTHMA
/ T"P iwi ■ ■ %
Vy LJ JL msJr* I, ■■ 3m
" I have had Asthma for 22 yean, suffering a
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A. 8. Bradford, Arlington, Mass.
" I feel like thanking Mr. Knight for his ex
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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
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E. C. Weaver, Lawyer, 930 F St.. Wash
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Prof. Q. W. Hawxhurtt, 12 Willow St.,
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My wife has found Knights Asthma Cure
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is a great blessing to suffering Asthmatics."
D. Q. Drsko, Supt. Schools, Mt. Washing
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" I am over AO years old, and have had tht
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W. A. Chandler, Traveiue City, Mich.
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