gelling cigar*.
to be a successful salesman in a large
retail cigar store a man must be an excel
lent actor; he must possess a powerful
memory, and above all he must always
keep his temper. There is the customer
for whom the clerk must have a smile, the
man who always expects to be congratula
ted on his 100k 8, and the weather fiend, to
whom the clerk must say, 'Ms this hot
enough for you?" To address this query
to a wrong customer would bo disastrous.
There are others who have smoked the
same brand of cigars for years, They
enter the door, deposit a quarter or a half
dollar, pick up their cigars and depart,
without a word. There wasone man, who
by the way is a prominent board of trade
speculator, whose voice the clerk has not
heard for over six months, although he
buys six cigars a day at the store. Not
one man in a dozen knows ai vthing about
the cigars he is smoking, and will smoke
a five cent cigar with as much enjoyment
as a fifteen cent one, provided he thinks
the five ceuter is a high priced cigar. The
label on a cigar box has a great deal to do
with making a cigar popular, and the
quotation, "a rose would smell as sweet
by any other name," does not hold good
in this iastance, as customers generally go
back on a cigar when the label on a box
is changed. It does no good for the clerk,
to explain ard expostulate; the label is
changed and the cigar has lost its attrac
tions.
Gamblers are as a rule smokers of the
finest goods, but they are as customers
very erratic, owing to the different chan
3es of fortune which they experience.
For weeks and weeks a member of the
fraternity may present himself at the same
cigar counter and suioke his twenty-five
cent cigars. Suddenly some day he ap
jeare aud says he is tired of the brand and
wfil try a nickel cigar. The cierk asks no
questions and in a short time he returns to
his twenty- five ceat weeds, The increase
in a young man's salary can always be de
tected by the obseivant cigar clerk, as the
price of the cigar which the youthful cus
tomer smokes goes up in preportion.
There is one class of customers who are
separate and distinct from the general line
of smokers; they are the youngsters who
smoke cigarettes. The peculiarities of the
cigarette smoker have often been described
but in a cigar store he shows up under a
calcium light. They generally come in
pairs, buy a|bunch of the toys and hold
an animated discussion as to the merits of
some brand which is "too awfully utter."
Then they light their cigarettes, and sta
tioning themselves in the door, act as cigar
sigus until their noon hour is up. Their
physique is in marked contrast to that of
consumers of good cigars.
It is a fact not generally knowu that the
smoking of cigareites has a most injurious
tffect upon the growth of the mustache
us the poison generated while smoking
acts upon the mucous lining of the upper
lip, thus stuntiDg the growth of the hirsute
appendage. It is not the intention of the
"reporter to ruin the cigarette manufactur
ers, but if this fact becomes generally
known cigarettes are in danger of being a
drug in tne market.
A Home With a History.
In a very siionume the building on New
York avenue, Dear Fourteenth street,
Washington, long known as Chamberlain's
Club House, will be ow ned by the Young
Men's Christian Association, and after
being remodeled, it will be occupied as
association headquarters. Of all the sport
ing houses, restaurants and saloons in
Washington. Chamberlain's is perhaps the
most noted. Men of all classes have assem
bled and regaled themselves there, it has
been the scene of many political and otbe r
plots, and by men of convivial dispositions
it was considered the most complete estab
lishment south of New i'ork. Its location
and its peculiar architecture were features
in its lavor and enhanced us value.
The property was originally owned by
the McCleary estate aDd. with the building
was valued at about $28,000. It passed
out of the hands of the McCiearys and was
purchased for the above sum by the fam
ous Washington Club, Governor A. 11
Shepherd, president, and its members,
including Haliet Kdbourn, General Graut
and many others who figured in the cele
br&ted real e9 ate pool and other great
steals, etc., which have developed here
since the late war. Temporarily the Wash
iDgton Club leased the mansion to the
Chinese Legation. Subsequently the c'ub
fitted it up lavishly and took possession
themselves. For several years tte club
flourished and schemes and plots of every
character were concocted within its richly
appointed parlors. Gieat sums of money
were squandered at cards and sumptuous
dinners were frequent events there. John
Chamberlain finally secured it. For a long
time be conducted it on a royal plan and
it became even more famous than ever.
The last two years, however, were without
profit. Chamberlain appeared to be ne •
glectful of his business and the great crowd
of sporting and public men who bad been
Iqs constant patrons began to lessen ana to
seek their peculiar pleasures elsewhere.
Chamberlain concluded to move.
The Washington Club, being in a much
demoralized state financially, concluded to
seil the property, aDd lound purcha c ers in
the Young Men's Christian Association.
The price paid was $30,000. The change
is generally regretted by all the prominent
sportiDg men, but the religious element
appear to be jubilant over the fact that the
hails and rooms that once resounded to
the jingle of champagne glasses and the
sounds of ribald jests will soon echo hymns
and give back the notes of the church
organ.
Nice Napkins.
The napkins at hotels are now folded,
in a half wet condition, into all sorts of
shapes—a goose, a swan, a ship, a high
boot are all favorite and fanciful designs
—but it is a dirty fashion, requiring the
manipulation of hands that are not always
freeb, and the napkin must be damp at the
folding, so it is not always dry when
shaken out. Nothing is so unhealthy as a
damp napkin. It is the death of a deli
cate and nervous lady, a man with the
rose cold, a person with the neuralgia or
rheumatism, and it is offensive to every
one. Never a 1 low your waiter to put on
a napkin unless it has been well aired.
There is often a conspiracy between the
waiter and the laundress in great houses,
both wishing to shirk work, and the nap
kins not done up in time tire hurried on to
the table damp, which is the height of
yulgarity.
The mistress ot the house should have a
large chest of reserved napery which .is
not used every day, but which must ail be
washed and aired once a year at least, to
keep it from moulding and getting yellow.
Our Dutch ancestors were very fond of
enriching this chest, and many a house
keeper in New Tork and Albany is to-day
using linen brought from Holland three
hundred years ato. Tta f made in Ireland
has, however, taken the'place for us of all
other napery. Jt is good, cheap and some
times very handsome, and if it can be
bought unadulterated with cotton will last
many years.
Too much starch should never be used
in napkins. No one wishes to wipe a
delicate lip on a board, and a stiff napkin
comes very near b< ing a board.
AGRICULTURE,
FERTILIZING VALFK OF CLOVER PEN.—
The great fertilizing value coutained in a
good clover pod does not seem to be appre
ciated or believed by farmers generally.
According to experiments and analysis
made in Germany to determine the uum
ber of pounds of roots and stubble cou
tamed in an acre of clover sod to the depth
ot ten inches, it is shown that there were
8921 pounds, which contained 191 pounds
of nitrogen, beside considerable potash
and phosphoric acid. The 191 pounds ot
nitrogen at 20 cents a pound would bo
worth #88.20. Uudoubtedly the acre ot
soil waich contained roots euough to alTord
such a large amount of nitrogen was pro
duced on land In a high state of cultiva
tion; but suppose that an acre of soil con
tained only one-half as much nitrogen, or
93 pounds, worth #l9. How could the
iarmer supply au equal amount of fertiliz
ers to his soil so cheaply and so easily as'oy
clover raising? The clover root is rich in
mtrogeu, a fertilizer which is the most
costly of any element of plant food offered
in the market. It is just the fertilizer
needed for the growth of wheat and corn.
A crop of wheal yielding twenty-live bush
els of grain contaius in the stem and
grain about sixty pounds of utrogen, or
only about one-third the amount found to
be contained in an acre of good clover sod
in Germany. Hence it would be iuferred
that a clover sod would be an excellent
preparation of the land for a wheat crop,
and this has been found in practice to be
the case. In England much dependence
is placed upon the clover sod as a prepara
tion of the soil for the wheat crop. The
clover sod is equally valuable as a pre
paration of the soil for a corn crop.
Clover raising can be made to do great
service In enriching sarins and reuovating
worn-out land. More clover should b
grown,and the laud seeded with it oftener.
Dr. Voelcker, in Eugland, found that the
clover sod was most valuaule as a fertilizer,
after having been mown two seasons for
hay. The roots then hail attained their
full development and were then richest in
fertilizing elements. What farmers need
toaio, in order to avail themselves of the
fall advantage of this crop, is to turn the
sod under when full of roots, raise a crop
of grain or corn, and seed to clover again.
Cut the clover two years for hay, turn
under the sod, sow to grain or plant corn
and seed to clover again and so on, turn
ing under a good clover sod every three or
four years until the land is renovated.
Whatever barn manure or other fertilizers
can be spared for use on tne land will
hasten the process."
HERE is a remeuv, or preventive of the
chicken cho'era, which 1 have successfully
used for two years. While my neighbors
have been losing nearly their entire HOCK
mine have been healthy and 1 have never
had a case to my knowledge: Take a bar
rel, saw it asuuder in halves, put about 3
quarts of unslaked lime ID ODeof the halves
together with half a pound or one pound
to suit the necessity) of alum; till the half
barrel with water: when slaked and settled
take from one pint to one quart(as the case
requires) and put it In every pail of water
given the fowls to drink. The lime will
an>wer for a second half barrel of water,
but the same quantity of alum should he
added as before. If continued daily dur
ing the sickly seaaoh I can, from my ex
perience, assure our readers that their
fowls will uot be troubled with the chicken
cholera.
OF hot milk as a stimulant the Medical
Jlecorcl says: "Milk heated too much
above lUO degrees Eahrt-nheit loses for a
time a degree of its sweetness and density.
No one who, atigued by over-exertion of
body or mind, has ever experienced the
reviving influence ei a tumbler of this bev
erage, heated as hot as it can be 6ipped.
will willingly forego a resort to it because
of its being rendered somewhat less accep
table to the palate. The promptness with
which its cordial influence is felt is indeed
surprising. Some portion of it seems to
be digested and appropriated alino t im
mediately, and uiauy who now fancy they
need alcoholic stimulants when exhausted
by fatigue will find in this ample draught
an equivalent that will be a uudautly sat
it-fyiug and far more enduring in its ef
fects. "
ASHES. —Especially uuleached, should
never be mixed with manures
of any kind,(of which hea manure is one,)
for the reason that ashes have a greater or
less tendency to liberate tbe gaseous am
moDia contained in the manure. Presum
ing the proposed fertilizer is intended for
wheat: the better way would be to first
pulverize the hen manure as fine as need
be and mix therewith an equal quantity of
bone dust and double the quantity of rich
earth, letting the same lie in compost, to
be drilled in with the wheat at the rate of
4 0 pounds to the acre, and using the ashes
tor seme other purpose, either for corn in
the spring or sowing broadca9* (and as thick
as you please) on the wheat as soon as up.
CULTIVATION OF I?MAAL FRUITS. —Every
one owning or cultivating the soil,whether
in large tracts or a small garden plot,
should plant email fruits, for they are
even more than a luxury, they are a real
necessity in maintaining health and avoid
ing beavy doctor bills. Fruit grown on
one's own place is much better tban that
bought in the markets, as it is always
fresh and thoroughly ripeued. making it
more palatable and easier digested. Euough
small trult plants should be set out to at
least supply the family needs, and if there
De any surplus it can be sold or put up tor
winter use.
WHEN COWS arc ted with a liberality
that develops a full flow of milk, they will
not overload with a food so litile concen
trated ar green grass. The fact that they
do overload is an evidence that their pre
vious food was scauty tor profit, and con
sequently that load had been endured on
account of it When a chauge is to be made
the herd should be admitted gradually to
the new feed, and they should be supplied
with all the salt and water they desire.
The incrense in the new ration should
never be so great as to change the flavor of
the milk.
DAIKY farming is more difficult and la
borious than sheep farmiDg. Sheep cul
ture has many advantages over cattle-rais
ings as also over dairying. There is a
necessity of sheep husbandry for meat
production. The rapid incr-. of popu
lation, the scarcity and increasing price of
beef, the inferiority of pork in healthiness
and nutrition, teud to the increase of
mutton-eating.
Cabbage worms can be kept within
bounds, if not completely destroyed,
by the uee ot Tansy. Make a 6trong de
coction of plant aud add a small quantity
ot saltpeter and sprinkle the cabbage
plants when you find the worm has
commenced its work. Try this and save
your ca bage, The addition of saltpeter
will prove a good fertilizer as well as a
destroyer of the worm.
TURNIPS are healthful for horses. They
should be cut in thin slices, or, what is
better, pulped finely and mixed with a
little meal aud some salt. Rutabagas are
belter than white turnips.
DOMESTIC.
WEDDING CAKE. —Prepare your ingre
dients the day before making your cake.
Pick and stone four pounds of the best
raisins; do not uso the seedless raisins
lor the cake; wash and pick over four
pounds of currants; drain them in a col
ander and spread them on dishes to dry,
or you may sprinkle them with Indian
meal, rubbing the meal well through
the currants, and sif'iug them iu a sieve
to clear them from it; cut up two pounds
of citron in thiu pieces, aud when just
ready to use the fruit strew it thickly
with tlour; grate four nutmegs and mix
thein with a tablespoonful of ground
mace, two tablespooufuls of ground cin
namon, and a small half teuspoouful of
grouud cloves; sift these spices and mix
well together in a cup; mix together
two large wine glasses of wine, one of
brandy aud one of rose water: cream
together one pound of powdered sugar
and fifteen ounces of best butter; beat
twelve eggs until perfectly smooth and
thick, and stir them gradually into the
creamed butter ami sugar, together with
a pound of Hour which you have sifted
in a basin; then add by degrees the
fruit, spice and liquor, and stir the
whole very hard at the last; line your
pans with well-greased paper, and bake
in a moderate oveu for six hours at least;
ice it the next morning, first dredging
flour over the outside, and then wiping
with a towel; aluiond icing is very nice
for this cake.
FRIED CHICKEN. —First, B© sure and
get a youug chicken; clean nicely inside
ami out; instead of cutting it iuto small
pieces, out it iu only two, down the cen
tre of the back; flatten it out, break the
breast bone with a rolling pin, wash it
off quickly with eold water arid wipe
dry with a clean towel; do not let it re
main in the water. Have ready a pan
with about two ounces of butter which
has been browned; put in the chicken
and dip the butter over it; turn it every
five minutew and baste with the browu
butter between the turning; when half
done salt and pepper to taste; make a
gravy of milk or cream; take a tuble
spoouful of flour stirred smooth for
thickening the gravy.
SALT pork for boiling should have lean
streaks running through it. From such
a piece cut two pounds or more, accord
ing to size of family, scrape the rind
well, wash clean, then put it to boil iu
cold soft water; boil one hour, then
change the water, filling up with boiling
water from tea kettle; boil another hour,
then take it from the water, lay it on a
tin and set iu a well-heated oven to bake
half an hour. Incline the tin, letting
the pork rest iu the upper part, so that
the grease, as it fries out, may drip
away from the meat. Turu the pork
from side to aide that it may crust nicely.
Turn the grease from the tin as it fills
up, so the pork will not rest in it wlieu
baking. {Serve hot and see if the men
like it.
RAGOUT OF TURRET. —Cut the cold
turkey that is left over from a roast or
boil into bits an inch long; put in a
pan the gravy left from the roast,
addiug a little water if the quantity be
small; and a tablespoonful of butter, a
teaspoonful of pungent sauce, half a
teaspoonful of cloves, a little grated
nutmeg, and a little salt; when it boils
up put in the meat; stew very gently
for ten minutes, and then stir iu a table
spoonful of cranberry or currant jelly, a
teaspoonful of browned flour, wet in a
little cold water, and a wineglassfnl of
sherry or Mailt i "a; boil up once, and
serve in a covered dish, A ragout with
out spice, jelly, or wine is generally
preferred.
CREAM PCFFS. —One-half pound but
ter, three-quarters pound flour, eight
eggs, one pint of water. Stir the butter
with the water, which should be warm;
place upon the stove and bring to a
boil; add the flour and boil one minute,
stirring constantly; take from ttie fire
and let cool. Beat tbe eggs very light
and add to the coaled paste, first the
yolks and then the whites. Drop in
large spoonfuls upon buttered paper,
though they are nicer shaped baked in
muffin-rings placed in a dripping-pan.
They must be placed far enough apart
so as not to run iuto each other. When
cold, cut out the center with a sharp
knife, aud till them with thin-boiled
custard, Season with lemon or vanilla.
BAKED HAM. —Make a thick paste of
floor and water (not boiled), and cover
the entire ham with it, boDe and all; put
in a pan, on a spider or two muffin rings,
or anything that will keep it an inch
from the bottom, and bake in a hot oven;
if a small ham, fifteen minutes for eaeh
pound; if large, twenty minutes; the
oven should be hot when put in. The
paste forms a hard crust around the
ham, and Hie skin comes off with it.
Try this, and you will never cook a ham
in any other way.
CREAM EICE TCDDINO —Wash four
ounces of rice, (cost 3 cents,) through
two waters, put it into a baking dish
with thrae ounces of sugar, aud a tea
spoonful of flavoring (cost 3 cent*,) pour
in one quart and a pint of milk, (cost 12
cents,) aud put it into a moderate oven
to bake an hour and a half, or until it is
of a creamy consistency. This pudding
is very delicate and wholesome, and
costs 15 cents.
To RESTORE THE HAIR AFTHR ILLNESS.
—Equal parts of best brandy aud strong
black tea, shaken well together and
rubbed well into the roots of ths hair
once daily, will usually restore the hair
after long illness. Be careful not to
scratch or irritate the scalp with rough
combing and brushing. The mixturs
should be made at least once in three
days, even in cool weather.
COAL TAR from gas works mixed to
the consistency of mortar with tiuoly
sifted coal ashes or road dust, is recom
mended for leaks in gutters or valleys
or around chimneys. It is also thought
that it may be equally useful over an
imperfect loof previously laid with felt
or paper.
CAMPHORICE FOR CHAPPED HANDS.—
Melt spermaceti, one drachm, with al
mond oil, one ounce, and add powdered
camphor, one drachm. It will be im
proved by adding a couple of drachms
of glycerine, using as much less of the
almond oil.
To DESTROY WARTS, —Dissolve as
much common washing soda as the wa
ter wall take up; wash the warts with
this for a minute or two and let them
dry without wiping. Keep the water in
a bottle and repeat the washing often
and it will take away the largest warts.
To fricassee eggs take hard-boiled
egg ß an d roll them in bread crumbs sea
soned with salt and pepper and nutmeg,
and fry them a delicate brown in butter.
To cure inflammatory rheumatism
take half an ounce of pulverized saltpe
tre, putin half a pint of sweet oil; bathe
the parts effected, and a sound cure will
be speedily effected.
HUMOROUS.
TTeu favorite name: There is to be a
wedding soon, the way to which was
paved with HO much delicate ingenuity
by the lady in the case that it IH worth
recording. The gentleman had been an
accepted suitor lor months, but had
never even remotely alluded to the wed
ding day, and the lady, tir d With so
much wH'ting. made up her mind to
prompt him a little ou the lirat favorable
occasion. It happened in this way;
They were sitting in the gnrdou, and as
was his custom he was making himself
agreeable by gallant speeches, in one of
which he alluded to her as "darling."
He empnasized tha name by a tender
pressure of the hand, and remarked that
"darling" was the sweetest word in the
English language for him. "Do you
think HO ?'' hhe naked in a tremulous
voice; "there is another name that to
me is far sweeter." "What is it, dar
ling?" asked the lover rapturously.
"Just a little word of four letters —wife,"
she answered, with a gentle confusion,
and there was nothing left for him but
to ask her to decide the day when he
might call her by lier fnyonte name.
SufTurlng Woiu*n.
There is but a very small proportion of
the women of this nation that do not suffer
from some of the diseases for which Kid
ney-Wort is a spet ide. When the bowels
have become costive, headache torments,
kidneys out of tlx, or piles distress, take a
package and its wonderful tonic aud reuo
vating power will cure y >u aud give new
life. — Watchman.
You NO America: "Guess 1 won't take
in the school to-day," said a Carson
urchin with an Appeal 111 his hand.
"Why not?" ' Concordia has fallen off
ten cents and I don't dare to show up
uutil it picks up agaiu." 14 What have
the fluctuations of Couoordia got to do
with your studios?" "A gotxl deal,"
answered the boy. "My teacher has
one hundred shares of the stock and
when it falls off a few cents wo all catch
it heavy. I keep my eye on the list
and when there's a break you bet I don't
go to school. I play sick. Golly ! how
she basted me the time Mount Diablo
busted down to two dollars. My moth
er's been patchiu' my pants now ever
since the big break in Sierra Nevada,
and if the market don't take a turn pret
ty soon I'm goiu' to quit the public
school aud go to work on a ranch."
ANSWER Tins. — Is there a person living
who ever saw a case of ague, biliousness,
v nei vousness. or neuralgia, or any disease
of the stomach, liver, or kidneys that Hop
Bitters will nol cure ?
THE old woman kept a private bottle
from which she refreshed herself from
time to time, as she felt the need, though
none of the family kuew it. One eve
ning her daughter, in rummaging
through the pantry for doughnuts for
her beau, spied the bottle, and had the
curiosity to draw the cork and apply
her nose to the aperture, at which
moment the old lady hove in sight and
angrily demanded: "W T ell, are you any
wiser than you were? What do you su|v
pose it is" "I don't know what it is,
mamma," answered the shrinking mai
den, "but it smells just like Charlie's
moustache. - '
RKWTED FROM DEATn.
William J. CoHghlin. of Homerrille. Mass., says:
In the fall of 187. I was taken with BLKEDIXO of
THE l.nNi>R. followed BJ • OOUFCH. IWT my
apiietlte and flesh, and wase mflned to mv bed. In
1877 I was admitted to the Hospital. The doctors
said I had a hole in mr Inns as big as a half dollar.
At one time a report went around that I was dead.
I gav* up hoj-o. but a friend told me of DR. WIL
LI Alkf HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. I
got a bottle, when to my surprise, I commenced to
feel better, and to-day I Iml better than for three
years pa#t.
BAKER'S PAIN PANACEA cures pain in Man o*
llcasi. Var use externally or internally-
IT is related of a yonng American
clergyman who was traveling this sum
mer iu England in company with an
Englishman, that he kept his eyes on
the landscape, aud his oompaniou said,
"I suppose you are not accustomed to
such rapid travelling, but I beg to assure
you there is no danger." "Thank you,"
the American replied, "1 have been
accustomed all my life to going faster
than this, but I am expecting this traiH
to run off the little island."
Mother Shiptou's prophecy is supposed
to be about four hundred years old, and
every phrophecy has been fulfilled except
the last—the end of the world in 1881.
Buy your Carboline, a deodorized extract
of petroleum, the great natural hair re
storer, before the world conies to an end.
"Now, my son," said a West Side
cabinet maker to his little boy, "yon
must remember that sins are like nails
driven into a post. Repentance is mere
Jy pulling the nails out, but the scars—
the holes remain." "But, I say,"inter
rupted the youth, "cau't we kiuder
putty 'em up, as you do the worm holes
in the rottou bass-wood that you use to
make real English oak bedroom sets?"
Catarrh of the ltlndder.
Stinging eratitt ng irritation of t'" urinary
passages, d'si-aiod d scliarges. cured by Hu
cbupaiha $1 at drug oat-. Prspad by ex
press, $1.25, 6 for $5. E. S. WKLLS. Jersey
City, N. J.
CHURCHYARD luck: "How many child
ren have you now ?" a lady asked an old
servant the other day. "Fourteen." he
replied. "A large family, indeed."
"Yes, ma'am," said the philosophic re
tainer; but you see I'm not like many
of my neighbors; I've never had any
churchyard luck with my ehiidreu—
they al! lived."
Pure cod liver oil. from •elected livers,
en the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co.,
N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Pa
tients who have once taken it prefer it to
ail others. Physicians declare it superior
to all other oils.
Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough
skin cured by using Juniper ap, made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York.
BACHELOR ladies: JSmily (littlesister):
"What a large family the spinsters
must be ! I hear in church every Sun
day that some of them are going to be
married." Frances (elder sister): "O
you little stupid ! Don't you know what
spinsters are? Bachelor ladies, of
course."
Pimples and Humors on the Face.—ln
this condition of the skin, the "Vegetine"
is the great remedy, as it aets directly
upon the cause. It cleanses aud purifie3
the blood, thereby causing humors of all
to disappear.
ARITHMETICAL: She—"This is a pretty
hour of the mght for you to come home,
after promising me to be home at a
quarter of twelve. He (pointing to the
clock) —"Well, ain't three a quarter of
twelve V It aiu't niv fault you don't know
arithmetic."
THE ONE GREAT MEDICINE.
Without donbt there are now, and have been for
years past, several medicines or remarkable merit
before the public—medicines which have been
used, in very many cases, with excellent success.
The names of these will readily recur to our read
ers, and they are the names of preparations whose
worth, for certain purposes, no one IH supposed to
deny. Hut we are fully Justified, by undenlab.e
and notorious facts, lu saying, aud we do unhesi
tatingly say, that the one great medicine of the
present day— the medicine, we mean, which now
stands pre-eminent above all others—is the fa
mous \ KoxriNK of Mr. 11. 1L Htevens of Boston.
Home of the undeniable facts respecting this fa
tuous medicine are these:
Kirst, it Is astonishingly efficient In really cnrlng
the various diseases for which It Is especially com
pounded and tnteuded.
Second, it acts with a celerity which Is generally
very surprising. A single bottle has often either
cured the user of a serious diillculty, or brought
about a most agreeable change, while a very few
bullies have lu thousands of instances affected the
complete cure of a long stun ling disease which
had previously battled the skill of the beat phy
sicians.
Third, It acts directly upon the blood, of whieh
It la the only powerful aud thorough purifier.
Fourth, the testimoulals In support of these
facts and the extraordinary worth of this medi
cine are from well-known and most respect
able men aud women, and, in many in
st SIXTH, from persous holding the highest
social positions. They are not certificates from
unknown uud irresponsible individuals. We, our
selves, kuow the very high estimation In which
Vcgetiuu is held In one of ihe best families in the
cltv.
There Is, In Btiort, and can lie, no doubt or mis
take whatever about the unprecedented aud sur
prising efficacy, value and success of the Vcgetiue.
As a pu.illcr of the blood and a quick renovator
and invigorator of the humau system, physical and
mental, no medicine, as is now generally conceded,
has ever been devised and compounded at all
equal to It; and, as a speedy aud thoiough cure
for such coiup.aiuts as catarrh, cough, stomach
.weakness and faiutness, loss of appetite, dyspep
sia, cancerous humors, scrofula, rheumatism, kid
ney and some other equally serious complaints,
Vegetiue altogether surpasses any and ail other
known medicinal preparations. The rapidity
with which this great medicine has won its way
Into all parts of this country and various foreign
cues since its discovery and introduction, uol many
years ago, is something alike surprising vind con
firmatory of its intrinsic excellence.—Providence,
(it. 1.) Gazette.
Vcgetiuo is Sold by all Druggist*.
ATOMACH _
®iT7£s**
For a fnarter or a century ©? nor* Boctattafi
Stomach Bittcra hu been the reigning apecilc tar
tadigeatloß, dyspepsia, fever and ague, a loaa t
physical atamina, liver complaint and otbar dis
orders, and ha* been most emphatically indorsed
t>y medical men as a health and strength restora
tive. It counteract* a tendency to premature de
cay, and sustains and comfort* the aged and ta
flrm.
For aale by all Druggist* and Dealers generally.
jjj Thc-Bl'ur. hLHnd lleat Medicine eer Made. 2
B Acof inhiuati >n of Hops, Bucbu, Man-S
Pdrnk&e Dandelioi** w ' ( : <ulineU-t nndj
ltM>*lc\ur* lie properties o -dl uthor li.'.t. r*.j|
MJJlE p\the gr-*a-st Bloc i Furlrlcr, Live r J
Re u l\. ator t aud life anu ll.jiiUi
Agiut earth.
No i!L-H-a.se possibly Vng exist * her* It fiJ
lUttTs are varied oud perfect arc th. tr
opcrati. : S3E-<
Tiey gin tewliUfi atl vigcrto tia*sl si Itflna
To all Whom c%n>ployiuc!iU eanao irreiful i.l
** -stt.i -ainaV uiiaary organs, or who re
quire an —tuiU! KiitniA—•.
HopßMenajcmval^hiuible.withou. IntOf
Icattng. anak
No nutUT what your or . r "iprnu
r.rc what the diaeast. uriflMneut Is use Uop Bit
ter*. Dont wait untilyouamI'® 1 '® sick but if you
only feci bad or nihwrahlei* Urt ** t' lpm *T DDIV I
ltiuaysaveyourlife.lthaaß ß **®d hundreds.B
I *SOO will be paid for a cal will nr.tS
euro <r l>o not nifer%
begirt r f hu! u*e aud ur£* Hop 8 p
Ketncmher, Hop Bitters is drugjrvdl
drmken nostrum, but the n ___ ' i
Medicine over made ; tlio "1> XUDS^^ naESD |
and UOr*** and no person or
should be without thonx.
f0.1.C. 1* a'<*cle.tc and In—sttbkj cun-B mS>
■forOiunketir s.u-eof op.um. tohaoco and I WWr
|nan-- tics. All soi lbv dmjorl ta txixl Jj r Wr
■tor Circular. Htp Btitrri Hfy. C*., /f iLjJJr
I Kocherfs r,5. i and Toronto, tmt. mjjtffl
PITTSBURGH, PA. **
pEEBaBBaaa
cTHE CREAT CURE ;
J I ron S
i! —RHEUMATISM— s
_ As It Is for all the painful diseases of the
£ KIDNEYB,LIVER AND BOWELS. g
(g It cleanses the system of the acrid poison
00 that causes the dreadful suffering which
Q only the victims of Rheumatism can realise. >
£ THOUSANDS OF CASES 2
£ of the worst forms of this terrible disease ►
rt havo been quickly relieved, and in short time "
PERFECTLY CURED.
O PRICE, 91. LIQVID OU DRY, SOLD BY DUI CCISTS. v
< 14- Dry can be sent br mail. 3
WELLS, BICHAUDSON & Co., Burlington Vt. *
DBS. J. N. & J. B. HOBENBAOL
THOSE AFFLICTED WITH TIIK EFFECTS
OF INDISCRETION AND MERCUKIALIZATION
should not hesitate to consult J. N. and J. B. HO
BKNSACK, of 2<j6 North Second street, Philadel
phia, either by mail or by person, daring the hours
from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. and 6 to 9 P. M.
Advice free. Whosoever would know his condi
tion and the war to improve it should read
"WISDOM IN A NUTSHELL."
Sent on receipt of three-cent stamp.
I^^!ur\S*HST!?l
(NH Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. 129
IM Use in time. Sold by druggists. Si
mi
M7 A MONTH and board tn your county. Men or
9* I Ladies. Pleasant business. Address, P. ,W.
ZIEOLEIi & CO . Boi 91. Philadelphia. Pa
DR. H. W. LOBB MEDICAL OFFICES.
NO. 329 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 of diseases enables him to guarantee a core
in all cases. Consultation free and strictly con
fidential. Call in person or by letter. Office
honrs: 11 to 2 and 7to 10 evening.
fkuae a...wruis
jOi. ter a iavor upon the Advertiser and tii
-"Rbiither oysiattug thai they laathssatsi
lr tlilserulbuMlii th mmm*'
A strict husband: "Madam" is pre
paring about 10.30 p. m. to go ont "for
the evening." as she is accustomed to do
rather too frequently to please "mon
si ur," who La * made up his m n 1 for the
fiftieth time to assert himself. The
following dialogue ensues: Monsieur—
"Where are you goivg, my dear?"
Madam—Where I please. ' ' But when
will yon be back?" "When I cbooee,
sir." "Ah, yes! of course! But no
later: I should not permit that."
A Smart Man
is one who Cues his work quickly and well.
This is what Dr K. V. Fierce's "Golden
Medical Disc ivery" df)es as a blood puri
fler and strengtbener. It arouses the tor
pid liver, purifies the blood, and isthelieft
remedy for consumption, which is scrofu
lous disease of the lungs.
Over -shooting: A grave and dignified
D. D., after listening to the recitation
of the catechism by a class of children,
was asked to make a few remarks to
them, whereupon lie arose and said: "I
desire, my young friends, to express an
unqualified approbation of this exercise.
I regard the cateehiam as the most ad
mirable epitome of religious belief
extant." The superintendent pulled
his sleeve and aaked him to explain the
word epitome, which he elucidated as
follows: "By epitome, children, I mean
that is—it is synouymous with synop
sis r
KxtraviiKHßce
is a crime ; and ladies can not afford to
do without Dr. .Pierce's "Favorite Pre
scription," which by preserving and re
storing health, preserves and restores that
beauty which depends upon health,
"I feel I am growing old," says the
lady, minciugly, to her guests; "for
really I am beginning to lose my hair "
(Of course she has bushels of it, and it
is black as a raven's wing.) "Then,
ma," exclaims her little child, with the
innocent frankness of innocency, "why
don't you lock up the drawer when you
put it away at night?"
Heautlful Women
are made pallid and unattractive by func
tional irregularities, which Dr. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" will infallibly
cure. Thousands of testimonials. By
druggists.
ALL gone: A Sunday-school teacher
asked a pupil how mauy sacraments
there were. "There ain't any more
left.' "Why, what' do yon mean?"
"Well, I heard that our sick neighbor
received the last sacrament yesterday;
so there can't be any left over."
NEW BLOOMFIELD, Miss, Jan 2, 1880.
I wish to say to you that 1 have been
suffering for the last five years with a se
vere itching all over. 1 have heard of
iiop Bitters and have tried it. 1 have
used up four bottles, and it has done me
more good than all the doctors and medi
cines that they could use on or with me.
1 am old and poor but feel to bleas you tor
such a relief by your medicine and from
torment of the doctors. 1 have had fif
teen doctors at me. One gave me seven
ounces of solution of arsenic ; another took
four quarts of blood from me. All they
could tell was that it was skin sickness.
Now, after these four hot ties of your medi
cine, my skin is well, clean and smooth as
ever. HENRY KNOCiiK.
IT was the fourth set of kittens which
had beeu drowned, and the young wom
an of the house did not mean to stand
it any longer, and she rushed in to her
mother. "Now, mamma," she cried,
"it is a shame to waste cats iu this way,
and you must be more saving !"
Kidney-Wort* moves the bowels regu
larly, cleanses the blood, and radically
cures kidney disease, gravel, piles, bilious
headache, and pains which are caused by
disordered liver and kidneys. Thousands
have lieen cured —why should you not
try it? Your druggist will tell you tbat
it is one of the most successful medicines
ever known. It is sold in both Dry and
L quid form, and its actiou is positive and
sure in either. Dallas, Tex , Herald.
A SCHOOL teacher was asking her lit
tie girls the other day questions in re
gard to the growth of plants, and on
putting the question "What makes the
flowers?" one of them presently an
swered—"The buds."
Women that have been bedridden for
years have been completely cured by 'he
use of Lvdia E P.nkliam'a Vegetable
Compouud.
"PLEASE give me some ice-keam,
mamma," said a little girl, not three
years old. "Why do you want ice-cream,
dear?" "Oh, because it makes my
tongue feel happy, mamma."
Allen's liraln Food.
Cures Nervous Debility and Weakness
of Generative Organs, $1 all druggists.
Send for circular. Allen's Pharmacy
il 'i First av. N. V.
"Now, Sammy, have you read the
story of Joseph?" "Oh, yes, uncle."
"Well then, what wrong did they do
when they sold their brother." "They
sjld him too cheap."
Dr. Kline's Great nerve Kestorer Is the
marvel of the age for all nerve diseases. All
lit* stopped free. Bend to 931 Aroh Street,
Philadelphia. Pa.
Oil paintings, much discolored by age
have been resiored by blushing them free
from dust, and then being covered with a
layer of shaving soap for a few minutes,
after which tbev were thoroughly dried
and soaked in nitro benzine.
Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Core.
If a freshly-cut tuberose or any other
white flower be placed in diluted scarlet
ink, the liquid will be drawn up into it,
coloring the veins.
r. HULL'S
LUNGS.B A LS A M
Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneumonia. In
fluenza, Bronchial Ditlic.ulties, Bronchitis,
Hoarseness, Asthma, Croup, Whooping
Cough, and all Diseases of the Breathing
Organs. It soothes and heals the Membrane
of the Lungs, inflamed and poisoned by the
disease, and prevents the night sweats and
lightness across the chest which accompany
it. Consnnrption is not an incurable malady.
HALL'S BALSAM will cure you, even
TDIITU 18 MIGHTY. Prof. MARTINEZ,
I lU I N Um GmtSpaniabSeor, Artrolocer /
and PayoholofUt, will, for S3 oenta, with age, height, / \
color of eyea and look of hair, send a CORRECT PtC-f vBO* '
TL'RR of your future husband or wlfo, wish name, im| a
and plaoo of moetint, and date of Barriofc*. peychokr. J
lcally predicted. Money returned to *ll not latielled. VSsSEi-SPef
Addrw Prof. P. Martinn. 10 Mont', Pl..Uo,um. M
T f\ O fll MANHOOD restored. Free
I .I I I Cure sent to the afflicted.
Address KING 4 CO. Indianapohs^lnd
IRS. LYDIA L PIHIHIM, OF LYM, MISS..'
V £&&&&&
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B
iVEGETABLE COMPOUND, j
In n Powltlve Cure
for *ll these Petwffcl Complaints on* Wmlmmm
s* common to on— boot fcmnle population.
It wilt euro entirely the woret form ef Female Com
plaints, all ovarian t roubles, Inflammation and Dleera
tlon, Falling and Dleplaramonta, ami tlia consequent
Spinal Weakneaa, and la particularly adapted to the
Change of Ufa.
It will dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus In
an early stage of development. The tendency to can
eoroua humors there la checked very speedily by Ite nae.
It remove# falntneea, flatulency, destroys all craving
for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach.
It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration,
General Lability, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi
gestion.
That feeilng of bearing down, causing pain, weight
and backache. Is always i>ennaneittly cured by Its use.
It will at all times and under all circumstances act In
harmony with the laws that govern the female system.
For the cure of Kidney Complaints of eltbsr sax this
Compound Is unsurpassed.
I.TDIA E. PIS KH AMM VEGETABLE COM
POUND la prepared at 238 and >36 Western Averine,
Lynn, Mesa Price sl. Sls bottles for 6. Sent by mall
In tba form of pills, also in the form of losengeo, en
receipt of price, |1 per box for either. Mrs. Pink bam
freely answers all letters of Inquiry. Send for psmph
let. Address as abovs. Mention ikl s Paper.
No family should ha without LYDIA C. FIN A SAM'S
IJVKR PILLS. They sure constipation, billon tutsstt t
and torpidity of thr liver. K oenta per box.
Meld br all Druaalsts. -©•
!* y. porcelain-lined Pumps are manufactured I
urd*r i i cense, and buyers are guaranteed against
any and ail claims from the f ompany holding the
patent. Don't fail to make a note of
tfiio
& \
rBM WSJKZM
Carefully made \ ALL
of i \ the most
Best Selected \ \ Valuable
Timber. \ \ Improvements.
wmwrsjm: y
Tl.e BLATCHLEY PUMPS are for .sale by the
be.t houses in the tra e.
Name of my nearest agent will be furnished on
application to
C. G. BLATCWLEY, Manufacturer,
308 MARKET ST.. PHILADELPHIA, PA.
BUPr.RTVS* Olehreted Rlflffle BrOMh
Leading Shot tiuus at #l3 np.
Double Barrel Breach Loader*, §lB Dp.
Fereliend A Wediwerih Choke bore Win-
Kle Breeeh I.oiling (.una, at tM.ISO up,
iassleand Breeeh LoadiagGanaaad Pis
*leof mod approved Erurd-h and American makes.
11 kind* of Sporting Isuplesuenta and artt>
alee required by uportsmeli and Gnnmakere.
JO*. C. OKtJKHA to.. Tit Mnrhet U,
■snaß-oeDt siianp for PrioeJAst. Philadeiubla,
RUPTURE.S3S^S
in t t ~ *-j a—BwrAw Tuwiwa r | u ■
SvA kW.IL onwWee.tAJtrwtV.lt. SSi AACa ■,fSSW.
Monuments ant Gravestones!
I will allow liberal commission to good F artle *
anywhere who will sell tor me.
Wathan's Marble Works,
57 Lafayette Place y
NEW YORK.
■■ | PpASTOPPEp FREE
JTorMiMU IUOMM,
I I
I NERVE RESTORER
aB Bbaiw * Nrbti Dtsmisßs. (mp iun
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■ 4-n fity'MUtt. Treatise and $2 trial fcottlefreeta
■V. p, tlents,they paylD* preae.JfadMH*
= o and express address to Da. KLIHS,*9E
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Medical ant Snnical Mtnte.
For the treatment of diseases of men only. Dl
eases of the generative organs recent or chronlo,
blood poison, pains in the flesh and bones, red
spots, ulcers, strictures, kidneys and bladder,
weakness, nervous and general debility, prema
ture decay, mental and physical prostration, and
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,
DBS. J. W. GRINDLE and A. D. GREY,
Physicians and Surgeons,
171 West 12th Street, New York.
ONX.Y 5207
for thta style of PHILADELPHIA
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the market. lie-member, toe
ecndittobeexamined.be fore
you pay for it. Tbiatatheeama
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IPOU* All Machines warranted tor
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