TOPICS OF THE DAT.
M. Victor Saint Paul has placed
$5,000 at the disposal of the Paris
Academy of Medicine as a prize to
any person, whatever may bo his voca
tion or nationality, who shall succeed
in discovering an infallible means of
curing diphtheria.
It is expected that the Washington
monument will be completed in the
spring of 1885. When the 500 vertical
feet of masonry, surmounted by a pyra
midal cap fifty feet high, have been
actually finished, an imposing cere
monial will, of course, be necessary to
crown the work, and Washington
people are already looking forward to
that event
The nettle is cultivated to some ex
tent in Germany. A thread is obtain
ed from it, the finest known to the
trade, so fine that sixty miles in
length of it weighs only two and one
half pounds. Some scientific farmer
of inquiring turn of mind will experi
ment with the troublesome and much
despised thistle some of those days
and discover that it, too, may be use*
fuL
Miss Ada Parker is a girl of nine
teen. who lives on a cotton plantation
two miles from Monroe, La. For the
last four years she h;is hail exclusive
charge of the place, upon which her
widowed mother, sister and two young
er brothers reside, supporting them
all by her industry. She is her own
overseer, supervising all work done in
person, and no brawny son of Ceres
knows better how to raise a crop or
handle labor.
On loard the Pacific mail steamer
Australia is a rather venerable China
man called John Tuck, who is nearly
blind and does only light work. Many
years ago one of the company's
ships was taking a cargo of gold from
California to llong Kong. A fire
broke out, the Chinese sailors were
demoralized, and this man controlled
them. It was owing to him that the
crew did not seize everything for a
. piratical expedition. The company
would not part with John Tuck after
that.
It is said that the Prince of Monte
negro, who, some time ago, closed all
the cafes and drinking shops in his
domain, regarding them as schools of
effeminacy, extravagance and corrup
tion, and abolished all titles, so that
while formerly every other man in
Montenegro was an "excellency," now
even the ministers have to be content
with plain " Mr.," has recently issued
an interdict against all " luxurious
wearing apparel," including cravats,
gloves, walking-sticks, parasols and
umbrellas.
France has a hangman Marwood.
His name is Deibler. He Is forty
eight years old, and of a tall, com
manding figure. He enjoys a salary
of $1,200 besides considerable per
quisites, in addition to which his son
is exempt from military service. M.
Deibler complains of lack of work
since the accession of President Grevy,
there having been but eight executions
within the last five years, whereas M.
Deibler's predecessor was fortunate
enough to assist forty-three persons
into the other world in the years 1871-
However much the farming classes
may complain of the vicissitudes of
the season and the consequent uncer
tainty of agriculture, remarks the
Cultivator, yet there are more element?
of certainty in this industry than any
commercial or manufacturing enter
prise. Statistics of business, records
of bankrupt courts, the experience of
merchants and manufacturers, all go
to prove this proposition. The abject
poverty and real suffering which ex
ist in large cities and towns are large
ly out of proportion to the population
as compared with the rural districts.
The will of George Harstow, of San
Francisco, disposing of an estate valu
ed at SBO,OOO. was filed for probate
recently. In it he says: Having
observed that ostentation and expen*
sive funerals are injurious to the peo
ple, often absorbing money which
poverty can't well spare to vanity and
pride, therefore, byway of example
for which I beg pardon of the under
takers, let my coffin be a plain red
wood box, put together with plain
nails or screws, without paint or
varnish and plain iron handles, and all
else about the funeral to correspond
with this plainness. Let there be a
cheap shroud and no flowers. What
is a dead man but a handfuj of dust?
Instead of a hearse I may just as well
he carried to the grave upon some
ordinary vehicle in every-day use,
since life is but a journey and the day
of death the final rest."
Dr. P. P. Deherain maintains that
the electric light contains rays hurtful
to vegetation, but these, he says, can
be held back by transparent glass. The
light itself, he finds, contains enough
of the rays useful to vegetation to
maintain the life of plants two months
and a half; but the quantity of favor
able ravs is too small to bring crops to
a condition of maturity.
LATEST NEWS.
LONDON, Oct. 2d The Spanish Council
pesterday examined claims of American citi-
eens for losses incurred dnring the Cuban re-
volt. No decision was reached.
Gen. Bouet, late commander of thoFiench
forces in Tonquin, has arrived at Marseilles.
The total number of fresh cases of cholera
si AVxandria, Egypt, is reported at 2, r >, and
iit is even said that tho disease has reappeared
at Cairo.
A large number of seditions placards in the
German and Czech languages, signed "exec
utive committee." were circulated at Vienna
yesterday. The authors have not yet boon
1 ir res tod.
The National] Convention or Fire l.ngi
leers in session at New Orleans, discussed a
auuiber of topics, including intlaminable
uis, spontaneous combustion, a uniform
uethod of reporting fires, and insurance.
The earthquakes experienced in Limn,
Peru on Sept. 2J did no ham Their effects
were more severely felt at Arvquipa, where a
number of houses fell, and it is believed
.lamage has been done in other towns, which
ha\e not yet been heard from.
In Philadelphia Cnpt. A. C. Rand and Mate
Thos. Pender, of the steamer tropic, who
were convicted in the United States District
Court of violating the neutrality laws by fur
dishing arms and ammunition to insurgents
in Hayti, were sentenced to one ) ear's im
prisonment Aiul to pay a lino of s."* 0.
The President to-dnj signed the conunis
iion of Beuj. Butterworth as commissioner
jf planets, vice Edgar M. Marble, resigned
In the Criminal Court at St. Louis Judge
Noonau decided in the case of the State vs
Donnelly that poker is a game of chance,
uid, under the Johnson law, felony.
Mrs. David Moses died in Baltimore re
vntly. She was famous as being the fattest
s'irl in the United States, ller maiden name
was Blanche Gray. Just one mouth ago lust
night sho was married.
The report of the Mormon missions in th
Sandwich Islands shows a membership ol
3,' XX). The King was present at the Septem
ber conference on the island. The church
own a large sugar plantation there.
GENERAL MOWS.
LONDON, Oct. 2f>. —Th© Emperor of Austria
said yesterday, in addressing the Austrian
and Hungarian delegation, that the relations
between Austria and other foreign powers
were satisfactory.
Many of the inhabitants of Smyrna are
fleeing from that city on aooonnt of their
fear of further earthquakes. The govern
ment has sent a sufficient quantity of lumber
to construct .".00) sheds for those rendered
homeless by the recent catastrophe. The td
itors of the local newspapers have formed a
committee for the aid of the sufferers. Slight
shocks are still occurring at long intervals,
but are doing no damage.
Nashville, Tenn., has prohibited fortune
telling within tho city limits.
Three hundred children died from diph
theria in and around Greensboro, N. C., re
cently.
The Marine Hospital surgeon at Browns
ville, Texas, reports that the yellow fever is
traveling north.
W. H. Stuart, who has returned to Tomb
stone. Arizona, from the Swisshelm Moun
tains, says the Apaches have been routed by
the Mexican troops with great slaughter.
The Mobile Register Bays: "If the Mormons
send eighteen missionaries to the Southern
States, as they say they will do, they will
send eighteen candidates for tar aud feath
ers."
It is announced that work will soon begin
on the construction of the New York, Phila
delphia and Norfolk railroad from Delmar
south through Salisbury, Md., to Pocomoke
City. When completed it will be 26 miles
long, and be a great feeder to the Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore road.
Advices from Austin, Texas, say that Post
office Inspector General Edgerton, of St.
Louis, who has been investigating the affairs
of Inspector P. Fostor at that plaee, has
found evidenoo showing that Foster's course
fur the past five years has been highly crimi
nal, and disclosing the falsification of vouch
ers for a large sura and various other irregu
lar and corrupt practices.
General Rosecruns is out inn card denying
the accuracy of a report in the Washington
Republican, in which he is represented as re
flecting on the conduct of General Wood at
the battle of Chickainauga.
Fifty-five murderers have been committed
in Logan county, Ky., since 186a, and no*
one of them has been hanged. Only two of
them were sentenced to life imprisonment,
and one of the two was pardoned.
One of the Mexicans implicated in the
murder of four men near Gardner, Col., re
cently, was captured, a rope tied round his
neck, the other end made fast to a horse and
the horse frightened into a run. The culprit
was dragged uutil life was extinct.
Specials from Casa Grande, Mexico, con
firm the reports of an engagement between
Indians and Mexican cavalry near that place*
The Mexican authorities refuso to tell the
number of wounded and killed, but from nn
American surgeon at that place it is h arned
that the hospital is fnll. The Indians have
broken camp and separated into roving
bands of eight and ten, and are raiding the
surrounding country.
There has been a heavy fall of snow in
Vermont and * ew Hampshire.
The medicine factory, packing house and
offices of Dr. J. H. M'-Lean, Cincinnati, have
beeu burned. Loss about $150,000.
The wholesale clothing house of Stern*
Trautman & Co., Philadelphia, has failed'
with liabilities amounting to £1 0 OX).
Albert Finzer, of Fryer's Creek Valley,
near Newcomerstown, Ohio, murdered his
wife and three children and then committed
suicide.
The sharp municipal contest in Baltimore
has been decided at the polls, and resulted in
the election of Hon. Ferdinand C. Latrobe
democrat, for mayor by 3,485 majority over
Mr. J. Monroe Heiskell, the candidate of the
citizens' party.
Two strangers calle 1 at the farmhouse of
James Crawford, near Clinton Falls, Ind.>
and asked for supper, and while it was being
prepared knocked Mr. and Mrs. Crawford
senseless with clubs and stole sla. The aged
couple are not expected to recover.
In New York, in the case of Dr. G. Fayette
Taylor, who sued the Elevated Railroad Com
pany for damages for running their trains
past a house he had rented for hospital pur
poses previous to the erection of the road
the jury awarded the plaintiff £2O 000 dam
ages.
The Commissioner of Pensions has sus
pended from practicing in his department J.
M. Rouse, Frank N. English, F. G. McDonald,
E. H. Taylor, Geo. W. Johns for issuing
fraudulent circulars and charging illegal
fees. The Commissioner recommends appli
cations to made direct to the departments,
where justice done to them.
The Civil-Service Reform Association of
New York, George William Curtis president,
gives notice that its constitution "absolutely
prohibits the use of the name or influence of
the association for the purpose of procuring
office or promotion for any person or in aid
of any party, and that neither the name or
.nfluence of the association will be so used."
The best time on the mil on record in Vir
ginia was made on the* Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, between Louisa Court House and
Richmond. The express, behind time, with
a clear track, was ordered to make all time
possible to Richmond, when the distance, <>2
miles, was run in exactly 00 minutes without
any accident.
Second-Assistant Post master-General El
mer has submitted his annual report to the
Postmaster-General. The cost of transpor
tation on star, steamboat and rnilrond routes
for the year, as shown by the report, was
SIO,2!U,SOD. The cost of the same items for
the year onded Juno: 0,1882, was SIB,BBI 0 >2.
LONDON, Oct 23. —A royal decree has been
issued at Madrid providing that henceforth
general officers shall hold staff appointments
for only three years. The enforcement of
this decree will involvo the resignation of
one captain general, seven lieutenant gene
rals. Ave field marshals and forty brigadiers.
This is the first step in the new scheme for
the reform of the army.
The French Yellow Rook is out.
The False Prophet has been defeated.
Martin Bernard, the French author and
Republican statesman is dead, aged seventy
five years.
Lieutenant Viand, who was the author ot
the report printed in the Paris Figaro of the
17th instant, that the French sailors massa
ored the natives nt Hue after they had ceased
resistance, has been removed from active
service.
Order has been restored at Port an Prince.
Fifteen hundred lives were lost, and § 1,(100,-
(XX) damage was done during the recent mas
sacre. The diplomatic bodies, fearing a rep
etition of the scenes of the 22d ult., should
the insurgent steamer Eider land, have
agreed to take charge of her if she appears
here. On the 3d inst. the Haytian war
steamer Dessolines arrived under the Ameri
can ting, and afterward proceeded to Cnpt
llaytian. The government is trying to raise
there the balance due on the steamer. On
'he .0 h ult. the government jorees attacked
Miragoane, and were repulsed with severe
loss. Generalissimo Piquiuut was mortally
wounded.
The Clarion, Pa., papers report that cattle
cholera is prevailing to an alarming extent
in portions of Washington, Knox and Farm
ingtou townships. Vigorous complaint is
made that many j>ersons fail to bury the
cattle when they die, leaving them to rot in
the fields and woods, thus increasing and
spreading the infection.
Vice-President lloxie, of the International
Railroad, has written to Gov. Ireland, ot
Texas, that business will not justify the run
uing of separate coaches to nccoinmodate
the colored people. Under the recent civil
rights decisions he says : "Wo can now make
colored men take the seate we desire." The
Governor replied that the difficulty involved
the ponce of society. There is but one reui
dy, and that is to provide coaches for each
color. 110 sincerely regrets that the road
will not do what seems reasonable and what
other trunk lines in Texas have done.
Washington Motes
District Attorney Corkhill has addressed a
letter to the Secretary of the Interior as the
first step in n movement on tho part of the
government to put a stop to the praoticos of
dishonest pension claim agents. In the
course decided upon Attorney-General Brews
ter, Seiretary Teller and CommissioneJ Dud
ley are cordially united. Col. Corkhill is
very desirous that all soldiers or others hav
ing copies of deceptive circulars from agents
in this city, or knowledge of any fraudulent
transactions on their part, should so far in
terest themselves in this attempt of tho au
thorities to protect soldiers and their fami
lies as to send him full information, to tho
end that eneh case may be put in shape by
sntcinl agents for legal prosecution.
The United States naval advisory board
me recommended the construction of seven
low vessels in the work of reconstructing the
mannered fleet. One of these is to be of the
ize and character of the Chicago, now in
lourse of construction, and will cost $1,295,-
XX): one like the Boston, and to cost $936,00);
i third like the Dolphin, and to cost $482,10 >;
two heavy-armed cruising gunboats, to cost
£1,0J2,t 00; and two light-draught gunboats,
to cost $538,000. The board disapproves the
tugge a ion of providiug a number of vessels
if extremely high speed designed especially
for the destruction of commerce.
Dispatches from Walnut Kidg*, Mo., an 1
tlur places, received late last Wednesday
night, say that the men who stopped the train
on the Iron Mountain Road were woodchop
pers, who were expecting a lot of supplies.
When they found that the goods were no',
aboard the train, they retired without furt a r
de nonstration.
The commissioner of pensions has discav
ered, it is said, irregularities in the practice
of Belva A. Loekwood, the female lawyer
who has a large number of cases pending
before the pension bureau, and it is under
stood that the question of suspending her
from practicing before the bureau is now
jeing considered by the commissioner and
ihe Secretary of the Interior.
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BUTTER—Western prime. 24 © 26
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EGGS 22 @ 25
CATTLE 575 @ 600
SWINE 0 @ 7> 4
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Tacks.
A tack is a simple, unpretending
sort of a young nail, noted for its keen
repartee when pressed for a reply, and
possessing the peculiar power, when
standing on its head, of causing the
cold shivers to run down the back in
mere anticipation of what might be.
Tacks are in season all tho year round,
but (he early spring is usually the time
selected by them for a grand combined
effort, and then they flourish every
where for at least a month. Sineo tho
inauguration of the time-honored cere
monies of house-cleaning, every thor
ough house-keeper with long experi
ence in the line of duty, so takes up the
carpet :us to retain all the tacks in their
original places, thus preventing it slip
ping from the shaker's hands, unless
the tack breaks or his linger gives out.
Hut the triumph of the tack is not
complete at this early stage ; it pa
tiently abides its time, and on the relay
ing of the carpet issues forth with
double force. After searching tho en
tire house for a paper of tacks, without
success, the unfortunate man drops on
his knees to begin, and immediately
discovers four tacks at least, and as ho
rolls over and and over and finally sits
down to extract these, finds the rest of
the paper directly under him, and then,
unless ho is accustomed to put up
stoves and join stovepipes, the chances
of laying the carpet are on that even
ing are slight. In selecting tacks from
a saucer ho always inspects the points
with his forefinger, as the tack in
stantly loses its head when they come
to blows. In argument the tack is
sharp and pointed; but the display of
either or both depends largely on the
amount of pressure employed by its
opponent. In direct contrast ton good
joke, the amusement generally begins
before you see the point, and this fact
is easily demonstrated by walking the
iloor in your stocking feet, a well kept
room on such an occasion averaging
two tacks to the square foot. The fu
ture of the tack gives great promise
of more extended usefulness and un
limited possibilities, as several of our
most eminent college professors have
carefully studied the effect of a sharp
tack of reasonable length placed prop
erly in a chair or under a cot, are about
to introduce tacks and do away with
spring-boards in our college gymna
siums.
How Japanese Restore Faded Flowers.
After a bouquet Is drooping beyond
all remedies of fresh water the Japa
nese can bring it back to all its tirst
glory by a very simple and seemingly
most destructive operation. A recent
visitor to Japan says:
"I had received some days ago a de
lightful bundle of flowers frym a Jap
anese acquaintance. They continued
to live in all their beauty for nearly
two weeks, when at last they faded.
Just as I was about to have them
thrown away the . same gentleman
(Japanese gentleman) came to see me.
I showed him the faded flowers, and
told him that, though lasting a long
time, they had now become useless.
'Oh, no,' said he, 'only put the ends of
the stems into the tire, and they will
be Jis good as before.' I was incredu
lous; so he took then, himself and held
the stems in the lire until they were
charred. This was in the morning; at
evening they were again looking fresh
and vigorous, and have continued so
for another week. What may bo the
true agent in this reviving process I
am unable to determine fully; whether
it be the heat driving once more the
last juices into every leaflet and vein,
or whether it be the bountiful supply
of carbon furnished by the charring.
I am inclined, however, to the latter
cause, as the full efleet was not pro
duced until some eight hours after
ward, and as it seems that if the heat
was the principal agent, it must have
been much sooner followed bv visible
changes."
How to Foretell Weather.
When the temperature falls sudden
ly there is a storm forming south of
you.
When the temperature rises sudden
ly there is a storm forming north of
you.
The wind always Mows from a re
gion of fair weather toward a region
where storm is forming.
Cirrus elouds always move from a
region where a storm is in progress
toward a region of fair weather.
Cumulus elouds always move from a
region where a storm is forming.
Where cirrus clouds are moving rap
idly from the north or northeast there
will ho rain inside of twenty-lour
hours, no matter how cold it is.
When cirrus clouds are moving rap
idly from the south or southeast there
will he a cold hailstorm on the morrow
if it he in the summer, and if it he in
winter there will he a snowstorm.
The wind always hlows in a circle
around a storm, and when it hlows
from the north, the heaviest rain is
east of you; if it hlows from the south
the heaviest rain is west of you; if it
hlows from the east the heaviest rain
is south.
The wind never hlows unless rain or
snow is falling within one thousand
miles of you.
Whenever heavy, white frost occurs
a storm is forming within one thou
sand miles northwest of you.
Telephone Jack.
Jack is a coach dog that found his
master hy telephone. In some way
Jack got lost, and fortunately was
found hy one of his master's friends
who went to his office and asked by
telephone if the man had lost his dog
"Yes; where is he?" was the reply,
"lie is here; suppose you call him
through the telephone?"
The dog's ear was placed over the
ear-piece, and his master said,
"Jack, Jack—how are you, Jack?"
Jack instantly recognized the voice
and began to yelp, lie licked the tel
ephone fondly, seeming to think that
his master was inside the machine.
At the other end of the line the gen
tleman heard the familiar bark and
shortly after reached his friend's oilice
to claim his property.
A Voice from the Northwest.
MILWAUKEE, WlS —The Daily Sen
tinel, which is the leading morning
paper of this state, writes: "St. Jacob's
Oil, the wonderful remedy for rheu
matism, has been used by a large num
ber of people in this city, and with
effect truly marvelous."
Education in England costs sl4 a
lead on the average.
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Theory flirt Concern*
tlio U'dfiiro, llnppliicsM uud Ufo
of Kwy one.
Tn his quiet and cozy library at the close of
n busy dftv snt a gentleman and hi* wife, he
absorbed in a new look and she in tho news
paper. Quickly glancing toward her hus
hand, she asked, ut a certain point iu the ar
ticle.
"John, what is the germ theory ("
"Tho germ theory— we'l—yes; just look in
tho eneyclo. o lia under ' dorm,' that will ex
plain it. so nmch better than I ran."
Accordingly his wifo ojiened th° book at
the word named, and real: derm Theory of
Disrosi—a theory advanced by the ablest
and beet Investigators and scientists of the
times. It supposes tho surface of tho e irt h.
the air an 1 water to be inhabited to a gr< at or
orle-s extent with a peculiar growth of the
lowest form of l'ungi- c >mmonly termed
bacteria, whose pow, r of reproduction, un hr
.favorable conditions, is so groat that a single
germ will increase to fifteen million in
twenty-four hours'time, and unchecked in
its increase would grow to a mass of eight
hundred tons in three days' time, if spaceaud
food be fund-died. There is no condition
under which it can b > said to l>o als-nt, un
less it bo from lire or a r filtered through
cotton tatting in numerous layers. A single
drop of water containing a germ, ] ut into
water boiled, filtered and thus freed from
liacterin, will grow murky in a day or two
from the doveh -pm >nt of now germs. W hen
it is considerM that it requires about forty
billion to weigh one grain, some remote i lea
can lie had of the caj acity of germ repro
duction. l'rofessor John Tynd&il, in a lute
work, elaborately treats of the influence
of germs in the propagation of dist-a e and
charges ujou this cause, the inception and
"development of very many of the ailments
most injurious to man. 1 rofeesor I'astcur,
an eminent French savant, has carried his
original and beautiful exjieriinents so fur,
aiel from them de lucod such practical results
us very grvatly to diminish the number of
cures of uuihruK among sheep and chicken
cholera utnong fowls,—pro. mg his theory
that these are essentially and actually germ
diseases. These germs are carried into the
system through the lungs, the stomach ami
possibly tho skin, but through tho lungs
chielly. Once in the sy-tom, they begin to
develop, poisoning the blood, invading tlio
nerve centers, disturbing tho functional
activity of the great organs of the bixly and
inducing a general impairment of the vital
processes. I'hey nre the cause of fevers,
rheumatism, Bright'* disease of the kidneys,
j >llOlllllOlllll, blood lois'.niug, liver disease,
diphtheria and many other ailments. Lately
l'rol'e sor Koch, a uinious < .'erman physician,
has proved ti at consum; tion of tho lungs is
due to this cause—the presence of a peculiar
germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
nerves clust.c and the system all aglow with
life and energy, tho germs st em to develop
4>oorly, if at ail. But with weakened nerves,
pocrdige Lioimr mul assimilation of loodora
lowering of vitality from an\ cause, a change
endues, and in this impoverished and weaken
ed lluid the germ find', a gonial home and
develops until symptoms of distase are dis
tinctly manifest <l. This is seen in the every
day exp rience of all. The healthy man resists
theini ueuces around liim and does not take
i old. while those whose systems have become
weak from any cause reidily i-ont a -t colds.
This is on the in no principle as the germ
theory. 'i"he germs attack any weakened
spot in the I ody, and fixing themselves upon
it, begin their propagation. It is plain there
tore that it is only by fortifying the weak
portions of the body that tho germs of dis
ease <an l-o resisted and driven from the
system. But this has proved almost an im
possibility heretofore, and it has been fhe
study of phys ias for y< ars how best to ac
complish it. Within the past few ye rs, h>w
ever, a preparation hnsbeen attracting great
attention, not only throughout the entire
land, but among the medical profession and
-cienti ts generally, which is ba-ed upon this
theory, ami it may safely be said, nc remedy
has ever beenfoui d which can so successfully
place tho .-.ystem iu a condition to resist the
germs of disease as Warner's Safe Cun. '1 hi*
article is unouest onubly tho best and most
efllcient that has ever been discovered for this
purp so, and—
"John, i ay, John! does the encyclopedia
advertise Warner's Bafe Cure?"
"I should not wonder, clear; it's a grand
remedy, and that ]<ainphlet we received the
other uav stated that Dr. (Juun, of the United
States Medial cohere, indorsed it. At all
events the wonderful cures it is aoc- >mpli>hing
entitle it to IXJ honorably noted among the
great discoveries of the present century."
However the facts above stated may be, the
truth remains that the germ theory of disease
is the correct one, and that the gnat remedy
mentioned is the on'.y one which has ever
l>een found that - an put the system in a con
dition to kiil these germs before they obfc-iin
a hold upon the body, and undermino the
life.
There are two colored women lawyers in
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A TOTAI. ECLIPSE
of all other medicines by Dr H. V. Pierce's
"Golden Medical Discovery" is approaching.
Unrivailed in bilious disorders, impnre blood
and consumption, which is scrofulous dis
ease ol the lungs.
Schoolmasters should be entitled to rank
among the ruling classes.
An effective medicine for kdney diseases,
low fevers and nervous prostration, and weL
worthy of a trial, is Brown's Iron Bitters.
A man don't have to live long in Paris to
learn the road to Rouen.
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Dr. Pierce's "Pellets"—the original "Lit-
Liver Pills ' (sugar-coated) —cure sick and
billious headache, sour stomach audbillious
attacks. By druggists.
#Not what it is cracked up to bo—a worm
eaten nut.
CLUTBVILLK, Ala. —Dr. W. Carter says: "1
have used Brown's Iron Bitters in my own
family for indigestion with great benefit.
The horse prefers to dine at the table d'oat.
Young men or middle-aged ones, suffering
from nervous debility and kindred weak
nesses should send three stamps for Part
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Tho dentists will take the stump as usual.
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or mail for 2c.stamp. E. S. Wells, Jersey City.
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and whites in California, the brides have
invariably beon young Irish girls.
Decline of Man.
Nervous Weakness. Dyspepsia, Impotence, De
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ScwiiiK-.llurhlno Industry.
These remarkable items pour into our office
daily. Mr. H. S. FULLER, with the New Home
Machino Company, of Orange, Mass., writes.
May 23,1883: "I have used Hunt's Remedy
in my family for over ten years. My wife
was troubled with catarrh of tho bladder,
suffered intense pain in the kidnoys and
loins, and urination was accomplished with
the greatest of agony. My friends thought
that sho could not recover. We tried doctors
and medicine", trnd although better at times
she would grow worse again. Shewnsobligod
to use the urinal as many as fifteen times in
a night, and was growing worse daily. At
this time my attention was called to Hunt's
Remedy, and I concluded to try it: and after
using one bottle she was a good deal better,
the inflammation was reduced, and the water
more natural. She bogan to gain in nppetite
and felt no pain in the back and kidneys.
She could attend to lior household work
without pain, and this had been a great
burden to do, even the lightest kind of work.
After using six tottles sho was completely
cured. Since then I have had occasion to
use Hunt's Remedy for kidney and liver com
plaints, and found it to bo just as represented,
and 1 consider it a most wonderful medicine.
I would not be without Hunt's Remedy in
my family; and I have Recommended it to
my friends hero in Orango with equally good
results."
Walking mndo enny with Lyon's He>el Stiff
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Physicians declare it superior to all other oils.
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Mr. L. Itny, 44 Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn,
says l)r. Elmore's K.-O. saved his life; four
large bottles cured his dyspepsia, kidney and
liver diseases, which si* doctors had failed to
help, and of which he expected to die soon.
A child that wakes with croup should havo
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THE lIAIMVWOICKIXtt MAN. ~
He was a hard-working man, and for a good many years ne had been
working twice as hard as any man ought t£; work. *
He said he had a splendid constitute and that he could stand it.
He forgot that as years passes on the waste of the system is much
greater than in youth, while the repair of it is less.
He became weak, debilitated, nervous, and despondent. He regarded
the future with dread, and said he had worked himself into an untimely
grave. ' ' ' '
But he was not taken to the cemetery at all. Instead of that, a good
friend brought him some Brown's Iron Bitters.
He began to pick up strength That was what he wanted. Brown's
Iron Bitters enriched his failing blood and put new life into him. It toned
up his digestive organs so that his food began to nourish him and do him
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Blessed Benefkctors,
When a board of eminent physicians and obMnW#
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pensed with, many were skeptical; but proof of its
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the discoverers of that great medicine. Hop Bitten, are
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whero these Bitten are used, BO variod and perfect are
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They givo new life And vigor to the aged and Infirm.
To all whoee employments cause irr g llarity of the
bowel* or ur'nary organs, or who require an Appetiser,
Tonic and mild Stimulant, theiO Hitters arc Invaluable,
being highly curative, tonic and gtimulatlng, without
: intoxicating.
No matter what your feelings or sympto ns are, what
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until you are sick, hut if you only feel ba 1 or miserable,
use the Hitters at onco. It may aive yotir life. Hun
dreds have been saved by o doins. will
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Do not suffer yourself or lot your friends Suffer, but
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"I was troubled for many years with serious Kidney
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such a complication of ailments that no doctor could
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small fortune in humbug stuff. Bix months ago I saw a
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to be wis o:n, and two bottles cured her, she is now u
i well and strong as any man's wife, and it cost me only
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