MANY YEARS AGO. By the lake beyoml the meadow, Where the hiiee blow, A* the young moon dipt and lifted Her reflected bow. Lived and died a dream ot beauty. Many years ago. Something made the milk-niute blossom* Even whiter grow : Something gave the dying sunset An intetiser glow. And enriched the ctip of pleasure. Filled to overflow. Hope was frail, and passion fleeting ; It m often *o ; Vision* bom of golden un*et* With the sunset* go ; To have loved is to havs suffered Martyrdom l>elow. By the lake beyond the meadow, Where the ltltee blow, tflu the glory there thai perished None siiall ever know. When a human heart was broken Many years ago. Prime* *• Cheap I whl. The consumption of prune* in this country has very much increased of late years, not only among out foreign born citizens who acquired their fond ness for this fruit at home, hut also among native Americans, who are now largely using prunes in preference to domestic dried fruits. Thejr haTc the advantage of being relatively much cheaper than any of our native dried fiuits, and there ate none of the Utter that are more wholesome or can be served more palatably. Our imports of Turkish prune* coiue from Servia. Bosnia and Trieste, the fruit frem the two former now coming mixed. These prunes roots in casks weighing from I,;M> to 1,400 lb*., atul we have received thus far in the trade year, beginning September Ist, 1875, about ltl.oUo cwaks, equal to 31.000,000 Uuv. while our total receipts during the whole ot last year were only S,'.**'• casks, or about HWfl,- 000 lbs. Turkish prtiues sell very largely at the West, their chief consu mers being the foreign settlers, to whom their cheapness is an important consideration. French prunes general ly are of much better quality than Turkish, ami *cll considerably higher. They are consumed chiefly a( the East. French primes come in kegs and eases, the latter containing frem to to 00 lbs. each, the average being a Unit 50 lbs. We have received since September Ist. 138,000 cases of these good-, and our imports for the year will pretwbly reach 140,tW cases. The large prunes, naming from 40 to 45 to the pouud. are tlie most desirable, but the sizes frem 50 to 85 are all staple. Smaller prunes, ranging frem !k> to 105 to the pouud, are generally of inferior quality, as they inclinle windfalls and other un matured fruit—and their sale is small. The quality of our imports this year has for the most part been very good, ud the consumption has never before leen on so liberal a scale or so general. Notwithstanding tlio very liberal re ceipts the preseut stock is not exces sively large except of stuall French fruit. Turkish and large French are pretty wrell sold tip, though enough are held in sunk to supply all current requirements and to keep the price of the former down to an unusu ally low point, which must serve to increase their popularity as an article of food. i; xpluralliiu ol Ike Ureal Xahsrn. The intrepid French traveler, I-ar geau, hasjust concluded his prepara tions at Biskra, in Algiers, for his second journey across the great African desert. He will be accompanied by three gentlemen and a merchant of C'hateaudun, the latter carrying a stock of merchandise. They will start from Biskra for Touggourt on camels and mules lent by the French authorities in Algiers. They will there be joiued by a native guide and eigiil native ser vants and camel drivers from Souf. These natives are all intrepid hunters, with a practical knowledge of the great dunes or sand downs on those parts of the*desert which the expedition will have to traverse. The caravan will probably start from Bhadames by the route previously followed by Ikirneau- Duperri, which lies more toward north of the Sahara, and i- more practicable than the one previously traveled by I.argeau. Roth, however, include a dreary ten days' journey without water and over a soil composed of burning sand, swept by frequent whirlwinds ot sand dust suffocating alike to travelers ami their iwa-ts. The expedition starts under very auspicious circumstances. Since the recent capture of the robbers and pirates who infested the northwest of the Sahara, and the arre-t of the as sa--ins of El-Arbi Maineiouek. the late Cadi or Judge of Souf, as well as the occupation of Rhat to the south of Khadames, by the Tripolitans, and the consequent pacification of the country ofTonareggs, this part of the great desert has enjoyed security from rob bers. Danger from wild beasts is not seriously entertained by such a party of travelers, hot what they have most to fear is the Intense heat.* At Biskra the thermometer already marked eighty six degrees in the shade; the heat in creasing between Biskra Ain el (juadra and Khadames to one hundred and four degrees, and rising in proportion as one goes south. Then there are the sudden changes of temperature at night. While at Biskra the night tetii|>eratur<- is projMirtionate to that during the day time, it is notorious that more to the south the thermometer very frequently fails below zero at sunset. Apart from these excessive changes of temjiearture the climate of the desert is considered perfectly healthy. Jefferson, of all our early statesmen, was the most efficient master of the j>en, and the m<>-t "advanced'* political thinker. In one sense, as the author of the Declaration of Independence, he may be called tiie greatest, or at least, the most generally known, of Ameri can authors. But in his private cor respondence his literary talent is most displayed, for by his letters he built up a party which ruled the United States for nearly half a century, and which was, perhaps, only overturned because its opponents cited the best portion* of Jefferson's writings against conclusions derived from the worst. In executive capacity be was relatively weak; hut his mistakes in policy and his feeble ness in administration, which would have ruined an ordinary statesman at tiie head of so turbulent a combination of irascible individuals as the I>enio cratic party of tiie United States, were all condoned by those minor leaders of faction who, yielding to the magic per suasiveness of his pen, assured their followers that the great man could do no wrong. Read in connection with tiie events of his time, Jefferson's writ ings must be considered of permanent value and interest. As a political leader he was literally a man of letters; and his letters ure masterpieces, if viewed as illustrations of the arts by which po litical leadership may be attained. In his private correspondence he was a model of urbanity and geniality. The whole impression derived from ids works is that he was a better man than his enemies would admit liiin to be, and not so great a man as his partisans de clared him to be. Collisions of Nona and ttfat-s. When we duly take all these things into the accout, the case of our solar system will appear as only one of a thousand cases of evolution and disso lution with which the heavens furnish us. Other stars, like our sun, have un doubtedly started as vaporous masses, and have thrown off planets in contract ing. The inference may seem a bold one, but it after all involves no other assumption than that of the continuity of natural phenomena. It is not likely therefore that the solar system will for ever be left to itself. Stars which strongly gravitate toward each other, while moving through the perennially resisting medium, must in time be drawn together. The collision of our extinct sun with one of the Pleiades, after this manner, would very likely suffice to generate even a grander neb ula than the one with which we started. Possibly the entire galactic system may, in an inconceivably remote future, re model itself in this way; and possibly the nebula from which our own group of plauets has been formed may have owed its origin to the difllntregation of systems which had accomplished their career in the depths of the bygone eter nity .—At/antic, "Artistic" llnnse*. The curious chaos ami confusion Into which the age Is plunged In respect to all the principle* of the arts of orna mentation, and its incapacity either to originate any thing, or even to see the necessity of working with It- own ma torials for Its own uses. Instead of mak ing clutnsy adaptations of things out ot date, which were made for habits en tirely different. Is nowhere Ix-tter ex emplified than in those last new modes of furnishing which hurry the Ignorant from auction to auction in search ol the novelties of iho old-fashioned. The amount of absolute fwlslty involved, the newly-fabrloatod old china, with all It* marks atul evidences more con vincing than reality, and the ncwly tnade-up old furniture, sticky with glue ami varnish, is almost less offensive than the fundamental flcliilousne— ol the attempt to make a room of Queen Victoria's time look like a room of Queen Anne's, if not—heaven save the mark—of Queen Kllsabeth's. The age* In which art has reached Its highest have always been those In w hint she ha* worked with the materials nearest to iter hand, and in order to supply the natural requirements of existing lllv, with nothing more than a just respect for the past, but no senility of defer ence to its example or over regard for tradition, lint the very l enter tained by the superior classes, Our room* arc becoming museums, and IVardour street is a sort of Mecca to which the devout continually turn their face*. The man who sets forth Innocently to pay a round of visits to half a do/on recently married frlond may calculate on a sweeping giio aero*- two or threecenturies, through medic* al tiermauy and flowery Renaissance France, with a flight into the East, all in the course of an afternoon. in one house old oak w ill frown on liitn from every -ide; in another delicate mar quetry will thrust it* curved legs in his way; in another he will have a i'hi|>- pcnd.-ile chair to -it down in, and a tiled fireplace to contemplate, and will not ho able to move without brushing up agaiu-t some collection of cracked tea pots or array of old plates against the wall; w hits, last of ail perhaps, he w ill reach a draw ing-room decorated like an Kastern tent, with Arab rugs on the tliHu, and oooi matting* and sea-green draperies to keep out the light of a November dav—each one of them being a sigu and token of the absolute uncer tainty of the gcueial mind as to what Is good or la st, and at the same time of it timorous reluctance to leave the -ale guidance of one dogmatism or other, and trust its own sense of what itself requires. Among the motives for mar riage nowadays, one of the strongest must la l allowed to la' for those who can afford the luxury) the ambition of furnishing a house in some altogether MSthetirai and exquisite way, with a perfection which no one ha* attained liefore. Novelty, indeed, i- very rarely attained, or if attained la-t- imt a very short tiuie, *o eager are the next hatch of neophytes to emulate and excel their predecessor*. But oddity ami inapnro priatcne.-s are easily attained; and as houses unfortunately cannot !*• ordered in character, the contrast of the four square London Victorian walla,looking down cynically and sturdily u)>ou the outlandish garnishing to which they are subject, gives a point to the joke which nothing can surpass. And it is worth noticing that these elaborate and painful attempts to make the domestic circle "artistic," seem to bo gradually pushing out altogether from the decora tion of the English house the higher developments ol art. Old plates which one time in a hundred may bo worth preserving in a collection, auil perhaps onetime 111 a dozen , which la liberal) might be an ornament to the dinner table, are now strung up upon the walls where pictures once hung; or what is still worse than plates, gaudy Japanese fans made for the cheap use of celestial lieasaiits, but which English ladies and gentlemen arrange with simple pride upon their walls, and look upon with a delightful modest consciousness of su perior taste. If, perhaps, those flimsy decorations take the place here and there of the staring {mrtraits with which we were once familiar, there is a cer tain compensation in tiiem; but surely a pretty water-color drawing or a good print is a higher and more reflned kind of decoration than paper fans and din ner plates'? We have nothing to say against a dainty glimmer of pretty old china in a corner, or the use ofa Japau ese fan when it may happen to serve a purpose, and give a quaint little touch of color to a wall en •ittriui-imt the mo ment when it may shield a lady's fare from the Are, or even hide her yaw u in a dull interview, or help a pleasant flirtation. Such legitimate and reason able uses give a sanction to any tiling; but "the artistic feeling" which sub stitutes this kind of foolish ornament for pictures is surely anything but au improvement upon the old traditions of decoration. Photographs are the only pictures popular In such .-esthetic house holds, and particularly those dubiously successful ones which are "taken direct ' from famous pictures; and are, there fore, with curious matter-of-fact com placency, assumed to be more "true" than auy other rendering—just as some unhappy critics will a—ert in face of reason that a horrible black libel on a lovely face "must be like, yoti know," as it is done by the sun himself. otlirlal Weather M a int. In resj>on*e to a circular sent to all the station observers by the chief sig nal-officer, asking for the signs preced ing storms, Signal Service Observer Dumont has recently sent to Washing ton a report for his locality, based upon his own observations, and the weather notes which Major Ingersoll has kept for several years, and Foreman Allin's record. After detailing the action of the instruments before storms, the re port gives the weather signs by which the approach of a storm is heralded, and these by the way, are considered more reliable than tiie instrumental signs. Old weather prophet* w ill he interested in comparing these rules with the maxims which they have drawn from their own observations. We append the signs: 1. Asa rule if the wind touches north east or east for two or three days, it is a sure indication of rain. 2. Dense smoke and haze in early morning portend falling weather. 3. Summer shower* of light charac ter often follow two or three days of smoke or haze. 4. Fog, frost, and dew precede rain twenty-four to forty-eight hours, ex cept fog at tiie close of storms. 5. Wind veering from north or west to south and southeast precedes falling weather. 0. liaios, lunar and solar, also fairly defined and brilliant auroras, precede rain twenty-four to sixty hours. 7. Barometer rising or falling con siderably away from its tneaus, fore bodes falling weather, subject to molli fying influence* of the neighboring ranges of mountains and hills. 8. Precipitation generally follows a rapid influx or reflux of atmosphere. Si. If wind is in the southwest and rain set* in, the rain is of short dura tion and light yield. 10. Ranks of water clouds or heavy haze on the south and southeastern hori zon indicate rain. 11. An area of low barometer at or near Fort Monroe and running up the coast surely reaches here as a north easter. The Japanese ai the Centennial Few persons know, and still less ap preciate, the resources ol Japan. Ever since the famous Terry expedition and the suhsequentope'dngoi some portions of the country to "loreijrnera," the land has bean almost a myth to the civilized word. Even encyclopedias of a recent date fail to give the products of the country. Thanks to the Centennial Exhibition, we are about to Increase our knowledge of the capabilities of this peculiar people. In mechanism espe cially we are learning something, by an inspection ol the building now in the course of erection upon the Centennial grounds. No cabinet work by the most expert joiner has ever excelled the structure which is now going up under the exclusive control of .Japanese mechanics. Their tools excite derision in some quarters, hut that they are ef fective is shown by the character and finish of the work. Outside of this the general exhibitors will reveal some of the wonders of Japan. No less than ninety contributors have already entered their goods, and these embrace articles I which Mill mur amazement to our people. In agricultural product* there will lw display* of plum*, peaches, oulncca, pears, apricot*, |ier*lmmoii* ami all (he other delicate fruit of w lilch we thought two hail a monopoly. In mineral* the ill*plav will lie especially noticeable, ami uill Inclinle *|>ccimcns ol Iron, lead, silver, coal,steel, plumbago, hleinl; ami In cheinlcala, coppera*. vitriol, *ul pliur, ami, Ituleetl, all the article* known to our own laboratories. Textile fabric* Mill make a tine show. Silk, cotton ami woollen gd-are among the a> tides. t)f course there la an expecta tion of seeing |tccinton* of Japanese wootluork, e*|eclallv the well known lacipierej M are. There will !* no ilia ap|Ni|ntnieiit hi this illrectioti. Nearly i every exhlblloi ami the ninety re present nearlt every province In Ja|Mn solid* bamboo WOlk. writing desks, vanes, trays, how la, glove tmxos ami I vessel* toi hobling sweetmeats. Incense j cutis are also largely represented. ill bronze ware there will IK* *e\eral braziers for "warming hands,"together with vasea, (ravsaml other article*. Strange as It mat soutnl, there wilt eten Ih" an exhibit of lieer glasses. Till* wilt IK* supplemented by china ware, wicker work, all In the form of domestic articles. Papei and straw work will aNo form one of their exhibits, and al together, a glance at theulnely Invoices, Indicate* that a great surprise is in store tor those who mat lie fortunate enough to witness the goods when exhibited.— I tee*. To those unhappy American women ' who. when they visit their shoemaker, are obliged to call, though in faint, mor tified tones, tor 5* or (is, letter t\, Mr. Burroughs, author of "Winter-Suit shine," ad minsters generous comfort. He says, lit commenting u|ioti our na tional vanity in "a small, trim foot, well ; booted or gniteml," that "a truly large ami royal nature is never Stunted In the extremities; a little foot never suppor ted a great character." He also adds: "It Is said that Kiiglishmeti, when they ! tlisi coiue to this country, arc tor some time under the impression that Ameri can women all have deform* d feet, they are so coy of them, ami so studiously careful to keep them hid." Again, while discussing, in the same eounection. on the pleasures and benefits of walking, Mr. llurrough re mark- : When you see an English country church withdrawn, secluded, out ot the revel of w heels, standing amid grassy graves, ami -urrounded by noble trees, approached by |iath* and shaded lanes, you appreciate more than ever this l>eau tiful habit qf the people. Duly a race who know how to use their feet, and holds foot-path* sacred, could nut such a charm of privacy and humility into -ueh a -tructure. 1 think 1 should lie tempted to go to church my -elf it 1 saw all inv m-ighbors starting off across the llclds or long path- that led to such charmed spots, and was sure that 1 should not i>e jostled or run over by the rival chariots ol the worshippers at the temple door-. I think this is what ail* our religion; Infmilitv and devoted ties* of heart leave one w lien he lays off hi* walking shoe* and walking clothe* and set* out for church tlraw n by some thing. Indeed, I think it would Is- tanta mount to au astonishing revival of re ligion if the people would all walk to church on Sunday and walk home agalu. Think how the stones would preach to them by the wayside; how their humbled minds would warm up ticneath the friction of the gravel; how their vain and foolish thoughts, their desjioiiding thought.-, their bretting demons of one kind and another, would : drop U-hltid them, unable to keep up or to endure the fresh air. They would i walk away from their ennui, their wordly cares, their uncharltableness, ' their pride of dross; for those devils al ways want to ride, w bile the simple vir tue- are never so happy as when on foot, l-et us walk by all means; but, if we w ill ride, get an ass. Medicine In Ancient Car pi. Ebers, rlie German arctueologlst, lias made an interesting discovery of w bat i- -aid to lie a jsirtiou of one of the lost Hermetic books of medicine. Hitherto all attempts to trace the origin of the re puted Hermetic w rltiiig have failed, and it has been assumed that the great "Hermes" wa- a mythological iiersoii age invented by the earlier alchemists to credit the a-quired knowledge with the authority of antiquity. The manu script, w hen ihorougly deciphered, mar throw some light on this doubtful point; but, even if it fails to do so, the laet tiiat a fragment of Hie lost learning of the Egyptians has been recovered is a mat ter of scientific Interest. The manu script was discovered among the bones of a mummy some years ago by an Arab, and on hi- death it was offered to Dr. Ebers, who eventually purchased It at a considerable price. It consist* of a single sheet papyrus, about sixty feet in length, and the characters are in red and black ink. Judging from the characters, the date of the manuscript may Is- placed about 1,500 year* 11. t'., making it over years old ; and, if written in tlie earlier part of the centu ry, it would have been contemporane ous with the (>eriud of Moses' resilience at the Gourt of Pharaoh. Only a por tion of tlie document lias at present lieen tran-lated by Ebers, including some of Hie headings of the various chapters, such as "tlie secret book of the physi cians." "the science of the teat mg of the heart," "the knowledge of the heart as taught by the priest-physician Neb sceht, "medicines for alleviating ac cumulation of urine and of the abdo men." There Is every reason to sup- j pose that the Egyptians attained a high degree of scientific knowledge at a very early period of their history. At the present day it is still called, we believe, by the Copts the lauid of Kemi. Lindas has suggested that a knowledge of this art was introduced into Europe by the Argonats, who sailed to Colchis to carry j off th.- Golden Fleet*. The CotefciMs, according to Herodotus, were an Egyp tian colony, and Lindas suppose- the Golden Fleece to have In-en aUiok writ- i ten on sheepskin, teaching the method of making gold lv the chemical art. ! The date of tlie Argonautic ex|iedition ' was, according to most rhronographera, 1250 B. C., or Jisi years later than the •upposeed date of Eliers' manuscript. It is to lie lioped that futnre researches may bring to light further evidence of j the scientific history of the past, and go enalilc us to estimate the?degree Of civilization and scientific attainment readied by the early races of mankind. —Lomlon Lancet. liisrcl Siallilira. In 1782 the caterpillars of tiie brown tail niotli were so numerous as to defo liate the tree* of a very large part of the South of England. The alarm was ' so great that public prayers were offered in the churches that thccahuiiity might beatayed. The poor were paid one < shilling ;>er bushel for collecting cater- | pillars' webs to be burned under the In spection of the overseer of the parish; and four score bushels were collected daily in some parishes. Rut on the otber hand, the benefits derived from the labor of some insects should not Is overlooked; some specie.* feed only on noxious weeds, and others prey on still ! more noxious insects. One of the great est friends of the agriculturist Is the ! family of the ichneumon flies, which lay their eggs in the bodies of living caterpillars, in which they are hatched, thus destroying them; although the caterpillar, after being."lchneumoned'" has still a voracious appetite. The ca;> ; erpillars whicli feed on the ealdiage eat twice tlieir weiglit In a day; tiie larva; of some of tiie flesh flies cat a much much larger proportion than this. The ; productive powers of insect* vary very much. Home lay only two eggs; others such as the white ant. 10,000,000, laying them at tiie rate or sixty a minute. The j queen of the beehive is capable of lay ing 50,000 in a season ; the female wasp I JO,OOO. The majority of insects how- j ever, lay but one hundred; in general, ' the larger the insect, tiie fewer eggs it lays. Most Insects have two genera tions in a year; some have twenty;! others take seven years from the time the egg is laid until their death in a jierfect state. Rut probably not above ! five per cent of the eggs laid become j perfect insects. Our insectivorous birds are diligent in destroying the larvae of insects, hut they will not do ail that is required; hard labor is also needed.— London Time. —Wendell Philips nominates Grant for a third term, and Fred. Douglas for the Vice Presidency. AI.KII IXTtKAL. HKXt Foon MN SW INK.— What would IK* considered (III* I >tl I'IMHI Cur HIV IIII* 111 summer wmilil not answer the mum* tiuriMMe In winter. In summer, such It HI. I should IM< given ns would keep I lie animal In nil Improving i-ondtllou, mid would online tin* animal to lay on n lit tle (at, t>ut not no ntiu-li an to cause It to nortec from the heat, nn a fat porker un douhtedlv doea. fouling liasls, mult an plenty of young clover ainl hran and middlings slop,is iv hat we line much of, not forgetting to give regular and abundant nuppllen of frenh, cool water. In putting up \v I lie for exhibition pur ponen, we have Irleil lliailjr different klmln of ft*od for the fall exhibitions, but have found none no denlrahle an a slop made of corn ami oatn ground to gether, one-third of the former, by measure, to two-thlriln of the latter. One ol the bent wain to prepare It In to ncald It at night ami feed next morning, put on the mann only enough hot water to thoroughly moisten It, and then cover up the barrel tight no It can nteam well, and make the mann mellow and nice by uiornlng. If It In found utule nlrable to scald It, luolnlen the uiann with water and then put 111 one or more pann of notir milk- thick milk or clabber—to catiar It to aour by the time it in u*ed. We use both or either plan, and tlud them both gen*!. An an ordi nary nutilllier feed, we have found thin food to answer almost all pur|MMcn, though we do not fee*l no high an when feeding the animals for exhibition pur |Hi.**en, an exjerieiiee ban abundantly proved that breeding *tH.—AH"oriI!IIG t< the c\ client authority of the CVaafr* irrutU m<(, I'rof. lii-itle, of the Michigan Ag ricultural College, furnlihe tlm fuUuw lug Interesting fitcU, mostly the result of hi own examination*, in relation to the length of root* In plant* and tree*: The soil ha* to do with the length ami nmutter of rot*. In light, |*Hr aoll, 1 find root* ol'June gra** four feel below the surface, People are apt to underestimate the length, amount and importance of the roots of the finer graaaes, wheal, oats, etc. Some root* of clover ami Indian ooru are large enough to t>e Melt I'jf every one on slight examination. A young wheal plant when pulled up, only shows a -mail part of It* root*. They go down often four to six feet. It needs very careful examination to (how that clover and Indian eorn have any more weight of root* than Juue grass. They probably do not contain more. The roots grow l>el w here the best food is to he found. They grow In greater or less quantity In every dim-- tioii. If one finds good food, it flour ishes and send* out numerous branches. Many of the smaller root* ol tree* die every autumn when the leaves die, and other* grow in soring. Near a cherry tree in my yard wa* a rustic basket without a bottom, tilled with rich soil, tin removing the basket and earth, < herry rm>t were found In large nunt fiers near the top ot" the soil. They hail grow n full of small branches w here the soil was good. Hoots in soil will grow up just a* well as down. and do this. Fiutuo Hr*:ts.—There are many kinds of ecd which do not grow freely miles* ex|K>cd to a freezing temprra ture or considerable heat. Those na tives of cold climates, such a* the hick ory nut, black walnut, heavy locust, Hhepherdia, and similar seed* with hard, horn-like coverings, should IM ex|>sed to the actluii of frost during w Inter, but not in a dry state, for under such a condition the freezing would do more harm than good. The best way to manage such seeds Is to mix w hit wet sand and put hi a U>x or other tight vessel, and then half or w holly bury in tiie o|>eii ground, but do not cover so deep that they will not freeze during the coldest weather. This appear* to lie the most natural way of preserva tion, without MIS lug them where the tree* are to grow. Fall planting will answer with many kinds, hut there Is always more or les* danger of nut* and edible *eeds being destroyed by mice and other vermin, from which, however, ther are readily protected when mixed with sand and kept in boxes. I have known hickory and chestnuts to be dug tin and carried off by squirrel* and mlcw during a thaw in winter; htnee it 1* lrrer'j Jvtirttnl THK CNTIXO or Bicr.r.—To cure beef the following has la-en found useful: To 1 gallon of water add IK pounds of salt, (Miund of sugar, and " j ox. each of salt|M-tre and |a>tosh. Let these la; boiled together and skimmed until per fectly clear. Put in a tub to cool, and w hen cold, pour it over the beef or pork, and let it remain the usual time, say four or live weeks. The meat must la; well covered with the pickle, and should not la- nut down for at least two days after killing, during which time it should be slightly sprinkled with i>ow dered aaltjietre, which removes all the surface hlood, leaving the meat fiesli and clean. TKI.I.INO THK AUK or SIIKKP.— The size and shape of the teeth are ordinarily u sure criterion of the age of sheep up to six years old. The lamb-teeth are our row and small. At one year old the two middle front teeth fall out, and are replaced by teeth much wider and larger. The next year two more wide teeth appear, and at six years old the mouth is "full," the lamb teeth having all disappeared. After that, the teeth grow darker, longer and narrower, un til they eventually fall out. A prac tised shepherd can usually Judge the age very nearly, up to twelve years.— Country Gentleman. M'lKßTiriG. .Yon-Jfof/arfir Vitnneri' A novel idea has lieen stalled by an in r rontons I bitch man, who declatea that te has invented a iiou-magnotic mari ners'com paa* that ia to aar.an instru ment which will direct a shin's course without a magnetic needle. The ptin eiple of this wonderful discovery la as vet a profound secret, lutt we ate am hlgilnilsly informed It consists of the application of "notorious physical pow cm to an iiiatrument used in practical navigation, the iiuprovemeut of which wan a desideratum since long" a sen lence which will reveal the fact that 0111 le\ci friend might with advantage polish bis Knglish a little. Ills descrip tion of his HI vent lon is as follows; "\N lieieaa the actual compass is dtrne ted by magnetism, it ts HI this ease a well-known physical power that puts in motion tile whole ol tile wheelwolk. I'lie instrument, supposed to tie a Car daiius* apparatus, and piotected as much aa possible from heavy shock* by means of India -rublier, etc., as in the way of chronometers, consists, when seen on the top, of a ring, iuside of which arc found three circles. The riug, just like the rant of a compass divided into points and degrees, is lived at the lustruiuent, suit tuius round with the vessel. Over this card two liauds move couceiitricaily with e.pial swiftness and in opposite direc tion; consequently in each (inning they will cross each other twice, and the junction of these |HIIUIM w ill denote a direction thai on the card points out the true coins* of the vessel.' A a improrsif Method of f. i< lmiIIBII ma uy of tlicin, which, like aeh route di sease, are carried from genet at mu to genetalloli, by LH-lng copied In good faith in (he handiMHiks and encyclope dias , and it Is eijH-eied that only very few of them will stand this m-vere or deal. Rudolph Wagner, editor of the "An ntial Chemical Technological Report" (Jnhil-ui l) de* Chrmißiher Tteknologir), mentions in a recent German industrial louiual that lie found that solutions of bromine and bromine coni|Miuuds were most excellent for the etching of steel. He uses I part ot bromine to 100 of wa ter ; aud iu case he wished to avoid tin vapor of this volatile uialei tal. w hicli may injure delicate objects around, he prefers a solution of 1 part of brouitdc ot mercury iu So paita of water. For etching copper he recommended a so lution of biouiuio in hydrochloric acid, as preferable above all oilier agents known. French (~*e ot (/Iprrisf.—The use of glycerine in boilers, to prevent tucru stat ion. is si ill adv .M ated In the Freuch louruals. its reaction with the salts of lime is imperfectly undeistood as yet, but it ts known that it laisea the curve of solubility of these salts, and more particuiarly of sulphate of lime, aud umler certain conditions forms w itli them soluble compounds. When gly cerine is added to water containing an excess bf these salts, they are precipi tated in a gelattuous fotm—tin- form lieat adapted, it is found, to prevent incrustation, under ordiuary circum stancea. The action of the glycerine ap|ears to lie threefold ; it increase# the olubi lity of the sulphate of lime, it forms therewith a valuable roiupouuil, and the latter lieronie* precipitated. It is found that aUiul one kilogramme may lr allowed to every three or four thou sand kilogramme* of fuel, but this t* to lie vailed with the water and the nature of the fuel. The glycerine, should, of course, 1* commercially, if not cbcmicallr, free from lime: ami it is recommended that it be added be forehand. and in the requiaite projnir tion, to water sufficient tor a fortnight or a month's consumption, lictug tuned with the feed-water thus 1M tore hand, the glycerine will have tiuie to art on the litnr, and. as it forma not an insoluble, but a soluble soap, it is as sumed that the action of it m the boi ler differ* froui that of fatty matter generally, entailing no risk of priming, etc. Htectric Pilr in Srsquioride of Iron. This apparutu in contained in a square glass jar. I'he pile i* composed of a prmin of charcoal which contains w qnioxidc of iron in it* porea, ami a small rial of amalgamated fine. The latter passe* through the stopper, to the under surface of which IM final the charcoal. A solution of ammonium chloride is used as the exciting fluid. The reactions are the same as in I*♦- blanche's couple in which oxide of manganese is u*-d. W hen the circuit is cloed, the chloride ot ammonium attacks the xinc. forming a double chlo ride of zinc ami ammonium. The lat tor, on being set at li tarty, decomposes the scsquioxide of iron, carrying off a part of its oxygen and forming free ammonia, which disappear* by evapo ration. This pile ceases to act so long as the circuit remains open, Its dura bility and force are large. Its electro motive power is as IS to 10 of the sul phate of copper battery, ami it is thus well adapted tor industrsirial purpo ses. The inventors arc MM. Clamond and Gaiffe. and it is manufactured by the latter gentleman. Rctnarlahlr Fro I in Saw Making— At the works of Messrs. Emerson. Ford. Co., Heaver Falls, Fa., on November 11, a solid toothed circular saw, with 40 teeth, of No. 5 gage at the center, and No. at the rim, was tinished complete, ready for market, in the short period of 7 hours and 4-'> minutes. The saw was on the anvil itaitig flattened, smithed, hammered, and blocked* 4 hours and 5.1 minute*. The hammer strokre were counted and aggregated 13,7)14. The balance of the time, 3 hours and 50 minutes, was occupied in drilling, toothing, grinding, hardening, tempering, and cooling after it was tempeiedi The teeth were ground into shai>e after they were cut. and the saw was ground after smithing, then again after taing hammered and la-fore it was polished and stamped. Total amonnt of lalair expended, including that of helper*, was 13 hours and 40 minutes. The saw was of high temper, and required rather more than average amount of smithing, as 8,533 Mows were expended in this lalatrious ope ration alone. Rapidity of Sand- Engraving. —As il lustrative of the remarkable rapidity with which the sand-blast accomp lishes its work, the following facts, re garding the cutting of inscriptions on the head-stones designed to mark the graves of soldiers buried in the natio nal cemeteries, may lie cited. In addition to the one man employed to tend these machine*, he has a small force of boy*, whose duty it is to attach ami remove the cast-iron lettcis which act as stencils. Thus equipped, the the contractor is able to turn out three hundred head stones a day, upon each of which is a handsomely cut inscrip tion averaging eighteen raised letters. It is estimated that, to accomplish a like result by the old proofs, a force ol three hundred men would Ire needed. Another instance of the rapidity with which theae little sand engines do I heir work in shown in the engraving of glass glotren, tumblers, etc., which can Ire done at the astounding rate of one a minute. — Popular Svirncr Monthly. jVete Koutr to Sdoria. —Professor Nordenskjold's recent journey from Norway to Sitaria byway of Pet Strait* (Jugoraky Shar) and the Sea of Kara hits caused quite a sensation in Huasia. At a meeting of the Society for the Encotiragment of Commerce and Industry M. Sidorof said that the journey was one to ta ranked in im portance with the discovery of a uew world, as it would in all probability lead to the establishment of a regular line ot communication with northern Europe and Sllieria, and the vast resources of the latter country would thus at last find an outlet along her great fluvial highways. Captain Wiggins, of Sun derland, who attempted the same feat last year, has signified his intention of being present to welcome Professor Nordcnskjold on his arrival in St. Pe tersbmgh. For truing an ordinary oilstone for sharpening planes, take asheetof glass na|M>r No. 'J, and place it on I lie bench. Run the stone over it. In this way the stone can be trued in one qnarter the time required by the ordinary prm-esa. IMJIKMTIU. Til* I'KKOK IIII'K.- Mol readers think tills la something easily pre|wred. Ho It Is, |tcrhap, hut few nurse* have an Idea of the necessity of having it pro|terl> done—that Is, cooking It until every grain becomes |M*rl.*ctly softened. If (fie grains are m>( reduced U> this soft stale, the rice Is almost certain, when swallow ed, to Irritate the diges tive organs, ami instead of soothing tlm pari* and sustaining strength, will actually produce a diarrhea, etc. This tins tteen frequently noticed In liospitals. W hen pro|M*rly boiled until each par ticle becomes so aofiened tliat tin* grain cannot la* detecied w lien eaten, but ma cooked so much that the shape of tin* grain Is destroyed, and the mass re duced to tin* ppearaio*e of paste, then are few articles of diet for the sick which can IM* made more acceptable to the lasts of Invalids than (Milled rice. Idee Is inferior in nutritious qualities to whrateu Hour, ami should by no means lie depended on a* a main con stituent of the dietary for Infants, hut we mav supply an agreeable change, especially when (lie Isiwels are In a re laxed condition, it lias IM-CU a favorite Its ui for chllureti ever since its itrst in • triaiiictioii, and is recomiueuded hy many of ihc earliest Knglish writers on the management of luiaiits and chil dren. hvery nurse hasher own formula for the pre|iaralion ol rlcr fissls. The following Is a very g*ssl one: Take two (ables|asi|ifuls of the Itesl rice and soak for an liour in cold water. Pour away (his water, and then macerate and gently simmer the rice in a quart of water for two or three hours, htralii through a flue sieve, and add warm milk, with a little loaf sugar ami a few grains of sail. liow 10 I.noir a Con FlHK. —After thoroughly sifting out the tubes, leave the cinders iu ihe giate and pul upon them soiue shavings or waste paper, and a few dry slicks of kindling laid loosely across each other, then put on some large clllders and a few pieces of smsll Coals. I.ight the tire at the bottom with a lighted pa|M*r, and, w hen the sticks are minting well, pul oil some larger pieces of coal witli your liauds, using old gloves to cover (heiu if needful, but do not throw on the coal with the shovel or scuttle. If packs It tooclutely. All (lie smaller cinders and unburiit coal can he placed on the bip, and In a ill lie time you will have a good fire, and one suitable to cook a steak or a chop as well as iots.il the tea-kettle and the oat-meal porridge. A Are cannot burn without a supply of air, aud, if the coal and cinders are too closely packed, (hey caq neither light quickly nor hunt rapidly; and a steady, con stant Are can be kept up w lib less cuai than one liial is constantly stirred up. if you desire a clear fire fur the grid iron, put a few cinders on top, and, when they have ignited, sprinkle a little salt over (hem. Cinders may tie style.) houie-made coke, aud the woman who w sales theui should Iraru thai she til rows away a thing of value. lira in,**. —To prevent chills and fever' avoid exposure to (he damp air of Ihe early morning,except when exercising, and then do not remain iu the o|>eu air to owl off. Avoid great fatigue; sleep eight hour* ot the twenty-four, lb sure (hat die wafer used for drinking aud cooking is perfectly pure. Wear flannel und<-r-< lothiug at all seasons. Keep the feet dry aud warm. Croup can lie cured in one minute, and the remedy Is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed Is lo lake a knife or grater and •have off, in small particles,about a u-a spooltful of alum; then mix with about (w ice its quantity of sugar to make It |xtlatablc, and administer a* quickly as |MMutihlr. Almost instantaneous relief will follow. T prevent rusting of tin rub fresh lard over every part of the dish, and then put It in a hot oven and heat it thoroughly. Thu* treated any tinware may Is* timed in water constantly and remain bright and free from rut inde finitely. Kubhing w arts, night and morning, with a moistened pieer of muriate of ammonia is said to cause their disa|>- leaisue- w iihout pain or scar. THU Scirxcr or lion ixo.—ln tiling water and kept boiling for a few minutes, so that all the outer albumen may lie coagulated, in order to imprison the sapid ami nu tritive Juice; then cold water should he added till the terntwratlire is reduced to lot) degrees, at w filch It should te kept till I lie cooking I* completed, because that heat l necessary for the coagula tion of the coloring matter of tiie hjood. In all caw■* no more heat than is suffi cient should be employed in cooking. Thus, In making soup, all the Are In the world will not make the water hotter than it* boiling temperature, at which point It can he retained at a very moderate exjw-ndlture of fuel. Violent ebullition, sttcli a* we see cook* often practice, while it does no good does much harm, not only bv w astlng coal, but also by carrying off in the steam much of the arotnatir and volatile In giodieiit* of the food. WATKRIKO MILK TOGKT THE CKKAM.— It is well known that milk set in the usual way, although it throws up a goodly percentage of cream, does not yield up all the lat In lite milk, because the sklmimsi milk, on talng subjected to analysis, is found to contain a small Iwrcoinage of butter, notwithstanding it had on being set thrown up the cream very perfectly. Kx|tcriinciiu that have IKH-II made in adding water to uiilk to facilitate the rising of the cream have shown that more cream is obtained. Thus a specimen of milk was divhtal into two (tortious. One iMirtion was set for cream, ami in seven hours yielded 7 per cent, ol cream. The other |tortion was mixed with an equal volume of water ami the diluted milk set for cream. The diluted milk in seven hours gave 5 per cent, of cream, or 1' 2 per cent, more cream that It should have yielded if watering made no difference. It may not ta advisable, however, to use the water in this way on all occa sions for getting up the cream, since water added to milk hastens the aridity of the liquid, which in warm weather should he guarded against. HOT WATER IX SCROKRY.—The New- York Mrdicat Journal slates that, in Bellevue Hospital, hot water has. within the past few months, been used in the treatment of some injuries with marvelous results. One case may he cited: The |>atient was engaged in a machine shop, ami while hi* hand was II|H>II the anvil of a trip hammer, the hammer weighing seven hundred pounds—fell. It so happcuetl that a file was on the anvil, and in this way the force of the hammer was arrested ataul half an inch before It readied the bed. When the hand was examined, it WHS found tiiat the whole of the palm w a* a mass of pulp. The metacarpal lames comminuted extensively, ami there was apparently hut small chance of saving the hand. It was, however, placed In hot water and kept there for two or three weeks, and at tlie end of that lime taken out ami dressed. In three months the patient was sufficiently well to leave the hos pital, ami at present —nine months since the accident—he is nble u move the fingers, ami has a useful hand. CELERY. —The habitual use of celery la more lieneficial to us than is com monly sup|K>sed. A writer who is fatuUar with its virtues says: "1 have know n many men, and wo men too, who from various causes had become so much affected by nervous ness that when they stretched out their hands they shook like as|teii leaves on windy days, and by a moderate daily uqp of the blanched footstalks of celery as a salad, they became as strong and steady In limb as other people. 1 have know n others so nervous that the least annoyance put them In a state of Hgita tlon, ami they were in constant per plexity and fear, who were also effectu ally cured by a moderate daily use of blanched celery as a salad at meal time. 1 have known others cured of palpita tion of the heart. Every hotly engaged in Istar wi likening to the nerves should use celery dally in the seusou, and onions in its stead when not In season." IJV.MON JHICK will retain Its odor for weeks, and will not turn mouldy, even If kept uncovered, If five grains of salicylic acid are added to each pint. IVIVtOVR. A HI I-IIKMK Anor mkn r.—lt waa the twilight hour, and they were meander ing over the execrable sidewalk on Veto street, lie was Marker than the king of clubs, and site could discount the ten s|*ot of S|Mtdea, ".Susan, i luh you I" he suddenly re marked. "HIIIMI! (io long!" she replied. "Susan, will yon marry me?" he continued. "(io long wld yu, I'ete!" "If yer don't, I shall embrace de float In' waters oh de dark ribbcr. |en de Coroner w ill haul me out an' sot on me; dry'll plant me under de roses, an' de verdict will lie, 'l'sl feller died of a broken heart!' " "You don't mean dat, Pete?' "I do, Husnti!" "I'en, I'ete," she said, aa she sighed heavily, "den It's tuy disHy to ruarry yu to save yer life, an' de weddin' U to cum off In de Hpring!" Ami they ela*|K-d hands and rolled their eyes and stumbled along.— IVFs htiry Ifrrtilil, lams or CoxnPKJO'K. —The Worcester Mass.) OasttU quotes a bank president In that city as saving on bearing of ihe great bank robbery at Northampton : "I'm sick of this rascallr world, lfcm't want to see 01 do busineas with auy body. I'd rather Is* an old farmer living on a cross road, four miles from the sight of every body, with a barrel of cider and two bog, than to have any Uilug to do with banks, money, or men." A TkaVKLuut was once telling a Scotchman atsiut a wonderful bashaw whom lie had seen iu Turkev, "with three tails that came out of his hat," w lieu the Caledonian, with a shrug of contempt, Interrupted him with the ex clamation; "Hoot, mun, and ha' we no' Hir Walter (Hcoil; rigid here amang us wi' forty tales ail direct frae hU head?" The traveller was silenced. A 1.11 nasi lUMiioiiHt asked her teacher wtgd was meant hy '"Mrs. flrundy." The teacher replied that it meant "the world." Home days afterward the teacher ask<-d the geography class, to w hicti this little "bud of promise" be longed. "What is a gone?" After some hesitation, this little girl brightened up and replied; "1 know; ii's a belt around Mrs. Grundy's waist." AKIKK giving Sandy certain directions about kirk mailers, the minister sniffed once or twice, and remarked: "Saun ders, 1 fear you have been 'tasting' this morning." "feed, sir," replied Handy, witii the coolest effrontery, set off with a droll glance of his brown eyes— "deed, sir, I was just gaen to observe I tiiucbt tin-re was a smell 'o sjieerlU amang us this irrorr in'!" "ISTHI* the doctor's office?" inquired a man who |Mjp|ted Ills head inside the sauetum door. "No, sir—the next flight of stairs." Well lam 100 tired to f;o any further," said he, sadly; "but f you see the doctor any time this morning. I wish you would tell him that my te|>-inother Is dying, and we'd like to have him call If he gets Utne." "HTMI-ATMY," nays John Taul, "Is something which 1 never withhold froui those In trouble, whether they happen to be friend* or not; there'* uuUilng mean about me. I And, 100, that one can go around shedding sympathy on all sides, for week* at a time, without spending a rent or being at much per sonal Inconvenience." MAKSHAI. Hoi XT, once showing the picture* he u>le In Hindu, slopped be fore one and remarked: "I value that picture very much; It saved the lives of two estimable ueraooa." An aide-de camp wlils|*red in the listener'* ear: "He threatened to have them both shot immediately unless they gave them up." "Mug the President some thing, dear. What would you like, General?" 'llie President who hath music in Ids soul)—"Well-er —what's that song about Kathleen mam en v riii'—where it says, 'lt may be en s years, and It may le forever! I'd like that." TIIUUIKIUK Hook was oner busily en gaged In w riling a song w hen he was much annoyed by a fiddler straining harsh discords under his window. Hook threw out a six-jienoe to him, at the same time requesting him to lake his departure, a* one ncnt/ifr at the door w as sufficient. BOOK AUKNT to lawyer's clerk greatly bored: "Sir, you had better take that book; you'll Audita remarkably good Investment, ami " "t an you change a ten dollar bill?" asks the clerk. "Oh. yes; 1 can do that." "Then you've got a mighty ight more mouey than 1 have. Good day! Ax OLD Dutchman undertook to wallop his son, but Jake turned upon him and walloped him. The old man consoled him*elf for his defeat by re joicing at hi* son's manhood. He said "veil Jake ish a smart fellow; he can vip hi* own laddy." "WHAT size do you wear, sir?" blandly inquired the hatter. "I think," said the customer, "about Just then in tacking toward the mirror he stepped on a piece of orange peel and sat down suddenly—"ataul a cap-size, 1 think." "Mr sox," said a stern parent to a seven-year-old ho|eful, "1 must dis cipline you. Your teacher says vou arc the worst boy in the school. W*ell, papa," was the reply, "only yesterday she said I was just like my father," A SCOTTISH STCUKXT, supjtosed to be deficient In judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of his examina tion, how he would discover a fool. "By the question* he would ask," was the prompt and suggestive reply. "THE Ixml hath need of him." was the inscription on a funeral card of In vitation recently sent out. Very flatter ing to the deceased and the surviving relations hut we should sav that the statement need* confirmation. Is A street of Leicester, one day, I Van Sw ill wa*acoted by adrunkeii weaver, who, staggering against him. said: "1 have been spinning it out." "Yes," said the dean, "and now you are reeling it home." Ix THK line of "Ilow to Bring" up Parents," is the s|ecch of a little bo> who said: "Father, 1 think you should give up swearing or family prayers." The boy recognised the fitness of thing*. "A rtuiosoriiKK being asked what wa* the first thing necessary towards winning the love of aw oman, answered, "An oppnrtmilty." "JoTTtNiM by the wcighshle"— Figures made on a coal cart by the scale-keeper. "WHAT kind of a waist ha the ocean?" asked a fashionable young lady of her lover—"A watery waste, my dear." WHY are pianos the uohlest of niauu factum! articles? Because they are grand, upright and square. Wnr is your wife like dynamite? Be cause she's apt to blow you up if harshly handled. WHITE TEETH denote goodness. The man who says so sells tooth brushes. A mc AH hen is tatter than a live one she will lay wherever you put her. THKIIK Is nothing "goes against the grain" uiore than mill-stones. How make a tall man short—Ask hiiu to lend you five dollars. A MAX can find fault in any direction lie is pleased to look for it. LEAP year motto—Look before yon leap Into matrimony. Disoociisixo sweet music—Blowing your own trumpet. THK Romans urned their dead; we earn our living. MOTTO for a seamstress —As I sew so shall I reap. Mb run* Malarial*. Attention ha* Iwn called, lately, to the value, for fibrous material, of the Pound! plant, or the well known hlbls tu* cnnnabiiiua. It i* an auniial, of llirw to three and a half month*' dura tlon, and by the end of till* time It I* ready to lie rut fur the ulrcplng procea* that !• neoesaary for the extraction of the fibre, w hlch I* tlcucrlbed a* of great length, silky and line, ami of uniform texture. One who ha* investigated the struc ture and properties of Oil* plant with Btuch care declare* that *uperior tow and hemp, a* well a* cordage of great compactne** snd density muv I*' nianu taclured from it. lie describe* a sam iilr hank, purchased in the hazaar* of udia, and prepared in the ordinary rude manner, hut recleaned so a* to de ls* h portion* of the still adhering liark that It was not at first thought worth while to —the hank liellig of good odor, from seven to nine feet long, fine to the touch, and having a remark ably silky gloss, considering the small amount of rare la-stowed on it* iirst preparation; in fact, had greater atten tion been | laid Ui It, and a iiro|w-r mode pursued in extracting the tllire from the tisrk and drying it, It I* believed that the best of litis fibre could tie used ex tensively for tirst-4 las* Dundee manu factures and for *U|ierior rojie and cor dage, such as would njual in appear anee that made from Manilla hemp, so much lit request lor yachting purpoac*. The second and third kinds would also be fouud useful for coarser descriptions of the manufactures just named, while the refuse, Including culling-, rejec tions, and the root end*, would prove valuable for use by pa tier makers, a* is the case with jute ami other rusterial. Maa a rlrbei SSIMI a Sblft. 11l Southey '* lltslurg of Until, he tell* how Cat*-is ile Vaca wa*ln a great ship gtiitig to Mouth America with four hun ilrel men ami thirty horse*; ami after they hail c rosso I the esjuator, tlie com maiiiler iliw overeil tluil there were only three cssks of wslrr left, lie gave or der* to make the nearest laud, and for three days they sailed tor the coast. A |MMir sick soldier, who hsil left Cadiz with tlwm, brought a grille, or ground cricket, with biui, thinking Its cheerful voice would amuse htm ou ttie long, dreary voyage. But to hi* great dis oppuioUiieut, the little inset was per fectly silent the whole way. Tlie fourth morning after they had changed tlie ship's course, the cricket, who knew what she wa* about, set up Iter *hrillest note. The soldier at mice gave warning to the oAfffl in charge of lite vessel, and lliey soud saw high, jagged rock-just ahead of theui. The watch had been careless, and the great ship in a few moments would havelwen dashed to pieoe* on the ledge* If tld# puny creator* had not scented Uie land ami told thctn of tiieir danger. Then they cruised along for some days, and the cricket sang for thetu every night, juat as cheerily as if the had been In far-off Spain, till they got to their des tined port, the Island of Calaiina. Or SeStnrk's buadar* XsawdlM Tlie standard remedies for all disease* ,- (KW.OOO people in tlie I'uited State*, the sale to each one would be enough to make a decent fortune. But an article that holds the Held year after year, and the sale* of w hlch increase regularly and rapidly, mu*t have absolute merit". Ih\ K. V. Ilerce, of Buffalo, X. Y., occupies our entlie eighth page to-day with hi* various articles. We admit it, because we know the Doctor, and know of his articles. We know him to lie a regularly educated physiciaii, whose diploma hang* on the wall of hi* office, and we know that he has associated with him several of the mo*t eminent prac titioner* in the couutry. We know that parties consult him, by mail aud in person, from *ll the Slate* In the Union every day, and that they are fairly and hon*tly dealt with. Thi* grand result has been accom plished by two Agencies—good, reliable article* —article* which, once intro duced. work easily their own way—and -plendid business management. They have succeeded tie cause they ought to have succeeded. If you would patronise Medicines, scientifically prepared by g skilled Phy sician and Chemist, use Dr. Pierce's Family Medicitirt. Gulden Medical DUcovery In nutritious, tonic, alterative, and blood-cleansing. and ait unetptaieti Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purgative IV!lets, scarcely larger than mustard seeds, constitute an agreeable and reli able phyaic; Favorile Presetiption, a remedy fur debilitated females; Extract of Smart-Weed, a magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Complaints, ana an un equaled Liniment tor both human and horse-flesh; while his Dr. Sage's Ca tarrh Retnetiy is know n the world over a the greate-i specific for Catarrh and "Cold in the Head" ever given to the public. They are sold by di uggists. it) WARS A St rrrjSEß.—Ct RKT> BY THE GOL.J>T_\ MLDICAL PISCOVKRY. Dr. R. V. PIKRCB: Dear Sir —Twenty years ago I was shipwrecked on the Atlantic Ocean, and the cold and exposure caused a large abscess to form on each h g, which kept continually discharging. 1 was atten ded by doctors in Liverpool, Havre, New Oilcans, New Y'oik. and at the hospital on Staten Island (where the doctors wantcii to take one leg off.) Fi nally. after sending hundreds of dol lars, I a as persuaded to try your "Gol den Medical Discovery," ami now, in less than three months after taking the llrst bottle, I am thankful to say I am completely cured, and for the first time in ten years can put my left heel to the ground. I am at home nearly every evening and shall be glad to satisfy any lN'ison of the truth of this iuformation. 1 am, sir, yours respectfully, William RT'DKR, 13 87 Jefferson St.. Buffalo. N. Y. SHOW CASES! SHOW CASES! All stylus. (Hirer Mounted and Walnut. new ad Moond-hand. Huenrelj pbctad for uhJimtna OOUNTEHB, UAHn. BUKLVIBU, ETUBB FIX UOUHI AND orrtUK FUKNITUR* all kind! TKU large* and bum Manned itnck. Daw uod .uoond-UAud to TKS OTTR. LEW 1H A- HRO.. -u.i, 10*1. 10*J, ltt*% aad 10*7 KIMiK ATK.. Pklla ANY ONEJWHO CANNOT GET ll''mti|iiari-rs 1 can' sump for ' ■ —Almanac, w I tb CatAlogue ana prices. I. I.AYDKI'.TH * SO.Ys, rhlludelptta. I-IS-It JLcff OHP" J u BOB*. TINU IRM. turw J>o P S£.UO. BTIBMI * Co . Portlkßd, Mo. MMI The People's Remedy. The Universal Pais Extractor. Note: Ak for miPK EXTRACT. • Take no other. •• Hear, Isr I m ill sweat* ml rxrklsai I Mags." M0 S UTIACT TbsffsslTe.etaMelbsla llrsirstrr. Ilss Sees la •- ow tblrfy *-. sod f rr --! MS sM|>nnapt ETI* 11*, Jffa> OMMwrt la eXretlHt _ CMlllttl. >• fssslt eaa sXonl to bt wit boat TFmmftt kurto. A ret deals, Mratom. Laai t arts, Kprmlns, are relieve almost Inaustlr l> nUAiI appbrallna frunc'lr r-ltrra* uitea •<* Haras. HasMa I'.arsrtsftsas, baßaga, Ol* Sara, llwils. Frlaaa, (seas, ob. Amwt* In -osmslK*i, rrdsees swaUlncs, atttf* b reding, iff rrnv-vra dieuWmtiato* mm lasals raptdlr. FtMUf WfAiaiMft. >' *'* rvtie'-stsda in i hr its. k sndi-bs,fani>sa sad prisadag tale Is lb' bead. us uses, tertian, i liUGBRIMgA " As* noeissL At) triad* of wt- rrmma to wbirb .sdhsTan ssbjecl sea jimui|illjr enrsd. FoUrr dsUlls la bowk acoOto iMi.rlncaacb btdilti. PILES blind or bleed lag- -m*e< praaKM rsbst oiid rrsdy ran, Xaraaslwaaiwdiiakw dmitsatr, ran kmg raaiaa Us naatarss. , VARICOSE VtlM. in* lbs eoly saes ran far Ibis OIKmSm slid dsnfer'msroad tikis. UVif f BIMASit. ft tesaeataalforw-m --le-nl Cart. BtIIBIBB '>■* *y CMS*. FortM* Us a*e- a (Tsr. || bas saved hoixtoeda at lives wbao ail . olb-r rvassdirs (ailed u> arras btoadtog frsss . aaw.rtasadi, tssgs. sad abas'her-. nUUMMBIIf tiifvdL MTSIftABI " eltsdssaU abuser arqoatotod Willi i*wad's tuiran mf V* iirb tlawi rata otssteodll tt oalrpesi iirr. Wrhs> letMrsaT ruasteadsZlua trims bssdsad* at I'bMrtana, tnssr of wbaw ordw 1: tar osv ta tbsir own r- * ■ p-sriira. la sddlliew l lb* fflewoies, Ibsr * elder iu ass lot wweffiaf* of alt kinds. l|alsa,Marr TTtraal. laia.se* Tsastba, shops' sad cbraaic lllarrbsm, a terra, 'A* kich 111. a ; ft 4 blfblslsa. Craw- g etc.. rbaggsdllaedib SkssJalwfttSßl sit rnsnaar of akbt diaiasss. I Bill 7 BBC. Hyaabaya, K—gba.es, .i ! Waaselbsgl basis (ate, I rspUaas, Mlbasln. to i s I—, rswyaraaw, sad rs wblle truodrrfaii; ÜBpmrlcg Uw < aayrfesiasu i TO filial. tbsPa Katraet. No Stock flirrdrr.aa U w.-; H ao ran sSord to batwllbo** It. II Is used by aX tlw t nsdlnf iiveeMSUblaa, Muwl ttslietaMls sad Xra* Iturssuia gsa Hew VorXC.y . It baa so wisal f* bignUss, tlar arw or Wsddle t.Uaaagsi, NtiWseee, Vrslabn, Srtlkgtd Watsr laltisa lUwretag, feswnilii, t aJir, tHsrrbwa. ( Mils, CUnAs, nc. ltsrmgrwfactksals wids, SJ-'l IS' rats* ■ affords Is so Jjrocsjs flsst tt Is Itnshaabkr to every Ibais* se arrti tr to •varr Psrto-bMsaa Let W irkd oscr. sad J"* wit! s'-va* be wbbout tt CAITMHI. - tasf, Fairs'* baa bnm taXewto emtstar artidc bas tlx -da Paad*a Ka traet blow* to each hottl*. ft is J.-{owd by Uw aal || rasas SrSw abo rwir knew hew a. luimywi Hiawerl,. Benw ail olber pr*. * IstoSnw at a'kcb ttsart. This to Ike aahy aitslr saed by fi.j -• ux. and la tb- Isle of tots nr.,?ct-T utd Ito M'.STBIV All MM if fOflk UTBAfT, IT *..!!■• -? f.x-j,. reel (ear o You Suffer from lßdtgertto|T IKi You require a Tnte? Have You No Appetite ? IH> Yon weed Btilidlng Fp ? Tbo Yoa wialltebe Strong stitl Heaitii t .' PSE Db. L. 0. C. WgßAßrf PIKB TREE TAB COBPIAL f Sold by all Pnigglst*. * l*rinci|tal Depot, • t'ilbert M.. HhiltoMeljshlju CORRUGATED ÜBV BUILBIIffS KaM-rT^eSsdfilscf^, ,# ■ ft Ore m.. Kew Tot*. 1 I ,-etsi mr i m-uisra. t-f-ftto ' ' FURNITURE AND BEDDING! COOPER, HALL & CO., j MAIVUFACTUREHH AWD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS, 118 and 121 Itf. SECOND street. (FORMERLY TMS MOUNT VERNON HOTEL,) PHILADELPHIA. THE LARGEST AND MOHT ELEGANT STOCK IN THE CITY. PRICES AND QUALITY GL'AKANTEEI) KATIBFACTORY. PACTOKIKHt KVAII and TWIRM STRKETH, Kit A 3 k P0K1), PA. I I BROOMS! BROOMS! JOHH J. EEIMER k 00., N JM Wuhlwl*. Mtrwwt. Sl*. Tark. Pnu> ipul IVnM in New York P* U buri Broun Hal- Mum to Un Daitl BUM*. Brooms from $2.00 per dozen and upward. Tti<- kim prion u4 greutart mwj to b> hui no v whom. Alw u> rnttre new Mock -h M Pailn. Tut*. Bnkol*. Mt. Toiow, C ril(. Wirk*. i ..inpiW with • t.ll lino of Appt*. Briar \ .> .1 ai[* fmttrt Ooap* Yaakor Bo- Men* roll*,, Ac Srgure from IIJdO por Hill. A full line of tbr M quail IT of TIN WAR*. P. S.-W<• aril our pd at pricn that do not require m. any drumming ou the road. Ordan I T mail will re- * crier piompi attnailos KuUblwhud ISM. Mt4| OR KIHPiw DAMASK CARDS, with Mmu,et*. ZO Addma J. B. UI'STIU), Maoaau.Rouaa Oo_ M. T. aSatt ' RKDUCKt) TO A CRRTAI NTT. • 1 ( lianrr to Oala SIfIODOO Without risk. Bond for rarrula* we onaa. No time to I owe. ALLEN A CO., 79 Nassau Street. NEW YORK. 2-7-ly % Moody cankey - | tint Report* of IR th a Great Rcriral I are BIIW pill- llh~1 la the Mow Tork Wit w urei. Trial Bub •rriptloa Ml, - f.ir Ore Mouth, ■fully Hltnrei, tl canta; Week 1> Wllareu, lOwit-.MKattinlt Krerj Kariuor .l.uuld take the wita Mr the fttsi i|KW:<>f Pro, iu'i>. Grain, Lira Siuck Muikbta. Ohco. 51 -in.* St, New York. *- PIM* tier it fur a Month. 8-SitHt Ann a wmk to Agenta, Old aad Young, Mate aad \ I I female, in their locality. TeruM and OUTFIT m I I KKKK. Addrere P. a VICKBRT k CO., A* T ' 1 gnata. Maine. 11-2Ma era-will, on receipt of auicvnpOoo price, ASf 'lt it one a/ far beet ckancee /ir iiyrii . i e mr*. ■fn Yd." Aa we allow A IAIOI CASN CtfWKiUlfla if U a nr chance U> a.akt tiuwv /avumi <*"* secure a oerma/.cat bututru fj F. W Fugiiie A ( a. 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