BILL NYE ON EXTLORERS.
THE HUMORIST TACKLES THE SUB
JECT OF ABCTIO DISCOVEBIES.
gome Ulstorlo Information From
the Time of Krik the Ketl Down
to IJr-utennnt Grocly.
Lot us for a moment look back across
the bleak waste of years and sees what
wonderful progress hns been mado in the
discovery of the polo. We may then
ask ourselves who will be first to tack
his location notice on tho gnaweil and
season-cracked surface of the polo itself,
and what will he do with it after he has
so filed upon it.
Iceland, I presume, was discovered
about Mil) A. D., or 1,020 yenrs ajjo, but
tho stampede to Iceland has always been
under control, and you can get corner
lots in the most desirable cities of Ire
land and wear a long, ricketty name with
links in it like a rosewood sausage, to
day, at a low price. Naddodr, a .Nor
wegian viking, discovered Iceland A. D.
8(i0, but he. did not live to meet Lieuten
ant Greely, or any of our most celclrat?d
northern tourists. Why Naddodr yearned
to go north and discover a colder country
than his own, why he should seek to
wet his feet and cot icicles down his
back in order to bring to light more snow
banks and chilblains, I cannot at this
time understand. Why should a robust
viking roam around in tho cold trying to
nose out more frost-bltien Esquimaux,
when he could remain at home and vike
But I lcavo this to the thinking mind.
Let tho thinking mind grapple with it.
It has no charms for me. Moreover, I
haven't that kind of a mind.
Other, another Norweigian gentle
man, sailed around Korth Cape and
crowd tho Arctic circle in tf'JO A. 1).,
but be crossed It in the night, and didn't
not.ico it at the time.
Tyo or three years after, Erik the Red
took largo snow-shovel and discovered
tho east coast of Greenlaud. Erik the
lied "was a Northman, and ha flourished
along about the ninth century and be
fore tho war. lie sailed around in that
.lountry for several years, drinking bay
rum and bear's oil and having a good
time. He wore fur uudcrckthes all the
time, winter and summer, and evaded
tho poll tax for a long time. Erik also
established a settlement on the south
east coast of Greenland in about latitude
sixty degrees north. These people re
mained here for some time, subsisting
on shrimp salad, sea-moss farina, and
ncat's-foot oil. But finally they became
so bored with the quiet country life and
the backward springs that they removed
from there to a land that is lairer than
day, to use the words of another. Thev
removed during tho holidays, leaving
the axle grease and all they hold dear,
including their remains.
From that on down to 1380 we hear or
read varying and disconnected accounts
of people who have been up tliat way,
acquired a large red chilblain, made an
observation, and died. Representatives
from almost every quarter of the globe
have been to the far North, eaten their
little hunch of jerked polar le;.r, and
then the polar bear has eaten his little
hunch of jerked explorer, and bo the
good work went on. The polar bear,
with his wonderful retentive faculties,
has succeeded in retaining his great se
cret regarding the pole, together with
the man who came out there to lind out
about it. So up to 1M0 a large number
of nameless explorers went to this cele
brated watering place, shot a few pom
mican, ate a jerked whale, shuddered a
couple of times, and died. It has been
the hiBtory of Arctic exploration from
tho earliest ages. Men have tuken their
lives and a few doughnuts in their hands,
wandered away into the uncertain light
of the frozen North, made a few observa
tions to each other regarding the back
ward spring and then cached their
skeletons forover.
In 13H0 two Italians named Lem took
a load of sun-kissed buniums and made
a voyage to the extreme North, but the
historian says that the accounts are so
conticting, and as tho stories told by the
two brothers did not agree and neither
ever told it the same on two separate oc
casions, the history of their voyage is not
usdd very much.
Years rolled on. Boys continued to
go to school and see in their geographies
enticing pictures of men in expensive fur
clothing running sharp iron spears and
long, dangerous stab-knives into fero
cious white bears. audsuorting around on
large cakes of cold ice and having a good
time. The-c inspired the growing youih to
rise up and do likewise, to every natiun
'neath the sun has contributed its assort
ments of choice, white skeletons and
second-hand clothes to the remorseless
maw of tho hungry and ravenous North.
And still the great pole continued to
squeak ou through days that were six
months long and nights that made break
fast seem almost useless.
In 1477 Columbus went up that way
but did not auecced in starving to death,
lie got a bird's-epe view of a large de
posit of dark-blue ice, got hungry, and
came home.
During tnenrtccntn ana sixteenth ten- I
turies, the northern nations of Europ i
and especially the Dutch, kept the Uis- ;
covery business red-hot, but they did not i
get any fragments of the true pole. Tho 1
maritime nations of Europe, together with ,
other foreign powers, dynasties, and hu- I
man beings, for some time hud spells of I
visiting the polar seas and neglecting to
comeback. It was tho custom then, as j
it is now, to gr twenty rods farther than !
any other man hadever been, eut a deviled i
boot leg, curl up, and perish. Thou-
sands of the be-t and brightest minds of '
all ages have yielded to this wild desire
t live on sperm oil. pain killer,and jerked
walrus, keep a little blue diary for thir
teen weeks, and then feed it to a tall,
white bear wiih red gmus. JSlU X'jt, in
Chicago Ifeitt.
It is related that an Ohio widow owned
a large gravel bank which a certain rail
road company was very anxious to secure.
Several propositions were made and re
jected, and the President finally sent his
Private Secretary down with intttucl ions
to offer up to $14,000. The young man
returned after a couple of days and. when
asked how the bu-iness had turned out,
leplied: "I will accept your oiler."
"Vouf "Exactly. 1 married the widow
and own the bu-ik.''
An invention has been perfected fo,
concentrating the heat of the fcun and
lining it instead of. fuel to warm rooms,
WISE WORDS.
Actions outweigh profusions.
He must be blind indeed who cannot
sco through a sicvo.
A clear head and a clear conscience are
the attributes of victory.
It is a good thing to learn caution by
the misfortune of others.
Love of reading enables a man to
exchange tho wearisome hours of life,
which como to every one, for hours of
delight.
It is the easiest thing in the world to
train up a child in the way ho should
go; all you have to do is to go that way
yourself.
Remember that servants are mado of
the samo material as you arc; a littlo
coarser-grained, perhaps, but the same
in essentials.
Regrets, toward the evening of life,
will occur to neatly all, even tho happiest;
wo mourn the departure of the luminary,
though his setting be glorious.
Ho is tho greatest man who choose?
the light with invincible resolution, who
bear he heaviest burdens cheerfully,
and whose reliance on truth and virtue
is the most unfaltering.
The glory of man consists not in look
ing up to what is above him, but in lift
ing up what is below him. Tho noblest
and most exalted character is also tho
tendcrest and most hopeful.
He who is truly biavc will not only
spring to encounter outward obstacles
and to do daring deeds; he will also be
bold in attacking wrong and misery
whenever they appear, and strong iu
resisting his own desires and impulses
whenever they conflict with a higher
law.
As the magnificent river, rolling in the
pride of its mighty waters, owes its
greatness to the hidden springs of the
mountain nook, so does tho wide-sweeping
influence of distinguished men date
its origin from hours of privacy resolutely
employed in eliprts after self-development.
HEALTH HINTS.
A standing antidote for poison by poison-oak,
ivy. etc., is to take a handful of
quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand
half an hour, then paint the parts with
it. Three or four applications,it is said,
will cure the most aggravated cases.
Tho highly injurious caustic effect of
lime accidently introduced into the eye,
as frequently occurs to those engaged in
building, may be entirely neutraliz.ed by
the use of cold sugar water, owing to
the formation of a compound of the lime
and sugar, which is without any action
upon tho eye.
Biting the nails is a custom founded
oh tho superstition that a child whose
nails were cut before it was a year old
would bo n thief. It was found neces
sary to get ria or the nail, hence they
were bitten oil. A singularly stupid
custom surely. Continue to cut the nails
whenever they are too long. They will,
of course, grow, and they will naturally
become harder. It is proper that they
should be so.
If tho feet are tonder and painful after
long standing or walking, great relief
may be obtained by bathing them in
warm salt and water. A large handful
of suit to a gallon of water as warm as
can be borne is the proper proportion.
The feet should be immersed and the
water thrown over them with the hand,
and also over the legs as far as the knees.
When tho water becomes too cool, dry
the feet and legs, rubbing with a rough
towel upward. Neuralgia of the feet
has been cured by perseverance in this
method night and morning.
Alligators as Pets.
Alligators as pets are getting to be
more and more the thing, and the trade
in theso queer reptiles has grown to bo
quite an important industry among North
William street dealers in zoological
curios. When tho young alligators are
born in Southern swamps in tho spring
the natives go and gather them in. The
warm months find them in New York,
where an alligator eight inches long and
probably five months old may bo pur
chasedif you go.to the proper place
for from $1 to 3.
The increased demand began about
two years ago. Tho World's Fair in New
Orleans taught Northern visitors to the
French quarters to look with kindly eyes
upon the lizard's big brother. There is
a littlo old bird store in the Ruo Royale
where they were sold by dozens at fifty
ami seventy-five cents each, and a neat
littlo box furnished, so that the pets
could be carried away. Of course, some
of them came to New York and aroused
the interest of that growingclais of peo
ple who are always on tho lookout for
something new to care-s or to talk about.
The inevitable result was a brisk trade
in infant amphibians by the William
street folk.
A Lexington avenue girl enjoys pat
ting the expansive brow of a lourteen
inch alligator that is over two yeurs old.
j She has u silver collar around its throat
and a chain attached to it, and the wcll
! bred saurian follows her like a pet dog.
I The baby alligator is usually kept in a
large globe acquarium with a gravel bank
I rising out of the water on which it rests.
Its food is raw meat, and it requires
only a small quantity. One meal every
two days is enough. It develops slowly
and is very easily tamed. leu) I'vrk
In the tropics the finest orchids are
often found in tho tops of the highest
trees at such an elevation that they can
only be reached by tutting down the
tree, while few are seen in the lower
: shades of tho forest, which are singular
i ly bare of bloom. Perched high in air
: and shaded by the foliage of the tree
j upon which it grows, tho orchid mukes
; its home, and the perilous experiences of
: collectors iu their attempts to tlnd some
i new and rare species would fill volumes,
j Instances are not uncommon of expert
i collectors having been .-ent thousands ol
' miles across the. ocean to some remote
j part of South AmeiicH, India jot the
Malayan Archipelago to secure some
' orchids of which a t.peciineu or two may
have lieeu previously b; ought home.
Tho dimoiisions of the Chinese quar-
t'T of Shu 1 I'unciseo have in reaped enor-
jnou-ly iu 1 h j lu'ttilteeu years. It now
occupies a section nearly or quite a mile
i in leiif'lh, and between three find four
ce jir
j square m width.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The eyes of poisonous snakes have
been found by Dr. Benjamin Sharp to
have elliptical pupils, wliilo in the harm
less species they ore circular.
It is said that only about one-third of
the buried city of Pompeii has yet been
unearthed. The Italian Government is
pushing the excavations with great vigor,
and very interesting remains are being
constantly brought to light.
It is a familiar and yet it always striko
one as a marvellous fact that worlds may
have been for years in existence, the
light of which has not yet had tiino to
reach our cavth, and that wo may con
tinue to sco the light of tho tt;rs that
have been for a long time extinct.
To distinguish wrought iron from steel
produce a bright surface by polishing or
tilling, and apply a drop of nitric ncid,
which should bo allowed to remain thcro
for ono or two minutes; then wash oil
with water, and the spot will look a palo
gray on wrought iron, a brownish black
on stoel. a deep black on cast iron. It
is tho carbon present in various propor
tions which produces tho diil'orcnt ap
pearance. Some ono suggests that trees after
transplanting may bo kept alive by bury
ing a row of flower pots tilled with water
oround tho body and over the roots of
the trees. Tho moisture which will pcr
colato through the bottom and sides of
the pots will be bo gradual that two-gallon
ones will hold enough so as not to
requiro refilling for somo time, and tho
roots will bo kept moist till such time as
they begin to sprout afresh.
A French entomologist has described
the bird-spider of tropical America, tho
largest of the several hundred known
species of spiders, as a formidable crea
ture having a body four and a quarter
inches long, or a diameter of seven
inches with the legs extended. Its nest,
in the center of which its 1,500 or 2.O0O
eggs are deposited, is so strengthened ns
to be capable of arresting a small bird;
and tho spider is sufllciently powerful to
destroy not only young birds and adult
humming birds, but large lizards and
reptiles.
Captain McGregor, of tho Eng'ish
steamer Albano, reports that ho used oil
on a recent passago from Baltimore to
Dublin. Experienced very heavy gales
and seas from westward in latitude forty-
four degrees ten minutes north, longitudo
twenty-nine degrees twelve ni'nutes west.
Placea two oil bags astern, filled with
linseed oil and oakum. Previous to
placing the bags over the stem, had taken
heavy seas aboard, flooding the decks;
but after towing the bags no more water
came aboard. Tho gale lasted three
days, with very heavy seas, but, owing
to the oil, ran quite easily and took no
water. 1'sed about seven gallons of oil
all together.
Accounts are given in tho Gorman)tech
nical journals of some interesting experi
ments which have been made, and it
appear with success, in the employment
of paper in piano construction. Tho
case is made entirely of paper, as a sub
stitute, for wood, tho material being so
compressed as to be' susceptable of the
high polish which is required for such
Instruments. As described the color is a
creamy white; the tone is reported to bo
characterized by sweetness rather than
loudness the sound emitted, unlike tho
short broken note of the ordinary piano,
being soft, full, and slightly continuous,
somewhat resembling that of tho organ.
This modification of tone, which must
bo considered an attractive feature, is at
tributed to the evenness of texture of the
compressed paper.
An Electric Mountain.
A very peculiar property has recently
been discovered in the rock of a moun
tain seven miles from the town of Santa
Cruz. This rock is heavily charged with
electricity and when applied to a battery
was found to produce strong electric
currents. A small handful of this rock
applied in a battery generated sufficient
electric force to operate tho battery for
three weeks and appeared not to bo the
least exhausted of its powers. This rock
has very much the appearance of ordinary
soapstone and exists iu immense quanti
ties, constituting the principal mass of
tho mountain. Its strange property was
accidently discovered by a man who was
experimenting with mineral water on the
mountain, and having occasion to u-e
some of this rock, placed it in contact
with the battery. The man who made
this wonderful discovery kept it a pro
found 6ecret from tho world until ho and
o e or two of his confidential friends had
obtained a title to tho portion of the
land, paying $13,000 therefor. The pres
ent owners are now experimenting with
this rock, with a view to thoroughly
testing its properties. The result of such
investigation we can only surmise, but
are very anxious to learn. Tulare Free
Pros.
A Successful Dramatist's Profits.
Reporter "Could you give me some
idea of the profits of a successful druma,
from your own experience i"
Dion Boucicault "Well, I suppose it is
pretty well known that Mr. Theodore
Morse offered me $230,000 for tho profits
of "The Shaughraun," and I declined
the offer. A successful play should be
worth nearly $1,000,000. "Hip Van
Winkle," which 1 wrote for Mr. Jeffer
son, I ohould presume has yielded him
moro than $300,000. I have made as
much as !-.'00,0o0 in ono year, ns tho
profits of my pen. At Walluck's New
York liaise "Tho Shaughraun'' drew
$230,000 in one hundred and forty fort
nights. It drew more money in that
time than any other play ever drew into
the treasury of a theatre, either in this
Or any other country."
Reporter "The piofits of a popular
play or a successful actor are larger now
than they have been, ire they not:"
Boucicault "Well, a first-class star
should bo able to mako up Si, 000 a week
on un average. I have received $7,0( 0
in a week. I suppo.-.e among the stars
now on tho stage it is a question between
! Mr. Booth and Mr. Jefferson, as to which
1 of them commands tho best iucom;.
A'cw l'vrk .Mirror
Statisticians estimate that in Fram e
one-half the population live upon agri
culture, one-quarter live by var ous inuii
tincturing industries, one tenth by com
merce. four-hundredth a by tho liberal
j professions, and six-huudredths aro lei.
j tiers of various kind. '
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Hints and Recipes.
A little petroleum added to the water
with which waxed or polished floors are
washed improvo their looks.
reaches, cut in thin slices ond dropped
into boiled custard before it is sorved,
make a palatable addition.
Theso Graham puffs are nice for break
fast. Sift together a pint and a half
of Graham flour, ono tcaspoonful of salt
snd threo teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der. Mix with this one pint of milk
and two well-beaten eggs until a smooth
batter is obtaiucd. Fill cold, well
greased gem pans half full with tho bat
ter, and bako in a hot oven for ten min
utes. Sometimes tho lamp wick obstinately
refuses to bo turned up in an orderly
manner. It will seem firmly wedged at
ono sido while the other runs up in a
point, causing weariness and vexation of
spirit. To overcome this depravity take
a new wick, draw out a single thread
near tho selvedge and tho wick will be
found quite tractable when introduced
into tho burner. The cogs will tako it
up properly and it will appear in good
form and give an even flame when
lighted.
Mrs. T. writes that she has found bran
water excellent for cleaning matting.
For nn ordinary sized room infuso two
handfuls of bran, put in a bog in half a
gallon of boiling water, pressing tho bag
to that all tho goodness of the bran will
be in tho water. Dilute this water and
wash the matting with a woolen or crash
cloth, drying with another cloth imme
diately. By repeating this process every
fortnight for a room that is much used
the matting retains its good appearance
ind is kept perfectly clean.
Mrs. S. F., of Norfolk, Va., sends this
recipe for lemon jelly cake: One cup of
lugar, mixed with butter the sizo of an
egg, ono cup of milk, one egg well
beaten and flour enough to make rather
stiff, sifted with a heaping tcaspoonful
of baking powder and bako in three jelly
cake tins. For tho jelly take tho juice
and gtated rind of ono lemon, ono small
cup of sugar, threo teaspoonfuls of corn
starch, mixed smoothly with a little
water and one cup of hot water. Let all
boil together until thick and spread on
the cakes. This quantity makes two
layers.
A correspondent sends this recipo fot
cooking beefsteak: Have tho steak cut
very thick, with two ounces of fat to
each pound of lean and set it on a dish
that may bo sent to tablo. If liked well
done, set it before a clear hot'fire for au
hour and a quarter beforo dinner. Turn
tho steak onco and turn tho dish once, so
that each sido of the steak may bo turned
to tho fire. Before sending it to table
put a piece of butter the sizo of ahickorv
nut in tho middle of it; sprinkle it with
a little pepper and a Jew drops of any de
sired sauce. Pour over It a pint of but
ton mushrooms that have been cooked
in their own sauce, and servo hot.
This layer cake will bo found delicious :
Cream four table-spoonfuls of butter with
two cups of sugar; add threo full cups of
flour sifted with two heaping teaspoon
fuls of baking powder, one cup of milk,
the yolks of four eggs, well beaten, and
tho four whites whipped to a still froth.
Bake in two jelly cake pans. Mince a cup
and a half of figs very fine and a third
of a cup each of pistachio nuts, wal
nuts, and blanched almonds, adding the
frothed whites of two eggs, a little sugar
and enough rose water to moisten all.
Mix thoroughly and place ns a layer be
tween the two lakes. Cover tho take
with thick icing mado with white of
egg, lemon juice and confectioners' or
XXX. sugar.
It is well to remember that too much
blueing renders clothes yellow after a
time. Inexperienced or caroless servants
think the moro blueing iu tho water the
better for the wash; und it is a difficult
matter to convince them that the clothes
will look far better if only a small quan
tity be used. As blueing varies so much
in intensity, experience only can teach
tho required quantity. Usually half a
tablespoonful to a tub of water is sutli
cient. It should always be diluted before
it is put in the tub; as, if not thoroughly
mixed before the clothes arc put in. un
sightly streaks will be-tho result. If the
clothes are soaked over night one table
spoonful of pure water ammonia in each
tub of water will materially lessen tho
labor of washing. Neu York Commer
cial. Some BIjj Watermelons.
"How big v4is tho largest watermelon
I ever saw? Well, now, let me see. I
have been in the business siuce 1M0,"
said Mr. Hanson P. Barnes, the commis
sion merchant, "and I have seen melons
on this wharf which weighed as high as
seventy-five pounds, but there have been
authentic reports of some which went as
high as eighty pounds. Tho largest
melons are not always the best.
"There aro various ways of judging a
watermelon. 'I hose who have to handle
them are edujrat d by experience to
know a ripe tirclon on sight, but if the
skin breaks crisply when cut into with
the thumb nail, or a peculiar hollow
sound is emitted when tapped with the
knuckle, or if the meat is heard to break
with a brittle sound when the fruit is
squeezed, tho melon is generally ripo.
The 'scaly bark' does not respond kindly
to the squeezing or rapping test, as a
two-hundred-pound man might sit upon
one without crushing the meat; yet when
cut tho melon might prove a prime ono
by its dark red meat and black seed.
"The general tendency in improving
the melon is to get round fruit and thin
rinds, thus obtaining a greater amount
of meat in tho spaco handled and obvi
ating crumpled fruit, which may be ripe
at ono end while the long, thin ends are
useless. Tho 'ice rinds' fill the bill iu
this respect, but tough rinds are nilti
vated for shipping purposes !,: Balti
more Sun.
lrmporlnnt to Mercliniit Tailors.
wm u!FeUlTiLYK,'e!or!10 Keller A
" ihattlieoldrioth House, corner Aim ad
William Ms., .ew Vc.rk iiu, are domy an ex
tensive lmsiii.-Mi by means i f urniHiiiiiK to tlie
Mitcliaiit latlnriiiKtimletluoiiKliouitlio l
ted Mates complete- sample collations 0f
their Woolens m mumih, uiel re.-eivimj and
executing orders received tlir.iu.;!, the. fam
ilies. W henever a style has been sold out.
they many tlic ir customers to that ellurl Bd
tnat the panics IioI.Iuik i heir samples are al
ways, properly inlorme.l us to whirl, styles
ViTiLVuV r to,1"",r l",tr"""- Merchant
tailor is thus placed in a poMlion lo slio a
lailio variety uf styles without, . eiunbrrina
l.IioBelt will, a lari:a Hock. We unUerslaud
I . , wf' J,"r,l"anl luiKTuesiniii; seen rollec
lion of samples cioi have sam sent free of
j ehAiije. Addreaa ilessr. M. voa Keller ii -
The Spring Chicken of History.
Few people have any idea of the lon
gevity of that noble, although hysterf
lcky, domestic fowl, the common hen o
commorco. By a late agricultural papor
wo rco that a hen, residing with a farmer
near Macon, Mo., soized a rat by tho
back, carried him to a tub of water,
dropped him into it "with a revengeful
cluck." and thus taved her brood from
further depredations. Now, when in
boyhood's happy days we read tho "Boys'
Own Book of Natural History," this ven
crablo hen, at that time residing on nn
English farm, was sponding most of her
time dropping that same predatory rat
into tho tub of water with tho s.imo old
"revengeful cluck." And now sho is at
it again, nway out in far away Missouri,
where they call us to deliver their land
from error's chain. Fifty years is a good
ripe ago for a brood hen, but we do not
look to seo her pass away in this genera
tion. No. So long as there is a rat alive
In this world of suffering and wrong, so
long will that noblo old hen contiuuo to
pick him up and drop him into a tub of
water "with a revengeful cluck." Hons,
unreal mockery, honsl We begin to fear
that the hen of our boyhood was perhaps
only a feeble imitation of the real hen
of to-day. Burdctte.
Whito woodchucks have boon seen tho
past summer in Bedding township, Ind.
A huge derrick-pole fell and soverfly injurpd
the foot of Mechanical Knglnoor K. IL lloyt
at the New Orleans Exposition, and after
only throe applications of St. Jnrobs OU, all
the pain and swcllinn disappeared.
Among the workmen specially occupied
with tar In the Paris lias Works only three
were sick in the course of seven yenrs.
WAttTEn The name of the goldsmith who
made the welkin riiiR.
The most astonishingly beneficial resnlts
have followed the use of Hod Star Cough Cure
by those affected with throat and lung
troubles. Price, twenty-five cents.
Cot.OR-iu.iNnNKss 1b said to have been first
roported iu 1777.
Tnnni are 14,000 licensed drivers of cabs in
London.
"Wlint Every One Should Know."
Among the 150 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar
Volumes given away by the Rochester (N. Y.)
American Rural Hmne for every $1 subscription
to that great 8-page, 48-col., ln-year-old weekly,
(all 5x7 inches, from 300 to 900 pages, bound in
cloth) are:
Law Without Law
yers. Family Cyclopedia.
Farm Cyclopedia.
Farmers and Stock
breeders' Guido.
Common Sense In
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World Cyclopedia.
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Five Years Before the
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Universal History of
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We Appeal to Experience.
For a long time we steadily refused to pub
lish testimonials, believing that, in the opinion
of the publio generally, the great majority
were manufactured to order by unprincipled
parties as a means of disposing of their worth
less preparations.
That this view of tho case is to a certain ex
tent true, there can be no doubt.
At last, several years ago, we came to the
conclusion that every intelligent person ran
readily discriminate between spurious and
bona lido testimonials, nnd determined to use
as advertise menuia few of the many hundreds
of unsolicited certificates iu our posHes
sion. In doing this we published them as nearly as
possible in the exact language used by our cor
respondents, only changing the phraseology,
in some cases, so as to compress them into a
smaller space titan they would otherwise occu
py, but without Iu theleastexaKgeratingor de
stroying the meaning of the writers.
Weai OKlad to say that our linal conclusion
was a correct one that a letter recommending
an article having true merit Ilnds favor with
the people.
Tho original of every testimonial published
by us is on tile in our oflice, an inspection of
which will prove lo the most skept leal that
our assertion mado above, that only the facts
are given as they appear therein, is true.
But as it would be very inconvenient. If not
impoRsihlo, for ail of our friends to call on us
for that purpose, we invite those who doubt
(it there be such), to correspond with any of
tho parties whose names are signed to our tes
timonials, and ask them if we have made any
misstatements, bo far as their knowledge ex
tends, in this article. In other words, if wo
have not published their letters as nearly ver
batim as possible.
Very respectfully,
E.T. HAELTINE,
Proprlotor Plso's Cure for ( Jonsumpt ion
and Vuo't Remedy lor Catarrh.
We append a recent letter, which came to
us entirely unsolicited, with permissiou to
publish it:
DayTos, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1888.
You may add my testimony as to tho merits
of Piso's Cure for Consumption. I took a
severe cold last February, which settled on lny
lungs. They became ulcerated and Were so
painful that I bad no rest for two days and
nights. I got a bottle of Piso's Cure for Con
sumption, and wa relieved by the time I had
taken half ol it. Since that time I have kept
Piso's Cure In the house, and use it as a pre
ventive, both for lung troubles and croup, tor
which 1 can recommend it us the boil medicine
lever used: and that is saying a great dcsl,
for 1 have used at least twenty others, beside
aliout as many physicians' prescriptions.
Pio'sCure for t onsuiuptiou has never failed
to give relief in my family.
A..T. (i)tl'HH,
it Springfield St.
No lady should live in perpetual fear, and
suffer from the more serious troubles that so
often appear, when Dr. Kilmer's Compi.etk
Kkmai.k lfKMKOY is certain to prevent and cure
Tumor and Cancer there.
The habit of running over boots orshoes
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A'o Opfiim in Piso's Cure for Consumption
Cures where other remedies fall. y."c.
An l'.litoi's Testimonial.
A. M. Vaughau, editor of the Greenwich Review,"
Greenwich. (., writes: "Last January 1 met with a
very severe accident, caused by a runaway horae.
I used alino t every kind of salve to heal the woundt.
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