WORN BY NAVY OFFICERS. When Commodore Dewey last winter Was promoted from the rank of captain he had to visit the tailor for clothes suitable to his new rank and was obliged to buy a full-dress coat and a cap. The latter cost $15. During the terrible storm at Samoa some years ago, when the naval offi- cers lost their belongings, a bill was introduced to reimburse them, and it was figured a lieutenant's wearing ap- parel was worth $1,365, an ensign’s $1,050, and a rear admiral's $2,000. An admiral’s full-dress outfit,including the hat, is worth $765. The epaulets alone cost $165. During the engagement at Manila Commodore Dewey, as he stood on the bridge directing his forces, wore what is called the service coat, of dark blue serge, shaped to the figure, with a slit on each hip extending on the right side as high as the sword belt. Plain gutta percha buttons and a high collar fin- ished the coat. His trousers had a strip of gold lace down their outer seams one inch wide. The visor of his cap was trimmed with ocak leaves. It takes most of a young naval offi- cer’'s salary to keep his wardrobe in condition to suit his superiors. The first thing a naval cadet is taught is how to keep his uniforms in ecndition. He has a number of them for different occasions, but the regulations are most exact. Naval officers are much more particular than army officers in regard to the making of their uniforms, for they are continually cruising about the world, entering foreign ports, and must uphold the honor of their coun- try. Paotography Under Water. A wonderful invention has recentl; been devised by which photography may be taken under water. The light for this purpese is furnished by an ine candescent lamp placed in a steel casg in the diver’s headpiecz,the luminous rays being protected by a reflector placed in tke .eur of the steel case. and the elec!» city provided by means . of a small di..a no carried in the boat above. The pliotcgraphic apparatus itself consists of a common camera placed within an India rubber envel- ope, the front of which is glass, and the machine is regulated and pictures taken by pressing buttons through the India rubber covering. The result is such as to be pronounced an achieve- ment, for it has been demonstrated that pictures can be taken under water pf objects at a distance of ten or twelve feet as easily as they can be obtained above in the full light of day. Machine for Harvesting Grain. On a large wheat farm in California the grain is cut from the stalks, the chaff thrashed out, and the kernels placed in sacks. which are sewed and piled ready for the mill—all by one huge machine, which is drawn by and gets its motive power from a team of thirty-eight mules. It Can Be Made to Go. “Tho melancholy days have come;” has cheumatism come with them? It can be made to go right off by the use of St. Jacobs Dil, which cures and leaves no trace ba- ; hind. Our cotton crop amounts to 11,199,994 bales. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarcts. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever 10c,25¢. If C. C. C fail, druggistsrefund money. Joachim Murat!’s remains, which have been resting since 1815 in the cas- tle church of Pizzo di Calabria, where he was shot, are to be transferred to Naples and buried ig the Church of Santa Maria among e former Bour- Don KINES, ssh son ty To Gure 4 A Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. The Japanese government has con- cluded to establish at Tokio a univers- ity library after the model of the Con- gressional Library at Washington. It is to have room for 600,000 volumes and 500 places for readers. Dr. Seth Arnold's Cough Killer knocks Colds.— JOHN DARGANELL, 444 Fargo Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1888. 25c. a bottle. The shovel fish is so called because it uses its nose to turn over the mud at the bottom of the sea in quest of the worms and small shellfish on which it feeds. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25¢ It C. C. C. 1ail te cure, cruggists refund money Liverpool has started the idea of giving concerts in the courtyards of the worst quarters of the city. How's This? Weoffer One Hundred Dollar: Reward for any ca e of Catarrh that cannot bs cured by Hall's Catarrh Sure. . CHENEY & Co,, P ops. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che- ney for the la t15 years. and believe him per- fectly honorsble in all business tran-actions and Ananciaily able to to carry out any obliga- tion m de by firm W 874 & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, WaLDiNg, RIX Ay & Marviy, Wholesale Druggists, Toled s raed ore is ken internally, rct- tng directly upon the and muoous sur- 1aces of th aystem, Pric~, 75¢c. pe bottle, Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. sicl had given me up, I was aT physic 0 Eo ALPH en Wwil- i Pa., Nov. 22, 1888. If kept continuously running a watch will tick 160,144,000 times in a year. Soldiers From the War Bring the germs of malaria, fevers and other diseases, which may prove contagious in their own families. Hood's S8arsaparilia is a special boon to soldiers, because it eradicates all disease germs, builds up the debilitated system and brings back health Every returned soldier gnd overy friend and relative of soldiers should take Hood’s Sarsaparilla America's Greatest Medicine. ~ $1; six for $5. Hood's Pllis cure sick headache, 25c. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS Products of Wild Land. Aside from its crop of trees with which uncultivated land is mostly covered, it also produces nuts, berries and other fruits which are always in their season to be found in city mar- kets. The whortleberry and its near relative, the huckleberry, are always grown wild, as they need just the dampness and shade that they find in forest and low, wild land. But the wild blackberries and raspberries still constitute a considerable portion of the fruit sold in city markets. In most cases this self-grown fruit is re- garded as the property of whoever wishes to gather it. The huckleberry patches are, however, often reserved by owners of the land, and those wish- ing the fruit must pay for it, or, as is usually done, dividing it after it is picked. A Few Points to Know. Charcoal is excellent for poultry; so is corn burned or charred on the ear. One way to get a yellow yolk is to take beets or carrots, cook them for the fowls, feed them, and in two days there will be a change; the yolks will be as yellow as desired. One of the most important things in feeding poultry, yet too often neglected, is a a supply of good, pure drinking water, and a fowl drinks eveey ten or fifteen minutes in warm weather. Im- pure water is one of the most fruitful sources of disease. Cholera, for in- stance, is in all probability, due often to the drinking of water that is not pure. Snow water will reduce flesh as rapidly as a sharp attack of diarrhea. The best thing is to have a stream of running water. A few rusty nails in the water are good, or a few drops of tincture of iron every other day. The vessels must be kept clean, and water should be warmed in winter for fowls, or it will chill them, but in summer it should be cool. Apples For Cooking. There are many sour apples that contain more saccharine matter than those that are called ‘‘sweet” only be- cause they lack acidity. And there is some malic acid in the varieties that are called sweet. It is the combina- tion of sweet with acidity that makes the richest and best flavored apples either for eating raw or for cooking. Commonly, only those that are very distinctly acid have a good flavor when cooked, and they should be acid enough to require considerable sugar in cooking. = Yet, when the country was new, sugar was much dearer than it is now, and to save sugar the sweet and sour apples were sometimes made into pies together. This was, how- ever, a poor substitute for sugar, as the sweet apples would not cook through so quickly'as the sour, and remained hard and nearly tasteless lumps in the pie. There were some kinds of native fruit apples that never were propagated in nurseries that were neither wholly sweet nor wholly sour, but such a combination of both that they would make very good pies without sweetening of any kind. Honey Selling With Profit. The apiarist who has but little honey for sale will find it much more profitable to arrange with some live grocer in a neighboring town %o han- dle his product on commission than to ship to commission men in large cities. It is preferable, however, to work up a retail trade of your own, which may be readily done by the use of small sample boxes. In the spring get some sections holding a quarter of a pound of honey and set them on the hives; when they are filled label them and distribute them among the best fam- ilies of your nearest town. Follow this up a week later by taking orders, and if your samples were up to the mark you will have no trouble in get- ting advance orders for all the honey you will have fcr sale. Tt will be a comparatively easy matter to add to the trade another year, and you will soon find yon have built up a pleasant and profitable business. The farmer who can successfully produce enough honey for the use of his own house- hold is well fitted to go into the busi- ness on a much larger scale. Why is Poultry Valuable to the Farmer? Professor Gilbert, of Ottawa, an- swers this question in the following manner and his conclusions cannot be questioned: 1. Because he ought by their means to convert a good deal of the waste #t his farm into money in the shape of eggs and chickeas for the market. 2. Because with intelligent manage- ment, they ought to be all year revenue producers, with’ the ‘exception of per- haps two months, during the moulting period. 3. Becanse poultry will yield him a quicker return for his capital invested than any of the other departments of agriculture. 4. Because the manure from the poultry house will make a valuable compost “for” use in either vegetable garden or orchard. The birds them- selves, if allowed-to run in plum or apple orchards, will destroy all injuri- ous insect life. 5. Because while cereals and fruits can only be successfully grown in cer- tain sections, poultry can be raised for table use or layers of eggs in all parts of the country. 6. Because poultry raising is gn em- ployment in which the farmer’s wife and daughters can engage and leave him free to attend to other depart- ments. 7. Because it will bring the best re- turns in the shape of new laid eggs— during the winter season—when the farmer has most time on his hands. 8. Because to start poultry raising on the farm requires little or no capi- tal. Under any circumstances, with proper management poultry can be made, with little cost, a valuable ad- junct to the farm. ~Farmer and Breeder. ‘Marshalls square-bodied water snake begins to | | teria, A Natfon of Dyspeptics. From the Mountaineer, Walhalla, N. Dakota. The remorse of a gulity stomach is what a large majority of the peoole are suffering with to-day. Dyspepsiais a characteristic American disease and it {s frequently stated that ‘‘we are a nation of dyspeptios.” Improper food, hurried eating, mental worry, oxhaustion—uny of these produce a lack of vitality in the system, by causing the blood to lose its life-sustaining ele- ments. The blood is the vital element in our lives and should be carefully nurtured. Restore {t to its proner condition, dys- pepsia will vanish and ood health follow. For example, in the county of Pembina, North Dakota, a few miles from Walhalla, resides Mr. Encnest Snider; a man of sterl- ing integrity, whose veracity canaot be doubted. He says: { . The Doctors Disagreed. “I became seriously ill three years ago. | The doctor gave me medicine for indiges- tion, but I continued to become worse. I | The Eskimo'’s Boat. There is no craft so difficult to han- dle as the Eskimo kayak. The only boat familiar to us which in any way resembles it is the racing shell, but if a crack oarsmen of one of our col- leges were tied into a kayak and told to shift for himself he would have a hard time of it. It is entirely covered except for a round hole, into which tho owner slips, neath the skin deck in front, the hole being fitted to the person for whom the boat is designed, so that his thighs fill it completely. When he is seated in it, with his waterproof jacket tied securely around the edge, able to defy waves or rain. or an unexpectedly large wave, and, if he does not right himself at once, is jpevitakly drorrad, A Prediction Eighty Years Old. The poet Keats wrote to his brother George in Kentucky in 1818 as fol- lows: | quest even to China; I think it a very { likely thing that China itself may fall. i Turkey certainly will. ropean north Russia will hold horns against the rest of Europe, | triguing constantly with France.” its in- dinary fire goes up the chimney. had several physicians at intervals who | gave me some relief, but the disease would | raturn with all its accustomed severity. “I read in the newspapers articles re- | garding the wonderful curative powers of | Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and finally concluded to try.the pills. months ago I bought six boxes. box gave me much relief, and after using four boxes I was cured.” These pills are recognized everywhere as | a specific for diseases of the blood and nerves. For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and other diseases long supposed incur- | efficacy in | able, they- have proved thef thousands of cases. It will take a snail hours to travel a mile. 14 days and 5 Just the Time, This is just the time of the year we feel | the muscles all sore and stiff, and then is just the time to use St. Jacobs Oilto re- lax them and to cure at once. Dawson City has two weeklies; 50 cents a copy. Beauty Is Blood Jeep. Clean blood means a clean skin, newspapers, tic clean your blood urities from the ody; anish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion’ by taking Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug- gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10¢, 25¢, 50c. Five | The first | While You Sleep. Do not have too much air blowing through your room at night, or neuralgia But it warms, | may creep upon you while you sleep. it it comes, use St. Jacobs Oil; soothes and cures promptly. New York hop pickers get from cents to $1.25 a day. Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away, To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag- | netio, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- | Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or #1. Cure guaran- teed. Booklet and sample free. Address | Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York Russia, with her population of 129,- i 000,000, has only 743 newspapers—but | little more than half the number pub- lished in the State of Pennsylvania, which has 1,430. Five Cents. Everybody knows that Dobbins’ FElectris | Soap 1s the best in the world, and for 33 years No | beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar- | od and keep it clean, by | stirring up the lazy Nive and driving all im- | Begin to-day to | i favor of the The Baltimore & Ohio South Western : Railroad has just Baldwin Locomotive Works freight locomotives for use 10 on received from the | new | the | Ohio division from Cincinnati to Park- | ersburg. some | This portion of the road has | rather heavy grades and these | are the first heavy engines to be used fo It is expected they will | haul about 40 per | on th2 line. increase the train cent. The simple locomotives have 21x28 inch cylinders and the ‘compound 115 and 26x28 inch cylinders. The locomo- tives were built from designs furnish- ed by Superintendent of Motive Power Neuffer. Eight are simple and two are compound. SNAKES IN PACIFIC ISLANDS. Hawail, Samoa and New Zealand En- tirely Free from Reptiles. | | | East Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, | | | L says: For the most part the Pacific islands | are destitute of snakes. That-is abso- lutely the case in Hawaii. In New Zealand, equally free of these reptiles, it has sold at the highest price. - Its price is now 5 cents, same as common brown S0AD. Bars fullsize and quality. Order of grocer. 4de The Board of Aldermen of Somer- ville, Mass., has passed a resolution in municipal ownership -of the electric light plant. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 50c, 81. All druggists. 5,782 associations of ,102 members. Germany has turners, with 578 Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25¢ a bottle SINGULAR STATEMENT. From Mrs. Rank to Mrs. Pinkham. The following letter to Mrs. ham from Mrs. M. RANK, No. Pa., is a remarkable statement of re- | 1 She lief from utter discouragement. ¢ I never can find words with which | | to thank you for what Lydia E. Pink- f ham’s Vegetable Compound has done the only knowledge which the Maoris | had of snakes may be found in a le- gend of a monster called the taniwha, concerning which the authorities differ as to whether it is the ancestral and | and doctored for a long time, not see- | | ing any | would feel well enough, dim recollection of a snake or of an al- | ligator. All the eastern islands of | Polynesia between these two outposts | { hardly explain my feelings at that are snakeless. Westward from Hawali, down among the Gilberts and the and the Carolines, ‘the make its appearance in the lagoons and harbors. By the time the Phillipines are reached the water snake becomes both common and deadly and the jungle of those islands are abundant- ly supplied with snakes. From the Phillipines as one follows down the |, chains of islands snakes are found both abundant and venomous. In the wild lands of the western Pacific the reptiles are frequently objects of wor- ship, and in some legends are credited with the creation of the world. Samoa | { well woman, and can say from my | seems to lie just on the boundary line | S J 2 ‘Thank God for such a medi- | of snakes in the Pacific. ern islands of the snakes are to be found; few are seen at rare intervalai. vaii only a few miles to the westward ! they are common and attain great size, in the case of some kind at least. None of them is venomous and the islanders neither fear them nor exhibit any of that repugnance to their presence which is commonly called instinctive. This indifference to the reptiles is made most markedly manifest at the hamlet of Iva on the northeast coast of Savali. Here are to be found small snakes of the most brilliant red color. They are so common that a basketful may be easily picked up in any banana patch. The dancing girls of this town are in the habit of employing these gaudy snakes for personal adornment in their dances. They tie them about their necks, their ankles, and thelr wrists, festoon them in their headdresses, and tuck a few extra ones in their belt in readiness to replace such as escape in the dance. At their best these sivas danced by the Sa- moans are either dull or revolting shows of savagery. It can be easily imagined that they are made no more attractive when the taupou or village | maid and her crew of attendant girls | go careering about with an assortment of writhing red snakes. Still the Sa- moans, who have no stock of snake prejudices, look upon this as one of the most successful and artistic dances in their islands. | time. | that I did not wish to live, although I | In the east- | archipelago no | in Upolu a |! In Sa- | for me. ‘Some years ago I had womb trouble improvement. At times I times was miserable. So it went on until last October, I felt something | terrible creeping over me, I knew not | what, but kept getting worse. I can I was so depressed in spirits had everything to live for. Had hys- was very nervous; could not sleep and was not safe to be left alone. “Indeed, I thought I would lose my mind. No one knows what I endured. “1 continued this.ay until the last | of February, when I saw in a “paper a testimonial of a lady whose case was similar to mine, and who had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound. I determined to try it, pushing his feet under- he is | The most | expert are apt to be sometimes over- | turned, either by a careless movement | “Russia may spread her con- | Meanwhile Eu- | Forty per cent of the heat of an or- | Pink- | 2,354 | and other and felt better after the first dose. I | continued taking it, and to-day am a | heart, cine.’ ” ! for advice. and answered by women only, INSOMNIA “§ have been using CASCARETS for Insomnia, with which I have been afflicted for | over twenty years, and I can say that Causcarets have givea me more relief than any other reme- dy I have ever tried. Ishall certainly recom- mend them Bn in my friends as being all they are represénated THOS. 'GILLARD, Eigin, TH! CANDY CATHARTIC TRADE MARN REOISTERED 7 a Salata i RE ian By Op «.. CURE CONSTIPATION. 1 Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago, Montreal. New Yo! 13 KO-TO-BAGS Sold and guaranteed by all Qrug- wicte ta CURE Tobacco H . Do PN U NSIO Lasiseesetyly.} 3yrsiu last war, 15adjudicati NEW DISCOVERY; xives D RO Ps Sook relief and cures worss =asen, Send tor book of onials and 10 uy | teatment Free. Dr K. xox Pr 8 SONS, Aulasta. @ 44 '93 JOHN SV NICRRIS, Brash ington, 2 C. ylly Pro: rosecytes © aims. g claims, utty since, Mrs. Pinkham invites all suffering | women to write to her at Lynn, Mass., | All such letters are seen |: There are frauds in soaps as well as other things. Sometimes a grocer will offer you a substitute for Ivory Soap, because his profits are larger on the substitute. and the purchaser are losers in this transaction. He The dealer ultimately loses the customer, and the customer suffers from the mischief of the substitute. A person accustomed to Ivory Soap will not be satisfied with any other. Ask for Ivory Soap and insist upon getting it. A WORD OF WARNING —There are many white soaps. each represented to be ** just as good as the ‘Ivory ';"” they ARE NOT. but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for ** Ivory ** Soap and Insist upon getting it. Soprus 1896, by The Procter & Gamble Co., Otnsinastl. * PRBS Fifty Cents a Year! 1 ppd pe pd dp THE | EDGER MONTHLY Isa richly fllustrated and beautiful periodical, covering the whole field of popular reading. ATTRACTIVE The covers of the LEDGER MONTHLY are elegantly printed or lithographed in colors, making COVERS them worthy of preservation as works of art, and each cover is alone worth the price of the magazine. THE ORANGE GIRL, by Sir Walter Besant, is now running. The short stories in each SERIAL and number will be by the most entertaining and SHORT STORIES distinguished writers of the day. FASHION Up-to-date fashions nre a strong feature of the LEDGER MONTHLY. This department, with DEPARTMENT illustrations from original drawings by the best designers of fashions, is a true guide for every woman. SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS are devoted to Embroidery, Decorative Art, Home Employments for Women, elc. The LEDGER MONTHLY is replete with pictorial illustrations appertaining not only to the reading matter, but with illustrations PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS of special beauty and interest, appealing to the artistic taste and the desire for the beautiful, such as ‘The Prayer,”’ by Jean Paul Selinger, recently purchased for $800. THE GREAT FAMILY MAGAZINE The LEDGER MONTHLY is the Great Family Magazine. dealers, For sale by all news- price 5 cents; yearly .subscrip- tions 50 cents. Sample copies sent to any address on receipt of 5 cents. This Magazine is Too Expensive to Send Sample Copies FREE. : A Sample Copy can be Seen at the Office of this Paper. Address ROBERT BONNER’S SONS, Publishers, LeEpDGER BUILDING YOUR PAINT! OWN 104 WILLIAM STREET New York City MURALO WATER COLOR PAINTS FOR DECORATING WALLS AND CEILINGS This material is a H Milled tn twenty-four tints and works equally as § paint dealer and do your own decorating. with a brush and becomes as hard as Cement. well with cold or hot water. Ss SEND FOR SAMPLE CO! OR CARDS and {f you cannot trom yourroceror MURAL O RD FINISH to te applied urchase this material from your local dealers let us know and we will put you in the way of obtaining it. THE MURALO CO., NEW BRIGHTON, S, X., NEW oR, . “East, West, Home is Best,” if Kept Clean With SAPOLIO STOPPED FREE Parmanently Cured revented by BR. NUNES GREAT NERVE RESTORER ITS: Pesitive aes iu Al No wus FEV. TR: Karine er Sa = dreapsand $3 eislbatly Ty Fatan Sead to Dr. Kline, Ltd, Bellevue Pathe of Medicine, 931 Arch St.. hiladelvhis Pa. Top Sna FISH TACKLE complete ARR, Bend stamp for catalogue. Breech oh §g POWELL & "CLEMENT C0. 418 Nain St..CINCINNATL. 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F 111; REE: Bi “mony frien Send 3 kag in mall” “eine few sken back. 0 i Soldee oy "Unsold Pum \ CO., Dept. 21, Meadville, ® give every girl or rolled gold-fitled solitaire Puritan, ross ra Tne, 3olid ola Dl Basten L. a Ps 3 fro Sul GARFIELD GU! Farms for Sale! Send stamp, get full description and price of 40 cheapest farms in Ashtabula oe) 0. Best state in the union; best couney In "the ta 1. N. BANCROFT, Jefferson, Ashtabula no .» Ohio. --PATENTS-- Procured on: cash, ur easy lustatmenis. VORLEoS BURNS, Patent Attorneys, 37 Broadway. OOD AS GOLD irs for list of Valuable Formulas: golden opportunity; moss valuable secrets mown for office, louse, farm; Serra, needs them. Circular, LO ALAND, Afice N & OO. & Unlon Square. New york City
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