Ice In Massachusetts. General William M. Charter, of the Spring Brook lee Company, and Mr. Wil liam W. Taintor, Secretary of the Hart ford Ice Company, are superintending the putting up of large ice houses on the shore of a fifty-acre pond, near the village of Williamsville, Mass. They took from Hartford four carloads of horses, ice cut ting tools, and many of their men, as well as general materials to be usu} in their work. For some time thesedcom panics have been looking for a place to cut ice, and the present purchase is the result of the examination of several ponds in Massachusetts. The companies pay the owner $5,000 for the privilege of cutting ice on the pond from now until April 1, whether they get any ice or not. The ice at present is about ten inches thick, and it is estimated that this will yiold from 50,000 to 75,000 tons. Mr. Taintor, in speaking of the ven ture, said: "The companies will have to expend about SIO,OOO before they get ready to work. They pay $5,000 for the privilege of cutting the ice, and the seller guarantees nothing. The first work we shall do is to build an ice-house with a capacity of 10,000 tons, to be followed by other houses of about the same size as as fast as they are needed. It is a big undertaking." The pond in question is about eighty miles from Hartford and thirty-three miles from Palmer, on the Ware River Railroad. It is estimated that at least $5,000 must be expended before the housing will be complete, be sides the first cost of the ice. The com panies will hire other men from Williams ville and push the work as fast as possible while the ice lasts. Nature's Remedy for Diphtheria. It is said that nature has her own remedy for every ill to which flesh is heir. Borne of her remedies have not yet been discovered and some that have been found out have not become generally known. Medical science has long sought for a sovereign remedy for the scourge of childhood, diphtheria, yet the colored people of Louisiana, and perhaps of other localities in the South, have for years known and used a cure which is remark able for its simplicity. It is nothing more nor less than the pure juice of the pine-apple. " The remedy is not mine," said a gen tleman, when interviewed, "it has been used by negroes in the swamps down South for years. One of my children was down with diphtheria and was in a criti cal condition. An old colored man who heard of the case asked if we had tried pine-apple juice. Wc tried it, and the child got well. I have known it tried in hundreds of cases. I have told my friends about it whenever I heard of a case and never knew it to fail. You get a ripe pine-apple, squeeze out the juice, and let the patient swallow it. The juice is of so corrosive a nature that it will cut out the diphtheric mucus, and if you will take the fruit before it is ripe and give the juice to a person whose throat is well it makes the mucus membrane of his throat sore."—[Chicago Tribune. An Ancient Stone. An elliptical-shaped gray stone, prob ably two feet in length and about six inches in diameter, was recently received at the White House, accompanied by a letter from Governor Prince, of New Mexico. He stated that the stone was of the idol age, anterior to the arrival of the Spaniards in the western continent, and it was known to be over 300 years old. Among the Pueblo Indians the stone was venerated as a household god, and examination showed that with some rude tools an attempt had been made to depict eyes, nose," and mouth on the upper flat portion, while in the centre crossed hands are easily discernible. It now rests on a shelf just above Private Secretary Hal ford's desk, and as a com panion piece there is a primitive gourd, which was sent to the White House by a North Carolina man. MINNIE Nonius, of Hutchinson, Kan., was at the altar prepared to marry Isaac Smith, but before she would allow the ceremony to proceed she demanded the transfer of his bank accouut to her name and the deed of a farm of 100 acres. Isaac refused, and Minnie remains single. NOTES FROM CONNECTICUT. Charles S. and Frederick, BOHH of Police Commissioner Smith, of New Haven, have opened a brokers' office in Melbourne, Aus tralia. The Hon. E. A. Woodward, president of the South N'orwalk Club, who was accused of selling liquor at the club rooms without a license, was acquitted by a jury on Thurs day. In the city court of New Haven Wednes day, a former school-teacher and lawyer of the city was fined sls for begging and $1 and costs for drunkenness. Drink caused his downfall. The Hartford operator on the long-dis tance telephone spoke to Savannah last week, conveying a lengthy message clearly. By the route of the circuit obtained, it was a distance of about 1,200 miles. Engineer Hiram Hinckley, who was re cently discharged from the Consolidated road on account of the "Gilt Edge" express accident, bus been placed in charge of the engine house und engines at Belie Dock, New Haven. The breach of promise case of Miss Lillian H. Dolph, of Madison, against Augustus W. Hillard. of Clinton, is before the superior court. She claims $5,000 dnmnges. Mr. Ilillurd proposed to her in J 88(5, was accepted, but refused to marry her after learning that ut the time she accepted him she was en gaged to another man. Two years ago Wah Lee, a Chiuamnn. who hud attended services at the South Park M. E. Church was married to Ada Spaulding, his Sunday-school teacher. The couple shortly removed to New Haven, where Lee worked in a tea store until recently when he moved to I'ittHtield, Mass. Wednesday a son was born to the couple The People's Fire Insurance Company, of Middletown, which was organized in 1805 with n capital stock of $200,000, has de cided to reinsure its risks with the Connecti cut Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. The eompunj' has about $5,000,000 of risks and a surplus above liabilities of SIOO.O 0. It is one of the many smuller companies upon which recent excessive competition has worked unfavorably. Business was not large enough, nor were returns, to leave any con siderable profits. The company is absolutely sound financially, and its business is of a good class. But the opinion prevailed that its risks would yield ranch better returns if incorporated with those of a larger com pany. L U MDA G O. s Lumbago Is a foiyi the parts freely with St. Jacobs Oil. It is commonly known as: BACKACHE. Victoria, Tex., June 22,1888. I was in bed two months with backache; Buflfcred about threo months. I was cured by Ft. Jacobs Oil permanently: no return in 14 months. G. W. JEFFEIiSON. AT DUUGCJISTS AND DEALERS. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltlmoro, Md. LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS. NECK OR NOTHIN' HALL, 1 KILKENNY CORNERS, F q.i ia |H. EDITUR: h IM Willam Henery hod * Awlgot pansion in to m ' au thuy u fir vau ' no B'ttin it git a pansion," want never in the subterfuge, didn't I, an he fit an bled for his kintry in my name, an I jest gess I've a right to a pansion," ses he. "Well, mebby you kin git it," ses I, kindy dubersome. "Of corse I kin, Hester Ann. I wush you woodn't always be a tryin to throw a wet blanket on to all my ax pirations." "I liaint a throwin no wet blankets, nor a-boldin on to no brindle cafs tale, neether," ses I hotly. "No, you baint limber enuff," ses he, an the widder she jest hollered an laffed. "What is a pansion, granpaw?" asts little Willam Henery. "A pansion is munny the Gnvament give# to sojers fur fitin fur tharo kin try." "An did you lite fur your kintry?" "No—not axuetly," ses Wm. Henery, kindy slow; "but I sent a man to fite." "An is thet the way Grant an Sher man an Sheridan dun, an is thet why the Guvament gives thare widders pansions?" ses Johnny. "O, you mustnt nr.sk so menny ques tions, Johnny; little hovs shud bo soan not heerd," ses Willam Henery, a wrigglin aroun in the cheer like it wus sum uucomfortble. "Now I know all about gettin a pan sion," ses the widder, "fur No. 2 drawed a pansion." She always spoke of her husbnns es No. 2 or 3 or which over it wus. "Well, an how did he git it?" ses Joshua's wife. "He went to amity sharp lawyer fust an tole him he'd give him 20 dollers to git his pansion, an he dun it. O, it's jest lovely to be a sojer's widder an draw a pansion. Mis Scooper, ef I wus you I'd hev Willam Henery draw a pansion by all means." "He haint never ben a sojer," ses I, "an he haint no rite to a pansion; tharo is manny a pore sojer thet fit an bled fur his kintry thet needs one, but he don't need it," ses I furmly. "Well," ses Joshua's wife, "I shud think it ud he kindy nice to he a sojer's wife an live in to a tent an hev gilt braid down yure liusban's pants an see him carry a nice shiny gun." "Nice fiddle-sticks," ses I, pnrty short; "an what ud you do when it rained an when tharo wus war an he lied to go an he shot at like a beaf critter, an the brade on to his pants got faded an his clase got frozzly au his gun old?" "O, well, thay don't hev thet kind o sojers now. Thay air put on to a back shelf, an these brite, new militia min takes their place," ses she. "Well, what I wunt to no," ses Will am Henery, "is how I'm a goin to git a pansion." "O, I think an ossifer is jist to love ly fur ennything," ses the widder. "Onct thare wuz one kim to see No. 2, an I purty neer fell in love with him." "Was yur hushan a privit?" arsk Joshua's wife. "Low, no 1" ses tho widder, reel liot ty, "he driv a suttler's wargin. I herd say No. 2 want no common sojer," on she sniffed. "Ive got it now," ses Willam Henery, a jumpin up like ho wus shot. "Got i oliat," ses I. "Why, how to git a pension, fur I sole a yoke o stears to the army onct, an I'll git a suttler's pansion." Do you think he kin, Mister Editur? He haint got it yit. Yourn, anxiously, HESTEB ANN SCOOPEB. Soon Over. A sudden thaw in spring is a com mon enough cause of the swelling and overflow of rivers, hut few people have experience of what might he called "magic rivers," whioh disappear almost as suddenly as they are born One such, however, is described by W. H. Malloek in his account of Cyprus, entitled "In an Enchanted Island." On a certain evening there was a succession of thunder showers, anil then, all the night, a heavy and cease less downpour. "This," said my host, in the morning, "ought to bring down the river." I asked what he meant by this, and he answered that tho river below us was rarely anything more than a dry bed of pebbles, just as it was now. Hut generally once—sometimes three times—in the year, it would suddonly till with water, flow for an hour or two, and again become dry and silent. I felt that the sight must be curious, and wished that I might he able to wit ness it. About four o'clock in the afternoon a servant eame to my bedroom, and asked me go into the garden. There I found my host with au opera-glass, standing on the bank. "Look 1" exclaimed he, pointing; "it is coming. Listen! you can hear it." I hastened and looked. I at last caught a sound, faint and uncertain, as leaves rustling in a dream. Then, sud denly, far away on the plain, I saw something flash, like the bond of o pointed spear. Gradually this pro longed itself into a slim, shining line, which presently took a curve. For 8 time its course was straight; then it curved again. In ten minutes, over the brown sur face of tho fields tho wator had stretch ed itself like a long silvery snake, and the sound I had heard, growing; every instant more distinct, explained itself to the ear as the voice of the stirred peb bles. The river channel skirted the bottom of the garden, and thus, as tho flood went by, we had every opportu nity of observing it. It pushed itseli forward, headed by a mass of bubbles and scum; it split itself into fierce rivu lets, which, a moment later, were drowned in the fcody of the stream; it gurgled against banks; it circled into transitory whirlpools. Gradually, as wo watched, its volume seemed to diminish, and in an hour's time there was only a trickling rill, over which a child five years old might have stepped. THE extension ladder fire-escape has been adopted by tho German army as a more satisfactory apparatus than the balloon from which to watch an enemy. DRINK, and tho world drinks with ! you; swear off, and you swear alone. An Abrupt Resumption. It is expected that Henry M. Stanley will visit America next winter and resume the course of lectures which his mission to Africa three years ago abruptly termi nated. The resumption of lectures after a three-years' intermission reminds us of the anecdote "Elia" tells of one of the masters in the Bluecoat School, London. There was a greater row than usual in the classroom one clay before lesson time, and the master, who was a great mathemati cian, burst into the room from his adjoin ing den with a cane in his hand. All the boys got seated but one before the magis terial eye spotted any of them, and, advancing with savage air up to that unfortunate one, the master, raising the cane, roared: "I've a mind to give you a thrashing —;" but a thought having struck him the while, he retreated into his den and devoted half an hour to the solution of a mathematical problem. Rc-emcrging after that time, when every body had forgotten the incident, he came up to the same offender, and, piecing out his litany aforesaid with the words: "And I will, too," he administered a sound flogging to the delinquent. A Cat Rescues a Bird. A wonderful cat story which has the peculiar merit of being true is the follow ing : A woman up-town has a large num ber of birds which she keeps in an aviary built on to the rear wall of the house. She also has a large Maltese cat who has proved herself so trustworthy and so kindly disposed toward the feathered pets that she had had for some time free range of the aviary whether the birds were in their separate cages or not. A few days ago, while all the birds save one were shut in their cages, the owner heard a wild outcry in his aviary. Rushing to the door, she met her trusted cat coming out with this bird in her mouth. On the instant the next room was reached, however, the cat released her hold and the bird flew away fright ened but wholly unharmed. On investi gating the cause of the sudden confusion the woman found in the aviary a stray cat that had slipped in through a lowered sash. The house cat, seeing the danger, had snatched the bird in her mouth, so carefully as not to harm a feather, and carried it out of reach of the intruder. —[New York Sun. The Pride of Hie Clam. He was a br iff fit, handsome boy of sixteen, sunny-tempered, brilliant and •naagicg, the delight of his parents, the Joy of his homo, and the pride of his olasa. Bat a shadow fell Across his bright prospects. It bog&u with a trifling cooffhjsoon came premoniti >ns of con sumption, his strength failed, his ohoeks grew hollow, and he seemed doomed to aa early grave. Then a friond advised Dr. Pierco*s Golden Medioal Dlsoorery. Ho tried it and was saved. Health and strength returned, his cheerful voice rang out again across the school playground, his ©hooks again grow rosy, hi* eyes bright. Ho la still "the prido of his ola and ho graduates this year with highest t ora. Chronic Nasal Catarrh posifclvotv euro.-! Dr. Sago's Catarrh Remedy, w cent druggists. —You can't eat enough in a week to la?t o year, and you can't advertise on that plan either. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a reat many years doctors pro nounced it. a local disea-e, and prescribed lo cal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and thereforo requires constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional c sre on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfuL It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. The offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Bend for circulars and testimonials. Address, , , F - CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. V3tT Sold by Druggists, 75c. —lt is tho aim of every professional thief tc keep himself "unspotted" from the world. Watch for "Murray" Buggy adv. next week —-Bread is the staff of human life, and ad vertising is the staff of business. A soap that is so't is full of t pater, half or two-thirds its we ght probably, thus y u pay seven or eight cents per pound for wator. llobbins's Electric Soap is all soap and n adul teration, therefore the cheapest and best. Try Dobbins'B. —With his ear in his hand, a young man named McDermott ran frantically all over ScooDtown, Penn., to And a doctor to sew the member on. It had been bitten off during a row at a church fair. Smoke tho best— Punch " Cigar. —A thing worth doing is worth doing well. A thing worth advertising is worth advertising well. UlO Purifv Your Blood When spring approaches, It Is very Important that the blood should be purified, as at this season Im purities whloh have been accumulating for months or even years, aro liable to manifest themselves and seriously affect the health. Ilood's Sarsaparllla Is undoubtedly ihe best blood purifier. It expels every taint, drives ont scrofulous humors, and gives to the blood the quality and tone essential to good health. Now Is the time to take Hood's Sarsaparilla "My daughter suffered terribly with sore eyes, caused by scrofula humor. We were obliged to keep her out of school for two years. We had medical attendance, but she failed to gain relief. At last, knowing that Hood's Sarsaparllla had cured my mother of rheumatism, and believing It must be good for the blood, I concluded to have my daughter try It, and It has entirely cared her." 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If the latter, a dishonest man might keep the money, and his partner would never hear of it, or he 'might say that a man won money which ho didn't, and ho could then put the money in his own pocket and his partner never be the wiser. This gambler that I refer to, who I will call Jim Grady, had just such a partner as this, and lie got most beautifully square with him. The partner's name was Mike, and the pair opened a faro game in Providence. Jim furnished most of the money. The game did not pan out well, and as there seemed to be quite a number of players, Jim could not account for it. The money, or the greater part of it, that was lost was lost while he was out, and on ooming back he would find a tab card in the drawer with $125 on it, or something a little smaller or a little larger than that figure. So he finally tumbled that something was wrong, and on coming back from dinner one day and finding one of these cards for a pretty good amount, ho asked Mike who had won the money. "It was a big, stout red-faced man, with a soft white hat, who lives at Olneyvillo," said Mike. "H'm," said Jim, meditatively: "I don't seem to remember of ever seeing such a man." "Oh, you've seen him lots of times," returned Mike, and the matter was dropped. That night when Jim came in from his supper, there was another tab card in the drawer and Mike, on being ques tioned, said that the same man with the soft, white hat from Olnoyville had won it. "He's a pretty lucky fellow," re marked Jim as he sat down to deal, but although he said nothing more he kept up quite a thinking all the time. This went on for several days, and there were tab car .is in the drawer al most every time Jim went out for an hour, and the same man with the soft white hat from Olneyville won almost all the big amounts. Finally Jim lost patience, and he said to himself: "I'll fix that fellow." So the next day he did not show up until quite late, and as he had expected, he found a tab card in the drawer (this time it was for SIBO, and Mike, on be ing questioned as usual, said: "Why, that stout man with the red face who wears a soft white hat and lives at Olnoyville, was around here early this morning, just after I opened up, and beat me for that money." "That's a bad starter for the day," said Jim, "but I'll try to win it back while you are gone to dinner." Mike went to dinner, and while he was gone Jim drove all of the players out, put the entire bank roll (which amounted to about $25,000 in his pocket and sticking his feet up on the layout was busy reading a copy of the Boston Globe when Mike reappeared. "What's the matter?" exclaimed Mike as soon as he opened the door. "Why are you not dealing?" "For the simple reason," replied Joe, with great nonchalance, "that that big, stout, red-faced man with the soft white hat, who lives at Olneyville, was in here while you were out to dinner and won the bank roll." Miko stood for a moment dumb founded, for the big stout, red-faced man with the soft white hat, who lived in Olneyville, was a bluff, having been invented by Mike himself, but he did not dare to remonstrate, as Jim was a bad man to have trouble with. So lie quit that game several hundred of dollars short, the result being directly brought on by his own dishonest actions. You see it pays to be honest even if you area gambler.— Boston Globe. Knew Him by the Scratch. "Do you see that little group of men," said a drummer in a Washington hotel corridor recently, as ho pointed to a knot of office-seekers in one corner. "They seem to be enjoying themselves, don't they ? That one with the goatee has been telling a funny story." "How do you know that that par ticular one told it?" was asked. "Because he is laughing the most," replied the drummer sententiously. "I am a student of human nature and an observer of the habits and particularly the foibles of men. That's an indis pensable elemout of success in my line." "Now do you see that other man with the clean-shaven, thin face?" he con tinued. "That man's from Florida, and not only that, but he's from a rural dis trict of Florida and is accustomed to working on overseeing work in the fields and brush." "Oh, come now," said the drummer's companion; "that's a littlo too steep. You can't toll all that just by looking at him. What makes you think so?" "Watch hitn the next time he laughs," said the drummer, "and you will seo him stoop forward, lay both hands on his trouser legs below the knee, aud give his shins a good scratching or rub bing. Most of the Florid ians do thai from habit. It gives them pleasure be cause all of them who work out of doors in grove or field are pestered with a tiny iusect called the red-bug, all but invisi ble to the eye, which swarms on fallen brushwood, decayed weeds or grass and makes itself most unpleasantly and last ingly apparent on the legs of all who como near them. Sand-flees and mos quitoes add their attentions and on the whole a Floridian 'cracker' gets about as much amusement out of a good scratching as from a yawn or even a drink. Watch him now. They are going to laugh again." Sure onough the clean-shaven man began to smile, then chuckled, then roared and in his ecstasy reached over! and gave both his shins a brisk rubbing with a handful of his trousers, "Come with me," said the drummer,] as he sauntered past the jolly group.i wno had now stopped talking and lie gan to break up. "Can you tell me, sir," ho said to the scratcber "how the Florida orange crop is this year along the lower Gull Coast?" "Fair to middling I believe, sir," was the reply, "but nothing like ours down on the Indian liivor, sir! That's God's own country for oranges, you bet." A FLUID soldering flux, a solution of rosin in a volatilo solvent, has been patented in England by Mr. J. H. Wat kins. It is more convenient than rosin, and is useful for any work in which that substance can be employed. Bird Language. , mind ull birds have a language, and tha* language is as intelligible to themselves as ours is to us," said the pro prietor of a bird store to a Detroit Tribune reporter. "I have a pair of canaries and I often listen to their conversation. In the morn ing one of them gives a 'tw-cet.' 'Are you awake?' he says to the other. The other gives a 'tw-eet.' 'Yes; I'm a little sleepy, though,' and closes her eyes again. .'But it's morning.' 'I don't care,' says the lazy rndtc, tucking her head under her wing once more. 'lt's time to wake up.' This time there is no reply. "Then the other proceeds to indulge in a morning serenade. He carols up and down the scale. Then the second bird pokes out her head and shakes her feathers. 4 lt's really impossible to sleep under the circumstances,' she says. 'I hope you don't feel cross,' he says. 'Oh, no, only—' And then they patch it all up and indulge in a charming duet." A Queer Sight at a Funeral. "Well," said the undertaker as he en tered his office, placed his plug hat in a cof fin box and placing his feet upon a casket stool, commenced polishing a name plate with his silk handkerchief, "I have just seen one of the strangest sights that ever met my eyes. I had charge of the funeral of a worn in, and as the time came when the relatives were to take a last fond look at the face of the deceased two men and a little girl approached and, bending over, kissed the lips of the dead woman. These two men had been husbands of the woman and the little girl was her daugh ter. The first husband was a colored man and the girl was his daughter, while the second and present husband was a white man. The woman was white. I doubt if there was ever a similar case re ported, at least I never heard of one be fore. There is no mistake, it was a strange sight."—[Minneapolis Tribune. Came to Congratulate Him. Hawarden, the country seat of Mr. Gladstone, the English statesman, was invaded one day recently by a little olive colored man making many gestures and talking a strange jargon; so the servants arrested him as a maniac and possible assassin. Mr. Gladstone was summoned to see the wretch, who turned out to be a Greek professor, speaking no English, who had come all the way from Athens to congratulate the British statesmau on knowing Homer's "Iliad" by heart. lit / ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refresbingto the taste, andactfl gentlyyetpromptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the ays tern effectually, dispels colds, head, aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is i.he only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ao ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, Its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Bvrup of Figs is for sale in 500 and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. 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Till® book contains 1(4 pages I'xU Inches In and consists of largo 9x12 pinto pages, giving plans, elevations, perspective views, descriptions, owners* nsm- s, actual coat of construction, no uuchh work, and instructions How to Ilolld 70 Cottages, Villas, Double Houses, Brick Block liousos, suitable fol city suburbs, town and country, houses for tho farm ana worklngmon's homes for all sections of th country, and costing from fcJOO to SB, BOO; also Barns. Btablus, Rcliool House, Town Hall. Onurches and other public buildings, together witli specifications, form of coutract, and a lar.-o amount of Information on tho orcotlon oFbufldingu, selection of site, >nv twMeaUia TO. I "MY WIFE IS A TERROR!" said a mild-tempered man in our hearing. "She snaps and snarls and spanks her children, and finds fault continually. I can't bear it any longer." Don't be too severe on her, my friend ; you little realize < her sufferings. She has lost her former sweet disposition, and ill health is the cause < of it all. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will make her well. As a powerful, invigorating tonic, it im parts strength to the whole system, and to the womb and its appendages in par ticular. For overworked, "worn-out," ■ "run-down," debilitated teachers, milliners, i dressmakers, seamstresses, 44 shop - girls." housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and re storative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nerv ine. 44 Favorite Prescription" is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subdu ing nervous excitability, irritability, ex haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other distressing, nervous symptoms, com monly attendant uj>on functional and organic disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxi ety and despondency. 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