cxoueHty 111 rnmma. The Fiuus aro an upright, faithful and hospitablo people. A writor iu the Saturday lieview speaks of their hon esty as proverbial, and proceeds to give some oxporienco of his own as illus trative of tho scrupulous and even **heroic" maunor in which they tell the truth, and the whole truth, uuder the most difficult circumstances. "This seems to be exactly the kind of apparatus I am looking for," I said to a merchant in Helsiugfors. as I looked at an article worth about $75; "I will buy it at once if, knowing what I want it lor, you cau honestly advise mo to take it." "No, sir," he answered, "I do not recommend you to take it, nor have I anything in stock just now that would • suit you." And I loft the shop and purchased what I wanted elsewhere. "Hero's your fare," said I to a peasant in tho interior, who had driven for throe hours through the woods in his drosky, as I handod him four shillings. "No, sir, that's double my faro," he replied, returning mo half tho money. And when I told liim ho might keep it for his honesty, he slightly nodded his thanks with the dignity of one of nature's noblemen, from which defiant pride and cringing obsoquious noss were equally absent. __ Ground lor Suspicion. The French havo a proverb, "Qui s'excuse s'accuse ," ho who CXCUSOJ himself, accuses himself. This was evidently in tho mind of M. de Solil hac, whose amusing account of his ride in a diligence is quoted by the Baron du Casse in his volume of "Sourvenirs." My companion in tho coupe was a litigant who was going to Neufchatal to sustain a lawsuit against a M. do Hollonde, of Amiens, who demanded ► of him the payment of a dobt, aud who repudiated as false the roceipted bill which my companion showed. He gave mo the argument in his de fense to read, and I had no sooner looked it over than I hastened to put in my pocket my purso, which I bad placed in a pocket of the carriage. 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Of a particularly haughty and repellaut woman she re marked: "She steps as if the ground were not good enough for her to walk on, and therefore she always wears rub bers !" She said of a young man who had not much liking for hard work, but who complained that he could find nothing to do: "That's why he wears glasses; | he has worn out his eyes looking for something nice to do." She remarked one day of a particu larly dishevelled specimen of a Skye terrier, "Dixie, you are the most ravelled little dog; you must have been woven without any selvage!" Of a very, very old house, superficially "spruced up," she said that "nothing held it together but the paint." She advised a young man, who was excessively proud of his bass singing, who had sung a very low note, to "let another tuck out of his voice." There was humor, as well as pathos, in her remark of a forlorn and very thin old horse: "l J oor thing! It looks as if it had been pastured for twenty years on a plowed field." It was a Western girl who, is visiting an Eastern acquaintance who was very proud of her descent, and who showed lier first one and then another precious possession which was "ancestral," ex claimed pensively: "Dear me! I haven't so much as au old white hat to prove that I ever had a grandfather!" Another girl, who was a student at a school of technology, and who happened to be extremely slender, furnished a "chemical analysis" of herself, which, after enumerating several articles of clothing in tho style of chemical in gredients, ended with tho item: "Of girl, a trace." This kind of humor is very different from the biting wit which used to be re corded of the famous women of Eu ropean drawing-rooms. On one occasion, it is said, a vain and foppish young Scotch nobleman, in Lady Blessington's drawing-room, was talking about his countrymen, when some one asked him why it was that all the Scotchmen abroad seemed to be in tellectually superior men. "It is because." said the young lord, "we keep well-qualified watchmen at all the roads leading out of Scotland, who suffer no man to go out of the country who is not thoroughly intelli gent. " "Then," said Lady Blessington, "I suppose your lordship was smuggled ?" Carried tlie DlMpateliOH. Almost hidden in one of the inside pages of the new Army Register is rec ognition by the President of an act of heroism performed years ago by a pri vate named James Bell, who is now a messenger at u ariny headquarters at Chicago. Iu 187G Bell was a private with Gen. Terry on the Big Horn River during the war against the Sioux. A detachment of troops under Gen. Crook was at Powder River and many leagues distant. It was impera tive that Gen. Crook be given dis patches vital to the interests of this command; but tho country swarmed with tho hostile Sioux aud the scouts uuder Geu. Terry's command said that an attempt to communicate with Gen. Crook would result in the death of the messenger and loss of the dispatches, and that the undertaking would be hopeless. So the project was given up; but Bell heard of his commander's wishes and he volunteered to accom plish the dangerous task. His offer was accepted aud he accomplished his mis sion safely, although he had many nar row escapes. The result ot his journey was that Gen. Crook's men surprised a force of Sioux and routed them. As a reward for his bravery Private Bell now wears a medal and possesses also a certificate of merit signed by President Harrison. Tliore Are VarlouH Method*. Several methods of distinguishing precious stones from their imitations are commonly employed. Cue well-known method is by means of the tongue. Ou touching the precious stone to the tongue the gem is very much colder tliau its imitatiou. But this test is far from reliable, as imitations made of quartz are as cold as any precious stoue. The diamond aud garnet alone excepted, all precious stones are dis tinguished from their imitations by having double instead of single re fraction ; that is to say, by giving a double instead of single image of a caudle llame. Even when the gem is in setting, it is comparatively easy to ascertain the fuct of a double or single refraction by looking down into its facets and ascertaining whether an image is single or double. There is au instrument, called the lithoscope, which in difficult cases, is employed to deter mine tho questiou, and does its work with iufallible certainty. Persons ac customed to handle precious stones, however, reed neither test nor instru ment, but rely on the eye, and are rarely deceived. Like bank clerks who feel that a note is not right, though at first they may not be able to point out the difference betweeu the genuine and the counterfeit, experts in gems detect the spurious at a glance. Wire, l-500th or an Inch in Diameter. In an interview recently published, a wire manufacturer made the following statement: "We are at work just now 011 soine pretty small wire. It is 1-500 of an inch in diameter—finer than the hair on your head, a great deal. Ordi narily fine wire is drawn through steel plates, but that wouldn't do for this work, because if the hole wore away ever so little it would make the wire larger, and this would spoil tho job. Instead, it is drawn through what is practically a hole in a diamond, to which there is, of course, no wear. These diamond plates are made by a woman iu New York, who has a monop oly of the art in'this country. The wire is then run through machinery, which winds it spirally with a layer of silk thread that is .0015 of an inch in thick ness—even finer than the wire, you see. This wire is used in making the receivemonts of ocean cables, the gal vanometers used in testing cables and measuring insulation of covered wires." "Now, little boys, can you tell me," said a Columbus teacher, "what tho ef fect of tobacco is upon the system. Lit tle Billy, who has wrestled with his first chow, promptly held up his hand. "Well, Billy, what is tho effect?" "Makes ye wiakt ye wuz dead!" A GREAT CORRAL THE IMMENSE CAVALRY DEPOT BUILT DURING THE WAR. Thousands of Horses Held There for the Army—How the Sick and Disabled Were Treated—A Stam pede at Night. In the spring f 1863 it was determined to erect, near Washington a grout depot where Cavalry and artillery horses could bo received and trained for the field and where, when from any cause they were unserviceable, they could he eared for and, if found practicable, doctored and fed into a serviceable condition, or if not, | condemned and sold. Few if any of our readers living in Washington are ignorant of the location and surroundings of Giesboro Point, but for those who are not so fortunate it may be briefly stated that it is located at the north end of a level stretch of land which skirts the hills on the Maryland side of the river, commencing just south of the confluence of the Anacostia with the Po tomac, and is from one to one and a half miles wide, and in length extending some distance south of Alexandria. A gentleman by the name of Young owned a fine farm there, on which it was decided to erect the depot. A largo field of ripening corn covered a portion of the plain. This was cut and shocked in about j the time it takes to tell it. and engineers i were at once at work laying out streets, j marking the sites for the erection of huge ' hospitals, for the veterinary stables, I corrals, moss houses, headquarter houses, | commissary, quartermaster store houses, water works and not forgetting the cheer ful sutler. Agents were ut once dis- i Hatched to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York to hire men, and hire them j they did by the thousunds. Contracts ' were made for large quantities of pine lumber of all descriptions, to be delivered at the earliest momeut practicable. Great plans were drawn and great rows of structures of nearly every possible de sign, under the combined efforts of thou sands of carpenters, skilled and unskilled, j soon began to struggle into shapes more j or less pretentious, according to the pur poses for which they were to be used. At I first the employes outnumbered the horses, but this condition of affairs did not last long, although the pay rolls showed something over G.OUO hands of all grades ut one time. Great wharves were built, and soon a fleet of vessels were anchored adjacent, laden with all descriptions and varieties of supplies. The purchuso of horses at this depot for cuvulrv and artillery purposes was soon entered upon and a board of inspec tors, with all the appliances, were soon busily at work making selections from the motley throng of boasts which the con tractors brought before them. Active operations for the construction of the depot began about the Ist of July, 18G3, and by the Ist of December of the same year it is doubtful whether the owner of Giesboro Point would have . recognized the place as his former home. | No vestige of any old structure remained except the old homestead, which still stands as a faint reminder to those who know of the former importance of the place. Horses in all stages of disease and disability soon came pouring in from the army and the agents previously spoken of as having been sent to the large cities of the north to hire men were daily for warding hundreds of drunken, diseased, worthless bummers, many of whom were physically unable and many others un willing or too ignorant to lead a horso to water. Bounty jumpers, draft evaders, thieves, newly-arrived emigrants and desperadoes of all descriptions were among the daily arrivals. Many of these, when they saw the charactcrof the duties which they were expected to perform, took the first opportunity to leave, audit was 110 infrequent thing to havotho num ber of such in one night more than equal the number received the day previous. Tho maximum of employes of all grades was reached in December, when my requisition for daily rations mounted to over 7,(XX) for civil employes. Stables with separate stalls for each horse were constructed with a capacity of upward of 25,000 horses. A reservoir was constructed 011 the hill south of the Government Insane Asylum, which was supplied by hydraulic rams from tho river and in return furnished running water to every stable and mess house and hospital at the depot. This is mentioned as an indication of the completeness with which the construction was carried out. In less than a year tho total expen ditures for construction had mounted to about two million dollars and Uncle Sam was tho owner of tho finest cavalry depot in tho world. All business pertaining to tho purchase, issue to tho army uud tho receipt of unserviceable horses came to bo done with great precision and in tho most approved business maunor. The transactions between field quarter masters and tho depot were at times simply enormous, thousands of horses be ing received and issued almost daily. Tho veterinary hospitals were in due time in good order and in the hands of competent surgeons, wlioro thousands of horses found an asylum until again fitted for active service 111 the field. At one time tho number of unserviceable animals far exeeeded the capacity of the stables and wo were compelled to confine between six and seven thousand of them in a pusture around which tho fence was none too strong and of very hasty and imper fect construction. It is a fact, tho theory for which is but imperfectly understood even by ex perienced herdsmen and drovers, that either horses or cattle get some very curious ideas in their heads when close herded or confined within limited boun daries by fences. The leading peculiar ity may bo said to he iu an extreme of timidity at night and a disposition to stampede sometimes in a circle and at other times in u straight direction regard less of all obstacles. This disposition to run at night had been noticed as being a part of the pastime of these very sorry looking animals, and fears expressed that they might hreuk through the fence; hut 110 great efforts were made to prevent such a catastrophe. One evening I had occa sion to visit Washington, and with a com panion drove over iu a light road wagon. There was 110 moon, hut a fair starlight night 011 our return about 12.30 a. in., and while crossing the Navy Yard bridge, over tho Anacostia river, we thought wo could hear a roar which was not usual to that neighborhood, but which wo finally decided was a railway train crossing the Long bridge, which spans the Potomac leading to Alexandria. A moment's drive brought us to tho foot of the hill leading to the Government Insane Asylum, where this very peculiar roar was again very distinct. The thought at-onco entered my mind us to tho probability of tho old horses having broken through the fence. Put ting whip to our horse, which, by the way, happened to bo a very gentle one, we thought to reach the scene of the dis order us soon us possible; but as tho peculiar roar which seemed to conic over j the brow of the hill in waves grew more ' and more distinct, it began to be a ques- \ tion what would become of us, if the stampeding animals were on the road to I Washington, as it would be sure death for us to be caught by this stream of j frantic animals. Driving as rapidly as j | possible, we had arrived at a point about ; I half way from the bottom to the top of the hill when the head of the column ap , peared on the brow and began to thunder I down on the wide expanse of roadway. For us to stop, go on, or turn and drive | the other way was in either case almost ■ sure death. I had the whip and reins, and looking to the left I descerned a I deep ravine into which it occurred to me j L could force our horse and thereby save him and such portions of our wagon as were not destroyed by the plunge as well as our own lives. A short stroke of the whip and a vigorous pull on the left rein sent our old gray plunging down the de clivity. Each of us sprang for our lives from the wagon and escaped without serious injury. The maddened stream of brutes were just upon us—one-half a second more delay and we would have j been trampled to death by the thoroughly i panic-stricken animals, which, by the ' thousand, were madly plunging down the ! hill toward the river. As wo cleared the j : road and went down into the ravine our horse fell and the wagon was upset, but I :no very serious damage was done to either. Gaining an eligible position, I I from which to view the galloping, neigh- | I ing, snorting herd, I discerned an officer j in full uniform riding madly in the line ' ' and seemingly entirely absorbed in the j task before him. J lat once shouted to him, "What horses | | are those?" but without turning his head i the words came floating back to ino on i j the midnight air, "D—d if I know" and | disappeared in the "madding crowd." Perhaps few of those who read this ! j ever saw a herd of horses under similar j ! conditions. They were, to say the least, I 1 anything but handsome brutes in their I I normal condition, but under the terrible ' , nervous excitement which now seemed to j possess each and every one of them, they ! : appeared to be transformed into j thorough-bred Kentucky racers. With 1 heads and neck elevated, nostrils and eyes distended and a springiness to the leap which would have done credit to Tenbrook or llarry Bassett in their palmy days, it may well be said that the I stampede of the CJKXI horses was a rare | sight. On they rushed, down through j the little village of Uniontown to a j point where the road on the south side of I the Anacostia leaves the main thorough i fare, llere a division took place, a por ; tion of them keeping on and crossing the Navy Yard bridge to Washington, j Hundreds trying to run through the river were soon swamped in the mud and drowned, but by far the larger number took the road to the right ami passed on toward Bladensburg and finally dispersed in small squads throughout a greater por tion of lower Maryland. Righting our horse and wagon, we were soon at the depot, where another peculiar spectacle was presented. It seemed that when the break through I the fence was made about 350 of the uni- j mals took the road which led to the issu- ' ing corral, the superintendent of which [ heard them coming and at once opened j the gates, through which they passed. : This corral was built with long rows of stables radiating in every direction from a circle. Inside of this circle stood a ' largo mess house, leaving a roadway | around it of about forty feet wide. As ; soon as the horses had passed in the gates I were closed and here commenced prob- j ably the most unique race on record. Never slacking their speed they com menced to run from right to left around j the house, and despite all that could be ! done, continued their mad career for a ' full hour and a half. It appeared that ! nothing but death would stop them; but' finally, by mutual consent, they gradually ceased their wild chase and became rea sonably quiet. The net result of the whole affair was a loss to the government j of about 400 head of horses. Business at the depot did not cease with the war, but was continued for about two years as an aid to the final disposition of animals and other war material. Finally the buildings were sold at auc tion and removed, and the farm restored to its owner.—[Washington Star. Fowl Raising as a Science. There's a man at the Palmer House who has invented a new kind of chicken. He calls it thePhantine. And his friends call him Bam Arnold. Ho hails from New Castle, Ind. Arnold and Henry Jones, the fowl experts of Illinois, were discussing the invention the other morn ing. "It has been the aim of my life," said Arnold to Jones, "to produce a fowl that would combine weight with youth." Jones nodded. "It is easy enough, of course, to fatten an (dd fowl. But the product is pretty I apt to bo tough. Spring chickens are always tender—that is, genuine spring chickens, but they are too small to make much money out of." Jones nodded ugun. "Well, 1 experimented and cxperi ! mented, and at last I have what I call an ! unqualified success. It is a cross be | tweeu the Plymouth Rock rooster and . the Dorking hen. and the chickens I have | raised have in the short space of eight j weeks acquired a weight of twelve pounds." i Jones' eyes threatened to full out on his cheeks, j "I assure you upon iny honor that this ;is true," declared Arnold. "It is within the province of anybody to profit by my i discovery, fqr there is a market large enough for all. When the chicks shall | have ucquired their full growth I'll make 1 another cross and get a chick which at the age of eight weeks will be the size i of" "An ostrich," suggested Jones. "Not exactly," said Arnold. "But j still there is no disputing the fact that 1 fowls have not been developed to the limit of possibility. I have been very successful and 1 propose to continue my experiments. Will you join me?" Mr. Jones said he would, and the re surrection of the extinct species known as the roc is to be expected. Mr. Ar nold is an (dd resident of New Castle. He makes his livelihood raising chickens, and his discoveries have been frequent in the fowl world. —[Rochester Post-Ex press. Knew Who Was the Fool. Two merchants, named respectively 1 MukarofV and Sousloff, while in Moscow during the Czars late visit to that city, i were rather noisily discussing the merits and demerits of a friend with whom they ; had spent the evening. The hour was late and both had indulged a little too freely in champagne, consequently their talk was not as guarded as it should have ! been. Finally one of them said: "There is no use of talking about him; he is a I fool." A policeman, whom they had not 1 observed, on hearing this placed both j men under arrest, refusing to give any ' explanation. On reaching the police ; station they were charged with insulting His Imperial Majesty Alexander 111. i The merchants replied that they had not been speaking of the Czar at all, but of un acquaintance. "Well," said the ; officer, ussurniiigunnirof great authority, I "we all know who is called a fool." Russia is a dangerous country to call a person a fool, but it will be still more i dangerous to do so when the Czare witch ascends the throne.—[New York Re corder. OLD SOL'S INSIGNIFICANCE. The Sun is a Small Body Compared With Arcturun. There aro three well-defined classes of stars, judged by the quality of light they yield. In the first class are the clear white and bluish white stars, like Sirius and Vega. These are supposed to bo the hottest stars and the most luminous in propor tion to the extent of their surface. 1 hen i there are the golden yellow or pale orange | stars, of which Arcturus and Capella aro fine examples. These have begun to cool. Finally, we have the deep orange and red stars like ! Aldebaran and Autares. These have J advanced still further in the cooling pro cess. Now the spectroscope informs us that I our sun belongs to the orange or Arcturus i type, and if we could view it from distant space we should see a lovely star of a pale ■ golden yellow. The question arises, then, how fur i would our sun have to he removed in I order to shine with a brightness no greater i than that of Arcturus? According to Mr. Maunder it would I have to bo removed to 140,000 times its present distance, or about half the dis ! tanco between us and Alpha Cen tauri. | But Arcturus is 11,500,000 times as far | away as the sun, and if our sun were j placed at that enormous distanco its di j uineter would have to be eighty-two times j us great in order to give a light equal to that received from Arcturus. I hesitate to present such figures, im plying magnitudes far beyond any to which we have been accustomed, yet they arc but the logical deductions of observed facts. In other words, upon Mr. Maun dor's reasonable assumption, Arcturus must be ; j a gigantic sphere 550,000 times larger l than our sun, with a diameter of 70,000,- j 000 miles, or more than largo enough to fill the entire orbit of Mercury. ! To mukc this contrast clearer let us in ; stitute a simple comparison. Jupiter is 1 I larger than all the other planets aud sat ' I ollites of the solar system. ' I The sun is a little more than 1,000 1 | times larger than Jupiter; but Arcturus, U if our information is correct, is 550,000 times larger than the sun. By the side of such a majestic orb our | sun, grand and overwhelming as it is in ■ our own system, would dwindle to an in- I significant star. I Contemplating a world so vast, en : dowod with such mighty energies and 1 rushing with such resistless force through the great deeps of space, wo cannot re sist the questions: Whence came this | blazing world? Whither is it bound? j What is its mission and destiny? Js it simply a visitor to our sidereal . galaxy, rushing furiously through it like j a comet? Is it being constantly fed and I enlarged by the worlds it encounters and ( the meteoric matter it gathers up in its I wonderful journey? | What would be the effect if it chanced ,to pass through the nebula or a star | cluster? Was the now star which sud denly blazed forth in the nebula of An dromeda in 1870 due to a similar cause? | As this mighty aggregation of attrac tive energies sweeps along his celestial path, thickly bordered with stellar worlds, how many of those worlds will yield for . ever to his disturbing forcos? I llow many will be swerved from their 1 appointed courses by his irresistible power? How many will plunge into his fiery bosom and bo swallowed up as a 1 j pobblo is swallowed up by the ocean?— ! [Scientific American. ! A BONELESS CHILD. A Curious Freak of Nature in Georgia. The Athens (Ga.) Banner has a curious story to toll concerning a child that is eleven years old and hasn't a bone in its body. It says: "There is in the State of Georgia to day a child eleven years old but very . ! little larger than when it was born, and I without a bone in its entire body. | "A citizen of Athens tells us this, and t ho is a gentleman of undoubted veracity. I The nuines of the parents and the place whore they reside are not givon, as they , 1 are sensative upon the subject. "This curious freak of naturo is sug . I gested at present by a story going the r ; rounds of the press concerning a woman . j in New York gradually becoming ossi- I lied. She noticed the ends of her fingers becoming stiffened, and one day knocked . I one of her fingers against a table and i broke off the end joint. It was a solid bone and very brittle. Her nose and [ feet are now turning to bono, i "On the other hand, here is a human : being without a bone in its body. If tho former is a curiosity, what must be this latter? "The child in question was born with out any bones in its body, and has lived until now it is olcven years old- It has never grown to any appreciable size, and although eleven years old, is not much larger than it was when born. It has never talked, and consequently takes no notice of its surroundings. "Necessarily it is a hard thing to keep it alive, but its parents are very devoted to it, and some one stays by it constant ly to feed it on milk and water. It is necessary to give it milk or water al most every fifteen minutes. "Strange to suv, the mother is more devoted to it than any of her other chil dren, and says she would rather give any of them up than this one. If this child were to die, she says, it would land her in the asylum." "For years and years she has sat by its bedside, and her mind has been so 1 constantly upon it that she would go crazy if taken from her. "The child gives no evidence of ever growing any larger than it is now. "This is vouched for as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and tho gentleman who told this knows the name of tho parents and where they lite." Tiie census reports tho number of communicants of the Roman Catholic Church iu this country as 0,250,045, but states that the seating capacity of tho churches of this denomination is but 3,735,702. This discrepancy is accounted i for by quoting Archbishop Corrigun's : statement that "tho same space is used over and over again by different wor -1 shippcro at different hours." A fits Mistake. 1 Tho moulting process is one that debili tates and prevents hens from laying. Many farmers ami poultry-ruisers at this season kill off their old Lens, because they think they have stopped laying and are tat. This is a great mistake; the proper material should be furnished them with their food to supply the increased deiuund for nitrogen and phosphates. Mr. John K. Jones, of Nuf field, Conn., says: "I am a breeder of Mottled Juvas. 1 have been usiug Sheridan's Con dition Powder for years. T find it very valu able lor poultry in the moulting season ; it helps the grow th of feathers. 1 use it also lor show birds." 1.8. Johnson & Co., Boston, Muss., will send further particulars to auy oue free. Pronouncing bees are among the fads of the season. Tho good health of every woman depends greatly upon herself; delays, through fulse modesty are dangerous; Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will cure nine cases out of ten. The original co fc t of Central Purk, New York, was #4,000,000. fi'ir slopped free by Dh. KLINK'B GREAT Nkkvk KtHioH&it. 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They're the best, not only because they're the smallest, and tho easiest to take —but because they do more good. They cleanse and regulate the liver, stomach and bowels in away the huge, old-fashioned pill doesn't dream of. Think of trying to regu late the system with the ordinary pill. It's only good for upsetting it. These are mild and gentle—but thorough and effective, no pain—no griping. One little pellet for a laxa tive— three for a cathartic. The best Liver Pill known. Sick Head ache, Bilious Headache, Constipa tion, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks and all derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels are prevented, relieved and cured. Put up in sealed vials a perfect vest-pocket remedy, always conven ient, fresh and reliable. They're the cheapest pill you can buy for they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is re turned. It's a plan peculiar to Dr. Pierce's medicines. You pay only for the good you get. Can you ask more ? "German Syrup" G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drug store, sells all medicines, comes in direct contact with the patients and their families, and knows better than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the failures and successes, and can therefore judge: "I know of no medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness that had done such ef fective work in my Coughs, family as Bosehee's I c n .Th, n ,it German Syrup. Last Sore Throat, . , ~„,i winter a lady called Hoarseness, at niv store, who was suffering from a very severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give re lief; but she had 110 confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the results were not satisfactory I would make 110 charge for it. 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