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A WINTER PILGRIMAGE*
Amid Sunshine, Fruits and Flowers.
a Speoial Correspondence.
OROVILLE, BUTTB CO., Cal.,)
Deo. 24,1887.
Picking up a morning' paper in San Fran
cisco a few days ago, I espied an advertise
ment of an excursion from that ci ty to Oro
ville to attend a citrus fair. a "tender
foot" the display of citrus fruit is a matter
of intere st in this region of sunshine, but
the idea of an exhibit in the winter, of ten
der fruits, with oranges as the predominat
ing feature, was a novelty indeed. I said
"exhibit in the winter," because by consult
ing the calendar I ttnd it is the season of the
ye ar when I have been accustomed to posi
tive evidence of winter, but in this locality,
if I did not consult the calendar, I would
hardly style the month of December, win
ter.
On the principle that it isn't a "good plan
to let any thing get away from you when it
is in sight, I concluded to become a pilgrim
and join the excursion, and that is how I
find myself, at ihis holiday season, enjoying
the beauties of a eirtus belt, studded with
the choicest gems of nature. This pilgrim
age required a journey by rail of 170 miles
north of San Francisco, and a more lovely
December morning when startedsun
shining, thermometer above 6 0 deg.it
would be difficult to ooncaive. Though
have come the distance north of San Fran
cisco which I have named, this State is so
immense that are still in central Cali
fornia When I said a journey by rail, I
ought to except the crossing of the Straits
of Carqumez, just in sight of the Govern
ment Isavy Yard on Mare Island. This was
accomplished by ferrying the train over
intact be in harmony with all things in
California, this ferry was something im
mense, exceeding proportions similar
femes in the East. The boat was 425 feet
long by 116 wide, having four trucks and
capable of carrying forty-four cars and two
engines. I the river crossings at Detroit
and Port Huron Mich, it is considered sat
isfactory to push the cars on the boat at
one side of the river and draw them off at
the other, not transporting the engine, but
here the engine runs on the boat with half
the train, and, lest it should be lonesome, a
second engine pushes the other half on,
and both engines, as well as the entire
train, glide rapidly across the straits, land
ing us at Benicia
I has always been a matter of doubt to
me whether Benicia gained the greatest
reputation by at one time having been the
abiding place of John C. Heenan, yclept
"Benicia Boy," who caused the American
Eagle to bristle with pride years ago over
the meeting with Tom Bayers in the prize
ring, or by having two or three times been
the supposed capital of California, when
that erratic concern was, like Noah's dove,
hunting for a resting place. A all events,
it is a thriving ci ty now, and I'll wager-that
a good many more of the present genera
tion have heard of the "Benicia Boy," than
the fact that the seat of government of this
8tate was located there. I is almost inap
propriate, however, to refer to it as having
been the seat of government, for, in those
days, that so-called seat was flitting about
between Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco,
Valiejo and Sacramento, until it was every
where a little, ut nowhere long.
A little over four hours' ride brought the
pilgrims to Sacramento, where the dove of
government finally located some thirty odd
years ago, after having once or twice been
washed ashore to Sa Francisco, or else
where by floods. A halt of a couple of hours
gave us a chance to hastily view the capital
as well as the capitol of California. The
capitol and the grounds have cost the State
two and a half millio ns dollars^ and while
the buildi ng is perhaps surpassed by two or
three similar structures in the country, the
grounds can take the premium ov er all
comer s, not excepting the National Capitol
grounds at Washington. Some eighteen
acres comprise the immediate grounds sur
rounding the State House, and as there
is no killing off of trees, or leaves, or
flowers, or grass, in the fall, in order to give
nature a chance to spread herself in the
spring, natu re keeps rig ht on with her
work the year around and double discounts
hot-house landscape gardening. S Sacra
mento leads the worid (or the United
States, which is about all of the world of
any consequence) in capitol grounds.
A FAMOUS MUOXG CAMP.
I was night when the pilgrims reached
what was once a famous mining camp in
CaliforniaOroville. Located on the south
bank of Feather river, almost at the foot
of Table mountain, lies this ci ty of 2,500
peopleas contented and uniformly pros
perous as any little city in the country. If
there are any really poor people here, I
have been unab le to discover them. I was
one of a party of pilgrims who employed a
carriage to see the country, and seated on
the box by the livery-stable driver, was
quite struck when he pointed out a large
sheep ranch as the property of his father,
and mentioned the business in which his
father was engaged in town. Ordinarily
people in his Btation are not in affluent cir
cumstances, but in Oroville they don't seem
to have any other kind. Like all live towns,
it has newspapers, and here there are two
of them. One of them is a daily, while the
editor of the other, not to be eclipsed in en
terprise, acts as Secretary of the Board of
Trade, and supplies all applicants by mail,
or in person, with information concerning
the country. I is no use for any place to
try to grow without newspaper men. I
simply won't.
This town was a veritable'49er, and when
the gold discoveries made Calif ornia famous
the rush here was immense. Away back in
the'50's it polled 1,800 votes, the third
largest vote of any city in the State, only
San Francisco and Sacramento leading i
The population receded after the subsi
dence of the gold fever until in 1880 it
was 1,500, since which time it has taken a
new start, and steadily increased until the
town now numbers, as already slate d,
2,500. There were at one time 5,000 Chi
nese hero, and there are still a tew hun
dred scattered about, but Oroville is now a
business city, instead of a mining camp,
the County Seat of Butte County, and
the oenter of a wonderfully thriving agri
cultural and citrus country. Fo miles
about the city the evidences remain of
placer mining, but there is more "pay dirt"
now in oranges and other produc ts than in
mining. The banks of Feather river are
still wonderfully rich, but hydraulic mining
has been stopped by law in the interest of
commerce andagriculture, as it iiUs up and
destroys the streams. The time was when
boats ran to Oroville from Sa Francisco,
but to ee the mining debris in Feather riv
(or where the river used to be) one
can scarcely imagine Buch a state of af
faire. There are still valuable working
mines in Butte County, but on the
usual California scale of big things, this
county is larger than Rhode Island and
well towards the size of New Jersey, so
that there is room, outside of Oroville, for
gold mining and still keep with'n the
connty. After extracting Hterally millions
of dollars of gold from the ground, the citi
zens of this county have now discovered
that untold millions still remain, in the
shape of a soil which is so versatile that it
produces every thing, ranging from grain
to nuts, and from fruit to gold. Though
this is central, and not as popularly sup
posed Northern California, it is only within
p, few years that the people have become
MWnre that citrus fruits could be produced
heed equal to any and superior to most
Orang trees were a few years sgo quite
generally planted in door-yards as an orna
iment, because they are evergreens, and
thus by accident, after a few years passed,
thepsoplo found that they did not know
their own resources. The orange trees
began to bear until they become loaded
down, and as one goes about the ci ty in
this (by the calendar) winter season
the luscious ripe fruit greets: you on
every hand, notwithstanding the immense
amsunt that has been plucked for the ex
hibit Whis result has proven a revelation
And noW, scattered all through the county'
orange groves are being established and in
many cases are well advanced. I fact,
thsy plalm 15,000 full bearing trees and
50,000 more well along towards bearing
within A fading of twelve miles of this city'
As the eeuhty only has 25,000 populatio n,
and this includes business men, laborers,
Winers and farmers, as well as fruit grow
ertf, and land is oheap, there is no wonder
that they expect to transform the old min
ing oamp into a vast orange grove. A ten
acros of well cultivated orange grove af
for ds asplendid income, they claim that
there is room for 200,000 more people in
the citrus belt in this county. These figures
seem large, but that is only a natural inci
dent of the climate. When you consider
that the county contains 1,764 square
miles, and 1,330,000 acres, one half of
which is agricultural and fruit land, the
claim does not seem so apocryphal after all
THHPILOH1M8 8URPB18EIX
A fruit fair in the winter is a novelty in
-itself, but a still greater novelty was in
.core for the tender pilgrims. Having no
hall of sufficient size, they have erected a
.canvas'pavilion, 50x150 feet, the sides 16
feet high the height of the center (orridge
ole it would be called in the East) 32
sills &$$&&&&$
feet This pavilion is erected on the Court
House square and beside the Court House
itself. The squa re is well filled with heav i
ly-lad en orange trees, and a unique feature
of the show is, that within the pavilion it
self are five of these orange trees, 2 2 feet
high, loaded with ripe fruit They afford
ocular evidence of the citrus belt While
there is almost every product imaginable in
the pavilion, all from Butte County, or
anges and lemons are the predominating
feature. Oranges to the right of ns, oranges
to the left of us oranges above us and or
anges around us. I fact are surround
and surrender at discretion. There are
said to be 200,000 oranges in the building,
displayed in almost every conceivable
artistic manner. There are a number of
bins of open wire net-work, well filled, one
of which contains 4,500 oranges.
A noticeable thing in the exhibit is a
church building, 8x10 with a symmetrical
shaped steeple, 1 7 feet high. This church
is composed of oranges and lemons, chiefly
the former, and 5,000 are used in the
structure I has four windows, is lighted
with gas contains a church organ, and
every evening a choir of young ladies enter
the orange edifice and favor the audience
with church music. Another novelty is a
harp, 4x6 feet, composed of 350 oranges
and 100 lemons. A odd conceit is
an old-fashioned beehive composed of
oranges. Two cylinders, or wheels of
oranges, revolving in opposite direc
tions, represent the bees going in and out
of the hive. The hive is surmounted by a
horn of plenty, at the small end of which a
revolving wheel of oranges represents the
bees pouring in the fruits of then* labor, and
at the large end of the horn the result is dis
played by a huge revolving cornucopia
composed of all kinds of fruits and nuts.
The whole is operated by water-power, in
geniously concealed from the spectator.
Chico, one of the county towns 2 4 miles
from here, has an orange cottage most
tastefully constructed. I is 2 0 feet front
by 1 6 high, and 3,000 seedling oranges are
used in the structure, which is adorned with
mirrors and lace curtains.
The exhibit of fruits throughout is fan
tastic and unique in its presantation, and
Bewildering in its immensity. There are
oranges 1 8 inches in crcumference and
other things in proportion. There are
apples in profusion, of course, pears, figs,
Japanese persimmons, raisins, pomegran
ates, shaddocks, limes, olives, almonds,
English, California and Eastern black wal
nuts, pecans, chestnuts, grains of all kinds
and the usual garden productions, which
are novel only in size and the fact that they
are fresh from the ground, but this is no
novelty here, however it impresses the
strangers. me the greatest novelty was
holding, what might practically be termed
an open air fruit fair, in mid-winter.
The citizens here demonstrate that this
can be done by the stubborn fact that they
have none it, and how it can be done is
demonstrated by two points combined:
First, the rich soil, and second, by compar
ing the average annual mean temperature
of this place with the same in the most
famous citrus regions of the old world.
Here are a fawof the figures:
AVERAGE ANNUA!. MEAN TEMPEEATUBE.
Nice, France 59.5|Malajja, Spain 653
Florence, Italy 58.9 Madeira Islands 650
Malta, S.clly 67.8 Oroville, Cal 66.4
WAE OF EMULATION.
The rivalry which exis ts between differ
ent sections of the State led some news
paper joker to print the statement that the
people of Oroville had sent to LOB Angeles
for five car of oranges to exhibit at
their fair. The Orovilie papers retort that
the fruit at Los Angeles will not be ripe for
a month, point to the growing trees with
ripe fruit in the pavilion, and wind up by
claiming prices of land to be only one-fourth
what they are in Southern California, while
every thing that grows there, grows here,
in still greater profusion. And thus a wordy
and quite amusing (to a stranger) war is in
full blast on the Pacific Coast Statistics
of the killed and wounded will be devel
oped by the census report of 1890. I ex
pect other cities will take up the cud
gels and winter citrus fairs will be
come as much a standard Californian
production as toboggan slides are in
the East If any of them equal this initial
exhibit of Butte county, they may have to
make the joke, relative to going away from
home for the fruit, a reality, by coming here
for supplies.
It would be hard to excel the local enthu
siasm over the display, and the week has
been a continuous out-door holiday, with
great throngs in attendance. The pilgrims
are asked on all hands, what they think of
it The waiter at hot el table extracted
my opinion, as he served me, and as I agreed
with his views, it proved a more successful
'"tip" than hard cash and he could not
thereafter do too much for ine. Even the
sprinkling of Chinese have warmed up suf
ficiently to chip in "two bits" for admission
to the pavilion, and when the point is
reached which makes a Chinaman spend any
money, you can calculate that popular en
thusiasm must be at blood heat
AN INTERESTING FACT.
Effect of tho Vibration of Telegraph
Wires on "Wild Animals.
Some interesting facts have been brought
out In a paper by M. C. Nielson, of Chris
tiana, on the impression produced upon
anim als by the resonance of the vibration
of telegraph wires. I is found that the
black and green woodpeckers, for example,
which hunt for insects in the bark and in
the heart of decaying trees, often peck in
side the circular hole made transversely
through telegraph posts, generally near the
top. The phenomenon is attributed to
resonance produced in the post by the vi
bration of the wire, which the bird mis
takes as the result of the operation of
worms and insects in the interior of the
post Every one knows the fondness of
bears for hone y. I has been noticed that
in mountainous districts they seem to mis
take the vibratory sound of the telegraph
wires for the grateful humming of bees,
and, rushing to the post, look about for the
hiva Not finding it on the post, they
scatter the stones at its base which help
to support it, and, disappointed in their
search, give the post a parting pat
with their paw, thus showing their
determination at least to kill any bees that
might be about it. Indisputable traces of
bears about prostrate posts and scattered
stones prove that this really happen s.
With regard to wolves, again, M. Nielsen
states that when a vote was asked at the
time for the first great telegraph lines, a
member of the Storthi ng said that although
his district had no direct interest in the
line proposed, he would give his vote in its
favor, because he knew the lines would
drive the wolve3 from the districts through
which they passad. I is well known that
to keep off the ravages of hungry wolves in
winter the farmers in Norway set up poles
connected together by a line or rope, under
which the wolves would not dare to pass,
"And it is a act," M. Neilsen states, "that
when, twenty or more years ago, telegraph
lines were carried over the mountains and
along the valleys, the wolves totally disap
peared, and a specimen is a rarity."
Whether the two circumstances are casually
connected, M. Nielsen does not venture to
say.Interior.
Color Speech in Paris.
Business people in Paris have long since
formed a color speech by which certain
trades are easily recognized. First of all
the color shops are distinguished by being
painted outside in squares and stripes oi
the most brilliant colors. Viennese leather,
bronze and trinket shops have begun to
use the Austrian colors, yellow and black
then the Spanish wine shops use yellow and
redth Italian, green, white and red The
business places where furniture carts fo i
removal are kept are painted yellow, aa
well as the wagonswhy, not even the
proprietors know. Pastry shops are light
brown outside, and within white and gold,
so that one is reminded of the pastry itself.
Milk shops are white and blue, both inside
and out. The washerwomen now begin to
paint the outside of their ironing shops
a bright blue, while the carts that take the
linen to the wash houses in the country
are bright green. Wine houses are all
painted brown, or a dull red, which is ex
actly the color of the vin ordinaire mixed
With cranberry juice and logwoed. Still
dark er is the color of the charcoal shops,
which the dust soon renders completely
black. Bakers are fond of light brown and
white, with much gilding an large mir
rors. Court Journal.
MUCH of the beauty of obedience liJ in
its being rendered at once and without
question. God's will is done in Heaven im
mediately, because love is perfect there
The child is disobedient who is slow i*
obeyingtfhtted Presbyterian.
(OUR OONFESSION OF FAITH.
By Which It lao|Mja Any Injustice Ma]
be Corrected.
To THE BEADBBS OF THIS pAPBB^.If
In common with many publishers and ed
itors, we have been accustorasd to look upon
certain statements which "w:-. jave seen in
our columns as merely adroit advertising.
Consequently we feel justified in taking
the liberty of printing a few points from a
private letter recently received from one oi
our largest patrons, as a sort of confession
of faith to our readers: We quote:
"We have convinced ourselves that by
telling what we know to be true, we have
produced at last a permanent conviction in the
public mind. Nine years ago we statec
what the national disease of this country
was, and that it was rapidly increasing. Fiv
years ago we stated that a marked check hac
been given it.
"The statistics of one of the largest life
insurance companies of this country shows
that in 1883 and 1884, the mortality from
kidney disorders did not increase over the
previous years: other companies stated the
same thing. It is not presumptuous for uJs
to claim credit for checking these ravages..T
"Seven years ago we stated that the con
dition of the kidneys was the key to the con
dition of health: within the past five years
all careful life insurance companies have
conceded the truth of this statement, for
whereas, ten years ago, chemical analysis
to determine the condition of the kidneys
was not required, to-day millions of dollars in
risks are refused, because chemical examina
tion discovers unsuspected diseases of the
kidneys.
"Nine years ago we stated that the rav
ages of Bright's Disease were insignificant
compared with other unsuspected disorders
of the kidneys of many misleading names
that ninety-three per cent of human ail
ments are attributable to deranged kidneys,
which fills the blood with uric acid, or kidney
poison, which causes these many fatal dis
eases.
"The uric acid, or kidney poison, is the
real cause of the majority of cases of paraly
sis, apoplexy, heart diseasn, convulsions,
pneumonia, consumption and insanity over
half the victims of consumption are first the
victims of diseased kidneys.
When the recent death of an honored ex
offlcial of the United States was announced,
his physician said that although he was
suffering from Bright's Disease, that was
not the cause ot death. He was not frank
enough to admit that the apoplexy which
overtook him in his bed, was the fatal effect
of the kidney poison in the blood, which had
eaten away the substance of the arteries
and brain nor was Logan's physician honest
enough to state that his fatal rheumatism
was caused by kidney acid in the blood.
If the doctors would state in official re
ports the original cause of death, the people
of this country would be alarmed, yea,
nearly panic stricken, at the fearful mortality
from kidney disorders."
The writers of the above letter give these
facts to the public simply to justify the claims
that they have made, that "if the kidneys and
liver are kept in a healthy condition by the
use of Warner's safe cure, which hundreds
of thousands have proved to be a specific,
when all others failed, and that has received
the endorsement of the Mghest medical
talent in Europe, Australia, and America,
many a life would be prolonged and the
happiness of the people preserved. It is
successful with so many different cases be
cause it, and it alone, can remove the uric
acid from the blood through the kidneys."
Our readers are familiar with the prepar
ation named.
Commendation thereof has often appeared
in our columns.
We believe it to be one of the best, if not
the best ever manufactured. We know the
proprietors are men of character and in
fluence.
We are certain they have awakened a
widespread interest in the public mind con
cerning the importance of the kidneys. We
believe with them that they are the key to
health, and that for their restoration from
disease and maintenance in health, there is
nothing equal to this exeat remedy.
The proprietors say they "do not glory in
this universal prevalence of disease, but
having started out with the purpose of
spreading the merits of Warner's safe
cure before the world, because it cured our
senior proprietor, who teas given up by doctors
as incurable, we feel it our duty to state the
fact and leave the public to its own infer
ences. We point to our claims and to their
public and universal verification with pride,
and if the public does not believe what we
say, we tell them to ask their friends and
neighbors what they think about our prep
arations."
As stated above, we most cord&Uy com
mend the perusal of this correspondence by
our readers, believing that in so doing, we
are fulfilling a simple public obligation.
Egbert the Bashfal.
Ethel and Egbert were bidding each
other a proper good-bye the other eve
ning, when the draft from the open
front door blew the hall light out and
left the two young people in sudden
darkness.
"Weren't you awfully afraid," asked
Ethel's dearest friend next day, when
Ethel was telling the story, "to be left
alone in the dark like that?"
"Yes, dear, I was," confessed Ethel
frankly. "Egbert is quite bashful, you
know, and I was afraid he wouldn't see
how perfectly htlpless I was."
Prac ical mechailcs very often solve
problems that are next to ii.s rmountable
to scientists ot age and experience.
Apillerof the churcha pious apothe
cary.
A printer as well as a lawyer, is glad to
reach a point where he can rest bis case.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.
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Sheep 3 K5 5
Hogs 5 50 5
FLOURGood to Choice 8 60 5
Patents...... 4 40 5
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WHEAT-No. 2 Re
No. 2 Spring
CORN OATSNo. 2 White.
RYEWestern PORKMess 14 40 @15
LARDSteam 8 00 (gl 8
CHEESE 10^
WOOLDomestic 26
CHICAGO.
BEEVESSh'pping Steers....$ 4 ft)
Texans 2 00
Cows 180
Stackers 2 25
Butchers'Stock 3 00
Inferior Cattle i 75
HOGSL veGood to Choice.. 5 00
SHEEP
BUTTERCreamery
Good to Choice Dairy.
EGGSFresh FLOURWinter 3 9J
Spring 3 40
Patents 4 CO
GRAINWheat, No. 2
Corn, No. 2
Oats, No, 2
Rye. No. 2
Barley, No. 2
BROOM CORN
Self-working
Hurl
Crooked
POTATOES(bu.)
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LARDSteam 7 70
LUMBER
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Floor.ng 33 00
Common Boards 12 00
Fencing 10 60
Lath 2 00
Shingles 2 10
EAST LIBERTY.
CATTLE 75
FairtoGood 4 00
HOGSYorkers 5 51
OOPhiladelphias 5 90
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Common...' i 01
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The venerable bene1
factor of Mankind,
intent upon his good
works, is known as
we see him here.
His familiar face and
form have become a trade mark, and the
good he has done is illustrated in the follow
ing marvelous instance* Jan. 17, 1883,folding,
George C. Osgood & Co., druggists, lx)well,
Mass., wrote: "Mr. Lewis Dennis, No. 136
Moody st., desires to recommend St. Jacobs
Wl to any afflicted with rheumatism, and
desires especially to say that Orrin Robinson,
of Grantville, Mass., a boy of 12 years, came
to his how in the summer of 1881 walking
upon crutches, his left leg having been bent
at the knee *or over two months and could
not bo bent back. He could not walk upon
it. Mr. Dennis bad some St. Jacobs Oil in
the house and gave it to him to rub on his
knee. In six days he had no use for his
crutches and went home well without them,
and he has been well since St. Jacobs Oil cured
him." In July, 1887, inquiry was made of the
Messrs. Osgood to ascertain the condition oi
the little cripple, which brought the follow
ing response: "Lowell, Mass., July 9, 1887.
The poor cripple on crutches, Orrin Robin
son, cured by St. Jacobs Oil in 1881, has re
mained cured. The young man has been
and is now at work every day at manual
labor. Dr. George C." Osgood, M. D." No
other remedy can make the same'showing.
Wanted Some flowers,
A lady living in the suburbs was
called down the other morning to see a
young girl who asked for her at the
door but declined to enter the house.
The lady recognized the caller as a girl
3he had frequently seen in the neigh
borhood but of whose name she was
ignorant.
The girl looked hurriedly up and then
bashfully cast down her eyes to the
doormat, which she nervously prodded
with the toe of her coarse boot.
"Got any flowers?" she demanded
with a manner which seemed gruff, but
which was probably only frightened.
"Yes a few," was the reply.
"Got any flowers?"
"Not many. Why?"
"Cause Mrs. Purington wants some."
"Who is Mrs Purington?"
She's the widow woman who lived
tn the red house at the end of Back
Alley.
"What sort of flowers does she want?
inquired the lady, utterly at a loss to
know why Mrs. Purington, the widow
who dwelt in the red house at the end
of Back Alley, should send to demand
flowers from a perfect stranger.
"I dunno," answered the girl, more
sullenly than before.
"But what is she going to do with
them?"
"I dunno," repeated the caller.
"She's dead, an' she wants some
flowers."
And the pathetic situation having
thus become clear at length, the lady
sent to the departed widow who would
dwell no more in the red house at the
end of Back Alley what ever blossoms
the frost had spared in her little garden.
A Kindly Chief.
"He's such a nice man," said a sick
department clerk as the chief of his
division left his room after a visit of in
quiry.
"Quite so," replied the nurse dis
passionately.
"Yes, and he's so thoughtful, and
aas such a pleasant way of paying his
subordinates agreeable compliments.
Did you hear him tell me that his dear
'ather died of the very same complaint
am suffering with?" arid the sick man
turned his face to the wall and went to
Ireaming of his affable superior:
Washington Critic.
"I wonder," she said, "why 1 am receiv
ne so very many birthday calls this year
'believe every agreeable man in the city
las I een here." ''Don'tyou know the rea-
son*" asks her sensible mother. "It is be
cause last year half of our visitors were in
bed with colds. This year they have all
earned to use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup."
There was a man much givrn toflingsand
sneers, whom his wife called a fellow of in
finite wit.
Nothing Without Its Sting:,
And that, too, in the shape of the heart
ourn (most abominable of acidities 1) after
sating, if indigestion, in its chronic form,
das you in its clutches. Neither, if it has,
n you long expect immunity from bilious
ness and constipation, its pleasing col
leagues, the hideous trio vieing each with
sach to render your life more miserable.
Eiet Hostetter's Stomach Bittera at once
Insist upon the genuine in glassand use it
with rational persistence.
The nearest of kinthe napkin. It's our
oosom friend.
PURIFY AND RENOVATE THE SYST EM with
Allen's "Iron Tonic Bitters" the grand
Blood Purifier, and system rejuvenator of
1-th century. All genuine bear the sig
lature of Allen, St. Paul, Minn.
"Tight money," murmured the unfortun
ate in the poli ce court as he paid for the
usual fine and costs.
FREE, trial package for Instant relief and
speedy cure of Asthma, Send address to Hot
tinger's Drug Store, Lincoln Park, Chicago.
The receipts of a walking match are prop
erly called gait money.
I Si
How to Reduce Your Expenses.
You can do it easily, and you will not
nave to deprive yourself of a single com
fort on the contrary, you will enjoy life
more than ever. How can you accomlpish
this result? Easilycu down your doc
tor's bills. When you lose your appetite,
ind become bilious and constipate d, and
therefore low-spirited, don't rush off to the
family physician for a prescription, or, on
the other hand, wait until you are sick abed
before doing anything at all but just go to
the druggist's and for twenty-five cents get
& supply of Dr. Pierce'B Pleasant Purgative
Pellets. Take them as directed, and our
word for it, your unpleasant symptoms will
iisappear as if by magic, you will have no
oig doctor's bill to pay, and everybody in
terested (except the doctor), will feel hap
py-
he milk which is set aside for the cats is
Kmewha like a pedestrian, because it
a-avels in laps.
I afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water.Druggists sell it.25c.
Should pigs run at large in the streets be
considered public pen-shunners?
A Prize of 8100,000
!s a good thing to get, and the man who
\rtns it bj superior skill, or by an unex
pected turn of Fortune's wheel, is to be con
gratulated. But he who escapes from the
dutches of that dread monster. Consump
tion, and wins back health and happiness,
is far more fortunate. The chances of win
ning $100,000 dollars are small, but every
consumptive may be absolutely sure of re
covery, if he takes Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
teal Discovery in time. For all scrofulous
diseases (consumption is one of them), it is
an unfailing remedy. Ail druggists. ~f
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Casubettft'a Mbfeument* Wfi?^
There is a hitch in the construction
and preparation of the really splendid
monument to Leon Gambetta which is
to ornament the vast square of the
Louvre. Visitors fend Parisians ban see
the top of the monument, with softie of
its inscriptions, rising, girt with scaf
over the strong hoarding which
surrounds it. It stands on the left of
the square going riverward from the
Rue Rivoli and nearly faces the famous
gate of the Place du Carrousel, which
once led into the Tuileries, and over the
portals of which is placed the pompous
inscription about Napoleon's rapid rush
back from Boulogne, where he was
contemplating an invasion of England,
to the banks of the Danube. It appears
that the delay in the works connected
with the monument is caused by the
fact that Barbedienne has not yet for
warded to the contractors the allegorical
figures in bronze which are to orna
ment the pedestal. It is expected,
however, that the works can be re
sumed about the 15th of the present
month, and that the'whole of the monu
ment will be ready for inauguration
about Jan. 1, 1888,that is to say, for
the fifth anniversary of the tribune's
death.
She had Heard him Talk Before.
We heard the other day of a young
minister who was "taken down" very
handsomely by a bright little girl. He
had been called upon quite unexpect
edly to address a Sunday school and to
give himself time to collect his thoughts
he asked a question: "Children," said
he, "what shall I speak about?" A little
girl on the front seat who had herself
committed to memory several declama
tions held up her hand and in a shrill
voice asked "What do you know?"
Queer Belles of a King.
Bavaria's late mad King's personal
effects were sold at Munich recently. A
pair of scarlet trousers brought 10 a
pair of musical brushes did not sell be
cause the "music" wouldn't go. The
saddest thing in the collection was the
King's inseparable bedfellow during
the last four yearsa stuffed monkey
Mr. Charles Raith, Watchmaker & Jew
eler, Baltimore and Mount Streets, Balti
more, Md., said:"I have been suffering
excruciating pain caused by spraining my
left ankle, and have been unable to obtain
any decided relief or to walk right. I was
advised by a friend to try Salvation Oil
which I did, and to my astonishment and
delight after trying it I am able to use my
left foot and leg as well as my right. It
didn't take half of a bottle to accomplish
this. It also cured my rheumatic troubles."
Corn may not be very palatable in its na
tive state, but in the distiller's hands it be
comes a lush-us fruit.
P^I
She Couldn't Understand it
"What in the world has happened to you
since the last time I saw you?" asked one
lady of another when they met on the street
the other day" I can't understand it
Then you were pale, haggard and low-spir
ited, and I remember you said that you
hardly cared whether you lived or died.
To-day you look ever so much younger, and
it is very evident from your beaming face
that your low spirits have taken night.
"Ye s, indeed," was the reply"an shall I
tell you what drove them away? I was
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I was a
martyr to functional derangement until I
began taking the 'Prescription.' Now I a
as well as I ever was in life. N wom
an who suffers as I did ought to let
an hour pass before procuring the wonder
ful remedy."
A new and growing industry in New
York is the manufacture of false teeth for
horses.
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In matrimonial affairs love frequently
goes out with the tied.
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,_^_ A Strange Mania, "*jr ^r-f^
foamraify News: Li one of thi vicini*
t? tdwiw there is a young girl about 12
years of age afflicted with a strange
mania. She is large of her age, of fine
physique, possessed of good features,
and more than ordinarily prepossessing.
She is robust in health and shows
great activity, and is unusually smart
and intelligent, with the exception of
this mania. Every night about 8
o'clock she will go to a neighbors
house to borrow a lantern. Each time
she will make a new excuse for doing
so. II she succeeds in getting the
lantern she then takes long walks.
She does not confine herself to the
public highway, but wanders about the
fields and frequently in the woods.
She does not seem to know what fear
is, either of man or beast. She fre
quently perches herself upon a fence
and sits there along time dangling her
lantern. About 10 o'clock she returns
home and goes to bed contented Her
friends, of course object to these lan
tern strolls, and she has to steal away.
Those of her neighb6rs who know
about them refuse her a lantern. She
has a number of times greatly frighten
ed persons, which seems to please her
amazingly. She is in no respect way
ward, but seems possessed of a strange
and fascinating mania for a lantern.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
This successful medicine is a carefully-prepared
extract of the best remedies of the vegetable
kingdom known to medical science as Alteratives,
Blood Purifiers, Diuretics, and Tonics, such as
Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, Stillingia, Dandelion,
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and other selected roots, barks and hert3 A
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only by its results. We point with satisfaction to
the glorious record Hood's Sarsaparilla has en*
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people -who have personally or indirectly been
relieved of terrible suffering -17111011 all other
remedies failed to reach. Sold by aU druggists.
$1 six for $5. Made only by C. I. HOOD & CO.,
Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
CURED OF SICK HEADACHE,
W. D. Edwards, Palmyra, writes:
"I have been a great sufferer from
Costiveness and Sick Headache, and
nave tri ed many medcines, bat
Tutt'si Pills
fs the only one that gave me relief. I
find that one pill acts better than
thr ee of any other kind, and does not
weaken or gripe." Elegant ly sugar
coated. Dose small. Price, 25 cents.
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In order to be sure of getting cood rubbers see
that the words ''WALES GOOBYHAB SHOE
CO." are stamped on the bottom of the rubber
shoes which you buy. They make the most elegant
styles of specialties, and all their Boots, Sandals,
Croquets, Arctics, Lumbermen's Overs and all other
styles are elegantly finished and made from the
best material on the theory that merit will win in
the end. Other companies have endeavored to
steal their thunder" bj applying the word Gocd
year" to cheapgoods, so if you want good rubbers
bay only the WALES Goodyear.
JOHN SEOAB, of Mflleribeck, Va., writes
wife had been suffering for two or three
years with female weakness, and had paid
out one hundred dollars to physicians with
out relief. Sh took Dr Pierce's Favorite
Prescription and ft did her more good than
all the medicine given to her by the physi
cians during the three years they had been practicing upon her."
Mrs. GEORGK HEKQEB, of WestflclcL JV. IT.,
writes: I was a great sufferer from leucor
rhea, bearing-down pains, and pain contin
ually across my back. Three bottles of your
Favorite Prescription' restored me to per
fect health. I treated with Dr for
THE GREATEST
EARTHLY BOON.
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months, without receiving any benefit.
he 'Favorite Prescription' is the greatest earthly boon to us
poor suffering women."
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FAILED.
Thetreatment of many thousands of cases
of those ohronio weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.,
has afforded a vast experience in micely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baffled their skill, prove it to be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. It
is not recommended as a cure-all," but
as a most perfect Speoiflo for woman's
peculiar ailments.
Am a powerful, lnviirorating' tonic,
it imparts strength to the whole system,
and to thr uteris, or womb and its ap
pendages, in particular. For overworked,
^worn-out," "run-down." debilitated teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally. Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great,
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. It
promotes digestion and assimilation of food,
Addresfc
THREW AWAY
HER
SUPPORTER.
fcP^rphysieians, suffering, asatten.*ng
TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE.
"Hve years ago 1
dreadful suffere from uterine troubles.
Having exhausted the skill of three phy
sicians. I was completely discouraged, and so
weak I could with difficulty cross the room
alone. began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and
using the local treatment recommended in his 'Common Sense
Medical Adviser.' I commenced to improve at once. I three
months I was perfectly cured, and have had no trouble since. I
wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly mentioning how
health had been restored, and offering to send the full particulars
to any one writing me for them, and enclosing a stamped-en-
vOope for reply. I have received ov er four hundred letters.
I reply, I have described, my case and the treatment used,
and have earnestly advised them to do likewise.* From a great
many I have received second letters of thanks, stating that they
had commenced the use of 'Favorite Prescription,* had sent the
81.50 required for the 'Medical Adviser,' and had applied the
local treatment so fully and plainly laid down therein, and were
much better already."
THE OUTGROWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE.
cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi
gestion, bloating and eructations of gas.
A a soothing and strengthening
nervine) Farorite Prescription is un
equalled and is invaluable in allaying and
subduing nervous excitability, irritability,
exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant upon functional and
organio disease of the womb. I induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx
ie ty and despondency.
Br. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is a legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. I is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless in its
effects in any condition or the system.
"Favorite Prescription'* i a post*
five core for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or "whites,"
excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain
ful menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus or falling of the womb, we ak
back, "female weakness," anteversion, re
troversion, bearing-down sensations, chron
ic congestion, inflammation and ulceration
of the womb, inflammation, pain and ten
derness in ovaries, accompanied with "in-
ternal heat."
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words1 in praise of DB. PTEBCE 'S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTI ON as a remedy for those delicate diseases and weak,
aside, and feel as well as I ever did.'
Mrs. MAT GI^EASON, of Nunica, Ottawa Co.
Mich., writes: "Your 'Favorite Prescription'
has worked wonders in my case.
Again she writes: Having taken several bot
tles of the 'Favorite Prescription' I have re
gained my health wonderfully, to the astonish,
ment myself and friends. I can now be on my feet all day.
to.theone duties of my household.
they imagine from dyspepsia, another from heart disease.
themselves an thei easy-goin and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, and distinct diseases
Wtoey disease, anotherdfromrnervous exhaustion or prostration another witseparatehere pain or there, andin,
prescribes bis pills and potions, assuming them to be such, when, in reality, they are all only symptoms caused bysome
womb disorder. The physicmn, ignorant of the cause of suffering, encourages his practice until large bins are made. The sufferiwr
patient gets no better, but probably wors 3 by reason of the delay, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proper medicine,
hke Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription, directed to the cause would have entirely removed the disease, thereby d^peUing alT'those
distressing symptoms, and instituting comfort instead of prolonged misery. uluiu* VM
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Presents at the Big
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Embroidered Silk Handkerchiefs and Muf
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Seal (Japs, Seal and Beaver Gloves and Mitts,
Russia Leather Collar and Cuff Boxes, all
kinds of Suits and Overcoats, Fur Coats, etc.,
etc. These goods are marked at the lowest
prices. Goods sent to all parts of the country
and if not entirely satisfactory to be returned
at our expense.
And others suffering with
Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Kid
ney and all Chronic Diseases
are positively cured by Dr.
Some's
STCDT"
S Kive utterance to their sense of gratitude for the inestimable boon of health which has been
nesses peculiar to women, must be of interest to every sufferer from such maladies. They are fair samples of the spontaneous
SS^SS
n^ui* MWU
Mrs. SOPHIA BoswELii, White CotiaycX)*
writes: I took eleven bottles of your 'Fa-
vorite Prescription* and one bottle of your
Pellets.' I am doing my work, and have been
for some time. I have bad to employ help for
about sixteen yeatfs before I commenced tak
ing' your medizfne. I have had to wear a
supporter most of the time this I have laid
A Marvelous Carer- Mrs. G." SPBAGU X,
of Crystal, Mich*, writes: **I was *wuble with
female weakness, leucorrhea and losing of the
womb for seven years, so I had to keep my bed
for a good part of the time. I doctored with an
army of different physicians, and spent large sums
of money, but received no lasting benefit. A last my husband
persuaded me to try your medicines, which I was loath to do,
because I was prejudiced against them, and the doctors said
they would do me no good. I finally told husband that if
he would get me some of your medicines, I would try them
against the advice of my physician. got me six bottles of the
'Favorite Prescription/ also six bottles of the 'Discovery,' for
ten dollars. I took three bottles of 'Discovery' and four of
Favorite Prescription,' and I have been a sound woman for four
years. I then gave the balance of the medicine to my sister, who
was troubled in the same way, and she cured herself in a short
time. I have not had to take any medicine now for almost
four years."
I pregnancy," Favorite Prescription
is a ''mother's cordial," relieving nausea*
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. I
its use is kept up in the latter months of
gestation, it so prepares the system for de
livery as to greatly lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the sufferings
of that trying ordeal.
"Favorite Prescription^* when taken
in connection with the use of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa
tive doses of Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets
gJttle Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidne^and
ladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abolishes can
cerous and scrofulous humors from the
system.
"Favorite Prescription'' Is the only
medicine for women sold, by druggists.
under a posittvMuarantee, from the
manufacturers, that it will give satisfac
tion in every case, or money will be re
funded. This guarantee has been printed
on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully car
ried out for many years. Iarg bottles
800 doses) $1.00, or six bottles for
5.00.
13*" Send ten cents in stamps for Dr.
Pierce's large, illustrated Treatise (100
pages) on Diseases of Women.
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