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SCIENCE AND ART.
IT is well that an attempt is to be
made to prevent the use of ars-nic in
wall and other papers, for they breathe
death at every pore.
BY washing. the trunks of young trees
in a preparation of an ounce of carbolic
acid to a pail of soap sunds, you will be
able to keep away all animals and in
sects that destroy the bark.
A REMABKABLE organizat on for the
pursuit of ethnological science has been
formed in Paris, with delegates and cor
respondents in every part of the world.
]1r. Francis Parkman has been ap
pointed de'egate for Massachusetts.
Ar attempt is being made to substi
tute paper for wood in Germany, in the
manufacture of lead pencils. It is
steeped in an adhesive liquid, and
rolled round the core of lead to the re
quired thickness. After drying, it is
colored, and resembles an ordinary
pencil.
ERICJNE, a new coloring matter re
eently discovered, has received its name
from "Erica vulgaris," the common
beath. It is prepared by heating with
an alum solution, the wood of either the
common heath or the different kinds of
poplar. The result is a yellow extract,
ving qualities belonging to those ordi
narily found in commerce, but surpass
ing them in brightness.
IT seems difficult to account for so
small a creature as a bird making tones
as loud, in singing, as an animal one
thousand times its size. But it hasbeen
discovered that in birds the lungs have
several openings, communicating with'
corresponding air-base. or cells, which
Ill the whole cavity of the body from
the neck downward, and into which the
air passes and repasses.
BEASONED timber is but little liable
to decay under the influence of a dry
atmosphere, and will resist decompoei
tion for an i definite period when kept
totally submerged in the water. The
pilesof old London bridge, driven eight
hundred years before, were found to be
in good condition when the new bridge
was erected, in 1829, and those which
served as the foundation for Trajan's
bridge over the Danube, A. D. 105, are
said to be still visible at low stages of
water.
Tamz is a talk of constructing a
crystal palace in the park of St. Cloud,
a ar Paris. The ruins of the old palace
would be removed, and on its site would
arie a handsome structure surmounted
by a costly dome and containing conser
vatories, a gigantic aquarium, museums
of science and art, and a theater. Model
farms would also be established in the
immediate neighborhood, and there
wou!d be a pigeon shooting and other
pli saure grounds.
CHRmTY has hitherto failed to de
tact any special ingredient to which the
air evolved by marshes owes its poison.
eosualitieo, but that vegetable decom
poition is the source of the poison is in
Jarred from various circumstances. AlI
though moisture is necessary to the
srolution of miasma, yet an excess of it
often acts as a preventive. It is clear
enough that there is an intimate connec
tion between certaindiseases and marshy
districts.
Tan production of any well-known
substance artificially by the synthsictal
chemist is generally viewed by the pub
lic with opposition, until convinced that
it is identical with the natural product.
A German paper produces an endorse
ment of artificial vanilline by Prof.
Neidinger, who says it possesses unde
aisble advantage over natural vani:la.
The latter looses its aroma, unequal,
sad the natural bean only contains two
per cent. of valuable material with
ninety-eight per cent. of worthless or
even mjhrious material, the removal of
which is troublesome and tedious, be
fore the pure flavor can be obtained. In
Germany the venilline is mixed with
sugar and put up in packages of differ
at strength for different purposes. That
bR chocolate manufactures is seventy
times as strong as good vanilla; that for
family use put up in packages equal to
ume bean, and sold at nine cents each;
that for liquor manufacturers contains
two per cent. of vanilline. Dr. Meidin
gsrsaks very highly of his artificial
vsalline, which may be wholesoihe, but
ha it the delicious bouquet of the natu
al bean?
A new metallic compound, applicable
is many artistic and industrial pur
,has been recently announced in
. The substance belongs to the
damku~own as the thiates, or sulphur
elphides. Nearly a year ago Mr. J.
!rger Spence discovered that sulphides
eI metals combined with molten sul
fe orm a liquid. This liquid on cool
became a solid homogeneous mass,
P' seing great tenacity, and having a
týlisrly, dark grey, almost black
Imir. It has a comparatively low melt
-ug point, via., 320° Fahr., or rather
mes than 100° above the temperature
't boiling water. It would thus equire
Sly .small amount of fuel to reduce
or melt it. The new compound also ex
o . ooling-a property not shared
5.tie majority of other metals or me
Nle comapounds. For such purposes
s !inin gas or water pipes this ex
SPuon is of great importance. It is
UN.ºclaimed that the new compound re
f&vorably atmospheric or climatic
aess compared with bronze or
s and that its resistance to acids
auch superior to that of other metals
meltalie compounds.
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The Novelist Hardy and America.
A London letter to the Philadelphia
Press says: Thomas Hardy, author of
"A Pair of Blue Eyes," "Far from the
Madding Crowd," etc., etc., is a native
English novelist, whose works have a
wider reading in our own land than his
own, and who would probably receive
more personal attention among us than
he does in England. When I spoke to
him of his wide fame and innumerable
readers across the Atlantic I found he
knew all about it, and only wished he
had even a very minute royalty from
all the American editions of the novels.
If I mistake not, I have seen them in
some of the cheap ten-cent circulating
periodicals of the West. I urged him
to consider the glory of a fame which
extended over prairies, and wigwams,
and log cabins, untarnished by the touch
of lucre; but these modern authors are
intensely practical, and he said, un
blushingly, he preferred shillings.
Mr. Hardy is a young man of thirty
three or thirty-six, who started life in
an engineer's office, but, as Sir Walter
Scott abandoned the law, so Hardy left
surveying and conveyancing for some
thing more genial. His plots and char
acters, however, often, by force of asso
ciation, turn on engineering, where his
early knowledge comes well into play.
He is a man of unassuming manners,
and extremely laborious and consci
entious in working out the details of
his work. My attention was first direct
ed to him before I had ever met or
seen him, by hearing a gentleman at
tempting to settle, with the aid of a
knot of friends, what was the wine or
drink at a dinnerof a well-to-do English
merchant in the sixteenth century. It
was Hardy foraging for a new novel.
Mr. Hardy writes specially of the life
of the middle and lower middle classes
of England, drawine his Fcenes
and characters m;inly from them.
It is this fact which gives him
his hold on the general Amercan
public, who readily recognize and
appreciate the picturing of a life that
comes most nearly to their own. As a
sympathetic painter of English village I
and rural life, he has few, if any, equals !
among contemporary English novelists. I
In conversation Mr. Hardy expressed 1
much modest gratification at the popu
larity of his works in America, and
cherishes a strong hope scme day soon t
to come and see us. I hope it will be
soon.
He Paid In Advance.
A Carson City paper says a young
man came into Justice Cary's court
room, with the rim of his hat drawn
down over his eyes, and remarked:
"Do you know me ?"
"I think," replied the Court, meekly,
" that you are the chap I sentenced for
stealing about a year ago."
"That's just the hairpin I am," re
plied the other, " and here's $20 for my
fine."
"But you served your term in jail,"
said the Judge, "and owe no fine."
"That's all right, old boy; but I'm
about to commit an assault and battery,
and I guess I'll settle now. You're the
man I propose to lick."
"Oh, that's it," rejoined the Court,
pocketing the coin; " then you can start
in and we'll call it square."
The young man advanced to the Court
and let out his left. The Judge ducked
his head, and raising up, lifted the in
truder in the eye with a left hander and
sent him over against the wall. In a
moment the Court was climbing all over
the man, and in about three minutes
his face was hardly recognizable. The
man begged the Court to let up, which
he finahy did. As the fellow was about
to get out, Cary went after him with:
" See here, young man, I don't think
the fighting you did ought to be assessed
at any more than $2.50; here's $17.50 in
change. I ain't charging you anything
for fighting, but just for my time.
Next time I won't charge you a cent."
The rough took the change and the
next train for Virginia City.
Unsociability at Table.
[The Graphic.J
At a French or German public table,
everybody, whether stranger or acquain
tance, drops at once into conversation.
The fact is recognized that conversing
dispels stiffness and constraint, and
thereby adds relish to the meal. People
regard each other as mutual aids for
the half hour. No claim of after ac
quaintance is made, and the company
may part, never possibly to meet again.
At the American hotel-a restaurant
table where strangers are placed op
posite each other-all is dreadfully
constrained, stiff and disagreeable. The
more ladies, as a rule, the more re
straint. No one feels at liberty to speak
to the other party or parties. The more
silence the more curiosity and specu
lation regarding each other. Eyes are
busily stealing glances, and the least re
mark dropped is caught up by greedy
ears. Everyone feels under the other's
critical inspection. What talk there
may be is hidden away in a sort of a
low-voiced fashion from the others.
Sometimes curiosity takes the unpar
donable liberty of suspending its own
speech to hear what others are saying.
A day's meals eaten at a hotel under
this inspection of curious and con
strained eye and ear is enough to bring
on a fit of dyspepsia, through the con
sequent mental strain and irritation. It
is time we copied something of French
or German ease of manner in our trans
cient intercourse at the hotel table.
The Story of a Drink.
(Port smith (Ark.) Herald.]
During the war our townsman, James
P. Moore, on one occasion went out in
front of our lines to give some water
to a wounded Yankee, who was lying in
a heiple condition upon the grounds
but lately occupied by the Federal
forces adfrom which they had recently
been driven. The man was crying pite
osly for water, and the bullets were
rattling around from both armies.
Moore sid he intended to risk the ex
posure to do the deed of mercy and
went out to him. It proved to be a
captain of a Pennsylvania regiment,
who was profuse with thanks and of
fered Moore his gold watch, which the
gllanteonfederate declined. He begged
for his name, that he might, if be sur
vived the war, remelber him. This
he wrotedown in his memorandum book.
Trcaptain recently wrote here to know
if More was living; saidhe was rich, but
dytin of consumption, and desired to
provide forhim in his will. Mr. Moore
wrote to him and received a friendly
letter in reply, telline him that there
was $1,00 set apart for his use, to be
paid in lnstallmeite of $2,000 each.
The Federal oacer has since died. and
the other day h payment of $2,000
was.eirbd. 'ti"good to give
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A Letter Without an Owner.
[Portland (Me.) Argue.]
A letter, postmarked Bangor and ad
dressed "To the Handsomest Young
Lady at Rockland, Maine," was received
at the postoffice in the latter city last
I week. After aconsuitation between the
chief of the office and his subordinates,
the former official ordered the missive to
be displayed through the glass window,
that some maiden with confidence in her
charms might step up and boldly demand
her property. The Courier, which is
one of the brightest little papers in
Maine, by the way, says "crowds of
women have looked at that envelope,
but none has dared called for it. Maiden
ladies in false teeth and falser hair have
stood and gazed at the magic direction,
and then walked meditatively up and
down the corridors, endeavoring to
muster up courage to face the awfully
penetrating eye of the man at the de
livery window. Handsomeyoung women
with rosy cheeks and laughing eyes
have seen it and speculated as to why it
was not given to them without further
delay. Young men with girls have
urged their respective sweethearts to
step up and ask for what is clearly their
own. The amount of trouble and worry
which that little envelope has created
in our city is simply incalculable. And
meantime the letter tantalizingly hangs
in the window, while the Cerberus at the
delivery window awaits with uneasiness
and impatience the dreadful moment
when some woman shall demand the
troublesome document, and he shall be
forced to compel her to show cause, if
any, why he should consider her the
party named in the writ."
An Interesting Visitor.
Says the Bodie (Cal.) News: William
McDonald and family, consisting of
wife and two boys, living in a log cabin
in Pine Nut Valley, were suddenly
startled a few nights since about mid
night by the sudden crashing in of the roof
and a large pile of dirt that commenced
falling on their bed. The old man
jumped up and lit his candle to investi
gate, and found two huge, shaggy limbs
astraddle one of the rafters. Having no
gun he siezed a sharp axe, and, getting
his family away from the bed, with a
single blow at each he severed them
from the body, the animal in the mean
time roaring with rage and pain and
unable to extricate himself from the logs
and poles that held him a close prisoner,
but scattering the dirt covering of the
roof, and making general havoc of the
cabin. In his struggle one of the rafters
broke, and the family made quick work
getting outside of the house; a rifle
standing at the door the old man grabbed
as they went out; this happened to be
loaded. They concluded to build a big
fire, and when fairly burning, the glare
and heat attracted the animal to the
door, that proved to be a monster cinna
mon bear. His growls and groans were
frightful, and the old man finally raised
his rifle within ten feet of his head and
fired, and the huge brute was dead.
Going back into the cabin a ire was
soon made in the fire place, and the
work of cleaning up the debris com
menced. At daylight the bear had been
skinned and quartered, the cabin cleaned
up, and the work of repairing the roof
commenced.
Titles by the Yard.
There are at present in Europe 719
princes and princesses, each having a
claim more or less remote to a crown.
The one with the grea test number of titles
is the Emperor of Austria, Francis
Joseph. In addition to his title as Em
peror, he is nine times king, once arch
duke, four times margrave, five times
count prince, twice prince, and many
times count and lord. His cartes de
visite makes the fortune of photograph
ers. The King of Portugal has eighteen
first names, his eldest son has twenty,
and his younrest twenty-nine. One of
the kings of Portugal, according to a
Spanish story, got lost in the woods
while hunting. Coming late at night
upon a little country inn, he knocked
and demanded shelter. The landlord
put his head out of the window and
asked who was there. His Majesty
replied by giving all his names and
titles. "Excuse me, sir," said the land
lord, " I haven't room in my house for
s-) many people," and he shut the win
dow and left the King out in the
cold. The title of King of Jerusalem is
borne by the Emperor of Austria, the
ex-King of Naples and the Prince de
Lusignan. A imilar conflict exists be
tween King Oscar of Sweden and King
Christian of Denmark. each claiming to
be King of the Goths. Oscar also calls
himself King of the Wends, and
Christian King of the Vandals. The
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is
a General of Cavalry in the Russian
army, and a Doctor of Laws in Oxford
University.
Feeding the Harvard Boys.
The Dining Association has ninety
employes besides its steward. A ten
horse power engine, burning two tons of
coal per day, heats the building and
supplies steam for the cooking and bak
ing, but when Sanders' Theater is
heated, a third ton of coal is required.
The great soup kettle holds 220 gallons,
and is said to be the largest kettle ever
cast in this country. Only 110 gallons
of soup, however, are required for the
daily dinner. The oatmeal kettle holds
forty-fve gallons, and that for cracked
wheat, twenty gallons; but not quite,
although very nearly, this amount is
consumed daily.
The great range, twenty-five feet long,
contains four ovens, and does all the
frying and heating plates, etc. There
are seven kettles for boiling meats and
five for vegetables, and none of them of
very small size, while the treat charcoal
grate will easily broil steak for 650 men.
But the most astounding parts of the
culinary arrangements are the two great
ovens, one for baking meats and one for
bread and pies. The first will cook at
once 2,000 pounds of meat and the other
250 pies. They are by no means too
large, however, since from 800 to 1,000
pounds of meat are consumed daily
and some ninety loaves of graham, and
seventy-five of white, bread. The heat
never leaves the pastry oven from one
month to another.
A Water-esistiug Cement.
A water-resisting cement, which looks
as though it might prove serviceable,
has been proposed by a German chemist.
He dissolves from five to ten parts of
water, and then adds ten per cent. of
concentrated solution of birchromate of
potash. The articles united with this
glue are exposed to the light of the sun,
when the birehromate becoming re
duced, the gelatine film attains great
strength and flexibility. Glass orna
ments and utensils when broken are said
to be neatly and eficiently repaired
with this mixture. Of course, the very
principal upon which the utiliy of the
cement depnds, requires that it be kept
in the dr, in orderthat it may act as
desired vwbe used.
Trous is many a slip between the
banana peel and the pavement.
A Noble River.
[Florida C'orrespondence Newark Advezt,,,r.]
As a stream, a body of water, the St.
John's is unsurpassed by any in the
United States, in bulk and volume ex
ceeding even the Rio Grande. It is
truly, as was some of the ancients' idea
of heaven, "a place of abundant waters
fed by eternal springs.'
Taking its rise in the springs and
swamps of Southern Florida, it flows
directly North for more than four hun
dred miles, and, swelled in its course by
its numerous tributaries, connected in
their turn with lakes and springs, the
mighty flood sweeps onward in its long
course to the sea, widening sometimes to
eighteen miles across. Indeed, as is
signified by its Indian name, Welaca,
the river is but a " chain-of-lakes," some
of which are dotted with beautiful
islands, and one of those is an orange
grove equal to any in the State.
The water is clearand (,f a light coffee
color, brightening to amber where the
sun strikes the waves thrown up in the
path of the plowing steamer. The
effect thus of the foam on their crests
and the sunlight together suggests to
others the thought of the youthful pas
senger who cried "lagerbet r," and I
thought if the St. John's were indeed as
it looked, a sea of foamy lager, what
caravans of pilgrims woult visit its
shores, and this liquid gold of the State
be even a more fruitful source of income
than its golden fruitage.
The river abounds in nooks and
corners, or, in more appropriate parlance,
bays, creeks, and coves, from which fact
many of the little seti ements take their
names. There is Green Cove, and Fruit
Cove, and Orange Cove, Deep Creek,
and Silver Run. Then there is a com
bination of the poetical and practical,
the Spanish and Indian. We have
Mandarin and Magnolia, Orange Park
and Hibernia, Welaca, Palatka, Tocoi
and Volusia. Fruitlands and Orange
City, Sanford, Mellonville and Enter
prise. Of these Mandarin, fifteen miles
above Jacksonville, is interesting as the
winter home of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe. The house is visible from the
river, nestling in the shadow of huge
live oaks, whose gray drapery of moss
swings in the breeze, and orange groves
on either side stretching back from the
shore-a picture in green and gray and
gold.
Put on the Brakes.
There is an impression among many
shrewd thinkers, writes the New York
correspondent of the Buffalo Courier,
that we are reviving to fast. The spirit
of speculation has broken out again and
the mania for "rushing things" seems
to be nearly as active as it was before
the big smash of nearly seven years ago.
Our imports have lately been going up
with a rush, and threatening to wipe cut
the big balanc of trade that was sup
posed to have done so much toward
bringing back better times. Foreign
luxuries are again pouring in by the
shipload, and the dealers in such things
find a rapidly increasing demand for
them, not alone in New York, but from
customers all over the country as well.
The lesson of hard times-or rather of
the result of extravagance and specu
lative trading-seems almost forgotten
already. Wall street has been as wild
during the past year as it was any time
previous to the Jay Cooke crash, which
knocked the bottom out of everything;
and the wiseacres say the coming three
months will be the wildest it has vet
known. The enormous influx of for
eign capital or its equivalent last year
and the year before, under the name of
balance of trade, had much to do with
the revival of speculation in Wall street
and elsewhere and the general advance
in prices which became noticeable last
fall and has been going on steadily ever
since. While the balance was largely
in our favor w, heard a great deal
about it, but now that the scales are
turning the other way no one has a
word to say. We hear of nothing but
better times, though this very rush to
ward better times may really be worse
for all of us than the quiet of a few
years ago. But a sermon on the sub
ject would not do a bit of good. When
a spirited horse takes the bit between
his teeth and starts for a good run the
chances are that he will have his own
way about it, even at the risk of break
ing his own neck. It is to be honed
that he won't break the neck of better
times by rushing ahead too fast.
Another Monstrosity.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, writing from Troy, Ohio, says:
Your correspondent had exhibited to
him this morning amonstrosity the most
wonderful. It is a child, (born dead, of
course.) with a dog's head. It was of
about seven months gestation, and is
in all respects except the head a per
fectly formed boy weighing two and a
half pounds. The parents are plain
country folks, living about eight miles
from this place, both husband and wife
young, the husband about twenty.four
years of age and the wife at the time of
the marriage, one year ago, only fifteen
years of age. The wife is a large, well
developed woman, young as she is. At
two months' gestation of the mother,
last November, the father had a
young bull-pup, which from some
cause had become cross and ugly and
the husband had often threatened to
kill him, until finally one day the
father took down his gun, and against
the protest of his wife, who was present,
shot the dog in the back of the head,
just where the head joins on to the neck.
The blood spurted from the neck and
the wife fainted. The monster is in
charge of Dr. Lenour, who attended the
lady during her labor, and has been
viewed by many persons. It will be a
great curiosity in the medical frater
nity.
Italian Superstition.
Two or three stories cf extraordinary
superstition are in circulation abroad.
One is that in Venice not long ago a
lottery drawing gave rise to the opening
of coffins in order that the sign of a
lucky number might be detected in the
eye or on the lipsof the corpse. Shrouds,
dusty and covered with mold, were ex
amined for traces of writing that might
lead to the sought-for knowledge, and
new-born infants were closely inspected
for birthmarks that might reveal the
secret, while it is said that ladies of birth
and education wore their dresses with
the inside turned out in order to pro
pitiate the god of the wheeL This
mania lasted for a week. A monk who
has begged since monasteries were abol
ished, died recently in a hospital of in
juries inflicted by two men who insisted
that he could tell them the lucky num
bers in a lottery, and beat him because
he refused to do so.
Tir Empress Eugenie has started on
her pilgrimage to visit the spot where
her son fell If all mothers were to
visit the spot where their sons fell,
many of them would find themselves in
very disreputable places. Some young
men fall a dozen times in one night,
while going home, and they are not par
ticular as to the cleanliness of the spot
where they fall either.
A Shrewd Guess.
He was evidently a "tenderfoot" but
as be stopped before an old miner and
held out a piece ofmicaceous granite for
his inspection he made a strong effort
to look as if he had been born with a
contempt for civilization, and that the
feeling had been steadily growing on
him ever since. ' What do you make
this outto be? ' he asked, indicating the
specimen with a nod. "Humphl" was
the expressive answer. "Gold quartz
or carbonates?" The "honest miner"
turned it over in his hand indifferently,
took out his knife, and picked at it for
a while, and then said: "Got much of
it?" "Thousands of tons," replied the
other eagerly. " How much do you
suppose she'll run ?" "Can't tell nuthin'
without an assay." "But you can guess,
can't you; you can guess ?" "Oh yes,"
answered the barnacle, "anybody kin
guess; but a guess is liable to be ex
travagant. Now, I shall say-but mind
ye I may go over the mark-I should
s-a-a-y (turning the specimen over again
and holding it up to the light), I should
s-a-a-y that if ye can save the gold in
this and catch the silver, and not waste
the lead, it might run about-well.
about $2 to the county."
A Touching Story.
1('ltcinnat n Gazette.]
A touching story of self-denial and
heroism on the part of a little child was
revealed yesterday to the officers of
Hammond-street Station. About 7
o'clock in the morning the mother of
Mamie Fahey, a girl seven years of age,
living at 308 East Pearl street, went to
market, locking in the room Mamie and
her baby sister, as is the necessity of
poor women who have no means to pay
for watching their children. The little
child found some loose matches, and in
playing with them set fire to her dress.
The flames burnt off her clothes, and her
body, from the feet to the neck to a
crisp; and then having accomplished
this cruel work, died out. When the
mother returned at 8 o'clock the child
was still alive, and able to speak. The
mother asked her why she did not cry
for help. The little one answered, "I
was afraid of waking the baby." In a
few moments she was dead.
Rather Slim.
At the matinee a long, gaunt in
dividual, with legs as thin as whittled
matches, came into the theater and stood
in front of some gentlemen, shutting out
their view of the stage. One of the
party said: " If you guess what that is
before us, I'll put a label on it." "It's
a plumb-line somebody has dropped
down from the family circle," remarked
another, and the thin man began to move
aside.
" Next to boarding-house soup it's the
thinest thing I've seen," said a third
party, and the slim man got uneasy and
sat down.
A LECTURER in Cleveland said lately,
"The conditions of success are three
first, work; secord, concentration;
third, fitness. Labor is the genius
which changes the ugliness of the world
to beauty; that turns the greatest curse
into blessing. Theyoung man that has
learned to work has solved the greatest
of the problems that tend to success.
Many limbs of the law wait for some
chance to distinguish themselves, but
the chances never come. To succeed,
the young man must take the chances.'
IT is well enough to hit the nail (n
the head, providing the nail is not tb
one on the end of your finger.
Little Annie is the daughter of one ofour most
prominent citizens. Yesterday she told us, in
her way, what a good medicine Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup was, as it had cured her of a very
severe cold.
A Houmebold Need.
A book on the Liver, its diseases and their
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Dr. C. E. Shoemaker, the well-known aural
surgeon of Reading, Pa., offers to send by mail
free of cLarge a valuable little book on deafness
and diseases of the ear-especially on running
ear and catarrh, and their proper treatment-
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isfy the most skeptical. Address as above.
The Voltale Belt Co., Marshall, cela.,
Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the
afflicted upon 30 days' trial. See their adver
tisement in this paper headed, " On 30 Days'
Trial."
VEGETINE.-By its use you will prevent
many of the diseases prevailing in the Spring
and Summer season.
Straighten your old boots with Lyon's Pat
ent Heel Stiffeners, and wear them again.
Try the "Rheumatic Sack." See advertise.
ment in another column.
A CARD.-To all wholare suffering from the errors
ad indis.cretiolnsof youth, nervoud weakness earl decar,
Ioss of manlhood etc., I will send a Recipe that will cure
you, FREE O(F CIIARGE. This great remedy was di
owrred by a missionary in South America. Send a self
Sadreoeed envelope to the Rev. JOSEPH T. LYIAN,
ftationli D, Ftew York Ctto.
How to Get Sick.
Expose yourself day and night, eat too
much without exercise; work too hard
without rest; doctor all the time; take
all the vile nostrums advertised; and
the you will want to know
How to Get Well,
Which is answered in three words
Take Hop Bitters! See other column.
E'press.
WHEN exhausted by mental labor take
Kidney-Wort to maintain healthy action
of all organs.
T L OK! IEAD! - Discovered by accident. Rhesn
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So plasters, poultice, or draughts. Ak your Druggist
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W ATCHES to *,O@. Wit fo ,catalogne to
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G ET RICK! Selling oar rubber alsmpn and
sheet music. Cega A BIssSLL, Cleveland, 0
4. : ~,.mMt
Vegetine
Purifies the Blood, Renovates
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ALL WRITERS, AND THEIR NAMES
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YOU MUST HAVE PURE BLOOD
Reader, Hare 'ous Got Scrofula
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Rumaor, Cancer, or Any
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You Can Positively be Cured.
Thousands of Testimo
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J ID L. AMBRtOF..E
Asssltant of the Apothecaries '" mpany I o I.,lrhmn . mn.
ber JI the Iharmti tia, So .eto of Great Br ta:n,
I.lcPntiate in Pharmacy of the College of tPliyslniatl
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Corner Notre Dame and McGill Streets
Vegetine Is Sold by AUl Druggists.
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Thousands have been cured. Try itand yel
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Why suffer longer from the torment
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Why bear suoh dletress from Con
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Why be so fearful because of dis
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KrtDsxrY-oaT will cure you. Try a pack
age at once and be satisfled.
It fr a dryg egetable compound and
One Packagemakes six quarts of Medicine.
Your Druggist ha. it, or .cll get it for
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