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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Fifty thousand people are employed In nee culture In Louisiana. Before the but little rice was grow n there. —Tal&hassee and Gainesville, Fla., haVe an . ,c ? factory, equippe I $y Northern capital, and making ten daily each.— Chicago Hera'd. —A new India-rubber plant has been recovered mSouthern India, originally ® f . c ^Chin-China forests, where its puce is used in medicine. "A New York photographer has acniveu u\e remarkable feat of taking a picture in the one-twenty-one-thous- anatu part of a second—or next to no time at all. -X K Sun. —One of the chief features of interest it a recent county exhibition in England was an iron watch, which had been tamed out by a Kidderminster firm for the purpose of showing the extraordina ry malleability of their metal. The watch is said to be perfect. —A rural inventor claims that he can make paper out of grass. He says that grass paper is stronger, softer, more transparent than linen stock, and considerably cheaper. According to his figures, one acre of grass will pro duce 3,711 pounds of paper.— Exchange. —The railroad bridge over the Mis souri River at Blair, Neb., which cost >1,000,000, was tested with six locomo tives, the maximum deflection being two inches. The permanent iron struck ture is 1,270 feet long and fifty feet above high water, with trestle-work ap proaches of nearly two miles at either end.— Chicago Journal. —Two enterprising Germans, per haps of the family of Baron Munchau sen, have made to the municipality of Buenos Ayres a proposition that is Worthy of the attention of civil engi neers. They propose to build for tl?at city a stationary umbrella of such pro portions as will forever render it unnec essary for the people down there to come in out of the rain. This trifle is to cost >5,750,000. —Among the most recent inventions in gunnery is a Gatling gun which can Bhrow a battery of 104 cartridges with effect either upward oi; downward at any angle. Not only can a fort or in trenchment within 3,500 yards be thus rendered untenable, but scaling parties should they ever be introduced into warfare again, would have a new ter ror. The new gun is a base-loading machine, worked by a spiral, and is now in the Colt Armory, Hartford. — Hart ford Post. —The exceedingly delicate photo graphs (colored) on glass, which have come lately into fashion, are produced by fixing a paper photograph upon a cushion-shaped glass with transparent cement, and when it is dry rubbing away two-thirds of the photograph with sand-paper. The thin film left is then rendered transparent by soaking in melted paraffine wax, after which transparent colors are applied, which appear softened down when looked at from the front. The background and heavier portions of the picture are then painted in body color upon the face of another cushion-shaped piece of glass, which is afterward fixed behind the first one. r PITH AND POINT. —Too much study is said to affect the mind; and we know a number of cases where it would affect it very favorably, too.— Burlington Free Press'. —“Got on your husband's cravat, haven’t you?” asked a neighbor of Mrs. Bilkins. “Yes,” replied Mrs. B. sadly, “it’s the only tie there is between us now.”—Life. —“Know anything about life in the West!” said Mr. Stone. “I should say 1 do! I was tarred and feathered twice in Missouri, and rode on a rail in Kan sas.”—Boston Post. —lt is said that “Satan is ever watch ing to find us unemployed.” The gen tleman referred to never watches news paper men. It would be a waste of valuable time.— Troy Times. —The English alphabet is tolerably virtuous. Twenty of the letters have never been in prison.— N. K News. Yes, but look what a lot of them are now in penitentiary.— Morristown Her ald. —An anti-vaccinationist has proved beyond peradventure that a man who has not been vaccinated may escape contagion, although surrounded by smallpox. He lost his wife and three children, but he escaped. He commit ted suicide.— Buffalo Express. —“Why,” said Mr. Brynesmonkey, “should I go to hear a dog that can crow like a rooster? If I wish to hear the sound of a rooster's crowing, I’ll go and hear a rooster, whose crowing must necessarily be better than anything a dog can do.”— Boston Post. —Made to stick—the postage stamp. A burning shame—cigarette smoking. Stage-struck—the man hit by an omni bus. The baker, poor man, always kneads bread. Stabbed to the heart— oysters on the half shell. “Going through” the country —the Mississippi Hi ver.— N. K Commercial. —“I never can enjoy poetry when I’m cooking.” said an old lady who dropped in on us recently. “But when I step out to feed the hogs and hist my self on the face, and throw my soul in to a few lines of ‘Cap’n Jenks’, it does seem as if this airth was made to live on after all.”— Oil City Derrick. —Says a writer on table etiquette: “If you are of a party to dinner or lunch, waft by your chair until all seat themselves. ’’ * This is undoubtedly good advice; but if each one should wait un til all had seated themselves, wouldn’t there be danger of the dinner getting cold before all were seated?— N. K Graphic. —“Oh, will he bite?” exclaimed one of Middletown’s sweetest girls with a look of alarm, when she saw one of the dancing bears on the street the other day. “No,” said her escort, “he can not bite—he is muzzled; but he can hug.” “Oh,” she said, with a distract ing smile, “I don’t mind that.”—Buj jue Express. . .j are scarce in the Orkneys, -«, ingle specimen adorns the prin cipi street of Kirkwall. When Mr. Gladstone recently visited the place, his entertainers at first intended to make a joke at the expense of the “grand old feller” by placing upon the solitary ves tige of arboreal beauty a sign. “Wood man spare that tree,” but finally decid ed to s -rve the humor of the occasion by conducting him carefully along the opwosite side of the street, and explain ing to him that as this was the only tree in the town they wanted to keep it out of harm’s way. ____ —An open coal stove sent out gas that killed Mrs. Miles Travers, of Troy, N. Y.. aged seventy-five, ami her daughter Mary, aged thirty-two. —Every man has three characters— that which be exhibits, that which he muHbat which he thinks he baa, COLUMBUS. Capital City Cullings. he new time is a nuisance. Ann e Jones is indisposed. list^ 1 ' "^ v * ra Bedmon is on the invalid Spiinkling tarts are out of style now a days. Miss Cary, aged twelve, daughter of nm. I reeland, of E. Mt. Vernon \enue, was’ interred from Shiloh Baptist Church last Sunday at 2 p. m. Mis. Ida Brinson, of W. Bismark Friday presented With a Mr. Brinson, Jr. Rev. Thomas R. Kino-, of the Ohio Conference, occupied the pulpit at St. I aul a. M. E. Church last Sunday Eve. mi. King is a pleasant talker. Ex-Lieutenant Jno. H. P. Payne, of Lexington, was in the city last . . n “*y on business, the guest of Cap tain Payne. 1 Master Tommy Payne, after an ex tended visit at his uncle’s, of New Lexington, passed through the citv last luesday cn route to Springfield, his home. 1 ° Sergeant William Burke, of the Palmer Guards, after an extended trip in the hast, returned home last Friday, looking hale and hearty and reports not a few aching hearts are left behind. Captain Payne has an extended prac ln prosecuting pension claims. Old soldiers will do well to employ him. “ I he Silver Leaf Literary Society con templates giving a concert and literary entertainment at Comstock’s Opera House soon. The Palmer Guards are rehearsing a military drama for rendition at several of our neighboring towns, and contem plate visiting Cincinnati, Cleveland. Dayton and principal cities in Ohio. [Come and see us.—Ed.] Mrs. Bell Roberts, of No. 44 E. Long Street, left for Chicago last Sunday afternoon, being summoned hither in consequent e of the dangerous illness of Mrs. Hughes, her sister. Mr. Dennis Fisher and Miss Amanda Hart were on last Thursday afternoon, at the residence of Mr. Benjamin Hop son, united in the hely bonds of matri mony. Mr. James E. Vurner and Mrs. Lucy Perkins were married at the residence of Mrs. Strider, E. Spring Street, last Sunday morning. Success, joy, peace and happiness. The thirteenth anniversary of the Central Christian Church Sunday School took place at the church, corner Gay and Third Streets, last Sunday eve ning, and showed good and efficient work on the part of the Sunday School teachers so far as the advancement of the little folks is concerned in singing, reading and committing the Bible. The occasion was fitly besprinkled with es says and declamations by the children adapted to the occasion. A mass meeting of the missionary so ciety of the A. M. E. Church was held in the Sunday School rooms of the church last Sunday afternoon, ami was largely attended. The exercises, after the report of the work of the. society and its condition, consisted of essays, declamations and singing. Be it said to the credit of the Afro-American, if given a fair chance he will accomplish as much as his Caucasian brethren. Mr. Richard Moss returned to the city last week with his trained dogs and mon kies, after a successful tour through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, going as far west as Peoiia, 111. Mr. Moss has his dogs and monkeys under excellent con trol. performing some wonderful feats with them. He has accepted an en gagement with Anderson & Co.’s new circus and menagerie and will start out early in the spring. Miss Mamie W. Spencer returned home from Pittsburgh last Saturday morning after an extended visit there. Miss Josie C. Hudlum, of Chicago, 111., accompanied her and is sojourning here, the guest of Miss Mamie. Miss Hudlum is very much taken up with our city and promises to return next spring on a visit. Strangers visiting our city will do well to stop at Mrs. Annie Jones’ board ing house, No. 77 E. Gay Street, or Mrs. Huston Nappers, No. 49 W. Long Street. Long experience enable mine hostesses to entertain strangers at very reasonable rates in a manner not to be enjoyed everywhere. A very aristocratic and enjoyable affair took place at Mrs. Zion Jesup’s, of West Maple Street, Tuesday, 20th inst., the occasion being a five o’clock dinner in honor of Mrs. Nettie Ennis, net Holly, and Mrs. Holland, of Wash ington, D. C. Columbus has not for many a day known such an aristocratic occasion among the colored people. Only ladies were entertained. Among those present were Mrs. Elder J. E. Russell, Mrs. Wm. Roney, Mrs. Alex. Jones, Mrs. Martin Trent, Mrs. Jerry Dicker, Mrs. James Lee, Mrs. Al. Roberts, Mrs. Jno. Alexander, Mrs. Sarah Alexander, Mrs. Alvina Redmon. Mrs. Albert Ransom, Mrs. R. F. Williams, Mrs. Charles Games, Mrs. Patrick Johnson, Mrs. J. T. Williams, Mrs. Jas. Hall, Mrs. Janies Mortimer and Mrs. Charles Hampton. A very •touching scene occurred at the Ohio Penitentiary last Saturday. Uncle William Lucas, an old colored gentleman, called at the office of the clerk of the O. P., informing him that his son, who had been absent from home for some time, was reported as being a recent convict within the prison walls and he desired to know if reports were true. After some little time in looking over the roll of prisoners, Jos. R. Lucas’ name was reached and read out, when Uncle William exclaimed: “That’s my son!” and straightway left the prison greatly effected. Jos. Lucas was sent up from Green county some four weeks ago for assault with intent to rob for five years. Don’t fail to see Captain Payne and get a copy of the best paper in Ohio, the Gazette. More anon. A dinner was tendered Mr. Joe Innis and bride at the residence of Mrs. Jes sups November 20. Mrs. J. Lee, Diekey and Holland, of Washington, D. C., were noticed among the many present. A few person*in the Capital City re ceived invitations to the marriage of Mrs. Susan Tinsley’s granddaughter. Miss Mamie D. Sheldon,' of Cincinnati, to William A. Brown Tuesday, Decem ber 4, 451 Sherman Avenue, Cincinnati. Miss Lena Saunders and Miss Lia Silverpool, of Cincinnati, are expected in the Capital City during the holidays. Miss Mary Spencer, after a very pleasant visit in the East, has returned name, accompanied by Miss Josie Hudlum, Chicago’s favorite elocution ist and successful short-hand writer. The ladies talk of spending a few days in the Forest City after Thanksgiving. Mrs. Belle Roberts, of Long Street, has been called to the bed of her sister in Chicago. Miss Mattle Allen an I Carrie Williams Who .are ir* Paikersburgh, participated in an entertainment last Monday evening, and were the attrac tions. Miss Allen was advertised as the “female bass singer,” and Miss Carrie Williams as the coming Shakes perian reader. ‘•Jaco.” Sewickley, Pa. To the Editor of the Cleveland Gazette: At three o’clock on the morning of the 2»id of last month the one-story building occupied by Beaver & Ham mond on Peaver Street was found to be on fire, and before it could be checked the flames spread to two other frame buildings adjoining. The Cochran Hose Company responded promptly and with the limited facilities afforded it succeeded in controlling what would otherwise have proved an extensive conflagration. As it was the building in which the lire originated was totally destroyed, and the other two partially burned. The building in which the fire originated was insured to the extent of $l5O in the Bon Franklin and the same amount on the stock in the same com pany. The fire is said to have been caused by the explosion of chemicals in the photograph gallery. Mrs. Mary Bolden, of Hollidays burg. Pa., was the guest of Mrs. Cath ern Matthews, her sister. Mrs. Cathern Matthews spent last Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. J. D. Marshall, at Shadyside, Pitt.<*urgh. Wheeling, W. Va. Now is the time to subscribe for the Gazette. Remember that you have a great question at stake and it is the duty of every true-hearted man ami woman to manifest an interest in this important question. The newspaper is the educator of to-day, and if we neg lect to keep ourselves well informed and posted upon matters of interest, we shall never be able to comprehend such questions as relate to our personal wel fare. We should read the newspapers not merely for pastime, but to gain in formation such as is essential to all classes. Considering the advancement of our race, and the many difficulties over which we have been successful, we should continue to improve intellect ually, physically and' morally. To do this we must be constant readers, in order that our people may have a knowledge of all that is good and re fined. We have a number of news papers edited and owned by men of our race, and we should give them our hearty support (particularly the Ga zette,) in trying to represent our peo ple, as citizens of the United States worthy of representation. Twenty years ago it would have been something very strange to read a newspaper edited by a colored man; it would not have been only strange, but wonderful. But things have undergone a great change since then. We can have all these ad vantages now, and why not make our appreciation of this fact "known by subscribing at once for the Gazette. Call at 64 Eleventh Street. Geo. W. Brunswick. Change in Time—lmportant Notice. On ahd after Sunday, November 18, trains on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad will leave as follows: Mail, with through car for Akron and Co lumbus, 8:00 a. m.; Fast Line, having through car for Columbus and Pullman Sleeper for New York, 2:00 p. m.; Al liance Accommodation, 8:15p. in.; Ra venna Accommodation, with through car for Akron, 4:50 p. m.; Night Ex press, with Pullman Sleeper for Pitts burgh, 10:10 p. m.; this train has con nection for Wheeling, W. Va.; Spe cial Newburgh Accommodation trains, 10:30 a. m. and 12:00 noon. Trains arrive as follows: Night Ex press, 5:55 a. m.; Ravenna Accommo dation, 8:12 a. m.; Alliance Accommo dation, 9:50 a. m.: Western Express, with Pullman Sleeper from New York, 2:12 p. m.; Express, 6:25 p. m.; New burgh Accommodations, 11:40 a. m. and 1:20 p.m. Trains arrive and depart on the new standard time, which is thirty-three minutes slower than Cleveland time. TRAVELERS’ REGISTER. Lake Shore A Michlanu Southern. trains going east. Arrive Depart, from West. East. Fast New fork Express. .♦ 135 am *l5O am N. Y., Boston & Atlantic Express *705 am *730 am Elyria Accommodation..+ 8 35am Port Clinton Acc +ll 05 am Buffalo Accommodation..+ll 05am +ll 15 am N.Y. and Boston fast Ex..* 225 pm * 2 55pm Conneaut Acc + 4 50 pm N ight Express +lO 10 pm +lO 35 pm TRAINS GOING WEST. Ar. from East. Dp. West. Fast Limited Express.... *l2 23 am *l2 33 am Mich. Ex. via Sandusky..* 2 50am • 3 05am Cbic’g-oEx.via. Sand’sky.-t 6 85am + 7 o<lam Mich. Acc, via Norwalk + 6 40 am Conneaut Acc + 8 40 am Toledo Ex. via Norwalk..+ 1 25pm + 3 30pm Bt. Louis Ex.via S’nd sky.* 130 pm *l5O pm Chi. Pac. Ex.via Norw’lk..* 030 pm *7OO pm Port Clinton Acc + 5 00 pm Sunday Train for Nottingham—Depart 9:00 a. m. and 2:15 p. m.; return at 10:05 a. m. and 4:45 p. m. Reference marks —*Daily. +Daily except Sunday. Wally except Monday. Cleveland. Col., Cln. A. In<llan»poll«. Commencing Sunday, July 22, trains of the Bee Line—Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway—will leave and arrive at Cleveland asfollows: DEPARTURES. «• m. p. m. Cincinnati & Columbus Ex. No. 1.. *8 00 .... Indianapolis & Wheeling Ex. No. H 710 .... Special Col. & Cin. Ex. No. 17 1 50 Special Ind. & St. Louis Ex. No. 3 *2 15 Col., Cin.. Ind. & St. L. Ex. No. 5 *7 10 C.. L. & W. and Galion Ac. No. 7 5 00 ARRIVALS. a. m. p.m. Col. tin.. & Ind. Ex. No. 2 *7 10 .... C., L. &W. Ac. No. 8 930 .... St. Louis & Ind. Ex. No. 12 *3 20 Col., Cin. & Ind. Ex. No. « 10 00 Col. & Ciu. Ex. No. 4 *3 50 Wheeling Ex. No. 10 7 15 Cin. &N. Y. Fast Line No. 14 140 .... Trains marked » daily, all other trains daily depart Sunday. Cleveland »C Pittaburgh. departures. a. m. a. m. p. m. p. nt. Mail •••• New York Express 200 .... Alliance Ac 315 .... Ravenna Ac 450 .... Night Express .... ....+lllO Newburgh Ac 10 30 .... 12 00 arrivals. a. m. a. m. p. m. p. m. Mail 212 .... New York Express 025 .... New Philadelphia Ac 9 50 Ravenna Ac 8 12 Night Express 5 55 Newburgh Ac... 11 40 .... 120 — +Night Express runs daily except Saturday by way of Wellsville, and on Saturday by way of Alliance. Valley Railway. departtres. a m. p.m. For Wheeling Junction, daily BJO .... For Wheeling Junction, daily ex’pt Sunday 3 20 For Canton, daily except Sunday S 15 For Wheeling J'n, Sundays only 4 20 arrivals. ».m. P-m. From Wheeling J unction, daily.... 10 15 .... From Canton, dailv except Sunday .... 135 From Wheeling Junction, daily except Sunday 8 15 From Canton, Sundays only 7 15 Depot—Foot South Water Street. Xrw York. Pe»n«ylvnnla A Ohio. (Late A 4 G. W.) DEPARTURES. «■ m. p. m. New York A Pitlshu gh Ex *7 20 11 2 Youngstown & Pittsburgh Accom. 11 05 Fast New York & 1 iUsburgh Ex *2 5 Mahoning Aceotn 4 : New York & Pittslmrvh Ex 11 2; arrivals. a m p. m New York Express *6 2i» Mahonin/ Valley Aceoia 10 5-1 Fust New Turk A PitUbur^h Ei . ..., *1 41 New Fork & Pittsburgh Ex 7 <0 Pittsburgh 4 YounyatowQ Areoiu. IJ 15 ‘Smidgy trains- A Norwegian Carriage. There were a few other carriages on the route as we passed, but the favorite mode of traveling seemed to be by cariole, a vehicle which, as far as I know, is indigenious to this country, and the use of which is not likely, I should imagine, to extend. The cari ole is a sort of a cross between a sulky and a buckboard, and is a little more uncomfortable than either. It consists of a pair of wheels and of a pair of shafts attached to the wheels at one •end and to a horse at the other. Upon the aforesaid shafts, between the axle and the horse’s tail is poised whatlooks like a small boat, not sufficiently wide for a man of broad beam to squeeze himself into comfortably and yet so wide that one of clipper build must necessarily wobble about. The legs of the occupant in either case hang out and find aa precarious resting place either upon the shafts adjacent to the flanks of the horse, or in two steps let down therefrom, while the extremities of the shafts, which project behind the wheels, have a slip of board nailed across them which serves either as a resting place for a valise or as a seat for an attendant horse-boy. It is in conveyances of this kind that a great part of the traveling in Norway is ac complished. You hire your cariole for so many days or weeks and journey along, finding relays of horses, or rather ponies, at the different post sta tions, distant six to ten miles from each other. The charge for these quadru peds is moderate—about five or six cents a mile—but they are for the most part sorry animals and there is not much pleasure in sitting behind them. One pair of little horses, on the other hand, were excellent, and they rattled along sometimes, as in going down hill, a little too fast. It is a remarka ble peculiarity in this hilly country that they use no brakes to their car riages, and yet they trot down steep grades as fast as their horses can lay legs to the ground. It is the system of training. I suppose, that renders this safe, but any other than a Norwegian horse would most assuredly come to grief if driven down a steep hill at the pace they drive down hills here with a brakeless carriage crowding on his heels.— Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. —The favorite diet of the British is beef and beer; of the Frenchman, frogs and fatted quail; of the German, boiled sausage, sauer-kraut and beer soup; of the Hawaiian, beans, red pepper and live cuttle fish; of the Greenlander, boiled whale-skin and the half-digested contents of the reindeer’s paunch; of the Australian, garter snakes. Amer icans like anything that is good to eat. —Philadelphia courts have decided that Chinese cannot become naturalized citizens of the United States, no matter how close they may cut their hair.— Philadelphia Press. A Voice From the Northwest. Milwaukee, Wis.—The Daily Sentinel, which is the leading morning paper of this State, writes: “St. Jacobs Oil, the won derful remedy for rheumatism, has been used by a large number of people in this city, and with effect truly marvelous.” They say that the use of tobacco stops the growth, but the use of tobacco will never keep a man as short as the use of liquor.— Exchange. •• A Drop of Joy in Every Word.” Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Three months ago I was broken out with large ulcers and sores on my body, limbs and face. I procured your “ Golden Medical Discovery” and “Purgative Pellets” and have taken six bottles, and to-day I am in good health, all those ugly ulcers having healed and left my skin in a natural, healthy condition. I thought at one time that I could not be cured. Although I can but poorly express my gratitude to you, yet there is a drop of joy in every word I write. Yours truly, James O. Bellis, Flemington, N. J. “ Discovery” sold by druggists. Englishmen when traveling through the boundless West are struck with the enormous amount of land to the acre.— Chicago Herald. Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer Is entirely different from all others. It is as clear as water, and as its name indicates is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will immediately free the head from dan druff, restore gray hair to its natural color, and produce a new growth where it has fallen off. It does not in any manner af fect the health, which Sulphur, Sugar of Lead and Nitrate of Silver preparations have done. It will change light or faded hair in a few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bot tle is warranted. Benton, Myers & Co., Wholesale Agents, Cleveland, Ohio, and C. N. Crittenton, New York. The fisherman is the one who has to scratch for a living, at least vou continually hear of his having a bite.— Yonkers States man. Rock Hill, S. C.—Rev. J. S. White says: “I used Brown’s Iron Bitters fcr general debility. It restored me to strength and vigor.” Yale College students are organizing a brass band. Thus there will be a consid erable addition to the number of college tooters.— Neto Haven Register. Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar For coughs and colds is renowned. Pike’s toothache drops cure in one minute. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. Piso’s Cure will cure Coughs, Asthma, bronchitis and Consumption. 25 cents. An agricultural paper says: “To keep flies from horses, brush them lightly with a brush that has lately been used in petro leum.” Bosh! You brush a fly with a shingle, or anything that comes handy, and he’ll go away.— Boston Post “You should never chew a raw oyster. Just place him lengthwise across tbe edge of your tongue, elevate your chin a trifle, and after that you will have nothing to do but pay for him.”— Rochester Post-Express. A clerk at the Pittsburgh stock-yard appropriately refers to his salary as a “stypenned.”— Pittsburgh Post. “ Are you going to play the piccolo to night?” asked one member of the orches tra of another. “Yes.” “Then I hope you’ll piccolo note to begin with.” The piccolo player was carried out on a shut ter.—Exchange. “ Telegraph blue” is a new color. It is the shade of a man’s face when he gets a dispatch from his jbroker asking for more margin.— Scientific Californian. Why is coal the most extraordinary arti cle known to commerce? Because, when purchased, instead of going to the buyer, it goes to the cellar.—2v. Y. Journal. “ My dear,” said a wife to a rich but il literate husband, “I want $530.” “ What fur?” he inquired. “Seal-skin fur,” she said, and she got it.— Merchant Traveler. “ W hat is so rare as a day in June!” 8o rare? A day in January is raw!—A’i K Independent. Why is the clock an emblem of labor? It strikes.— N. F. Post. The proper thing now is to ask: “ What time of day is it, please, by the new seven ty-fifth meridian?”— N. F Commercial Ad vertiser. It is said that life at an elevation of 20.- 000 feet is impossible. Citizens who are in the habit of getting elevated every night must take care not to reach this limit.— Burlington free fres^- Blood Polionlng—An ATarmtnr Discovery. Half the people are suffering and many die from this fatal complaint. Diseases of the kidneys and liver are the principal causes. As a cure we can only recommend German Hop Bitters. — Journal of Health The difference bd.wee^ advertising and advertiser is, the former always pays while the latter sometimes does not.— Detroit Post. New Bern, N. C.—Rev. G. W. Offley says: “I have taken Brown’s Iron Bitters, arid consider it one of the best medicines known.” A Leeds paper says that a young widow in that city, who writes well, is training herself for an editor. Who is the editor? —Detroit Free Press. Dr. R. V. Pierce’s “ Golden Medical Discovery” cures every kind of humor, from the common pimple or eruption to the worst scrofula. Four to six bottles cure salt-rheum or tetter. One to five bottles cure the worst kind of pimples on the face. Two to four bottles clear the system of boils, carbuncles and sores. Five to eight bottles cure corrupt or run ning ulcers and the worst scrofula. By druggists, and in half-dozen and dozen lots at great discount. Lord Coleridge said that John Bright built himself up on Milton. If Mr. Bright were an American and an Arkansaw man, he would have built himself up on Bacon. —Arkansaw Traveller. Remarkable for overcoming diseases caused by impure water, decaying vegeta tion, etc., is Brown’s Iron Bitters. Is a discarded lover a*beau not? — Oil City Derrick. From Major Downs, Militarv Instructor, Mt. Pleasant Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y.: During the very cold weather I was suffer ing with Catarrh. My head and throat ached so severely that I was obliged to keep quiet. Ely’s Cream Balm was sug gested. Within an hour from the first ap plication I felt relieved, the pain began to subside. In a few days I was entirely cured. W. A. Downs. Bill-collecting is easier said than “dun.”— Chicago News. Weak lungs, spitting of blood, consump tion and kindred affections, cured without physician. Address for treatise, with two stamps, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Freddy: “Oh, mamma, I’ve dot such an awful headache in my stomach.”— Alta California. After long Mercury and Potash treat ment, I found myself a cripplo from Mer curial Rheumatism. Tried Hot Springs two years without relief, and was finally cured sound and well by the use of Swift’s Specific (8. S. S.) Chas. Berg, Hot Springs, Ark. The canned fruit market is said to be jammed.— N. Y. News. Tested by Time. For Throat Diseases, Colds, and Coughs, Brown’s BroWchial Troches have proved their efficacy by a test of many years. Sold only in boxes. It takes a “bucket shop ” to make a man turn pale.— The Eye. Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) has relieved me of an obstinate case of Dry Tetter,which had troubled me for twenty-five years, and had baffled all sorts of treatment. Rev. I. R. Branham, Macon, Ga. Strong butter—a? eight-year-old ram.— Detroit Post. The greatest Engine in the world is ths new Baxter portable, in use all over ths world. Descriptive circulars free. Address J. C. Todd, 17 Barclay, St., New York. Look Well to the Name. Theonly genuine German Hop Bitters have the word “German” blown in the bottle. Nota Bena, Take Notice! That H. K. Brown’s Ess. Jam. Ginger conquers crMnps. THE GREAT GERMAN REMEDY For Pain! Relieves and cures RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, BACKACHE, Headache, Toothache, SORE THROAT, QUINSY-SWELLINGS, SPBAINS, (1) Soreness, Cuts,;Bruises, FROSTBITES, BURNS, SCALDS, And all other bodily aches and pains. FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. Directions in 11 languages. The Charles A. Vogeler Co. )(tiucec«eon to A. VOGELER A CO.) Baltimore. Md.. U. S. A, ■■l VOVELTY, BEAUTY AND ARTISTIC EX -11 CELLENCE. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, lovers and friends wi!4 find a year's subscription to DEM OREST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE the best illustration of friendly feeling, especially as a holiday present. This model magazine now combines the esseni.ial of all others, and only $2 yearly. Do not fail to see the sp'endi 1 ar ray of novelties, grand array of entertai ing, useful and beautiful literary gemsand artistic illustrations, to be found in the successive numbers. Sold everywhere: price, 20 cents, or yearly $2. Address, W. JENNINGS DEM OREST, 17 East 14th Street, New York. Though shaken In 3 !r, I ww cvcr y joint an(l fiber the BJBtr ' ua may yet he freed from the malignantipus with kzmTa Hostetter's Rtomach Bitters. Protect the system against it with this beneficent antt- B l' a em°dlc, which is : furthermore a su- preme remedy for liver complaint, con atipatlon. dyspepsia, debility, rheumatism, fc*!stomach^ For sale by all H J fa & Druggists and Deal- 3 K 1 WB ** ere generally. Free! Cards and Chromos. We will send free by mail a sample set of out largo German, French and American Chromo Cards, on tinted and gold grounds, with a price list of over 200 different designs, on re ceipt of a stamp for postage. We will also send free by mail,‘as samptes, ten of our beau tiful Chromos, on receipt of ten cents to pay for packing und postage; also inclose a con fidential price list of our large oil chromos. Agents wanted. Address F. Gleason & Co., 46 Summer Street, boston, Mass. Catarrh ms creimbalm Bwben applied by the Anger into the nostrils, will be ab sorbed, effectually cleansing the head of catarrhal virus, causing hepitty se crettcns. It allays inflammation, pro tects the membrane of the nasal pass agesfrom addition al colds,completely heals the sores and restores taste and smell. A few appli cations relieve. A thorough treatment will positively cure. . - Agreeable to use. Send for circular. Price 50 cents by mail or at druggists. Elyßrothers.Druggists.Owego.N.Y’. XiEVER BEFORE SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY. 11 ONLY A SMALL QUANTITY OFFERED. London Colored Christmas and New Year’s Cards. Size, seven inches long, four Inches wide. Ten cent* each, three for twcnry-’lve cents. Sold In England for ion ole the money. Mailed, postage tree, on receipt of price. UTILE DULCE PUBLISHING CO . Boi .Kd. New YorkP. O. ■|■ ■ M Ww<t Ware* sente o.t>.anywhere. Whoia -63 fl g gcsalet. Retail. Price-list free. Goods guaraa llMlllteed. B.C.STrkhl.ls7 Wabash-av.. Chicago. mi&nci I IQ On piece corners, and Binding for nUDDLLL <3 O. I Cloth, have bcomev.rj popular. Cfifi A w EEK m vour own town. Terms and JW V K autfitfiee.AddriHjwiett 4 0a Fortiand-Me f ADIES’ Invalid Hmuv, Montreal. Terms rea- Msoaabio- UKjulqrfre*. Ad. Bex i3JO,MomreM.C*A ARENTS wanted Hykll I VTo sell the PIONEER HISTOMX OF AMERICA, by A. L. Mason anil Prof. 3. C. Ridpath. 1038 Imperial Octavo paces, I D magnificent Illustrations. Specimen Pages FREE. JOXESBROS. «fc CO., Pub., Cincinnati, O. Poj^on. Mercury and potash have made more cripples than war, pestilence and famine combined. FORLABIES. I have been using for a month or two in my house hold, Swift’s Specific (S. S. S ), the greater portion of ft having been consumed by the female portion of my family, and with the happiest results. It acted like a < harm on mv wife, who had been in bad health for a lone time, andfor whom 1 have paid h ndredsofdol lars for doctors aud medicines. Itbcgan to build her upfrom the first dose. Another female member of my family took It with equally satisfactory results. It is certainly the best tonic for delicate ladles that I have ever used, and I have tried them all. I have no doubt that want of exercise, close confinements poorly ven tilated houses, sewer gas poison and malarial poison often produce sickness among our wives, daughters ni.’d sisters, and I believe Swift’s Specific is the remedy for all this sort of blood poisoning. F. L. JONES. J. P , Quitman, Go, Our treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free to applicants. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga. 131 Strike at the Bottle.' . A nervous and disease-stricken* old gentleman was sitting in his room on an easy-chair, his physician being at his side. e Said the old gentleman, “Now, doctor, you have been treating me lor a long time, and haven’t done me much good. I’m tired of all this. 1 want you to strike at the root of all my disorders.” Said the doctor, “Do you mean exactly what you say? “To be sure I do,” said the venerable invalid. “Well, here goes!” said the'doctorand with one whack of his cane he broke to pieces the brandy-bottle which stood on the mantel. The old gentleman was angry and excited, but he had a good answer ready for the doctor. “ Doctor, if it hadn’t been for your doctrine, I never would have got into the habit of drinking.” In Brown’s Iron Bitters there is strength for the debilitated, refresh ment for the nervous, and new life for the broken-down. "-$102,400.00^ GIVEIV AWAY I The Enormous Amount of $102,400 Actually Given Away to the Consumers of SPEAR-HEAD PLUG Tobacco. THE ARRAY OF GIFTS WE PROPOSE GIVING OUR PATRONS: 1080 Acres of Land fa Dakota, Nebras- 13 Elegant Burdett Organs 53,400.00 ka and Kansas 838,800.00 130 U. S. Government Bonds 0,000.00 13 Weber style 2 GrandTpright Pianos 0,000.00 80 Silver Watches 3,800 00 130 Solid Gold Watches 15,000.00 1300 Meerschaum Pipes 4,800.00 BOOThcWasonNo.SOscir.atlngShut- 3000 5 lb. boxes Spear-Head Tobacco 8,000.00 tie Sewing Machines 35,000.00 Aflft Hfi TOTA.L jiMorrixT, 9lvcj4uu»UU Ask yottr Dealer for SPEAK-HEAD PETTG and Circular fully explaining our Plan Of Distribution. P.J.SORG&CO., Middletown, Ohio. CHEW SFESR-HEAD AND GET A FARM I Sf gg HI ^8 MM El KB CROUP, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, fa Hlsft W tfi Lu M 2 ISISI We Neuralgia, Rheumatism. ^llll H II & H HHH IB JOHNSONS ANODYNE LINIMENT Rhw iIMIB (f or Internal and External Use) will in- ® Eg*B3 M Kb IS nW! 11l stantly relieve these terrible diseases, and ® H El Pa H6a Ka H will positively cure nine cases out of ten. H La 13 M ® ® Information that will save many lives sent ® Sfl Ei El la sl ta Kiss ys Si Klas3 fn by mail. Don't delay a moment. Pre- vention is better than cure. JOHNSON’S ANODYNE L.l-. IMENT CURES Infiuenza. Hoarse ness. Hacking Cough. Whooping Cough, Diarrlima, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Kidney Troubles, ana Lame Back. Sold everywhere. Circulars sent FREE. I. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. Our Utile Ones and The Nursery. SThs most beautiful Magazine In the World for the Youngest Readors. The Literary and Artistic success of the Age! Every Article written ex pressly for its pages! Every Picture made express ly for this work, by the best Artists. The most valuable Premiums! A Premium for every subscription and renewal! Clubs with all Periodicals! Sand Postal for our New Premium List! Send Postal tor a Free Specimen. All Newsdealers sell it. Agents wanted. One Year, SL6O. Single Copies, IS eta. Russell Publishing Co., 36 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. This porous plaster is 18 absolutely the Vest ever gg made, combining the B — __ —— virtues of hops with B J 3 I pi Ls gums, balsams and ex- ■ tracta Its power U wonderful in curing diseases where other plasters simply relieve. Crick in thn Back and Neck, Pain in tho Side or Limbs, Stiff Joints and Muscles, Kidney Troubles, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sore Chest, Affections of the Heart and Liver, and all pains or aches in any part cured instant! yby tho Hop Plaster. 12* Try ■ m bu a y it. Price 25 cents or flvo for SI.OO. B, An Buya |f^, Mailed on receipt of price. Sold by “ __ all druggists and country stores. BP 8g llop Plaster Company, —Proprietors, Boston, Mass.— . error constipation, loss of appetite and d iseases of tho bowels take Hawley’s Stomach and Liver Pi Ils. 25 cents. ^ZToSicAG^SCAXiE CO. TH 8 12 TON tVAGON BCALK, S4O. 3 TOX, »50. Ton SWI. Beam Box Included. 240 10. FARMER’S SCALE, S 5. The ’’Little Detective,” oz. to 25 lb. $3. ra?®" 300 OTHER SIZES. 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I have a positive remedy fur the above dieeaae; hr its use thousands of eases ot the worst k nd and of long standing have been cured. Indeed, so strong is mv faith in its efficacy, that I will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, to gether with a VALUABLE TREATISE onthisdisea.se, to any sufferer. Give E xpre«s and P. O a ldress. DR. T. A. SLOCUM, VI Pearl St,, New York. OTTwoOhio IMPROVEDCHEB-O TER HOGS. Send for description WIL I of this famous breed. Also Fowls, L B. SILVER, CLEVELAyp, Q FP.EE TO F. A. M. Graphte Colored EncmvlDf of an Ancient initiation Scene from a newly aiecvYcred Tablet, al»o, tne lanfe new itiu«trated Catalogue of Masonic book* and good*, with bottom \ prices: also, an oiler of very lucrative business to / ▼ 'E A. it REDDING ACO. Mssonlc Publishers and Manufacturer-, ?31 Broadway,New York. DITENTCT® O patent; N 0 PAT! rAI tsi Io ' 4 A - '■ l vEV ' ■ n ■ ■ w Attorneys. Watbfngmn. D. C. Full instructions and Hand-Book of Patents sent free. niuntDO »"»»«»•«*. UMlWLndl Kheuu>»i«Mn. and all woia wuiiw, Blood diseases, cured by Loose's Extra t R-d Clover. Send for circulars and testi nioniais. J. M. I.OOSEACO., Monroe, Mich. n A MONTH. Agents Wanted. 90 bc»i .h/nu 8 ninth world. 1 sampleFßA’JK waUv Address JAI BKOXSON. Dktkojt, Micil intUTO^ 8 money selling our Family Medl- AU Tts I Oc"*’’'/' 0 caffital r.-qnired. St.,x»akd _ _ V ^CpmCo- !8T Peart fit.. Naw Yoax. PHOTOGRAPHS orijdnalsi sent for 25e.Postal Note, D'^iers supplied.C. L. Kiumann, 843 Bwiy. N.Y. C7O A WEEK, fl2 a day at home easily made. fiCcttijouta: free. Address True ico, Augusta. Ma V TenpMfii. PmlGom for mduaua ifrnu f drCulw Foot and Anklet The EDSON ELECTRIC GARTER df velopa the FOOT and ANKLE into per* feet form, supports and strengthens the limbs, adds marvellous grace and elasticity to the step. It gives great ease and com fort in walk ing, riding or dancing,main tains and ex cites healthful circulation, dispels gout, rheumatics and neuralgic pains, subdues all crampsand stiffness of joints, relieves* bloated limbs and feet. Edsons' Electric Garter. PRICE, in Finest Silk Webbing fusual colors), Stud and Buckle Clasp, 12, 131, 15 inch, $1.50; 17 inch, $2.00 per pair. Mailed to any address on receipt of money. Send for circular. LONDON ELECTRIC FABRIC CO., 8! Beekman Street, New York. 'AMAH WHO IS UNACQUAINTIO WITH THI StOaRAFHy OS THIS COUM* TRY WILL SEX BY IXAMIHINO THIS MAP THAT THE ggi^^ I J CHICAGO? ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R’ 1 ' By the central position of its line, connects thw East and the West by the shortest route, and car ries passengers, without change of cars, between Chicago ana Kansas City, Council Bluffs. Leaven worth. Atchison, Minneapolis and St. Paul. It connects in Union Depots with all the principal lines ot road between tne Atlantic and rhe Pociflo Oceans. Its equipment is unrivaled and magnifi cent, being composed of Most Comfortable and Beautiful Day Coaches- Magnificent Horton Re clining Chair Cars, PuTlmun'e Prettiest Palace Bleeping Cars, and the Best Line of Dining Cars In the world. Three Trains between Chicago and Missouri Rtver Points. Two Trains between Chi cago and Minneapohs and St. Paul, via the Eamoui ‘‘ALBERT LEA ROUTE.” A New a id Direct Line, via Seneca and Kanka kee, has recently been opened between Richmond, Norlolk.NewpottNewa Chattanooga, Atlanta, Au gusta, Nashville. Louisville. Lexington, Cincinnati, Inal-napolis and Lafayette and Omaha, Minneap olis and St. Paul and intermediate points. All Through Passer-gers Travel on Fast Express Trains. Tickets for sale at all principal Ticket Offices ia the United States and Canada. Baggage checked through and rates of fare al ways as low as competitors that offer less advan tages. For detailed information, get the Maps and Fold ers of the , CREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE At your nearest Ticket Office, or address R. R. CABLE, E. ST. JOHN, Vice-Pres. A Gen'l M g r, Geu'l Tki. t Paas. AgL, CHICAGO Sawing Made Easy _ Monaich Lightning Sawing Machine! O A Great Saving of Test I rial, Labor A Money. A boy IS vears old can saw logs FAST and EASY. Mitrt MvßHAY.Portage.Mlch.. writes: ’‘Am morh pleased witn the MONARCH LIGHTNING 8 A WIN G M ACHIN®. I sawed off aSO-inchlogin 2minutes. ’’ For sawing] ogj into suitable lengths for family stovo-wood, andallsona of log-cutting, it is peerless and unrivaled. Illustrated Catalogue, Free. AGENTS WANTED. Mention this ^r^ TuR,Nd DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION, ATCHISON. TOPEKA tSS Kansas. Colorado, hew Mexico, Arizona, and Old Mexico offer the newest and best field for Farmers, Btockralsers Capitalists, Merchants. Miners andMe^ For Information, maps, etc. .add. C. B. bCHMIDT.Lom rot Immigration. Tonga,Kan. FREE CHRISTMAS PACKAGE. To Introduce our goods and secure future trade. w» will send yon free of charge. If you w ill send 2W: In stampsforposts^e. etc.. 5 pretty Chris-mas Cards. 5 nice New Year Cards, 1 lovely Birthday Card, abeautl ful gilt-bound floral Autograph Album. Illustrated with birds, flowers, ferns, etc., a haudsoms Photo graphic Portrait of all the Presidents of the United States neatly arranged in an album with a fae slinile Autograph of eaeh, also our new Holiday Book. BABCOCK dk CO, Center brook. Conn. CURES WHIR! AU USE FAILS. Ed Hl Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. In Md Useinlinie. Sold by druggista. nil rn" Uik " h '’ K %™'* I W an infallible cure for Plies. ■IP I B B® Price •!. from druggist», or rll lO ■ ■ ■■■■ WH Makers, Box MIS, New York SR in S9n 2® ra “7 ttbome- Samples worth S 3 tu «w »4uln». A<fdre»aSTiNscmtco..puruaud.Ma A. N. K.—C. 954 WHKX WUITIXQ •••• AdiertUoiHMM Yhfs matchy less invention wholly super, cedes every other form of Garter for Ladles,Gentle, men or Chik dren’s wear. They are worn with all the comfort of the best known garters, and are NOT MORE EX PENSIVE.