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. Rat-Han Ho?. Snakes. Borne months ago a gentleman from Dumfries paid a visit to a friend of,, his in th township of Beverly ,-a Mr. Henry, and - -I . ; . . . v reiumurvi uii tiiui kvitsi uays. . curing WsTl9it the Dumfries gentleman com plained that his house was literally filled m ith rats and mice. lie had tried every device to get rid of them and all had failed. 3lr. Henry,- ivUo is as Ingenious as he is ' fond of sport, declared that he would bat tie the rats out of his friend's cellar in less than no time, to use his own expression. The next day the two gentlemen drove to the gentleman', Louse, in pumfries. k Mr. Henry took itli him a common quarter gross match-box pierced with a few holes, which he placed carefully under the seat of the buggy. The Dumfries gentleman, feeling tnat'hli fr'cnd was frolng to give him a surprise, probably with some im provement on a ferret, asked no questions, the better to enjoy the surprise when it did come. Arrived at the house, they had dinner, and, after the ladies had re tired, Mr. Henry placed the box on the table and removed the lid. In an instant from the box leaped a full-grown garter snake, measuring three feet and a half in length. The reptile, which was highly excited with the heat, reared itself almost on the extremity of its tail and glided about the table with remarkable rapidity, . licking iU ghastly jaws .with Its forked and nimMe tongue. The Dumfries gen tleman shrank back into the corner almost petrilied with borror. ' Mr. Henry showed hw silly this was by taking the snake upon his arm and handling it much as a hack-driver would his wh!p-lash. His fcari were .finally overcome and when he had composed himself he led his friend into the cellar, where the tnakc was set at liberty. The reptile immediately dart ed for the wall, and the next moment dis covered a hole,' into which it glided with the greatest ensc. An interested terrier stood at their heels, and lxrth gentlemen held club, which were trumps jus-t about then. The snake had not disappcarei oer a minute before half a dozen rats bounced out of the hole and met a terrible fate at the hands of their enemies outside. But the Bnakc was not satisfied It discovered every rat-hole Inrthe cellar, and glided in and out among the rocks where even a rat could not have gone. It was finally taken up and placed in the box, after twenty rats and almost as many mice had been killed. The snake belongs to a black-garter family, which are in reality the best friends the farmer has got. They live exclusively on field mice, worms, flics and other vermin, and if they occasionally swallow a frog or dine on a couple of young ground-birds, or ac cidentally glide across the path of a hu man being, their lives should be preserved, as their good qualities counterbalance these defects. The one possessed by Mr. Henry was captured by him last summer In a pea-field, and since he has had it no rats are to be seen or heard of in the neighborhood of his house. The reptile is kept in a. box, as In-fore stated, and is fed upon liver. Next summer Mr. Henry intends to capture all tiie snakes he os$i bly can, alive, and train them up for the benefit of his neighbors. Hamilton (Out.) Spectator. The Sorrows of "21ournInj. Writing of reforms in mourning, a ontributor to the Home Journal says: "i'o the poor creature, racked in every nerve with mental anguish, we forbid out door exercise or the distraction of society or of mental amusements. I?y society we ,Jo not mean, balls and parties. "The mourner that would reasa such amuse ments would be the being least in need of care or attention. We would designate by that term only the companionship of the congenial few. .Next, we enjoin upon her, no matter how heavy the tax upon a slen der purse may be, a complete discarding of her wardrobe. AVe bid her busy her distracted brain with plisses and folds, will crape and bombazine. Over the eyes, half-blinded with long vigils and burning tears, we hang a thick fold of ill odored and almos-t impenetrable crape. What matter it her ej'es le irreparably injured? To go without that veil would be to argue disrespect to the beloved dead. And when we have made her surround ings as gloomy as possible we enjoin up on her to busy her brain with a thousand trivial details of the etiquette of mourn ing. Having thus done all that is possi ble to ngrrravate the evils of her condition, we that is 'fashion and Etiquette may leave her to herself to - wear away her woe as best she may, in a house deprived of air and light, stifled in ill-sinelling,dusky " garments and shut 'out from everything that could bring to the distracted brain one moment's relief from one all-corroding thought. " If I could only go ato the opera," once said a lady who was nearly driven mad by the loss of a favorite child, " I might perhaps etop thinking tor a moment." If she had done so her long year3 of maternal tenderness, her weeks of patient watching by the sufferer's bed, her paling cheek and whitening hair would have been set down as naught by a censorious world, and she would have been dubbed tuo most heartless of inoth- -ersj and yet one would almost as soon think of refusing a criminal on the rack a draught of . water as denying to such a poor, tortured soul any distraction that it craved. Bat the laws of taahion and eti quette were infrangible. And why is it that the Americans, who jossess as much common sense as any nation oa the face of the globe, seem to have so little in re gard to this cruel and absurd custom of mourning? Why is it that our social laws prescribe a degree of woe and weari ness to the mourner unknown to any other people? What necessary connnection is there between a breaking heart and much bombazine, a pair of tcar-biindcd eyes and a blinding crape veil Will the common sense of American women never come to the rescue ? Cost of the Dress of a Fashionable Woman. Sala tells a story about a young French man who, being engaged to a beautiful creature, happened to get a glimpse in time of her laundry bill. In horror and amazement he made a rapid calculation To support her and her linens it would be necessary to commit forgery. So he broke off the match in despair. This sounds ex travagant enough, an J jet here is the bill of items, furnished by one who knows all about the necessary out at of a genteel lady of the period : Kour silk dreesee Two nhmcr tlree Onj e ct tires- One evtuin tire, One dinut-r !rea Avmur ce 1. $SX). .." $1,800 Summer drewpn . . - i . fray k.i at $ '. 8 .0 Shawls uiri wr.ipe One cniut'1'4 lmir ...... 500 Two French . . Two luca ..., 2.10 Two sarque or polonaises S Two sTi-i.nter acine or polonaises ifio Two pW tun? . t Peal-skin aciue . 1.YJ Carriage cloak, opera clonk, etc 300 I.IMIIItil. One dozen complete i-el flS Three doze Mix-kin at $12 m One doren tire stocking at f - sW Three corset so Twt morning-wrapper at $73 7r0 Two silk wrappers at f 13 300 Boots and lippis. one dozca 180 Wove, two boxes. .- 60 Sunshade. 60 One lace sunshade 100 If to this total of over $3,000 we add jewelry, toilet articles, etc., we shall have at a moderate estimate $10,000 for what a fashionable woman calls absolute neces saries. Arcadian. Thk cheapness of postage and the postal card have made the mails an easy mode of, asking and answering quetions, and so it comes to pass that any man of moderate notoriety has the pleasure of being ques tioned by post daily. Anxious inquirers should know that it is not the thing to ask question by postal-card, because in that case yon cannot send a stamp tor the reply, and it is not decent to make a man pay even a cent on your account The proper war is to write a letter and place it in an envelope together with a iostal-eard di rected to-yourself, or a stamped envelope so addressed ; then the person of whom you ask a favor will have the least possible trouble in sending yon the answer you request.- This is not a small matter, and the disregard of the directions is a grave of fense against propriety. X. Y. Observer. Thb Rochester Chronirle is trying to get life insurance agents to shoot each other. This may be right it may be. Josh Billings' Philosophy. " Wise men ask advice, not to follow it but to compare it with their own opin ions. - - - . I never knew a lazy man -yet "but what thought he vat the hardest-working man in all his neighborhood. The man who expects to get through this world by following other people's ad vice will travel over as much ground to as little purpose as a lost dog does. -, You can't whip the fraid out of a boy. It is very natural and very easy to mis take weakness for goodness. Everybody is anxious to lend the man something who don't want to borrow any thing. It is a safe plan to watch the man closo who suspects everybody. ' . - The most critical people to suit are those who board at the almshouses. There are a great many real good people living just now who hoard their virtues as misers do their money. Bad luck makes a fool mad and a cow ard more fraid, but it makes the wise man more thoughtful and determined. - Good advice" is scarce, and those who have the most of it to spare are the last ones to part with it. A brilliant blunder is ofttimes the best hit that a man can make. Temperance and exercise are the best brand of pills in the market. There seems to be this difference be tween cheerfulness and mirth: the mer cury of the cheerful man always stands at about seventy in the shade, while the mirthful man's goes up to ninety, and then at times sinks down to zero. To supply a man's necessities takes but little, but to feed his desires takes an em pire. Contentment has been praised more and practiced less than any other cdndition of life. Those people who are hunting for ghosts are generally the only ones who eversee anv. - .Mankind are as often good from interest as from principle. ... There is many a man possessed of enough to make him perfectly happy, if he only knew it. To be wise we have got to learn some thing and forget something every day. W e seldom see a person who can't ad vise some one else to do a thing better than they can do it themselves. The true way to bring a child up is to make them love virtue from choice, not from fear; whatever a child -does from fear he will cease to do the first good chance he can get. Everyone thinks their burden is the heaviest. Silence is one of the. cheapest and strongest arguments I know of. There ain't a more unsafe place than trying to hide behind a lie. I never knew poverty to ruin a young man yet. ; Experience teaches us. one thing more certainly than any other, and that is how little we know. The man who will sit still and let you pity him will 6it still and let you abuse him. He who has never been in a tight spot, and got out of it without any help, has missed one of the great luxuries of life. Everyone has some private sorrow of their own which; hey think canT be beat, but they would hardly be able to swop it off with any of their neighbors without getting" cheated. A man can't learn much by talking, but he may learn much if he will only listen It is often quite as fatal fora man to have too poor an opinion of himself as to have too great a one. The great art is not to know how to make money but to know how to use it after it is made. There are but very few rich men who ever rise superior to their fortune. X. Y. Wetklj. The Surprise Tarty at Potter's. Some of Mr. and Mrs. Potter's friends happened to remember that last Wednes day was the tenth anniversary of their wedding, and they determined to get up a surprise party and call at Potter's house. So everylKxly purchased a little present of some kind to take along, and Mrs. Potter's aunt got a beautiful illuminated sign in closed in a walnut frame and bearing the inscription, " Heaven Bless Our Happy Home," and Mr. Potter's uncle got an other one with the legend, "True Love Never Dies." lnd when the provisions were all ready the party started for the house. They wanted to surprise the happy couple as much as possible, so they concluded not to ring the door-bell. But Mrs. Potter's aunt softly opened the front door, and assembled the party in the en try. Then, at a given signal, they opened the sitting-room door, and burst in with a loud laugh. The scene that met their eyes was a very interesting one. Mr. Potter was lying upon the floor with his nose bleed ing, and Mrs. Potter was leaning over him with a rolling-pin in her hand, with which she had evidently been hammer ing the husband of her bosom. Both of them looked hot and mad. When the company came in Mrs. Potter hid the rolling-pin in the skirts of her dress, and Potter picked himself up with a sickly at tempt at a smile hovering about his face. "Good joke, wasn't it?" said Potter, with that smile growing sicklier every minute. " We were practicing for tab leaux." " No, we weren't, either," snapped Mrs. Potter. " Why, my love," he replied, " we cer tainly were. You were impersonating Pocahontas saving the life of Smith, and I was Smith. You know that we are going to have tableaux this evening." No, I don't know it, either. We ain't going to have any such foolery in this house." " My darling, how changeable you are! Now you must have Hum. I want the folks to see you as Pocahontas. Won't she make a charming Pocahontas now look at her?" "You know I banged you with this rolling-pin because vou gave me impu dence. Now that's the whole truth. And I'll do it again." " No, vou won't," said Potter. "Yes, I will." " I'd like to see you." "You would, hey? You thinkldaresn't because these people are sticking them selves in here where they're not wanted. I'll show you." Then Mrs. Potter uplifted her weapon and made a dash at him, whereupon Mr. Potter walked as rapidly as he could, con sistently with dignity, out through the door into die yard. Then the company concluded to adjourn. Mrs. Potter went into Jones' and stuck " Heaven Bless Our Happy Homes" into the stove, and Mr. Potter's uncle split up "True Love Never Dies," with the ax, in disgust; and Mr. and Mrs. Potter celebrated their anniversary in their own way by them selves. It will be very surprising if any body ever undertakes to get up another surprise narty in our village. Max Adder, ii AT. Y. Weekly. A Long Railroad Trip by Wind Power. Ox Tuesday last L. J. Rusk, of La Crosse, Wis.; Father Genin, ' Catholic missionary along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad ; Charles A. Morris,' La Crosse; II. Sprague, of Standing Rock, and II. Dodge, of Bismarck, wished to go east from Bismarck.- The stage had left on Monday, and would not go again for a week, which would delay them too long to meet engagements in the States. They thought of a hand-car, and then shudder ingly considered the job of pumping 200 miles. They finally concluded it could and must be done, and, after getting per mission to take the car, they bade adieu to the good people of Bkmarck and started on their journey with full stomachs and light hearts, happy with the thought that in three days they would bring up at Headquarters Hotel, Fargo, a distance of 200 miles, where they could rest a day be fore seating themselves in the comfortable coaches of the Northern Pacific, and be whirled along their journey. After being out a few hours, and getting pretty tired, an idea suggested itself, which proved a blessing during the rest of the journey. Mr. Rusk had an "A" tent, and with it they made a sail, which relieved them from the hard -work of "pumping," and gave uiem leisure w view uie oojecia ui proved to have" a better supply of wind .i .i .1:1 t 1 1 . i. IwMt.liwl lliaa iney uiu iiicuiscivu, uuu mcjr un7i lilnnir nt a. srw! that nometirues made their hair stand on end, making the dis tance iroin rismarcK 10 r argo in ueveu teen and a half hours an average of near ly twelve miles an hour. JLr. Walker, the operator here, informed the operator at Bismarck of the time of their arrival, and the quick trip excited general aston ishment among those who are posted on the beauties of hand-car traveling gen erally. Fargo (D. T.) Time. Modern Explosives. The fearful explosion of dynamite, and consequent loss of life, at Bremer Haven, will remind many of a similar disaster which took place at Aspiawall some nine years since. The dynamite on the pier at Bremer Haven, it is said, was in the per sonal baggage of a passenger. The nitro glycerine which exploded on board the steamship European, at Aspinwall, in 1W;, was invoiced as " oil." . Its power ful pioperties were quite unknown at that time in this country. There were about seventy caes of the stuff in the hold of . i f a . l f inc snip, wmcu nau ieen iransponeo irom Hamburg to Hull, England, and thence to Liverpool by rail. It will never be known whether the explosive quality of the compound had been heightened by partial decomposition in the tropical heat of that low latitude, or whether the care less handling by the laborers in the vessel's hold brought about the disaster The steamer was blown up, many people were killed, and much shipping and wharf property and buildings were wrecked. Great indignation was cx pressed against the shippers who had dis guised their consignment in order to in sure its transportation. In the shape in which it was carmed it completely de ceived the very people who should have been made aware of the dangerous proper ties oi the cargo which they were obliged to nanulc. lliis shipment was designed tor fcan ifrancisco, and, by a curious coincidence, a similar disaster occ urred in that city at about the same time. Tidings of the two great explosions reached New York almost simultaneously. An express company in San t rancisco had received, in course of business, a case containing several packages of nitro-glycerinc, the outer woolen covering of which was satu rated w ith the perilous stuff leaking from the. inside cases. Nobody called for it, and some man was instructed to open it, In order to see what the contents might be. The first blow of his mallet caused an explosion which killed eight or ten people, wrecked the warehouse, wounded many persons, and destroyed property to the value or $ .'00,000. Both these disasters occurred when the manufacture of nitro glycerine was yet new,-and while the art ' of packing it safely was comparatively unknown. Of the various serious accidents which have happened from a careless use of this ex plosive, that by which eight men were killed and several were wounded, at Ber gen, N. J., in 1807, was most notable. In this instance a laborer attempted to dry a can of nitro-flvc.erine !v thruatintr a red- hot poker into it. We know enough of the most powerful explosives to handle them at least with great care, and to transport them from place to place with out incurring any such awful penalties of ignorance as those which followed its ig norant disposition less than ten years ago. Indeed, the article of commerce known as dynamite, which caused the explosion at Bremer Haven, was the result of Alfred Noble's experiments to discover a form in which nitro glycerine might be safely handled. Nobel, a Swedish chemist at Hamburg, after studying the composition and properties of such explosives as the " wood gunpovdcr"Schultzc, and of the compres-sed gun-cotton of Abel, intro duced nitroleum, or trinitine, to the world on a large scale. It was not until 18G5 that it became well known in the arts, and the series of hocking disasters which fol lowed its introduction brought it at once into great disfavor; those who saw its immense value as an explosive dreaded its hidden forces. . It was then proposed to diffuse the ex plosive fluid in sand, or chemical sub stances, by which means the explosive force would be divided and any latent heal would be conducted off; another plan was to mix the oil with wood naphtha, which would form a non-explosive compound, the naphtha being easily drawn off when the nitroleum is required for use. None of these expedients were found practicable, and the latest result of all experiments was dynamite, or giant power. This is simply pulverized silex, saturated with nitro-glycerine. A cheap substitute for the silex is a deposit of in fusorial earth, found in some parts of Ger many, and which answers every purpose of the artificially-prepared material. The saturated mass looks like a damp, gray ish sugar. If carekssl' prepared, the nitro-glycerine settles, or collects in drops, and is, of course, dangerously explosive. Of each of these compounds it may be said, as of fire, that " it is a good servant but a bad master." Railroad building and all enterprises requiring blasting, tunneling or excavation have been vastly cheapened by the introduction of these tremendous explosives. It was estimated at one time that the Hoosac Tunnel would require less than one-half the time and money to finish it by usingnitro-glvcerine than any ordinary process would involve. In blasting, the bore-holes may be smaller and further apart with nitro-glycerine or dynamite than with gunpowder. Al though an explosion with these modern compounds is extraordinarily sudden, tlx mass to be detached is not thrown out with the violence of a gunpowder blast, but is shattered and fissured with much projection. The increased volume of an exploded charge of nitro-glycerine, or dynamite, is large compared with gun powder, being about thirteen times larger than that of powder. There have been many so-called "perfectly safe" explo sive preparations, of w hich dynamite and dualine are the newest. It is evident that, like the non-explosive burning fluids ped dled about the country, these are not to be trusted implicitly. Several mysterious and disastrous explosions have occurred from them, that at Bremer Haven, so far as ve know, being one in which no watchfulness on the part of the shipping agents could guard. There is no such thing as a safe explosive. The most nearly saf j, under certain conditions, n.ot clearly understood, may be insidiously, by the operation of the" laws of chemistry, trans formed into uncontrollable elements. If. Y. Timet. A Strange Story of a Gjpsy King. At the beginning of the present century there lived in Devonshire, England, a noble family of ancient lineage named Carew. Sir Bamfield Carew, the then head of the house, had an only son, the heir to his large estates. This son was carefully nurtured at home and thorough ly educated in the first schools of the Kingdom fitted and fully prepared to oc cupy the station fortune had designed for him. After leaving college he evinced certain traits of character which caused his father great anxiety, manifesting such a desire for a vagabond life that measures were taken to place restraint upon him, but to no purpose. He would absent himself for weeks at a time and wander about the country poorly clad and often destitute of funds, until tinally he fell in with a band of roving gypsies with whom he fraternized. Among them was a young woman, famed throughout the land for her beauty, and though, untutored as she was, the daughter of a wandering vagrant and outcast from society, he married her and soon became popular with bis new associates, they making . him King; and. for manv years he reigned over all the tribes of England, under the title of Baui field Moor Carew, King of the Gypsies. Becoming endeared to them, a decree was enacted creating him King for life, after which the office was to become obsolete This man left a numerous family, whose descendants are to be found in ever' State of Europe. One of these, a grandson, emigrated to Australia some ten years ago, but becoming dissatisfied with that country went to Oregon, and finally about two years ago came to California, and now resides in Oakland. At the corner of Railroad avenue and Milton street mav be seen a band of Individuals, numbering perhaps twenty, and living in tents, in the 1 veins ot whose body nows noi niy me i.tn i.trvrwt cif nnf of England's noble families, but the royal blood of the last Uyisy King, lie may re seen any uay on mir Rtrppta Hrflwin? a ncculiarl v-f ashioned machine, stopping occasionally at the gates ot our citizens m searcn oi Knives or scissors to grind, while on Sundays and holidays the tents are thronged with the youth of both sexes eagerly consulting the dusky sibyls as to their future. The men of the band employ themselves in various itinerant trades about town, and have thus accumulated money enough to purchase the lot of land on which they live, and intend soon to eiect a building for their better accommodation. Oakland (Cal.) Xetri. m 1 Making Home Comfortable. There are many little things that can be had at a trifling expense which will render every home more comfortable and inviting. Little things, to be sure; but still they require some amount of patience and energy to accomplish them. But they will amply repay the labor and ex pense, not merely in the palpable comfort bestowed by them, but also in the occu pation of the mind, filling up those odd moments which are so often dawdled list lessly aw ay or spent in idle gossip; and also affording that constant round of use ful employment which tends to promote cheerfulness, and thus materially increases the health of the body. It is remarkable how expert a lady can become in the use of hammer and nails, as well as in the plying of the needle and thread, if she will only make the attempt and persevere in it. A good, strong hammer, not too light, and not too heavy for her strength, wul cost but little, and will enable her to do many useful things in carpentering and upholstering about the house that would not otherwise be attended to. The thou sands of small homes in the suburbs ot our large cities, and also throughout the country, are usually very slightly built, and abound in crevices and draughts, and one of the first things to be attended tj as autumn changes into winter is to remedy these inconveniences in the best possible w ay. To close up draughts one must fill in the spaces around the ill-fitting doors and windows. For this purpose strips of listinsr, such as the tailors have in great quantities, are the most desirable. Pro cure a basketful of them and nail them with tin ticks all around the part of the door that closes into the doorway. If it is possible to take the door off the hinges nail them on its under side, and they will prove a great protection against draughts and their consequences cold feet and a bad cough. After tlTe listing is nailed nail a piece of scarlet, twilled binding all around the door where it opens and over the hinges. Fasten this also on the listing around the windows, but not so as to close up all of them permanently, for fresh air is an es sential ingredient to our comfort, even if the mercury does fall below the all-important cipher. The street and area doors should also be listed in the same way. If your home is so isolated that neither the listing nor scarlet braid can be procured, strips of newspapers or brown paper can be pasted down the edges of the win dows and across the casements. Western Rural. Kerosene How to Use. A contemporary says that, "cf every hundred dollars lost by fire, not more than 20 per cent, can be said to have been lost by accident that is, by causes against which- ordinary care is not an efficient defense; that 30 percent, is oc casioned by incendiarism and design and the remaining 50 per cent, by sheer care lessness." For no small share of the latter we be lieve that the demon, kerosene, is re sponsible. It i3 used in almost every house where gas is not convenient or at tainable, and usually with so little care that the wonder is, not that there are so many accidents, but that there are so few. People keep itin jugs, bottles and rickelty cans, in all sorts of dangerous places, where an inadvertent tip may cause an explosion. They kindle fires with it, fill their lamps at night or over the stove, and generally use it as if it was as safe as tallow, instead of being, as it really is, only less dangerous than nitro-glycerine and gunpowder. Familiarity has bred contempt for its dangerous qualities. A person of ordinary discretion could not be induced to blow into the muzzle of a gun to ascertain if it is loaded. Certainly no timid woman could be prevailed upon to do so, yet she will cheer fully blow down the chimney of a kero sene lamp, at the imminent risk of her own life and that of her family. The. practice is not only immediately danger ous to life, but the fumes given off by the protruding wick fill the room and house with a gas of highly-deleterious quality. Where kerosene is used these precau tions arc indispensable: Use lamps with chimne3"s the taller the belter. Always keep a supply on hand, in case of break age. Fill and clean the lamps in the morning. Keep the body of the lamp nearly full of candle-wick. Trim off all the charred portion of the wick. On re tiring set the lamp where there is a draft, 0ut of the room, and turn down the wick until the charred part, which i3 slightly enlarged, fills the tube, and so prevents evaporation. Avoid always, if possible, carrying lamps from one portion of the house to another while lighted. " So may j our days be long in the land." Jiural Xew 1 orker. C-AJL, ISIS DAJTC. The Farmer's Troubles. Mr. Harris, in his "Walks and Talks" in the December Agriculturist. sa3Ts : Half our troubles are imaginary. The remedy for these is hope ; and the remedy for the other half is work. Work will give us hope, and hope makes labor easy. What will not a little extra work do for our comfort, and the comfort of our fami lies? One-half hour's extra wo.-k a day would make all the difference between a dispirited househcld and a home of com fort. .Let a poor, discouraged man try it. Brooding over our troubles does no good. It will pay no debts Work will make a creditor wait. And let me say right here, that I do not think farmers, as a class, or their families, are given to extravagance in dress or in their siyle of living. Just now the tendency is all the other way. They are spending less than usual. And it is a capital time to make improvements. In periods of general depression like the present some people seem to think that the world is coming to an end. Be that as it may it is wise in us to continue plowing and sowing. It is a great thing to feed and clothe the world. We have had a good breakfast, and shall soon want a good dinner, and will not want to go to bed without supper, and to-morrow we shall want another breakfast, dinner and supper, and so on during all the days of the week, and the month, and the year. 1 here are oO.j.m days in the year. Sup pose we should forget that one-quarter of a day, and the world on the 1st of January next should wake up and find no break fast. There would be a fine rumpus when the world found that it had to wait six hours for dinner on an empty stomach. by, then, need a farmer tear? His pro ducts will never go out of fashion. Bread, milk, butter, cheese, beet, mutton, pork, poultry, eggs, fruit and potatoes will be wanted every day until the end of time. And it is our duty and our interest to see that the world does not come to an end for the want of food. After January Egypt is to be governed by an entirely new system of laws. Here tofore justice has been administered there according to the obscure laws of the Koran. By a decree of the Khedive there is to be substituted on that date what is to be called the " Egyptian code," found ed upon the French laws, or, perhaps, more strictly speaking, upon the civil law. Mr. Spurgeon is a great orator, and this is a wise, though pointed, suggestion which he has lately thrown out for the re galement of pulpit speakers: "More over, brethren, avoid the use of the nose as an organ of speech, for the best au thorities are agreed that it is intended to smell with." . a . There are in the new House of Repre sentatives seven members by the name of WillRinis. and only two Smiths. O 00 Feb. Mar. a 1X55 'a "iTsT 6 10111 isjis i-i 18il7 18!19' B031 . .. i a a 6 7 81 9!10.ll 12 13!14 15ll!17jl8il9 20'21!-2-2,23,'J4 3Ka6 12'l31415!l6il7ll8 19i)21to!23a!35 - 1 2 4 1 51 B lfflll tats! 1611718 19bJ0i Z&li 2K26 27I Aor. . . 2 3M M d 7 8 9!10jll iai314!l6 18117 18 ISIS) 21 ! 2ij:M-25p6 27 38j: Uay.n'i d s 4 5j 6 7 8 Mil 12-18 14 lM6!t718il.aO 21 22;2J!24 25 26.27 June . .. .. .. 1 2 8 4 N 6 7 8 910 11I1213I14151617 18J9ial21 22;23,24 2526 2728 2930.. 00 July. Ang. Sept. Oct Nov Dec US k3:34 30,31 l 3"4"b 9 10m 12:13;14' 1617 1819 20i21 25i26i27fci i 21.3 4 81 910:11 13il4!l5!1617 hjlh2l2228!24 ......... 3 4 61 6 7 hoii!i2!i3l4! 17il8!19 2021 24,25i26;2736 3 4 rJ 910111 12 15!l6il7 1818, 1 P 15 K9 29 5 12 1819 25, 26 2 9 151 29'30 22-23,'24!25j26 27 30131 2 SI 9(10' 14 aofii 28 11 2i 5 12 1C1-.1V21 US hi6 27 28i29i3a.. . 8 4 "tJe N 8 8 10!ll,1213il4 1516 17'1S 19 20 21 122 23 b4;25i26i27i28j29;30l 131 USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. To take mildew from linen, mix soft-soap with starch powdered, half the quantity of salt and a piece of lemon, and lay it on both sides with a paint-brush; let it be in the open air. Puffs. Six heaping tablespoon fuls of flour, one pint of milk, two eggs; bake in cups not quite half full. Put in the oven when you sit down to dinner, and they will be ready for dessert. Serve with cream and sugar or maple sirup. Evixueu tells the Prairie Farmer boys that the way to get into a pair of pper on the inside of the back of the boot-leg, letting it extend to the top and lapping it over a little, so that the paper will not slip down. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first or second blow, may be drawn out with a little dif ficulty; but being once driven up to the head the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out it can only be done by the destruction of the wood. To keep cabbage through the winter, pack in saw-dust in the barn and allow the whole to freeze, the saw-dust being such a non-conductor of heat, once frozen through, it will not thaw out until well into April, and cabbage will tome out al most as nice as when put in. Western Hural. If the wood-pile is not yet at the com mand of the housewife no time should be lost in getting it together. Have the wood all sawed of proper length and split ready for the stove. If coal is used get in the supply for the entire winter. A lot of nice kindling-wood is one of the best things with which to furnish the wood shed. Bank up the house well, thus sav ing fuel and securing comfort. Keep the family free from colds and coughs, lung fevers and sore throats, thus avoiding doctors and drug-stores, care, suffering and death Thk most convenient way to prevent loose window-sashes from rattling un pleasantly when the wind blows is to make four one-sided buttons of wood and screw them to the beading which is nailed to the casings of the window, making each button of proper length to press the side of the sash outward when the end of the button is turned down horizontally. The buttons operate like a clam. By having them of the correct length to crowd the stiles of the sash outward against the outer stop of the window-frame, the sash will not only be held so firmly that it cannot rattle, but the crack which admitted dust and a current of cold air Trill be closed so tightly that no window-strip will be re quired. The buttons should be placed about half way between the upper and lower end of each sash. Cor. Prairie Farmer. Caring and Keeping Pork. ALTHOtTGH we cannot class the products of the hog as food quite as high in the scale as we do beet and poultry, vet if hogs are judiciously fed and the pork, hams, sausnges and lard are all well pre pared and thoroughly cured, they make a valuable addition to the family stores, especially of those who live at an incon venient distance from a retail market or a butcher's stall. Pork, unlike beef, can be kept for a long time in strong brine with out growing over-salt and unwholesome. Some housekeepers are always having trouble with their pork barrel. The brine scums over, becomes tainted, and soon the pork is spoiled, or it gets oily and " rusty," and anything but palatable; while others are successful in keeping pork nice and sweet till it is all consumed, whether it be a longer or shorter time. As the season is now at hand w hen the majority of farmers are laying up pork and pork products for the year, ierhaps a few words about curing it may not come amiss. To have pork keep well for a long time it is only necessary to have good, sweet, wholesome pork to begin with, a clean, tight barrel, plenty of pure, clean, coarse salt, and a cool place for keeping it when packed. To keep pork a year, first cut out most of the lean meat, as this contains more blood to discolor the brine, and besides it taxes salt very freely and soon becomes hard like old salt beef. Procure a tight, clean oak barrel and scatter coarse salt a half inch deep over the bottom. Then, having cut the pork into strips oi nearly uniform width, pack them on. edge, with the rind next to the barrel, and follow round till the bottom is covered by a layer of strips so close and solid that no single piece can rise without bringing up the whole lajrer. Then fill all the interstices with salt, and spread it a half inch thick over the top of the layer ; then pack an other layer, and so on till the barrel is full of the pork, all packed. Fine salt may be used for filling the spaces between the strips, but coarse salt is better be tween the layers, as it keeps the several layers far enough apart to admit the brine to both edges of the pork. If pork were to be packed absolutely solid it would spoil before the brine could have time to penetrate it. Pork should be packed so solid that it will remain in layers, but so loosely that the brine can reach it all immediately. On the top layer place enough clean, fiat stones to keep it from floating after the water or brine is added. After the pork is all packed it may remain a day or two be fore the brine or water is added, or it may be finished up at first. In warm weather, the sooner pork is in brine, after becom ing thoroughly cool, the better, but in cold weather there is less need of haste. Some people always make a brine to turn on the pork after packing, and others are very particular to use old brine that has seen service. Old brine is as good as new, if it is perfectly sweet, but it is no better. Our own practice is to pour away the old brine as not worth the trouble of scald ing and skimming. Salt is cheap now, only about a cent a pound. If there was much undissolved salt in the old brine we save that by washing it in clean water and pouring off all the sediment and float ing bits of pork. There is but one ob jection to the use of water instead of brine for filling the barrels after the pork is packed. It takes some time for the salt to dissolve, and the pork may taint before it becomes salted; but if plenty of fine salt is used between the strips and on the top of the last layer there should be no risk in pouring on fresh water. It is neces saiy in this case that the barrel be shaken a little every day for a week, to agitate the salt and help it to dissolve quicker. Always use more salt than the water can take up. It will not be wasted, as it can be used another year. Keep the pork under brine all the time. The atmosphere will injure salted pork in a short time. If little bits of pork no larger than peas are allowed to float on the brine they will be come impure, and will injure the brine after a time. This is especially true if pork is left untouched for several weeks in warm weather. Pork keeps heat wnere the brine is stirred often, as this keeps all the little floating bits saturated with brine. Salt-dealerrec ommend to use salt enough to cover the brine. There is no need of , this if the brine is agitated every week. , I - Hams may be kept in brine that is satu rated with sa.t, but they soon become so hard and salt that they are unfit for the able. They may he kept soft by using plenty of sugar or molasses instead of salt, and by shaking the pickle two or three times a week, and by taking them up and repacking them iwo or three times. In curing hams we aim to use just as little salt as possible ftnd have them keep. An old rule that has served us well is to have salt cough in tie pickle to just float a potato. The common rules are often worthless, because they tell how much salt, sugar, etc., to use for 100 pounds of meat. There must be brine enough to cover the meat, and, if the barrel is deep and the hams pack well, less brine will be needed than if they are spread out in a shallow tub and consequently a smaller quantity of salt and sugar will be needed. That housekeeper is most successful in keepiog meat who examines it oftenest. Before putting the hams into the pickle it is well to run a knife around the bones in two or three places, as this w ill let the pickle work on the inside where they are most likely to taint. This precaution is particularl3r necessary if the hums are very large. If the pickle is but just strong enough to keep the hams, they may re main" in it all winter, or they may be taken out and packed away for summer use. The best way to keep hams in warm weather, that we ever tried, is to cut them in slices ready for the pan and then pack in stone jars, pouring hot lard over the whole after the jar is filled. This keeps flies away and prevents mold and there is the advantage of having the meat all ready for cooking at a moment's warning. New England Farmer. A Sexton's Mistake. TriE New York Graphic relates the fol lowing anecdote of the sexton of Grace Church, in that city: Speaking of Brown, anecdotes are al ways in order. One cold Sunday morn ing during the war-time a soldier with a well-worn private's overcoat over his shoulders entered the vestibule of Grace Church, and, failing to receive any notice from the sexton, leisurely walked up the main aisle to one of the best seats. The church was crowded, and shortly after came a dashing Second Lieutenant, evi dently new to his straps, and throwing back his cloak to display his rank he was obsequiously taken in charge by Brown. Walking directly to the seat occupied by the man in the old overcoat the sexton tapped the intruder on the shoulder and said, "There are seats there for you," in a lone that meaut " for such as you," at the same time indicating a rear corner. 31aking no response, the private arose, and without the slightest embarrassment retired to the part of the church to which he had been so unceremoniously con signed. The seat he vacated was occu pied by the callant Lieutenant, resplend ent in the glory of brand-new trappings The private found his new quarters much more comfortable than the place he had vacated, and because of the nearness to the register he tossed back his overcoat, revealing to the horrified gaze of Brown the stars ot a Maior-General. The sup posed private was N. P. Banks, and this incident is related simply tc show that even Brow n himself is not infallible. O wbarisomk condition ornuoifinity t How many wretched homes In our land! How many heart-broken hnulids! Llfo with many Miriiitie a more onerous c-xltcic. All ure fculject to disease, tut when health Is removed the hope is nearly gone out. Sickness n usually incurred throiiirh expo sure or carelessness. K.pceially is this true with those diseases peculiar to women. Through lier own imprudence nnd folly hhe Is made to dra;j out u miserable existence n source, vt aimoyaiieu and anxiety to her friends, nnd anything Imt u comfort and pleasure to herself. Kxposure to the cold at times when she should be most prudent, and overtaxing her body with laborious employ ment, are both fruitful cauM-s of many of the maladies from which she millers, (irnd ually the bloom leaves her cheeks, her lips grow ashy white, her vivacity departs, lic coutinually experiences a feeling of weari ness and general languor, and altogether presents a ghostly appearance. What does she need? Miould she take some stimulat ing drug, which will for the time make lier "ji'l bfltrr," or does lier entire system de mand repartition ? She requires something which not only will restore to health the dis eased organs, "but will tone and invlgoratu the system. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion wil? do this. It imparts strength to the diseased purts, tilings hack the glow of health, una restores comfort where previous ly there was only siiti'ei lug. Everv Invalid lady should send for " The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," in which over fifty pages are demoted to the consideration of those diseases peculiar to Women. It Will be sent, post paid, to any address, for $1.50. Address 1J. V. Pierce, M. I., World's Dispeiisurr, Uudalo, X. Y. Agents wanted lo self tlii valuable work. Schenck's Mandrake Pills will b found to posness those qualities ueccewy to the total eradication of ail bilious attacks, prompt to Ptart the secretions of the liver, and give a healthy tone to the entire system. Iudeed. it is no ordinary discovery in medical scienco to have invented a remedy for these stutboru com plaints, which develop all the results produced by a heretofore free use of calomel, a nilneifd j'isilj dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to be do structhe in the extreme to the human system. That tUv! properties of certain vegetables comprint! all the virtues of calomel without its injurious ten dencies Is now an admitted fact, rendered indis putable by scientific researches; and those who use the Mandrake 14!!s will be fully nuuslied that the best medicines are those prrl('-rt by nu'.uru i? th'j common herbs and roots of the fields". These pills open the bowe and correct all lu'l ions derangements without salivation or any the iniuiious effects of calomel or other poisons. The secretion of bile is promoted by these pills, as will be seen bv the altered color of the stools and disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleans ing of the tonitue. Ample directions for use accompany each box of P' Prepared only by J. If. Scnenrk A Son, at their principal :t:ce. corner Sixth and Arch streets. Philace'plihi. and for nl by ail Uruijif'-ts ud deal ers. 1'rite 25 cents t;r Iwut. Gentian was our grandmothers hobby for a tonic, and no bitter would be considered complete wi'hout it; hence it enters into nearlv all. But experience has proved that it is injurious to the Ptomi.cli if frequently used. A far better touic 18 Kuiid in (Juarana Bitters HELIO-TELLURIC TREATMENT Ctr niai. hw a liPVklf-ilUriiTrsrt nrnnng-and vltnll2.i aeeni. mrnim.i How Doctor Differ. A patient has a dull, heavy feeling: about the Lead, with a dizzy, whirling sensation when rising; up suddenly, a bad taste in the mouth, with foul breath, a feeling like a load on trie stomach arter eating, with, a iamt, all-crone sensation at the pit of the stomach that food will not satisfy, pains about the side, back or shoulder, hands and teet some times cold and clammy, alternating with hot nusties, sour eructations irom the stomach, eyes tinged with yellow, blood thick ana stagnant, with costive bowels, and all at tendant symptoms. One doctor examines the case and calls It liver complaint, another kidney disease, another dyspepsia, ar.d still another impurity of the blood. Now the fact is all of these doctors are right and they are all wrong, because 6uch patients have all of these diseases combined, and the reason such diseases are not cured is because the custom is to treat one of the diseases at a time. While one is being cured the other gets worse, we should treat the diseape with a remedy that will act uuon all at the same time. The Shaker Extract of Roots (not a patent medicine) is so made by the Shakers as to efleetually remove all of these distressing symptoms. Kola by A. J. Uile 819 Pearl street. N. Y. Avents wanted. The interest which attaches to careful observations of the temperature of the earth suggests that the apparatus which is used in Germany should be better known in this country, in order that, when practicable, it may be introduced here. The following is a description of it as used by observers in Hungary: In its general outlines it does not differ from that recommended by Lamont. It con sists principally of a rectangular tube buried permanently in the earth, within which live rectangular prisms of wood are placed, one above the other, at dif ferent depths in the ground, and which, by a simple arrangement, can be easily and quickly drawn up. Each of these tubes contains a thermometer, and there is a hole in the side of the main tube op posite to the bulb of the thermometer where the woodwork i3 cut away, and the opening closed by a plate of thin sheet copper, whose temperature may be presumed to be the same as that ol the adjacent ground. The depths at which the thermometers' bulbs remain are four, eight, twelve, sixteen and twenty feet. Shenzl, as the resultof observations made luring eight 3-ears, finds that the time re quired for heat to penetrate to a depth of one meter is. on the average, twenty-one days. N. Y. Tribune. The Worcester Spy revives an old but good story concerning the wife of John Adams ami the mother of John Quincy Adams. This noble woman was Abigail Smith, daughter of Rev. "William Smith, of Weymouth, Mass. At the time ol their courtship John Adams did not ap pear to be satisfactory to her parents. The story goes that they neglected him, left his horse standing at the hitching post when he visited Abigail, and denied him the hospitalities of the house. Her oldest sister was married to a Boston mer chant, and her father preached for her a "marriage sermon." Finally they con sented to Abigail's marriage to John Ailams. After the marriage Mr. Smith said to her: " Well, Abigail, I suppose 1 must preach a marriage sermon for you, but you must choose the text." Her quick-witted reply was: "Very well, I choose this text: 'John came neither eating nor drinking, and ye say he hath a devil.'" It is a good story, and very characteristic of the wife of John Adams. The method of preserving wood bv the application of lime, as pursued by M. Svostal, is published in the French jour nals. He piles the planks in a tank and puts over all a layerof quicklime, which is gradually slaked with water. Timber for mines requires about a week to become thoroughly impregnated, and other wood more or less time, according to its thick ness. The material acquires remarkable consistence and hardness on being sub jected to this simple process and, it is al leged, will never rot. Beech wood has 'Men prepared in this way for hammers and other tools for iron-works, and it is said to become as hard as oak without parting with any of its well-known elas ticity or toughness, and to last much long er than when not thus prepared. Tweed is no hmger a grate man Samuel Love, of Butler County, Pa., has spent thirtv-eight years of his life in carrying the iTnitcd States mails. 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Hall's Made 'omon Hat Is theoulr preparation. our package ot whioa Will lorce the beard to prow thick anil heavy oo the (moothest free twithout injury) in 21 dsys in everv ease, or money chrertiillr re-tnofl'-d. 1 cents per parkae. p"tpai'l; 3 tor Ml cents, t. W. JON LS, A-lilund. Mass. PIERCE WELL AUGER 4n.iiiiy iffrMH tt.oo V inr d tlmt will i.r-iv-f.i1lr cm-a- ltd thfiti in i-"ln JMti h wt, liirntih .ni.Moiif mn 4itlloti. hikI In lKin up nj in mi.l p. .,. Ar-nr wTf-.! in rvfrv Mat. 923 PtR DAT GUARANTEED. "r -t a . Ho a-.-h CHAS. D. PIERCe,fa".i"'M.k ARID SEE Thee Ittch Prairies. Kpst or." -nHilon aere r-.rn.ile on the fcioux City & (ft. I'anl l;a:lro:ul and -n the Mi ;rtror fc Miasouri J;iy-r liiiiro!. jscverul Unre tracts for Colonic. Come or i -nd committees to ex aiuinc jiverj'one who the lani like it. Apply t Davidson a; cai.ki.ns Hitley, t"-olt :., Iowa. BY CO.. Station D,fw IJ I I I 8 J want SKnta n.r the Hlver-!ullr K I 1 I E" Prize Mtionery Packa(. It coo f LI. JLf JLl ,,aa 24 sheet cf rirst -class paper. AWkMaM 04 Crst-claa envelope, engraved silver-plated penholder. Kolden pn, pencil, and a valu able pnz. .Sample r&ckae, iuh lorani pnjepoet Pid, for i0 cnia; f J pacaagea. pottt-pa a, :..0 a ik.p .f.ill.r .nanint.Hi ail nnmit t IB DIOHMI-I: silver dollars and a !5 irold plot ia every 300 pack age. Ajtents' circular free. TrlHColl, Church & Hail, Groctr. X. litifoTd. Has.. f'J!: Ttie demand lor your tv P..m tu-crca-i-a raf.t.liy. N-v-r a roinelatnt." .Tones, Frnnrr cV Co.. Trie6rr,ytJ., 10 : "Have sold Tour !a K'.ion to all rli-a-ol triule. 11 nevr ralUil to give aatiolattoa. hlnr-t thtn( to iaiFou e-r aaw. Createat tlilnc to a-ll yoo r kn-w. Manr valiKl.I cv.ktnir r- 1 j aenl tra, ocuu at oocr lor CiiruUr to UEO. V. G.WTZ &. CO., 176 Dunne St.. Sew York. IS' The Beat of All -oxl Company. The D ANBURY NEWS CNrgi AI.Kl) AS A IIOMK PAI'fcl Terni. now. .-i.H per year. After. tin. I. II7B, J -). lajei.-iue pani. rmi "J " .lcmuwioi. Bend stamp f r r-perimen Coiy. BA1LKV tSi IX..OVA'. IJunbury. Conn. Is o. t'r u.. 'IK K- T. Tanle ft.ll air nX .lajal"! Eitraetaf Hsef, whi h ia-o"- p .ee.l of to of raw nirat witn I ron Tomre. Imirwiica and lil4 Cathartwa and praaTili by Phraic-ians forth eure of 1 ndira-itioa. Cooatipation, Iyapep-ia. Pila, Loos. Liver, Kliio-y.t hildroO. Bi.xxi and l! Isal dlaa-auaeM anil lnie'. Prl !. per bottia. El' HAHIiMsN TCLLllitJE. Proprietors. Clnem. Bati, u. for sal by ail drufists. aaUAr (cbaiaa. Die dinea-v?. COH.UAC moat wonderful 1 m to ai.erv enra e. Address, ivr pamphlet., jut, . . Ml K CU 1. O. Der Wl, l. New YorKCItr A dou."((M.ri K-in. 1r m titml sett l. lit i wrrnil fn twUfc fcni. MMl r"4 diwUf, oil WV r IU ; wr k riH ft- .urh anil tt tA utlm. tat $15 U-atosnl 4'. O. it., Villi fttim U -lr. MtVrt WU It d sHMifi tr utml to CENTS ibotiM arrll for Ar"t w kook If Jinn JLLltza $r.ltK ml th- raf of .OOO Wk. Full rlpOM of lh U rrU 1 tttin of IvImi. Tj Iittr.it"t Circuitri, with rmlt formation trm I Mil. A.Mr-. ii.rrit ti. f Dutln Cillman A. Cot -r-i. t,CL.Kro. i i..Ciu-ibi.ii. u. IN-DOOR AfJD 0UT.V.KktaV eat snd heat 1 t.LfS nt AT r. a Literary and practical i amllv Monthly In Amerif. Ifi pngi s, sleof llarper a Veeklv. l'evoted to the otcre,i ,.f propie in all Toeaiions of life. Two new enal liej-ln itti .l.in tiary, ItKTR t T r.n T Til W inii, alale of 1 lie Wrslet n l-lamta. and Tut Hor CsMiVi: or, Llf-t In llm (real Koret. Miort stories liteery iiiiiii1.it. Ie partmenta for yoniiK and old. f.lleil with (tixid things. Ovk JXlMAK a Villi, Posture Itir. Audita wanted. Samples free to llti.; ho a III i t tip clubs. Addrena 1'letorial Print Ine lv"l"iij, 1, 3, 6. T and 9 MlchlKau Avenue, Chicago, ill, ' AGENTS WANTED FOR THL ERJTERJRIIAL HISTORYoftheU.S. The preat Interest In the thrlllliiif history of our country makes thia the f:i"tct-e))in; book ever ptib-ll-li'-U It contain over I 1 4 tltu; historical ctmrav Inits and M.1 pii.-es. with a full i . mint of the ap pro.iclim trr:nr, ( i-iiIciiiiihI cxMMlion. heml tor a f'llJ description and extra terms to .1 pent a, NATION AL, ."' J'l 1-lllMr ( !.. llU Ho.lll., or M I QUI. Mo. AGreat Offer! IVr II! iliirtnirtlie Holiday llatoe of ITU l'l A S i;,' m; t; - 0 Ii 1 tu. mil U i . In) t ml in;; W V. T Kits', il luwri pi l ti I Ii m ii ivrr lirliiir uflVred. ,l on I Ii I )' i n.l 1 1 iik 11 a Mi 11 ll 1 If limn t 4 In Mi inoiilli. rrri lml. U a rioilril loi'li yeiii a. M i ninl-naiiil ! af 1-time ti f t ri-iinl y low pilci a lor t'ali. 7 ln.irineii t tit'il'jtir inn I U. ai rroiinia, -t1! Ilruittlwu -v Imk, HOltACiC WATlCllri ib HOVH. TMi new Truss Is worn w'.l'i rrfcci comfort, nUiit and iLiy Adapt tM-lf t every moll"ti of van t' 7 the boitv, retioiiiiiit uuu ! V",y lure miller the linlet '-J v - tl-' CXerci e or aeverrwa l'-W-j', ' ' slrmti until permaiicntlsr c ,.-3 r. L, A 5 T I C V X 1. L IS :i . P s"- '- ' i if ntred Sold cheap hv lh y y ELA5IIS TRU55 CO.. 'n flail llmllliriiv. S. . I'ilv. snd sent by niil. ( uM or .ni r en enlur and 'beenred. The olMce for the sale of the K1.tl. TruJ In ("hlrai-o i at ift State street. nd tor firm ar I11C. J Pl'.l-.l "portable grinding mills. ltrat l iTtH h Ilurr i 111 m (ue uuihi-riiniji-i', k leu'l iipper-i iinni-i , for l"firin ( jli-rvli.-iiit Work. Nn I lor Mill Minn !' nil aii a. -i-iiii inc- I :ucli n- i.i f luiii in 4 iiu. .mil I'i, l.a, Coi.l 1-hell. 11 mid J li S I Ii hi. 11, (.carina, Mnu', rn.: . Il'in era. etc.. all knidj IVT- .t 1. Vt, ..-!. !.. rv und Mill. -I-' S-hI !!'- ipphes. r-d lor I'Bii.plib.t. 4rii K-'rnul, It." "m::.'"A : 1 mo. i.eiiii, o. Atlantic Hotel, OIIICAOO. 75c. Per Day to $2.50. Corner Viinnuren nnd Lalle Pts . within three mt. tn walk or the bn--.i renter. I handier of ( om mcree. railroad depots and p!uce of aiiiiieeineiil. The Only 2'ir.-clja rire-prool'lIoU-l nnruivn -".a" followi 'i K.vrrs: 1 (JO rooms, without onard 7;e. per diiv. liHirotiim hont b "fd 5 I. (HI per rtn. 1IIO room',' with bo jd !.( per day. 60 rooms, Willi U ;d nnd h;tth'o '"' l''"r. YVM L. NfcVVMAN A CO. To wL um Pensions arc jrJ.jLJLjT)i ill.i:i while in the lma iiml ili-icJiario of duty, cittior by accident or otherwise, s 1-onld bavo a pension. Tho los or a linger cnLii'i-'ii 7011 to a pension. A ruptur, uo niattxr Uow slii,'lit, pives yon a pcnaioa. 'J'ho loss of a too givfS you a pension. The losaof on eye K'ves you a penatoa. Any iniurywill pi ve yon a pension. PBTSIONS .,,hv ,,. -j.,,..o.irH vt-i...- n nensir.n. aro ItiHtlv enti tied toan increase. Q TTTVTrI,Tvr tl-.Vsi'nil 2atarni!I Ij Laf 1J AM JtL, lo'i convof i'uiiliianil Iiotini.y Act. AaarcS3,p. h. FITZGERALD, United 8tate Claim Apent, Indianapolis. Ind. JfcyOa all lctiera mark V. O. Iioi U.mJZM Tfit PuHNritr of for all. li"". . , . - - v ' . m m a rc.'T'V. Offars A TI r.sr.MFT.T-Tl.t.fSTRTF:n, llioitl.T FT vi r.a I a t w iso Irvfiir. Vm.a.i n k. coi.iii o.ntt siortes of ! vi-titit-e kcti-:.-a in natnial iuhtory. fuiry l;.rlr, poem. pn.ie. etc. ."" -n cr. peil'iof. ",,l rixrr , i,titlt 'n l.m r errv Ur-n '"' " Hr-irvxil M iO z.nr .'amiile (--.l ies PI 1 ent". " pos-tum. cilA.S. V. JkSKINs. .-,7 llible Uou-c. New Yorlt. SSaT"GTiftr Christmas ! Ical Gifts for New-Year's ! m cf RJSUSH S3S& ! Kg; cf nm SONS! GSHS of EKGLI3 5CS5! m cf WjL.53 SONS ! im cf mm im 7.1 Of tli beat Por,iS eltalll. eol- lecf. d In a hand- utiif.' volume of r.U 1 111 utile - aire I I'UKc. With eleeint (rlit bliidlPK. M. Ill Clot II. t-ll'l lu board. : 5). 1'nlform In stvle. price and b:n'11nsr with the above splendid hook, we have other books of " Co iii." Cerm in. r-eoitlti nnd hacred: also of bc-t Iii-Ii Melmlica, and the choicest 0ier:ic. .-oni;. CHIMTHS ( (ItOI S. liy vart. Met. ANTIII-M 1 bete a. -re Mi-plierds. JlllOiril. ,T, cn. ilhUUV ilKISTHAS. 1'iano piece. HM. Wcta. Rejoice th hearts of the Old Folks with Centennial Col ection for Old Folks' Con certs. 40 c 8. By E. Tourjee. Gladden your Sabbath School by Introducing One of the s-.vectet of a mi book. Order the above book of anv of the principal music deulci'S, or by mail L:m 'i'.-iii' r ; 1 piK' i, of OLIYLR IIISO.X k CO, tilS. U. MTSOX t CO lloatnn. 711 l!rii.lwy, V. V. mmmrmm VANBUSKIBKjrRAGRANt 1 jJt I .,.i , -t- v-- 'I - - . ' TI ifc .- 3 fllfl AND INVIGORATES AND HARDENS THE GUMS I It imparts a delightfully refreshing taste and feeling to the mouth, remov ing all TARTAR and SCURF from the teeth, completely arresting the pro gress of decay, and whitening such part3 as have become black by decay. IMPURE BREATH caused by Ead Teeth, Tobacco, Spirit, or Catarrh, is neutralized by the daily u?e o' sozooerdT It is as harmless as water. Bold Ij Dmgg-lati nd Dealer In Fancy Goodu One bottle -will last six month A. . K. 8. 0. vio-e x. p. fI"HI paper I r-rtnt. J with INK manufactured by I G. B. KANE A IO..I41 Iiearborn fct., TMi afo. for aU by A. U. KSX.L06W, t w J actio n bL, C'hicaaxu.