Nebraska Newspapers

    . 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.
During that time he traveled, on the aver
age, twenty-eight miles daily, and in the
aggregate 233,802 miles.
I Did yon evrr w a child that
lid not have holes thr"tih thf
toen of it thix-a ? If you did the
ere protwted by
1 MILVKIL TfP.
I They inrver wear through at th
ie. Try them.
If you want to know wht r
CABL.E rt'HEW WIRE?;
mrirn. sale your plioe ueaier. inn
If he can"t tell yon make upyoar
mind he h KJine petrgt-d ork
on hand that he wvnta U Mil be
fore he dare teil you.
ssm mt . m tl
.... . u- k vs.' n Kim - f r... in Cm. C1 . TllVl
tan lurnish plow. H. C. WUeeier, W anketcan. Ill
Mattwo. Grin Comml'Mon,
Hi. 1SI WMli!.Ktll-T. ClllCillj'f
cii-.. Vahn t .1. V. r arcll d
to. 5 Kcld. Murdoch Flucber: Bank of Illmois.
11
GRAIN
.J a Day nt Home,
Aacnts wnnted. Outfit nnd
terms lree. Audrens 'I It L' E & CO . AUKUtd,Me.
ft-DTLJ A mid (ATA I! Kit .'-'.rr Ci re. Trial free.
tO I It astflAildrcm W.K.I.uIIir. Iiidi:ina;idiS.Iiid.
"i 1 ' V Elr(1''' rrn.l ir t'bruino t.'i.t!';uw.
s day at home, pampics worth M t-fnt
tj UrJ free. tTi-so?f A: Co.. Portland. Me.
EVERYBODY SEX J) Zmil
cable camples and full partlcuUrfi. Addreit F. ii.
WASHUUHNK & CO., Mlddleboru. ll&t
(tjor Vf'.R Wf.KK t Muicand Female ARenU.
JDwO Arlii 1 KW. Needed in every house. Ad
dreaa W11IGHT fe l.ACKV. 7tV Broadway, N. T.
. 1...... '. k . . ...... f ull OA tl.f
I 1"JW: m It. -,;i.iii nin... m .. ... -
ine article in the world. One sample free.
AddiesaJAV UUOSO. Detroit, .! it l.
Sorrento Voo-l-Crrlnr C o.. 57 Washington
St.. Chicago, 111. Iealcra In Tools. Pat terna and
Materihia for t ret-Cutting. Send atanip for circular.
rEM-S' EXCVCI.Ol'FDIA-New. nevls-d Kdlfton
A 1jO,Ui Article.-. .'.'U Knpravintrt and IS splendid
luapa. AniiiU Waatid. Uakeb. Da v is &. Co., I'hila.
0ftnlfiliP"OTPRI!TS of tlie A OK. Onr
a-uIlllba(;0vernnient and History. Cioodapecd
MiLh nook. ISibie and Map Huuae, Chicago.
Ially to ArentB. H." new articles nnd the bcu
tainilv I':ipcr In America,, with two $5 Chro
nica tree. AMK1L M'K'G CO.. '2t i Broadway. N. Y.
P AlTCSR.5'C0()crilED S:s "n.?i
I i U ItJ UII.IIUK'E.IW Wept Mudl-oii-st.) hl
VliHaciEa Write full description. Adrtce Fi re.
A MONTH. AtP-nt wanted every
where. Hu-iness honorable and firbt
class. Particulars sent lree, Addrttaa
JoilX WUlil'ii & CO.. bt. LollU, -Mo.
and Morphine Habit absolutely nd
speedily cured. I'alnleKs;no public .!
ty. Send stamp for particulars. Ur.
Carlton. IN? Wahlii;;ton-tit.Cuicugo
SIO to 25 per Day other energetic y oung
men to sell an artirli as STAPLE an COf'FEE.mf irmen
aud others iii tlieir ewii ti'-iuii'MiriiiMKlti. Particular.! Free.
AtlJrL-. THE CEN i'ENNIAL CO.. M- 1-oun, Alo.
. want IT TlioUMinlsof lives and
-For-Lis.
8 1 1 VflHt All want it Tliouuiidsof lives 1
Jl'ji 4 I V Millions of property saved by it r
Liil 1 ij tunes niai'.e with .t. Address L
l.no!f llaos.. New York or Chica
iecnlconiane. Chromos. Steel Knprravlnirs, pho
I'topraphs, Scrap-book Pictures. Mottoes, ele. Kle
cnt samples ana catalogue sent postpaid for 10 cts.
Ag'ta wanted. J. L. PntU-u dc Co., lti'j William st.N.Y.
rP7S r-KIl WKEK GUARANTEED TO
C J M Apents l .Valean.i female, in their own 1-
SJ J B ctility. Terms and Or tkit Fkfk. AddrcM
wm B V. O. VICKtUY fc CO., Augusta. Maine.
Lamb Knitter!
New, flri-t-cla.-b, for sale at ureal dx-otmt. Address
fc. E. PI J ATI'. 7J .lachson stre-t. Chicago.
REVOLVERS!!
r-lr f't fx Tvll Ni'
CftUtofO t'Ktt. 1.1
tin. PtTt St iftti
PErr PHOT H.
Ilural Hilt Ravol
Knt mii'm Cart-
z $3.00
i'Ckn. ('ill' 00, 11L
Prof. D.
Moekefr's
Painless Opium Core!;
The
IHOf.t
1 1 f
c.s-iftil rotnedv of the present A iv. Semi for Pnn.-n.n
$25 TO $50 PER DAYifSS
to sell tKI,l.-l!lll!IV( !M A It ! VKR Y. A
Hore bores from 1,' to 41 inches tl!atneter. riend for
pamphlet. PUMP ft biv EIS CO.. licilevtlle. 111.
ITCIW1VATI DOI.l,tnWKKKI.Y STAR,
An Independent ! aioily Kewspa;er. W I'a'-s,
4 X Columns of Pooling. 4. f PF.II YE AIt.
fcnecimen Conr r IIK E. J! 1 rea of le.rtaae.
Addresa'i he "S 1 Alt" ..( ncl m at i.4 Mi io.
Tour Name Klrfraatly- Print
tl n i-i 1 llHlrillilT VISITIS
Ca Sls. tor 2J CcnU. h.fh esrd cooutm
in.liiM. nntil hti.i towaidt Ike light. Nnthtnr lika
thm (Ter h-for arti-red la Am-rira. 11. r inducmiiU ta
--.-.. VniriTI I'BINTIXO A-niTiQ. Ilia
The cheaDest and best seeila in the market. Send two S
cnt stamps for illustrated catalogue, to see and cuxupara
prices, w. Ii. Si'OONtil. ilo.iox. Mol.
f f f f" Tfc "A I .vesteil In Wall Street
i S 1 It's Tf 5S 9 "Hen lead- to fortune A
V1"'''' 7-4-pa-e book, explaining
rver 'titTiz nnd trivinif pm-'- of Moaks.
OrftT PpCC .Ii. Ht kmnc. .1- To.. P.ankera
dClII f liCCs & llrokers. 7t Proad-cav. S.Y.
SCHOLARSHIPS
In various. WFSTEI1X P.t'SIEs.S COLLEGES for
sale at a discount. Addicts E. L.. is ATT, la.Jatksoa-st.
Chicago., III.
Praf. 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.