lc5ocrtIe Reformers.
- - - , ....
Vk are promised by the Democracy In
the. present session of Congress a rifcid
inquiry into the financial affairs of the
Government, and a committee has been
appointed for the diwovery ef rarious
dishonest practices on the part of ths Ke
rubUcans, .of" which our Democratic
leaders assert they have long been con,
cious, but which they have never yet
been able to define. In fact, their accusa
tions are so general, their charges so
clouded by r.arty zeal, io obscure or so
Yiolent, that it in difficult to understand ol
what they complain or where they mean
to point their attack. If they can succeed
in revealing any real center bf corruption,
if they can bring to justice any public
roblery, retrench any extravagance, de
vise any wise economy, they will have the
support of the great majority of the Re
publicans, and will do a real service to the
country, which had long ceased to hope
for any benefit from their labors. The
financial administration of the Govern
ment is that department in which the
Kepubucans nave been most successtul.
In the midst of Democratic disorders at
the South and peculations at the North,
through panics that have covered the
world, while foreign and domestic agen
cies have been employed to shake the
national credit and cut on the national
resource, the Republican Administration
has succeeded in reducing taxation while
paying off the debt, has maintained the
national honor, yet practiced an extreme
economy, and has honestly toiled to re
duce those burdens which have been
brought upon the people by a Democratic
relwllion and by the unpatriotic conduct
of the Democratic leaders, who prolonged
the war by their factious opiosition to all
the necessary measures of repression. Uut
for the dangerous aid of the New York
Democracy it is not likely that the re
bellion and slavery would have outlived
the fall of Vickburg. The vast nation.il
debt is a Democratic legacy to the nation.
It is a remarkable proof of the economy of
the Republican Administration that, ex
elusive of the expenses arising from the
war, its whole annual outlay is not by
more than a third greater than tkrt of the
administration thatr preceded the war.
The cost of the Government has scarcely
kept pace with the growth of the country.
The attempt of the Democratic leaders
to discover fraud in the Republican man
agement of the finances must naturally
lead to a fresh study of the notorious finan
cial calamities that have followed a Dem
ocratic rule in nearly all our chief cities,
and from which Democratic candidates
for office have, it is rumored, often largely
profited. Mr. S. S. Cox, who moved the
resolution to appoint the " Congressional
Executive Committee," modestly declined
to become its Chairman. He no doubt de
cided wisely; for the district to which Mr.
Cox owes his scat is one of those that have
been most laryely implicated in every
epecifs of fraud. Mr. Cox comes from the
city of New York, and might possibly be
called upon to describe minutely to his
committee the way in which his Demo
cratic supporters have managed the finances
of the unlucky metropolis. A com.
Iarison between the wise economy of the
republican National Administration and
the waste and the dishonesty of the Dem
ocratic rulers of New York could not fail
to be instructive. For nearly twenty
years the Democracy has held the control
of the city of New ork almost constantly,
and of the State sufficiently often to indi
cate its peculiar financial tendencies. And
no one is unfamiliar with the result.
Within a few j-ears the debt of the city of
New York has been trebled. It now owes
probably more than $10,000,(XX). And
besides this immense sum it expends an
nually $36,000,000 tor a government dis
reputable in nearly all its departments.
The cost of its municipal administration,
is $36 for every inhabitant; itsdebt, f 100.
It is admitted, too, that the greater part
of this money has been wasted or stolen.
Nor does any reputable Democrat deny
that his party has been the chief agent in
an unprecedented series of robberies.
Their noted perpetrator has just escaped
by the connivance of Democratic courts,
Judges and jailers. But Tweed was only
the leader of a host of peculators, and
many as guilty, perhaps, as he now sit
safely at home, under the shelter of the
Democratic rule.
To such a comparison Mr. Cox might
well invite the attention of Congress.
Within seven years the national debt has
been diminished by nearly $400,0 0,000,
in the same period that of the city of New
Y'ork has more than trebled. It costs,
under a Democratic rule, $36 for each in
habitant, or $:6,000,000 annually, to gov
ern a city with a population of 1,000,000.
For $7 per head the Republican Admin
istration governs a population of more
than 40,000.000. But if we look into the
details the contrast becomes Mill more
striking. In the National Government
the coyrts are, in peneral, highly respect
able; the city Judges are often the com
panions of thieves. The national officials
re contented with modest salaries; the
city officials have set no bounds to their
rapacity. Errors, frauds and gross decep
tions no doubt have a place in the Na
tional Administration, but compared to
the extraordinary robberies of the Demo
cratic leaders in New York or Albany
they sink into insignificance. We need
continue the parallel no farther. Messrs.
Cox and Wood might well explain to the
Democratic Executive Committee how it
is that they represent so dishonest a sec
tion of their party, and why they labored
so faithfully to the last to continue the
rule of Tammany 11 all. Harper's Weekly.
"Twenty Dollars KeiranU"
Ik the Oxford (Ala.) Tribune appears
the following advertisement:
Twktt Doluw Reward. I will par the
hoe reward for s colored boy named Aaron Mc
Kinssy. who ran away from my place last Saturday
Bight, tlrn 9Hh Iniit. Said hoy waa sold at auction
for Mealinz f 10 from the Woodstock Iron Com
pany' atore. and waa bound to me for Ave month",
nine dajg and a half hard labor to cover damages.
Taixob Dearma.h.
The Inter-Ocean took occasion to allude
to the law under which the above outrage
is perpetrated at the time of its passage.
It simply amounts to the establishment of
a system of peonage which, in Alabama,
or in any other State where the power is
in the hands of the whites, is only an
other name for slavery. In the first place
the selling of a man, for aay length of
time, is contrary to the genius of our in
stitutions, and a substantial violation of
those constitutional amendments which
Mr. Lamar has assured its the Democratic,
pany is so anxious to accept, in the sec
ond place the existence of such a law in
the South, where the colored man is still
regarded as a pretender, and nearly un
entitled to liberty, is evidence alone of its
abuse. It cannot le otherwise. And, as
we said, with white men to administer the
laws, there is nothing to prevent a
revival, in fact, of slavery itself. A
colored man is arrested on a Hmro-o,
of theft, for instance, and brought
before a magistrate who retains his
belief in the right of slavery. lie
thinks that the projicr place for the Afri
can is under a master, lie hears the evi
dence. It may be very strong, or it may
be utterly inadequate to convict. What
difference does it make to the man who
has an enemy to spite, a race to punish or
a principle to enforce? He sentences the
accused to a long and disgraceful servi
tude, a servitude which may be made so
unbearable as to induce the victim to fly, in
which case he is recaptured and has his
sentence doubled or trebled ; and so on,
from one pretext to another, until the life
of the convict is exhausted. Thus we be
hold, twelve years after the Proclamation
of Emancipation, the shameful advertise
ment at the head of this article :
Twenty dollars reward for a colored boy, who
ran away from my place.
The words show the falsity of rebel pro
fessions. They show the insincerity of
the Democratic party, which indulges in
pious declarations and patriotic resolves
in Washington while its members violate
the laws and insult the American name in
Alabama. Inter-Ocean.
A Detroit boy paid his first visit to
one of the union schools, the other day, as
a scholar, and when he came home at
night his mother inquired : V Well,. Henry,-
how do i yon like going to school "
" Bully!" he replied, in an excited voice.
I saw four boys licked, one girl got ner
ear pulled, and a big scholar burned his
el bow on the stove! I don't want to miss
day." ... .
AnecJotes of Samuel Fdotfc.
Tempt Bar relates the following nriec
dotes of this famous wit: Nr man was
ever more free from toadyism; rank: wa
bo shield against his wit, which would
Mr ike as hard at a Duke as a menial
Well. Foote, here I am, ready ns u'jt
to swallow all your good things," said the
Duke of Cumberland one night in the
green-room or the iiaymarkct. "Iteally,
your Jtoyal Highness must have an excel
lent digestion," replied the wit, "for vou
never bring up anything again." A Scotch
ieer, notoriously thrifty, e-rrcd his wine
1, t - . I . , .
in very sniawi Riassus, ana uesc.inieu cio
qucntly upon its age and excellence. " It
is very little of its age," observed Foote.
Sometimes this humor amounts! to inso
lence; as, for instance, after dining at a
..r. 1.1. ... nr. 1 . i a .. ? n C. Z ..
and finding the servants ranged in the hall
when he was departing, he inquired for
the cook and butler, and, .upon their
stepping forward, said to the first : Here's
halt-a-crown for my eating;" and to the
other: ''Here's five shillings for my
wine; but J. must say A never had so bad
a dinner lor the money in my life." Din
ing with Lord Townscnd after a duel, he
suggested that liis ixrdship might have
goi rid of his antagonist iu a more deadly
way. ,4IIow?" inquired his host "By
inviting him to a dinner like this and
poisoning him," wasthesharp reply. The
imKt 01 nonojK, who waa rather too lond
of the bottle, asked him in what new
character he should go to a masquerade.
"Go sober," answered Foote. Being
tas.cn into vnue s one day. a nobleman
remarked tq him that his handkerchief
was hanging out of his pocket. "Thank
you, my Lord," he replied, "thank you;
you Know me company better than l do.:'
A rich contractor was holding forth upon
the instability of the world. " Can
you account for it, sir?" he asked.
turning to Foote. " Well, not very clear
ly," he responaed, "unless we suppose
it to be built by contract." " Why are
you forever hammering that air'r" he
asked of a gentleman who had no idea of
the time. " Because it haunts me." "No
wonder, for you are forever murderingit."
uarricK. or whose great lame he was un
doubtedly envious, was a constant butt
for his sarcasms; and yet Garrick, whether
rrom lear or tnendshin it would bo dim
cult to determine, did him many kind
nesses, was always ready to oblige him
with money, stood firmly by him through
out the Jackson prosecution: which last
act of friendship louched Foote at last
with gratitude, for in one of his letters.
addressed to Garrick, he writes: "God
forever bless you! May nothing but
Halcyon days and nights crown the rest
of your life, is the sincere prayer of
Samuel Foote." Garrick's notorious
meanness, however, furnished him
with many a witticism. At one of
Foote's dinner-parties an announcement
was made of the arrival of Mr. Garrick's
servants. "Oh, let them wait," he re
plied to his footman, " but be sure you
lock up the pantry : ' Une day a gentle
man, while conversing with Mr. Foole,
was speaking of Garrick's having reflect
ed upon some person's parsimony, and
ended by observing: "Why did he not
take the beam out of his own eye before
attacking the mote in other iieoplcs?
" Because," retorted Foote, "he is not
sure of selling the timber." He could
never forego his jest, however solemn the
occasion. He had been to the funeral of
Holland, the actor, whose lather was a
baker. "Foor fellow!" he said in the
Bedford that evening, the tears scarcely
dry upon his cheeks, "I have been
to see him shoved into the family
oven." He once said of an actress,
who was remarkably awkward with her
arms, that she kept the Graces at arm's
length. But Johnson considered that
Foote surpassed every one he had ever
heard in humorous narrative; and that
although Garrick, the great conversation
alist of the age, surpassed him in gayety,
delicacy and elegance, Foote provoked
much more laughter. A gentleman who
had conceived a prejudice against him re
lated to Boswell his first meeting with
him at a dinner. " Having no good opin
ion of the fellow," he said, " I was re
solved not to be pleased. I went on eating
my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not
to mind him. But the dog was so very
comical that I was obliged to lay down
my knife and fork, throw myself back in
my chair and laugh it out No, sir, he
was irresistible." This most' unscrupu
lous of mimics and satirists was himself
exceedingly thin-skinned. When one
time Woodard, and at another W ilkinson,
threatened him with a retort in kind, he
ran away to Garrick and Rich, their man
agers, foaming with passion and threat
ening the most violent retaliations. Bos
well relates that, after hearing him at a
dinner-table indulge in all kinds of coarse
jocularity ag:iinst Johnson, he ob
served that he had heard the great lexi
cographer say a very good thing of Mr.
Foote himself. He (Boswell) had asked
him one day if he did not think Foote an
infidel. "1 do not know th:it the fellow
is an infidel," replied Johnson " but if
he be au infidel he is an infidel5 as a dog
Li an infidel; that is to say, be has never
thought upon the subject." Boswell adds
that he never saw Foote look so discon
certed. "What, sir!" he exclaimed in
dignantly, "to talk thus of a man of lib
eral education ; a man who for 3'ears was
at the University of Oxford; a man who
has added sixteen new characters to the
literature of his country!"
Mice as Till-Thicves.
Cot,. Howard B. Exsiox, President of
the Maryland Steamboat Company, and
the Treasurer and Secretary, Mr. Byrd,
have for the past several weeks missed
from the office, corner of Light and Cam
den streets, some odds and ends of money
which were left over night in the cash
drawer, in notes of the denominations of
from ten to fifty cents, and also five cent
nickles. One night last week $1.0 was
taken from the drawer. Last Saturday
night $4.31 was left in the drawer, out of
which was missed, yesterday, a twenty-five-cent
note and two ten-cent notes. Col.
Ensign had his suspicions aroused in re
gard to some of the hands of the compa
ny who had access to the office, both
during the night and at an early hour in
the morning, before the officials of the
company were about. He, however, said
nothing, and yesterday morning con
cluded to make a thorough examination
of the desk, so as to ferret out the way
and manner in which the cash was pur
loined. The desk of the Sccretarj-, Mr.
Byrd, has eight drawers four on either
side the cash-drawer being the upper one
upon the right of the desk, w ith money
apartments lined with tin. Upon a care
ful investigation it was found that some
of the notes that had leen left iu the
drawer looked as if they had been nib
bled at by mice, and, ujon opening two
other drawers, a number of papers were
observed to be mutilated. The fact at
once became apparent to Col. Ensign that
the thieves were mice, which fact was es
tablished beyond a doubt when, upon
opening the fourth and lower drawer, all
of the money that had been missed was
found rein, several ten-cent notes having
been pretty well nibbled, but those ot
larger denominations were untouched.
The notes were stowed in one corner of
the drawer, and in the center of the pile was
a nest which the mice had made out of this
rather costly material. Baltimore Gazete.
"Sir," said a well-dressed man who
jumped on the platform of a New York
street car the other night, addressing the
conductor, "you can see, can you not,
that I'm a gentleman!" I'm no beggar is
apparent," and he pointed to hi3 silk
hat and his lavender kid gloves. "To be
brief, 1 live in Buffalo and have been
robbed. I want to raise enough money
lor a night's lodging. Will you give me
fome?" The rum's manner was irresisti
ble, and he touched his hat and jumped
off the platform with the conductor's ten
cents in his pocket. A detective saw the
man repeat this operation on every suc
ceeding car lor an h rmr fir 111 rii-o mrr titan
escorted him to the station-house, where
recognizer as a noted confidence
operator named J ames Miles, of New York.
When searched fortv-fiv? dnllr In mn
currency was found in his possession.
Tweed in PXllw Rill.!, lri Tint 1la -Vkl J
to the services of Judge Comstock, of
Syracuse. N. Y.. who th
ara says, is about tn rwrt
the late guest of the metropolis " for legal
services in. freeing him from Blackwell's
Island."
The Original ClockWork Conspirator.
Ther is nothing new under the sun."
The dvnamite disaster is but a renroduc
tion on a larger scale of Eldad Hinckley's
dreadful performance many years ago,
when he got up explosions byelock-work.
There wa a very nice shoemaker at
Natick who fell in love with a pretty girl
in fcouth Framingham. Both these towns.
as everybody knows, lie in the State of
Massachusetts, something like lour miles
apart.
Down from Natick every Sunday night
came Enos Pettibonc to " sit hp" with the
girl of his heart, who lived with her uncle.
Deacon Hinckley. And the shoemaker
could have gone a great way farther with
out finding a prettier, brighter, nicer girl
than Nannie Hinckley. Her many charms
had not only fascinated the Natick youth,
but had prostrated the sCern affections of
her Cousin Eldad. a creature given over
from his youth to inventions. The deacon
carried on a big hat factory, and the place
was filled by machines ot iUdad s invent
ing. At home he was never happy unless
rigging wires to the kitchen stovepipe
and getting up tin rinktums run by one
teakettle power, that made hash or pared
apples or iounded the Monday's wash
This labor-saving youth found time for
love, and gave his inventive affections to
his cousin Nannie. Concealment led on
him like a nio'.h on his winter trousers,
till one fatal day when Nannie came home
with the JNatuk tellow in tow liom
neighboring quilting. Then Eldad sought
an opportunity, related the ancedoteof his
affections, was promptly lefused, and thus
it came about one winter's night that the
town of South Framingham shook to its
center with an explosion of blichtcd love
and scorned devotion.
Enos Pettibonc came as regular as the
cloc k over from the shoe-pegging village
to the litt.e Irani bouse ot the deacon
and far into the night, by the "fitful flare
of the kerosene," the pair sat up and
sparked.
Eldad lay in his bed up stairs and ate
the cotton wool out of three comfort to
stay the rage of his stomach, and, it is
supposed, in one of the dread vigils the
awful scheme was evolved that I am
about to describe.
Standing in the corner of the kitchen
was one of the old-fashioned clocks dear
to the hearts of our grandmothers. It was
one of Nannie's chores to wind the clock
up, a duty she performed every Sunday
night alter r.nos had shut the garden gate.
On one fatal Sunday afternoon ma and
pa and Nannie all off to the church
Eldad might have been seen half in, half
out of the kitchen clock, attaching with
greatest care a small box by screws to the
back ol the case. Into this there ran a
tubing mounted with a cap. and at a little
distance away a powerful spring hauled
up and caught as one sees the springs in
rat-traps. The slightest touch ot the little
wire that held this spring sent a hammer
with unerring precision niton this cap.
J he big weight ot the clock precisely at
twelve would come solemnly down like
the hand of fate, reaching the little line
that held the spring, for a month s sue
cessivo Sundays Eldad had gauged the
weight till he knew to a minute the loca
tion ot that chunk of lead.
Very poor iu appetite was Eldad at the
supper table this eventful evening, and as
Nannie washed the dishes and sang:"!
Would Not Live Alway," the conspira
tor's heart almost relented. But even
with the soft influence there mingled the
creak of the garden-gate and the squeaky
tjunday boots ol .nos came up the snowy
path.
the old folks cleared out, Lldad got a
chunk ot tallow, went into the sink-room
antl greased his cow-hide loots lor Mon-
day's.work, and with the exultation of a
demon betook himself to bed.
The pen of a Dickens or the icncil of a
Dore would find their powers challenged
by the dark workings of the wretched
Eldad's mind as hour after hour crept
slowly on.
The loving, innocent pair below were
setting up" after the most approved Mas
sachusetts pattern when Nannie thought to
treat her Enos to a dish of molasses candy.
They sat tiesidc the glowing stove and
stirred the foaming, boiling sirup. They
took it out and pulled, laughed and whis
pered things so much sweeter than candy
that the confectionery refused to enter the
competition lists.
" We must put it In the snow to cool."
said Nan. So forth beneath the moon
light, with the pan between them,
marched the angel-guided pair. The
clock struck twelve as they passed off the
steps to thesnow-bauk that rose high each
side of the garden-path, aud simultane
ously the weight on the left hand, which
was the striking part, just rested its leaden
bottom on the little Mire, lowered it the
sixteenth part of an inch, off flew the
spring, down went the hammer, bang
went the jcrcussion cap, and flash went
the powder away went the kitchen clock,
a yard square ot ceiling over head, and
the better part of a high post bedstead in
the room alHve on which laid the arch
conspirator.
Nan and Enos fainted in the snow-bank.
and when neighlors in strange costumes
arrived upon the scene they beheld a
dreadful sight. The deacon and deacon
ess in nightgowns, speechless with terror,
were picking up the wheels and things
out of the old clock. The pipe of the
stove lay across the dresser; the nose was
blown off the immortal George Washing
ton which adorned the mantel a way of
blowing his nose George never would have
adopted in life. But the most dreadful
part of the catastrophe was discovered
when they mounted the back stairs; there
lay the conspirator with the pendulum
pinning him in the back like the arrow
of an archer. At first the wound was not
considered fatal, but mortification (prol
ably at the failure of his st henic) set in,
and on Sunday-week the village of Fram
ingham planted Eldad llincklev, the great
original of the late dynamite disaster
hoist by ins own petard." Cor. ct.
Louit liepublican.
Big Stories.
Those who are in the habit of telling
prodigious stories ought to have good
memories; but, fortunaiely, their memo
ries are generally short. Kichard Brins
ley Shcr.dan deallh with these menda
cious pests in a manner peculiar to him
self, lie would neveifallow himself to be
outdone by a verbal prodigy. Whenever
a monstrous story was told in his presence
he would endeavor to outdo it by one of
his own coinage, and consign the narrator
to confusion by a falsehood more glaring
than his own. Once in his hearing a
sporting adventurer ran thus: " I was fish
ing one day. say in a certain cold spring
full of delicious trout, and soon caught a
large mes3. But what was really surpris
ing, not a foot from the cold spring there
was one of boiling water; so that, when
you wanted to cook j-our fish, all you had
to do, alter booking them irom the cold
spring, was to pop them directly into the
boiling." lhe company all expressed as
tonishment and incredulity at this mon
strous assertion with the exception of
Sheridan. " I know," said he, " of a
phenomenon yet more surprising. I was
fishing one day when I came to a place
where there were three springs. The first
was a cold one stocked with fish, the
second a boiling spring, and the third a
natural fountain of nuked butter and para-ley."
" Melted butter and parsley : 'exclaimed
the first tory-teller, " impossible!"
Is the neighborhood of Bath, England,
is kept a carriage horse which evinces
more than ordinary intelligence when his
own ends have to be sc ved. If he hears,
even in the distance, the movement of a
mowing-machine, he connects the sound
with fresh grass, and at once taps with his
hoof at the boarding of the stall to sum
mon the coachman for a supply. At first
he knocks gently, but if hi summons is
not heeded he makes a noise that is un
bearable. The coachman sleeps in a room
adjoining the stable; much to his discom
fort, the horse sometimes has imaginary
wants during the night, and at whatever
hour this occurs the man is compelled to
get up and attend to him.
Thk expression, " Everything is lovely
and the goose hangs high," is a corrup
tion of the saying, " Everything is lovely
and the goose honks high." The honk is
the note sounded by the wild goose in its
flights, and is about the only music in
which that graceful bird indulges. Chi
tag Evening Journal.
FACTS AD FlOUBESi
TnE fire losses in New England for No
vember footed up $1.49y.lUO, of which
Massachusetts' share was $058,100; New
Hampshire, $275,730; Connect b ut, $107,-
200; Khode Island. jf:m,uuo; Jiaine, 4i,
075; Vermont, $23,073.
Barnstable County, Mass., had 137
male and 113 female teachers in her dis
trict schools in 18.13, against 54 males and
172 females in 1874. At the former date
the highest waerefl paid per monh for
males- were $2 1.80 and board, find fttr fe
males $8.21 and board; in 1874 the aver
age wages per month lor male teachers,
inrluAing board, varied from $110 to $53,
and lot female teachers from $42 to $224
The Grafton Mills, at New England Vil
lage, Mass., have been sold under the
hammer for a little over $50,000, being
valued at $200,000 three or four years ago,
and being still taxed for $!i0,00t). . E. G.
Lamson, of Shelburne Falls, the mort
gagee, took the Davis Mill with eight
acres of land for $15,000alovc the $10,000
mortgage, and the upper mills for $17,000
above the claims of about $11,000.
On the top of the Pinnacle Mountain,
in Pennsylvania, between Grccnawald
Station, on the Berks and Lehigh and Port
Clinton, is a lake covering about half an
acre, in the center of which is a powerful
spring of pure and cold water, which,
however, as fast as it comes out of the
earth sinks at some unknown place again.
The lake is as clear as ghiss and the water
never rises higher, neither docs it sink,
but always retains its height. The sight
is well worth seeing, although there is a
fearful mountain to climb.
A man at Concord, N. II., furnishes the
following remarkable record of longevity
on both, sides of his ancestors: Grand
parents, on father's side grandfather,
110 years; grandmother, 05 years. On
mother's side grandfather, 100 years;
grandmother, 08 years. His mother is
living, aged 105 years, and his father died
at 103 years of age. He has eight broth
ers and sisters living of the following
ages: 45,58,00,02, fii, GO, 68 aud 70
years respectively. Five children died
. i i
in tiieir iniaucy.
Insanity in England is increasing. In
1850 England and Wales had a popula
tion of not quite 20,000,000, of whom 30,702
were lunatics in private asylums ; but in
187o, out of a population ot not quite 24,-
000,000, there were 03,793 lunatics. In
other words, sixteen years ago, eighteen
persons out ot each 10,000 inhabitants ol
this island were crazy, while now twenty
six out of each )0, 000 are in that condi
tion. Even this does not tell the whole
truth, for there are a great number of
lunatics who are carefully kept at home,
hidden from notice, and not included in
the census under the head of "insane."
This fact will be a partial explanation of
what otherwise might seem to be an inex
plicable circumstance, namely: that while
the whole number ol "paupers " in En
gland and Wales had diminished from
802,078 in 1859 to 817,822 in 1875, the
number of " pauper lunatics" has in
creased 24,(521 in these sixteen years. A
"pauper lunatic" is one whose friends
cannot pay for his support and who is
kept at the public expense in a public
institution. There is no reason to suppose
that poor people are more liable than rich
people to lose their reason; but while the
23,000,000 of non-paupers furnish only
7,300 lunatics known as such, the 817,822
paupers furnish 50,403 lunatics. Suppos
ing that the same ratio of insanity pre
vailed throughout the community, about
l.ioO.OOO English men and women are
crazy, but nearly all of them are either
shut up at home or are allowed to go at
liberty as it they were sane. rail Mall
Uazctte.
A Yetldo Theater.
Writing of theaters at Ycddo, a con
tributor to the Galaxy says :
nhena favorite actor makes his ap
pearance the whole audience becomes elec
trified, and testify their delight by a series
of shouts j ells and cries which no known
combination of vowels and consonants
can adequately render. They do not all
shout together, but the j ells run rapidly
from group to group, reminding one of
the falling of a stone as it bounds down
the side of a mountain. Their enthusiasm
is kept within liounds bv a sort of inspect
or, or policeman, seated on a small raised
platlorm in the center of the theater, who
preserves order and summarily ejects all
disturler3 of the public peace. During
the whole time a constant feasting seems
to Imj going on; plates of rice and fish are
succeeded by candies, sweetmeats and
other delicacies, sold by licensed venders,
who perambulate the passages between
acts, offering their wares in sing-song,
sleepy, nasal tones; nothing escapes them,
however; the slightest sign from awould-
te buyer brings them in a Hash to his side.
hen the chop-sticks arc lor n moment
laid aside, little bottles of sakki and cups
of tea make their appearance. Empty
dishes arc carried ott and almost instant
ly replaced by full ones. Notwith
standing these interesting occupations,
great attention is given to the piece.
The orchestra, placed in a stage-box to
the left, is composed of drums, flutes and
three-stringed guitars. The musicians
are clothed in priestly robes in memory of
the honor of the gods. They have no
mercy on the audience, but "play almost
incessantly during the piece to accom
pany the recitative and lietween the acts
to enliven the public. Oncol the strong
est proofs of the gentleness and strength
I of mind of the Japanese is the admirable
loriitime with which i,;mu people listen
to th:s unearthly and diabolical music for
twelve consecutive hours without exhib
iting the sliirhtest si cms of mental aliena
tion. Two aisles or gangways lead from
cither end of the stage to the front en
trance ot the theater, going directly
through the little checketboard squares.
The actors generally make their entrance
on the stage by these gangways, passing
through the audience and under their very
noses. Though the actors belong to the
lowest classes, they often endear them
selves to the public at large, who liecome
much infatuated with certain favorites. It
has not unfrcquently happened that a cele
brated actor has been magnificently buried
by popular subscription and mourned by
the whole population. The best of them
receive about 1,000 rios ($1,100) per year.
They are often interested in the profits of
the enterprise. Some play gratuitously
with a view to making themselves known
to the public. Women never appear on
the stage. Their parts are taken by men,
and so cleverly do they do it in dress,
manner and gesture that the illusion
would be complete were they not betrayed
by the voice.
Ah Editor's Pet.
For a long time past the favorite pet of
the editor of the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald
ami Mail was a large rattlesnake, and so
warmly attached were they to each other
that it was generally lielieved among his
many lady friends that nothing but death
and a very violent and sudden death at
that could part them ; but this it seems
was a mere girlish delusion, for he re
cently gave his dear, sweet, innocent pet
to Mayor Brown, of that city, and he in
turn presented it to a lady who was on the
eve ol starting to Italy, and it is now half
way across the Atlantic the first ot its
race, perhaps, to plow the stormy waves
f he great sea. JMarble is very plenti
ful in Italy, and when that whole country
sh al I h ave le come thorough ly stocked with
rattlesnakes, ami the dark-eyed infancy
of that beautiful clime shall be lulled to
quiet slumber at dewy eve by their melo
dious rattle, the gratitude of the people
will find expression in a gorgeously-
sculptured Carrara monumental shaft that
shall bathe its lofty summit in the very
clouds, and tell in mute, yet eloquent,
words of the God-Ukc bcnclaction ot the
Odumbia editor and Mayor for all time
to come. Louittille Courier-Journal.
Cookies. Three cups of sugar, two
tablespoonfuls of rose water, one cup of
butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful of
soda, one-half cup of milk, flour enough
to roll out well. Beat the eggs very light-
tub the butter, sugar and rose water to
gether ; then add eggs, soda dissolved in
the milk, and the flour. Roll thin. One
cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, two
eges, ball a teaspoonful of soda, mix soft
and bake quickly. One cup butter, two
cups sugar, two eggs, half a teaspoon soda,
half a cup of milk. Flour to roll out.
Add caraway seeds and spice.
USEFUL AND SUGGEST1TE.
ift topper uteflsiiaj f trie tin nits' worn
off, have H immediately replaced.
Never leave saucepan's dirty from, one
day's use to be cleaned the next; it is
slovenly and untidy.
The manure-pile is the farmer's bank
of deposit. If there is nothing deposited
there be will surely fail ; tor bow would
the merchant get along if he had no de
posits in the bank ?
Idiw RrsK. Two light cups of In
dian meal, oile 6up of while rjttuf, one
teaspoonful of saleratus, enough sour or
buttermilk to dissolve, one cup sweet;
stir in three fourths of a cup of molasses.
A Sure Cure kor Frosted Feet.
Take a turnip, let it freeze; then roast it
until it will mash, spread on a cloth, and
bind on the affected part; when it be
comes dry change it, until the pain is
subdued. Cor Cincinnati Time.
; Do not scrub the inside of your frying
pan, as after this operation any prepara
tion fried is liable to catch or burn in the
pan. If the pau has become black in
side, rub it with a hard crust of bread,
and wash in hot water mixed with a little
soda. Home Matjntint.
Vinegar Candy. Ohe cupful of white
sugar, one-half a cupful of vinegar; IhiiI
it until it crisps in cold water. This
makes au excellent candy and something
beneficial also, as it is goxl for colds. It
the vineg ir Ikj very strong, take a litttc
less of it and some water, but for use the
strength of vinegar never hurts. When
done, pour out on buttered plates, and
either mark off in squares one inch or two
as it cools, or, wnen cool enough, handle,
draw it until It is nice and white; then
cut it into sticks.
Washing Uiae. Twenty pounds of
white potato starch, twenty pounds of
wheat starch, twenty pounds ol Prussian
Llue, two pounds of indigo carmine, and
two pounds of finely-ground gum-arabic
are mixed in a trough, with the gradual
addition of sufficient water to form a half
fluid, homogeneous mass, w hich is then
poured out on a Iniard with strips tacked
to the edges. It is then allowed to dry in
a heated room until it does not run to
gether again when cut. It is next cut by
a suitable cutter into little cubes and al
lowed to dry perfectly. They are finished
by being placed in a revolving drum, with
a suitable quantity of dry and finely-pulverized
Paris blue, until they have a
handsome appearance. The cost is about
twelve cents a pound. Springfield (Aana.)
Telegram.
How to (Jet Eggs in Winter,
We will not say that the farmer who
leaves poultry to roost in the apple tree
at the corner of the barn, and to pick up
their living at the pigs' trough and in the
barnyard, may not occasionally get an
egg in winter. But as a matter of fact
there is on most farms a great dearth of
eggs from November to March. With a
warm shelter and suitable feed pullets
that begin to lay in the fall will continue
to lay through the winter. It is mainly
a question of feed. The staple feed is In
dian corn, especially in the West, because
it is the most plentiful and the most con
venient. It furnishes plenty of fat, and
keeps up the heat of the fowls, but it is poor
in albumen and the phosphates. I hey
want a variety of grains and vegetables,
and, to do their best, one feed daily of
warm cooked meal and vegetables. Most
farmers have milk, and if this can be add
ed it will be all they need. Butchers
scrap cake is good, and may safely le
kept in the poultry-yard where the fowls
can help themselves at pleasure, lioiled
potatoes or turnips, mashed and mixed
with Indian-meal, make an excellent leed
for laving hens. Fowls arc particularly
fond of cabbages and turnips at all stages
of their growth, and cat them raw greed
ily every day if they can get them. We
have found so good results from feeding
cabbages to laying hens that we always
lay in a large supply for the winter. Re
fuse from the butchers, and offal from the
fish-market, also furnish good material
for making eggs. These are accessible to
most villagers, and can be had at small
cost. A hen is only a machine for pro
ducing eggs. If you want the finished
product you must put the raw material
into the hopper. It should not te forgot
ten that there is a liberal grinding going
on in the gizzard, and the laying bird
should have free access to gravel with
sharp grit, broken oyster and clam shells,
which assist in reducing the grains and
forming egg-shells. Willi a plentiful
supply of egg-producing food bens will
lay well in winter when eggs bring the
highest price. American Agricultural.
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Extra Care of Feeble Sheep,
In most lhx-ks there will usually be
found several feeble sheep which require
more care than the larger part of the tlock.
They are invalids. The strong and robust
sheep give these feeble ones a push here
and a thrust there, thus keeping them
back and away from their proper portion
of feed. These invalids may Ikj recog
nized readily by their gaunt and sickly
appearance. Unless they receive special
care during the cold weather they will not
survive the winter. If there are not more
than three or four of these feeble ones,
fence oil one corner of the yard for them,
or make a shed with rails, poles and straw
for them, in case boards are scarce. Take
the rails from some fence and lay up two
courses about a foot apart for the sides of
the shed, and fill the space between the
rails with stable manure or old straw, or
small branches of evergreen trees. In
the absence of other material plow up a
lot of tough sods for filling in lietween
the rails. Cover the top with a few rails
or poles; then lay on brush, if you have
nothing better, and cover over with straw
or cornstalks, aud pile on sufficient to
carry oil' the rain and snow. If straw is
scarce cover a layer of brush and straw
with turf or sods laid so neatly that when
the surface is frozen the rain will be car
ried off. Leave only a narrow doorway
on the sunny side. In addition to a gen
erous supply of fodder, let each sheep be
fed about a pound of oats and corn per
day. It will pay well to take extra care
of the invalid sheep. One thing is cer
tain, which is, if they are not separated
from the flock they will not survive until
spring. See, also, that thej' have access
to water at all times. Sheep will live
without water, yet they will thrive letter
if they can have easy access .o it day and
night. They need water or they would
not drink it. JV. T. Herald.
Business Habits.
There is probably not one farmer in
10,000 who keeps a set of accounts from
which he can at any moment learn the
cost of anything he has produced, or even
the cost ot his real property. A very few
farmers, who have been brought up to
business habits, keep such accounts and
are able to tell how their affairs progress,
what each crop, each kind of stock, or
each animal has cost, and what each pro
duces Knowing these points a farmer
can, to a very great extent, properly de
cide what crops he will grow and what
stock he will keep. He will thus le able
to apply his labor and money where it
will do the most good. He can weed out
his stock and only retain such animals as
can be kept with profit. For the want of
such knowledge farmers continue, jear
after year, to feed cows that are unprofita
ble, and frequently sell for less than her
value one that is the best of the herd, be
cause she is not known to be any lcttcr
than the rest. Feed is also wasted upon
ill-bred stock, the keep of which costs
three or four times that of well-bred ani
mals, which, as has been proved by figures
that cannot be mistaken, pay a large profit
upon their keeping. For want of know
ing what they cost, poor crops are raised
year by year at an actual loss, provided
the farmer's labor, at the rates current for
common labor, were charged against
them. To learn that he has been working
for fifty cents a day during a number of
years, while he has been paying bis help
twice as much, would open the eyes of
many a farmer who has actually been do
ing this, and it would convince him that
there is some value in figures and book
accounts. . It is not generally understood
that a man who raises twenty bushels of
corn per acre pays twice as much for his
plowing and harrowing, twice as much
for labor and twice as great interest upon
the cost of his farm as a neighbor who
raises forty bushels per acre. Nor is it
understood1 tiiat it-hen he raises & pig that
makes 150 pounds of pork in a year that
his pbrk costs him twice as much; or the
corft he feeds .. brings. him but half as
much, as that of his rielghb'or, vlioste fig
weighs 300 pmnds at a year old. If all
these things were clearly set down in
figures upon a page in an account book,
and were studied, there would le not only
a sudden awakening to the unprofitable
ness of such fanning, but an immediate
remedy would be sought. For no icrson
could resist evidence of this kind if it
were once brought plainly home to him.
If iloi tkctipTS; tnccbant or manufactur
ers kept no accounts they cotlM hot possi
bly carry on their business, and it is b'nly
because the farmer's business is one of
the most safe that he can still go on work
ing in the dark and throwing away oppor
tunities of bettering bis condition and in
creasing his profits. AmcrtSan Agricult
urist. A writer in the London Field states
that poultry properly fed will acquire all
the fatness needed for marketing purposes
in a fortnight or three weeks at most.
Their diet should le Indian, oat or barley
meal, scalded In milk or water the for
mer is the best as it will expedite the fat
tening process. They should be fed early
in the morning, at noon and also in the
evening just ln-fore going to roost and
given a plentiful supply of pure fresh
water, plenty of gravel, sliced cabbage or
turnip-tops. If the fowls are required to
be very fat some trimmings of fresh mut
ton suet may be chopped up and scalded
with their other feedorvhey mayle boiled
in milk alone and poured over the meal.
This renders the flesh firmer than it other
wise would Ik. When lit to kill, feeding
should be stopped for twelve hours or
more so that the intestines may become
comparatively empty.
Journalistic enterprise Is not appre
ciated in Germany. An accomplished
writer, after fitting himself for the work
by considerable sojourn in the United
States, established a correspondence bu
reau to furnish the leading German jour
nals with information concerning Ameri
can subjects wherein their readers would
be interested. Just three papers, one at
Berlin, one at Breslau, and one at Stras
bourg, accepted the correspondence, for
which the charge was about one dollar a
Meek.
aa)
An Eastern paper says: "A corre
spondent wants to know the lest way to
become a literary man. Well, the quick
est way is for him to take a short voyage
to sea. lie will then very likely become
a contributor to the Atlantic."
EfUNETT's Cocoa in Bis the best and cheap
est hair-dressing in the world.
American Grnlitn. Moody and Satikry.
The grent revivalists, Messrs. Moody and
Pankev, who rleetrificd staid old England
with their eloquence and enthusiasm, arc
fair samples of American genius. Spring
ing from among the common people, their
sympathies are alive to the wants of the
1-hoU eoj)lf, and herein lie the secret of
their great success. Those who seek to be
popular must study and be familiar with the
wants of the masses, and prove loynl there
to. To this fact we may trace the grand suc
cess in business, as well as in religious un
dertakings, which many Americans have
achieved. Strikingly illustrative of these
suggestions is that great establishment, lo
cated nt buffalo, N. Y., and known as the
"World's Dispensary" a most impropriate
name, indeed, for that vast institution, with
in whose walls are manufactured remedies
which arc In demand in every quarter of the
globe, and at which a corps of distinguished
physicians and surgeons, under the personal
direction of Dr. Pierce, are constantly ad
ministering to the needs of thousands of
sufferers everywhere, and whose success in
the treatment of all forms of chronic ail
ments has become so well known that there
is scarcely a hamlet in the land in which his
name is tiot familiar. Its proprietor, says
the Jlernld and TorrhWM, of Detroit, " is a
tnrtn of the jteojile, writes for them, and to
them tenders his eminent professional serv
ices." His advertisements are earnest ex
hortations. Like the great revivalists, his
enthusiasm Is multiplied by the unparalleled
success of his enterprise, as well as by the
efficacy of his remedies in curing disease.
The people believe in h'm and his remedies, be
cause, as the New York Tribune says, " he
sympathizes with them in all their
afflictions, efforts and attainments."
Hence, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery Is to-day more largely em
ployed as a blood and liver medicine, and
also as a cough remedy, than any other
remedial agent in the world. His Favorito
Prescription, he does not recommend as a
" cure-all," as is so often done by com
pounders of worthless, humbug rostrums,
but for all diseases ana weaknesses peculiar
to women it has proved itself so much of a
pcriric that it now enjoys great popularity
and universal continence. Ir. fierce s rieas
ant Pur-rath e Pellets. " scarcely larger than
mustard seed," have proved so agreeable
and reliable as a cathartic mat tney are rap
idly takinir the place of the large, nauseous
pills heretofore so much in use; while his
Compound Extract of Smart-Weed is a fa
vorite remedy for Colic, Cramps, Summer
complaint. Dinrrlura, Dysentery, Cholera
and Cholera Morbus, and also as a linimenl.
Of Dr. Sace's Catarrh Kcmedy and Dr.
tierce's Nasal Douche little need be said,
as they are known everywhere as the great
est specifics for Catarrh and "cold in the
head" ever given to the public. And be
sides this larire measure or success, nr.
Fierce seems likely to achieve as great re
nown as an author as lie lias as a pnysician.
His CoMtJO.N Skn-sk Mepicai, Apvisek, a
book of about '.HHJ pages, which he sells at
the unparalleled low once or tu.M', na al
ready been sold to the extent of exhausting
two editions amounting to loriy iiiousanu
copies. The secret of Dr. Pierce's success,
as well as that of the srrcat revivalists, and
scores of otlr Americans who by their
genius have advanced step by step Irom ob
scurity to affluence and distinction, consists
in treating the people with consideration,
sympathy, candor and honesty. No man,
who hopes to attain either wealth or dis
tinction, can nfford to deal unfairly with the
world or be indifferent to the wants and best
interests of humanity.
ScnKNCK's PrxMONic Stp.hp, Sf.a Wrrn Tonkj
and MAsnrtAKE Piix. These deservedly cele
brated and popular medicines have effected rev
olution in the healing art, and proved the fallacy
of several maxims which have for many years ob
structed the progress of medical science. The
false supposition that " Consumption Is incurable"
deterred DhvsiciaiiH from attempting to find reme
dies fur that disease, aud patients afflicted with it
reconciled themselves to deatn wiruoui msKinian
effort to escape from a doom which they atipposed
to be unavoidable. It is now proved, however,
that rnmntmntion. can b ctrtd. and that it ha
Jbtfn cured in a very irrcat number of cases (some
of them apparently desperate oue ny tcnencK
Pulmonic rJyrup alone; mm in omer rnscs uic
same medicine in connection with Scheuck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandr.ike Pills, one or both, ac
cordiiiK to the requiremeuts of the case.
J)r. t-ichenrk himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted
"ood health for more than forty years, was sup
posed, at one time, to oe m me verv k""3 ucmu,
his physieinns having pronounced his case hoe
less. aud abandoned nim to his fate. He waa
cured bv the aforesaid medicines, and, since his
recovery, many thousands similarly atlected nave
nsed Ir. Schenck"s preparations with the same re
markable success.
Knll dii-ertinns acromnanr each, making it not
absolutely necessary to persYmally see Dr. Schenck
unless patients wish ttieir lung's examined, aim
for this purpose he is profcstionally at his princi
pal oflice. corner Sixth and Arch tre-!, Philadel
phia, every Monday, where all letters for advice
muxt be addressed. bcheucJC a uiemcinea ir
old by all Uruxsists.
What Shall We Dof
It Is no wonder that we hear this question
on every corner. so many are ojinnsuu-
dcnly of diseases of the brain in tuesu aaya
that everyone Is alarmed, and is osKing.
What shall we do?" There is alarm on ac
count of dizziness of the head, a whirling
sensation when risinsr up suddenly, a bad,
" all-gone" sensation'at the pit of the stom
ach, like the gnawing of an ulcer, with a
feeling like a load after eating, pains in the
back, sides and chest, at times, with costive
bowels, scanty, high-colored urine, sonic
times voided with pain, appetite poor, and
when food is eaten it oftentimes distresses;
the t.kin, after a time, becomes dark, cold
and clammy, eves sunken and tinged with
vellow. spirits dejected, with evil forebod
ings. hen any of these symptoms are
present no time should be lost in using a
proper remedy. The one that we have
known to operate with the most certain tv i
the SHAK.KK fcXTKACT or 1UKJTS NA
TIVE Stkcp (not a patent medicine), sold by
Druirinsts and A.J. w mte, siv rean sireci,
Kew York.
t-.. Vnn will i vp monev bv UsirJET
Trotter fc Gamble's Original MottUd German
oap. It will not wa6te nor nttumo
ke ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
rater, tor is it cheapened with articles inju
rious to clothes, lietnember, you obtain a lull
one-pound bar if you purcliase meir nrnuu.
To protect their brand from imitators
Procter & Gamble patented it, and the patent
. , .1 . fT:i.J !..... CAiirtc
im sustained in liwc timtu ouivo --
Examine the stamp on the bar when you
buy. Take their Hoap only.
Millions of bottles of Bcbnett's Coco-
aijse have been sold dnring the last tweniy
ears, in every civilized country , anu me
il.li. ltit. rfm 1 ,rwl tlm verdict that it U
the cheapest and beet Hair Dreing la Ui
Oentian was ottf gtanrfm others' hobby tm
atonic, and no blttef wohftl bo considered
complete wltfrout it: hence it enters Into
nearly all. Dut experience has proved that
it is it jurious to te stfrfn'ach If frequently
used. Afar better tonic (a foUnd fn Ouarana
Bitters.
Michael Carney, Cincinnati Btereo
typer, had a terrible fall t2:e other after
noon from the top of a live story l)(i51dnK
througll n hatchway to the street floor. He
had gone to the iiiilth wij.h( thc gtcreotvpo
plate in his arms to send it tfwn. The
gas had been turned oil" and it was
there. He had no idea, it seems, but that
the elevator platform waa up. 13y habit,
kh'vthiq jit ought to be there, he stepped
out aud dovfi! H was a frightful fall,
past lour landings, u'u'll hi struck on the
platform at the street floor. TLX' f'V
was broken the man was not. Subse
quent medical examination showed that
lie Wfl9 tiot miously injured.
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Chauncey Filley, of St. IOit.i", evcral
years ago found himself scrio1iiy in
volvcd by indorsements tor a mining eii
tcrprie, and owing in the aggregate
f OiHj.OOO. At first be thought he would
go through the bankrupt court, but finally
thought better of it and concluded to pay
tip. lie failed hi creditors together,
paid them $."500,000, sfcufeil a liberal ex
tension for the remainder and went to
work. Quite recently, the Troy Time
says, he has wiped out the entire debt,
and stands ft fie man once more. The
rettilt fhows what indomitable energy,
pluck and perseverance caii aromplish
when employed in the right direction.
-A bill in the Legislature of West Vir
ginia authorizing towns throughout the
Slate to establish rha In gangs is pending,
with a prospect of its passage. The Wheel
ing .S'.f'f.m thinks the chain gall, 1
degrading and barbarous institution.
Iinve Vntl
AM ite advancement in science,
irt and P'vi't'n'inn li n pre
vented chiliifrfl fr-mi kli'tonis
riole llir..Mt-h the tue " H.i Ir
lihoes. Onlv
SII.VKK TIPS
prevent this. Try litem.
n ttie
CAULK WIIKW WinK
Itoola and Miora? millions
liciwr. worn: ali say they arc tlitf
easiest and leM Slmeever made.
Isn, k on! for the rntent Stamp.
All others are base imitations.
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a-tf a &OZ. perdHjr. Send for Chromof'atalpiru,
MU H fl) J. II. fautlord'a Kona. Bolton, kins.
OPIUHi
it Morphine llahlt holntelr an-
eilur i-itr.-d. I'HinleM :nn nubile
fwna stitinr tor nrn iculnrn. it,
arltun. 1SJ Waiiulntton-li;ilCo
an4
1-
100
Perfumed Curds, ten Stj-lea, w Ith nmne.) eta ,
or DO for 35 ct. Free 1'ress. Kredericktow n, O.
RICH
ACM TO '-il Klrpnnt on rtimmnt. mnnnted.
MUufi I 0 aUe9xll, for Sl N'oteltle and U rn
tuototvtry detenpfn. Kafl Cliromo Co., I'lilla., J'a.
Book. Knrlona floods, Sporting Articles,
etc., ti-t-pam I'.oolt for two 3-cent slumps.
BALDWIN A CO.. Ill Nassau St., N. V.
f 1 H y C V Matte rapidly with Sfenril Key Check
lil U f C I Outfits. Catiiliiiriies and full prirtlruhtr
t'KKje. S. M. Spencer, 34? Washington street, Do.loh.
Sorrento Voocl-Crvln Co., !S7 Waslilncton
St.. Chlcaq-o. 111. Dealer tn Tools. Phi terns and
materials for Fret-Cutting. Send stamp for circular.
nntfit.P)TPniXTS of the AOF.. Our
KttUl.t.t Er;overnmcnt and History. (io dpeed a
S-KHKKB Hook. Bible and Map Home, Chicauo.
CL'Ot Dally to Apenta. Hr new arttelct and the licsv
JpriW Ftmily Paper In America, with two 93 Chro
nics tree. AM Eli. W'K'G CO., 'i'.iZ llruadwity, N. V.
A MONTH. Agent wanted. !t4 best lelV.
Inp articles in the world, tint sample free.
Address J AT BUOXSON. Detroit, Midi.
EVEUYU0DY SEND MW.
tiahle sample and full particular. Address F. I).
WASMBL KSK CO., Middleboro. Mass.
CAI
CER. 5,000 CURED. 82?-":,",?!
I!t. Hlf I'"K.192 West Madison-st. hi
caito. Write full description. Advice Fi re.
5 am Tlaltlnar Crl. WHO your name nr
ffl p "ii.ted. ient lor 26c We hav lOO atyles.
I I Atseuta Wanted. t samples sent for
aV strniup. A. U. Fuller A Co., itrockteu, Mass
C! I A'rOai Wfi ksii'l Kxene, or 1 Oil for
Jp it I felted. All the new and si.m lard Novelties.
Cuomo", etc. ViilnahV Snmiiies free with Circulars,
IL L. FI.KTCH Kit, 111 Chambers street. New York.
REVOLVERS ! ! E"r $3.00
rilr.. for ST r.hl TWk-kvl Pi S.(i.f.i e.ri..4. llltJ...W
r.kiu r. Aitna st.Tiiii 01 a wonm. i w.
BWffS I'EIt WKEK fil ARANTEKT) TO
A S Airents. Mali: and Female, in their own lo-
t ralitv. Terms and Oi rn r Fb Address
3 S V. O. VICKF.UY A: CO.. Au;riita, Maine,
t All. want it Thousand of Ilyes and
.Millions ot property aaveo iy 11- ror
I lines made with it. Address l,u.
INUVON Bxia., New Tork or Chicago-
Lamb Knitter!
Haw,
first-class, for sale at prest discount, A
K. K. r-KATT. 79 Jackson street. Chi
Address
cago.
$10 to 25 per Day otherenerf.etieyoung
men to sell an srtii Te as STAPLE COFFEE, to Farmers
aud others in tler own n-i!rhlrhnoL. Particulars Freo.
Address THE CENTENNIAL CO., St- Luuis, Wo.
Dcculcomnnle, Chromos. Steel KiifrravlnKs, Pho
tographs. Scrap-book Plcinres, Mottoes, etc. Me
pint samples and catalogue sent post-paid for picts.
Ag'ts wanted. J. L. Patte-i A Co., ltU W Illiain-sU, K.Y
S250
A MONTH. -Vnt wanted every
where. UnlneKs honorable and first
cImu.. Particulars sent free. Address
JO US WOK I'll t CO , St. Louis, .Mo.
$25 TO $50 PEH 1AY?S
to sell WKI,I.-1(KIG J! Al II 1 WOK V. A
Horse bores from 12 to 4S inches diameter. Sead for
pamphlet. PUMP A SKK1N CO.. Belleville. III.
CITCIWATI DOM, RWKRKLY STAR.
An Independent family Newspaper. M Pss,
4i Columns of heading. Q f lKR YKAil.
Peeiiiieo Cony FKfiK. a. Frea of postage.
AddrebsTlie MTAK" COMClnciniiati,0!iio.
PUFF! PUFF!! PUFF!!!
The Wonderful I'BzzlclJnx. "Purr."
1.IMMI It ins; of Smoke out of this Mapica! rtox.
Kndless amusement. Sent, with full directions, to anv
Hdd-ese. opon receipt of i-:: Handsomely illuminated,
)c Aij'U vanteti. B.C.A.Loti idt;e fc Co.. m pey-st.N.i
Wf Vnfl Male or Female. Fend ymir address
U Li IUU and tret aoniettnnir thar will lirfwr you
W.A ST lu lionoraMv o er .4 I Ml a month, sure.
ll U fl 1 1 174 Greenwich street. New York.
SCHOLARSHIPS
In various W-STF.ISX HI' SIX ESS COI.I.KOES for
sale st a discount. Address . i.. I'BATr. ; Jackson-st.
Chicago. IIL
Tonr Nam Klejrantly Print
ed on 12 Ta as spa a in T Visitiso
Dims, for is Cents. Ktrh fin! mDUmi
inrisilae until hrld towards the lichu Nothinif lik
hem ever before offered in America. Bik IndnetrnenU to
-Agentc Novelty rsiKii.au noaaa, nmusnu.
HEL10-TELLURIC TREATMENT
Of Disease, by a newly-discovered, most wonderful
lieaHiiean.l vltnlizl ng azrnt. infallible In every cura
ble disease. Address, for pamphlet, Plf. I. B. Mo.
COKMACK & CO.. P. O. Drawer U. New York City.
fTAarXiiS iOcrntt.
Prof. Ilall'a Made raaiHOuail
istheonlv preparation. one package ol which
will force 'the Iward to prow thick and heavy
on the smonthrot face (without injury) ia 21
days in every raae. or money ehrertully re-
Mlpaidt 3 for
2i cents p-r package, poatpau
ta. i.. W. Jll.MS. A-hlanU. m
aas.
. a A t 1. Te. m.rV G.M.T.A two 3
jn CUamp" ri (IX-ait sn-.js. in viiv "- - '
Cfnt lUmpi for . I tiMmtM cntalocru. U -e and cotuir
price. W. li. SFOONfcii, JloBTOlT, Mill.
Painless Opinm Cnre ! rS?
Prof.
Meek
cessfnl remedy of tte present Any.
1. u.
Opium KatliiK.
Send for Paneron
J to LaPOUIK. INK.
15 SHOT GUN
4 gn, kar m feww l.i.'Mt aw'.4 ra. rm.
taml. vl e-s .Swi.r, oa mv ..i-ti ana rta rA St( wt.t
fn SIS I a. al-M o o. au rrt.ii.. la ''" "r "'
- -1 . im f. COH Ei I I "S
IW ' Qaa ajaalai. SMS Mala SWaat. ClaanaaSi at
aiaaa tv (-()., illaa II, fsew 1 r.
I 3 1 1 f want aaents joim ruver imai r
tt I iSia l'rt. Stationery Tasks. It ooa
II I 1,1 RJ if tia 24 sbosU ot fir at din paper.
aWskVavaM 4 fjrat-alaaa novelopea, ansiaiwl
sllverpUtavd penholder. oiuai an. panuil, anal a !-
i m
ailaar dollar narant-ed a on of tba iiIm puses; X
aids prU. Sam pi packaaw, wiil alsjsol prir. poi-
pa.14. for au cn a; i paca.aoa. i.nr.-u. T --'"
stlra-a dollars aud a ." rold plaealn avery aOO poa
afl.' Aa,m," eirouiar irao.
COriE AND SEE
These Klcti Trnlrlc. Near 0 f'"lon aeres for sain
on the Sioux City A ft. Paul Kill"y and en Mm M -Orctror
& Misaourl Klver Itatlm7, fever! inrun
truel for Colonies. Coivn or send confra.t'ees lfi
amliiH. (rvnns who see tho land like, it . Apply
to 1IAIMIN sfe 'AI.IvrWf.
Bibley, Oat-col t.,KWt.
TIi Heat f ll ood falsi pa ny.
The DANBUEY NEWS
ITNKQl'AI.F.U AS A HOMK VmVVM.
Terms t.ow, t. Ill per year. After.lstt. 1.170.
S-. '0. posiime paid, sold 1t all Ne !.
He nil inip 1 r peclincn Copy.
HA1I.KY V IIONOVAN.llanbnry, Conn
agents I TIVINCiSTOXirS
juii,io-
W ANTED I JJIFIWOUK.
O-i'v coiiWe and "i"c e.tio, wltliMsi-s ao
II t SIM KMII Kl't.l.-PA'ilt SNOB VI ;'.a. A IllnKlllft
cent volume,. A complete jiilory of Araie, F.
IM.ollA I l.J ran Kiusr to last. J- wnrd nf ninl..
Iioimrnrtriiiff amy a portion qf lhe nh)fl. Ti ia
thr mm r,rJc of its Im.f. Address, for airem-y,
COLUMBIAN llOUKCO., IlAHOuali. CT or Cui-
OAUO, I LI-
A Great Offer!
is 1 1 1 tl iirlrtClha. n!iliya! lapnsenf lot
11 4s.iii-MltJ lira-l-cl- krr,
iri IimIImk W T Kits', al iMvrri ri -a I lin rs
rrrr hrfoir olTei-ed. Iimi ii I y I ii.lai 1 1 ttirn ' '
ruiiaiiiK f ront 14 lo ;H iiiuiiIIm riri ivrd.
Wanuiilnl lorli jrnra. sriaiiii-hsiia In-ai-UIMcil'it-lrriicly
low prlci fcrrati.
I lttstrturil ('italmiHf nutUsti. arrrnitaw, Awl
1IOKACK WATKIIM Ss M1J.
MARK TWAIN'S BOOK.
TRIUMPHANT I ! ! !
3 'MM! eo'es aM in n icrrt. Now, iioosj aoavTa.
list's the ili-S of wsstitiK time on other hooks! This)
Is the one that sells mid tills pockets. This Is the book
people want. Om' free. "iet tleketr" and g"
w.irk. Address A Ml UICAN PUHL1MUNO CO..
Hakituru, Ct., and Chicago. 111.
This new Trus ts wora
with perfect comlort,
nlliht ami dur Adnpl
Itself to every motion of
the hodv. retalnlnc Hup
lure under the tinniest
eeri-le or severest
strain until permanently
rnre f fcol l cheap by tho
ELASTIC TRUSS CO.,
Na. fl3 llroadwnj, fa . . ?
and sent ly mall. Call or send for circular anu oe curea.
AGENTS WANTED FOR THE
ENTER! NIAL
HISTORVttheU.S.
The arrest interest In tho thillllnit history of our
country makes this the fastenf-scllim: Iniok ever pub
lished. It contain over 4 l-A fine hUtorical enrav-
Inita and Jfi-t pner, w ith a full a mt of the ap-
proni t:lnjr prund t enieiinlsl exhliillion. Scnu for a
full desrrlplit'it nd extra terms to Aiccnta. X A "'N"
AL IT liUSIIlXd CO., ( iiicuKo. Ill, or st .Louis. Mo.
tif I'LABTI Cl
R 1 it us s, V
153!
1 r J w
J2a
My II.H'STIt ATKD SKKIX' AT A IX'O TK for I H1H
is now Haii valid H1 he mailed. FUKI-. or t H a no a,
to all applicant upon receipt of il cent for pot
aire. Knglisli dud German F.ditlon. Addres
JOHN KERN.
21 I Market Street, St. Louis.
T"BtBc where yon saw this advertisement.
HO! FOR IOWA! !
Hcii. r Land ' Iicsimt price
cannot he. had in the world than oin the 7 urn li. it.
land'". S- oil and eliimile stncily tirsl-ilss. put
wnterahnndsiit. Ilslf Isie tickets lrt.Ji '" ": '
ndhBck, with r.ie k. im kci. Af"- A
scrlptive pmnphlet, with Ins,., ol ,,r,r
n. rr for sale ..! .-, ami H. K. teiins.
Addreas low a It. K. IjMiCi'HriM', K2 lunula S
Chkaiio, 111., ort ri.AK ltfll's. Iowa.
JOHN P.. CAI.IIOL'N, l.'ind t'"mlmnner.
dues;
V- ..... ,. ...,. at -m, r ...!. I.llale- avaxl
.lajui-s llilrartof l.er. whh h i.rnn a-aedof tha
Jtn. e ot row aieal anil Iron Tomra. f iurelica and
niild Cafhsrtire. rnid preacrihed hr Phvsleiana for Mia
cure of I ndlrr.tlori. ronatipatlon, lvar.p.ja, filaa.
I, nne Liver. K id ner .children, mood and all lsal
llae"- and weakliea.ea. I'rtra SI .m par holt la
Jilcill AlU"O.N at TCLLIPOK, Proprietor., Cincin
nati, O. For sal Ly all druggists. Aon ceauuia.
CENTS1'"" writ, (.tt Apnff Im aew fcook ay
Jlnrh Ihlvsa
wife Yo mi'i
No. 19. O I
inline at 111. rat. of .OOO wk. Full epn ef t" ""
al. tvlrin of l'ulvg... lllii.lralcH (VcoHri, wilh cmolcl.
a'rtria!i(n fr-e to all. A-Mr... p.ir.l oflt.-. of ClfStln.
Cltman Al Co.lirtf.r.l.Cl.. tiunso. 111., Cm luoao, U.
m
VANBUSKIBK'S fpnsRUtT.
SlQSQJff
fllf.1
AND INVIOORATKS AND
HARDENS THE GUMS!
It imparts a delightfully rcfrcsliingr
taste and feeling to the mouth, remov
ing all TARTAR and SCURF from
the teeth, completely arresting the pro
gress of decay, and -whitening sucl.
parts as have become Mack by decay.
IMPURE BREATH li;
caused by Bad Teeth, Tobacco, Spirits,'
or Cktarrh, is neutralized by the daily
use o'
SOZODOTsST
It is as harmless as water. J
Bold Ij Druggist Btt Pe-lr ta Tancj Goad
One bottle will last six months.
TOP MB L
HEADY MIXED PAIVT AfO KAI.jJOTrl UK, SO rent;
l,2?.rr ?H?n. VAKNISM, Alto '.? . ff 'Pr JLAi'
SASH. IKIOKS. BUM'S. WlNDOW-fiLASS AMD I AIMS r ALL KIM'.S.
CHEAT.
CIIAH. II. tiAXTHlEIL, Haahvlll, Tcnsteaacc.
K
Atlantic Hotel,
75c. Per Day to S2.50.
Corner Vsnfuren and LaSalle St., within three m'n
iit' walk of the business renter, rhanifoer of t'o n-
mcrce, rall.oad depots and places of smu-ciurnt. The
Only Fir-Ht-c-lass Firc-proorilotcl
otfekixo mi roLLowixo satis:
I OW rooms, withont hoard.... 17rr. per day
I (Ml room, without hoard $1 .OO per day.
10O romns. with board 'i.Oa per dnr.
5U rooms, wno board and bathroom U.oa per nay.
WM. L. NEWMAN A CO.
Lamp-Filler
Selected French Burr Mill Stone
tr all Kzrs. an" "r"'"i
workniaiiohtn I'ortjatsle
CSrliaaline; .Mill". iiri-r or
nud-r en mier-. lor l-'airiil
ur v-reliit rk.
Menaine lnteh ra
it rr KwlilaiaM'IfMh. .Mill
i.4. Corn heiie; u ud
( 'leunera. .en ring, Hi:tf!lntf.
I'nllies, Haiixer. flc: all
kinds of Mill Maehinery and
.Millers' auppliea. .eiid for
I'aniphlet. Mraab .Mil!
S 'om paar. fttaa: lAtft
Inrlwnall. OHIO).
WEAV BOOTC FOR THK J.oooo".
OUR WtbTtKri LiUKUbK
no Hundred Years, Aeo.
A Graphic History of the Hernle hpoeh of Atnenesn
IlorderLlTe. Us thriilinit conflict or llel sun wnita
foes. Kxeltln? Adventure. l"ap.-:virlcs. Fora.
Scent. I'mneer women and boy. Indian war-path.
(lamp-life and Hp.rH. A l'oK lor "in ana louns.
Not dull nsee. No ffinipctltloi. Enormous :les.
in.r.aui. iffmnhrrF. circulars free. Adrtren
J. C. ii;Cii:cy fc Co., 5:u av. aj.il A.iUai-st, Ckicago.
-.W. i
COMDIHED I
Wltb this AtUcbmeat
l f -'
IlirCwilSLS !
Because the TL'BK PREVENTS the FLAME from
rearliMic the eM In the Lamp. WITH IT A LMPI4
ULI KI Vfl HOI T HEMOVIM1 CHIMNKV.
f IIAI'K or r.ri: Kit. thus SAVING II Mil, OIL ami
SOU INU TiiK HAM'S.
The safetv of life and property rej.ilre thai VO
LAMP .-HOl LI) HE WITHOUT NK.
MrSauiile sect, postpaid, for 32 ernls.
AGENTS WANTED.
C. O. I IMNGTON. 4 90 Droome St.. New York,
C.M.IiM.NdTO.V.Hl State bt.. Chicago,
bolb miuriOToim.
A. N. K.
S. 2.
B. B. P.
'I'HIS paer la Print, d with IXK maniifacturea Of
1 G. B. RANK CO., Til I'esrboro St., f hlcagq.
im aJ Ij A, U. laALLOtt. 1 it JaCtMitt tL, CUiMaWt