Mil
SUE WOULDN'T BE A MASOX.
Thi funniest thing I ever heard.
The funniest thing that ever occurred.
Is the story of Mrs. Mehitable Byrde,
Who wanted to be a Mson.
Iler husband, Tom Byrde, a Mason true
As good a Mason as any of you;
lie ia Tvler of Lodpc Cerulean Blue,
And tylcs and delivers the summons due,
And she wanted to he a Maon, too,
This ridiculous Mrs. Byrde.
8he followed round this ridiculous wife
And nabbed him and teased him half out of
his life;
So to terminate this unhallowed strife
He consented at last to admit her.
And flr.t, to difjjulse her from bonnet and
hlicon.
This ridiculous lady ajrreed to put on
His breech ah! forgive me! I meant panta
loon. And miraculously did they fit her.
The Lodge was at work on the Master' de
gree; The light was ablaze on the letter G;
High soared the pillars J and B;
The officers sat like Solomon wise;
The brimstone burned amid horrid cries;
The coat roamed wildly through the room;
The candidate begged them to let him go
home;
The devil himself stood up In the east,
As brond ax an Alderman at a feast,
When in came Mrs. Byrde.
Oh, horrible sounds! oh, horrible sight!
Can it be that Mason take delight
In spending thus the hours of night?
Ah! couid their wives and daughters know
The unutterable things they say and do.
Their feminine hearts would burt with wo!
But this is not all my story.
Those Masons Joined in a hideous ring,
The candidates howling like everything,
And thus in tones of death they sing
(The candidate's name was Morey):
" Blood to drink, and bones to crack,
Pkulls to smash and lives to take.
Hearts to crush and souls to burn,
Give old Morey another turn.
And make him grim and gory."
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Trembling with horror stood Mrs. Byrde.
Unable to speak a single word.
She staggered and fell iu the nearest chair,
On the left of the Junior Warden there.
And scarcely noticed, so loud the groans,
That the chair was made of human bones.
Of human bones! On grinning skulls
That ghastly throne of horror rolls
Those skulls, the skulls that Morgan bore;
Those bones, the bones that Morgan wore.
His scalp across the top was Ihuig,
His teeth around the arms wire strung;
Never in all romance was it known
Such uses made of human bones.
There came a pause a pair of paws '
Reached through the floor, up sliding
doors.
And grabbed the unhappy candidate!
How can I, without tears, rc'tite
The lost and ruined Morey's fate?
the saw him sink in ticry hole,
She heard him scream: "My soul! my
soul!"
While roars of fiendish laughter rolled.
And drowned the veils for mercy.
" Blood to drink," etc., etc.
The ridiculous woman could stand no more;
Bhc fainted and fell on the checkered lloor,
'Midst all the diabolical roar.
What then, you ak me, did befall
Mehitable Byrde? Why, nothing at all
She dreamed she had been in a Mason's hall
Folio.
American Affairs iu London.
Kate Field says, in writing from Lon
don to the Louisville Courier-Jourmil:
There is nothing more entertaining to an
American than the accuracy with w hich
American affairs are discussed by English
writers. The last amusing paragraph ap
pears in this week's Hornet, which, al
ways ready to say kindly things of Amer
icans, has most gtxni-naturcdiy mixed up
more authors in less space than is dreamed
of in your philosophy. "Since Hans
JJrietmann wrote his famous Ballads,' "
says the Hornet, ' that type of literature
has become at once popular and famous.
Some of the authors who distinguished
themselves in that line have fcince won
credit in other branches. Xo one more
so than Bret Ilarte, whose play, ' The
Gilded Age, is one of the greatest suc
cesses of the modern American stage.
This is due in part to the author's talent,
but no less to Mr. John Raymond's excel
lent acting as Col. Sellers. Bret Ilarte has
now written his second novel, Gabriel
Conray, which will be published here in
Scribner'M Magazine." Bret II arte Mill
be delighted to hear that he ow es ins in
spiration to Hans Brietmann, that he
wrote the "Gilded Age," and that his in
imitable stories are known as a first novel,
while Mark Twain w ill be amazed to find
that he never wrote his own play and the
Sublishers of cribner' Magazine will be
arabfounded to learn that their local
habitation is London.
Philadelphia is getting ready to lodge
and feed all creation next year. It cal
culates that at least 123,000 people can be
comfortably lodged that is, 35,000 in the
hotels and Do,000 in private houses. As
to feeding, one restaurant promises 50,000
meals a day, and others carry up the total
to 200,000. A company has invested
$200,000 in poultry, packed frozen in a
AVhite Mountain storehouse and to be sent
on in detachments by refrigerators next
summer. Another firm has 150,000 hams
in store for the summer raid. The w ay
the Philadelphians figure it is this: 20,
000 fresh arrivals every day during the
show ; each one to stay ten days and spend
five dollars a day thismakes $1,000,000 a
day, or $200,000,000 for the w hole season.
Johh Peters, of Callaway, Mo., raised
eighteen barrels of corn to the acre. He
thought his first planting would not do
well and he ran a furrow between each
row and replanted in that furrow, and the
result was that both plantings prospered
finely, resulting as above.
Thebb are now about 1,000 decked ves
sels and 17,000 open boats, with 42,000
Si en, engaged in the Canadian fishery.
The Elections or 1875.
Elections for State officers in which
party lines have been drawn and each
party has had a ticket in the field have
taken place during the year in twenty-one
of the thirty-seven Slates of the Union,
viz.: California, Connecticut, Iowa. Kan
sas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massa
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis
sippi, Nebraska, New York, New Hamp
shire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and
Wisconsin. This list docs not include
those States which have voted simply for
constitutional conventions and for dele
gates thereto, as other questions than those
of party politics entered into and con
trolled those elections to a greater or less
extent. But the twenty-one States we
have mentioned cast 223 out of the 3C0
votes of the Eclectoral College, so that the
result in them is of great importance in
its bearing upon the Presidential contest
ncxtjear. Let us now, at the close of the
3-ear's political business, look over the
books and strike a general balance:
The spring elections were of a " mixed"
character. New Hampshire gave a Re
publican plurality of 132, whereas in 1874
she had iven a Democratic plurality of
1,475; and Michigan increased the Re
publican majority of 5,9Ul which she had
given in the gubernatorial election in No
vember to 25,420 in the election in April
for Judge of the Supreme Court. But, on
the other hand, the Democrats of Con
necticut increased their plurality from
6,7b2 in 1874 to 0,481 in 1875; and a split
in Rhode Island divided the Republican
vote almost exactly in two, and prevented
any election by the people. The vote cast
for the two Republican candidates in that
State was, however, the largest ever polled
by that party, and both of them had a
decided majority over the Democratic
nominee.
The single election in the summer
that of Kentucky, in August showed
quite' a, Republican gain on the election of
lfe74, but left the Slate, as before, hope-lcs.-ly
Democratic.
The. September elections, in California
and Maine, both resulted very discour
agingly for the Republicans. California,
which at the last general election in the
State had given 115,302 majority (for Grant
over Greeley), now elected a Democratic
Governor by a clear majority of 435 and
a plurality over the Republican candidate
of 0,28, while Maine pave a Republican
majority oi onlj 3,752, the smallest since
the war.
But the turn of the tide came in the Oc
tober elections. In Ohio the gallant and
sturdy fight which the Republicans made
resulted in a splendid victory, and the
Democratic majority of 17,202 in 1874
was-transformed into a Republican ma
jority of 5,549 in 1875. Nebraska in
creased her Republican majority from
12,403 last year to 1(,135 this; Iowa,
which last year gave 28,202 majority, this
year gives 31,725.
The glorious beginning of October wa3
well followed up by the work of Novem
ber. In Massachusetts the people turned
out William Gaston, Democrat, who had
been elected Governor in 1874 by 7,032
majority, and put in Alexander II. Rice,
Republican, by 5,007 plurality. In New
York the Democratic majority has been
reduced from 50,315 hist year to about
17,000 this. In New Jersey only mem
bers of the Legislature were chosen, and
the returns do not give any figures as to
the majority in the State, but a Democratic
majority of 17 on joint ballot in the Legis
lature has been transformed to a Republi
can majority of 15, and we are within
bounds in estimating the popular Repub
lican majority this year at 5,000. Penn
sylvania was Democratic last year by
4.C7G; it is Republican this year by a ma
jority of about 15,000. Maryland is Dem
ocratic still, but by a reduced majority.
Wisconsin gave a Democratic majority at
her last State election of 15,411; this year
it elects a Republican Governor by about
1,00 majority. Minnesota holds her Re
publican majority of U,885 last year at
about 10,000 this year. Mississippi is the
only State electing in November in
which there were Democratic gains, and
in that State, as i3 well known, systematic
intimidation was resorted to to "keep the
negroes from voting. In Virginia and
Kansas only members of the Legislature
were voted for, and we have no definite
returns from either as to the popular vote.
Both States, doubtless, remain as last
year, the first overwhelmingly Democratic,
and the last overwhelmingly Republican.
In the following table we recapitulate
the facts 9tated above, giving the majority
in eac h Slate in 1875 and 1874, and show
ing the net gains of the respective parties
We omit Virginia and Kansas for the rea
son stated above; Oregon because it is yet
somewhat doubtful in what way the Con
gressional election of this year has result
ed ; and Mississippi and California because
they held no elections in 1874, and we
Lave no data for comparison without going
back to the Presidential election of 1872.
We have in each cas taken the head of
the ticket for the compilation of majori
ties :
Jr;.i. 1H4. Gain.
5f ?
States. Jsj J
I I
Connecticut . ' O.ISH I
Iowa !31,W3 2S.202'
Kentucky
.VHlIIrt
:!6.976; ... 62
J, l-i .... Ll,.jJl
.Varvlind ... 11,500
Miisacetta. S.O'iT;
Wictiiiran .... ;-. I-JOI
Viniie.'ota...lO.(lnn
KebrssUit 'lti,0j' ....
Kfw Yoik ..I 17.00)
N.Hnmiuire
NfwJ.-ej..
Ohio f 5.5 !!
Pennsylvania 12.' 00
lilio !e Isluuii ll.iw
v isconsio. .. I 1,000
12,
SOX)
10.
..! 7,
t!,9, .
9.S8.-,I .
12, 10ii .
.... 'SO
I 1.
....!.
10,716. .
I
,7S2 .
...I 3.
8U 20,
,Ud 12.
:::r
...I s.
315 31.
7.-; 1
2 S3 ST
2o2 22
,116 111.
... 1
357! 1
Total Republirnn majority, 1S75
Total Democratic uisijoriiy, 1675
Total Republican minority, 1S74
Total Democratic majority, 1S7I
. . . 2,702
521;
H-ttj ...
...7,615
4Si
0.I
451
115
.KM'
.31 .V
l)7
233
751
tiTtjj ....
IV. j
,357 ....
1 27.509
.. 77.U50
. 78.R02
.185,61(9
Total Republican nin
Total Democratic uains
.167.191
10,317
From these figures it will be seen that
the Democrats had a net majority last
year, iu these sixteen States, of 107,297
votes, whereas the Republicans have a
net majority, this year, of 49,55;, showing
a net Republican gain of 15G,K5. Allow
ing for a Democratic gain of 50,000 in
California and Mississippi, which is a
very liberal estimate, we still have a net
Republican gain of 10G.85J.
Nor do these figures express the full im
portance of the Republican gains. Of
tliee twenty-one States, eleven had Dem
ocratic Governors last j'ear, and but ten
had Republican. Next j-car thirteen of
them will have Republican Governors and
only eight Democratic. We have lost a
Governor in but one State, California, and
have gained in four. New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Twelve of these States, casting 103 elect
oral votes, were Democratic in the elec
tions of 1S74, only nine (counting Cali
fornia and Mississippi), with sixty elector
al votes, were Republican. In 1875 four
teen of them, casting 137 electoral votes,
are Republican, ami but seven, with
eighty-six electoral votes, are Democratic.
This is a comfortable figure to start with
in the Presidential year. On the whole
the balance-sheet for 1875 shows decided
ly well for the Republicans. Detroit 1'rib
une. There is nothing half so funny as a
E radical joke, and this, as told by an
lastern paper, is a regular rib-tickler:
"Frederick Walker and" Peter Kohler, of
Guttenberg, N. J., stuffed an old suit of
clothes with straw, the other night, and
carried it to Bull's Ferry road and Her
man avenue, where they placed it against
a lamp-post. About midnight they began
an imaginary quarrel in a loud tone, and
continued it uutil a number of people
were aroused from their beds. Then they
shot the imaginary man. The body fell
down and the young men ran away. The
neighbors, thinking a murder had been
committed, chased the young men, and
.Kohler was shot in the leg before the de
ception was explained." Think what
olid enjoyment Mr. Kohler will have
laughing at that lor six weeks while he
nurses his leg, and what a screaming farce
it would have been for his whole family
if he had been shot in the head.
The art of getting out of debt does not
seem to interest some folks. It is the art
of getting into it that they appear to fctudy
mobt.
Eccentricity and Charity.
The London Timet gives the following
particulars in regard to an eccentric
French gentleman lately deceased : 44 A
gentleman oi French birth, named Picrro
Henri Baum e, has just died at Douglas,
Isle of Man, leaving a large sum for
charitable purposes. He was born at
Marseilles in 17J7, and at an early ago was
tent to a military college at Naples, w here
he became private secretary to King
Ferdinand. About the year 1825 he
came to London. At one time he was a
preacher holding peculiar views on
theology. Then he became manager of a
theatrical company, "and subsequently got
up a scheme for the establishment of
model gardens. He took a lively Interest
in various charitable institutions, and ex
pressed a strong desire to accumulate A
great fortune, with theobjectof eventually
endowing or establishing an institution,
on principles which he bad himself drawn
up, for the education and benefit of youth
of the poorer classes. By great persever
ance and industry, and by subjecting him
self almost to privation, he had at last
Kucceeded in amassing a considerable
fortune, and bought land atColney Hatch,
together with a small estate called
Chifont, or Dibdin Hill, in Buckingham
shire. Several obstacles arose to the ful
fillment of his educational project, and he
was ultimately induced to abandon this
idea. After living about a quarter of a
century in London he went to Manchester,
and engaged vigorously in a movement to
establish 4 public-houses without drink.'
He also instituted Sunday afternoon lect
ures to workingmen, which were carried
on with varying success for several years.
In 1857 he settled in the Isle of Man, pur
chased an estate there, and has ever since
resided in the i&land. At Douglas he
fitted up an odd kind of residence, the
entrance to which he made almost inac
cessible, and admission to which could
only be obtained by those whom he had
initiated into a peculiar knock. In this
little den he lived like a hermit, sleeping
in a hammock slung from the roof, for the
room was so crowded with dusty books
that there was no space left for a bedstead
or even for a table on which to take his
lood. He stated th?t his object in living
in this condition and depriving himself of
all comforts was to enable him to leave as
much money as possible for charitable
and educational purposes. He resided in
this miserable place for f everal years, but
his health failing him he was induced,
about twelve months ago, to remove, and
died in a tradesman's house in Duke
street, Douglas, on Thursday morning.
Public atitntion was directed to M.
Baume's afl'airs in London four or five
years azo inconsequence of proceedings
take n by h:m to evict a number of squat
ters who had located themselves on his
Colney Hatch property, which was popu
larly known as the 4 Frenchman farm.'
In 1832 M. Baume took out letters of
naturalization, which enabled Lim to
enjoy the rights and privileges of an En
glishman, and to dispose of his property
as he thought best, lie has le'tthe whole
of his real and personal property, valued
at 54,000, in trust for charitable purposes
in the Isle of Man."
Sunrise From a Balloon.
A writer in Applctons' Journal describes
a balloon voyago and says: 44 Such a
wonderlul sunrise as that which burst on
us on the morning of the 25th is seldom
seen. The balloon had been sailing low
in a valley to the east of a'steep hill,
whose top towered several hundred feet
above us. A little village beneath us,
which pnugiled cosily in an angle formed
by the meeting of two small streams, was
dim under the mists ot early morning and
the shadows of the hills. There were no
signs of the approach of day in the sky.
It was desirable to riso over the high hill
to the east, and ballast was thrown out for
the purpose. 'The balloon shot up like an
arrow. The instant we passed the level
of the summit we saw the sun peeping
up at us over the shoulder of a distant
mountain. It was lull and round, and
came in sight within the fraction of a
second. The phenomenon of sunrise was
reversed; we rose on the sun. But this
was not a glorious sun that we saw, fresh
and rosy as a summer's sun should be.
He was heavy and dull as it were, blear
eyed and blurred as if he had spent most
of the night in enervatii g revelry and had
only just been roused from a brief doze
under somebody's table and wanted to
drop down and have the nap out. That
he was in a very bad humor about some
thing seemed certain. But none of this
proved to be his fault. The enemies that
put him in this sorry plight and came so
near destroying our good opinion of him
as an industrious, sober fellow were
clouds of vapor that rose from the inter
vening Hudson and floated in dense masses
in front of him. He was not slow to rec-
ognize his peril; and, fighting as a
wronged man alwa3-s fights and uing his
ardor with great advantage (a thing which
few people have the hnack of doing), he
so completely routed his foes that after
half an hour no truce of them could be
discovered.
The Decay of Glaciers.
A glacier is a current of ico derived
from snow. Complete glaciers of the
first order take their rise on the mount
ains and descend into the sea, just as all
complete rivers of the first order do. In
North Greenland the snow supply and
general climatic conditions are such that
its glaciers pour directly into the ocean,
ami so undoubtedly did those of the Pa
cific f-lope during the flush times of the
glacial epoch; but now the world is so
warm anil the now crop so scanty, nearly
all the glaciers left alive have melted to
mere hints of their former selves. The
Lyell glacier is now less than amilelong;
yet, setting out from the frontal moraine,
we may trace its former course on grooved
and polished surfaces and by immense
canons and moraines a distance of more
than forty miles.
The glaciers of Switzerland are in a
like decaying condition as compared with
their termer grandeur; so also are those
of Norway, Asia and South America.
They have come to resemble the short
rivers of the eastern slope of the Sierra
that flow out into the hot plains and arc
dried up. According to theSchlagintweit
Brothers the glaciers of Switzerland melt
at an average elevation above the level of
the sea of 7,414 feet. The glacier of
Grindelwald melts at less than 4,000 feet;
that of the Aar at about 0,000. The Him
alaya glacier, in which the Ganges takes
its rise, dots not, according to Ca;t.
Hodgson, descend below 12,914 feet. The
average elevation at which the glaciers of
the Sierra melt is not far from 11,000 feet
above sea-level. John Muir, in Jlarer'e
Weekly.
How a Woman Got Rich.
Fix years ago Mrs. Mary Ahart was Hy
ing in a little tent on the edge of a town.
Her whole worldly possessions consisted
of this tent, a straw bed, two or three boxes
which served as chairs and table, a little
seven or eight year old girl, and two cows
and calves. She sold the spare milk of
these two cows, carrying it around town
with a tin pail, and with the product, and
from work which she did for her neigh
bors, supported herself and child. When
she could get three or five dollars ahead
she would buy another calf or yearling.
It is not our purpose to trace her progress
up to the present time minutely; but the
result is, she now, in less than seven years,
has several hundred head of cattle, a fine
farm, with nice buildings and improve
ments, a comfortable, even luxuriant,
home, and instead of carrying milk around
by hand rides in her own carriage. Her
daughter is a young lady, educated and
accomplished.- To-day Mrs. Ahart's
property is valued at from $40,000 to
$50,000. And she has made it all by hon
est industry and good management. She
has had no outside help. She never had
a Government contract nor fell heir to any
property. Laramie (Col.) Sentinel.
Pkof. W. Frank Stewart states in the
Carson (Nev.) Appeal, as a quietus of mis
apprehension, that the great cabinet of
specimens collected by himself and State
Mineralogist Whitehall for the Centennial
was not destroyed by the Virginia City
fire, but is safely housed, the w hole ten
tons of the same, in the railroad round
house in Carson City.
A disgusted young man says: 44 When
I find a girl who has got the stamps I find
one who does not want me." I
x USEFUL AD SUGGESTIVE.
Cooxrso Onions. If they are large cut
them in slices and cook them in plenty of
water nearly an hour or until they are
tender, then turn them into a colander to
drain. When dry return them to the dish
in which they were cooked, sprinkle on
some salt and pepper and a large table
spoonful of butter, set the dish on the top
of the stove and let them simmer a few
minutes, stirring often enough to keep
them from burning.
A reliable authority estimates that it
costs $10 to winter a good, able-bodied rat
about as much as it docs to fatten a hog.
At this season of the year they are, like
men, always hungry, and will eat food
that in the winter or summer they would
not touch, and they can thus be easier
caught or poisoned now than at any other
season of the year. A good poison for
rats or mice is to take squills powder,
mix it with lard and spread it on slices of
bread and place it in their runways under
the barn floor or in the granary. One rat
killed will reduce your stock next spring
by twenty.
The Horticulturist gfves an account of
two novelties among flowers, which it is
almost tempted to treat as fables until
their verity is established by personal in
spection. The following is the descrip
tion of them : 44 One is a black lily in
Santa Clara, Cal., with three large blos
soms, each nine inches long and perfect
ly black outside the green petals. The
other is to be seen at Constantinople, and
described by an eye-witness as belonging
to the narcissus genus of bulb. The itow
er represents a perfect humming-bird.
The breast, of a perfect emerald green, is
a complete copy of this bird, and the
throat, head, beak and eyes are a perfect
imitation. The hinder part of fhe body
and the two outstretched wings are of a
bright rose color, one might almost say
flesh-colored.
Let me tell how to make what I call
a convenient milking-stool: Take a piece
of board aljout eight inches wide and two
feet long; nail short pieces across the
ends to increase its strength and to bore
holes through ; put two legs eight or ten
inches long in one end, and one a trifle
shorter in the forward end. Place the
stool where 3-011 intend to sit, the one
legged end where you usually set the pail.
Place the pail on that end of the stool and
sit on the other. If you do this vou will
have the pail out of the dirt and the cow
cannot easily put her foot in it, as often
happens when the pail is on the ground.
Some cows are so low that you are obliged
to set the pail on the ground. In such
case turn your stool around. Farmer's
Daughter, in Western llural.
As a general rule too much food is
given, and too much of this is hay. Ten
pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats
constitute a good day's fodder for a work
ing horse, w hether the work be fast or
slow. Herbert's advice in regard to feed
ing horses is to give a lock of hay and half
a pail of water the first thing in the
morning. After grooming give the other
half pail of water, and, if he is not going
out, four quarts of oats, after eating which
he may have four or five pounds of hay.
If going out early, feed six quarts of oats
and no hay. If to be put to work in the
afternoon "they should be again watered
and have four quarts of o:its and the re
mainder of their ha3r. Half a bushel of
washed carrots a week, given at a time,
will improve the coat and be beneficial to
the stomach. The feeding is ample to
keep horses in good working order.
Vermont Chronicle.
Making Full Use of Capital.
A good business man wishes to keep all
his capital employed we use the word
capital in its general sense. If he has
money to loan he prefers to take a less
rate of interest if thereby he secures the
certain'y of having the money loaned for
a long time. It" he be "a day-laborer,
with nothing but his muscle, he will do
well to accept steady employment rather
than depend on the chance of odd jobs
even at higher rates.
So the farmer should endeavor so to
arrange his plans that his land, his teams,
his live-stock and himself and hired la
borers shall be engaged in producing
something during the greater part of each
year. As has often been pointed out, it
is one of the great disadvantages of a
system of farming which relies on grow
ing the small grains that it does not keep
the farmer anu his teams employed dur
ing the whole year. On the other hand
live-stock raising, and especially dai-ing,
has the advantage of allowing labor to be
profitably employed nearly every day of
the year, llie dillerence in the- two sj-s-tems
is very marked; more so than is
often realized.
In one other most important matter
very many farmers are not careful to keep
their full capital employed and that is in
making full use of their land. The fact
that land could be obtained at very low
prices and that the rise in prices formed
an important part, if not the chief part, of
the profit to farming has in some respects
ln-en a disadvantage to our farming.
When one could buy land at $1.25 per
acre, and in ten or twenty j-ears sell it at
$10, $20, $30 or $50 per acre, he would
have done wPll if his farming paid the in
terest, taxes, and his current expenses.
Something of this kind happened so often
that a large number of fanners, 'more or
less unconsciously, are holding their lands
with a view of profit from the general in
crease in value rather than from their di
rect farming operations.
As a country grows older and more
thickly settled the time approaches when
this source of profit cannot be relied on ;
when farmers must expect profit, if at all,
from their yearly crops. This makes bet
ter farming necessary.
Taxes are high, and land which is not
productive is taxed as well as that which
is bringing good crops each year. Fences
are costly, and as much so around unpro
ductive as productive land. If the land
is not paid for the interest is the same
whether the land is being 44 made to pay"
or is doing nothing. Yet while all this is
true, there are very many farms on which
five, ten or twenty acres can be found al
most any j'ear which are practically pro
ducing nothing.
A pasture or meadow which has 44 run
out" is still kept up; a field is left fallow,
to grow up in weeds; timber land, from
which all that is valuable has been cut, is
left year after year.
The disposition to have a large farm
often leads to the purchase of so much
land that very little money is left for
stocking it, or so much that means cannot
be had to properly conduct it. Certakily
it is the part of w isdom to make the best
possible use of all the land. It may not
be advisable, in the West, to practice what
we call high farming, but there can be no
doubt that it is advisable to secure crops
from all the land owned. Western
Farmer.
One dollar a case is the fee for phy
sicians in Siam, pa3'ment being contin
gent on the patient's recovery, so that as
soon as he becomes dangerously ill the
doctor 6U43 S awaj-. In this manner thou
sands of lives are saved annuall3'. The
following is the popular cure for fever:
44 lake frairmentsot thehorn of the rhinoc
eros, the tooth of an elephant, tiger, bear
and crocodile; add to these portions of
the flesh of a vulture, a crow and a goose,
a morsel of the horn of a bison and a stag,
and a little sandal wood; pound all up on
a moistened stone, administer half to the
invalid, and rub his body with the other
moiety."
Houses will work much more easily
and lose less of their effective force by work
ing abreast than when they are placed
in single file. If four horses are to draw
a load in one wagon it is better to have a
Ions double whiftletree with a span of
horses on each side of the tongue than to
have one span placed before the other.
Inter-Ocean.
Don't meddle w ith nitric acid don't,
we beseech j-ou. A German essayist says
that when 44benzo3Tlnaphtylamide is
treated with nitric acid, two isomer
ic mononitrobenzoj'lnaphtylamides are
formed one yielding mononamidobenzo-
naphtylamide, the other ankydrobenzodi-
amiaonaphtatene!
For Ear, Rapid, Practical Education
We recommend Th School of Individual In.
ttmction, Evanston, 111., where each scholar
advances according to talent and application
and is not tied to classes. Opens I)ec. 6.
tFroni Ihn New York Tribnne.j
A Want Supplied.
The American mind is aetive. ithai given
as books of fiction lor the sentimentalist;
learned books for the scholar and profes
sional student, but few books for the people.
A book for the people must relate to a sub
ject of universal interest. Sueh a subject
is the physical man, and such a book 44 Thi
Pkoplb's Common Sensb Medical Ad
viser," a copy of which has been recently
laid on our table. The high professional at
tainments of its author Dr. It. V. Pierce, of
Buffalo, N. Y. and the advantages derived
by him from an extensive practice would
alone Insure for his work a cordial recep
tion. But these are not the merits for which
it clulms our attention. The author la a
man of the peofAe. lie sympathizes with them
in all their afflictions, efforts and attain
ments. He perceives their want A knom.
edge of theumelves and, believine that all
truth should be made as universal as Uod's
own suntight, from his fund of learning and
experience he has produced a work in which
he gives them tue benefits of his labors. In
it he considers man in every phase of his ex
istence, from the moment he emerges 44 from
a rayless atom, too diminutive for the sight,
until he gradually evolves to the maturity
of those VonxcioH I'vvers the exereise of
which furnishes subjective evidence of our
immortality." Proceeding upon the theory
that every fact of miud has a physical ante
eedent, he has given an admirable treatise
on Cerebral Physiology, and shown the bear
ings of the facts thus established upon indi
vidual and focial welfare. The author be
lieves with Spencer that, 44 as vijroroua"
health and its accompanying hieh spirits are
larger elements of happiness than any other
things whatever, the teaching how to main
tain them is a teaching that yields to no
other whatever,"' aud accordingly has intro
duced an extensive discussion of the meth
ods by which we may preserve the integrity
of the system and ofttimes prevent the onset
of disease. Domestic Remedies their prep
aration, uses and effects form a prominent
feature of the work. The hygienic treat
ment, or nursingof the sick, is an important
subject, and receives attention commensu
rate with its importance. Nearly all diseases
44 to which flesh is heir" are described, theit
symptoms and eauses explained and proper
domestic treatment suggested. To recipro
cate the many favors bestowed upon him by
a generous public, the author oilers his
book at a price (11.50) little exceeding the
cost of publication. Our readers can obtain
this practical and valuable work by address
ing the author.
Pocltry Arocb. This ld, reliable
poultry journal is now the leading jonrual of its
class iu the Weft. If you want to make 200 per
cent, on an investment of $1.0), subscribe for the
Aitocs. It will give you iu each number practical
advice and information relative to breeding and
rearing poultry worth ten times the subscription
price. It has absorbed the Xo'rth- Western and the
Fancier's Gazette, aud gives more reading matter
for the money than any journal published. Each
number ia finely illustrated with splendid engrav
ings of the most popular breeds of poultry. No
one who has a dozen fowls can afford to do with
out it. A sample copy will only cost you ten
cents. Send for it at once; it will pay you. No
attention paid to postal-cards requesting sample
copies. Subscription price only f 1.00 per year.
Addraes Milleb & Clinton, Polo, 111.
Premature Loss of the Hair, which Is
so common nowadays, may be entirely pre
vented by the use of Burnett's Cocoaixe.
It has been used in thousands of cases where
the hair was coming out in handfuls, and has
never failed to arrest its decay and to pro
mote a healthy and vigorous growth. It is
at the same time unrivaled as a dressing
for the hair. A single application will render
it soft and glossy lor severa. days.
A Valuable Paper. The announcement
of the Toledo (O.) Blade, published else
wnere, will be 01 espceial interest to all lov
crs of good literature. The Blade has be
come one of the standard weeklies, not only
of the West, but of the whole country, and
as a family paper has no superior. Unusual
opportunities are offered for obtaining a
beautiful map of the United States, Smith's
liiule Dictionary or4'Vcbistei s Unabridged.'
Gentian was our grandmothers' hobby for
a tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without it; hence it enters into
nearly all. But experience has proved that
it is injurious to the stomach if frequently
used. A far better tonic is found in Guarana
Bitters.
Whe j'ou go to Chicago stop at the
It T XI .. ,, 7 T ,
imiiih iiuust, luiiicr ui naiiuuipn nun
Canal streets. The fare is excellent and ev
erything in the house is new. vuly Si. 50 to
.vw per nay mr trwm.
Habit 3 should enter largely into the
choice of a teacher. If j'ou wish your
boys to become inebriates employ a teach
er who use9 intoxicating liquors
frequents saloons, etc. If you wish them
to eat tobacGo, procure a teacher
who will use it in their presence. The
idea with some is that if he only smokes
or chews a little it don t matter; better ob
tain one who is a perfectly dirty habitu
ate, then your boys may become disgusted
with iu use. it you wish your school
room a hot-bed of disease procure 1
teacher who is ignorant of the laws con
trolling health, who will keep the air
vitiated with poisonous vapors and heated
to a degree that removes tho oxygen of
the air. bucli a one will most generally
be those whose lungs are so compressed
with some fashionable appendage as to be
unable to manufacture enough heat to sus
tain the bodv and extremities durintr win
ter. If you wish your girls leu into
fashions which awart the body get
teacher who is corseted, bustled, with
lirht. hieh-hecled boots and delicate an
parel. If you want the mind dwarfed ob
tain a teacher whose time is devoted to the
reading of novels, fictitious magazines and
other nonsense, instead ot good, sound
literature. Cor. Western Farm Journal.
In- examining some portions of the
flesh of a mallard duck, transmitted to
him by Dr. (Jones, I'ror. Jx;idy lounu
abundance of parasites in the interstices
of the muscles. These were oval white
bodies, one- or two lines long and
about one-third of a line thick, which,
beneath the microscope, were ascertained
to contain myriads of fusitorm corpuscles,
like minute Kaviculae, measuring about
one-fifteen-thousandth ot an inch in
length. Similar bodies were first discov
ered in fishes by Prof. J. Miller and de
scribed by him as parasites,- under the
name of Psorosperms. They have since
been repeatedly observed in fishes and
usually regarded as vegetable parasites.
Prof. Lcidy was not aware that any such
nmnisms had been previously detected
in birds. Though the mallard is not a
nsh-eating bird, as a rule, the individual
may have become infected by swallowing
a fish affected with these organisms.
Jsewi ork Independent.
Moses B. Wheeler, convicted of arson
in I80G, and sentenced to imprisonment
for life in the Charlcstown (.Mass.) I'nson,
has uist been pardoned. I here is now
satisfactory evidence that he was not guilty
of the crime with which he. was charged.
His sister, on whose testimony he was
onvicted, confessed on Jier deatu-Dea
that she had perjured herself in order to
get him out of the way ana obtain control
ot his property.
The venerable Bishop Smith. Presi
dent of the Protestant Episcopal House
of Bishops, has written a letter expressing
a hope of an ultimate organic union of
the orthodox cnurcnes. Among me
greatest obstacles at present to such union
he recognizes the Episcopal doctrine of
the divine right cf the Episcopacy, and
the Baptist doctrine of adult immersion.
Since October, 1845, the American
Sunday-School Union, by the personal la
bors of its missionaries, organized 10,084
Sunday-schools in the States and Territo
ries west of Ohio and north of the Ohio
River, and in those west of the Jlississip
pi River, besides distributing religious
literature to the value of $208,331.70. In
this work they reached 1,206,954 children
and youth.
The Southern New York Baptist As
sociation reports 31,666 members, 78 meeting-houses,
19 chapels and 23 parsonages;
total value of church property, $3,074,
046 ; benevolent contributions for the year,
$321,140, and a net increase of communi
cants of 386.
The home emigration of the past year
has ben almost exclusively to California.
That State hag gained at least 75,000 good
population.
1 jriy
To have tbe money ppent nefl
rj every jer would ftive ob
isntial comfort to almost Tcry
tfrMin. To lia ve the money saved
bT rniTlng Silver Tipped boota
uhd tfioes would buy each parent
every year a new pair of cboea.
Aa the aereral eoatlnfrs to the
Atlantic Cable, o are a pair of
Cable Screw Wire
up protection from all Uxe eio-
Ipl
Seheiick'tf mandrake rill
will be found to popsens those qualities neceMary
to the total eradication of all bilious attack,
prompt to start the secretions of the llvtr, and
give a healthy tone to tbe entire yetem. - Indeed,
it is no ordinary discovery In, medical science to
have invented a remedy for these stubborn cpm
plalnte, which develop all the results produced by
a heretofore free use of calomel, a mineral jutly
dreaded by mankiud, and acknowledged to be de
structive in the extreme to tbe human system.
That the properties of certain vegetables comprise
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 Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines are those provided by nature in
the common herbs and roots or the fields.
Th sa pills open the bowe'.s and correct all bil
ious deranpvmi'uts without salivation or any of the
injurious effects of calomel ir othrr polTis.
Tli- secretion of bile is promoted by these pills, as
will be seen by the altered color of the stools and
dirMimarin of the sallow complexion aud cleans
ing of the tonjrue.
Ample directions for use accompany each box of
pills.
Prepared only by J. H. Srhenck & Son, at their
friiicipHl odice, corner ixth and Arch streets,
hiladelphiii. and for sale by all druggists and deal
ers. 1'rice Jj cents per hoi.
Mr. Editor: In every city, town and
hamlet in the land may he found some feeble
person unable to perform hard labor; some
man or woman that delights in visiting the
sick anil ministering to their wants, some
local preacher not fully occupied, or some
unoccupied person who would like to add a
little to their present income and I want
some such person iu every place where I
have no agent to sell a Medicinal Extract
made by the Shakers,' w hich has proved of
sueh signal service in the cure of those long
standing diseases that prevail in all parts of
our country, and which have heretofore re
sisted all kinds of medical treatment. Your
columns for October contained a very flatter
ing notice of the Shaker Extract of Koots, un
der the head of 4'2'ie otmnge Diteaxf," to
which I would like to call the attention of
your readers. Please induce some such per
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There can be no risk on the part of the
agent, as no capital is required where they
can furnish evidence of their honesty. Let
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Do not fail to observe the extraordinary
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Farmers and stock-raisers hav frequent
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after they drop their young. The powders
put them in good condition and give them
strength to care and provide for the suck-liS-
(
Wb have often wondered whether Micro Is
a person in the country who does not know
and appreciate the value of Johnson's Atf
odijtie Liniment ns a family medicine. It is
adapted to most all purposes, and is the best
pain-tlcstroyer that can be used.
Personal. George F. Gardner, South Val
Ifjo, Vl. 44 1 used the SIMMONS' LIVEK
KKCiULATOK quite a while in Ohio, and
found it gave me much relief. I now require
a medicine of the same nature, but can find
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BOSTON. MASS.
Tliese Standard Instruments
Sold bv Music Dealers Everywhere.
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lJt. SAIVFORII'H
LIVER INVIGORATOR.
toiniunnacd entire sy irons ums.
CO
This new Truss Is worn
with perfect comfort,
night and day. Adapts
ltelf to erery motion of
the body, retaining Rup
ture under tbe hardest
exercise or sersrest
strain until permanently
rnred. bold cheap by the
ELASTIC TRUSS CO,,
ITo. Hf3 Brsadwar. Hi. Y. Citr.
and sent by malt Call or send for circular and be eared.
The office for tbe sale of tbe Elastic Trass in cntesra
U at &U4 street, 6endXurclrciUrtoC. 4. HUM.
fkELA8TI cSl
Persona uilna
should adapt the
dose to their In-
OniTinnai const
tntion, from i
s- . teaspoonfnll to
JaJ F""l jai tablespoonfnll
UsJ avccordliiK to ef-
a9 feet. For all af-
lections ot th
V? X.IVKII, Irrrsru.
larltiea of Mum
ach avnd llowels,
diseases depend
ent on or caused
by Bnchderanfre-
meat aa Itilions
attacks. Costive
ness. Chronic 11
arrhcea,Iysprp
sla, Jaundice and
Female tteaitr
z . nr. sea. a wdic
spoonfull taken
at commencement or an attaeat ot SlUlv
HEAD ACH E rnres In l.lnilmitri. I LI
LOW or MALLOW KHIK MA IJB VOUTII.
FIX by 1 bottle. TRY 1TI For pamphlet
containing; naefnl information and all
bunt the Livrr, addrem IUt. SA AKORI),
NewTCork. SOLI 1 Y ALL DltViHilSTH.
These I'M S
move all morbid
or bad matter
from the system,
applying in
their place a
healthy flow of
bile t invigorat
ing the stomach,
causing food to
digest well PTJ-
lllr l l.iu nils a..
11 LOOD, giving j sBk.
tone and health!
to the whole ma- LajsJ
rhinrrr. remov- " " Cj
, .. . aw
the diseases, ef-; r"""l
fecting a radical1
enre. Asa FAM
ILY MKDlt IIVE
It la l.HEQ.l'AL
and Is Ale
WAIN SAFE.
TOLEDO BLADE.
(NASBY'S PAPER.)
Tie Largest ::i Ess. Far; top.psr
PtllLHHED IM AMEUICA.
Subscription Price $2, Postage Free.
The Remainder of the Tear 1875 fbkb to Kew Sub
scribers for 1S76.
SPECKAL. OFFERS FOR 170!
Smith's Bible Dietionary and Blade, one year... $3 SO
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary aud blade, one
year 12 00
Webster's Xational Ptctionary and Blade, one
year 00
A linely-colored map of the If. 8., 4 feet 8 inches
by 3 n et 4 inches (retail price .;,!. snd the iilsde,
one year 00
These priees cover all expenses In either case. The
hooks or maps delivered irahoitt naltUonnl chnrar.
For s club of ten subscribers, at fl5 each, we will
forward a copy of Smith's Bible Uietionary free.
Specimen copies of the Blade, Locke's National
MAflAZi.se and Amikicax F asm Jousnal sent free
on application.
special Inducements to AIJESTS.
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THE BLADE, Toledo, Ohio.
g fTTI Va nttST In th World.
AC'kiV,,Y ln.Wea I'm versa ratlsfai tlin.
j?? "i 1 WOVDKHKll, Economy.
"-Z?L I nl. more Pr.-:u! to htl. !ur
VrrtlJiSW JAVK MII.K, KOU
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o Mom: mm it hi(i:ai.
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KVEIO IMIY lralae It.
T'ifl Ls'Ues are all In love with It.
tP,i.lM Ha HOT Alt KH.
a i-ki1 at or re for t In ntur to
Ii Et e, (iAVTZ ..
17(1 UUIn t.. frevr V orlt.
500.000 ACHES
tflCHICAN LANDS
The Lanfla et the Jackson, Lansinjr 4 Kals
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They are, slluatel along Its railroad and eint!Hr(t
tri tsul excellent FAKMINU and I'lS K IjtiiiU.
Tit farillll'B luuila Include some of the Tnot ferfUw'
and Well-wslorcd hardwood huids in the. Hate, 'l in y
sr" tlmliercd mainly with hard uunle ami le h: soil
black fxuilf lo;tin, and ahiiiinil 1 ,riiiu of purest
uter MiclrHfan Is one of the It-sst lnd-tii--t tuil m.i
nnwpe'roiis Mate In the Union, and Its farmeis have a
greater variety of crops and resources than any West
'mMnui. Wlillo some or the prairie Mates mar pn
d,ir cvf n In areat abiiudaiice. t hey have no ot her re
Js.hrc. Stt'l when thia crop falls i.-.tUtitloii follows. as
has been iheeuse the na.t ear,;i Kansas and Nebraska.
Illustrated ramMilef. Ad'lrrss HI . IiAllir.r.
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dividual siiIim rlliersiind also for those formlim eliilis,
a full list of win, Ii ran t, ohtnined Troin the publish
er. Our fsrilttit-s for purrhanim in itianiilles iles'ra
hle piMHls for the hmi-eliold enahlea iik to oiler them
as premiums on more liberal term than they can
uhiihIIv he purchased at wholesale, enabling persona
sendiiiB names of their friends as sulwrti er to re
ceive the bent manufactured Si I, V KH - I'l. lTM"
V A ItK and other articles, useful aud oruauirtilal, to
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rome ThompHon. II' me, Nn eel llfiie," after
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BK KiJt'Al.FI), OR KVKV APPKO n rt, for lis insivel
ous lilwrslltv. The rholee of these hirne and t rnlw
splendid ( lifc.inos, which were oncliiail,v sold for l.'
each, and are. now oflered In all their ot initial lieauty
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uhs-rllM-r to lrioi:Ksr's Mom iii.v. Hz" id hro
inos, iTx-js Inches. The hroinos re sent sectirel
packed on a roller, postiiKe ine'iils extra : or mount !
on canvas and streti her, as an oil p.iinlliiB. S" ei-ntai
extra, each, which Includes transportation. NOW
KKADVI and sent anywhere In the I nl'ed Mat. -a
on the receipt of the ainount of subM-riplinii ami ost
aireon t'linnnos. buhscrlptions may commence with
any uumber. . .
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No. 17 Kaat 14IIi St.. New Vork.
AliFA'TS In the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan. Wlseoiisin. Minnesota. Iowa and Mloorl,
ran be asslKiied territory for canvassing and anpplu-a
with I)KMntr.T's Must it I. v Uiiziisk, wiih I'rrnit
um ( hrouios and f rallies, on liberal terms, on appli
cation to T. M. HTAltlt A (.)..
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VANBUSKlW'SfBAGRArtT:
-rjf T?7 O' To?
AND INVIGOHATE8 AMI
HARDENS THE GUMS!
It imparts a delightfully refrcHliinp
taste and feeling to the mouth, remov
ing all TARTAR and SCURF from
the teeth, completely arresting the pro
gress of decay, and -whitening uuch
parts as have become black by decay.
IMPURE BREATH I
caused by Bad Teeth, Tobacco, Spirit,
or Catarrh, is neutralized by the daily
use o'
S0Z000HT
It is as harmless as .water.
Bold Ij Draggista and Dealers ia Taney Ooodg,
One bottle will last cix months.
WBl Aw.
$25. $50 per Day
CAX 1CTC1LLT BE BIDE WITn THK
Great
Western
WE MEAN IT!
And are prepared to demonstrate the fact.
OTR AI'OERS re operated entlre'r br HOR8B
POWER, and will bore at the rateof IH ETI I'EET
PEUHOlli. They bore from
3 to 6 Feet in Diameter
And AST DEPTH REQCIRED. Th?y will bore la
All Kind of Earth, Soft Rand 6c Lime
stone, mtuniliioua Stotie 'olt
Slate and Ilardpan,
And ws MAKE the BEST of Y!EIS la QUICK8Arrr.
fiOOD ACTIVE kUtVSTS, Wsnted In every Biats
and County In the United Mates, bend fur our Illus
trated Catalogue, terms, prlee, etc., provicj our ad
Tertisement bonaJUU. Address
GREAT WESTERN WELL AUGER CO.,
I'.UMmfield, Davis Co., Iowa.
IVRtate ! wVt is per yoa ssw this sdrertlaement.
THE ONLY LIVE-STOCK PAPER.
The National Lire -Stock Journal, cmcAcof ills..
Is th only first-claaa paper In tha United 8tatei DKVOTBD EXCLUSIVELY TO LIVE-STOCK.
It ia published monthly, on tmt book paper, la elegantly illnetratd. contains 40 pap. a threa coj
nmns to a pace, furnishing in tbe course or a jear.oTer I,8D0 columns of matter relating to lire stork.
It tells all about the breeding, feediDK and management of all kind ot block, together with th
n taTwTTrt rt th Dai rr
Generally over half the produce of the farm i consumed an the farm, by lle to",1 f different
kinds. If tbe lire atock ia of the right Kind, and Judiciously handled, the farm is likely makinv
money. If the stock is not adapted to the farm, or if it ia Improperly bandied, the farm makes itKls
or nothing. It ia right here that money is made or lost ou tbe farm, and it te a matter or tbe
greatest importance to trw farmer, that he bae a paper devoted eiclusiely to the breeding
and feeding of Lire Stock, ia which he i so largely interested. 8uch a paper should be considered
A Farmer's Business Por." M M L ,. . .
TERMS. Single eosles. one rear, postage paid. $2.1 5 : Clube of re, postage paid, fl.00;
Cabs of ten. with aa extra copr free to person Disking ap club or ten. postsge prepsjo, f l ..
lAArtmm Inttera reirlsteHnsr thoae rontaicintr moner. unless Id shsps Of ro"'al order or draft 1)
PCK(. W. RI'T A CO., lakeaMe BslMtwr, fllirtHO, lliM.
To whom Pensions are
A TT! EVK14V soldier
ll-riuiim ii while ia the line
and. dischars;e of duty, either by areident or
otherwise, should bare a pension. The loss of
a flDsrer entitles yoa to a pension, A rupture,
no matter bow slight, gires yoa a pension.
1 no loasoi a toe giru yuu m pension.
The loss of an eye arires yoa a pension.
Any injury willpive yon a pension.
PENSIONS rye;
who are now drawipr a pension, are Just It enti
tled to an increase. TP TT"aTlii si r for
KSendietampsXW U Xw X 3L all.
for copy of Pension and Bountr Acta.
Adores, p. j FITZGERALD.
Unfgd States Qalm Agent, Ijcpiamapolis, Inn.
aw y au tetters saaxa r. kj. vox m.&I
5 M
DOLiHSTIG
SEWING
MACHINES.
Liberal Terms of Ex
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Mathmei of every description.
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THI8 paper Is Print- d with IKK trsnnfsctnred by
X O B. KA'K t CO . 141 Dearborn fet.,( blraeo.
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