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    the Monthjoa Prize.
It is exceedingly consoling, afVr
man has eared several feoplc from
drownior. rescued a babe or two from
the flumes, or risked hia life to ave
train from being wrecked, to be patted 00
the back and told that virtue Is lU own
reward. A mis-erly man, once rescued
iroru a watery grave off the pier at Green
ock, a senport town in Scotland, rewarded
Ihe gallant sailor who brousrht him safe to
land with a sixpence. "iNever mind,
remarked the ioet Burns, who witnessed
the Bhabby transaction, " he values his
life at its proper worth." Irof. Aytown
relates a storv which appeared in Islark
tctKxl some years ago of a Highland chief
The Great JIcGowl" who, having
- eaved the life of a young lady, rcceired
the thanks of her relxtircs, accompanied
by a pressing invitation to Tisitthe family
in lndon. iToioumtiy impressed wnn
the idea that he hod rendered a favor
which could never be sufliciently repaid,
the great man, accompanied by his piper
set out lor the English metropolis. With
the fall expectation of receiving a vast
reward he lived at the finest hotel, and fed
his piper on luxuries, common at home,
Lut exnensive in the English capital.
Great was his amazement when the En
glish host, who was of course delighted
to see him. instead of writing out a check
for several thousand pounds, merely in
sisted upon his "staying to dinner."
The only place in the world in which
virtue in the eves of the general public
deserves more than its own reward is
I'aris. In that city they have an institu
lion or foundation known as the Monthj'on
crizes. Ihese prizes are given by the
French Academy to persons distinguished
for conspicuously brave or virtuous ac
tions, and consist of ribbons and money
The 11th of last month was a great day tor
the virtuous in the French capital. Jt was
the day utoa which the academy delivered
its awards. Annette lireuil, one of the
Trize-takers. took service in 1X32 with a
i'olith music-master named Tarnowskii,
who at that time fared well in the world.
misfortune, poverty and old age coming
upon the man. he became entirety tie
TH-ndent uoon Annette, who sold out her
little savings to support her old and much
loved master. She now wears the blue
ribbon of virtue, in addition to a prize ot
2.000 francs. Another of the fortunate
tmes M as Sebastien J'.asqucs, who, being
left fatherless at sixteen, not only brought
up his little brothers and supported his
mother, but rescued drowning men, men
from burninsr houses, and an aeronaut
lroiu a perilous position. The academy
f.lso crowned M. Daudet for his novel ; M.
Des Novies Torres received 120 for his
work on YolUtire: M. Wailly and M.
I'esoneaux prizes for translations. The
beauty of the Monthyon prize is that no
one is maue aware 01 ne uecision uei ore-
hand. Perhaps the virtuous Annette never
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liearu 01 mc insiiiuiioii iu ner inc. 11 ia
something for " honest poverty, who hangs
its head and a' that," to receive, in addition
to the pleasure of a satisfied conscience,
the approbation of its lellow-countrymen
supplemented by a reward which may
serve to keep the wolf from the door, per
haps to help others, in continuance of and
in accordance with the promptings of an
unselfish heart. Inter Ocean.
Idol Worship and Fetish Worship,
la an extract in Popular Science Month.
-'1 Troni " '1 he Principles of Sociology,"
I- Herbert Spencer, we have some curious
cts in relation to ancient worship. Daily
clerings were made on the altar by the
rricst to the corpse ot a Tahitian chief,
- and the ancient Central Americans per
formed kindred riles before bodies dried
by artificial heat. That along with a de
veloped system of embalming this grew
into mummy worship, Peruvians "and
Egyptians have furnished proof. These
people had confused notions either that
the ghost of the dead man was present in
the mummy, or that the mummy was
itself conscious. Among the Egyptians
the embalmed dead were sometimes placed
beside them at table. By the Peruvians
the dried corpse of a parent was carried
round the field, that he might see the
state of the crops. Ellis tells us that in
the Sandwich Islands bones of the legs,
arms, and sometimes of the skulls of
Kings and principal chiefs are carried
about by their descendants, under the be
lief that the spirits exercise guardianship
over them. The frees carry bones and
hair of dead persons about for three j-ears.
The Tasnianians " show anxiety to pos
sess themselyes of a bone from the 6kull
or the arms of their deceased relatives."
The Andamanese " widows may be seen
w ith the skulls of their deceased partners
suspended from their necks."
When a dead Lord had been burned
among the Mexicans, says Camargo, they
carefuliy collected the ashes and, after
having kneaded them with human blood,
they made of them an image of the de
ceased, which was kept in memory of
him. In Africa kindred observances oc
cur. "While a distinguished King of Con
go is being embalmed, says Bastian, a
wooden figure is set up in the palace to
represent him, and is daily furnished with
food and drink. In Mostrelct's " Chroni
cle" book the burial of Charles VI. of
France is described thus:
" Over the coffin was an image of the
late King, bearing a rich crown of gold
and diamonds and holding two shields,
one of gold, the other of silver; the hands
Lad white gloves on and the fingers were
adorned with very precious rings. This
image was dressed with cloth of gold, etc.
In this state was he solemn
ly carried to ihe Church of Notre Dame."
MonMrelet describes a like figure used
at the burial of Henry V. of England,
and the efiigiesof many English monrchs
are said to have been preterved in West
minster Abbey till they decayed.
Kane states that the Chi nooks tMnk
portraits supernatural, and look nt them
w ith the same ceremony as nt a dead per
son. That a savage does think an etligy
is inhabited, we have abundant proofs.
Lander, describing the Torubans, says a
mother carries lor some time a wooden
figure of her child, and when she eats puts
part of her food to it lips. The Samoiedes,
according to Bastian, feed the wooden im
ages of the dead.
A Public Executioner.
The post of public executioner in Alsace
during the seventeenth century was,
though anything but a sinecure, very re
munerative, for he received an annual
salary of sixty-seven livres a large sum
at that period from the Government, four
sacks of barley and grains, four cords of
wood and 150 fagots. He was lodged at
the cost of the town in which he resided,
and was allowed the uso of a meadow, and
had the monopoly of the sewage. He also
had the privilege of skinning the animals
killed in the town, and of appropriating
any horse offered for sale which was val
ued at less than two florins a price which
docs not give a very high idea of the
horses in Alsace at that time. But he
made more by his "perquisites" than by
his regular salary, as he received so much
for each "operation," as, for instance,
for breaking on the wheel or burning, (50
livres; for hanging, 30 livres; for expos
ing on the wheel, branding, and placing
in the piilory, cutting down a houy, put
ting to the question, piercing the tongue
wi h a red-hot iron, executing in etfagy,
rutting off a head and burning a book, 13
livics; for branding a convict, 9 livres;
splitting a lip, 8 livres; for scattering the
ashes to the wind, 6 livres, and for bury
ing a corpse, 3 livres. He was also paid
20 livres lor giving a parting kick to any
person sentenced to banishment. The
reason for paying so highly this apparent
ly easy operation was that the executioner
had to accompany the culprit to the fron
litr, and on arriving there to administer
the kick with the following formula:
' You are banished from the territory,
and if you come back you will be sent to
the galleys;" and in order to secure re
spect tor his person the Sovereign Council
of Alsace prohibited under pain of fine
the use of the word "executioner" (hour
reav), and the Council of State ordained
that he should receive the .style and title
of "ilaitre des hautesoeuvres."
How is this for hard times? A well
known Fifth avenue man lately called on
a leading jeweler and had his thousand
dollar solitaire imitated in paste so he
could sell the real gem.' X. Y. Cor. Chi
cago Tribune.
IIqveb of recreation are
y any means,
pot, lost hours,
A Cosmopolitan Call.
The Washington correspondent of the
nartford 'lime Bays: The Capital pub
lished a good story a week since anent
the ludicrous mistake made by an ex
quisite young attach of a foreign legation
when making an attempt to call on a
young lady of whose beaux ynuc he was
epri. But many much more laughable ac
counts might well be given on the other
hand of the calls some of our would-be
fashionables of both sexes make on the
families of newly-arrived foreign diplo
mats. A minister plenipotcntiary-and ex
traordinary envoy arrives, presents his
credentials to the Executive, and the quid
nuncs in the way of society small-talk
proclaim to an agitated universe that "the
illustrious Marquis de Blowout has taken
the superb residence? formerly occupied by
Senator , and will entertain in a style
of great magnificence." Forthwith his
"superb residence" is besieged daily by
Uiat ortion of our population who con
sider the making and receiving of calls
and attending receptions the chief end of
their hibernal existence. As these indi
viduals understand no language but their
own, and rarely speak that intelligibly, if
it so happens that the new arrivals have
never attempted English, tho embarrass
ment on both sides may be imagined when
Mrs. Fuss and -feathers finds the Marquise
Blowout at home. With a very much
dismayed expression of countenance Mrs.
F.-anu-F. walks into the reception-room
at tho heels of the clegantly-got-up do
mestic, who comprehends nothing of her
errand except what the universal lan
guage of pasteboard conveys. " Drat the
woman," exclaims Mrs. F.-and-F. totto
toe; " who'd a thought of her
being at home on a bright after
noon like this? I called to-day on pur
p.'ttic, thinking she'd be ridin' up and down
the avenue or to Soldiers' Home, like the
rest of the furriners, or takin' a constitoo
tional as all the aristocratic English do.
These furrin waiters don't know the ways
of polite life, or else the man would have
frhl.l ma nifllnrnii Tain n th it.iH T nnlp
called to get a bid to grand receptions the
papers say they mean to give, and to have
the Marquiss and Markuise's cards to
show in that Secver's dish I bought at the
Patagonian Mims:er'ssale the other day."
So the caller runs on, while Madame la
Marquise, in the hands of her maid above
stairs, is fretting over the faux pas she
commits n keeping her tirst American
caller waiting so long. When madame
descends, smiles, bows and courtesies in
her moat suave manner, murmuring " a u
bon heur," Mrs. F.-aud-F. grows very red,
grins and stammers: " Bonner," mental
ly ejaculating the while: "She thinks I'm
literary ana know the Lxdgcr man. 1
didn't know these furriners were so well-
read in our best authors. But it's a lucky
mistake, for I know all these people like
what they call ' espree. Well, it they 11
ask me and my husbaDd to dinner we'll
spree enough for them one way and an
other. Alauaine ana ner visitor lioia a
brief conversation, made up of a mixture
of French and the madame's native
tongue, interlarded with a half-dozen En
glish words (madame's entire Eagiish vo
cabulary) thrown in hap hazard, on one
side, and grins, bows, grimaces, and
occasionally broken English, spoken in a
very loud voice, on the other. Then they
part, mutually relieved, the visitor glau
to escape so easily ana madame wonuer
ing how long her husband's ministry in
this barbarous country will continue.
A Little Girl Lost On the Plains.
A Plattville (Cal.) correspondent of the
Denver Hews relates the lollowing inci
dent:
Saturday evening last our town was
startled by the report that a little girl,
aged about nine years, a twin daughter of
a Mr. butherlana, who recently movea
into the neighborhood, was lost on the
plains. It appears that the child accom
panied her lather in search 01 cattle and.
when about two miles out, they found
some calves, one of which had a bell at
tached to its neck. The cows not being
in sight, the father directed the child to
follow the calves, which he supposed
would go directly home, while he would
go in search of the cows. It was then
4:30 p. m. At about six o'clock the father
returned home and was horrified to learn
that his little daughter had not come in,
but was all the while supposed, by its
mother, to be with the father. The alarm
was at once riven to the people in the
village, ana some twenty or more
persons went out ana scourea the
country lor six or eight miles in
every direction, but without success.
though some of them were out until four
o'clock next morning, and two, one a boy
of seventeen, having themselves been lost.
did not reach home until eight o'clock
Sunday morning. On Sunday some forty
men ana boys on horseback, ana
at least twenty on foot, went out, not
withstanding the extremely cold, wet
wind, but after hunting all day re
turned unsuccessful. Again on Monday
morning men from every direction were
on the hunt, and in the most sj'steiuatic
manner examined a wide strip ot country,
from the Platte to near the Box Elder, and
were still looking, headed toward home.
when a sitrnal gun was heard, ty which
all knew the child had been found. It
appears that the little one followed the
calves for a time, but, as they did not go
toward home, she soon became conscious
that she was lost. At first she says she
wandered around; but, hearing the wolves
growling around her, she started in a
straight course, which took her to the Box
Elder, and, without knowing what direc
tion she was taking, followed the bed of
the creek until daylight. At that time
she saw trees on the Platte and started lor
them, arriving at the ranch of Mr. John
Becbee, about four miles below Evans, at
ten o'clock Sunday morning, having trav
eled constantly lor eighteen hours, and
probably a distance ot not less than twenty-five
miles. When asked if she was not
frightened, she said no. She said the
wolves kept close to her heels, and
snapped at her feet; but that her mother
had told her that if she was good the Lord
would always take care of her, and so she
knew the wolves would not hurt her, be
cause God wouldn't let them. After being
kept at the house of Mr. Beebee until the
following day, Monday, she was brought
home as sound and fresh as though she
had only taken a short walk ot ten or
welve miles.
A Texas courtship is not half as funny
as one that is carried on twice a week in a
friend's kitchen. Her cook is a German
named Louisa, and she has for a beau a
middle-aged 1 ankee of small pretensions
to intellect. One report of one conversa
tion is a verbatim account of the whole
courtship. Smith knocks and enters.
Louisa says grulliy: "Veil, tmitt. how
you goes?" "Putty well, Louisa," drawls
bmith. Thus, silence tor about live min
utes, when Louisa says: "Vatvasthe
vedder oud3ide?" " Pretty fair, Louisa."
Another intermission. " Did you pring
your razor mit you, bmitt?" "les,
Louisa." Then he proceeds to cut his
fair inamorata's corns a solemn silence
brooding above the pair. " I s'pose 1
must be going, Louisa?" And Louisa re
plies: "Veil, likely as not it vould be
better." And the door closes and that
courting is over. This has been going on
for tour years without a single accident.
Twice a week this mingling of sole and
sentiment, this cutting of corns and ex
change of affection takes place. Probably
this winter the marriage will eventuate,
and Louisa will get some one else for a
corn-doctor, since it's against all nature
that a husband should be for a moment
er marriage what he was as a lover.
N. Y. Letter.
Is the office of one of the hotels the
other day a man spit a great deal of to
bacco juice around and had a great deal
to say about his voyage to Europe last
year. He used many oaths, made Him
self disagreeably familiar to all, and
finally stepped on a little man's corns and
bluntly asked :' Did you ever go to Eu
rope?" " No, sir, I never did," was the
reply. " I have had all I could do to stay
at home and learn manners!" There was
lots of silence around there after that.
Detroit Free Pre.
ClTTWTI hair-dealer rpnort larro
offerings of female hair lor sale since the
breaking out of the small-nox thpr In.
vestigation showed that much of it had
been cut from the heads of victims of the
ioatnsome disease.
Pp cood It you expect to ruceiY, oo4.
A Panther Hunt In Vermont.
Last Friday, as Mr. II. N. Fitts, of
West Wardsboro, and a Mr. S. S. Perry
were going to their work, blasting lime
rock from a ledge situated in the edge of
Stratton. they noticed the tracks of a wild
animal. Supposing they lclonged to a
bear they concluded to follow them for a
inon distance to sausiy uiuir iurmsii.
These soon led Into a piece of woods
about a mile southwest of the village of
West Wardsboro. Here Mr. Fitt and his
companion abandoned their search, in
tending to secure help and tollow it the
next morning. Saturday morning the
hunters, about sixteen in all, armed with
rifles, shot-guns and revolvers, and accom
panied by several dogs, started for the
animal. They first passed around the
woods to make sure that the supposed bear
had not left his lair, and then the whole
place was surrounded with a chain of
armed men to prevent his escape if he
should make a break for the mountains,
Twelve of the hunters were thus arranged
while Messrs. Fitts, Perry and H. B
Johnson, with two boys and four dogs, en
tered the woods to stir up the beast. The
dogs were kept back by ropes until the
proper time and place should be reached
and the hunt commenced. The trail of
the previous evening was soon struck, and
in a few moments they came upon the
half-devoured remains of a hedgehog. The
bed where some large animal had lain the
night before was discovered, and fresh
tracks were apparent on all sides. The
uneasiness of the dogs, as they struggled
to free themselves from their leashes, also
made evident the near presence of the
game. When they were loosed they
darted through the brush, yelping and
barking, while the hunters followed on as
fast as possible, boon the barking ceased
and the animals rushed hither and thither,
hunting for the trail, evidently at a loss.
Mr. Perry, however, who was armed with
a shot-gun doubly-loaded with shot and
ball, discovered a dark-looking object in
the top of a tall hemlock. Without
moment's warning he raised his gun and
fired, and the dark object came tumbling
to the grquud, disclosing to the eyes of the
astonished hunters a regular American
panther. Although shot through the breast.
and with one of his fore-legs broken by the
fall, the magnificent animal was disabled
but not conquered, and, as the dogs attacked
him, clearing himself with his uninjured
paw, he leaped into the air over the heads
ot the men, and landed in a thicket
dozen or fifteen feet away. The dogs.
however, were gritty and terribly in ear
nest, and when he leaped again he carried
one of them with him, clinging to his
flank. He attempted to climb a tree, but
this, in his disabled condition, was im
possible; so, dropping to the ground, he
made a dash for a clump of dead tree
tops, a few yards distant. Away went the
panther and the dogs, scratching, snarling
and yelping, while the men followed close
behind, urging on the dogs. Hitherto the
demonstrations of the hunters had been
more noisy than effective; but, as the
panther was disappearing in a thicket of
spruce trees, Johnson seized him by the
tail, and called on Perry tor help in mak
ing the capture. Perry loyally respond
ed; but, just as he had got a gooa hold.
the beast cave a leap, carrying both of
the men with him, and for a lew moments
aerial navigation was nowhere. The
panther went over a tree-top, but the men
remained on the other side, still clinging
to his tail. He tried to turn and light
them, but the dogs were on hand. J ust
at this moment Johnson bethought himself
of his revolver, and five pistol-bullets were
lodged in his head, btiil the tight con
tinued, and Mr. Fitts, who had not been
an idle spectator, managed to get a rope
around the panther's leg and fasten him
to a tree, bhot-guns and pistols were
eniT)ty, but the panther, though weakened,
refused to die, and the life of the " king
of the American forests" was brought to
an ignominious close by the use of a
pocket-knife and cudgel. He measured
seven feet from tip to tip, and weighed
105 pounds. Three toes were gone from
one of his fore-feet, seeming to Indicate an
intimate acquaintance with a steel trap
some time in the past. Hunters and dogs
escaped unhurt a fact probably due to
the severe injuries sustained by the ani
mal in the early rart of the fight. The
carcass was borne in triumph to the vil
lage and exhihited to the wondering eyes
ot the inhabitants. Rutland ( Y t.) Herald.
Fpanish Brigandage.
Keeping along the eastern coast of
Spain our travelers visited Tarragona and
Valencia. When Baron Davillier first
went over this route, some years previous
to this trip with Dore, there was no rail
road, and brigand were said to infest it.
According to the tales of travelers no one
then ever set out without preparing for
some adventure, and those who lived to
return, if they had not been actually at
tacked, had barely escaped, and could tell
at least one tale of mysterious Spaniards,
wrapped alike in their mantles and the
gloom of night, or disappearing suddenly,
bent en some deed of darkness, with their
uplifted swords or daggers gleaming in
the pale moonlight. These were the good
old times when the coaches were regular
ly stopped, and ho one ever settled in his
scat without having his ransom ready at
hand. The brigand's profession was then
a lucrative one, carried on in broal day
light, and each highway was scoured by
its own peculiar band, w ho regarded it as
private property. It is even said that the
cosiriois the drivers were in league with
the bandits, and agreed with them to
share their booty, or rather the coachman
paid a regular blackmail, which was
contributed by the passengers; and,
curiously enough, the members of
the band always knew when and where to
receive this tribute. Sometimes the chief
of a band, having earned a competency by
the exercise of his noble profession, would
settle down to an uneventful lite of sim
ple respectability, but before abandoning
the King's highway he was careful to sell
the good-will of his business to some en
terprising successor, who probably in
spected the accounts and was fully in
structed in the secrets of the profession. In
spite ot these very attractive stones, alas!
our travelers never saw, far or near, the
figure of a single brigand, although they
frequently traversed the roads and rocky
defiles recommended as the most nkely
and dangerous. Still these bandits arc
now and then heard of, and as recently
as 1S71 they displayed enterprise and
boldness enough to stop a railway train
near Sierra Morena and rob the passen
gers. 1 raveling by diligence is, of
course, still in vogue where the railways
have not penetrated, and this method ot
progression has its wild excitements in
spite of the diminution of brigandage.
Between Barcelona and v alencia Davillier
and Dore passed a frightful ravine, into
which a diligence had been precipitated,
carrying in its fall Loth horses and travel
ers. Scribnerfor December.
An Unsoaped Hermit.
Cady, the Scotchman who was injured.
probably fatally, in the runaway near the
Bix Sioux bridge on Tuesday, is in some
respects a remarkable personage. He is
an old man, a bachelor, and has lived the
life of a hermit for -many years. His
hovel is situated near the bank of the
Missouri, south of McCook. It is not a
" dug-out" it cannot claim that respecta
bility but it is simply a hole in the
ground in which the grizzled old man has
wen sheltered from rain and storm, from
the wintry blasts and the scorching sun,
season in and season out, since the settle
ment of this section of the country. But
very little is known of the history of this
strange character, and if there has ever
transpired anything particularly remark
able in the course of his life the secret
of it will probably remain locked' up in
the old man s breast to the last. Water is
a total stranger to him so far as its use in
cleansing the exterior of his person is
concerned, and it is absolutely believed
by those mot familiar with him and his
mode of living that he has not applied
water to his face or hands for many years.
His general appearance would indicate
this. As soon as Cady recovered con
sciousness after his injuries Tuesday an
effort was made to cleanse his face with
water, but the old man, feeble as he was.
warded off this encroachment upon a
rule he has observed for perhaps a decade.
His gray locks and beard are matted with
the accumulation of years, while his
face and hands are scaled over to such an
extent as to form a sort of protection to
toe cold and the Etorm. He is a strange
Character, Wm Oft a leiea) fvurnai,
Mothers,
Don't Frighten
dren.
Tour Chll-
We have more than once seen a woman
into whose hands a child has been given
to love and rear, who never even once im
agined that when she screamed at the
sight of a venturesome mouse, or the
graceful spinning down of a spider, or a
flash of lightning, that she so shocked the
nerves of her child and so thrilled them
that they were never fully at peace again.
The scream that she utters may leave no
visible wound in the body of her little
one, but the hurt is none the less severe,
and the pain will return again and again
to it whenever it sees the small and very
likely harmless insect which suggested to
its mother the terror which she transferred
to her child. We have seen a mother
gather her children into bed at midday
and silently lie trembling with dread of a
lightning flash, until she has made the
young lives of her family a burden to
them whenever there is promise of a sum
mer storm. Of course there is danger
during an electric disturbance, but it is
very remote, and the number of those
who contract a fatal illness through care
lessness when their clothing has got wet in
a peaceful rain is ten times as great as
those killed by lightning, and yet a
mother is often very negligent of this ex
posure. She may tell her children that
the center of the room, with the windows
and doors closed, if there be no chimney
in the apartment, is a safer place than a
door-way or an open casement; but she
need not frighten them by manifest timid
ity. The time of real danger she should
make one of very serious use to her little
ones by showing them the value ot cool
self-possession, prompt action, or heroic
patience. Ignorant fears are more likely
i; e perpetuated in a child by a thought
less mother than is a discreet knowledge
of how to avoid danger. A child that will
climb to the roofs lop or to the eaves'
edge will often fear to pass through a
room if it be told that a mouse is in it,
and this little gray mischief was never
known to attack anybody. A worm is un
pleasant to look upon, but it is not an act
ive enemy to mankind, and it should
only be avoided in the presence of a child
just as we would avoid contact with any
other disagreeable object. There are chil
dren who live in such perpetual dread of
some of the most innocent of little creat
ures that their health is often seriously
impaired, and their slumbers are fre
quently a misery and an injury to them,
from the appalling dreams which are the
consequence of being frightened by a
silly mother. The really earnest and
tender woman will inform herself and her
children of all the real dangers that are
likely to surround it, and she will wisely
guard it and show it how and when to
guard itself! The Metropolitan.
The Freaks of an Escaped Elephant.
Last night Betsy, the big elephant now
wintering here, became dissatisfied with
her narrow quarters in the barn where the
animals are confined, and made up her
mind to sally forth into a wider arena.
She accordingly snapped the ropes and
chains that bound her, walked out of her
stall, and, after promenading up and down
for a few minutes, marched to the cage of
a young Bengal tiger, upset it, and turned
the occupant loose. The tiger was taken
by surprise, and so much disgusted at the
practical joke plaj-ed upon him that he
retreated to a quiet corner and nursed his
wrath. Betsy seemed to be spoiling for a
fight. She started again for the tiger, but
before she could strike him he had jumped
clear over her and taken refuge on one of
the cross-beams. Betsy made another at
tempt to reach the tiger but failed. She
then burst open the barn door and marched
for the railroad depot, where she encount
ered an engine on the track. She made
a close study of the hissing and snorting
iron horse, and having satisfied herseif
that she could easily overcome it in a fair
tight she proceeded to tackle it. bhe tried
it on al! sides, but could not budge it, and
after having scorched her proboscis by
winging it in close contact with the
furnace door, she became despondent, and
moved away.
Meanwhile isero and Turk, the two
dogs that are kept w ith the elephant, had
trottea around and aroused the keepers,
who started out to capture the eccentric
runaway. Wilson F. Green and Charles
Colton came up with her as she was en
tering the town. They bwth tried bv
moral suasion to induce Betsy to return
to camp, but she indignantly refused
i urther persuasion irritated her, and at
length, failing by quiet obstinacy to rid
herself of her tormentors, she lifted her
trunk and brought it down with a side
long sweep that sent Mr. Green more than
ten yards through space. She then upset
Mr. Colton, and would perhaps have
crushed him w ith her feet had not her at
tention been diverted in time by Tommy
Murphy, one of the circus boys, who ran
up in front of her. Seizing Tommy around
the middle she held him alott, and carry
ing mm gently lor a lew rods dropped
him tenderly to the ground and continued
on her journey.
By this time the whole circus force was
out. Dozens of men surrounded the huge
beast, and alter beating her badly with
clubs and prodding her with pitchforks
they succeeded in getting Betsy in har
ness. As soon as she was tethered she
turned quietly about and returned to the
barn without a protest. Had the escape
been made in the daytime serious dam
age might have resulted from Betsy's
treak. Bridgeport, Conn. JSov. i-'U), Lor.
a . 1 . bun.
Doing Up Men's Wear.
1 used to think it quite a task to wash
and do up men's and boj-s' wearing ap
parel for the reason that I was troubled to
make them look nicely after the renova
tion.
They would put on such a wrinkly ap
pearance that X would get discouraged
and not feel at all satisfied with the re
suits of my labor. It wasn't the washing
part that troubled me so much as the
ironing.
I learned by experience never to wash
any kind ot woolen goods, especially if
they are colored, in a sudsy water where
white clothes had been previously washed,
on account of the lint, but to put up a suds
made 01 clear not water and soap and
then rinse in clear warm water, folding
the garments carefully before putting
them through the wringer; they would
then dry out clear and look well ; but the
doing up was where the difficulty came
in.
After a while, however, I was fortunate
enough to receive instruction from an ex
perienced laundress, which caused my
troubles to vanish like dew before the
sunshine, and the lesson was so simple.
was surprised at mvselt to think that 1
had not thought of it before.
It was merely this: After the garments
to be ironed are thoroughly dried, spread
them smoothly over the ironing-board,
then wring a cloth out of clear water,
spread the cloth over the goods and iron
with a hot flat-iron until the cloth is drv:
dip and wring the cloth again, spread it
above the part already pressed and pro
ceed as before until the face of the goods
has all been passed over.
W aen pants are to be done up the seams
should all be pressed over a press-board.
the same as when newly finished: then
fold the same as tailors do, and co over
them with the wet cloth and hot iron ; aft
er being treated to such a course woolen
wear will come out looking nearly as good
as new, and no one need be ashamed to
wear them, "either to mill or to meet
ing."
It is a little difhcult to do up coats and
vests, because of the different materials
of which they arc composed not all
hrinking alike, yet they can be managed
so they will look nicely it care is exer
cised in the management; that is, stretch
ing the parts that nave shrunk and press
ing in place as they are being done ud.
If the linings are loo loose, rin them up
and lap over or rip off. Dot, in Ohio
Farmer.
USEFUL AXD SUGGESTIVE.
Two TEASPOOxrcxs of finely-powdered
charcoal drank in a half a tumbler of
water will often give relief to the sick
headache, when caused, as in most cases
it is, by a superabundance of acid on the
liver.
To Tax SnEEP-Skixs. Pulverize to
gether two parts saltpeter and one ot
alum; rub the flesh side well with this
mixture, in a little water; double the skin
together and roll tightly, lay in a cool
place four or five days, then clean and rub.
This will tan any kind of skin with the
hair on.
Pickled Mcttoh Hams. Three gallons
soft water, one pound coarse sugar, two
ounces saltpeter, three pounds common
salt. Boil and remove the scum, and
when cold pour over the meat. In two or
three weeks the ham will be excellent for
baking or boiling. It may be smoked if
preferred.
A coruebpoxdent of a Canadian paper
writes as follows: "I have obtained all
the lard oil that I have needed for several
3'ears by making a hole in the bottom of
the keg and tacking a piece of thin mus
lin over it, which will let the oil run oil'.
Oil made up in this way is the best and
purest quality, and leaves the lard firmer
and better than before."
Artificial Honey. The following is
the recipe which men have had the cheek
to ask two dollars for: Mix eight pounds
refined sugar and two-thirds ounce alum
in one pint of clear soft water. Add to
one pint of alcohol five drops of oil of
roses. Mix four tablespoonfuls ot the tar
tar with the former; that is, four table
spoonfuls of the alcohol and oil of roses
is sufficient for eight paunds of honey.
Ohio Farmer.
A Grate for Wood Fires. Insert a
broad, strong iron bar securely from side
to side of the fireplace, and directly in
front, about six inches above the hearth.
From this bar let other? of like diameter,
and about four or five inches apart, ex
tend at right angles to the back of the
fireplace, where they must be fastened in
the wall, or to a transverse bar, or secured
proerly upon bricks. No andirons are
needed with a grate of this kind; the
wood burns well, and the ashes fall down
and are easily removed. If a second bar
is fixed a few inches above the large front
bar the danger of the wood rolling for
ward and out of the fireplace will be
averted. Scribner.
It is said that some people have what is
called "spontaneity," and some haven't;
out nobody ever sat down on a pin-cushion
yet without manifesting something
surprisingly like it. Exchange.
Never have 40.000 in bank. A
Chinaman so situated died in a collar, the
rtttf pwriog at hini Vefore he was cold,
Winter Care or Stock.
The time to make preparations for the
comfort of animals during the winter
months is immediately. Farmers who
were able to make warm, substantial
stables for their stock have, of course, al
ready attended to that, but there are thou
sands who must make the old stables,
sheds and pig-sties answer until they have
accumulated a little more, and such must
resort to less expensive methods of ex
cluding the cold air and saving the
amount of food necessary to preserve their
animais in good condition.
Every grain-growing farmer has. of
course, his straw stack, and straw is an ex
eel lent non-conductor of heat. Stables
with only an outside siding can easily be
lined with old boards, and the space be
tween the lining and outside stutled with
straw. In this way a stable can be made
as warm as in a close, clapboarded barn.
If boards are scarce it will not be neces
sary to nail the lining close together, oiily
ciose enougu 10 Keep the straw in place.
Cattle should not be left under open
sheds, or to crouch under the leeward side
of straw-stacks. If j-ou have nothing bet
ter than open sheds lor your cattle, try
nailing up iwo tiers 01 old boards in front,
filling in between with straw, line the
closed sides and ends, and tie up your
came so mey may not hook one another.
We have known sheep provided with
very comfortable quarters in a low shed
covered with straw and banked up around
wnn me same material, being lelt open in
front If sheep are kept dry they w ill en
dure quite a low degree of cold without
detriment to their health. But when they
are exposed to cold raias, and their wool
is filled with water, they part rapidly with
flesh and strength.
Other animals, swine, poultry, etc., will
make liberal returns lor a little labor ju
diciously expended in making their habi
tations warm and dry. It is poor econ
omy to allow swine to wade or wallow in
mud. They should be liberally supplied
with bedding, which should be prompt
ly removed when saturated with filth. It
will make good manure, but is poor ma
terial for even hogs to make their bed on.
If straw should be scarce earth and
sods can be used to good advantage in ex
cluding the cold. Farmers frequently
bank up around' their dwellings with
earth, but how seldom do they use the
same abundant material to bank up
around their barns or sheds, yet it would
nndoubtedly be quite as efficacious in the
one case as in the other. Sods might also
be used as covering for temporary sheep
sheds in the absence of better material.
In banking up around a barn the bank
should be raised high enough to cover the
sill so as to exclude the air that often finds
entrance between wall and sill. If only
left during cold weather it will do but
little injury to the siding.
We suggest these inexpensive substi
tutes for those only who cannot, at pres
ent, afford to build first-class out-buildings.
Nothing gives a more home like,
agreeable, inviting appearance to the
farmer's home than neat, substantial
barns, sheds, henneries, pig-sties, etc., and
we would recommend farmers to surround
themselves with these just as soon as their
means will allow. Rural Home.
Tretty Poll.
Yesterday afternoon a very well-bred
and exceedingly dignified youn lady ot
this city entered a florist's to make a pur
chase, when she was accosted as follows
by a shrill voice, resembling that of an
aged lady:
" Shut the door; don't j'ou know any
better? It's cold outside."
Very much overcome with mortification
and embarrassment, she looked about for
the speaker, saying: "Pardon me,
madam, but the wind blew so I could
hardly close the door."
" Well, mind your eye, miss, and don't
do it again," repeated the voice, when, to
her great astonishment and amusement,
the young lady discovered that she had
been conversing with a well-educated and
certainly very familiar poll-parrot. Evi
dently annoyed at the bird for receiving
her so, the young lady turned her back to
the cage and was intent upon examining
some flowers. Suddenly the same voice,
or what seemed to be, said to her: " What
can I do for you, miss?"
"If you hold your tongue I shall be
gratified above all things," replied the
young miss, turning around as she spoke
and discovering the Jady proprietor stand
ing in her presence.
llietowOTWit was all that might !e
imagined. Buffalo Courier.
How Doctor Differ.
A patient has a dull, heavy feelinjr atout
the head, with a dizzy, whirling sensation
when rising tip suddenly, a bad taste in the
mouth, with foul breath, a feeling like a load
on the stomach after eating, with a faint,
all-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach
that food will not satisfy, pains about the
side, back or shoulder, hands and feet some
times coH and clammy, alternating with hot
flushes, sour eructations from the stomach,
eyes tinged with yellow, blood thick and
stagnant, with costive bowels, and all at
tendant symptoms. One doctor examines
the case and calls it liver complaint, another
kidney disease, another dyspepsia, and still
another impurity of the blood. Now the
fact is all of these doctors are right and they
are all wrong, because such jatients nave
all of thesa diseases combined, and the
reason such diseases are not cured is because
the custom is to treat one of the diseases at
a time. While one is being cured the other
gets worse. We should treat the discafe
with a remedy that will act upon all at the
same time. The Shaker Extract or Roots
(not a patent medicine) is bo made by the
Shakers as to effectually remove all of these
distressing symptoms. 8old by A. J. White,
819 Pearl street, N. Y. .agents wanted.
A Valcablb Paper. The announcement
of the Toledo (O.) Bladb, published else
where, will be of especial interest to all lov
ers of good literature. The Bladb has be
come one of the standard weeklies, not only
of the West, but of the whole country, and
as a familv paper has no superior. Unusual
onnortunfties are offered for obtaining a
beautiful map of the United State. Smith'
plble Dktldtury or "Webster's Unabridged."
"Heal Tliyir.
The People's Common Sense Medical Ad
viser, a book of about IWO pages, illustrated
w ith over&V) engravings and colored plates
and sold at the exceedingly low price of
$1.50, tells you how to eure Catarrh, " Liver
Complaint," Dyspepsia, or Indigee.tion,
Sick. Bilious and other Headaches, kcruiu
la. Bronchial. Throat and Lung Diseases;
all diseases peculiar to women, and most
other chronic as well as acute disorders. It
contains important information for the
young and old, male and female, single nnd
married, nowhere else to be found. Men
and women, married nnd single, are tempted
to ask their familv physician thousands of
questions on delicate tonics, but are de
terred from doinr so bv their modesty. This
work answers lust such Questions so fullv
and plainly as to leave no one in dou!t. It
is sold tiy Agents, or sent by mail (postpaid)
on receipt of price. Address thii author,-
K. . Pierce, M. If., World s Dispensary, Buf
falo, T. Y.
From the Lafayette Daily Courier.
A Valuable Work.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, distinguished
in surgery, and the general practice in the
profession he honors, has made a valuable
contribution to the medical literature of the
day, in a comprehensive work entitled "The
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser."
While scientific throughout, it is singularly
free from technical and stilted terms. It
comes right down to the common-sense of
every-day life. Dr. Pierce is a noble speci
men of American manhood. He has sprung
from the people; and, with many sympa
thies in common with the masses, has sought
to render them a substantial service in this
the great work of his life.
Schenck'a Mandrake ItI1s
will be four.d to possess thoee qualities necessary
to the total eradication of all bilious attack,
prompt to ttart the secretions of the liver, and
plve a healthy tone to the entire system. Indeed,
it is no ordinary discovery in medical science to
have invented a remedy for thee stubborn com
pliiints, which develop all the results produced by
a heretofore free nse of calomel, a mineral jurt!j
dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to he de
structive in the extreme to the human system.
That the propertied of certain vegetable comprise
all the virtues f 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 of the fields.
These pills open tho bowess slid correct all bil
ious derangements without culivation or any of the
injurious .effects of calomel or other poisons.
The secretion of hiie is promoted by these pillb, as
will be seen by the altered color of the stools and
disappearing o"f the sallow complexion and cleans
ing of the tuiigne.
Ample directions for nse accompany each box of
pills.
Prepared only by J. IT. Prnenck A Son, at their
frincipal o.'hce, corner Hxtli and Arch streets,
'liilatlelphirt. and for snle by all druggists and deal
ers. Price 25 cents per box.
The Prairie Farmer,
This, close the thirty-fourth year of this
old and popular Agricultural paper, during
which time it has been the leading paper of
its class in the great .Northwest, visiting reg
ularly tens of thousands of families.
The next year being the Centennial Year
the publishers have made extraordinary ar
rangements to increase the value of the same.
Its contents are varied, treating 01 all larm
and stock industries, news, markets and mis
cellaneous matters, to interest old and young
The regular price of the paper is $2.15 per
year, post-paid.
Literal inducements to clubs.
Agents wanted where we have none now.
to whom cood pay will be eiven. Sample
copies 6cnt free. Address The Puaikik
Farmer Company,- Chicago, 111.
Winter is now fairly upon us, and the
teams are hastening to the lumber woods in
various parts of the country. Our advice to
every man who goes to the woods, be he
captain, cook, teamster or any other man, is
to take along a good stock of Johnson' Ar.o
dyne fAnimrnt and Parsons' Pury alive- 1'iUs.
Alany months of labor (in the aggregate) may
be saved by this precaution.
Bad enough to look and feel bad yourself ;
but no excuse for having your horse look
and feel badly, when for a small sum you
can buy Sheridan' Cavalry Condition J'ow
dtrs, which given in grain two or three
times a week w ill make him look and feel
well.
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 Ouarana
Bitters.
ir. IT. Loftin."! have used the SIM
MONS' LIVER REGULATOR and do not
hesitate to give it a hearty word of commen
dation; indeed, too much cannot be said in
praise of such a remedy."
The successful employment of metal
bands for the transmission of power is
pronounced by the Scientific American
an impossibility. A soil steel-band, one-twenty-fourth
of an inch thick, running
over a drum thirty-six inches in diame
ter, the latter revolving 250 times per min
ute, will last from eighty to one hundred
days, when it will break; after splicing,
it will run from about five to eight days,
when it will break again, but at this time
it will show several more cracks, and per
haps be found to be already breaking in
two or three places. The metal-band w ill
not last one-liltieth part as long as the
leather-band under these conditions; on
smaller or larger drums, the band w ill last
a correspondingly longer or shorter period.
Band saw-blades also act in the same
manner. Many an apparently sound saw
blade, from one-fourth to one-half inch in
width, breaks every day or oftener, w hich
it did not do when first put on; it has
become brittle on account of the great
number of times it has been bent; it is in
fact worn out. I3y using a band-saw when
new, the blade being from one-fourth to
one-half inch width, it can be used up to
one-eighth or within one-sixtecutii of an
inch without breaking.
A Radnorshire (England) lady recently
paid a visit to her father in Yorkshire,
who, lefore she was married, had kept
two or three sheep dogs of which she was
very fond. Since then he has retired
from business and disposed of all but one
dog. This one met the lady witJi demon
strations ol great delight upon her arrival
at her father's house, and that night the
dog went a distance of seven miles to a
larm-house where one oi the other dog3
had been sent (the latter was blind, bt
kept as being an old favorite). In the
morning, when the lady went to the door,
sire saw not only the dog which had given
her such a glad reception the day previous,
but also the old blind one, which had evi
dently been brought by the other dog to
welcome her. When the second night
came, the old blind one was taken back to
his horna by the same dog. which after
ward returned, having traveled a distance
of twenty-eight miles to give pleasure to
the old blind one. Land and Water.
The Swedish Arctic expedition ar
rived on its homeward journey at Ham
merfest, the most northern town of Nor
way, in good health and condition, Sept.
26. It passed the Gulf of Obi and reached
the lliver Yenesei, in longitude S3 degrees
east, on the loth of August. At this place
Profs. Nordenskjold, Sundstrccm and
Stuxberg left the pprty to return home by
way of Siberia, while the ship returned
cpastwise. The expedition has brought
bacji a rich collection illustrative of nat
ural history and several important hy
droraphic reports.
A
agreed
of the
basis of union has been
nron bv the Commissioners
Methodist and Methodist Protestant
Churches, and will be submitted tc
the General Conferences of the re
spective bodies for approval.- The Com
missioners recommend that a convention
of both churches be held in Baltimore in
May, 1S77, to formally consummate the
union.
An Eastern man who wears a very
promising boot went home to tea the other
night, and being asked to get a scuttle of
coal he refused because of weariness.
Said he : "It don't seem as if I could put
one foot before the other." " What's the
matter?" asked the miserable woman;
"ain't there room ?" He got the coal.
Danhury Xctts.
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1 1 M W Pi J No I'lil-Mriiv. '1 line short. e. m
B iraa Ipi moderate. i-MimenlaV Vh
v S S 5b? KVa e:.ro! e.npa-adeled Mioee De-
rr:he ra-'
Addr"lr. I'. K. Mamli. (jiilaev. Mich
til U
AFJTED I MM ED! ATE LI
7U More Yomnr Men to I.eiirn 'IKI,-
Kt.KAl'HY. Oood situations guaran
teed. Address. :t!i Main p, OrrhlilN
1KNDKN1' t.Mo.N TKI.Kii:APII
COMPANY, Mt i; 11 li I , OHIO.
00
SENT F8 EE. &
I In Wall Street
i'N to fi.rtune A
hook, expluinlnz
pri"-'' of Moek.
ii x !i o k m N'i t o.. nnnKPvs
l.ro'xern. J liroadway, X. Y.
SCHOLAE?Sir..PS
In various WFSI'KIJX I!I"SINK.S COI.I.KC ; FS for
rale at a diseounl. Adtli CsS E. E. i'KATl, "iU Jat Li-on-ht.
Chii a'0, HI.
Trof. Hall' Mafic Compannil
is the oiilv preparation, uu? packce ol which
will force 'the beard to prow thick and heavy
on the llioothtt face (without injury) in 21
chivs in everv rape, or money cheertully re
funded. V cents pfr pickaxe, poMpmd: .1 lor
;. W. 1
M cents. K.
JOM.S, A'hlatnd, Mas.
KELIO-TELLURIC TREATMENT
Of Hisease. by a newlv-dlseovereit. moht wonderful
healimt and vitalizing awnt, infallihle in everv eiira
b'e dinease. Address, for pampii'et, 1)1!. I. B. Mo.
COH MACK & CO., P. O. Drawer New York City
PUFF! PUFF!! PUFF!!!
Macieal Puzzle Itox " Puft " l) Kincs out of tliU
wonderful box. FiuUe amusement for the ehildren.
Fent to nnv address, with full d.reetions. on reeeipl of
25 eta. b. 0. A. Loi lumx & Co., iJey-sl, New Y'ork.
A dHib? barrel fun, w f rent aeiion fnV : irrTffd fn-tin tw'tfc
rMrrr ) ard a fmwl phmitrr, o no r u. ; iih f iajL. I'ifb '.J W v1 ''uHr-r,
for $15. Cau he wut if. with -rnilt j to h.iiip l.rfir .fling tul
bi4 tuusp lar circular m 1'. Mm M.I. !-.
6'JJ Dealer, tfl! Main irt, Ciuemuti, X
GOME APD
These liieh Prairies. Venr one million tteres tor sale
on the Sioux Cltv fc St. Paul K.illroaU end n the sic-
(ireiror & Missouri Kivr Kailroad. S vi ral iarire
traets for Colonics. Come or end committers to r
amine. Evurvonn who sees the land likes It. Apply
W tJA I !. V. I'Al.lkl.v?",
triibley, ifttvettlit. !'., Jowa,
1 876. Postpaid. S 1 .60.
The HSTTaxsSeiY.
A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Beaders.
Bupkicbly Illvstratkp. tVSend I O rents for a
Sample Number. Nt:liifrlie. OVV, ami rret the
remaining numncii ol in it. eir (i-(.:i fltrili i
JOHN X.. SHORKY,
36 Bromfield Street. Boston.
ELASTIC
x r. u s s .
Kr. BS.1 Tlerxwln-n v. . 'i!v
ftnrt sent by mail. Call or send lor 4-in lilar tin d be enred.
The office for the sale of the Elastic Tru'.s in ( blra-TO
If at 15 State street. S nd Air cit i niar u C. .1. KKt.U
TMt new Trnsi 1s worn
villi perfect comfort,
r.l.-l.f ueil fCil' AflKOt
y. iiw'rto i-rnrv motion tif
the body, ret liiiHiR i.uj
turn under the hardest
e.xerei e er severest
nrain ut til permanently
f lire. I. Solfl cheap iy lliu
ELASTIC IRUiS CO.
ASTHMA.
ifiHiii'K Asi li;n i SMi-fflr
J Miff !n TK.V MlSL'TKH.
Yk. I'l twHoux. tie.i 'lut-r . III.,
r1trJ : 4l iiavf) u-ft Im l ! !' up
H li'-urfor tluf-e yi-ai ; I !"!
ihe niMti tiist iuvcTitt-fl tle spk
cific innv it pver!tH(iriic Ii',
nf Gul'a tilffSrilii' w!it! in
live. (.y ail (miL-mnts. Ji
jt i iit try rnaiF, jKtHipni l.
Xriul I'nrkuf re
'1. Pof'dAM CO,,
Fmi.AaJfc.LruiA, i'A.
MEEZDEKf
muxr GO.
Make all Vlnds of Table Knives and Forks. i:r-1n'ive
makers of PAT K NT IVdliV," most (inralle
WIIITK HA.nDI.K known. Always call for
"Trade Mark" on tt-c hlnnV. So .1 by n:i dealers and by
JliililDEN CUTLfciiY CO.. 41 Chambers St.. '. 1.
Q'!rallh & Reynolds, Konrirh,
Cl.. ti: " We have sold and used
your Fosm fer iM-veml i:Mriit surl on
leplf ttm:ly rt-eoirirnernl 1 1 as the lat
Bsklus fiardfr In the neuket."
Smith, Cnire& Co.. f7rvrt
lljcti'inrt, Me.,tu: " We use ii In
..nr ob q fnrrillitu sinl b"llvc it to be ije
ridflly the t.t linking I'ewfl-r."
Its eermoTny is wuleti-rf ill ; It make 49
.hm. miirr hreftfl to s harre 1 ot flour, ilill
!"ia of cans ao'iii are! not a itir I eim-
' JL-Wa'nt. r"-nl fer ecrular to 1,MI. Y.
2 iAMZ k CU.,17Iuaue St., New Yurk,
CRANO CHANCE FOR ACCNT8, wtta
ANN ELIZA YOUNG'S NEV COOK.
RRIOHAM YOUNC'S RfBrtLlOU
Wir e a 'l tU.n ......i. .f KUKMOhlbM
s...l POLYGAMY. ..tr.i..rin i.y i n. o .s s.J
Ura. lavrooi r. riU ..-Hfr Q to 20 .vrrjr 4myl
HunnVf-.li ar Jeinf 1 1, I V QIJ "'la '1 U.t sailing
t...s..li!i-)a;r. 200ILLUSTRATIONS. w.,i,
l'hi:u-nt.-l rir. uls. I.. i.-i.-.l li.li. -. I I. .- I I - , (.tl.M AN
t.l II .ItTft'OSU, 1 t'Mf.iJ", ll.l... ClCI-N.II, Iih ill.
'DOPESTIC"
cewinc
MACHINES.
mm
Liberal Term of Ex
rh an frefor Second-hand
Machines ol every don
crii.tion.
"DOMESTIC" PAPER FASHIONS.
Ttielicst Patterns made. Send Ac U. f or Cslaloqua.
Aiircss 15ClE5TX3 SSWETfl UACHHT13 CO.
Smith Organ Co.,
BOSTON, MAGS.
TliraO htmitluril Iitstrciiuenta
Sold by Music Dealers Everywhere.
AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN.
SOLD TIIHfVtilH.ur TUB IMTKlt f I A IKS O.N TIIK
lXSTAULJIISXT IM-AX;
That in, on u t jMcm of Mull!!.:.) IV incuts.
I'lirc'i'r.wrs shoiild ak for the Sun II l fit i i
oa.v. L,d'do::ues and full particulars on niinin sliou.
To whom Pensions hto
XT JL3uJLJLrani.H Mil.KIt whilo in the lit
ami iiscli:tiK'o of tint y, fit tier by accident or
oi ttcrwirft', elintiM liavo a oiisl"ii. Tbo lost of
a tinker entitles you to a lciisiun. A rtioturfl,
HO iiiHitcrliowhli'xlit., fives youl pennon.
'J'ltc lossof a Ue fcives you a n.Hlon.
Tholossof an pvc give you R iicnMiou.
An y intury will eive vou a lieiiilon.
iscKEAsrn.
JTLM MANY iieraom.
who ure now draw u; a i.cri-ion, m limtltr iitl
tied to an incroano. -W-?.T r3Tt 7" Dr
alL
" f So u tl 2 t c i ii l
forcoivof Pension ami Hoiintv A ts.
AUdres, p. FITZGERALD,
Unlrrrt States C'lmm Aftcnt, Inm an polih. I so,
JfcjjfUu till letura mark 1. O. J'.ox U.A?31
Tht PuUr.w of
r. J
Ofi
A IlANKSOMFl.T-Il.LfSTIIATrn. TftOTI f.T F.N1 KKTSIIT
I Ml .1 I'VKV I I.K V AO A.l N K. Coll 1 .1' In ll ' Stories of Kll-
venture, skcti d-.es in ii"turnl m-torv. fmry atmlcs,
pot-ins, puzzles. tc. i.'iikI ) -ll" I . I" i" I'" ft. ""'( Unrr
cu'x ttrtii l.il' r rm- t'fit jmliti ou Inn i-rtced M'ty
t.in: t miii; Ij e.-pl. Pi cents. N o poat :is.
C1IAS. w. JLMilNti. rj li.bic HuiiMi. hew urh.
lIt, S.tTVFOHI.'M
LIVER IN VIG ORATOR,
1 out oit ml til ciitiirly from .ni
I'rrsona using
altou ll twin t t lis
ilisr l Ihrlr lit
.livi'lunl ronsli
t it 1 1 o , from
teaspooiifull to
u tul)tcsiooiifull
att-rorcl luff t ef
fect, for itll of.
fcctlons of ilia
These UV ns r-
move a.11 morbid
or bnt matter
front t lie system,
supplying iu
tltt-ir lnre a
healthy flow of
tiilrt liivtsurat- Utij J
illl thcKtomntll,! J1
..ii.lnir faT.1! 1
-i ------- - - t.u s - .
I'l - r-IfY I.I l I . It, irrrKit-
f"! Ini itlrs nfMinit
n It ii ml ltov Is,
il 1st-uses iri-intent
on oriniunl
Ity tic-It clci a
r.ii nt at Uillou
al tacit. Costive
Itess, Chronic IH-arrha-a.lty
ie
nla. Jaundice unit
I'linale HiU'
irssrs. 1 faille-
IIIIIIIIIUII "KOI
lirrst vel
iciki !. xii i; r"!
1ILDOII, piling jKk
tone rt ii it health yJ
to the ivlioleins. tad Tt
rhinrry, rtinov-j' " j
Hilt mc isu.c Igj . j
the diseases, .f-,JKir J
lectin"; n radical
rnre. Ann I-'.t .ti
lt. Y mcimiim:
it is ()l l.-
nnd Is AL
WAYS MAFK,
O
Cj
at co mine nee me nt of oil u I lack of SICK
H EADACHE cures In l.-S ml ii nt ea. t II
MIIV or SA IjlOlV SltLK 1AI1: lOITII
1 I I. hy 1 bottle. Til V IT I J or nam hl t
coiitainin.tr useful liifiirmntlnn and all
about the Xlver, address li It . N A I It !,
IVewiurU. bOLII I!l ALL IHtt l.lilM N.
ummmmmm
VAVBUSKIRK'S FRAGRANT
8
,;ff,',..ii' it 1 1 as
VZZF Y&u1 XTy!l YT
r " T -JJ ' J "'l Is, - , "W' ,Jl
t3
J7
AND INVIGOKATF3 A Xl)
HARDENS THE GUMS I
It imparts a delightfully refreshing
taste and feeling to the mouth, remov
ing all TARTAR and SGTRi' from
the teeth, completely arrettirg the pro
gress of decay, and "whitening such
part3 as have become black by decay.
IMPURE BREATH
caused by Dud Teeth, Tobacco, Spirits,
or Catarrh, is neutralized by the daily
use of
T
It is as harmless as water. ;
Sold ly Dmggisti and Detlcrt la Taney Goedi.
One bottlo will last six month
THE ONLY LIVE-STOCK PAPER
i.
TIio Rational Live -Stock Journal,
Is tbe only flrst-c!sts paper
HfHl.l.-litll AT
CHICACO, ILLS..
in the United Btntci D.'IVOTED EXCLUSIVITY TO LIVE STOCK.
It is published monthly, on f ne book paper, is rletri ntly Illustrated, cor.taica pn:'. three col-
omns to a page, rtirnieliirj-; in tne ro::'eol a Tear, over l.m columns or niauer r.-iaiins 'w i
lt telis ait f.bout the breeding, feeding and" jLacKement of all kinds of Stock, tn;;eilier witli tb
management of the Dairy.
Gcners'lr over ha!f the prnrlnee of the farm !s ennsnmed tl fam. by lie rtork or different
kind?. If the live stock is of the rpht kind, and judiciously bandied, the farm is likely malum?
money. Jf tbe stock Is not adapted to tbe farm, or if it is improperly band'ed. the furio make UllU
or nothbxj. It is riprht here tiiat monov is made or lost on the farm, and it ia a matter of the
rreatcct importsnce to trery furmer, th.it he bave a paper dtvoud exclusively to tbe breeding
and 'eeainp of Live Stock, in hich he ia eo largely interested, fcaca a paper auould be considered
Farmtf Iivii,t J'u'tr." . . . . .
TERMS. Single copies, one rear, poetare paid. 2.15: Clnl.g of fire, nature paid. SI. 90;
CI libs of ten. with an extra eopy'free to person making up club of tn. postnee prepaid. $ I
Address letters registering tMose roptsininp money, oni'-ss in rnsre or po-isi mnrr m irnn-i
;H. W. HI'ST V CO., I.sseslile linilrtinr, "fin:
A pair of alicwi mVA coct you
ou!y . crnts irvr wirh a
SILVER TIP
rli.n wifflii.iir .nil tr lil Adit
5 twice Hie cost of tlieslioe U) their
wearing vaiue.
Lost! The name of the person rj
who .lid not I ke
X' U I E1 K( If iriV I t '
ikx.u. and felines. Anyone liud
liiir surh m m-nua will h4i liberal
ly rarued by bu lug pair ai.d
$25 450 per Day
CAN ACTCALLT BE MADE WITH THB
Great
Western
We
Air.
WE MEAN IT I
And are prepared to demonstrate the fact.
Ol'n Al'GEKS are operated entlr!T br TTOPfR
PO VVKR. and v.iil bore st Hie rateof 1 Wh.XTl' H.t.T
rtil HOI ii. Tiiey bore frum
3 to 6 Feet in Diameter,
And AST DEPTH REQflKED. They will bore In
All Kinds of Earth, Soft Sand & Llrue
a'oue, Hlliimliioa Stone Coal,
Mate and I lard pan.
And we MAKE the BEST of WELLS in QCICKSASTJ.
00I AfTIVE A;ETS Wanted In eery State
and Cmir.'y In Ihe t'n:f..-d Mates. Send f r our Illus-trst'-il
CaiHi.-(rr,e. t-rins, pri-. etc., proving our ad
rertiscment bonilUU. Address
6REAT WESTERN WELL AUGER CO.,
i Uwemfirld, DaiU Cc, Iowa.
fttW 'a wlt par'' rott tsw tiu dvrettetw
TOLEDO BLADE.
(MASBY'S PAPER.)
Lsi..i s4 T''"'," iT"?"'
s..al . a ..i IU i. .4.
PIHLISIIED
IV A'IKitlC'A.
Subscription Price $2, Postage Free.
The Kemalnder of tbe Tear 1S75 rm to New Sub
scriber fur 1276.
srrx'i al, offi:i&s ro isrc:
Fmlth's Bible Dirtlor.ary and P.Isde. nn year... $3 50
W.-lirter's L liubriil-i-d Kictmnary ai.d Uliule, one
vesr 12 00
W.ti-ter'a National Dictionary and Blade, one
; ear. . 5 00
A'rinilY ro!ired ma, of the t. S , 4 (' H inrh.-s
by K fi-. t I incliL-a (retail p: l:c i..arnl Hie liiade,
one r 3 0f
These prices eorer all expenses In elt t..-r ei-e. Tl.e
bHik or liiHps dslirr. "i inth jrl '"''l ',t,t ii thnt i.
Ytr a fliib of l-n siihfccn.rs. i.t fi,", m-M. w- il
fiyrwsrii a cny ol MiiitIi'i liil.i lii-ti -iiiry Jif".
8p.-r iiiii-ii copies jf tif Hi. s rK. bifKr'k Nitiovil
Ma. ixi ;r. and Amebica.n i ai: Jul l .iiL mil tree
ou uppii.-iitinn.
fjiecinl Inrlueeineiit to AtiENTS.
tSU FOK CIKCT lai:
Auiliess
TliU PIi PIC, Toledo, Olilo.
A- N. K.
B. a.
AZ9 P. B.P.
ri'HIS pa.er la Prir.u J with INK mantifactursa by
1 i. U. kASK CO.. 141 Ttsrhura at., C'lilea
tor ia.s by A. H. Eatvou. Itf Jaiituo 6k, CUt