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THE II ERA J, 1).
All Sorts.
An agricultural &clitxI where thrash
ing is a regular exeicise.
A ehccp-shcariDg match is a barbcrons
thing Oil City Derritk.
ATI honest men will bear watching. It
is the rascals who cauuot etarnl it.
Coloraflo is about to import into the
mountainous districts tha Yale or Thibet
ox.
Tlie experiment lias been tried often
enough to prove that a button-hook is not
a night-key.
The butcher who sc'.ln ox-tails for soup
and calves heads for dinners undoubtedly
makes both ends meat.
"You seem to wa'k more erect thfin us
ual, my friend." Yes, I have Leen late
ly straightened by a circumstance."
A fat man sent an order to the office
for two scats in the coach for himself. The
clerk engaged him one scat outside the
other inside.
Of the letters posted in Great Britain
last year, England sent 3J for every one
of her population, Scotland 2'J, and Ire
land only 14.
Mrs. Partington, sprnki' g of the rapid
manner in which bloody d?cds arc perpe
trated, said tliLt it only required two n-c-onds
to fight a duel.
Under the general law of Missouri, jnr
ors must be able to read. In lit. LnuU
this disqualifies over ninety pr cent of
ths colored residents.
A Prussian offers to throw a dam acrons
Niagara Hirer above the falls for $5,000.
Heretofore the d s at Niagara have been
hurled at tho hackmcn.
Milton was asked if ho intended to in
struct hi3 daughrer in the different lan
guages, to which he replied, "No, sir, one
tongue is suiScient for a woman."
During an examination, a medical stu
dent being Rhked the question : "When
does modification ensue?'' replied "when
you pop tha question, and are answered
no."
"Do you understand me now!" thun
dered a pedagogue to an orchin, at whose
head ho hurled an inks.uud. "I've an
inkling of what you lueuu," said thepu
piL An old hat that once belonged to Na
poleon I, was recently 60ldfor $35; which
(say9 an exchange) b a good price, when
we consider that both Nap and crown are
gone.
Ten mills make one cent, eay the arith
metics; but competition is so strong
among the cotton factciies down Kat
that ten mills don't make a cent. Ex
change. "A soft nnswer turneth away wrath,"
but a to igh answer turneth away the carving-fork,
slides all over the dish, and cov
ers the head of the family with gravy and
confusion.
A reckless inventor threatens to intro
duce paper shirt, and we learn that the
washerwomen are about to hold a meeting
to see whether they have no rights that
must be respected.
The Turkish Government, by advice of
Baker Pasha, is to erect a dozen forts be
tween the Illack S-.'a and the Sea of Mar
mora, which will connect with n chain
to Gallipoli, and be stro:g!y fortirie i.
An American egg preserving Co. has
been established at Shanghai for some time
Its object i3 to preserve eggs in such a
manner that they will be useful for cook
ing at any time and in any climate. The
business is entirely expoit, chiefly to Eng
land. Just discovered a method of lighting a
drawing-room by means of the elec
tricity generated by a btick of sealing
wax and a tom-cat. pit-ificatuns per
mail. Keep private. Sell gas-shares
short.
Texas has 1,700 convicts, of whom some
500 are kept in piison, and the rest are
hired out to work on railroads and farms.
One, undergoing a life sentence, is hired
by his wile, and lives comfortably at
home.
A chap of reckless language, speaking
to us regarding the late "crash," said that
the bankrupt law was a "suit of crasli
towel for wiping out indebtedness." lie
went out before active measures could be
taken.
Tho business failures in Great Britain
during 1878, were l.j.Oolf, of which 2,6-13
wcro in the financial, wholesale anil man
ufacturing brunches of trade. The in
crease is 4,0o7 failures last year over the
preceding year.
There is a breed of cats in Holland hav
ing exceptionally beautiful fur, which tra
dition asserts is due to. an exclusive -.1.
diet. Their fur is sold in London as geu
cer, although real gennet (from Africa
is rarely on the market.
Mitres "Come, Bridget, how much
longer are you going to be filling tho pep
per box?" Bridget '-Shure, ma'am, and
it's meself can't say how long it'll be
i.ik in' me to get all this stuff in the thing
through the ho'.es in the top."
Columbus was the son of a weaver, and
a weaver himself. C.aude Lorraine was
brought up a pastry cook. Jlolicte, the
great French comic writer, was the son of
A taptstry maker. Cervantes served as a
common soldier. Homer was a beggar.
An English nobleman, who is in the
habit of speaking to soidiers in an affable
manner, was much amused lately when a
guardsman said to him, in a hearty and
genial way: "I liko you, my lord.
There ' nothing of tho gentleman about
you."
A leader of fashion in San Francisco
has had her chairs and sofas, and the
cushions of her carriages s'.uffcd with aro
matic horbs, in imitation of a practice
f prevalent among Oriental nations. She
ives in an atmosphere of constant per
fume. A new Pope always selects the name
by which he is to be called. The present
Pope, on being asked lor his choice asked
the name of the patron saint of the day.
On being told it was that of St. Leo, lie
replied, "Then annoence me as Leo
XIII."
A fond mother, hearing that an earth
quake was coming, sent her boys to the
country to escape it. After a few days
' she received a note from the friend say
ing: "For goodness' sake, take your boys
away and send along that earthquake in
stead." Three singular cases of defective vision
lire reported from Ocracoke island, N. C.
Three children of James Howard become
totally blind each day immediately after
the sun goes down. They retire, sleep
soundly till after sunrise, when their sight
u restored.
Inexhaustible beds of lignite have been
found between Jaffa and the Dead Sea.
This with the afphaltum, also abundant,
will make the Holy Land a coal supplier
lor all Egypt and Syria, both of which
having no wood, pay from $12 to $14 a
ton, for foreign coal.
"Why don't you wheel that barrow of
coal, Ned, said a learned miner to one of
his sons. ."It is not a very hard job, there
is an inclined plane to relieve you."
"Ah," replied Ned, who had more relish
for wit than work. "The plane maybe
inclined, but hang me if I am."
At a popular store famous for prompt
aad polite attention of the clerks, a wo
man perhaps of thirty years was looking
at goods, when a young man stepped
toward her and asked, "Is any one wait
Jug upon you I" "Why, what a question i
I havo beeu married for ten years."
Commodore Parker lias given the ca
dctaatthe naval academy permission to
smoke under certain conditions, the mat
ter having been left to his discretion by
the department, lie has told tin-in, how
ever that it is an expensive indulgence,
and urged thoso who do not use tobacco,
not to contract the habit. He raid lie
hoped they would not abuso the privi
lege, and would act ns gentlemen, uiul if
they did not, and he had to issue an or
der against smoking in tho academy, ho
would stop it if he had to j ut every ca
det oa board the S.mtec, (the jail of the
academy)- It was not the custom of gen
tlemen of Annapolis, ho added, to smoke
on the streets, end if any cadet wished to
smoke, he hoped he would bear this fact
ia mind. m
Palis has 47 dailies, including the Of
ficiel and the Bulletin Francais, 25 of
which are published in the morning. Of
tho 40 that take party sides, 22 are re
publican, 6 legitimist, 5 Orleanist, and 7
imperialist. The big papers circulate
63(1,000 copies a day, of which about 400
000 preach republican jxilitica, 00,000 Or
leanist, 00,00) imperialist, and 24,000
legitimist. The circulation of the small
papers is estimated at 1,200,000 a day; of
this three-quarters is republican, 200,000
disseminate Orleanist Tiews, and 20,000
impei itilisin.
A new benevolent and sanitary plan has
been adopted in London. Two weeks of
rural life will be given in tho village of
Halstead, near Sevenoaks, to 'poor Lt.nuon
children, on the recommendation of any
clergyman, surgeon, school teacher, or
other responsible person. Preference will
be given to girls rather than boys, and to
deiicato rather than robust children. Chil
dren will bo taken in rotation from
March 1 to Oct. SO. The number, how
ever, of those who can be accommodated
seems at present to be very small.
The man who bet he could make a cir
cular saw in five minutes had a dozen
persons standing round to" sec him do it
with only a piece of chalk. lie com
menced by chalking a ring on the wall.
"Do you see that circle P "Certainly,
j-es, yes; but what has that to do with it?"
"Now," said the illustrator, making a
squaie, "Do you see that squnre?" "Yes,
yes, ail right; we see it." "Well, gentle
men, this is the sijuure you see, and that,
(pointing to the chalk ring) is the circle
you saw.
The current London Quarterly Review
(Conservative) says that when Thiers was
in England, in 1852, a dinner was ar
ranged in his honor, at which were pres
ent Mr. Gladstone, Hal lam, Lords Lytton,
Kingsdowu, and Card well, and Sir W
Stirnns Maxwell. The conversation was
raried and animated. Thiers had the ad
vautage of language (they of course spoke
French), and choice of subject, but the
general impression was that Mr. Glad
stone was the better talker of the two.
Canada has no Anthony Comstock. At
least it may be inferred so if the pictures
of the Marquis of Lorne ball in the illus
trated papers are correct. The lnd:es in
a:tendat:ce l-ok as if they might have
caught their skirts in tho foot-scraper as
they entered the door, and had them
dragged a foot lower down the neck than
modesty intended them to be. And it
waj called a "full-dress" ball, too proba
bly because the floor of the bad-room was
full of dresses.
Satisfactory experiments have been
made with the electric light in Paris, dur
ing a n?ght snow storm, and additional
ones will follow when the next thick log
occurs, in which gas will be of littie or no
avail. Should the electric light render
objects vieiMe to the distance of even six
ty or seventy feet, it vud bo used hence
lorth at all tho most populous points of
the streets.
A speaker who was in the habit of using
the expression "I say" too frequently,
was criticised for it by an opponent, ar.d
the next time he saw the cruic he thus
accosted him: "I say, sir, I hear say you
say I say, I s iy' at every word 1 say.
Now, sir! although I know I s:iy 'I say' at
every word I say, slid, I say, air, it is not
for you to say 1 say 'I say' at every word
I say."
At Woolwich, England, recently a wire
drawer was summoned for neglecting to
support his wile, and it was elicitea that
lis wus on a strike and had for seventeen
months been receiving strike pay of $5 a
week. The magistrate suggested that he
would have done better by working,
"What," said l.e "work for 22 shillings,
when I could get 20 lor doing notlung.''
A dilapidated and unwashed specimen
was caught in the kitchen of n resident.
He was standing on a chair searching the
upper shelves of the drcser. When in
terrogated he replied that he was a New
York detective, and was "looking for
Stewart's body." The excuse availed him
not. He showed altogether too much en
terprise for a New York detective.
In 1S28, New York, with a population
of 109,000, had 30 newspapers. It was
estimated at that time that the United
States had 1 paper in every 13,S00 of pop
ulation; England, 1 in 45,300; France, 1
in 03,300; l'n:sia, 1 in 43,;00; Austria, 1
in 400,000; Russia, 1 in 672,000; Sweden
and Norway, 1 in 47,000; Portugal, 1 in
207,000; Spain, 1 in 808,000.
Brazil and the South American Repub
lics receive 85 per cent of their foreign
goods from western Europe, and only 15
jicr cent from the United States, chiefly
in flour, provisions, petroleum, and lum
ber. England, France aad Germany have
had the advantage on account of their
long credits, frequent steam communica
tion and low freights.
An irish judge was healing an impor
tant railway case. Both sides had been
argued at very heavy expense to the liti
gants, when suddenly the judge remarked
"Bless me, I forgot that I owned some
shares myself I Being thus an interest
ed party, the whole case will have to be
gone over again before another j adge."
A young man objected to the young
girl that his rich old uncle wished hiin to
mairy. "You must not be so particu
lar," said the exasperated uncle. "I tell
you 6he's well enough." "So she is, un
cle," responded the nephew, "and you
know that you have always tiught me to
leave weil enough alone 1"
A large number of Anglo-Australians
are bent on colonizing New Guinea, and
some of them have audiesacd a letter to
tho Governor of the Dutch East Indies re
questing the lean of 150,000 acres for
ninoiy-nino yeais, between Humboldt
Bay and the harbor of Dory, in order to
iorm a settlement.
On the 4th of July, 1863, at the battle
of Gettysburg, Albert Jackson was shot
in the right lung. The bullet was not ex
tracted. .Mr. Jackson recovered, and late
ly he vu taken with a violent lit of
coughing, something obstructing his wind
pipe, and in the paroxysm the bullet was
coughed up.
An artistic London tailor exhibits his
cloth for sporting suits by turfing his win
dow, placing stuffed partridges and pheas
ants in it aad displaying the bales of
cloth thereon, so that intending purchas
ers could judge for themselves how the
goods would look when worn in the
tield.
A John Bull, conversing with a Cana
dian Indian, asked him it he knew that
the sun never sets on the Qneeu's Domin
ion's. "Nu," said the Indian. "Do you
know the reason why?" nked John! "lie
cause Heaven is afraid to trust an Eng
lishman in the dark," was the savage's re
ply. "What are you after, my dear?" 6aid a
grandmother to a little boy, who was sid
ing along a room, and casting furtive
glances at a gentleman who was paying a
visit. "I am trying to steal pupa's hat
out of the room without letting the gen
tleman see it he wants him to think he's
out,"
A proposition has been made in the
French Chamber of Deputies to exchange
the red trousers of the army lor ti.osj of
a darker color. It is urged that red is
yery clearly seen by an enemy, and af
fords a good aim. The objection to the
chango is that red trousers are traditional
with the French army, and associated
with its glory. The answer to this is that
they were adopted only about forty yesrs
ago, in the reign of Louis Phillippe, ar.d
that their traditions arc connected with
but a small proportion of the battles
fought by France.
London Truth relates the following r.s
an amusing instanc e of Scotch simplicity :
"An old 'wulo' having heard whispers
that the Caledonian was snaky, thought
she would be on the safe nide, went to the
bank, and presented her check for the
balance. The cashier cashed it to Cale
donian bank notes, which the canny old
lady po;:keted, and walking across to the
National bank, aked them to exchange
these for their own notes, which, having
obtained, she went back again td'her own
bank, and, handing them over to the tel
ler, suid : "There, that's the "richt" pa
p t. Will just take care of thein for me.'
Two days af:er the Caledonian suspended
payment. However, ti.crj appeals to be
every probability that the dear old lady
will be paid twenty shillings to the pound
after ail."
M. de Le?seps has just returned from a
trip to Tunis, whither he went to investi
g:e the possibility mid the advisibility
of letting the wateisof the Mediterranean
into the desert of Sahara, so as to con
vert a great portion of that desolate ex
panse intoan inland fen. M. de Lesseps
says thut the Arab chieftains of the south
of the Aures keep tip the tia lition of
there having existed in former times a sea
in that neighborhood fioni five to six hun
dred leagues in circumference, lie has
also been enabled to disprove the idea
that the formation of a new lake would
do away with the oases, for he has dis
covered that these ate all from fifteen to
forty metres aWc tho levpl of the sen,
whereas the desert itself is below that
level. Traces of Roman ciilization has
been found in the desert, and among them
the remains of an amphitheatre like that
in Homo.
The MofTet liquor tax system has not
resulted as favorably in Virginia as has
been represented or as was hoped by the
friends of the movement. The official re
jiort of the proceeds of the tax, as pub
lished by the State Auditor last Saturday,
is as follows:
Inx from registers, counties -.J.. f 140.209 13
" cities...- 11.03 1U
Total
License, specific tax.
2SS..VB 03
l.K.71 11
ARgrresmte 412.SH M
Rebates of licenses, tax and expense U!i,l;& 00
Net result
liaised by oil ll.cuse system..
XMffiJ 14
... 2-10.WKJ 00
True product of Mi.ffett rejf. system 8".(59 14
This is not such a great improvement
on the old system, after all, but the com
paratively light results attributed to the
neglect to properly enforce the law, and
the evation of the liquor sellers, which
things Dr. MofTet thinks he can lemedy.
The women of Virginia, more honest
than the men, are endeavoring to avert
the repudiation of the Slate debt. Nat
Utally, they resort to extraordinry meas
ures of finance. Bulls and entertain
ments are commonplace as means of rais
ing revenue. Associations iu various
counties, composed of women member
ship, proposo by self denial to increase
the fund, and now petitions to the Legis
lature are circulating among the women,
praying that an additional- tax may be
levied as a sinking fund, and promising
it shall be saved their husbands, brothers,
and fathers by increased retrenchment on
the part of the petitioners. One woman
the ease is sporadic, w e are glad to say
offers to sell her husband at auction, and
apply the proceeds to the good cause. "I
can recommend him to purchasers," she
tays, "as a man possessing all the quali
ties a woman capable of controlling him
could desire." The women of Virginia
are fitly the mothers of Presidents.
According to the last census of New
York state, 12,650 families are now living
in log cabins. Of other dwellings 508,
031 are built of wood, 03,300 of brick
.ind 18,718 of atone. More than one-half
of all these cost less than $2,000 apiece,
more than one-th.rd less than $1,000, and
7,151 less than $50 each, showing that
any cxtravangance which New Yorkers
may have is not of an architectural or
der. In the county or city of New York,
houses, as may be supposed, have much
more value than in the country, 58,010
houses having cost $5,000 and upward,
mainly upward. Indeed, the dwellings
of the metropolis alone have cost about as
much as the dwellings in all the rest of
the state. Of 1,537,727 productive New
Yorkers, 851,028 aro farmers or farm
hands. Of the working women of the
state, one-half, or 137,410 of them are
home-servants. Over 150,000 men earn
their bread as day lalorers. There are
50,103 clerks, 40,400 tailors and seam
stresses, and 33,470 milliners and dress
makers. Celibacy seems to be in favor
with New Yorkers. There are 2,078,S13
10,1,770,018 married. Widows and widow
c i number 248,778, and divorce 1 people
1,341). During the last census year, in
only 1 family out of 45 families wa?
there a wedding.
A ens of healing bv prayer is report 'd
from Vermont, the patient being a Mrs.
Uavis, ot I'lattleboio. Mis. Davis gives
tho following account of her case: "Af
ter suffering for eighteen months from
prostration by nervousness, occasioned by
a complication of several diseases in the
head, spine, heart and stomach, and not
having been dressed during that time.
and believing that,all had been done that
could be done, I began to inquire what I
must do for relief. I saw clearly that if
God did not send relief immediately 1
must perish. On opening my Bible, which
was Iving on my bed, I read, "If ye shall
ask anything in My name, I will do it.'
1 immediately asked to be raised trom the
bed of sickness and languishing where I
laid so long. Seven days I prayed for
the blessing, set ing aside ail medicine. I
continued ia a believing and expectant
manner until near the cose of the week
without any tnswer to my prayer. Before
1 closed my eyes to sleep 1 asked that
the blessing I so earnestly desired might
come in any way, still 1 pleaded that it
might come while I s.cpt, and that I
might be able to lise and dress myself
and meet my physician at the door when
he came. I then fell asleep, and slept
soundly until 4 o'clock; then I awekc. I
was perfectly well! The pain and sore
ness from which I was suffering when I
fell asleep was gone ! I made no unusual
stir, and at the regular hour for rising 1
arose and dressed and told my family that
I was well. I walked all around and
met my physician when he came."
The Largest Tlant In the World.
We are accustomed to regard the great
trees of California as tho most g:gantic
specimens of vegetable growths known to
man, but such is not the case. There is a
siib-inaiine plant growing in the North
Pacific Ocean, which according to Prof.
Reinsch, dwaifs all others in its vast pro
portions. The MacrocyMis pyrifcra one
of the 2felanorperne, bus been known to
grow to such an extent as to cover vast
areas of tho ocean bed. One specimen,
by measurement, was found to cover three
square miles, and the stem from which
the growth proceeded was eight feet in
diameter. It is almost impossible to con
ceive of such a plant, or how a system of
nourishment can be maintained through
such extended channels, in th living or
ganism. Nature performs strange freaks
and certainly none can be stranger than
the fact that of this gigantic specie there"
arc some specimens so small as to be mi
croscopic, or only to be seen by the aid of
powerful objectives.
. cientillc Notes.
To avoid ghastly taro which eyes
often assume iu piioinginphs, Engush
plK.t'g:a;.heis now make sitters look at
tiie dial p. ale of a elo k, and tell them to
let their eyes travel slowly round the fig
ures. The rotary movement of the eyes
is too slight to interfere with tho pho.o
graphic prt ccss.
A quarter of a century ago, a farmer
sunk a well in his yard. Happening to
have three or four oak oil casks at the
lime, ha knocked in the heads, burned
out the oil and set them in the well, one
!ove another, and, str.mge to say, they
all turned to solid stone, and are as per
fect to day as when they were put in the
well. The top cask is about two feet be
low the surface, and a curb of common
boards is set over the well, running down
to meet the casks. Several of these curbs
have rotted away and been replaced, but
tho oak casks are likely to last forever.
It is pretty well known that arsenic en
tcrs largely into the coloring of wall pa
pier. It is also used in tickets, paper cur
tain, covers of boxes, packages made for
confectionery, and o.her papers. Arseuic
as well as other poisons, is likewi.-e now
ustd in the coloring of ladies' dresses,
gentleman's underclothing, socks, hat lin
ings, linings of boots and shoes, and is
fmnd in woolens, silks, cottons, and
leather. As many as eight grains of the
sjb."tance has been found in each square
foot of a dress, and as many as ten grains
have been detected in a single artificial
flower.
The articles made of paper at the late
Bcriin exhibition comprised the roof, ceil
ing, cornices, and interior walls of a home
the exterior walls of which were of pine
wood, but all the furniture, blinds, cur
tains, chandeliers, carpeting, ornamental
doors, m.ntel and table ornaments were
of paper, including a stove made of asbes
tos paper, in which a fire was burning
cheerfully. There were also exhibited
wash basins, water cans, a full rigged
ship, lanterns, hats, shirts, full suits of
clothing and underclothing, straps, hand
kerchiefs, napkins, bath-tubs, buckets,
bronzes, flowers, urns, jewelry, belting
and miimals, both for ornament and for
toy s.
Tho he'.iograph was used for the first
time in the war by the British troops
w.nch operated against the Atrid.sou the
Pcshawur frontier, India. This instru
ment consists of a circular mirror,
moving upon a universal joint and sup
ported on a tripod. Wishing to send
messages the operator, by a quick eleva
tion or depression of the glass, so us to
catch the full glare ot the sun, is able to
throw flabhes a distance of twenty-five
miles. The length of the flashes corrc
8onds with that of the dashes in the
Morse alphabet, by which the messages
are translated. This method of f'rld tel
egraphy does away entirely with the dan
gers of wire-tapping and cutting by the
enemy, and alter a thorough test, has just
been adoted by the Spanish military au
thoi ities.
In Paris, many of the wider streets arc
lighted by the electric light, which is in
cery way superior to gas, the effect be
ing like day-light, except in intensity.
Eveiy part of the street, the immense
tialhc in the roadway and the people on
the walks, every architectural d.'tail of
thr building, to the top of the roofs, ev
ery object, however minute, in the win
dows, the flowers on the balconies, are
plainly visible, and iu their natural col
ors. L'nder the clear white light, colors
retain their true shades. Eveiy sign on
wall or omnibus, the minutest patterns in
fabrics, and tho liiiest print, can bo plain
ly seen. Peoplo seated before the caftt
read their papers by the aid of lighls on
the opposite side of the way; and yet the
most dedcate complexions and sofest tints
in fabrics do not suffer in the white glare
of the lumps. Every stone in the road is
plainly visible, and the horses move swift
ly along as if conildent of thtir footing.
Such illumination is the perfection of
street-lighting.
liovr a WIM-Cat Bank was SATeJ. In '37.
"Yesterday," remarked a gentleman to
the repoitcr, says the Indianapolis News,
"resumption I egan. By the way, we've
earned something about money in this
country iu the past twenty yeais. I re
member 1857 with its wild-cat banks and
its generally crazy system of banking.
Kanks were established in out-of-way
places, and bank paper was plenty. The
late Andrew Wilson had a bank at Nash
vide, in tho wilds cf Brown county, more
then twenty miles across the hills and the
l uggedtst roads, from any railway. One
day Mr. Wilson casually learned that a
large amount of his bills had been gob
bled up in Cincinnati, and a carpet-bagger
would swoop down ou him in a
law days for coin. The time was too
brief to allow him to get gold or silver,
and he was in great trouble. The dread
ed visitor appeared at the bank, and at
the same time a happy thought came to
the banker. Leaving his clerk to engage
the 6trar.ger, ho ru.-hed out, went up a
flight of back stabs into tho ofliec of tho
only notary in tho town, and, finding that
functionary out, he pocketed tho notarial
seal and walked off. lie then boldly re
fused payment, and the stranger took the
paper out to find a notary and make the
proper protest. No seal, and with this
important attachment to the needed legrd
red t tpe absent, nothing could be done, as
it would require at least a week to com
municate with Indianapolis and replace
the lost seal. So the carpet-bagger am
bled off, and Mr. Wilson availed himself
of the respite to put his atlairs in order."
A Meddlesome Xatnre.
For the credit of human nature, it is to
be hoped that the men who descend from
their proper sphere to meddle with the
domestic duties of the household are few
and far between. The male housekeeper
carries tho common purse, which he holds
wi.h an iron grip, pinching every quarter
that he grudgingly doles out for family
necessaries till the very eagle on it sqti: als,
and his wife feels her d. gradation to the
depths of her soul. Such a man's ' better
half" is an utter nonentity,-with far less
independence of soul and body than the
untutored servant in the kitchen, whose
wages supply her humble needs, and who,
if she i not stisfiffd, can at any time
change her condition. How many wives
of male housekeepers have even one dol
lar a week to spend exactly as they
choose "and no questions asked, "and who
does not know that more genuine satis
faction can be gotten nut of ten cents ab
solutely waited than from ten dollars used
for more ifcccssarics? The male house
keeper always deals with the butcher and
grocer by the week or fortnight, to save
trouble, and 60 always carries that curse
to economy, a grocery book. Thus the
wife is forced to trade at one or two par
ticular stores, and if they have not the ar
ticles required, she must do without them.
IJow infinitely ' I etter to set aside a cer
tain amount, be it ever so small, accord
ing to the salary of the head of the fami
ly, for household expenses, and let the
wife manage it her own way. Ninety
nine times out of a hundred she will
make it go farther than a man can. Then
no more pinching, contriving and cajol
ing: no more "books" at butchers and
grocers, where one is continually in debt,
often purchasing what one cannot afford,
sometimes paying for more than one gets,
and taking up with an inferior article
when better could be bought in the mar
ket for less money if one only had cash in
hand. A wife bears her full share of the
common burden by daily cares and
thoughtful management for the comfort
of the family, and is entitled to her share
of the common fund, which division
6hould be ju6t as cheerfully rendered by
tho heod of " the firm as with any other
partner.
I
TUTirS
POLLS I
A NOTED bTVIHE SAYS1
THEY ARE WORTH THEIR
WEIGHT in COLD
READ WHAT HE SAYS :
Dr. Tctt : DesrSir: Far irn vears I have
tx-eu a niartrr to DyBper a. Cm.Tipation and
Itles. Laet'Sprtag your Pliis wee rvcommendd
to me : I usl Uivin ( but with little faith ). I
am now a well mail, have pood appetite, tlifre
tion perfect, ivtrulnr KtooU, piles goue, aud I
have puiiH'd forty pounds solid flesh. They aro
worth th-ir weight in pold.
Eiv. R. L. SIMI'SON, Louisville, Kt.
TUTT'S PILLS
Ccus eick Head
ache. TUTT'SPILLS
Ccbx Dyspepsia.
Dr. Tutt nns heen en
gaged iu the practica
of medicine 30 years,
aid ior a long time
was Demonstrator of
Anatomy iu the Med
ical College of Georg
ia, Jience persons usiu
his Pill have the guar
antee that they anj
prepared o pcii utilic
priuciples.and srefretf
from all quackery.
He has succeeded In
combining in them tha
heretofore antagonis
tic qualities of a
Urengtheninp,purgative
aii a purifyivg tonic.
Their lirrt apjjarent
effect is to increase tha
appetite by causing the
food to properly as
similate. Thus the sys
tem is nourished, cud
by their touic action
on the digestive or
gans, regular and
uealthy evacuations
re produced.
The rapidity with
which ptTsons take on
firth, while nnder tha
influence of these pills,
of itself iudicates their
adaptability to nourish
the body, and honce
their emcacy iu curing
nervous debility, met
nucholy, dyspepsia,
wasting of the muscles
sluggifliuess of the liv
er, chronic constipa
tion aud imparting
TUTT'S PILLS
Ccre Constipation.
TUTT'S PILLS
Cl'KK 1'ILES.
TUTT'S PILLS
Cure Fever and
Aucsr
TUTT'S PILLS
C'CRX Bilious Colic.
TUTT'S PILLS
Ccrb Kidney Com
plaint. -
TUTT'S PILLS
CtTHK ToKPin Liver.
health and strength to tho system.
A DOCTOR SAYS.
Dr. I. Guy Lewis, of Fulton Ark., writes ; "Cue
year ago I was taken pick, a friend argued so
strongly in favor of Tutt's Pilla that I was in
duced to use thorn. Never did mediciuo have a
happier efTect th.in in my case. After a practice
of a qnarter of a century I proclaim them the
best anti-bilious medicine ever nscd. I have jre-
scribed them in my practice ever eiuce."
SUPERIORITY OF
TUTT'S PSLLS.
They are conipoandod from medicinal substan
ecfl that are positively free from any properties
that can in the least degree injure the maxt deli
cate organization. They search, cleanse, purify,
and invigorate the entire system, liy rciieviujj
the engorged liver, they cleanse the blood from
poisonous humors, and thus impart renewed
health and vitality to the body, causing the bow
ols to act naturally, without which no one con
feel welL
A TORPID LIVER
is the fruitful source of many diseases, prominent
ameug which are Dyspepsia, Pick-Headache,
Coetivcuess, Dysuntery, Uilious Fever, Ague and
Fever, Jaundice, Piles, Itheumatism, Kidnoy
Complaint, Colic, etc.
Tuti's Pills exert n direct and powerful Influ
ence on the Liver, and will, with certainty, relieve
that important organ from disease, and restore
it normal functions.
SOLD EVXEYWHXRE,
JWnCE, 35 MUKEAY ST., NEW T0EZ,'
Cticsso EnrlinEioa & Snincy R. R.
ic Tnc
i.i it.it
DIRECT ROUTE
b!-:tyei:' the
East and West.
Running Through Cais
- DUG AG
I TO
Gouitcil Bluffs,
connecting with TtfH
UniorKPacific Railroad
yon am. roi.vrs ix
COLORADO.
ivon.sa,
MOST A SA .
JV E -t OA.
AH1ZGXA.
IDAHO,
AND
t a ft o v a EI t' A RS
TO
KANSAS CITY. TOPEKA.ATCHIsft i SU3S8D&
And th" S-'MOKT E1NK to sill po'iits ' the
MiSSO! I! I. K N S. S Si I K. AS. and
HOI S.TON .t T FX AS CKNTliAl.
liAII.liOAnS.
?uIlmanPalaee Sleeping Cars.
AND TIT K
CELEBATED
., 15. & Q. DINING CARS.
T.Y THIS KOUTE
Ail information about rnte- of fare will be
cli ertn'ily given by applying tl
c.w. s jut si,
Tr:if!l Manager.
James 15. Wood,
g't, Chicago
MIKE SCHHELLBACHER,
ISLJJCKSAHTil
HORSE nUOIIINU,
-M
WAfit' I: EPA I I.INti
All kinds of
FARM IMPLEMENTS
mended
Keatly d- Promptly
:0:
Horse, Mulc& Ox Shoeing.
In short, we'll slie anything that h?
four feet, from a Zt-hra to a Giraffe.
Come and see ns.
on Fifth St.. l-etween V:e:: :ii l Vine Struts,
just neross the corner from the sew liEKAI
okhck. toy'
ROBERT DONNELLY'S
WA.3-OILr
AND
RLACKS3IITH
SHOE.
Wagon, Hug'jy, lltu hinc and Ploio re
pairing, and general jobbing
I am now prepared to do all kinds of repairing
of fiinu and other machinery, as there
is a good l;itUe in my shop.
PETER RACEN,
The old Reliable Waon Maker
has taken charge of the waou utiop.
lie is well known as &
NO. 1 WORKMAN.
Xfw IVazoutt and Kogsirit made to
Order.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Shop ou Sixth strot opposit Streishfs Stable
i i
KEESAX & GKACI.
Retail Lipr Dealers.
CIGARS AND TOBACCOS.
PLATTSMOUT1I - - NEH.
Also Uiiiiard Hall ami Saloon om
Main street, four doors from Sixth Jit
Neville's old i-lace.
Store ;nd saloon on Main St. two
doors east of the Test oflice.
BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS, ALES,
WINES, d-C, AT BOTH
PLACES.
Kruirmbcr The nme and I Ihco.
2Uy Keenan & Grace.
HENRY BGTCK
DEALER IN
SAFES, CHAIRS,
ETC., KTC, ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BUEIAL CASES
Of all sizes, ready made an;l sold cheap for cash.
With many thanks for past patronage. I invl
Invite all to call and examine my
LARGE STOCK OK
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HUE MJTsK
W
A. G. HATT
JCST Oi'ENElJ AGAIN.
Neio, Clean, First Class Meat Shop,
on Main Street in 1'red Knu:iler' old stum!
Everybody on hand fur fresh, lender mtat.
vsvi.r
THE OLD KELIABLE.
CO.a MLOL S ALL-KAIL KOLl E !
NO CHANGE OF CAKS!
ONE IIOAD, ONE MANAGEMENT!
Freia bl MMimszjsk. J to
PitislmrEli, Harristnrs,
Baltimore, WcSfcinEton,
PMlafielDMa & New Tort.
Groat S3:ort Line
BOSTOSH!
VIA NEW YORK CITY.
Reaches all Points in Pennsylvania
and Netc Jersey-
Pullman Palace Cars
OH ALL EXPRESS TRAIN31
MAGNIFICENT CARS
KiJUIPPED WITn THK CKI.7.BR ATXU
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKES
-AXD-
Janney't New Patent Safety Platform
aud Coupler.
Elegant Ealing Houses
WITH AMPLE TIME FOR MEALS.
THREE EXPRE3 TRAINS
LEAVE CHICAGO A3 FOLLOWS
M.OO A. 21. Sl'KCIAL TAST EXTEESS tX
CKIT SC.XDAY.
With the popular Vestibule Sleeping Car
Ilearlu'S Pittlitirirli. 2 :30 a. m. ; Inrri?burc.
11 :45 a. in. ; I'lnkulH pliia. 4 :00 p.'m. ; New York
G -Art . tr. ; ltoslon, 0 :1-1 a. in. ; Baltiin.iro C :30
p. ui. ; Wasliiiigton, a :00 p. m., next day.
5:15 1. M. Atlantic Exp. (Dnlly)
With Drawing-Room an I Hotel Car.
Ufiaclus I'i'tfburii. 12:15 p m. ; Ilarrislmrit.
10:,Vi p. 01. , 1'iiilaiif Inliia. 3 J." a. in. ; New York
6 -Ar. a. m. ; Spf cia! lhiiiadflpdia Nlcepiii; Car
on this Train, wliird riii:.-iiiis m i! pot until 7 :.T
a. in.. ElTurdiuj; I'hUudr.plua pajeiiKTS full
night's rest.
9:IO P.M. Night Exp. Except Saturd'y.
With Dratcing-Room Sleeping Car.
l;ecdes l'i!tilurzli 7 :.T p. i- ; Harrishurs.
3 :iiOa. ui. ; Ha!tiiiirr. 7 a. ti. ; Waliinixlon
a. Hi. ; rtiilaiU Iihi.i H iVi a. m. ; Sew York,
10 ui-' a. m. ; Hostrm, y :H) p. in. 'I li rou.ii lialli
inorr anil V'aiiiiTii;tin Sleeping Car on tUU
Tiaiu.
fai:k always as low as a v othek line.
I rTliroii;-!! Tti keti lor S.'.lo at all Priroipal
rml in tli- West. Ask f'r i!i-ia via the l'Oiii'
WA1.NE& PENNSYLVANIA LINE.
F. K. MVEKS.
48ly Ccn. Taaa. & Ticket Agt., Chicaoo.
4
r . -iiif-- - -
Wteirr h
toJtfteNR Invention
ifiLSii sew im mm
in workmanship is equal to a Chronometer Watch,
and as elegantly finished as a flrstc!asa Piano. It
received tho highest awards at tho Vionnn and Cen
tennial Expositions. BT SEWS ONE-l'OUFiTH FAST
ER than other machines. Its capacity :s unlimited.
There aro more W I L S O TJ M A C t! I W C S sold in tho
United States than tho combined crJcx cf nil tho
others. THE IVSLSOH ftlEfJDi ti G .ATT AC l M E J'-iT, for
doing all kinds of repairing, VVCTrSOUT PATCHING,
given FREE with each machine. A Ccrtificnts is fjiven
with each Machine, guaranteeing to keep it in repair,
free of charge, for five years. St requires no cpocial
instructions to learn new to u? it. atisiaction
guaranteed, or no pay. YJachin clivcicd froo of
charge anywhere in tho United Gcatcs.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue, and nsk for sample cf mending,,
and our Circular No. 107 for further instructors for Luying machines
upon terms stated in the Catalogue.
"htId.( wilsq ssvifjo tfamiuz co.
827 & 829 Broadway, New York; New Orleans, Lr..;
Cor. State and Madison Sts., Chicago, Ills.; nrl! Can Francisco, Cal.
CLAM'S FATENT
2
POST HOLE AUGER
Points of superiority
over the old style It
will bore faster in al."
condition? of soil, will
bore throus-h Soddy
Rooty, or Traahy
CTound "without the
help of F,.ny other
tool, can bo used to
onlarero a hole already
bored.
Sizes made for Post
Holes, Hodfre Plants.
Grape S taken, and
Hop Poles.
lIAirUFACTTJEJJD BY
8EMPLE, EIR3E & 00..
omcrLTnuTj j.vrr.p-
SPECIALTHM,
13 H Main Si., St I.oaU.
Pnrt' nswiice this iid nr
tupei tbfy reuj it
h:is comtj iioiif
And ho lias brought the finest lino of
Dress Goods, .Staple (.roods, Fancy
Goods and IV otionsvon over saw.
ies foy sEb &eB"e,foiiM&ti mul
iae fill y33 eass9& ses$
htt$ asasH eaips tsll
Jim I3B33&S foggy
Spring and Summer Gcoriseyer and ever so cheap
Now isyour chanro hound to sr-H and nmiers' ll an;hody. Ilvrry
ti7. want to go East again ntxt iti'ivtli.
Ff-iT-T'.'- in n n a . . . . t, I
llF-o.-.Z;l MUKMfi l cu WMIWHbS QNLT ZJ EACH. : I
1 fU I 1
Aiitirc.T uU
r9-TOtVAT
cotion to tlj(. jj
n i
ill J
1" I K
02 whi
PS
lrfe WAR
RANTED WATCHES ONLY $3 EACH. W,
' - ' n r tii rjii
C.H Z. Z T
DICK STKEIGHT'S
LI V FRY, FEED AND SALE STA
BLES. Comer Glh auU I'carl Sts.
HOKSC.S HOAJIDKI UY THE
D.ty, yii:z:k, on jio.xtij.
HORSES BOUGHT.
SOLD OS, TTVZDIIiTD.
For a Fair Commission.
TEAMS AT iiiJi llOl'RS.
Particular attention paid to
Driving and Training
TROTTIXG STOCK.
2500
A YEAR. Airr.rifs wantod. Hart
nvA les:' tlnmtc. rr!lctila.rs free .
Addrrai JWOSTH CO..S: Loau. tit.
i THE "WELCOME" SOLD
.ma
HAY RAKE.
It discharge itsolf, and thus
bivg3 almost tho ontiro labor of
the .operator It in an jnvalua
t)l? implement to -vcry farmer.
Description Y7ill be Ront to
parties a pplyinpr, who vrill plean
etate in what paper they read
the advertisement.
Semplo, Birgo & Co.,
'3 SOUTH MAIN 6T
ST. LOU I?
'3 j-'-rx
30
30
A BANKRUPT STGCS GF WATCHES,
Warranted for One Year.
Tt''s hnnkntrt tork mutt ! flmv! ont In 90 ayn.
Tb fonv.iT i. ft r i: V:ai lien nan 814.00
'Kli. 'i hry in" siii-ri-ii i-.-i-. nh.j i.i,.n Iju h. uil on
n.e, nrsrl ;,t M-nrn li!:inf f..ct ;jr. t ?i .f rnvrin.fitn of
wli.rii I '-iuff K'ttiwii il,- w.r'l (i t-r 1'i.r tliir fine
Im:-- li. 1 1:f uri. nv '1 i'ii fi: 1 1 ro an.t klrnnilioafi,
lirrr firrs'raio t imc l r. i . ai, 1 ti v- vm1 aU
i-iiL'-ii iii. 'lliink i it, a V ; i r i 1 1 lor otilj 3.UO,
nd narrauiril guc vn- (; ilmr.
IM.u SAT!, ).. 51,
Tlie Wal'rrs In. .! l!:...- ( i. , un il ia)!Nlil nd
very reliable Lokio, I.I.U wo Ki ' : f : ; 1 v r.vrniin-iitl
tiiurn. '.'-.-. in'nati t'owr.
Afifr tfi" r!r'irr nf'.lr nf tMs hin kriipt nturk nf
W'aU'bi's, w !;i i: w ;l ri-nu iui-11') imvs I i- . t -i date of thin
pIer, no ori!:r Wii! !: Ii 1 !-il f t !' i flc.h ;
i'i.'tivf wiwl yniir i.r!'r at. fir:f . ,t:i (-...'-.i V.'ut.:li we
f irnlsh our .irrlsl uarimtlrp !' t- jrar far
-rirl liiiM-. W(;w:n ! ,r.H'd ' '. Wnfli roinpt.
ly on ru i ii't 11 :t.. r.r w i ;i i n 1 c.( 1 1. 11 cu.sUiiners
ileyi rr nsui r 1 -i. 1 : t :,ni on vs-,r. : it.
r '
;
or .. ti '(tlfift fnyj-.ttrl Ins f'o
!: I.i !i .-. ri:.i. . 7. 1 : n i ; a r 1, O.
Jf SPKf 1 1. iTOHM V particular
; f.:jh( k. i. tin -v Ki'jl u ml. iv ui li jm rti
STiiKlGIIT - mhlLH.
Ifarntss Jinn nj'a turcrs,
SAIII.ES
p.j:idle3,
cor.i.AES,
and :J1 kimls of harness stock, constantly or.
hand.
FRUIT, CONFECTIONl,
A SM
GUOCllLlY STORE,
NUTS,
C.VNME.V
TEAS
COFFEES.
Si'GAES,
TOliACCoE.S,
FLO UK,
KeinomluT tho pl.t.-p opposite E, G. Dov-y'j
on Lowt-r Main Sirect.
j 21-l.v ST RE I OH T MILLER.
I iWlll IM V. MlilKtoo St. Ct-lcmifc H.
