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Show - v ' - v-- Falvation Oil has the enviable distinction of being a srnon.t m for cure of rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, anl k ndrt-.- l allrrtioiis, su h t sdaiica, ticdoulrroux. tU: It is proaing mors) popular daily. 'I be (topic believe lu it, and ill bive iu So i la. The deepest bole ever bored into the earth It the artrslao veil at 1'otsUam, wliiih it 5,501) feet deep. "I ironuer what Dr. Bmlth la looking ao rlum about t" "Why I can tell you, be mt bis trade i almost ruined, that "he'll bsriily have a patirut in the winter months after a bile, all on account of Dr. bull's Cough Svrun." Piople are peculiarly gullible at a swell dinner abrre Ibey are arrayed In wallow-ta- il suils. STJACOBSOJF Cran Promptxt ahd Permanehtly RHEUMATISM lamliaro, Headache, Toothache, NEURAL GIA, Sor Throat, Swellings, Froat-blta- a. SCIATICA.. Sprains, Brniaes, Itnrna, Scalds WE CHARLES . VOQELER CO., Cattiiaara. SlaV VS Si? Sk iL$r W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE CEnVlEMEN. 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No one doubts that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy really cures Catarrh, whether the disease be recent or of long standing, because the makers of it clinch their faith in it with a $500 guarantee, which isn't a mere newspaper guar-antee, but "on call" in a moment. That moment is when you prove that its makers can't cure you. The reason for their faith is this: Dr. Sage's remedy has proved itself the right cure for ninety-nin- e out of one hundred cases of Catarrh in the Head, and the World's Dispensary Medical Associa-tion can afford to take the risk of your being the one hundredth. The only question is are you willing to make the test, if the makers are willing to take the risk? If so, the rest is easy. You pay your druggist 50 cents and the trial begins. If you're wanting the $500 you'll get something better a cure With 'No Trade f eerets to Keep," came "Finite and Fruit Tiec," chuck full of Just the information one wants. Tlie title dors not elvp a notion of its real value semi to Sturk Bios.' Nurseries, Louisiana, Mo., for the bcok. Farmers' Call. Christmas is as old as marry cf the hills, yet i.oLckit thinks of tailing 'it a cbemnut. lie: May I hoje) the: Yes; if you will promise never to refer to the matter again. "I have I eon occasional); tronMed with Toughs, and in each ease have used Huowk'k HaoNCiiiAL. '1 Km 111s, ahieh lave never fuiied, and I must tay they are sc ond to none in the world." lelix A. Jisr, Cathier, St. Faul, Miun. I'm down on j our check, as the beard said to the jouth. FURNITURE, CARPETS. CUILVUEX'S CARRIAGES, Eld 1 i Uv"' J No. MB. Till Mentlcftl etrrtage. dtrntljer MS, with foS-- Uoe etlge p&ntul, will be Miit Ui auy a&lrM upoa r eeipt or sia.oo. If nut at lfaotorr and rctnrned at once, money wis Itnlinnn'a l.lyer PmU, IIoi.man s J.i v Kit 1'ii.i.a cura MAI.Ami. llOLUAN'S I.IVKH PlI.I.S Cure Hll.lolTANKSSL HOI. MAN'S I.IVKH I'll.LS Cur INOKI EH1 ION. rrtmulilft freewll li full Instructions ami commenda-tions. llOl.UA.N LlVKU l'ADCO., l'.O. UuXiUU, N.Y. The rails In the United States would go around the earth twelve times. There Is nothing (unless it he the sewing machine) that bas'llirhtened woman's labor ns iiiucb as Dobbins' Electric 8 ap, constant-ly sold since ISM. All (irocers have it. Have you n.ade its acquaintance Try it. Many re think that the word "Bitters" ran be used only in connection with an in-toxicating beverage. This is a mistake, as the 1 est remedy for all diseases oi tbe blood, liver, kidneva. "etc. is Frlcklv Ash Bitters. It is purely "a medicine and every article used In its manufacture is of vegetable origin of known curative qualities. The English pike fighters can stand pun-ishment as long as it means pounds sterling. THE AVORLD GROWS. Noah Webster would not know his old dictionary in its new dress. The world grows, however, and dic-tionaries with it, so an old is now worth about as little as an old almanac. Webster"s International Dictionary, a new hook and reset from cover to cover is a magnificent work, and well used In a family will be of more value to the members thereof than many times its cost laid up in money. A man can never write true poetry unless he has once been seriously iu love. PIGKLY ASH f BITTERS One of the most Important organs ol tha human body is the LIVER. When it tails to properly perform Its (unctions the entiro system becomes deranged. The BRAIN, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all relusa to perlorm their work. DYSPEPSIA, CON STIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY E, etc., art tho results, unless some-thing Is done to assist Natura in throwing ofl the Impurities caused by the Inaction ct a TORPID LIVER. This assistance 10 necessary will be found In Prickly Ash Bitters! It acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by its mild and catbartio effect and general tonlo qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condition, and cures all diseases arising from these causes. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health. II your druggist does not keep II ask him to order It for you. Send 2a stamp for copy of "THE HORSE TRAINER," published by us. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO., Proprietors. ST. 10X718, MO. be rvfuuUed. The bast can-tag- In tiia world far CIIAS. S1HVEKICK & CO., i Who!) and rtte.il drfcltra and tnauufaertur-- , ISM- - J ISM. fuid ISlt IftratinitrtNt Ouiltt. f I CURE FITS ! When I aa anta I do not mean moral? td Hop tba , for a time and than have them return again, lawea- - radical ear. 1 hare nude tha dieeue of FITS, EPS-- LEPy orFALUMO 6IOKNKSSaltl.lonrtudi. I I : warrant my remedy to aura tha worgt oiaes..' Baoaaae I etben hare failed is no teaeyn for Bot now reeeirlasj av I i (are. 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It came during a very heavy fait of rain between Merdin and Diar-beki- r. and covered a circular area some six or eight miles in circumference. Some of it was gathered up aud made into bread, which was of good turtle and very digettable. Specimens of the sub-stance have since been submitted to botanists who find that is in tho form of small grains, yellow outside and white and mealy inside, and that it is a lichen (Lecanora esculenta) known to occur in some of the arid regions of Western Asia. It was supposed that the grams were drawn up in a water-spout and transported by the wind at a considerable height in the atmosphere. A French traveller has reported that a similar fall of the lichen occurred in many parts of Persia in 1828, when it covered tho ground to the depth of nearly one inch, and was eaten by ani-mals and collected by the inhabitants. Many other fulls are said to have been mentioned. physician's certificate as occurring from Ducats." Apoplexy," Paralysis." Spinal Complaint, 'Rheumatism," 'Pneumonia," and other common comp'.aiuts, when in reality it is from Bright' disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this tiis-eas- or its dangerous and insidious nature. It steals into the system liko a thief, manifests its presence if at all by tho commonest symptoms and fasten itself in the constitution before the victim is aware of it. It is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common and fully as fatal. Kntire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the numbor kuew or realized the mys-terious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, from convul-sions, apoplexy, or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says, I im-plore every one who reads these words not to negiect tho slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such chances. I make the foregoing statements based upon fact's which 1 can substan-tiate to tho letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers such as I was, is an ample inducement for me to take the step I have, and if I can successfully warn others from tho dangerous path in which I once walked, 1 am willing to endure all pro-fessional and personal consequences. J. B. HEX ION. M. D. IlotHESTF.n, N. Y., Dec. SO. A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Iteruarkable Matemeut of Personal Danger and Providential faeape. The following- story which is at-tracting wide attention from the prys is so remarkable that we cannot x cute ourselves if we do cot lay it be-fore our readers, entire. To the Editor Rochester (N. Y.) Dem-ocrat: Siu On the first day of June. 1881, 1 lay at my residence in this city by my friends and wailing for death. Heaven only knows the agony 2 then endured, for words can never describe it And yet; if a few years previous any one had to id me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I should havescoiTcd at the idoa. I had always been un-commonly strong and healthy, and weighed over 2W pounds and hardly knew, in my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who will read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull pains in various parts of the body and do not understand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This was just the way I feit when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought nothing of it; that probably I had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this I no-ticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic, pain in one side of my head, but as it would come one day and be gone tho next, I paid liltie attention to it. Then my stomach w ould get out of order and my food often failed to di-gest, causing at times great inconveni-ence. Yet, even as a physician, I did not think that these things meant any-thing serious. I fancied I was suffer-ing from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared on tho surface, and a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually. I finally became accus-tomed to them, and my suspicion wus wholly disarmed by the fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. I consulted the best medical skill in the land. I visited all the famed min-eral springs in America and traveled from Maine to California Still I grew worse. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. One said I was trou- - bleu with spinal irritation; another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; an-other, genoral debility; another, con-gestion of the base of tho brain; and so on through a long list of common dis-eases, the symptoms of many of which I really had. In this way several years passed, during which time I was stead-ily growing worse. My condition had realty become pitiable. The slight symptoms I had at first experienced were developed into terrible and con-stant disorders. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to mysoif and friends. I could retain no food on my stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I fre-quently foil to the floor and clutched the carpet and prayed for death. Mor-phine had little or no effect in deaden-ing the pain, lor six days and nights I had the death premonitory hiccoughs constantly. My water was filled with tube casts and albumen. I was strug-gling with Uright's Disease of the kid-neys in its last stages!" While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foots, at that time rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of this city. I felt that it was our last interview, but in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable cures of cases like my own w hich had come under his observation. As a prac-ticing physician and a graduate of the schools, I derided the idea of any med-icine outside the regular channels be-ing in the least beneficial. So solicit-ous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive my prejudice. I began Its use on the first day of June, 1881, and took it accord-ing to directions. M first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for one in my debilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sen-sation departed and I was finally able to retain food upon my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change for the better, as also did my wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was eo rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what I had believed but a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the pres-ence of my family and friends, should I recover, I would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity, and this letter is in fulfillment of that vow. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained 26 pounds in flesh, became entirely free from pain and I believe I owe my life and pres-ent condition wholly to Warner's Safe Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery 1 have thoroughly the-- subject of kidney difficulties and Bright's disease, and the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, and as a physician, that I believe more than one-ha- lf the deaths which occur in America are caused by Bright'o dis-ease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement; but I am pre-pared to fully verify it. Bright's dis-ease has no distinctive features of its own (indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but has the symptcms of nearly every other common com-plaint. Hundreds of people die tfiy, whose burials are authorized i--- a Alaska's Bears. m To the bear hunters the wilds m Alaska offer a paradisethat camne found in no other country on the globe, as is attested by yearly shipments cf hides. Tho most chosen are those of the black bear, which roam the woods by hundreds, and prime skins bring from f25 up to as high as $100 each in the market. During the excursion oeasou tourists from all parts of the globe make a thriving trade for Alaska merchants in the bear-ski-n line. There are five distinct species of the bear in Alaska, the black, brown orcinnamon and ucrosu, which inhabit all portioaa of Southern Alaska and upper portion of the Yukon County. Furthernorth, in the St. Elias Alps, is the home of a grizzly which in size, ferocity and color much resembles the grizzlies of the Sierra Nevadas, and still further north, along the lower reaches of the Yukon and tho ice fields of the Arctic Ocean, is tbe white polar bear. As brave and skillful in hunting bear as the Alaskan Indian is, he seldom hunts tho St. Elias grizzly, both be-cause there is little profit iu the hides and the great size and ferocity of the beasts make hunting them a haz-ardous undertaking. Their mode of killing them is by shooting into them from a heavily charged smooth-bo- re musket a heavy slug of lead, copper or iron, then awaitingtheir charge, which never fails to follow the shot, with a long, heavy and strongly made spear, resting the butt of tho weapon on the ground and planting one foot firmly against it. Tho point of the spear rests at an angle to pierce the bear in the breast, and the bear's own weight, when it strikes the Bpear in its mad charge, is calculated to drive the wea-pon through him or pierce him deep enough to cause death. As will be readily seen, if at this critical moment tho hunter's courage should fail him, or by aniiscalculation the spear failed to impale the charging beast, the hun-ter would be knocked senseless and im-mediately torn into shreds. This mode of bear hunting may have its advan-tages, but only the Alaskan Indian has the courage to try tho experiment' Juneau Letter to the Denver News. A Chemical Fire Alarm. A fno alarm cartridge is now used in Sweden. Heat sufficient to molt a parafline capsule liberates a few drops of sulphric acid, which trickles down upon and unites a mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar. This in turn sets fire to a powerful light, and by melt-ing a fusible metal plug closes an elec-tric circuit and sounds a distant bell. A small copper case, closed with a rub-ber cap, contains the chemicals. Pair of It u libera Slxir Yean Old. E. F. liartou has secured a couple of curiosities for tho display windows at his store. One is a pair of Blippcrs made of rope, tho work being done by a sailor on board a conl steamer run-ning between Philadelphia and this port. The second article is a pair of pure cum rubbers, which have been in uso in one family in this city for sixty years. Newburyport Herald. A Curious Eating diatom. The Dyaks divide in pairs when the hour arrives for taking food, the father and mother at one platter, two sisters at one and still two brothers at another. When tho family is not equally divided as to sex a brother and sister may eat together, but this must always be the youngest and old-est ot the family. St. Louis Republic. Why Are the Two Buttons? Therearemany detailsin ourscheme of attire, the reason whereof is not generally known, says Clothier and Furnisher. In many instances they have filled some essential place in the construction of tha prototype of the existing garment and area survival or ; some bygone regime. There ia one phase of the modern apparel that not one man in a thousand knows the meaning of, and yet custom has made it an unquestioned feature of every modern masculine skirt coat. Why are the two buttons placed at the waist line at the back of the garment?' For effect? Not so originally. These two buttons were, at their inception, not primarily for decoration, but for service. It was during the period when the big square-art-embroider- and gorgeously-line- d coats were worn, two centuries ago, that thegallants of the time were wont to go forth on dress parade, ready to resent any de-viation from the rigid formalities of the court etiquette with a recourse to the sword. In orderthat the sidearm might be readily reached, the skirts of the coat wore turned back in a manner and buttoned or looped upon the buttons at the back, at the same time exploiting a segment of the ricli inside of the garment in an unintentionally effective way. Tbe I'olnon ofToads and Salamandera A recent microscopical study by Herr Schultz has revealed two kinds of glands mucus and poison in the skin of toads and salamanders, The mucus glands are numerous over the whole body; but the poison glands are on the back and limbs, in groups about the ears, aud, in the salamander, at the angle of the jaw. The mucus glands are spherical, ond appear clear and glassy; while the poison glands are ovaL much larger, and have a dark granular look. The mucus has no special smell, nor bitter or acid tastes. On stimulating the poison glands electrically, the corrosive liquid is spurted out by the salamander in a fine jet, often a foot long, but from the toad it exudes less promptly, and spar, ingly in drops. For Freak and tollable Seeds We can cordially reconmend the seed house of H. W. buck! ce, of Kockford, 111. High grade, first clus, Western grown seeds have been supplied Ly him for the past 15 years. All who l.uv his seed are pleased with results. 'J o those who have not tried his seed we advice you to get your supply of him this year. Catalogue on'appllcalion. To be Robbed of Health By a pestilental ollmnte, by a vocation entailing oonstant exposure, physical overwork or sedenta-ry drudgery at the desk, is a hard lot. Yet many persons originally possessed of a fair constitution suffer this deprivation before the meridian of life is passed. To any and all subject to conditions inimical to health, no purer or more agreeable preservative of the greatest of earthly blessings can be recommended than HostetteKa btomae.h Hitters, which Inure, tho system to climalio change, physical fatigue and mental exhsu.iion. It eradicates dyspepsia, the bane of sedentary brolu workers, preserves and restores regularity of the bowols and liver, when disordered from any cause, annihilates fever and ague and pre-vents it, checks the growth of a tendencv to n ami gout, and neutralizes thedunger to be apprehended from causes productive of kidney, bladder and uterine ailments. To be convinced of the truth of these statements, it is only neces-sity to give this sterling preparation an impartial trial. The Case Was Different, A young woman who had solo charge of a year-ol- d baby had a good deal of trouble with it in the sitting-roo- of the Erie depot the other afternoon. The little one howled and kicked in several languages, and finally became so much of a nuisance that three or, four of the nearest sitters got up and jnoved away. As they did so an offi-cious woman came forward and aaked- - "Are you its mother?" "No'm; I'm the nurse." "Well, I'm the mother of five chil-dren, and I never had one act as this one does." "No'm I presume not: but the case was different." ' "How so?" "Why, you were alive and could Bee iO your babies, while the father of this one was killed on the railroad two months ago, and the body of its dead mother is around on the platform in a casket. It's going to Troy for burial, and the little one is going to its grand- - ma's. Sorry, ma'am, but it will cry in spite of all I can do." New York , Sun. Remarkable Kffbcta of Heat on Steel. Specimens of steel of three different qualities, depending on a varying pro-portion of carbon, have been tested in Germany to determine the change in their strength with change in tempera-ture. Starting from four degrees below zezo Fahreheit, the test pieces dimin-ished both in strength and percentage of elongation up to a temperature be-tween 400 and 600 degrees, then rose to a maximum at about COO degrees and fell steadily beyond that point up to 1,100 degrees, the highest temperature tried. At 600 degrees the strength of the weakest bar supporting twenty-si- x tons at ordinary temperatures was increased S4 per cent that of the sec-ond bar usually sustaining twenty-seve- n tons and risen 27 per cent and, that of the third bar of an ordinary strength of thirty --one tons had gained Poor Mrs, Vanderbllt. 25 per cent , New Yorkers are getting to be tha l most inveterate and cold blooded etarers. I once saw Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, a sweet faced and rather ' pretty woman, come into Steam's to do some shopping. The women about heard who slie was and they stood , around her in a circle and simply j feasted their eyes upon every detail of her dress and appearanoe. They loudly called each other's attention to her earrings solitaire pearls to the fit of her dress and the way it ) hung in the back. They came closer anti felt it. They studied the way she had her hair done up and suggested i that it was worth trying when they i got home. They stood shoulder ' to shoulder with her and learned her , hat by heart. She was admirable through it all, pretended she did not ' see or hear or feel, finally turned around to go, with a blankly absent expression, the cortege thronging around her and escorting her, still loudly commenting, to her carriage. Cor. San Francisco Argonaut. I i |