Show the latest production of that noted author samuel smiles whose works are read in every civilized country to is entitled lite life and labor and is in ig line with self help and character books that are as familiar ai household words like the two last lait named the new work is a stimulation to te work and perseverance many young men previously without ambition have been incited to activity and success by reading the productions production of mr smiles he brings before the enchanted reader a multitude of the most striking examples of labor and consequent greatness the race has fur far dished and every biographical infidel incident or narrative points a moral life an and labor has beep placed on our table by mr dwyer who has it en an sale ivery youth in utah should possess it a set oi of smiles works and read e very every volume attentively if he did not be lieve before that he was capable of be coming somebody he will then theil john C rao and wife are I 1 in n ottawa ontario they will retura 4 t york eno having settled with 1111 his creditor sg prof chandler of new kone of the most eminent analytical chemists and sanitarians sanit arians knows so something methin of the manufacturers of patent medicines medicines 11 because they try to bribe me to certify to the value of their concoct eions some of them he says are admirably managed having regular sta staff ft organizations there is the literary man who writes the letters giving MIL marvelous accounts of marvelous cures there is the artist who shows the me patient before and after taking twenty two bottles of the medicine there is the poet who com composes posts poems upon the subject there to the liar who swears mean to what he knows tr true ue and the forger who PrO produces ducles testimonials from bis 0 own wn imagination I 1 1 witheat Wi thoat astl on ot uld spy say that bine out of ten of e proprietary medicines are frauds frands pure and simple the real keal business is advertising for dus dupes the medical part of t it ts to but a olde ide issue I 1 am pretty sure it I 1 were to pound up u p bril abar a dud and spend advert advertising lj it at 1 to ka ounce to s a sure care for some disease which cannot be cured I 1 should get t leaa imal WO thus giving me lor for my trouble nine tenths of the medicines sent out in this fashion have no more curative properties than brickbat dust 40 A correspondent of debence dee spence Sn ence mr f V J farnsworth Farnswor tb of clinton iowa lowa finds a very striking kina resemblance between the membrane of diphtheria and the fungi that produce dry rot or more moe especially those forms farms that grow in living trees A white or yellow leathery subs i 6 is produced sometimes known as I 1 pi punk the roots of the fungus penetrate the cells of the wood in every direction producing disintegration and decay diphtheria is called an exudation and classed clashed as a bacterial disease when in fact it isa is a fungus ofa of a higher order it growson grows on the surface and spreads by and its roots penetrate deeply into the tissues tissue p producing changes and decomposition compos lt to ro which becomes the soil tor for b bacteria cherl generating poisons that ar are absorbed and powerfully affect the whole system in this view its life history has not been studied or found out it is known that the membrane can be transplanted but how it is propagated by bv spores is unknown there is evidently some peculiar condition re tufted it maybe may be that in an alkaline condition of the system is required which is the reason tor for the capriciousness of its infection mrs brings briggs now that your son has hag returned from college do you feel repaid tor for your outlay for his bis education did he take any prize mrs 8 mum yes indeed he got a me medal ai for what he calls sprinting and he be must be high up in mathematics tor for he says he learned four new curves |