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A Brace of Funny Stories.

@Talk about bedbugs," said Bill Jones,
who had been across the plains, "you
should have seen some of the critters |
met in Idaho, last spring. l stopped
one night with some settlers, who lived
ina log cabin containing only one room
and loft. When it came time to go to
bed, they strung blanket across the
middle of the room, and the settlers
family slept on one side of it and give
me the other. l laid down to 90 to
sleep, and the bedbugs began to gath
er Ike lunch-eaters around free lay
out" l tried to kiver up and keep
away from EN-, but tlre pesky varmints
would catch hold of the bed-clethes and
pull them off from me. They didn't
think nothing Of fdraggin' me round the
reomif held dens-I fit 'em round for
some way of escape. There was a lad
der reachin' up into the loft, and l
thought the best way to- get away from
the blood suckers was to climb up thar,
SO did. There wasd't any bugs in the
loft, and / laid down congratulatin' my
selfon my escape. Pretty quick / heard
the ladder squeakin' as if somebody was
coming up. Bimeby saw bedbug
raise himself up through the hole in the
floor and look carefully around the loft.
Soon's he saw me he motioned to his
chums below. the bloodthirsty cuss, and
cried, exultin'ly: Come up, boysShc's
herer"
There are good many anecdotes re-
lated concerning that 'sworst actor and
best poker player in America Nc
kean Buchanan, who has been engaged
for years past inflicting unbeardof tor
torres upon William Shakespeare. Here is
one California friend related to us:
While in California Buchanan be
came engaged in a law suit. Calling on
James w. Gofrath a celebrated lawyer
of San Francisco, the great tragedian"
said
.:Mr. Goffrath, in this law suit of mine
/ desire to- retain you as my coun-
sel."
"Should be happy to serve yon," re-
Piled Goffrath. ''but its too late"
sToo late How too late, my dear fel-
low?" s..
"Why, you see, Tn retained by the
other side"
1.-The other side? How'st that 2"
.=.Yes I'm retained forth other side.
I'm going to act in behalf of Shakespeare s
heirs"
Whether the "great tragedian' saw
the point or not, everybody else in San
Francisco did when the story was told.
Fat Contributor in Cincinnati Times.
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The SPIRIT Of DEMOCRACY.
Tuesday, March 3, 1859.
CuriOSitieS OF Sleep,

In Turkey, if a man falls asleep in the
neighborhood Of a poppy field, and the
wind blows towards him, he becomes
narcotized and would die if the country
people, who are wei acquainted with
the circumstances, did not bring him to
the next we'll or stream and empty pitch
or after pitcher of water on his face and
body. DIR. Appenheim, during his resi-
dence in Turkey, owed his life to this
simple and efticacious treatment.
DR. Graves, from which this anecdote
isquoted, also reports the case of a ren-
tleman thirty-fve years of age, who.
from long continued slecpiness, was re-
duccd to a complete living skeleton, un-
able to stand on his legs. 1t was partly
owing to disease, but chiefly to the use of
opium, until at last unable to pursue his
b isiness, he sunk into ahject pov r.y
and woe DIR. Ried mentions friend
OF his who, whenever anything occurred
to distress him, soon became drowsy and
fell asleep
A student at Edinburg, upon hearing
suddenly of the unexpected death of q
near relative, threw himself on bed and
almost instantaneously, amid the glare
of MONDAY, sank into q profound slum-
ber. Another person, reading to one OF
his dearest friends stretched on his death.
bed, fell fast asleep, and with the book
still in his hand, went on reading ut
terly unconscious of what he was do.
ing.
A woman at Hamadt slept seventeen
or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years
Another is recorded to have slept once
IN four days DR.. Mancise mentions q
woman who spent three -fourths of her
life in sleep, and Dr. Elliotson quotes a
case of a young lady who slept for six
weeks and recovered. The venerable
st. Augustine, of Hippo. prudently di-
vided his hours into three parts eight
to be devoted to sleep, eight to medita,
ton and eight to converse with the world.
Maniacs are reported, particularly in
the Eastern hemisphere, TO become fur
iously vigilant during the full Of the moon
more especially when the deteriorating
rays of its polarized light are permitted
to fall into their apartment-hence the
name of lunatics. There certainly is
greater proneness to disease during sleep
than in the waking state, for those who
pass the night in the Champagne di Roma
inevitably become affected with its nox.
ious air; while travellers who 60 through
without stopping, escape the miasma
Intense cold produces sleep, and those
who perish in the snow, sleep on till the
sleep of death.
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D l9 -Fg FI qt. %s 8 s8 Important Certificate.
SPEEDY CURE OF WHOOPING COUGH

S~ ~~A>~~
 er J. w, PECK FIT Esq j, Brooklyn. N. Y. H.
 I am. not in the habit tofs taking advertised medicines, nor certifying to their curative ef- ects when they come under my observation, but feel constrained to make an exception in favoraof Dodd' so Nervine and irvigOrator, . medicine l have used in my family for somc time past. My little daughter had been suff- erings from severe swhooping cough for several weeks, and was so much broken of rest at night that-by excessive coughing and loss of sleep-her constitution and general health seemed to be giving away. Various remedies or palliatiyes were recommended by intimate neighbors. but nothing was tried until our at tention was called by physician not now in practice to Dodd,s NeIyine. This we procured and commenced using at once with an effect immediate and surprising. Az the convul- ksions we're ehardest at night, we began by giv- ing the Neryine on. her going to bed. The first dose administered made it's impression; {;
 the cough beeame less ], frequent, ; and very much less, seyererrshe soon got her accust0m- ed sleep -rapidl Y revived in health and, yigor and in a. few days vas as we'll as, eyer.y What was lett of tue whp popipg cough was. thereafter of no trouble Of course cannot but consid-
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]s3st 45II8N isS EsFF8 l!I 7iEE The Medicine for ., !. ',s9 F, oa@ .a.., ss ..... s4, i. 7WHOOPING, COUGH ]!

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TO CONSERVATIVES.

ggyHE Advertiser, having been restored to remedy, after having, suffered several years with severe lung affection, and that dread disease. s+Consumption-is is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure.
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Farm For Sale.
DESIRABLE FARM SITUATED l

\ DESIRABLE FARM SITUATED IN
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esz
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 schencks Seaweed Tonic is gentle smulant and d. teratve, and the alka in the Seaweed which this pre- paration is made assists the stomach to throw out gastric juice to dissolve the food with the Pulmonc s
 up and it is made into good blood without fermentation
 The great reason why physicians do not consup the cough to stop ehis to stop night sweas hectic fever and by doing they derange the whole digestive locking up the secretions and eventually the pa
 Dr. Schenck his treatment does not try to stop cough, night sweas chils fever Remove the cause, and they will all stop of their own accord No one can be cured of Consumption Liver Complaint Dyspepsa, Catarrh Canker Liberated Throat unless the liver and person ase aae haa of the lungs some way are diseased either tubercles abcesses bron- of Inflammation and fast decayng In such what must be done It is not only the lungs that are wasting but it is the whole body The stomach and hysr have only chance to take Dr. Schencks three medicines which will bring tone to the stomach the patient will begin to want food it will digest easily and make good bood then the patient begins to gain in esh and the body begins to grow, the lungs commence to heal up and the patient gets aeshy and we'll This is
 When there is no lung disease and only liver complaint Pills are suicent, without the puimoaic Syrup Take the Pills freely in all bilious complaints as they are per-
 Dr. schenck, who has enjoyed uninterrupted health for many years past and now weighs 225 pounds was wasted away mere skeleton in the last stage of pnybicaias ink ced his hopeless and abandoned him to his fate He cured by the aforesaid medicines and since his covery many thousands similarly afflicted have used Dr. Schencks preparations with the remarkable suc- cess Full directions accompany each making it not less patients wish their lungs examined and for this purpose he is professionally st his principal oce Phia- delpha every Saturday where for advice must Street. New York, every other Tuesday, and at No S5 Hanover Street, Boston, every other Wednesday, He gives advice free but for thorough examination with his Resprometer the price is s. Office hours at each city from 4. M to 3 P. N. 1.50 per bottle $750 half dozen Mandrake Pills 9 cents box. G. c. GOODWIN < CO, 38 Hanover St.
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BUCHU
From Dispensatory of the United States.1 DIOSMA CRENATA-BUCHU LEAVES. .

From Dlspensatory of the United States.l
 DIOSAA cRENATA-BUCHU LEAVES. .
 Properties odor is strong, difusive, and somewhat aromatic. their taste bitterish, and anal
 Medacai Prope,4ies and Uses-Buchu leaves are gentle stimulant, with peculiar tendency to the
 They are given in complaiais' 'ef the Urinary Or gans, such as Gravel, Chronic gatarrh of the Blad der, Morbid irritation of the Bladder and Urethra, Disease of the Prostate Gland, and Retention or Incontinence of Urine, from loss of tone. in the parts concerned in it's evacuation. The remedy has also been recommended in Dyspepsia, Chronic Rheumatism, Cutaneous Affections, and Dropsy.
 Helmbold's Extract Buchu is used by persons from the ages of IS to 25 and from 35 to 55 or in the decline or change in life; after Confinement or Labor Pains; Bed-wetting in children. Ss
 In affections peculiar to females the Extract Bu- chu is unequaed by any other remedy. as in Chlo- ross, or Retention, 1rregularity, Panfulness or Suppression of Customary Evacuations, Liberated or Schirrous State of the Uterus, Lucorrhea or Whites
 Diseases cfMe Badder, Kidneys, G,aua, and DropsicI SsoeHtags.-This medicine increases the power of Digestion, and excites the Absorbents in- to healthy action, by which the Watery or Calca- reous depositions, and all Unnatural enargements are reduced as well as pain and inflammation
 Helmbold's Extract Buchu has cured every case of Diabetes in which it has been given. Irritation of the neck of the bladder, and inflammation of the kidneys, ulceration of the kidneys and bladder retenClOn OI urine, dlScdSeS OI Ine pfOSIrato Band stone in the bladder, calculus, gravel, brick-dust deposit, and mucns or Milky discharges, and for enfeebled and delicate constitutions of both sex es, attended with the following symptoms: indis. position to exertion loss of power, loss of memory difficulty of brea thing, weak nerves trembling hor- TOT of disease, wakefnlness, dimness of vision, pain in the back, hot hands, flushing of the body, dry ness of the skin. eruption on the face palhd coune nance, universal lassitude of the muscular system &c.
 Helmbold's Extract Buchn is Diuretic and blood purifying and all diseasss arising from habits of dissipation, excesses and imprudenees in ife impurities of the blood, &c., susperseding CO., paiba in affections for which it is used, such as gonorrhea, gleets of long standing, and syphiitie afections-in these diseases, used ill connection with Helmbold's Rose Wash. 'x ? ai s25..# 1'ds Sold by all Druggists and dealers everywhere. Beware of Counterfeits. Ask for Hembold's. Take no other Price, st.25 per bottle ,or six bot ties for $6 5O Delivered to any address. Describe symptoms in all communications.
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probate Notifes.

\ T Court of Probate holden at Plymouth tA within and for the District of Plymouth on the 22d day of February A. D. lS69
 On motion of Thomas H. Newton one of the Administrations on the estate of Josiah Warner late of Plymouth within said district deceased. This court doth decree that six months be al- lowed and limited for the creditors of said es- tate to exhibit their claims against the same to the Administrators and directs that public notice be given of this order by ad vertising in newspaper published in Litchfeld and by posting copy thereof on the public sign post in said town of Plymouth nearest the place where the deceased last dwelt. s ....r tr
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