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CONCENTRATED
FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU.

TIE GREAT DIURFTT0,
Has cured every of Diabetes in which has baep
Irritation Of the neck of the Bladder Inflammation Of tho
Kidney liberation of the Kidneys and Bladder Retention Of
n Diseases OF the PROSTATE Gland. the Bladder
Calculus Gravel, Brckdust Deposit, Mucous or Milky
Discharges, and for Encbed and Delicate constitutions Of
noth sexes attended with the following symptoms Ind.
:tion TO Eyertion Loss of Power. Loss Memory Dicui
" OF breathing Weak Nerves Trembling Horror of Disease
Wakefuncss DnHess OF Vision Pain the Back Hot hands
flushing OF the Body Drynes of the skim Eruption on the
ace Palld counenance Universal asitude OF the Muscu
lar system etc. " ~
Used by persons from the ages of eighteen to TWENTY-FIVE
and from thirty five fifty I'VE or in the decline or
lie after confinement or labor pains wetng children
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NOW Is THE TIME,

And Osman & Hapeman's is the
place to buy your Wall Paper and
Window Shades. They have the
largest assortment, and their prices
are always as low as the lowest.
West of Court House Square.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-04-22

HONE AND HEALTH-The April number of
this new Health Magazine comes to us with
great variety OF interesting articles. The prin.
cipls ones are on "The Teeth-Causes and Pre-
vsntioa Of Decay" Health at Home" Bathing
Laoing tMustrated." "Bright's Disease Untech.
nically considered" "What shall we do in the
Sick.room ?" etc. There are more than forty
smaller articles, containing valuable hints on
health and for the home. Published at $3.50 per
year, by W. R. DE PUY h BROTHERS, sos, Broad.
way, New York.
Single copies for sale and subscriptions receiv.
ed BY Oman Hspsman, Ottawa, Ill.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-04-22

The common article of Castor Oil Invested Of
its naturally disagreeable taste and smell, is
found in tho preparation known as "Dr. Warrin.
ner's Aromatized Castor Oil"
For sale by E. Y. Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-04-22

a Niger KILLED by A Hoe, We learn that
negro was killed short time ago, between
Novelty and Edna. IN Knox county, NO., under
the following circumstances:
A gentleman had killed hogs, and hanging
them up over night, negro availed himself of
the opportunity afforded him by the darkness of
the night, stole one Of the hogs, shouldcred it
and started home, On his way heme he had to
cross u very high fence, and in doing so,-ho got
to the top with the hog,--the gambrel stick
caught around the negroes neck, and the hog
fell on one side and the negro on the other.
Result-The negro was found dead next morn.
ing with his neck broken.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-04-22

When wives assume the head.shp God gave to
husbands, they break divine command, and the
punishment follows They lose, to a great OK.
tent, their gentle, womanly graces, and grow
bold and masculine and, in the same proportion
husbands become feminine and tmid and of ali
pitiabe obicuts on the face Of the earth, hen.
pecked husband is tho worst; and in n short
time these wives become dissatisfied with their
sheepish. husbands. and many Of them
seek for more manly companions, and life of
sin and terrible rotributisn is the result.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
Medical Items.

For THE PAINS OF CHOLERA MoRBUs.
Use a Gecoction of the seeds of pig
weed, green or dry.
GAsTIC JUICE FOR CANCER. External
applications of gastric and pancreatic
juice three times day for twenty days
have cured cancer.
To PREVENT SMALLPOX PTTTING.
Apply charcoal and lard freely over the
surface, as soon as the disease is distin-
guished, and continue as long as the
fever lasts.
CURE FOR PoIsoNs.-Use bisulphate
of carbon. Saturate cloths with it, and
lay them along the spinal column its en-
tire length, and cover to prevent evapora'
ton. This is the best for opium poison
ing.
CURE FOR ST. virus DANoE.-Num
erous cases of st. Vitus' Dance have
been cured by the application of ether
spray to the spine, the current being
directed toward the neck from the
other extremity, and then backward ant
forward, the operation continuing five
or six minutes.
STOPPING NOSE. BLEED. up
with the head elevated. Compress tht
nostril with the finger, and at the sam'
time stretch upward the arm on thu
same side with the bleeding nostril
Keep the arm perpendicular for tive
minutes. Also rapidly chew piece o
paper.
For CHApPED HANDS. s.--One pound o
fresh lard, the yelk of one egg, larg'
tablespoonful clear honey, mixed with
the finest part of oatmeal flour. Anoth
er remedy: A glycerine ointment o
much repute for chapped hands and ex
coriations is made as follows one hal
ounce spermaceti is melted togethe
with a drachm of white wax and TIVE
fluid ounces of oil of almonds, by
moderate heat; the fluid is poured int
o wedgewood mortar, when fluid ounc
of glycerine is added to it and rubbe'
till the ingredients are thoroughly mix
| ed and cold.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
The Transit Of Venus.

The Saturday Reuie,o (English) says
that extraordinary interest is already
felt in British scientific circles in regard
to the transit of Venus in 1874, and that
arrangements for making the proper OBJ
servations are even now in progress.
The problem which has to be solved is
the suns distance from the earth. About
the middle of the last century the amount
of this distance was set down by the ac-
cepted authorities at 100000 miles.
The first transit of Venus, in 1853,
brought this up to 95,173,000 miles-a
number SO near the one obtained in the
next transit, that of 1859, that till quite
recently some foul play was suspected
in the observations made in the last
named year to render the results similar.
But the transits of Venus are now no
longer depended upon with the impor-
tance and exclusiveness formerly attach
ing to them in the determination of this
great and magnificent problem. Astron-
omical instruments are now so greatly
improved that the base line method can
be applied to Mars, and, besides other
means, even the velocity of light has
been brought to bear on the problem.
Singularly enough, too, the result OF all
this modern work, and of the more In
direct methods, has been to show that
the amount of the distance derived from
the observation of transits in the last
century requires to be reduced by some
thing less than four million miles. The
error, however, thus made by astlon-
omers in the suns angular diameter
granting it to be an error-is, after all,
no greater than the breadth of human
hair, viewed at distance of 125 feet
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
NJ New sin saeane.

/ want 90 tel, SAYS lady correspon-
dent Of Ariinr's Home Mlg1siHs, that /
have a new silk sacque-thai is quite as
stylish as any have seen in the streets
or stores, and that cost me only twenty
five cents for lining, and eight cents for
seving-silk. / really must tell you about
It, for / am quite proud Of my achieve
ment.
First, il is made out Of about two
breadths of a silk dress which has been
in wear for the last nineteen years
Mother sponged the silk, and ironed il
ON the wrong side so nicely that il look
ed Just as good as new. Mother can do
up things beautifully. The silk costing
me nothing, 1 though would venture
on little extnyagance, and buy some
guipure lace, and some satin for piping.
to trim it with. Money is not at all
plenty at our house, and we all have TO
try to lay out every penny TO the best
advantage. So / really did feel as il
this sacque trimming was almost an un-
justiiable extravagance. But then i
didn't have a new silk sacque every day.
The morning that L was working on
it mother said TO me "How would you
like fringe instead of lace ?"
replied that knew fringe was more
fashionable, but really liked lace best.
:" But il the fringe costs you nothing p
/ didn't exactly see where the fringe
was 10 come from, but l was ready to
receive any suggestions. So mother
brought out al old parasol, dilapidated,
faded and lame, that had seen its best
days at least five years before, and was
now handed over as plaything TO the
children. It was bordered with heavy
fringe, sadly tangled and faded. This
she proposed to dye and l, very doubt
full of her success, agreed to wait the
trial, at the same time remarking that
it was pity there wasn't some old satin
about the house that would do TO make
the piping with, so as to have the entire
thing secondhand but could think
of nothing but an old satin vest that had
been out of wear for a number of years.
"Just the thing" mother said /; and of
she posted and brought it. The vest
was fifteen years old, but was made Of
the thickest and finest of vest satin and
though it had seen much wear, it was as
black and glossy as ever, except at the
folds and seams. l made a calculation
about the quantity of piping required
and found the vest, cut to the best ad
vantage, would furnish just enough. L
made beautiful piping-no fraying abou
the edges-round and full, needed moth
ing to stiffen it.
l cut and made my sacque myself
Mother brought the fringe in due season
dyed beautiful black, and com5eC
smooth. And here is the sacque al
finished, just as nice as though ever.
part of it was bran new and the cost
as have already said, was only thirty
three cents
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
A Great California Orchard.

A few DAYS ago Il was our pleasure 10
visit the orchard Of John Briggs, located
about two miles south Of Yuba City,
in Sutter county. The proprietor owns
i66 acres, mostly bottom land ON the
west bank Of the Feather river. The
soil IS nch, sandy luam, and composed
Of the yearly deposits Of the river many
years ago. No better Or richer land is
10 be found in the State, add the or
chard we shall briefly notice promises 10
be the pride Of the Briggs Brothers,
who have State reputation as or
cbardists and fruit-growers. Before
reaching the orchard proper we rode
through a field Of $50 acres of castor
beans, growing in the most luxurious
manner-which field, by the by, is to
give place 10 new orchard next year,
the fruit trees for the same at present
growing in the nursery by the side of
the field Of castor beans, and containing
5000 one-year-old budded peach trees,
16, 600 plum trees, 5000 Eastern walnuts,
%, 1000 California walnuts, 1900 apple
trees, 500 italian chestnut trees, etc.
Passing along through this forest of
young trees, we arrived at the present
peach orchard, consisting of 900 trees,
two years old, ana some of them bear
ing this season $50 pounds of peaches.
These trees have made q remarkable
growth owing TO the rich ground upon
which they are planted, and in another
year will make q tremendous yield of
fruit Passing the peach orchard we
reached the apricots, 1900 in number,
which are also two years old, and have
borne a fair crop the present season.
This orchard presented sad sight in
one respect. The late heavy storm had
Frustrated many of the trees entire,
while in others the limbs had been torn
off as If a tremendous tornado had swept
over the place. However, the trees were
healthy and stout, notwithstanding the
mutilations here and there. We rode
next into the cherry orchard, containing
three thousandof the most thrifty young
trees ever seen on any ground. The
different varieties, fifteen in number,
gave this orchard variety of aspect,
and broke up the usual monotony of the
steeple-like formed cherry orchard
These cherry trees were all imported
from Rochester, N. Y, about three
years ago. OFF to the south of this
wonderful wilderness are two thousand
five hundred apple trees, mostly winter
varieties. On returning from the or
chard by the wagon road we had entered
we visited Briggs Brothers steam power
castor oil mill. Here we found mag
ni6cent hydraulic press, with eighty
pounds pressure, and possessing ca
pacity of COMPRISING three hundred
gallons of oil per day. The mill alsC
contained twenty tons of castor beans
and two thousand five hundred gallons
of oil, nicely bottled and cased and read.
for market California paper.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

How HE DID IT. An ingenious English
barrister in Madras who had grown tired
of his wife lately instituted proceedings
to obtain divorce from her, and, as she
had notoriously good character upon
which he could throw no shadow of sus-
picion, he was in danger of losing his
suit, for Madras is not as Indiana, nor is
incompatibility of temperament there
held to warrant the legal severance of the
marriage contract. A happy thought
struck the willy barrister-a change OF
heart came upon him, and he became a
convert to Islam, and then, as Mahome-
tan custom allows every true believer to
increase and multiply his wives, he mar
ried the idol of his soul-his bulbul,
whose sweet notes first had charmed him
from his English wife. This new beloved
was French woman, who also became a
convert, and the two were received into
the fold of the faithful at mosque in
Vellore, and then were welded with the
greatest splendor. The Christian wife,
if not too thoroughly disgusted with her
husband, yet may cause him trouble, for
she has her undoubted rights, which
easily could be enforced.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
The Fair Of the American Institute.

The annual exhibition of the Ameri-
can Institute, to be held at the Rink in
New York in September and October
next, promises to be of more than usual
attractiveness. The managers have made
arrangements to exhibit the machinery
in motion, that visitors may be enabled
to understand the various processes OF
manufacture. A large amount OF money
has been appropriated for premiums to
the successful competitors in floral,
agricultural and horticultural products.
The exhibitors of successful specimens
will he presented with certificate in
addition to the premium. Specimens
for competition are to be entered on the
11th, 10Th, or 18th of September, before
noon, and each series must be kept IN
perfect condition for four days. We un-
derstand that specimens of any fruit OF
flowers exhibited may be renewed, and
the fresh specimens will be entitled to an
award. The highest money awards fol
flowers are twenty dollars five dollars
for the best floral design, and twenty
dollars for the best case containing
plants. A premium OF fifty dollars will
be given for the best collection OF pears
and forty dollars for the best collection
of apples. There will also be minol
awards for the best specimens OF grapes
and vegetables.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
Facts and Fancies.

The three great conquerors OF the
world are Fashion, Love and Death.
Let your expenses be such as TO leave
a little balance in your pocket. Ready
money is friend in need.
II thou wouldst live long, live well
for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Quiet house weddings will be the cor
rect thing this fall and winter. A sensi-
hle fashion at last.
The gentle spring and the mellow au-
tumn go for nothing with the soldiers
only give them good March weather.
Smiles and Frowns.-It is always in
your power to make an enemy by smiles
what folly, then, to make an enemy by
frowns.
Education is incompatible with SELF
indulgence, and the impulse of vanity is
too often mistaken for the impulse of
nature.
Difficulty excites the mind to the dig
nifty which sustains and finally conquers
misfortune, and the ordeal refnes while
it chastens.
True Friends. Value the friendship
of him who stands by you in the storm !;
swarms of insects will surround you in
the sunshine.
Fate ana necessity.-We cannot con-
qupr fate and necessity ; yet we can yield
to them in such manner as to be great
er than if we would.
Keep Away from Bad Habits. s.-No per-
son ever got stung by hornets who kept
away from where they were. 1t is Just
so with bad habits.
A young hopeful's mother reached for
him with her slipper, the other evening,
for hooking the Jelly; and, after the
dusting she was surprised to hear him
laugh over it, and demanded the cause
of it. 81 was thinking how l had fooled
you it was Carrie who hooked the jelly. "
"How many children have you ?"
asked gentleman of one of his labor
ers. looking around in surprise upon the
family. "Better than dozen sir" 81
only make out eleven" said the gentle
man. "Faith, an isn't that better than
a dozen, when one has to feed 'em -
exclaimed the honest fellow.
AT all ulmeS III UnlS WluJry lle OhC
presence of those welove is like a CLEAN
of sunshine through the clouds, lighting
up one particular spot amid the shad.
ows, and giving warmth and lustre and
loveliness to all beneath the ray. The
passing CLEAN seems still brighter than
the full sunshine.
Content converts everything near it to
the highest perfection it is capable of.
1t irradiates every metal, and enriches
lead with the properties of gold; il
heightens gold into flame, fame into
light, and light into glory /; "a single ray
of it dissipates pain and melancholy from
the person on whom it falls. In short,
its presence naturally changes every
place into kind of heaven.
Little Evils.-It seems to be law oi
! our nature, intended perhaps for oul
preservation, that little evils, coming
home to ourselves, should affect us more
/ than great evils, at distance, happening
to others but they must be evils which
we cannot prevent, and over which We
have no control for perhaps there is nt
man who would lose his little finger tt
save China.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

Where did you come from. baby doArf
Out q the everywhere into here.
Where did you get your eyes % bluef
Out q the ely A. / came through.
What makos the light In them sparkle and spini
some of the starry spikes len IN.
Where did you get that little toAri
found il waiting when got here.
What makes your forehead 20 smooth and highf
A soft hand stioked Il a. ! went by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white rosef
/ saw something better than any one knows.
Whence that three-oornered smile Of bliss
Three angels gave me At once kiss.
Where did YOU get this pearly carr
God spoke, and Il came out here.
Where did YOU get those arms and handsf
Love made itself into hooks and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling thingsl
From the same box a. the cherubs' wings.
How did they all come Just TO be your
God thought of me, and 30 grew.
But how did YOU come 10 US, you dearp
God thought about you, and 50 | am here.
Good Words for n,e Young.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16
A WhnIer's UOnriShin.

He had been whaler twenty years,
and when he gave up the sea and settled
upon his earnings, all his friends said
they hoped Jonathan Weeks would mar
ry some nice woman and enjoy the COM
forts of a happy home. He himself
seemed to think It would be a nice thing
to do, and he made an effort in that di-
rection. But they said that the reason
why he did not win the heart and hand
of widow Burritt was this: 1t seems
that Mr.. Weeks used to go round there
courting in the evenings, while the
Widow sat patching the trousers of her
son, and waiting fer manifestations of
Weeks love. Old Weeks would sit over
on the settee, getting sleepier and quiet
er every minute. And every now and
then he would nod in the land of dreams,
and get to wandering off and imagining
himself away on a whaling voyage, wake
up all bewildered, and would seize his
cane and jab it into the widow before he
could collect his senses sufficiently to re-
alize that it was not harpoon and she q
whale. They do say that Mrs. Burritt
indulged these eccentricities for time
with the firm conviction that she would
reconstruct that whaler when she mar
ried him. But this was never to be
for one evening Mr.. Weeks sat doing on
that settee with kind of dim dreamy
consciousness of things, in which the
room and settee were confused and mix
ed with the raging main and the whaling
boat. The widow had cold in hel
head, and she wasj just in the act of max
ing vigorous use of her handkerchief
when the dream of Weeks reached cri-
sis, and he yelled out, "There she
blows - And he heaved his harpoor
at her with such force that he broke hel
comb into vulgar fractions and knocked
her off her chair. Loves young dream
was entirely dissipated, and Mr.. Weeks
went home with two handsful of hail
missing. He ia single yet, because, h'
says, women have no sympathy and for
bearance.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

SHARP Boy. "A correspondent OF the
Boston Trdueler records the following
GA bright little boy about four years OF
age, son OF a clergyman, was at your cor
respondents house one evening with his
parent, and / gave him couple of five
cent pieces. He laid them on the table,
and putting his finger on one said +:
This one | am going to give to the
heather, and the other one am going
to keep myself. He played with them
awhile, till one of them finally rolled
away and he could not find it. Well,
said 1, my lad, which one have you
lost p oh said he, 1 have lost the
one 1 was going to give to the heathen. ;"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

A fashion writer calls attention to the
peculiar manner some young ladies have
Just now of carrying the hands. The
arms are held as close to the body as
possible, bending them until the back
and forepart nearly touch the wrists
remain elevated, and the hands assume
a listless, dropping position which we
can only liken to the kangaroo.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

ARRESTED. The Paris papers give
this sketch of the ringleader of the in
surrection last arrested : "The fiend,
the satalite of Raoul Rigault, the man
who ordered the massacre of the hos
tages, who presided at the assassination
of the Archbishop of Paris, President
Bonjean, and other ever to be regretted
victims of the insurrection, Theophile
Ferre is in the hands of justice. He
was once before arrested and imprisoned
in La Roquette Jail but he contrived
to make his escape disguised as wo-
man, and every search made to discover
what had become of him remained fruit
less. Recently mysterious denuncia-
ton informed the police that Ferre had
assumed the name of Barre, and was,
with his brother, concealed on the top
most story of the house No. 6 Rue Mon
torgneil. He had taken precauti MS to
foil all investigations, but they miscar-
ried
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

New CoNoRETEs. Some workmen en-
gagged in laying concrete walks in Bridge.
port, Conn, last week, seized barrel of
-four, which drayman delivered at the
door of house near them, and, ,supposing
it was plaster paris, broke in the head
and sifted the entire contents of the bar
rel on either side of the street, nearly
the whole length of the block.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

In unravelling the Savannah Custom
House it appeared from the vouchers
that one employee performed 730 hours
labor in the month of September last.
He must have had q STEADY sit.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

SpEoULATIoN.--A new style of stock
speculation has come into vogue in
England. Men take out policies OF life
insurance and then put them up OF
public auction. A man in Liverpool
lately realized $15, 600 upon the policy OF
a tradesman which he had bought fol
$3.50. The tradesman was SO obliging as
to die two days after thepolicy came into
the possession Of the speculator,
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-16

BOILER EXPLOSIONS The record of
steamboat boiler explosions, kept in the
Office of the Board Of Supervising Inspec-
tors in the Treasury Department, shows
that there were more lives lost by the
Westfeld disaster than by all the steam
boat explosions which occurred in either
of the two past years. In 1869, there
were 81 lives lost by explosions, on
steamers of all characters, including
river, lake, and ocean craft, and in 1870,
the number was but 81, of which 33 were
passengers and 21 crew