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The Story of Engines Lace Dress.

A leading lace manufacturer of Paris
is to exhibit dress at the Vienna ex-
position which has an interesting his
tory. About five years before the fall
of Paris, the Empress Euginie discov-
cred one day among a lot of old laces,
which had been transferred to her as a
souvenirs of the Empress Josephine,
about quarter of yard of lace-founce
of a most singular and beautiful mesh
and peculiar design. The ex-empress
is a connoisseur in laces as well as in
many other fine arts. She saw at a
glance that she possessed an art treas
ure, the more valuable as it was yellow
with age, broken and mutilated. She
sent at once for E DeLisle, the presi
dent of the Compagnie des Indies, lace
manufacturers at Paris, and requested
him to reproduce it, if possible. ''Your
royal highness gives me difficult COM
mission" said NJ. DeLisle, Zone, 1 fear,
impossible to perform. Your raiment
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there are but few samples in existence,
and the art of making it is lost" Can
we not revive it ?" asked the empress.
"I give you carte blanche in making
the experiment., and another carte
blanche for my dress when finished. y
The manufacturers resolved to see What
could be done. He first submitted the
sample of Queen Hortense's relic to his
own adult experienced lace-makers.
None knew the mesh. It's intricacy baf-
fed them all. No instruments, how
ever fine, under eyes the most practiced,
could tell how it could be reproduced.
He had tried adult ingenuity and the
experience of age and he must resort
to youth. He selected from his young
girls twenty of the most intelligent
workers, those with the strongest eyes
and deftest fingers, and after year had
passed by, the long-sought-for discov-
cry was made. Now the work was be-
gun in earnest. It was four years be-
fore it approached completion. Before
the dress wss finished Paris was in ashes
and Euginie an exile. But the lace
weavers escaped the general destruc-
tion and EugirG9's dress was spared.
She wrote to NJ DeLisle from England,
saying that though no longer an en-
press nor enjoying the income of roy
atty, she would take the dress when
finished, if he should be loser by
keeping it. The manufacturer. not to
be outdone in generosity, laid the case
as stated in the empress's letter before
the directors of the company. They
were touched with the misfortunes of
the beautiful woman, and unanimously
decided to release her from her engage
nent.
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rhs Carssr or a ors.t Rsmedx.

Twenty summers have elapsed since II was
briefly announced that new vegetable tonic and
Alternative, bearing the name of Hostetters sLom-
ach Bitters, had been added to the list preven-
tive and restorative medicines. The modest ad-
vertisement which invited attention TO the pre-
paration stated that il had been used with great
success. in private practice, for dyspepsia
bilious complaints constipation and intermittent
fever. 1t was soon discovered that the article pos
sessed extraordinary properties. The people. of
every class. tested its Merits tonic, stmulant,
corrective and restorative, and found that its
effects more than fulfilled their hopes and expecta-
tions. From that time to the present its course
has been upward and onward, and it stands to-day
at the head of all medicines of its class, American
or imported in the magnitude of its sales and its
reputaton.as safe, agreeable and potent lnvlgor-
ant and restorative For languor and debility
lack appetite and gastric disturbances so COM
during the summer months. II IS absolutely
in fallible Indigestion. bilious disorders constpa-
ton, nervousness, periodical fevers, and all the
ordinary complaints generated Dy q Nipateo ana
humio atmosphere. vanish under its renovating
and regulating influence. This IS its record,
avouched by volumes OF Intelligent testimony, ex,
tending over period OF a NTH Of a century, ana
comprehending the names of thousands of we'll
known citizens belonging TO every class and call
ing. In Europe il is thought great thing to OBJ
cine" but Hostetter's Bitters has been spOntane-
ously approved by millions of independents soVer-
elgns' ana It's patent consists ID ther
sHALLESBEReER's Pills are the one remedy that
never fails cure fever and ague- The most stub
born case is cured immediately rms Is a STUBBORN
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Valuable.

Fire insurance is regarded everywhere
as among the necessaries of life. A
property-holder is reckless without 1t.
Life insurance is now classed with fire
insurance in this particular. The Ma
tional Life Insurance Company OF the
United States of America, with branch
office at Philadelphia, with which cor
respondence should be had, with the
largest cash capital of any life insur-
ance company in the world, offers in
surance in all sections of the country at
three-fourths the customary rates, and
desires an agent in every locality. 1t
combines absolute strength with I'M
usual cheapness, is managed by some OF
the best men of the country, and Is well
worthy the patronage of all persons
seeking insurance, and the attention OF
all persons seeking employment.
The Hickman courier., 1873-07-05

Two noted literary men died in New
York city, last year. and it was supposed
they both died poor. Each received
salary amounting to more than 50, 600
year, for many years before he died. In
one instance it was necessary to take up
a collection among the friends of the
deceased to obtain the necessary funds
for burial expenses. In the other case,
while the dead man was in the house, a
friend searching through his private
papers found life insurance policy for
S.. 900. The last premium had been
paid by friend while the man was IN
good health Do not neglect to insure
your life. Do it now, and we recon-
mend the old New York Life Insurance
Company as one of the very best COM
panies to insure in. Send to the home
office. 34S Broadway, New York, for all
laar10rE3.
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The prince of Satsuma, who is ter
rible hater of foreigners, recently visited
Yeddo, where he had not been for many
years, creating great sensation, which
gave rise to reports that he intended to
inaugurate revolution. To show his
antipathy to progress, he made his Off
GERS remove all chairs, tables, Sofas, ETC.,
from the steamer that brought him, and
lay mats instead. On arriving at Yoko-
hama he refused to ride to Yeddo in the
cars, but had himself carried in the old
way, by the coolies, in bamboo chair.
His men were all well dressed in the old
way, with their hea-y tin swords, old
banners, lances, ETC., and thus they
swarmed into the city, frowning defiance
at everything foreign.
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A SONG FOR PEACE.
sr soAeuux MILLER.

AS tale that is told, as vision,
Forgive aud forget for say
That the true shall endure the derision
OF the false till the full Of the day;
Az, forgive as you would be forgiven;
Az. forget, lest the i'll you have done
Be remembered against you In heaven
And all the days under the sum-
For who shall have bred without labor?
Aud who shall have rest without prtce7
And who shall hold war with his neighbor
With promise Of peace with the Christ.
The years may lay hand on fair heaven;
Nav place and displace the red stars;
Nay stain them, as blood-stainE are driven
At sunset in beautiful bars;
May shroud them in black till they fret US
As clouds with their showers Of tears;
May grind us TO dust and forget US,
May the years, Q the pitiless years.
The precepts Of Christ are beyond them;
The truths by the Nazarene taught,
With the tramp of the ages upon them,
They endure as though ages were naught;
The deserts may drink up the fountains,
The forests give place to the plain,
The main may give place to the mountains, =
The mountain return to the main;
Mutations of worlds and mutations
OF suns may take place; but the reign
OF time aud the tolls and vexations
Bequeath them, no. never stain.
Go forth to the fields as one sowing,
Sing songs and be glad as you 90,
There are seeds that take root without sowing,
And bear some fruit whether or no.
And the san shall shine, sooner or later,
Though the midnight breaks ground on tn
Then appeal you to Christ, the Creator,
And to gray-bearded time His frEt-born.
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TrMpEnANoE MEpIcINEs.-l

TEMPERANCE AEDICINEo. you
would patronize true temperance medicines,
scientifically prepared by a skilled physician
wherein not drop of rum, whisky, beer or
any other alcoholic or fermented liquor enters
use Dr. Pierces Family Medicines. They
do not manufacture drundards as do the varl-
ons - CordiaIs .sTonics - sElixirs" and
ssBitters" of the day. Golden Medical Dis
covery is nutritious, tonic, alternative, or blood
cleansing. and an unequaled cough remedy
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, scarcely larger
than mustard seeds, constitute an agreeable
and reliable physic Favorite Prescriptions
remedy for debilitated females, while his DR.:
Sage's Catarrh Remedy is known the world
over as the greatest specific for Catarrh and
Gold in the Head" ever given to the public.
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latitude, and south OF IL, Dlack hOg IS
can stand the heat better. If L wanted
a pig to eat, drink and sleep, I should
choose the Suffolk, " but the model
hog Is the q Berkshire -
Why CLOVER IMPROVES THE SOIL
Professor Voelcker thus explains the
action of clover in increasing the fer
tility of soils: All who are practically
acquainted with the subject must have
seen that the best crops of wheat are
produced by being preceded by crops
of clover growing Sfor seed. I have
come to the conclusion that the very
best preparation, the best manure, is a
good crop of clover. A vast amount of
mineral manure is brought within reach
of the corn crop, which otherwise
would remain in locked-up condition
in the soil. The clover plants take nj
tro zen from the atmosphere, and manu-
faeture it in their own substance, which,
on decomposition of the clover roots
and leaves, produces abundance of am
monia. In reality, the growing of clo-
yer is equivalent, to great extents, to
manuring with Peruvian guano. and in
this paper of mine show that you OBJ
tain larger quantity of manure than
in the largest dose Of Peruvian guano
which farmer would ever think of APP
applying. 1t is only by carefully in
vestigating subjects like the one under
consideration that positive proofs are
given, showing the correctness of intel
igent observers in the field.
OATMEAL, BONE AND MUSCLE -Liebig
has shown that oatmeal is almost as nu-
tritious as the very best English beef,
and that it is richer than wheaton bread
in the elements that go to form bone
and muscle. Professor Forbes of Edin-
burg, during some twenty years, meas
ured the breadtkHRnd heigth, and also
tested the sire of both the arms
and loins of thees 1hts in the univer-
sity, very numerous class, and of va
rious nationalities, drawn to Edinburg
by the fame of his teaching. He found
that In height, breadth of chest and
shoulders, and strength of arms and
Ioins, the Belgians were at the bottom
of the list /; a little above them the
French, and highest of all the Scotch
and Scotch-Iris eom Ulster, who,
like the natives Scotland, are fed in
early years with at least one meal day
of good milk and good oatmeal por-
ridge. Speaking of oatmeal, an ex-
change remarks that very good drink
is made by putting about two spoon
fuls of the meal into tumbler of wa
ter. The western hunters and trappers
consider it the best of drinks, sas it is at
once nourishing, stimulating and salts
flying. 1t is popular in the Brooklyn
navy-yard, two and a half pounds of
oatmeal being put into pail of moder-
ately cool water. 1t is much better
than any of the ordinary mixtures of
vinegar and molasses with water, which
farmers use In the haying or harvest
field.
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Christopher Columbus.

Columbus is the man who discovered
America two points off the port bow.
One day in his garden, he observed an
apple falling from its tree, whereupon
a conviction flashed through his mind
that the earth was round. By breaking
the bottom OF an egg and making it
stand on end at the dinner table, he de-
monstrated that he could sail due west
and in course of time arrive at another
Hemisphere. He started line of emil
grant packets from Palos, Spain, and
landed at Philadelphia, where he walked
up Market street. with a loaf of bread
under each arm. The supplemented
natives took him to see their new park.
On his second voyage, Columbus was
barbarously murdered at the Sandwich
islands, or rather he would have been
but for the Intervention of Pocahontas,
a lovely maiden romantically fond Of
distressed travellers. After this little
incident he went west, where his intre-
pidity and financial talent displayed it.
self inthe success with which heacquired
land and tobacco without paying for
them. AS the savages had no rail-
road of which they could make him
president, they ostracised him, sent
him to the island of st. Helena. But
the spirit of discoverery refused to be
quenched, and the next year we find
him landing at Plymouth Rock in a
binding snow storm. It was here
that he shot an apple from his sons
head.
To this universal genius are we in
debted also for the exploration of the
the Nile and an uninteligible but cor
respondingly valuable report of a visit
to the valley of the Yellowstone. He
took no side in one late unhappy war !;
but during the revolution he penetra-
ted, with a handful of the Garde Mo
lsiIe, sa>t-- Al>@ ---~~-->A:-- E-t--~--- AZ
nesota, where he won that splendid Sc
ries of victories, which, beginning with
Guilford Court house, terminated in the
glorious storning of Chapultepec
Ferdinand and Isabella rewarded him
with chains. Genoa, his native city.
gave him a statue, and Boston has
named in his honor one of her proudest
avenues.
One day he rushed naked from the
bath, exclaiming, Eureka p and the
presumption is that he was right. He
afterwards explained himself by saying
that he cared not who made the laws of
the laws of a people, so long as he
furnished their ballots. Columbus was
cruelty put todeath by order of Richard
III of England, and as he walked to
the scaffold he exclaimed to the throng
that stood around him, ''The world
moves" Drums struck up to drown
his words. Smiling at this little by
play, he adjusted his crimson mantle
about him, and laid his head upon the
block. He then drank off the cup of
hemlock with philosophic composure.
The great mans life, which, by the way,
was not insured, teaches the beautiful
moral lesson that an excess of virtue
is apt to be followed by a redundancy
of happiness, and that he who would
secure the felicity of to-day must dis
dain alike the evanescent shadows of
yesterday and the intangible adumbra-
tions of tomorrow.
DURING the first week of the opening
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SOMEBODY who had a grudge against
the late Yiscount Fitzgibbon, whoever
he may have been, of Limerick, Ire
land, lately placed barrel of gunpow-
der under the statue erected to his
memory and touched it off. The statue
was visibly moved by the performance,
but it fell in soft place and, beyond
getting a very dirty face, was not much
injured.
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A NEW YoRK man who believes IN ad-
vertising paid bill of S7s, 600 the other
day, for years work, but it was money
well spent, for the earnings resulting
from that advertisement, which were
divided among four persons, footed up
$3.50, 900.
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CHAPPED HANDS face, rougn skin, pimplea,
nngworm, saltzrheum, and other cutaneous
affections cured, and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the JUNTPER TAR SOAP, made
5y CAswELI, HAZARD d Co., New York Be
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
MS as there are many limitations made with
po-n4nop tar which are worthless-C Com.
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WE see that PRooTER & CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sale.
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sCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS.

These Pills composed exclusively of vegeta-
BILE ingredients. and although they entirely super
sede the OF mercury, do not leave any oI lts
Injurious effects. They directly upon the liver
and are a valuable remedy in all cases OF derange-
unent resulting from dfs0rdered state OF tnat or
gan Liver Complaint, bilious disorders, lndiges'
lion sick headache typhoid and other fevers. ETC.
all srccumb the free use OF scHEScK's NAN
p-:sKE Pills.
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OFFERS EXTRAORDINARY.

ITO any person sending me the address OF 70 20 or
L more men who KANT to make from 5000 10
4 eo1 per year sure f.ermers' names preferred)
win send a Census book of 100 and an engraving
entitled The Old and the New" I0x24 IL inches
Address j. c. TILToN, Pittsburgh. Pa
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IT IS reported that within two weeks
$3.50, 600 worth of real estate in Augusta
county, Va, has been sold at 20 per
cent. advance onPrices six months ago.
The purchasers are mostly English.
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DR.. A. TRASK'S
MAGNETIC OINTMENT
FOR THE CURE OF
INFLAMMAToRY DISEASES.

DIR. TrasIx was engaged for twenty years in
. course Of experiments upon the heulCat Plops
critics and power of vegetables, separate and
Combined At the age of seventy years he sue
ceeded in presenting to the world, as Lhe resuLs
of his experiments, comoihanGon G oI 49,; nS5el1gso 5;s
eases is unequaled in the annals OF MeulSine.
His discovery consists IN ce.aolIa, ,ll.s,
ton OF these powerful Negetabe EAtfacls MY. Win
FIecfricity or Magnetism in the form Of an ONT
Certain, 1t is, that the remarkable 9Tls ana nd
unnrecedeuted success which has attended It's
annIicatiOn in the cure of diseases stamps II at
once as the greatest discovery OF the age, anu it
calls for a trial and close 1nvestigation oi rS
ne never fails, while there remains SUI
acient life 10 restore natural ana heaIlhy az
ton to the capillary vessels OF the po1ss .ti aiiu
enualize the circulation of the blood by TINS
means a controlling power is gained over me :
most malignant forms OF disease, which 0Siiiio'
be Obtained from any other remeay,
"s. t Fl tae eb9essrsfes 9ssTsfFe o to every portion OF
tne human frame; every bone and muscle, VEN,
nerve and ligament is searched out ana Inane
sensible of it's purifying ana neailng lnnuehee. @
HoSss it cOpes as readily with internal as ex-
NnsaerOus instances are on record
where tbis remedy has restored health 70 pa
fients so near the grave that the most powerful
internal remedies tailed TO produce any eject
Snch has frequently been the case IN lnnannla-
No patient ever need die with this
disease where the Magnetic Ointment can De oO-
For Infiammatorys rheumatism
this Ointment is the most complete remedy ever
prepared. For Diphtheria or Putrid Sore Throat
Il is unrivaled.
I'm nfnety-nIne cases out of
hundred ii will afford entire relief to the worst
cases of Nervous Headache in thirty minutes.
For Nervous Diseases this medicine is
of immense value.
Affections of tho Spine. Rheumatism,
Lameness liberated Sore Throat, Bronchltis,
Pleurisv. Group. Collie, Cholera Morbus, Ague in
the Face or Breast, Burns, Scald Head, scrotula,
Salt Rheum, Eryspelas, lniiamed Eyes, Z eve. ever
Sores Sores ETC. will be Immediately relieved
bythe use of Dr. Trask's Magnetic Ointment
D. RANSOM, Son s. Co., Proprs Buffalo, N 4
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UTHEN wnung TO advertisers please mention
w the name OF this paper. No. "a, ). n. u
De. ]. YaIker's California Yin

eGar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted thereirom without the use
Of Alcohol The question is almost
daily asked. What is the cause of the
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR BIT-
TERS2" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
q perfect Renovator and Invigorator
Of the system. Never before in the
history Of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BITrERs in healing the
sick Of every disease man i heir to. They
are O gentle Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Yisceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKER's
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretlc,
Carminative, Nu&i ous, Laxative, Diuretie,
Sedative Counter Iritant, Sudoritc, Al:era
tive, and Anti-Blious
r. II. MCDONALD x CO..
Druggists and Gen Aets. San Francisco, California,
und cor Of Washington and Charlton Sts-. " Y.
sold by ait Druggists and Dealers
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An Irishman called at a drug store to
get a bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment
for TIE rheumatism; the druggist asked him
in what part of the body it troubled him most,
Be me soul" said be, . | have 1t IN livery
houl and corner er me-
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THOUSANDS attest its virtue, and from
all Quarters of the globe come testimonials OF
wonderful cures performed by Simmons Liver
Regulator.
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For loss of cud, horn all, red water
IN cows loss of appetite, rot, or murrain in
sheen thick wind, broken wind, and roaring.
and for all distinctions of the kidneys In
horses use Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Pow
ders.
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but there is far greater amount of So
cial liberty, and the people, in conse-
quence, are more free and more self-re-
specting. Take, as a general example,
the manner in which nearly all classes
in France meet, if they do not mix, in
their ordinary life, in their recreations
especially Along the boulevards you
will see curriers' taking their books of
beer next to some Of the most preten-
tious dandies in Paris, men of rank per-
haps, of positiog certainly, and nobody
is so exclusive A TO be annoyed by their
presence. InsFe the restaurant and
cafe there is the same mingling and
there also you may see, not, perhaps,
ladies in the socety sense of the term,
| but sufficiently pspectable members of
the sex, to the most exclusive
ladies must be4ong, VINO are not al all
discomposed by the presence of their
humber neighbors, who play their
cards and dominoes in a saloon full of
mirrors and gliding, and consume their
cheap refreshmalts with full sense of
/ having as much right to be there as
ANYBODY else Consider what would
/ happen in London, in, say, st. Janes's
/ Hall. if a couple of British workmen
took possession of table next to a par
ty of ladies aud gentlemen eating Nea-
politan ices, called for two half-pints of
beer, and proceeded to discuss that bev-
erage in the interval of discussion of an
oral kind Supposing that the waiter
served them, which he certainly would
not, the ladies and gentlemen would
feel highly scanlalized and annoyed,
and would leave the house as soon as
possible. And not only would their
sense of the outkard proprieties be in
vaded, but thd would be influenced
somewhat by Adread of the conse-
quences. For aeouple of Englishmen
of the class in question would, 1 am
sorry to say, notbe quite safe company
for ladies, even another table. All
working men do not get drunk, but
some of them 20; and it would be
quite on the cars that there would be
more beer ordeId, and more after that,
and that the ton of the conversation
would not be s1able for ears polite.
The British workman is fine, manly,
honest fellows nj he has broad way
of expressing Apself, particularly af-
ter a little 80 he is very apt to
use words. perfectly harmless
,,,so &c a sgivo o,aroo+er r,
TINS respect MS representative
among French& kmen, the least civ
jlized of .np- 95bnot venture into
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