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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-08
'Tt Works like Charm"
RENNE'S KIhkTSeM RAJN MAGIC OIL

This ls q remedy every family should have IN the
house to use in case Of emergency: II is purely
nally. 1t Is not an oily sticky substance but clean
delicious and safe to use, even in inexperienced
hands. AS an external remedy, when freely used,
1t penetrates through the absorbents to the seat of
pain, causing free circulation, and giving to weak
ened and over-strained cords and muscles new life
and elasticity 1t sheaths inhamed and bruised sur
faces, and cures pain as water quenches fire. Try
it for
WOUNDS, sPRANs, NEURALGIA
SORES, CRICK IN THE BACK, RHEUMATISM.
BURNS, HEADACHE, STIFF JOINTS
or any other kind OF pain or lameness. AS an in
ternal remedy it operates kind difusive seda-
tive; 1t tones and corrects the stomach, aids diges'
ion and readily cures
CoLIC, CRAMPS, CoUGHs.
CHOLERA MoRBUs, INDIGESTION, SORE THROAT
and in fact all aches and pains that flesh is heir to-
The immediate and faithful of Renne's Pam
Killing Magic Oil IN case of emergency, will often
| save life, or q long and tedious sickness. The
genuine Renne's Magic Oil is put up only in panel
bottles with the name blown in the glass, and up
on the bottle q finely engraved steel plate label
upon which is the likeness of VIM. Renne. All
other Magic Oils are counterfeit or worthless imi
tStions Call for Renne's Magic Oil. where yor
usually trade II is put ND in three sizes: Trial
| Medium" and Large" size WILLIAM RENNE
& SONS, Sole Pr0prietors and Manufacturers
| Pttsfeld, Mass 1013d&w1y
| DR., SCHENCK's PULMONIC SYRUP, SEA WEEI
| Tonic AND MANDRAKE PILs.-These medicine
/
sumption than any other remedy known TO th
American public. They are compounded Uf vegct
able ingredients, and contains nothing which cal
be injurious to the human constitution. Othe
| remedies advertised as cures for consumption
drobably contains opium, which is a sOmewha
dangerous drug in all cases, and if taken freely b
consumptive patients, it must bo great injury; 70
its tendency is to confne the morbid matter in tn
system which, of course, must make a cure imposs
ible. Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is warranted nc
to contain darticale of opium: 1t is composed c
powerful but harmless herbs, which act on tn
lungs, liver, stomach and blood, and thus correC
all morbid secretions md expcl all the disease
matter from the body. Thease are the only mean
by which Consumption can be cured, and a
Scherck's Pulmornic Syrup, Sea Waed Tonic, an
Mandrake Pills are the only medicines which OF
crate in this way, it is obvious they are the onl
genuine cure for Pulmonary Consumption. Fac
bottle of this invaluable medicine is accompanie
by full directions. DR.. Schenck is PROFESSIONAL
at his Principal Office, corner Sixth and Aro
Streets, Philadelphia, evry Monday, where a
letters for advice must be addressed,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-08
The Neat Housekeepers'

CTOVE DRESSING. NO DUST! NO SMELL
y ALWAYS soft and ready for use without a dish
1t will do more work with less labor and expense
and give more elegant and lasting lustre than any
STOVE POLISH ever produced. A stove can be dress
ed on delicate carpet without soing it, Manu-
factured only by B. +. BROWN & co, Boston,
Mass
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-08
Kidney & Bladder Complaints

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, stoppAge Of water, incontinence of urine,
BrighCs disease, albuminuria, and in all cases
where there brickdust deposits, or the water is
thick cloudy, mixed with substances like the white
OF an egg, threads like white silk, there is a
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white bone
dust deposits, and when there is pricking, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and pain in the
small Of the back and along the loins.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-08

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
How to Avoid Taking Cold.

The SdnitariGR says: A cold is simply a de-
Veloper of a diseased condition, which may have
been latent, or requiring only some favoring con-
dition to burst out into the fame of disease.
That this is usually the correct view of a cold as
a disease producing agent, under all ordinary cir
cumstances, may be made plain by reflection upon
personal experience, even to the most ordinary
understanding. When the human body is at its
prime, with youth, vigOr, purity, and a good con-
~stitution on its side, no degree of ordinary expo
sure to cold gives rise to any unpleasant effects.
Ali the ordinary precautions against colds, coughs,
and rheumatic pains may be disregarded, and no
i'll effects ensue. But let the blood become i'm
pure, let the body become deranged from any ac-
quired disorder, or let the vigor begin to wane,
and the infrmities of age be felt by occasional de-
tied or actual abuses, and the action of cold will
excite more or less disorder, or the disease that
will ensua Will be determined by the kind of pre-
existing blood impurity, or the pre-existing fault
of these organic processes. 1t follows from these
facts and considerations that the secret of avoid
ing the unpleasant consequences thought to spring
wholly from the action of cold upon the body has
very little dependence upon exposure, but a great
deal upon the impure and weak condition Of all
the vital processes. In other words, with an
average or superior constitution and intelligent
observance of all the laws of health, men and
women could not take cold if they wanted to;
they might be exposed to the action of cold to a
degree equal to the beasts of the fields, and with
like immunity. But in case of persons with fee
BILE constitutions, and who disregard knowingly
or other wise the conditions of healthy existence,
no degree of care will prevent the taking of cold,
Us it is termed. They may live in houses regula-
ted with all the precision of a dollhouse, they
may cover themselves with the most highly pro-
tective clothing the market provides, and yet they
will take cold. | don't think the consumptIv
person lives, or ever will live, even if kept in a
temperature absolutely uniform, and clothed in a
wholly f~aultless manner, in whom the well known
signs of one cold after another will not be appar-
ent. But on the other hand, there are those who,
like the late Sir Henry Holland, of good constitu-
tions, and living in accordance with the laws of
health, may travel, as he did, from the tropics to
the arctic again and again, clad only in an ordi-
nary dress-coat, and yet scarcely know what it is
to have a cold or sickness of any kind. The truth
is, to avoid taking cold from ordinary or even ex-
traordinary exposure, the vital processes must be
made strong enough to rise above the untoward
influence of external conditions.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
A seance With Home the spiritualist.

We had been invited for a { cup of tea " about
nine O'Clock. Long before we had finished sip
ping the delicious concoction we heard knockings
in various parts of the room, which increased in
number, and constantly changed position. 1t
was very curious to the writer that the knocks
varied so in sound. Over in the wall one heard
n heavy, decisive rap, as if it were the hand of a
powerful man on ones own chair perhaps it was
a gentle, quiet rap, and on the table one heard
with perfect distinctness wee, little knockings, as
If with the nails of the tiniest chlld's hand,
There was a wooden cover on the table, on
which stood two candles everything else had
been removed, with the exception of some paper
and a pencil, for the emergency of the alphabet
being called for.
We all laid our hands on the table, though Mr..
Homo said this was done not in order to concen-
trate power for the manifestation, but it simply
had become usage, because it demonstrated that
the sounds and motions were not produced by the
hands of those assisting. The first manifesto
tons were in the table, as they seem always to be.
It tipped this way and that, as If under magnetic
influence, the strangest thing being that when it
was balanced on one foot, at an angle of forty
FIVE degrees, the candles stood their ground at
that inclination as firmly as if they rested on
terra frma.
The first time the table undertook this tour de
force, the writer involuntarily put out her hand
to catch the candles, but Mr.. Home laughed, and
said we should not be nervous nothing ever
moved and sure enough the paper and pencil
lay as quietly on the cloth as If nothing ever TELL
when it had the opportunity. Mr.. Home begged
those who wished 1t to take a candle, and, piac-
ing ourselves on the floor, examine carefully the
table, to be morally certain that its movements
were not the results of any collision. This we
did to our own satisfaction, receiving at the same
time a manifestation which created great merri-
.ment-perhaps as much called forth by our aston
ished faces as by the sounds themselves. Mr..
Home told us to call for any number of raps we
wished, and every time they were given with
droll promptness and emphasis in the wood itself.
The GALAXY for January.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
What Linuors are Made of.

Bourbon, or rye whisky, Is manufactured
from high wines, commonly called fusIl oil
whisky. made to-day and drank three days alter.
Il also contains vinegar, syrup, oil OF Boston,
French ~col0ring, bluestone, and other POISONOUS
chemicals. IL costs so cents to 81 4 gallon, ana
retails for $. 00R6.00 a gallon.
COgLac brandy Is made from French or Cologne
spirits, burnt sugar, oil of cognac, vinegar,
blnestone, Jamaica rum, honey, syrup, portwlne,
French eOloring. alum and alOes. 1t costs g q
gallon, and retails from So to $40 a gallon.
Irish or Scotch whisky is made from Canada
high wines, or new distilled whisky, one week
old, saIrpetre, salt, essence OF old Scotch or Irish
whisky ,fusil oil, syrup, bluestone, St Croix run,
some imported Irish or Scotch whisky for favor.
It costs $50 and retsils for SO per gallon.
What sells for the best old Holland gin is
made from French spirits, water, oil OF Juniper,
syrup, white wine vinegar, bluestone, New Eng
land rum, peach pits, with some imported gin for
favor.
Old Tom gin is made from the same Ingredients,
but double syrup is added to make it sweeter. 1t
costs 81 .25 a gallon and retais at $500. 1t is
also bottled as a medicine, and sold for the kidney
disease.
Jamaica and St. Croix rum is made of double
refined high wines, French coloring, oil Of run,
fusil oil, vinegar, limestone, burnt sugar, mo-
lasses syrup, with some imported Jamaica. Cuba
or St. Croix rum for favor, alum, aloes and prune
juice.
Stock ale or porter is diluted with oil of %vitriol,
strychuine and aequa FORTS to make it keep. New
ale is diluted with oil of vitriol and damaged no.
lasses. Lager beer contains a little malt, plenty
of water, some inferior hops, rosin, tar saleratus,
soda, and four different chemica TO make it keep
after brewing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
Poetic Justice.

There was poetic justice in the retribution
poured out upon the amorous Charles Perrin, q
Young carpenter at Detroit, Michigan, n few
days ago. Charles had fiery red hair and a face
as freckled as q bran sieve; yet these need not
have heen against him, but that his subsequent
conduct disclosed him devoid Of those axliable
traits looked for in a lover. In short, Charles
proved himself to be by nature a vicious scamp.
He became enamored of Il very worthy young
lady, but she did not reeiprocate his attachment.
Perhaps she comprehended all of Charles bad
traits and regarded him as the miserable scalawag
he was, unworthy to have any g;rl. She told
him plainly that she could never think of marry
ing him, yet treated him courteously. This en-
ragged Charles, and he painted for revenge. He
called upon the lady one evening as usual, but
the bottle he carried in the rear pocket Of his
pantaloons did not contain what gentlemen usual
Iy carry in a pocket flask. lie besought the
young lady to take n walk with him, but she re-
fused 10 go. He then impOrtuned to see her
alone this she also declined. The crisis at last
had come. He would spoil her beauty forever,
and had just got ready to draw the bottle from
his pocket when 1--WE follow the the faithful
chronioler OF the Free Press something bit
him. lie thought it was a dog, but it wasn't.
The cork had worked out Of the bottle, and his
c~oat-tails were turning brick color at the rate of
an inch a minute. The acid wasn't content with
the cOat-tails, but struck out for flesh, and IN
about a minute the young man was dancing
around the house as if to escape a bullet.
Shouting and whoOping, he got out OF the house
and threw off most Of his clothing and rolled
in the mud, and il was sometime before any one
could find out whether he had snakes in his boots
or had sat down on a brad-awl. He was so bad
Iy burned that two men had to help him to his
clearinghouse, where n physician dressed his
burns" The fellow will probably take his food
Standing for some time to come.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30

The Maori population, it is evident, is gradually
getting smaller and smaller. From the census
which we publish in another column, it will be
seen that the estimated number barely exceeds
46, 900 natives. OF this total, 43 ,4O8 are in the
North Island. Considering that the Taranaki
Province has hitherto been the principal seat of
hOstilities with the natives, it is satisfactory to
find that the number in the Province is not now
so formidable, being only 2.76l; of these, l,250
ara males, $50 females, and 622 children. The
decrease in the race Is more clearly shown by the
small proportion of women and children to the
number Of men. According to the return, the
native women of the place do not average any
thing near a child apiece; in fact, only about
three-fourths have children at all whilst there is
one-fourth more of male adults than females.
According to European statistics, the females
usually number three to one male but with the
natives We find it the reverse. In a few years,
therefore, at this rate, the Mnoris will have passed
away, and will be remembered only as a brave
and manly race.-Nec Zealand p per.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30

Mas. MARGARET SANosTER, writing to the Int
riOr, gives a number of pleasant games that may
help to pass the winter evenings agreeably. We
give one for the benefit of the young people, re-
serving the others for another time:
Last summer, during a visit to some dear friends
of mine, l learned how to play word-charades.
Suppose everybody seated in the parlor, the
ladies with their fancy work or knitting, perhaps
the mother with mending basket, and a pleasant
hum of talk going on. Somebody proposes the
play just mentioned. One person is requested to
leave the room. During his absence a word is
selected, for instance, book-rack, or boot-jack, or
schoolgirl, a word connected by hyphen, and
containing two separate simple words. The sig
nal is given for the persons return, and he begins
by asking the individual nearest him to describe
the word, which is done in this way. Book rack
is the present word, you understand. Number
one will answer in this way 'My first is leafy;
my second is an instrument of torture; my whole
is indispensable to the study" Number two
might say, My first is my special delight; my
second holds hats and coats, my whole is in need
of varnish.'' The descriptions are always az
various as the people who give them, and easy as
it seems on paper, to guess them is very puzzling
indeed and sometimes occasions a great deal of
merriment, the guesses being singularly wide of
the mark. A word like metaphysician, ," or
the like, in which you can divide the word into
parts successfully, is admirable.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
An Interesting Presentation.

Paris, Dec. Gin conformity with the resolu-
ton adopted by the American Congress on the
22d of June last, Mr.. Washburne, United States
Minister, to-day handed to NJ. Oscar De Lafayette,
Deputy in the National Assembly from the Seine
et-Marne, and grandson of Marquis De Lafayette,
the watch Washington presented TO the latter as
a souvenir of the capitulatlon Of Lord CORVALLIS
The watch was stolen from Marquis De Lafayette
while he was travelling in the United States in the
year 1855, but was recently recovered.
PRESENTATION CEREMONIES.
The presentation ceremonies took place at the
hotel of the American embassy in the presence of
the entire Lafayette and other families, attaches
of the United States legation and many distin-
guished Americans. Mr.. Washburne, in address
ing NJ. De Lafayette, narrated the circumstances
of the theft of the watch and the passage by
Congress of the resolution for its restoration to
the descendants of Marquis De Lafayette, and
said 1 am fulfilling a pleasant duty. The
inscription on the watch recalls to mind a great
deed which can never be effaced from the history
of the United States-the deed which terminated
the American revolution and assured the indie
pendence of the United States. l am here as the
Interpreter of the sentiments of the government
and the people of the United States towards you
and other descendants of Marquis De Lafayette.
Allow me to express the most earnest wishes for
the happiness and prosperity of all bearing your
venerable name, and with those wishes let US
associate France who was allied with the United
States, who is our traditional friend and whose
glory is SO dear to us.
LAFAYETTE's REPLY.
NJ. De Lafayette, in reply to Mr.. Washburne,
expressed his thanks for the relic presented to
him by the United States Congress. He also
thanked Mr.. WashbGrne for the kind words he
had uttered, and added that the Lafayette family
were filled with profound gratitude for the
sympathetic remembrances which have been pre-
served for their ally by the Americans after so
Dapv vaars He rannesfed Mr. Washhurne To
return to the American people, and to their Con-
gress and government the thanks of the Lafayette
family, and their homage and admiration for their
second country.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30

THAT DANGEROUS Rock IN THE ATLANTIC
Ship-owners and all others interested were re-
Gently much startled by the report from the log of
the Italian bark Teresa, on her voyage from New
York to Queenstown, that a rock had been seen,
lat. 40 deg. N, long. 62:ls deg. W., and it was
suggested that on this rock many vessels never
heard from had struck and gone to the bottom.
Since the report was published it has been pretty
eonelusively proven by masters of ocean steamers
arrived in New York that what the Teresa
thought to be a rock was the upturned bottom of
a v wrecked vessel. coppered, and about $50 feet
long. Like the story of the " Munn's Rock -
this last bugaboo of the mid-AtIantic is now
exploded. There isn't any such rock of danger.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY. January 80.
Musings In Honolulu Cemetery.

SATURDAY. January 80.
Musings in Honolulu Cemetery.
Here rest the bones Of young and old
Embzddsj in the graves dark hold
The tale that often has been told
Is death.
The tiny child, IN Prattlng play,
The infant born but yesterday,
Are snatehed from Is, and borne away
By death.
The boy arrived al spring Of life
The husband and the loving wife
None can esist The mortal strife
with death
Tho some ;hsre Be Shose hoary locks
Are grey with age resist Hfis shocks
TIL be their door approaches knocks,
Yes, death.
The living all their doom must know.
The rich, The poor, The high, the low
There Is no place that they can 60
From death.
These s~euIptured monuments proclaim,
The bones below had rank and fame
IL matters not, all are the same
In death.
How weak the strongest earthly tie,
Tho horror shakes Us as we die
a few short years must close cur eye
Ia death.
Perhaps some loved one resteth heTei
Upon these flowers hath droppd the tear
ofsorrowing hiend.-with no one near
But death.
These marble slabs hut mark The spot
Where some ones laid, perhaps forgot;
LIES Joys and griefs, he heedeIh not
In death.
Yet stiIi the living careless SPEND
10 spite Of ali that's said or penned-
10 mlrth their days, In grief their end
And death.
HOSoLULU. January, 1875.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
n. HACKFELD g. CO..
OFFER . SALE THE FOLLOWING
GOODS NOW LANDING

GODS NOW LANDING
LAWN BARK r. E. WYLIE
IT'S DAYS FROM BREMEN.
Pink Pad Prints, Fancy Prints.
Dark Fancy Prints, Shawl Pattern Prints.
Chiniz Prints. White and Black Prints.
Turkey Red Cotton. Assortment White cOttOns.
Assortment Of Brown Co'tons. Blue COttOus.
Brown Cotton Drin, Blue Cotton Drill.
Heavy Blue Denims. Hickory Stripes.
Blue and White Tickings,
Blue TWiIled si1ony Flannel. Black CObOurgs,
Black SILK Alpicas. Waterproof Tweeds.
Linen s~heeting. Cotton sheeting.
WOODEN Blankets. Brown Cotton Socks.
Ladies White Stockings, Mosquito Netting,
Victoria Lawns. Linen Handkerchiefs.
six Handkerehieh. Cotton Huek. Towels,
Black and Fancy six Neckties,
Black and colored French Merinoes,
Lace Shavls. Linen and Cotton Thread.
Patent Thread on cards.
Pine Cloths and Cashmeres for Coats and Pants.
Fine Black French Serge.
Bedford Cord. TwiIleI s@Iesias.
TwiIled Cambria, heavy Canvas for Lining.
Assortment Of Burlaps. Sail Twine.
Fine Assortment Of Clothing.
English Saddles French CalEkins.
Lubin's Extracts. Eau de Cologne,
Macassar oil. Fancy Soaps.
Black Jet and Fancy Ornaments,
Necklaces, Crosses, sc. India Rubber Balls.
Fine Scissors. Common Scissors. Sheep Shears,
Pen and Pocket Knives,
Coco Handled Butcher Knives.
Charcoal Box Irons. Timed Lanterns,
Galvaaized Iron Washing Tubs,
GaIv. Iron Buckets, Galv Iron Pipe. ! to II in.
saucepans, Spurs. Hoop Iron, RiVets.
yellow Metal sheathing, Composition Nails.
Toilet Mirrors, Feather Busters,
Harmonicas, Accordeons, Gold Borders
Gun Powder, Market Baskets,
Whipping Paper, Nuremberg Toys,
Tumblers, Palm Oil, Caustic Soda,
Portland Cement, Flagg Stones. States.
Fire Bricks, Pipe Clay.
Hubbuck's Linseed Oil.
Hubbuck's White Zinc Paint.
Black and Green Paints. Red Lead.
A full assortment Of German, French and Eng
lish Groceries,
Liebig's Extract Of Meat. Candies
Castor Oil. EPSON Salts.
Tar and Pitch. Cordage. COrks.
Empty Petroleum Tierces,
Empty Syrup Tierces.
Assorted Clarets, Rhine Wine.
BOutelIeau's Coguae. ! to 4 diamonds,
German Ale, quarts and pints;
JefFrey's Ale, do. do.
Jearey's Stout. do. do.
Lager Beer. 10. do.
Bavarian Beer, 10. do.
Genuine Hollands Gin,
Alcohol in ] gallon demijohn.
aHAAFa O. II mn AT nTnADC
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-30

President Washington described the
masked Pennsylvania night-riders of the
whisky rebellion period as armed Ban
ditti."
Two little newspapers in Santa Bar
bara, California, are edited by two wo.
men, and they quarrel. One says the
other is cross eyed, and the other retorts
that her rival is an old maid. No blood
shed as yet.
Laying the cornerstone for a wing to
his manor was the only foundation for
the new STORY" that Disraeli was about
TO take a wife, and as he has since begun
a second wing it is presumed that he
purposes bigamy.
DO you believe there. are any people
who neversheard Old HundredR' Z" asked
a musical young lady at the family table.
Lots Of folks never heard it," interrupt.
ed a p%recocious young brother. Where
are they, l should like to knowlp I'm
the deaf and dumb asylum