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Poisoned to Death.

A healthy liver secretes each day about two
and half pounds Of bile. which contains 9
great amount OF waste material taken from
the blood When the liver becomes torpid OF
congested il fails to eliminate this vast
amount of noxious substance, which, there
fore, remains to poison the blood aud be con-
veyed to every part OF the system. What
must be the condition Of the blood when it is
receiving and retaining each day two and a
half pounds OF poison? Nature tries to work
off this poison through other channels and or
gans-the kidneys, lungs skin, etc; but these
organs become overtaxed in performing this
labor, in addition to their natural functions,
and cannot long Withstand the pressure, but
becomes vsriously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical CEN
tire OF all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the
unhealthy blood which passes to Il from the
heart, and it fails to perform it's Office health
fully. Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning,
which are dullness, headache, incanacity to
keep the mind on any subject, impairment Of
memory. dizzy, sleepy or nervous feelings,
gloomy forebodings and irritability OF temper
The blood itself being diseased, as il forms
the sweat upon the surface OF the skin, il 80
Irritating aud poisonous that it produces dis
colored brown spots, pimples, blotches and
other eruptlOns, sores, boils, carbuncles and
scrofulous tumors. The stomach, bowels, and
other organs spoken OF, cannot escape becom-
ing affected. sooner or later, and costiveness,
piles. dropsy. dyspepsia. diarrh9a female
weakness, and many other forms OF chronic
disease. are among the necessary results. Ae
a remedy for all these manifestations Of dis
ease, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
with small daily doses OF his Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets are positively unequslled. By
them the liver and stomach are changed TO an
active and healthy state, the appetite regula-
ted and restored, the blood and secretions
thoroughly purified and enriched, and the
whole system renovated and built mp anew.
Sold by all first class druggists and dealers in
madeline
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The Source of Salt,

The sea depends on the disintegra-
ton OF rocks on land for salt Rains
wash it and hold it in solution as par
ticles are liberated by violence, decom-
position, and gradual action of many
natural forces. All streamlets and
rivers, therefore, are constantly trans
porting salt to the sea. If there is
more than can be held in solution, then
it accumulaSes in masses at very deep
points. Thus the salt mines Of Port
land and the vast horiz 0ntal beds of
pure salt in Texas, as we'll as that
mountain of rock salt in st. Domingo,
we're collected at the bottom of ancient
seas, which are now dry land remote
ftcm water.
There are places in Africa where the
process Of G1sintegratiOn of salt from
rock is regularly going or, but there is
not water power enough to force it on
ward to the sea. Hence the PARTICLES
are spread abroad and mixed with the
soil. The negroes of northern Africa
having discovered its distribution where
there is no water to dissolve il the
separate the salt. Salt pervades the
esrth. It exists in the grasses and most
vegetable products on which animals
feed. In that way they derive enough
ia most countries to meet the demands
of their natures. They require as much
IS civilized humanity. With them salt
is necessary, as vita ourselves, for
keeping tie organs of vision in good
condition. Stop the supply and blind
ness would ensue.
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TIE Imperial Purple.

A short time ago, an extensive heap
of refuse shells was discovered near
Athens, and supposed to be kitchen
hidden. Subsequent investigation
proved that the heap cops sted entirely
of a species of murex and other shells
which yield the famous dye known as
the Tyrian purple. This fact induced
the conclusion that here was the site OF
an ancient dyeing establishment. A
single she'll of the murex gives but q
diminutive drop of the secretion, con,
sequeutly large numbers are consumed
10 the production of but small amount
of dye, which made it very precious.
In Clcero's time pound OF wool colored
with this, the only purple known 20 the
ancieuts, cos5 about $175. Because Of
its great beauty and nigh cost. purple
became the symbol of imperial power.
Ontranto, the ancient Tarentum, was
one of the great murex-fsheries of the
Romans, and large number OF dyeing
establishments were located there. For
several centuries after the fail of the
Roman empire and the decline of the
murex fisheries, purple was an unknown
color in Europe.
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Death Not Generally Painful.

When the blood ceases to be oxygen
ated, physical sensibility is destroyed
and the oxygenation Of the blood be.
comes accomplished by the lungs; if
these organs are INSTRUCTED, a proper
tionate privaton of sensibility will
necessarily be the result. The lungs
ara the weakest of all the great vital
organs they accordingly begin to die
sooner than the other parts, and their
function is actually suspended b. fore
that of other organs. Thence it fol
lows that the oxygenati?n of the blood
being gradually suspended death en-
sues, and there can be no suffering.
These theoretical notions are, believe,
SUI ported by facts. So far as my ex-
perIence goes, if a dying man be asked
whether he suffers pain, ne will, in the
greater number OF instances, answer in
the negative yet there may he at the
same time a frightful appearance of
distress. My opinion, therefore,
founded on great number of observa-
tions of the character above mentioned
is, that death is not generally painful,
and that nature, " like kind mother"
while she surrounds its idea with imeg-
mary terrors, has contrived the animal
organization in such way as. to pro
duce a natural anodyne in depiiving
the blood of oxygen. There will be
found, no doubt, exceptions in chronic
diseases already alluded to arising from
physical causes, and there will he an
other class OF exceptions of a different
nature from moral Causea, such as the
recollections CT bad life.-Dr. Var
rem,
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Chanres In The Body.

When science discovered that the
human body underwent an entire change
during period of seven years, it was
considered very remarkable, but DIR.
Lyon Playfair read letter not long
ago befe re British social science con-
gress, where n he declar, d that "all the
particles of tae body changed every SIX
weeks" The same eminent authority
wisely declares that the substance Of
all our sanitary science, accumula ted by
ages, might be summed up in the preg
nant advice of the prophet, " Wash and
be clean" This learned physician ssys
that for thousand years after the civil
iza'ion of the Egyotiars, the jews, the
Greeks and the Romans faded, there
was not man or womsn in Europe that
ever took a bath. To this fact he at
tributes, in a large measure, the won
drous epidamics of the N ode sgeF,
which cnt off one-fourth of the popula-
ton CT Europe-the spotted plague, TIE
Black death, the sweat ng ckness, aud
the terrible metal epdemics which
followed in their train-the dancing
mania, the mewing mania, the bling
mania, and wItohcrait.
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benefit his men. So he rent for soma,
and since taking it, they have found
new life, while the captain says that he
has recovered ali the buoyancy of his
youth.
A company of scientific gentlemen
propose to visit the bay under the
guidance of Capt King, and with this
solution they hope to restore the rare
and curious articles on the ship. The
bodies will be brought away, but as ma
ture has embalmed them, they will not
be profaned by the experiments of man.
The papers and the lady's arm are on
exhibition in the New Haven. museum.
The first and third fingers of her hand
are ornaments with costly rings, COW
cred with Spanish gems. One of them
bears exquisite traeiDgs, representing
incidents in the Mooris h wars of Ora
NADIA. -Cor.~ Dd1abat1.y -NeaUs.
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sible moment.
A Singing Mouse.

The Rev. Samuel Lockwood, PHI. D.,
contributes to the Naturalist detailed
&C count of a singing mouse which was
for some time in his possession. 1t
was brought from Florida, where it
had been trapped in the house of Philip
Ryall, Esq. 1t was a species of the
HeSpeTOnlys cOgnatuS, which is popu-
larly named the wOOd-mouse. 1t is a
tiny, agile, graceful little creature,
gam boiling and tumbling about its cage
for hours together but it suffered no
approach to familiarity, always biting
the finger that tried o touch 1t. 1t ate
all sorts of food-meat, corn, nuts,
sugar, bread, fish, etc, with about the
same relish but it especially delights
in fresh grass and white clover. When
ever an unlucky fly caught its eye, it
would tpging and catch it with its
mouth or It's hands, aud dev0ur it With
great eusto. It ate in sitting posi- ure,
hCl ing its focd in its hands, and man.
a ing 1T with great dexterity. Its sOpg
was varie ], comprising several melodies
of cons derable length and iDtricacy.
One was invariably waTbled while turn
ing ths revolving cage, and hencs it wss
termed the WLeel-soDg." All the
melodies were in the major key, and SO
regularly delivered that they we're sus
ceptibls Of notation. ard were indeed
written out by DIR. Lockwood. There
was no monotony in the strains for,
though the theme was eser the same,
it was diversified by endless rev and
charming variations. At one time tine
mouse sang uninterruptedly for nine
minutes, and the muscles OF the aldo
men were all the while in vigorous
action. The tones were soft and silver,
yet very distinct. Often, while tie
mouse was taking violent exercise. fly
ing about the cage or turning the wheel,
it would pour out an uninterrupted tor
rent of song. Sometimes, while at
meals, it would literally eat and sing
in the same breath. ..
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A Temnle in Vanice.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes as
follows of the cathedral of San Marco /:
"There is temple in Venice so stored
with oriental treasures thai to see it is
like breathing cassia and musk. The
facade of this queen of churches Is
bnr5ened with ornamenta'ion there is
a barbaric splendor in its outward
decoration that is not in keeping with
abe exceeding solemnity of the interior.
Within everything is SO rich that it can
well afford to make no display. IS is
the most harmonious, the most wor-
shipful, the sweetest, most solemn re-
treat for the world weary that can be
conceived of. You may select your
own chapel, and it shall be rich or
plain, ablaze with flaming tapers or lit
by a single lamp that swings like
great jewel hung by golden chain TO
the summit of deep golden dome
Won may, if you choose, mediate before
an antique byzantine cruciix, or q lot
OF stained sculpture, almost as old as
Christianity; or, if you will, sit for
time under one of the sad-faeed Madon-
mas, at whose feet the votive offerings
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to see my cousin, and the strange little
lady in the gauzy black, with her
strange companion, seemed to me crea-
lures of dream, gone like the hum
ming bird and the moonlight.
The earliest train found me the ear
lest passenger, and the hot summer
morning found me walking rapidly to
ward high garden gate in B. The
keeper of the lodge came out, as lifted
the latch, for two purposes-to quiet
snarling terrier, and to tell me that Miss
Delaney and the aunt who had lived
with her since her fathers death had
gone away.
"Gone away y Mingled with intense
disappointment and chagrin, felt an
obstinate determination to go to the
ends of the earth, if need be, to find
her. "Goue where ?"
"Only to N for few days"
Why, I've just come from there.
" I'm very sorry, sir" said the man,
apologetically drawing back as If he ex-
pected blow.
gave him a small fee instead, and
rushed back to the station to take the
next train, which turned out to be some
three hours later. didn't half believe
the man at the lodge, and asked the
host with much donbt when reached
the hotel if Miss Delaney was staying
there with her aunt.
Since yesterday morning..
:" Was she in the house ??
He'd see.
waited some time, remembering that
hadn't given my name, and presently
he returned saying that Miss Delaney
was asleep, having returned from long
walk. I gave the 1st my card, telling
him to take it to Miss DeIaneey when
she woke. It was late in the afternoon
that servant knocked at my door and
handed me a note in the familiar hand
writing ." I am waiting for you on the
piazza"
went rather deliberately down stairs
to convince myself of my utter pres
ence of mind. AS stepped upon the
piazza the slender vision of tie past
night in her gauzy black draperier
stood. her back toward ne, apparently
absorbed in the contemplation of the
soft purple shadows on the surrounding
hills. With a sense of impatieIcs that
she should come there at this moment,
turned to look for my cousin, saying,
"Julia, are you here ?"
A soft sound of moving drapery, and
the little lady in black was shyly hold
ing out her slender hand to me: "Don't
you know me?"
A speechlessness possessed me. I
held the little hand with a fear that it
would elude me, and gradually traced the
young girls face remembered in the
exquisite grace of the woman's before
me, whose eyes were filed wish tears
"Don't say anything about it yet, ="
she said, with pathetic fear. And l
bide my time.
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Arkansas
Message of the President TO the Senate.
The following is the presidents mes
sage on Arkansas affairs

Message of the President to the senate.
The following is the presidents mes
sage on Arkansas affairs:
To the Senate of the United States i:
HIRE Nth | have the honor to send. in
accordance with q resolution of the
senate of the 81 inst, all the inForma
ton in my possession not heretofore
furnished, relating TO affairs in the state
of Arkansas.
l will venture to express the opinion
that all the testimony shows that in the
election of 1872 Joseph Brooks was law
fully elected governor of that state; that
he has been uniawfully deprived of the
possession of his office since that time :;
and that in 1874 the constitution of the
sta vas, by violence, intimidation and
revolutionary proceedings, overthrown
and a new constitution adopted, and d
new state government establis he'd.
These proceedings, if permitted to
stand, practically ignore all the rights
of minOrities in all the ates. Also,
what is there to prevent each of the
states recently readmitted to federal re.
Iatiops On certain condi ions, from
changing their constitution and violat-
ing their pledges, if the action in Ar
kansas is acquiesced in? / respectfully
submit whether precedent so danger
Gus to the stability of state govern
ment, if not of the national govern
ment, should be recognized by congress.
[ earnestly ask that congress will take
definite action in this matter, to relieve
he executive from acting upon ques-
tons which should be decided by the
legislative branch of the government.
U. S. GRANT,
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To TEE sUFFERINa.-An old retired

To TIE SUFFERING.-An old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by DIR. Walk.
er, of California, of his herb remedy,
Vinegar Bitters, is one of the most i'm
portant in medicine. He has tested
them thoroughly, in his own family,
among his friends, and upon himself !;
they possess Iare and unexcelled curs.
tive properties. He says of them:
They contain no dangerous drug
Taey never reduce the patient--never
render one liable to take cold-nevet
interfere with the every. day business
of ife-never make their continuous
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MY BABY.
o baby, my faby, my oarlipgI
As ponder my newly-wou bliss,
Az h-nh in 4hw la.,-EsF-,1 r,ag,...


o baby, my faby, my oarlipgI
As pooder my newly-wou bliss,
As bssk in thy beautiful being,
And hiss thee with kiss upon Hiss,
wonder how earth never charmed me,
How IT'S JOYS to n seemed so divine;
Thee JOYS now measure a. human,
Since this enc I know is divine.
o baby, my cherub. nv darliugI
Whose COO is the sweetest Of things:
1 " nnder IL ever such music,
SO perfect, was born without wings;
An I tremhle with rapture to listen,
SO dread I the pinions-ah, me!
b It no the good God is no mocker,
And he gave thee, sweet baby, to me.
o baby, my queen and my darling!
Thou rulsst and liftest noe 90,
EValtiDg my soul 10 the highest,
Goo gave thee thy sceptre, know:
From his throne 10 the uppermOSt heavens
Thou hast come to our home like a star,
And the light Of it leadeth me upward
Aud onward as leaceth a star.
baby, my baby, my darling!
Queen. cheruh, and star though thov he
No sign TO express thee seems worthy,
When thou art all sweetness to mel
IN ttiy voice Is the tong Of the morning:
In thy fingers is toucc of delight:
In thy smile is the glory Of sunshine:
In thyself-oh, myself - is delight!
Dear baby, my baby. nv 6arlipzr
Love, love is incarnate at last
be love that was thrilled into promise,
The love that grew strong as it passed
into blossom so mystic and holy:
We give 1t the sweet name Of child
Two beings in one made cOmpleter,
baby our darling, our child
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use condition of cure, and are adapt
ed to even the most delicate organiza-
ton. They act as kindly on the tender
infant, the delicate female, or infrm
old age, as on the vigorous and athletic
system exercising healthful effects
upon every blood vessel-on the brain,
nerves and lymphatics-on the blood,
bile, gastric Juice, etc., enriching inn
poverished fluids. and imparting vigor
to mind and body"
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Executive mansion, Feb. s, 1875


In the celebrated dairy county of
Chester in England, the use of bones
has contributed largely to enable the
farmers to secure the highest and most
satisfactory results. The pastures have
literally been renewed by the use of
boLes. THY are simply crushed where
permauencs OF benefit is sogght for, or
if resu IS are wanted more quickly they
are gToan6 into meal or dust.
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JUST CAUSE FOR Being ALARMED =
When a cough has been running for a long
time, and you begin to feel pain setting in
upon your lungs, attended with tightness
across the chest, it is high time that You
which is fast running into fatal consumption.
Now before it is 90 late use Aliens Lung Bal
sam, which will cure the disease, and all will
be well with yen.
For sale by all medicine dealers.
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We noticed in one OF our exchanges
this week the statement OF Dea John Hodg
kins. Of South LETTERS N, Me-, whose son was
cured Of incipient consumption by the use OF
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. We refer TO
this at this time as tending To corroborate the
statement We made last week in relation TO
this Linment as applied TO consumption.
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Dr. \. walkers California VIM
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on tho lower ranges o.
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califol
MIA, the medicinal properties Of which
are extracted thcrefrom without tho usg
Of Alcohol. The question Is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of tbs
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR BIr-
TERsR" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and life giving principle,
perfect Renovation and InvigoratOr
of the system. Never before In tho
history Of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BITTERs In healing tho
sick of every disease man is heir 10. They
are gentle Purgatiye Us well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Nisceal Organs. In Bilious
Diseases.
The properties Of DIR. WALKER's
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient Diaphoretic,
Oarminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diurctc,
Sedativc, Counter Irritant, Sudorihc, Altern-
i've and Anti Bilious.
n. II. MCDONALD ~ CO..
Druggists and Gen. Fs., san Francisco. CaltgrniAs
and cor. OF Washington and Charlton Sta. n. \.
Sold by ali Druggtsts and Dealers
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If congress had employed as much
scientific Elk II in the arrangement Of it's Re
construction Policy " at the close, as the War
Department did in the beginning of the war,
in arranging for the manufacture OF what was
called Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders
for the use of the Cavalry horses, no doubt
the Union would have been restored long ago.
Ercb0n0p
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are heaped in strange confusion. But
come in, away from the glitter and the
glare of the exterior, where the four
bronze horses prance and the eyes grow
weary with seeking some point to rest
on In all that tropical rare, garden"
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Napoleon always carried with him
an emerald of great value which be-
Ionged to the crown jewels. He lost it
at Waterloo. 1t was found by Prus-
ian soldier, end has since been num-
bered among the Prussian crown jewels.
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ELECTRICITY is LIFE. All nervous dis
orders, chronic diseases of the chest, head,
liver, stnmaehe, kidneys and blood aches and
pains. nervous and general debility, etc,
Quicklv cured after drugs fail by wearing
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A Beautiful Head OF Hair, whiskers or
Moustache ornaments desired by all. Use Tutt's
Hair Dye and you will possess them.
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DIARRHEA IN YOUNG PIGS.

M. NJ. Mulford. M. D., in The Amer
lean Swine and Poultry journal SAYS:
Many OF our swine breeders in the
west sustain considerable loss annually
by their pigs dying from the effects OF
what is commonly called scours, caused
by the bad quality of the sow's
milk. The disease is more apt to make
disappearance when the SOW has been fed
on dry corn or musty food. 1t generally
attacks them one or two days after
birth, and seldom after eight or ten
days. / have never failed to cure this
disease by giving the SOW as much
sulphur of the third decimal trituration
as will stand on a nickel fve-cent piece,
once day. It may be given in little
sweet milk or upon small piece of
bread, and should be given an hour
before feeding. The medicine can be
procured of any hom@ opathic physi-
clan. I have onred many cases with
common sulphur, but prefer the above.