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d" Powder 1ea.'

The Pail Mall Gazette has the follow
| ing: Something new to drink is one
of the chief requirements OF the day,
and it might be worth the considera-
ton of enterprising tea dealers to i'm
port some powder tea which, ac-
cording to Consul Robertson, in his
report on the trade of Kanagawa, Just
issued, is esteemed great luxury By
the Japenese. This tea, of two kinds,
known as 'koicha' and 'usucha,' is
made from very old shrubs selected
from the best grounds or plantations
These shrubs are very freely MANFRED
some ten times in the year for koicha, ,
and some six times for 'usucha.' About
the end of March the shrubs arc sur.
rounded ON all sides, in addition to
being covered with bamboo screen
work, SO as to protect them from frost.
This screen work is removed as soon as
summer has well set in.
"When the leaves have been picked
they are steasaed for half minute,
spread out on mating and cooled.
Then follows the same process as with
quick, then over a slow, fire, the only
difference being that the leaves are
turned about with stick and not with
the hand. When about half dried, the
leaves are placed on trays and sdried
gradually before light fire, after they
are passed through the bamboo sleeves;
finally they are spread out ON sheets of
paper, each leaf Ebeing picked out
singly. Great care is shown in the
mode of this particular kind of tea.
the leaves are placed in tin or white
metal jars, which again are inclosed in
wooden boxes, and packed with GER
tain quantity of common leaf. This
preserves the scent and flavor for a
long time. When about to be used for
drinking, sufficient quantity is taken
out Of the metal jar, placed in small
hand tea mill and slowly ground into
very fine powder. This powder is then
with feather and placed in
an air-tight jar. Boiling water is then
got ready and when just at boiling point
about one quarter of an ounce o; pow
der is put into tea-c cup, and boiling
water poured on to snit the taste. The
whole is then rapidly stirred with a
stick especially made for the
purpose, until a froth is produced,
when the tea is ready for drinking.
Much ceremony is OBJ erved in the
drinking of this particular tea"
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SING To THE SEAM.
BY MRS. g. L. oBRRHeLTzER.

Ths girl who sits in the porshway low
Sings to her needle as to and fro
1t weaves the seam with its glittering glow,
Close in the garment she holds to sew.
Sing to the seam:
Sing ii your dream:
Lodge in each stitch
Part of its CLEAN.
No "Song of the Shirt" sings she, oh no;
Her words are Rleeful, happy and low;
While the shining needle, fast or slow,
Tosses the thread that il shorter grow.
Sing TO the seam;
Sing it your dream;
Lodge in each stitch
Part OF its CLEAN.
A songs good company while yen sew;
1t helps the needle to onward go,
And trace its work In q dainty row
Der the downy. drifted, cambria SNOW
Sing TO the seam;
Sing 1t your dream;
Lodge it each stitch
Part Of its CLEAN.
simple song with no work below
Is lost on the empty air. Won know;
But tune and labor. together aglow,
The richest blessings of time bestow.
Sing to the seam;
Sing it your dream;
Lodge in each stitch
Part of its CLEAN.
N. y. Euening Post.
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Mexican Railroads.

The works of peace now happily en-
gage Mexico, and the first of them in
national importance is railroads. There
is now only about 800 miles of railway
in the country, the principal line being
from Vera Cluz to the capital. This is
now to be prolonged northwestward to
the Pacific, IS the Central railroad and
its construction is how in the hands of
a British Mexican company. At Leon,
$50 miles from Mexico, the interna-
tional railroad will branch off to the
northeast for Texas. Within three
months after the completion of the Cen
trail to Leon, the construction of the
latter will begin at both en6s, under the
English company, of which Edward
Lee Plumb is the head. The interna-
tional has subsidy OF SIS, 900 mile
from The government, and must be
completed within six years, but will re-
GIVE heavy premiums for every year of
earlier completion. From this side the
distances are as follows: From Rock
dale, the present terminus of the Inter-
national to Texas, to Austin, so miles !;
from Auetin, via San Antonio, to Laredo,
on the Rio Grande, 225 miles; from the
to Mexico, $50 mile s !; whole distance to
be built, 1,165 miles. Mexico has a
population of 225, 900, Queretaro, A.
GOO, Leon, the junction, 100, 600, and
the International will pass through nine
states with q present population OF g.
$50, 900.
ACTION OF PURE WATER.-M. Dumas
describes u former experiment in which
five bottles containing leaden shot were
partially filled with the following
waters respectively: Distilled water,
rain water, Seine water, Onrcq water,
and well water. 1t Was found that the
one containing distilled water showed in
a very short time t saces of lead in solu-
ton, while the waters charged more or
less with caicareous salts contained
none. The rapidity with which pure
waters acts upon lead is surprising, and
the effect produced by traces of lime in
preventing this reaction ia nos less 50.
Ii is impossible nor to J." ~ minded of
Schlnsing's observations upon clay,
which, in pure water, remains indefi-
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Blood D1Seagea,

The blood being the source from which our
systems are built up and from which we derive
our mental as well as physical capabilities, how
important that it should be kept pure. ii it
contains vile fostering poisons all organic
functions are weakened thereby. Settling
upon important organs, as the lungs, liver or
kidneys, the effect is most disastrous. Hence
1t behooves every one to keep their blood in a
perfectly healthy condition and more especial
ly does this apply at this particular season of
the year than at any other. No matter what
the exciting cause may be, the real cause of a
large proportion of all diseases is bad blood.
Now, Dr. Pierce does not wish to place his
Golden Medical Discovery in the catalogue of
quack patent nostrums by re commanding it to
cure every disease, nor does he SO recommend
it, on the contrary there are hundreds of dis
eases that he acknowledges it will not cures
but what he does claim is this, that there is
but one form of blood disease that it will not
cure and that disease is cancer He does not
recommend his Discovery for that disease, vet
he knows it to be the most searching blood
cleanser yet discovered, and that it will free
the blood and system of all other known blood
poisons. be they animal, vegetable or mineral
The Golden Discovery is warranted BY him to
cure the worst forms of skin diseases, as all
forms OF blotches pimples and eruptions also
all glandular swellings, and the worst form of
scrofulous and liberated sores of neck, legs
or other parts, and all ecrofulous diseases of
the bones, as white swellings, fever sores, hip
joints and spinal diseases, all of which belong
to scrofulous Diseases
CONFERENCE.-THE JOINT DISEASE CURED.
W. GROVE STATION. Ia, July IA, 1872
DR.. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sir-aiy wife first became lame nine
years ago. Swellings would appear and disap-
pear on her hip, and she was gradually becom-
ing reduced, and her whole system rotten with
disease. In 1871 a swelling broke out on her
hip dischargipg largo quantities. and since
that time there are several openings. Have
had i've doctors at in expense of $125, who
say nothing will do any good but surgical
operation.
July 16. 1873, he writes thus My wife has
certainly received a great benefit from the use
or your Discovery, for she was not able to get
off the bed and was not expected to live a
week when she commenced using it, a year
ago. She has been doing most of her work
Tor over SIX months. Has used twenty bottles
and -till using it. Her recovery is considered
as almost a miracle and we attribute it all to
the use OF your valuable medicine L can
cheerfuliy recommend it as blood purifier
and strength restorer. JIM ROBINSON.
Discovery is sold by druggists
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ground. 1t was SO completely stunned
that it was picked mp by the gentleman
in question, who found it to be a fine
mallard, which, on examination, was
discovered to have lost one eye, it hav-
ing been previously destroyed by acct
dent or disease. No doubt the loss of
this organ was the cause of the very
singular occurrence.
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BuRsErr's FLORAL HAND Book. See adu't.
IMPORTANT IsvENr,oy-..In lass than

IMPORTANT INvENTIoN.-''In less than
ten years there will not be a metal truss in
use, was the prediction OF one of our most
eminent physicians on examining the Elastic
Truss OF the Elastic Truss Co., 683 Broadway,
N; Y. The extensive adoption OF these unequal
ed Instruments, which certainly cure rupture
without torture, will make them the only truss
ca used in much less than ten years. We adj
vise all sufferers to send to the above company
for descriptive circulars, as these trusses are
sent to all parts of tho country BY mail-Co,n
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COLLISION IN MID-AIR.-Land and
Water relates very curions incident of
a collision between two wild ducks in
full flight. Whilst recently shooting
on the dykes in Norfolk, five ducks
wers flushed out of shot ; and while the
gentleman who was on the look out for
them wae Watching their fight, in the
hope that they would pitch again, two
Of them were observed TO come into
violent collision, one falling to the
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have an IMPROVED RECEIPT for making a
PUR II BAKING or YEAST POWDER equal Il
the best In the market, with which will send q
book giving 80 new and EXCELLENT METH.
&C can De made for Is cents pound Why pay. so Q,
own for 16 GEMS? Price of my receipt q Is. Ii
will. howe yer, be sent upon receipt of H 90
with directions Tin English and Germany FOL
MAKING and USING. II the NAME of the NEwsPA.
ER Il given in which this advertisement is seen
The COSr or this kECEIPT rs SAVED IN EVERY
THREE POUNDS of powder made Ingredients kept
w. BRIGGS. Practical Druggist. chicago. Ill.
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nitely suspended, but which is precipi-
tated by the slightest traces of lime
salts. The author thinks that pure
water is an agent not yet perfectly
known, and that its properties differ
from those of common water more than
ia Susnecta1
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TIE test of time and e.nerience ia til

The test of time and experience is the
only sure guide in selecting an instru-
men:. 1t is of little consequence that q
man makes one or two fine pianos or
organs for fair and intrigues success
fully for prize. It is the quality of
everyday manufacture that concerns
the buyer-not what exceptional and
costly instruments have been specially
made for exhibition. The SMITH AMERI.
CAN ORGANS are of high and uniform ex-
cellence. and are the best for actual
use, having been tried and proved for
twenty-five years.
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ALIENS LII

ALIENS LUNG BALsAM causes the
lungs to throw off the matter that is collected
over the air-cells, and makes the patient
breathe more freely and purifies the blood
gives strength to the body and tone to the 'di-
gestive organs, and heals the irritated parts
and give life and health to the system. Asthma
is coon relieved by its use.
For sale by dealers in family medicines
generally.
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wflbOr's Cod Liver OIL and Lfme.-The
great popularity of this sale and rcacioas prepar
alton alone attributable to Its in rinsic worth In
the OF coughs. colds. asthma bronchitis. scrnf
uious IN nOrs whooping cough. and all consuInp
tive symptoms ii h no superior If equal Let no
one neglect tTe ehr'v sy mptOms of disease when
agent is thus At hand viii h will alleviate all
complaints of the chest, lungs or throat. Manu-
featured only by B WILBOR. Chemist, Bos-
on. sold bv j druggists
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PERSONS requiring purgatives or pills
should be careful what they buy. Some pills
not only cause gripping pains, but leave the
bowels in a torpid. costive state. Parsons
Purgative Pills will relieve the bowels and
cleanse the blood without injury to the system.
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MEDICAL ADVERTISING. -The medical
profession are out-spoken in their de-
nunciation of the system of medical ad-
vertising, and declare that any medicine
that is advertised is a fraud. How
thoroughly inconsistent and unfair is
such an argument. The men who are
SO loud in their criticisms, are those who
advertise themselves as medical savans BY
ostentatioos display; splendid residences
with massive door plates fast horses
and costly carriages. DIR. J. Walker,
of California, an old practitioner, re-.
spected alike for his skill and conscien-
tious independence, dares to differ; and
having discovered IN his Vinegar Bitters
a purely herbalistic medicine, free from
all spirituous poisons-a wonderful
specific for numerous disorders, adver.
tises the same for relief of his fellow
man, and is borne out in his declara-
ton of its many virtues by thousands
of invalids, who are being cured of dis
ease by its use.
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ErAaERE CAnINEr ORaANs-The

ETAGERE CABINET ORGANs.-The eta
gcre, as the French call that elegant
article of furniture, furnished with Il
number of small shelves, designed for
various small ornamental articles, has
become a necessity in every fashionable
drawing room. The Mason & Hamlin
Organ Co. are now manufacturing n
combination of The etagere and cabinet
organ, very rich and beautiful, which
they furnish for the price Of an organ
without the etdgere.
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A Fatal Experiment.

The power of the Imagination is truly
remarkable-indeed, almost beyond be-
lief; and many people are great slaves
to its whims and caprices. One. hall
| the ills that flesh is heir to are super
induced by the fancy of the suffere RS,
as hundreds are known to have die by
mere symptoms of cholera, yellow fe-
yer. and the plague. induced by dread
| alone of these terrible maladies. Peo-
pie of strong nervous temperaments are
often great slaves to the tyranny of
mind over matter. Young medical stu
dents are very fond of illustrating this
fact by practical jokes upon unsuspect-
ing people.
We very we'll remember case in point
which occurred in this city not long
ago, but which we do not remember to
have seen in print. 1t was that of an
amateur butcher engaged in slaughter
house, and who, in placing his meat
upon hook, slipped in the blood upon
the floor, and hung himself instead of
the meat upon the barbed point. His
screams were deafening, and when he
was released from his frightful situa-
ton his agony was intense. He was
quickly carried in the arms of three men
to the nearest physicians Office. and so
SAo"o VOC Lis P0IA \iu iIadBludtlOu) GUaG
he cried piteously upon every motion
made by the doctor in cutting the coat
and shirt-sleevefrom about the wounded
arm. When at last the arm was barred
not scratch was there. The hook
point had merely grazed the skin and
tore the shirt-sleeve.
These thoughts were suggested to MS
by an experiment just tried at st. Pc
tersburg, Russia. A criminal condemned
to death was handed over to the sur
geons of the hospital for the purpose
OF certain experiment. He was taken
to the dissecting room and laid upon
a marble slab, his hands, feet and body
were securely tied to the table on which
he lay. He was then told, after being
carefully blindfolded, that he was to be
bled to death. A pail was brought, the
surgeon snapped his lancet upon the
main artery of the arm, while an attend |
ant stood by pouring a small stream of |
blood-warm water upon the arm, which |
ran off into the pail. The poor criminal |
heard the steady stream flowing into the |
pail, and soon grew weak and faint. |
then swooned, and in exactly twenty
was deadl
Here was an unmistakable evidence |
OF the power of the imagination, Illus
trating in remarkable manner the re- |
Elections mentioned above, for in this |
instance not one drop of blood had been |
taken from the body of the criminal. |
His fancy had proved as fatal to him as |
though he had actually bled to death. -
NeW York Weekly.
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Diamond Cotton Cbonnar Cnltivat,

Diamond Cotton Chopper, Cultivator
and Planter, and Corn Planter are guaranteed
to give satisfaction by a southern company
whose character and responsibility are voucli-
ed for by the leading bank officers OF North
Carolina. "he Colo Medal was awarded to it
at the Georgia State Fair. See vertisement
elsewhere. Send for circular to J. w. HINs-
DALE Secretary, Fayetteville, N. G..
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IT IS rare thing that physicians give
any countenance to a medicine, the manufac-
ture of which is secret. About the only ex-
ception we know of is Johnson q Anodyne Lin
imeDt. This, believe, all endorse aud
many OF them use it in their practice with
great success.
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You need not go to Florida to cure
your cough. Take TUFTS Expectorant and enjoy
the comforts of home. This ia good advice
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-20

My annual catalogue of Vegetable and Flower
Seed for 1875 will he sent !, &c to all who apply
ustomers of last season need not write for IL. In
IL will he fonpi al valuab' varieties of
yegetabes-introduced for the first me this season.
having made e. etabes n specially for many
years Growing oUer a hundr,d and GJty VIrieti[s
on my several rms 4 would pa lieu arly invite
The patronage of market gardeners and all others
who are especially esirnus 10 have tfeir SO ed pure
and fresh, and of the nest ST. ain All seed sent
ont from my establishments are covered by ihree
warrants given in my catalogue. JAMES
H. q hEGOEY, n arblehead. Mas
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A SISGULARLY FATAL OCCUPATION
The statement has been made by a
Sheffield, England, physician that the
fork.grinders' employment is probably
more fatal TO human life than any other
pursuit in England. According to this
authority, there are generally from
eight to ten individuals at work in the
room in which this industry is carried
on, and the dust which is created, COM
posed of fine particles of stone and
metal-the grinding being always per-
formed on a dry stoue-rises in clouds,
and pervades the atmosphere TO which
the operatives are confined. The dnst,
which is thus every moment inhaled,
gradually undermints the vigor of the
constitution and produces permanent
disease of the lungs, accompanied by
difficulty of breathing, cough and
wasting of the animal frame, often at
the early age of twenty five, and the
average longevity of fork grinders is
found not to exceed thirty years.
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WALLPAPER is now said to De in use
in England which will bear washing
with soap and water, and is also damp
proof. These two advantages arc suffi
cient to bring it into universal use pro-
vided it can be furnished for a reason
able price.
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/" The Mother Of Venice.0

Charles Warren Stoddard writes to
the San Francisco Chronicle eft is
not only the unutterable solemnity of
Torcello that impresses the voyager
who comes to these desolate shores
with light heart-for he is sure to be
pleasure-seeker-bu the very air is
burdened with sorrowful influences ::
all merriment is out of place here. and
laughter sounds like mockery. Thir-
teen hundred years ago Torcello and all
these low lagoon meadows were unin-
habited. A few sea fowl blew about in
the wind, and the fishermen from the
main land cruised among the shoals,
but no one had then dreamed of the
glorious cities that were to rise among
the waters, cities that are still lovely
and glorious even in decay. The in
habitants of Altidum were driven from
their homes by the invasion of Attila
in the fifth century. In GAL, while
were flying and falling before the fury
of their conquerors, there was no
avenue of escape but one-the sea.
From the smoky ruins of Lombardy
theysought refuge in the moist meadows
of Torcello. They were not cast down;
sea air and sea water are life-giving. A
city arose in the very foam of the
Aariatic, and the stout-t Q arted refugees
hourished under the inspiration of O
broader liberty than they had ever
known before. From Torcello to Mu-
rano was but step; their people in
creased, and covered island after island.
The settlement of the Rialto followed.
Around this island were hundred lit
tie islets and shoals these were woven
together by bridges the land was
filled in and raised above flood water
mark ; the channels were deepened the
city spread like some splendid sea plant
that flowers with a Thousand floating
leaves. This was Venice, the browning
glory of the toilers of the sea. It still
lives, though it is half-paralyzed, and
its sp1endor is dimmed and furnished.
But TorceIlo, the mother of Venice, is
twenty times dead it is a grave, the
memory of which is Aalf obliterated."
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Go 10 Riverside Water Cure. Hamilton, II

BURNETT's FLORAL HAND Book. See adu'I
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"A CURL Is ingaged =
no uze to inquire
Eny Further-don't

"This was successful with the next
dozen Corners. When paterfamilias came
home, gazed in astonishment at this
literary effort, t~itched it down and
lugged it in. Probably that 'gurl is
ingaged' at present in correcting her
spelling or packing her trunk. But
what tale of misery those numberless
applicants Oh such horrible d ay tellsr
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~ 1 1sn E sUfpoRT ThgT !.
FIAsTIC now supersedn. al!
TRUss. eSe esys sesn y the aaG lesd,
NNne1 seons. druggists. army
\~/ Eymnasiums etc.
- sal satisfact on they
eg as wen as the great Of radical
taas r%re can ana ss sy ees Without
we're Of Metal Trasses aud
hs II 4 cue
will perio1m IN aS TeGh boy can ss placed
fan ee cs n with end when spring
tion Of m. body scciient can dis5Iace t. These
ins Tuments have the unqualified approval of The
sion T5o 2 the numerous In our posses
.,s =. Aftr the experience Of months patients tes-
tify strongly to the efficacy. well as the ease
worm win snper %ln sa
ties In high deg n
veplons have no hesita tion in regarding 1t as
NJ * No Isss and cure
E1 Health hiceT Of the Port Of New York Sur
GEO; v; HOUSE. M. D Superintendent Elastic
y, Deer nis:-Aner suffering for thirty years. in
Metsic tTrus- procnrsbie in This country 9 and IN
i TWO Y ar; ago. applied your Itastte
fort and Satisfaction: ami been taught the nnth,
and o
and now after more than thirty years continuous
nracice. and having adjusted many Hundreds OF
T'usses (and for the last twenty his ours ex
clusvriyl gratefully declare II to be my deliber
ate opinion that Elastic Truss is the only one
entiten to the confidence OF the public; thai elias
tiGity Is the only power at all ap.ed 10 the re-
WINGED that your Elastic Truss actually cures y
large proporti Of all to which It IS az Piled
not only among Children. but numerous cases
within my own knowledge Of patients from % 10
IS years of age. H. RURNH I'M, M. D.,
Prof of Anatomy and Surgery. N. Y. 4. M9dicai
College.
Beware of cheap and worthless initiation Elastic
Trusses. W ich some parties advertise and sell
fraudulent1y representing thai they ale manufac
tured by the Elastic Truss co.
These Trusses are sent by mail to all parts of the
country. satisfaction gu 'rsnteei in all cases
Before purchasing any other write TOR Descriptive
Circular gree 10 the
ELASTIC TRUSS COMPANY.
6S3, Broadway, New York.