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THE WIFE.-It is astonishing tosee
how well a man may live on a smailin-
come, who has a handy and industr1as
wife. Some men live and make a-faI
better appearance on six or eight dollar
week than others do on fifteen ol
eighteen dollars. The man does his par
well, but his wife is good for nothing
She will even upbraid her husband fol
not living in as good style as her neigh
Dor, while the fault is entirely her own
His neighbor has a neat, capable and in
dustrious wife, and that makes the
difference. So look out young men be
fore you 60 into matrimony. 1t is lot
terry in which most men can only bur
one ticket, and if that turns out a blank
your whole life had better be blank toe
Luckily. no one need go into the welded
state with his eyes closed, as it is the cas-
with lotteries, and we judge all who an
sensible enough to use their optics mar
d aw prizes.
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"Dora" was being enacted in a west
ern city where the choice of actors is not
great, and Mary Morrison, on making
her exit to bring on her little Willie, of
four years, was shocked to find lubberly
boy of at least fourteen, who must COON,
as no other was to be had. The Farme r
Allen of the play was no doubt equally
shocked to see Mary coming upon the
stage with boy nearly as big as herself.
What was worse, the audience began 10
litter. But Farmer Allen was equal to
the emergency, and instead of asking
" How old are you, my boy?" said
:. How old are you. my strapping fellow"
probably hoping that the boy would
have the good sense to give an age more
suitable 10 his size. The boy, however,
with painful fidelity to the book, and in
a sepulchral voice that made the answer
more preposterous, said: Four TO five,
Forty five r' exclaimed
the other cheerfully; you look it, my
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From tie Toledo Blade.
SnectnItis. Medicine

We publish on our eighth page length
article describing the system of the mote
specialist, DR.. r. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y
in which he sets forth with considerable fore
and clearness his reasons for devoting hi
whole time and attention to single dena
ment OF medicine-the treatment of lingerin
chronic diseases. The same article also Ia L.
up the subjects of diagnosis, methods of cor
sultation and treatment etc, and will h
found to contain many valuable hints to tn
invalid. Dr. Pierce is the author of worI
which has already attained large circuls
ton" The Peoples Common Sense Mediea
Adviser containing some nine hundred
numerously illustrated pages, and devoted to
medicine in all Its branches, work well cal
culated for the guidance and instruction of
the people at large, and which may be had
for 81 80 (post-paid) by addressing the author.
DIR. Pierce has now been before the general
public long enough to enable the formation
of careful estimate of the efficiency of his
treatment and his medicines, and the YER
diet, we are glad to know, has been uniTer-
sally favorable to both.
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HOW F1SHION4BLE WOMEN SEND TO
WORTH FOR DRESSES.
\. Y. Cor. s.. Louis Repnhliean.

y. Y. Cor. St Louis Republican.
Very many ladies of this city send
regularly to the great man dressmaker,
Worth, in Paris, for their dresses, both
summer and winter. Do not for a mo-
ment suppose all these women have seen
Worth Not bit of it. A few have,
certainly, but the greater proportion
send a photograph to him, with de
scription of the complexion, the color of
hair, eyes, etc. 1t Is not an unfrequent
occurrence to have the photograph re-
turned to the owner with regrets at being
unable "to compose a toilette for Mad
anne" as editors return manuscript to
an author with a polite refusal to insert
the article in question. a lady of high
fashion in this city relates with comical
zest, as she is the heroine of the story,
how she went to Worth to have a num-
Der of dresses made. He asked her to
walk across the room. 1t was a medium
sized apartment. When she was about
half across, he called to her from the
sofa where he was sitting; Madame,
that is enough, cannot invent dress
for you your figure does not please me.
Good morning, Madame"
You remember the witty description
| that Taine gives Worth in his recent
Notes on Paris" A mother and
daughter in this city, charming women,
but newly rich, and over anxious about
dress, wear the most exquisite toilettes
of Worth's composition, which are en-
tirely unique. They have never been to
Paris or waddled through the Tuil-
cries." yet Worth has seen them-that is,
he has their life-size pictures; he admires
them, and sends them poetical and raw
ishing dresses. Go aud do likewise, if
you choose, my fair reader.
JOTTINNs OF THE MODE.
The polonaise seems to be gaining in
favor.
French lace is again in fashion for
black silks and black grenadines.
Narrow ribbons are used to trim dress
es, either of the same or a contrasting
color. They are laid on fiat in two or
more rows. 1t is an old style revived.
Plain percales and all wash goods are
trimmed with bias folds of the same ma
terial
Cashmere, ecru-color for over dresses,
Is becoming expensive in the demand for
it. They are trimmed with lace or
fringe of tue same color, and worn overa
black or brown velvet skirt.
In gentlcmen's hats there is the
beaver in light colors for dress, for
summer wear, also felt hats with a
striped band and straws of the approved
shapes.
Boys hats seem to have narrow brims.
They are all colors of straw and beaver.
A new device in wells are those which
are Melted both in black and white silk
This veil is large enough to trim the hat
and fall over the face.
The argus-eyed plume for ladies round
hats is a novelty. They are very long
and narrow, and covered with spots re-
sembling eyes
Ladies' riding and driving gloves are
of yellow dogskin.
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DE. scnEsck,s PuLMoxIc srRue. SEA WEED

DIR. ScHENcK's PULNoSIc SYRUP, SEA WEED
Toxic, AND Mandrake PILLs.-These medicines
have undoubtedly performed more Of Con-
sumption than any other remedy known to the
American public They compounded of vege-
table ingredients, and contain nothing which can
be injurious TO the human constitution Other REM
edes advertised as cures for Consumption probably
contain opium, which is a somewhat dangerous drug
in all cases, and taken freely by oonsumptive
patients, il must do great injury; for its tendency
is TO conhne the morbid matter in the system,
which, OF course. must make a cure impossible,
Schenek's PulmOnic Syrup is warranted not TO con-
tain particle Of opium. 1t is composed of powerful
but harmless herbs, which act the lungs, liver
stomach. and blood, and thus correct all morbid
seroeuons, and expel all the disesaed matter from
the body. These ara the only meaRs by which Con-
sumption can be cured and as Schenck's Pulmonc
Syrup, Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are tie
only medicines which operate in this way, il is
obvious they the only genuine cure for PulmOn-
airy Consumption. Each bottle Of this invaluable
medicine Is accompanied by full directions. DIR.
Schenck is professionally al his principal Office,
ner Sixth and Arch Streets Philadelphia, every
Monday, where all letters for advice must be adj
dressed.
+. HART Il CO., Nos. u, Is and ~ Tchoupi-
toulas St, New Orleans, Wholesale Agents
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soME cURIoUs FOUNr.4INs.

/ At Languedoc, in Switzerland, there
I is spring that flows every day for above
seven hours, and then stops for nearly
five hours, rising each day fifty minutes
later than the preceding one. The Bull
lern, fresh-water spring in Westphalia,
rises with a great noise. There is an
other at Colmars, in Provence, which
stops every seven minutes. One of the
most remarkable fountains of ancient
times, was one of which Diodorus Sicu-
lus and Herodotus have transmitted an
account. 1t was called the Fountain Of
the sun, aud was situated near the tenn
pie of Jupiter Ammon At the dawn Of
the day this fountain was warm, as the
day advanced it became progressively
cool, and at noon it was excessively cold.
At the setting of the sun it became again
warm, and continued to increase as the
evening proceeded, until midnight. when
it reached the extremity of heat; as the
morning advanced it grew again pro-
gressively cold. There was a fountain
equally curious in the forest of Dodona.
= aEs said 70. have had the n0vsE..Qsl
q torch. At nc Il it was dry /; at |
midnight full-from which time it
decreased until the following noon.
PbiIistratus mentions a fountain that
caused leprosy; Virtruvius speaks of
another, near Zama, in Numidia, that
gave unusual loudness to the voice; we
read of some that caused immediate
death; some. the loss of memory, and
some that restored it. Pliny speaks of
two fountains, one in Judea, the other
in Ethiopia. which, being impregnated
with sulphur, had the property of oil,
with respect 10 burning. Vitruvius inn
putes the same peculiarities to river in
Cilicia, and a fountain near Carthage.
Some writers mention a spring rising in
Mount Socrate, whose waters biled ,
every morning at the rising of the sun.
At Guilford, in Connecticut, there is Tor
was) a fountain, the water of which will ,
evaporate if corked in a bottle ever so {
securely
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SOUTHERN NEWS.

SEVERAL dozen wOoden-bottom conleuer-
ate army shoes, relics of the civil car, "a are
displayed in a Lynchburg, Va, store me
News SAYS the leather is of good quahey
the bottoms, of hard wood, are bound WIN
iron.
GEN. HARRY HETH has accepted the com
mand of the southern division of the ceI i,e
NAL legion, which was resinged by Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee.
HoN. A. H. STEPHENS hopes to take ms
seat in congress on July l.
SOUTH CAROLINA planters have purchased
since the first of March, this year, fully oVV''
600 bushels of western corn.
ONE year ago KiAble county, Texas, had
but dozen persons located within Its
limits; now it has eight hundred inhabitants
MCDEvITT, county treasurer of Eedgeheld
county, South Carolina, has fled the state,
carrying off with him 100000 of the people
money.
Mrs. JEANETTE WHEELE, living IN II
hngham county, Ga, is one hundred ana
twenty years of age, and yet she retains me
power of her mind and body to remarKa-
bic extent.
A CITIZEN of Lee county, Texas, visits
the centennial with a large collection OF
snakes, centipedes, tarantulas, scorpions,
horned frogs and other specimens OF the
reptiles and insects of Texas.
TIE Rome (Ga.) Courier tells the follow
ing; a party of gentlemen having sat down
to dinner, one of them, Col. Waddell, was
asked to say grace, and bowling his head,
said Lord, make US honest and rich -
An edltor who was present promptly re-
sponded: Amen. Give the colonel the
former and thy humble servant the latter, as
thou seest we need, and do it quickly"
The small grain crop from Dallas TO Nine
ola, Texas, along the line of the Texas and
Pacific railroad, will show most satisfacto-
ry yield. The acreage this season as com
pared with last year was increased fDm nifty
to two hundred and fifty per cent.
L. j. CALDWELL was murdered and robbed
in Smith county, Tenn, Jews days ago. He
was shot three times and his body thrown
into the river, where it fioated thirty miles
before it was discovered. The murderer y
unknown.
A SOUTH CAROLINA judge suggests
novel plan for preventing drunkenness. 1t
is this: Allow every person to sell as much
liquor as he wishes without license or tax
but require those who wish to drink to apply
for license, and 10 give notice of such appli.
cation by publication for one month in re-
spectacle newspaper, AID then, in case there
be no valid objection, to enter into good and
sufficient bond for good behavior, etc, be.
fore the license is granted.
THERE is on exhibition at Columbia, South
Carolina, a splendid silver-mOUnted gold
plated Saber the property of Gen. w ade Hamp-
ton, said to have been worn by his grandfather
other fields of the revolution. 1t is a yerv
handsome weapon, is incased in a sheath Of
tortOiseshell, which Is also rich in orna-
mentatiOn, and would be a valuable addi
ton 10 the collection of relics to be exhib-
ted at our centennial.
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TESUTICS NOTES BIZ GR1CE GREEN
WOOD

Grace Greenwood writes from Rome
that those terrible reports of an eruption
of Vesuvius are canards-decoy ducks to
bring in visitors. Old Vesuvius smoked
prodigiously, and now and then seemed
about to spit fire, streak of duh red
appearing in the columns of white and
gray; but all his threatening came to
naught, though everybody, especially
hotel-keepers, swore that an eruption was
imminent. Bu4 an eruption is little
more thought If in Naples than the dav
of judgment These easy-going Neapoli-
tans do not anticipate trouble. Only
few years ago many lives and houses
were destroyed by the lava floods that
poured over large tract of cultivated
mountain side and devastated the town
of Tore del Greco, but the waste places
are already redeemed and rebuilt. No
sooner does the cruel, treacherous old
monster cease to growl and spit out
fame than these amiable peasants nestle
down against him-warm themselves
anu DidDl Nlllte III btit oSiitS Oh MS de-
structions and coax him to ripen the
grapes by the smoldering fires of his
seething, plotting, wicked old heart. so
skeptical were the ladies of the party
about the threatened eruption they
climbed to the crater itself and gazed
into the mysterious, awful pit. After
the threatenings and the prophecies of
the winter, and the aUant courier of an
earthquake, an hour or moment might
usher in the awful event, and the hot
heart of the mountain might leap out at
their feet in a fountain of fire and stones,
two thousand feet high But is was not
the " fullness of time" The customary
egg was cooked in a jet of steam, few
fragments of lava were gathered, and the
gay party that had toiled terribly in
climbing up, over score of dead
eruptions, ran down the horrible steep
declivity like live lava streams to their
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The raising of money for what i
called ga skirmishing fund.-" with Wild
O'Donovan Rosa promises to secretB
harass England, proceeds more rapidb
than would be supposed possible. TIE
Irish World, in its last issue, acknowL
edges the receipt of 81 300 within week.
and prints the names and residences Of
the givers, who are mostly factory oper$
tives and other laborers in the small
cities. Women and children are it
cluded. Rosa is in California, making
speeches and soliciting subscriptions, and
the San Francisco papers denOunce hin
as a fraud
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1NrERNAL r,rPRovENENrs.

The Australians have built more than six
teen hundred miles of railways and over
twenty thousand miles of telegraph. These
are public works constructed and managed
by the state governments. As compared
with the seventy or eighty thousand miles of
railway in the United States, the Australian
always don't amount to much. But the
population Is only one-twentieth OF ours.
Mr.. Robinson informs me that the Austria
liam government would double her railway
mileage at once if they could only get men
to build their roads. They have plenty of
money, but nothing like enough labor to do
the rough work of a new country, such as
fencing, making dams and building railroads.
Unskiiled labOrers earn from eleven to
twelve dollars n week, and the cost of living
is IS cheap in Australia as it is hore, and in
some things, such as clothing, it is far
cheaper. 3 Nj. BOOTH.
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From Fort Abraham Lincoln cor

From Fort Abraham Lincoln comes
the story of fresh discoveries of limitless
goldfelds in the Deadwood region of the
Black Hills, where the impecunious can
shovel up gold at the rate of several cart
Ioais day. In view of the existing
difficulty of getting TO the Deadwood
country, it looks as if the parties who
communicate this intelligence were in
close partnership with the Indians in
the scalp business. The road Dead
wood is watched very carefully by the
knife and and clearing Sioux indians.
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WILHOFT's IONIC IA SAFE, SURE
AND SCIENTIFIC CURE!-The Unprecedented
sale of this world-renowned medicine proyes
incontestably that no remedy has superseded
the use of this reliable Tonic No spleenhas
been found so hard as not to yield to its
softening influence, and no liver so hyper
trophied as not to give up its long-retained
bilious secretIons, and no Chill or Fever has
yet refused to fall into line. q. r. FINIAY
IL Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
hOR SALE BY AL DRUGGISTs.i
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ter's feet from straying, and bound their
hearts together in afectionate sympathy
and confidence until death alone has
broken the tie, and then was left the
sweet influence of a devoted life as a
guiding star.
Mothers, have faith in your children!
= Sarah KeabIes Hunt, IN chronological
Journal
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TBE MOST lIIRTELOUS SUICIDE ON
RECORD.

James A. Moore, aged about thirty
five committed suicide at the Lair house
Lafayette, Ind, last week. He leaves
wife and three children. No cause is
known for the deed, The manner in
which it was accomplished is perhaps IN
paralleled in horrid ingenuity. He came
to the Lair house Saturday, said he was
perfecting an invention, and would prob
ably stay a week, but would visit his
home Monday, and prepaid his bill till
that time. lie called at the machine
shop of Harding Sons, had large new
hroad-ax and two bars of three inch wide
by one inch thick iron, sixteen inches
long, which he had riveted to the head of
the AK. On either side, fastened 10 these
bars in the shape of a handle to an ak,
he had a system of wooden bars eight
feet long, the extreme end Of which was
fastened to a croSpioce, secured to the
floor by hinges. The AK was raised and
held to its nearly perpendicular position
by double cord, fastened to the wall.
Between the cords stood a candle. ar
ranged 50 that when the candle burned
down to the cords it would burn them
off, and the AK fall. Where the AK would
strike he placed small box, open onone
side, in which when found, was his head
with some cotton, WHICH had been chic
reformed. His chin was held up from
his neck by stick run across the box,
through holes on either side, holding his
head firmly in position. lie was strap
ped tightly to the floor with two straps,
one around his legs, another about his |
arms and breast. The straps were both |
screwed to the floor, rendering it impos-
sible to move. 1t Is supposed that he
set his ak, lit the candle, and strapped
himself to the floor, put his head in the
box with the chloroformed cotton, and
vas probably insensible when the Ak fell
The ak and fxings would weigh about
fifty pounds, and would tall distanceof
rom ten to fifteen feet. His head was
severed from the body, and
he AK buried in the boards beneath
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1t is said that Hindoo weaver has
invented "a sort OF loom Iy which he
can sew coats and pantaloons. and all
other dresses whatever" and the process
by which this is done is thus described
by person who has personally Inspected
the invention; At first be cuts tho
cloth into shapes and puts these into his
loom; and they come out well sewed
and the seams are quite unperceivable
unless we touch them by our hands and
they are like thick threads. The cloth
are sooner and better sewed than by the
sewing-machine."
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If Johnson's Anodyne Imminent il

half as valuable as people say it is, no family
should be without it. Certainly no person,
be he lawyer, doctor, minister, or of any other
profession, should start on journey without
II. No sailor, fisherman, or woodsman should
be without it. In fact, it is needed wherever
there is an ache, sprain, cut, bruise, cough or
cold
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Sci Ion, one hundred doilses =
when George Clarke was in New Or
he had one hundred and twenty-five
dollars and one hundred and fifty dollars
week, John Gilbert one hundred and
fifty dollars; Wm. Dayidge, one hundred
dollars u. Ra' kins, one hundred and
twenty-five dollars; james Lewis, one
hundred and fifty dollars; Stuart Rob
son, one hundred and fifty dollars /;
Harry Beckett, one hunded and fifty
dollars c. r. Thoane, Jr., two hundred
and fifty dollars; John BrOugham, two
hundred dollars; B. J. Montague, two
hundred and twenty-five dollars; Charles
Fisher, one hundred and fifty dollars;
c. A. Stevenson, seventy-iive dollars, J.
w. Carroll, seventy-fve dollars; Mr.
Floyd seventy five dollars as actor and
twenty five dollars as stage manager.
All these salaries are paid for seasons OF
eight months. Leading men like ThOrne,
Brougham and Davidge have annual
benefits" in addition to their salaries
John Brougham netted eleven hundred
dollars by his recent benefit at the Fifth
Avenue. Thorne made one thousand
dollars by his benefit at the Union
Square, while the genial Tooker sur
passed them both at his recent benefit,
by which he netted three thousand dol
lars.
George Rignold, during his engage
ment here, was paid two hundred and
fifty dollars in gold, week. Mr.. Soth-
ern plays on shares. one-half of the house
after expenses; and Lawrence Barrett
gets the same terms, and seven hundred
and fifty dollars a week when on salary.
Edwin Booth is the only American &C
tor who gets clear one-half of the house,
to use theatrical phrase-meaning half
the gross receipts. While playing un-
der engagement 10 Mr. Ford, recently. in
the south, Mr Booth got six hundred
dollars night salary. George Fawcett
Rowe gets two hundred dollars a week.
George Honey got two hundred and fifty
dollars, gold, night Z. /. Davenport
gets five hundred dollars n week. Fech-
ter used to get one thousand dollars
week, but does not now. Joseph Jeffcr-
son was once paid as much as thirty-hye
hundred dollars a week, and his mana
gers were said to have made money by
his engagements. Miss Charlotte Cush-
man used to have half the whole house.
Miss Adelaide Nelson used to get one
thousand dollars week; she now gets
half the whole house. Mrs. Rousby,
when she was here, got one thousand dol
lars, gold, a week. Lester Wallack, when
playing under salary engagement to his
father, used to get one hundred and
twenty-five dollars as actor, and twenty
five dollars as stage manager. Barney
Williams used to play on shares. Mr..
md Mrs. Florence together, get five hun /
lred dellars week, when on salary.
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CHAPPED hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, ialtrheum, and other cutaneous sfec
tons cured and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap Be care
full TO get only that made by Caswell, Hazare
& Co, New York, as there are many imita-
tons made with common tar, all of which
are worthless.
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FARMERS and q Horse Men" are con-
tinuaily inquiring what we know of the utll-
ity of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders,
and in reply, we would say, through the
columns of this paper, that he have heard
from hundreds who have used them with
gratifying results; that IS also our experience
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Ar our request, Cragin & Co., of Phil
adelphia, Pa, have promised to send any
OF our readers gratis Con receipt OF 10
cents to pay postage), sample OF DOB
bins Electric Soap ID try. Send at once.