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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-15
u. r. KunkeIs BITTER wine OF Iron


This truly valuable tonic bns been % thor
Oughly ties ted by all claescs II the con fuBilJ
that II Is now leeIned Indispensable b. tome
medicine. IT. costs but Ittle, purilics the
blood and gives tone to the stomach, renoyates
the system and prolongs lie Everybody
should baveit,
For the cure Of Weak StOmachs, General De-
bility, Indigestion. Diseases VI the Stomach
and for all cases requiring tonic.
This wine includes the most agreeable AMI
efficient salt OF iron We possess C itrae OF
magnetic oxide combined in the most ener-
getic Of all vegetable tonics-TellOw Peruvian
Bark.
DO you want something to strengthen you
Doyou want good appetite
DO you want 10 get ria Of nervousness
Do you want energy
DO you want 10 sleep well
DO you want TO build up your cOnstitut on
DO you want to feel well
DO you want brisk and vigorous fCslingP
If you DO, try kUNXEL's BITTER wiSE
OF IRON.
only ask trial of this great medicine!
Beware Of counterfeits, As kunkei6 Bitter
Vince. Iron Is the only sure and eIrciual
remedy in the known world Tor the permanent
cure of Dyspepsia and Debility ,aad b. there are
a number Of limitations offered 10 the public,
| would caution the community 10 purchase
none but the genuine article, manufactured Wy
OF every bottle. The very tsct tnst Others are
trying 10 initiate this valuable medicine, proves
us worth and speaks yoluincs 10 II favor. Get
the genuine. T.. i kunkel's
sold only in 81 bottles. sold By dTuggists
and dealers every where. h.. b. hunkel, Pro-
prietor, 80 North Ninth street, Philadelphia.
Pa.
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GUARANTEED SPECULA'
TION.

$500 invested by us in 80 days Straddles
have made az, $50 800 have paid ~, 700
IN az, Javs We Guarantee all 90 day Straddles
Money refunded Il no profit is made. References
given. Correspondence solicited. on
e' HUBBELL 4 co.
Members New York Stock Exchange,
Is Broad Stree
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-15
TAPE WORN REMOVED ALIVE.

Head and all complete in two hours. No
lee till head passes. Seat, Pin and stomach
Worms removed by Dr. kunEel, go North
SiDih street. PhIlaielpEia, Pa. Send for cir.
ciilar OF ASK you druggist for bottle Of BT.
kHnkel's Wsrm Syrup. II never falls. Prcn "
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-15

iIlSkLE 4 THIsTLEWOOD--
ii Cotton and Tobacco Factors aud pro-
prietOrs Of the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse.
Ii 4 ~ COMMERCIAL Avenue.
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DEPOSITs received and general BANKING
- business done
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
DR.. Mary Walker StilL WarIfke.

DR.. Mary Walker was one of those
who joined the throng paying homage to
Governor Hampton in his recent visit
to Washington. She endeavored, but
without success, to persuade some one of
the walters to carry her card to Governor
Hampton's room. Finally she espied
Senator Gordon, and asked him to secure
her an interview, but he informed her
that Governor Hampton's time was SO
much occupied that he could not see any
one. But this would not satisfy DIR.
Mary, and she planted herself at the foot
of the stairs to intercept Governor Hamp-
ton as he came down. Colonel Cake, the
proprietor of the hotel, went to her and
told her she must leave. She said this
was insulting, and he replied that if she
would dress in the apparel of her sex she
would not expose herself to insult. Al
this she drew back and aimed her cane
at the Colonel, who retreated in good
order. Then, after giving him little
piece of her mind, she departed. Tht
coast being clear Governor Hampton
then came down stairs, and he ant
-Senator Gordon took ride around tn
city.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
Mise7.Ies of Has9saasa Life.

l. On your entrance at formal din
ner party, on reaching up your hat to a
high peg in the hall, bursting your coat
from the armpit to the pocket.
2. On leaving the house where you
have been visiting, finding that rascal
has taken your new hat and left you his
old one, which either wabbles over your
eyes and ears or perches on the top of
your head.
8. In shuf1ing the cards-your party
all strangers-squashing them together,
breaking their edges and scattering them
in all directions.
4. Chasing your hat through muddy
street, fresh gust always whisking it
away at the moment of seizing it.
5. A car window that will not be put
down when it is up, or up when it is
down.
6. Briskly stopping to pick ups lady's
fan at the same moment when two other
gentlemen are doing the same, and so
making a cannon of your head against
both Of theirs-and this without being
the happy man after all.
z. While you are swallowing a berry
discovering by its taste that you have
occasioned the death of harmless in.
I sect.
s. Being on the brin-on the bri-on
the bri-on the brink of sneezing for s
quarter of an hour, and yet with all youl
gasping never able to compass it.
| 9. The interval between the dentist.
confession that your tooth will be very
difficult to draw and the commencement
of the attempt.
10. To fall victim, spelling youl
clothes and your temper.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
HOaU to AVOtd a Be0tinU.

A woman who had suffered barbarous
beatings from her husband, went to
noted wise man of the village to know
how she might cure these paroxysms of
violence. The soothsayer heard her COM
plant; and after pronouncing some hard
words and using various gesticulations
while he filled vial with a mysterious
mixture, desired her, whenever her hus-
band was in passion, to take amouthfnl
of the liquor, and keep it in Eer mouth
for five minutes. The woman, quite
overioyed also simple remedy, strictly
followed the counsel which was given
her, and escaped the usual chastisement.
The contents of the bottle being at last
expended, she returned to the wise man,
and anxiously begged to have fresh
supply of the same liquid. "You foolish
woman" said the soothsayer, there was
nothing in the bottle but brown sugar
and water. When your husband is in a
passion, hold your tongue, and my life
! for it, he will not lay finger on YOU"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
The Fer0ctosss shark.

1t may not be particularly interesting
to our readers to know why the shark is
by nature very fierce animal; still
there are men who delight to study such
subjects, and dwell at length upon the
ferociousness of those monsters, as one
has in a late number of the Science
Monthly, and he tells us that two things
contribute to the sharks determined
tierceness. In the first place, we may
efer to his teeth, for of these engines of
destruction Nature has been to him par
ticularly bountiful; and this species of
bounty he has peculiar pleasure in ex-
ercising. If he could speak, he would
probably tell us that, besides being
troubled with his teeth, which he could
not help keeping in use, he had been
gifted with enormous abdominal viscera,
and that, more particularly, third OF
his body is occupied by spleen and liver.
The bile and other digestive juices which
are secreted from such an immense ap-
paratus, and poured continually into
the stomach, tend to stimulate appetite
prodigiously; and what hungry animal
with good teeth, was ever tender
hearted? In truth, sharks appetite
can never be appeased; for, in addition
to this bilious diathesis, he is not 8
careful masticator, but, hastily bolting
his food, produces thereby, not only the
moroseness of indigestion, but a whole
host of parasites, which goad, as well al
irritate the intestines to that degree tina
the poor squalus is sometimes quite be
side bimself from the torments, anG
rushes, like blind Polyphemus, through
the waves, in search of anything to cram
down his NAV that may allay sucl
urgent distress. He does not seek to b,
cruel; but he is cruelty famished. 81
is not l." expostulates the man in tn,
crowd, that is pushing; it is other
behind me-" The poor wretch mus
satisfy, not only his own ravenous ap
petite, but the constant demand of thes
internal parasites, either with dead o
living food !; and therefore it is that
sped as from a catapult, he pounces on
quarry, and sometimes gorges himsel
beyOnd what he is able to contain.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
Presents for ass Emperor.

The Emperor of Germany received a
Brunswick sausage six feet high for a
birthday present, gigantic aquarium
containing sea of transparent jelly, with
eighty fishes ready for the table, and an
Easter egg of corn flowers and hyacinths
reaching to the roof of the hall. The
German sovereigns presented to His Ma
jesty a huge oil painting by Warner,
commemorating His Majesty's proclama-
ti0n as German Emperor at Versailles on
the 18th of January, 1871. The paint
ing contains several hundred portraits.
Among the other gifts to the Emperor,
there was an engraving by Prince Henry
and book bound by Prince Waldemar,
the two younger sons of the Crown
Prince. Under the thrifty habits of the
dynasty, each of its Princes. in order to
become acquainted with the popular
aspect of life, has to learn craft. The
Crown Prince is a compositor, and the
Emperor himself glazier.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
A Drug1ist's 8 Confession.
cincinnati Cummercial.l

Yes" said he, "people in my busi-
ness, like people in other walks of life,
have their strange experiences. l had
one that occurred to me at my store.that
forcibly illustrates the ingenuity of the
average American dead beat, who has q
point to carry and means to do it, the
pertinacity as well as the ingenuity.
"This fellow came in while I was on
watch one evening. He was bright,
intelligent fellow, talked glibly about
drugs, said he kept drug store in some
place in Indiana, had come in on an
evening train, and in his trip up the
street had been waylaid, knocked down
and robbed, by two men who had sprung
out upon him from an alley. This ac-
counted for his black eye and the fact
he had no money about his person. He
had come here to buy stock of drugs,
soaps, liquors, etc. He had sent home
for more money. In the meantime he
wanted to look around and find the goods.
What he particularly wanted to get was
a cheap assortment. Stores like mine,
he remarked, often had on hand an old
stock of stuff that would not sell in the
city, but would 60 off well enough in a
village store. In the first place he
wanted to hunt up the soaps. l hap
pened to remember that I had lot of
old soaps on hand, and I went to the
trouble to go down in the cellar and
look through it. We talked the matter
over and finally struck bar
gain that was satisfactory to both. He
told me that l might make the packages
up for shipment by express, and that we
could arrange further along how I was
to be paid-whether was to send them
G. o. D. or he should pay me personally.
"Henext wanted some whisky-about
ten gallons. I had some that could let
him have at about four dollars gallon,
1 thought. He said he was Judge; so
1 poured him out a dose in glass. He
held it up in the light, to look at the
color and the bead; then he slipped a
little of it, allowed it to rest in his
mouth, smacked his lips over it, and
finally drank it off, and pronounced it a
very fair article. He concluded that he
would take tea gallons of it. He then
commenced talking about drugs, and
said he would come around the next day
to make up his stock, if he found what
suited him. Then he started for the
door, but he halted and came back, and
remarked that he guessed he'd take an
other taste of that whisky; he wanted
to see if he had been deceived about the
aftertaste that it left in his mouth. ]
had begun to have my suspicious of the
fellow, and now I dropped remarked,
6 You are dead-beat; get out of this
store And he got. That fellow had
gone through all that business-with my
assistance-for one drink of whisky and
he wanted another. 1t was better
whisky than he had been in the habit Of
drinking"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19

and reported, and for an hour all was
quiet. The boy was beginning to hope
that they had withdrawn for good, when
a savage appeared in view on the left and
wanted to hold a talk. He INDUCED in
furious gestures, danced around, and
made every effort to attract Kings at
tention to him, and then keep it there.
"White boy very brave-won't hurt
white boy-like to talk with brave white
boyp he called out as he danced
around.
Meanwhile the rest of the band were
sneaking up from the other direction,
calculating on shooting King in the back
as he watched the single Indian. He
suspected the trick, saw them coming,
and drawing fair bead on the talker,
dropped him dead as a crow-bar. Those
skulking up numbered four, being all
the Indians left alive and unwounded
out of the nine first sighted. They did
not rush as the boy expected. On the
contrary, they hurriedly retreated, and
but little time was lost by them in get
ting out of the neighborhood. The boy
waited until three o'clock in the after
noon before leaving his retreat, and then,
his clothing stiff with blood, he pursued
his journey, reaching his brothers camp
about dark in safety. The men would
not credit his story, though the three
wounds were plain proof of a bloody con-
test. The next day band of dozen
went over to the scene of the fight, and
when they had taken survey they
could no longer doubt the boys story.
They found trails of blood everywhere
around the position, and trails in the
snow where the dead Indians had been
dragged along, and the defense
was voted one of the bravest ever made
against the savages. A boy without sign
of beard, and looked upon as hardly fit
to carry pistol around, had wounded OF
destroyed five out of nine redskins who
had anticipated securing his scalp with
out firing more than one shot. 1t wasn't
enough for the miners to pat the boy on
the back and give him all due praise, but
to further honor and distinguish him
they called him The Man from Mich.
igan." There are other men from Mich.
igan there, but young King has the sole
honor of being" the man." and of being
looked upon as the representative of the
Wolverine State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
Vitality and Cunning OF the Locust.
TCorrespondepce of the Milwaukee News


In 1865 1 made experiments to see
how soon locusts would drown. After
confning them in water twelve hours
they soon showed signs of life when
placed in the sunshine, and in a few
minutes began TO move. I tried freezing,
and came to the conclusion that they
could be frozen up any length of time,
and the warm sunshine would revive
them. In 1S47 tried animal poisons to
see what effect they would produce on
I locusts. I put the poison on celery,
which the locusts prefer to other vege-
tables, and after observing the effect
formed the opinion that they could eat
their weight of any animal poison with
out i'll effect to them. AS soon as they
Matched out and began eating in April,
1875, took can of coal oil and a pan
for the purpose of making fagot to burn
some that had just began to eat my
wheat, coming, from sandy knoll in the
field. poured the oil in the pan, and
in moving about the pan caused two or
three to leap into it. Iperceived that
they changed color instantly, and to all
appearance were dead. 1 then forced
them in and observed the same results.
On placing them in the sunshine it failed
to bring them to life again. afterward
tried coal-tar with the same happy re-
suit. Turpentine, alcohol, alkai and
croton oil will kill them, and from the
results OF my experiments I believe that
anything that will kill vegetable life
will destroy locust life under the same
conditions.
know no insect that exhibits the cum
ming of locusts after they are four weeks
old. When very young they appear te
have no sense, as they will leap into
water or fire if in their course. After
four weeks old they will perform acts O
cunning that are incredible to the unob
serving. In 1875, after they ate my
neighbor's crop on the east, they setou
for my field. turned water between hi
and my field, and caused it to flow fou
or five feet wide in places, and let it flow
through the wheat ten or fifteen feet wild
in places. I soon found them crossin,
by thousands, swinging from blade #
blade of the wheat that stood in the run
ming water. l then cut the wheat out
but at the junction of ditch l had let
two fence poles in the form of letter V
, the lover ends crossing near the water @
, the creek, and the upper ends on eithe
side of the ditch. They soon found mas
, sage, and would and did climb down
y pole fifteen feet long over the water {
Bear Creek, and up the other pole int
+ my field. They were making the pa
sage in one continuous stream when
q made the discovery, and the ground an
4 wheat were covered near the passage b
=, those that had crossed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
Curious Clocks.
Troy (New York; Times.


1t is almost an impossibility to state
who was the individual that invented
the clock; and a great deal of the
obscurity attaching to the early history
of clocks is due to the fact that formerly
the term horologium was applied to
sun-dial or a clock indiscriminately
thereby rendering it task of the utmost
difficulty to state at what particular
period it came to mean clock. Julius
Caesar found Clepsydree, or water-clocks,
in Britain when he carried his arms
thither, and it was by them he observed
that the nights in England were shorter
than those in Ita.y. There have been
some wonderful and curious clocks con-
structed. The Persian King, Haroun-ai-
Raschid, presented the Emperor Charlie
magne water-clock, whereof Gifard, in
his History of France" gives the fol-
lowing description: "The dial was COM
posed of twelve small doors, which repre-
sented the division of the hours; each
door opened at the hour it was intended
to represent, and out of it came the same
number of little balls, which fell, one by
one, at equal distances of time on bass
drum. 1t might be told by the eye what
hour it was by the number OF doors that
were open, and by the ear the number of
balls that fell. When it was twelve
o'clock twelve horsemen in miniature
issued forth at the same time, and,
marching round the dial, shut all the
| doors"
There is curious old clock at Lubbock,
constructed about A. ID. 1889. This
ancient piece of mechanical skill is
placed near the main altar, and has a
huge and bewildering complicated dial.
showing the second, minute, hour, day,
month, year and relative position of the
moon and planets all at once. On q
miniature semi-circular gallery above
the dial is the figure of Christ seated or
throne. With the last stroke of twelve
melodious chimes play verse of some
hymn, and at the same time little dool
on the right of the gallery opens and s
figure in apostolic garb appears, advanc
ing slowly until it reaches the throne
when it turns and bows before tht
Savior, and then goes on again, disap
pearing through a door on the left
Eleven apostles pass through in this man
ner, but the twelfth, who is said to b
Judas, only shows his face, when the doc
is shut on him. On each are bas-relief
illustrative of passages in the life Q
Christ. In that of the last supper nous
isseen peeping from beneath the armorla
T bearings of the once puissant Lubeck
formerly the head of the famous Hanses
tic League, formed there in 1854.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
NUMBER 2.
Origiss of the POSTAGE STAMP.

The postage stamp was born in London
on the 10th of January, 1910, and Eng
land employed it alone for ten years.
France adopted it on the 1stof January,
1849, and Germany in 1850. According
to NJ. Alphonse Esquiros, it was curious
incident that gave rise to the idea of post
age stamps. A traveller was crossing about
forty years ago, a district in the north
of England. He arrived at the door of
an inn where a postman had stopped to
deliver letter. A girl came out to
receive it; she turned itover and over in
her hand and asked the price of postage.
This was large sum, and evidently the
girl was poor, for the postman demanded
shilling. She sighed sadly, and said
the letter was from her brother, bat that
she had no money; and so she returned
it to the postman. The traveller was a
man who had rambled about the earth
for instruction and observation. Having
a good heart, he offered to pay the post
age on the letter, and in spite of the re-
sistance of the young girl paid the shil-
ling. This resistance made him reflect.
Scarcely had the postman turned his
back, than the innkeeper's young daugh-
ter confessed that it was trick between
her and her brother. Some signs marked
on the envelope had told her all that she
wanted to know, but the letter contained
no writing.
"We are both poor" she added, "and
so we invented this mode of correspond
ing and preparing our letters" The
traveller continuing his road, asked him
self if system giving place to such
frauds was not vicious one.
The sun had not set before Mr.. Row
land Hill Chat was the name of the
traveler) had planned to organize the
postal service upon new basis. He said
that in England, where family ties are
strong, and where the members often
live far apart, where, too, the spirit OF
commerce knows no limits, the cores.
pondence was only limited by the cost
of the post; and that by lowering this
barrier, great service would be rem.
dered to society without hurting the
resources of the treasury. These views
were agreed to by the English Govern.
ment. and on the 10th of January not
more than penny was paid for letters
which circulated over the whole extent
of the British Isles. This bold scheme
soon surpassed the hopes of the leg
islators. Ten years later, in 1850, the
number of letters increased from 800,
600 to 7,239, 1862. Mr.. Rowland Hill oc
cupied in England the post of Secretary
to the Postmaster General.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
DAVID GREYs ESTATE.
nv ELrzAnETH CUMMINGS.

Over his forge bent David Grey,
And thought Of the rich man cross the way.
Hammer and anvil for me " be said.
" And weary toll for the ehildren's bread.
For him soft carpets and pictured walls,
A life Of ease In his spacious halls"
The elang Of bellsOn his dreaming broke;
A flicker Of fame, a whirl Of smoke.
On in travis, forge grown white-hot,
oat and hat were alike forgot,
As up the highway, the blacksmith ran,
10 face and mien like q crazy man.
School house a Are i'' Mems hearts stood still
And the women prayed as women will.
While 'bove the tumult the vailing cry
OF frightened ehildren rose shriil and high.
Night In its shadows bid sun and earth;
The nch man sat by his costly hearth.
Lord Of vide acres and untold gold,
But wifeless, childless forlorn and old,
He thought Of the family 'crsss the way;
Il would, !" he sighed, "I were David Grey"
The blacksmith knelt at his children's bed
To look once more at each smiling head.
any darling all safe Oh God, ;" he cried,
"Ny sin in thy boundless mercy hideI
Only to-day have learned how great,
Hath been thy bouuty, and my estate"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-04-19
TIE UNNOTICED BOUND.

When, passing south ward, may cross the line
Between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans,
may not tell, by any test Of mine,
BY any startling signs, strange connections
Across my track.
But II the days grow sweeter, one by one,
And cen the icebergs melt thei- hardened ia aees
And sailors linger basking In the sun,
Know must have m ade the change Of places
some distance back.
when, answering timidly the Masters call,
passed the bourne Of life 10 coming to him,
When IN my love for him gave up all
The very moment when thought knew hun;
cannot tell.
But as Increasingly feel his love-
As this cold heart is melted TO o'erfowing-
As now 70 dear the light comes from above,
wonder at the change-and move on, knowing
That all Is well.
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