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III Cost Of Congressional Investigations.

BY the annual report of the Secretary
Of the Senate for the expenditures Of
the Forty-fourth Congress, it is shown
that the Investigations made by the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections last winter, in regard to the
Presidential election in Louisiana,
South Carolina, Florida, and Oregon,
and the incidental inquiries into the va
lidity of certain questioned electoral
votes, cost the Government sos, 2l2. S4.
This includes witness fees, mileage,
the expenses of the committees who
went to the States named, and covers
all the expenses except the printing of
the testimony.
Boutwell's investigation into the cleo
ton of 1875 in Mississippi cost $6,s3l.
The Chinese Commission, which
went to San Francisco in 1876, and
from which no report was ever made,
cost 81, 1888.
The Monetary Commission and Jones'
silver report cost $4,000.
The Belknap impeachment trial cost
the Government $1l, 5S3, of which 1897
was for telegraphing alone.
In the Summers of 1876 and 1877 the
Senate spent 81, 1874 for lemonade alone.
Pinchback received $l6, 096. 90 as pay
for contesting his seat in the Senate.
OF this $500 6 80 was his salary as SEN
ator from March A, 1873, when he first
presented his credentials, until March
s, 1877, when the vote rejecting his Gre
dentials was taken. In addition, he re-
ceived mileage for 1864 miles for three
sessions, amounting to 1892 each ses-
sion. Eustis receives pay from March
s, 1876, the date to which P%inchback
WAS mid.
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VEGETINE
Is THE GREAT
FAMILY Nj DICIN L
AND
HEALTH
DEBILITY.

Debility is q term used TO denote deficiency
Of blood. The nutritive constituents OF the blood
are in less than their regular prop rtion, while
the watery part is In Excess. Debility Is OF ire
quent occur ence. 1t is incident TO q variety OF
diseases. The lower limbs are apt TO be swol-
len. The pa lent is feeble, and cannot bear
much exertion. The circulation is irregular,
but almost always weak. Palpitation Of the
heart is a very common symptom. Violent emo
ton often throws the heart into the most
tumultuous action. The vital functions are
languidly performed. The muscular strength
is diminished; fatigue follows moderate or
slight exercise. The breathing, though quiet
when at rest, becomes hurried and evrn palm
fully agitated under e%xertion, as In running,
ascending heights, &C. The nervous sys EN- IS
often greatly disordered. Vertigo, dizziness,
and a feeling OF faintness, are very common.
Violent and obstinate neuralgia pains In the
head, side, breast, or other parts OF the BODY,
are also frequent attendants upon the disease,
The secretl0ns are sometimes diminished. In
females the menses are almost alwayS.elther
suspended or very partla ly performed. The
bile is scanty and costiveness, W th unhealthy
excavations from the bowels, and dJspeptc
state OF the stomach, are extremely common
symptoms.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

TO KEEP IVORY HANDLES WHITE
The whiteness may be restored to ivory
handles as follows: Wash with soaped
flannel and lukewarm water; then
wipe very dry; soak them occasionally
in alum water that has been boiled, and
allow to cool; let the handles lie for
one hour in this; then remove them
and brush them well (say with a nail
brush; y after this take a clean linen
towel, dip it in cold water, squeeze it
out, and while wet wrap it around the
handles, leaving them in it to dry
gradually, as If dried TOO rapidly out
of the alum water the handles will be
injured.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

knowledge does not comprise all that
Is contained In the large term OF educa-
ton. The feelings are TO be disciplined /;
the passions are to be restrained; true
and worthy motives are TO be inspired ;
a profound religious feeling to be In.
stalled; and pure morality inculcatei
under all circumstances. All this Is
comprised in education.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

MONEY IN FRUrT.-The high price OF
apples gives the steady-going fruit
growers another benefit. Taking ten
or even five years together there is
more profit from the orchard than from
any other crop. The apple is the real
standby among fruits. 1t is wanted
throughout the whole year, and Is the
least liable 10 disease and failure. The
judicious farmer plants with his eyes
on the market, in selecting his varie-
ties; he chooses the most sheltered To-
cality and favorable soil he looks out
and has young trees growing to take the
place of his veterans, and he takes care
of his orchard.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

TEE practical part Of farming N win
ter is to make all the stock comfortable,
and to keep it thriving; to keep the
woodpile growing; to split rails for
fencing, and to repair fences; to clear
land and pillow the same; to remove
stumps, stones and logs from the fields,
and to do a hundred other similar things
that can be done better now than at
any other time. If such work is done
now, twill not have to be done at some
future time when other work Is press
ing.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

ORCHARD GRASS, Kentucky blue grass,
and white clover, and If the ground is
low or moist add red top, and you will
have the finest and best productive pas
ture known among extensive stock.
growers, as 1t requires no r~eseeding,
but improves in quantity or quality
carrying more stock each year, invalu-
able for woods or pastures, and should
be extensively sowH in burnt forests.
Leaving out the orchard grass Gas 1t is
too rank and rapid a grower,) you have
the best mixture that can be formed for
lawns, yards, etc.
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ShnnnInP at Home.

One Of the greatest conyeniences TO ladies'
DESTROYS OF purchasing Dry Goods, much lower
than the regular market price, is tho mail or
der system carried on by H. y. Devices, Us
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Ladies can. upon application by letter, get
samples and order goods, which they can rely
upon as being just the same as would be given
them over the counter.
This house buys only for cash, and attends
all the great trade sales, 30 that the retail price
of their goods is frequently less than the goois
are sold at Wholesale. Their business n almos
exclusively in Ladies Wear. They have ony
one pr.ce-No Variation.
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TOUGH MEAT-How TO UTILIZE IT.
A steak that resists the sharp iDcisive
blows of the FOUNDER or chopping
knife; in boiling or frying, increases
in bulk, and deties mastication-that
steak is beyond redemption. Coax it
into a stew. A roast of doubtful tender.
ness may be improved by adding
more water, seasoning higher, basting
o%ftener, and diminishing somewhat the
heat of the oven.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

BLACK FRUIT CAKE.--One pound butter
and one pound white sugar, beaten to a
cream; beat well the yolks of twelve
eggs, and stir all together; add half a
pound of flour; stir in well; then one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, two tea
spoonfuls nutmeg, one t~easpoonful
cloves; stir well; then the beaten
whites of the eggs, with another half.
pound of -four, n wineglassful brandy,
one pound currants well washed and
drained, one pound of raisins seeded
and chopped, one-half pound of citron
cut in thin pieces; mix all together.
This will make two cakes. Bake two
hours or longer; bake in deep tins lined
with well buttered paper.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

THE Use OF SALERATUs DISCOURAGED.
The free use of saleratus, so much
consumed in bread, is excessively in
furious to the human system. 1t is
particularly liable to induce muscular
prostration OF paralysis, and is sure to
injure the digestive organs. OF course,
it is most fatal to children. whose deli
cate organization is more sensitive than
that of grown persons.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

DOVER CAKE.-Six eggs, one-half
pound of butter, one pound of sugar,
one cup of milk, one-half teaspoonful
of soda and one of cream-tartar, n
pound of flour, wineglass of brandy /;
nutmeg if liked.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

MRS. GENERAL SHERMAN, wife Of the General
of the United States Army says: Il have fire.
quently purchased Durang's Rheumatic Rem
edy for friends suffering with rheumatism.
and in every instance it worked like magic"
Sold by all druggists. Send for circular to
Helphenstine q Bently, Druggists, Washing
ton, D. @.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

"Do o know that extensively
dressed lady thereP" said a young man
to his friend at a ball the other night,
pointing as he spoke to an exceedingly
fashionable married belle. eyes; what
about herr" was the reply. "That is
the m that our friend Colonel
tried SO hard to win for his wife-but
he lost her; and now there is only one
other person who is as miserable as the
Colonel is" And who is that other
personp" "The lady's husband" was
the reply.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14
Skin Diseases,

All those troublesome scaly, itching, pimply,
blotchy, humid eruptions OF the skin, d nom
mated letter, E~rySipelds, Acne, ETC., that are
SO unsightly and annoying, ere quickly and
effectually cured by the simpl1 application OF
HteskeUs Tetter Ointment a remedy that has
proved itself to possess wonderful healing
powers, curing hundreds Of cases that had re-
sisted all other treatment, even that OF the
best professional talent Of the country, II
only needs q trial TO prove it's virtues Sold 90
cents per box sent by mail for 60 cts.
JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY Co., COZ Arch st., PhilA
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

PUMPKIN PIE.-Pare the pumpkin,
CRATE it, and add sugar and ginger to
taste, and milk enough to make it of
the proper consistency. Then line your
tins with pie crust, put in your pump
kin, and bake In the ordinary way.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

shave you tried the blue glass remedy
YETI" asked Smith of Jones. NO.
said Jones, "that is, only indirectly
"My milkman, judging from the color
of his milk, is trying it on his COWS
and so Indirectly ON me-"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

"BoB, CAN you tell me why I'm like
the o when it is twenty-three days
oldP" Bob couldn't tell, and the ques-
toner explained: "Because I've passed
my last quarter" A small loan was
advanced Immediately.
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motbers. mo,ners. Mothers.

Dent fail TO procure MRS. WINSLOw'S
SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and by giving relief and health to the child,
piyes rest 10 the mother
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

A MAYOR out West has determined to
kill half the dogs in the city, and tan
their hides with the bark OF the other
half.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

If A RESIDENT of a city is a citizen,
and he who lives in the country is a
countryman, does 1t necessarily follow
that the man who lives in a burg is a
burglar.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14
What q Dr. Says.

1t affords me pleasure to state that Durang'f
Rheumatic Remedy gives splendid satisfaction
1t is the only remedy | prescribe for rheuma'
tism. 1t never fails.
GEO. II. WALKER. NJ. D.,
Staunton, Va.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

FREEi LEISURE HOURS IA splendid 10 page
family literary paper, full or choice stores,
sketches, poetry, etc, sent three months, with
a pair OF beautiful 6Xs chromos, and worthy 10
adorn the wall Of any home. free TO any one
sending Is cts. Stamps taken) TO pay IN lling
expenses. The publishers, j. L. Patten & Co.,
l62 william Street, N. Y, guarantee every one
Double Value or money sent. $1,000 in prizes
and big pay given to agents.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

To CURE CoRNs.-Bathe the corn with
strong borax water, then shave 1t
closely, but be careful not to make it
bleed. Place owe the corn a white felt
corn-plaster and wear 1t constantly
until the corn has disappeared. Every
night and morning wet the small cavity
over the corn (and in the plaster) with
a little borax water, or if preferable the
pulp Of a lemon. The corn-plasters can
be procured at any druggists.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

A YOUNG lawyer solemnly asked a
witness: "What has been the reputa-
ton Of your son since his birth"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

A bed of emphotide has been dis
covered by Alphonse Favre On the
Allelin Mountain, in the upper part of
the Saas Valley, neal Mount Rosa. 1t
is formed of saussurite and diallage.
The discovery is valuable, as it throws
light upon the origin of the blocks OF
eupotide which are found dispersed
over the plain once occupied by the
Rhone glacier.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

Migration Of Insects.-Professor Riley
regards the migration of insects as due
to their multiplying more rapidly than
their means Of support. The migrations
OF rats are attributed to the same cause,
and similar observations have been
made as to other animals. Many in
sects that are moi normally of a migra-
tory tendency, exhibit it when pressed
by dearth of food. In these cases they
collect together and migrate in large
bodies. Referring to instances Of the
kind, Professor Riley, at recent meet
ing Of the st. Louis Academy of Science,
stated that vast flights of butterflies took
place at times from the equatorial
regions of South America. Migrating
swarms have been observed at sea and
also in the southwestern parts of the
United States; where the fact is fire.
quently recorded Ia local newspapers,
especially in September and October,
and occasionally in the Spring months.
In every instance were observations have
been made, this migrating butterfly has
been found to be the archippus. Ad-
ditional observations on the subject Of
migratory insects might prove OF value.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

MORE grass and less grain, more con
densing of food or the farm should be
the motto now. The plan Of putting
more Of our idle acres into grass and of
raising more live stock of a better
quality will be a step In the right direc-
ton,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

WINTER blowing Is a good thing. II
upsets the insects, and turns them up
from their warm quarters below to
cold quarters above. 1t throws up the
clay to be pulverized by the frost and
air. 1t gives much aid to spring work,
for If the soil is dry now, 1t will not
need to be plowed again in spring-a
good harrow pulverizing it finely for
any crop. For oats and clover, timothy,
red-top, blue grass, orchard grass, etc.,
by all means do winter blowing. Then
in early spring you can SOW the seed at
once, and not wait till the ground is in
condition to pillow, and then spend
several days in doing what could better
be done in any open weather in winter.
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Brown says he's been SO often de-
ceived by the chicken at his boarding
house that he calls it the hooking bird.
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after long use organ pipes become
brittle and fall to pieces, doubtless
because Of the molecular change effected
by vibration. The impurity of the
metal does not appear to be the cause.
In 1872 Oudenmans called attention to
the fact that plates of pure tin contain
ing only 0.3 per cent. of lead had during
their conveyance from Rotterdam to
Moscow in very cold weather, broken
into very small fragments. At Spandau,
more recently, similar disaggregation
was observed and noted by DIR. Petri.
A large quantity of tin-plate acquired,
first, laminar calculations, ana then
began to crumble. A large quantity of
,block-tin also became affected in the
same way as the tin-plates, but to less
degree. The warehouses in which the
tin was stored were dry, and the cold
wal ~notsevere. Repeated little shocks.
with frequent strong variations of
temperature, are usually supposed to
be sufficient to account for the crumb-
ling, but it would appear that there
must be other causes which remain to
be discovered. DR.. Petri tested the tin
which had disaggregated at Spandau,
but it contained no phosphorus, no sui
phur, no oxide of tin, and only the
faintest traces of any other foreign
metal.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

Two of fashion entered, anas-
sembly-room, at a time when a fat
citizens wife was quitting 1t. "Oh,"
said n of them, "there's beef a Ia mode
going out" eyes," answered the OBJ.
ject of ridicule, ''and game coming i'm
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

D~esirability OF Bessemer .Rdils.-A
recent report of the Cologne-Minden
Railway Germany, furnishes abundant
statistics showing the excellence of Bes-
semer rails. The most striking of the
observations was made upon a portion
of the road where, more than twelve
years, ago, Bessemer steel rails, crucible
steel rails, and iron rails, were laid side
by side. There were two classes of iron
rails of one of these more than 80 per
CEN have proved faulty of the other,
6S per cent. One-third of the crucible
steel rails had to be relaid. The Bes.
semer rails were from three factories {;
the faulty rails among them were re-
spectively only AZ, A and ~ per cent
the average renewal of Bessemer rails
for the twelve years being about a
thirtieth. Other features OF the statis-
tics indicate that the breaking of a Bes-
IN rail is likely to take place if at all,
very soon after 1t is laid.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

A STUBBORN AND HARAssISG CoUgH that will
not yield 10 ordinary remedies. may be thor
oughly cured by DR.. Jayne's Expectorant, a
most effective remedy for oil Bronchial or Pull.
mOnary Disorders.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

THE TROUBLE WITH THE TooTH.-This
story Is from a Paris journal: Enter to
dentist a sufferer, with agigantic cheek,
who drops into the chair and yells:
"Take it out! Out with it! This
minute! Never mind If it hurtsl Take
a monkey-wrench, anything; only out
with 1t, qulckl"
Dentist, politely-"Sir, in the course
Of my long and successful career | have
made it IN invariable rule never to pull
a tooth until | had satisfied myself by
careful examination that it was beyond
the of my art to give the I'M
fortunate sufferer relief by any other
method Of proceeding less extreme and
painful. Permit me, then, sir, in CON
formity with this practice, the wisdom
of which will commend itself to you at
once, to proceed to examine the part
affected"
Sufferer--"Herel Look! Be quick !
None Of your Evarts' orations! Ouch ?"
(Howls.)
Dentist (apologetically)--"Ia am afraid,
sir, that shall have to ask your per-
mission to remove it,"
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Would not be without
v { G T N !:
FOR TEN TIMES THE COST.

The great benelt l have received from the use
of VEGETINE Induces me TO give my testimony In
its favor. | bel eve II to be not only OF great
value for restoring the health, but a preventive
OF diseases peculiar to the spring and summer
seasons.
i would not be without 1t for ten times its cost.
EDWIN TILDEN,
Attorney and General Agent for Massachusetts
OF the Graz smen's Life Assurance Company,
NO. 40 Sears Building, Boston, Mass.
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% n. NCHAMO

DIR. w. BENSON'S CELERY IL CHAMO-
MENE PILLS are prepared expressly TO cure Sick
Headache, Nervous Headache, Dyspeptie Headache,
Neuralgia, Nervousness and Sleeplessness and viii
cure any case. Price Soc, postage free. Said by al
Druggists. Office, No. lO6 N. Eutav St., Baltimore
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SCIENTIFIC.

Respiration Of Pldnts.-Corenwinder
has recently published an elaborate
paper detailing what appears to have
been long and careful experiments on
the respiration Of plants. Protoplasm
1.-THE matter out Of which cells are made)
and chlorophyl (the green coloring
matter In the cell, he finds, have dis
tinct powers. P~rotoplasm absorbs
oxygen and exhales carbonic acid, just
as animals do, day and night. In the
early stage OF plant growth, before
much green colorlng matter Is formed,
the plant does little else than exhale.
But as soon as chlorophyl is formed this
throws of oxygen and retains the car
bon, out Of which structure and material
for future use is formed. AS already
known, 1t can only do this under light.
This difference Is important, and while
1t explains much that has been an
enigma, may lead to practical results.
Potatoes and other vegetables, sprout-
Ing In dark cellars, grow very well, as
such a blanched growth grows; but the
growth must die, because there is no
chlorophyl to manufacture future ma
terial. Then we learn why cellars with
vegetable growths In them are I'M
healthy. Plants, as we generally see
them, purify the atmosphere They
decompose carbonic acid, appropriating
the carbon and expiring the oxygen;
but In these cases Of blanched vegetation
the case is reversed and the oxygen Is
the element absorbed. There are few
papers appearing in scientific journals
from which we a learn so much as
from this of Corenwinder's.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14

SMALL FRUITS IN GARprNs.-But few
people seem to know the valuo of small
fruits to a family, when grown in their
W gardens. You commence with
Strawberries; they continue about a
month. You pick, perhaps, from six
to twelve quarts a day. You have them
on your table as a dessert, II you please,
at noon, and your tea table is loaded
with them at evening, and you want
but little else than your bread and but
ter. Your family consume. In one
way and another about eight quarts a
day, and while they last no medicines
for bodily ailment are required, as a
quart of strawberries daily will gener-
ally dispel all ordinary diseases that are
not settled permanently in the system.
After straw berries, raspberries continue
about three weeks; then we have black
berries when the climate Is not too cold
for cultivated varieties; then the cur-
rants ripen, which remain until the
early grapes nature; and taking the
season through, any family with a half
acre of land in garden can grow small
fruits that make country life delightful
and at the same time many dollars carl
be saved in the supply Of the table. !
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HUMOROUS.

WHAT OWENS Knows ABOUT FARMING.
The following is from a biographical
sketch Of the comedian, John K. Owens.
His farmland came to him one day,
and asked fSs-hlrty dollars to buy a
fertilizer. He got the money, aad Mr..
Owens made a memorandum Of the pur-
chase. On his return from a starring
tour his thoughts became violently
bucolic. He looked over his books, and
took an inventory Of his stock and
material. Among other things he
wanted TO know where that thirty
dollar fertilizer was. "0ut In the field
yonder," was the reply.
Out sauntered the bucolic Single to
inspect the new farm implement for
which he had paid hard cash In the coin
Of u daddies. Finding nothing that
met his views of a fertilizer, he came
back at a quick pace, wondering whether
the faithful servant should be shot or
hung. "John, you must show me
that fertilizer now, p. 81" lord |!
Mr.. Owens, how can you see 1t when
it's all been narrowed into the ground ?"
The crushed comedian whistled his way
back to the house, with his thumbs
digging into his ribs.