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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

had twelve strokes of paralysis. My leg, arr,
and tongue were useless; was obliged 10 use ca
theter every daY. DR.. Giles Eminent Iodide of
Ammonia has cured me. Will answer any inqui
ries 30 that all afflicted may know Of it.JoHN AP
PELL, North BranfOrd, Conn.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

All those who cough are bores to the
G)mmunty and should be forced by law to
Invest % cents 10 DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

AsTHMA.-The tortures and agOnies ] endured for
ELK years, nUne but those who have suffered with
this terrible disease can know. My life was miser
able. In desperation tried Giles LiDiment Iodide
OF Ammonia. 1t gave me instant relief. Used it
internally as well externally.-THOMAs BRAN
GAN, 127 West 9th street. New York,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

Life for the.Hair
At Thoxnas's
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

/ was in q dreadful condition Joints swollen,
pain intense Injections of morphine into my veins
failed to relieve Giles Liniment Io1ide OF Am
mOnia took away the deposits from my joints.
want every one who suffers to know what will cure
them.-F0RDYcE LoTHRoP, North Hyde Park, Lam
noble county, VT.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

CHESTNUT HILL, Philadelphia April %, 1876.
WIN. GILES, Esq, Dear Sir:-I used your iOdide Of
Ammonia Liniment on Flora Temples hind pas
turn joint. She had been quite lame; the effect
was wonderful; she walks quite we'll. Very
espeUtfully yours, A. WEIGH. +. 81 now
using II on LittletOn's right fore leg-A. ".
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

PROLAPsUs UTERI CALLING OF THE WOMB. A
WONDERFUL CURE. Nine years my wife suffered
with this terrible complaint. She attended by
doctor after doctor went 10 the different hospitals
where females are treated; tried them sll-wOre
handages and pessaries with only tempo ;ary relief
Her life was miserable. We applied DR.. Giles Lin
iment. Her relief was immediate. She is now wen
g. McDERMOIT, DO West 18th street, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

NEURALGIA.A WONDERFUL CURE The great
Reviyalist Rev William Corbitt, says:-'Giles'
Iodde Of Ammonia, is, in my Judgment, the best
remedy for neuralgia ever put before the public.
have been afflicted with this terrible disease for az
dy, did find any assured relief. take pleasure in
saying this, inasmuch as / desire always to be q
beneiactor to the human family. WILLIAM ?. Cot
BIT, Chairman Of the Methodist Church extension,
New York.
In my family, and for the stocx have used Giles
Llniment Iodide Ammonia. 1t is unsurpassed, and
am surprised at the many different maladies in
winch 1t is applicable. IL gives the utmost salts
faction.-JOHN j. CARTER, Superintendent Eastern
Pennsylvania Experimental Farm
25c., &c., and 81; and in Quarts at 60 80 in which
there Is great saving.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
az Send for pamphlet to DIR. W. NJ. GILES, 100
West Broadway, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

~ This Powder has been tested, especially in BOG
DISEASES caused from the evil effects Of two LARGE
congregating them together 1t is a POSITIVE PRE-.
VENTIVE, and If taken in time SURE CURE OF
HOG CHOLERA. TRYITi
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12

After which the two will softly wabble
We're the appointed leaders of the party
It's policy we steer
fusion ticket 5 our fear
Put us in our little bed.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

lob PRINTING OF every description neatly
u and promptly executed at Reasonable Rates
at the Bloomfield Times Steam job Once.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

a. An English resident of San Fran
cisco excused himself for keeping his
store open on the glorious Fourth by
remarking to a patriot, who was remon-
strating with him:
"Oh, hang it, ye know, l did not
have to wait until the fourth of any
beastly month to get my independence,
you know. Never was a slave, in fact,
or anything of that sort, you know.
Pleasant day, tho, isn't III?
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

r5y The Rev. Daniel Isaac was an
eccentric itinerant preacher. He once
alighted at an inn to stay all night.
On asking for bed he was told he could
not have one, as there was to be ball
that night and all the beds were engaged.
"At what time does the ball break
upY" inquired Mr.. Isaac.
About 3 in the morning, SIR,
"Well, then, can / have bed until
that timeY"
Yes, certainly; but II the bed Is
asked for you will have to move"
"Very we'll, +" replied Mr.. Isaac. About
3 in the morning he was awakened by q
loud knocking at the chamber door.
"What do you wantY" he asked.
How many of you are in there Z"
inquired voice.
"There's me and Daniel and Mr.. isaac
and an old Methodist preacher" was
the reply.
"Then, by Jupiter, there's plenty of
youl" " and the applicant passed on,
leaving Mr.. Isaac TO finish his nights
slumber.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

Ga A gentleman at the funeral of his
wife, was annoyed to see the carriages
containing the friends get terribly mixed
up. 81 knew perfectly well," he said
with a tone of disappointment, "that
this day would not go off without some
unpleasant incident
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

Eg-" My DEAR" asked the grocer of his
wife, +" do you think it is true that man
wants but little here below p"
"That sometimes depends whether he
has to pay cash down for it or not. If
you trust some men, they'll take all
they can get" said she.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

FD A young man went to take his
girl for walk, but found that she had
not done milking. With galantry
that does credit to the young man, he
volunteered to do the milking for her
while she was making her toilet. After
he had got her milking done, and set
the pail of milk in the kitchen, washed
his hands at the pump with soft soap
and then wiped them on the tail of his
duster, he discovered that she had gone
to circus with another young man
who did not know enough to extract
milk from milk wagon. The deserted
young man kicked over the milk pail
and went his way sadder man.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16
THE GREAT BLOOD TONIC,

For the cure of all diseases arising from impure
Blood, and for invigorating and strengthening
the vital organs. Are you weak, nervous, debili.
tated, pale aud emacated? Have you lost your
appetite? Have you nausea. pain in the back,
&c. If so, Dr. Lidsey's Blood Searcherwill drive
out the disease and bring back the BLOOM OF
HE ALTH Plmples, Boils. Erysipelas, letter,
Blood Disea ses; aud DIR. Lidsey's Blood Searcher,
by purifying the system, softens the skin and
beauties the complexion. Sold by all druggists
81 per bottle II. E. SELLERS Il CO., Proprie-
tors, Pittsburgh Pa G 48
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16
A Striking Likeness.

"Look here, ma" said young lady
just commencing to take lessons in
painting, holding up sample of her
skill to her mother. "See my painting
can you tell me what this is 7"
Ma, after looking at it sometime,
Well, 1 reckon it's COW or rose,
but don't know which,
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

"a The clergyman in certain town,
as the custom is, having published the
bans of matrimony between two persons,
was followed by the clerks reading the
hymn beginning with these words
" Deluded souls, that dream of heav-
enI"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

Fg- A Scotch minister in one of his
parochial visits met cowboy, and
asked him what o'clock it was.
"About twelve, sir, was the reply.
WELL" remarked the minister, 81
thought it was more"
"It's never any more here, said the
boy; "itj just begins at one again"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

So " Any man." says Josh Billings,
"who can swap horses or ketch fish
and not lie about it is just about as Plus
as men ever git to be in this world"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16
DEATH DEFEATED.

NOR over 50 years SELLERS LIVER PILLS
e have been the standard remedy for Liver
Complaints Costiyeness Sick Headache, Pain in
Shoulders or Back. Dizziness, Coated Tongue,
Fever and Ague aud all diseases arising from a
deranged state OF the Liver or Stomach. Thomas
Adams, OF Big Sandy, Ky, says: sellers Pills
have saved hundred of dollars in doctors bills in
this country r. L. SELLERS Il CO., Proprs,
Pittshurph Pa
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

Eg A Memphis paper defines adver-
tising to be "a blister which draws
customers"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

Eg Does not a young mothers heart
leap 4th with joy, when she beholds her
darling babe's 1st 9TH :
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

Eg " julius, why didn't you oblong
your stay at the springs 7"
"Kase, Mr.. Snow, dey charge too
much"
How so, julius ?'
"Why, de landlord charged dis color
ed individual wild stealing de spoons"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

ryLllac stockings are the correct style.
--Boston Post. What do you lilac that
forY
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
Britain's Navy.

The First Lord of the Admiralty has
laid before Parliament the estimates for
the British Navy for the ensuing year
Excluding supplementary appropriations,
the amount expended in 1877 s
amounted to S54, S59, 900, and for 1878 9
to S55, 1863, 400. This latter estimate
was raised, however, to $50, 700,0 900 dur
ing last year The sum asked for this
year is close to $53,O00,O00. 1t appears
from the returns upon which the est.
mates are based that at tn S moment the
number of men borne upon the fleet is
54,6S4, while there are, besides, 1884
men in the coast guard service ashore
and ahoat Altogether, the personnel
of the British Navy should be as nearly
as possible 10000, counting in the boys
and the sailors employed in manning the
troop-ships of the Indian Government.
The total number of vessels of the fleet
on the lst of December, 1873. was 255,
and of these l3l were serving in
various parts of the world. The num-
Der of vessels in course of construction
at this moment is 81, and the amount of
work that the Admiral ty proposes to
get through during the next twelve
month is to build 1871 tons at the
royal dockyards, and 1927 at private
yards. The vessels building and com
plotting for sea comprise 9 ironclads, s
corvets, dispatch boat, 6 composite
sloops, 3 composite gunboats, 4 iron
gunboats, . steel gunboats and 4 other
crafts. A feature which is undergoing
rapid development in the British navy
is that of employing steel in the con-
struction of ships of all sizes. Deck
plating is now in all instances made of
steel. and the ribs and beams of British
ships are being to large extent con-
structed of this material.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
A New Kind of Steamer.

Trials are about to be made at Mar
settles, France of vessel on an entire
ly new principle, propelled without
either screw or paddle-wheels. The
craft is of the dimensions and form of
an ordinary tug boat, and is worked by
means of a steam-pump OF l6-horse
power, with horizontal tubular boiler.
That pump is of enormous power, and
draws in considerable quantities Of wa
ter, which by the force with which it is
expelled q gainst the sea ut the stern sends
the vessel forward. The ship is fur
nished with two pairs of tubes, the enc
acting at the stern and the other at the
bow. During the ordinary progress of
the boat those in front are closed by
stop-cocks, but if occasion arises for
making the steamer retrograde, the after
tubes are closed and the others opened,
The water to supply the pump is taken
from the sea alongside, but that commu-
nication can also be closed, and system
of barrels filled with water is provided
in the hold to supply the pump in case
of any emergency. With this invention
it is said that no vibration is produced,
and the machine can be easily trans
formed into fire engine by the addition
OF suitable supply Of hose. Moreover,
it can be readily used to prevent another
vessel from sinking, when waterlogged
or leaking, by taking tubes to supply the
pump to the ship in distress and utiliz-
ing the water it contains as the means of
propulsion while at the same time tow
ing the disabled craft. The pipes for
the election of the water are fixed in a
direction parallel to the keel, and when
at work in no way interfere with the &C
ton of the rudder, simply moving the
vessel on it's course by the resistance
the water elected meets with from the
great mass of the surrounding sea- The
invention is said to be that Of an Amer
can engineer, and the steamer is report
ed to have already made ten knots an
hour. The peculiar utility of this boat,
if it answers expectations, is for river
work. and, after the trials at Marseilles,
it will be again essayed on the Rhone.
n. Y. Telegram.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
Men Who Make Journalists.

1t has been remarked that very few
men who get into journalism start
out with such intentions. They drift
in accidentally, are promoted as they
develop capacity. Money, wealthy par
ents and influence are Of no sort of SER
vice in getting young man place on
newspaper, There is no business that
is so entirely independent of all these
considerations as this. A wealthy
father can easily get his son location
to read law or medicine, or push him
forward in most any rank of life he
may select but he is utterly powerless
to do anything for him in journalistic
way. To be sure he may buy news
paper and set up in that way, but unless
there is something in him called 'jour-
nalistic knack," natural knowledge Of
what to write, he will be failure in
that line, and all the money and inhu-
ence of wealthy and perhaps powerful
relatives will count for nothing. Some
fond parents educate their sons with
the special view of making journalists
of them but it is rare that we hear of
these young men after few years.
Meanwhile some youth born among our
hills, with nothing more than COM
mon school edu cation, and the knowl-
edge scraped up in country printing
Office, will advance to the front rank in
the profession. He has the journalistic
knack, and forces recognition because
he has it. He gets into a good posi-
ton, not because he has wealthy par
ents to influence the proprietors or lead
ing newspapers, but because he knows
what to write and how to write it. His
articles so in because they supply a de-
mand, while perhaps the elaborate es-
says of man educated on two CONT
nents are cast into the waste basket. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
Gold in Siberia.

An Englishman in the Urals writes
that immense discoveries have been
made at krasnoyarsk in Siberia. The
Yeneseisk authorities have done their
utmost to keep she matter secret to pre-
vent rush from other provinces, but
the news has leaked out through many
channels, and in the Spring the district
is sure to be flooded with strangers. The
nuggets are of an immense size and
yield large percentage of gold. One
vas found in some diggings belonging to
Siberia last Autumn, weighing 3S5
pounds The effect of the discovery was
that when the snow set in at krasEoy-
arsk in November, the population in
the gold field district was 1000 in ex-
cess of what it had been six weeks be-
fore, and the price of labor at Tomsk
had risen from thirty kopecks, or Cd. a
day, to a rouble, or about IS. Before
gold was discovered in California, Sibe-
ria supplied the world with the aurifer
Gus metal, and all along biologists have
maintained that if the administration
would only take the gag of red tape off
the mining operations of the country,
Siberia would again assert her ascend
ancy in the market
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
Newspaper Noodles In Paris.

Says Lucy H. Hooper in late Paris
letter to the Baltimore Gazette: Talk
ing Of Partisan newspapers, it is really
funny to note the gross ignorance dis
played by some of their brilliant writer's
For instance, well-known journalist, in
an article on the political situation, re-
marked that "an ill-omened maelstrom
seemed to breathe upon certain enterpri-
ses" He evidently mistook the great
mythical whirlpool for some kind of
wind. Yet none Of his rivals Of the OPP
posite faction detected the mistake or
made merry over it. And the Ameri-
can colony was recently alarmed by see
ing the announcement in the French
papers that the greater part of Nevada
had been destroyed by fire. 1t turned
out to be the town of Reno in that
State. But really, SO far as regards
American matters, their ignorance may
be said to be colossal. Not long ago the
Figaro soberly asked, IF Abraham Lin
coin had not been asssssinated, what
Frenchman would ever have known that
such person had ever existed" And
was rather proud Of the fact.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
Observation-Disclosures in 1906.

The present great northern centres OF
population in Leland's time were not
much more than villages. Liverpool was
"pavid Towne' with but one chapel"
it was resorted to by merchants, he says,
on account of the smallness Of the GUS
TOMS Warrington also, with one church,
was "a better ma+ket than Manchester. "
The latter, however. was "the fairest,
best builded, quicklest and most pop
ulous Towne OF all Lancashire; yet in
it but one parish church" Of Birming
ham he gives fairly graphic sketch.
The town consisted chiefly of one street
a quarter of a mile in length. which he
calls the Beauty of Birmingham" 81
saw" he says, "but one paroch church
in the town. There be many smiths in
the town that use 10 make knives and
all manner of cutting tools and many
Formers that make bites, and great
many MAYORS. So that great part Of
the towne is maintained by smithes who
have their iron and sea cole out of Stat
fordshire.' Birmingham, it might be
thought, would have familiarized him
with chimncys. This, however, meaning
fues or inclosed passages for conducting
smoke, were in Lelands time rare, for
in relating his visit to Bolton Castle, he
says: Zone Thynge | much noted in
the hawle of Bolton, how chimneys were
conveyed by tunnels made on the sides
of the walls betwixt the lights in the
hawle, and this means, and by no covers
is the smoke of the harthe wonder strange
ly conveyed" The word chimney.
indeed, is used by Chaucer and Piers
PIoughman, but as synonymous with fire
place or furnace. in which latter sense
W,clif employs it-''their schulen send
him into the chymeney OF fire. and
Leland defines the word with evidently
the like meaning.-The Saturday Review.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
An Unkind Cut.

The city Of Hartford, in Connecticut,
has, for a couple of weeks, been very
much excited over the elopement and
marriage of daughter of Ex-Governor
Hubbard to his coachman. The young
man is said to be handsome and of good
address, but the paternal head of the
Hubbard family declares that his daugh-
ter shall be as one who is dead to him,
for the disgrace she has brought upon
the family. From which declaration it
is proper to remark that the aristocracy
Of this country sometimes has a very
'sshaky" foundation. In other words,
the genealogical tree puts forth the
branches of but one generation, with its
roots in a soil that has known no floral
cultivation. In fact, it comes cut tina:
Ex-Governor Hubbard, now so COM
pletely overcome with grief and indigna-
ton, was, when boy, aPprenticed to
farmer. and took care of horses. Still,
it has been found that ill-assorted
matches seldom bring happiness to the
parties engaged in them.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
Farming Under the sea-"

The fact is not generally known that
within three hours ride of Boston a
large and profitable business has been
carried ON since lS4S along the sea-
Shore and which is nothing more nor
less than farming under the sea. d"
Everywhere upon the coast of eastern
New England may be found, ten feet
below the water mark, the lichen known
as carrageen-the "Irish Moss" of COM
merce. 1t may be torn from the sunken
rocks anywhere, and yet the little sea-
port of Scituate is almost the only
place in the country where it is gath
cred and cured. This village is the
great center of the most business in the
country, and the entire Union draws its
supplies from those beaches Long
rakes are used in tilling this marine
farm, and it does not take long to fill
the many dories that await the lichen,
torn from its salty, rocky bed. The
husbands and fathers gather the moss
from the sea, and the wives and dsugh
ters prepare it for market Soak it in
water and it will melt away to jelly.
Boil it with milk and delicious white
and creamy blanc-mange is the result.
The annual product is from ten to if
teen thousand barrels, and it brings
$4,000 into the town, which sum is
shared by one hundred and fifty fami-
lies. It's consumption in the manufac-
ture of lager beer is very large, and the
entire beer in the country draws its sup
plies from Scituate beaches, as the i'm
portation from Ireland has almost
ceased 1t is generally known that the
moss, as an article of food, is called "sea
moss farina- Exchange.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
A Question of Damages.

Some lawyers take very practical
views of cases in which they are re-
tanned, In certain town in Missouri,
Squire C. was defending charge OF
malpractice. A colored man was suing
for damages, his wife having died short
ly after an operation for the removal OF
a cancer. When it came Squire G-'s
turn to .cross-examine the plaintiff, he
asked: "Mr. Wilson, how old was
your wife when the died2"
"About forty five, sir"
"Been in feeble health long time,
had she not, Mr.. Wilson and cost you a
great deal for medicine and helpq"
eyes, Sir"
"You have married again, have you
not r.
"I'es, SIR"
"Hcw old IS your present wifef'
About thirty five, sir"
Is she stout and healthy, Mr.. Viii
Sol.
Yes, sir"
Then, Mr. Wilson, will you please
state to the jury how you are damaged
III this case 7"
Mr.. Wilson had evidently never taken
this view Of the matter, and could make
no answer. The good and true men
thought he had made rather good
thing by his bereavement, and brought
in verdict for the defendant. -Har-
per's Magazine