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Drops
How long do you continue the
medicine p
From five to fifteen days, and in
extreme cases to thirty days. Seven
is about the average
'Now, please tell mo the phiIoso-
phy Of this medcine-why it cures
drunkenness, and how YOU happened
to make the discovery ?
well, first You must understand
that temperance, first habit, f.
nall becomes disease. 1t becomes
a disease of the nerve cells, or, if
talking to physician, should say
it becomes disease Of the sensorial
ganglia. | found by dissecting the
brain Of a man who had died of de-
liriun tremens that the cells of the
quadri-geminal body, or the cells
that send the nerves to the eve,
we're in an unnatural state on the
outside, while within the nerve cells
themselves | discovered a yellow,
ycasty.looking deposit.
Now, | asked myself what is this
yellow deposit and what causes this
abnormal look of the cells ? 1t is
caused learned after much research
Nv the ethereal dart Of the alcohol
going straight to the outside CT these
"ells. Now, if I drink milk con-
tinued the Doctor, cor eat food, it
will take it four hours to pass
through the digestive organs, to be
taken up in the blood, and be passed
to the nerve cells from which the
brain is fed; while if l drink alcohol
it will go straight to the nerve cells
in three minutes. This shows that
alcohol is not digested. 1t is not
food. 1t is a poisonous fuid.elec-
tricity, which goes over tho sensitive
aerves as electricity goes over wire
straight to the outside of the nerve
cells, which it stimulates artificially,
when they should be stimulated nat.
urally through the blood.
If the spirit of alcohol continued
tho Doctor, were digested like soup,
the kidneys and liver would extract
from it its poisonous properties as
they extract the injurious salts from
our food and this poison would never
reach the brain. Once stimulsted
unnaturally by poisonous substance
like whiskey, the nerve cells call for
larger and larger doses, till by and
by a man can drink two quarts OF
whisky or eat seventy grains of NOR.
phins a day, cinchona rubrs stops the
call for alcohol
Does not red Peruvian bark and
alcohol both stimulate the nerve.
cells ? then why can one cure the
other ? ! asked.
well, alcohol is a fermsnted, dis.
titled stimulant, with poison in it,
while my medicine is a natural stim.
ulant, containing no poison; SO my
medicine stimulates the nerves, and
not being poisonous, alIays infama.
tion-that is, it holds the cells open
until the morbid deposit is forced
out, and the cells accustom them.
selves 10 receive their stimulus nat.
urally through the arteries. ltstops
all craving for alcohol
please explain the passage of food
and poisoned alcohol to the brain
again. | said
We'll, when a man drinks alcohol
it goes like electricity, straight to the
nerve cells; thence to the eye
through the optic nerve; then to the
brain, making man talk lively; then
to the spinal centre, limbsring the
back; then to the muscular system;
and when it finally gets to the
stomach, he vomits. Foods goes
just the opposite way. Food goes
to the stomach first. then into tha
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Australian Marriages.
London Saturday Review.

In Australia, as elsewhere, q tie of
more or less permanence and ac-
knowledged validity binds men to their
partners. Marriage, again, is surround
ed, as among civilized people, by laws
of g forbidden degrees which are very
curious, very little understood, and
which in many ways resemble, while in
others they seem to differ from the laws
of other undeveloped peoples. Wives
are chiefly obtained by exchange. The
dominant male of .group-father,
eldest brother, or uncle-has the GUS
tomary right OF swapping away the
young women oi.the group in exchange
for other young women whom it is
lawful for him TO marry. 1t Is clear
that old men with families have the
best chance of getting more wives,
while young men with no sisters are
likely to remain bachelors. If this sys-
tenn worked itself out, each tribe would
consist of a few overgrown harems and
a. set of wild bachelors. AS it happens,
young men and women revolt against
the old, and voluntary elopements or
marriages by capture are common.
The course of true love runs anything
but smooth. The lover is exposed to
the ordeal of spears" which are hurl-
ed at him by the relatives of the lady.
The runaway bride is beaten, perhaps
her feet are speared, to prevent her
from running away again. If a young
pair are courageous and true to each
other, however, the sympathy of the
group usually comes round to them,
and they enter on peaceful married
life. 1t has been said that the old men
sometimes give wives to the young
who thus " take stock" as the ancient
Irish said, and become in way, the
vassals of the old fellows.
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When to Apply Manure.

The common practice among farmers
is to make a general clearing of the
yards and barn cellars once a year, either
in the spring or fall. Either practice
makes heavy draught upon the teams,
and it has its disadvantages. II this
work is done in the spring 1t is when
the ground is soft, and other work is
exceedingly pressing. If the manure is
drawn out in the fall, and dropped in
heaps upon the field to be cultivated
next season, there is more or less waste
by teaching and by evaporation. There
is growing disposition among our in
tellieent farmers to apply manure di-
rectly to growing crops, or as near the
time of planting and sowing as possible.
1t is felt that the sooner manure is put
within reach of the roots of plants, the
better for the crops and their owner.
Manure is so much capital invested,
and bears interest only as 1t is consum-
ed in the soil. The barn cellar may be
SO managed as to manufacture and turn
out fertilizers every month in the year,
so that the farmer may suit his cenve-
nience in applying them to the soil.
When manure is not wanted for culti-
waited crops, it is always safe to apply it
to the grass crop, either in pastures or
upon meadows after moving. Top
dressing is growing in favor with our
intelligent farmers. Grass pays better
than almost any crop in the older states,
and the spreading Of compost saves the
necessity of frequent blowing and seed
ing. BY top-dressing at any convenient
season of the year, fields may be kept
proftably in grass for an indefinite tim E..
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The Way to Handle Sheep.

A great many men will catch the
sheep by the wool on the back with
both hands, and lift the animal 'clear
from the ground by the wool only. We
have slaughtered great many sheep IN
years past, AID when removing the
pelts of such sheep as had been handled
by the wool we never failed to observe
that beneath the skin wherever the
animal had been caught by the wool
blood had settled. In many instances
the skin had been separated from the
body so that Inflammation was APP
parent. We have known proprietors OF
sheep to be so strict in regard to hand
ling them, that they would order a
helper from the premises il he were to
catch sheep by the wool on any part
of the body. When about to catch a
sheep move carefully towards the one
to be taken, until you are sufficiently
near to spring quickly and seize the
beast by both hands, then pass one
hand around the body, grab the brisket,
and lift the sheep clear from the ground.
The wool must not be pulled. II the
sheep is a heavy one let one hand and
wrist be put around the neck and the
arm pressed against the leg. We hove
always handled sheep in the way alluded
to. We Fever grasp the wool. Others
seize the sheep by hind leg, then throw
one arm around the body and take hold
of the brisket with one hand. But ewes
with lambs should never be caught by
the hind legs, unless they are handled
with extreme care.-Anteriodn Stock
| man.
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COL. SAMUEL COLTS ESTATE.
His only Son Takes Possession Of His
Share of the Property.


Mrs. Elizabeth A. Colt, widow of the
late Col. Samuel Colt, is to give to-
morrow evening, at her elegant man
sion on Wethersfeld avenue, in this
city. a graud party in honor OF the
twenty-hrst birthday of her onl y son
and child, Caldwell III. Colt. Over 1000
invitations have been issued, and it will
be the greatest society affair Hartford
has seen for many years. Young Colt
is to come into possession at once of q
very large fortune. and will be the
richest person of his age in Connecticut.
His father died in 1864, and left an
estate valued at between 100000 and
So 100000. The bulk of the property
was bequeathed to Mrs. Colt and the
boy. the latter'5 share to remain in
trust until he reached his majority, and,
if he survivesshis mother. he is to re-
ceive the large and valuable home
stead property and other portions OF
the estate of which she has life use.
In 1866 there was distribution of the
intestate estate. and at that time the
boy, who was eight years of age, had
awarded to him 716 shares of the stock
of the Colt Patent firearms company,
valued then at S143, 100, and leash to
equalize mis- share" amounting to
$lQ5. 531 93, making total of s24S,731.-
SO. The income from this alone for
fifteen years has been much more than
has been required for his support, and
be will realize considerable from the
surplus. The young man will probably
geain all, to start with, from 81 800, o00
TO s2.0O0.O0O.
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said he confidently, spreading out the
purloined goods. She looked at it at
tentiyely for five minutes. 1T does
look like the pattern" said she, "but
still think it's not what / want. It's
a good deal coarser than mine. If
can't get anything nearer to the pattern
I'll come back and takei it. Good morn
ing" She did come back in an hour,
but not to buy the goods. He tried to
dodge behind the counter, but with the
keen-sightedness of womanlv revenge
she spotted him and he was ignomini-
ously hauled out and araigned before
his employer. The worst Of it was that
the latter, in view of the Improbable
energy shown in his attempt to effect a
sale, had concluded not to discharge
him. With the evidence of his guilt
unmistakable, however, it would be
fatal to the discipline of the house to
keep him, and he was promptly dis
missed. Until the old lady succeeds
in getting warrant for his arrest, his
name is charitably suppressed.
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4 Horrible TRAGEDY.

A canoe recently left Iona Iona, in
the Fiji Islands, with natives on board,
bound for Toytoya. They were going
about when a rudden squall sent the
sail against the mast, capsizing the
canoe. The unfortunate passengers
chung to the canoe, and might have
escaped with consequences no worse
than those which would have attended
discomfort and exposure, but for the
fact that the capsize occurred in a To-
cality infested with sharks. These
ravenous monsters seized their victims
one by one, devouring twenty-three out
of the twenty-five unfortunates whose
lives were thus placed at their mercy.
OF the two who escaped, one is q
woman; but her situation is very crit.
cal, the whole OF the flesh having been
taken of one les.
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A Wonderful Discovery.

For the speedy cure of Consumption
and all diseases tina, lead to it, such as
stubborn Coughs, neglected Colds
Bronchitis, Hay Fever, Asthma, pain
in the side and chest, dry hacking
cough, tickling in the throat, Hoarse-
ness, Sore Throat, and all chronic or
lingering diseases of the throat and
lungs, DR.. KINGS New Discovery has
no equal and has established for Itself
worldwide reputation. Many lead
ing physicians recommend and use il
in their practice. The formula from
which it is prepared is mighty recon-
mended by all medical journals. The
clergy and the press have compliment
ed it in the most glowing terms. Go to
your druggist and get trial bottle for
ten cents or regular size for $100,
For sale by all retail druggists, and by
Green, Button & Co., Milwaukee; Noyes
Bros. & Cutler, SIS. Paul, and all Chi
cago wholesale druggists.
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Stock and Grain Gambling.

Nearly all our western papers contain
chanics and gentlemen of leisure, to
invest money in stock or grain gamb-
ling. And the Chicago papers say that
the aggregate amount sent to that city
daily for grain gambling purposes is
almost incredible. Plain going farmers,
hard pressed to meet their obligations,
are induced to invest their money in
these worst of all games of chance.
And even scarcely q week passes but
we hear of defaulting ana fleeing bank
officers, who have been led to ruin by
the excitement at the Board of Trade.
Farmers should know that these shys-
tiers who are inviting them to send
their money to deal IN margins
are irresponsible men, and what they
are doing is no better than the worst
features of gambling. All the members
of the board of trade are neither honest
nor responsible. The objects Of the
| board are honorable and necessary, and
the larger portion of the members are
the best and most honorable citizens OF
| the city. But it is not these who are
trying to obtain capital from the people
| of the rural districts for them to operate
on. But we are informed that there
are members of the board of trade who
do not pay their board or washing bills.
They are impecunious renegades, who
are unsafe repositories for your money
which you send to them for dishonest
purpose. Farmers better attend to their
| legitimate business-invest their money
in good stock, and let alone the unsafe
and delusive games of stock or grain
gambling. The Chicago papers say
that thousands of dollars are sent daily
from Iowa in response to the shyster
advertisements, and that there is a
certainty of making 80 per cent weekly
on investments. The business is dis
honest, and the men intrusted with the
funds are dishonest-Iow Register.
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The manager of church fair not far
away, when asked ifthere would be mu.
sic each evening, replied, "No," and
then added, "but there will be singing"
named D'Elia went sketching through
the harem grounds. He noticed beau
tiful odalisk at one of the windows, and
in some way managed to establish a
Geographic communication with her
which was soon followed by romantic
elopement and marriage. How he
managed to get her out of the harem is
a mystery. The young couple are now
living happily at Foggia, and since they
are man and wife the khedive can't
claim his former favorite. He is deter
mined to keep his wives from the win
dows for fear of more Opponents. The
young lady in question is said to be a
Frenchwoman.
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The Farmer.

1t does ones heart good to see mer-
ry, round-faced farmer. So independ-
ent, and We. so free from vanity and
pride; so rich, and yet so industrious;
so patient and perseveripg in his call
ing, and yet so kind, sociable and oblig-
ing. There are thousand noble traits
about his character He is generally
hospitable. Eat and drink with him
and he won't set mark on you and
sweat it out of you with double COM
pound interest; some people | know
will. You are welcome. He will do you
kindness without expecting a return
by way of compensation; it is not so
with everybody. He is usually more
honest and sincere, less disposed TO deal
in low and undetermined cunning, than
many / could name. He gives to So
ciety its best support, its firmest pillar
that supports the edifce of government.
He is the lord of nature. Look at him
in his homespun. and gray; laugh at
him if you viii, but believe me he can
laugh back if he pleases.
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Peruvian cruelty.
From the San Francisco Chronicle

Sailors who have recently arrived
from South America complain of the
difficulties experienced by them in OBJ
taiaing berths on American vessels. AL
though the Peruvian Government does
nos actually prevent them shipping
themselves, vet the spies of the Govern
ment, for the slightest cause arrest sail
ors on the pretense of their being in the
Chilean service. Several Russian sailors
have been cruelty iiltreated by the Peru
vians. Two of them died at Callso dur.
ing the month of SeptembeT, being liter
ally starved to death. Two vessels sail
ing under the Gillian flag were destroy
Ell by the war vessel Ditario, an old
steamer which has been refitted and now
carries five guns. The two vessels were
entirely destroyed not one of the crew
remaining 20 tell the tale.
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How lie Made Economy Tremble.

Many years ago we knew mama
good-natured, harum-scarum old sailor
who, though an inveterate smoker and
even more improvident than the aver
age of his class, was great hand to
save in the expenditure of matches.
He would fill his pipe and then wait
for an hour until he saw some other
smoker preparing to light up, when he
would stand by to get light himself,
and if the two pipes were successfully
kindled with the one match he would
exultingly remark, II say, matey, amt
this maxim economy tremblel" They
when Saturday night came he would
go on a spree, and spend as much
money in whisky as would have kept
him in matches for year.
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THE FARM.
Feeding Pigs

j. w. Sanborn, of the New Hamp-
shire College of Agriculture, found as
the result OF experiments in feeding
pigs with meal and middlngs, tina 100
pounds Of middlings gave 29.2 pounds
of increase in weight, costing 3.42
cents a pound; 100 pounds of meal gave
in the same period 24.8 pounds, cost
ing 400 cents a pound, and that 100
pounds Of mixture of the two gave
PSF pounds in growth, costing 3.SS
cents a pound. The conclusion to be
drawn is, through the west where corn
is plenty ii is the cheapest food for fat
tening swine, and it is cheaper to feed
it whole and raw, than either ground or
cooked. At least such is the result of
our experiment. We could never make
profit in feeding meal, when the raw
corn is 40 cents per bushel and under,
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Prosperity of Nevada.
Carson Appeal.

In 1878 the real and personal prop
erty taxed in the state of Nevada was
valued at SOS, 246,01039. This year the
estimate is $28, 7S6047 81. an increase
of $54O,O37.6 S. These figures speak
well for the general prosperity of the
state, and show that while some locali-
ties, have fallen off IN business and
productions, others have sprung up
whose prosperity has more than bal
anced the decline. In 1878 the tax was
ninety cents en- the 500, and the
amount paid to the state was $252, 4O3.-
80. Owing 10 surplus Of funds ac-
cumulated in the treasury the rate was
reduced to fftv-fve cents on the. 500,
and the returns this year show $154,-
4I2 50
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-12-11

The quickest railroad building ever
done in Nebraska was performed at
Lincoln recently, on the Burlington and
Missouri extention, when gang OF
sixty men with two trains laid one mile
of new road, nutting in two bridges and
two crossings, and making connections
at both ends with the main line, between
s o'clock in the evening and breakfast
time and the men who drove the spikes
were obliged to have lanterns held close
to their work. The work was hurried
because it passes over the proposed
right of way 9th Union Pacific branch.
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A Calist0ga ElOpement.
From the Napa Gold Dollar.

Louis Dolman and the wife of William
Bishop were arrested at Vallejo on the
complaint of the husband from whom
they had eloped. Dolman had been
boarding with the Bishops near Calls
toga, and concluding that he wanted
Mrs. Bishop worse than her husband
persuaded her to elope with him. She
took with her one child, leaving only
five behind and lit out with Dolman. On
arrest all parties promised to behave
better hereafter, and Dolman promised
to leave. The matter was thus compro-
missed.
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"A Kentuckian's Way ofLooking at it
Louisville Courier-Jo Journal.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson has prepar-
ed tract which shows that the people
of the United States pay over 100000
600 a year for spirituous liquors, and
S4S, 900, 900 for religion" Mrs. Elizabeth
Thomson had better attend to her babies
and let tracts alone, II the people Of the
United States can afford to set aside $40,-
000. 000 for religion and deny themselves
to that extent of their cocktails, what
affair is it of Mrs. Thomson's.
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RuekIen,s Arniea Salye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores. letter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns, and ali kinds of skin eruptions
This salve is guaranteed 70 give perfect
satisfaction in every case or money re.
funded. Price % cents PEI box. Fo'
sale at retail by all druggists, and to the
trade by Greene & Button Co., Mil
waukeej Noyes Bros. & Cutler, st. Paul,
and all Chicago wholesale druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-12-11

The enormous sale of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup has had the effect OF
bringing out numerous similar rene
dies; but the people are not SO easily
induced to make trial of the new ar
ticle, when they value the old and re-
liable one,-Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
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Americans Travelling Abroad

win find all Of DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines on
sale in all principal drug stores and at fae Lon
don branch OF the Worlds Dispensary, Great Rus
sell Street Buildings. Golden Medicai Discovery
is a most potent Alternative or blood-cleansing
elixir, Ii eispels all humors and cures blotches,
pimples, erupdons, kings evil, OF scrofula, en-
larged glands swelings, internal soreness ulcers,
ont the vital machinery. DIR. Pieice Pellets Qt-
tie sugar-coated pills are an agreeable and most
cleansing cathartic; remove offensive and acrid
acenmulations, thereby preventing feyers and
kindred affections. Worlds Dispensary Medical
Association. Rniinlo and London
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Feeble Ladies'

Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing you
slant drain that lie taking from yonr system all its
elasticity; driving the bloom from your cheeks;
that continual strain upon your vital forces, rend-
ering you irritable and fretful, easily be re-
moved by tn use OF that marvellous remedy, Hop
Bitters. Irregularities and distractions OF your
system are relieved at once, while the special
cause Of periodical pain is permanently removed.
Will yousheed this g-CincinHati Saturday Night.
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ph;ladelnb;a 10 mi he :

Philadelphia has put the charity or
ganization system into operation with
great success. Twenty-Five of the thirty
two wards have each working COM
mittee of twelve persons, on agent with
salary of 5000 a year, body of visit
ors, and committee tosuperintend the
details of visiting,
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Females that are lab > to suppression BY TAX
Ing cold, or irregular or painful menstrations,
should always keep Carter's Compound Extract
Of Smartweed on hand. and its use will convince
them that II is Natures remedy in those COM
plants. II. Bosworth & Sons, Wholesale agents,
Milwaukee. o. Noble Co.. Proprietora, Erie,
Penn