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Women Wanted.

Mornings want IS women. We want
women here, partially to even up the
population and partially to marry. Our
territory Is suffering more now for choice
styles of young and middle aged woman
than for anything else. We need them
On all departments of industry where
&Somen may be employed, and also III
AF homes az. by our iresides. There
hundredsS lonely men IN Wyoming
YSho are doing well financially and who
would willingly rush into matrlmony if
there were enough matrimony to go
around 1t Is the saddest feature of our
wide Western country at present. The
over-populated East, where young man
may pay for ice-cream or oysters for
three girls at time, ought TO contribute
some Of its wealth of girls to this desc
late land, where there is only one woman
to five or six men, and where life is a
hollow mockery.
We sometimes wish that nature had
designed us for hired girl instead of an
editor so that we could have been indie
pendent. In this country "a hired girl "
is only another name for affluence aud
financial stability.
Twenty-Five dollars per month and
board make the poor, cringing editor
green with envy. And yet there are not
enough girls IN this country TO do half
the work 4 man lives out half his days
and at last secures a wife, only to find
that the latter part of his career viii be
devoted to securing a servant girl for
her.
It's tough.
Life is too brief to be trifed away in
this manner. One friend of ours who
has been reared in luxury has been with
out girl for two months, and although
he has offered all kinds of inducements,
he has been compelled to make the beds
and do the chamber work, while his wife
did the washing and cooked the meals.
Let the man who never tried it, rise at
o'clock. dress five children IN the sub
dued light of early morning, then cook
breakfast, eat it and go down town for
couple of months, and he Will allow the
girl that will work for him the use of his
upright piano and take her with him TO
the theater Why, it has arrived at such
a stage here In Laramie that when man
asks one of his nighbors if he knows of
a servant girl that he can get, the mob
turns loose at him and laughs at him
till he wishes he was dead.
1t is not an uncommon occurrence for
a girl to come West, work at regular
wages two or three years, and then, as
an heiress, marry a bloated capitalist
and settle down.
1t is horrible fact that unless some
thing is done to prevent the centraliza-
ton of capital among the servant girls of
Wyoming, arevolution cannot be avoided.
There is not a man within the sound
of our voice that will not admit with
tears in his eyes and both suspender
buttons trembling and lettering to their
very foundation, that such is the case.
boomerang.
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Dead Stars.

Like the sand of the sea. the stars of
heaven, says Sir John Lubbock, have
ever been used as effective symbols OF
number, and the improvements in our
method of observation have added fresh
force to our original impressions.
We now know that our earth Is but
fraction of one out of at least IS, 900, 600
worlds. But this is not all In addition
to the luminous heavenly bodies. we
cannot doubt that there are countless
others, invisible to US from their greater
distance, smaller size, or feebler Fight
indeed, we know that there are many
dark bodies which now emit no light. or
comparatively little. Thus In the case
of Procyon, the existence of an invisible
body is proved by the movement of the
visible star. Again / may refer to the
curious phenomena presented by AlgOl, a
bright star in the head of Medusa. This
star shines without change for two days !;
then in three hours and half, dwindles
from a star of the second to one of the
fourth magnitude; and then, in another
three and a half hours, reassumes its
original brilliancy. These changes seem
to indicate the presence of an Opaque
body which intercepts at regular inter
walls part of the light emitted by Algol.
Thus the floor of heaven is not only
90 thick inlaid with patines of bright
gold, " but studded also with extinct stars
once probably as brilliant as our own
sun, but now dead and cold, as Helm
holtz tells us that our sun itself win be,
some seventeen millions of years hence.
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Hayinsa Twelve Hundred Dollar Time.

" fq want to know, do you my son. y
said II old man, "why it is with all
your Iangement, you can't live on your
salary 1d are always in debt at the end
of the fear? Well, I'll tell you, Tele-
machI1 why it is, and it won't cost you
q doll@ for the information. 1t is be-
cause yn are trying to have 81 200 time
on SJ9salary, and it can'tbe did. Older
men N You have tried it and failed
right aAng. A 5000 boarding house and
a $500 Very stable Just exactly cuts the
last cdpon off your salary, and then
how tlA man who makes your clothes
expectsto get any thing out of you is
more tan you can tell him. Yours is "a
very slHple case, my dear, and you can
apply te remedies yourself, and per-
form tk necessary operations without
the preence of a consulting surgeon.
VIII Thurt? Ny poor boy, You can
bet yog last bottom dollar that it viii
hurt. Twill make you squirm a thou
sand tiles a day, until yon get out of
debt, an then you'll feel as though you
were IN Paradise. Begin treatment at
once; IL longer you wait the worse
your cas- viii be and the more you'll
dread it
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a Yenifian Bath.

One Saturday, when the ladies were
taking their tea at Hurlinghain, they
were startled by seeing a naked man
lodging about from tree to tree on the
opposite bank. Soon a policeman APP
preached him, and it was discovered
that he had been bathing from boat,
and, finding himself unable to get back
to it, owing to the stream, had preferred
outraging the proprieties of being
drowned.
The same thing occurred to me at
Venice / had a room on the ground
floor in a hotel on the Grand Canal.
About l o'clock in the morning every
thing seemed quiet, and it occurred to
me that l should like to battle; so I
jumped into the water from my window.
Having swan about for some time, L
thought I would return to the hotel.
What was my horror to find that an Eng
lish family-papa. mamma, and five
daughters established themselves
ON the steps of the hotel. There was no
help for it, so calmly landed aud, bow
ing respectfully to the ladies, regained
my room. The next day sat opposite
the family at dinner. They told me
what had occurred, and deeply sympa-
thized with them in their indignation
against those "horrid and disgusting"
Italians. Truth.
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The Honest, Very Honest Merchant.

A tail young man of twenty wears
landed at the Union Depot with a bun
die under his arm, and after three or four
minutes spent in getting his bearings he
walked up Jefferson avenue and turned
into a clothing store.
Do you wish to try on some coats
and vests for a dollar, asked the pro-
prietor, rs he rushed from behind the
counter.
"No, [ guess not. Do you deal on the
square p
my trent. dot is exactly What I does.
i vas so square dot l lose 81, 600 last
year. Can sell You an oaferooat for ten
dollar?'
"No. I guess not. Here Is an over.
coat that L bought of you four weeks
ago"
Bought of me?'
Yes, l think YOU are the man. When
I got it home we found it was moth
eaten. 1 can pick it to pieces in dozen
places
rs dot possible! Und how much
you pay?'
Eight dollars.
my sthars And What You want
now?
81 want my money back"
UelI-NucH. NJ trent, L AM sorry
for you. You seem like an honest poy,
and it vhas too bad.
Eyes, 1t was a swindle, and l want my
money back"
Dear me, but wish YOU vhas here
yesterday Let me explain to you.
You bought dot coat four weeks ago:"
Yes, four weeks to-day.
Vhel l had sold oudt to my cousin
oh, hot &c
not square man.
"What have 1 got to do with Philip 2"
''IIet me explain. In dree days
Philip makes an assignment to my brud-
der Louis. Dot Louis is a leetle off
He would sheat your eye-teeth away
from you"
Eyes, but l havn't anything to do
with Louis. -
LET me explain. Louis kept der
place a week, und he gif a shattel mort
gage to my fadder-law, and vhas bounced
out -
q do not know anything about that.
Let me explain. My fadder-law
vhas took nit Il fit and died, and he leaf
dis blaze to my wife Ny wife vhas
gone to Europe for two years, and she
leaf me as agent. Now you see how it
vhas. 1 cannot tell you who sold you
dot COaF. May be IL WAS J. liilp, may
be Louis, may be my fadder-law. 1t
couldn't hat been me, for l WAS in
Chicago If You leave dot coat 1 Will
write to my wife. She Is square, shust
like me- and may be she writes back dot
You can takea linen duster and two white
vests and call It all right. -
Say, this Is a sneaking swindle, "
exclaimed the young man.
" May be 1t yhas. Philip was great
liar.
I'm 60 to the policel'
Well. dot ish al right; may be de
police Will help me catch Louis.
shust found oudt last night dot he cut
all der hind buttons of all der coats IN
der store before he left. "
"If you'll step outdoors, IN mash
you r.
''VheIl, I like to obhge, but You see
vhas only agent for my wife
We'll, you'u hear from me again, and
don't You forget 1t said the victim as
he went out.
II hope sol hope Sc. like to make
il all right / vhas only agent for my
wife, but feel so square dot / take dot
coat back for tree dollars, if you vhant
to trade it ont in paper collars. De
tr0H Free Press.
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you have forgotten the very thing you
meant to take with YOU (
To get yourself snugly settled in yo<
seat and your baskets b les, -
ages, vahse, umbrella, and bird q &
stored away IN the rack and before
behind You on adjoining seats, and tfefs
to discover you're in the wrong car.
To sit next the talking couple at the
theater
To see yourself IN lucid moment as
others see YOU
To trade with the furnishing store :"
clerk who insists after you have bought
what you sire on selling You cravats,
collars, cuffs and fancy hosiery.
To buy something handy to have in
the house" and be told by your wife on
taking 1t home that you've paid twice
too much for a poor article.
To put something away for safe keep
ing so carefully that You can't find it
again.
TO sit down hungry ut the restaurant
and wait fifteen minutes before you can
catch q waiter.
To fix your mouth for n favorite dish
and after waiting ten minutes more to be
told Its all out ="
70 have the septuagenarian, who all
your life has been as an old man to you,
speak out 70 you, ." Well, you're getting
old like the rest of Us.
To be always putting your knife or
pencil in the wrong pocket and going
through all the rest before you can find
them.
To stow your railroad ticket care
fully away in some secret recess Of your
clothes and then forget it, and at regu-
lar intervals be seized with a season Of
fear that you have lost it, consequent on
which comes a spell of frantic rummag-
ing until you find It,
To attempt in one day more business
of various sorts than your mind can
grasp or your hands can handle
To be taken on the Bowery by a conf
dence man or other species of sharper
for a verdant countryman.
To be told you are growing old when
You know you are growing young.
To be told by advisory friend that you
ought not to do so and so when you
haven't done anything of the sort, and
then be told you ought to do thus and so
when you have all along been doing it.
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THE old proverbs are great things At
least some folks think they are. One
of them says /: :" A man cannot bite the
bottom out of a frying-pan without
shutting his nose" Now what is there
clever or remarkable about that? If it
had said that man cannot bite the bot
tom out of his nose without shutting
the frying pan, or that man can't bite
the smut off the pan without frying his
nose, or something like that, there
would be something to it to interest and
instruct. Citizen.
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ence OF nI.eogen, either as ammonia or
nitric acid, but more especially IN this
latter form. Under these circumstances,
we cannot be surprised at the conflict
INC results arrived at by different exper-
iments upon the application of salt.
In Great Britain the use of salt as a
manure. which at one time was very
Iarre-more in consequence of the exer-
tions of those who had that substance
TO sell than from any benefit derived
from its application-has now almost
entirely ceased, and it would appear
that. at all events as far as this country
IS concerned. the rain water is competent
to furnish all that is required by vegeta-
ton
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RESCUEp IRON DEATm.

William !. Coughln, Of somerville Mass, says: ''In
the AL Of 1870 was taken with BLEEDING LuSes
followed By severe cough. lost my appetite and
Hesh and was confined 20 nay bed In 1877 was adj
mitted the hospital. The doctors said had hole in
my lung o. Big half dollar. At one time report
went around tina; dead. I gave up hope, but a
friend told noe Of DR.. WILLIAM HALLS BALsAM
FOR TIE IrNGs. Igot bottle, when, to my surprise,
commence 20 feel better, and to-day feel better than
for three yeas past. write this hoping every AZ
ficted with Diseased Lungs VIII take DIR. WILLIAM
HALLS BlLSAbI, and be convinced that CONSUAfP-
TON IAN IE CURED. positively say it has done
good han al the other medicines ! have taken
i-ce my Sickness"
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INDIGESTION. dysp

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostrauon
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENs0JAS s PEPTONIZED BEEF Tonic. the
only preparation OF beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. IT contains blOod-mak-
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critics. Is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result Of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration. overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
vel, Hazard a Co., proprietOrs, New York.
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A Magnnnimons Woman.

Twas terrible moment. The man
was evidently drowning, while the crowd
on shore stood helpless and horrible. At
this juncture some one yelled, Oh, for
a boat - But there was no boat within
ten miles. The suspense became awful,
and the sun sank into the misty bosom
of the West like bloody pumpkin. All
at once female voice was heard above
the roar of the breakers, Never mind
the boat take one of my shoes" 1t was
the voice of heroic Chicago woman,
and the applause that greeted it was
heard three hundred miles at sea.-CHj-
cQqo Tribune.
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"YoU sot," exclaimed poor woman
to her husband, "you are always at the
tavern getting drunk with hot punch,
while / am at home with nothing to
drink but cold water " Gold, you
silly jade why don't you warm it !"
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The yoltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, Will
send their Electro-Yoltaic Belts and other
Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to
any person afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality. and kindred troubles, guarantee
ing complete restoration Of yigor and manhood.
Address as above without delay.
PS-No risk is incurred as thirty days
trial is allowed.
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The Dead canno. BE RaI.ea.

nor if your lungs. are badly wasted away can
you be cured by the use of DR.. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery" 1t is, however, unequaled
as tonic, alternative, and nutritive, and readily
cures the most obstinate cases of bronchitis,
coughs, colds. and incipient consumption, far
SURPRISING in efficacy cod liver oil. Send two
stamps for DR.. Pierces pamphlet on Consump-
ton and Kindred Affections Address WORLDS
DIsPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Buffalo, Ny.
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.Femnle Complaints, :,

DR.. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y.:-Dedr Sir
I write to tell you what your g Favorite Pre-
scription" has done for me. had been great
sufferer from female complaints, especially
dragging down." for over six years, duriDs
much of the time unable to work. l paid out
hundreds of dollars without any benefit till 2
took three bottles of the ''Favorite Prescrip-
ton" and never had anything do me so much
good in my life. 1 advise every sick lady to
take it. Mrs. EMILY RHoADs, McBrides, Mich.
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NEvB put off till tomorrow what
you cAnlo to-day" said an advising
mother to her child. " Well, then,
mamma,let us eat the mince pie that's
IN the cupboard, was the child's pre-
cocious eply.
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ABsURDITIEs OF science: Scientists
have discovered worms in fishes and are
bothering their brains to know how they
came there. Very simple. We have fed
something less thar million worms to
fishes ourselves. All that is necessary
is to put worm ON hook, drop it into
the water and the fishes Will eat it off as
clean as a whistle. Worms in fishes l.
.NesO HaUesl Register.
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A CoyNEorroUr mother learned Of he

daughters contemplated elopement, and
on the night appointed for the flight she
put some laudanum in the girls tea The
latter fell asleep and did not wake up I'M
til next morning, and in the meantime
Romeo got tired of waiting and went
home disguised. He goes with another
girl now.
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AMERICA" says an Enghshman, is
a country where a mans statement Is
not worth two cents unless backed up
with an offer to bet you ten dollars. P"
Hitus that time.
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You've and middle aged men suffering from
memory, and kindred symptoms should send
three stamps for Part VII of pamphlets issued
by Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, n. Y.
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lows. to WI

Pour into your age your whole life,
If be pure and good, and be sure that
Won have done somethlng-your little
ali. There shall be no drop OF that lie
wasted. Where You put 1t there II shan
he. an atom in. the slowly-rislng monu-
, 10 of a world redeemed to goodness.
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Weight of Bushels.

Whenever any of the following arti-
cIes shall be contracted for, or sold or
sldeliyered, and no special contract or
. oreement shall be made to the contrary,
the weight per bushel shall be as fol
LOWS to wit:
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A MARYLAND exchange refers to Mr..
Thos. G.. Forward, of Belair, that State,
who was cured by st. Jacobs Oil Of
rheumatism. Rochester ~. " Sunday
Morning Tribune.
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Mr.. E. G.. GARTMAN, the business
manager of the EUening Dispatch, OF
York, Pa, was cured neuralgia by three
applications of st. Jacobs O1.-Bosfon
Z Mass. Saturday Epening Express.
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No MAsnows what a ministering angel his
wife is unt he comes home one day, suffering
with drelful Cold and she happens to have
bottle CDR. Bulls Cough Syrup in the house.
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Foa n Christmas present buy one Of the Mass.
Orgm COS Harpettes, and your Children will be
debated and give you music IN your own home
tbessiong winter evenings
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Only the genuine axle grease has the name
II Fazer ON every package and wears longer
than any other.
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"Fhat every one says must be true" that
CDR Sellers Cough Syrup has no equal foi
corabs and colds Try it. Price 25c.
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Rough ON Rats

Fos loss of appetite. nausea OF stomach and
INDIGESTION. "Lindsey's Blood Searcher has
no canal Sold by druggists.
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Beer anect. the KIa,e,,

And it may seriously interfere with the health
unless promptly counteracted. and for this pur-
pose Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has
no equal
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stseEFaRs from Constipation should make
one trialel kidney Wort and be cured.
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Mr.. Foee said to his wife 81 will
come right back" The wife gently re-
sponded "See that you come back
right.
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AA Druggists Tor It. It clears out rats,
mice reaches, bed-bugs. l5,.
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Experiment No. l.............--...-.z 3
Experiment No. 2........--...-.-...I II
1t was also quite evident that the soda
was taken up in the plant as nitrate of
soda, that salt having been found in the
juice. In the experiment where potash
was not used No. p the juice contained
considerably more phosphoric acid and
rather more nitrogen.
In another experiment, where salts of
ammonia were employed, furnishing an
equivalent amount of nitrogen to that
contained in the nitrate of soda, the
amount of soda taken up per acre did
not exceed twenty-five pounds, and no
more was taken up where 300 pounds of
common salt were applied in addition.
Under all circumstances the production
of sugar by the unit of nitrogen in the
form of ammonia was very much less
than its production by the unit of nitro
gen in the form of nitric acid. In an
other experiment. where the nitrogen of
the salts of ammonia was doubled bv
the addition of rape cake, considerable
amounts of soda appear to have been
tBken up from the common salt as we
find IN the juice:
Potash. Soda.
lbs. lbs.
After salts OF ammonia and rape cake. 1854 SIS
After salts OF ammonia alone 156 Sc
The increase of sugar where the 800
pounds of common salt were used
to about 240 pounds per acre.
1t must, however, be mentioned that in
this case there was large increase of
phosphoric acid in the juice, which NAV
have had some influence on the produc-
ton.
On the whole, I am disposed to think
that, while there is some evidence of a
beneficial influence from the application
Of soda, 1t Is tolerably certain that little
DR. no effect Is produced unless all the
other elements of plant food are present
N abundance and it would further APP
pear that its power of entering into veg
station depended chiefly upon the pres
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Things Which Annoy One.

To get fairly ont of the house and find
you have forgotten the very thing you :
meant to take with you. ~
Ii -
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20 inches. 40 inches. 6Oinches.
lbs. lbs. .bs.