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How lasts Differ

The Germans and the English esteem
the goose about as highly as the tur-
key. But in France the former is look
ed upoE as avulgar bird, unfit to set
before epicures. An English journal,
writing of the change of taste with re-
spect to eating birds, says: To-day we
never see a pOulterer's shop adorned
with rows of peacocks, and should one
of these beautiful birds appear upon
the table at some grand public or pri-
vate dinner, none of the guests would
go into ecstasies over the dish, as if its
delicacy was fact universally known.
But in Rome, no banquet was complete
without the presence of a peacock.
Among the other large birds the cranes,
the swans and even the ostrich were
held in high esteem. Geese are very
highly priced, and they were eaten, not
with sauce but stuffed with small green
apples. The duck and teal were served
with the juice of the orange and not
that of the lemon; and they were pre-
ferred to the heathcOck and woodcock.
AS for larks and thrushes, they were
usually eaten at the end of a meal,
with the idea that it would prove a
sovereign remedy against affections of
the bowels. But the bird most in es-
TEEN with the subjects of the Caesars
was the common thrush. These birds
were raised and fattened in large es.
adjustments near Rome and brought a
very high price. The artificial rearing
of these birds, which ara excellent foI
the table, would prove an easy matter
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APacullar Case Of Cheek.

san Francisco Call
There are some men who make it a
rule never to lend any money TO a
woman, and say tins however honest a
woman may intend to be, she is nat
urally destitute of ideas of business
fairness, and ungrateful for favors.
A San Francisco stock broker has
that opinion about his landlady. She
was crying to him about her troubles
one day, as some complaining land
ladies ar apt to do, and said she wished
she was rich. He asked her how much
it would take to make her consider
herself rich. She said she would be
happy with $1,000. So he went down
to Change. bought twenty shares of
Consolidated Virginia mining stock.
which was going up at the time, and
held IL until it realized a profit of 81
600. This he handed ID the old lady.
with his best regards. She wept for
gratitude, wanted to kiss him, and then
asked him TO invest the $4,000 for her.
He advised her TO be satisfied with
what she had, and warned her not to
speculate in hope of getting more. But
she insisted, and as business is business
he took the job. invested the $4,000 in
something that tumbled, and she lost
$1,000 by the operation. She was fur
ious, said it was all his fault and
actually sued him for the $1,000 lost,
though she still bad $1,000 with which
she Ind formerly declared she would
be perfectly happy.
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How Much is nv Bow Worth2

Some years ago Horace Mann deliv-
cred an address at the opening of some
refOrmatory institution for boys, dur
ing which he remarked that if only one
boy was saved from ruin, il would pay
for all the cost and care and labor of
establishing such an institution as
that. After the exercises had closed,
in private conversation, gentleman
rallied Mr.. Mann upon lis statement,
and said to him: "Did you not color
that "A little when you said that all ex-
penses and labor would be repaid if il
only saved one boyY'
"NOt il it was my boy" was the con-
vincing reply.
There is a wonderful value about
''my boy" Other boys may be rude
and rough, other boys may be reckless
and wild; other boys may seem to re
quire more pains and labor than they
ever will repay; other boys may be left
TO drift uncared for, to the ruin which
is so near at hand; but "my boy,"-it
were worth the toll Of a lifetime, and
the lavish wealth of a world to save
him from temporal and eternal ruin.
We would go world round to save
him from peril, and would bless every
hand that was stretched out to give
him help or welcome. Every poor,
wandering. outcast, homeless man, is
one whom some fond mother called
my boy" And yet how many parents
are there who give their time to the
consideration of what things "my boy
should learnp
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Plenty Of Cotton and no Meat
Augusta CGa.) Chronicle.

Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
In Cuthbert paper we are informed
that "there are people in our county
who have not had a mouthful of meat
for two days-some that have not had
bread for that time. Many horses and
mules are blowing that have had Meth
er corn, fodder, nor oats for two weeks
being plowed till dinner and then
turned upon the swamp-grass and cane
brakes to Craze till they are put to the
pillow again." IL the all-cotton craze
did not bring about that deplorable
situation. what did? We are satisfied
that in no Georgia county need there
be any such restitution, if food crops
were first attended to and cotton made
a surplus production. In all prouabil-
ity the poor horses and mules thus suf-
fering for the imbecility of man, are
engaged in blowing their hungry way
along cotton row. The old, old story
is repeated year after year. Next sea-
son will probably wind up these so
called planters and their starving ami
mails. Farmers in Georgia who get
out of meat and corn ought to quit ag-
riculture and try something else. The
lands of the south thus abused will one
day be tAken away from their present
proprietors and come into the possess
sion of thrifty race. Luckily, such
accounts as our Cuthbert friend gives
are exceptions to the rule in Georgia
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Much has been said in pra;sa NJ
Grecian beauty, and the men are hand.
some IN every sense of the word; we
might wen imagine them to be the
models OF Phidias and Praxiteles,
Their large eyes, black as let. sparkle
with glances Of fire, while the long.
silky eyelashes soften the expression
and give dreamy appearance of mel
ancholy. Their teeth are small white
and well-set; fine regular profile. a
pale olive complexion, and tall. ele-
CANT figure, realize an accomplished
type OF distinction. As to the women.
they seem TO have left physical perfec-
ton TO the men; some possess fine eyes
and hair, but as rule, they have bad
figures. and some defect I'm the face
generally spoils the good features. II
IS among them, however, that old
Oriental customs are most strictly pre-
served; while the men are gradually
undergoing the process of civilization.
they, IN moral point of view, remain
stationary, and are just as they were
fifty years ago. 1t may, indeed, be said
that, with the exception of Athens, the
women possess no individual existence,
and count as nothing in society; the
men have reserved every privilege for
themselves, leaving to their helpmates
the care of the house and family. In
the towns where servants are kept
they are of the poorest class of peas
ants, who know nothing and receive
miserable wages. The families are
generally large, seven or eight little
children demand mothers constant
attention. The morning begins by di-
rect:ng the work of each servant, re-
peating the same thing a hundred
times, scolding. screaming, even beat
ing them, to be understood. In the
evening, when the children are sleep
ing, IL there remain some little time.
the poor, WORKOUT mother sits down
at her spinning wheel to spin silk, to
sew or knit, or, IL it be summer time.
to look after her silk-worms and
cocooDs, happy if she has not to do the
work of her incompetent servants
over again.
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eeIshazzar and His Brother Bill.

Belshazzar Smith had a very bad
and very dangerous habit of walking
in his sleep. His family feared that
during one of his somnambulistic
saunterings he would charge out of
the window and kill himself, so they
pursuaded him to sleep with his little
brother William, and to tie one end of
a rope around his body, and the other
around little William.
The very first night after this ar
rangement was made, Belshazzar
dreamed that burglar was pursuing
him with dagger. So he crept over
to Williams side of the bed, stepped
over Williams slumbering form,
jumped out upon the floor, and slid
under the bed. He stayed there awhile,
and then his nightmare having chang
ed, he emerged upon the other side
of the bed, and got under the cover in
his old place.
The rope, it will be observed was be-
meath the bed; and it was pulled taut.
too. Early in the morning, Belshazzar
about half awake, scroughed over
against William. To his surprise, the
movement jerked little William clear
out of bed. Belshazzar leaped out to
ascertain the cause of the phenomenon
and at the same time his brother dis
appeared under the bed. BelshazzaI
hardly awake, was scared, and he dived
beneath the bedstead; as he did so he
heard William skirmishing across the
blankets above his head. Once more
he rushed out, just in time to see Viii.
liam glide over the other side. Bel
shazzar just then became sufficiently
conscious to feel the rope pulling or
him. He comprehended the situation
at once, and disengaged himself.
Perhaps little William was not mad
He was in the hospital undergoing re
repairs, for about three weeks, anC
when he came out the had strang'
desire to sleep alone.
BelshaZZar anchors himself to an an
vii now
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Moth Preventive.

A correspondent of the Furniture
Gazette recommends the following rem
edy for DISCRIMINATING moths in carpets
and furniture. After some years of ex-
perience with the troublesome pests.
says the writer, 1 found a sure proven
tive of moth in pitch paper, the same
as roofers use. The moth will live
and grow on cayenne pepper and to-
bacco. while never could see that the
use of these articles kept the moth
miller out The plan for the furniture
dealer or the housewife is to cut the
paper in slips and place about the
room, under and behind sofas, chairs,
ETC.; this should be done as early as
the first of April, and in warm climates
earlier. If the dealer wishes to make
parlor suits moth proof, he should
place on the inside of backs of chairs
and seats small strips of the pitch pa
per. and rest assured that the miller
will not select these places to deposit
eggs. 1t is the miller that is the foun-
dation of all the mischief.
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London (Ont) Free Press
In Dundas street dry-goods store
three ladies were purchasing goods
side by side. Ono of them hung her
umbrella by the handle on the edge of
the counter and went to another part
of the establishment. One of those
who still remained laid her purse on
the counter, and while making her pur-
chases it was accidentally showed into
the folds of the upturned umbrella.
When the clerk tore off his check and
the lady reached for her pocket-book
it was gone. She had just laid it On
the counter, and of course the lady
who stood beside her must have taken
it. Nothing could be clearer. In the
excitement which followed the first
mentioned lady took possession of her
umbrella and walked out of the store.
totally ignorant of what was within
it. A policeman was called, and amid
much indignation and grief on one
side and clustering on the other the
innocent woman was taken up stairs
and searched. OF course the purse
was not found, and she was allowed to
go. Now for the sensational part of
the story. The umbrella was taken
over to a hotel, thrown into a buggy.
taken home. and laid away. A few
days later the house was burned down.
but the umbrella, among other things,
was saved. A few weeks passed, and
then one day it was hoisted and out
fell the missing purse. The lady re-
membered the incident in the store,
and on her next visit to the city brought
back the money and had it restored to
the owner. In the period which inter-
vened the woman who had been wrong
fully accused had visited the store
daily to ascertain whether anything
had turned up to prove her innocence.
The story is vouched for on the best
of authority, and is literally true.
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READ TT ALL!
IT MAY save YOUR LIFE.
HOP BiTTERS ARE
THE PUREST and BEST
MEDICINE EVER MADE.

They Arc Compounded From Hon. x,,,.,,
Mandrake and Dandelion.
.The Oldest Best, most Renown-
ed and Valuable Medicines In the
World, and In addition Contains
all the best and most effective cura-
tive properties Of all other bitters.
being the greatest Liver Regulator.
.pLVUD rOHlFlER and life and
They Give New Life and vigor
- H. Al ~, r..
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Marriage Insurance.

The marriage insurance companies
seem to be doing a thriving business
IN the interior of Pennsylvania. A
harrisburg company claims to have put
upon its books within the past six
months $1,000, 900 in marriage policies
and hopes to make it $4,000, 900 be
fore the year is out A Lebanon ope-
Tator has hunted up all the engaged
ana good-loOking girls IN that commu.
NIFTY, and has persuaded most, if not
all OF them, to take policies in his com
pany. Judge Mitchell has granted a
license to the Pennsylvania Marriage
Beneficial Association, thus giving the
business f0othold in Pennsylvania
The objects of the insurance is said tC
be limited to furnishing impecunious
brides and grooms with wedding por.
tons.
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Washington, ID. G

a good Baptist clergymay of Bergen, N.
T., strong temperance man, suffered with
kidney trouble, neuralgia and dizziness
almost TO blindness over two years after
he was advised that Hop Bltters would
cure him, because he was afraid of and
preJudiced against the word ''bitters."
Since his cure he says none need fear but
trust in Hop Bitters.
My wife and daughter were made healthy
by the use of Hop Bitters and 1 recon-
mend them to my peOple.-MethOdist Cler-
gymam, Mexico, n. Y.
had severe attacks of Gravel and Kid
ney trouble; was unable to get any medi-
cine or doctor to cure me until used Hop
Bltters, and they cured me in short time.
A distinguished lawyer and temperance
orator of Wayne county, N. Y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-18

A new freight car for the transporta-
ton Of grain was placed on private ex-
hibition in Milwaukee last week. 1t
consists. says the Republican and News
Of that city. of four hollow cylinders,
made Of iron and steel, eight and a
half feet long and six feet in diameter
inside. These cylinder wheels cen be
loaded from the top or side, and with
proper elevator facilities can be loaded
OF unloaded more easily and quickly
than an ordinary car. The cylinders
are perforated with minute holes that
admit Of circulation Of air through
the grain, thus drying wet grain or
preventing 1t from heating while in
transit The car has capacity for
fun 1000 bushels of grain, while the
maximum load Of the ordinary car is
400 bushels.
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a Hot Water River.

The great Sutro tunnel, cut 10 re.
lieve the celebrated Comstock mines
~ Virginia City. New, of the vast
Quantities Of hot water which is en-
rOuntered In them, affords an outlet
H 1900 tons every twehty-fOur
TOURS. or about 100000 gallons.
some OF the water, rs Il finds its way
into the mines. has temperature OF
l9J degrees. while four miles from the
mouth Of the tunnel the temperature
ranges from $50 10 l35 degrees. To
Obviate the inconvenience which
would arise from the vapor such a
vast quantity of water would give of.
the How Is conducted through the
entire tunnel, four miles, in n tight
Hume made Of pine. AT the point of
the exit the water has lost but seven
degrees OF heat Sixty feet below the
mouth OF the tunnel the hot water is
utilized for turning machinery belong
ing TO the company, from whence IL
II Is carried of by n tunnel LOO feet
In length. which serves rs n water way.
Leaving the waste Say tunnel the
water lows 10 the Carson river. a mile
and a half distant. This hot water Is
icing utilized for many purposes. The
boys bave arranged mmy pools where
they indulge In hot baths. The min
crs and others use Il for laundry pur-
poses. and arrangements are being
made whereby thousand acres be-
longing 10 tho company Is TO be irri-
gated IL Is proposed 10 conduct the
hot water through iron pipes beneath
the surface OF the soil near the roots
Of thousands of fruit trees which are
to be planted. and in similar manner
give The necessary warmth 10 n num-
Der OF hot houses 10 be used for the
propagation 81 early fruits and vegeta-
blea
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The English, French and German mil
lers find themselves unable to grind flour
as eheaply, as economically, and as rapid
ly as the American miller is able to do.
notwithstanding the relative cheapness of
labor in these countries. This advance
ment in American milling has resulted in
rapid and profitable increase in exports
of flour from the United States.
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CURED OF DRINKIC.

"a young friend of mine was cured of an
Unsuitable thirst for liquor that had so
Frustrated his system that he was unable
to do any business. He was entirely
cured by the use of Hop Bitters. 1t allay-
ed all that burning thirst: took away the
appetite for liquor made his nerves steasy,
and he has remained sober and steady
man for more than two years, and has no
desire to return to his cups, and know of
others that have been cured of drinking by
it."-From leading X. r. Official, Chica-
90, Ill.
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pREIIrnICE Kills

eleven years our daughter suffered on
bed of misery under the care of several
of the best physicians, who gave her dis
ease various names but no relief, and now
she is restored to us in good health by
Hop Bitters, that we had pooled at two
and pray that no one else will let their
sick suffer as we did, on account CT preju-
dice against so good a medicine as Hop
ters,r-The Parents,
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Gun Cotton.

Experiments with gun cotton, at Wool
witch, demonstrate that the transmits
sion of defamation from one mass of
gun cotton to another not in contact
was so rapid that row of cotton reach
ing from London to Edinburg could hs
fired in two minutes.
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Be Wise and Happy.

If you will stop all your extravagant and
families with expensive doctors or humbug
cure-alls, that do harm always, and use
only natures simple remedies for all your
ailmentS-you will be wise, well and hap
Ply, and save great expense. The greatest
remedy for this, the great, wise and good
will tell you, is Hop Bitters-rely upon it.
See another cOlhmn.-PrcSS.
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SciDjo NJ Y Dec I 1870

am pastor of the Baptist Church here
practice, but am my sole family physician,
and advise in many chronic cases. Over
a year ago recommended your Hop Bit
tiers to my invalid wife, who has been un-
der medical treatment of Albany's best
physicians several years. She has been
greatly benefited and still uses the medi-
cine. / believe she will be thoroughly
cured of her various complicated diseases
by their use. We both recommend them
to our friends, many of whom have been
cured of their ailments by them.
Rev. L. II. WARREN.
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Washington, d. c., Sept. "a, 1879.

Dear Sir.-W6y don't you gec a certif-
showing how he cured himself of drunken
ness by the help of Hop Bitters. HIS is a
wonderful case. He is well known in
Rochester, n. Y, by all the drinking peO-
pie there. He is known in this city, Gin
cinnati, New Orleans, New York; in fact,
thousands of dollars for rum. honestly
believe his card would be worth thousands
of dollars to you in this city and Balti-
more alone, and make thousands of sober
men by inducing the use of your Bitters.
l. A. w
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declined to insert your advertisement
of Hop BitterS last year, because L then
thought they might not be promotive of
the cause of Temperance, but find they
are, and very valuable medicine, myself
and wife having been greatly benefited by
them, and L take great pleasure in making
them known. Rev. JOHN SEAMAN,
Editor "Home Sentinel" Alton, NY.
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WICKED FOR CLERGYnEN.

81 believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymen or other public men
to be led into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile Stuffs called medicines, but
when really meritOrious article is made
up of common valuable remedies known
to all, and that all physicians use and trust
in daily, We should freely commend it.
therefore heartily and cheerfully commend
Hop Bitters for the good they have done
me and my friends, firmly believing they
have. no equal forfamily use. | will not
be without them.
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Indigestion, Dyspepsia, nervous prostratioz and
al iorms Of general debility relieved by taking Mens-
mans Peptonized Reef Tonic. the only prepare
non OF beef containing ia entire nutrSous p1 opees
II Is not mere stimuant like the Of beef bu
contains bloUdms ing. force-generating, azd nfeSus
.nng pr perties; Is Invaluable In all enfeebled con
uuons whether the result Of exhaustion nervous prue
snon over work, or acute disease; particularly II re
suitlng nom pulmonary complaints CAswKLL, HAzAHI
q Co., Proprietors New York. Sold BY druRystA
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HOP BITTERS

If you are frequenter, or a resi-
dent of miasmatic district, barri-
cade your system against the
sc0urge of all vuntrieS-malarlal,
epidemic, bilious, and intermittent
fpVarS-hv the uSa of
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GENTLEMKN. was sufierine from General de-
densome to me. A vacation Of q month did not
increased prostration and sinking chilia At thiI
alized almost immediate and wonderful results-
was not permanently abated. I have used three
Dor that ever did In the same time during my q
work, know not what. Igiye Il thecrodif
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Milton, Del, Feb. 10. 1880

Having used Hop Bitters, the noted rem
edy for debility, nervousness, Indigestion,
etc, have no hesitation in saying that it
is indeed an excellent medicine, and rec
ommend it to any one as truly tonic Bit
tiers. Respectfully.
Rev, Mrs. j. III. ELIGOOD
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THIS Is THE SEASON for Bowel Com
plants; unripe fruit and exposure produce
them, and PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KILLER
cures them. 1t acts with wonderful rapid
ity, and is perfectly harmless. No fami-
ly should be without it. For Internal
and External uses it has no equal.
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Tell the Sick.

Thousands of lives are destroyed by
diseases of the kidneys and liver. Kid
ney-WOrt would save them. Tell the
sick of it, and that it is for sale by all
druggists in either dry or liquid form
London Times.