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Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

THE VoLTAIc BELT Co., Marshall, Mich, VIII
send DIR. Dyes Celebrated Electro Voltaic
Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for
thirty days to men young or old) who are af-
ficted with nervous debility, lost vitality and
kindred troubles guaranteeing speedy and
complete restoration of health and manly vigor.
Address as above. N. B.-No risk is incurred,
as thirty days trial is allowed.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

Mrs HOWE says women do not fall in love
any more Place woman in front of the mil
liners window and see if she doesn't.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

IT is said that during the moonlight fight
in Egypt the English bands played ''The man
in the moon is looking.n
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23
/" Sigh no More, Ladics!"

For Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" Is a
prompt and certain remedy for the paiaful dis
orders peculiar to your sex. By druggists
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

PLUMBERS ought to make good soldiers
they are accustomed to cold lead and are tre
mendous fellows to charge.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

THE mosquito is little but his brave exam
pie is contagious He makes the most cow
ardly come to the scratch
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

An old lady, hearing that John Bright con-
templated visiting this country, hoped that
he wouldn't bring his disease" with him.
Nor7iSto1cn Herald
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

t9y- The Diamond Dyes for family use have
no equals. All popular colors easily dyed, fast
and beautiful 10 cents a package.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

LYONS Heel StiffeHers keep new boots and
shoes straight By shoe and hardware dealers.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23
Personally

The crews of schooners find it rossible "for
man to serve two-m4sters. .''-Pittsburq Tete-
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

BEFORE an apple becomes cider it must go
the rounds of the press
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

DON'T DrEin the house. Rough on Rats. F" 15c.
Clears out rats, mice, flies, reaches, bed-bugs
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

REDUCED FARE-Jnmates of the Old Ladies'
Home.-Beston Betlletin.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

LIKELY to be myrrh maid-the apotheca
rvs daughter.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

STINGING irritation, Inflammation, all Kid
ney Complaints, cured by "Buchupaiban 81.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

Hay fever comes high, but some folks will
have it.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23
SrR0AG'S PECT0RAL PILLS
A SURE REMEDY FOR
COLDS AND RHEUMATISM,
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.

Ensure healthy appetite good digestion regularity OF
the bowels 1precioas boon to dlcgte fedie 500 tn
ing and a aeing the nervous system, and giving vigo
and health IN every fiber Of III body Sold by d. uG-
0ists Fo~ Pamphlets address F. o. Box ESQ., n T. City
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

That terrible scourge
fever and ague, and
It's congener, bilious
remittcnt, besides af-
fections of the stom-
ach, liver and bowels.
produced by miasma-
tic air and water. are
both eradicated and
prevented by the use
of Hostettcr's Stom-
ach Bitters, a purely
vegetable elixir. In
dorsed by physicians,
an6 more extensive
ly ueed as a remedy
for the above class of
disorders, as well as
for many others,th
any medicine of the
age. For sale by all
Druggists and Deal
ers generally.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23

WHEN is a woman not woman?-When q
little cross
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23
THE MARKETS.

TRY the new brand. "Spring Tobacco"
Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23
Ask the Nearest Druggist.

IF the dealers in Your place do not keen
Merchants Gargling Oil for sale. insist ul5T
their sending to US, or where they get theirI
corked, and shake it before using. yellow
wrapper for animal and white tor human
flesh.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03
Government Publications.

Very frequently it occurs that one,
hearing of a certain book having been
published by the Government, wishes to
obtain copy, but is ignorant of the
manner of procedure necessary to pro.
cure 1t. Now, in order to obtain a copy
of any government publication, you must
first know the full name of the book, the
authors name, date and department it is
published by. Having learned all this,
you must next send a letter of request to
your Congressman or United States Sen
ator. Either one will do. The shorter
your letter the better, as Congressman
usually have enough to read without be-
ing troubled with long letter which
can easily be reduced to dozen words.
1t is not necessary to give your reasons
for wanting the book, nor is it necessary
to give your family history, references,
etc. Secretaries of societies should al
ways affix the seal of the society to the
letters unless the secretary be person
ally acquainted with the Congressman
or Senator. Always be sure and give
your full address-State, county, city
and strickland never fail to return the
enclosed receipt blank to the proper per-
sons, postage prepaid. In ordering
books always write separate letter for
each department. Never write to two
different men for the same book, as the
various departments keep a record of all
books that go out, and if caught trying
to get duplicates, without good reasons
for doing so, you are liable to fall into
trouble and not get any books ct ALL
Indianapolis Herald.
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Every Nam oils Own Doctor

Many n man who, if his horse or COW
is sick, sends at once for the veterinary
practitioner for ailments of his own that
are on the face of them quite as serious
and as much IN need of professional
treatment.
He viii take the advice Of an ignorant
neighbor as to what is good for" an i'll
ness, when he would laugh at the idea Of
going to the same person for counsel in
any other business or concern whatever.
In the days OF our grandmothers, when
the household D1dtcriG utedic0 consisted
Of ''roots and YARDS, " with a few simple
drugs ike epson salts, this domestic or
''lay" prescribing was less dangerous
than in these latter days when concen
trated and powerful agents have become
so common and familiar.
The household remedies Of the olden
time were rarely liable to do much harm,
even if they did no good. The cure was
generally in reality left to nature, though
the roots and YARDS" got the credit of
it. But most of the drugs Of our day
are not of this inert or negative charnc-
ter, and the danger III their use by the
ignorant is q real and serious danger.
The most powerful medicines that IN
professional people of a former genera
ton ventured to fool with bore about the
same relation to those in vogue that gun
power does the nitro-glycerine; yet the
latter are used even more recklessly than
the former ever were. A little knowl-
edge Is not always a dangerous thing,
but when 1t leads n man to think that he
can doctor" himself in ailments of any
serious nature, the old and often-abused
proverb is indisputably true.-Journa
Of Chemistry.
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lie bid NOT ,TIncc Matters

\ representative Of the Lynn Mass. },
Hem, IN a late ramble throughout that
city, gathered, among other scraps Of
interest and information the following ::
The first place visited by the reporter
was the fruit store Of Mr.. J. Levett, No.
81 Market street, in response to a rumor
that the proprietor had been cured of
the rheumatism by the great remedy.
Mr.. Leavett not being in, the reporter
had talk with his son. Mr.. Levett
stated that his father had been cured Of
an exceedingly bad attack Of rheumatism
by the St. Jacobs Oil He had the dis
ease IN his right arm and shoulder, which
became perfectly helpless after being
affected a few hours His pain was 50
great that he could not rest in comfort
or attend to business with any degree Of
satisfaction. After enduring this sort Of
thing for some time, he purchased a bot
tie Of the Great German Remedy and
began to applyit. He did not mince n at
tiers at all, but just used the Oil for all it
was worth. After pursuing this mode Of
treatment for three days the pain was
banished and his father was in a per-
fectly healthy condition. He has never
since felt any rheumatism.
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The Pugf.,st,s sad Fate.

A New York Herald correspondent in
terviewed the once famous pugilist, Mike
McCoole, in New Orleans. The old ex-
champion thus stated his experience {:
This prize-fighting profession is bad
business anyhow. A man is bound to
lose his fight some day if he keeps at it,
and then his friends are sure to desert
him at the last and worst part of his life,
which is Just the time he will need them
most. know all about that, and feel it
more and more every day I live. When
1 was at the top of my glory and had
never been whipped I had all sorts of
good things put upon me, and that, too,
oftentimes. when I didn't want them,
and now could hardly get a good din
ner if was to beg these men for it, and
there is not one of them that would care
to lend me dime. Not one of them will
ever believe it that a poor devil may be
fairly and squarely whipped without any
trick in the matter. It is like backing
the fayorite. Let the favorite fail, and
nobody has the same confidence in the
favorite again. I am now steamboating
on the river, and shall stick to that as
long as 1 hve."
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03

Every man who fills an effective pub
lie position has an especially good OPP
portuuity Of morahZing upon feminine
frlyOlty and frailness. 4 handsome
actor, a good-Iooking popular preacher,
a charming singer, finds the women go
down before him much as the ladies do
before the hero of Patience. As very
High Church young ladies delight IN
standing up out of reverence to very
young curates when they enter the
church, SO there are many women who
would be charmed 10 go down on their
knees when one OF the heroes of society
enters a drawing-room. Good looks are
not always necessary, though rs rule
women prefer their idols TO be hand
some. Excessive nOtOuety Will do IN
stead The men who, with no personal
charms-with, as In some recent IN
stances. "a positive unpleasantness about
them-go through society worshlped
and adored by the women, must indeed
be inclined 10 adopt the true Guy Inv
iugstonian view of the other sex. These
ladies who sneak after the man Of mush-
room notoriety. imploring hmm to come
10 their afternoons, begging him for his
photograph or a copy of bis poems, or
an autograph letter. or a lock of his hair
4AlAt0N iittAi 40 nm ftA pun AAttAN
beasts" indeed. But however he may
despise them, he can, to a certain extent,
understand their motives. They want
other women to see him talking to them,
10 meet him at their houses. 10 be aware
that he has written letters TO them and
given them his photograph. The idea
these women entertain must be that they
obtain "A secondhand distinction by be-
ing associated IN peoples minds with
the idol of the hour. Women have from
all time regarded it as sufficient honor
for themselves TO be the fayorites Of
great men. This is but a modern rem
dering of the old story. They have
made it the fashion to sit In adjoining
circles, around their hero, and gaze upon
him with meek eyes of wonder, much as
if he We're Persian prince, and they
his humble slaves. But there Is none Of
the charm of danger IN this, and perhaps
not much excitement for II Is all done
in public, and has become a prominent
feature IN the programme Of most
drawing-rOOm entertainments.-L
World
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Trailing

One Of the most remarkable features
of uncivilized life Is the power savaoes
show OF tracking men and beasts over
immense distances. Many travoIars
have spoken of this as something alr,ost
miraculous, yet 1t Is only the resn1t az
careful observation of certain welI--noyrn
signs and we have here before usa COL
lection Of very-common-sense hints on
the subject. In countries like ours avary
trace or footprint or wheel-traclr on
roads or paths IS soon obTIterated or
hopelessly confused but it is otherwise
In the wilderness, where neither man
nor beast can conceal his track In
Caffreland, when cattle are stolen If
their foot prints are traced TO a village
the head man IS responsible for them.
unless he can show the same track ooing
ont. A wagon track IN a new country Is
practically indehble. More especiaIiv ("
say the authors of "Shifts and Exnedi-
ents of Camp Life" " is this the case II n
fire sweeps over the plain immediately
after, or If a wagon passes during or after
a prairie fire. We have known a fellow
traveller IN this manner recognize the
tracks his wagon had made seven wears
before, the lines Of charred stnmps
crushed short down remaining to indi-
[
all other impressions had been obIiter-
ated by the rank annual growth fully
twelve feet high. Sometimes, the Origi-
nal soil being disturbed, new Yegeta-
ton VIII spring up along the wagon
track, and thus mark out the road for
miles.
Even on hard rock q mans bare foot
viii leave the dust caked togethek,y
perspiration, so that practiced eyeSA,l
see it; and even if there is NO ~
stone viii be disturbed here ar
| the side Of the pebble which
lain next to the ground being turneSsa.
If 1t Is still damp, the man or beast that
/ turned it has passed very recently. If a
/ shower of rain has fallen, the track viii
I tell whether it was made before, during
| or after the shower similar indications
can be obtained from the dew and other
indications of the time that has elapsed
since man passed by Is furnished by
/ the state of the crushed grass, which Will
/ be more or less withered as the time is
| longer or shorter. Other indications are
drawn from the direction in which the
/ grass lies (; this tells how the wind was
| blowing at the time the grass was
[ crushed and by noting previous of the
wind, one learns the time at which each
part of the track was made.
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and forces itself upon the attention OF
the farmer. Where there is a large
patch no uProoting or sailing will an
sWer The plant "means business, and
unless the farmer accepts the challenge;
he.had better sell out. or the thistle VIII
eventually get the better of him There
is is no one fact more thoroughly proved
leaves. If the green foliage be cut of
as often as 1t appears above the SURFACE,
the plant must die. If cutting with a
sharp hoe, every few days, if need be,
be persisted in, the plant viii IN time be
exhausted. If it be cut two or three
times IN the season, the plant will like 1t
rather than otherwise, and probably
IN which there can be no half measures;
1t must be "war to the knife and the
knife to the hilt," else the farmer will
come out of the fight second best.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03
An nrientnI Rnantr.

Mad. Yoshida, the wife of the Japanese
Minister. is the most daiutilv pretty
creature that any picture on a
paper fan can give an idea of No taller
than child of ten, she has all the
charms and graces in miniature, and her
perfect little japanese beauty Is always
offset by the most perfect toilets. French
taste and fingers dress her after the most
approved manner, and from her own
country she brings stuffs, brocades and
embroideries uuattainable and unnama-
BILE in our dry goods trade. The perfect
oval of her face, with its clear cream
complexion and half-opened black eyes,
Is surmounted by masses of blue black
hair that give her q strangely dignifed
and stately mien. Perched on the edge
of one Of the superb ebony and brocade
chairs of her long drawing-room, with
her tiny slippers not touching the floor.
she is one of the most charming little
figures to be seen, and Washington viii
miss one of its prettiest pets when the
diminutive lady Is gone.-Mitoaukee
Republican.
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Josh Billings.

Inc famed writer of the Yankee prov
eros Is now about sixty in years, and
SHOWS 1t. His hair, which is as long and
uIHi6E.empt as ever, is iron gray, and his
sun, dropping mustache is fast changing
70 the color of old age. AS he grows
oluer, he seems to become more and
more supremely regardless of persons,
surroundings or opinions. As he greets
one with a machine-like How do We
40 or an lnanimate Good day." the
impression Is conveyed that he has ar
rived at the state of life and prosperity
Where he deems fate powerless to work
any alteration for worse. Billings is es-
sehIlalIy a man to himself, taciturn and
unoprusIve everywhere. He is not so
popular as formerly, his only work now
being that which appears in the Net0
YORK Weekly. For this service he re-
celves, perhaps, g, 900 a year. His
royalty from the circulation of prov
erbs, his almanacs and other works
swell his yearly income to about So, OOO
he Is now willing, but not an attractive
lecturer; his services in this field are
small and waning demand From the
proceeds Of his labor he has amassed a
fortune Of over $50, 900. All this money
apparently affords himself and wife but
meager and inelegant comfort. They
pass quiet, relegated, but doubtless
contented life, in an unpretentious
Snty-third street dwelling house, the
garrett of which is made to answer the
combined purposes of literary sanctum
and store-hOuse.- From q NetO York
Letter.
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NorMegians at Table.

Table manners are at a low ebb in
Norway. Consistency does not seem to
be regarded as a jewel The same peo-
pie who bow so very tremendously to
each other and express sympathy and
interest IN the veriest trihe OF life, and
who dance and grimace fully five min
utes at an open door before they can
determine which shall enter first, are
exceedingly ill-bred during meal time.
Their knives wander so far down their
Threats that one must at least admire
their courage, though falling to appre-
clate It's object. In these feats they
rival the professional knife.swallowers
OF Bombay. They hold their forks ike
pens. Even a four-tined fork IS not
considered too unwieldy to use as a
toothplck. All knives are put promls-
cuously into the butter dish-whlch IN
deed Is never provided with a separate
implement. Also when spoons are furn-
lshed for a public dish a Norwegian
generally prefers using his own. Eggs
are sucked from the she'll The people
eat most vOraciously, displaying the APP
PetItes OF tigers, and making disagreeable
noises with their mouths They rise
and reach across the table for something
you could readily pass them, and some
times a person gets up aud walks to the
end of the table for some particular dish
he fancies. When the plates are changed
at the end Of course the knives and
forks are apt to be simply wiped by the
waiter upon a towel IN full sight and
then compiacently returned to you.
And yet it was the Scandianvians who
won from Voltaire the praise Of being
the "Frenchmen Of the North, on ac-
Kind-hearted and well meaning, but
surely somewhat deluded old man.
Noy-sk. LapJ3, and Finn, by Frank Vi1l-
cent .Tr
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Tall Stories of Old Age.

From Brazil comes a story of a mulat-
to woman having died at the age Of 1877
years. Just as the Goth was Clutch
cred to make Roman holiday" so this
unfortunate old colored lady seems to
have been killed TO furnish forth a news
paper paragraph. This is a pity, be-
cause she would have answered the pur-
pose Just as well in a couple of hundred
years time, if the newspaper telling the
tale could have had patience to wait
She Is said to have lost her sight at the
age of 100, but TO have recovered it
somewhat later. Her death was brought
about by a fall from bench, so that
there Is really no knowing how long she
might have lived if the Brazil paper had
not arranged that fatal fall. The sub
ject of longevity is always being dis
puted, some persons being credulous of
all sorts of wonders and others being as
skeptical as the late Sir G.. CornewaIl
Lewis. The case of the Brazilian mu-
latto is put in the shade by that of Jo-
names de Temporibus, who, according
to Stow, died in the year 1914, at the
age of 361. Unfortunately, that was
not an age of statistics, and marvellous
statements were supplied. A native of
Bengal is said to have died in 1856 at the
age of 300; but here again distance of
place Is as important an element as dis
lance of time in the other instance. In
1888 native of Evercreech, Somerset,
is reported to have died aged 200 In
the latter end of the last century death
at the age of -175 or thereabout seems
not to have been uncommon, but as we
come nearer to our own times the
records are fewer, until now we are
obliged to go to Brazil for a striking in
stance of extreme age. The moral would
appear to be that, if in a time of regis
tration and research this class of won
ders had become extinct, the former
statements with regard to them were
myths. Perhaps life was so dull in those
slow times that q man put his sensations
into figures, and thought he had lived
200 years instead of LiUerDooL Post
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03
A Question of Mileage.

Jones held an execution against a
farmer and when he called for a settle
naent the agriculturist took him out into
big pasture and pointed out wild
steer as the particular piece of property
TO be levied upon. Jones chased the
steer around for awhile, and then sat
down. and taking out his book began TO
write
"What are you doing there?" asked
the granger.
"Charging mileage" replied the con-
stable. without looking up.
"Do have it all to pay?" gasped the
rancher.
You bet.
"Then take this tame heifer here !
can't stand any such game as that.
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Charred Bran.

The use of charred bran for preserving
dellcate fruit while on the road to mark
ct bids fair to solve the problem which
has SO long perplexed some millers.
Converted into charcoal, the light and
slippery product of the mills ceases to
be unmanageable; and it is quite likely
that large local demand for charred
bran will arise in the vicinity of most
mills, for packing not only quickly
perishable fruits ike peaches, plums
and grapes, but also apples and other
firmer fruits, for storage as we'll as trans
portation.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03

The question of annexing Northern
Idaho to Washington Territory accom-.
panies the other question of our admis-
sion to the Union as a State. and both
will be agitated more or less vigorously
from this on. Joined to our Territory,
as at present constituted, the new Terri
tory or State would have an area exceed
ing $4,000 square miles, or as great as
that of New York and Ohio combined.
The new State must be a grand one
Seattle W. IT, Post InteIligencer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03
The Dress Album.

The latest novelty is dress album :,
which are pasted samples of each drase
lady has, and so from season to season
she may remember her costumes. Tba
dress album may do for some women
but the average can paste one sample ON
book back and turn it over wear aftn,
year, and stick little piece of trimminor :,
from somewhere else on to it, and tha3
will constitute all the dress album sbe
needs. You see there are women ana
there are women, and economy is worth
two in the bush. -Lampton Va
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03

The proprietors of st. Jacobs Oil
have issued bright and breezy New
Year souvenir in the shape of a very at
tractive and valuable calendar The il
Illustrations were drawn and engraved by
New norKs great artist, J. G. Beard,
Esq; tney are unique in their way, es-
pecially appropriate, and are no slight
recommendation to the increased value
OF the little book, being pleasant diver
SION and pastime, without an undue
o6truslveness Of the Great German Rem
edy. Inc weather predictions were also
caiGnlated expressly for the book, and
VIII no doubt be found valuable feature.