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Religious observances There is beau tiful practice common throughout DOT tion of Mexico for little children to kneel before stranger and pray that he may have a safe journey. And the fathers of the children have practice, not so beau- tiful, of "layin' for" the stranger in the forest with jack-knife two feet long, NeaO York GTdDhic
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MALARIA
 And Fever and Ague.

McLaughlin's Ague Pills have for years been in in the Maarainfected districts of New Jersey and the Hudson River. If used according to direc- tions they a certain remedy. To be obtained of the Stafford Springs druggists, by sending price (s1 will be mailed, postpaid, by the proprietor, A. J. MCLAUGHLIN. Newport, New Jersey. Good live agents wanted. Address as above.
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Old lace curtains that have little holes in the netting, can be made to appear whole when they are laundried. Take piece of lace or very thin muslin, and when the curtain is starched, starch the piece also, and put it over the spot that needs mending. It will show little if at all, and the starch will keep it in place.
The Press., 1883-08-09
A RTEsIAN WELLS,

Sunk i'm Rock or Earth, to 100 Feet without increase of Cost per foot. OLD WELLS PUT DOWN without taking'up. rB These Wells furnish the Best of Water Sur- face Drainage Rats, TOasls ,and Worms efectually shut out.
 ID. Q. HOLMES, Stafford Springs, Conn
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Lone Jack, Mo-, Sept. IA, 1879. have been using Hop Bitters, and have received great benefit from them for liver complaints and malarial fever. They are su- perior to all other medicine. PM BARNES.
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Canterbury, Windham county, has pro

Canterbury, Windham county, has pro- duced 8 blue-eyed black snake. After George Fernside had lifted forkful of hay in the field of Stephen Bennett, one day last week, he found black snake three feet long spitted on one tine of the fork. Its eyes were found to be as blue as rob- ins' eggs. No one in Windham county had ever seen blue eyes in a snake before. The snake was preserved
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Hartford Times It strikes a stranger as somewhat surprising that the very discoverer of Anesthesia should put sensitive people in perpetual pain by his persistence in standing in Bushnell Park, on top of a cheap board packing case.
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 If you have headache, ear or toothache, neuralgia or rheumatism use Crosby's min ute cure, it never fails. Suffer no longer, it is a quick, sure and lasting remedy. All druggists. MT. David Bennett. Buddtown, N. J., says his wife's body was, for seven years, a mass to relieve her. She was speedily and perma- nently cured by Dr. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial.
 DoN'r GrvE Up because you feel blue and are troubled with that tired and all gone feel ing. Do as did, use bottle of Sulphur Bitters, it will make you feel like new per son; it did me.
 JENNIE HOLMES ss4 Fremont street, Boston.
 [Continued.l CHAPTER IT, wonderful and mysterious curative power is developed which is so varied in it's operations that no disease or i'll health can possibly exist or resist its power, and yet it is
 Harmless for the most frail woman, weakest invalid or smallest child to use.
 sPatents
 "Amost dead or nearly dyng'' For years, and given up by physicians o1 Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver com. plaints, severe coughs called consumption have been cured.
 Women gone nearly crazy!
 From agony of neuralgia, nervousness wakefulness and various diseases peculiar to women.
 People drawn out of shape from excruciat ing bangs of Rheumatism.
 Infammatory and chronic, or suffering from scrofula
 Erysipelas
 - Salt Rheum, b4sod poisoning, dyspepsia indigestion, and in fact almost all diseases frai Nature is heir to
 Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof o1 which can be found in every neighborhood il the known world.
 A CARD.-To all who are suffering from tn, and indscretions of youth, nervous weakness early decay, loss of manhood, &c., will send re cipe that will you, FREE OF CHARGE. The great remedy was discovered by missionary il mi A Send self
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Boston Transcript: "How much did you pay for your new dress ?' asked Mrs. Smith. "Eght cents yard; they asked ten." "Why," said Mrs. Smith, Git is just like mine. isn't it? But did better than you. They asked me eighteen cents, and got it for twelve cents. I got more off than you"
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ssWoMAN AND HER DIsEAsEs'' is the title of an interesting treatise (96 pages) sent, post paid, for three stamps. Address Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, IN. Y.
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Lightning struck 450 pounds of dyna- mite at New Orleans the other day. The dynamite struck back.
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Professor Tyndall has made observations in Switzerland showing, he thinks, that that the silent flashes called Cheat light ming" indicate thunder storms which may not be twenty miles away.
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BEER AND ITS INFLUENCE.-Rec sta- tistics based on the census show that in
 Milwaukee, where more beer is made and drank than in any other city of equal size in the world, there are twice as many sui cides as in any other municipality of the same population. This induces one of tho leading German papers of the west to ad- init that in all the cities of the country the Germans are, in proportion to their num- bers, twice as well represented among the suicides as any other people, and the ex- cessive use of beer is assigned as the cause
 "There is no doubt, says the journal re- ferred to, 'that the moderate use of beer brightens up and cheers men, but there is also no doubt that too much beer stupe- fies and demoralizes the drinker, and, if it's use is persisted in, make him melan- choly and weak-minded. It is apt to re- suit in certain attacks of melancholia, which comes upon the beer toper, and in which he bewails himself and his fate, pities himself as wretched being, and fi- nally let's his heavy head and weeping eyes sink languidly on the table," The same authority, however, considers beer a beverage of exceeding virtue in compar- ison with spirituous liquors, which, it con- tends transforms man into a blood thirsty wild beast and violator of the laws. ,
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In Germany beauty has considerable value, and may even there be regarded as capital In some of the villages young and handsome milkmaid, having left the milk at rich country house, stopped for 8 moment in the garden to admire the flowers. The house-dog rushed upon her, threw her down and bit her terribly about the face. Taken to the hospital, it was declared that when she recovered her beau ty would be forever destroyed by the scars. The father of the girl demanded, in addi- tion to indemnity for all else, the cost of his daughters treatment while ill, her loss of time, etc.-ten thousand marks ''for the loss of her beauty" The owner of the dog declares that this is an exorbitant sum and will not pay it, and the supreme court at Leipsic will be appealed to to fix the German judgment upon this point. The beauty of milkmaid may not be of the same value to her as the beauty of a soci
 ety belle it may be, indeed, source ot danger but she would not be woman if she did not make the most of it. It is not only in our day that a money worth has been placed upon womans beauty it has been so ever since the world has been go- ing round, and so it will be to the end.
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lew York and Ne " England R. R. Time Table.

o:ns ".n1. -pm. p.Hl. p.Ms P.H. Additional trains leave Hartford for Brstol-s5S Q. m, S4s pm. Return 54s, 11.1s a. m, and 4.53 p. Hartford for.Rockville- s.5s, B. m.
 1918, 4.43, SIS, IFS p. Rockville for Hartford-5.ss, TAO, 9.10 m.
 2.13, 4.6s, 7.1sp.m
 WILLIMANTIC AND PROVIDENCE Willimantic for Providence-54S 10 2S m B. 23 D. m Providence for Willmantic-S.4S 8. m 9.1s4 Os D. m.
 s. M. FELTON, JR, Gen. Manager. iDaily A. c. KENDALL, Gen Pass Agt
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and indiscretions of youth, weakness
 early decay, loss of manhood, &c., will send re- great remedy discovered by missionary in South America. Send self-addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman, Station D., New York City,
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Kate Field say,s: ''The way women travel with miserable little dogs fills me with amazement. Men don't and when l think of the parnpering these creatures get, and what g. nuisance they are to trav- elers, and how the same amount of care bestowed upon children would amount in untold benefit to mankind, I become cyn- ical. The affection wasted upon poodles would, if properly distributed, supply all poor orphans with homes"
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BEEcHER's BAD HEAD.-For two months in the year Henry Ward Beecher.s-can't preach. In August and September he takes his vaca- ton and endqres the onset of the hay fever: And 1t is, so he says, something terrible and tremendous. A man with hay fever isn't &C., countable for his actions. He is merely 8 wild beast-frantic with snuffing, sneezing and headache. His eyes are red and so is his nose. Every nerve in his skull thrills with distress and his head is fountain of tears. He lives only to fly from seaside to mountain top in search of relief
 And yet, whether we call this form of Ca tarrh hay-fever, rose-fever, hay-cold or rose cold, Elys Cream Balm will cure it. This remedy is simple, pleasant and easy of appli- cation. Placed in the nostrils it penetrates and soothes the afecte6l parts at once, restores the impaired senses and creates healthy secre- tions in cases of the longest standing. You cannot run away from hay fever, but you can drive it from you1.by using Ely's Cream Balm.
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If you have headache, ear or toothache neuralgia or rheumatism, use Crosby's min ute cure, it never fails. Suffer no longer, it is quick, sure and lasting remedy. All
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Boston and Albany Railroad. Time Table.

MR.MoRAN,G.T.A. C.F.SPAULDINa, ,Sup't. New London, Conn.,, July 2, 1883.
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

If nutmeg is grated and mixed with
the ginger in hard ginger bread a pi-
quaint flavor is given to it.
One way TO cook summer squash is to
cut it in slices about an inch thick and
boil in salted water, using just as little as
will answer. When done drain it well
and without mashing; serve it with but
ter and pepper, and salt.
The late peas are sometimes thought
to be improved if when cooking small
piece of ham or bacon or corned beef is
cooked with them. Remove the meat
before serving, and thicken the soup
with flour or arrowroot.
If your tomato vines hang very full of
green tomatoes few may be picked and
be picked, and those which are left will
grow and ripen more rapidly. These
green ones will make excellent pickles,
and are nice canned for use next spring.
They are so firm they will keep perfectly
An excellent pudding is made of tart
apples stewed, and then put in layers
with fine cracker or bread crumbs
While the apples are still hot stir sugar
and little butter in with them. This
should be baked for half an hour. A
little sweet cream is great addition, but
it is good without any sauce.
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03

lift its head between the pebbles. b ed
of geraniums and hot house plants in
full bloom dot the lawns. The trees are
symmetrically trimmed. The barns are
clean and in thorough repair.
A pleasant picture of the daily life of
the now famous family was presented to
the eye of the reporter. On the front
piazza in an easy rocking chair sat the
aged mother little grayer, perhaps, for
the experiences OF the two past years,
but looking very cool and comfortable
in the twilight. A little TO the east on
the broad piazza were the children seat
ed in knot whiting. Irwin and Abra m
and the two little Rudolph boys. Around
the corner to the east was Miss Mollie,
sitting on a window-sill and toying with
the shutter of the blind. In the rear, on
the west side of the house, the family
horse and carriage stood, as if in readi-
ness to take some member of the family
for moonlight drive.
Mrs. Garfield, Harry and James were
not visible, but are living on the farm,
having returned from Saratoga last week
Tuesday. Here the family now live
and will remain during the summer
There are twelve members in all. besides
the help. Mrs. Garfield, grandma. and
the five children; Mr.. Joseph Rudolph,
his father, wife and two children. Their
Mentor life is by nomeans tedious. The
village is decidedly pleasant one, the
family is provided with every comfort
and there is no one TO molest or make
AFRAID. Occasionally trip is made to
Little Mountain in order to escape the
heat of day or two. Last week the
Rudolph boys and some Of the Garfield
boys drove over to Kirkland and inspect
ed the Mormon Temple there. Frequent
trips are made down to Cleveland and
occasional trips to places even more dis
tant, but the family spend most of their
time in Mentor.
The youngsters, Abram and Irwin,
seem to enjoy themselves hugely.
There is stream of water called Rocks
creek Just west of the homestead, and
here in connect with some other boy $
of the neighborhood, they have built a
dam, thus causing the water to deepen
and makes good place for swimming
Here they have some rare frolics. They
also go on occacional fishing expeditions
Altogether, the Garfield home is de.
lightful place and its occupants expert
ence no lack of wholesome diversion, al.
though living in such comparative rctir.
ment
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03
Atmospheric Influences.
Texas Sinings.

A convocation of commercial travellers
was assembled and gathered together on
the reezy veranda Of the Beach Hotel
Galveston. An itinerant beggar, who
had once been a wealthy and respected
citizen, but who had become impoverish-
ed by lack OF deep water and his efforts
to counteract the atmospheric influences,
approached the group in sidelong man.
ner, something after the manner of a
crab, and by display of the transitory
wit, which so delights drummers he
charmed the entire circle The drinks
which he inhaled were numerous, and at
the expense of the drummers. Finally
as he was about to withdraw from the
canvass, one of the drummers inquired
Just as if he really had some doubts on
the subject:
"Don't you want ten cents to get 9
drink with in the morning."
The tramp did not accept the nomina
ton viva voce; but, after pause, re
marked that he thought there was nc
legal obstacle to the drummer making
that kind of an investment.
81 will advance you the money, if you
will promise not to spend it until to.
morrow morning, and then only for a
drink"
As the Cotton Exchange wes closed fol
the day it was impossible Jt use the
money in futures, so the tramp readily
promised to carry out the trust imposed
on him.
"Here is your money"
The heggar impecunious no longer
took the money, and was about to convey
it to place of safety, when anidea seem
ed to strike him with considerable vie.
lence He turned back.
81 say, gentlemen, / hope you under
stand | am man of my word"
90, certainly"
81 have promised not to buy a drink
with this money until Tomorrow morn.
ing"
That's the understanding"
"Just so but the Bible sayG never put
off till tomorrow that which you can dc
to-day, and"
Gu are Hot Roliie bdCh oH yOu1
word"
40, no but was just thinking that
as capital is so insecure, the dread of my
Icing robbed in my sleep will keep me
awake all night. Now, if | Aad another
drink right now, sort of night-cap, you
know, would sleep as sound as if had
no cash balance on my mind. | tell yon,
gentlemen men of wealth have their
troubles, as well as the poorer classes.
Before | became the custodian of that
ten cents with which you have so gener-
ously endowed me- had no occasion to
resort to artificial means to produce
healthful slumber. Ny sleep was like
that of an infant, 50 calm"
30, pshawl Here's another dime to
get a nightcap.'
The proposition was accepted on the
spot, and the ten cents was utilized in
procuring an antidote against the atmos-
pheric influences which are sad to be
more deletorious just now than at any
previous epoch in the history of the
Island City.
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03
ALL SORTS.

The income of the Church of England
is put at s22 $4,000.
Voltaire's house is used by the German
Bible Society as a repository for Bibles.
5. II. Howard, a colored man, who
died in Brooklyn the other day at the
age of s4 years left fortune of nearly
10000.
Out of respect for public opinion, Gov.
ernor Hamilton, Of Illinois, has ordered
that the military companies of that State
shall not parade on Sundays, except as
funeral escorts.
Minnesota, according 10 pamphlet
Just issued by the State board of imini-
grafton, has still vast tract of unex-
plored territory within her borders.
Lee Cbilde, nephew of Gen. Robert
f. Lee, has fallen heir TO the estate Of the
late Baroness de Triquety, whose niece
he married few years ago. Mr. Childe
has been livingln Paris for several years
In a replevin suit at Stevensville
Montana, relating to a pair of reins
bought at auction for so cents, the un-
successful ltieant paid in costs more
than $500. Over 100 witnesses were ex-
amined.
Aaron Stevenson, of Green Hill, Ind.
was 96 years of age, and lived alone. As
he was preparing his dinner recently
his halfwitted brother, who is 72 years
old, stole in upon him, and with an axe
severed his head from his body.
Two cattle dealers of Bay st. Louis
named 0dum and Borden, quarreled
under a pine sapling during a storm
opponent, but at that instant a stroke OF
lightning killed them both.
The value Of the poultry consumed in
the United States annually is estimated
at $500, ,000, 900, or So to each inhabitant
The value Of the eggs consumed is set at
S240. 100000, or $540,000,000 for poultry
and eggs together, or about so per year
TO each inhabitant. The number of eggs
consumed is estimated to be 5000 900 900
OF $50 eggs to each inbabitant, which
would allow one egg TO each person
every other day.
Lourdes is being distanced as popu.
lar shrine by Carravaggio. A correspon.
dent declares that "every day at noon a
vision of the Virgin Mary rises from a
dark recess behind pillar in the chapel
when the shrieks and screams of those
knocked down and trampled on by 9TH
ers desiring to see is appalling. Outside
the holy fountain stand groups of devo-
tees of every class and condition, who by
due course are lifted by friends into the
fountain. Ever since the Duke Of Nor.
folk took his little blind boy TO Lourdes
he has been pestered by letters begging
to take him to Carravaggio.'
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03
FASHION.
White is very much worn.

White is very much worn.
Shot silks and satins will rage in the
fall.
BY some fashionable people very lit
tie is worn.
Polonaises are much worn; so are
stockings BRAIDED in pearls.
Hats are worn far back on the head;
bonnets are iip-tilted forward.
Pulled sleeves, Queen Mary's style are
seen upon new dresses.
Waistcoats for women have been reviv-
ed and are worn under cutaway jackets.
The darts Of the corsage are now made
short to give the figure an easy gnre.
In low cut shoes and slippers, dark
red is the prevailing color.
Silk stockings are embroidered in
chenille.
The latest lace pins are in design of
the Brooklyn bridge.
Large square neckerchiefs, folded in A
three cornered share, are made of silk
muslin.
Belts are worn quite narrow. They
are fastened with snowy buckles of OK
died silver, cut steel, or stamped leath-
er.
The latest novelty in writing paper is
called "Pearlographic" and is quite ex-
pensive, being made in imitation of old
discolored parchment.
"Tel-el-Kebir" is new cloth for cos
tunes, resembling albatross cloth, only
very much thicker. l. comes in mono
chrome patterns, and also in brocadcs,
some of which are very gorgeous.
One of the most novel arrangements
for the neck is plating of lace sewed
down one side Of a narrow band, reach
ing from the throat TO the bust with a
succession of loops of baby" ribbon,
or rows of velvet down the other, form
ing heading.
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03
Bill Nye's Hornets.

Last fall desired to add to my rare
collection large hornets nest. | had an
embalmed tarantula and her porcelain
lined nest, and | desired TO add to these
the gray and airy home of the hornet
| procured one of large size after cold
weather and hung it in my cabinet by a
string. When warm weather came some
thing reminded me Of it, think it was
hornet. He logged my memory in
some way and called my attention to it
Memory is not located where | thought
it was. 1t seemed as though whenever
he touched me he awakened memory
"a warm memory with a req place all
around it.
Then some more hornets came and
began to rake up old personalities. re
member that one of them lit on my up
per lip. He thought it was rosebud
When he went away it looked like glad
iolus bulb. / wrapped a wet sheet
around it to take out the warmth and re-
duce the swelling so that / could 90
through the folding-doors and tell my
wife about it.
Hornets lit all over me and walked
around on my person. did not dare to
scrape them off because they are so SEN
sitive. You have TO be very guarded in
your conduct toward a hornet. re-
member once while / was watching the
busy little hornet gathering honey and
June bugs from the bosom of rose,
years ago, | stirred him up with a club,
more as a practical joke tfan anything
else, and he came and lit on my sunny
hair-that was when | wore my own
hair-and he walked around through my
cleaning tresses quite awhile, making
tracks as large as a watermelon all over
my head. If he hadn't run out of tracks
ms head would have looked like load
ofsummer squashes. | remember | had
to thump my head against the smoke
house in order to smash him, and had
to comb him out with fine comb and
wear a waste paper basket two weeks
for hat.
Much has been said about the hornet,
but he has an odd, quaint way after all
that is forever aew.
The Osceola times., 1883-11-03
CALLED HER JUMBO.
His Honor and Bijah.

1T wasn't my fault, judge" tearfully
exclaimed Sarah Fenton, as she stood on
the mark.
"Well, il wasn't mine, either" replied
the court.
"You see, sir, mixed some water and
ginger and lemon together. and drank it
for a cholera preventive"
"Without any cholera within fourthous-
and miles of you.'
"Well, nobody knows how soon it may
come. Then started down to see Mrs
O'Reefer, on Brush street. wanted to
ask her whether to put twenty-foul
flounces on nv new dress or make the
skirt plain. On my way l was sun
struck"
"Poohw
Indeed | was, sir, and as / leaned
against the fence to ask myself whether
l was dead or alive boy came along and
called me Jumbo"
whats that?'
upon my honor, sir, l think it's some
kind of bird, but ! won't be sure. He
meant to make fun of me, an"now."
"And you pulled his hair?"
"Did /? Well, a person laboring under
a sun-stroke ard cholera preventive i:
not herself, you know"
"And you shouted and yelled and rails
ed crowd"
perhaps so, sir, though Pm naturally
modest and timid."
Mrs. Fenton | shall fine you five dol
lars"
"Oh, Judge, don't do it?"
But must"
"If you won't I'll never worry over the
cholera again"
"But you may be sun-struck, you see.'
"Oh, but / won't go out except OF
cloudy days and then I'll tie wet sponge
on my head"
''The fine must stand. You look like
a hard case"
"But, indeed, I'm not. I'm one of thu
incest ladies in Detroit. Judge take $40
off the fine.
Cant do it. Pay the clerk and fal
back"
With many groans and lalnents sh'
complied, but as Bijah led her 20 the doc
she clawed and scratched, AMI hit anC
called out:
"If ever | meet you on the docks III
heave you into the river and throw club
at your bobbing bald head"