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Middletown transcript., 1888-12-06
An Extraordinary pheno mepon.

Z A1<ASA eSOA
No other term than the above would
apply to the woman who could see her
youthful beauty fading away without
a pang of regret. Many a woman be.
comes prematurely old and haggard
because of functional arrangement.
What pity that all such do not know
that DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion will restore their organs to a nor
NAL state, and make them youthful
and beautiful once more For the ills
which the daughters of Eve are Pc
culiarly liable the sc Prescription is a
sovereign remedy. 1t is the only
medicine sold under positive guaran-
tee from the manufacturers, that it
will give satisfaction in every case, or
money will be returned. See guara n
tee on bottle wrapper.
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We Point with Pride"

To the Good name at home," won
by Hoods Sarsaparilla. In Lowell l.,
Mass, where it is prepared, there is
more of Hoods Sarsaparilla sold than
of all other medicines, and it has given
the best of satisfaction since its intro
duction ten years ago. This could not
be If the medicine did not possess
merit. If you suffer from impure
blood, try Hoods Sarsaparilla and
realize It's peculiar curative power.
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.Msieeltaneons 9duertisfnlents.

76 A Tour in Ireland.-Arthur Young.
~ History Of New York. Vol. I-lving.
IS History Of New York: Vol. H:--Irving.
70 Midsummer Nights Dream.-Shakespeare.
so The Banquet of Plato-Shelley.
81 A Voyage to Lisbon.-Henry Fielding.
SO My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale.-Thos. Wool
ss Travels i the Interior of Africa. Vol.
"a Travels in the Interior of Africa. Vol. II.
IS The M9Hgo eTsg%plsEeeoree ls.k Herbert.
So The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1885.
81 King Henry VIIL-William Shakespeare.
sS An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful.-
SO Lives Of Tmoleon, Paulus, Amelius, Lysander
and Sylla.-Plutarch.
90 Warren Hastings. Macaulay.
81 Endymion and Other Poems.-John Keats.
90 Voyage to Abyssinia.-Fat jerome Lobo.
93 Human Nature and Other Sermons. s.-Joseph
"a sintram and His Companions. Aslauga's
Knight. Motto Fouane.
95 Diary Of Samuel Pepys. 1666-1667.
90 Life and Death of King john Shakespeare.
81 History Of the Caliph Vathek.-.Wm. Becl6ord
90 Colloquies on society.-Robert Southey.
100 Lives Of Agesilaus, Pompey and Phocion.-Plu-
1ol winters Tale-.william Shakespeare.
10s The Table Talk.-John Selden.
103 Diary Of Samuel Pepys, 1867.
104 An Essay upon Projects;-Daniel Detoe.
1O6 Anecdotes Of Samuel johnson, LID
Hesther Lynch Piozzi.
107 soon. Publicola, Philopamen, etc.-Plutarch.
108 Prometheus Unbound, ETC., etc.-Shelley.
100 The Republic Of the Future.-Anna Bowman
11O King Lear.-William Shakespeare.
III Seven Discourses on Art-Sir Joshua Rey-
119 Early History of James second.-Fox.
113 Diary Of Samuel Pepys, 1667-1e6s.
ia London In 17S1.-Don Manoel Gonzales.
lis Apology of the Church Of England.-John
116 Much Ado about Nothing. Shakespeare.
III Sketches Of Persia. Vol. I-Sir John Malcolm.
llS Shepherds Calendar. ar.-Edmund spenser.
119 The Black Death, The Dancing Mania. \
100 Sketches Of Persia. Vol. u.-Sr John Malcolm.
121 Diary Of Samuel Pepys, 1868.
122 Coriolanus William Shakespeare.
1923 Areopagitica John Milton
124 Essays on Goethe.-Thomas Carlyle.
los King Richard u.-William Shakespeare.
1875 Plato's Critic and PhGdo.
1N The Victories Of Love.-Coyentry Patmore.
l28 First Part Of King Henry Iv.-Shakespeare.
l3o The Diary Of Samuel Pepys. 1868 to End.
ia1 Plntarch,s Lives Of Pyrhus, camillus. Pelopi-
das and Marcellus.
1888 Lives Of the English Poets, Addison. sekags.
Swift-Saml. johnson, LID.
1874 Second Part Of King Henry IV.-Shakespeafe
1876 Essays and Tales. Richard Steele.
1876 Marmion. A Tale Of Flodden Field-Scott.
lT The Existence Of God.-Fenelon.
1873 The Merry Wives Of Windsor. Shakespeare.
l39 The Schoolmaeter. Roger Ascham.
I40 Plutarch's Lives Of Dion Brutus Artaxerxes,
Galba and Otho
I41 Tour through the Eastern Counties Of England,
1722.-Daniel Defoe.
I42 King Henry V.-William Shakespeare.
l43 Complaints. Edmund Spenser.
IA The Curse Of Kehama Robert Southey.
l45 Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic
Sir William Petty.
i46 The Tanning OF the Shrew.-Sbakespeare.
i47 Essays on Burns and Scott.--Thomas Carlyle. |
l4S Plutarch's Lives Of Nicias, Crassus, Aratus. |
and Theseus.
l49 From London to Lands End Daniel Defoe.
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Il don't say marriage is a failure, -
said Adam, candidIy,as he sat down
on log just outside the Garden Of
Eden and looked hungrily at the fruit
on the other side Of the wall, "but if
1 had remained single this wouldn't
have happened.
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my Ten Years Imprisonment-silyio Pellico.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,-Lor Byron.
Autobiography of Benjamin franklin
The Complete Angler, Isaac Walton.
The School for Scandal and The Rivals-R B.
sermons nS,lsAoa on the Gard. Other Discourses.-
al Lives of Alexander and Cesar -Plutarch.
The Castle of Otranto-Horace Walpole.
10 Voyages and Travels-Sr John Maundeville.
II She Stoops to Conquer; etcloiyer Goicsm,.n: .:
IS Adventures Of Baron TFenck. Vol. u, Thomas
IA The % Iady Of the Lake.-sir Walter Scott, Bart.
10 Table Talk.--Martin Luther.
Is The Wisdom of the Ancients, etc.-Bacon
II Francis Bacon-Lord Macaulay;
IS Lives Of Poets, Waller, Milton, coWley.-
10 Thoughts on Present Discontsnts, etc.
Edmund Burke.
90 The Battle Of the Books, etc.-Dean Swift.
81 Poems.-George Crabbe.
% Egypt and Scythia. ia.-Herodotus.
% Hamlet.-William Shakespeare.
"a Voyagers' Tales.-Richard Hakluyt.
25 Nature and Art.-Mrs. Inchbald.
% Lives of Alcibiades, Coriolanus, etc-Plutarch.
"a Essags.-Abraham Cowiey.
Is Sir r. de Coverley and Spectators Club
Steele and Addison.
20 Voyages and Travels. Marco Polo.
80 The Merchant of Venice.-Wm. Shakespeare.
81 Relgio Medici.-Sir Thos Browne, MD;
80 Voyages in Search Of N. W. Passage.-Richard
Hafluyt.
81 Earlier Poems.-John Milton.
35 The Sorrows Of Werter Goethe
s6 Lives Of Poets-Buter, Denham, etc.-samuei
81 Nathan The wise,-Lessing.
3S Grace Astounding Bunyan.
80 Macbeth.-Wiliam Shakespeare.
40 Earlier Australian Voyages; John Pinkerton.
Il Poems, ,170O-1714-Alexander Pope.
% Diary OF Samuel Pepys, l662-l66
% Bravo Of Venice.-M. G. Lewis
"A Lives Of Demetrius, Marc Antony, etc.-Piu-
IS Peter Piymley's Letters.-sydney Smith,
46 Travels in England.-Moritz
~ Undine and the Two Captains.-Fouque.
4s Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, etc.-cole-
% As You Like It.-wiIiam Shakespeare.
80 Western Islands s. johnson.
81 Carol and Chimes.-Charles Dickens.
SO The Christian Year.-Rev. John Keble.
5a Wanderings in South America Charles
"a Life Of Lord Herbert of Cherbury by Himself.
IS The HunchbacK-The Love ChaBe.-Jas. Sheri-
Sc Crotchet Castie.-Thos. Love Peacock.
81 Lives OF Demosthenes, Cicero, etc.-Plutarch.
50 Lays Of Ancient Rome.-Macaulay.
50 Sermons on Evil Speaking:-Isaa Barrow, MD.
90 Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1663-16A
81 The Tempest-William Shakespeare.
GO Rosalind. Thomas Lodge.
So Isaac Bickerstaff. f.-Steelis Taller"
81 Gebir; and Count Julian.-Landor
65 The Earl Of Chatham. m.-Lord Macaulay.
So The Discovery of Guiana.-Sir Walter Raleigh.
81 Natural History Of Selborne. Vol. REV g.
White, AM.
q The Angel in the House. Coventry Patmore.
D Murder as Fine Art. The English Mai. Coach
Thomas De Quincy. - ra
10 Natural History Of Selborne. Vol. H.-Rev. G. 4
White, A. NJ I4
n Trips to the Moon.-Lucian.
12 Lives Of Cato the Younger, ,Agis, Cleomenes,
and the Gracchi.-Plutarch.
13 Julius Casar.-William Shakespeare.
"a Diary Of Samuel Pepys, 1664-l665.
% Essay on Man.-Alexander Pope.
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No. l. The Sellers farm, one mile from
Middletown, containing 2l3 acres, nearly all
tillable, This farm is one of the incest
homes in the State and has been put in COM
plete order. Cheap.
No. Q. 600 acres of the best land In Somer.
set county. Good buildings and i'm proved
All tillabie and very fine soil, and the best
place for fruit on Eastern Shore. Will be
No. 8. Three small farms at McDonough
in good condition. All nice homes Re-
spect;vely so acres, 9S acres, 162 acres,
No. l. THE CLARK FARM, $50 acres
This Is one of, If not, the best in the State
and In every way in complete order. Near
Delaware City.
Fine peach farm on Sinapuxen Bay, 800
acres, 600 tiIlable, 100 fine timber. 200 mead
ow. The land is OF excellent quality. Two
sets OF buildings, 600 young peach trees.
The meadow will keep the year round 200
head of ponies or cattle. There is FIVE miles
of oyster planting grounds, and in tact the
right man has fortune in it. Will ex-
change or sell cheap. Write tor particulars.
@Tnese are among II not the best lands
in the State. have hundred others OF all
sizes and prices. Sale and exchange.
~ These lands are owned by parties out
of the State and viii be sold at q bargain and
are all nice homes.
G.. w. INGRAM,
Middletown. Delaware.
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Other
For 81 5 will allow select five books library
and mail them postage paid with The TRANSCRIPT
These books contain 1876 each and retail for 10cs
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Soothes and Heals


the inflamed membrane, arrests the
wasting process, and leaves no injurious
results. This is why it is more highly
estemeed than any other pulmonary
specific.
L. D. Bixby, Of Bartonsville, Vt,
writes: "Four years ago took Sc
we're cold, which was followed by
terrible cough. I was very sick, and
confined to my bed about four months.
Ny physician finally said was in con-
sumption, and that he could not help
me. One of my neighbors advised me
to try Ayers Cherry Pectoral. I did so,
and before had taken half bottle was
able to 60 out. By the time I had
finished the bottle was well, and have
remained SO ever SINCE"
: Alonzo P. Daggett, of Smyrna Mills,
Me-, writes: " Six years ago, Twas trav-
cling salesman, and at that time was
suffering with
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cTliAtellaneous Adrertisntets s
BUYERS
Look to Your Interest.

After having disposed Of our spring
and summer goods, we have been
searching the different markets for
our Fall and Winter stock, and after
long search we have succeeded in
finding what we have been looking
fora stock Of goods that we can
sell far below any other merchant in
Middletown. We have used every
means available to do our best, as
WE STUDY
the interest Of our trade daily, and
try to give them the best goods we
can at the Lowest Possible Figure.
TO PLEASE
everybody we find it hard to do, but
we'll guarantee that we come as near
doing it as any other merchant, and
we know that
THE PUBLIC
is gradually finding out where to
make their purchases as our trade is
increasing daily and it is simply be-
cause we are selling goods for cash
and giving our customers the advan-
tage Of it. Come and see US and we
will do you good.
59 Yours with much repect,
S. PENNINGTON & SON,
MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE
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TO Assist Nature

In restoring diseased or wasted tissue is
all that any medicine can do. In pull
monary affections, such as Colds, Bron-
chitis, and Consumption, the mucous
membrane first becomes inhamed, then
accumulations form in the air-cells Of
the lungs, followed by tubercles, and,
finally, destruction Of the tissue. It is
plain, therefore, that, until the hacking
cough is relieved, the bronchial tubes
can have no opportunity to heal
AYERS Cherry Pectoral
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Interesting Facts About Deaf Mutes.

The probable average ratio of deaf mutes
to the population at large is to 1,5OO, and
this would give about million deaf mutes
in the world; and yet lin the United States
at least the deaf form the smallest element
of the defective classes, including under this
term the blind, deaf, idiotic and insane
Deafness is disease of childhood, and the
number of deaf persons of school age is
double that of the blind. There are about
six deaf males to five deaf females, and the
notion that the deaf have an immunity from
other diseases of the sense organs is not
borne out Among the causes Of deafness
the intermarriage of near relatives is re-
garded as serious one. That the intermar-
rage of deaf mutes is fertile source Of the
increase of deaf mutes is now generally adj
mitted, and some regard one-third of all
cases as due to this origin. A very large
number of deaf mutes are deaf from their
birth: and of those who become deaf q very
large percentage lose their hearing in the
first, second or third year of life. After this
the liability to deafness rapidly decreases.
There are about IS 900 deaf mutes in the
United states.
The relation between deafness and mute
ness is not necessary one; it is because the
ear educates the vocal mechanism that deaf
persons become mute, not because their vocal
organs are not correctly formed This fact
makes it possible to teach the deaf to vocalize;
and the system by which they are taught to
read the sounds on the lips of the speaker,
while they answer by speaking as well as
they can, is already the most widely adopted,
and seems destined to supersede the finger
alphabet for general purposes. The unsym-
pathetic nature of the deaf as contrasted with
the cheerfulness of the blind, as we'll as the
fact that eminent blind persons are much
more numerous than eminent deaf ones, speak
for blindness as the less serious loss
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The Correct Thing in Dogs.

A change in the style of dogs is imminent.
The queen has become the owner of a white
collie, which is as rare as a white blackbird,
and consequently the craze for collies of that
Immaculate hue should break out here imme-
diately. If you cannot obtain white collie
right off, you might take an ordinary chin
chilla and black dog and bleach him; or, bet
ter yet, paint him white, like those ghostly
chairs which adorn fashionable drawing
rooms At all events, the white collie has
now the royal cachet to all American homes
where high bred CANNES are loved for them
selves alone.-Boston Herald.
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Wire Fences in England.

A meeting of hunters was held in England
recently to protest against the use Of wire
fences. It was asserted that great danger
had arisen in the rapid spread of wire fenc-
ing, which endangered the lives of all sports
men and led to acts of cruelty to horses and
hounds. The meeting was told that wire
fencing was 80 per cent. cheaper than wood,
and that wire was so much used in some
parts of the country that hounds had been
literally cut to pieces. The meeting unani-
mously resolved to request land owners to
provide their tenants with timber for fenc-
ing.-Chicago News
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American Dentistry In London.

Among the new companies lately formed
in London is one entitled the American
Dental Institute. Capital 81 900, in shares
of one shilling each. Object, to promote the
adoption of advanced American and other
scientific methods of dental surgery; to pro-
tect the interests of dentists and the profess
sion of dentistry; to consider all questions
connected herewith; to promote or oppose
legislative and other measures affecting the
profession; to collect and circulate statistics
and information in regard thereto; to act as
and to appoint arbitrator for the settlement
of any disputes in connection with dentistry
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The Habitual Use of Sedatiyes,

| Every little while occurs some sad instance
of the folly Of a reckless or careless use of
narcotics. 1t is almost to be regretted, says
London Lancet that so many agents capable
Of producing mimic, or poisoned, sleep are
known to the profession and to the public.
1t is now the exception, instead of the rule,
to find man or woman of middle age who
is not more or less addicted to the abuse of
morphia, choral, bromide Of potassium, or
some OF the many sleep inducers or pain re-
levers which the Nineteenth century has
distinguished itself by evolving for the care
and comfort Of our less enduring and increas-
ingly sensitive and excitable humanity. 1t
is nothing to the purpose that the deleterious
effects of these potent drugs. when taken
habitually, even in small quantities, have
been again and again exposed. Those who
have learned to purchase Inconsistencies or
ease at what seemed to be a very small price,
are only too ready to renew the experience
when any fresh cause of sleeplessness or pain
arises.
The victims of the abuse must not simply
be counted by those who die Of it, but by
those who are left to drag out miserable
lives, the victims Of drawings" and name
less and numberless sufferings which NOR
phia, choral, bromide-now cocaine-and
host of insidious poisons are the active agents
in producing. !.
n Sooner or later some strong measure viii
need to be taken with the view of arresting
this really serious 'habit" of taking sedatives,
which is extending its influence and gaining
strength year by year. Meanwhile, we do
very earnestly counsel our readers to refrain
from having recourse to these drugs
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II
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WELDING SHEET IRON BY ELECTRICITY.

WELDING SHEET IRON BY ELECTRICITY.
Fig. shows two pieces Of sheet iron that
are to be welded or soldered together. If the
soldering Seam il to be specially strong it is
better. to lay the two sheets with their edge
somewhat over another and join these last
with the sheet as shown in Fig q A stronger
junction is shown in Fig g. These Jennings
ARE especially useful for kitchen utensils and
large sheet iron work. 1t is generally
-reckoned that a good riveted seam is
only seven-eighths as strong as the whole
iron, but welding by the electric current
shows nine-tenths. Fig. shows a soldering
for bottoms of vessels of japanned sheetware.
The sample is taken from the bottom of
petroleum vessel. Another combination has
the soldering running zig-zag and the Russian
Atechnical men say that it is the best.
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In the neck of an Argand chimney (see CUT
is inserted plug Of Malacca wood, which Is
sealed around the periphery with wax or
parafiine. In the top of the chimney is in
serted a stopper, through which projects a
short glass tube, having its upper end bent
over, or capped with a small test tube. To
the outer end of the glass tube is applied a
rubber tube When the chimney is in an in
verted position, as shown in the engraving,
quantity of mercury is placed in the larger
part of the chimney, and the air is partly ex-
hausted by applying the mouth to the rubber
tube and sucking. The mercury readily
passes through the porous wood and falls in
shower. By employing an air pump for
producing the partial vacuum, the mercury
may be drawn through a plug of pine. These
experiments show in striking manner tho
porosity in longitudinal direction of these
pieces of wood,
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Soldering Metals by Electricity.

The process described by M. Won Bernardos,
Of St. Petersburg, Of welding or soldering
metals by electricity, appears to be a success.
American Artisan, in a report on the subject,
describes how carbon rod is used, one pole
of which is in connection with dynamo
electric current and the other connected with
the piece to be soldered. The manipulation
is not only simple, but metals can be perfectly
soldered which hitherto were quite obdu-
rate. Bernardos not only welded wrought
iron with wrought iron, but wrought iron
with cast iron and with steel; iron was soldered
to copper and brass, etc., and wrought iron
coated with lead, tin and copper and to a
thickness of ten millimeters
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SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
Manners and Customs That Prevail at
Balls and Dances.

Manners and Customs That Prevail at
Balls and Dances.
Balls and dances being now in full sway,
as good authority as Mrs. Sherwood notes, in
The Mail and Express, a few points that may
be of assistance to those not quite familiar
with the social requirements of such occa-
sions:
In going into society an unknown young
man, who receives an invitation to ball,
must seek an introduction to young lady
through her chaperon. In our crowded ball
rooms, where there are ofR-1 three ladies to
one gentleman, the chaperons are generally
very happy to accede to this request.
Nothing can excuse a young man for the
absence of good manners, and he should re-
member that ballroom introduction means
that he is intended to dance with the young
lady, and that womanhood should always
command respect, although he may be some
what annoyed, perhaps, by the persistent eff
forts of some ambitious wall flowers that he
should stake her out" whether he will or no,
he must never forget his good manners.
While it is considered very proper to ask
for invitations for gentlemen to dance, it is
not considered proper to ask for invitations
for ladies. The hostess, however, has always
the refuge of saying that her list is full. No
offense should be taken if this request is re-
fused.
At all public balls there should be a COM
mittee of ladies to receive The elegance of
ball depends very much upon the presence
of recognized hostess.
A young girl should not forget or break
her ballroom engagements. To do her JUS
tice, she is not apt to do SO, but there are
some who are careless and hurt the feelings
of modest young men. To hurt any ones
feelings unnecessarily is to prove ones self
not q gentlewoman.
Many young ladies find that their men
partners dancing does not realize their ex-
pectations. How cam they get rid Of him
without hurting his feelingss A young lady
might say, 81 am afraid I am not dancing
your step. If you do not mind, should like
to sit down and talk awhile" The young
man might declare ''that it is his fault
(which it probably is), and then next day he
should go to dancing master.
The phraseology of invitation is less for
NAL than it used to be.
'Shall we take turn!" has rather replaced
the Oh fashioned "May have the pleasure
of dancing with your won't you spare me
dancer 81 hope you have left dance for
NO." SIS this my dance" etc. The young
lady is apt to be quite as informal in her re-
Spouse.