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SCIENTIFIC INTEREST.

LCTHICM is the Ightest m etal known and
Is worth 316O per ounce. Gallium is the
rostliest metal known and is worth $3.50
per ounce.
IT is asserted that, under certain con.
ditions, the bark Of the Quilla tree OF Chill
possesses cleansing properties superior to
those Of the best soap.
PROF. ELISHA GRAY has procured a
patent for new long-distance Geographic
transmitter, giving the message in the
handwriting of the sender.
THE danger of infection from the use of
books from circulating libraries has re-
ceived intelligent attention in England,
and means have been devised for their dis
infection.
IRON, while heating, if exposed to the dir,
will oxidize; while at white heat, if in con-
tact with coal, will carbonize, or besome
steely. Iron should be heated as rapidly as
possible.
VIENNA scientific societies have been in
vestigating the wonderful weather plant"
discovered some months ago, and it is said
that its Misunderstanding properties have
been thoroughly verified. The marine de-
partment of the Austrian War Department
is to give the plant a trial on shipboard.
A CONVENTION of scientists, which re-
Gently made an investigation in Paris under
the auspices of several commercial bodies,
decided that no chemical substitute for
sugar has yet been discovered, the claims
Of ''saccharine" to that honor being de-
stroyed by the fact that it is seriously detri-
mental to health.
ANEsTHETIC REvELATION'' is tho name
which has been applied to the sensation Of
recovery from the anaesthetic effects Of sui
phuric ether. For one brief instant, just
before the complete return Of conscious.
ness, the subject invariably has an intense
perception of what seems to him at the time
The true explanation Of the universe.
The Smithsonian Institution at Washing.
Ion has sent an expedition to Nova Scotia
and secured fac similes of the 'fairy rocks"
OH which are curious hieroglyphic charac.
ters, evidently very old, which may throw
some light on the history Of the early dis.
:overies of America The marlsngs are cut
in upon rock OF highly polished slate,
and the intaglio is about sixteenth Of an
inch deep.
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THE MANURE HEAP.

Net Very Aesthetic But Eminently USE
full Farm Prospect.
The careful farmer will waste moth
ing. The .manure-heap is his best
savings bank. There is no manner OF
vegetable or animal refuse which can
not be added to 1t with advantage
Soap-suds from the laundry, bones,
scraps of parings from the kitchen,
house-slops, entrails of fowls, and the
very dust swept from the floors, should
find lodging there. Animal remains
are frequently, as something too gross
for vegetable food, buried to get rid of.
Properly treated with quick lime,
which has the contrary effect with
woody fiber, their decomposition may
be effected in the muck-heap, and add
to the richness of the whole. All
kinds of decayable rubbish can be
made available. Even leather scraps,
though the tannate of gelatin is so
slow in decay, in time will decompose.
Where the soil is clayey, coal ashes is
better than sand for it's communion,
and may be added with the rest.
Leaves, tufts of grass and weeds be-
fore they seed, may go with the rest.
The liquid manure from the house
should have a dosing Of ground plas.
ter after it is poured on, to fix the am
monia. Road scrapings may be used.
And these or soil should be thrown on
occasionally to the depth of two or
three inches, to facilitate vegetable de-
cay.
It is hardly necessary to say that
the pile should not be made a nursery
for weeds, which should be turned
under occasionally when they show on
the surface and before they flower.
Scarcely any farm, unless in very
dry situations, but has a Doggy hi.
upon it. This swamp would, the
farmer thinks, be too dear to add to
his land, and unless the spot be large
enough to bear systematic drainage,
there it remains. The wet earth is
rich in vegetable matter, and if treat
ed with liberal supply of ashes, will
be a desirable addition
It is pleasant to see how soon a muck
heap will thus accumulate, and how
rich it will be in the following spring.
Certainly it is not a pleasant prospect
esthetically considered. Its fragrance
does not rival that of the altar of roses.
1t does not appeal to the imagination
through the senses. But the farmer
may see through the repulsive exterior
to the future of luxuriant vegetation
and increased crops. And we may add
that the green-sand msrl, the bone
dust or the superphosphate is none the
worse for being composted with the ref.
use of the house and farm. y In
IeDende2lt
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Living on the Reputation of Others

"Take everything that I have but my
good name; leave me that and am con.
tent" SO said the philosopher. So say all
manufacturers of genuine articles to that
horde of imitators which thrives upon the
reputation of others. The good name OF
ALLCoCK's Porous PLAsTERs has induced
many adventures to put in the market i'm.
itations that are not only lacking in the
best elements Of the genuine article, but
are often harmful in their effects.
The public should be on their guard
against these frauds, and, when an exter.
nal remedy is needed, be sure to insist upon
having ALLCoCK's Porous PLASTER.
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

.
The purity and wholesomeness
Of the milk depends largely upon the
quality Of the water drank as well a.
upon the quality of food eaten.
Mignonette and other plants will
live for many years if the flowers are
plucked as fast as they fade, but II
the seed is allowed to perfect they are
but annuals-the plant dies.
Cream Sponge Cake. Break tive
eggs into cup, fill to the brim with
sweet cream; then add one cup o:
sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking.
powder, and enough -four to make q
stiff batter. Flavor with lemon.
IT the feed in the COW pasture is
beginning to dry up and become short,
feed the COWS some kind of fodder at the
barn If you wish to keep up the flow OF
milk. When the flow is once de-
creased at this season it is hard to in.
crease it.
The orange-colored rust on the
raspberry and blackberry bushes is q
fungus which spreads rapidly, and
will soon ruin an entire plantation un-
less prompt measures are resorted to.
The digging up and burning of all
affected plants is the only known
remedy.
Sweet potatoes in winter require
temperature of sixty degrees. They
will not suffer exposed to a temper.
allure OF 1ifty-six degrees, but it should
not be allowed to fall below that.
When first stored in the cellar they
must be kept at seventy degrees until
well dried, when it may fall to sixty.
Sheep in some respects are very
tender, delicate animals. They car
bear great deal of cold, but they car
not bear wet, either under foot or on
their backs; and if a fock-master at
tempts to winter his sheep without
shelter enough to keep them dry,
though it may not be enough to fur.
nish much warmth, he will not get g
good fleece.
Nursery Pudding.-Measure half a
pint Of soaked bread, beaten as above
directed; add one tablespoonful of corr
flour, first mixed with half a pint o.
milk and boiled for q few minutes
Beat the whole until cool, then stir i1
one egg, spread a little jam at the bot,
tom of creased pie-dish, pour in the
bread mixture, and bake in moderate
oven for half an hOl,r
Tomato Pickles.-Stew one gallon
of green tomatoes just beginning tt
ripen, two green peppers, sliced; fou1
to eight onions, sliced. Salt owe,
night, next day drain off. Put them il
two quarts of vinegar, add one-hal
pint of molasses, two tablespoonfuls O.
mustard seed; one teaspoonful each Of
cloves and allspice. boil up, and then
add the tomatoes, pepper and onions,
and boil ten minutes. This is de-
licious pickle.
The late fowls do not usually have
as large combs as those Matched earlier
nor will they grow to become heavy
weights. 1t is difficult to secure good
winter layers from late birds, but TO,
spring work they are fully equal to any
others. They are shorter-legged an6
more compact in body than the early
birds, and produce as large, vigorou.
chicks, but the mixture of early an6
late fowls gives an appearance lacking
in shape and uniformity; hence all late
birds should be kept together instead
nf hainp with tho ofhoro
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SMITH with smiling face)-What have
you got the blues about?
SSoNEs-Nothing to do; Times are dull; ,
I struck up with you. You sit right down
and write to B. F. johnson & Co., of Rich
mond, Va, and they will put you in a way
to make money faster than you ever did be-
fore. I was out of work, too, but began a
little corr espondence with them and now I
am growing fat and rich. Too busy to talk
longer now.
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If we could only persuade that unwelcome
visitant, chills and fever, to do this, we
would be fortunate. But while we can't ex-
actly make it ''cut and rum" we can uproot
ITS hold upon the system in time with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. This is known
wherever malaria is a periodical caller 1t
Is, also, matter of wide information that
the Bitters cures biliousness, dyspepsia,
debility and rheumatism.
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Save Money Going East.

When contemplating a journey eastward
consider the unexcelled service and peer
less accommodations of the Chicago & At
lantic and Erie Railways. Fast, solid trains
depart from Dearborn Station, Chicago,
daily, with through LIST and end Pullman
built coaches, and Pullman Buffet Sleeping
Cars, to New York, Albany and Boston.
You may travel by this popular line and
save $1.5O to New York, Niagara Falls,
Rochester and Buffalo; y IS to Albany and
Troy, and 90 to Boston and New England
cities. Apply to your nearest Railway
Ticket Agent for full information, or adj
dress for prompt reply, F. C. DONALD, Gen.
Pass. Agt., Chicago & Atlantic Ry., Chicago
IT is an odd fact that coal beds are fur
nished with petroleum springs.-Drakc'.
MnHnz;ne
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

A SORE Throat or Cough, if suffered to
progress, often results III an incurable
throat or lung trouble. '.Brouns Bronchial
Troches'' give instant relief.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

The man who brings suits is always
somewhat sad. There is something plain
tin about Naturalization Chronicle
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

MoLAssEs GAP is name of sweet little
hamlet in Paulding County, o.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

WORDS Of cheer - Hurrah! Tiger!-
Tcrds Sittin0a
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SARAH BERNHARDr is quoted as telling a
friend that she intends the scene of her
own death to be something startling and
striking.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

A "BRoTH or A BOT" ought to make q
good "supe." -Laspcr's Bazar
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To Take French Leave.

MANY a fellow who is whole souled has
to go to shoemaker and get half-soled.-
Ddnsuillc Breeze.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

NITRATE OF silver-the change paid for
q half price telegram.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
ThOmpson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it ESQ.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-25

made and when debate is practically cut of,
sENSELESS TwADDLE.
our Government in providing for its able de-.
tenders, and their widows and dependent chill
dren. Again and again We are pointed to the
APP o. u co in single year for
Is misleading and not altogether far. The
Commissioner of Pensions shows in his last re-
port that the annual pension roll costs less than
x53, 600 600. All in excess of this is to pay pen
slons that were due for previous years, and is
to pay old claims which have just been aiijudi-
Gated; It will be freely. admitted that even
t55,OOO,OOO Is large sum, but 1t must be borne
In mind that the late war was gigantic one,
unparalleled in point OF numbers engaged by
IL The sns
snow that during the four years OF its continu-
ance there were 2,s6 ',o:8 enlistmehts. Allow
ing liberal estimate for the double enlist
engaged in the Union army. OF this vast num-
her, nearly oo,oN were killed in battle or died
the war. and thousands Of otners returned to
their homes only to suffer and die in a few short
months: OF this vast army, up to June 80. 1887,
~ ss d aad MED claims tor pensions, of which
were on the rolls at the time above stated.
Three hundred and sixty.fou thousand
filed by widows, orphan children and dependent
relatives. The average pension paid was $40 10
per year, surely not an extravagant sum to pay
rible loss Of mbs, and the suffering from
wounds and diseases. OF the number then on
the rolls, IA SSl. nearly onehalf Of the soldiers
were receiving less than Us each per wear.
What munificence! =
The widow who gave her husband In the primo
Of life. full of bright hopes for the future, re-
ceived 10 per month for her sacrifice, and this
generous Nation gave her q per month for the
support Of the child made an orphan by the
ravages OF war; What happy wife would not
cheerfully surrender her loved one for such
generous pension? What child would be SO un-
grateful when 1t arrived at manhood as to lose
On opportunity to sing praises to tho glorious
Government that contributed so literally 70 his
support? -
It Is about time that this senseless twaddle
about the generosity of the Government to the
noble men who sacrificed their all to preserve
its existence should cease. The brave men
who fought the battles for the preservation of
the Union from 1851 to 1858 will never be com.
pensated Tor their terrible suffering and sacri-
fees: The Government IS ebundantly able to
provide for these men in their declining years
to care for those who are destitute and suffer.
Ing; and to do this entities it to no credit n
do less would DO base tnaratifndA. -
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the discharge of the invalid soldier. AS this
measure was passed at q time when the Demo.
Gratis had majority in the House, q few Of
their more jealous advocates have claimed
credit for this as a Democratic measure
The facts are that the BILL H. r. 1924, was
introduced by Mr.. Cummings, Republican
from Iowa, June 49, 1873, and on motion of Mr..
Haskell, a Republican from Kansas, the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions was discharged
from Its further consideration and it was taken
up for action. 1t passed the House by vote of
l64 yeas to 81 nays. Every Republican vote re-
corded is in its favor, and every vote against it
IS that OF Democrat. AS party question the
record shows the Democrats to be against it
az having voted for 1t and 81 against it. What
ever OF credit or OF blame, therefore, attaching
to the Arrears act belongs to the Republicans,
IN the Forty-eighth Congress, March 4, 1884,
the House passed bill to pension the surviv-
ing soldiers Of the Mexican war and their Wild
ows by vote of 227 to As. The Republican SEN
ate amended this bill by adding sections maxi
ing further provisions for disabled and depend
ent soldiers OF the civil war-increasing the
pensions OF widows from &S to IL. per month
continuing pensions to children above sixteen
years OF age when they were helpless, proyid-
Ing that fathers and mothers should only be re-
CURED to show present dependence instead of
dependence at the date Of the sons DEATH
Thrty-onc Senators voted for these amecd.
ments all Republicans, and twenty-seven Sen.
ators voted against them. all Democrats. On
the return OF the bill to the House it failed of
consideration by Democratic opposition On a
motion to suspend the rules to take up and
pass the bill, seventy five Republicans and fifty
two Democrats voted In the affirmative: and
efghty-four Democrats and one Republi an in
the negative, the motion being lost because
two-thtrds were required to carry it.
In the Forty-nlnth Congress the Mexican War
Service and the Dependent Soldiers bills were
passed separately to satisfy Democratic de-
mands The reason of this demand was soon
apparent. The two bills were passed on the
same day, and President Cleveland promptly
signed the one and vetoed the other.
The Mexican Service Act pensioned all survi-
vors and their widows who were sixty-two
years OF age; all who had any physical or men
tai disability without reference to age or origin
and even rebels who had borne arms against
the Nation. But poor Union soldiers, who by
reason of age, disease or accident had found
their way to the poor house, could have no re-
Lief with Democratic consent On the passage
Of this Dependent bill In the House, liz Repub-
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Pension Office by the will Of Congress, actually
proposes to limit Congress by the will of the
Pension ONCE.
Neither will the plea OF official duty avail.
CASES CITED
The bill to pension Harriet WEIGH is vetoed,
Notwithstanding the President says: IT believe
her case to be q pitiable one, and wish that
could join in her relief. but unfortunately off,
cial duty can not always be we'll done when d.
rectcd solely by sympathy and charity"
But this Roman devotion to duty did not pre-
vent him from signing the bills to pension the
widows of Generals Hancock, Blair and Logan
at q sum equal in each case to that required for
fourteen such cases Is this pitiable one John
Taylor was pensioned at e1e month by a
special act of Congress. The Pension Once
holds that it can not increase his pension and
refuses to do so because Congress has fixed his
rating. He is therefore compelled to 70 to
Congress further relief and an act is passed
to give him SIG per month. But the Presi-
dent vetoes this BILL holding that the claimant
now has liberal rating for gun-shOt wound
through the face and shoulder which affects his
sight and hearing and causes HIM constant neu-
ralgic pains. But he seems to have no consci.
enti0us scruples in signing bill to increase the
pension of Benjamin F. Kelley to 800 per month
for gunshOt wounds which do not dis0ualify
him for a high grade clerkship in the Pension
ONCE.
Joseph Romiser was = member of q MARYLAND
volunteer militia company. In an emergency,
the company was called on by the Government
and sent to Cumberland to repel Confederate
attack. This soldier, while in the ranks, was
wounded by the accidental discharge OF q gun
In the hands of o comrade, the ball passing
through his head and destroying the sight of one
eye and the hearing Of one ear.
Congress could and did pension him by q
special act, but the President vetoed the bill
because the man was not mustered into the
United States service. But this was too fragrant
an abuse OF the veto power, even for q servile
Democratic House, and the bill was passed over
the veto by vote of It's to 81. In the Senate it
passed unanimously. so votes In the affirmative
and none in the negative. =" s
. Scores Of cases of bills approved and bills We
toed might be cited to show the utter inconsist-
ency Of the President in considering these cases.
1t is . fact known to every one familiar with the
work of the Committee on Invalid Pensions
that the President has repeatedly vetoed tho
strongest bills aud signed the weakest; that he
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-28

HARPKR's MAGAZINE comes before the
public once more, well deserving the at
tention 1t will receive. The work
throughout, both literary and artistic,
meets the usual high standard demand
of this periodical. The frontispiece is a
portrait of Kinglake, the historian Of
Lord Raglan in the Crimean War, en-
graved from photograph by Kruell.-
Fiction and poetry have an honorable
place in this number. Miss Rives in
rhyme asks "Why?" and recites pretty
answer. IF So" is an elevated fancy OF
Richard E. Burton's. Alfred Parsons
and E. A. Abbey illustrate, the one a
sonnet of Wordsworth's, and the other
an old English poem. There is new
and promising development in William
Blacks "Lochsbar." Julia D. Whit
ing's Adventures Of Two Men" is re-
markedly strong sketch, and Annie
Bigelow's IAN Unpromising Marriage"
is a charming story.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-28
Notice of Removal.

We take pleasure to announce to our nu'
merous friends, patrons, and the public in
general, that finding our present location too
small for an increasing trade, we are remov.
ing our entire stock, consisting of heavy hard
ware, metals, tin plate. iron and steel roofing,
timers supplies, tools and machines, fence
wire of all kinds and description, to Nos. %
and 30 West Commerce street, where we will
be in better condition to wait on all our old
customers, and hope to make many new ones
by having better facilities in handling, and
where we will carry a full stock of goods in
our line. An increasing demand has made
this change imperative.
Our customers will find us fully prepared to
meet their orders in our new location by May
Isl proXimO. PIPER & SCHULTHESS.
Telephone No. 357.
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PRESS COMMENT,

New York Independent: "He started
out to lift the democratic party, and en-.
ded by letting down the government"
Atlanta Defiance: The Defiance be-
lieves the friends of Garfield and Ar
thur, Of Conkling and Blaine, would all
heartily support ex-secretary Robert T..
Lincoln.
Columbus (Ohio) State Journal: Ohio
having held her convention early, now
other states can have no doubt as to how
the Buckeye state stands on Sherman
and victory for the presidential year.
Boston Globe: We do not concur in
the .opinion sometimes expressed that
Mr.. Depew would be a strong candi-
date. In our judgment the republican
convention could hardly select man
who would more easily be defeated by
President Cleveland.
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