The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-01-23


A Chinese Advertisement
sAt the shop Prosperous in the Extreme.
| Very good mkt fnei inei Ancient shop; great
| grandfather, gradfather, father and self make
| this ink fine and hard-yery hard; picked with
dazzles, so does this ink. None makes like it
c cIsS and A cheat; make A il only FOR name
Plenty of gentlemen know my ink-my family
name. make ink for the Son Of Heaven (the
Emperor and all the mandarins in the empire.
As the roar of the tiger extends to every place SO
does the fame Of the Dragons Jewel 1.-THE trade
mark name of the inkl
A Woman who Is weak, nervous and
sleepless, and who has cold hands and feet can
not feel and act like well person. Carriers Iron
Pills equalize the circulation, remove nervous
ness and give strength and rest.
"And that is silver ore, is It?" said Mrs. Lang,
| as she examined piece of curious looking min
eral.
eyes, my DEAR" said her husband.
sand how do they get the silver out?" she
"They smelt it.n
"Well, that is very queer" she said, after APP
| plying her nose to the ore minute 81 smelt 1t,
| too, but didn't get any silver"
What wrought the changer This woman'sface
Is rudy with roses grace.
Her eye is bright,
Her heart is light,
| All, truly It's goodly sight.
| A few brief months ago her cheek
| Was pallid, and her step was weak.
"The end is near
For her, 1 fear"
| Sighed many.a friend who held her dear.
| can tell you what wrought the change in her.
| She was told by friend, who, like her, had SUI
| fered untold misery from acomplication OF female
troubles, that DIR. Pierces Favorite Prescription
would certainly cure her. This friend 'knew
| whereof she spoke" for she had been cured by
the remedy she advised her friend to use She is
enthusiastic in its praise and tells her friends
that DIR. Pierce deserves the universal gratitude
of woman-kind for having given it this infailible
remedy for its peculiar ailments. 1t is gsarGn-
teed to give satisfaction in every case or money
refunded.
DIR. PIerce's Pellets, one dose. Cure head
ache, constipation and indigestion.
"That cider is as sour as vinegarl' he said
as she stood back from the bar with deep disgust
on his face.
eyes. know that it is" replied the barkeeper,
calmly.
Doesn't that sign read, 'sweet Cider2"
"well, then why do you give your customers
sour cder?"
"That sign was put up there two years ago.
You certainly don't suppose that you can keep
cider sweet for two years, do you?"
A mans wife should always be the
same, especially to her husband, but If she is
weak and nervous, and uses Carter's Iron Pills,
she cannot be, for they make her ''feel like a
different person." so they all say, and their hus
bands say so too!
Perhaps the most curions battalion in the army
is the Norwegian corps OF skaters. These corps
are composed of picked men, armed with rifles,
which they use with great precision. The skates
used are admirably adapted for travelling over
rough and broken ice and frozen snow being six
inches broad and between nine and ten inches
long, The soldiers can be man@uvred upon the
Ice or over the snow fields of the mountains with
a rapidity equal to that of the best trained cav
airy. as an instance of the speed they attained.
il is stated that messenger attached to the corps
has accomplished 100 miles in 1874 hours over a
mountainous country.