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Year: 1872

Especial invitation is made to any deslrous ei
visiting onr Truss department., to call and examine
our superior assortment OF Trusses, all made Of
iellent material We claim the largest stock and
assortment OF tTusses, braces and suspensOry ban.
dages OF any retail house in the State and we fee
satisfied In establishing our claim on the fact OF
various truss makers constantly calling on us, anu
examining our stock. who unanimously pronounce
our assO tnent the best they hare IN an
RetaH House and that our facilities for applying art
superior to any.


In view of this fact we can offer patrons and tn,
afflicted such inducements as to quality price and
lifting, as can only be found in our establishment


Every truss sold at our Truss Room is guaranteP
to be the finest quality afforded in the market, eacI
one being practically examined and handled oefort


Irusses from so cents to $1,000, and finer finish al
higher prices.


Great pleasure taken in showing TruSses whether
wishing to purchase or not
Year: 1872

cOllusion between the devisee under the
will and the heir-at-law, can not affect the
purchase from the devisee, made in good
faith before such order and Judgment.
Judgment affirmed.
Year: 1872

IL the saying is true that she who
causes two blades of grass to grow
where only one grew before is n
public benefactOr," how much more
is he who discovers a remedy for
one OF the most distressing diseases
that poor human nature is heir to
Having been afflicted for many
years with neurslgic headache, and
alter trying all the remedies could
hear tell of without any benefit, /
had given up all hope of a cure, hay-
ing had an elder brother to die Of
the disease, and being told by the
doctors there was no cure for it. /
happily thought of trying salt, aud
in q short time 1 was delighted to
see it had the best results. IL is
now about tive months since tried
the experiment, and have not been
troubled with il since. Now I want
TO let the "whole world and the rest
of mankind know the remedy, as
it is SO simple that any one can use
il: Take a pinch of salt, aud snuff
il up the nostrils until YOU can
taste il in your throat. DO not
blow your nose for a considerable
time, but, as the water runs, snuff
it up until you can spit it out of
your mouth. In changable weather,
or if you feel any return of il, re-
peat the remedy.
Year: 1872

One gifted and beautiful woman.
il wrongly disposed, can work more
evil in society, can scatter more seeds
of corruption and death, than, with
their utmost efforts a score of men.
Her capabilities for good in the diff
erent departments of morals are
equally great, and i'm such prOpor-
tioA TO her powers, both for good
and evil, must be her condemnation.
if che is false TO her holy steward
ship. Society cannot be DESTROYED
if woman is true, nor saved If wo-
man is false. Besides, society shows
no unequal discrimination in regard
to this particular class of offences.
The rule applies to all. A profane
woman, drunken woman, female
thief or murderer excites always a
greater horror and disgust than if
the crime had been committed by a
man And this is right, and il
will be an evil day iOr this world
when woman in her sin excites no
more adherence than a man
Year: 1872

a REMEDY FOR WOUNDs.-A
correspondent of the Country Cen
ttetRGn gives the following remedy
for painful wounds:


Take a pan or shovel, with burn
ing Goals, and sprinkle upon them
brown sugar, and hold the wounded
part over the smoke. In few min
utes the pain will be allayed, and
recovery proceed rapidly. In my
own case, a rusty nail had made a
bad wound in the bottom OF my
foot. The pain and nervous irrita-
tion were severe. This was all re-
moved by holding it in the smoke
for fifteen minutes, and l was able
TO resume my reading in comfort.
We have often recommended IL to
Others with like results. Last week
one OF my men had a finger nail
torn out by pair of ice tongs. Ii
became very painful, as was To have
been expected. Held in sugar
smoke for twenty minutes the pain
ceased, and it promises speedy re-
coVery.
Year: 1872




Said one of the principal mer-
chants TO a young man he was about
60 take into his employ. 81 shall
rely upon your own sense OF h0ner
for the manner in which you dis
charge the duties you are about to
assume. l am not in the habit OF
openly finding fault unless there is
positive reason for il; but 1 never
the1ess take notice of the conduct
of the young men employ; and at
the end of the year make up my ac-
count. Ii in renewing the contract
with any of my employees they find
that they have not been promoted,
L desire them to bear the fact in
mind that they have not meriied
promotion by their conduct. Our
interests are mutual. II an en-
ploYee seeks by industry, politeness
10 customers and general attention
TO duty to promote my business
prosperity, | should be singularly
remiss i'm duty to myself IL | did not
recognize the effort aud show my
appreciation OF it by promoting
him to the full extent of his merits"
If such "A system was generally
adopted by merchants, we would
have fewer time-serVers aud the re-
suit would be a better and more re-
liable class not OF clerks and sales
men, but Of merchants also.
Year: 1872

There comes a time when there
viii be no winter nor change of sea-
son. The past, present and future
become one. There is no regretting
the past, nor fearful looking for
ward. It is all continued life, youth
and enjoyment.
Year: 1872

The President remarked that the
news would come soon and come ia
vorably, he had no doubt, for he had
last night his usual dream, which
had preceded nearly every important
event of the wsr. l inquired the
particulars of this remarkable dream.
He said it was in my department.
it related to the water; that he SEEM
ed to be in a singular and indescriba-
BILE vessel, but always the same, and
that he was moving with great rapid
lty toward dark and indefinite shore;
that he had hs6 this singular dream
preceding the firc on Sumter, the
battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Get
tysburg, Stone River, Vicksburg,
Wilmington, etc. General Grant
remarked, with some emphasis and
asperity, that Stone River was no
victory-that a few such victories
would have ruined the country, and
he knew OF no important results from
it The President said that perhaps
he should not altogether agree with
him, but whatever might be the facts
mis- singular dream preceded that
fight. Victory did not always follow
his dream, but the event and results
were important. lie had no doubt
that a battle had taken place or wal
about being fought, "and johnson
will be beaten for / had this strange
dream again last night. 1t must re
late to Sherman my thoughts are in
that direction, and know ofno othel
important event which is likely JUS
now to occur"


Great events did indeed follow
Within q few hours the good snt
gentle as well as truly great man whe
narrated his dream was assssslnated
and the murder which closed forever
his earthly career affected for years
and perhaps forever, the welfare o
his country.
Year: 1872

This is what Horace Maynard, of
Tennessee, says of President Grants
administrator


"Wbat more do we want Z When
before have our people lived SO well,
ted so well2 Labor never got such
wages IS it does now. The nation
never developed more rapidly and
safely. Our financial system is The
best on earth; our currency is The
only really good one we ever had.
Nobody is infaliible- We all make
mistakes, and Grant, like his prede-
cessors, has committed his share.
But what more do We want than he
has given to us2 unless we choose
to get by the ears about the offices
and you know how soon the people
see through such pairiots-
Year: 1872

1t was 1909 when Napoleon took
the step which always seemed to ms
the beginning of his downward ca
reer. He himself read aloud the de-
cree of his separation from the EN-
press, and though his voice seemed
strange and unnatural and he fal-
tered once or twice, he read to the
end, before the silent assemblage,
then entered his carriage and drove
to Triauon, while Josephine returned
to Mslmaison, which had been neg
lected during the years of her reign
BY the Emperors's side. 80.


She murmured no more, though
she had pleaded with him long and
earnestly before the final step was
taken by Napoleon. She plead not
to be cast off +; it was an i'll omen for
him, she said, that he should take the
crown from her head; his good ge-
MUS would leave him, If he banished
her from his side. But all was in
vain-and Josephine had spoken the
truth. He was losiog the crown
from his own head when he took it
from hers; and his good angel, who
had averted his face when Josephine
knelt helplessly before him, never
smiled on Napoleon again, but de-
parted from his side, slowly and sor-
rowful-weeping that earthly gran
deur and perishable greatness should
so dazzle the children of men with
their glitter and pomp.


Back she went, broken hearted, to
the scenes of her former joys-walk
ing slowly over the lawns her feet
had trodden-resting wearily under
the trees in the park where the stat
utes seemed to gaze on her sorrowful
brow, and the deer came to look into
her face with plying eyes. Once
only she left Malmaison. Perhaps
the spacious halls seemed too narrow
to hold such grief as hers but she
returned from sunny southern coun-
tries, to find peace at last in the
"Evil House." Napoleon never
ceased to pay every tribute of re-
spect to her 1t was to her the first
news of the birth of his son was sent;
and she rejoiced with him, as she
reioiced in all good fortune that came
to him. Often he sought the shade
of the willow and cypress at Malmaf-
son. feeling, perhaps, with unerring
instinct, that his ''good genius still
fingered there Overland Monthly.
Year: 1872

INDIANAPOLIS, November l4-Gov.
Baker delivered his message to the Lesis.
lature In Joint session this afternoon,
he recommends that provision be made
at this session Of the Legislature for call
ing Convention to revise the Constitu.
tion o the State. He recommends the
building Of two additional hospitals Tor the
Insane and the enlarging Of the present
institute for the education of the blind,
and also for the completion ol the House
Of Refuge and other public buildings Of
the State.
Year: 1872

A New CONTRIyANCE FOR FIRE En-
CINE HORSES. The Rochester Democrat
says that by a contrivance Of the engineer,
Seneca Dobbs, of steam engine No. 2, OF
that city, saving of about three minutes
is accomplished in the hitching of the
horses to the engine and hose cart in case
of fire alarm. A cord from the sleeping
room leads down into the stable, and is
attached to a movable door in front of the
stall, the hay rick and oat bin being at
the side. In case of fire alarm the cord
is pulled, the stall door opens and the
horses rush out and take their places, the
engine horses on each side Of the pole,
and the hose cart horse in his position.
1t is a race between the men and these
intelligent animals to see who can get to
the post Of duty first. The horses gener-
ally win.
Year: 1872

HEAT OF WINTER RoOMs.-The in
vestmont Of fifty or sevonty-dve cents in n
thermometer will make paying returns in
health before Spring. The great tenden-
cy in Winter is keeping rooms too warm.
The foundation Of pneumonia, pleurisy
and pulmonary consumption is frequently


laid in oyerhcated, ill-ventilated apart
ments. The inmates become accustomed
to breathing hot, close air, the system is
toned down and relaxed, and a slight cx-
posuro to wet and cold rcsults in serious
illness. Some years since we called ono
Winter evening on friend whom wo
found in II cosy sttlng-room with n large
cast-iron stove, n low ceiling, and the
heat ranging about the eighties. Sho
was suffering from II severe cold, but
could give no account Of how she took it.
a month latter she was prostrated with
pneumonia, and she and her sister died
within II week Of each other, and were
buried in the Same grave. The ntelli-
gent use Of n thermometer would, doubt
less, have saved both Of those valuable
lives. The mercury in the tube should
never be permitted to stand above seven
ty. If that temperature is not sufficient
to give warmth it is an indication that tho
person does not take sufficient exercise,
and the cure for it is more miles and
more flannel. In the coolest weather,
when the ground is like stone under feet
and there is no drip from the caves, when
snow lies on the roof, rooms should bo
ventilated. Pure mir should be admitted
through open doors and windows, so that
the oxygen consumed by flame and by
respiration may be replaced, and the ef-
fete and poisonous matters thrown off by
the body thoroughly driven off. AS ono
Of our best writers on household science
remarks, ventilation is question Of dol
lars and cents. But how much wiser he
is who chooses to pay large coal bill and
enjoy fresh air in his Winter sitting room
than he who keeps everything shut up
that heat may not be lost, and has long
doctors bill to settle in the Spring, and
mNyhap grave to cut through the frozen
turf.
Year: 1872

AN example of the i'll effects resulting
from the use of tobacco has recently been
brought to notice. In Virginia Mrs.
Chloe Flatford, of Fredericksburg, be-
came addicted to the use of tobocco at an
early period of her life, and the habit OF
smoking and chewing became so strong
with her that she was unable to comfort
ably exist without its indulgence. Fo1
one hundred years this misguided wo-
man continued the daily use Of tobacco,
and only gave it up at her death, which
occurred when she was lis years old
This sad case shows how long bad hab-
it, once acquired, will sometimes cling to
a person.
Year: 1872

Mr.. GOODWIN, residing in Long Island
City, is said to have a remarkable pig
family. Eighteen months since he raised
litter of two pigs. To-day one of them
weighs about 800 pounds, and the other
only eight pounds. Another remarkable
fact in connection with this pig family is
that the latter eats as much as the large
one in fact, he eats two or three times
as much as his own weight every day.
The little pig seems healthy and slick


and bears the same resem blance to the
hog family as other pigs, except in size.
Year: 1872

ONE WAY OF MAKING A LIVING
Nelpeau, the French surgeon had two
hospital patients whose business it was to
be knocked down and run over in the
street. When they saw light vehicle
approaching and knew the owner to be
wealthy, they would run in such way
as to get before the horses, to be knocked
down and carried to the hospital, where
they would sue for damages. When the
money thus earned was spent, they would
go out and get run over again. They
generally managed to avoid being seri-
ously injured in this way ; but nearly ev-
cry bone in their bodies had been broken.
Year: 1872

In the recent marriage of Olive Logan,
at New York, the promise Of obedience
was carefully omitted from the ceremo-
ny. The clergyman said he had never
married but one woman who promised to
obey, and she didn't.
Year: 1872

A FARMER saw an advertisement to
prevent wells and cisterns from freezing.
He sent his money and received the an
swer. stake your we'll or cistern in on
cold nights, and keep it by the fire."
Year: 1872

A RURAL editor has lost all faith in tho
luck Of horse shoes. He nailed one over
his door recently, and that morning there
came by mail three duns and seven
stops" and a man with revolver to
ask who wrote that article.
Year: 1872

A DRUNKEN husband in an Ohio village
who had mania for breaking furniture,
had the tables turned on him very neatly
by his better half. She very quietly looked
on while he was engaged in his wariike dem
onstrations, then sat down and made out
bill embracing each article destroyed and
its value. This done, she went to the sa-
loon-keeper who kepther husband nspirits,
and demanded the amount of the bill. He
paid it promptly and collected it from the
husband.


A MAN found drum, gave as an excuse
that he was merely celebrating the 87th
birthday Of his mother, who is an inmate
of the Gloucester poorhouse.
Year: 1872

Somebody in Brattleboro came down to
New York to ask Fisk for donation to
help them build a new fence around the
graveyard where he il now buried.


What in thunder do you want a new
fence for r exclaimed the colonel. "Why.
that old fence viii keep the dead people in,
and live people win keep out as long as they
can, any way !"
Year: 1872

23d. Note. l shall not here pretend t.
discuss the vexed question of whether con
gress has the power to make paper money
a legal-tender. 1t should be forever Land
to rest, by so amending the constitution as
to allow the general government to print
and offer to the States a currency, and tix
the rate Of interest thereon but allowing
Congress no further power or control over
it. This object is kept in view in the plan
here proposed.


oath. That the general government. in
the exercise Of the power conferred by tbs
Year: 1872

The vane Of earth as a disinfectant
and deodorizer is well known; and the
treatment of liberated sores and gam
grenous wounds with it is becoming
very general A new application of this
system has lately been described, namely,
tho use of clay for dressing for the
face in two cases of continent smallpox
-dusting it, in fine powder, over the
face Of the patients as soon as the pus-
tules become fairly developed. This, it
is stated, formed clean, dry, wholesome
seab, absorbing the infectious material,
scaling off during convalescence, ard
leaving the underlying skin in lis natural
and normal state The painful and per-
sistent itching, which IS well known as
enc Of the worst characteristics Of the
disease, was by this simple means
entirely abated. The earth used was
ine pipe clay. raas
Year: 1872

Some donbty have recently been
thrown on the generally accepted theo.
ries in regard to the Gulf stream, but
Captain Silas Bent, who has a good rep
utation as physical geographer, claims
that to reduce Northern Europe to a
frozen wilderness, we have only to make
a big enongh cut in the Isthmus of Pana-
ma to send the surplus equatorial cur
rent of the Atlantic into the Pacific in
stead of having it diverted, as now, to
the shores of Europe England and
Germany and Northern Europe would
be reduced to their natural climate level
that of Labrador. The northern
shores Of Europe are warmed by the
Gulf stream, which has its origin in the
westward equatorial currents which are
DETECTED by the shores of the Gulf and
sent to the northeastward. Take away
the barrier Of the Isthmus, and the warm
water would go straight through to Asia
Year: 1872

Out in a certain Western fort, some
time ago, the major conceived the idea
that artillery might be used effectively
in lighting with the Indians by dispensing
with gun-carriages and fastening the
cannon upon backs of mules. So he
explained his views to the commandant,
and it was determined to try the expert.
ment. A howitzer was selected and
strapped upon an ambulance mule, with
the muzzle pointed toward the tail.
When they, had secured the gun and
loaded it with ball cartridge, they led
that calm and steadfast mule out on the
bluff and set up target in the middle
of the river to practice at. The rear of
the mule was turned toward the target,
and he was backed gently up to the
edge of the bluff. The officers stood
around i'm semicircle, while the
major went up and inserted time fuse
in the touch-hole of the howitzer. When
the fuse was ready, the major lit it and
retired In minute or two the hitherto
unrufled mule heard the fzzing back
there on his neck, and it made him un-
easy. He reached his head around to
ascertain what was going on, and, as he
did so, his body turned and the howitzer
began to sweep around the horizon.
The mule at last became excited, and
his curiosity grew more and more in
tense, and in a second or two he was
standing with his four legs in bunch,
making six revolutions a minute, and
the howitzer, understand, threatening
sudden death to every man within half
mile. The commandant was observed
to climb suddenly up a tree; the
lieutenants were seen sliding over
the bluff into the river, as If they
didn't care at all about the high price Of
uniforms; the adjutant made good time
toward the fort; the sergeant began to
throw up breastworks with his bayonet,
and the major rolled over the ground
and groaned. In two or three minutes
there was a puff Of smoke, dull thud,
and the mule-shl where was he2 a
solitary jackass might have been seen
turning successive back-somer-saults
over the bluff, only to rest at anchor,
finally, with his howitzer at the bottom
Of the river, while the ball went off to-
ward the fort, hit the chimney in the
majors quarters, ratified the adobe
bricks down into the parlor, and frighten-
ed the majors wife into commissions.
They do not allude to it now, and no re-
port Of the experiment was ever sent to
the Var Department. John Phoenix.
Year: 1872

II Is not everybody who knows
Where 70 joke, or when, or how: and
whoever IS Ignorant of these eOndi-
tlon3 had better not Joke at all. A
gentleman never expects to be humor-
Gus at the expense of people with
whom he is but slightly ACQUAINTED.
In fact it is neither good manners
nor wise policy to joke at anybodvis
expense that is to say, TO make anv-
body uncomfortable merely to raise a
laugh.-Old EsOp, who was doubtless
the subject Of many a gibe on account
OF his bumped back, tells the whole
story in his fable of "The Bows and
the Frogs. What was Jolly for the
youngsters was death to the eroakers.
A jest may cut deeper than c curse
Some men are so constituted that
they can not take even a friendly
joke in good part, and instead of re-
payingit in the same light coin, will
requite it with eOntumely and
insult. Never banter one ofthis class
for he will brood over your bandinage
long after you have forgotten it, and
it is not prudent to incur any ones
enmity for the sake of uttering a
smart double entendre or a tart re-
partee. Ridieule, at best, is a perilOus
weapon Satire, however, when lev
eled at social follies and political evils
j. not only legitimate, but commend
able. 1t has shamed down more
abuses than were ever abolished by
force of logic.