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Norwalk weekly gazette, Wednesday, September 25, 1889 · page 3

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LAST YEAR.

We stood on the porch in the moonlight.
A silence had fallen on each;

I with my heart full of worship
That could not find utterance in speech.

Of what was she thinking, I wondered.
As she carelessly slipped the baud -

Of gold. with its cluster of diamonds,
Back and forth on that soft white hand.

Had l any part in her dreaming":
If the lashes that swept her cheek
Would lift and unveil their beauty,
Perhaps l‘d find courage to speak.

I clasped the dear hand as it wandered
(Yv'as there ever a hand so sweet?)
When the ring fell, a glittering banhlc.

Low down in the grass at her frrt.

"Oh. make me a wish,“ she said laughing,
As i picked up the dainty thing:
.‘GOCII fortune is certain to follow
The wish that is made with a ring.“
Was there ever a man so tempted?
Should i sneak cut the wish of my heart—-
That we two might wander forever
And yet never wander apart"

Butl crushed down the love that cried loudly.
And my words were careless and cold.

As I wished her a. life of enjoyment.
And lovers with plenty of gold.

So we parted Tonight the mooubcanis
Fall softly on the old porch once more,

But I Wonder what dhns its beauty
That it had one short year before?

~—Florence A. Jones in St. Paul Pioneer Press.

 

The Moon and Vegetation.

The influence of the moon upon vegetation
is very feeble compared with that of the sun,
but it is established. Professor Lindley says
that possibly the screens which are drawn
over hot houses at night to prevent loss of
heat by radiation, may produce some injury
by cutting oil“ the rays of the moon, which
nature intended to fall upon plants as much
as the rays of the sun. Again, M. Duchalie,
a. French scientist, a few years ago experi—
mented on tho sprouting and germination of
seeds in moonlight instead of sunlight. He
subjected the seedlings of lentils, vetches, etc. ,
to its influence. When the seeds had sprouted
he put them in a dark place and kept them
there for a time, so that the stalks grew slen
der and of a yellowish white. Afterward on
three nights, when there was clear moon.
light, be exposed them for six hours each
night. He found that the stalks at once
turned toward and followed the moonlight
just as many plants turn toward and follow
the progress of the sun through the heavens.
In hot countries it is well known that vege-
tation is largely dependent upon the moon.
West Indian planters affirm that the growth
of the sugar cane is twice as great during
moonlight nights as when there is no moon,
an assertion which has been repeatedly
proven.—New York Telegram.

 

The Ilichncss of the Servian Tongue.

The road was crowded with every kind
of vehicle, but our driver, a prince among
Jehus, was equal to every emergency. He
sometimes displayed his talents in a way
that was rather alarming; as, for in-
stance, when he gallop/ed his team down
a hill in order to overtake a rival chari~
oteer and only pulled up whcn within a.
few feet of a ravine at the bottom. He rarely
used the whip, but drew from a copious vo-
cabulary as the occasion required. The Ser-
vian tongue is rich in expletives, and I may
observe parcnthctically that the Scrvian la-
dies, like the tonian matrons of old, make
use of a phrascology exclusively their own.

The men, as a rule. only swear, but the
women curse. The imprecations of a Ser-
vian housewife in search of insects are, I am
told, absolutely appalling. Our horses were
in excellent condition and surprisingly intel—
igent and willing, whisking their tails and
pricking their ears as they mended their pace
at the slightest word from our skillful Auto-
mcdon. lifhcn ho wishcd to stimulate their
cnergiesho said, “Death and ruin to you,”
-when he wanted-to coax them he said, “Little
boys.”—The Fortnightly Review.

lie Got a Seat.

“lTill you kindly ullowme to stamif” asked

a. gentleman as he got into a railw; car-
riage, vizich carriage already contained the

specified number.

“Ccrt::' ‘ L ' '1” exclaimed a passenger
occupying 1‘. . .. goat ncarthedmir. "The
way these. trams are overcrowded is shame-
full”

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opened 1b.: . ,: ‘icgo door.

“One (.1 the. number,” rc-pli d the new—
comer, cow j'.

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going on."
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ticulatuzg on
Journal.

: i without waiting for further
:113 guard pulled out the ag-
_;;;_;c~r, who was left wildlyges-

tho platforn .-—Lcn:io;1 Court

The Inventor of the Oratorio.

St. Philip i‘fcri, to whom a statue is to be
raised in itcmcnvas, according to tradition, a
great miracle worker, but his claim to our
grateful consideration lies in the fact that ho
was the real inventor of the oratorio. He '
was born in 1515 in Florence, and about 1561
consecrated as a priest at Rome. thcn later
he founded a congregation of pricstsat Rome
he used to explain to them biblical histories,
and in order to render these entertainments
attractiw be permitted hymns and psalms to
be sung between the intervals of his teachings
and exhortations. At length he dramatized
sacred stories, writing them in verse and set-
ting thcm to music in the fashion of hymns.
The choruses, written in four parts, were in-
terspersed with solos, and the plays were di—
vided into two parts. The sermon was deliv-
ered after the first part, and thus the contin-
ued attention of the congregation was as-
sured, for none would leave before hearing
the second part of this primitive form of ora-
torio.-—Boston Times.

 

Poetry the Exception.

Jack Roberts tells a. funny yarn about the
rules of printing offices. It had been posted
on the bulletin board of a New York morn-
ing paper to invariably put the time of the
day in figures. This was done to secure uni-
formity. Jack had departed from the rule
once, and been admonished by the foreman.
Hesa'll it would never happen again. The
next night an editor, in reading over the
proof of an article, thought to improve it by
inserting the well known line of poetry:

"Meet me in the lane, love, at half past nine."
Well, the proof was passed over to Jack for
him to correct, and this is how it appeared
the next morning:

“Meet me in the lane, love, at 9:80 P. M.”
There was a vacancy in the office the next
days—{Prue Flag.

 

Miss Rosina. Vokes, in a sensible article on
the stage, advises young women who have no
especial talent for actirig tokeep ad of, it.
The life is a hard one—too hard, she think,
for young'girls Used as due is to the stage,
haviug‘been on it over sinuoahe was a. child,
she ne'er appears before an adieu” with-
out hole in a nervous but. .

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NORVVALK G

“ uni.» \Yas a Good Goat.”

I met upon a hillside highway :1 day or two
since a funeral procession. it was a strange
funeral, too, and the corpse was quite as
strange as the funeral team that drew the
improvised hearse. Six little boys and three
girls drew the hearse, and the corpse in the
vehicle was that of a. defunct billy goat.

i asked the largest boy, the leader, if he
was the foreman of the fire company and he
answered “No, sir; we’re a funeral.” The
strange answer induced me to look into the
wagon, and its contents revealed to my sight
the first dead goat that I had ever seen. The
little undertaker, who had owned Billy, en-
lightened me when he said “Billy was a good
goat, and me and Billy used to have lots of
fun in old times.”

A goat’s funeral was so novel a. mortuary
proceeding that I accepted the invitation to
become one of the mourners and followed the
little wagon drawn by the children up the
hillside, through the winding lane over the
common to the grave appointed for the last

' resting place of all that was mortal of poor

Billy.

I have seldom seen a. more decorous observ~
ance by grown people at tho graveside, when
the clods bid from sight all that was mate-
rial, than was observed by these children in
the urial of their dead friend, who doubt-
less had often drawn them in jolly good fel-
lowship around and about the highways and
hillsides of \Vinsted in the same wagon which
had carried Billy to his last resting place.
His grave was not long nor was it deep, but
it was deep enough to cover him well, and in
it he was gently placed and a few spadefuls
of dirt carefully deposited upon Billy’s inau-
imate form. Then the lit? in leader took from
his pocket a bottle filled with water, and
each child present sprinkled a few drops into
the grave.

A little more ceremony and the grave was
covered, each child as the pfigession moved
away turning to say “Good-by, Billy.” I
stooped and picked a daisy from among its
kith and kin which whitened the field all
around and about and laid it on the grave as
my offering—not to a. dead goat—but to the
good friend of a little boy who loved him
well enough to give him a decent burial, and
bore testimony to his good traits in the sim-
ple tribute, “Billy was a good goat.”

As I walked away a little song sparrow, or
perhaps it was a wren, which had been nerv-
ously hopping about on the bush tops a few
yards away, flew down upon the new made
grave and burst out with a. rapturous song
and flooded all the air with melody. Ah,
well! I thought, as I wandered down the hill-
side. there isn’t any use for goat heaven
when the grave of a gray old Billy is watered
by the tears of children, and the funeral
ceremony ends with the anthem of such a
chorister.——Winsted (Conn) Cor. Hartford
Courant.

 

Terrible Asian Beat.
It is stated in the official report that 702
persons died between the 14th and 17th ul-
timo, at Bokhara, of heat; and the figures, it
is expressly added, do not include children.
If this amazing calamity be not due to any
atmospheric violence, as a Bad—i-simoon, for
example, it is probably unequaled in authen—
tic records. But when we think of the agony,
the horrible wretchedness in which the whole
population must have been living, it may
well seem that those who found escape in
death are not to be pitied. The horror of
heat is unknown to us, or indeed to any part
of Europe, though Naples and Athens are
desperately trying sometimes. But to the
native of Scindc, Central Asia, the shores of
the Persian gulf, the sun of Grecco is but a
trifle. ’l'hc utter helplessness of man under
this infliction adds horror to his sufferings.
There is no hope and no resource when the
red hot air penetrates to those underground
chambers in which the summer is passed in
Central Asia_ " ‘he inhabitants,” we learn,
“are shutting themselves up to escape”—-—
probably closing all the apertures of their
subterranean abodes, except those absolutely
necessary for ventilation. The air down be-
low, under those circumstances, cannot be
imagined by one who has not a touch of cx‘
pericncc. Houses of good class are solidly
constructed under ground, with chambers
and doors and corridors, but the mass of the
poop e inhabit big holes, roofed over, with no
kind of permanent convenience. Every win-
ter the frost and snow and rain play mischief
with these rough pits, and the damage is not
a ways, nor of“: " irczl by the followi: '
summer. l7"... thousands of lioxigols in
these dons, '21,“; their filth): habits in
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my a Her: York, to teach
patrio. schools, as if it were
not done already .‘ .. suggestion is that tho
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In and kept afloat as long

as inc School is in Subthll. in that case there
w 111: be a Ca; raising every morning and 1‘.

school, as there is at sunrise and sunset
over forts and on board of men-of—war.

There are better ways of teaching patriot-
ism than this. Make the pupils wellacquaint-
ed with the history of their country. Our
school histories are much too short. Most
school books are the better for being of small
size, but a history for young people should
tell all the true anecdotes and stories at full
length.

Boys want pages and pages about lVash-
ington, Old Put, Old Hickory, The Three
Militia Men, Commodore Decatur, Commo-
dore Perry, Admiral Farragut, the battle of
Bunker Hill, the coming over of Lafayette,
Tecumseh, Ben Franklin, the pioneers of the
great West, the building of the Brooklyn
bridge, the jetties of the Mississippi river,
and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Clay and
lVebster.

These things captivate the young only
when they are related in detail, with sin1~
plicity and truth.

By and by they will want history of an-
other kind, which will relate few stories, pass
lightly over most wars, and dwell only upon
events which affected the lot of the people
permanently. Boys and girls want to know
what Maj. Andre said when he was captured,
and how thick the rope was with which Far-
ragut tied himself to the rigging. Such facts
are the vehicle through which more impor-
tant truths find lodgment in the young mind.

After all, our boys and girls are already
very patriotic. What they now need is to
be taught the duties we all owe to such a
country as ours—to keep it pure and good.—
Youth’s Companion.

 

Tried and True.

Aboywhohadavery fat dogmidtohim
one day: “Here, you are as slow as day after
to-morrow. Come, get a. move on you.”

“But I can’t," replied the dog courteously,
“I‘m too fat."
“Oh ya you can,” retorted the boy, and
he torihwith annexed a. potential vex-hm the
rear elevation of that do The accelerated
so , a. move

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AZETTE, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER-25, 1889.

 

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WHEN "SAILIS / BEAT STEAM.

TALK ABOUT THE GOOD OLD TIMES
ON THE HUDSON RIVER.

 

How the llIodel of the Isle of Pines \Vns
Whittled Out and Adopted—The Bests
Stole a Schooner and Sailed a Prosperous

Voyage with Her.

There are some of the old Hudson river
skippers left, said a veteran river captain
the other day—the skippers, Imean, of the
sailing craft that used to ply up and down
before the steamers drove them out of busi-
ness. They are great whittlers, and, strange
to say, the stick they work upon always
turns into the model of a boat.

It is a curly

ous fact that in the old days many of these ,

carelessly whittled models served to mold the
lines of some very fast sailing craft.
DEPARTURE FROM OLD RULES.

One notable instance of this kind is that
of the once famous and exceedingly fast sail—
ing schooner, the Isle of Pines, which hailed
from Port Ewen.
Saturday afternoon Morgan Everson, an old
and expert ship builder at Rondout, was sit-
ting on a stick of timber in his ship yard.
Beside him sat his most intimate friend and
companion, Capt. “Jim” Cogswell, as bluff
and hearty an old skipper as ever sailed the
North river. They were talking and whit-
tling at the same time. Everson finall ysaid:
“Jim, Ln tired of building vessels after the
old lines. I believe that a departure from
the old rules in the way of following out
original ideas would benefit the trade . nd
produce faster sailing craft.”

“Hum,” said Cogswell, "I dunno but wot
yer right, Morgan. How would this do for a
model?” at the same time holding up the model
of a schooner which he had whittled from a
pine stick.

“That’s my idea to a dot,” said Everson.
“She is sharp in the bow, broad in the waist,
and narrow in the stern, and will ride the
roughest water on an even keel like a duck.
Not too much depth of bold, but just sharp
enough in the keel to prevent drift in bad
weather. She looks like a pirate, and I’ll
gamble she could beat the Tom Powell.”
That was the fastest steamboat on the North
river at that time.

After discussing the merits and demerits
of the model for some time, Capt. Jim de-
cided to build a craft after its lines. The
vessel was built, but whether by Morgan
Everson or not I do not know; but the fact
that the predictions of Everson were fulfilled
remains, as the Isle of Pines was not only
the fastest sailing craft of her class that ever
sailed the Hudson river, but the Atlantic
ocean as well. The schooner was commanded
for many years by Capt. Cogswell’s son—in-
law, Capt. “Bill” Southard, and made long
voyages to the “’0st Indies and South Amer-
ica, where she came very near being cast
away several times. She became famous for
her quick passages.

An amusing story is told about Capt. E2 'a
Salter, who owned the famous 01d schooner
Macedonian, the first three master that ever
appeared on the river. Away back in the
thirties she lay tied up to the wharf in Hud-
son. Her crew were all ashore amusing
themselves, except the negro cook, Tencycl:
Ticehurst, who was busy about the vessel.
At that time a notorious character named
Jake Best lived on Diamond street, in Hud-
son, whcro he kept a disreputable resort.
The sheriff was after him and his two sons,
one called Jockey and the other George, for
some petty offenses.

To get away from the sheriff old Jake and
the boys, both of whom were strapping young
fellows of 10 or 330 years, boarded the Mace-
donian, and after having locked the colored
cook in the forecas‘tlo they hoisted sail, and
cast off the lines, and set sail-down the river.
They were soon out of sight. Some time
after Capt. Salter :anic down to the dock
and found his vessel gone. He was told that
Jock Best and his old man had her and had
gone down the river.

l’ilOI-‘ITAELE ALL anotxn.

Thorn vas no fast mail or telegraph '11

those days to inter ‘i-pt them, as most of the

‘ 1100 was ca. rinl by mail coaches and

post riders or i >1 :mboats as slow as the
‘3 ’- river, if not slower.

3.:IE‘or’s visit to Hudson ii

llii‘ was that 113.: l'»-" .-1 took the Macedonian

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mom: with Capt. Salter, Ll: scrap: having
lown over, the Bots rctm oil to Hudson.

The Macedonian and her master were after-
ward Cast away and lost in a storm at For-
tune Island. '

In those days many of the nails, all the
produce, and nearly all the passengers from
the landings along the river were carried by
sailing vessels. A steamboat was looked upon
by tho yeomanr y of the river towns as a pro--
duction of Satan and a thing to be avoidcd.
“Whenever a farmer along the bank of the
river wanted to take passage or ship freight,
he would watch for the first vessel coming
down the river and signal it by blowing a
born. The vessel thus signaled would haul
close inshore and take whatever he had to
offer. Sometimes races were sailed between
noted vessels all the way from Albany to
New York. A coming race would be adver-
tised for weeks in advance. On the day on
which the race was to come off the banks of
the river would be black with people, many
of whom had come miles from the interior
towns to witness the race, and the interest
manifested in the possible success of the favor-
ite far exceeded that now seen at modern re-
gattas.

Two of the most famous racers of the old
time were the schooners Commodore Porter,
commanded by Capt. Hiram Wilbur, and the
Jonathan Bowen, commanded by Capt. Titus
Whitmore. These schooners hailed from
Troy and carried grain and other produce to
the New York market. They would gener-
ally leave Troy at the same hour on the same
day and race down the river full tilt all the
way to New York. Every skipper who saw
them coming under their cloud of canvas
would immediately make tracks to get his
vessel out of» the way, as they sailed like the
wind, nip and tuck, sometimes one leading,
sometimes the other. Whoever get in their
way was sure to be run down. After-they
had used, every vessel going their way
woul chase them, until I have seen them all
into port “New York with 'a fleet at their
healsthntlooked like the coming'of unar-
madu—New York Times. ‘

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. . 1892 by. the
American Colonization. society,t¢mhded by .

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Li was prod‘lmd in 1847. and recog-
nized by Europe the following your.

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Masculine Superiority.

The compassion or the scorn with which
the masculine mind regards the female of the
race begins so early in life that it is most
difficult to say whether it is the result of imi—
tation or is one of the gifts of intuition. The
small boy feels himself superior to his little
sister uite without regard to whether he or
she is the more clever. He is he and she is
only she. .

A small 5—year-old lad, in whom this sense
of masculine superiority was not whollylack-
ing, was one day arrayed in his first trousers.
Si. idling; bifore his sister, a couple of years
younger, he dre-zv hi: self up for her inspec-
tion, and then proceeded to address her to
this effect.

 

trouscrs."
Ho paused, zipparenily to let his words take
their full effect.
“Kittie,“ he
have a mustache."

lIf,‘1).’llll~JC:l again and let this dreadful an-
nouncement in ifs turn cut into his siste "3
soul; then he brtmght out the climax with a

continued, “you can‘t never

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than any words could have been:
“Kittie, you can‘tnevcr be a man nohow!”
I)I)OI',Sl‘ilZlil Kittie, overwhehnml by these

- successive statements, of which she compre-

hended the import only as something un—
speakably dreadful, and took that from the
tone, probably, rather than from the words,
looked at her brother one agonized moment
and then gave vent to her anguish in one
wild howl, which brought nurse from one
direction and mamma from another. At
sight of the audience Kittie burst into tears
and lamentations piteous to behold. and
when the small boy vas reproved for making
his sister cry, his answer was:

“Well, I just told her she‘d always got to
boa girl, ’cause I thought she‘d be disap-
pointed if she got to be five and couldn’t
have on trousers.”

There seemed to be nothing in particular
which could be said to this, and the elders dc.—
voted themselves to assuaging the grief of
the small girl as well as they might, leaving
the boy to strut about in his new trousers in
the full consciousness of having done his duty
to the weaker vessel—Boston Courier.

 

Surface Tension of Liquids.

Curious effects appear when liquids having
superficial tensions are brought together,
and when solids containing volatile proper—
ties are thrown upon a liquid. lVith two
liquids that will mix, as water and alcoholor
ether, the tension at the point becomes null,
and the lighter fluid spreads out over the
other. This is followed, according to M. Van
dcr Mensbrugghc, by arctreat of this fluid
toward the point where it was dropped, in
consequence of an increased tension given to
that point bythc cooling that follows the
evaporation of tho dropped liquid. If the
liquids will not mingle, as when oil or turpen-
tine is dropped on water, the drop spreads
over the surface, forming a thin layer upon
it- which is marked by beautiful plays of
colors.

Id. Dcvanx exemplifies one of these effects
by an experiment in which a tin boat, having
a notch cut in the stern, is launched upon the
water. 011 letting a. drop of alcohol fall at
the notch, the boat moves away as if driven
by some repulsion. There is, however, no
repulsion; but the tension astern has been de-
stroyed or diminished, while that forward
continues in full force to draw the boat on-
ward. If a. bit of camphor be substituted for
the alcohol, its vapor has the same effect
upon the tension, and the boat may be made
to sail regularly, with considerable speed, for
hours. This experiment is made more spec-
tacular by furnishing the boat with a mast
carrying a flag.

In another experiment described by M.
Devaux. a few granules of camphor are
sprinkled upon mercury, and breathed upon
till a kind of lye is formed, when a multitude
of long tailed “tadpoles” appear swimming
over the. s prince of the mercury. If now we
breathe continuously from one side upon the
mercury, the “tadpoles” will become more
lively, and direct themselves against the
breath, coming up to the very edge of the

 

Viarmth and Cleanliness.
Warmth is very important for the aged;

 

 

annulled. Bronchitis is the malady most to
hr. 1 , ..'rd. and its attacks are very easily pro-
voked. Blany old people Silll‘t‘l' from more or

‘ ' nigh during; the winter months, and
_. plain may recur year after year, and
he ahnost unhceded. At last, perhaps a few
minutes" exposure to a cold win-l inert-:2 3
th‘ irritation in the lungs, the cough be ’oznqs
wars ~ and the dilliculty of breathing increas-
es mfil suffocation terminates in death. To
obviate such risk the skin should be carefully
‘ 3d by warm flannel clothes, the out

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door liliBl'illfllilf‘tffl' should be noticed and win—
ter garments should always be at hand. In
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Cheap Labor on Fire Crackers.

China can beat the world in the manufac-
ture of fire crackers. A big company tried
to coinpetc with the Cclcstials a. year or so
ago and failed ignominiously. It cost the
companv $1.90 to manufacture crackers that
the Chinese can make and send hero and sell
to retailers so that they can resell for $1 and
make a‘ good profit. Only Chincso prison la—
bor is used in the manufacturo of the. f‘ '0—
works. This labor costs just two cents per
day per man. This n‘iakes it possible for the
foreigners to manufacture fireworks at so
low a rate that it is doubtful if the Ameri-
cans, with all their ingenuity, an ever hope
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Facts Worth Knowing.

In all diseases of the nasal mucousmcm-
branc the remedy used must be non-irri-
tating. The medical profession has been
slow to learn this. Nothing satisfactory
can be accompliscd with (lunches, snull's,
powders or svlingcs, because they are all
irritating, do not thoroughly reach the
affected surfaces and should be abandoned
as worse than failures. A multitude of
persons who had for years borne all 1hc
worry and pain that catarrh can inflict
testify to radical cures wrought by .l'flly’s
Cream Balm.

“Willit’slikea picCc of flannel,” said
Tommy, as he watched his small brother
cuddle up in the bath tub. “Why do you
say that Tommy ‘3” “B.causc he shrinks
when he is washed.”

Charlie (who—has been blowing the cor-
nct for an hour)——Say, Ned, do you think
there is any music in me?
know, there ought to be, I didn’t licarnny
come out.

Interested People.

Advertising a patent medicine in the
peculiar way in which the proprietor of
Kemp’s Balsam for coughs and colds does
is indeed wonderful. llo authorizes all
druggists to give those who call for it, a
sample bottle free, that they may try it
before purchasing. The large bottles are
500. and $1. We certainly would advise
atrial. It may save you from consump-
tion.

“I have met this man,” said a great
lawyer the other day, "in agreat many
places where I would be ashamed to be
seen.” And for a minute he couldn’t
understand why everybody laughed so up—
roariously.

 

Eleven years in charge of the package
department, Boston 8.7 Main Depot, Bos-
ton, Mass. Miss Helen Jones saysz—“I
was a sufferer from general debility, bil-
iousness and water brush for several years,
and life seemed almost a burden to me.
After using almost everything, Sulphur
Bitters cured me.

When a young lady begins to manifest
an interest in the arrangement of a young
man’s cravat, his bachelor days are num-
bered. It is time to begin to hoard money.
——Philadelphia Pcess.

That tired, languid feeling and dul
headache is very disagreeable. Take two
of Carter’s Little Liver Pills before retir-
ing, and you will find relief. The
fall to do good.

A Kansas girl gets even with her recre-
ant lover by suing him for breach of'
promise and setting her claim for damages
at $300. She intimates that he is very
cheap.

The captain of good Snip Storm King
says :—“For the past five years I have
used Sulphur Bitters on board my vessel,
and have not lost a man. They are a sure
preventive of all contagious fevers so incl...
(lent to warm climates. Please send me
at once two dozen bottles, and oblige—J.
Starret.

Some sort of “elixu'” is wanted to im-
partagc and experience to the verdant
youths and maidens who think they can
marry and keep house on six dollars per
wcek.

Constipation is positively cured by Car-
ter’s Little Liver Pills. Not. by purging
and weakening the bowels, but by regu—
lating and strengthening them. This is
done by improving the digestion and
stimulating the liver to the proper sccrc—
tion of bile, when the how 013 will perform
their customary functions in an easy and

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natural manner. Purgativc Pills must be
avoided. Ask for Carter’s Little Liver
Pills. Price 2-) cents.

AMY ONE—
GARE IVE

ii Brass, a Coat,
Millions. Fa. c.“
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A few months ago I v-Iannu-nccll to use l“. Fl".

Nos. land 2 for luilllln'xxnll inc yiown of my

head. The spot 1< .li‘ ll l‘!(‘ll over. and looksas
poor] as Ills) rest --.‘ my hind. lillll very much
pleased, and would leig' i; rccnmnciid it to any
Ull'.) who is lrltd 07' “:Inis' SIVltflx'lJl‘ lldll'.

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Fec ter’s Famousfifs‘; swamp

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Does not contain any,
FAH R a @@ poisonous .z’ngredz',
mm cuts 01‘ Staffing:
It will surely bring about anew growth ofhair mile
the roots are entirely dried up, which occurs m nq

NCll—I don’t \ more than five cases out. of a. hundred. Cases of 20

ears’ standin have bccn cured.
1/ g If this Is,

$l9099 REWARD u-N'rnnfi

FAIRIGON Nos. 1 and 2. price fi. per bottle is for
heads entirely or partially bald. No. 8. price '75 cents
per bottle is invaluable as 11. HAIR DRESSER. It w:
renew the growth of hair that. is falling out, keep.
smooth and glossy and remove all dandruff._ Specml
course of treatment s10. Correspondence sohcited.

F. 1‘. F. is for sale by 9.11 druggista or will be sent by
us on receipt ofprice. Send for history of the remedy
and genuine testimonials from those who have used 11;.

Cut this out and send to some bald-headed friend.

FECHTER REMEDY 00., NEW HAVEN, CT.”
Use Fail-icon an Soap for Toilet, Bull: and Nursery.
It is Peerless for the Complexion, Chnppcd "and! or Rough akin.

li‘orSalc at ll. ll. llalc's Drug Sim-n.

 

 

This Great German Medicine is the ' .,
cheapest and best. 128 doses of SUL- is
PHUR BITTE RS for S4 l .00, less than ~'
one cent a dose. It will cure the

.worst cases of skin disease, from ~

:1. common pimple on the face .

' ' to that awful discn so Scrofula.

SULPHUR BITTElto‘ is the

.. best medicine to use in

‘ cases of such stubborn and our Kid-

deep seated diseases. Do neys arcout

‘ 110“ ever take .‘ oforder. U 50

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prmgrlcurydhcyén'c (sea .9570“ aredsi 61;, no
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SULPHUR3 Brr'rnns, matter What 3115
the purest and best '
medicme cvm made. 1" Sillpillll' Bllltl‘Sl

IsyourTongue Coated :‘
with aycllow sticky Don’t wait until you
‘. substance? Is your 5;: are unable to walk, or '
_ breath foul and ,‘5‘ are flat on your back, '

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'- stomach is cut/will cure yea. Sulphur .
‘ ; glijqrngRUse ,j“ Bitters IS - ,
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I. BITTERS ‘5’ The 1111:3116. S Fl 18111].
,‘ immediately ;' The young,the aged and tot-
‘ 2 _Is your Ur— coring are soon made well by
1110 tlllck. :’ its use. Remember what you ’, '
', l‘OlW 010- read here, it ma save your
' flifc, it has SZIVCL hundreds. ‘ "
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Are you low-spirited and weak,
suffering from the excesses of ,
If so, SULl’llUll. BITTERS ,_

 

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Boston,l\lass., for best medical work published?

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——-—-FOR—-———

SICK HEADACHE,

 

IN ITS——

Nervous, Billions or Congestive Forms.

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This Remedy is the Prescription of one of the leading Physicians of Paris
France,and was used by him with unparalleled success for over thirty years,
and was first given to the Public as a Proprietary Medicine in 1878, and
since that time it has found its way into almost every country on the face
of the Globe, and become a favorite remedy withithousands of the leading

physicians.

Medical societies have discussed its marvelous success at their

annual conventions, and after their official chemist :have analyzed it and
found that it contained no opiates, bromides, or other harmful ingredients,
quietly placed it among their standard remedies.

 

TESTIMONIAL.

L. R. BROWN, M. D., 1
23 West Jersey St..
ELIZABETH, N. J ., June 28th, 1889. l

This is to certify that I have used for some months with much satisfaction, the combi-
nation of remedies, for Headache, known as Briggs’ Headache Troches. The remedy cures
more headaches, especially such as effect Nervous Women than anything I am acquainted
with, and if this certificate will be the means of bringing it to the favorable attention of
sufferers from that trouble, I shall feel that I have done them a service.

L. R. BROWN, M. D.

 

PRICE. 23 GEN-1's.
_ SOLD BY H. R. HALE. NORWALK. CONN.
BRIGGS” MEDIGINE COMPANY;

nnrmnmwn. N. .7.

 

 

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