Exeter Advocate, 1901-9-5, Page 7V
CIAIIII,ET IIIILLIONItIllES,
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them—lock, stock, arid barrel —from
his own bed -sitting -room, about the
size of an ordinary suburban bed-
room, in the RC00/11iclaW at Glee-
gow. He well claSOPVCCI his title of
“GlasS King," and he did more work
than any four of his suboialinetes in
that business, often working at the
wires and tape -machines till he fell
asleep in his chair, , and staethig
again at Line next morning.
counted hisbottles in
though he seldom left that tiny bed -
Sitting -room ; and his chief oddity
was an extraordinary dislike to
meeting his kind. If you wanted
bottles, you had to ask for them
over a few miles of wire, wherever
you happened to be ; and if Macdon-
ald said he would supply them You
would get them to the second at the
time specilied—but it was no use hoe
thering him for less than 50,000.
He had a staff of clerks at each of
his works, whom he never saw, but
who were always in touch with him
—by wire.
But kings and princes dealt with
"Jerry" Vandevell, the "quickest
dealer on earth," in his eight foot
by eight stockbroking
OFFICE IN LtaitiBARD STREET,
LONDON.
with which not the most palatial,
marble-halled firm in London could
compete for certainty and despatch.
Few of his clients had a better benk-
ing account than "Jerry"," though
they might be of royal blood ;• but
though he had three rooma, full of
clerks in an office near the "House,"
he stayed in his own little nook, and
dealt over the wires that led , to his
desk *with 'all thc peoples of the
earth.
'The Sultan of Turkey was among
his client e ; So was the King of
Italy and so, on several occasions,
was Kruger. All the news of the
werld hummed on the tape -machines
of that little den, where there was
hardly room for two people to pass
each other. He was known as "the
straightest man in Europe," and he
died worth $10,000,000—poor "Jer-
ry'Vandevell.
HUGE. BUSINESSES THAT
THRIVE IN' ATTICS ,
Nen Who Have 'Made Furtuaes in
Very Small and Obscure
Places.
The whole of the $3,500,000 that
Jacob Murray left when he died,
master of one of the biggest busi-
nesses in the world, was made in
the little attic in Bury Street, Lon-
don, that formed his office—a rQ0E11
not fourteen feet square. What
room there was, was mostly filled
with telephones, public and private,
and tape machines ; and in the
midst of these, at a little desk, sat
the owner, controller of i business
that turned
OVER 8400,000 A YEAR.
'Murray practically "ran" the tin
trade, not only for his owie, eountry,
' but for the States, and two-thirds
the rest of the world. 1Th managed
the brokerage of nearly all the fac-
tories for tins, and controlled a
round dozen ol them himself, worked
by his subordinates. Every nation
on the globe had its wires to this
attic, direct through the cable ex-
changes, and there Murray talked in
train -loads, and counted in tens of
thousands.
It was not meannegg' that kept him
in this tiny third-fidor attic, for he
was a generous man ; ' but he liked
to feelehis own finger e on the keys
Of the great business and to strike
the chords. himself. Hehad three
'splendid houses, but he cycled to the
office every day, and seldom saw
anyone when there. He lived on the
electric, wires, and from his $3 pane
chair he could have paralyzed be
canning trade of the world., Even
the Governmentehad to Speak softly
to Jacob Murray.
•Alongside princely offices of firms
doing one-tenth the amount of busi-
ness, "Heneage's" was the most
startling office in London until re-
cently. It even went one better
than Murray's, for Heneage's, in
John Street,
WAS ON THE FIFTH FLOOR,
and was a foot smaller, for the only
man who ever interviewed Mr. Hen -
cage in his lair measured it with a
foot -rule.
This tiny pigeon -hole, for all that,
had seldom less than a score of
ocean-going steamers tramping the
seas in all parts of the world under
its control. Mr. Heneage never miss-
ed a single week -day's attendance up
to the day of his death ; and it was
his pride that, by his telephone,
• which he could reach from almost
• any part of the room, he• could set
40,000 tons of Shipping and, 1,000
men'to work 'within a few hours.
• Heneage's, was easily the .largest
ship -broking business in Britain, and
probably in the world. One solitary
clerk kept. the old man's books, and
when 'people wondered he remarked
that the work was light, for it was
easier to cipher down 250,000 than
$250 a thousand ' times. But the
• clerk got 835 a week nevertheless.
For one whole year the hide and
leather trade of three' continents was'
controlled
NOT IN A GARRET,
but in a cellar ; and the genius who
performed that feat was the famous
John Astley Baines, whom many say
was the cleverest financier Britain
ever produced. His office—though he
could show more assets than any
merchant in the country—was the
little converted wood -cellar in Pert -
pole Street; London, paved with
enamelled brick,, that made him al-
most better known than did his mil-
' lions, 'up to his tragic death last
year.
For that twelve months, which was
almost his last,: he outpaced even
TIeneage, for • he kept no clerk at all,
though a generous man, and loved
by allwho knew him. He entered
his 'enormous transactions—he sel-
dom, touched a lot of less than $25,-
000—in a ledger, and -the ledgers,
,
perfectly kept, showed a profit of
$1,500,000 'at the end of thet year.
'America (both North and South),
the East eIndies, Africa and Austra-
lia,' had their great hide trades' prac-
tically under the thumb of Barnes in
that little' 'cellar, working entirely
by wire ; and several times he held
every hide -laden ship in every Brit-
ish port, as well as numbers more
on their way there. He was thrown
out of a trap and killed - in Paris
last year, and his fortunCreathed-
THE $1,500,000 MARK.
To juggle with a hundred square
'miles of forest in each hand, sifting
in a room twelve feet square, is a
pretty big feat ; and that is what
h'Barten Greaves did most days of his
life, in "the cupboard," as the com-
mercial world called his microscopic
garret in Todd Street', Londdn.
Though 'his room was Smaller, , he
couldn't quite Mann Barnes's dis-
tinction, for there was still a tinier
anteroom • attached to the "cup-
board," about the size of a' boot -
closet ; and therein sat one clerk,
who, drew an income any three aver-
age men would be glad to share, be-
tween them, and tried to writc. with-
. out knocking his pen against the
walls. •
It was; an extraordinary place to
•!thaw 82,500 a week profit ; but
Greaves had his hands on the reins
• of quite half the • world's timber
trade, and he steered :the rest of the
teams as lie pleased from his desk
, in the ''cupboard." He owned tracts
-of forest -land in Canada a,nd Rus -
Hitt, Cadh bigger than an average
Englieh' county, and there were al-
ways a few score thoueand trees of
his, in the plank, crossing the seas.
was wont to declare that he had
not set eyes on a stick of his own
timber for seven years, and he used
to say there was no joy in life like
sittiog and pulling the , strings for
big results. He left his entire
FORTUNE TO THE HOSPITALS.
He did not accumelete such reale.
however, as Fieene:e. Ifttedoneld, the
clever Scotchnion who bottled Eu-
rope—that is to say, be made Most
Of the bottles it wanted. Of the sep-
arate bottle factories he owned,
three 'Were abroad, and he worked
Run Down System.
SHOWS THAT THE BLOOD AND
NEVES NEED TONING UP.
This Condition Causes More Gen-
uine Suffering Than One Can
Imagine—How a Well Known
Exeter Lady Obtained a Cure
After She Had Begun to Re-
gard Her Condition as Hope -
lees. "
Fran,' the Advocate, Exeter, Ont.
„ "A run' down system!" What a
world of misery those few words im-
ply, and yet there are thousands
throughout this country who are suf-
fering from this condition. Their
blood is poor and watery; they suf-
fer almost continuously froni head-
aches; are unable to obtain restful
sleep and the least exertion greatly
fatigues them. What is needed to
put the system right is a tonic, and
experience has proved Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills to be the only never -fail-
ing tonic and health restorer.
Mrs. Henry Parsons, a respected
resident of Exeter, Ont., is one of
the many who • have tested and
proved the value of , Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills.FOr many months she
was a great 'sufferer from what is
commonly termed "a run down sys-
tem." To a reporter of the Advo-
cate she gave the following story in
the hope that other sufferers might
benefit from her experience:—"For
many months inSt health was in a
bad state, my constitution being
greatly rieVerlown. I was troubled
,with continual headaches, my appe-
tite werib, p,00r and the least exertion
greatly fatlgued me. I consulted a
PbYeieian but his treatment 'did riot
appear to benefit ine' and gradually
became worse, so that 1 could hardly
attend to my household duties. -
then tried several., advertised reme-
dies but Without result, and I began
to regard my condition as hopeless.
A neighbor called to see me one day
and urged inc to try Dr. Williams'
"Pink Pill's. Having tried so many
medicines without receiving benefit, I
was not easily persuaded, but finally
I conSented to give the pills a trial.
To my surprise and great joy I
noticed an improvement in my eondi-
tion before I had finished the first
box and by the time I had taken
four boxes of the pills I was fully re-
stored to health. 1 no longer suffer
from those severe headaches, my ap-
petite is good, I can go about my
household cluties without the least
trouble; in fact I feel like a new wo-
man. All this I owe to that best of -
all medicines, Dr. • Williams' Pink
Pills, and I would strongly urge oth-
er sufferers to give _them a trial."
Dr. Williams' rink Pills are recog-
nized the world over as the best
blood and nerve tonic, and it is this
power of acting directly on the blood
and nerves which enables 'these pills
to cure such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheurnatisin, ner-
vous headache, the after effects of
la, grippe, palpitation of the ,heart,
that tired feeling resulting from ner-
vous prostration; all diseases result-
ing from vitiated humors in the
blood, such as scrofula, chronic ery-
sipelas, etc. Dr, Williams' Pink.
Pills are sold by all dealers in medi-
cine or can be had by mail, post
paid, at 50 cents a box, or six box-
es for $2,50, by addressing the Dr.
Williams' .Medic,ine Coe Brockville,
Ont.
A MATRIMONIAL LOTTERV.
,A considerable sum of money has
recently been bequeathed by a Greek
philetrithropist of Corfu for the pur-
poses of a matrimonial lottery.
Every year a certain number of poor
girls, of good, conduct, will receie-e
tickets entitling them to the chance
of winning a slop eionment lot , a
pertion, Y.re
en trusted wi th the adini d is tr ad on
of the legaey is presided over by the
A rchbishop of Corfu, and thewin-
ning number' is peblished in • the
paper.
SET THEMSELVES ALIGHT,
MICE, DUST AND GLASS WIN-
DOWS DANGEROTJS
Defective Electric Wiring Has
• Many Sins to Answer -for
in These Days,
About a year ago a fire occurred in
a warehouse in Liverpool, and as the
cause of the ontbreak could not, be
discovered, there was, a strong suspi-
cion that the building, had been set
on fire purposely.
The warehouse was rebuilt, and
soon after it was finished there ,was
another outbreak, but this time it
was so promptly dealt with that lit-
tle serious damage was done, Then
an electrician solved the problem, He
found that electric wires had been
laid beneath the floors, and that
mice had gnawed away part of the
insulating material. Sparks had
then been produced by the hare Wire,
and the result was a blaze.
The overwhelming fondness of rats
for sulphur has been the cause of
much destruction of property. The
chief of a local fire brigade Said that
he had in several cases seen nests of
matches which the rats had made be-
tween the floors of buildings. It is
no unusual thing, when structures
are being torn down to find that the
rodents have lined their abodes with
the sulphur matches. '1'he gnawing
process results in the ignition of the
matches, and there follows a myster=
ious and suspicious fire.
There is a mysterious property in
dust :which, and& certain conditions,
produces violent explosions. There
have been instances in post -offices
where the dust 1 t'oms the post -bags
suspended in the air of a close room
has exploded with terrific' force. Duet
explosions are of frequent, occurrence
IN FLOUR AND DRUG MILLS.
• The origin of many fires in tailors'
shops may be traced to the so-called
dry-cleaning of clothes. A rag dip-
ped in naphtha is frequently used in
removing grea,se-spots from gar-
ments. The rag soaked with inflam-
mable fluid is thrown upon the floor.
When the shop is cleaned up and the
air confined, the naphtha -soaked ma-
terial will of itself generate fire.
There passed through the streets of
Glasgow a few years ago a load of
hay, which suddenly became envelop-
ed in flame. The driver of the hay -
wagon was about to assail a "guile-
less youth who was smoking a cigar-
ette near by. The trouble, how-
ever, had nothing toed() with the ci-
gagette-smoker, but was caused by
the tire of a wheel rubbing against
an iron rod on the side of the wag-
on. A bystander had seen the spark
caused by, the contact between ,the
pieces of metal fly into the inflam-
mable hay.
In all manufacturing establish-
ments a frequent cause of fires is the
rubbing of leather belting against the
edges of the aperture through which
it passes from floor to floor.
One of the most stubborn fires
which ever visited London had its
origin in a plate -glass window. The
vitreous pane concentrated the heat
of the sun upon
A CELLULOID COMB.
The comb blazed and spluttered,
and soon the other samples of cellu-
loid which were around it were on
fire.
In one of the principal English
towns, the laboratory of a perfumer
was nearly wrecked by a terrific ex-
plosion. The maker of scents be-
lieved that a discharged employee
had set fire to the building, but he
hadn't, The fire was due to slow
evaporation of a high spirit in the
-room in which a small laboratory
gas -stove had been left burning.
The houses of the wealthy, even in
these days of fireproof construction,
are often wrorSe fire -traps than the
meanest tenements. In many cases
only the width of a brick intervenes
between intense heat from a large
fire and highly -varnished and ieflam-
inable cab*t-work. Rich hangings
and upholstered furniture give the
food noon which ;the conflagration
feeds.'
DefeCtive electric wiring has many
sins to, answer for in these days.
Electricians -Who :aim supposed to be
competent *ill Cross wires and vio-
late nearly every principle of com-
mon sense and of electrical science.
Some of them lead strands of wire
through wooden boxes, which, in the
event of fire, become roaring flues.
Many of the most destructive fires
known in the large cities have been
due to carelessness in placing the
wires for electric lighting.
4
• WHEN DO YOU WIND YOUR
WATCH?
In the first place a watch should
be wound -up at regular intervals;
that is, you should have a stated
time for doing this and not perforin
the operation just when you happen
to think of it. Those who adopt a
regular , interview generally choose
night or morning, and of thee two
the morning is the better. After
you have wound eyour watch the
spring is kept tight for some hours
and is relaxed during the remainder
of the twenty-four. If you, wind it
in the morning you have the tight
Spring during the day, and while you
are on the move; and at, night, when
the spring is relaxed, your watch re-
mains quite still. This is the better
course to pursue, for if the spring is
relaxed during the , day while you are
inoving about, the chances are that
your watch will not keep such good
time.
THE SULTAN'S THRONE ROOM.
The throne- room of the Sultan at
Constantinople, is a gorgeous sight.
The gilding is unequalled, and from
the ceiling hangs a superb Venetian
chandelier, the two hundred light e of
which make a gleain like that of a,
veritable sum. The throne is a huge
Seat covered with velvet, and having
arms and back of pure gold.
Hce-it ma,kee 1.31.0 a better mite ev-
ery 'time I kiss you darling, She --
Oh, Harold, 'how good you must 0e4
Tog". neieg mcnitoldes no seA tido
neer mr pop:meal LAOTZS POT1.1120 Ora
se.s.
IIOW HAIR ROWS.
It has f,),•enerally been assumed
hitherto that the hair of the human
heed grows' about an ineli and a
third per month, or sixteen inches
PCI' year. But an investigator who
has made minute measurements at
various times of life finds that his
own hair grew only a little more
than half an inch a month in his
twentieth year, and rather less ra-
pidly in his sixtieth. He made some
other interesting discoveries. in
contradiction to the common belief,
Pc says that cutting retards instead
01 Proznoting thS growth of the
hair, and that filet normal rate of
growth is not restored nail a • con-
siderable interval has elapsed after
cutting.,
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WAY FREIGIIT ROTEL
PROPRIETOR OF THE POPU-
LAR MONTREAL HOSTELRY
TALKS ABOUT DODD'S
KIDNEY PILLS.
Used Them Some Years Ago for a
Bad Case of Kidney Weakness,
—Recommends Them Highly to
Al). Those Who Are Worried
by any TJrinary Sediment.
Montreal, Aug, 26.—,Dan W. Allan,
Proprietor of the Way Freight Ho-
tel here, made a strong statement
about the well-known remedy Dodd's
Kidney Pills. Mr. Allan's hotel is
at 463 St. James street and en
joys considerable popularity with
railroad men.
Some of the latter were discussing
ailments peculiar to engineers,
brakemen, firemen, conductors, and
train_ crews generally. It was ac-
knowledged that the greatest diffi-
culty a railway man has to contend
with is Kidney Trouble. The con-
tinual jarring of the train weakens
the filters of the system end various
forms of Kidney Trouble result. ,
Every man that works in an en-
gine cab or on any part of a rail-
road train ought to use Dodd's
Kidney Pills," said one man.
"Are Dodd's Kidney Pills what
they're cracked up' to be, though ?"
put in a second.
"Yes, sir," returned the first em-
phatically, "Dodd's Kidney Pills are
what they're cracked up to be, and
I'll leave it to Mr. Allan."
Gentlemen," said Mr, Allan, "I
firmly believe Dodd's Kidney Pills
will do everything that is claimed
for them. They are a genuine medi-
cine. They cured me of Kidney
Trouble, I know that. My urine
was full of a kind of red brick dust
for years. I knew it was my Kid-
neys, but could get nothieg to stop
Pc. Two 'boxc of Dodd's Kidney
Pills did the work finally, and I've
P0011 all right ever since."
The farmer believes the results
will justify tho ends when he packs
the small fruit in the middle of the
barrel and the large at either ex-
tremity.
There is nothing equal to Mother
Graves' Worm Exterminator for destroy
ing worms. No article of its kind has
given such satisfaction.
MANX TAXES.
In the .matter of taxation the Isle
of .. Man. is is unique. There is no
come g.d
tax, no ..sUccession. uties
chargeable against the estatesof
deceased persons, no highway or '
turnpike :tolls. Roads are maintain-
ed. by the revenue from. two sources:
Small tax from .every wheel and
shod hoof, and a levy Upon every
male .inhabitant, .who, must give. a
day's work on the road; Or its equi-
valent in cash.. ,There are:no etanip.
duties .on receipts, :cheques, promise
sory notes, etc. ; fact, stamps are.
used only for postage.
Signals of Dat ger. you lost your
petite,?. ,Have you a coated tongue 2
Have . you an unpleasant taste in the
moutlga Does your head ache and have
you dizziness? If so. younstomach is out
of order and you need mediae°. But you
do not like medicine. He that preifers
sickness to medicine must suffer, but un-
der the circumstances Abewise man
would procure a box of Parmelee'S Vege-
table Pills and speedily get himself in
health, and strive to keep so. '
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BOON TO POOR MAN.
Edison to Cheapen Building and
to Bring Down Rents.
Thomas A. Edison; the wizard of
electricity, has discovered how to
make "Portland cement" at an ex-
tremely small cost. This statement,
at firet thought, seems to be com-
paratively unimportant. Yet Edison
knews the immense value of his dis-
covery. He expects that .his cement
will drive out quarried stone and
brick as building. materials. 1 -le fore-
casts as the result of his discovery
that it will cost very little to build
houses, and that therefore rents
will be very low. He also foresees
that these same houses will be as
nearly fireproof as concrete and
steel fralTICS Call make them.
With cement so' cheap a house will
Pc ``poured,'' not builded. And the
"pouring-- of the house will occupy
but a few days. • The house will be
habitable When the concrete solidi-
fies.
I'or several years Mr. Edison has
been working on the cement prob-
foe the TEETH ad BREATH
Bow Size SOZODONT LIQUID
New Patent Box SOZOBONT POWDEFI
Largo LIQUID and POIVBER .
At the Stores or by Mail, postpaid, for the Price.
A Dentist's Opinion: "As an antisePtic and bygienio
mouthwash, and for the care and preservation of the teeth and
gums, cordially recommend Sozodont. consider it the idea
den -Citric° ror children's use." [Name of writer upon application.]
HALL & RUCKEL. Montreal.
250
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if You Want heat remits Sane an your
SLITTER, ERGS, 'POULTRY, APPLIES, other FRUITS and PIRODUOE, to
The Dawson Commission Co. Limited, Cor..Wegt Market aritt
Colborne St., Toronto.
lem and the problem of making
cheap • and practical storage batter-
ies. Both. inventions have now been
perfected. The inventor says ce-
ment, combined with steel, will be
the building material of the future,
and continues :
"My impression is that the time
will come when each contractor will
have standard forms of houses, 20
or 30 varieties. The forms will be
made of wood, and a contractor,
using one of the standard shapes,
will simply go out and 'Pour' a
house.
"There will probably be hundreds
of designs. The contractors will
put' up their concrete mixer and have
their beams and forms ready. They
will pour the form for the first story
and so on. To do that all they will
reqhire will be common labor—a few
men and one boss.
"That i$ what I think will be
done eventually. And such a house
can be made very cheaply. It seems
to me that there will not be much
use for carpenters then. There will
be cabinetmakers, to be sure. Why,
CVall the floors and stairs will be
made of concrete."
Mr. Edison was asked if Portland
cement would be cheap enough for
general use.
"Yes, I think so," he said. "When
the price of cement gets to one dol-
lar a barrel or five dollars a ton,
and people know they can get it for
that, there will be enormous quanti-
ties of it used."
The inventor said that one part of
the cement, three tarts of sand, and
five parts of broken stone would be
the mixture for concrete, and that
broken stone was better than broken
briick.
In reply to a question as to the
thickness of walls, in the ordinary
house he said : " Thr bottoni of
couree, ought to be of Portland ce-
ments twelve inches up to the first
Story and eight inches above the
first story. The roofs will be of ce-
ment also,"
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
When one calls another a liar it
may result in a job for the undera,
taker.
-What a jolly world this would be
of the poets could only eat their
poems 1
The heartless father of a pretty
daughter calls his front steps a toe -
path. -
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A CANADIAN.
The Hotel Buckingham,
The riPlarlborougIrs, and
The Lififara
All up.to•date buildings; roof•garcle.n tbc Att2k.
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HE HATED LAWYERS.
Remarkable among legal documents
is the will just probated in Eng-.
land of Admiral of the Fleet Sia
John Cornmerell, G.0,11., V.0„ die* '
posing of an estate of about .8100,- ,
000. The admiral, who hated law-
yers, wrote his own will, and in it
said
11:a7e-ing had fatal experience of
the iniquity of the law ip
certain cases, when decisions have
been given -against common sense
and justice, I entreat the parties in,-•
terested in iny will not to appeal to
the law if any difficulty may ariss,
but to arbitration. Haying been
swindled myself by every lawyer the:4
I ever had anything to do with
malres me offer thie advice to my
heirs, executors and assigns."
Minnrd's LiniluBilt Cures Colds, ete
There are a lot of unsafe bridges
on the road to prosperity.,
For Over Fifty Years
!Rug. Wnsstow's SOOTHING STICVP Wit!' been used by
millions of mothers' for their' children whilo teethInt.
It soothes the child, softens the gums, allayepaia, cures
wind colic, regulates the stomach and bowel", and is tba •
best remedy for Diarrhma. Taientr•five cents a latitia;
Sold bydruggists throughout the world. Be suro and
sak for"
WHS. WINBLOW SOOTHING SYRUP."
' One of the minor expenses of a lo-
comotive is 100, gallons of lubricat-
ing oil a year.
You need not cough all night and dis-
tneb your friends; there is no occasion for
you running the risk of contracting in-
flammation of the lungs or consumption,
while you can get Bickle's Auti-Coo-
sumptive Syrup. This medicine enre's
coughs, colds, inflammation of the lungs
000 all throat and chest troubles. It pro-
motes a free and easy expectoration, which
immediately relieves the throat and lung
from viscid phlegm.
The 13ank of France can compel its
custorriers to receive 1 -5th of money,
drawn in gold.
The. dog with the handsomest col-
lar doesn't always put up the gam- Ninercl's Lfflllloehll ures MCI III CON.
est fight.
I was cured of acute Bronchitis by
INA D" LINIMENT.
J. M. CAMPI3ELL.
Bay cef Islands.
I was•cured of Facial Neuralgia by
I MINARD'S LINIMENT.
DANIELS.
Springhill, N. S.
I was cured of Chronic Rheumatism
by M1NARD'S LINIMENT. •
I GEonali: TINGLEY,
.1 Albert Co., N. 13.
The United States natural gas
production last year was equal to
I the heat from 51 million tons of
coal. Ten years ago it was equal to
15 million tons.
Skepticism,This is Unhappily an age
Df Skepticism, but there is one point upon
' which persons acquainted with the sub-
ject agree, namely, that Dr. 'Thomas'
Eclectric Oil is a medicine which can be
relied upon to cure a cough, remove pain,
heal sores of various kinds, and benefit
any inflamed portion of the body to which
it is applied.
The largest temporary building
ever constructed was the Liberal
Arts Building at the World's Fair.
, It was 787 feet wide, 1,687 feet
long, a•nd bad 41 acres of floor space
Where can I get some of 110110WHy'S
Coru Cure P I was entirely cured of iny
Corns by this remedy and I wish some
more oC it for my friends. So writes Mn.
J. W. 131tower, Chicago.
Germany last year bought 588
tons of machine -tools from Great
Britain ; but during the same time
she purc,hasecl 4,757 tons of Ameri-
can and 388 tons of French tools.
e)-1,€44:6. acittir4Fio7eivY 4:5
44-tc644.4 "I;
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timnamearastezith •
,/c4/. dis.te mati--;.tv
ee:0 ate .90-0-04,4 „
Half a ton of sawdust contains
160 pounds of charcoal, 180 pounds
of acids, 24S pounds of water, 162
pounds of tar.
Biliousness Burdens Life.—The bilious
man is never a companionable inaa be-
cause his ailment reuders him morose and -
gloomy. The complaint is not so dauger
ous as it is disagreeable. Yet no one need
suffer from it who can procure Parrneleers
Vegetable Pills.' By regulating the liver
and obviating the effects of bile in the
stomach they restore men, to cheerfulness
and full vigor of action.
Careful records kept in an Orkney '
lighthouse -show 14,000 hours of
storm in the past 20 years.
thavd1s Liniment Cures Distemper
Wish for pluck inntead of luck,
then go to work and success is
yours,
$100 Reward, SIOD.
Tho readers of this paper will he pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that soienee hag been able to catro in all its
stageg and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cura now known to
themedioaI fraternity. catarrh being a eons.
titutioesl dieease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces cf the system, thereby dee
troying the foundation of the disease, and
giving tbe patient strength by bundiug up the
canstitution and'assisting nature in doing its
voi-tc. 'Pim proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers, that they offer one Hun-
dred Dollars for any case that it fella to core,
Send for list of testimoniale
F. J. CHENEY& CO., TOLEDO
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best
Ireland claims the hOnor of the
first electric railway in the United
Kingdom. It ran from Belfast to
Giant's Causeway, and was opened
in 1883.
Itlinard's Linthient Cures Diphtheria
SOAP FROM TREES.
There are several treee and plants
in the world whose berricie, juiee, or
bark are 110 good to wash with eS
real soap. In the West Indian Is-
lands and In South America grows
a tree Whose fruit make,s an excel-
lent lather and is used for washing
rlothes. The bark of a, tree which
grows in Pera, and Of auotber which
grow8 in the Malay Islatids, yields a.
fine sbap, The common soapwert,
whieh is itidigenOus to England, is
so full of Saponine that simply rub-
WM.; the leaves together in water
produces a soapy lather.