Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 27, 1897, Page 7

Enlarged Joints from Rheu-, : matism. fuch m Condition Indicates = Chalky 4, Deposit and is Seldom Cured—There = is Hope in Some Cases, However from an enriching of the blood. From the Record and Union, Rochester,-Minn, Mrs, Elizabeth Pratt, wife of Mr. John Pratt, one of the oldest settlers in Olmstead County, Minnesoto, for many years has been pginfully afflicted with rheumatism in ts most aggravating and inconvenient form. Mrs. Pratt is well known in the vicinity of Viola, having during one administration held the reponsible position of postmistress, She tells the tale of her affliction and subse- quent restoration to health, which is printed in order that others similarly suffering m ay read and adopt the same remedy she did. Vioxa, Olmstead Co., Minn., ‘August 24, 1896. ‘A little over ten years agoI discovered that the joints of my fingers were enlarging, and very sore. Iconsulted many physicians, with some slight relief at times from pain, but the joints grew larger and larger, and my neck, shoulders and limbs were so stifl that I could not move them without great pain. My toes too were swollen out of all shape, and my fingers were so drawn, and the muscles so contracted that I could not use them. I had given up all hope of cure, when my attention was called about three years ago to the wonderful cures effected by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and I procured a supply. *1t was not long after I began taking them before I expefienced considerable relief, and l continued using them according to direc- tions until I have taken altogether about dozen boxes. My fingers are now ht and flexible, and the joints reduced al size, the rheumatic pains are almost gone, and now, though | always keep Pink Pills by me, I never use them unless ] catch cold, or get wet through. Iam will- ing that this testimonial shall be published, inorder that the extraordinary curative powers of Dr. Williams’ medicine may be known to rheumatic sufferers. (Signed) “ Mrs. E, A. Pratt.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, ina con- densed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and low cheeks. In men they effect a radical «: in allcasesarising from mental worry, -work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists,or direct by mail from Dr, Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y Fiery Anger. The boy whose business it was to an- swer the telephone rushed into we room of the senior partner. “Just got a messag ying that your house is on fi he said. “Dear me!” returned the senior part- ner, in a bewildered sort of way. “I knew my wife was pretty hot about something when I left home this morn- ing, but I didn’t think it was.as bad as that.”—Chicago Post. 1667 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE. Don’t believe it, nor did the editor until he saw Salzer’s great farm seed catalogue. It’s wonderful what an ar- ray sof facts and figures and new things and big yields and great testi- monials it contains. Send This Notice and 10 Cents Stamps to John A. Saizer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for catalogue and 12 rare farm seed samples, worth $10, to get a start. w.n. In Ind ative can get good board 300. mile sora, A’ long connects Is- ¢ Turkey. It is s, ties, tele- There are 1,200 bridges i sixteen tunnels. Cascarets stimulate Iver, kidneys and bowels. N rs en, weaken or gripe, 10c, In the Bermudas rats often bulld their nests In trees, like birds and squirrels, Just try a 10e box of Casearets, candy cathartlo, the finest liver and bowel regulator made, The oldest Protestant church in the United States is St. Luke's, near Smith- field, Va. It was built in 1632. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggisis refund the money if it fails tocure. 25¢ Mottled bricks are coming into use for building purpc They give a house the appearance of Castile soap. NO-TO-2AC FOR FIFTY CENTS. Over 404,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 50c and $1.00. All druggists The Algerian mountain, Dshebel Naibo, sinking. In the time of Caesar it was 1,400 feet high; now it is only 800. If You Have Eye orEar Trouble Half rates for cure for deaf- 1 bills. > e operations. St. Paul Eye St. Paul, Minn. The highest temperature in the world is recorded in the great desert of Africa, v thermometer often makes 150 nhrenheit. No fits eve and permanently cured, 3 Great treatise, Philadelphia, Pa, “Good co ig is essential to human happiness, d bad cooking has driven thousanés of men to drink.” So says Miss F H. Willard. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. A Pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD, SCIENTIFIC CORNER. CURRENT. NOTES OF INVEN- TION AND DISCOVERY. A Novel Device for Lighting Bicycle Lamps--Machine Tarns Him Over in Bed—The Provoscis Notes. Monkey—Various NOVELTY for the use of cyclists that will save them much trouble and irritation is a match gun for lighting eycle lamps, which has \ recently been 7 broughg out. It NX coe consists of a tube haying a_ spring piston at one end and a groove at the other, terminating in a pair of clip spring jaws. It is neatly gotten up, easily manipulated, and only occupies about the same space as a pocket pen- cil. The method of using it is shown in the accompanying cut. To put the instrument into action and Ught the lamp it is simply necessary to place in the channeled groove an ordinary match, insert the point through the shutter hole, press the button at the end and the lighting is effected, the chemical compound at the end of the match being ignited by friction in its passage between the clip jaws. In the cut the front of the lamp is open to show the match lighting the wick, but actually the front is closed during the operation, or with a high wind (as will be obvious to a practical cyclist) the match would have but a poor chance, New Diseases. There are a number of ills incident to the use of new appliances, and these have already become so clearly recog- nized that they are a matter of course in medical practice. Indeed, the vic- tims have given names to them which have been adopted in scientific phrase- ology. Bicycle back is a familiar ill, and comes of the doubling-up position about which so much has been written and said. It is akin to the disease known as miner’s back, which comes upon men who work in mines and are in a stooped position for many hours at a time. Telephone ear is a not un- common complaint. It is not an or- ganic disease, but purely a nervous condition, and arises from nervous strain. Almost without exception the trouble ceases with the discontinuance of the use of the telephone. Telegraph- er’s and typewriter’s cramp has many victims. This difficulty is not easily gotten over, as in many instances the muscles become almost or altogether useless, and the patient is unable to control them. It is curable only after a course of scientific treatment. One of the latest complaints is the trolley foot. The continuous use of the foot on the bell causes soreness, inflamma- tion and nervous troubles, and very many men have left the employ of the trolley roads in consequence of this dif- ficulty. So it is seen that the higher grades of mechanics bring evils with them, and that the law of compensa- tion obtains here as well as in almost everything else in the world. Machine Turns Him Over as He Sleeps. The San Francisco Examiner tells about a man who has invented an ap- paratus to turn him over in bed. The man is Walter Hyde. He lives in Ala- meda, Cal. Mr. Hyde is quite old and is troubled with an incomplete circula- tion of the blood, causing sleeplessness, If he remains in one position” long a mild form of paralysis follows and he can not sleep at all. Mr. Hyde conclud- ed that if he had some mechanical means to turn himself over hourly at night he could go to sleep and not be under the necessity of awakening. Being somewhat of a mechanical turn of mind, Mr. Hyde concluded to experi- ment. The result of his tinkering and thinking is the mechanical contrivance which hourly turns him over without awakening him from his slumbers, and which he says works so charmingly that his paralysis with accompanying sleeplessness is a thing of the past. The frame on which the mattress rests hangs from the bedsted by means of pinions, one at the head and the other at the foot. The frame is kept in posi- tion by being secured at the sides to a clock-like apparatus with cogs and le- vers to tilt the mattress frame, the mo- tion of the rocking being governed by the clock and spring apparatus. The tilting of the frame is so nicely gradu- ated that the sleeper is unconscious of the change, but continues undisturbed In his night’s sleep as the mechanism attached to the frame automatically changes his position during the hour to the right or the left side, as the case may be. Strength-Testing Machines, In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology there is a machine for test- ing strength. This is one of the best of its sort ever set up in this country, and it is capable of giving the strength of almost any article from thread to {big blocks of granite. When the latter jare experimented upon, everybody Ids his breath. The granite block ae vo shows no signs fif breaking until it reaches its limit; when it parts with a! report like a fcrty-pounder. In many instances the /olock is shattered into. fragments. The machine, has a strength of 300,000 pounds, and will pull an iron column apart as a small, boy pulls molasses candy, or will crush an enormous iron pillar endwise with-, out apparent effort. In testing wooden’ beams by old methods, small pieces of the wood were bent or broken, and the strength of the entire beam calculated from the resisting power of these small sections. It has been found by exper- imenting on the entire beam that this test is not at all satisfactory, and that in many cases beams tested by the old} process had been subjected to a strain that ran far past the danger point. Evaporation of Moisture. Soil that is covered with vegetation evaporates a very much greater quan- tity of moisture than soil upon which there is no vegetable growth. It ap- pears that the roots, stalks and blos- soms of the plants are constantly draw- ing up moisture from the earth and throwing it out. Experiments made by Professor Nollney demonstrate that bare ground gives out only the quan- tity of moisture received from the at- mosphere, but that wet soil covered with plants, whether it be swamp lands or irrigated, will, under favorable cir- cumstances, give out a much greater amount of water than that which cor- responds to the precipitation that ow curs, during the same period. The Proboscis Monkey. The proboscis monkeys are so namea because of their nose, which surpasses in length that of all mankind. This is a peculiarity which distinguishes them from all other known monkeys. They are also recognized by their hair,which is more developed beneath the chin and around the neck than on the other parts of the body. These animals meas- Pe NNONG ure nearly four feet when standing up- right. They are most ferocious, and but little susceptible of training. They inhabit the island of Borneo, and are found in numerous troops among the woods in the neighborhood of streams. It is rare to see them on the ground, nearly the whole of their lives being passed in trees. Amber and Its Production. An enormous amount of ambercomes from Prussia, where it is mined by what is practically a monopoly. The company controlling the greater part of the out-put pay to the government over $160,000 a year for the privilege of control. It is said that over $5,000,- 000 has already been paid by this firm in royalties to the government. The beach in East India, after heavy north- west winds, is often thickly strewn with amber, which comes up in the sea-weed that is often piled up to the height of three or four feet along the shore. After a storm men, women and children swarm over the beach, gath- ering amber and finding most profit- able employment thereby. From a hundred to a hundred and fifty tons of raw amber are worked up every year in one city. The greater part of it is melted to make varnish and lac. Beads are made of many of the best pieces, and these are in demand all over the world. A Corn Cure. As corns are one of the universal pests of suffering humanity, any rem- edy that promises relief is looked upon with approval. The world is full of so-called. corn cures and corn eradi- cators, put nine-tenths of them are worthless and some of them positively injurious. The following is given by the Scientific American, which fact commends it to all persons who know the standing of that valuable paper: “Salicylic acid, 30 grm.; Cannabis In- dica (Indian hemp), 5 grm.; Castor oil, % dram; Collodion, % oz.” The result is a clear, light-green solution. There should be no difficulty in its preparation. To prevent it from evap- orating keep the solution in a stop- pered bottle. Be sure and use the In- dian hemp, and not the American ar- ticle; the latter is not easily soluble. Mix. Apply morning and evening for four days. Then soak the feet in warm water. Salting Fruits. It is the custom in Italy to ship fruits in large casks filled with salt and brine. The fruit is sliced or eut in pieces and immediately put into the pickle. This fashion of shipping has its advantage over ordinary methods, in that the fruit prepared need not be so fresh as that which is shipped whole and wrapped in papers or packed in boxes. Fruits of this sort are sub- jected to the most rigid scrutiny, ag one imperfect specimen may infect the entire~ parcel. The salted fruit upon reaching its destination is soaked in- fresh water until all traces of salt have disappeared. While this method may be tolerated in emergencies, the flavor and quality are so much im- paired that shippers are looking for some other way of preserving their; | product. Millions of Cook Books Given Away. There is one large house in this country that has taken business on its turn and means to ride in on the rising tide. Alive to the signs of better times and to the best interests of the people, they are now cir- culating among families a valuable publica- tion known as The Charles A. Vogeler Com- pany’s Cookery Book and Book of Comfort and Health, which contains very choice in- formation on the subject of cookMng. Re- ceipts for the preparation of good, substau- tial and dainty dishes, prepared especially for it by a leading authority, will be foum in its pages. Much care has been taken in its preparation and distribution, with the hope that it will be just the thing needed for housekeeping and just the thing needed also for the care of the health and house- hold. As a Cookery Book it will be invalu- able to keep on hand for reference, It also contains full information in regard to the great remedies of this house, which provide against bodily ailments, especially the Master Cure for Pains and Aches, St. Jacobs Oil. To give some idea of the labor and ex- pense of this output, more than 200 tons of paper have been used in its publication, and at the rate of 100,000 a day, it has taken several months for the issue. The book can be had of druggists every- where, or by enclosing a 2c stamp to The aes A. Vogeler Company, Baltimore, | Among the nu nerous privileges en- jeyed by the Lady Mayoress of Londo 1 during her husband’ syear of office is | that of “entree” at court. That is to say, instead of being compelled to take her place-among the ordinary guests, titled and untitled, at court functions. she enters the palace by a separate en- | trance, and is received by royalty be- fore any of the other guests.—San Francisco Call. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh’ Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re- quires a coustitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doin: its work. ‘The proprietors have so muc faith in its curative powers that they of- fer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure, Send for list of tes- timonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0, Sold by druggists, 7c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Did Him Goo. “Mister,” said the small boy to the druggist, “gimme another bottie 0’ them patent pills you sold father day | before yesterday.” | “Are they doing him any good?’ asked the clerk, looking pleased. “I d’no whether they’re doin’ father good or not, but they’re doin’ me good, ‘They jis’ fit my new slun-shot,” 209 BUS. OATS, 173 BUS. BARLEY. M. M. Luther, East Troy, Pa., grew 209 bushels Salzer’s Silver Mine Oats, and John Breider, Mishicott, Wis., 173 bushels ‘Silver King Barley per acre. Don’t you believe it? Write them! Fodder plants as rape, teosinte, yetch, spurry, clovers, grasses, etc., in endless varieties, potatoes at $1.50 a barrel. Salzer’s seeds are bred to big yields. America’s greatest seed cata- Jogue and 12 farm seed samples are sent you by John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse. Wis., upon receipt of 10 cents stamps, ‘vorth $10, to get a start. wn. Why He Did It. Bogg’s Old Friend—Great heavens, man! Do I find you reduced to playing | a cornet on the street corner to make a living? Boggs—I ain’t doing this to make a living. My wife wouldn’t let me prac- tice in the house.—Twinkles. The Spartan Virtue, Fortitude, Is severely taxed by dyspepsia. But “good digestion will wait on appetite, and health on both,"’ when Hostetter’s Stom- ach Bitters is resorted to by the victim of indigestion. Heartburn, flatulence, billiousness will cease tormenting the gas- tric region and liver if this genial family corrective meets with the fair trial that a sterling remedy deserves. Use it regu- larly, not spasmodically—now and then. It conquers malarial, kidney, nervous and rheumatic ailments. Wife-beaters do not dwell long in Tren- ton, Mo. A few days ago one of them, after beating his wife, was escorted out | of town by the earaged populace. When bilious or costive eat a Cascaret, candy cathartle; cure guaranteed. 10c, 25¢. A brilliant signal light at Atlantic City | is visible nineteen miles at sea. Each year | it burns 2,200 gallons of oll. Make Ten Thousand ' Dollars by chewing PAST!URINE GUM. For particulars write JOHN: 'T. MILLIKEN & CO., St. Louis, Ma. Some of the towns of Germany have thelr water pipes made of glass, protected with an asphalt covering, to prevent fracture. | DISEASE Does Not # STAND STILL. Every oue is either growing better or worse. '] How is it with you? You are suffering from KIDNEY, LIVER or URINARY TROUBLES. Have tried doctors and medicine with~ out avail, and have become disgusted. DOW’T CIVE UPS MELE age (ure ‘Thousands now well, but once like fou so. Give en honest medicine an hon- est chance, Large bottle or new style smalle: at your druggist’s. Write for free treat- # ment blank to-day. Warner’s Safe Cure N.Y. ' Patents Issued. List of Patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors: - Gaylord M. Beebe, Minneapolis, Minn., check protector; Seymour John- son, Austin, Minn., harrow; Mathias Kolbenson, Marysville, Mont., ice ve- locipede; Fred W. Smith, Minneapolis, Minn., smoke consumer; Andrew EB. Veon, Brainerd, Minn., curling iron; James M. Rector, Elk Park, Mont., (de- sign) fan. T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910, Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn. The Parvenu's Reception, The Guest—“Singular reception this. I don’t know a soul here.” The Host—‘Neither do I.”—Journa) Amusant. “STAR TOBACCO.” As you chew tobacco for pleasure use Star. It is not only the best but the most lasting, aud, therefore, the cheapest. Had to Admit It, roared the lawyer, “that you never spoke to the accused ,and yet know him to be an actor?” “That's what, for he wore a fur- trimmed overcoat, low shoes and white cotton socks.” “We admit, your honor, that the pris- oner at the bar is a tragedian.” - Very Likely. Pruyn—I wonder why the man who marries in haste is usually supposed to repent at leisure. Craik—Because such-an infernal fool wouldn’t have brain enough to do it all at quce, of course.—Truth. | “Do you mean to tell this jury,” | A chair worth $37,500 has just been com- pleted by a Paris manufacturer. The forelegs are of solid gold. Smouldering fires - of old disease lurk in the blood of many a man, who fancies himself in good health. Let a slight sickness seize him, and the old enemy breaks out anew. 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