PERSONALS. 
Miss Austine Snead, better known by the 
pen-name of “Mrs. Grundy,” the well known 
newspaper correspondent, died at her home 
in Washington, Thursday morning. 
Chairman Hatch, of the House Committee 
on Agriculture, is reported to have the ambi - 
tion of getting a place in the Cabinet should 
the head of the Department of Agriculture 
become a Cabinet officer. Meanwhile he would 
like to be Governor of Missouri. He was 
born in Scott Co., Ky., Sept. 11, 1833; admit¬ 
ted to the bar in 1854 at Lexington. Removed 
to Missouri, and was elected Circuit Attorney 
of the 16th Judicial District in 1858, and re¬ 
elected in 1850. Has represented the First 
Missouri District, comprising Adair, Clarke, 
Knox, Lewis, Marion, Putnam, Schuyler, 
Scotland and Shelby counties, in the House 
of Representatives,in the 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th 
and the present Congress. 
An unusually large number of prominent 
Senators are absent from their duties at 
Washington. Senators Gibson, Hearst and 
Morgan are confined to their houses in that 
city, the two latter being quite ill. Senator 
Quay is in Florida, to escape the exoreable 
weather; Senator Aldrich is in Rhode Island, 
looking after the Republican ‘ ‘fences;” Sena¬ 
tors Allison, Evarts, George, Sherman and 
Gray escorted the remains of the late Chief 
Justice to Toledo, and haven’t returned yet; 
Senator Eustis is in New Orleans, strength- 
ing the Democratic “fences.” Senator Pasco is 
in Florida; Senator Vance has gone to North 
Carolina; Senator Sawyer has been in Illinois 
all the week, attending to some private busi¬ 
ness matters; and Senator Jones, of Nevada, 
is absent, as usual, at present in New York. 
Fifteen Senators were absent from the cham¬ 
ber Thursday, yet 61 bills were passed—more 
work than was done on any previous day of 
the session. 
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THE POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
The great storm interrupted our club meet¬ 
ings for a while. Most of the members had about 
all they could do at home shoveling snow and 
keeping the house warm. When the storm 
stopped we turned out and broke out some of 
the roads. The snow began to melt at once, 
and the roads are all the way from one to two 
feet deep with mud. The gutters are piled up 
with snow, so that the water can’t run away. 
So it settles in the middle of the road, which, 
as a result of our system of road making, is 
generally the lowest part. Mud! mud! ! 
mud! ! ! We have all we want, and a lot to 
spare. Our mud seems to be alive. It seems 
to crawl up your boots and cover you all over. 
It seems like a sin to take a horse out into it. 
Most farmers seem to think it cheaper to walk 
than to take out a horse and then have to 
clean him off. This mud casts a gloom over 
the entire neighborhood. Everybody seems 
inclined to borrow trouble. “Terrible time 
for a funeral or sickness,” they say. Nobody 
is sick, yet all the croakers imagine how dread¬ 
ful such a state would be. To show how pow¬ 
erful the mud is, it may be said that it has 
nearly covered Uncle Jacob’s philosophy. 
This is about all he can see in it: “I haf no 
doubt dere is blenty off good boints mit dis 
mud, but dey vas most off dem go mit a strike 
shust now. Ve vas fail to understand, some¬ 
times, shust vy ve vas called upon to vade mit 
der mud effery spring. Here vas my obinion. 
Effery man vas get soft mit der vinter. He 
vas eat shust as much vile he vas do much less 
vork. Conseguently his stomach vas run avay 
mit his muscle—vich vas not der broper ting. 
It vas necessary for dot muscle to catch up 
mit der stomach pefore der hard vork off 
summer vas pegin. Conseguently Nature vas 
brovide egstra vork mit der shape off der 
mud. It vas harder vork to get around mit 
it, und der conseguence vas dot der extra 
vork vas build up der muscle so dot ve vas in 
goot draining for der summer vork already. 
But for der mud it vould dake us till der mid¬ 
dle off summer to get into vorking drim. It 
vas shust like a brize fighter dot vorks hard 
und praces up mit his muscle pefore he steps 
in mit der ring. So off we looks at it mit dis 
light, ve vas find dat der mud vas an excellent 
ting—someting ve could not do mitout.” 
SMALL PICA. 
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to destroy insects is neces¬ 
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“Didn’t Know it Was Loaded. 
The young man fell dead! 
A friend had pointed a revolver at him. 
“He didn’t know it was loaded!” 
We often hear it stated that a man is not 
responsible for what he does not know. The 
law presupposes knowledge and therefore con¬ 
victs the man who excuses crime by ignor- 
once. 
“If I had only known” has often been un¬ 
fortunate man’s apology for some evil un 
knowingly wrought, but in a matter of gener¬ 
al interest—as for instance that laudanum is a 
poison, that naphtha is a deadly explosive, 
that blood heavily charged with a winter’s 
accumulations of the waste of the system,—it 
is one’s duty to know the fact and the conse¬ 
quences thereof. Our good old grandmothers 
knew for instance, that the opening of spring 
was the most perilous period of the year. 
Why? 
Because then the blood stream is sluggish 
and chilled by the cold weather, and if not 
thinned a good deal and made to flow quickly 
and healthfully through the arteries and veins, 
it is impossible to have good vigor the rest of 
the year. Hence, without exception, what is 
now known as Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsapar¬ 
illa, was plentifully made and religiously giv¬ 
en to every member of the family regularly 
through March, April, May and June. It is a 
matter of reeord that this prudential, preven¬ 
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of sickness, prolonged life and happiness to a 
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medical experditures. 
Mrs. Maggie Kerchwal, Lexington, Ky., . 
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skin indicates a very bad condition of the 
blood. 
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Warner, who makes the famous Safe Cure, 
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PINK POND EIEY ROOTS (Nympheaodorata 
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err n POTATOES. 500 bushels of the best va- 
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UMMIT POTATO. 
Catalogue for 1888 Now Ready. 
OVER 300 VARIETIES GROWN LAST SEASON. 
Address E . STINK, 
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HOW TO GROW 
STRAWBERRIES 
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fruit growers and the name of this paper. 
Putney & Woodward, Brentwood, N. Y. 
1838 Pomona Nurseries 1888 
Parry, Lida and Bomba Strawberries, 
Marlboro and Golden Queen Raspber¬ 
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Blackberries, Niagara, Empire State 
and Moore’s Early Grapes, Lawson. 
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Our Descriptive List of above will be mailed, on application, 
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All requiring, HIGH* GRADE VEGETABLE OR FLOWER 
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J.M. Thorburna Ce:i15 JohnS: NewYork. 
ENGLISH CLEMATIS. 
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FRESH 
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SEED 
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PAINESVILLE, • 
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Arbor Vitao, 3 to 4 inches.$1.50 $10,00 
» “ 4 to 8 “ 3.00 15.00 
“ “ 8 to 15 “ 7.50 40.00 
Norway Spruce, 1 year. 1.60 10.00 
“ “ 4 to 0 in. 2.50 20.00 
“ “ 5 to 8 in., trans... 5.00 35.00 
Scotch Pine, 1 year. .... 2.00 15.00 
“ “ 4 to 6 inches. 4.00 35.00 
Wild Cherry, 8 to 15 inches. 3.00 25.00 
Yellow Cottonwood, 4 to 8 incites.. 1.50 10.00 
“ “ 8 to 15 “ 2.50 15.00 
Sugar Maple. 4 to 0 inches.7 5 6.00 
“ “ 6 to 12 “ 1.50 10.00 
White Ash, 4 to 8 inches. 2.5C 20.00 
Cherry Birch 4 to 8 inch; s. . 2.50 20.00 
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Trees kept in cold storage and orders filled until 
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