Sign-Boards. 1 Some of the signs upon ians and ale- houses were adorned by very curiou specimens of poetry. One man, havin opened an ale house caLJecL the White Horse, near four*thei3 balled respectively the Bear, ftie^n^el, the Ship, and the Three Cups, wrote under his sign: 'My White Hwcse. shall bite the Bear, And make the Angel fly? Shall turn the Ship her hottom up, And drink tlf* ^hfee quj^dry.') Here is anojrher.wJjich.ethe author was sh'outd',rnyni whdthe dr no determined "Stop brave boys ab$!ueneh your thirst, If you won't drink your horses murst." As the time has come for the renewal of subscriptions, THE SUN" would remind Another very quaint inscription was av touud under-the sign of the Pox at oountry inn:".',",. its friends and well wishers everywhere, that it is again a candidate for their consid- "I. liam. a. cunen. fox You see. tlier. his No. harm, atached To. me. itJ is. my. Mrs t, eration and support. Upon its record for the past ten years it relies for a continu- "Wish. to. place, me Here. tQ. let. you no He. sella, good, beere." ance of the hearty sympathy and generous co-operation which have hitherto been The origin of the striped poles which are still used as signs for a babershops, and the three balls which denote a pawn-, extended to it from every quarter of the Union. broker's establishment, are so well known, that we almost fear to speak of them here. As, however, it is possible that some may not have heard them, we will The Daily Sun is a four-page sheet of 28 columns price by mail, post paid, SS venture. Th^e-barkers' poles date back to the days'when tlie remedy for almost evtry disease was bleeding, and then the cents a month, or $6.50 per year. barbers were the regular blbJd-retters The patient Whowasildesirous ot being bled was obliged to grasp a pole, which was suppose to make the blood flow more freely. As the PIe was liable to be stained it was painted red. When it was not in use the white THE WEEKLY SUN. linen bandages "necessary .in the operation were twisted, around it, and it was huoa outside the door, as the most convenient place of keeping it. In this way it came to be regognij^d as the regular sign of a barber shopfand the custom is barbet kept UD to this day. At one time ybA ers were obliged to put out' a blue and an "Whodoes not knowj It circulates throughout the'United THE WEEKLY STTIS"? aret white pol^afl^j^rg^s one. The three balls''of'-the pawnbrokers' States, Canadas, and beyond. Mnety thousand families greet its welcome pages weekly, sign are part of the coat-of arms of Lombardy, from which thefirst bankers came. In old times bankers. used to advance and regard it in the light of guide, counselor and friend. Its news, editorial, agricul- money on valuables, anil thus were gradually transformed into pawn-brokers. At bails4were always painted with I first the tural, and literary departments make it essentially a journal for the family and the i a blue color, and it is only quite lately that they have beenjlded. The colored lights the windows'of fireside. Terms: On Dollar a'year, postpaid. This price, quality considered, makes it the ap0thecarics7)f the present day are 5 also a reminiscence of the days when street lamps were not, and those who the cheapest newspaper published..' For clubs of ten, with $10 cash, we will send an would do business by night must notify the public of the factum some such way as this. extra copy free. Address .1 Cane, of Cotd' Teiriperament. A case is reported of a man .freezing to PUBLISHER OF THE SUIT, death the other day near' Meridian,'iftiss., from exposure to the weather, and the summer is not remarkably cool in the south either. In fact the thermometer marked 90 degrees where the freezing was done. He was a young mari named James- Knox who presented this anomaly in nature. He had USTEr W TORE CITT. been suffering with cold continually for about a year, and required heavy wraps and big fires to exist at all. In the meantime ihe temperature of his "body was nearly normal, and he was otherwise healthy and fresh looking. At home he was accustomed IMPERIAL AWNINGS, TENTS, to wrap his head up in clothes and hold it Accidents will happen, and it is best to be always prepared for them. Sufferers from in a blazing fire until the clothes were almost WATERPROOF COVERS. SIGNS, WINDOW SHADES Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Wounds, Bruises and PIANOS! burned off, to get temporary relief. He Murray 4t Bak-r loo South eilaii* Sprains, will find immediate relief in the use St., Chicago. Send for Illustrated Prioe-List. sat by the fire all the. time, and resorted to of GRACE'S SALVE which also cures old Sores, various expedients to get- warm and keep, AGENTS W*WTKFor the best and Fastest Felons, Cornes, Ulcers, &c. Se ling Pictorial Books and Bibles Prices reduced 33 warm, but he always felt as if he were freezing. per cent. Address JONES' Book and Bible Houte, Phil- Rurncti't Cocoaine is the best and cheapest The family doctor was -greatly puzzled adelDhia, Chicago, or St. Louis. THE ORIGINAL & ONLY GENUINE Hair Dressing in the world. It kills dandruff, Are now used in thouoands of families, and in a large over the ease,/and recommended him to allays irritation, and promotes a vigorous number of schools and conservatories, giving entire Vibrator** Threshers, TT7 A. The choicest in the woM'mporters visit another physcian living a distance in satisfaction. growth of the Hair. |_ Pj JLC% pricesLargest company in America Livingston. The only question was whether Staple articlepleases everyb dyTrade Continually BEST BARGAIN! WITH IMPROVED increasingAgents wanted everywherebest iuducements Parsons' Purgative Pills are a priceless boon he could make the trip without freezing to MOUNTED HORSE POWERS. don't waste timesend for circular to. to the people of the South and South-west. death. But he managed to make it, loaded BOB'T W i LLS, 43 Vesey ot., N. Y. P. O. Box 1287 Piano, wih Stool and Cover, only $275. Payable 925 And Steam Thresher Engines, They effectually prevent fever and ague and cash $10 per month. Warranted equal to any $600 in down with clothes and piled over with robes. Hade only by strument. Send for Catalogue. all malarious diesases, and cost only 25 cents He came near dying with cold in Dr. Webb's DYER&HOWARD NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., ey returned) for ail the worst form a box. office, and the doctor built a great fire and of PILES, LEPROSY. SCROFULA BHETJMATTSM, SALT RHEUM, JA partially thawed him out. But the new BATTLE CREEK, MICH. TABBH. KIDNEY OISKASES, and 6 9 EAST THIRD HT..ST. rAUL. The horrors of war are nothing to the horrors physician could make nothing of the case all diseases if the SKIN and Blood H. D. FOWLE & CO.. of Neuralgia. Immediate relief may be BBOWN'S BKONCBIALITBOCHKS for Coughs and Cold' Montreal and Boston, told everywhere. a nd sent the patient home. I was on the had by bathing the head with Johnson's Anodyne Il a bottlo. Send for flj Rf\to $12 a week with our popular Books,Bibies,C'hro trip homeward that James Knox froze to Liniment smi snuffing it up the nostrils. ipiJUmoslMspa. OoodspeedVs Pub'g House, Chicagc pamphlets death under the hot son of the south. His FOR Hie Gratt IM^coTitry the A I ma WAS in the EAST and CURSE of RTJH.addres ,__ Novelties f O f" per day to Agents cold became,unbearable, and he jumped oat Tobias' celebrated Venetian Liniment! 30 years befort Ooodspeed's Book, Bible A Chromo Bouse Chicago' 4Z selling our Fine art of the wagon and ran. The driver caught the puDlic, and warranted to cure Diarrhea, Dysentery Freebapplication QJQQfifiA YEAR. How o Wake it. NewAgmtt OutfiltL Colic, and Spa ms, taken internally and Croup,J ar on Illustrated him, brought him back, and drove on rapidly. OOOUUg""*'- COB fc YOXGK. St. Login. 1B catalogue UlLLlXXCC to Rheumatism, Sore Throats. Cats, Braises, Old Sores, Presently the patient became quiet and QTTWQ KEVOLVKRS. Price List free. Addree J, H. BUFJ'OBD'd SOR8, Manufacturing fublishers, and Pains in the Limbs, Back, and Chest, externally. CTU X* O Great Western Gun Works, Pittaburg, Pa. sank in a stupor, and James Knox actually 1 41 to 147 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass It has Lever faUed. No family will ever be without i TH "l Sewing Machine Needles for any machine sen Established nearly fifty years. froze to death and lay a corpseinthe wagon, E Matchless Grain-Saving. Time- after once giving it a fair trial. Price, 4 0 cents. DB. i_J by mail on receipt of 3 5 cents. Address, B. F' ssivhiS. ill),I Mi.ni.j-SrtVin^ Tlii.'hi-is ,if t'nU ,h,v ,,hl TOBIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint Sanders & Matthews* bed under the blazing sun of Mississipi ALMT. St. Paul, Minn. KuiiLTiuliin. JJcyond nil Biv -.irj- (cr tp11 Wurk. iVrfect Bottles, at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any Cleaning, anil lor savins Grain from Wistajo. with the temperature at 90. It is an THE 8R MIIXEB AND MILLWRIGHT. The beftmilling pa other, or NO PAY, for the cure of Oolic- Cuts, Bruises Whole ale Dealers in AIN Raisers will not Submi* to the anomalous case for the books. per.bample copy free. SIMPSON A GAU!T,Cin'nati,Ot Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. DepotlO Park $7 Lame, Cement, Plaster, Hair, Tile riioiniiiiis \v:ist:i'.'f "fOnihi .'c i,n: in.vi.ir work .ion,- Place, New York. tl'.u olili'l- liiacilims. when WILV [.r/slcii i.u tin (HiTtivnii A DAT to Agents canvassing for the Ylrestde Fire Brick, &c. T5I Visitor. Terms and outfit free. E ENIRE Threshing Expenses dress P, O. VICKKEY, Augusta, Maine At this season of the year the numaa system is liable tii I inns s:.it Hin-iiut -m 1.-111,1.1,-1,7 Good health is a blessing only attained by 7 1 and 72, Lower leyee, to become disordered from th insufficient efforts of t):o Exuu Grain SA VKD 1-y ihts-j Iiuin-vi Jlaoliiiit-s.' the liver to discharge the excesses of bile. If nature is ORGANS careful attention to the real wants of the retaU price $280 only $65. PIANOS St. Paul, Minn. SOrator.r not assisted in her efforts, severe bilious attacks or body but by how many ways do we aggravate Reolvins Shafts Inside the SepaKntiivi, retail price $510 only U!13e. Great prostrating fevers necessbarily follow, causing great It-.-, iitmi IWiuv.rx. |"i-k. 11. li.nnlcs, SWEE P^^BflAYT symptoms and produce diseases it is difficult bargains. BKATTY.Washington.N. suffering, and en Death A little timely precaution, ami a.l such tiinc-wastin^ ami Krain-waotfu? i-omplirations. however, will preventall this, and may be found in that Perfectly n-laptm! all Kimln an.I O.niHtloiia ol to cure, frequent among which is Heart Disease, favorite household remedy. Grain, Wet or Dry, Jons or Silo, t, IKHUIVI or ISiinml. 50.000 AOEKTS WASTED. Nervousness, Sleepless or "Wakeful SI30IOSS' JLIVKR RKOCLITOR. S"CATALOGlTE FREE. OT only Vnstly Superior for WIiMit, nitrhts. Among the? many (forms of Heart Laughton, Wileon tCo, Chicago Disease are Palpitation,Enlargement, Spasms Oats. Bailey. Rye. ami likn CLOTHING ^K&E&L. The Largest Awarded .'ty/iesJ prize at Centennial Esposilion fot the HeartStoD'page of the Action of the it-ratal Thresher ia Flax. Tlmi.thv. Milk-i. fn^-r. m,\ Stock: at Boston jjt chr.icinrj q-aZ-Uta nr. I ezrcVcnce a:d Ijxtvtg char like Seeds. Keqiiin-s no attaclinit-nt's or l*W Heart, Trembling all over and about the ader nf swett''. rinj ai-i fiivnri'j. Tha bsst toTiaccc One Price Cloth- MA to change from Grain 10 Seeds. RVELOUS for Sin Heart. Ossification or Bony Formation of the ever made. As :r b::-.3 strip trade-mnrk is clorelj ing Store, Minne- Imitated on ir.ferior poods, ECI ihat J'trJcson's Sent is apolis. Heart, Rheumatism, General Debilitv and tm. everr plnj. Soltl kr r.ll dealors. Send for sample, usins less than OIIK-IIHII' tu -uauni j.v... ^-ar.- Sinking of the Spirits.. These troubles can free, to "C. A. JACSSO:? Co.. llrrs.. Petersburg:, Va. $10. $20. $50. $100. FOUR Makes no Lltteriilfs Separator,-^.Made, or Scr-tteriu Sizes of ransrins be cured by the use of Dr. Graves' HEART Irom hix to Twelve llorfe size, and two styien ot "REGULATOR. Send to the sole agent, F. E. Invested judiciously in S'ocksCOptions or Privileges Mouuted Horse Powers to match. STA is a sure road to rapid for one. Fall details and offi INGALLS, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet of EAM Power Threshers a Specialty. clal c-tock Eichdnge Ueoorta free. Address T. POTTEK testimonials, &c. special size Separator made expressly for bteam Power. WIGHT & CO., Bankers, 35 WaU street. New York, OUsinesUnrivaled, For sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per Steam Thresher Enwith CLOCKSKAgeney,tdesignf.otimekeepe'YSar...NO.CSt.*themtIrNoteqnalIJsrAaHrOortlandAoalJeweleirrrCyouNqualityIk.aSuperioiAs bottle. Valuab Improvements and Distinctive Features, far beyond any other make or kind. IN Nlmmona' Uver K^grulato has been in use fo Thorongh Workmanship, Elegant Five Tons, delivered, freight paid. No money asked half a century, and there is not one single instance on CHEW record where it has faUed to effect a cure when taken Finish, Perfection of Parts, Completeness of Equipment, till tested. All iron, brass and steel. Send for free etc., our VIBBATO" Thresher Outtits are Incomparable. The Celebrated ID time, according to directions. It is without doubt Circular. For [From the Minneapolis papers.] the greatest Uver Medicine in the world is perfectly OR Partlcnlars, call on our Dealers i "Matchless JONES OF BIKGHAMTON, Bingbamton. N. TO THE CITIZENS OF MINNEAPOLM.-Our experience harmless, beteg carefully compounded fr-'in rare writetous for IllustratedClroilar,which wo mail Wood Tag Plug roots and herb', containing no mercury, or any injurious in the handliogof Dr. E B. HaUlday's Blood ner 1 substance. It takes the pace of quinine and Purifier is such that we are not afraid to tell you that TOBACCO. calomel, and has superceded tbesa medicines in places UfTI 1 CBORE & it is the most wonderful "Blood Ueatcher" of the prosent Llndekes, C^ i THJB PIONBKR TOBACCO COMPANY, a here they have heretof re been extens vely used. age. No medicine ever went out of our store that i New York. Boston and Chicago. Procure a bottle at once from your Druggist. Do not has given such univensal satisfaction as it is givin gtoday. Warner & delav give it a fair trial, and you WUl be more than VVLLLODRo I LLCDe!k For Catarrh, Kidney and Urinary Diseases, Female satisfied with the results obtained. The TIFFIN Well Mriusand Ko Weaknesses and Nervous Debility we indorse WINS For upwards of thirty vears Mrs. Schurmeier. the statement of Dr. Halllday, that it has no equal. Drilling Maehi is the* only Machine that AVTIOH. CROtSMAN PLUMMEB. Druggists Minneapolis. used will succeed everywhere. It makes the best LOW'S SHOOTING STRCTP has been As there are a number of im'tetions of wells in any soil or rock. Qne man and one for children with never-failing success. It offered to the public, we S EW WHOLESALE Hrve you weak or sore eyes, caused by atarr or horse can make from $25 50 ft dajr. would caution the Community to corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind some Scrofulous Dbease? If jou have, lose no time, I buy no powdersor prepared Sim- i Circulars and references sent free. N PA T* DR^L$GOODS, colic, regulates the bowls, cures dysentery but cleanse your blood with Dr. Halllpay's Blood i8W'wi*h mem' Uver Hrralator, E NT "RIGHT SWINDLE. Address Pur fier, and your eyes will beco aU right. Jpj it and diarrhoea, whethei arising from teething un'ess in oar engraved wrapper. liOOMIS it XYfflAX, TIFFIN, OHIO. and you wftt be surprised at the result. For Kindney1"D with Trade-Mark, Stamp and signature rem1 other causes. An old and well-tried Complaint, Female Weaknesses, sad Nervous Sl'S^wmpe,iAu,,*ti'HOUSE. unbro en. None other is GRACES SALVE rty, it has no equal in the civiBsed wortd. As ttis eov. 25 cts. a bottle. genuine. Original and genuine isroTioisr medicine has been extensively counterfeited, see that KAjrOrACTCHSD OXOT BX "8.Blackford,Agent,"isbIowninthe back of every J. H. ZETLIN A CO., bottle. As* yourdruggist for it, and If he does not Remember This. keeoithewiUorder^foryou.oriddreas BLACK That when you Buy a can of DOOLEY'SYBAST PHILADELPHIA FORD.67Wabashaw street. 8tJPaul General Agen JONESVTIXX, Mich., Dee. 27,18T7.Messrs. Fowles: POWDER you take no'chances, for it is warranted NOfES BBOS. A CUTLER. Wholesale Agents, St l.N. Sol by all druggists. I sent you 60 centsfor two boxes of GraoL's Salve. I absolutely pure, full strength and full Paul. have bad two andfcavensedthemon anuloer a my Vs.a,ttrm los&niitDRf usiiai .A. Complete Stock of foot, and it ia almost well. Bespectfully jours, weight, and it cannot fail, if properly used, to JTo. as. st.r.y.u. O. J. AX Haas. produce the most positive and satisfactory results Fall and Winter Goods. not only in biscuits, rolls, muffins and Price S 5 cents a box at all drugeista, or sent by nasi] When writing to Advertiser* please *6f you ia the bf st article known for Beaners, Mowers. Thresh on receipt of cento. Prepared by Mttl W fancy cakes, but in all kinds of batter griddle aw the Advertisement in thi papw. era. Orriage Ax e's, Ac. also a* an Oil for Harness. VOWUB* OJ,Hsrrison Av*., Boston cakes as well. tarOsk your druggist or grocer far it. A \9T sa19 M. S St., St. T*nU sff"-^!