Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — Page 3

A WONDERFUL TUNNEL.

Eight Thousand Perspiring Miners—Drilling a Huge Hole Through Twenty-eight Miles of Solid Rack. Deep down under the rustling cornfields, green meadows, and peaceful woods by the faint yellow light of innumerable smoky lamps, and the intermittent cold gleaming from white electric lights, 6,000 grimy men are toiling night and day so that the watersupply ot New York may f flow through twenty-eight miles of solid rock. It never ceases, this grinding, and cranking, and whirring, and dull booming <sf powder explosions, save for two hours out of the twenty-four, when 3,009 men drowsily crawl out of the dim shafts on the Surface of the. earth to eat their meat and bread, and go to sleep, while 3,000 other men take their places. Since the first of the year these cold, trickling caverns and shafts hdve been drilled and blasted continuously. Hundreds of powerful steam-drills, driven by streams of compressed air from wonderful, shining engines, eat into hard rock like so many steel parasites, and mountains of torn gneiss and shining mica have been piled up around the shafts as the work went on. In two years from next September a tunnel of thirty-one miles will stretch from Croton Lake to the reservoir in Central Park, through the brick and stone lining of which will gush a body of crystal water more than enough tb supply the metropolis plenteously. For all these blessings, and the proud distinction of owning tjrb longest rock tunnel in the world, the city will have to pay at least $33,000,000, or perhaps $60,000,000. The Mount Cenis tunnel is seven and one half miles long, and cost about $15,090,000, while the St. Gothard tunnel is nine and one quarter miles long, and cost very little more. F6w people in the city have any idea of the marvelous rapidity with which the aqueduct tunnel is being made. Indeed, the speed which is kept up has attracted the attention of miners all over the country, for nothing even approaching to it has ever been seen before. The work is divided into two parts. From High Bridge to Terrytown, it is in the hands of O’Brien & Clark, the contractors, and from thence to Croton Lake it belongs to Brown, Howard & Co. These contractors farm out the tunnling to sub-contractors. On the whole there are twenty-six shafts. These shafts are bunched up into sections of two or three shafts each, and the sub-contract-ors are under agreement to tunnel out the rock in their respective sections at so much a yard, and to build the brick and stone waterway inside of it at set prices. Over 8,000 men are employed in the work—6,ooo underground and 2,000 on the surface. At the bottom of each shaft the miners work in two directions, so that while one set of men are drilling southward, there is a set of men in another shaft working northward to meet them. These shafts are about a mile apart, and yet so delicate and accurate are the plans of the engineers that in no case, they declare, will the line of the tunnel be more than an inch out of the way when the miners in the different tunnels meet each other underground. The reporter put on a rubber suit and descended the shaft with Engineer Parker. Water rained down the rocky walls from all sides until it poured from the rubber hats. Then, picking his way over little pools of water and huge, scattered masses of rock, the engineer led the reporter along the tunnel southward- Electric lights were hung from the roof of the cavern all along the way, but even they could not dispel the thick gloom that dwells in the damp place. Here and there were little lights suspended in line by wires from the roof,so that the foremen might sight from one to the other, and so keep drilling out the tunnel in a straight course. At the end of the cavern was a crowd of men working at,, “slugger” drills, which emitted such a terrific sound that the hearing became dulled, and the sledge-hammer blows which a brawny miner showered upon a handdrill sounded like the strokes of a velvet hammer upon a featherbed. Perspiration poured down the faces of the men as they hung to the drills or poured cups of water down the drill holes to keep the dust from blinding them. Each drilling-machine emitted such powerful snorts of cold air that at times they created a strong breeze, which swept away the smoke curling up from the oil lamps on the miners’ hats. “There, you see our method of working," said Mr. Parker. “The upper half of the tunnel is drilled before the lower half. It is called the heading. The lower half is called the bench. First, two holes are drilled in the heading from the side of the tunnel. The holes slant inward toward each other, so that when the powder put in them is fired a wedge is blown out of the heading. The holes are drilled straight along the sides, and the remainder of the rock, forming the wedge-like cavity, is blasted out. When the heading is tunneled out twenty or thirty feet a gang of men drill holes straight down into the lower half, or bench, and clear that out. The heading is always fifteen feet ahead of the bench. When the holes are charged with powder the men carry the electric lights fb the shaft, and go up to the surface themselves. The charges are fired by electricity from the surface, and the explosions are sometimes so powerful as to twist up the iron tracks laid in the bottom of the tunnel. After the explosion a gang of men called muckers go down and remove the wreck. The men at the drills have nothing to do with this work.”

The Language of Umbrellas.

There is a language of umbrellas as well as of flowers.; For instance, place your umbrella in a rack and it "will indicate that it will change owners. To open it quickly in the street means that somebody’s eyes are going to be put out; to shut it,that a hat or two is to be knocked off. An umbrella carried over a woman, When the man is getting nothing but the drippings of the rain, signifies courting. When the man has the umbrella and the woman the drippings, it indicates marriage. To punch your umbrella into a person and then open it means “I dislike you.” To swing your umbrella over your head signifies “I am making a nuisance of myself.” To trail your umbrella along, the foot path means that the man behind you is

thirsting for your blood. To carry it at right angles and' under your arm signifies “Exchange is no robbery.” To purchase an umbrella means “I am not smart, but honest.” To lend an umbrella indicates “1 am a fool.” t To return an umbrella means —well, never mind what it means, nobody ever does that ? To turn an umbrella in a gust of wind profanity. To carry your umbrella in a case signifies it is a shabby one. To carry an umbrella just high enough to tear out men’s eyes and knock off men’s hats signifies “I am a woman.” To press an umbrella on your friend, saying: “O, do take it; I had much rather you would than not?” signifies lying. To give a friend half of your umbrella means that both of you will get wet. To cairy it from home in the morning means that “it will clear off.”— New Orleans States.

Remedy Against Barbers.

Barbers will talk. There is no help for that. Their jaws have to keep time with the movement of the scissors. It is not the mere talking that is annoying, but it is what they say, and their manner of saying it, that nearly drives a strong man crazy. If, for instance, a barber were only to make such remarks as: “What a noble brow you have!” or “Your dome of thought reminds one of Daniel Webster;” or if they were to abuse some man you did not like, the sitter would listen very complacently, and some bald-headed people we know of would want to have the ends of their locks trimmed four or five times a week, just to hear what the confounded fool of a barber had to say. The trouble with barbers is that they do not say what you want to listen to. The barbers will persist in discovering that your hair is falling out, and there is nothing in Heaven above, or on earth below that will arrest the fugitive hair, except a bottle of each particular barber’s magic lotion. Another thing that worries the barber more than it troubles its legitimate owner is dandruff. As nine persons in ten have more or less dandruff in their heads, the barber has a fine field to work in, as it were. Dandruff is another dread malady that is hurrying the unfortunate man into his grave, unless he is willing to shell out a reluctant half-dollar for a bottle of the same vile stuff that the aforesaid barber is willing to part with for the consideration above mentioned. As it is about the season of the year when most of the people have their hair mowed off, and as they all have to go through the ordeal we have described, we propose to give our readers a few sngg stions as to how to stand off the fiend. Of course, the eloquence of the barber cannot be closed off entirely, as the gas is shut off s but the colored barber can be temporarily discouraged. He will run his fingers through his hair and say:— —'"i:.

“Boss, I kin gib yer a remedy for fifty cents, what will knock dat ar ssurff in yer head cold.” Then you say to the barber:— “Look here, you have got one foot in the grave. Your liver is out of order. I can tell it by your complexion. Your complexion is too yellow. You had better get a bottle of Carter’s Liver Pills, or Reed’s Gilt Edge Tonic.” He will be surprised, if not shocked. We tried that game on a barber, and his reproachful look will never be forgotten as long as memory holds her seat. Usually one application is sufficient, but he occasionally rallies towards the close of the matinee, his system jteacts, and he says, timidly:— “Yer hasn’t answered my question yet, boss, about de bottle of magic lotion for de seurff.” All you have to do is to ask him if he has read Dr. Philkins’ Treatise on Dandruff. He will reply that he has not. Then you say:— “Dr. Philkins is of the opinion that dandruff is produced by activity of the brain. People who have torpid Brains, or n o brains at all, are never troubled with dandruff. What you need is some dandruff. If you colored folks had more dandruff in your heads, there would be more of you in Congress. If you don’t quit curing white people’s heads of dandruff, their brains will dwindle away, and they will set up barber shops, and then you will have more competition than you want” This last dose will cure the barber of dandruff, falling out of the hair, and whatever else troubles him. After the above remedy has been applied, you can get your hair cut ten times a day, and he will never again venture to prescribe for “de seurff in yer head.” Try it.— Texas Siftings.

A Dog Story.

Four newly-arrived guests were sitting around the stove in a Texas country hotel. The landlord entered, and noticed that there was a large dog under the stove. Turning to oneyf the guests with an obsequious bow, the landlord said: “That’s a magnificent dog you have got there. Fine breed. I can tell that by the looks of him. lam a sort of a crank about fine dogs." The traveler said that the dog did not belong to him. “No?” said the landlord, “then I suppose the noble animal belongs to you, sir. San Bernard, is he not?" “How the Sheol should I know. The pup don’t belong to me," remarked the second traveler. The landlord looked at the third guest, and remarked: “That dog must have cost you a pile of money. Those kind of dogs are scarce in these parts.” The third guest shook, his head, and said the dog was not his. ... “By Jove, it’s a pleasure to look on a dog like that He is a beauty. I suppose he is a great pet. How old is he?” “Damfino; I never saw him before,” replied the fourth guest. “You cussed bench-legged fice, get out of here, filling the room with fleas, you mongrel cur,” exclaimed the exasperated landlord, kicking in three of. the dog’s ribs, and lifting him into the adjoining county with his boot, as the dog tried to get - out through the door.-*- Texas Siftings. Music-boxks were invented about 100 years ago, and are chiefly made in Switzerland. Some of them cost as high as $5,000, and. are as large as a piano. This, perhaps; will give an idea how highly they are thought of by some people. •

CLEVELANDIANA.

Sentences Gathered at Random from Miss Cleveland's New Hook. We are liable to have notions until we get knowledge. Let career as means only to the end—character. The’ quality of divination is the intellectual element of altruistic faith. The noble soul would choose rather not to be than to be somebody in particular. ’ * So fine an irony has history that that which makes the shame of its wives makes the glory of its kings. One who has faith in thq concrete is sure to have it in the abstract; and the effect is that of optimism in the world. We can do no bravery or better thing than to bring our best thoughts to the evgry-day market. They will yield us usurious interest. ‘ -j? Milton’s sublime audacity of faith aerates the ponderous craft of his verse, and keeps it from sinking into the abyss of theological pedantry. The dullest mortal spirit must at times grope restlessly and expectantly in the outer darkness for something beyond, and this something must exist, will exist, in a true poem.

The mother makes the man, perhaps; but the wife manufactures him. Sometimes the wife, in her manufacture, confirms the making of the mother, sometimes counteracts it. The born poet has no agony in the deliverance of his song. The uttering is to him that soothing balm which the utterance is to the reader. It is weeping, not the tear wept, that gives relief. Reciprocity, constant and equal, among all His creatures, is the plan of the only Maker of plans, whose plans never fail in the least jot or tittle. He has reserved to Himself the power to give without receiving. Human history is nothing but one ceaseless flow of cause into effect, and of effect into cause. There is nothing but which is consequent. You and I are but the consequents of a vast tangle of antecedents in all time before.

What’s in a name ? A rose by any other name might swell as sweet; but a lily, if rechristened rose, would never diffuse the rose’s odor, nor gain, in addition to its own spotless perfections, the deep-hearted sorcery of that enchanting, crumpled wonder, which we thrill in touching, as if it, too, had nerves, and blood, and a human heart —arose. ■ (A picture of Joan of Arc.) A little peasant maiden, doing lowly service in the cottage home at Homremy; a mailclad maiden, leading foyth her soldiers from the gates of Orleans; two faithful feet on fagots at Rouen; a radiant face uplifted to the beckoning skies; a crucifix upheld in shriveling, flamekissed hands; a wreath of smoke for shroud, a wrack of smoke for pall, a heap of ashes, and—a franchised soul. In this scientific age—the age of iconoclasm —it is greatly good for us to confront things rich, rare, out-of-the-common things above our power to comprehend, beyond our power to destroy It is well for us who are so blind to the rose-color in our daily lives to be forced to acknowledge its existence in the imperishable canvas of history; well for us, so intensely practical as we are, to be compelled there, at least, to confront the romantic and the heroic.

The Trade in Perfumes.

“The perfumer’s art must be a very difficult one?” “Indeed it is,” answered the druggist. “The perfumer is unquestionably a man of scents (no pun intended), and, though he may have over a hundred different odors in his laboratory, he is able, by smelling any one, to give its name. He has to delicately combine the different scents until they become pleasing to the olfactory nerves. One who is not on the inside of the business cannot understand the delicacy of this operation. When a new perfume is introduced—of course it is a combination of other scents —it is necessary that their composition be of such small particles that no one odor overpowers the others. A general mixture of perfumes would not have a pleasing effect, and, of course, all this has to be studied. Only odors of a similar kind will agree with one another. Now, in the same way, different perfumes will not agree with different temperaments, and if the outside public was only educated properly, it would be easier to please them. For instance, a scent that pleases the blonde does not agree with the brunette, yet you cannot make them believe this, and when they have been recommended to get a certain odor, they cannot understand why it does not please them.”

“Are there many laboratories in this country?” “Yes; but it is comparatively a new business here, compared with what it is on the Riviera, where nearly all the inhabitants live on the products of sweet-scented flowers. I was reading, only a few days ago, about the perfumery business of Nice and Cannes. In one factory in Cannes they use 154,000 pounds of roses, a similar amount of orange blossoms, 13,200 pounds of acacia blossoms, 35,200 pounds of jasmine, 22,000 pounds of violets, nearly ten thousand pounds of tuberoses, and a large amount of other flowers, annually. Niqe alone raises 440,000 pounds of orange blossoms, while the neighboring villages raise more than double this amount. In the Riviera towns, 342,000 pounds of perfumery of different kinds is said to be produced yearly." “Is there much of a trade for perfumery in Chicago?” “Yes; I think it is larger than it has been for years. The majority of the odors sold, too,*are of the good grades. Cheap stuff, put up in -fancy bottles, does not sell well, and is Very poor stock. I have heard that the Chicago market is considered to be the best in the United States, outside of New York City.”— Chicago News.

Stupid Fish.

Amateur Fisherman to owner of Pond—“ You said there were plenty of fish here.” O. of P.—“ There are millions of ’em.” A. F.—" Then I must say they are . very stupid.” * O. of P.—“ Stupid?” « •A. F.—“ Yes, they do a’t reem to catch on.”— Boston Courier.

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By our original system of diagnosis, we can treat many chronic diseases just as successfully without as with a personal consultation. While we are always glad to see our patients, and become Acquainted with them, show them our institutions, and familiarize them with our system of treatment, yet we have not seen one person in five hundred whom we have cured. The perfect accuracy with which scientists are enabled to deduce the most minute particulars in their several departments, appears almost miraculous, if we view it in the light of the early age's. Take for example, the electro-magnetic telegraph, the greatest invention of the age. Is it not a marvelous degree of accuracy which enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in a submarine cable nearly three thousand milts long? Our venerable “ clerk of the weather ” has become so thoroughly familiar with the most wayward elements of nature that he can accurately predict their movements. He can sit in Washington and foretell what the weather will be in Florida or New York as well as if several hundred miles did not intervene between him and the places named. And so in all departments of modern science, I—what is required is the knowledge of certain I n | siyns. From these scientists deduce accurate confl SICHS Ur I elusions regardless of distance. So, also, in medi- ■ wiunw vi | ea[ Bcjencei diseases have certain unmistakable I HR? ACF I signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, we I UIOIAOE,. 0 | lave been enabled to- originate and perfect a sys4—tem of determining, with the greatest accuracy, the nature of chronic diseases, without seeing and personally

COMMON SENSE AS APPLIED TO MEDICINE. It is a well-known fact, and one that appeals to the judgment of every thinking person, that the physician who devotes his whole time to the study and investigation of a certain class of diseases, must become better qualified to treat such diseases than he who attempts to treat every 111 to which flesh is heir, without giving special attention to any class of diseases. Men. in all ages of the world, who have become famous, have devoted their lives to some special branch of science, art, or organization, and subdividing the practice of medicine and surgery In this institution, every invalid is treated bv a specialist—one who devotes his undivided attention to the particular class of diseases to which the case belongs. The ndvantaire of this arrangement must be obvious. Medical science offers a vast field for investigation, and no physician can, within the brief limits of a life-time, achieve the highest degree of success in the treatment of every malady incident to humanity. OUR FIELD OF SUCCESS.

Recog-nizing the fact that no great institu|JlQl| THROAT tion dedicated exclusively to the treatment nAdflL, I nnvAl O f chronic diseases, would meet the needs of *un the afflicted of our land, without the most nnu perfect, complete and extensive provision for I IlilQ HIQFAQFQ the m6st improved treatment of diseases uunu UIOL.HOLO. O f tt»e air-passages and lungs, such as Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption, we have made this branch of our institution one of the leading Departments. We have every kind of useful instrument for examining the organs involved, such as rhinoscopes, laryngoscopes, stethoscopes, spirometers, etc., etc., as well as all of the most approved kinds of apparatus for the application of sprays, fumigations, atomizations, pulverizations, inhalations, and all other forms of approved medicinal applications. We publish three separate books on Nasal, Throat and Lung diseases, viz.: A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis; price, postpaid, ten cents: A treatise on Asthma, or Phthisic, giving new and successful treatment; price, postpaid, ten cents; A treatise on Chronic Nasal Catarrh, price, postpaid, cental. Dyspepsia, “Liver Complaint,** Ob. flmrinm nr stiuate Constipation, Chronic DiarUISEASEb OF rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections are among those chronic diseases in the successful treatment of which our specialists have Minto nun. attained unparalleled success. Many of the diseases affecting the liver and other organs contributing in their functions to the process of digestion, are very obscure, and are not infreqently mistaken by both laymen and physicians for other maladies, and treatment is employed directed to the removal of a disease which does not exist. Our Complete Treatise on diseases of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. BRIGHT’S DISEASE, DIABETES, and IfmilCV kindred maladies, have been very largely treated, nlUntl and cures effected in thousands of cases which had R been pronounced beyond hope. The study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical umuaoto. examination of the urine in our consideration of cases, with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became famous, has naturally led to a very extensive practice in diseases of the urinary organs. Our specialists have acquired, through a vast and varied experience, great expertness m determining the exact nature of each case, and, hence, have been successful in nicely- adapting their remedies for the cure of each individual case... The treatment of diseases of the urinary organs having constituted a prominent branch, or specialty, of our practice at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, and, being in constant receipt of numerous inquiries for a complete but concise work on the nature and curability of these maladies, we have published a large illustrated treatise on these diseases, which will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents In postage stamps. INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER, Gravel, Enlarged ProauLADOER tato Gland, Retention of Urine, and kindred affections may be included among those AQTQ in tho cure of which our specialists have achieved UloUoto. marvelous success. These are fully treated of in our illustrated pamphlet on Urinary Disea s. It includes nuinerous testimonials from well-known people. Sent by mail for ten cents in stamps. Send for it at once. I I STRICTURES AND URINARY FISTULAS.—Hundreds of cases of the worst form of strictures, many of them greatly aggravated by the careless use of instruments in the hands of inexperienced physicians and surgeons, causing false passages, urinary fistulae, and. other complications, annually consult us for relief and cure. That no case of this class is too difficult for the skill of our specialists is proved by cures reported in our illustrated treatise on these maladies, to which we refer with pride. To intrust this class of cases to physicians of small experience, is a dangerous proceeding. Many a man has been ruined for life by so doing, while thousands annually lose their lives through unskillful treatment Send particulars of your case and ten cents in postage stamps, for a large, illustrated treatise containing manyfestimonials. Epileptic Convulsions, or Fits, Pau. ralysis, or Palsy, Locomotdfr Ataxia, NERVOUS St- Vitus’s Dance, Insomnia, or inability ” - to sleep, and threatened insanity. Nervous lIIQFA2FQ Debility, arising from overetudy, excesses, and UIOLAOLO. other causes, and every variety of nervous affection, are treated by our specialists for these diseases with a measure of success heretofore regarded as impossible. See numerous cases reported in our different illustrated pamphlets on nervous diseases, any- one of which will be sent for ten cents in postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied with a statement of a case for consultation, so that we may know which one of our Treatises to send. So alarmingly prevalent are those chronic dis- - eases peculiar to females, and so famous have UISEASES Or our institutions become for their cure that we were long ago obliged to create a special-depart-WnifiCU ment, thoroughly organized, and devoted exnUmtn. clusively to the treatment of these cases. The • physicians add surgeons in this Department have made these delicate diseases their sole study. Hundreds are brought to our institutions from far distant States on beds, and they go home well and strong. Every case consulting our specialists, whether by letter or in person, is given the most careful and considerate attention. Every important case (and we get few which have not already baffled the skill of all the

examining our patients. In recognizing diseases without a personal examination of the patient, we claim to possess no miraculous powers. We obtain our knowledge of the patient’s disease by the practical application, to the practice of medicine, of well-established principles of modern science. And it is to the accuracy with which this system has endowed us that we owe our almost world-wide reputation of skillfully treating lingering or chronic affections. This system of practice, and muokow. the marvelous -success which has been attained [Mtouriniio through-it, demonstrate the fact that diseases mAnVtLUuo display certain phenomena, which, being subQnnnron jected to scientific analysis, furnish abundant uUuutuux and unmistakable data, to guide the judgment o f the skillful practitioner aright in determining the nature of diseased conditions. The most, ample resources for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skill, are thus placed within the easy reach of every invalid, however distant he or she may reside from the physicians making the treatment of such affections a specialty. Full particulars of our original, scientific system of examining and treating patients at a distance are contained in “The People’s Common Sense Medical Advi.cr.” By R. V. Pierce, M. D. 1000 pages and over :JOO colored and other illustrations. Sent, post-paid, for $1.50. Or write and describe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents in stamps, and a complete treatise, on your particular disease, will be sent you, with our terms for treatment and all particulars.

home physicians) has the benefit of a full Council, composed of skilled specialists. Our Department and rooms for ladies In the Invalids'Hotel and Surgical Institute arc so arranged as to be very private, and free from the annoyances so common in other institutions Send ten cents In postage stamps for our large Complete Treatise on Diseases of Women, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and colored plates. PILES, FISTULA IN ANO, and other disn„ eases affecting the region of the lower bowel, are r ILE largely treated, and with marvelous success, by specialists, who give their whole time to the study TIII*DOQ and treatment of this class of affections. We never I UHIUno. fail to cure pile tumors, however large. When the patient can come here for treatment, we will guarantee a cure. Fortunately for suffering humanity, a method of treatment has been perfected and thoroughly tested in our institutions, by which in from six to fifteen days radical and perfect cures of the worst forms of piles are effected without causing any severe suffering. Send ten cents in stamps for our large illustrated Treatise on Piles. I I Hernia (Breach), or Rupture, no matter of how long standing, of what size, or what the age of the patient may be (if not under four years), is speedily and radically eared in every case undertaken by our specialists, without the knife, without dependence upon trusses, without pain, and without danger. Tunniil AlillV There is no longer any need of wearing clumsy, I nnUW An Ai awkward, chafing, old trusses, which, at best, give Tniioora onJ y partial relief, which never cure, but often inflict I nUooto. great injury and induce inflammation and strangulation, from which thousands annually die. Mat There is no safety in depending upon any kind of truss, nUI though, no doubt, every man who has suffered the agonies Qirr of a strangulated hernia, and died, thought himself safe. OArt. Both the rupture and the truss keep up a mental strain and induce nervous debility and various organic weaknesses of the kidneys, bladder, and associate organs. CURES GUARANTEED in every case undertaken. Can any sufferer ask for greater inducements than these? Notwithstanding the great number of ruptures treated in the three years past, many of them of immense size and of such a character that no other plan of treatment could possibly have succeeded, every case to which this perfected system of treatment has been thoroughly has been perfectly cured. Only a few days residence at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical institute is necessary. Abundant references, by permission of those whom we have cured, will be furnished to any one wishing to call upon or write them. An illustrated treatise on Rupture sent to any address upon receipt as ten cents. ■kmmmmmkm Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature fimniTr decline of the manly powers, involuntary vital UELIuATE losses, and kindred affections, are speedily, thoroughly and permanently cured. To those acquainted with our institutions it is MiotaoLO. h ar d]y necessary to say that the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, with the branch establishment located at No. 3 New Oxford Street, London, England, have, for many years, enjoyed the distinction of being the most largely patronized and widely celebrated institutions in the world for the treatment and cure of those affections which arise from youthful indiscretions and pernicious, solitary practices. We, many years ago, established a special Department for the treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a full Council of the most experienced medical men. Wc Amo Wc offeT no apology for devoting bo much attennt Urrtn tion to this neglected class of diseases, believing lln AnflinflV no condition of humanity is too wretched to merit RU ArULUUI. the sympathy and best services of the noble profession to which we belong. Many who suffer from these terrible diseases contract them innocently. Why any medical man intent on doing good, and alleviating suffering, should shun such cases, we cannot imagine. Why any one should consider it otherwise than most honorable to cure the worst cases of these diseases, we cannot'uhderstand; and yet of all the other maladies which afflict mankind there are probably none about which physicians in general practice know so little. We fully agree with the celebrated Dr, Bartholow. who says, “ I think it a reproach to our profession that this subject has been permitted, in a measure by our own indifference, to pass into the hands of unscrupulous pretenders. Because the subject is disagreeable, competent physicians are loath to be concerned with it. The same unnecessary fastidiousness causes the treatment of thia malady to be avoided in private practice.”” , We shall, therefore, continue, as herdtnfore. to treat with our best consideration, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are suffering from any of these delicate diseases. ■ . - Our Complete and Illustrated Treatise on these subjects is sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in stamps. ALL CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY.—AIthough we have, in the preceding paragraphs, made mention of some at the special ailments to which particular attention is given by the specialists at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, yet the Institution abounds in skill, facilities, and apparatus for the successful treatment of every form of chronic ailment, whether requiring for its cure medical or surgical means. All letters of inquiry or of consultation should be addressed to WORLD’S HSPEISHT MEDICALASSOCIATIOH. oes airMC bvktalo. v. T.