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pi The Farmer Girl's Choice. i
H I am only a fanner's girl, 1
H John is only a farmer's lad, 1
?|j| But somehow, when wo chance to meet, J
The very sound of his coming feet 1
Can make my heart so glad
ij|| That up to my cheeks the warm blnsh flies,
III And he reads his welcome in my eyes.
I am only a farmer's girl,
Master Tom is the Squire's son, ,
But, strange to tell, his feet this way
Turn often toward the close of day, !
After the chores are done,
V When John (he passes the moadow gate)
jgS Gives me a scowl, and?will not wait
I am only a farmer's, girl,
|| So what can the Squire want of me ?
H My heart is John's ; John knows it well;
W But it isn't for me the truth to tell?
1| So bashful a lad is ho!?
BO tne ?quiro may come ana me squire may
go,
But all the answer he'll get is " no!"
The Squire praises my hair and eyes ;
The Squire says I'm a lady born.
What care I for his foolish speech ?
Tis John's voioe only my heart can teach
To sing like birds at morn.
But John is jealous, the foolish boy,
And my days are shorn of half their joy.
Oh, I am only a farmer's girl,
And John ia only a farmer's lad,
" But I'd rather be his in his humble lifo
Than be a " lady " as Squire's wife, 11
With a restless heart and sad !
But John?bo bashful a boy is he!?
Is a long while asking my heart of me.
JENISON'S BETWhen
the widow Coe married Jason
Carter she brought him no money at j
all; only a small, stony farm in Noppit, j I
that had been her father's and two wild j1
boys of -ten and twelye years', growth. |
Jack and Dan were hard subjects for a !1
step-father to role, and Jason Carter j
found his hands full. Naturally he was j
s quiet, genue, dui peituo?cuu iuuu, ^
his youth he had run away to sea, and 1
for fifteen years had been a common '
sailor, which had pretty well knocked
the quiet out of and the persistence into i
him, In this time he had learned to ]
swear, as a matter of course, though he <
had been strictly brought up, and went
to church and Sunday school always, i
His mother would have cried her eyes <
out to hear him talk in this fashion, but. i
she never did; his father would have |
used the rod, but he alpo was spared the i
trouble, for both father and mother had <
died before Jason came back, add-when <
he found they were gone he never went
back to Tolland, but after he got tired
of sea-going took to peddling notions ]
about the country, and at last married 1
the widow Ooe and settled down in Nop- ]
?e had stopped swearing long ago;
under dear old Father Taylor's
preaching he had been converted be
fcween his last two voyages, and though
profanity had become a habit with him, :
he had conquered it at last, after years j
of patient endeavor, and now was so i
gentle, and pleasant, and pious, that :
Fhcebe Coe thought her last days would i
be her best days.
He had come to know the widow Coe
from being an old shipmate of her brother,
John Wires; who had also left seafiring
because he had injured a knee,
and because too lame to climb rigging;
bo he : et up a small shop in Boston,
where he sold tobacco, twine, and other
odds and ends; but he had been married
and had one son, called Jenison.
This boy was about the age of widow
Coe's youngest son, for her brother had
married soon after she did, while he was
sfeOl a sailor; and when Jason Carter began
the peddling business, John Wires
?_ had told him to stop when he went
/. > through Scran ton and see his sister.
11 ?j iv.:.
.. jme cmjuren were ?uuan, auu men iuuier
living, -when Jason first saw them,
- * and they learned to look for "Uncle
Jase" every spring and fall with delight,
^ - , ? for he always brought them marbles,
tops, candy, string, and made them
bows and lutes, sure passports to a boy's
^ heart. So when their poor drunken
father died and the widow found herself
left without a penny, she moved over
to Noppit to live with her father, and
when he died, too, leaving her all he
had, the farm from which he had
scratched a scanty living, and she found
herself alone and helpless, she listened
favorably to Jason Carter's prop?al, for
- he was tired of his tendering life as she
of her loneliness, and married him. The
boys were glad, for they loved him, and
they never had loved their own father,
^ and Jafcon was as good to them as if they
were his own, though a certain thrill of
emotion shook him when his baby
daughter came, that never had troubled
that worn old heart in any emergency of
Jack or Dan. But then Celia was a girl;
of course that made it different! Jason,
when compared with his predecessor,
was as mild and pleasant about the
house as a spring day after stormy win- i
. ter. He became a useful and prominent
member in the Noppit church, and nev.
er was heard to utter a profane or impatient
word. Jack and Dan loved him
as much as healthy boys love anything
but mischief and meals, and Phcebe was
entirely happy.
True, they were poor; Jason had a
few hundred dollars laid by, but the
Noppit farm was too sterile to produce
crocs ehoncrh to snDDort the famiiv. so
he laid out his little capital, or part of
it, in a good breed of sheep,which found
abundant living among mullens, hardhack
and huckleberry bushes, and proved
in due time a profitable investment.
For in those days dogs, the curse of
New England, were by no means common
in the country; there was no reason
for keeping them, and farmers had
Money and mutton inRtead of hydrophobia
and horrors. The wool sold well
always and kept the family in socks, for
Jason's wife could spin and knit with
"wonderful rapidity; the lambs he had
not room to raise were sent to Hartford
and sold to the butchers, and now and
then a fat old wether went to the meatman's
cart in the shape of juicy quarters,
one'day more of the week was available,
and Jenison was put on his mettle, acd
laid plans accordingly. They had prayers
always before breakfast, and the
weather was so warm and the kitchen so
Vint fhit. .Tflninon spf. fha nnf,?r rlnnr nnpn
Bat the glory of the flock was a big
?black-faced ram, who terrified marauding
boys and -intruding vagabonds, and
asked no better fun than to eend somebody
heels "overhead whenever he had
. a chance. Jack and Dan had brought
him up from lambhood, but he was no
longer a lamb, and of his painstaking
education only one trait staid by him, a
distinct and aDgry recollection of the
rod that had not been spared on his
early and somewhat stupid youth. To
the day of Billy's death a little stick,
shaken before anything, would send him,
" head-on," at that luckless object, and
the boys often amused themselves by
climbing the pine rail fence and dangling
a small switch full in Billy's sight
against a big post; the result was sudden
and severe to Billy, and he might have
seriously injured himself if daddy, as
the boys called Jason, had not found
them at this sport one day and strictly
ioruiuucjl lb* uruexbjr i\j au-Luiaio wiw
one of the few things that roused his
cooler and made him imperative.
. Une summer Mrs. Carter received a
letter from her brother asking her to
take his boy for a few months; his wife
j was so feeble that she was going home to
her father's with the baby and a
young child, and Jenison could not go
with her for want of room. Mr. Wires
did not -want him in the city with him,
at a boarding-house, but was willing to
pay hiB board in Noppit; 83 he came.
jenison wires was a sharp city-bred
boy, with very little faith in anybody's
goodness. His father was a pushing,
??. money-making, profane man, and his
^ mother a meek cipher; he himself, at
the mature age of fourteen could smokand
swear and talk sailor slang glibly,
for he had run about the wharves ever
since he could run anywhere. Mrs. Car?
ter was troubled fend disgusted to find
guch a boy on her hands. Jason considered
that Providence had sent the lad
, (there for his good, and resolved to pray
- -lor him as for his own boys, to set him
-r>. its good an example as he tried to set
* . Jaok and Dan, and to "deal with him,"
as he expressed it, "with a view to his
eternal salvation." The boys thought
Jenison was wonderful. He knew to
nuch, he had Been so many things; he
lad such a pocket-knife, such marbles,
such a swagger I But when his first j{
round oath came out Jack and Dan were
startled.
"Look-a-hero!" said Jack; "don't you i
let daddy hear no such talk as that; ,
he'll tuno ye, ef he does, and no mistake."
"Whe-e-ew!" responded Jenison; "I
ain't a baby; I guese I'll swear if I want
to, for all him; he ain't so pious himself,
I bet, but what he rips out sometimes!"
"He don't! he don't never!" the boye
exclaimed in unison.
"H'm! I guess you don't hear him;
the old fellow keeps shady before folks,
but he use*! to swear like a Botany Bay
pirate. I've heerd pa say so!"
The boys were shocked into momentary
silence; but recovered themselves
Boon.
"I don't believe it!" said positive Dan.
"And if he ever did, he don't now,"
added reasonable Jack; "he's awful
good; he's a professor; he prays in
meetin' and to home too, and he don't
never scold, nor swear, nor nothin*.
Scarce ever he licks a feller; he did give
Dan and me one whalin', but he'd
oughter hev, that's a fact. Dan he
told a thunderin' lie and I backed him
up. I tell yo! we was sore for one '
spell, arter he found it out."
"Well, I know he used to swear
aboard ship. I've heard pa tell more
stories about him. They called him 1
4 Still Jase,' to be sure, but when he got
riled, the fur flew ! I'll bet my jackknife
I can make him swear inside of
next week!"
"I'll bet my head you can't!" retorted
Dan.
" I don't know as I want your head
for anything, but I'll bet my knife
against that cake o-' maple sugar you've ,
got in the closet, that I'll set Uncle Jase
a swearin' before next week's over." f
The bovs were so sure that nothing
jould make daddy swear, and so pleased
with [(their first bet of any importance, '
that they accepted the terms at once,
and Jenison began to cudgel his brains
for means of tripping up Jason Carter'e
tongue.
One day he slyly let" down the bars |
into a field of clover, getting up before
light to do it; the two cows, turned out
of the barnyard to nip at the roadside
antil Dan or Jack could drive them to
pasture, accepted the bait, entered the
ulover, and rioted in its fragrant crimson
spheres, half killing themselves with j
jreedy feeding. Jack found* them half
an hour after chores were done, in the i
jonditiou that results to cows from j
sating green clover, and Uncle Jason j
worked over the poor creatures all day, j
without a word of impatience, though j
he said mare than once: wish I.
knew who let down them bars; I'd
kinder like to say a word in season to
turn."
The pins were taken out of the oxyoke
and never found, egg-shells strewed
the mow, while the family never could
have any eggs for their own use, the
nests being always empty; the great
gray cat's tail was singed to bareness,
and her ears snipped, but Uncle Jase
never swore or lost his temper; his
scythe-snath disappeared, but he borrowed
another; the grindstone was
soaped, the haycutter broken, hoes and
rakes disappeared when wanted, and re?
appeared when useless; his razor was
mislaid and hopelessly dulled when he
found it, and a thousand petty annoyances
heaped on him in vain; he only
said to his wife, "It does beat all,
Phoebe, what's got inter things this
week; seems as if I never was so pestered.
It ain't in human natur for
things to happen so; somebody's doin'
on't, I feel to believe; but I declare for't j
I can't see into it a mite."
Jack and Dan began to triumph; only
wide this morning, and stepping out,
just as his uncle laid down the Bible,
under pretext of scaring an old hen
away, the boy opened a Httle side gate
into the lot where he had previously
driven the old rami laying a train of
salt to a big lump on the doorstep, retreated
speedily to the kitchen and knelt
down next to Mr. Carter, where he had
left his chair. Billy had seen the tin
pan in Jenison's hand, and knew it
meant salt; he followed the train surely
to the door, and having begun to nibble
the lump heard an earnest and accus
tomed voice near by and looked np into
the kitchen door. Jason was praying
earnestly, and the rest had their eyes
closed and heads bent?all bnt Jenison,
who was watching Billy from under hiB
arm. Ab he saw the ram look in, he
picked up a short switch from under his
chair, and held it threateningly over his
uncle's back. Billy gave one great leap
across the floor, charged Uncle Jase in
the rear, and sent him sprawling.
"Damn that ram 1" he roared, in a
voice of thunder.
Jack and Dan sprang up at once,
drove Billy out and shut the door, but
before they could speak their father was
j on his knees again, pouring out such
earnest, humble confession of the sin he
had been betrayed into, such tearful petition
for pardon, such heartfelt contrition
for a lapse that seemed to him
dreadful, after long years of prayer and
struggle, that hard and bad as Jenison
Wires was, he could not bear it; it was the
turning point of the boy's life; he got
up from his knees and confessed the
whole thing to his uncle, and asked his
I fnrtnvftn Asa ? and the other bovs cried
heartily.
Jason' Carter never forgot that day;
it was remembered with humility and
thankfulness both; for years after JeniBon
told him, with deep feeling, that he
had learned then and there to respect
religion, and that is the first step toward
desiring and obtaining it.
Jenison never claimed his bet, but
when he went home gave Dan his knife
for a remembrance; and years after Deacon
Jason Corter was dead and gone, his
step-son recalled with affection, reverence
and amusement mingled, the only
oath they ever heard him speak, and
how it was brought about by Jenison's
bet.?Roue Terry Cooke, in Sunday
Afternoon.
Spider Thread.
The natural fierceness of spiders prevents
their labors from being utilized
for tho benefit of mankind. They cannot
be bred and kept together. Four
or five thousand being distributed in
cells, fifty in some, one or two hundred
in others, the big ones soon killed and j
ate the smaller ones, so that in a short !
time there were scarcely above one or
fTrr? in oo/>Vi poll ami tn thin iniVli- I
nation of devouring their own species is
attributed the scarcity of spiders, when
compared with t(ie vast number of eggs
they lay. It is also affirmed that the
web of 'the spider is inferior in strength
and lustre to the silkworm, and produces
less of the material fit for use.
The thread of the spider's web can only
bear a weight of two grains without
breaking; and the bag sustains the
weight of thirty-six grains. The thread
of a silkworm w>ii bear two grams and
a half, bo that five threads of the spider !
are necessary to form a cord equal to |
that of a silkworm ; and as it would be ;
impossible to apply these so closely i
together as to avoid leaving any empty !
I space, from which the light would not j
be reflected, the lustre would conse- I
qupntly be considerably less. Spiders
afford less silk than silkworms, the work j
of twelve only equaling that of one silk j
worm; a pound of silk will require at i
least twenty-seven thousand, six hun- j
dred and forty-eight spiders. But as j
the bags are solely the work of the {
females, who spin them to deposit their j
arrrra fVkavA mnof VlA If Ark f. !
~e>e>" ***f ??- c - ?J
thousand, two hundred and ninety-six
spiders to yield one pound of 6ilk ; and
this will apply to the good ones only,
the spiders in gardens barely yielding a
twelfth part of the silk of the domestic
kinds ; two hundred and eighty of them
would not produce more than one silkworm,
and six hundred and sixty-three
thousand, five hundred and fifty-five
such spiders would scarcely yield a
pound of silk ! From this it will be seen
that the manufacture of spider silk is a
difficult and most impossible undertaking.
There is a wonderful power in the
imagination, but it gets weak in the
knees when it undertakes to shoulder
circus lemonade.? Cincinnati Breakfast
Table, I
TIMELY TOPICS.
A late invention combines an ironingtable,
step-ladder and a chair.
The exact cost of the construction of
the Paris Exposition buildings and
grounds is now estimated at 45,300,000
francs, or S9,060,000.
Liebig's experiment of curing intemperance
by a strictly farinaceous diet,
has been tested in twenty-seven cases in
this country with very good effect.
Professor Riley, the government entomologist,
estimates that the annual loss
to agriculture in the United States from
destructive insects is not less than 8150,000,000.
The great middle State streams, like
the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio, are
being stocked by Professor Baird's fish
hatching establishment with millions of
shad eggs and California salmon.
There was lately a meeting of leading
hi" 11* merchants in China to protest against
the introduction _ of the telegraph, as
they apprehend that it will be injurious
to thoir trade.
Mrs. Bell, of Oxford, Mich., has not
eaten a particle of solid food for twenty
years, a cancerous affection of the stomach
having made it so painful to her
that she has lived on liquids, and still
she has done her housework most of the
time.
It is only within the past six years
that the Japanese have attempted to
make use of tho petroleum wells existing
within their domains. Now several
refining establishments are in operation,
and the manufacture of kerosene oil has
become an important industry.
Frederick Hasse graduat3d at the head
of his class in a German university, in
1870. He -was heir to S80.000, and ins
prospect of a successful career could
hardly have been brighter. A few days
ago he died in St. Louis, where he had
for a year been a porter in a medical
college. An appetite for opium killed
him.
On the recent arrival in Paris of the
Shah of Persia,hislsuite comprised fifteen
officials and ten servants. Inclufled in
the Shah's baggage were thirty-six
boxes of gold coins, each containing
824,000. Eighteen men were detailed
by the hotel proprietor to watch the
baggage, and in addition the chief of
police sent twelve men for the purpose.
One of Mr. Edison's chief characteristics
is said to be a . strong reliance upon
himself. In other words, he never gets
\l7 U/M-i if TTTOd fo
UlBUUUiagCU. nucuiu nuu
him to try a diamond-pointed needle for
the phonograph, he said, "I intend to,
bnt I cannot get the lapidaries in New
York to mane just what I want. So I
am going to rig up the necessary mechanism
and make a diamond-pointed needle
myself."
In some, parts of China crickets are
regularly trained for combat, by beiDg
kept in small, earthenware pots, with a
nine mouiu uiiu u Liuj uup ui watcij
and fed on fish, insects, boiled chestnuts
and boiled rice. If they catch cold their
health is restored by rations of mosquitoes.
At the oricket pit they are matched
according to size, weight and color,
and a cricket that wins many victories
is highly honored, and bnried in a small
silver coffin when it dies.
The Smithsonian Institution, which
has been engaged for more than a quarter
of a century in researches into the
antiquities of America, and lias during
that time published many important
memoirs on the subject, is about to
issue an exhaustive work on American
archreology with numerous illustrations
and maps. The institution, therefore,
is anxious to collect from eveiy available
source whatever is known or can be
ascertained by special investigation, of
the antiquities of North America, and it
invites the co-operation of all interested
in the work.
Upon the appearance of rolling-chairs
at the Paris Exposition nobody could be
induced to ride in them. At last an old
gentleman, being much entreated and
being promised that the trip should copt
him nothing, took his seat and was
wheeled about. Everybody he met
smiled, then laughed, then laughed
louder, and presently he had a large
surrounding. In disgust he left the
chair, and then loana mat a piacaru
upon it said that it was " especially use^
ful for elderly and weak persons, particularly
for men suffering from the results
of overdrinking."
Some years ago the experiment of
bridging Broadway, New York, for the
convenience of foot passengers was tried,
and afterwards the bridge was abandoned.
Now Paris intends to adopt the
bridge plan, and arched gangways will
be erected over the boulevards, leading
from pavement to pavement. These
" passerelles " will form double archec
at the meeting of four streets, two
bridges crossing one another diagonally
m tne very miaaie 01 ine street/, uuc
being so connected that the passengers
on arriving at the central point maj
take any one of the three directions
that is to say, may either go straight on
or turn at straight angles to the right 01
left.
The question whether postal officials
have a right, under any circumstances,
except by due process of law, to oper
letters or sealed packages in the mails,
has again been answered in the negative
by the Supreme Court of the United
States. "Sealed mailed matter,'
says the decision, "is as fully guarded
from examination and inspection, excepl
as to their outward form and weight,
as if ihey wero retained by the partiei
forwarding them in their own domiciles,
The Constitutional guarantee of the
right of the people to be Becure againsl
unreasonable searches and seizures ex
tends to their papers, thus closed againsl
inspection, wherever they may be. Nc
law of Congress can place in the hands
of officials connected with the postal
service any authority to invade the secrecy
of the sealed packages in the
mail.'.'
France reckons two braves more. A
OTioVt/w? omnnff flic
JULLCU1UU ai 1U1UOO 1 uouwu Wiuvug wmv
burning ruins of a bouse to save his
captain and a clergyman, who were
buried beneath the floor in endeavoring
to rescue the inmates, The firoman remained
tryiug to extricate the captain,
but without avail, till the flesh peeled
off his hands and face. He haa died
from his wounds, has been buried at
the nation's expense, and for a montb
hiB name will be read out first on the
roll-rail of every regiment in the army.
Jean Plantier is a pointsman, and a few
months ago, in endeavoring to close the
gates of a crossing, he was struck down
by a goods train, and his arm amputated.
Not a soul was within reacb, and aware
that an. express train was due, he tied
up the bleeding stump, and remained at
his post till a station-master, informed
by the engine-driver that some accident
had occurred, picked up the arm from
the rail and succored the hero.
William Cullen Bryant's summer residence
was at the home of his boyhood,
in Cummington, among the hills of
western Massachusetts. The farm ie
rough, and the_house stands on what is
called Zion's Hill. Some 01 tue iann
has been made fertile by drainage nnd
enriching. Mr. Bryant bought the
place about twelve years ngo, and partly
rebuilt the old house, which is two stories
in height, painted brown, and has a
dormered roof. He spent several months
of every fall and summer there, and hie
/lonnVifava Ktta/3 Ttrifll VniYI HI* Ifl thf?
UaUJ^UCOAD JlfOVI UilAi
neighborhood. He usually walked several
miles to church every Sunday, and
almost invariably slept through the sermon.
A writer in the Springfield Republican
says: "He almost lived out of
doors, caring little for the weather, and
ready with the axe or pruning knife, or
anything that gave hearty exercise. At
seventy-five he conld leap into the air,
catch at a bough, and swing himself
along by it like a very boy, and we presume
keooold even later than that. Any
one driving or walking in that vicinity
as liable to spy (he poet in woodi or
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field under a broad-brimmed straw, his
great Bnowy beard and slender figure
attracting the eye among any number of
other men; and his tense, -wiry way of
walking, as if it were no effort at all, but
something purely mechanical, was very
peculiar."
Steinberg's Goose.
A New York paper says: Gustave
Schmidt, who is noted for the interest
he takes in rifle shooting, entered the
saloon of John Lutz, and drew from his
pocket a fine revolver which he bad recently
purchased, and which he exhib- ?
ited with pride to Lutz and to those of
his friends who were in the Baloon at the
time. Schmidt spoke boastingly of his
own powers as a marksman, and offered H
to make a bet of ten dollars that he could
hit a mark at the other end of the room, j
"Do you see that goose," said Lutz,
contemptuously, pointing to a fowl that g]
could be seen through the open door
waddling obout the back yard. "You
give me a dollar and I'll let you fire I
three shots at her, and if you hit her
once you can have her."
Schmidt accented the offer, and fired rn
from -where he -wan standing, bringing
down the goose. A roar of laughter
greeted his achievement. He walked I
proudly into the yard and took the
goose, supposing that the merriment M
was at Lutz's expense. As he entered
the saloon with the fowl in his hand, the
side door of the saloon was thrown violently
open and an angry man ran into
the saloon. This was Henry Steinberg,
the owner of the goose. His first act was d
to knock Schmidt down, and his second ii
was to explain his reasons for doing. *
When Schmidt understood how he had a
been taken in, he kicked Lutz down a
and demanded the return of his money, n
Steinberg in the meantime busying him- bi
self in asking both of them to pay for o
the goose. The noise attracted the at- tl
tention of Officer Wheeler, who entered p
the saloon. After some discussion he ti
i arrested Lutz on the complaint of r
Schmidt, who charged him with obtain- fi
incr nns /Jnllnr hv falfifi nratenses: li
Schmidt, on the complaint of Lutz, on a ii
charge of assault and battery, and Stein- li
berg on a similar charge, aiso made by b
Schmidt. * h
When the prisoners were taken to the f<
station-house, and the sergeant* heard n
with wondering eyes the various com- ?
plaints, he turned to Wheeler and asked o
if that were all. "Why, no," was the li
answer; " Lutz was selling liquor with- o
out a license. Schmid t hasn't a permit to b
carry that pistol, and that the other man, o
Steinberg, hasn't got any permit from o
the Board of Health to keep his goose." t
When the prisoners were taken before tl
Justice Flammer, in the Essex Market n
Police Court, recently, a long investiga- v
i tion was held, and the court room was
, crowded by the friends of the three s
prisoners. Lutz said it was all a joke, v
and gave back the dollar, withdrawing t:
his charge against Schmidt. The latter,' '
touched by this spirit of conciliation, h
withdrew his charcres acrainst Lutz and s
i Steinberg, and the owner of the goose t
forgave the marksman, when the latter I
and the saloon keeper each promised to s
pay half tho value of the goose. Their L
! misunderstandings being over, they ex- p
pected to be allowed to go. But just 1
then Officer Wheeler and his charges v
loomed up like grim Tate. Justice t
Flammer required Lutz to give $100 o
bail on a charge of violating the excise s
law, held Steinberg in the same amount s
for keeping geese without a permit and ii
fined Schmidt $5 for carrying a pistol b
without a permit. p
The Tides and the Earth. 8
Tides are caused mainly by the moon, ^
as it were, catching hold of the waters t
as tho earth revolves round on its axis.'
This must cause friction on the earth, as ^
it revolves, and friction, as every ono
knows, causes loss of power. Suppose
a wheel with hair round its rim, like a
circular brush such ns is used for hair- .
brushing by machinery; if this brush
be revolving rapidly, and we hold our
hand ever so lightly on the hair, so that
it is slightly rubbed baokward as the ?
wheel revolves, we can understand that
the speed of the wheel will be gradually ?
diminished, until at last it will bo ^
brought to a standstill, provided that
there is no additional power communicated
to the wheel by machinery or hand
beyond what was given to set it spinning
round. Now this is somewhat analo- g
i gous to what is happening to the earth
i in its rotation. There is reason to supi
pose that the action of the tides is slow- .
[ ly but surely lessening the speed of the
i earth's rotation, and consequently in,
creasing the length of the day, and this
[ action will continue until the earth re- y
. volves on its own axis in the same time
flint fV> n mAAn folrac f/v rnrnl rra vr\vi n rl 1
, HUM U Vliu IUVUU bUUUU W AWTVilW * V IVMV? r
, the etu-th. Then the earth, instead of
being twenty-four hours as now, -will be .
about twenty-eight days, and the earth
; wiJl be exposed to the full blaze of the j.
s sun for about fourteen days at a time.
The change.this will bring about on the c
1 face of the earth can hardly be exagger- J"
) ated. All life, both animal and vegita[
ble, will be destroyed;all water will be
r evaporated; the solid rocks will be t
j scorched and cracked, and the whole
, world reduced to a dreary and barren
, wilderness. It. is supposed by some
r that the moon has already passed
[ through all this, hence its shattered and .
, bare-looking surface. That the earth
r being so much larger, has more quickly
. acted upon the oceans which once were ?
[ 1 upon the moon's surface and stopped ?
. i almost entirely its revolution round its
own axis, thus causing it to have a day ;
equal to twenty-eight of our days, and "
, the heat of the sun has already done to |
it what in future ages it will do to the 1
[ earth.?"Sciencefor All." ?
> Combative Utah Ants. c
, Among the mnny curiosities of Utah, i
, the red and black ant is excelled by t
, none. One of those ants, weighing only a
one-fourth of a grain, troy, can draw
' four graius, or sixteen times its own t
J weight, with appareut ease. As a war- I
' rior, its courage is wonderful. The \
, other day I witnessed an attack of four o
ants, one after another, on a green \
[ worm, and each retired from the con- i
fact badly wounded, the worm resisting c
| the attack vigorously. The wounded T
, ants meeting companions," reported their I
troubles, and soon seven ants were seen ^
I advanciug in a line of battle on his 6
' I wormship, when a bard battle tooK a
place. The worm made frantic efforts
I to relieTe himself, but all in vain. In
' j one minute from the time of the attack,
| the worm was lifeless, the ants still a
( I holding to him. I placed them in wrter, F
, when to all appearances they became 1
; lifelesB, but Btiil held their grip on the E
worm. I then placed them in the warm a
; rays of the sun for ten minutes, when c
, they were all right again, and hauled ^
. their victim off to their hill.?Corre'
ftpondcnt Salt Lake Tribune. 0
The Siamese Twhis Outdone. j
There is on exhibition in Now York a _
s natural enriosity that far surpasses in J-j
j wonfler the celebrated Siamese twins. It q
I is a pair of twins, with two heads and ^
i: two pairs of arms, but only a single pair g
[ I of legs. The trunks aro joined at the ^
; ' thighs, the two backbones forming a V, g
[ and every part of the children, with the v
; exception of this one freak of nature, is j(
j perfect. Their sex is female, and they ^
j are both pretty little babies, not the j(
, dwarfed and puny creatures that are ^
; usually exhibited. They are known as
the St. Benoit twins, having been born g
I in the Canadian town of that name. The e
i parents are both with the children, and ^
i take pride in exhibiting them to the
. public. They have ono other child, a
. girl of two years, entirely free from
i blemish. The parents are twenty-six c
years old, their names are Drouni, and n
they can BpeaK no .augiiBn. j.ue uuu- i?
, dren are about six months old, and give li
pverv nromise of crowine to woman- o
* * ?j c ? U w
> hood. a
i n
American Organs at the Paris Ex* c
, hibition. ?Every American visiting our u
. Section will conceive a legitimate pride s;
at the well-merited praise whioh he will tl
1 hear from the great European musical o
critics who constantly swarm around o
Messrs, Mason & Hamlin's Cabinet Or- a
i gans, and openly acknowledge that t;
nothing in Europe can be compared
' with the Exhaust Bellows and Separate h
Vibrators peculiar to American Organs, tl
as especially perfected in the Mason & b
Hamlin instruments.?Paris (Franoe) <y
Register, June 1,1878. tl
FOB THE YOUNG PEOPLE. g
Little Impatience.
It takes so many hours to make a'day!
It takes so many days to make a year!
My seventh birthday seems so far away, ir
And yet my eighth, they say, is nowhere $
near!
J
The robins' nest out in the cherry-tree C
Held four young birds,?naked, and weak ?
and small,
A month ago!?bo faBt they grew, you see, 0
There's not a robin in the nest at all! S
o
hey flow, full grown i?and I'm no bigger now tl
Than when the nest was built that one can 1
see. ?
&
ow robins grow bo fast, and girls bo slow,
Is very strange indeed, it seems to me. ^
wonder how 'twould seem to be seventeen, j
And wear long dresses like my Cousin Sue, c
he has a watch,?the prettiest ever seen, 9
And winds it all herself,?as I Bhould do.
s'poae I shall be married too, some day, s
Ab mamma was. I've seen her veil and ?
dress; hoy're
in the bureau draw, laid away, fl
She's saving them for me to wear, I gue<" ~
?
wonder who I'll have! Not Cousin ' e
Nor teasing Clare ! Maybe my cnele Tim. . t
ly papa la uie hicubi man i auuw;
Bat mamma's very sore ahe oan't spare himl g
?Joy AUison. p
Trermnre* from the Deep. 0
"The Beii," says a writer who has a
eeply studied the subject, " contains c
i it? bosom an exuberance of life, of j
rhich no other region of the globe r
fiords any idea. Our forests do not
fiord an asylum to nearly so many ani- ]j
ials as do those of the ocean. For the n
ea has its forests, long marine herbs, *
r the floating banks of sea-weed which
tie waves have detached. If we could
lunge our glances into the liquid crys- M
al of the Indian ocean, we should see a
ealized therein the fairy tales of our in- t!
incy. Fantastic shrubs decked with t!
iving flowers, the richest colors glow- [j
ag everywhere; greens and browns, the p
iveliest reds, and the most intense t
lues. The sand is sprinkled with sea- o
edgehoga and sea-stars, of fantastic
arms and varied colors. The sea-ane- ?
lones, like great cactus flowers, adorn y
he rocks with their crowns, or spread o
ver the ocean like a flower-bed of bril- ti
iant flowers. The humming-birds of 6
cean, small, gleaming fishes, some *
right, with a metallio splendor of blue ^
r vermilion, some with a gilded green i
r dazzling silver luster, play around h
he coral bushes. Light as spirits of
he abyss, the white or blue bells of the *
ledqaa float through this enchanted *
rorldT" b
But if ouif coasts do not present us n
uoh a fairy land as this, they yet pro- b
id? us with many wonderful and beau- 8
iful things. See, here is an oyster. ?
'Not much beauty here," you say. No, a
mt much to wonder at. He does not t
eem well placed for happiness, ti
houffh without a doubt he has his iovs. &
lis life is spent between two heavy,
tony plates, with which he can secure ?
timself. Those lovely things called t
'earls are, however,his special treasure, ti
?hey are caused by wounds made by p
rorms boring the shells and hurting
heir bodies. Pearly matter is thrown
ut freely on the injured spot, which p
oon becomes a pearl of greater or less 2
ize. Or sometimes a grain of sand gets
ato the oyster's house and irritates h
iim, upon which ho coats it over with ?
1 early matter. *
Here is a little crab. It lives, you |
ee, in a hard shell. The shell ddea not ?
tow, but the crab does, and therefore c
ie wants a new shell now and then. 8
Vhen he feels that he must cast off his ?
Id shell he first of all gets into some 1
lole, where lie can lie safely while he is B
nnrl liaitiiass thfln lift cofis with- t
ut food until he is very thin, and his ^
lothes hang about him, as we say. In [
bis state a new Bhell, Boft and elastio, v
arms about his body. Then the crab a
trnggles and splits his old shell, and i
mils his long legs out of his boots. r
^hen he has got safely over this Btrange ?
irocess the crab increases rapidly in r
ize, and his new suit becomes in a fow a
ays as hard as his former one.
Here is a star-fish, or asteria, often <
ailed the five-finger. Its mouth, you (, ?
ee, is in the middle of the under side, [
nd it is a great devourer of small shell- t
ish. It is considered so destructive to t
ysters, that by old laws, every man was I
iable to be punished who did not kill 1
he five-finger when he saw it.
And what is this mass of jelly ? It is ^
creature called the medusa, or sealettle.
It has received its latter name j
lecause it makes your skin smart when ,
'ou touch it. While the medusa is J
loating, many tentacles or nets may be !
een hanging from its underside. With
tiese it catclies food, if you taue a | *
aedusa alive, you will find it impossible j
o hold it in your fingers. It will divide t
13to parts and fall a shapeless mass.
Sometimes these strange animals may bo
een below a ship's keel, glowing like ^
rhite-hot cannon balls. t
Perhaps the most wonderful crea- 4
ures of all, if we consider their works, i
ire the Polypi. These animals are of a ?
soft, jelly-like substance, sometimes J
haped like a bell or a pill-box. The i
iea-anemones, as they are called, belong C
o this class. Bound an opening or 8
nouth in the upper side are arranged a *
mmber of armB, like the petals of a dally,
by moans of which the creature ,
leizes his prey. The prey is sometimes i
[uite as large as the polypi itself, but i
t is sucked into the interior and there e
leBtroyed; the shell, if there is one, be- '
ng vomited forth afterwards. This (
mimal-flower is fixed on a rock, along t
vhich it can slowly crawl. t
The polypi form the substances called 4
soral and madrepore. By their means
mmense reefs of solid rock, which stem *
he mighty waves and form large islands, i
ire raised m mm uuuiui.
One of the most useful treasures of i
he sea is the Sponge. It is believed to 1
>e an animal, but the lowest of all ani- c
uals. No feelings have ever yet been
liscovered in the sponge, though it has ^
>een pinched and tortured with red-hot ,
rouB. It is pierced in all directions by c
anals, out of which opening streams of *
rater are being constantly discharged. 1
it is supposed the creature sucks the l
eater into its body by small pores, and e
;ets rid of it when it has drained it of
,11 its nourishing matter. c
^ j t
Fabulous Yield of tlie Bonanzas. ! j
A San Francisco paper says: Credible !1
uthority estimates the total yield of i r
trecious metalB in Peru from. 1630 to i t
803 as 81,232.000,000, of which three !
nines?the Oerro de Pasco, Hualgayoc, a
nd Hnantazaya?yielded in round fig- *
ires $850,000,000. Nearly two-fifths of
his enormous sum was the product of a
he Oerro de Pasco mine. But the $340,00,000
yield by this historical mine was
he aggregate for a period of 173 years, c
Jetweeu 1545 and 1789 the total yield of s
'otosi was $1,000,000,000. The present
ield of the 1,000 or more mines in the
istrict is less than $2,500,000 annually. J
Compared with the product of the
ionauzas, these mines, which placed fl
Ipain in the front rank of the nations of! a
he earth, nnd through which only her j C
;reat military and naval achievements ; *
rare possible?these tales of almost fabu- : 4
jus wealth pale into insignificance. Of |
be $275,000,000 which the Oomstock ! J,
Dde has yielded since its discovery twen- j j
y years ago, ?iuu,uuu,uuu una dkbu , u
iken alone from the Consolidated Vir- j ii
inia and California mines. Nearly |
very dollar of this vast amount has been j8
iken out since 1873. 11
?? 1
Lumps of Lightning.
The Indiana State Journal tells this | 6'
urioue farm field incident: Recently a : p
ian while ploughing near Battle Creek, .11
tich., was startled by a flash of blinding ?
ight. It was mid-day, and the sky was tj
lear. There were no clouds in Bight, g
a i j ? i ?
na no report wan ucmu, ou hiuk wmu i
ot be attributed to lightning. The ! ?
ause of the flash remained a mystery I *
ntil a day or two ago, when a close in- ?
pection of the neighborhood disolosed f
he presence on the ground of a number
f fragments believed to be of meteoric ti
rigin. They are black on the inside, ?
nd of light weight and but little densi- ^
f, resembling cinders from a body a
rhich had been subjected to intense si
eat. The outside is covered with a 0
rin, glossy coating, probably formed ^
y the melting of the outer surface iu ?
DUsequence of friotion while passing ^
irough the atmosphere. n
?
I
dfc
ITJMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle State*
Thirteen buildings were destroyed by a fire
t Buffalo, N. Y., entailing a loss of about
ICO,000.
While soveral of tho boys of the New Yorli
uvenile Asylum were playing base ball, James
rawley, aged fourteen, was accidentally struck
n the hcsd by a bat in the hands of William
[amilton, aged twelve, and instantly killed.
There was some impediment in the working
f the blast furnace of Stephen Bobbins A
on s, Philadelphia, and an effort was made tc
ool it off, when an arch of fire waa formed ii
be furnace, which fell into the water beneath
'he great steam pressure thus formed fatally
calded the superintendent, John McChesngy
nd badly injured six other men.
William E. Gray, who swindled New Yorl
ankers and others out of large sums by alter
ig the face value of bonds, and then fled t<
lurope, where he continued his nefarioui
porations. evading justice for a long time
rrived in New York the other day in charge o
> detective.
Tom Ballard, a noted counterfeiter who wai
erving a term of thirty years in the Alban;
N. Y.) penitentiary for making counterfei
Jnited States notes, stabbed himself in variou
tarts of the body with a shoemaker's knife, in
lioting fatal wounds.
At a conference with New York banker
lecretary Sherman said that ho would begin b
sake specie payments on August 1st, and tha
ie had in the treasury 8121,000,000 In gol<
xclusively for the purpose? of resumption.
The most important changes made recentl;
re the removals or uenerai arcnu: iruu vm
osition of collector of the poii of Now Tori
nd A. B. Cornell from the position of nava
fficer of the same city. General Arthur ii
ucceeded by General E. A. Merritt and Mr
lornell by Colonel S. W. Burt While Congrosi
ran in session the President nominated Mr
toosevelt for collector but the nomination wai
ejected by the 8enate.
The following persons have been killed b;
ightning recently: Charles P. Oakes, age<
ine, near Babylon, N. Y.; Annie Finch, a
Iillville, N. J., and Hezekiah Shaler, at Had
am, Conn. <
The receiver of the suspended Teutonia sav
3ga bank, of Now York, has made a discover
rhjch implicates the whole board of trustee'
s well as officers of the bank in operations o
he most nefarious character. The secretly o
ho institution has confessed that he was in thi
abit of buying bonds, charging upon thi
ooks a higher price than what he aotuall;
aid, and dividing the difference among thi
rustees. He a]eo confessed that the salarie
f the president, treasurer and secretary at om
ime were divided into two parts; one part wai
aid to those officers while the other was share*
mong the trustees. Altogether $29,344 wen
bus fraudulently divided. Civil action to re
over this amount has been begun, and thi
rustees have been put under bail in flO,00<
ach. One trustee nas made affidavit that hi
eceived money at various times from the sec
etary, but supposed it was commissions ti
? 4 * " ii-'-.#
-men ne was uuruj uuutiou. xjuu gtoai. u.ority
of the ^bank's depositors are people ii
.umble circumstances.
Dr. W. F. Carver, the phenomenal marksmai
rom the Pacific 8lope, has performed the mos
ronderftU feat of endurance in rifle ehootinj
n record. At the Brooklyn Driving Park hi
roke 5,500 glaas balls with a rifle inside of 501
linntes. The feat required great strength anc
kill, as the marksman was required to lift i
un weighing over ten pounds to his shoulde
lore than 6,000 times in the specified time
)r. Carver nearly failod in hiB task, owing t<
n inflammation iu his eyes which caused in
anse suffering, but he persisted in his under
iking, and at the close had forty-one minute
o spare.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes cro]
eports from a large number of places in Ohio
ndiana and Kentuoky, which indicate tha
here is not only a greater acreage of whea
ban in any former year, bnt that the average
roduot per acre is larger than ever before.
Western and Southern State*.
The number of hostile Indians on the war
ath in Idaho and Oregon is estimated at abou
,500.
Democratic State conventions have beei
eld in Michigan and Missouri. In the forme
hn Hnk-nf. nnminnffi/l in headed bv Orlando M
tarnea for governor, and the platform |adopte<
rraigns the Republican party, endorses th
'residential election investigation, declare
hat "gold and silver coin are the money of th
Jonstitntion, and that all paper currencj
honld be convorted into such coin at the wii
f the holder," and is "opposed to the furthe
orcible reduction of the volume of currency,
n Missouri the platform adopted opposes larg
tanding armies, declares that while the quee
ion who should be President is sottled "tha
lecision ought not to preclude a full investiga
ion and exposure of all frauds connected wit]
hat election and the accountability of all wh
rere guiltily concerned," denounces the nation
,1 banking system, says greenbacks should b
nade a legal tender, demands the repeal of th
esumption act, urges Mississippi river im
irovementB, sympathizes with and promise
elief to the working classes, and advocates
eduction in expenditures of national, Stat
,nd munieipa^governments.
A battle has taken place in Northwester
)regon between the Indians and General How
,rd's troops, in which the latter were succeef
ul, driving the hostiles from one fortiflod poBi
ion to another and pushing them so hard tha
hey abandoned many of their horses. Th
roops had flvo men wounded and about twent
torses killed. The loss of the Indians ooul
tot be ascertained.
At Galesburg, HI.. Mrs. Spanlding, divorce
fife of Martin O'Conor, killed him with a r<
rolver shot and then wounded herself fatall;
Mike Shaw,'We murderer, was hanged <
Jilledgeville, Ga., in presence of five thousan
>eople, and at Princess Anne, Md., Hirai
?ooke (colored) was hanged for the murder c
i colored youth.
A gang of about 250 tramps captured a rai
oad train in Wisconsin, when the militia an
sitizens of Madison came to the rescue, caugl
orty-seven of the tramps and dispersed tt
est.
From (Washington.
During the twelve months ended June Si
.878, the issues of ordinary postage stamps t
he post ofiice department amounted to $19
168,618. as against $18,181,696 for the prece<
ng year. The issues of newspaper stamps ij
ireased from $1,000,605 to $1,093,845, and tt
ssuos of stamped envelopes and wrappers d<
ireased from $4,616,932 to $4,605,774. Thei
mes of postal cards increased from abont 170
100,000 in number to 200,063,000. The tot
amount of increase in the issues for eale to tt
rablic was $1,975,169 or 7% per cent., as con
rnred with the previous year.
General Sherman has called the attention c
ill officers of the army to the clause of th
irray appropriation bill which declares it sha
lot be lawful for any part of the army to t
imployed as a posse cmnitatua, or otherwisi
'or the purpose of executing laws. Generi
Sherman concludes his orders by directin
)fficers not to permit the use of troops undc
heir command to aid the civil authorities i
he execution of laws, except as provided b
he constitution and Congress.
The acting secretary of the treasury has ii
ined the sixty-first call for the redemption i
>-20 bonds of 1865, consols of 1865. The ca
s for $5,000,000, of which $2,500,000 are cot
>on and $2,500,000 registered bonds. Tt
>rincipal and interest will be paid at the treai
try on and after the 11th day of October nox
md the interest will cease on that day.
The national bureau of education hasobtaii
id five spacious apartments for tho display c
L largo collection of educational articles whic
rere presented to the United States at th
ilose of the Centennial Exposition by variou
oreign governments. The collection contair
leariy 4,000 distinct classes of articles, roprc
lonting the entire educational apparatus an
nethods of nearly every European country, an
everal of the 8outh American States.
Allegod stupendous frauds have been dif
:overed by a Washington commissioner anion
he Indian agencies in the vicinity of Yanktot
Dakota Territory. A recent investigation hn
ed to the discovery of a conspiracy betwee
.gents and traders in which vouchers and paj
oils were forced and government material use
or private gain to a startling extent.
Whilo the customs returns have fallen c)
omewhat of late, the internal revenue receipt
lavo increased largely.
Mr. Dodge, statistician of the department o
,griculture, has rosigned.
Forolen News.
Prince Mian has issued a proclamation de
laring the independence of Servia, which wa
ecured by the treaty of San Stefano and rati
ed by the European congress.
Hoedel, who attempted to assassinate thi
Jmperor of Germany, lias oeen sentenced u
leatb.
A telegram from Sydney, New South Waloe
tates that two tribes of natives have risei
gainst the government on tho island of Nov
'aledonia and massacred 125 whites, includinj
romen and children. They have also capture!
wo military stations.
An official statement announcing the conclu
ion of the Anglo-Turkish alliai.ce is publichci
a Constantinople. The statement says tha
England has engaged t? pay the Porte $750,
00 yoarly. whereas tho presont revenue of thi
aland of Cyprus is only $600,000 per annum
Nearly all the class juries of tho Paris Expo
ition have finished their work and submittec
eports -to the group juries; tho latter havi
iassed upon the reports thns far presented
flaking very few chauges. Nothing is official
y known of the result, but it is unofficially
tated that the Americans have obtained mori
rizes than the citizens of any other countr
1 proportion to the number or exhibitors. It
no class all the American exhibitors have ob
lined medals; in another all except ono; It ii
bought the United 8tates will have five or sh
rand prizes and a liberal number of gold med
Is. Foreign jurors have expressed much ad
liration for the excellence of the articles ir
ho American section of tho Exposition. Th<
eneral commission has increased tho numbei
f gold medals twenty per cent., silver medali
arty, and bronze medals sixty per cent.
It was believed that a terrible riot woulc
ike place in Montreal on the day of the ctle
ration hv the Orantremen of the battle of the
oyne; and a large military force, consisting ol
ve infantry regimenta, one 0017)8 of artillerj
nd a troop of cavalry was drawn up ?n the
leets in readiness to* quell a conflict. Th(
rangemen made preparations to parade, and
ieir hall was sarrouuded by an excited crowd,
ome of the Orange leaders were arrested bj
rder of the mayor, and the rest then con
nded not to maroh. One young Orangem&i
uned Gilbert left the hall In a carriage to gc
to his home, and on the way he waa attacked
and terribly beaten. ai
Daring an Orange demonstration at Wiahan, ei
Scotland, a riot took place, and as swords and e]
revolvers were freely used over fifty persons
i were more or less seriously injured. "
1 The Berlin peace congress has cloaed its
labors. The treaty was signed by all the mem:
bers alphabetically, after which Count An- 61
i drassy warnfly eulogized Bismark's presidency. t<
l Toe German chancellor responded thanking j
l the plenipotentiaries for thoir indulgence. The ,'
proceedings terminated with a grand court
, dinner in the evening, at which the Grown
! Prince Frederick William congratulated the
J statesmen upon the realization of his hopes that ai
i the blessings of peace crowned their efforts. ^
, The treaty of peace contains fifty-seven articles.
j Its first twelve articles relate to Bulgaria, "
which is constituted an autonomatic tributary &
' principality, under the suzeranity of the sul- li
tan, with a Christian government and national u
1 militia. These articles further regulate the
' election of the Prince by notables at Tiraova ;
| arrange a provisional government previous to R
' his election, and lay the bases of the govorn- "
' ment after his election. Articles thirteen to ^
r twenty-one, inclusively, relate to the new prov- ?,
ince called Eastern Roumelia, south of the Bal- '
9 kans, which is placed under the direct military 7
J and political authority of the sultan, with, howt
ever, a Christian governor, and in the condis
tions of autonomous administration. Thegover
nor is to bo appointed by the porte, with the H
assent ef tho powers, for five yews. Article \
a twenty-two fixes the Russian occupation at n
3 nine months from the signature of the treaty at
t Berlin. Article twenty-three provides for
j Austrian occupation and administration of Bos- *
nia and Herzegovina. Articles twenty-four to
thirty, inclusively, relate to tho independence g
' U1 lliUUlOU^IU) iiUU^-vuo vv vuukj-uMv ?v?w?v h
to Servia : forty to fifty-fonr to Roumania and j
, the Danube ; fifty-five and fifty-six to Greece ^
and Crete: and fifty-seven to religions equality v
in the Turkish dominions.
a There has been a large fire in Thessaly,
. Greece. A village was partly burned and the c
3 harvest totally destroyed. d
f J
i The House Presidential Election Inveatl(a>
t tlon.
Secretary Sherman has written another letter t
to Mr. Potter, in which he again offers to prove t
- fraud and) intimidation injthe Louisiana elec- t
y tion? Mr. Sherman says in his letter: " In c
3 view of the facts that your committee is now e
f engaged in taking further testimony intended
f to show that the declarations set forth in the
9 various protests are not true, it seems to me j
e that I should be allowed to prove, by additional t
f testimony, that these protests are true." In c
a closing his letter Mr. Sherman says : "I have j
9 also to state that I am now prepared, at the a
a convenience of the committee to submit testi- j
s mony here in Washington to repel the charges a
1 against me, and have given to Mr. Shellabarger 1
s a list of witnesses whom I ask may be sub- E
- pcenaed." . 0
9 After an extended recess the committee met c
) again in Washington ana proceeaea to mo ex- f
9 amination of witnesses. Senator Kellogg was -
called and testified concerning the doings of f
j the returning board in 1876 and the condition j
- of affairs in Louisiana at that time. Witness (
1 then stated thatfon the face of the returns the "
Tilden electors had a majority but that the re- f
j turning board had thrown out enough votes to I
(. count in Hayes, and that this was done be- J
r came the election in some parishes had not '
3 been free and fair. After examiniog witnesses ?
3 in regard to appointments made by the Preei- o
j dent of Louisiana politicians the committee ~
t adjourned.
r When the committee met again the examina- *
tion of Mr. Kellogg was continued. Witness was j
j questioned further in regard to the Loulsana I
. election. He denied that he hadlever requested ;
. Anderson to make a forged protest, as was al- j
g leged by that witness, and contradicted all the I
assertions of Republican fraud made by Ander- I
son and Weber. This was the pith of a long "
? and tedious examination, nothing further of ~
importance having been elicited whon the (
* committee adjourned. r
4 Chairman Potter has replied to Seoretary ? !
0 8herman's last lettor in regard to offering tea- timony
concerning intimidation in Louisiana. r
Mr. Potter says: "Snould it later appear that ,,
the specific acta to which you refer have any ii
bearing on thiB conspiracy, or upon the good n
t faith of Weber or Anderson, or of the return- ing
board in respect of their protests, the com- <
a mittee will then consider the practicability of
r taking the testimony, and that in contradiction i,
. of it, or of permitting you to use instead the a
3 reports of such testimony taken before former I
a committees." <
s On the third day of his examination Senator J
e Kellogg testified further in regard to the J
y Louisiana election. Witness bad uo knowledge ,
il of any telegrams received by the visiting
r statesmen from Governor Hayes. He did not
" regard Jamos E. Anderson as trustworthy
e Witness believed that, with the exception of
i- Anderson, all the Louisiana politicians who
t had been appointed to Federal office were competent
to fill the positions. Witness was also
ti examined in regard to the forged Louisiana
o Republican election ^certificates, but nothing
i. new was elicited, and the committee adjourned
e for ten days, to meet in Atlantio City, N. J. I
e *
? Exposition Gossip.
6 A Paris correspondent gossips about
the Exposition in this style: The world
a is losing variety in styles of manufacture' t
For instance, the jewelry of England, i
[. France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Switzer- 1
,t land, Belgium, Russia and all the rest c
o is very much alike. Shift the whole lot, i
y oasA fnr and few would know the
difference. A New York jewelry house
d here models after the Japanese style. 1
j_ Private factories in Paris are turning
j. out oriental beads, charms and amulets
^ by the ton. So quick as one people ind
vent a new thing all the rest copy it.
n Every European nation here parades its
own sewing machines, and has long for- i
gotten that America invented them.
d" There is very little difference in railway
cars and locomotives, in oloths, in lace,
ie in silk goods, in calicoes, in ironware,
in confectionery, in all sorts of rum,
except in giving it different names; in
0, electric telegraphs, in hats, caps and
>y shoes, in furs and in soaps. They're all
i" monotonously alike. Can't tell them
apart. Studied the Russian Annex exhibit
for four hours the other day, and
a- when through found I had been half the
s- time in that of Austria. Only original
?* people here are the Chinese. They
*e pack their 4,000 year old fork stick and
!. spike-tail ploughs and mortar and pestle
grain mills along with them, and are as
>f proud of them as the Yankee with the
ie last new brass-tipped mower and reaper.
11 They still stick to dried toads and bugs
^ for medicine and are not ashamed to
j'] show them, either. They resolutaly cut
g loose from progress and would no more
>r tolerate a sewing machine than they
n would an Independent Bhuddist church.
y They're the only conservative people
pleft in the world, who will wear gowns
)f anil refuse to be coat-tailed and panta11
looned. The Japs fell at the first asi
sault and out-Paris Paris in bifurcated
10 and claw-tailed dandyism. I reverence
j!" the Chinaman. He will not take his
' cue from us and become a copyist.
i ,
? Joseph P. Carr was called the hand0
somest young man in St. Louis, and
is married tho belle of tho city. But notis
withstanding all this he forged a note
' for $5,000, and fled to Chicago.
The Markets.
1- K3W TOBE.
tj Bocf Cattle? Natty 09 9
Tuxts and Cherokee. 07 @ 1 >X
' Milch Oowe..., 49 00 @80 vA)
8 Hcgj?Live ., 03X@ 03*
D Drussed 08 X
81. sop 04 @ CS
d Lambf!..... 01 09
Octton?Middling Ufc? 11
- Flour?Wout;'r:i?Good to Oholoo... 4 35 @ 7 r0
State?<Jccd to Choloe 4 2J ? 5 00
8 Buckwheat, per cwt 1 07 @ 1 61
I Wheat?Bed Woatern 1 08 & 1 06
f No.? 3 Milwaukee 91 @113
Byo?State.... 67 ? 67
Earlfly?State 73 @ 74
UarltiyMs't 83 ? 83
Buckwheat 80 @ 80
- Oats?Mixed Woatern..... 31 @ 34
a Oorn?Mixed Weatorn..., 47#
. flay, por owi..... 83 (3 63
Straw, per ewt 80 @ 40
Hopt?Good to Prime 10 @ 11
9 Pork?Mesa 10 8 01: 6)
> Lard?City Steam.................. u7 (/t, u7
rich -Mackerel, No. 1, new 13 00 ?11 00
" No. 3, now 9 80 @11 00
1 I Dry Ood, per ov?t... #78 @ 4 00
* Herring, 8 ?'od, per box.... 17 @ 17
r Pitroleum?Oro C7Ji A07X Bsflned, 11
j Wool?Oalliorr jflecce :0 @ 27
Toxaa " 13 @ U
Australia!) " 89 @ 48
Btite XX 87 @ 40
- Hntvcr?8twe.. 33 @ Su
1 Woatcrr -Cholcu 24 @ 8)
t Weetern?Goodt( Prime.. C6 @ 03
Weetern?FlrklDi 07 @ 10
Cheese?State Factory 09 @ 10
State Sklnuuod..., 05>f@ 17V
western' .. i<i
. Eggs?State and Pennsylvania 10 @ 13)tf
1 BUTVALO.
9 floor... 5 75 ($ 8 25
Wheat?No. 1 Milwaukee 1 10 @ 1 10
' Corn-Mixed 42 C4 4U
? Oats 39 3 SO
' Bye 60 g 61
3 Barley 76 @ 78
f Barley Malt 65 @ 68.V
PHILADELPHIA
Beef Osttl??Sxtri, 08tf? C9* !
Sheep 05 (.4 06?<
Hogs?Dressed ^ 06'4
Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 5 CO @ 6 50
Whoai?Bed Wwitera....... 9i @ f6
Bye.... 69 @ 60
Co'n?Yellovr 4J 60
Mlxod 41 9 46
Os. -Mixed 81 S 82
Petroleum?Crude........OSi^lSiS'-* Beflnod, 10H'
Wool?Colorado...... It1 Q 26
Trim...... ]H $ 'it \
I California 20 $ 25
* BOSTON.
I BeM Cattle 08 ? 08fc
hhcep............. Cfljtf?
' Hofffl OS ? 05X
> Flour?Wleocunln accl SJInneaota.. 4 25 @ 8 60
) Corn?Mixed,.,., 63 @ 57*
i OE!Pm " .i,? .,?, ? ? . 34 @ 8fl
Wool?Ohio and Fenn?yiv?nl? XX. 40 @ 42
OftUfornla Fall 18 23
, WATB2TCWV, Kill i
' Beet Poor to Choice 4 9] 9 8 to
' Sheep.... 8 CO O 7 78
) L 7 00 ^ 9 IJ
. . m==
A small boy was asked to give an ex- t\
nple of earnestness. He looked both- |]
red for a moment, bnt his face brightled
like the <'.ow drops glistening on
le leaves of tlio rose in early morning
? Via /loli'vared himsfclf of the followim?
appy thought: "When you see a boy |
igaged on a mince pie till his nose
raches the middle plum and his ears
rop on the outer crusts, you may know
e has got it."
A large dead shark was washed ashore
t San Francisco, in whose stomach was
iscovered a man's leg, the foot of which
as inclosed in a heavy shoe with a
Dpper toe. This copper toe had cut the
ning of the fish's stomach and resulted
1 its death.
,^mm &
?
For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN8L0 W8 P>
OOTHING8YRUP has been used for children M
ith never-failing success. It corrects acidity b<
f the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates ?i
le bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, Jj
hether arising from teething or other causes, d
n old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. tl
No family should be without a box of Grace's
alve. In cases of Cuts, Burns, Scalds, FleBh
founds, &c., where a remedy is wanted imlediately,
it will be found invaluable. It will (]
lso cure Ulcers, Felons, Corns, Chapped
lands, Chilblains, old Sores, &c.
Young Housekeeper*
Ihould not forget that the way to reach a huaisnd's
heart is through his stomach. Use
)ooley's Y?ast Powder in making biscuits, "
read, cakes, rolls, muffins, etc., and they will p
? nice, light, digestible and wholesome.
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will positively u
uro chronic diarrhoea of long standing, also &
lysentary, cholera morbus, and cholera, used
nfnmollr Th?rA ia r>n rAmpriv lennwn ha val
table for immediate nee as this old life preerver.
One Bingle box of Parsons' Purgative Pills ,
aken one each night will make more new rich I
ilood that ten dollars worth of any liquid
ilood purifier now known. Those pills will
hange the blood in the entire system in three
nonths, taken one a night.
The Greatest Dlsfcovery of the Ace la Dr ,
'obias' celebrated Venetian Liniment t 30 oars before <
tie public, and warranted to a are Diarrhea, Dysentery, ,
lol^o, and Spasms, taken internally; and Oronp, Ohronle i
thenmatii-m, Sore Throats, Guts, Bruises, Old Soree, |
nd Paint in the Limbs, Back, and Chest, externally. r
t has nerer failed. No family will ever be withont It I
fter once (iring it a fair trial. Price, 40 cents. Du. '
'OBIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint
tottlee, at One 'Dollar, is warranted superior to any
ther, or NO PAT, for the oore of Oolie, Oats, Bruises,
lid Sores, eto. Sold by all Druggist*. Depot--10 PaA
'la?3. New York.
laovnJ'fl BnoKCgUL Tbochks, lorcoogtia and ooias.
ITT'N'C! KEVOL.VEKM. Pnoe list tree Addfes 1
J U ll 3 OTeat Western Gun Works. Pittsburg. Fa
"iLD BLACK JOE?words and masio for 10 cts.,
J post-paid. J. OHADSKY, Chatham Centre. N.Y.
inflTTQ Papers. Want Agents. Send Stamp.
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3TUNNING OFKER-N.Y.(Weekly)Palladium, i
" 40 columns. Subscription, 50 cents a year. 10
enta a month on tria1. 1 Oo.lege place. New York.
fc mm A DAY to Agentso vn vassing for the Tlrestd ?
h/ Visitor, Terms and Outfit Free. At dress
W * P. O. VIOKERY AugusU, Maine
' ? ? - ?? ??T_ an; DTtVn's '
IHGAIS^IfiioonF^s: w
mUOIll) bargains. BEATTY, Washington, K. J.
?* amttiv k* ingkaham <fe oo.>8
<1 11111/ftP Superior la design. Not equaled
llll.n In quality, or u timekeepers. t
JlJUlJlVIl Ask your Jeweler for them, o
y ? WWMW Agency?g Oortlandt St, N. V. t
1HEJ1. LABORATORY "OF RUTGERS OOL- ?
U LEGE.?Summer courses in Analytical Chemistry, y
taterminative Mineralogy,and Chemical Investigation, c
ulylO to Sept. 10. Address Prof. P. T. AUSTEN, Ph. a
.. F. 0. S., New-Brunswick, N. 3. n
" TJ
IlT71?i O ?The choicest in the world?Importers
L ?ji\.k5? prices?Largest Company in America? c
taple article?pleases everybody?Trade continually ?
lcreasing?Agents wanted everywhere?best induce- r
lents?don't waste time?send for Circular to v
ROBT WELLS. 43 Vesey St., N.Y., P. O. Box 1387.
$10. $20. $50. $100.
In rested judiciously In Stocks (Options or Privileges),
i a sure road to rapid fortune. Fall details and Official
tock Exchange Reports free. Address T. POTTEB
TIGHT A CO., Bankers, 35 Wall Street, Wew Yorfc.
510S $25 selling oar FIneArt Novelties
In. h*. Intra a A Outfit Free application to |
H. Bu FIORD'S SONS. Manufacturing Publishers,
141 to 147 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass.
Established nearly fifty years.
Uures Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache.
GRACE'S SALVE.
JONZSYIIXZ Mich., Doo. 27, \S7}.?ifetrri. PoxeUf. I
ent you 60 ct?.( or two boxes of Grace's Salve. ,1 bare
lad two and have nnod tbem on an nicer on my footman<1
t is almost wolL. Respec'.fnlly yonrs, 0. J. Van Ness.
Price 25 cents a box at all druggists, or sent by mail
in receipt of 35 cents. Prepared by SETll W.
FOWLE ?k SONS, 80 Harrison Ave.. Boston,Mass.
? IMPORTANT 2^"
OTIC TH
NEW DISCOVERY
rtrRR way of making a FORTUNE without
k5"the aid of capital or knowledge or business. For
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write J. B. DKLEEUW, 46 Hast SQth St-.NewYork.
900.000 ?crt? taken In fnnr months bjr 85,000 p?opk.
Good climate, (oil, water, and building atone, asd good ?odetj.
Addrtu, 8. J. Gllmon, Land Com'r, Sallna, Kama*.
WHO WANTS A FARM
WERE mm PATS THE BEST?
FOR SALE.
Qfinnnn Acres Rich Farming
jUllilJlJIJ LANDS. well located in Mich-gau,
UUUJUUU nt from to S8 ner acre, on eaay
tnrms of payment. Also,
OHfl (inn Acres of Choice Pine
/II Dill IIII 1<AM>S in bent Lumber Districts
uuujvuu ot-tUlChi*an.
XW Send for Illustrated Pamphlet, full of facta. .JH
O. M. BARNES, _
Land ComtnUsloiirr, I.nrmlng, flitch
A Safe and Reliable Substitute for Qdinllie
The only 25 cent
ACUE REMEDY
I3NT TECZ3 WORLD
CURES
QriiiEriiiran
J a 11H 1 ^1.413
and all MALARIAL DISEASES.
lold by all DriiKxIsts. Mailed FREE on reetlpt ofprlc*.
Write t? UUNUA3 DICK A CO., 3S Wdoitie Stbiit, New
Vouk, for tlielr ten rent book, nulled to tbs reicleri of
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rnnpvsyignxLLAiju bhiu^
KILLS all the ^
room in
Botoaic Medicine Co^BuffaJo^N, Y ^
The GREAT REMEDY far
OORPULENOE. ,
ALLAN'S ANTI-FAT '
Is purely vegetable and perfectly harmless. It acta
upon the food lu the stomach, preventing Its being
converted Into fat. Taken lu accordance with directions,
It will reduce fat penon from two to Ore
pound* per week.
"Corpulence Is not only a disease Itself, but tbo
harbinger of others." So wrote Hippocrates two
thousand years ago, and what was true then Is none
the less so to-dav.
Sold by druggists, or sent, l>y express, upop re>,
eelptofJl.su. Quarter-dozen $t.OO. Address, >
BOTANIC MEDIOINE CO.,
Proprietor*, Buffalo, X. 3& J "
mmmammmmmi
IEO. I. KOWEU 4 00,
10 sntnos si.
JEW TOIL
The Object of Our Establishment
cillUte the oonrenient and watematto PU?y 0? *~*
irtisements inta?w?p*per* It i? *po? We
rinciplee which we ooneeire to be the rvntoaea lor
icuria* the best reeultt to the adrertieer. \
We undertake to represent America newspapers. \
at only the newspapers of thedUr of Nw Tork. vnrl .
! all other American cities, Religious, AgricnKoral,
id other class ne wipaperi-but alw> the smaUoojip7
Journal*. We reoeire regularly and keep.on flto the
lily and weekly newspapers of ere 17 "aeecrl prion
lrooghont the land. . *
)$ :\ V.;
' ' \ \
i ;L* ; > &.u
lonfined Strictly to Newspaper Adveriisinn
and to American
Newspapers. '
We confine oar traduction* to newspapers, and do
ot accept or undertake the management of other
Imsoi of adfertising, sach as books, sign-boards,
ISj^aAheris^to'onebr&zich of adrertuing we Bib
nrselTea muter* of it.
We *l*o rutrict our de*linf* to newspapeis pabiahed
within the geographic*! limit* of the United
tates and Dominion of Canada.
rhe Nature of the Service which it is
Our Business to Render to
the Advertiser.
We undertake to maintain an established credit
rith ererr newspaper, and have at hand a sohedn;e ot
ihsrges for adret ttsing space in its oolomn*; to bo able
o quote the rate* to an advertiser who wlabes cm or '
?T?ral, and to procure the prompt insertion of tho
.drertUement without any extra charge for the serrio*
endured; which serrioe oonsistsof quoting theprioe,
>rinting or writinx at many daplicaUs of the adrertieenect
as may be required, forwarding the oopjr far
osertion at onr own expense for postage or messenger
errice: examining the papers to see that Use adrsr
I
I
foment appear*, when, and Id the wtitner that it
tight to; cneckin* each sub*eqoeut iaeae of the adveritement,
in each paper, in a book kept for that yw
?te, ana at aO timee subject to the Inapecdonof the
dvertiser, and marking plainly in eaoh paper the ad* .
ertUement aa it appear*; so that when the advertiser
omee (or sends) for the porpoee of havisc the file* exrained,
the ere mar light promptly upon his announcejent,
without the labor of searching whole paper or
!Aff6.
If errors or omissions oooor, it is oar daiy to BOUtf,
mblishers, at our own expense for labor, postage oe
lessenger, and to tee to it that the publisher of the
aper actuUlj doee render the specified sarrloe Cor
rhioh the advertiser contracted.
Our Promise.
We promise thoee advertisers who entrust their adertising
patronage to our management that we will not-'
llow them to be charred.in any instsnoe,aariCrtw
han the publishers' sohedule rate*; that we will pronre
for them the acceptance of any advjntageoua oiler
leflolte!/ mad* to them by any ne??paper pnouaner, rm
.drertiBio* agent, or canvasser of reiponsibilitr. We , H
,rn unwilling to do work without a profit, ind never B
ifler to do so, yet in conformity with th? promise audi B
ibore, we sometimes find it advisable. K
rhe System of Arrangement for Newt- R
paper Files. H
1 ' ' -* 9
We bare a perfected system for filing newspapers, BB
a separate space b?ing accorded to eacn, and libeled
with ihe printed name of the paper it ie intended to IgHj
ftocommodato. A stranger can place bis band npoa
any p.iper ho wishes to eximine with the tame readiness
with which h? would tind a word in a dictionary,
name in a directory, or a book ii a library cattlofM.
The Amount of Money to be Expended. IB
Persona who have had littlo experience aa adrertiaeri
often have a pretty dear understanding of what they
would like to do, but aro entirely i*nor?nt of the pro)**hle
cost. WM
We hire made out for such a penon ap w
tisioit calling for an mreetment of J-V-W * ?,??BB
mittfng it for approral found onr HHH
a' the magnitude of the exP*2*?' <?v? f,r MDfl^ tniiSl M
plate an expenditure axceediwr 8300i or $300. U"
i ewe labor would hate been ?*T*d. U ?t th? oo?mtncoment
of the nefotiation the HU
anted: " How much monejarejou prepared toaeTow
to this advertising ?" fflH
The Confidence of Our Patrons afl
Matter of Prime Importance. HHB
It is a matter of prime im^tUnoe to n?. to OutBB
our aUt^entaSjout the to
to b? done, are to be relied upon, ana w> low HI
dealings with our adrertising P^J??^qK ^ ^
basil of mutual confidence and food faith. jHH
Our Customers Entitled to Our Bes^H
Services. EM
u'hom.uflr va *r? Hoinar the adT?rtisilUf' /or
individual, or Ann, we consider them entitled f
beat servicer If they suKg--st. nsinf a p?per whi' b
know to be not the best for the urpose we uirto and^^^H
Ktvo the reaions. We often expend a good deal of Uma^HH|
for ver/ small advertisers, much more than the pro&t^^^Hg
on tneir patronag* wonld warrant; but we are contentj^^HBj
a< ' hey entrust to us what tljpy l;avo to disburse,
influence in our direction the patronage of their fnend^^^H
and acquaintancs.
? .Tn?, u 1/r-g
i:xiran jmm >ru ,
Ten yearn ago Messrs. Geo. P. Roorell <4 Oo., est&b^^^flK
liahed their advertising nuency in ?w York Oily.
rears ago the* absorbed the business conducted by
John Hooper, who was tho first to go iato this kind
nt'rpri?o. N' w th?y hive the satisfaction of oon|H^^H
rolling- the most extensive and complete adve{tUraj^K|H
:onn?ction which ha- ever been secured, and one
rould hardly h? possible in any other country bat thia^^^HH
They have succeeded in working down a complex busiJ^^BB
jess into so thoroughly a systematic method tb*i.^^BHfl
:ban?c-* in the newspaper system of America can
lotice, while the widest information upon all
nt'-reating to advertisers is placed readily at WV^BI
Kiaal of the paUic. /jff
BEO. P.ROWF' I
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