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The Captain's Sweetheart. Only last night my ship came in, Yet years it 6cemed ere I could seek Yo.ir side, and say to you the words That I so long haw longed to speak. For I am captain now, and thought ^ To-day to win you for my bride; But would I'd ne'er set foot on shore! Would on the ocean I had died!" With kindling eye and crimsoned ch'eek His words of bitterness she heard, Then iightly clasped her little hands, But never spoke a single word. ''Your lovely eyes were dim with tears When last I started for the sea; i'ou know I loved yon, and I dreamed? Poor trusting fool?you cared for me. Each night your name was in my prayers, Yoar picture on my heart hath lain; Once more I'll pre?s my lips to it. Then you may have it back again." H? kissed it thrice, and held it forth With trembling hand. She raised her head, And in his face gazed steadily, But not a single word she said. "To think that you should wed for gold, Sell your sweet lace for sparkling gems! Love's sunshine, girl, would brighter make Your curls than precious diadems, And Faith and Truth would bring you flowers Where Pomp ami Pride but weeds can sow; But since you've made your choice, farewell!" And with a sigh he turned to go. A smile dawned on her pretty mouth; Sho shook her pretty golden curls. "Stay, Ralph. Who told this tale," she asked " Of gold and diamonds and pearls ?" "One who should know?your brother Tom ? I met him as I rcaehed your door. 'What if you've gained your ship,' lie mocked, 'And lost your Nell for evermore ? Old Skipper Brown's been courting her, And he has stores of gems and gold; And wedding bells may gayly ring Before the year is six months old.'" Her smile grew brighter, and at last Into a merry laugh she burst. "Twas wieked, Italph, of Tom; but tliea He'3 but a boy. 'lis April ilrst."' " And? ?" "No, of course not: how eoul When?" "You love me?"' You say I do.' ''And all the time I've been awav?" "The north star has not been more true. ' "And you will wed me when the sweet Wild roses, love, begin to blow " So soon she said. " 'Tis ages, dear." "Yes, then, if you will have it so." '' And from this time may April fir.-t Be ushered in with cloudless sky, And all the April fools," he cried, "Be just as glad and blessed as I!" '- llarpT's IVeekly. The Interrupted Wedding. ; A.U the Colorado hills were melting in the opal dimness of the soft October haze, through which, among the. pine*, aspen groves shown like yellow flames. Day by clay the wine-colored fronds of \ the sumach were scattered by the winds. The air in its mingled brightness and vigor rekindled that pure joy of livjng whose loss the effeminate world bewails to-day. But it also reminded the miner that it was time to bank his cabin or leave for the valley?a thing he was likely to do earlier than usual this year 4?u account of threatened Indian troubles. It likewise set Mrs. Kent to making preparations for her only daughter's wedding. Out there weddings do not occur every day, nor are they generally of great importance when they do. This, however, was a special affair. Mrs. Kent having been widowed by an accident some years before, had proved herself a brisk, capable *, woman, had opened a stopping place on ?,.> the way to tb? mines, and made it? Mfejpth Maudy'r _ieip?so clean, so home?<. like and jjopnlar that she was in a fair "Bfeyp-nTj^^fte^capitalist. She owned_ BP* <gn claims named moifP oFless openly ^ alter herself or her daughter; she had more than one present by which to remember grateful guests; she had her - " regular prolits and her privileged position. It could not be expected that such a s . state of things would long endure without sonio matrimonial catastrophe, though both were adored with that general affection which is not very t dangerous in its results. Maudy's choice had at last fallen on a young ranchman \rell started in life, but no great favorite of Mrs. Kent's. She would have welcomed Prince Arthur if he had came to ' ake away her right hand, but, seeing. there was no help for it, she determined . to give, in honor of the occasion, the grand " spread" of which only such a housekeeper was capable. The poor, hearty, generous miners! - All the delicacies of Delmonico's cannot so please the cloved appetites of his patrons as the prospect of a wholesome i " square meal" docs them. They were invited cordially?where indeed, would Mrs. Kent have been without them ? She had her two hired girls tidy to the utmost, the tidy dining-room that had i welcomed such various ligures, from the j % " tony " capitalist and his tonier hire- i ling to the last dead-broke adventurer. Under her directions caldrons of oysters, stacks of ham, bountiful cakes and i coffee were jjrepared to invigorate the rmootc wTin mnstlv* lmLsmlinr. rmVlih l?p ^-r' -depressed by tl?e coming ceremony. At the very moment, however, when ' the minister was ready to unite George - Dickerson anil Amanda Kent in holy bonds, th? young lady proved her womanly qualities by an engaging lit of [V hesitation. She didn't know as bhe wanted to get married at all. In vain her girl friends soothed the sobbing bride-elect, and urged her not to disappoint every one. She only retorted, half angrily: " Just wait till you go to get married and see if it isn't serious.' j Finding that they could neither reason nor joke her out of her whim, they left ' C the field to her lover, whose protesta tions finally induced her to dry her tear's and consent to their union. The patient preacher had just opened . .' proceedings in tho orthodox manner when a galloping horse, the Western signal of disaster, was heard without. A moment after a red-headed youth burst , in tho door, but no one resented his want of manners as the new arrival gasped: " The Arapahoes is?is a-comin'. Hundreds of 'em, I saw 'em and run." "Where? How fast? How many?" were the questions hailed on the un?/ responding herald, who, pitching on . * horseback, was out of sight in a twink" ling. f~\ t if o a Altnn/iA 4 wiuov xi/ "fti a uuc v.uaiii;c tv iuarvu a piece of border history, to die in de. fense of the ladies, and the dinner?but no one happened to see it in that light. Miner*', so far from loving bloodshed, are, in their daily lives, the most orderloving people in the world. Danger does not frighten them, but many had no firearm9, many had little ones back East to bo loft iielnless. The house was a wooden one, ten miles from town, unfit for lack of amnunition to stand a siege at all. So, to the immense relief of the women, they resolved to evacuate the premises, or to use old Sands' expression, determined " to get out o' this as quick as the Lord'll lot you." Helter, skelter, not without a fierce regret for the lost provisions, they mounted and rode off. Mrs. Kent's light wagon was filled. George and Maudy were to ride behind, when the girl suddenly requested him to wait a moment. George, white as ashes, demurred, but she was resolute, declaring that she would go back alone if he did not wait. While she ran upstairs, he remained by the gate, shaking in every limb as he looked at the low hills to the ? east. The 1of the fugitives had disappeared, still she did not come. He pushed back his crisp black locks impatiently. " Maudy, Maudee," he called, rather faintly, then turned, and, in a veritable paroxysm of terror, dropped . * her pony's rein and hurried away toward town. In five minutes Maudy Kent *came down, a dark cloak thrown over her light dress. Nothing living was to be seen except her pony and the chicken?, who pecked away as tranquilly as if chicken v.n < deadly poison to the savages. Long gray clouds, coming np from tie wr<t, had already covered half the sky. With a feeling of bitter and indignant disappointment she tried to catch her pony. The skittish beast retreated np a >.teep gulch; she followed it a little di Uuce, then looking back, her heart sickt ;ied as she saw coming up from thu plain a swarm of Indian ponies. S'io ran up the ravine to a little cabin put there long ago for calves, drew out un Texamined the cause of her d?'Liv, a han Nome dagger she had played wit h as a child, and crouched in the darkent c<n*n?r of hor retreat, her heart beating till she was almost blind, her nerves / ... strung to'tho highest pitch of excitemen: and terror. " L If rou do not know what an Indian ^ < A wL. I. scare is, it is useless to describe it. No civilized understanding can conceive the horror of dealing with a foe apparently as subtle and as cruel as the evil one himself. If yon are acquainted with the West you will be able to picture to yourself the consternation produced l>y the startling news. Brick houses were in great demand. Women gathered up their young ones and fled to fireproof shelters. A lady possessed of twins dropped one of these innocents in her rapid ; career, and it was found kicking and squalling on the strei corner by a gentleman who at first- was sorely puzzled to know what to do with it. Provisions were collected, arms ex; amined, di spat dies sent, and the local printers set up terrible headings for the bulletins, around which gathered lond, talking and gesticulating men, even when the clouds dissolved in drops of cold rain as the day wore on. Mrs. Kent began to feel uneasy about Maudy's non-appearance. She left her friend's house and Questioned the men she met, but without success. At length she saw George sitting on a dry goods box, with hid hat pulled over his face. " Where'sMaudy, George?"she cried. I "Why doesn't she come up to Mrs. Blake's ?" He slowly raised his dull eyes to hers as heanswercd, thickly: " She stayed behind. I couldn't wait you know." Mrs. Kent turned away, feeling horribly dizzy. She saw that the coward had been indulging too extensively in "treats," and forbore to waste the fullness of her wrath upon liim. She had taken but a few steps when she met old Jell Sands, a gray-headed Samson, who, with his two sons, ownoil and worked a promising mine in Gopher Gulch. She told him the state < f the case. " Tii?e deuce !" he gasped, thoughtfully. It was the only opinion he could give 011 the spnrof the moment, and stronger language than he had ever before used in Mrs. Kent's hearing. For, he it known, that old Sands thought the ground she walked on sanctified thereby, and she, oh, wicked little widow, was not totally unconscious of the fact. " Hang me if I wouldn't like to shake that fellow out of his skin!" he muttered, savagely. "Bat oh. Mr. Sands, what can we do?" she exclaimed. ? > > l.? ? \Yl,v ? J.'U . LIU CAV4(klluv\kt ? "V? tr % - ?' posse and go for the red frauds as tight as we can lick. It's queer they ain't iu sight already," he reflected. " But, 1'spose like as not they're trying to kill 'emsolves on your oyster soup. I wish we'd thought to put strychnine in if." Poor Mrs. Kent was quite beyond making or taking interest in plans. She went away, leaving to Jeff Sands such a picture of distraction that he felt capable of wiping every Arapahoe, man, woman, or child, off the face of the earth. He went to. the postoffice and set forth in a few strong words that he wanted a body of men to go to Maudy Kent's rescue. They were on file. They were ready to follow Captain Sands to the North Pole, if necessary. Sands, unanimously made captain, would not wait a moment. So they all started out, not, I fear,lin the "strictest military order; but military order has not ever proved appal ing to savages. Night soon came upon them, blinding sleet and rain drove across their track, and they were obliged under penalty of losincr their wav to catnp in the stock yard of a deserted ranch. Chill, damp and piercing blew the wind from the gray hills; tires refused to light. All the romance of tho thing oozed away through the shifting straw of their improvised counter])anes. Still more cheerless was the dawn, breaking feebly through omnipresent clouds, and bringing with it extremely scanty "iici undesirable article of bre^kiasT It was with dis^n^g^at their leader perceived tLat his iie'n were getting iCWThe fighting humor, and if he did not soon show them Indians to tight would probably end by fighting him. ^ ? '1 V ~ r oome 01 me rear memoers ui iuv umuaciplined brigade quietly deserted at convenient points, while the rest rode sulkily over mud and stone. A Westerner, unless absolute destitute, never walks. ii. It is now time to return to the forsaken mansion. At the very moment that Jeff Sands was addressing an excited crowd, Maudy Kent was shivering in mortal dread, and wondering if she would have strength enough to strike when the time came?a party of white people within were indeed testing the soup anil discussing the roast chickens with the hearty enjoyment only possible to a disturbed state of society. If a timid voice protested at the free aud easy banquet, some instantly vowed to set it all right. Hadn't they money to pay for what they took ? What business had people to leave the house )pen and the table set if they didn't want to be hospitable ? They had come to the place, a large body of campers, driving before them a herd of ponies, to seek shelter during the coming storm for n woman with a weakly child. Finding a deserted feast, the bolder spirits guessed the truth, and treating the matter as a huge joke, coolly helped themselves, inviting all to participate in the fun. In spite of considerable hesitation they did so, unable to resist the temptation of stolen fruit. Every moment the nervous women expected to see the Ainmiv i?if in on onnAni-nnpp K'"j'"1' " "rr; "i every moment tliey raised fresh scruples, filially starting a ekcerful theory of poison, as if they had some occult knowledge of Jeff Sands' amiable regret. This suspicion, vanished when not indorsed by any fearful signs of internal convulsion on the part of the revelers, but it did not leave these "Western Cassandras silent. When the big fires had sunk to coals, and the men were exiled to find promiscuous resting-places in sheds, under wagons, or where they list, they formed in doubtful conclave. Perhaps the people of the house were robbers who had enticed them all into their power. They had read of such things. What if they were already hopelessly entangled in some border mystery? It was too like an enchanted house for these simple-minded folk to feel quite easy in it. If its owners had fled from Indians was the danger not as great for them ? Oh! these men, these Tiipri tlir-v nrvr>r xvnnlil fake nnvtliincr seriously. With their travel-stained ' garments, their weather-beaten faces and weary eyes, these women gathered around the dying embers. Looking into one another's dim-seen faces they told ghost stories till neither dare glance behind her; told of Indians till their hair stitlened upward and in every comer the shadows capered through fantastic war dances. The sleet still fell at intervals; the women, tired of talking, at length settled into a dozy condition, through which they could hear tho supernatural squabbles of the mice and the occasional rattling of the windows, without being i excluded from indulgence in more or less frightful dreams. I would like to say that the men endured similar torments, but truth is stranger than fiction, and with ono or two cautious exceptions, they jested themselves into the slumbers of the light-hearted, even snoring ; graceless wretches, the only comfortable sleepers i within a radus of twelve miles. IV" ' Slowly, silently, the gray arms of dawn waved aside the curtains from the awakeniug world. Shrill notes aroused the hen-roosts ; from eaves, bushes and ; grass blades the sleet of the night before dropped into discouraged little pools. On the hill tops the flaming spears of morning tipped the beaded pine boughs with rosy diamonds, then the royal light of day broke over them all," in danger and out of it. Little children clinging to their mothers, and longing ! for heaven as a place where there were no Indians; weary editors polishing of! ' sanguinary items, determined spirits bound on vengeance ; women in fearful ; uneasiness?all the cheering and cheer1 less phases of life on the border. The men at the ranch, while attending to their horses, were startled by the apparition of a mounted crowd whom they at first mistook for Indians, then for desperadoes, but soon recognized as more terrible than either?the frontiersmen angry. j Riding up to the gate, their leader demanded in no gentle fashion the ! meaning of this occupation and the per{ sonality of the intruders. His manner : did not suit his hearers. " Cuss words" came readier than explanations, weapj ons were cocked, one unguarded raove; ment would have been the signal lor a bloody contest. The women looked ; down from the window--, some of them sending up silent prayers. One of the : campers stepped forward calmly. The I softest-spoken, quietest man in the party. He greeted the grizzled and scowling giantoof ore him with a deprecating mile. - : ^ " Sir," be apologized, " we are wil ing to pay for all we have consumed." | " Hang your money. We don't war lit. Where's the girl?" " The girl!" repented the puzzle mild man, " I assure you wo won] never have intruded but for the fact thi ! a lady with as had a sick child, and? " What's that to us ? Where's Mi; Kent, I say?" " Excuse me, sir, but there was r person here when we came. Was ther boys V' ' Not a living thing!" was the answe Some of the party inclined to the l>eli< that the opposite force were Mormon on the track of a runaway. Sands looked up at the window down at the ground, over the white toj of the wagons. "Look here," he said; 'this thing enough to make a man swear his sa vation away. We heard the Indians wj comin. an' cleared. Miss Kent,somehow got missed, and was left behind. Hei we como under the constitution of tl C'nited States, to send them redskins t l.i....,,. lso,.!- f1,(, rrirl. till l/IilMV, <41lVl r? white men using other folks' thing making 'cmspires at homo, and not .? much as a trace of Miss Kont. Yoi story's queer, to say, the least. Now v ain't to be bought, nor yet scared oi Toll us where the girl is, or give up yoi shoot in' irons, and go with us to towi That settles it." " Old man," shouted a voice, coi temptuouslv, " what do vou take v for?" The women turned white; there wi an instant of breathless silence. Neitln paitv wanted to give up, neither carc to o]>en lire, and each believed h op: onont to be a villain. Suddenly little girl in the window gave a cry an pointed. There was Maudy Kent rtu ning toward them, her liair flying, li< whole face radiant. Xear the crowd si faltered, till she got a good view < Captain Sands. She ran up beside h: horse, and caught hor old friend's largi rough hand. " I'm so glad to see you! she cried, "so glad ! "Where'smamma? The women cranod their necks. Tli men edged forward or leaned over tl: * - - ? - -i. - .1 Al. fence, the very mines projecieu me ] enormous ears, and tho true situatio Hashed upon every mind. Simultai I eously an immense chorus of langlitc j awoke the echoes. The mules brave I cmnlously, aud even the pomes whinnie j a little as the more excitable ridei i almost rolled from their backs in tran: 1 ports of merriment. The worse the seal j had been the greater the revulsion < ! feeling, and Maudv laughed with tl rest. Well, in the language of#chivalr; Glory laid aside his helmet and Peat took the floor. "Come and take breakfast with us, said the most defiant camper. "We' give you what's left!" The invitatio was accepted, and over coffee, fried b: fnn nnd hot biscuit the lute warriors e: changed friendly explanations. Tl: I women questioned Maudv curiousl; and mentally criticized the fashion ( her earrings. All the discomfort wi smoothed away. The scare, it seem: had arisen from a silly youth's excit< ment at sight of a herd of ponies, wlie | his ears were full of Indian rumors. The troubles along the border d< i creased with the cold weather, but Mr j Kent?I beg your pardon, I mean tL i late Mrs. Kent?110 longer keeps a stoj I ping place, though she has not lost tin | kindly feeling toward the miners notici j able in most of mountain women. Oni i however, is all she makes provision fo S iu the ordinary course of her domesti arrangements. Captain Sands Las been heard to d< | fend even the red-haired author of tli j scare from the unmerciful jesr3 uf h: ! companions, but on thnt subject he : considered an unfair judge. As t Maudv, I can only siate her interrupte wedding was never compleic-d. SI did not want to see George aga'in, nc ! did that gentleman show any desire fc i her society. The matter was droppe by mutual consent, and before a gre: I iriiilo dio mnrrifxl r>nr> r>f tlio VOW TMVf that had given her such a night oi tern i as she hoped never to be called on t I live over again.?Springfield Republican Florida Oranges. The orange culture in Florid | amounted to little or nothing before tL I war. Northern industry and metlioc have found their way into the State sinc< I and gave this cultivation a remarkab] impetus. Ten years ago even tl: j product amounted to but little. Now | brings millions to the State, and its ii ! crease for the next ten years can hard! | be estimated. General Cameron wi j token recently by ex-Senator Yulee. ! friend and former associate, who ropr< I sented Florida in the Senate thirtv-iiv I years ago, to see the largest orang | grove in the world. This was the tin j time they had met pinee Mr. Yulee lc, ! the Senate for the South in J8G1, an j the renewal of the friendship betwee i the two has been one of Hie pleasin } incidents of the stay in Florida. CoIoik Duffy and myself were invited to a< company the party, and did so. Lon before we reached the great grove tc ward which we were tending there wei patches of orange trees to be seen o j every side, many of them with th golden fruit still hanging to th I hrnnchps. Beautiful flowers bloome in the black muck, and early vegetable wore just springing up. A little late the train dropped us in the midst c 75,000 orange trees, covering over 40 acres of ground. A perfect wildeme? of orange trees, apparently not cult vated with care, certainly not plante j regularly, but just as nature had sow | the wild seed. The wild luxuriance c i nature had, however, been eurbe by man, who in pursuit of wealth ha i turned vinegar into honey, and by grafi ' ing on the sour trees the finer sweet vj j rieties, had snatched from the wildcrne; ! an income of ever 840,000 a yea J General Cameron rambled with us ov< j the place, all of us plucking the golde ; fruit ad lib., and imagining ourselves i j the veritable Garden of Eden?eartl I air and sky, soft, balmy and etherea i combining to lix the illusion?and wei ! only brought back to a realization tlis I we were fifty miles from our hotel by 11 exclamation from one of the part; "By Jove, we're lost!" This fact soc became apparent to us all, ami just thin of it?you who are bound by bands < thick-ribbed ice?lost in an orang grove iu Florida! General Camerc enjoyed the joke, and busied himse eating the fruit plucked with his ow j hands. Many of the trees were lade : with fruit of immense size and beautifi j color, although much of I lie crop ha i been gathered One of the temptir ; sights in the grove was tl i grape fruit, of great size and beautifi j lemon color. It is said to be thcforbiddc ! fruit of the Garden of Eden. It is us | less, except to look at and for preservin 1 although it is eaten by some. It has i sour, insipid taste. Lemons of inirnen i size, growing upon small trees, now an then dotted the orchard. After an hoi spent in looking over the grove we, 01 by one, found our way back to the pad ; ng-house, where the superintends told us that 1 -5,(1110 boxes of oranges lit been shipped this season from one-lia of the grove over which we had bet 1 rambling; that means 1,800,000 orange for which the owner had been often ' $35,000 while the fruit was on the tree "How many years does it take for ; | orange grove to come into bearing V" asked the superintendent. "J-ligl ' years from the seed, and about ir years if grafted or budded onto tl wild fruit. That is, I mean to say tin will hear in eight years from the see and in live years from the graft. Th< constantly grow better and bear inoi oranges every year. No man can tc how long the tree will be useful?ce tainlv more than 100 years." Mr. Fairbanks, the historian of Flo ida and an eminent authority upon tl orange, says that an average tree wi . bear, season in and out, 700 orange and that where they are grown from tl seed or transplanted regularly, aboi sixty trees to the acre would bo ii fa average. These sixty trees in a fa season would yield 42,000 orange worth at the grove $K40. This is a col | reliable estimate of what an ordinal , | orange grove will do; many will c ' more, and still more will do less, bi S8-10 worth of fruit upon an acre j ground will strike the Northern farm, as being decidedly profitable.?Bosh Hruld. There are on Long Island forty fi! culturists. Some of them breed tro { for the market, and others let ft: privileges to sportsmen in the seaso Seth Green says that an acre of go< wuter can be made to produce twice much food as an acre of land. i Tea gowns are made of the mc costly brocades and gauzes enrich* with silver, gold and steel threads, ai | trimmed with laces, fringes and tasse to match. "NVSV ' k. I-1 A SLEIGHING MATCH. if j Pour Ilnntlrril and Sixty-two Sleigh* in , One Field, Ench Drawn by Four or Six . Ilorhps?A Ileiiinrknbie Spectacle. , An Akron (Ohio) letter describes a " sleighride which occurred in that county \i twenty-live years ago, and is doubtless ~ one of the most remarkable occurrences ,s of tho kind on record. The winter of 1855-(i, says tho writer, was long, se10 vere, with much snow, which remained on the ground throughout the month of " * 1- . i ? il March, presenting serious odsuil-im iu l'. outdoor employments. The farmers e could do but little work, and so turned s' their attention to amusement and sport. The circumstances which gave rise to ' this famous sleighride were as follows: Upon Rome occasion a rural township turned out with a large number of four,s horse sleighs. The leading sleigh in " the procession carried a rude banner s made of cheap muslin, a yard square? v' and which cost just six cents?upon rc' which was painted in brickdust and J1' lampblack a negro boy, with the end of | his thumb placed upon his nasal protult: I berance, and his hand spread out like a s' fan, alter tho manner of the street '? gamin, with a scroll from his mouth, )l upon which was inscribed tho words: '? " You can't come it." This placing of a chip upon its should1 or, brought other townships into friend* ly competition, and the banner passed from one to another, as each turned out the largest number of four-horse 18 sleighs?nothing under a four-horse sleigh was considered?until it was *s finally captured by Richfield township 'f in this (Summit) county. To such an j. extent had the rivalry been carried, that ? it now became a county affair, and , Cuyahoga and Medina counties entered * the contest, each with the laudable in" tention of carrying off the prize from Summit county. A day was appointed for the tournament, and as llichfiekl township was the holder of the banner, the battle was to take place within her 7, limits. The most extensive preparations ? were made, a field of sufficient area was arranged for the friendly display, and e marshals appointed to take charge of ' affairs. The day came?Friday, March 11 14,1856?and with it assembled a crowd 11 of citizens, men, women and children, J" almost as large as that which witnessed Garfield's inauguration. The marshals c, were on duty, and as the delegations came in they were assigned to their al"s lotted positions The different townships were placed in the delegations of ^ their respective counties, ranking ac3 cording to the number of sleighs each ie turned out. No sleigh was admitted into the procession with less than four horses to it, while many were drawn by >e six horres. When all had arrived and ? taken position, the marshal proceeded ,, to count noses, or rather to count the sleighs. The count resulted as follows: 11 Medina county, 140 ; Cuyahoga county, 151, and Summit county 171?a total of 462 four and six-liorse sleighs, in one l.e grand collection of friendly ^rivalry. Many of the sleighs were beautifully trimmed in evergreens, and profusely J. decorated.with ilags and bawfers. Cuyalioga county had brought down from Cleveland a brass -fieldpiece, mounted n upon one of her lieuviest six-horse sleighs, with which to celebrate and "" ratify her contemplated possession of ' the prize. But, alas, for human calculC lations! She was counted out?justly, T however. * The grand procession was now formed "n~ and proceeded to Akron, the county ,7 seat of Summit county, in genuine mili7 tary style; the whole forming a brigade, 10 each county a regiment of the brigade, and each township a company of its re' spective regiment. The crowd which ! witnessed tho turnout, and accompanied it to Akron, was variously estimated by 13 eye-witnesses at from 5,000 to 10,000 ? persons. And one of the most remark* 1 able features of this most re-, arkalie ' occasion was tho total absence of any ... accidents. Not the slightest accident i occurred during the day, anil all passed 7- off in the utmost peace and harmony, 1 good-fellowship prevailing throughout. - As Richfield township held the )r bauner it was decreed in the beginning 0 that the township turning out the u largest number of sleighs should on this occasion receive the prize, to be by it turned over to its county, and to remain in the custody of the county until some ie other rival won it. This honor fell to Is Hudson township, of Summit county. The banner was presented in appropriate le terms by James W. Weld, of Richfield, o ; and received likewise by Dr. C. R. Pierce it 1 on behalf of Hudson, who in turn i- i presented it to Summit county, to be' y j preserved among her valuable relics in ls tho city of Akron. The county received ; ft I it with great dignity, declaring her in- | - | tention to keep it until some rival I n . n rrr/ifltor w J L'UIUJ IJ DAJWiu.it vvmu x\jjl - . [e [ number of sleighs than she bad turned | >t out on the previous occasion. It trans-1 ^ | pi red that her glory was short-lived. On ! I tho following Tuesday Medina county | 111 came for the prize with 185 four and sixg j horse sleighs, being fourteen more than '1 Summit had mustered. The banner was *-1 turned over to her, taken home and S placed in her archives, where it >- remains to the present day, a prize to e the champion sleighing party of Ohio ii men. e SCIENTIFIC NOTES. is Copper has been detected in the soil !r of a rhmehyard, and in portions of )f exhumed-bodies. 10 ' At Thebes an ancient Egyptian papy;s j ins roll containing a treatise on medii j cine has been found. (1 i A new scientific instrument is the u " pulviometer," which registers the >f J quantity of rain falling within a certain (1 j period, and the duration and tho hour d j of the fall. j It has been discovered that a minnto l" i fungus will cause fermentation in a solu 5S j tion of glucose, while it does not effect r- | that of cane sugar. Advantage has been 'r taken of this fact to separate cane sugar 11 ! from molasses, tlie glucose undergoing u i fermentation, and thus allowing the j' j cane sugar to crystallize out. ' j A paper said to be proof against fire ^ j and water is prepared in this way. After ! a mixture of two-thirds ordinary paper ' | pulp and one-third asbestos has been | thoroughly incorporated, it is steeped in j u solution of common salt and alum, it j ' ^ ! is then made into paper, which is finally re | coated with shellac varnish. ,'n ; A mcdical missionary has learned the if j curious fact that Mongol doctors arc n not entirely unacquainted with the >n j properties of galvanism. It is said thai i] | they aro in the habit of prescribing u] ! pulverized loadstone ore lor sores, and ; a man hard of hearing was in one case !e I recommended to put a piece of load1 I imv nml f;)iPW a piece of Ill i I }11 iron in his mouth ! c- j Mr. C. J. Kiutner, of the United g, i States Patent oftice, believed that, ii | judging from what has already been xe j done in various applications of electrical j ity, within the next decade we shall find ir ; our large telegraphic corporations operie ! ating their elevators, supplying motive ii- j power, heat and light throughout their it ; buildings, and electricity for their lines id i from one common .source ol' powir. l" | Professor Goeppert, of the University j ;u of Breslau, while journeying through 1 ' "> : lUiineland by the Bergiscli-Markische j ?d ! railway, stopped fur a short time at El- j s* j berfeld. Something struck him as pe- j m : euliar in the structure of certain blocks J i j of stone only lately uncovered in male- : i ing an excavation. Subsequently ho j secured tin1?;*; blocks' anil had some of lc j them .sent to Breslau and some to Bonn. '? j They wen? lonnd to contain a fossil c*> ! tree* of the Arauearitc-s f.imily. 'The ?'V j rock inclosing the fossil was the upper *!? j Devonian of Elberfehl. This aflords ^ I evidence of a terrestrial flora existing r" j long before the great bogs were formed ! which gave us our coai seams, r- | ... ? ie j A Dwarf Who Wears a Man's Ha'l. " j John McConnell is tho name of the s> smallest man in the coal region and one 10 of the smallest men in the world. Unlike many other small men, he is only }r noticeably small in t he matter of height. ir ! His head, the breadth of chest and size ox s> i waist are those of a fully developed man. ' > To see Mr. McConnell take a seat on an r.v ordinary chair would bring a smile to a 1? | bronze statue of grief. He climbs upon j it like a three-year-old, and when once ?f : seated his feet dangle six inches from er j the floor. He has a pleasant and intellim ; gent-looking face, which he keeps closely shaved. He will bo thirty-two years of j age on tho twenty-fourth pf June, and j I stopped growing a good many years ago. u. He was born in Vermont, ami came to 1 the coal regions of Pennsylvania nine n' ; years ago. He wears a 7 1-8 hat and K' measures thirty-six inches around the as ; chest. His arm measures sixteen inchea | from the shoulder to the tip of his I middle finger. His legs measure eightist j teen inches in length. He wears a No. 2 I boot. He stands three feet eleven and id a half inches with his boots on and lis weighs eighty-six pounds.?Potisville (Pa.) Journal. i - ' ? ii SUNDAY READING. How toiGrow ttenntlful. [Persons may outgrow disease-and b co.ne healthy by proper attention the laws of their physical constitution By moderate and daily exercise m< may become active and strong in lin and muscle. But to grow beautifi how ? Ago dims the luster of the ey and pales tho roses in beauty's chee while crow-feet, and furrows, ai wrinkles, and lost teeth, and gray hah and bald head and tottering limbs, ai limping feet, most sadly mar the hum form divine. But dim as the eye is, pallid and sunken as may be the fa of beauty, and frail ana tee Die in oi:ce strong, erect and manly bod the immortal soul, just fledging : wings for its home in heaven, may loi out through those faded windows beautiful as the dew-drops of a sui mer's morning, as melting as the te that glistens in affection's eye? growing kindly, by cultivating sy: pathy with all human kind; by ehi ishing forbearance toward the loib] and follies of our race, and feedi day by day on that love of God a: man which lifts us from the brute a' makes us akin to the angles. This the secret of growing beautiful?bet tifiu in the sight of heaven and in t eyes of our fellows ; and this is one the great secrets of health, for an ev 1 11 * * lma fn Kinannehs ui miuixu nm,? iuuvu <.v with maintaining a healthy conditi of body. Srpinir In n Four. A friend of ours Inst March, saili down the coast, came on deck one raoi ing to find the air pervaded by a fog thick as to shut oft" the vision for ev a few yards from the steamer. Ho h been aware during the night of a pe< liar vigilance and activity on board, a ascertained that the fog had lasted sir the previous evening. On inquiring the captain concerning their whe: abouts, lie was told that they had pass Cape Hatteras in the night. "How c you know that? could you see t light?" "Oh, no, not in a fog li this!" " "Well, you certainly could ta no observations without a star in sigh "No, but we have other ways of seei where we are than those you have m< tioned." "How?" "By the lec Onr Rftnndincrg told us when we were the Cape and when we had passed it.1 The spiritual have other means . seeing than what we call our sig] They sea by tho lead. That lead faith. All distinctively Christian si mansliip consists in tho use of tl " vision and faculty divine." There t nights when the heavens seemed wall above our heads, and no light shir from the shore, when through tho moi ing aud midnight seas we bave to pi the stormy and perilous crisis of c life. But we go on, sounding the vt depths fhat encompass and emperil i and find h the rocks and shoals the selves our chart and our security. I we walk by faith, not by sight.?Ini ligencer. Keligioufl Notes. The rulers of the Adventista Michigan havo forbidden life insuran The Popo has appealed to the Russi government for amnesty for tlie Catho bishops and priests exiled to Siberia. The nc.\'j Episcopal church congri is to meet in Providence, JLi. JL, by vitation o. Bishop Clarke, on Tuesdi October 25. Tho Kev. W. M. Thayer says thai man who drinks wine is thereby pre diced to such an extent that ho is d qualified for translating the Bible. Dean Church's memorial asking toleration for ritualism in the Church England lias received tho signatures uo fewer than 3,538 clergymen. The 1,7-13,000 members of t Methodist Episcojial church raised 1; year, for benevolent and congregatioi purposes, the sum of ?13,552,045, whi is about for each member a probationer. Although England territorially is I little iarcrer than the State of N York, it lias tliirty-two bishoprics, a the l.trger dioceses are being divided, A queer prayer is reported as havi been made by a Unitarian minister the installation of his successor: " God, we pray Thee to save our you brother from the heartache, and fr< the headache, and from the stomac ache!" Forty-five years ago the Rev. Leons Woods, D. D., of Andover, wrote tl ho could remember the time when could count up forty intemperate m isters at no great distance from ] home. Ministers who suffer themseb to fall under the power of intoxicati drinks are now vety scarce. The statistics of the Methodist Ej copal church, shortly to be issued, v show that there are ninety-four anni conferences, an increase of three; 1 090 itinerant preachers, an increase 400, and 1,742,922 members and pro tioners, a gain of 43,318. The-e u-< 59,330 adult and 58,535 infant baptisi there being a decrease of 3,888 ad baptisms. The total of benevolent c lections was $947,158, a gain of $1C 410. The largest Baptist church on \ continent of Europo is at Memel, on I Baltic Sea, in the extreme northeast* corner of Pnissia. At the beginning 1870 it had a membership of 2,780, 1 five other churches have been consti ted from it, reducing the membershij 1,170. The Baptists of St. Petersbi formerly belonged to it, but they w dismissed last September to form church in their own city. Reproduction of Bone. The question of the saving of a i eased or wounded limb has for the g I eral public great interest. An inten ing case, which promises a new parturo in conservative surgery, ] just been published in the transacts of the Medical society of the State New York for 1380. The case was der the caro of Dr. George F. Shra surgeon to the Presbyterian and the Francis hospitals, New York. Q patient was a newsboy, fifteen years'c suffering from acute general periost: of the humerus of the left arm, cau by an injury and subsequent expos to cold. His arm, forearm and he were greatly swollen; fluctuation exis throughout the entire extent of the ai and it was feared that the tissues woi be transformed into a large abscess. ] general condition was also bad. ] two weeks the patient was supported the most nourishing diet, and the a itself received every attention. It v evident, however, the greater part, not the whole, of the arm bone was de and that the general condition of I patient was most unfavorable. Notwithstanding these untoward < euinstances, it was decided to perfo an operation for the removal of the n bone. El her was ti eVefore administe: to the patient, and the operation i rapidly performed. The entire.' bone the arm was found to be diseased andl to be removed, but fortunately its c eriug, the periosteum, was left; aim entire. "Within forty-eight hours al the operation the patient was out danger and made a good recovery. 'J growth of hone is well known to ti place from the periosteum, and in t case, it having been carefully saved, I deposit of new hone occurred throuj out. In six months after the operat: the bone had become so strong that 1 arm was found to be almost as useful over. In the history of bone reprod tion, which includes the opinions eminent surgeons, a parallel to this e does not exist. A Woman's Foot Blown Off by Lig ning. A woman named Galligan, who sides in Castle Grove, Iowa, was stri by lightning while engaged in ] houshohl duties about the cook: stove. The electric fluid seems to hi struck tho chimney, tearing and sett: on lire the end of the house, demoli ii:g the stove and striking Mrs. Ga gan's foot, tore it. to pieces and ti escaped through tho door. The f was mutilated and shattered as thov blown to pieces l?y dynamite or so oilier terrible explosive. The heel ! one of her shoes was driven half throi | the floor. The most singular feature | the uffair is that Mrs. Galligan was stunned or shocked by the stroke, ? j with great pi-esence of miud dr ! ged herself to a tub of water, exi finished the flames, and then crawled the door and summoned her husba | V doctor was sent for without deluy, i amputated the foot just above the an joint. One of the fools of this world is who putshis fingers on a buzz saw j determine if it is standing still. j Qi ery ? Can curing a cougli with Dn. Br j Covou Sybtt be called bullying a cough ? (news of the wees f~ East and Middle. to g( Stephen N. Stockwell, ono of the editors ajl the Boston Journal and an ox-member of boi lb branches of tho Massachusetts legislature, di< ll, tho other day. 'e, A dispatch from Vineyard Haven, Mass k, says that the schooners Fred Brown and N. ] id Skinner came in collision while running do\i s, tho cape, and that tlr. former vessel sank n id most immediately. Nicholas Jeremiah, a hc an' man, was the only person saved. Tho captai as mate and wife, and threo children and one se ce man were drowned. A prisoner named Goodwin wag stabbod [y? death by another prisoner named Evans in tl L*8 jail at Clearfield, Pa., during a quarrel about D*- woman who had been admitted to seo them. ao Edward S. Stokes, who killed James Fis Ir., appeared as a witness in a civil suit in N< 1 , York a few days ago. The failures in the United States and C'anai er for the first quarter of 1881 are given by Bra [e!3 street's New York mercantile agency as fc Qfr lows: _,i i'n. of Actual Of turn Futturtt. A'Ktu, JJabllll! Qtl Now England 307 fl,a">l,230 $2,905,3 i:? Middle States 420 3,256,C60 7,080,7 ,u_ Southern States... 510 3,364,110 5,033,1 i Wi.itrrn States... 482 2,018,220 4.848,8 u? Pucilke States.... 2:1',? 011,320 2,138,0 Territories 28 181,950 205, li en do L'nited States 1,936 $11,983,790 ,24.167,7 _n New York citv.... 100 1,073,170 3,498,4 oa Canada 174 1,674,230 'j,751,* h> June, 1877, Samuel Archer, eight yet old, of Laekawuxen, Pa., wan drowned ae dentally, it was supposed, while boating on t _ Delaware river with Charles Springsted, a pit s0 mate thirteen years old. Springsted, now eij jail at Passaic, N. J., for robbery, has confes* a,-| that lie threw him into the water and held h ;u_ under until lie was drowned, because he hal nd young Archer's father. ice Ex-United States Attorney-General Pov< of has been appointed to a seat ou the Massael re- setts supreme court bench1 to succeed J in' led Sou if. resigned. lid At the west shore tunnel at West Point, he V., a glycerine cartridge exploded prematun ke in a blast hole, killing David Downey, a blast ke and Michael IJroderiek, a driller. John Mi W ray, a laborer, was struck by a flying stone a ng badly hurt. ;n" Co 1.0ntj, Thomas A. Scott resigned as pre L(^- dent of the Texas Pacific railroad at a merti 02 of the directors at Philadelphia, and Jay Got wan elected his successor. of Tur.HK has been a heavy failure of brewi in Sew York, the firm of J. k L. F. Kuntz | 18 ing under with total liabilities of about $31 000 and assets valued at from $70,000 to $8 113 000. The firm is said to have lost consideral tr? money in organizing eoncerts and pedestri e matches. les mxss West and Scuth. iur A fiue at Yernon, Ohio, destroyed a porti iry of Cooper <fc Co.'a engine works, causing as> estimated loss of $100,000. J31" A giieat gathering of people participated or the funeral ceremonies of the late United Sta Senator Carpenter in Milwaukee. Mils. Ciiai:lks Uam.oc, of Sarauac, Mic iinown as tlio Mammoth Queen, is dead. Ii weight when with shows was stated to be i iwilinrlu Mar n-niulit lirtfurn llnfltll wns ^ Qgt l" " pounds. Tlie casket containing the body v ia.n fix an'.l one-half feet long, tlireo feet wide a *1C twenty inches deep. A cmcocs railroad accident occurred 1 3SS other day near Bingham, Minn., while the w< in- of clearing tlje snow from the track was in p *7> gress. Three separate gangs were working :uts toward each other. An engine was onlei i a to make a dash at tlio mow in tlio first cut, jn- notico being given to the workmen .n the c is- bsyond. The engineer backed a half mile, g( two whistles and made a ran at the sr.ow w for all the power possible. There had been an of calculation iln>- rr^'ataace o? the j?now-bj of and the engine went clean through into I second cut. Tho men thero attempted to ri }jC but were overtaken. One man was killed o right and four or live others seriously injur ial A heavy shock of earthquake has been : cli i" the central part of California. nd Miss Hattjf. Deuell died at Iowa City, 1 after completing a fast of forty-seven da >ut during which she took nothing but water. M ew Deuell was a maiden lady, fifty-two yearn ,nd age, and had been an invalid for many yea Neuralgia and nervous troubles had mndo 1 ng life one of almost ceaseless pain, to obtain < at liveranee from which she adopted the reso 0, lion of starving herself to death. Hhe is said ng have been a woman of remarkable will-pow 3m as the history of her self-imposed fast she A very strange feature in her case is the sta ment that from November, 1879, until a 1 ird weelcs before her death no one heard her ut iat a w<>rd, although her organs of speech were lie no way aflvctcd. All communications w in- her relatives and friendtsshe made by meant 1113 * mine. . ,*es A Texan named Baker, with two coti;j) ng ions, entered a railroad camp in Now Mei and rolibwl the proprietors of each store f >ig. saloon of all their money and valuable, rill the ast store, kept by a Frenchman, the rouj aal collected every man in the place, number 2,- forty, marshaled them in a line and compel of them all to take a drink at the owner's oxpei ba- Haker doing tlio honors. Finally ho in ere them ail sit on tlio floor, and started aw ns, threatening to shoot any one who moved, nit he turned the Frenchman sprang upon h ;ol- took away his revolvers and shot him dc 2,- The other men then rose and tired a volln the other roughs, wounding oue, but b ;he escaped. ? the ?rn -of From Washington. but The total value of the coinago at the diftet tl* mints during tho month of March was: G< 'to $10,730,010; silver, $2,299,925; other met m,2W. ere A Washington correspondent declares I 0 the gold and silver mine's of Alaska, as yet developed, arc said to contain rich deposit minerals. T:n: United States treasurer now holds hs- the New York a>sv.* oltiee and the Philadcl] 611" mint nearly $?10,000,000 of gold bullion. 1 JSt- estimated that the importation of foreign f dc" bul'i.>n and coin during the cum lit fiscal \ has wi 1 reach *100,000,000. 3ns "in: United States bureau of educatio ! about to publish a circular which shows, tin- oonliiiji tn reports issued during the last years, the pupils enrolled in the schools of different countries of the world to he as e i ? Date Pttpi itis r>f report, rnroll seel United Mates 1873 5),; 173, nrp Aluei'Ia 1S77 31, , itclviuin 1878 087. ina Brazil 1871 IS", tod Ihili-di India 1807 (>15, "m, ISiivnrin 1871 841, Denmark 1874 2.11, rr... K?yi?t 187# 107, ^ England and Wales 187!) :i, 710. For Finland 187s 20, bv France 1877 4,71fi. rm f'>Vccc 1874 81, Hamburg (frer? city) 1878 48, Hawaiian Islands 1873 7, " Hnngarv 1877 1,550, iad Ireland'. 187!) 1,0:11, ;hc Italy 1870 i,!i:U, Japan 1S77 2,102, i K.1ST." :M<> Jll> Netherlands 1878 -!?<>. >nn Norway ]f?7.? 2<il, nil IWIui;:;! ]>7(> 1 UK, red 1 'iMMf-in jsyi 4.007, f'oiuiiaiiia lf>7s his. l!ussia 1S7C j Saxonv l?7rt 451, iacl | Scotland |.s7'J .'ills, ov- I S'rvia ls"4 f I South Australia 1H7!( ! J-'|>; in 1H7II 1,110, ter ; Sweden 1S7? .'?!W, of Switzerland 1*71 111, 'he Tjik President has agreed In attend the c ike ifiniial o!'the sh'sji-of Yorkt.iwn an l to m h*3 a speech. He will go then; on a war stean the i'ocoinj anied l?y his cabinet and by tho Fro gh- guests who have been socially invited. 'J'iii: census office lias issued a bulletin sli inir the distribution of tho population of as I'nitod States a hove soft level. From thii I UCj 1-iiu i; appears that nearly onc-iifth ??r the 0 habitants live below 100 feet, i. o., along aSe j immediate seaboard, and in the swampv j I alluvia] regions nr the South: morn fh.in i ]|(. fif''1"1 "'"0 feet: more than three-font j below 1.0'feet, while ninety-seven per c< Pg. | live below 2.00(1 feet. ick ' Sivkktaiiv Winoom has called in all the o lier i stan lin.','six per cent. bonds of 1SG1 and 1>ing j amounting to SlM.iKKi.loO, which mature [we I July next, and has offered to holders the opt illg <>f taking three and a half per cent, bonds. 1 sh- j six per cent, bonds known as the Oregon v Hi- j debt have also been called. ion oot igh j Foreign News. Hie 'l'nr. trial ol the live persons?three men a of two women--charged with assassinating Igh ' czar of Russia began the other day at St. ! ! of i tersburg. 'J here wore sixty-four witnesses ; no* eleven experts to bo examined. Greek, C'a j olio, Lutlieran and Mohammedan clergvn | were present to administer oaths to witness L*n* j The reading of the indictment occupied i hours. The court denied the application of i n<3* I of the prisoners for a trial by jury. 111 d : Oxford won ati easy victory over Cnmbri ! tliis year in tho annual eight-oarod l.cat-r ' on the Thames. ! Ten thousand French troops have been Ian kj i in Algeria, Africa, for the purpose of operat against the native tribes of Tunis. The latest reports put the number of viet Li.'.- i by the earthquake on tho island of Scio at 8,f | F-.r'y thousand persons are destitute. ? a provisional government has been estab* m Hshcd in Peru and a portion of the first installment of tlio levy demanded by Chili has been t paid. 1 Ai.l five Niliilint prisoners charged with t o' | assassinating the czar wero found guiliy after i th I a short trial and sentenced to death. fi id a London dispatch reports that on receipt of i information from New York that Fenian skirni- f !.? iahere were about to mako arrangements for < I. the murder of 3Ir. Gladstone the police took t fn precautions in the district of Hawarden, where J ;1- Mr. Gladstone is staying. ] v Prince Piehue Napoleon, the third son ol s n, Lucien, one of tho elder brothers of the first ( a- Napoleon, is dead. He was born at Rome, Sep- ^ (ember 12, 1815. His career was fall of adven- t to ture, and marked by noveral acts of lawlessness. \ tie In 1870 he murdered a journalist, Victor Noir? j a an event which caused great commotion in i Paris. Of late years ho had lived in obscurity ' and distress. 3 ,w The island of Scio has been visited by another 1 heavy earthquake, followed by tho falling of la houses on all sides. J The Turcomans captured Naru Kissar, tho * j. most advanced fort on the road to Men- in Cen- 1 tral Asia and killed tho entire Russian gari rison. _ : ' j Dauei.y twenty houses remain standing on 00 the unfortunate island of Scio. Forty-five 0(i villages have been totally destroyed by ?ue 7" j connive earthquake blioeks, and tho population ] !'-y ! in many localities has absolutely disappeared. , ,t,! FOBTY-SEYENTH CONGRESS. no Semite Special Session. lI> After remarks by Mr. Davis, of West Vircl* ginin, and Mr. Djwes, tending to show that he each side of tho chamber was determined in its lv. course of action. Mr. Call took the floor in conj. tinuaiico of his speech of the previous Thursday, and was followed by Messrs. Dawes, Hoar, iet' Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Camden, Beck and isn Vest. :o:l On motion of Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, a resolution was adopted calling on the secretary of tho navy for information as to what ?n-'' alterations havo been made in the relative ;u- ranks of the graduates of the naval academy j j,, as originally established.... On motion of Mr. Burnside, of Iihodo Island, a resolution was adopted requesting the President to commnniJf. eate to the Senate any information in tho possession of the goveniment touching tho alleged arrest and imprisonment of Michael Boyton, er> who claims to be a citizen of the United States, itr- by the government of Great Britain.... Mesers. nd Beck, l'ugli and Saunders discussed tho resolution f"r tho election of Senate officers. di | CURIOUS FACTS. nc . ,lcl ! A bearing thirty bushels of apples j is really sustaining half a ton of water, ?n; L for water constitutes about eighty-five j?* jlper cent, of apples. ,r,,' A brick of gold measuring twelve by seven by four inches is worth about Wc 873,000. Such a brick represents one ian month's product of one of the hydraulic ! mines of California. The rings noticed in the wood of a j tree cut across have been considered an on ! index of the age of the tree?counting an J ono ring for each year, but this does j not hold in all species. A tree eighteen 3 | years old has shown, when cut, thirtyles | six distinct rings. Nerve impulses are conducted along li. the nerves very slowly in comparison to [t.j. the speed of electricity along a copper -- wire. The latter travels sixteen million 100 times as fast as a nerve impulse, and yet .pa the nerve impulse travels with the speed jjj of the fastest railroad train. There is no tide perceptible in the Mis:j10 sissippi river after you have passed up )rj. "about thirty miles from its moutli, and ro" the tide only rises from one and a half in to two feet at Balize. The number of rt!ll tributaries (the Ohio, Missouri and so no on) which help to flood the Mississippi llt8 and swell its volume of water, gives it lve that downward current which over:.i comes every resisting influence, even iid" the tidal. in]{ Catgut, it is stated, was used in the the' earlier watches in place of chains, the Ul latter, it would seem, being first atut' tached to such mechanisms in the gold ej en egg or acorn-shaped watches of Hans ' Johns, of Konigsberg. Some of this L maker's timekeepers had small wheellock pistols to serve as an alarm, an a- addition that would go far to upset the -VH> equable temperament and delicate sus l!,:i I ceptiDiiities 01 a modern cnronomeier. oi ... rs. [I'ittsbiirg Commercial Gazette.] ic'r Tue Rfc. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio; Cha?. S. Strickland, Esq.. In- ) Bovlston street, Boston, Maes.; Capt. to Paul Bovton, the world-renowned swimcr, uier; Prof. C. 0. Duplessis, managei tvH. j Chicago gymnasium, Chicago, 111.; te- Wm. H. Wareing,- Esq., assistant-genew j goral superintendent, New York postter I office; Hon. Thomas L. James, postin I master, New York; Stacey Hill, Esq.,Mt. ith ' Auburn Liclined Plane railroad, Ciu , 0f | cinnati, Ohio, are among the myriads j who have experienced the beneficial uu I effects of that most remarkable remedy. ico j St. Jacobs Oil, and who have testified I to its efficacy in unqualified terms. At ! ?? (,jis | Oiling Scarlct Ferer Patients. ing A distinguished London physician, led writing to the London Times about H0> scarlet fever, says: The method of oiling ade patients during the period of desquama ay) ! tion after scarlet fever has been largely ! used for many years; it is far more coniln j stantly employed on the c6ntinent than ,a(j' | in England. It possesses certain defi. j nite advantages, and whenever scarlaotll i tina patients are of necessity treated in I private houses it should be adopted, exI cept when contra-indicated by the con! dition of the patient, because it dimin} ishes the risk of infection to others. It does so, however, by preventing the ready distribution of the particles of ' ' skin through the atmosphere; but 1 neither oil nor glycerine is a germicide or disinfectant, and the scales of epider:lmt mis are just as infectious after as before unJ their application. [N'ew Albany Lodgor-StamlarJ.] s ii ! Speaking of governors suggests the .* I a: iT*n I'AftairArl fi'rtm meuuuu ui an alviu ??? t k Mr. Ilenrv. A. Knizht, foreman at Chas. ;o!il Waters & Co.'.s Governor and Valve vbi works, Boston, Mass.: i have used St. Jacobs Oil anions our employes, and 11 i , find that it never fails to cure. The men :?< j ire delighted with the wonderful effects tii i of tho Oil, as it has cured them of tlu | bruises, burns, etc. l'<.l j ?? j Did you ever notice how things get ' * | in your way when you're in a hurry ? | A Boston woman told her husband that 5D<> j a runaway horse was going by. He 7-lft j jumped so quick he sprained his knee, i and in his frantic haste fell over two ; chairs and skinned his shins, stepped on '?- > | the dog, upset the table with books and I i 7K i a drop-light on it, ran against his wife ,ss:i! and hurt her, and got to the window 2 ! just as they were stopping the horse two ' j blocks away, round the corner.?Boston lis i Post 7-j.J " (J,% UcuiTurlor*. cj-.i", When a board of (ininont physicians ami i;j7 'hemists nmioniiwil the discovery that by cornii -'-U L-iinun viliml.lr. rfinwlifs tlir ;ii?j "n.*.ijs ? , OK r.o?t wonderful medicine was produced, which 7;j- ivo;:M euro Mich a wide range of diseases that ftite ii"Ht all other remedies could be dispensed 107 | .ritls. many were idiojiueal: !>ut proof of in 77, j iK-u'.-s ! >' rr-fr.al (rial has dispelled all dottl.', f<o; | uid l<>-thiy th discoverer* of that great nictV;jo;, | -ine, Iloji 1 littare honored and blessed by j ill as bciiefactois. 1*J- i 7,<!. | There are in the United States Senate , two Camerons, two Flatts, two Davises, ! two Joneses and two Hills. ; Ensilage lm FORAGE CROPS ?:1- : ?IN? B \ SILOS. \u?th-. Giving My Practical Expori i t ; ence. Also the Practical Experience of nt1; Twenty-life Practical Farmers ion , i With Ensilage and Silos. / 'lYINfi l!fir rxji^rienee of fordinK ftneli of alt ' * k'luis with Ivtisilaxe, isud the practical result*. . 01,';ii>:v.'ly slmwiim tlic ini<lottl>:>'il succifwiol this ;r < <:, Mr* K?i":lajr?- "I <;r*-n Koraije Croiw. 15. ; rr.n -t- ;h<- (.inner e.m r-ali/.f five dollar?- i*i j'inc.' of oik- dollar. ;i-' 1 (.? tin- >>! ! ?yM<in ! tannine. Ai 'o wotid -rinl < ituvhin-tiix of f.-idin;: n l ' |?-.?i?fr'. rst mif-hall the itoiial cost, on Ku-ilace. . Tli.* book contain*' 1-0 pn!?( ?. I'l-saiiliy boim! 1 in cloth. Po* | ?,d . Every One is Pleased With It ,th- | v< licinK til'* most thorough and practical ivor!; vet ( I |.ii(di>diril"!i ll:i>eiibjcrt, and all aresuiyri-wd at tie lan | very low | rice. <e<, i ('or si'c .i! all lidokstotr*. al! cfncr.il "tfirc" and r.'l '' i n"?!i clrjHits in cvt ry and town TOO ' ,N THE UN!TED STATES. If the wor*A cannot beobtn>?r<l of thorn, .vnd for j a by mail. il<*o ! ace ; Price of Book, 50 Cents, j lfi, Jty Mtiil, ??? C'un'.n. iiiM i Send I'oHtoftiCf Order if convi niMit. ? I I Adilie-u jjj" E I. li. S'T K VEZVS, j Boston, Mass. ] / The Mastodon. ? Professor G. 0. Broadhead contributes r o the Kansas City Review, a paper, in vhich he enumerates all the discoveries i hat have been made of mastodon MB emains in the United States. This hnge ^ nimal appears to have had a wide range n this country in past ages. The earli>st record that we have of the finding >f the bones of the mastodon is conained in a letter from Cotton or "nnrpftsa Mather to the Eoval society of jg London, between 1650 and 1700, de- 1| bribing the portions of the skeleton of ^ )ne of these animals discovered near 3 Ubany, N. Y. Since that period skele:ons nearly entire,detached bones, teeth, ? 3tc., of the mastodon, have been found n nearly every State in the Union, ^ ncludirig those of the Pacific slope. rhe evidence thus far obtained, the report says, goes to show that the ^ mastodon first appeared in America in. R Miocene times, was abundant in the I; Pliocene, and lingered until the close of l| the glacial period, and disappeared in QJ the early Loess. The Naw York Observer says: We ao at not know what date Professor Broad- V bead fixes upon as the close of the gla- Vl cial period, but it cannot be very many centuries since the mastodon was roaming in the American forests. The con- ?1a dition of the skeletons found show that t the bones are not ancient. The skeleton now in the Harvard museum was found in Orange county, in this State, just below the surface; and with it were j found the contents of the animal's 01 stomach, a mass of masticated twigs. The animal had at no very remote period become swamped in the bog in which he MN( was found. Other skeletons have been Bon ound in this climate in such a state of preservaotin as is inconsistent with their ci*ii early disappearance. n D ? QUI 8500 Reward. Tlioy cure all diseases of thcstomacb, bowel*, blood, Jiver, nerves, kidneys and urinary organs, Hid 1500 will bo paid for a case they*will no! .:u-o or help, or for anything impure or injuri mis found 111 thorn?Hop Bitters. Test it. Sec Mj ' Truths " or " Proverbs " in another columr* Ul The Calculation of Interest. ' A well-known actuary, has devised a SuW very simple and easily remembered rule jlo. for determining how long it will take a given sum of money to double itself at a certain rate of interest. Divide the nUr rate of interest into seventy-two and the quotient will be the number of [nfli years to within a small fraction. Thus, at four per cent, interest, the answer is fa eighteen years,which is only one^quarter of a year too great, the exact time being about seventeen and three-quarter years. I Liu For six per cent., it may be said to be exact. This is a good rule for editors and other large capitalists to remember. HE If Any Reader feels tired, has a severe headache or lack ol Xc appetite, it means that something is the mattei lion irith the kidneys, which Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure alone can help. Some "estimater" has figured it all out. There are nearly 82,000,000,000 TIo; feet of pine standing in the States of riii Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. ea,iI If you doubt the statement go out and CUUIlb urn Up. .cm P0i Havi: Yor Read It? H. R. Stevens' Book Trn<i on Eusilage, the preserving of green forage KXl crops in silos, giving his own experience and H tho practical experience of 25 practical fanners; tion 120 pages, elegantly bound m cloth; price, 50 k cents; sent by mail, GO cents. Address H. R, STEVEN'S, Boston, Mass. , $ Ptre Cod Liver Oil made from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and ? sweet. Patients who havo once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of th ;*othcr oils in market. w? BAi.iiiir.ADED men are informed that there is bi but one avenue of escape from their affliction, and that is Cakboline, a deodorized extract o) pi troloum, the great hair rencwer, which being recent!) improved, iowiutv CfScuwIoa't^wi ever. . ? i TWENTY-FIVE CENT TREATISE 0m On the Hone ami his Diseases. Containing an Index 3 of Diseases which gives the Symptoms, Cause and Kxt the Best Treatment of each. A Table giving all the Jon principal drugs used for the Horse, with the ordinary dej 1 --? -1 ~ ..niann 1 T.1,U 3 CUCl'ltt i?UU iWiUVUHV nuvii t? I'VIIVU. ? ..... with un F.n?'ravinR<:f thellorse'H Teeth at different 'oua?cs with Rules for tellinff the age. A valuable col- J!00 lection of RcceSpIs and much other valuable informa. ! lion. 1 OO-l'ngrc Huok sent postpaid to any address { in the Uuiti.'d States'or twenty-five coats. Postage . Stanua taken. NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, ^ 1 >S k 150 Worth Street. New York. . 0 i'or over thirtv-four years cer< l)It. TOBIAS'S VENETIAN LINIMENT ha." been warranted to cure Croui>, Colic, Spasms, " Diarrhea and D.fc-ntery, taken internally, and Sore ? Throat, Paius in the Limbs, Chronic Rheumatism, ha* Old Sore*, Pimples, Blotches and Swelling, exter- p.? nally, and not a bottle ha* been returned, many fainilies statins they would not be without it even if it " was HO a bottle. Hold by dnifrtfstn at 23 and 50 Ext cents. Depot. 4'? Murray Street. New York. j,e t HOTDITMILY REMEDY! 2 STRICTLY PURE. ImSam 1 . I \A ? ? ?!rc (Tliig nxravin? represents the Lungs iu a liealthy state.) >t!se What the Doctors Say! DR. VLETCHER, of Lexington, Missouri, sajr. "I I (vrommond your 'HnNnni' in preference to any ? other medicine for coujihs and colds." *"!i juai DR. A. JOHNSON, of Mt. Vernon. Ills., writes ot soiin* wonderful riiroK of ('oiirtiiiiiption in hia place by the use ot "AIIcu'h Lung IJnlMiiiii." pf DR. J. 1J. TTRNER. Blouutsville, Ala., a practicing ..t 1 a4' ,.Aniv tvr-'frtC- ? If {? Ihn llAflt 1^ pnymcinu m int-uij-n??.........- ? preparation fur Consumption in the world." ^ Foe nil DiNonHCft of the Throat, Lungs nnd S? Pnlnio'tnry Orunnn, it will bo found a mont H exct'lli'Ui Remedy. E?T AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL! | IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM! ? J. N. HARRIS & CO., Proprietors, E CINCINNATI, O. & For Snlo l>y nil l.JiMiijjjiHts. S3 Sold bv M( KASSON k iiOKMNS. New V>rk. gj DIRECTIONS, i WpBtAM BM-Mli . <??? ? H JP???/r'yxiYGv>X'eiTtS? Head, etc., insert with fl SgkAl ARP.H,COLDSt M . nlimif. linger, a particle , t?j vtAv-*>, C/<P.v*a\ P-.MU! 1J* m intf) the fl ; nostrils; draw stronR B . . '<!$'.( M^yrllbi-eathH through the ; Wl r}, e 11 hc alj* i '/.! O "orbed, cleansing, .and fl I ForDeaftess. K, A| I'ly a parliele into g i ELY'S CREAM BALM 9 > Effectually cleanses the nr.?al pa**a,-res of Catarrhal fl j virus. causins l.ealthv secretions. allajs inflnmma- fij 1 lion and irritation, protects the mcmbrauAl linings Eg if the bead from additional colds, completely heals :lie ?oiv> itnd restores the sense ol taste anil smell. Rc tl. neficial n-xults a re realized by a few applications. V thorough treatment a* directed will cure Catarrh. I \s a household remedy for cold ill the head it is tin- I N|lialed. The Halm is easy to use and agreeable. Prioc?30 cent*. On receipt of 50 ot'iits, will [ nail a package free, Setnl tor circular, with ; 'sill information. I r ELY'S CKKAM BALM CO., Owr-o. X. Y. j Ju Sold l?y all Drn?ri{i<s. I It Wholesale in New York, Philadelphia, Syra- j r* V cusr. Poston, Chi p.;'uatid other cities.. ^ 1 si" Ullil.itrated Wcol.ly. Same size /Avr/^v.l Ul,l ON TRIAL. : j" i'or '2.V. will send Ib>rsi: ami iiomk two m >nths oi. i' "1 .'rial, will: on.** 5(!c. ("ami lei Oil Cliro'no. I'eliabii i Mr V'tent i want nI. Sinitleooi'V. ,V. Mkt:uui?i.itas11 ?: i.imiim, Company, *J.W tlroadwo'. New Vork ('it-. *5"0;3t?j is ?!'iiirr. tv-mcmi ?? ?. ; vjt I riv I n .'tt'y ' I'rof. MAI'.riM.Z Ih.r.r.11 / r inl W.tat-I w.JI fr?r etati ?ilh / 66p^*y \ I jtj r< i. tvl'r f ?*? ?. i-d Icck cf l'tlr, rend Co???wt/ tl#te vf u.xntktt. ' reviti*l :o ?ll noi 1. i'Jffftpfflp&y j AiJreis Prof. L Mftri.Lca, It iloai'j PI. Ikitoo, Wau. JjA If hIc I ttWO.u-rp tnwr: t. lOMt.t * CO.. ixiaii 0 | ., / '(>01) Siilennien Wnntnlto sell our flr?t.r\v' ' < i " ' f sN.'ellit:;; j:nods en c.ni:'iii?'*i"!l. A splemlic I In chance to n-ake mon>.'>'. Send si.'imp i-,rt< nnsand i "r- j J.'j ticii.ars .it one % I'ho. nix Meant I'uo. Co..Wam-ii. It*. 1 _ M AKIvIA<;K A<;KNCV.?\i! c..;T.s.oii.l::-e; ! I'in vtricli* conildeniial. I'o* p.Tri- ui'ir, ; !or-- ] r ( With ?::f..p. S. TII.IXIN. II;,.- 3. |.<W . t (JEM'S WANTED fur the lies-t and Fastest .V >?. hi;: Pictorial I took sand Kit ties. I'r e. s r T'nr-.l , liperci. Xntiotial l'ublislont;Co..I'hiiadelph'a.r.t. i Si %|'A It V I.AXI) FA II.IIS, S7 to S^.> |?r.\T\ ! v", JL SiK.rl vint'Ts. lireezysiiinniers, h<Mlth> c!ir.;iti . i " t' ttalopiic fr e. It. 1?. ('11 VMUKKS, !'ed: l"ll-.oi:r ' V 011 l\i ft MFN t^arn Teio?'rai-hv. Earn ? V11o J Wt 1 / IllUIHU l?fcll jDMsih. liraditates ?n?rt?iiw-i i ?, : a1 iiif-'oitires. Add's Valentine Uro.-s.. Jan?<vilie,w.s. ; "PTCn'G PTrT?!? for Consumption is a!s-. jh.' il3U O L/UiXXj the liewt Comth M"d:cin.\ PCin Wft perd.iv at home. Samples worth *.'> fr-e : feS 10 10 XildresvSTiSsoNJtCn..Portland.M-on-. ^ AAFA A MONTH! AOF.NTS WANTED! 4MkBR 75 ItestSellinK Articles ill the world, a UjiWIv W H.nn|le/iw. Jay Kroiison.Detroit.Mieh. ^ "9 "9 "V A VEAtt and expenses to A;t'.*ats. J ' ~ ^ S [Mi Outfit Fr>e. Address Ell ^ MBS ] , o. virKI'KY.AtU'Usta.Maiiv ua AQQO a year to Agent*, and expenses. 86 Outlt Jtf| free. Addifss ! '. .swain \ Co., Ausu?ta,Xte. jeca week In your own town. Terms and t'< outfit : <57 50D fre(.. Add's H. Hai.leit 4; Co..Port laud. Maine | ^ ?? FOR HEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, ckache, Soreness of the Chest, , ?out, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, oth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Fant and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. . 0 Preparation on earth equals 9r. Jacob* Oil 1 safe, sure, simple and cheap External ledy. A trial entail* but the comparatively Ing outlay of AO Cents, and erery one suffering i pain can have cheap and poeltlre proof of Iti xu. IrectJons In Keren Languages. J) BY ALL DEUGGI8T8 AND DEALEM IS JTEDIOTHE. A. VOGELER & CO., Baltimore, Sid., TT. 8. A. in'lTliCT uei htfammitlon, CcntrJU uU Htmnnrhaqct, Ot and Chronic. Venom una Uncou*. IXVALUABLE FOlt ns and Colds and Coughs, imnufinne n9?*i jl Thm<* UUU1UUVUU Iiwaui \* Mivvaii :umuiaTions Discharges, ?r TDI gs.EresandTbroat ^ wibiaim.. [ELMATISM AND NEURALGIA. i remedy to readily and eflfcctually arrests th* Irrtt*' and discharges from Catarrhal Affections is POND'S EXTRACT. ons, COLDS In the UK AD, NASAL and TJIKOAT BARGES, INFLAMMATIONS and ACCl'MULAS'S In the LUNGS, KVF.S, KARS and THROAT, iUMATISM, NEURALGIA, 4c., cannot be cured w y liy any other medicine. For sensitive and severe i of CATARRH use our CATARRH CUltE <73c>. 1 cases use our NASAL SYRINGE (?:). Wlll b? In lots of $2 worth, on receiptor price. Note that iD'S EXTRACT Is put up only In bottles with picture 1c Mark on outside wrapper ana wonts " POND'S 'UACT " blown In gla3s. f~ Our New Pamphlet with lllstory of our PrtTwras, sent free. IDIES?Head pasm IS, 18,21 and S6. POJiD'S EXTRACT COMPANY, West 14th Street, New York. ilCHT REASONS Y WE NEVER SELL PO.VL'S EXTRACT IN JJ.K, BUT ADHERE TO TirE RULE OK SELLING ONLY IN OUR OWN BOTTLES, INCLOSED IN BUFF WRAPPER, ON WniClI IS PRINTED OCR LANDSCAPE TRADE-MARK. It Insures the purchaser obtaining th? cis* article. .--It protect athe cou>nmer In buying Pond's r.ct no: weakened with wjtcr, which we found wm e a lew years ago, when we were imlaced to furnish lers with the gemilne artlclc In bulk. ' ?It p-'t tecUthe coutumer fromnMcrujmi parties selling crude, cteap decoctions to him as id's Extract, for any person can tell the genuine from bottle *nd wapper. * . " ?It protect* the comnmcr, for It Is xorsafs isc any other article according lo the dlrettloi.sglven >ur book, which sunounds each bottle of PoLd's ract .?It protect- the consumer, for It Is net :eab!eto be deceived and perhaps Injured by tutat' er articles un 'er the directions for Pond's Extract.?So other a tlc;e, manufacture cr imitation the eflect claimed for and alwjys produced by id's Extract . ?It U prejudicial to the'reputstlonof Pood's act to have perple use a counterfeit bJleving It to . be genuine, f?.r they will surtij fie dltaj'pvMtd.U ovt * ired by Its effects. .?Justice to one of the be?t mcdlclnea the world, and the hundreds of thousands using lemandt every precaution Against having weak a .a irlou* preparation*- p:ilmed off as the genuine. Tha t way this can tw accomplished la to tell the ccxi rsa tip in a untiorm manner?In ock owji boitli-s, csme with bun wrapper* trade marks, ctc tKMDI itKu? he ecanluc Pond'4 Ei ct 1* cheap, becauje It Is stress, uniform anJ ?b'.e. Our book of directions f r.pla'ns whe%it can b? >ted with water and when to be used full sreogt-i. iEMKMBKlt"That all other preparation*, If irless, ara mero decoctior.s, boilings, or produced ply to obtain the odor an l without ihe scl. m'flc or :tical knowledge of tben.i(t*r which many years ?f >r ha* given us. lEMEWHKif.OKKVOW XO%r?Th.nall Mirations purporting to be aup-^rlor to Pond'* Kit became they havt cMr, are colored alnip y b-cm* r have crude, and to unp.ofe*>lona'. people using s, perhaps dangerous matter In them, and nJiouiJ rbtttKd except under the advice and pre-trlpthg of jslciaa. :KWi'lnnnit AMD MMOYV?Tint o*- rrnr 'lis vc machinery Is the rewi't of thirty yrars of ?*dice (the most of which was entirely given to tbu k),and constant attention to the production of al is of Ujmauvj'is, and that therefore we should ?f what we assert, that Pond's Kxtr-ct Is the U.<t. at. and contains Ti.rc virtues of the glimh than any r production yet made. ir New History and I'ses of Pond's Enact aivl r preparations s-?nt frek. '"* " A l?IE1}--Kead pa^'s IS. IS. ttl.arfd in our hooV, :h U found around eich Lottie, iud will he sjiit frc* ppllcatlou ' ' ' % IND'S EXTRACT COMPANY. I West 14th Street, SEW YOitK. ff' If you nrc a mnnttjajylf yen arc a ' of basincis.wcai-hWH n:in of let- w|d ened by the strain of ?3? ten toiling over ndd- B your duties avoid WB nitflit work, to res- B stimulants and use V tore brainncrveand U Hop Bitters. B "<t?. Hop B. g If you are younjr and H ruffering from any In- H discretion or dlisipa PS tion; If you are mar- n lied or Bingle. old or young, culfcrins from poor health or languish H inp on a bed of licit ness, rely on HopH Bitters. M Whoever you are, Thotisands dle^an- |g 15SW I - ins? or ftiraulatlnp, MRS without intoxicating, Jgpl b/ a t'me'j *"e of fl take Hop /P?$&S HopBltters Bitters. 1MMB 8 Ilaroyourfp-H ptpjui, D. I* C. Q oruri.iarumru- ?,> ls ? ahjoiu^ H i*rtT* and lrrcsbtu ?f the ttontacJ', S 14 ( | j-? blccure lor B boitrls. 8 1L1J1 drunkeoairg, H hvcr ocnerit*' fl t uso of opium, H You will oe ,? niTTrnft tobacco, or II rurcJ If you imc i ': II I LUL u*r>?Uca. fj NEVER ti It may 3 < r. Hor nrmoa fl e avo y our S ; j. fl II rrc co M life. It has 3j |A I L . * , c?"_ i laved hun- S iotke?tw, H. T. jg dredo. ^ ????AT"r"nto,OoU w lyne's Automatic Engines. Haiti)*, Dttraldc and Economical, trill jfi$rnl?h 3 if poinr irit/i '^i ton ft'fland tr/tier than hpi/ ?/<?? inf bail:, not fitted with an Automatic Cut-off. I for Illustrated ('.'.tal'^nie "J," forlntorm.itionS if. I}. \V. I'avm: A: Sink. Box tCVi, Contiiu.'. X.Y. AGENTS WANTED FOR THc JlGTORIAL . HISTORY0"?BWAR lis is the eheapeKt and only complete and reliable ir.' of the Great Civil Wiir published; it abound* larrative* of personal adventiir.'. thrilling inct. !?. ih.rinx exploit*. l:-rui'- de*.'d?, wouderful Kri, etc.: and contain" lifr-Hk' portrait* of TO? iux Kenemls. Send tor specimen pasc* and extra is to Agent*. Nation.it. Co.. rhila.. Pa. CELLULOiD YE-CLASSES. ^ ( presenting the choicest selected Tortoisc11 aii'l Amber. The lightest, handsomest, strongest known. Sold hv Opticians and -l.i-M. Made by SPENCKK OPTICAL. "G. CO., l:i Maiden Lane, New York. AIJKNTS WANTl-JH I'Oft 01'It ilNTENNIAL (' Baking PAN. ssg?YF~smxT~*z- r? cannot afford t< do v.ituont it. l>nc., ~~~ ~i%'\Iw?.n:r Uoine-jiic Clothe* j Sprinkler. A nw, novel. UflE J :{() c;s. A rarv ot [ ortr ?nstv is lvre offered A Rent* ! ' mike 1 oaf v. Send tor o::t t:;itinll:til' 1.In nil :e?n>s. |.'?T'r Si*alc Co , I J) I W. 5IU St.. Cincinnati ft Varieties of NEW COLEUS mail for SI .00. Send for catalopw of Seed*, HI*, etc. I'rt hU'Ihix fjlrfu In /'hi'i /iiiw*. HAINLS, Bedford Station. tchesterOo..X'.y LADIES I iperflnoii* Utile permanently removed *ri:J injuring t!ie skir. Write J>r. M.. l'ljnumf1I.. !!ox vM.?. No card* atiMVured. j^^ tst^ FK5. -i MRIOTABORTOffii'SIIvigs'l ,^?4 j eufvoty well appointed 1 Kafc aHMSf ict.'or body or Gentleman . N,'! K',,s ar'1 "l~ X/iVi \ rn?t.l>:t Wl. Inn St ,X. V yjay _f. x. cniTiE.viox. Art iftlPLOYMENl^^AvW^h '.Ipio SALARY p?r month. All EXPENSE : I r.J?nncril. WAVES pix-raptly paid. SLO/l'i ! C'u. 20c Ucorgc tit. ilneinnut i. O. O A WEEK. ?12 a dav at home easily made. Cotti c Outfit free. Add's Ten; k Co., Augu5^i,Maine.