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TMY TOKENS.
The murmur of a waterfall
A mile away,
The rustle when a robin lights
Upon a spray,
The lapping of a lowland stream
On dipping boughs,
The sound of erasing from a herd
Of gentle cows,
The echo from a wooded hill
Of cuckoo’s cal),
The quiver through the meadow grass
At evening fall;
Too subtle are ttoeee harmonies
For pen and rule;
Such music is not understood
By any school:
But when the brain is overwrought, *
It bath a spell
Beyond all hun an skill and power
To make it well.
The memory of a kindly word
For long gone by.
The fragrance of a fading flower
Sent lovingly.
The gleaming of a sudden amile
Or sudden tear,
The warmer pressure of the Land,
Tl* tone of cheer,
The hush that means, “ I cannot speak,
Bnt I have heard !”
The note that only hears a verse
From God’s own word;
Such tiny things we hardly count
As ministry;
The givers deeming they have shown
Seant sympathy ;
But when the heart is overwrought,
Oh, who can tell
The power of sunh tiny things
To make it well!
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY.
The circumstances attending the sud
den death of M. Delessert, Inspector of
the “police do surete , seem to have
made such an impression upon the
Pariasian authorities that they were
recorded in unusual detail. Omitting
all particulars except what are necessary
to explain matters, we reproduce here
the undoubtedly strange history.
In the fall of 1861 there came to Paris
a man who called himself Yic JDe Lasa,
and was so inscribed upon his passports.
He came from Vienna, and said he was
a Hungarian, who owned estates on the
borders of the JBanat, not far from
Zenta. He was a small man, aged
thirty-five, with a pale and mysterious
face, long blonde hair, a vague, wander
ing blue eye, and a mouth of singular
firmness. He dressed carelesslV and
ineffectively, and spoke and talked with
out much empressment. His compan
ion, presumably his wife, en the other
hand, ten years younger than him, was
a strikingly beautiful woman, of that
dark, rich, velvety, luscious, pure Hun
garian type which is so nigh akin to the
gypsy blood. At the theaters, on the
Bois, at the cafes, on the boulevards,
and everywhere that idle Paris disports
itself, Madame Aimee de Lasa attracted
great attention and made a sensation.
They lodged in luxurious apartments
on the Rue Richelieu, frequented the
best places, received good company,
entertained handsomely, and aoted in
every way as if possessed of considerable
wealth. Laso had always a good bal
ance chea Schneider, Ruter, et cie., the
Austrian bankers in Rue Rivoli, and
Madame wore diamonds of conspicuous
luster.
How did it happen, then, that the
prefect of poliee saw fit to suspect Mon
sieur and Madame de Lasa, and detailed
Paul Delessert, one of the most ruse
inspectors of the foree, to “pipe” him?
The fact is, the insignificant man with
the splendid wife was a very mysterious
personage, and it is the habit of the
polices to imagine that mystery always
hides either the conspirator, the adven
turer or the charlatan. The conclusion
to whioh the prefect had come in regard
to M, de Lasa was that he was an adven
turer and charlatan too. Certainly a
successful one, then, for ho was singu
larly unobtrusive, and had in no way
trumpeted the wonders which it was his
mission to perform. Yet in a few
weeks after he had established himself
in paris the salon of M. de Lasa was the
rage, and the number of persons who
paid the fee of 100 francs for a single
peep into his magic crystal, and a single
message by his spiritual telegraph, was
really astonishing. Tne secret of this
was that M. de Lasa was a conjurer and
diviner whose pretensions were omnis
cient and whose predictions always came
true.
Delessert did not find it very difficult
to get an introduction and admission to
De Lasa’s salon. The receptions oc
curred every other day—two* hours in
the forenoon, three hours in the even
ing. It was evening when Inspector
Delessert called, in his assumed charac
ter of M. Flebry, virtuoso in jewels and
a convert to spiritualism. He found the
handsome parlors brilliantly lighted,
and a charming assemblage gathered of
well-dressed guests, who did not at all
seem to have come to learn their for
tunes and fates, while contributing to
the income of their host, but rather to
be there out of complaisance to his vir
tues and gifts, Mme. de Lasa per
formed on the piano or conversed from
group to group in a way that seemed to
b© delightful, while M. d© Lasa walked
aoout or sat in his insignificant, uncon
cerned way, saying a word now and
then, but seeming to shun everything
that was conspicuous. Servants handed
about refreshments, ices, cordials, wines,
etc., and Delessert could have fancied
himself dropped in upon a quite modest
evening entertainment, altogether en
regie , but for one or two noticeable cir
cumstances which his observant eves
quickly took in. "
Except when their host or hostess was
within hearing the guests conversed to
gether in low tones, rather mysteriously,
and with not quite so much laughter as
is usual on such occasions. At intervals
a very tall and dignified footman would
come to a guest, and, with a profound
bow, present him a card on a silver
slaver. The guest would then go out,
preceded by the solemn servant, and
when he or she returned to the salon
—some did not return at all—they inva
riably wore a dazed or puzzled look,
were confused, astonished, frightened,
or amused. All this was so unmistak
ably genuine, and De Lasa and his wife
seemed so unconcerned amidst it all,
not to say distinct from it all, that
Delessert could not avoid being forcibly
struck and considerably puzzled.
Two or three little incidents, which
came under Delessert’s own immediate
observation, will suffice to make plain
the character of the impressions made
upon those present. A couple of gen
tlemen, both young, both of good social
condition, and evidently very good
friends, were conversing together and
tutoying one another at a great rate,
when the dignified footman summoned
Alphonse. He laughed gayly. “Tarry
a moment, cher Auguste,’* said he,
“and thou shalt know all the particu
lars of this wonderful fortune !” “2?A,
Men/” responded Auguste; “may the
oracle’s mood be propitious !” A min
ute had scarcely elapsed when Alphonse
returned to the salon. His face was
white and bore ah appearance of con
centrated rage that was frightful to wit
ness. He came straight to Auguste;
his eyes flashing, and bending his face
towards his friend, who changed color
and recoiled, he hissed out: “Monsieur
Lefebure, vans etes un lache!” “Very
well, Monsieur Meunier,” responded
Auguste in the same low tone, “to-mor
row morning at six o’clock!” “It is
settled, false friend, execrable traitor!
ala mart/" rejoined Alphonse, walking
off. “ Get a va sans dire!” muttered
Auguste, going towards the hat-room.
A diplomatist of distinction; repre
sentative at Paris of a neighboring
state, an elderly gentleman of superb
aplomb and most commanding appear
summored to the oracle by
abon t f< ?°tiaan. After being absent
medinf J! min ?tes he returned and im-
Ms T* thron ßfc the.
Sit fmm H i who ™ standing
not far from the fire-place, with his
s“** “ ok6l . rad „ look ot thi
n.raos. mdiflsrenoe upon his face. De
lessert, standing near, watched the in
terview with eager interest. “lam ex-
ceedingly sorry,” said Gen. Van ,
“ to have to absent myself so soon from
your interesting salon, M. de Lasa, but
the result of my seanse convinces me
that my dispatches have been tampered
with.” “I am sorry,” responded M. de
Lasa, with an air of languid but courte
ous interest, “ I hope you may be able
to discover wliioh of your servants has
been unfaithful.” “I am goiqg to do
that now,” said the general; adding in
signigeant tones, “ I shall see that both
he and his accomplices do not escape
severe punishment.” “That is the onl>
course to pursue, Monsieur the Count. ”
The ambassador stared, bowed, and
took his leave with a bewilderment in
his face that was beyond the power of
his tact to control.
In the course of the evening M. de
Lasa went carelessly to the piano, and,
after some indifferent vague preluding,
played a remarkably effective piece of
mnsic, in which the turbulent life and
buoyancy of bacchanalian strains melted
gently, almost imperceptibly, away into
a sobbing wail of regret and languor
and weariness and despair. It was
beautifully rendered, and made a great
impression upon the guests, one of
whom, a lady, cried, “How lovely ! how
sad ! Did you compose that yourself,
M. de Lasa ?” He looked towards her
absently for an instant, then replied :
“I? Oh !no That is merely a remi
niscence, madam.” “Do you know who
did oompose it, M. de Lasa?” inquired
a virtuoso present. “I believe it was
originally written by Ptolemy Auletes,
the father of Cleopatra,” said M. de
Lasa, in his indifferent, musing way,
“but not in its present form. It has
been twice rewritten, to my knowledge;
still, the air is’substantially the same.”
“From whom did you get it, M. de
Lasa, if I may ask j” persisted the gen
tleman. “ Certainly 1 certainly ! The
last time I heard it played was by Se
bastian Bach; but that was Palestrina’s
—the present—version. I think I pre
fer thaft of Guido Arezzo—it is ruder,
but has more force. I got the air from
Guido himself.” “You—from—Guido!”
cried the astounded gentleman. “Yes,
Monsieur,” answered De Lasa, rising
from the piano with his usual indifferent
air. “ Mon Dieu!” cried the virtuoso,
putting his hand to his head after the
manner of Twemlow. “ Mon Dieu!
that was in Anno Domini 1022 !” “A
little later than that—July, 1031, if I
remember rightly,” courteously correct
ed M. de Lasa.
At this moment the tall footman
bowed befere M. Delessert, and pre
sented the salver containing the card.
Delessert took it and read : “On tows
accorde trente-cing seeondes, M. Fla
bry, tout au plus!” Delessert followed
the footman from the salon across the
oorridor. The footman opened the door
of another ro-sm and bowed again, sig
nifying that Delessert was to enter.
“Ask no questions,” said he briefly;
“Sidi is a mute.” Delessert entered
the room and the door closed behind
him. It was a small room with a strong
smell of frankincense pervading it.
The walls were covered completely with
red hangings that concealed the win
dows, and the floor was felted with a
thick carpet. Opposite the door, at the
upper end of the room near the ceiling,
was the face of a large clock ; under it,
each lighted by tall wax candles, were
two small tables, containing, the one an
apparatus very like the common regis
tering telegraph instrument, the other
a crystal globe about twenty inches
in diameter, set upon an exquisitely
wrought tripod of gold and bronze in
termingled. By the door stood Sidi, a
man jet black in color, wearing a white
turban and burnous, and having a sort
of wand of silver in one hand. With
the other he took Delessert by the right
arm, above the elbow, and led him
quickly up the room. He pointed to
the clock, and it struck an alarm; he
pointed to the crystal. Delessert bent
over, looked into it, and saw—a fac
simile of his own sleeping-room, every
thing photographed exactly. She did
not give him time to explain, but, still
holding him by the arm, took him to
the other table. The telegraph-like in
strument began to click-click. Sidi
opened a drawer, drew out a slip of
paper, cramm*d it into Delessert’s hand
and pointed to the clock, which struck
again. The thirty-five seconds wore
expired. Sidi, still retaining hold of
Delessert’s arm, pointed to the door
and led him towards it. The dcor
opened, Sidi pushed him out, the door
closed, the tall footman stood there
bowing, the interview with the oracle
was over. Delessert glanced at the
piece of paper in his hand. It was
a printed scrap, capital letters, and read
simply : “To M. Paul Delessert: The
policeman is always welcome; the spy
always in danger !”
Delessert was dumbfounded a mo
ment to find his disguise detected, but
tlie words of the tall footman, “This
way, if you please, M. Flabry,” brought
him to his senses. Setting his lips, he
returned to the salon, and without delay
sought M. de Lasa. “Do you know
the contents of this ?” asked he, show
ing the message. “ I know everything,
M. Delessert,” answered De Lasa in his
careless way. “ Then perhaps you ire
aware that I mean to expose a charlatan
and unmask an hypocrite, or per sh in
the attempt!” said Delessert. “ Ccla
m'estegal, monsieur replied De Lasa.
“You accept my challenge, then?”
“Oh!it is a defense, then!” replied De
Lasa, letting his eye rest a moment upon
Delessert; “ mais oui, je Vacceptcf”
And thereupon Delessert departed.
Delessert now set to work, aided by
all the forces of the prefect of police
eould briog to bear to detect and expose
this consummate sorcerer, whom the
ruder processes of our ancestors would
easily have disposed of—by combina
tion. Persistent inquiry satisfied De
lessert that the man was neither an
Hungarian nor named De Lasa ; that no
matter how far back his power of
“reminiscence” might extend, in bis
present and immediate form he had
been born in this unregenerate world in
the toy-making city of Nurnberg ; that
he was noted in boyhood for his great
turn for ingenious manufactures, but
was very wild, and a mauvais sujet.
In his sixteenth year he had escaped to
Geneva and apprenticed himself to a
maker of watches and instruments.
Here he had been seen by the celebrated
Robert Houdin, the prestidigitateur.
Houdin, recognizing the lad’s talents,
and being himself a maker of ingenious
automata, had taken him off to Paris
and employed him in his own work
shops, as well as an assistant in the
public performances of his amusing and
curious diablerie. After staying with
Hondin some years, Pflock Haslieh
(which was De Lasa’s right name) had
gone east in the suite of a Turkish
pasha, and after many years’ roving in
lands where he could not be traced
under a cloud of pseudonyms, had
finally turned up in Vienna, and come
then 2e to Paris.
Delessert next turned his attention to
Mme. de Lasa, It was more difficult
to get a clue by means of which to know
her past life; but it was necessary in
order to understand enough about Has
lich. At last, through an accident, it
became probable that Mme. Aimee was
identical with a certain Mme. Sohlaif,
who had been rather conspicuous among
the demimonde of Buda. Delessert
posted off to that ancient city, and from
thence went into the wilds of Transyl
vania to Medgycs. On his return, as
soon as he reached the telegraph and
civilization, he telegraphed the prefect
(from Kardszag): “ Don’t lose sight of
my man, nor let him leave Paris. I
will run him in for you two days after I
get back. ”
It happened that, on the day of De
lessert’s return to Paris, the prefect was
absent, being with the emperor at Cher
bough. He came baok on the fourth
day, just twenty-four hours after the
announcement of Delessert’s death.
That happened, as near as could be
gathered, in this wise : That night after
Delessert’s return he was present at
De Lasa’s with a ticket of admittance to
a seance. He was very completely dis
guised as a decripit old man, and fancied
that it was impossible for any one to
detect him. Nevertheless, when he was
taken into the room, and looked into
the crystal, he was actually horror
stricken to see there a picture of him
self, lying face down and senseless upon
the sidewalk of a street; and the mes
sage he received ran thus : “ What you
have seen will be, Delessert, in three
days. Prepare!” The detective, un
speakably shocked, retired from the
house at once and sought his own
lodgings.
In the morning he came to the office
in a state of extreme dejection. He was
completely unnerved. In relating to a
brother inspector what had occurred,
he said : “ That man can do what he
promises. lam doomed!”
He said that he thought he could
make a complete case out against Has
lich, alias De Lasa, but could not do so
without seeing the prefect and getting
instructions. He would tell nothing in
regard to his discoveries in Buda and in
Translyvania—said that he was not at
liberty to do so—and repeatedly ex
claimed, “Oh ! if M. le Prefect were
only here !” He was told to go to the
prefect at Cherbourg, but refused, upon
the ground that his presence was needed
in Paris. He time and again averred
his conviction that he was a doomed
man, and showed himself both vacil
lating and irresolute in his conduct,
and extremely nervous. He was told
that he was perfectly safe since De
Lasa and all his household were under
constant surveillance ; to which he re
plied : “You do not know the man.”
Au inspector was detailed to accompany
Delessert, never lose sight of him night
and day, and guard over him carefully ;
and proper precautions were taken in
regard to his food and drink, while the
guards watching De Lasa were donbled.
On the morning of the third day De
lessert, who had been staying chiefly
indoors, avowed his determination to
g© at once and telegraph to M. le Pre
fect to return immediately. With this
intention he and his brother officer
started out. Just as they got to the
comer of the Rue de Lancry and the
Boulevard, Delessert stopped suddenly
and put his hand to his forehead.
“ My God !” he cried, “ the crystal
the picture !” and fell prone upon his
face, insensible. He was taken at once
to a hospital, but only lingered a few
hours, never regaining his conscious
ness. Under express instruction from
the authorities, a most careful, minute,
and thorough autopsy was made of De
lessert’s body by several distinguished
surgeons, whose unanimous opinion was
that the cause of his death was apo
plexy, due to fatigue and nervous ex
citement.
As soon as Delessert was sent to the
hospital his brother inspector hurried
to the central office, and De Lasa, to
gether wit i his wife and every one con
nected with the establishment, were at
once arrested. De Lasa smiled con
temptuously as they took him away. “ I
knew you were coming; I prepared
for it. You will be glad to release me
again. ”
It was quite true that De Lasa had
prepared for them. When the house
was searched it was found that every
paper had been burned, the crystal
globe was destroyed, and in the room of
the seances was a great heap of delicate
machinery broken into indistinguish
able bits. “ That cost me 200,000
francs,” said De Lasa, pointing to the
pile, “ but it has been a good invest
ment.” The walls and floors were
ripped out in several places, and the
damage to the property was consider
able. In prison neither De Lasa nor
his associates made any revelations.
The notion that they had something to
do with Delessert’s death was quickly
dispelled, in a legal point of view, and
all the party but De Lasa was released.
He was still detained in prison, upon
one pretext or another, when one morn
ing he was found hanging by a silk sash
to the cornice of the room where he was
confined—dead. The night before, it
was afterwards discovered, “Madame”
Da Lasa had eloped with the tall foot
man, taking the Nubian Sidi with them.
De Lasa’s secret died with him.
Social Leanness among Fanners,
The Am?rican Farmer, in all his plan
ning, and all his building, has never
made provision for life. He has only
considered the means of getting a living.
Everything outside of this —everything
relating to society and culture—has
been steadily ignored. He gives his
children the advantages of school, not
recognizing the fact that these very
advantages call into life anew set of
social wants. A bright, well-educated
family, in a lonely farm house, is very
different material from a family brought
up in ignorance. An American farmer’s
children, who have had a few terms at
a neighboring academy, resemble in no
degree tne children of the European
peasant. They come home with nev
ideas and new wants, and if there is no
provision made for these new wants,
and they find no opportunities for their
satisfaction, they will be ready, on reach
ing their majority, to fly the farm and
seek the city.
If the American farmer wishes to
keep his children near him, he must
learn the difference between living aud
getting a ’iving; and we mistake him
and his grade of culture altogether if he
does not stop over this statement and
wonder what we mean by it.
To get a living, to make money, to
become “forehanded”—this is the
whole of life to tgri ultural multitudes,
discouraging in their numbers, to con
template. To them there is no differ
ence between living and getting a living.
Their whole life consists in getting a
living ; aud when their families come
back to them from their schooling, and
find that, really, this is the only pursuit
that has any recognition under the pa
ternal roof, they must go away. The
boys push to the centres of the cities,
and the girls follow them if they can.
A young man or a young woman, raised
to the point where they apprehend the
difference between living and getting a
living, can never be satisfied with the
latter alone. Either farmers’ children
must Vie kept ignoiant or a provision
must be made for their social wants.
Brains and hearts need food and cloth
ing as well as bodies, and those who
have learned to recognize brains and
hearts as the best and most important
part of their personal possessions, will
go where they can find the ministry
they need.
What is the remedy ? How stall
farmers manage to keep their children
near them? How can we discourage
the influx of unnecessary—nay burden
some population into the c ties? We
answer : By making agricultural soci
ety attractive. Fill the farm houses
with periodicals and books. Establish
central reading rooms, or neighborhood
clubs. Encourage the social meetings
of the young. Have concerts, lectures,
amateur dramat c associations. Estab
lish a bright, active, social life, that
shall give some si.nificance to labor.
Above all, build as far as possible in
villages. It is better to go a mile to
one’s daily labor than to place one’s self
a mile away from a neighbor. The
isolation of American farm life is the
great enrse of that life, aEd it falls upon
the women with a hardship that the
men cannot appreciate, and drives the
ed neared young away.— Scribner's
Monthly.
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
Queen’s Cake.—Two cups sugar, 1
cup butter, 1 pound flour, eggs, fruit
and spice.
T© Renew Ribbons.— Wash them in
cool suds made of soap and iron when
damp. Cover with a clean cloth and
iron over.
Verdigris. —To remove verdigris
from a copper boiler scour it with sand
and then wash it with a strong solution
of salt and vinegar.
To CLEANSE THE HAIR AND SCALP.—
Borax, one ounce; camphor, one half
ounce; boiling water, one quart. When
cold, filter for use.
Crabber Cake. One oup butter,
three cups sugar, four cups flour, one of
clabbered milk, four eggs, teaspoonful
soda, one and one-half pounds raisins,
citron and spice.
Ginger Bread. —Two cups molasses,
one-half cup butter, one tablespoonful
saleratus dissolved in one cup cold
water, tablespoonful ginger, flour to the
consistency of stiff pound-cake.
Clove Cakb. —One pound flour, 1
pound sugar, } pound butter, 1 pound
raisins, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, $ oup cream,
1 nutmeg, 1 teaspoon saleratus, 1 table
spoon oloves, cinnamon, and other spices
if agreeable.
Cup Cake. —One cap sour milk, 3
caps sugar, 2 cups butter, 3 cups flour,
4 eggs, 1 tea.ipoonful saleratus, 1 nut
meg. For j ambles take 5 eggs, 6 cups
sugar, add drop on buttered tins and
bake in quick oven.
Pound Cake. —One pound sugar, 14
oz. batter, 14 oz. flour, or less, as judg
ment may dictate, 7 eggs, and 1 nutmeg.
The butter should be stirred to a cream,
then add the sugar and the yelks of the
eggs, then the whites whipped, and lastly
the flour.
Fruit stains and stains of red wine
can be nicely removed by applying the
following mixture: Equal parts of
slacked lime, potash and soft soap.
Rab on and expose the garment to the
sun for an hour. Ink stains and iron
mold are removed by salts of lemon or
oxide of potash.
Scotch Cake. —Stir to a cream 1
pound sugar, £ pound butter, add the
juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, and 1
wine-glass of fruit sirup; beat sepa
rately the yelks and whites of 9 eggs to
a stiff froth, stir them into cake, then
add 1 pound flour and 1 pound seeded
raisins.
Custard Meringe.— One quart milk,
yelks of four eggs, sweeten to your taste;
two tablespoons corn starch, flavor with
lemon and vanilla, apd when well cooked
turned into the dish in whioh it is to be
served, and cover the top with the well
beaten whites and a little sugar.
Chicken Cheese. —Boil two chickens
till tender ; take out all the bones and
chop the meat fine; season to taste with
salt, pepper and butter; pour in enough
of the liquor in which they are boiled
to make moist. Mold it in any shape
you wish, and when cold turn out and
cut into slice?. It ian excellent travel
ing lunen.
It is worth knowing that if oue vol
ume of eastor oil be dissolved iu two or
three volumes of spirits of wine it will
render paper transparent, and, the spir
its rapidly evaporating, the paper in a
few minutes becomes fit for use. A
drawing iu pencil or India ink can thus
be made, and if ttte paper is plaeed in
spirits of wine the oil is dissolved out,
restoring the paper to its original con
dition.
Take the head from a keg, fill it with
the handsomest ripe peaches, put in all
the whisky it will hold, then head it up
again. In winter they will be found
beautifully preserved, with the bloom
all on, and witli a slight soaking and
scalding in sirup, they are a delicious
acc ampaniment to ice-cream, far supe
rior to any brandied peaches. The
peach-whisky which remains will be
found excellent for mince-pies and pud
ding-sauce.
Bay rum is a useful, agreeable and
inexpensive application to the scalp.
Every body should use it, so we will
give a formula for making it as good as
can be purchased anywhere, and at a
small cost : Take oil of bay, ten fluid
drachms; oil of pimento, one fluid
drachm ; acetic ether, two fluid ounces;
alcohol, three gallons; water, two and
a half gallons. Mix, and in two weeks
filter it carefully, then yon will have a
superior article of bay rum, better than
can be purchased at an extravagant
price, already prepared.
The following is commended by those
who have tried it for scrubbing and
cleansing painted floors, washing dishes,
and other household purposes : Take
two pounds of white olive soap and shave
it in thin slices ; add two ounces of bo
rax and two quarts of cold water ; stir
all together in a stone or earthen jar,
and let it stand upon the back of the
stove until the mass is dissolved. A
very little heat is required, as the liquid
need not simmer. When thoroughly
mixed and. cooled it becomes of the con
sistence of a thiok jelly, and a piece the
size of a cubic inch will make a lather
for a gallon of water.
To Refasten Lamps. —lf the fountain,
or the glass globe that holds the oil, has
come loose from the standard, it is very
easily remedied by the use of plaster
of Paris. Mix a small quantity with
water, making it as thick as cream, and
fill it in between the glass of the foun
tain and the hollow in the top of the
standard as quickly as possible. As it
hardens immediately, every thing must
be done with promptness. If the foun
tain is broken in pieces, and there is a
whole bronze or brass standard remain
ing, it will pay to purchase anew foun
tain and set it upon the old standard as
described above. The brass top can be
fastened on in the same way.
Haribaldi In Rome.
A writer from Rome in the European
Review says : The salvation of Rome
from inundation forms but a small por
tion of General Garibaldi’s whole
scheme, which embraces nothing less
than the redemption of the entire
Roman Campana, the reclaiming of the
waste lands of the Agro Romano, the
amelioration of the sanitary condition of
Rome and its neighborhood. This
theme is too vast to be oven touched
upon in the present article, but it is
even more important than the one of
which we have treated, for it must be
in mind that even when Rome
shall be preserved from inundation it
does not by any means follow that it
will be preserved from malaria, which
malaria is derived, not from exhalations
of the Tiber, as some have erroneously
supposed, but from the inert soil and
the noxious vapors and gases that arise
from the innumerable swamps, bogs,
fens, and marshes in which the Cam
pagna abounds. One thing is certain,
that in this, as in all other undertakings
of his life. Garibaldi, having onoe put
his hand to the plough, will not turn
back till his work is done. We have
been with him in many phases of his
eventful life ; wandered with him along
the olive-clad mountains of his native
Nice, listening t? his narrations of past
battles fought for his country, to his
aspirations for the future; *we have
stood by him in the hour of triumph,
when from the Voltumo he telegraphed
to Europe “Victory along all the line ,”
wo have watched by his bed of pain,
upon which the royal bullet, winged
from the “Bitter Mount,” had laid him;
we have gone through the French cam
paign with him, so fraught with difficul
ties and dangers that were not merely
military ; and now our last memory of
him is as we left him yesterday in his
wooded seclusion of Frasoati, studying,
in utter solitude, maps and charts of
the Roman Campagna, absorbed en
tirely in studies for the achievement of
the material amelioration of the con
dition of the people to whose moral
development his whole life has been
devoted.
The Poetical Bedouin,
A writer says: The Bedouins pride
themselves on having much more intel
ligence and refinement, romance and
poetry than the settled Arab races; they
have an especial contempt for the fella
hin. One day a Bedouin threw this in
the face of a Christian fellah. They
had some high words about it, upon
which the Bedouin said, “ Well, tbou
shall come to our tents. I will ask my
daughter but three questions ; we will
note her answers. I will accompany
thee to thy village, and thou shalt ask
thy daughter the same three questions,
and we will compare her language with
my daughter’s Both are uneducated.
My daughter knows naught but Nature’s
language. Thine may have seen some
thing of towns or villages and passers
by, and have some advantage over
mine.”
They went to tho camp.
Bedouin father—“ O my daughter !”
Girl—“ Here lam, Omy father!’’
Father—“ Take our horses and picket
them.”
The ground was stony and she ham
mered at the peg.
Girl—“ My father, I knocked the iron
against the stone, but the ground will
not open to receive her visitor.”
“ Change it, O my daughter !”
At dinner her father knew he had
rice on his beard., and that the girl was
ashamed.
“ What is it, O my daughter ?”
“My father, the gazelles are feeding
in a valley full of grass !”
He understood, and wiped his beard.
“ Wake us early, O my daughter !”
“Yes, my father.”
She called him : “My father, the light
is at hand.”
“ How dost thou know, O my daugh
ter !”
“ The anklets are cold to my feet; I
smell the flowers on the river-bank, and
the sun-bird is singing.”
Thence they went to the fellah's vil
lage. It was now his turn.
Fellah—“ My daughter !”
Girl—“ What do you want, father?’’
“Take our horses and picket them.”
The ground being hard, she hammered
uselessly, and losing her temper, threw
down the stone, crying :
“ I have knocked it so hard, and it
won’t go in.”
“ Change it then, girt.”
At dinner he purposely dropped some
rice on his beard. She pointed at
him, began to langh, and said, “ Wipe
your chin, my father.”
On going to bed he said, “ Wake us
early, my daughter.”
“ Yes, father,” she replied.
“Father,’* she called at dawn, “get
up ; it is daylight!”
“ How do you know, my daughter?”
“My stomach is empty; I want to
eat.”
The fellah was obliged to acknowledge
the superiority of a Bedouin housenold
over his own.
Atmospheric Phenomena in Italy.
A Rome letter to the London Echo,
dated July 19, runs as follows :• Padre
Secchi publishes an account of the sin
gular phenomenon which occurred at
Yelletri during the violent thunder
storm of June 28, and which is to be
ranked among the hitherto unexplained
caprices of nature. Just as the tempest
was at its height, and the rain torrental,
six persons taking shelter in a stable,
which was also occupied by three horses
harnessed to as many wine-carts, wit
nessed the following extraordinary ap
pearance : A luminous mass rose from
the threshold of the door, entered the
stable, glided from one cart to auother,
attracted, probably, by those fringes of
bells characteristic of the Roman wine
cr.rts, and then passed through an iron
grating into the street. The bells rang,
the horses plunged, a woman and a man
felt a certain giddiness, but no aocide -.t
happened. Outside the stable a car
penter, at his shop-door, saw the lumin
ous mass (whioh some of the witnesses
compared to a fiary club as thick as a
man’s arm) issue from the grating,
strike f he pavement, and disappear in a
dazzling flash. However, the meteor
visited several portions of the large
house with which the stable was con
nected, flew through large chambers,
blackening fragments of plaster in an
other. Strangest of all, this extraordi
nary visitor, after completly destroying
the new ceiling of a room leading into
a vast kitchen, danced round a woman
who was standing at a tabje. She
described the meteor as a fiery serpent,
which she first saw standing upright on
the floor, within two metres’distance of
her. Then it flew toward her, whirling
several times round her knees with
great velocity. She felt a sudden blow
on the head and fell to the ground ; but
the husband, who saw the whole ap
parition, on rushing to what he sup
posed was the corpse of his lightning
destroyed wife, found that she was only
stunned a little. On recovering she
complained of pain in tho scalp, and
her hair had become and remains dry
and rigid. After this last caprice the
meteor disappeared; and from the
quantity of soot which fell from the
chimney, it is supposed to have found
vent in thet direction. It was accom
panied by a loud detonation, but
whether on its first appearance, or when
it vanished, no one can say. These
details are gathered from a letter writ
ten to Padre Seoclii, from the Meteoro
logical Observatory at Velletri, and
published in the Voce della Verita, of
July 9. After this one may beLeve that
Tanaquil really did see a “lambent
flame” play around the head of Servius
Tullus in his cradle ; nor can the tale
of the stars, playing on the river
Moldeau, on the Prague, over the body
of St. Jean Nepomus, be so certainly
set down as a pious fancy of the Middle
Ages, unsupported by natural phe
nomena.
Chinese Immigration.-- The San Fran
cisco Call says : The grand total of ar
rivals of Mongolians at this port since
the year 1872 3 is 113,074, of which
number 108,902 were males and 4,172
females. In the years 1863 4 and
1866-7 no Chinese females came to this
coast, and only one such arrival is re
corded for the year 1865 6. The greatest
number of Chinese arriving in any one
year since 1862 3 was 19,388 in 1872 3.
No reliable data are at hand to present
a comparison between the arrivals and
departures, but the number of Chinese
who return to their country permanently
is comparatively small. Avery large
proportion of the Chinese who come to
this state belong to tl}e lowest caste,
and their system of bondage bolds
them here with a firm grasp. Of the
large number of Chinese women now in
this state, there are few who do not
subsist on the wages of sin, and the
narrow confines to which this olass
of beings has been restrained in this
city are reeking with filth and moral
pestilence.
“ Would you please give a boy who
broke his leg the other day a few pea
nuts?” inquired a small chap of an gve
nue grocer. “ Now, boy, you are lying
to me,” said the grocer, looking the boy
in the eye, “I don’t believe yon know
any boy who has broken his leg. Come,
now, do you?” “No, I don’t,” replied
the lad, after some hesitation, “ but 1
know a boy whose sister fell down and
jarred her teeth out 1” He got a few
peanuts.
ENGLISH HUMOR.
How the London “ Punch ” Originated .
London Society.
Pnnoh first saw light in Crane Court,
Fleet street, in the very house where
the first. Parr’s Lile Pill was rolled into
existence. Mr. Herbert Ingraham (af
terwards M. P. for his native town of
Boston, Linconshire), was then “push
ing” that well-known patent medicine,
the proprietorship of which Mark Lem
on eventually persuaded him to relin
quish, not only on the score of personal
dignity, but on moral grounds, and in
the interest of the Illustrated News.
The idea of Punch was the joint woxk
of Henry Mvyhew and Mark Lemon.
Mr. Last says he first mentioned a pro
posal for a comic and satirical journal.
Mr. Hodder says the idea originated
with Mr. May hew, who mentioned it to
him. Mark Lemon always spoke of it
to me as the project of himself and
Mayhew. It is pretty oertain, however,
that the first meeting upon the matter
took place some time in June, 1841, at
Mark Lemon’s houee in Newcastle street,
Strand, and that Mr. Last, the printer,
and Mr. Henry Mayhew were present.
Mr. Lemon and Mr. Mayhew both un
dertook to communicate with writers and
artists. Mr. Last mentioned Mr. Eben
ezer L indells as a good engraver. A
few davs afterwards a meeting was held
at the Edinburgh Castle, in the Strand,
at which Douglas Jerrold, Henry May
hew, Stirling Coyne. Landells, the en
graver, and William Newman and Arch
ibald Henning (artists) were there. Mr.
Henry Bayliss and Mr. Hodder were
present as lookers-on. Several authors
who did not attend were written to for
contributions, including Mr. Gilbert
a’Beckett, H. P. Grattan and W. H.
Wills. It was arranged that Mr. Hen
ning should be the principal artist, and
he was to have the assistance of Mr.
Newman, Mr. Brine and M. Phillips.
Mark Lemon had drawn up the pros-
pectus.
This was written on blue foolscap
paper. It was at first intended to call
the paper the Funny Dog ; or, the Lon
don Charivari, allusion being made to
funny dogs with comic tales. Mark
Lemon, it will be seen, had actually
begun the title, writing as far as the
Fan; but this was afterwards struck
out, and Punch inserted. The first idea,
it must be confessed on all hands, like
many other clever ideas, was an adapta
tion from the French. The second title
was agreed upon the beginning, and was
discovered accidentally, like many great
er inventions. At the Edinburgh castle
meeting there was the customary badin
age that brightens the conversation of
literary men Somebody suggested
that the paper, like a good mixture of
punch, would be nothing without a fair
modicum of Lemon, when Henry May
hew, beaming with delight, exclaimed,
“ A capital idea! Let us call the paper
Puneh J” There is nothing new under
the sun. Somebody else then remem
bered that Douglas Jerrold had once !
edited a paper called the Penny Punch. '
Consternation for five minutes. The j
mystic spirit of copyright cast its shad
dow over the meeting. Bnt on examin- j
ation it turned out to be only the shadow
it had always been, and the title of
Punch was fearlessly written down.
This is Mr. Last’s version in the main, I
and it was generally indorsed, with only j
slight alterations over a cigar one snm- I
mer day, long ago, at the late editor’s
nnostentations ccttage in his favorite
village of Crawley.
Extremely Sharp Shooting.
Olive Harper, the sprightly, who is
wandering around Turkey, writes a letter
from Albania to the Globe-Democrat,
from which which we clip these para
graphs :
Soon all assembled to dance, and I
was amused as well as pleaeed to see the
dancing. The men are graceful, bnt
the women too funny for anything.
They danced a sort of figure very like
our Virginia reel, and it is very pretty.
After dancing a couple of hours the
voice of the herald proclaimed that the
pistol and rifle snooting w s about to
commence, and we accordingly took our
places again to view.
A mark about as large as ten cents
was placed on a tree, and the men
marched in line, and each one shot,
and every one but two put the ball in
the same place. I should have said the
men marched up “double-quick,” and
shot without resting an instant. The
weapons are long, ornate guns, and
carry a ball ronnd and as big as a hazel
nut.
Then a young man stepped forward
and threw a piece of stone in the air
with one hand and shot with the other,
and hit it, breaking it into dozens of
pieces. This feat was performed by more
than forty men. After that a gold ring
was fasttned on a tree, and fifty-four
men put a ball through it without
touching it. Then eight little boys,
from the ages of eight to ten years, put
balls through the same ring. The men
who missed the mark, were, amidst the
laughter of the crowd, condemned to
stand with an earthen cruse of colorec
water on their heads, and be shot at by
the others.
So, two men stepped forward, and
little cruses were carefully set on their
heads, and two men, each a brother to
the one he aimed at, came forward and
shot. I closed my eyes, but, after the
shots, looked, and the two were coveied
with the colored water which trickled
over their faces and clothes, while the
fragments of the little jugs lay around.
Some of the marksmen were so certain,
that tho members of their families
stood like stoics, and permitted them to
shoot at eggs, apples, etc.
I was too nervous to thoroughly enjoy
this display, but the old man told me
not to bo afraid, and taking up his gun
as he sat beside me, be lif.ed it, remark- i
ing that that red flower on a pomegran
ite bush was in bad taste ; he shot, and
the flower fell. He then told me he had,
while in the war, given orders to his
sharp shooters to shoot every Turkish
officer directlv in the left eye, aud after
the battle was won there was seventeen
dead Turkish captains, all Bhot in the
left eye.
The Classification of bhcop.
Delaine is the generic Freueh word
for wool, though it lias become used to
designate a fabric composed c-f cotton
and worsted, which is known in market
by the formation of colored patterns
similar to calico on two or more frabics
composed of cotton worsted or silk.
The fabric originated mainlv in the
effort of French to rival the Eoglish in
the production of combing wool from
the Spanish merino. Tha rambouletts
produced a wool which worked well
under the comb, and was too fine for
the ordinary hoisery and stuff goods for
which the English wools were so atnira
bly suited. Jhe French struck out a
new industry from their own wool which
the English could not imitate because
they did not have a supply of combing
wool of merino blood. A good delaine
wool must contain merino blood, and
length and strength of staple. In New
Zsaland the English manufacturers are
stimulating the wool growers to develop
anew indnstrv and they are now pro
ducing a very desirable delaine wool by
crossing the Cotswold or Leicester ram
on the merino ewe. The result is a
heavy carcase, heavier fleece, a longer
staple, and altogether a more profitable
sheep. A good deal of that kind of
wool has been imported into New York
from New Zealand during the past year,
and has commanded prices superior to
their best Australian wools. I have
urged, and still urge, the farmers who
have merino ewes to cross them with a
Cotswool ram, as thereby they will add j
to the value of their flocks in a marked j
legree. Merino or grade merino which
aave leng h and strength of staple is a
delaine wool, while the English mutton
sheep is the sheep for combing wool.
That is the classification of breeds.
The Last London Sensation.
The great sensation of the week hat
been the arrest, on a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, of the
Messrs. Collie, the great merchants who
failed last June. This is something
like arresting Lord & Taylor, or Arnold
& Constable, or A. T. Stewart, for
swindling. The Messrs. Collie had for
many years carried on a very extensive
trade with India. When they failed
their liabilities were said to be about
three million pounds or nearly fifteen
million dollars ; and about half of this
amonnt was represented by bills or ac
acceptances which the London banks
had discounted. It is now charged that
the formerly great trade of the Collies
had dwindled down to a very small
point, and that for some time past they
had been only pretending to do busi
ness. They had houses in different
places, and the charge is that these
houses drew bills on each other, pre-
tending that they were goods actually
sold or bought, and marking them with
figures and letters pretending to repre
sent certain bales or cargoes. These
fictitious bills, as is charged, were then
taken to the banks and discounted as
regular “ trade bills,” when in fact they
were not only “ accommodation paper,”
but actually frauds. The Messrs. Col
lie were arrested a few davs since. One
of them lives in a splendid mansion in
Kensington, which was famished at a
cost of forty thousand pounds; the
other resides at Manchester. They were
brought before the magistrate at Guild
hall, and after the charge against them
had been stated they were remanded for
a week. The magistrate said he must
bold them to bail in a large sum, and
four thousand pounds each was named
as the figure. It was then late in the
day, and the friends of Collie were not
prepared for what had happened. The
prosecution, morever, insisted on forty
eight hours to examine into the respon
sibility of the bail that might be offered ;
and 60 there was no remedy for the fur
ther disgrace that awaited the accused.
They were conveyed to Newgate and
there locked np, like any common crim
inals would be. The next day there
were plenty of their friends ready to
bail them, but the prosecution took its
time, and it was two days before the
necessary formalities were gone through
with and the prisoners liberated. Their
trial will be regarded with great interest
here. The practice of negotiating ac
commodation bills as “ trade bills,” is
a very common one. There are even
houses which accept snch bills for a
commission. If the Messrs. Collie are
convicted a severe blow will be struck
at this practice. But it will be very
difficult to convict them. I am told
that it will be shown that the banks
which discounted their paper knew per
fectly well the nature of the bills, and
took their risks with their eyes open.—
London Cor. New York Graphic.
Convicts in Georgia,
Colonel John T. Brown, keeper of the
penitentiary of Georgia, has supplied
the Atlanta Herald with the following
information: The whole number of
convicts is abont 800; one-tenth of
these only are white. The ratio is one
of decrease in the number of white con
victs, and an increase of colored. Of
the 800 there are thirty women, one of
whom is a white woman convicted of
murder. The rates of mortality for this
year is abont the same as last. Last
year there were forty deaths out of 700
reported for the whole year. For the
seven months of the present year there
have been thirty deaths out of 800.
The health of the various gangs through
the state has improved considerably of
late. Those at work on farms are the
healthiest, but the percentage of es
capes is greater. The number of es
capes so far is twenty-five; one third
less than last year. Greater efficiency
in capturing those who make their
escape is apparent. A heavy increase is
anticipated the coming falL Courts
will s jon be in session, and jails are fall
all over the state. In the month of July,
this year, there were nineteen brought
in, against two in 1873, and four in
1873, for the same month. There are
many young negroes brought in, some
as yo:n.ng as ten years, and a number
fourteen and fifteen years old.
Mbs. Abe Lincoln. —A correspond
ent, writing: from St. Charles, in the
vicinity of Bellevue Asylum, says “yon
will be glad to learn, aud this is the first
public intimation of it, that Mrs. Lin
coln is pronounced well enough to leave
the asylum and visit her sister, Mrs.
Edwards, of Springfield. It is not
likely that she will return to Bellevue
place, as there is some feeliug mani
fested in the manner of her incarcera
tion by her friends, who refuse to be
lieve her insane. A leading lady lawyer
of Chicago has been with her much of
late, and with the assistance of her legal
husband, will assist in Mrs. Lincoln’s
restoration to the world. She is de
cidedly better, sleeps and eats well, and
shows no tendency to auy mania ; but
whether the cure is permanent or not
the test of active life and time will
prove.
A gentleman in the eastern part of
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