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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
There is more steambouting on the
muddy Missouri '.his year than there has
been any season during the past ten
years, the Black hills trade being the
chief stimulant.
Among the choicest treasures ol the
St. Petersburg Museum are specimens of
the skin, hair, and bones of the Siberian
mammoth, obtained many years ago by
Adams, a Russian merchant, from the
natives in northern Siberia. The entire
animal had been washed out from a frozen
gravel drift, and had served as food for
the dogs of the natives for a long time.
A condensed statement of the foreign
trade of the United States for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1876, shows the im
ports to have been $470,677,871; the
domestic exports, mixed values, $655,-
463,969, and the re-exports of foreign
commodities, §91,270,035. The exports
of domestic commodities, it will thus be
seen, exceeded the imports by nearly
§180,000,000, or considerably over one
third.
The Protestant Episcopal church sup
ports, in its foreign missionary work,
forty-seven stations; twelve of which are
in western Africa, nineteen in China,
six in Japan, nine in Hayti, one in
Greece and one in Palestine. The num
ber of missionaries and other laborers
employed is one hundred and eleven, of
whom two are missionary bishops. The
communicants number about eight hun
dred.
It is marvelous the vitality there is to
Cuba. Here it has kept up a war for
years with a powerful nation, and at the
same time kept up the manufacture of
its staple article, Havana cigars, supply
ing nearly all of America and a good
part of Europe. If one half of the cigar
makers of Cuba should lay off their
aprons and take up arms the Spaniards
would be swept from the face of the
earth, and their things sold at auction,
in less than sixty days. —Danbury News.
Em Perkins has been conversing with
Brigham Young, and thus reports a part
of the conversation for the New York
Times: “‘How many wives and chil
dren have you now?’ I asked the
prophet, after a few moments of prelim
inary conversation. 1 1 think I have fif
teen wives now that I am taking care of.
I’ve had forty-five children, and I don’t
know how many grandchildren. Do
you know, Hiram, how many grandchil
dren then* are?” he remarked, turning
to his double son-in-law. Mr. Clawson
didn’t know.”
Almost everybody in business in
Gibraltar smuggles or promotes smug
gling in tobacco. Gibrabtar is a vast
tobacco store. Every other house is a
tobacco warehouse. The scent of to
bacco hangs about the streets and alleys
of the little town at the foot of the rock;
the courtyards are full of the great rolls
of dry, yellow leaves; and through the
doorways may be seen girls and boys
deftly making up the cigarettes the
Spaniard loves. The modes of smug
gling the weed into Spain are endless,
and equally endless are the squabbles
and difficulties in which we are involved
with Spanish cruisers and the Spanish
government in consequence. London
Times.
After getting used to paper car
wheels we need not be surprised to learn
that anew coating for the bottoms of
iron 'ships consists of brown paper at
tached by a suitable cement. It is the
invention of Capt. F. Warren, of Eng
land, and the substance he proposes to
use is a preparation of paper-mache. If
is stated that weeds and branches will
not adhere to paper, and that the special
cement by which the paper is secured
may be applied cold, hardens under
water, is unaffected by comparatively
high temperature, and po-sesses great
tenacity. A plate thus protected on one
side has been immersed for six months,
with the result that the protected side
was found clean, while the unprotected
metal was covered with rust and shell,
fish.
The timber lands of the south will
within the next ten years become a
valuable property. It is estimated that
the lower peninsula of Michigan, once
called the timber reserve of the conti
nent, will be denuded in ten years. The
destruction of the forests all over the
north is terrible ; and James Little, of
Montreal, ’..e1l known as an authority in
these matters, has recently published a
declaration that in Canada “the whole
Ottawa valley could Jnot to-day furnish
as much pine as would supply the pres
ent consumption of sawed lumber in the
United States for ten months.” The
young of to-day will see the forest lands
of the south become as rich a possession
as the cotton lands; and they may pos
sibly see lumbering become as much of
an industry in the Rocky mountains as
gold mining.
. .The man on West hill got up tie
other night to see a dose of anti-bilious
pills. By a mistake he got into a boy’s
box of marbles and swallowed half a
dozen of blood allies and commies, and
now as he walks about the streets he
rattles like a pasteboard dice-box.—
Hawkey*.
VOL. I.
USDER THIS VIOLETS.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Her hands arc cold ; her face is white;
No more her pulses come and go;
Jler eyes ate shut to life and light;
Fold the white vesture, snow on snow ;
And lay her where the violets blow.
Hut not beneath a graven stone,
To plead for tears with alien eyes.
A slender cross of wood alone
.shall say that here a maiden lies
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees of hugest limb
Shall wheel their circling shadows round
To make the scorching sunheht dim,
That drinks the greenness from the ground
And drop their dead leaves on her mound.
When o’er then boughs the squirrels run.
And through their leaves the robins call.
And, ripening in its autumn sun,
The acorns and the chestnuts fall,
Doubt, not that she would heed them all.
For her the morning choir shall sing
Its matins from the branches high,
And everv minstrel voice of spring
That trills beneath the April sky
Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When, turning round their dial track,
Eastward the lengthening shadows pass.
Her little mourners, clad in black,
The crickets sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her an evening mass
At last the rootlets of the trees
Shall find the prison where she lies,
And hear the buried dust they seize
In leaves and blossoms to the skies,
So may the soul that warmed it rise.
If any, born of kindlier blood,
Should ask : “ What maiden lies below ?”
Say only this: “A tender bud,
That tried to blossom in the snow,
Lies withered where the violets blow.”
TREASURES IX TUB SERAGLIO AT
CONS TA XTINOJPI.E.
Let us drop in at the seraglio. The
tongue of Stamboul is thrust into the
midst of the waters of the Golden Horn,
the Bosphorus and the sea of Marmora.
It is an oblong hill crowned with white
walls, domes and minarets, and hedged
about with groves of black, funeral cy
presses. Here stands tlie seraglio, which
was for fifteen centuries the abiding
place of the Ottoman emperors. It is
now used only on state occasions, and the
palace, the courts and the innumerable
tenements that cover the promontory —
the ground plan of the seraglio is nearly
three miles in circumference —are bat
tered, dusty and out of repair. The sub
lime porte is singularly ugly and any
thing but sublime. The buildings that
cluster about the several courts have
not, for the most part, the slightest pre
tensions to architectural beauty or even
dignity. The second court is flanked by
a row of nine kitchens, looking very
much like nine limekilns. They are
domed, but without chimneys, so the
smoke passes out through a hole in the
roof. Here the sultan and his court
consumed annually 40,000 oxen, and
there were daily brought to the table 200
sheep, 100 lambs, 10 calves, 200 hens, 200
pairs of pullets, 100 pairs of pigeons, and
50 green geese. The late Sultan Abd-ul-
Aziz was accustomed to feeding his fam
ily as bountifully, and still [he was not
happy. In the stables by the water
side a thousand horses were formerly
stalled; and among the cannon that
swept the sea and the mouth of the Bos
phorus is one huge old fellow at whose
hoarse voice Babylon surrendered to
Sultan Murad. The chief attraction of
the seraglio is the treasury. Here, in a
chamber by no means large, is gathered
tieasure such as one reads of in tales of
the genii. The actual value of this store
of jewels is almost beyond conception.
Each sultan seeks to succeed his prede
cessor in the richness of his additions to
the collection, and the result is a daz
zling but not very expressive array of
theatrical-looking properties, that might
just as well be made of glass and tinsel—
the effect upon the spectator would l)e as
pleasing. Imagine to yourself a carpet
crusted with pearls, many of them as
large as sparrow eggs ; a throne of gold,
frosted with pearls; draperies for the
horses ridden by the sultan, embroidered
with pearls and rubies ; a cradle coated
with precious stones; in'aid armor, jew
eled hemlets, sword hilts—one of these
are decorated with fifteen diamonds,
each one as large as the top of a man’s
thumb; coffee trays of ebony, with a
double row of enormous diamonds, set
close together; pipe stems, nargilehs,
sword belts, baskets and bushels of neck
laces of the most splendid description,
heaped together in glass show-cases and
flashing like fire-flies in the dark. The
most costly article in the treasury is a
toilet table, of lapis lazuli and other val
uable mateiial, richly inlaid with pre-
cious stones of every description. The
pillars that support the mirror are set j
with diamonds; the stem and claws of
the table are covered with diamonds,;
emeralds, rubies, carbuncles, etc.; along
the edge of the table hangs a deep fringe
of diamonds, with immense solitaire tas
sels. The whole is a gorgeous—bore.
Multitudes of attendants are stationed
through the apartment, and you may be
sure that you are never left for a second
unobserved by these watchful guardians
of the treasure house. What a relief it
is to withdraw into the kiosk of Bagdad,
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 1877.
tl e private library of the sultan, sit
within c-ight walls that close about you
like the exquisite panels of an ivory or
tortoiseshell fan, under a dome of rose
tint and 'gold mosaic, and, shutting the
doors of bronze inlaid with pearls,
• against the world, to think how pleasant
| a thing it is to be poor but honest. On
| the shelves of the library there are
j several codices brought from the collec
i tion of King Mathias Corvinus at Buda,
and there are dainty rolls and folios of
parchment laid away, each in its seperate
case, and all looking very much as if
they were not often disturbed. From
tne kiosk of Bagdad it is pleasant to
look down into the deep garden of the
houris, sloping Jto the swift Bospliorous,
and to meditate on the lights of the
harem that have suddenly gone out for
ever, quenched in that fatal flood, but,
thinking on the stifled cries and the
slimy shrouds dragged down into the
pitiless deep, it is still pleasanter to rise
superior to this situation, fee and custo
dian, and thank Heaven that you are
not a girl— C. W. Stoddard in San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
now “TEX It HOUCK ” BEAT TUB
FASTEST TITLE ON KECOltli.
In the pools before the first race, in
which Ten Brseck was to run against the
two mile record—except McWhirter’s
and Courier’s 3:32l—the horse sold the
favorite at odds of $79 to $25, tha t he would
beat 3:30J. When the noble horse was
led out into the track for his preliminary
mile canter he was loudly applauded.
He had for his running mates the fine
horse, St. Louis, and the fleet filly, Necy
Hale. Ten Broeck was ridden by Win.
Walker, who has bestrode him on every
occasion when he has run in his great
events, and looked as fine as silk. His
beautiful mane was entwined with red
and yellow ribbons, tlie colors of his
owner, and there was not a soul on tlie
track but felt he would win the race if
he did not meet with an accident. Pre
vious to the start Mr. Clark requested
the spectators not to cheer the horse as
lie passed the blbiklh, as the noise would
interfere with the instructions that
would have to lie shouted to the rider.
At last all was ready, and the king of
the turf and St. Louis went back almost
to the eighth post in order to get the
benefit of a full running start. They
went off at a nice pace at the tap of the
drum, St. Louis keeping right ahead of
his mate. The first quarter was made in
2.5.1, the half-mile in 52, the three-quar
ters in 1:18, and the mile, under pull, in
1:441.
Walker had been ordered to make the
first mile in 1:45, and now, in obedience
to instruction-', he started Ten Broeck to
run for all there was in him. Nccy
Hale, who now became his competitor,
was full twenty yards ahead of him and
he went after her like a huricane, lap
ping her on the upper turn, and passing
her at the mile and a quarter, which was
made in 2:091. She kept clattering
away at his heels, and was only a length
behind at the mile and a half, which was
passed in 2:35. He came to the mile and
three-quarter’s post in 3:01, and the two
miles in 3:273, heating McWhirter’s
great time three seconds, and Tom Bow
ling’s unofficial, B:27—made at Lexing
ton, May 12, 1874—by one-fourth of a
second.
The shout that arose from the multi
tude when the time was displayed could
have been heard for miles. As soon as
the excitement had somewhat subsided,
Mr. Clark, from the judges’ stand,
stated that Mr. Harper had requested
him to say that Ten Broeck would never
run again on the turf; and whenever
any horse should make a mile faster than
1:391, two miles faster than 3:271, th-ee
miles quicker than 5:201, and four miles
faster than 7:155, the horns which had
been presented to him, and which now
ornament the timers’ siand, would be
given with pleasure to that horse. At
the conclusion of this speech, Mr. Har
per was loudly called for. He responded
and bowed his. thanks, but could not be
induced to enter on a speech. The horse
was then led before the ladies’ stand,
and after inspection was taken to
his stall. Hereafter be will be used
alone in the stud, and he w ill most likely
! beget a race of kings and queens of the
turf. —Louisville <S ipeciaJ In (Jin. Enpuirer,
| May 20.
Good John Wilkins, of .Stafford,
used to say of billiards: “It seemeth to
me if a manne have no better use for
hy* time than to sprawl upon a table
with one of his legges indecently in the
air, striving to make one balle upon a
green cloth to strike another, it were
better that be practyse standing on hys
head, the which not only needeth the
greater skill, but withal doth make tie
breakin,‘of a worth*. back more likely.”
SI'UIXG AII. MBS IS.
The remedy for spring disease*, by
whatever name, is: Eat less. We do not
mean that you will starve yourself, or
that you shall deny yourself whatever
you like best, for, as a general rule, what
you like best is best for you : you need
not abandon the use of tea or coffee, or
meat, or any thing else you like, but
simply eat lessof them. Eat all you did
in winter, if you liko, but take less in
amount. Do not starve yourself, do not
reduce the quantity of food to an amount
which would scarcely keep a chicken
alive, but make a beginning by not go
ing to the table at all, unless you feel
hungry, for, if you once get there, you
will begin to taste this and that, and
the other, by virtue of vinesrar, or
mustard, or sirup, or cake, or something
nice. Thus a fictitious appetite is waked
up, and before you know it you have
eaten a hearty meal, to yeur own stir- 1
prise, and perhaps that, or something
else, of those at table with you.
The second step toward the effectual
prevention of all spring diseases, summer
complaints, and the like, is: Diminish
the amount of food consumed at each
meal by one-fourth of each article, and
to be practical it is necessary to be
specific: if you have taken two cups of
coffee or tea at a meal, take a cup and a
half; if you have taken two biscuits or
slices of bread, take one and a half; if
you have taken two spoonfuls of rice, or
hominy, or cracked wheat or grits, or
farina, take one and a half; if you have
taken a certain or uncertain quantity of
meat, diminish it by a quaiter, and keep
on diminishing it in proportion as the
weather becomes warmer, until you ar
rive at the points of safety and health,
ami they are two: 1. Until you have no
unpleasant, feeling of any kind after
your meals. 2. Until you liavt* not
eaten so much at one meal hut that,
when the next comes, you shall feel de
cidedly hungry.
Supplies being thus effectually cutoff
—that is, tbe cause being first removed
next proceeds to work off the
surplus, as the engineer does unwanted
steam; and as soon as this surplus is got
rid of we begin to improve—the appe
tites, the strength, the health return by
slow and safe degrees, and we at length
declare wo are as well as ever. —7 fall's
■Journal of Health.
/•./ F Fit FLOUR 11A Runs.
A firm at Hyiacuse, New York, are
now manufacturing a novel flour barrel.
The barrels are composed of straw-paper
pulp, which is run into a mold made in
the shape of one-lialfof a barrel cut ver
tically. The pulp is subjected to a pow
erful hydraulic pressure, and, when re
duced to the required thickness, the ends
of the halves are cutoff at the ends. The
pieces are then placed in a steam drier,
and the sides are trimmed evenly and
the substance thoroughly dried. !t. comes
from the drier ready for making up into
barrels. There are three heavy wooden
hoops and two hoops fastened together;
and. into grooves cut in the staves, the
paper halves, which have an average
thickness of three-sixteenths of an inch,
are slid. The ends of the barrels are
made of paper of a similar thickness,
constructed upon the same principles as
the sides, and protected by heavy wooden
ones. The advantages of these barrels
over wooden ones are lightness, cheap
ness, durability, and the prevention of
flour sifting out while in transit. They
are constructed entirely by machinery,
and the halves are cut so true lhat any
pieces of the same size will readily fit
together. They will not cost more than
one-third the price of wooden barrels,
are lighter, and fit so nicely in the
grooves that there is no chance lor flour
to sift through, which loss is quite a
heavy per centuge in the use of other
kinds.
voxsTiti ol micicoiscofkn.
<ome valuable improvements have
lately been made in the construction of
microscope object-glasses. Among these
is a one seventh inch on an improved
formula, obtained by substituting two
plano-conve x lenses for the single plano
convex jsjsterior lens originally em
ployed. These new lense- ar<- found to
be superior in definition, and far superior
in clearness and absence of fog or milki
ness, to any other objective vet known.
As regards foe, this objection or defect is
very conspicuous in the one sixth inch
made by ltoss, this 1 .f-ing c instructed of
a ingle front lens followed by three
I cemented combinations. Tlxr" are some
reasons for surmising that is partly
due to the multiplication of cemented
contract surfaces ; and, if this be so, tlr
general principles of analysis would lead
to the conclusion that the amount of the
defect in question would be in porportion
to the square of the number of the
cemented surfaces —a calculation and
comparison easily made, in determining
the character of different makes.
ECHO TEAS A ItMIKS.
The fifth edition of Huron de Worms’
book, “The policy of England in the
East,” contains some interesting tables
on tbe population and armies of the Eu
ropean nations. According to these re
turns, the Ottoman empire, inclusive of
the tributary states, comprises 13,000,000
Turks, 1,500,000 Arabs, 600,000 Tartars,
Turkomans and Zingarees, 5,123,000
Roumanians, 2,000,000 Greeks, 4,800,000
Bulgarians, 500,000 Servians, and 800,'
000 Bulgarians professing the Moham
medan faith. In Servia there are 450,-
000 Roman Catholics, and 100,000 in Al
bania. Altogether the population of the
empire reaches 52,092,068; but this is
inclusive of nearly 11,000,000 Nubians,
5,000,000 Egyptians, and 8,000,000 Rou
manians and Servians. In arfbther table
the effective of the armies of the differ
ent powers are stated as follows : Rus
sia, 1,789,571 ; Germany, 1,248,834;
France (inclusive of the reserves and ter
ritorial army), 1,118,525; Austria, 964,-
268; Italy, 871,871; England 655,808;
and Turkey, 229,736. In the Turkish
army there are 154,376 regulars to 475,-
860 irregulars, while in the other Eu
ropeans armies with flic exception of
England, there is about an equal pro
portion of active and reserved forces.
In respect of fleets, France has 63 iron
clad vessels as ngaitist 61 possessed by
Great Britain, but the latter power lias
449 other war vessels, its compared to
only 366 in the French navy. Russia
has 31 iron-clads and 124 other men-of
war; Turkey has 21 iron clads; Italy,
17; Austria, 12; Germany, 8, and
Greece, 1. Montenegro has only 190,-
000 inhabitants, with an annual revenue
of .65,000, but it has 26,000 soldiers—in
other words, all the able-bodied men are
under arms. The public debt of Russia
exceeds .6300,000,000, or half as much
i again as that of Turkey. —Pall Mall Ga-
I zttle.
It’ll F Til ICY OFTK.V FAIL.
i '
Young men often fail to get on in the
world because they neglect small oppor
tunities. Not being faithful in little
tilings, they are not promoted to tne
charge of greater things. A young man
who gets a surbordinate situation some
times thinks it is not necessary for him
to give it much attention. He will wait
till he gets a place of responsibility, and
then he will show people what he can do.
This is a very great mistake. Whatever
his situation may lie, he should master it
in all its details, and perform all its du
ties faithfully. The habit of doing his
work thoroughly and conscientiously is
what is'most, likely to enable a young
man to make his way. With this habit
a person of ordinary abilities will out
strip one of greater talents who is in the
habit of slighting subordinate matters.
But after all the mere adoption by a
young man of a great essential rule of
success shows him to lie possessed of su
perior abilities.
Eo vi' T occupies an anomulous position
in the war. Asa Turkish dependency it
is bound to furnish its contingent, and
as Mohammedans its subjects have a
strong anti-Russian feeling. But Egyp
tian interests are not directly menaced,
and it is of the utmost irnixjrtni.ee to the
khedive to avoid attack. About 8,000
Egyptian soldiers are serving in the Turk
ish army, and are stationed at Varna,
and according to the khedive half as
many, fitted out by voluntary contribu
tions will be sent forward. Yet he
means to protect the rights of Egyptian
creditors and hopes the Huez canal will
be kept perfectly neutral. Exactly how
he can guarantee the payment of Egyp
tian bonds at the beginning of a war
whose results may be disastrous, and is
exceedingly doubtful, is not very clear ;
and how he can expect that Egypt can
have the rights and privileges of a neu
tral, while contributing a full quota of
troops to the Turkish army, is one of the
puzzles of eastern statecraft. Certainly
Egypt is directly involved in the war, and
a party to it, and England’s interests are
specially involved and imperilled throngh
I Egypt. ( 'r course Russia will not be
likely to go out of her way to attack
Egypt, thereby giving England a coveted
pretext for fighting; unless, indeed,
England shall get tired of waiting, and
unite with Turkey before Egypt is men
aced. England means to protect Egypt
at any rate, and has a pretty firm convic
tion that Constantinople and the Darda
nelles are necessary to its defense.
GRA I E AND GA Y.
Sitting Around.
They me Rifling aiound upon barrels and chair?,
Diseusßing their own ami the!/ ncighifors'n sffaiip.
Ami the look of content that is seen on each face
tomato say, ‘ I have found my appropriate place,”
riitting around.
In bsir-roonoM arid groceries calmly they sit,
and serenely chew borrowed tobacco, and spit.
While the stories they tell, and the jokes that they
•rack,
•'how t heir hearts lmvegrown hard and undoubtedly
black,
While sitting around.
The “ sitter around ’’ is n man of no meanp.
And his face wouldn’t pass for a quart of white beans,
Yet he somehow or other contrives to exist,
Ami is frequently seen with u drink in bis fist,
While sitting around.
'I he loungers they toil not, nor yet do they spin.
Unless it be yarns, while < njoying their gin ;
They are pfople of leisure, yet often, Mis true,
They allude to the work they’re intending to do.
While sitting around.
They’ve a habit of talking of other men’s wives,
As they whittle up sticks with their horn-handle!
knives;
’I hey’re a scaly old set, and wherever you gw
You’ll fled them in groups or strung out In a row,
Sitting around.
Detroit Free Prr&s.
NO. 41.
. . The sweetest pleasure in in impart
ing it.
.. Most pleasures, like flowers, when
gathered, die.
..Amid the roses fierce temptation
roars her snakey crest.
. .The shadow of our pleasures is the
pain which seems to surely follow them.
. .Pleasures are liko poppies spread—
you can seize the flower, its bloom is
shed.
There are occasions when the gen
eral belief of the people even though it
be groundless, works its effect as sure as
truth itfclf.
..The pride of the heart is the attri
bute of honest men ; prido of manners
that of fools ; pride of birth anil rank is
often the pride of dupes.
. .The prejudice of ignorance are more
easily removed than the prejudices of in
terest ; the first arc all blindly adopted,
the second willfully preferred.
..If we would amend the world, we
should amend ourselves, and teach our
children not to he what we are ourselves,
but what they should be.
.. None arc too wise to l>e mistaken,
but few are so wisely just as to ncknowl
edge and correct their mistakes, and
especially the mistake of prejudice.
.. Extract from a letter from Atchison,
Kan.: “The ground is tremendously
dry here ; the big rain of last week did
not reach the ground ; the grasshoppers
stood on their hind legs and drank the
water as fast as it fell. Ho 1 am in
formed.”
.. A. Newcastle man at a London res
taurant had called for the bill, paid it
and was leaving, when the waiter sug
gested that the amount did not include
the waiter. “ Ah,” said the man from
the north, “but I didn’t rat the waiter.’
. A man who h'.nred himsell in Ne
vada left a lc'.er to a friend, in which
he said: “ I advise you earnestly to fol
low my example. You ought to know
you are too mean to live. The world
would be b tter without you, and it is
your duty to die, and leave more room
for better men.” The friend says he has
no intention of following the advice.
..An Elmira man, finding a nest of
young squirrels in the woods brought
them to the house where there were two
felines each having a “ litter” of kittens.
One of the tables took her own legiti
mate children and putting them in the
nest of the other (by whom they were
tafcen care of as though they had been
her own llesh and blood), went to where
the squirrels were and took them one by
one to her own nursery and since has
been nursing and caring for them as a
mother.
Look Oct fob Yolk Banana
Benches. —It lias not been long since a
live tarantula was found snugged in a
garment in a Clifton pantry, alongside
which a bunch of bananas had been
hung. These insects are of the spider
kind, huge, hairy ungainly, but active
and venomous. In the countries where
they find a home the natives have an in
veterate dread of them. Last Friday
night Nr. Clench, grocer, on the corner
off lutter and Betts streets, discovered a
huge live specimen in a bunch of ba
nanas he had for sale. He cautious.y
captured the monster and took it to .T.
<i. Menninger’s drug store, corner of
Clinton and Cutter streets, where the
strange little monster excited great cu
riosity.— Detroit, Free Press.
Marry the Woman.—Some men
marry dimples, some eyes, a few ears;
the mouth, too, is occasionally married ;
the chin not so often. A young man
once fell head over heels and ears in love
with a braid. He was so far gone that
he became engaged to his braid, but a
new mode of hairdressing having been
adopted by bis fiawt, the charm was
dissolved and was never renewed. What
do young men marry ? Why, they rnarrv
these, and many other bits of scraps of a
wife, instead of the true thing. And
then, after the wedding, they are sur
prised to find that, although married,
they have no wives. He that would
have a wife must marry a woman.
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