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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. La r.rES ! If you want, the cenileasep to admire you. take Br.J U.MeLean's strength euing Cordial aud Blood purifier. It will give you health, strength vitali’v ..d pure rich blood, i'r J. 11. 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