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JUNE 16, OVE AND MARRIAGE popes for a p iaoe to dupU* uu, um brella. bag, but and th-i parcel she h«* sent down to the office, far him to bring homo. * | MAN WHO *« HIS L' rE ENGAGED ALU I" - to bo married all ^■fSa bachelor, because, as he ' #fl ‘ ’ , r t„ inquiring friends, if .A ill 1 1 . , . **ii iMHUitfi-UHl there would.be no- ,, fl .„i s ,H*nd the evening! ■***£ nnodion is. was this man J'ttan na« in general, or was he s* JiV p^ihe miss :dl the qmet sT * of domestic life—some- ■^‘^t^V.ii-slipp-rs. and nnrso his » lj tsii iu , vt , a 1 .right room and worm ffi’’ J(ir i,j m when he came home ^ol'ahv.Aod get only a whimsical i ’“. , ht j.iace of tliem, or did he es- the fret and worry of too close ^ ytv and tlie miserable feeling f^Lwablo u. getaway from what ^ — -wishes to retain? iVssh- -More Fond ’ i til l i .,„„U of Affection. Oil All Disguise*—Lovo tl> (io A Jons. M 1*1. I.y American Press Assocla- VENICE. . iM-uri.'* tw, ioili{t.*i* ^ tho answer u> that query is, He «09 'flit My mother used to toll a story of one of her girl fnende who invited her to come«ud Witness the nerfeetion of her mnmod bliss. She Wnt. never having seen tin, hnshand, and the first evening saw. a very tired, rather cross looking and much laden man plod up the door- steps in a rain. Her friend saw him; too and shrieking, “Oh. there’s mv honey potr she rushed into the hall and went .. I(f the gentleman ‘^“Sh fte Merrtses mentioned above; |J ' - ■■ his 1 ,n t * ,e tOPlst of her exclamations carno another voice, low and growly in its tones, yet qnite audible in the parlor: “Love mo a lot, don’t yon, Bessie?” ‘Oh, ves, yes, yes my own, own dear est love! And yon love your Bessie, don’t yon, darling?” Yes; bnt if she didn’t love me qnite so much, perhaps 1 should love her more,” was the reply; whereat Bessie laughev. as at a good.joka. Of course the man was a brnte to say such-a thing; bnt, oh, dehr me, how many.men think it, and don’t say it! Men are predatory animals, loving to hunt, to pui sne, to capture, and to hold by main force, and the moment the prey ceases to resist, tire interest of the conquest is over. All the linnters of big game tell us that the only chance of safety for the victim of a lion, tiger, bear, or other beast of prey, is to remain perfectly pasrive-and inert beneath his daws; the least resistance rouses his en ergies, and he soon enforces a quiet never to be disturbed. The same instinct in a modified form is to be traced in the lord of creation; he only pursues while the dear creators runs away, and dis dains a victim that is only too glad to re main in his grasp. Any man constantly assured that his wife lives, moves, breathes and has her being solely in him; that Bho has a fnnd of caresses and honeyed words always at high water mark and eager for an out let, becomes first calmly confident, then careless, and at the last bored and sur feited by sweets for which ho never is allowed to get np an appetite by fasting. I once traveled in company with a somewhat cynical, bnt very delightful mau, who, as we neared the shores of onr native land, remarked: “1 wish the first twenty-four hours after my arrival were well over! It is so hard to come up to the expected mark of enthusiastic affection!" And yet this man had wooed his wife with the ardor and perseverance of a hero of romance. The trouble was that, whereas she had been a coy and coquet tish maiden, she was a very demonstra tive wife, and had choked out her hus band’s affection with a perennial flood of her own. But often enough .the disillusionment comes from the other side, and results from a perverted idea of marital obliga tions. , lbo oV Ua ami did not attain the \ ^ Marriage may be counted as ur hell, but, betrothal is **“T condition called purgatory, one may l*> very much in "Ly w get out of purgatory.into ou. would be loth to exchange •'* !i( 4 And that ugly word reminds remarkable book called “Let Heir Which I read many years V jev of that place of torment -ty, (track me most forcibly was the companionship with persons longer loved, and the necessity Snawoin* occupations once very ab- twins', bnt now odious. Does not that jf-i-ription fit in with the idea of ail ill , r itd union, and if that is really hell, j., *v not often see it begun upon earth? \m; if this view is correct, of course ^ ^rse >himid also be, and we should >r the other unions whose perfect har- and bliss give an image of heaven on.-artu. So doubt there are such, but < tear they are more rare, or at any rate conspicuous, than the other, and cer- din)v ilu not furnish as much material for tiw pen of the satirist or the pencil of the cariraturist. Now, why is this? Mitiy pTsons. at least in our own (oantry, marry for love, or at least from i uitmml fancy and sympathy which h, v mistake for love. In many cases the” sympathy is not very deep, nor the lincy very pTinaneiit, but at any rate t>- two i»o]ile really believe that mar- riag • will, each other is going to lead to t[,;,ing i.'.oj.mess—and it doesn’t. Why? Well, tin sold of naira's candescent sky , r'ko ooinoand campanile, sharp and clear. Jaugling sweet bells on llie stiil city’s ear. olrarvge sccnfsof musk and myrtle hovel- nigh. ' i, ™ 1 tomrgranate blossoms, banging high Above the .lark canal, drop straight and sheer. on, a crimson fleet, then disappear. •lish bcnpnl with son kissed fruits the boats 8« by With cade need oar to tbb gay market place, Woere purple, bloomy grapes, Tor very st^eep Of swollen sweetness, burst and spill their wine; t ^hero broused melons lie in shade and shine. And the Sea Lilly’s deiinite impress Glows in swart splendor from each dusky face. -Bessie Gray. . A MODERN ELIJAH. He was small and black—a child of an inferior race. There was nothing in his appearance to suggest the hero, and if you had told him that he was a hero he would scarcely have known what yon meant. An unschooled, illiterate, ngly, bullet headed negro, he had neverthe less been baptized by the same spirit which had caused the face of SL Stephen to shine as the face of an angeL One winter day—almost a year before the event which gave him a chance to show the stuff that was in him—he came into the hotel looking for a job. The office was brilliantly lighted and filled with a crowd of handsomely dressed men. There were politicana, club men, men about town, reporters, many members of the sporting frater nity, the usual loungers und hangers- on, an occasional hayseed—all forming a very startling background for the rags and tilth of the poor, shivering, half starved little darkey. It was no easy matter for him to steer his coarse to the desk, and when he got there the splendor of the man behind it dazed him so that his voice almost failed him. He had, however, even at his early age, reached the point where he had to work or starve. So his necessities made him eloquent His eloquence prevailed. He was on the next day placed on the pay roll of • the great hotel. As a bell boy he was not a success. I fear I must confess that he was lazy. People liked him—1 do not know why— and for some reason or other he was a favorite with his employers. If he had not been they would have dismissed him before his first week was out. Instead of doing that, they concluded to find more congenial work for him, so they put him in charge of one of the eleva tors. Among the passengers who used to ride up and down with the boy was a little five-year-old girl, the daughter of a f:uxiily living in tire hotel.' She w.-is as perfect a type of her race as he was of his. With her fair, white skin, golden hair, deep blue eyes and pretty womanly ways, thtvqhild was. a general favorite. Every one knew her; every one loved her. Between survive the shock. It was sure to catch fire sooner or later. Even then he would be on the way to safety with his pas sengers. And at any rate he knew that he could bring some people out of the fire burning above. He had not been good at going up stairs.' but he could rnn his elevator. Trip after trip he made, each worse than the last. Th fireman at the bottom of the shaft to whom he turned over his living freight sought to stop him in his dangerous work. The whole well was full of smoke, and far up toward the roof the fire could be seen. Still he kept on, and it did a°em that every time he storied skyward he was going to certain death. But he knew that the rooms and halls were swarming with people, and he would take any chance to save a life. The firemen were doing their best outside; death was busy within; and he finally made np his mind that it was no use to go back again, till all at once he remembered that he had seen nothing of his little friend. Could he weather the storm and flame once more? He could try- He pulled the rope, and the journey began. It was slow, oh, how slow. The smoke was terrible—worse even than the fire—bnt he held his breath and fixed his mind upon the business in hand. The flame kindled the woodwork of the car. He fell on his hands and knees, but he kept his hold on the rope. At last he reached her floor. He found her room, and found her. She was asleep and alone. Wrapping her in the blankets, and throwing about her a rug which he snatched from the floor, be struggled through the flame and smoke back to the burning car. “Back from the jaws of hell” it was that he brought her, fighting the fire away from her every inch of the way down. He had just strength enough to stop the car. The children were taken out and car ried to a drug store across the street— the girl alive and well and the boy seem ingly dead. He was horribly burned. Among the people who stood around were the pa rents of the little girl. They had been out to an.evening party, and returning after a long cold drive found their home on fire. Every effort had been made, in respouse to the agonizing appeals of tin- father, to save the child—and now here she was, safe and sonnd. laughing in her mother’s arms. And the hero? He opened his eyes. “Did 1 bring her froo all right?” “Yes, yes,” said the father, “and how can we ever thank you for what you have done7“ “Nebber min’ ’boat dat, boss. Ef she’s safe dat’s ’null for me”—and be closed his eyes. Dead? Yes, dead and gone to heaven in a chariot of fire.—Richard Yorke: Ro mance. A man who is paying his addresses to .Teat reason, it seems to j a young girl, or even to an older woman, ; Between her and the boy a great • in small natures and ’ holds himself under constant restraint j friendship had sprung up. He was de- -1lo- only strong and en-j in all conversation laddering upon sub- votion itself, and his attentions to the is i lie love of Self, and'as j jects unfit for an innocent and delicate | little Caucasian were so grotesquely th<-outside fancies come in con- i die;\ntli this real passion they go to the sail Th.- man sees a pretty girl in the Mintsi if her youth, and he wishes to otiU iw his own. She is sprightly, full iif tan, nukes every effort to be agreea- Wt-aml amusing, ami lie -feels that her wsi-tyit.il rest and refreshment after tix-iiMiotoiiy of business. Perhaps she ku or is to have some money, and this, Bled to his own, will keep a comforta ble home, where lie can be free from the ai;i. -yaiH «*s of a boarding house and the tiiiiii-traliens of a laundress. -W iill litis, of course, is pure selfish- t»'-. Tne man has not once considered the claims aud rights and wishes of the (t:-r party to the bargain, and when he hide,as lie will very soon after the we<l- iliig. tluu these are quite as prominent »s his own. he is at first surprised, then indignant, and Hi the end profoundly feltufml. Fit the bride may be, in her fashion, quite as selfish as her groom. She has tinmol to gain independence and a freer “•-' -f money; to have tlie position and dignity of a married woman; to avoid kin? an old maid, even for the sake of »smart wedding, a paragraph in th? n**s|ia]ier. new clothes and wedding I'tirmte; a y e ar later the clothes are out of fashion, the presents an old story, she 'Wi t find liiat she has any more, If as iMch, independence and freedom as she ®Joyed while a girl, and her husband is to more requiring than her father and mother iin-d to be. So the poor little veneer of mutual ’“*)• and sympathy they dignified by name of love is worn off, the tin- shaken selfishness of both man and wom- M “tuies boldly to th^T front, and the •“an cynically declares that marriage is »mistake and divorce a happy thought, i ® his wife shakes her bead and ? °°mily advises lier young friends to now when they’re well off, and not be great a hurry to get married. * 'h'u't know that wo can say marriage 'strove,1 the love in such a uuion, for . UVe w °rth speaking of never existed, . . “‘ftaiuly marriage dispelled the de- m-iiou that there was any love, and the pretence soon vanishes, kook at a higher and happier class of la S B8 : hike one where both parties V wish and intend to make the other dW, to make sacrifices, and to stndy ,, “ a **its, tastes and wishes of that «, er; where there is, to begin with, a n « iff notion and the capacity for yet J** lov «- Such a couple marry and minded woman’s ears. The stories, the chivalrous as to be alraost pathetic. She main. .1, • “ “ cuupio “““ c. 6 tl>elr vows in tones and with looks each other’s eyes that prove to those k ’ J mok and listen that here is a true e marriage, with every prospect of PBness and constancy, tb. vt ar8 1 XISS !ln d how do you find uk w “ 1 * ied lovers? She has grown ,i ® KU,u t. is fond of her dinner, talks i B , “‘ r children, and does not turn head to look when her husband is ** 11110 the room. When lovers are question she wears a smile of indulg- • *°penority and says: “Ob, yes; I . a '' about it! Tom and I went on wh» , ore we were married.” And w »y is this? fine cauf ’? I’utont to produco this state •ngs is overfondness on the part ' wi * e - Before she was married her tnihi re8traiI ied by coyness, by the r'ininsr mwi - , . x, i_ jests, the songs, the conundrums which alleviate the toils of the office, the count ing room, tlie lunch counter, the chib, the bachelor dinner or the little supper, are most vigorously ruled out. from tho conversation with which the man enter tains his betrothed or any other respect able woman. But the betrothed becomes the wife, anil all in a minute the new made husband emancipates his tongue from all reserves, throws aside all care as to whether what he has to say is fit for the ears of a carefully educated girl, brings home the story, t'ne jest, the con versation that only last week he would have felt it an insult to repeat in her presence, astonishes, shocks, repels her in all her fiuer nature, aud excuses him self, if she remonstrates, by saying: Yon know we’re all one person now. so 1 needn't mind what I say.” But tlie girl is tho same girl from whom all coarseness or indelicacy has been carefully kept, and she has never realized that such matters could be spoken of. far less that they are the habitual conversation of a large class of men, including her own especial man. Probably, poor little soul, she lias ideal ized this man into one of those luirox de roman never met with outside of ro mance or a young girl’s imagination; she has fancied that he is so much bet ter, wiser and stronger than she; that her one great effort must be to keep up with him, to climb to his level. They marry—his pursuit is over, and he throws aside the fine costume of the chase, puts on his Boiled workaday clothes, lights his pipe, and throwing himself upon the conch with his heeis higher than his head, amuses his wife with two or three of the now stories and delicate jests with which “the fellows” greeted his re turn among them. She, daring this, his first day of absence from hey, has been arranging the ^ittle souvenirs they have bronght homo from the wedding jour ney, putting away his clothes in the chiffonier, not without some shy blushes ami smiles that such matters should now become her recognized duty, and in look ing out two or three poems she means to read to him this evening. Just fancy the disillusionment! Just fancy how the hiro de roman becomes a facing phantom; how the feet of clay all at once become more conspicuous than the head of gold; how she feels insulted and frightened and bewildered, and then hiamM herself that she should feel so, and tries to believe that she is a poor, ig norant little fool, and that whatever her husband thinks right to say to her must be right a rut so begins in that woman’s heart a conflict which more often than not ends by the destruction of all that was best and finest In her love. She may never say it even to herself, but she knows in her inmost heart that her ideal is shat tered; that the being she fancied a demi god is only a man, coarse, indelicate, profane, material, and so far as regards at least h:df her life, utterly unsympa thetic. : Does not marriage destroy love in such a case? No, there is no epoch in his whole «»- reer, there are no conditions of his exist ence when Love is to be trusted to take care of himself. He must be guarded, ®?°? “others give their girls, t puffied, restrained, encouraged and caje- ^S^S**** Bxst most jroqng fullynurtnred from first to last, at be- l tha * onoe they lirf ' married faro yon know it he will have spread his and all reserves are to be wingg *ndfiown—forever. . . that it is a duty as well , when fdl k said, the happiest hot v!, a8are n °t only to love their lords I marri ^ 1K „ : , n i e are those with whom ^j^pvecoMtant evidence of their this g^ie, troublesome, exacting pas- iMotuTl Tooynwhat him as he comes - ^ nH . rgo a into a sober affection, tnfvAW 6 ’ tired ’ coW * wet ’ “ritato* 1 founded upon mutual needs, mutual in 1 tired, cold, wet, irritated stained, jeize him around the ud cling while be feebly accepted them all with a dignity anil grace that were charming. Her family lived on the top floor of the house, and as she always rode iu his elevator when she could manage to do so, the boy and girl saw much of each other. Once she was ill. The medicine that help: d her most was/a wretched little bouqnet sent her by her dusky friend. It was winter again. The evening of which 1 write was very cold and clear. The stars were diamondlike in their brilliancy. Everything was frozen up— the wheels creaked on the snow. The hotel was crowded with guests. Not more than two or three of the hun dreds of rooms wore unoccupied. ’A be lated traveler, who had been on a wenth- ei bound train, came in at 1 o’clock, tired nnd cold. He ordered a fire iu his room and then went to the bar for a drink. A few minntes later he stepped into tho boy’s elevator and was carried to the top floor. The great house was quiet. Most of the lights in the office' had been extin guished. Two night owls were talking in low tones on one of the settees which lined the -walls of the lobby. -The bell boys were most of them asleep. The clerk was drowsing. Two o’clock! The night owls got np and walked out into the cold air. A drunken man poked his nose in the door. The sleeping porter sefemed to scent him. for ho hnstled the poor fellow out. The quipt deepened till it. became al most oppressive. The air was heavy with it Suddenly, without a note of warning, the cry of “Fire!” rang through the house. There was life enough now. Scantily clad people were scurrying wildly through the smoke filled corri dors. They came plunging down the stairs to the office, and so out into the freezing night. Shrieks and curses and groans and prayers—it was Babel broken loose. All the bella in the house were ringing. The smoke grew denser. ’ It seemed to come from everywhere—above and below. Great black volumes rolled through the lopg halls. Outside, .the streets were jammed with people. The engines, with their clanging gongs, hur ried to the scene. Ladders were raised, and the work of rescue began. It was time, for there was a white fig ure at almost every one of the multitu dinous windows. The awful wall loom ed up in the darkness, story on story, dimly seen as to its upper half, for that part of it was wreathed in the blinding smoke. The smoke turned to flame- flame bursting through scores of win dows. The terror stricken creatures be gan to jump. The people in the street below were frantic. “BackJ back!” they shrieked. “Wait! we’ll save you! don’t jump!” Whicbis the pleasanter, to be roasted alive onto be-onashed out of shape on the stone pavement? If there is to be any saving done, it must be done quick ly. Many people were busy saving themselves. The (sleeping clerk and porter and'bell boyi had gotten out. But what of the Tittle black fellow in the elevator? He, too, had been asleep He bad been awakened as .tins others had been by the first cry of fire. Unlike them he had that “two-o’clock-in-tht morning courage” which Napoleon said was the rarest sort In an instant he de cided that it was his duty to stick to his post Aud stick he did- Up and down he went, and every time his car touched the office floor it was loaded with people. Tho journey was frightful one, but he did not shrink. How long he could continue to make the Man or Beast. Gain equal relief from pain by the use of Cl-'rk’s Lightning Liniment. The swelled joints from a sprain or founder are relieved and cured at once by its use. Every owner of a horse should keep a bottle of this great remedy in his stable. Every consideration of economy and humanity suggest this ready relief. Price fifty cents; sold by druggists. Clark Chemical Co., New York. ON THE RAMPAGE. The Red River In Taxas Above High Water Mark. St. Louis, June 10.—Dispatches from several points along the Rod river in Texas, indicate that that stream is on the rampage. At Gainesville it is above the high water mark. The rise was very rapid and unexpected, and many people barely escaped with their lives. All communication with the Indian ter ritory has been cut off Messengers from Burling state the river is running wild in that section, destroying property and some lives lost north of Doss, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway. J. P. Harris, a stockman, lost 400 head of cattle and fifty-five horses. A dispatch from Belcher says that the Red river, which runs throe miles north of there, is on one of the greatest ram pages known for years. Friday after noon about 1 o’clock a volume of watei ten feet high came rnshiug down the ▼alley bearing trees, brush, housetops, dead animals and debris of all kinds, and in thirty minutes the whole valley was one vast sheet of water. Crops of all kinds near the river are all under water and mud. During the heavy rain at Chillicotche, Tex., two employes of W. P. Lindsay and two strangers, who were camped near the bridge at that place, were drowned. SMITH GOT EVEN. With his Wife's Relatives by Inviting Them. Plainfield, N. J., June 10.—James D. Smith is a joker. It was never sus pected until now. He never lived much with his wife, Lizzie, because, he says, her relatives interfered. He thought out a scheme for revenge, and put it into execution by sending collect telegrams, with his wife’s name signed to them, to all her relatives in Maryland, Long Island and New York, telling them of his death and inviting them to the funeral at 8 o’clock in the afternoon of the next day. So Jim, in his old clothes and com fortably smoking a clay pipe, sat on a rail fence behind the brush heap, to see the mourners arrive. When the train came in twenty mourners, most of them women, got off. They brought flowers and other offer ings, and some, of them, who did not know Jim, asked him the way to Lizzie Smith’s house. He directed them, and afao heard them talk with each other ab&nt his- own jgCUl&rities. Then he mode himself scarce. The wife’s relatives came back to the station pretty mild. There were no ac commodations for them at the house, and they all had to go home. ORDERED HER RELEASE, Aucl Ceil, llutlur Left the Coart Hoom Smiling. Boston, June 10.—United States Dis trict Judge Nelson gave hi ;, decision upon the application of Gen. Butler, for the release cf /Mrs. Claretta Johnson, upon a writ of habeas' corpus, and after delivering a long opinion, ordered the discharge of the prisoner. An appeal was taken. Judge Nelson found that the writ of power to exercise, and that, therefore, the prisoner had been lawfully returned to prison, bnt, on the other huud, the court found .that the Sentence of six months’ imprisonment without hard labor was Illegal, and or dered her release on her, own recogniz ance. Gen. Butler left the Court house smiling. , For msPEML., Indigcstlonfand Stomach disorders, urn BROWN’S BIOS BITTERS. All dealers keep it, SI per bottle Genuine has trade-mark and crossed rod lines on wrapper. SHORT ITEMS. the anniversary of a Davis a legal hoh- Important General News Dispatches In Condensed Form. The Southern Life, after the order of "Life,” Is a new illustrated weekly which has just made Its appearance in Atlanta. The tusk of a wiki boar, ten inches long, was found in Gum swamp, and is on exhibition at Eastman, Go. It is said that are still many wild boars far this swamp. Tbfc bill l mitring _ the birth of Jefferson ■] day in Florida has become a law^ After the bill was passed, the legislature ad journed sine die. At Williamsburg, Ky., Sidney Lewis, son of Judge Wilson Lewis of Harlan county, has oeen sentenced to the peni tentiary for life for-the murdor of his father in February last. Captain J. H. Adams, Eatonton, Ga., says; During summer of 1883 he suf fered with continued attacks of neural gia, he thinks from Indigestion. Dr. Holt’s Dyspeptic Elixir was the only remedy that would relieve him. For sale by all druggist. FURNITURE We are the best known 'Furniture House in Athens. In market our Cash gets the bed rock price and at home our long experience gives the people confidence in our goods. We have too the best selection in plain, fancy anil artistic furniture. Our Im mense Ware-Rooms are full to overflowing. We invite an inspection cf the stoek at prices that cannot be met by those having no experience in the business. We also have a full line of Coffins, Caskets, ete. Jfi. S. EDGE FURNITURE CO., Furniturei and TTndertakinsr, 321, 322 and 323 Broad St., next to S. C. Dobbs. May 9 cFeb 18—diwim. ROBBED THE OLD MAN. Imbi*- and the memories of far trip he could not U-1L The elevator reaching years. Married friends are might drop any rninnte. Very well, let happier tha® mooted lowEfc the people iu it mi£ht Al » fct ouuiijg. The wedding in question was, in many ways, the most brilliant event of the season. Nothing which conld serve to heighten tho grace and significance of the affair had been spared. The church, fittingly decorated by a Boston artist, was filled with interested guests. The tint strains of Mendelssohn floated through the still air. and the beautiful bride stood before the altar with her chosen one. The pastor of the church,ritual in hand, read tlie solemn service until he came to the critical moment, when he said: Repeat after me, ‘1, William, take thee, Frances.’" He did not proceed at once, for to every one’s astonishment, before the bride groom could find his voice, the bride, in clear, firm tones, repeated: “ T, William, take thee, Frances.’ There was a dead silence, till the sec ond officiating clergyman, unable longer control himself, laughed outright. This was the signal for a contagions wave of merriment. As soon as the pastor conld compose his features and resume his dignified voice, be said: Repeat after me. 'L William, take thee, Frances.’ ” This time the bridegroom spoke np bravely, and there was no more blunder ing.—Youth’s Companion. Improvements In Divers* Costume. The well known French engineer, M. Marcelbacy, has made some additional improvements in diving apparatus, and these have received the approving in dorsement of the French authorities. In this arrangement, instead of the heavy electric hand lamp employed originally by divers, M. Marcelhacy's plan is to affix a light but powerful glow lamp on the top of the helmet, so^hat the diver’s hands are both at all times free for work. The lamp is connected by a conductor with a battery, either on shore or in a vessel above, as the case may be. An equally ingenious feature is a new method of connecting the helmet with the dress without any loose parts, this being effected by means of only one .rater tight joint instead of two; as in the ordinary dress. Another - advantage presented in this device consists in the upper part or collar of the India rubber ress being gripped in between the lower rim of the helmet and the upper rim of the breastplate, and there held fast Some Sly Tlilef Added Forty Thousand Dollars to His Cush. Chicago, June 10.—E. D. Thayer, president of the Brandon National bank of Brandon, Vt., is 80 years of age, bnt a very spry old gentleman. For years ' DAVID COPPERFIELD, he has been coming west every twelve MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, months to look after his interests in this NICHOLAS NICKELBY, section, which are extensive, hut until i ®ON, the pres< ^ time has never lost a dollar. When ht^it Omaha on the Rock Island GRAND PREMIUM OFFER! A. 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