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D.uiriana chestnut has good rice in Tenne»ee. eroj*. J
large crop
Home, (la., will have streetcars in a
short time. J
The Texas Pacific railroad is within
150 miles of El Paso.
Albany Georgia has a new six-hundred
dollar fire alarm 1*1).
The corn crop in Georgia will fie an
average one.
An Atlanta hotel includes ten elec¬
tric lights among it’s attractions.
Gen. Gordon will soon start a cotton
factory at Carrollton, Miss.
In Florida $1,000 worth of arrowroot
is raised on an acre of land.
New Orleans has a butterine facto¬
ry that turns out 12,000 pounds |ierday,
The colored baptist of Lynchburg,
have completed a $22,000 church.
W. If' Holt, of Mt. Sterling, has ar¬
rived, and is dr mieiled at the Louisville.
Hr. John Phister, Grand Master, is at
tne Galt house.
llic Appeal says the grand jury will
indict the “Bucket Shop.”
The Nashville yraml jurv has indicted
about twenty-five or thirty pool buyers.
Alex. Bell, of Pike county, Ga., is 14
years old and weighs J55 Rounds.
It il estimated that gold, silver and
copper mines of tin* south will yield
♦20,000,000 this year.
Mr. K, Young, of Pennsylvania, has
paid $10,(KM) fora pmsjiectivegohl mine
in Goochland county, Va.
An artesian well ih Durham, N. C.
Inis rendud a depth of 1,(H 0 feet with¬
out any indications of water.
John Stewart, the oldest man in Alu
hamit, is dead in Shelby eountv, aged
102 years.
Col. YV C. Richardson, of Mississippi,
lias raised 12,5't0 hales of coffin this
year.
Translucent porcelain was first manu¬
factured in the United States at Mew
Orleans last geing.
It is a crime in Georgia to point a gun
or 11 pistol at another in fun or malice
whether the weapon Is loaded or not.
The seventy-live members of the new
Hni|iitJtir<4i lt tVi-e“- al - Vlllr. an “"ihIi
in the aggregate, $4,000,000.
A’f'haneery rate eleven years old has
been derided at Troy, Alabama. The
plaintiff got judgement for $150.
The American rifle team is arranging
for a s)inoting tournament si metinic
iluring the exposition at Atlanta.
Nine hundred aens of land were re
oently sold by the sheriff of Macon
county, Ala., for eleven cents an acre.
McPhe son Barracks, at Atlanta, will
he broken up. The tr<»opx{will go to
New York harbor to take the place of
the third regiment.
Eureka Springs, Ark., has 15,000 in¬
habitants, nnd Is beginning to ape city
manners. Tin* hitest nffection is plas¬
tered rooms and brick chimneys.
Forty thousand dollars for building
and twertv thousand dollars for 11 site,
will la* expended for an opera house at
Ha Mas, 'lex.
The old city • park 1 of Charleston, s. C
, lias . been reehristened , . Washington .
fkjuare. A statue of the father of his
county will soon be creeled there.
The Sloss furnace now building at
Ilirininglimii. Ala., will rest when com¬
pleted $ 1 S 0 , 000 ; will nniplov 250 men,
and have a eapacity of 80 ton* i>or day.
A new town is springing up at the
termini* of the 1 Vnvnvla and Selina
road, thirty-two mile* from Pensacola
Junction, iii'Conecuh county, Ala.
It is cxiHH ted that that the canal
around Muscle Shoals will bo completed
in two years, when the Tennessee will
Is* navigable from Paducah to Knox¬
ville, a distance of 500.
There is great excitement in the local¬
ity of the line mines, in Tazewell county.
Tenn, over new ■•finds” supposed to l>e
silver. It must D* valuable, .is they
will not suffer .so much a* an ounce of
the ore to la* 1* -t.
One year ago, near Charleston, Mis
a Mrs. Crosby gave birth t.r triplets. A
, few days , ago „ Mrs. „ C. did nothing . less
than repeat (he performance. Tin- chi'.,
dren arc all alive and kicking, and it is
preeumed that Mr. <X i* going thnnigh a
similar exercise.
Xhe contract for that p, rtion of t'
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad not
hcicuiforc let. couri-ti.,.. of , !
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Kashville World Considers Me
prise was caused yesterday by the sale of
$l,&00,000 in Confederate bonds, part of
the assets of the Hank of Tennessee, for
*-'' 000 - 1 he sale was effected by Robert
Kwing, Clerk and Master, as Receive!
{ >t the Uak an<1 the 1>uv , r was Raph ^,
J- Mones, Jr., of New York. Onemil
jj,,,, dollar; more in Confederate bonds
is in his possession.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun : A gentle¬
man from Klliert county and a lady from
pVanklin had agreed U> become fine .—
The license wa- procured, the minister
present, anil the twain -Us el 011 the floor
ready to join hands matrimonially, w hen
a former flame of the lady stepj>ed in
and asked the groom exp i tant if the
lady would prefer to marry him would
he interpow* any objections. He answer
ed favorably, undid the lady, and the
ceremony proceeded with 0 new groom.
lotteries in Italy.
Italy, however, is afllictesd with another
plague, even more destructive than that
of connterh iting, more tremendous in
its evil results, aud which invades every
department and every class. The Gov¬
ernment itself regulates the lotteries,
with the idea, probably, of limiting what
could not be avoided, and profiting by it.
It is said that tin; annual net profit which
it derives from this tutelage is $15,000,
000. But it is considered only a tem¬
porary measure, the final aim of Italy's
statesmen being to abolish a vice which
destroys habits of industry considered and encour¬
ages crime. It may is; doubt¬
ful whether this is the iiest way to do it,
but the habit was already deeply rooted
in the character of the Italians. It is
now at lei;-i conducted with perfect hon¬ city
esty, the highest fuetionaries of the
taking part in the extraction of the num¬
bers. This ceremony takes place in
Borne every Saturday afternoon in a
semi-circular building on the Via Ili- old
petta, and is^oue of the relics of
times which is destined to pass away.
In a high balcony in the center of this
convex semi-circle are seated a delegate
of the Prefect and several other gentle¬
men, wlio pass the fortunate uumber
from one to the other until it is held up
to the people and called out by a city
guard. The heads people raised stand and on their the street
with their eyes
fixed on the balcony until hope is
quenched in certainty or satisfied with
success. The part of Italy most infected
with this vice is Campania, where the
annual average for each inhabitant is
about $1.50. Rome is second; then
follows Tuscany, while Liguria class is citizens sixth
U| kih the list. Another of
111 Rome redeem it from this stain by
industry and saving, the annual medium
Tim for every system person of savings being thirty-one banks is francs. wisely
encouraged by a few able social econo¬
mists, among whom is Luzzutti, a Jew
and a member of Parliament. This is
the true iTOipon with which to combat
tho vices of idleness, long encouraged
by the Papal Government. The jieople
have responded to the invitation with far
greater promptitude than eouhl have
been expected .—Home Correspondence
Cincinnati Gazette.
Kiml Words.
“I saw in dc papers do odder day,”
began the top the of his old man head, after leotlc carefully wiping
"a item ’bout
•peakin’ kiud words to our feller-men as
we trubble de highway of life, 1 tilt’s
easy ’miff to do an' a mighty cheap way
of Rcrubbin’ ’long, but I doan’-want no¬
body to practice will it on me. If I use men
right, trade kind dey words. use me right, an’ we kin
If you meet a man
iu de gutter, doan’ etan' on de sidewalk
an' tell him dat you am ready to bust
wid sorrow, an’ dat you solemnly wish
he wouldn’t do so any mo’. Stan’ irim .. ,
his feet an’ start him fur home, au’let word
his wife an’ dc poker run de kind
bizness, or hunt fur a purleeeinan an’
have tho drunkard boosted for sixty days.
If you meet a in poo’ wau whos’ wife 11 m
lying dead de bouse ’den wipe vor
eyes an’ rattleyer chin au’tell him you’d
joiu de funeral pureeshuu if von only had
a mule, Walk right down inter yer west
pocket fur half ver week’s wages to help
pay fur do eofliu an’ odder expenses. If
you meet a follur-mau who am out of
wood an’ meat an’flour an’ lias a broken
arm to excuse it, doan’ pucker yer
J'' 11 !,i,u d “t d >' l ' u " d
pin vide. Do Lawn doan furuisk pul -
vishuus fur dis market Instead or
droppin* anniu’ a tear de of sorrow on de doah-step,
stop Jo wood yard an’ de gni¬
cer s and family lay down de cash to feed an’
warm de fur a f. irtnight,
lost her* doll-baby j* or steel , l*v° who
has stubbed his toe, I take ’em up in my
arms an’wipe deir leetle lios-es an sot
Vm.tewn w id a handful of peanuts.
When meet a vudd.rwho am out
ot luxri 1,11 old m.", wlio mts bin turned
out tit'.. ,n, or 11 \\t'. wiu lium whu ,•> Iiomo
8iu under de shudder of death, I doin’
loun on de fence an’ look to Heabeu for
r.h, ( . If r O : Of :i doli n' f lian’it out.
I lend it or cue it or make ’em take it
an’ if Heabon does aavfiug t'urder dut’s
extr.i. YY hen von 1 , dat it am coy
viavVmr. Turnips nm quoted at forty
cents a bushel ; kin 1 word have no
wain* hide market Kitn Cl„h
a s*„, Ml , *
1 ^.|. h«;,,iu^KTofT.;‘wHU.amn r , ,i a , ..
comiu
with wh^dtc ia boSSiitg and one of
the first to nxvivo the nvl of correction
'«*« her landhud. He says she is right,
f
K? Sg& her Hi^le o l
u> } hr ' in. at with.mr complaint.
~ Mari,m
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Tuv amount of m,vrov which the Peri
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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Sleet and snow storms are preva iia
fn Austria
Mexico is in for §87,000,000 in rail- I
^ subei(lies
Vast, the caricaturist, sunk $50,0 00 in
a Colorado mine. 1
A TRRF.-PI.ANHNII holiday hss l>eeu
eatahlished in Sew Jersey.
p BB8U)j ,„ AltTH(:R - 8 weig ht is 215.
Fat oW widow<sr> ajnt p e »
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Ex Cir> „ Whittaker is reported to
j, aTe joined a ministrel troupe.
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A traveling paragraph says h",;3» gets
$200 a week from Jiarpr’* Wceklg.
Parnell’s admirers denominate him
the “Uncrowned King of Ireland.”
Mobmojusm ' uiav bo doomed and all
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tljjd, but their . . converts are increasing ;i_
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A locomotive now being built at Jer
s-vfitv s y 1 Ity is is enacted expecteu to to run rnu ninety n . ..
an honr -
The now lecture of Judge Tourgee,
“Give Us a Rest,” will meet with a
hearty response.
Vkrnob is still contending for an ojk-u
winter notwithstanding all theories tend'
to the contrary.
Tnir expectation tliat the world will
momentarily wind up its affairs is
losing its grip very perceptibly.
According to the Boston lleratd, Dr.,
Bliss thinks that $25,000 will impart a
laudable character to his purse cavity.
Miss Adelaide. Fletcher purchased
the Baltimore Protmtant Episcopal
Church ye ws at auction last week for
$1000.
California is again coming to tho
front with the erv, “The Chinese
go.” The subject had been almost for
B •__ m
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iiEsioEvr C»RF.vt did a most
thing. In honor of his daughters inar
riage he gave the floor of Paris 20,0(;C
Sun spots are held responsible for
meteorological wonders, as severe varia¬
tions iu tho weather invariably occur
during their presence.
In his book tho Shah of Persia says
he did not como to America “because of
a disease there called the ague, which
kills foreigners iu three days.”
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Twenty ^rnore^
left a few days ago
land seems to be a good field for the
Mormon idea to operate in.
An edition of “ Uncle Tom's Cabin ”
is printed iu London in such small type
and in such condensed form that it is
profitably sold at, a penny a copy.
TnE breweries iu Kansas all sus¬
pended operations after the passage of
the prohibitory amendment, but accord¬
ing to accounts tiiey are all starting up
again.
Mu. Ciias. Darwin, the great English
naturalist, has inherited a largo fortune
from bis late brother, Erasmus A.
Darwin. It amounts to nearly u mil
lion dollars.
The renomination of Thomas L.
Juntos as Postmaster General means that
he shall remain ill the Oahiuec until he.
shall have concluded his Star Route
prosecutions.
The Mayor of Pittsburg vetoes every
ordinance passed granting permission
for the erection of telegraph poles. He
holds that they are a nuisance to prop
rty owners.
The excitement fe Irekupl oonapqoemt
apon tha arrest of Parnell ana other
leading agitators ts subsiding anti arrests
M e still being made daily with no opposi
t iou save that of growhng.
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Washington is an unhealthy place,
but there is one good thought about it:
Nonc cxoe pt politicians are obliged to
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^ G. Hotlimtl, deceased, as editor of
The Century (.Scribner.) Gilder began
literature in the capacity of reporter,
aiMr-«— >■*<“«■«>v
Centura/.
have ifa«lv re
Sartoris mid her children will «ul from
England in time to be present, and it n
thought that ifeventeea memww« Mite
^w aboutc^pleted. pi^rietor
M:l Waltiiil of th' Lon
don nm*, known the world over aa the
is in this country with h;s
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•_ W
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for nine years lived
chiefly on dog meat, which he uccmrc:! j
fsuiily relished xnticpl the same toorl, amt pro
p w- .U use. Tiiir may be
a -Ijcd.-r- >:;« -tot me-.t. lint it “?m* to
lmvoejj.an :-e.l ft w ;s»d s-itte-y^y agd
)«-- *-• iMi atcni.tru.i; -tiosi.
Srnsh H ii.lm.iisT k'i v.i in S*>*n is
* 2 IX l‘..it, t*i*« < i u :-n ^t repuii »Vna »*n ii
ciiisii. Chi niamag is, trial by jury.
and the le iticd . ition of children Kirn
out of wedlock ar • among the provisions 1
of varyaig!n»t9it by i i.nn-a , die no*.* con
•creative of European nationalities is
now -rartled.
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Colon ; Hfdtisy and party, the
de.-ee .da'its oi t ;o ‘/ liai'iT-. 1 r latives of
tin* iiiustriouN olii -cr whs* was the friend
of Washington and the engineer of the
sieg -o Yorktown, were w. rndv received
enjoying a jaunt over the continent in a
most agreeable maim -t.
Euv. Henri \\ahd Beecher h.-.s re
signed _ th .- editorship of the < 'hrisli/m
, sU , B< in his r . lk ,i iet „ rv tliat
w«.
*? ,I 111 * ,trl,mtetfJ,t ’ a / u *.* * cal > :.ttu> H,s
v “' f " " mns »8®
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.t-u years—is tel.’iug on him.
and Lis pow, r of endurance is by no
means what it was a few years back.
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There lutsbeen entirely too much ra n
in the West aud Northwest for the good
of .-roj.s and much damag-^lms In n sns
‘•.boned. The lowlands adjacent to tim
Upper Mississippi were fl esh* 1 for a
week or more, the river having risen
higher by eight inchestiitminj.fi m f
1880. and higher than it has bum for the
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A writer who claims to have tlior
oivhlv 011 , my investimted mvesii au.u the me matt maur r as a , <rt r rt
that the publishing house of Hurjier k
Brothers is a strictly family ntruir, nnsl
that in the establishment there arc
fathers, sons and grandsons. None of
the family can be admitted to the firm
unless they have become practical p int
ers, and each one has his spcciidtv in
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Respecting Gmtenn s an o.iiogra .hy ,
the iMinton .Veins says : “Cniteau has
llu i.u v that tho whole civiliz J world is
Waiting to hear tho ininute*.t details of
his career. The whole civiliz ’d world
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tliat. bn wretched mischievous life has
been abolished, and that the earth no
longer supports this quintessence of
murderous selfishness and silliness.”
New Jersey owns the ideal inror of
■ the age. Ilo had not heard of or read
of the case at issue ; does not take any
nen. paper; does not ku»w tin name of
the 1’re . dent of the United States; does
good tiling to use when tho hogs got
into tin* g irden ; does hoe know how old
he is. and doi-sn’t care.
One thousand dollars has been sub
scribed among the Free Thinkers of Tor¬
onto to hid ill the pu’dicatu 11 i*i Toronto
of the two 'prohibited works of Paine
aud Voltaire, “The Ags of Reason ”
and “Pocket, Theology.” A well known
bookseller is prepared to 11 uWiake the
publication. He has order. 11 fr *m New
York and Chicago fifty copies of each of
the works, and he will not be in tho
least put nut if the books aru sal: *J.
T in Govcriiuiout i? Tou-id to pay f.-r
aU, witness, s in Gui ! .eau'se»;ewiio,y r.i.lq
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within a rain i:\ <,f ;; umid.vd in;i s «ri
YYasliiegton, uiiij the. prp'inln'i;:.*. 1 are
Unit tha trial will e *.-•: tim Gov. r-inmin 1
gao-l d. J of money, all .oi whi h h*.-ds
/Y > iV .V, ,. to say th:.! He* pul, ie w.ll
feel i.u .vi-v-d when th.: i,ri l is safely
over auii they get iff without paying
Guiteau $10,U00 damages for s mi thing.
It rs stated that the reason of the
Queen of Spain’s intimacy with our |
American Princess, Mrs. Mackay, was
that tin fa v (hdifurnienne had loam d
i] ’‘ a thousand/ of francs, for
wlue.i tuat lady ha t given her note.
Monsieur Mackay attempted to collect
Hie sum loan,si when the note became
*iu*. lu;t her M, : sty blandly informed
him th.it she m-ver paid such things: '
.•» 'nit . she 1 considered ■ . . the .. debt . . canceled , bv
tho introductions and invitations she
had given.
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A New York gentleman is strongly of
the opinion Gnitean is insane, and relates
Gtnteaus awyer, as proof. Last
vear, during the latter part of
and 1st of November, when Guiteau was
•«-*«« w.*»%*».***v
now <\m, I bemme acquainted with him.
; W U in regard to hi< insanity.”
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Own; *n amusing seasatkm ocean 3
« day, between
■ ycui g l.iuy named Talbert and a man
tiiun d Bi hard Cowling. Mis Talb-r:
had occariou to go to a weUand while
there was av st-d bv Cowling, who
insulting propoB-J toher, to
she made nouns wer, bn upoi
• 1 Cow ‘
to^ff aud see her. T.-e o„n-was
t md Cowling andfiT procee ed to don
hi, Sunday clothes himself iu
good ^-le, shortly presented himself at
ud was admitted by th lady,
W - !U> was armed with a large rock, with
winch she Knocked Cowling down. Then
Beizinga’cliiV«hepii'i>im*ledhimseverelv.
At last lie maraffe 1 to get upon hi- feet,
when 1<* left tL • )on.ility in a hurry.
Jfce affair stired up the village to a high
state of excitement. The verdict was ’
«*it sarved him right.”
• ae reuaitj in a tmj a rnu anini op*.
It’s a great thing to be a philanthro
!* sf. So Mr. Goodhcart thought, and
/ uj sug geat iop of his neighbor Mr.
j bni.ie, ; be resolved to have a grand pie
nio ft* the poor bootblacks of the city at
his elegant conchy house. So he sent a
man to hunt up a lot of the boys and
Jinng f bey them out good there one hundred fine afternoon, them,
came, a of
ituti the oid creimemen received them
* with smiling faces and kind
“ Make yourselves words.
right at home, ikivs,
and have just 93 gid a time as you
know how to,” he said to them. Then
he left them to go it and went into the
house. In about fifteen minutes his
head gardener came iu and asked him if
he had given three of the boys permis
sion to ride upon his Alderney cow, and
to throw rocks and hard names at who
ever objected. Mr. G. said “ No,” and
went out to see aliout it. He finally in
duced the boys to quit that amusement,
pond he’d better go and stop the lieyg
from fishing in it. He did so and liegan
to feel rather annoved at the:- procwl
uigs. But he stotM it and didn’t seold.
attached Presently his his dog flew by with a bottle
to tad, and the whole gang
sit off in pursuit, and ran over his flow
er beds and into the conservatory and
upset valuable plants, and did a neap of
damage. Then lie ordered the gang
started for the city, and in hunting them
U P lour were found to have just got the
barn afare by smoking in the hay. Vig.
Mr.^toid 1 ‘ av ^ P SfnSSto tU | buUd ;
And then
«- mm
over to see the neighbor who suggested
the affair. And they parted foes. And
dr - declares he is not and never will
!>f winn-ll.. p ] jilantiim jst It - S harder than
r,. Hogs —/w_
as Sentries.
W]lon al y oao devises somft thing sen
gible every one wonders whv no one
ever fore, thought of that particular thing be
and on this principle a great many
people, on learning that llcssi.iu sentries,
on Y'* outposts, 1 are to be assisted by dogs,
pronoimc- the change exactly tlm
1'!■ '1 A “ to 8e :itrie8 ’ an d
tlirough *t their death >
force o of which they or capture, , to the ,
from enemies f'liin part, comes
who approach stealthily;
tlie fimt shot is almost invariably fired
by the iot'ins.ead of tue guard. Against
®? ^my on the sentinel, who must at
lying near him, or in advance of him,
would be quick to note any movement
hi his neighborhood, and thus put tho
States ^ldier at on the the present alert. time In the the dog United might
not be of mack service to the army, but
it is strange that his peculiar faculties
are not appreciated by private indi¬
vidual* who require a guard. A doer in¬
side a house is worth two watchmen
on the outside, for while the latter may
be bribed or surprised, the dog cannot
bp the reached, house, except l»y p inn one entering,
and before the same could he
done, the animal would have alarmed
these inside, and given them an oppp *r
tunity to defend tin ir own. A lively
dog, and the smaller he is the more
satisfactory will I 10 will be for household
purposes, he raises scare a burglar away as
soou as his voice ; for no mat¬
ter how brave it thief may be he sees no
profit in entering a house where the
people arc aroused iu time to five on him
from the dark. If instead of cherishing
huge brutes to lie out of doors after
d <rk, make night hideous and go visit¬
ing inly, while they are supposed to be oa
the householder would devote his
attention to a Skye terrior and give him
free range of the house at night, he
might consider his property safe from
molestation by thieves .—Keiv York
Hr/, aid.
Skeleton of an Indian Chief in Armor,
r-ome time , boys white , .. play- , !
ago some
mg m the rear ot the town hall at East ;
MaGnas discoverml what appeared to
tu he but nil Place o an Indian The
remains have recently been exhumed ;
and are, perhaps, the most interesting
ever discovered in Marne. They are
band evidently nearly those of a chief. A copper
two inches wide encircled
the head. To the right ear, which was
dried and well preserved, were attached
ornaments of copper two and one-half
inches long by one wide. A part oi the
scalp was also preserved, showing tho
long black hair peculiar to the Indians.
Upon the breast rested an iron knife
</ tiTEir? cue sum ™ was 1
also also found found. The The face taco was was covered covered with with
* a mat m “‘ made “f d « of 0 the the leaves leaves of of the the cattail cattail
rush. ^'he^ *\ % DVelop
the « tii* head, hosu, wIijIg wldte while to® the wholti whole body body was
wrapped in a moose skin of which the
hair and a few fragments remained npon
the breast. Outside of this skin was a
iucues copper long. nrenst-plate There sixteen or seventeen
was also found a
tnangnlar hatchet, like th ose tmed by
hands of the savages.
Dr. J. P. Sheabuui, of Dennysville,
^.obtiuuerl possession of these Sr relies,
w j c ^ y r is d-it^d T>r Qhphin
l'M«ri..g a mrnute description of the
f-VcD Advertiser,
“Jerusha, lowest thou me?” “Yes, thee/
V’-’" 1 knowest I love
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ing ovushzV fixedly at “God. the northstar^** God wh il v -
- who hears the
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ave limestones still great
the the greatest. weakest stones. Congh merates are among
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POPULtR SCIENCE.
Soda put into sea water makes u St
?ttr washing clothes.
The nearer a r.ia-dond is to the
,arUj > llj ” 1-rger the drop*.
Undershot wheels require a much.
larger body of water than over-shot.
The diamond is rather more than
ibree and oae-halt times heavier than
water.
On, or essence of pine apple is obtained putrid
from the product of the action of
cheese and sugar.
a hornet’s nest — being the finest
wooilv mi!. stance known—is the lest
polisher fur glass lenses.
-Tooordi.vo a to green v hue
seamen, a
i f th f, oce “ “ u ? d,D * 8 ’
“8° blue, profound depths,
Spirits of camphor makes a good
| : and barometer, as it is cloudy before a storm
clear iu fair weather,
] readily Leeches by bathing may be the induced surface to bite to which more
;
j they are applied with milk.
j A Boor which weighs one pound at
: our equator would weigh five ounces six
1 drachms at that of the planet 1 Mar 3 .
| A steel bar held in the natural direc¬
tion of a needle, aud struck several blows
| with a hammer, will become magnetized.
Pencil marks can lie rendered indcli
ble ...... by dipping the 4 . paper in ... skim-milk ...
j ? ud iroll “« tho slde dry
| lu °‘
j Tub largest bituminous deposits in . the
world are in Asphaltic Lake, or Dead
Sea, iu Judea, and Tar Lake, iu Xriui
! dad.
The icebergs of the Southern hernia*
pheres are much larger than those of the
Northern, and frequently attain a height
of 1 U(JU feet.
We cannot determine the sound of a
“tring which makes less than thirty vibra
* 01 - “ l “
n Paff-R can . be made , transparent . . , by
apronding layer over it, with dissolved a feather, a very
turn of ream m alcohol,
applied to botli sides.
In a number of examinations of the
he “ t ' beats of ‘ Uo d J iV ?> Bo, ‘ eU f r «7
? ol ; ded six seconds as the longest interval
between the pulsations.
The diamond is the purest crystal car¬
bon found in nature. Plumbago, of
which lead pencils are made, is the next
l«rcst. Coal is crude carbon.
flaky, „ [r is semi-trausparsutmineralismglass. a popular mistake to call a thin,
isinglass is fish glue, and has nothing to
'do with the mineral, which is mica.
Silk articlesof delicate shades should
not bo folded in white paper, as the
chloride of lime used iu bleaching the
car* *• «**
Dissolving five ounces of niter and
the same quatity of sal-ammoniac, finely
powdered, iu nineteen ounces of water,
will reduce the heat of the liquid forty
degrees.
A good microscope may be made bv
boring a small hole iu a piece of tin and
filling it with one clear drop of the balsam
of the common fir, ft will magnify sev¬
enty-five diameters.
The sunbeam is composed of three
distinct rays, one of heat, one of light, 1
and one called the eiiimic.il ray. The
blue or chemical ray is greater in spring,
the light ray in summer. The chemical
ray is less iu autumn.
If a lamp chimney be cut with a dia¬
mond ou the convex side, it will never
crack with the heat, as tho incision af¬
fords room for expansion, aud the glass
after cooling returns to its original shape,
with only a scratch visible where the cut
was made.
Arsenic is not freely soluble in any
organic mixtures and may generally be
found as a white sediment, which, when
thrown upon red-hot coals, gives out a
strong odor like onions and a thick
smoke. Common arsenic can not be de¬
tected by the taste.
A story is told of an exchange of
courtesy between a Scotch minister aud
his parishioner, which is characteristic
of both. The minister was introduced
lnto a country living, Silled aud, in his round
0 f parochial t, tailor. visits, Taking at the cottage
,, t a seat mnn
yit ^ hl , plvMede d to talk, but found it
hard work, as he met with no response,
The tailor sat upon the table, stitching
in 8)1 lky sflence. At length he spoke.
“ Sir,” he said, “I regard it as an un¬
warrantable intrusion your entering my
house, and I ask you in wha' capacity
you come ?” “ My good man,” was the
reply, “I come as your parish clergy¬
man—it parishioners. is my I duty to know all my
know you don’t attend
church, but that is no reason why we
should not be friends.” To which the
kNsrNA;.; minister of Christ but as a~«ew»nt
o{ Satau U ’
. ye como as a wont leman rS
we ll aud good ; but os a minister I
to i; receive i you,” *, which » could hardly 'os
Su . i'w , •< °Ii, , pohte- t*. 8
nndersta^thatlt „x r >
be plSsed^o i_____ n . _ 7i ifonYy -
- T
ofviritin" „ 'vim Tvi .
Mvhen
gentleman I don’t visit persona in vour
To Husbands,
"rH'H-w Always complain of being tired and
lour wife should have everything in
bat VO!I sho!dd *»
-
wiL itTni wh“ she IL v™ ***
ii she cau’t do without -T Then ?
; - ,d s» nl teu times the amomrf
for e.gars, for they are a necessity.
iti^l^mo^LteS stand
at home with vour family ‘ *
Chi^ge your wife not'to gossip, but
you can spur all the yams yon wish.
Havey
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■
Wear old clothes, and make yourself
as health untidy as possible Ln w^d unt ; i li voot
fails it W to
you to fix b» «neL lor fa all pnM%
7< H^ *“**•
e * ‘ you meet
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