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§hq 3dvet[ti§cr-3MMl, The Republican party will have to turn its attention to splitting Put nam county, 6a. In 1880 Garfield received one vote there; in 1884 Blaine received none, and in 1888 Harrison received none. That coun tv believes in democracy. The price paid the average Iowa sehoolraam by tho year is $212.45. Presuming that her board and wash ing cost her about $3 per week and her clothing and incidentals $50 more, she will then have a surplus of $0.45 to build up a bank account, which in 20 years of hard work would nmount.to a little more than $120. There arc some thousands of gen tlemen in Washington who have four months in which to decide upon % new way of making a living. We hope tho employers of the country will look upon them kiridly.' While it is truo thnt Uncle Sam will dio- miss them without a recommenda tion, everybody knows thnt Uncle Sam is wrong. He never had a bet ter set of servants. That foreign claim of a torpedo vessel thnt can run for hours under water is not a sound one, asserts the Cincinnati Enquirer. It is simply a reproduction of a late American ex periment in the boat called the “Peacemaker.” The scheme will never be a complete success until a motor is discovered that needs no fire and makes no smoke. Compress ed uir was used by the Peacemaker but so little of that can be carried that the campaign must be very brief. Perhaps some day some one will be able to so store electricity as to solve the problem. The New York World has flung at the public this question, “What would you do if you had a million dollars?” It invites everybody who hasn’t a million to answer it. Prob ably the World will regret its action. There are any number of people in this country who have been figuring for some time on an answer to the ques tion, and if they should send the World the result of their air-castle building. Mr. Pulitzer would have to hire several men at big salaries to attend to letters. Edward Atkinson is the foremost statistician in the country, at least he is one of the most persistent. He lias been figuring on the number of peo ple who lay up from their salary or income any money worth speaking of and his conclusion is that fully 90 per cent, of them spend nearly all they make. “Of this 90 per cent.," he says, “a portion may, by setting aside a moderate part of their small earnings, become the owners of a house, or become depositors in a sav ings bank, or insure their lives in a moderate way. Of the remaining 10 per cent., a part save enough to pro tect themselves against want in their later years, nnd a very small part may become rich, nnd then need not work unless they choose.” The New York Sun says that Thomas Nelson Pago's story of “The Two Little Confederates” came near offending a good many northern poo ijde because of the unlovely south- f i le view he took of a couple of. fed eral soldiers ransacking a house. The Sun warns Mr. Page that many peo ple object to having their children entertained with diagrecablc pictures of northern soldiers. This is strange stuff to appear in a sensible paper. Mr. Page offended because he put some of the truth of history in Ids story. The day is coming when mat ters still more offensive to northern readers will be published. The ac tors in the stiriug scenes of the war will tell bow the invaders of thesouth tortured old men nnd women to make them reveal the hiding place of the treasures, applied the torch to the homes of non combatants, and en deavored to persuade the happy and contented slaves to re-enaet here the scenes of llavti and San Domingo. All t’ds will’hc rather unlovely read ing, but it will have to come. The facts of history cannot lie suppressed Dr. Hamilton’s Resignation. The announcement of the inten tion of Surgeon General Hamilton to resign and accept the editorship of the Journal of tho American Medi cal Association at Chicago, was no doubt received with 1 surprise. He has filled his plesent position very satisfactorily for eight' years. A1 thoygh a republican, Mr. Cleveland did not ask for his resignation, be cause he was .satisfied that ho was about as good a man for the place as there was in tbe marine hospital ser vice. In his new position he will have the same salary that he now re ceives, and only a portion of his time will be occupied with his editorial duties. He will have an opportuni ty to build up a private practice and in that way greatly increase his in come. Surgeon General Hamilton’s re port on the epidemic in Florida will be looked for with a great deal of in terest. It will be remembered that he called attention to the probability of an epidemic of yellow fever in some of the Florida towns months before the first ease was reported at Jacksonville, and lie may raise the question whether the McCormic case was the first one of yellow fever there this year. Of course Camp Perry will receive a good deal of attention and the re sult of that experiment may be dealt with at considerable length-. It is understood that several important things have been quite satisfactorily established there by observation. Among them arc the following: That the period of incubation of tbe yel low fever does not excee'd five days; that yellow fever can be isolated and that the germ theory is the correct one. If it becomes accepted that the pe riod of incubation docs not exceed five days, the time of detention at quarantine stations in future epi demics will be greatly reduced, and if yellow fever can be isolated tbe policy in future will be to put an in fected place in quarantine, as it were, instead of quarantining against it. If all communication with an infect ed place is cut off, and its citizens arc permitted to pass out through a quarantine camp, where detention will be sufficient to make it certain that they are free from infection, all the rest of the country will move along as usual without apprehension of danger. The isolaticfh plan will be far less expensive than the shot gun qurantine system, but it can on ly be carried out by the government. Isolation must lie perfect, otherwise, there would lie a lack of confidence in it, ami other localities would re sort to measures to protect them selves. Surgeon General Hamilton can congratulate himself for having made some advance in the management of yellow fever epidemics. There seems to be no doubt that the Fifty-first Congress will be repub lican in both branches. The election of a republican legislature in Dela ware and West Virginia insures tbe elcctidu of two republican senators in the place of two democratic ones, and the majority in the Senate, there fore will be republican. It cannot yet be stated witli cer tainty what the republican majority in the house will be, but it seems to be conceded that it will not be as the democratic majority in the present house is. The republicans will be in a posi tion to pass whatever laws they please. They will he wholly respon sible for whatever is done, and, there fore, will be very careful what they do. It is pretty certain that they will reduce the tariff, but not on the lines indicated in their Senate bill. They never intended thnt bill to pass. It is quite safe to say that the bill they pass will be nearer in accordance with the Mills bill than the Senate bill. They will aim to make such a reduction as to destroy the tariff re form i> sue of the democrats. They wilt admit the necessity for a reduc tion of the tariff nnd will act in ac cordance with that admission. They will strive to get the credit for doing what they prevented the democrats from doing.—Kx. Old Thanksgiving Days. As our national Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 29th, will soon be upon us, the following bit of information concern ing it wiy be road with interest: Thanksgiving day was suggested, doubtless, by the Hebrew feast of the tabernacle, or “feast of ingathering at the end of the year.” Its history in America begins as early as 1621. The occasional observance of such a day, formally recommended by the civil authorities, w-as not usual in Europe at an earlier date. In Hol land the first anniversary of tho dc Iiverance of the city Leyden from'the siege, October 3rd, 1575, was kept as a religious festival of thanksgiving and praise, In the English church service the 5th of November is so cel ebrated, in commemoration of the discovery of the gun powder plot. One of the most remarkable thanks giving customs on record prevailed in Southampton and Easthampton, Long Island. Montauk Point, which consist of 9,000 acres, was owned by numerous proprietors in these towns and used as a common pasturage for stock. * Tiic time for driving the herds home to winter was fixed at a meeting by tho Town Council, and it came to bo a rule from the period beyond which the memory of man runneth nut, that the Thursday of the week following the return of the cattle from Montauk should be ob served as a day of tbauksgiving.” At an early period of New Eng land history certain periods of pros perity were often made the occasions of public thanksgiving?, and often a day of fasting and prayer was turn ed into a day of thanksgiving .by what seemed an immediate answer to the prayers. Perhaps to recall to our minds that first thanksgiving of the Pilgrim Fathers may put us to tho blush. Often on this day have I .heard such remarks ns “I have no thanks to give; I have nothing for which to be thankful,” from lips that it would seem might have had a life’s work in frnmieg words ofpraise and gratitude, so blessed were they in the health of themselves and their dear ones, while for some fancied trouble this great good was overlook ed. States in the Near Future. Savannah Sows. Assuming that the next Congress will be Republican in both branches, and there does seem to be much room to doubt that it will be, among the first of the more important things it will do will lie to admit territories of North and South Dakota and Wash ington into the Union as States. There is no doubt that South Dakota and Washington have the requisite number of inhabitants, nnd that in time they will become great ami rich states. The. bill admitting South Dakota has been twice passed by the Senate, the last time in April of this year. It is by no moans certain that North Dakota has ns many inhabi tants as the law requires for admis sion, and there may a doubt whether it will ever become thickly populated. The conditions there are not favora ble to great prosperity, or at least they arc not thought to be. The territory has grown very slowly in comparison with South Dakota. The republicans, however, will be influenced to some extent by the ad vantages to them politically of the admission of all of these territories. They will all be Republican States, and will give the Republicans ten additional votes in the electoral col lege. South Dakota and Washington would have been admitted some time ago if there had been no objection to the admission of New Mexico and Arizona, which are democratic. It now looks as if the latter territories would, have to wait until the demo crats get into power again. life of a Hindoo Wile. Not only is our bride thus turned into a drudge, often unmercifully overworked, but from tbe day she gives up her childhood, to tho day of her death—it may be for sixty years— sho is secluded, and sees nothing of the.world outsido tho walls of her fam ily inclosure. It should al ways, there fore, be borne in mind, when trying to realizo Indian femalo life, what a very important thing tho domestic economy is to a woman; how largely tho petty affairs of tho household loom upon her horizon. Her happi ness or misery, jndeed, entirely depend on tho manner in which the affairs of tho family are conducted. Now, con sidering that tho female mind has for centuries been mainly directed to this all important matter, it is not aston ishing to find that such questions as tho proper method of eating and drink ing, and of domestic propriety gener ally—the intercourse, that is, which is permissible and right between the vari ous members of tho household, male and femalo—have long been regulated with tho utmost minuteness. To uk who roam tho world at will, and whose interests are often fixed far more outsido than insido our homes, it may seem rcmarkablo that sucli infini tesimal restrictions and numberless customs as aro found in full swing in an orthodox Hindoo household should bo remembered and carried out with tho exactitude demanded, of tho womenkind; but if wo consider that these mako up their wholo life, and that they aro called upon to pay atten tion to nothing else, their capacity for recollecting when to veil and unveil, whom to address and avoid, when they must run away, and when they may speak, ceases to bo extraordinary.— Capt. R. C. Temple in Journal of tho Society of Arts. Will IS IT! WHO Mil TELL? — are shrewd at guessing, but no one can ex- ilain the following strange edndiiton of thing* happening every day. A number of people arc beginning to “ail;” they complain of slight indisposition; the sick ness progresses until finally one will have con sumption, another catarrh, another kidney troub le, nnd worst of all. some will he afflicted with that terrible malady, cancer. And to think that prudence f from any c The reflection thnt the dead might be living and the afflicted be in good health (had the prop er means been used) is not n pleasant one. That king of all blood purifiers, “GUINN’S PIONEER BLOOD BENE WEB” is the one great specific known to medical science that attains tho above results It puri fies, enriches and strengthens the blood, amt acts nB a perfect tonic to the wholo system—prevent innumerable, cases of sickness, and save many lives. The following will explain itself: “I am pleased to state to the public that Guinn’s Blood Renewed has no equal as a Blood Purifier, for have tried it sufficiently. J. C. It ARNES. M. D. Grillin, oa. Call on Messrs. Hodges Jb O’Connor for Alma nac, and don’t forget to take a lmttle of the mel- icine home with you. Tho Cemeteries of China. Bui as soon us China was reached tho silent cities of tho dead came again to tho fore, with greater prominence than ever. One stands on tho walls of Canton, near the Five Storied Pa goda, and sees tho hills to tho north all covered with graves. It is the samp near any Chinese city. Tho living occupy the city and tho level ground, tho dead tho hills. No corpse is al lowed to be buried within the walls of a Chincso city, and without tho vast otmctcries cover tho hills, with no fenco or other limitation about them. Tho Cliincso family which can afford it builds a “horseshoe grave," or bricked vault on tho hillside, with tho end built up in tho horseshoe form. Poorer people stick their dead in shal low graves, on which a small tablet of wood or stono is put. In somo dis tricts of Quang-tung, near the head waters of tho Pc-Kiang river, tho cemeteries consist of big jars set in niches of the rocky cliff of tho Mac-ling mountains. As you pass along tho foot trails you sco tho steep rocks above thickly studded with tbeso big carthcrn jars, in each of which is a human body in a sitting position. In tho rich alluvial plains, wliero no uncultivablo hills aro available for burying .tho dead, a graveyard re sembles much a white uut villago in Africa. The graves are sugar loaf mounds, thickly clustered together. While John Chinaman pays great rc- snect to tho dead, ho tube's care that they do not appropriate much ground that is of value to tho living. Tho cemetery of a Chinese villago among tho rich rico fields covers little ground in proportion to the number of graves. It seemed t > me that bodies must liavo been place ! one on top < f 'her or stood upri. so thi- .. . :c tho taper ing mound.-;,—Thomas fc.evens in Chi cago Tribune. L. L. S. 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This discovery consists of a largo number of tablets which gives us what cer tainly seems to bo an authentic history of Egypt, or of some parts of it, from a date much earlier than that at which its present authenticated history be gins, and which indieato an active correspondence between tho most re mote nations of tho civilized cast at least 1,200 years before the Exodus, a discovery which leads Professor Sayce, tho distinguished English ar- clueologist, to express the opinion thut there may yet bo similar “finds" in Palestine. Thut country patiently awaits the | Rpado of the excavator, and lie thinks it quite probable tlr : t.iidcr the ruins of cities like . re and Eyblos, the old Gibul of tho Jews (Ez. xxvii, !>), and Kirjathscphcr (the City of .Letters), there may yet be found archaeological treastires in tho form of-books on clay, giving as an authentic history, supple menting, if not ante-dating what we at present [xjsscss. 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