Moorish Robbers.
“ What kind of people are the Beni-
Hassan P” demanded De Amicis, a mem-
ber of the Italian embassy to the Moors,
referring to the spproaching company
of m ih horsginen who ere to escort
t em throug the next proyinoce,
hieves and : ay "replied the
inter reter ; “faces from the other
world; the worst crew in Morocco."
And naturally the sigoor's curiosity
was excited to the uttermost when they
were expecting the arrival of their rob.
ber escort.
The taces from SIO world were
not long in coming. gaw in ad
vanoe a great cloud of dust. and ina few
minutes were surrounded ed by a throng
of $00 mounted savages in green, yellow,
white, violet and scarlet, rageed, dis-
heveled and panting, as if "they had just
come out of a fray. Re the midst of the
thick dust they raised we could discern
their governor—a long-haired, black-
bearded giant, who, followed by two
hoary vice-governors, all armed with
muskets, approached the ambassador,
ressed his hand, and then disappeared,
mmediately the usual firing, charging
and yelling began. They seemed trantie,
They fired between the legs of our
mules, over our heads and close to our
shoulders. Seen from a distance they
must have ooked like a band of as
sassins assailing us. They were formida-
ble old men with long white beards, all
skin and bone, but looking as if they
might live for centuries; and young
men with Jong locks of black hair flying
like manes. Many had their chests
more or less bare, turbans in tatters,
and red rags twisted round the head;
oaics torn, saddles broken, bridles made
of cord, old sabers and poniards of
strange forms. And such faces! “Iv
is absurd,” said the commandant, * ‘to
suppose that these people will be ¢ capa
ble ot the self-sacrifice of not killing
story of blood. They looked at us as
they passed, out of the corner of their
eyes, as if to hide the impression of their
glance.
The manner and morals of this un-
leasant people by no means belied their
villinous looks. Theft is their avowed
LIGHTNING’S FREAKS,
———
Queer Doings of the Thunderbolt about
the World,
At Fulton, Ontario, Duncan Dawson
was killed by a lightning stroke, and his
sister-in-law was fatally injured,
A daughter of Daniel Kelly lives, but
her mind is impaired, after a lightning
stroke at her home near Spring Lick,
Ky., recently.
An omployee of the Lochiel iron
works, Harrisburg, Pa., was struck by
lightning, and one side of his body is
completely paralysed.
Three men were knocked Row n, and
“THE IDEAL NEWS SPAPER.”
Extracts from a Speech Dellvered by
Charles 8, Falrman at the Annual Meot«
ing of the New York State Fross Ase
sociation In Troy
The face of a newspaper should be
made bright and cheerful and it should
have a distinot resemblance of its own,
If you are acquainted with it you should
be able to pick it out of a thousand.
You should know it as you do your
neighbor. This personal appearance
should be a fixture. Of course the
newspaper, like the man, must put on a
new es occasionally, but there should
be no violent changes in attire, It
should always present the same general
a horse belonging to Elihu Wells was
killed instant'y by lightning at Rush.
ville, Ind.
Jeonard Falk, a farmer of Fayette |
county, Towa, took a horgeback ride. A |
killed by lightning
Peter Leonard was instantly kill
lightning at Charles City, Town,
» J. Leonard, of Floyd,
State, was killed on the same day.
While herding cattle, a boy named
Isancson was killed by lightning at Ro-
land, lows, and at Kosta, Jefferson |
Simmons was killed during the same
storm.
ed by |
and
saverely injured by lightning at Garrett
City, Ind. in a drug store where they
had taken refuge during a thunder
storm.
Frank Shupert, of Johnson county,
ob was instantly killed by lightning |
while sitting in his home by the win
dow. The whole side of his house was
torn out.
It was twenty feet from where A son
of D. H. Owens, of New Era, Tex,, took
shelter from the storm, that the | ih tning g
shatt rod at ieee,
the shock.
Daniel Utter's house tumbled about
his head when lightning st truck it re
cent'y, but he escaped uninjured. This
was at Goshen, Ind. Joh n Willians, of
Lincoln, 11l., was killed by a bolt
Mrs. Barnes of Macomb, 1. w ent to
rofession, and they take rank accord-
ing to their dexterity in it.
are put in training from their most ten- |
der ages, and the youth are told off to
icular departments,
the capabilities they develop.
to work like an organized; can
glars, on circuits far beyond their im.
faadiate beat. They are in the habit of |
ing in wait in the towns to attack |
Tae who are compel lied by law to go
plundering. Like mounted Indians,
they go great distances on horseback to |
duars. They will dismount, and, like |
some of the low-caste Hindoos, s strip to |
the skin, soap themselves all ov er, and |
slip within the precincts of the village,
for the dogs will pot bark at a naked
nian. They glide upon the ground like
snakes, covered with grass, eh straw
with leaves, dressed in sheep-skins, dis- |
guised as beggars, as madmen, as saints, |
as soldiers.
for a chicken, and go ten miles for a |
doliar. They will ‘even steal a bag of |
money from under the head of a sieep-
ing man. They terrorize the surround-
ing country far and near, levying heavy |
contributions of blackmail on the vil
lages that derive exemption from their |
depredations. It may be said, no doubt,
that it is not so very long since gentle-
men caterans like Rob Ros drove a |
flourishing busitiess | in Soot! and. But.
at all events, Rob Ro
and hunted down, an — oh his bead-
uarters in the fastnesses of a remote
ighland district, while these Moorisl
robbers thrive on their ill-gotten gain
many in his pay; and their bands infest |
the roads between the court and his |
capitals, which are habitually traveled |
by his caravans and treasure trains.
TS — ss.
Scenes in Jerusalem,
Mrs. John Straiton, of New York,
who recently paid a visit to the Holy
an account of her travels. Some of
these are now being published, and
from one of them we take the following
extract:
It is sad to witness the decay of Jeru-
salem. Palestine is a land of ruins.
We saw the church of the Holy Sepul-
chre. Itis one of the most atiractive
scenes here. It has twin domes, count
less pillars, and is a very massive baild-
ng, and is said to contain and cover all |
the scenes of the Crucifixion, Entomb- |
ment, and Resurrection of the Redeemer
The stone on which the body was |
block on which the angel sat to an.
nrounce the Resurrection. are shown.
Two hundred gold and silver lamps are
kept constantly burping, surrounded by
ornaments of the richest kind. We as.
cended to Mount Calvary—all inclosed
in this mosque—and I saw the rent in
the mount, and the holes where the
three crosses stood, and many interest.
ing things, the whole surrounded with
rich trappings of the Greek church.
Part only belongs to Catholics. The
shrine of the Virgin, where she wit-
nessed the death o her son, is inclosed
in glasses, and contaips presents from
all the kings and queens, such as rich
and massive chains, rings, bracelets,
earrings, diamond necklaces, ete., cach |
stone Inrger than any I ever saw be ore.
The crown and halo, studded with |
smaller ones, make your a ache, it is
ali so dazzling. Monks of all nations
assemble here. The Latin monks,
Abyssian, Greek and Coptie, and al- |
though they worship in, they quarrel
outside the church. There is a large
nations, all talking together.
We visited also the Mosque of Omar,
It incloses the Mount Moriah, where |
Abrabam and Isasc sacrificed. It is |
near the site of the Temple of Solomon.
The rock or part is suspended over an |
immense abyss, and it is bere, through |
a small hole, where, it is said, Moham- |
med ascended to Heaven. It is 110 |
plies, Dome of Rock. It is s magnii-
cenl and gorgeous place, all marble and |
inlaid with gold, malachite. stained |
glass, columns and pillars—all of the |
finest workmanship. Although we
take it all in. Every inch was a study.
Chickens in Gardens.
generally. but the newly-hiatched broods,
which will flourish famously if allowed |
the range of your flower and vegetable |
beds. Shut the mother hens in roomy
coops near the garden walks; sce that |
they are shaded by trees or shrubs, both
as protection from the noonday heat and |
the possible invasion of hawks, who are
fearless if the ground is entirely exposed
ing limbs and fluttering leaves of trees.
The chickens. eagerly searching for
worms and insccts, are within the
mother’s call, and can easily hid +, at a
warning note, among the leaves and
, The exercise, the fresh air, and
the sturdy independence gained at an
early age in this way, are as healthful
and growth-proinoting as is the natural
insect food which they gather for them-
gajves; and this added to the rations
rnished by the owner of the flock, pe
fom astonish Jou by their rapid an
healthful deve opment. The first six
weeks of a chicken’s life will settle the
question of early or late maturity more
effectually than any after care and pam-
pering ean possibly do. Give the young
ones a good start and half the battle of
fel is already won.—dmerican Poullry
a
——— I ———
A Daring Mexican,
A Mexican, accompanied by his dog
was on his way to Tempe to do some
trading, when the dog treed a large Cali-
fornia lion. The man was unarmed,
save a large butcher knife, but nothin
daunted, and knowing where he oy
seli the skin for a dollar, he whipped
out his knife and started up the tree
after the specimen of the king of beasts.
Slipping up within reaching distance,
he coolly plunged the knile into the
animal just behind the shoulder, which
so startled him that he leaped to the
ground and was instantly bounced by
the dog, when the man hastened from
the tree, sprang upon the beast and
planted a home thrust through bis heart,
without further damage to himself than
having his hat torn in pieces. The lion
measured about eight feet from the tip
of the Boge to the tip of his tail, and
had he got one good blow atthe man he
would have mashed him into a jelly.
This same Mexican killed one of these
beasts about three months azo that
measured over nine feet from tip to tip,
wang no other weapon than a small
id € came near los.
t encounter.~Phaniz
bed for safety during a severe thunder.
| storm. Lightning struck the house and
i literal ly tore it to pieces. Although
| many were standing about Mrs. Barnes’
bed she alone was killed.
{ A oyclone struck T
i pear Paris, Texas, and with it came
| severe thunder and lightning. William
Rudesill was instantly killed and two
| young men were dangerously injured by
a thunderbolt.
Lishtning rods did not save the First
| Mcthod st Church, of Altoona, Pa. for
a Hiraderyols doubled them up like
ree knvcked a hole eigh teen inches in
diameter in the first knee of the bell
| tower, and broke off one corner of the
{ brick walls of the hen
| In a negro cabin in Warrenton, Ga.,
| sat & woman with an infant in her arms,
i and six clitldren on the floor at her feet.
Lightning struck the woman in the
| right temple, instantly killing her, but
doing no injury to the child, The
Ww hen diso vere ad,
+
adlett's Praidie,
is,
moter. sat with the
| babe quietly fol ded in her life less Arms.
! A workman was knoc ked off a ladder
| and paralyzed by a lightning stroke as
| he Wo working on the new building of
{ the Faculty of Me dicine at Lille, France.
i His arms and legs were found to be in
: a lifeless condition,
| burned about the 1 oY.
| elothi ing and boots were burned out in
| many places.
When lightning entered the home of
| Mrs. William Young, of Hornelisville,
{ N. Y., it was through an open door in
which she was sitting. Three succes.
muscular action.
repeated cramps, and
{ was not able to stand.
rs AIO
The Flaver of Meats.
for
Fr ance, has suggested
for varying the flavor of meat. ¢
imagin es that by feeding cattle, sheep,
pigs and
a
ous ways, their flesh may be rendered
much more agreeable to tue palate than
it often is; and there can be no doubt
| that be is substantially right. Thus, for
| nstance, it is well known that poultry
which have been fattened upon food |
containing aslight admixture ofchop ped
truffles are far better eating than those
{ chickens which have been stuffed or
{ larded with truffles waiter they are
{ killed. It is only natural that such
| should be the case, for the flavor of the
{ truffle that is consumed by the chicken
| permeates the whole system, which it
cannot down he simply placed In the
| oe arcass. M. Monclar instances cases
lin which hares killed in a wormwood
field, larks shot in a cabbage field, and
eggs Jaid by hens which had eaton dis-
eased silk worms, had such a nauseous
i and fieldfares which had fed upon some
| sprigs of juniper had a delicious flavor.
He has made several expe Fiments—
among others, three upon tame rabbits
which he fed with the waste of anise
seed, with barley and bran containing a
little essence of thyme.
found that the flesh of these
was far better that that of rabbits fat.
{ tened in the ordinary way,and yet tl iat
| there was no traca ol anise seed or juni-
{ per in the taste. His conclusion
| that cattle, sheep and pigs might be fed
| in the same way, and that by varying
i the flavoring watter, the beef, nutton
{ and pork might be made to have sev-
eral different tastes. — Chic ago Times.
a —————
“Earthquakes,
is
| Professor Palmieri, who may be
| to have been sitting on aa el rthquake
(on Mount Vesuvius) for the last thirty
t or forty years,
| subj ‘et if any one is. He has recently
| given at Naples a public lecture at the |
| university on the possibility of foretell-
ing earthquakes. After mentioning
| earthqus wkes as known and re Haeko d in
ancient days, he illustrated he three
| signs of coming ¢ earthquake w rhich gine e
| time immemoris al have been popularly |
| believed in, namely, the sultry oppres.
{ sive state of the atmosphere, the drying |
by animals, observing that though these
| edi y often occur. Professor Pahaieri
| went on to say that earthquakes have
i nu doubt shorter or
| preparation The earth is never per-
fcetly quiet for some time before end
after a great shock, but gradually sinks |
| into repose or increases in agitation.
The professor believes that by register-
| ing the preliminary tremblings, and |
i noting. their increase or decrease,
would be possible to foretel: an wv
| qus ake about three days in advance
| just as tempests are now foretold.
connected syste: of sismographic |
ferent stations communicating
each other by telegraph—as would be |
quite possible, in most eases, to issue |
warnings to the threatened district in |
time. He scarcely expected to live to |
sce it; but he hoped that after he was
gone, posterity igi benefit by such a
system, universally and permanently |
established. The sismographic stations |
should be erected by the different gov
ernments, in quint places where the
ground is not liable to be shaken by
railway trains.
alm: Leaf Fossils.
Mr. E. F. Johnson, the expressman,
brought Tot the Gazelle office some very |
inte resting fossil remains which he had |
just discovered. In speaking of his dis. |
covery he said: ** A year sgo my son re-
ported thet he had found up in the bluffs |
northeast of town a petnited fish-tail,
but imbedded in tco large a rock for |
him to earry. He has often urged me |
to go with him and get it. I finally |
went, and to my astonishment found
that he had discovered a very fine im-
pression of a palm-leaf, and I soon
found three other perfectly-printed |
leaves of the same variety. The leaves |
were of enormous size, ihe ribs diverg-
ing from the base just like palin-fans, |
but upon a very much larger scale,
The cstimated size of one leaf, ealcu- |
lated from reliable data furnished by the |
ratio of divergence. is found to be eight
feet long by six feet wide.” Mr. John-
son also found several sections of palm.
tree trunks, one of which he brought to
the Gazelle office, together with the
impressions of the leaves.— Colorado
Springs Gazelle.
The New Haven Register gives de-
scriptions ot various ideals, but it
neglected to trot out the ideal mule,
That animal is one which kicks all crea-
tion out of joint when he doesn't want
to work. The real mule merely con-
trives to fall down and break the har-
ness. — Boston Fost.
| appearance,
i 1say you should know your
| paper. It is diffienlt, doubtless,
| the unpractioed eye to tell one paper |
| from another by memly looking at the
face of the type, But the printer will
| do it. Of a hundred papers that he |
| knows he will pick out any one he
| wants simply by a glance at its gener al
contour, without looking at its head, or
| stopping to read a word it says. He will |
| almost hand it to you in the dark. He
will do more than that. You may out
lout a piece not more than two inches
{ long, anywhere from the hody of the |
| paper upon which there shall be nothing |
| whatever to distinguish it from any
other similar piece of paper, and he wil
tell you from what paper you ent it It
| is no guess work. He knows to a oer
tainty, He will swear to it in acourt ol
justice with no more doubt or hesita
tion than you would have in saying that |
you saw a train of cars standing at the |
depot yesterday. A bank teller will de. |
nounce a counterfeit as far as his eyes
can see the paper. A shoe maker will |
{ pick out a pair of boots which he kas |
made from a thousand others, all of
{which vou would say were precisely
alike. You can't deceive the tailor as
te who made the coat which is on your |
back. he small boy about the railroad
depot, wl! ren he hears the whistle afar
| off, will tell you that is No, 6 Northern
Central. The re a a intuition about all
these things which I do not pretend to
fathom % explain. I state the fact, be-
cause what I said about the certainty of
knowing one newspaper from another,
by simply seeing its countenance, mig ght
| seem improbab le, if 1 did not also call
your attention to other similar things,
Now the face of a newspaper may have
a pleasant and cheerful look, or it may
be dull and forbidding. When beauti-
fully printed, the most commonplace
things will beread with pleasure, while
{ the genius of Shakespeare and Dickens
could not illumine the pages of miser- |.
able mechanical work. A handsomely
| printed and carefully arranged paver
with an indifferent editor, will outstrip
in circulation and surpass in reputation
a botoehed job in the press, with the
most brill There cannot
news- |
$, for
iant of writers,
be a good newspaper without mechani.
cal excellence. There may be poorones
{ with mechanical excellence, Put there
cannot be a good one without it. It is
an infallible vest. There may be good
taste without newspaper ability, but
there cannot be newspaperability with-
out good taste. A beautiful thing, in
beautiful print, is a joy forever. The
fascination which belongs to the face of
a handsome type, like charity, covers a
muititude of sins. Even children in a
primary school
the bright pages of the toy book, when
neither argument nor coaxing will fix
I eir eyes on a dull, dead bi ac k wall 0
Tors. e are only children of a
arger growth, and are quite asexacting
as they in demanding beautiful things
for our comfort and conve nience.
We are educated to believe in the
power of the press. Its influence can
scarcely be rated at too high astandard.
It is the lever w hich in modern times
moves the world. That which the!
ancient philosopher declared he could
do if he had something to stand upon,
the press does by its own intrinsic foree.
It is true the old philosophe r had refer-
ence to physical substance, and the
| pow er which he sought was mechanical.
But it is not in human strength, either
mental or physical, to add to or take
from one jot or tittle of the unseen yet
mi rh ity and omnipotent power which
holds this earth in its orbit. The he
moved mountains.
They are all here still. Yet the enter-
vrise of man under the enlightening in-
fluence of the press has tunneled moun-
tains and bridged them with iron ways
that the newspaper might go on the
wings of the wind to the uttermost
paris of the earth. It has spanned the
sea with the electric spark, that the
newspaper might gather the news on
the instant at home and abroad. It has
made all human knowledge simultane.
{ ous in all parts of the glohe. It hs AS An-
nihilated space and abolished tie. The
newspaper is ubiquitous. It is every-
| where, in every man's home, for a man
has no home who has no newspaper. He
may have a place to stay, and so do the
Digger Indians, but there can he no
home without newspaper. There
joan be no diffusion ol
| knowledge without It is light «nd
{ life in the world. It moves tue world
in all its enterprises, in all its great
Christian philanthropies, in all its ma-
esty of wealth and power. ‘In olden
times, in the days when our Revoiu-
tionary fathers were laying down their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred
| honor for the establishment of that free
i system of government which their sons
have been patriotic enough to main-
tain, the press, as it now exists, was an
almost unknown institution. It was a
factor then, as it is now, in arousing
the people to noble and patriotic pur-
poses, but in a far different and
effective way. There were no great re-
| volving presses throwing out their
| printed sheets by the thousand, assnow-
| flakes flutter from the clouds. There
| was no spider-webh net-work of rail.
| roads taking them up damp from the
press, and scattering them through
every city and hamlet at the breakiast
hour. There were no lines of telegr aph
penetrating to every nook and corner in
| the land, gathering every scrap of in-
| formation, and concentrating it daily
{ and nightly in the lap of the newspa-
| per Things went slower, but they
| went just assure. They got itall, but it
i took them more time. There were
| fewer people, there were less and sim-
| pler wants, the re were less jostling and
| there was less hurry. But there was
as much intelligence and just as
virtue. It was not diffused as
{it is now. The people were not uni-
| versally intelligent as they are
now. Education was not common
tas it is now. The position of
ian editor is one of the greatest
responsibility. His audiince is con.
{ fined to no sect or creed. It is not
{ cramped up in any public hall, or hem-
{ med within the pews of cathedral on
it | church. His voice is not stayed by
county lines. He cannot see his people,
{ He cannot feel their responsive touch. |
| He must write the truth and trust to the
{ power of truth. He sits in his sanctum
{and sends forth his thought on the
wings of Rs: wind. He speaks to the |
| people, to the pulpit, to thie bar, to the
| congress and to the president. Helis
reater than these, for all these look to
im for information and counsel. The |
| editor who respects himself, who knows
| his profession, and is equal to it, stands
fon a higher eminence than the prince |
{or pope. He is the leader, and, if his
| fone eption is large enough, may become
| the ruler of public conception.
Editors are born, not made,
stance. It has not
A
general
it
ih.
P88
You |
{ cannot grind them out in heaps as you
| do doctors, or lawyers, or clergymen
| There is no college where they are |
| taught. There is no curriculum for |
{ them to study. Thereare no professors |
| of newspapers. There are no diplomas |
aud there are ne degrees for an editor. |
| Perhaps I should say that none of the
{ ordinary schouls in which other profes
sions nie taught, answer for the news-
| paper. The best school is the printing |
| office. The best teacher isthe click of
| the type and the atmosphere of the com- |
posing room. The tact of an editor can- |
not be taught at an academy, There are
no books or masters to follow. Like
| the artist, the editor must have genius,
and genius is not borrowed or taught.
But though you carnot teach editors in
i schools or academies, you can teach |
boss. And after you have taught the
| boy in school, you may teach the editor |
[ina printing offic ¢. But be careful not
to insert him at the wrong end of the
shop. Start him down among the roll- |
ers and the lye brushes, and he will!
woi k his way out to the sanctum, When |
be gets there Lie will know how to stay |
there. But if you start him atthe sare. |
tum, the probabilities are that he will |
soon find himself in the cellar. It is |
one of the evils of our times that not |
only with regard to this, but equally |
with regard to all trades and professions,
the young men are unwilling to begin
at the bottym. The grades of a printing
office should be inexorable as the grades
ot an army. There should be no re-
movals except for cause, and no pro-
motions except for merits, »The history
dh
of the newspaper press proves the Joa.
tion I heretake, The best, the ablest
and most successful editors this land
has produced came up from the
rule and the composing stick, I have
known scores of tramping jour printers
who had every qualifieation for brillian
success in journalism, except the one of
steady habits, men of wide learning, ot
sparkling genius, and commanding in-
telleot. And 1 never yet saw a strictly
educated man who waa fit for an editor.
They are too starchy and stiff. They
are too nice and precise, They are too
learned and profound. A profound news
paper would die in a week Two things |
are certainly and equally fatal to a
newspaper, ignorance and profundity.
But 1 think of the two it oan stand igno-
for there are a great
who are ignorant, and
Daniel
Webster once undertook to write an
It was seven
ship and wisdom. But the editor ad-
vised him to deliver it in Congress and
let the newspaper off, It sometimes
happens that a schoolmaster out of a
ambitious of fame, seeks laurels
in the editorial sanctum,
are the worst failures in the
lot. ‘They ipvariably run out
their tongues when they write, use
ruled paper, dot all their i's, cross
their t's, and parse every sentence be-
fore it goes to press, They are designed
to succeed better on monthly or
publications, or those
and cash
whole
& WEEK'S EVENTS
Eastern and Middle States.
‘The New York mercantile agenoy of Dun,
Burlow & Co, has issued a clroular showing
that the number of fallures in the United
States during the first six months of 1880 was
4.497, with abilities amounting to #92 888,.
763. During the same period in 1878 the
number of failures was 4,008, and the labili-
ties $65,779,500,
At a meeting in New York of the Demo.
committees W. IH. Barnum, of
Conneotiout, was elected permanent chairman,
snd F. A. Prince was chosen secretary
The committes appointed by the national
Demooratio convention at Cincinnati to in.
form General Hancock and Mr, English of
their nomination tor President and Viee.
President periogmed their duly the other day
at General Hancook's headquarters on Gov
ernor's laland, The committes procesded in
& body to his residence, and alter Governor
Stevenson, chairman of the Cincinnati con
vention, had been introduced, a lotter was
read signed by the full committes and ten
dering the nomination to General Hanoook,
who replied as follows: “Myr. Chairman sod
Gentlemen of the Committee—1 appreciate
the honor conlerred upon me by the national
Democratic convention lately assembled in
Cincinpatd, and 1 thank you lor your
courtesy in ruaking known that honor to me,
As 8000 as Ume pormit give the subject
that carelul attention belonging t I shall
prepare and will send you as reply of a formal
| nature, aocepling the nomination by the
Demoeratio party to the office of President of
the United States.” The members ol the
committee were then introduced to General
a 10
Oo it,
which come out oneeé A year,
than on the dally press, If
anything is calouiate xl to worry the pa.
tience of an editor,
master laboring over a paragrapli.
erasures and interlineations, the stop-
beginnings again, the
the dictionary, the wise look at the wall,
the doubt about grammar, and the
greater doubt about ideas, are fearful to
behold. I state an exact truth when
say that 1 have seen some of these edu
cated gentlemen spend two precious
hours in trying to put asimp'e state-
ment in a paragraph of ten | lines, and
fail. A surplus of grammar kills them.
And yet the editor must not fail
Samia His sentences must be clear
, precise and perfect. But he must |
same ease and freedom that he would
engage in conversation. This faculty he
gets when he goes through the grades,
He cannot bring it with him from any
other profession.
exceptions, but they are rare, exceed.
ingly rare, and only prove the rule,
The shoemaker hs a better stick to his
editor to his sanctum. No
an editor
the details of his business.
the
oan be
stand all
He
lace at any moment. He must know |
how to do all that is needed to be done
on a newspaper. He must be able lo
write a jeader ors uvaragraph at a
moment's notice, or without any notice
at a'l. He must be a man of quick per.
ception, of prompt decision and force of
character. He must be a leader, @
must command the ship.
@
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Tom Corwin’s Reply to Crary.
its
was Thomas Corwin,
from Ohio, who was a
Western culture and a born humorist.
He was a middle-sized, somewhat stout
man, with pleasing manners, a fine
head, sparkling hazel eyes and a com-
plexion lark that on several ocoa
sions—as he used to relate
he was supposed to be of African
descent. : pure is no need of my
working,” said he, “for. whenever I can-
not support mys olf in Ohio, all I should
have to do would be to cross the river
give myself up a Kentucky
trader, be taken south and sold for a
hand.” He always had a sto ry
ready to illustrate the subject of a con-
versation, and the dry manner in which
he enlivened his spesches by pungent
witticisms, without a smile on his own
d countenance, was irresistible,
His greatest effort was a repi
he made to Mr. Crary, of Kentucky,
who had undertak: n to criticise the
military ility of General Harrison.
Jolin Quiney Adams went over to Mr,
Corwin's desk and advised him to re-
ply: without success, first, Corwin
saying that he was * something like
Balasm's ass-
less kicked into it.” The next after.
noon, however, he did reply and Lis
speech, as a model of humorous retort
never since been equaled at the
His description of Mr, Crary
App ared on parade as a militia
and after the iat
muster, when treating his brigade to
watermelons and whisky at a country
grocery store, as the ancient heroes as.
suaged their thirst from the skulls of
th eir slaughtered enemies, was a de-
liclous piece of satire. Then turning
to the history of General Harrison, Mr,
Corwin gave an eloquent picture of his
patriotic services with
force. No member of Congress ever
received such personal discomfiture
from a speech, and Mr. Crary never re-
covered from Corwin's
Even at his home the farmers always
offered him watermelons in their season,
S50
Bit
to
field
stoll
nt
his ns
¢ apile
as Re
general,
wins speech. He retired from publ lie
life an extinguished or wor, — Atlantic
ir sthi
MONLY.
Lightning and OH Tanks.
The Setentific American thus
ments on the attraction of oil tanks for
lighining, as evidenced in the recent fire
Titus svil i
iron oil tanks appear to
possess has been several times referred
to in our columns. Whenever a thun-
der-storm passes fairly over one of them
it seems to be devoted to destruction
| Millions of dollars worth of property
hay @ thus been destroye xd.
cal safeguard has yet been suggested.
Ordinary buildings,
vided with rods that are well grounded
in the earth, are comparatively safe
from lightning. Structures made of
iron and simply resting upon the earth,
without rod, are also exempt from elec.
trical damage. Such structures always |
present a continuous body of conduct.
inz material for the free passage of elec-
tricity to earth. Why is it then, that
oil tanks form such conspicuous
which these
lightning? Rods put on other struc.
on oil tanks, but the tanks were ex.
ploded by lightning all the same.
will
we have heretofore given.
oil tank, ned
is n constant escape of light hydrocar- |
bon vapor, which forms a permanent |
cloud or column, rising to a general
height above the tanks, far above any |
rod that could be erected. This vapor |
rod is a conductor, which the lightning
Fiom every
and explodes the tank. A column of
heated air vapor rising from a chimney
Hancock, who waa in mourning ‘or his four
| month-old grandson and pamesake, whose
death had taken place a few hours previous
William H. English, who was also present,
having odme on Irom Indians, was then for.
mally informed of his nomination for Vice
President, and he briefly thanked the
mittee, saying that he would at an early day
| formally and in writing make the acceplasce
oom
| usual on such occasions
The Democratic national committees and
| the Congressional campaign committee paid a
vigit to the residence of Me. Tilden, in New
{| York, and presented him with a copy of the
| resolution of respect passed by the Cincinnati
| sonvention. Mr. Tilden cordially returned
{ thanks
A surious acoident took place on a train of
| the Long Island railroad at East Rockawsy
| the other day, Twenty.seven Italian laborers
were swept trom one of the platiorm cars by
a heavy wire rope attached to a derrick at the
| side of the track and which sagged as the train
| swept by. Two or three ol the men were
fatally injured, and nearly all the rest were
hurt more or less seriously.
M. K. Waite & Co. have filed notice with
ithe New York secretary of state that
they have discovered a mine of gold ore in
| the town of Northampton, Fulton county,
N.Y.
Three 25,000.barrel
ford, Pa., were struck by
| stroyed.
Lightning struck and fnstantly killed Derbin
| Rudderow, aged nineteen years, and dangers
ously injured: three other men at Philadel.
phia.
Two New York iron
old grudge which they had ag h other
by & brutal fignt on a pler in presence of a
large crowd. The fight took place under all |
the approved met hi i, of the prize ring, thirteen
rounds being fought in filty.seven minutes, at
Brad.
Loe
oil-tanks near
lightning and «
molders settled an
wl ond
6
| insensible by a blow which broke his jaw and
{ bad to be taken to a hospital,
The intercollegiate fuur-oared boat Tale on
| Lake George between the Cornell, Columbia
and University of Pennsylvania crews was
won by the Arst-named. The Colum!
wore regarded as sure winners, bu
Inst,
During a violent storm at Chester,
| thirty-five houses were unrooled, sever
| ings partly oom Pp dated were blown
i IWO0 men severed jured
| A tormado which passed over the country
| negr Hanover, N it., destroyed
amount of property and severely
several persons who were in the fields
A Philadelphia paper makes a further ex.
posure of the so-called medical colle
that city. It estimates that
diplomas have been sold
of parts the world at five dollar
General Chester A, Ant
eeptance of his nomination by
pational convention as Vice Presi fen
been pub In it he lares his ad
herence to the peinel les set forth by the
Chicago convention; declares that *‘ the ax
| thority of the nat ional government Lo preserve
| from traod and force e ons
{ own officers are chosen is a chiel point on
| which the two parties are plainly and intensely
opposed; that the election laws have done
much to *‘ curb and wrong to
| which the ballot and sant
| again and again subjected; the Demo.
eralic party since gaining possession of the
two houses of Congress bas made those just
laws the object bitter i
that all American citizens should
| everywhere in the fall wmest of
civil and political rights; that the resoluti
{ of the Chicago plavtorm referring
| service is deserving of approval;
resumplion ol specie payments
truits of Republican pe has brou;
return of abundant prosperity;” that there
must be no deteriomled coin, no depreciated
paper; that the advantages of a comn
| school edooation should be brought
reach of every oi Bn; that
i should be made in the present tariff
1 Gane in
\
Ma.
n build.
down and
a large
injured
lished i dex
oot
the violence
the «
that
of CORSON Aasauil;
be protected
i" en)
Wi
to the civil
that
one of he
oy
such
ANG §Y
While 8. Riokley, president of the Capital
City bank, of Columbus, Oliio, was sitting at
bis desk he was shot in dhe forehead and
ywobably fatally wounded by Andrew Plehan.
Rore o dyer, who then shot himsall, dying
bon Ay jnstantly. Mr. Ricidey's ref 0
loan Kichenborg money was the oause of the
dead.
Memphis, ‘Ponn., has boon visited by a slight
shock of earthguake,
The oMeisl census returns of Detroh,
Mioh., show the population to be 116,027,
Colorado has been visited by a damaging
storm. The river at Pueblo rose eight feet in
less than an hour, and the emigrants Samiped
along its bottom lost nearly everything. ‘Ten
miles of the Denver and io Grande railroad
wore washed away between Pueblo and
Colorado Springs, and every bridge, oulvert
and oattlo-guard for a distance of twenty-one
miles was more or less damaged. Hailstones
fell to the Sopth of trom two (0 three feet.
Prentiss Nelms and Tom Konkey, both
oolored, while being conveyed 10 the jail a
Hernando, Miss, charged with murder, were
taken from the oMoers by a band of men and
killed,
An Irish Republican national convention
has been held at lodisnapolis, A national
executive committee, eonsisting ol ons Mes
ber from each Stake and Territory, was
appointed and an address was issued giving
reasons why the Idshmen of the United
States should swear alleginnoe to the Repub.
Loan party.
The boiler of a steam sawmill near Barpes-
ville, Va., exploded, killing one eolored man,
fatally wounding a man named Bryast and
severely wounding five others, The engine,
weighing 46,000 pounds, was blown twenty
yards away,
An excursion tin jumped the track near
Knox Siding, Ohio, eausing the death of one
man and injuring about forty other persons,
A destructive eyelone and hailstorm visited
Monroe county, Mich, eutting a swath seven
miles long and a mile wide, and damaging
crops snd other property to the extent of over
$34,000,
From Washington.
The President has appoioted Orange Judd,
ol New York, and of the American Agricul.
furisd, 10 be a member of the board of Indian
commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned,
lhe treasury department has prepared a
statement showing in detail the operations
connected with the retirement and refunding
of the United States bonds and the smount of
interest saved by the transaction. The entire
amount saved by the refunding trom Decom-
ber 1, 1871, to July 1, 1880, is stated to be
$58 280,168, The total amount of bonds re.
funded is $1,305,347 ,800.
At a cabinet meeting
it was determined
aster on Long Island Sound, in order to
determine if the steamboat inspectors were in
any way responsible.
According to the report of Colonel Worth
ington, statisticlan of the agricultural depart-
ment, the wages of farm laborers throughout
the United States have increased during the
last fiscal year. The report says that in the
Pacific and mining States and Territories the
mnge of monthly wages for farm laborers
without board is between $30.75 in Montana
and $22.50 in Washington Territory. Of the
States east of the Mississippi, Minnesota pays
| her tarm laborers better than nny other North-
| ern State, the monthly wages with board
| being $106.33, while Vermont pays §12.62.
| In the Southern States the prices paid range
| from $12.26 in Louisiana to §7.33 in South
| Carolina, the average being §9.060.
The Hon. John Allen Campbell, late third
assistant secretary ol state, died at his resi.
dence in Washington, a few days ago, aged
The ofMeial register of the United States,
{ better known as the blue book, recently
| issued from the interior department, contains
| the names of 97,600 government officials, in.
| eluding officers of the army and navy. Sixty.
{ six thousand of them are employees in the
| posteffios department.
i he report of the agricultural department
| shows that during the last fiscal year the
| United States bas increased about eight per
{ oBnt.
The department of agriculture reports the
| prospects tor cotton, corn and wheat crops as
Foreign News.
The weather throughout Spain is intensely
bot, and many oases of sunsitroks are re-
A timber raft with forty persons on board
16 rapids of the
river Dnieper, and all perished.
Ton Tayior, a well-known Eaglish drama.
|
od in London a few days ago, aged sixty-
ree Yosts,
The eapture of Arioa by the Chilinns is con.
bitter end, and is taking the most energetic
measures.
Great damage to the standing crops has |
| been sustained in the western
i
iors, whose time
threw down their
but were over.
powered and confined to their barmoks. This
indupeed the sultan to dismiss
Osman Pasha, minister of war,
The Russian wheat harvest is reported to
Two thousand Turkish sold
service had expired,
Lima, the capital of Peru, is 10 be besieged
by the Chilian army il the terms of peace pro.
sosed by Chill are not scoepted. Bolivia, be.
indastry or class,
| turers and artisans to oom
with those of other lands; that the gov ernment
should aid works of internal
rational in their chamoter,
Republican party has every
| dence.
and
claim to confi.
| 10 the new census, is about 4,226
{| crease of twenty per contanm in len years.
citizen of Easton, Pa., cashier of the Mer.
| chants’ bank, was killed in Honesdale, Pa.
Besjamin J. Bartee, his brother.in daw.
company with James W, Wilson, the lawyer
| of the late Judge
| Wayne and Pike counties, Pa., Mr,
went to Honesdale to transect business. He
son called at the ofMoe
Eldred,
evening he and Mr. Wil
of Justice of the Peace
| warm friend of Shouse. They had b
versing for some time aad were about
separate, when Bartree, who is a farmer at
Ledgedale, a tow miles distant from Hones.
i dale, hurriedly entered the front ofMoe
| out stopping to say a word be reached his
right hand down into the hi
een con
i
ront of Shouse, placed the muzzle at his
temple, and discharged the weapon twice,
| Mr. Shouse's head fell back in the their in
1, without speaking a
which be was sitting, and,
{ word, he expired. Justice Eldred grappled
| with the murderer, and vainly endeavored to
wrest the pistol from his grasp, but Bartree
threatened to shoot him and he fled. Bartee
| then fired another bullet into Shouse's body
{ nnd surrendered. Me was locked up.
The steamer Dessong—Licutenant-Com-
nander H. H. Gorringe, U. 8. N., master
having for freight “ Cleopatra's Needle,”
obelisk presented to the city of New York by
the Khedive of Egypt, has arrived at New
| York.
Mrs. Nesmith, wife of Lieutenant Nesmith,
twelve years old, and another little girl named
Helen Deakon, wore drowned while bathing
at Atlantic City,
in New York a few nights ago entailed a loss
of about $200,000,
| Hoffman, a shoemaker of Pittston, Pa., abused
| his wite and wound up by firing
| shotgun. ‘The shot Filled a sick child in the
| mother's arms and fatally injured Mrs. Hoff.
man.
then shot at some children playing in the
| yard, wounding two. He was arrested and
narrowly esoaped a lynching.
lightning ; the rise
vapors is illustrated by the balloon.
struction of tank, as shall prevent any |
a
Sunstroke.
The cause of sunstroke is, says the |
American,
the blood, which usually is the result,
an insuflicient perspiration; many cases
happen among Ianborers not
exposed to the sun. If a man, whether
ay ninety degrees, and
| does not prespire free I,
and h
prostration which is called sunstroke;
| safety- valve, which carries off’ super-
wiifch, as it were, disappears in the act
of perspiration, is something startling
Jatent heat of vapors.
When a man who feels oppressed by
heat does not drink moderately cold
| water, but takes recourse to beer od
perspiration, but checks it; water is
always the very best drink for men
working in hot surroundings; a little
oatmeal mixed in it has become very
popular, and we advise to acidulate it
slightly, not with the sulphuric or other
mended—such acids check prespiration,
while vegetable acids promote it. Best
of allis lemon juice, citric or tartaric
acids, and, if theee are not obtainable,
vinegar, for want of better,
Western and Southern States.
recent duel in South Carolina, has been ar-
| rostod charged with the killing of Colonel
Shannon.
Mrs. Brown, on trial for killing her hns.
band at Indianapolis, Ind., has been found
guilty and condemned to death for murder in
the first degree.
General Weaver, Greenback eandidate for
| President, has opened the campaiga in Ala.
bama by a speech at Scottsboro.
Daring a storm in Michigan a boat con
taining a man named Milles, his wife, two
{ children and a boy named Rose, was upsot in
{ Lake Winnebago, The boy Rose was
| drowned. The rest clung to the bottom of
| the boat twenty hours, the soman having a
| fliteon year-old boy lashed to her back. The
boy died the next night and the others at last
| accounts were in a oritienl condition,
The censna returns for Wisconsin show that
the popuintion of some counties has decreased
since 1870. Jefferson county has a population
| ot 32,137 for 1880, against 34,040 for 1570.
Dodge county has 44,122, about 4,000 loss
| than in 1870.
Part of the eity of Waterloo, Iowa, was
flooded by a heavy rainstorm. Two boys and
one girl wore drowned, and an estimated
| damage of $25,000 was done to property.
General Garfleld has written a letter from
| his home at Mentor, Ohio, to Senator Hoar,
| ehairman of the Republican National com.
| mittee, accepting the nomination tendered him
| by the Chicago convention. In the letter
General Garfield cordially approves the Chica-
| go platform; declares that there is no “freedom
in the South; favors free and honest elec.
tions; deprecates any change in the national
financial methods; favors measures for the
improvement of the Mississippi river; de.
clares that Chinese emigration is ‘ too much
like an importation to be welcomed without
restrictions, too much like an invasion to be
looked upon without solicitnde,” and nsserts
that olvil servige reform should be made
offective by the aid of proper congressional
legisla i
bas withdrawn from the contest as
Six sotors were seriously injured by leaping
trom a burning theater st Perpignan, France.
A London dispateh says that at the annual
W. Garrett,
president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
excited great interest. He stated that on the |
xen wrote to him and
urged foreibly that the Fedeial government
should adopt a magnanimeus ey toward
Toe lelter was read at
a meeting of the Amerioan cabinet, sad pro.
the soale in faver of clemency.
The national holiday of Franoe—the taking
of the Bastile by the French revolutionists in
1780 has boon restored,
d flrewor The streets and
houses of Pais were profusely decorated, and
A boy in Stephenson township, Ont, saw
father's farm and fred at it with a gun, wound.
ing it. He then started in pursuit of the bear
gun, whereupon the bear
turned upon bim, and before assistance could
to loves,
By an explosion in a coal mine near Now.
119 men lost their lives. The
Tho scenes about the mine are re.
Shortly
after the explosion there was a large throng
blast,
Among them were many women who
ware bowailing the tate of husbands and sons,
ing tears to the eyes of bluff miners whose
The disaster is attributed by mining
The coal
fleld is supposed to have been sunk below the
A similar
The harvest in France has begun and
The destruction by fire of twenty stores in
the business part of Arnprior, Ontario, eaused
A Moatenegrin advance post bas been sur.
fiacen, Ten
Henry Roochetort, the well-known French
paper in Paris, in opposition to M, Gambetta.
On the first day nearly 200,000 copies were
sold.
It is announced that Pera and Bolivia are
about to enter into a confederation and be.
come one country under the name of the
United States of Pera and Bolivia.
a forest fires are raging in New Bruns.
wio
The British house of commons has d'sap-
proved ol placing a memorial to Eugene's
son, the late French prince imperial, in West.
minster abbey, by a vote of 161 to 147.
Prince Gunther I1.,0t Schwarsburg-Souders,
bas abdicated,
A dispate h from Rio de Janeiro Buys that
election riots have occurred at Victoria, in the
province of Pernambuco, The military fired
on the Jrople and killed twenty, including |
Baron Escada. Many were wounded,
The Austrian iron ship Hydaspes, 2,003
tons, from London bound for Melbourne, was
ran into off the English coast by the British |
steamer Centurion and sunk.
and crew were all saved.
Quite a sensation has been created in
English social circles by the announcement
that Lady Burdett-Coutts, who is sixty-six |
yomrs old, the richest woman in all Great
Britain and noted for her generosity, is about |
to marry.
Madame Skobelefl, wife of the noted Rus.
sinn general, was recently
Russian army oflicer, who
committed suicide.
Cardinal Nina, the papal scoretary of state, |
has resigned.
A dispatch from Caleutta, India, says that |
the great embankment in Scinde, known ns
the Kusmore Bund, Las given away. The |
embankment extends from Kusmore to the
mouth of the Bejari canal, a distance of forty
miles, and was constructed to protect a large
tract of country from floods,
when arrested
From cavefully-studied records of |
the occurrence of certain diseases
the past, an English physician infers |
that epidemics sweep over the country |
in quite regular periods, the cycles be
ing of about the following length:
Whooping congh, four years; smallpox,
four to five years; measles, seven years;
scarlet fever, fifteen to twenty years.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES,
The Sunday.achool of the First Bap-
tist church, hiladelphia, Pa., numbers
among its gs ers a lady seventy-three
years of She hina been a member of
the schoo Sr sixty-five years, having
joined in the year of its organization.
The Bwedish Baptist conference of
the Northwest reports a total of 633
members, There are seven congrega-
tions, of which two are in Chicago.
The Congregationalists have
during the past eight months,
243.41 to foreign missions. They ii
need $200,000 more to meet thelr appro.
priations for the year.
Thus far forty-six delegates, the great
majority of whom are ministers, have
been appointed from the Presb terian
church of Scotland to the Pen-Presby-
terian council at Philadelphia,
The Protestant: Episcopal church has
only 1,604 communicants in the State of
Mississippi, in which there has been a
diocese fifty-three years. The baptisms
during the year past were 327, of which
sixty-two were adults,
One of the native congregations 00n~
neoted with the Scottish United Pres
by terianmission at Old Calabar has a
regular attendance of 500 persons, King
Eyo recently occupied the pulpit in the
absence of the missionary.
The Moravians report 30,883 commu-
nicants in America, Germany and Great
Britain, an increase of 264 during the
past year. The above total does not in-
clude the communicants in the mission
field. who are more numerous,
The opium traffic is perhaps the
greatest obstacle to missionary work in
China. The Chinese argue that the Bible
must be a bad book, since the English,
who believe in it, bring opium two
China. Any book which favors opium.
eating must be bad, they think.
A circular has been sent to all pastors
ot Methodist- Episcopal churches, asking
them to raise twenty-five per cent. ad-
ditional for the Episcopal fund to what
they have been raising, as there are four
new bishops to be provided for, and the
whole support of the episcopacy is now
thrown upon the churches,
Tlie Prince of Wales was preesnt at
the Sunday scholars’ gathering at Lam-
beth palace, in celebration of the Sun.
day-school centennary. About 25,000
children and teachers were Present,
The Execution of Cox.
Chastine Cox, the colored murderer of Mrs,
Hull, was hanged in the New York Tombs a
fow days ago. Cox showed extraordinary
courage at the last moment, walking to the
scaffold without a tremor, Mrs. Jane L. De
Forest Hull, the victim of Chastine Cox, was
found dead in her bed at her residence, No.
140 West Forty-second street, New York, on
the morning of June 11, 1879. She was
blindiolded and had a gag in her mouth, and
ber bands and leet ware tied. Ou her cheek
and breast were drippings of a stearinecandle,
and one of her eyebrows was singed. The
bureau was found to have been broken open,
nod considerable jewelry was missing, among
other things a gold walch and chain, a neck.
Ince and locket and several rings. Two theo-
ries as 10 the murder were immediately ad-
vanced, the * inside theory " and the * outside
theory.” The New York police were fol-
lowers of the * inside theory,’ ' and saspicion
soon fell on the murdered woman's bh
Dr. Alongo 8, Hull, In the midst of the
coroner's investigation word came irom Boston
that the murderer had been arrested there.
Private Detective 5. L. Otto, whose services
had been engaged by Dr. Hall's iriends, came
10 the conclusion that Cox, who had formerly
boen in Mrs. Hull's employ, was the mur-
derer, and finding that be had left for Boston
on the day alter the wagedy, he followed him
thither. Cox was first recognized on the
strest by Mr. Balch, a reporter of the Boston
Herald, who bad been fursished with a de.
scription of his appearance. He followed Cox
to a colored Methodist chureh. He sent word
to the police, and Detective Wood soon ar
rived and took Cox into custody as he left
church, A part of Mrs. Hall's jewelry was
found on his person, and other articles were
discovered in a pawnbroker’ # shop where be
bad pawned them. Cox made a ull contes-
sion of his orime. He was brought to New
York city and put on trial on July 12. He
was convicted of murder in the first degree
and on July 17 he was sentenced to be hanged.
A stay ol proceedings was secured and an
appeal was taken on October 29. He was re.
sentenced on the twelith of April last and was
respited onoe
cree—————
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all other joods an
wrodocing material beyond
modiciues are Malt Bitters
The Crown Princess of Germany has
become a: honorary member of the In.
stitute of Painters in water colors. At
the time of the Crimean war, as Princess
Royal of England, she exhibited a pie-
ture whieh excited considerable interest
at the time, but since then she bas been
constantly at practice under able in-
structors in Germany, and has made
great progress.
Equally adapted to the feeble or robust,
male or female, are Malt Bitters.
It is very fortunate that the crop of
lightning-rod agents turned out short
this season. The farmers have enough
| trouble with the spay worm, without
| having to contend with any other pest.
| —Middletoron Transcript.
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Music.— They bad been to the opera and
beard the finest musie by the lesding talent.
They went home to hear the Baby's wild
solo until it was quioted with a dose of Dr.
Ball's Baby Syrup, which at once removed
the Satulence
His attitude is always imposing—the
swindler's.— American Punch. So is the
attitude of a maker-up in » rinting
office always imposing.
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Great Praise.
Albert G. Mann, of Cottage Home, IIL, says
“J have been prostrated for three or more
{ yours with Kidney Disease, at times I was not
| sable to put on my boots, my wife has often
| pulled them onfor mo. I was not so bad as
that all the time, but I never knew what it
was to be without in in my back until 1
commenced using Hente Remedy. Since I
commenced to take Hunt's Remedy I bave
bean free from all pain, and take pleasure in
saying that it is the best medicine that I ever
knew for Kidney and Liver Disonses.” Tria
| size, 76 couts.
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{ You oan got an elegant lithographic map in
| six colors, descriptive of the great trip across
| the Amerioan Continent, free, by sending your
address 0 J. R. Wood, General Passenger
Agent C, B.&Q RR, ‘Chicago, Ra
VEGETING isnot a stimulaing bitters which
creates a flolitious appetite, but a gentle tonic
which assists natore to restore tbe stomach
toa heslely —
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re Yon Not in wood Health
It the fiver is the source of your trouble,
vou ean find an absolute remedy in Dr. Sax.
Forp's LIVER INVIGORATOR, the only vegeta.
hile cathartic whieh acts directly on the Liver.
Cures all Bilious diceases. For Book address
De. SaxyoRD, 162 Broadway, New York.
| The Voltale Belt Co. Marshall, Mich.
| Will send their Eleotro-Vol taio Belts to the
{ afftiotad upon 80 days’ trial. See the'r adver
tisement in this paper headed, “ On 30 Days’
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250. buys a pair of Lyon's Heel Stiffeners
and make a boot or shoe last twice as long.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK
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Oalves-— Common to Extra Vivi .
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