FOR THE f OUJiU PEOPLE.
CAREER OP WM. M. TWEED.
Ton tell me yonr nerves are to fragile,
And probably, Lncy, vou're right (
Bat that seems a fine way of saying
You're easily thrown In a fright.
Did nerves make yon shriek with snob, loudness
When Curio's tooth bruised yon in play,
Declare yon would hare hydrophobia,
And cry nearly all the next day ?
Do nerves make yon rosh for the pillows,
Whenever a thunderstorm's near,
And stop both your ears with your fingers
And act almost f rantie with fear ?
Do nerves make you fly from a beetle,
And yell if a snake's within sight,
And not for a million of money,
Dare sleep all alone In the night ?
Well, Lnoy, your nerves may be fragile (
1 don't eontradiot yon, my dear
But I know a good definition
For people who won't conquer fear.
It's better to give a thing, always,
Exactly the name it deserves )
And if one's an out-and-out coward,
I laugh when I hear about " nerves."
Edgar Fawcetl,
"Iehpo."
The old red barn had stood at the end
of the lane for years, even before the
academy had been built at Greenville.
It waa in ruins now; its days of useful
ness had gone; it was the home of rats,
and sometimes a shelter for stray tramps
who might venture down the lane. It
had once been the Saturday play-house
of the academy boys, as the sides and
corners could well testify; and all the
loose boards were well whittled with the
jack-knife that most wonderful of all
knives in the eyes of an American boy.
But the old barn had stood the storms
and sunshine of many years, and was
likely to stand in ruins for many years
to come. Here and there were patches
of different boards from the original
red, and the one window was bonrded
up with an old door that had once been
painted green.
But the most curious patch on the
barn was directly over the door, where a
board had vaniBhed, and an old black
board with white letters taken its place,
The letters were old and faded, and oo-
cupied all of the opening. The letters
looked like this:
ISHfO.
Now the curiosity of the boys had
been excited for a long time to discover
the meaning of " ishpo," or what other
letters put ot the beginning and ending
of ' ishpo," could make that ontlandish
word into anything possible to under
stand.
Many times the boys at the academy
had pondered over the enigma; even
men, in passing throngh the lane, would
look with some curiosity on the blnck
patch on the old red barn, and as they
hurried along into the city would say to
themselves:
" Ishpo;" and what is that, I wonder ?
Every boy fn the Greenville Academy
had thumbed Webster's Dictionary
nearest at hand in search of " Ishpo;
and left the book no wiser for the search,
But the mystery of the old red born
was to be unraveled at last. As year
alter year went by and tlie boys iiau be
come used to the strange word, and
some of them entirely forgotten it, a new
idea accurred to Dick.
He was enjoying a half holiday and
was lying on the grass nnder the trees
on a very hot day, when his eyes hap
pened to rest on the mysterious word.
It seemed to have a new meaning to
the boy, now. Ho had gazed on it for
years, but he now wondered why he had
never thought before to tear off the old
patch , and see if there were other letters
with ishpo. But how to accomplish that
task without being seen by the owner of
the barn, who was a sour-tempered old
man. he had yet to discover. Going
back to the school buildings he found
his comrades, and confided to them his
plan and asked their aid. All readily
loined in the undertaking, and they
formed themselves into a society for the
express purpose of discovering the on
gin and meaning of the word " ishpo,
They were to wait for a dark night.
and them meet at the old barn, where by
the united strength of the party, they
could tear the old patch from tho red
boards and examine the side nailed to
the barn.
That very night was favorable for th
enterprise, for it was dark, aud to very
close and uncomfortable within the
buildings that permission was given the
boys by the professor to take a stroll
down the Jane, before retiring for the
night.
Eagerly they all set out for tho ol
ruin, but had scarcely gained the shelter
when the storm that had been gathering
for hours, burst in all its fury of wini
and lightning, and the loose boards and
trash around the barn were thrown
about in great confusion, and the boy
escaped to the open Jane.
TheNold red barn was blown down iu
the gale 1
The next morning in the beautiful
sunshine the bovs hastened to the spot
and there, still nailed to the barn, was
the old patch with its mysterious letters.
A few minutes and the old board was
torn from the door and eagerly examined
by the boys. '
The letter F was found, very bright
from its long imprisonment, to head the
word "ishpo," and the two letters nd
ended the mysterious word.
"Nothing but a fishpond," said the
boys, as they went back to school for
he day. New York Tribune.
Disagreeable Hiblte.
It is easy to form a duagreeable habit
but not so easy to drop it again, f er
sisted in. tbey become a second nature
Stop and think before you allow yourself
to form them. There are disagreeabl
habits of the body, like soowling, wink'
ing, twisting the mouth, biting the nails,
continually picking at something, twirl
ins a key. or fumbliag at a chain, drum
ming with the fingers, screwing and
twisting a chair, or whatever you can
lay your bands on. Don't do any of
these things. Cultivate a calm, quiet
manner. . Better be a statue than
iumping-jack. There are much worse
habits than these, to be sure, but we
are speaking only of very little thingi
that are only annoying when persisted
in. There are habits of speech, also,
such as beginning every speech with
" vou see." or " you know." " now-a,
" I don't care." " tell you now." India
tinct utterance, sharp nasal tones, a slow
drawl, avoid them all. Stop and thiuk
what you wish to say, and then let every
word drop from your lips just as smooth
and perfect as a new silver coin. Have
a care about your ways of sitting, and
standing, and walking. Before you
know it, you will find your habits have
hardened into a coat of mail that yon
cannot get rid of without a terrible
effort habits which render you obnox
ious to all around you.
(ketch of the Life) mT the Notorious New
York Rln Boss."
The New York papers contain long
notioes of the career of the well-known
"Ring" chief, "Boss" Tweed. We
quote:
William Marcy Tweed was born in
New York in 1823. When about twelve
years old William was sent to a boarding
school in Elizabeth town, N. J. Here he
finished his education. He studied
nothing but the English branches. On
his return from boarding school, young
Tweed entered his father a shop and be
came a chairmaker. Afterward he ran
the business on his own account. H;s
evenings were spent either in the theat
ers or in engine houses. Like most New
York boys of that day, he fancied the
life of a fireman. He joined engine com
pany No. 6 on Jan. J, 1849. Within six
months he was elected foreman. Big
Six, as she was called, became the most
famous engine company in the city.
She dashed through the streets, aiming
to be the first at all the fires. Tweed
led the ropes with a silver-mounted
trumpet in his hand, a white fire-coat
over his arm, and one of the old-fashioned
stiff hats on his head. He was
well known to all bunkers and volun
teer firemen. His personal popularity
was so great, and the friends of Big Six
so numerous, that the company became
powerful lever in mumoipal politics.
The Americus club was the offspring of
its popularity, and its influence was felt
in political matters yeais after its dis-bandment.
With the foremanship of Big Six,
Tweed began his political career. In
1850 he ran for assistant alderman of
the Seventh ward, but was defeated by
the Whig candidate, Mr. John B. Webb.
The following year he again contested
the district witi Air. Webb and was
elected by a large majority. His busi
ness tact and vigor were recognized in
the board, and the leaders of the party
predioted his rise to power. In 1852
Tweed was elected to Congress, serving
one term, and in 1855 he was defeated
for alderman, but was elected school
commissioner the following year, and in
1857 he became a supervisor. During
all these years he had carried on his
chairmaking business. Soon after his
election as supervisor he sold out and
devoted all his time to politics. He
served as supervisor until the board was
abolished in 1870. In 1861 Tweed was
defeated for sheriff, but was appointed
deputy street commissioner in lob
l'rom this time forward he oecame a
power in city and State politics. The
city swarmed with ofliciols holding sine
cures. There were street inspectors, pump
inspectors, water inspectors, inspectors
of meters, of weights and measures, of
street incumbrances, all drawing salar
ies, and all useless.
With this vast power, Tweed became
very rich, lie invested in real estate
and iron mines; was interested in every
street opening and widening; had a hand
n all contracts, and was a director in
railroad and gas companies, banks and
insurance companies, and similar organ
izations, almost without number. Com
paratively a poor man in 1861, within
five years he was reputed to be worth
$12,000,000. A board of audit was
formed in Hew lork having control of
the city's finances, and the members of
which were Tweed, Sweeny, Connolly
and Hall. Tweed was now master of the
city, lie could throttle his enemies
throngh the board of audit. His nrst
measure was to reimburse himself for
his expenses in fighting the Young
Democracy. Within two months, with
the aid of Garvey, woodward and Jn-
gersoll. over 80,000,000 of city money
was drawn from the Broadway Bank and
divided. Woodward drew the money
and paid Tweed's and Ingersoll's shares
wiin cnecks in lue same uuuk. iiih buu
cess seemed to have mode Tweed reck'
less. At last, however, figures were
obtained from the books in the comp
troller's office that conclusively showed
the operations of the Ring. The figures
were so convincing that the people rose
en masse. A great meeting was held
and seventy prominent citizens appoint
ed to investigate. The board of audit
became alarmed. Dissensions sprang
up. The comptroller's oflice was broken
open and many vouchers destroyed,
Connolly believed that he was to be
made a scapegoat, he went to ins old
friend, ex-Mayor Havemeyer, made
pnrtiul confession, and gave up the key
to the situation. With the weight
these disclosures Tweed ran for state
senator, and was elected by 9,000 ma
jority over O'Donovan l'osea, but
never took his seat in the Senate. A suit
was now begun against Tweed by the
city, but the jury disagreed. He was
tried a second time on a criminal indict
ment, November 19, 1873, was found
guilty and sentenced to twelve years'
imprisonment, and to pay a fine of
$12,500. After serving one year on
Black well's Island Tweed was released
on a writ of habeas corpus, but new civil
suits were begun against him, and not be
ing able to obtain the required $3,000,000
bail he was imprisoned in Ludlow street
jail. He remained there until Deo. 4,
1875. While visiting his residence, in
custody of two keepers he made his es
cape. For some days he was hidden in
New Jersey, not far from the Weehawk
en ferry. He was afterward conveyed
to a. farmhouse beyond the Palisades.
His whiskers were shaved off, bis hair
clipped, and he put on a wig and gold
spectacles. He assumed the name of
JohnSecor. He afterward spent some time
in a fisherman's hut within sight of the
Narrows and visited Brooklyn. He left
in a schooner, and landed on the coast of
Florida. From there he reached Cuba
in a fishing smack, and was landed on a
rock near Santiago de Cuba by the skip
per. He and a companion, Hunt, were
at once arrested. He was recognized,
but got on board the Spanish bark
Carmen and took passage for Vigo,
Spain. Hamilton Fish, then Secretary
of State, requested the Spanish author
ities to arrest him on his arrival. They
did so, aud, though there was no extra
dition treaty between the two govern
ments, and the suit against Tweed was a
civil tied not a criminal one, he was
turned over to the commander of the
United States man-of-war Franklin, and
delivered to the sheriff of New York on
Nov. 23. 1876. He was returned to
Ludlow street jail and np to the time of
his death was engaged in efforts to get
free by offering to " make a clean breast"
ot his criminal practices ana give np au
his property ; but his effort proved
futile. Mr. Tweed was about five feet
ten inches in height, and weighed at one
time over 300 pounds. In the height
of his power he wore a moustache and a
closely cropped grizzly pearo. ne naa
a round, bright blue eye ; a nose nearly
equline, and a high forehead. He spoke
very rapidly, but distinctly, and was
possessed of great executive ability.
RAPID TRANSIT IN KkW YORK.
Same at the Rrhemesfor Hnpld Trwrellnc
An Arcade Railway, ft IMoTlm Mldewalk
and a PnemnMle Railway.
Rapid transit in New York has become
a certainty, one of the two lines which
were started last winter being partially
completed. Appleton's Journal has an
article devoted to a description of the
various sohemes proposed to solve the
noise and no obstruction whatever in the
street. The motive power was to pro
oeed from stationary engines placed be
low ground one mile apart and acting
npon shafting through iron puiars. in
stead of an endless chain, friction-rollers
were to be used, and each of the engines
was to have one-third more power than
necessary, which was to be utilized by
the others when one became disabled.
The very novelty of the project evoked
I, . . . . . i . i
me aension oi tne uwecuuiuui puoiio, out
vexatious problem of how the people
living in the upper part of the city could at least one competent engineer avowed
get uown to uieir uuhiiiuss ijiuuuh iu ms ueuei in its iji uunun unity : uuu
Several fine buildings are going up in
New York. A number of large Ijanks J gritisb Museum.
In 1816 Joseph Nicephore invented
photography. He succeeded in securing
a picture printed by light in the camera.
A view of Eew Church, taken by him in
1827, was the first photograph from
nature taken in England. It is in the
quicker time than by the horse cars.
Some of these schemes for relief were
more ingenious than practicable: Among
the plans proposed at various times for
the expeditious conveyance of passen
gers, that of the Arcade railway was tne
moBt ambitions, the most attractive and
the least feasible. A new street was to
be constructed thirty feet below th pre
sent level of Broadway, forming new
fronts to all the basements of the build
ings. The sewers and gas-pipes were to
be sunk below the level of the new road
way, and an artificial roadway was to be
constructed on the level of the old street
the supports being hollow iron pillars,
which were'also to serve as drains. There
were to be clean, dry. and spacious foot
paths at each side of the arcade, and the
middle was to pe nnea oy iour railway
tracks, two for passengers and two for
freight.' The upper sidewalk was to be
partly formed of glass bull's eyes, which
would admit an abundance of light into
the lower street, where umbrellas would
be unknown or superfluous in the rainest
weather, and where the climate would
always be equable and salubrious. Is it
necessary to state the advantages claim-
ed for this fascinating plan by its auda
cious projectors ? It would add a new
story to the entire length of isroadway
double the walking capacity of the street;
quadruple the carrying capacity; and
enable the trains of the Hudson River
railway to deliver passengers and freight
as far down town as the Battery. Further
more, the rental of seventeen hundred
stores would be increased at least two
thousand dollars each, the aggregate of
which amount alone would pay ten per
cent, interest on a capital three times as
great as the calculated cost of the work,
which was twenty million dollars. But
the Arcade ltailway, like many other
schemes of equal brilliancy, never secur
ed a firmer foundation than the specifr
cations of its ingenious inventor.
The Pneumatic railway gave more
substantial proof of its practicability,
however, and a tunnel three hundred
feet long was excavated under Broad'
way, southward from Warren street,
where the proposed car and the great
qjower could be seen m operation. The
tunnel was eight feet in diameter, and
built of solid masonry, parts being lined
with iron plates; and the atmosphere
was dry and pure.
It was constructed without any diS'
turbance of the Burface of the street, by
means of a strong cylindrical shield,
open at both ends, which was propelled
oy hydraulic rams, the loosened sand
and stone falling through the rear of
tne shield, and the tunnel being inline
d iately afterward arched with masonry,
The car fitted the tunnel had seats for
eighteen passengers, and was illumi
natea and comfortably upholstered. It
was propelled like a sailboat before the
wind, by a strong blast of air forced
against the rear by au immense steam
blowing-machine. Nothing more smooth
in the way of locomotion than the pneu
niatio plnn could be imagined. You de
scended from the ever busy and noisy
liroadway into a cool and quiet recep
tion-room some thirty feet below the
level of the thoroughfare, and the car
which had the shape of a horseshoe
was ready for you with sliding doors at
the ends, seats at each side, and a lamp
overhead. Being seated, you heard a
noise like the approach of a squall at
sea, the doors were closed, and with a
slight tremor the car moved out of the
station and was shot through the length
of the tunnel, where it was Btopped and
drawn back again. There were to be an
up-tunner and a down-tunnel, and it
was claimed that ten cars a minute could
be dispatched. Its inventor having
spent Borne sixty or seventy thousand
dollars, however, the Pneumatic railway
was practically abandoned, though it
was kept open for seme time as a publio
exhibition ; and the tunnel is now used
as a shooting gallery.
A quite unique plan was proposed by
Mr. Alfred Speer, of New Jersey, which
consisted of a perpetually-moving ele
vated train or belt of platform moving
up one side of the street and down the
other. This was commonly known as
the " traveling sidewalk," which was a
good descriptive name for it. The track
was to be supported by fancy iron pil
lars, fourteen feet high, ranged along
the curbstone, and the platform was to
project about four feet over the side
walk and the same distance over the
roadway. The structure was to be
reached by commodious and ornamental
stairways at the corners of all intersect
ing streets, where there would be gates
in the pretty iron railing surrounding
it.
Let us suppose that the traveling
sidewalk is an accomplished thing not
merely the unexecuted design that it is
and that we wish to avail ourselves of
its advantages in going from the City
Hall to Union Square. Having ascended
the stairs at Chambers street corner, we
stand upon a little platform and, looking
up Broadway, see an endless flooring,
raised on massive pillars, moving down
the west side of the thorougfare and np
the east side. It resembles a viaduct,
and is traveling at tho unvaring speed
of ten miles an hour. Nearly as many
people are upon it as upon the sidewalk
below some are walking southward and
others northward, and presuming that
their pace is four miles an hour, they
make, with the added speed of the plat
form, fourteen miles an hour; some are
seated on benches and others in cabins,
like ordinary railway cars, erected on
the platform. The constant flow of the
promenaders lends the surface of the
structure an animated appearance; it is
surrounded by a stationary iron railing.
with gas-lamps, npheld by branches
from the pillars, aud, while the passen
gers can shelter in the cabins during
inclement weather, they can enjoy the
fresh air and the briskness of the street
below in fine weather. The greatest ad
vantage cf the plan is that, as there are
no intervals, there is no waiting, and.
having signaled one of the conductors.
we are almost immediately admitted to
the platform-train br one ot the trans
fer cars, the train never ceasing to meve
meuifluously or to slacken its ape 3d.
These transfer-cars seat eight persons.
and have four wheels with independent
axles so arranged that they oan be
stopped at any of the stations Without
detention to the main structure; before
our admittance to which, our fares are
collected. The cabins, or drawing
rooms, contain toilet apartments, with
female attendants for ladies, and smok
ing and reading rooms are provided for
gentlemen.
What a dream of Mr. Alfred Speer's
this was, and what a benefactor he
might have been, naa it ever taken a
tangible shape I There were to be no
w . . . ,
though Mi. Speer may be disappointed
in the discouragement he met with, he
has the silent satisfaction that belongs
to all real inventors, of nurturing a
bold, well-meant, and picturesque de
vice, the failure of which takes from the
profits but not from the honor of his
efforts.
Exercising in Old Age.
At eighty, says a writer in Harper's
Magazine, a gentleman in New York
city commenced trying to walk np the
stairs of the livening 1'ost Dniiding,
and there are eleven flights of them,
of which there are nine from the street
to his office. Any of the elevator men
will tell you that, when the elevator is
at all full, off he will go cheerily np all
the nine flights, seemingly none the
worst for it. Within a year he has told
the writer that he still continued dumb
bell and club work before breakfast
daily, and simply because it pays ; and
he is certainly still a wiry, active man.
even though it is sixty-two years since
re wrote ThanatopsiB. .faimerston,
fox-hunting when past eighty ; vander,
but, no youngster, without groom or
companion, urging his blooded trotters
over Harlem Lane at a slashing pace ;
Gladstone, at sixty-eight, felling
Ha warden trees by the hour, and for the
benefit the exeroise brings are but a
fewsinstances of what old men can do
when they try. None of these are more
surprising than, in an intellectual field,
the learning of German by Ualeb uush
ing after hehad passed seventy.or Thiers
activity at nearly eighty, or, in all ways,
than Moses doing the forty years best
work in his life after he had passed
eighty, and yet with eye not dim nor
natural force abated. If some men, by
oiling their joints daily for, as Mac-
laren says, "they are oiled every time
they are put in motion, and when they
are put in motion only" can keep
those joints from grating and creaking
and moving stiffly, even into a ripe old
age, why may not others as well ? And
which of these things which man can,
if he will, do so readily, cannot wo
man do as well ? It needs no money.
very little time, little or no present
strength. (Jne thing only it does need
and that is perseverance. Une-third of
the time often given to the piano will
more than suffice. One less study a day
of those which are to-day overtaxing so
many schoel-girls. and instead judici
ous, vigorous, out-door exercise aimed
directly at the weuk muscles, and taken
as regularly as one's breakfast, and is
there any'donbt which will pay the bet
ter, and make the girl the happier, the
fitter for all her duties, and the more at
tractive as well ? We trust that the day
is not far off when no boy or girl will be
sent to a Bchool whore care is not taken
to develop vigorous healthy bodies, and
when that vigor and health will be the
rule and not the exception among men
and women alike, and in every walk
life.
Singular Pnenomenon.
There was onco found, says the Iny
(Gal.) Independent, a pair of field glas-
see in the desert near what is known as
Death Valley. The glasses are supposed
to have belonged to lluhn, a lost gum
of Wheelers expedition. They were
brought into one of the interior towns
by an Indian, and purchased from him,
The most singular fact connected with
them is that every object within range
of where tho glasses had been lying lor
a vear or moreis distinctly photographed
npon them. We have heard of such
phenomena before, but this is one oi tne
most remarkable instances we remem
ber. Both object glasses are covered
with perfect and beautiful photographs
or etchings of desert snrnos, stems,
branches, leaf stalks. Leaves and leaf
lets are distinctly marked, as if laid on
by a master hand. There is no mixture
or confusion of one plant with another,
each having a clear border of unmarked
glass, rendering it probable that the sun
or lightning photograph, or whatever it
may be, was received through the eye
glass. These pictures seem to occupy
a position about in the center of each of
the object-glasses, but a little nearer the
plane than the convex side.
The Cat.
The cat was the animal selected in
the middle ages of superstition and
witchcraft, to represent the familiar
companion in which was embodied the
evil spirit supposed to attend an tnose
who practiced the black art in former
times. Long before this time, however,
as some people are probably aware, the
oat was one of the most highly favored
animals living: petted, pampered, care
fully protected, and actually worshiped
by the then most civilized people in tne
world, the anoient Egyptians. How
this .reverence came to be paid to the'
cat in particular by this extraordinary
people it is quite impossible to deter
mine, but by some it is supposed to
have originated from the benefits con
ferred on mankind by its destruction of
vermin and reptiles; at any rate, if the
Egyptian cats were as useful as they are
represented to have been, tne care of
them is easily accounted for. Though
it seems somewhat difficult to understand
how the sportsmen of the Nile trained
their cats, not only to bunt game, but
to retrieve it from the water, the hunt
ing scenes depicted on the walls at
Thebes, and on a stone now in the Brit
ish Museum, afford proof of the ttgypt
ian cat's services in this reBpeot.
It is generally supposed that nothing
will induce a cat to enter water ; but
this is clearly a fallacy, like many other
popular notions about the animal world,
The tiger is an excellent swimmer, as
many have found to their cost ; and so
the cat. another member of the tiger
family, can swim equally well if it has
any occasion to exert its powers, eitner
in quest of prey or to effect its escape
from some enemy. As cats are exceed'
ingly fond of fish, they will drag them
alive out of their native element when
ever they get a chance. They have
even been known to help themselves
out of aquaria that have been left un
covered, and on moonlight nights tney
may be seen watching for the unwary
occupants of a fish-pond, during the
spawning season especially. Again,
cat will take to the waterin the pursuit of
a rat, a fact that was proved by a friend
of ours a few years ago.
Diana or Pasht. as that goddess was
called in Egypt, was the tutelary deity
of cats. Various reasons are assigned
for this curious selection of the oat as
the animal worthy of being dedicated to
the moon. We find that according to
Plutarch, the cat was not only sacred to
the moon, but an emblem of it; and that
figure of a cat was fixed on a sistruin
to denote the moon, just as a figure of a
frog on a ring denoted a man in embryo.
As before stated, the .Egyptians treat
ed these animals with nnusual care and
attention during their lifetime; hence it
is not surprising to find that the death
of a cat was regarded as a family misfor
tune, in consequence of which the house
hold went into mourning. The willful
destruction of a cat in Egypt is looked
upon as a very serious offence even now;
but in the good old days (.tor ciub; at
Bubastis the offeace, even supposing it
to have been accidental, was punished
with prompt severity.
Jewels or the Crown eraretlnnri.
At Krlinburir. Scotland, some Tears sinue. the
Jewels of the Grown were locked in a box, that
box In another, and so on, nntll tney were snp
posed to be burglar-proof. They were then
locked up in the vault of the oavtle, there to
remain for one hundred yesrs, tbe keys being
placed in a mortar and fired into tbe sea.
Scarce fifty years passed by, and the modern
lock-picker opens the vault and boxes without
trouble. Bo the scienoe of medicine, when
studied with the aid of chemistry and the mi-
crosoope, becomes plain and simple, and dis
eases that were regarded as mourame a genera
tion ago, now readily yield to remedies employ
ed by the modern and progressive physioian
A decade of years since, and women were
taught to believe that their peculiar diseases
and weaknesses were inourable i bat now hun
dreds and thousands of once bedridden women
in tbe United States will testify to the fact that
Dr. Pierce s Favorite i'rescnpuon nas enectea
their perfeot and permanent cure.
Toledo, Ohio, Deo. 6th 1876.
Dr. R. V. Piehor, Buffalo, N. Y.t
ltonr Mir -.About nve vears since my win
was taken sick, and tnongn we empioyea me
best physicians in onr oity, yet she gradually
grew worse, so mat sne was eonnnea w me ku.
Every remedy I have tried, or oonld find, failed
to cure or even give relief. At laBt I procured
a Wtlo nf vnnr Favorite Prescription and to
my surprlHe It gave almost rasiam reuoi,
with a little perseverance, an entire sure was
enectea. Uiver graieiuiiy yuur,
GEO. BODENMILtER.
Do not bnv veast nowder or baking powder
of short weight. A manufacturer that defrauds
by short weight will not hesitate to make adul
terated Roods. Xou can always rely on Uooley s
Yeast Powder being full weight and strictly
pure.
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is richly worth
ten dollars a Dottle in certain oases, ror in
stance, in cases of diphtheria, croup and asth
ma when the sufferer is almost d6ad for want
of breath, aud something is required to act
instantly. It costs only thirty-five. oenta.
Wau Declared. Veterinary sn.-ora all
over the country are fiercely denouncing t';e
parties who put up extra large packages of
worthless trash and sell it for Condition Pow
ders. They say that Sheridan's Cavalry Con
dition Powders are the only kind now known
that are worth carrying home.
B .nwn's BnoncmAl. Tuoogrs, for eoghs and eolds.
v-niw Nrmltiea. notions, llinsrrawKi wwiwi-w
T R I XyX Ho. ton NowltT Co.. Bo. ton, Mm.
mot-m-m mrvfif.VKRN Piioe list fr, Aaares
GUNS nnWork.. Plturmr,. Pa
ORCANS
SSOoolf fl. PI !
reUll pries
brin. B
$350
$40 Urn. Prios IR6, M. and oomp).t
Bend for eUlQtn to Ohafma Oo.,Jt6.jB.
K. INOKAIIAM VV.'n
Superior in dMicn. rloteqnaiea
In quality, or timekeepers.
AmU your Jeweler tor them.
Agenoy g Oortlandt St., . ..
CLOCKS
nTitrnn A nTtf! t Wfl AT FACTORY
PI A NIIS! Jf. IIKI-rflN.N Prlore. (lr.r-1
IJAllUM U UUUU11M Ke
eduction
to
rl .- out present itook of 9UU new "";".'';"
WATERS' Sl3PKBipR,BELLOBUA?
WA1KRS A SONS, Minufoturer nd Dealers, tw
E.t I 4th St.. Hew York. AIki Oeneral Airerto for
HHOKTnIiKRH Celebrated PRKMIUM ORGANS.
DR. BECKER'S
CELEBRATED
EYE BALSAM
IS A SURE CURB
For INFLAMED, WEAK EYES,
STYES and SURE EYELIDS.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
DEPOT, O BOWERY.K
SENT BY MAIU lun
TKAPE MARK.
OWE
arret
The Ureatest Vlacovery af the Aae is Dr.
Tobias' oelebratad Venetian Liniment I 80 years before
the publio, and warranted to oar Diarrhea, Dysentery
Oolie and Spasms, taken internally ; and Group, Ohronie
Rheumatism, Sore Throats, Outs, Bruises, Old Bora
and Pains In the Limbs, Baok, and Chest, externally.
It has never failed. No family will eyer be without it
after onoe giTing It a fair trial. Price, 40 oenta. Da.
TOBIAS' VRNETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint
Bottles, at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any
ther, or NO PAY, for the our of Oolio, Gate, Bruises,
Old Sores, eto. Bold by all DruKrists. Depot-lO Park
Place. New York.
m7T!7j tnr lftB.nl.SV and Itll dlM-SICf Of I
Itta k dnsTl. BtiMlder and Urinary Or;
ns. llunV. Kemody i. purely wsels and
f.?n.Trf iresslv fur the soots liMtci. "h"
very bottle
K. Clarke, providence, H I.
for illuatrmted pamphlet.
If your 'dnimrlrt dont haw It. he will order It foryon.
Hi!
Dunham & Sons, Manufacturer!,
Warerooms, 18 East Uth Street,
Established 1834.1 NSW YORKe
S'mlfor Illustrated Cinular and Price Liii-
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Sun Stefano.
Sau Stefano, where the peace negotia
tions between Russia and the porta wore
conducted, is under the shadow of the
old walls, wmou have not Deen besieged
for four hundred years. Close by are
the Seven Towers, within whose massive
keep a Russian ambassador has often
been imprisoned, and the walled-up gate
through which the Moslems expect that
the Cluistiaus will re-enter Constantino
ple whan they recapture it. Here, too,
according to a London Standard corres
pondent; is the chapel in wnose dovoutly
worshipped wells live the miraculous
fish which jumped out of the frying-pan
on the day of the taking of Constantino
. s ... i i ...
Die. and uave lived on uuiu now witn
one side oooked, and the other waiting
until, in the fullness of things, it can in
its turn be submitted to the fire. Dur
ing the massacre of Ohio, a uumber of
Greek children who had been carried off
bv the Turks were ransomed and after
ward educated bv a philanthropic socie
ty. Oue or the boys wno was ransomed
and educated by Americans, has become
a wealthy householder at San Stefano.
It was under the roof of this Chiote
exile, who had been trained by Ameri
cau missionaries, that the oonqueror of
Turkev. the Grand Duke .Nicholas
received shelter whue tne diplomatists
were chattering over the conditions of
peace.
Russia has a wonderful Swedish, gun
for use in its fleet. It is worked after
the manner of pianoforte playing, moves
to and fro in a section of a circle and
sweeps all the ground that it covers in
a most marvelous manner. Xt is some'
thing like sweeping a lawn with water
from tbe jet of a garden hose moved
right bnd left by the operator, and oan
be carried up into the maintop for firing
on the enemy's deck and inside fortifica
tions, in close quarters it would sweep
the enemy 8 deoks of oomDaianta.
Curious Discoveries.
The old question, where do all the pins
go to ? is not near so interesting as this
conumdrum: How do things get where
they are found ? The poems of Propertins
a Latin poet who lived half a century be
fore the Christian Era, were found in a
wine-cellar. The discovery was made
in the nick of time, for the mildew and
the rats had begun their destructive
work ou the parchment manuscripts.
But how came these poems in that wine
cellar ? Did some bottler, a lover of the
muse, carry them down to read during
intervals of rest, and then, overcome by
the fumes of his own wine, forget to
carry them away ?
It is said that one of the cantos of
Daute's ' Inferno" was found, after be
ing long mislaid, hidden away beneath
a window-sill. Who hid the precious
manuscript? Did he hope a reward
would be offered for its recovery ?
We can understand how ' Luther's
Table T ilk " came to be hidden in the
foundntions of an old house. Pope Gre
gory XII I ordered its suppression, and
so it beoime dangerous for any oue to
be found in possession of the book.
When discovered, it was ' lying in a
deep obscure hole, wrapped in strong
linen cloth, which was waxed all over
with beeswax within and without." The
man who hid it was determined that the
book should be read by somebody when
better days had come.
An old cabinet held for time a forgot
ten manuscript which the world is glad
th ituthor found. It was the first vol
ume of "Waverly." "I had written,"
snys Scott, " the greatest part of the
first volume, and sketched other pas
sages, when I mislaid the manuscript,
and only found it by the merest accident,
as I was rummaging the drawer of an
old cabinet, and I took the fancy of finish
ing it."
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Hogs Live
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Sheen
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Cotton Middling
Hour Western oooa to unoioe...
State Good to Choice
Buckwheat per cwt,
Wheat Red Western
No. 3 Milwaukee.
Rye State
linrloy Ktate
Barley Malt
Bnckwheat
Oats Mlied Western.
Corn Mixed Western
Hay, per cwt. .....
Straw perewt......
Hods 7's 01 (01 77 's
Pork Mess 10 in al0 75
lATd Oity Btonm 07rtt 08
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No. X new 9 60 10 00
Dry Oorl, per cwt t 00 a 5 82Jt
HerrlnK. Scaled, per box 17 Q IS
Petroleum Grade 08,' j09,W Refined,
Wool California Fleeoe ., 90 H
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Australian " 44
State XX 41
Ratter -State 85
Western Choice 18
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Rye 74 (a)
B'-irley ,..... 75
Barley Malt 80 O
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Beef Cattle Extra 08V(S
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Wheat Rod Western 125 S 1 21
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Wool Colorado 8i (
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NEW YORK.
Finest Location in the City.
European Flan-Restaurant Unsurpassed
MetropolltRn Agricultural Warehouse: N
In addition to alftritets
Mtmnrlt nf HKflful imD'e-
mentR forth, frnrraand
Garden, I havmanjrTfl
nable improvenn nta to
offer; among which ara
ih.fnilowinir: Adimant
Mow. with ltaTebl.
i D" .to. I mII all PI""" W'n Pn VVt a Y.i! nV.fl
ii
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Beef Cattle 08 O8I4
HUecp 08 & 06h
H.ps 06 Q C6
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Oorn Mixed...... .................. 66 0 61
Oats 83 O 85
Wool Ohio and Pennsylvania XX... 68 (4 66
California 34 a 41
BniODTON, MA0I, .
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Hogs 07t a 08
WiTKHTOWK, MAM.
Beet Cattle Poor to Oholoe 4 50 9 1 50
Sheep 1 00 & 7 00
Lambs IIH1 4 8 76
Eighteen thousand men are now en
gaged in the express business. Express
companies cover 60.000 miles of railroad.
and it is estimated that their messengers
daily "travel 300,000 miles. Three
tnousand nve honored horses are em
ployed, and over 8,000 offices are re
quired to transact thur business, and an
amount of capital in invested not less
than 3 0,000,000.
Saved for Greatness.
Madame de Mainteiion, who became
the wife of Louis XIV. of France, and
for the Inst thirty years of his life exer
cised a controlling influence over his
opinions and policy, had a narrow es
cape from premature burial in cimuiiood.
tier parents migrated from D ranee to
the Isle of Martinique when she was
ten years old. On the voyage she was
taken ill, and the sickness ended in ap
parent death. The funeral rites were
over ; the last look taken of the body
about to be dropped into the 'sea ; a
caunon was loaded to be fired over the
corpse; when the mother, ordinarily
unloving, insisted on seeing ner cnuu
once more. To her surprise, she found
the heart still beating, and in a delirum
of joy, declared that the child was not
dead, but would reoover. The hope,
born of rapture, proved a true propnecy;
and the little girl, so nearly given to
burial in the ocean, was spared to be
corae one of the most distinguished
women in French history.
" Use great prudence and circumspec
tion in choosing thy wife, said Lord
Burleigh to his son; "for from thence
will suriner all thy future good or evil;
and it is an action ot life like unto a
stratagem of war, wherein a man can
err but once."
Mothers'. Molherf!! Mothers i ! ! ! !
fail to procure Mri. Winalow'a boothing Byrnp
for all disease! incident to tbe period of teeth
ing in children. It relieves the child from pain,
cures wind oolio, regulates the bowels, and, by
giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to
the mother. It is an old and well-tried remedy
Where are yea olna to Stent
This is a question often asked by the friends
of those who are about to visit New York Oity.
To those who have not decided, we oan say that
there are few hotels that give the satisfaction,
both in rates and accommodations, that charac
terize tbe Grand Central Hotel, New York.
CHEW .
The Celebrated
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Wood Tag Flug
TOBAOOO.
Tgl PlOHEM TOBaOOO OOHriM,
New York. Boston ani Chugo.'
. Mi....hU R.las
is one'that Is bilious. Get from yonr druggist
a paokage of Quirk's Irish Tea, Woe 3a o.s.
Bee Advt
The Ileal Our Door Light enEarth for Railroads
Boats, Shows, Fishermen or Croquet Parties, Bend for
uironiar. wuton. Keaile A Co , Center Point, Iowa.
A DA V MIIHR made h
Aa-ents aeilins: onr Ohromoa
Orayona. Picture and Chrs-
mo Cards. 16 samples,
worth 85, sent, post-paid,
for 85 Cento, rjlnsnrated
10 to S25
TJSE THE
Peerless
Wringer.
IT IS THE BEST.
If. T. Office 10S Chambers Street
FAOTOKT-OINOINKATI, O.
JEI0E3
rta.50to $6,000.
'SETH THOMAS
CLOCKS,
KEEP GOOD
TIME.
Ml
Uatalorue free. . J. H. BUKFOKD'S SONS.
lioeton. IBstabllshed lsau.f
RUPTURE
BAND $2.50
Bent Appltnnre. Holds
tbe Rupture niAf and day
till oared. Circular and
mounrameat blank sent in
plain sealed snrelope on
application.
L, F. de Leidernier,
307 Broadway. New York.
9MVlwU9 DANI depositors can keep
posted by reading The S(
guard, a trust worthy family
paper, published for tbe guid
ance and protection of Havings
Bank depositors in any section
of the U. S. Fifth vear. lamed
the loth of every tn nth. 60o. a
year. For l three (S) oopies
will be sent, to one, or three
anarata addresses. Bend
money in registered letter, or
by P. O. Money Order. Every
Address, The NafesTiiard. 42 Broad Bt.. New York,
A
i Fanner's Sun ot Daughter
tilkinav nrriri tnr K vat nf N It i m' HilvAnw Hnnil
Hat Fob kb and Kixtubeb will, (in addition to the
THE
GOOD OLD
STAND-DY.
MEIICil UUST&I6 LWHEIT
FOB JftMiV AXJ BEAST
EsTaBLiaHBD 85 YBaJtf. Always ears. Alway
ready. Always handy. Hag never yet failed, ffclrff
wUWon o ftd U. The whole world approves th
f lerions old Mustang ths Best and Cheapest Linimeo
n axuiteaoe, 5 oenta a bottle. The Mustang Limine, t
rare when nothing else will.
BOLD BY ALL MKDIOTNB Vlf.NDlT.R8.
profit,) receive FREK a complete rig of Nellis' Fork
ni fteut Uonvevor. for denoaitina Ha o
mow or on stack. Also man'trs Nutfehell H
f alleys and Uraoo i
Kteel Castings, (Plow-Hharea from this oan be I
ee; Agt'l Steels,
ay or Straw in
ill Hay Carrier.
Nellis' Cast Tool
welded, worked into chisels or edged tools;) Ornamen
tal Fencings for publio grounds, cemeteries, or farms.
rampmnn iree. a. o. ctc.ul.io m ju.t futaonrgn, r.
HOSPHO-NUTRITINE,
The bast vitalizing Tonlo,
Keiienng mental ana Physical
. PROSTRATION,
NERVOUSNESS, DBBTXXTT,
IlHALl WllIHIM
And ail impairment of BraUi
ana Mem Sritsa.
Prtuu. Depot. 8 Piatt St., TK. T,
XSFlEeV'
" A Farmer's Son or Daughter.'
Consumption Can Be Cured
PriilMOMA ts a certain rewudu tern thm nrrsa of
inNU.UlT10N and all diseases of the Lunge
and Tlirout it invigorates the brain, tones np tne
system, makes the weak strong, and is pleasant to take.
frioe One loliar ner bottle st Diuggistsor sent by tne
Pronrietor on recelutof nrio A namnhiMt Annttuninc
valuable advice to Consumptive, many ewfcifloates
of aotoral comes, and full directions for using aooom-
nameseaon Dottle, or will bese-nt frU any at dress.
ObOARG. MQSE8, 18 Oortlandt Street. New York.
BABBITT'S TOILET SOAP.
1 1 '1 TolUI ui th. lata.
I C i 1 N. srtttclal US
A'JdmslK. k
r5f) I lU4.rtii
icT I th. mass:""",
SJfa s- p""1
KUU Tk. FINEST TOI1IET KOAP la th Wen
tor inth Nurs-.rv It has Naf qufJ.
Worth WTm lUaoM to ntotW sail CH;lnLLrUt4akim.
gaur wa, joctaiulaf ot laas, Mai Sss H aoj 4
mm i Lia
rata, Aadtatf
w York Oity.
GLOVE-FITTING"
CORSETS.
merntnasor im.
.UNHIVALKDCORSCT
!tn now numimt ay
MILLIONS.'
rricsssrenuchraducafl
MtUALnCLtlVtU
AT CENTENNIAL.
t fhaGenulna and
Jbewars of imitations.
ASK ALSO FOR
. THOMSON'S
7UNIREAKAILEIIEIli
The tost Sooda mad.
3H mat im nam. of
TUOMriM.nri th.
Trade Mark.aCROwN.ars
'stamped on every CoreettSteel.
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a, poslUr. tamed lot All dls.a... ot tile Kldn.j.
Bladder and Urtaary Ora.a;r.Uooodia Dr
Meal Ceeaplalats. It aner prodaeea sinenses,
eertaia and spMdr lo its aetioo. It Is last entMrwdln
all other raudie Vlxti eapesiM nn in an or
dare. He atb.r audiolne eaa do this, .
B.WU-. ) Imttatleaa, for, owing to its (res
seseees.iant bats been stared) eeaee ae aaoet dtoset
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