( V FAMOUS MCBDEU CASE. oelteetlene ef the Crime ef Dr. Weeeter Taa Meet Remarkable Martfef Cw la New Knalaad. A correspondent of the Brooklyn Eaale revives the storv of a mnrder in Boston twenty-nine years ago that was one oi tne most famous cases of the day. The correspondent says: Except the mnrder of the child, Mabel Young, in the Warren avenue Baptist church by the sexton, Piper, a few years sinoe, nothing of a criminal and bloody nature has so stirred the citizens of Boston as did the mnrder of Dr. George Parkman by Dr. John W. Webster, on November 29, 1849, at the Massachusetts Medical Uollege, in North Grove street. Dr. Parkman wns a wealthy man. who de voted most of his time to looking after his property. Dr. Webster was the Frofessor of Chemistry in the institn tion, and owed Parkman $470. which Bum of money the latter called at the oollege to collect on the day above in dicated. The last seen of Parkman alive by any one who knew him, except his murderer, was when abont two o'clock in the day he entered a provision store in the neighborhood of the college and purohased a few artioles, saying that he naa an engagement, but would soon return and himself carry the articles home. Dr. Webster hail finished his lecture for the day, and all the medical eraaents naa left the building when Dr. Parkman entered it. The latter passed rapidly to the chemioal room in the rear of the lecture hall, where he found Dr. Webster arranging the apparatus that had been used in his lecture. Parkman was a hard and grasping man, and Web Bter was a man of science, poor, but proud, with a high temper. Webster's inability to pay a note that Parkman held led to a quarrel, and the former struck the latter over the head with a heavy piece of grape vine and killed him. Webster then locked the doors. dragged his victim down stairs, removed the olothing, and having placed the body in a sink, deliberately proceeded to cut it up. The room in which he worked was a laboratory on the ground floor, having a fnrnase, into which he put .f arkman s head and all his clothing and attempted to burn them up. The thorax he placed in a tea chest. Some parts of the body he attached to fish lines and lowered into a privy vault that was washed by ttie Ohaifes river. Some parts of the limbs were never found. Webster worked several days, and most oi tne time lor one or two nights in try ing to cover up all traces of his victim. The disappearance of Dr. Parkman was t'ie talk of the town, and his family issued posters containing a full descrip tion of his person, together with a large reward $3,000, if my memory serves me for his return if alive, or for his body if dead. As soon as Webster learned that Parkman had an appoint ment with some one on the day of his disappearance, he called on Mrs. Park man, offered his condolence, ond said he was tne one with whom the doctor had an engagement on the unfortunate day. ne saiu ne naa paia the doctor $470. who, on receiving the monev. had run out of the college, seeming to be in great uaste. search was made in the vicinity of the college, in many of the tenement nouses owned by Dr. Farkman. who. it was feared, had been murdered for the money he might have had while col lecting rents. The reward was a large one, or so considered in those days, and great efforts were made to gain it. The earth in the cellars of all Dr. Parkman's houses was dragged, but the man could not be found. Reports came that Park- man had been seen in far away places ana had been spoken to by those who knew him; but there was no truth in these statements. The crime was traced to Webster in this way: Dr. Parkman had been seen the last time alive in the medical college. This fact, coupled 'with the strange ac tions of Dr. Webster, led the janitor of the oollege, LittleQeld by name, to bus peot that Dr. Parkman had been killed and his body secreted within the col lege building. The janitor had always had the run of the building, but since the disappearance Dr. Webster had kept th6 laboratory locked. Littlefield made np his mind to examine the vanlt above mentioned, and in order to do so he was obliged to enter the cellar and dig through a heavy stone wall. Whenever Dr. Webster left the building, which was seldom, Littlefield stationed his wife at the front window, in order to in form him of the doctor's return, and made the best of his opportunities to penetrate the dense masonry. At last he made a hole in the wall, and placing a light in the vault he saw suspended, by means of fish hooks and lines, parts of a human body. His suspicions being confirmed, Littlefield communicated with the police, and the matter was very rapidly thereafter worked up. After the murder Dr. Webster was much of the time at the oollege, an unusual thing with him, and Littlefield noticed that a hot fire was kept in the laboratory fur nace for several days and nights that he oould feel the heat in an adjoining passage-way, by placing his hand on a wall that was near the furnace. One evening, after Dr. Webster went to his home in Cambridge, the labora tory was opened and during a long search more of the remains of Dr. Park man's body were found. Dr. Webster was arrested in a very neat way. Two officers in a hack went to his house at about ten o'clock in the evening and informed him that friends of the Parkman family wanted to search the oollege, but did not want to aot with out his presenoe. The doctor put on his boots and said he would go with them and help in the search. . He then in formed his family that he was going ont for a short time, and that he should soon return; but he never saw his home again. In the confession that he made in the last hours of that bloody tragedy Web ster described the agony of that dread ful night. As he rode in the carriage with the two offloers he tried to appear free and easy in conversation, but he was nnable to decide whether he was under arrest or really required for the purpose indicated. When the carriage stopped at the Leverett street jail, he knew it was an arrest. He had made up his mind that he would die rather than submit to an arrest. So he had prepared and placed in his vest pocket a pill of striohnine containing enough of the poison to kill five men. As he step ped out of the carriage he slipped the pill into his mouth and expected soon to be a dead man. But his agony of mind was bo great and his system so wrought upon by the catastrophe that the poison, though it caused horrible Buffering, did not destroy life. Dr. Webster was brought to trial and the exoitement in the community was intense. He was a professor in the medical school of Har vard University and moved in the very best sooiety. There was a powerful in fluence brought to dear him, not only for his own sake, but for that of his family, and, most of all, for the honor of the University. An attempt was made to fasten suspicion on Littlefield, but the doctor had entangled himself in tnany ways, and one link after another was made at the trial that formed a chain of evidence which was bo strong that the viotim oould not escape. With a stick, in a disguised hand. Dr. Webster wrote to the police about Dr. Parkman. One letter stated that Dr. Parkman had been murdered and thrown off Cambridge bridge. Dr. Webster had one peculiar ity about his writing he never closed the top of his a'B, but made them like the letter u, and in his letters, trying to throw the offloers off the scent, he for got to change the peculiarity of his writ ing. The defense tried to show that the body might have been taken from the dissecting room, but it was fairly defeat ed at every point. In the ashes of the furnace the false teeth of Dr. Parkman were found, and some of his natural teeth, whioh were identified by p. dentist wno naa niiea tuem. lastly the fish hook lines were identified by -the shop keeper in Dock square, from whom they Were Purchased. Dr. (Vebstar wna nnn- victed and suffered the extreme penalty of the law, that of being hanged by the neok till he was dead. He had a fine family, consisting of a wife and several daughters. At the time of her father's arrest, one of the young ladieB was about t.j be married. The family during the whole penod of the trouble visited the prison but refrained from reading the newspapers, and did not know the date of the execution. The dav rtrecedinir the one which Webster knew was to be his last on earth, he bade his family good by as usual without indicating to the members of it that he should never see them again. In this case the bar barons law punished the innocent more than the guilty, for shortly after the exe cution Mrs. Webster and her daughters left the country, and some years after died broken hearted. Dr. Webster had strong men working for his pardon, but failing to obtain executive clemency, he maae a iuii confession of the crime. which course of action established his guilt beyond question, and decided the governor to allow the law to do its full mischief. Such is the record of the' most remarkably meroenary mnrder ever reooraea m jxew England annals. The Heart. The heart the reservoir of the blood and the great central organ of the cirou iniion is a noiiow, muscular organ in the form of an irregular cone. It is en closed in a membranous bag, but loose' ly, so as to allow free motion. Though forming one musole, there are two dis tinct hearts, each side being divided from the other by a wall. It contains four cavities, each of which holds be' tween from two to three ounces of blood; the whole quantity of blood in an adult man varies from twenty-five to twenty pounds. The heart contracts 4,000 times in an hour; there consequently pass through the heart every hour 700 pounds of blood. In other words, every drop of blood in the system passes through the heart twenty-eight times in one nour, or once every two minutes, The human heart is deemed by poets and philosophers to be the seat of our affections and passions; the seat of moral life and character, of onr under standing and will, courage and con science, and by some men looked upon as the root of life itself. The human heart has been considered by many of the dying in past times as a votive gift peculiarly eacred. And many instances are on record of the burial of the heart apart from the place where tne asnes ot the body might repose. One of the earliest instances of this mode of heart-burial is that of Henry II. of England. . He died in a passion of grief before the altar of the church of (Juinon in 1189. His heart was interred at Fontevrault. but his bodv. from the nostrils of which tradition alleges blood to nave dropped on the approach of his rebellions son Richard, was laid in a separate vault. When Richard Cceur de Li on fell be neath Gourdan's arrow at the siege of onaiwy, the gallant heart which, in its greatness and mercy, inspired him to forgive and even to reward the luckless archer, was, after his death, preserved in a casket in the treasury of the cathe dral which William the Conqueror built at Rouen; for Richard by a last will directed that his body should be interred in Fontevrault, "at the feet of his father, to testify his sorrow for the un easiness he had oreated him during his lifetime." He bequeathed his heart to Normandy, out of his great love for the people thereof. When the bodv of the Emrieror Na poleon was prepared for interment at St. Helena, in May, 1821, the heart was removed by a medical offloer, to be sol- nered np in a case. Mme. Bertrand. in her grief and enthusiasm, had made some vow, or expressed a vehement de sire to obtain possession of this as a precious relic, and the doctor, fearing that some triok might be played him, and his commission be thereby imper illed, kept it all night in his own room in a glass dish. The noise of broken glass aroused him from a waking dose, and he started forward, only in time to resone the heart of the Emperor from a huge brown rat, which was dragging it across the floor to its hole. It was res cued by the doctor, soldered up in a silver urn, filled with spirits by Sergeant Abraham Millington of the St. Helena artillery, and placed in a casket. Leather. Leather has a long history. If it is a too exclusive motto that "there is nothing like leather," few manufactured things are older. It was probably the very first bit of manufacture rude, yet suited to its purpose, the use of bark for hardening and preserving skins having, no doubt, been practiced in pre-historio times. Even our progenitor the ancient Briton used a strong hide thong te throw his stones with, and was soantily clad in leather antici pating the odd desire of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism. Within the period of authentic history, leather has been legislated for and protected, and has often been include! in sumptuary regulations. It is very odd to read that in England in the sixteenth century oomplaints were maJe that skins were tanned in three weeks, (thus uncon scionably shortening the period of use and wont, which had been about one year,) and that in oonsequenoe an act was passed in 1048 prohibiting tanners from selling hides that were not attested to have been nme months in the tan -pit. And the jealousy of rival guilds, whioh did something in old days to secure the division of labor, if nothing more, is also seen in the history of leather. In 1439 tanners were prohibited from being shoe-makers; while in 1562 butchers were precluded from beooming tanners under a penalty. Some of the restrict ions whioh surrounded the leather -manufacture actually remained until 1830, when they were completely removed by an aot of George IV. Free trade in tanning, then introduced, gave an im mense impetus to the application and extension of the . chemical discoveries whioh had been made by Seguin in 1795, and by Sir Humphry Davy in im.-Gx4 Word. A GOLD MISE IS NEW YORK CITY. What lm California Mlaera Faced la the Ralaa r a Bar Bed Jewelry Mtere. . The Apple ton building in Bond street, then filled with jeweler's wares, was burned on March 6, 1877. Nearly all of the immense property in gold and silver ware and jewelry was a total loss, the precious metals having been melted in the flames and Scattered about among the debris. The estimated loss in the destruction of gold and silver ware, watches, and jewelry alone was estimated at more than $1,000,000. The property nnd merchandise being heavily insured, the loss fell heaviest probably upon the insurance companies. These, therefore, had the privilege of remunerating them selves by gleaning from the debris the precious metals that had been melted. The first gleanings were an easy mat ter, and great nuggets of melted gold and silver were extracted, and a large sum was realized. But when the nug gets were all extracted the insuranoe companies retired, and then the owners of the building, Messrs Roberts & Apple ton, overturned all this mass, and sub jecting it to what theydeemed a thorough washing, obtained many thousand dol lars' worth more. The muoh-washed debris was then allowed to rest undisturbed until abont three months ago, when it was deter mined by other persons to give it another and more thorough washing than it had ever undergone before. These persons were the miners, Peer & Roberts. Peer began life early as a miner, spent twenty-seven years in the busi ness in the Paoifio slope, and has reduoed mining to suoh a science that he believes he can extract every partiole of the precious metals from the most refractory ores and tailings. One day Roberts told his partner, Peer, who had just returned from California, about the gold mine in Bond street, and of the many washings it had undergone. The next day Peer was scraping about and overturning the remains of the worked out Bond street gold mine. The oonse quenoe was a bargain with the owners of the ruins, in which they agreed to pay them ten per cent, of their net glean ings. A gold washer, concentrators, flume riffles, and a small engine wero quickly put up, and the miners set to work with as much energy as if they had made a rich find" in the gold regions of the West. None but a close observer would imagine that the half dozen quiet work men and noiseless little engine in the excavation below were the operators and machinery of a gold mine in full blast. The habit of secrecy is so gieat with the old miner that bnt a few people in the city are aware of what a rich, "find" the Bond street mine is. The last cradleful of the debris was rocking in the washer, and therefore the miners bad no objection to telling how much money they had made and the process of mining. In the first place, the debris is submitted to a thorough, washing in flumes. These are long boxes, twelve inches deep, fourteen wide, and any length that may be de sired. There are one hundred feet of flume used in the Bond street mine. The water used is pumped in by the engine and then elevated to the washer, after which the same water is again con ducted to the flumes, thus economizing it and catching the smallest partiole of the precious metal. Forty tons per day of the debris were washed in the flumes, turning out one ton of concentrations. This in turn was submitted to the gold washer, and re daced to base metal, tnrning out throe hundred to five hundred pounds to the ton. The base metal was then taken to the refinery and reduced to fine bars, 980 fine. From the refinery the bars go to the mint, and are there turned into bright gold pieces. "How much have you made in your two months of city mining ?" was asked. "We have got about $60,000," Mr. Roberts said. "Here are $180 in bright twenty-dollar gold pieces that I have just drawn, being the proceeds of 234 Eounds of the base metal. We have on and forty or fifty sacks of the base metal to go to the refinery. Each sack weighs one hundred pounds. Besides there are eight or ten tons of tailings, old bita of rusted iron with particles of precious metal sticking to them. These are to undergo a process of pickling, and the precious metals separated from the base. We expect to realize a con siderable amoant from these." The expense has not been as much as anticipated, and the net proceeds are handsome. New York Sun. Wealth and Science. There lived in England, in the last century, a man of science, named Henry Cavendish, who was born in 1731, and ,1J 1 oin TT . 1 m uieu ui ioiu. xie was a gentleman oi fine cnltivation, an excellent mathema tician, a profound electrician, and a most acute and ingenious chemist. He published many papers, containing re sults of recondite investigations and the moBt important discoveries, lie was not only a great original thinker, but a most indefatigable and accurate experimenter, and one of bis main lines of research was the'ehemioal constitution of the atmos phere. He made no less than 600 analyses of the air, and it is to him that we owe our chief knowledge of the composition of the breathing medium. Now, there is not an American that will not oommend all this as most proper and admirable. But there is another side to the case. Henry Cavendish was a man of enormous wealth, for which he cared absolutely nothing. He was one of the greatest proprietors of stock in the Bank of England, and when on one oc casion his balance had accumulated to $350,000, and the direotors thinking it too much capital to lie' unproductive, asked him if they should not invest it, he simply replied : "Lay it ont, if you please." That small portion of his wealth whioh he could make use of in his investigations was so used, but he did not allow the remainder of it to divert his thoughts in the slightest de gree from the unremitting prosecution of his Boientiflo labors. He died worth $7,000,000, which was an immense Bum of money at the beginning of this oentnry, bnt he had not the slighest in terest in those objects, for whioh wealth is generally prized. Now, the whole oase being given, to the eye of the typical Amerioan, Henry Cavendish will be regarded as a fool "With all that money," the representative Ameri oan would say, "I oould keep a yaout.and a stud of fast horses, and build a church, and endow a college, and send a dozen missionaries to the heathen, and run a whole political campaign at my own ex pense ; and you say this odd creature actually spent his life in the smudge and stenches of a chemioal laboratory, puttering witk gases, and worried about the composition of the air I" Popular Science Monthly. " I should just like to see somebody try to abduct me," said Mrs. Smith at the breakfast table the other morning. " Hem I BO fihonld I. mv iW an nVisnM I," said Mr, Smith, with eioeeUng ear- THE M00LID OF THE PROPHET. . Aa E cetera Ccrrmear, Darlac which Heree Rider Pace Over the Bedtea - at Preetrate Dervlehee. Onr tent was close at hand; we sought it with the nonohalence of travelers who rather enjoy breaking the tables of the law. We were glad of the escape and of the occasion of it; likewise grateful for the slight shelter our tent afforded, for by this time El Ezlekeeyeh Wag shroud ed in a fine, sifting rain that sparkled in the sunshine as the golden light shot through it, Music (plenty of it) grow ing louder and more loud, and the roar of 10,000 voioee, swept down upon us, and then the rush of heralds crying, " Make way, make way I" and the der vishes thus announced advanoed to offer up their bodies to the Doseh. They hastened up the avenue in groups; each group was clustered abont a staff decor ated with holy rags and saints' relics. All faces were turned toward the relics the haggard faoes of the dervishes, who hung together with arms entwined, c m pact as swarming beci; sacred banners fluttered down the whole length of a procession made up of these grouped dervishes. Not one of the victims seemed in his right mind; the majority of them were idiotic. Their swollen tongues lolled from their mouths; their heads wagged wearily on the or shoulders; and their eyes were either e'e'-ed, or fixed and staring. Many of the n were naked to the waist, tarbanless, bare footed, and barelegged to the knee. In fact, they were of the lowest orders of the East, impoverishad, fanatical, for lorn. They hastened to the top of the avenue, a part of those in each group running backwaid. When they had assembled to the number of 400, the friends who accompanied 'hem separated each cluster of derv shes, ard began paving the way with their bodies. They lay face down in the dust, the arms crossed under the forehead; they were ranged shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, though the heads were not always turned in the same direction, but were occasion ally reversed. Friends gathered at the head of each of the dervishes, and with the voluminous breadths of their garments fanned the prostrate forms rapidly and incessantly. In truth the der vishes seemed fainting with hunger and fatigue, and, as the crowd pressed close upon them, they would doubtless have become insensible in a short time but for the fitful breath afforded by those flap ping sails. I observed that the majority of the dervishes lay as still as death; but there were those who raised their heads and looked wildly about until their friends had quieted them, or, as in some cases, had forced them to lie still, while the confusion increased, and, the intense excitement at the lower end of the avenue announced the approaoh of the sheik. A few footmen then ran rapidly over the prostrate bodies, beat ing small copper drums of a hemispher ical form, and crying in a loud voice. " Allah 1" The attendants, as they saw the sheik's great turban nodding above the crowd, grew nervous, and some of them lost all self control; one man standing close beside me went stark mad, and three muscular fellows had some difficulty in dragging him awav from the spot. He came, the sheik of the saadeeyeh, swathed in purple and fine linen, and mounted upon a gray steed. The bridle was in the hands of two attendants; two others leaned upon the hind quarters of the animal to sup port his unsteady steps. The horse was shod with large, flat shoes, like plates of steel, that flashed in the sunshine; he stepped cautiously and with some hesit ation upon the bodies, usually placing his foot upon the hips or thighs of the dervishes; sometimes the steel-shod hoof slipped down the ribs of a man, or sank in between the thighs, for in no case could it touch the earth, bo closely were the bodies ranged, side by side. If any shriek of agony escaped from the lips of the dervishes I heard it not, for the air was continually rent with the cry of "Allah-la-la-la-lah," the rippling prayer, a breath long, continually reiterated. The sheik was stupefied with opium, for he performs this act, much against his will, in deference to the demands of the Eeople; he rocked in his saddle until he ad passed the whole length of that avenue paved with human flesh, and then withdrew into a tent prepared for his reception, where he received the devoted homage of such as were able to force their way into his presenoe. Charles Warren Stoddard, in Atlantic Monthly. Curious Bible Facts. The learned Prince of Grenada, heir to the Spanish throne, imprisoned by order of the crown for fear he should aspire to the throne, was kept in solitary confinement in the old prison at the Place of Skulls, Madrid. After thirty three years in this living tomb death came to his release, and the following remarkable researches taken from the Bible, and marked with an old nail on the rongh walls of his cell, told how the brain sought employment through the weary years: In the Bible the word Lord is found 1,853 times ; the word Jehovah 6,855 times, and the word Reverend bnt onoe, and that in the ninth verse of the 111th Psalm. The eighth verse of the 117th Psalm is the middle verse of the Bible. The (ninth verse of the eighth chapter of Esther is the longest verse; thirty fifth verse, eleventh chapter of St. John is the shortest In the 107th Psalm four verses are alike the eighth, fif teenth, twenty-first and thirty-first Each verse of the 136th Psalm ends alike. No names or words with more than six syllables are found in the Bible. The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah and nineteenth chapter of Second Kings are alike. The word Girl occurs but onoe in the Bible, and that in the third chapter ef Joel. There are found in both books of the Bible 8,050,483 let ters, 773,693 words, 31,373 verses, 1,179 chapters, and 66 books. Forms of Address. Herbert Spencer, in his treatise of the " Evolution of Ceremonial Govern ment," gives some interesting illustra tions of forms of address and modes practised by various people and nations of the earth. These he assumes to be mainly the expression of the relation of the conquered toward the conqueror. Thus when the Turkish courtier ad dresses the Saltan as " Center of the Universe, your slave's head is at your feet," or the Siamese who says to his superior "Lord Benefactor, at whose feet I am ;" to a Prince, " I, the soles of your feet ; to a King " I, a dust-grain at your sacred feet." In Russia, even in these days, petitions begin with " So and bo strikes his forehead ("on the ground") and petitioners are called " forehead-strikers." In France, as late as 1877, it was the custom to bay " I kiss your grace s hands. " I kiss your lord' ship's feet" Even to-day in "Spain where orientalisms still obtain it is the custom on taking leave of a lady, to say " My lady, I place myself at your feet. Har reply is, " I kiat your band, tit." Among the cannibal Tnpis a wajrior shoflts to his enemy, "May every mis fortune coma upon thee, my meat" The captive on approaching, exclaims, " I, your food, nave come. In other places only a verbal surren der of life takes plaoe where the subject professes to live only by permission of the superior. This is aptly expressed in the old Russian sou ! My ionl is God's, ' My land la mine, Mr bead'i tba Czar's, Mr back li thine." When a stranger enters the house of a Saroelot (inland native) he goes ou' and says, " White man, my house, my wife.my children belbng to thee," which, it may be presumed might be as embar rassing to an explorer as the Spanish customs was to A. Ward esq. A sand wich Islander asked as to the ownership of a canoe replies " It s mine and yours," and in Spain where politeness requires that everything admired by a stranger should be offered him the cor rect way of beginning a letter to a friend is " From this, your house." Biblical narratives are tilled witn tne word " Servant " as applied by a Bubject to a superior and in those times the ser vants were the captives or prisoners usually taken in war. This not only expressed the relation of persons but also communities and subjects, tribes as where David addressing Haul describes himself and his father as Saul's servants. These expressions of self-abasement originally made to a Supreme ruler came to be applied to those of subordin ate anthority, as when Joseph's brethern were brought before him in fear spoke of themselves and of their father as his servants or slaves. This form of address also extended to equals where favor was sought - as witness, Judges XlX-19, when the Lievite. addressing tne uon- jamite, soliciting a night's lodging, re fers to himself and his wife as "thy servants." In Hebrew history men are described as servants of God just as they are described as servants of the King, and the parallel between the visible and in visible Ruler, in suoh expressions as, The King hath fulfilled the request of his servant" " The Lord hath redeem ed his servant Jacob," has a history parallel to all other elements of religious ceremonial. To the victorious Barneses II. his de feated foes prefaced their prayers for mercy by the laudatory words : "Prince guarding thy army, valiant with the sword, bulwark of his troops in day of battle, King mighty in strength, great Sovran, Son powerful in truth, ap proved of Ra, mighty in victories, Jtameses amnion." The King of Siam is addressed by the glory fying works: " Mighty and August Lord," " Divine Mercy," " The Master of Life," " Sovereign of the Earth," etc. ; and the Sultan as "The Shadow of God," "Glory of the Universe," etc; the Emperor of China, "Son of Heaven," The Lord of Ten Thousand x ears, "and but few years since the Czar of Russia by Bulgarians as "U blessed Czar, "Blissful Czar," "Orthodox powerful Czar." The Frenoh courtiers of the 16th cen tury used to say, " I am your servant and the perpetual servant of your house." And among ourselves in the past were used such indirect expressions of servitude as "Yours to command," " Ever at your worship s disposing," " in all serviceable humbleness," while in our day, made orally only in irony, we still adhere in writing to "Your obedient servant," " Your humble ser vant," etc., and these generally made use of where distance is to be maintained between the parties, and therefore like too many of our other formalities have an inverted meaning. A Dr. George Dutton, of Springfield, Mass., has arranged with fifty patients to keep them well at $3 a year each, pro viding they call for advice at his office. r . i ai i i i ii li ne visits mem ne cuarges nan tne usual fees. This arrangement has existed two years. The minute parasite which occasions the whitish scurf known as "scaly leg" in poultry may be killed with carbolio soap-suds, or sulphur and lard applied as a salve. President MoMahon is seventy-one years old. He was born July 13, 1807. A Healthy Body nnd a Clear Head. If indigestion, constipation and biliousness torment the body the head oannot be clear. These disorders react upon the brain most hurt fully, and produce a olondineaa in the organ of thought not experienced by a healthy man. Happily these brain-oppressing maladies may be entirely dispelled by that peerless alterative, Hostetter s Htomach Hitters, wnicn oneers, re freshes and invigorates the brain and nerves, while it regulates the organs of digestion, as similation and bilious secretion. It expels the morbid humors which poison the system through the bowels and urinary passages, and exerts a powerfully invigorating influence as well. Its oathartio action is never irritating, violent or painful, bat even, natural and pro gressive. Aa an appetizer and sleep promoter the Bitters is unrivalled; it mitigates the in firmities of age, relieves the ailments peculiar to the gentler sex, arrests premature decay, and builds up an enfeebled physique. Maliirnant and subtle Indeed is the Doison of Sorofula, and terrible are its ravages in the system. They may, however, be permanently stayed and the destructive virus expelled from the oiroulation with '.Scovill's B ood and Liver Syrnp, a potent vegetable detergent which eradicates all skin diseases, leaving no vestige of them behind. White swelling, salt rheum, tetter, absoesses, liver complaint, and errup- tions of every description are invariably con quered by it. Druggists sell it. A Fbtemd in Nekd. Grade's Salve is a friend in deed. Who has not found it suoh in curing Cute, Burns, Bruises, Scalds, Felons, Boils, and even the most obstinate old Ulcers, and other Bores 7 It is a wonderful compound, suited alike to the skin of the child and of the adult For UDwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSLOW'B SOOIHINO BYRUPhas been used for ohildren with never-failing suooetui. It oorreote acidity of the stomach, relieves wind oolio, regulates the bowels, curea dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remeay. no on. a pubis, CHEW The Celebrated "MaTcaxBsa" Wood Tag Plug Tobacoo. Tn Pioxiia Tobacco CoMrixv, Maw York, Boston, and Chicago. We offer no apology for freqneutly calling attention to Johnson Anodyne Liniment, as it ia the most valuable remedy that has ever been produoed. It is a sure cure for diarrhoM, dys entery ana onoiera uiuruua. War, famine and pestilence all oombined do not produoe the evil oonsequenoes to a nation whioh result from impure blood in onr veins. Parsons' Purgative Pills make new rich blood and prevent all manner of disease. To oleanse and whiten tha teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown's Campnoraiea capon, oeous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cent a bottle. IMPORTANT NOTICK.-Farmere, Faml. It.. nd Others oen parohiM aa rUmdj equal to Dr, TOBIAS1 VBNKTlAlt LINIMKNT ft th ' OholwDirho. Dysentery, Oroap, Oolioj ud Bha AiokMU.Ukn inwrnJIj (11 pmImUj &annUi m. OAJoiompAorinf ,h bottl.) And .iIwdaUj lol nlSRtEriuB. HAAdAOO, ToothAohti, Ban R?rVM Harai Painl in LimbA, BauK And Ob.t. Tt VENETIAN utflMKNTwAAUitroduMd to 1M7, And Wonders of the Atmosphere. The atmosphere rises above ns with its cathedral dome arching towards heaven, ot which it is the most perfect synonym and symbol. So massive is it that when it begins to stir it tosses about the great ships like playthings, and sweeps cities and forest like snow flakes to destruction before it. And yet it is bo mobile that we have lived for years in it before we can be persuaded that it exists at all, and the great bulk of mankind never realise the truth that they are bathed in an ocean of air. Its weight is so enormous that iron shivers before it like glass, yet a soap ball sails through it with impunity, and the tiniest insect waves it aside with its wings. It ministers lavishly to our senses. We touch it not yet it touches us. Its warm south wind brings back color to the pale face of the invalid ; its cool west winds refresh the fevered brow and make the blood mantle to onr cheeks ; even its north blasts braces into new vigor the hardened children of our rugged climate. The eye is indebted to it for all the magnificence of sunrise, the brightness of mid-day, the chastened radienoe of the morning, and the clouds that cradle near the setting sun. But for it the rainbow would want its ."triumphant arch," and the winds would not Bend the fleecy messengers on errands aronnd the heavens ; the cold ether wonld net shed snow feathers on the earth, nor would drops of dew gather on the flowers. Tne kindly rain would never fall, nor hail, Btorm, nor fog diversify the face of the sky. Our naked globe would turn its tanned and unshadowed forehead to the sun, and one dreary, monotonous blaze of light and heat daz zle and burn up all things. Were there no atmosphere, the eve ning sun wonld in a moment set, and without warning plunge the earth into darkness. But the air keeps in her hand a fheaf of his rays, and lets them slip slowly through her fingers, so that the shadows of evening is gathered by degrees, and the flowers have time to bow their heads, and esoh creature in space to find a place of rest and to nestle to repose. In the morning the garish sun would at one bound burst from the bosom of the night and blaze above the horizon ; but the tit watches for his coming, and sends first bnt one little ray to announce his approaoh, and then another, and then a handful, and so gently draws aside the curtain of night and slowly lets the light fall o the face oi the sleeping earth, till her eyelids open, and like man, she goes forth again to labor till evening. Palate and Stomach. If you would have your biscuits, bread, rolls, oorn-bread, cake in short all articles pre pared from flonr, thoroughly enjoyable and digestible, use Dooley's Yeast Powder, which is not only free from adulteration, but whole some, and makes food very nutritions. This Baking Powder ia used by the most eminent chemists and physicians. Buy it only in cans, never loose or in bulk. gAPONIHEffi li the Old Reliable Concentrated Ly FOR FAMILY SOAP WAKING. DtrMtioni aaoomnanrliif aaoh MB for makkc Hard, Soft And Toilet Soap quickly. IT IS FULL WEI9BT AND STRENGTH. Tha market li flooded with o called) Ooneontratftd Lis, wblch ia adulterated with aalt and rain, and tm'i mak"0aP' SAVK MONEY, AND BOY TBK SaponifieR MADE BY THE Pennsylvania Salt Manuf g Co., PHILADELPHIA. ' 'tt i u.t... t h iQHKa. tor oonan and o' T7MKMH. Delaware F'nit and Grain Firms at low JL' pn pricee. A. P, GRIFFITH, 8MTRSA, Dei.. w ATOHMAKKRS'Tonh end Materials. Send for Price Lit, G. E. RMITH 4 CO., 338 B'way. N Y. 89 dny to AarenU to Mil Household Article. Andreas HnrUcyt l'Pg Marion, Ohio. ORGANS tetail price 2SO only ffIA, PIANO' retail price 5IO onlv "IHft. Greal birgaina B (CATTY, Washington, N. J POKT rilRNTRH (N. V.), JTIIT.ITABY INMTITITTK.-O. WINTHROP STARR, A. M., Principal. Limited to 86 hoya. Terms moderate. CM tn tinnn invented in Wall St. Stocks makes 11J IU dlUUU fortunes every month. Book sent free nzulaintnor AVArvthins. Address BAXTRR 400.. Rsnksrs, IT Wall St. N. Y. PSL"J0XlrJ Baa" reiNaassU laiBli frees XKaM ra. Taaea 'la ar fnaaa taoanaiaai, aaal skew a MStie resell rroaiUBaav ll ra.liknat sad a.r IWav N araiUair.JBr t (!, at..;, lpUid 4 ) ia Ct. Pl-i-..pA,IIS.t..)f V,ria. L.L fMlTB CU.SoU&ta.falM.alll. A Hirers a. u. teste, CLOCKS B. I NO HAH A H tV :., SapAiior in dntifrn. Not aqaaldd tn quality, or m timekeeper. Ask yonr Jeweler for trmir. Agency 8 Oortlsndt St., N. . CHAPMAN'S CHOLERA SYRUP O nres Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Summer Oomplaints ofOhildnn. Price AOo. GKORGR MOORE. Propria tor, Great Falls. N. H. Bold by all DrugaU's. rilTI A Q The ahoieeet In the world Importers stple article pleases everybody Trftde continually inoreasinir Affente wanted everywhere beat indaoe metjfa don't waste time send for Circular to iwbt WKim,-i;i Vesey Ht., N.Y.. r. U. Box V&l. HUNT FREE. POSTAGE PAIR. The Scientific Rkpobtcb. fall of Information of the utmost importance to Clergymen, Physicians. Teachers, and all olaanea of readers, especially A cents and Canvassers. PKABODY CO., Publishers. g35 Broadway, If ew York. $1 0 8 $25 W&Jvt&irZ Novelties Oacalojnie fc Outfit Free application to J. H. BUFFORO'fl HONS, Mnqfactarin Publishers 141 to 14T Franklin Street, Boston, Maes. Kwtahlished nearly fifty years. GRACE'S SALVE. J OKI STILL. Mioh.. Deo. ST. 1877. iliurt. fbrl'i: sent you 61) ota. lor two boiee of Grace's Stlre. I afl two and have used them on an uloer on tn t re"'. it is almost well. Respectfully yours, O.J.VKh Prioe 85 eenU a box at all druge-ista, or sent hy mall on receipt of 35 oents. Prepared by ' ruwi.ft ty wttniw. q Harrison atq.. iw.wu.niM.. Paints Ready for Use i or t armeri ana laanniaoiurori. Thttv a rat nnf farm in ahavd. avnrf the ealor can always b matched. Any one can paint with tbetn. Thev have vary suiionur uoTerina (jruiwrtuw buu u aiuk, hv so-called patent paints, contain either wat', bensine or alkali. These paints are in Liiaid Form, end ate sold in Gallon Cans and Barrels. They are also pat up in small cans of one to live pounds. Sand for sample card feowmffdiffrr,t shades. P. W. DttVOK A CO., cor. Fulton and William Bts., New York, oats Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Sick Headache. BOSTON TIB i, Sally and! Weekly, Quarto , Boaton, Xavsja. in New Rnaland. Tne Largest, uneapeat and Best Family News p. p. Taried tastes end requirements of the boi fLuiieu wiin epeoiai reierenoe so til. loreian end is flirolem. Weal natts published promptly. IallyTri Vsialy Daily Transcript, t"""1- in ad vans. b eoplee to one addraaa.1 slT.JtA eev annum in aavauee. SEND FOB SAMPLE COPT. PENSIONS ARB PAID errtrj soldier disabled la Una I duty, by Accident or lherwle. A WOUND of any kind, loa of KIH UKK.TOK.r KYK, m'PTl'RK, U but sunlit, or ItlawM) ef LfJHCIst. BOI! !' Discharge for Wound, Iolar lea or Jtiipture, gtvea FT LI. MoMtT. Lost More. OfUetrs' Aeeemnla and all War Claims eettlrd. UK. aiXTKU CLAIM RKOmiiD. gaud as centa for a Copy er Acta n renaiuna, bounty NTY ANOll Iet4sarrri ll -CO.. ! 'J KNTATHfi,! Vw LAWis i-Aiaa. asaa fllrraiavra. wh. v. crMHiiei U. 8. CLAIM AGTT) sad PATENT M WW, wt Hilar (1 A nit tut A vents oanraastn for the frirMiatai flalftar Terms and On tflt Free. Addreee f, l. V HJiv w,i w naTqwt--, aWaainO, Simple), Eaer Profitable). EVERYBODY HIS OWN PRINTER (Urid o. rrtr handsome oataloeme. NiTTOKAL Ttts Oo Philadelphia. Pa. Lnrn" .7rii y". A FARM Fowa HOME Secure) It Naw ! 400,000 A ores Seleoted Uad la Restern Nehraeka, for sale Tory ohaap and on easy terms. Great Baralns in Isnnravxd Karma. Bena for the Fmue-'i efcf,a new book with new maps, sent free everywhere. O. F. DA via, LmttLnnd Vom. C.r.R.R., Bwwnws i Ail Wm.m St.. Omaha, neb. PROF. BOHBBTS .ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF The War in the East. or ermfiiet between Rrraail and Ttraaav Is tbe He. book for He. oeeal.. Has 760 ootaro neae, W enarsTlngs of Battlb BoBHBi, Fortreeeae.penerale, ere., and is the only oomplete work published. Haa no nral. Bells at slant Price 3.(M Terms on.qnslnd. AgmU iViwt. t&. Address H S. OOOD8PBKU a PP., New York. mmmmrn w mo) y; HOW TO BIT THi la tbs eH earter.sut. arret fnr For a coor .f lb. Kansas PatlnA Hoaae- atoad." aaarssa S. 1. Oilmen, Lan Com'r, BaUaa, Kaaeaa UUEAT I IN ltH K M KNTH Offrred tn Html ere. How a itotne can d neenren. TJl) JFIjORMDA MjANMP CO J PA IVY (Chartered bv the State and Kndorsed by its O (Boers) Offer the choice of ftOO.OOO Anres looated on the Transit R. R., whioh eitends from Fern and in a to Oedar Keys, for tbe vrry Low frier or mi.vo per Acre. FORTY ACKKM FOR 50. - IT Im tffr thm Moii-ff q Tm Million Aorta V BttUs Land (in very county), for thm same low vricm. Lands hiRh, dry; pest tn tbe Htato. Olimate superb . and very healthful. Cures Rheumatism, Catarrh and Lung diseases. Over 2,000 Northern settlers have looat ed. Oreo ire jrrovws yield a profit of f300 to 11,000 per Acre, aceordine; to ae of trees. Vegetables, Fruit. Tobacco, Cotton, Rice, etc., pay largely. Large trtfu tionmat in tmnnportation. BRAIN Hi RD T. SMITH ay rarK "w new Yora. Our Alphabet. Walla we Mam that ear combined lists of If ewe. papers offer faetllwee of a thereat hly saperior order to err alaea af adiertieers, ta.re are eertain artioles and Uaea of kaslnses walaa eeeea te be especially la need of serrteea aaaa aa wa are able to afford. j ateka kuewa his bnslnees, or asla a H world-wide repatatloa, by jndlstooa adrertiaiaa- ia M eat last af papers. nlVVTOf U&Mwli eaa btsreese their aorrewsondents and li add money to tbelr coffers by eountry nswspaper adranial&c. CiRSlAGE-MAERS will find that newspaper adTertisIng ia onr Lists will aot as a new wheel ia awltlpiyiaa thaii basinets. MUGGISTS eaa find ae better or cheaper medium II taea oar Lists for adrertuina any new medioine " ar EXGHE BUILDERS eaa Insert a cat ef any new enaiae or improvement thronga oar aewsnape UsteatatriAina aoat. - FARMERS wtshlag te dispose af their farms eaa ad a aarebaeer by Inserting a abort adrartias. meal mou Lasts. rannrrfrna 1'HUbLAlJ dsslreaa ef setlmc etT their sicca or b ast ir neee eaa Bad a earchascr by edrartlainc la ear saaaataetatart eaa tntrednee every acw artlele te the trade, cheaply, by adrertiaiaa wtthaa. IMPORTERS eaa Mad their card te Jebbera and dcAlcte tsweacaaat the West by patronising oar vnuL'i TOG Jb ll llllbilll can dlstrlbnts their "Prior tbe trade by plaeinc aa Advertisement oi country Denere. K PTTTMflmn' WlUUUflU goods, lamp and lanterns, eaa rertisea to tne uee-ers eau oonsamen WsstoralAeta. T UMBER DEALERS M. ,1 ll cards before tbe eyes of both M ers by our plan of newspaper lace their business dealers and ooneum- a4vextiaing. of any new article will find Onr Lists to be excellent mediums to reach all oon turners. II nnnnv tiling eaa and fault with oar List, or prices. who la sane epoa the aaSJect ot adraa flRGAH, II Lists w nssa. m.wiwawaa wn rimmu .uei ema 1 te pay better the aay ether for their ' PjMP MAKERS mmn kcreV tf taessiHsac te rtU flrmta thTwiSc" edeertieia. in ear LUU. , y QUESTIOIS Satire te the east ef aa adrcrslacmeat In the. separate ar tbe ecmblacd Lute, will ra "Tf prompt atteekon. R00FERH-n lahabMaats aeder aaarly every roof la the Weat eaa be teaeaed by aa "ad" la ou Lisas. SCALES , tefe, taw and fewmc sfaehtae aaaaafae tnrers ptsaalaeoar Lists liberal ly.aad dad at a fK OosTee sad Spies Dealers eaa ML&JmArrtAmV"5" u TTFHOLSTERERS eaa let their wares be kmrwa ta II ae better way thaa by eeteaatee sad asuemm advertiauag m eat yifaJsr Lieta. VevllB WWB Mssshsata aad Mas DeaJeri leavei taste spsslslsioc Scar Lasts, aad are happy. XTLOCRAPHERS aea make a chert eat ta prewaseV it ess tUla1" ' 01 taetr mswVis VEAST am staUaa Powder Bfeaafaetnrers tn. i aaiea ay ptlraaliiag car plea el adrer. I crease tlalaa. nnTV9 1UU1B ar the aigwact pctat ef saceeca hi mas eatcrarisec eaa oaiy be attained ki hlliTisltii libeteTeleaapapat edeermama. SEALS 1 FOSTER, GHXEAL AGIHTI, 10 Spruce Street, yew York. 0Z A Llts" to rVcsme in onr list tgmfT aa be ad- l ira la oar I I-
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