A Postage Stamp Mjstery. Within half a dozen years business In connection witU postage stamps has grown up, causing at times a very aggravated amount of worriment and labor. Some one informs a child or a benevolent adult that the sum of one hundred dollars will bo given for one million stamps that have been already used on letters. The use to which they are put is not .generally explained. Sometimes it is said they are for the manufacture of papier-mache. At other times it is solen.nly stated that they can be sold to persons whose lives are devoted to the endowment of hospital-beds at one hundred dollars apiece. Again it is said there is an ex traordinary demnftd for canceled old stamps in a part oi China where they are usd to paper walls ot houses, the style of decoration having some mysterious effect in averting calamity, and especial ly in saving the lives ot little children who would be devoured by their hungry parents or friends but for the saving charm of the old stamps on the walls. There is probably scarcely one ol our readers who has not assisted in the col lection of old stumps to make up the million that some friend has undertaken to gather ; but no one that we have ever heard of has been able to ascertain that it has yielded a hundred dollars which have been applied to a real or pretended benevolent object. A strong presump tion exists in reasoning minds that there is a fraud in the business. Everyone knows that many stamps go through the mails uncanceled, or with the canceling marks so indistinct hat they can easily be removed. Probably at least ten per cent, of the whole number used could be made serviceable a second time. In 1,000,000 old three-cent stamps, costing $100, 100,000 could be used over again, and ttiese would be worth $3,000 to the parties buying the million stamps for $100. The profit from the business is thus seen to re enormous. The British postolliee department has for some years found that the amount ol stamps upon the letters it carries ex ceeds the amount issued to the public, and of course the excess must consist of old stamps from which the cancellation has been obliterated. A new penny stamp has been devised, printed with inks that are intended to set at defiance the various devices by which an old stamp is made to look as good as new. Whether the plan will succeed is un known. But the fact that more stamps are used on letters in Great Britain than are issued by thedepnrtment shows that the fraud is extensively practiced, and leads to the inference that a consider able number of each million of old stamps collected and sold are used again on letters, instead of helping to endow hospital-beds and save Uhinese children from cannibalism. Philadel phia Bulletin. Notes on Deportment. Keep your nails pared, and keep paired yourself. Single-blessedness is an empty mockery. Part your hair neatly. Part your for tune fairly. Toe out, not in. Especially if you are an employer, you would better turn out your feet than your linnets. Keep your face cleanly shaved, and stop there. Don't shave vour customer?:. Don't talk with your mouth filled with food. And there is no call for your talking much under normal con ditions. Keep your clothing well brushed. If you have no brush", tell you wife how you long for your mother's cookery, and you will have one instanter. See that your collar button is secure before you leave home in the mornir.g. Else you will find your choler rising be fore niht. When talking, don't keep fumbling your face, as though you were lingering a musical instrument. Don't smoke in the presence ot ladies. This does not apply to the meerschaum and brier pipes your lady friends have given you from time to time. Smoke in these ladies' presents as often as you please. Don't wclk the streets with your cane or umbrella thrust under your arm at right angles with your body. The policeman may take you for a cross and take you up. Don't interrupt a person in his talk. The natural limit of man's life is three score years and ten, and he can't go on forever. Never put your knife in your mouth. The mouth is a very poor place to keep a knife. Apt to make it rusty. Don't tuck your napkin under your shirt collar. The waiter may think you would steal it. Never say " I won't," even if it be your wont to feel that way. Don't speak so low that vou have to be asked to repeat everything that yon have said. The second time of Mtying a thing will frequently impress you with its tlatness. Don't speak so loud that everybody's ears are outraged. It may injure your trachea. Boston Transcript. Three Fersons Hard to Kill. Evidently it is not the height or depth of a fall, but the manner of alight ing, that kills people. An old man near Fremont, Ohio, was drawing water from a twenty-foot well. The bucket slipped off the hook, and he slipped and dived after it. The water was ten feet deep, else he might not have recovered his presence of mind and scrambled up the stone wall. But that is not a circumstance to the exploit reported from St. Louis. A workman fell off the St. Charles bridge, .and in a descent of fifty feet turned several somersaults and alighted on his heao, -"hich camo in contact with a limestone rock. Then the unfortunate yet wonderful man rolled into the river and disappeared, but was soon rescued by his fellow workmen, and is merely waiting for a scalp wound six incites long to heal. These remarkable falls are both dis tanced, however, by that of a boy who fell from top to bottom of a Plattsburg mine 120 feet deep, and will live, it is thought, despite a shattered arm and a broken jaw and bruised side. Alligators Hatched by a Hen. A lady residing at Cow island, in Louisiana, and wishing to set a hen, went into the field adjoining her resi dence, where some of her chickens had been laying, and procured some seven teen egss and placed them under the hen. When, in the course of "human events, the chickens were hatched, lo, and behold, there came forth four small sized alligators. It is supposed that alligators from an adjoining marsh had deposited their eggs in the field, and she, not knowing the difference, placed tiieu. under the hen. And what is more strange, the young alligators follow the motLer hen around the premises as happy as Colorado beetle In a potato patch. New- Orleans Times. At Rheims is te largest champagne establishment in France. Iu one vast sub-cellar are depoitH i onn nno Wtlpa of the raw whine, iin(j jn another part of me towu me bouqq 3,000.000 bottles. "he wine is treated ,most delicately, and thousands of men, w-omen and children, veiy carefully trained are employed in the process, to complete which requires FARM, UAIIDE3 AND HOUSEHOLD The t'ses of tha Potato, In France the farina ', largely used for culinary purposes. The famous gravies, sauces, and soups of Franco are largely indebted for their excellence to that source, and the bread and pastry equally so, while a great deal of the so called cognac, imported into Entrlnnd from France, is distilled from the potato. Throughout Germany the samo uses are common. In Poland the manufac ture of spirits from the potato is a most extensive trade. " Stettin brandy," well known in commerce, is largely im ported into England, and is sent from thence to many of our foreign possessions as the produce of the grape, and is placed on many a table of England as the same; while the fair ladies of our country perfume themselves with the spirit of potato under the designation of tau de Cologne. But there are other uses which this esculent is turned to abroad. After extracting the farina, the pulp is manufactured into ornamental articles, such as picture frames, snuff boxes, and several descriptions of toys, and the water that runs from it in the process of manufacture is a most valuable scourer. For perfectly cleansing woolens, and suchlike articles.it is the housewife's panacea; and if the washerwoman hap pens to have chilblains she becomes cured by the operation. Few persons are aware of the great demand for potato flour, and of the al most unlimited extent of the market that can be found for this product, which is simply the dry evaporated pulp ot the ordinary potato the whiter and more free from black spects the better. It is used for sizing ana other manufac turing purposes, and by precipitation and with the aid of acid is turned into starch. In Europe it meets with a large and increasing demand in its primitive state, as potato flour, and in Lancashire alone 20,000 tons are sold annually, and as many more would be taken if put on the market. When calcined it is used largely for silk dressing and other pur poses. At present the quotation for po tato flour in Liverpool is nearly double that of wheat flour. Consignments to Liverpool are solicited by the brokers there, who promise to take all that can be furnished. During the Franco-German war the French government purchased all the farina it could secure and mixed it with whtaten flour in "potato cakes" for the array. Farina at that time rose to .?2no a ton, and even the supply fell far short of the demand. Since Uian an increased amount of farina has been regularly consumed in France, and farina mills have correspondingly multiplied in that country. The manufacture of potato flour is so simple, and the results so methodical, that it requires very little experience to reach a satisfactory issue. The potatoes are first steeped.in water from six to twelve hours to soften the dirt and other matter adhering, after which they are thoroughly washed by mechanical means with the aid of either steam or water power. They are then reduced to a pulp by a rasping or grind ing process in a properly constructed mill. A small stream of water is caused to How on the upper surface of the rasp or grinder, to keep it clean oi accumula tion of pulp. From the grinder the pulp falls into a washing machine, t lirough which the farina is forced by revolving brushes, the coarser pulp be ing thrown out at lateral openings. The granules of farina pass into a trough, imd are conducted to vats, where ihe farina is permitted to deposit. After the proper number of nitrations and de positions have occurred, until the last i eposit, which is pure white farina, the latter becomes of sufficient consistency to cut into lumps, and place either un supported or in conical wire coses to dry. The drying process can be accom plished in a building supplied with shelves, and capable of beins heated from 60, at which the farina begins to dry, up to 212, which is as high a tem perature as it will require. The heating apparatus may be such as is most conve nient. In Europe the farina is parked in 200 to 212 pound tine sacks, but flour barrels are said to be preferable, as the wood protects it from damage and allows it to be transported safely to the most distant regions. The Journal oj Applied Science. Health Hints. To make a mustard plaster that will draw well, but not blister, mix with the white of an egg instead of water or vinegar. Fresh radishes, well masticated, and the various kinds of turnips, if digestion is strong enough for them, nre good for gravel. The following is recommended as a chilblain ointment: Take of lard nine ounces, oil of almonds three and a hall ounces, white wax one and a half ounces, chaphor, powdered, one and a halt ounces. Mix and apply to the chilblain The following liniment is said to be useful for rheumat ism, lumbago.sprains, bruises, unbroken chilblains and insect bites : Take one raw egg, well beaten up. half a pint of vinegar, one ounce of spirits of turpentine, a quarter of an ounce of spirits of wine, and a quarter of an ounce of camphor. Beat these in gredients well up together, then put them in a bottle, cork it, and shake them for ten minutes, or till they arc thoroughly mixed. Then cork very tightly, in orderto exclude the air. For rheumatism in the head, rub the back of the head and behind the ears, and, for other complaints, the parts affected. Edison's System of Electric Lighting. Mr. Edison's idea in regard to the electric light was that, in all respects, it should take the place of gas. Follow ing the analogy of water, the inventor conceived of a system which would re semble the Holly water works. As the water is pumped directly into pipes which convey it under pressure to the point where it is to be used, so the elec tricity is to be forced into the wires and delivered under pressure at its destin ation. In the case of water, after being used, it flows away by means ol a sewer pipe and is lost. But it is easy to imag ine that the water used in working machinery, for instance, instead of be ing lost, might be returned to the pumps and used over and over again With such a system as this, we should have a perfect analogy to the Edison electric lighting system. The electricity, after being distributed under pressure and used, is returned to the central station As the light results from no consump tion of a material, but is mere transmit tation ot the energy exerted in the Tuiriminrr process, it is therefore seen that all which is essential to an electric lighting system is the generator (or pump), the two lines of wire, one dis tributing tne electricity, tneotner onng ins it back, and a lamp which trans mutes into lieht the energy carried by the electricity'when it passes from one wire to the other, ana in which the energy of the pressure expresses itself as the light, in poison s invention tne amount of electricity delivered in the lamp is determinedly the size and re sistance in the carbon, just as in water the amount of flow is determined by the size of the openings. As a great many small jets of water can be supplied from one pipe, so a great many lamps or small escapes tor electricity can be turntsnea trom one wire. txrxoner. Species of the cactus plant, fifty feet high, that grow up like a cigar, ar.d bear delicious trim, nave been discovered in Arizona Territory. BRAINS FURNISHED CHEAP. now One Wan In l"ew Tork Makes a. In Bleecker street, in the third -storv back room of what was onco an aristo cratic privatfl dwelling house, tiie public in need of brains can find the same nt reasonable rates. A reporter who re cently climbed tho creaking stairs and knocked at the door of this back room was invited to enter by a deep-toned, pleasant voice. Stepping across the threshold, the visitor found himself in the abode of Brains. Tho room was bare and cheerless, containing only a bed, a wahstand, three or iourj wooden chairs, a stove, and a largo pine table, which was littered with manuscripts, newspapers, pens, Ink bottles, and a well-thumbed d etionarv. The owner of the deep-toned voice was seated in one of the chairs, with his feet restini on the top of the table, nnd a newspa per in his hand. Mr. Brains, I believe," said tho re porter. " At your service, sir." Tho reporter drew from his note-book a slip cut from the advertising columns of one ot tho dramatic .journals, and read it aloud. It was as follows : " Dramas, sketches, songs, barln-qiics, lec tures, speeches, poems, etc., etc, written to ordor on the shortest notice. Terms low. Apply to Bruins, No. Jllcnokcr street." "That is my card, sir." said the oc cupant of the room. " Is there anything 1 can no tor your" "1 should like to get a little senti ment in tho poetical lino, to write in a young lady's autograph album," re sponded the reporter, with some natural diffidence. " Ah, yes, 1 see. You can furnish tho autograph yourself, but you would rather 1 would do the sentiment. Ex actly. And about how long would you like ur I can make it nn acrostic, If you prefer. Acrostics come a httlo higher, but they are just the thing, you Know, lor aimims." The reporter decided on an acrostic. and gave Mary as the name of the album owner. " How much will it bcP Well, I'll turn you off a four liner, while you wait, for fifty cents." These terms proved satisfactory, the visitor took a chair, while Mr. Brains turned to the table and at once set him self to work on the acrostic. " Shall I make it tenderP" lie asked. "Tolerably so," replied the customer. By actual tiniine tho noet occiiDied just six minutes in the production of the acrostic. Then he threw down his pen and sumbitted the work to his visitor. The virtues of the supposititious Mary were thus embalmed : TO MARY. May all thy days as spotless !e As was this piige, ore marred by mo; Hose-tinted may thy future li'imi, Yet rosier still the present seem. " Do you find work enough in this lineto make a living!'" inquired the re porter, when he had expressed his sat isfaction with the stanza, and paid the nan ctonar tneretor. "Well, yes," was the cheerful re sponse. 1 manage to live after a fashion. The worst thing about it is that my income is extremely uncertain. Sometimes I don't get five dollars' worth of orders in a month. And then. Hiram, I have turned out twenty dollars' worth of work in a day. Averaging it the year round, I suppose I earn eighteen or twenty dollars a week. That, how ever, includes an occasional lucky sale to the magazines and story papers. In order work that is, jobs which are done under contract I make my rates, ;is a rule, considerably lower than 1 get for pieces sold for publication. I can afford to do this, because, you know. the chances of having an article rejected by an editor are always larger than the chances of having it accepted. Job work, on the contrary, is sure to pay, although small." "But, where do these orders come from?" " Oh, from all sorts of peoole. I keeD a standing advertisement like the one you cut out, in three or lour of the dramatic and Sunday papers. These bring me a considerable number of orders from variety performers for new son "8 and sketches. Occasionally, tco, some variety actor, who is ambitious to be come a star, calls on me to write him a play adapted to his special lino. My bonanza comes when I strike a bobbin." "What is a bobbin?" " Well, it is a name of my own which I have give to a certain class of cus tomers. I call them bobbins because the thread of their vanity is so long that it will keep unwinding indefinitely. Ana ior me it oiten turns out a golden thread. Here, for example, is a speech that I have iust finished for a hiirhlv re spectable old gentleman to deliver at a society dinner next week. He is one of the very best bobbins 1 ever found. I have been writing speeches for him now, on and off, five years. Ho is rich, lias retired from business, and has de veloped a great taste for after-dinner oratory. I don't believe he could speak a dozen words himself without committing some ridiculous blunder. But I have floated him along, until now ho really enjoys the reputation of being always prepared with a neat speech. I charge him a good round price, but he pays it cheerfully. Then I have another bobbin in the person of a young man, who lives in Fifth avenu, and who drives down here frequently in his own coupe. He is a mild, inoffen sive young chap, who, with a fortune of a quarter of a million, wants to be considered a poet. He never strung to gether a rhyme in his life, and yet within the past two years he has read, at various up town gatherings, not less than half a dozen occasional poems. Of course they are supposed to be orig inal, and I can assure you that some of them are extremely original I charge him anywhere from five to fifteen dol lars, according to length." New York Sun. What Paper Has Helped to Make. The development of the products of the printing press, the founding of Bcnoois ana colleges, ana the attention of every kind given to the promotion oi education and enlightenment in this country, have been on a scale com men surate with the opening up of our man. nificent natural resources, and the rapid increase oi our population, aue to un precedented emigration. In 1778 the civilized population of this country numbered about 3.000.000. and occupied the thirteen original States ; now, after an interval of scarcely more than one hundred years, our population comprises 43,000,000 individuals scattered over 3,000,000 square miles of this continent. or throughout thirty-seven States and nine Territories. Our broad domain, with miehtv navieable rivers in its heait, and with thousands of miles of fertile prairies, has become by far the chief agricultural region of the world, and the value of our agricultural pro ductions has now reached the enormous annual aggregate of $2,500,000,000. Our mineral resources are also unequaled. me united btates, exclusive of Alaska, is estimated to contain more than 200.. 000 square miles of workable coal beds. or " eight timer? as large as the available coal area of all the rest of the world." Within twenty years California and neighboring Territories have yielded to American enterprise not less than one thousand millions of dollars in cold. and yet at the time America was dis covered, Europe contained only sixty millions of this precious metal. Vast beds of other minerals, especially iron,' abound. In the development of manu factories of all kinds, giant forward strides have also been made. Of cotton factories alone there are over 1,000 in tie country. Now turn and lo' k at our remarkable literary advancement within the same period. At the breaking out of the revolution the colonists possessed but nine colleges, among them Yalo nnd Harvard ; now there are about 300 simi lar institutions in this country, while the development of the common tichool system, from scanty beginnings, with few books, etc., to the establishment of numerous fine school-houses, and tho furnishing of all that can render educa tion easily and cheaply obtainable by the multitude, has been a much greater feature of our progress. Hut these educational results have been to.a great extent made only possi ble by tho wonderful achievements of tho modern printing press, which, in turn owes a heavy dent to those great improvements in our facilities for manufacturing paper, that alone have rendered the latter article sufficiently plent iful to meet the enormous demands of the press, and that alone enable us to buy cheap school-books, as well as cheap periodicals of every kind. Our great progress in journalism is shown by the fact that in 1875 there were in the United States less than forty newspapers and periodicals whose ag gregate issuo for that year comprised 1,200,000 copies: now the united press publishes over 500 daily newspapers, more than 4,000 weeklies, Bnd. nbout 000 monthly publicntions; ot the dailies that existed in 1870, about 8,000,000 copies were struck off that year; of the weeklies, nbout 600,000,000 ; and of other serial publications, about 100,000,000, amounting in all to 1,500,000,000 copies. And to sum the matter up yet more forcibly, it must be statcu that tne United States publishes more news papers, with greater combined circula tion, than all the other countries of the world can together boast of having. Tho history of tho postal department of the government presents an interest ing feature of our national growth. Shortly after the close of 1775, it was estimated that there were about fifty poi tollices in the United States. There is still to bo seen in the postal depart ment in the city of Washington, a small hook containing about fifty sheets of foolscap paper, and in this book the en tire accounts of the general postoflice department were kept. In 178U, when the confederacy was supplanted by the present form of national government, the number of postofliccs was about seventy-live; the annual income from theiu nbout 928000: annual expendi tures, $32,000; .and the combined length of postroads reached about 1,900 miles. At the present time this country contains over 23,000 postoffices, with an aggre gate length of postroutes of 256,000 miles; tho annual revenue amounts to $23,000.1 00, and the annual expenditures to 29,000.000. Paper World. Swedish Hallways. Of Swedish railways I was told that some are managed by the state, while others, like our own, are private under takings for the benefit of the share holders. In either case the motto "slow and sure" scorns that adopted by the management. The trains are always slow, and generally sure to be behind time at the terminus. In either case, moreover, the arrangement of the trains seems specially adapted to the public inconvenience, ihe time-tables appear to be constructed on the plan of discom forting the traveler as much as it is pos sible, and giving him the fullest chance to exercise his patience. As a rule he has the option of n couple of trains a day, and must be thankful for the privi lege. Ho may take, say an express, which starts at 5 a m., to carry him half way, with the chance of. his just missing a train that mav convey him the remainder of his journey ; or he may elect to watt till somewhat later in tho day, when a through train is provided, which will go at a snail's pace, and land him at his destination about midnight. If he wants to catch a steamboat, which nominally plies in conjunction with the railroad, his fate mav be far worse, and a day or two may pass ere the transit be completed, fcieen simply on the uiip and studied in the time-tables, the journey may seem facile and feasible enough; but when put in execution the plans which have been formed with an infini tude of trouble may prove of little profit. Obstacles start up at every stage along the route. Trains are so delayed that they fail to fit in as they are announced; a rattle-trap vehicle breaks down upon the roaa between the railway and the boat ; or some ingenious misprint is dis covered, when too late, which is fatal to the hope of accomplishing the .tourney within the time appointed. Grumblers who growl over the bewilderments ot Bradshaw, should Set themselves the task of working out the problem of a short cross-country trip by the figures which are furnished in the Sveiiyes Kommuniknlioner; the travelers who complain when the tidal tram from Paris is some five minutes late should learn to exercise their patience by a little tour in ssweden. Uood Words. Sadden Deaths, Apoplexy. In apoplexy a blood vessel of the brain gives way. and the blood accura ulates near its base, and pressing on the cranial nerves, on which tho action of the vital organs depends, cuts off the flew of nervous force to the latter. A slighter effusion may cause only paralysis, from which the patient may recover, the wound healing, and the blood being gradually taken up and carried off by the absorbents. Sometimes the serous portion ot the blood escapes through the pores of the vessels sufficiently to occasion a similar result. Free-livers are especially liable to apoplexy. They keep the vessels too full and the current too strong. More blood always goes to the brain than else where; its vessels are particularly weak, and as age approaches they grow brittle througli a tendency to become more or less ossified. Besides, the vessels of the brain are subjected to a special strain in conseouence of tho contraction of its vessels during sleep and the sudden in rush of blood on waking. There is no doubt that some persons inherit a tendency to apoplexy, though it is quite likely that they have also in herited a tendency to luxurious living, Let them abjure their habit in this re' spect, and probably the sudden stroke wnicn prostratea a lather in aeatn may never overtake them. The use of wine or spirit with one's dinrer increases the tendency to an apoplectic attack, as it greatly auickem the action ot the heart; augments the power with which that central forcing pump throws the blood into the engorged cereorai arteries. iou in s uompanwn, A vounz widower of Alabama has in his possession the photographs of five young ladies. As soon as he receives two more, one for each day in the week he will shuffle them, draw one, and the lady drawn will at once receive an offer ol marriage. To which, li sue uas any sense, she will promptly reply: "ri Cards." Philadelphia Bulletin. Tho tolenhonn hns frightened a Call- 4nm i a Tnrlinn ntn t-AHtm'inff several stolen horses. It may yet set up for a great moral reformer. . Diamond Making. A New York paper says that trvinv in roako diamonds will be at least until they have been made an interesting subject to the majority of men. The late cnort oi dames juaciear, ot Ulna. ow. to produce diamonds artificially is by no means the first that has been made. The earliest experiments of any mportance were recent, however onlv fifty-two years since. Latourand Gon nall. the French chemists, then pre sented pure pieces of crystalized carbon to the academy ot sciences, and caused thereby the greatest excitement, therehv supposing that the secret of making i - ' 1 ' 1 1 V -i - 1 ... . " aianioius unu ueeu .uiarovvreu. llie result proved that the small crystals, although transparent, brilliant and harder than quartz, would neither scin tillate nor refract ravs of light sufll. ciently to render them valuable. Not withstanding that they were composed of the same material as diamonds, they had nttie oeauty. Aiicy were sub mitted to the heat-test, as Mactear's crystals were, but like his, they under went no perceptible change. Uliam pigny, director of a celebrated diamond firm in Paris, pronounced them genuine : whereupon followed the great diamona panic (1828), which affected the whole commercial globe. A few years later the French savant, Desprctz, again startled the world by announcing thnt ne naa proaucca artinciai diamonds. His method was to fix a cylinder of pure carbon to the positive pole of a weak Daniell pile, nnd a platinum wire to the negative pole, nrd then to plunge both poles into acidulated water. In two months the negative pole was cov ered with a black coating, which was sent to Gaudin (Marc Antoine) to be icsiea on nara stones. Mixed with a little oil, the black particles would polish rubies, and as the diamond alone will do this, Gaudin did not hesitate to aeciare mo particles aiamond-dust, a conclusion generally accepted at the time by men of science. The nuestion. Can diamonds be made artificially P" is sun open, ana many cnemists leel sure that it will ere long be answered in the atnrmative by experiments abso lutely successful. They have already been produced in material, though nut in properties. It is .thought that these may be obtained by cutting the crystals oiuprentiy irom wnaiiney are now cut. huch a discovery would not be much more remarkable than the discovery made by Enguiner (1456) in producing meets, ana periectea by uostcr in mak ing planes on the Koh-i noor. The ellect of such a discovery may bo con lectured ny reierence to the diamond panic of 1828. It would revolutionize values, and create a prodigious commi) tion in both hemispheres: but the com motion would abate in due time, and good wouia unquestionably result. The value of all the diamonds mroval trpns- uries, in mercantile, titled, and private nanas, ana elsewhere, is stupendous. it has been estimated at hve billions. or according to the t rench numeration 5,000,000 000. To destrov can ta to that amount would upset for a time the world's . commerce, were the capital active. But the capital locked up in mamomis is wnony dormant. The Marriage of (J rent Men. Robert Burns marrind a farm girl. with whom he fell in love while they worneu together in a p.owed held. Milton married the daughter of country squire, and lived with her but a short time. He was an austere liter ary recluse, while she was a rosy, romp ing cuuniry lass, who couio not enaure the restraint imposed uoon her: so thev separated. Subsequently, however, she returned, ana they lived toler-ibly happy. Queen v ictoria and Prince Albert were cousins, a rare example in the long ino ot English jnonarchs. wherein th martial vows were sacredly observed and sincere affection existed. Shakesneare loved and wedded i farmer's daughter. Washington married a woman witl two children. It is enough to say she was worthy of him, and they lived h married people should live in perfect uarmony with each other. .lohn Adams married the daughter ol rresoyterian clergyman, llpr lather objected on account of John being lawyer. John Howard, the great philanthrr- pist, married his nurse. She was nltO' gether beneath hini in social life and in. tcllectual capacity, and. hesides this was fifty-two years old while he was but twenty-hve. lie wouldn't take "No for an answer, and they were married and lived happily until she died, which occurred two vears afterward. Peter the Great, of Russia, married a peasant. She made an excellent wife and a sagacious empress. Humboldt married apoorgtri because he loved her. Of course they wer happy. it is not generally known that Andrew Jackson married a lady whose husband was still living. She was an amiable woman, and was most devoutly attached to the old warrior and statesman. There was lately born in Kokomo. Intl., a child with a face that resembled a coou's. It had four feet, resembling claws, on which were great sharp nails. it had a wen aennea tAU lour inches long. It had no eyes, and its arms nnd limbs looked like the limbs of the ani mal it so strikingly resembled. Its body or trunk alone bore marks of human nature. The father of this remarkable production was a coon hunter and had for many years used a toothpick made from his favorite animal. THE MARKETS. aw YOKE Beef Oattls Med. Natives, live wt. Wit" 03S 05 4 06 4 10 (5 07 uaivea oiaie mux... sheen. Lambs Bogs Live fBV 06 Dressed Flojr Ex. State, good to fancy.. 0 61) 6 65 1 M.O T 01 14 7 75 Western, good to fancy... . "unt w, . wu. ..... ... No. 1 Amber (HI 1 M 1 MX (4 1 it (4 95 (4 75 (4 63 nye state , Barley Two- Bowed Btate , TO 68 Oorn Ungraded Western Mixed Houtbern Yellow Oats White Stale Mixed Western.. Hay Betail grades Straw Long Bye, per owt Bops 8Ute, 1879 , , Pork Mesa, 69 49 (4 60 48 85 W m 4 9 (4 80 141 10 (4 31 to 14 7 8) ...11 25 uam jity Htewn , Petroleum Crude ........07 908 Wool State audPeun. XX... Butter State Creamery Diary. Western Iinitatloa Creamery Factory Cheese State Factory Skims Western T.be Refined 0.-X 88 43 it 20 n 16 11 86 24 18V 10 mt4 Eggs State and Peun t'otatoes, Early Bose, State, bbl., BcrriLO Floor City Ground, Mo. 1 Spring 17J4C4 1 60 (4 1 63 26 4 n Wheat Hod winter... Oorn New Western... ..... 1 88 (41 46 Oats State... 48 (4 49 66 0 TO Barley Two-rowed Bute...,,....., BOSTOB. Beef Cattle Live weight ,. Sheep...... ...... .... Hogs Flour Wisconsin and Minn. Pat.... Oorn Mixed and Yellow.. Oats Extra White Bye State Wool Washed Combing k Delanls.. Unwashed. " " 06 V C6 (4 06 05 I6H(4 I 25 60 4l 60 a 63 61 (4 06 d to a 40 5 64 65 66 63 BBISBTOa (MASS ) OlTTLB If ABBEY Beef Cattle, live weight 06 A Sheep 06 (4 Lambs M (4 He fXl 06 sj 07 M PHILADELPHIA, Flour Penn. choloe and fanoy...... 6 87WQT M Wheat Penn. Bed Ill c4 1 42 Amber 1 89 I HtfW Bye BUte t-9 Ot 00 Corn rlMU Yellow 68 A 6 Oats Mixed.. , .. 46 (4 46 Butter Creamery extra 82 (4 84 Ohocsc New York factory 14(4 16 HtraUiuaOntd ffl WA BAod 07X The London Building New$ says that the extraordinary demand for Italian marble has raised a question as to how long the quarries are likely to hold out. According to a report of the French geological commission there yet remains a considerable surface and depth of the true Pentelienn marble untouched, but no specific statements are given on this heap. At Carrara a dreadful waste ol material goes on. A late traveler was assured on the spot that hundreds of tons are needlessly thrown away through sheer carelessness and the clumsiness of workmen. Much of this exquisite ma terial is removed in enormous masses for the decoration of commonplace edi fices. The Italians are at length becom ing alive to this. The quarries have been workea almost without intermis sion since the days of the Roman em perors. A little community of sculp tors is established around tho quarries, and the artist's chisel is plied almost side by side with the marble mason's saw. The marble goes everywhere. The people of Germany smoke 85,000,- 000 pounds of tobacco in their pipes every year. A Warranted Itnbber Wool. The "Candee" Kubher Co., ol New Hnven, Conn., is making a new rubber boot, which is fust what out-door men have long been look ing ior, viz., ono that, is warranted. These boots nre called the " 93 " Per Cent. Sterling Rubber Boot. They warrant them three months, and 11 your boot cracks or gies way in that time, you can secure a new pair Iree oi charge, provided the boots have had fair usage. That there may be no question about the three months, when you buy the 95 " Boots, the storekeeper punches the date In the top ol the Icr, in splices provided tor that pnrposo, and the wiurnnt begins from tha'. date nnd cnnnoi be disputed. These " 9 . " Per Cent. Jloots are ns pure as can bo made, and will Inst six months' hnrd ear. The exposed portions arc dciibleil, and the soles nre halt an inch thick, of solid rubber, nnd will outweir thrCH pair f any other rubber boots. Illus trated ciitaloginit with fn.l particulars are supplied by the "Cnm.oe " ceininiiy on appli cation, or tbe boots can bo seen in most atous. Dr. C. K. Shoemskcr, ol IJendinj;, Pa., is the only nnrnl surgeon in the United States wlm devotes all his time to tho treatment of deal need and diensiw ot Hi" rnr and c:tarrh; es ptcially riiniiinxonr. Nearly twenty years ex perience. Thousands tt-slily to his skill. Con suit him by mail or otherwise. Painphletree. Pimples and Humous oh thb Facb. In this condition of the skin, tho Vkoutine is the great remedy, as it acts directly upon the cause. It cleanses nnd puiillus tho blord thereby causing humors ot all kinds to dis appear. For one cent purchase a postal rard ann send your address to Dr. S inlord, 162'Uroad way, New York, and nceive phnmplets by return muil, li om which you can lesrn whelhei your liver is out ol order, and if out ot order, or is any way diseased, what is the best tiling in the world to twke lor it. Wsntid. Sherman Co.. Marshall. Mich., want ai agent in this county at once, at a salary ol filOl) per month and expenses paid, r or inn particulars address as above. Ladies' and children's shoes cannot in over it Lyon's Pntent (feel SiiuVners arc used For sore tin out, nurle. mixid with a little wutor. with Pijo's Cure Relief is instant. C. Gilbekt'b Corn Stwrch lor Pastry, oto. TmiirlifrrHf Wives and Mothers. Hit. MA WHIM'S 1 IKItlNKlATllOJ.Il.'DX will jvxl tlvely lure K'-niale Wealiti'-ss sikh a K;il!tlii: ol tin Wtlnli. Whites, riimiilc Inlliniuiiitlon or I koruli'.n ol the. Wntiili, lm hlctil.il llvini.trhae or KIdikUii::, IVunfii:, Stiiirevl mi.l lingular .M' tishuatinn, ie. An iM ami reliai.le reme-ty. Si-nl postal iui'1 furs piniphlt t. w it 1, treatment, cup-k mil ei rtilhntcs ftcln ti:i..ihiliH an i patleliti. to IHIW'AIMII ll.VI.I.Altll llli-A, A'. V. suhl by all itniKb'stf $1 .SO p.T huttle. Worthless Stuff. Not so fust my friend ; if you could nee thfi ftrong. healthy blooming men. women nnd children that have lieei; raised from bd9 of sickness, Buffering nnd almost, death, by the use of Hop Hitters, you would say. "Glorious nnd invaluable remedy." Press. U u nrd . gainst IHsense. It you find yourself getting bilious, head heavy, mouth foul, eyes yellow, kidneys disordered, symptoms ol piles tormenting vou. take at once a few doses ol Kidney-Wort. It is nature's great assistant. Use it ns an advance guard (ion t wait to get down sick. Co SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS THE WEEKLY SUN. A larp tight-pAge pip r f DO broad tolumnt will be st-nl pott-paid to any fcMrctw, otic yeur, for ONE DOLLAR. TIIK 8fN, N. Y.CIty. ORGAN Q E ATT Y p'nq IV w Us-umu 11 -loo, .t Uv!da TBf Kte4i. w i'iHnor4,tKl, eowrAbook, H3 UiHAS. "r,IM ieul-iTi,ftiirf In wrllein. lllulrl-d Kwpuirril IrOB AadrMlA'lELftliEATI If, WmhUgUa, Jef Mulled Tree for 85 Cts ! oamr fsr (! IO.OOU will l paid U mmy piU wlilHH trpltult n i.ffirifi tlllrtl will) stir PATKN iLD RAFKTV AT TACHMENT. Mar ''' 1afPf rr tiuro-r, Prvveiii drij). in,- nit.l I'fuilnr. $10,000. SAFETY LAMP. A6CNTI Jrjenn ior R.iniji,w mi n. oi cottar and depth of your lump. A. S. Newton' Safefv LamD Co.. WSTKI 13 vvr.il B.iw.lway, Maw York. Factory and Office, Binghamton, N. Y. ON 30 DAYS' TRIE.' w. will tru I i.itr Flpctro-VoltAl.- Belts sirl othei E'.prtrlr Ann'MlKf lipou trial for M ilays to funs nftli. tel villi .V i"iu .iii sil l fiM ") a pmuwl Kilurt. Also oi llii' l.iv. r. Kl.lnrvh, Hlictimslibln, ram! sis, c A turr cure tftutrwttecd orno fay. Aihlrciu t ullsie Veil p., Marshall, Mich. TRUTH WKJOHjyi 0u k flew tHl I tm Cssb, trM, , w kBi. Xtmtnmt. uJ L.I, U a-s. " fmrt m rwr iVsra ,s t Cs . tall .ate of m . ti . . J . M.,Bs1si,IM 4 AIVI 1ITISKHS by addrcin GEO. P, HOU r l.L At, C O M KtWKiianer AdvertttUvg Bureau. lO Snrura street. New York, con learn tiie txaet cost of any propueeU Hue ol ADVfcKTlMlsCi ta American Newbpapert. tiT tOu.uatffl Pitmuhlet, lOc.-f YOUNG MEN ifMrar. month. Every graduate uaitti)teei i poylmr aitu- . AdUreea J n. vmieiwue, fuaiumej, laoeariue, wit ileu Hue, Manager, Janea? il OPIUM .ilorpiiLiAM iMtiit . urrtl in 1U u-' iia. rt.li Hy iiiicurea D. J. blivHIIKNS. jUitou. Ohio. Aw. Pl.ntu tiiruu. ata..b. iu.dLt.fu.ili OuUU frc rtOEUVg Tr.A CO.. B-, wc. St. U.U.M. if 1 SJTCn InftUfnt M.M 1. Mil tlMwt-clm4k.WThl.rtW.fiS W A 11 I L II lD.ni,'' S, SaWrtpoo.. T.nu nrj libnJ. O In. IMUWAT10SSL MBJOO., , Sn4(, InM Sl-J. TfTXTCJ Hvlver7CstaUu free. Altlres) ij U 1 O Ureal Western tf un Works. Pittsburg, Fa 17 ) A WEKK. ailadsystta-'tnefSsliyiMd. Cost If P'' Outfit Ire. Address TaCoujib3 li TTT A YKA B snd expense, to sssnts. OuitH tree. V 4 I 4 Address P. O. VtCKKKV. Aujusls. Maine. etK in t 9 ft per day st liotue. Samples worth 6 fre $0 tO If siU Addrw Stissos A Co . PorlUvnd. Main XLJ 1 'r&ffirHS' BUTTER COLOR ; Ives Butter th sell t-edired eilrr t he year niilonil Diploma atN.Y. lialry fair, t sosts, waa uses It, whsrs to r si is. icn siy it s rtlt EUT AtlcVinr MATURES REMEDT. X VGE!IHp3 Tm &ttfT hippo PusmrsX Female Weakness. No bsttsr rstnsdy In Mia whole ",ri-"?!!5 bu y. bnen eomponndsd for ths relief and imre of Fm.le OompUlnts, of the ordinary kind, imd Vmhtikb. It seems to set In these c. wl'" oowonted certainty, and never falls to and healthful tone to the female orffans, W """"Jj reUied debility end nohealehy secretions, ano restore a healthfnl vlffor and elsstlcity. OoS the most common of these eomplelnts J!0.rT" boss or Whites, which are brought on either ty tne presence of Scrofula in the sretera ,hJ " Direction of the womb, or even by general dehimy. For all these complaints, and when danger beg'" to threaten woman at the tnrn cf life, V01 cn be comtneodrd without qiiilinratlco. J Rrost prevalence ot these dlsurdrrs, snfl ineir m t'y vsoftikk, has amply shown mat iu aiing agent remains not vet to be discovered, uu ts slrsady known, and is a favorite with American Isitlrs. Too lima has it been the custom to pre scribe niusratliig and nnreitsln rcmfdlre lo pjacs or what Is pleasant, efficacious and cheap. Try VsnaTiKE, and do not doubt Its power to carry yon asfely through danger and disease. A Splendid Medicine. Heart and Kid ney Disease, Female Weakness. GS.Tnosvii.LR, Ii.t,., July 98, lS7ft. H. B. Stevens, Iloiton Dssr Sir : I was afflict ed with Hcsrt anil Kldmy Disease, and other F. male Weaknesses, and aoctorea wim several . m.iii nrainul no benefit until I tried your Vegetltie, and after taking two bottles I wis completely cured, ana have been a hc.lthy woman ev.r since, although lam In my sixly-Mith year. I do hrsrtily recommend It as a splendid medicine to sit afflicted as I have been, and I bless Ihe day th.t It fell into my bands. , nHnw in KB. mania v e Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia. Rheumathm, weakness. H. B. fiTEvrns, Boston : I hsvs been practicing medicine for 3S years, and ss a remedy lor Boroiuir, I.iver (Jon.pla'nt, lysH psia, lllinniislif m, vies, n S' and ail ilisessea of the Woot I have never found its equal. I have sold Vf.ostimk for seven ye.re.snd hove never bad one lo'tie returned. I w mid heitrtlly recommend It to ti.ose in need of a b ooU runner. u. . hjo, fs-. Mint. 1 , 187B. Wlit.m, lo. Veneflne I Solil by Ml nrifiBl!?i t " -,TVr-r.i mm m FltAZLR AXLE GREASE. Vna. HAl.K II V AM. IIEAI.EKS. ieari(i I In MEDAL OFHOXOH at Ihe CeMtnmiA a-i t '.nil Krym.a ovt. Chicago. FRRZER LUBRICATOR CO.. New York APOSMIFIE Is the 0 d Reliable Concentrated Lyo, f OR FAMILY SOAP MAKING. I) Ircftf !n ai-rompiny ench Con for making Irani, Soft ui1 Tuih't Soap uicta Jy. IT r CLL WEHSHT ASD STRENGTH. The pjsvkct i rtix'ilc'tl with (so-call Concentrated Lye wliifj atiuUcruteU with wit anl rosin, and won't vuUt VMn.. SA TS MO.VET, AND BVT TUB APONIF1E VADK IIY THE Pentisylvntiiii Mult .Mann Tg Co., ruii.ADELPnit MS CAKLKTUS'S HOUSEHOLD ENCYCLOPEDIA. Thf mnst valuable sinrtf Book ever printed. A tsTeusvry of knowledge, flietr h-i n?ver Wore toe, iml.lah d tn on vti.uiti(, u ii.mh u I ul UiformUofi o fvery iujrct. H autifiiUy t!lufttrtt?d, price 93A4 As W fault Lihrary In One Volume. 1 SuM only by subscription; theea.eai TO AGENTS M"1 kntiwn. Ter.ua, etc G. W. CARI.KroXA CO., PuhHtAaam. N. Y. Cty. AGENTS WAHEI) f.T,M'4 t'linplt'Lo ami autlin.iir limtttry of tho pn-ut tour of It tleTiht'H Jtnvul P.ihm k. Kure ('urlfmitlcn. Wraith nri'l tl'miihTs of the Iri'lleM 'liiiut, .(ajttn. cU: A million ptttple want II. Tli in fit the liri-t i-1i;iih'i of ytmr lite to make niuiit-y. l.fUJirenf :it. li-p.-miy " i.nil iiiiin. Sciiti tor in-ular mil tMnt ti-niii ti A vents. A'l-ln mi Naim.sai. IVm imii.nu Co.. lMiila lr'pliiA, P. NORTH STAR SEED FARMS. The ni'st imrtherly seetl imnnoii the American tontt- netit. "The I nither nmth neeiin are fit own, thetiooner tne priHiiK-t will come t lUiitiirity " 8- it uliMn say, nl facts aiiftUiii the theory " that owtiiK to the prolonged ilay light ol the summer month of the north, pluutri grown in hif.h latitu'lea excel ail others m aromatic iruua, ri 11 essential otla, ieep green foli-me, an-l early maturity." The Amber 3unar t une, the He-1 Hiver Siwar Corn, which matures at far north as Manitoba, Minn. Karly t.em Peas, McoU-t Ulgttm Feas.ntm tne si. ram mmito nue uieac. oeiFi for 4th annual Catalogue, now ready free. 1. Jl . Jrl f. it Alii" i m 1'auif. .iinnicioui. REWARD of Illi-ftdinar, lilind, Itcliinjr.or Ulcerated Mien that Di ltlny'i I'ile It rmfriy fails too., f tires iiumediaio rtdk-f, ouva cane of Ions standing in 1 week, and fprdtmry ca.ea m 2nnya. T.ilMTIQN Z'l'.'J'ZTiZl vrai'per hot pr inlet Ton it in h'nch u qf Hornet ad Uf. MHirr thnnt'irr, I tut. 1 n bo't 6. bold v all drugaiht. flnt by m4I by Mi 1.1 f. 11. M. - W. rnr. 'JV.nth and Arch bt., 1'hi'aAi.Pa, PErtiOLEU "MIS JELLY Sliver Mclsl III I' ll Is Exposition. Grniii Meilnl tt PllilS'lvililll hXP"S:tloU. This wonderful niLstiiine la aektinwle lue.t l.y physi cians tliiciuiiliont the wiivlil to lie tlie l t remeily ills- -vere'l for UK' l"we "l " "Ull mirnis mn'iiinmipTii, Skin Disews, Pili'S. CaUrrh, Ctiiihiiitns. Ac. In tinier Unit every une may try It. It is put up In 1 H invl !s cent bottles fur lionseliiilil use. Olit.illi It from your iliut-'tist, mil you will Uud It superior to any luiug you bsvc ever iisexl. The Koran. A eui lo.liy to evti y ni e, and a iicrrssllj lo alt Hulei,l of 111-iliiry tr "f'.'K'"" I TIIK KOIUV OF MOIIAMMhllg trsnsl.lc'1 J"'1"11' Arable by (ieome Rale. Formerly pi'!'."1''1, ,n new, beautiful' type. nest. . '. lU-u-.-n; I clitir.ni jsrlrs :. eet.. .m l tt cents for nost.u.-c. ' '' stan.lnnl works, remarkably tow m p n ' 'r" "' to clulis, free. B.iv where you iw liif i.iyitiicmeuu As ikicui lloos ExcuAsi;,Tr'i"'gg-"."H'j -N- This Clmtm-IIous. Establish 16)03. PENSIONS. mmm r.a w. Thouianil of Soldiers and belrs entitled PenIionslsie back lo dlscbargs or (testa. Tne lantts Aawllhsfsmp. f. fj. Drawer 8if, Washington, I, aj. A GUAR U 1 II. il !.. me or me niost'U.'.r.il'l Ksrii.s l laws for Mtle Iibh. Fine si tu ition, soil, society antl schools. Fine sluutlioii, soil, ssiety snil SvbcKiis. Living siiiUi';s. Kxcellent wnleriui i feints: oul arsl stone haii'ly. In Iowa's i;reat iniiry region. I'.uil v iu:, new.larKe si'llM'autilul. Nolncmiiliranct s For piitlc isisS'Mrcss -.pscw Storks, tsprmvtlle, l,litiiCo.,lovAs IHII.oiMI biieeu ol Uu.k Music for Piano or llrcdn. , f tn rsiora vou "V THAT IS J0n 1 I isouLOUll I ( VIHAT I SHALL I I rMtPSAVLaT I GRANT AROUND I WORLD mUSllLi I "u,lc lor P1u,u or Urgan. S sheets for lOc, 12 for i.V. CsUlognefree. i. L. PAT1 LN k CO., 47 Barclay bt.S.Y. AfsK lHr..l'rK Foil liAI.A I l,ll , for btomacti, I.iver and blCHNt. l.sri;e Couiniissiotis lo Agents. tLALATlilN K CO., at Njau St., XewYorji. ftflft a week In T.ur own town. Tcmn snd SA orjio. uu free. Address II. tUixirr 4 Co.. Port''--X Maine, round. The llircekt Will lee Hnven, reconiuiend. ICS US. I'sca oy aiitiie Desr, i rcamcnes. ,':'-, T"r" . ...... . . in'rri In, I n,A. drnRBistormcrrhant.lorll', or wilti tsasKjsiiyt mswriaj
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