TIMELY TOPICS.
Cetywayo, the dethroned Zulu mon
arch, according to a South A frlea paper,
is engaged in making mental notes. Ho
has calculated that each charge fired by
the foreign men-of-war in Table bay in
saluting the fort was of the value or an
ox. He also concludes that it is more
expensive to krp up armaments in
Europe than in Zululand. His maiesty
also regards the queen's conduct in not
answering his meBpageof contrition as
showing a great lack of courtesy.
The island of Rotumah, which has
been provisionally annexed to the Brit
ish empire at then quest of a deputation
of the two hostile factions which inhabit
it, is situated a little to the north and
east of the Figi archipelago, and was
discovered by Captain Edwards during
his searcli for the mutineers of the
Bounty in 1791. The island is only Ave
miles long and half as wide, but it has
a numerous population, the shore being
covered with villages, which touch and
join one another. The soil is very fer
tile, and vessels often stop at the island
for supplieswhile the inhabitants make
good sailors.
According to the Gorman imperial
statistics for 1878 of births, deaths and
marriages, just published, the estimated
population being 44 200.000, the mar
riages numbered 340 000, the births
1,785,000, and the deaths 1,228,000. In
France, the number of births was 936,
000, and of deaths 839,000, so that the
births exceeded the deaths by 97,000.
In Germany the excess cf births was
557,000 that is to say, that while in
France the population increased in 1878
at the rate of .27 per cent., it increased
iu Germany at the rate of 1.25 per cent.
The number of marriages in Germany
hae greatly fallen off since 1873, when
423,900 were registered.
The sum realized from the recent sale
of the Deniidoff paintings in Florence
l0J7,db3) is very large, but it has been
excelled at least once and approached
several times. The Gillott collection of
625 pictures brought $806,050 in 1872;
Mr. Albert Grant sold his 205 pictures
for $520,684; in 1875, Mr. Mendel's
Manley Hall collection of 445 pictures
sold for $499,800, and twenty years
earlier, Lord Northwick's 1,881 pictures
urougnt nim 34o,iy8 in casn. with
out niakine the statement too positively,
it is probable that the largest sum ever
actually paid tor any singTe canvas was
iiy,ou, tue picture being Murillo s
"Conception of the Virgin." which
was bought for the Louvre at Paris, at
tne sale ot Marshal Soult s collection in
1852. And possibly $60,000 is the
largest sum ever received for a single
work by a living artist, the picture in
this case being " 1807," the painter
Meissonier, and the buyer A. T. Stew
art. The far West seems already tolerably
well supplied with means of livelihood
for the scores of millions that will soon
dwell there, but a new one has recently
been mentioned in the California Acad
emy of Science. The gum which ex
udes from the creosote plant is known
to commerce as shellac,, from which are
made sealing-wax, varnish, and the
scarlet lac dye used for dyeing the Brit
ish red military coats. The plant is as
plenty as sage brush, from Southern
Utah to New Mexico, and from the
Colorado desert to Western Texas, but
chiefly plenty on the Mnjaye and Colo
rado deserts. Calcutta exports $5,000,
000 worth of shellac a year, which
brings from twenty-live to thirty-five
cents a pound, and almost as much of
lac dye, selling still higher. The
United States have imported iu some
years 700.000 pounds of shellac alone
Yet it is all over ke West, and can be
so easily collected that boys could carry
on the business of gathering it. Proba
bly this product will now receive atten
tion in commerce.
Here is a scene irom Leitrim county,
Ireland, as described by the correspon
dent of the Mansion House committee:
On visiting the sick a few days since I
entered the cabin of a poor old man.
who, I believe, is bordering on eight)
years old. I was grieved to see hini in
the miserable plight he was in hanging
over a Itw sods of turf, without choe or
stocking to ward off the cold from a
damp floor. His hollowed cheeks, pene
trating looks and emaciated visage evi
dently tell a sad tale. I reached another
house on the same day; the inmates oi
this comprised four individuals tin
father, an old man, unable to leave hit
bed unless carried; the son, the onh
support of the old father, and twositklj
sisters, one of whom is now far advance!
in dropsy, and I believe, is dying. Hav
ing asked the son why it was that om
ot he girisdii. not look for employment,
even if she were only to get her support,
his answer was: " No one wants her '
In Bonniconlan, county Mayo, two hun
dred families are destitute in a singli
parish. They are in great distress the
most of them in absolute want. The
have nothing now to live on but Indian
meal, and not enough ot that; Borne ol
them without a drop of milk, without
fuel, and all without credit, having their
clothes pawned and their children ball
naked. "
Perseverance ana Health.
A man who inherits wealth may begin
and worry through threescore and ten
years without any definite object. In
driving, in foreign travel, in hunting
and fishing, in club houses and society,
he may manage to pass away his time;
but he will hardly be happy. It seems
to be necessary to health that the powers
of a man may be trained upon some sub
ject and steadily held there day after
clay, year alter year, while vitah y lasts.
There may come a time in old aee when
the fund of vitality will have sunk so
low that he can follow no consecutive
labor without such a draft upon his
forces that sleep cannot restore them.
Then, and not before, he should stop
work. But so long as a man has vitality
to apare upon work it must be used, or
It will Decome a source ot grievous,
harrassing discontent. The man will
not know what to do with himself ; and
when he has reached such a point as
that, he is unconsciously digging a grave
for himseit, ana lasmoning ais own
coffin.
Life needs a steady channel to run in
regular habits of work and of sleep.
It needs a steady, stimulating aim a
tend toward something. An aim
less life can never be happy, or, for a
long period, healthy baia a rich lady
to a gentleman still laboring beyond his
needs: " Don't stop: keep at it." The
words that were in tier heart were: "If
my husband had not stopped, he would
be alive to-day." And what she thought
was doubtless tiue. A greater shock
can hardly befall a man who has been
active than that which he experiences
when, having relinquished his pursuits.
he finds unused time and unused vitality
hanging upon his idle hands and mind.
The current of his life is thus thrown
into eddies, or settled into a sluggish
pool, ana he begins to die. aayMariurn.
One of the occupations of young men
who are tilling up Western Texas is to
. breed geese. One of these has 3,000
geese, whose' feathers are plucked every
two months. Each bird will average
a pound and a half a year, averaging
fifty cents a pound. '
TALES OF SUFFERING.
Incident! of the Terrible Famine In
Irelandi
By direction of the citiaens" Irish
famine relict committee, of Philadel
phia, their sub-committee on distribu
tion addressed letters of ibauiry to re
sponsible patties in Ireland tor infor
mation as to the extent and severity ot
the d is treed in the several localities.
Among other letters received in reply
were the following i
Uister S. M. Teresa, of the conveht of
Our Lady ot Mercy, Cappaquin, writes :
Since the famine years there was not, I
believe, such distress, because the farm
ers and shopkeepers who were able to
help the poor people, either by giving
them work or alms, are now as badly on
as themselves. Many of the farmers
could not pay their rents and are sold
out. May our good God comfort them
and inspire those who have money to
be generous, at le st tor a lew months,
When we are in hopes things will not
look so awfully hopeless as at present.
When Katy s $10 came we commenced
the children's breakfast, which we have
continued to keep on ever since ; but
last week, when the numbers had in
creased to nearly eighty, it was an
nounced in school that from Monday all
whose fatheis were living should break
fast at home. Although the father may
earn one shilling or one shilling four
pence on fine days, what is it but starva
tion when rent, fuel and food are to be
paid forP As to clothes, they are out of
the question.
Mis. Cullinane, of Bantry, writes : I
am sorry to say there is great distress
here. But for the money supplied by
the friends in Dublin and what was con
tributed by the shopkeepers I don't know
what would have become of the small
farmers and laborers. Every mem
ber of the relief committee has his time
fully engaged. You know the district
from Luave bridge to Glengariff and
how wretched the inhabitants are all
the way. The poor creatures get no em
ployment, their crops failed altogether.
and they have to come down to Bantry
to get a Buare oi tne rcnei, which, on
account of being divided between so
many, sometimes a family is obliged to
subsist for a week on a counle nf uliil.
lings. Picture to yourself perhaps eight
or Dino uuman Deings living on two
shillings per week. It just keeps them
from dying of starvation. I went into
a house to-day in which there were
three sick children lying on what ap
peared to me to be old meal bags, and
the covering was not much better. In
the mother's arms was a fourth child,
who, I was told, was recovered from
" the sickness," but was not able to walk
from weakness. There were other chil
dren, also, looking miserable. The father
was only able to get work for two days
last week, and the mother assured me
the only drink she was able to give the
sick children was water. I am listening
to similar stories of misery every day.
Crowds of poor people come about the
house trying to get some of the relief.
Only two landlords contributed to the
fund one gave $25 and the other $ 15. I
don't know how any person can be so
heartless as to put forward a statement
to the effect that there is no distress.
Unfortunately there is, and until crops
grow it will continue. I hope the col
lections to relieve our poor people will
be kept up in America. If those cease
Ireland will be in a bad way. God bless
the good people who have given us their
money so generously, and I trust that
He who has His own wise ends in view
will grant a plentilul harvest next year.
A Locomotive in the Dumps.
" He's been in the dumps bees use Lis
locomotive has been 'ofi' for three or
four days," said a railroad niaii to a
companion the other day, as he pointed
to tin engineer.
" How oli'P"
" Go and ask him."
It took a quarter of an hour and a
cigar to clear the cloud from the engi
neer's fnce.and then in reply to the query
he said :
' It is a queer thing. There's my en
gine, one of the best on the road, in per
f. ct order, only twelve years old, and
able to run or pull with the best of them.
A month ago I hadn't the least bit of
trouble in making time, no matter how
the track was or the weight of the train.
She was ready at the word, held her
steam beautifully, and she seemed to
enderstand every word I said. To-day
she is down in the roundhouse, growl
ing and sputtering and acting as if she
wanted to pick a fuss with a gravol
pit." "Anything out of gear?"
" Not a thing. She's been looked over
twice, and we can't find the least excuse
ur her conduct. She'll get over it in a
my or two, perhaps. If she don't we'll
lUnish her."
"How!"
';Put her before a freight or stock
train. I've seen it tried a dozen times,
and it most always worked well. Here
she is now, bright as a new dollar and as
handsome as a pic ure, and I'll bet $50
that there isn't the least thingout of or
der. She's simply sulking, the same as
a child or a womun, and J know what
started it. Three weeks ago, while on
mV rilTl in With tllA ninlit Avnroaa alia
just wanted to light out for all she' was
A'm i.h. Slip tnnb- ttio htt lib-a n ... ..;.
horse, and if I hadn't choked her off
i j , . . . .
sue a nave ueaten schedule time by
twenty minutes. She acted mad right
away, and in running twenty miles she
gave me more trouble than I ever had
. i. i. c . i i ,
wiiu iier iu a run oi tiiree hundred.
She lost. Htpnm tvioti t n fnom
- ...... . W . . 1 1. U 1 1.1 I
choked her pipes, and when I wanted
ujoic Bieaui sue u suae on ner drivers
She went right back on me that night
and has been sulking .ever since."
" Tin rVi pnvinoa rhlaP"
" Not all, but many of them. Some
i- 1 1 i i i . ....
ioiks iaugu at us and call it supersti
tion, but they never lived in an engine
A Ghastly Story.
The wife of a skilled artisan named
Schinid, ol Samara, Russia, gave birth
to a child while her husband, who had
spent all his wages for many previous
weeks in liquor, was away from his
home upon a drunken frolic. Two days
after her confinement Schmid staggered
in, and began to shout, with horrible
threats and curses, for his dinner.
There having been neither food nor
money in the house since he had last
left it, the unfortunate woman had had
no nourishment for herself or her babe
since its birth, and the latter had died
of exhaustion but a few minutes before
its father made his appearance. To
Schmid's brutal menaces his miser
able wife made no answer. She rose
from her pallet, wan and emaciated,
crept across the room to the dresser,
took thence a large aish, which she car
ried back to the bed. and. placing the
baby's corpse upon the dish, set it
down on the table beiore her husband,
with the simple but awlul words:
'There' is nothing else to eat in the
house l" bchmid sat gazing with a
glassy stare at his dead child for some
time. Presently a neighbor came in
and spoke to him, but lie uttered no
word and made no sign. Upon closer
examination he was lound to have en'
tirelv lost his reason, and he was con
veyed to a madhouse, where he still re
mains a hopeless lunatic.
Under the new law of Iowa no insur.
anoe company can rebuild a damage
structure, but must pay all losses i;
cash.
LEAD PENCILS.
Some Piteti Atinnl American l.d Fen
Clls-Ho trtry arc Made, etei
An PTntmniro a-ivpn An interesting at-
cbuht of die manner In which lead pf h
ci Is are made, as follows: Graphite of
great ptlrlty is found at Tieondnroga,
N. Y., both in the form suitable for the
manufacture of crucibles and for the
torodUction of what are erroneously
known as " lead pencils." The graphite
is reduced in mills to r fine impalpable
powder, almost as mobile as water, nnd
making the lingers as smooth as it they
had been oiled. A process of mixing
with a peculiar description of clay is
then used, according to the degree ot
" hardness " desired in the pencils; and
the sUbstahce having been reduced to a
dough form, one ot the most curious
processes of the manufacture is seen. The
doueh is placed in a cylinder, within
which a screw works a well-fitting
plu per, and at the bottom is
a plate having holes of the shape
and size of which the "lead" is
to be cut. As the coils of tenacious ma
terial issue from these holes, they are
cut up into lengths equal to three pen
cils, straightened, flattened and baked.
It has been found possible to run a coil
4,000 feet long without breaking,
such a length of unbroken mate
rial having been shown at the Philadel
phia centennial exhibition.
ine Americans have in their own ter
ritory that Florida cedar which makers
in Europe use so largely for pencils, and
great quantities of the necessary timber
are cut down for the company. The
cedar is brought home to New Jersey,
not in logs, but in blocks seven inches
long, and these are cut into strips meas
uring three and one-half inches wide by
tnree-sixteenths thick. This last fact
reveals two differences between the
methods usually employed in Europe,
for the pencil-slip is in this factory made
of a width to yield six pencils instead
ot being cut singly; and both halves ot
the pencil are alike, and not. as in the
other methods, one portion narrower
tnan tne other. Hoth sides ot the pencil-slip
are grooved j nnd the process of
filling the slips, winch is done by hand,
is exceedingly interesting. Each girl
engaged in filling takes up a grooved
slip in one hand, a bunch of the
straight "leads" in the other, and
with a dexterity begotten of prac
tice, very rapidly inserts six of
the stalks in the slip. This being handed
to a second girl, the latter receives from
a third worker the second half of the
slip, over which a brush of hot glue has
just been passed. The two halves are
brought together, each one. it will be re
marked, embracing half of the "lead,"
and then, when a row of these slips has
been filled, they are pressed under a
screw frame until the glue is dry. The
next process is to smooth the ends
where the " leads" project, and then we
reach another very interesting machine.
In this machine a revolving cutter
seizes the slip, and with two cuts re
moves the superfluous wood, separates
the pencils and rounds them into shape.
jut; pvuiio mil iiuui bins IlJ.tUIllIlU ill a
continuous streom, or rather in six con
tinuous streams, each pencil finished for
use, and so smooth, it is alleged, that
the finest sand-paper would saratch
them.
American ingenuity is also seen in an
arrangement by which the chips falling
from this machine are sucked away by
the " blower " into the engine-room and
consumed as fuel, with the result ot
keeping the place perfectly free from
rubbish. The next curiosity is the
counting board," a grooved board or
table, n which, by rubbing a handful
of pencils over it, and seeing that each
groove ig ful, a gross of penc:ls can be
accurately counted off in five or six
seconds Other ingenious machines are
in use lor staining and varnishing the
pencils, stamping marks and names, and
finally packing them in a singular and
crnvenient method, the package being
oval in shape. By the use of checks on
the quantity of material given out, the
company boasts of being able to secure
Unit if even one pencil of the 80,000 made
daily is abstracted it will be missed;
ana inciaenis are not wanting where
this fact.' being unknown and unsus
pected, has brought people into trouble
who thought that one pencil might be
removed from among such large nnm-
ocrs. ineruie ot the house is that it
a pencil is missed from a room, every
one employed in that room is discharged
unless the pencil be found; and there is
a lurther rule that no one discharged
shall in any case be reemployed. Every
one ia the place is interested in securing
the honesty both of visitors and co
workers.
Sheep Killed by Urass Seed.
The penalty of getting hav seed in
one's hair must be serious in some Darts
ot Australia. There are districts in that
country where the sheep are much dis
tressed and olten actually destroyed by
the seeds of certain grasses called' ' Fin.
chilla," which, having once fallen upon
or been caught by the wool.quickly work
men- way turoueli the sKins ol the ani
mals into their flesh. The ripe seeds of
tuese grasses are armed with recurved
barbulus whose points, being sharp as
needles, easily penetrate the skin, every
movement of the animal tending to drive
the seed deeper and deeper into the flesh.
The mutton exposed for sale in the
butchers' shops is sometimes so full of
these grass seeds that it excites the at
tention ol strangers. One newly arrived
emigrant describes a fore-auarter of mut
ton as resembling a ham just taken from
tue Dag oi Chan in which It had been
brought from England. On close exam
ination it appeared that many of the
seeds had still their long, thin tails
drawn through the flesh, like threads
interlacing each other in every direo
tion. He goes on to say that, on ques
tioning the butcher, he was told that
they rarely killed a sheep that was not
more or less punctured in this way. It
stands to reason that butchers' meat,
shcIi as this, must need to be thoroughly
cooked before eating. From other ac
counts it appears that the seeds are not
infrequently found actually piercing the
heart, liver and kidneys of sheep that
have died from the effects of their move
ments. One writer says that he has
found " the internal organs so crowded
with the seeds that they felt like a bag
of needles, if squeezed in the hand. On
some "runs," where these grasses are
specially abundant, the annual loss oi
sheep is a ve'y serious matter. It has
even been asserted that the northern
part of Queensland is unfit for sheep be
cause ot the great abundance of the
noxious grasses.
A Wildcat that Whipped TnentyFIre
Dorr.
The Americu8 (Ga ) Republican says:
Recently Mr. John Renew killed a large
wildcat near his place. It was jumped by
his dogs while he was plowing in his
field, and sending for his gun, he fol
lowed the hounds on foot. He Lad
a three hours' chase, when the
cat took to a large pine tree
from which he shot it. It weighed
about forty-fiva or fifty pounds. Renew
says the cats are very bad in his section.
Not long since they killed a grown
sheep for Mr. William Charabless,
dragged the carcass fortv or fiftv
tfards, and covered it up in the corner
of the fence. There is a large, fierce
wildcat out there, which, he says,
whipped twenty-five dogs at one time,
and ran half a dozen men from the
swamp. He thinks it can whip any dog
in the State. '
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Poultry Note.
Fowls must have ample range to do
welh
Apply kerosene frequently and un
sparingly to the roosts.
Fowls depend more oft the eye in dis
tinguishing their food than on the
taste.
Superior parentage is of the first
importance in choosing fowls for breed
ing. The nearest they approach per
fection, most generally the better the
results.
Carbolic acid mixed with about thirty
parts of water, and applied with a smafi
brush to the roots of the feathers about
the neck, belly and tent, usually kill or
dispel the vermin on fowls.
The amount of flesWorhiihg food is
greater in oats and oatmeal than in ahy
other grain, being about sixteen per
cent., and the amount of fatty sub
stance is double that contained in
wheat.
When putting up perches use some
j udgment, at least in placing them so
far apart that the fowls cannot peck
those of another. This alone is a
fruitful cause of many injuries happen
ing them in their endeavor to escape
from their belligerent neighbors.
Colonizing fowls in separate small
flocks in the manner they are kept in
villages and small towns is practicable.
Any number divided into small lots
with separate houses and runs will be
productive and profitable, if brains,
means and a thorough practical knowl
edge of poultry culture be employed
at all times. Poultry Monthly.
linlglna Seed Potatoes.
Good crops may be grown on a great
variety of soils, but it must be borne in
mind that a Roil that is adapted to one
variety of potatoes is not at all suitable
for another, and that one variety re
quires to be planted much thicker than
another on the same kind of soil. Hence
it isof prime importance to the grower
that he should understand the nature of
his ground and also of his seed. I al
ways cut my potatoes to a single eye,
and by making the hills a trifle closer
and less seed in each, better results are
obtained than by throwing in seed by
the hand mi. The potato, when propa
gated from the tuber in the usual man
ner, naturally tends to deteriorate and
revert to its primitive cond'tion. The
causes which produce deterioration are
a continual planting upon the same soil
without a change of seed and imperfect
cultivation. The remedy is to procure
recently originated varieties possessing
th3 greatest amount ot natural vigor.
If I was to make a list of any of the
newly originated varieties, I would
name the Mammoth Pearl as the best
for a general cropper; the Magnum Bo
nutu (not the English variety of the
same name) for .earliness and produc
tiveness combined having yielded last
year 548 bushels from one acre of
ground, without any manure whatever,
and dug sixty days after planting. Cor
respondence Country Genthman.
lteeloes.
Baked Corn Meal Pudding. Boil
two quarts of sweet milk; scald in it
seven tablespoons of corn meal. When
a little cool add salt, three eggs and half
a teacup sugar or syrup; season with
nutmeg. Bake in a moderate even oven
three hours.
Rock Cakes. One pound of flour.
half a pound of sugar, half a pound of
butter, halt a pound oi currants orcner-
ries, lour eggs, leaving out two oi me
whites. A small quantity of candied
lemon peel improves the flavor greatly.
Cut the cakes into shapes with little tin
cutters, and bake in a steadily heated
oven.
Fkied Chicken. Cut up, steam in a
little water, salt, roll in flour, brjil on
a gridiron, or fry in butter in a frying-
pan ; or lay in a pan with a uttie outur
and water, cover with another pan,
basteoften, and fry brown. In either
case make a gravy of the drippings and
serve in-a gravy boat.
Tongue Toast. Take a beef tongue
that has been well boiled, chop fine, mix
with cream or milk, the beaten yolk of
nn egg, a piece of butter, and salt to
taste ; simmer gently. Toast thin slices
of oread, butter them, spread with the
mixture and servo hot. Keep covered
and hot in a tureen. This is also very
nice without the toast, and is good for
breakfast, or tea.
Ibe People of Havana and Their
Cnstoms.
A correspondent of the Troy limes,
writing from Havana, says: Thn peo-
nin onnpat liatlpau. thpv move
1 C UC1C i 1 ....... .... 1 - - J .
slowly, lazily I may say. There is mani
fest little ot tne vim ana pusu seen jn
our northern citites The natives are
.un nfctutm-p ahorr.pvprl nnd voluble
in speech; in communicating a simple
Statement, as lor instance uueiHing wiu
..,..mn whprp 1n rivive vou. thev will
talk, ta k, and thure seems no end to the
jabber. Walking Spanish means very
slow; talking Spanisu, iaso anu loug.
The Victoria carriages. French style,
n tVm nnnnls. vpliti'lpfl in Havana:
tllU 1. 11 rvpui... , ...... - .
the streets are full of them. A course
drive, which may be extended three or
four mnes, costs oniy eigmeen ceuis,
.... utvttr-fivn panto, the first iiour. and
forty-five cents each subsequent hour;
two persons may be comfortably seated
in a Victoria, and three light bodies can
squeeze in. So it will be seen that
:tr;ni.nnt a a ttai-v n.hpnn Inxurv liere.
U1IT1jV"W.hc T l- - J .... J- j
and it is largely availed of by almost
everybody except tne laoormjr peojiio.
Tim iinraDs oib small, generally in
poor condition, but tough as a knot;
their endurance under the broiling sun
rxf tl.io nllmntn ia remarkable: thev
trot off at a fair gait and never seem
to tire. The cruelty practiced upon
dumb beasts is snocung; tue uorseo are
most unmerciiuny wnippea at vueir
nnrlr on1 nvpn wVlioll Bffl almOSt PX"
clusively used in drawing service
loads Wlt'.l clumav.
heavy carts are cruelly goaded
with a pole steel-tipped to a sharp point,
flip ysii ni-p an Imrnpssed that thev
hair hpnHa nnd rone reins
Uiun aawu nuvi g
are attaclu d to rings in their noses to
.. .... 1. 1 ......
direct tneir course, jjuuio ueiwto mo
overworked, poorly fed and tortured to
AaatV Pnaaaaadit n(l tVlPV flTfi flf WOll-
derful endurance, they break down and
are used up in three or four years at
1 . 1 1 i
longest unaer bucu cruei usage
The Poets Laureate of England.
Tha Biipppacinn nf the nnets laureate
of England, from the time of the
"father of English poetry," lias oeen
as lollows. witn tue date 01 tupir acces
inn tn nffiw. lipnffrev Chaucer. A
Tl 1373. Hpnrv Sencan. 1400: John
Kay, 1461; Andrew Barnard, 1485;
John Skelton, i5to: Edmund opencer,
15U0; Samuel Daniel, 1599; Ben Ton
son. 1615; Sir W. Dasenant, Kt., 1638;
Tnlin rtivripn 1 n70 ; Thnmaa Shadnell.
1680; Nahun Tate, 1693; Nicholas
Houe, 1714; Lawrence rusuen. im,
Colley Cibber, 1730; William White
head, 1758; Thomas Wharton, 1785,
Henry J. Pry, 1790; Robert Southey,
...... . . . . . .it . i . i. iono. il.
lou; William woruBwunu, idm,ai'
irea xennyson. loou.
A young lady told a gentleman that
smoking was injurious to the health.
" Why," said he. " there's my father, he
has smoked dailv: and he is now sev
enty." " Well," suld she, "if he had
never smoked he might have been
eighty."
Canceling Postage Stamps by Fire.
Th. ...IaIHu out hnriripjs nf rlnw
York city think they have arrived at a
practical ano tnorougu p.u u prevent
ing the second use oi postage stamps,
... i,;i, la n fraud that, hns heen nraetinnd
by washing off the ink with acids after
the stamping of the first use. Persons
engaged in this cheating ot the govern-
mnnf i,i a tionTi reft inren inns In de
vising modes of doing; the unlawtu.
IT A 1. m nf nAft..nlln.
WaSIling. A I1KW pov;cr,o ui vhuciiiv
tion has been invented, and is in use iu
the New York postoflice. It is to
ti.n tomna Nnppjtnenn nf the
new process show very effective work
against the iraud 01 secona use 01 me
stamps, the cancellation mark being ab
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is iust the same as that made by the
ink stamp, except tnas n is mwunj
burned and searched in instead of being
an ink impression. The new stamp is
heated by gas. the metal being thin, to
allow of both quick heating and
rapid COOling, it IS useu wie nnmc na
an ink-stamp, but with a saying of time
Knf mill cnnhlo the nprson using it to
do at least twice the work that the ink
stamp would. In using the latter it
. . . , j ..I... 1 ... . ......
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nil CAjtiiuv.vu ........ .. .... - r
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The New York Commerical Adver
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nearly 16,000 depositors, the largest
proportion are domestic servants, and
the smallest are artists.
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In Powder Form.
Vegetine put up in thia torin comes within
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yoursolt you can, from a 50c. package con
taining the barks, rooU and herbs, make two
bottles of the liquid Vegetine. Thousand
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the medicine. Full directions in every pack
nge. Vegetine in powder form is sold by all
druguistd and general s'.ores. If you ounnot
buy it ot them, enclose fllty cents in postage
stamps for one package, or one dollar for two
packages, and I will send it by return mail.
H. It. Stevens. Boston, Moss.
A Household Need.
A book on the Liver, its diseases and their
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Sheep 06, 07
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No. 1 White 1 as mis
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Butter State Creamery 21 3 87
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mmm
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Vegetine.
IN POWDER FORM
50 CTS. A PACKAGE.
Dr.W. ROSS WRITES:
Scrofula, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia.
Rheumatism, Weakness.
H. R. Stevens, Boston s I hare been praotlclni
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liem, Weakness, and all diseases of the blood, I
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for seven years aud have never had one bottle re
turned. 1 would heartily recommend It to those ii
need of blood purifier.
Db. W. ROSS, Druggist,
Sept. 18, 1878. Wilton, lows.
Vegetine.
One Package in Powder Form
Cured Scrofula.
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR DOCTOR"' BILLS
M Bbkwih St., Eaat Boston, Maas.,
Sept. SO, 1878.
Mr. H. R. Htkvims Dear Sir : My little daugh
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POND'S EXTRACT
Subdutt Inflammation, Control all ttemorrhaga,
Aoutt and Chronic, Wnoul and Ifueout.
The Wonder of Healing.
IIEYWOOD SMITH, M M. R.
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POND'S EXTRACT.,
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HEALIXG COMFORTING.
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POND'S XTRACT.
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IR. II. O. PItESTOIV, of Brooklyn, N. T.!
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