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THE OOJSTITUTIOI-THE UUOI-ASD THE ESTOBOEMEHT OP TEE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXVII.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL IS. 1SS3.
NO. 15.
he fern livt and foliage bright
Inch iu forms of fantastic display
w an ii iu i.irnis 01 fantastic display
...... ..... .,- uv nit'lit.
Hut lade at the full dawn of dav
So pntspccts ami vision of hope " '
v men nir ummgli iy wearisome ,ni
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lj.e tlie beautiful frost on the iwiir.
I have dreamt many dav dreams so fair
In fanciful seen.-, full of joy;
I hav- pictured a future hi r.ire
Ol' bliss without tilitfe of alloy;
l'.ut 1 wake to the stern world huv m.re
And I feel its l.road glare once a-nin '
.nl my t'aueiful visiou is o'er " '
Like the beautiful frost on the pane.
Will nothing that's lovely ere l.o.t
Save to mock us with lioies and fears?
Is ali that is fair to glide past,
Like the swiftly and fast flying years?
Wake, wake in the world there is'li-ht
Hi, sing not this doleful refrain, '
Or your hojies w ill soon fade out of sight
Like tli beautiful frost on the pane.
TWO l.OVKItS.
High time declared the gossips tf
(ireynile, that Nannie Williams made a
choice of a husband, and gave to the
other girls, who doubtless would make
U tter w ives, if they bad not as much
beauty, tome chance.
Utterly alxurd that the men followed,
one after auother, like sheep in a drove,
wherever her caprices led.
They were like a hive of bees con
tending for one flower, and blind to all
the gardenful bet-ides.
l'.ut Dannie only smiled when some
whisier of this reached her, and let the
gossips talk.
Full well she knew ber power, this
simple country girl, who possessed no
dowtr 6ave her beauty, and right royally
she used it.
Betides, it was not quite as the gos
sip declared.
There was no such butter iu all the
county as that which name from Nannie
Williams farm, and Nannies fingers,
white and tapering as they were, moul
ded; no cream was so thick and yellow,
and Nanny had sole charge of the dairy;
no bouse was more neat and tidv, wi:k
a namelet-s air of feminine grace about
it, and Nannie, since ber mother's
death, reigned sole mistress.
No wonder the young men felt the
race well run, with such a prize as its
goal
True, she tad a saucy word ever
ready, but one readily lorgave its harm
less liens for the sake of the sweet brilli
ant smile which lent ber pretty face its
rarest charm, and seemed to mutely
plead her pardon.
However, w hen it was least expected,
Nannie made her choice, and it fell upon
Sydney Hichards
'There was nothing to be said against
him.
He was a good-looking young fellow,
with a farm of bis own.
He and Nannie, would make a baud
some couple, and doubtless would suc
ceed well in the Wirld.
But for all that it was a surpiise to
many of them, and one or two of the
mote discerning ones said that she had
flirted shamelessly with Dick Arm
strong, and that quiet as he had ever
been, be had grown more so since the
betrothal was announced.
Nannie did not hear this, however,
nor bad the seen Dick since her engage
ment, until one evening some three
weeks after.
She had wandered down to the little
gate cpening on to the road, and stood
leaning listlessly against it, wheu a
quick, firm tread broke the stillness.
She knew the step well, and a flnsn of
crimson rose to her face, then receded,
as a tall, stalwart figure came around a
sharp turn in the road.
He gave a quick start, too, a9 he per
ceived ber, and would have paused on,
merely raising the straw hat from the
close-cropped blond bead, but that her
voice, a httle tremulous, detained him.
"Dickl" she said.
ii t l.ultMl then, but made no move
ment to approach ber, until she held out
towards him a small white hand.
"Dick,- she repeated, "of all my
friends you aru the only one who lias
not congratuiatea me.
Indeed!" be answered,
with
strange, bard smile.
it is not too late."
,.! ..lu-inno' the liitle fingers for an
instant only, be turned away again as if
be considered an ins amj
Hot tears rose to Nannie's eyes,
though from whence they sprung none
could have tuvinea.
Yon are cruel, Dick, she said.
"No," be answered, "I am kind, but
believe me, Dannie, i trust you uij
happy. Good night!"
no turther word to detain
him. but stood and vatcbed aim walk
WHr eves still followed the direction
II tT uuv "0 w
1 tiov cirrlit
He never lovea rnel she murmured
He would always have been exacting
and jealous, and be never afcked me to
be bis wife. .
..vi-i,..t virriit I. on be to complain?
But the girl knew that she snenced
i I,.,. ..,uniyi and no voice of
uujjr .i .
bis, when she thus spoke,
u. k..i nttorad no ret) roach.
" . . . ,
Dared she to her own soul say he
could have found no cause fordoing so?
Kvdnev Richards ioimd something
amiss with his pretty
betrothed that
She shrank from bis somewhat too
mnnHtrRtiva caress, and turned upon
him almost angiily when he asked her
to name the day lor ineir weuuiug m
taM to let the banns be read at once.
l.m see. it'll soon be harvesting
time. Nannie, my lass," he pleaded, by
wav of argument, "and there s no deny;
J . Y . 1 . .nn.all'a hftlU
ing that ma ianuuccuo
. u ii V nre
..i.v oil ivndt for its mistress, and
why shouldn't iu mistress be ready for
it?
"Simply because she isn't your maid
f.-ii-w,irV" fcvdaer racuardi, to b
i.; the season is roost convenf
ent and the demand for her most j.ress-
ing ," was the girl s not repiy.
i,..t ir.ver lore it cood- naturedly,
and iut as he was leaving ste penitently
let her arms steal softly about bis neck,
braised herself on tiptoe to
whisper in his ear that he must forgiv
But-well, the cream had soured, and
the butter would not come j,
. . - l.o.t not Iwime the test.
bo uer k;luc ...
Pardon thus sought might readily
enough be won for liaxaher sin, but
Sydney BichaKls ipposed peaaliy
for all that; and so it happened that the
H n,nroiTi7 witaessea vue
next oauuL" p : Ttr,.,Nomai
f hia nd Nannie Willnuns
S-e th
anwiiii v
banns.
Poor little Nannie!
I fit.- j .
fW Pme swaging ahard
o - j -- tutru.
I lfen lny moment that
-j-ejr xncnards bad chosen to ask ber
ucuume dim wile.
erdj she and Dick had had
th-ir first aud only falling out
It bad been encu a foolish matter.
nd she bad known herself quite wrong
i ,8,lle. J"4 determined that Dick
should yield, ana instead he had quietly
walked away, saying
"Nannie, when you acsnowledKe 1
am ngbt, send for me.
"It is only your pride that now re
fuses to aeknowlege me so, and it is
with your, heart, not your pride, I wish
to deal, lfctides 1 have something
more I wish to say to you then."
Something more!
Ah, how Well
she knew ulmt fl.w
something more wab!,
As if it needed to be put into words!
As if she had not known ail her life
that Dick, earnest and tender and true
as he was strong, loved her, and one
day would make ber his wife, though
he little bked and illy brooked her
coquettish ways.
Indeed, on this account had been
their falling out, but she bad deter
mined this time not to yield.
And so when, a few hours after Dick
had left her. it chanced that Svdnev
Kichtrds came to woo her, his tender
love phrases sounded very sweetly iu
her ear, and she gave him her promise.
scarce conscious of all its import, but
glad to indict on Dick some of the pain
from which her heart was suffering.
Tm going to try the new colt.
father, this morning," she said, when
it wanted but two weeks for her weddine
day.
Belter not, said the fanner.
"1 douot if he s ever had a woman
on his liack."
He would not be the first horse that
I had broken to that," was her laughing
retort.
The farmer said no more.
He had implicit faith in Nannie's
horsemanship.
uut when, a little later, she came
down the stairs dressed in ber habit,
she started to find Dick Armstrong,
holding the colt by the rein.
1 had business with your father.
Nannie," he said quietly, "and the man
brought the colt round whilst we were
talking together, so I stayed to tell you
you must not ride hiio.
"He has a dangerous eye.
The girl smiled proudly.
Many thanks " for your interest in
my life, Air. Armstrong; but since yon
have acquitted yourself of any resHnsi
bility in the matter, I feol doubly
tempted to try the experiment,"
She stepped down tieside the horse to
pat him with one little gauntietedhand,
courtesy be acknowledged by impa
tiently pawing the ground with his fore
feet.
Dick Armstrong's face paled.
Involuntarily he laid his hand on the
girl's arm.
"lou must cot, -Nannie, it is aljsolute
madness."
"And if it is " she retorted hotly, "to
forbid it is Sydney liichards' province,
not yours."
Sue could had used no better argu
ment to silence him.
He had paled before, but now cheek
and lips alike were colorless, save for
one drop of blood npou the latter, where
his teeth had met.
Oue instant, the small foot rested in
his palm, in answer to her imperious
gesture for assistance, the next, girl
and horse had vanished from his sight,
the colt with bit fairly between his
teeth and running hke mad running
as only a vicious horse can run, aeter
mined to rid himself cf the human
being he bears.
Dick Armstrong forgot his anger, just
thornrh it was. forsot all save the great,
aickenintr dread at his heart the dread
which was so soon to prove so latany
well-founded as, hastening down the
road, a riderless horse first came da- h-
ing past bun, and then, a tun miie
further on, he met a party of laborers,
carrying in their midst a ghastly load.
At first, poor leuow, ne mougut n
that most temble of all burdens a dead
body; but as he bent over the face, so
deathly white but for the crimson stain
uDon the forehead, a laint murmur oi
agony escaped her lips.
Gently tuese rougu men uwo ua
home.
Almost as soon Dick was tuere wiui
the physician he had summoned; but
the latter, who had left him a full hour
a ithout the sick-room, could minister
but little comfort on his return to where
we waited. ,
Th trirl niiuht live, he said, though
wonderful health and youth
would accomplish that; but sue wouiu
be a cripple always.
Nam le W imams a cnppiei
No one could realize it as the news
But as the slow weeks passed and life
as slowly asserted itself, the doubt be
came certainty.
Ah. well, the gossips aeciarea again,
it was sad enough; but better it had
happened then than later, wuen oyaney
Richards would have been burdened
with a crippled wife bis life long.
lint Sydney lumseii, wnat iuu ue
all?
. i C ,,1.1 anJ
ne accmen wa live ncriia v..., .""
fi, time fixed lor ner weuumg uu
t,mr crone bv. when Dannie Bent ior
.'"0 o -
ThA lovely face was as wnne as tue
pillows on which it rested, and the great
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The farm has bad to wait for its
miHtreHB after all. Sydney," she said,
with sad smile; "but it wou t have me
mistress we had planned for it.
lou said it needed a woman's htuid,
and mine are very useless bands now,'
and she held tbeia up grown so white
and thin.
It isn't necessary to give you your
release from any pledge, perhaps; for of
course you understand I couldn't burden
you this way.
" "But I thought youa feel better,
maybe, if you let me tell you so my-
sel"
Tha mn looked down embarrassed.
ltd mount to say something like
this himself for be wished a helpmeet,
. .i-KaL- in his wife.
But, somehow, the words sounded
diflerentiy from Nannie's hps, and made
him feel sma.il ana mean.
Yet they were just enough, and when,
with few murmured regrets, lie left
her, the bond between them was forever
MAlone hencefertb alone and help
lessl" she whispered to herself, while
it great tears rolled ailentiy down her
Butshe was glad, too. that it was not
Sydney Richards' "ife that spoke.
That evening Dick came in.
"lou can forive me everything now,
Dick," she said.
"How good yon have been to me all
this time.
Sydney was here this momirg, Dick,
and all is over between us."
, "You mean he gave you up, because
because
"The coward!"
"Hush, dear!" she interrupted.
"It was I who released him.
"Why, Dick, any man would be mad
to take such a burden as I am on his
hands."
"Then I am mad!
"Oh, Nannie, give yourself to me,
and I will be happier with my cross
than any king that wears a crown."
"You are a king, Dick," she answered.
"Oh, my love! would that I had
proved worthy of you before it was too
late; but now now it can never be!"
And plead as he might, he could not
change ker purpose. .
"1 love you yes," she said, "too
well to accept now what oute J threw
away,"
for weeks he pleaded, but Nannie
was firm, until one day he brought to
see her a young surgeon from the city
a man who bad gained wonderful re
pute, and who told her that by submit
ting to a dangersus operation she might
again walk.
"la it death or entire recovery?" she
asked.
He answered
"Yes."
"Then let me be your wife, Dick,"
she whispered in her lover's ear.
"I shall have that to give me strength
to recover, or I shall sleep better with
your name on the grave above my head."
But, the operation over, Nannie woke
to liie, not death, and strong and beau
tiful as in the old days, wears only a
tiny scar upon her brow to mark bow
near she missed her life's happiness.
Tli ireat HusMan Teltiavoi.
Tbe great telesu pe for the Hussiao
government has txen completed by Alvan
Clark and sons of Cauibridgeport, Stasia.,
and is ready for shipment. 'Ibis itistru
tneut bag au aperture of thirty inches and
a local leujjih of forty-live fett. To test it
the Clarks erected ia their grounds a tcm
pat ary tube on a pier of brick tw enly-ievtn
leet high. This niouutiDtr is in the opro
air. A lew days ao some of the astrono
mers of the couiury were iuvited to view
the heavens through this telescope before
it is sent to Europe. It is now the largest
telescope in the world and a number ac
cepted the invitation and visited Cain
bridgcport. Among those attracted by l he
tircat msmimtiit was the astronomer ot
the Providence Journa', who describes
what be saw in that naper.
The night was very cold, but still and
clear. The t jects viewed by the pirty
were Saturn. J jailer and the great nebula
in Orion. The view of aluru tevealei
the lU'jsl delicate markings on tbe nogs
8 ad disc, aud gave to the moon Titan, a
ptrceiilihle disc The planet did not ap
pear much larger than in telescopes cf less
size, but the light was Viry brilliant,
revealing features which are rtrely seen.
Owing to a.mop'.xric or other caues, the
definition was cl as good as in smaller
instruments. The view of Jupiter was
exceedingly fine, the wonderful cioud
coloring appearing in all its glory. The
moons appeared like planets of consider
aijle size. 1 be definition was, however,
tar trom perfect and it may be said here
that there are but few citjtiis in a year in
which the air is in such a condition as to
irie good denm'ion in a ereat telescope,
lhe loss of definition lroui atmospheric
causes increases very rapidly with increase
of aperture, and the most perfect definition
is si cured in small instruments of good
construction. The matter of definition
did not affect the seeing in the view of the
great nebula in Orion and this splendid
object came out in all its wonderful pro
portions. This nebula has probably re
ceived more attention from astronomers
than any other object in tbe heavens.
lhe naval observatory at Washington has
recently issued a large volume on it, giving
drawings by the earnest astronomers.
The great telt senpe objective wiii now
go to K'osaia where it will be mounted by
the government for lhe use of O'to ttruve
in the observatory of Poikowa, nine miles
south of bt. Petersburg. There will soon
be a larger telescope in this country, as
one ot thirty-six inches aperture, is being
constructed for the Lick observatory on
MU Hamilton, California. Mr. George
Clark while in this city last fall mounting
Dr. SwiUs telescope in the Warner ob
servatory .expressed the opinion that thirty
Bix inches was the limit for the present.
lie believed that second redacting teles
cope of that size would not be made, but
the tendency would be to the use of
smaller instruments that could be used to
greater advantage and on more numerous
occasions. There is reason to believe that
the ihirtv-six iocU telescope will be eoaic
what disapt ointing, towevtr perfect it may
be optically. '
Gildlui; Chilian arc mutl Steel.
'l he application ot gold leaf to china
ware, is done either by adhesive varnish
or by heat. The varnish is prepared by
dissolving in hot boiled linseed oil an
tonal weiebt of either amber or copal.
Inia is dilutea with a proper qiinnuty ot
oil of turpentine so a to be applied as thin
as possible to the parts to be gill. Let it
stand after" varniehine about twenty-iout
hours, then heat in an oven until so warm
as almost to burn tbe lingers wnen banaietu
The heat softens the varnish, which
then ready to receive the gold leaf, which
may be applied with a brush or pledget ot
cotton, and the superfluous portions
brushed off. Burnish when cold, inter
posing a piece of thin paper between the
gold and burnisher. W here burning tn is
practiced, the go:d reduced to powder is
mixed with powdered borax glass (anhy
drous borax', moistened with a little gum
water, and applied to the clean surface
with a camel hair pencil. When quite dry
the article is put into a stove heated to
about the tempera) ure ot an annealing
oven. Tbe gum burns oil, and the borax,
by vitrifying cements the gold with great
BnoneiS to tbe sunace.
Polished steel may be beautifully gilded
by means of the ethereal solution ot gold,
Dissolve pure gold in aqua regta, evapor
ate-geut'.y to dryness, so as to diive off the
suDcifldous acid, redissoiye in water, ana
add three times its bulk of sulphuric ether.
A How to stand for twenty-lour h'ws in
stoppered bottle, and the thereal solution
and gold will float at top. Polished steel
dipped in this is at once beautifully gilded
and by tracing patterns on the surface of
the metal with any kind of varnish, beau
tiful devices hi plain metal and nilt will
be ptoduced. for ottu metals the eiectrc
process is best.
The newest trains are the veLvet
brocaded Sicilieuues, four yards long,
reaching from the waist.
I blc Vllliu Al lrl
During a lecture course by professors
who have at their disposal a complete
set of physicial apparatus, tl'ew are
some experiments performed by them
which at first sight seem very com plicat
ed but which nevertheless may lie re
peated by means of very simple objects.
There is, for instance, the interesting
Lisasjoos experiment, which coasints,
as the leader is perhaps aware, in throw
iug on a screen, by means of the oxy hy
drogen lamp, the curves traced by oue
of the HD18 of a tuning fork in sonor
ous vibration. An analogous experi
ment nay be exhibited, by means of a
common knifing needle. Fix one of the
extremities of the needle iu a cork to
serve a, a .base; then to tbe upper free
extremity attach a ball of sealing wax,
and on tLis gnin a small circle of paper
about the diameter of a pea. Now,
holding the cork firmly between the
finger of the left hand, cause the needle
to sharply vibrate, either by bending it
far to cme side and then suddenly releas
ing it, or by sinking it smartly w ith a
wooden ruler. The little ball of wax
surmounted by paper will be seen to des
cribe a inorcjor less elongated eihpse, or
a circle, according to tlie intensity or
the number of vibrations. The phenom
enon ih very perceptible wheu care is
taken to cauxe the needle to vibrate
lu der a strong light from a lamp; and,
in sucli a case the persistence of the im
pression on the retma causes the vi bra
in tr wire to form au image which has
the appearance of a long and graceful
bouquet holder, or a champagne glass.
Among the experiments sometimes
performed to demonstrate meleciUar at
tractiens. there is one which is execut
ed by means of an apparatus of a pecul
iar structure but the same phenomenon
may be shown in much more simple
mauner.as follows: Having cut two small
phercs ont of a bottle cork, place them
on the surface of water, if oue of the
bails now be carefully pushed along un
til it i in quite close proximity to the
other, the two will be seen to quickly
rush towards each other, just as a bit of
iron flies to a magnet wheu the hitter is
brought near it. -
A writer has pointed out a neat metu-
od of obtaining an electric spark by
uieaai of a simple apparatus which he
calls the "tea-tray electrophonw." A
cuuia.au metallic tea-tray is supported
n two dry glass goblets. A piece ot
common brown paper, cut so as to be a
little smaller than the tray, and with
rouud corners is warmed, ia'd on the
table and rubbed bri-kly with a piece
of Imba-ruboer, or with a clothes brush'
It is theu laid down for au instant on
the tray. If at this juncture some per
son presents his knuckle to the tray he
will receive a bright spark, which uuder
favorable circumstances may be a couple
of inches long. By simply putting the
paper dowu, touching the tray, and
again lifting up the paper, the tray is
again charged, aud a large number of
parks may be thus drawn oue alter the
other in rapid succession, lhe paper
niiy be Ufted by the bauds, but it will
be lound better if a couuie oi strips oi
papei be fixed on with wax to serve as
handles
The sparks obtained by the iea-tray
electrophorus may produce a slight
pricking sensation, but to give a regular
electric shock will oblige us to store up
a charge iu a Leyden jr. This import
ant piece of apparatus may be improvis
ed as follows: A round bottomed glass
tumbler is procured thin glass is pre
ferable and is filled about three-qmo:t-ers
full of small leaden shot. It shot is
not at baud dry coal oust will answer,
though not so well, and great care must
be tikeu to wiie clean the upper part ot
the tumbler, .Everything niu-t be warm
and scrupulously dry. Into the shot is
inserted a silver spoon to serve the
place of a rod and kuob. The tumbler
is held by grasping it well in the bottom
of the haed. so that the palm may cover
the whole of the rounded bottom. Hav
ing thus prepared and gTasped the im
provised lieyden jar, it is to be charged
with sparks iroin the tea tray electrop
horus. It should be held with the
spoon handle near to, but not touching
the edge of the tea tray, w hile auouier
person performs the operations of lifting
the paper up and putting it down, then
touching the trav, then lifting up again
and so on until a dozen sparks have
been sent into the jar. On touching
the "kuob a smart httle shock is ex
perienced in the wrists and elbows, and
a short, bright, snapping spark announ
ces the discharge of the jar.
I-uiot Afralil.
Mrs. Helen Williams tells the folio w-
uig: rsot long ago l stoou by me cieatu-
bed of a little gill, From her birth she
bad been afraid of death. Every fibre
of ber body and soul recoiled from the
thought of it.
"Don't let me die. she said, "don t
let me die. Hold me fast. Oh, I can t
eo."
Jenny, 1 said, "you nave two mue
brothers in the other world, and there
are thousands of tender-hearted people
over there who will love you and take
care of you.
tint she cried out again despairingly,
"Don't let me go; they are -strangers
over there.
She was a httle country girL strong'
limbed. Ueet of foot, tanned in the face;
she was raised on the frontier, the fields
were her borne; she shunned the pre
sence of strangers with that chihiish
embarrassment born of a beautdul ima
gination and faith in the possibility of
unknown manhood and womanhood in
others, based doubtless npou the coming
worth of her own womanhood. In vain
we tried to reconcile her to the death
that was inevitable. "Hold me fast,"
she cried, "don t let me go.
But evwn as she was pleading, her
little hands relaxed their clinping hold
from my waist and lifted themselves
eagerly aloft; lifted themselves with
such straining ellort that they lifted the
wasted little body from ha reclining
position among tne pillows. Her face
was turned upward; but it was ber eyes
that told the story. They were filled
with the light of divine recognition.
They saw vlainly something that we
oouid not see: and they crew brighter
and brierhter. and her little band
auivered iu eagerness to go where
strange portals bad opened upon her
astonished vision. But even iu that
supreme moment she did not forget to
leave a word oi comion ior tnose wno
would gladly have died in her place,
"Mamma.' she was say, "mamma,
they are not strangers. I'm not afraid."
And every instant the light burned more
gloriously in her blue eyes until at last
it seemed as if her soul leaped forth
niwn ita radiant waves, and in that
momeat her trembling form relapsed
'among its pillows and she was gone.
A Mining RnmAuce.
tipencer & Hiner. of Pon Due Lac are
the attorneys for the saloon keeper, Alex
ander WcKnne, who is one of the bens to I
mines in Isew Mexico valued at over
$1,000,000. Tbe circumstauccs are as
fullows: About the year 1871 Frank Mc
Kane went from Indiana to New Mexico,
and, like nearly all men who go into a
mining country, he located a number of
claims. He was a bachelor, and lived the
lite of a thriftless vacarond for several
years, when he opened a saloon, lie
maintained himself in the busit ess. not
keeping a very elaborate place, until lSSo,
when he died of smallpox, poverty-stricken
and desertt J. He had not even a friend
left to communicate the lntelligecce of his
death to his Eistern relatives, it it was
known there he had any. His family, con
sisting of three brothers, did not leain of
his death untd a short lime ago, a gentle
man appeared who was desirous of pur
chasing their rights in the mines alluded
to above.
M( Kane's family consists of Alexander
Mc Kane, of this city; Jaires Alc&ane, of
Clay county, Indiana, whtreheis a col
lier: and Samuel McKane, now confined
in the Indiana ptnitentiary at Michigan
City. The last was incarc rated lor bur
glary, but prolonged his term of imprison
ment by allemp.ing to hew a leg eff one
of the prison guards. There was also an
other member of tbe family, who, it was
reported, died of yellow fever in the south.
He was a fugitive from justice, and there
10,000 reward oa his head for a murder
committed in Texas some years since.
Shortly after McKine death it trans
pired that me 1 1 the mines which he lo
cated were exceedingly valuable, aud
Brown & Young of &u Louis, set about
netting possession ot them. The Brown
of the firm is ii. Urate Brown, who was a
candidate for lbs Vice Presidency with
Oreeiey. They sent out Daniel Murphy to
bunt up the McKune heirs and buy them
off. Murphy obtained a quit claim deed
from J nes McKane, in Ind'ana, fot
$1,000. He made the same kind of a
trade also with f-amueL in tbe penitenti
ary at Michigan City. He was some time
accomplishing his object with Alexander
McKwe. of this eity, on account of the
pecuhanlies
of the person with wnom he j
had to deal. Murphy represented that the
mines were of little value, that they were
undeveloped and involved in litigation,
that McKane's claim had been sold out,
and that be simply warted to perfect his
title to the property. Alexander is some
what eccentric and rather superstitious.
He was, it seems, a little suspicious, aud
employed pcncc & 11 i tier as his lawyers.
They wanted to look up tbe mines to as
certain their ri al value, but MeKme was
unmanageable by liwyers and obstinate. I
Murphy offered him $.5,000, and, defp:te!
the an vice of his counsel, he look it, giv
ing a quit-claim deed of his lnu-rest In his
brother's mining claims. Speuce & llincr,
however, bad their suspicious aroused,
and made luquiries by tuieirrapb, learning
enough to warrant beginning suit against
jlarphy, bef'.ro he left the city, to set
aside his couveyauco on the groui d thnt it
wiu obtained by false repreutations. Mc
Kane repented of his rashness in giving
the deed.
f Mr. iliner aflerward spent some time in
hunting up James McK. inc. taking A '.el
an oer aiOLg to assist bun. James retained
the firm to tight his case also. Mr. Speu.
Ot r has just returned from a two weeks'
inp to Mexico, lookiuvs up the leiral points
in the case, lie lound that MuKaue died
porctssed of a tk-sr title to a one-half in
terest in no less than five miDes viz : the
Viola, the Penelope, the Windward, the
S ler lielL and the Webster. Murphy had
been laterested in securing titles to the
three are worth over 1,000,000, and
have been improved to some extent. Mur
phy transferred his tittle by a trust deed
to B. Gratz liiown, of SU Louts, acdjohn
E. Price, ot Grant county, New Mexico.
Salts were therefore beuu there to set
aside then title anil the whole matter is
naw in the courts.
Lite In B LlgllthoillP,
There are horrible stories told of former
da a. when'a couple of men being on duty
on some isolated rock, one or tuera nap
pened to die in rough weather; when the
survivor, fearful of being cnargea wuu a
crime, remained abut up in the closest
proximity to the corpse of his coniraue
till the lull of the storm brought relief and
the oppcrtum'.y of explanation. Kecently
we heard ot a case which might wen seem
incredible were it not amply authenticated.
The watchmen on the Wolf Hock, oppo
site the Uornish coast, were cut off from
all communication with their kind through
tbe dreariest months of the winter, and it
was nearly the middle of January wben
it lief reached them at last. Jnowadaya,
however, the light-warders in siinihar
circumstances Invariably consist of three
at the least; and both on tne bghl-towers
and in the hght ships the men are sur
rounded by all manner of material com
forts. They have rooms as snug as tbe
limited structural arrangements will admit
they have ample rations ot excellent food,
nor are the needn of their minds by any
neglected. Still it must be an unnatural
l.fe at the best, and one that is perilously
fitted to nourish sombre fancies. We may
conceive that in tbe men who take most
kindly to the occupation, the imagination
is seldom strongly developed; but never
theless they muit be quick and intelligent.
General speaking, some model ate amcunt
of exercise is believed to be indispensable
to pre serving the balance of the bodily and
mental powers; rnd in the dullest routine
of ordinary drudgery there are usually oc
casional change ot scene and company.
But in many a lighthouse the occupants
are held fast by the legs, for exercise be
comes something more than effort when it
is reduced to practicing tbe treadmill upon
the steps of a corkscrew staircase, or to
takicg half a dczan steps upon a slimy
rock at low water. The crews of the light
ships are somewhat mere favorably cir
cumstanced in this respect, since they can
do their walking on a more or less roomy
deck, and they enjoy, besides, greater
variety of company. But the life in both
cases must be intok-rably monotonous; and
to a landsman there would be Utile to
choose between the terras of the one and
the other, when the sea is wrapped in im
penetrable fogs or .H bMng lashed into
fury by howling tempests. In a slorui,
the lighthouse is in reality the safer resi
dence of our modern eng.neers, it ia most
unlikely that another Eddystone will be
swept away. V et as the waves rusu up
the sloping sides ct the tower, and toss
their tons cf seething green water against
the lower courses of masonry, seeming to
shake the massive structure from tbe light
room to the foundation, it must need nerve
and long habit to resist the belief that the
violence ot the elements may bring about
a catastrophe. As for the light ships, be
ing moored in shallower water, tbev may
be less exposed to the extreme fury of the
storms, though tnere is always a chance
for their being torn from their anchorage.
But, on tbe other hand, in even moderate
ly bad wecther they must always be emi
nently disagreeable places of abode. The
peculiar jerking motion, when the natural
heaving ot the ship is being perpetually
checked by the straining cablet, ia said to
be trying to the most teaaonedof mariners,
.1 Kullitlut; Hvf Feet Wlile.
The liiiiTowest iniuse m New Yolk
inav be seen at the northwest corner of
Lexington avenue ;t:id Si I street. When
.exiugtoii avenue was cut tlirotiLrti.
some years ago. a strip of hind five feet
tf iik and one hundred feet deep was all
that was left of a certain lot U-loiminj
to a 'rsoii who did not own tin next
lot on the street. The strip, wliile'oI'
little value by itself, would In valuable
to the person owning the adjoining iot
on Sil street. Ui-aiie it would not onh
enable him to buiid a house the feet
w ider, but would give bitii w indows all
along the side of his house on Lexiiiitton
avenue. The two owners, however,
could not iiLMi-e as to terms, and a house
was erected on the lot adjoining the
narrow strip. The ow ner of the latter
had nothing to do but to aUiiniou his
lot or build a house live feet with; iihui
it. The latter course was eriiais
adopted lee:ttie such a house would
shut up all the side windows of the
neighboring building and considerably
reduce its alue.
The new building, which has been
finished for some months, is therefore
live feet wide, one hundred feet deep
and four stories high. It is divided
into two houses, each liny f"et long,
and the entrance doors are, of course,
on the avenue, as then is no room for a
door at either end of the building.
The laws allows a building 'at tne
corner of a street to have projecting kiy
w indows along the side, and taking ad
vantage of this circumstance, the archi
tect lias manageil to plan a Iioiim.
which, while 'icciiliar in tin inside a
learance and proUihly very uncomfort
able to live in. may find tenants. With
out these liay windows, or square
projections running from the founda
tions to the roof, it would no (have W-eii
possible to build a house at all. fur no
room would have Wen wider than three
feet. Kacli house has. therefore- two
Kiy windows, in ..me of which are the
stairs and in the other one room alx.nt
eight feet w ide by tifteeu feet long upon
each floor. The lou;; iiassiife lietweeli
the stair-well and the mom is alxmt
three feet feet wide. Kaeh In mse con
tains a kitchen eight by lil'teen feet
and four rooms, each of the same size,
but on dilTereut lloors. There are also
ingeniously-placed closets at each end
of the building and under the stairs,
lioth houses an unoccupied, tine is
offered for rent at ?"oia year.
If the object of the builder of these
extraordinary houses was simply lo shut
out tin light from his neighbor's build
ing, be would probably have accoin
plished the same end at much less
excuse by adopting Mr. (iion;i Kemp's
device of sheet iron shields. Mr. Kemp
did not wish the M-ciiKiutsof the build
ing in the rear of his house, at No.
Fitlh avenue, to over-look his premise-,
and so be built au iron scaffolding in
his back yard, and placed iron shields
against the obnoxious openings, shut
ting out air and liuht as completely us
a brick wall would have done. Tins
arrangement has U-eii for years t!i"
source of no little comment tYoui the
neighliors and iasscrs-by.
Viilling a TiMith.
"Weel, Bridget,"' said M"arc.ery,
"bow did you get alohg with the doc
thnr?" Bridget "Says I, "Och Docthnr,
dear its my tooth that aches entirely,
and I have a mind to have it drawn oot,
and it pluze ye!" Says he til me, 'Och,
murther, can ye ask me that now?'
Says I, Sure have I slept day or night
these three days?' So thin the docthnr
took bis iron instrument iu a hurry,
with as little con arnment as Barney
would swnpu the knives and forks from
the tables. Be aisy, Docthnr, say s I,
'there's time enough you'll not be in
such a hurty wheu your thuru comes,
'in thinking." 'O, well, says the Doc-
thur, 'and yer no ready now you may
come the morrow.' Tudade, Docthnr,
I'll not stir from this sate wid this auld
tooth alive in my jaw,' says I; 'chip on
yer pinchers and mind ye get hoc it of
the right oue ye may aizilv see it by
its aching and jumping.'
"With that he dabs a razor looking
weapon in til the month, and cuts up the
gums, as if it were ntught but cowlil
mute for hash tor breaklast. nays 1,
'Iocthur, what are you afther? D'ye
waut to make an anatomy of a living
creather? 'Sit still,' says he, jamming
something like a corkscrew into my
jaw, and twisting the very sow! out ol
me, I sat still, because the murdering
thafe held me dowu with bis knees and
the grip of his iron in my lug. He then
gave an awful pull, hard enough to
wring a wet bianaet as dry as gunpow
der. Didn't I think the day of judgment
was come till me? Didn't I see the red
fire of the pit?
"I feit my bead fly off my shoulders,
and, looking np, saw something iu the
docthnr 's wreuching-iron. 'Is that my
head you've got there? says L '.No, it s
your only tooth,' he made answer "Maybe
it is,, says L, as my eyes begaa to ojen,
and by putting my baud up I found the
outside of my face on, though I felt as
if all the u side hade bt-ea hauled out.
I had taken a dollar to pvy for the
operation, but I thought I'd just ax bun
tue price, so I says: 'Docthnr, how
much may ye ax beside the trouble?'
'Fifty cents,' says he, 'Fifty cents!'
says L 'Sure I've not been submitting
three days to that tyrant of a tooth for
fifty cents. Troth, this same tooth-
pudine is not so very expensive, and
I'm much oblecged till ye, Docthnr."
A Craze fur Vulgar Display.
We think that the newspapers are, in a
great measure, to blame for this craze for
vu!nar disp'ay that has got held of people
of late, ilvery paper has its society re
porter, and everything tnat is done by
Mrs. Moneybags or Mr. Goldbond is chron
icled in the public prints. People pretend
that they dislike this publicity, but we
think that they become hardened and
rather enjoy it. There was a time whei
the society reporter of tbe da-ly preas got
most of bis information from the bead
waiter, whom he bribec" with cigars to ttU
him the d ntsof tbe guests, dui nowa
days the fashion reporters or chroniclers
of the doings of society are themselves
members of tbe sacred circle, ana get
their information from personal ob-erva
ion. An entertainment was given a few
evenings ago, in New York, whica was
sunDosed to be strictly private, where
essays were read and poems recited, but,
to tie astonishment of most of those
present, five columns of the World on
tbe following Sunday were taken op with
a renon of the proceedings, all ot which
seem to me in very bad taste. We
suppose it cornea from this strange love
of notoriety, though it may not be at all
the fault of the hostess."
Tbe Art ol Lying in Bed.
Oce ot the m-iat useful, yet neglected.
of all tbe arts is that of lying in lied. The
damage that is done by persons getting np
is past all reckoning. AU the mischief
and crime, the counterfeiting and forgery
the murder ana theft are prepetrated by
puties who persist in getting up. 'ot
only individuals do wrong by leaving their
beds, but rivers as well do an immense
amount of damage. Witness the Ohio
Hiver, which left its bed a few weeks
since. How much damage has its diver
sion wrought ? Wliat an immense, incal
culable amount ot work, labor and expense
has not Us .early rising caused ? What man
was ever dunned by a creditor, had bis
eye put in mourning by a too close proxim
ity with some one's fut, broke his leg on a
slippery pavement, was run over by an
omnibus, who lay in bed ?
What great achievements have been ac
complished iu war, in poetry, in literature
by genius abed! What noble thoughts
have been born between the sheets, and,
0 ice delivered from their authors' brains,
gone, Jcbu-hke, whistling down the race
course of lime ! "Coming events cast their
shadows before" -one ot the most mem
orable hues in the Uiglish language orig
inated with the gin-loviog poet, Tom
Campbell, one morning before be had
arisen. Longfellow thought out that ex
quisite poem, "The Wreck of the Uetper
us," after he had retired. Ben Franklin
eaid: 'Laxly to bed and early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy and Wise.
iow-, Franklin started out all right, but
got mixed when be said "eariy to rife."
1 here is the fatal mistake. People who
rise early are sure to catch the malaria ;
the ground is full of half-hatched poison
ous germs ; the sun is not up and has not
armed them into life, giving them wings
and set them adrift. Poor, misguided
man, he arises, inhales them all ; they
fructify and poion his entire system;
hence chilis, ftver, malaria and half the
ills that human tfish is heir tj.
Riw befiire the sun.
Au-i make a tKeakfast of the uiominir ilew,
Serve.1 up by Qaiure on louie grass bill y;
v uuM Hii'l u ueciar.
W as ever more arrant nonsense written?
Fancy a man getting up cn a cold, rainy
morning aud climbing one of the high hills
about Cincinnati on an empty stomach,
and leaving his French coffee aud tot rolls
poucheJ egs and oyster stew, to eat
what ? Why, dew. How long would that
fellow last I Wouldn't he be a fit candi
date for Locgview, acd n questions asked!
But, the early bird catches the worm, i es,
but that sharp boy knocked that de
lusion in the head forever and eternally
when he said: '-Father, there's the point;
what in thunder did the worm get up so
early for f" He trilled with destiny; he
tempted fate ; bo should not have done
it. 'J hat boy was a benefactor to the
human race. He was sound on the be
alied question.
The Fiench provcb says. De til a la
table, tlf. la table au lit "from bed to
srub, fr.iai grub to bed." That's some
thing li!;e it. O.l up and eat, eat and go
to lied aga;D. Why not t All the animals
d ) iL All nature, the grandmother of us
ail, teaches it. Every annual in the world
eats and sctks repese. The cow ents, and
lying down, placitMy chews her cud ; the
auaconda swallows an ox, horns and ail
aud goes to sicep 'sleep that knits up
;he raveled sleeve of caie; the birth of
eitth day's hfe, sore labor's bath, balm of
hurt minds ; great nature's second course;
chief nourisber in life's feast." And jel
this is what U.ey would deprive cs of who
s.y get up and who oppose the art of lying
alx-'d.
A Spanl-h Minister, suddenly raised to
power, Minaizcd the event by going to
oed and staying there for fear he might
bare something to do. Ii was in bed. at
.Ue htlie mn at alerioo, that the Duke ot
Wellington received tbe list of the terrible
casualties ot the fa'.a! lSlb of June Cray's
Ode to Jluslc" was written in be.L and
Sim Jubusou's "L bo's Voyage to Abys
siuia" was dictated to :he printers lietore
the gieat author of the -Lives of the Po
ets" and lexicographer had arisen. 1'eter
1'iudar (Or. Woicolt) was so fond ot lying
ated thai he received his visitors lying lie
nealh spreads and counterpanes. K msini
wrote one of his hnest oper is in lied, and
was too loy to pick up a sheet that had
fallen away, C-orge IV lay in bed to
read the newspapers and Macaulay read
twenty pages of hchiller belore getting up.
John Foster thought out his EeruiouS in
bed and the methodical Anthony Trollop:
used to read an hour before getting up.
Cynical Pope wrote :
I wake at night
Foois coiue lulu air al m I write.
Mrs. Macbelh strikes the keynote wheu
she shouts. "To bed ! to bed ! " People
hunt the world over for pleasures, iudulge
iu all sorts of mad pranks in their search
for recreation and repose, roam from the
.North Pole to the Southern Cross, pene
trate African jungles and fruze who Si
berians and Laplanders, cunib the Alps,
swelter at S iratoga and Long Branch in
pursuit of p easure. Alas I they seek hap
piuess win-re it is not and uiglect it w lit re
it is iu bed.
Never gel up! Ti the secret of iciory ;
Nuiiiiui' ao trui cati itiiiisuiiuv pre.itn :
Ttaiik ot lue names itiai ate Ia.uoU! tu islory
tver gel uy ia die Ikxmu iitey tcacu.
U have men tvnipa-trol tmm rt.U arh leTemeutft?
jinw have luoiiieii lae wtrii to Uieir will?
lis toi iuu! burrows muil tiire&tn anil bivave-
Uieui
'Never ii ' wa melr prineii.Ie -xill.
Nerve Stretching.
The sutiji.ct of nerve Btreteiiiug was
recently brought before the Harveian
S.ciety, of Loudon, by Mr. Pye. Iu
this case a patient hud suffered for
years from sciatica, and had beei
treated with huge doses of mot plus
without relief. The nerve was laid bare,
and palled backward and forward forci
bly, with from eight to ten pounds pres
sure. Th) wound healod well, and the
pain was lost, but some paresis followed
w hicu soon wore off. The patient was
able to resume work. In r.-gard to this
matter we may add to tbe above that
the list of cases i f nerve stretching as
yet p itornicd is not large enough to
settle the question of justihableness ol
the i pt-raiion. It h.u been less success
ful in tetanus than neuralgia, and
it iinimists lest where the neive u
coin preyed by au lndammutcry area.
To Make Safety-Jljl h-.
Those who desire to make safety
matches which will light only by strik
ing on the box, may do so by m.ikiirj
use of the follow ing formula, t'oiniio-
sitioii for matches: liine 1 parts,
chrome yellow 'J, oxide of iron '1, per
oxide of manganese Jl, hyimsulpluite of
lead f pa its and chlorate of potuk $'
parts. Composition fur the Inix: llypo
sulpl.ate of lead -'' imrts. chlonite of
potash 14, oxide of iron 7, iwderel
glass S. finest glue 4 and amorphous
phospfiorus -1 lurts. The glue is, of
course, dissolved iu water, other ingre
dients being added iu imwdcr, mixed
until tl.ey become to the consistence of
paint, and applied with a brush to tbe
surface of the box.
NEWS I A BP.IKF
The NipulatIoii
mated at IiUkhumi.
if Mexico isesti-
M. Grew, like Mr C'-.uUi..,, ;..
his 74th vear. :
There are 'V4-J prisoners in ti e WW.
eni xmteiitiary.
t.l-een Is to Ik a favorite color iu
London fashions.
A new vole has broken ,it ;ti..
in oO miles of Yokoliaimi
Ilerr Wagner had an iiie.,i.i..r .:-.
from his luusieal ei.p rights.
A man iu Simburv. Peine. r,.,....i.
married his son's w ife's daughter '
The pail raetorv at iles. Mich
manufactures :i i.i , butler-dishes d d-
S nati.r-. le.-t G. W. IMnh f iw
Son. is Grand Master ..f Masons of that
ate.
The one railroad in all f;ree.-i. ; n, .. -
miles l.mg. ad each mil,. f jr .,Hlii
year to build.
Kx-Ca.let Whittaker has t ...i;
ticS ailll gillie fo sehiM.I te:lehn,.r i s;,l.
-""nil
U'olina.
irginia has 17J toli:iee..t-.i..,.;..J
whose annual produ. t j,, is 4 mm i:m
poiinils of toKu-eo. v '
Theiv are 1.7im etni.I,,eI i
various c:iiaciii..s alnuit the inn, ... L
at 1 Im-inwille.
(assius M. riav attiibiit.s ...
stroke, as well as the ll,i,ls t.. ii...' ,i..
st met i if the foi.-sts.
Pemenvi lijis loniiil t.,..t.-u
M girl iu Texas whom ,e pronounces
the greatest violinist Am. , i, :. has
produced.
A Fort Wayne siI.M.ii-keeror.lei-d
the electric light r. ni.ive.l r......
lablishment U-ejiuse he couldn't I- -,t ir
with a mati h.
t'rilne has of late -.if.,,
oil the increase j Germuuv. m-su.t'e
murders and robberies are .,f .ii.,...,
lailv occurrence.
Harvard, Aiulierst. W illiams ,!
Yale ('olle.'es w lit receive from In ikki
to ."41. mm ;i piece from the estate' of the
late llcnrv T. Morgan.
Mr. Thomas Iliigln s. , Lumloii is
eiecte. at Kugl.i, Teun.. iu r-eptciu
It r. His brother. Mi. . Hastings
Hughes is now there.
The pr.ilicr till tan of the i ..al fam
ily. Si iv i M. failmucheie. is t lie rox.il
luart, although several new tartan-;
have Ihi-ii designed fur it.
Keceiit testsof varn mad.- from dilV-
erent heniis gives the following relative
trengths: .Manilla. gl.V Italian - 1
New Ze;i land. Ill; Hussiai,. i-s.
Mine. Wilson, President t.i.w's
only child, has recently U-eoim the
mother of a little girl the tirt child, it
is said, ever Imrti in the Klvsee Palace.
KliglishsMiitsmeii whocoiitclni.Iate
a trip to a savage country where there
are, t course, no giiniuukciV shops.
Usually take with them the ini!h-l. .a.ll
ing guns.
The new Iigldliniisc at Tauii.ic,. is
piiiiioimceil ii success, and Mexican eu-
mcers iire at work making estimates of
the costs of constructing a shelter for
sliils at Mataumras.
lhe statistics of Jlritish ivii.simis
show that li,impensioiiersdi-aw f.'i.l'.n;.
il it annum h..iu India, ;in, i.-ii
in-nsioners receive from the taxpayers of
the I'liilcd Kingdom mute than t;7
mm.mm ,.r annum.
There are .said to W as manv a
twenty or twenty-live d.-af mutes iu the
Grow Nation unite a lai-re imnsoitinii
in less than They are ;,u well
versed in the sign language.
V.X- oiveriiiir Stanford is tin night to
piscss ti,e largest iiieviin! owned by
an individual anwvhere in thewnilil
I'll. viuevard at Yiiiii. t al., einbi :n es
! m acres all in thiiving vines.
IVcliiiing an iuvilation to utcmla
iiiit-l iiis in Im'Moii recently Mr. Wendell
Phillips wrote lh.it Mrs" Philliir,' illness
is such thill he is obliged In forego ail
such pleasures, all visits and meetings.
The average birt h rate -r an i
in K ranee for the crind ln-tween 172
and lsi( hiis lucii calculated to U one
birth forthim-scven inhabitants, which
s by far lhe lowest birth ratem Kiiio-h-.
The eurTee blight has spread fr.m
l ev loll and the f'ni Islands to lti-iil
where the loss is already so serious that
the Minister of Agriculture is making
evry effort toiiiscovera nicnisi.f stunn
ing it.
Mr. John P. King, wln was born
during the administial hn of the second
President of the Tinted Slides, .rnd who
sut in th Senate earlier than flavor
Webster, still lives, in feeble health", at
Augusta, Georgia.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's desk tl.e
ope which he u-cd during his custom
ions.; service at Salem is preserved in
the venerable First t 'hiirch t.f that town.
It is a tall desk and was evidently used
by the novelist in a standing position.
.Announcement is mad. of the retire
ment from the Koviil Arademv of Mr.
t'hailes W est t'oie, the iiiiintcr. He is
now seventy -I luce years of age, ami lias
I "I'll an A. K. A. nearly forty years.
The early i imi of hiscarecr was prin
cipally occupi.-d in jiainting fie-cocs for
n esimiuster miace.
Since the clot of the war the Amer
ican ieopk have paid out .ViMjUm.mm
iu icnsions. At the end of the present
li-s.-al year there were Ra.il'j" nnmi-s on
the roll, represent ing au annual out go of
?-"4,-".i,-.'Si, iiud in the hist year -'7,'.H
new 'tensions and Pl.U increased jh-ii
sions have Ihi-ii granted, and there ar
yet i'.,07.'S applications.
The niiinlier of hogs packed in Chi
cago during the year which ended March
1st , ls:;, was 4.'J''t,imii, a decrease of
7s,iKm on the number of the preceding
year. The average weight of the hogs
picked was :MS onnils against 'J-'ll in
lssl,and i"4 in lssi. The numU-r of
cattle slaughtered iu C'hicagodiu ing the
last year was 771,"7s.
The mercantile failures in Great
Britain have lieen growing steadily few
er in nuinU'r since 17'.. statistics slmw
1 in i mi it ini in the nimili-r of iusolveu-
les tor cseciaiiy m the retail
trude. The ligures for ls.sj ;nv: Num-
ler of failures, wholesale trad., 1,-U I;
retail trade, y.7u"i; total 11,01.1
-lhe garrison of Jx-rlni inunls rs 1 , ,
men; Met., ll,lll;Str.i.sliui-g,s.'.H'.".;
Mayence, .,il; Cologne, .,; Pots-
dam, b,.V.m. Seventy other tnwus have
garrisons over .mm :j .f these: U ing
over ti.ium and a over .1,1 m and ther
are 'JW gan ismieil with l-ss tliau J ,'Hjfi.
Ami this is a h-;m- establishment!
The world's stock of locomotives
consists of 'ili,um ; of passenger cars,
there are lJtM.mo ; and of freight cars
l,."(Al,iJim. The capital invested in rail
wavs, which are in all -Jim", urn miles long,
is Ji.i,tmi1iJ,0iW. The commerce of
the seas is camel by 12,000 steamers
and IUOjOOO sailing vessels, whose ton
nage iUuuuuts to over ,000,000. toiii.
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