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RnllrMHl Time Table.

TERnK-lIACTE 4. INDIANA POMS R. I^ave. Arrive

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a. New York Express fr.Via. m. 4:19 p. Lightning Express—10=40 p. m. 7.-0'. 11. J*»y Express...... fc&> p. m. •&M p. m....Jiid'f ac:umin(Kliitlon.._llaO a. m. ar. IXH'IH, VANj)AMA A TEBIIB-1IA.OTI h.a.'

Imparl. jjj Short. Line. Arrive. fciio. m..„.Pacllie Express 1:10 a. «ft. lOrii p. in Fast Line .....4:00 p. in. •I.-OO p. in rtU L. & Cairo Ex.,...JL0:lo a. m.

INMANAPOtlS A ST. LOPI9 H. B. Arrive/rout £*"£*'!&. sk Depart/or West. IOvVi n. 111

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Express 10rf8 a. m.

8: a. Kast Express ... fldS a. m. 4:15 p. Mot toon Acc'dn 4tX p. in. 10-^W p. in Night Express,^. .10:11 p. in.

From the Wait. I\r the JSkut. 6::V a. in Nlglft Express 0:4.1 a. m. 4:2{ p. Iay Express 4JSJ p. iu. a. in Ll-hlnlnir Exiress...l'2:l8a.

Tuesday

proeei-dings

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10:13 a. in Mattoon Ace'dn 12:80 a. m^ KVANSVI I.I.K A CUA W FORDS VILLK U. K.

Leave, i* f,W*" Arrive. 0:30 n. in...* Exprow....... 10*.l.r» p. ra. •1:10 p. Mall -3A5 P- m.

ROCKVI1.I.E EXTENSION.

Isave. Arrive. 4:30 j».

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The News.

DOMESTIC.

Tli.- trial of Mrs. Clem will take place at lti'llaiia])ollH as soon as a Jury .pjiftJw PPUiincd. ,„ier ilii- operation of the new fee lilll It. is calculated tlmt tIk nfflw! of Hecretary of State doesn't pay averuKe doy's wages. The jKjslllou Is now one of honor exclusively.

Tlx' impeachment of Governors Is now the order of ttic iluy. Uovernor Hidden, of Nortli Carolina Governor Clayton, of ArkjiiiHa* GoVrrnor Huthtr, of

Nulnwkut

ihmJ

tin* (iovernor cf Florida, aro all laboring umler 1 he linn of Impeachment. The imjK'iicliiii' iit of a number of others la threatened.

Articles of impeachment lmve passed the. Nebraska

House of

Itepresentotlves against

Governor David Hurler. Tho prlnclpol charge Is, that he failird to poss 117,000 of the public

money,

which cuiue into his hands,

Into the Stale Treasury. Our Western sister

Is

fearfully agitated hy the trouble-almost as had us Arkansas. According to the r.-turns of tho Assistant Marshals who have been employed In re­

taking

the ccmuis of Indianapolis, tlie pop­

ulation of the city Is It),111, showing an increase of nearly 8.000 over the previous eniimerntfott. The relurns also show a large list of manufacturing establishments some three hundred anil tiny, omitted in the previous re|*ort.

On Monday, the Indiana Menu to, after passim: a few untfiiportant bills, adjourned rtnr dir. There bolng no quorum In the House, lutluuroed to meet again Tuesday mornlug.

tbc Howio met parau-

ant to adjonrninenl. 8pw.ker Mack made a short speech, and closed by declarlDK tho House aajournwl »ine dir. Thus ended the

of the Fortv-seventh General

Assembly of the Htato of Indiana. The statement of tho condition of the public debt at the close of February is, ns usual, the verv best document that could be Issued to maintain tho confidence felt In President Grant's administration throughout the country. The reduction during the month has boon

r,317.H60.

For tho year Just

ended the reduction in the amount or the debt has UKU related 1117,619,»», andfor the two years of tho administration 9XH,i54,41.(. There need bo 110, words added to such a record as this.

TI»o lollowlng uliows tho condition of tho Htato Troftuuiy at tho close of businoH« Tuostlay: liAliuioe In Treasury February 1 1106,185 40 liewipu to MurcU

wu

Warrant* paid In February..,

Balance

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3X2,710

23

1.13,366 91

hand March 1 100,358 S3

VOXURRSSIOXAL.

Mouduy, In tho Senate, tho Postoflloe »puropriution bill was passed. In the House, an Item or tl.-HH.."®? on the New York Postofllee and Court House was added to the Omnibus appropriation bill and adopted. The appropriation for I'ostoMc* and Court House at Omaha, Nebraska, was increased frviin to loO.OOO. The followinn Items were also Inserted An Item of fill,000 for repair* to tie Cm torn House and I'ostwfflee at IMttslmrjt, lVn nsy I van In an Item of 4212,000 for Government office ami Appraiser's stores at Han Francisco an Hem of 10,two for Government building at I* Crwsse, Wisconsin, together with an Item of SiO.OOO for a bulldlna at Jefferson Cltv, Missouri, and one of &1.000 for a building at Kansas Cllv, Missouri an Item of tl.OUO.WO for a Government building at Covington, Kentucky.

Tuesday. In tho Senate, a larjp* nr.mber of pension bills were posmsl. The Army appropriation bill was proceeded with, a»*rt tl»« amendments reported from the (Ninimittec on Appropriations adopted. The only one of Imisirtanee was the one reducing the aphe hi re ho ipat froin' tl,000,000 to 750,00. Chandler

isirtani

proprlatlons for the hire of officers' quarters, of military store hotisnt, and for repairing public bultdlnjp at e«tablUlie«l posts,

cnlhxl up the hill to enable the Jackson, lAnsiug and Saginaw Railroad c\»mpany to change the northern terminus of Its road nviu Traverse llay to the Straits of Mackinaw. It panned. In the House, the

Commit­

tee of Conference on the bill lo author!*© the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi Illver at Louisiana, Mlmmiri, and over the Missouri ItiTer at Gla.^w, Missouri, made a report, which was agreed t«K The (Ymimltteo on Printing reported a Joint reaolutlon prinUng HVWO extra copies of the agricultural report ftr IiCU. omitting the provision for the edition in Ocrtnan, so as not to cmlauger tba passage of the Joint rmolntlon. I\w»ed. Th« Houthorn l*»cifle Kallntait bill was passes!. The Reconstruction Vmmlttee n?iorte«i a bill to protect the lovnl and p»*««ble clUtens of the United ttt*te« lu the full enjoyment ef their rights of personal liberty and property, and enable such cltlnen* to preWW and jierpetuate erldeuces of Iommr clalnMra to have been m*tallied by tliem in war inttooState* lately In rebellion. Passwd. TheS**»ate amemlniMit to the lltwse bill for the International Kx

IxtsiUon at I*hlladelphla. In 1^4. was concurred In and the bill pawed. Wednwalay, In the Senate, the resolution 4o continue Investigating by llw HpectaJ Vmmltte« the Ku Klu* outmgea In tn« Mouth during the first session of the rofty* Hwaonil Congrras, was pamed. The

apinprtation

Mr

Army

bill, the quealioo being om

MeDougallV amendment to pay ft* Uu«rterniaster and OnnmtmT store* furtu«li«l the ara\y by loyal eltfaens of the South. After various modifications the amendment was adored In tl»e ft»llowtng fonu: Ami t* it /urtVr rmmet+d, Tlvat the jirovWoni of the act of July 4th, ISM, entitled an act to limit the Jurisdiction of the tVnirt of Claims, etc-, are hereby extends to loyal eltisen* who remained loyal rtarlng tbc late «»r and who lu no way voluntarily jgave aid and csrulurt to tb« rebeUlea M*

vidrd, thatser\'lceln tho United States army during the late rebellion as commissioned officer or enlisted man shall be held to be prima /arte evidence of loyally, unless some act of disloyalty shall be proven to have been committed after said service and tho benefits of the proviso shall be extended to citizens of the State of Tenneasoe and nil suoii porta of said act as shall make a discrimination between loyal claimants, because of residence, are lierebj- repealed. In the House, the Committee on Ways and Means reported back the Senate bill providing that uo tax shall be Imposed on any additional sums ucktvd to the contingent fund of Insurance companies or on unearned premiums. Passed. The following bills were passed Semite bill to amend the act of the of March, l»t», to establish and declare the railroads ftnd bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Companies po*t roads. Relating to the records of Courts In the United States.

FOREIGN.

The powder magazine at Vllette has been pillaged by soldiers. Prince Frederick Charles is to be Governor of Champagne, with his headquarters at Ithelms.

The Queen of %xtlb is rapidly recovering from her recent IObash, and will soon be able to resume her Journey to Madrid.

An oOlcial notice at Paris, signed by Plcard, confirms the signature of tho preliminaries of peace. Contributions and requisitions are to cease. The entrance of Germans into Paris was the price paid to save Bel fort.

The Journal Dot Debate says that during the three years allowed for the payment of the indemnity, fifty thousand Prussian troops will occupy Champagne, exercising the right of requisition and living at the expense of the French Government. If payment is completed before the time expires, Champagne will he Immediately evacuated.

The preliminaries of peace were signed Sunday at o:T(ij i*. m. France cedes Alsace and Metz. Bel fort is retained. The war indemnity is fixed at Ave milliard francs, for tile payment of which three years' time is granted, the Germans to hold the fortresses until paid. The armistice Is prolonged a week. Rothschilds is summoned to Versailles also tho railway Presidents, to arrange to carry the German troops back to their own country.

THE LARGEST UN IN THE WORLD. Tho latest born offspring of the art of destruction is a thirty-live tun gun, just completed at tho Koyal Arsenal, in England. This monstrous creation was 111 ado upon the coil principle, with two strips of wrought iron, which, before they wcro wrapped round tho core, were about 150 feet in length. On its way to tho practice ground, it crushed its own carriage and the trainway upon which it was traveling, but it was coaxed into moving again, and tho sponsors of the interesting infant lired it with half a proof charge, and its own shot weighing 700 lbs., and measuring a foot in ammeter and two and a half feet in longth. With this load, the monster rocoilcd nearly nine foet up an inclined trail of soven degrees, but was otherwiso unutfectcd. When it has cut its teeth with larger charges, it is to burn, as a regular aose, 120 lbfc. of pebble powder, the shot beiagthe,700-pounderinention-etl. Jgith brass Htudds to At the rifling of tfift bore. Iu firing It, a wire was attached to the vent, the bell was rung, and all presont hastened under cover. Iu ono of tho proof houses a gunner in a mvus suit stood before a magnetic battery, and at the word "lire," touched a stud, when there was aloud report and tho gun was seen smoking prodigiously. It will be tested with a charge of 160 lbs. powder, the regular service charge being 120 Ids.

It is the largest piece of ordance in the world, not excepting those ancient Titans—tho lleejaporo gun, called the "King of tho Plain," the huge stone ball cannon of the Dardanelles, and "Mons. Meg." If an invading enemy will only bo kind enough to come near enough to this triumph of belligerent art, we think there might be a chance of slaughter on both sides. But what a telescope might havo been made for tho money, ana what different sort of victories" might have been obtained with that sort of weapon! Tho reflection is, we know, ridiculous: "Guns, drums, and wounds" absorb the world.

WOMEN AS BREAD- WT^EJiS.

In a recent sermon Rev. Itobert ColIyer discusacd the True Woman's Work, speaking this word fo^those who would not sit down in idlo waiting until called to a domestic pastorate:

The trouble is, as wo all know, and most painfully the woman herself knows, that she cannot depend 011 that gracious household any moro than the pilot can depend on tho Mississippi keeping to its channel. Moreover, there aroj ^multitude of women tha can never be coutent to look forward to such a career as the best and wisest they can enter on. Thoy do not care to be married, us some men do not care to bo married, and especially they do not care to sit in a dumb expectanej* until the man that happens to want a wife comes that way nnd asks them to keep houso for him and bo the mother of his children, and then to smile and and say, ''Thank you it is what I was waiting for." There are tens of thousands or women whose whole soul revolts at the disadvantage of the woman's position in this most sacred transaction. and who infinitely prefer to lire their life atone rather than be subject to this for a moment.

It is also true that vast numbers of women feci the same Impulse men feel to do something besides breathing paradise in a household. Thev have that true genius that can kindle its own fires, andthe tire burns for another purpose than that of the wife and mother though I feel very sure it can never burn for a higher purpose under the sun. Still they feel they have got something elm» to do, either Independently ot that sacred election, or in addition to it, and they will forego the dearest natural instincts and yearnings as our Suvlordid, if they stand in the way of their conviction of duty and so thc.v interpret for themselves'the noble canon:

To thine cvn self be true, And it oholl follow, as the night flic dnr, Thou nuut not then be AUw to any man.

A tt»r©jtsouATR eitisen of New Orleans put the following qnentton to one of the P»r*,r" published there: "Mr. Edytur—That what I wish to ask you Is whether strychnine, what the police give to dogs" won't pi fen the human being after saiwingers has been filed. Please put in the paper how this is, for if fried strychnine is pixen, I go again •againgersC Yours, till pfcsoned,"

I For the Saturday Evening Mail.]

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PARIS ON THE SEINE.

A maiden rare of Celtic birth, lay dying at Turin, Her languid eye on Alpine snow, her cheek so wan and thin, Her feverish Hps were moving Cast, as twilight closed the day, And I knelt with sorrow near her, to hear what she might say— My pitying heart it faltered, as

faultless hand.

Strasbourg near the Rhine Will you bear a maidens blessing? You'll bear It not in vain, To the palace homes of Paris, great Paris

the Seine.

Tell my mother and

Italy's fair clime,

ir«i 1'-.- lj-fjt H'tV.'Sjt "V 5rr». !!»:.»

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I clasped lier

And she said: "I never, never more shall see ray native land But will you take a message my Inner soul's refrain, Fori was bom at Paris, dear Paris, 011 the

Seine. "~v» -.

To-night it seems but yesterday, I gazed on Place Vendome, And strolled along th? ^ul?vard.yof my

Parisian home

Come nearer, let me feel your breath—Oli let me see your glance, For never more can I behold my own dear native France When you look upon.hervlne-clad hills and sip her sparkling wine— Will you drink a health, a health for me, to

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are blue,

sisters, Italia's skies

And the waters of the murmuring Po reflect their heavenly hue Her Alps are crowned with sparkling snow, her vales bedecked with bloom, Yet in my failing fluttering heart, thero's nuught but France has room They thought I'd soon forget her hills, in

That sculptured bust and storied urn wbuld charm this soul of mine, But tell my loving mother this, my last expiring strain, In Heaven, I'll strike a golden harp, to Paris 011 the Seine.

Tell rny father, dear old father. In this lovely southern clime: I've lingered in the orahge gl'oves, and tried to live for him— I've tried the power of song, to stir this sluggish crimson tide, But day by day, it ebbs away, death opes her portals wide Tell him his shining silver locks, are precious In my sight, More holy than tbe beamingstars, that smile on me to-night— 6li tell him that his dying girl, would one request obtain, She'd have her body lain to rest, boside the rippling Seine.(^:

Tell piy dark-eyed dear companions, I've worn their chain of love, As a talisman, to guard my heart, and guide ray thoughts above

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Their voices! Oh 1 hear them now, so silvery sweet, and clear, Metliinks 111 hear them once again trill requiems o.'er my bier Tell them to love my memory, as I have loved their smiles To sadly, fondly, think of me, when vesper hour beguiles Hark! I hear a chorus now, a sweet seraphic strain, Calling me homo to Paris, loved Paris on theSoine."

But there's another, not a brother, with classic brow and bold, To unsheathe his manly sword for France, and try to mould Her destiny,in spotless triumph and in glory. But his brave heart will falter, when you

Chunt my nwqrnful story, But tell him when the moon-beams curl, adown the sloping hill, To meet me at our try sting vino, beside the

Klsoe rill,

And loll my lover this fiir me, my ior .-i1 0^ IiOrislne, N Im la Paris, La belle Park, Beau Citlede lc Seine."

Iler voice It ceased to warble, hor hand (o press mine own, Her rich d:irk locks lay curling, her fsce was turned townni home. The moon looked down so softly, the stars wept golden dew, The gentle zephyr's moiftied ami sighed my heart was wecpl-jg too. But In the Jasper city, beside tlie chrystal st ream, By nngel ban-ijs surrounded, a spirit-bride is seen, Iu peerless robe and pearly crown, with harp of lieavcnlv strain, By memory's fingers sweetly touched, to

Paris on the Seine. [Lashbli.e.

TKRRK-HAl"TK.

Feb.

Jewkilkr's CmiKNT.—The following is a recipe for a strong cement, used by some onental nations, for the purpose of attaching precious stones to metallic surfaces: Make six pieces, ot gum mastic, the si*e of peas, and dissolve in the smallest possible quantity of alcohol. 8oft«n some isinglass in water, and saturate strong brandy with it, till you have two ouncen of glue then rub In two small pieces of sal ammoniac. Mix tbe two preparations at a heat. Keep well stoppered. Set the bottle in hot water before using. It is said by the Turks that this preparation wiil unite two metallic surfeoaa, even polished steeL,

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a, 1871.

"Mason

and

Dixon's Link."—This

famous line, about which we used to hear so much, is the parallel of latitude 39 degrees, 43 minutes, 28.3 seconds, north, *hich separates Pennsylvania and Maryland, drawn by Charfes Mason, and Jeremiah Dixon, two distinguished English mathematicians and astroincrs. For a long period of years the boundry line between the above 8tates hud been the subject of dissensions and conflict between the rival proprietaries. After several lawsuits, and the failure of commissions to detertned the lino satisfactorily, the above gentlemen were appointed by the proprietors to settle tne vexed question by actual survey, which was accomplished by them after period of about four years, extending from 1755 to December, 1767.

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY.!EVENING, MARCH 4, 1871. Pricc Five Cents.

ROTAL REVERIES OFM. UAD.

What He Would Do if He Were King Sjyain.

In an epistle indited to and published in the Detroit

Free Press,

M. Quad

observes: "If I should mount the tlironot believe that I should ran this king business entirely different from tho manner in which itis now conducted. I think the throno of Spain would suit me, and I havent't any doubts that I would just suit the Spanish after a few trials. If I didn't it would be becausetbev couldn't appreciate the handsome thing. Desidcsj having oysters and hot biscuit throe! times "a day, I should make a change in the matter of ctnkery. If any hotel keeper went to serving out hash under a French title two lines long I would give him little law that he'd never forget. Soups should be put down on the bills as soups, and if any waiter brought in thirteen napkins and a small bit of beef as the whole of a man's dinner I'd have inv prime minister make the fellow chew'napkins all the rest of his life. And, when a traveller came to settle his bill, and the proprietor wont to arguing the tliree-iollar-per-day idea, 1 should send for that landlord ask hiin if he wouldn't be eontont if three or four national banks were rolled in behind the desk, and tell him ho could keep no tavern in Spain, not while I was around. As for the clork, if he were like some that I knew of, his lamenting relatives would be dividing up the estate within twenty-four hours alter I was crowned king.

There's another thing which I have often thought of. I'd take little railroad excursions, carrying along a fair to medium trunk, and I'd watch the baggage smashers. When they put the trunk off, and I found that both handles were gone, the lock broken, the lid split, the hinges bent,the ends knocked in, I'd say "See here my line fellow I want to see you at my office on a little private business.' He'd naturally think of tho Cross of tho Legion of Honor, the red ribbon and tho iron medal, but he'd change his mind when he saw tho dangling rope and the gallows. He'd never smash another trunk—not in Spain. As for the ticket agents at the depots, I should first give them warning. I'd enlighten them a little by informing them that they could make just as many friends..and clo just as much business, and have the road just as well thought of, by returning civil answers to travellers and by treating men and women us people ought to be treated. I'd tell him once, and if he didn't concur with inv sentiments, why there'd be a good many friends around enquiring for him next day.

There's another thing I'd do for Spain. First I'd issue tho following call: 'Special Notice.—Every Spanish gentleman who desires to hold a fat office, with big pay and stealing attached, will please meet at my office on the first of February." "They'd come. They'd come in wagons, "carts, wheelbarrows, on canal boats, by railroad, balloon—they'd come aiding on each other's backs if there Was no other conveyance. There would be a lew respectable men hanging around, and I fix every one of thorn up with a pair of cowhide boots, souls tour inches thiok. I'd call the cro^rd in, one by one, and after a short address on the subject of the general desire to hold a very little office for a great deal of pay, I'd turn the gentlemen around, give a nod to the kickers, and—well, tney could call around some other timo if they wanted any more office. "I wouldn't meddle with tho Spanish religion, not a bit. But in attending church I'd keep an eye around, and ft wouldn't bo long before I should see the loudest singer and most prominent responser pinching a cent before droping it into the contribution box, at the same time hoping his neighbor would drop in a dollar greenbaok. I'd send for the gentleman, and he could have his choice between being hit with a brick-bat or kicked with a Spanish mule, and I'd see about his contribution in future. There's only one more thing. I'd go on aiittle^urney over Spain, on every newspaper MArt could he.tr of, radical or democrat. Walking lip to the chief man about the concern, I'd slap him on the back and ask after his wile nnd babies, and say: 'See here, old boy, I'm running this Spanish king business now. If you want to abuse me or any other man, go ahead. If you hear of a mean trick expose it il you want to say a good word for anybody, do it. Here^s a few Spanish milled dollars to help buy combs and cookery ware for the house, and when you want a new cylinder press, why put my name on tho order, and if

don't get the press by return mail I'll make a vacancy around some printing machinery depot. "That's how I'd be king of Spain, or any other country. Hut the moro I think of the matte'r the less I am inclined to accept tlie throne,^ for there Long Primer and Small Pica—all that I can leave them to begin life with is their fathers unflinching respectability."

"IlAVKyou no pen and inkf" ""id a doctor to a poor woman whose child ho was tending. "No," said the poor woman. "Well, I havo lost my pencil give me a piece of chalk, and the doctor chalked a prescription on the door, telling her to give it to her son when he awoke. "Take it, my boy, take it, said tbe woman lifting the door from Us hinges and carrying it to the poor boy, when he opened bis eyes. I don know iiow you are to do it, I am sure, but the doctor says it's good, and you had better try it."

Dyixo.—There is a dignity about that going away alone, which we call dying —that wrapping of the mantle of immortality about us that putting aside with a pale hand the aiure curtains that are drawn around this cradle of a world that venturing away from home for the first time in our lives, for we are dead, and seeing foreign countries not laid down on any maps we have read about. There must be lovely lands somewhere star ward, for none ever return who go thither, and we very much doubt if any would if they could.

ENGLISH VIEWS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY.

rom "Westward llyRail," by W. F, Rao. an English artfbor who recently traveled in this country, we make the following extracts:

THE TYPICAL AMKRICAN.

Tho

result of a few mouths' travel and scrutiny b* to transform tho visitor's earlier view* altogether, and make him feel that in trusting certain travellers, he has been tho victim of misplaced confidence. As fur the repulsive Yan kee of the novelist, lie is nowhere to be met with in the flesh. Ho has apparently been evolved out of the novelist's consciou»uess. The typical American has not yet been sketched with the writer's pen or tbeartist's pencil. This is not surprising, for the task is one of which the difficulty is only second to that involved in portraying the typical European. The external marks and latent variations which separate and characterize Englishmen, French men, Germans, Spaniards, and Italians, are scarcely more distinctive than those which separate tlie native of Main from the nativo of South Carolina the native of Ohio or Illinois from tho native of Connecticut the native of Massachusetts from the native of Texas, California, or Oregon.

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l-'UKK AND KASY MASNKUS.

The notion prevails that the Americans are far too free and easy in manner to please the fastidious stranger. It is true thatthey often shake hands. This, however, is a custom which has nospe-t-ial siirniticancc. It resembles what the French designate "liat-politeness." An American cordially shakes hands with those whom ho does not eare to meet on terms of intimacy. Introductions aro made with great formality utterance is given to the pleasure which it gives the one to make tho acquaintance of tho other, while, should they see each other again, they may appear to be perfect strangers. In tho western States, the old English custom oft interspersing sentences with "sir," a* custom which, in high-bred Eastern' circles, has almost died out, is still in force, and the observance of it supposed' to be tho maik of good breeding.

AMEKICAN LANOUAOK ANI* VOlCK.

For my own part, I ain unable to side with thoso who profess to be shocked at the alleged deterioration of the English" language in America nor can I soothe propriety of taking the people to task 011 account of their accent. A great deal too much has been made of this trivial detail. In itself* it is a matter of no moment whatever. Moreover, neither side will convince the other, nor will denunciation of tho American accent alter it one iota. Tho American climate' has attuned the American voice. Nor in the accent uniform. It varies, in different States. Iu New England the voice is sharp and shrill in tho South slow liquid in the West deeptoned and resonant. Indeed, the differences in this respect are as notableas thosewfhich exist between the accent of a Londoner, of a native of Dublin, of a native of Edinburg.

J1EAUTY OF WOSfKN. y,

The beauty of the American- '*dlHeti is without the pale of controversy. It cannot be likened to the beauty for which English girls are deservedly and universally admired for which Italian maidens have been immortalized on canvass or in verae for which the sprightly damsels of France and tho coquetishladies of Spain havo won applause and by moans of which they have made conquests. If I were to select a

Farticular

locality in tho United States,

might truthfully compare the type of beauty predominant there to that of a

Earticular

country in the Old World,

iut America is a world in itself. Within tho bounds of the Republic of the West are all the climates which givo diversity to Europe, from Rome to Copenhagen, and trom London to Madrid. Whore climates vary, female facta vary also. In New England may be seen those delicately chiseled features and transparent complexions which in Europe are characteristic of the fascinating beauties of the North, In the Southern States the imperious indolent Spanish women, with th?ir amorous eyes and raven h:iir, have been reproduced at the distnneo of many thousand miles from Andulasia and Castile. Let the traveller cross tho continent till tho Pacific slope is reached, and there the soft and delicate beauty of Italy, combined with an intcligence wholly Amorican, and a physique wholly English, delights and surprises him.

TAJ.KNTN AND ACCOMPLISHMKafTS.

Nor aro the good looks the solo dower of American girls. There ^re more French than English in the Muteness with which thoy argue. They are passionately fond of the frivolities of existence, yet they follow with interest the course of the graver topics of the day. On political questions thev are ready to take sides, and they discuss the issues involved in a controversy with zest and understanding.

Muddlers.—Tho domestic muddle is perhapfc "the greatest plague in life." A house and home that is thoroughly muddled—that is not under the influential control of some presiding npirit of purity and order—is no house at all, in the sense of home. Order, which "is heaven's first law," Is home's first law also,and one might as well expect to feel at homo in Billingsgate Market.** in a dwelling whence order is banished. Where tne mistress of a ho use is a muddler, woe to that household. There, you may be sure the golden maxim, "A place for every thing and everything in its place." is altogether ignored. Instead of that, there is no place for anything, and whatsoever thing bap* pens to be wanted at an/ time will have to be looked for in the la*t place it waa used, if anybody can remember where that was. The "result is not only loss of time but loss of temper, loss of comfort, loss of rest and ease but loss of money too and, worse than all, is the moral deterioration of the atmosphere, and the setting up of a chronic condition of irritation and annoyance in place of the genial kindness, forbearance,

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A vkky particular swain sent his marriage to tbe paper with the adltion. «no cardamona. He said he despised abreviationa.

APPARENT DIMENSIONS' OF THE SUN AND MOON.

We are so aceu«touiot] to the neur equality of the mm and 1110011 a» respects their apparent max, that we ore apt to overlook the fc»ct that this apparent equality must Ike regarded in tbelight oi a fortunate a«tident than as in any way an essentia! attribute of the orbs which rule the daw and the night In the whole range of the solar system there is no other instance at'so remarkable an association. In HBeocwry, Venus and Mars, of course, noealipsra of anv sort can occur, because these planets have 110 moons. But even* iu Jupiter notwithstanding the gruadeHr of his system of satellites, and theugh total solar eclipses recur at intesvata which must be measured by hoMx»iuuher than by months, as with us, yet such solar eclipses as we see can never take place. For not one of his moons i»Kup«bleof just hiding the sun's disc ami a very narrow border all round, whslh beyond that border tho colored protttiacnccs, and be3*ond the prominences lw glorv of tho corona, aro loft in view. 1 trv to conceive the circumstances of am eclipse ot tho sun by ono of Jupiter's xearcst moons, we have to imagine a daak disc capable obliterating a'sun mot* than thirty times larger than that wJbieh is actually seen from up Iter and e*en tlie furthest of Jupiters's moons (-overs.twioeas great a space as the sun. It is easily seen that when a total eclipse is-just beginning or just ending, under these circumstances, only a small partttf the mattor outside tho'sun can be vwlblo, to ourselves when tho moon obliterates from view tho noarly equal solnr disc. So also in Saturn—whence the sun utust appear as a mere dot of bright light— and in Uranus and Neptune, whence he appears yet smaller there can bo no^suclv eclipses as wo inhabitants of earth are favorod.with. Henco it mav not unreasonably bo concluded tliat'torrcstrialS astronomers aione have any knowledge of tho colored solar prominences anil of. the corona.

It is worth mentioning, also, that interesting as aro tho discoveries which have been recently made during solar eclipses, there aro other disoovertndue also to tho observation of total eclipses, though in very ancient times, which are' as full of interest. It sounds inorodible, but is nevertheless strictly true,tlipt owing to comparatively rough observations of ancient eclipses, modern astroaoaiorg have learned that tlie moon is gradually drawing nearer to tho earth* and further, that the ruto of the earth's rotation on her axis is slowly but surely diminishing, insomuch that at some for distant epoch the day will laat as longaa a lunar month. Nordo the facts that Tho approach of the moon will in timo be changed into recession, and that tho lengthening of the day takes place so slowly thut millions of centuries must elupse before it is completed, diminish the interest which Attaches to those tokens of mutability 111 relations which had onco been regarded as altogether unchanged.—The

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wherever they prevail, make a mans home a blessing prized far above all that lies beyond it.

A CARKLKKS printer made a dancing master's card read: "I offer my respectful shanks to all who have honored mo with their patronage."

OornMU Magazine.

FOU E1AN INVBHTIONS.—A COlUempOrary calls attention to the manner in which this Devonshire farmer invented a modification of the rotatory ohurn, in which by making it revolvo in nn outward casing of Warm water, tempered by tho aid or the tberinometor, ho could at all seasons of the year ooinmand the best degree of warmth for separating the butter, and therebycomplete tho pro cess in a time at once brief and uniform' A French "inventor" saw tho model

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Forthwith he patented it for all Europe at Paris, sold the idea to a Scotchman, and enriched himself through an Ayr shyre medium by the help of the "In comparable French Churn." A York shire smith, living in the midst of heavy land, fixed harrow teeth into a long cylindrical axlo at uniform distances, and fitting two ot these axles together, so that the teeth of tho ono should play between thoso of tho other when it was dragged over the field, tore nil tho brittlo clods to pieces, Tho invention was never patented, and

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that occurred from New observed, one summer afternoon, heavy cloud arise irom the land, and to his great surprise, approach the vessel. Suddenly it broke near him, and millions of mosquitoes covered the deck of the vessel to tho depth of several inches, while part of the flock went through the mainsail, leaving nothing but the bolt ropes idly hanging to the spars. Corroborative ovidcncc to this astonishing tale was found in the person of a "down East skipper," who heard tho story, and who 011 comparing datos with tbe narrator, declared that two days afterward he was boarded by a part of tho same flock and they all wor canvas breeches.

A Ecroprajt student of the habits and peculiarities of poisonous snakes has discovered that "ail poisons havo their specific antidotes in the gall of the animal in which these poisons exist." The bite of any poisonous snake or repti'ecan, we are assumed, bo cured by administering a few drops of a preparation of the gall of the cobra. The gall of the most deadly kind of snakes may be used in cases of bites of those less virulent. The gall Is to be mixed witb pare spirits of wine or tho best high wines.

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Orioos A Co., Wholkmai.k Booksellers at Cuicaoo.—"Chicago, August 15, 1808. We have five thousand copies of Webster's small Dictionaries in store, and will pile up the big ones beside them. We have not twenty-flve copies of all kinds of Worcester's Dictionariea#'*

Sales of Books at the West.—Theentire book trade of Chicago, including that small portion of tbe stationery trade which is done by the book-houses, nearly reaches |3,000,000, per year. Of the Unabridged Dictionaries, Griggs A Co. sell annually, 1000 copies of Webster, and about &> of Worc&fyisttzrfJhicay'i Evening Post, OcL 19 1880.

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