Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 October 1879 — Page 2

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THE MAIL'

TERRE HAUTE,

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A WORD TO TO UNO MEN.

with new

under new circa instances, it may be, bat always with the same results. A young man, well born and carefully nurtured, enters upon life with every promise of a bright career. Good influences surround him and help him on his way bis genial nature wins him many friends and young and old speak well of him and rejoice in his snccesa. He advanced step by step, to public positions to trust and seems a favorite of fortune

for bv^

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personal associations from which a well bred man should shrink. Little by little tbe time spent in bar rooms ana club rooms encroaches upon tbe hours of labor or of rest. Wine and cards gain a predominant plane in tbe man's life, and the useful citizen by day becomes by night the companion of rowdies and blacklegs. Theu comes the end—in crime and disgrace, it may be, or in vio lence—the midnight brawl, the assassin's bludgeon, a narrow cot in the hospital, a narrow grave. The life that was so fall of promise is cut abort the career begun In sunshine ends in clouds and darkness.

Over and over again have we all of us heard this story and seen it enacted. Over and over again have we read its obvious moral. And still the world goes on as before, and countless young men are dragged to ruin every day or give themselves over to the devil, though thiroad to ruin is marked on every linger-post before their eyes. Still, those whose duty it is to describe each day's events in truthful terms may not be silent nor withhold their warning and advice because tbe unlearned leason has been so often told. Every man thinks it does not apply to him. Others may have fallen, but be is not like them he can resist temptation and pass through evil scenes unharmed. Just so those countless others thought who have perished and left nothing behind but the warning of their fall. Who are we that we should boast ourselves stronger than other men, if we have not the strength that comes only through right living? No, the lesson is for all of us, As surely as the miasma of the swamps beeds physical disease does evil living lead to sorrow and disgrace, and however fair a face a man tnay present to the world, however warmly nis friends esteem him and his fellow-citizens wish well for him, sooner or later his sins will find him out, and the evil that he has taken to himself will bear down self-respect and manly pride, honor and reputation, and life itself for the wages of sin most surely must be paid.

ELECTRICAL JEWELRY. Gallgnanl's Messenger. "Every one is joore or less acquainted with the advances made in tbe use of electricity, particularly in tbe way of lighting and as a motive power, but few would ever have suspected that it was likely to be applied to purposes of per

gonal

adornment. Such, however, is the case, for M. Trouve has found the means of applying It iu a most ingenious manner to certain articles of jewelry, The applications or it are comparatively unlimited, but a description of a few articles will nufflce to give tbe reader an idea of this invention. Take, first of all, a breastpiu, consisting of a death's bead enameled, with movable eyes of diamonds or rubies, and the lower jaw articulated. At the pleasure of the wearer, by moans to be described presently, it can be made to roll Its eves and chatter its gumless teeth. Another pin is surmounted by a small goldeu drum, on which is seated on its tail a little rabbit, holding in its fore paws two drumsticks, with which It beats a tattoo when the electric current is applied. A third is an

LARGEST SAPPHIRE IS THE WORLD. I have recenly been favored with the right of one of tbe famous jewels of the world—a stone that has its history and pedigree, and is celebrated in tbe annals of the trade, and in tbe annals of the noted gems of Europe I have held in my hand and admired beneath tbe rays of ttm sunlight the finest sapphire that is known to exist. This beautiful and well-nigh priceless atone combines In a alngularlv perfect degree tbe leading qualifications of six®, shape, color, and water. In form it is flat oval, being about two inches long by an inch and a half wide. It is cat silgbtly en cabocbon on top and Into a multitude of small facetsbeneath. Its hue is perfect, being a warm, lustrous Marl® Louise bine, not ao dark as to show black beneath the gaslight, bnt having alt the velvet softnee* and puritv of tint that is required In a really line gem ot this description. Ita weight is 300 carats, and it belongs to a noble and wealthy Russian fatally in whose family it has bean lor tbe past two centuries, and it bas been placed by Ita owner In the hands of one of tbe great diamond march ants of Paris lor keeping. One of the Rothschild family for it no less than

faskedhasitoffered

x),000, but the offer has been refused, the oourteous gentleman in whose care tea been left as to tbe actual value of the stone. He told me that,

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being, as it was, perfectly unique^ no precise value could be set upon it, but that be was inclined to estimate it at some f!00,000. He also showed die a string of enormous graduated pearls of extreme purity and Mneae» (th» center one was as large as a small-cherry), and

one was as large as a small cherry), and

w«w UUUM WUOO.AU TOT

he told me that the necklace belonging

of twenty carats each. Its guardian in-

Philadelphia Times Editorial. £3$ formed me thai the pendant belonging body on earth can

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FMiadeipnia Time* tsaitonni. mim™ —-»--o uuuy uu e«. „w.. _, ««-, r\ftmn „m .tjnrv i,

to this brooch was composed of a large

thia hrnnnh arM mmnnRM

among the crown jewels of Russia. I

was

UDon

qualified to give

PnbHo office moreover must be oaid chased by the members of the Imperial played her last card, got eachered.and

which impliM family—Paris Letter. wai

snuiings ever smue muumg uukuoovh,

and is likely to until he leaves it but

fng

tence each then a giass of water durtbe performance, one shilling, and a fee for the commissionaire who closes his cab door as he drives away. As a sixpence is fifteen cents, all this amounts to a very pretty sum before begets through bis amusement (?), especially if his party is of any considerable siae but then it has always been tbe custom, and it is probable it always will be. What is good enough for their great grandfathers is quite good enough for the present generation.

MRS. FITCH'S DIAMOND'S.

New York Letter to Chicaco Inter-Ocean. Says the Herald: "The magnificent diamond's presented as a bridal gift to the daughter of General Sherman, by the Khedivo of Egypt, are kept in tbe vault of the United States treasurer, and the casket is sealed, so that tbe treasurer's clerks may not be put to the trouble of displaying them to visitors."

These "magnificent diamonds" seem to have been a snare and a delusion from beginning to end. First, when they arrived, they were said to be worth 9250,000, of fabulous beauty and set with wonderful skill. At this valuation, however, the duties would have been something enormous, and it could not have been wondered, therefore, that the General was determined on a strict examination. It was held, and it bas been rumored, that the Shermans have since regretted their demand, for the examl-

electric current is appneu. a. miru is »u nation by revealed that theset ornament for a lady's hair, consisting of was worth 15,000 only, Instoad ofJ^2o,a bird covered all over with diamond 000. One of the expertsiwho^ handlwi them, told me a short time ago that out of the 666 stones used, over 200 were merely "chips," worth on the average twenty-five cents each they ranged from that up to 10, and a few used as centers at $80. The mounting la very fine, but take tbe gift, all in ail, it was not so

points, which, on completing the circuit, flutters its wings and produces a curious effect. One of these was made for the Princess de Metternlch. But the ourlous part of the Invention is the battery by which these objects are put in motion. Each of them is an invisible wire, easily concealed In tbe garments or the hair, tbe other end of which is oonneoted with a minute battery. This apparatus is not larger than a pencil case, and can be easily carried unseen in the waistcoat pocket. It consists of a tube hermetically sealed, containing in the upper half a pile composed of zino and carbon inclosed in a case of hardened India tibber (ebonite). The zinc and the carbon only occupy the upper portion of the tube, the lower containing the exciting liquid. So long as tbe tube is kept in a perpendicular position, tbe pile Is not reached by the liquid, and consequently no action takes place. But the moment it is placed horizontally, tbe acid acta on the pile, and a circuit is established which sets the movable p*rt* in action. Thus the wearer has only to vary the position of the tube to produce the motion or stop it at pleasure.

Orientally splendid as pictured. Tbe duties amounted to $3,900, and that General Sherman refused to pay. For a year they remained in tbe keeping of tbe custom bouse, when, alter much trouble, a bill was pushed through Congress, permitting them to be claimed duty free. They were worn a few times, and now are sealed up in the United StateaTreasurer's office. The Khedive will not be encouraged to make any more presents to tbe fair daughters of doughty generals. ___________ A STRANGE STORY ABOUT MA

JOR THORN BURGH.

Buffalo Express.

Major T. T. Tbornburgb, who was killed oy tbe lite Indians, had a peculiar military history. A loyal Tennesseean, be enllated in the Union army during the rebellion when but a boy. In IS63 be was appointed to the Military Academy, and graduated in 1867, when be was made a second lieutenant of ar

be was made a second lieutenant of ar-

tlllery. In 1875 he was promoted to first

ibe Tennessee Democrat and ex-rebel, as Postmaster-General, and made a violent fight against it. Suddenly Lieutenant Thorn burgh, brother to the Congressman, waa promoted to paymaster, with the rank of major. Shortly after the Congressman and Judge Key became friendly «g«ln.

Last year Paymaster Tbornburgb negotiated a transfer with Major Thomas of the Fourth Infantry, by ^ich Thorn-

fore—Tbornburgb

Though no

BANGED HATS.

erraticstyle

woman

to the noble Russian waa composed of

dr0wned,

or bored

to° n^lfc opinion, as he is one of the few great "Tt will metamorphose the prettiest girl "with

he diamond merchant of the world, and is,

L*»ms a favorite of fortune. Bat success moreover, aowuB*poru a» i*» and as lor its eneciaon a piain wumnu:hoM hmnebt its temotations while it has

ane ^ut success moreover, a noted expert. He it is who and ^fSits effects on a plain woman!-

tZllt the ^nKofTes^nstbilit?! Government to go to St. Petersburg to itaetsour teeth on edge! It impartejto Tbe friends that cluster around the pros- make a full estimate of the average female face the moat disnArnns man make demands

^HowswJ tSt cannS be d°«em?ded. ornaments in precious stones are pur-

recently sent for by the Russian may the saints deliver us from seeing it!

sood- crown jewels, and he furnishes whatever couraged, done-for-generally expression

LIVINO IN LONDON --r-—--- Fritchie, waving the flag Boston Traveler says liWng thOTe is not face, with her hair banged!

A woman in

ment

:'1

$ Unknown Exchange. To ohr sight there is nothing sadder than a sane woman with her hair banged.

A lunatic might be excused for suoh an

of hair dressing, but how a

'PV~V~ ni(iM.ua wimioe KUUWJ

jn the full possession of her fac

auiea,and

nr»r o- i«o six similar strings of equal beauty and has a character to keep up, OCT. 2o, loiv exceptional size. The great sapphire ^air banged, is. to oa a pi _______ was mounted to be worn as a brooch, (arVi kU» •iirmnnnlo^ *it)l l*ra« rilammiflt T=j 4V.to

with tbe knowledge that she a a profound nays-

T* CM* UUVUUWW lory* being surmounted witb lsrge diamonds From whence came tbis style bv. isngiana. ana tne nrst aaiiy p»

originated

pe*M, th.story tb«-.b..r/io our WseuS^o^mlwb"? it5SttSSSt^SrtSSl •S'ffi?££ The death of the princess Pilar has Zd Su^i"do^«tom^gl« '»S pi?-*" f.r m?tb.r,V^».2'Sp*Ip, enacted be/ore us,

ngures ana worth over i2.000.000! iT.Vi^

est one," continued my informant "even

wn•

say

this style or nair arrange-

bas not been well

hair gives the

wearer and

and sb^ sometbiD^whfcb ougbt no.

be seen.

aiways

who80

efter all, there is nothing like what is to if there is anything we can do to be seen here in all the world, and if the charges could only be put into one grand total, the traveler would think it cheap. It is the petty annoyance of drawing the purse at every tuiu, and the constant demaBd for fee, that, like a nail in the shoe, keeps one in constant irritation. For instance, at tbe theatres, the American, accustomed to pay for his seat and have the whole paying business over, is put quite out of conceit before the performance begins by the little annoyances to which he is subjected. He pays ten shillings, two dollars and a half, tor bis seat for the privilege of securing his seat in advance say on tbe morning of the performance, and mast pay an extra fee for 'booking.' When he arrives at tbe theatre, be finds his ladies must remove their bonnets, These are to be stored in tbe cloak room, sixpence each then a programme, four

materialization and we getso full of doubt over It that we would give half a dollar to see the fringe lifted, and what is under it brought forth to the light of day.

We wonder if she admires herself in the glass? If she thinks "bangs" are bewitching? If she neyer wishes she had not cut her hair ofl, and so condemned herself to wear her hair that way, willy nilly? Does her husband admire it? Does he ever sneer at it behind his newspaper? Does he ever tell her he wishes she had as pretty a forehead as Miss Smith? Does he ever call her an angel, and then think to himself how an angel would look in bangs?

But there! what is the use of conjecturing? Fashion is omnipotent so is folly, and we do not doubt that somewhere in the world, to-day, somebody is saying, "Bangs are so becoming!"

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A WASHINGTON FAMILY.

ADVICE OF THE FATHER OF THE PERIOD New York graphic. "My son, and daughter, too," quoth the father of tbe period, "my advloe is not to waste too much time on Greek, Latin or music, but rather train up the respective legs I have given you in the

Academy, ana graauavea .n iso,, wnen legs I have given you in the f.. "fMadagascar

waVthey

lieutenant, and held that rank when Mr. yon poor

trian9 aQ(}

man,

HivM bec&tuo President. tad clid in threadbare gsraftenttt? He mtooonoeptiotron this point

Congressman Tbornburgh of Tennes- (Q youth devoted bis head to the acq aKepubllcan and brother to Lieu-

8ition

TgE

^r ^SSrT»CS&

found

officers naturally

WOMEN'S AFFAIRS.

Mrs. Moorhouae, of Liverpool, N. V., lias bestowed 190,000

8*f^fn

has

married women

entire

it? Who set it afloat? No- ever started ly a woman in England

truthfully that it

now

beautiful. .We have never heard that pike—the Dailv Teleffraoh

a llTSfi I- WTa hara nAVAr heard that ™»..

A—,

.We have never heard that p^

5yv.ii„

e—the

in iott«r«

one family is worth over 12,000,000! moreiiableto draw a prize in a lottery. H««-t_TMbella nr

"There is no aach sapphire as that large- "does not insure the wearer against «e iSk a^d^tirn^mnot

by washing machine agents. turn aside aeatn cruei tnrusts.

have ever seen-as if the person had

ready

her hair banged! Think of Barbara

so cheap as in the nited States. Visi- picture to yourself Joan of Arc leading

tors have to pay rigbt and left for every thing, and often for nothing. England is one vast show town. Everything is on exhibition at from a sixpence to a shilling. If one desires to visit the shrines either of royalty or literature, he mu9t weep tears, silver tears, in every instance. Shakspeare's grave, a sixpence Shakspeare's easy chair a shilling dead kings and queens, one shilling jewels of alive one, two shillings, ana so on. -Your correspondent has been sweating sixpences and sneezing shillings ever since landing on the soil

The London correspondent of the pritchie. waving the flag in Stonewall have been productive of grand re-

her troopsonto victory with her hair

commiserate the woman

hair is banged. We feel like ask

Washington Republic. ff

The fickleness of fortune, the hStlrtlessness of flash society and the tollies of tbe novcau richc cannot be better illustrated than by giving a few facts relating to a late celebrated family in Washington. The wife was the handsome, dashing daughter of a well known politician, now in office in New Orleans. He was a distinguished United States Senator years ago. The husband was a good lawyer, a United States Senator of great ability and a heavy mine operator in his far Western, gold producing home. He was in his day a Monte Chisto. He had more money than he could spend. His family went abroad. He built a grand house, copied some nobleman's palace somewhere abroad— round rooms, square rooms, oblong rooms banqueting rooms, ball rooms, drawing rooms, picture rooms and everything that was grand. And the wife abroad furnished this grand house. I was toid by a very intelligent upholsterer the other day, a trustworthy man who knows his business, that the goblin tapestry in one window of the nouse cost 45,000 francs, and that the chair covers of the same material cost 2.00# francs each. Think of it! the seats and backs of a dozen or so chairs costing $400 each! The same authority also saya that one rug in this house cost |2,000, and that the curtains in the whole house cost 130,000. To-day the Senator is no longer in congress, but is practicing his profession like any lawyer in San Francisco, and is making a good living. His house in this city is vacant. He cannot sell it and nobody can afford to hire it. No doubt the moths are having a good time in the goblin tapestry and tbe point lace curtains.

NEXT MRS. U.S. GRANT.

became m^or over to the onlydaughier ofMr.

tbe beads of captains and lieutenants Flood, the bead of toe Bank of Nevada, rTi ri7_4 nTt to Mr. M«ik§?.the rinhoat man

childhood, she

dissatisfaction.

prejudice MLti knkntry

eavalry command. He was anlgned amiable, accompuanea, pracuc*}, nopie to it by Gen. Crook. girt

or struck by lightning, crael thfSste? Louisville Courier-Journal,

her

'Yt will metamorphose the prettiest girl with her party^ in her ow^carayan^nd

our acquaintance into a monstrosity, was treated :everywhere with the most

marked

was recently sent for by the Russian Mints deliver us from seeing it! A little dsnshter of Garibaldi, twelve yer 'spec

lutJ

WOman

naHae

Durchaser. shame.

purchaser. Just imagine Lady Washington with

party, in her own caravan, and kitchen

to sell out cheap to the first their depth in the waters of sin and and song:

The

Roman's Congress wilL this year

groomed, and which ia those things that enable women pose you had a kitchen in doubt about his dinner. Banged

UttSUUH WOOU n«ii OI tnose tOlUKB lUttb BUBUie WUUiOU puso JfUU U«U iu WUV in doubt about his dinner. Bangea

more ably

traveler, througn the Methodist: "They

are not allowed to go out of doors as we are, and many of them never get beyond the walls of their houses. The cows

ing her if there is anything we can do for her. Sh0appea« tons likei a womanin «me"hute with the people trouble. We speak softly to her, as ll v. ordinary tones might jar her nerves. We wouldn't offer her a subscription paper for the world! Nor be glad if anybody trod on the tail of her dress, or squirted tobacco juice on her velvet mantle.

We look at her and wonder how she would seem with that mask taken ofl her forehead. We wonder if she has got moth patches on her temples, or a mole on her classic brow, or a "cow-lick," or a colony of pimples and "black heads." Her forehead is to us as profound a mystery as fortune telling, or psychomancy,

These huts are made of mud without windows, and with doors so small that the wonder is how the people get in. They do not wash their babies until they area year old, because it Is considered unlucky to do so. They rarely comb their hair, from month to month. Their chief meal is at sunset the rest of the time they eat a piece of bread when they are hungry. They never use plates or knives and forks. All sit around the table on the floer. Bread is their dally food, and each family makes for itself, as it is a kind of disgraee to buy 'street bread.' The women clean the corn and carry it on their heads to mill. It is made into thin, small cakes, stuck against the sides of an oven, and baked in less than a minute. A hundred loaves are not too many for a family of foraur in a week. Travelers are usually expected to eat three loaves apiece. They make butter in a strange way. A goatskin half filled with milk is hung on a peg, and then a woman, taking hold of a long string tied to it, jerks

'There are some people wbtf talk In their sleep there are others whu sieepln their talk. While talking, their minds sometimes wander from the subject, their eyes assume a vacant stare. It looks as though tbe mind had occupied itself with other matter, bnt it hasn't. It has gone to sleep, There is nothing which is so fatal to conversation as this. The eyes remain open, the outward seeming of attention Is there, but there is no more mental action than there is in an after dinner doze. One of the most difficult duties of the clergyman is to keep his congregation awake. We do not refer to those comfortable and placid Christians who, secure in the orthodoxy of their preacher, settle themselves in their pews and snooze balmily while the holy man is snorting and tearing ap the ground in the pulpit. We refer to those who keep their oyesopen, who maintain an attitude of respectful attention, but whose minds are nevertheless in a state of profound apathy. Upon such the most ingenious arguments fall in vain, the moat awful denunciations of sin, snd tbe most impressive and solemn warning have no more effect than the buzzing ot the summer flies. It is tbe same with lawyers before thejury—that great bulwark of liberty. While he Is driving home, as he supposes, his theory of tbe facts and the evidence, they may bethinking of tbe number of sweat drops on his intellectual brow, or how very damp his collar is. or how the files manage to bold on to nis bald bead, or what the devil is he making all that noise about anybow. It is a difficult thing for a man to maintain a close mental attention to any subject for more than a few minutes. Tbe average man soon gives up the effort, and while preserving the semblance of attention, permits his mind to lie down and take a rest. Comparatively few can adhere to any subject of conversation more than a few minutes, unless It be one that

fow him to do the lion's share of the talking. When you begin hia noble intellect begina to doze.

him

MADAGASCAR. Nature.

tenant Tbornbuiph, was bitterly op- saegt tbou yon short little man, tac- oonUn^iaw^WthU it dwarfs by pari# cJngtltute a considerable commuposed to tbe appointment of Judge Key, and somewhat nngrammatlcal of comparisonwi tJhltsel nity, having statutes and laws dating Dsmocrat and xh«U,_Ro«.U.. IUJ.

®P th. P**6c lop* Ml» Flood cotajd '-JJV•S4" °°~P

EVENlNG-^MAlL.

upon Syracuse

property and all their earnings. aged. He eats his soup and orders a wh.t The first paper ever published In Der- roast. The pitiless years shower their

by, England, and the first daily paper

being published by by Mrs. E.

RE3TA URANtlAL SUGGESTIONS. A restaurant to full bf sad Ions and pathetic possibilities, and we are constantly reoulided of the fiigh time and tl^ mutability of all things

University. There are now eight States wbieh A young man T*1 have the honor of women practitioners youth and radiant with Ita alluring In their courts. hopea, enters and sits down to a table ,A a waiter approaches, receives his order,

P*8?,*** if,* and departs. Years roll by tbe young

control of their

mBQ beoomeB

8DOws

uuw uniugjiuuiiBuau wjr E. M. his long home just as the waiter heaves

Dailv Telegraph. insight, and tbe proprietor steps up to ask if any one has taken his order.—BosutuuKou uoi iw/tun, —, ton Journal of Commerce. i*t Two ex-queens

topics that concern the interests of other day his father tried to "stump"

topics that concern the interests of

resembles a Shetland pony, which humanity to the better comprehension him with this problem: "My son

to fill the positions they may

Although is known to be

should go, andbecome pedes- the third largest Ulaad in t^ woria, its P... The Council of AJx, circa 820,

pedestrlennes. Seest thou affliai aiaw and^extent to not^very gener-

corner of your

expression of be called upon to hold. southeast corner of your yard, so that Some one bas said that "Happiness is

iltlvation of «u*ern side appeya 16g6 'oloves were not generally worn

heels. Behold his reward. He has won ble j*? 25d2£d man of in England until tbe fourteenth centner fame and to worth 100,080. Son and tawMUk» ma]P of ^fbey became popular with the betdaufhter, go both as you .please and MAdag^r^^Uy ts^e t^t- who carried tbemin thelr

rht of

careworn and middle-

upon nis head he grows queru-

{land, is aaj feeble, and he is carried away to

TJTW A

NFF AROUSED

agin wid my razor, I'll wipe als flo up so clean and slick wid de cat can't stand on it. Now you heah Ike a preachin' ter yer, an' if

you

river, suu muuiunmuj, uv.

dat

civility by that strange people. JOU heah

A little daughter of Garibaldi, twelve yer 'spect ter go to heaben wid my good .jars of age, saved the life of a young will don't you pester my razerany mo man whobad got beyond his depth in Han'medem mushroom." And Hana

r»»u»u

—v

ner

pushed the dish of fried hog's ears

has saved the life and good to her excited lord and lit out tor the

of men who have got beyond kitchen,

Madison, Wis. These meet-

8Ufta. nt

the mere gathering of women

the rea{jjQg

of papers, etc., but oft

the reading of papers, etc., but of a wider interest in all that pertains to

banged! woman's welfare to the consideration A woman in this style of hair

where

she commenced a waltz

song: A' he used to scrub de handle. Ob de big front doah.

A' he used to scrub de handle

AN EASY CNE.

Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle

There is a twelve year old youngster living on street who never fails in answering any question put to him. The

sup-

house and a stable in tbe

southeast corner of your yard, so that when the winc^ blew from the northwest there was a strong smell of corned beef and cabbage in the house, and when the wind came from the southeast there was a strong horse odor about the premises, how would you act to prevent tbe corned beef odor from perfuming the stable?" "Why," replied the laa, "I'd keep my horse in tne kitchen and cook my corned beef in the stable."

BE A OONSFIELD.

Lord Beaconsfield never passes a favor unnoticed, never forgets a friend, and considers no man bis enemy, save Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe. He knows that majorities are made up ef units, and that a unit abstracted from the opposition benches counts two in a division. Thus, when iu the House of Commons, if his watchful eye observed wavering on tbe part of an individual opposite, he somehow or other, before twenty-toUr hours passed, managed to come in personal contact with the waverer. The roughest member knows the sound of tbe friendly voice and the touch of the soft white hand. There is a good deal of human nature in the House of Commons, and human natnre prefers Disraeli's manners to Gladstone's.

m^^^mrs=ssssss

GLASS WICKS FOR.LAMPS. Tbe Chemical Journal says that a wick

to and fro till the butter comes.

Then she drains it, but never washes or salts it. Their favorite dish is rice cooked with this butter.'

*7' COLLOQUIAL SNOOZES. I

Every Saturday.

for lamps in now manufactured entirely ot glass, by Messrs. Voubriel and Beek, of Hanau, Germany. It is designed chiefly for use in petroleum and spirit lamps and, with an equal amount of tbe wick tnrnea up, it gives a much brighter light than cotton wick. In the spirit lamp, too, it to found to greatly increase the heat of the flame. No sparks are given off by this incombustible wick, nor does the light flare in draughts to the extent wbich it does with a burning wick hence it makes the lamp safer. The smoking is also reduced, and It is stated that ten per cent, of oil is saved by its use. Of course, tbe disagreeable task of trimming the lamp is unnessary, for, being of glass, the wick does not consume, but wastes away very slightly

b?fa»l°n,

_____ ANCIENT CITIES.

Three thousand years ago Ninevah contained 216 square miles its walls, 100 feet high, with towers of twice that height, took 140,000 men eight years to build. Babvlon was yet larger. The city founded by Nimrod, $233 B. C., baa its hanging gardens, a series of terraces raised one above another, on piers about forty feet high, till they overtopped the walls of tbe city. Each terrace comprised about three acres and a half, planted with trees and shrubs. Tbe

government

was despotic, but tempered

a curious obeck. The king bad absolute power, but oould not rescind bis decrees, Esgles were trained to accompany the warriors in their battles, to pluck out tbe eyes of the enemy, or to feast upon the oonquered. Very many cruelties were practiced upon the captives. In one of the rural scenes, the king, who quaffs tbe goblet in an arbor is gratified by the sight of the bead of an enemy hanging upon a tree. The royal quarry was tbe lion. Parks were kept entirely for tbe king to enjoy the lion hunt.

THE HISTORY OF GLOVES. Gloves, like their neighbors, shoes, have a history extending into antiquity. Xenopbon and Homer speak of thein, showing that they must have been in use among the Greeks and Persians from very early times. Pliny the Younger

touches tbe temper or the vanity or the ^vs in one'of his epistles that tbe amenpasaions. But even then you must al-

Qengt,of

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miles long, by about 2EQ in average breadth, so that it to nearly tour times Mlargeas England and Wales.

farmers Oet fsslN.

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tbe exception ot a son A Co.. Barlington, vu raa «ww

been fs&to since have trtodto imitaietto mUMitf ^^lQlJJyn£ SSS?hidf ttovalueof has been feeble since have trwa IHM»«O do not know half tbe value of 1. only child. 8b. tbto. UMMWMI oo)or,.lytb.T.wboUJ I»y goa«^"J^ldo S5 weommml .. .. Ml»d. S^,S^iloib.»-a, Rochester, N. tpuanea, pracwcw, nopie

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the elder Pliny wore gloves in

winter lest tbe severity of tbe weather abouldmake him lose anytime. Tbe manufacture of gloves bas been an Important trade In France from early times. In 790 or thereabouts Charlemagne granted an unlimited right to tbeAbbot and monks of Slthln to make

the lion'* shftreof tbe Ia*» »Wa AAWArltty f\t lha WAftthAr

^S^Zr^^the*woridv its gloves from tbe skins of tbe deer they

prohlbitod t|je

pale of faoe, emaciated ally" ""JJSSwSll ^bLaforln Inganybat sheepskin gloves. Before

of knowledge, and he starves Dy ~htr wearing as effeminate, roe giovera 01

inferior clergy from wear-

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ro UtMS Icut*, »vwv.tibors said could not be cured.

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ir HOTEL RECIPES. Wheeling Leader. SCRAMBT.«T Eoos.—Take nine parts of ens and one part of good old lard. Ifsuspicious of the health of any of the eggs, give them tbe benefit of doubt and put them in with tbe rest. Then turn into a skillet which has previously held fried mackeral, and scramble them with a potato masher. Fry until tough or thoroughly impregnated with the fish oil andlara add a little of tbe uncooked eggs which remain*in the pan to give them afresh appearance set in a plaoe to cool, and then serve.

STEAK.—Catch a ball and cut off a piece so near hia horns that you can smell powder. P«und in the morning befr-re people are out of bed bang it up, in the sun tot get tender, and fry for supper. Re fry for breakfast. Fry again for supper, and ao on, ad lib., until the steak gets discouraged. Cook in this manner, it will provoke such flashes of intellect as we heard one morning, and which we jot down illustrative: "I'm only eating this for exercise." "Is tbis tough?-' "Certainly it's tough," was replied. "I'd like to have enough of this to make a target of," etc., etc.

CORX CAKES.—Take unboalted oatmeal, ten cups full add one slop bucket fall of water two spoonfuls of coarse salt, and three quarts of buttermilk. Stir cook until they are black-and-tan, and set in a cool place until clammy. They will be found to have a tartness that no other method can supply.

COFFEE a la MKB ATLANTIQUE.—Take a good deal of water, and throw In coffee-grains, say a handful, and some "extract." Boil until it changes color.

"My By Aches So."

and I feel miserably" said a hard working man. The doctor questioned him and found that he had been habitually costive for years, that now his kidneys were disordered and his whole system deranged. Kidney-Wort was recommended and faithfully taken, and iu a short time every trouble was removed. The cleansing and tonic power of tbis aasdicine on the bowels and kidneys is wonderful.

BACK.

WEAK BACK.

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DR. WASSERZUG,

Ftrom Poland, on all

Sexual, Chronic, Nervous and .. Special Diseases. $,

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Private, Nervous iLand

Chronic Diseases.

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Dr. Wasserzug addresses himself particularly to those who have already placed themselves under the care of Ignorant advertising charlatans from whom they have receivedno benefits, and who In fact have done them more harm than good. Medicine, like all other sciences, is progresstve, and every year shows proof of it* advance. By a combination of remedies of great curative power, Dr. Wasserzug has so arranged Ills treatment that It will afford not only Immediate relief, but permanent cure.

YOUNG MEM,

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MIDDLE-AGED MEW,

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complete

and radi

cal restoration. Possessing the abllltv and experience, he would .prevail on suffering men to favor him and yourself wUh a call. His treatment is a simple one, but, 11 em bodies the principles that sustain and make life pleasant. tratlon—is th* true

Ph'm

Your family Physician, no doubt, will rack, strain and convulse your feeble structure

t*t»ened world is dally recogreceiving hU new de-

SStufe from tbe wefl worn way^ of conventlonalism. ym»y Cssralt tbe Doctor's

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lessens your chance of recovery—to say nothing of the Increased cost. So do not

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