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LITERATURE.

ofessor Rawlinson on Ancient Civilizations.

Canoe Travel on the Atlantic.

Darwin on ''Vegetable Loves"—The May

Atlantic"—John Brown and Gerritt Smith—Mark Twain.

The Origin of Nations By George Rawlinson, M. A.. Camd.n, Profossor of Ancient History, Oxford, and Canoa or Canterbury. Duodecimo, pp. 272. Scrlbner,

Wclford & Armstrousr, Nevr York. A. h. Bancroft & CO., Ban FrMnciSco. It is the object of Professor Rawlinsbn t« prove that man was created originally civilized, or measurably so, and that consequently he cannot have come up by regular gradations through forms of vegetable and animal life. He is orthodox in the most thorough sense. He believes in the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures and in the book of Genesis, especially in the genealogies, which he traces out in the ethnological portion ot his Work. It is with the attacks on the Bible on historical grounds that he principally deals. Geology lie leaves to those who have made it a specialty. In his "Aids to Faith," printed nearly a score of vears ago, he summed up his views in these words:

There is really not a pretense for saying that recent discoveries in the field of history, monumental or other, have made the acceptance of the Mosaic narrative in its plain and literal sense any more difficult now than in the days of Eossuet and Stillingfleet.

TWO THEORIES OBJECTED TO. This occasioned many expressions of dissent, but there are only two arguments which the writer deems worthy oi refutation. One of these is the antiquity of Egyptian civilization, Many chronologists date it back B. C. 5,000 years, thereby disproving the chronology of the Pentateuch. The other argument, which he mtetswith all the ample resources of this learning, is that which attempts to show that the ethnology of Genisis is incompatible with the late discoveries ol science. Withoutendeavoring to present his views at great length, or with rigid analysis, they may be stated generally as follows: Man's original savagery Prolessor Rawlinson thinks to be entirely unproved. The question is still open. Science cannot pronounce on it, and historical research has not yet decided either way. Evolution is a mere theory, which lacks confirmation, This last i.1 a most

ASTOUNDING ASSERTION

for any person of intelligence, in view of the drift of modern thought when even theologians are acknowledging protoplasm and reconciling their opinions to Darwin, and are seizing on the extremest theories of science as real proof of Biblical doctrine. Professor Rawlinson first concedes that history, superficially observed, shows a general transition from lower states of civilization to higher the Greeks pass from the semi-bar-barous Homeric era to the high civilization of Thucyd ides and Xenophon the Romans exchange their robber lite for the splendor of the Augustan age the Arabs their wild nomadic existence for the refinements of Bagdad and the magnificence of Granada, etc. This "catches the eye when it roves the historic lield," says our religious historian. It doss not take a profound thinker or a great historian to see that his efforts to show the converse of this are weak. He avers that civilization may retrograde to barbarism. No one doubts this.

DESTROY THE CHURCHES,

the schools, books, works of art, cities, towns and everything that civilization has created, and" leave any nation without the means of replacing them, and it would become savage in three generations. That proves nothing. If the race does not advance it goes backward by a simple lav of nature. As examples of retrogression, Professor Rawlinson cites the Geloni, who, having been expelled from their cities on the northwest coast of the Euxine, became barbarous and used the skins of those slain in battle to cover their horses. The Greco-Bactrian

people retrograded. The Jews degenerated after the post-Babylonian period. The modern Copts are degraded decendants of the ancient Egyptians. The -Peruvians and Mexicans were once civilized. The Spanish Americans are poor specimens of the old Castilians, with much other impertinent matter of a similar nature. From the traditions of the golden age found among all primitive peoples another argument ia deduced in favor of earl civilizations. The description of our first parents by ....

MILTON

is quoted, and also a translation from Hesiod—a picture of the golden race of 'mortal men." The conclusion reached is expressed in the following language: "To us it seems that, 60 far as the voice of history speaks at all, it is in tavor of a primitive race of men, not indeed equip.ped with all the arts and appliances of our modern civilization, but substantially civilized, possessing language, thought, intelligence, conscious of a divine being. quick to form the conception ot tools, and to frame them as it needed them, early developing many of the useful and elegant arts, and only sinking by degrees, and under peculiar circumstances, into a -savage condition."

Professor Rawlinson's long argument regarding the recent date of Egyptian civilization is unimportant as respects the theory of evolution. It only has meaning as relating to the truth of. .t

THE BIBLICAL RECORD, ~*i

whosi earlier pages do not of late years' seriously distress scientists. Within the domain ol pure history he is scholarly and able. In speaking of the civilizations of Central Asia all that is proved seems to be, which nobody denies that the historical neriod of Assyrian and Babylonian civilization was preceded by a state of civilization by no means coutemptible. The Romans are indebted to the Etrurians, it is claimed, who took them far on the road to refinement and greatness. The argument is carried over from classic peoples to the nations and tribes of Northern Europe, who are less available for the author's logical pur-

poses. The only result of the inquiry is Vw that the records of no civilization ante „i date or contradict the Bible, and that there is no proof that the civilization of any cation was preceded by a state of absolute savagery. The part of the book treating of ethnology, from its sfraifl^d effort to reconcile science and

Scripture, will hardly prove cntertBining to the general reader. The Different Forms of Flowers on

Plants of the same Species. By Chas. Darwin, M. A„ F. R. S. With illustrations. *i2mo. pp. 352. D. Appleton Si

Co., New York. A. E. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco. "The subject of the present volume, namely, the different formed flowers nor mally produced by certain kinds of plants, either on the same stock or on distinct stocks, ought," says Darwin in his introduction, "to have been treated by a proteased botanist, to which distinction I can lay no claim," a statement which one is apt to doubt in perusing an account of the many careful and delicate experiments with which the volume is filled. Taking the divisions of flowers as fsunded upon their sexual relations, hermaphrodite, monoecious, dioecious and polygamous. Mr. Darwin discusses at length the tendency and result ot cross fertilization in different directions. A knowledge of botany, especially that part referring to reproduction, is necessary to a full understanding of the nature and results of the experiments discussed. The divisions mentioned, which Mr. Darwin accepts in his treatise, are based upon sexual difference. IlermaphroJite flowers contain both the stamen and pistil^ and have two subdivisions, the hctcrostvled and cleistogamic the first so named because the individuals of this fjlass exist under two or three forms, differing in the length of their pistils and stamens and in other respects. CleUtogamicis a term applied to

HERMAPHRODITIC PLANTS

bearing two kinds of flowers—the one fully expanded, the other minute, completely closed, with the petals rudimentary. Monoecious species have their sexes separated but borne on the same plant. Dioecious species have the stamens 011 one plant and the pistils on another. Polygamous plants, according to Darwin, are such as coexist as hermaphrodites—males and females—he giving new names to other combinations of the sexes. The divisions above made are not distinct, but show a gradual process of evolutien from one to the other, with a constant tendency toward sepai aticn ot the sexes. The results of his observations are summoned up by the author nearly as follows: Cleir.togamic flowers yield an abundant supply ot seeds, having probably been modified fjr that special purpose, at the same time perfect flowers arc generally produced which are still capable of cross fertilization. Hermaphrodite plants have often been rendered monaccious, dioecious or polygamous. The separation of the sexes would have been injurious had not pollen been transported by the winds and by insects from flower to flower. Hence it is concluded that the separation is not for the sake of advantages derived from cross-fertilization.

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The sole motive for

SEPARATION JOF THE SEXES is that the production of a greater number of seeds might become superfluous to a plant under changed conditions of life, and it might then be beneficial to it that the same individual 6hould not tax its powers by producing both pollen and seeds. Plains that become gynodiceciOUB— that is,

coexist

as hermaphrodites

and femals, yield a larger amount of seed th«n if they had remained simplv hermaphroditic. This large supply is often necessary or advantageous, which leads us to suspect that the sub-class whidh produces it has been formed for that special purpose. Various hermaphrodite plants have become heterostyled in order to insure cross-fertilization. In order that these plants may become fertilized, pollen must be conveyed from the one form to the stigma of the other. If the sexual elements of the same form are united the union is illegitimate and more or less sterile. This stirilitv, probably, has not been specially acquired, but results from the fact that the sexual elements of the two or three forms have been adapted to one another in a particular manner, so that any other kind of union is insufficient, like that between distinct species. A still more remarkable result is that the seedlings from an illegitimate union art often dwarfed and n-.ore or less or completely barren, like hybrids from the union ot two widely distinct species. Voyage of the Paper Canoe. Record of a Journey of 2.500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico ir. 1S74-5. By

Nathaniel H. Bishop. Duodecimo, pp. 351. Lee & Shepard, Boston, A. L. Bancrott & Co.. San Francisco. Mr. Bishop is a Corresponding Member of the Boston Society of Natural History. He is remarkable tor long journeys. He once made a thousand-mile wa.k across South America. His trip, of which this volume is a diary, was made in a wooden canoe iS feet in length, with a single assistant at starting. Of the autnor, the author himself says: "The author left Quebec, Dominion of Canada, July 4, 1S74, with a single assistant, in a wooden canoe 18 feet in length, bound lor the Gulf ot Mexico. It wai his intention to follow the natural and artificial connecting a tet course of the continent in the most direct line southward to the gulf coast of Florida, making portages as seldom as possible, to show how lew were the -interruptions to a continuous water'way for vessels of light draught, from the chilly, foggy and rocky regions ol the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the north, to the semi-tropical waters of the great Southern Sea, the waves of which beat upon the sandr shores of the southernmost United States. Having proceeded about 400 miles upon his

voyage,

TUB MAY

the

author reached Troy, on the Hudson River, New York State, where for several years E. Waters & Sons had been perfecting the construction of paper touts. The advantages of uing a boat of only 5S pounds weight, the strength a'id durability of which had been well and satisfactorily tested, could not be questioned, and the author dismissed his assistant, and 'paddled his own canoe' about 2,000 miles to the end of the journey. Though frequently lost in the labyrinth of creeks and marshes which skirt the southern coast of his country, the author's difficulties were greatly lessened by the use of the valuable and elaborate charts of the United States Coast Survey Bureau to the faithful executers of which he desiies to give unqualified and grateful praise." He met with nothing but kindness in his long, lonely journey along a dreary coast. His stories of Southern lite are interesting, and as giving pictures of a reconstructed region not without their value. The natural history is given in mild doses, for our author is evidently not a scientist in the finer meanings of the term.. The narrative flows on contiguously, easily, full of certain kinds of information, and not without a bright pictorial quality which

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

will make it acceptable to persons of all age*. It is a novelty in the way of adventure. 1

"ATLANTIC."

The A tl-intic Monthly maintains its reputation through all vicissitudes. JV change of proprietors does not seem affect its prosperity. The loss of an old and valued coterie of correspondents only temporarily detracts from the brightness of it* pages. Since it began its career many other magazines have been born, run their course and passed away. It once had the best corps of contributors ever possessed by any periodical. Emerson, Longfellow, Whittief, Lowell and Holmes standing at their head. These have almost cea-ed to furnish matter, the weariness ef old age1 beginning to steal over them. One of them, whose mastery of prose is equal to his laeilitv of verse, has gone to Spain, and we mav have from him in time a new "Alliambra," a fresh compend of Spanish literature, or thoughtful volume of poetry, softened and mellowed by the climate of a softer and more romantic region than New England. These have been succeeded by contributors hardly so able- or brilliant as a whole—for where could such another set be tound?—but still fresh, lively, piquant, forcible aial entertaining. Those who furnish matter for the current number, are W. II. Bishop, C. E. Craddock, Henry James, Aldrich, Howells, Clemens, Grant.White, Trowbridge and Dudlv Warner. Some of these are the most polished writers of the dav. Mark Twain caricatures what he calls magnanimous incident literature Howells writes regarding recent verse Aldrich gives more chapters of his progress from Tonkapog to Pesth," and B. F. Tavlor, Boyesen, Trowbridge and Lnura U. Feuling furnish short poems. The last, called *DaffJils," is to suggestive of Wordsworth's, on the same subject to produce an altogether pleasent impression, in an article entitled ''Americanisms" Mr. White traces many of our peculiar forms of speech to England and English authors. Altogether |the number is vacable and Ihighlv readable. Htre is a specimen of Mark Twain:

THE GRATEFUL POODLX.

"One day a benevolent physician (who had read the books), having found a stray po dle suffering from a broken leg, conveyed the poor creature to his home, and after setting and bandaging the injured limb gave the little outcast its liberty again and thought no more about the matter. But how great was his surprise upon opening his door one morning, some days later, to find the grateful poodle patiently waiting there, and in its company another stray dog, one of whose legs, by some accident, had been broken. The kind physician at once relieved the distressed animal, nor did he forget to admire the inscrutable goodness and mei cy of God, who had been willing to use so humble an instrument as the poor outoutcast poodle for the inculcating of etc., etc., etc. "SEqUEL "The next morning the benevolent physician found tne two dogs, beaming with gratitude, waiting at his door, and with them two other clogs—cripples. The cripples were speedily healed, and the four went their way, leaving the benevolent physician more overcome by pious wonder than ever. The day passed, the morning came. There at the door sat now the four reconstructed dogs, and with them four othiis requiring reconstruction. This day also passed and another morning came and now sixteen dogs, newly crippled, occupied the sidewalk and the people were going around. By noon the broken legs were all set, but the pious wonder in the good physician's breast was beginning

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mixed with involuntary profanity. The sun rose once more and exhibited thirtytwo dogs, 6'xteen of thein with broken legs, occupying the sidewalk and half of the street the human spectators took up the rest of the room. The cries of the wounded, the songs of the healed brutes and the comments of the onlooking ti— zensmade ereat and inspiring cheer, but traffic was inteirupted in that street. The good physician hired a couple of assistant surgeons and got through his benevolent woik before dark, first taking the precaution to cancel his church membersh p, so that he might express himr self with the latitude which the case required. F"But some things hav'e their limits. When once more the morning dawned and the good physician looked out upon a massed ana far-reaching multitude oi clamorous arid beseeching dogs, he said: 'I might as well acknowledge it, I have been fooled b/the books they onlv tell the pretty part of the story and then stop. Fetch me the shotgun this thing has gone along far enough." "He issued forth with his weapon and chanced to step upon the tail of the original poodle, who promptly bit him in the leg. Now the great and good work [which this poodle had been engaged in had engendered in him such a mighty and augmenting enthusiasm as to turn his weak head at last and drive him mad.

A month later, when the benevolent physician lay in the death throes of hy drophobia, he called his weeping friends about him and said: 'Beware of the books. They tell bu: hall of the story. Whenever a poor wretch asks you for help and you feel a doubt as to what result may flow from your benevolence, ive yonrself the benefit of the doubt and ill the applicant.' "And so saving he turned his face to the wall and gave up the ghost."

GERRIT SMITH AND JOHN BROWN. The connection of Gerrit Smith with the John Brown raid is thus told in areview of FrothinghapVs life of the former: "So long as Gerrit Smith lived there were reasons, which to him seemed sufficient, for withholding the whole history of the John Brown affair. But he did not request that tho-e who knew the facts should continue to withhold them after his death. His exact words, written in October, 1872, to one of the At lantic contributors, were these: 'If you couldldefer your contemplated work until after my death (not long hence, as I am approaching seventy-six) you would lay me under great obligations to your kindness. So, too, you would if, in case ou write before my death, [you] make as sparing a use of my name as possible.' The wish ot Mr. Smith was respected, and it was not till after his deatft, in December, 1874, that this magazine made any mention of his name in connection with the Virginia campaign of Brown, or attempted to give detail the secret history of that affair. Even then cur contributor was so careful as to« omit all mention of the fact that the first revelation of Brown's plans to these who afterwards aided them with monejr was made ia

(Mr,

Smith's house,'

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at Peterboro, February 22, 1858, and that Brown's remarkable letter, two days later, was written is the same house. Mr. Frothiogham, from Mr. Smith's diary for February, iS$8, fixes the place of conference plainly enough for it thence appears that John Brown spent the entire week from the 18th to the 25th of February at Gerrit Smith's house in Peterboro. Mr. Frothingham adds these particulars, which did not appear in the Atlan-tic-for March, 1S75, where thp main result of the conference was stated: 'In Morton's room, aloof from the other guests of the house, Brown derailed his plan Smith going in and out but being present during the reading of th-s paper, with which he was probably already familiar, as Brown had been four Jays his guest, and taking part in the discussion that followed.' This positive declaration perhaps rests for evidence, in part: upon a wri'.ten statement ot Mr. Smith's, bearing date January 1874, not quite a year before his death, to which he said •I was in Mr. Morton's room a part or all of the time whilst Brown was reading his plan for entering the South and summoning the slaves to the mountains, where they could defend themselves anu thcnce escape to Canada. My heart responded to his merciful interest in the victims of oppression, and he had my warm wishes for his success. I had but little conversation with Brown respecting his enterprise. He tohl me he was not yet decided in what State to be^in it.' Later in the same statement Mr. Smith said: "Hearing, some months after April, 1S59, through another person, that he was in Chambersburg and in need of mcrney, I directed a hundred dollars to be sent to him. His being there led me to belifcvii that he was on the way to the mountains of Maryland or Virginia.'

NEW USE FOR LIGH'I HOl)iES. From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. The committee on gas light held a meeting Saturday afternoon. George Magg submitted a proposition for lighting the city which has the novelty of originality at least. He proposes to erect three lighthouses,—one to be placed on Nunnery Hill, one on Coal Hill, and one on Heron Hill,—from which shall be emitted "such a flood of light that, anywhere in Pittsburg or Allegheny, a pin could be seen if lying 011 the pavement in the darkest night." The lights will be so located that a perfect crossing of the beams will be effected, and every light will neutralize the shadows of the other. The lanterns are to be of such an elevation that they overlook the surrounding hills. Each of them will be provided with four lights, and four concave reflectors from six to eight feet wide and from ten to twelve feet high. The reflectors are to be made of copper, heavily plated with silver, the latter to be polished to the highest degree. In speaking of the feasibility of this plan, he mentions Germany, Austria, and France as using white lights to the exclusion of gas. If acceptable Mr. Magg will raise a company of capitalists, who will build and equip light houses, guarantee keepers' salaries, and run the concern for seventeen years without cost to the city. What is required of the city amounts to this: All the lamp-posts are to be handed over for the use of the company, to be fitted up as advertising mediums bv means of revolving caskets, and the income to be derived therefrom to go into the pockets ot speculators. At the termination of the seventeen years the citv, on payment of original costs, takes over the whole apparat us. The author admits that each lninp will bring in $500 peryeai, which will give a total incomc of $1,150,000 for the same period. If the cities are averse to accepting that proposition, Mr. Magg goes further, and sta'es that he will, for a consideration of $6 J,OOO, superintend the erection of his inventions, and hand them over finally. He considers the above !»um a "mere drop in a bucket—considering the immense income receivable in seventeen years." The communication was referred to a sub committee, composed of Messrs. Keller, Kerr, anji Littel, to examine and report upon it.

A' THE SPANISH ARMY The number of young men in the kingdom of Spain who this year attain the age of 20, wl)en they become liable to be called upon to serve in the army,amounts to 153,869. Of these, however, nearly half are declared to be physically unfit for service, or are excused for some other reaton and of the remaining 75,000, about 20,000 are r-quired for the navy, for the army maintained in the foreign possessions of Spa:n, or have purchased exemption from military service by paying $400 each to tht state. The rest from the contingent of recruits for the present year. The standing army numbers altogether 100,000 men and it is calculated that in eight years'time, when the reserves created by the recent organization will have attained their fuil strength, Spain will be able to place in the field in the event of war a total effective of 365 600 men. Of these 312,000 will belong to the infantry, 10,000 to the garrison r.rtillery, and 9,500 to the engineers, including among the latter the men of the railway regiment and of the pontoon and telegraph trains. The whole force when mobilized will comprise four classes of men. In the first place comes the standing army, in which ojen serve for three years. The soldiers originally drafted into it then go 011 unlimited furlough for 12 months, passing ultimately into the reserve or territorial army, in which they remain for four years. The fourth cla*s consists of the so-called "disposable recruits." These are men who, although forming part of the annual contingent, were, on attaining their twentieth year, not incorporated in regiments, but, after undergoing a short period of training, were dismissed to their homes, remaining, howe/er, liable to be called to the colors in time of war.

A SOLEMN WARNING. .. Fron the Keokak Cmstltntion. A gentleman who takes and pays lor his paper entered his place of business the otner evening and found a man who never spends five cents for a newspaper, reading the one left at the store, as usual. The merchant didn't ask for his paper, but sat down and concluded to time the man and see how long it would be before he got possession of what was his own. The sponge read the local, then the telegraph, then the editorial, and afterwards the miscellany. He had consumed nearly an hour by this time, when he turned to read the advertisements. It was too much, and the merchant put a keg of gun powder beneath him, laid a train, fired it. and blew the sponge nearer to heaven than he could possibly have reached by his own exertions.

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THE CALICO BALL. From the London World, April 10. FR0XKU8 K. DK BI TANTE. XATON FLACK, TO

HON. C1STMTIAN 8I*OONLB:AII, X. B. DEAR CIS: I promised you a word About the fancy danre, sir Only YOU tnusn't be absurd,

Ana try and send an answer. My goodness if Aunt Emmie Irtew, I soon should find my fun done I don't know what she wouldn't do—

P'r'aps send me out of London But every morning when it's fair 1 walk out with old Miss Miller So I shall run across the square,

And po» this in the pillar.

Cheer up, dear Cis be true and sage, We'll win yet, never doubt it In lour years more I come of age,

And then—we'll see about it. And you must read like anything, And get no end of knowledge, And try and be a perfect king— J.

As Algv says—at college. And I'll write to you now and then If anything should strike me— Tnere, I'm w'and'ring eff again

Now isn't that so like me?

"\Vell, I'd a quite too lovely dress, A sort of Danish peasant—

Especially my ankles!

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But soon I found myself forgot, 1' One girl among the ti.any

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And quite regretted I was notHre^v The cynosure of any. 'Twas fun to mark each one's success

By faces dull or dimply As for the dear Princess, hsr dress I thought perfection simply. And Ni^lit was, there with (j^r8f,in crowds,

Worth many a monarch's ransom, Concealed by soft and gauzy clouds I thought she looked so handsome.

Summers as Summers seldom are,, And Winter with its hollies A quite enchanting morning Star,

And two such lovely Follies. The "Missing Duchess" to a hair, Lord William said demurely '7'was lucky Agnew* wasn't there,

Or he'd have claimed her surely. And quite the finest dress I saw— It drove some people frantic— Was an enchanting Indian^squawf

From over the Atlantic. She looked the Queen ofCatawhalps— That book, you know we read so— And all her scalps were really scalps

At least Lord William said so,.,

Grace Darling, too, was quite a triat Although her lantern burned out And Marguerite des Marguerites,

Most capitally turned out. One dress, all scarlet, with a hat, A sort of black sombrero— I thought the lady who wore that

Reduced most claims to zero. The Zingari were sweetly done, Some fix or seven nearly A daughter of the house was one,

Who looked too pretty, really The hats they found, some people say, A nuisance in the valses. O, I'd forgot a sweet Jane Gray! tVnd that, I think, is all, Cis. It's time to go to bed, no doubt 3 1 feel so cold and sleepy

My candle's very nearly out, And O, I am so sleepy! Good night, dear Cis don't answer this,

Miss M. S of New York.

FRENCH NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. The scarcity of non-commissioned officers in the French army has of late become so great that the minister of war has been compelled to give his serious attention to devising some means to induce men of good character, and with the requisite qualifications, to accept the stripes and remain with the colors Tor a period bevond the term for which they are obliged to serve in the regular army. The result is that a bill has been recently brought by the minister before the committee of the chamber without hav ing been previously laid upon the table, which provides that everv non-commis-sioned officer who enlists for further service after completing his first five years in the army, shall receive a bounty of 2,800 francs, or $560. In return for this sum the noR-commissioned officer will have to re engage for five years and of the 2.S00 francs, 500 will be paid to him at once, the remaining 2.300 francs at the end of the period of ^engagement. When he hai thus completed altogether 10 year#' service, the non-' commissioned officer, it is proposed, shall be able to re-enlist for another five years, receiving a second premium of 500 francs, and becoming entitled, on finishing 15 years' service, to a pension wliich shall not be less than 360 francs a year. The bill further provides for the appointment of an adjutant to every company, instead of one only to every battalion, as has been the case hrthei^o. and enacts that these posts shall be filled by non-com-missioned officers onh, thus materially increasing the chances of promotion among the latter. All the proposals have, it is said, beeu very favorably received by the committee, and a projet de loi in which thev are embodied will be brought before the chamber as soon as it reassembles.

THE "FIRS i: GENTLEMAN OF EUROPE." George IV.'s extravagance and lovetf spending had no bounds, provided that it was not his own money that he spent. He always had money, although pretending at the time he hadn't. When he died there was found £10,000 in his boxes and money scattered about everywhere, a great deal of gold. There were about 500 pocketbooks, of different dates, and in every one money—guineas, one pound notes, one, two or three in each. There never was anything like the quantity of trinkets and trash that was tound. He had never given away or parted with anything. There was a prodigious quantity of hair—women's hair—of all colors and lengths, some Iccks with the powder and pomatum still sticking to them, heaps of women's gloves, gages d'amour which he had ^ot at balls, and with the presparation still marked on the fingers, notes and letters in abundance but not much that was

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any political

consequence, and the whole was destroyed.

F. lUdaig's Yicnaa bread ia sellin rapidly ^7 AMI

VEGETINE

S For Dropsy.

T**TRAI FALLS, Oct. ID, 1877.

1R. H. R. STKNKXS: It Is a pKasureto v've my testimony f.ir vonrvaluable mutilcie.'. IwasSiok for a lotg time with Dropsy, under tho doctor's ca^e. lie said it w\s Water between the J'e&rt and Liver. I received no benefit until I commenced ttking th Vegetlne tn fuct, 1 was growing wor«o. I havo tried many remedies they uid not help me. Veratino is the medicine for Drop«jr. I boTAn to foel better after taking a few bntiles. I hare taken thirty bottles ia ml'. I urn pnrfectly well, never fe't better. Xo one can feel more thankful than I do.

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dear sir, gratefully yonrs, :\.U. WrtKELER.

VEOETINS—When tha bloal bccoines lifeless and stagnant, elth from ch»hgo of weather or of climate, 1 nt of exercise, irrngular die*, or frim any oth-r cause, the vesretine wi.l renew tho blood, carrv off tho putrid humors, cleanse tho stomach, regulate ho bowel", and ini part a ton} of vigor to the whole body.

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We voted it a great success— And very short and pleasant. I felt ut first—I don't know why (I'he memory still rankles)— The cynosure of every eye.

Vegetine

For Kidney Complaint and Nervous Debility.

(ISLXBORO, Mr., Doc. 2S, 1877.

MR. STXVBK8: I)e»rS1r—I had hail cough fr eighteen years, when 1 commenced taking 1.10 Vetotle. I was very low my svs ma was do-bMitate-l by disease. I hvl the Kulnev Complaint, and was very nervous -cough baJ. lungs sore. When I Had taucn ore bottle 1 found It was helping me 't ltil helped my cough, and It strengthens me lam now able to do my work. Never have found anything like tho Veget'ne. know it is every thingit Is recommended iv Vie.

MLTS. A. J. L'KNOLKTON.

Vegetino is'tfoirrlshlntf and strengthening purifies the blood regulates tho bowois quiets the nervous svstem acts directly upon the secretions 'and arouses tho wholo system. "t".

-Vegetine

For Sick He ul.-K.'he.

EVANSVILLK, IND Jan. 1,187«.

Ma. f»T«vttH8:— lo!»r$ir— have u'o I your Vegetino for Sick Headache, and IKJ-II greatly relieved thoreby. Ihavoevery reason to believe it to be a goo I me lie ne.

Yours vi'rv rOspootfiillv. Mas. JAM»S ONNKR,'411 Third St. s* llK.\nACHB—There lyo virions causes for headache, as dernnhcmentof tho circulating system,of thedige^iivoorffans, of the nervous system. '. Vegetino can be said to be a sure remedy for the m.iny kln ls of headache, as It arts directly upon the various cntMes of th's complaint, Nervousness, Indigestion. Costivene^s Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Kllionsneris. Ac. Try tho Vegetino. You will never regret it.

Vegetine.

Doctor's Keport.

DR. CHAS. M.DCNDEMIACSKK. AOO'TORFCARY Kvansvillc, ind. The doctor wr tosi Ihavoalaigu number of good customers wh take Ri'tine. They all speak well of it. know it it a good medicine for the com pi lints fr wu.cli it Is recommended. Deo. 27,1877.

Vegotlne is a gi eat panacea fr our a»od fitlmis and mothers for it g!r:« thein strength, |iiiet-« tholr nerves, and gives them Xatsr-j's sweet sleep..... ......

Ve^etiiie.

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