The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 July 1875 — Page 4

088 JU VEN I LBV. rteyhta B«r*rr. Eddie sad Xittj jnuxled their brain* Fqr waetMat •*» »» f<a>; Out of thia jnmiw oftftUe teed* The fame of • barber'* *bnp begun. t I Find took hi* Matin Um- Imrtx r't ehair. While Kitty cut from hi* nnt-bro*rn hair A aoft treM here and anotfec there. Neat K>Uy'a tun; and a tarler'i .hear* By «iua»Mr band* were ae*m borne i Vut Mdle worked until Kitty’* b-ad Ut b*u of it*•olden <■«!* Ohorn. Two little bariien. in mother’* room. Looked eery aorry and full of guilt 1 ’.®wo little head*, for a month or new, Looked rery much like a |<*tch-work quilt. Hew the G r-u**Ko/»p<r* Cerate. I wish to tell the readers of St. Xbhotar a story about the great American Deaert, where the grasshoppers matte , such a fearful raid bat summer. When yon set* the little creatures hopping harmleMly about in the grass, you can think of what a jxiwor of evil they pondaswhen they gather together in such hrniies as those which overran our part of the country last year. The weather was intensely warm here all last season, and for thirty days within the sjiace of six weeks the thenpometor ranged from 100 to 116 deg. It was during this heat in the latter part of July that our Swedish girl, Selma, said she must go home to care for her aged mother. Pete and Polly, our two mules, were Imna-wil to tlio express wagon in the early morning, and a pleasant little company of us started out to take Selma home. Our road by up the banka of a clear grinding stnam.”on «-ach side of which our industrious Swedish neighbors have settled, and ttumed over the virgin soil of ' thia " Garden of the Desert,” upon which appeared fields of waving grain. We liad not ridden far before Fete and i Polly, who liad been whisking their long ears very contentedly, l»egan to by them back and toes their heads into the air. Aa they tossed Uiem higher and higher, we noticed that a grasshopper nunc at: intervals jwith a bounce into our bps or hit our band* and faces, and the farther we went north the more frequently their whizz and click assailed our i-an, or their sharp wing* struck our noses, till we sympathized with our restless mules. Soon we notice. 1 the little brown bodies and gray wings lying in piles along the’ shady side of our track, ami that the green leaves of the corn hung like slit! ribbons swaying in the breese; and.; farther on then- waa here and there a I field that had been planted on the acai where nothing but the stalk wna left, and we said, “ See wliat the grasKhoppcrs have been doing.” J. 1 We set Selma down at her door, and i turned toward home, wandering if the I graaahop|M‘n» were going to do much harm. The season liad been unusually dry, 1 as well as warm, and for that reason the small grain, though very light, was ready for the rea|>er, or already cut S.x >n after tlie harvesters had repaired to the field that afternoon, the cry waa hoard, “ The grarehop|xirs have fallen upon the corn-fields. Then *we knew we had met the scouting jiorty in the morning, and that, by sun* wonderful insect power, they had ti legraphed to the main body the news of our rich - - fields. . We bad a corn-field of twenty acres, ‘ tliat was the pride of our foreman, and pronounced the moot luxuriant of any for miles up and down the valley. The ■ destroyers wen’ at work upon it but the men, hoping to save a part; left their hutveat and buflt tin s all along th< rows. I They whippad and switched and smoked, running from one part of the field to the other in the heat, but it was all of no avail. The little invad era ate on, and at night nothing was i left of onr lioaated corn-field- but the ; tall bare stalks, looking like beau- ■ poles. The Indian women had corn and beanl patches near us, and when they came and aaw their work all destroyed they wept and moaned, and said, “ God » not pleased, or He would not send th» giftuethoppera to eat wliat we need. ” The next day the raiders came to onr gardens, and though we entered the plants with Ixrrels aud boxes and sheets, though we smoked anti whipped and brushed, hoping to save some vegetables, they seemed to bngb at onr dismay, and kept steadily at work, even eating our onions and red-pepper stalks down to the ground. They stripped young fruit-trees of their leaves ami gnawed our shrubbery ’ and flowers till there was no green thing left to cover the brown earth, ami tlien they mounted our sluule trees, and the ground was soon covered with falling leaves. The lieat was intonmfied by the ptaacuce of such a mass of animal matter, aud our nights, usually so cool, were hot aud uneomfurtaldc. Hie unwonted sound of the rastUng of millions of wings caus'd the dogs to howl dolefully, and a vague terror began to steal over our hearts. Near nightfall of the third day of the presence of the foe, a brisk bmir blew from the north. Our neighbor Keturah came to our. door, and said, M Do you are how the smoke is rising on every aideoftmi” We roid’l *'»’ f»*‘«n ten to twenty miles in any dirwtion, arid all about us were pyramidal cohimna of amoke, as we thought, riaiug toward the heavens. “How is it," we asked, “that three great mareee of smoke appear simultane omß at every paint t” And m we gaaedand saw them slowly grow blanker and rise higher, an indefinable dread of some fearful coming took porerasiou of us. Two of our number were out taking a gallop on tirnir ponies. On their return they Mrid, •• DM you Me tt* grasshoppers rise! We heard a sound like a rushing wind, and thought we were riding into the edgeof a whirlwind " (such M are often seen here, carrying pyre mids of dost and sand many feet from Gw earth), “but, looking a moment saw the gnmsboppers going up in cloudhke marews and they lM ased off south.” ‘•Ah! that was the girnwhoppers, aud we thought it smoke I" A® exclaimed ; and immedhtdiy wW W Kfted from our hearts. Some grasshoppers wwm Jest MMOur buildings, but they ’To'- — *>

be sssk in jnot one week from Bm day ol their fink < 'great shower of grambopperß fell again, and began to devour what the others had left One coru-field which the others had left iii part, and which still promised a small hnrvwrt, wiw attaAed by these later marauders, and onr last hope for corn that season soon vanished. Our shade trees were entirely stripped of their leaves, the netting screens oh our windows xnd doors hung in tatters, j and the greedy millions found their way into our houses to devour plants which we tliought hidden from their insatiate little jaws. They ate holes in clothing, in curtauis, and in pincushions, and I heard Os One* woman who found the drangld of her stove clogged with graaahoppens they having fallen down the pipe in such numbers aa to fill it. i'h” houses mid fences were soon black > with the millions of these insects. We ■ could not even see the bark on the trees because of the myriails of wings, and we beheld the result of the labor of many ! hands a blank before us. We sat in awed silence, feeling we were in the - presence of tliat Power which can lw the raging waves of the sea with little grains of sand and send an army of little j insecta to bring to naught the boasted work of man. 1 ■ The third day after their arrival, clouda flitted across the sun at intervals, screen- ' ing ua from its intense heat, and toward J night a company of ua, daughters of thee” prairies, draggcxl our really exhausted selves to the river, hoping to find a little refreshment by a l>ath. We | were scarcely in the water before we were startletl by a crash, a peal, and then a rushing wind. Peering ever the high northern Iwnk, wo aaw a black cloud driven furiously up toward the zenith, < and at the same time the sun bn rat from under a dark veil in the west, revealing to our eyes a scene of wonder. Myriads upon myriads of little wings were flashing like Hprx'ks of silver in the sunlight, not only as far as the eye could reach, east, west and south, but aa far as we could see into the air above us, and we knew the gramhop]M*ra were driven again before the north wind. ! When our bath was flaisluvl, very few I of Uietn were left to annoy us as we returned bona.', and great was our relief iand' jey to have them gone. Hut we did not look forward to the want which ( has oppressed so many hearts, and to the relief of which so many of the rettderzdf Sf. .X'it h»laM have no doiiht, <xmj tributod. —St. Nicholas for Joly. k ! ' ' - t •* It if! - l-itllf *Fraid, n “Oh,” said Annie, coming down to ! breakfast one nioruing, “I was so fright- ; ened last night V I tliought there were ■ burglars in the house.” | Her mother smiled, and explained that ' she hari risen in the middle of the night to close a window which she just then retoemlx'nvl having left open. Probably this wm the sound which had been overheard. “ And there I lay trembling till daylight, expecting every minute somebody would put a pistol to my head and denumd, * your money or your life !* ” ! “ Come, Annie,” said Iter tall brother, laughing, " I must tell yona story. Once there wait a little boy who came across the word afraid in his reading-book. ; and, not knowing what it meant, went to ! his grandfatlu-r for a definition. | “ ‘Don’t know what afraid means ! ’ ” ex<-burned the grandfather, in astonish meat “Now, I expect this grandfather I couldn’t liave Ih-ou quite so dignilietl and awe-inspiring as the title usually sug goats, or else he a lx-liever in the much-diacuaaed system called 4 object teaching for, after expressing his sur prise at his little grandson’s ignorance, lw directed him to go to a certain plant* ; at a certain time, and then and there he ! should ret' as raid. ! “So, at nightfall, the little boy betook ; himself to the appointed place—a shady lane leading to a forest, and adjacent to a buryingground. It had grown so dark, aa h« perched himself on the fence, that the stara had begun to glimmer. He i was quite akme. The evening, too, was still. Not no much aa a twitter of a bird broke the silence. AH around were the shadows, on one side were the grave stones and beyond the blackness of the fon-sL » . “ By ami by something in white canto slowly down the lane toward the place where the little l*>y waa waiting. ‘I s’pose now,’ said he, ‘That must be ’Fraid.’ “ Presently ho discovered a second object also in white, but sma&'X, following at a distance. ‘Why/ he exclaimed, ‘ tliere’s ’nother! Two ’Fraids !—ldg ’Fraid auddfitie ’Fraid 1* "At that tie* foremost figure—otherwise grandfather wrapj*ed in a linen sheet—turned to are what was behind i him. Terrified on perceiving what appeared to be a miniature ghtad slowly I and solemnly peeing in his path prob-, ably, he thought, some spirit risen to reprove bun for thia novel mode of illua-! tration—the old gentleman quickened his stejia. Thereupon the other began to move faster, too. “ It seems that a pet monkey belong-1 ing to the family had witnemed liis operations while preparing for his evening promenade, and, true to his nature, had imitated hia every motion, ahrouiting itself iu a guod-eized pillow case, ami following, unnotietd, until the little boy’s exclamati<mi called ins attention t<• it. Still ignorant of wlio or what the pursuer waa, the old grandfather hurried on at the top of his speed, monkey following suit. “At length the little boy, who had been watching the chase with great interest, excihdlv cried out: “Bun, run, big ’Fraid, or little 'Fraid’ll catohyou!” Mother and Annie were both much amused with the anecdote, but brother Fred added: “So, sister, when that long-looked for burglar makes his appearance, yon just toll him tins little story, and Fin sure he will be good-natured enough to take himaelf off without more adtx”— JfrortA and Borne. Johnny says: I spose babies is different from folks eoe they dont no no bettor, bat if I was them you wudmit eetah me puttin everything into my mouths, I can

telyou, like onrndofik. Mary, thata the house maid, ehe waaftidya chile wen she was to home, and she uye to have dole, but she nAer see a meat baby real Once tfl she come to tha| girl was ]es a storfsh o! the time to see wjt baby wude do, and it was morn a month fore she wude tach it One day Mary she come a bustin in the dinin room wen it waa dinner, wito like a sheet, and hardly any breth, and she said O, if you pleas, mum, bobby has went and et the nnrary dore every bit up, o>l but jes the nob, but wen my mother went to see wot wa£ the matter it waa only father had take of ■ the dore to mend it, and baby was a I suckin a round paper wide. Sech a girl! When she firs come to live with us one day Uncle Ned he was a plain with baby after lunchen, and he had the cork of a ’ ale bottle a stickiu on the cork sent, and ■ | he was a lettin baby take it to his mowth; ! Mary she come in wile he was a doin it, and she s*«o him pul it ont quick, and she ran in the kitchen aa fas as ever she 1 cude and brot Uncle Ned a tumbler on a ! tray! Tween me and you I dont Hreve I tliat girls gut any thinker! vgglixg. The extent to which smuggling lias ■ bom carried on lietween United States aud Canada is eethmded by experts at | $15,000,000 a year. It is not only cari ried on by small between . Toronto and Lewiston byway of Lake Ontario, but by the cars, which, not- • withstanding that the doors are officially ’ ’ scaled, are made to contain and piuw : by permitting the doors to be opened without breaking the safeguards. ' An extensive business lias been done in Um* illicit importations of ribbons secreted in watch-cases, exunpreaaed by a machine so tliat each case would hold, on lan avaraga, ribbon worth >6O. Transactions on an immense scale have been made in silks, satins, laces, jewelry and i diamonds, which, under consular protection, have, iu hundreds of instances; i constitute*! the chief contents of the | ( consular bog. It is stated, on the authority of an American ex-Consul tliat : members of CongresH and other official dignitaries have availed themselves of this veiy j’ecnliar procem to receive some valuable imported presents ; Shd , Senator Roscoe Conkling is referred to as liaving aciwpted a costly bunch of fine cambric handkerchiefs, which came 1 through in the unsuspected consular The smuggling by the Euroiiean steamers has beeii carried on with a very high hand, and to such an extent as actually to depress the business in many of the eetabliahments in NevftYork. The > process, according to the aiuthority of those who are assumed to know, is very i simple, and the corruption appears to , have run through nearly all grades of l custom-house officials. The inspectors, whose duty it is to go on the ocean i steamers, seem to enjoy the prerogative ‘of a particularly soft snap, floods worth i SI,OOO projierly pocked will cost about I* 5 or $lO to squeeze tlirough safely. If the passenger has aevend ti links, a $5 or $lO biU judiciously placed on each will have die desired effect on the officer, who will oover the notes with his hand and declare them “all right” If the venture is a large one, on the wholesale i plan, including trunks enough to set up a small ston- or dress Fiftli avenue, it is deem«*d advisable to have q tug waiting out in the Narrows or at Sandy Hook, to which the illicit speculation can be ; modestly transferred. Through all grades of society which might be presumed to profit by smuggling, the con- ' tagion Ims spread, until it is asserted in New York that few of the “ Upper Ten ” i ar® exempt, while the same charge is made to apply to some of the largest dry giMwls establishments in the metropolis. THK HAI.-iltlKH Os KSOLIXH niSHOI'H. The Anglican Bialiojis are in jiosaession of large incomes. The Archbishop of Uanterbury has $75,000 a year ; the Archbishop of York $50,000 ; the Bishop of London $50,000 ; the other Busliojw sums ranging from $40,000 to $21,000, with Uie exception of the Bishop of I Hodor and Man, who has only SIO,OOO. But these Bishops complain they liave too much work to do. They ask for more Bisliope and a new see is to be curved out of the corners of Several of the otbera, and to be called St Albans. But when it came to providing for the endowment of the new see the government refused to give a penny, the laity drew their purse-strings tight, aud the Bishops found themselves compelled to endow it themselves. The Bishop of Winchester gave his town house to be •old ; it is worth £60,900, and to keep it up costs about £3,000 . yearly. Tlie Bishop of Itocliester gives up Etaiex and Hertford and sella Danbury Palace, which is worth £40,000. Home of the Bishops also contribute, and thus a de- ; cent living for the new prelate will be j provided. And in thus putting their : hands in their own pockets the Bishops ; show themselves wise in their generation.—London Letter. GHKAT BOrCATOK.t-ftttXTKItS. Printers, says a distinguished writer, are gyest educators. It is not remarkable—it is only what might be expected ( —that they have furnished a larger pro-, portion of “ men who have risen " than the devotees of any similar branch of. labor. They choose the occupation from a certain subtle Kympatby with Ixxiks! and papers. They require a fair education to start with. They are occupied jierpetually with the products of mind, more or less admirable, and they grow, and develop mental force. Their plart* of labor is often unattractive; it is all too common to put them in very inferior rooms. Their hours are often long, and | in multitudes of cases untimely, for they work while others sleep. The patience they show over cramp, ugly, obscure, slovenly writing is amazing, aud the ingenuity they display is admirable. But they liave their compensations in this—among other results—that they trans* mute the viscous, black ink into lumin- • ous forcee—mightier than Luther’s ink ' bottle—gainst the demons of ignorance, idleness, indolence and mental torpor the formidable foes of mankind. —, _i — | “ Wax don’t you kill off more edd bens t" inquired a friend of a New Jer- j sey farmer. The Latter leaned over the fence, and after eyeing his interrogator awhile, solemnly replied, “Summer

tbb world of bctencjb. SVACIDE. The favorite modes of suicide are, in both saxes, hanging and drowning—the latter being more frequent in the cases of females; then by firearms on the part of the males, by poison on the part of the females. * PCLSATIONS. Normally the number of pulsations | per minute differs at different periods of ; life; at birth, it is about 135 ;at the age I of seven, from 80 to 85 ; in adults 70 to ' 75; in old age, from 50 to 65. In females ' the pulse is quicker than in males. HVMAN PARASITES. Two species of mites have been found flourishing in the skin of the human , face. One, the Acaropsi# Mcricourti, . was discovered in the pimples on the face of a French officer who had been in Havana, Cuba. A similar species was , taken from the skin of the nose of a person in New Orleans. Mr. Macalister re- | cently exhibited to the Dublin Micro- j scopical Club two specimens of a species of mite that had been taken from the face of a lady in Jamaica. They were 1 male and female, and apparently new to i science. DIM ENS IONS Os OCEAN WANES. We are indebted to Dr. Scoresby for the following interesting facts with regard to the length and height of ocean waves: The mean height of waves in the Atlan . tic, driven by a westerly gale, is 18 feet The greatest recorded height of a wave . in the Nortli Atlantic, from the tfbugli to the crest, is 43 feet. In northwest ‘ gales, waves 40 feet in height have been measured off the Cape of Good Hope, while those off Cape Horn were 32 feet The velocity of ocean storm-waves in she Nortli Atlantic is about 32 miles an hour, and tliat recorded by Capt. Wilkes for the Pacific Ocean 261 miles. In an Atlantic storm the breadth of the waves, ' measuring from crest to crest, is about 600 feet j * j , • ' CKJ.W INA I. STATISTICS IN ENGLAND. The following extract is taken from a report by CoL Du Cane, Surveyor-Gen-eral of Prisons in England : “It apiMwrs that (so far at least as regards crime) that part of the population which is between 25 and 34 years, or perhaps a little older, supplies far more than its proper proportion to our convict prisons. They may therefore be called the ‘ criminal age.’ It appears also tliat the criminal age begins and ends later in | females than in males. " The fact of the large decrease of crime continuously after the age of 34, is well worihy of note, whether it arises I from the moral feelings being in some individuals developed later than ordinarily, or in a desire after a certain age i for a quieter life than the risk and ex- I citement of crime can ofler ; but it would ' seem to warrant the inference that-, if those persons whose career evidences in them marked criminal tendencies could either lie locked up or kept under supervision until they had passed, say, the age of 40, supplying thus, in the interest of the public, that self-control in which they are obviously deficient, a vast deal of crime would be put to an end, for there can be little doubt that most of the undetected crime, wliich much exceeds tliat which is followed by punishment, is committed by persons of , this class. Many of them might thence forward become respectable members of society. “ It is also worthy of observation that the proportion of male convicts convicted of serious crime is much larger than j females—in fact six to one ; but the proportion of males to females convicted of minor crimes is only four to one. “ The explanation of this probably is tliat the occupation of females is not generally such as to lead them to commit those offenses against morals wliich bring them so much under the operation i of the criminal law, and especially docs not expose them in an equal degree to ; the danger of committing the more serious offenses.” DANGER Os PROTRACTED SLEEP. i Sleep protracted beyond the need of repair, and encroaching habitually upon the hours of waking action, impairs more • or leas the functions of the brain, and j with them all the vital powers. This : observation is as old as the days of Hippocrates and Aretieus, who severally and strongly comment upon it The sleep of infancy, however, and tliat of old age, do not come under this category of excess. These are natural conditions, appertaining to the respective periods of life, and to be dealt with as such. In . illness, moreover, all ordinary rule and measure of sleep must be put aside, i Distinguishing it from coma, there are ! very few rases in which- it is not an un : equivocal good; and even in the comatose state, the brain, we believe, gains more from repose than from any artificial attempts to rouse it into action.— Edinburgh Jtevicw. , .4 GREAT DISCOTEKY ABOVT LIGHT. Prof. Win. Crookes has made one of the greatest discoveries in relation to the action of light which has come before the ' world since spectrum analysis was first made known. He has demonstrated that direct mechanical effect ran be produced by light when luminous rays are allowed | ’ to fall upon one end of a most delicately balanced lever arm mtspended in vacuo; the contrary has hitherto been assumed. This great discovery, fraught with unknown uses to society, may be fairly j churned aa having Deen given to the j world through Spiritualism. Inendeav- ] oring to obtain instrumental evidence of | the existence of the warned psychic force, and to test medinmistic power by’ causing it to move a few grains in a glass ’ vacuum tube, he discovered a motion produced by an unknown cause, but | finally traced to -radiant heat, and in ' working further at the new discovery, j Mr. Crookes has been able to make frrah . revelations to the world relating to light I Spiritual Sdattisi. |.4 — j r EXPLOSIVE FOECE OF VOLCANOES. j There has recently been an eruption of > one of the great volcanoes of Iceland, and it is interesting to note that some short time afterward a heavy rain of ashes or sand took place from the west coast of Norway to the Swedish frontier ; the whole of the country was covered

with gray dust to such an extent that from a pint of snow more than a table- ’ spoonful of residue was left after the j snow had melted. Some chemists of Christiana have examined the ashes, and : one of them, Prof. Waage, states that the dust consists of little, irregular, but ’ sharp-edged grains, almost all colorless < —some few are brorivn color, 1 and they < consist principally (of silicates. Acids extract some lime, iron and alumina from ( their powder. The professor thinks it ’ : likely that the dust originates from the | eruption in Iceland. This view is coin- < firmed by a mineralogical investigation i made on another sample of the dust at j the Christiana University by Profs. ( Kjerulf and Fearnley; they recognized i the dust to consist of fragments of ' ■ pumice-stone which is identical with the : j Hecla pumice-stone. According to Swedish newspapers some traces of the dust-fall were observed even in the vi- (' cinity of Stockholm. The distance from ; tiie Iceland volcanoes to the Swedish :, ' frontier is about the same as that from , Mount .Etna to the Baltic. —~ ■ i MIGRATION Os BIRDS. A recent writer presents the nivel 1 hypothesis that the migratory flight of . birds is an involuntary act. The argument is, tliat at or about a certain period of the year, when a strong southern wind prevails in an upper stratum of the air, a subtle atmospheric change, result-J. ing from it, acts upon the muscles of the birds in such away as to make them fly. 1 ‘Their wings beat as naturally as their. hearts, and they cannot help going. j Rising up into the swift current of air, they are borne along it as long as the s(>asm lasts, which generally is long enough to carry most of them to warmer ( climates, although multitudes recover a little too soon and perish in the sea. Some experiments made upon migratory /birds in captivity lend plausibility to the theory. Kept in cages, covered with silk to protect them from injury, these birds have been observed, at the season of migration, to be affected with a paroxysm of flight, which continued through a period answering in length to the time I occupied by birds in their semi-annual i journeys. When the paroxysm was over, the birds fell to the began preening their plumage, and conducting themselves us if they had just reached a ■ new home after an extended journey. The experiments were made in both En- : gland and Africa with similar results. HOW MANY EtitiS UILL ONE HEN ‘ PRODVCE. i Various writers on this subject Have ; - stated different numbers as the aggre-1 gate of eggs tliat a hen will produce. But I i common sense teaches us that some liens . | will yield a much larger number of eggs i than others. Some fowls are far more prolific than others. For a number of : years past it has been an interesting | , point of inquiry among zoologists, How , many eggs are there in the ovary of a hen ? To determine this a German naturalist a short time since instituted some careful investigations, the result of which showed the ovary of a hen to con-1 tain about 600 embryo eggs. He also found that some twenty of these are matured the first year, about 120 during ! the second year, 135 during the third, 144 during the fourth, and during the fifth, sixth, Seventh and eighth years the number decreases by twenty annually, it consequently following that after the fourth, or at most the fifth year, hens are no longer profitable as layers, unless it may be in exceptionable instances. Many poultry fanciers affirm that a hen is not profitable as a layer after she has been kept two seasons. But there is no un- : varying rule on this subject : THE DEEPEST WELL IN THE' WORLD. |. At about twenty miles from Berlin is I situated the village of Sperenberg, noted for the deepest well that has ever been sunk. Owing to the presence of gypsum j in the locality, which is at a moderate j distance from the capital, it occurred to ’ the government authorities of the mines to obtain a supply’ of rock salt. With this end in view the sinking of a shaft or well 16 feet in diameter was commelio'd some five years ago, and at a depth of i 280 feet the salt was reached. The boring was continued to the further depth of 060 feet, the diameter of the bore being reduced to about 13 inches. The operations were subsequently prosecuted : by the aid ol steam until a depth of 4,194 ! feet was - obtained. At this point the boring was discontinued, the borer being j still in the salt deposits, which thus ex-1 hibit the enormous thickness of 2,907 feet .1 n ONDERfI I. ISLAND. Men have often tried to rival nature on her own gronmL One remarkable j scene of such effort is still sought by in Lake Maggiore', in Northern i Italy, adjoining Switzerland. In Lake Maggiere are situated • the islands : belonging to the Borroniean family, among which is “ Isola Bella,” an enchanted ground well worthy of its name. Two htuiilred years ago the island was a liarren rock ; to-day, thanks to the freaks ! ofaapendtli rift uobleman.it is “a joy for-1 ever. ” Ten terraww built in massive: stone piers rise out of the water, earth > of sufficient, depth to grow the largest | brought there, and these many j years it has been a little forest of luxnri-1 ous vegetation for every clime. There ' flourish the camphor and the India-rub-j j ber trees, the bread fruit and the bana- . na, the black bamboo and the American i aloe, the cedar of Lebanon, the magnolia, the da. e jndm laden with fruit, and the earned is fifteen feet high. Every step brings one into contact with new ! bnmties, while statues and wondrous works in stone mingle everywhere with j the living green ivies, honeysuckles, I trumpet-creepera, and a wealth of ferns land creeping plants. The ’‘spend- | thrift nobleman” who perpetrated all I this magnifioenoc was' Oount Vitaliano j Borrotneo, a descendant of the celebrated ! philanthropist, Archbishop Charles Borj rom o, one of the saints of the Roman I cd .■ ar. . _____ ■ j A M assachcsitts lx>y recently found a pocketbook containing a large sum of . money, and spent twenty cents of Uis own fund't and two hours tune in find(ing the owner, who rewarded him with a dime. ■ - - The pistol used by Aaron Burr in his duel with Alexander Hamilton is on exhibition at New Haven among other Centennial relica.

Tr was an ancient custom of the Spartans, in order to inculcate among their youth an abhorence of intemperance and its kindred vices, to make their slaves drunk with wine in the public marketplaces, so that the rising generation, upon whom would some day devolve the honor and safety of the Lacedmonian Republic, might see before them all the ghastly details of the drunkard’s disgrace, his loss of reason, and of physical strength. ’Twere well, perhaps, to-day, could some of our young men contemplate a similar instructive lesson drawn from the life, showing them, by a sharply drawn contrast, the advantages and true loveliness of abstinence and virtue. For such as appreciate these, Vinegab Bitteks is the beverage best adapted, it being purely a vegetable draught, devoid ( of alcohol or mineral poisons, and pos- i sessing all the virtues, but none of the damning curses, of the different poisons which year by year are sweeping away i thousands of dollars and lives. 42 J Wiijioft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever i and Auve Toxic. —This invaluable and stand- I art! family medicine is now a household word f and inaiutains its reputation unimpaired. It is ■ indorsed by the medical proferaddn.- and pre- * scribed daily in the Charity Hospital and other i Hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhoit's Tonic is thus highly recommended by the leading medical men of the country, and' is worthy of such indorsement. Wheelock, Finlay A Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For sale by aix DRumuspi. A gentleman afflicted with the chronic rheumatism says : “No description of ray case ' can convey the vast amount of benefit I liavo ' received from the use of Jotitaow’s .-tiwMb/ne Liniment. I believe it is the best article in the world for rheumatism.” , . If a horse has a good constitution, and has once been a good horse, no matter how i old or how much run down he may be. he can . Ibe greatly improved, and in many res ] >ects made j ‘ as good as new. by a liberal use of Sheridan's ’ Cavalry Condition Pointers. Gus Flora Spring Water, at Waukegan, 111., cures all kidney diseases. How To Get a Home. See advertisement. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT L 2. STBAnoRD, Perth. Ontario,} Mar i, IKX i j M imm Craddock A CO.: I Lart December I took a heavy cold, which settled Upon my lan«s. Our beet phyeiciaaa pronounced it Consumption, and treated me for it until March, when I | Was considered incurable. 1 then took the case in my own bands, and went to year Agent. iPurid Srhrtnj, of j j thia place, and purchased your Kaat India Hoop. Be- | fore I uaed one bottle I was better. I took a second and j ' third, constantly improving in health and increasing in weight. At present 1 oan work all day long, and eat like , a man that is chopping wood. Knowing the merits of , ‘ your medicine, I cheerfully recommend it to others, and • < send this for publication, if you wish. Yours, gratefully, Martin Seiverlb. 87 Washington Street. N B —This Remedy speaks for itself. A single bottle ■ will satisfy the most skeptical. There is not a single symptom of Con sumption that it does not dissipate ■ : —Night Sweats, Irritation of the Nerves, Difficult Exnrctorauons. Sharp Pains in tt)e Lunes. Sore Throat. Naoe-i at the Stomach, inaction of the Bowels, and i Wasting of th* Muscle*- . — . Ji St' »*r bottle, or three bottles for $4.50. Pills and ' Otntmenl Address J K'32 Rac«j Street, Phd&deipma. I Swnd for circnlar. » a 3? art ha« n<rt pn»childrwi fn»m kickinc fl Id gJ I boles thrvugh the toes of their ”'J shoes. Only ! W SI EVER TIPS ■r- 'ifciril prevent this. Try them. — - ■ Have yon seen th* , CABLE St ’REW W IRE |gCCy£“ Sj HI i Hoots and Shoe®’ Millions are 1J 1C? bring worn ; all MJ they are the w V VI easiest and' i>e>t Shoe ever made, : Look <<m for the Patent Stamp, rlj A if others are base imitations. WAMTED AGEXTS. OuiE pr—. I Better tkaa Gold, A. S 00., ChiaMO. ni IISB I< Cheap. No PubVJ awl licity. Hr. Armstrong, Berrien, Mich. ; Every Sold by Agents. Address M. N. LOVELL. Erie. Pa. , A to 4-45 PEP DAY-Send for • Chromo” I W cattJogue. J. H. BUFFORD'S SONS. Boston a month to a/rentseverywhere. Address —vv Excelsior M’p’o Co.. Buchanan. Mich. M n SAMPLE Free and Big Pay to Male and wK « Female everywhere. Address. . — - WW THE UNION PUB. CO.. Newark. N. J. GR ? 00 n at home. Tortus free. Address V v " 0 £ U Geo. Stinson A Co.. Portland, Maine. THE WEEKLY SBN, , New Vearn, postpaid, 60 ets. Addtwuu The SUM. N. Y. ! DAAQTV'Q Cheap Music. DUUbtil 0 Catalogue Free. Rn- < _i.T| 1 tiolph A Co., 1018 N. 11 Mh st. Lons, Mo. AGENTBWAHTEDSS Send far circulars and our extra term® to Ajrents. NATIONAL PUB. CO., Chicago. Uh. or St, Louis, Mo. I Geo- P. Rowell s Cod) SOMETIIIS’G £re ! work and money for all, men or women. I*-ya or girl*, whole or auare time. Send stamp for Catalogue. Addrew FRANK GLUCK, New Bedford. Maaa. CAI E Chicago Suburban L>t* at rtzK OALC. tlraeach-415 down and 85 monthly for balance - within a short, distance of city limtta. with hourly trainsand cheap fare Send for circular. ; IRA BROWN, ia LaSalle Street. Chicago, DI. 3~Pounfis of Butter from 1 Quart of Mitt. Can ba made anywhere, by any one. No churning raQuired. FLO R1 DA wt.« 10c. for sisscimen. Proceedings Florida FruiMlrowers’ j Rmneiatfaw ■■Mingo* 1“75-#cta. Address WaLTO* A Co.; JaukaoßvilleTVla. Say where you saw thia. 10 DIUS FEB Addnes Johnaon. Clark A Co., Boaton. Mas^: New York City; PktobarfOk.; Chicago. ILL; or St. Loda. Mo. Officers and Soldiers Who k«t honue in U. S. Army, «o liut, can f get compensation. Peturiona oittained for wounda or inj Os Hse pretHeat CARDS yoss ever S” PTI saw, with your name handsomely printed on ■ra ■ ■ them. rent, postpaid, upon receipt of S) cents. ■■ ■ Your friends wUl all want them when they see W W yours. Address W. C. CANNON. V V 46 Kneeland St.. Boston. Wane PIERCE WELL AUGER Crettriay rfere »!,«■ loser ree that will .reeowrullt ewayete with them io tovltx » W-larit wen. thremth Ma.p>woe anU saadroase, aaU io ukiu .tfcl be.l4.rv sod trere ore-., uou...re! hi every State. 523 PER DAV CUAIANTEED. -Sea4lbrCaT.Meme.. Addrew CHAS. O. PIERCE, Tore, intasia. 1 ' MRABFAWOV a day guaranteed using our Well W Jfcra Auger A Drills. StOO a month ■ J paid to Eotxl Agvuts. auger book WllM WTC free. Jita Auger Ctb, St. Louis, Mo. ATTEWtION, OWKERS OF HORSES, h _ Ask your Harness Maker for the Zine Collar Patel, ra J - They are warranted to cure V *'lW l>l> . l *3£3wSany sore neck on horse or y y - " a ” affy* yimule. <.r money refunded, if *- 11 __V / S printed direetsms are foL ’ hs" . towed. Send "Ste. for sample. Zinc (War Pad Co.. Sole Manurt'rv. Bnchanan,Mich. ra WILL HAVE OUR GOODS. Send S 3 cento and r we wffl send by taaiL prepaid, our Lamp Fn-tAM. t E with which you can fill any Xerereae toMg 3J reatoreay rtomtoy or getting greore oetside eg Aump. U At «amo tune we mat! you all our circulars and p terms to ag -ntso*; twenty useful IsmseboMl ar- , Uries with winch any person can make frosn S 3 to I L. »<• daily W* want Agents everywhere. — ElATlOllli AGEATS’ EMPORIUM, Boerost. Mam. , ' ■ LI few eJlowiobS wHh his “Larr Joiirnaia.” now ready! The o»LV complete Life and thrilling adventures in Africa of the groatj boro KiptorW In hi. torn language. Cheapest and beet — auiy sptendidly itlmgrated. Outsells eventiung Ac.rSTa Wasted. Send for extra terms anti proof; or. if in b veto to begin work. send ♦! M foe fail .raUit to genm ne addreea, LivisuaTusß's Pi ntJuiatne. Cwcauo, lu. BP. kUkIRWKI.t.W SHEW AWITHMA AID CAIARRR mKMKDV. Havre* stroeeDd twenty yearn between HL and death with ASTHMA, I eaperimente-l by rem-,-au.fUtg wu ami hsrte and totaling tr.-r»e4-ielta. Ita tanately dlarovereh a wooderM i remedy and swre ewre tor AMbma and Cbtentu Warranted toreheveinstattUytoUtepaitontrea , He dewn to rest tad steep eoUMurtabO. Drug. -fete are >n p,4D.f wilt, eatnple packegve for ram . dtslrtbeUoti. gall and get one, ar addrem , ' ». Uk-WCTEILI.. Apple Cnvek. OMe mrifoid by bre-ghta Fcltaue raf-kage, by mall, ,111 * N. F. BURNHAM’S @ TURBINE An WATER WHEEL Brlectcd, 4 yearw »<♦•.and nut to ** or ß hl the Patent • , Wawhink'll>n, IXC..and Haa t>O»vv d -I* Uio >»<•*<• IdmMwiuadc piin <lon< r than anj other firwt-clw Wbed. hmpbtetfree. N.Y.BURNHAM,York,Pa. JBW. i ale. Tin, Iron and Gravel Ibtcfi. Thir Is a Ar* and Paint, espociall v designed for shingle Roofs An.dd roSf Slate tinted ulilonrltir a new <u»> unpatntwL and a new roof will last three tunes ; aa tongSHfe Painted. Aa a matter of ecooomy. a roof needs paint more than any other part of a bu<lding Price 8B cecta per galkm. Send for Pbantpto'. Agents wtutkad. t

' ' 7>^-<' ■ M ■ Bftw MSl2g - NBLrCHUNt! • P?WmE RCH * '■ ■KM»-—— MtWyT-v" ""* —— wfM = ~=-“=rr-a Mfr jEpyg ,-MgM—j wjHBF* """ 1 "* ”"” ”™~ *“* ■'tri wn iwtv ■■' |I met stmts —_JBjjiLj———J Whether for Use on man or beast, Nercbanfs Gargling OU will be found an Invaluable Llnimwit and worth* afllls hr everr resident In the land. We know of no proprietary medicine or article now used in the United States which shares the good will of the people to a greater degree than this. Yellow wrapper for animal, and CARCLINC (ML BSSS a

HOW TO GET A HOME. IOWA LANDS, SOii.OtMl At RES. Rich Soil, good Climate, exe-llent Waler, growing Settlements, good Schools. Wo offer the Lands of the Sioux City and St. Paul R. R. and the McGregor and Missouri River R. K. at St to gs per acre, on easy payment*. Two year, rent a ? IjKIXS , B. R. Land Office. Sibley. Osceola Co.. lowa. irrm rn - ■ I I, 111 ■ obtained at about oneB I I "111 Bi W bait the usual rates by iilllLmHSg ct».: and others in pTojKirtion.. Ipclosfi the amount and Needles will be returned by-firtffmail. Address DEFIANCK NEEDLE CO., 658 Broadway, N. 1 • This new Trass is worn with perfect comfort night <y*lTL. * artd Qa*. Adapts itself to ffM EL A 8 I IC Wjß every motion of the body, Hgl /rRnSa !■ retaining rapt are under the W^*e*** V a rrjy hardest exercise or severest strain until permanently ff cured. Sold cheap by the \jV Elastic Truss Co., < N 0.683 Broadway, N.Y. City. Sent by mail. Call or eend for Circular, and be cured. * M niOUYILL NEVER to FRUIT nU IF YOU DON'T BET IT OUT. You can buy your fruit plants very cheap by extracting with me for them how. To be shipped in the fall. •nJ no money reqnirtkl afttil the plants arrive. I will furnish jp od reference as to iny reliability Send for Price-list. Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Currant*. Gooeebernes. Grapes. THOMAS LE»W Iptw, HI, i C.W.Rerd. Grocer. .Vrfc/fVreR .A 'O.. MU ' -- Your Sea boam cannot feexcelled north of the equator ; tor Good Bread and Fine Biscuit it is a W< nderfu! Preparation.” So say all. zSOLnV Pitcher. FHntnrr & Col/fcSSn I R AoA-mi/#' /VtfMrv, * I k^jJ3cF ) I “We take pleasure in recommend k trtLwiteiy/y A ing your Sea Foanwas The Best Dak- </« ing Po.wder wo have ever aohl. I B Pai ties once using it will have no other. It s sales ar* immense Send for circular tn GKO. F.GANT/. Zm*TD|m. MWICIH IEIHIH ISF.USX! . VV ■ Volta’s Electro Bklts and t f ± r Bauds are. indorsed by the \ J J p most-eminent physicians iu r 'SaVi Jp the world for the cure of rhvii<\.\l|// sv' jnstisni. neuralgiuJivyrcomplaint, dyspepsia, kidney dis--4 ease.acheß.rains,uervouidiS’* ordereifits,female complaints s' I nervous and general debility, \ and other chronic diseases ot the chest .head.liver, stomach Sidneys and blood. Book with IS LIFE. Bill par timdarii free by Voi t a • 10 “ ’ “ Belt Co . (jncjunati. Uhio. DnnV AfitilTQ Wanted Cosell “The DUvn ADuft IO Co,n FKLw Senae Medical Adviser?* «to thebheai*at book ever published; 883 pages, over 230 Jllustratiotw, $1.50. Thousands buy it at sight who could not be tnI duoed to purchase the high-priced books treating of Domestic Medicine. Unlike other books sold through : agents, this work to thoroughly advertised throughout North America. This fact, together with the large size, • elegant appearance, and many new features of the book, causes it to sell more rapidly than any work ever putv Itohed in this country. Those of my agents who have bad experience in selling books say that in all their previous Eisai ng they never met with such success or made so wages as since commencing the Bale of my work, arms and territory, address (inclosing two postage •UmP. M _ World’s Dispensary, Buffalo N. Y. /Tot*.— Mark envelope “ For Publishing Uep b ‘ H imi Office For Sale. On the first of July wo shall offer our Job Printing Office for sale at a very low figure. We have over 200 fonts of the latest Styles of Job Type, and everything , which pertains to a complete Job Office outfit. A Iso. one Quarter-Medium Gordon Jobber of the latest improved style, one H»»e Card Press, and one Hoe Cylinder, 15x22 inch i«ed Any number of second-hand News (’uses. The attention of Printers is called to this sale, as we shall ; offer a great bargain for cash. For further particulars and specimen circular, address Chicago newspaper union, 114 Monroe Street. Chicago, 111. “STOCKS dealt in at the New York Stock Exchange bought and sold by us on margin of five per cent. PRIVILEGES negotiated at one to two per cent, from markobon members of the Now York Exchange or responsitde partie*. Large sums have been realized the past 3U days. Put or call Aiate on 100 shares $106.25. Straddles f 250 each; control 900 shares of stock for 30 days without further risk, while many thousand dollars profit may be gained. Advice and information furnished. ' Pamphlet containing valuable statistical information and showing bow Wall Street operations are conducted sent FREE | to any address. Orders solicited by mail or wire, and promptly executed by us. Address TUMBRIDCE A CO., Banker, and Brok.re, No. N Wall Street. New York. i 7, , ~ 3 wjy 'S ... C=to Every Man His Own Painter. iXTSSAJJftoBfmBrittJSTJUCI Onr RUBBER PAINT has been used on msnr thou* sand building* and ba* always proved entirely iieti.-f.ic-tory. We have numeron* teatim<»filate like the f-rllou - lag. vlz.c M. F. SHEPI’AIiP A < r» »Vnn Yan. N . Y.: “We believe it to be the BEST PAINT niatmr Matured.” W. LELAND. ** Eutaw llourf” B»lt more: ••Haring used your Pain! on the Grand H<»trl. Saratoga, and this Eutaw House. I recommend it* u«<- to all.” Be suns that oar TRADK-MAKK <a fac-sinv lie of w hich is given above» *on . ftfff. Prepared ready for use and sold by the gallon only.* Stud for Sample Card and Price Dd. Branch Offices A Factories.so6 West st. NEW YORK. tIU South Third fit.. ST. LOUIS, .MO. 1 West Van Buren 81 reet. CHICAGO; ILL. ’ NICHOLS, SHEPARD & GO ’S "VIBRATOB" THRESHER. The BRILLIANT SCCCKSSof this Grain* Saving, Time-Saving THKESHEK, is unprecedented in the annals of Farm Machinery. In a brief period it has Ijecome widely known and FULLY ESTABLISHED, as the “LEADING THRESHING MACHINE.*’ GKAIN to submit to the wasteful and imperfect work of other Threshers, when posted on the tost superiority of this one, for saving grain, saving time, and doing fast, thorough and economical work. THRESHERMEN FINO IT highly advantageous to run a machine that has no “Beaters,” “Pickers,” or “ Apron,” that handles Damp Grain, Long Straw, Headings, Flax, Timothy, Millett and all such difficult grain and seeds, with ENTIRE EASE AND EFFECTIVENESS. Cimns to perfection; saves the farmer his thresh bill by extra saving of grain; makes no “ Litterings;” requires LESS THAN ONE-HALF the usual Belts, Boxes, Journals, and Gears; easier managed ; less repairs; one that grain raisers prefer to employ and wait for, even *< advanced prices, while other machines tre ••ou t of jobs.” Four nlxenmade with 6,8, IO and 12 haroe “ Moanlcd” Powera, al*o a ape•User Horse Powers. If interested in grain raising, or threshing, write for Illustrated Circulars (teni frte) with full particulars of sixes, styles, prices, terms, etc. NICHOLS, SHEFABD A CO.,

ViißCniiS Vureka*' r <ll yl iff q 11H >r> Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters arc a purely Vegetable preparation, ni.-itle cliiclly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties jf rbicb are extracted therefrom without tno use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of Hie unparalleled success of Vinegar Bi ' - TEitsf” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, mid the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a pci feet Renovator and, Invigoratoi of, the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been , s compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease i*tn is heir to. They are a gentle Purgaf ,as as a Tonic, relieving CongesV or ' Inflammation of the Liver and Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of pn. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Apferieut. Diaphoretic, Carminative. Nutritious, Laxative. Diuretic, Sedative. Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative. and Anti-Bilions. it. ii. McDonald <fc co.. - * Dnipgints and Geri. Apt*.. San Francisco. Calitornia. and cor. of Washington and Charlton St*.. N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Destlyra. . $lO, to SSOO. IPLV. vv HJUVV. 7a „ Me book expUinin* copy of the TV all Street Review orilT EDEC John- HickuNo A Co., Bankers BcN I rntt. and Brokers. 72 Broadway, N. Y; Smith Organ Co., BOSTON, MASS. These Standard Instruments Sold by Music Dealers Everywhere. agents Wanted in town. Bold tbrdnchont the United SUtee on the INSTALLMENT PLAN: That Is, on a System of Monthly Payment* PuxchaMH should ask for the SMITH AMERICAN OsaxH. Catalogues and full particular, on application. wW Reject all Violent Purgatives. They rain th«» tone of the bowels and weaken digesthm. TarranVs Effervescent Seltser Aperient to used by rational people a meahs of relieving all derangements of the stomach, liver and intestines, borauso it removes obstructions without pain and imparts vigor to the organs which it purifies and regulates. SOLD BY ALL DBUGtHSTS. jSWtnltHi i/s b £-3 =1 £8 ? 5, tn 3 » r- =r I. « .3 2 1-n g's.y s |-5\ 3 ~ ek’/D .«2 5 s * 3 g =t „ s’L.B-’S ° goOsZ 2 •-* «ar ” v-x-, B -j-O 2a A •< cr t± p vVs 7 u- 2 =. x. g ° i g 3 ./¥§'§■ S-To ? ? g-s 4 8 o 5 3-2 & °-Q 0.3 8-o*2 s <) p- •° =. s 3 =■ ~ p p 3 °

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“nSTCHOMANCT, or Sonl Charming.” It Huw either sex may tw-Jli.t,- .il l C.Ui l.w !•»,<• slid atb-etloß of any person thrycbiMor. butfanllf. This art all can nooam. free, by mall, a cents: ti'cetbrr wttb a c. nl.|o, Krrptlan Oracle, Dreaar-. Hlnlo to La-ltea,Ar. 1,000,«•«.«. A qu««r book. ArkreM T. WILLIAMS A CO.,Fob’s, Philadelphia. ■i, a . “DR? WHITTIER, Ma 617 St Charite Street, St Louie, Ma. —u«- W«rn an ««,< ai«X „ oaf,, oerulo and rolUblo roUef. B«la« a rrM.at. ,t Mtsnl aedieal ooHono. and hsHas lb. ewteooilf . loaf aad lacowsfal Uf.la klo opwlalUm h. L, JiXiLl «0» 3A pa ( M, ftrl M Ml ornfloa,.. Zr iX MARRIAGE GUIDE, srvEsa b. •.“Bsnosiß.B riaM, oaa aOnd to Ao irlihoat U. u postal »3teal Utoralm oa IMo lb, r,“lu“' »7w? Fa, oxpartano; alao Um boM Ohoo-lito frooa Slme»^A—a.. JSnLMSeZgg .. . O. W. O. ■ ,Ko, OT yTWTHEN WRITING TO A.DVERI'ISE.EU, you naw the outrertiackneni