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DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST. NAPOLEON, O. JANUARY 18, 194. CURE. Core ConmmptloB, Conehs, Croup, Sara Throat. So'd by all Dmitri"! oa Gusraalo. lwa Uu SkU, Back or Chert Bhlloh't Porous Plaster will (in great iriifcttoa. S cents. SHILOH'S VITALIIER, lTrs. T. 8. Hawkins, Chattonoocj, Tenn.. savsi "AdoA's Vitalise" S-aVi.1) ifr I tmistclerti Upbeat remedy foradthilUattdvmtrm lettf-uaed.'' For Dypeplm, Liror or Kidney r.-oublr excel. Price 16 eta. SH i LO H'SlCATAR R H .1 ..r.t.Pkl TWthtal ItwIU cllevo and (Jure yoa. ito -uT.iri tvtor tnr It successful treatment hi furnWied rlicTO and Cure you. .Price AO etc , ire. Bbikhi Remedies are aoM oy us on a t. AND HESBY OOUSTT EWS. CamegleSajs, Pass I he Wilton Tar- Iff Bill. , Andrew Carnegie, the great Iron and teel manu facturer and muchly bene fited individual from high protective tariff laws, has written an open letter on the tariff question. He advocates the passage of the Wilson tariff bill in Yery strong terms. Such a letter com-, ing from so high a Republican author ty, from so prominent a manufacturer and a letter so full of good sense Is worthy of geneial reading and we be low gl ve the mal n part of 1 1 : Six months' discussion of the Wilson bill, with its varying fortunes, means six mouths of atagnatloti in business, and perhaps such a brood of failure aB we have not yt seen. Rather than encounter this, I believe I he Democrat ic party would make reasonable modi fications in the Wilson bill. There are quite enough Democratic senators who would unite with the Republicans up on the platform of moderate conces sion, and the danger to the peace of the country, in my opinion, lies chiefly in the fact that some Republican senators may refuse to co-operate with these. Ttieques ion with some will naturally be: Is It '"good party policy?" I ,d not assume to speak for the manufacturers of the United States, but I know I speak for some of them . when I respectfully urge that it would be infinitely better to have a moderate ly satisfactory tariff- passed by the Democratic puny, than even, a more satisfactory bill passed by the republi can party. It must be acknowledged that a large number of the people have been led to believe that the present tariff is unjust; that it favors the few at the expense of the many. Em ployers and employed have been set at variance aud much ill-feeling has been aroueed. Ills not a suffleent answer to say that this dissatisfaction if) groundless. It is sufficient that it exists, and what 1 wish to say to my brother manufac turers is that the first condition is I lie total obliteration of this dissatisfac tion.. Is it not far better for manufac turers, as a class, to have the party which has opposed the present tariff, frame a tariffwhlch shall pass as just to all interests, and for which it is re sponsible? Should the democratic party paw a tariff bill, it will be its own work, and it will he stopped from attack, us made for the general interests of the nation, the question would-be removed from politics for manv vears. The party who made it coold not attack it, and the other par ty would have no disposition to do so. I submit that it Is far better to ob tain a moderate democratic tariff bill, securing us stability and permanence, satisfactory to all, rather than a hluh oroteotive' bill passed by the republi- party, and certain to be the object of continual political auaca. we an -.' know that uncertainty in regard to im port duties is ruinous to our interests. The noeUion that the republican party . took as to itsduty to support President ' Cleveland's silver policy I believe to lie its-duty to take reguara to me win. What seems most desirable in tbe inter ests of manufacturers of the United States is thata tariff bill should be passed by the democratic party aud lherebv that the suspicion that even one "robber tariff baron" exists in the broad domain of the republic can hot remaih in the mind of the most Ignorant citizen. I for one am quite readv to accept ereatly reduced duties, judiciously framed, to accomplish this result. , Try These. If, after brushing the cost, or gown, it is sprinkled with spirits of camphor and aired a few hours it will be tidy and graceful. Garments and belong ings that small of nothing are the clea nest and most agreeable. Oue can test a cake's baking by drawing it to the edge of the oven and listening for the faint spluttering , sound which will continue until it is ready to take out. This Is a better trial than the broom "splinter liirust into the dough. ' ' The very latest way of serving oysters Is to remove them entirely from the shell and put them Into tall handled tumblers, with a dresslnsr of pepperand salt, lemon juice and Wor cestershire, sauce. They are eaten with loug, slender oyster forks. Here is the correct way to stone raisins: Free the raisins from the steam and then put them in 'a bowl. Cover them with. boiling water and let them stand for two minutes. Pour ofl the water, open the raisins, and the seeds can bu removed quickly and eas ily without the usual stickiness. .The glaze ou a laundered shirt front is more the result of knack and prac tice than of any particular secret, though many persons think there is some way of preparing the starch that ' will give the required glaze. Wax, turpenliue or borax can be added to the starch with good effect. A good plan when the shirt front has been Ironed is to rub it all over with a -piece of damp white castile soap and iron it over again. It is to the presure of the iron that the gloss is In a greit meas ure due. ! '. . ' "Now is the winter ofourdiscontent made glorious summer"by Ayer'a Sar saparilla. This wonderful medicine so invigorates the system and enriches the blood that cold weather becomes positively enjoyable. Arctic explorers would do well to make a Dote of this. TBE NEGRO Els Present Condition And Future PrOs- pects. rWrittta far the Nostwwmt bjr s eUlM of Uw 1 MUth.) W hen the Dutch sailors in the year 1620, brought to America 20 negroes an J landed them at Jamestown, they could bave bad no idea that they were inaugurating a policy which a little over two centuries and a ball later, would cause the loss of many miUiom of dollars and cause nearly one million of men to lay down tbeir lives. Yet, such was the esse. Among the vital questions now before the American people, many overlook one of the most vital and important the Race Question. .It is now a trifle over thir ty , years since Abraham Lincoln it sued the most famous ;doument of modern times, namely: "The Email, cipation Proclamation, whereby something like 4,500,000 human be ings were free from the yoke of bond age and overseer's lash. Then the bal lot was placed in the Negroe's hands; he could vote, he had all the rights of his white brother; he could go into into business for himself; cotton, which he was used to raising for his master, he could now raise for his own use. While standing with the ballot in his hand, and undecided what to do with it being alike ignorant of Democrat ic or Republican doctrines and re joicing in the one all absorbing fact that he was free, his friend in one sense and his enemy in another, (the carpet bagger) piles down from the North and leads the negro to the polls, anil shows him how to vote. He tells the confiding blackman that in order to enjoy his freedom and make a decent living, he must vote the Re publican ticket, and slick to its teach ings. That he must assert his rights in the South. That he is now equal in every way of those who owned him, or of those who set him free. The negro readily believed this, and proceeded forthwith to claim his dues, in a way which was suggestive of ownership. He naturally looked upon the South whites as his enemies, so when his mind was fired by un scrupulous politicians, he went to the polls, armed ready if need be to push his vote into the box on the end of a shot-gun. The war being just closed, and the anger of the South not yet cooled, they consequently detested the negro and his politics. Moreover, they found stern duty urging them to take the negro in band and show him bis place. When they tried this the negro rebelled, and. bitter quarrels was the result. The Northern presu urged the negro on, as did the "car pet baggers." The result of this was much bloodshed, and hard feelings be tween the negro and his former mas ter. But the planters must have xomeone to work their fields and the black must do the work. So they patched up a sort of a truce, and the blackman went to work, first at about enough to feed and cloth him. The planters would give no more, partly because they were not able, and part ly because tbey wished to .keep the negroes down, and in order to accom plish this end, they must give him no chance to rise. This suited a majority of the negroes very -well, as they had no ambition for riches or social glory but those who desired to push ahead and better their condition, were not Buited. These few forged ahead, and with the help of good Northern and Southern people, have succeeded in raising their race to a high level. Some would not raise this way, and being to lazy to work they commenced to steal. Id this way the bitter race feeling was propagated and intensi Red. If a white man killed a negro it was all right. If a negro stole any great amount, or injured any white man, the nearest, limb or telegraph pole served as his gallows. The Northern papers took it up and howl- ed loudly. This served to cause the blocks to be more ill used than they would have been, had the Northern press been a little bit milder in its at tacks. The necro considering the things with which he has had toxon tend, has made fair progress during the past thirty years. The older geu eration has become sobered down in to peaceable and law-abiding citizens. They have churches and schools, stoves, farms and some have money in the bank. They try to do Bomewhere near what is right, and have toe co operation of all good citizens. It is the younger generation, those fellows who have been reared since the war, who have never been under a masetr, who cause trouble. They are the ones who steal, burn and commit rape, and fill the southern penitentiaries. They are for the most part an uneducated class, although' they have a chance to learn. Two-thirds of the school tax of some Southern states is tor the sup port of negro schools. Here, far to many get but the rudiments of an edti cation and finish in the penitentiary. Once a white man is sent to prison, his self respect and manlinees flees. This is only too true of the black man, who has a limited stove of honor to begin with, so when he is sent up for from, three to five years, for a triflinj crime, (this is often the case) he loses all desire to be a man, anil soon sinks to the level of the lowest criminal. Many are chuich members, and shout and 'pray with zeal, but I am sorry to say they have a poor idea of what constitutes the true Christian Some of them steal shamefully and he when the truth, would surely serve them better. -. ; ' The following story will illustrate the Cbristinity and light fingeredness of some, but not all: "A, couple of darkies," who years ago lived several states norm 01 tnis, used to make freauent excursions on hn roosts. ' One niiiht'they were ply ing their tradej and i religious train of thought envelloped . the one up in the tree, and he said to his partner below: "Sambo it's wrong to clean IVORY PURE NO IRRITATION. -nc rEocnot a oublk co earn. up dis har hen roost." . "Nebber min' de 'sponsibility ob dis veah 'cassion," said bis partner below, "nan' me down 'madder pullet." . One thing that bothers the peaoe of the blacks, and causes much editorial tongue lashing by the aid of printer's ink, is the lynching business. I do not think that the North has occasion to say much about this. Several black men have been lynched in the North recently, and Northerners must ad mit that blacks are as liable to be lynched in the North as in the South for atrocious crimes. They are a low. vagabond class, who wonder about from place to place.and do not hesitate to commit terrible crimes. These are the ones who commit murder and rape, and they are the ones who are lynched. Respectable and intelligent black men often help at these lynch- mgs. There is a certain set of negroes who are brutes, who have more of the brute nature than any set of men in the civilized world. They commit crimes for which they know they will be liung, and, therefore,lynching will not stop a certain class from coramit mg murder and rape, whenever they feel so inclined. They do not know any better, so to speak. Therefore lynching does no good and is a dis grace to the United States goverment. xsorChern papers make a mis. take, in commenting on these outrages, by not printing out the fact that most of the negro lynching in the South comes from the vagabond class, a class that would fare as hard norm 01 Mason and Dixon s line as any where in this Union. They cre ate the impression that the lives and property of respectable black people n toe soutn are not safe. Ihisis not the truth. Lync'i law is of. course wronir. and had oiij-m i.o be condemned and stopped by all I abiding peopie. North and South, bur. as such a law does exist, to a uioru or less extent in both sections, it is i;unr that the truth in regard toitshomd be known. The negro is not a thrifty personage. He has little financial ability. Let him have 25 cents and he is rich until it is gone. , Most of them like to dress well and will put money on their backs which ought to go in to their cabins. They use vast quantities of cheap jewlery, and the majority of them have a large brass ring, or purchase one j of celluloid. They will invest in aji old rattle-trap of a buggy when they have not. a decent chair or bed in the house. With them economy is an un known quantity. They like'to sport a watch and chain and a revolver the latter especially courted by them. The South wrongs the black man princi pally, in three ways. First, by take ing his vote; by not letting him, as a citizen, have the right to cat his vote as be thinks best. It is no use for a black man in some Southern States, to vote the Rd publican ticket, for his vote is not counted, or if it is. it goes to the Democratic candidates. South ern men acknowledge this fraud; . I have heard them tell how it is done. Many colored men have cause to try to vote. General Longstreet, shortly after his visit to General Giant, in 1868, issued his famous letter, in which he advised- the Southern peoplo to go in to tne ttepubacan party, and thus con trol the negro, and rescue him f rem carpet baggers. They had no need to join the RepubVcin party to con trol the negro, for they contihl ruos of them now,as far as their vote goes. Second, by executing the State laws in such a partial manner. If a negro has a greivance it is next to impossi ble for him to obtain justice, "if a negro steals a sum of money, he is sent up for a long teim of years. II white man does the same thing he gets but a year or two. Let a black man cui a white man, and they do not as a general thine give him the benefit of a trial but string him up as soon as possible. If wniteman kills a nero, the law turns a deaf ear and the white man goes free. Third , by the way they pay their black help. Some pay the black man what they please. A laborer on a farm receives from $8.00 to $15.00 per month . and board themselves. lhev also have a house furnished them. In some states they pay the negro on an average of 75 cents , a day for farm work, but this is ex ceptionally good yay for them. w uen mey lend the black man money mey cnarge exorbitant rates of interest such as 15, 20 or 25 per cent. not less than 15, take a mortg age ou what little he has, and pretty soon that "little" and the black owner past company. There are some who succeed, and have comfortable little homes, but they are in the minority, In freeing the blacks, the North did wrong in three ways. First by put ting them in the army to figh against their masters, and cause mort bitter sectional feeling. No good came from this move. The 128,000 negroes in the army did very 'little for the Union. Tbey were an expense and by having them 'much bitter feeling exists to this day. Second, by placing the ballot in their hands when tbey were yet perfectly ignorant of the rudl mentary principles of this goverment. When they could neither read nor write, or know what they were voting about or voting for. The average ten-year-oUj boy, in the north, to-day, is as eligible to a vote as the black man was when he was freed; as some now are, for a great many blacks do not know the constitution ot tne United States from a bill of sale or a railroad time table. Third, by leav ing them in the South and making no provision for tbeir immediate 'or future wants. Lincoln might have done this bad he lived. As to the black man's future it is hard to guess. As a class, I firmly believe they have little or no chance of being much better, nnder existing condition. . The new generation is no more prone to mischief than their' ancestors.- Tbey are less inclined to work, and are more particular as to pay. The negro to-day is detriment, al to the South't progree. By stir ring np race wars and committing petty crimes, they cause lynchings and'othr trouble. 'They have never received high wages, and can, will and do work for less than a white man. All this tends to keep north ern people away. It tends to keep the southern wage scale down, and thereby lessen the value of property. The negro is becoming more and more restless, as evinced by the re cent exodus to Oklahoma, and other points. There they are not satisfied, and are glad to get back to their old horaes. In scanning the horizon of the negro's future, our eyes sweep across the broad Atlantic and rest on the -Dark Continent," Africa. Here is the key to the race question. Here is the opportunity to free our country from this dark cloud and help an un fortunate race. Africa is the future home of the negro. Many are .begin ning to recognise this and are mak ing strenuous efforts to reach that distant shore. It is the duty of the United States to aid them. Let the government purchase a large tract of land in some desirable portion of Af rica and divide it into tracts of twon-iy-five acres each. Then build and equip a line of steamers, run them regularly from such .ports as Savan nah and New Oheans to whatever African port is nearest the colon v. Then carry the negroes free of charge ana give eacn aauit man and woman a deed to twenty-five acres of land and twenty-five dollars in cash. This at first glance, may seem preposter ous, but it is entirely feasible, and the nation could afford to do this because it would be a gradual exodus, occupy ing pernaps ntteen or twenty years. There are many negroes who would want to go, but when they saw f. i r leuow uiacKs leaving in such vy-i. numbers and noticed how well uioy wero getting along, they too would go. Some -say the negro' uot capable of self goverment, while others think they are.as manifested by some oi tne omces colored men hold in this country. There are smart ones among them who could lead, and when tbey were gone, others would take their places. For the good of this nation, for the good of the negro race, Ainca noids tbeir future. They alone are fitted to bring that vast army of blacks that roam the jungles of Africa into civilization. . Let us give them a chance. - Once there and estaolished as a nation, they miirht succeed in civilizing and christianiz ing their untutored brothers, and in building up a respectable empire. Lowell H. Morrow. Relief In Six Honrs. Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the "Mew Ureat South American Kidney Cure. This new remedy is a great surprise on account of ita exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the nrinary passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain in pass ing it almost immeaiateiy. if you want qniok relief and care this isyoar remedy. Sold by u. J. numpnrey, urwrgist. napo leon.O. . April 27-93 ly Turrlanus is said to have fashioned minia ture mills "that wonld run of themselves'' so minute that a monk could carry one in Ms sleeve, yet so powerful that they would grind enough wheat in a single day tomakt bread lor eight men. Mrs. Nancy Wlrta. 1201 Caroline St.. Baltimore Rid., thus elves her experi ence: "We have used Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup and have never found ita equal t or our cnimren." Stop Thief! Any one whose Watch has a : bow (ring),will never have oc casion to usethistime-honored cry. It is the only bow that cannot be twisted off the case, and is found inly on Jas. Boss Filled and other watch cases stamped with this trade mark.. Ask your Jeweler for a pamphlet, or send to the manufacturers. Keystone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA. t TllfEOYiCEBC oown,wiwin ,. HiJ 1 kit I IdUla this paper, sbttin eetimet. n ednrtnlng tpsos whan In Chicago, will find it on file i,::r;r;,LG?.3&TKo::is HICK DPPPIUPriiUree.tocs of Letter Hesde UOl lUJUlillUV Koto Hesde. Statements. BU11 Heads . t3. CsU at IbiiefBce saa set prices. . tt ill Jffii i x in niTi A - - - BURROWS OF A MAN MOLE. ' Mrstariaew DolnK In a Guloh a Fw Hllel rrma iu VrMelaeai. . Scare IS ml In from Bu Francisco, half hidden In tba foliage of aurroandiug treat, nestllfig behind the Or crowned rkltv and rocky canyons of grim TamalpaiK. are tb few scattered ranch houses, which, with lbs ubiquitous saloon, constitute the little village of Larkspur. The road runs aloog the bottom of the canyon, almost hidden by the overhanging redwood tree, till itj merges into m mere c&Hie iniit. xniswiiu canyon is known locally as Baltimore gulch. For Ore yean at least, aa vouched for by actual observation, an aged human mole, tn the still watches of the night, has silently burrowed and delved in the rich brown earth until the sides of the canyon are liter ally honeycombed with his tunnels aud earerns. His work is carried on always by night, either by the light of the moon or by the wiU-o'-the-wisplik flicker of a rusty lantern. These cares mount up Into the hundreds, always near the roots ot a tree. some fully IS feet in circumference and 10 feet deep. The bigger boles ao carefully fenced around with long redwood poles. around which dead ferns and graw an twisted, and at the bottom is a cross. Ot her and smaller holes or caves under the roots of giant redwoods an nnfenced, but filled in with loose aarth and heaps of dead brush. These, -too, contain the mystic cross al ways the cross. ' For Ot long yean this man gopher hat been digging and toiling. Sometimes work ing for several days continuously, at other times only appearing at long intervals, no body has ever seen him at work, and what be hopes to find nobody knows, for no one has watched him or listened to his mid night muttering. A visit to the scene ot these mysterious boles was made by an Examiner corre spondent. It was a hard trip through the dense chaparral and closely growing trees. Hundred ot the filled in excavations were visible, of all shapes and sizes and in every position. Near one on the freshly dug earth footprints were visible, by another an old sieve was found, "molded with age and ex posure. Poles stripped ot bark aud masses of dead brush were seen piled around the remains of former excavations. Henry Collins, n resident of Sausalito and a keen sportsman, has explored the gulch thoroughly and has often pondered over the meaning of the holes, ot whose ex istence he will testify to. Nobody knows where the mysterious delver comes from or where he goes when his night's toil is over. Few have seen him come or gK, aud those that have described him as a wrinkled, bent and weather beaten old man, with long white hair and beard. It isjiardto find the exact location of these places un less one stumbled on them by accident, for though they cover a vast amount ot terri tory tbey are bidden by the dense vegeta tion. Only a few days ago his light was seen wandering about the hill. The labor and expense consequent to re move such tons of earth alone and single banded, as he bas done, and the care aud precision with which the poles nre set around the freshly dug holes, with the cross always iu the bottom, all done in the damp ness and darkness of night, suggest that there is some treasure worth hnuting for. About six years ago a man driven crazy with cancer on the brain wandered into the mountainous region arotind Tamalpals, and his body was finally found by campers, who had lost tbeir way, lying in the roots of a large redwood tree. He had come from Lodi, and Coroner Eden maintains he was poor, but more that one man tells a story of his wandering in there with &5,XiO, which lie must have buried, or it may yet be lying in some rotting sack or scattered iu careless profusion amid the l-ankiy grow ing herbage. This may, then, be the secret ot the hu man gopher's strange work, but the ques tion still remains unanswered. Why the cross? San rrancisco i-xaunuer. . ' Splnsterhood and Longevity, It is eaitl often and sadly that matrimony isn't as popular as it used to be. This is of course to be deplored, but in order to show the possible silver ir.iing to tins dark cloud the following instances of single blessedness are submitted: Miss Eliza Work of Heurietta, N. Y., ex- pects to celebrate her one hundredth birth day very soon. Rendered somewhat gar rulous by this proud event, she has at. last given out the secret of her longevity. She says that it is because she never drank tea or coffee, and, above all, because she never got married. Miss Work is housekeeper for her nephew, and she scorns to keep a serv ant. She has done a big day's work every day for 90 years and expects to do a good many more. Her brother lived to be 101 years old, but Miss Work thinks he might have lived manyyears longer if lie had ouly abstained from tea, coffee and marriage. As if this were not convincing enough there is the case of Polly Thompson, who departed this life not long ago at the age of 107. She was the oldest r.nglish subject of Queen Victoria, having celebrated her one hundred aud seventh birthday last June. On that occasion she received congratu latory letters from the queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of York. In spite of her great age Polly was a hale and nearly old lady up to a comparatively short time before her death. She never married. Longevity is not held out in these stories as an inducement to neglect matrimony but as a possible compensation to those who an otherwise engaged. New, York Sun. j . ODDS AND ENDS. : Fii-jr to 1657 tea was sold in England for t50 a pound. Shakespeare's works are sold by the mil lion iu Germany. Cast steel is much cheaper for casting bells than any other metal. Of the bodies cremated in New York stnte last year 60 per cent were those of Germans. The pearl is only carbonate of lime, i: readily affected by acids und burns iutc ume. ' The population of Italy is very dense, there being '270 people to every square rniln of. territory. Norway ranks second to England in the number ot her sailing vesselsof 50 tons and orer. The Tj lilted States is tbird. The first lmrse was brought to tills conti nent in 1518. Xow there are in the United States alone 14,050,750, valued at M1,OUO,000. Every Flemish town bas a square called the "Egg Market,' where, on certain day the codntry people resort and offer theii produce to the inhabitants. The Kussiau orthodox missionaries have so failed in their proselytizing effort! amortg the Khirgese that the missions will probably be shortly withdrawn. An Auckland inventor has constructed net tocutch whales. The niesh is bigenougb for a calf to pass through. It is said to have been already used with great success. In the geological triassic period the Con- necticut river valley and perhaps the whole eastern portion of what is now the North American continent was inhabited by gigantic species of two afod four footed rep tiles. . v "" Tba usual treatment of catarrh i vprv unsatisfactorv. an thousands can testil'v. Proper local treatment is oosltivelv necessary to success, but manv. if not most, of the remedies i general use afford but temporary re lief. A cure certainly cannot be ex pected from anufls, powders, douches and wat-nes. nays ureaiu nauu which is so highly commended, is remedy which combines the-imnortant requisites or qutcu action, specne cura tive power, with- perfect safety and pleasantness to the patient, rne a rug Li.t .11 ..ii it o glB Hit BVll ID. . . Am Interesting Bowlder. An interesting discussion has been ear ried on in some of Uio French scientific journals concerning a bowlder found nti Purls, the peculiar formation of which luu led to uiucti difference of opinion ou Um part of geuloglHU as to tba origin of th striatum. The bowlder Is considered tc undoubtedly of glacial origin, but tht angularity is exhibited of the striatiout being divided into three groups pointing In diffeu-nt directions, yet with all th members parallel to each other, it see tut that the strata in which this bowlder oc curred was of a doubtful nature, some ge ologists considering it to be true unmodi fied unit as left by the melting glacier, while others regard it aa ot an alluvial character and formed by the action of the waters of the faeine, then much greater in volume than at present, which worked ovei and partially assorted the confused mast of original drift. The atriatiomi in this bowlder an de scribed oa being somewhat different from those of an undoubted glacial origin, and an especially distinguished by gradually increasing in dopto toward one end, like the cuneiform character ot ancient Assyri an inscriptions, which is thought to indi cate that tbey may have beeu formed in postglacial times, either by the action oi floating ice or, running water forcing tht stone along, or as Professor Meuuler ex presses it in very simple language, by the gradual sliding ot the loose strata contain ing It down the steep hillside on which tt occurs. UasolTSd BlddUa. s . Then are, we fancy, many riddles knock ing about the world to which no answer has as yet been found or to which the an swer ha perhaps beeu lost. In the "Mem oirs of Hannah More" a witty saying is quoted of Mrs. Montague to the affect that metaphysical researches put ber in mind oi the old riddle, "A roomful and a houseful, but nobody can catch a handful." Is the answer to this riddle extant? It was to his serious minded friend, John Kewton, that the poet Cowper propouuded the following of his own inventing: am just two and two, I am warm, I am cold. And the parent ot numbers that cannot be told; I am lawful, unlawful a duty, a fault; i aui of ten sold dear, good (or not bins wltea bought; An extraordinary boon, and a matter of course, And yielded, with pleasure when takeu by lorce. ' On another occasion he sought to puzzle the brains ot a correspondent with the gphinxlike query which he recommended him, should he solve it, to propose to the company on the approaching celebration of la nuptials: " hat are tbey which stand at a di tance from each other and meet without ever moving?" And yet again be opens a letter with thl startling conundrum: , Say what is the thing by my riddle designed Which you carried to London and yet left be hind!- London Tit-Bits. NowTryThls. 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