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ODDS ASD E5DS.
Tmt first almanac was printed in 1460.
Thk health of John G. Whittier is
leeme.
Boston is importing wool direct from
Australia. t
An Australian, exhibited as a curiosity,
died in Cleveland.
Lincoln's tomb at Springfield, I1L, is
gyuijj 10 ruin.
lis has been. discovered in North
Carolina.
Connecticut fishermen predict plenty
of shad this year.
A TBAMPcutoff an Ohio girl's long hair
na nea witn it.
On sea and lake there are 753 United
states hght houses.
Georgia's penitentiary now contains
,oa prisoners.
Jew York City has one church to
every 5,000 inhabitants.
Tbesb are 600,000 depositors in New
iorK savings banks.
A young woman of Monndsville. W.
a., eioped with a tramp.
KrssiA produces annually about
4,000,000 worth of honey.
Gen. John Pope will take up his rest
aence at Milwaukee.
Savannah has the oldest opera house
m me united States.
Canada's net debtia $158,463,714
booth $3U per capita.
A Tarrttown, N. T., editor has been
leit a fortune of $200,000.
California now produces over 100,
ow oozea of raisins per year.
An international mining exhibition
will be held in London in 1885.
St. Loui3 manufactured 23,000,000
puunas oi tobacco last vear.
Sandx Hook, it is said, is fast being
wat,nea away by the waves.
Many of the striking Fall River
weavers returned to work.
Cincinnati had 150 miles of street
under water during the flood.
A cow raised by Dr. Hazen of Had-
dam, Conn., was sold for 83,500.
Mennonites in Nebraska occupy three
counties and are good farmers.
.lhs nrsi btate election of tne year
win De that of Oregon, June 2.
There are eighty American students
at the University of Berlin.
- Great numbers of colored people are
wua h De leaving south Carolina.
A diamond field is reported to have
been discovered at Eagle, Wis.
A Fargo Grand Jury indiots one of its
members for pilfering fare wood.
The Baden Chamber voted $15,000 for
preserving Heidelberg Castle.
Thirtt thousand women live in Paris
by manufacturing artificial flowers.
The starving Indians of fort Buford
nave eaten 3,000 dogs this winter.
Independent oil refiners in Baltimore
are trying to restore their old trade.
Colored men's civil rights leagues
are being organized widely in Ohio.
a aew iork boy, 14. years old, was
charged with habitual drunkenness.
A railroad bridge at Louisville, un
dermined by the flood, collapsed.
The daughter of Ole Bull inherits her
lather s genius for playing the violin.
A Chicago man has been made insane
by the inordinate chewing of tobacco.
A Victoria Chinaman worth $200,000,
is to marry a respectable white girl.
A steamer passed thirty icebergs
about 280 miles north of New York.
Towns in this country called Bismarck
want to change their names to Lasker.
Persons have cut the levee in Madi
son, La., to let lumber rafts through.
New Orleans has had a baby show,
with ninety-nine infanta on exhibition.
There is a bill before Congress to pre
vent the importation of adulterated teas.
The English press condemn Bis
marck's letter on the Lasker resolution.
The Rhode Island House appropriated
$20,000 for a State Reform School build
ing. A man who buys wood in Maine, says
that wood is growing faster than it is
cut.
The business of the country was never
bo far behindhand in the U. S. House as
now.
Samcel Macxet is the owner of a
farm of 5,000,000 acres in New South
Wales.
The population of Albany, N. T., is
reported by the Board of Health at
W.344.
The electric lights of Los Angelas,
CaL, can be distinctly seen eighty miles
distant
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has, for $2,100,
000, conveyed the reconstructed Stewart
bnilding, in New York, to ex-Judge
Henry Hilton.
The new Constitution of Montana for
bids any State official receiving a rail
road pass.
Kansas city is the headquarters of
ranchmen who have $21,830,000 in cattle
and land.
Thirty-five yonng lawyers were ad
mitted to the Massachusetts bar last
week.
The New York State assessors advise
a tax on all incomes exceeding $10,000 a
year.
The talk of dividing California into two
States is again revived in the southern
section.
President Arthur denies being in
poor health. "Never better in my life,"
he says.
The City of Mexico supports eighty
four newspapers, of which four are
Protestant.
The dress of Connecticut convicts has
been changed from half black and half
gray to plain gray.
The Governor of Michigan gives peti
tions for pardons full publicity before he
approves them.
Mrs. Strong was the first cotton
raiser in California. Last year she
raised 190 bales.
Rhode Island savings banks have
$52,460,205 entrusted to their care by
1211, 492 depositors.
lHBrrencn mrew -iuu sneiis into a
Madagascar town, killing one pig and
wounding another.
The next German Arctic expedition
will employ a specially built ship, cost
ing $l,000009r
Th old mission at Monterey, Cali
fornia, is to be repaired to prevent its
entire destruction.
There are about 66,000 locomotive
engines in the world, 120,000 passenger
and 500,000 freight cars.
Amis in Indiana committed suicide
because he was subpoanaed to appear aaj
a witness in a murder case.
There are 200,000 miles of railroad
track in the world and the capital in
vested is $20,000,000,000.
The average araouDt of railwav travel
ing done by every man, woman and
child is 1 14 miles each year.
Excellent industrial and business
prosperity has prevailed in South Caro
lina during the last year.
There are still missing from the
wreck of the steamer City of Columbus
seventy-seven bodies.
Oscar Wilde told a Dublin audience
that American prairies are shockingly
devoid of artistic decoration.
The cost of the Washington monu
ment is $087,000, and the $150,000
hand will finish it daring 1884.
The total number of hog .raised in
the United States annually is 30, 000, 0X.
The pork product is 4,725,000,000
pounds.
One firm of envelope-makers in
Springfield, Maf., used during the last
vpar 1,200 tons of paper in making about
170,000, 000 envelopes.
The four buildings for the World's In
dustrial and Cotton Exhibition in New
Orleans are to have 1,000,000 square
feet of exhibition space, and are to cost
in the aggregate only $255,000.
Tt is estimated that over 100,000 per
sons met with avddental deaths during
the year 1883. The fearful convulsions
of nature in the Malay archipelago and
in Svria destroyed over 80,000 lives.
Powdb i something like money.
It's awfuliy hard to hold after it begins
ogo.
GRAPES 15 CITY YARDS.
Tha Tinas that Tbrlva the Beat-Haw ta
Plant and Train Them.
The best time for planting grapevines
in our Northern States is in spring, as
soon as the frost is out, and the ground
warm and dry enough to work easily.
There are scores of varieties that are well
adapted to cultivation in city yards or
gardens. Varieties not sufficiently hardy
for vineyard culture in the country often
succeed admirably in city yards, where
they are in a great measure protected
from cold winds in the winter. We have
known the golden chasselar, sweet
water, and Black Hamburg to be grown
successfully for many years in the yards
of this city; but we would not recom
mend these varieties except for very
favorable situations, andj for persons
who know how to prune and train vines
systematically.
The main point is to select a location
where the vine will receive the direct
rays of the sun for at least six or eight
hours a day during the summer months.
This insures a healthy growth and the
ripening of the fruit. As for the roots,
they will usually take care of themselves
after th e first two or three years, as it is
well known that they will go a long dis
tance under flagstones, brick walks, and
along cellar walls into drains and cess
pools in search of nutriment and mois
ture. A man who plants a grapevine in a
city yard is never exactly certain where
the roots will go in search of food. At the
time of planting.however.itis best to give
the roots some good soil and a quart or
two of bone dust, well mixedin, to start
the vine in life. Further application
may be made in after years if found
necessary.
In purchasing grapevines, beware of
old and large ones, frequently exposed
for sale in our markets. A young, healthy
vine, one or two vears old, is worth far
more than one three or four years old
for planting. In the first year after
planting, only one cane should bo
allowed to grow. All others should be
rubbed off as soon as they appear. Train
up this cane to a stake or trellis as far
as it will go. The next season it must
be cut back, but just how much will de
pend upon its growth and the system of
training to be adopted. Verv lew vines.
however, are raised in city yards that
are ever trained. They are generally
terribly mutilated by ignorant day la
borers who go about the city seeking
such jobs, while professing to be intelli
gent gardeners. Success in raising
grapes in city or country depends more
upon proper pruning and training than
upon the soil, location, or variety.
Any of the following named varieties
will thrive in New York city or vicinity.
They are among the best of our free
growing, productive native vines:
Brighton and Jefferson are large red va
rieties. Moore's early and Concord and
black Prentiss are large yellowish green,
usually called white grapes. Packling-
ton is a very large light yellow grape,
showy, but not equal to the .Lady Wash
ington, the fruit of which is not quite as
large, but of a pale pink color, very
sweet and delicious. The vines can be
ordered of aoy of .our city seedsmen.
jy. Y. Sun.
THE OLD ASD XEW.
Mr,
Beecber Dlscearare an Stan'
Life and lte.urrection.
Doable
Mr. Beecher's sermon Sunday was
from Hebrews, xii., J.-3. Below are
some extracts from it:
" There is an antithesis between a
man's life of his body and the life of his
spirit, and the things that are shocking
in regard to the body are supreme and
most gracious in regard to the soul and
the spirit. -
is there anything more shocking
than cannabalism ? And yet the best men
of the world have been the food of all
after time. Man's spirit feeds on man's
spirit The highest deeds, the noblest
qualities, the achievements of one or
another in the long round of history,
have been the food of those that came
after, and will live by, as it weie, eating
the spirit of our ancestors.
" The past is the great granary of the
soul, where the fruit of ages is collected.
The pat is not a mausoleum of dead
men, nor is it a storehouse of mum
mies, nor a cave in wnicn ancestral lorms
lie slumbering."
" There is an undying multitude of all
who in ages gone by have added to
knowledge, to virtue and to heroic deeds,
above our heads in the air.
" There is a process of airy resurrec
tion of all that is greatly good in eminent
natures which, stored up, overhangs us
and rains down influences upon us."
" The old Church is rich in its past,
and were it not that every child had a
right to despoil its mother and so every
Protestant Church can draw from the
old Church Protestantism would stand
in a very poor light as compared with
the old Roman Catholic Church.
When men ask why the Jews have
sustained themselves as they have done
through the ages, it is because of family
instruction, the bringing the children
up in the knowledge of the heroic deeds
of their ancestry."
''You tbatmust have some model, some
ideal hero; you that have some concep
tion of your own, framed out of the loom
of your imagination, woven by the
brightest threads you can select from
among human beings, here you have the
appointed ideal ! Jesus, the Saviour of
the world."
" Your life is a struggle. It is hard
for a man to live up to his purposes. It
is very difficult for a man to live up to
the ideals which he forms in his bright
est hours."
"Thank God, while the soil may be
parcelled out the heavens cannot be."
A Pretty Little Romance.
It is a pretty romance, that of the woo
ing of Prof. Bell of telephone fame. His
wife is the daughter of Mr. Gardiner G.
Hubbard, whose skill as a patent lawyer
has served Prof. Bell in good stead. At
a very tender age Mrs. Bell lost her hear
ing after an attack of scarlet fever, and
became in consequence a deaf mute.
Her parents, hearing of the success in
Germany in teaching deaf mutes to
speak, took their daughter abroad,
where she learned to speak both in
French and German. On their return
to this country Prof. Bell, then a teacher
in a deaf mute institution, was engaged
to give private lessons to Miss Hubbard,
In time, finding himself becoming too
much attached to his pnpil, like an
honorable man, he went to Mr. Hubbard
and resigned his position, giving his
reasons. Miss Hubbard was then too
young to have her mind disturbed by
such matters, so her father and lover
thought. Men, however, do not always
understand the arjy growth of a young
girl's mind and heart". Prof. Bell's pupil
drooped, and in time her parents dis
covered the cause of her melancholy.
The young man was recalled and the
wedding was celebrated. Their beauti
ful home in Washington is now one of
the centres of hospitality, and Mrs. Bell
among the most agreeable women
in Washington society.
Living on the Border. The El Paso
Herald says : At El Paso, Texas, Mexi
can dollars are worth eighty-five cents
in American com. At 1'aso del Norte,
just across the river, American dollars
are worth eighty-five cents in Mexican
coin. One morning a car driver started
from the American side with a Mexican
dollar. On his arrival at the Mexican
town he took a drink of chain lightning,
which was fifteen cents, and received an
I American dollar in change for bis Mexi-
' l. :,. ,.4 i . i. . . ,
i vii nut iciuru iu Lilt: American HIUO
he took a drink of equally hard liquor
and received a Mexican dollar for his
American, and so repeated the drinks at
intervals during the "day, and at night he
closed np business with the Mexican
dollar he started with in the morning.
. Tired of Life. A man walking in
the Place des Invalides, Paris, on Sun
day, Feb. 10, saw a mad dog rush at a
group of ..children. He threw himself
upon the beast, and after a hard strug
gle, in the course of which he was re
peatedly bitten, succeeded in throwing it
into the Seine. In answer to inquiries
he afterward gave this short and pathetic
account of himself : "I was born on the
23d of March, 1848; married tha 6th of
February, 1872; I have three children.
My wife has broken my heart, and I am
now happy to have within me the poison
j that will send me to the grave."
A ROMANTIC STORY.
Am Escapade In HUB Ufa In tha City of New
York.
More romantically and startlingly than
in tableaus has one of our society beau
ties figured, says a New York corre
spondent. She has become the talk of
the fashionable part of the town, and as
her escapade was not disgracing to her I
may as well be first to print it. She had
fallen in love with a young gallant of the
fox-hunting, gentleman-jockey kind.
The wooer was assiduous. Eventnally
the head of the girl's family intimated
to him that the household desired a lit
tle time for rest and recreation. He was
compelled to cease his visits for the
time. The daughter thereupon con
ceived the idea that the man whom she
adored was being abused. She wrote to
him. He wrote to her. Result one
evening, at half-past nine o'clock, the
beauty of the family went np stairs with
her mother and a number of other ladies
from a dinner party which was on in the
dining room. The ladies disposed them
seives as tney usually do when waiting
for the men to come up stairs. While
tne eider dozed and the girls gossiped,
the daughter stole quietly up stairs to
ner room, uait an hour later her maid
went down the servants' staircase with
two large satchels, kissed the cook good
bye, stole out of the basement door, and
clambered with great excitement and
convulsiveness info a cab which stood
hard by. Ten minutes later the front
door opened softly, and out stepped the
beauty, clad in a traveling dress and
carrying a shawl. The man at the door
did not recognize her, but as she
emerged from the awning which led
from the front door to the sidewalk, an
old coachman who had formerly been in
me employ oi ner father, but was now
driving for somebody else, recognized
her. She stole up with theatrical craft
iness to the corner, sprang into the cab
wnere ner maid was already sitting,
clasped both her maid's hands and sat
there in abject terror while the cabman
drove them to Grand Central Depot.
Ihere the lover, wearing a Newmarket
coat, a tweed hat, a single glass, a satch
el ana a big cigar, was nervously walk
ing up and down the sidewalk." The
cab stopped. He opened the door, as
sisted the girl to alight and, followed by
me maia, entered the waiting-room.
They sought the most secluded corner,
sat down, and gradually grew pale. The
Albany train would not leave for three-
quarters of an hour. They became more
nervous, meanwhile the ex-coachman,
having nothing to do, had wheeled his
way around and jogged up the avenue
after the cab which held the mistress
and the maid. He saw the girl alight at
the depot, and recognized the man who
met her. He whipped np his horses and
went tearing down the avenue as though
going to a fire. When he got to the
house he called the footman to hold the
horse, dashed up the steps into the
house and down to the dining room,
where the master was telling one of his
after-dinner stories.
"I say, sir," he gasped, "she's
and done it:"
gone
"She has, eh ? Who is she, and what
did she do it for," asked the host, smil
ing affably upon his guests, and giving
them to understand by a significant
wink that he was about to have some fun
with the coachman.
"Your daughter, sir. She's run off
with the yonng gent that wears the gog
gle glass and rides at all the races."
Thereupon the father shot from his
chair as though a perpendicular batter
ing ram had been sprnng beneath him,
flew np stairs, stumbled into the car
riage, and arrived ten minutes later at
the Grand Central Depot. He walked
in briskly, took his daughter's arm, paid
the maid on the spot, discharged her.
bundled his daughter into the cab,
pulled the gentleman jockey's nose, re
turned to his dinner, and finished his
story. So ends the romance of the rich
young girl.
The Lime-Kiln Club.
"Judge Cadaver will please step dis
way, said .Brother Oardner, as he mo
tioned to Samuel Shin to raise the alley
window and let out the odor of burning
bootleg.
The Judge came forward with a pres
sure of AM pounds to the square inch.
and the President continued :
"Judge Cadaver, a society at Defiance,
O., known as 'De Aggregation of Phil-4
osophy an' Science,' has requested me
to send em down some member ob dis
club who kin deliber a lecktur' full of
interest an ins truck shun. I has selected
you. Heah am eight dollars in cash an
a railroad pass, an you will leave hear
to-morrow arternoon."
The Judge looked so meltingly sweet
that everybody began to grin.
"I now desiah to spoke a few remarks
to you," said the President, as he laid
aside his spectacles. "You are gwine
among strangers. You will meet with
black-legs and bondholders an' all odder
classes of men.
"Doan talk too much wid your moaf.
"Don't try to make anybody believe
dat you am a millyunaire.
"Doan stop to bet on de string game
or three-card monte.
"Doan' purtend you know what you
doan' know an' nebber heard of.
"Doan' stop to argy religun wid in
fidels nor pollyticks wid a young -man
who cau't wote.
"If anybody calls you 'Kernul' you
needn't stop to explain his mistake, but
at the same time doan' hire anyone to
call you 'Perf essor.
"If you lose your money by playin'
policy while yon am gone, come home
by de highway an' say nuffin' to nobody.
If yon am knocked down an' robbed you
kin telegraph us an' count on receiviu'
'bout fo' dollars in cash. Dat's all,
Judge, an you kin now resume yer
roost." Detroit Free Press.
The Lasker Incident.
RESOLUTIONS OF
THANKING THE
TATIVES.
GERMAN
HOUSE OF
IiIBBRAIiS
REPRESEN-
The following is the text of the letter
received by Speaker Carlisle from the
Executive Committee of the Liberal
Union of Germany conveying its thanks
to the House for the Lasker resolutions :
Berlin, Jan. 27, 1884.
The undersigned, the Executive Com
mittee of the Literal Union, has the
honor to express at the request of its
members, who are to-day present from
the various parts of the German Em
pire, to the House of Representatives at
Washington, its warmest thanks for the
resolution which they have passed in
honor of Edward, Lasker, itB late leader
aud friend. (The' Liberal Union com
bines with this acknowledgment of its
thanks the most heartfelt wishes for the
welfare and prosperity of the powerful
and rising United States of America,
aud for the strengthening and further
development of mutual friendship be
tween both nations.
The letter is signed by the Executive
Committee of the Liberal Union of
Germany.
Ills Scarlet Coat.
Mangin, the celebrated black-lead
pencil maker of Paris, is dead. He
drove every day in an open carriage, at
tended-by a servant, to his stands either
by the column of the Place Vendome or
on the Place de la Bourse. His servant
handed him a case, from which he took
large portraits of himself aud medals
with descriptions of his pencils, which
he hung on either side of him. He then
replaced his round hat with a magnificent
burnished helmet, mounted with brilliant
plumes. For his overcoat he donned a
costlv velvet tunio with gold fringes. He
then drew a pair of polished steel gaunt
lets upon his hands, covered his breast
with a brilliant cuirnss, and placed a
richly mounted sword at his side. His
servant then put on a velvet robe aud
helmet, and struck up a tune on an or
gan mounted in gold. To the crowds
gathered around he then exclaimed: "I
am Mangin, the great charlatan of
France ! Years ago I hired a modest shop
in ne itue itivon but could not sell
pencils enough to pay my rent. Now.
attracted by my sweeping crest, my wav
ing plumes, my din and glitter, 1 sell
millions of pencils." This was true. His
pencils were the very best.
WANT TO GO ON THE STAGE
A niMKAR BT WHICH TOO MANY
YOTJJN PEOPLE ARE AFFLICTED
Tbe Obstacles In the Way of Becoming an
Actor The Crowd! Walling lor an En.
gageinent.
From the New York Sun.
A correspondent in a Southern city
asks us a question which agitates so
many minds that it deserves careful con
sideration :
"There are two young ladies here
who are exceedingly anxious to go on
the stage, and have requested me to
write yon and see if you couldn't give
them all the necessary information in re
gard to the matter. Is there any place
iu New York where persons are taught
for the stage? Who are the parties,
and what terms do they charge ? How
long would they have to study .before
they are allowed to appear in public ?
I have done all in my power to try and
dissnade them from their intention, but
without avail. I have seen one of the
ladies on the stage several times, that is,
in private theatricals, and I must admit
that she has a great deal of talent in
that line. Beside this, she is very
highly educated, and I think if she had
a chance would make a success."
There are in New York several mem
bers of the theatrical profession who de
vote their spare time to preparing pupils
for the stage, and some of them are
artists of high standing, who must be
altogether competent for the duty. We
do not know what are their prices for
tuition, but they are probably reason
able. As to the time required to get the
adequate training, that must depend on
the aptitude of the pupil. A whole life
time of study would not make an actor
of one man, while another might master
in a few months all that his professional
teacher had to offer him in the way of
technical instruction.
But even after the pupil has passed
from the hands of his theatrical pre
ceptor, it is likely that it will be impos
sible for him to get a chance to actually
appear on the stage in any part which
satisfies his ambition and gratifies his
vanity. He will come in competition
with many experienced artists who are
standing around Union Square, waiting
for an engagement, and whose illusions
as to their abilities and opportunities
have been pretty thoroughly dispelled
by harsh experience. The novice, if he
gets on the stage at all, must expect
nothing more than a very minor and
humble part; he mnst be prepared to
encounter sharp criticism in the green
room, and to do without the praise of his
professional associates. What seems
histrionic genius to his partial friends
who applaud his amateur performances,
will be very coldly judged in the green
room.
In fine, he will have to make his way
against obstacles which will subdue his
spirit and hurt his self-love most keenly,
and his progress upward will be slow, if
he gets up at all. He will have to work
hard and submit to indifference, and
what seems to him injustice. Besides,
he will get poor pay at the beginning,
and will be lucky if he can secure an
engagement which will give him even
that steadily. Instead of making a grand
success in the great city, he may be
obliged to travel with strolling com
panies, and have to wait for years be
fore obtaining an opportunity to appear
in a leadirg theater, at least in any ex
cept a small part, where he has no
chance to gain the particular attention
of the audience.
A woman cannot hope to fare any
better. Her stage trials may be even
harder to bear, and more destructive of
her peace and happiness. Scarcely any
girl thinks of acting in any other than
the leading parts in which she has seen
the most famous and most experienced
artists. She wants to jump up to the
top at once, and all her theatrical dreams
are based on the assumption that she
will do it that she will be the heroine
of the play, and that she will live in an
atmosphere of intoxicating applause and
adulation. Instead of that, if she gets
on the stage at all, she is likely to be at
first only one of the supernumeraries
of the heroine and assist in making up
the stage picture of which another is the
central figure.
" These are facts which the two Southern
girls mnst look squarely in the face if
they think of going on the stage. They
must understand that they propose to
enter a very difficult profession, and one
in which there are ten, nay, a hundred,
chances of their failing to one of their
succeeding. If a woman rises high in
the theatre, she gets better pay than she
can earn elsewhere; but if she remains
in the lower or middle ranks of the
theatrical profession she will only make
moderate wages for very hard work."
A French Fencing-Master.
A quarrel between a French and an
Italian regiment in the army of occupa
tion in Spain was settled by a solemn
duel between the regimental fencing-
masters, and Jean-Louis, as the chief
instructor of the French regiment in
question, took a leading part in it with
distinction. But it is much to believe
that he saved his own side all trouble in
the matter by himself killing or disa
bling 13 adversaries withont once being
touched. Beginning life as an " enfant
de troupe " in the armies of the First
Republic, a weakly-looking mulatto,
without parents, he gradually rose to be
not only a perfect master of fence, but a
master who commanded the personal
respect of his pupils, comrades, aud su
perior officers, and was not unfrequently
consulted in affairs of importance touch
ing, personal or regimental honor. In
his old age he appeased a long-standing
feud between the engineers and the in
fantry quartered at Montpellier by the
bold and simple device of giving a mili
tary assault of arms in his own name, in
viting the picked men of both branches
of the service to contend and -the rest of
the garrison to look on, and at the end
making the men a speech, and, with all
the authority of his position as " le pere
de l'escrime," compelling them to alijure
their enmity. Moreover, Jean-Louis
succeeded iu making so good a pupil of
his daughter that she completely took
the conceit out of a young professional
(a stranger to the school of Jean-Louis)
who had thought it impossible that a
woman could be a serious adversary.
A Tattooed Baby Born.
The tattooed woman known as Laura
Lavarime gave birth iu Baltimore to a
fifteen-pound boy. The baby's skin is
marked' in, the same manner as the
the mother's,- with snakes, animals,
flowers, etc. The strangest part of the
freak is that the colors of the India ink
used to decorate the mother are exactly
reproduced on the baby's body except
the face. The colors are blue and red.
The father's name is Adolph Morath.
He is a traveling showman, and is de
formed, having a club foot. He says
his wife was tattooed within the past
year at various times and in various
cities and by different artists. He has
been traveling through the small towns
of Maryland with his museum, in which
his wife is one of the curiosities. Dr. A.
Trego Shertzer, a reputable and well
known physician of Baltimore, attended
the mother. He thinks the case re
markable. Chinese in Now York.
There are in New York State 5,000
Chinese. Most of them live in the city
and make cigars or do laundry work. Mott
street is their centre. It has a bad repu
tation, but the wealthiest Chinamen live
there and the largest and best grocery
stores are in that street. Whenever a
Chinaman from out of town visits the
city he uteers for Mott street, and spends
his money iu the stores or among the
gambling hells and opium joints. There
are 500 Chinese in the city who attend
Sunday-schools regularly, and 100 are
church members in good standing. Qne
quarter of the Chinamen smoke opium
and four-fifths of the remainder smoke
cigarettes or cigars.
An Intrenched Camp. Fiance, says
a military writer, is henceforth a vast
lntrencnet camp, which can be defended
in a week by one million aud in a month
by three millions of men.
Rents In Hew York.
For houses in fifth avenue between
Tenth street and Ff ty-sixth street says
the Sun, the rents are all the way from
84,500 to $15,000 a year. The ordinary
Fifth avenue house rents for $5,000 or
$6,000, while $7,000 and $3,000 rents are
common, but Madison avenue has taken
the place of Fifth avenue as a residence
street, and four-story high-stoop brown
stone houses there rent for from $3,000
to $5,000, according to locality and fin
ish, and even at those rates there are
not many houses to rent. In the quiet
cross streets between Madison and Park
avenues and between Madison and Fifth
avenues four-story high-stoop brown
stone houses rent for from $2,000 to $4,
500. Even in Lexington avenue, from
Twentyninth to Seventy-sixth street,
three-story high-stoop brown-stone
houses rent for from $1,800 to $2,000 a
year. Throughout the city, where sep
arate houses are to be hired, the rents
range about the figures given. For in
stance, a four-story high-stoop brown
stone house in West Washington square
rents for $4,000; a three story high-stoop
brick house in East Tenth street, near
University place, for $2,000 or $2,500; a
four-story high-stoop brick house in
WesJ; Seventeenth street, near Fifth
avenue, for $2,500; a four-story high
stoop brick house in East Twenty-first
street, between Lexington and Fourth
avenues, for $4,000; a four-story high
stoop brown-stone house in West Twenty-ninth
street, between Broadway and
Fifth avenue, for $5,000; a four-story
high-stoop brown-stone house in East
Thirty-second street, between Fifth and
Madison avenues, for $4,000; the same
kind of a house in West Thirty-fourth
street, near Fifth avenue, for $4,500; in
east Fifty-seventh street, with a little
better finish, $5,000. In short, for the
money that is required as rent for a first
class dwelling house for one year a man
can buy ground and a house in the sub
urbs, wittalTan.honr'8 ride of the City
Hall in - various directions. All the
prices thus far given are for unfurnished
nouses. For similar houses furnished
the prices range from $300 to $700 a
month, and no house can be had except
on the best references and good security.
Starting an Avalanche.
The snows in Nevada, says a corre
spondent, have been for the most part
wet and heavy,and have been followed by
warm, sunny days. Under these cir
cumstances slides have occurred with
great frequency, and have wrought de
struction unexampled in recent years. It
does not take much to start an avalanche
which a moment later may make the
earth tremble. Two miners living on
Alum Creek, went up the mountain
above their cabin to set some stakes.
After their work was done one of them
made a snowball and threw it at the
other, who returned the fire. One of
the balls lodged on a slope more than a
mile long, directly above their cabin.
The sun was shining brightly, and the
snow was soft. For a second, the ball
rested where it fell, and then it began
to roll, increasing in bulk as it went.
Presently the ball, once held in a man's
hand, grew to the size of a hogshead,
and when a furious momentum had been
gained it burst into several pieces, each
of which continued rolling until a strip
of ground a hundred feet wide was
cleared of snow. In their descent these
huge snowballs picked up rocks and
earth until, merging in one immense
mass, the avalanche, bearing down giant
trees and stumps, struck the cabin of
the men who started it, and carried it
away as easily as if it had been made of
paper. Everything in the path of the
slide waB swept to the bed of the stream
and buried fifty feet deep in snow. The
miners watched the havoc they had
wrought, and, after examining the spot
where once their cabin stood, they
started for Hawthorne for a tent and
blankets, and then returned to their
claim for the purpose of building another
cabin. They will start no more ava
lanches if they can help it
Dlarriage of Blacks aud whites.
important .case has Jheen decided
in the l'olitJc'jourt ot Toledo, Ohio.
Robert Bailey, colored, was married to a
young white woman. Under the sta
tutes of Ohio, the marriage or cohabita
tion of whito persons with -those having
the least taint of African blood is a crim
inal act. On complaint being made,
Bailey was arrested and tried for the
offence. He was convicted and sen
tenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs,
and to be imprisoned three months.
His counsel entered a motion at once for
a new trial, and gave bail for a hearing
of the case at the next term of the Court
of Common Pleas. It is said that there
are over 100 Africans married to white
women in Tolddo, and another hun
dred living with white women without
having been married to them. There is
only one white man in Toledo living
with a black woman. He is married to
her, and seems aa much attached to her
as though she were of the purest Anglo
Saxon blood. The authorities are await
ing the result of Bailey's case, which is
to be made a test case of the constitu
tionality of the law, before proceeding
to break the bonds already formed be
tween the whites and blacks in the State.
The white girl in the Bailey case has
been sentenced to the Workhouse lor a
long term, having no means with which
to pay her fine.
The Manufacture of Heavy Ordnance.
After seven years of idleness the larger
furnace of the South Boston Iron Works
was lighted up on Saturday for the cast
ing of a twelve-inch rifle mortar for the
United States Ordnance Department.
This is to be the first of a lot of five
heavy experimental guns authorized by
the last Congress. The second will be a
ten-inch breech-loading rifle. The body
is to be of cast iron, reinforced by a
wrapping of steel wire. The third is to
be a twelve-inch breech-loading rifle,
entirely of cast iron, and is to weigh
fifty-seven tons. The fourth is to be
like the third, with the exception that it
is to be lined from the breech with a
short steel tube to reach a little beyond
the trunnions. The fifth is to be a
twelve-inch breech-loading rifle. The
body, of cast iron, is to be reinforced by
steel rings around the breech and to be
lined the full length with a steel tube.
It is -expetcV-that these heavy ritiea
will endure charges of -200 to 300 pounds
of powder with projectiles weighing 700
pounds, giving a velocity sufficient to
penetrate twenty-four iuches of iron.
The works have also contracts with the
United States Navy Department for six
and eight inch steel breech-loading rifles
for the new steel cruisers, and for the
conversion of ten-inch smooth-bore
"Rodman" guns into eight-inch muzzle
loading rifles for the War Department.
Millions in Barbed Wire.
The manufacture of barbed wire has
mode millions for many men. The great
West mav be said to be fenced with
barbed wire. The 3,500 miles of fenc
ing destroyed by the cowboys of Texas
this winter was all of barbed wire. The
most familiar pattern of this fencing is
is made by twisting two strauds of thick
wire so that at every few feet the pointed
ends of the metal thread project at right
angles with the lengths. During the
civil war and for ten years thereafter
thirty patents were issued for barbed
wire. Before that, plain wire had been
used on the great farms and pastures,
its cheapness rendering it preferable to
any other material. A Worcester man
bought up all the barbed wire patents,
and the firm he established had the pat
ents re-issued, and then asserted that this
gave them the control of the principle.
It took them years to get a decision sus
taining them, and in the mean time
barbed wire factories sprung up like
mushrooms U over the West. After
the decision, the Worcester men got all
the other makers together and issued
forty licenses to as ruauy firms to con
tinue making the wire, each being lim
ited to a certain output, obliged to sell
at a certain figure, and compelled to pay
the Worcester men $15 a tou. The lit
tle makers were all crushed out. The
I inum . Ul T Iiunow i v . v 1 1 in a
i pound and added $10,000,000 to theprof
i its in half a dozen States.
CHEAP BEDS AXD BOARD.
Olanaea at tha Lower-Priced Reataarauta
and LodxiDK-Honses ot a City.
Look into the biggest lodging-house
in the Bowery, says a New, York letter;
It is on a corner below Grand street. The
rooms are let for twenty-five cents a
night. You enter at the end of the bnild
ing on the side street and at the head of
the stairs come to a little window at
which the quarter dollars of the cus
tomers are exchanged for the keys of
the rooms. The keys which have num
bered bits of brass attached to them,
serve as tickets of admission at the door
further along. The lodging-house con
sists of two floors, each as big as the in
terior of an extra large Broadway store.
It presents to the eye of the visitor a
number of narrow passage Ways leading
between partitions only seven feet high.
The ceilings are seven or eight feet above
these partitions. Seven feet apart along
these passage ways are doors opening into
the little box-like rooms. The walls and
doors are white aud clean. -There is a
faint smell of carbolic acid in the'air.
Each tiny bedroom is furnished with one
chair, a cot, three clothes hooks, a bowl,
pitcher and a three-legged iron wash
stand. The pillow and sheet on each
bed are white, the blue counterpane
looks neat, and the walls are white and
clean. The floor is bare. Here and
there are to be seen rooms wherein cheap
chromos are pinned upon the board
walls. Their presence show that the
room is hired by the week, but if you
look for a trunk or a satchel belonging to
the tenant you are apt to be disappointed
nine times in ten.
On the first floor of this and all the
other big lodging-houses a large space in
front of the rows of bedrooms is fitted
up as a lounging and reading room.
These are the rooms passengers on the
elevated railroads notice all along the
main avenues down town, where are al
ways to be seen many young men with
their feet up and their chairs tilted back,
smoking, reading or looking out upon
the street. Each room has a big table,
and the newspapers, pens, ink and
checkei boards on these tables show how
the lodgers may spend that spare time
which most of them possess in abund
ance. In some of the ten-cent houses the
beds are not separated by partitions.
They are arranged in rows in big rooms,
just as hospital cots are. Each lodger
hangs his clothes on the chair by his
bedside. A watchman stands guard over
the pockets and property of the sleepers.
The biggest five-cent lodging-house in
New York is the old colored grammar
school building in Thompson street. It
is an exaggerated ship's steerage, or
rather three steerages one above another.
The walls of the former class rooms have
been removed, and each spacious floor is
now an immense room filled with double
bunks built close together. The bunks
are heavy wooden frames, and look like
one kitchen table ?et on top of another.
They are two feet apart. There are
eighty or ninety of these frames on the
first floor, the only one the reporter
visited. No women are admitted to these
places. The floor had been scrubbed and
the walls were clean. Each lodger gets
a bed to himself under cover in a heated
room. The place suggested a catacomb,
but the price was only five cents.
m
A City Cemetery.
Mr. Brennan, the Superintendent of
Calvary Cemetery, said to a New York
Sun reporter: "1 have seen the ceme
tery fill up from a sparsely -nsed tract of
land until every foot of territory had
been sold and a new enclosure of one
hundred acres had to be secured. Since
Archbishop Hughes founded the ceme
tery on the bleak hill of Blissville, in
1848, there have been over 250,000 in
terments. I, myself, have signed per
mits within the twenty years of my su
perintendency, for more than 220,000
dead. During the vear 1883 there were
15,470 interments in Calvary and New
Calvary. Of this number 1,392 were
buried by the Church. A Catholic is
accorded the right to be buried in the
consecrated ground, and if his friends
cannot pay for the small piece of sod,
the Church buries him through charity.
For many years the Church buried those
who died in the hospitals, and who were
left unclaimed in the Morgne, if there
were good reasons for supposing they
had been Catholics during life, but the
Health Board interfered, and now they
are interred in the Potter's Field unless
friends send them to us.
"What does an interment cost ? It de
pends upon the worldly condition of the
friends. All the plots and graves in old
Calvarv are sold. They are worth $500
to $2,000 each. A plot is 16x18 feet.
The poor people buy graves. There are
sixteen graves, each nine feet long by
two feet wide, in a plot. A grave brings
$15, and each interment in the grave
costs, in addition, $7 for adults, $5 for
children above seven years, and $3 for
children under seven. The graves are
sunk nine feet deep, and five adults are
buried in one grave, leaving three feet
of earth over the uppermost. The very
poor cannot afford to pay for a whole
grave, and they are charged $7 for an in
terment." "And those who never knew each
other in life occupy the same grave ?"
"Yes. So many thousands are
brought from New York, Brooklyn,
Newark, Jersey City, Westchester, and
Long Island that room could not be
found otherwise. There are about three
hundred burials a week on the average,
varrying with the season from as low as
two hundred to as high as four hundred.
On Sunday there are all the way from
seventy-five to one hundred interments,
aud on week days from twenty-five to
fifty, and even more in sickly seasons."
The Wealthiest Man.
At the beginning of every year, says
a newspaper correspondent, Mr. W. H.
Vanderbilt, of New York, makes it an
invariable custom to take a careful in
ventory of his immense property. His
strong-boxes are then opened, their con
tents counted, and from the total the
profit for the year is reckoned. In
January, 18S3, he told an intimate friend,
who had dined with him that day, that
he was worth $194,000,000.
"I believe I am," said Mr. Vander
bilt, "the richest man in the world. In
England, the Duke of Westminster is
said to be worth $200,000,000 but it is
mostly in lauds and houses. It does not
yield him two per cent. A year from
now I shall be worth more than $200,
000,000, aud will have an income equal
to six per cent, on that amount."
Severe on the Theatre.
Sirs. Livermore, in an interview with
a reporter, concerning the effect of the
stage upon women, said: "I can answer
your question best by telling you a story
al)OHt Mrs. Waller. A young girl was
acting in the same theatre with her and
was observed. Mrs. Waller called the
girl to her, and in a more tragic tone
than she ever used in 'Lady Macbeth'
said: 'Get out of it; get out of it. I say.
Yon are on the brink of hell. Get out
of it at once. To succeed yon must be
come demonized. Get out of it, I say.'
And she sent for the girl's parents and
saw that she did leave the profession. I
believe Charlotte Cushman nsed to ad
vise young girls against the life. Where
few rise to eminence and attain to suc
cess, many fall.
The Lost Valise. At 8 o'clock on a
recent evening a Parisian policeman ob
served a valise on the bench near the
starting point of a line of omnibuses,
and supposed that an intending passen
ger had laid it down there for a minute.
Finding it there an hour later, he took
it to the police station. It contained
wearing apparel, notes for $1,000, a
purse full of gold and some very valuable
jewelry. The extraordinary circumstance
is that no one should have touched it
during so long a time in so public a place.
A Knowing Hen. At Bethany, Pa.,
recently, Thos. Avery, while shoveling
buow out of liia yard, discovered buried
in the snow a hen which had been
missed for ten days. Slio had paofced
the snow down and made a room the
size of a bushel basket. Beyond the
Iors of flesh incident to the long fast the
hen was unharmed.
"With no Drop of Negro Blood.
The Selma (Ala.) Times tells the fol
lowing singular story : Mr. lsaao
Frank, a white man, was indicted by the
last Grand Jury ttnde the charge of
living in unlawful wedlock with a negro
woman. Mrs. Mary Ann Frank, wife of
the accused, Was present ; also her
alleged mother, Lucinda Weaver, col
ored. Lucinda was sworn, and put upon
the witness-stand. Her testimony threw
new light upon the case and caused a
little flutter of excitement and surprise
among those present. She spoke in a
straightforward manner. Notwithstand
ing Lucinda has always been known as
the mother of Mary, it turns out that
the young woman's parentage is purely
white. Lucinda testified that she was
not the mother of Mrs. Mary Frank and
that Mrs. Frank was given to her when
an Infant three days old ; that a promi
nent gentleman in South Carolina brought
the young child and presented it to
Lucinda, requesting that she raise it as
her own. She stated further that the
child was the illegitimate offspring of
an aristocratic woman, and it was her
brother who gave the infant to the old
negress to shield his sister's reputation
and conceal her sh ame. The old negress
brought her charge to Alabama, claim
ing her as a daughter, and the real
truth of matters very probably never
would have been uncovered to the world
but for Mary's marriage to the white
man and the indictment issued against
him. Mrs. Frank, now grown into
mature womanhood, has light, straight
hair, a fair complexion, and clear, blue
eyes, and doesn't bear the remotest trace
of African blood. A number of gentle
men visited her recently, conversed with
her, and decided that she was beyond
doubt a white woman. After Lucinda's
testimony was heard, Solicitor Pitts
agreed to a verdict of not guilty, and
the happy twain departed in peace.
Bells.
. Bells are said to have been introduced
by Paulinns, Bishop of Nole, in Cam
pagna, about 400, and first known in
France in 550. The army of Clothair
LL, King of Franee, was frightened
from the siege of Sens by the ringing of
the bells of St. Stephen's Church. The
second excerption of King Egbert com
mands every priest, at the proper hours,
to sound the bells of his church. Bells
were used in churches by order of Pope
John IX, about 900, as a defence by
ringing them against thunder and light
ning. Bells were first cast in England
by Turkeytel, Chancellor of England
under Edmund I. His successor im
proved the invention, and caused two
first tunable sets to be put np at Croy
land Abbey, 900. The celebrated
" Song of the Bell," by Schiller, has
been frequently translated. Bells were
anointed and baptised in churches, it is
said, from. the tenth century. The bells
of the priory of Little Dunmow, in Es
sex, were baptised by the names of St.
Michael, St. John, Virgin Mary, Holy
Trinity, etc., iu 1501. The great bell of
Notre Dame, of Paris, was baptised by
the name of Duke of Angouleme, 1816.
On the continent, in Roman Catholic
states, they baptise bells as we do ships,
but with relini"" olemnitv.
Pensioners. There were 2,063,390
different persons enlisted in the United
States army during the late war. Of
these 199,105 deserted, leaving 1,864,
285; died leaving no pensionable rela
tives, 220,000, leaving 1,644,286. Of
these there are now drawing pensions
510,938, leaving 1,133,348. Of these
there died in the army 279,376, leaving
853,972. Of these there have applied
for pensions 375,199, leaving 478,773 to
to' be provided for.
From The Scientific American we
learn that there are about seventeen
thousand dentists in the United States
who use a ton of gold annually in filling
teeth. At this rate all the gold must
eventually find its way to the graveyard.
Dr. Footers Health Monthly.
If bilious, or suffering from impurity of
blood, or weak lungs aud fear consumption
(scrofulous disease of the lungs), take Dr.
Pierce'B "Golden Medical Discovery" and it
will cure you. By drugnitits.
As charity covers a multitude of sins before
God, BO does nolitrnippn bfor mn.
Vn vortfMiiti l
is a bad thing, but Dr. Pierce's 'Tavorite Pre
scription" deerres its name. It is a certain
enrefor those painful maladies and weaknesses
which embitter the lives of so many women. Oi
druggists.
Green coi n A young bunion.
My mother began gaining from first dose
she took of Dr. Graves' Heirt Regulator.
She is rid of those bad feelings about her
heart now, the relief is pormanent, ether
remedies only helpel for a few minutes. Mise
Clara Bradt. Law ton, TUioh. 1 per bottle
All that it if cracked no to Fionr
Beiso entirely vegetable, no particular care
is required while using Dr. Pitrce's "Pleasant
Purgative Pellets." They operate without dis
turbance to the constitution, diet, or occupa
tion. For sick headache, comtip ition, impure
blood, dizziness, sour eructations from the
stomach, ba l taste in mouth, bilious attacks,
pain in region of kidney, internal fever, bloated
feeling abont stomach, rush of blood to head,
take Dr. Pierce's "pellets." By druggists.
Where there is no conflict there is nooonqnest
("Perfection. 1 he Hcarlet., Cardinal Red
Old Gold, Navy Blue, Seal Brown, Diamond
Dves give perlect results. Any iahionabli
color, 10c, at druggists. Wells, Richardson J
(Jo., liuruugton. v t.
Camphor Milk cures aches and pains. 25c,
t olnr Your Butter.
Farmtrs that, try to sell white bntter are all
of the opinion that dairying does not pay. If
thev would use Wells, Richardson fc Co's. Im
proved Butter Color, and market their butter
in perfect condition, they would otill get good
C rices, but it will not pay to make any but the
est in color and qnality. This color is nsed bj
all the leading creameries and dairymen, and
is sold by druggists and merchants. .
Phcenix Pectoral cures cold and cough. 25c.
Mensman's Peptonized beef tonic, the onh)
preparation of beef containing its enlire nutrl
tiouD properties. It contains blood-making,
force generating and iife-subtoinine Drorjertiea:
invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, ana au lorms oi KeneraJ debiiitv
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
worn or acute disease, particularly UT resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard
uo., proprietors, JNewrork. Sold by druggist
The North American Indians, especially
the Seneca tribe, made such frequent use of
niLtroienm that lor many years it was ouiy
known as Sieuecn Oil. Now it is known as
Ca'.boline, the Wonderful Hair lit newer.
From Magnolia, Ark., Mr. T. J. Gunnels
writes : "Samaritan Aeraw cured my son's
fits."
I have been very much benefited by a 50
cent bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. When I be
gan using it my Catarrh was so bad I had
headache the whole time and discharged a
large amount of filthy matter. That has al
most entirely disappeared and I have not had
headache sinee to amount to any tiling, l'lease
send me two more bottles. John 11. Suumkbs,
S'epney, Conn.
The life-giving properties of impure blood
are restored by using tiamaritan Nervine.
i"ou would use St. Patrick's Salve if yon
knew the good it would do yon.
Tne Testimony of f Phylc1an,
James Beecher. M. D., of 8if?ourney,Iowa. ay: For
several yearn 1 have been using a CouRh Balsam,
called Dr. Win. Hall's Balsam tor the LunKS, and in
ilraost every case throughout my practice 1 have
had entire success. I have used and prescribed hnn
dreds of bottles ever since the days of my army
practice (1SG;1), when I was surgeon of Hospital No
7, Louisville, Ky.
Henry's Carbolic Salve.
It is the Best Salve for Cuts, Bruises. Sores. Ul
cers. Salt Rheum. Tetter, Chapped Hands. Ohil.
blains. Corns and aU kinds of Skin Eruptions,
Freckles and Pimples.
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W rooms heated bt wood or coal, and contamlnatea oy
the gases they throw oB, the vitality of the blood is so
reduced as to be unable to stand tbe debihtat n
influences of spring westher, hence the need of a relia
ble medicine like Hood's Sarsapsrilla,
I consider your Sarsaparilia the best Wool puri
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warranted' to cleaase the blood, but never found
anything that did me any good till I commenced using1
. v
Hood's Saiaaparilla." W. H. rtEB, iwcnesier, n. .
ood's Sarsaparilia
.... .. Tf,-m much troubled b, general del
iT..MAii.MMMrin0f,nni A nrolonced and
severe illness with diphthefin, and feeling the need of
something to build me up, I took two bottles of Hood's
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It seemed to go from the top of my head to the ends of
my toea. I know it is a good thing and on the strength
of my own experience I have sold a great deal of your
SaiBiparilla. I consider it the best in the market."
G. H. Stbattos, druggist, Westfield. Mass.
Hood's Sarsaparilia
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C. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar.
-si
It was one of the peculiarities of the K$&
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fying a foolish curiosity., fn order to tep patiente 1 om m w g, J
would write the prescriptions in dog-Latm so that cs J1 what
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THE STARTLING
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Paragraph ana now n sm
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own n pap. o j fii.. From that little in.
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cidentl discover I hid stone in the bladder and
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DY'S FAVOltilii lUMiaifit vo
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. . i AMltt:
"Ihad been much rouo th thin
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N Hood's Sarsaparilia
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IQP pneos One Pollajj
flil TITvetfrV I
"Maryland, My Maryland."
'Tretly wives and
Lovely daughters."
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"My wife!"
"Who?"
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Twenty years ago, became
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Before her time, from
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"A short time ago I purchased your rem
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My wife to-day has gained her old tlm
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"The dear creature just looked over my
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Hoping you may long be spared to do good,
I thankfully remain,
Most truly yours,
C. L. James.
Beltsvtlle, Prince George Co., May 26,
18S&
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