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It is all more than remarkable;'but the mar- velous and the real are so inwoven, and all is so physically and scientifically probable, that readers will not question as they delight and enthuse over the masterful work. Big Steve's liizene Allies. Happy-Go-lueky Papers. Some Stray Hunks of Information.. PILGBIM’s CORNERS, Mass, JUNE 3, 1895. DEAR Bannnnz— " ' THE wearisome and sad-eyed warble of the. lawn-mov‘ver is now heard in the land, and see- ing ours is the old-fashioned kind that runs by main strength and they fine a man for swearing in this section of the United States. if they catch . him at it, I guess I’ll let Mrs. Null? tune up the family mowing machine this spring and make a few trial trips around the yard, or pitch in and mow the whole lawu if she feels like it, while I sequester myself in my sanctum and engage in a Greece-Roman wrestling-match with a job lot of conundrums sent in by various anxious in- quirers. N. B. I notice the women manipulate the lawn-mowers, anyhow, up in this part of the country, while the men mostly indulge in more intellectual pursuits, such as holding up the side of the post-office or village drug-store, or sitting around on naiHiegs and swopping snake-stories in the corner groca‘y, so I might as well be in the prevailing fashion and do my laboring chiefly in my mind (until after the lawn is trimmed anyway). unless Emma Angelina objects too strenuously. So I will proceed to turn my thinker loose among the conundrums. and trust the result will be satisfactory to all concerned. First on the list is Cissy Watkins of Swamp- viile, N. J., who asks: “ Did you ever attend a cat-shew, and if so what did you think of it!” ‘ No, Cissy, I never did. I can generally manage to see (and bear) cats enough in the course of the year without paying a dollar for the priVIlege of seeing a. thousand or fifteen hundred of the confounded critters gathered together in one vast feline aggregation—and also aggravation—at an Annual Cat-show. Some people are fond of cats and their cater- wauling, as the music they produce is called, and some are not. I am one of the sort a be are not. As the Sweet Singer of Michigan so ably and aptly expresses ii: “ I love to hear all happy birds W'arble their spring songs of delight, Except the Thomas cat-bird which Sings on the back-yard fence at night.” The next customer is Juniper Jones, of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., who sends me a postal card with the following question on it: “ A London paper says. ‘ Lord Kelvin main- tains that the earth is 100,000,000 years old. W illnvou please advise if these figures are cor- rectl Well, if the London paper and Lord Kelvin both say so that ought to settle the matter. ' I don’t know who Lord Kelvin is, nor where he hangs out, nor how he happens to be better posted on the age of the globe we inhabit than any one else; but I never dispute a statement of that sort, especially when the author of it has a handle to his name. I always had an idea the world wasn’t more than ten or fifteen mill- ion years old at the outside (or inside either, for that matter), but if Lord What’s-his-name sa 8 a hundred million, I presume that ends the dis- cussion. He was probably present when the earth was manufactured and knows all about it, and I wasn’t. Ezra Hawkins of Hoosick Falls comes next. He asks: “ Do you believe in telepathy among insects, that,is to say, that they are able to communi- cate ideas from one to another at great distanccs, as is claimed to be the case by Prof. Riley of the Government Bug and Insect Bureau at lVashington f" Bet your best pair of cenvliide boots I do. Ezra! If not, h0w on earth do you suppose all the measly potato-bugs within a radius of ten square miles find out all about it the minute a fellow’s early potatoes begin to poke their way up through the ground? Mv potato vines came up, the first of them, on May 10th this year. That same afternoon I noticed a couple potato—bugs prospecting about the patch, taking an occasional nibble at a ten- der sprout and then running up to the top of the vine and making a lot of queer motions with their 7 front paws and bills (telepathing their friends to come on I presume. though I didn’t suspect it at the time; [hadn’t heard of Prof. Riley’s theory then), and the next. morning every vine in the lot that had dared to show itself had any- where from fifteen to fifty bugs roosting on it,and the ground around each potato bill was covered with more of the beetles patiently waiting for the rest of the vines to come up. There is no doubt that potato-bugs and other undesirable insects possess the gift of telepathy. Prof. Riley has our thanks for discovering that much; and now if he will go to work and dis- cover something to do for the bugs after their scouts have telepathed them to come on and they have ’got here (as they usually manage to do astonishingly soon after they get the mes- sage), he will still further earn the gratitude_ of the community, and cause the people who raise, as well as those who eat, potatoes and other vegetables, to rise up and call him blessed, and even chip in for a monument to his memory when he gets through running Uncle Sam’s Bug Foundry, which we trust will be a good many years from the present date. Birch Taylor, of Podger’s Run, Pa., asks: “ What is the present address of Bill Cook, the noted outlaw?” Well, Mr. Taylor, if you have anything of importance to communicate to the gentleman aforesaid and will address your message in care of Superintendent McIntyre of the Albany, N. Y., Penitentiary, it will be pretty apt to reach the right party. This will probably be Mr. Cook’s post-office address right along now for some time—I forget just how many years he is in for. William used to change his address a good deal oftener than he changed his shirt when he was out in Oklahoma, and it was a trifle difficult to locate him sometimes, but he has a permanent home now and a clean outfit of striped clothing (right in fashion, too, stripes are) every week, and yet they say William is not as happy and care~free as he was when en- gaged in dodging deputy-sheriffs and bullets on the boundless plains of the wild and woolly West. This is sad, mighty sad, but it is robably too late to do anything about it now. f Mr. Cook wanted to pick out a spot for himself to Settle down in for life, he ought to have turned over a new leaf and selected it a few years earlier. Mamie J ohnson. of Cranberry Corners, Conn., propounds the following question: “Is it true that the Chinese invented tea- petal”. It probably is. The Chinese were the first tea- drinkers, I believe, and there is no reason why they shouldn’t have invented the vessel to make it in. Fact is, the Chinese have invented a great many things they have received no credit for; the only thing they couldn’t invent was a way of whipping the J apanese——and they didn’t stop running long enough at any one time after hostilities commenced to allow their great inven- tors and geniuses a fair chance at that. “ Trilbyite "of Sing Sing (hope to goodness if they’ve got him inside of the prison they’ll keep him there) asks: “ Who is the author of the quotation: ‘ When a woman will she Will, and when she won’t she won’t, etc?” I Mr. Anonymous is the gentleman it is usually credited to, and he never wrote a truer thing in his life. When a woman will she will, you can wager your last cent on that. and when she won’t she won’t, if she dies for it. And speaking of woman, I hear one out on the lawn now issuing a proclamation to the effect that if I don’t come out there and finish that lawnvmowing—well, there is no use of waiting to find out what is going to happen. The only safe plan, in a case of that kind is to drop everything and start at once. I’ve been mar- ried to Mrs. Nufi' long enough to find that out, so if everybody will excuse me I will proceed to start forthwith. ‘ . Yours sapleutly, Nona Nurr. Knew His Business. AND HE DIDN’T CARE FOR A RIDE Jnsr THEN. BY WILL s. GIDLEY. I was driving slowly along a Schoharie county turnpike one warm forenoon, when I overtook a man who Was limping painfully along by the aid of a crutch improvised from the crotched limb of a tree, and seeing be Was travel— ing in the same direction I was going I thought it no more than right to offer him a ride. So halting my animal, I cheerily remarked: “ Climb right in, my friend, and I’ll give you a lift. Riding will be a little easier for you than walking, judging from your gait. What’s the matter with you, anyhow? Been run over by a freight train?” . “ No, sir, I hain’t bin run over by no freight train,” he growled, pausing and leaning heavily on the crotched stick. “ That so? Maybe you got tangled up with a steam thrashing-machine then 3” “ You’re further oil‘ ’n ever, mister. I hain’t bin nigh no steam thrashin’-machine in the past six months.” “ Fall on against the heels of a mule?” u Nope-11 “ Been caught out in a cyclonel” “ Hatter guess ag’in, mister.” “ Political discussion with a chap who weighs more pounds to the linear foot than you do?” “ Nary a discussion.” “ Well, what in Schoharie county is the trouble, then?" demanded I. He shifted his crutch about and got a fresh lean on it, gazed down at his game-leg and shook his head in a mournful Sort of way, then looking up at me he suddenly asked: d “gay, stranger, did you ever marry a wid- er I informed him that I had never done so, to the best of my recollection. “ Waal, I guess you’d recollect it fast enough, If you ever did,” he want on, “ an’ if you air suii‘erin’ to know what ails me I don’t mind tell~ in’ you that I was jest foolish enough to commit matrimony with a widder, a couple months ago, an’ the result of that rash step you see before you. , “Been having a trifling disagreement, have you?” queried I. “ Triflin’, eh i” he snorted. “ I hope you don’t call it atrifie to git knocked down the cellar stairs with a broken—backed chair, and then have the coal-scuttle an’ a ten or so of other bri‘c-er-brack from the kitchen dumped down on top of you before you have a chance to git onto your feet ag’in! That’s the sorter treat~ ment that banged me upin the shape you see me in at present; an’ if I can’t git a bill of separa- tion from the old she-hyena who done it, then there hain’t no justice in the country, that’s alll “ You kin drive on'now, mister, an’ l’li hob— ble along into town an’ hunt up a lawyer an’ lay the case before him.” “ But what is the use of trying to walk, crip- pied the way you are? All you’ve got to do is to climb into the wagon and I’ll take you right into town with me." He had three miles yet to go, and I supposed of course he would accept my offer, but he didn’t. “ Can’t do it, mister!” he exclaimed, with a wave of his disengaged hand. “ You kin jog on as fast as you’re a mind to, an’ I’ll travel along behind. This here limp of mine is gittin’ wuss an’ wuss every step I take, an- by the time I strike Schoharie court-house I’ll have a case ag’inst the old lady that any lawyer would jump at. The ex-widder has bin havin’ things mostly her own way lately, but I reckon my turn is comin’ now, an’ before she gits through with me an’ my lawyer she will find the worm has bin trampled on once too often an’ has got his back up at last, as the poet tells about. ' “ So~long, mister, an’ if you happen to meet up with a fu’st-class lawyer you kin tell him [’11 -be along some time this afternoon.” 'Bannereiies. THE demands made by cyclists for special or exclusive rights on the road, is creating con- siderable trouble in many localities, where re- strictive ordinances and corporation regulations are being enforced. The rapidly growing use of the wheel by all classes, and by women as well as men, makes it a new factor in locomo- tion, and in business, as well, for now thousands of persons use it in expediting their business movements. And, having thus become both a ,convenience and a necessity, besides being a pleasure and health promoter, to define the highway rights of the rider has imposed on our lawgivers a delicate task. In some quarters a spirit of actual persecution is prevalent. Those who cannot ride, or the prudes who vote it “improper” for women, clergymen and peo- ple of dignity to use a wheel, are loud in de- mands for regulations or laws which will so an- noy the wheelman as to turn his enjoyment into a worriment. To such people there can be but one answer :—-“ It is none of your affair, and so long as we transcend no rights of yours, just mind your own business, not ours.” It is a really noble innovation—this use of the wheel; and all right-minded persons will encourage its use by men, women and children alike. And equally, all right-minded persons will avoid urging any laws or regulations that treat the wheel and rider as a nuisance to be abated, or a pleasure to be persecuted. USUALLY authors are proud of their “ brain children,” and when a song or a poem makes its way to great popularity the writer is expected to feel duly grateful. But not so the author of “Ben Bolt.” In a late interview the ex~Congressman says: “ I am feeling very well and enjoying life as well as an old man can, but this eternal ‘ Ben Bolt ’ business makes me so infernally weary at times that existence becomes a bur- den. I don’t think General Sherman ever grew half so tired of ‘ Marching Through Georgia ’ as I have of that creation of mine, and it will be a blessed relief to me when the public shall con- clude to let it rest." As the public is wholly un- reasonable, it will continue to bore the unfor- tunate Dr. English, and when he dies, on the rave shaft will be blazoned—“ The Author of en Bolt!” THE interest now so wide-spread in the coin- age question makes welcome all fresh data in re- gard to the recent rapid increase of the gold Output. It is now ascertained that this output for the year 1894 reached the enormous sum of $180.000,000 in quantity-value, and all things favor the assumption that the accession of new gold, for 1805, will exceed $200,000,000 in value! Does any intelligent person fail to see what all this means? Why, in much less than ten years’ time, with a steady annual increase in the mag- nitude of this mine yield, gold must be in abso- lute plethora. as coin, just as silver now is, all over the world; and he is a wise man indeed who can say what effect that superfiuity of the yellosv metal is to have on the prices of the worl . THE introduction of the German carp to American waters, like the introduction of’ the English sparrow, has proven worse than a mis- take—it has brought nothin but ill. The carp is a coarse, greedy, hardy sh, the flesh not a favorite at any season of the year, and the in- satiate maw of the species ma es it a devourer of almost everything eatable. It destroys what it cannot eat. It forages along streams in fresh and brackish coast-waters alike, and is, there- fore, to he caught almost everywhere, wherever a line is cast. The cry now comes from far Oregon, where vast numbers of the fry have been liberated by State Fish Commissioner Far- ing the We ‘aBuudent‘ln the Columbia; and Willie ‘-‘ alwa‘ s ette {gore and their tributaries. This tuberous plant the favorite food of wild fowl; and wherever it grows, there the wild duck and geese, in their season, are to be found. So the destruction by the carp means, for Oregon,a loss of water fowl worth a thousand-fold more than the imported fish. Not only should no fry be let ldose anywhere, East or West, but means should be adopted for destroying the obnoxious intruder, and fish wardens everywhere should be advised by the State Commissioners to en- courage their destruction. IN an article entitled “Why Should Not Men Be Beautiful?” Mrs. Frances E. Willard takes the ground that men have set a high standard of beauty and morality for women, and they have had so much power to insist on this standard that women are preéminent in these respects. “To my mind,” she says, “the key and core of the woman question consist in this: that when, without taking away men’s power, women are. in possession of the same power over them that men have over women (which is what I should like to see, no more and no lees), then with the growth of the centuries women will Set such a standard for men that they will become as beautiful as women, and as pure, to the in- calculable increase of ms n’s happiness and well- being and of ivoman’s joy and peace.” Who can count the kaleliils before that time arrives? And, if he become that, what kind of a crea- ture will he be? When men are no more beard- ed like the pard, limbed like a Leander, and heroic with the fires of a vigorous manhood. it will be time to set the alarm-clock for a new dis- pensation. m letter-pad Papers. Things Lying- Around; I HAVE often noticed, as I go along through life, on a free pass, that there are a teat many people whose occupation seems to 8be general carelessness and letting things lie around. It is one of the easiest trades to learn in the world, and, I‘might observe right here, that I am a jour. in the business, myself, with a good rec-0m- mendation, too, which will pass anywhere. In fact, I am such a proficient in it tho“ have con- cluded to start giving instructions, and my scholars can divide the money they make at it with me. Your motto should be, “ Always leave an arti- cle where you last use it. ’ ‘ The diligent farmer should leave his plow and barrow out in the field for many reasons. The rains will wash the dirt off and make them clean;a coating of rust will form on the iron- work, which will be a protection to it. It will save all the trouble in brin ing theatticles to the barn, and then, in the sp n , the will be just where you want them. T e w ntor snow on them forms a protection from the sun, and what more could you ask? The coal-scuttle should be left at night at the foot of the stairs, then you will always know just where to find it, and not have to go hunting around in the dark after it. You’ll find it with— out any difficulty. You won’t miss it in jump- ing do“ n-stairs. You put your right foot down on the Opposnze edge. and as it goas over you sit down on it With your head gently reclining on the laststep: If the scuttle issny kind of a good scuttle it Will not be injured by the perform- anco. Always. leave the door of our room half- op_en at night, so you can easi y tell just where it is without much trouble, and when you go to hunt it you hold your hands Wide out so they will pass on either side of it without any dllll~ culty, and your_sagacious nose will readily scent If. The door Will not be damaged at all, unless you kick a panel out of it. X on can cultivate the habit of lying around the heuse yourself, to eminent advantage; it will comein handy in case you collie in lately. You can lie about the house when the assessors come around. too. .The rocking-chair, from the peculiar construc— tion of its rockers, is especiallv adapted to be left sitting in the middle of the floor, and at night you won t have to search very much for it. You can step on one of the rockers behind, and the v chair will come right up to you without any de- lay; you won’t have to feel for it, for in a man- ner, it feels for you, and discovers. you; then again, the rockers come up about as high as your chin, and there is not much chance of missing it. If you run against it and go over with it you need not get excited, for there will be no danger of it getting away from you at all. One leg Will be between the rungs, and one of your arms through one of its arms, and def-end upon it it will be entirely safe from man g 011'. l have found the rocking-chair so quick in this manner that I couldn’t tell for some minutes which was the rocking-chair and which was me. The gate is one of the handiest things to leave open in the world. It is so easily done; the best season for this kind of employment is in garden time. It is very successful, and especially so when you have too many Vegetables in the gar- den. You look out and notice it, and, if it has stood open long enough, you shut_ it; then you look out back and see the pigs, which you chase around to the gate, which is shut, and as the pigs won’t come there till you come and open it, they take around the house again, alfording elegant exercise to you, which perhaps you would not otherwise procure, to such an extent, at least. The step-ladder certainly is one of the first steps of civilization, yet nothing could be more modest and unassuming. It is an excellent thing to stand in the middle of the kitchen floor when you are hunting a match. You stumble against it as gently as possible, and the meek thing won’t stand and dispute your passage; it would far rather give way and retire; you retire with it, and then its legs flap back over your head ; and if you want to wrestle with it you will find yourself so tangled up in steps, sti aps, cross-bars, etc., that it will be one of the oddest positions you were ever in, and court-plaster is very cheap by the yard. ‘ Perhaps the most valuable article which you can leave lying around, are bills of money; not clean, nice, new bills—you need not be so par- ticular as that; old ones will answer well enough. Nothing looks nicer than greenbacks lying on the floor; no matter if they do look like an old patch on the carpet, they relieve the monotony. $100 bills are the nicest to leave around, and they look decidedly better than holes in the car- pet at any time. People will delight to call on your family. Your country relatiOns w ould be in- duced to come and spend a few moments at your house, and your neighbors might be induced to drop in once in a while to borrow a couple of eggs, or a cup of coffee. 7 About the liveliest things which you can have lying over the floor are tacks. They are only five cents a paper, but you get more animation for the money than in anything else. It takes a Servant-girl to distribute them correctly, as she knows her business. They materially assist in getting the tightest pair of boots on in a jiffy, They are easily drawn with a claw-hammer, and are not half so bad as a ten-penny nail in your foot, by any means. You should not allow your neighbor’s hens to be laying around your premises, hOWever. You should try to discourage them by taking the eggs out of their nest; if that does no good, just kee it up and let them suffer with their losses. ives should always set their pans of bread ona chair by the stove, where a husband could conveniently sit down on them without the labor of hunting around for them. They are as soft as a cushion, and. like Truth crushed to earth, are bound to rise again. The boot-jack is the most unpretentiouszof all articles of furniture, and differs in man re— spects from a pertable wardrobe. In wa kin over the floor in your stockings, you mane e,‘ f you are a good stepper, to step on the rai end of it, and it flops up, but your shin prevents it from falling too fab—if it was not for your skin “\n'ebf' . ' ' . i ‘ the lamp accurately placed in the room so you have to. go feeling around for it before the moon gets up. You can always catch it before it reaches the floor—if you have your hands right under it. In a smash the wick is never injured, and that is something. For pleasure, leave your letters lying around. PRESERVED I’or'rs, P. H. D. Wine of the Wits. BAD MAN TO MEET. *‘ LOOK at that foolish Mr. Baker out on a day like this without an umbrella. Is be crazy?” “ I’m afraid he is. Let’s hurry on. I don’t want to meet him." ' “ Why not?” ’ “ He may recognize this umbrella. It’s his."—— Harper's Bazar. ' IMMATERIAL. STARTING from her sleep she seized her has- band convulsiver by the nose and one eyelid. “John,” she cried. “there’s a. burglar going through your trowsers.” “ What do you wake me for?” irritably de- manded the head of the house. “ Settle it be- tween yourselves.”-—Detroil Tribune. THE BURGLAE’S vrsrr. . HOBSON—“Hal ha! Burglars not into our house last night. Ho! hol Ha! hal" JOBS()N——-“ What’s so funny about that? Didn't they get anything i" Henson—4‘ Yet—Hal ha:——-My son’s learning to play the trombone—mo! hill—mud thev stole-— ha 1 ha Z—the trombone.”—-Ph iladelph lot-13800111. A DISMAL PROSPECT. GERTIE (who has behaved very rudely to her mammal to her aunt—“ Aunty Clara, pray don’t go aiivay yet!” Aunt (fiattered)—“ I had no idea you were so foud of me, Gertie." Gertie—“Oh, Auuty Clara, it isn’t that, but mamma said I was to be whipped when you had gone.”——Dorfbarbier. ~ ‘ as EXPEEiENCE ravun'r HIM. TnE§SILENT PARTNER—“ That bargain sale in tires? gogdsldon’t go at allé I marked ’em ‘ All woo , en ire y new worth 2 a rd. Red to $8 coats 1:! But it does no need he es of the Firm—-—“ You’ve 0t 1 to t( learn about this business yet. M 1: Hr ’Zm ‘ (Dam: aged! Damaged! Were worth $5 a yard,now gomkg at $1.98 l’ and they’ll sell like hot cakes.”— uc . ONE OF THE RESULTS. TEE small boy had applied at the law er’s ofiice for a job. and the lawyer, a kindly r’iian, was asking him a few preliminary questions of a moral character. “ NOW, my boy,” he said, after several inter- rogatories. “do you know what will become of yqu {f youi tg'll lies f” es, s r, replied the boy promptly. “Good for you.” said the 1 ed “yogilten me "but." p eas attorney. ‘ i be a great lav-var when I row - mother said I would.”—- Detroit Five [$933. up, \VHAT FIGHTING MEANS IN KENTUCKY. AN old woman living some distance from Manchester, Ky.. was summoned as a witness to tell what she knew about a fight at her house several nights before. in which three or four people were killed. She mounted the stand With eVident reluctance and many misgivings, and when questioned by the Court, as to what she knew about the matter, said: “ Well, jedge. the fu’st I knowed about it was when Bill Sanders called Tom Smith a liar en’ Tom knocked him down with a stick of wood One of Bill’s friends then hit Tom with a. knife. sllcm’a big piece out of him. Sam Jones, whd wasa friend of Tom’s, then shot the other fel— low, en’ two more shot him, en’ three or four others got cut right smart by somehony, Ti.“ naturally caused some excitement 'ed ’ they commenced fightin’.” ’1 88’?“ men Cunespnmleifls' Column.» [This column is opento all n .. a , “ Inquiries answered as fully and am, circumstances will permit. Con entered as “ declined ” me be cepted. No MSS. returns lnclosed.l , , ,_ Declined: “ Who Killed Yellow HandlM‘ Sergeant’s Specter-Guest :” “ Three in One; Cloud Captive ;” “ Ozark Medicine;” “ , Inn Water-{9’ “Captain Tom’s Long “ Up ith t e Flag l’ (not original); “ Record.” Z. L. The Winnebago Indians are reservation in Wisconsin, just above Win PRESS GANG. The best “School of J»: ism ” is the newspaper cfiice; but-editorb born, not made!~R. D. A. Go to the I, W lands, not to the sea-coast. Tr White I! if , tains. Get away from water.—— anvnr P, . v‘ the pain is permanent, something is wrong. a good physician at onco.—-LOFTL‘S. A bet. debt of honor. It cannot be collected by In BROWN Errs. If your parents ob out to] person, that ought to be your law. ecline attentiona— Ex-Rnn. Merely to hoist s federate flag is not treason, any more than hoist the Irish fiag.-'l‘w0 DANS. It will necessary to write to, or call upon, 0a. Howard Patterson, principal of the N. Y. Y tical College—N. “YER. A Christian or tile, or rank unlielichr, can become a .iew,l diSPOSGd.-—-TEDI)Y0’H. (leneralflrant , one daughter. Nellie now Mrs. Sarto widow. She is in th s country.—-—C. C. . York City proper, without Brooklyn or any ~ the outlying towns to the north, is more -- v.3“. _ J- lous than Chicago. . ‘f,’ V? > MISS B. D. L. Certainly; many ladies go. 4 ,, Europe as second cabin passengers. It is a ‘ way to go. As a rule, wholly respectable . COLTON. When you arrive in town send y w visiting card, giving your hotel address. will elicit a cal or a note. If, however you i to tarry in town but a short time, it wil be cusable for you to call. " R. L. I. Should say the signature, “V sincerely your friend,” if not perfunctory merely formal. Therefore would not treattlw invitation as anything more than a formality or required courtesy. ' '1. H. DRESSER. The owner of the horse Alix , Monroe Salisbury, of Pleasanton. Califo “ on the grand round” With his racers-All Azote, Marin J r., Directly, etc. ‘ .1 to you why not have it amputatedf Artifi feet are now so perfectly constructed as to av all limp or ungracefulness of movement. Look into the matter carefully, by all means. DENVER DUSTER. We know of no w?! get experience in mining life but to go [h to some great mining center. You can “ I up,” but, that is only hearsay or second-h information. Sail out for Cripple Creek. 1 TYPE WRITIR. It is a mistake not to he learned type—writing. Your own handwri is too ornate for business purposes. Learn typs‘ writln at the first opportunity; also steam phy. n fact, urge it on your parents as a ‘ pie traveled second cabin, on the best steam ~ Address him there, although he will soon L " VAN D. D. If the club-foot is snob a so c- VERA. No particular art in keeping the f M Sprinkle turpentine on thick paper: wrap "jg? cape in the paper, or £lace paper in box, bureau drawer and lay e garment in on it. is good idea to give furs an occasional sun be if tany moths are present that will stsrtt \ . th I tl a . -. .. , roll, that the voracious, ,fish fora id] . §°re a no 0 BilletWhe ‘ i on 7 l. l ' ‘I' 'I o 7 I. . i-1‘i is l - ‘ 19th.,20th. See the comusuder of to rise goat. for the special arrangements. If you j cad-ridden, write him. ‘ Elmo. Sun baths have some virtue, course, but as being a cure for rheumatism, up any nervous affection, the evidence is lacking. All sleeping rooms should be ermeated by In light during some portion of t 0 day, to be I sweet and pure. A roam which the sunllg never reaches cannot be healthful. J. Errs. Cannot say which make of‘ type-a writer is best. All have their good points. down in their price, at present. The demand ll. sold at a low price will ” break the market "- was the case with sewing machines. RAPPAHANNOCK. West Virginia can not be restored to Virginia by any act of Conng Congress has no power in such cases. The power rests wholly with the people of the two their wishes. The reunic n is not probable, for West Virginia seems quite content with lb autonomy. ‘ CANNON STREET Your “ Black Friday” VB September El, 1800, on which day gold roseto 1621.2”. The original “Black Friday ” was Des cember (i, 1745, when the news was receivedin LOndon that the Pretender had reached Derby. Friday, September 19, 1871.}, on which there was a severe financial panic, was also classed as a “Black Friday." E. P. T. The bank is liable, certainly. The almost general law of the States by virtue of a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court we think is to the effect that, if negotiable commercial paper, pledged to a bank as security for the ank fails to demand payment and have it prov tested when dishonored, the bank is liable to the owner for the full amount of the paper. ' You should proceed against the bank, at once. JUPITER TONANS. The United States Mint takes all the gold presented, payable in coin bars. as preferred by the depositor, at the raft pf $20.67l183 per; ounce pf 1,000dfinefifor ' essacia e orpartn an renin ‘. 318.004051 gr ounce of Mufti 8' a. The Bank of England brou ht to it for coinage 101 . per ounce of 916 23 fine, less a I charge for coins e. payable in sovereigns bills, as the depo tor prefers. Oxronn. The signature prefix is usual? one of merest formality, vim: “Yours Truly “ Yours Sincerely "; “ Yours Respectfully " Very Sincerely Yours," etc., etc.; so it h“ Fond ”; “ With Much Love’ ;“ With Kind Regards,” etc, than personal feeling is ex-= ressed. As the term used was “ Devo ours," it might be construed as evidence. I of the whole otter, wh ch may render the sit nature equally proper and politic. v TRIMLOW. As to “ the greatest benefactlon " we cannot answer. That of Johns Hopkins. who died in Baltimore, Mar land Dec. 24th, me, one of the most notsbI . is whole vast f tape .6... given for charitable and educational purpows. He founded and endowed the H , .Iohns Hopkins University at Clifton, near Bali: timers, With an endowment of 400 acres of land and $3,000,000; and an Orphanage for Colored: ' Youths and a COnValesceuts’ Hos tel at a cost of nearly a million more. I) were as generous-minded, what a blessing the would be! talent, or proclivities. The education should he directed to the pursuit yep aretofollow. If} the modern lunguages~ by all means French and barman; then read, read, read! Alitterstonr to be well equipimd, must know authors by reading their works. It is the only way tube correctly informed and qualified for criticism. By such acqiiirement you will, in due time. M coming judgment make you a power or netball! ity in literary criticism and ever da carnis ism, which isquick to rdcognize spicisI innit. gaynient of a loan or debt, falls due and the“! Don't think the high-priced machines will come I too brisk. Some day, however, a good inschlns‘“ States, and only a popular vote can determine .. - "1‘ ,j .45 fif no especial significance. If you say-“Yourl'i would dcpendl, however on the tone and m“ 3 ins Free Hospital at a cost 0f 84,000,“)0; O". i I I millionsil’ci, Ilovsr S'r. So much depends on your at». your ambition is (ca literary career, «quills»- recognized and your knowledge. taste and dim"