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NUMBER II.

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ADVERTISING HIS HoRsE.-A genius of the
county of Cork Ireland, is credited with the
following ingenously constructed advertisement
about a horse It bangs Bannagher," in the
way Of strong ALTERATION
Spanker the property of o. D.--Saturday,
the sixteenth of September next, will be sold,
or set up for sale, at Skibbereen a strong,
staunch, steady, sound, stout, sinew service
able, smart, strapping, supple, swift, slightly,
sprightly, spirited, sturdy, shining, surefooted,
sleek, smooth spanky, spunky, well-skinned,
/ sized and shaped sorre steed, Of superlatiye
symmetry, styled Spanker; with small star and
snip, square-sided, slender shouldered, sharp
sighted, and steps singularly stately; free from
strain, sprin, SPAWN, spasms, stringhalt,
springhalt. stranguary, scatica, staggers, seow-
cring, strangles. seelng sellander, surieit stru-
nous, sweIHng, sJflstuces, scratches, splint,
squirt, scurf, seabs, scars, sores scattering,
shutting, shambling gait, or symptoms Of sick
ness of any sort. lie is neither stif-mouthed,
shabby-coated, sinew-shrunk, spur-galled, sur
| bated, skln-scabbed, short-wnded, spayfooted,
nor shOulder-lipped and is sound in the sword
! point snaffle and stihe joints. He has neither
! sick-spleen, sleepng-evil selast, snaggle-teeth
sand-cracks, swelled sheath subcutaneous sores,
nor shattered hoofs. Nor is he sour, sulky, surly
| stubborn or sullen in temper. Neither shy nor
skittish, slow, sluggardly, sluggish nor stupid.
/ He never skps, slips, strips, SHES strays,
stalks, snaps, starts, stops, shakes, snifiles,
shorts, stumbes, stocks in his stall or stable,
and scarcely or seldom sweats. Has a snowy,
stylish switch-tail and stern and safe set of
shoes on. Can feed on stubbe, sain-foin, sheal
oats straw-sedge, or Scotch grass Carries six
teen stone with surprising speed in his stroke,
| over sx-foot sod or stone wall His sire was
the Sly Sobersides, of a sister fSpindleshanks,
by Sampson, q sporting son Of Sparkler, who
won the sweepstakes and subscription plate last
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pounds, sixteen shillings and sxpence sterling.
THR AMAzoN.-So stupendous is the mass Of
water which the monarch of fryers bears to the
Atlantic Ocean, thati exceeds that of eight
gleat rivers Of Asia put ogether-namely, the
Eaphratu', Indus, Gangs, Oby, Lena, Amur,
yellow River and the Hang-tse in China. So
deep is it, at least in its upper part, that bot
tom has been found at a depth of 72l feet. Its
declivity is so imperceptible and slow, that were
no. its volume of water so powerful, it would
with difficulty flow Scarcely is its descent in
the space Of 200 leagues Oh feet-that is to say,
l-27th of an inch in ] 900 feet. From the At
lantic, far as Jaen de Bracamoros-latitude 40
30/, and longitude 75o 40/, west of Paris, it has
no cataracts or currents which impede navga-
ton. At that place its surface is 24O feet above
the level at Para. The afauents of the Amazon
form among themselves tens of thousands Of
leagues Of nayigabe rivers; a immensenet, COW
% AAo ilAOAC tisAl wv Us Ol )OuLu AlutIlCa
George NJ. Dallas died in Philadelphia, his ma
tive city, in the last day oflas year. His life
has been long and active, and his position prom
inent great part of his fife WAS spent in the
public service. lie had Just reached his maiori-
y, when iu 1913, he went to Russia, as private
secretary Of the American Minister, aud he re-
mained in Europe until the peace of Ghent He
was State Attorney in Philadelphia in 1877; in
1920 he was elected Mayor of the city; in 1881
he was sent to the United States Senate; he was
Attorney General of his native State in 1896;
two years later he was American Minister to
Russia; from l845 to $40 he was Vice-PresidentF
Of the United States and from 1856 TO 1861 he
was American Minister atthe Court ofSt James
The list Of his official positions is the chief ma
terial for the brief biography ofa newspaper
lie was Jealous politician of the Democratic
school, quiet citizen and respectable lawyer.
WANTED A FURLoUGH.-A Maine officer re-
Gently applied for a furlough, stating that if it
were not granted he would lose fifty thousand
dollars. This attracted attention at headquar-
ters, and the officer was desired to forward
statement of how be would lose it. He did so
to the effect tnat he had been in the army with
out receiving a furlough for two years; that he
was engaged to a young lady worth fifty thou
sand dollars; that there was another fellow af-
fer her, and that she had written to him that if
he did not come home and marry her right away
she would marry the other man. he got his
furlough.
REGISTER Your MoNEY LETTERs-By new
regulations of the Post Office Department no re-
cord by post-bills is now required to be made by
Postmasters, except Of unpaid or registered let
ters; therefore there is no way of tracing miss
ing ones in other cases as formerly. The fee
for registry is twenty cents for which receipt
is returned by the Postmaster to the sender
t,o rfr-.r ooit % ., 1,o
The Russian Government encourages marria-
ges among its soldiers, provides the couple with
a house, supports them, rears their children, but
takes away all the boys at tenderage and sends
them to military garrisons, there to be trained
for the army. There are 300, 900 of this kind Of
soldiers now in the Russian army.
Persons sending papers to England, Scotland,
or Ireland, should recollect that if two or moro
papers are put into envelope, they are
charged letter postage on arriving at their des-
unaton. All papers should be placed in single
wrappers, in accordance with the English postal
law.
REFoBMATIov.-A celebrated lecturer "down
east recently preached so hard against the use
Of tobacco, that several young gentlemen, feel
ing the force Of his remarks, Immediately went
home and burned their cgars-holding one end
in their mouths
RECENT excavations at Pompei, have led to
the discovery Of temple Of Juno, In which
were scattered more than two hundred skele-
tons Of men women andcbildren, who during the
eruption of Mount Vesuyus, hastened to the
temple to implorc the protection of the goddess.
An oil well has been sunk to the depth Of two
thousand feet at Jackson, Michigan, aud it is
proposed to continue it to the depth of thres
thousand feet, if necessary, to strike oil.
A man in Kentucky was exempted from the
draft on the ground that it took too much to
feed him. 1t is the case with many that they
have more stomach for rations than for war.
We understand, that as a mark of respect to
the new Chief Justice, Mr. Chase our principal
law-pubishers have resolved TO bind their
books IN future in "green-backs."
The MarysTille Express claims to have
larger circulation than any paper in California,
outside Of San Francisco, with the single excop-
ton of the Sacramento Union.
Most reon1e ARD a litfle sllv Of reIi1ion Thezh