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Concerning Man.

Wonders at home by familiarity cease to excite
astonishment; but thence it happens that many
know hut little about the "house we live in
the human body. We look upon a house from
the outside, just as whole or unit, never think-
ing OF the many rooms the curious passages, and
the ingenious internal arrangements of the house,
or OF the wonderful structure Of the man, the
harmony and adatapton Of all his parts.
In the human skeleton, about the time of ma
turity, are 1865 bones.
The muscles are about 500 in number
The length OF the alimentary canal is about 80
feet
The amount of blood in an adult averages 30
pounds, or full one-ffth of the entire weight
The heart is six inches in length and four
inches i'll diameter, and beats seventy times per
minute, 1920 times per hour, 1O0,S00 per day,
8o,''s,ooo times per year, 1866, 100000 in three
score and ten, and at each beat two and half
ounces OF blood are thrown out of it, one hundred
and seventy-fve ounces per hour, six hundred
and fifty-six per hour, seven and three. fourths
tuns per day. All the blood in tho body passes
through the heart in three minutes. This little
organ by its ceaseless industry
In the allotted spaa
Tho Psalmist gave to man.
lifts the enormous weight of $40, zoe, 200 tons.
The lungs will contain about one gallon of air,
at their usual degree of imitation. We breathe
on an average 1900 times per hour, inhale 600
gallons of air or "a 400 gallons per day. The
aggregate surface of the air cells Of the lungs ex
ceeds 10000 square inches, an area very nearly
equal to The floor of room twelve feet square.
The average weight Of the brain of an adult
male is three pounds and eight ounces, of fe-
male two pounds and four ounces. The nerves
are all connected with it, directly or by the
spinal marrow. These nerves, together with
their branches and minute qualifications. proba.
bly, exceed 10,000,0oO in number, forming n
"bodv CT I'd" rutrrnlbering by far the gre ,.,t.,t
arm evcl m rsh., ..u.
The skin iscNmpc of threelayers, dyarics
from one-fourth TO one-eighth OF an inch in thick
ness. It, average area in IN adult is estimated
To De 2,oo0 square inches. The atmospheric pres.
sure being about fourteen pounds to the square
lnch' person Of medium size is subjected to a
pressure OF 10000 pounds Pretty tight hug
Each square inch Of skin contains 3,5OcWweat-
ing tubes, or perspiratory pores, each of which
may be hkened to little drain-tile one-fourth az
an inch long making an aggregate length of the
entire surface Of tha body of POI 1866 feet or a
miles long.
Man Is made maryclously. Who IL eager to
investigate the curious TO witness the wonderful
works Of Omnipo'ent Wisdom. le. him nat wan.
DER the wide world round to seek them but ex.
anime himself. "propJr study of mankind is
man. - Cta. JoHna NJ Co1amclce.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-10-12

EXTRAORDINARY CoINCIDENCEs-The diam
etor OF the earth multiplied by 10S gives the
diameter Of the sun; the diameter of the sun
multiplied by lO8 gives the mean distance of the
earth from the sun; and the diameter of the
moon multiplied by LOS gives the mean distance
of the moon IRON the earth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-10-12

A GIGhNVIC CoNTRACT.-The Taunton Mass
Republican says Hon. Cakes Ames, of North
Easton, has contracted to build nearly the whole
of the remaining portion of the Union Pacific
Railroad--some six hundred miles, passing
through the Rocky Mountain region-receiving
therefor over forty-seven millions of dollars
Til is believed to lie the largest contract ever
entered into by one man. 1t places Mr.. Ames at
the headof the railroad men of the country, the
operation OF Vanderbilt and George Law being
incl rui.ioant compared with this gigantic trans
action.
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BY the 1st of November, the Union Pacific
will be completed as far as Cheyenne City, De-
kota Territory, at tho base OF the Rocky Noun
tains. This Is the point of intersection of the
Denver branch raiload-from which place it is
distant one hundred and twelve miles-the dis
tributing point for Colorado mines and the gen.
eral depot for all parts on the Fort Laramie.
Fort Reno and Montana roads
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AT REDDICK e. GILLEN'S.
q r Q Q Z r. l. = S !
1T Wholesale AND RETAIL.


Jut tpck consists 81 sugar teas, Rio ARD Java coffee
molsea, syls (ncluding Blcchtts goldsn spices of all
knus soaps candles, tubs pals, jars aud milk crooks
Ihe highest price paid Tor butter and eggs and commits
'ioL taken Of purchasers for handling.
In conclu would saw all persons desrons Of pur-
chasing goods cheap aud Of the best quality and Of finding
everything that should be kept in snc store fully
N'y thrnt elves by calling on MS.
Remember the place, the old stand on the cor
nor of the alley, East Of the Court House.
Small Store, Large Stock and Bottom Figures.
AT REDDICK Il GILLEN'S.
Ottawa May II, 1887.
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what house in Ottawa do you ind tho greatest variety
oil white goods! Linen, lawn, oambrc jacones nansook
pecc bran jaconet edging and insertngs Rchardsons
1Sh hntn llnw linen table damask, blsached and
Ilo"n linen napkins Scotch Diapers bird. eye nen Hucka-
buck and Russia oweng linen handkerchief hemstitched
anc embroidered embroidered curtains and thousand
and one other articles, too numerous to mention.
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A Chicago firm advertised certain agricultural
implements in a Buenos Ayres paper as an ex-
pertinent. The result was an order from that
country for $4,000 worth Of the goods.
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AT REDDICK & GILLEN'S.

Hats and caps boots and shoes to compete with those VII
advertise to 'sell ut cost"
Superior quality Of mating. door and table oil cloths ar
he fpun -
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Where 10 Ottawa can You fnd the cheapest largest On
most desirable French and English popn EMPIRES csth
pilD and figured chae usrc French leno and silk vsr
pop!n spaccs Of every Ads and color ohar plain a.
french ps,cea, plain and figured French csmbre; yreps
acones lawns and muslins French chintz Hnssh Print
Scotch and French gnghams Or IN fact ny.hing that rc
rare, and beautiful in dress goods!
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The universal answer Is
AT REDDICK & GILLEN'S,

Whore ia Ottawa will you find tho bottom prices on do.
me7c Such LrlwI and beched sheeting and shirtinx
ticks best quality; lcns, Of an makcs drills stripes and
checks casin eIe Pckn cloth, Kentucky jeans, tweeds
satnets faud NJ ,gsmeres cotonales linen drills linen
duck hy and buff uen and ythng thought Of in the
I pl mems aud boys clothing Merm0cs prints and calico
Of all makes cotton yarn batting vaddng, carpet, burlaps
&c &C., dc. s
Tie nnsitiye nnsWpris
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sTEA M S RIP ENJOY.
!" . r'F - ~ Ere y -
DAN G. o'HANH's
STEAMSHIP AGENCY

IL agent for the National StDam Navigation Co.'S Line Of
Ocean Steamships: so Bk Ic Sailing Vessels.
viii issue Drafts Royal Bank of Ireland, at reasonable
rates
Parties desiring to bring cy friends from the Old Couurn
will do we'll To give him call, his rates are Jowcr thay
any other steamship line Oct21-ly.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-20

A RFTROSPFCT.

From the National Intelligencer, April l6.
In the Washington Chronicle of October
10, 1866, there was a special dispatch, as
follows:
DAVENPORT, Iowa, October 29.-Say to
Andrew johnson that the city of Daven-
port Prices home), which last year went
Democratic, has now SWING around the
circle, and given Price, for Congress, 90l
majority. JNo. l.. DAVIS, Mayor.
The publication of this dispatch occa-
stoned a sharp correspondence in the IN
ielii9eaeer on the one side, aud the Chronicle
on the other, as 10 whether there had or
not been a Republican gain in Davenport.
10 was not then of much consequence to
the outside world but in the election held
in the same city of Davenport, on the 9Th
inst, this same John l.. Davis, Mayor .
who sent the glorifying dispatch 10 the
ChrOHicls six months ago, has been beaten
for the mayoralty SIS votes, and the re-
suit is heralded by the Davenport Democrat
under the head of unprecedented Tri-
umph-Price, Russell & Co. rebuked." /"
We h4ve seen no special dispatch from
Mr.. Davis this time announcing the result.
SO We, go With the turn Of the tide the
troth that was on top Il washed away,
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TIE FINGER ON THE aUInE.pnsr

In one respect Wendell Phillips is in
valuable, and that is that his is the finger
that points the direction the Radical road
takes. He goes ahead, halloos to the great
body Of the party behind him, waits for
them to come up, and then he takes a still
further point in advance. He thus, in a
letter from Muscatine, Iowa, TO the New
York Anti-Sldrery Standard, states the
future programme, TO which we are in
vited:
Without counting, therefore, much on
the virtue or intelligence of Congress, [
look for constant progress i'm the right di-
rection. Lord John Russell, you remem-
Der, talked of the reform bill of 1881 as q
'hnality.' So some men seem TO fancy the
military bill "fnality." 1t is only a half
way house on the Congressional road from
Lincoln to Stevens. The train stops there
to wood and water, gets rid ofsome passen-
gers and large amount Of baggage, TO 60
forward at an increased speed.
All our duty Is TO press constantly on the
nation the absolute need of three things
l. The exercise of the whole police power
of the government to hold the South quiet
while the seeds of Republicanism get
planted.
,. The constitutional amendment, secur-
ing universal suffrage in spite OF all State
legislation.
3. A constitutional amendmsnt author
izing Congress TO establish common schools
in any State destitute of them, at the State 3
expense.
For these measures we must educate the
public mind These are the soil in which
the seeds of good government and equal
rights can alone be trusted.
When we arrive at this destination, Mr..
Phillips will have another repast of politi-
cal food, to be furnished his followers at the
next station
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MACMILLAN.
NO sympathy for the FlIlibusGer-
Strong Demonstration I'm the Senate.

NO sympathy for the FiIIibusGer-
Strong Denomination fn the Senate.
WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator John
sons resolution, providing that the United
States should offer their mediation to the
belhgerents of Mexico, with a view to re-
store peace honorable to both sides, was
taken up in extra session. As far az can
be learned, Mr.. Johnson supported the reso-
luton with prepared speech, and Sena-
tor Sumner spoke at some length in its
favor.
Senator Fowler then offered substitute,
setting forth that since the United States
has not thought proper to interfere in the
war in Mexico while the French were there,
and since the Mexicsns have shown cour-
age and determination to defend their in
dependence in their country, and had sue
ceeded in expelling foreign invaders, il is
the sense of the Senate that this was no
time to intefere in Mexican affairs, and that
the people of the United States had full
confidence in the manner in which the
Mexican people should treat their prison
ers of war.
Senator Chandler spoke against the reso-
luton, and was followed BY Senator Nor
ton, who took the ground that Maximilian,
being nothing else than fillibuster in
Mexico, the United States could not inter
fere in his behalf inst as they would not
interfere TO save Walker or Lopez. That
besides Macmillan, soon after his arrival
in Mexico, issued murderous and barba-
rous decree ordering all Mexicans who
would not support him TO be shot within
twenty-four hours after his capture. Among
them Major Generals and other officers
Of high rank and acknowledged worth, were
shot for the pretended crime Of defending
their country and their fresides. That the
United States did dotinterfere TO prevsntthis
wholesale murder and assassination, in
which women and children were murdered
and that, therefore, il would not be becom-
ing for them TO interfere now, when fill
buster and mu rder are reduced to extremi-
ties. That it would besides be undignifed
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THE PROBABILITY OF A JULY SEES.
SION OF CONGRESS-.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald writes as follows:
There is to be general stampede OF
Senators after the adjournment of the pres
ent extra session of the Senate, without re.
gard or reference to the proposed July ses-
sion. Even those Senators who live beyond
the Rocky mountains propose to start for
their homes at the earliest moment, unless
il be in the case of some as with Gen. Nye,
who have Just returned to Washington after
visiting their constituents. Members of
the House are already scarce in Washing
ton, and there is not the slightest expecta-
ton in any quarter that there will be any
thing like quorum presentin July. There
are, of course, those who desire it, and will
be on hand; but they will only give them
selves journey for nothing. Certain Re-
publican Senators declare that they have
made and shall make no arrangements
whatever with view to attend the July
session, believing that a meeting of Con-
gress at that time would be full of mischief
10 the country and alarm to the people
1t is asserted ttyat the late session was
one of the most pcIeht causes OF Republican
defeat in Connecticut, and that if, when
Congress had performed its useful labors, it
had had the good sense to have adjourned,
there would have been no such result. The
people, say such Senators became appre-
hensive that Congress would from sheer
idleness, like some gathering of schoolboys,
perpetrate some mischief; and that these
fears but naturally resulted in popular
reaction. One Senator of the Republican
school remarks thus: Congress needed
rebuke for such folly, and it has come"
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for the government to interfere in favor ol
party which in all probability has by this
time been subdued, or certainly would be
long before the mediator could reach Mexi-
co. That the United States having alto
gether ignored Maximilian and the empire
from the first, could not now, if they had
any regard for consistency, acknowledge
the Mexican empire as a government and
interfere in its favor with its enemies.
The speech Of Senator Morton embraced
many other points, and is said to have pro-
duced such an effect as TO induce Senator
johnson to withdraw his resolution, az de-
feat seemed certain if pressed to vote.
In the course of the debate, it was stated
by some of the friends of the resolution that
Macmillan was not responsible for the
bloody decree By which the black flag was
raised in Mexico, and supported the asser-
tion by reading letter from European
minister, stating that the decree in question
was signed by Macmillan under compul-.
sion by the French. 1t is said this explana-
tion did not seem quite satisfactory, as
France has disclaimed all responsibility.
The result of the debate was decidedly
against any interference on behalf of Maxi
milan and his followers, and there was an
expression Of confidence in the Mexican
people to deal with prisoners Of war accord
ing TO the law of nations.
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Our Financial and CONNER
cial Column.

Every department Of business has an imms-
date interest in the markets Of the country, and
in its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who faHs to keep himself properly ad
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets. a.
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply.
and the relative condition Of the currency. T.
exposed to constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprisinE
neighbors. In order to make our paper valuable
rs well ns interesting. we shall continue 10
make this SPECIAL FEATURE. Our DAILY
Market Reports. domestic and foreign, By tele-
graph. and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the eOmmendation OF
our best business men while our current Finan-
cial Reports from all the leading money centres
Of the country are fuller than have ever been
published by any other journal in Tennsssses.
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THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
From the London Times.

From the London Times.
Lord Stanley's assurance that no I'M
friendly answer had been received from
Washington on the subject of the Alabama
claims iustifies us In still looking forward
to an honorable settlement of the whole
dispute. 1t has been more than rumored
that Mr.. Seward not only objected to any
reasonable limitation of the questions to be
decided, but also insisted on including
among them our right to recognize the
Confederate States as a belligerent power.
With every disposition to make all possible
concessions, our government could not have
submitted to such condition, and we re-
joice to learn, in effect, that il was never
formally demanded. Having once ex-
pressed our readiness to consider whatever
grievance may have been sustained by the
United States through the default of our
government, we may dismiss from our
minds any anxiety as to the ultimate
restoration of cordiality between the
two countries. Sooner or later, and more
or less graciously, the American govern
ment and people will meet US halfway
In spite of much loose talk and writ
ing about the Alabama claims being a
simple matter "of debit and credit" we dc
them more justice than TO suppose that IN
their view it is chiefly pecuniary question
Without affecting TO make light of the
damage inflicted on American commerce
by the depredations of the Alabama, and
still more by the panic she inspired among
ship-owners, we do not doubt for moment
that a sense of injury, rather a sense Of loss,
is the motive Of these claims. There is no
longer any obstacle on our side to an ami
cable compromise Great Britain is ready
to balance accounts with the United States,
and to pay the compensation, iE any, which
an impartial umpire may find to be due
from her. She has consented to waive the
reasons alleged by Lord Russell against a
judicial revision of Imperial acts, and COM
piled, so far, with Mr.. Seward's original pre-
posal More than this a nation cannot do
and the United States government will not
throw away an advantage, which is for them
political as well as diplomatic, By rejecting
so Just an offer.
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From the Chambersburg tPa) Repository.
We complain Of the Mormons for thei
plurality of wives, and of the Indians fo
their readiness to dispose of their wives a
any time for a consideration, but we believ,
that Fulton county can beat both in dispos
ing of wife and children by regular ar
ticle of agreement and bill Of sale Mr.
Paul NJ. Dishong, of that classical township
OF Belfast, in Fulton county, and his lovely
Mary Ann, certainly fruitful and foI
aught we can see faithful wife, mutually
agreed that the said lovely Mary Ann
should be sold to Mr.. James Wilson, which
is the churn peddler, for the sum of seven
teen dollars in cash or approved country
produce, and the ehurn peddler and his
newly purchased wife were to go away or
or before the lst of April last, and to gel
away the best way they can," and said ped
dler is further empowered to wollop the
children and exercise generally the rights
and prerogatives of the first husband. We
give herewith the article of agreement
made and selemniy executed between the
parties, and assure our readers that it is a
true copy of the original document, made
in good faith, and we presume carried out
by the parties. Here it is:
BELFAST TOWNSHIP, Feb. IA, A. d.
lS67.-Artikle of agreement made and
fully agreead upon this year and date above
written, between Paul NJ. Dishong & Wife
and James Wilson. the conditions of this
agreement are such: Paul NJ. Dishong doth
agree to bind and obligate himself that he
Will Not disturb his wife and. family, Nor
Wilson THE churn peddier) and is Willing
that Mary An Dishong, his Wife, and chill
drin, go with James Wilson and Paul NJ
Dishong is willing to give her what Pro-
periy she claims in the house, and also
agree for them to get away On or before
the first day of April, 1867, and also to get
away the best way they can. Paul NJ
Dishong is to have his oldest Daughter in
the spring of 1869, when calling for her,
Mary Catharine, and his wife Doeth agree
TO let him have her, & the afore said Will
son, is not to go so far away but what Paul
Nj. Dishong can cum and see them, and
will be treated with respect. Paul NJ. Dis
hong is to have seventeen dollars in money
for afore said Wife and Children, for the
amount of bill of accounts, or to have the
C6w, and also to have his Bed, & Plate, &
Bucket, q Lamp. And if the afore said
Wilson Can manage the children without
abusing them, he has Privilege to come
and get them at any time and is welcome
to all of them. Paul M. Dishong doth
agree that Mary Ann, his Wife, can sell
the Cow to Emmy one she pleases, not only
TO make sale of Emmy of the Hesses, in
presence of William Fohrner.
PAUL NJ. DIsHoNG,
MARY ANN DIsHoNG,
#.... JAMES WILSON, which
is the Churn Pedler mentioned in the efore
said Article of Agreement, and is now
proprietor of Mary Ann Dishong.
Attested-WILLIAM FoHRNER.
OBEDIAH MELLoTT.
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VIRGINIA.
Radical Republican State Convention
-COnfscatiOn Demanded


-COnfiscatiOn Demanded.
RICHMOND, April 1S.-The sessions of
the Republican State Convention to-day
was very animated. Resolutions were
adopted expressing gratitude to Congress,
declaring the new part of Virginia part OF
the Republican organization, and adopting,
besides general principles, propositions
declaring equal political rights to Office
holding. Propositions were adopted for a
thorough system of common schools and for
a more equitable modification of the usury
laws so as to encourage capitalists, for in
ternal improvements, and emigration and
declaring that no government ought to
exist founded on any other basis than
human equality, and no man shall receive
the support of the party who does not
these issues.
A lengthy address was read by Judge
Underwood and adopted.
A warm discussion occurred on the allu-
sion of one of the resolutions to the mill
tary act as the Sherman-Shellabarge bill
Thad. Stevens was substituted forSherman,
it being declared by some of the speakers
that the latter was not its author. The en-
thusiasm over Stevens was immense.
A resolution of honor to Abraham Lin
coin was adopted.
The feature of the day was the discussion
on the confiscation resolution offered, sus-
tanning the confscation acts of 1862, and
demanding the impeachment of President
johnson for not executing the laws nearly
ali the colored speakers declared it the
duty of Congress to confiscate the Rebel
lands, 40 homesteads might be obtained.