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A Singular Theory,

One Dr. Hitchman, an English physicist,
has propounded the theory that mind is not
confined to brain molecules, but is equally
contained in other parts of the body. IL
this could be proved, it would afford the
lawyers opportunities for the introduction
into medical jurisprudence of some new
principles. For instance, pickpocket's
counsel might claim that although his
clients brain was evidently sound, his fin.
gers were afflicted with klopemania, and
urge his acquittal upon the ground of insan-
ity of the hands, Or, an absconding bank
official could plead that although the i'm
pulses of his head and heart were of unim,
peachable integrity, his legs had become
mentally demoralized, and run away with
all his good principles, together with what
ever assets Of the financial institution he
had happened to have about him and
that it would be an act of manifest in
justice tn punish the whole body for an of.
tenoe conceived and executed by such in
ferior members. In view of the possihii-
ties suggested by the new hypothesis, it is
to be hoped that its originator will fail tie
establish his extraordinary proposition
". Y. Sun.
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other pigeon keepers to catch it by getting
1t to settle with their birds and enticing it
with food into their traps. 1t will in some
cases starve to death, and often becomes
so weak that if it flies down into the street
to search for food it is too exhausted to fly
up, and is taken in the hand. When such
bird appears at such place in this way,
neighboring pigeon keepers know it to be
OF good kind, and resort to every artifce
to catch it, in order to improve their strain.
Sometimes, the bird, finding its home gone,
will return to the place from which it has
been let out, mostly on the second. but
even on the third day after. The expert
enced pigeon keeper lets it rest for q day or
two, entices it with little hemp seed, and
again lets it out early in the morning. 1t
IS nearly sure to leave again, but does not
stop so long and returns before nightfall.
1t is then let out daily, and its visits to its
old home constantly decrease, until after
few days they cease altogether"
France was poorly supplied with carrier
pigeons at the breaking out of the war,
but it appears that she has been making
the best use ofwhat she can command. In
Belgium pigeon flying is national amuse-
ment, and if we want the best birds we
must go to that country for them. Pigeons
have often been experimental with in war,
but the perfection of the signal corps have
nearly superseded them. Still there are
many cases such as the siege of Paris for
lnstance-where the signal corps is pow
erless, while pigeons are employed to adj
vantage. In times of sieges these home
loving birds are the best dependence.
History tells us that "when Modene was
besieged, Brutus, within the walls, kept
up an uninterrupted correspondence with
Hlrtius without and this by the assistance
OF pigeons; setting at naught every strate-
gem OF the besieger Antony to stop these
winged couriers," Trochu, at Paris, has
been following in the steps of Brutus, but
Bismarck, five may believe the despatch
es, has devised plan to outwit the French.
With his trained hawks he will be able to
stop the flight of many pigeon freighted
with important dispatches from the gov
eminent at Tours to the head of the De-
partment OF Defence cooped up in Paris
There will be no fierce battles in the clouds.
since the trusty messenger of the French
will not be able to offer resistance AGAINST
the strong beak and sharp talons of the
Prussian falcon. But it will reouire a
sharp lookout on the part Of the invaders
to discover all the pigeons let loose at
Tours in time to successfully direct against
them tie trained hawks of the Prussian
camp. We thus see war reviving the Gus
toms of the past The use of carrier pig
cons calls for the use of falcons, and here
after trained birds promise to play an i'm
portant part IN every prominent siege.
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SLURS ON WOMEN,

At Il recent dinner in New York, at
which no ladies were present, man, in
responding to the toast, "Woman," dwelt
almost solely on the frailty of the sex,
claiming that the best among them were
little better than the worst, the chief diff.
ference being in their surroundings.
At the conclusion of the speech, a gen
tlemen present rose to his feet and said:
II trust the gentleman present in the ap-
plication of his remarks, refers to his oaca
mothers and sisters, not ours"
The effect of this most just and timely
rebuke was overwhelming; and the malign-
er of women was covered with confusion
and shame.
This incident serves an excellent pur-
pose in prefacing few words on this sub
ject.
Of all the evils prevalent among men,
we know of none more blighting in its
moral effect than the tendency to speak
slightly of the virtue of women. Nor is
there anything in which young men are so
thoroughly mistaken as in the low estimate
they form of the integrity of women-not
OF their own mothers and sisters, thank
God, but of Others who they forget, are
somebody else's mothers and sisters.
ram words should be spoken on this
point, for the evil is general one, deep
rooted. Ifyoung men are sometimes thrown
into the society of thoughtless or even
lewd women, they have no more right to
measure all other women by what they see
of these than they would have to estimate
the character of honest and respectable
citizens by the developments of crimes in
our police courts.
Let young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon faith
in women, No worldly wisdom, no mis-
anthropic philosophy, no generalization
can cover or weaken this fundamental
truth. 1t stands like the record of God
himself--for it is nothing less than this.
and should put an everlasting seal upon
lips that are wont to speak slightingly OF
women.
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Bill Arp Among the Insurance Agents.

got tired of this, and walked to White
hall for peace. A friend q suppose he was
'rlend found me and said he wanted to
s. G me particularly. He took me away
back, hauled out some little papers full Of
figures, and said he wanted me to insure
my life. That skeered me worse than any,
thing, for it looked like was in danger,
and he had just found it out axed him
II he thought there would be fight. He
explained things to me, and felt relieved.
and declined to insure for the present
You see felt nifty well, and could not see
the necessity. At the next corner l met
another friend who seemed glad to see me
exceedingly. He held my hand in his sew
eral moments. He axed me if my life was
insured. He said he was agent for the
very best company in the world. l axed
him how long man could live under his
company. He then explained to me that
a man might die at any time; that they
didn't undertake to keep a man from dyin.
So declined, but expressed my gratitude
Tor his interest in my welfare and promised
to buy policy as soon as / got right sick.
Just as 1 left him 1 heard him call some
Teller dam plIool. When I got to the no.
tel there was Teller waiting for me on
the same business. He talked to me for an
hour about the uncertainty of life and GER
tainty of death. l thought perhaps he
was missionary. He seemed much con-
eerned about my wife and children, and
once or twice wiped his eyes with white
handkerchief / knowed he was friend,
and told him l would reflect seriously
about the matter.
| believe that company is purely phil
anthropic institution, and would lend
poor fellow few dollars if he was suffer
ing. think l will try to borrow little
from their agents to morrow. This morn
ing, the first one come to see me again and
l concluded l was looking mighty bad,
and axed him to excuse me as | was not
feeling well. I went to DIR. Alexander, and
got dose of salts. He axed me if l was
sick. 1 told him l supposed l was, and
the reason why. He then told me all
about it, and said there was about one hun
bred of them fellows in town, and they had
augers, and they bored half an inch at the
second in the same hole, and so on till
they got to the hollow, and the patient
gave in and took policy. l don't know
about that, but | will say that they are the
friendliest, most sympathizen and kind
hearted men / have ever struck; only
don't like so much talk about coffins and
gravey ards.
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ROYAL POVERTY.

It, is stated that Napoleon, the royal
prisoner of Prussia, has funds invested in
England to the amount of three million
pounds, or nearly fifteen billion dollars,
and that he has an equal amount in other
countries We have been reminded by this
statement of Napoleon's wealth of the in
dlgence and Indebtedness which MANY
former kings and queens of Europe have
suffered as consequence of their dethrone-
ment, or other ill success. Charles VII, of
France, whose kingdom had been shrunk
by the English monarch into the town of
Bourges, was refused credit by callous
knight of st. Crispin for pair ofboots.
The daughter of Henry w., of France,
Queen of England, and mother of Charles
l., was so reduced in finances and credit as
to be unable to procure fuel to warm her
room, and this in the city of Paris. The
daughter of James |. was reduced to such
want that she often wandered in the shah
by attire of a vagrant, her fortune having
been spent in the endeavor to have her
husband, the Elector Palatine, crowned.
The Old Queen mother of France, who had
been the only stately and magnificent
woman in Europe" left London poor, old
and decrepit, "Eaying no place of residence
IN this world LETT her, but where the court
esy of her hard fortune assigned it." She
was wife to the greatest king that ever
lived in France, mother of two queens and
one king. Antonio, King of Portugal,
died in Paris, in 1896, in great poverty.
Mary Medicis, mother of Louis Kill, wild
ow of Henry the Great, mother in-law
of three sovereigns, died at Cologne in the
utmost misery, having frequently wanted
for the necessaries of life. Voltairc, in
Candide, or the Optimist, represents the
meeting of eight persons ct an obscure
inn, some Of them without means to pay
for cheap dinner. These persons repre-
sented eight deposed monarchs of Europe.
There were in fact, at that time, that num-
Der of impecunious throneless sovereigns
wandering over the earth. The widow
of Lothario, king of Italy, escaped from
prison to become a mendicant through
the villages. The Emperor Henry ",
having drawn the attention of Europe to
his victories and grandeur, died miserably
and obscurely at Liege. No less distress
ing was the end of Napoleon the First,
whose second successor, less renowned for
great deeds, now enjoys the luxuries of an
income from about thirty millions of dol
lars.-jSanta CLARA (Cai.) Argus.
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REPORT
OF THE
GRAND JURY
ON THE CONDITION OF THE
ALMSHOUSE & JAIL.
REPORT
NOVEMBER TERM, 1870.
To the Honorable, the Judges
Of the Circuit Court for Hartford Co.:

To the Honorable, the Judges
Of the Circuit Court for Hartford Co.:
The Grand Jury for November Term,
1870, beg leave to submit this Report as
required by law.
We congratulate your Honors upon the
steady improvement Of the public morals,
as indicated by the small number of cases
of high crimes and misdemeanors that
have been brought to our notice-not a
single case involving loss of life having
peen before us.
We visited the Almshouse, and we found
therein thirty-one paupers--eighteen whites
and thirteen blacks-of whom six of the
latter are insane.
We are gratifed to be able to state that
we found the paupers kept, and the farm
cultivated, as well as can be expected,
considering the nature of the buildings
that shelter the paupers and the character
of the labor which is chiefly employed up
on the farm.
We are particularly pleased with the
general management of the Institution by
the present excellent Superintendent, and
we think that no better selection could be
made for the position.
We respectfully suggest to the proper
authorities, however, that the laws of the
State which requires that regular accounts
be kept of the receipts and expenditures
of the Almshouse, and Of the particulars
respecting names, date OF admittance and
other circumstances concerning the in
mates of the Almshouse, has Re0er been
complied with, and we respectfully request
that the necessary books, substantially
bound and with proper printed headings,
be procured for this purpose. We deem
this important, not only in order to com
ply with the plain law of the State, but in
order that such a knowledge of the affairs
of the Institution may be always accessi.
bile as will insure the most intelligent and
economical administration of the business
connected Herewith.
We have also visited the Jail and we
found it and the inmates as well kept as
we consider it possible for them to be kept;
bur we do not hesitate to say that to con-
fine human creatures in such dens as the
cells therein is positively Jarda,0us, and if
the slightest attention had been paid to
former complaints of Grand Juries, we
would earnestly call for the erection of a
new Jail
We found therein: Insane persons, 5;
indicted for stealing, 7; indicted for rape,
/ {; indicted for assault, 2 charged with
poisoning, charged with stealing, q;
total, IS.
We would be glad to see the yard sur
rounding the Court House kept in better
condition, and we hope steps will be TAX
en- to keep hogs and other stray animals
out OF it.
HENRY RICHARDSON,
deco Foreman.
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GRoovED SHNGLEs.-A new wrinkle has
recently been developed in the single bust
ness. At one of the Doylestown, Pennsyl-
mia, lumber-yards carload of $4,000 pine
shingles was recently received from Michi-
gan without transhipment. These shingles
have been sawed out in the ordinary way,
and then passed through planning machine
which cuts the surface in such manner as
to leave number of ridges, about an inch
apart, on the exposed portion. 1t is as
serted that the shingles prepared in this
way will shed rain better and dry more
quickly afterward than the common article.
The price is not higher than that of other
shingles.
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gnetital.
LITTLE NELL's FUNERAL,

This beautiful and pathetic passage from Dickens
prose writings falls into rhyme and meter by the max
ing of three slight verbal alterations 4
And now the bell-the bell
She had so often heard by night and day
And listened to with solemn pleasure
Fen q living voice
Rung its remorseless toll for her,
So young, so beautiful, so good.
Detrepit age, and vigorous life,
And blooming youth, and helpless infancy,
Poured forth on crutches in the pride of strength
And health, in the full blush
Of promise, the mere dawn of life
TO gather round her tomb. Old men were there
Whose eyes dim
And senses falling
Grandames, who might have died ten years ago.
And still been old-the deaf, the blind, the lame
The pasied,
The living dead in many shapes and forms,
TO see the closing Of this early grave.
What was the death it would shut in
To that which still could crawl and keep above il
Along the crowded path they bore her now;
Pure as the new fallen snow
That covered it whose day on earth
Had been as fleeing.
Under that porch where she had sat when Heaven
In mercy brought her to that peaceful spot
She passed again, and the old church
Received her in its quiet shade.
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= An English writer speaks of China rs

An Engllsn writer speaks OF China as
a country where the roses have no fragrance
and the women no petticoats; where the
laborer has no Sabbath, and the magistrate
no sense of honor; where the roads bear
no vehicles, and the ships no keels where
old men fly kites where the needle points
to the south, and the sign of being puz-
zled is to scratch the antipodes the head
where the place of honor is ON the left
hand, and the seat of intellect is in the
stomach; where to take off your hat is an
insolent gesture, and to wear white gar
ments is to put yourself in mourning
where there is library without an alpha
bet, and u language without grammar.
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HE NEW YORK METHODIST
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Coon FARMINe.-"Sambo is your mas
ter good farmer 2"
"Oh, yes, massa fus-rate farmcr--he make
two crops in one year"
How is that, Sambo ?"
why you see he sell all his hay in de
fall, and make money once, den in de spring
he sell de hides of all cattle that die for
want of de hay, and make money twice,
OATS two crops, massa."
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"A priest asked tipsy fellow, leaning
against the fence, where he expected to 60,
when he died IF | can't get along any,
better than now," said hex IL shan't go
anywhere"
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Estra,y.

Hartford County, to aoit:
HEREBY CERTIFY that Samuel Gar
L rett, Of Hartford county, brought before
me, the subscriber, Justice ofthe Peace in
and for the said county, this 2Sth day OF
November, 1870, one Red and White Steer,
as a stray trespassing on his enclosures
since the first of July last supposed to be
about two years old.
Given under my hand,
CALEB WRIGHT.
The owner of the above described Steer
is requested to prove property, pay charg-
es and take it away.
deco SAMUEL GARRETT.
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STATE OF MARYLAND,
office Of the Secretary Of State,
ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 18th, 1870.
TO all aohom 1t may concern:
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that
~ application has been made to the
Governor for Pardon in the case of the
State vs. WILLIAM HARMS, convicted
in the Circuit Court for Hartford county,
at November Term, 1867, of larceny, and
sentenced to Penitentiary for five years.
The Governor will take up the said case
for final decision, on or after the Sth of
December, until which time protests against
the said application will be heard, and the
petition in the case open to inspection, at
the discretion of the Governor.
BY order of the Governor,
r. G. HOLLYDAY,
nov25-3t Secretary of State.
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IA gentleman in the country, few days
ago, sat down on hornets nest to rest
himself. 1t did not take him long to rest
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