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For q pure article OF Irish linen "chesp,"
call at the Orleans Store and Irish Linen
Warehouse, IL Public Square, Oiwill
Bros. mario II
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From Japan.

. Elegant new japanese Silks Just opened
at Northmens Dry Goods House, 90 Public
Square. mrhl4 eoctf
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THIRD NATIONAL BANK,
NASHVILLE, TENN.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
W. ". BERRY, OHA6, < HILLMAh,
John KIRKMAN, EDGAR JONES,
DANIEL +. GARTER.
rTNRANsAoTs A GENERAL EXCHANGE BUS1-
i NESS and deals In United States Bonds and
Gold. EDGAR JONES, Cashier.
WV. BERRY, President.
mo. KIRKMAN, Vice President. sepl-y
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Burnett's KallistOn is the best
Cosmetic. ap5lawly wedns.
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Now York Genern.I rIarket..

New YORK, April 11.-Flour dull; at
S6.5O@6.sO for shipping grades extra.
Wheat dull; red and amber S1.62@L65.
Corn dall and dropping; mixed Western
75@76c Coffee steady and in moderate
demand; Rio 13@16c. Sugsr-dsmand
good at full prices; Cuba 9t@9lc. No
lasses steady and in moderate demand;
Muscavado 19c. Whisky quiet at sole
Q03o
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Nashville Boot and shoe Market.

Tue week has been a very brisk one
among our boot and shoe dealers, and
large quantities Of goods have been shipped
to various parts of the country We con-
tinus to report prices steady, the quota
tons of some Of the leading articles
being as follows: Mems III ,bound kip
brogans SI.25@1.75; do. lined unbound
kip brogaus S1.5O@2; calf pegged
brogans SI.75@2 80; sewei brOgaCs
81. GO@3.5O; men kip anil calf Eng
Iish ties 81 1905; mems calf pegged
boots 1905. do. sewed do. S4@6.
Bows unbound kip brogsns $1@L5O; do.
lined kip and calf S1.25@2. Women's
split or A calf balmorals, Irregular sizes
S1@I.5O; extra sizes S1.25@1.65; kip, re-
eular sizes SI.5O@1.75; pebble grain 81 %
al. 10; calf pegged $1.5C'@2; calf sewed
S292. 50; serge balmorals $l.25@2.75.
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NASHVILLE, TENN.
Now Advertisements.

Printers cannot set type from an
article written on both sides OF the
nnneF.
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Tremendous fall in the price Of Coffees,
Sugars, Teas, Spices, and all imported
goods, at Slime 4 Birmingham's, corner
Cedar street and Public Square. JAM If
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FASHIONABLE spring dress goods, at low
prices, at the Trade Palace, IA Public
Square. John Gilgan 4 Co. spr7tf
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cordin g to quality.
Bel swAx--Market dull at 25c.
Con TON SEED-We quote at SO . ton.
GIN sENa-We quote at 60c.
MnODLINas-Are held at $40 . ton.
RAtss-We quote at &c as the outside
figure.
WooL-We quote bury at 10000; I'M
vssAed without burs 25@26c; washed
without burs 35@4Oc.
HoMNY-We quote at $5. so per Dbl.
Nashville Grocery Markets.
I'll ade has been very fair during the en-
tire week, and the market continues
stesd without any change whatever. We
quote as follows:
Sue tAR-New Orleans 9@12c; Demerara
124e; Standard hards 144c; New Orleans
claHitt sd, white, lac; do yellow 13c A coffee
1916; b do BE; @ do 1880. Refined
sugars are little sitter.
Mol ASSES AND SIRUPs-New Orleans stiff
at GIG zoe; sirups steady at G5@9~ C; gold
en- 81 rr.p 75c.
&c FFTE-We quote Rio, common to
choit e, 17@193c; Laguayra 21c; Java 27c'
RI E-Stiff at 9t@1Oc.
Sal IA little weaker. We quote Liver
pool ack So; seven bushel barrels, by the
car 10 ld, $3.15; five and half do 81 so
TEA s-Imperial 81. POOL. 70; Young Hy-
son 5 L 40@175; Black $19l.25; Gun
powder $1.25@l.75.
FISH "A ieckerel-Nos. 2 and 8, 1900 and
400 = be rrel; in kits, Nos. l, 2 and
800, EGO and 175. Sardines 21OO q
case.
OHKEsE-l Facsory is held at l63c.
EAns-Ad vanced to So for 1Od's and
25o additional for diminishing grades.
OAHD1Es-s tar, light weight, 12@13c.
PowDzB-We quote as follows: Dupont
SS.75; Hazard 8 1913; blasting $4.75;
fuse, per 100 feet, 75c; Sycamore Mills
powder, 1913.
SHor-Patent $50; buck 2.75.
IdoUoRs-We quote common reotided
whisky = gallon, 81; Robertson County
i 81. 1903; Bourbon $1.25@4.50; Lincoln
Oonnty 81. 1892. 25; Highwines 81.
BAeGNG--Hemp 25@28c; fax zoe.
Oo-roN T.Hs-We quote at $500.
BRoCMs-We quote at 2. 25@3. 80 y doz.
SUSDEIEs-- Backing, = doz, 4O@75c,
| Washboards $2.75 p doz; Buckss, =
doz., So. 90 Tubs $3.50 y nest; No.
| tubs $40 per doz; No. do. 50 per
doz; No. do IS. Starch Go Candy
assorted stick 18c . pound; fancy
| assorted 200 2 pound. Snuff ;s7.75 bol
| for Gsrrest's packed. Matches S. Pc
cass. Pepper 224c. Spice 15o. Gingel
| 18c. Oysters 1925 case for one pound
GALS; 1925 , case for two pound cans
| Canned peaches, two pound cans, $2.7i
doz. Soda $50
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An immense stock of bleached domestics
in all the leading brands, at low figures. at
the Orleans Store, Is Public Square, o.
will Bros. mario u
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FLDAy1Es & Bro. Jewellers and Silver,

F. L. DAWES Il Bro. Jewellers and Silver
smiths, Nashville:
The attention of watch buyers is called
to our stock of Waltham watches in gold
and silver cases, specially selected for our
own trade. These watches greatly excel
sny others made in this country in beauty,
finish, variety and in fine time keeping
qualities, and are offered at much lower
prices. marlI u
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Nashville Leather and Hide Market

HnEs-There is an active demand on
the mart of local tanners who pick up all
the dry on the market at prices rang
ING from lS62Oc. De 4lers are buying flint
at 1701S: dry sailed 16t917c; and green at
Sc. Sheep pelts and lamb skins l5@25c
each.
IEATHER-Transaction continue on a
hobt scale. and but little disposition to
operate on the part of tanners and deal
ers We quote at 4O@41c for Cincin-
natl oak sole; 3O@32c for prime Hemlock,
and 35c for Buffalo slaughter. Harness
leather, 36@40; skirting 38942e; birdie
leather p doz S42@48; French calf y doz.
S44@7O; American kip $t2@6O; calf 80
@4O; upper leather $24@32; toppngs Sll
OH; Innings 5000; rough leather 10
S4@32c; tanners oil 7O@75c . gallon.
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PoNGEE and Japanese psrssols, cheap,
at the Trade Palace, IA Public Square.
John Gilgsn 4 Co. spr7u
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New Orleans Markets.

NEW ORLEANS, April 1I.-Flour scarce;
superfne Sc; Xxx S6.624; XXX 6.S7A.
Corn 7O@72c. Oats 63@65c. Bran $1.25.
Hsy-prime S24; choice S25. Ness pork
500 %. Bacon dull at %, lO4 and Ito.
Hams 15@16c Lard dull; tierce 12@124o;
key 134@13ac. Sugar-prime 93@i0o.
Molasses - good fsrmenting 3O@46c.
Coffee 14@153c- Sterling exchange 18Th
New York sight drafts ! premium Gold
I1OA
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Nashville nardws re Market.

Trade active and bu,lyant. We note
several changes in the leading articles.
We quote as follows: Axes = dozen
S1O@13 80; hoes S5@7; horse shoes
Shoe nbergers 1915; Reese's patent SO;
Burdens Sc; horse nails 1G@24c; cast steel
and shear 2Oc; English blister 1920;
American blister l3@I5c= cotton cards
S.. 5000 per doz; names SF97.5O per doz
pair; traces S7@12 per doz pair; axe
handles 81. 1902 per doz.
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more than for the corresponding period OF
1870
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF CorToN.-The fol-
lowing table shows the quantity Of eoAsOn
in sight at this date of each of the two pass
caooono.
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BANKING HOUSE
National Savings Company
L. q. TARPox. osshIer.

L. g. TARBOX, Cashier.
THOS. 8. MARI, President.
~ Deposits received, and Interest allowed
hereon, loans negotiated, collections madei and
General Banking business transacted. ocl6 u
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what are the Wild Waves saying!"

Go AJAX the troubled waves whose ceaseless roar,
In fury breaks upon the distant shore;
Know ye somespot IN all your lonely round,
Where pain is motif But ease and comfort found.
The will waves answer with perpetual roar,
That very place is v AIN & WALKER's SrORE.
GO AK the wind that sweeps across the plain
TO distant lands, and then returns again,
Have We not found an Antidote for care7
balm to save our fast departing hair7
Old Boress answers from his icy throne
IT'S found in VAIN & WALKERS HATS slons!
TTis thus Old Boreas and the 0>ean speaks
10 him with aching head, that comfort seeks:
Try Vain and Walkers Ventilated Hot,
twill cool the fevered brain; IN more than that,
Make life Q pleasure; save your Telling hsir--
The same Old number on the Public Square.
The "Katy-Did," "Katy Didn't" "Can sloupe, I"
Tropical ""wili-O' the-Wsp," and all the latest
syies OF VentIlsi ed HSts, for the hot wealth er.
Panama and Straws for men and boys and chill
dren IN grest variety. Orders from a distsnc g
promptly attended to. VAIN WALKER,
Hatters and Furrie Q,
sprsh "a Public Square.
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Nashville Provision Market.

The market has been very quiet through
out the week, and to-day prices have de-
preciated fraction both in bulk meats and
bacon. We quote packed from store as
follows
BULK MEATs-Clesr rib sides 1O4c;
shoulders 10.
BAooS-Clear sides lilo; shoulders TO
Sc; country hams 13c.
CHOICE HAMs.-Hart i Hensleys O. G.
G. canvassed and uncanvassed 1910.
BREAKFAST BACoN-Hart & Henslsys 5.
C. @. O. C. breakfast bacon 159c.
BEEF ToNaUEs-E1tra S. G. beef tongues
Sc 80 2 doZ.
MESS BErr- Barrels $18, half barrels
S12.5'.
tierces, 13c; half barrels 139c; kegs, 143c;
buckets 16c.
Nashville Flour and Grain marks'.
FLouR-In regard to the market, we can
! only repeat what We have stated day after
| day for weeks, that it is dull and IN
changed. We quote as follows: Superine
So %; extra 1915; Xxx Sc so; family s.
| as, according to quality; fancy 81.
Wharf.-The receipts continue light, and
\ we heard of no transaction TO- day. We
ouote at SlOI. 80, according to quality.
Conn MEA1-We quote loose unbolted
CSC. bottled Toe per bushel; kiln dried 49,
per barrel.
UoRN-We report shipments to-day of p
| 100 bushels at 81 aud G79c, sacked and
delivered in depot.
OArs.-We quote from first hands at so
| @55c for common; sacked and in depot
! 75c. Seed oats are higher, and in ship
ping order we quote at 80@9Oc.
| OFFAL-Bran Is steady at 81 per ton
loose, and 800 sacked in new burlaps.
| SHIPsTUFF-Is taken by distillers as fast
as manufactured at $50 per ton loose.
Nashville Produce Market
PEANUrs-The receipts are extremely
light, and in fact, amount to nearly moth
ing. We quote at $l.5O per bushel from
wagon, and dealers are selling from store
at $1.8O.
DRIED FRU1T-Transaction light We
quote from first hands as follows: Apples
&c; quarter peaches 74c; half do loo.
PoTAToEs-Sweetp potatoes are in demand
at So. 5000 per Dbl. Irish potatoes are
steady as follows: Neshanocks, = Dbl, S.;
Peach Blow, S475; Russets, $4.75; Early
Rose, s., London Lady, $4.75; Buck
Eyes, $4'75; Pink Eyes, S5; Early Good
rich, SIS.
FHATHrRs-Sa at 62@65c, from prime
to choice.
EGas.-Ssles today at and 90 from
wagon.
HAY-The market is dull and overstock-
ed. We quote at $40 y ton from store.
BUTTER country zoe; choice 25c.
ONIoNs-Market firm at 81 y Dbl.
NAVY BEANs-We qaote at 81. 256P2. so
. bushel, from store.
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Nashville Fruit and Nut Market.

APpIEs-No Tennessee. We quote
Northern at s. per Dbl
ORANGEs-We quote by box at $3.50.
LEMoNs-We quote st So per box.
RAs1Ns We quote as follows: by box
9Oc@SI; ! box 50; whole box $3.50
$50.
PEcANs-We quote Missouri at 16c per
ID; Texas 20c.
FuBEETs-We quote at 15c per ID.
ENGLISH WALNUTs-We quote at 17o
per ID.
CoCoANUTs. quote at Sc piece or
IS per hardred.
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Hoots and shoes.

A very fine assortment Of ladies', misses
and children's shoes daily arriving, at pop
ular prices, at the Eagle Shoe Store, "a
North College street. JOHN HoLoHAN.
msrl9 If
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Gold opened in New York yesterday at
llO!, advanced TO l1Os, and closed at 11O4
Dealers here we're paying 1921 and holding
at 11Ot.
Exchange on New York is bought by
the banks at par and is sold by them at /
premium.
Government securities are as follows:
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Sun0rf&.

son & Co. were 30 head of cattle, 81 hogs
and 40 sheep.
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Nashville Live stock Market.

CATTLE-The arrivals are few and hardly
enough for home supply of choice selec-
tions. Good cattle are picked up as soon
as received, but poor selections are in no
demand by our home dealers. We notice,
however, that T. O. Nilsson & Co. shipped
to Kentucky in three days ten car loads,
in all 253 head grazing cattle. We quote
as follows: extra choice 5@5fe; butcher
stuff 4@5c; common 3@4c.
Hoes-very few coming in and market
dull. We quote for averages of $50 to 800
fbs 6@69c; shosts 49@5a.
SHEEP-Superior qualities are in good
demand. Averages Of 100 ms and upwards
are taken ST SC per ID, while ordinary COM
mand 81 50G3 per head. No lambs Of any
consequence are coming In, and We hear Of
$3@3. 25 per head being offered
The sales for the week at Morse's stock
yard foot up 1872 head Of cattle, hogs and
80 sheep.
The sales by T. G. Nilsson & Co., en-
brace 1877 head of cattle, 40 hogs and 26G
sheep.
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SEEDs-we quote as follows: Glover $s
@8.5O; timothy Sc. 5O@6. IS; orchssd grass
$2.50@3; blue grass Sl.75; herds grass
$1.75@2; Missouri millet 81; top onion
sets $4,000 per bushel
COTTON YARNs-Have declined as fol-
lows: loo, 10, lac and 16c for 700, 600,
500 and 400.
LAND PLAsTER-We quote ct LOO y ton
In bags.
IRoS-We quote as follows: Tennessee,
common bar, 6ic y b; Kentucky, do, 40 '
n; Tennessee band 1876; Kentucky, do,
SIC; Tennessee boiler plate So; boiler
heads S4c; fire box SIC; sheet (common)
54@6c; do, (Kentucky) 64@7c; do, (Ten-
nessee) 74@S3c.
WRAPPING PAPER-We quote as follows:
Small SOC; medium 75c; double crown 81.
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T7oE PADUOAH, CAIRO, sTLOUfs,
+ MEMPHIS and NEW ORLEANS. isRRRt.a
The Fine Passenger Steamer JOHN d42F
IUMSDEN, o. W. DAVIS, Master, d. B. DAVIS
and JIM PoPE JOHNSON. Clerks, viii leave ~
above on WEDNESDAY.the 18th inst, at
O'Clock P N. For freight, or passage apply on
hoard or to HARPER & ARTHUR, 4 and ~ Up-
per Wharf, or HARRISON SON. Agents
anr1I I'd
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The Elephant as a Walker.

|, WE have found two curious points over.
looked or ignored by writers-one is The
rapid and noiseless movements of this ami
NAL in the thickest cover; the other his
capabilities of passing over ground for
him apparently unfeasible. The elastic,
noiseless T otfall of the elephant has been
frequently referred to by writers on Indian
subjects, and has been rightly asserted 10
be the most agreeable feature in Journey.
ing on elephant back. This peculiarly
may be easily explained by an examina.
ton of the structure of the animals foot
but the silent, stealthy way ia which he
will pass through the densest thicket. liter.
ally slipping away" when his acute sense
OF smell or bearing warns him Of danger
has been overlooked, and appears to Us
somewhat difficult of explanation.
Let any one unskilled in the mysteries
Oh bush-ranging' attempt to move ever
a few PAGES in an ordinary fox covert with.
out noise, and he will form some idea Of
the difficulties presented to the passage Of
50 huge an animal as the elephant through
the dense, tangled underground of q South
African "bush." Yet that the animal.
despite his enormous bulk, will draw oF.I
when within a few yards Of his pursuer.
without the slightest noise, and with the
greatest rapiditys even In the thickest
ccvsr, IS u~rdsni6ble. kgstn, BIS p6wsrs
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At Close Quarters with a Wolf.

LAST December | happened to be unex.
pectedly detained at a small outlying ham,
let in the Vllnad district (the name of which
! do not remember), and almost the frs,
man | lighted upon there was a German
engineer whom | had formerly known al
Konigsberg, and who now insisted upor
making me his guest till l could get for
ward toward Smolensk. We sat late owe,
avery primitive supper, and my host (whc
is a keen sportsinan) was just limiting al
the possibility Of getting up a hunt fol
the destruction of a wolf Of uncommon
size and strength which had lately haunt,d
the ~neighborhood and committed great raw,
ages, when terrible noise from the upper
end of the village, like q score Of voices ali
shrieking at once, broke in upon our chat
Zach lieber Gottl was list dasf cried
my companion, rushing to the door, and
throwingit open. The whole place seemed
in the height of confusion men were run.
ming wildly hither and thither, women
screaming, children crying, lights glancinr
TO and fro. seized the arm Of a man who
wss rushing past, and hastily asked what
was the matter.
Wolf sgaiay' capped the fellow. WIN
oculd hardly spesk; up yonder-womsn
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"A citizen of Maine is executing ar
order for sixty thousand baseball bats.
A Massachusetts, farmer made two
thousand dollars last fall by selling bur.
dock roots.
There were 41,415,000 cigars produced
In illinois during the year en1ing June 30
1870.
San Francisco is attempting, and it is
believed successfully, to cultivate oysters
in her harbor. None but small and infe.
rior b~ivalves are indigenous near that city
An Eastern gentleman, recently travel.
ing in Illinois, writes to the Country Gen.
tsmdn that the next great want in order
will be the steam pillow on the prairies, and
considers their introduction merely a ques.
ton Of time.
The lady occupant Of a brown stone
mansion in Brooklyn went up on the roof
Of her house, the other day, and using
mortar and trowel expertly, took down and
relaid a defective chimney.
"A ~Saccaappa (Me.) woman has been
blind for several years, yet performs all the
household labor for herself, husband, and
two children, with the exception Of occa-
sional help In washing, which she pays for
In knitting, and besides this knits q great
deal for pay.
The people of the United States ex-
pend $20,000,000 q rear in candies alone,
10 say nothing Of the amounts annually ex.
pended In sugar ornaments, ices, %jellies,
etc. OF domestic confectionery, New
York supplies fully one.third, aud there
are within the city limits establishments
manufacturing candy aloha, Whose individ'
ual eales Of this one commodity will ap.
prqximats Z million dollaD Annually. Tks
o~id-fasHiunda Asark caudyr ~ 81 lad
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before Them The gerp,ps vere .uls,
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An Elephant on the Rampage,

sanso,;n.
9, 1aris ua VI .ne nrst wa'er swept Eas'
o ~. LOUIS YESTERDAY morning, OF SO unique
anu exclung q charac,er That 1t will not be
iolgo..eh ,or many a long day. At abou'
nau Past . qciock yesterday morning, Mr.
Lumafo ?. bradley, q citizen Of East st
Louls, was awakened by his wife, with tht
,n'esigelce that burglars were attempting
70 elec. an entrance 70 the house, which
u nay DC stated, is q two story frame, stu,
ated on Third street, The upper portion
OF the dwelling is occupied by the family
for sleeping apartments, while one of the
lower rooms serves as a room for an old
lady named Flynn, a memberof the house.
hold.
On learning that some cause for alarm
really existed, Mr., B, arose, and. rrasning a
huge cavalry sword, stationed 6imse,s q,
the window expect;ng eynr, man,an, =,
nee the inpress or aiiemntsa iunnaus y. y,
some daring thief and d ais,,u;naS i ~ o. o.
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Foreign Gossin,

"A strong earthen barricade has been
erected before the cages of the lions.
leopards, tigers, and panthers in the Jar,
din des Plantes, at Paris, to prevent their
escape In the event of a projectile destroy.
ing The bars of their prison.
"A number of French peasants were
tried ut a military court at Halle, in Pms.
sia' the other day, for an attempt to poison
Prussian soldiers by mixing verdigris with
the 1000 they gave them. They were
found guilty, and sentenced to twelve. fE.
teen and twenty years Imprisonment at
hard labor.
"A hive year old boy was murdered bv n
BOY eleven years of age, who had been
adopted by the parents of the little victim,
IN 1rebbin, Prussia, The BOYS were play.
ing together, when the young murderer
threw down the little ono and stamped on
his head with his heel till the poor child
was dead.
"A Paris letter says that in case the
city Is taken, the guns in the forts and on
the ramparts shall never be of use to the
Prussians. The old method of sinking
a cannon to render it temporarily useless
Will not be employed in this case rs il has
been found that the explosion of a peculiar
torpedo inside the bore will prevent the
piece from ever being used again.
"A new surgical instrument has been in.
vented in Berlin for the discovery of hid.
den bullets in the human body. 1t con.
slsts OF two metal probes into which has
been led a stream of electricity, This
stream is broken at the poles, but passing
1t over the suspected part of the BODY
where the bullet is supposed to sit, it il at
once connected when it comes near a me.
tallic body.
The following is given as a "~litero1
translation of a bill Of fare as recently
presented at a g%entleman's table in Paris
Horse soup with millet,
Minced cat Mayonnaise sauce.
Shoulder Of dog, tomato sauce.
jagged cat, with mushrooms.
Dog chops, with peas.
Salmis OF RAT, sauce Robert.
JOINT OF dog, served with young rats, and pepper
sauce,
Begonia, with gravy,
Salad, etc.
English plum pudding, with horse marrow.
The German Arctic Expedition, which
returned from the Polar Sea this fall, has
published the result of its researches. The
most important results of its explorations
was the discovery of a new land, about
thirty-six nautical miles east of Spitzber
gen, and situated north of the seventy.
seventh degree of latitude north. Thi.
new territory is larger than S~pitzbergen
and presents a very wild and rugged ap
pearance, being filed with almost perpendic
ular mountains and cliffs. This is one Of
the most important Arctic discoveries
made for many years. The expedition also
explored the eastern shores Of Greenland
up to the seventy-seventh degree of north
ern latitude, discovering an immense ford
or arm OF the sea, which extended deer
into the interior of the country, and several
mountains whose height exceeded that o.
Mont Blanc. The geological, geological
and botanical collections brought home arr
Of q rare and valuable character.