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Haunted by Missing Limbs.

DR.. S. W. Mitchell, in Lippincott's 8
Magazine, writes an article about
"Phantom Limbs" and thus speaks of
the sensation of lost members of the
body, absent in fact but present in ner-
veus consciousness
There is something almost tragical,
something ghastly. in the notion OF
these thousands Of spirit limbs haunt
ing as many good soldiers, and every
now and then tormenting them with the
disappointments which arise when, the
memory being off guard for moment,
the keen sense of the limbs presence
betrays the man into some effort, the
failure of which of sudden reminds
him Of his loss. --s
Many persons feel the lost limb as
existing the moment they awaken from
the mercifnl stuper of the ether giver
to destroy the torments of the knife
others come slowly to this conscious
ness in days or weeks, and when the
wound has healed; but as a rule the
more sound and serviceable the stump
especially if an artificial limb be worn
the more likely is man, to feel family
the presence of his shorn. member
Sometimes blow on the stump viii
reawaken such consciousness, or, IS
happened in one case, reamputatior
higher up the limb will summon it agair
into seeming existence.
In many the limb will be recalled by
the man by irritating the nerves in it:
stump. Every doctor knows that, wher
any part of a nerve is excited by pinch
a tap, or by electricity-which is an al
together harmless means-the pain, if il
be nerve of feeling, is felt as if il
were really caused in the part of which
the nerve finally passes.
A familiar illustration is met with
when we hurt the "crazy bone behind
the elbow. This crazy bone is merely
the ulner nerve, which gives sensation
to the third and fourth fingers, and in
which latter parts we feel the numbine
pain of blow on the main nerve. II
we were to divide this nerve below the
elbow the pain would still seem to be
in the fingers, nor would it alter the
case were the arm cut off
On one occasion the shoulder was
electrified three inches above the point
where the arm had been cut off. Fol
two years the man had ceased to be con
scious of the limb. As the current
passed, although ignorant of its posi-
bic effects, he started up. crying aloud
ooh, tue hand, the hand?" and tried tc
seize it with the living grasp of the
sound fingers. AS the current was bro
ken the lost part faded again only to be
recalled by the same means. With 9th
ers it is presence never absent save ir
alann
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Ever since man ate the forbidden fruit
all things that live must die. The tall
oak, which raises its branches toward
the Almighty as if in praise, must pass
away. The rose that blooms in the gar.
den, that adorns the conqueror's brow.
that dccorates the grave. of the hero,
that makes the place where man wor.
ships God, heavenlike, must wither and
die. The little babe that lies in it's cot
tage cradle with rosy. cheeks and dark
blue eyes, and golden tresses of hair.
playing with the rattle and ring, laugh-
ing all the, time, must die. The conque,
ror who has slain many in battle and
plucked the diadem from the warriors
brow, must also die. "a I'D yzs.a, s,I
Yes, all things that exist must must
pass away. But there is one great hope
for fallen man. Though he may die he
will have eternal life in that land where
death never visits, where the old patrie
OTIS rest, where the brightest flowers
bloom, and where the bright stars
shine. s.,.ry sfs ses
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Appeal OF Southern Merchants
Against the Continuance of tho
Grant Administration.

New YORK, Oct. lS--A circular has
been received at Democratic headquar-
tiers. addressed to merchants Of the city,
by merchants of the South 1t asks
them, as they value the prosperity Of the
Southern States, to do what lies in their
powe to defeat the re election of Presi
dent Grant They claim that four years
Of carpet-bas rule will fix upon them
commercial paralysis. in supporting
Horace Greeley they say they give eve
ry possible evidence of their desire for
reconciliation anil peace; that four more
years of Grant at The South means prob
ably a war of races, certainly a re en-
thronetiept. of carpet baggers, and they
express the, hope that if commercial
MEN of the North value the revival OF
the industry Of the South, they will unite
in saving its people from impending ca
lamity. These circulars have been sent
from every portion Of the South, espe-
cially thf cotton States.
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Can BESin ess Men A ford Itf.
"Bnsiness men cannot afford to gu

"Business men cannot afford to sup.
port Mr.. Greeley" That is common
cry with people who take the judgments
of persons like the Georgia Bond Man
in preference to that of men like A. T
Stewart. But can they afford to sup
port President Grant2
This Administration might have re
stored the South Instead, it has stood
by while the Gubernatorial and legisla
tive thieves,it sustained and encouraged
have plundered her, have left her to day
well nigh bankrupt, from Fortress Mon
roe to Galveston
If she had been restored by the bene
ficent aiG Of Impartial Suffrage and Uni
versal Amnesty to the honest govern
ment Of her own people, who can calcu
late what would have been the increased
value of our Commerce Who cal
reckon how much she might have re
lieved the burdens of unequal taxation
at the North by bearing her proportion
ate share? WHO can count the addi
tional wealth that would hare pourct
into the lap Of New York,
The North had first to bear the ex
penses of the war then the loss 0
Southern debts, which broke down near
ly half onr best merchants next, ant
now, well nigh the entire debt create,
by the war. Meanwhile the South lie
waste. A prescribed and plundere,
people cannot resume the habits of bu
siness and enterprise, because the mo
tive is absent. Must they be kept 81
four years more for political purposes
Can the business OF the Country affor(
four years more of Grant ?-N. Y. Tr'
| banr.
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Mixed.

That was a fearful mess in which Z
certain paper in this State involved two
Of its advertisements. The foreman.
somehow or other, in placing the type
in the form, got an obituary notice mixa
ed up with menagerie advertisement,
so that the following appalling para
graph met the eye of the readers:
DIED-On the 18th inst, William, ri.
hyena aud the baby elephant McManuss
at the age of six comic mules. whose
loss is our gain. Professor j Johnson,
who enters the den of lions,l afliction
sore long time he places his head in the
mouths of the. .ferocious physicians were
in, vain, and the performing monkeys
will join him on the other shore with thu
gnu, which comes from the deserts Of
Africa, whera the funeral takes place 40
4 o'clock, and the friends of the familH
are. invited. Admission twenty .fvo
cents, children to proceed to Blankwood
Cemetery. Peanuts for sale on the
ground, Gone, but not forgotten.
There was anguish in that newspaper
next morning. sssg.
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Insurance Agents,

It was with utter amazement that we
read, the other day, in q morning jour,
nal, an advertisement requesting an
agent of some reliable life insurance
company to call on the advertiser, as he
desired to take cut policy. Did that
man realize what the consequences will
be7 Vast hordes Of life-insurance
agents will Immediately swoop down
upon that man. They will surround
him at his meals; they win bore him in
church; they will burst into the psrlor
while be is courting; they will shake
him up and wake him, and pull the Gov
ers off of him while he is in bed; they
will force themselves into the carriage
with him when he goes to funerals !;
they will break in upon him at family
prayers. If be closes and lock his
doors, they will slide down the chimney
with mortality tables; they will come
up through the drain-pipe with expla-
nations OF the ten year plan; they will
wrench off the windows shutters, SO as
to read death-rates to him; they will
shin up the water-spouts, and souse
down through the trap door in the roof
with documentary evidence that the er-
dowment-plan is the best one. If he
should seclude himself on a desert is
land, he would hardly step ashore be
fore he would see fifteen or sixteen hun
dred life-insurance agents padding
through the breakers in canoes. If he
should buy suit of submarine armor
and sink himself two miles deep in the
middle of the Atlantic ocean, he wouldn't t
touch bottom before an insurance agent
would be down there in a diving-bell
with doctor, asking questions about
the disease his grandmother died with,
and wanting to sound his liver. If, in
sheer despair, he should blow out his
brains, we actually believe that half the
life-insurance agents in the country
would commit suicide, in order to ex-
plain the tontine system to him as soon
as he got "over the river" The man
has evidently made a mistake.-A az
AdeIer, -.
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but They Have DOneiit.

A man shut up in Jail, entertained a
belief that he was illegally confined, and
so sent for q lawyer to consult about the
matter. After listening to the prisoners
story, the lawyer said, with s confident
smile: @ rf.
"Pshaw! man they can't put you in
jail for that"
Cant they, thought"
'Certainly not the things prepostcr'
Gus. They can t put a man in Jail fol
any such action" .--, ,.. .-.
.aBut they have, though" urged the
prisoner, who fully agreed with the law
yer, that they couldn't do it; but wa:
unable to get it out Of his head that he
was in jail, nevertheless.
81 tell you, my dear fellow, it is i'm
possible; they can't imprison you on ;
charge like that; it's against the law"
"But they haze done it," cried the
prisoner, stubbornly, and with rising an
ger, ''and confound 'em, here am
want to get out"
'But l say they can't do it. If you
understood the first thing about law, yol
would see they couldn't yourself Mr.
Blackstone says"
Blackstone! amt l here, an(
haven't | been here for the last 81.
weeks ?"
81 tell you they can't put you in jai
for this" shouted the lawyer, sprinsin!
out Of his chair, and growing excite'
himself, because his clieEt refused to lis
ten to the points of law in the case.
''And tell you!" yelled the prisoner
Jumping to his feet, and dancing aroun'
with excitement and evaporation, "the,
have done it, and l am here in Jail, ant
likely to stay here for all of you, an
what in thunder's the use of saying the
can't do ii p
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Fashionable Women.

Bertha Davis, of Rochester, writes to
declare that American women, as q rule,
don't know how to wriggle their behind
bunch with grace. She finds further
fault as follows: "Your 2arasol, my
dear, what are you doing with it? The
sun is directly in your back, and you
are holding that dainty article at an an.
gle Of forty.flve degrees over your nose.
Bless me, what figure you cut-a per-
feet leaning tower, with an eruption on
the back; if You could only, see your
self, my dear; but. then you can't, SO
there's no use in talking; you'll always
persist in carrying your parasel in that
ungraceful way, making yourself look
ridiculous. Now, here comes woman
who walks, not waddles, just watch her !;
there's no jerking or twisting, but a
smooth, billowy motion; she puts her
foot down firmly, squarely, taking a
step twice the length of yours, which,
to her full drapery, gives an undulating
motion, reminding one OF. the swell by
the waves on the moonlit sea-a woman
among thousand, who, though plain
featured, would attract attention any
where by her graceful carriage, her
1.-the, billowy form, giving to her that
air Of queenliness you are at loss to
explain in one who has no pretensions
to beauty. She holds her parasol in
such way that it seems really part
of herself, it is neither jelked on one
side nor pitched over her face, nor is
(she nervously jabbing every passer-by
with it; she holds it firmly. That wo
man doesn't make an awkward appear
ance with her parasol coming up The
street, as does my modern belle, just il
advance Of her; and yet, NY dear, yor
are gotten mp in faultless style-s per
feet. marvel of dress makers art; snt
catching glimpse of your fair form il
the plate glass windows, you smile com
Iplacently, thinking YOU are doing tht
dip superbly, when, if you did but know
it, you are outraging every sense O
| beauty and every line of motion, ma
king angles where there should bt
curves, sharp, jerky movements that SCI
your drapery in a futter, giving you the
appearance of rutfied hen, when there
should be only ripple Of motion"
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Josh BiIIiDgs on Laughing.

Anatomikally konsidered, laf1ing IL
the sensashun ov pheeling good all over,
and showing it principally in one spot.
There il one kind of laff that al
ways did Recommend; it looks out ov
the face with merry twinkle, then it
kreeps down on its hands and kneze
and plays around the mouth like pref
ty moth around the blaze ov a kandle,
then steals over into the dimples of the
cheeks, and rides around thoze little
whirlpools for while, then it lites up
the whole faces like the melo bloom on
damask rose, then it swims oph on
the air with peal as klear and az hap
py as a dinner bell, then it goes back
again on golden tip toze like an angel
out on an airing, an laze down on lit
tie bed ov violets in the heart where it
cum from.
There il another laff that nobody kan
withstand; it il just az honest and noisy
az distrikt skool let out tew play, it
shakes man up from his toze to his
temples; it doubles and twists him like
a whiskee phit; it lifts him up oph from
his cheer like feathers, and let's him bak
agin like melted led; it goes all through
him like pick-pocket, and finally
leaves him az weak aud as krazy az tho
he had been soaking all day in Rush
ing bath and forgot tew be took out,
| This kind ov a laf belongs tew jolly
good phellows who are az healthy as
Quakers,and who are as easy tew pleaze
az a girl who is going tew be marred to.
morrow.
In konclusion say laff every good
chance yu kan git, but don't laff unlest
yu feel like it, for there amt nothing in
this world more hearty than a good
honest laf, nor nothing more hollow
than a heartless one ..
When yu do laff open yure mouth
wide enuff for the noise tew git OF
without squaling; thro yure he'd bak az
tho yu was going to be shaved hold OF
tew yure false hair with both hands ant
then laf till yure soul gifts thoroly rest
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NUMBER ss
San Domingo Scheme Not Aban.
dOued,

Senator Cole, of California, whose
term expires with the present Congress.
is making himself particularly useful IN
the Grant cause, and is taking such
course as will best commend him to the
personal gratitude of the President, who
has, it is said, intimated his intention to
take care OF Mr. Cole, in case the Ad,
ministration is reelected. The Senator
IS now engaged in an effort to popular.
ize the San Domingo scheme His
speech in Sacramento on that question,
and in glorification OF Gen. Grant, is be-
ing sent broadcsstethrough the country,
which is. taken as an Indication that the
President sill renew his efforts at an
nexation.s Gen. Babcock recently ad.
vised friend to invest money in San
Domingo.ess IS would eeytainly be anr
nexed. ~ l:''''e1P s''s s.tA
l
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HURRAH FOR GREELEY.

hS ksNAH FUR u EELEts
AIR-"Dirie."
Away with Grant and all his forces,
Office holders, dogs and horses, ...
Away. away, away, awayl
The land has struck for Greeley,
Hurrah, hurrahl
In Greeley's band we'll take our stand,
And sing and shout for Greeley,
Hurrah hurrah!
For honest Horace GreeleJ.
Away with hatred, false ambition,
Ignorance and superstition.
Away, away away, away
The land has struck for Greeley.
Hurrah, hurrah!
In Greeley'5 baud well take our stari,
And slug and shout for Greeley.
Hurrah, hurrah.
For Honest Horace Greeley.
Well clasp with true enthusiasm
Our hands across the bloody chasm.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrahl
The land has struck for Greeley,
Hurrah. hurrah!
In Greeley's band well take our stand,
And sing and shout for Greeley.
Hurrah, hurrah
For Honest Horace Greeley,
The people Join in foud ovation.
From North to South through all the na-
., tion,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, burrahl
The land has struck for Greeley.
Hurrah, hurrah!
In Greeley's band we'll take our stand,
Aud sing and shout for Greeley, ...
Hurrah, hurrah!
For Honest Horace Greeley, ....l
Gratz Brown comes in with voice Of thun-
der, rt"
Warning the foe to stand from under,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
The land has struck for Greeley,
Hurrah, hurrahl
In Greeley's band we'll take our stand
And sing and sheut for Greeley.
Hdrrah, hurrah!
For Honest Horace Greeley.
The old white coat is now the fashion,
And soon shall grace the old White Man
= sion. ..........-. -s.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
The land has struck for Greeley.
Hurrah, hurrah!
In Greeley's band we'll take our stand,
And sing and shout for Greeley.
Hurrah. hurrah!
For Honest Horace Greeley,
Naught shall henoeforth our hearts dis
sever,' .....-H-.. r
But peace and love shall rule forevsy.
Hurrah. hurrah. hurrah, hurrah!
The land has struck for Greeley.
n Hurrah, hurrah!
In Greeley's band wen take our stand.
And sing and shout for Greeley.
Hurrah, hurrah!
For Honest Horace Greeley.
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Horace Greeley I'm Congress.

Mr.. Greeley's whole course while in
Congress was characterized by great ac
tivity--he was restlessly Industrious
there, as he is said invariably to be else
where-and was marked by a desire to
make all his work as a representative of
the people, count for their good. His
first recorded act was the introduction
by him, December 5, Of bill ITO dis
courage speculation i'll public lands, and
to secure homes thereon to actual set
tiers and cultivators." All through his
Short Term we find him laboring zeal,
ously to secure legislation which would
make our public domain a means to the
elevation of our poor man to independ-
ence and wealth We also find that he
guarded carefully the expenditures of
the public treasure so far as Congress
had the regulation of them, and when
appropriation bills were under consider
alton, he was as active and watchful as
Judge Holman himself. He never would
consent to any useless expenditures
On one occasion, the Army Appropria-
ton Bill being under consideration in
Committee of the Whole, he vehement
ly attacked the clause appropriating
thirty-eight thousand dollars for the
expenses of recruiting. He thought
the sum too large-the system of re-
cruiting was wrong any how. "He be.
lieves that an abundant supply Of men
could be found for the army by merely
putting up flag for them, as was often
done for hiring laborers on railroads
and other public works" He inveighed
bitterly against the methods pursued to
fill the ranks Of the army, charging that
intoxication, fraud, corruption and bri-
berry were used to "rob wives of their
husbands, and widows Of their sons,
under circumstances which would ordin-
arily render individuals liable for indict
ment" He contended that the army
was only kept up to fight Indians, which
was all wrong, saying that "if one half
the moEey now spent in Indian wars
was expended in keeping the indians
quiet, instead Of driving them out OF
the country, it would effect an immense
saving to the Treasury which has been
since tried, and proven pretty success
full Indian policy. This was only fe.
days after the beginning Of the session,
and showed that Mr.. Greeley did not
need to come to Washington and serve
term or two, to enable him to form
opinions as to what legislation was nee
|ded He had considered these questions
as fully, as private citizen, as he could
have done in Congress.
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ProvidentIaiiy Directed.

Among the attendants of late Meth
odist Conference was very beautiful
and intelligeDt-loolsing young lady, who
drew the admiring gaze of many eyes,
particularly eyes masculine, always on
the looko out for pretty feminine faces.
During the intermission at noon,a spruce
young minister stepped up to the presi-
ding elder, and said, with an air Of Sc.
secrecy:
"Did you observe the young lady who
sat by the first pillar on the left p
EYES," said the elder. "what of her ?"
"Why," said the young man, 81 feel
impressed that the Lord desires me to
take that lady for my wife 1 think she
would make good companion and
helpmeet in the work Of the ministry"
The elder, as good Christian ought,
had nothing to object.
But in few moments another candi-
date for ministerial effects and honors,
and for the name of husband, came con-
fidentially to make known like impress
sion regarding the same identical young
lady.
"You had better wait awhile. 1t is
not best to be hasty in determining the
source of such Impressions" said the
prudent elder. ...... =.
And he said well for hardly were the
steps Of the second youth cold at hi:
side, ere third approached with the
same story; and while the worthy con-
fdant still marveled, the fourth drew
near with the question: ..
"Did you notice the fine, noble look
ing woman on your left?'
"Yes," cried the swelling elder.
"Well SIR" went on the fourth vic
tim of that unsuspicious girl, sit is
strongly horne in upon my MUD that
should make proposals of marriage tc
that lady. She has impressed me tina
she is to be my wife"
The elder could stand it no longer
"Impossibe! lmpossible!' he ex
claimed, in an excited tone; "the Lore
never could have intended that four mel
should marry that one womauw
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Two Irishmen, on sultry night,
took refuge under the bedclothes from
a party of mosquitoes. At last one Of
them, gasping from heat to peep beyond
the buIwarks, and espied FREELY which
had strayed into the room. Arousing
his companion with punch he said
"Fergus, Fergus, it's no use Ye might
as well come out. Here's one of the
craythers sarching for us wid a lantern -
What is asmile?' asked man of 8
little girl, "Ihe whispers OF laugh,
said she.
"Darling,it is bedtime all the chickens
have gone to bed" "Yes. mamma, and
so has the old hen"
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"Mother, father won't be in heaven
with us, will he T" "Why, my child p
"Because he can leave the store"
A little girl sent out to hunt eggs, came
back unsuccessfully, complaining that
lots of hens were standing around doing
nothing.
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How to Bet.

A Yankee arriving in Boston without
money or friends, was revolving in his
mind some plan whereby he could raise
the chink, as he expressed it. Jonathan
had never visited city before in his
life He strolled into shoemaker
where an advertisement, Wanted q
First class Boot Maker appeared on
the window, and accosted the proprie.
tor:
"Do YOU want a fitst-class boot ma
ker here p
"Yes."
"What do you pay2''
"That depends on your capacity
Have you worked at custom work p
Il reckon. You Jest try me captain
l hain't skeered bit at tryin'."
The proprietor gave his new hand 6
bench and materials, and bade him make
a pair of ladies' CATERS. Soon after he
left the store on business.
Jonathan made shoe, but such q
| orrible affair, that ashamed to show it
he hid it in the leather shavings; just as
he completed the second shoe the pro-
prietor returned He few into pas
sion at beholding the botched shoe.
"You confounded rascal, so bad {
shoe as that has never been made in this
establishment !" he exclaimed. a-
"Would you like to bet on that, stran
ger?" s1.
"Bct. Yes. I bet ten dollars nc
such wolk as that was ever done in thi:
Store"
Jonathon walked to the shavings
! dragged forth his first shoe, and coolly
pocketing his ten dollars, walked off,
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