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SISERO Or KECKERO.

Out in Cbilicothe, Ohio, saws Max
Adeler, they are having a terrible war
over the pronunciation Of the name of
our old friend and playmate. Cicero.
The pr~ineipalOf one of republic schools
has been teaching the BOYS to call il
Kiekero and the parents all insist that
it ought to be called Sisero; and the con-
trOversy has waXed 50 warm that the
parents waylay the teacher after dark.
and seize him by the hair, and pound
his head against fre-plugs. to make kim
abandon the kickerO theory and he saws
he viii die hrst. We have q prejudice
IN favor Of Sisero ourselves, because we
never heard Cicero pronounce his own
name IN any other manner: but. il il
makes any nan happier to cal him
hfckero. We do not see why nizVcedv
should object. We can answer fcrH
ero that be viii not take offsnse az II.
that he viii not pound anybOdvIs
head against afire-plug for the purpose
OF showing the erring n that he is
wrong. Perhaps, however, the question
might be settled amicablv bv c0mpro-
mise Why not cali him Sieksro OF
hlserso, or kisickeTO, o. Sickiser02 Or
why not designate him a. Mare. OF "a
Iuuy-the names given him in bsptism9
Far better that either Of thesf should Be
adopted than the fre-pluzs OF S~hinicothe
should be battered to pieces bv collision
with theh head Of hatinfatuated teacher.
while ron is SO scarce aAd high.
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VICTORY CERrAIN IN ONO.


In the APPEAL Of yesterday we ex-
pressed our fears that in Ohio the Lib
erals and Democrats together would not
be able to overcome the twenty thou
sand majority Of the Radicals at the
last election in 1871. The exertions Of
the administration and the money ex-
pended by its friends to continue the
Radicals in power have beenso exhaust
i've and so large as, to our mind al this
distance, forbid the possibility Of the
success Of the cause Of Reconciliation.
We knew that Pennsylvania had been
given up by Grant and his friends; that
since their failure TO spike the gun
which Porney fires at Hartranft so per-
sistently, and with such signal success,
they have turned away from the Key
stone State as from a forlorn hope,
and have determined TO concentrate
their strength and spend their funds |
West. Indiana they had also
conceded 70 the Liberal cause, especially
since Greeley and VOORHEES, stood upon
the same platform and spoke for the re-
Cancellation Of the sections, for peace
and good will, and for the regeneration
Of the government out of the hands Of
incompeteney and dishonesty. They
know that, try as they may, they cannot
the steady current Of public
opinion in Indiana, nor turn back tbe
swelling tide that is to sweep Radical
ism into retiraey in The Hoosler State.
The Radicals have no hope Of success in
Pennsylvania or Indiana. They, there
fore, turn their attention, and are ex-
pending all their powers Of speech, Of
argument, persuasion and money in
Ohio. Here then is the great debating
Of the war between Liberalism
and Radicalism, and here the con-
est is felt by both sides to
be most important Here victory,
it shall perch upon our banners on the
siehth, viii speak loudest to the people
Il the whole Republic Of the POSSIBLE
les that are within the reach Of the
Liberals and Democrats Of all the States
4 &-Uqhn. And Of tbs character Of
'ictory We are assured. Our fears have
overcome. We have Information,
rom q thoroughly reliable source, that
ohio Is good for a large majority and
leavy gains for the Liberal cause. Cob
mel Duncan X. McRse, in Difference to
be urgent solicitations Of Ohio Liberals,
las been stumping that State, doIngyeo- !
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a WOMAN's EXPERIENCE IN A
RUSSIAN BATH.

We we were Invested Of every stitch
Of our clothing, our rings and bracelets
locked up, our back hair taken off, our
own special possession of seventy-fve
or a hundred hairs made into a little
hirsute pill and impsled with q hair pin.
That was the only token Of civilization
we boosted. The procession formed. At
the door we were handed a miniature
sheet and little bit Of sponge wet with
cold water. Through a passage to a
room, where we dropped our sheets and
entered q vapor that clothed us decent
ly. Well, in this steam l thought l
should suffocate. 1t poured up and
down through holes till it was dreadful.
The use of the wet sponge, 1 here ascer-
tanned, was to put on top Of your head
to prevent Coup de steam or some
such dire complaint. They wouldn't
let me out, and the temperature got
worse and worse, and I began to think
ofmy mother and an obituary notice,
when We were pronounced cooked
enough, andlet out into a room in which
was a tank ofeold water, through which
you must wade or swim as you could.
Csesar's ghost, 1 flew through it. My
anatomy and physiology were heated to
8 boiling point. This water seemed like
ice. 1t sent the blood rushing TO my
hollow head (Pm convinced 1 have no
brains(, and my heart came kerflop up
and went kerchunk down. / made M
my mind this was the worst of it, and
tried to be resigned. had been soaped
and scrubbed in the vapor till l
was scarified. l stood on the brink and
watched my companions splashing
through the internal tank. One of EN-
to expedite her own release caught at
my ankle; away went my soapy, slip
feet from under me, andinI went for
q second time. At the next stage Of this
truly awful experience We received the
shower, 1 had now become convinced
that l should never see home or friends /
In a calm despair l walked I'M
der a column of water that nearly broke |
my back, and just here l got mad. That
fat attendant hasn't yet recovered sufh- |
to make a complaint, and when
that woman went before Judge Downing, /
that gentleman said it was a conspiracy; |
that no woman Of my size, unaided, /
could do such damage. He told the wo-
man to goshome and say nothing about
It, for she had evidently been dreadfully
drunk, and undertaken to walk through
; carpet-eleaning machine. And that's
the first and last Russian bath l take.
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AN A~LPHABETIC TREASURE.

The London Art journal saws: HAu-
other alphabetic treasure has been
only very recently discovered on Mount
Moriah, by NJ. ChermOnt Ganneau.
This gentleman has had the good for
tune to observe, placed as a tombstone
in a Mohammedan cemetery, of the
very tablets which, as we are told by
JOsephus, Herod the Great erected with
in the Mountain Of the House, to warn
strangers from setting foot within the
CheL, or prescribed boundary. The stone.
being thus employed, could not be re-
moved; but we have seen an excellent
photograph. The letters are clearly cut,
about an inch and three-quarters in
hight. They are perfectly square and
upright, without the foot, or Serif, which
in every respect to the most finished
form Of Greek capital now used in print
ing. The beauty Of the letters is more
remarkable from its contrast with what
is called united Greek, in the Oldest ex-
tant manuscripts. The first letter, a
Ma, or NJ, is distinguished by the out
ward inclination Of the upright strokes.
Ii may be said to stand astraddle. 1t is
remarkable that a theta occurs in
the first world, instead Of the della with
which it is now written. MethenG, in
stead OF Medend-po one.n
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DON'T KNOW HOW.

Bertha Davis, Of Rochester, writes to
declare that American women as a rule,
don't know how to wriggle their behind
bunch with grace. She made further
fault as follows.
trYour parasol, my dear, lwhat are you
doing with it? The sun Is directly in
your back, and you are holding that
dainty article at an angle Of forty-6ve
degrees over your nOse. Bless me, what
q figure you cut-a perfect leaning tow
er, with an eruption on the back. If
you could only see yourself, my dear;
but then you can't, so there's no use in
talking; you'll always persist in carry
ing your parasOl in that ~ungraceful way,
making yourself look ridiculous. Now,
here comes q woman who walks, not
waddles; just watch her; there's no Jerk
ing or twisting, but g smooth, bulowy
motion; she puts her foot down firmly,
squarely, taking q step twice the length
Of yours, which to her full drapeFy gives
an undulating motion, reminding one Of
the swell by the waves on the moOnlit
sea-a woman among q thousand, who,
though plain featured, would attract at
tention anywhere by her graceful ear
riage, her 1.-the, billowy form, giving to
her that air of qneenliness you are at q
loss to explain in one who has no pre-
tensions to beauty. She holds her para
sol in such a way that il seems really a
part of herself; il is neither jerked on
one side nor pitched over her face, nor
is she ~nervOusly jabbing every passer-
by with it; she holds it firmly. That
woman doesn't make sn awkward APP
pearance with her paras0l coming up
the street, as does my modern belle,
just in advance Of her; yet, my dear,
you are gotten up In faultless style-a
perfect marvel Of dress-makers' art; and
catching a glimpse Of your fair form in
the plate-glass windows, you smile COM
placently, thinking you are doing the
dip superbly, when, If you did but know
it, yoUare outraging every of beau
ty and every line Of motion, making
where there should be curves, !
jerky movements that set your
drapery ina f~iutter, giving you the ap-
pearance Of q rufiied hen, Where there
should be only = ripple Of molten"
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CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHAN
MEL


The English people have devised M
merUUs schemes for going from Dover To
Calais without the horrors of saa-sfck-
ness, one Of which as vet have been
successful. OfOne Of the latest Of these
the London Spectator says. "Mr. Besse-
mer is said 10 be likely to crown a life
crowded with original inventions by one
orthe most ~benehcent Of human achieve
meHts- he has invented, It is said, an
apparatus for keeping the saloon Of q
steamer mmOvable, however strongly
the steamer herself may pitch and roll.
The general principle Is to suspend the
saloon on an ks passing through the
centre, about which the ship OscillateS.
and which, consequently, though not
absolutely mmOveable, is liable to very
little movement itself. But to this Mr..
Bessemer adds an application of one Of
nus own previously invented hydraulic
powers, by which a lad with his eve
liked on a spirit level attached TO the sa-
loon, to see whether its level is changing
or not, can, by the mere turn Of "a ham
Ole, restore It to "a perfectly horizontal
line, before it has deviated from IL bv
the smallest fraction Of a degree. We
are further told that Nh. E. j. Reed. the
former Constructor Ofthe Nav. Is build
ing two vessels three hundred and fifty
ieet long, with suspended saloons o n
structed on this principle, for the Chan
mel service. The notion is delightful.
but there Is q certain amount of ALLOW in
the conception Of that lad, who. if mis-
chieviously inclined, can, almost by the
turning Of his handle, iufict on tie sa-
loon an artificial motion that will pro-
sea-sickness. 1t is humiliatinp
enough to be siekeued by the sea. buc to
be liable to sea-siekness artiicialiy pro-
dueed by the minder Of a machine
would be truly ignOminiOUs. However.
All civilization, we suppose, means put
ing oneself at the mercy of fell0w-crea-
-ures-often not the most responsible
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LUCIA.

Shortly before Lucca's departure for
America she gave a concert at Isehl, the
celebrated watering-piace Of the Salzk-
ammergut, in Bavaria, for the bene1t Of
the poor Of the town. A correspondent
Of the Musical World, writing about De-,
says. iHThe Emperor and Empress OF
Austria happened to be 40 IscI at the
time, and Thought the Emperor was in
mourning, and, therefore, could not at
ttend the concert, the Grand Duchess
.EOphia did. and was enchanted. Next
morning the Emperor sent his aid-de-
Amp TO Madame Lucca with the pro-
rbsal Of an engsgemet, on the part Of
bis Majesty, for the new Grand Opera
which now replaces the time-hOuored
Kamrnerthor-term one hundred thou
sand gulden annually for three years,
with six months conQs, and a pension
Of twenty thousand gulden. Lucca's
engagement with Mr.. MareZek, how
ever, for New York and the principal
towns in the United States Of America,
rendered her acceptance Of this magnif-
heent offer impossible. NotWiths-and-
ing her inevitable refusal, whitehead be-
come very generally known, on leaving
the railway station at Ischl, where q
large crowd had assembled, at the mo-
meut OF starting a packet was placed in
Nine. Lucca's hands, which packet on
tanned a magnificent bOquet Of din
mOnds, a gift from the Princess Tru-
betzkOi, who had been present 90 the
concert for the poor, and who had pre-
viOusly witnessed many Of Luccais tri-
Umphs at st. Petersburg and elsewhere.
Similar cGdeGUE anne u0m the Impe-
rial House Of Hapsburg, in recognition
Of The charitable act Of Mime. Lucca and
Of her artistic worth. The present Of
the Kaiser WIS q diadem i'm uriliiants,
deliberately set in pure gold; that of the
Empress was a pair Of pearl earrings OF
great value, also set in gold-the smaller
pearl being in the shape Of an apple,
the larger pearls the pendants, ia the
shape Of pears. On leaving Berlin, on
the way for the United States, shortly
afterward. the Emperor Of Germany
presented Nine. Lucca with q pair Of
earrings formed Of gigantic pearls, oys-
ter-shaped, and st1dd, d with briliauts
Of the pures1 water. The Empress gave
her a splendid pearl necklace, al the
pearls being oriental. The regret ar
Pauline Lgcca'8 necessary absence rom
Germany Is shared alike By courts and
communities, fora more universal faV-
0rite, from the highest ranks % the low
est, could not be cited in the history Of
the lyricO-dramatic art.'
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rHK oLD coAr oF 49,.


twenty-five years ago the mother Of Blon-
dine, who writes the following admirable
verse, was the preferred poeri-al contributor
% the APPEAL. Bloud5ae shows how very
nearly "sWeet slXtceu" can teA a story % In
edabis tendeTness-EDs- ArslAL-l
It Hes there aloue- it Is rusty andnded.
With a patch on the elbow, a hole Ia the
side,
But We think ofthe brave boy who wore it.
Look on It with pleasure and touch it with
A history cliugs % It; over and over,
We zee a proud youth hurried OF - the fray,
With bis form like the oak, and his eyes ike
How SaIiaat he rode in the ranks Of SHE
GrHyf'
II is rough, 10 f. worn. it & iatiared in places,
But I love it the more for the story 10 bears,
A story o. courage in struggle WIN sOuOWs-
Anda heart that bore bravelT ~ burden Of
II Is raggsd ana rusty, but ahI e. wus shining.
In the silktest sherngEhen Dc worau away
And his smile was a. bright a. tae Elad SUM
when he spra1g to his place mthe ranks Of
"the Gray"
There's a rp In the sleeve, and The collar Is
The bgttoas all gone with taeIf glitter and
lis a snIng 81 the past and we rsverently Iayit
AWAY WIKI Tie treasures ana EsAEa OF lll
As the nfts Of a love- solemn, sweet and IN
Are eHensned asIeaves nom a long vanished
day,
We wiTkeep the old jacket FOR sake OF the
who rode Ia the van In the ranks Of athe
Gray"
Shot through With a bunet-right here In the
And down there the pocket Is spautsd and
III m0rsIses the lining is stained and ais
Y-es-5lood-dIops the texture have stiHsued
It came Wien he rode at the head Of tho col
Charging down IN the battle one deadliest
When s~quadrons OF foemen were broken asun
And Victory rode with the ranks Of athe
Gray"
Is memory Is sweetness and sorrow com
mingled,
TOmet IS -PrseiOus-moTe precious than
in the rents and the shothOles a volume Is
IN the stains on The lining Is agony told
was ten years ago, when In LIES sunny
He rode with his comrades down INTO the
And the Old coat he wore and the good sword
he welded.
We're all hat came back from the ranks OF
"the Gray"
And It lies there alone; I VIII reverence It
ever,
The patch In the elbow, the hole IN the side.
a zallauter heart never breathed than the
loved one
Who wore 10 ia honor and soldiery pride.
Let me brush on the dust rom its tatters and
taruisht
Let me fold it up closely and lay 70 away
Il is all that Is LEFT OF the loved and the lost
one
Who fought for the RIGHT IN the ranks Of
'the Cray
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maR'e service in a cause which he has
from the first espoused with zeal, andhe
tells US, in a letter elsewhere published,
that he a safely and beyond question,
as he does, assure Us Of not only a ma
jority In the State, but one Of five thou
sand in Hamilton county, equivalent to
a gain Of nine thousand. In addition
to this, he tells US Of the cordial and
fraternal greetings that have been
extended to him wherever he has
spoken and that at Belle Air, especially
be was waited upon by intelligent men
Of color who congratulated him upon
the sentiments he expressed in regard
to their race; announcing that they
could not see why the negroes Of the
South should plant themselves in oppo-
sition to the Liberal cause. We are
proud Of these results Of the presence in
Ohio Of one ofour best speakers, keenest
and shrewdest Observers and most lib
eral thinkers. A SoutheFner by birth
and training and long engaged In pub
lie life, Colonel MeRae Is a fit and prop
er representative Of Tennessee, and in
whatever he-may say for the Liberal
cause will be fully Endorsed by the peo-
pie Of the South. His present, we hope,
will prove the best work Of his life, for
what nobler work can a man en-
gage in than that of re~conciling an es-
tranged people whom God has deereed
shall be one; what better work than
that which is TO cement States that
have been separated by a bloody chasm;
what better work than to heal the
wounds Of war and preach the great,
the grand and b~enefcent doctrine of re
Cancellation. His is, too, a noble ex-
ample to others Of gu speakers. The
Northern people want to hear from our
public men. They want to hear from
our representative men and to know as
from those in authority that our is no
mere lip service, but the honest utteran-
ces of honest hearts devoted to the cause
of a country common to US al, a Re
public that is to be the glory and not the
shame of our race.
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AN IMMENSE BREWERY.

The largest brewery in the world is
that Of Barclay, Perkins & Co., London.
They use annually eighteen thousand
bales Of hops, and make over one million
barreles Of ale. There place covers
twelve acres in the heart of London, for
which they recently refused the sum Of
twenty millions of dollars, or one million
seven hundredsnd fifty thousand dollars
per acre. Barclay, Perkins & Co. use
nine thousand pounds ofhops and twelve
thousand five hundred bushels of malt
daily. They make one thousand seven
hundred and fifty barrels of beer at a
brewing. Their porter is slowed in a
hundred and seventy-twO large tubs,
each holding from thousand five
hundred to three thousand barrels. Talk
about big barrelsl Why, they have
seven casks, called the ''seven sisters"
which hold three thousand six hundred
barrels each. They are fifty feet high
and thirty feeti diameter. Their draft
horses are the marvel Of all London.
They have one hundred and sixty-two
of the splendid nineteen-hand horses,
worth seven hundred dollars apiece.
They are 30 heavy asto wear cut aninch
thick horseshoe once in two weeks.
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GRIM GERmAN HUmOs.

A curious work on the humorous
element in German law" by o. Gieske,
has just been published at Berlin. The
author describes the pUnishments which
were inflicted in various parts Of Ger
many, in some cases up to very recent
period, with the object Of humiliating
the culprit and exposing him to public
ridieUle. a common punishment was
that Of going in procession through the
streets Of a town or village in a dress
covered with images Of swords, whips
and rods, and other instruments OF cor
poreal ehastisement. In Hesse, women
who had beaten their husbands, were
made to ride backward on a donkey,
holding its tail, on which occasions the
animal was led through the streets by
the husband. This ridiculous custom
existed in Darmstadt up to the middle of
the seventeenth century, and was so
common that a donkey was kept always
ready for the purpose in the capital and
the neighbOring villages. 1.-THE woman
struck her husband in such j manner
that he could not ward OFF the blow. the
donkey was led by the man who had
Of him; if not, then, by the hus-
band himself. At st. GOar a miller was
allowed a certain quantity Of wood from
the forest belonging to the town, in re-
turn for which he was bound 70 supply a
donkey to the municipality, whenever
required, for the chastisement Of a scOld-
ing wife. Another very old custom
was that Of furnishing a ~henpecked
husband by removing the roof of his
house, on the ground that "a nan who
allows his wife to rule at home does not
deserve any protection against wind
and weather" If two women fOUghtin
public they were each put in a sort Of
sentry-bOX, which only left their 4
heads exposed, and then posted opposite /
% each other in the market-place where |
hey remained for an hour face to face, /
Jut unable to use their hands OF feet. A
punishment for scOlding wo-
men was the shameful stOne,r which
vas hung around their necks. ThisstOne
vas usually in the shape of bottle. At
Hamburg, hbellers and slanderers were
compelled to stand on ablOck and strike
themselves on the mouth as a sign
4 repentance. This custom still existed 7
hirty or forty years ago. In some towns
he " shameful stone " was in the shape
( a loaf, whence the German saying,
q heavy bit Of bread" (ein schCerer
6r0d). At Lut Eek it was in the
.ape of an oval dish, and in other
laces in that Of a woman putting out
er tongue. Such stones were usually
cry heavy; according to the law Of
)Ortmund and Halberstadt (134S) they
'ere to weigh a hundred weight. Those
tho were wealthy could purchase ex-
mption from this punishment with a
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ARE You ThINKINe oF u

BY L. R. P.
the Sunday Appeal.
Are you thinking Of me daring2
In this duh, sultry gloom,
With the air all ain with languOr
And its heavy, close perfume2
With the leaves quite shrunk and dropping
Like a pa-ssion-Wasted face,
And the darkness gently gathering
In the quiet lonely place?
Here, and there, a shining green thing,
Like a star is cleaning soft,
SteadfasL with reflected gladness
As my own life ~giistens Oft.
Brightens when I think you love me, ~
As a lende blade OF grass.
Quivers bright a thread Of silver,
When the mOon-rays slowly pass.
Are you thinking Of me darIngP
l, who think so mucn Of YOU,
Scarce can note the beauty round me,
Down the branches drifting through.
Are the clouds as white andsdeeey,
In their pale ntght-sky OF blue
Far above, q are the shades love
Weird and dense about you, too7
Does a sound break harsh and startling
On the stiffness as you dream,
Like a discord in the music Z, X
OF a mellow, even theme?
Do the stars that cluster Ger you -
In q happy vision see
That your heart with love is beating,
That you smiling, think OF me?
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AN occasional correspondent writes
US from Emory, Virginia, and speaks in
most encouraging terms Of the great
Liberal movement in that part of the
Old Dominion. He says, "the Conser-
vatives have aroused from their Rip
Van Wrinkle slumbers and are doing
yeoman work to huIl the tyrant from
the Presidential chair. They have fully
discovered that they have never had
such a dangerous and formidable enemy
to contend with since the governmental
fabric was formed. The Radicals have
disseminated, over the whole country,
false documents to deceive and poison
the human mind. The Conservatives,
seeing this, could not afford to be idle.
A good many have entered the eanvRss
and are proving to the people the faIsity
of these documents, and in November
next a mighty change will come over
the spirit of Radicalism; and the ripple
Of Liberal Republicanism and Democ-
racy will assume immense waves, and
Grant and his followers will be over
whelmed, even as Pharaoh and his hosts
overwhelmed in the Red Sea-"