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casion, instead of the expected inquiry, "IIow
Is Rosacea distinguished from Papilionacea ?''
or some such learned intenogatory, they were
asked TO tell in descriptive language the diff
ference between strawberry, blackberry,
and mulberry. No one could say, although
they had presented themselves for examina-
ton as experts III botanical studies.
The strawberry is not berry. 1t is barely
entitled to rank as fruit. The delicious
morsel is simply the receptacle or upper por-
ton OF the stem on which the seeds are set.
Every child knows the dandelon, and its
silk-likc seeds, which in playfulness it blows
away to see WHATS O'clock" Then there
Is lett on the stem punctlired surface like
the end of q thimble. If, now, this dotted
surface were to become more cellular and
swell rapidly as mushroom swells. carving
along with it the seeds to its surface, we
should have fruit like unto the strawberry.
This Is precisely the way the strawberr is
produced. 1t Is one of those instances where
q very small Incident resulted remarkably.
There are other plants closely allied to the
strawberry-botanists call them Potentllas-
which are strawberries in everything but this
PUPPY matter underlying the seeds. The
whole OF these plants-a very extensive
'famly--are utterly worthless for any purpose
TO man. Supposing, on the Darwinian theory,
th''t inc SlIiWbcrIN Is ueNeIppeu rom tileSe
ry-headed fellows, and that the sweet succu-
lence is the result Of some power Of evolution,
1t Will be seen on how narrow chance this
great change stood, The Irish swain who
likened his adored to plate of Strawberries
smothered in crame,' could scarcely contem-
plate without shudder how nearly the sweet
slmile might have been lost to him.
And as regards Darwin how strange it is.
that those who come before the public as his
opponents do not get up some original ideas
from everyday life with which to fight their
doughty antagonist. This strawberry lesson
would seem to offer one such opportunity.
The Darwinian idea is that plants change for
their own good; that any change they make
is in order the better to aid their production,
nutrition, or perpetuation. Now, what has
the strawberry gained by its succulency that
the dry-fruited forms do not possess? The
dry ones abound everywhere, they flourish in
proiusion, and their progeny take care of
themselves just as well. May not the anti
Darwinians argue that if the succplency of
the strawberry is due to natural selection it
was an useless effort Z?
How much may be learne from many COM
mon things? Here we have before US, year
after year, and at this season, day after day,
an article of food of which we really know
nothing, and yet we see how much it may
contribute to our mental as well as TO our
bodily pleasures. Press.
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Lessons from a Strawberry.

Some time ago an American was expatiat-
ing on English ignorance. He had found in
London men of considerable intelligence who
did not know whether potatoes grew in the
ground, or how they grew. He was aston
ished soon afterwards by a similar occurrence
at home. A lawyer-a Philadelphia LAWYER
at that-in n case before court, did not know
how many years it took to bring cabbage to
perfection. The fact is, none Of us can afford
to laugh at our ncighbors' ignorance and
especially when that ignorance is in regard
to common things.
Here is the strawberry before us. How
many know what it is they are eating? We
talk of the delicious berry" when in truth
it is not berry at all. But this is not sur
prising, for, as already said, even those
learned in the higher branches have a singu-
lar ignorance about the objects of everyday
life. The writer remembers an examination
in botany of a college graduating class. II
always had been the custom to question the
students on the leading differences between
] IL, r.~eSII e.. - II n
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In speech at Great Falls, New Hamp-
shire, delivered in February, the Hon. Henry
Wilson SAID: 81 left my home at ten wears
of age, and served an apprenticeship of eleven
years, receiving months schooling each
year, and at the end of eleven years of hard
work, yoke of oxen and six sheep, which
brought me eighty-four dollars. Eighty-four
dollars for eleven years of hard toll! never
spent the amount of one dollar in money,
counting every penny, from the time was
born until was twenty-one years Of age.
know what il is to travel weary miles, and ask
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q, -Locusts have appeared in Kentucky bv
y tne million and there are fears that they will
do great damage to the fruit. -
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The Colored Vote.

what the Csissea Men OF Alabama Know
Abeut Horace Greeley-An Interview with
James r. Rapter-The State Almost Solid
for GRANT.
"H. v. b." the able regular correspond
emit of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing
from Montgomery, does not afford much
comfort to the anxious Greeleyites of the
North with regard to the colored vote of
Alabama. We quote from his letter
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A Failing House.

Our italian correspondent, in his last let
ter, tells curious, miserable story about a
young lady, who is, in the present genera
ton, the only daughter Of semi-royal his
toric house, the Princess of Monaco. The
recent annals of her family have certainly
been of melancholy and humiliating char
acter. The Princess grandfather, the tenth
Duke of Hamilton, married daughter of the
celebrated Beckford, Of Fonthill, author OF
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The noted cremona violin owned by Mr..
l.. A.. Louis, of Centralia, Illinois, and made
in 1872, was sold for 81 500 recently in New
York city.
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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-12-12
PRAISE CHILDREN.
BY EDWARD EGGLESToN.

There is an old superstition that praise
is too good a thing to De given to the
children that it is too rich for their
mental and moral digestion. Some pa
rents are SO afraid that child will grow
proud that th6y never praise him, and
this course is often distrous. Il is apt to
produce either 100 much self-assertion-
for aeil-assertion Is legitimate out
growth of the Withholding of commenda-
ton to which one is entitled-or to co.
gender self-distrust, Or melancholy
horelessness Of disposition.
Praise is sunshine to = child, and there
Is no child that does not need it. 1t Is
the high reward of ones struggle to do
right Thomas Hughes says that you
can never get mans best out of him
without praise You certainly can never
get child $ best cut of him without
praise Many sensible child, we be-
heve, dies of hunger for kind eommenda-
ton. Many child starving for the
praise that parent should give. runs of
eagerly after. the designing flattery oil
others.
To withhold praise where it is due, is
dishonest. and in the case of child, such
a course often leaves singing sense Of
injustice Motives of common justice as
well as regard for the future of the child
should influence the parent to give gen
eroi praise for all that deserves it. o.
coui there is difference in the const,-
tnti, / of children. Some cannot bear 50
mucs praise as others, and some need q
great deal
Il should never be indiscriminate. We
remember a wonderful woman wht
taught school in one village until she haC
educated part Of three generations Shs
was one Of the most successful of teach
ers But her success lay in her gift o.
praising with Discrimination a bad
boy who vas good scholar got praise.
for his briliaaey, saniHiched between
her abomination for bis bad behavior
and so Won to better life, and we recall
q good girl who had not the gift of learn
ing rapidly. lut who was saved from NJ.
ter despair by the praise she got for hel
untiring industry. Into the discouraged
hearts of.the children the praise of the
tsacher came like. sunlight. And th,
virtues, Ike other fruits. cac only ripe.
in the sunshine.
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TENAFLY. n. Y, Nov. Is, 1872.
Mystery Of American Winter Storms
all atmospheric wave.

A telegrom from Washington announ-
ces that the researches of the Signal OF
ice have just been rewarded by u beauti-
iIi and highly important ineteorologlca cal
discovery.
On the coast of England, from time
lmmemorlai, the phenomenon Of the great
November atmospheric wave has been
the speculation of scientists and seamen
but Sir John Herschel and others have
supposed 1t was pccullaT. and confined to
England and Western Earope, which it
reaches from the South Atlantic, and
over which 1t rolls in long continued I'M
dulations from October to January, con-
shutting an important element IN the
phenomenal character OF European WIN
ter. On the 18th of November, a similar
atmospheric wave began to break over
the shores Of Oregon and British Coium-
bia, as shown by the weather kilograms.
BY the evening of the 18th. it had spread
over nearly all of the Poetic States and
Territories, Utah and Nevada, and at
midnight was pouring through the pass
es OF the Rocky Mountains On Thurs
Gay, the 18th, it descended upon Colo
RADIO, Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian
Territory. On Friday morning, it ex-
tended IN unbroken magnitude aud mag
uiucence from oregon ana " aShlngtOn
Territory eastward through the great
trough or depression OF the Rocky Noun
tain backbone in Idaho and Montana,
and stretched thence to the Lower Mis-
souri, and lower Mississippi valleys. and
over the western shore Of the Mexican
Gulf.
This discovery viii enable meteorolo-
glsts to anticipate by many days the ap
proach Of winter, as it advances from
the Pacific coast eastward IN the great
current of westerly winds It serves to
clear ap the old mystery of American
winter storms, sho ing that they origin
ate III the Rocky Mountains, upon whose
cold and Hottest SUBMITS in Nevada.
Utah, Colorado, aud Southern Wyomine
she vaporladen air Of this wave, coming
from over the warm Pacific, is now seen
to be condensed In TIE overwhelming
SHOWS Of the forty first parallel. As this
vast aerial wave is probably like the
English wave, continued in successive
fluctuations for two or three months, it
may assist in explaining the COMPARE
lively high temperature and light pre-
| cipitation in winter along Puget Sound
and eastward.
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AGENTS Rare Chance

We will pay all Agents $40 per week III cash, who
viii engage with ONCE. Everythin furnished
and expenses paid Address
A COULTER 4 CO.. Charlotte Mich
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Ugh Cut EN- too Short.

One Of our army officers tells the fol-
loving amusing story-hoW an Indian be-
came disguised.
The distance between my post and San
"a Fe was over 500 miles, anu to facilitate
matters | was ordered to survey a new
aud short route, cutting off about 10
miles y company numbering eighty
men were detailed for the purpose, and
as the course Ay partly through wooden
region. considerable squad was required
as axmen. Three or four lively black and
tan terriers accompanied the command,
atording no little amusement by their ac-
tiyity In snappingsup unwary gophers,
rats, mice and other vermin. The abb
origines had frequently honored US with
their presence. claiming to be Good In
dian me. and We're excessively pleased
with those performances. On certain
oceasiou stalWart fellow who spoke a
lew words in English, said TO me:
Nantanh, heap good dog
Eyes" l replied they are good dogs
''Cut 'un ear, cut 'un tail, make 'un
good dog p
Certainly; it is because their ears and
tail are trimmed that they get around SO
lively.
Aoughl Ne got good dog; cut 'un
tail ?"
Yes; bring your dog, I'll have him
fixed for you. -
Next day my Navajoo friend appeared
with & small, black, Indian dog sporting
long tail and ears to correspond. Tn
rolling this quadruped from his blanket,
he signifed a desire to have the job done
without delay; so | called two men and
hade one hold the dog while the other
locked his tail with an ak. This did not
suit Redskin, who refused to trust his
favorite to the tender mercies of a savage
white man, and preferred to perform the
operation himself. | therefore ordered
one of them TO hold the dogs tail over
convenient log, while the other held his
head. and forepaws. All being ready the
Indian seized an ak, but instead of using
II any other person would have done,
he swung the blade high enough above
| ms head with both hands, as if the OBJ
| iect 10 be separated required his whole
strength. just then the soldier who held
the tail gave a sudden pull while the one
at the head gave corresponding push.
| Down came the keen weapon dividing the
unfortunate .purp" just forward of the
! hind quarters, to the infinite disgust OF
the Indian, who picked up the disjointed
halves. threw his blanket over his should
ers With an indeseribabIe dignity, and ex-
claimed in gut,eral accents. Ugh h-li
| i-n Cut un TOO short
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Free Homesteads for Actual Settlers.

ia unequaled by any known remedy. 1t VIII e adj
safe, eXtirpate and thoroughly destroy all poisonous
substances in the Blood and will eectaaIy ipel all
predispoSition TO bilious arrangement.
Is there want of action i'm y0ur liver
ana spleen 9 Unless relieved at once the blood
becomes impure by de!eterious secretons, producing
scrofuous skin diseases, blotces felons tl,les
caBRer. pinpies, &c. &c.
Have yo,sa ssysieDtic stomach I'm
less digestion Is promptly aided the system is ebilita-
ted With overly of Ths Blood, DropsicaI tendency
generally Neakeus and inertia.
nave You W esskxEies Oftiie EutesfineS?
You are IN dsngere Chronic DiSrrhoea or Infialna-
tion of rhe Bowels.
Have yea weakness OF the Uterine
or Urinary SrS8Rss You are exposed TO spf-
fsrlEg IN its most aggravated form.
re Yen dejecIed. drowsey, dull, sluggish,
or depressed in spirits, with head ache back sche
coated tongue and BAD tasting mouth.
Tor certain remedy for all of these diseases weak
nessas and troablss for cleansing and purifying the
YltatSd blood aud rmpartirg vigor TO all the vital
forces: for building mp and restoring the weakened
constitution USE
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JURUBEBA

ehch : pronounced by the leading medical authori
% of London and Paris the powerful tonic and
at:.attNs kroU0 to the modest verdi Tn is No
ne AM s1ss-si discovery but has ieeu long BY
Unloading physicians Of other countries with so7aC5er-
n remedial results.
d .t,'t weaken aud impair the digestivd
orgs By ctiJics and physics they give only tenn
pors ' reief-Tud. session., fatGsucy and dyspepsia
with piles and kindred dsees follow their
Ksep the blooi pure and health Is assured.
JOHN KELLOGG. Is PlStt Street, View Yrok
Sale Agent FOR the United State
Prits One Dollar par Bottle. e~ad nor Csrc-,ls-.
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SCIENTIFIC Tests OF PRAYER.
To the Editor of the American Artisan:

| To the Editor of the American Artisan:
1 Under the above caption in AnaeIlean
/ Arttsan Of Nov. i6 the following occurs
The proposition TO try by prayer
whether the Almighty will grant tempo
rary benefits IN some way plainly contra
ry TO the force and operation OF natural
laws. | venture to say that the strange
ness of this proposition is only eQuaIed
| by It's absurdify
Now, as man prays for that which
he Is sure to receive through the natural
operation OF law, prayer is necessarily
supplicatIon for the special interposition
OF God; and Prot Iyndall only propo-
ses TO demonstrate whether or not God
will so interpose. " here, then,ss is the
absurdity OF either the prayer or the
demonstration of its effect Should this
test result adversely TO prayer, it will
show that Gods laws are perfect, and
hence cannot admit of amendment or
change, and will thus increase our admir-
alton OF his attributes Andthe honest,
intelligent Christian will repeat tie
Lords Prayer with far more venera-
zion and faith in its power and efficacy
after he has learned that the daily
bread" for which he is instructed TO pay
Il not Tor the gross pamperIng Of his SEN
sual appetite. bus is Tor the daily devel
0pment of an immoral spirit
Prof. Iyndall and other profound sci
Ell lists think that true religion should be
based on the attributes OF God, and that
tha embodiment Of omniscience and ON
impotence is fully able to stand any sci
entlhc tests that poor mortals can apply
IN their honest search after truth. A
thorough test of the power OF prayer, as
proposed by Prof iyndall, rocjd give an
impetus to further research through en-
iiehtened religious zeal, resulting in rapid
and vast discovery in all branches of sci
ence, and would establish Christian faith
on its true spiritual basis. The readers
OF your valuable and Interesting paper,
and ali intelligent and honest Christians,
should by ali means encourage it,.
SUBSCRIBER.
TENAFLY. n. Y, Nov Is, 1872.
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How either sex may fascinatc and gain the
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free, by mail for 25c. together with marriage guide
Egyptian 0~cale, Dreams, Hints 10 LADIES' Wedding
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Petroleum Y. nasby

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American Artists, and contains an Introduction by
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4 YOUTHFUL novice in smoking turned
,leadly pale and threw his cigar away.
"Oh, dear" he said. ...ilere's some
"a in thai cigar tlaei maxim me sick"
Il knox what it is. said his compan-
lon. pulling away.
'AWast2"
- I
, 1872-10-15
Thc Northern PaciTic.-An Indian Me.
lcce

From gentlemen who have just returned from
the Missouri River, Information is received that
the work is being vigorously prosecuted, and
the track-laying is going ahead at the rate si q
three miles per day. Unless come unexpected
obstacle is encountered, it is asserted that the
road will be fully completed to the Missouri Kiy-
er by the first day of December, but it is proba~
Bile that passenger trains will not be placed on
the line to that point until next Spring:
An occasional raid is made by the Sioux In
dians upon their weaker neighbors, and the par
ticulara Of one Of recent occurrence is thus giy-
en- by DR.. George E. Keith, to the Minneapolis
Euerling Ne,os: "a fight occurred near Fort
Mexican on Wednesday last, between parties OF
Sioux and Rees, each numbering about 100 men,
during the progress Of which three Rees and
two Sioux were killed. Red Bear, o Rec Chief, Chi
and an old warrior, WAS killed. After killing
him. his son, brave young warrior, rode into q
crowd Of Sioux to prevent their mutilation OF
his father, and was slaughtered in q very short
time After killing him they horribly mutilated
the body Of his father, by sticking into it seven
butcher-hliTes, fourteen poisoned arrows, cut
off both his ears, broke his arms, and crushed
in his sknll. The Doctor says that on his return
he learned that the fight had been renewed, with
what result he did not Learn.