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Paper Shoes.

A trial is now in progress at Lille, in
France, against the furnishers of shoes
with paper soles 10 the Army of the
North during the late war, and the most
fragrant rascalities are being brought to
light in the investigation. One unfor-
tunate sufferer testified that some days
before the battle of st. Quentin, shoes
were distributed among the men of his
company, and two pairs came to his
share. One pair he put on in the morn
ing of the day preceding the battle,
and by midday they were completely
played out, literally falling from his
feet. At midday he put on the other
pair, but by 4 o'clock they too had al.
most fallen to pieces, and when he at.
tempted the next day to march in
them. they fairly dissolved from his feet
in the mud, leaving him to march bare
footed in the intense cold, by which his
feet were so badly frost bitten that he
afterward had to submit to amputation.
This poor fellow, it is said, manages to
move along by the aid of two crutches,
and is completely incspaciated for
work. The furnishers Of these shoes
are immensely wealthy, and no one has
manifested any disposition, until very
recently, to relieve them of portion
of their scandalously earned fortunes.
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Some Jubilee Figures.

In Europe Americans are held to be
the most lavish people in the world, and
when the foreign artists who came over
to the Jubilee return home and tell the
story of their compensation, our ma
tional fame in this regard will not be
lessened. Strauss went back to Europe,
after his three weeks visit, with about
$25, 1000 in his pocket. Madame Peschka
Leutner received for her season Of thir.
teen concerts $4,000. Franz Abt, who
conducted one Of his own compositions
at four concerts, received $l,200-S300
for each. Arabella Goddard received
$1,000, literally for doing nothing.
Franz Bendel, $1,000, and Wehli, 81 $50
for two appearances. The sums paid to
the bands and orchestra we're also enor.
NOUS. The great orchestra drew
$4,000 out of the treasury for the first
weeks salary. The musicians from
other cities than Boston drew $40 a day
per man and transportation, and the
Boston players IS per day. The home
brass bands received on an average $25
per man for the week. The foreign
bands cost about IS per man day, ex-
elusive of expenses and transportation,
board alone averaging about 80 per day.
The Irish band cost, relatively, more
than the rest-although they were the
poorest of all-inasmuch as they did
not appear until the last week of the
festival, although they were under pay
for the whole time. The total expense
Of the four foreign bands was about
100000.
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True Unto Death.


49,, INV head 10 catch the sound
DEFY ire mulous parting breath.
~ ..s md words from your young wifes lips.
Ih III -. wsuld soon be closed In death.
.nd caught the whispered sentence iow'
AM nf the sufferer: Call him eetn.
THE name Of the man who has crushed your
.,; nsI as her eyes grew dim:
Then The lingering blood-streams dyed her
IA cr ross 10 her forshead's brim:
Though he has been false. thank dod' sns
..rh sai have been true to him Z"
III. thought of the wives of the present day.
Irnd the wives Of long ago. ,
W. have su ffered more than tongue could tell.
w" VIZ ,hs cru 81 word and blow.
n. ~ ne sham eless lives Of their wedd'd lords.
n Too sad for the world TO know.
woudered II all these Injured ones.
In ~. thew many or be they few.
Gid have barred such white and spotless souls
~ their makers searching view. =,
AZ this fair young wife. who. through grief and
To he false had been so true.
Nh stricken wives in your cherries homes.
Hone on, smile on. pray:
rar HELM shall come in Gods good time.
Ave the accompanying day.
rbou9h the Gates Of Pearl may open 6rst.
10 let in the morning ray.
Though your hearths be desolate and cold.
LEI your altar fires burn bright.
Nor do a sin to revenge q sin;
Two wrongs ne'er made one right Z;
Lot YOUR false one see his sin or wrong
By the aid Of your vestal light!
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ThOughtful.

A man in Massachusetts had an un.
reasonable grudge against his minister
that lasted twenty-five years. But at
last the hand of death knocked at the
door of the parishioner, and he sent for
his pastor. The good man hastily obey
ed the summons with solemn delight,
as his being thus called showed mel
lowing Of the heart of the dying man
which promised reconciliation both with
heaven and himself.
"You sent for me? 2" he said, as he
approached the bedside.
eyes," answered the dying man,
whose breath was short and difficult,
have but few-a few hours to live,
and seut-sent for you to say that
that this is your last-your last chance
to apologize I"
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exen pied from confscation. He justified
having become security for Mr.. Davis, and
in his letter, among other things, said |:
Your attempt 10 base q great, enduring
party on the hate and wrath necessarily en-
gendered by bloodyCivil War, 10 a. though
you should plant colony ON sn iceberg
which had somehow driftsd into a tropical
ocean. tell you here that, out OF life
earnestly devoted TO the good Of human
kind, your children will select my going TO
Richmond and signing that bail bond ss the
wisest act, and will feel that it did more
for freedom and humanity than all Of you
were con. petent 10 do. though you had lived
TO the age OF Methusaleh."
BENEFICIAL RESULTS OF GREELEYs ADhIxIs-
TRAITOR.
You will have thus seen what think Of
the present political condition Of the coun-
try. Unless am greatly mistaken, IL must
patriotic man much anxiety and alarm.
How is this anxiety and alarm TO be re-
movedf BY removing the cause Of IL. By
refusing q reelection to Gen. Grant, to
whom in . great measure, if not exclusive-
ly, it is owing, and by placing In the Presi-
Dental Office Mr.. Greeley, whose entire life
has exhibited his generous qualities, his
great ability, his brave patriotisn, and his
unsupported integrity: TO Do rich, he will
ject them If offered. He has not scores Of
relatives TO provide for out of the public
funds, BY placing them in Offices for which
they are grossly incompetent, and IL he
had, he would not SO place them. He will
not exert his patronage to influence State
elections, or to secure reelection for him.
SELF He will not permit the public funds,
by means of a tax upon the salaries of his
officials, to be used for party purposes. He
~ ~ a. e. Ca - th~sv ar,h
ordinates to abandon their posts Of duty and
their attention TO the public business, to
traverse State after State on eltctioneering
visits, so as to bring the influence of Office
in conflict with freedom Of elections. He
will see that our foreign relations are so
managed as to give honor and not disgrace
to the nation. He will not tolerate the use
of the military for the control Of the cleo
tive franchise. He will not trample upon
the rights Of the States or the people by de-
claring States to be in rebellion when they
are not. And my hope is to live to see the
day when these vital changes v II be made;
when all solicitude about the fate of our
country will be quieted; when peace and
prosperity will be secured to the entire
nation when the guaranteed rights of the
citizen will be protected, the legitimate
powers Of the States maintained, and the
authority of the General Government exert
cd only under the restrictions of the Con-
stitution. In Q word, when the Constitu-
tion bequeathed to US ~ our fathers shall in
all things be observed, and when we will
have President intelligent and patriotic
enough to keep his official oath to "pre-
serve, protect, and defend it,"
When all these things shall occur, and
not until then, will our prosperity and
power be renewed, and our country become,
as it was in former days, the wonder and
admiration of the world.
REvERDY JOHNSON.
BALTIMORE, July Is, 1872.
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ishment, found large rock cracking
and decorating, rs before described, Ut
intervals, the aperture in the rock still
gradually but constantly increasing in
size. These detonations continued for
about twenty-iour hours, and on his re-
turn TO the spring next morning, he
saw rocks which had been thrown up
Of various sizes, some Of them weighing
from four to five hundred pounds, pre-
senting the appearance of volcanic
eruption"
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VIEWS OF REvERDY JOHNSON.

A Review Of Grants Admlaistrntion-Its
Failures-superiority Of Greeley-IIis De-
vetion 10 Country, and Unsuspected In
tegrity.
In response to a request of Congress
man James Brooks, of New York, for an
expression of his political views, the
Hon. Reverdy Johnson has written a
long letter. extensively discussing the
present issues, in which he says:
The question wi h the people now 10,
which Of the two will they have for their
next President, q. 8. Grant or Horace Gree
ley? The former, during the pact three
years, in the judgment Of all impartial men,
has proved his utter unftness for the office !;
the latter, during period Of more than 80
years, 40 the editor Of . leading journal, has
proved himself, in the judgment Of all i'm
partial and competent men, to be a man OF
extraordinary ability, perfect patriotism,
and incorruptible integrity. Has not Gen.
Grant demonstrated his unftness for the
Presidency His whole career as President
has been iull Of blunders, to use no milder
term. A few instances will establish this
statement:
GRAMS BLuSDERs.
/. His selection OF his first Cabinet was
made without consulta ton with any honest
and experienced friend, ana without regard
to merit. He nominated as the head Of the
Treasury highly respectable merchant Of
New York, in ignorance Of the fact that by
the sth section Of the act Of the "a Of Sep
TENDER, 1852, such an appointment is ex-
pressly prohibited, and this upon grounds
Of the clearest policy-the provision being
that no person concerned in trade, directly
or indirectly, is eligible to any Office created
by that act and after finding his error, he
foolishly requested Congress to modify the
provision 50 as to enable him to make the
appointment.
Z. His selection Of his relatives for high
and important trusts, at home and abroad,
obviously without ascertaining whether
they were ct, and his refusal to rem we
many Of them, after their un6tness had
been painfully exhibited.
3. His Negotiations for the annexation Of
the Dominican Republic through no Minis
ter selected with the approval Of the Senate,
and his undignifed lobbying with Senators
to procure its ratification; and his imperti-
nent aud insulting message TO Congress,
after the treaty was rejected, in which he
designated the rejection - an act Of" folly
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A CLINCHER.
Schurx COrrObOrated, and Grant Con.
victed OF Downright Lying.
The Charge that the President Of
fsred Schurs Patronage for his
Influence Sustained.


Times, OF July 26, has corroborated his
statement that he was offered the entire
patronage Of the Administration in Mis-
souri, if he would support the San Do
mingo job, in such a manner as to leave
no hook to hang a doubt upon,
Notwithstanding its denial by the
President. 1t transpires that the
agent Of Mr.. Grant, in conduct.
ing the proposed trade was General
Alfred Pleasonton, then Commissioners
of Internal Revenue. In a letter to Mr..
Schurz, dated on the 25th of July, Gen.
Pleasonton says in substance that he
was authorized by the President to
make the offer referred to. This ex.
plicit statement by Gen. Pleasonton OF
a matter to which he was personally
knowing, cannot fail to secure credence,
notwithstanding all the den ials that
Mr.. Grant has made or may make; for
among the many point. of difference
between the first President and the last,
there is none more thoroughly estab.
lished than this: that while George
Washington could not tell lie, Mr..
Ulysses Grant can and will upon every
slight occasion. Witness his contro.
versy with President johnson, in which
he was contradicted by testimony that
would have secured his conviction for
perjury if the matter had assumed that
form.
ASSOCIATED Press telegram
NEW YORK, July 26.-Carl Schurz, in letter
to the Tribune, says the letter quoted in his
st. Louie speech, concerning patronage in con-
nection with the San Domingo business, was
addressed to him by Gen. Alfred Pleasonton.
late Commissioner Of Internal Revenue. 1T
was written" says Schurz, " in reply to note
from me. Of the contents of which have a
memorandum, which reads as follows Ask Pl
whether he remembers the conversation he
had with me concerning Santo Domingo in
which he said that if would support Pres.
could have all the patronage I wanted, ETC..
and ask him whether he was authorized by
Pres. to do so. Gen. Pleasonton's letter in
reply is quoted in my speech. have since
received from Gen. Pleasonton the following
note:
"'NEw YORK, July rs, 1872.
"'DEAR GENERAL: OF course have no OBJ
lection tn your giving my name to the public
In explanation of the facts, would say that
being friend Of the President, as we'll as OF
yourself, l desired you should be on good
terms, and you should understand that there
was no personal feeling in the way of rela.
tions mutually satisfactory. Your statement
is correct that the President wanted your sup
port for his San Domingo scheme, and that
You could have had the patronage Of the Gov
eminent for giving 1t. That was the distinct
impression the Presidents conversation made
upon my mind, and communicated it to you
IT the time. II the President positively denies
having had any such conversation. ! regret it.
! may console myself with the reflection that
this is the first time that any statement Of
mine has been questioned, while the President
has had occasion before this to distrnst the
accuracy Of his recollections.
Yours truly, A. PLEAsoNToS.
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Books for Children.

We find in our European exchanges
avery sensible letter from George Sand
on the subject of books for children.
She rightly objects to those which deal
too much and too lightly with the most
awful problems which Cypress mankind
with poverty, crime and suffering in
their most terrible and depressing as
poets. She would not have a child
glibly taught the horrors Of life, the
wickedness of being, the secrets Of the
charnel house, the bloodshed, the NOR.
tai hatreds that disfgure the fair earth.
1t is, of course, impossible to shield him
from the sight of surrounding evil; 80
much the more reason for making him
love what is good and beautiful, and
"for cultivating in him the holy flower
Of hope" The child must not "be
turned to stone, either by the fear
which produced egotism or by the in.
difference which consecrates it. have
been often told" she adds, 81 keep
children's souls too much in cotton
wool. Does not nature itself teach this
by imparting to mothers the instincts
of preserving the most fragile creatures
by the minutest precautions Is not
the young bird brought up in the soft.
est down till its wings have grown The
wings Of the soul will show themselves
when the time comes, and you have
many other precautions TO take while
directing its first soarings. "-Nao York
Eveniu0 Post.
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Some Pumpkins.

Judge freedom, of Santa Barbara,
CAL, has a pumpkin vine covering an
area of forty by ninety feet, which con.
tains ono hundred and sixty blossoms.
If every blossom turns out a pumpkin,
and every pumpkin attains the size OF
an average California pumpkin, the
gross weight will amount to about 4,OOO
pounds.
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A Profitable Trip.

The Prussian military band has made
100000 in America. Of this sum five
per cent. was given to the business
manager, leaving little over $57 900.
This amount has been deposited with
Consul General Roesing, to be paid to
the indiv idual musicians of the band
upon their arrival at home. The money
will be divided in fifty.three equal parts |;
of these the leader, Mr.. Saro, receives
four, about $4,000 or "A, 400; Mr.. View
base, the business man Of the band,
two parts, about $1,000; two other mu-
sicians, who as business committee as
sisted Weivhsse, receive one and one
half part, or about 81 $50. Every other
member of the band one part. or nearly
81, 100 apiece.
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A Smotherd Volcano in Virginia.

A letter from Lebanon, Russell county,
in the Abingdon Virginian, says: "Nel.
son II. Frailey, Of Castles Woods in this
county, went to the spring to wash,
near the house, when his attention was
attracted by an unusual noise, but see.
ing nothing which gave rise to it he
started toward the house, and after
walking some twenty PAGES he heard a
report in the direction of the spring
louder than he had previously heard,
and not unlike the firing Of gun. He
returned to the spring, and to his aston.
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A Hundred and Sixty Square Yard sof
Lungs.

That seems good deal of lungs for
one man, but it is not more than most
men have. Hoploy's Lectures on the
Education of Man" places the number
of air cells in the human lungs at no
less than 100000, 900. DR.. Hales says
the diameter Of each of these nay be
reckoned at the one-hundredth of an
inch, while the more recent researches
of Prof Webb..go to show that the diam
eters vary between the seventeenth
and the two-hundredth of an inch.
If we estimate that the internal sur
face of single cell to be about equal
to that of hollow globular diameter,
we find, by adopting the measurement
of Hales, that 60O,OOO,OOO such cells
would possess, collectively, surface of
no less than las square yards; or, by
basing the calculation on the opinions
of Weber, which are received by the
scientific as facts, the extent of the
respiratory surface in the human lungs
is upwards of l60 square yards, or q
superficial area equal to the walls Of q
modern sized house.
When it is borne in mind that
every single point of this surface is in
constant, uninterrupted contact with
the atmosphere breathed, and is effect
ed beneicially or injuriously according
as the air inspired is pure or impure,
it ceases to be matter of surprise that
a change in the condition Of the at
mosphere rapidly affects the physical
and mental condition, inspiring with
vigor or producing lassitude or depres-
sion.
The injurious effects Of the air
breathed in badly ventilated halls and
close conveyances are easily explained
by these facts, nor does it long remain
a matter of wonder that persons labor
ing in close, badly ventilated rooms.
where the air is loaded with poison, are
generally short lived.
In our present artificial modes of
life, this sensitive surface of l6O yards
is rendered susceptible to injurious in
fuences, and is more exposed to them
than in state Of nature. The necessi-
ty of extreme watchfulness against
danger is therefore apparent, and 50
should be the propriety of being pre-
pared for the contingencies Of disease
and death, so liable to occur. Every
person having others dependent upon
him carries about l6O yards Of admoni.
ton to insure his life.-sScience of Health,
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BALTIMORE, July Is, 1872.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-05

aS-Wm. T. Thelin has been appointed auditor
q the Baltimore and OEiO railroad company to
III the vacancy occasiOned by the resignation of
ElT. :. II. DUnan.
ga sacIilegiOus thief st DIe all the chairs at
a Methodist church in Charleston, ). c., and
the exploit has become the standing joke OF
the congregation.
ia louisville horse with the blind staggers
went into clothing store ID do his failing
around, and bad II lie chlOTOtOTmed before he
wcultte rUyinced that il wasn't the place for
him
IA New York lady OF fashion wears
beautifully carved dark glossy stone in a setting
a. red gold 10 II the front OF her husbands
I8vCrite luearsChaum. she having induced him
10 stop smoking, now wears his pipe as a trophy.
~ C0rrr --0nd5nt writing OF the different
ItaElc Ia =. Louis says The Texan comes
IL With castle. His smell! l. bovine, with a
hJT-y base. Altogether he is picture-lue
creature wLsuTeSarded from proper distance"
HF-The nan who committed suicide in Stan
WY Hal. Albany. lev days since. has been
lrsrt'ted e a Mr. Levi. II, OF San Francisco.
lie had been robbed, and IiS loss unsettled his
mind.
EE-Ey ~ railway accident near GreruvilIe
= Tenn, or Thursday, tGenty-seven persons were
wounded Q" M OF whom were expected II die.
De tTa n waS crowded with passengers, and
t'sir escape from instant death was almost
L -aCUiOUS,
H~Tke indianapolis Sentinel gives the fol-
Tow iU- satisfactory account of its fowl inveSti-
gators. An eccentric Harrison county hen
las distinguished herself BY laying an egg
shaped like a CFOOked-uscked SQUASH. She is
now considered some pumpkins on the lay
HyGeorgis boasts of the possession of citi-
zen who has been struck by thirty-twO mimic
ais, and mortar she'll, one Shrapnel, one three
inch CCUiral, and. it Il said. he has been struck
h Lightning bitten by a rattlesnake and chased
by a mad dog. He Is hale, hearty man yet.
srA German named NaIer was arrested in
,leI~ev City. on Friday, for stealing pig of I'M
refined silver. valued al about 800. Ii appears
that 10 was afterwards taken TO a Junk shop, and
UTaer Tie impression that 1t was lead, Maher
alb al aCComVljce sold IL for $40.
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MARRIED..

ATETCE-pLER. At Baltimore, Md on the 8. n
tay % " arch, ISL. 10 The Rev. Frller. pastor
S.vsr.fh Rarft-f C6DrCh- DR. RALPH v ACLICK
90 aissMNA J. OLER. both Of Washington, D.
4.
EEF S-RH IHEHART. On the 81 ins.
- l 'jrT e he brides her. BY the Essy
n Haze ck, NJ LNRNS T BRENERMkN. Of
GeO-rstCvu. 20 Miss HELEN KATE RHINE
erik T. grT- COPY.
kSNIIH-R.DDLE At Baltimore, on the 81
instant y BE- S@v. Joseph Wn.e's-, JACOB p,
SMIT 70 MARY 5. RIDDLE, bJih Of Washing
ton, u 4.
v ILLiANS-JOHHSGN or the 81 instant, by
Rev. ". E.rpmau ROBEaT WILLIAMS OF VIII
isE sturC, Va, To SARAH JOHNSON, Of FRI l.
tTICk City. SD
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DIED.

ACTON. ON Friday, 4rh instant, at II. Is o'clocS
!. Z IkLlA ACTON. r-lict f ths LATE D % Jrne
Acton, il TIL 80 year Of her age.
Friends and relatives are invited 10 attend her
tUEeTaI, hCh will tas place from the residence of
her SON. Thomas a. hichard-. No. 1915 New Jsr-
sey avenue. corner l. street southeast, sunday sf-
teTuCCu. 81 8 click
Z FINCH. Atthe re>iderce Of Y & Weaver. 900
18th 81 On the 9Th inst. JENNA FINCH, aged { ;
yeas, menth- aud DAYS
FureTal At Hamline NJ p church, corner Of oh
and SIS. northwest az 81 IN. sunday, the Oh
Inst. Friends are respectfully invited
TALBERT. On the morning Of the 4th instant
hAEGAkET TALBEkT, daughter Of Marzury
Ta.iert.
Her funeral will take place on Sund " afternoon
the 8, instant at Ocl TX from the residence Of
h,r brDfbSr, between a,f streets aud I4th and
18Th streets northwest. The friends AID acquaint-
aIses q the family are respectfully inyitei 4
attend .