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Mr.. Charles Reade is said to draw large
ly upon newspaper records of the events
Of the day FOR the framework of his fic-
tons, and certainly they afford ample ma
terial. Take, for example, the Stokes
case. What field it offers as a study for
a story In skilful hands! The am azing
career OF Fisk; his rise from the rough
life OF pedlerism to all the sumptu-
business that moneyh the nineteenth CEN
fury could supply; the steps by which
this was achieved the wiles and machina-
tons of Gould; the plots and counter
plots ; and at length the attainment of the
keys Of the New Worlds almost greatest
artery. And then to dip into that nause-
Gus private life Of the successful adyentu.
rer-its splendid if vulgar proaieacy the
intrigues with base beauties, ending with
that which laid him dead, on the Staircase
of the Grand Central Hotel on thu after
noon in January, by q rival who, too.
could well fill the page Of such narntive
the PREDICATE seductive and seduced
flash New Yorker, typical man Of his
class, handsome, snowy, and, in the eye.
of certain order Of women, a paragon Of
manly beauty; condemned to die BY the
hands of the hangman, the verdict being
given at midnight, the day-year of the
murderous deed, amid the shrieks of wo-
men, the sobs Of men, and scene gener-
ally of SURPRISING excitement. What pic
lures will be told of this in after-days
How those who now are boys will tell
their grandsons with warning voice of the
DAYS of Fisk and Gould-of those marvel
GUS reprobates, with whose desperate ex-
pedients and gigantic grasping of gold,
not, merely our own country, but all Eu-
rope ung!-ApplssOn.
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t,nu nuy Medicine do More:

The art of changing the base metals Into gold
has not been discovered, but the happy results oil
a discovery infinitely more important are familiar
IN the community and have been So for the past
twenty wears. To exchange debility for Nigor,
sickness for health apathy for energy, gloom Tor
is much more desirable operation
than To transmute lead into the root of all evil.
And this is what Hostettcr's Stomach Hitters ac-
complIsh and have been accomplishing daily, ever
since their Introduction. Dyspepsia. biliousness,
nervous affections, constipation, intermittent ie-
yers rheumatism, sick headache and general de-
hity are no longer the bug bears that they were
fifth OF a century ago. The Btters, taken as = pro-
tcc,iye medicine, prevent them, and taken ~ a
remedy cures them. and the people know 1t.
Hence their overshadowing reputation and enor-
nous sale The fame of the great vegetable spe-
cifc is ever on the march, and AT pace that h'
connection can live. 1t IS Today The iorenlos
medicine of its class in the civilized world. livery
! now and then attempts are made To rival II, an'
| sometimes a nostruln concoct,d IN the idle hop'
of sharing It's popularity, has brief squirt o. aP
parent success But II is all illusion. one by ON
| they sink like stones in The sea, while the er''
tonic whose celebrity has been the cause oi me
blind ventures, continues To ride on the t"pnio'
| wave of public favor, unapproached ana uh"P
proachable.
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Pneumatic Power.

The employment of pneumatic power
for industrial purposes is cOnstsntly III
creasing. By its use the Mt. Gems Tun-
mel. through the Alps, seven miles in
length. was bored. The HOOsic tunnel,
i'm Massachusetts,, five miles in length, now
nearly finished, is being cut by the same
means. The st. GOthard tunnel, in
Switzerland, lately commenced, which Is
to be thirteen miles in length, will also be
cut by means of compressed air. The He'll
Gate rocks. under the East River, in New
York, are in process of removal by the
same agency. In planning mills the pneu-
matte method is used to carry the shaw
ings from the planners to the furnaces of
steam boilers; in grain and wool houses,
to convey the stock. At the iron furnaces
pneumatic elevators are used to lift the
cars and their loads Of ore from one point
to another. In London the pneumatic
method drives five-tOn freight cars in
tubes under ground; the pOst-Office de-
partment of that city has now in use sew
eral miles of pneumatic tubes laid under
the streets, in which letters are conveyed
with great rapidity. In this country the
largest scale on which the system has
been applied is at the works of the Pneu.
matte Transit Company, on Broadway
where railway passenger car, running in
a nine-fOOt tunnel under th.t street, is Op.
Grated by compressed air. For an under
ground railway this pneumatic method II
especially useful; cinders, gas, smoke
dust, noise and locomotives, all are avoid
ed; the cars may be driven smoothly
along with great rapidity. In England
some years ago, during the experimental
trials of the pneumatic cars, the tr,&n
were driven by this method at velOcit,
of sixty miles per hour. The pneumatic
car under Broadway has carried between
two and three hundred thousand passen
gers, but, owing to the shOrtness of tn.
tunnel, so high speed cannot be reached
AS soon as the Legislature grants the nee
essary authority, the works will be ex
tended through the city from the Batter.
to Harlem river. New York will then b.
able to boast of having the safest. mos
agreeable and most rapid means of pas
senger convey ance of any city in tn
WOrid.-Scieutifc american.
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HerOisnl.

MUST protest against misuse OF the
words, hero, herOism, heroic, which is be-
coming too common, namely, applying
them to mere courage. We have Dor
rowed the misuse, l believe, as we have
more than one besides, from the French
press. | trust that we shall neither ac-
cept it, nor the temper which inspires it.
1t NAV be convenient for those who flat
ter their nation, and especially the mill
tary part of it, into ruinOus self-cOncelt,
to frame some such syllOgism as this ::
Courage is herOism every F'renchman
is naturally courageous, therefore every
Frenchman is a hero" But we, who
have been trained at once in sOunder
school of morals, and in greater respect
for facts, and for language as the express
sion of facts, snail be careful, L hope, not
to trifle thus with that potent and awful
engine-human speech. We shall eschew,
likewise, I hope, like abuse of the word
moral which has crept from the French
press now and then, not only into our
own press, but into the writings of some
of our military men, who, as Engllshmen,
should have known better. We were told
again and again during the late war, that
the moral effect of such a success has bee
great mat the morale of the troops VS.
excellent; or, again, that the morale OF
the troops had suffered, or even that they
were somewhat demoralized. But when
one come to test what was really meant
by these fine words, one discovered that
morals had nothing to do with the facts
which they expressed, that the troops
werein one case actuated simply by the
animal passion of hope, in the other SIM
ply BY the animal passion of fear. This
abuse of the word moral has crossed, am
sorry to say, the Atlantic; and witty
American the other day (whOm we must
excuse, though we must not imitate)
when some one had been blazing away at
him with revolver, he being unarm d..
is said to have described his very natural
emotions on the occasion, by saying that
he felt dreadfully demOraliZed. We, L
hope shall cOnfine the word demoraliZa-
ton, as our generals of the last century
would have done, when applied to sol
diers. TO crime, including, of course. the
neglect of duty or of discipline; and we
shall mean by the word 'heroism. in like
manner. whether applied to soldier or
to human being. nor mere courage; not
the mere doing of duty, but The doing OF
something beyond du.y: something
which is not in the bond; some spon-
taneous and unexpected act of self-deVo-
tiOp,-Charles Kingsley, in CoTnhsls,
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Jencken and jenkins.

The latest victim of the Londen Jenk-
ms. as we find from the London Times, is
a Bencher of the Middle Temple, who re-
jOices in the harmonious name of Henry
Diedrich Jencken. The occasion is the
marriage of the barrister to Kate Fox. Of
table-tipping celebrity. The phrase spir-
ituelle, as applied to bride, is no novelty
to jenkins; but here was positively spir-
itual bride! With charming union of
pathological forces, Doctor Bird gave
away Miss Fox. 1t has been usual, also,
for jenkins to say that a bride had not a
rappee to her dowry. But on this occasion,
when the Rev. Mr.. Braithwaite pro-
nounced that the Fox had become a
Jencken, audible raps from the spirit do
mains told the awe-stricken guests that
the other world was either astonished,
displeased or delighted: because, in the
absence of information as to what the raps
meant, the guests could take their choice
of the three characteristics.
jenkins further informs us that at the
wedding breakfast in POrtman square
fresh raps mingled with the pop OF the
champao ne corks. and the tables tipped
without aid of FESTIVE walters or bibulous
guests. Moreover, the huge wedding. cake
was palpably ralsed from its base OF con,
dictionary, and for moment, Threatened
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n hob through the ceiling. to the intense
disgust of romantic maidens, VINO t .i,
nccted TO invite dreams with some OF the
prccious plums and sllet beneath their
dvspepsia-encrowned holsters.
The whole account affords much room
for commi.cr with Jencken. the
bridegroom. What brave fellow ne
must be to marry Kate Fox. Usually
bride or wife. can only threaten nus
band with the terrors OF a mother-in-laW'
but here was bride who had the whole
world of spirits at her command. where
with to rap him into obedience. No fox
hunter ever had worse prospect before
him when the hounds were leading the
way across country of plowed ground
stone walls and five-barred fences. Ley
all bachelors pray for the repose OF bar
ristcr ,Jcncken.-N. J. Herald.
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What is Music /!

II i m art founded within the nature ana
heinz of man. Ii is the language OF the
heart. which reveals in cuphonious sonnd,
the beauties of the soul. 1t is the Whisper
of the emotions. whose breath i, the reveal
ton of the sentimental in the life OF man.
freed from casualty and objectivity through
the medium of sounds. Music, therefor,
.hs an,ln~ous expression of the soul Itself.
~ i N,ruire's Cundurango Bitters the best
remedy ever discovered for diseases Of The
liver blood. kidneys and bowels: the Gle
ment which preserves health in the human
hoJv. thereby promoting true happiness.
Voluntary testimonials to its almost miracu-
lous action in dyspepsia. constipation en-
larged spleen. turgid liver impaired cifcula,
of the kidneys. female complaints and weak
ness. are multiplying daily in the hand- OF
its proprietors. No: Observation-Disclosures ior
o,lomel- and no danger from Use.
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Traction Engines on Road Locomotives.

UNDER the above heading. Professor X.
Fl. ThurstOn, of the Stevens Institute of
Technology, publishes in the Journal of
the Franklin Institute very able and COM
prehensive article, anu Incorporates there
with the following resume of facts and de-
ductiOns drawn from experiments recent
ly conducted by him with the Aveling
and Porter road locomotives.
l. A traction engine may be so con-
structed as to be capable of being easily
and rapidly unanswered on the common
road and in the midst of ordinary OBJ
structiOns.
2. Such an engine may be placed in the
hands of the average mechanic, or even of
an intelligent youth of Ii, with confidence
that he will quickly acquire, under in
structiOn, the requisite knowledge and
skill in its preservation and management.
| 3. An engine, weighing rather more
than five tons, may be turned cOntinu-
ously in a circle of Is feet radius without
difficulty and without slipping either
driving wheel, even on rough ground,
and may be turned in a roadway of a
of the locomotive, by proper maneuver.
ing.
4. A road locomotive weighing 5 tons
4 cwt. has been constructed, which is cap.
able of drawing, on a good road, more
than %, 900 pounds up the almost unex.
ampled grade of 533 feet to the mile, al
the rate of four miles per hour.
5. Such a locomotive may be made, un.
der similar conditions, to draw load Of
more than $1,000 pounds up hill rising
225 feet to the mile, at the rate of two
miles per hour, doing the work of more
than twenty horses.
6. The action of the traction engine
upon the road is beneficial, even when ex
erting its maximum power. while with
horses the injury to the road bed is very
noticeable.
7, The coefficient OF traction is, with
such heavily laden wagons as were useC
in the course of the experiments and un
der the circumstances noted, not far from
four per cent on well made macadamizet
road.
8. The amount of fuel, of good quality
used NAV be reckoned at less than 50(
pounds per day, where the engine is {
considerable portion of the time heavily
loaded and during the remaining tim'
running light.
Professor Thurston's deductions may b.
lbriefly summarized as follows: The tract
ion power of the engine is equal to that o
twenty horses. This amounts to, exclud
ing the weight of the locomotive, seventy
five tons, while the machine possesses {
decided advantage of the animal. Tht
working time of the traction engine may
be stated to be ordinarily twenty per CEN
} greater than that of dray horse, and t.
be capable Of indefinite extension when re
CURED. The first cost of steam and o.
horse power is nearly equal, the difference
being in favor of steam, leaving also or
| the side of the engine the immense advan
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

TIE LITTLE CORPORAL.-rhe contents
of the February number are made up OF excel
lent original reading matter adapted to the w;sts
of that large portion of the reading public for
which it is especially intended-the little folks.
The hearts of the editor, Mrs. Emily Huntington
Miller, and the corps of talented contributors OF
this magazine are evidently enlisted in the cause,
as they always succeed in producing an enter
tanning and useful book, and one that is I'M
mensely popular with the younger readers, and
is also read with pleasure and profit by the older
heads of the family. The subscription price Is
81 80 per year If you send 81 go to the PUBLISH
err JOHN f. MILLER, Chicago, you will receive
the magazine for one year and two beautiful cnro-
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tage arising from its ability to work
longer hours when required. The total
annual expense of an engine of the above
power and capabilities may he reckoned
at s.. 439 as maximum figure. including
cost of attendance. And, lastly, a steam
traction engine. capable of doing the work
of - horses, may be purchased and work
ed at as little expense as a team of six or
EIGHT horses
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22
Girard House, st. Louis.

This weI-known Hotel is securing Ma,
tiopal reputation as being the largest and
hest conducted Hotel in the West; IL mas
ample accommodations for Five Hundred
Guests. The extraordinary low priceIIWo
DOLLARS PER DAY-together win elesan'
rooms magnificent table and the most po-
Ito attention. accounts for the immense bll-
sipess dene at the GIRARD. The Proprie-
tors. MEssRs BALDWIN n BATTLES, were
formerlv of the Everett House. Chicago.
where they met with heavy loss IN the
great Chicago fire. Their many friends VIII
be cratified to learn of their grand success
in retrieving their fortunes III II. LOUIS
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

ARTHUR's ILLUSTRATED HOME MAGA-
zine-with the beginning Of the present year the
publishers of this magazine added largely to It's
dimensions, and the number for February con-
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matter, several of the sketches being accompanied
by appropriate illustrations. The subscriber 10
this magazine receives full equivalent Tor MS
money in the book itself, but as an extra induce
ment the publishers will give to eacn subscriber
for Isl a COPY of ''The Christian Graces,' pro-
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pha. Pa.
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LIVER COMPLAINT, LINEE DISEASE

LIVER COMPLAINT, LINEE DISEASE T..
R,IIorsSEss. Bilious complaints-Dy
some termed liver diScase-are very coi,i-
mon in this country. The ordinary ihdi,
cations. such a yellowness OF the SKIN alin
whites OF the eyes. pain in the rlGht sac
under the inferior ribs, with sometimes
difficulty of respiration and troublesome
cnuoh-are familiar to a host OF sufferers
hut the liver. sometimes. ia III very uli.
satisfactory state without the presence oi
suCh SYMPTOMS. When we reflect thaI ,hc
liver is the largest gland Of the body tiist
il sccretes the bile which luDrica'es ~
bowels and keeps them in order, is me
Great blood purifier or cleansing mach me
of our systems. it may truly be caiieu .iic
Housekesper of oar Health. Sudden transl-
tions of climatic temperature or nhp.uc
air. or ,ratey are disturbing elementS,
which arrest the functions OF the liver ana
render it torpid, producing dtaT7h@a' dys-
,uterv. bilious remittcntS. uteTn'utfh' &c
reys. and general prostratioh' anu uii'
healthy state of the whole organization:
It is not surprising that med!clii'
which can restore the healthy Operations
of the liver. should command general at
tention. Such medicine is CALIF"ENi'
VINEGAR BIrTEEs, The Housekcepcr
Towel and Broom.
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THE PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNAL for Eel

The PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL TOT rcD-
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A good sketch and portrait OF the regretted Nor
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The February number, just received, is 4 real
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Alden Publisher, Chicago, Ills.
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

A French statistician, who vOuchcs for
fine facts, states that Paris contains l,i3o
hunchbacks. ,22i individuals with only
one arm. LIS with one leg. ITO cripples.
Il without noses and without either arms
or LEGS. Oh, if they could only be collect
ed i'm one crowd
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22
Navy nersons say that they have ,

MANY persons say that they have I 49,
almost every 7emedy that has been recon-
mrnded for humors. and they are no better
now than when they commenced them ana
they have no confidence in anything ulat Is
advertised to cure SAT- kiieulli. III , =,
and all similar humOrs. We Wouiu Sas ~
,hesc that there i now a remedy that a. yet
has never failed of curing those diseases: III
act, upon an entirely different principle from
ANYTHING ever offered for them; II tirpms
hImor out of the blood through me sh ,hc
which is the only channel through Wnlch 'iI !,
system can be entirely freed rom ,neu III a.
Van have by the others. for it will cure YOU
I'VE refer TO DIR. Weaver's salt Rheum syrup
For sale bV all Druggists.
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22
.,r Currnprx's HOJR,-The little

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Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

NEGLECTED COUGHS AND COIDs.-fe"
are aware 81 the Importance of checking
Cough or Common Cold" in its first stage !;
that which in the beginning would yield 10
..BROwN's BRONCHIAL TROCHEs," II neg
lected, often works upon the Lungs.
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

Ak eccentric party, of which jerroli
was one. agreed to have supper OF
sleeps heads. One gentleman present
was Particularly enthusiastic on the ex-
cellence of the dish and As he threw down
his knife and fork, exclaimed: IVY ELL
sheep's heads forever, say |. Jcrr"la-
There's e9OtiSm.
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

THE ST. LOUIS TEMPERANCE MONTHLY,
is new candidate for public favor, the February
number of which is just issued. Typograi'hicaiiy
it is gem II is devoted to the cause OF Temper
ance and good morals, and ought to be largely
patrunizei Price SLIGO II year. Moses hine'
Publisher. No. lis North Third street, 81. LOUIS,
No.
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

ONE COLD AFTER ANOTHER, will, with many
constitutions, securely establish the seeds OF
Consumption in the system. Those In neeu Oh q
remedy will find DR.. Jayne's EXpectorant always
nromnt. thorough and cflicaciOus.
Richland beacon., 1873-02-22

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-10

Long engagements of marriage are
not desirable, though an honest love
may come out all golden and glorious
from such test We hear now Of per-
haps the very shortest engagement on
record. In Dubuque young man met
a strange girl on a street car. he was
struck with her appearance, and his first
act of loving devotion was to pay her
fare. This noble proof of disinterested
affection so touched the susceptible heart
Of the damsel that three hours after
wards these new acquaintances were
husband and wife.