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river t. Denver, Col, and the mining towns
of the Rocky Mountains. His eminent sue
cess in this pursuit gave him the necessary
means with which to engage in some heavy
railroad and - land gobbling" operations,
out of which both he and his partner,
- Governor Len. Smith, are reported to
have made large fortunes. Mr.. Caldwells
residence at Leayenworth is one of the most
complete and sumptuous houses in the West,
and through his fortunate connection with
. Tom SCOTS railroad schemes, money
has flowed into his Golfers till he is now
looked upon by many as at least a million
aire His active participation in politics
dates only from the beginning of the cam
paign in which he made - his calling and
election sure -
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There are q alSands Of men who would be
willing To abandon the use of tobacco pro
Vided they coald do 50 without inconyeni-
enee. TnOse who make the ATTEMPT usually
lind that after day OF two Of total ahstin-
enee they satier irri,ahility Of the nerves
which seriously interisres with their COM
fort. They therefore return to their CIGARS
with renewed zest, and postpone the period
Of their emancipation from tobacco mill
:, next Christmas," or the d" beginning Of
the next year.
There are Of coaise philanthroui, ANN.
nents Of tobacco who prefer to the snpEer
systems Of their own invention. bv tLe "a
option of which he can easily abandon tolac
co without the slightest inconvenience On
system proposed by popular writer. who i
himself reformed smoker. has the mel, e
cheapness and simplicity he assures HI
clients that they will never feel the want ~
the abandoned cigar, provided that uron the
frst day Of abstinence they will take a ylass
Of whisky whenever the hour at which fbev
have been accustomed to smoke returns. a,
the second and each succeeding day. thew
should diminish their allowanceby one slas:
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HI hIDROIS

An Old Boston physician was st0rv-tellin!
the other evening, the school board, Will
! patiently waiting for quorum, and tod how
he once visited a female patient in Pleasant
/ street, and after 4 careful examination wa.
unable to decide what allied her. Step2ins
lnto an adjoining room he made bold 10 ash
an old lady if she knew what allied hel
neighbor. Giving her nose a back-hand ID
sweep with her frock sleeve, she exclaimed
" Well, doctor, can't zactly hesitate. but /
think the first instigation on it was that she
Spraint her innards exerting herself too
much in lifting tub"
During class meeting held several wears
since by the Methodist brethren of south
eFn village, Brother Jones went among the
co!ored portion Of the congregation. Find
ins there an old man notorious for his en-
deayor t. serve God on the Sabbath and Satan
The ret Of the week, he said
" Well Brother Dick. I'm GLAD to see Won
here. Haven't stole any turkeys since | saw
You last. Brother Dick j.
" No. Brudder Jones, no tur KEYS.
" Nor any chickens. Brothe Dick -
e" No Brudder Jones. no CT .icken.
'' Thank the Lord Brothei Dick That's
doing well, my brother, 50 sal 4 Brother Jcnes
leaving Brother Dick. who Immediately 70.
lle'ed ms overburdened c,rscience by saving
to near neighb1r of hi, with an immense
sigh Of relief
d" FL he'd said ducks he'd had me-
\ Danbury man who was trying to shell
ter himself in a doorway from the rain of
sunday, had the mounrfal pleasure Of seeing
five OF his umbrellas 20 bv.
The almost instructive epi,ramuatiesbarr-
ness of Irish humor is characteristic oftep |
noticed IN instance Of it Is given in Sir !
John Barrington'S d" Memoirs in the case |
u quarrelsome, fashionable, fighting bully. |
VII" Is suddenly reported tt, conviyial com |
ANY as being killed, having been lust shot
lead IN a duel. " Shot, Is be - exclaimed |
NE Of the party e thf n, by my word. he
as died natural death -
In strict observance of the will of Stephen
,lrard, no clergyrs y. known to be such. is
flowed 10 VISIT ire college Of his endow-
lent- \ gentleman of clerical cut as to
llearancs OF &c presented his pass 10 the
lhiior- III latter, taking him in from
ead 10 ioHt with one glance, said u
iHhot a INIT you, sir you are a clergy
IAN " The devil am said the visitor.
l on Vaa pass, was the quiet reply
\ lady, in rapid pursuit of health at ar-
'oga' boasted to her physician whom 5 be
le. a. she was leaving the spring, " have
Isl drank five glasses of Congress. ." The. a
On let me detain you,' was the quiet re-
! la; woman, hailing from Indiana. at
-mpted to descend the stairs in one of the
'stroit hotels, but missed her footing and
iiied to the landing, making din which
arted every one in the office. Gracious =,
I'VE but hope you are not much hurtr'
Aclaimed the terrified clerk. Il hurt -
BE replied, smiling blandly, not bit of
3 bat yon had bettergo up and take care of
lat pair of stains ;
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Josh Billings on Silence.

Silence IL a still noise.
One ov the hardest things for man to do
IL to keep still.
Everybody wants to be heard fust. and this
IL just what fills the world with nonsense
Everybody wants tew talk, few want ID
think and nobody wants TO listen.
The greatest takers Among the featb erred
folks are the magpie and ginny hen, and
neitner ov them are ov muteh account.
IL man amt sure he IL right the best
kard he can play IL blank one.
argument by just nc.dding his head ON e.
IN while and simply say Jess SO. iess 50 y
IL takes CRATE menny blows to drive in a
nail, but one will elirch il
Sum men talk just as a French r.uv
cure 'usnei Aisas-
Snence never makes emmy blunders and
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The prayer question has cone up again il
England in curious though not altogethel
new aspect. The island has been the sub
ject Of what appeared to superficial wisdom
a most unnecessary washing by rain. Fol
more than one hundred days it rained every
day the fields were flooded and sodden,
wheat could not be got in, and all agricul-
tural operations were delayed. The rain
was besides great inconvenience, even to
the Britons, who are accustomed to live
half the time under water, like the seals,
and who are popularity supposed to be born
with a silk umbrella in their hands. In
consideration Of this Unfortunately wet time,
the archbishop of Canterbury, the day be-
fore Christmas, addressed a note to the
archdeacons of Canterbury and Maidstone,
expressing his surprise to hear that the
clergy generally had not used the prayer
for fine weather prescribed in case of ex-
cessive rain. And he trusts that if there is
a continuance Of, the unusually wot weather.
the clergy will use this prayer when the
circumstances of the district seem to require
it.
Upon this Mr.. j. Bailey Denton writes to
the Pail Mall Gazette, apologizing for his
presumption as layman, and saying that
his observation ofnature, in relation to rain
falls, leads him to the conclusion that they
would be guilty of great ingratitude by
praying now for any deviation from the
pre- sent order of things. For he explains
that the present excess of rain is Just what
was wanted to restore the balance of the
water supply, which the droughts of recent
years have greatly disturbed. And he con-
tinues up to the present moment, in
spite OF all the rain we have had, the deep
wells dependent on the WITHDRAWING strata
for their supply show little indication of
rising toward their usual level at this time
OF the year. But after the continued down.
fall of the last three months, there lisa great
probability that the equilibrium will be re-
gained, for as the days lengthen so the
springs strengthen, and by May or June
the deficiency may exist no longer. Permit
me to point out to the clergy, for their con-
sideration in regard to the present subject,
that the general health of the country was
never better. if so satisfactory, as at this
moment, and that while we are all disposed |
to think that this is due to the cleansing |
effects OF heavy rain-falls, in washing out !
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

\ fire IN the late residence Of Edwin For
rest at Philadelphia, Wednesday, destroyed
the only existing copy of Fellows edition OF
Shakespeare. Published in l623, and valued
at So geo.
New York has AN amateur dramatic asso-
citation made up entirely OF colored persons.
They gave their first public performance last
week. which Is pronounced 10 have been
very -re1itabie, some Of the actors and ac-
tres~es evincing decided dramatic ability.
Mr.. Tom Taylor. the dramatist. retires
from the civil service of England, on Il pen
sion Of $500 wear
VIII NJ Carlton, author Of E. Betsey and
l are ont is giving readings through
Ohio.
NJ. Mario : visit to this country recalls to
some one witticsm Of Madame Grisi. when
his wife. King Louis Philippe, passing
through a room where Grisi stood holding
two Of her young children by the hand, said
gayly An Madame. are those. then.
some Of your little Gri~ettes 90 '' No, Sire. 80
was the quick reply. " these are my little
Mariunette~.
The Fitib 1r,nue Journal states that
subscription concert is about being started
in Boston to raise fund for the musical
education Of the critics Of the New York
Horidand HTaid
The Mail describes Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stoves reading a happy success Thecurly-
haired, inerry-eyed authores> new and then
dropped her eyeglasses to enjoy the hearty
laugh with which she infected her audi
ence.
Ro>~iui'~ William It3 was rs.ently PLAYED
at s.. Petersburg under the new title of
'' Chario- the Bold" being tlus rechristened
by the Russian officials.
\ once-celebrated singer. Madame lie
Rochoi-, was giving to a younger companion
in the art some Instructions in the tragic
character OF MEDIA, which she was about to
sustain. &c Inspire yourself with the sitla-
ton" said she. d" fancy Yourself in the
poor woman place. If you were deserted
by lover you adJred, what would YOU do.'''
The reply was as unexpected as it was in
genuous. &c should look ont for another
Maretzek', Italian Opera Troupe haze
played at the Boston Theatre during the
week. The season opened On Monday even
ing with Nine. Lucca in her grand role Of
IS Leonora' in La Faroy7tq. on Tuesday.
Mis- Kellogg as 90 Nioletta" in La Trauiqta.
on the succeeding nights these arrangements |
appeared alternately
The Lexington (No) Caucasian keeps a !
musical reviewer, and this is how he reviews 1
90 hnowest Thou the Fair Land, p" which. |
whether thou dost or not. i an exquisite
soprano solo from the opera Of =. Mignon"
70 Our Little Darling, a snuh nosed, pare
rOrlc cheruh 4 red faced and bo13 beada1 !
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rfala Eide Travellers.

IUnlicensed BY the Laureate)
Late, late, past ten so dark the night and chill
Late. late, eleven, but we can enter still
Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now
No thought had we the night was so far spent.
And, hearing this, the Bobby will relent
Too late too late, We cannot enter now
No beer. though late and dark aud chill the nj yht
o let u in, and We will not get tight
Too late, too late. ye cannot enter now
A glass o. I. n tonight would be 80 sweet.
o let Us IN, that We may have il neat
To- late, to late, ye cannot enter now
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Who grumbles when ! ask for a cent,
And always inquiries the way it is spen'
Nv husband

hukDnhu.
Who grumbles when ask for a cent,
ana always inquiries the way it is spent
My husband.
Who, when buy ne shilling gown,
VIII look upon Il with a frown
Ny husband.
Who finds fault with the bill Of fare,
And says donkey and | would make pair
My husband.
Who. If request TO kindle fire.
VIII hold up his hands in terrible ire,
Ny husband.
Who smokes cigars from morn till night,
Then feels in the mood with me TO fight
My husband.
Who sits with his feet above his head,
And sc0lds me If a werd i said
My husband.
Who when at night will seek his rest,
And be snoring in bed when I'm hall undrest
My husband.
Who makes me be an unhappy Vile.
And i the poster OF my life:
Ny husband.
Who sits down to s cup Of strong tea,
And drinEs 10 the health Of Horace G.,
My husband.
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Precociously intelligent children are, the
most common breakers of the moral law
Dobbs, who ate his Thanksgiving dinner
down in Jersey, tells ofan eight-year-old- 'un
there who arose betimes on the morning Of
that prayerful day. in order TO enjoy few
moments of uninterrupted happiness in the
pantry where the mince pies were kept. The
sagaclous boy had been reading in Sunday
school book all about how the early bird
catches the worm. Afterwards he sobbing-
" admitted that he . caught it." hat he
didn't refer to the worm.
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EDUCATION Al.

Secretary Northrop, at the Connecticut
State Teachers Institute the other day. said
that We surpassed Europeans in school ar
clitectme and in arithmetic, in which our
methods OF computation are more quick and
accurate. Bat here our superiority ends.
They are ahead Of Us in the following parti-
calars
More thorough supervision of schools;
>, plan OF graduation 3, culture Of the ex-
pre>>iye faculties have few set
words and phrases which are made to do
duty On all occasions, without reference to
propriety or congruity +, independence Of
text book, They teach the subject rather
than the hook-the matter rather than a
letter, and their teaching Is more conyer,a-
tiJnal A.; ), more thorough teaching of his
tsry 6, mode ofteaching modern languages
:, drawing. Napoleon had said. Let it be
taught in all the schools The Swiss are in
advance Of all other countries in this art
10 this their general prosperity was owing
Hemmed in among the mountains, they own
their own houses and are more prosperous
than many other countries with better ad-
'antages. England pays five times As much
for lauperism as for education. while Swift
zerland pays seven times As much for educa-
ton as for crime"
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VENTILATION or School RooMs.-Th,
crowded. hady-,entilatei schoal-room i,
often the place where ea,lv life. rehreathe.i
air commences it, deadly work Not one
scholl-room in a hundred in this country i
a fit place in whic, To confne children six
or eight hoar~ of the day. The li,tle ones
are tended together in promiscuouS crowd
those Of tender years and those more adj
yanced. the feeble and the strong, the sicklv
and tie well, are all subjected To the same
hoars Of study, the same school discipline.
ard all breath the same deleteriou- air. The
hardy and tie strong may be able to resist
tie influence Of the poison and weak and
tender ones grow pale and haggard, and.
struggling un through their school-lavS. live
perhaps to ihe age Of puberty, and ;hen
drop into the consulnptiye's grave VIII pa
rents never awake to the enornity Of this
evil?
Small, iIl-'entilated ~leeping-ro5m>, in
wh.ci re-breathed air is ever present. are
nurseries Of consumption. These are not
found alone in cities and large towns. or
among the poor and lowly. Well-to-do farm
ers' daughters and sons in the coantrv.-
those who 1--we among the mountains of the
New England States. where Gods pureair Is
wholly nndeliiei,-are often victims Of con-
sumption. How j. this explained D.? Look
INTO their bedrooms examine into thei daily
habits II life and the cause Is made plain.
Old-Eisnilnef iire-places are boarded up
rubber wl,.lnw-stril> and stoves have found |
their way into the most retired hooks and |
corners Of the land and the imprisoned /
mountain air ia country dwellings i heated |
10 higl point. and hreathed over and over
during tie days and uieht- of the long win
Ter months. Il Is certainly true that girls in
tie country take less exercise in the oreu
AR tdan titre 'eNiding in cities They an
PEA - D. moie AFRAID Of pure cold air than
'ity giri> Consumption Is not less rare
rm i.- females in TIE country than in cities.
10 toe ,re-ani age II WIS not 50 formerly.
III. -cl-u;ti n> of grandmotheIs and Old
lhySic.a..- ~ Z, SLOW that. fifty Years ago.
i.us mVtion w;is hardly known in the rural
districts. The winds whistled through the
iWe.iu.c tAen. and the fire bazed and roar
= a..'4 tH' .-irth. Half the time. in the
old winters, - - the hacks Of the inmates
we're freezing, while the front parts Of the
,ers'n Were roasting :" and Vet there was
e. Rheumatism than now. and no consump-
ion. -tireade Sc.eqoo.
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CHAPPED HANDs.-The alkali in soap is
usually in excess, and this combines with
the oily secretion, and so deprives the skin
of its natural lubricator. To prevent the
hands from chapping, then, be careful to
wash all soap from them thoroughly in clean
water. This will ordinarily suffice but if
not, it will be necessary to make good the
removed oil by the use of glcerine, honey,
mutton tallow, etc.-Hygienc.
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Quite an exploit was that of the New
York policeman who nabbed three roughs
for assaulting and robbirg woman, Thurs
day night. lie overlook them as they fled i,
few rods apart, and successfully felled them
to the pavement with his club, and then did
sentry duty along the line of fallen bodies.
administering occasional taps, just enough to
keep them down, till help arrived
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lrn Goods.
American Black Silks

-le]g-s2F7~
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CONTAINING sc ACRES situated Ola the St,.1-
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: wei! Watered and u state " excellent cut va
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
t ,kH has moved into his New Store nm
-. the East side Of Church St, four doa,s IN
Of stanton House, and is ready to do in ~ noIt1
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and Silver Rings, Spectacles. etc N'A'hs' told
MI ar sreman Is very thankful for past favor. and
lie patronage. fease OF pub
Watch work most faithfully attended to.
Dec ll-tdtf
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Mrs. Agas>iz gives sorry picture of the
Indians Of Terra del Fuego, with whom she
scraped passing acquaintance in the course
of her recent trip on the HaSsler. Though
she has looked upon Savages north and
south, she states that she has never seen
any 50 repulsiye as these Their bodies are
out Of proportion almost to deiormity
their expression is bestial, their manners are
uncouth in the extreme, and their tastes APP
parently of the lowest description. Their
appetite Tor tobacco Is strong, and their
talking Is like the ehattering of 80 many
monkeys. " They wander naked and home
less in snow and mist and rain, as they have
done for ages, asking of the land only
strip Of beach and handful of fire of the
ocean, shellfish enough to save them from
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Plantation Bitters.

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