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A Hindoo Story.

A tiger, prowling IN forest, was at
tracted by bleating calf. It proved
to be bait, and the tiger found himself
trapped IN a spring cage. There he lay
for two days, when Brahmin happened
to pass that way z ~
tsBrahmin 'piteeusly criedthe beast,
have mercy on me; let me out of this
cage"
s ss' All but yoa win eat me- - 90
;'Eat youi Devour my benefactor (?
Never could I be guilty Of such a deed, .
responded the tiger.
The Brahmin, being beneyolently in
clined, was moved by these entreaties
and opened the e.doaf of the elge. The
tiger walked up to him, wagged his tail.
and said: so ausl lzis..its.f
@Brahnin, prepare to die, shall
now eat YOU 80 Ia
"Oh, how ungrateful5l how wicked !
Am not your savior ?" protested the
trembling priest. Z z
ssTrue," said the tiger, Every, true !;
but it is the custom of my race to eat a
man when we get chance, and I can
not afford to let you go.
"Let US submit the case TO an. arbi-
traitor" said the Brahnin. "Here
comes a fox. The fox is wise; let us
abide by his decision"
s'Very well, " replied the tiger
The fox, assuming judicial aspect,
sat on his launches with all the dignity
he could muster, and, looking at the
disputants, he said:
"Good friends, I am confused at tue
different accounts which you give of
this matter my mind is not clear
enough to render equitable judgment,
but if you viii be kind enough to act
the whole transaction before my eyes, I
shall attain unto a more definite concep-
ton of the case. Do you, Mr.. Tiger.
show me just how you approached and
entered the cage, and then you, Mr..
Brahmin, show me how you liberated
him, and I shall be able to render
proper decision
They assented, for the fox was sol
emn and oracular. The tiger walked
into the cage, the spring door fell and
shut him in. He was prisoner. The
judicial expression faded from the fox's
countenance, and, turning to the Brah-
min, he said
81 advise you to go nome as fast as
you can, and abstain in future from do
ing favors to rascally tigers. Good
morning, BrahmiL; good morning,
Ain,ar
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NUMBER 27.
RiIIlnes Exparienea with 60.

Billings Experience with Lager.
I have finally cum to the conclusion
that lager beer as beverage is not in
toxicating.
I have been told so by a German who
said he had drank It all night long, Just
70 try the experiment, aud was obliged
I to go home entirely sober in the morn
ing. have seen this nan drink eigh-
teen glasses, and if he was DRINK, he
was drunk Ia German, and nobody could
understand il. It is proper enough 70
state that this man kept 8 lager beer
saloon, and could have no object in
stating what was not strictly thus.
I believe him to the full extent of my
/ ability. / never drank but three glasses
of lager in my hfe, and that made my
/ he'd ontwist as tho It vas hung on the
end of q string, but was told that il
was owing to my bile bein out Of place /;
! and I guess that it was 50, for never
billed over wus than did when I got
! hum that Hite. NV wife thot / was
/ going to die, and / was afraid that I
| shouldn't, for it seemed as tho every
thing had ever eaten in my life was
cummin' to the surface, and ] believe
I that If nay wife hadn't pulled off my
boots Just as she did, they would have
cum laundering too.
o how sick / WIZ Fourteen years
ago, and can taste It now.
II any man shud tell me that lager
beer Wuz not Intoxicating, I shud believe
him, but if he shud tell me that wuzn't
drunk that mite, but that my stunick
was out of order, / shud ask him to
state over a few words. jest how man
felt and acted when he was set up.
If I warn't drunk that mite, had sum
ov the most natural simtums that man
ever had and kept sober.
In the first place it was about eighty
rods from where drank the lager beer
to y house, and 1 vuz Jest two hours
on the road, and had hole busted thro
didn't have any hat, and tried to open
the door by the bell-pull and hiecnpped
awfully and saw everything IN the room
trying to get around on the back side of
me, and sitting down on chair. 7 did
not wait long enough for il to get ex-
actly under me when 1t wuz going
round. and / sat down a little too soon
and missed the chair about twelve in
ehes, and couldn't get up soon enough
to take the next one thsts came along !;
and that amt awl my wife sed I wuz
drunk as a beast, and. as / sed before,
began TO spin up things freely.
If lager beer IS not Intoxicating it
used me most almighty mean, that I
know.
Still hardly think that lager beer is
intoxicating, for have been told so
and am probably the only man living
who ever drank emmy, when bis liver was
not plumb.
I don't want to say ennything against
a harmless temperance beverage, but if
Il "a
mi hands tied behind me and my mouth
| pried open.
I don't think lager beer is Intoxicating,
but if / remember rite, ] think it tastes
to me like a glass of soap suds, that q
/ pickle had been put to soak in.
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Where We LIve.

insignificant IS is the spot we habit,
the zone Of life, the area which not only
all that live and breath and move IN
habit, bns IN which all vegetation is
contained, is still more limited. From
the submarine foress in the lowest
depths Of the sea TO the highest alti-
tude to which the conao- scars. above
the perpetual snow, Is but tvasive miles,
SIX miles of air above us, six miles Of
water beneath. everything that hiss Vi.
tality is confined. II the salamander
lives IN the central IRE, the exception Is
so small IS 70 be scarcely worth men,
tioning. The air presses upon the earth
with force equal to thirty-three feet
Of water and upon every average hui
man body with a weight Of fifteen tons,
which only does not squssh as fat as
pancakes because the air surrounds us
on oil sides, including our insides, and
thereby the weight Is balanced. To
most OF as, nature is one vast mirage,
suggesting infinite delasions and even
to the learned many things still remain
to be learned up by slow-mosing
science IN future ages. Who would
imagine upon the face Of the matter,
for instance, that in an airless world
not sound could ever be heardq On
The contrary, in still and silent space,
one would conceive that We might hear
pin drop from the moon. Hawksby
demonstrated the contrary Of this fact
in memorable experiment before the
royal society, $50 years sgo. He
placed the clock under the receiver Of
an air pump, IN such way that the
striking Of the clapper would continue
after the air had been exhausted
while the receiver was fun Of AIR the
sound was quite audible when Il was
empty ali was silent Again, when the
air was introduced, there was feeble
sound, growing 10 intensity as the air
grew denser. At the top cf Mount
Blanc the report Of q pistol IS no louder
than that OF 8 common cracker let of at
the level Of the sea. About two
niles, " says Mr.. Glaisher, who, as ev-
erybody knows, is an aeronaut Of con-
siderable experience, s. all noise ceases.
never encountered silence more
complete and solemn than in the heights
Of the atmosphere. in these chilling
solitudes TO which no terrestrial sound
reaches. /" On the other hand clouds
absolutely facilitate the transmission Of
sound. Above a great city. to heigth
Of from J 900 TO 800 feet, there is
always noise, immense, colossal
and understandable. The whistle Of q
steam engine is heard st 10000 feet,
the noise Of a train at 28, COO, says NJ.
Flammeron but Mr.. Glaisber testified
to having heard this latter when %, eco
feet up in the air; the barking Of a
dog and the report Of gun rise each
to 5000 feet; the shouts of crowd of
people, the Growing Of a cock, the
tolling Of a bell to 5000 feet, and the
shout Of a human being TO 8, 800 feet.
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Fsegnaitv 81 Pishss.

II Is said that probably abeut 90, co.,
cOe or so. .Oga. of,O0 Goldfish are taken
from the see anEaeiiy around the shores
III Newfoundland. Bat cven that guam
fsfv seems small when we consider that
the cod yields sofaethlng IKE z. 800. coo
eggs cash season. end that even B.0eJ. =
O00 have heen found ia lhs roe 81 q sin
ale cod Otht1 ssh, though not elFual-
irQ the cod. are sundeffrily productive.
A herring six ~ seven ounces il weight
Is provided with about 50. O80 oga- Al
Ter Masking All reasonable ailcwances
for Che destruction uf ezRe AID Of the
Young, Il has been calculated that IN
three years single pair - herritsfEs
Wouid pToduce t54 CO. 03Q. ball1a
said that Il 8 pair a. herrines we're iest
20 breed ard multiply uudisturbe't tes
q period of tseenly yeEras they N7iita
weld 3 fah haIk e1usl - the glcne On
r1;eh We lira. The cod far surpzssee
fi,s herring ia foeandity. Were it sel
iiiat vsst Numbers Of the eggs arc g.
airayod. ash would 50 multiply a. % Al
sbe waters completely.
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Advice 70 Travellers.

Walking brings out the true character
Of a man. The devil never yet asked
his victims to take q walk with him.
You viii not be long in finding your
companion ont. Ali disguises viii fall
away from him. AS his pores open his
character is laid bare. His deepest and
most private self viii come to the top.
It matters little whom you ride with, 50
he be not 8 apiclrpOohst for both Of you
viii, very likely, settle down closer and
firner IN your reserve, shaken down
like a measure Of corn by the jolting as
the journey proceeds. Bat walking IS
a more vital eo-partnersiip the rels-
ton Is a closer and sympathetic one,
and you do not feel like walking ten
PAGES With a stranger without speaking
to him.
Hence the fastidiousness Of the pro
fessional walker in choosing OF admit
ing a companion. and hence the truth oi
s remark Of Emerson, that VOC viii
generally fare better 70 take your dog
than to invite your nsiehbor. Yous
cus-dog il a true pedestrisa and your
neighbor is very likely q small politician.
The dog enters thoroughly into ths
spirit Of the enterprise he is not ia.
different y prsoocupisd he is con.
slantly shifting adventure. laps a. ever
spring. looks upon every field and wood
as a new world % be explored. Is evei
On some fresh trail. kaoFs something
Important viii happen a little furthe'
en-, g4zes with the true wondsr-seeinl
eyes, RlateVer the spos or Whatever -.
Iroad. hnzs # good 70 be thore-in shor4
Is Jest that happy, delicious, ezcursiF'
vagabond tnat touches Que a. 50 man,
points. and whose human prctosyIss in
eonpanion robs miles and Leagues o
half their fatigue. -Gokarv.
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2. That general cleansinp. scavenc.

2. That general cleansing, scaveng-
ing and disinfection should be attended
to N every city and town before cholera
makes its appearance and that wherev-
er it does appear, that house and the
exposed premesis should be kept con
stantiy disinfected.
3. That In the words of the chief
medical officer of Great Britain, cit
appears to be characteristic of cholera,
not only of the disease in its developed
and alarming form, but equally of the
slightest diarrhae which the epidemic
can produce that all matters which the
patient discharges from his stomach
and bowels are infective that the pa
TENTS power of injecting from other
persons is represented almost or quite
exclusively by those discharges: that
they are comparatively non-infective at
the moment they are discharged, but
afterwards, when undergoing decompo-
sition, acquire their maximum infective
power and that if they be. east away
without previous disinfection, they i'm
part their own infective quality to the
excremental matters with which they
miHgle in filth-sodden earth, or in de-
positories and conduits of filth, and the
effiuYia which those excremental mat
ters evolve that if the infective mate
rial, by leakage or soakage from drains
or cesspools, or otherwise gets access,
even In the smallest quantity, directly,
or through porous soil, to wells or other
sources of drinking water, it can infect,
IN the most dangerous manner, very
large volumes of water the infective
influence of the choleratic discharges
attaches to whatever bedding, clothing
and like things have been inabued with
them, and renders these things, if not
dis1nfected, capable of spreading the
disease"
4. Cleansing and purity, sIillfuI dis
infection, temperate habits and whole
some diet with pure water and fresh air
are the trusted and sure means of health
and security in all places and for all
classes of people when exposed to the
causes of cholera The watchword
against this destructive enemy should
be, remove the local causes that favor
the propagation of cholera, and wherev-
er it appears, let its germs be quickly
stamped out by powerful disinfectants
and instant cleansing.
From being the most feared and des-
tructive pestilence, cholera now may be
controlled and distinguished more
quickly and completely than any other
epidemic disease. Believing, therefore,
that the people of the United States re-
quire the suggestions which are given
in this memoran lum, this committee
presents them for the purpose of hasten
ing and making sure the most extensive,
thorough and speedy control of the des-
trOyer
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TIE pencil marks you sss around this
paragraph (thns) mean that youE sub
seriptior is ont or unpaid. and that
yon are requested to pay mp at once.
We would take great pleasure il extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but essh alone VIII pay expenses, and
we are forced TO adhere 30 8 strict cash
rule. We hope You viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such e
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
81 We esster no new names on our
books without the money in adv1nce.
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Curious Facts About the Ghizeh Py1-
amid


The recently discovered cornerstone
Of the great Ghizeh pyramid. the first
and largest of the Egyptian pyramids.
was found by the disc0yese-, an English
Clergyman, to have the SAFE renarka-
bic relations to geometry that had been
ascertained by the astronomer royal OF
Scotland and other mafhematicsans. 20
exist IN the pyramid as a whole aud Ia
various of It's parts. The cornerstone.
which had escaped, by being covered,
the general stripping Of the stone fac
ing of the pyramid, was found ia Eitu,
10 measure mnitiplcs Of the pyramidni
cubit "a little more than % incl esl on
all it's lines, and the angle OF It's outer
slope to express, with mathemEfical nc
curacy, the ratio Of the diameter to the
perimeter Of q circle. The pyramidai
cHbit is exactly O.000, ,oO0,0t of the
the shortest ridas Of the earth, aud the
ofht Of the restored pyramid. 222 GU
ligs, the 0. coo, ,0o0, 600. OF tie distance
bItthe sun from the earth. according to
the letely corrected valre os this dis
tance. Similarly the so-cailed eare0-
phagus inside the ps ranid has been
found to be an accurate measure Of con-
tents, based On the pyramidal cnbit A
relation to the mean density Of the
earth is also found to exist. and Il Is q
curious fact that The unit o. measure
adopted by TIE builders Of thepyramid,
supposed 20 be as lesst S009 years old,
and TO have been ereotod by e race inte-
rior to the historical Egyptians, posses
ses = geometrf cal accuracy which does
not exist IN the Frerch one, which, as Is
known, Is not, what its designers ia
tended Il to be, IA exact decimes rola-
ton with the uaeziiizn, owing 70 errors
IN the are AlzD1Fer the builders Of
the Ghfzoh pyramid. astronomy must
have been far advanced among them -
enable thsm 20 calculate the distance Of
the san 20 the amended figure 70 which
it hes been redueed only within the lust
thIea or four YeaIa.
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TIE manager Of e London theatef
lately condescended % hear IN his sane
tum a young man, who had IA unfortu-
nate hesitation in his spe eli, read
short farce, the sole csnditiea being
that il should not occupy more time
than il took to finish the weed the man
aeer had just lit Away they both
start, the one reading. the other
smoking. but IS the mild Havana
reaches its terninatiun, the worse the
young author splutters they finish to-
gother. OF ooufse the question Is inn
meiiafeiy pnt. "What do yau think Of
itY' "Wen. replies Mr.. Manager,
+" not half a bad idea father. mother.
lover, daughter. al suffering. vill have
4 novel effect. The anthor. furious.
exelairas: eTbey don't stammsf. its
oniy my uisfortune. 30 then the
play amt funny AZ eli sorry / oan's ae-
cept II. {" replied the manager.
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An alligator Is rather smart about
some things. He knows as much atcut
strategy es g IaaiCr general Of militia
He vii Foiss himself on alog, open his
his mouth vide BY eleTsting his uppsr
Jaw. and remain perfesily quiet. il g
short time his mouth VII 81 WIfh
ruskefoes and fiies, when d0En vii
come his juE. taking every mnslrstg AID
ffv priaoneF. He sWallers them, iicsa
his chop, and eieyates his y - catch
another focr full. This diah IS regard
ed by the alligator as the most delicious
that she country a1oras,
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Marriage and De Girls.

It is a complaint as old as man, says
a writer in the Saturday Review, that we
only know how to live when we have
done with life. The saving is essen
TALLY true of marriage and Of TIE right
kind of person to choose. Girls of ro-
mantic tendencies. think they ought not
to marry unless with the most passion
ate furore of love. They do not know
that respect and compatibility of tenn
per are better sureties for happy life
than a passion which must IN tirne wear
itself out. however strong It may be
now, and of which the best hope is that
1t may become friendship. Good plain
common sense men, who would make
excellent husbands but are nothing to
look at, are refused by certain of the
feather-headed, IN favor of a dream
that will never be realized, a fancy that
has no more substance than soap bub-
BILE. Or personal wealth is refused for
mere wealth, quite as often as for pen
niless romance. The man of a girls
fancy is too handsome to be traitor,
roue, weak, or of so wayward temper
that her life, if she marries him, viii be
simply torture. She is. sure of him,
she says with indignation when stony
hearted wisdom points out his patent
flaws, and experience breaches caution
AID remuneration. She knows that love
will not fly out of her window when
poverty stalks in at the door or she
does not believe he is a roue now, what
ever the evidence. And even if he is,
she comforts herself with the sensible
reflection that a reformed rake makes
notoriously the best husband and ne
woman is proof againt the seduction
of reforming the man she loves, and
bringing him to virtue by means of her
wiles. She is in love, and she believes
that her love is eternal. Pretty girls
of poor circumstances and belonging to
large families, whom it would be an In
caiculable relief to get web settled,
have been known to refuse eligible
offers from good men because of this
fancy of theirs about Prince Pretty
man. tt- - @
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woMANs WORLD


"A queen OF noble EstIre's craW1ing.
smile Of hers was like an act Of grace
She had no winsonie looks, no Pretty frowninq
Like daily beauties Of the vulgar race
But if she smiled a light was on her face.
A clear. cool kindiinsss, lunar beam
or peaceful radiance, silverina. II the stream
OF human thought, Of unabiding glory.
Not cuite swakiJs5g truth, not qufte 4 dream
A visitation bright and dtransitory.
r. Cole1la0e.
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-Eban Summer of Vinion, Iowa, was
discharged from isil. last week, after =
four-m0nthz' sentence. for attempting
70 murder his wife. and the very hrs5
thing be dts vas 70 ges q douhie-edQed
butcheT-knife and plunge Is into his
vife's threat, killing her, and tie next
hing be did vas - XII himself.
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HARD UPoN THE WOMEN CLERKS. =
The civil service commission is not only
alive, but literally kicking, it would
seem, as one Of their last rules prohib-
its women from competing for the clerk
ships of the highest grades in the
Washington departments. In the ex-
aminations a great many women sue
cessfully competed, and before Secretary
Boutwell, resigned were appointed. In
some cases promotions were obtained by
ladies as high as the second and third
grades. Secretary Richardson has re-
fused absolutely to appoint ladies to po-
sitions above the $500 grades. Though
several passed almost at the head, they
we're rejected absolutely. The reason
given for this Is the feeling IN the
bureaus Of the treasury against advan-
cling women to positions requiring self
reliance and action based on individual
investigation and Judgment The post
master general also refuses to promote
women to higher grades in his depart
ment, and defends his conduct on the
results of experience The 500 viii
be filed by women according to law,
aud the selections be made under the
rules for competition, but nothing be-
yond can be hoped for.-Nei0 York
E5lrorese
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NY LITTLE VIE

NY LITTLE WIFE
Our table is spread FOR two tonight,
No guests bounty share
The damask cloth - snowy-white,
The service elegant and bright
Our china quaint and rare.
Ny little wife presides
And perfect love abides.
The bread Is sponge the butter gold
The mufins nice and hot;
What though the winds without blow cold {?
The wallis a little world enfOld,
And the storm Is soon forgot.
In the freight's cheerful glow
Beams a paradise below.
A faircr picture who hath seen
Soft lights and shadows blent:
The central figure Of the scene
She sta, my wife, my love, Iny queen
Her head a little bent
And in her eyes Of blue
read my bliss anew.
I watch her al she pours the tea
With quiet gentle grace
With fingers deft and movement free
She mixes Ia the cream for me,
bright Hmie her face.
And she sends il uD
pledge her IN my cup.
Was. ever man before 20 blest?
/ secretly reflect.
The passing thought che must have o,iessed
For now dear lips on mine are pressed
An arm Is around my neck;
Dear treasure Of my life,
God bless her little wife!
-fpperkaHd Monthly
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o woman, pale and hasting,
On whom the storm beats hard
would that thou vert with thy sisters,
At home in loves sweet ward
o could you hear the music
That 7 hear through the storm.
Or know what keeps me smiling,
Ny heart 50 rosy warm.
The rapture Of the evening,
When past the outer harms,
rest by my own hearth-fire, f.-
And my child is in my arms.
-.Shigiey Dare.
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Two curious suicides have taken
place at Paris. both oceasioned by the
remorse Of the victims at having scolded
their wives.
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"A susrifsal joke has been made. Is
i that Poe's bird snasa have lad 40 ~
tack 81 deiiriua treaeDs. bocslse +
vas rsxin o. 3 sust.
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Az Ono postmaster has received 3
letter wherein the writer prolers aeuri-
GUS request Is follows: II you can 4
vii ascertain the names Of Some rich
old maid or widoz worth from 5 thou
sand TO 50. 900 OF more let me know by
return mail and win pitch in and 3 I
make It tie the Knot, il is q ! hundred
dollars in yosr pocket. Keep this a
profound secret between us two Il Il
gets out ali is spoiled am pour bat
want TO marry rich.
A PARrEsrcs1kS iuryman IN Yer
znont recently inforRed his fellow iu-
rors. with great gravity, thai 10 ez-
ternai magnetism being visual. be
would vote in the defensive. No AZ
tempt was mads % change his deeiaion.
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A sCHoo1-sIAsTKR on being asked
what was meant by the word 81 fortifoa-
tion, answered, Two twentiaoslons.