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News of / Week.
DO WMST.


"A T. Stewart has lnted 81, 900 to ths
fund for disabled fren
Fourteen of the en- held for illegal
voting at the late alec at Rochester, gave
bail to appear at AlbaI Susan B. Anthony
refused to furnish baiH was remanded-
Foster, the forgeken from Montrea
for trial under .he exttion treaty, has ar
rived at Boston and bcommitted for trial
IN default of S3.0OO.bs
"A letter received Boston reports tn,
loss Of the ship Bermon, of Boston, north
OF Grand Carranies, Nmber 90. Eight men
were lost. The captsand the remainder
were saved affa-
Ihe Mayor of Pfielphia instrIlcts his
ponce to report every milling house, lottery
shop and brothel in tiurg.
-scme eighteen bued emigrants arrived
az Castle Garden, lasTeelk. number quite
unprecedented for tIl1clement season. The
Germans and Italianse especially repot8 IA
as having suffered insely throughout the
VOYAGE from the efetof cold and poor treat
ment
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TNDUSTPTlL PROGRECg.

FooT-wARMERs are now supplied in
the railroad carriages on three of the
great lines in England.
In Glasgow and on the Clyde, accord
ing to recent advices, the demand for
coal was greater than the supply.
IN New-Zealand, a very large deposit
Of brown hematite ore, containing rs
per cent Of iron, has been discovered
near Launceston.
ITALY is now entering the market as
ship-builder. She builds excellent
vessels, it is reported, at S75 per tun,
and of her superior oak timber.
The Corporation of the City of Lon
don is, like ourselves, considering the
subject of improving the water supply,
in order to have abundance in case Of
fires.
THE introduction of street railroads
in England widens the market for
American inventors of machinery or
appliances connected Herewith.
THE export trade of the Birmingham
district to the United States is gradually
declining, owing mainly 20 our homo
manufactures taking the place OF those
it supplied. This is shown in detail by
a return recently issued by the United
States Consul in Birmingham.
SEVERAL leading firms or individuals
in the manufacture of iron in England
are taking advantage of the present
prosperous condition of the trade to
dispose of their works TO limited liabil-
ity companies, which are easily formed
and literally supplied with capital
THE National Agricultural Laborers'
Union of England were recently in
strumental in sending 80 farm laborers
to Brazil. 1t is evident that the man
ayers of that body need information re-
garding the greater attractions and adj
vantagA afforded by this country to i'm
migrants.
OF THE eight new pontoon bridges
building over the Rhine between Alsace
and Baden, that at Huningen has JUST
been opened and, On an average, ~
crossed by 5000 passengers per week;
While Alsace was French, there was but
the one bridge of Strasbourg along the
whole length of the province.
SoysErHTNa new in railroad engine
brakes. The London Times describes
one used in Bavaria which has important
qualities. The engine driver and the
guards are provided with bell-rope,
which, on being pulled applies the
brakes to the engine and tender ana
front and rear brake-vans and carriages,
stopping the train in about 10 70 ~
seconds, without any unpleaAant lere >,
and even without the driver snutting OF
steam" This ystem is the invention ol
Herr Herberlein, man who mas Lsea
fro,n the ranks of engine-driver TO that
i Of one of the locomotive superintondents
of the BaveTian railwaJsi
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guish, to take her away to the spiri
world, where she believed Carlos to be
Approaching footsteps arrested her at
tention. She started guiltily and at
tempted to hide her tears, for she dared
not let her parents know she still
mourned her absent lover.
" Lna-Linar' greeted her ears in a
familiar voice, and stayed her flight.
Tremblingly she ava ted the near APP
proach of the intruder, when, with one
wild, joyous cry of g Carlos' she drop
ped into his arms, her beautiful head
pressed close to his throbbing heart.
1t was indeed, Carlos, returned at
last, faithful to his promise, bringing
a fortune at least equal to that of her
aged and detested suitor.
Carlos, with faith in his love and
confidence in his ultimate success, fol-
lowed the Indian across the Coast Range
into the heart of the Sierras, where he
proved the honesty of his guide and the;
4'-p1-f,- y sbqa " 1t tf ffr siYts ~
Two years sufieed sgain the fortune
for which they So ear1essly sought and
strove.
And other things being equal. the
Don and Dona consented that thor
daughter should choose between the
suitors. and the next day, instead of be
ing led to the altar wrctched sacrifice |
to their ambition and avarice. she went |
as the willing and happy bride OF her
adoring Carlos.
Years passed away: Don and Dona /
Feliz died, and reverses deprived Carlos /
of his wealth But, strange to say, the
faithful vine, once token of fidelity
between the lovers, now became their
means of support; br SO prolific had it
become, and so little did the indolent
Spanish about then turn their attention
to the culture f the grape, that its
fruit brought them an income sufficient
for their maintenance.
About twelve years ago a second vine
sprang up near the original one and
grew rapidly, until now it nearly equals
it in size A large dancing floor was
erected beneath the shadow of the vine,
and here the Spanish youths and mai
dens united in the merry dance on
Sabbath evenings, according to their
national custom.
Carlos and Marcellina died at a good
Did age, leaving behind them three hum
lred lineal descendants, and the big
which viii keep green their
memory and the story of their love and
long after children and
cease to tell the story.
Hundreds Of tourists annually visit
he place, and wonder while they gaze
Ipon its vast proportions, and listen to
he accounts Of marvellous productive
less.
Yet, to me, the heart history of
which it is a living momento is its
greatest charm; and love to dream.
While standing beneath its spreading
ranches, and gazing far out upon the
road, blue Pucific. whose v.sterss sl,..r.
---s--sssmzn
Spanish maiden - - 10 q - -
aith which springs from an immortal
owe, and who watered it with her tears.
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] tkAN -N'4A---
THREE hundred cheese disappeared
from a Western factory, the other day,
and the proprietors don't know whether
they have 'strayed" or been stolen. -
IL Iowa a man can not remember
where he hid coffee pot full Of silver
during the war, and has nearly scratched
every hair out of his head trying to
think about it.
| INFLATED rubber bustles are the
latest popular whim in fashion. 1t takes
"A young husband with weak lungs half
IN hour to blow his wife up to a fash
ionable rotundity.
/ A KENTUCKY huckster has over his
stall this impressive moral injunction
ANY Man or Boy that takes one APPEL
Without Leafe is little Roge IN his
own Harte.
THERE are thirteen shot-guns with
women at their butt ends prowling
around the Western States, looking for
tr,lant husbands, and their naughty
feminine companions.
A New ALBANY man, with fifteen
daughters and twelve sons, is figuring
rs to whether it will be cheaper to mix
up an arsenic stew, or use kerosene for
kindling- wood in his house.
"CoME, don't be timid, said couple
Of snobs to two mechanics 9 sit down
and make yourselves our equals. ''To
do that we should have to blow our
brain out, replied one of the me-
chanics.
WARNED by the cold snap of the past
people are preparing themselves for the
winter, and heavier and warmer sleeve
buttons are in demand. g 1t is easier
to take care of the health than it is to
recover it. "
''Do YOU think it safe my dear, said
a husband to his wife, {" for me to take
off flannel when it looks like spring p
" Perhaps, sir, " replied the wife, " but
[ never saw any flannel that looks like
spring
A Connecticut sexton prevents the
congregation from shifting about and
changing seats by dextrously applying
a COB of pitch to their persons as they
enter the sanctuary. He says " the
church is no place to fool around in.
A GEORGIA man stationed his son,
armed with a shotgun, to watch q
favorite-corn patch. Stealing around a
short time afterward to see if the lad
was at his post he chanced to make a
little rustling in the leaves; there was
a flash and report, and that perforated
parent lis now fully convinced of his
sons reliability.
A PAKTY who proposes to publish 8
new housekeepers' guide sends the fol
lowing extracts from the. forthcoming
work: 'Plain sauce-An interview
with railway clerk To make good
iam-Ask my horse-car conductor. To
boil topgue-Drink sealding coffee. Tc
make good broil-Leave letter from
one of your sweethearts where youl
wife can find it.
A BOY got to fooling with his fathers
horses, until finally one of them put hls
foot in his face He was carrid in, anc
the doctor sewed up his lip, and ban
daged his eyes, and poulticed hi
cheeks, but he pufed up and laid abeG
a number of days: and when he begaI
to get little better he called for look
ing-glass, and casting his eyes upon j
his countenance fell. 'sFather" sal,
he, "do you think / shall ever be a
pretty again y "No, my son, !" the ol'
man replied; "you viii never be 5
pretty again but You'll know d-dsigh
more"
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A 10000 BIBLE.

In the bookstore of Mr.. Bouton, on
Broadway, there is now on exhibition
what is certainly the most valuable copy
of the Holy Bible ever compiled. 1t re-
presents the industrious toll for thirty
years of an English collector of Biblical
prints, etchings, engravings, original
drawings in oil and water colors, and
authoritative or curious editions of the
Scriptures, and is now roughly valued
at ten thousand dollars, though it's real
price may very likely prove to be much
higher. The complete text used is that
of DIR. Kilto's edition of King James
Bible; but this is but fractiontional
part of the sixty huge folio volumes
the reader will turn over fifty consecu-
tive pages of illustrations between these
scattered fragments. Such subjects,
for example, as 'Susana and the Ell
ders, or "Daniel in the Lions Den, :"
are enriched with scenes of illustrations
drawn from every field of art-the CON
strange, fanciful, strikingly false draw
ings of the italian masters, the gro
tesaue works of Dutch and German
painters, and the later and more truth
full efforts of modern artists. In all,
this wonderful monument of loving de-
votion to worthy hobby includesno less
than 80, 600 illustrations of various kinds
some of them worth from $50 to 500
each. and extracts from some thirty
editions of the sacred text. Such a
treasure ought speedily to find pur-
chaser in some of our few great hbrarist
where it would be an unfailing spring
of delight and instruction to artists and
men of letters.
CALIFORNIA housewives dascribe soda
as "that ere stuff which You put in bis
cults to make 'em get up and Grecian
bend themselves.
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1t thus appears that the same white
popula ion th(s South Atlantic States
have more than double as many churches
and two-thirds as many more church-sit-
tings as the six New England States. 1t
NAV be said that the New England
States have large foreign population;
but this is mostly Catholic, and noted
for the liberality with which it builds
and equips churches. 1t may be further
said that many freedmen churches have
been built South since the war by North
ern contributions; but the increase in
Southern churches in 1870 over 1860 is
/ ,296, and leaving these out of the
question entirely the 3,450,O 900 white
people in the six South Atlantic States
have still 1927 churches to 5,42l to
the Z. $50. 600 whitec,people Of the six
, y -, lsss- e,-ssza.-..-sslir .~-p
ton of double. Granting churches 10
be an exponent of civilization our Puri-
tan friends must be tender hereafter mp
on Southern barbarism.
Another curious revelation of the
census of 1870, taking the same States,
is as TO the relative number of paupers
and criminals in their respective native
white populations. Setting the foreign
ers of New England aud the negroes of
the South Atlantic States out of the
question the figures stand thus:
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In his experiments TO determine the
heat-conducting power Of linen, cotton,
wool, and silk, Sir Humphrey Davy fouud
not only that these materials conducted
heat in the order given above, linen
being the best, but also that the tight
ness or looseness OF weaving possessed
an important influence. It is therefore
= -. - =. sl.e selection of ~~int~r
| clothing, and especially l'-s,f ss---s ~ -.
fesSoT7f next to the skin, the materials o.
least conducting power, as wool and
silk, should be chosen, and the fabrics
should be loosely woven.
As regards the external garments the
same rules apply with equal force, but in
this case care should be taken 10 remove
overcoats and shawls when IN warm
room; especially should this precaution
be observed in the instance of furs
worn by ladies' The habit of wearing
these articles for hours in succession
while shopping and visiting, often so
weaken the powers of resistance in the
wearcrs that they become the ready
victims of inhammations of the throat
and lungs. To such an extent does this
occur in New York that many of the
most skillful physicians advise their
patients to discontinue the use Of furs,
and the advice is often followed with
the most satisfactory results.
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CHEMICAL ILLUMINA TIONH.

Considerable discussion is still carried
on, in the scientific journals, concerning
the value of the oxhydric light as sub
stitute for the ordinary gas now in use.
In the case of this new illuminating
agent. a flame of the common gas now
in use is fed with a certain quantity of
oxygen, by means of special burners de-
livering the common gas at the circum-
ference, while the oxygen passes through
the axis; the two gases, passing through
distinct tubes, mix at the extremity of
the burner.
1t appears that very careful expert
ments have lately been made by NJ. Le-
Blanc of Paris, to test the qualities and
value of the new gas, the results of
which have appeared In some of the
Paris newspapers, and been translated
for the Scientific american.
Among the various conclusions arriv-
ed at by NJ. Leblanc, two or three will
be noticed here. In the first place, ac-
cording to NJ Leblanc, illumination
would not be possible over any extend
ed surface by this means, neither is the
method economical, but notably more
expensive than quantity of ordinary
gas giving a same light So far, too,
from the combustion by the oxygen be-
ing complete. it would, he asserts, re-
quire much more oxygen than could be
consumed with effect, while the light
would be greatly Weakened Again, if
the ordinary gas be enriched by the vol
atile hydroca-buretted vapors, previous
" to mixing it with oxygen, it will be
necessary to surmount many difficulties.
In regard to the hygfenic effect of the
new system, NJ. Leblanc says that with
out doubt such means of illumination
does not impoverish the air within cir
cumscribed limits so rapidly of its oxy-
gen as does ordinary gas. But to in
sure complete combustion the flame re-
a11ires much more oxygen than is sup
piled, and consequently the light is
much enfeebled, so that for this reason
he considers the healthfulness of the OK
hydric system to be by no means as
great as is claimed.
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WHAT

The census o.
tales. Let us CON-
certain statistics of the srA-
and the six South Atlantic Stae~
Virginia and West Virginia as one.>~
white population, number OF churches
and of church-sittings of each Of these
States are as follows:
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|NIINT VIII
Popula- Pau

I0faT. -. ofJIl,11 IUIz fN7 LIZ I.sII
Or with half million more native
whites the South Atlantic States have
5000 fewer paupers and 900 fewer Grim
inals among them than the New En-
gland States. If the native whites Of
the Southern States were as poverty
stricken and vicious as those of New
England they would have 10, ,697 pau
pers instead Of 1902, and 2, 469 crimi-
nails instead of LIZA Were the native
whites of New England as provident
and moral as those Of the South Allan
tic States there would be among them
but 6,OO1 paupers instead of u, 972, and
but 997 criminals instead of 1907.
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WHERE rHE LAUGH COMES ~

How do we know know house i,
often hungry? because we see tho
chimney swallow flies.
Boston has smoking cars on its steet
railways and contemplates putting on 4
few hog cars for those that chew.
san FRANcIsco milk is so badly
adulterated that the cows blush to thinl
their names are used to cover 50 vile q
fraud.
INK made from India rubber is tho
latest invention. 1t will be used mainly
by writer's who are inclined to g" stretcl
"A story"
MRs. THRocKMoRroN married the
Baron Lemme IN New York They want
ed her to marry some one else, but she
said: Lemme alone"
A SYRACUSE girl snored 90 loud at
the opera that the man at the brass VOL
was discharged for saving too heavily
at the gutteral chord.
IT Is now claimed that the architect
of the great - Chinese wall" was a
woman but woman wouldn't do any
thing to keep wen ont in that way.
''MRs TooMUcH, where's your hus
band % He's dying, marin, and I
don't wish any body to disturb him q
A very considerate woman, that.
SINCE the Chinese of the Pacific slope
held their annual devil drive" last
it is said there is need OF more
laboring men in the Chicago vineyards.
WHEN new town Is started on the
plains, Chicago drummers camp ont and
wait for the new stores to be completed,
to sell the owners a bill of goods.
THERE are said to be very good
reasons for supposing that sentimental
young ladies' who write poems about
death and the grave, have holes in their
stockings.
SOME Of the Albany papers are keep
ing an account of those who join the
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miles in extent, and the San Luis is
nearly as large all three
SO as to magnitude, which is GER
tainly an element of mountain scenery
AS to pure scenic beauty, of course the
evidence cannot be reduced to figures,
but it is reasonable to suppose that this
vast expanse of gigantic ranges, endless
cannons, bottomless gulches; with its
lake swung $1,000 feet in air and its cas-
cades and icy waterfalls still higher
with its eternal SHOWS and preadamite
stone forests of tropical eilloresence-
offers all of picturesque and wild effects
that any other land or region can claim
Call Switzerland the . miniature Colo
RADIO of Europe, if You please, but let
us have done forever with the other
phrase, which has no meaning itself,
and is a detraction of our own land.
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A WISCONSIN woman is known who,
when she discovers burglar beneath
her bed, does not yell, but kneels and
pravs for him. This has worked well
on ore occasion 1git her husband ha
nnrcbased :. pistol that carries a
ball as - longh-nut, and says
g -. e.. Re roy im, next time before
YOU DO aug lse'
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RE-VACCINATI TION.

Tt has been asserted that during the
epidemic, (small pox), vaccination is not
certainly preventive This is not true.
Any instance of effectual vaccination
is as certainly preventive of small pox
as is previous attack of small pox.
The error is one of observation. 1t is
not every instance which vaccine matter
has been inserted, and has been follow
ed by vesicle WHICH passed through
its regular stages that is an effectual
vaccination. Many of them are in
stances of only local affection. Jenner
was emphatic, that to render person
unsusceptible of small pox, the intro
duction of the cowpox matter must be
1 followed by local and constitutional
affection And subsequently observers
/ confirmed the teaching of the immortal
discoverer of the cowpox. There has
never been but one esteemed rule to de-
/ termine that the constitutional affection
e5f rs5r - SfliTr ssIze bfss fss
around and of the vesicle, its suppurat-
ing the eighth day or the detachment
Of scab on given day, not one has ever
been regarded by those most conversant
with the history of cowpox as evidence
of immunity-as evidence that the in
dividual has been successfully vaccinat-
ell. Hence the occurrence of so many
cases of variOloid, or small pox, in per
sons who had been Intellectually vacci-
~ 10
vaccination on the part of every person
upon whom Bryce's test of effectual
vaccination had not been applied. He
was "A practitioner of medicine in Scot
land during the early years of this cen
tury, and gave to the subject of vacci-
nation close observation, extensive ex-
perimentation and profound considera-
ton. He demonstrated, and it has since
been confirmed, that if the local and
constitutional effect of the COW pox mat
ter exist, re-introduction of lymph
few days after primary vaccination will
occasion a second vesicle, and the first
and second vesicles will maturate at the
same time, and both will die away to-
gether. If the second vesicle goes
through all the stages of the first vesi-
Gle, it is proof that the first vesicle pro-
duced only local affection Without a
surety that the matter is pure COW pox,
and without Bryce's test, revaccination
is an absolute necessity, and ought to
be compelled not voluntarilypractised.
THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO.
The mountain ranges of Colorado |
cover an area of from 60, 600 to 10000 |
square miles. This includes bodily the |
entire territory east of this points. All
Switzerland covers but 5000 square
miles, or to be accurate, $500. The !
fact is Switzerland, compared to Colo |
RADIO, is as one of the little wooden toy
s to a living buffalo You can take up
the whole little State, and set it down
in either the Middle or South Parks,
without touching the gim of the noun
- psz<-s'l ls.--<l -
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In a world full of influences and ten
denotes to evil, where every good force
is needed, and needs to be iealously
cherished and guarded there is
no choicer treasure and no more
benefcent power tam sound charac-
ter This is not ony the highest result
of the best forces of our civilization,
but it is the builder of those forces in
society and the State. Society cannot
afford to have it wasted or destroyed
and its instinct of self-preservation de-
mands that it shall not be suffered.
There is nothing so sensitive and moth
ing so sacred as character and every
tender charity, loyal friendship, and
chivalrous affection, and manly senti-
ment and impulse, ought to intrench
themselves around erery true character
in the community 50 thoroughly that
breath of calumny shall be as harmless
as an idle wind. If they cannot do this,
then no man is safe who refuses to make
terms with the devil, and he is a lib
erty to pick hisyictims where he will.
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The Mayor Of Cago proposes to submit
'he question Of the PEAL of the Sunday orrIi-
hances to a poPulalote of the ciuzens of the
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CALIFORNIA housewives dascribe sods
as "that ere stuff which you put in bis
cults to make 'em get up and Greciar
bend themselves"