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Death of a Noted Woman.

one of the strangcst careers of modern
times has just terminated i'm the death of
Lady Peterborough at Damascus. Forty
years ago she was one of the most noted
women in Europe. and her residence in
the East has long been sort of scanda-
lOus romance. The daughter of the late
Admiral Sir Henry Digby, beautiful, wit
ty, and rich, she married in 1924 the Earl
Of Ellenborough, who was aftcrward
GOvernor-General of India, and who at
that time was one of the most brilliant
men of the day. She was about seventeen
years of age at the time of her marriage,
and Peterborough. who was widOwer.
was thirty-four. They lived together
some six years, aud her dissOlute conduct
was cause Of scandal for some time pre-
vious to the catastrophe Of her elopement
with Prince Felix SchwarZenberg, a cele-
brated roue, then Austrian Minister in
London. The event caused an immense
sensation i'm the world of aristOcracy and
fashion. EllenborOugh procured di-
vorce from Parliament and never married
again but his runaway wife soon sepa-
rated from SchwarZenberg, and in 1882
married Baron Nenningen, a Bavarian.
firing of him presently. and with her
great wealth and personal destinations
having little difficulty in procuring di
vorces under the easy laws of Germany.
she was marrielin succession to five other
individuals; but as none of these unions
met her expectations, they were all dis
solved after short duration. In ISIS she
was living in Athens with her eighth hus-
band, Il Greek colonel, Count TheOdOki;
but without waiting to become 4 widow
she had this marriage also dissolved. and
set out for the Levant. During a Journey
from BeyrOut to Damascus she found a
new affinity in the person Of an Arab
camel-driver. known as Sheikh Abdul.
whom she married after the Arab fashion,
and who was the ninth and last OF her
cOnjugal partners. For Il whole year she
accompanied him Oh his Journeys between
Beyrout and Babylon, faithfully fulfilling
all the duties of cameldriver's wife,
even to milking the camelS. firing of
this nonadic life, she built for herself a
charming palace in Damascus, where she
has since lived in her own style. great
object of curiosity to all European travel
ers. Abdul, continuing in business as a
cameldriver, was always Hospitality en-
tertained by her whenever he came TO the
place. And now she is dead :, having COM
pletcd nearly three score and tenyears.
leaving colossal fortune to her relatives
of the Digby family i'm England, and
memory of warning and of shame.-N.
Y. Sta,. .l... y e. .l.fss4.-.rs
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Paganini.

An English paper has given an inter-
esting and curious account of Psganin,
which it would be worth the while of any
one interested, as so many people are
nowadays, in questions Of Temperament"
to read. 1t is common to talk about the
artistic or poetic temperament as if there
were no differences between one poet.
painter, architect, or musician and an
Othcr-the fact being that the differences
OF. Hsthetic temperament inter sess are
almost rs great as the differences between
these again and all Others. The tempera-
ment of man, for instance, on whom
physical causes act oddly and instantly at
times, at others not at all who travels
with the greatest speed from place to
place, taking care in the hottest weather
to have the carriage windows closed who
delights to talk loudly while rafting over
the roads; who resents being spoke to while
waiting at inns to change horses; who, on
arrival at his hotel throws all the
doors and windows open to take an
''air-bath;" who is very fond Of money.
but carries papers of immense value in a
pOcket-bOOk, mixed with concert tickets
and letters: who seldom notices scenery
or cares for the sights of foreign towns :;
who cares little where he sleeps or what
he cats or drinks, but when he goes out
to dine generally eats so much as to bring
on illness; who is in the habit of remain
ing taciturn for days. at other times
however, of joining in conversation ''frec-
ly;" who, after dinner, habitually sits
in his room in total darkness till half-past
ten, when he goes to bed; who is continue
allv mixing with men, but has no friends;
who is faithful to both his parents, is at
times very generous, and who, if any one
mentions music in conversation, relapses
into sullen silence or goes off into some
other part of the rOOm-what sort Of a
temperament is this, poetic. arts tic. archi-
tectural, dramatic, or lunatic? 1t is none
Of these, it is the musical temperament,
the traits having all been manifested by
Paganini himself.-N. Y. Nation.
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Contagious and Infections Diseases.

DR.. SYMES THOMPSON, we'll known
English physician. recently lectured on
the above topic in London; and from his
discourse we CLEAN the following:
1t is considered settled fact that dis
eases of contagious nature are caused
and spread by influences largely within
the sphere of human government and
control. Every form of infectious fever
has its idiOsyncrasy. Entcric fever and
cholera tend chiefly to disseminate them
selves through water. passing into the
wells and fountains of daily supply, and
at times travelling from house to house i'm
the milk cans of easy cOnscienced dairy
men. Scarlet fever hibernates in drawer
and. after long months, comes forth with
some old and cast aside garment, to be
thrown with it around the throat or head
OF some new victim. and so start thence
upon fresh career. Typhus fever crawls
sluggishly from hand to hand and mouth
to mouth. and is immensely sOciable in
its spirit, languishing away when con-
demned to solitary confinement. Typhoid
fever generates itself where filth. over
crowding and impure habits of life pre-
vail and relapsing fever glides in the
track of privation and misery.
The means now known of controlling
these evil ministrants are, in the main,
careful isolation of the sick, the preser-
vation ofthe water from which daily sup
plies are derived in mountaineering
purity, the uninterrupted ventilation
alike Of hospitals and dwelling houses,
the immediate removal from the vicinity
of active human life of all excretions of
the sick, and the destruction of their NOR
bific influence by mixing them with an
tiseptic and disinfecting agents (such as
carbOlic acid, sulphuric acid, chlOrides Of
lime and zinc, pei langanate of potash,
and charcoal), temperate living, avoid
ance Of any kind of excesses, and above
all the cultivation of an intelligent famili-
arity with natural laws.
In regard to antiseptics and disinfcc-
tants, DIR. Thompson states that it should
be understood that agents of the
character of carbOlic acid are properly
antiseptics, and operate mainly by arrest
ing the process of fermentation and de-
composition, while agents of the nature
potash chloride of lime, and especially
charcoal, are disinfectants, and act by alb
sorbing the noxiOus products of decOm-
position. This he showed by experiment,
a few drops of carbOlic acid causing a
cessation i'm the evolution of gas bubbles
from fermenting solution of sugar and
the violent color of COndy's fluid was in
stantly discharged when combined with
water i'm which was trace of sulphureted
hydrogen. The lecturer also exhibited
remains of rat which had been placed in
a jar of charcoal six years ago. Only the
bones and few hairs were to be seen /;
and although the jar had been covered
with h,ta niece of Daper;tlrOughOut the
lengthened- period fot decomposition. no
time emitted. - ~ |E-
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The Value of Time.

Spring is nominally here. The field la
borS of the year will soon commence, and
we should see that everything is ready for
energetic, systematic work. How to make
money by farming is the great question.
There are two ways of getting rich. One
is to spend less than you earn; and the
other is to earn more than you spend. 1t
may be thought that this is & distinction
without difference but such is not the
case. The farmer who aims to save 80
cents out Of every dollar he gets is very
different man from the farmer who aims
to get 81. 80 instead of $l.O0. One saves
just as much money as The other. But
the latter has just twice as much to spend
rs the former. And it will make quite Il
difference to farmer and to his family,
and to the community in which he lives,
whether he spends $500 or 81 600 year /;
or still more whether he spends $4,000 in
stead of 81, 600. The distinction we make,
therefore, is one worth considering. We
believe in economy, but We believe still
more in work. When John johnson was
blowing one hot day in his summer fall
low, q butcher came to buy some cattle.
Mr.. j. told him his price and then started
the horses, and the butcher walked by his
side. He was very fat, and the land was
SUI anu lllcliON anu tiiC pCl plidtiOH sOoil
burst from every pore. BY the time he
got to the end OF the field, he was willing
to ''split the difference" Mr.. j. turned
in again, and the butcher still walked by
his side. When they got back to the
starting point, Mr.. j. put in the plow
again and started the horses. "HOld or
Johnson" exclaimed the butcher. ''Fl
take 'em; would not walk up and dowI
that field again for double the money
Here is a man who knew his own mind
knew what his cattle were worth; ant
above all he knep the value Of time. ii,
knew that man and his team were wortf
80 cents an hour. He knew that if HI
stopped and went home with the butcher
the men in the field would be likely to d(
less work while he was gone. An hour
idle talk would probably have cost him D
cents. He was determined to save 81
cents and run the risk of the butcher no
giving what the cattle were worth. Ant
this affords one reason why MIR. johnson
has lived in great comfort, brought up
large family. and made over one hundre'
Thousand dollars by farming.-Americs
| AqrieuItu tst. -t--a.
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House Cleaning.

CLEANING is a subject by itself. It's
miseries have been learned in suffering.
and rhymed in song 1t is the dread of
masculine humanity. and is one of the
things that periodically transfer some
amiable women into fretful and fault-find-
ing ones, and make happy homes tempor-
arily distressing. Now there is no need OF
half the discomfort and Inconvenience, the
headache and pneumonia and neuralgia,
that come in the train of cleaning. There
is urgent necessity that once year, at
least, and perhaps twice, most parts OF the
house should undergo the most thorough
renovation. Let your weekly cleaningS
and sweepinss be as faithful as possible,
still dust and dirt will sift in and hide in
unsuspectcd places, and moths will de-
post their eggs in carpets and sofas.
Paint will grow dingy, and ceilings De
come grimed with smoke. But most
of our spring cleaning is done too
soon, and before we can do without fires
safely. The very neat hOusekeeper dis.
likes to kindle the fire in the crate, when
the parlOr is shining in its freshness and,
! if ii be Medo-Persian law in her family,
that cleaning is always TO be done at a
certain time, no matter what the weither.
there will be days when not to have fire
| is to be very uncomfortable, perhaps
sick. For, as our friend Warner says
"there are springs when the crocuses
won't be coaxed up with pickax, and it is
almost fatal Or, at least, it is to invite dis.
ease, to turn the house out Of doors and
windows till their rigor is abated."
Begin at the top and take one room at
time. Rest between. Get Fanny's and
Mary''s room done first; then lie upon
your oars for two or three days. and come
down to mothers and the guest-chamber'
Leave stairways and halls till you have
finished the parlor floor. Only clean on
bright sunny days and when you feel
well. By extending over three weeks
what is usually accomplished in one, you
will save time, temper. and health. for il
is not work that hurts, but worrying Ovel
wOrk.-Hearth and Home.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19
Miscellaneous Selections.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS.

BY BARTON GREY.
made my soul a song for her singing,
What time the cleaning was mellow with MAY
anu the Whispering harebells, their curfew
ringing, '.-
swelled the dirgSOf the dying day;
ana out OF the depths OF the spirits passion
Love the great master, touched the keys,
md the rhyme came forth in the old, old fash
ION,
Half fear, half hope-and the words were
Come, my soul, let us reason together:
Come, for the shadows darken ahead;
Care and sorrow tighten the tether,
LIES sun through the mists glows dim and
red.
Come, ere the long, low light of the summer
Fade to the brown of the autumn leaf;
Come, lest the foot of the careless conner
Lay weary in paths made rough with grief.
Soul, where thoughts like the white-winged
Brood in the hush ofthis dim, dusk eve,
Whisper to me thy sweet evangels,
Whisper and sigh, but do not grieve;
Out of The depths of thy charmed chambers
Raise me a song that shall thrill afar;
kindle thy fires, blow bright thine embers,
Clean On her soul like the gleam OF u star.
Soul, my soul, that hast walked thy journey,
Through winsome valleys, by height and scaur,
Whose shield is dark from a noble tourney,
Whose lance droops low with The weight of
Look past yon hills, whose crest bright summed is
With the last fond glance that the dead day
gives;
Up, let the voice of thy De Profundis
Thrill to those courts where no sorrow lives,
Soul, wilt thou love, where to love is losing?
Long wilt thou wander in ways that err;
Daily with hopes, that thy barren choosing
Finds 1eeting rs steps of u way farer:
Wilt thou not turn and say to her spirit,
Lo! I that love thee will love no more!
This is a hard thing that We inherit:
10 love and to weep, 10, this Is sore!
Out of the depths of the hearts despairing
Comes the long, passionate cry of love;
All, Cod but the cross is hard for the bearing!
All, God! for the rest and the wings of the
dOvei
All, that in that pure, faithful bosom
The dim, lost half of my lite might lie!
All, that the bud might father the blossom,
Shall these things be? Who knows? Not l.
Out of the depths of the starlit distance
a pale CLEAN shows where the moon comes up,
And here in the dregs of thi, strange existence
MAY lurk the sweetness that crowns the cup,
And faith and hope and the spirits patience
Strengthen the heart and Tighten the eyes.
All, souli my soul! there is hope for the nations,
And God is holy, and Just and wise.
Go, then, nv song speak swiftly TO her;
Sing to her, plead with her late and long;
Hover arouD her, and gently WOO her;
Perhaps she will hear thee some day, o Songf
Out of the depths of the soul comes sorrow,
May come, like light round the feet Of the NOR
loves soft glory, our loves calm peace. -
-ippfefOns Journal.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19
StHpidities.

UNDER this head, DR.. Hall, in his jour
nal Of Health, humOrOusly discOurseS on
the tendency of the times. as follows:
1t is really great wonder that every
body is not dead and buried, and the
world itself used up entirely, il the thOus.
andth part of what is told us about micro
scopical and other ''discoveries, so called.
is true. One man will have it that the
glorious Union over which the stripes and
stars float so proudly will soon Become
dcpOpulated, because respectable people
don't have children; another has discOv-
cred myriads of bugs IN the chatelaines
and waterfalls of the ladies, boring into
their skulls and sucking out all the re-
manning brains Of the dear .delightfuls.
A German sardn now tells us that every
sip of tea we take is full of oily glObules
which get into the lungs direct, weaken
them, set up IA cough, and the person dies
of consumption. Another man has found
that the purest spring water, clear as
crystal to all appearance, if let alone will
deposit sediment which generates ty.
phOid fever hence he proposes that ev-
erybOdy shall quit drinking wate;. An
other says that bread has so much lime
in it that it is turning us all to bone, and
makes us stiff in the joints. that being the
reason we have no 1.-the, sprightly old
men nowadays; hence we are full OF
limps and rheumatics long before our
time. therefore we had better quit eating
bread altogether, and live on rice and sa-
90 and tapiOca. The water cure folk as
sure us that pork and beans and ham and
eggs are full of abOminable triching, and
that, if one is swallowed and gets fairly
nestled into the system, he, she or it will
breed million more in short time, and
that roast beef has juvenile tape worms in
it. And here come Tom, Dick, and Har-
ry, all in row, loaded down with micro
scopes and spy glasses which show as
plain as day that the air is swarming with
living monsters and putrid pOisOns, which
fly into the mouth and crawl up the nose
and creep into the ear hence it is death
to breathe such pestlential air, and that
the best way is to keep the mouth shut,
plug up the nose, and ram cotton into the
ears.
Ever so many learned professional gen.
tlemen have been tOrturing poor figures
for years to make them tell the stupendOus
tib that everybody is either crazy or soon
will be that the annual increase is ten
per cent. consequently i'm eleven years
everybody will be crazy, and more too.
The fact is that the people who spend
their time Matching out hese tomfoOlerles,
| ought to be put to work and be made 70
earn an honest living. This world has
been pretty well taken care of for some
| thousands of years, increasing in comfort
and wealth and life. the average length OF
which last has doubled within two centu-
ries, and the population perhaps increased
three fold: and the presumption is that
the Great Maker Of all will so arrange all
the antagOnistic forces OF life for the fu-
ture as eventually to make ''the wilderness
and solitary place to be glad, and the des.
ert to rejoice and blossom as the rose
and the race be happy still.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

prevalent foraS of belief are sometimes
held up somewhat rudely to the light,and
shown to be here and there but thread
bare spiritual raimcnt, it is without preiu.
dice to the living body Of truth which
they are intended to clothe.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

a New ENGLAND paper describes a
"boaraing marin" whose economical
tendencies lead her TO place her boar'ers
upon an allowance of matches. Every
evening at tea she goes round and places
a single match at the plate of each board
er, and should that match fail, there is no
appeal to the match safe,
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19
81 WILL If YOU WILL"

The Kay House is pleasant little hotel,
standing half way up the side OF mount
ain i'm New Hampshire.
In the parlor there. one July evening,
were four people-Mrs. st. John and her
daughter ELY, Miss Emily May ana Mr.
Millburn. AS ELY st. John wentto the
piano, these two last slipped out on the
balcony, and stood listening as ELY sung:
could We forget, could we forget!
oh that Lethe were running YET. ,,v..
In ne q pi,,s ps;ns,e s ,irop of tbe he,y stream'
All! We know what you would say,
But we are too tired to hope or pray;
EoT nurd md wlah SN csnSat ySet sr anu
'0'' Ill" 'O '''O. ~
wCan they forget, will tn they yra,v forget 90,
When WIEN viii ,rsi ,he final nang rn and strain
They are parted never to meet again?
Ever to them shall rest be given;
sas WSch IN sas been or il might be yet
II hnWt we cm,Id conld only I learn to lSrset:
But the stars shall cease to rise and set,
And fall from Heaven ere we forget"
Ellv sung with an intensity al d pathos
which borrowed none of It's force from
within. for she was a gOod-natured, in
CONSEQUENT sort of girl, who had
never had a trouble in her life. The
gift of musical expression Is often quite
independent of feeling or experience.
Elly's music hurt Emily cruelty, and
stirred and reused the old sorrow which
had but Just begun to fall asleep for a lit
tie. She had loved deeply and fondly
man who had grown tired of her and left
her, because he was greatly her inferior.
Much as she suffered. rejoiced when
her engagement with Lewis Leighton
was broken. | had known Lewis from
his earliest childhood. and L had always
disliked him as a selfish, conceited prig.
Had Miss Mary married him. her disap-
pointment would have been unspeakably
greater than it was. As she leaned over
the balcony while ELY sung and hoI looked Sssrt
wrgng as with the inst ST. angssh; s;nd Of
infatuation. "Oh God!" she said to her
self, "when will the bitterness of this
death be pastT Then she became con- l.
scious that Mr. MIiiourh was speaklng
what he had to say before she realized
that ne was asking her 10 DC Els wiie.
He spoke at very unfortunate mo-
ment. lie ana Emmy had 4een e very err,
good friends that summer. Ihey haa
wandered in me woods, assembled I'M mount
Washington, and been to Glen Ellis to.
never dreamed of him as lover, and
when he presented himself in that light
she was shockei' anu e'ar'ieu' anu i''-
tie provoked. -
"Oh hush!" she SAID sharply. I'll
never can be-never =. %,
"Do you tnen als.Ac me 80 nucn
said Evert Millburn, trying very hard 10
speak quietly.
:" No. she said, MAKING an ,;3iH9 enort a' so
You have been good 70 me out al tht
love had to give is dead ana burl-d, anC
there Is no reSurrecrOn.'I
He made no answer put she ielt thai
she had hurt MN.
&C am very ser1y&. =" sA''e'eu' rev
er meant" ~
81 undsrstanc,v pe S,u qu,chiyic CT
Is no Que 81 'aIhs tbsv 1I toucSed & % hands % an,
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

DETROIT, Minn., aspires to be health
resort, and won't hear Of having such
thing as regular graveyard, lest it should
deter invalids from going thither.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

THE taxes in CalifOrnia-State, county
and municipA-range from three to four
per cent. on the value of property.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

THERE is farm in Essex county, Mas
sachusetts, which has been in the posses
sion of the same family for 237 years.
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

A COOPERATIVE communion called the
EbeneZers, of German extraction, long
established near Buffalo, are attracting at
tpntiOn
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

FoUR thousand English ministers urge
the Archbishop Of Canterbury to support
in the House of Lords the bill to legalize
marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
Why should the parsons be so partial to
their sisters-in-law?
Richland beacon., 1873-04-19

SHARP blades-HOrse-raisers.
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