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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE.
onnoa;ta CITY Hall Brooklyn.-RIT; OR, THE ARKAr
sAS TRAVELLER at j. NJ; closes AT 10 r. NJ.
D Chanfrau.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
Eighth avenue and Twenty third street. -HUNPrl
nUdPTY ABROAD at ;45 Z. NJ. CLOSES Ut o:5 +. NJ
ME q. L. Fox.
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ROBINSON HALL.
Sixteenth reet-THE PICCANINNIES, from London
Afternoon, at J. Evening, ats
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aMUsEMENTs THIS EVENING.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.

OLYMPIC THEATRE
Broadway between Houston and bleecksr streeM.
GABRIEL GRUB at +. NJ. closes Al ii I. NJ MaJilton
Raynor family
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WOODS MuSEnM

WOODS MUSEUM,
Broadway corner Thirteth street-PERFECTIoN, a
. NJ. closes at 20 T. NJ. BEN MCCULLOUGH, at L
N. closes al II r. NJ. o. ID. Byron
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BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE.
Twenty third street corner OF Sixth avenue.ClNDEH
ELLA IN BLACK. NEGRO MINSTRELsY, &C.. at 1
H. closes at 10 L. N.
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Balm HALL,
Great Jones street and Lafayette place-PILGRIM' 8
PROGRESS ats p. NJ; closes at r. NJ
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BOWERY THEATRE
Bowery--LTGHFNISG BOB. at P. M; closes at II p
Mr. Marius Turck.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty eighth street and Broadway.-sARATOGA, al
y NJ; closes at ~ 30 r NJ. Mr.. HarkinA, Miss r. Da-
Venport.
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GERMANIA THEATRE,
Fourteenth streeL-DIE JOURNALiS1EN at p. "
closes at III Z. NJ.
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MRS C0NwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
Washington street Brooklyn.-LED ASTRAt, at r. NJ F;
Closes ut II Z. NJ. Mr. Frank Roche Mrs r. b. Conway
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
No 2M Bowery.-vARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at p.
M. closes at ii T. Nj.
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
Volume XXXIx................. 10
AMUsEMENTs THIS EVENING.
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
nr0ssMay @ Fo'Ge eO s' at f: Sssoa
Raynor family.
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE;
opposite City Hall BroekynLK a,o,s OR THE hsKAN
Rowery.-LIGHTSISG BOB. atsP M; closes at II P. NJ.
Mr.. Marius Turck.
No. s ss9s1fEfSS fEasHTA EaHzrsxrsr a,
s5dgay ssTesp FTHse and sous3n Esess
81 TaR kIrcaEN At closes s 1t 10 $
WOODS MUSEUM,
Closes ssaas BEN
NJ closes All p. M. o. d. Byron.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
EIGHTH avenue and Twenty third street
DUhPTY ABROAD at 45 Z. N. CLOSES Ut ~ - +. NJ
Mr. q. L. Fox.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.-SAEATOGA,a at
y NJ closes at ~ 30 T. NJ. Mr. Harkinsv Miss r. Da
venport.
GERMANIA THEATRE
Fourteenth streeL-DIE JOURNALISM, at s p. W
MRS. C0NWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE
Nashin gton street. Brooklyn.-LED ASTkAb, at Pm;
Closes at IL T. NJ. Mr. Frank Roche. Mrs. r. b. Conway.
wALLACK'S THEATRE
Broadway and Thirteenth street-A MAN OF HONOR
f. NJ; closes 10 80 Z. N. Mr.. Lester Waack Miss
Annie Deland
BOOTHS THEATRE,
Sixth avenue and TWENTY third streeL-LA FEMME DE
lEut ut :i5 T. NJ closes at IL f. NJ Mrs j. u. Booth
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
No. 20l Bowery.-vARIETY EMBARRASSMENT, at sP.
M. closes at ii Z. NJ.
BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE.
Twenty third street corner OF sixth avenue --ClNDER
ELLA IN BLACK. NEGRO AINsTRELsl, &c, atS r.
H. closes at 10 L. N.
ROBINSON HALL
sixteenth street.-The PICCANINNIES, from London
Afternoon, ats Evening, ats
Balm HALL,
Great Jones street and Lafayette place.-PILGRIMS
PROGRESS ats r. NJ closes at L. NJ
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BOOTHS THEATRE
Sixth avenue and Twenty third streeL-LA FEMME DE
fEu, ut rs p. NJ. closes at II r. NJ Mrs j. b. Booth.
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wALLACK'S THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth stree.-A MAN OF HONOR.
ats f. NJ closes at 10 80 T. NJ Mr. Lester alack, Miss
Annie Deland
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nne the feueral government 10 expenditures OF
a strictly national character. Some Of the
schemes of improvement proposed belong
properly to the States, and should be executed
by them, though certain national interests
might incidentally be promoted. Let us, for
example, take the projected improvements in
the harbor aud wharves Of New York. This
being the commercial emporium of the Re-
public the whole country will incidentally,
more or less, derive advantages from the
facilities that will be given to commerce and
the shipping interests here. Still we intend
to make these improvements at our own cost
and not to call upon Congress for aid. Let
| then, the different States rely upon themselves
and their own resources as far as possible
and not urge measures tending to turn the
federal government into centralized despot-
! ism like that of the nations of Europe.
| But there are questions relating to our
interstate commerce fairly and legitimately
national in their character. The constitution
provides that Congress shall have power To
regulate commerce among the several States.
State rights men of former times, of the
strictest school, never denied that power,
The old postal roads established by Congress
show this. Our railroad system generally
comes under the provision, for railroads,
like the great rivers running through many
States, are the arteries Of commerce.
1t is within the power of Congress, there
fore, not only to charter freight or any otbel
railroad from the Atlantic seaboard to the Fal
West, but also to regulate the railroads already
in existence which traverse the several States
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
Hot Air and CeOl Rooms.

BECAUSE, when the air of the streets
marks 30 or 400 on the Fahrenheit scale,
a room overwarmed by a fire can be
cooled by opening the windows, the
average British householder adopts the
ready conclusion that whenever room
feels hot the way to cool it is to let in
piping times he, and still more often she,
opens the sunny side of the house, and
lets in air of temperature varying from
1902 to 1909 or so. Then, because in a
very short time the room naturally
enough becomes much hotter than it was,
it is considered that the windows are not
opened widely enough, and, the supposed
error being remedied, still larger guam
tity of hot air is then let in. And so we
find materfamilias sitting with very
light muslin upon her frame, and great
deal of perspiration upon her upper lip,
her face the color of an Orleans plum,
and her condition of mind to the last de-
gree detected, simply because she per-
sists in disregarding the most elementary
principles of natural philosophy. We
tell her that if she will open the windows
on the shady side of the house only, and
keep the others closely shut, her dwell
ing will be at least not hotter than the
shady side of the street, whereas by her
arrangement it acquires the heat of the
sunny side. We tell her, also, that if her
house be large and the inmates few, she
may live in delightful state of GOODNESS
by only opening the windows at night
and keeping them closed during the day
Her house will then be some ten or fff-
teen degrees lower in temperature than
the streets, and convey very much the re-
freshing effects of cool bath upon en-
tering it. We tell her all this and she is
very much interested At our next visit
we find every window open and the
house full of red hot air. 1T stands to
reason" she says, triumphantly, "that
you cannot cool house without plenty
of ventilation. The Lancet.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
How Mike Saved His Friends.

THE Lawrence Mass Anerican says
that some men who attend horse races
and buy pools are sensible enough to
keep quiet when they have "got 'em
wrong as horsemen term it. Others,
and they are in the majority, howl, swear
and curse the judges or drivers, and while
it is somewhat amusing to watch these
" squealers," as they are vulgarly yet APP
propriately termed, it also sets ones wits
at work TO invent some method by which
all pool buyers could be satisfied. But
occasionally you will find horsemen
with tender conscience and rare solicit
tude for his friends, and such man is
the affable Mike Carroll, who owns many
horses and drives them at races. On
Wednesday q large number of persons
bought pools on Mikes bay gelding,
Essex, and that horse taking the first heat
these men bought more pools on Essex
against the field But Mike lost the next
two heats, which were won by Emperor,
and the poolbuyers looked sad, and as
Mike returned from the stable they gath.
cred around him and complained that
their money was on his horse, and that
he was throwing" the race. Here was
rare chance for an exhibition of Mikes
solicitude for his friends, and his gener-
Gus heart prompted him to say: "Gen-
tlemen, I'd afraid my horse is off, and
don't think I can win this race; I'm
sorry, but / tell you that ] am not pulling
the horse, and don't want another driver
put in; I'd rather lose good deal OF
money, and I'll tell you what I'll do
You're all my friends, and don't want
you to lose any money on me, and I'll
take all your pools off your hands rather
than have any hard feelings" This was
fair, and the crowd began to pass in their
cards, which Mike willingly accepted
with smiles of rare benevolence. This
little matter having been adjusted, Mr.
Carroll mounted his sulky, and without
effort won the next two heats and the
race, pocketing the purse, the large odds
which his friends" would have won, and
a handsome gift from a man who had a
heavy pool at stake, beside his own pools
Mike played his little game shrewdly
and the greenhorns, though losing moth
ing, failed to make dollar. A few were
shrewd enough to hold on to their
chances when they saw the owner and
diver willing to be so generous to his
friends,
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
Locusts In Algeria.

THE following letter from correspond
ent in Algeria will give some notion OF
the ravages of the locusts in certain
places at the present time: If the
ancient Egyptians could return to life
again they would here witness their
terrible plague of locusts. Let any one
imagine an aerial torrent descending upon
all the fields and devouring every par
ticle of verdure in few minutes; beans,
potatoes, maize, every kind OF vegetable
and fruit, in fact, and, what is worse
still, the foliage of the trees. AT Bou-
Ismail, the Mayor offered reward of a
franc for every kilo of locusts' eggs. In
very short time he was obliged to de-
sist because of the largeness OF the sum,
1000 francs being quickly expended. II
the corn had not been ripe, not single
grain would have survived this invasion ;
but, fortunately, it was too far advanced.
The vines have been ruined, causing a
great loss to their owners. My bees
were going on WELL but for the last
month they have been surrounded by the
devastators, and have hardly any hope
that they will be able TO resist them.
One neighbor, to protect his garden from
the rayages of crickets and locusts,
spread his linen all over the vegetable
beds and fruit bushes; (but would you
believe it ?)the monsters devoured all from
underneath. In some places the locusts
have not done any damage themselves,
but have left in passing such enormous
quantities of eggs that every effort to de-
stroy them has been vain. In Kabylia, one
of the most fertile and best-cultivated
districts of Algeria, some of the crops
have had to be replanted in consequence
of the locusts. Large numbers of trees
have been attacked, and just now the
olive, fig trees and vines are menaced by
the crickets in spite Of the strenuous
exertions made by the natives to destroy
the eggs. But it is not only these plaques
that the unfortunate colonists have to
contend with; enormous flights of spar
rows have done great mischief in Milia-
nah and Orleansville this summer; and
some districts have suffered from drought,
so that, all things considered, the agri-
cultural prospects for this year are not
very hopeful in even the most favored
spots"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
Authorizations.

A NEW YORK correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal writes: "Our community is
greatly stirred by the revelations made
on the authorizations of food The prac-
tice runs into confectionery, jellies, and
especially teas and cofiees. A great many
men are particular about their coffee.
They buy the berry, burn it carefully,
and have the aromatic beverage made
under their own eye. After they have
done all they are only drinking white
beans. There is machine here for
splitting beans and growing them. They
are then dried to the color of coffee and
soaked in solution which gives the cof-
fee taste. Teas are sold here cheaper
than the pure article can be bought in
China. There Is not tea enough in all
China to answer the American market,
to say nothing of the million pounds
consumed in England Alone. The prin-
cipal adulteration is in China. There
there is mile of houses with boilers
and coloring matter in the open ports of
China, run by Engishme1 and Scotch
men, whose business it is to doctor the
tea for the market for which I is intend.
ed This impure article, mae in huge
kettles and dried in pans, is called by the
Chinese cheattea We have houses here
that openly advertise that they can color
and make over teas of any brand or style
required, and offer to repack in the
chests so as to defy detection. The tea
trade here requires capital of over
thirty millions"
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and l16 acting pastors, 25,S10 male and
81, 669 female members, making 81, 419
members in all. The net gain of mem
bers during 1878 was 1,015. Twenty
ministers have died during the year /;
their average personal age was sixty
years, their average ministerial age thir-
ty-one years. During the last twenty
one years 265 Congregational ministers
have died in Massachusetts,; their aver
age personal age was sixtytwo years, and
their average ministerial age was thirty
five years. This certainly speaks well for
the healthfulness of ministerial life.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is
at present carrying on missions in ten
countries, viz: In Liberia, where they
have resident Bishop, sixty-ons preach
ers, and 2,100 members; in South Amer
lea, with 900 members; In China, with
thirty.six missionaries, eighty native help
ers, and .66S native members; in Ger
many and Switzerland, with an annual
conference, seventy-fve ministers, nearly
8, 900 members, and forty-six churches;
In Denmark and Sweden, with fifty-nine
missionaries, forty-one local preachers,
over 1. 822 members; in India, with an
annual conference, seventy eight preach
ers and teachers, and |, 102 members; in
Bulgaria, with seven preachers; in Italy,
with twelve missionaries and helpers; in
Japan, with nine missionaries. More
than 5000, 900 is annually appropriated
TO prosecute these missions.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03

A CORRESPONDENT writing from Wea-
togue, in Simsburg, Conn, sends the Hart
ford Times word of the death of one Tip,
upon which information that paper re-
marks as follows:
"Now Tip, although nothing but dog
Ia part "black- and-tan" dog, too, with a
cur cross--was yet more intelligent than
some human beings. He had the faculty
of reason just as clearly and unmistaka-
bly, as human beings have it the differ
ence being not in kind but in degree. He
was Hartford dog, and we witnessed
the occurrence described so long ago in
the Times, to which our correspondent
here refers:
I'VE have preserved scrap Of paper which con-
tains little item relative to- Tips sagacity, and
which was published in the Hartford Times fifteen
years ago.
ut Is worth repeating. He was in a
private ground where another and larger
dog had got possession of bone. Tip
yearned for that bone as much as Seward
yearned in 1850 for the Republican nomi.
nation for the Presidency. He failed
after various efforts to snatch it away
and then he suddenly ran off two or three
rods to a certain tree and began paving
and snuffing fiercely about the roots, and
setting up tremendous yelping and
barking. Shot, paying little attention
to all this, kept on munching his bone !;
and then the bowls and yells Of Tip
became fierce indeed; ii was just as If he
had holed bear or tiger. He barked
with an energy and earnestness indicat-
ing that he was really right upon" some
desperate varmint. He paved, snuffed
eagerly at the ground and tore up the
soil as if his life depended upon the
rapidity Of his work, and kept barking
more and more fiercely. Shot became
interested. This fierce barking, snuffing
and paving evidently meant business.
Very likely that pert whiffet of dog had
found at least coon. He would 20 and
see. Dropping his bone he ran to the
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
Bedbug Poison.

CORROSIVE suBLIMATE, one ounce COM
mon whisky, one pint; shake occasion
ally until the sublimate is dissolved, and
then add a teaspoonful of spirits of tur-
pentine, more to give smell than any
thing else, to prevent accidents by being
mistaken for something to drink. Too
much turpentine will precipitate calomel
from the solution This is certain death
to the night-crawlers, and can be applied
with goose-quill to their quarters with
out injury to furniture.
Another, equally sure in killing, as well
as preventing their collecting in Joints of
bedsteads, is: Mercurial ointment, one
ounce; spirits turpentine, half -pint; mix
well together until thoroughly Incorporate
ed and use with feather. This is not
as nice preparation as the first.
Another formula often used is to take
half an ounce of quicksilver and beat up
with the whites of six eggs and use as
above. AS the eggs are only intended to
suspend the mercury, the writer thinks
the yolk would be much better, but has
not tried either, knowing the first two to
be good.
In using any of them it Is very neces-
sary to watch for the breeders, and when
found stick pin through them.
All the above remedies owe their kill.
ing qualities to the poisonous effect Of
mercury. Cor. Country Gentleman.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
Is Salt Food?

DIR. ERNEST WELIMAN, in The Science
Of Heath, argues earnestly that common
salt Chloride of sodium) is neither nutri-
tious nor otherwise necessary in the
human system. It's presence in all parts
OF the body he regards as proof that it
is not assimilated, and so not useful; the
appetite evinced for it by men and many
animals he declared to be an acquired,
or, at most, an inherited taste, existing
among mammals only, who taste the salt
in the mothers milk. But even these
he says are not always fond of salt.
There is no reason to- believe that the
aboriglnes knew anything about it; and
many cattle will not touch it until they
are educated to like it--often matter of
difficulty. The necessity of salt to the
performance of certain organic functions
he denies as pure dogmatism. Finally.
he considers the evidence offered by ex-
periments, promising that so far as we'll
| ascertained facts go there is abundant
evidence that, instead Of men becoming
diseased far the want of salt, they be.
come disabled by free use of it. Scurvy.
kidney diseases, ETC., are ascribed TO It.
Certain experiments on cattle made by
Boussingault and quoted by Dalton
showed that Of two lots of bullocks the
one lot which received salt in its food
was greatly superior at the end of a
year to the other lot which received no
salt. The latter presented a rough and
tangled hide, with patches Of bare skin
in short, a NANCY appearance, coupled
| with dull and heavy condition. But
DIR. Wellman says this only proves that
cattle which have used salt all their lives
suffered when suddenly deprivad of !.
1t was like depriving an old toner of
his toddy."
The doctor undertakes, 1t seems to us.
the functions of the salt in the blood:
and certainly he ignores the salt.loving
propensities of wild ANIMALS. What he
would say to the arguments of that
fierce salt-lover. DR.. Carl Both, who rec.
ommends this substance as warmly as Il
is here condemned, we cannot say. But
we ought to add that DR.. WelIman ad.
vises the health-seeker to dechloridize
himself gradually, and not all at once
Christidn Union.
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Yarnall's Misfortune.

THAT case of Yarnall's is excitin,
good deal OF interest down our way a..
now. Last spring Yarnall began to yis;,
one of the Metcalf girls, and for awb;Ia
he was so attentive there that eyervhod,,
felt certain there would be match a,
toward July things seemed to be com
ing to crisis, and in fact they were 70,
Yarnall had made up his mind to nro
pose to Matilda. 1t was on Fridar,
evening that he called for the purnosc
and as the weather was warm he sat ~
the parlor with her without a light tho
frCnt windows being open. Yarnall
didn't perceive good chance of jnfro.
ducing the subject for some time, ana
his nervousness made him warm. Jnst
as he was on the point of proposing he
wanted to wipe his brow, but he found
that he had left his handkerchief in bia
hat. He excused himself for a moment
while he went into the hall to get it and
as he did so Matilda went out throu oh
the back parlor door to get q glass of
water Her mother came in as she went
out, and when Yarnall returned he found
the old lady, who is widow and also
named Matilda, sitting on the sofa. sun.
posing, of course, that it was his own
Matilda he summoned up courage and
asked her to be his The old lady was
surprised but widows are courageous
and she accepted him on the spot. Just
as he was recovering from his amaze
ment at the sound of her voice shrek
was heard and the younger Matilda fell
fainting on the carpet. Yarnall tried to
explain, but Matilda refused to believe
him and he finally left the house in dis
gust Then the old lady sued him for
breach of promise and Matilda acted as
witness. 1t seems likely Yarnall will
lose, and if he does he will remain
bachelor.-lHaS Adeyer. in Danbu,y Meas.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03

The faculty of the California Uni
ycrsity has adopted plan Of loaning
funds to poor students, practice which
Is designed to do away with the system
of manual labor hitherto practiced at the
university.
1T Is proposed TO divide the State Of
Illinois into three Protestant Episcopal
dioceses by lines running from east to
west. The middle district will be called
Quincy, as that Is the largest city in that
division. The plan will likely be
adopted at the General Convention in
October.
The Jeooish Messenger, discussing the
question "Is Judaism DecliningY" con-
cludcs that, notwithstanding the efforts
made by some teachers to erase all that
has an ancient appearance among the
Jews, and the taunts Of religious zeai0ts,
yet Judaism Is not declining, and that at
no period has the church maintained a
better condition than now.
The Rev. Mr. Cook, who has been
for many years laboring to bring the
Sioux within the pale Of the Episcopal
Church, seems to be disheartened with
his task. In letter recently written to
the Indian Commission he declares that,
in his opinion, the influences OF the
Gospel would be brought home to them
more impressively If preaching was sup
plemented with sound thrashing.
From the minutes of the General
Association of Massachusetts" II appears
that there are In that State 606 Orthodox
Congregational churches, Ola pastors