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The Ideal Foot.

A writer who processes to be au fsit
upon the subject of human beauty de-
clares that pair of pretty feet finish
ing a woman's frame are the rarest thing
in ihe world to meet. As rule, owing
to Informed shoes and unskiilful chi
ropodists, the female foot lacks, in some
particular, that perfect harmony of
proportion which is essential to beauty.
The size of the foot does not enter into
the question. It does not matter Wheth-
er it be large or small, but it must be
in Just proportion with the other parts
of the body. A large woman should
have large foot and large hand, 9th
erwise she is not we'll made. In fine,
the ideal foot comprises high instep !;
a round, plump form; toes slightly sep
arated-tbe first being larger and round
err than the others; toe-nails bright,
polished, and of a rosy tint; and an
ivory skin, with the veins showing
through,
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Calico as an Inventor.

OF all his varied gifts, Calico has
produced the most important influence
upon modern progress by his mechani-
cal dexterity and his inventive force.
His busy and dtxtrous touch moulded
the rarest instI uments and the most
complicated machines. His house at
Padua was worship, where a ceaseless
round of invention and of mechanical
improvements went on, where laborious
days and nights were given to the add
vance of those practical arts that most
affect the physical welfare of man. He
was the prince of mechanics, almost the
paren' of modern invention. There is
scarcely branch of mechanical labor
that has not felt the influence of his
practical skill, nor a modern inventor
that has not owed something to his Gre
alive power. OF the vast network of
machinery that sustains the fabric of
modern civilization there is no part that
has not its trace of the labors of Cali
leo. He invented, improved, or embel-
lished the barometer and thermometer,
the pendulum and the magnet, hydrau-
lie and military machines, the compass,
the telescope, and the microscope A
throng of less renowned instruments
and engines, prepared by his delicate
touch and unprecedented skill, flowed
from his worship. His treatises on me-
chanics, ratification, and the laws of
motion excited the emulation of Eu-
rope; and it was by his rare accom-
plishments as practical mechanic that
he was enabled to create that wonder
full instrument whose revelations have
founded a new science, and penetrated
the starry heavens.-Harper's Maya
zine
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A Born Murderer.

The revelation of depravity, barbarity
and fiend-like cruelty in the case of
Jesse r, Pomeroy, the boy-murderer of
Boston, is unsurpassed in horrifying
details by any thing in the record of
crime.
Some four years since great excite
ment was created in Boston by series
of cruelties practice upon small boys
who were from time to time enticed
from the streets into remote fields or
deserted and secluded buildings for
that purpose. The stories of the little
victims all concurred in ascribing the
outrages to boy apparently a dozen
years old, with an eye that "looked
like marble, land there was a noticeable
uniformity in the treatment to which
they were subjected by the malign gen
JUS. Being securely bound, their tor
mentor would deliberately proceed to
mutilate them with his pocket-knife,
subiecting them, sometimes for four
hours, to mcrciless and inhuman tor
lures. He was at last apprehended,
identified, convicted and sent to the
reform school, from which, however, he
was discharged by a pardon before the
expiration of his term of punishment.
During his confinement in the reform
school he is said to have attempted to
practice his characteristic cruelties upon
some of his associates there.
Last spring a boy by the name of
MelIen was murdered under circum-
stances indicating that young Pomeroy
was the perpetrator of the crime. The
body of the victim bore unmistakable
traces of treatment similar to that
which Pomeroy was accustomed to ex-
tend to his victims. 1t was cut and
slashed in horrible manner and the
poor child had evidently been tortured
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The Poor Arab Women.

A writer on the Women of the
Arabs" says "Girls in Syria may be
married at the age of ten and grand
mothers at twenty-one. The Moham-
medans object to girl being taught to
write, lest she should take to write
clandestine letters. The Druzes of
Lebanon are most despotic towards their
wives but among the Nusairiyeh wo-
men are worst treated, being excluded
from all religious communion as unclean
beasts. This miserable race of Nusair-
iyeh believe in TRANSPORTATION of souls,
and hold that the spirit of wicked
man is punished by his being born again
dog or woman, whereas an obedient
woman may be rewarded by being re-
generated a man. And thepoor degrad-
ed pitiable lasses comfort themselves in
their servitude with the dim hope of
becoming men after the short life.
Amongst no class is much care mani
tested for woman's life. Until recently,
in Syria, women were poisoned, thrown
down wells, beaten to death or cast into
the sea, and the government made no
inquisition into the matter. On the
whole it is better to be a camel in Ara
bia than a woman the quadruped is
more kindly treated"
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A Moving Bridge.

Few visitors to Rome have failed to
cross the Tiber from the Ripetta stairs
in boat linked to rope suspended
high above the river, which boat is
waited backwards and forwards across
the stream by the mere strength of the
current. But within the st few months
very ingenious moving bridge, or
1oO1t roulG11t, has been established in
France to connect the Brenton seaport
town of st. Malo with it's suburb of St.
Servan. The two places are divided by
a wide basin, through which the river
Rance finds it's way to the sea. The
tide at its height rises to the extent of
some fourteen metres above the low
water level, but when at its lowest,
leaves the bottom of the basin dry. Ad-
vantage has been taken of the daily
subsistence of the water, AMI line of
rails has been laid across the basin,
upon which bridge or platform raised
high above the highest tide runs back
wards and forwards. To the visitor
who has never crossed the harbor in
this shadowy and fimsy looking con-
veyance, nothing can appear at first
sight to be less inviting. The supports
of the platform look too slender to re-
sist the sea, especially when the sea is
running rapidly in. But for several
months Frenchmeli have taken freely to
patronizing the st. Malo and st. Ser
van flC ating bridge, aud its introduction
is likely to provoke many industrious
imitators. The boat which runs upon
the submerged rails is pulled to and
fro by the agency of horses. Altogether
the bridge is great favorite, especially
with the ladies, who have taken to
using it with perfect confidence
London Daily NelUS.
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A Double =" Bride.

A Yokohama (Japan) correspondent
of the Cleveland Herald writes A very
curious story comes to us from China.
A bride was on her way in a sedan chair
from the house of her parents to her
husbands abode. Passing through a
graveyard, the bearers of the chair
noticed that their burden grew heavier.
This, however, they ascribed to fatigue.
On reaching the bridegroom's house,
though, what was the dismay of the
honest folk to find, on opening the
chair, two brides instead of one. Two
spick, span new brides, alike even to a
hairpinl Confusion reigned, and DO
lygamy was imminent. Better counsel
prevailed, however, and the about-to-be
mother in-law appeared and instituted
searching investigation. But even
maternal eyes and instinct failed, and
the old lady was obliged to give it up
in despair, being heard to declare, soto
UOce, that she never krew that girl was
twins before Just at this moment a
bright thought occurred to the father.
He remembered that his girl was what
the Chinese call "trip shorter at weav-
ing, and he forthwith suggested that
the two girls be set to spinning, and
the one who came out last be declared
to be 't'other.' No sooner said than
done. The girls were put in separate
rooms, and the materials for spinning
placed at hand. The doors were locked,
and watch and ward kept over them by
the anxious parents and all the old
ladies of the neighborhood. When the
day was done the doors were opened
and the work examined. Wonder of
wonders Both girls had done the
same amount; neither had a thread
more nor less than the other. The
poor father pulled his pig-tail and
tramped about in very indiscriminate
way, while the mother sat down dis
consolately in corner and addressed
the assembled company as 'hussy.' AT
last accounts the matter was still in a
very mixed condition. Nobody is able
to tell which is which, and the would
be bridegroom, unwilling to cast him,
self away on a duplicate, has gone to
California to ease his aching heart in
the washing pigeon, at San Fancisco.
| The Master of Heaven has been sum.
moned to drive away the devil that
haunts the bride. In view of this true
and veracious history, who will say that
life is not a dream, and who is willing tC
cast first stone at our Puritan ances
| tors of Salem withchraft memory"
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Old Letters.

have all my life had bad habit of
preserving letters and of keeping them
all arranged and docketed but seeing
the future use that is often made of
papers, especially by friendly biogra-
pliers, who rarely hesitate to sacrifice
confidence and deIicacy to the promo
ton of sale or exciteme mt, have long
resolved to send them all up the chin
ney in the form of smoke, and yester-
day the sentence was executed. l have
kept Richardson's ard Jeffery's and
some correspondence, I have had dur
ing important passages of our Scotch
progress but the rest, amounting to
sever raj thousands, can now, thank God,
enable no venality to publish sacred
secrets or to stain fair regulations by
plausible mistakes. Yet old friends
cannot be parted and without a pang.
The sight of even the outsides of let
{, RS of fifty years recall a part of the
interest with which each was received
in its day. And their humiliation
makes one start, as if one had suddenly
reached the age of final oblivion. New
ertheless, as packet after packet smoth-
cred the fire with its ashes and gradual
ly disappeared in dim vapor, reflected
that my correspondents were safe, and
I was pleased.
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Bursting Brains-A Singular Sick
ness in Mexico.

A most singular and unaccountable
disease, commonly known as the burst
ing Sickness" has broken out in this
vicinity, and already has spread to many
of the neighboring villages and cities.
The people are in CONSERVATION by rea-
son of the many deaths which have oc-
CURED. The doctors-wretched medi-
cal men at the best-are at loss how
to deal with the trouble, and the priests
have their hands full. Tlalenango,
Bolanos, Cartagna, and even Sanceda
Hac are suffering more or less, and
there is no telling where or when the
disease is to stopi / am not an expert
in describing sickness, but the trouble
seems to me to be an usual discharge of
nerve force into the brain. The symp-
toms are sudden nausea, followed al
most Immediately by severe and sharp
pain along the spine, proceeding from
its lower extremity to the head, and de-
scribed as feeling as though a blunt
knife were scraping upward. There is
then-wheH the pain reaches the back
of the head sharp and poignant dis
tress there which makes the patient de-
lirious, although it never produces I'M
consciousness or loss of the right uses
of the senses. The eyes are bloodshot
and wild, with pupils greatly contract
ed. The sensitiveness to light is in
tense, SO that even in paroxysms of ex-
cruciating agony the patient will rise
and seek dark place. This state lasts
commonly not more than from thirty
to forty minutes, during which the pa
tent feels as though his head was
splitting; and when this condition has
lasted for about half an hour the
Uranium actually bursts open at the suit
ures, as is sometimes the case with in
fants whose heads split thus after death
from water on the brain. The sound
produced ' y this rending asunder of
the bones of the skull can plainly be
heard full ten feet from the patient. 1t
is said that in some instances the dis
ruption is extremely sudden, and ac-
companied with a noise still louder.
This occurs, too, at a moment when the
sufferer is in full consciousness, and it
is most terrible to witness. The dis
ease broke out at the silver mining re-
gion at Bulanos about two weeks ago,
and its cause is unknown. About three
hundred persons-generally adults
have already died of it and it is yet
spreading. The sickness is, so far as
know, as unique as it is singular
TIGLendngO letter to N. Y. Graphic.
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EDITORIAL notices are so common that
it is almost impossible for an editor to
express his honest opinion of the merits
of any article without being suspected
of interested motives. This fact, how
ever, shall not deter us from saying what
we think of a new addition to the Ma
terra Medica to which our attention has
been recently directed. We refer to DIR.
]. Walkers California Vinegar B tiers,
a remedy which is making its way into
more families just now than all the other
advertised medicines put together. Its
popularity, as far as We can judge, is
not based on empty pretension. There
seems to be no question about the po-
tency of its tonic and Alternative proper
ties, while it possesses the great mega
tive recommendation of containing nei-
Their alcohol nor mineral poison. That
it is a specific for indigestion, bilious
ness, constipation, and many complaints
of nervous origin, we have reason to
know; and we are assured on good au-
thority that as a general invigorant,
regulating and purifying medicine, it
has no equal. It is stated that its in
gradients, obtained from the wilds of
California; are new to the medical
world and its extraordinary effects GER
tainly warrant the conclusion that it is q
compound of agents hitherto unknown.
If popularity is any criterion, there can
be no doubt of the efficiency of the
Vinegar Bitters, for the sale of the ar
ticle is immense and continually in
creasing.
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A Granger Platform of Principles.

- G1duSCL AdG1O1M VI 44uC4p4cS
The delegates composing the district
council of Patrons of Husbandry, for
the first congressional district of Ken
lucky, met recently in Paducah and
passed the following noteworthy reso-
lutions
Resolved, That this district council
be regarded as the farmers mutual ben
eft association, organized for the better
protection of the interests of the labor
ing industrial classes, and to this end
our organization feels it to be its duty
to oppose corruption in every form, and
to resist all avaricious monopclies, and
| to promote the general welfare of the
country.
RESOLVED, That we have no hostility
and wage no warfare against any other
class whatever. Our Efforts, on the
contrary, are for the benefit of both
producers and consumers. We desire
to bring the farmer, the manufacturer
d the consumer in closer, more
| friendly and economical relations with
each other.
ResOLUed, Hence we hold, in the Ian
guage of the national grange, that
transportation companies are necessary
to our highest prosperity, and that their
interests are intimately identified with
our interests and that harmonious ac-
ton is mutually advantageous.
ReSOtUed, We are not the enemies of
railroads nor of canals, nor of any
transportation companies that will adj
vance our interests and act fairly with
US, but we are opposed to such manage
ment of these corporations as tends to
Cypress us and rob us of the just prof
it's of our labor.
| RESOLVED, We are not the enemies of
capital, but we oppose the oppression
of mOnOpnlies we are opposed to ex-
cessive salaries, to high rates of inter
est. to exorbitant taxes and to all high
rates of per cent. profits in trade.
ReSOlUed, That the general business
of the farmer, present and prospective
prices, the most profitable crops, the
best method of cultivating them, uu-
just discriminate g charges by railroads,
the action of middlemen, and in short
everything that effects them and their
families, are legitimate subjects of dis
cuss1on in the different oranges.
| ReSOLUed, That we regard the mission
of women as beneficial not Only because
it is in accordance with our constitution,
| but because every father, brother or
| husband knows that where he can be
accompanied by his wife, sister or
daughter no lessons will be inculcated
but those of goodness, excellency, vir-
| tue. truth and love.
RESOLVED, Let our motto be" In es-
sentials, unity; in non. essentials, lib
erty in all things, charity"
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The washington Corresnondent

A correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader, speaking ;of Washington CORE
spondents, saws: SIT is no ordinary man
that can catch the bulk of rumor and
actual occurrence, Gull from it what is
freshest and strongest and truest, and
in short, clear sentences, every word
alive with meaning, dispatch the news
to his far-aWay paper. This he does not
one day Cor night rather, for the dis
patches arr sent late at night, but
every night of the congressional season.
Not much chance for sentiment or phi
losophizipg in the crisp, telling "spe-
cial Washington dispatches" that have
papers. No room for lies or false state
ments, since of what earthly use would
it be to say to-day what you would have
to take back tomorrow? These para
graphs that we read so eagerly yet Sc
carelessly, rather represent the hardest
working, most pains-taking class of men
in Washington. They embody the keen,
cool criticisms upon everyday politics,
coming from Intelligent, acute, indie
pendent reasoning. These men are
obliged to be smart, to use the Yankee
term, since they watch politicians and
their politics, to catch the unwary OF
applaud the honest they are obliged
to be keen-witted and intelligent, since
they must be able to reject the seeming
truth, to recognize the positive: and
ofttimes in their dispatches they fortell
or foreshadow to-day the actual occur
rences- of the next week or month. So
in one sense they are our political edu-
Gators as we'll as our political critics.
There are some knaves, and I know OF
several fools among them, but I am
bound to own that neither fools nor
knaves thrive as we'll in newspaper
row as they do in other localities in
WASHINGTON"
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The Vendonie Column.

The rebuilding of the Vendome
column will be completed by Septem-
Der next. Some months ago it was pro
posed TO surmount it with a statue of
France, but this was rejected, and the
statue of Napoleon l, was again select
ed as the only fitting croWE for such a
monument. But the government is now
afraid of Bonapartist demonstration,
SO that the browning of the column may
be DELAYED for some time. However, it
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to death. In March last bright and
pretty little ten years old girl, named
Katie Curran, left her home in the
morning on her way to school. From
that time nothing was seen of her by
her parents or acquaintance until the
accidental discovery of her mutilated
remains on Saturday last in the cellar
of the building occupied at the time of
her disappearance by the Pomeroys.
Since that discovery the boy Pomeroy,
who is in jail awaiting trial for the
murder of Mellen, has confessed that
he murdered her deliberately and ut
terly without provocation other than
that afforded by an uncomfortable i'm
pulse to shed blood,
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In the Surf at Long Branch.

The cosby Long Branch correspon-
dent of the New York World writes
From the Ocean House come six or
eight tender minxes with bundles look
ing cautiously behind them. They pick
their way down the steps, accompanied
by their guardian of safe and proper
age, and are watched from the bank by
their mother and aunt in evening DIRE s.
There are at this time no more than ff-
teen people, all told, on the whole
stretch of sand from Sandy Hook to
West End. The minxes disappear in
the disreputable shanties that are
meant for the dressing cases, and pres
entity they emerge in wooden blouses
and "pants," holding each others
hands and hitting little screams as the
soft, white sand touches their tender
feet, and looking around to see that no
body is photographing them. One can
see their fragile bodies SILVER, even
from the top of the bank, when they
step with bated breath and anxious
looks into the white spume that is roll
ing and foaming up the beach. Two or
three steps and they are ankle deep in
the ocean. At that an amorous wave.
swollen with desire, makes at them.
They see it coming the clasp of THEN
hands tightens they take a deep
breath, the defiance of their sex is in
their eyes, but the weakness of their
sex is in their vertebr@, and they bend
their knees and bow their heads, and
the ravishing element breaks over them
with wet embrace, hugs them a mo-
ment in foaming paroxysm, and then
goes broken and believing to fling it.
self in reckless delight upon the sands
where their feet have trod.
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subjugated and exterminated, fine OPP
portunity is offered for Academies of
Natural Science and men with money
to expend for the enlightenment of
mankind, to encourage and aid in ex-
ploring these ancient buried cities, and
to bring to light what has long been
enveloped in mystery. Who will be
the first to move in this matter Alta
N0lSfO1svli0
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''''''''''' CHARLES J. SMITH.


MANHATTAN, Kansas. July o. lrtA
e.. G. DIN a to.:-1hls iH 60 C.ttliy that have
been troubled with dney, adder, nhd urinary
com plants. burltring on g 81 ghth dhttHg luf "a
number OF ears. For the last Two years have
suffered much the doctors 60. ID DO me no lasting
cd. All the time there was quantities oft album fu
my urine. / had tepn q got GO To- thr paper ul
WauEesha Water Last bet uhry / thought
would try the water. ana sent go T. Louis ana Eut
five SALON. aud while waR drinking a. rrtciN td
four gallons from a friend lu ILLINOIS, lu "a Few
DAYS 1 recpiv, n circular which told me that tho
water that WAS sent me from II inuis was iri ul
n neral Ruck springs. rluCp then have Ordr. tu
two barrels and received it, aud am making lr'n
OF "a.
II has been fnI years ny wife thinks the waller
the greatest boon that ever received. 10 hlH ~
desiredand designed effect. think after tHlnh 20 "a
Jew mon hs more. I tha be all right,
Now, sir. AZ, no sChoiar, and 10 you can thhh. N
the style OF my writing without destroy lnE lli
meaning you are at uu.ry 60 du lt ....
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The Grand Revolution IN Medical
TREATMENT, which was commenced in 1860, is still
in progress Nothing stop it, for it is founded
on the principle, now universally acknowledged,
that physical vgor is the most formidable antagon-
list of all human ailments and experience has shown
that PLANTATION BITTERs is peerless invigorant,
as well as tho best possible safeguard against cpl
dernic diseases
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NOt0uite SO Fast, Mr. JOnes!--

Not Quite so Fast, Wr. JOnes!-A horse
doctor in Philadelphia caught changing the
celebrated Mexican Mustang Eminent into other
bottles, and using it as his recipe. Honesty
is always the best policy. These medicine men like
to follow up such fellows. 1t cured the lame horse
all the same; but it damaged tie Doctors reputa-
ton, aud benefited the proprietor in proportion.
We have heard of SO many Rheumatic persons and
lame horses being cured by the Mustang Liniment
that advise every housekeeper, liVeryman and
accident Beware of counterfeits 1t is wrapped
in a steel engraving, signed &C. W. Westbrook,
ChenistH