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EvE-ANGELIcAL CORNER.

Porcelain jewelry IS something new.
A Potsdam lady turns the scales at 342
pounds.
A cheerful face is q constant benediction
in any household.
Scarlet and black is fashionable combi-
nation in bonnets.
Pretty New Jersey girls are facetiously
called sandwiches.
"Who made your teeth ?'' is always the
query when two Buffalo ladies meet.
Two women are partners in the law busi-
ness in Kansas: they are sisters-in-law.
The newest handkerchiefs are cut round
cornered, and have the monogram or initial
in the centre.
DR.. Aver, of Lowell, will leave his hand
some daughter 100000 in greenbacks,
and there's asugar-coated pill worth taking.
A woman at Akron, Ohio, has a mania
for buying corsets, and she has a stock of
231 ON hand, and only two calico dresses to
cover them.
A Troy woman got already to elope with
young man, but finding that he had been
eating onions for supper she went back to
her husband.
All-powerful love induced st. Louis
girl to pawn her back hair so that her lover
might have money to bet on prize-fight in
that vicinity.
Molt<e's first care, when he arrives at his
country seat, is to go and pray at the grave
of his wife, which is concealed by expresses
on hillock in the park.
The mouth of a sandusky woman, says
the Detroit Free Press, is as large as barn
door. And why do they want their barn
doors so internally large.
A Chicago girl says that any of the ladies
luncheon saloons in that city a lonely wo-
man may procure cup of coffee, a sand
wich and a lover, all for thirty cents.
Tn days gone by the darling girls
Wore highnecked dresses, natural curs-
Loved flannel cakes and honey:
But now the dresses are quite low,
False hair round their shoulders flow,
Their only love is-money.
HTr. Bent1y, OF Wyoming county, Pa,
happening into his hay-loft the other day,
saw a pair of good-sized feet protruding
vertically above the horizon, and upon in
vestigation found that they belonged to his
mother-in-law, who, while in quest of hens
eggs, had slid down head first and got
wedged into space between the wall and
d oiaeo' ~ t1oh ieaiE lhas5 5hdhilnity no Cd1leu
two men to his assistance and pulled her
out alive.
A recently made Benedick writes as fol-
lows concerning his young wife's habits
If there was bedroom mile long, and
her entire wardrobe could be packed into
band-box, still you'd find portions of that
wardrobe scattered along the whole mile of
dressing room. She's nice thing to look
at when put together, but this wonderful
creature is evolved from chaos intermina-
BILE Of pins, ribbons, rags, powder, thread,
brushes, combs and laces. If there were
seven thousand drawers in your room, and
you asked but for one to be kept sacred
and inviolate for your own private use, that
particular one would be full of hair pins,
ribbons and soiled cuffs. Some provision,
sapeeq n il. this paattREa shn,id hA
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''Everybody's Aunt"-A Pen. Picture.

Benjamin F. Taylor, who lately dropped
in upon camp meeting, writes letter to
one of the religious papers, in which he
draws this capital portrait of "everybody's
aunt"
And there is a mother in Israel, cushion
ed to her chin, and a face as pleasant and
hospitable as an open fire on Thanksgiving
day. At a hundred dollars a pound-and
nothing could be cheaper she would be
worth $4,000 for she weighs two hundred.
Her hat is &C bunnet." 1t shoots out a
little in front like a young scoop shovel.
1t curls up little behind, like young
wren. She wears about as many hoops as a
stone jar. But she indulges in a petticoat
or two, ssgethered," as she will tell you, at
the top, and puekered with the pull of a
string, as they used to wind up clock. A
cape without fringe or adornment has fall
en- upon her like the mantle of the prophet
and develops her shoulders and arms, even
to the elbows. If it were a little peaked
and scolloped, it would be vandyke; but it
is as Enthusiastically a cape as the Cape of
Good Hope. Her hands are encased in
mitts, fimsy suggestion of gloves without
fingers. She never dyed her hair. She
would about as soondie herself.
That face of hers beams with goodness
and goodwill. You want her to be your
aunt, as she cannot be your mother. You
would be glad to sit by her fire and talk,
and she would be as glad to have you
Her easy cushiony way of walking suggest
gentle old chaise with the top up. She
is enjoying every minute of the time. She
is a methodist of the old school, and she
needs no assurance that she will 60 tG
heaven. She has it from better authority
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COURIER 1ouRNA11sms.

A baby recently born in tbs State caught
the measles from it mother four months
before it was born. The little chap was in
a deueed hurry to begin life, to say the least
of it,
GA New York State woman owns five
acres of peppermint meadow" An envia-
BILE woman, certainly. She has but to
marry man with barrel Of whisky and a
hogshead of sugar to have a mint julep fif-
teen or twenty times day for the rest of
her life.
We are profoundly shocked to hear of tile
death of Prince John Anthony Lascaris Pa
laolgus. of Italy. Not that we ever before
heard of Prince John Anthony Lascaris Pa
laolgus, but oh, the loss Of that brief but
brilliant name of his.
Every fashionable woman i'll Paris hangs
to her belt an alms-bag, fan, a card-case,
a pooket-book, an umbrella, a turnip watch,
a pin-cushion, some ivory tablets and a lit
tie mirror. And the sons of women like
these are expected to knock the nonsense
out Of Germany some day.
The Detroit Free Press: ''If there is any
excuse for compositor setting up 'zoologi-
cal discussion tor theological dissertation
we'd like to see him defended" There is
an excuse for it, and you can get plenty of
them at the nearest saloon for fifteen cents
apiece.
"staunton, Virginia, claims to have a
negro one hundred years Old" Virginia
sc0rns to own a negro who isn't as old as
the very hills themselves. Show us a Vir-
ginia negro who isn't ninety-ive or hum
dred years old, and we will show you COL
Ore0 individual who is excluded from SOci-
ETY. on account Of his extreme youth.
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CiilED
On
Tree
in THE
YEAR
1850
d. Boon
A BAR

At that time he was twenty-six years of
age, and doubtless was more than 100 miles
from any human habitation, relying alone
upon his own brave heart, strong arm and
trusty rifle.
The tree is just two feet in diameter and
leans about three degrees from perpendicu-
larity. 1t has been greatly defaced by seek
ers after Immortality, who have inscribed
their names, otherwise unknown. all over it
for ten feet, or nearly so, above the surface
of the ground. For several hundred yards
southwest, and Immediately around the
tree, is a large number of mounds, with
corresponding depressions, which have led
many to believe that it was originally a
mining camp of the Indians, and some have
been led to think that beds of pnre silver,
as rich as those of Potosi, might be found
by digging. But I am satisfied that the
mounds have been produced by uprooted
trees, whose roots decaying, have left the
cherty beds high above the surrounding
surface.
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THE FRENCH MILITARY SYSTEM. France
is putting herself in military order after the
Prussian model. The catastrophe Of 1870
was a great educator. There is a fine lad
of II in my pension, who has been help
ING me with my correspondence. He talks
English, and yesterday he said, !" must
now 60 to my professor "Your professor,
Armand; how is that ~ Why, you see,
when am 10 go into the French army,
under the law passed after the wal, by
which all Of our young men must serve five
wears. unless they show themselves qualified
IN certain branches Of education, as history,
geography, arithmetic. II they are up IN
these, they need only serve one year.
have nv teacher an hour every day, and
feel sure of good number and an early
and honorable discharge for superiority in
history. geography, algebra and the natural
sciences. If prove proficient in these
branches, serve only one year; SO 1
am working to get the other four years TO
n,yself., It is unnecessary TO discuss the
advantages of such system in military
power. The Government secures good
soldiers and intelligent citizens at the same
time. F0rneg's Paris Letter.
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STATISTICS OF THE CRUsADE.-An ex-
change thus argues: If these ladies are in
earnest let them figure up last years bill.
There were 10000 ladies in the crusade
for fifty days. AT fifty cents day this
would amount to $3,250,O00. Another
$50, 600 will hardly cover the fees paid to
"organizers," hall rents, printing and legal
expenses, to say nothing Of the injury to
business, the squabbles and heart-bufnings,
etc., etc.
Now So, 300, 600, properly expended, would
relieve good deal of distress. Itmightn't t
buy out more than $500 saloons, and $50
evangelists would consume it and leave
nothing behind but bean pot and the
echo of a speech; but it would go far to
render tolcrable the existence of $4,000
families in need from the effects Of drunk
enness. Or it would open thousands of free
reading and coffee rooms, where men could
obtain rational refreshments at reasonable
prices, and final amusement without dissi-
patton.
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Blanche Butler.
Washington Letter to Cincinnati Gazette.

washington Letter to Cincinnati Gazette.
The one redeeming soft spot in General
Buffers life is hislove for his only daughter
Blanche, now the wife of Governor Ames,
of Mississippi. The General, every one ac-
knowledges is fearfully ugly, and his wife,
who was an actress years ago, is equally
plain. How from this union such an equis-
ite, dainty, loveable maiden as Blanche
Butler could have sprung will always re-
main wrapped among the mysteries. l
very we'll remember the praises which were
sung at her debut. She was educated at
the Georgetown convent, and after her
graduation, she made a protested appear
ance in the gay society of the capital. 81
don't want to 60 into society,"" she said to
friend, 'it does not satisfy me. prefer
staying quietly at homer And this re-
mark, made at her first party where she
was surrounded by hosts of eager admirers.
Her dress ON this occasion won universal
applause from its charming simplicity. 1t
was white silk illusion, light and fluffy as
sea foam, and embroidered with pale green
ferns. Her only ornaments, pearls. She
must have looked like Undine, after her
soul came to her, with her fresh, fair COM
plexion chased with faint bushes; her tall,
slender figure; her pure soft blue eyes; her
sweet mouth, with it's winning smile; and
her 'woman's crown of glory"' in her
red-gold hair, such as Titan loved to paint
on his Madonnas! I saw her first at some
morning reception, as the newly-married
bride of Senator Ames, and [ followed in
the wake of her footsteps like one enchant-
ed with her gentleness and beauty. She
wore heavy silk calling suit, of two rare
shades of blue; ermine furs, and white, un-
cut velvet hat, trimmed with long. graceful
ostrich plumes. As she came in from the
what lovely embodiment of the esprit
of the Snow" she looked! Everybody loved
gentle Blanche Butler, even those who hat
ed her father the most and hear that in
her Southern home she wins the same affec-
ton from all, no matter what political
grounds they stand ON.
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THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME.-Wrinkles
are the first tell tales Of a lost youth and
the wrinkles make their way in very
stealthy manner. At first there comes the
faint marking of one little line about the
corner of the eye, and one at each side of
mouth. Assuredly it is the sign Of ap-
preaching age, we may say complacently,
looking at ourselves in the glass, conscious
of our attractions in the perfection of their
maturity. That little line, indicative Of
the furroWed future, is no more age than
the one scarlet leaf of the maple i'll the
midst Of the greenwood in autumn. 1t is
the shadow of the herald if you will; but it
is not the real thing. And SO on with all
the rest. But it is n0tso with our friends.
The gap made between the past and present
by years of absence is abrupt, unexpected.
You left a blooming, sleek-haired, slim
wasted girl; you find faded, hollow-eyed,
gTay-headed woman, the mother children,
afflicted with bad health and tired of her
life. Or you encounter stout and horid
matron whose bulk is a burden to herself
and matter rot for admiration to her
friends; whose early shyness has worn off
and given place to. a free and easy good ma
ture that may be genial butts vulgar; whose
gillisll sentimentality has gone with iier
bushes, and openly p2oclaims her devotion
to champagne and lobster salad as among
the few things in life worth taking trouble
for, and talks of tile pleasures of the palate
as superior to every ether enjoyment. To
be sure, pairing away i'll your minds eye
those superfllsons layers of flesh, you can
make out the nose of the past, and the lips
have the same curve as hers had in the
days when you would have given a month s
salary for a kiss; tie eyes are the same
color. but what has become of their snarkle2
Where is that roguish twinkle that made
your heart leap when It flashed upon you,
giving point to a girlish saueiness that was
so innocent and she thought was sonaughty.
Where is Tint deMy, downcast look that
was so conscious where there was nothing
to blush for? Is it Thar ugly leer which
tells Of less tenderness Of sentiment than
yon would like to sec even In q nan? You
mus accept this as the survival; it is all
yeu viii have of the sweetness, the bashfnl-
ness tllat anee seemed to you the most *
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The Boone Tree in Washington County,
Tennessee.
Union and American letter.

Near Mr.. Laws farm, on the lanls of S.
Edwards, is the famous Boone tree, which
contains the earliest record of civilization
in Tennessee. It stands On the northwest
ern slope of hill which rises up from Sink
ing creek, near the Blountsville and Jones'
boro stage road. The hill is thickly set with
beech, maple and oak, and the whole earth
is ramified with gnarled roots, which cover
the surface like an inextricable mat. The
dense woods, the roar of the little creek, as
it leaps in cascades over the tilted limestone
and the deep gloom of the forest give
wildness to the surrounding not unlike what
one may imagine it was 114years ago, when
Daniel Boone, the bold pioneer, resting his
rifle against the tree, carved in indelible
characters the result of his days work in
this way:
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Gold Discovered in the Big Horn Mount
aims

From the Cheyenne Leader,
W T. Cody, better known as Buffalo
Bill, and who acted as guide for Col Mills
expedition in the Powder river country az
rived in Cheyenne on Thursday from Raw
Inns. He reports that the country to the
south and east OF the Big Horn Mountains
was well secuted for Indians, but none were
found. IEe describes that region as filled
with lovely parks, well watered and carpeted
with luxuriant grass. Asa grazing country
it cannot be surpassed. On one of the
tributaries of the Big Horn river, called
Bad Water Creek, well up towards the
head Of the stream, the few miners along
struck gulch diggings that they reported
would pay from ten to twenty dollars a day
to the hand. Mr.. Cody says he knows
nothing about mining himself, and there
fore is not competent to express any opinion
on the richness of the new diggings; but
the miners were quite confident that they
were good. Two of them, named Son and
Harrington, started back to the new mines
from Rawlins, on Thursday, after having
outfitted themselves for more thorough
prospecting of the new mining camp.
Mr.. Cody says the new mines are about
sixty miles west of north, from Independ-
ence Rock, and are easy of access from that
point.
The Powder river valley is a fine country
as far as Splored--plenty of timber, soil
rich, but its bottom land oyert1ows. 1t will
be fine stock raising country.
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POETRY,
THE BIvoUAc OF THE DEAD.

Who wrote "The Bivouac of the Dead?" This ii
the question: and we answer, says the New York Sun
that is was Col. Theodore OIIara, of Kentucky HI
served in the Mexican war; ard also in the war of the
rebeilion-first as Colonel of an Alabama regiment
and afterward chief of staff to General Brecken-
ridge. He died i'll 1867 ON an Alabama plantation
and the Legislature of Kentucky have brought his
mains home for intelment, with those of other Ken
lucky soldiers, under a monument erected by the
State. His poem drew its inspiration from scenes in
the Mexican war, and these are its stanzas
The mufled drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo;
No more on lfe's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards, with solemn round
The biyouac of the dead
No rumor of the foes advance
Now swells upon the wind,
No trouble thought at midnight haunts
OF loved ones left behind:
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warriors dream alarms.
No braying horn streaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms
Their shiyered swords and red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed,
Their haughty banner, traed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud-
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms. by battle gashed
Are free from anguish now.
The neghing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugie's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade
The din and shout are passed
Nor wars wild note, nor eory's peal,
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rupture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain
Came down the selried foe
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break DER the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was victory or death.
Full many mothers breath has swept
Der Angostura's plain
And long the pityng sky has wept
Above its moder'd slain
The ravens scream or eagles flight
Or shepherds pensve lay,
Alone wake each solemn height
That frowned DER that dread fray
Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground!
Ye must not slumber there.
Where stranger steps and tongues 'resound
Along the needless air;
Your own proud lands heroic soil
Shall be your filter grave:
She claims from war its richest spoil
The ashes of her brave.
Thus, meath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the CORY field,
Borne to a Spartan mothers breast
On many bloody shield.
The sunshine Of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here
And kindcd eyes and hearts watch !y
The heroes sepuchrc.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead
Dear as the blood ye gave
No impfoas footstep here shall tread
The herbage of yonr grave
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the haowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrers yoiceless stone,
In deathless song shall tell,
When many vanished year hath flown,
The story how We fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winters blight,
Nor times remorseless doom,
Can dim one ray of holy light
That gilds your glorious tomb.
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Interesting Facts.

Hops eEtwine to the left, and beans to the
right.
A clean skin is as necessary to good
health as food.
The largest Of the Egyptian Pyramids is
481 feet high.
The earth is 1916 miles in diameter, and
q. $50 miles round.
Noah's Ark was 81 English feet long, 81
broad and "a high.
A bushel of wheat weighing so ponnds
contains $50, 900 kernels.
Fossil remains ON the Ohio prove that it
was ence covered by water.
Cold may be beaten into leaves SO thin
that 180, coo would only be an inch thick
Vinegar boiled with nyrIh or camphor,
sprinkled in a room, corrects putridity.
In Greece, it was the custom at meals for
the two sexes always to eat separately.
The Romans lay ON coaches at the dining
tables, on their left arms, eating with their
right
The walls of Nineveh were 100 feet high,
and thick enough for three chariots abreast.
Babylon was go miles within the walls,
which were IS feet thick and 800 feet high
Forests Of standing trees have been dis
covered in Yorkshire, England, and in Ire
land, imbedded in stone.
On one of the peaks Of the Alps there is a
block of granite, weighing by estimate,
1868 tons; SO nicely balanced on its CEN
tire of gravity, that a single man can give it
a rocking molten.
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A young lady Of Illinois has sold all her
jewels and is going to the isles of the sea as
q missionary. She was not driven TO this
so much by the Inconsistency of her lover,
as by the fact that she couldn't adopt the
latest style of bonnet without looking hid
eeus, and she prefnrred to offer herself m
as q sacrifice in PoIvnesia.
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A BIT OF FIGURING.-A man who has
figured it out says that if the surplus wheat
OF California, estimated at 600,00G tons,
were loaded in carts containing ton each,
and started overland, the head of the pro-
cession would be entering Boston before
the rear had left San Francisco. Or if the
wheat was loaded into ships of one thousand
tons each it would take six hundred, and
if these ships should sail In line within
sight of each otIler--say twenty miles apart
they would extend distances Of Il, 600
miles, or one-half tho circumference of tile
r,obe
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Love in Nevada.
From tl,a VIRGINIA E.nleri.flse.

From The Virginia Elierffise.
Some person at Franktown, Nashoe Val
ley, has sent us a poetieal eifnsion, Of which
we give below twelve lines just to show to
what condition love may reduce a man
when green corn is in season:
Thar is gtill in Washoe NHliep,
Her giving n:lne is Sallee.
" od was the thing nm bob
Inesae the corn, what they cali the kob.
Ard could en,nu sfeanlin' hot
Rte out uf the old iron pot
50 her iaddy lips mi.hr cOirell me.
And her ivors teeth might saaiI lnr.
During which her pretty nose could smell me.
While her tung. 80 fair and yang.
Was arnHnd ahonI me nHna.
And she was 4 .caii.ng of me sssses.
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Unhappy Condition of the Kansas Settlers.

Various causes seem to have created con-
siderable distress in Kansas recently. A
newspaper published in Macon, Mo-, says,
the white covered wagons of immigrants
from Kansas are daily passing through our
town to the East and North. Tho unfortu-
mates speak in sorrowful tones of want and
suffering in Kansas, the result of drought
and the ravages of the grasshoppers. In
conversation with some of our citizens they
say: g Why You have a paradise here com
pared with Kansas Look at your stacks of
hay and grain, and your fields Of corn; we
have literally nothing, and have to come
over here to keep from starving We
learn that some Of the immigrants are so
destitute that they have no money to pay
the toll across the bridge at ST. Joseph, and
are compelled to pawn bucket or some
other article in order to get over on the
Missouri side of the river. One old gentle
man remarked: e went to Kansas three
years ago with 50, 600 and entered for my
self and sons GAO acres Of land. havn't
enough on my farm to buy iack-knife. ]
havn't :, cent Of money and we must strng-
gle hard to get through the winter.n Our
farmers are assisting these unfortunate inn
migrants By giving them feed fer themselves
and their horses