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We might add instance to instance TO

We might add instance to instance to
| prove the enormous cost of strikes to
the workingman. Even when they sue
.ceed, the result rarely, if ever. pays for
the money unpfoducti7el5 spsnt. When
they do not, the money is of course a
dead loss. It is absurd that working
men, in the face of such facts; should
persist in using this two-edged weapon
against their employers. In England,
Messra. Mundslla's and Kettles boards
of arbitration and tie Introduction of
industrial partnerships between masters
and men have done much to prevent
strikes. In France, the state long since
established coJrts of arbitration for the
settlement of labor-duarrels. They are
composed of six members. chosen by
employers and employed, and 8 presi-
dent,and vice president, who must be-
long to neither class. Mr.. Thos. Bras
sey, in his "Work and Wages" says of
these courts: "The result in ninety
five out of one hundred cases brought
before these tribunals is q recoheilia-
ton between the parties and though
appeals are permitted to the superior
courts OF law, they are rarely made.
In 1870, 2s, 600 disputes had been
heard Of which no less than 26,800
were satisfactorily settled" -#
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Fhe Story Of" A Steamer. g

"Speakinr about fast-funning steam
boats" said Mr. Thomas Hartshorn, re-
Gently, rolling his q4id into his larboard
jaw, and giving his Tuckapaw trousers a
hitch, (Mr. Fl. served as cook on the
ram Queen of the West), ST suppose
you never heard of the old Elephant,
that used to run between Cincinnati and
New Orleans. She was a beauty. I
suppose that when she was tied to the
bank with stern-line and a tow-line,
she was one of the fastest boats on the
river. She made one celebrated trip
from New Orleans, I think, in AT. Her
time was made matter of record. It
weeks. Coming up from New Orleans
and he noticed several big hulks of fell
lows servin' as cabin boys. He calledthe
steward to him, and says he, Don't you
think it would look better to have boys
waitin' on the table ? I don't like to
see men film the place Of cabin-boys.
Let 'em go, and get some young chaps
why, blast it, captain, says the stew
ard, them fellows were boys when we
left New Orleans
"The Elephant" continued Mr..
Hartsh0rn, ci1ng1ng to his nautical re-
miniscences, "was pullin' out from
Memphis one day, on a down trip, and
somehow she got mixed up with a raft
of saw-logs. She broke one of the logs
loose, and it foated out into the stream
The Elephant headed down the river,
and finally got alongside the log. Then
commenced one of the incest races you
ever saw. There was a good stage of
water, and the log doomed along right
lively. For about week they held to-
gether purity well, but the Elephant
had to land at the mouth of White
river, and the log beat her into New
Orleans about twenty minutes. There
was something wrong with the Ele-
Thant's boilers, and she couldn't make
steam properly. That's what the cap
tain said. She was nice boat to ship
green fruit on"
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Light Observed in Grinding Hard
Stones.

At the agate polishing establishments
in Oldenburg, a phenomenon has been
observed for the past century that has
as vet, perhaps, attracted too little at
tention from scientific men. Under very
powerful friction, such as can only be
produced by the machinery at those
works, hard stones become splendidly
luminous and transparent throughout.
In this establishment the axis of an nm
dershot water-wheel reaches into the
grindipg-room, where four or five grind
stones rotate vertically; over each is
brought gutter, SO thata constant small
stream of water pours upon the stone.
The grindstones themselves are entirely
faultless. They are about five feet IN
diameter, and make three revolutions in
a second, so that the grinding surface
that passes the object pressed against
it amounts to thirty-two English miles
per hour. When grinding, the work
man lies on his belly, his chest on a
semi-cylindrical shollOwed stool, his
feet stretched ont behind, brnced
against a post fixed in the floor. With
both hands he presses the stone TO be
% lished firmly against the griudstone,
bringing his whole weight TO bear upon
it. The muscular strength brought to
bear is very great, and the work is per-
formed with intermissions of equal
times of rest and work. Some expert
ments we're made in this workshop by
Noggerath in broad daylight. He OBJ
served that as long as a stone OF the
hardness of quartz pressed against the
revolving grindstone, there was pro-
duced an intense red light, which at the
same time radiated around the object
and emitted numerous sparks. This
experience was the same with all hard
stones, which appear almost like red
hot iron, and it really looks as If the
hands must be severely burnt. Al the
stones became warm in grinding, but
not very hot. Chalce1ony gave mag
nifcent fiery red light ohrysoprase a
little red light rock crystal beautiful
rose red !; coralline superb red light,
the color being evidently increased by
the natural hue of the stone. Ame-
thyst gave a pale violet, while numer-
GUS Opaque stones gave no light at all.
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HAZEL BLOSSOMS.


The summer warmth has left the sky,
Inc summer songs have died away;
Andl withered. in the footpaths lie
Inc fallen leaves, but yesterday ...r..
With ruby and with topaz gay +
The grass is browning on the htils FT
No pale, belated fours recall F.s.. zr.r. .H
The ast-a! friDges of the rills, 75 as
And drearily the dead vines fall,
FTOSt-blackened from the roadside wal,
Yet, through the gray and somber wood,
Against the dusk OF fir and pine
Last Of their floral sisterhood, -.--,... -
The hazel's yellow blossoms shine. p % N I
The tswny gold of Africs mine.
Small beauty hath my unsung flower b 4..f.---
For sIring to own or summer hail; -. ~
E1t, in the seasons saddest hour, -'---r-.
TO skies that weep and winds that vail
It's gi&d aurprisals neveF fafI E y E A.
. dLys grown cold! @ life grown OLD!
No rose OF June may bloom again: Hl'f
Bnt, like the hsEefs twisted gold,
through early frost and latter rain
3hau hints q sunnerstime ren1atn.
AID - within 81 bazsl's lJough tN
gin Of nsystic virtue dweIls, ~ 80
mat points to golden ores below,
AUD m dry desert places tells,
NSere now unseen the cool, sweet wells
50. in the wise OWNERS hand,
BE mine the hazels grateful part
To feel. beneath a thirsty land,
The living waters thrill and start, H
The beating Of the rivulet's heart
Sufficeth me the gift TO light
with latest bloom the dark, cold days;
To call some hidden spring - sight
That, in these dry and dusty. ways,
Shall sing its pleasantest song OF praise,
q Lowell tie backward msy Tai,
But thou Caust lend the rurer swell,
That, passing over Rss-aNs vale ID
Repeats the oid-tfIne miracle
And n1akes the desert land well.
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and there is hardly a man without some
latent disease, have brought about a
condition of affairs which it is abso-
Iutely necessary to changeif the race is
to beimproved, Let the weak ones go
down, as nature intended they should,
and Ia few generations the descend
ants of the strong alone will survive.
NJ. Langue is SO steady devotee to
this idea that when his own child was
i'll, few months ago, he refused to
call physician, and the child died.
Whethet his practice will be generally
accepted is very questionable, even
though one sees little fault TO find with
his theory.
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Origin Of Moss-Agates.

A correspondent OF the Chicago Inter
Ocean, writing from the plains, says
that Professor Nudge, of Kansas, has
found where "moss-agates" come from,
and knows Just how to get at them. As
they are usually discovered in the loose
plains gravel, they have been supposed
to owe their present deposit to drift, "
their original home having been in the
north. Professor Nudge has found,
however surprising as it seems, that
they originated in the pliocene deposits
of Kansas. In some localities this PHI
ocene consists of sedimentary silici-
GUS deposit formed of material varying
from coarse flint quartz to chalcedony.
Oxide of maganese, more or less crys-
talized in minute moss-like sprigs, ex-
tends through the whole strata, which is
often eight feet thick. The "agates "
are mainly found in the upper six
inches, and some of them are remarka-
bly, beautiful. The whole mass is very
interesting to the mineralogist, as
showing the so called "moss-agate
through the whole process of its
formation. The lower portion indi-
Gates an imperfect solution of the
silica and oxide of manganese, but
b16 upper 10" AhOhCbg "ACAC Viz DNa'S
specimens are found, evince the deposit
in high state of chemical develop
ment. The moss-agate deposit
forms the cap-rock of all the hills in
the vicinity of Sheridan, on the Kansas
Pacific railway, and also about Fort
Wallace. In one instance Professor
Nudge found bones and portions of the
tusk of mastodon, which in progress
of fossilization had changed to nearly
pure silica, and in the change had be-
come infused with fine, sprig-like crys
tails of black oxide of manganese, thus
presenting the strange phenomenon Of
ivory actually converted into "moss-
agate" Some of the specimens cannot
be detected in appearance from the
real gem. Professor Nudge thinks
that the agencies which produce this
singular freak of nature must have
been similar to the action of the "hot
springs" of Iceland and Yellowstone
Park, the only known natural agency
that will make silica out of organic
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Dutch Beauties,

A writer in the Jewish Messenger,
speaking Of Leeuwarden, town in
Holland, says: 'tThe women Of Leeu-
warden deserve q paragtaph to them
| selves There is primitive air about
| them which is refreshing after the
| starched,up and made-up-to to order beau
| ties that are elsewhere visible. They
are generally tell, with high forehead,
| aquiline hose, lips closely set, and well
| developed chin. The skin is white, the
cheeks delieately tinted with colors
from natures GtelieT1, the eyes are
| large and piercing. The young girls
have lost much of the Frisian bearing,
for their heads are crszed, doubtless, by
the furbelows and tixings of the foreign
dressmaker and milliner. As among
the Quakers, the younger generation
are losing their reverence for the dis
tinotive dress which should be every
fair Frisian's pride to wear. The mat
rons, however. adhere to the fashions
of their ancestors. They have almost
masculine face, but the sternness is
reliey ed by the beauty of the eyes and
the fair skin. In southern Holland
distinctive costume is worn by many,
but it is not so quaint as in northern
Holland, in which Friesland is situated.
Take a woman's head dress, for instance.
A broad band of gold, OF horseshoe
shape, spans the forehead, aiding to
keep the hair back. The sides Of the
band are adorned with large oval gold
rosettes. Above the band is reared a
lace cap, or veil, often of the best lace,
with edges or complete wings dropping
to the neck. The ears glitter with
rings of gold and gems. These orna-
ments, which are either Of gold or silver
even among the poorer classes, are re-
garded with great reverence, and trea-
sured as sacred heirlooms, pass from
mother to daughter for many genera
tions. The bands give a soldierly
aspect to the women, who are generally
full-faced, not snnken-cheeked, and
walk with firm tread Their stout,
large shoes are in pleasing contrast to
the baby shoes which are considered
the style among our bellies of the Ian
guid and languishing type"
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FatteninR Cattle.

The number of fattening cattle is
equal to or above last year in Maine,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Delaware,
South Carolina, Alabama, Minnesota,
and the Pacific states in all others the
number has decreased. The condition
is above the average in the New Eng
land states, New York, Delaware, Vir-
einia. North Carolina, South Carolina,
Florida, Alabama, Texas, Iowa, and the
Pacific states in all the others it is be-
low.
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substances. The fact is curious oneat
any rate; and while it may overstock
the "moss-agate market, it furnishes
the scientist revelation CT rare inter
est and value. Professor Marsh, OF
Yale, is already giving it critical exam
nation, and specimens have been fur
nished to other prominent gentlemen
in his line of business.
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Swallowing Naturalization


The New York correspondent of the
st. Louis Republican writes: CATER
an evenings talk lately with an Impress
ible neighbor about supernatural man
ifestations, she went homo and went to
bed. In few moments she noticed a
ticking in the hall, and burning sound
in the ceiling. She listened until she
plainly heard a faint, smothered cry,
and then she jumped and collected the
whole family. First they heard it in
one corner-so they thought-then in
another. and finally it resolved itself
into a series of cries and manifestations
behind the fire. board in the large, old
fashioned fireplace. One gentleman,
more courageous and skeptical than the
rest, undertook to remove the iron
front, and as he did so his hand was
gripped-a little spectral claw, with
fieshless, biting fingers, grabbed and
hung on. The man turned to the night
gown brigade behind him, and with
blanched face announced the awful fact
} that the materialized form of some lit
tie demon was even then clinging with
terrible force to his finger. One lately
bereaved mother said, 'Oh, perhaps it's
my little Jimmy. Jimmy, is it your
0CSL cpAAAO AhO SoCbIACAhOI AHoN1S III
effort to remove the intruding hand,
when his cuff was grasped by stronger
and larger force. Good mercy he
whispered, there's another, bigger,
fiercer, more rambunctious than the
other A middle-aged man stole 81
lently toward the door, muttering It's
my mother-in-law. That just describes
her. She's come back, as she swore
she would Just then down came the
sheet-iron fireboard, and amid a cloud
of SCOT and much CONSERVATION the
cause of the row appeared. Four little
chimney swallows futtered into the
room, and on the dirt-begrimed hand of
the investigating boarder appeared a
fifth, while the old mother clung per-
tinaciously to his coat-cuff. 1t was an
irglorious scattering of the weird, un
earthly expectations of the assembled
party"
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How Charlotte Cushman Plays Meg
Merrilies Now.

It would be idle to write the worn
words of description or the faded
phrases of compliment. Miss Cusbman
acted Meg Merrilies, upon this occasion,
in such way as to make US forget that
we had seen it before, and feel only tlat
we were now seeing it for the first time.
In the glory of her yorth she was
never more powerful than when, upon
this memorable night, she burst in the
gloomy woodland and stood trapsfgured
before us-a living monument of fren-
zied suspense and legal misery. Her
figure lowered her very soul seemed
to dilate; years of suffering were writ
ten on her countenance; word of
love and of prophetic hope blszed from
her eyes every muscle of her body
seemed hardened into marble by the
tremendous tension of excitement under
which she leapt into the character her
presence was literally inspired, and
when she spoke the rameless quality OF
anguish and pathos in her voice thrilled
every chord of every heart in the vast
assemblage that saw this wonder and
heard this music. Genius in the art OF
acting can do no more than was done
by Charlotte Cushman in that supreme
moment. At the end of the scene the
stormy applause of a multitude, excited
beyond ali limits of discretion, almost
shook the building-till the actress
came back upon the stage, to look one
moment upon her triumph and calm
with her smile this raaing sea of adml-
ration.-Neay York Tribune.
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-The Ressemer steamer sYstem Las

The Bessemer steamer system has
been applied, by a Mr.. Henry Giffard,
to a hanging railroad-c car, which has
been tested with success on the line OF
the Northern railway, in France. Seated
in this car, which hangs on elastic
springs, the traveller experiences the
sensation of reposing in hammock,
free from the vibrations and bumpings
of the ordinary car. At times the car
unduiates as does boat on calm sea.
The movement is described as very
gentle one, and the traveller is enabled
to read without fatigue and write with
ease. The principle of this car, applied
to ambulances, doubtless would be a
great boon to the wounded who may be
conveyed in them.
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I'm Brussels they have taken one
practical step in regard to cremation,
which seems to indicate an opinion that
it is likely to be adopted instead OF
burial. They propose to have an official
medico. legal examination of every corpse
before it is burned.
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Mr.. Cain went out and sat down un-
der an apple tree in his back yard, and
he gave himself mp to reflections and so
forth. Through the leafess branches
sighed the November winds, and in the
house sighed Mrs. Cain, and both sighs
murmured gently in his ear:
"JOhn Gains q perpendicular idiot. -
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-01-01
Lighting.

The length of a flash Of lightning if
generally greatly under-estimated. The
longest known was measured by M. F.
Petit at Toulouse. This fash was ten
and a half miles long. Arago once
measured a series which averaged from
seven to eight miles in length. The
longest interval ever remarked between
a flash and the report was twenty-five
seconds, which would correspond with
q district of fourteen miles. Direct re-
searches have shown that a storm is
seldom heard at a greater distance than
from seven to ten miles, while the aver
age are barely heard over four or five
miles off. This fact is the more curious
as cannon may be distinctly heared
double or treble that distance, and in
special cases much further. During the
bombardment of Paris, in the winter OF
1870, the Krupp guns, which had been
left over from the Exposition OF 1857,
was heard at Dieppe, a distance OF
eigbty.four miles. Aragc states that
the firing at Waterloo was audible at
Creil, one hundred and twenty miles
distant.
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To THE SUFFERrNd.-An old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by DIR. Walker,
of California, of his me licine. He has
tested them thoroughly, in his own fam
lily, among his friends, and upon him
self and he is driven to the conclusion
that they possess rare and %unexcelled
curative properties. He says of them {;
"They contain no dangerous drug.
They never reduce the patient-never
render ono liable to take cold-never
interfere with everyday business OF life
never make their continuous use a
condition of cure, and are adapted to
even the most delicate organization.
They act as kindly on the tender infant,
the delicate female, or inirm old age,
as on the vigorous and athletic system I;
exercising healthful effects upon every
blood vessel-on the brain, nerves and
lymphatics-on the blood, bile, gastric
juice, etc, enriching impoverished
fluids, and imparting Ngor to mind and
body.
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MEANING or THE HASDs.-Profound
study has led NJ. de Arpentigny to the
conclusion that the hands represent
three types. Those who have fingers
with pointed tips are possessed of a
rapid insight into things are extra
sensitive and pious, impulsive. This
class belongs 10 the poets and artists.
70 the square tops belong scientific
people sensible, ~self.contained char
a%cters, professional men. The spade
shaped tops-thick tips, with little pads
of flesh on each side of the nails-are
materialists, commercial, practical, with
a high appreciation of all that tends
to bodily ease and comfort. Each fin.
ger, mo matter what the kind of hand,
has also one joint-that which is near
est the palm-representing the body
another-the middle-the mind, and the
top the soul. Each of these divisions
corresponds with one of the types above
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-01-01

THE attention of our many readers is
called to the attractive advertisement OF
j. N. Harris & Co., advertising their
great and valuable lung remedy, cal
lens Lung Balsam." This balsam has
been before the public ten years. Not
w~ithstanding this long period, it has
never lost one whit of its popularity, or
shown the least sign of becoming I'M
popular, but, on the contrary, the call
for it has been constantly increasing,
and at no previous time has the demand
been so great, or the quantity made
been SO large, as at this day. We earn
estly recommend its trial by any one
who may be afflicted with a cough or
cold, and we warrant it to cure if direc-
tions are followed. 1t is sold by all our
druggists.
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United States Finances.
A Glance nj the Past-An Intercstin
lLn Mn

A Glance ut the Past-An Interesting
Table.
The following table, made up by the
New York Evening Post from figures
accompanying the report of the secre-
tary Of the treasury, will be found in
teresting and valuable for reference.
The second colume of figures shows the
amount of outstanding principal Of the
public debt of the United States on the
LIST of January OF each year mentioned,
and the third the gross expenditures of
the government for each fiscal year
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JEAN PAUL RICHTER saws :: To insure

JEAN PAUL RICHTER says To insure
modosty, | would advise the educating
of the sexes together, for two boys will
preserve twelve girls, or two girls
twelve boys, innocent, amid winks,
jokes, and improprieties, merely by
that instructive sense which is the fore
runner of matured modesty. But I will
guarantee nothine in a school where
girls are alone together, and still less
where boys are"
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IT would seem as ii nature, in maxi
ing up mankind, had always been a lit
tie short of materials, so that, if special
attention were bestowed on the form
and face, the brain suffered, and if the
brain received special attention, why.
then there was something lacking in the
body j. @. H0lidad.
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WHEN l think Of death as a thing
worth thinking of, it is in the hope of
pressing, one gay, some hard-fought
and well-worn field of battle, and dying
with the shout of victory in my ear
That would be worth dying for, and
more, it would be worth having lived
for. Sir Waiter Scott.
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CHAppED HANDS, moo, rough skin, pimples.
ringworm, salt-rheum, and other cutaneous
affections cured, and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the JUMPER TAR Soar, made
by CAswELL, HAZARD 4 Co., New York. BE
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
ls, as there are many limitations made witt
common tar which are worthless - Com.