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THROUGH JAPAN.

A correspondent of the Boston Tran
script, writing of tour through Japan,
says: ave passed through little vii
lagos with thatch-roofed cottages, cot
tapes guiItless of such an innovation as
chimneys,, Looking in through the
open-paneled doors, could see them
cooking their rice on little, round stone
boxes, called 'kibachi.' The smoke,
growing thinner and thinner as it hid
in the corners of the airy kitchen, came
out imperceptibIy through the broad,
open doors. Now and then saw a
woman at an old-fashioned spinning
wheel, and one or two weaving Japanese
cloth. Darkness shut in over the pretty
landscape, and our stopping place for
the night was yet in the distance. Our
jinrikisha men lighted their Japanese
lanterns and merrily started off at
rapid rate. A half-hour's travel, by
faith rather than sight, and we stopped
at Japanese hotel in Fugisiwa. The
hostess met us with many salaams of
welcome, and we climbed a steep pair
of stairs to our room. It was matted
nothing else in it. The sliding doors
opened into little courtyard, where,
ia the morning, we discovered one or
two dwarf trees and a pond with fish in
1T; but at night it seemed only an ave-
nue. through which came up to us all
inconceivable odors of Japanese cook
ing. The next morning the rain was
pouring in torrents, genuine supple
ment to the rainy season. After break
fast4w again started on our journey
The rain stopped for a while, but
fell in showers through the day. As
we rode the country became more pic
turesque. We saw huge trees and
trunks of trees with ivy and wild grape
vines clambering over them. The coun-
try, if possible, reached off into greener
hills and greener valleys than before,
beautiful country, a good1y heritage,
no barren spot, everything green and
fresh but on the acres and acres of
pasture land no cattle were feeding, no
flocks or herds of any kind. Rice was
growing in the valleys, but the hill turf
land seemed unused. Everywhere
there were fresh mountain springs, and
all around US tokens of a rich country
but poor people. Eggs, rice, and fish
are the only food for the people. There
were half-clothed children making mud
pies in the streets of the villages, every
where men standing idlez Asking them
why, the answer would, doubtless, have
been that of the good book of old, Be-
cause no man hath hired u.s.
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ICELAND TO BE ABANDONED.

A new emigration to the United
States is in a fair way to be accom-
plished, which will tend to develop
the resources of Alaska as well as fur
nish q considerable increase of hardy
toilers to our national population. A
committee of three persons, chosen by
the people of Iceland, is now in this
country looking for habitation for the
entire population of that ancient island.
A war vessel has been promised these
aoarat coureurs for the purpose of in
specting the coast of Alaska. They
claim that by reason of climatic changes
their native home is no longer suitable
for residence that it has become too
barren to offer the usual opportunities
of deriving a comfortable living, and
that starvation is prevented only by Sc
curing from other lands the bare nec-
essaries of life. Alaska, they feel as
sured, is sufficiently cool. It is prefer
red to Canada, where strong influence
is now endeavoring to attract them.
They promise to work the fisheries,
supply the Pacific States with lumber,
build ships as in former times at home
raise cattle and other commodities, and
lastly, furnish through their children, a
body of sailors for the Pacific coast
trade. They are poor, but determined,
and wish, if the government will give
the necessary assistance, to inaugurate
the emigration at once.
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TRAKELLNG ON FOOT.

Nothing to me is more pleasant than
travelling on foot. We are free and
joyous. No breaking down of wheels,
no contingencies attendanton carriages.
We set out +; stop when it suits us !;
breakfast at a farm or under tree !;
walk on, and dream while walking-for
travelling cradles reverie, reverie wells
fatigue, and the beauty of the country
hides the length of the road. We are
not travehng-we wander. Then we
stop under the shade of tree, by the
side of little rivulet, whose ripping
waters harmonic with the songs of the
birds that load the branches over our
heads. I saw with compassion dill
gence pass before me, enveloped in
dust, and containing tired, screwed-up
and fatigued passengers. Strange, that
those poor creatures, who are often per-
sons of mind, should willingly consent
to be shut up in q place where the har-
mony of the country sounds only in
noise. the sun appears to them in
clouds, and the roads in whirlwinds of
dust. They are not aware of the flow
ers that are found in thickets, of the
pearls that are picked up among peb-
bles, of the houris that the fertile i'm
agination discovers in landscape-77a -77aatsG
pedeStris. Everything comes to the
foot passenger. Adventures are every
day passing before his eyes.-T Victor
H3l0O
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aUMAN GRO WITH

It has been ascertained that IN man
the most rapid growth takes place i'm
mediateiy after birth, the growth of an
infant during the first year of its ex-
istence being about eight inches. This
ratio of increase gradually decreases
until the age of three years is reached,
at which time the size attained is half
that which it is to become when full
grown. After five years the succeeding
increase is very regular until the six
teenth year, being at the rate for the
average man of two inches a year. Be
yond sixteen the growth is feeble, being
for the following two years about six
tenths of an inch year while from
eighteen to twenty the increase in
height is seldom over one inch. At the
age of twenty-five the growth ceases,
save in few exceptional cases. It has
furthermore been observed that, In the
same race, the mean size is little
larger in cities than in the country,
fact that will be received with doubt by
many who have come to regard the
rustic as the true model man.
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PARIS TRADE WITH THE UNITED



The Consul General of the United
States at Paris will shortly publish
statistical abstract of the export trade
of Paris with the United States for the
year ending Both September 1874.
Pending the appearance OF this docu-
ment, it may be useful to recall to our
recollection some of the leading feat
ures of the report for the year COM
mencing September, 1872, and finishing
September, 1873. During that year the
exports from Paris, compiled on the
basis of the customary declarations
made by exports, amounted to S36, ,O0O-,
600. The exports from Germany to the
United States during the same period
did not exceed $37, 900, 600. It will be
observed that the trade of Paris is
therefore on a par with that of the en-
tire German Empire, with the United
States. If we analyze the Consult Gen
erals statement, we find that $19, 600,
600 out of the $36, 100000, or more
than half, consisted in mouveautes, or
ladies' dresses. Silks figured in the
statistical reports for about So, 900, 600;
and fancy goods, iewelry, hats, but
tons, cloth, etc., made up the balance.
What have been the exploits of the
American fair sex in 1874 is not easy to
divine but we think we may safely as
sumo that the contributions they have
levied on the sterner sex, and expended
in Paris, will bear favorable compari
son, as regards amount, with preeed-
ing years. The average value of the
trade between Paris and the United
States, inclusive of sums expended by
American visitors to Paris, may be
roughly estimated at SIS, 1000, 600 per
onnT7ro
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PRoF. WEBSTER told. at the late meet

PROF. WEBSTER told, at the late meet
ing of the American Association, the
story of party that divided in the Great
Dismal Swamp; one portion of the party
was lost, and, after long wandering,
found their way out by a singular ex-
pedient. They made use of the insect
for which fine-tooth combs were invent
ed. Putting the insect on fat piece
of wood, and leaving it to its own de-
vices, it invariably began to move in a
certain direction. This direction was
followed out by the party, and they were
thus led out to the northward. It is.
supposed that this instructive movement
of the insect is due to its seeking the
way toward the greatest light.
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THE ALExANDRLAN LIARARY.

The celebrated library at Alexandria,
Egypt-the largest in the ancient world
was founded by PtoIemy Softer, about
283 b. G. It increased so rapidly that,
in the time of its first manager, Deme-
trius Phalerus, it included $4,000 vol
umes or rolls. Under his successors,
Zenodotus, Aristarchus of Byzanteum,
and Appolonius Rhodius, its contents
swelled to 100000 volumes, ae-
cording toAulus Gallius; to 5OO,-
600, according to Josephus and
to 100000 according to Seneca.
The library was divided in two parts,
situated in different quarters of the
city. The larger portion, embracing
the collected literature of Rome,
Greece, India, and Egypt, was con-
taiued in the Museum, located in the
quarter called Brucheium. During the
seige of Alexandria by Julius Caesar,
about 80 B. c., this part of the library
was destroyed by fire which spread
from the shipping to the city. It was
afterward replaced by the collection of
200, 900 volumes belonging to the King
of Pergamos, which Marc Antony gave
to Cleopatra, greatly to the disgust of
the educated Romans. The other part
of the library was kept in the temple
of Jupiter Serapis until the time of
Theodosius the Great, when all the
heather temples in the Roman Empire
were destroyed, and this among the
rest. The edifce was demolished in
391 by mop of Christian fanatics, led
by the Archbishop Theophilus, and it is
supposed that the books contained in it
were, for the most part, involved in the
destruction. In $40, Alexandria was
taken by the Arabs, under the Ca1iph
Omar, and the entire library was burned
or scattered. As the story goes, when
deciding the destiny of the volumes,
the Caliph declared: ''If these writ
ings of the Greeks argues with the
Book of God, they are useless, and
ueed not be preserved; if they disagree,
they are pernicious, and ought to be
destroyed" ="
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SPIcED P1UMs. Take eight pounds
of plums, three pounds of nice sugar,
one pint of vinegar, one ounce of cloves,
one ounce of cinnamon. The spices
should be ground fine. Prick the plums
with 8 large needle and put in jar.
Sprinkle over the spice. Heat the
sugar and vinegar and pour over the
plums. Repeat this three mornings.
On the fourth day pour all into por-
celain-lined kettle and boil about twenty
minutes
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hours. No unpleasant effects followed.
In each case the worm was passed with
the head firmly fastened to the side of
its body at about the widest part, from
which it was with difficulty removed
and the worm was twisted and doubled
into various knots.
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f' VIVA TUO- YE- CALLIT"
FEMININE TOGGERY.

The gentler sex is just now in an
agony of distress about new garment
which his come into use. Exactly
what the garment is we will let Mrs.
Swisshelm tell. She says in a note to
the Won10p1's Journal:
Your correspondents are having
trouble about a name for a new gar
ment. For two years, except in hot
weather, when wanted as little cover
ing as possible on the shoulders or
arms, have worn the article they wish
to designate. Like old King George
with the apple in the dumping, every
one who has seen it has asked ss How
do you get in % The frequency of the
question named it for me, and call it
a "getin.' do not get into it without
difficulty, and once in am covered from
the wrists to the neck and ankles, and
have no useless drapery. Then, with a
drilling waist, cut somewhat like COR
sets and furnished with broad straps
resting just where a mans suspenders
rest, and divided in front as they are, q
bit of tape on each side at the lower
edge, to which attach rubber stocking
suspenders, which tie with tapes to
loops on the stockings, am ready for
skirts, which I pin to the waist, prefer
ring pins to buttons.
The trouble with this ''what-is-it - is
that the gentler sex do not know what
to call it. Some are in favor OF
chemiloon," some of plain " "chem,
some of s' chemlin,'' % and, as will be seer
above, Mrs. s. calls it the "getin.
Why not call it the sSwisshelm Pr
Chic0OO Tribune
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Do YOU want an infallible protector
against burglars, thieves end other noe
turnal marauders ? If SO, send ten sub
scribers to THE CHICAGO LEDGER, ac-
companied by the cash (sl5), and you
will receive in return an elegant nickel
plated Remington revolver and 100
cartridges. This weapon is warranted
to kill at 100 yards.
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WATERPROOF DRESSING FOR
LEA THEIR
FOR

The Boston Laboratory gives as q
waterproof dressing for boots, shoes
and leather the following Lard oil, 100
parts parafine, 80 parts /; beeswax, 5
parts. Gently warm the oil and in it
dissolve the parafine and wax. II too
hard add a little less wax. Any dis
agreeable smell may be removed by q
few drops of the oil of sassafras. The
wax prevents the capitalization of the
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parafine, and the oil causes the whole
to become paste of the consistency of
tallow. The dressing fills the pores of
the leather, does not dry, and keeps the
leather soft and pliable. Boots and
shoes to which the dressing is applied
may be polished, using ordinary black
ing, which is not the case with most
dressing containing oil or grease.
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GENUINE HEROISM.

The true heroism of Jim Bludsoe, en-
gineer of that historical wreck, the
/" Prairie Belle" in holding her nozzle
agin the bank till the last galoot's
ashore" was nobly initiated a day or
two since by an engineer and fireman
on the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad
Their train, bound eastward, had to
cross a bridge, one span of which
crossed a creek and the other road
way. The train was moving slowly as
it neared the bridge, its speed not ex-
ceeding twelve miles an hour. When too
near to be of service, the engineer OBJ
served that switch had been displaced,
and that the engine must of necessity
run into the bridge. Both he and the
fireman might have saved their lives by
jumping from the locomotive, but the
result would have been fatal to the pas
sengers. They bravely refrained, re-
versed the engine, and applied the pat
ent air-brake. It was too late for them.
The engine dashed through the wood
work and landed in the roadway below.
The tender followed, crushing the two
brave fellows against the boiler pos
tal-car behind fell upon the tender,
resting one end upon the .abutment of
the bridge, and checked the motion of
the train. The sleeping passengers in
the palace cars were not even awakened
by the catastrophe. Only the train
hands discovered the heroic sacrifice
which Perdew and Parent, of Chilli
cothe, had made. Two charred and
shattered corpses were found in the
wreck of the engine, all that remained
of these two "men who died for men. .
Chicago Tribune.
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SHALL AND WILL

Richard Grant White, writing in the
GALAXY, says 'tAs to shall and will,
something may doubtless be done by
study and by taking thought to check
bad habits and correct the result of un-
fortunate associations. The mistake
most commonly made in the use of
these words, and the one therefore
most carefully to be avoided, is the use
of will for shall, and of the correspond
ing would for should. Shall is much
less often used for will. And yet in the
word shilly-shally, which is upon every
body's lip, is petrifed the rule and the
example in regard to shall and will.
Shilly-shally is merely colloquial cor
ruption of Sha1l-I p and thus expresses
the condition of a man who is vacillat-
ing between two courses of conduct.
It has been made into participle, per-
haps even into verb. A man who
stands shilly-shallying about woman, ;
as the ladies say, doesn't know his own
mind about her-a mental condition for
which the sex has not the highest re-
spect. Now, no one would say that a
man stood asking himself, will L?
Will p and yet such is essentially the
mistake most frequently made in regard
to the use of these words in conversa%
ton. We hear people say, What will
do p and even Will I do thus or so p
Among people of the Anglo-Saxon race
and of average education the mistake,
when made, most commonly takes the
indicative form, thus: I will go to bed
elegantly, retire. at ten o'clock to-
night, or We will breakfast at eight
tomorrow : instead of I shall go to
bed,' etc., we shall breakfast etc.
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THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.

The royal family of Great Britain is
a fourishing colony. The birth of a
son to the Duke and Duchess of Edin-
burgh increases the number of. Queen
Victoria's grandchildren to twenty six,
and of this large family twenty-three
are still living. The Queens eldest
child, the Princess Royal Victoria, wife
of the Grown Prince of Germany, has
had four sons and four daughters, of
which number one son has died. The
Queens second child, the Prince of
Wales, married to the Princess Alex
andra of Denmark, has had three sons
and three daughters, one son being
dead. The Queens third child, the
Princess Alice, wife of the Prince Louis
of Hesse-Darmstadt, has had two sons
and five daughters, one son being dead.
Next comes the Queens fourth child,
the Duke of Edinburgh, married to the
Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, with
one soH, born few days ago. Finally,
the Queens fifth child, the Princess
Helena, wife of Prince Christian of
Schleswig- -Holstein, has had two sons
and two daughters, all of whom are liv-
ing. The Princess Louise, the Queens
sixth child, wife of the Marquis of
Lorne, is not yet the head of family.
The other three children of the Queen,
the Duke of Connaught, Prince Leo
pold, and the Princess Beatrice, are
unmarried. Altogether, Queen Victoria
has thirty-two children and grand
children living, which constitutes very
resnectahla family. even for Queen.
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THE progress of Cathoicity in Great
Britain during the last hundred years
has been marvellous. In 1765 there
were but go, 900 Catholics in the island
of England and Scotland. In 1845 they
numbered 1880, 900, and the increase
since has been rapid and surprising.
There are in England to-day, according
to authentic statistics, 1,453 Catholic
churches, and 1893 priests. Thirty
three members of the House of Lords
are Catholics; and thirty-seven sit in
the Commons, while six are in the
Queens Privy Council.
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DURING recent freshet in Connecti-
cut, one editor telegraphed to another at
the scene of action "Send me full par
ticulars of the food" The answer
came, % You'll find them in Genesis. :"
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RAPID CURE FoR rAPEWoRM.

RAPID CURE FOR TAPEW0RM.
Mention is made in the Druggists
Circular of the mode of treatment
adopted by A. J. Schafsh, of Washing
ton, in expe11ing the tapeworm. He
employed no preliminary provisions be-
yond forbidding the patient to take any
breakfast the day on which it was in
tended to remove the worm and giving
him large dose of Rochelle salts the
preceding night. at 10 o'clock in the
morning he had the following at one
dose Recipe = bark of pomegranate
root, one half ounce pumpkin seed,
one-half drachm ethereal extract of
male fern, one drachm powdered err
pot one-half drachm powdered gum
Arabic. two drachms !; croton oil, two
drops. The pomegranate bark and
pumpkin seed were thoroughly bruised,
and. with the ergot boiled eight ounces
of water for fifteen minutes, then strain
ed through a coarse cloth. The croton
oil was first well rubbed up with the
acacia and extract of male fern and then
formed into an emulsion with the de-
coctiop. In each case the worm was
expelled alive and entire within two
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LNDIANA MAJORITIES.
The following are the majorities in
Indiana from 1860 to 1874, inclusive

The following is the way the delega-
tions stand in the Congresses, from the
Thirty-sixth to the Forty-fourth, in
elusive:
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WOULDN'T MARRY TWO.

A Utah teamster s ays: 81 neve
tried to get married but once, and tba
was a Mormon gal up here to Logan.
She was just about the slickest little
critter ever you saw. Fust time I
came across her was where ner folks
and campcd out right about here. I
followed on her trail pretty close six
months, and thought Twas going to trap
her sure. She wanted me to be Nor
mon. I wasn't pertickler about that,
for I didn't like to iine any church. I
never did belong to any church nor an
engine company in the States. Howev-
er, told her finally, as she crowded
me, that I'd swallow Brigham, taberna-
Gle and ali, for the love of her. Sc we
got things about fixed, and if she hadn't
gone too far 1 might have been bishop
by this time. But she had an old maid
sister, and she wanted me to marry that
Susan Jane, too-that darned, dried-up
old Susan Jane Emmy says I, 'I
can't and won't So I sot my foot
down, and there's where we split. You
see, the old man was kind of sickly, and
just as sure as I'd agree to take Susan
Jane, when he died, I would have had
to marry the old woman, too. I haven't
hunted after a wife since"
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WHERE FIGS ARE RAISED IN THIS
COUNTRY.

There are some twenty-five varieties
of the fig known TO the Southern States,
of different sizes, and in color white,
green, purple, brown and black all of
which doubtless originated from the
seeds and cuttings of foreign varieties
imported from France, SPAN or Italy.
They have gradually become.acclimate
in the State of Tennessee, and Northern
Alabama, and the harder kinds have
been grown successfully as far north as
st. Louis, No., and Chillicothe, Ohio
a Mr.. Worthington, of the latter town,
having been successful in growing and
marketing them in that place.
Indeed, in that northern latitude it is
necessary to provide winter protection
for them, which is generally done by
cutting the roots entirely off on one side
and bending the tree over and covering
with earth. When all danger of freez-
ing is past, the tree is righted to its
original position, and firmly secured to
stout stale.
In Louisiana and the neighboring
States all the harder varieties will sue
ceed without any protection.
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AS EVERY thread of gold is valuable,
SO is every minute of time.