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Some French DueIs.

The list of fatal duels is unhappily
capable of indefinite extension but
there is almost as much material in the
more agreeable enumeration of disputes
that have had a comic termination. One
of the funniest was that in which Sainte
Beuve was engaged. 1t began to rain
slightly after he had taken up his posi-
ton, whereupon he coolly held his UNI
berella over his head with his left hand
while holding the pistol in his right.
The expostulations of his witnesses had
no effect upon him. cit is all very well
to be killed" said the famous ~essayist,
''but I object to catching a cold in my
head" There is a droll story about
Perpignan, a literary Bohemian, having
an encounter with Charles Maurice at
five PAGES. The former having fired,
and having contrived to miss, the other
taking a deliberate aim, said to his an
tagonist "Well, now, before I send
you into the other world, tell me what
you are thinking Of" "Im thinking
that, if I were in your place, I would
not fire" said Perpignan !; and he owed
his life to his presence of mind. Then
there are several stories connected with
M. Theirs duels, from all of which the
future president of the republic came
out scatheless. There is a much-quoted
anecdote of an encounter between a dra-
matte author and his critic, the latter
being a frst-rate shot. After the author
had fred and missed, the journalist
aimed accurately at his adversary's hat,
and pierced it with the utmost precision;
whereupou the dramatist few into a vi
client passion, protested that it was I'M
fair, and exclaimed eff you had told
me what you were going to do, I would
have put on an old hat" Two other lit
erary men, who shall be nameless, were
such iuvalids that they had to fight sit
ting in arm-chairs, and they were such
good shots-that they both missed.
Pistols are supposed to be o danger
GUS than swords, and they have the dis
advantage of being sometimes more ia
tai to the bystanders han to the COM
batants. An actor who carefully missed
his Antagonist contrived to kill an in
offensive notary-inoffensive for the mo-
ment, at least-who was taking a quiet
walk in the Bots de Boulogue; and an
other duelist shot stone dead one of his
adversary's seconds, who was stopping
to pick up his cane.-PGriS Letter.
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OVerwork.

A great amount of very pernacious
twaddle has lately been published on
the subject of the alleged oyerwork in
which many of the greatest, and posi-
bly, some of the least, men of the pres
ent generation indulge, in the pursuit
either of wealth and fame or a high So
cial position. The tendency of these
publications has been to unpopularize
and discourage labor, and to exalt the
doctrine that the true duty of a man to
himself in these days is to do as little
as he can for the largest possible re-
ward. Such teaching is highly mische-
viOus, and if generally practiced, would
speedily send The world back again into
the barbarism from which it is not too
rapidly emerging.
Work is divine. Without work, hui
man life would be intolerable, and a
man would be little better than a
sponge, an oyster, or a limpet on a rock,
which only exist to imbibe the nourish-
ment that they are too imbecile or too
powerless to seek. But like all the
abundant blessings spread around man.
kind, work is only beautiful and good
in its degree. It must be used and not
abused. Too much of anything is not
good for us. Vice itself is but virtue
degenerated and dissipated by being
forced into extremes. Ferocity is moth
ing but excess of courage. Extravaganza
is but excess of liberality. Penurious-
ness is but excess of prudence. An
archy is but over-much liberty. Cow
ardice is but excess of caution and the
inordinate desire of self-preservatio On.
jealousy springs from the excess of
love. Rashness is but another name
for bravery, and ~stagnation is but rest
when carried to the ne plus ultra of its
possibility. In like manner, work, if
not carried beyond the point at which
all the functions of mind and body are
exercised without undue strain upon
either, is one of the greatest, if not the
very greatest, of all the blessings that
are showered upon the human race.
There is far too great a predisposition
in all countries to look upon labor as
something inflicted upon man as a curse
for his disobedience, TO interpret liber-
atty, and not according to the spirit,
the penalty laid upon Adam, and to take
advantage of the misinterpretation to
shirk labor altogether or to impose it
unduly upon the weaker. This doctrine
requires not only encouragement, but
disproof; for the inevitable results
of its adoption would be either
to reduce men to the state
of savages. when the only Ia
Dor undertaken would be that of the
chase of wild animals or the capture of
birds and fish to provide food for the
sustenance of life, or the establishment
of slavery, when none but slaves would
work upon the compuision of their lords
and masters. BIT work, looked upon
advantage eye of reason, is the choicest
motive-power that Rgsrlstate state, the only
but the solar system and all fReTo men,
less olbs of the boundless universe of
God, in a condition of healthy and pro-
gressive pertuity.-THe South.
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Supplies of Breadstuff in Europe.

The more recent repoarts from
various European countries confirm
what we have before said regarding the
short supply of breadstuffs in Europe.
In no country has the crop of wheat
been up to the average, and in England
France, Sweden, ETC., the deficiency
will be greater than usual, while in
those countries, where a large surplus
was looked for, there is either no surr-
lus at all or it is much reduced. France
and Spain have drawn largely upon AL
geria, which is a fine country for GER
calls, but the supply there will not be
sufficient for the demand. England
Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and
Austria-Hungary must draw their sup
plies from the Danubian Principalities
and Russia, which have little surplus
tde r6raw upon, and their only Deepen
ately California on America. Forum
our northwestern Stiafgge surplus. and
large amount, but the indications 9als
that u surplus supply will be exhaus-
ted before next harvest. Cincinnati
Price Current.
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Let tn. People spsak.
MANHArrAN. Kan, April s, 1878.

MANHATTAN, ksn.s April =, 1878.
R. Y. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y;
Dear Sir-Your favorite prescription has
done my wife 3 world OF good. She has taken
nearly two bottles and has felt better the past
two weeks than Mt any time in thep past two
years. No more periodicalpains; none of that
aching back or dragging sensation in her
stomach she has been accustomed to for seve-
raj years. I have so much confidence in it
that I would be perfectly willing to warrant to
certain customers of ours who would be glad
to get hold of relief at any expense. i have
tried many patent medicines, but never had
any occasion to extol one before.
Very truly yours,
GEo. B. WHITING.
Mrs. E. R. DAILY, Metropolis, III, writes, Jan.
9th, 1873:
"Dr. r. Y. Pierce-My sister is using the
favorite prescription with great benefit"
MARY N FRIsBIE, Lehman, Pa, writes, May
90, 1872:
"Dr. r. Y. Pierce What I have taken Of
your medicine has been of moro benefit to me
than all others and hundreds Of doctors bills"
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CINCINNATI FITS.

Flour-quiet and unchanged. Wheat scarce
and firm at $1.46@1.48. Corn in fair demand
and market firm. New ear at 4@57c shelled
at $4,000. Rye-market firm at Csc. Oats
demand fair and market firm at 43@52c. Pork
quiet at $15. Lard quiet. Sale of steam at
Sc; kettle held at SIC. Bulk meats quiet.
Shoulders held at SIC; sales of clear rib at
&c; clear hold at 7Ic. Bacon very scarce.
Sales of clear rib at SIC, to come out of next
week; shoulders and clear nominally at TO
SIC. Green meats quiet nominal1y. Shoulders,
SIC; clear rib, exc; clear, 5%@6Tc. Hams,
S@9c. Whisky firm at 500.
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ORLEANs

Flour scarce and in good export and local
demand Xxx, $6.25: xxx, $6.50@7.00 fam
yellow, 73c. Oats, 53KG5Sc. Bran, soc. Hay
quiet. Prime, $4,000; choice, $4,000. Pork
dull at $15.24. Dry salt meats steady at $50
8@815c. Observation-Disclosures rib scarce
at Sc; clear, 919c. Old hams dull at loo new,
1870: Lard firm. Tierce. 81@8%c; key,
9L@9%c. Sugar in fair demand. Inferior,
1896; common, 5000; fair to fully fair, To
7$4c; prime to choice, $50. Molasses active
and fair. Common, 46 prime, $4,000 strict
~ prime, 61@63; prime fermenting, 54@56c.
Whisky-no Cincinnati here. Louisiana scarce
at SO ordinary western. 921Sc. Coffee firm.
Ordinary to prime. 21M@27c.
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LOUISVILLE

Flour-good demand lower grades : ad-
vanced. Extra family, $6.25@7.0O. Wheat
firm at $1.4601.54. Corn firm, demand good.
New shelled in bulk, SIC. Bulk meats steady
and. in moderate demand. Shoulders, $40
&c; clear rib, 7H@7Ic; clear, 7%@7K hams,
1Oc. Bacon steady. Clear rib, 83S@S3c S
P shoulders, Sc hams in pickle, 12L@19c.
Mess pork dull at $15.OO@15.5 so for prime mess;
rump, $12. Lard steady. Leaf, tierce, go
101c; key, 10@1O4c; prime steam, SIC.
Whisky. 92hO93c.
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CHAPrED HANDS face, rough skin, plmplea
salt-rheum, and other c~utaneous
affections cured, and the skin made soft And
smooth, by using the JUNRxR Tan Soar, maae
by CAsGELL, HAZARD d 90, New York. -
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made hv
us, as there are many limitations made with
common tar which are wor.hlesa.-ComA
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ETS.

Flour quiet and unchanged. Extra spring,
$5.25@5.75. Wheat quiet and lower. No. l
spring, $1.16 No. 2 spring, $1.132lc; Nc. 8
spring, $1.08@I.10. Corn dull and prices de-
prices declined. No. 2, $50, cash. Rye-mar-
ket steady. No.. 2, T@7Sc. B~arIey-market
steady. No. 2, $1.39 Dressed hogs steady at
$50. Pork opened firm but closed dull and
easier; 1890 on spot. Shoulders quoted at
5@51c; short rib middles, 6H@6%c: short
clear middles, 6T@7c; all loose. Whisky
quiet, weak and lower at 94c. Alcohol sold at
81 delivered in New York.
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ST. LOUIS MARK cts

Flour-Demand good at full price low and
medium grades scarce and wanted. Wheat
Spring firmer. No. 2 spring, $1:20@1.21 win
mixed, SIC on east track; old No. 2, mixed,
55L@5619c in elevators. Oats-Demand light,
but holders firm. No. 2, 4Oc. Barley-Mar-
ket firm. No. 2. $1.35@1.45. Rye-East track,
80. Whisky higher, 95. Pork quiet. Jobbing
and order lots, $14.50@14.75. Dry salt-Buy-
ers and sellers apart no movement in round
lots; fair order trade. Loose bulk sides, clear
rib &c; clear, TOTO; inside price for coun-
try pork-house, packed lots, 5Ac, TIC, S1Sc.
Lard nominally lower at SIC. Hogs lower at
81. 50@5.00. Bulk sales at $4.75@4.90. Cattle
6rro
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THE
NEW YORK GENERAL mARKEr.

Flour quiet. Superine Western and State,
$5.6O@6.00. White wheat, extra, S7.4O@s.O0 ;
extra Ohio, S6.55@s.25; st. Lonis, $4,000
HOO. Whisky lower at 97Ic. Wheat dull
and lower. No. 2 spring, s1.56@1.57 Nos. 1
Barley shade frmer. Western, Las. Corn
quiet. Western mixed, store SIC; Western
mixed and yellow afioat, s2L@S4<d; new
mixed Western afoat, 75@S1Lc. Oats heavy
and lower. Mixed Western, 55@5Sc. Coffee,
Pork higher. New mess, 1910; prime mess,
1Sc; new mess March, 15@16Ie. Lard frmer.
Prime steam, SIC; January, 8Nc; February,
834c; March, 9@9 3-16c April 81.
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To THE SUFFERING.-An old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by Dr.. Walker,
of California, of his medicine. 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 one 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 infirm old age,
as on the vigorous and athletic system /;
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 vigor to mind and
body.
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The Castor-Bean in America.

There has been a medium crop of cas-
tor beans in the west this year, which
has just been harvested and brought to
market. This industry is getting firmly
grounded in that section, and some
farmers make a speciality of raising the
beans, which are such a standard article
as to make the investment generally re-
munerative. The credit of originating
the idea of raising castor-beans in the
west belongs to a German, who, about
twenty years ago, induced many farm
ers in Missouri and the neighboring
states to embark in the business, ar
ranging to buy all their product and
make the oil. Before that time all the
beans used in this country were i'm
ported from the East Indies. The new
business was a thriving one for a few
years but at last the German manufac-
turer, not content with moderate profits
squeezed the farmers to such an extent,
by refusing to pay them decent prices
for their beans, as to drive them all
from the business, and for a long period
all the castor-beans used here were
again brought by the East Indiamen.
A few years ago several farmers in Kan
and Missouri again went into the
business, and are now doing we'll at it.
There are thtee OF four factories in st.
Louis and Chicago for crushing the
beans.
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FoR throat diseases and affections Of
the chest, Browns Bronchial Troches are of
value. For coughs, irritation of the throat
caused by cold, or unusual exertion Of the vo-
cal organs, in speaking in public, or singing,
they produce beneficial results.
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Making Good Pork.

There are many families that raise
their own pork yet what a miserable
article do we to often fnd-fabby,
greasy, running to oil when cooked,
and frequently rank, sometimes hint
ing of the sty, and sometimes of worse
things. Now and then you meet with
sweet, white, solid pork, that will bear
frying, and is perfect cooked in any way,
reminding you of Elias inimitable roast
pig cracking. And such pork is healthy
as we'll as relishing. Besides, it costs
no more to make than the fabby,
wretched, rank stuff.
Why this difference? Why should
we use a poor article when a good may
be had at the same cost? It is because
Peep e are careless and ignorant. Any
breed Cor no breed) that comes into
their possession by trade or otherwise
they use and such feed as they may
have, often refuse, of the poorest, they
give, without regard to cleanliness or
comfort. And thus the n kind of
pork is made, or rather makes itself. A
large use of milk or whey has much the
same effect, making soft, fabby port.
A little of this may be used az a drink,
or part drink. The rest should be,
mainly, grain, and corn at that, old
corn best. The other grains may be
fed as adjuncts, giving variety which,
when well trimed, will promote appetite.
But experience has long ago demonstra-
ted that there is nothing so good as
sound old corn to make solid, sweet
pork, regularly given, never too much
at a feed, if the appetite would be re-
tanned; clean pens, cozy, we'll aired,
warm in cold weather, cool in hot. A
hog though he will wallow in the mire
(for the want of something cleaner to
cool him. has yet a ems of the neat,
and will seek, from choice, a clean
place. He thrives under good treat
ment. Cold hurts him-he will make
it manifest by unmistakable squeals
and activity, and an excess of heat will
make him suffer. These are to be
avoided. Filth in a pen is transferred
to the table in the pork.
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New Orleans sent to Genoa, Italy,
two hundred barrels of whisky, manu-
featured in Louisiana, but consoles her
self with the reflection that it is all
coming back soon in the form of French
brandy.
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Flour quiet and unchanged at $@9.5O. Corn
Market steady at 67@6Sc. Oats dull and
prices dropping at 52@54c. Bulk meats quiet
and unchanged at 5I@7@7Ic. Lard quiet
and unchanged at 9910c.
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The Boston Journal of Chemistry, in
speaking of theheart, gives the following
facts The average weight of this little
piece of mechanism is little over half a
pound, or, to be exact, 9.39 ounces. The
work done by the heart in a given time
exceeds that done by the muscles in a
Is; but this work is ~unceasing during
life, while that of the muscles in a boat
race can beoontinued onlya few minutes.
Helmholtz showed that the heart exerts
force enough to raise its own weight 90
$50 feet in an hour. An active climber
can accomplish only 5000 feet in nine
hours(O, OF one-twentieth of the work
done by the heart, while the best loco
motive can only raise its own weight
{, ZOO feet in the same time.
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The Peoria Review says that a lady
teacher in one of the public schools
was amazed the other day by seeing a
perfect forest of juvenile hands fly up
in the air and shake and gesticulate
with violent agitation. "What do you
want ?" queried the puzzled instructor.
Chorus-" Yer hairs falling off"
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IF YOUR horse is lame. sore or CALLED.
you should use Johnson's Anodyne Eminent
wash the part with CASTLE soap and warm
water, rub dry with q clean cloth, then apply
the I%iniInent, rub in well with the hand.
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"A mob, composed partly of women
in mems dress, having poured kerosene
oil On the house of a Mrs. Stamper of
Mount Sterling, KY, a few nights ago.
set it on fire, and when she came u
shot her dead.
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SAMPLES FRRE.-The SATURDAY. Even-
ing Post, 319 Walnut street, Philadelphia, gives
a beautiful chrome or large steel engraving to
every yearly subscriber. Samples freedom.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09

WANTED-One hundred thousand
men and boys to wear Elmwood and Warwick
collars. Apply to the nearest gents furnishing
store, where you can get q situation by buying
q box.
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HAvE the readers of this paper even
used any of Parsons Purgative Pills? il not,
why not ? they are the best family physic, be-
sides being the greatest ambitious remedy
there is in this country.
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"A single drop of the sesquiuede
chloride of iron, put on a corn between
the toes once a day with a camel's-hair
brush. will effect q marvellous cure.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09

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 tae public for ten years.
Notwithstanding this long period, it
has nev lost one whit of its popular
ity, or shown the least sign of becoming
unpopular, but, on the contrary, the
call for it has been constantly increas-
ing, and at no previous time has the
demand been so great, or the quantity
made been so large, as at this day. We
earnestly recommend it's trial by any
n who may be afflicted with q cough
or cold, and we warrant it to cure if di-
rections are followed. It is sold by all
our druggists.
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Dry paint is removed by dipping a
swab with a handle in a strong solution
Of oxalic acid. 1t softens at once.
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An enraged traveller writing home
from the far west says Descending to
the bar-room, I took my urn at a tin
wash-basin with a cake of yellow soap,
and dried myself on a musty towel hung
on a broom. A boot-iack and a lean dog
laid in the middle of the floor, the
chairs long ago ceased to be quadrupeds,
discomfort is king, and dirt is prime
minister"
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There is one thing which even a
dairyman cannot adulterate, and that is
the milk of human kindness.
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GREEN CURRANTs, BoTTLED.-Cur-
rants are quite an improvement to
g~ooseberries in pies, and alone form a
very nice fruit pie. Strip from the
stems, and allow one pound of sugar to
three of the fruit, and do not fill the
vessel more than two-thirds full. Put
on the back of the stove until the sugar
melts and the juice starts, then set in a
hotter place, and after boiling a few
minutes, fill the jars and seal immedi-
ately do mot remove the kettle from
the stove, but fill one jar at a time, and
seal while boiling hot.
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SKIN DISEASES.

A N (pimples, blackhea7s). symptomA: Hard,
"a small pimple5, with black points, most nu
merous on the CHEEKS, fore cad and nose.
PRURIGO,( intense itching). VIII ch begins when
the clothing Is removed; Increased by the warmth
Of the bed. No eruption except that produced by
scratching.
The above and all skin diseases permanently
$500 per month, Address DH. ]. NJ. VANDYKE,
i1B Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa,