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and the passages attempted, and
rivers, however deep and rapid,
are forded, impediments in the
water being as boldly faced as those on
shore. They have been known to pass over
boat and TO climb on TO the deck of a
ship, passing without stop or stay into
the water on the further side. Their nat
ural instincts are not in allegiance during
this migration, as females are frequently
seen accompanied by their young, and
carrying in their teeth some one which
had succumbed to the fatigues of the
march, which might not be stayed until the
helpless one was recruited. Foxes, lynxes,
weasels, kites, owls, etc, hover on their
line of march and destroy them in hun
dreds. The fish in the rivers and lakes
lay heavy toll upon them, and vast
numbers are drowned, and die by other
accidents in "flood and field;" but the
survivors, impelled by some irresistible
instinct, press onward with no thought OF
stopping, until they lose themselves in the
sea, sinking in its depth as they become
exhausted, in such numbers that for miles
their bodies, thrown up by the tide, lie
putrefying on the shore. Comparatively
| few ever return to their native haunts
but there can be no doubt that some dc
so, as they have been seen on the return
pursuing their backward journey in thu
same fearless and determined manner a
their advance.-7emple Bar.
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Artemus Ward.


THE following souvenirs of Artemus
Ward occur in an American paper pub
lished in Paris. Mr.. Howard Paul is re-
sponsible for the anecdotes:
Ward (says Mr., Paul. was a delightful
companion, and when not oppressed by
illness or fatigued with work, was as gay
and animated as boy. Though of deli
cate and sensitive organization, he had a
wonderful flow of animal spirits that de-
veloped in all sorts of whimsical freaks.
He related stories of his Western expert.
ences as a Snowman" in dry, solemn
manner that convulsed his hearers, and
when out and about with his companions
he rarely opened his lips without uttering
a quaint figure Of speech or droll exag.
geration of phrase. Now and then, when
the humoT took him, he would pun as
madly as the redoubtable Ii. j. Byron
himself (that wag that's braved a thousand
ears. But it was his droll turns of
thought, funny fancies, and grotesque
Yankee Celebrations that afforded the
greatest pleasure. l was breakfasting
with him one morning at not particu-
laTly clean quasiFTench Leicester Square
restaurant, and he observed a hair in the
butter. "Waiter" he called. "Yes'r."
"Have you any bald butter?" The waiter
looked puzzled. "Any what, sirT "Do
me the favor to gaze upon that butter. Do
you perceive anythingY" demanded Arte-
mus. "Oh, beg pardon, sir; / do see
yes, sir--a hair, sir" "Now you under
stand me, perhapsg" "Ah, yes, sir-bald
butter-yes, sir, but never heard it called
like that before" and off shuffled the
waiter smOthering a smile.
A knot of men came out of the Savage
Club one evening after one of the Saturday
dinners, and at the door stood a good
specimen of weather. beaten, red.faced
old London cabman, attired in one of
those wonderful triple-caped overcoats
that are fast disappearing from the metro
politan ranks. Artemus was struck with
the old fellows garb, and as he mounted
his box called out, "Cabby, hi come
down, want YOU" He did as requested.
"Cabby," continued Artemus, with a
twinkle of his eye, "you are the very man
| wish TO see. I've been dining here with
some literary and artistic swells, and they
can't enlighten me, and / feel you CAM
The old Jarvey looked inquiringly. "Now,
would you be good enough to tell me the
difference between cOnvergence and DIVER
gencep The old man puckered up his
lips, scratched his head, and, with the
broadest of grins, replied; "Well, sir,
you're a stranger to me, but should say
there's a good deal TO be said ON both
sides" "Goodr shouted Artemus
"That's what l call the retort cautious
All right-now drive u.s." Three Of us
entered the cab. "Any particular placer
the man asked. "Ohl hal land pretend
ing to confer with us for an instant, which
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Waking-Up Smith.

THE band had scarcely departed for
some other haunt of slumber and weari-
ness, when the notes of singing foated up
that prolific alley, like the sweet tenor
voice of one bewailing the prohibitory
movement; and for an hour or more a
succession of young bacchanals, who were
evidently about in search of the Maine
law, lifted up their voices in song. Bos-
ton seems to be full of good singers; but
they will ruin their voices by this night
exercise, and so the city will cease to be
attractive to travellers who would like to
sleep there. But this entertainment did
not last the night out. 1t stopped just be-
fore the hotel porter began to come around
to rouse the travellers who had said the
night before that they wanted to be awak-
ened. In all well regulated hotels this
process begins at two O'Clock and keeps
up till seven. If the porter is at all faith
full he wakes up everybody in the house
if he is a shirk, he only rouses the wrong
people. We treated the pounding of the
porter on our door with silent contempt.
At the next door he had better luck
Pound, pound. An angry voice, 'What
do you want?'
"Time to take the train, SIR"
"Not going to take any train"
"Ain't your name Smith"
eyes"
"Well, Smith"
"I left no order to be called" Qndis.
tinct grumbling from Smiths room).
Porter is heard shuffling slowly of
down the passage. In little while he
returns to Smiths door, evidently not
satisfied in his mind. Rap, rap, rapl
"Well, what now?"
whats your initials?"
"a. T.; clear outl"
And the porter shambles away again in
his slippers, grumbling something about
a mistake The idea of waking a man
up in the middle of the night to ask him
his "initials," was ridiculous enough tC
Danish sleep for another hour. A person
named Smith, when he travels, should
leave his initials outside the door with his
boots.-Charles Dudley Warner.
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Cellars for POultry-Spring Chickens.

/ have experienced the advantages of
cellar roosts, but never knew one to
answer any good purpose unless the fowls
could go out at pleasure; and one would
be of no use for little chickens where a
flock of old poultry roasted or had access.
My family have aised chickens, Matched
the beginning of February, easily, with
out housing them at all, using no artif-
cial means excepting coops about two
feet square, and with a front board to
shut up and cause darkness, to make the
hens nurse in cold spells. | have raised
lots of spring chickens Matched in Febru-
ary, and raised them without difficulty,
and there are people alive now who recOl-
lect the division of them in the latter end of
April, when they were as large as pigeons.
These were kept on bank facing the
south in coOps without buttons, and about
fourteen broods averaged ten to hen.
Again, only last year, Mr. Sinclair repeat
edly noticed over hundred my children
had in February, near to Baltimore; and
they had not close coops for them, merely
some common things of their own max
ing, and in snowy weather they picked
them up and put them in flour barrels till
the storm was over-On one occasion
keeping them in this way two days, feed
ing by laying the barrel down just while
they ate, and then putting them upright
and covering with a sack. A great fuss
is made about raising spring chickens
when it is so easy that really believe
there are less losses than in summer rails
ing, though of course there is much more
attention required; but more need not be
said, as 1 can only prove what has been
done, but would enter into an undertaking
with a responsible party to raise ten
thousand, all hatched in February-OOr
Country Gentleman
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DIR. WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR
BITTERs.-Business men, worn by care
and sedentary habits, often suffer from
constipation of the bowels, until the evil
consequences of such condition are real.
lied in extreme debility, nervousness and
prostration of the vital energies of the sys-
tenn. And 1t may be safely asserted that a
majority of the female sex are little better
than invalids, from the same cause; but
by using DR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs,
this natural aperient and tonic brings back
the vigor and buoyancy of health, happi-
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to sound health and sound life. No chron-
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A Curious Fact in Natural History.

THE Lemming multiplies so rapidly
that in the course of ten or twelve seasons
food becomes scarce, and on the approach
of some winter when the food question
has become one of life or DEATH the over
stocked marked is relieved by an expe-
dient unparalleled in its nature among
four-footed animals. This singular little
creature is so local in its habits, that, un-
less under the circumstances we are
about To narFate il cvcrleaves the noun
tain regions to establish itselfon the plains,
where food is more abundant. The in
human suggestion of a modern writer
that our paupers should be packed into
rotten ships, which should be sent out to
sea and scuttled Isl something like the
method adopted by the Jennings them
selves, to avert the famines which threat
ems to annihilate the entire species.
When the time for the settlement of the
question of partial determination by star
vation can no longer be delayed, they
assemble in countless thousands in some
of the mountain valleys leading
into the plains, and the vast army of mar
tyrs being selected, they pour across the
country in a straight line, living stream,
often exceeding a mile in length and
many yards in breadth, devouring every
green Thing in their line of march; the
country over which they have passed
looking as il it had been plowed or burn
ed with fire. They march principally by
night and in the morning, resting during
the day, but never seek to settle in any
particular locality however abundant
food may be in it, for their final destina-
tiOn is the distant sea- and nothing ami
mate or inanimate. if 1t can be surmount-
ed, retards the straight, onward tide
their advance When the reindeer gets
enYeloped in the living stream, they will
not even go round its limbs, but bite its
legs until, in its agony and terror, it
plunges madly about, crushing them to
death in hundreds, and even killing them
with its teeth. If man attempts to stem
the living torrent, they leap upon his legs;
and if he lay about him with a stick, they
seize il with their teeth, and hold on to 1t
with such determined pertinacity that he
may swing it rapidly round his head with
out compelling them to loosen their hold,
If corn or hay rick be in the way, they
eat their way through IL; and on arriving
at the smooth face of rock, they pass
round It, forming up in close column
again on the other side. Lakes,
however broad, are boldly entered,
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A Female Spree.

A HAMILTON man, who fell few years
ago into dissolute habits, and passed most
of his time in lounging about bar-roOms
while his family suffered for the neces-
saries of life, was startled not long ago
by the entrance of his wife into saloon
on Basin street, where he sat playing
cards with party of boon companions.
The woman took no notice of her hus-
band, but boldly walked up to the counter
and called for glass of beer. Turning
to the crowd, she said, Come, gentlemen,
and have drink with mel If beer is
good for men it certainly ought to be for
women" and though the crowd was
little startled, as representative bummers,
none of them, except the husband, were
unprepared to accept the invitation. The
drink was disposed OF, when he lady or
dered a second for the crowd, but made
a wry face as she struggled to get
through with it. Setting her halfemptied
believe | like beer; what else have
you got?" The woman who off1ci.
ated at the bar enumerated the vari-
cites. 81 believe I'll try Tom and
jerry" was the answer, and the
crowd willingly helped her to dispose of
round of that also, her husband mean
while, smiling, desperately, sickly
smile, with an effort to show that ne
thought the affair good joke. Takingia
seat, then, at one of the dirty tables, she
sat down and said: Gentlemen, I've got
some money here that ! have no other use
for, let's play game of seven up, at two
dollars game?" And somebody played
with and at the same time instructed her
in the game, and she lost of course, but
"manfully" paid every time, and as often
treated the crowd as she lost. Finally, as
her utterance became thick, and her head
rolled to one side, and her conversation
grew maudlin, her husband was able to
stand it no longer He arose from his
seat and induced her to accompany him
home, and arm in arm they started. What
ever of good the lesson may continue to
work, it has certainly affected something
toward his reclamation, for he has not
been seen in any bar room in Hamilton
since. e.-Cincinndti G0zette.
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he did with inimitable by.play) drive to
the Boundless Prairie" "Where is that,
sirP" "Whati A London cabman, and
don't know the Boundless PrairieW "Is
Il public houseY" by the way" laugh
ed Artemus, soto Voce, to his companions,
"that wouldn't make bad sign for a pub.
lie house. If ever give up the quill and
turn licensed victualer, that shall be the
name of my establishment" Then turn
ing to the cabman he resumed-"So you
don't know the Boundless Prairie 2" "No,
sir" "Well, then, we'll alter our minds.
Drive to the Alhambra, instead" And to
the Alhambra we went, and passed, !
need hardly say, jolly evening, for Arte
mus was in high spirits, and overhowing
with whimsical conceits
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THE LITTLE CoRPoRAL-The number
for January contains the usual variety OF choice
literary matter, comprising stories poems, etc.
'The Lucky-stone," is the title Of new serial
story, by the editor Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller,
just begun in this number, and which promises to
be very attractive and interesting. life on an
Island" by Helen @. Weeks, is continued. A
beautiful chrome is given free 10 every subscriber
to this youths magazine, the subscription price OF
which is only Sl.5O year. Single number fifteen
cents. Address JOHN t. MILLER, Publisher, Chit
cagO, Ill,
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MatrImOny.

All young men and most young women
have an interest in this subject, as 1t is con-
dilion in life to which all look forward and
hope to attain at some future period, and II
the young man has any prudence he will not
assume the responsibilities OF married life
until he can make some provision for the sup
port of those dependent upon him, should he
be called away by an early death. In the great
majority of cases this provision can be secured
by means Of a life insurance policy that will
cost but small sum annually, and yet pro-
vide all the security that can be desired. One
of the most reliable of these companies is the
of Philadelphia, through which life policies
may be obtained, or agencies secured, by ap-
pllcation to the home Office or TO Jas. w.
iredel, Jr., Supt. of Agencies, 7S West sd
street, Cincinnati, o.
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NEW YORK, 1874. WEEKLY, sEMIwEEKLY, AND DAILY

widely known require extended recommenda
thousands briefly follows:
It's first rate the OF the day will be found IN IT, con-
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kind containing nothing the delicate
carefully selected and legiby printed
agricultural topics regularly in this department.
mento
ladies' the especially
marke which IL particular attention
Published One dollar
dollar Will
Columns Only s1'OO year. discounts
rom
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ddress,I City
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Browns Bronchial Troches for Coughs
and Colds.

COUdht OOLD Ots bOIsE AhINOhA
Requires immediate attention, and should be Check
ed. II allowed to continue, IRRITATION OF THE
LUNGS, A PERMANENT THROAT AFFECTION, Oh AN
McuRABLK LUNG DISEASE is often the result.
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs,
Having direct influence on the parts, give immedi'
ate relief For BRoNoHITIs ASTHMA, CATARRH,
CoNsUMPTIvE AND THROAT DISEASES, TRooHEs are
used t0ih altcavs good success.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
WIN hnd TRooHEs useful in clearing the voice when
taken before Singing or Speaking and relieving the
throat after unusual exeron of the vocal organs
Obtain only "BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs," and
do not take any OF the worthless limitations that may
be offered. Sold EOerVDhere.
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the whole category of diseases to which hui
manity is susceptible, the cough is most neg
lected in its early stage. A simple cough Is
generally regarded as a temporary affection
unpleasant and nothing more, but TO those
who have paid dearly for experience, 1t is the
signal for attack for the most fearful OF all
diseases--C Consumption A cough will lead to
consumption-if not checked-so sure as the
rivulet leads to the river, yet II is an easy enc
my TO thwart, II met by the proper remedy.
Aliens Lung Balsdnl is the great cough rene.
dy of the age, and 1t has earned its reputation
by merit alone Sold by all good druggists.
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THERE is, probably, no way in which we
can benefit our readers more than by recon-
mending to them for general use JohnSon's 8
Anodyre Lininleat. 1t is adapted to almost all
the purposes of Family Medicine; and, as n
specific for coughs, colds, whooping cough,
soreness of the chest, lame stomach, rheuma-
tism, splitting Of blood, and all lung diliicul.
ties, 1t has no equal that we ever saw or heard
Of
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A FEW figures will sometimes make
thorough work with newspaper sensa-
tion. One of the essayists at the recent
meeting of the Public Health Associa-
tion said that during the war there was
rumor that Southern emissaries intended
TO poison the drinking water of the city.
He made little calculation of the matter,
and found that to poison the water sup
ply of the city for single day would re-
quire ia tons of arsenic, OF three and a
half tons of strychnine, of which there
was, probably not a ton in the whole
world.
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An ARTICLE OF TRUE MERIT" Brolcn'S
Bronchial Tr'oches" are the most Popular Arti-
Gle in this Country or Europe, for Throat Dis
eases and Coughs, and this popularity is based
upon real merit.
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The propriety of giving condition medicine
to horses, cattle and sheep, was discussed and
admitted by many Of the Agricultural Societies
throughout the State last fall, and we believe
vor Of Sheriddn's CdydlJy Condition POloders.
Good Judgment
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No one should fail to subscribe for good
metropolitan weekly and we know Of none
better than the New YORK WEEKLY Sun. 1t
is a large cightpage journal of the So size. 1t
is sold at the bare cost of manufacture. Read
the prospectus and save money by subscribing
for THE Sun. Only 81 year.
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An editor, who has been keeping a
record of big beets, announces at last that
"the beet that beat the beet that beat the
other beet is now beaten by a beet that
beats all the beets, whether the original
beet, the beet that beat the beet, or the
beet that beat the beet that beat the beet"
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THE Elmwood and Warwick collars
are unsurpassed for quality of stock,
neatness of fit and beauty of style.
This is acknowledged by all that wear
them
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SAMPLES FREE.-The Saturday Euening
Post, 3l9 Walnut St, Philadelphia, gives a
beautiful Chrome or large Steel Engraving
to every yearly subscriber. Samples free.
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BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDICINES. SaiVoTdi
LUeT InUigOrdtOF-a purely Vegetable Cdthdrto ant
1onic-for Dyspepsia, Constipation, Debility, sick
Headache Bilious Attacks, and all derangements OF
Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask your Druggist fol
1t. Bel0dre Of limitations.
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Years Experience Of an Odd

Thirty Years Experience OF an Odd
Nurse.
Mrs. wINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip-
lion of of the best Female Physicians and Nurses
in the United States, and has been used for thirty
years with neyorfailing safety and by mill.
ions Of mothers and children from the feeble infant
of week old to the adult 1t correcs acidity Of
the stomach relieves wind colic regulates the bow
els aud gives rest neaItn, ana comfort mUtner
child We believe it to be the Best and surest Rene
dy In the World in all cases of DYsENTERY and
DIARRHGA IN CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
Teething or from any other cause. Full directions
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the ac.silnile Of CURTIS & PERKINS Is on
the outside wrapper.
SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DKALxRs.
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For Sale bY an Medicine Dealers.

DIR. j. Walkers California Vim
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
mia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERsp Our answer is, that they remove
the cause Of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as q Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver and Visceral Organs, m Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKER's
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter Irritant, Sudoritic, Altera-
tive. and Anti-Bilious.
II. II. MCDONALD & CO,
Druggists and Gen. Agts, San Francisco, California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts, n. Y.
Sold by MI Druggists and Dealers.
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Very truly yours,
GEO. r. WITHIN

Mrs. E. r. DAILY, Metropolis, ILL.,, writes,
January O., 1873:
"Dr. r. V. PIERCE: My sister is using the
Favorite Prescription with great benefit"
MARY ANN FRIsBIE, Lehman, Pa, writes,
May 20, 1872:
"Dr. r. v. PIERCE What have taken Of
your medicine has been of more benefit to
me than all others and hundreds Of doctors
hilla ~
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WHEN a bit of ostrich feather is found
by wife in her husbands beard no one
can blame her for being down ON him.