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The Plant-LOuse.

The tiny, green louise (aphis) which is
the universal pest of vegetation, thriv-
ing in some part of the root, stem, or
leaf. Of almost every living plant, is one
of the most extraordinary of insects.
1t is a minute little creature, but makes
up in numbers what it lacks in size. It
makes its appearance with the first leaf
that expands in the spring, and
continues its depredations until
every green thing has persisted in the
autumn. The first broods of the season,
thatare Matched from eggs deposited the
previous fall, consist, without a single
exception, of females. These very soon
give birth to n second BROOD which are
not Matched from eggs, but produced
alive, and are also exclusively composed
of females. Bonnet, n famous natural
ist of the eighteenth century, who made
the aphides special object of study,
observed that each virgin plsnt-louse
brings forth, on an average. about 100
young-becoming the mother of, per-
haps, fifteen or twenty in single day
This remarkable kind of propagation
continues through nine generations.
among which not male aphis is Gre
ated.
Calculating the rate at which the
spinster aphides multiply, we have, at
the end of ten broods, as the progeny
of a single louise, 1000, 900, 600, 600
young. Prof. Huxley says, in COM
menting on this fact 81 will assume
that an aphis weighs the one-thou-
sandth of grain, which is under the
mark. A quintillion will, on this esti-
mate, weigh a quadrillion of grains. He
is very stout man who weighs 2,000,-
600 grains; consequently,the tenth brood
alone, if all the members survive the
perils TO which they are exposed, con-
tains more substance than 500, 900, 600
stout men, to say the least-more than
the whole population of China" This
estimate is based on the supposition
that the entire progeny of the plant
louise survives circumstance which in
reality never occurs. Only a pair or
/ two of plant-lice, out Of the enormous
number produced in the course of gem
eratiOns by each individual of the first
brood, is found at the end of the season
to have survived the vicissitudes to
which they are exposed. The last
brood brought forth in the autumn
comprises both males and females,
which in due time are provided with
wings, and pair. The females then de-
post their eggs, and, with the death
of themselves and their mates, the race
becomes extinct for the season.
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The Capital OF Japan.

The fact that the capital of Japan is
variously spoken of as Jedo, Yedo and
Toxic is explained as follows Formerly
the country had two capital cities,
known to strangers as the spiritual and
temporal seats of government, which
we're respectively the residence of the
Mikado and Tycoon. These were Kio-to
and Yedo, the later known through the
Dutch as Jede, but officially pro-
claimed as Toxic, about seven years
since, when the Mikado abolished the
Tycoonate, and as Tenno, or Emperor
of Japan, centralized the General Gov
eminent, and established his residence
at Toxic, the meaning of which is East
ern Capital.
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with much difficulty. Nothing was
found in the first room but parrot,
which seemed to be delighted to see the
new corners. "Poor Jacques y it said,
"poor Jacques I" Then, on seeing two
or three boys in the crowd, the bird
screamed
bad boys poor Jacques |! Bad boys
poor Jacques -
For a minute or two there was pro-
found silence not stir or whisper
broke the stiffness. The officers then
approached the chamber, the door OF
which was slightly ajar. 1t was pushed
open and eagerly the crowd gazed into
the room. There was the old man
kneeling in front of great iron chest,
his head bent forward, and one hand on
the edge of the box, while the other
grasped an old, brown-looking piece OF
paper.
Then the authorities were sent for, an
investigation made, and 1roces-Uerbal
drawn up, to the effect that the defunct
had come to his death by heart-dis-
ease.
The paper he held was very old doc
ument, and so faded.tha it was scarcely
legible. The deceased had, apparently,
taken it out to examine it; and he had
written down at the close of the will
for such it was-the amount of his prop
erty, and the manner in which twas in.
vested.
The officer who directed the proceed
ings was man far advanced in years.
He had been comrade of jacques in
their boyhood, but had lost sight of him
for many years. There were tears in
the old mans eyes, as he held up the in
strument, and said i'll shrill and brok-
en- voice, to the motley group which had
assembled, My friends and towns
men, here lies the body of man whom
the whole city ridiculed and despised as
heartless miser. The boys hooted at
him in the streets, and pelted him with
dirt and stones. People taught their
very dogs to bark at him as he passed.
The poor upbraided him ; and the rich
pointed the finger of scorn at him as
they rode by in their coaches. Let me
read you his will. ;"
He paused to wipe his spectacles,
and then began in a measured tone
"MARsEILLEs, August /, 1775.
When / was child, fell i'll of a
fever, and during my recovery suffered
intensely from thirst. There had been
severe drought for many months and
the water, always poor i'll quality, was
almost wholly exhausted. At that time
my mother told me that many hun
dreds of the poorer class Suffered in the
same way. She also told he that my
father and many others had lost their
property by fire, chiefly because there
was an insufficient amount of water to
extinguish the flames. For these rea-
sons bequeath all my property of ev-
cry kind, after the payment of my just
debts and of my funeralexpenses, to my
native city of Marseilles, for the pur-
pose of providing waterworks which
shall supply the entire community free
of expense. JACQUES GUYoT.
After slight pause, the officer con-
tiuued:
"This is the original document, and
is much faded. What / shall now read
was apparently written on the day of
his death, and is very brief
AUGUST l, 1925.
"By economy and industry have ac-
quired fortune of more than four mill
ion francs /; and L hereby give and be-
queath the same to the object above
named. JACQUES GUYoT."
Such is the pathetic story of jacques
Guyot, the miser of Marseilles.
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run DOORSTEP.

Thu conference meeting through at last,
We boys around the vestry waited
To see the girls come tripping past,
Ike snow birds willing to he mated.
MOI brayer he that leaps the wall,
By level musket flashes litten,
Than l. who stepped before them all,
Who longed TO see me get the mitten.
ant no. she blushed and took my arm
We let the old folks have the highway,
And started toward the Maple farm,
Along kind of lovers by-way,
can't remember what we said,
Twas nothing worth a song or story;
Yet that rude path by which we sped,
Seemed all transformed and in glory.
The snow was crisp beneath our feet.
The moon was fall, the fields were cleaning,
BY heod and tippet sheltered sweet,
Her face with youth and health was beaming.
The little hand outside her muif-
o. sculptor if you could but mold it
SO lightly touched my jacket cuff,
To keep il warm had to hold it.
To have her with me there alone
Twas love and fear and triumph blended,
AT last we reached the foot-worn stone,
Where rhat delicious journey ended.
The old folks, too, were almost home;
Her dimpled hand the latches fingered.
We heard the voices nearer come,
Yet on the doorstep still we fingered.
She shook her ringlets fl ON her hood,
And with " Thank you, Ned" dissembled
But yet 1 knew she understood
With what daring wish trembled.
A cloud passed kindly overhead,
The moon was slyly peeping through IL,
Yet hid its face, as II IL said,
"Come, now or never, do it, do it,
My lips till then had only known
The kiss of mother and of sister
But somehow there upon her own
Sweet rosy darling mouth-I kissed her
Perhaps twas boyish love, yet STILL
o, listless woman weary lover
To feel once moro that fresh, wild thrill,
I'd giye--but who can live youth over.
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General Notes.


ADVERTISEMENT on eggs are the very
latest.
THE Mississippi is crossed by fifteen
bridges.
sJAAIEs GORDON BENNETT is reputed to
be worth $10,000,000
HARVARD is endeavoring to secure
Huxley as Agassiz's successor.
CRUIKsHANK, the artist, has lived 80
years without SO much as a drink.
FLoGoING is said to be quite common
in young ladies schools in Great Britain.
The days are now more than six hours
longer than the short days of December.
A LADY near Peoria has set out on the
mission to have the name of the United
States changed to Columbia.
TwENTY-NINE years ago last month
Sir John Franklin sailed on his last
voyage of Arctic exploration.
A CUBIC inch of gold is worth S146 /;
q cubic foot, 1852, 2SS; a cubic yard,
$6,S11,776. The quantity of gold now
in existence, estimated to be So, 000,-
600, could not be contained in a cube of
twenty-three feet.
THREE young ladies by the name of
Welsh, whose ages range from 16 to 49,,
have purchased farm eight miles west
of Dallas, Tex, and intend cultivating
it themselves. Not man, old or young,
good or bad looking, is permitted on the
premises.
THE best time to pick out wife is in
housekeeping time. Select one with
her sleeves and skirts pinned up and a
mop-pail in her hand. The kind that
you don't want go visiting and leave
their mothers and the hired women to
do the work.
A STUDENT chloroformed a valuable
dog in Troy, the other day, in order to
relieve the animal from pain while his
ears were being cut off. The operation
worked to charm. The dog did not
even wince-and never will. The dose
of chloroform was too large.
Mr.. n. w. CLARK, the Michigan pis-
ciculturist, placed last November in the
State Matching boxes ], 100000 eggs of
bllC nllibSliSh. PCl CChO VI OnCSt
were Matched. Since March 23 he has
distributed 10000 young whitefish
in l94 lakes and rivers IN Michigan.
A NEVADA man, who was walking with
his brother to attend his wedding, was
astonished by proposition to take the
bride elect off his hands and marry her
IN his stead. With true good nature
he consented, and the prospective
bridegroom and groomsman changed
places to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned.
HODGES, superintendent of tree.
planting for the st. Paul and Pacific
Railway company, reports over 4,O00,-
coo trees planted along the lines of that
company since he commenced work to
the spring OF last year. Less than
per cent have failed, and the rest are
doing we'll. The prairie farmers along
the lines are generally following the
example.
AN Irish mile is ,, $50 yards "a Scotch
mile is 1884 yards; an English or
statute mile, 1,760 yards; German,
1,SO6; Turkish, 1896. An acre is
1910 square yards, or 90 yards, l foot,
81 inches each way. A box II by u!
inches square, and S inches deep, will
contain half a bushel. A box by 81
inches square, and s inches deep, will
contain one peck A box by 8 inches
square, and 4! inches deep, will con-
tain one gallon. A box 7 by 8 inches
square, and inches deep, will contain
half a gallon. A box 4 by inches
square, and 4 inches deep, will contain
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
4 Public BenefactOr.

The gift of James Lick for public
purposes in California is a deed of
benefcence without parallel, and will
prove a source of blessing to greater
number of persons, both at present and
in the future, than any other similar
benefaction on record. The deed which
he has placed on record makes the fol-
lowing distribution of his property, the
gifts being made in gold to the trustees
named in the deed
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THERE have been many biographical
notices of the new Secretary of the
Treasury, but none, think, have men.
toned that he was very seriously
wounded during the late war and was
left on the battlefield Cat Shiloh, ]
think for dead among the dead and
MORALLY wounded. The horror of his
return to life in such scene was
scarcely less painful than his wound.
He was saved almost by miracle. -
Washington Letter.
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MARVELLOUS EFFECT

Mn. II. X. SrEvESs:- Dear Si~-I have uses the
great blood remedy, NEGETINE, and feel IT a duty
% acknowl edgc the great benefit IL has done me.
II the spring Il the year 1862 sick from re
al debility caused by Cverwoik, want Of sleep
and pr per rest. / was very weak ana mucn
emaCtated. l tried many remedies without re-
cetvthg any benefit ON any 81 them. until We =
persuaded to try NkGETINE. Be orc had taken
this one week my improved condition gave me
renewed hope and courage. continued 10 lake it
every day, gaining more strength, uut l was
completely restored To health. TIE effect Of this
remedy, in case Of general dchtlity, IS iuG eed
marvellous. ELIZABETH A. FOLEY
q Webster Street, ChailcstOwn, Mass
May 3, ISL,
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Do not fail to send to w. HI. Stem
nett. General Passenger Agent Chicago
and Northwestern railway, Chicago,
for q little book entitled "The
Northwest Illustrated. 1t will be sent
YOU free. 1t will show you where and
how to spend your summer, and how to
get to "the where"
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AsroNIsH1Na.-Few persons are awar

AsToNIsHING.-Few persons are aware
of the time, talent and expense neces-
sary to develop and perfect an invention.
The new Wheeler & Wilson No. 6 Sew
ing Machine, advertised in our columns,
has already cost that company over
$500, 900, and to bring it well before
the public will require 5000, 900 more.
1t costs as much to design, construct
and introduce perfect sewing machine
as to launch first-class ocean steam
shin
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STANDARD LOTTA BUSTLE.

Has great MAoNIFYISa power used for detecting
Counterfeit Money, Shoddy in Cloth, foreign sub
stances IN the Eye, in Wounds, etc, and 20 exam
IN Metals, hneness OF wood.grain; 20 decipher
writing otherwise illegible, and for the inspection
Double Convex Lens, 10 inches in diameter.
Mounted in leather, and carried in the vest
pocket. Price 60 cents two fer 8 \, free by m all
Agents Wanted. Illustrated Circulars and
terms free. Address NJ l.. BYRN, p. o. Box T. $50
New York. ONCE, No. ~ Nassau-st. State where
you saw this,
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VEGETINTE
PARTIES The Blood and Restores the
Health.
GENERAL DEBILITY.

In this complaint the good effc rs OF the vEGE-
rINH are realized Immediately after common % q
10 take ~, as debility ocUotcs deficiency Of the
hloul. There IS no RENE y hat VII restore he
health from debility like the NEGETINE l. IS
n0urishiuR and stTe Vthcuing, purities the blood,
regula ties the bowels, qutcts the nervous system,
acts directly upon the secretiOus aud arousps the
whole system to action. II has never failed IN
this complaint.
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In addition to these gifts, the deed
provides for the expenditure OF 5000
in monuments to the memory of his
father, mother, grandfather, and sister;
S26, 600 in legacies to various relatives /;
and $25, 900 year for his own support,
or such sums as he may require not to
exceed that amount. With the excep-
ton of these sums, his large property
is devoted entirely to public purposes.
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WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT
W = e 7 I'M =
FOR TEN TIMES IT'S COST.

The great bCne1t re-eived from the use Of
NEGEIlNE induces me 70 give my testimony in
u, favor. believe l. to be not 'uly great value
for restoring he ealth, but "A preventive 4 dis
eases peculiar 20 the sp ing ana summer seasons.
would not be without II for t"H times SIS 81.
EDWIN TILDEN.
Attorney and General Agent tor Massac tu:etts Of
the Craftsmen's life Assurance Company, No. 10
Sears Building, Boston, Mass.
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DIR. r. V. PIERCE, of the Worlds
Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y, whose Family
Medicines have won golden opinions and
achieved worldwide reputation, after patient
study and much experimenting, succeeded IN
perfecting a Compound Extract of Smart
Weed, or Water Pepper, that is destined TO
become az celebrate as his other medicines.
1t owes its efficacy not entirely to the Smart
Weed, which, however. is sovereign reme-
dial agent, but largely to a happy combina-
ton of that herb with Jamaica Ginger and
other vegetable agents. The combination is
such as to make it very pleasant remedy to
take. Taken internally, it cures Diarrhea,
Dysentery Cor Bloody FINK, Summer Com
plant, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Cholera In
fantum, Collie. Cramps and Pain in the
Stomach, breaks up Colds, Cramps, Febrile
and Inhammatory Attacks rheumatism and
Neuralgia. Applied externally, it cures
Sprains and Bruises, Frost Bites, Chilblains,
Felons. Rheumatic Affections, Scalds, Burns,
Cuts, Neuralgia, Pain in Back, Soreness or
Stiffness of Joints, Stings and Bites OF Poison
GUS Insects and Reptiles, Caked Breast or
"Ague in Breast" and Enlarged Glands in
short IL an unexceled Linment for Man and
Beast. 1t is sold by druggists.
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WnHoFT's Tonic is not panacea-is
not cure for everything but is catholicon
for malarious diseases. and day by day adds
fresh laurels to its crown Of glorious success.
Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the shady
banks of our lakes and rivers, are restored to
their healthy and normal secretions. Health
and vigor follow its use, and Chills have taken
their departure from every household where
Wilhoft's Anti Periodic is kept and taken.
Don't fail to try it. WHEELoCK, FISLAY u
Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALI. DRUGGISTS.
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TEXAN LANDs.-In describing the ad-
vantage of Texas to the Eastern far
mer, a cotemporary says Horses sell
at $50 to $25 mules at $15 to $40 cat
tie at SO per head, and sheep at 81 to
81. so. A farmer with 100 acres of land,
who can sell at $50 per acre, and thus
have capital of So, 900, can secure near
ly 1000 acres or choice land for less
than $1,000; to stock it well, nearly
80, 600; Improvements, nearly $1,000.
The land requires little labor, and IN a
few years will realize fortune.
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A PERFECT CURE.

CHAgLEsrowN, June II, 1861
Mr. n II. STEVENS Dear SER This is to certify
that NEGETINE MADE perfect cure 81 M when
my attending physician had pronounced my tase
consumption, and said ] could not survive many
days. MRS LEDSTON, IS Cook street
The facts stated by Mrs. Led ston are personally
known by me, and thew true.
A. d. HAYNES
Yegetine Is Sold by all Druggists.
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A GENTS WANTED-Men or Women s34a
"A week or 500 forfeited. The secret free. Write
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COLUMBUS discovered America but il has
been found that the only economical Shoes
for children are the celebrated SILVER
TIPPED. Never wear out at the toe, and are
worth two pairs without Tips.
All Dealers sell them
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Reeds Temple Of Music, Chic go.
Good secondhand pianos, S125 to $500.
New Rosewood pianos, $500 to $500.
New Square Grand pianos, $3.50 to ti75.
Warranted to please, or money refunded.
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CHAPTER III.

"A dozen years have elapsed since the
9vent recorded in the last chapter.
Jean 6uyot is dead. His son is now
young man of %, and is standing by
tne very bed in the little chamber
WI we first made his acquaintance.
Madame Guyot is lying on the coucb.
ana the old doctor is at jacques side.
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THE NORTHWESTERN HORSE Nail Co. s
50 Finished " Nail is the best in the world.
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Go TO RIVERSIDE Water Cure Hamilton. I
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Cheese Factory Rules.

Dr. L l.. Wight of Wh:testone, Oneida Co.,
n. Y, sends the following Suggestions for
The season of1S74," to all the patrons of his
factory:
L. Mich cows should have free access at
all times to good running water.
2. They should never be heated by being
run, stoned ar dogged.
3. The utmost cleanliness should be OBJ
served in milking, and by no means wet .he
hands in the milk while milking.
4. No can of milk should stand where 1t
will absorb the barnyard or stable odor, or
any other scent.
5. The milk should be strained and well
aired Immediately after having been drawn
from the cows.
6. Some arrangement for quickly and effect
ually cooling .he milk is at all times very de-
sirable, ald when the milk is kept at home
over night is indispensable.
7. Scalding all vessels used about milk at
least once day with boiling water, and rims
ing them with cold water at night, is essen
tial.
s. Keeping the strippings at home is NOR
ally and legally as bad as water.
0. The milk should be sent to the factory
as soon after milking as possible.
10. No milk 10 be delivered at the factory
after s O'Clock p. NJ, or O'clock A NJ, in
June, July and August, and 81 O'Clock A..
NJ. in April, May, September, October and
November.
II. Any milk which does not habituaIly
keep sweet and pure until 1 o'clock z. NJ,
will be made into cheese by itself, and the
cheese sold by itself, the furnisher or furnish
ers of such milk receiving only the actual
avails Of his own milk. Such persons milk
viii again be mixed with the good only when
the manufacturer is satisfied that perma-
nent reform has been made in the method OF
taking care of 1t.
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Ren Huniiug.

For the benefit Of others who may wish to
engage in { he exciting sport of bee-hunting,
we give few directions for finding the abode
of wild bees. Go as far from the tame bees
as possible, as wild bees are seldom found in
their proximity. Your outfit should consist
of some strained honey, piece OF comb, and
a box or cup in which to catch the bees
Place the comb, containing some honey, on a
stand where the movements ofthe hee can be
seen, and then place upon the honey bee
from some neighboring blossom. When this
bee has filed his sac, it will rise, describe
few circles, ard take bee line for the tree,
in A few minutes returning with reinforce
ments. This operation is repeated, addition
al renforcements arrive, until hundred may
go to work. The bee-hunter estimates the
distance between the tree and the stand by
the time the bees are gore from the latter,
and by the number OF bees at work on the
honey After good line is established, oo-
tain cross line by moving the stand either
to the right or left.
Later In the season, ailer the Irost mas
killed the flowers, the bees are attracted by
bnnino comb. For this warm, still day IS
hest Supply tin pail with some ashes and
live hard wood Goals; on this put bits or
comh sufficient to make good smudge.
which will draw the bees to the stand in
saarch of honey, when they are lined as
above, A few drops OF the essence OF arnica,
dsonned upon he comb containing the hon
ev, viii induce the bees TO work more rapidly
and increase much faster.-BHgdto Ltce
Stock Journal.
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TERMS: Eight Dollars a Year in advance. To
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if maid in adj
vance.
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''You don't say so.' exclaimd Mrs. Sm'g-
gins at CatsliIl, when told that the view from
the Mountain House extended over 10000
square miles; ''you don't say SOL Why, Lon
don is only 5000 miles of. Point it out.
pleaser
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When person is detected surreptitiously
gathering up all the papers within reach and
stealthily retiring to his own room with them,
he IS understood to be The man who said he'd
rather cut his right hand off than read any
thing about the Beecher Scandal.