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Real estate, total ------$I ,l0o,6S7
The Board reduced the valuation
OF inside Or city property % per
cent below that of 1878, while that
OF outside lands was not changed.
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Ice is being shipped from st.
Paul by ears to St Louis.
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Third and WabashaW ST

Third and WabashaW SITS, st. Paul.
We would beg leave to call your attention
TO our immense stock of Foreign and Domcs-
tic Dry Goods, viz:
-, 900 yards Dress Goods, from sc
10000 . Dress Silks, from $l.00
1000 " Black Alpacas, from 25c
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Nansook Muslins, Swiss Muslins, Cambrcs;
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Table Linens, Napkins, DoyIies, White
Quilts, &c,
$4,000 dozen Ladies', Misses, Children's
and Mems Hosiery, Gloves, &c.
Harris" Seamless and AIexandrcs' Kid
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Buttons, sc.
Samples sent on request; orders promptly at
tended to; prices low.
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Rapidity of the Female Tongue.
New York Tribune.


1t is a phonetic fact that women t.lk
faster than men? And, if so, is this to be
attributed to more sensitive organization
and to woman's intuitive method of reason
ing? We observe in a newspaper what
processes to be statistical information upon
the subject. Mrs. Burnham, it is said,
talked at St. Louis in platform lecture,
not one of the curtain kind, forty-fiv min
utes, and the report of what the lady said
filled three columns and one-half of Tie
Democrat-a very columnar spe eeh. Mr..
Wendell Phillips, when he last appeared in
St. Louis, talked two hours, and, in report,
filled four columns and half; and Mr..
Beecher, in the same time, enunciated five
columns. Mrs. Burnham, it is said, sur.
passes in volubility even that man of many
words who not long ago was locked up il
the Tombs. He crowded but six columns
into two hours. Mrs. B. beats him, an6
has ten minutes to spare. Women, as {
rule, move, we believe, faster than men
Everybody will remember Stockings coup
let: "Her feet beneath her petticoat, like
little mice stole in and out;' and why
should not the tongue share in the celerit,
of the feet
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The New Atlantic Gable.

The Portsmouth fN, H.) Chronicle, Dec.
9th, says: s.On Saturday Governor Straw,
accompanied by Judge Clark, of the U. s.
District Court, Col. A. n. G. Eastman,
Lawrence Oliphant, and F. Ricketts, (the
the three last name from England), visited
Rye for the purpose of selecting a suitable
spot for the LAID ns of the new Atlantic
cable, soon to be laid between the western
shore of Ireland and this continent. After
visiting several localities, small cove to
the south of Straw's Point was determined
upon as the best place. On Monday MIR.
Ricketts,, who is the engineer of the new
cable company, and Colonel Eastman, the
contractor, took passage in the tug Clara
Bate1nan to take soundings and ascertain
the condition of the bottom. In soundings
of from three to twelve fathons the bot
| tom was found to be soft and clear Of rocks
| and finely adapted to the contemplated pur-
pose. tits thought the cable viii be ready
| to be laid by next May. The job of max
! ing and maintaining it for 80 days, has been
given to Siemons Brothers, Of London and
Berlin, the total price being ef s21f, 900. Il
! is already more than half done, and the
finances Of the company are in good coaii'
] ton.
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Cinerated Humanity.

We learn from the Reoue Scientific that
Professor Burnett, of Florence, has invent
ed an apparatus, the efficacy of which he
has himself tested by burning five different
bodies in it, with five different kinds of
combustibles, and in close as we'll as open
vessels, in order to ascertain the best mode
of complete incineration of the soft parts
and perfect calcination of the skeleton
The chief part of the apparatus is a fur
mace of brick, and having the shape of a
parallelogram, with ten side openings for
regulating the draft. The top is covered
with movable roof, provided with iron
shutters; the body to be incinerated is laid
on metallic shelf of moderate thickness,
which is hung up horizontally by means of
chains i'll the inside of the furnace. This
done, a pile of wood prepared underneath
is set fire to, and the operation commences.
A considerable quantity of gas is evolved
and let out by the shutters as occasion may
require. The dead body then catches fire
spontaneously, and in the course of two
hours the completest incineration is OBJ
tanned. When the furnace has cooled, the
ashes and bones lying ON the shelf are col
lected and put into funeral urns. In one
case body weighing 81 Kilograms was
reduced by cremation to 1 kilogram no
gins, (about three and half fbs.)
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Down the Rhine.

Unlike most great rivers, the hill or
mountain scenery of the Rhine, after it de-
bouches from the Alps, comes after the val
ley, instead of before. You journey for
days down the river, through great plains
and valleys, before you come to a hill big
enough to hold castle to any great advan-
tage. Your first castle of consequence sits
upon a hillside among the grape-vines,
just opposite Bingen. You look at this,
but do not like it. 1t is an imposture.
You gaze at it carefully with your glass
from the deck of the steamer that steals
slowly and cautiously down the river
through the rocks, and you see that it has
been repaired. You have a suspicion that
it is put there, or it is at least carefully pre-
served for foolish tourists like yourself, to
look at; and then you turn and look at
ssBingen on the Rhine. - A dull place; and
you do not feel so deep sympathy as you
did for the poor soldier boy who died in
Algiers, for you see how little he lost in
never seeing Bingen any more.
Another turn in the crooked, lagerbeer
| looking river, and another castle. Another
turn, and another. Then two! three
! Opera-glasses are in demand sketch-books
are whipped out, notebooks, guide-books,
and every body is busy for an hour. The
thing then begins to lose it's interest, fol-
you can not keep track of them all, and
! you wish there were not any more on all
the rushing river. But still the castles con-
tinue. Sometimes they come right up to
| the bank, and sit down on bluff fifty or a
hundred feet above you. Then, again, they
| sit indistinctly back, and certainly look the
| better for it. One old Teuton built his cas-
| tie on little island i'll the river. This, il
is said, was for the purpose of taking toll
But whatever this one old fellow may have
taken, it is safe to say he did not make hal
SO much out Of the whole world as the Ger
mans are now making out of American
tourists who go there to gaze upon thes'
sorry old piles of stones.-JoaqRin Miller
IN January Overland Monthly.
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WHAT Is THoRoUeHBRED.-W we
call the thoroughbred horse was created in
England by the importation of mares and
stations from Arabia and Barbary, and by
the judicious com1ningling of the foreign
with the native blood. Through contests
ON the turf and the right kind of crossing,
the horse was gradually improved, CT ele-
waited to high standard of excellence and
these improved horses were then recognized
as the progenitors of an aristocratic race.
Equine heraldry has been made science,
and the birth and pedigree of each horse of
high breeding has been preserved in the
"Stud Book. Usage has decreed that an
animal which can show an uncontaminated
pedigree of five generations shall be classed
as thoroughbred; that is no drop Of cold
or coarse blood must appear in the veins,
the origin Of which cannot be found behind
five successive periods of reproduction.
Five generations removes from common
parcntage refines the blood and makes it
aristocratic. Field and Farm.
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N. P. r. R.---Pacific Division.
Kalama Beacon, December II.

SIT is finishedr' The iron is laid be-
result due to the executive energy Of the
Managing Director, Capt J. c. Ainsworth;
and General J. W. Sprague, General Super
intendent--both of whom had to assume
extraordinary responsibilities to "keep the
ball in motion since the financial panic
opened at the East.
On the 25th ult., track-laying recon-
menced at sixteen miles south of the Ter
minus, ON Nisqually Plain, where the lack
of iron had previously caused cessation OF
several weeks in that department Of con-
struction, which has reached successful
termination on the Terminus wharf at Ia
coma Mr.. I'll. G. Hale, Road and Train
Master, has constantly remained on the line
during the last three weeks as engineer and
superintendent of construction, ably sec
onded by Mr.. H. G. Nixon as foreman of
track-layers
Track-laying across some tressle-work at
and near Tacoma will scarcely be turned off
as completed for yet a day or two, and we
are told that it will be probably till Wednes-
day before the g finishing touches on the
wood work are completed.
The wharf at the Terminus is 800 by 500
feet, on which is a structure Of 40 feet by
200, the lower part designed for offices and
warehouse, and the upper part for hotel.
Mr.. J. B. Blackwell-late Of the cellar
endon" at Portland, as also of the "Kaz-
ano" Kalama-is to conduct the hotel,
which is guarantee that it will be kept in
first-class style. During the last couple of
days, Mr.. Blackwell has been engaged at
loading his furniture from the Kazano on
the cars, and expects to enter Tacoma with
"bag and baggage" ON the forenoon of
next Tuesday. The hotel will be formally
opened as the "Bay View Hotel,' on JAN
uary 1st, 1874.
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Old Jones of Stony Bar.

Old Jones was always at the Bar Store
when not at work or eating his hastily dis
patched meals of bread, beans and bacon.
Jones wore one perpetually unwashed grey
shirt and a pair of duck pants, tied about
the waist by string, and always seeming
ly in danger of falling down. He had been
more or less drunk since 1859. When
Jones was decidedly in liquor, his legs more
than his head were affected. They seemed
feebly elastic, and kept the observer in a
continual state of anxiety as to their fur
ther ability to support the upper part ot
Jones. They would III unison waver, see
saw, and lurch with him from right to left
in a manner creditable to u gymnast, and
crazed all speculation as to the real location
of Jones centre Of gravity. Yet they were
never known to give way. They bent, but
never broke.
Jones' idea of the end and aim of exist.
ence was simply "grub, tobacco and whis.
ky Physically, he was living and
| defying contradiction to the total abstinence
theory. lie drank year in and year out.
He drank all he was able to buy. HI
drank it by the tumblerful. A privately
prepared bottle was kept at the store espec
| tally for Jones. His libations from the de
canter III ordinary use were too large to
leave any margin for profit. He drank o.
the poorest and cheapest quality. He wa;
never sick, always at work, always blessed
with good appetite. No one ON the Bal
ever thought of saying, I" Jones is drinking
himself to DEATH" The old residenters'
would have laughed at such an idea. The,
had found Jones there in 1852, drinking
and mining indnstrioEssly, making an ounc'
or two daily, and attired in that same old
unwashed shirt and string-tied duck pants
and his excesses had long ceased to be nov
elites. Delirium- -tremens had no terrors foi
| him. lie said the snakes did bother
him once, but he'd got used to 'em. Ell
.stold them to go off about their business
i and they went. ''-O Overland Monshly .fol
Jaaaary
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Nathan Rothschild.

In HaypeT's Monthly for January, Mr..
Junius Henri Browne, contributes underthe
fanciful title Of The Knights of the Red
Shield" a history of the Rothschild fam
lily, with portraits of its principal members.
Those of our readers who may not be mil
lionares win feel grim satisfaction in pc
rusing the following, which may serve to
make them more contented with their lot:
"The wretchedly rich Nathan Rothschild
never went out alone after dark. never en-
tered an unlighted room, had servants with
in call of his bed chamber, slept with load
ed pistols under his pillow.
GA fellow-F -Frankforter, dining with him
one evening and observing the luxury Of
his household, remarked, You must be
happy, baron, with the power to crafty ev-
cry wish.
Happy indeedp was the response. Do
you think it happiness to be haunted always
by dread Of murder, to have your appetite
for breakfast sharpened by threat to stab
you to the heart unless YOU inclose a thous-
| and guineas to some unknown villain ?
"On one occasion when the great finan-
cier had been to an evening party, and had
gotten into his carriage to go home, a
friend, wishing to make an appointment,
stepped out to ospeak to him. The timorous
banker mistook his friend for highway
man, and thrust a pistol out Of the carriage
window, with his favorite cry of 'murderv
before he could be acquainted with the sit
uation.'
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A Faro Bank in Feejee.

Civilization is gradually penetrating to
the remote regions of the earth. A faro
bank has been established in Feeiee, and
the nativos are fascinated with the game.
"A somewhat sad incident is mentioned in
connection with the last match for the cham
pionsllip. A Chief became deeply inter-
ested in a game, the stakes of which were
human beings fattened for the table. Luck
seemed to go against the Chief. He put up
his servants and lost; then he bet his moth
er-in-law and lost. He did not shed q tear
over this disaster Then he staked his uIl-
| married sister and wife's cousins; and the
bank raled in all the chips. The infatu-
ated Chief then offered his baby, and the
owner of the bank had it packed down in
the ice-chest in less than fifteen minutes.
The Chief then bet all his children success
sively, and lost; and then, having gambled
away his wife, he staked himself ON the
| last chances, and again bet on the wrong
card. When he had time to think it over,
| the Chief said that lie was convinced that
gambling was very wrong, and he thought
that it ought to be suppressed by the an
thorities But, before his friends could get
bill passed, he was killed, and put in a
cask TO corn for the faro bank man. A
succession of peculiarly succulent free
lunches made that establishment very at
traetive to the Feejeean epicures for several
months afterward. The name Of the Chiefs
family no longer appears in the directory.
/ The faro bank proprietor, however, is in
/ clined to be benevolent, and he offers to
/ make very liberal arrangements for Sunday
schools. He is now much interested In 2
missionary, whom he expects to entice into
his den. He has intilnsted to his confden.
tial friends that if he can only get that
missionary to play one game, and bet the
1 infant class, he viii get up supper which
viii discount spring chickens entirely
Mar -4deler.
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PENNSYLVANIA TAKES THE LEAD.--The
Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania
having completed its work, making many
notifications of the fundamental law of the
commonwealth, the amended constitution
has been submitted to the people and by
them has been ratified. Among the amend
ments thus adopted is one empowering the
Governor to veto any item of an appropria-
tion bill and to approve the remainder OF 1t.
This is in accord with the Recommendation
made by President Grant in his last annual
message, in consonance with the leading
papers Of the nation, and we arc pleased to
note that the idea has SO early been fayora-
bly, acted upon. We trust yet to sec the
same power given to the President, and to
the Governors of the various States. The
people win then see to. it that only good
men occupy these exalted positions and
thousand upon thousands Of dollars .sill be
| saved to the commonwealth.
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"Dew Drop Cox.

Mr.. S. s. Cox of New York, addressing
the House the other day on the salary re-
peal. and defending his personal record
from aspersions, said
II have not played the demagogue, as
gentlemen here have charged, confess that
[ love to please my constituents. l am
anxious to cultivate the graces ofpublic life.
I come here from the people, as fresh as
any of you; nay, fresher; fresh ON the 9th
of November last. feel as fresh on this
as on other matters-as fresh as dew drop
upon the lip Of a rose
His colleague, Mr.. Lyman Tremaine, fol-
lowed with his maiden speech, attracting
much attention, in the course Of which he
paid his compliments to his associate, as
follows:
''For myself, regard it as the greatest
honor that can be conferred upon me that
have seat by the free choice of my con-
stituents, in the highest representative leg
islative body on the face of the earth. The
honor is enhanced by the further fact that
l have more than 100000 of constituents;
that have thirty-two constituents on the
floor of this house; that among them are
the honored and honorable gentlemen on
the other side, who are so sound now on
this salary question; and that among them
is, last, but not least, my brilliant friend,
the ''dew drop" from New York (Mr. Cox.
Mr.. Speaker, there was great beauty and
great significance in that simile of the s'dew-
drop" We read in mythology of an ancient
king who, on consulting the oracles to learn
his future fate, was warned that he would
be destroyed by his own grandson, who
would succeed him as king. AS he had
lost his wife and never meant to marry
again, and had but one child, beautiful,
daughter, he resolved to guard against his
approaching danger by condemning her te
perpetual imprisonment within the walls ot
dungeon where there was no opening ex
cept a small oriice in the roof, through
which her food was passed, and where the
| light and rain penetrated. Jove had faller
in love with her, and one night in the form
of ''dew-drop," he came down through
that opening. 1t is quite unnecessary thai
I should go further. My classical frient
from New York is, I am sure, familiar will
the sequel. Suffice it to say that hero
was born who burst the bonds Of his prison
destroyed his grandfather, succeeded hin
upon the throne, and thus verified the pre-
diction. So that, Mr.. Speaker, the ''dew
Drop is not only bright, brilliant, beauti
full, but it may be powerful, effective anf
godlike.
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Body Snatching. +"

It is now some seventy Or eighty years
since the celebrated trial of Burke and Hare
in the city of Edinburg, Scotland, revealed
to the public mind the horrible practice OF
body-snatching. So great fear did the
disclosures then made cast upon the people,
that the name of Burking" became a by
word. and the timorous went abroad at
nightfall with fear and trembling. But the
depredations of Burke and Hare were as
nothing to the horrible business just brought
to light in Washington, D. c. DIR. George
A. Christlana, Margaret Harrison, and a
colored man are the parties implicated. Tn
the doctors person were found a diary and
some chemicals, and ON the woman's case
of surgical instruments. One could under
stand how a man, dead to all instin ct OF
higher life, might for the love of greed and
gold enter the chambers of the dead and
play the ghoul; but for a woman, the en-
bodiment of all that is gentle and human,
and delicate, to play SO horrible and filthy
a part, the idea is too revolving for utterance.
They have made regular business of this
midnight desecration. They tore to pieces
the remains of poor Beau Hickman, and Ill
the entry of the work. this cold-blooded
fiend writes It was lovely moonlight
night, and everything went off smoothly :
| Tt has been their practice to hunt after
recent death like cat after a corpse. No
| cemetery in the enyiroris of Washington has
been free from their unholy dcsecration.
Christiana has been in communication with
various universities, and among others that
of Ann Arbor, Mich. The doctor at that
/ college writes: g Pack them in tight box,
three feet by two, the subject having legs
and thighs fe1ed and head resting on chest.
Two can be put in single box. Sawdusi
prevents odor. Your money will be SEM
promptly on receipt of goods. Z This
precious doctor and his accomplices received
from $40 to $40 for good subjects, and on
I the whole is proved rather profitabl l.
/ business. We are aware that the interests
Of science must be subserved by the multi
/ alton of the poor dead clay: but. in the
/ name of all that is sacred and humane, let
/ not such degraded monsters be permitted
! to prowl about the peaceful sleep of death
1 and lay their cursed claws upon the dust
we love to weep upon. Let subjects bt
procured in legitimate way, at Least
i decently and reverendly from sources whlci
have been regarded as justifable BY tis
respectable and Christian-spirited melnher'
of the medical profession.
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Bret Harte's Poetry.

The first stanzas that brought Bret
Harte into public notice were published in
San Francisco, shortly after the shooting of
Thomas Starr King, the talented editor, who
so courageously denounced the "ballot box
suffers " and other "ring" scoundrels OF
San Francisco, and lost his life thereby.
PEN THos. STARR KING.
This is the reed the dead musician dropped,
With tuneful magic in its sheath still hidden
The prompt allegro of its music stopped,
Its melodies unbdden.
But who shall finish the unfinished strain.
O. wake the instrument to awe and wonder,
And bid the slender barrel breathe again,
An organ pipe of thunder?
His pen What humble memories cling about
Its golden curves! what shapes and laughing graces
Slipped frGm its point when his full heart went out
In smiles and courtly phrases.
The truth, half jesting, half in earnest hung.
The word of cheer with recognition in it,
The note of aims, whose golden speech outstrGng
The golden gift within it;
But all in vain the cnchantel's wand we wave,
No stroke of ours recalls the magic vision;
The incarnation that its power gave
Sleeps with the dead magician.