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Southern Waters ana Southern Levees

The booming floods in the lower Mis-
sissippi, threatening general devastation
at any moment, suggests an occasion for
a word or two about matter In which
the whole country is nterested-south-
ern levees, and particu larly the levees of
the Mississippi. The New York Graphic,
referring to this subject, has some
timely remarks which we reproduce
The Mississippi and its tributaries,
forming the finest river system in the
world, have been neglected till their
value has become impaired and their
future worth is imperilled for want Of
proper care and protection. While their
banks were covered with forests they
were controlled by natural laws, whose
protection was ample, but the settle
meBt of the country and Iho clearing up
of the vast wilderness of the north and
west have put the whole river system OF
the valley under human control and left
it to the mercy of the government, which
has done next TO nothing Tor 1t, and
what it has done has In many cases been
worse than nothing at all. The time
has now G me for the nation to see and
say what ought to be done to save and
utilize these great rivers, on which the
prosperity of the nation depends. 1t is
a matter that no single state can man
age. The welfare of fifteen great states
is bound up in the preservation and de-
velopment of that system of rivers. The
Mississippi belongs to Illinois and Mis-
souri, and Ohio as really as to Louisiana,
and belongs to the nation far more than
to either, and it should be protected
and utilized as great national property
and trust, The damage inflicted by
these recent storms would have more
than paid for all the improvements re-
quired on that river for the next fifty
years"
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Astounding in volcanic mountains some
$4,000 feet high, many of them not
reaching the surface of the ocean, and
others which do so forming the number
less islands of the Pacific. The study
of the coral rocks proves that this sink
ing has continually been taking place
during several centuries, and observa-
ton of the coast will undoubtedly
reveal the fact that it has not yet
ceased.
The most eminent German biologists
locality of mans's primitive origin. the
seat of the so-called Paradise, was IN
the Pacific ocean south of Asia, whence
the race slowly diffused itself northWard
toward Asia, westward to Africa, and
eastward to Australia. When the great
Pacific continent slowly sank, SO that
the ocean commenced filling the valleys,
man retreated to the mountains, which,
by continued sinking, we're transformed
into islands, and now form the many
groups of Polynesia. The insularity of
the thus preserved races was not pro-
ductive of civilization, which requires
conflict, in which the superiors in the
end cain the victory over the interiors.
In those islands, the inferior races were
preserved for want of this conflict,
hence their savage condition even at
the present day while primitively the
greatest advance took place at the spot
of The most intense conflict, the con-
tinent of Southern Scientific
american.
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Midsummer Fashions.

The novelty in belts is the gros grain
ribbon, more than two inches wide, and
worn about the waist, to fasten in front
on the left side in bow, with loops and
ends reaching nearly or quite to the
knee.
Undressed kid gloves retain their old
favor and are much used not only in
travelling, but for country and street
wear. Cotton gloves, for extreme warm
weather, come with kid finish backs and
two or three buttons.
For indoors, beautiful waists and
overskirts are made of lace and insert.
ings USUALLY white), designed to be
worn over silk and velvet long skirts,
while if the wearer is possessed of fair
neck and arms, a low bodice, without
sleeves, and edged with handsome lace,
is worn as an underwaist.
Hats of English straw are much more
serviceable than those of chip, and
consequently accepted as most suitable
for travelling, and are unpretentiously
trimmed. A twilied scarf of Madras
plaid or plain silk, with or without the
addition of a wing, constitutes the
garniture of many.
The light airy dresses of organdy,
linen, lawn, and other translucent
textures, are fast being abandoned be.
cause of the impossibility of that crisp
freshness which constitutes their chief
attra ctiveress. Instead are worn over
understands of silk and velvet over
dresses of gay Madras plaids, soft India
fabrics, batstes and ecru lace.
Travelling dresses are almost invari-
ably made in three pieces, consisting of
a plain cuirass basque, a long, full
overskirt, simply draped and finished
on the edges, like the basque, with a
piping, a crimped fringe or other
equally simple trimming, and an over
skirt sufficiently short TO escape the
ground in walking, aud spsrsely orna-
meuted. The favorite color is brown.
Broad heeled shoes. having a ten
Gency to square rather than round toes,
furnish the favorite walking boot, and
half-low tie is also admissible. Colored
stockings are more in vogue than ever,
and come both plain and striped. The
former are the later of the two, and
show the new red, for which there is
such furore. After the silk hose, the
most expensive as we'll as the hand
soonest are of Lisle thread, and many
of them bear the old-fashioned clicked
instep and ankles.
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Changes in the Earth's Surface

It has been proved that the whole
Pacific coast, especially California, with
all its mountains, is perpetually rising,
and that at comparatively rapid rate.
The land containing it's bosom our great
American lakes is slowly sinking while
southern Indiana, Kentucky, and the
surrounding states are rising. Geologi-
col Investigations prove that our great
lakes, except Ontario, had formerly a
southern outlet; until, by gradual
northern depressions and southern up
heavals, northern outlet was formed
from Lake Erie into Ontario, about
forty thousand years ago. This outlet,
the Niagara river, is still wearing away
its channel. The division line of
the watershed south of the lakes
and the Mississippi valley, has
SINCE that time been steadily travelling
southwark and when Chicago recently
turned the waters of Lake Michigan,
through the Chicago river, into the
Mississippi valley, the old state of
affairs was artifcially re- established
New Jersey is sinking, with New
York City and Long Island, at the es-
timated rate of about 16 inches per
century. The coast of Texas is ascend
ing at a comparatively very rapid rate,
some observers stating that it is as
much as 30 or 40 feet in the last half
century.
Combining these observations with
the results of TIE recent deep sound
ings Of the United States steamer Tus-
carora in the Pacific ocean, we find that
the beds evidently sUnkel continent,
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The Story of a Pearl.

Arsene Houssaye writes from Paris to
the New York Tribune Here is 8
pretty story which has been quietly told
so long that think it time to tell it to
you aloud. A certain ieweler has pink
pearl which is the Joy of all eyes, but
never goes into the world. Why does it
dwell in perpetuity in the showcase of
the ieweler? There is in Paris lady of
shadowy fame who thinks herself a
woman of the world because she is very
pretty and has court of suitors. Her
means of existence are not known. She
came out one fine day from Poland,
saying that her husband was a prisoner
in Siberia. She is still young, and bears
his absence gaily. When a man is dead
in love with her she does not say like a
celebrated actress, eff you love NE,
jump out of the window" but she tells
you, ''If you love me SO much, give me
the only thing want on earth. It is an
Incompatible pink pearl which I have
seen at a jewelers., for which I thirst
like CLEOPATRA. She takes her lover to
the ieweler. He is himself charmed with
this wonder, which seems to have fallen
from the breast Of Venus after having
rested there little longer than the
other pearls. How could so beautiful
woman be denied a thing so beautiful :?
Especially as the pink pearl costs only
ten thousand francs. No man dead in
love could refuse it, especially as the
jeweler accepts check as readily as the
cash. So the pearl is bought. A few
days afterward the ardent aspirant is
astOnished to miss it from the lady's
neck. "Ah," she says to him, 81 have
written to India to order one like it,
and then l shall have two pendants wor-
thy of a queen. Please keep my secret
till haye then both"
And while she is thus talking to one,
she is saying in the strictest confidence
to another, "My friend, if you really
love me SO much, do me favor. There
is a pink pearl at my jewelers. worth at
least 100000 francs, which he would
give me for 10000, but my dresses have
cost SO much that I've nothing on hand
for jewels. Help me buy this, which is
indispensable to my happiness. She
leads him to the shop like a lamb to the
slaughter. 8" Is it not OF tine lovliest
Orient? Old Home1's Aurora never
5prinkled finer ones among the roses
which she scattered from her fingers"
Naturally the second does as the first,
captured by the poetry and the mirage
of the thing. It is always the same with
the third, the fourth, and the fifth.
"Above all, keep my secret till the
other comes from India" Giving pearl
like this to woman is not like giving
money. 1t is unlocking a star from
the sky; it is cutting rose from the
,caliph's garden. This whole little COM
edy is so well managed that each sim
,pteton imagines his gift a privilege.
who would not be happy to give de-
light to those beautiful blue eyes, full
of poetic dreams?
So that, in short, since she has been
in Paris, hOw often DO you imagine that
the ieweler has sold his pink pearl
Twenty one times. Total, 100000 francs;
which the noble Polander from the an
Gent Poland has levied on the love of
her neighbor.
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The Cow Theory,

Speaking of the COW theory-that is,
that man with five acres of land can
maintain himself, his family and his
cow-a writer in the Farmers Magazine
for last month has the following:
On Sir baldwia Leighton's estate in
Shropshire, England, pauperism is al.
most exterminated by means of the COW,
it being the rule rather than the excep-
ton for a laborer to have sums varying
from EGO to $50 put in the savings bank
out of the proceeds of the sale of butter.
l have seen the books with the sums
entered to their credit. Most cottages
have two or three small fields attached
to the holding, mostly laid down in
grass. The COW, however, is only a
second string to the IabOrer's bow, and
does not in any way interfere with his
giving efficient service to the farmer, as
the COW can be looked after by the wife,
who makes the butter and sends it to
market by the carrier.
We have frequently called attention
TO the great boon good COW is to the
poor man, and the large profits of good
dairy. This is especially the case where
only few COWS are kept, and are well
cared for.
A friend of ours, with three grade
short horn COWS, has realized no less
than ninety dollars from the product OF
each COW in single season, besides the
milk and butter used in the family. But
these favorable results depend upon two
conditions, one or both of which we
frequently see overlooked or disre-
garded, to wit First, That we have a
good COW, good in forn-that profita-
III Ion 0F &n
carcass for beef, when the COW is no
longer wanted for the dairy, and lib
eral and steady mixer. It is incompre-
hensible to rs that poor. COW should
ever be used, when good ones can be
the common price. This is especially
true where feed is high, and the animals
kept with view of supplying milk and
butter for the family or market. In
deed, interior COWS should not be kept
for any purpose, but should be slaught-
cred for beef as soon as their inferiority
is discovered. To keep an i'll formed
COW, Or a poor mixer, for breeder, is
even worse economy than for the dairy,
as in this way we perpetuate and multi
ply improbable stock.
The second condition for success with
the dairy COW is that she have plenty to
eat and the best and kindest treatment.
All farmers understand the Importance
of crowding hogs designed for slaughter
that it takes half as much to make an
animal "hOld its own" as to keep up
the highest degree of gain, and that,
therefore, if we only half feed, what is
consumed is a dead loss; so it is when
we merely keep alive young cattle or
other stock. But in no instance does
full pasture, or a proper supply Of
other food in winter, or when pasture
is short, pay better than, in the manage
ment of the dairy COW. tbs more plenti-
full the food the greater will be, not
only the yield, but the absolute profit.
n c. j., in National Lire Stock
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THE man who swears turns speech
into a curse, and before his time re-
hearses the dialect OF hell. He waits for
no bait hut "bites mt the devils bare
hook" The shrewd Quaker's advice to
the profane youth, Swear away, my
YONG friend, till thee gets all that bad
stuff out of thee" points to the real
source of the vice for it is out Of an
evil heart that proceeds evil thoughts,
false witness, andIblasphemies. We fear
that the purest tongue will need puri-
flying before it is fit to join in the celes-
tial praise of Gods upper temple. For
that worship let us attune our voices by
ceaseless prayers, by words of love, by
earnest vindications of the right, by
habitual speech seasoned with salt "
of divine grace. The melody of heaven
will spring from a harmony of hearts ;
each voice there will bear a part in the
song of Moses and tho Lamb.-RcU.
IheO Il. CUyLcr.
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WRECK OF TIE FLORIDA.

4 Romantic Stoyg Spoiled-A True History Of
the Affair,
Some weeks since an article from 6
New Orleans paper was extensively
published throughout the country, to
Florida, which sailed for California
from New Orleans in 1S49, and was
supposed to have been lost, with all on
board, bad been discovered on an island
in the Southern Pacific by an English
vessel, which had been driven thlther
by continued storms. The crew stated
that the Florida had been wrecked on
this Uninhabited island twenty. six years
ago, and that in the interval they had
not seen human face. They declined,
however, to leave the island, having
established themselves in comparative
comfort. The narrative was said to
have created great sensation among
the surviving relatives of the crew, and
an effort was stated to be on foot to fit
out vessel which should visit the
island. A gentleman who was living in
Valparaiso, Chill, in 1849, states that the
Florida put into Port Famine, at that
time the CHILEAN penal settlement; that
the cOnvicts boarded her, massacred all
of the crew except young man named
Marcum, and made sail for the main
land. On her way she was recaptured
by Chilian war vessel and brought
into Valparaiso, where the gentleman
referred to got the above details from
Marcum's own lips. Marcum, whose
parents are still living in Versailles,
KY, proceeded to California, where he
soon after died OF smallpox at Placer
vile, in that state. The British steamer
Thetis had first seen the Florida after
her capture by the convicts, and gave
the information to the Cniliaa author.
tiles, which led them to send out the
vessel which brought her back into
port. A revolution was in progress IN
Chill at the time, and the records of the
event may be lost, but the full details
we're on the log book of the Thetis,
which may be examined in the Office of
British admiralty.
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A Strange Story of the Sea.

The London Times, of Saturday, the
18th of July, says: ga private letter
received yesterday, in Sheffield, from one
of the crew of the iron ship Glance, of
London, which arrived in the Thames
from Adelaide, on Thursday gives in
telligence Of a terrible event which re-
Gently occurred at sea. On the 9th
ultimo the Glance passed an out bound
vessel, bearing the name of Jesse OS-
borne, and was hailed by the captain of
the latter ship, who reported that one
of his crew had gone mad that for five
days the maniac had stationed himself
alOft, aud that nothing could induce
him to return to the deck. The cap
tain further reported that the mad.
man had armed himself with o large
chisel, with which he was cutting the
ropes, and that the boats vain had tried
to bring him down. The maniac, how
ever, threw block at the boatswain,
knocking him on the deck and breaking
his arm and leg. AS a matter of safety
to his vessel and crew the captain OF
the Jesse Osborne considered that it
was necessary to shoot the maniac,
and after some consultation that course
was decided upon. The crew and Off
GERS of the Glance were requested to be
present as witnesses, and in their pres
nnCe the man was shot with a revolver.
In consequence of the way in which he
moved about the rigging three shots
had been fired before he was fatally
injured. He fell dead on deck, and
his body was eventually thr) own over
GARD"
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Old Maids.


A writer on maiden ladies says: 1t
cannot have escaped remark that to
many minds in many cases it IS cOnsid-
cred sufficie to condemn cause to
say that it is promoted by "a lot OF old
maids" Sometimes they are "stroDg-
minded females :" at others "blues ;"
but if you want TO cover them with
inpradicable ridiculc, dub them I" a
bevy of old maids" or throw in the
male friends who assist them in the
promotion OF their philanthropic or
charitable objects, and faeetiously term
the whole ga parcel of old women OF
both sexes" and your end is at once ac-
complished. Why this should be so we
were never able to understand. Age IL
surely as honorable in woman as in
man. Celibacy can be no more worthy
censure in the one sex than III the other.
If it be, indeed the men are in the worst
predicament for il so happens that IN
Great Britain there are a hait-million
more women than men, so that the ladies
could not all get married if they would.
Nor are the professed misOgynists at all
consistent in the bestOwal of their ridi-
culo. Let persevering band OF spins .ers
strive to break down the wall of prelu-
dice which bars their entrance to the
suitable and honorable profession o
medicine, for the purpose of alleviating
the ailments of their own sex, and no
terms Of obloquy are thought too dis
courteous to apply to them. Let Miss
Nightingale go out to Scutari to bind
up the wounds and attend to the sick
wants of soldiers brought fresh from the
battle field, and she is heroine. The
woman as nurse may be deiiied, at
physician she cannot be tolerated. Let
women strive to enter our universities,
the so.called nurseries of bellies tcttrCS
and the arts, and they "unsex them.
Selves" yet who think of cold maids "
as they read the novels of Miss Austin
or admire the pictures of Rosa Bonheur?
let them seek to obtain the right TO vote
for widows and spiDsters who have the
same qualification n 4 fulfill the same
state duties IA men. and politicians are
aghast. Yet MISS Harriet Martineau's
"POliticai Economy hes been in its
time a text book, and Miss Burdett-
Coutts was made peercss in her own
right for her efforts to ameliorate the
condition of the poorer classes of the
community.
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ours, be healed at once. Never sneak
of it outside, but to each other confess.
and all will come out right. Never lei
the morrow's sun still find you at vari.
ance. Renew or review the vow at all
temptations-it will do you both good.
And thereby your souls will grow to
gether, cemented in that love which is
stronger than death, and you will be
come truly one.
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rapidly that the eye does not separate
them, and the result is an intense beam
of light, so dazzling that the eye of
person within the lantern cannot rest
upon them for an instant without in
tense pain. As observed from distance
of several miles, this light is so bright
as to cast well-defned shadow upon
the deck of a vessel.
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ADVICE FOR THE MARRIED. Preserve
sacredly the privacies of your house,
your marriage state, and your heart.
Let not father, mother, brother, sister
nor any third person, even presume to
come in between you two, or to share
the joys and sorrows that belong TO you
two alone. With Heavens help build
your own qaiet world, not allO Eirg the
dearest earthly friend to be the cont
dant of aught that concerns your do
nestle peace, Let alienation, if it oc-
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AT THE DOOR.

The mistakes of my life are many,
The sins of my life are more;
And ( scarce can see for weepingi
But knock at the open door.
lam lowest of those who love Him,
am weakest of those who pray
But come as he has hidden,
And He will not say to nae, Nay.
Ny mistakes His love will cover,
My sins BE will wash away,
And the feet that shrink ana fslter,
Shall walk through the gate of day.
If I turn not from His whisper,
If let not go his hand,
shall see Him in His beauty,
The King in the far-off land.
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THE Suffice. Another case of suffice
lately occurred in a small village IN
Lucknow, India. The following are the
details of the case Having bathed and
dressed, the suffice went to the burning
place, accompanied by her relatives and
a number of low-caste HindOos, who
we're in charge of the dead body. Wood
being scarce, the funeral pile was IN
part constructed of other fuel, which
was heaped around the woman as she
sat with the head of her deceased hus-
band in her lap. The pile was then
covered with straw, her nephew handed
the suffice lighted torch, and in mo-
ment the whole mass was on fire. The
Chowkeydar and the policeman, when
they arrived, found only a heap of ashes.
AbOnt thirty persons, including the vii
lage headman and the woman s relatives,
bave been committed to the sessions on
the charge of having been directly or
indirectly guilty Of murder,
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ALL the year round, Hheridan's CaU-
a7,pJ Condition PO,rders should be given to
horse. that are "kept up To horses and
cattle that Craze in summer they should only
be given in winter and spring.
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OFFICERS and soldiers who served in
the army, pEysicians, surgeons, and eminent
men and women eycrywhere, join in recon-
mending JOLHSOniS AEOdiHe LHtWeHa TO be
the best internal and external family medi-
cine ever invented. That's our experience.
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A LONDON architect has submitted to
the municipal authorities of that city a
plan for gigantic pyramidal metropolis,
which is to cover five acres ofgro und,
and yet be capable of holding, in it's
vaults, $4,000 corpses.
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Or. TutI's Improved Hair Dye Is IN
general use throughout the whole country. II is
supersedng all other hair dyes.