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Kansas pacific Railway.

The main linecNtcnas from Kansas City, Mo.
andLcaNenworth, Kansas, both fouI ishing cities
on the Missouri River, through Central Kansas
and Eastern Colorado 500 miles to Denver, Colo
RADIO, and with several hundred miles of Branch
cs, in addition, reaches every portion of Kansas.
Colorado and New Mexico, and all of its fertile
valleys. Rare opportunities are offered for ac.
quiring homes IN section of country unsur-
passed for fertility and health. The State Capt.,
tai, State University, State Agricultural College.
State Normal School, Blind Asylum, &c, of Kan.
sas, are all located Immediately along the line,
ahd the educational facilities generally are I'M
cqualcd BY reference to the United States Az
ricultural Reports, it will be observed that Kan
sas had greater yield to the acre of the cereals
than any other State, and Gold Medals and Di-
plOmas Jor the greatest and best display Of Fruit
and Agricultural, Horticultural and Mineial pro-
ducts, have been awarded at the Great EXposi.
tons and Fairs throughout the land in compcti-
ton with the Otbcr States. For the tourist and
invalid a varied and charming landscape is pre-
scented; and the delightful air Of Colorado, and
the now justly celebrated Cold, Warm and Hot
Springs, in the vicinity of Denver, have given re
ncwcd life to the weary anc have restored hcaltl
to the sick. Don't fail to take Il trip over tx
Kansas Pacific Railway, and if you want Il geCd
home, be sure to settle along its line. You cm
obtain Maps, Circulars, &C., giving all inform.
tion, by addressing General Passenger AgentA.
PR, Kansas City, Mo. Il
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OLD STAGERs--Spcaking OF old men, there
is Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the
one-legged Ncbuchadnezzar Of Mexico How
old he may be, we cannot say, but he made
his military reputation in achieving the
independenCe of Mexico from Spanish rule
about the year 1s20 Well, Santa Anna is
now living Il quiet life in the city Of Mexico,
aud he appears fresh and vigorous as man
OF sixty We are told that he lives pretty
iHuch in sccluson IN consequence OF his I'M
popularity with his COuntrymen. But II Is
possible the old fellow may yet ride into pow
er again, as he has done half dozen times
or more, upon the waves of popular revolu-
ton. Four or five times, certainly, he has
been barished from the country; but as olten
his lucky star would re-!nstatc him III power
And nov another man, So old that popular
memory does not measure his age, comes to
light in connection with our politics. we
are told that Hon. Bailie Peyton, who has
come down to Us from fotmcr generation,
will probably be sent 20 congress to NIL The
vacancy created By the death OF Hon I. Head,
late member elect OF the fourth district OF
Tennessee. He was associated with Clay and
Webster having first entered congress IN lS33.
Next to Gov Allen, it may be said OF Peyton
that lie is the oldest OF our many old men *ho
take an active part in public affairs IL Allen
should have his ambition gratihed by being
elected TO the presidency, Peyton might prop.
erly be made Secretary of State; ana then II
could be said we have returned 10 me gov
ernment of our fathers
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MRS. nUNN'S CHRISTMAS.

1t was Christmas Eve in Mrs Dunns coy
parlor; the cl,log blazed and snapped with
a good will, as if 1t remembered the days
when the sunshine crept into its heart; the
candles burned with II clear radiance on the
mantle. Outside, tAc STOW fell and driitcd
against the pane, the wind whistlcd loudly,
rs If To drown the Christmas bells, that now
seemed far away, and anon rang out like
clarion calls Mrs. Dunn herself sat before
the high, polished fender with her knitting
a woman who had been pretty once, but no
longer young now, with hair quite gray, and
the traces of tears that time had dried upon
her pale checks, one might have said, just as
the showers of longpast ages have lett their
prints on the sti.iened soil Mrs. Dunn's tears
had, indeed, been shed so long ago, but they
burned yet so surely is the twilight OF Christ.
mas Eve fell about her. Tonight her house
fnl of boarders had all betaken themselves
Heir several ways, this one to spend the holi.
LAY with his parents family, that one with
IS mother in the country, the other with his
weetheart, till nobody was left but Mr.. Roy.
urne--a man as gray and worn as herself
Tho had only his violin with which to keep
christmas He sat now in the chmney.cer
or, drawing his bow across the violin, and
ringing up long.past and halfforgotter
scenes by The nccromancy OF his chords ant
melodies.
One feels the need of home on Christmas
Eve, Mrs. Dunn he said, presently, break
ing off the air or Aud Lang Sync' suddenly
Not but this chimney corner is as much ;
home as I've ever known, and no bad substi
iute yet-perhaps ITS only a sentimcntality
but when IA man reaches my time OF life /
goes hard with him TO remember that he ha
found, a. the poet says, his warmcst welcome
al an inn
No doubt, 20 doubt sighed Mrs Dunn
Il seems as il 3 boarding house were only 1
way station 10 some thing more permanent
That's the way IL used TO seem to me when
was twenty-five. Do yo6 know I've got e
KIND of dread Christmas Eve AS much as
used 10 love u; It's q sort of landmark now
that shows how far we've wandered from III,
hopes and promises o. youth. AS you say
IFS night when one needs a tireside in II,
true sense, and love and friends, and all they
expected 10 have when life was young ant
Mrs. Dunn's voice trembled and broke, anC
Mr.. Royburne drew out a chord that soundc,
like an amen ZOO may laugh if you vii
at an old lady like me- she said, when sh
had recovered berself, but had blow il
NV young days that I've never got the bette
OLA love affair
Yes Let fhos. laugh who win. We al
keep a corner Of our hearts where on on
enIers.'
And every Christmas lime the pain bite
deeper. till Il seems As il | could not bear II
inst as ON old wound Is said to throb and ach
an lis anniversary Mr.. Royburne tapped hi
violin gently. as much a. 10 say: We knoV
what that u.s. but he locked curiously at hl
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a kind of fading Of the eye, accompanied with
dilation OF the pupil, invariably precedc and
announce the superventiOn of the trance /;
and another fact conclusively established is,
that although the trance supervenes at the
will of the medium, it must always be pre-.
cedcd by stage of incubation more or less
prolonged, during which nervous hebeulc is
distinctly present, and the intellectual lacul.
ties are torpid. Miss Fox has been known TO
fall ialnting on sofa in the midst of Seonce.
and Mr.. Holmes health is broken at scarcely
forty.
These observations have now covered cases
enough to permit the affirmation that clair.
yoyance and its peripheral nerve atmosphere
are aetermnately the results of the reflex ex
citabili,y incident to epilepsy: and know
from my actual observation that cpileptic
convulslons may be replaced by artiticialiy
induced clarvoyance, at least in some in
stances. | have, also, personally observed
that eplleptics, pending the stage of incuba.
lion always appear to be developed in n
highly excited and nerve atmosphere, which,
sometimes accompanied with sullenncss,
sometimes with sensory cXaltation, is one of
the precursors of the attack. Indeed this eX.
cited aura, often of considerable periphery,
is, so far as my studies have extended, invari-
ably indicative that a nervous crisis is at
hand and, on comparing notes with physlc-
ians, | find that medical men have noticed
the same phenomena, not only as incident TO
epilepsy, but as the exponent of the stage OF
incubation in periodical mania generally
FraUcis Gerry Faife'd; ScrijHer fer J0H
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1 Very Bad boy,

Tic Dcuoit FIRE Pres thus tells how
r,cl.s.p ,,ranr deceived his norr old Grand.
.,,,,.a..
'''"''
jack l'Haen IS fourteen years Ola ard
live, ON N'HiI street The other day, while
reading Glme move, his grandfather came
in WIN NE paper and aske1 nm TO read the
president : message IL Iliitateu J&cHson to
break OF Ms story Just where the tIapper
Wa, go!.g 'O be scalped, 50 he made up his
mind 10 nave revenge on hi, grandfather.
tie 100; rp III" paper anG started OF rs fol-
lows:
The business OF The patent shows steady
steady increase. Since 1886 10000 patents
have issued. Oi6cer Deck Of the station
house wants 1t distinctly understood that he
is no, the Deck confined there . few days ago
rs . lunG'lc
10" hat" exclaimed the old man, "iFthat
IN The message
"I''gh. here, every word Of it, replied
Jackson. And he continued
The business OF the agricultural bureau is
rapidly growing, and the department grounds
are being enlarged, and the highest prize in
tAlness lottery Is twenty,nne cents, and
the man Who draws it has his name put in
the paper, aud Is looked upon as heap Of a
fellow.
What, what Is that' roarcd the old man,
Il never heard OF such message as that
Il can't help il, replied Jackson you
asked ne to read the presidents message,
and I'm reading it, And he went on:
During the year 5,,5S new applications Cor
army invalid pensions were allowed at all
aggregate annual rate Of S39,332, and kero-
seuc oil is the best furniture oil; it c,eanscs,
adds polish. and preserves from the ravagcs
OF insects.
'Lor save ne. bu, i never heard of the
likes before'' exclaimed the old man. Il We
read every presidents message since Jack
SON time but | never saw unything like
this
"Nela J didn write the message replied
Jackson, and he continued:
During the year, 3,264,3l4 acres Of the pub
Tic domain were certified to railroads, against
over six million acres the preceding year,
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IHE FRENCH INTAGE.-1hC most boun-
tcOus vintage France has known, the statisti
clans say, is that Of 1874. Not less than 3,
09O, 900 hectares 100000 acres, thereabouts)
have been cultivated as vineyards and the
product is estimated at - 600 900 hectolires
or 1851, 100000 gallons, very nearly) In
view Of which enormous figures, the mourn
ing over the phyllOYera, it would seem, must
have been greater than there was any occa-
sion for The dread Of the insects visltatiOns
nevertheless seems 10 be unabatad He is
one Of the mcane.t and most insitllous foes Of
the vine, measuring not more than one thirty
third Of an inch in length, multiplying by
millions IN June, July, August aud Septem-
Der; in the latter month often covering the
root,shoots in ii continuous mass, making
them quite yellow with lis bodies. There ON
thereof il sits ard sucks the life out. There
are Wingless, but also winged phylloXeras;
the latter's wing. being worthless Tor yOlun'
tary movement, but convenient for the wind
to watt them by and speed their mischief to
VINEYARDS the other sort would not reach for
a long while. This insect Is not much worse
than the old vine disease, the ''ridium," at
whose outbreak in old times the magistrates
used to 60 solemn!y into the neids, ahG com
mand the insects il the king name to BECOME,
In 1854 this disease reduced the yield to H.
0OU,UOO ncctO!lUcs, Dul II Is no" dppucHtiy
conquered. Strange to say, the great vintage
has not cheapened the price Of vine at all.
The local consumption is estimated at about
two-thrds the crop, the rest will be exported.
The demand of other countries for the light
wines of France increases greatly every year,
America being one of the growing markets,
The vntages of Germany and Italy are equal
ly large, in proport:onto past years. In Italy
this is looked upon as a providential boon
for the disease of drunkenness, as the scarcity
CT wines fer few years past has led the poor
people to use ardent spirits of the worst sort.
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Canadas bright and sensible Governor
General, Lord Dutterin, has given to the Do
minion people new by.word, which has
spread with electric rapiditv from one end OF
Canada to the other. On his voyage out,
being called upon by the emigrants TO address
them, he alluded to this phrase, which had
grated harshly on his ear; He had the mis-
fortune Of having too many children
Lord Dufern said: Il Remarked that
perhaps no better idea could be given of the
difference between the Old country and their
new home, than by the fact that whereas in
England struggling man might be over
weighed in the battle Of life hy too numer
Gus family, in the land TO which they were
gong a man could scarcely have 200 many
children. Here was applauded Justify,
with cheerful accompaniment OF laughter
also. when Twas further greeted with an i'm
proving thump on the back by stalwart
Young emigraut, who cried out Right you
are, sir; that's what I've been telling Emily"
The Canadians have got up the slang
phrase "lNats what I've been telling En-
Ill.," having D. the auecGotc made familiar
bv going the Pounds q the newspaper, and
now one hears everywhere, That's what I've
been telling Emily '-H1Yt-'s Hgg1:tnc
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MIND Your WIFE.-While a middle aged
couple were waiting at the Lansing depot
We sterduy, to go West, the man got up and
said He guessed he'd walk around for a
while The woman sought 10 discourage
nm, buthe would He was absent for about
half an hour, and cane back with Il cut in
his ear II bloody shirt bosom, IA nose like "A
broken backed rolling pin and mournful
look in his eyes. Why, what's the matter
Peter" asked the woman as he came in. Fell
down" he replied, as he dropped on the
bench oh, YES. you fell doan, you did
sneered the wife as she stood before HIM. Il
told We not to go, but 90 We would, and now
see Yourself You're a NICE old gumdrop to
90 on the cars with ne, amt you: Yes, YOU
fell down. YOU did, but something heavy hil
Won frs. '-DstrCH Free Er5ss.
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The Old Ecd Cent,

A. the old "red cent" has now passed cut
Of use, and except rarely, out Of sight, like
the "old oaken bucket Its history is a mat,
ter of sufficient interest for preservation
The cent was first proposed by Robert Morris,
the great financer Of the Revolution, and
was named BY Jefferson two years after. Ii
began to make It's appearance from the mint
in 1892. 1t bore the head of WashiEg tun on
one side, and thirteen links on the other The
French Revolution soon created rage for
French ideas in America which put on The
cent, instead of Washington, the head of the
Goddess of Liberty--a French Liberty with
neck thrust forward and flowing locks The
chain on the reverse side was displaced by
the olive wreath of peace, but the French lib.
crty was shGrtlivcd and was her portrait on
our cent. The neXct head or figure that sue.
ceeded this--the staid, classic dame with a
filct around her halr-came into tasion about
thirty or forty years ago, and her fncly.ch!S-
eled ,,recan features have been but slightly
altered by the lapse at time.
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WHO xNous. OR HOME QUESTIONS.

Who knows where pins ana ne-ut' 20
WL,re all the buttOua stray
who knows where all the pennies z"
That somehow ret away
Who knows how all the china breaks
That wasn't touched al ALL
How hahy gets 80 black hiu.sr
letuclcr gets fan
WHO know, whence all the 'a,A.g-S come,
And where they disappear:
WHY one brief month should max a right
OF what was such dear
Who knows how little bills can ,Nca
70 such prodigiOus size
VINO knows, indeed, what's going on
Beneath his very eyes?
Vt, knows Just WHERE hCr husband goes
When Business keeps him out
who knows when best to wear a smile,
Ana when to wear . pOut?
Who knows the time to face q fact
'rla. she's no longer young:
Who knows how best To speak Ae- miaor
And how to hold her tongue
Who knows the most convenient day
10 bring friend to dine:
Who knows the half Of what AC spends
On clubs, cigars, and wincE
Who knows one bonnet canAc. last
4 woman half her life;
who knows the womaG is the -al'
Whcn sweetheart turns to wife.
Who knows Why ali the pretty girls
Are often last to 70;
How all the ugly women sc.
WHO never had beau:
WHY small men fancy wives So large
Aud large men fancy small
Who kpOws, in fact, how halt the Wur'a
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Ny Own observations Of Spiytua,.sm have
Convinced ne OF three things First, that its
phenomena are invariably associated with
mental and ncryou, pcrvcrsion, and generally
With morbid mora. impulses Of the type tha,
accompanies epilepsy; secondly, that mcdI
ums are, as rule, persons Of defective ply 81
cal organization; thirdly, that the sednces
rapidly exhaust the nervous energy of the
operator. | have notes of one instance in
which the medium died OF exhaustion conse
oueat upon his most celebrated feat Again
so FAR Is have observed at ssqrccs given by
trance mediums, those prodomata CT the cpl
leptlc attack, sudden eadaverous pallor aad
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THE DE,rm or THE OLD YEAR.

BY ALFRED TENNYsoN.
'uIl kncc-decp lies the winter snow,
Mud the winter winds are YEARLY signing,
Toll We the church bell sad and slow
And tread softly and speak low,
For the Old Year lies adying.
Old Year must not dic
You came to us so readily,
You lived with lis so steadily
Old Year YOU shall not die
lie lleth still nc doth not move;
III will not see the dawn OF day;
lie hath no other life above;
lie gave me Il friend aud a true, true love,
And the Ncn Year will take 'em away.
Old Year must not 90;
SO long as You have been with ~,
such JOY a- YOU have seen with H..
Od Year you shall not go.
he frothd his bumper, TO the hrim
4 iollicr year We shall not see;
But though his eye, are waxing dim
Anl though his foes speak i'll OF him
lie was q friend to me.
Old Year you shall not die;
We did so hugh and cry with you;
Eye half mind to die with you,
Old Year. /. you must die.
Hcwas full of joke and jest,
hut all his merry quips are DER.
10 see him die, across the waste
li, son and heir doth ride hot haste
But he'll be dead before.
Every one for his own,
The night is starry and cold, my friend,
And the New Year bthc and bold, my
friend,
Comes up to take his own.
low hard he brcathcs Over the snow
heard just now the growing cock
The shadows flicker TO and fro
The cricket chirps; the light burns low;
lis nearly twelve O'Clock.
Shake hands before you die,
Old Year, wen dearly iuc for you;
What Is it sc can do for you?
Speak out before you die.
His face is growing sharp and thin;
Alackl our friend is gone;
Close up his eyes tic up his chin
step from the corpse, and let him in
That standcth there alone,
And waitcth at the door.
There's q new foot on the floor, my friend,
And rev face at the door, my friend,
\ new face ut the door
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mers,' and arrived at by many and careful
experiments, that about three pounds OF good
food per day for each hundred-weightnf live
stock is a fattening allowance For jla.stra.
ton, sheep weighing 100 pounds r,.tulres
three pounds of food per day, and a steer
weighing 1000 needs thirty pounds. These
rules are approximately correct being varied
somewhat by quality of food and stock. The
farmer knowing the weight of his feed and
that of his stock, by applying these rules can
guess closely ms 70 whether he has food
enough for his stock Rochester Democrat
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4 farmer OF our acquaintance made an ca;
pertinent lie took sheep that weighed
about 100 pounds, and put ii in a pen, and
after il had become won,ed weighed all ITS
food, and found that three pounds per day OF
fodder and grain was all he could make the
sheep eat. The farmer had verified rule
well known to she muchdespised 'book-far-
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CORN SONG.

Heap high the farmers wintry hoard!
Heap high the golden corn
No richer rift has autumn poured
From ont her lavish horn.
Let other lands, cXuting, CLEAN
The apple from the pine;
The orange from its glossy green
Tie cluster from the vine.
We better love the hardy gilt
Our ragged wales bcstow,
To cheer us when the storm shall driil
Our harvest fields with snow
Through wales OF grass and flowers
Our plows their burrows made,
While on the hills the sun and showers
OF changeful April played.
Nc dropped the seed DER hill and plain,
Beneath the sun OF May,
And frightened from our sprouting grain
The robbcr crows away.
All through the long bright days OF June
lis leaves grew bright and fair,
and waved in hot midsummer noon,
Its soft and snowy hair.
And now with autumn's mOonlit eyes,
Its harvest time is come,
We pluck away its frosty leaves
Aud bear its treasures home.
Then richer than the tabled gifts
Apollo showcrcd of old,
Fair hands the broken grains shan snl,
And knead its meal Of gold.
Let vapid idlers roll in SIN,
Around the costly board
Give us the bowl of samp and milk,
By hoIncspun beauty poured.
Then shame on all the proud and VAN,
Whose folly laughs to scorn
The blessings OF our hardy grain;
Our wealth of golden corn.
Let earth withhold her goodly root
Let mildew blight the rye;
give to the worm The orchard fruit,
and wheattelds to the fly;
Sat let the good old corn adoln
The hills our fathers trod;
still let us for his golden corn
Send up our thanks to God.
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\ man lately passed over the Connecticut
river railroad on his way from Utah, where
he had lived - yeas to Concord, ", where
he LETT with his parents 10 years ago, ou' wheh
~ years of age.
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A stall ia Faneuil Hall Market, IN Boston,
must lie good properly, judging from the
fact that sill GOO bonus MAS lately paid for a
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The hop plantations of England are much
increased the past two years, ana II Is report.
cd that the area in full bearing viii, another
season, cqual $4,000 acres.
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miscellaneous.
500 REWARD.

will give any person who will furnish Ee with easel
IlcmOrh,ids Cor l'lCs) tor treatment that cannot
cure without the EuiIe or ligaturc
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In Piles of the worst form we will
guarantee Cure.
NEW CHICAGO hide HOUSE

The highest price in cash paid for
either Green or Dry Hides at MOI
La Sale Street. 5. JONAS.
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singh stall, the lease Of which had e2 months
10 run.
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CONSULTATION And EXAMINATION FREE

In the treatment OF Plies the Knife Lg.iure. Mir
Acid, Old and painful remedies, ARE Nor USED. The uea
mcnt f. very Mild.
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Tic Dcuot FIRE. Pres thus tells how
Jackson Grccn deceived his pour old grand.