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ENGLISH HUMOR.
Ho,o the London Punch" Originated.

London Society.
Punch first saw light in Crane Court,
Fleet street, in the very house where
the first PARIS Lille Pill was rolled into
existence. Mr.. Herbert Ingraham (af-
forwards NJ. p. for his native town of
Boston, Linconshire), was then "push-
ing" that well-known patent medicine,
the proprietorship of which Mark Lem
on eventually persuaded him to relin-
! guish, not only on the score of personal
dignity, but on moral grounds, and in
the interest OF the Illustrated News.
The idea Of Punch was the Joint work
Mr.. Last says he first mentioned pro-
Mr.. Holder says the idea originated
with Mr.. Mayhew, who mentioned it to
| him. Mark Lemon always spoke of it
to me as the project of himself and
Mayhew. 1t is pretty certain, however,
that the first meeting upon the matter
took place some time in June, 1871, at
Mark Lemons house in Newcastle street,
Strand, and that Mr.. Last, the printer,
and Mr.. Henry Mayhem were present.
Mr.. Lemon and Mr.. Mayhem both I'M
dertook to communicate with writer's and
artists. Mr.. Last mentioned Mr.. Eben-
ezer Landells as good engraver. A
few DAYS afterwards meeting was held
at the E1in burgh Castle, in the Strand,
at which Douglas Jerrold, Henry May
hew, Stirling Coyne. Landells, the en-
graver, and William Newman and Arch
ibald Henning (artists) were there. Mr..
present as lockers on. Several authors
contributions, including Mr.. Gilbert
a'Beckett, 81. P. Grattan and w. 81.
Wills. 1t was arranged that Mr.. Hen
ming should be the principal artist, and
he was to have the assistance of Mr..
Newman, Mr.. Brine and M. Phillips.
Mark Lemon had drawn up the pros
| pectus.
This was written on blue foolscap
paper. 1t was at first intended to call
the paper the Funny Dog; or, the Lon
don Charivarl, allusion being made to
funny dogs with comic tales. Mark
Lemon, it will be seen, had actually
begun the title, writing as far as the
Fun but this was afterwards struck
out, and Punch inserted. The first idea,
it must be confessed on all hands, like
many other clever ideas, was an adapta-
ton from the French. The second title
was agreed upon the beginning, and was
discovered accidentally. like many great
meeting there was the customary badin-
age that brightens the conversation of
literary men. Somebody suggested
that the paper, like good mixture of
punch, would be nothing without fair
modicum of Lemon, when Henry May
hew, beaming with delight, exclaimed,
GA capital ideal Let us call the paper
Punch !" There is nothing new under
the sun. Somebody else then remem-
bered that Douglas JerroId had once
edited paper called the Penny Punch.
CONSERVATION for five minutes. The
mystic spirit of copyright cast its shad-
dow over the meeting. But on examin-
alton it turned out to be only the shadow
it had always been, and the title of
Punch was fearlessly written down.
This is Mr.. Lasts version in the main,
and it was generally Endorsed, with only
slight alterations over a cigar one sum-
mer day, long ago, at the late editors
unostentatious cottage in his favorite
village of Crawley.
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COnvicts in Georgia.

Colonel John T. Brown, keeper of the
penitentiary of Georgia, has supplied
the Atlanta Herald with the following
information The whole number Of
convicts is about 500; one-tenth of
these only are white. The ratio is one
of decrease in the number of white CON-
victs. and an increase of colored. OF
the 300 there are thirty women, one of
whom is a white woman convicted of
murder. The rates of mortality for this
year is about the same as last. Last
year there were forty deaths out of 700
reported for the whole year. For the
seven months of the present year there
have been thirty deaths out of 800.
The health of the various gangs through
the state has improved considerably of
late. Those at work on farms are the
healthiest, but the percentage of es-
capes is greater. The number of es-
capes so far is twenty five; one.t third
less than last year. Greater efficiency
in capturing those who make their
escape is apparent. A heavy increase is
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Social Leanness among Farmers.

The American Farmer, in all his plan
ming, and all his building, has never
made provision for life. He has only
considered the means of getting living.
Everything outside of this everything
relating to society and culture-has
been steadily ignored. He gives his
children the advantages of school, not
recognizing the fact that these very
advantages call into life a new set of
social wants. A bright, well-educated
family, in lonely farm house, is very
different material from family brought
up in Ignorance. An American farmer
children, who have had few terms at
a neighboring academy, resemble in no
degree the children of the European
peasant. They come home with ne Il
ideas and new wants, and if there is no
provision made for these new wants,
and they find no opportunities for their
satisfaction, they will be ready, on reach
ing their majority, to fly the farm and
seek the city.
If the American farmer wishes to
keep his children near him, he must
learn the difference between living aud
getting living and we mistake him
and his grade of culture altogether if he
does not stop over this statement and
To get living, to make money, to
become forehanded this is the
whole of life to lgri ultural multitudes,
discouraging in their numbers, to con-
template. To them there is no differ
ence between living and getting a living.
Their whole life consists in getting a
living; and when their families come
back to them from their schooling, and
find that, really, this is the only pursuit
that has any recognition under the pa
ternal roof, they must go away. The
boys push to the centres of the cities,
and the girls follow them if they can.
A young man or a young woman, raised
to the point where they apprehend the
difference between living and getting
living, can never be satisfied with the
latter alone. Either farmers children
must be kept ignorant or q provision
must be made for their social wants.
Brains and hearts need food and cloth
ing as well as bodies and those who
have learned to recognize brains and
hearts az the best and most important
part of their personal possessions, will
go where they can find the ministry
they need.
What is the remedy How shall
farmers manage to keep their children
near them! How can we discourage
the influx OF unnecessary-nay burden
some population into the cities? We
answer By making agricultural soci-
ETY. attractive. Fill the farm houses
with periodicals and books. Establish
central reading rooms, or neighborhood
clubs. Encourage the social meetings
of the young. Have concerts, lectures,
amateur dramatic associations. Estab-
lish a bright, active, social life, that
shall give some significance to labor.
Above all, build as far as possible in
villages. 1t is better to go a mile to
ones daily labor than to place ones self
a mile away from neighbor. The
isolation of American farm life is the
great curse of that life, and it falls upon
the women with a hardship that the
men cannot appreciate, and drives the
educated young away.-Scribners
Monthly.
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project at Cherbourg, but refused, upon
| the ground that his presence was nee ded
in Paris. He time and again averred
his conviction that he was a doomed
man, and showed himself both vacil-
lating and irresolute in his condact,
and extremely nervous. He was told
that he was perfectly safe since De
Lasa and all his household were under
constant surveillance to which he re-
piled "You do not know the man. ?"
An inspector was detailed to accompany
Delessert, never lose sight of him night
and day, and guard over him carefully /;
and proper precautions were taken in
regard to his food and drink, while the
guards watching De Lasa were doubled.
On the morning of the third day De-
lessert, who had been staying chiefly
indoors, avowed his determination to
go at once and telegraph to M. lie Pre-
feet to return immediately. With this
intention he and his brother officer
started out. Just as they got to the
corner of the Rue de Lancry and the
Boulevard, Delessert stopped suddenly
and put his hand to his forehead.
My God y he cried, the crystal
the picture r. and fell prone upon his
face, insensible. He was taken at once
to a hospital, but only fingered few
hours, never regaining his conscious.
ness. Under express instruction from
the authorities, q most careful, minute,
and thorough autopsy was made of De-
lessert's body by several distinguished
surgeons, whose unanimous opinion was
that the cause of his death was apo
plexy, due to fatigue and nervous ex-
element.
As soon as Delessert was sent to the
hospital his brother inspector hurried
to the central Office, and De Lasa, to-
gether wit his wife and every one con-
nected with the establishment, were at
once arrested. De Lasa smiled con-
temptuously as they took him away. 81
knew you were coming; I prepared
for it. You will be glad to release me
again."
1t was quite true that De Lasa had
prepared for them. When the house
was searched it was found that every
paper had been burned, the crystal
globe was destroyed, and in the room of
machinery broken into indistinguish-
able bits. "That cost me 200, 600
francs" said De Lasa, pointing to the
pile, but it has been a good invest
ment." The walls and floors were
ripped out in several places, and the
damage to the property was consider
able. In prison neither De Lasa nor
his associates made any revelations.
The notion that they had something to
do with Delessert's death was. quickly
dispelled, in legal point of view, and
all the party but De Lasa was released.
He was still detained in prison, upon
one pretext or another, when one morn
ing he was found hanging by a silk sash
to the cornice of the room where he was
confned-dead. The night before, it
was afterwards discovered, "Madame 4"
De Lasa had eloped with the tall foot
man, taking the Nubian Sidi with them.
De Lasa's secret died with him.
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The Last London 81 nsatiOn.

The great sensation of the week has
been the arrest, on charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, of the
Messrs. Collie, the great merchants who
failed last June. This is something
like arrssting Lord & Taylor, or Arnold
& Constable, or A. T. Stewart, for
swindling. The Messrs. Collie had for
many years carried on very extensive
trade with India. When they failed
their liabilities were said to be about
three million pounds or nearly fifteen
million dollars and about half of this
amount was represented by bills or ac-
acceptances which the London banks
had discounted. It is now charged that
the formerly great trade of the Collies
had dwindled down to a very small
point, and that for some time past they
had been only pretending to do bust
ness. They had houses in different
places, and the charge is that these
houses drew bills on each other, pre-
tending that they were goods actually
sold or bought, and marking them with
figures and letters pretending to repre-
sent certain bales or cargoes. These
fictitious bills, rs is charged, were then
taken to the banks snd discounted as
regular trade bills" when in fact they
Wclc AOb Ouly Observation-Disclosures paper,
but actually frauds. The Messrs. Col
lie were arrested few days since. One
of them lives in q splendid mansion in
Kensington, which was furnished at a
cost of forty thousand pounds the
other resides at Manchester. They were
brought before the magistrate at Guild
hall, and after the charge against them
had been stated they were remanded for
q week. The magistrate said he must
hold them to bail in q large sum. and
four thousand pounds each was named
as the figure. It was then late in the
day, and the friends of Collie were not
prepared for what had happened. The
prosecution, moreover, insisted on forty
eight hours to examine into the respon-
sibility of the bail that might be offered !;
and SO there was no remedy for the fur
Their disgrace that awaited the accused.
They were conveyed to Newgate and
there locked up, like any common GRIM
inals would be. The next day there
were plenty of their friends ready to
bail them, but the prosecution took its
time. and it was two days before the
necessary formalities were gone through
with and the prisoners liberated. Their
trial will be regarded with great interest
here. The practice of negotiating &C.
commodation bills as "trade bills" is
very common one. There are even
houses which accept such bills for
commission. If the Messrs. Collie are
convicted a severe blow will be struck
at this practice. But it will be very
difficult to convict them. I am told
that it will be shown that the banks
which discounted their paper knew per-
fectly we'll the nature of the bills, and
took their risks with their eyes OPEN
London Cor. NeW York Graphic.
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The POeticaI BedOuin.

A writer says: The Bedouins pride
themselves on having much more intel
ligence and refinement, romance and
poetry than the settled Arab races; they
have an especial contempt for the fella-
hin. One day Bedouin threw this in
the face of Christian fellah. They
had some high words about it, upon
which the Bedouin said, swell, thou
shalt come to our tents. 1 will ask my
daughter but three questions we will
| note her answers. 1 will accompany
thee to thy villa &c, and thou shalt ask
thy daughter the same three questions,
and we will compare her language with
my daughters Both are uneducated.
My daughter knows naught but Natures
language. Thine may have seen some
thing of towns or villages and passers-
by, and have some advantage over
mine."
They went to the camp.
Bedouin father" o my daughter I"
Girl" Here am, o my father I"
Father Take our horses and picket
them"
The ground was stony and she ham,
mered at the peg.
Girl" Ny father, knocked the iron
against the stone, but the ground will
not open to receive her visitor"
"Change it, o my daughter u
At dinner her father knew he had
rice on his beard, and that the girl was
ashamed.
"What is it, o my daughter ?"
My father, the gazelles are feeding
in a valley full of grass r.
He understood, and wiped his beard.
wake us early, o my daughter II
eyes, my father"
She called him "My father, the light
is at hand"
GLOW dost thou know, o my daugh-
terri
"The anklets are cold to my feet I
smell the flowers on the river bank, and
the sun-bird is singing"
Thence they went to the fellah's vii
la9e. 1t was now his turn.
Fellah-" My daughter !"
Girl" What do you want, father p
"Take our horses and picket them. :"
The ground being hard, she hammered
uselessly, and losing her temper, threw
down the stone, crying:
81 have knocked it so hard, and it
won't go in"
"Ohange it then, girl"
At dinner he purposely dropped some
rice on his beard. She pointed. at
him, began to laugh, and said, Wipe
your chin, my father"
On going to bed he said, Wake us
early. my daughter"
"Yes, father" she replied.
"Father," she called at dawn, "get
up; it is daylight !"
How do you know, my daughter ?"
"My stomach is empty; I want to
eat"
The fellah was obliged to acknowledge
the superiority of Bedouin household
over his own,
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TINY TOKENS.

The murmur OF Il -at4rfall
mile away,
The rustic when a robin lights
Upon q spray,
Inc lappins OF q loNland stream
On doping boughs,
The sound # grazing from a herd
OF gentle cows,
Inc echo from a wooded hill
Of cuckcos call,
The CULVER through the meadow grass
At evening fan;
Too subtle are these harmonies
For pen and rule;
such music is not under stood
b. any school:
But when the bfain ia overwrought,
1t hath spell
Beyond all hu. an skill and power
To make it we'll
The memory of . kindly word
For long gone by.
The fragrance Of fading flower
Sent lovingly
The cleaning of sudden smile
Or sudden tear,
Tne warmer pressure of the hand,
The tone of cheer,
Inc nush ttat means. az cannot speak,
But have heardl"
Inc note that only hears q verse
From Gods own word;
such tiny things we hardly count
As min 'stry;
Inc gtvers deeming they have shown
Scant sympathy;
But when tie heart Is overwrousht,
Oh, who can tell
Inc power of srch tiny things
To make 1t well
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anticipated the coming fall. Courts
will soon be in session, and jails are full
all over the state. In the month of July,
this year, there were nineteen brought
in, against two in 1878, and four in
1878, for the same month. There are
many young negroes brought in, some
as young as ten years, and a number
fourteen and fifteen years old.
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Garibaldi in Rome.

A writer from Rome in the E aropean
Review Gays /: The salvation of Rome
from inundation forms but small por-
ton of General Garibaldi's whole
scheme. which embraces nothing less
than the redemption of the entire
Roman Campana, the reclaiming of the
waste lands of the Agro Romano, the
amelioration Of the sanitary condition of
Rome and its neighborhood. This
theme is too vast to be even touched
upon in the present article, but it is
even more important than the one of
which we have treated, for it must be
born in mind that even when Rome
shall be preserved from inundation it
does not by any means follow that it
will be preserved from malaria, which
malaria ls derived, not from exhalations
OF the Tlber, as some have enormously
supposed, but from the inert soil and
the noxious vapors and gases that arise
from the innumerable swamps, boys.
fens, and marshes in which the Gam
pagna abounds. One thing is certain,
TINT in this, as in all other undertakings
of his life, Garibaldi, having once put
his hand to the plough, will not turn
back till his work is done. We have
been with him in many phases of his
eventful life wandered with him along
the oi1ve-clad mountains of his native
Nice, listening t. his variations of past
battles fought for his country, to his
aspirations for the future; we have
stood by him in the hour OF triumph,
when from the Volturno he teIe graphed
to Europe Victory along all the line ;"
We have watched by his bed of pain,
upon which the royal bullet, winged
from the "Bitter Mount" had laid him:
we have oOna tbrnnoh tho ErapoL oa,,,
paign with him, SO fraught with difficult
ties and dangers that were not merely
military and now our last memory of
him is as we left him yesterday in his
wooded seclusion of Frascati, studying,
in utter solitude, maps and charts OF
the Roman Campaign, absorbed en-
tirely in studies for the achievement of
the material amelioration of the con-
dition of the people to whose moral
his whole life has been
devoted.
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"WoULD you please give boy who
broke his leg the other day few pea
nuts?" inquired a small chap of an ave-
nue. grocer. Now, boy, you are lying
to me-" said the grocer, looking the boy
in the eye, 81 don't believe you know
any boy who has broken his leg. Come,
now, do your" "No, DON'T" replied
the lad, after some hesitation, but ]
know a boy whose sister fell down and
Jared her teeth out! !" He got a few
peanuts.
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CHICKEN CHEEsE.-Boil two chickens
till tender; take out all the bones and
chop the meat fine; season to taste with
salt, pepper and butter; pour in enough
of the liquor in which they are boiled
to make moist. Mold it in any shape
you wish, and when cold turn out and
Ont into slices. It is an excellent travel
ing lunch.
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A GENTLEMAN IN the eastern part OF
the State, who was about having his leg ampu-
tated on account of its being bent at right
angles and stiff at the knee, heard OF john
sons Anodyne Liniment. After using it a
short time his leg became straight, and is now
as serviceable as the other
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A GREAT many people have asked us
Of late, "How do you keep your horse looking
80 sleek and glossy ?" We tell them it's the
easiest thing in the world; give Sheridan's
Cavalry Condition Powders two or three times
a week.
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Glossy Black WhIskers are admired by
every lady. You can have them by using Dr. TUFTS
improved Hair Dye. To be had of any druggist.
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&c Yes. I"

eyes,"
And they were married, and, as they
never divorced, it is proper to presume
that they were happy.
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GEO. P. RowELL g. Go.

VXTHEN writing advertisers please mention
w the name OF this paper, No. 81 s. N. u.
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THE Duke of Edinburg, Queen Vic
toria's second son and heir apparent to
the throne of SAKE. Coburg Gotha, in
Central Germany, has sold the right of
succession to that Duchy to the German
government for the confederation of an
annuity of $4OO. 900,
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soon as he reached the telegraph and
civilization, he telegraphed the project
Crom Kardszag): "Don't lose sight OF
my man, nor let him leave Paris.
will run him in fer you two days after I
get back"
1t happened that, on the day OF De-
desserts return to Paris, the project was
absent, being with the emperor at Cher
bough. He came back on the fourth
day, just twenty-four hours after the
announcement of Delessert's death.
That happened, as near as could be
gathered, In this wise That night after
Delesserts return he was present at
De Lasa's with ticket of admittance to
a seance. He was very completely dis
guised as decripit old man, and fancied
that it was impossible for any one to
detect him. Nevertheless, when he was
taken into the room, and looked into
the crystal, he was actually horror
stricken to see there a picture of him
sell, lying face down and senseless upon
the sidewalk OF a street and the mes.
sage he received ran thus "What You
have seen will be, Delessert, in three
days. Prepare r The detective, IN
speakabIy shocked, retired from the
house at once and sought his own
lodgings.
In the morning he came to the Office
in state of extreme detection. He was
unnerved. In relating to a
brother inspector what had occurred.
he said "That man can do what he
promises. ! am doomedr
He said that he thought he could
make a complete case ont against Has
Itch, alias De Lass, but could not do SO
without seeing the project and getting
Instructions. He would tell nothing in
regard to his discoveries in Buda and in
rranslyvania-said that he was not at
liberty to do so-and repeatedly ex-
claimed, "Oh if M. le Project were
,nly herep He was told to go to the
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-,-,r 1,,Ts AND PARTS OF LOTS RETURNED DELiN
III ~ TAXES DUE THE CITY OF RICH
OF Tor
satisfy delinquency the City Hail.
the
~ COURT OF HUs
cent on an
mission OF
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rr,f estate
E-r! estate.
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MARSHALL WARD.

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