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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

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| The st. Louis Globe advises the White
Leaguers of Louisiana to raise more sugar
and less HI" if they want to be happy.
There is some talk in evangelical circles
of an attempt to be made soon to introduce
the Christian religion into Chicago
York Dispatch.
George Francis Train is going to start.sa
newspaper in Cincinnati. We always
thought that place would come to something
bad. 10. Herald.
The Rev. Samuel Watson, of Memphis,
Kicked at dog the other day and fell and
broke his leg. The dog grinned and passed
around corner.-Detroit Press.
Alleck Fl. Stevens is getting thinner and
smaller every day, and he never takes a
bath without the fear of being drawn
through the waste pipe.-Missonrs Demo
crat.
Andy johnson says he goes to Washing
ton as the representative Of an Gntc-6elluya
Democracy. That's good; but an anti-bel-
lowing Democracy would be better.-Nis-
so9ri Democrat. A
We have had obituary notices on ''stand-
ing galleys'' for six months, of few fami-
lies in town that still continue to use coal
Oil in lighting fires. 1t is only a question
of time O5erZin (OAto.)
A gentleman entered this Office the other
day and asked the senior if he wanted a
seasonable poem on the snow. The county
records contain the following: ''John Fin
against editor of the. Armenia Times. As
sault and battery. Verdict for defendant,
0.''-Amensa N. 7. Times.
An old lady in town has become disgust
ed with almanaes. She says if all the peo-
pie in the. country were to stop buying
almanacs, .maybe the printers who make
'em would put in some total eclipses of the
sun and moon and some transits of Venuses
that would be visible here. "-Norrtstoaon
Herald.
One of the reasons why a fight frequently
occurs lin Montana churches is, that while
the preacher is praying, the congregation
sit ON the backs of chairs and frequently
eiaculate-''That's right old hoss - "Bully
for you - '.TIe's a book sharpp' etc.
Sometimes the ministers get riled, and
there's where the disturbance comes in. =
lf5laoaukee Neos.
A calculation of the effect of slight gra-
tuity OH hotel or restaurant waiter comes
out something as follows:
Five cents: obliged"
six cents s'Thank you.'
Ten cents: Thank you, Colonel"
fifteen cents: ''Thank you, General
Twenty cents: Low bow; flourish of
napkin; formula as above.
Quarter: Profound bow; alacrity to
find hat; feint to brush it with the elbow
door held open.
Half dollar: Happiness.
Dollar: Bliss. Baltimore ABsertcan.
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PRIDEs AT FusERALs.--G Gerrit Smith was
In receipt of an annual income Of, say, a
hundred thousand dollars he died IN the
city of New York; his family placed his
remains in a g plain, black-walnut case, ut
terly devoid Of ornament. Here IL fami-
fly possessing wealth, and reasl,d taste.
1 Ii there il ever iii this absurd and ridicu-
Ions world an occasion when propriety and
the fitness of this forbidden display, show,
sham. it is when we are about to part for
ever. in this world, with one VIC have loved
and esteemed. Yet how few of our peo-
pic would feel satisfied with the simple
posies placed upon the coffin Of a deceased
child by the hands Of sincere affection 4
I'll ere be no wreaihs,and crosses, aud crowns
| in all the most expensive flowers Of the
season, there issa suspicion Of slight 20
say nosl,ing of the account in the newspa-
| pers, which cost so much wear and tear OF
conscience to the tolerably honest reporter.
a few such examples as this exhibited BY
tie family of Gerrit Smith, will do some-
! thing to ,epress a fashion which has i'm
,neasurably oltgrewn All warrant for It's
icing Tie white sssse placed BY mother
upon the coffin of her child was 3 token ol
| lore which locked forward 60 higher and
| pssser life. The III ket of ticketed flowers
(which on tie askess s,f many, nowadays,
! Indicate only Il pride which i not pios1d
ies,.,tsssia II, withstand The demands of fash
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How to Spell shakspeare's Name.
From the L.uisville courier-Journal.l

from the L Lfuisyille Courier Journal.l
For one hundred and fifty years critics
have disputed over the correct way to spell
the name of Shakespeare. The Troy Times
thinks that the reason that the Bard Of
Avon induced Juliet to inquire, "What's s
in namesn was for the purpose Of discov-
ering the correct orthogrophy of his own
name, and says that in some of the earlier
editions of Shakespeare it reads 'What's in
his name?" or, in plain language, elbow
many letters are there in his Shakespeare s.
name2'' The spelling Of Shakspeare's name
has been an photographed puzzle that
critics for century and half have laboretl
over. Stevens, Drake, DR.. Johnson, Reed,
fIazlitt, Chateaubiiand, Lamartine, Ulrich,
and Bodensted spell the name with ten let.
tiers, thus: Shakespeare; Ghidworth, Mason,
Heath, Lord Campbell, White, Gnizot, and
Horn, insist on eleven letters, thus: Shake.
speare while still others, though less ii
number and ability, declare for only nine
letters. thus: Shalxspere William ought
to have known how to spell his own name,
and as he @rote it Shakespeare, we are in.
clined to give him the benefit of the ter
letters as he placed them.
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OUT WEST.

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The word sIdaho'' signifies "gem of
the mountains"
Greeley, Colorado, has twenty-five soeie-
ties ~ religious, temperance. social and
musical.
A number OF persons at Walla Walla (W.
T.) had their hands and feet frozen during
the cold spell. .
A man in Walla Walla valley has four
thousand head of sheep and not mouthful
of feed for them.
Several saloons in Walla Walla (W. To-
have recently been closed on account Of
hard times and high tax.
The Owyhee Qdaho) Agalanehe learns
that cattle are dying from hunger and ex-
posure in Snake river valley.
Hay is plentiful and cheap in Southern
Oregon, more having been saved last sum
mer than usual in that section.
The Idaho Territorial debt is as follows :
Bonds and interest, coin, 500, ,625. .46 out
standing warrants, currency, $50, 9S3.37.
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The Virginia and Truckee Railroad Com
pany pays the men in its employ higher
wages than any other company on this
coast.
On the day the first snowslide occurred in
Little Cottonwood, Utah, $32, 900 were TO
have been paid for mine near Alta. That
slide spoiled the sale, at least for month
| or two.
The Las Cruces New Mexico) Borderer
says it is informed, upon good authority.
that there is an effort being made to join
together New Mexico and Arizona, SO as to
| make the State movement more certain.
Governor Axtell has given a certificate
of election to Geo. @. Cannon. Ex-Gov-
ernor Woods had withheld it because no
proofs could be produced of his citizenship
and because of reported frauds at the late
election. 8 s
The Panamint Ne,os rejoices at the fact
that Jones & Stewart, of the Surprise Val
ley mill and water company, have dis
charged all the Cinnamon in their employ
and their places are to be supplied with
white men.
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Compulsory Education in New York a
Failure.

A year ago this winter our State Legisla-
ture passed compulsory education law, to
take effect January /, 1876. During the
twelve months interval the friends Of edu-
cation have expressed great faith in this
measure. They had heralded its passage
with decided flourish of trumpets, and
they predicted that it would work wonders
in the cause of progress. Fifteen days
have now elapsed since the new law was to
! take effect, and the almost universal testi-
mony is that it will be dead letter upon
our statute books until repealed. 1t not
only contains many imperfections, but fails
to make any provision whatsoever for rails
ing money to enforce its regulations. Such
being the case, it now looks as if the friends
of the measure were doomed to q bitter dis
appointment In a few places steps have
been taken for putting the new law into
effect; but as a general thing people are
paying no more attention to it than il no
such measure had been enacted. The prob
abilities are that the bill will be repealed
by this winters Legislature for these rea-
sons, viz: It passed the Senate only by a
bare majority last winter, and then only
under great pressure. The same Senate
holds over and would doubtless be glad of
an opportunity for repeating the Act. The
lower House is Democratic, and such being
the case will naturally "go for the bill at
once or for any similar measure. The bill
to repeal the Act will doubtless originate in
the House, and, after being passed by de-
cided majority, go up to the Senate. / find
upon Investigation that compulsory educa-
tional laws now exist on the statute books
of eleven States, viz: California, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, New York, New
Jersey, Michigan, Texas and Nevada. In
none of them, however, does the law work
smoothly or satisfactorily. There seems to
be an aversion in this democratic country
to compelling parents and guardians to
school their children. The general feeling
seems to be that this is q matter i'll which
every father should be left to decide for
himself. However perfect a compulsory
Act might be made, / do not believe it could
ever be enforced in New York State, from
the simple fact that the people would not
take sufficient interest in it to have it en-
forced.-N. 7. Corr. Chicago Journal
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Too Many Territories.

There are now nine Territories, exclusive
yery scantiIy peopied. When thsiFr avails aif
able soil is all occupied, they will probably
together contain no more people and pro-
duce no more food than either Illinois, or
Iowa, or Missouri, then will. Will it be
fair to give then eighteea Senators against
the two Senators of each of these States
Some of them are clamoring for admission
as States, excited thereto by the luck of
Nevada. with her handful of population.
One man in Nevada has as much political
weight as hundred in New York. New
Mexico came very near getting admitted
at the last session of Congress. General
Hazen says that If $ the army, its hangers
ON and transient miners were withdrawn
from New Mexico, " the remaining Ameri-
can population could sit in the shade of q
eood-sized apple-tree. . Two or three OF
the larger Territories, with mere handful
of population apiece, have petitioned Con-
gress to slice them in several parts, Politi-
cal b,,mmers want more offices. Tie best
policy is not further division but consoll-
dation. b It would be unfair to the States
already in the Union to allow sparse, thin
population scattered over this barren region
TO send eighteen Senators to Washington
I to counterbalance the whole " Northwest, =
| and it would be unfair to the few inhabi-
tants themselves to make them support
twice or thrice the needed number of tho
State Governments New Mexico and
Arizona should be reunited. Utah should
!, he tackled on to. Nevada Oregon should
swallow up Washington Territory, and
two States to-be should be carved out 81
Idaho, Montana, Dakota Wyoming and
Colorado. California, which contains much
fertile land and enormous agricultural ca
liabilities. is twice as large as Utah or Col
osado, but her people would not tolerate
the idea of division. Texas. which con.
tains three or four times the area Of New
i Mexico or Arizona. and twice or thrice Al
much really fertile land as all tho Terrific
RES combined refuses to be sllbdivided
j and vet some day these Territories, viii
half or third the, population Of Texas, vii
| have eighteen Senators to her two Is thi
4 fair p Chicago Tribune
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NEWSPAPERS DECISIONS.
EvE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

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When is mother fathera When she
is sigher.
Lavender says his wife is always ready to
tell her rage. 4
A severe lady says: "Mals is only mule
spelled wrongly. o. Republican.
Haste makes waist. Young ladies should
linger over their meals, accordingly.
Another young English lady has been
reduced to ashes in Grelnen's furnace at
Dresden.
A California man pounded his wife, was
fined 800, ard he sold her silk dress to pay
the fine.
| Good looking lasses and good lookin'
glasses are not very far apart-generally.
st. 10. Herald.
The Girl of the Period at parties has
fan, handkerchief, memorandum book, and
ci'sGsgrette dangling at her side.
The solitary -and-silent system of punish
ment willnot do for women. Many of them
in the English prisons have become insane
| under it.
It is whispered that christening may
occur at the White House in the spring,
which hasn't happened since Tyler was
President.
"1'm going to where wont have to cook
beaus." was the farewell sentence of an
| Ohio woman who left this vale of tears
| few days since.
Eugenie is said to be wasting away with
consumption, and her friends are anxious
that she should travel. She is said to have
tagged very much the last few months.
| The bones Of Chang and Eng, wired
together, stand in the private study of
Philadelphia doctor, while their poor wives
| split fence-rails in their far-off North Caro-
| lima home.
A Chinese mother does all the sparkling
| for her son, and he does not see his intend
ed until an hour before marriage. That's
why so many Cinnamon leave home for
| America.
| Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is spending the
winter in Florida. A Chicago correspond
ent of a London journal says the lady has
refused numerous eligible offers of marriage
since her husbands death.
A Frenchman is about opening an SHY
menial academy y in Covington, Kentucky,
at which young ladies viii be taught mar
riage service, with all the proper sobs,
sighs, and Mysteries, in three lessons.
The sapphire ring thrown out of the
window at Richmond by Lady Scroop to
Robert Cary, and used as a token of Eliza
beth's death to James VI, now forms
the centre of u diamond star in the
possession of the Countess of Cork and
| Orrery.
Said the teacher to Ann; " wish if yoa can,
You woud give more definite aslswer.a
And Ann at once eaid, with toss of the head.
II do Just the best that can sir!
But HhN should try q do pleaae- tell PIC whEs
For hear every day the grammar class say
| That An's an in-definlte article!'
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Mining Locations.

AS the telegraph has informed us, a bill
has been introduced in the United States
Senate providing for the procurement of
patents to mines purchased Of citizens by
foreigners and foreign corporations; and
providing also that patents may be secured
for mining lands of which non-citizens
may be in part locators, where such loca-
tions have been made prior to May 10,
1879. The bill was introduced by Senator
Sargent. A Washington correspondent
furnishes the text, as follows:
That in cases where foreigners OF foreign
corporations have purchased mining claims
for a valuable consideration of citizens of
the United States who had complied in the
location and possession thereof, prior to
sale, with the laws of the United States
governing the same, and such purchase was
made prior to the date of the approval of
the mining resources Of the United States, -
approved May, 1872 and when such pnr-
ehasers shall have complied with the said
law in the working Of the same, and. shall
apply for patents therefor, as in other
cases, and pay to the United States the
price thereof as provided BY law, patents
shall issue to such parties in the same
manner and to the same effect as in other
cases.
Section O. That in cases where applica-
tion shall be made for patent to mining
claims by citizens of the United States,
| being bona fide owners thereof and in pos
session of the sames patent shall not be
refused therefor on the ground that one OF
| more of the locators thereof may have been
| foreigners at the date of location provided
that said location shall have been made
prior to the 10th day of May, 1872. S
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The Origin of Indian Names.

A member of Major Powell's expedition
which has been engaged in the Government
survey of the Territories, furnished the
Tribune some interesting notes of the dis
coveries made in the origin of Indian names.
It seems that each tribe or primary organi-
zation of Indians, rarely including more
than two hundred souls, is, in obedience to
the traditional laws Of these people, attach
ed to some well-defined territory or district,
and the tribe takes the name of such dis
trict. Thus the U-in-tats, known to white
men as a branch OF the Utes, belonged to
the Uintah Valley. U-imp is the name for
RI%iapsi too'nsap, for land Or county ~. =.
contracted to U-in-tah, and the tribe in
habiting the valley we're consequently called
U-in-tats.
The origin OF the term Ute is as follows :
e is the term signifying arrow; U-too-
| meap, arrow-land. The region of country
| bordering on Utah Lake is called U-too-
meap because of the great number of reeds
growing there, from which their arrow
shafts were made. The tribe formerly in
| habiting Utah Valley was called U-tah-ats.
which has been corrupted into the term Ute
! by the white people of the country. The
name U-tah-ats belonged only to a small
| tribe living in the vicinity of the lake. but
| it has been extended SO as to include the
greater part of the Indians Of Utah and
Colorado Another general name used by
white men is Piutes. A tribe of U-tah-ats
| being defeated and driven away by a
stronger tribe, who occupied their country
| and took their name, were. obliged to take
new name corresponding to the new home
| in which they settled themselves. But
| they also called themselves Pal U-tall-ats,
or true U-tah-ats. The corrupted name
Piutes is now applied to the Indians of a
| large section of country. Several Of these
| tribes have numerous names. and in this
1 way the number of individual tribes has
probably been overestimated.-- GALAXY fo'
/ february.
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There is no other work IN the world,
NE are told, Of which 50 many copies arc
printed annually Of the Chinese almanac.
The nulnbcr.is estimated at several mill
lions. Tie almanac is printed At pekin,
and il monopoly of the Emperer. Il not
only predicts the weather, but notes the
days that are reckoned lucky sa nnlncks
for commencing or undertaking, forarpIs-
ing remedies III diseases. for marrying and
for burying.
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sa HOTTER AND HeTTER.--The Virginia
Enterprise says: The water encountered
IN the main east drift on the Q, 600 foot level
of the Imperial mine is.the hottest ever
struck on the Comstock lode. II was care
fully tested yesterday with two good ther-
mometers the temperature was found to be
150A degrees. The stream of water is but
an inch fe two in diameter The senpcra-
ture III the drift yesterday was 1lS degrees.
Notwithstanding the hot air and hotter
water. men are IL work in the face of the
drift. Going down by degrees as they are.
onr miners arc becoming Injured 10 the
heat, anil expect 70 continue right on
down 70 where the rocks are Ii , molten
state without experiencing ths slightest
difficult tss
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POETRY.
OLD TIMES.

Iheres beautiful song on the slumberous air
That drifts through the valley of dreams:
IL comes from cline where the roses were
AND tuneful heart, and bright brown hair
That waves in the morning beams.
Soft eyes of azure, and eyes of brown.
And snow-white foreheads are there.
gimmering cross and glittering crown.
thorny bed and couch of down,
Lost hopes and leaflets of prayer
rosy leaf and dimpled hand,
ring and pligh ted VOW;
Three golden rings on broken hand,
tiny track on the snow-vhite sand.
A tear and a sness brow.
Tneres tincture of grief In the beautiful song
That sobs on the summer air,
And loneliness felt in the festive throng
Sinks down in the soul as it trembles along
From CLINE where the roses are
We heard it first at the dawn of day.
And it mingles with mattin chimes:
But years have distanced the beautiful lay
And it's melody foweth go swiftly away,
And we call it now "Old Times.n
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He Wanted Cradle, Not a Coffin.

lie came into the office Of West End
undertaken yesterday, with a look of gr eat
care on his honest face. His eyes were
heavy and slightly bloodshot, telling of
nightly vigils and loss of sleep. His hair
was unkempt and shaggy. The soft-hearted
man of coffins looked upon his visitor with
gaze full Of pity and thankf ulness-pity
for the customers loss and thankfullness
for his patronage He was so young to be
burdeDed with the loss of a dear one by
deat,.,.
The manufacturer of burial-cases nodded
d silent assent and condoling recognition !;
the young man from the country said,
g How d. 'ya 2''. Then ensned a painful si-
lence, broken at length by the man of grave
business.
Can do anything for you to-day, my
friend ~
"Wall reekin' SO, stranger.
Another silence. Once more the under
taker began by suggesting, Your sister %
Young man started a moment, then, as a
light gradually broke upon his perplexed
mind, he smiled smile more suggestive of
sorrow than happiness, and replied:
"No-my wife,"
"Sudden ?'' 81
No-expected su'thun of the kind for
several months
"When did it happen?"
"Bout o'clock this morning"
"Looks natural ?''
"Rather." Spoke carefully, and ex-
pressive of some doubt.)
"About what do you want the cost of it
to be ?''
s.Don't care for expense get it up kind
er nice. I'll treat her handsum, cause she
is the first one ever had.
/ "very well, my friend /; you'll have it
lined with white satin, / suppose ~
"Jest as you say stranger"
i aSilver- headed screws, too, supposeP'
"Y-a-a-s, s'pose so. An, stranger, jest
put bully top tot"
ooh, of course and you'll want glass
in it, also, suppose p
"Y-a-a-s-oh, certainly-you bet. Get
her up sniptious, You know, old fellow
None of your drafted one-hoss fxins for me.
No, Stree"
"Just so. Silver handles, Of course ?"
ssEh? What thet you say, stranger
silver handles? Oh, durn ii, now, won'i
thet be pilin' it on too hefty likes kir
stand silver screws and sich, but theirs NJ
use maxim the hull tarnation trap of silver
The thing has to be moved, and must have
handles, but amt so quite stuck up a
tibet now-not quite stranger"
"yery well, IN put ordinary handles t
it, then ?''
s Eggs-actly-tbem's 'en, mister nov
yer talkin'. Or'nary handles II do. But
! ! / say stranger (refectiyely). make. tn
wheels glisten like thunder .
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~
eyes, wheels. What's ther matter wit
you, anyhow p
"But, who ever heard Of wheels to
coffin 9'
"Coffn ~ shrieked the dejected-lookin
!, young man. g Coffin Now, who I'll
dickens said anything about coffins ~
why, don't you want a coffins''
ssNo-o. want a cradle d trap to roc
my new baby in
And isn't your wife dead p
Not by iugful. Don't you make cr'
$ dies for sale ?''
No. my friend, am an undertaken
4 Undertaken of wl,ats'
81 make cofiins.'
2, 3, sOh, Lord, let me ketch the feller th'
g sent me here r.
?. And the grief-stricker youth ctasnme
his hat over his eyes, ran his hands de-
down in the pockets Of bis trousers, Al
pounced out on. the street searching +
vengeance.