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Famous Mems Weaknesses.

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tus-
cany, was, it appears the slave of his in
firmities. He was often seen walking up
and down his apartment between two
large thermometers, at which he anx-
iously and constantly glanced, putting
on skull caps-of which he had five or
six in his kand--according to the degree
of cold or heat that the instruments in
dicated. ..tt ..
So, too, with the Able de ST. Martin,
who, in the seventeenth century, was 80
notorious for his mOnomania. He had
always nine skull caps on his head to
keep him from the cold and on the top
of those he put wig, which, of course,
was never by any chance in its proper
position,
More than this, he wore nine pair of
stockings, over the other. His bed was
of brick, under which there was fire,
in order to obtain just that amount of
warmth that he desired. .....tt.,r.
The Jesuit Ghezzi wore seven caps un-
der his wig.
Fourier, the mathematician, who had
returned from Egypt nearly dead with
rheumatism, suffered severely when he
found himself in a temperature below
twenty degrees Reaumer, and a servant
followed him about everywhere in read
mess to offer him additional coats and
wrappings. During the latter years of
his life, when rendered hors du combat by
the asthma, from which he suffered from
his youth, he. lived entirely in kind
of box, which allowed no deviation of
the body, and allowed nothing to pass
except his head and arms. .r
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The Household Tinker.

All housekeepers may not know of
what they are capable in the line of
keeping their tinware in order. For the
benefit of such we will say that it is cas-
Ter to solder such things than to pay a
travelling tinker two prices for mendiDg
them. Take a sharp knife and scrape the
Tin around the leak until it is bright, 30
that the solder will stick. Then sprinkle
on little powdered resin (they have
liquid solder to sell, but resin will do as
welD, lay your solder on the hole and
with your soldering iron melt it on. Do
not have the iron too hot, or the solder
will not adhere to that. After two or
three trials You can do a job that you
will be proud of. If you do not own a
soldering iron procure one by all means !;
but when hard pressed have used the
knob on the end Of the fire shovel or a
smooth piece of iron, or held candle
under the spot to be mended. Anything
is better than stopping leaking pans
with beeswax or rags. Try it, young
housekeepers, and see how Independent
you will feel. Yotr pans should be dry
when you take them in hand.
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Prosecuted Americans.

Lucy Hooper writes to the Philadel-
phis Telegraph from Paris: i have fire.
quently been called upon to record cases
wherein Americans have suffered from
French extortion and insOlence, and q
particularly fragrant instance came to
my knowledge the other day. There ex-
lists in a very snowy and fashionable part
of Paris clearinghouse, where, though
the fare is scanty, yet the dweller therein
has the advantage of dwelling under the
same roof with nobility in its purest and
most pretenti0us form, the keeper of the
house being French count of unim-
peachable pedigree. Among the board
ers who had Resided in the house for
nearly year was young American
couple, the husband being a gentleman
we'll known among the American resi-
dents in Paris, he having been established
in business here for some two or three
years past. Recently he announced to
the Count that he and his wife were about
to leave Paris for the summer, and that
they intended to go to housekeeping in
the fall. Infuriated at the idea of losing
such profitable inmates, the Count COM
menced a series Of petty prosecutions
that would have been laughable had
they not been SO annoying. He caused
various articles of furniture to be removed
from their rooms, had the curtains taken
down, and finally caused the carpets to
be taken up. Indignant at such treat
ment, the gentleman informed this gra-
cious scion of French nobility that he
should expect a corresponding diminu-
ton in his bill for the month The having
paid regularly every monthly, and that
he would not consent to pay as much for
unfinished rooms as for furnished ones.
Whereupon the Count went before a
juge de la pair and swore that the Ameri-
can was a travelling vagabond, without
visible means of existence, who was try
ing to get away without paying his bill.
Four policemen were sent, who examined
the lady's trunks, took an inventory of
everything that they contained, and
took possession of all the money that was
to be found therein. After annoyances
and insults innumerable, the luckless
couple at last. escaped from the clutches
of this aristocratic landlord, and l am
happy to say that several other Ameri-
cans among the guests of the house
packed up and departed likewise, indig-
nant at the treatment inflicted upon their
cOuntryman.
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Household IIel sDe.

LAYING CARPET AwAY.--Iflaid aside,
they may be sewed up tight in linen,
having snuff or tobacco put along all the
crevices where moths could enter. Shak-
ing pepper from pepper-box or Persian
powder round the edge of the floor under
a carpet prevents the access of moths.
EGGS DRESSED SPANISH FASHION,
In a frying pan toss slice of rich bacon
for the sake of the fat it will render !;
take away the bacon mix tablespoon
full of honey with the bacon fat; break
into tia dozen new-laid eggs, and do them
slowly take them up with q skinner,
place them in dish, and almost mask
them with picked red and green capsi.
Gums sliced. utrt1rfl.
PoTAToEs A LA DUCHEssE.-The fol-
lowing is the recipe of a good cook in a
private family in Paris: Take five mid
dle-sized, cold, boiled potatoes, CRATE and
mix them with Ave dessert spoonfuls Of
-four and o halfpenny's worth of milk,
adding to the mixture two eggs well
beaten mp; prepare a painful of boiling
fat, and drop spoonfuls of the paste into
fat, taking them out the instant they
have acquired q delicate golden brown
color. With moderate care potatoes thus
cooked are delicious. ssa5st sStls y
, PEA Soup.-Take a shank Of beef or a
neck piece, put tin the pot with two gal
Ions Of water and a little salt boil four
hours; take tive quarts Of dry peas, soak
them over night, ptfttfsm in kettle by
themselves and boil 'tlfpcrfectly soft (if
they do not become tender, add little
soda and change the .water); then rub
them through the oolander take out
the meat and strain the broth upon the
peas II not thick enough, add . lit
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$1O,OOO,OOO Worth Of Bonds Called
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WAsuINCTON AuQ n. 1879

BY virtue of authority given by act Of
Congress, approved July IA, 1870, entitled an
act to authorize the refunding of the ma
tional debt, hereby give notice that the
principal and accrued interest OF bonds here
in below designated, known as the $40 bonds,
will be paid at the Treasury OF the United
States, Washington, on and after the 18th
day of November, 1875, and that interest on
said bonds will cease that day; that is to say,
bonds of acts of March 3, 1864, and June 80,
1864, as follows Six per cent. registered
bonds of act Of March of 1864, 500, Nos. to
~, both inclusive $500, Nos. 1 to 43, both
inclusive; $1,000, Nos. to 253, both inclu-
sive $4,000; Nos. to 1866, both inclusive;
total, $946, 900.
Act of June 80, 1s64-Coupon bonds, $780,
Nos. to $50, both inclusive; 500, Nos.
to $500, both inclusive; $500, Nos. to
1900, both inclusive; $1,000, Nos. to 49,
200, both inblusive; total, S5,500,O00.
Registered bonds-$50, Nos. to 30, both
inclusive; 800, Nos. to 250, both inclus-
i've; $500, Nos. to 500, both inclusive;
81 900, Nos. to LOO, both inclusive So, 0O0
Nos. to 800, both inclusive; $4,000, Nos.
1 to 1920, both inclusive; total, So, $50, 400.
Total, $4,000, 900 or amount outstanding
Embraced in the mum bers as above, SO, 500,-
600 are coupon bonds, and $4,500,000 are
registered bonds.
United States securities forwarded for re-
demption should be addressed to Loan Di-
vision, Secretary's Office, and all registered
bonds should be addressed to the Secretary
of the Treasury for redemption.
tSigned] ~ ttta G. +. BURNAM,
Acting Secretary.
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A Dried Chinaman.

The Portland Oregonian tells this
CHASTITY story: Yesterday while Chief
Happens was walking leisurely up Alder
street, in the vicinity of some Chinese
quarters, he was surprised to observe the
somewhat CHASTITY spectacle of pair of
human hands dangling by string from
the second-story window of Chinese
tenement. The officer entered the build
ing and ordered the occupants to take
the hands in, out of the gaze of the pub
lie. He then demanded an explanation
of the affair, and was told that the hands
belonged to the body of a Chinaman
who died some time ago at Lewiston.
According to an established custom, the
body was sent down to Portland for the
purpose of shipping it back to China.
When the body reached here it became
necessary to cut it up into pieces SO
that it might occupy the least possible
space. Tho hands, after being severed
from the arms at the wrists, were hung
up in the sun to dry.
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A Sad Blow.

A Vicksburger, who prides himself on
his choice language, was over in Louisi-
ana the other day on business, and stop
ping at farmhouse TO get drink OF
water, the woman remarked that the
crops stood in great need Of rain.
eyes, rain is the great desideratum,"
he replied, az he handed the tin dipper
back.
"Maryl Maryp yelled the woman in
loud tones. ~
A white-headed girl of sixteen came
out of the back room in response to the
call, and the mother continued:
"Take a squar view of him, Mary !
He don't look as if he knew enough to
plow cotton, and yet he just got off a
word as long as from here TO the mule
pen and back, and he may be holdin' on
to more"
The Vicksburger walked right away
from there.
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wants, and ordered them to leave the
country.
Intelligence has been received from
Sclsvonic sources that the insurgents in
herzegovina have etoFiped Fort Govansko,
near Pivi, and captured The town Of Ne
takia......A dispatch from Agram reports
that an insurrection has broken out In
Turkish Croatia, in the district between
Kostainicza and Dubecza, along the Austrian
frontieS the insurgents having surprised 2
guard-house, Killed the guards, and seized
their arms. The Constantinople paper, the
Courier FOrienf, estimates that the force
sent against the insurgents in Turkish
Croatia numbers twenty thousand. Prince
Charles Theodore, the great uncle OF the
King of Bavaria, fell from his horse on the
10th and was instantly killed......A treaty
of commerce between China and Peru was
ratified on the 9TH inst.
A dispatch from Vienna reports that the
Radicals have been victorious in the cleo.
tons in Servia. The Deutsche Zeitung states
that the Radicals will move on Skuptschina,
and that Servia will send an army to Herze-
goyina, to assist the insurgents.......The in
surrection in Turkish provinces covers two
hundred miles of territory......l 1t is reported
that two thousand five hundred troops which
landed at Kleck refused to march for Mostar
on account of insurgent occupancy OF noun.
tain passes on the route....... The garrison OF
Trebigne, in Herzegovina, made a sortie on
the 18th, but were repulsed. Several vii
lagos were burned during the engagement.
A letter from Dalmatia, dated August 10,
says sixteen thousand men are ready to join
the bosnian insurrection, and that Sclavo-
mans from all parts were arriving to hight
for their independence and religion. ..... The
London Times, commenting on the Turkish
situation, says: While we think the success
of the rebellion would be a calamity at the
present time, because 1t might precipitate q
disruption Of the Ottoman Empire, and
plunge Europe into a mightier war, we can
not blame the people for seeking to throw
of an intOlerable yoke......A steam yacht
carrying the Queen and royal family, while
crossing from Osborne to Portsmouth, on
the 18th, collided with and sank the schooner
yacht Mistletoe. The latter was struck amid
ships, and sank instantly. A party OF ladies
and gentlemen were OIL board the Mistletoe,
three of whom were drowned and one killed.
None of the royal party were injured, and
their yacht was but slightly damaged.
A late Madrid dispatch says the royal bri-
gade, under command of General Delatre,
routed Dorregaray while the latter was en-
deavoring to- penetrate Into Aragon, and
forced him to retreat to the mountains near
Tremp, in Catalonia. General Jovellar holds
the mountain passes at Balaguer, and will
prevent Dorregaray from escaping in the di'
rection of Lerida.
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tie -four. Split peas require no strain
ing.


KEROSENE and rats, 1t has been dis
covered, have no affinity for each other,
and it is only necessary 70 keep a small
quantity Of kerosene in or about their
haunts to cause general stampede.
A DARK house is always unhealthy, an
ill-aired house and dirty house. Want
of light stops growth and promotes
scrofula, ricketts,, etc., among the children.
People lose their health in dark house,
and if they become i'll they cannot get
we'll in it. ~ H' i"uoD' -1,l .il0
The Chicago Inter- Ocean says: Hun
dreds of children have fallen victims to
scarlet fever in this city during the past
three months. Concerning the treat
ment of this disease, an eminent physi-
clan says that he does not fail in effecting
a cure more than once in hundred
cases, by giving the patient warm lemon
ade with gum arabic dissolved in it. A
cloth wrung out in hot water and laid
upon the stomach should be renewed as
rapidly as it becomes cold. To this SIM
pie treatment the most obstinate cases
seldom fail to succumb. sL" Hi tiiinif
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started for the field than the second said,
swell, If you go, believe I will go too
so here come land down. dropped the
rain-drop on another stalk.
By this time great many rain-drops
had come together to hear what their
companions were talking about; and
when they heard them and saw them
coming to cheer the farmer and water the
corn, one of them said, eff you are going
on such good errand, I'll 60 too" and
down he came. "And i, said another.
"And l." "And l." Sand l." and 80
on, till a whole shower of them came, and
the corn was all watered, and it grew and
ripened, all because the first little rain
drop determined to do what it could.
Never be discouraged, children, be-
cause you can't do much. Do what you
can. Angels can do no more. .i',..'f.,
Dry BOTTLEs.-In Ps. cxix, 83,
King David says: 81 am become
as a bottle in the smoke" Probably
many of our younger readers have been
unable to perceive the appropriateness of
this figure of speech. "Where would a
bottle be likely to be placed" they
mignt ask, % IhaeiV Wouiu NO III cho
smoker tg 5ti
h The meaning is clear when we know
that in the East bottles were made of
skins, and when hung up in smoky tents
or houses, were liable to become very
dry, and shrink and crack. so as to be
rendered entirely worthless. The skins
used were those either of oxen or goats.
Our word " hogshead is said to be dc.
rived from "ox-hide." The newer these
bottles were, the more elastic and endur-
ing Of pressure. Hence new wine, which
in the process of fermentation would ex.
pand with gas, had to be put into new
bottles, for old ones would be almost sure
to burst. The Psalmist means in the
above verse, to express his sense OF
worthlessness either from age or sickness
Yet did he not forgetthe divine statutes
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Wealthy PreIatcs.

The FdrfuNa, of Naples, gives the fol-
lowing information relative to the an
nual revenues of some Italian Cardinals,
which may be compared with those of
some English prelates, to which the Ul-
tramontane organs are constantly refer
ring. Each of the Princes of the Church
has an annual income of 10000 francs
In addition, Cardinal Patrizzi has 40, 900
francs as Cardinal Of Rome, and
an equal sum from his beneficcs, without
speaking of his large private fortune.
Cardinal Amat draws 110, 900 francs from
his enormous benefces; he possesses, be-
sides, immense estates. Cardinal Di Pie
tro receives 10000 francs rs Bishop of
Albano, and an equal sum is allowed him
by Portugal. Cardinal Sacconi. has a
similar revenue to Di Pietro. de Luca
possesses an annual revenue of 150, 900
francs. The casual dues alone bring in
40, 900 francs to Cardinal Bigarri. Be-
rardi touches $780, 900 francs a year.
Chigi belongs TO a very rich family.
Franchi has stipend Of 10000 francs,
besides large pension from Spain. Use
less to speak Of Antohelli; the promo
ton of Cardinals, Bishops and prebends
alone produce him fixed sum. Of 10000
francs year. - ~ -r.s IL y - ~
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go, Lord, thou knowest," prayed a
Connecticut deacon, "that am afflicted
with most impious and depraved son.
Thou knowest that he will swear, and lie,
and steal, and do all sinful things Thou
knowest that on the last Sabbath day he
was seen walking down the principal
street in the village, with his hands in his
pockets, whistling the following ungodly
tune:"--and the congregation were
astounded to hear 4" Yankee Doodle" flow
melodiously from the deacon's pursed-up
lips.
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.


BYs- wADDINGToS.
A butterfly . butterfly id
And who TO catch II will not try
See, here and there across the grass
In painting haste they come and pass
= A troop Of boys, an eager throng, ,'.
This way and that they leap along; ~
While meath the shade their elders sit,
Enjoy the sport and laugh att
All, hope with disappointment fraughti
Each boy In turn thinks he has caught
The fragile thing, while far on high
Still scars the painted butterfly.
At length across the garden wall
II fits, and, beaten one and all,
Confined within the gardens space,
They turn bewildered from the chase.
All me then was Il but dream
IL truth butterfly did seem, ....
That let men chase II, each and all,
Then passed beyond their garden wall
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The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA WOOL MARKET.


Wool Is steady; fine and medium and combing in
fair demand with sales of Ohio Pennsylvania, and
West Virginia heeces double extra and above, 469
4sc; medium ut 49@5lc coarse at 43945c; New
York, Michigan, Indiana and Western eeces, fine at
43@i5c: medium at 49950c; coarse at 43@i6c; comb
ing, unwashed, at 421ac; fine and unwashed at soc;
coarse and medium unwashed at 35@37c; tub-wasled
Mt 499521c extra and merino pulled at 4O@42c; No.
and sinner nulled nj 221 A0c
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-26

MILLIoNsof intelligent women say that
Dobbins' Electric Soap (made by Cragin
& Co., Phil.) is, in every respect, the
best soap ever made, and will do three
times the work of any other. Try it.
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CAN there be any greater dotage in the
world than for one to guide and direct
his courses by the sound of bell, and
not by his own judgment and discretion.
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LARGE TRACTS Of land in the south Of
France, not hitherto cultivated, are be-
ing. planted with kind Of oak trees, be-
meath which truflles are generally found,
and it Is expected that each acre of this
land, lately sold as low as f5, will yield
q cropof tra6Ies worth ego year
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AT this season of the year cramps and
pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery,
diarrhna, etc., are quite common, and should
be checked at once. Johnson's AnOdyne Lini-
ment is the best article that can be used in
all such cases, and should be kept in every
family -L.--L :
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GREAT harm and discomfort is caused by
the use of purgatives which grippe and rack
the system. Parsons PurgatiUe Pills are free
from all impure matter, and are mild and
health.giying in their operation.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-26

PERSONAL. r. Herrog: "I have used
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR, after trying
nearly all other remedies, and am now a
be said in praise Of such remedy"
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The number of failures in Georgia
for six months past is seventy-nine !;
the total amount of liabilities about
$9,956, 2l5.
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Dyspepsia and Plies prevailing and dis.
tressing Diseases DR.. TUFTS Liver Pills will GER.
tainly cure them. To be had Of any druggist.
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COMMANDER Andrew jackson Drake,
Of the United States Navy, is dead.
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,MiiiEMHfsS

Cotton. ......-..... ff4a
ft0Ur. 20 80
Wheat s.........s-,. n .
~ 9
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. @
Appso9 .,...es",..- ! " q
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THERE are agricultural ants in Texas,
that actually plant grain, and reap before
the harvest. I.........
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assembled with Donaldson, has been found
near Stony Point, on Lake Michigan.
James T. Giles, Postmaster at Prescott,
Arizona, has absconded, leaving money
orders to the amount of $500 unaccounted
for..... Calumet River Distillery, at Chicago,
has been sold for fifty thousand dollars
taxes due the government. IL was bought
in by the company......Mr Frost was struck
dead by lightning at Frost Station, Tonnes
see, the electricity burning every shred Of
clothing and leaving the body in state of
nature 80. Ex-senator Joseph 8. Fowler, Of
Tennessee, has been selected to deliver an
Grafton on the life and times OF ex-President
johnson, next October. The obsequies will
be similar to those of ex-President jack
son.....D. M. Key has been appointed by
Governor Porter, of Tenpessee, TO succeed
President Johnson in the United States Sen
ate. He lives in East Tennessee, and is very
popular there, though, on account of diff
dence, not generally known.
The President of Ecuador has been assassi.
mated. ....r,v,
Notes from Abroad.
The English Parliament was prorogued on
the 18th August till the Goth October. The
Queen closed the session with a speech, re.
viewing the condition of the nation.
There is great suffering throughout China
from the prolonged heat. The thermometer
in Peking has indicated one hundred and
ten degrees.......Thef following Is taken from
letter written by an American residing in
Costa Rica: number Of Jesuits entered
the Republic Of Costa Rica from Guatemala,
whence they had been expelled. When they
arrived within ten miles Of the capital they
were ordered TO stop. Congress met the
same day, and two thousand Masops went In
a body 10 Congress Hall and petitioned for
the Jesuits' removal as mischievous mem
bers OF society. The President, who Is q
the subject, Overriding those who favored
charitable protection for the Jesuits. The
Congress finally voted them one thousand
i've hundred dollars for their immediate