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The latest attempt to legislate for the ex-
elusion of the Chinese only proves how diff
cult anv class legislation must always be.
The bin of Mr.. Myers, of Pennsylvania, pro-
5yides that when immigrants have entered
into contract or agreement for a term OF
services within the United States. either for
labor or improper purposes, such immiera-
zion shall not be deemed voluntary, and
the Un.tad States Consul shall not deliver
the required permit. This may suit the lati-.
tndc Of China. But it follows that ifa COM
pany of Welsh and English miners, engaged
IN Great Britain to work two years III She
works at Hallett's Point, should cross the
ocean, they would be sent back as coolies.
on, il Mr. Myers should desire to engage q
i Clyde workman to superintend putting q
compound engine into an ocean steamer on
9 six mouths, engagement, the United
States Consul at Liverpool would not let
him have y permit to. sail; moreover, the
American cilizen who should attempt I'd
bring the workman over would be liable to
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The "Great Exhibition of 1851, held in
London, was opened on the 1st of May, and
remained open for payment for al days.
The number Of visitors was 6, 039, 1876, and
$40, te24, 5522 522 was received for admission. The
Exposition Universelleo of 1855, was
opened on tile 10Th day Of May, and re-
mained open 200 days, Sundays included
The number Of visitors was G,1G2, $50, and
e12S, 099 was received for admissions. The
international Exhibition of 1862, in
London, was opened on the 1st of May, and
remained open III days. The number of
visitors was G,211,1 1o3 and e408,55 $50 was re-
ceived for admission. The s.Exposition
Universelle, of 1867, at Paris, was opened
on the fst day Of April, and remained open
2f1 days, Sundays included. The number
of visitors was no less than 8,S05, 1869, and
'e420, 735 was received for admission. The
Universal Exhibition Of 1873 at Vienna,
was opened OH the 1st of May, and re-
manned open 1856 days, Sundays included
The number Of visitors was 6, ,740, 500 and
e206, 473 was received for admissions
Thus the total number of visitors at the five
great International Exhibitions was 3d.
$50, ,097, a greater number than the entire
population of the United Kingdom enumer-
sted at the census Of 1871, and 81, ,5Ss, 1854
was received for admissions The "Pro-
gress Medal, as it was termed at Vienna,
for the greatest number of visitors IN one
day, belongs to the Exposition Universelle
of Paris, in 1861, when 1T3, 923 persons
passed through the turnstiles ON Sunday,
the.27th of October. The Vienna Exhibi-
tion was a ''good seeondn with 135, 674, OH
tlae'closing day, the I'd of November; Paris
in 1856, comes next, with 123,U17, on Sun
day, the 9th of September. Then comes
the London Great Exhibition of 1851, with
what was then thought the extraordinary
number of 1o9,915 on Tuesday, the 7th Of
October; four days before the close; and
lastly, London in 1862, with 67,891 on:
Thursday. the '30th Of October. 'zt We wait
now for the great Exposition at Philade1-
phia in 1876. 55s@$ a''.g@2 ~
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NEWSPAPERS pEcIsIoNs.
EvE-ANGELTCAL CORNER.

Everything appertaining to the feminine
head is 'FGrecian" now!
A dressmakers apprentice speaks of her
cross-eyed lover as the fellow whose looks
are cut bias.
| Nine out of ten fashionable women now
wear the black velvet throat band for CON-
plexion purposes.
| Miss Anna E. Dickinson is in New York
hard at work preparing new lecture ON
ssSisters Of Charity"
Kalakaua is doubtless home ere this, and
! getting mixed up under the cross question
ing of Mrs. Kalakaua.
Mrs. Captain Jack, in her lonely seclu.
| sion, may take comfort in the thought that
| it cost the Government $411, ZOO to make
her a widow.
''None but the brave deserve the fair"
What is the difference between brave
man and a coward when fair one is con-
eerned? One will give up all to get her and
the other gives altogether.
"What on earth made you get so drunk,
and why,-oh! why do you come to me in
this dreadful state?'' Because, nv dar-
ling all the other places are shut .
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Clinton, appears
before the Davenport term of the Supreme
Court as attorney i'll the case of Oswald vs.
Hays. This is the first instance of wo-
man appearing as an advocate in ~ cause
before an Iowa Supreme Court.
A Kansas farmer purchased revolver
for his wife, and insisted ON target practice
so that she could defend her house in case
of his absence. After the bullet was dug
out of his leg, and the cow buried, he said
he guessed she'd better shoot with an AK.
Mrs. Spilkins informed her husband this
morning that she dreamed of seeing three
magnificent silk dresses spread out before
her. E'Well, my DEAR" said Spillsins ''why
didn't you hang one of them up where he
could find it, when you woke up
''And now, Mrs. Sullivan" said the coun,
sci, will you be kind enough to tell the jury
whether your husband was in the habit of
striking you with impunity?" "Wid what
sir?' 'With impunity." 'sHe wuz, sir,
now and thin, but he sthruck me oftener
Wid his fisht."
''Your young friend stayed uncommonly
late last night, and [ was quite inclined to
come into the parlor and dismiss him." said
tsAA ldtlCI W pCu O1 elAGGGii.
ooh! yes, it was pretty late; but we got so
interested in discussing Ritualism that we
did not notice the fleeting hours, papar'
Discussing Ritualisin?" sternly queried
the father, and then he walked slowly away
with his hands under his coat-skirts, trying
to remember what they called it when he
was young.
Mrs. Lieutenant Fitch, nee Sherman, is
placed in an embarrassing position by her
acceptance of the diamond gift from the
khedive of Egypt. This royal and costly
present, valued at 100000, must pay a
duty at the Custom-house of $75, 600 before
it can adorn the simplicity of our young
American bride. The sum of $4,000 is
more than the fortune of her father and
husband, and it is altogether impossible to
take the jewels from the bonded warehouse
where they are now on storage.
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An Ohio Spelling Match.

sos 4to 1,a,,so. o,,:
-. - ".aso' Ns4'i1' eoiissi'ohd'eiis ''s' oi
tlie oihclhhatl u3zette: ar l'a
The spelling school last night was we'll
attended though the proceeds were light,
ON account of the very Insignificant fee
ten cents. Mir. NJ. j. Morgan, Superinten-
dent of the Public Schools, and G. A. At
kinson, Acting County Recorder, were the
Captains. There We're chosen twenty
eight on a side. Dr. Cremint and Profess
sor J. W. Longbon were selected pronoun-
GERS DR. Williams missed the word chdtse;
J. II. Bum fell under first fire on typtfy;
Manager Eek. Jones couldn't get his foot
in stifreepi Mr. Eben Jones' hearing was
not very good, aud The person who whs-
pered to him how 70 spell seoarge didn't
tell him right; f. Gfandall couldn't get
away with QFfeo0fbs. Judge Evans sue-
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- An ingenious Contrivance.


The Meadyille kPa.) Joasfaeqz says: There
IS being builtsat Franklin BY, the Gelena
On.Company, rniniataareofl farm for exhibi-
ton at the coming Centennial Exhibition
at Philadelphia. 1t will be acomplete and
accurate representation. upon q reduced
scale, of a section Of the oil region. There
will be rocks, bluffs, hills and ravines. creeks
and rivers. There will be railroads! with
trains inamotion, moved, hya miniature en-
gine. There will fonr oil wells in process
of drilling. other wells pumping, horses and
drays transporting theoily product overland,
pipe lines, tanks, avillage containing costly
residences ofthe successful operators. and
the pine board slanty ofsthe- -pnInper, and
in the foreground the .Gelena Oil Company's s
works, Including tanks, stills engines,
agitators, <sturehofses, &c. The whole
farm will occupy a space about twenty
feet square, and will cost many hundreds
of dollars. There will he several small en-
glnes to run the wells, drills. railroad trains,
andTetinery. This Ingenious contriyarce
is constructed in sections. aud can he easily
taken apart for transportation. na=ss.
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ARig Sell.

Il A. certain insurance man illstawn. who
boards at the same hotel with one of the
nigltteornposi ositars as tlals sjouransl IN order
to save the subscription prica OF a newspa-i
per, entered into an sarlan cement with the
printer to- get the news :ls soon lis he.
got up. Tie printer was to wlite out Il
brief sketch afall the ifnportaat news and
stick the paper under the ilsnratIce mans
door A few mornings since the latter got
m and dressed himself, excepting one boot
and stocking and his coat, when lie espiedi
the III per Under his d,nr He picked ii up
and read as follows. 4se3Taa,t assassiaaatati.
eafIfTy in an uproaT. Mas. SaItoris and
Mrs. NFant carried off by masked kisslap-
4Ileiss while insensible a member Dc the
q alsineI supposed to ha The assassin $40 8
ese9 reward offered by Can glcss.''' ssifhont
com nplefiHg his foilef He rushed oarsof the
lsnTll and wakHned up several boarglers.
told them ef the great news. and scared
+ hem out of theifewits.Fs We leave our
Hradefs con ieotslre. they can, hesdisgslst
ri le whole. party M en- they found lsovi
1laes had been sold. The irlgilraace man
lsi,z' sHatlI to subscribe toatiai1y ,strer.
3fssgysA il33Ts5sU1
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FACTS FOR WINTER Fahrenheit by a
mixture of snow and salt, supposed he had
attained the greatest degree of artificial
cold. This point he marked zero of his
Thermometer. He now fixed boiling water
at 2l2 deg. At 80 deg. water freezes, Milk
at 80; Vinegar, %; blood, 25, Oil Burga-
mot, %; Castor Oil, 10; Wine, is; Salt
Water specific gravity, 1.104; mixture of
snow and Salt, zero;E North Pole, mean
temperature, (calenlated) 13 deg. below.
Mercury freezes at from SO to- 20; alcohol,
from 60 to 20; carbonic acid, 14S. Lowest
artificial cold, 1877. Newton was the first
to Tx The standard Of temperature. Celsius
used freezing point of water as zero, 100
deg. as boiling, hence eentigrade. Mercury
is the most sensible to heat and cold, the
most readily freed from atmosphere. is
easily made pure, and when pure is always
OF the same density It sustains heat of
6eo deg. Z. Alcohol expands six times as
much as Mercury with the same degree of
heat, 1t vaporizes at ia deg. above. zero,
at which point it is equal in expansive
power to water at 212. 1-t
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POETRY.
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK. y

VIII it pain me there forever
VIII it leave me happy never
This weary, weary gnawing of the old dull pain9
| VIII the sweet yet bitter yearning.
| That at my heart is burning,
Throb on and on forever and forever I,e in vain
weary. weary longing!
0 sad, sweet memories throneine
From the sunset-lghted woodlands Of the dear ant
holg past
Oh hope and faith undymg!
Shall never cease from signing
Must my lot among the shadows fore vermore b,
cast?
Shall never see the glory
That the Christ-knight of old story
Sir Gaiahad, my hcro saw folded round his sleep :?
The full, completed beauty
With which God gds dull duty
For hearts that burn toward heaven from the ever
lasting deep
From that conflict ceasing never,
From the toll increasing ever
From the hard and bitter battle with the cold and
callous world?
VIII the sky grow never clearer
Will the hills draw never nearer
Where the golden city gmmers in its rainbow mists
impearled?
All! me, that golden city,
Can God then have no pity?
l have sought it with such yearnine for so MANY
bitter years
And ct the hills blue glimmer,
And tine portals golden simmer
Fade ever with the evening and the distance never
nears!
U weary, weary living!
o foeman unforgiving.
0 enemies that meet me in the eal tb and in, uirf
flesh that clogs my yearning.
weakness aye returning!
viii ye never cease to trouble Will We never. never
spare?
VIII my soul grow never purer?
VIII my hope be never surer?
VIII the mst-wreaths and the cliff gates from nv
path be never rolled?
Shall never, never gain it,
That last ecstatic miuute
When the journeys guerdop waits me behind those
ills of gold?
Alas. the clouds grow dtrler
And the hills loom ever starker
Across the leaden mist screen Of the heavens dull
and gray.
Thou must learn to bear hy burden .'
Thou must wait to win thy gneTd1n,
CLril the day break conleth and the shadows flee
away!
ST puurs
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The following are a few curious Chinese
proverbs The ripest fruit grows ON the
roughest wall. 1t is the small wheels of
the carriage that come in first The man
who holds the ladder at the bottom is fire.
squently of more service than he who is
stationed at the top of it. The turtle.
though brought in at the back gate, takes
the head at the table, Better be a cat in
a pllilanthropist's family than a mutton
peat kings banquet The learned pig
didn't learn its letters in a day. True
merit, like the pearl inside an oyster, is
content 10 remain quiet. till it finds am
opening. The top strawberries are eaten
first. He who leaves early gets the best
hat. Pride sleeps in a gilded crown !; con-
tentinent IN q cotton nightcap.
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THE LARGEST
Firs! Class lTotel in the Territory,

Having secured lease for long term of
years of this large and commodious house,
have renovated, refurnisled and cmbel-
lished its roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms and no expense or pains will be
spared to continue to improve and keep it
on first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the very best the markets
afford and the delcacies of the season. At
tendance unexceptionable. Terms, reason
bic. 281
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They have two very enthusiastic under
takers i'll New Castle. They are always ON
the lookout for business, and ALWAYS try-
ing to get ahead Of each other. The wife
of prominent citizen was known to be
quite i'll some time ago, and both undertak
ers made up their minds to provide the
funeral if she should die. On Thursday
night the husband dropped the paragor1c
bottle on the floor, and scared the invalid
so that she gave little scream. The next
instant the family heard somebody stagger-
ing up stairs, knocking the paper off the
wall with some kind of an implement. 1t
was Jones, the undertaken, bringing up
one of his patent heremetically sealed cof-
fins. He had been waiting on the front
steps, and hearing the scream, concluded
the end had come, and rushed in all ready.
He dashed up the stairs as the husband
opened the door, set the coffin end up on
the carpet, and exclaimed, eagerly: ssGim-
me the first chance! Bury her for forty
dollars, with silver trimmingsp Before
the indignant man had time to reply.
noise was heard at the attic. Presently
Brown, the other undertaken, appeared on
the third story landing. and heaving one of
his 'incorrodable burial caskets' down
the bannister suddenly, and screamed,
Doi' uo II, IL piahI hef Tor thlrty-eight
dollars; five off for cash; put a monogram
on the easket and throw in tombstone" /"
Brown had been watching Jones, it seems,
from the roof of the house next door, and
would have beaten him but the trap-door
stuck. They were led away by police
man, but before they reached the corner of
the street. Jones had secured a contract
Tor burying that policeman S mother-in-law,
when she died. The policeman was not
particular about details. 'Only let it be
deep said he, with something solid on
top to hold her down."
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Joaquin Miller and Tom Hood the
Younger.

firmest friend in London-nay, in ali the
world | came back yesterday and missed
my warlLest welcome.
| called at his little sanctum before even
finding my hotel. Irushed in as I ALWAYS
did before, expecting to find him there. to
take him by his great black beard, to bully
him, to call him w-citizen-this Brit
ish subject, this great and good man, al
ways so kind to me; but fonnd the chair
empty. y = Z
Just four years ago this month. a day
like this, | first met Hood. How lonesome
was. How discouraged. Three months
had been i'll this great town, sick, worn.
alone. | knew not soul,
"Oh it was pitiful. =s
Near whole city full
Friend had n0ne.n
| had time to see people. but | really had
no business with them. | was lonesome
only, and wanted some one to talk to. They
We're all at work. In fact, all men who are
really worth anything are always at work.
and have but little time to see you. You
must be content to see them in their work,
had called on at least twenty publishers.
They would not even unite my papers.
The very first evening | spent with Hood
he brought out a great big basket and
emptied it upon the table. This was his
fathers scrap basket and contained all the
papers, manuscript and drawings that his
son had got together and kept. OF course
| wanted to see the "Bridge of Sigbs:' but
there was not line Of it to be found, There
We're few lines, however, that were meant
for this poem-perhaps they are the very
first the great, good poet conceived when
this poem was in his heart And here they
are, just as | copied them that evening:
Cover her, cover her,
Throw the Sod over her.
Hide her from God
And then after that and further down ON
the she3+ is a comic picture. Then still
further down this:
'SHelloi Who comes THEREOF
Was it some one knocked? PERHAPS it
was some man with dun, and the poor
man knew his step.
sometimes wonder if the world-the
well-fed, fat, fashionable world-when it
reads with intense pleasure certain poems,
ever recalls the fact that the man wrote
them without his dinner.
What curious pictures and drawings we
came upon-snch things as only could
amuse little children, and 'they were all
patched up here and there and fastened to-
gether with waters. .....r.. .a
Then the son told me that during the
last few years of his fathers life he could
not sleep for pain, and 50 sat up and made
these pictures for himself and sister; and
when they would waken in the morning
they would find these tnings pasted all
about the wall. 5*+15
Tom Hood is dead. I sit all alone before
my task, and shall not go on with it for
many days; for what is the useo London
is not the London If was
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TA ~
q lNIuIE WINNIE 70 Go.-A bad little
boy insTortiand lit a spaek of Shooting
crackers and threw fhemi into the street to
see them ''go off, One of Ike Bateman,s
. mules came along and swallowed them
before they went of. y The mule walked
about fifteen feetsana stopped. He began.
60 taste the smoke of sfire-orackers 81 He.
Laid his left around saeainst his ribs. and
heard something. 1t was them crackers
having ftln Tile mule picked out about.
three and u haif mics nf straight raaa and
started. "A negro nletaliiln about aInile
the ether side of the alms-llollse, going
south, white with perspsIation, with streams
Of smoke shooting ont Of his ilostrils..
mouth. iantI eYes white his tale stuck
straight mp, and ii stream Of blue and green
smoke alaont ten Feet followed In the rear.
Ike found MS nlhle yesterday morning
sticking half WY through Il fal1n-hause
I9near Paddy Isuns still smoking. The
man had got his out and plaf 'eslr M
into q lot or trees. Ike hauled his gs1tile:
lfslae. when he get eooi enough, "a assarag.
lie man Il going Id lIIeve his house fattlaer
back eff Tile raas and his wi fea and oldest
daughter wils III baptized when theIuater
gess warm.
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Tho Invention for making paper barrels
was patented about six months ago. and
two factories are working, one at WIinona,
Wisconsin, and one at Deborah Iowa. tile
latter turning ont |, 600 barrels daily. Their
strength is said to lie greater by four times
than wooden barrels, only half the weight,
and costing twenty per cent. less Paper
is becoming Of great appearance for manu-
fitcturing purposes. Il makes the best car
wheels and water pals A Connecticut
.lnanis perfecting q paper cook stove, with.
paper spokers and crates. 1t has been. used
as shoe .soles for many years.
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= -Alog OF wood containing Il sealed bot
tie, has just been picked up at Havre,
France. It was one of the several thrown
overheard from the Prince Napoleon, in its
Arctic Expedition. to test the force of
currents. The writing it contained was
perfectly legible. although the log had been
I drifting since 1860. f5,,I IEz,-,.-f- ~ -.
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Gen. James Longstreet is reported by
southern papers TO have abandoned Louis
lana and become a citizen of Georgia. He
has recently purchased a desirable farm in.
White county, and proposes to engage
largely in the rearing of sheep, a business
for which that section of the State is repre-.
sented to be admirably adapted. GEN..
Longstreet's residence will be in Gaines
villa
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Regular advertising payable quarterly as due
Transient advertising payable in advance.
special Notices are 50 per cent more than regular
advertisements.
Local advertising Is cents for the first insertion 10
cents per line for each succeeding insertion; lines
counted in Nonpariel measure
Job Work payable delivery.
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| -Twenty-one million six hundred thou
sand tons, or over five hundred and sixty.
millions of cubic feet Of anthracite coal was.
min I'd in Pennsylvania last year. Some
body who is extraordinarily good at figures
has calculated that this would form q solid
wall one hundred feet high, one hundred.
feet wide, and nearly eleven miles in.
length. ts 4iz5seaa <5i@t1A z} 'Ss of.S5 =
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The Five Great Exhibitions.

.-- Il. Il. w ATERMAN.
Cttaaed, Illinois, Letter to ST. Louis Dem
fYa1t E.-I
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-18
STATE NEWS.
ASCENSION.

ASCENSIOS.
From the Donaldsonville ChiJ, Novem.
ber 49,
Four teachers of the first, second and
fourth wards are directed by President p.
Landry, of the school board, to close their
schools at the end of the present month
Lack of school funds is the cause.
General NJ. jeff Thompson, accompanied
by Messrs. Melvin and Dartop, passed
through the town Monday, only stopping
long enough to stake out levee in front
Of Mr.. j. A. Braud's place.
CARROLL.
From the True Republican, November l3:
The extra term of the district court, Hon.
Wade II. Hough, Judge, will be held the
last week of November. for civil cases only.
The grand jury meets the first week of De-
cember.
LINCOLN.
From the Vienna Sentinel, November I3:
Robert Num-, charged with the murder
of Henry 'Tanahill, was found guilty of
willful murder before Judge Trimble Of the
district court. A motion for a new trial in
his case was filed this morning. If the new
trial be granted it is probable that the
crime may be reduced to manslaughter.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-18
Woman Suffrage.

A woman at Medicine Bow, Wyoming,
just as she was depositing her vote last cleo
tiou day, was surprised to hear rough
sing out:
II challenge that woman's vote"
"On what grounds, sir}'
"She hasn't been long enough in the Ter
ritory."
Did the woman sit down and cry over itl
1t is not to be recorded. Her dainty little
hand glided back into the folds of her pull
back, and the next thing that audaciOus
cuss knew he was gazing into the muzzle of
Q Derringer, while the fair voter said:
"How long have been in the Territory,
sirl"
"Look out, madam-don't. That cussed
thing might 10 0f-take it away; beg your
pardon; I-don't touch that trigger-I-I-Pm
mistaken in the woman. Please point that
the other way. I'll lick the lyin' sheep thief
that says you haven't lived right here in
this town for ten years. Isw'ar will"
BE sco0ted around the corner, and she
smilingly passed in her ticket.