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THE LIFE CLOCK.


There is little mystic clock,
No human eye hath seen,
That beateth en-and beateth on,
From morning until e'en.
And when the soul is wrapped in sleep,
And heareth not sound,
1t ticks, and ticks the lifelong night,
And never runneth down.
Oh, wondrous is that work of art,
Which knells the passing hour,
But art meier formed, nor mind conceived,
The lfe-clock's magic power.
Nor set in gold, nor decked with gems,
BY wealth and pride possessed;
But rich or poor, or high or low,
Each hears it in his breast.
When life's deep stream, mid beds and flowers,
All still and softly glides,
Like the wavelet's step, with gentle beat,
1t warns of passing tides.
When threatening darkness gathers DER,
And hopes bright visions flee,
Like the sullen strokes of the mufled oar,
1t beateth heavily.
When passion nerves the warriors arm
For deeds of hate and wrong,
Though needed not the fearful sound,
The knell is deep and strong
When eyes to eyes gazing soft,
And tender words are spoken,
Then fast and wild it rattles on,
AS if with love 'twere broken.
Such is the clock that measures life,
OF flesh and spirit blended;
And thus twill run within the breast
Till that strange life is ended.
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A QUEER CUSTOMER. In Australia they have a
qusdruped having the beak OF a bid bird
with hair, but without wings winged lizard
and turtle with teeth But Brazil has creature
stranger than any of these Itisa fish that crawls
on the land and lives on vegetables. This strange
fish is about thirty eight inches long, with aver
age diameter of seven inches. 1t passes the day
in the water, where il remains nearly motiOnless.
Its fms being underneath its body, and very
strong, it is able to prOpe itself the land, and
at night it leaves the water and goes along the
banks of rivers and streams in search Of food. 1t
feeds on grass and othe vegetables which are
under water at high tides. The quantity of
nourishment it takes isiimply enormous. 1t is
believed that no living creature devours as much
as this fish in proportion b its size. The stories
told of this creature were generally discredited
till Agassiz made it study.
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JOHN F. PLUMMER,
WATCH MAKER g. JEWELER

No. S3 NORTH GAY STREET,
Adjoining the Bridge, BALTIMORE.
OONSTANTSY on hand beautiful assort-
" ment of CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWEL
RY, SPECTACLES, &C., which will be sold at
the lowest cash prices.
CLOCKS, VA TCHES AND JE EWELRY
repaired at the shortest notice, and anted to
give satisfaction.
Nas~SPECTACLE GLASSES to suit all eyes
re- All work from the country promptly at
tended TO, MAY 15,'76Iy.
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SHARP BOYS VINO FORMED A RING.-Witcher
q butcher in Sioux City, thought he'd play q
trick on his boys and get an enormous amount
of work out of them during the coming year.
He had traded for pony, and all his boys
wanted the animal, and each claimed him as
his individual property. They quarreled too,
and became unmanageable.
Witcher conceived plan of settling the dis
pute, restoring harmony in his family and
making good speculation at the same time
He told the boys he would put the pony up at
auction, they to be the only bidders, and a sale
assured, the highest bidder was to have the
pony with the privilege of paying for the pro-
perty by work to be performed during the year
They all wanted the pony so unanimously that
he supposed they would bid high.
But he found out his mistake too late The
boys formed ring. The pony was knocked
down to the youngest shaver at $25.25, who sold
the animal to Black Hill emigrant for SO
He paid the old man the auction price, and had
$49.75 to divide among his brothers. Those
boys did not give the old man chance. They
will be ready for business when the time comes.
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Gg-The city Standard says: In one of our
public schools the teacher asked the following
question
"If the United States is a republic, why is
it?"
All the class gave up the conundrum, but
one little fellow of seven years at last jumped
to bis feet and said:
"I know. 1t used to be republic, but now
it's Democrat"
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SEAsoNABLE FASHION GcssIP ladies have
all got the neuralgia in their shoulders from
wearing spring clothes, ard many new dresses are
supplemented across the back by porous plasters,
and next to vest frort mustard poultice is
generally mos: warn. Young ladies alternate
between necklace ferstreet wear and a flannel
rag for the house. Diamonds are worn in the
ears with much effect abroad, but a lock of cot
ton and a little roast onion is the usual adorn-
ment at home. Peal powder is applied to the
shoulders for full dess, but camphorated oil and
bartshcrne linimen are considered very pretty
also by the sufferers. Silk stockings, are the
things for low-slAshed shoes, but pals of hot
mustard water ami warm bricks are also much
worn on the feet
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Mopr1 PosrMAsrrR.-Mr. Lincoln, before

A MODEL PosTMAsTER.-Mr. Lincoln, before
he moved to Springfield, ILL.,, was postmaster
in a small Western town. The office was poor,
and Lincoln was poorer than the office. 1t was
known tfrat he was very hard up, and it was
also known that the Washington agent was in
town to collect the little sum due the General
Post Office. A friend, thinking Lincoln might
be embarrassed, came down to his office to loan
the sum necessary to meet the demand. Mr..
Lincoln thanked him, and said he did not need
any loan. While the two were talking the
agent came in. The sum due was less than
500. Lincoln went to his desk and took out
an old stocking and turned the coin on the Ia
BILE. 1t was counted out, and met the demand
exactly. We'll it might, for it was not only the
exact amount due, but the identical money it.
self that Lincoln had taken in. Old fashioned
rx dollars, pistareens, sixpences, old fashioned
cents and all were there. ~ never use
money that belongs to other people," said Lin.
coin, and that resolution did much toward
making him President of the United States
"B,rLeioh" in Boston Journal.
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A WONDERFUL PLANT.-In an address deliv-
cred before the British Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science, DR.. Hooker exhibited a
a wonderful plant called Dionial Liver
pool paper in an account of it says "A fly was
captured and put upon leaf, which instantly
closed and on re opening it was found that
the fly was completely dissolved. bit OF
beef was afterward consumed in the same way
The leaf was then fed with cheese, which dis
agreed with it horribly, aud eventually killed
it. DIR. Hooker explained that the plants ac-
ton was precisely similar to that of the hu
man stomach. The leaf rejected piece of wet
ohoIk -
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urs~-Ionas rave a LAWYER bill to be collect

Mas-Jones gave a lawyer bill to be collect
ed to the aAount Of $50. Calling for it, after
awhile, he inquired if it had been collected
"Oh, yes, sad the lawyer 81 have it all fol
you." "Wtat charge for collecting" OOH
said the lawyer laughing, '.I'm not going to
ever since you were baby and your father
before you 1920 will be about right" handing
over $40. WELL" said Jones, as he meditated
upon the transaction, "It's darned lucky he
didn't knov my grandfather, or l shouldn't
haye got anything"
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Ms-A Council Bluffs lawyer ate peanuts in
court and was fined $40 for contempt The
Judge remarked that he was determined to up
hold the majesty of the law if it killed the en-
tire peanut crop of the South.
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Ms-Preserve your conscience always soft
and sensitive. If but one sin forces its way
into that tender part of the soul and dwel!s
there, the road is paved for a thousand iniqul-
ties.
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HEMLocK AS A PoIsoN.-A most remarkable
death in Brooklyn recently promises to make
page in scientific history unequaled by any
thing in the treatment Of previous diseases.
Mr.. Walker was in Nov, 1871 run over by a
pork truck, and his face was pied in CASH
es by the horses, and his right hand was so
mashed that the fingers could not be dlstin-
guished from disconnected flesh. He recover
ell, but he carried a MANNED hand, and the
muscles of his face were thoroughly involuntary
in their action, pulling his features into every
sort Of contortion. His eyelids dropped heavi-
lv, and the muscles were powerless to raise
them so that for hours he would be as blind
man. He placed himself under the treatment
of celebrated physician, who scored his fore
head and face with an iron at white heat,
and performed many other scientific operations
on the facial muscles, besides administering
strychnne; but all these failed, and, as last
resort, the doctor began to administer hemlock
to relax all the muscles OF the face the
twitching would cease. Mr.. Walker took $50
drops of the energetic poison, without effect
Mr. Walker then, on the advice of his physi-
clan, procured more hemlock, and returned
home to take the prescribed doses. He took
fifty drops, and according to his custom, began
to dictate the symptoms to his wife; in thirty
minutes he took fifty drops more, and in thir-
ty-fve minutes another dose, making $50 drops.
The symptoms he dictated were indicative of
the most deadly effect until about one hour af-
ter the last dose when his unfinished sentence
ended in death. The record Of the effect of the
hemlock, as dictated by Mr.. Walker, will be
handed down to medical science.
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"Cy0sOing off,"

Yesterday as policeman was strollng past
a house on Fort street east woman q year or
two over forty, having her sleeves rolled up
and her hands covered with flour, ran out to
the gate and called to him.
"It's little delicate" she said as she leaned
over the gate and tried to blush, "but am a
person that knows my rights, and besides, I'm
alone in the world and no one to advise me-"
"Speak your mind freely, madam" replied
the officer, and he tapped on the pickets with
his baton.
"You know all about the law, don't you?"
she inquired.
Everything, madam. 1 can tell you how to
go to work in an admiralty case, and bring you
from that down through divorce, bankruptcy,
arson, burglary, false pretenses, hitching a
horse to shade tree and getting intoxicated" !"
otis little delicate" she softly said as she
rubbed the flour off her hands, "but as l said
before Pm all alone"
"Trust me, madam-repose confidence in
me-" he replied, swelling out his chest
"Well, s'posen you were a widow"
Eyes, madam"
"And s'posen one of the boarders gave you a
breast-pinW
IL see, madam"
"And sposen he smiled at you, and sent you
poetry, and asked you to ride out on Sunday,
and the neighbors whispered around that you
were engaged"
"Proceed, madam-I can congratulate you."
ono, you must, for s'posen' after all this he
suddenly began to claw off, and didn't smile
on you any more, and didn't praise your cook
ing, and took another woman to the minstrel
show?
"Ah the traitor Perhaps he has trans
forred his affections to some one else."
"Thats what l thiuh. know it,s LITTLE
delicate, but Pm alone in the world, you see,
and l want to know if there isn't law to bear
on him ? 1t isn't right to go and encourage
lone woman like me and then claw off"
"He ought to be roasted alive, he hadw
81 don't know as I'd want him arrested, but
I'd like to have you call on him and make
threats. Tell him he's liable to State Prison
for clawing off this way. tell you it's pret-
ty serious thing to go and encourage woman
of my age and then skulk around behind the
hen coop all of sudden. Isn't there a law?"
"Lets see? l hardly think there is"
"Well, you call on him. Take him alone
look fierce-have your handouts in sight
Just tell him that you know all about it, and
that I'm good-hearted, and pleasant and that
he better be careful how he prances around or
he'll think tornado struck him.
The officer promised, and she rubbed cloud
of flower off her hands and ran up the path
with light Eeart.-Detroit Free Press.
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aS-"How's business now?" inquired one
Nashville merchant of another "Dull, fear
fully dull" was the reply. The fact is, no.
body buys anything just now but provisions
and whiskey-the bare necessaries of life, as
IL were"
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T ALEX. PARLETT,
81. COachmaker & Blacksmith,
TOWsONTOWN, MD.

CARRIAGES, BUGG1Es, JAGGERs, DOG
" CARTS, and everything in his line execu-
ted in as good style as can be done in the city.
and on the most reasonable terms. An exam.
ination of my work is solicited
na- All kinds of BLACKSMITH WORK
done, as heretofore. May ~, '7o.-iy
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What is the difference between the top
of a monument and song for one voice 2
Ones SO high and the others solo.
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@g- When the benedction is pronounced
| leave the church, and don't stop in the aisles to
gossip. Offers, not as chatty as you are, wish
| TO 90 home,
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Ms~ When you ride in horse car, keep your
elbows to yourself, and your big feet out OF the
way of others who may bo passing through.
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LEpRosY IN CANADA.-In the Arcadian vii
lage of Tracadie, near the mouth of the Mi
ramichi river, there have been lepers for the
last eighty or ninety years. A hospital tor
their benefit is supported by the local govern
ment. The leprosy which they suffer is ele-
phantiaSiS grocoruna, SO called from its tenden-
cy to make the limbs swell to elephantine pro-
portions. This disease is understood to have
been brought there by French vessel, which,
on its return voyage from Smyrna, touched at
the Island Of Mitylene, and took in quantity
of clothing and some other stores, and on her
way to Baubaris Islands, French military
port, she was wrecked near the mouth of the
Miramichi. The people in the neighborhood
played the part of wreckers, and helped them
selves to the clothes cast ashore, which were
supposed to be tainted with leprosy, the con
sequence of which was that the disease soon
broke out among them. Another account is
that the vessel brought Two lepers from st. Ma
loes, and that every leper known in Tracadie
descended from one or the other of these men.
The opinion there is that the disease is not
contagious, but simply hereditary.
The people have no dread OF it, and persons
engaged about the lepers for years never con
tract it. Not only do the lepers marry amsng
themselves, but such is the feeling among the
poor French in Tracadie that thereis no repug
nance in many cases among perfectly healthy
people to taking lepers for husbands and wives.
The taint generally manifests itself in every
alternate generation. In this way the disease
has become permanently seated in the locality,
while the general poverty and not very clean
ly habits of the French population tend to ex-
cite and intensity it. 1t first shows itself in the
form of small white spots on the breast, then.
the face assumes puffy appearance, and there
is much pain, languor and drowsiness. The
fingers become crooked, and the neck swells,
the limbs show all the symptoms of dropsy.
the nails fall off, and at last the throat and
lungs are attacked, and the sufferer dies, a
mere mass of loathsome disease. Its duration
varies from Eve to twenty-five years, accord
ing to the strength of the constitution.
Leprosy is not nearly so rare disease as is
generally supposed. 1t is on the increase in
many of the British dependencies. In some
parts of India one person in every hundred is
leper, and in some parts of the West Indies,
as we'll as in the Sandwich Islands, it is also
very prevalent Toronto Globe.
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MAKING GLASS ELAsTIC.-The New York Sun
of Sth instant says: "At a meeting of the New
York Academy OF Science last night, Prot.
Thomas Egglestop of the School of Mines gave
brief account of his experiments with NJ. La
Bastie's new elastic glass. The process which
removes the brittleness of ordinary glass con-
ssts in immersng it at red heat into bath of
fatty substances, which the inventor keeps Sc
cret, and in slowly cooling the glass therein
inc iecTurer threw Jnree pieces Vi prepared
colored glass on the floor, as well as some watch
crystals, neither of which broke, although
thrown vigorously ten or twelve feet Various
glass plates similarly projected remained ell
tire but the Professor showed the only way of
breaking them, by spinning one fourteen feet
high in the air, and allowing it to impinge hor-
izontally and with its whole surface, when it
shivered into thousands of pieces. In the ex-
periments recited by the lecturer it required
thirty-six shocks of a pointed steel cylinder
falling from ten to twelve feet high on the same
point OF a prepared glass two ounce ball to
break it. On prepared glass placed at angles
in hothouses the falling cylinders had no effect.
"In resistance to direct pressure the prepar-
ed glass lar surpasses the best ordinary. strips
of the latter on knife edges bearing at the ut
most a weight of twenty-seven pounds, while
narrower strips of the new did not break under
sixty pounds weight, but often required much
higher pressure. With ordinary supports a
half inch tempered glass three inches long
broke only at 2lO pounds The resistance Of
the new material to fire is remarkable. plate
on which a heat of 5000 degrees was brought
to bear only began to bulge after 81 minutes of
such intense heat, while ordinary glass broke
within five seconds. Its applicability to opti-
cal purposes has as yet not been fully tested,
but although extremely elastic, La Basties
glass is so hard that it resists the diamond"
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AK.JAMES IL. JARRETT,

JIers rofessional Service sto thectizen flow
5 ,ntown and vicinity.
JIice hours-From to 9o'clock A. M ,12 to 2P NJ
and togP M. [Apri Z lily.
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RAILROADS.
NEW ORLEANS, ST. LOUIS AND CHIQAGQ
RAILROAD COMPANY,
GREAT JACKSON ROCTE,
Trains depart and arrive as follows:
(From Calliope Street Depot.)
DEPART. ARRIVE.
Express. -. ZOO A. N. Express. .11:O0 r. Il
Mail 80. 900 P. M. Mail. 49,. 1880 4. II.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars through 70 o.
Louis, Chicago and Louisville:
Only one change Of sleeping cars to EastegD
cities.
Tickets for sale and informstion given at q
Camp street, corner Common.
A. D. SHELDON, Agent
f.. d. FROST. 9anI Manager. aplA
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ENOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT
JOHN BOSIO,
Proprietor of this Old and Faverite House,
Announces to his friends that he has removed to
No. III CHARITIES STREET,
Between st. Louis and Cont Streets
Where, with enlarged premises and increased facil.
ities he will give them the best the market afford.
at the
SAME LOW PRICES AS HERETOFORE.
Private Dining Rooms up stairs; also comfortable
furnished rooms at
REASONABLE RATES
Thankful for the liberal patronage bestowed upoL
him in the past he asks for continuance OF the same
fayors. ja26 i'm
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GeEeraI Exchange
Quotations. Quotations

Notwithstanding decline l-16d at Liver
pool and e in spots at New York, with fall
in5 .tl N futures also, many factors adhered
{ ifnlA; to their previous pre!ensions while
Others were willing to make the concessions
necessary to effect Sales Hence the irregu-
iafity noted above, buyers in some cases being
ssr ,li e pay previous rates, in others
in-Ang their orders at easier but not quotably
io"er prices, and in others again obtaining q
CONCESSION Of e. Under these circumstances
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POST OFFICE.

Time Of Arrival and Departure Of Mails.
N1osoo Arriva
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SUMMER RESORTS.
HARNESS HOTEL,
Mississippi City, lIiss.s

WILL open June 1st Parties can be accommo-
w dated before that time at low rates. The pro
prietors finding the want of failing supply
of ice have built large ice house, and filled it
direct from Boston. The Sulphur Spring is Enclosed,
and the grounds prepared for the reception of large
excursion parte.. Two thousand persons can be ac-
cOmmOdated. The illumination of the lawn, SO
highly appreciated last season is prepared for. A
fine Band is engaged Good Bathing and Fishing.
An abundant supply of Oysters. For terms, ETC.,
apply to j. d. MAYER & CO..
app Am PrOprletOrs.
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Coast. Observation-Disclosures.
Mobile, Ala. ..........
New York city, Boston,
Mass, Philadelphia, Pa,
Baltimore and Washing
ton, d. c., Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, East.
ern Mississippi, Dels-
ware, Eastern Pennsyl-
vania, New Jerse.y, East
crn New York and New
England States, via mo-
bic, Ala.
Key West, Fla, semi
weekly. ......... ........
New Iori. ely, Boston,
Mass, Philadelphia, Pa,
Baltimore, Nd, Ciucin-
natl, o., West Virginia,
Shreveport, La, a1d
Northern Texas, jack
son, MISS, Canton, Miss,
Vicksburs, Miss Mem-
pLis, Tenn, Buif.lo, n.
y, Pit.sburg, Pa. and
al. Northern, Eastern
aud Western s:tate5 and
Territories, canada East
aud West, VIA jackson
route.
New Orleans aud Cairo
Railway Post Office
South, Yves. and North
Mississippi, Shreveport,
La, Monroe, La, North
ern Texas, Northern Lou
isana, Arkansas, Ten
nessee, West New York,
West Pennsylvania, and
Western States and Ter
ritories, Eastern and
Northern mail. dropped
in the Post Office after
$40 P. NJ, Canada East
and West. ..............
Galveston, Tex, East
ern and Western Texas,
and Shreveport, La,
Closes daily, except Mon
Arrives daily, except
Sunday.
Morgan's Louisiana
and Texas Railroad
Supplying parishes of
Calcasieu, Iberia, Lafay-
cite, Lafourche, st. Lam
dry, st. Martin, st. Mary,
Terrebonne, Vermilion,
and Cameron; also, JAS
per, Newton and Orange
counties in Texas. 49,.
Red River, supplying
Alexandria and Natchi-
toches. La, Red River
parishes and Burkeville,
Newton county, Iexas: .
Covington, Mandevllle
and Jacksonville -.
Monday and Thursday. =.
Saturday
Arrives Monday.
Arrives Tuesday and
Friday.
Vicksburg Packet Coast
to Vicksburg-
Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday
Arrives Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday.
Bayou Sara Packet,
Coast to st. FraLcis-
vile, La
Monday and Friday.
Arrives Monday and
Thursday.
Buras and Lower Coast,
Plaquemines parish
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday.
Donaldsoaville, La. and
parishes of st. John,
St. James and Assump-
ton ..................
CarrolIton, La.
Carrollton, La. ........
st. Bernard parish
Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
AlSiers, La.
Grand Isle-Weekly
(Timely notice will b
board of departure for
! vana, Cuba and Brazos S
Mails on Sundays will
on week DAYS.
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COMMERCIAL.
VICE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN, [
Wednesday Evening. April II, 1875. {

CoTroN- The sales to-day (not including
200 bales additional yesterday when the
actual business was $500 bales) embraced
275o bales at steady prices for good staple
kinds, while other descriptions were irregu-
lar, without any quotable variation. We
give also the figures and report Of the Ex-
change in full, as below:
AMERICAN STANDARD OF CLASSIFICATION.