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The Poets Mind and Mood.

We were lately trying to discover the
qualities which made literary work
part of literature, and sincerity was
named as perhaps the most important
quality. Sincerity is a great matter,
but is it the principal thing? Is not
the principal thing, after all, the mind
and mood of the writer? At first this
will seem a trite enough statement, but
a very good argument can be made for
mere style.
We have all been struck at this phe-
nomenon; we are profoundly impressed
by passage we have read, and, after
some time, we turn back to read it once
more, when, instead of finding at least
half a page of print, as we had ex-
pected, we find only two or three lines.
There is another allied phenomenon
single line or passage, in a poem, or
an entire poem of but few lines, OBJ
tains great currency, and is constantly
praised for its charm. You cannot tell
what gives it such fascination what
keeps it SO fresh in your own mind, and
in the minds of all cultivated people.
You have seen other passages and po-
ems by obscure writer's, which appeared
at first to have more thought and orig
inality. Your amateur friend has, in
moments of confidence, read to you his
code to the Inscrutable." Some of
the lines were really Wordsworthian,
not to say Miltonic Nothing, indeed,
is more common in amateur verse max
ing, of a certain kind, than lines which
remind you of Shakespeare. when read
aloud by their authors. But, somehow,
when the verses get into print, the world
is not moved by them, and you confess
that type has queer effect on poetry,
and that it is never safe to commit
yourself critically until you "get the
poem into your own hands"
So it happens that the simple phrase
which the great poet himself set little
value upon, and which seemed to him
miserably inadequate statement OF
his thought-the phrase, TIE poem,
comes, with light in its garments, from
high and pure mind, from a golden
and immortal mOod,-Scribner
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What is L0VelineSSI

Ii is not in pearl powder, nor in
golden hair-dye, nor IN jewelry. It
cannot be got in a bottle or q box. 1t
is pleasant to be handsome; but all
beauty is not in prettiness. There is a
higher beauty that makes us love peo-
pie tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin
never did that yet; though it is pleas
ing to see fine features. What you are
will make your face ever for you in the
end, whether nature has made 1t plain
or pretty. Good people are never i'll
looking. Whatever their faces may be,
an amiable expression atOues for ali.
If they can be cheerful also no one will
love them the less because their features
are not regular, or because they are too
fat, or too thin, to pale, or too dark.
Cultivation Of the mind adds another
charm to their faces, aud, on the whole,
if any GIRL is DESTROYS of being liked by
many and loved by the one, It Is more
in her power than she may believe TO
accomplish that object Cosmetics will
not accomplish It, however. Neither
will fine dress, though a woman that
does not dress becomIugly wrongs her
self. Forced smiles and effected anna
b1litv will be of no avail but If she
can manage to feel kindly to everybody,
not to be jealous, not to be cross, TO be
happy II possible, and to encourage
contentment, then something will come
into her face that will oUtlast youths
roses, aud gain her not only a husband
but a lifelong lover
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The Gamblers of Wall Street.

Wall street, so much derided by com
mon-place cities as the Devils exchange,
is at this moment a mirror of what is
taking place everywhere. Instead of a
dozen heroes in its pantheon, there is
but one-Jsy Gould. He has nearly
broken Daniel Drew, the head of the
bears. Rufus Hatch, whose operations
with Michigan Southern stock in 1867
netted s., 1S5, 900 has been exploded by
Gould, and has sailed for Europe.
Henry Keep has been five years asleep
under a 800, 900 mausOleum, and his
wife has found husband for the $780,
900 be left her in Judge Schley, of
Georgia. Vanderbilt no longer visits
the street, and his stocks hold their
high figure from the integrity of the
man-that is, Vanderbilt will not permit
his own stocks to fall on his friends,
although the condition of the Lake
Shore railroad seems to be anything
but sound. Jim Fisk died the brawler's
death he coveted. Horace Clark passed
away with the serenity he had lived. /
saw Leonard Jerome a few days ago
lunching in the park, 0GSSe and indif-
ferent. He was the Sardanapalus of
the street, and under his domination
Pacific Mail sold at 800. With more
intelligence than any other broker, edu
Gated at Princeton, be lost millions by
foolishly remaining up town mt pleasure
on the day his company held its annual
meeting. He is now worth three-quar-
ters of a million, which he husbands as
closely as he can and avoids the street.
Tom Durant dropped out of prominence
very much for the reasons which ex-
hausttd Jerome-pleasure and extrava-
gance.
There are no such times at present
for rapid speculation as In the period of
the war and succeeding it. DIR. Shell
ton, tho hermit operator, who used to
appear late IN the autumn from his
country estate aid carry $4,000 shares
at a time, bearing gold meanwhile, is
only a tradition now. Amasa Stone
and Alexander Mitchell, who are great
railway officials, send in their orders at
times, but have grown conservative
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THE CLIFF.

There's great gray cliff by the deep blue sea,
There was maiden that loved not me.
To the great gray cliff came the sea to WOO
With love that was great and deep and true.
The Fea came up and kissed the feet
Of the great gray cliff with kisses sweet.
The cliff said, " Never to thine embrace
Will 1 stoop, tits enough thou should'st see my
face"
Said the sea- with ripping smile, ri wait
Till to my embrace thou are sent by fate"
And the great gray cliff, so the tale did tell,
Into the arms of the blue sea fell.
loved my love, she was cold to me
As the great gray cliff to the deep blue sea
I wooed my love for many day;
have won my love- she is mine for aye.
-L0ndOR Orchestra.
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ton of an arch 1000 metres in length,
for the purpose of proving the feast
bility of the scheme of NJ. Botlet, ergi-
neer, at Bourges, of throwing bridge
across the Straits of Dover, A model
of this bridge, consisting of road for
vehicles and foot passengers, will prob
ably be erected in the Bots de Bologne
or Champe de Mars, at a height of fif-
teen metres above the ground. The
directors maintain that, whereas the
tunnel would take eight years and cost
at least 25,O00,O0O francs, the bridge
could be erected in a few months at an
aYToanse of only 900 600 francs
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immense agencies in China, Japan British In
dies, England, France, and throughout South
America, Supreme in its superiority over all
other sewing machines, the Wilson goes on
widening its field year after year, carving
the blessings of cheap, capable and perfect
sewing machine to the remotest haunts of
civilization. Machines will be delivered at
any railroad station in this country, free Of
transportation charges, il ordered through the
company's branch house, 1879 Canal St., New
Orleans, La. They send an elegant catalogue
and chrome circular free on application. This
company want few more good agents.
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THERE could scarcely be better evil
6ence of the extraordinary excellence of
the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs
than the fact that they are SO largely
exported to Europe, where they are so
highly appreciated as to find large sales
in competition with instr umenta made
there b labor which does not cost half
as much. These are the only American
organs larGAlv exported.
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A BIRD or PASSAGE.

As the days last hight IL dying,
AS the nights first breeze Is signing.
tehd YOU, love, like messenger dove, my thought
through the distance fyingi
us bird that in plume and siGew
Il strong the truth within Won:
lis bird as white as the faith you plight with the
lover 50 proud TO win yOl!
bid Il speed till n meet YOU,
-. then hutteTing downward, greet you,
WIN COO peTc0ance, or with glowing glance that
softly seems to eutreat yOui
LIT u perch on your sill or better,
Let II feel your frall hands fetter,
or under its wing lt shall surely bring love, hid
den away like a letter.
The ALdinc.
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DISEASED LUNGS ARE GREATLY ON THE

DISEASED LUNGS ARE GREATLY ON THE
INCREASE IN THIS COUNTRY. - The sudden
changing of weather has done much to give
rise to Consumption. But thousands bring it
on by their own impru1ence, such as wearing
damp clothing and going from the warm room
into the cold sir and checking the perspira-
ton, which causes irritation of the Lungs,
and then matter or phlegm will collect, which
nature will try to relieve by coughing. If ma
ture does not raise the matter with ease, and
stop this Inflammation, tubercles will coon
form and consumption will soon follow. Al
lens Lung Balsam will cure consumption if it
is only taken in time.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers
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Evcpr,Sop AvIa Crease and

EXCELSIOR Axle Grease and Anti fric
ito. Compound. Railroads, Coal Miners
Street Cars, Omnibus, aud Manufacturing
Companies pronounce it the best Axle Grease
in use Send orders to A. Fl. CoUssENs & Co,
wholesale druggists, Nashville, Tenn.
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Texas Land and Gold Dlstr,butlon,

is doing as good service towards inducing i'm
mIgation as Capt. J. E. Foster, aud he deserves
credit for it. Houston (Texas) Telegraph. See
advertisement of Fosters I'd Distribution, at
Houston, Texas, May, 18th, 1875.
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AsRRoAp Observation-Disclosures

AsBRoAD AS CIvILIzATIoN.-T agent
of the Wilson sewing machine company VIII,
in a few DAYS sail from San Francisco for
Chill in South America, where he will open a
branch house aud exhibit the world renowned
Wilson shuttle sewing machine at the grand
exposition 10 be held at Santiago under the
auspices of that government. Bythls step the
Wilson sewing machine company will complete
the circuit of the globe. They have already
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ELECTRICITY Is LIFE.-All nervous dis
orders, chronic diseases of the chest, head
liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and
pains, nervous and general debility, ETC.,
quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing
Voltas Electro Belts Fand Bands. Valuable
book free, by Volta Belt Co, Cincinnati Ohio.
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There are stin found in Wales some
paopI. who worship according to the
Druid forms, which We're everywhere
honored aud observed In the British
islands before the landing of julius
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DECIDEDLY the best remedy that has
ever been discovered for rheumatism, swollen
or stiff Joints, flesh wounds, sprains. bruises,
cuts, and burns, is Johnson's Anodyne Lini
ment. We use it, and always recommend it to
our friends.
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BRrpGING The BRITISH CHANNEL.-
The Bulletin Francois states that the
directors of the channel bridge com
pany have Just ordered the construc-
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WE SHOULD not hesitate to recommend
TO any friend of ours, Parsons Purgative Pills;
they are scientifically prepared, and are adapted
to all the purposes of good purgative medi-
cine
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PATENTED 1878. The best Elastic Truss.
Made only by Pomeroy d Co, 744 B'dway, N. Y.
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Go TO River Side Water Cure, Hamilton, Ill
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A WITNESS in lawsuit described the
poverty of Il field OF corn as follows
The crop was SO stunted aud short thai
the tOads could sit on their launches
and pick bugs off the tassels.
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The Servant Girl Question.

The "help" in Germany are good gen.
orally, because the ''police" take charge
of them in reality, and success depends
upon a good 6ccount of them at the
police. Every servant girl is provided
with Dienstbuch Service book, dealt
out her by the police authorities, and
she has to announce herself at the
police Office every time she changes her
situation. In this Dienstbuch are reg
istered her name, age and native place,
and on each page is O printed formula,
which the mistress she is leaving is
obliged to fill up as toher cleanliness, in
dustry, moral conduct, sobriety, ETC.,
as we'll as the reason of her leaving her
situation, the date on which she entered,
and that on which she left it. In ordi-
nary German households only one SER
want is kept. In engaging servant
she invariably bargains for her "Sun-
day OUT" she belongs to a Kranzchen,
or club, and departs early on Sunday
afternoon for a coffee garden where the
festive meeting is held. OF church-go-
ing there is, in Protestant Germany, no
question; but of much dancing during
Sunday afternoons with the brautigam
(betrothed) of the moment there can be
no evasion.
Poison BY ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. One
branch of the industry in which chill
dren are employed is technically known
as grass-work. 1t consists in fastening
small glass beads or "dew- drops" to
the artificial grass, and so simple is the
| work that mere infants can help at it.
The master of ragged school in a
| densely populated district of London
| found that when a particular kind of
artificial flower was in fashion the young
children neglected to attend school.
He told James Greenwood, who wrote
an article whichappeared in the London
Telegraph some time ago: "You may
always know a grass hand if he has
been at work any time from the appear
ance of his hair. You will find the
front part of it-that which is most ex-
posed, as the head is bent over the
work-to be of different color from
the rest. If the child's hair is light
colored, the patch in front, just where
the parting commences, will be changed
to dull yellow; if the hair is naturally
dark the patch will be rusty, almost of
the color called carroty. If they work
long and hard at the grass the hair will
fall out" The threading of the beads
on blades and leaves of grass, and the
subsequent shaking to see that all is
right, dislodge particles of the arsenical
green, which poisOns the air ana tells
its tale upon the poor children.
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BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and
cheapest hair dressing in the world.
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A Monster Shark.

The London Daily News says: cit
will be recollected that, in late issue,
we announced the sfranding of an i'm
mense shark at Shanklin, in the Isle of
WIGHT. The skin of this huge fish has
purchased fOA the British museum.
The; difficult operation of taking the
skin off so gigantic a creature has been
admirably carried out by Mr.. Gerard,
Jr., whose ability in preparing skele
tons for the British museum is well
known. It's total length is twenty nine
feet. it's circumference fifteen at the
largest part. It's teeth are exceedingly
small, and not the least like the large
white ivory teeth seen IN sharks of mu-
seums they are, on the contrary, very
small, and set with interspaces one
from the other, and about the size of
cats teeth. This is the basking shark
.SQltaLus n1ari7naIs, sail, fish. hoe-moth-
er, or homer of Orkney, sun-fsb, west
coast of Ireland. 1t is not, however,
to be confounded with the sun-fsh-
OrthdgOrjScus nlOiG-that is, the shape
of the sun. These huge sharks ap-
pear in considerable numbers in the
spring along the northwest coast of
Donegal and Clew Bay. The Sm-fi
Bank is probably the first shoal water
made by the fish coming in from the
Atlantic. It is possible they come
there to spawn, passing the rest of
their lives in the deep waters of the
Atlantic. Little or nothing is known
of the habits of this fish, which is
probably the largest among known
sharks. Couch records one taken in
Cornwall, measuring thirty-one feet
eight inches. 1t is supposed that they
swallow their prey alive. The Irish
fishermen spear them for the sake of
the oil which is to be obtained from
their liver. This fish, when floating on
the water, is frequently taken for the
whale, on account of its somewhat
sluggish movements. Hence it is also
called the basking shark. 1t Is sup
posed that the present specimen had
lost it's way, being bound probably for
the west coast of ireland.
AN ENCOURAGING FINANCIAL Our
LooK.-The Times III its financial re-
view says of the outlook
1.-The bonds called in connection with
the syndicate, may not result in an out
flow of much gold, as the syndicate will
probably turn IN large amounts of called
bonds and coupons, but the May and
July interest, and the 10000, 900 bonds
for the sinking fund, will be paid in
gold. IF there is no export of coin
during these pay ments, the bulk of
gold to be paid ont by the treasury will
find its wag into bank vaults. Thus
with the legal tenders flowing in from
the country, and gold flowing out of
the treasury, there is every prospect for
a great increase in the strength Of the
banks, and consequently assured ease
in money, both for legitimate and spec
ulative purposes. The voice of the
croakers is growing fainter, and we are
likely to enter the centennial with
degree of prosperity that will reflect
credit upon the enterprise and specula-
tive ability OF the American people"
We never detect how much OF orr
social demeanor is made of artificial
ans until we see a person who is at once
| beautiful and simple. Without the
! beauty we are apt to call the simplicity
awkwardness.
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Catching Cinnamon.

In the collection of poll taxes from
the Chinese, in San Francisco, the as
SCISSORS deputies have always had
good deal of difficulty in preventing
the transfer of receipts from one China
man to another, whereby a single re-
ceipt is made to do duty several times
over, and the city robbed of much of
her legitimate revenue from this source.
For the purpose Of detecting and frus-
tratipg this imposition, Assessor Bad
lam has devised a system of marking
receipts when they are issued to China
men in such a way as to indicate the
prominent external characteristics of
the mans physique. For instance, one
designation points to MOngol under
thirty years of age, short in stature, no
scars on head or neck :" another signi-
ies a man cover thirty years of age,
tall, with smallpox marks - third an
"old man, very fat, scars on head or
neck ;" a fourth cross-eyed China
man - fifth "Chinaman very lean,
with smallpox Marks" and so on.
Thus, if heather on the verge of three
score and ten, about as fat as a match.
and with a countenance dotted with
Rmall-p Ox marks, on being asked If he
has paid his poll-tax, presents receipt
whose designation shows that 1t was
issued to a young man, very fat, with
no smallpox marks, the deputy quietly
remarks :" guess not, and "goes for
that heather Chinee." The plan is
found to work excellently, and many a
Mopgol has already been brought to
grief by its means.
Mann says somewhere: [ am certain I
could have performed twice the labor,
both better and with greater ease to
myself, had I known as much of the laws
of health and life at twenty-one as do
now. In college | was Taught all about
the motions of the planets, as carefully
as though they would have been in dan
ger of getting off the track if I had not
known how to trace their orbits; but
about my own organization an the con-
dltions Indispensable to the healthful
functions of my own body, l was left
in profound Ignorance. Nothing could
be more prepCsterOus. | ought to have
begun at bone, and taken the stars
when it should come their turn. The
consequence was, l broke down at the
beginning of my second college year,
and have never had well day since.
Whatever labor l have since been able
to do, [ have done it all on credit
instead of capital-a most ruinous way,
either in regard to health or money.
For the last twenty-five years, so far
as it regards health, have been put
from day to day, or my good behavior;
and during the whole of this period, as
an Hibernian would say, if I had lived
as other folks do for month, [ should
have died in fortnight.
VALUES OF METALS. The following
table of the respective values of metals
is not wi hout interest. The first four
are so rare as to be sold in minute guam
titles, yet their rates are given for the
sake of comparison with the others :
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VIZ never detect how much OF Our
social demeanor is made of artificial
ans until we see person who is at once
beautiful and simple. Without the
beauty we are apt to call the simplicity
awkwardness.
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