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MEMORY.

The human mind in this life may fail
TO recall or recollect, but all it learns viii
be remembered eternally. Some evince in
this life this wonderful power of recol-
lection; but hereafter all shall remember
the facts of life as well any remember
them here. The notorious Count of st.
German is q wonderful instance of the
power of recollection. Any newspaper
he read once he knew by memory, and
was furnished with such gigantic, COM
prehensive power of numbering, that he
retained o series of numbers, which he
could recite forward, backward, and
pulled out from the middle. From the
court of Henry III, in Cracow, he de-
manded one hundred packs of picquet
cards, mixed them together IN disorder,
let him name all the succession of the
cards, ordered it to be noted down exact
", and then repeated them, following
one after the other, without being wrong
once. He played almost every musical
instrument, was an excellent painter, and
initiated any handwriting in the most
Elusive manner. He had but one pas
sion-playing all games with absolute
mastery.
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A printer who once asserted that Mr..
Thurlow Weed had gone out of his way
to compliment him on close punctuation
and clean setting, made in a single
" take of copy" one of the most
ridiculous blunders on record. 1t was a
portion of sermon of a prominent
divine OF Chicago, that had been written
"And he saw Abraham afar off, and
Lazarus in his bosom" The "clean
setter" read it: And he saw Abraham
afar of, and horses ears in Boston. %
A compositor on st. Louis paper, the
other day, made an editor say that '' this
war-cry is the key-hole of victory"
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sAY1EG rs WEALTH.

One great cause of the poverty of the
present day Is q failure of our common
people to appreciate small things. They
do not realize how daily addition, be It
ever so small, viii soon make large pile.
IF the young men and women of to-day
VIII only begin, and begin now, to save a
little from their earnings and plant it in
the soil of some good savings bank, and
weekly or monthly add their mite, they
viii wear happy smile of competence
when they reach middle life. Not only
the desire but the ability TO increase il
VIII also grow. Let clerk and trades
man, laborer and artisan, make now and
ct once beginning. Store up some OF
your youthful force for future oontin-
aency. Let parents teach their children to
begin early to save. Begin at the foun-
tain head to control the stream of ex-
fzayaRance to choose between poverty
aad riches. Let our youth go on in the
habits of extravaganza for fifty years TO
come as they have for fifty years past,
az,d we shall have nation Of beggars,
with q nonsyed aristocracy. Let gene
ration of such as save IN small sums be
reared. and we shall be free from all want.
DO not be ambitious for extTayagant fort
,.naa. but seek that which it is the duty
~ every one 10 obtain Independence
sod a comfortable home. Wealth, anl
enough 81 it, Is within the reach of ali.
II il obtained by one process, and one
lfvsaving.
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THE FIGHT WITH THE JAMES
DESPER4DOES

Yesterday rumor reached our CITY
that the residence of the mother of the
notorious James boys had been invaded
by detectives ON Sunday night, back of
Kearney, in Clay county, and that des-
perate fight had ensued. The report
gave rise to many surmises on the streets,
somo doubts, and many predictions, yet
in the absence of facts all opinions ex-
pressed were drawn wildly. The arrival
of the train last night ON the Hannibal
and ST. Joseph road at $50 brought q
confirmation of the story, yet no particu-
lars. The attacking party, it is said,
were four detectives, who had learned
that the two boys, the James brothers,
were at home. On Sunday night they
visited the house, and In attempting to
gain ingress were met with opposition,
and desperate fight ensued between the
inmates of the house and the detectives.
Quite number of shots were fired on
both sides. Two shots from the detect
ives took effect, one breaking the left
wrist of the mother of the boys, and an
other killing their half brother, whose
name we failed to learn. The boys, Jesse
and Frank, escaped, and have not been
seen since. The wounding of the mother
and the killing of the boy is greatly re-
GREETED, yet. till full particulars of an
authentic nature are obtained, we are not
prepared to condemn. We hope the
affair is not as rough as report makes it.
kansas City Journal of Commerce,
Jan. %.
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4 MESALLIANCE, NOT Il MISTAKE.
There isin the Department of the Inter
ior at Washington at least one heroine OF
messalliance who has made woman of
herself, which she never would have
been had she stayed at home; and prob
ably married without a choice. Her
father was wealthy New York merchant,
and took his daughter travelling with him
over Europe for couple of years. She
was the only daughter of the family, and
her father and mother and brother
watched her closely and cared for her
tenderly. In fact, they forgot she was
human being, and always wanted to keep
young men were good enough for her,
and she was not allowed to receive or GO
into company. But she was allowed to
drive out in fine carriage, and on the
box was a good looking young coachman-
He was the only young man she was
allowed to talk to, and he warmed her
heart. And both were human. What
wonderful resolution it must have taken
to induce her to marry him. He was
conscientious boy, too, but he could not
resist such chance. It would not have
been human had he refused to link his
life with that of the girl And their lives
and fortunes were joined, and the house
ragged, but the young couple kept ont of
the storm. They went to living for
themselves, and both put their former
lives all behind them. She began teach
ing music and writing for the periodicals.
She did her first work, and really Just
began to live. He was busy, too-not
driving q coach. They breasted the
cross currents of the world together and
thrived. She is a government clerk at
good salary and is well paid for literary
work, too. He is educating himself up
to her high station of perfect independ-
ence. And both are happy and com
Portable and live they do not simply
stay. Her father is dead. Her mother
and brother are enjoying the Injuries of
| fortune In New York. She would not go
back to that life agnin for double the
fortune. Life is worth more than that
It may be called a mesalliance, but it
was not mistake, for it resulted in
happy, active life.
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TERRIBLE STORY.

DR.. Ricardo, of Passaic, n. J., recently
mulcted in heavy damages for alleged
malpractice in dressing the arm of little
boy, is now on trial for criminal charge
of assault with intent to kill to cover up
the malpractice. It is claimed he gave
the lad morphine, and then said he would
die. The child survived that night,
which seemed to greatly surprise the
Doctor on his arrival the next morning.
The next night the same watcher was
called in, and he was told that the child
would certainly die that night, and the
morphine powders were ordered to be
given again. The Doctor went to an under
taker and told him that the child would
die that night, and made arrangements
with this undertaken for the burial.
Ricardo then told the watcher, the un-
dertaker, and the mother of the child,
that If the child died, not to remove the
bandages, as it would be dangerous for
them to do so. The reason that the child
did not die was because the powders
were not all given as directed, only por-
ton of them being given, the attendant
and the mother being alarmed at the ex-
cessive size of the dose. Seeing that the
child did not die, Mrs. Schaner sent for
DIR. Watson, an old family physician,
who examined the wounded arm and
found that it had mortified and partially
decayed, the flesh fairly falling off from
the bone. The arm was amputated, and
the unfortunate little boy (now ten years
old) recovered.
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BOOKS And DOCS As PROPAGA A TORS
OF DISEASE

Among the many agents for the spread
of infectious diseases are, it seems, 60 our
domestic pets" For the propagation of
fever dog is sometimes as bad, or
worse, than drain, and q case is refer
red to in the Sanitary Record In which
scarlet fever was carried from one child
to another by o favorite retriever. The
dog had been reared in a house where
scarlatina prevailed, and WAS subsequent
1y given to a friend Of the family.
Shortly after one of the children In the
dogs new home was attacked with ma
ignant scarlatina and died. Disinfect-
ants were used p1entifuliy, and every
precaution taken to prevent recurrence
of the malady, but In two months time
a second child took the same disease, in
the worst form, and died. As the dog
had been the constant companion and
playfellow of these children, it's woolly
coat, it is alleged, became SO charged
with contagious matter as to render it a
source of disease and death. Although
it is only fair to the dog to admit that the
children may have caught the fever from
other sources than his woolly coat, yet
there is reason to fear that both dogs and
cats, especially the latter, do occasion
ally assist In the circulatiohsof infectious
illnesses, and where fever prevails the
sooner they are lodged outsof the house
the better. They are, however, proba-
bly, not more dangerous in this respect
than books. No one who takes book
from a library ever troubles hinsef or her
self as to the antecedents of the volume !;
it may have just left the hands of the
fever patient. Pail Mall Gazette.
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pRryTERs, BLUNDERs.

The New York Sunday Times gives
some specimens of typographical errors.
The displacement of g space made
Adirondack Murray refer recently to
{. them asses of the people, . when he
meant the masses. The Dunkards, the
most temperate Of people, generally
appear in print as Drunkaris. General
Butler begged the voters in 1867 to give
good account of themselves for the
honor of the Old Bay State, and an en-
thusiastic compositor produced it as,
g for the honor of the Old Boys Tail. y
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THERE was more than the customary
stir at las Vegas, the other day, when
the stage coach, with four passengers
inside and corpse for driver, came tear
ing into town. The driver, though
frozen into beautiful = stiff, tiffff . was sitting
bolt upright, with an awful grimness Of
face and death-grip on the lines. The
Rhastly Jehu was helped down from the
seat, and the next day ther. was big
funeral at Las Vegas.
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A FRENCH naturalist has recently
grouped, for public convenience, num-
ber Of his observations upon animals,
showing that many members of the brute
creation may be used .as living barom-
ters. Rain or wind, he says, may be ex-
pected when the spiders shorten the last
thread by which their webs are suspended; !.
fair weather when they lengthen them :.
and the duration of either by the degree
OF contraction or expansion observable.
When swallows sweep near the ground,
uttering plaintive cries, rain is at hand :.
when they mount mp, hy from side to
side, and play together, fine weather win
follow. When single magpie leaves it's
nest Ia the spring it is sign of rain, but
the reverse Is the case when two parent
birds leave il in company. Rain is near
when the peacocks utter frequent cries,
when parrots chatter more than uasual.
and when geese are uneasy.
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PING

The luster and cleanliness of English
made pins have q reputation suFpaasing
those made in any other country. This
is owing, says the Scientific I2epseso, TO
the peculiar treatment to which the
better descriptions of the article are sub
iected. They are first cleaned by boil
ing for half an hour In sour beer, wine
lees, or solution of tartar, after which
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THE NEW PARTISAN OPERA HOUSE
A correspondent who was accorded
the privilege of peep into the new
Grand Opera House in Paris, prior to
the dedicatory ceremonies, gives some
additional information respecting the
magnifcence of the interior. In point
of size the new Opera House is not larger
than the old one, but the corridors,
staircases, saloons, foyers, waiting halls
and all the adjuncts of the new building
are on O scale of grandeur and dimen-
sion which throws into the shade every
| thing that has hitherto been seen of the
kind. Upon entering, the first thing
that strikes the eye is the staircase
leading to the first grand gallery.
This is literally one mass of gold,
bronze, marble and onyx combined with
the richest draperies, statuary and every
thing that lavish expenditure can bestow
upon it. The gallery is entirely italian
in its ornamentation. It's roof gitters
with the most brilliant glass enamel and
mosaic work of Byzantine character,
while the floor is inlaid with marble mo-
saics Then comes the grand foyer OF
saloon, the sides of which are lined with
columns of part Indian, part byzantine,
part classical composition. The ceiling
is adorned with the paintings of BaudrJ
and other French artists, and the walls
are adorned with antique masks, exqui
sitely carved, with marble panehngs
gold and glittering enamels and mosaics
in lavish profusion. The theater propel
is an elliptical seni-circle, of grea
elegance The angles of the house art
broken by double ranges of columns
: between which tiers of boxes are placed
Finally, there is a saloon for the ballet
dancers, where they can admire them
, selves before gigantic mirrors, while por
traits of their most celebrated predeces
sors, and lusciousEtoo luscious-g groups
of dancers, painted BY Boulanger, adorr
the other end and sides. There are up
ward of 200 dressing rooms, with othel
accommodations fer beyond description
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ENa1IsHMES are the owners of the
seven largest steamers in the world. The
largest is, of course, the Great Eastern,
now the property of the International
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company. It is 67s feet long and n feet
broad the second is the City of Pelxin,
423 feet long, and 48 feet broad, 5000
tons burden third, City of Toxic, about
same size, and both owned by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company fourth, Lii
guria, owned by the Pacific Steam Navi-
cation Company, 4,83O tons, 46O feet
long, and 45 broad fifth, the Britannia,
White Star Line, 4,750 tons, 455 feet
long, and IS broad sixth. the City of
Richmond, Inman Line. 1900 tons, 1881
feet long, 43 broad seventh, the City of
Washington, 4,6O0 tons, 45O feet long,
and A. feet wide.
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RrsMARcK,s LETTER.

The famous confidential letter from
Prince Bismarck to Count Won Arnim
upon the election of the next Pope-the
disclosure of the contents of which, by
Won Arnim, was one of the principal
causes which led to his arrest and sub
sequent punishment-has at last been
published In this letter Bismarck as
sumes the fact that sooner or later the
old Pope will die and q new Pope must
be elected, and that Germany has an in
terest in this election, as she has a large
number of Catholic subjects, and as the
Vatican Council by its recent DEGREES as
to Papal infalibihty and jurisdiction
has completely changed the relations of
the Pope to his Bishops, and priests, and
to the people. He therefore contends
that the governments of Europe should
ascertain whether the election and the
person elected would afford any guaran-
tees that these prerogatives would not be
abused, and have mutual understand
ing with each other, SO as to prevent any
serious complications growing out of
such an election. The particular request
conveyed in the letter is that Count Won
Arnirn, as the representative of Germany,
shall ascertain from the italian govern
ment whether it would feel disposed to
exchange views with the German govern
ment upon this question, and especial
caution is imposed upon the Count to
treat the letter and it's contents with dis
cretion.
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THE GREATEST FARMER OF CALI
FORNIA.

FORNI4.
A California paper publishes the fol-
lowing respecting the farming opera
tions of a man whom it denominates
g the largest farmer in the world" and,
considering that DIR. Glenn "runs" his
farm of $4,000 acres himself, personally
experimenting it all, the appellation is
correct
Sc The great farmer of the world, DR..
Hugh J. Glenn, of Jacinto, Colusa coun-
ty, Cal, has raised and harvested the
past season, ON his own farm, 600, 900
bushels of wheat. This would load
eighteen 1,O0O-ton ships or three hun
dred canal boats. ALI this wheat he has
now in his own warehouses, ready for
shipment when the water In the Sacra-
mento river rises sufficiently. The doc
tor pays 800, 600 freight to put his wheat
in San Francisco. The doctor is a won
der to the agricultural world and to him
self. He can mend trace and make a
key to an ox-bow with his jacknife, just
as easy as drawing his check for $780,
600, which he can do every day in the
one surprise during the year, and that
was when friend informed him that a
panic had entered the land. Glenn is big
hearted man was born in Augusta coun-
y, Va, and does honor to the Old
Dominion Send the medal to Glenn.
It is said Glenn has an unconquerable
weakness for draw poker. He bets with
the same impetrosity that he does every
thing else. He has been known to stand
'pat without pair, and sraise
so, 900; on several occasions he has lost
immensely. He is not always unlucky,
however, and his nerve has driven out
many players holding better hands. ;
DIR. Glenn is one of the most remarkable
characters that California has developed,
and deserves to rank with the great hero
of mining stock notoriety, Bonanza Sha-
ron.
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APErRIFIED CITY

Charles Warren Stoddard, writing to
the San Francisco Chronicle, says, in de-
scribing visit to the ruins of Pompeii
cannot understand how a people who
are supposed to have been luxurious in
their tastes ever lived in such ridiculously
small houses aas are those of Pompeii.
The bedrooms are like state e-rooms, and
the stone beds, like berths, fill the longest
side OF the apartment. There are no
garden spots even the baths, the crown
ing luxury of the time, are small. The
forum and some of the temples are of
more respectable dimensions, but the
resorts of 80, 0o0 people could hardly be
less. The private life of the Pompeiians
must have been narrow, meagre, and un
healthy. The gardens without the city
probably afforded their only means of
recreation, and / wonder how any one
who has once breathed pure air can have
returned to sleep in such miserable
quarters as the Pompeiian bedrooms.
Single partitions between all the houses,
no gardens, no open courts, save in the
mansions of the wealthy, and the glare of
the southern sun streaming on walls
glowing with red and yellow paint such
was Pompeu in its best days. No doubt
it was q brilliant and lively spectacle,
and Bulwer has made the most of it. It
seemed to me to be the correct thing to
loaf about the place with copy of Bull
wer's Last Days in my pocket. This
did at later date. I frightened the
lizards in the forum, and chased the
butterflies in the Temple of Isis, and
languished in the house of the wounded
Adonis, for it was awfully hot. / sat the
sole spectator in the well preserved
amphitheater, and walked in the Street Of
the Tombs. The House of the Tragic
Poet received me, and / explored fol-
myself some dark passages that led under
certain houses, where met with an odol
of sulphur that was almost overpower
ing"
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ENGLAND,a aourHERN EMpIRE.

ERGLANDfS SOUTHERN EXPIRE.
England's empire in the Southern
Hemisphere covers 100000 square
miles, the size of the United States, less
Alaska. The white population of Aus
tralasia, az these great islands are called,
was, in 1850, about 24O. 600. Now it is
but little less than 1000. GEO. Victoria
has grown from 77,0O0 to 732, 600 in
these twenty Ave years, aten-fold growth.
Queensland has grown from 5000 to
125, 900. Tasmania, which had popu-
lation too small to be counted in 1850,
has 10O, 600 now. New Zealand has
grown ten-fold in the quarter of CEN
tury, from 26, 900 to 266, 900. The pop
ulation of Australasia is largely English,
and strongly Protestant. Emigration
has been freelyencouraged. Several of
the colonies are no longer penal, and the
actual number of criminals on the islands
is very small.
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HARRIAGE IN THE Bar STATE.

MARRIAGE IN THE BAY STATE.
The report of the Massachusetts, vital
statistician has q chapter on marriages
which is as interesting as the pages OF a
fashionable novel, though, let us hope,
trihe more trustworthy. The record
shows that the last three months of the
year is the season when most marriages
are celebrated-the next favorite season
is spring and early summer. During
the year 1873, the number of females
married at the age of II was 439, an ex-
cess of 80 above the average number for
the last seven years. One hundred and
seventy-four were married at the age of
16, forty-seven at 15, and seven at "A.
Among the males, two were married at
Is, eleven at IT, forty-four at 18, and
one hundred and forty three at 10. OF
the males above named who married at
18, three took for wives girls aged 16, Is
and IA, respectively; while one young
man of 16 became the husband of a
maiden of II. A bachelor of 63 was ac-
cepted by maid of II; and bachelor
of % was united to maid of 40. A
couple, aged SO and 50, respectively,
were married, it being their first venture.
A widower of 48 took for his fourth wife
maid of "a; and widow of % was
married to bachelor of 27, her third
husband. A widower of 19 found favor
with spinster of 80. The Oldest parties
married during the year were widower
of 80 and widow of 67, it being the
third marriage of each. There were
three fifth marriages of males during the
year, at the ages of 81, 81 and 81. One
widow became bride for the fourth
time, her bridegroom being widower
of 55, her own aga being go. Among
| those who have been twice widowed was
one who, at the age of %, was married
to bachelor of %. A widow of IL
married a bachelor of %, and a widower
of 90 married maid of %. The record
contains the name of one man who died
at the age of 73 of consumption, who
was the father of thirty-four children,
fourteen by one wife, seventeen by q
second, and three by third.
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students, to one of whom an admonition
was due for some grave academic irregu-
-arity, while with the other 3 business
arrangement was to be made about some
room rent. AS ill-luck would have it,
being in haste to discharge his mind of a
most unpleasant burden, the fine old
man fell afoul of the student whose er-
rand was business, and administered to
him as severe o verbal castgation as his
noble nature was capable of.
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they are washed. They are then
whitened or timed, by being laid IN
strata, in common pan, made OF copper
alternately with grain tin in the proper
tions of about six pounds of tin to seven
pounds of pins, until the vessel Is filled
Water is now added, and heat apphed,
and as soon as the water gets hot It's sur
face is sprinkled with four ounces OF
cream of tartar, after which it is allowed
to boil for an hour. This operation Is
repeated once or twice, the pins being
washed in cold water between each boil
ing. After thinning, the pins are polished
by agitation In leather sack filed with
bran, and, after the bran has been sepa-
rated by winnowing, the pins are col
lected in bowls for papering.
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COMPULSORY education -Beecher pay
ing for Bessie Turner's schooling.