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Items for the Ladies.

Uneasy rests the head that has no new spring
bonnet,
Victor Hugo, the eminent French writer, is
IN favor OF woman suffrage.
Mary L. Booth, editor Of Hdrper's Bdzar,
spends the next three months in Richmond,
Va, for the bnefit OF her health.
The Sanscrit class in Boston University in
cludeS two young ladies', who are probably the
first OF their sex in America to undertake this
difficult study.
ST women are allowed to vote what do you
suppose would be the fashion for voting dress
es," asked fashionable Brooklyn girl Of her
drsss maker the other day.
The King OF sweden has issued an order that
woman is to have the disposition OF her prop
erty as well before her marriage as after it, and
to be entitled to her own earnings.
Three Georgia sisters, whom the war reduced
from great wealth to extreme poverty, went in
to the sheep-raising business three years ago
and are now making money rapidly.
Maria Generoso Estrella daughter OF one of
the nabobs Of Rio Janelro, has come to this
country to study medicine in order that she
may return to practice among the poor people
Of her country.
A handsome edition Of Poe's works has just
been issued by the Messrs. Black in Edn-
burgh, the types OF which were set by young
women who learned the trade since the begin
ming of the recent printers strike in that city.
The Iowa woman suffrage association at
Des Moines, April g. passed resolution thank
ing Miss Matte II. Strickland, Of st. Johns,
Mich, for her successful labors in that State,
and recommending her to ali friends OF the
cause who desire to engage acompetent lecturer.
The Womsns Journal puts an argument in
this shape: In the town OF Concord one
fifth of all the taxes is paid by women. The
town has voted to expend $4,000 upon this
celebration. In other words the men OF Con-
cord have taken from the women of Concord
1t in celebrating the principle that taxation
without representation is tyranny"
Four ladies' who, sometime ago. passed the
London University examination for women,
entered the chambers of well. known barristers
for the purpose Of studying law. One OF them,
whose term OF study is closed, has been en-
gagged by firm of solicitors as consulting
counsel" and is at once to receive a salary
larger than the income enjoyed by scores of
barrsters who have been in practice for years.
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Trains from Paw Paw connect with the sams
named Trans on the Michigan Central Railroad
at Lawton, going east and west.
LEAvEPAw PAW.
1850 A. Nj, returns from Lawton at A. M
$3.50 a. IN, Mail Train, east.
100 p. M, Mail west, and Way Freight east.
s:l0 2. m. Kalamazoo Accommodation, east
81 Trains return TO Paw Paw on departure IA
Michigan Central Trains from Lawton ~
+. M. MANNING, SuD't.
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RAwLISs, April 20.

RAwLINs, April %.
I intended to have finished and sent this to
Won from Laramie, but Thursday morning,
about nine O'Clock. we were greeted with " all
aboard" from the conductor, and were soon
hurrylng on, sometimes over broad valleys and
then down rough looking guiches; sometimes
the up grade was 80 heavy passengers could get
off and walk. We passed several large fiocka
of antelope INTO one OF which our party she's
with needle gun, and, as one of them was left
behind apparently struggling to get up, it is
thought that ne hit one, although the distance
must have been over one hundred rods
About three miles before reaching this place
we passed flock OF five elk, but they were a
half mile away. We arrived here little after
five last night. At Fort Steel we crossed the
North Platte river, which il much larger than
had expected considering that 1t is not far
from the North Park, it's source. AT Carbon
Station, fifty-three miles back, are extensive
coal mines where the company get the principal
part of their coal. The first exciting rumor we
heard on our arrival here, was that q band OF
Indians had made raid on ranch and driven
off all the stock, and 1t was expected they would
make raid on the town as they were camped
over the hills to the north little further in
vestigation proved that the depredations had
been committed twenty miles from here. The
next story was, that the smallpox was in town,
but we learned itEad disappeared four weeks
ago. We can see snow-clad hills on all sides of
us, but the air is only comfortably cool.
How long we shall be obliged to stay here we
cannot tell, but hope to get away this forenoon.
1t is about 1876 miles to the break where we ex-
pect to have to walk three or four miles, but
hope the break will be repaired so that we can
keep this car till we get to Ogden. The passen-
gers are fed at the expense of the railroad
company, If they choose to be; our party gen.
orally prefer their own vlctuals. We all ex-
pect to reach California some time, and then
you may hear from me again.
Yours etc., JOE.
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Leave Kalamazoo, $40 a. m. and $3.50 D. m .
Pass Coolies, $40 a. m. and 4:55 p. m. Arrive at
South Haven, 11:0O a. m. and 500 D. m.
Leave South Haven, 6:5j a. m. and 300 p. m.
Pass Coolies, 900 a. m. and 425 D. m. Arrive at
Kalamazoo 10:40 a. m. and $40 p. m.
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- Q II H Il
p e Z: q p l.
OF
PA w PAW.
AND
TOWNS ADJOINING.

In commencing our New Mode of
Business, we wish to make known the
principle upon which our business will
be conducted, and wish to be distinctly
understood,
1st' That we shall sell for Cash and
Ready Pay.
I'd. That our Prices shall be One
and the same to every body
Sd. That we shall sell our Goods at
q small advance from Cost, in all cases.
4th. That in no case shall there be
any deception used to sell our goods ;
and that all Goods that do not prove to
be what they are sold for, may be return.
ed, aud the money refunded.
5th. That it is our determination, in
all cases, never to be undersold.
Lastly. We have 100 bushels of
Yankee Corn forSeed aud 20 bushels
of Large Black Eyed Marrowfat Peas
to sell, and most everything else.
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A new lot of goods just come to town.
VIII suit the ladies all around;
think the goods will suit your eye
Just take your cash, come and try.
Our stock of goods is now complete,
And we do promise to sell cheap;
One dollar cash, we do say,
Will buy load for Ready Pay.
Dry Goods and Shoes Of every kind.
Will suit the body and the mind;
They almost give you Cash tehy say,
To come and take the Goods away.
Just send your Boys and Girls 80 NICE
They'll have the goods at the same price;
Wen load them we'll from off our shelves.
AS cheap as tho you came yourselves.
One price to all who buy our stuff,
And that one price Is low enough.
We want you to understand
That SMITH & Co. are still on hand.
Come on, we are going to have some fun.
Yours Truly,
{. SMITH g. co
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msnced running. They we're converting old
rails ints dat bars about one inch and half
thick and eight inches wide. rumor was
started that Brigham Young Was in town, and
several of our party were seen to follow portly
old gentleman about town to get . far view OF
the Mormon Prophet, but 1t was afterward
ascertained that his name was Kellogg, Govern
or of Wyoming Territory.
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Dissolution Notice.

COpdrtnershfp .NOtfce-.NSr Firm.
The undersigned have this day formed Co
partnership, for term Of five years, under the
firm name Of Sherman Il Selllck, for the pur-
pose OF transacting a general Dry Goods bu 81
ness. Trusting that low prices and thorough
attention to the requirements OF the trade will
merit liberal share Of the public patronage.
ALONZO SHERMAN.
ROBERT SELLICK.
Paw Paw April "a, 1875. 1049t3
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Teeumseh's Pipe.

The pipe is queer piece of mechanism,
made of black flint stone, rather light, and
susceptible of polish similar to gutta
percha. It is four and half inches long
from the top Of the bowl to the lower end
of the shank. The bowl is of jug shape,
about two inches long, and the shank is
made OH the plan of bit of tomahawk,
and blunt on the end, with three grooves.
The edges are bound with q metallic sub
stance, probably pewter, and the sides and
bowl are curiously and very ingeniously
idlaid with the same metal The figures of
the inlaying are regular and indicate an ac-
ting stars, hearts, curious circles and various
angles. The bowl is topped and bound
with the same metal. The diameter Of the
bowl at the bulge is an inch and three
rourths, and the cavity is eleven-slxteenths
of an inch in diameter, and three inches to
the stem-hole, and will hold as much as an
ordinary meerschaum pipe.
The stem is of hickory, twenty-five inches
long, one and nine-sixteenth inchesin width
and half-inch thick, oval flat. 1t contains
six slots, about four inches long, and pecu-
liarly arranged as to the hole through it.
at the end next to the pipe there are two
slots lengthwise of the stem, the hole pass
ing between them then there is a slot ex-
actly in the centre, then two like the first,
and then a single slot in the centre again,
which makes the whole zig-zag like. How
it was made though was a mystery to the
mechanic Of the present day.-1Iffn Ohio
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st Old Ironsides. %

An excursionist down the Delaware River
from Philadelphia can scarcely fail to no.
tice, as he passes the naval station, an old
and battered hulk, snugly ensconced upon
one Of the several docks of the yard. The
hulk in question belongs to one Of the
finest vessels that ever foated the Stars and
Stripes, and one which, of all our decaying
navy, has the most interesting and historic
associations. The Constitution, ar Old
Iroassdes, as she is better known, ia freely
outlined in the shattered hulk whose ghostly
ribs, set against the shadows of the Nary
Yard, is all that remains of the once proud
frigate which did such gallant service
against the Algerine pirates in 1904 and
the British in 1912, and which, down to
the beginning of the war, was in active
service in the United States marine. The
Constitution was built at Boston in 1897
She is known for her staunchness and sea-
worthiness !; for her gallant engagement in
the harbor of Tripoli for her victory over
the Ggerriere her capture Of the Jasa,
and the many prizes she took during the
war of 1912, and for the more than three
score years of active ser7ice she did as q
member Of our navy. For several years
past she has lain neglected at the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard, 4 thing of scorn. while
the fashy gunboats and untrustworthy
monitors and iron-clads Of iaodern con
struction hare engaged the attention of
the pubic, and wrestled from her the peo.
pies affections.
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Mark Twain's Last Lament.

Mark Twain, IN the August atlantic,
mourns over the diminished length of the
Mississippi, in this strain (: The Mississippi
between Cairo and New Orleans was 1915
miles long 176 years ago. It was /, 180 after
the cutoff of 1722. It was 1,040 after the
American Bend cutoff (some Is or II years
age) 1t has lost 81 miles since. Conse-
quently it's length is only 973 miles at pres
ent.
In the space of 176 years the Lower Mis-
sissippi has shortened itself 242 miles,
That is an average of a trifle over one mile
and third per year. Therefore, any calm
person, who is not blind or idio5ic, can see
that in the Old Oolitic Silurian period, just
million years ago next November, the
Lower Mississippi river was upwards Of /
5000 miles long, and stuck out over the
Gulf of Mexico like fishing-rod. And by
the same token any person can see that
742 years from now the Lower Mississippi
will be only mile and three-quarters long,
and Cairo and New Orleans win have joined
their streets together, and be plodding
comfortably along under a single Mayor
and mutual Board of Aldermen. There
is something fascinating about science.
One gets such wholesale returns of conjec-
ture out of such trifling investment OF
| f,oA
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Statistics of the Globe.

The earth is inhabited by about 1,400,-
100000 inhabitants, namely: 800, 600, 000
of the Caucasian race $4,000, 900 of the
Monaghan 10000, 600 of the Ethiopian
200, 600, 900 of the Malay race and 1,0Oo,-
600 of the American Indian. All these
respectively speak 1904 languages, and
possess 1000 different religions. The
amount of deaths per annum is SO, 333, 333,
or 1854 per day, 3,73o per hour, 80 per
minute, or one per second. This loss is
more than compensated by the number of
births. The average duration of life
throughout the globe is 33 years. One
fourth Of it's population dies before the
seventh year, and one-half before the seven.
teenth. Out Of 10000 persons only one
reaches his hnndrcdth year, only one in 500
his eightieth, and only one in 100 his sixty
fifth. Married people live longer than un-
married ones, and tall man is likely to
live longer than d short one. Until the
fiftieth year women have better chance
for life thanmen but beyond that period
the chances are equal. Sixty-fve persons
out Of 1000 marry. The month of June
and December are those in which marriages
are most frequent. Children born in the
spring are generally stronger than those
born in other seasons. Births and deaths
occur chiefly in the night. The number Of
men able to bear arms is but one-eighth Of
the population. The population of the
United States is now over 10000, 600, Of
which one-eighth are negroes, with 10000
Indians, and three times as many Chinese,
-Ddnbeqg Neaos.
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How Mountains are sawed Into.

The contracting or shriveling of the earth
causes the rocks near the surface to wrinkle
or fold, and such a fold was started athRart
the course of the river. Had it been sud-
denly formed, it would have been an OBJ
struction sufficient to turn the water in a
new course to the east, beyond the extern
sion Of the wrinkle but the eInergence of
the fold above the general surface of the
country was little or no faster than the
progress of the corrasion of the channel.
We may say, that the river did not cut its
way down through the mountains, from a
height of many thousand feet above its
present site but, having an elevation diff
fering but little, perhaps from what it now
has. ais the fold was lifted, il cleared away
the obstruction by cutting d eailon and
the walls were thus elevated on either side.
The river preserved It's level, but naoun-
tains were lifted up ;as the saw revolyes on
q fixed pivot, while the log through which
II cuts ii moved along. The river was
i the saw which cut The mountains ID two.
Popular scieatife Monthly.
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D1s1NHERIrED FOR THREE CENTS
Result of Mutilated Postage Stamp.

/ During the latter days of the session OF
Congress, says the National Republican, an
old gentleman visited Washington to ar
range some matters in relation to patent.
| one day, while visiting the Capitol, he
made the acquaintance of one of the en-
ployes, who showed him some attention,
and devoted several hours to conducting
him through that stupenduons edifice and
directing his attention to all it's various
beauties and attractions. the old gentle
man vas completely captivated by the young
man, and formed for him the highest at
young man returned TO iiass' liiias'sfnped and the
but the old gentleman remained in the city
q few days, and then visited Baltimore
While there he was taken ILL., and immedi-
ately hastened back to Washington. Grow
ing worse, he resolved to make his will, and
having none but very distant and unknown
relatives, he determined to bestow his
wealth upon the young man for whom he
had formed SO great an attachment. De-
string his presence, and having his address,
he wrote few lines, giving information of
is health, and requesting visit from him
without delay, as he had gratifying sur
prise in store for him.
The letter was inelosed and stamped with
postage stamp, the only one he had,
which was slightly torn in separating it
from the pocket-book, to which it had un-
fortunately adhered. An acquaintance and
daily visitor was employed to mail the let
ter, who called the attention Of the old
gentleman to the rigid adherance of the
postal department to its own rules il re-
lation to mutilated stamps but he would
not listen to the suggestion, saying the
stamp was genuine. had not been used,
and was as good as ever, and he would not
waste its value. The stamp was according
ly used, and the letter duly mailed.
Now comes the sequel. The letter was
detained here for postage, solely on account
of the trifiing mutlation referred to- and
the party to whom it was addressed was,
in about four days, notified Of the deten-
ton, which notice was received six days
from the date of mailing the letter with
the torn stamp. The following day the
young man left his home, and deeming
the withheld letter of no particular conse-
quence, without even carrying the postoffice
notice or paying any attention to it, Ten
days subsequently he arrived in Washing
ton and then recurred to his memory the
detained letter, and he wrote home for the
postoffice notification. On its arrival he
procured the letter, and in much excite
nent-.of miud lie fastened to the hotel of
the old gentleman. Alas when he arrived
he learned that his intended beneiaetor had
been dead four days, and that the old gen.
teman, not hearing from or receiving the
wished for visit, had first felt hurt. then
sighted, and finally indignant, and in that
frame of mind had made will in favor Of
poor lady in his native State, who had
once done him an act Of kindness. This
was told him by the lawyer who prepared
the will, and who was the party that mail
ed the letter. The old gentleman's wealth
amounted to $4,000.
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Mississippi Steamboat Racing,

Racing was royal fun, The public alwys
had an idea that racing was dangerous
whereas the very opposite was the case
that is, after the laws were passed which
restricted each boat to just SO many pounds
of steam to the square inch. No engineer
was ever sleepy or careless when his heart
was in race. He was constantly ON the
alert, trying gauge-coeks and watching
things The dangerous place was on slow,
popular boats, where the engineers drowsed
around and allowed chips to get into the
'sdoetor" and shut off the water supply
from the boilers.
race between two notoriously fleet steamers
was an event of vast Importance. The
date was set for it several weeks in advance,
and from that time forward the whole
Mississippi valley was in a state of consum-
ing excitement Politics and the weather
were dropped, and the people talked of
only the coming race. AS the time ap-
preached the two steamers " stripped and
got ready. Every ineumbrance that added
weight, or exposed a resisting surface to
wind or water was removed, if the boat
could possibly do without it. The "spars"
and sometimes even their supporting der
ricks were sent ashore and no means left
to set the boat af1oat, in case she got
aground When the Eclipse and A. L.
Shotwell ran their great race twenty-five
years ago, it was said that pains were
taken to scrape the gliding off the fanciful
device which hung between the Eclipse's
chimneys, and that for that one trip the
captain left off his kid gloves and had his
head shaved. But always doubted these
things. IL the boat was known to make
feet forward and five feet aft, she was
loaded to the exact fgure-she wouldn't
her best speed when drawing five and a hall
enter dose Of homeopathic pills on hel
manifest after that. Hardly any passen
gers were taken, because they not only ado
weight, but they never will 'trim boat. >
They always run to the side when there j.
anything to see, whereas a conscientious
and experienced steamboatman would sticl
| tie the center of the boat and part his hal
in the middle with a spirit level--lNarl
Taeain, In the Aaaust Atlantic.
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A HARD TIME FOR NEWsPAPERs.-I re-
call no time within twenty years when the
newspapers have had SO hard sledding here
in New York as during the last six months.
One thing that they have sadly missed is
the advertising OF large financial houses.
Prior to the last panic and financial crisis,
firms like Henry Clews, Jay Cooke s. Co.,
and Fisk s. Hatch, paid enormous sums
every year to the New York papers for adj
vertising railway bonds, loans, etc. Now
all that sort of thing is done with. Half of
these heavy houses have gone into bank
ruptcy, and the remainder are floating no
leans of any description, with one or two
exceptions. The fact that the advertising
Of all the various departments Of the city
is now given to The Official Record, a
little sheet published expressly for this
| purpose, likewise makes a big difference
| i'm the receipts of some of the papers.
Then, again, the general prostration in
business causes great diminution in the
general advertising in the metropolis. But,
while the receipts have very materially
fallen off, the expenses OF running the
daily papers here not diminished. The
| Beecher trial has been n great drag upor
them. Mr.. Jones, the proprietor Of tht
/ Times, recently stated that the trial hae
cost that paper fully $4,000. While i
i caused the sale of A few more copies, ou
papers received, with the exception Of th'
Tribune, comparatively nothing for tn
outlay in reporting and printing the pro
i cecdings or tile protracted trial.
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TEE NEW ARCTIC ExpEnITloN
The Great Ice Park Of Bafin's Bay.
From the Electic.


The first obstruction which the expedi.
tion is likely to experience will be caused
by the great ice-pack which annually forms
in Baf6n's Bay. This is known as the
great centre pack, and consists of ancient
fioe-ice, and, of more recent ice varying
from six to eight feet in thickness. Much
of this is broken every year by the swell
from the south, or dissolved by the warm
current which sets into the bay; but the
great middle pack, as it is termed, always
presents formidable barrier to tbs whal-
ing fleets which frequent Baffn's Bay
although they rarely fail in breaking though
i sooner Or later, according to the season
ice, when exsehassand compactness of the
bay for distance from side to side of the
To the north of this formIusf sf96.sa saan rniIes
is that open sea called the North Water,
and which it is the object of the whalers to
reach as early as possible; for there the
whales of which they are in search abound,
and the sooner they come upon their haunts
the greater is their success. The ice of
0dAAA oaJ 10 AOe w no SOupcbAC0 WALL
that which forms in the seas north of Nova
Zembla and spitzbergen, where the edge OF
the pack has been found twenty-four feet
thick, and sheets of from thirty to forty
feet thick are not uncommon.
Bafiin's Bay has been the scene of fire.
quent disasters to whalers. In 1880 oe-
CURED a very terrible catastrophe. A gale
from the southwest drove whole feet in
to Melville Bay, nipping the ships against
the land-floe. AS the gale increased the
land-foes overlapped each other, and bore
down with accumulated force upon the de-
voted fleet, when scene Of innescribable
horror ensued. In the space of a quarter
of an hour many fine vessel were shattered
to pieees-the ice tearing open their sides,
many were squeezed flat, others literally
turned inside out. The few which escaped
did SO only by cutting docks in the land
foes for their protection. The total loss
to the owners was estimated at e143,0 600.