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Alexander Dumas, Father and Son.

A fellow author and friend, desiring
to be agreeable to the son, wrote what
he considered handsome panegyric on
the elder, and, to his surprise, Dumas
the younger did not think he had done
justice rbF~the subject. Were he told
that the elder Dumas was the Shaks-
peare of the nineteenth century it is
probable that LIE would not question the
justice of such an opinion.
His admiration of his fathers gifts
did not prevent him from seeing the
grotesque side to his character. On
one occasion he said: My father is
SO filed with vanity that he is capable
of getting up behind his carriage to
make the people believe he has ne
gro"
At dinner of men of letters some
one gave an account of a seris 8 of
humorous subterfuGes by which debtor
eluded creditor, the character of the
debtor being highly colored, at which
Dumas, jr., laughed heartily. when a
neighbor told him that the person de-
scribed was his father. Impossible, +"
answered the son, cor he would have
put it in his Memoirs.
The elder had singular way of
indoino of nanins illnst-et<17
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the water. 1t is true the French
baigneuseS seldom allow the sea to
come up higher than their knees, and
that they often have to walk half mile
from their cabin into the water. 1t is
to be hoped that their new temporary
cabins will not fall to pieces at the first
gust of wind. If this catastrophe were
to happen, the ladies would have to
adopt the plan l once saw pursued at
a small watering place in Spain, where
they donned and dotted their bathing
costumes at home, and walked valiantly
through the streets dressed la Mrs.
RIO0maro
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voluntarily stepped forward two or three
steps Beautiful light flowed from them
and seemed to battle the very coils of
the serpent. Gradually he drew closer
until, Just as he was almost within the
reptiles reach, he fell, feeling, as he
said afterward, as though he had been
struck by a stone. When he became
conscious his head was in friends lap.
His first words were Who struck
me?" mo one struck you, doctor. l
saw you were charmed by the snake and
I struck it with a stone" He had
struck the snake and the doctor had felt
the blow.-HOnae Journal.
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GOD KNOWS ALL THE IL EST.

" Now lay, !" repeat IL darling
"Lay me, h-ped the tiny lips
OF my daughter. kneeliDg, bending
Der her folded finger tips.
.Dou n to sleep -" To sleep, she mUrmu red,
And the curly head bent low;
al pray the Lord ~ gently added,
You can say it all, know.
pray the Lord the sound came faint,
Fainter stiIl-"My soul to keep"
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast ssieeps
But the dcwy eyes half opened,
when clAsped her to my breast,
And the dear voice softly whispered,
Mamma, Gcd knows MI the rest"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24
er of Etiquette.
chapter of Laferriere's

chapter of Laferriere's
,moirs, is devoted to a
' .ty at tie court of the
icholas, the Count Paul
'oung attache to one of
low a distinguished di-
invited to dine with
On the return of the
the salon groups were
and there, and when the
round the young
ed away by the interest of
ion in which he was en-
lump of sugar from the
tn his finger when the
led the tray to him. Count
ynant at this breach of
I'd to the lackey to throw
contents of the sugar
he window. The lesson
ones and struck dumb
aessed it. But the spir.
ender, while understand
The insult intended, pre-
,rturbable calmness' He
the contents of his emp.
deliberately to the window.
yes on M. Demidof and
y into the street the Gun
priceless Sevres and the
u did not know that
u'sge," he said 70 the
then be recon menced his
With ar air of perfect non
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24
French and American Women.

Albert Rhodes, in his book, s'The
French at Home" Just published by
Dodd & Mead, says:
+ The face of the American woman is
more beautiful than that of any other
country. 1t has delicacy of color
and feature, and .inesse and in
telIectuality in expression !; but the
body supporting the head, re-
garded from an artistic and hygienic
point of view, is inferior. For breath
ing and digesting the upper part is
lacking in depth. In q word, the Amer
lean is more fragile; she is hardly q
Diana, and the French is something
more, although not the Hebe of Rubens.
The French woman's face is as hand
some as that of any other in Europe,
and fades more slowly. At forty she
glides into an ea,abO7a73oi,at with an I'M
wrinkled face and a good complexion
at the age when the English woman be-
comes heavy necked and frowsy, and the
American pale and wrink1ed. The
climate has something to do with this,
but doubtless her nour1shing food,
generous wine and outdoor air much
more. Her mode of living contributes
thereto-'he exercise and development
of each function in a more natural and
are asceti> ideas in America which have
velopment of woman, for mind molds
matter. The extremes of American life
are uufavorable to healthy growth, in
it's fastness as we'll as its asceticism,
where the flesh is corrupted by dissi-
patton or mortified by certain religious
teachings. Aside from these causes is a
prevalent notion that it is beneath the
dignity of man and woman to occupy
the mselves with what they shall eat and
what they shall drink.
The American has more intellect than
her French sister, but the latter has
softness where she has pertness. There
are nervousness, excitability and clever
ness in one, mellowness and equality of
character in the other. The forced,
brilliant vitality of woman in America
is subject to fits of reaction, for nature
has it's limit. In the French woman the
mind is more even and cheerful, and in
the absence of exhaustive and irregular
demands made upon it, the uniform
health is better.
In qualities of purely mental char
scter, the equal of the American woman
can not perhaps be found in the world (;
but with all her knowledge and intel
lectual activity. she lacks that which
made the Greeks what they have been
and the French what they are-organIc
cultivation. Entwined in these words
are taste and art. A ripper civilization,
though not purer. shall invest her
with knowledge of these things, and a
harmony of character not now possessed;
and with it will come, alas that de-
cadence in morals which always marches
on the heels of the beautiful in every
age and in every climate.
AN ALLIGATOR CAsE.-An alligator
was once the cause of a curious case
being tried at New Orleans. A young
lady brought an action against a neigh
Dor for keeping an alligator in his yard,
asserting that the beast was of extraor-
binary size and ferocity. and that she
was in fear of her life. The defendant,
who had been arrested, being required.
to plead. stated that he kept the animal
as kind of house dog or night watch
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THERE is great magnetic power in the
eyes OF several of the lower animals.
The lions, the tigers and the serpent's
eeyes are all magnetic. It is we'll known
that the serpent will charm birds that
are hying above it, until in great circles
they will sweep down to the destruction
which awaits them. A friend of mine,
a doctor, was one day walking in the
held, when he saw an adder lying on a
rock. He drew near to examine it and
presently looked at its eyes. He was
attracted by their great beauty and in
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The American Changers and the
English CO-OpfratOrs.

1t appears that the English coop
erative societies, whose representatives
are now negotiating with the executive
committee of the national grange. are
not secret bodies. Hence it will be
impossible, under existing circum-
stances, for them to unite with the
patrons. But this difficulty has been
met by the formation of trading COM
pany, having the Endorsement and sup
port of the united cooperative bodies
in England, and fully organized under
the English laws. The propositions
are to have two branches of the society,
one in England and the other in the
United States. The board in each
country is to have the absolute control
of the funds ST. bscribed therein, and all
to be used for the purpose of the inter-
national exchange of commodities. The
capital is 1926, 100000. All transactions
are to be for cash or it's equivalent.
The British co-operators number $780,
900 members have over 1000 stores,
some so or 60 cotton spinning mills,
about 20 Touring mills, an agricultural
and horticultural society. and a number
of manufactures and, of course, con-
sumo large quantity of American pro-
ducts. The funds subscribed by the
EuRllbu UIducu Vi buo COLupduv Will 10
employed in the purchase of ships, the
erection of warehouses, and the manu-
facture of such articles as are in con-
slant demand among the patrons of
husbandry. These ships will bring the
goods to New Orleans and other south
ern ports, and to eastern ports if neces-
sary. They desire the patrons to en-
ploy their portion of the capital in carry
ing American staples and products to
meet these ships, and thus to make the
necessary exchange in the most direct
and simple manner. The co-operators
have large surplus capital, which is
constantly on the increase. and which
they think can be profitably employed
in this trade. While each branch of
the company will have control of its
own affairs, the two boards will form a
council who will, by joint action, de-
eide what branch of business will be
engaged in, and define tho method of
conducting the same. An American
will be sent to Liverpool to watch the
interests of the grange branch of the
company, and the English board will
have a like representative in New
Orleans, while the general supervision
will be in the hands of a managing
director already elected, and who,
though an Englishman born, has been
twenty-three years in America.-E1.
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a heart in the Georgia med
lat WAS aiken from a man
o commit suicide. He
sef with a knife, and the
60 the heart. He livod for
ana might have recovered,
got drunk, and the next
vas dead
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24

"THERE! exclaimed the indignant
Boston wife, as she fetches her husband
a resonant whack ION the head with n
chairrocker, "I'll raise a Bunker Hill
monument on you that you'll remem-
haro
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Insect Pests.

Mr.. Charles Thompson, in the Scien-
tific American, makes short work with
all the insect pests of the house and
garden, ION paper) and his ideas are
good, in the main, though his remedies
are by no means always infallible, in
practice:
I have not seen q bed-bug or flea in
my house for many years. If an army
of them were to be brought in, mercul y
would speedily exterminate them, but
think cleanliness the best and perhaps
the only preventative. The common
house fly 1 do not modest, believing that
| it more than compensates for its trouble
by clearing the atmosphere of efhuvia
| and the animslcules which always arise
from the putrifaction of decayipg sub
stances during the warm weather. So,
also, with the birds, which are nsloaa-
GUS here during the simmer instead of
shooting than, or setting up scarecrows
every possible inducement for them to
build their nests in my fruit trees. The
birds capture large share of the insects
in the larval state, and thus the millers
are prevented from depositing eggs for
a future crop of worms. AS to the loss
of fruit by the birds, the latter are
always sure to be on hand in force in
the season of ripe fruit, whether they
come early enough to take the worms
or not. For the residue of insects
which infest mv vegetable garden, 1 find
that the laboratory of the chemist fur
nishes material fatal to them all, among
which white hellebore and cayenne pep
per are of the most utility; the bug or
worm which cannot find vegetation I'M
favored with these articles will seek its
breakfast elsewhere, and leave my gar
den unmolested. A few drops of car
bolic acid in pint of water will clean
house plants from lice in a very short
time. If mosquitoes or other blood
annkAra infAat our sleeping rooms at
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& d DO6Ll0 OF GQo OIL Oh
these insects leave in
will they return 30 long
room is loaded with the
aromatic herb. If rats
a little powdered pot
heir holes or mixed with
cred in their runways,
lrive them away. Cay
| keep the buttery and
from ants and cock
louse makes an entrance
your dwelling, saturate
me in solution, aud stuff
which can then be re-
or wood or m ortar- No
i eat that rag for the
,ening communications
supplies.
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VALUE OF OATMEAL FOR INFANTS -
In a communication to the Societe Med
ical des Hopiteaux, MN. Dujardin-
Beaumetz and Hardy make known the
results of the employment of oatmeal,
says the Medical Press and Circular, on
the alimentation and hygiene of infants.
According to them oatmeal is the aliment
which. by reason of its plastic and res
piratory elements, makes the nearest
approach to human milk. It also is one
of those which contains most iron and
salts, and especially the phosphate Of
lime. so necessary for infants. It also
has the property of preventing and ar
resting the diarrheas which are 30 fire.
quent and so dangerous at this age.
According to the trials made by Mr..
Marie, infants from to IL months oil
age, fed exclusively upon Scotch oat-
meal and cows milk, thrive very nearly
as we'll as do children of the same age
sucked by a good nurse.
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Avoid Consump ffOn. Guard against its
frs. approach. The timely use OF TUFTS Expector-
ant will prove . sure preventive. Very pleasant.
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GRAIN RAISERS REFUSE to suomie
70 tho wasteful and imperfect work OF etheR
Threshers when posted ON the oass suP~Sortfy
Of this one. for saving grain. saving time and
doing fast, thorough and economical work
THRESHERnEn Find IN highly advAn tageOus 70
run Q machine that has no "BeaterA- "PickerA
Or Apron. that handles Damp Gram: Long ~
such dificuit grain and seeds with ENTIRE
EASE AND &c Flr,nt his ssr. S1eh hils
by extra saving of grain; makes 10 |" litter
rgs5" require. less THAN 0NE.hAlt the usual
,elta BoxoA JournAlA and Gears; easier man.
aged less repairs; one that grain raisers pre- fer
70 employ and wait for, even at advanee@
prices, while other machines are "ont of tol's.
Four slxes made with 9, o, 10 and .
horse MOunted0 POwern, also spe-
eialty of SeParators "alone," eIpreOsly
for STEAM POWER, and 90 match
other Horse Powers.
Ifinterested In grain raising. or threshing write
for Illustrated Circulars (senf Jrss) with full
particulars of sixeA stylea priceA termA ETC.
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO.,
Roffka Creek AScAG1nsS
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Moore. Weeks q Co.. grOcers.
Hartford. Ct. say:-"aea Foam
takes the lead of all bread pre-
parations. Our sales are four
fold what they were year as o.
All like IL.
Dan forth, Scudder q Co. Gro.
GERS, Boston. say:-"Have sold
your Sea Foam for the past .
years with perfect satisfaction
to all who have bought IT,
Its economy Is wonderful one
years savings vi J buy a cow :
Send for circular to Geo. Il.
GantE Il Co, .176 Duahe-st. MY.
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MEDICINE RENDERED USELESSl
NoLTA's ELECTRO BELTS and
Bands are Endorsed by the
most eminent ply sicIans in
the world for the cure ofrheu-
matism, neuralgia, liver COM
plaint, dyspepsia, kidney dis
ease, aches, pains, nervous dis
orders, fits. female complaints
nervous and general debility,
and other chronic diseases ot
the chest head liver, stomach
kidneys and blood. Book VIZ
full particulars fr@e
RELT Co. CT
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A FACT worth rememberipg-Five
cents worth Of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders given to horse twice . week, will
horse will be fatter. sleeker. and every way
worth more money than though he did not
have them.
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MARRIAGE GUIDE,
GEO. P. RoWELL 3 Co.
MEDICINE RENDERED USELESS

VXTHEN writing 10 advertisers p,rsse mention
w the name of this Taper. NO, 40 y. n. u.
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MARRIED ladies. under all circum-
stances, will find Parsons Purgative Pills
safe; and, in small doses, a mild cathartic
They cause no gripping pains or cramp.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-19
The Hanging-Gardens of Babylon.

Our pretty hanging baskets, with their
suspension-wires completely draped in del
icate-ciimbing ivies and standing moses,
with their masses of beautiful trail
ing plants, aroOping grasses, vincas,
mimosas, musk-scented and covered with
brilliant golden flowers, though liliputian
in size, are literally hanging -gandens.
But, even should they be made million
times larger, their plan is so utterly diff
terent, that they could never suggest the
faintest notion of the hanging gardens of
Babylon, about the very name of which
there is a ring of poetic grandeur and a
flavor of oriental magnificence. They
were literally paradises or pleasure-gar-
dens XenophOn mentions those of Belle
sis, governor of Syria; and such as he be-
held them, apparently, we find them de-
scribed by Chardin and other modern
travlers. The hanging-gardens of Bah
lyon were simply a very costly variety
of the paradise, such as only princely
wealth could afford. The origin is attrib-
uted to Semiramis by some; others say
that they were invited by a king of Syria
to charm the melancholy of one of his
wives, of Persian origin, who sighed to
behold again the verdant mountains of
Siculus have written about these famous
hanging gardens, Philo of Byzantium,
and many others They were called
hanging-gardens, doubtless, because of
the huge branching palms and other
trees, overhanging the balustrade on the
summit of the high walls that inclosed
the paradise. These walls were about
one hundred and thirty feet long on each
IF 4 I,o 81 oil
and fifty cubits high, or over nnety-One
feet according to the Hebrew cubit; by
the Roman or by the English cubit,
little less. Around the interor on all
sides, rose terrace above terrace to the
number of twenty, the top one resting on
the outer walls, and even with the bal
ustrade. The terraces were upheld by
immensely strong galleries, whose cell
ings were formed Of heWn stones sixteen
feet long and four feet wide. Resting on
these stones was a layer of reeds, mixed
with a great quantity of asphalt, and on
this was double floor of fire-dried bricks
laid in mortar; finally, floor of lead
plates to prevent any moisture from
penetrating the foundations of the ter
races, the soil of which rested directly on
the leaden floor, and was Of sufficient
depth to hold and nourish trees fifty feet
high, and thousands of rare plants culled
from all parts of the known world. All
these were kept in a perennially flourish
ing condition, we are informed, by water
raised from the Euphrates through the
aid of machinery concealed from view in
certain rooms made in The galleries. The
galleries also contain many royal apart
ments, variously decorated and fur
nished. Decently lighted they could
not have been; but one can easily i'm
agine that walk around these upper
terraces on a fine moonlight night, senses
charmed by soft music and bv wave of
perfume rising from the wilderness of
flowers and shrubs below, must have
been enchanting.-1fa Marie E0WJa1td.
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Arsenic Eaters.

rat a meeting of the German natural
philosophers in Vienna, DR.. Knapp in
troduced two arsenic eaters from Styria
the one ate 80 grammes of yellow sui
phuret of arsenic, the other 40 grammes
of arsenic acid in sight of the assembly.
In his lecture on the arsenic eaters DIR.
Knapp said, among other things "lt is
difficult to give any certain particulars
as to the increase in number of arsenic
eaters. / have convinced myself that
there exist many of them in Upper
Syria, and also in Middle Styria; very
many stable boys, hOstlers, wood cutters,
and foresters, are known to me as arsenic
eaters; even the female sex is addicted
to the practice. Many began already at
seventeen or eighteen years of age to
take arsenic, and continued it to great
age. Most arsenic eaters keep the mat
ter secret, so that it is impossible to give
accurate statistics. They all assign as
their motive for indulging in the habit
that it prevents illness furthers their
wish to look rosy and healthy that it is
a remedy against difficulty of breathing,
and assists the digestion of indigestible
food. A poacher in Upper Styria, who
made experiments in my presence of eat
ing arsenic, told me he had acquired
courage by the habit. The appearance
of the arsenic eaters in all cases known
to me is healthy and robust. | think
only robust persons can become accus-
toned to the practice. Some of them
attain great age. Thus in Ieiring |
saw a charcoal burner, upward OF 20,
still strong and hearty, who, / was told,
had taken arsenic for more than forty
wears. / heard, too, of a chamOis hunter
of 81, who had long been used to eat
arsenic. | never observed an arsenic
cacbezv in those addicted to the habit.
It certainly happened once that such an
arsenic eater Ca leather dresser's appren-
tice in Ligist, 1869, while intoxicated
took too much, thereby poisoning HIM
self severely. According to his own aC-
count he had taken a piece a. large as
bean. He entirely recoy cred, however,
and ate arsenic afterward, but more care
fully. As far as my observations extend,
white arsenic, namely arsenic acid, As.
O3 (also called flowers of arsenic), and
the yellow arsenic, AS. SO, (orpiment),
are taken. and that taken in dry state,
alone: or on bread. The dose is of course
very small at first, and is gradually in
creased, the largest quantity eaten in my
presence by the poacher in Zeiring being
fourteen grammes. A certain Matthew
Schober, in Ligist, ate seven and one-half
grammes before me on the 18th Of April,
1865. The intervals, too, at which a
senic is taken vary--every fortnight,
every week, twice or three times week.
But all doubt as to the existence OF ar.
senic eaters is now removed by the pres
ent experiments"