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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

There are people who think that the
jack rabbit is only a norrow-gauge mule
st. Joe. Herald.
| tits understood that already Mrs. Sartoris
has commenced making over Algernon's
old clothes for that young man. ter
Democrat
Rich man, behold the good work you can
do in this world. See Ezra Cornell. He
founded a college; and now it has won a
boat-race.-Cona. 4do.
Brigham Young calls the schools "God-
less" because Mormonism is not taught in
them. "spotted TALL and other chiefs
to hear from.-1Ae Christian.
SAYS q Morftsa.sdish in eur restaurants"
The New York Commercial 1deertsses r.
poses it must beef-hash-ionable.
The average Mormon usually signs him.
self Yours in Krist," and yet has managed
to steal from the government $4,000, 900
worth of lumber.-,Saz Lake tribune.
Nothing cheers man so much as to sit
on cracker box in the shade of a grocery
awning and read an item about the terrible
scarcity of harvest hands.-Detrot Free
Press,
How a man can afford to give away an
eighteen dollar chrome with a pound of
dollar tea puzzles people who don't know
the immense profits made on teas.-Detroit
Free Press.
In Norway the longest day lasts three
months. The man who six months ago
promised to call in day or two and settle
his little bill. must have gone to Norway
on visit.-Turner Falls Reporter.
When Philadelphia editor opens paper
which dosen't refer to the Centennial at
least once on every page he filings 1t down
and wants to know how such wretch is
permitted to exist.-Free Press.
Missouri girls, instead of banging their
hair, put on straw hats and 60 out and
work in the harvest field. It spoils their
complexion, but they have good appetites.-
Rochester Express.
You're another. Now waltz to that
st. Joe. Herald.
The following is q specimen of the "clear"
logic, for which Chicago is proverbial {: Let
no one sneel at the mud foundation of
Chicago. We have reason to be proud of
it. 1t requires genius to build a great city
in mud-hole. Anybody could build a
great city on q rock Chjeago Tribune.
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How Many Words Does a Writer Use ?

Prof. Edward s. Holden, of the United
States Naval Observatory, discussed the
question of the number of words used in
speaking and writing by individuals. Mr..
telligent man will use in speaking and
writing less than 10, 900 words. Prof. Hol-
den made count of the number of words
beginning with each letter of the alphabet,
and noted the order Of frequency Of initial
letters in Webster's Dictionary. He found
the letters as follows
s, C, p. A, d, r, B, T, F, NJ, I. E, II, +,
g, q, w, o, V,#N, J, @, K, Y,Z,X.
He then proceeded to ascertain the aver
age number OF words in tho dictionary per
page. Then he counted out the words
which he himself was accustomed to use in
speaking or writing on several pages for
each initial letter; and from an average
thus attained, he estimated that his own
vocabulary was 50, 456 words. High as
this is, he can not see the way to reduce ii
materially. A friend in the Patent Office,
Mr.. Farquhar, assistant librarian, tested
his own writing, and concluded that he
must have still larger vocabulary. Prof.
Whitney, Of Yale, has written to say that
he cannot see why the method should moi
give correct results. From Mrs. Clark
Concordance Of Shakespeare with the i'm,
| portant omission of all verbs spelled like
nouns1 By similar process, Professor Hol
den finds shakespeare's vocabulary a ,00t
words. Milton in his poems, is found &
,,se 1877 words; III his prose a much grea
ter number is probable. Tn the Englisl
Bible there are only 1909 words, exclusive
/ OF proper names. In Boswolth's $ Diction
airy of the Anglo-saxon there are 1l,al'
words in Dr.. John Camden Hotten's Die
tlonary &c Slang, 10, 900 words.
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POE T | fY.
--r- -
SUMMER.

The blue-bel- peep from the sides of the clag
And nod at the ripples upon the bay;
While the fern-leayes sway with slow, mystic grace,
Touched by the breaths of a sweet far-away.
Dreamily slow glide the dim, distant ships
AS the soft wind fondies the sails and spars;
And the artist is carried mp to his God
Beyond the far clouds and their golden bars
Der the silvery rippes, behind the shore,
Lie snug, sunny hamlets beyond, the hills
With their sloping farms and nesting homes,
And snuous river ana busy mills!
The rough farmer shoulders his scythe and sings
Sings from s....ps,----.-s-s s-s--re-~---,>---
wife
BY the tumble-down bars, huns qreter tune,
And murinnrs Of home, love, husband and 1ife
Down in the meadows are sweeping the herds,
Cropping the daisies and switching the flies;
Standing breast deep in the shadows at noon,
When the flushed sun waits in the heated skies
The laden wagons come heavily up
With the gathered goldenseas Of the farm;
While the swallows twitter around their nests.
And the children romp on the NOW in the barn
The last sheaf is pinioned upon the stack,
And lazly sinks the round, red sun;
While up to the milking saunter the cows,
And dusk falls over the summer that's done.
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THE PILGRIMS OF THE PLAINS.

BY JOAQUIN MILLER.
They climbed the rock-built breasts of earth,
The Titan-fronted, blowy sleeps
That Graded Time. Where Freedom keeps
Her flag of white-blown stars unfurled,
They turned about, they saw the birth
OF Sudden dawn upon the world.
Again they gazed they saw the tace
OF God. and named it boundless space
And they descended end did roam
Through leyeled distances set round
By room. They saw the silences
Move by and beckon saw their forms,
Their very boards, ofttime in storms,
And heard them talk like silent seas.
On unnamed heights blackblown and broWn,
And torn like battlements OF Mars,
They saw the darknesses come down,
Like curtains loosened from the dome
Of Gods cathedral, built of stars.
They saw the snowy mountains rolled
And heaved along the nameless lands
Like mighty pillows, saw the gold
OF awful sunsets, saw the blush
Of sudden dawn. and felt the hush
or Heaven when the day sat down,
And hid Its face in iusky hands;
Then pitched the tent. where rivers run
Aa il to drown the fallen san.
The long aud lonesome nights the tent
That nestled soft in sweep of grass:
The hills against the armament
Where scarce the moving moon could pass;
The cautious camp, the smothered light,
The silent sentinel at night.
The wild beasts bowling from the hill,
The troubled cattle believing;
The savage prowling by the spring,
Then sudden passing swift and still,
And bended as the bow is bent,
The arrow sent; the arrow spent
And turned in its bloody place,
The dead man lying on his face!
The clouds of dust. their cloud by day,
Their pillar of unfailing fire.
The far North Star. And high and higher
They climbed so high if seemed If soon
That they must face the falling moon,
That like some fane-lit FUN lay
Thrown down before their weary way.
They learned to read the sign of storms
The moons wide circles. sunset bars,
And storm provoking blood and fame;
And like the Chaidean shepherds came
At night to name the moving stars;
And in the heavens pictured forms
OF beasts and fishes of the sea;
And marked the great bear YEARLY
Rise up and drag his clinking chain
Of stare around the starry main.
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Cleopatra's Needle is to be transported
to London by sea, by casing it i'll wood,
and rolling it overheard. To make it float
properly, it is to be covered with timbers
and planks till the boxing is large enough
to float stons and all. To compensate for
it's tapering form, one end is to be made
larger thau the other, and when finished,
the timber dressing will be something over
twenty feet thick at the larger end. The
ends will be tapering, to assist the steamer
in towing, and even if the cigar-shaped
mummy runs aground, its casing will save
it from ham, The most riskful part of
the voyage will be the launching and the
rolling ashore. In this connection it may
be noticed that cylindrical boilers are
transported through the canals in Holland
in somewhat the same way. The flues are
plugged up with wood, and the steam
openings are covered with air-tight caps
and, when well painted with red lead, the
boilers are rolled into the canal, and.
behind steamboat, make their voyage in
perfect safety.
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Religious Knowledge in Western Texas

To escape thunder shower sought ref
nge in cabin among the mountains, where
there were three little boys I asked the
eldest who made him. After thinking it
over he answered !" God. Z asked the
next, " What did God make you for ?'' He
laughed as he replied, 'spect for 20
raise calves asked the youngest why
God made him? He thought it was to
pick mp chips" | asked the first who was
the first man ? This was beyond his depth;
grasping tnft Of his yellow hair he gave
it a pull. but the answerdid not come. Ilis
father, who sat in the corner putting tobac-
90 smoke from q corncob pipe, became
excited, and giving twitch to his panta-
looms and looking as wise as an owl. he
yelled out, say. jim, tell him Job was
the first man. - Christian at York
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A BANK OF ENGLAND NoTE. - Paper has
been made since 1910 at Layerstock, HaB,s.
Note--frst, its peculiar whiteness;; second,
it's thinness and transparency third. III
crisp and tough feel; fourth, it's water
mark k-made in the paper, and on the same
side as the printing; fifth, its three uncut
edges: sixth, Its strength--made OF new
linen or cotton, A bank note will support
thirty-six pounds before being sized, and
afterWald support d man for years If fit fs
only for the right amount. - 0Rre Hieek.
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senator Cameron is worth q million,
Who viii deny that statesmanship pays
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DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
pa;d In CanitaI I......... 100, 900.
Permanent Surplus Fund ...-............ S5N,o00IU
Dividend paid March 4. 1874. :..... 5ogU w
Average Deposits proceeding six months 4e5U0u w
invnstnd in + 8 bonds s... 214n0A 90
We transact a general Banking business. and buy. at
highest rates Gold Dust, Coin, Gold and Silver Bu
ion and Local Securities: Sell Exchange and lele
graphic Transfers available in nil parts of the United
States, the Canadas Great Britain Ireland and the
Continent COLLECTIONS made and proceeds remitted
promptly. Our facilities for handling
SILVER ORES are particularly good and this
branch of our business will receive specl attention
Cash advances made upon Ores, and same shipped for
account Of owners OR WE WILL BUY FOR
CASH at the vcly best rates allowable. Owners OF
mines will consult their interests by calling upon u.s.
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q Olive Logan has been to see the Presi-
dent grandchild. She says she kissed its
toes. Who, but i women. would have beer
guilty of such toedyism as that?
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First National Bank,

Helena, Montana.
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President. Cashier'
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Vice President. Asst CASHIER
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Some time ago we noted the circumstance
that baby had been born away up on the
bald head OF a mountain. in La Plata
county, and being the first belle Of the
season introduced from that altitude, they
named her Timberline" News Just re-
ceived says Miss Timberline Webb has
grown to be bright and beautiful baby,
and she has been adopted by the miners
round about, each of whom feels that he
has personal right to be proud of the
child. If high birth is anything to begin
with, Miss Timberline ought to make a
noise in the world, for her cradle rocks
twelve thousand feet above the level Of the
Sea, and the bark is on it, shore. Golorado
ReGister
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An extensive manufacture OF lock amt
morticed bricks is carried on at Watcl bury.
England These bricks, while producing
workmanship greatly superior 10 walls
built with pressed bricks--being ton-ned.
grooved. and locked at intervals and ut
each angle-are also found to be stronger
than common handmade bricks, besides
possessing the additional recommendation
of effecting u saving on two-tlil''s III the
material used. These lock and mofticed
bricks. it also appears, are adapte" 10
extensive and varied uses, and are specially
serviceable where space and light, with
solidity, are an object. Their usefulness
is likewise very manifest, it is stated, when
employed for the building of or sustaining
and retaining embankments, sea and other
walls, quays and river frontages, as also in
the erection Of shafts, and, in fact. the
formation Of al works TO which abi5eks can
be applied
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Terms Payable invariably In advance.
NRWspApTR nEf,IsI0Ns

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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

A machine, it is said, has been invented
by NJ. Fl Huppinger for writing spoken
| words According to the Rerae Indus
| trieyle this instrument, which is about the
| size Of the hand, is put in connection with
| the vocal organs, and records their move
| ments upon a moving band of paper in
dots and dashes of the same sort as those
employed in telegraphic writing. The
person using M. Huppinger's invention
simply repeats the words of the speaker
after him inaudibly, and the same words
are then faithfully written out on the
moving band.
Wondering what becomes of all the lead
pencils is in order In one week of last
month firm near this city received orders
for AS miles Of lead pencils. To make
these only $4,000 feet of cedar lumber are
required, and after they are made they
will load six freight cars. This immense
consumption of lead pencils is doubtless
caused by the attempts of women to sharp
en- them with pair of scissors or a dull
case knife. Persons who have witnessed
these efforts need no longer wonder at the
demand. d.-Erchange.
The champion obituary resolution is the
following on Penningtonville Pa.) man,
which was ordered printed in the county
newspaper:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty God,
in His all-wise Providence, to remove, by
death, from our midst Brother Lewis A.
Clarkson, trustee, a steward, and super
intendent OF Zion A. M. E. Church and
Sunday School, in the forty-fourth year of
his age On Sunday afternoon, May 9th,
after closing the school and starting for
home, John Miller ran out Of his house
with double -barrelled gun in his hand,
crossed the grave-y yard, and, when Brother
Clarkson was about fifty yards from the
church, he (Miller) shot Clarkson in the
legs, from the effects of which lie fell to
sleep in Christ, May II, about $50 o'clock.
And in whose demise we deeply depnfe.
but submit to the disposition of Providence.
who doeth all things well.
g., az f....t,
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Regular advertising payable quarterly, as due.
Transient advertising payable in advance
Special Notices are SO per cent. more than reg
ular advertisements.
Local advertising Is cents for the first insertion;
10 cents per line for each succeeding insertion;
lines counted III Nonpariel measure.
Job Work payable on delivery
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unable without tears Of pleasure torecsll
the cordiality, thoroughness and ele-
gance Of the welcome they received
considering these things, it is not hard
to understand why Preston was regard
ed as uttering only "sbsurd nonsense"
The Tribune is probably right. 1t was
undoubtedly a case Of "green-apple bel
ly-acbe." After all, ! think the wretch
ed taste and style Of this address deserve
the severest animsdveTsiOn. The most
of the alumni probably could remember
when they might have tolerated and,
perhaps, been guilty Of such stuff, for
they had all once been sophomOres,
but it was too much for them
to be so sharply reminded OF fOllies
which they had outgrown by SO ridicu'
lous q reproduction. The worst calami-
ty that Preston's speech could cause
would be that some eXcitable, hair
Drained boy should take him as q model,
and hencefOrth never be able to deliver
himself in respectable English. Thank
God! these OmpompanoOse fellows are
getting older and scarcer every year,
and the only du'ce ct decOTuna thing
that they can do for their country is to
die as soon and with as little fuss as pos
sible. PreStOt Preston. SAT.
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A JOINT SESSION.

The two branches of the city council
met in joint session upon the call Of
Mayor League, who referred TO the fol-
lowing report, which explains itself:
Your committee, to whom the matter
of city-attorneyship was referred, beg
leave to submit the following report:
While we are Of the opinion that
where a vacancy occurs by resignation
or otherwise Of any officer elected under
the sold charter" we have the power
under the new to elect for the term of
two years, or at our option to fill the va
cancy for the unexpired term, for the
reason that the present charter, if it
does not express, at least implies, that
the terms of all officers Except fire and
police commissioners shall begin and
expire at the same time; hence the cleo
ton of city attorney for two years from
this date would destroy the uniformity
in the expiration of the terms Of office,
seemingly contemplated by the charter
Therefore the committee recommend
that city attorney be elected to fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term only,
and that his salary be the same as was
paid to his predecessor.
Alderman Metcalf, by his request,
was excused from serving upon the COM
mittee, he giving satisfactory reasons
therefor.
HENRY q. DENT,
Chairman Board Aldermen;
S. j. lamp,
Chairman Common Council;
It. A. RYAN,
VIM. l.. VANCE.
Mayor League then nominated for the
unexpired term Hon. Samuel p. Walker
as city attorney.
Mr.. Walker was elected on the first
ballot, he receiving twenty-One votes,
and G. II. NJ. Smith one vote.
ELECTION OF SINKING-FUND COMMITS
SIONER.
Mayor League then stated that he
would nominate Hon. John Johnson for
sinking-fund commissioner, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the previous re-
signatiOn of Mr.. Goodwin. On the first
ballot Mr.. johnson received Is votes,
CloustOn (colored) l, Gay l, Thscher l,
Garth l, Bickford l, Winters l, Gum l,
and blank l.
Mr.. johnson was declared duly elect
ed, and the joint session thereupon ad-
iOurned.
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ADDITIONAL EIYEB REPORTS
BY TELEGRAPH.

PITTsBURG, July I4-Night.-Riv0r
falling slowly, with feet , inches water
in the channel. Weather cloudy anal
warm.
CINCINNATI, July If-Night.-Biva~
rising, with % feet 8 inches in ths
channel. Weather cloudy ami warm.
Arrived: Cons. NiIlsr, Memphis. 10
departures except local boats.
LOUISVILLE. July "a River rising
slowly, with 10 feet in The canal and
feet in the Indian chute. Weather clear
and pleasant. No arrivals or departures
except local packets.
ST. LOUIS, July I4.--Weather cloudy
and warm. River EaIi7 inches. Arrive q
Robert Mitchell, st. Paul; Alps, FiGEs-
burg. Departed: Robert Mitchell, 81.
Paul; Bee and bsTges, New Orleans
Grand Tower, Memphis.
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thought more Of his coffee than the urg-
ent time Of the case. Judge KEum PEE
marked that it would be well 20 give
Mr.. Warren sufficient time TO sip HIs
coffee, and ne would therefore adj .u~u
the case until ten o'clock next ,TCaa-
day. morning. The case, wu under
stand, was argued yesterday morning
General Wright making q
powerful speech. The court adjourned
the court, and heId the case under adj
visement until this morning.
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lapidated a condition to be repaired, and
recommended that q new building be
obtained. Referred to the police and
fire com missioneTs.
Councilman Carpenter offered TesO.
luton authorizing the board of health
to employ a steam tug for conveying
hands to President island to work upon
the quarantine building. Mr.. Carpenter
stated that he introduced the resolution
at the request of the board Of health.
The resolution was defeated.
The proposition of General n. B. For
rest to hire the city cOnvicts for five
years, the terms OF which have already
been published by the APPEAL, was
read, together with the committees re-
port recommending its acceptance. The
proposition of \ G. Brewer, who states
that he did not make his bid within the
time twenty days. specified because he
did not see the same advertised, was al
so read. He proposes to pay twelve and
one-half cents per day for all able-bodied
couvicts, to ciothe, feed and care for
them-the county to advance him $1,000,
which he will returnin three years, pay
ing $1,000 annually.
On motion OF Councilman Carpenter,
both propositions were tabled, and on
motion of Councilman MOores, the may
or wss authorized to advertise thirty
days for bids.
The special committee upon the sub
ject Of the election of a city attorney,
reported that while the council had
power to elect an attorney for two years,
they did not deem it advisable to elect
for more than the unexpired term, and
therefore recommended that the council
elect the attorney only for the remain
der of the uneXpired term. The COM
mittee also stated that they had eX-
cused Alderman Metcalf from serving
on the committee. The report was
adopted.
Councilman Moores moved to table
the petition of the police captains and
sergeants, for food for their horses. The
motion to table was lost, and the petit
ton referred to the commissioners.
Councilman luther offered a resolu-
ton granting the use of Court square to
the German Casino for concert purposes.
Adopted.
A resolution by the same to credit on
the textbooks and ledger balances as
sessmenfs of Happy-HOllow residents
was also adopted.
NEW COMMITTEES.
Pursuant to the new charter the tol-
lowing committees were announced:
Observation-Disclosures Cochrane,
luther, Solari, Danbury, Ryan, Hewitt
and Gay.
Lights and lamps-Councilmen Car
penter, Caro-, CloustOn (cOPdl, Kelley,
TOther, Vance and MOores.
BUSINESS FROM THE BOARD.
The council concurred with the board
of aldermen relative to number Of res
olutions, petitions and ordinances as re-
ported in the proceedings Of that body.
The ordinance amending section $50,
page 108. Bridges Digest, (city ordi-
nances), passed.
The ordinance to establish and regu-
late markets was referred to the Ordi-
nance committee.
The ordinance instrueting the city en-
gineer to lay plank sidewalks on the
north side of Looney street, at 6 u,st e
$S7, passed third reading.
The petition asking the remittance II
Eugene Jeffries's fine was granted.
Adjourned to the next regular meet
ing.
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THE RIVERS ABOVE HERE

90 not indicate any serious rise, as the
following kilograms, received at ten
o'clock last night, show; Nashville,
rise Of inches; Pittsburg, l inch; st.
Louis, fall of inches; st. Paul, fall of
l inch; Lesvenworth, inch fall; Keo-
kuk, fall Of inches; Dubuque, fall of
inches; Davenport, fall Of 6 inches; CGi-
70, rise of IA inches; Cincinnati, rise of
10 feet 4 inches. From this it will be
seen that the upper streams have pretty
nearly run out, the only Tise OF any i'm
p0rtance being at Cincinnati, and this
being due to the local fools in Licking
and Big Sandy rivers. There is no dam
ger here, and we again assure cur river
friends that they are safe.
Our "Weather Probabilities" on the
first page, give additional particulars
concerning the rising Of the rivers to-
daV.