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Origin Of the Express Business.

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Travellers on the Long Island Sound of
about thirty seven years ago might have
observed on board the steamer then rum
ming between Providence and New York
an under; sized, delicately built, sanguine-
vessel Oh altenates tsdps and constantly
carried IN bis hands, hand small ssspet9ag Of
F. Harnden, and his bag contained the be-
ginnings of the express-forwarding bust.
ness of the United States, which, with the
exception Of the railways and telegraphs,
noNs sdrpass ahttaher private enterprises
Born H at Reading n,E Mass, Il in 1912, he was
employed as conductor of the first passen:
ger train that ran in New England, and
was afterward promoted to the position Of
ticket agent on the Boston &. Worcester
Railway. The, sedensary desk work did
otsuit him, however, and in 1887 he came
to New York in search Of more congenial
employment. At the corner of Wall and
Pearl streets stood the old, Tontine coffee
and ship.owners of those days, and in CON-
ncetiqn with II s1hmsl was an admirable
news -room-a, sort of Lloyd's- or Cara
way Aconducted by James w. Hale, a
local celebrity, Rho afterward extended
his fame by promoting a cheap postal
system in oppogftfbn to the Government.
Mr.. Hale wasza msn of varied experience
and a. genial disposition. He was one Of
the. most active men Of his day, and Harm
den. went. to him for advice I'M seeking em.
ployment. Hale became interested in
him, and in. the course of q few days adj
fhed him to establish himself as an ex-
FRESHMAN between New York and Boston
"a business never before transacted and, a
name never before assumed. ''' =
As there have been other claimants to
'shehoaor q hsyi1g prisinased the enter:
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prise, and as Mr.. Hale is still living, l
will Bepeat a yeMement which he made to
me in July lastX There was never day,
he said, that inquiries were not made at
the news-r0Om for some person going to
Boston or Providence. Some wanted to
send small parcels to their friends, others
letters or circulars; but the most frequent
applicants were money brokers', who
wanted to forward packages of Eastern
baHk-netes to Boston for redemption. If
an acquaintance was found on the boat he
was pounced upon without ceremony and
-bTrdened with the packages, which were
sometimes worth many thousand dollars.
But if a friend did not appear the things
were often intrusted to entire strangers,
with the modest request that they would
deliver them Immediately after their ar
rival. Merchants apd brokers seeking
gratuitous transportation for their letters
contributed largely.to the excitement at
tending the departure Of, .me,steamcr, and
many persons will remember sthe nights
OF anxiety they have passed on the SOUND
when such unexpected wealth has been
temporarily thrust upon them. "When
Harnden called upon me for adj
vice. Mr.. Hale stated, II thought
OF the daily inquiries made at
my OIuce, 10 you know anybody going
to Boston this EVENING" and immediate
ly advised him to travel between the two
cities and do errands for the bnsiness men.
l also suggested that the new enterprise
should be called The Express which
gave the idea Of speed, promptitude and
fidelity"
.Harnden ,hesitated for several days,
doubling whether the scheme would be
profitable, but eventually he decided to
try 1t, and bought the historic. travelling
bag, which is still preseryed>in Boston A
small slate for orders was hung in the
news-room, and the patrons of that insttu-
ton we've, Hsrnden's chief patrons The
old merchants had become so accustomed
to transportation Of smaller articles with
out cost that they did not readily observe
the advantages the express offered, and
at the end of two months Harndcn found
nit his capital absorbed. His receipts
were less than his expenses, and he would
have discontinued the service had not
some friends procured free passages for
him on an opposition steamboat. With
the passage-money as a subsidy 1.-the ex-
press" prospered, and the business so in
creased that Harnden, soon engaged an
assistant-W. =. Rideing, IN Ho,pcr's
Magazine.
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Aztec Relics.

A correspondent writes from the city of
Mexico: We visited the National Museum,
where should like to pass days, so inter-
esting are its contents. The collections of
natural history and of minerals are very
good, but not so attractive as the relics of
the Aztecs and Of their conquerors In
the courtyard is huge stone which is
supposed to have been the altar upon
which the victims were slain as sacrifices,
their hearts cut out and carefully prepared
to be eaten as sacrament. There are al
so some huge, grim stone idols, one Of
which had a cOuntenance which reminded
me of the Sphinx in Egypt, with the
famous serpent images sculptured from
basal, which are presumed to have been,
used in the worship of Quetzalcoatal-th
" feathered serpent'-the "god of the air."
In the museum are many curious musical
instruments, weapons and other relics of
the .Aztecs, with some really beautiful
terra-cotta funeral vases. These recepfa-
cles for remains of deceased humanity are
nearly two feet high and over foot in
diameter, with graceful handles and orlia-
ments of sunfowers anth ears of corn. Be-
sides these symbols, the vases still exhibit
the brilliant colors of blue, vermilion,
yellow andobrown with Which they were
originally tinted. In one room we were
shown, on the floor, the suits Of steel armor
worn by Cortez, the conqueror, and Pettro
de Alvarado, his faithful Lieutenant. Bah
must have been small-sized men, and l
regretted to learn, after I had left the
museum, that there was a portrait of
Cortez in stack Of grim pictures of the
Mexican Viceroys which we saw piled
in q corner but did not examine It Is
to be hoped that this wonderful collection,
sight Of which would. repay any anti
quarian, for a journey to Mexico, will soon
be arranged and catalogued. Meanwhile
Aztec idols, ETC., are manufactured near
the city and sold to those who desire them
"to point moral or adorn taie.', =
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

"A niece of Rufus Choate, tire cele-
brated Massachusetts lawyer, is an inmate
of the Cambria Pa.) County Poor House.
Ann Eliza is going for the unctuous
Brigham again. She has established her
headquarters at Boston, and there'll be no
nonsense about the war.
Since President Grant sacrificed his
chin-whiskers, retaining only the sides,
the Long Branch people say he looks al
most twenty years younger.
The Smith sisters at Glastonbury still
cry aloud for a show for their white alley ;
representation for taxation or nary a coin.
They still stand on the burning deck
whence all their kline have hed.
Col. Gildersleeve, Captain of the
American riflemen, not only shoots we'll
with his rife, but also with his mouth, he
having made some very pretty hits in
his recent banquet speeches, tOasts and re-
plies.
Lady Franklin has announced that
she will not die till the latest Arctic ex-
petition brings tidings of her husband!
1t is not often that a woman threatens to
outlive Methusaleh, and when she does
she should have credit for her courage.
Max Adeler has married young lady
who weighed ia pounds. But her rich
ness was not confined to her delicious per-
son., After the ceremony he found she
owned $4,000. That is his version iof
the story, but does anybody suppose
that decent newspaper man allowed such
a joyous piece Of news to escape him so
long?
Senators Sharon. and Jones are worth,
together, about SIS, COO, 600, and the fol-
lowing sums probably cover the property
of all the other Senators: Hamlin, $4O,-
0O0;* Lot Morrill,, $4,000; Edmunds,
$4,000; Justin Morrill,, $500, 1900; Bout
we'll. 800, 900; Dawes, $4,000; Anthony,
SEC, 1000; Burnside, $S0, 600; Eaton, $20,-
coo; Ferry, 10000; Conkling, $500, 900 /;
Herman, $4,000; Cameron, $1,OOO,OW;
Wallace, $70,OOO; Randolph, $50,
Frelinghuysen, 100000; Thurman, $780,
coo; Sherman, 100000; Morton, $780,
600; Mcdonald. $50, 900; Oglesby, $780,
600; Logan, 100000; Christiancy, $780,
coo; Ferry, of Michigan, $500, 600; Win
dom, 800, 900; Mcmillan, 5000; Hitch
cock, 10000; Paddock, $4,000; ingalls,,
$50 600; Wright, $4,000; Allison $780,
600; Stephenson, $2O0,O00; McCreery,
$1,000 Sergeant, 500, 600; Booth, $780,
600; Kelly, 50 1000; Mitchell, $4,000;
Davis, 500, 900; VIII yte, $4,000; Bayard,
$4,000; Salisbury, $4,000; Withers;
800 1000; johnson, of Virginia, $4,000
Andrew johnson, 10000; Cooper, $4O,-
Patterson DS t1ooooo; ROBERTSON, $4,000;
Spencer, $50, 600; West, 100000; Bruce
(negro), $4,000; Merriman, 100000
Ransom, SEC, 900; Gordon, $4,000.
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Then and Now at Boarding Schools.

t =! Dntlllple 1Anetsce.'s says: twenty
.tniy yeaIs asv Ile pd0pIle9oIs Vi seh1-'
' .la. l?l yoa1g lauies aiieG.ea 20 Deneve
tilas pam ,i, loou was essentlai 70 !ie men.se:
anu pouaiy nsal NJ OF :, me. pupals nnaer
uaell care, anu t1at tne Tess tne? aye tne
ns'1;a lapialy "ouln tney improYe IN tne3r
tseuules. Inc aDle lale was. SIMPLY
wreGneu meat ana outer once gay,
pleau anu moias sss iot preak e ana inc
aaearest aPproacn 70 notmngTat a4k1or tea
s .las,. tne eeisony OF sit4ng Gown 10 inc
uspig wouu peIM .n, y: IN oruer tnal uie
s,s, meM migns not DC an acsolote
Y PAM saele were = rev very naru pisc9its
'n. q y -. aIo ,,. which tue young laUes
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Our Shooting Stars.

The great rifle match has ended in a
victory for the Americans which was more
complete and brilliant than we had any
right to hope that it would be. Our vic
tory over the Irish team last year was due
to the fact that one of the Irishmen threw
away a shot by accidentally aiming at a
wrong target. Such victory left the
question Of the relative skill of the two
teams virtually undecided, and until this
test the belief was general here and abroad
that there was no real difference between
the crack rifle shots of America and Ire
land.
1t is impossible, however, to suppose
that score of 968 to 929 was the result of
accident. 1t was unhesitatingly accepted
by the Irishmen themselves as an evidence
that the Americans are the best marksmen
in the world, and we shall have clear
right to accept that generous estimate of
our skill if the American team win the
matches which arc soon to be shot at
Wimbledon. The victory must also be in
terpreted as proof of the superiority of
breech-l loading over muzzle- loading rifles.
The former, most of which were of the
Remington pattern-were used by the
Americans, while the Irishmen used the
Rigby muzzle- loader. American rifle
manufacturers can thus claim an active
share in the victory at Dollymount. In
deed it is in the evidence which it afford
ed of the superiority of American rifles
that the practical value of the internal
tional match chiefly consists.
Of course the immediate result of the
late contest will be or-give an immense
impetus to rifle-shooting in this country.
It is noticeable that the members of the
American team were net drawn from the
population of the West, where the rifle is
a familiar weapon, but fonhza region
where, prior to the opening Of Creedmoor,
as they were s among lie Eng English IS CIVILIANS
before the volunteer movement began
sixteen years ago. If in two years we have
produced rihemen who are better shots
than Ireland can show after sixteen years
OF riae-shooting, we can safely expect to
retain our supremacy in the future. How
ever, we shall do we'll to wait until after
the Wimbledon matches before we stimu
late the eagle to his loudest shrieks of en-
thusiaSIii Hearth and Home. -
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A HIRED girl should be ingenious. One
Of them, in the employ of u West street
family, discovered "a unique way Of ex-
tracing teeth. She suffered nearly n
whole week with an aching tooth but hSh
not the courage to 60 to. = dentist One
afternoon it troubled her 80 much az 10
force her to look for remedy, and she
finally hit upon plan. With a piece of
stout Irvine she made a loop which she
put about her tooth. Then she took bit
Of soap and rubbed it on4the floor opposite
the back door. The other end 7ofthe Irvine
she fastened to the knob Of the closed
door. then, she took, . position on the
soaped boards and commenced to lean
back. When she had acquired . slope Of
about forty five degrees the soap suddenly
took hold and she came down on the floor
with such force as to knock q pair Of ten
dollar wasea from. 1 mantel upstairs. Ala
there she Sat reaching cut for breath when
the aHri8hted family made their appeal
ance,, swfHle the offending tooth dangled
from a string against.the door Dan6twy
NEl0e. Sst ftf. e;fsf4s, so! sgtfsa z 80
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THERE is negro boy It Henderson,
KY, who, for the hardness of skull, lis
without parallel in the State. Last
month Wash Smith chats his nance and
companion were out shooting near the
railroad, when by some means q disorder
ly and angry alteration eRsued between
them, and a struggle soonfoiiowed, where
upon the other negro cbteiked HIS gun, and,
taking aim at Wash head, discharged 4
full loadiof No. hard-shot against this
important feature of his constitution.
Stra9ge@to relate, the SHOT, were hurled
back against the aggressive party with
such violence as to weund hiiiaF in several
places. Not SO much as even a dent could
be detected on any part Of Washis fore
head,s although the shot struck him on
several places. He .HSsa week or SO
afterssh$ passing the hassee, ball grounds
whensoRe of the boys offered aUgive him
q cigar WsyidiRG 7he w9,ld not object to
being struck across the forehead with a
bat. To fits Wash readily asserted, aAa
Bill Grayson, who proposed to. do the
striking, hit him lick sufficient to fell an
OK. The, negro was hardly. staggered BIZ
the blow, and now wants to know if. any,
pussUn is got any mo- .segarssto glib way.S,
Chicago Tribune. 4Ia' ~ o.
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William F. Erudner,g night miller in
Stsmwitz &, Shpber's Touring mill, Min
neapolis, while attending to his. duties the
other night, caught his clothing between
the cogs to the spur wheel, and he was
slowly mangled. His body was not dis
covered until next morning, when il was
found that He had been ground up by
inches. His as clothing Twas completely
stripped from, HIS body his arms crushed
almost to a pulp, his right arm being torn
from its socket, and his legs tangled and
torn in the relentless wheels. In his des-
perate agony he had succeeded in taking
off one shoe and hurting it unto the wheels,
which stopped their merciless grinding.
He leaves a wife and three children.
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WHAr Cincinnati whisky will, do for
the intellect is sufficiently shown by this
literal copy Of verdict rendered a few
days ago by a Cincinnati G6roners jury:
We, the jury, find that the said Louis
FellmaR came to his death by a shot ACCT
dental!Y went of by, himself by killing a
cat by shooting the same and when she
was not deadsinstantly by striking the cat
with the breech Of the gun and, the load
discharged itself.''
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The new coming press which has just
been received at the Carson New Mint is
much smaller thaa the old eheji and is de.
signed for making dimes, twenty cent
pieces and quarters. Its capacity is, 125
pieces per minute, and it will be kept
quite busy, as 800, 600 dimes aretto lbe
coined right away. In, another room of
this department are six tons of silver ingots
Of the United States standard, waiting to
be turned into coin, 'a3 any, h.iiaiis11 (; I.
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IT ~ said the Carlists caught a man,
bathed him in petroleum, applied light
ed match to him, and danced by the light
thereof. They had no. ,persodM grudge
against him. III '.'''a~' y 10 -''Ts TAs'-
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iii In q said that grass:widow means grace
widow, one who has become widow by
grace or favor and not by death.
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The union of the Black and Caspian
Seas is in contemplation, and project
for the construction Of a canal $50 leagues
long for that apurpose~ is meeting with
great favor at St. Petersburg and Mos
cow =" - $50 t"4 go r"
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THEY met Is, she went to the store, Ss
And mad6 him turn his department o'et, AZ
Till hs vanished behind his goods, and chen
She pleasantly said she would, call again.
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Charles Manning, who''was Captain
Of the Harvard College crew on their visit
TO Europe in 1869, and also teacher at the
fremont Gymnasium at Boston, and who
was noted for his strength and agility, has
been running himself with strong drink,
recently,,and To- sent to Jail for drunken,
ness. - 1ttIia I $500. ;. -....s.E "a
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A JAfANEsE editor writes of European.
customs: II we observe the practice Of
Europeans, it would appearthat the power
of the Wife issgreater than that of the hus-
band, and that this error has been brought
about by the want of correct view of tha
dictates of nature We will point out ex.s
amplessof this. In going through a dooj
the wife passes first and the Husband fol-
lows her; the wife takes the best seat and
the husband the next best; in visiting, the
wife is first saluted; in forms of address,
the wife is first mentidhet" Moreover,
while men are in the. company of ladies
they must 81, particular ii their converse
ton, and are hot permitted to Smoke with{
out the ladies' pernIEiDn heing first OBJ
tanned. These and like customs are in
Vulnerable, and the power of the wemen is
far greater than that of the men,, i -,
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Az Aluniversal rule in health; and, with
very rare exceptions, in disease, that is best
to be edten which the appetite Graves or the
taste relishes:s
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AHUsR4Ep Of, Wyoming, removed the
dandruff from his wife's hair BY rem owing
her head, but his genius Won't BE admired
until he is well choked. J
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Chinese Superstition.

The Hong Kong fress has the following:
"On May 1, after preaching and schools
were over, about four p. M, 1 man & Who
lives next door to the Methodist Episcopal
Chapel in s>Kingkianb looked into the
was there. NO. replied the chapel keep.
eer, he is not here, neither have I seen
him The man was not satisfied, but per
knew they had him, and that the foreign
ers waited e take the boys heart and eyes
out to- make medicine. This, seems to
have aroHse4 the chapel keepers ire, for
he replied with indignation that foEei gh.
ers difnothmg of the sort, and wondered
that the man could be such fool as to
think SO. While the two men were argd-
ing the matter large crowd. gathered in
the narrow street, the man shouting at the
top of bis voice that his son was, in the
foreign chapel, and that they wanted the
boys heart and eyes for medicine. At the
same time tlth two men fought in the mar.
row stfeet insfront of the chapel; and the
crowd scganthrowing stones at the doors
and wiAdowf, finally smashing IN both,
and th9n poured into theo Chapel, where,
in vesy short time, stools,% benches, pull
pit, raHing and chairs were reduced to
firewodd; frbm thenceansiHRta1 the school.
rooms, .one after the other; then. into tie
class room, making a clean. sweep of
desks, tables, stools, chairs, ETC., finally
cleaning out the preachers room, and
taking his bed, bedding, clothes, furniture,
and everything belonging to him. The
preacher himself got into,bthe settlement
with his wife and child safely about nine
p. m. "A few days afterward several Of
the vagabonds were arrested and received
a severe thrashing." :'tTaE F-:Fs@
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sW~4M. C.lKerr, says the jocular Colum.
bus Journal, wants to be 8, P. Kerr.
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!, j A. MATTER of considerable count
Treasurer Spinner's transferpf $40, 900 900
in cash and i$4OO, OO0, 600 in bonds to his
successor ~'4
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QuuLs are. things that are sometimes
taken ffom Tie pin{6nS ii one goose to
spread thes0pantons Of smother,
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Tn rival railroads will soon b Issuing
ohyomos, ., VI es3a! t.ss %
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&Nsft1 UEa,.TVtE4
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S3tf @E# tt>t6# md "a ,salsa4 na8d I
at5ssksGt - STAFF s aifsl9aaT I6i ano
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nesota, held at st. Paul on the 9Th, nomi-
mated D. L. Buell. for Governor; E., w. Du-
rant, Lieutenant Governor; Albert Schef.
fer, Treasurer; J. w. Sencerbox, Rail-
way Commissioner; Adolphus Bierman,
Secretary of State; Lafayette Emmett,
Chief Justice; NJ. Doran, State Audi
tor; A. A. Mcleod, Clerk ? Supreme
Court. The name DemocratieR Republican
was adopted, and the reselutions favor re-
sumption Of specie payments and return to
gold and silver as basis OF currency; tariff
for revenue only-none for protection; the
State control of public corporations, etc.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch of the Sth announces
the death, at his residence in that city, of
Gen. F. P. Blair, Jr. He was fifty three years
of age. f'"F|l5d 500 sTsf5 J. ca :,"H J
PROF. STEINER, With three companions,
made balloon ascension at Milwaukee, on
the evening of the 7th, intending to- make an
eastward voyage to the Atlantic coast. They
took southwesterly direction, and after
being up three hours landed about twenty.
eight miles from Milwaukee without meeting
with any accident, The quality of the gas
with which the balloon was inflated Is said to
have been poor and did not give buoyancy
enough for longer trip. Another attempt
was contemplated.
In his recent report conforming the Black
Hills region Prof. Jenney ssys that country
Is admirably adapted for agricultural pur.
poses that the sell is yeYyg richotAs water
sufficient and the Epine timber heavy and val
liable. - q -,
= Mrs, ,STEJ NIGER, Of Cincinnati, few morn,
ings Ago found the kindling wood in her
eco6k-stove too damp to burn well when a
match was applied, SO she undertook to
hurry up matters BY pouring coai.olI from q
can into the stove. 1t is hardly necessary I'd
add that after FIVE hours Of the most acute
agony, she died from the effects Of her burns.