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The Secret of ElOquence.

An admirer of Mr.. Bright writes to a
Manchester paper that he has discov-
cred the secret of the power this great
speaker possesses of riveting the atten-
ton of his audience. This he believes
to lie in the fact that be uses monOsyl-
tables very largely. The grand pas
sage in Mr.. Bright's speech on the
Burials bill describing a Quaker funeral
begins, 81 will take the case of my
own sect" and on counting the words
of that remarkable Grafton it will be
found that out of one hundred aud
ninety words one hundred and forty
nine, more than seventy five per cent.
were mOnosyllables. On this it is
urged that those in charge of youth
should teach them the use of monosyl-
tables. IN American journal lately
mentioned a school where such pains had
been taken to instruct the boys in the
art of public speaking that if they had
learned nothing else they had acquired
the greatest contempt for all the de,
vices of stump oratory. The course of
study prescribed left to the imagina-
ton, but doubtless includes the traus-
lation into mOnosyllables of the pom,
derous verbiage which passes current
in most political assemblies as gen
uine eloquence. Tt would, however,
be cruel to insist on the introduction
of such teaching into any of the
" standards" Many are obliged to
speak who have less to say than Mr..
Bright, and to them the se8quipedalia
UerbG are Indispensable Mall
Gazette.
'YOuNG ladies are growing colder
e ran cynic, land how few d. we find
now who love man enough to hang
around barber. shop for lock of his
hair.
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Marching On.

Prof. Riley, the state entomologist,
says that the ravages in western Mis-
souri, are indeed alarming. He explains
ready to take the wing until the 18th of
June. For a whole month the farmers
of Missouri will have to stand the
scourges. The only approximate relief
that can be gained is through a war of
determination, and farmers all over the
state are called on to fight them with
rollers, ditching, burning, drowning,
and continual fawing. The professor
recommends to the state authorities to
offer rewards for the destruction of the
grasshoppers by the quantity. About
the route of the swarms after becoming
full-winged, there are the most contra
dictOry opinions. The most probable
and popular belief is that they will
move westward, northward, and to some
extent, eastward from this state. A
large firm of wholesale grocers to-day
received by express from the western
part of the state a box which, upon
being opened, was found to be com
pletely full of grasshOppers. Accom-
panying the package, was letter from
a heavy debtor, who said unless the
hOppers were received in liquidation of
his account, he saw no way of ever pay
ing his Indebtedness, as these were all
there was left, or in prospect, of the
product of his section. All the whole
sale houses in st. Louis are receiving
letters by the hundred from their west
ern Missouri creditors, declaring their
total inability to meet their paper, on
account of the plague. The formation
of a relief commission, and thorough
organization for the work surely in pros
pect, are already being agitated here
81. Louis Special.
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AbOrigines of New Mexico.

In BancrOft's account of the native
races of the Pacific states the following
facts are given in relation to the Indians
of New Mexico The disparity in phys
ical appearance between some of these
nations, which may be attributed for
the most part to diet, is curious. While
those who subsist on mixed vegetables
and animal food present tall, healthy,
and muscular development hardly ex-
celled by the Caucasian race, those that
live on animal food, excepting, perhaps,
the COmanches, are small in stature,
wrinkled, shrivelled, and hideously
ugly. All the natives of this family,
with the exception of the Apacbes
proper, are tall, well-built, with muscles
strongly developed, pleasing features,
although at times rather broad faces,
high foreheads, large, clear, dark-color-
ed eyes, possessing generally extraordi.
nary powers of vision, black, coarse
hair, and, for wonder, boards. Taken
as a whole, they are the most perfect
specimens of physical manhood that we
have yet encountered. While some,
and particularly females, are of q light
copper color, others again approach
near to the dark Californian. Women
are generally plumper, ,inclining more to
obesity than the men. Some cOmely
girls are spoken of among them, but
they grow old early. In contra distinc-
tion to all this, the Apaches proper. or
Apache nation, as we may call them,
are slim, ill-developed, but very agile.
Their height is about five feet four to
five inches; features described as ugly,
repulsive, emotionless, fiat, and ap-
preaching the MOngol cast, while the
head is covered with an unkempt mass
of coarse, shocky, rusty black hair, not
unlike bristles. The women are not all
behind the men in Rgliress, and pleas
ing face is a rarity. A feature common
to the family is remarkably small feet
in connection with which may be men
toned the peculiarity which obtains on
the Lower Colorado of having the large
toe widely separated from the others,
which arises probably from wading in
marshy bottoms. All the tribes whose
principal subsistence is meat, and more
particularly those that eat horse and
mule flesh, are said to exhale peculiar
scent, something like the animals them
selves when heated. Among American
tribes of the tropics it would be inter
esting to ascertain whether there is a
real foundation for the accounts of a
fair tribe, with hight hair and blue eyes,
in Costa Rica, the so-called Guatusos
said to be descendants of English mutt
MARS from Cir Francis nroEa
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ONE BY ONE.

They are gathering homeward from every land
Az their One by one,
'''0-- We" fNNt tie ttapeh S the shining sand,
Their brows are enclosed in gUr1. -
Their travel-stained garments all laid do%Hn!
And clothed in white raiment they rest in the mes
Where the Lamb loveth his chosen 60 lead,
One by one.
Before they rest they pass through the strife
One by one.
Through the waters of death they enter life,
One by one.
To some the floods of the river still
A. they ford their way to the heavenly hill
To others the waves gun fercely aud wild
Yet all reach the home of the unde efled
One by one.
We, too, shall come to that rivers side,
One BY one.
We are nearer it's waters each eventide,
One by one.
We can hear the noise aud da III of the stream
Now and again in our lifeis deep dream:
Sometimes the floods DER the banks oerfow
Sometimes in ripples the small waves go,
One by one.
Jesus Redeemer, we look 10 Thee,
One by one.
We lift up our voices trembliney,
One by one,
The waves of the river are dark and cold
We know not the spots where our feet MAY hold
Thou who didst paks through the deep midnight,
Strengthen us, send us thy staff and the light,
One by one.
Plant Thou Thy feet beside as we tread,
One by one.
On Thee let us lean each drOOping head,
One by one.
Let but Thy mighty ann round us be twined,
We'll cast all our cares and fears TO the wind.
Redeemer with thee ii full view,
5milingly, gladsomely, shall we pass through,
ORe by one.
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A Nice Person.

There is something in the very air OF
a nice person which inspires you with
confidence, makes you talk without fear
of malicious misrepresentation; you
feel that you are reposing upon nature
which God has made kind, and created
for the benefit and happiness OF society.
1t has the effect upon the mind which
soft air and a fine climate has upon the
body.
A nice person is clear of little, trump
cry passions acknowledges superiority,
delights in talent, shelters humility,
pardons adversity, forgives deficiency,
respects all mems rights, is never long
and never wrong, always knows the
day of the month, the name of everybody
at table, and never gives pain TO any
human being.
If anybody is wanted for party, a
nice person is the first thought of when
the child is christened, when the daugh-
ter is married-all the joys Of life are
communicated to nice people the hand
of dying man is always held out TO q
nice person.
A nice person never knocks over wine
or melted butter, does not tread upon
the dogs foot or modest the family cat,
eats soup without noise, laughs IN the
right place, and has watchful and at
tentiVe eye.
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Why Men Become Bald.

Because they wea. close hats and
caps. Women are never bald. Some
times, from long confined headache,
heat in the scalp, bad hair dressing and
some other causes, women may have
bare spots here and there but with all
these combined, you never see a woman
with bare, shiny, bald head. And
you never see a man lose q hair below
where the hat touches the skull. It
will take it off as clean as you can shave
it down to exactly that line, but never a
hair below, not if he has been bald
fifty years. The common black stiff
hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains
the heat and perspiratiOn. The little
hair glands, which bear the same rela-
ton to the hair that the seed wheat does
to the plant above ground, become
weak from the presence of the
moisture and heat, and finally be-
come two weak to sustain the hair. 1t
falls out, and badness exists, A fur
cap we have known to produce complete
badness in a single winter. A man
with a good head of hair needs very
little protection where the hair grows.
Women who live much within doors,
and who are, therefore, susceptible to
the cold, oil their hair and plaster it
down hard and fiat upon their skulls, so
as to destroy nine-tenths of its power
as a non n-conductor, have worn for years
postage stamps of bonnets stuck on the
back of their skulls, and then going out
of furnace-heated pariors, have ridden
hours in very cold temperature
without taking cold and without COM
plant.
Man, with his greater vigor and
habits of outdoor life, aud with his
hair not plastered down, but thrown up
loose and light, could no doubt go to
the north pole, so far as that part of his
person is concerned, without any artifi- |
cial covering. And yet we men wear
immensely thick fur caps, and do not |
dare to step out into chilly atmos- |
phere a moment lest we take cold. 1t |
is a silly, weak and really serious error. |
The Creator knew what he was about |
when he covered a mans skull with hair. |
It has very important function in pro-
tectiDg the brain. Badness is a serious |
misfortune. 1t will never occur in any |
man who will wear q common black |
high silk hat with five hundred holes |
through the top, so that there shall be |
more hole than hat. This costs moth,
ing; the halter will do this for you |
when you purchase your hat. If the |
nap be combed the wrong way, and |
after the holes are made it be combed |
the right way, no one will observe the |
peculiarly. The hat will wear quite as
long-the hatters say considerably |
it is dry instead of |
moist in brief, there is not a single |
objection to it, while it will certainly
prevent badness and keep the top of
the head cool and prevent much head
ache.
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The Altar for the New York Catbe-
dral.

A correspondent of the Boston Daily
Advertiser writing from Rome, says !: 81
saw few days ago the altar which is
under the marble-worker's hands, and
which is to be placed, when finished, in
the New York Cathedral. It is italian
gothic, and will be a dazzling, col
lection of the most precious marbles.
There are small triple columns of por
phyry and verd, antique; other little
columns of exquisite malachite; white
msrble screens dispered in precious
porphyry, verd-antique, oriental alabas-
ter, malachite, gallo antico, lapis-lazuli,
etc. Six little white marble statues of
the Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke,
John, Peter and Paul stand between
beautiful columns of glittering mala
chite. The tabernacle is incrusted with
precious marbles The basreliefs on
the altar front are in white marble; the
Agony in the Garden the ''Bearing of
the Cross, on either side, and the Last
Supper in the center. 1t is a superb
work. It's only fault is the quantity of
ietail. 1t lacks unity it has no erect
as a whole. and am afraid its wonder
full exquisite workmanship will be lost
in a large cathedral. Still it is not yet
completed. l saw it only in parts,
therefore my judgment or criticism is
premature. When seen close at hand
it must. however, be admired. 1t is
fine enough to put under glass; rich in
color, precious in material and most
delicate in execution"
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Longevity of Jews.

According to statistics, gathered in
France, Algeria and Prussia, the Jewish
race is remarkable for longevity and
immunity from disease. It's mean aver
age duration of life exceeds that of
Christian races by about five years.
This tenacity of life is due to the in
heritance of a sound physical constitu
tion and to the watchful care of the
mother over her offspring. These two
causes insure the Jews comparative
security from maladies that decimate
other races. Tschudi states that the
plague of 1916 did not affect the Jews
of any country. Frascati asserts that
they completely escaped from the epi-
demic of typhus In 1906. Rau mentions
that the same immunity from typhus
was observed at Langeons in 1924.
According to Ramazzi, they were free
from the intermittent fevers prevailing
at Rome in 1891. And, according to
Degner, they suffered nothing from the
dysentery that ragged at Nimenguen in
1736. 1t is said by other authorities
that group is extremely rare among
Jewish children, and that they have
very little scrofHla.
On the other hand, NJ. Ribaut says,
in his work on "Heredity," that inter
marriage has exerted baleful influence
ON the Jewish race by sowing the seeds
of mental disorders. He declares that
the number of Jewish deaf-mutes is
enormous, and that idiocy and insanity
are very frequent. According to table
of German statistics quoted by this au-
thor, there is one idiot in Silesia to $50
Catholics, TO 40S Protestants, TO 514
Jews in Wurtemberg, 20 4, AS Catho-
lies, to 207 Protestants, to 3, ,003 Jews;
and one lunatic in Bavaria to 9OS Catho-
lies, to 967 PrOtestsnts, to 514 Jews in
Hanover, to 52S Catholics, to Cal Pro
testants, to 337 Jews in Silesia, to
1856 Catholics, to 1894 Protestants, to
624 Jews; in Wurtemberg, to zoos
Catholics, to 2, 2,02S Protestants, TO 1,544
Jews.
The mortality amOEg Jewish children
in London from one to five years of age
is rated by DR.. Stallard at ten per cent,
while among Christian children it is IA
per cent. The average duration of life
of the Christian in London is 81 years,
and that of the Jew, 4069.
1t is an interesting fact that there is
larger proportion of boys born to the
Jews than to the Christians. Prof.
Waltz gives 100 female to 203 male
births among the Jews in Berlin 100 to
100 in Livorno and 100 to Ill through
out the Prussian dOminions.
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and when it is may we be there to sect.
"Well, you'd better believe it wasn't
long before that wedding came off,
but we didn't risk it in a church again.
And we might have admitted the tradi-
tional FIVE hundred friends. for we had
oeco.Ae celebrities; but Bessy wanted
a quiet wedoiDs. averring as a reason
that among five hundred people there
must of necessity be one or more luna
tics. Miss Spicer was gracious ond
stood up with us again, bat John
Charles had taken his departure to
realms unknown, so we had to put up
with an ordinary man. The wedding
came off this time without an inter
ruptiOn and don't fail to look in upon
us, Tom, and wish us JOY" 4
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lection, Long the glory of his residence
IN the Rue du C@ar"he- Midi, ond su.
premely rich in French pictures of the
eighteenth century, to the Louvre, the
Rue des Artists sinks the general in the
particular and becomes the Rue GaYar-
nj Fragonard is to be commemorated
on the corners of what was the Rue
Philbert Delorme the Rue Chariot
takes the name of the great painter
Troyou; and the Rue des Vignes, the
name of the sculptor of Washington
and Voltaire Conjunction strangeD y
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QUEER TEXAS RIvEBs.-The rivers
running into the Gulf of Mexico from
Austin, the centre of Texas, to Mexico,
fills one with astonishment. They burst
out at The foot of the Guadaloupe noun
tains, full hedged rivers. Streams of
crystal water large enough to run the
largest mill wheels burst out of the
solid rocks. Lately L forded the San
Marcus river ten rods below its source,
and it was three feet deep, seventy feet
wide, and ran with great velocity. so
it is with the Rio Grande river below
Fort Quitman, aud with the Cebelo,
Medina, San Antonio, San Pedro, Solado
and Guadaloupe. They all burst out
of the ground full Aedged rivers, cold,
clear and full of ice. found quite
large rivers in Colorado and Kansas,
last winter, which disappeared in the
sand at one place, only to emerge and
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HIS CHOICE. good story is told of
Chicago dry goods salesman, who has
the reputation of being somewhat of a
wag. He recently sold a bill of goods
TO country customer, who was be-
heved to be little shaky, and was ex-
pected to commit iustifiable insolvency
as soon as he had disposed of his stock.
As he was the customers intention to
pay small part of his account with
notes, which might prove worthless, the
salesman-so the story goes-added
here and there a little to the price of
the goods, so that when the purchase of
some two thousand dollars's worth had
bt en- made. OF which all but two or
three hundred dollars had been paid IN
cash, there was no possibility of the
firm losing anything, even should the
notes go to protest. The transaction
concluded, the customer besought the
salesman to give present of some sort,
and the generous saleman accordingly
presented him with a valuable red silk
pocket handkerchief.
"Tbat won't do, said the customer
"give me q nice silk dress for my wife
or something Of that sort"
Cant do it, responded the sales
man; "but TN tell you what I'll do /;
I'll give you back your notes"
No." replied the customer; "bold
on, III take the handkerchief.
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Changing the Names of Paris Streets.

Political affairs in France can not be
half so exciting as the kilograms would
have us believe. The prefecture of the
Seine has found leisure to occupy itself
with the good old sport of changing
the names of the Paris streets and It
is pleasing illustration of the respect
in which the arts are held in France that
the government has given the artists
their share of these municipal honors.
The Rus Saint Paul is to be known
henceforth as the Rue Henri Regnault
the Rue du Chemin de Fer becomes the
Rue Lacaze, in honor of the great
amateur who presented his superb col
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Skating Bellies.

Mr.. Conway writes of skating rinks in
England and says A noted belle of
Brighton is at this moment laid up by
an accident suffered at he rink. All
her upper teeth were pressed through
her under lip, the teeth becoming dis
located, and she has been under the
combined attention of the surgeon and
the dentist for a week. A second
beauty has broken her thumb, and a
third her leg; but they are reported TO
be heroic, feeling that they have suffered
for q great cause, and complaining only
that some little interval must elapse
before they can again fly over the rink.
One thing was especially observable, /
thought, that no company of English
ladies ever appeared out of doors lin
such really beautiful costumes before.
It is true that when l selected, by invi-
tation of Brighton friend, the lady
that seemed to me the most beautiful
and the best dressed, | was informed
that she was an American but the
eomplacency with which learned this
did not prevent nv saying that there
was not an ugly or i'll dressed woman
among the gallant six hundred. There
was not highly colored, not a sensa-
tionaI, not cloud" dress among them.
The dresses were short, though not 80
short as is usual among fair skaters in
America, and they were all free from heav-
mess. There stood on the sides of the
rink, looking on, few ladies dressed
in the eight" French fashion, which is
just beginning to appear among us, but
that fashion was in sharp contrast with
th6 loose draDeries of the skaters, If
the new fashion should become general
over here there will have to be a special
skating costume made for Brighton, for
it is difficult to see how, in the tight
style, any of these young danes could
perform the graceful curves and brave
evolutions which now excite so much
admiration. / am told that the physi-
clans declare that for sanitary advan-
tages the seaside air and bath are of
little importance compared with this
new exercise, which is gradually finding
it's way to all places of resort.
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The BULLET IN CARRUTH's BRAIN
Carruth, the Vineland, n. j., editor
who was shot through the head by
Landis, still lives, and his case is re-
m 8rkabIe in the annals of surgery. His
homeopathic doctors, who were called
in the case to the exclusion of one of the
most celebrated surgeons in Pbiladel-
phia, have given him but one medicine
since the beg ioning. They have adminls-
tered arnica internally with the view to
prevent inflammation, and have not yet
attempted any surgical operation. The
The orifice of the wound is in fact con-
tracted, and the use of the probe is con-
sidered iDjudicious. The ball is sup
posed to have lodged near the eye upon
the skull, and should it become en-
cysted there is hope that the patient
may recover. That he still lives and is
conscious is either a marvel of nature
or g triumph If med cal skill.
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LEAVING THE FATHERLAND. Kirby
and Spence have observed that when an
ant city becomes Overstocked emigra-
ton takes place Just as among men.
Some of the leading citizens consult
the matter, and having determined
upon their course they proceed TO enlist
volunteer recruits. With this view,
says Kirby, "they eagerly accost sew
eral fello " citizens of their own rank in
society, caress them with their antenn@,
lead them by their mandibles, and
evidently appear to propose the Jour
ney to them. II they seem disposed
to accompany them, the recruiting
officer, for so he may be called, pre-
pares to carry off his recruit, who sus-
pending himself upon his mandlbles,
hangs coiled up spirially under his
neck-all which passes i'll an amicable
manner after mutual salutations.
Sometimes, however, the recruiter
takes the other by surprise and drags
him from the ant-hill without giving
him time to consider or resist.
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MARX TwAIN's UMBRELLA. The
following advertisement appears IN
the Hartford Courant: Two bun
dred and five dollars reward.-At
the great base ball match on
Tuesday, while / was engaged
in hurrahing, a small boy walked of
with an English-made silk umbrella be-
longing to me. and forgot to bring it
back. 1 will pay 50 for the return of
that umbrella in good condition to my
house on Pennington avenue. do not
want the boy Gin an active state), but
will pay $500 for his remains.
SAMUEL, l., CLEMENS,