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The Great Bells Of the w orld.

The Great bell of Moscow, called the Tsar
Kololol, or King of Bells, is the largest in
the world. It is 10 feet inches high, and
measures around it's margin 60 feet inches.
1t is estimated to weigh 443, 172 pounds
and the metal in it is valued at more than
three hundred thousand dollars. The bells
in China rank next in size to those of Rus
sia. but are much inferior to them in form
and tone In Picking, it is stated by Father
lie Compte, there are seven bells, each
weighing 120, 600 pounds. One in the sub
urbs Of the city is, according to the testi-
mony Of many travellers, the largest sus-
pended bell in the world 1t is hung near
the ground in large pavilion. and to ring
it a huge beam is swung against its side.
A bell taken from the Dakon pagoda at
Rangoon was valued at $50, 900. Among
the bells recently cast for the new House of
Parliament the largest weighs IA tons.
The next largest bell i'll England was cast
in 1916 for York Minister, and weighs 27,-
900 pounds, and is feet Z inches i'll
diameter The Great Tom, of Oxford,
weighs 1900 pounds, and the Great Tom
of Lincoln, $4,000 pounds. The bell of st.
Paul's in London, is feet in diameter, and
weighs II, 500 pounds. One placed in the
Cathedral of Paris, in 1850, weighs $4,000
pounds. One in Vienna, cast in I'LL,
weighs 10000 pounds; and in Olmutz is
another, weighing about the same. The
famous bell called Susanne of Erfurte, is
considered to be of the finest bell-metal,
containing the largest proportion of silver;
it's weight is about 10000 pounds; it was
cast in 1897. At Montreal, Canada, is
larger bell than any in England, weighing
90, 400 pounds; it was imported in 1843 for
the Notre-Dame Cathedral. In the oppo-
site tower of the Cathedral is a chime of
ten bells, the heaviest of which weighs
5,043 pounds, and their aggregate weight
$ 2f.s00 pounds.
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Moderately Good Stsppers.

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A good Joke is told of a wealthy New
Yorker, with an eyesfor good horse, who,
shortly after betstfing himself to his sum
mer residence ON Long Island, IN April
last. was sitting on his piazza one fine,
morning, and noticed a pair Of fine step
pers that were being driven on the road in
front of his house. The team consisted OF
al5ay and gray mare, and the driver was
an urassllming, quiet well behaved young
man. The New Yorker noticed them
again on thefollowing day, and was more
than ever impressed with their fine style,
and graceful step, and he decided at once
to buy them. Accordingly, on the next
day he stationed himself at his. gate, and
when the, team came jogging by he sig
nailed the driver to stop. & That's a pretty
fair team yola drive, 7 says he. e Yes. they
are moderately good steppers, was the
response. Are they for sale r. asked the
New Yorker. !. Well, yes; ! would sell
them,s' was the rather. hesiHating reply.
!. Send them along down the reid, so that I
can see how they move, says New Yorker.
Up and down they were sent few times,
and at length the gentleman seemed salts
fed, and signaled the driver to pull up. 7.
like them. said he, pretty well, and will
bay them If the price is not too high; what
| do you ask for them r. sixty-fige
thousand dollars, Z was the reply, very
eoolly given Tie gentleinan opened his
| eyes and mouth in astonishment, and Char
LEY Green drove off With Lula and Fleety
Goidlust 1T 4 a;:aa5 gait, leaving the old man
III wonder at the high prices Of good fair
roadsters.
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IDAHO PERSONAL.
Jottings Along the Stage Road.

Jottings Along the Stage Road.
Horse racing and target shooting, are the
order of the day at Pleasant Valley.
CAPTAIN Tack Anderson is the champion
trout fisherist at Eagle Rock, while his
handsome and accomplished lady engineers
the telegraphlc machine, and presides over
an $500 piano for the satisfaction of the
noble Mormon and Red men of the sage
brush plains of Idaho.
Mrs. Corbett is the champion fat lady on
the stage road.
Joe Warren is successist as seven upist
on Blackfoot.
W. N. Shilling, Ross Fork, the po pular
lightning striker and Indian trader, beats
the Dutch raising fine pigs. =
Capt. Hardness, Portneuf toll gate. is
noted for the splendid table he sets and the
ease and grace with which be collects the
stamps from freighters for toll.
Charley Wiley, the Express sub at Frank
lin, has turned the heads of half the Nor
mon girls in that burg with his good looks
and toney airs. = =
: "Datcty,' = the pretty boy with the spit
curls, has just finished a sixteen hundred
ton hay contract for the stage company,
and has now fallen back on his old biz of
Singing hash fer passengers at Yam Patch,
in which he excels.
Major CEandall. the irrepressible, still
holds forth as a shower and pusher for G. s.
s. at Corbett's.
Sam Smart, is the sliekest driver and Geo.
Chapman the muchly most married one on
this road
Road lined with Freight teams Corinne-
wards bound.
Eighteen inches of dust along Snake Riv-
er is the depth. I5 4
WI. s. Co.'S messengers keep one eye
peeled for stone fences on the route, and shot
guns loaded up to the muzzle.
Tom Wright's wife sports Dolly Var
n.
Sam Punches, the high-toned Stockton
der at Pleasant Valley, lost all his money
on horse race ut that place on the 18th
inst. Yours truly,
-Corinne Mail, 2Sth OLD DRIVER.
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Humors of the Jury System.

The following is the record ofa case t tried
in New York on Wednesday. as reported in
the Herald: Andrew Slattery and A. J.
Heineman, two citizens of the Nineteenth
Ward, recently exchanged two cows, Helm
eman receiving with his cows from Slattery
$25. The COW that Slattery got was rep
resented to be a good mixer, which she
was not in reality, and Slottery accordingly
brought suit to recover damages from
Heineman in Judge Ackert's civil court in
Fifty seventh street. The COW received by
Heineman being blind of one eye and good
only for corned beef, he had her killed.
The case came up for trial yesterday, the
following jury having been summoned to
hear the testimony and decide accordingly:
Peter Ahles, brewer; Peter Doelger, saloon
keeper: Alexander Campbell, no occupation;
VIM. Butler, plumber; Francis x. Hart,
druggist, and James Fay, plumber. The
case having been thoroughly inquired into
on both sides, the jury, after two hours
solemn deliberation, returned the annexed
verdict.
eve find that Both Cows were unh ealthy
and Dried up. We therefore Give a Verdict
for Plaintiff for $s225 with Costs and that
the Dry Cow shall be put in charge of the
two Lawyers in the case, each to hold her a
week & that shey have the milk Received
from the Dry Cow while in their charge.
We give this Verdict ON the Basis that the
one-eyed Cow, which was killed, was not
given sufficient time to show what it could
do before it was killed and VIC take for
Granted that the cow now in Possession Of
Slattery is about the same kind and worth
as much as the one-eyed Cow and the only
difference between them is the money Paid
by slattery, which we give verdict for
TIE verdict having been made public,
considerable amusement has been created
thereby at the expense of the several men,
bers of the jury.
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The Ninety and Mine.

There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold;
But one was out on the hills away,
Far off from the gates of gold,
Away on the mountains wild and bare,
Away from the tender Shepherds care.
Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine;
Are they not enough for thee?"
But the Shepherd made answer: 'This of mine
Has wandered away from me;
And, although the road be rough and steep,
90 10 the desert TO find my sheep
Put none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed
through
Ere he found his sheep that was lost,
Out in the desert he heard its cry
Sick and helpless and ready to die.
Lord whence are those blood drops all the way
That mark ont the mountains track?"
They were shed for who had gore astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back"
81 Lord whence are thy hands so rent ana torn 2"
':They are pierced tonight by many a thorn %
And all through the mountains thunder-riven,
And up from the Rocky steep
There rose cry to the gate of heaven:
"Rejoice! have found my sheep!' @
And the angels echoed around the throne:
50 Rejoice! For the Lord brings back his own!'
AS sung By Mr.. .Saakey.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

/ Prof Marsh's lament: "I'ts but little
faded four." Inter Ocean. .a
g He strained at gnat and swallowed a
calomel," !" was little Johnney's version of
the text yesterday. Rochester Erpress.
"Keely wears diamonds Doubtless,
ike many others, he !considers them pro-
Motors of respectability, Boston Post.
Six men are engaged in cutting stone on
the Temple block. At this rate it will be
finished in time for the millennium Z.
| Tribune. ..l...s 4t.e.
1t being too rainy to attend. school, Thurs
day, two of our amateur base ball clubs
played match game on the North street
grounds. News. s.
It is said that the new German green
backs, Reichskaisensehine, are pronoune-
ed good, but we have never met man who
would do pronouncing --St. Joe Herald.
They are now making gilt-edged paper
collars, and just as soon as the public can
| be educated up to the point of wearing
them there will be no further need of dol
lars store jewelry.-Free Press.
| Onondaga Indians have what is called a
green-corn dance. It is an enjoyable affair,
but does not present that variety and fer
vor which characterizes the green-apple
dance of the pale es.-Dan5ury Neaos.
A Danbury mother has determined to
frown down such excessive folly in fashion
as striped stockings and the like. She says
her son "shall not keep company with any
girl who makes circus of her legs
Neees. e
A Cincinnati corpse arose in it's coffin and
quietly remarked: 81 feel very queer"
The two young men who was sitting up
with it had important business down town
the next moment, and did not hesitate to
pass out through the window to attend to
it, either Washington Chronicle.
Among the jokes in Eli Perkins's new
book is the best one ever perpetrated upon
the late James Fisk il. That gentleman was
showing witty stammerer his new boat,
the Plymouth Rock, and called attention to
the portraits of Jay Gould and himself,
hanging a little way apart The visitor
said: "They're very good, colonel-you
hanging on one side and Gould on the
other-f-i-r-s-t rate, But, colonel" contin-
ued the wicked Mr.. Travers, buried in
thought, Sc ao-o-eehere's our Sauiours'
The Brooklyn Argus caps the climax of
the burlesque and fun made about the
obituary poetry in Geo. w. Childs' paper,
the Philadelphia Ledger. Itsays that Ten
nyson has written Childs friendly and
fraternal letter in which he says: GO You
are doing great work. People think too
seldom Of death. The world and it's van-
tiles are always before them. Such poetry
IS yours tempers their frivolous exultation
and turns their thoughts to sepulchers and
worms.
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THE a.cALIFoRNIA GIANT
An Artesian Well In Merced County that
Flows 2l6, 900 Gallons of Water q Day.

This is the name given, by Messrs. Hoag-
land & Chapman to an artesian wall ON their
ranch, situated directly on the bank of the
Mariposa Creek, about sixteen miles below
Plainsburg, and about twelve miles south
west from this town. The we'll is ON land
owned by. Fl. W. Hoagland, ESD, of our
county: but he was assisted in having it
bored by W. S. Chapman, Esq, of San
Francisco, who in consequence of the as
sistance rendered, owns half the water.
The name "Giant of California, - is. given
because it is beyond all doubt the finest
we'll in the San Joaquin Valley. 1t is 270
feet deep and throws, according to an accu-
rate estimate made by E, M. Stoddard, Esq,
of our town, a stream equal in quantity to
sixteen-inch sluice stream, miners meas
urement. Taking this measurement as
correct, and we estimate that it flows from
$50 to 175 gallons per minute-15O gallons
at the lowest calculation. This being so,
we estimate again, and find that this truly
"giant" we'll affords every twenty-four
hours the enormous sum of 10000, or
little less than quarter of a million gal
Ions of water. We estimate again, and find
that this amount Of water is a sufficient
quantity to irrigate, well, at least two hun
dred acres Of land.
The land upon which this well is situated
is good, and has a producing quality of
from fifteen to twenty-five bushels per acre
split this difference and say twenty
without irrigation. This, according to our
tigures-and we think them low-for the
two hundred acres, would make four thou
sand bushels. Well irrigated, and the pro-
ducing quality of the land is increased sew
enty-five per cent, which would increase
the number of bushels per acre to thirty
five, and the number of bushels for the two
hundred acres to seven thousand. Now we
will say wheat is worth seventy-five cents
per bushel. At this price, the wheat raised
from the two hundred acres without irriga-
ton would come to three thousand dollars,
and with irrigation, to five thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars making an in
crease per dCIe lIoin IITl5dtioA VI clcSSA
and one-half dollars.
Now, let us see if this pays: 1t cost
Messrs. Hoagland & Chapman $3.50 to
complete this well. We believe they were
fortunate, so, to be sure not to under esti-
mate, we will say that to bore and complete
the average artesian well it costs 81 900.
According to the above figure the increase
ON 900 acres, derived from irrigation, is
$2,25 This is not all profit, for it would
cost something to distribute the water over
the land in a proper manner, say ~ per
acre. This would detract from the increase
5000, leaving balance Of $3.50 as net
profit for one year ON the 200 acres.
Farmers, it will pay. Hoagland q Chap
man are evidently of this opinion, for ten
acres of the land Immediately surrounding
which one month ago could have been pur-
chased for $780, could not now be bought
for $1,000.
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THE srRIcrEsT OF THE MONKS
Mea Who Keep Perpetual Silence, and Who
Dig Their Own Graves.

The Abbots of Mount Military in Ireland,
Sept Fonds in France, and Mariastern in
Turkey, all monasteries of the Trappist or
der of monks have decided to purchase
land in Maryland to establish house in
the United States, and have appointed as
their agent Brother Frances de Sales, who
will probably to-day present his credentials
to the Archbishop of Baltimore, and be
formally received into that diocese.
The order of Trappists is the severest in
tho Church. Perpetual silence is one of
their vows, and dispensation is given to
speak only when necessity demands it, Or
Of those few Of the brothers who fill Offices
in the monastery which demand occasional
conversations. They are not allowed meat,
eggs, butter, cheese, fish, or oil. They
sleep on narrow beds of straw, raised o few
inches from the ground. They dig and refill,
and dig again and refill from time to time
their own graves, as a reminder of their
mortality. They rise hours before dawn,
and after prayer and meditation, betake
themselves to their respective employments.
Among them are blacksmiths, shoema-
kers, tailors, carpenters, farmers, dairymen
and millwrights. The Trappist monaste-
ries named above are very wealthy, b ut
their wealth has accrued from the industry
of their numbers. These monks ask no
charity, and consequently Brother Frances
de Sales was able to say that he had not
iourneyed to America with subscription
list. He assented that the monastery of
Sept Fonds, in France, alone, offered to
defray the expenses of the new mission. A
temporary house is to be rented, and in De-
cember a06 Tlappist monks, selected from
three monasteries, will occupy it.
Brother Frances de Sales is a Frenchman
by birth, but he speaks English without
much popularity of accent. He is san
guine of the success of the mission he is
sent to superintend. He says that the Abb
bot of Sept Fonds in France was a Count
of great wealth; that the Abott of Mount
Military in Ireland WAS at one time q candi-
date for election to Parliament, and that
the six-feet-two Abbot of Mariastern in
Turkey is all Irishman.-N. 7. Sun. @
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Attempt TO Rob the Grave of Gen. s.
idan's Father.

A few evenings ago Mr.. Jacob Sites
companied by his young son, repaired ),
the Catholic cemetery in Somerset, Ohie
prepare grave. While Mr.. Sites was h
gagged in digging the grave, his son stro !
about the cemetery, and in the course n
his rambles discovered that the grave i
John Sheridan, Sen., had been tampe i
with, and at once informed his father !
the discovery. Mr.. Sites informed Fat i
Noon of the condition of the grave,
he, with John L. Sheridan, and DIR. J. i
Mckinney, proceeded to make an insl
tion of it, which showed that the earth,
far down as the boards covering the col
had been thrown out, but that the b
had not been disturbed. 1t is believed Il
the lesurrectionists became alarmed &
abandoned the work very hurriedly, as I'll
left spade and dropped case contain
spectacles and pencil. Tracks in the II
back of the cemetery show that they Il
with them one-horse wagon and Il
horses.
The object of this attempted grave ri
berry is difficult to divine. Mr.. SheritI
has been dead for more than three mont
and it is hardly likely that the body wot9
be desired for dissection. By some it
believed that the robbers expected to ge5
reward for the return of the body.
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I" OUT WEST. I"

Odd Fellows Hall, Virginia City, New,
recently burnt down, is to be rebuilt at a
cost of $4,000.
The Salem, Oregon, Statesman has been
seld to J. III. Waters,
A Spanish merino buck in Humboldt
county, California, sheared fifty-three
pounds of wool at one clip.
The Portland Bulletin has suspended;
cause, attached for debt. The different
claims in suit against the institution, amount
to over $4,000. sz
It is said that Flood s. O'Brien had s10,-
100000 in gold locked up when their great
opponent, Ralston, found his bank hope
lessly embarrassed.
Tt is estimated that the yield of gold and
silver from the mines of Colorado for the
first six months of the present year foots U.
in gold, 81, 1,052, 700, and in silver 81, 104,-
039. s
Captain Richard King, the Texas s1cattle
king" has been visiting at Harrodsburg,
Ky. At his rancho in Texas Captain King
has a. field of go, 900 acres within one fence.
He recently filed An order by telegraph for
26, 900 beeves
The Reno Democrat, Col. Dow's paper,
has gone where the woodbine Swineth, the
material of the office having been attached
by the employees. Col Dow has our sym
pathy in his embarrassment. He was pub
fishing good paper, and should have re-
ceiYed the patronage of his party. Lyon
County Times.
The Los Angeles Eapress says g 1t may
not be generally known that the wild mus
4 tard which grows SO plentifully in Los An
geles county Is shipped to Europe by the
j millions of pounds. Ronard also shipped
three millions of pounds in single year.
1t is purchased here At from two and hall
/ to four and i half cents per pound. A very
deIioata swesb oil Is pressed from ii. which
il utterly Without an aorid taase, and which
4 il returned to- this country and sold for
sEaliye OIL The cake which remains after
the oil Is pressed is ground up into the or
diLary mustard of commerce,
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II e
HISTORIC BELL METAL-The Troy Times
has the following = Meneeley & Kimberly,
of Troy, who are making bell OF thirteen
thousand pounds for the tower of old In
dependence Hall in Philadelphia, have,
on application TO Gen. Wagner and with the
approval of the War Department., received
permission to select several cannon from
those now in store at the Westervliet Ar
senal, TO be cast in the bell. This section
will besof cannon which did service in the
Union and rebel armies during the late civil
war. It is the purpose Of the donor Of the
bell Henry seybert, Of Philadelphia) and
OF! the authorities Of thatscity to have the
bell in position in Independence Hall tower
July !, 1876. 1t viii thus have q national
and centennial gnii1oance-that ofa eoun-
try grown in a century from q union Of
thirteen States to shirty y-eight, and a poppla-
tion increased from 4, 900, 600 to A0, ,000. coo.
/ The object of the special cannon used in the
casting of this bell will be to carry ostt the
idea Of peaca IN tlls blending of North and
South, and & quite ii keeping with tile
snsiris 81 ono 81 tile Rihie III which
win bssoast upon Elae bell !. Glory 70 God
ii tie highest and ell earth peace, good
| 4 iii toward men.
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THE PAY OF WHISKY GAUoERs. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
adopted new schedule FOR the payment Of
CANCERS by means Of which it is estimated
from $4,000 to 100000 year will be
saved. Under the working of the Old
method Of paying for the quantity gauged
per month at ten cents per gallon, cornpen-.
sation not to exceed six dollars per day at
any time, it was usually the case that the.
six dollars were charged for days IN which
no gauging whatever was done. The new
schedule allows pay only Tor the days on
which gauging Is actually done, At the rate
Of ten cents per gallon, To an amount not
III excess of six dollars per day
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like that ancient saxon's phrase which calls
The burial ground Goods Acre!n Ii is just
1t consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathesa benison upon the sleeping dust
Into its furrows shall we all be. cast,
In the sure faith that we shall rise again
Atthe great harvest when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like fan. the chaff and grain
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The Great Organs of the World.

The largest organ in the world is in AL
bert Hall, London, and was built by Henry
Willis, III 1870. It contains 1873 stops, four
manuals, and nearly 10000 pipes, all Of
which are metal. The wind is supplied by
steam-power. Thirteen couples connect or
organ at the will of the performer. The
organ at St. Georges Hall, Liverpool, also
built by MIR. Willis, has one hundred stops
and four manuals. That of ST. Sulpice,
has five thousand pipes. The largest organ
in America is in the Music Hall, Boston,
built by Walcker, of LudWigsburg; it has
four manuals, eighty-nine stops, and four
thousand pipes. Tie other important Or
gans in this country are by American.
builders, and are as follows Trinity
Church, New York, built by Henry Erben;
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, by D. g. E.
G. Hook; st. Georges, New York, by
George Jardine s. Son; Tabernacle. Brook
lyn, by the same; ST.. Bartholomew's, New
York, by j. Ell. & O. S. 0dell; Temple
Emanuel, New York, by Hall & Labagh;
and Holy Trinity, New York, by II. Z.
Roosevelt. These organs have from 800
to 1000 pipes, and from fifty to sixty stops
and therefore, IN point Of size, will be
found equal to the average large organs of
Europe. Some of them contain all the
modern European and American improve
Inents. One of the largest organs in
| America is in the Roman Catholic Cathe-
drai at Montreal, and was built by $. r.
| Warren. Of that city.-App1etons' Aaaeri-l
| caa Cytlopadia, fettsed edition, article
/" Organs