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The Andes Gradually Sinking,

Travellers who wish to assend the Andes
should lose no time in carrying out their
intention, otherwise they will perhaps fnd
no mountains to ascend. These unfortunate
mountains seem to sink rapidly. A list OF
the attitudes of some of the most important
n ,ints deterRsined at distinct intervals OF
time is given in recent number of the
Ausland, and tells sad story of diminish
ed proportions. Quito was found by La
Conda,nine, in 1745, TO be 1896 feet above
the sea Humboldt, in 1903, could only
make $3.50 feet of it; Boussinganlt, in 1881,
was startled to find it was only 1861 feet
O,ton, in 1867, found it reduced to 925O feet
and Reiss and stubel doubtless to their
honor4 found, in 1870, that it had shrunken e
to the ridiculously small size Of only sSoO ~
feet above the level Of the sea. Qnito' 4 i
seems. had sunken 24s feet in 125 years,
and l,ichincha a1s feet in the same period.
Its crater has snnken 4s5 feet during the
last twenty six 81 years, and Antisana 1855 feet
! IN sixty four years. 1t is, howeyer, doubt
| ful point whether this continued depression
of the Andes is attributed 70 the sinking o.
the mountains or the rising Of the wersd.
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Precept and Practice.

"The hoss," said Mr.. Mccormick, as he
gently backed the family quadruped be-
tween the thills of an ancient high-backed
wagon" the hoss is an animal that warts
| coaxin', not drivin'.'
The remark, as above quoted, was in
tended for the instruction Of Johnnie Nc.
Cormiek, who having failed in persuading
the animal in question to take his prorer
ed him with opprobrious epithets.
"You see, my son, J" continued the pater-
nal, mildly, "that hoss knows when he's
well used-(back, Charley, back Dam ]
s'pose hoss understands a good de;i
more'n we think he does; an besides that,
it's the flies a plaguin' him that makes him
sort of restless s.s.f. Il. ..-.
Mr.. Mccormick was just making the tug
fast to the whiffletree as he spoke; and it
may have been the appreclative sympathy
in the speakers tone when he made the al
lusion to the flies which caused the noble
animal to slash his tail suddenly across the
face and eyes of Mr.. Mccormick, or 2er-
haps he thought to rid that gentleman of
the troublesome pests alluded to. How
ever that may be, Mr. Mccormick dropped
the tug and executed quick gymnastic
movement of violent order, as at the
same time he yelled in manner which i'm
pressed Mr.. Harker, who lived next door,
with the idea that Mrs. Mccormick had
scalded her husband.
And then the enraged man ran suddenly
at the surprised quadruped and kicked him
and yanked his head violently, as he assail-
ed him with vituperative epithets to that
extent that his wife, who had been looking
out Of the back door, fled rapidly up stairs
After which he turned iercely on Johnnie
Mccormick, on whose face was a marked
expression of agitated solemnity, and ask
ed him what he saw to laugh at; and then
he seized him by the jacket collar ard
shook him till his teeth chartered, and ad-
ministered sound box upon the youths
dexter ear.
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Brigham Bound,

Brigham Young's position at the present
time is by no means an enviable one. So i'll
that to move him would probably be to kill
him, he is under guard at his own house,
and the supervision exercised over him is
SO rigid that his clerk was fully justified in
the remark that the Government swas run
ming things now" He is cut off from the
society of his apostles and subjected TO the
hourly visits Of inspection from the officers,
who exclude from his room every one but
his doctor and nurse. A sick-bed where
the patient is uncheered by the presence of
his faithful wife-a fortiori that sick-bed
which is uncheered by the presence of sew
eral faithful wives. In the Prophets case
there is lack of sixteen woman's nursing,
| there is dearth of sixteen woman's tears.
Yet the Prophet is by no means respondent
by no means inclined to comply with the
decree of the Court and pay alimony to Ann
Eliza, his sbetter-seventeenth he manifests
rather his intention of taking mp his bed
and walking into the penitentiary rs soon
as his health permits. This is possibly the
part of principle; it is certainly that Of
prudence. If he yields now and pays ALI
mony to one wife and council fees to two
lawyers, sixteen other wives and thirty-two
other lawyers may descend upon him. In
Ann Eliza's plea for alimony it was con-
tended that about one-fifth of the hus-
bands income was the sum usually granted
as the wife's allowance. If this plea should
be sustained, the connubial prophet would
find himself compelled to pay seventeen
fifths of his income, and so be reduced t.
financial perplexity scarcely less than that
in which is involved that other head of q
polygamous religion and state, the Sultan.
Small wonder, therefore, that he holds ont.
Small wonder, too, if his. restlessness and
misery be assumed, and he be not rejoicing
in his exemption from winter course Of
curtain lectures. Tt is, indeed, better 70
dwell in bedroom with q deputy mar
shal than Ia broad house with sixtsen
scolding women---N Z. World.
~ So "a 2
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Sweet Home.

AT the close of the war many Southern
tries OF South America and in Mexico, with
the hope of retrieving the fortunes they
had lost through the vicisitudes of war, or
to better condition that seemed at the
time to offer no hope of improvement in
their own country. Most of those who
went to Mexico have long since returned,
and many who went still further south, af-
ter meeting only with disappointments and
severe losses, have been glad to come back
to their own homes. Quite number of
families went to Brazil and Venezuela, lur-
ed by promises of prosperity which have
never been realized, and those who had the
means gradually found their way back to
this country with an experience that told
them that the worst here would be well
come relief from the bitter trials they had
encountered in their wanderings. But there
were some families which went to South
America, and especially to Brazil and VeT-
ezaela, which are still in those countries
without the means of returning, and are
now living there in the utmost destitution
and misery. They have made application
to tie resident representatives of the United
States government for relief, but those Off
GERS were not empowered by law to extend
aid to them or to secure them passage back
to their native land. The unfortunate con-
dition of these people has been brought to
the attention of the State Department, and
through the lnstrumentality of that Office
the Navy Department has fitted ont the
United States corvette Swatara for the
purpose of making trip to Para, Brazil,
and other South American ports TO offer
free passage to all American citizens who
are in distress and may wish to return
home. The Swatara sailed from New
York on Saturday morning and expects 10
make her round trip in about 100 days.
She is d war vessel, and is not well adapted
to carrying passengers. but she has been
fitted up as well as her construction would
permit, and as the entire trip viii be made
| in southern latitudes there will be no very
serious discomfort TO the exiles, who viii
| be only too glad to avail themselves of this
| opportunity to seek their old homes ones
/ more. On her return the Swatara will dis
! charge her passengers at Port Royal, South
1 Carolina; and doubtless some benevolent
| private measures will be inaugurated TO
supply the wants of these wanderers when
I they land upon their native shores OOaT.
! Ter Joarnal, Nau. 12sh.
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EvE-ANaEErcAE, CORNER.

+ "Gail Hamilton's'' new volume breaches
"sermons to the Clergy" Il 9- 2F ~--
The Empress Eugenie has thousand
dollar dress to make her happy. -
The Greeley daughters have returned to
New York from Europe. f-. s,;,-... a.. t.,.t
t. A. French jury have found one of their
countrymen guilty Of stening his wife to
death, with extenuating circumstance
70 A Nebraska jury has just decided that
husband has no right to whip his wife
with o stick and then sprinkle her with red
pepper. -5 rE b-fT ra5arifIzET sst
- The vital statistics of this country prove
that woman will spend more time to hide
a pinlple on her forehead than she will to
take care of seven children. .5oWm3 ~
Basket plaids are very fashionable this
year. A visitor at the penitentiary says
that all the men there except the guards
were dressed in the popular fashion. ..
When a stranger asked Detroit girl
whom he met at party if she was married
she promptly replied: "Not quite, but
I've sued three or four chaps for breach of
promise"
During the earthquake in Memphis On
the 9th woman ran up to police officer
on the street and pleaded guilty to having
stolen four yards of ribbons. After the ex-
citement was passed she denied it.
ga trio of elegantly dressed ladies set
out for Chicago by last evenings express
train," says Pennsylvania exchange.
Why not quote from Kingsley's poem
Three .fchas went sailing out into the West"
The supreme court of Missouri has de-
cided that $1,000 is not an excessive sum
to pay lady for an illegal kiss when bya
conductor, and that railroad company is
responsible for such acts by its conducts
ors.
An elderly maiden, who has suffered some
Disappointment thus defines the human
race: Man, conglomerated mass of
hair, tobacco smoke, confusion. conceit, and
boots. Woman, the waiter, perforce, on
the aforesaid animal"
When Mother Eve the tempting fruit
Plucked for her only kin,
She !hen and there did institute
A precedent for sin
She knew the apple tasted sweet. ,s
But thought not of its price, s,. ,
And said to Adam " Let us eat
It's naughty, bnt it's nice"
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------N- 1'6&E~'S ---------
BUILDING ON THE SAND.

'Tis well to WOO, It's well to wed,
For so the world hath done
Since myrtles grew and roses blew,
And ling caught the sun. ,.,ss.
But have care, ye young and fair,
Be sure ye pledge with truth:
Be certain that your love will wear
Beyord the days of youth!
For if you give not heart for heart,
AS well as hand for hand.
You'll find you've played the unwise part.
And built upon the sand"
'Tis well to save, 'tis well to have
goodly store of gold,
And hold enough of shining stuff,
For charity is cold.
But place not all your hope and trust
In what the deep mine brings;
We cannot live on yellow dust
Unmixed with purer things;
And he who piles up wealth alone,
Will often have to stand
Beside his Golfer chest, and own
He "built upon the sand"
>Tis good to speak in kindly guise
And soothe where'er we can;
Fair speech should bind the human mind,
And love link man to man.
But stop not at the gentle words.
Let deeds with language dwell:
The one who pities starving birds
Should scatter crumbs as well;
The mercy that is warm and true
Must lend helping haud,
For those that talk, yet fail to do.
But "build upon the sand"
Elisa Cook.
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"THE UNLUcKY LOCOMOTIVE. Engine
No. 81, belonging the New York Central
Railroad, is known the whole length of the
line as "the anlucky engine" 1t was this
engine that was in the recent disastrous
collision at New Scotland. Then she
sskilled her man. as almost invariably
happens when she has an accident; but it
chanced to be the driver of the other engine
instead of her own master this time. Two
years ago she ran off the track near Coey-
mans, rolled twenty five feet down bank
and turned completely wrong side mp, fa-
tally scalding both engineer and fireman.
This engine has also been in several other
accidents, the exact facts Of which We have
net at hand. On account Of damages re-
ceived in the late accident the unlucky
engine = il laid mp for repairs.
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POETRY.
IDEAL MARRIAGE.

And woman is not undevelop'd man.
Fa; diverse. Could We make her as the man.
Sweet love were slain. His dearest bond is this,
Not like in like, but like in difference;
Yet. in the long years, lizer they shalt grow,
The man be more of woman, she of man
He gain in sweetness and in moral hight,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world
She mental breadth, nor fall in childward care,
Nor lose the childike in the larger mind;
Till at last she set herself to man
Like perfect music unto noble words;
And so these twain. upon the skirts of time
Sit side by side, full summed in all their powers
Dispensing harvest, sowing the ToBe.
Then comes the statelier Eden back to men,
Then springs the ciowning race of human kind.
-TknnuSOu.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO.
AS SUNG BY MR.. sANKEY.

AS SUNG BY MR.. sANKEY.
lTune-' Your Mission"l
Hark the voice of Jesus crying
who will go and work to-day?
Fields are white and harvest waiting;
Who will bear the shcaves away?"
Loud and strong the master calleth
Rich reward He offers thee;
Who will answer gladly saying,
Here am / send me send me!r
Ii you cannot cross the ocean,
Ard the heather land explore,
Yon can find the heather nearer
You can help them at yonr door.
If you cannot give your thousands,
You can give yonr widows mite;
And the least you do for Jesus,
Will be precious in his sight
If you cannot speak like angels.
If you cannot preach like Paul,
You can tell the love of Jesus,
You can say he died for all.
If You cannot rouse the wicked
With the judgments dread alarms,
You can lead the little children
= no bne CtiVtof e~Wh1tilB aTnlt.
If you ciLnot be the watchman,
Standing high on ZIon's wall,
Pointing out the path to heaven,
Offering life and peace to all.
With your prayers and with your bountics
You can do what heaven demands,
You can be like faithful Aaron,
Holding up the prophets hands.
If among the older people,
You may not be apt to teach,
Feed my lambs " said Christ our Shepherd,
I" Place my food within their reach"
And it may be that the children
You have led with trembling hand,
Will be found among your jewele,
When you reach the bet ter land.
Let none hear you idly saying.
"There is nothing can do"
While the souls of men ore dying,
And the Master calls for you.
Take the task He gives you gladly.
Let His work your pleasure be:
Answer quickly, when He calleth,
Here am I !: send me send mel"
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THE LARGEST
First Class Hotel in the Territory.

Having secured lease for long term OF
v,ars of this large and commodious house,
have renovated, refurnished and embel-
l,l,ed its roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms, and no expense or pains will be
pared to continue to improve and keep it
on first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the verV best the markets
afford and the delicacies of theseason. At
tendance unexceptionable. Terms, reason
able rtr -Erl.sE- 32S.
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THE VALUE OF A DEAD CHINAMAN.---
The value of dead Chinaman has at last
been definitely settled. The ship Criterion,
which sailed last Friday for Hong Kong, car
ries as part Of her cargo 365 boxes contain
ING the bones of dead Cinnamon for final
interment in the sacred soil of the Celestial
Empire. Each case is said to contain the
remains OF three persons. The total valu-
alton of the entire shipment is placed at
$4,000, for which amonnt an Insurance. has
been effected by the shipper, who bears the
enphonious name of Fook Hong Tong.
The commercial value of dead Chinaman
is established, by Fook Hing Tong and the
insurance agent issuing the policy on the
shipment, at nearly $14. although the Gus
tom House officers have demontrated their
barbarian instincts, judging their conduct
from Mongolian stand point, by striking
out the value in the manifest altogether
g. II Bulletin.
A PUZZLE FOR TYNDALL.--A school boy
having heen asked by his teacher to ex-
plain why the days we're so much longer in
summer than winter, replied that it was
"because heat expands bodies while cold
contracts them If we may believe the
Rochester Democrat, there is now mar
| ried man in Jefferson, Indiana, to whom
this question in physics appears to be fal
less easy of solution than it was in the pre-
| cocious youth. He found in his bedroom
| 4 No, 16 paper shirt collar, whereas he
| wears only No. 10. What now puzzles him
| is whether--as the wife of his bosom as
serfs-it could really have been the heal
twasich has. expanded his shirt collar one
!, size? AT last accounts be was not quits
!, sure that the weather had been hot enough
for such feat.
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NEW YORK REAL EsTATE.-The enor-
nous shrinking Of prices of real estate in
New York, was illustrated in the sale of
one hundred and twenty eight vacant lots,
belonging to Griffith Rowe, last Friday.
The lots were located on Fourth, Fifth,
Eleventh, Park and Madison avenues, and
other up town streets, and were esteemed
promising property, three years ago.. The
bidding was slow and spiritless, and the
prices brought were low, ranging from 25
to so per cent. less than could have been
obtained in 1878, indeed some of them sold
for barely enough to cover the mortgages
ON them; proving that they had little value
over and above the incumbrance. New
York real estate owners are little startled
at this intimation of the whitening which
the values of their property have under
gone. Hundreds of persons who imagined
themselves rich, two years ago, and who
would be rich if the real estate prices of
that day had been real, find now that they
are poor.
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Scraps OF Hunor

A family living on Cass avenue found a
good thickness of cream on some milk that
had been standing over night, and when
the milkman made his usual call the pleas
ed housewife exhibited the cream and said
81 never expected to see this"
The man looked at the cream, winked
wisely and solemny, scratched his head and
replied:
Well, I don't know what ails it, but
you can throw it out and I'll give you a
fresh pint in its place ?''.-Free Press.
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An Eccentric Duke.

The duke of Portland is the most eccen-
trio, as well as one of the wealthiest, peers
now living. He owns immensely valuable
property in London, and his income is at
least 5 5 600 day. He has passion for
solitude. Though he has two fine houses
in Cavendish square, few Londoners have
ever set eyes upon him. Even at Welbeck
Abbe, where he passes most of his time, he
lives so much alone that he will not have
any servants to wait upon him at dinner,
but has an apparatus by which the table is
lowered through the floor to the kitchen
when it wants repleDishing. Not that it
often needs this, for the duke has only TIVE
meals day, at one of which half chicken
is served, and at the other meal the other
half. Occasionally he has visitors at We'll
beck, but he never sees them, though they
may be in the house weeks at a time.
When he drives out he is conveyed in a
vehicle hung round with curtains, so that
nobody can see in, and it is drawn by six
Lilliputlan ponies. The approaches to the
able are subterranean, and there are fifteen
miles of tunnels on the estate, all well ven-
tilated, and many Of them lighted day and
night, and adorned with sculptures. There
is splendid stable, where fifty hunters are
kept, though the duke never hunts.
He has gallery of glass and iron a mile
long, where they may exercise in all wealth
ers. The duke is now constructing three
enormous snbterranean libraries and sub
terranean church, and it has taken the
workmen three years to excavate the ground.
But that upon which the duke most prides
himself is his museum. 1t is constructed
largely of glass, and is lighted by chande-
liers, each weighing ton. It has taken
ten years to fix the glass alone, and now
the pictures are being hung. They are
very choice as they ought to be, seeing
that the duke some time ago made huge
bonfire of paintings which he did not think
good enough, though they had cost many
thousand pounds. He has never been mar
ried, and it is supposed has never been in
love, and as he is seventy-five now, he is
not very likely to do SO.
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It was up in Iredell, and it was at col
ored camp meeting. The excitement was
at its climax. Many were weaping, shout
ing and proclaiming in joyous tones how
sweet was the salvation they had found.
The preachers were walking around and
begging in piteous accents, sinners to fee
from the wrath to come-while they exhort-
ed penitents never to turn back but to
pray on until death and hell were robbed of
all their terrors. There was present an
aged negro woman, for many moments she
had been furiously clapped her hands and
called on " de good man for to come down;
she was ruined, wretched, lost and without
hope" All at once her voice arose high
and clear above the din and uproar and ex-
citement. My Christian brudders, am
happy! my sins is washed away; de specs
of salvation is now put on dem and see
de Ram, see de Ram, in all his glory p
You mean the Lamb" said one of the
exhorters! "Can't help it, warn't sartin
i knowed it was some kind of a sheep
I see him-I see him-Halleluyer !! Hal
leluyer p'-CbGrlotte Observer.
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When Ton,aso Salvini came to America,
rumor bad it that his proper name was
Thomas Sullivan; Tom Karl, the tenor it lis
insinusted. is likewise Hibernian, whose
rightfuI cognomen is Thomas Carroll. The
latest development, SO says f;scetious con-
temporary, ID that Signor Carlo Rossi ID
Charley Ross in disguise ~ philadelphia
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A boy of ten went into Grand River
avenue grocery yesterday and called for a
five-eent bar of soap. He left nickle on
the counter and started out, but the grocer
called
See here, boy-this is lead nickle I
don't take such money as this"
The boy left the soap and took up the
nickle without a word, but on reaching the
walk be burst out
&c told ma he wasn't near sighted, but
she stuck to it and stuck to it, and now
I'm liable to be jailed !''-Free Press.
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Marse John, gimme four bits, please
sir you amt trated this niger since de
war;" said 81 to the SON of his old owner
yesterday. -.F
What do you want with it, ST." quer-
led the young man.
" Want to go de circus, Marse John.
You know how nigger is ~ ..Az------l..-4
IS But, 81 fifty cents won't take you in
now. The Civil Rights Bill made you as
good as white man at the shows and you'll
have to pay dollar as do.''
"Is dat de truf, Morse John %
" Just as true as preaching"
81 scratched his head for full minute,
then looked up with mournful eyes and
said:
"Dar it is agin told dem niggers dey
was spilen de horn when dey wanted dem
sibil rights, and hyar's de truf of it pint
black! allus was a mighty up-spoken
niger, ez you enows, Marse John, and
'twixt US say dam dc sbil rights, speshil-
ly when the circus is around.
ST got his four bits, but he's mad yet
atlanta Constitution.