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verse, without beginning and=wlthout
| end, NOT only suns bud systems b suns
| gaIaxies of such systems, to higher arc
higher orders endlessly, have long
since passed through all the stages 2
their existence as systems, or have al
those stages yet to pass through. IN
| the presence of time intervals thus seen
to be at once infinitely great and IN,
fnitely little-infnitely great compared
with the duration of our earth, infinite
" little by comparison with the eter-
mites amid which they are lOst-what
reason can we have for viewing any orb
in space from our little earth and say
ing now is the time when that orb IS,
like our earth, the abode of life. Why
should life on that orb synchronize
with life on the earth? Are not, on
the contrary, the chances infinitely great
against such a coincidence? If, as
Helmholtz has we'll said, the duration of
life on ourearth is but the minutest rip
pie in the infinite ocean of time, and the
duration of life on any other planet OF
like mi~nuteness, what reason can we
have for supposing that those remote,
minute, and no way associated wave OF
life must needs be abreast each other on
the infinite ocean whose surface they
scarcely ripple ?" It should be borne
in mind, as lessing the chances of q
coincident of life in two words, that
the DEMONSTRATING period of q planets
existence covers but a minute period of its
actual existence, and hence it may Justly
Der egarded as antecedentlyimprobable
that any planet selected at random,
whether planet of our system or
planet attending on another sun than
ours. is at the present time the abode
of Iife." Though we close our review
with this sentence as embodying Prof.
Proctor's conclusions dedUced from
his main premises, justice to the author
bids us recognize the extended Efforts
here unnoticed-by which he.appears to
Justify the claims which we have hardly
more than set forth and defined ftp
pEet0n8' Journal.
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Saratoga's PronrietY.

Mr.. Samuel Bowles has been taking
notes at Saratoga, and these are among
the things that particularly impressed
him: While Saratoga does not seem to
be the last station on the straight and
narrow rosd to heaven by any means,
yet for so large and SO miscellaneous a
company there certainly is a curious
lack OF outward vice. The amount of
wine drank at the hotels is very small !;
at the dinner tables not more than a
quarter or a fifth of a European table
dhote. You never see many people in
the bar-Tooms while during the tort
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MEsMERIzNG A RoosTER.-An per
iment which it may smuse the boys to
repeat has been described by several
correspondents to a popular science
journal. Place a cock upon a table or
board, and. holding his wings close
down his sides, let a second person bend
down his head until his beak touches
the board on which he lies, and draw a
line of white chalk straight out from
the point of his beak. This done the
bird may be released from all restraint.
and he will not stir 90 much as a fea-
Their. may, further writes one.
you may clap your hands or shout
close to him, without arousing him from
his lethargy, from which, however. he
viii ultimately recover" Another ex-
perimenter writes "I have seen a
row of fowls rendered quite s-enseless
by drawing a chslk-iine beginning at
the top Of the beaE) slowly acroas a
table, and / have, myself, successfully
performed the experiment. The birds
are simply mesmefized,
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Ar this season of the year cramps and
pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery.
diarrhea, &c, are quite common, and should
be checked at once. Johnson's Anodyne Lini-
ment is the best article that can be used in all
such cases, and should be keptin every family.
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The general report of the operations
of the Great TriRonometrical Society Of
India during 1873.74 contains an &C.
count ofSGn interview which MI. Bond,
one of the staff, had with a couple Of
the wild folks who live in the hill
iungles of the western Ghasts, to the
southwest Of the Palanei hills. A
strange, dwarfsh people had often been
heard of as f%requenting the junglef
near the station of Pemalei, in the
northwest corner of the Tinnevelly dis
trict, but until Mr.. Bond caught these
two specimens no traces of them had
been seen by the members of the sur
vey. These two people, o man n a
woman, believed themselves to be lOU
years old, but Mr., Bond believes the
man to be about %, and the woman Is
years of age. "The man." Mr.. Bond
states, "is 4 feet g. inches in height,
26l inches round the chest. and as
inches horizontally round the head over
the eyebrows. He has a round head,
coarse, black, woolly hair, and a dark
brown skin. The forehead is low and
slightly ~retreating, the lower part of the
face projects like the muzzle of a mon
KEY, and the mouth, which is small and
oval, with thick lips, protrudes about
an inch beyond his nose; he has short
handy legs, a comparatively long body,
and arms hat extend almost to his
knees, the back just above the bullock
is concave, making the stern appear
to be much protruded. The hands and
fingers are durIpy and always con-
tracted, SO that they cannot be made to
stretch out quite straight and fiat. The
palms and fingers are covered with
thick skin more particularly 80 the
tips of the fiugers), and The neck is
small and imperfect the feet Ere broad
and thick-skinned ell over; the hairs
of his moustache are Of q rrayish white,
scanty and coarse like bristles, and he
has no beard. The woman is four feet
six and q half inches in height, twenty
seven inches around the chest (abOve
the breast), and nineteen and a half
inches horizontally around the head
above the brows the color of the skin
is sallow, or of a nearly yellow tint /;
the hair is black, long, and straight,
and the features we'll formed. There is
no difference between her appearance
and that of the common m of that
part of the country. Sho is pleasant
to look at, well developed, and modest.
Their only dress is a loose cloth, and
they eat flesh, but feed chiefly on roots
and honey. They have no fixed dwell
ing places, but sleep on any convenient
spot generally between two rocks or in
caves near which they happen to be
benighted. They make a fire and cook
what they have collected during the
day, and keep the fire burning all night
for warmth and to keep away wild
animals. They worship certain local
divinities of the forest-Rakas or Ra-
kerr, and Pc CATER whom the hill is
namad, Pemalei.) The women cooks
for and waits on the man, eating only
he is satisfied .-Londom Medical
Record.
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A CALIFORNIA hunter who went ten
miles to where game was plenty, and
then found that he had brought a box
of pills instead of percussion caps, re-
turned home in disgust.
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A DIFFIoULT OPERATION.

E-F. II.
There was an operation performed in
the city the other day-a surgical oper-
ation-and if we did not have n whole
some dread of the "Drake Academy of
Medicine before our eyes, we would re-
port the case in full. It wal an ampu-
tation of the leg-the lower part-about
half way between where the shoe stops
and the garter begins. The patient
was weak, and conldn't afford to lose
any blood she needed all she had to
begin business of living again, so the
doctors (members of the Drake Medical
Academy, consequently cannot be
named), agreed solemnly that she
should not lose any at all. DR.
1--WE are writing according to the "code''
now, SO we can't name HIM, produced
a sort of rubber strap, which looked
like tho doctors s~uspenders, sewed end
to end. Dr.-(a member of Drake
Medical Academy, SO we can not men
ton names), held the leg up while d..
1--WE don't mean to be personal, but
It was neither of the other doctors),
strapped the rubber on. This done,
Dr.-(who, being q member of the
Drake Medical Academy, cannot allow
the use of his name,) put something
else on, while Dr.-(who ia nameless
because q member of Drake Medical
Academy took the rubber strap off. A
physician was present belonging to
Drake Medical Academy, we withhold
his name,) armed with a knife, and be.
gan to cut. He was ably assisted by q
medical gentleman of this city Iunmen-
tionable here, as he holds a member
ship in Drake Medical Academy. The
arteries we're taken up by Dr.-
(who belongs to Drake Medical Acad-
envy, and is thereby "nameless here
forevermore), in a most skillful man
ner. When reporter left the patient
was doing well. The whole operation
was very creditable to the doctors (who,
being members of the Drake Acdeamy
of Medicine, cannot have their names in
nriutl.
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GREAT harm and discomfort is caused
by the use of purgatives which grippe and
rack the system. Parsons Purgatiye Pills are
free from all impure matter, and are mild and
health-giving in their operation.
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Dyspepsia and Piles are prevailing and
distressing diseases. DR.. TUFTS Liver Pills will GER
tainly cure them. To be had of any druggist.
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WHKN q woman has buried her sixth
husband it sounds sort of haartlegs to
hear her walk ont OF the cemetery ex-
claiming "Nextr r.
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An Operation by Physicians Who do
not Advertise,

Since the Academy of Medicine at
Evansville expelled a veteran physician
for regularly advertising, the Journal,
at that place, tries to carry out the
rule in spirit by excluding the irregular
advertising in reporting a case as fol-
lows: 9
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@hKETuEM1 for you. Bells at sight. Our
VUHE DENu agents coin money. We have
Work and money for all, men or women. BOYS or
girls. whole or spare time. Send stamp far CSts.
loEus. Address Frank Gluck, New BEDFORD, MasS,
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Pleasant and P~roflta bIe > Employment
" Reauiiul!' "Charmtng!" oh, how lovely ~
cWhat are they worth 2" &c. such are eXClRma'
lions by those who see the large elegant New Chro-
mos produced oy the European and american
Of art. NO one can resist the temptation to buy
when seeing tho ChrOmos 1t requires no talking
to sell the pictures, they speak for themselves.
Cauvasaers. Agents and ladies and gentlemen out
of employment, will find this 'the best opening
ever offered to make money. Fer full particulars
send stamp for confidential circular. Address +,
GLEASON d co. 3S Washington st. Boston, Mass.
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GEO. P. ROWEA q Co.

WHEY writing to advertisers please mpntIor
w the name of this paper, No. "a s. N. III.
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HAMLET.-In answer to d & 5rrespon-
dent, the Monde HIustre gives the follow
ing particulars OF the Danish prince ;
The historian Sake examinations, who
lived in the twelfth century, states that
Hamlet was the son of 3 king of Jutland,
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FEEDTN4 THE ANIMALS.

Satday asa Fast Day 6e Asiatic LION and
his Sa85tcts-PandemoH5aBb Let Looge-An
Interogtiae Group Of S8kes-A Battle oecr
"a Rabbfs
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$3.50 per Month ~ is made by AGENTS seJIjog on
sPleadld assortment e NEW Maps and Pic7usrss
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BILLINGs.-Men are apt 10 think
they are not appr eciated in this
world. but the trouble is. we mark
our goods so high that we kant dis
pose ov them.
II you hav emmy doubts about the
proprietY ov thing, yu may be pret-
ty certain that The doubt il right.
The man who hain't never been
cheated don't know so much now as
he will sum day.
We all ov US expect to be fondly
remembered after we are ded and
gone, but we go into our graves like
a shower ov rain into the buzzum ov
the oshun, forgetting and forgotten.
Modesty and difidence are often
konlounded, hut one is the conshious-
ness of virtew, and the other IL the
consciousness ov ignoranse.
Human beings are natral slovens.
born so. Yuhav got 10 hold q yung
one TO wash biz face, and when yu
want TO comb hiz hair you bav got to
run him down.
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THE POETRY OF MARRIAGE
Marriage is very matter-of-lact
affair. There is little poetry in it I;
and all experience shows that it is
better TO get rid OF nonsense before
committing matrimony." SO Gays a
good writer but VIC beg to differ.
All experience does not show any
such thing. II nonsense means here,
as it seems to mean, all those things
that make the poetry OF life. we say
the more you have Of it the better.
Because thing is zeal, must it be
commonplace? The light of love
illumines the homeliest duties and be
cause there must he eating, and drink
ing, and sleeping, aud earning bread
and butter in its years, marriage need
not be a matter>oi,fact arrangement
a coarse sort of bargain, in which
the wife becomes a housekeeper. and
the husband banker. Better that
there should he no marrying at all |;
for what shall they do in hours OF
trouble and pain which come to all of
US, when every heart Graves sympa-
thy, and when none can give it so
well as the lover whose love has en-
dured through many years? When
two people of opposite sex, tempera-
ment, habits, fully resolve, through a
union by marriage, to live together
for the rest Of their lives, there is
need of sentiment then. There is a
necessity for a little OF that romance
that makes people seem better and
more beautiful than they really are,
if in time they would not hate each
other. No-if you have no other
part in life that is not commonplace
and matter.of fact, forbid that home>
life. which is the consequence Of mar
riage, to sink to this. Have e thouss
and songs without words" for every
day. Nourish your most delicate
sentiments and weave them with the
hours as they glide by. Don't have
ell your poetry in the book case, and
all your music in the piano.
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-oafh hsra injured Nsw Of'esns
The Fs,irrsl Goysrem isi, ny ihe ss5-
siilss rbieh IL GRANTED 10 the Pacific
railways ssJ other lines IN the North
sest. has fhf0vn is iaausnoo sgsinst
the soaib. ssd laigsIr sgsinsi Nsw
Oflesns. 50 far ~ the aecopni Of the
General Government vitb tbs soath
Il concerned. " has not only taken
millions from the Southern states IN
tic process Of war, bot given millions
10 the Western states in the way Of
railroad ENDORSEMENTS. I. IL any won
der, then, that with all these causes 10
operation, an indulgent Government
strengthening the West and beglects
ing, nay, trsnpling the south, there
should be signs Of parol, sis in the
great metropolis Of the Southwest7
Senator Morton Is an eminent
statesman Of the Republican party.
lie Las been the apostle Of repression
and revenge. lie has championed
every infamy or usarpa,ion In the
South that called itself government.
Therefore, when he pronounces New
Orleans a dead city he speaks his own
and that Of his own
party. Dying New Orleans repre-
sents the ignorance, the cupidity, the
Jolly and the crimes of Mr.. Morton's
party. But We are confident he has
passed too harsh a judgment. New
Orleans may suffer temporary de-
preston, syncope from war and
reconslrnction," but there are cle-
menls of strength and glory about
the old town which even the war and
can not destroy.
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What Shall We Do TO Save
New Orleans.

New York Herald
Senator Morton is reported as say>
ing to the reporter Of Western
newspaper that New Orleans Is
dead city; that it has lost its oppor.
tunity; that 81. Louis, Galveston and
en- Chicago have reached out and
ROBBED il of its former trade priv
eges, and that no amount of good
government can restore il. We have
had many stories Of this kind from
the Crescent City, and we confess that
'othing since the siuce the war has
distressed US more than the blight
that seems to have fallen upon New
Orleans. Ii il one of the most inters
es,ing of our cities. 1t has Cont,
mental quality that none Of the Others
possess. lis roots extend into other
soils ehan the Cavalier or the Puri.
tan.
New Orleans, French in its origin,
and at one time under the control Of
the Spauiards, has always shown the
influence of France and Spain. There
is something OF Paris ia the spright-
illness and taste of the people; in the
chivalry, which does not even now
diedain the duello; in the merriment,
which makes Sunday least day and
not day Of fasting; in the Cal nival
and .Nardi Gras. Every street in the
old city recalls the glory Of the Bour
bon or the ambition OF the Bonaparle.
Before the war it was prodigal, lux.
urious metropolis. The planters look
ed npon a winter visit to New Or
leans as a recompense for hard
seasons work in the cotton field and
sugar house. The mississippi poured
its treasures into its lap. 1t was the
cntreport of Mexico, Cuba and Texss.
There was no city to challenge lis
dominion but Mobile, for Galveston
was little seacoast town that was
scarcely known in the family of cities.
Alone, therefore, far distant from the
other ruling cities, mistress of tie
Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi.
New Orleans rapidly strode along,
and before the war had perhaps as
much wealth for her population as
any city in the republic.
Even now New Orleans is ninth in
the list OF cities, if we may take the
figures of the census Of 1870. Ii then
reported l91 900 population and 3d.
656 dwellings-somelhing more than
San Francisco and less than Cincin-
natl. The latest authority as to lis
commerce, Edward King. in his valu>
able and Interesting work on ''The
Great South" shows still many signs
of prosperity. The last reported cot
ton crop, 1872 70, was q hundred
thousand bales larger than the year
before the wal. The total value of
the imports in New Orleans for the
same year was more than one huns
dred millions and the exports over
six hundred millions. More than one
third Of the cotton passed through
New Orleans. This is q source of
enormous wealth alone. 1t 10 hard
hard to think that a city should be
dead, or In any apprehensions Of
death, that sends out from its port
more than six hundred millions OF
dollars year.
There ara of conrseL many reasous
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YIELD A LITTLE.-It is better to
yield little than TO quarrel a great
deal. The habit Of standing up as
people call it. for their Qittle) rights
is one OF the nost disagreeahle and
undigni6ed in the world. Life is too
short for the perpetual chickering's
which attend such a disposition I; and
unless very momeptous affair in
deed. where other peoples claims and
interests are involved, it is question
if it is not wiser, happier and more
prudent to yield somewhat OF more
precious rights than squabhle to main
tain them. True wisdom is first pure,
then peaceable and gentle.