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4 CON7ENTED SPIRIT.

\ New Hampshire boy, now resi-
dent Of Wisconsin, called at Manchester
on his way home to his native town the
other day. He was fine scholar, a
graduate of Dartmouth, and a law
student in Merrimac county. Just
previous to his admission to the bar he
took a severe cold, which rendered him
very deaf, and no medical skill was able
to restore his hearing. This affiiction
compelled him to give up his chosen
profession, and he went west very much
broken down in spirits. For ten years
he has been farming, cultivating about
two hundred acres of prairie, and, as he
expressed it, making q good living and
sailing down something every year"
And he declared TO us that if, knowing
what he now knows, lie was to begin hi:
active life over again, he would do ju5
as he was compelled to do SO unwillingF
ten years ago that is, he would thros
aside his profession and settle down on
farm. Said he to u.s.
"There isn't much glory on hlin'
but you get good sure living. leu
are your own master; you can't stafYe
nor be turned out of business; and as lar
as the work is concerned, in these Gays
of horse power a man needn't kill himself
farming any more than at any o.lef
business. It's brains that win on iarll
as wellas everywhere else, and the smart
man is going to ride while the stup'u one
goes aloot, in the cornfield as well as ID
the bar or pulpit. Ishould ike 10 nave
my hearing again, but would not leave
nv farm if | had il"
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coon EFEsIGHT.


There are many causes which tend TO
impair the healthy vigor and radiant
beauty of the eye Among these causes
are the following: insufficient sleep,
severe study, writing and reading by
gaslight, reading in bed, painting the
eyelids. i'll health. We see the fires OF
alcohol in the eyes as well as on the nose
of the drunkard. All kinds of excesses
are sure to be reflected in that delicate
and sensitive organ, the eye. No person
can violate the physical laws and escape
the penalty. Nature is arbitrary in her
legislation, and makes no exceptions IN
the measure of her punishments. II the
king gets drunk, he will have redness OF
eyes, Notwithstanding the royal bleed in
his viens. If the beggar keeps good
hours, and obeys the physical laws, she
will have clear and handsome eyes
brighter than the diamonds flashing II
the queens coronet. 1t is Physiological
fact that plain food, abundant rest, and
cheerful temper, are the principal aids
III the staff of health, and that gooo
health insures good eyesight.
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MIXING 4 Fo0L OF ONES sELE

Making a fool of ones self is with
many people part Of their educational
experience in life. Once brought to the
experimental realization OF the fact, one
is apt to be wiser ever after.
A man generally makes a fool Of lIm-
self by wasting his money, or going into
some mad speculation, or believing in
mines and companies that are but tiaps
for the unwary, or by losing his temper
al a critical moment.
A woman manages to do the same
thing through the means of her tongue
or her heart She talks herself into
tribulation, OF she gives her love to some
worthless creature who becomes the bane
of her life.
It is over his empty purse that man
generally stands and clenches his hands,
aud mutters, GIVE made fool Of my
self" It is over her empty Ieart that
a woman usually walls forth the same
words
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MORE ZIG BLASTS.

Gen. Newton's next blasting opera
tions will he the completion Of the work
already begun at Flood Rock, which
stands out in the center of the river,
directly off Hallett's reef. This win be
a much more vast undertaking than the
one which has just proved TO have been
so successfully carried out, as Hallett's
reef is only three acres in extent, and
Flood Rock has an area of seven acres.
Already Gen. Newton has blasted out
the shaft, and has begun two headings
and one cross-heading. How long it
will be before we are treated to another
expIosion it is impossible to say, as it de-
pends entirely on the liberality Of con-
gressional appropriations. The public,
however, viii be more inspired to sup
port expenditures for such purposes, now
that Gen. Newton has been 20 successful,
and. having tasted the excitement OF
dynamite explosions, and found 1t safe
and pleasant, New Workers, at least, will
be apt to banker after more.-Neio HorL
Times.
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WHAr HE WANJED.

81 bought some bologna sausage mere
this morning" said round shouiuereu
individual, with a mole under MS ieit
ear, on entering Bucks store, lue9uay
night, "and when got it home no' one
of my folks would touch it.
"What was the trouble Y pon'ely III
auired the dealer, putting on an anAi'us
look.
"There was a cats paw with four toes
attached in it," said the man.
"Is it possible?" queried the uea'ei
with surprise. Well, all | can say Is
that I have bought my sausage Oh 'ae
same firm now for fifteen years and
never had anything of the kind nappen
before. How much did you pay ioi II Z
Eighteen cents" replied the man,
WE'LL" said the dealer making ioi
the money drawer, " I am very sorrS
and will refund the price OF II Il ina
will be satisfactory ?"
"Oh, no." said the man, oidn
speak of it expecting to get my none.
back. I know it wasn't your iaui''
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q. CONG 70 VAR -



The man who wants to 60 TO It. Pc
tersburg and enlist in the Russian army
to fight the Turks was at the Central
depot yesterday to see about his railroad
ticket. With his hat on his left ear,
pants in boot tops, overcoat belted
tightly around, and a fierce twist 10 his
mustache, he walked up to the ticket
window and asked:
DWhat time does the train leave for
Russia
Give o'clock" answered the agent,
neyor smiling in the least.
Good What's the fare to st. Pc
tenburg?"
"Five hundred dollars"
"Too much. I'll give you S400.
We have but one rate, said the agent.
"And you won't let me 60 for s40O."
Couldn't do it."
''Then 1 won't go. I'm patriot from
head to foot, but l can't let no railroad
swindle me. I'm the bloodiest kind of a
border wild cat, and Russia wants me
bad, but. that hundred dollars opens a
,s55s4uss r ell .betr-reR VS.
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shrubl,ery answered the songs, ana To-
midnigh. to morning both wild ana 49,
birds sang away as if in emulation.
,yYDGg PrrMAA,s B0I


JudrE Pitman's boy Bill, says ene
Philadelphia Bulletin, acquires learn
ing in a log school-house. Al e.
place the plaster between the logs =
broken away, and through this aperture
Bill endeavored TO escape feet teEenOs'
during school hours one day last summer, !,
Unfortunately he stuck fast When hs'i
way through, and he could neitler "
turn nor retreat. = When the attentlono'
Mr.. Shines, the teacher, was directed z
the culprit, Mr.. s'Imes proceeded 20 "
exterior of the edifice and embraced Fl q
opportunity afforded by William pos
tion haauer him with 2 sllsnele.. as.s
young Mr.. Pitman was pulled out ah@
plunged into sums in vulgar fractions.
Near the school-house there is mill-raee,
at the end of which there is a sluice-gate.
Immediately below the gate there is a
huge, deep tank, which carries the water
to an undershot wheel. The inside of
the tank is green and Shiny, and when
the water is drawn carefHlly out Of t, 4
great many fish can often be found lying
at the bottom. The tank Is fifteen feet
deep. A few days after the fogging,
Bill happened to pass the tank and TO
lool, in. He saw Mr. Shines at the bottom
picking up fish and putting them in a
bag. William felt that the hour of
vengeance had struck He turned the
handle Of the sluice-gate, and in less than
minute that Jolly old pedagogue was
foundering in six feet Of water, trying
to Chamber up the Shiny sides ofthe tank.
When he saw young Pitman, he shrieked
to him for help. But Bill, with fiendish
cooIness, said: &" No, sir; you've got to
tread water till you promise never to
lick me again" Then Shines solemnly
pledged himself never to strike another
blow at him, and Bill let the water from
the tank and helped Shines out That
night. when Bill got home, be found
Shines there conversing with the judge,
and five minutes after the judge was
fondling William with a trunk strap,
while Shines sat by and smiled. William
has since expressed the opinion conf
dentially that Shines is . perfdious scoun-
3val
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FRESH FROM PIRTS.
New York Cor. st. Louis Republican.

r HE.
Let me tell you how young lady,
fresh from Paris, from a London season,
and no end of high popularity with
someof the English swells, was dressed
yesterday in Broadway This young
woman wears Paris made costumes; it
is to be presumed that she is quite in
style, as she is of cur new rich people,
and very ambitious socially.
She had on black velveteen skirt
founced, a green cloth polonaise made
very long, and perfectly plain, save for
some red silk buttons Her round hat
was very high, with long black feathers
dropping over it; her gloves black,
stitched with red, and her collars, cuffs,
and handkerchief edged with embroidery
of red. Her hair Drown when she went
away, now pale gold color was in gold
colored net, at the back of her neck, or
on her back, tied with a red ribbon. No
crinoline at all-Dot even s. suspicion OF
it. like our American modes better
we have red and green, in abundance,
but not quite such a range for these pro
nounced colors rs our friends oyer the
water have. White ivory ornamets arc
much in vogue--also carved shell orna-
ments. Chatelaine watches of silver
shells, and jet, are much worn.
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CLIMBING 4N U&EXPLORED WOCN-
TIN.


Hazard Stevens, in the November At
lantic, gives this startling account of his
ascent of Mount Rainier
-Four hundred yards of this progress
brought lis to where the rock ioined the
overhanging edge of the vast mere or
snow-feld that descended from the dome
Of the mountain and was from time to
time, as pressed forward and downward,
breaking OF in immense masses, which
fell with a.noise rs Of thunder into the
great canyon on your left. The junction
of rocl; and ice afforded our only line OF
ascent. It was an almost perpendicular
gutter, but here our ice-axe came into
play, and by cutting steps In the zee and
ayailiug ourselves OF every creylce or
projecting point of the rock, we slowly
worked your way up two hundred yards
higher. Failing stones were continually
coming down, both from the rock on our
right and from the ice in front as it
melted ana relaxed Its hold upon tnem.
Mr.. Van Trump was Int by small one,
and another struck ms stat from bis
hands Abandoning the rock, then 81
the earliest practicable point, we as
cended directly up the ice, cutting steps
for short distance, until we reached ice
so corrugated, or drawn up IN sharp PIN
uacles, as to afford q tootho!d. These
folds or pinnacles were about two or
three feet higa, and half rs thick, and
stood close together. II was like a very
violent chop sea, only the waves were
sharper. Up this safe footingwe climbed
rapidly, tue side OF the mountain Decom-
ing less and less steep, aud the ice waves
smaller and more regular, and, after as
cending about three hundred yards,
stood fairly upon the broad dome Of
mighty Takhoma. 1t rose before us
like broad, gently swelling headland
of dazzling white, topped with black,
where the rocky summit projected above
the mere. Ascending diasohaiiy towards
the left, we continued our course lhe
snow was hard and hrm under foot'
crisp and hight Tor an lnch or Two Ou'
solihed INTO ice loot or less OeheaVI
the surface Inc "hoie ilel,' was coEeie',
with the ice-waYeS Always ut7crlOe''' anu
Intersected py 4 huIloer % cteFS's7es
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MINING RASCALITY IN TIE BACK
HILLS.
Denver Tribune.
w~

The Black Hills miners have hit upon
a new expedient for lowering the market
value of mines. A man who manifested
a great interest in a mine discovered
there, descended into shaft, and while
several parties stood at the mouth of the
shaft, he went through the motions of
" sailing" the mine, so that when the
richness of the new mine was made
known, a dangerous report that it was
salted . kept the price down until Mr.
Speculator bought the property, when it
turned out that he hadn't put a single
color in the shaft, but it was all it
was represented 10 be, and more too.
The man who did it ought 10 ruR for
congress.
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r4sn1oT aoss1p.
cloaks are being revived.
shawls of Iceland wool

Velvet cloaks are being revived
Shoulder shawls Qf Iceland wool.
Fish scale brocade- i very fashionable.
Basket ribbon still continues in favor.
Seal skin turbans win be worn this
winter.
Myrtle is the shade Of dark green most
called for.
1lufs made of dres material win be
very fashionable.
Velvet dress skirts viii be very fash
ionable both for stree and ar1i dress
Leaves of dark green, cardinal red,
and brown, without any flowers arc seen.
snhats.
Cloaks are made most entirely eat
Of figured cloths. .Ty few plain cloths
are used.
a-i4.set - "a e..llass i'szi1s'ts's'
shaped among hats that are worn over
the forehead.
Undress kid gloves are much in de
mand, to be worn with walking and car
riage suits.
White Swiss and Valenciennes. lace
fichus are extremely fashionable for
evening wear over colored silk dresses
Black cashmere suits and the square
figured woolens will be trimmed with
galleon braids, fringes and silk pleatings.
Old fashioned China Grape shawls are
utilized to make the upper part Of COS
t,tr,as Thew are worn over skirts of
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disrespect of asking permission only to
fv in the face OF q refusal. say you for
give me, mamma"
ssYou are a wicked headstrong girl,
and hope you won't live to repent
it. As for you, Miss Maybe, beg your
pardon. Since Annie couldn't have
Philip. I'm sure 7 don't care who has him
Just a. well you as any one. So take
him, and be happy -
Thank yon ma'am,' said Miss
Maybe.
The permission was not very gracious,
but Philips ''httle confdenoe-woman y
was grateful for small favors.
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CoaPLExIoy IND CHzRACrER.

At the recent anthropological con-
cress at Jena, Prussia. privy councillor
Schaafhausen read a paper on the color
OF complexion, eyes, and hair. He said
that blue eyes indicate a lack of coloring
matter, which originally proceeded from
inferior nourishment, and was evidence
Of weaker organization than IS pes
sessed by persons of dark eyes. The less
coloring matter there IS. the lighter the
hue Of the eye, until, by reason of its
sItte= absence, <9-a blood vessels 1s<ss
visible, and the eye is red, as is the Sea-e
with the Aibinos. The fact that people
living in the country, other things being
equal. have light-colored eyes more fre-
quently than those living in cities is aC-
counted lor by the inferior nutritive
value OF the vegetable food of the former
a. compared with the meat and beer Of
the people Of the cities. In the ming
ling of the blonde and dark types, the
latter usually shows the greater vitality,
and the children assume the darker COM
plexion. The blonde complexion usually
carries with it a finer organization and
higher and thinner voice. OF sopranos
and tenors, q majority have light colored
eyes and light compilations, while of
most alto singers, and particularly of
baszos, the reverse Is true. The fact
that light hair and eyes are more numor-
Gus in northern and southern countries
Is attributed to the colder climate, which
consumes the pigments of those features.
Dr.. Schaaihausen's conclusions were
based on statistics carefully gathered.
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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1876,

thousands of years after solidifcation
commenced--surface portions Of the
melted material losing heat, freezing and
sinking Immediately, ,eor growing to the
thickness of a few meters where the sur
face would be cool, and the whole solid
dense enough tosink. This process must
60 on until the sunk portions Of crust
build up from the bottom sufficiently
close-ribbed skeleton or frame to allow
fresh ine1ustations to remain, bridging
across the now small areas Of lava pools
or lakes"
This IS a striking picture Of the
growth of the round earth, which was
once supposed to have been made from
the first 80 fast that it can not be
moved" We are rather sorry to be
robbed OF the belief IN tie esatral lava
sxSean sfte-
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EOT NiTCRE.


1 have thought that the boy is the
only true lover of nature, and that we
who make such a dead set at studying
and admiTipg her come very wide Of
the mark. The nonehalance IF a boy
who is sure Of his dinner" says our
Emerson. IS the healthy attitude Of
humanity" The boy is II part Of ma
tllre; L. l. as ia3iiIasS,, > ,--s-G=yllles
vaerant as she. He Etowses, he digs, he
hunts, he climbs, he Aalloes, he feeds on
roots, and greens, and mast. Tie uses
things roughly and without sentiment.
The ooolness with which boys viii
drown dogs or cats, or hang them to
trees, or murder young birds, or torture
frogs or squirrels, ike natures own
mercilessne-=.
Certain 1t is that we often get some Of
the best touchosof nature from children.
Childhood is a world by itself and we
listen TO children when they frankly
speak out Of it with strange interest.
There is such a freedom from responsi-
bIllLy and from worldly wlsdom-it is
heavenly wisdom. There Is no sentiment
in children, because there Is no ruin;
nothing has gone to decay about them
yet-not q leaf or twig. Until he Is well
into teens and sometimes later, = boy IS
like a bean pod before the fruit has de
veloped-iGdefnite, succulent, rich in
possibilities which are only vaguely out
lined. lie Is q pericarP, merely How
rudimental are all his ideas, I know a
boy who began his school composition on
swallows by saying there were two kinds
of swallows-chimney swallows and
swallows
Girls come to themselves sooner; are
indeed from the first more definite and
% translatable" "-GaIary.'
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A colored man in Virginia was
walking out one morning before break
fast, and discovered fawn lying asleep
near spring. Softly approaching he
seized it, and hosting it on his shoulder,
started for home. But the fawn set up
piteous bleating, and the tables were
very unexpectedly turned by the ap-
pearance of a very formidable buck, iol-
lowed by doe, the first of which charg-
ed to the rescue so suddenly that he
abstracting portion of the colored gen.
tIeman's coat as he was tumultuously
ascended tree. Then the enraged ami
NAL watched for two hours under that
tree. but at the end of that time went
away, and the man descended softly and
skipped homeward.
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TREgENDOUS WIR PREP4R4TI0NS
IN TRANCE.

France, the destruction Of whose inn
perial army we hailed as the promise Of
disarmament, is now organizing an army
by the side Of which Napoleon's himsy
battalions were q mere train band.
Every Frcnchman who is not positively
crippled or inyalided now belongs to the
army for five years between the ages Of
twenty and twenty-nine; not all serve
this length Of time, a certain proportion
who are drawn by lot hr.ng furloughed
after six months service; another class
in pursuit of a liberal education get oft
by volunteering for one year. passing an
examination in their studies and paying
Communication money Of $500. Then
there are the ''reservists," so-called, the
older men, who are supposed 20 have
graduated from the active army.
One in two years the reservists meet
and drill for a fortnight They have
Just been under drill, the men being
called out in the same order as if
the present organization had been
in force for some years. Nine corps of
10000 men each have thus been under
drill, many Of them veterans Of the last
war, but strangers to the new arm (the
fjsI gras) which has been adopted since
they were in the field. A third grand di-
vision is the territorial army" or men
from thirty TO forty years Of age, who
sro only TO be called out in the defense
Of the district in which they are enrolled.
The whole male population are given
legal status as belligerents, in order to
protect them from any OF those scruples
which led the Germans, it is said, to
shoot citizens in the defense of their
homes because they were irregulars.
But, practically, every man from twen-
t. to forty years Of age is a part of the
g
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D4uaars roE rHE nirE or 1 Doo.


Sew York Times.
A suit brought by young and rather
f5reIs5ssessing grit named Jdlfa Lynch,
to recover s., 500 for injuries received by
the bite of dog, was tried before Judge
Van BruRt and jury in Part II Of the
court of common pleas yesterday. The
defendant was Patrick McNally, the pro-
prietor Of "a store on Grand street. It
appeared from the evidence that Miss
Lynch, accompanied by the other girls,
was on her way home at about 9 p. IN.
un March first last, As they passed
McNally's store, they saw the latter's
dog. big newfoundland, sitting in front
of the door, and the plaintiff playfully
offered he brute some candy. The dog
immediately sprang.: upon her, and fas-
tening his teeth in her arm above the
elbow inflicted an ugly wound. The girl
was taken 10 the station house, where
her wounds were dressed by 2 surgeon,
and She was then conveyed to her home.
lie was confined to her bed for three
months in consequence Of her injuries.
At the trial yesterday, DR.. Ensign, who
attended the girl, gave testimony as to
the wound she had received, and limited
at the possibility Of hydrophobia setting
in. The plaintiff herself was-put on the
stand, and, barring her arms, showed
large scar still remaining from the bite.
Several policemen testified that the dog
had bitten other persons besides the
plaintiff The defendant claimed that
the dog was good-natured and inoffen-
sive, except when molested and worried
by strangers. The jury, after short
deliberation, returned a verdict in the
plaintiffs favor for 81 500. Frank J.
Dupignac appeared for the plaintiff and
Matcom Cambell for the defendant.
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CAsT-IRoN car-wheels are the subject
OF a COZ troversy between the Swiss rail-
roads. One company has recently begun
10 use them under its freight cars; the
other refuses to permit cars with such
wheels to pass over its line, condemning
them as unsafe, to the great disadvantage
of through traffic from the connecting
road. An appeal was made to the Swiss
railroad department, and that body has
referred it to the council of the confeder-
acy. In the arguments made so far we
have seen no mention of the fact that
cast iron wheels are used almost exclu-
sively: for passenger as well as freight
trains, on seventy-fve thousand miles
o. American railroads, and that accidents
from wheel brea1age are decidedly rare.