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DIR. LeConte, in Popular Science
Monthly, remarks that much of what is
classed as instinct in the lower animals is
really intellection. In many of the lower
forms of animals, it is true, there are ac-
lions which seem not the result of either
the experience of the individual or the
education of its parents, who frequently
die before the Matching of the offspring.
There actions have been grouped togeth-
er, whether simple or complex, as d.
rected by what is called instinct, as OPP
posed to reason. Yet there is every gra-
dation between the two.
Among the various races of dogs we
observe not only reasoning powers of
rather high order, but distinct traces of
moral sentiments like to those of the hu
man race. So in wild animals which
have been tanned. You will reply that
these qualities have been developed by
human education; but not so. There
must have been latent capacity in the
brain to receive the education and to
uidLllesG IiiV ieSullS ny ehC hiouiho"eioii
of the habits. Now, it is because we are
vertebrates, and the animals of which we
have spoken are vertebrates, that we I'M
derstand, though imperfectly, their men,
tai processes, and can develop the pow
ers that are otherwise latent.
THE VALUE OF AN Empress.
people are willing to pay for the acquisi-
ton of honors, but Queen Victoria, it
seems, must be paid for accepting honors
conferred. A short time since she init
mated, through her plant minister, Dis
raeli, to her servile parliament her desire
to assume an imperial title. Her wish
was Immediately acceded to. But she
discovers now that an additional salary
of million dollars year will be neces-
sary to sustain becomingly the dignity of
the new title. And she is right. If the
title of empress of India is worth having
for the English people, it is surely worth
paving for. Why, there must have been
fully million dollars worth of ink shed
already by the English press in portray
ing all the glories and advantages that
the title of empress is calculated to pro-
duce. If they wish an empress they
| must pay for her, and leave the valuation
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DR.. SCHENcK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, SEA WEED
Tonic, AND MANDRAKE PILLS.-Thcse medicines
have undoubtedly performed more cures OF Con-
sumption than any other remedy known to the
American public. They are compounded of vege-
table ingredients, and contain nothing which can
be injurious to the human constitution. Other rem
edies advertised for Consumption probably
contain opium, which is a somewhat dangerous drug
in all cases, and taken freely by consumptive
patients it must do great injury; for its tendency
is to coniine the morbid matter In the system,
which, of course. must make impo ssible,
sSchenck's Pulmonic Syrup is warranted not to con-
tain particle of opium 1t is composed of powerful
but harmless herbs, which act on the lungs, liver
stomach, and blood, and thus correct all morbid
sercetions and expel all the diseased matter from
the body. These are the only means by which Con-
sumption can be cured, and rs Schenck's Pulmonic
Syrup Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills the
only medicines which operate in this way. i. is
obvious they the only genuine cure for Pulmon-
AIRY Consumption. Each bottle of this invaluable
medicine is accompanied by full directions. DIR.
chenck is professionally at his principal Office cor
ner Sixth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, every
Monday, where all letters for advice must be adj
dressed. a.
Ell. HART& CO., Nos. 70, rs and II Tchoupi-
toulas St, New Orleans, Wholesale Agents.
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into the cork of the two-gallon jar. Cut
some sponge into narrow strips; soak
them in good oil, free from smell or ran
cidity, put the strips into the small vial,
turn it upside down, and put the neck
into the bung of the large jar Place
them in the sun for four days, and the
heat will distill the rose leaves and the
aroma will ascend and saturate the oil in
the sponge. Put in fresh leaves about
four times, and you will have a small
vial of the finest otto of roses that can
be made, and in quantity sufficient to
scent the clothes and handkerchief of a
family for a year. Pure otto of roses
cost thirty dollars per ounce. BE sure
and keep it we'll corked or it will evapor-
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GENERAL MARKET REPORT.
M EN- PIIIS,

Flour SIS 75as.oo per Dbl: Cornmeal dull kiln
dried per hhl: 50 s5a2 .. Corn quiet mixed, per
mixed. per bushel. Isa5oc; white, 4sa5oc. Bran,
light demand, s5a9Oc Hay, choice western per
x15ooaIs co. Bacon (Isosel higher shoulders
Size; clear rib sides. 1lalakc; clear sides, 1114a
III lac; breakfast. l3Lsal4e; sugar curei hams
Va ssed nominal packed, 1sal4c higher. Dry salt
meats iair demPnd sho.lders, 719e; clear rib rib
81 90 Lard, in tierces, 1254al4c. Whisky, s5casi
CHICAGO.
Flour steady with fair demand. Wheat active
f, m and higher; No. st06A Corn easier; No.
s0ssc. Pork active and higher, sl9al91O. Lard
in gT nd demand and a shade higher, 10a11'. Bulk
mes Is in fair demand and higher, 1o4c. Whisky
SI.O3-
FIo.1r dull; extra, s6.75a7.5o. Wheat inactive
10. Corn white 4se; mixed ni a. DC e Oats white
7i5a1ONc. Bacon, sa1l15c; hams. 13al3c. Lard,
l3%alg14c. Whisky, 1.Ol.
ST. LOUIS.
Flour dull. Wheat higher for best Grnde>; Fo. .
red winter, IL Corn iair ae'iYr and shade
t3lm No 10 sa1zc, WHISKY 1oS PORK finn
jobbing at 1000.
CINUINNATs.
Fl,ur Quiet. Wheat inactive, LOCAL 20 Corn
4ia45c Oats csa35c- Pork 1850 Lard lO1sa11c ;
Kettle. isnisl4c Bulk meats 7aIo1lc. Bacon So
He. Whiky. o.
~ NEW ORLEANS.
Flour G5oa7.5o. Corn 65a10c Oats i-c Corn
meal 30 Hay $3.50: choice. 90 Oo, Pork 20 5oa
IIsIc Whisky /. IOaI.II. Coffee 15Iaa1Sf,c-
COTTON MARK FITS.
New Mildlias ne.
MORRILL, Middling lie.
.-MiddlingI11ac.
NEW YoEK.-Mid'lling l2c.
ST LorIs.-Middling
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SOUTHERN NEU.S.


SEVERAL dozen wooden-bottom confeder-
ate army shoes, relics of the civil ear, are
displayed in Lynchburg, Va, store. The
News says the leather is of good quality; ;
the bottoms, of hard wood, are bound with
iron.
GEN. HAERY HETH has accepted the COM
maud of the southern division of the centen-
NAL legion, which was resinged by Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee.
Hon. \. III. STEPHENS hopes to take his
seat i'll congress on July l.
SOUTH CAROLINA planters have purchased
since the first of March, this year, fully 3OO,-
600 bushels of western corn.
ONE year ago Kinble county, Texas, had
but dozen persons located within its
limits; now it has eight hundred inhabitants.
MCDEvITT, county treasurer of Eedgefield
county, South Carolina, has fled the state,
carrying off with him 100000 of the peoples
money.
Mrs. JEANETTE WHEELE, living in IF
iingham county, Ga, is one hundred and
twenty years of age, and vet she retains the
power of her mind and body to a remarka
BILE extent.
A CITIZEN of Lee county, Texas, visits
the centennial with a large collection OF
snakes, centipedes, tarantulas, scorpions,
horned frogs and other specimens oil the
reptiles and insects of Texas.
THE Rome (Ga.) Courier tells the follow.
ing: A party of gentlemen having sat down
to dinner, one of them, Col. Waddell, was
asked to say grace, and, bowling his head
said: "Lord, ma Ike us honest and rich
An editOr who was present promptly re-
sponded: "Amen. Give the colonel the
former and thy humble servant the latter, as
thou seest We need, and do it quickly"
The small grain crop from Dallas to Mine
ola, Texas, along the line of the Texas and
Pacific railroad, will show a most satisfacto
nv yield. The acreage this season as com.
pared with last year was increased from nifty
to two hundred and fifty per cent.
l.. j. CARDwELL was murdered and robbed
in Smith county, Tenn, fews days ago. He
was shot three times and his body thrown
into the river, where it foated thirty miles
before it was discovered. The murderer is
unknown.
A SOUTH CAROLINA judge suggests a
novel plan for preventing drunkenness. II
is this: Allow every person to sell as much
liquor as he wishes without license or tax
but require those who wish to drink to apply
for license, and to give notice of such appli
cation by publication for one month in a re.
spectacle newspaper, AID then. in case there
be no valid objection, to enter into good and
sufficient bond for COOL behavior, ETC., be-
fore the license is granted.
THERE is on exhibition at Columbia, South
Carolina, a splendid silver-mounted, gold
plated saber, the property of Gen. w ade Hamp-
ton, said to have been worn by his grandfather
at the battles of CRANKY and Cowpens and on
other fields of the revolution. 1t is a very
handsome weapon, is incased in a sheath of
'tortoiseshell, which is also rich in orna-
mentalion, and would be valuable addi-
ton to the collection of relics to be exhib-
ted at our centennial.
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SOME CURIOUS FOUNTAINS.

At Languedoc, in Switzerland, there
is a spring that flows every day for above
seven hours, and then stops for nearly
FIVE hours, rising each day fifty minutes
later than the preceding one. The Bull
lern, fresh-water spring in Westphalia,
rises with great noise. There is an
other at Colmars, in Provence, which
stops every seven minutes. One of the
most remarkable fountains of ancient
times, was one of which Diodorus Sicu-
lus and Herodotus have transmitted an
account. 1t was called the Fountain of
the Sun, aud was situated near the tenn
pie of Jupiter Ammon. At the dawn of
the day this fountain was warm, rs the
day advanced it became progressively
cool, and at noon it was excessively cold.
At the setting of the sun it became again
warm, aHd continued to increase as the
evening proceeded, until midnight, when
it reached the extremity of heat; as the
morning advanced it grew again pro-
gressively cold. There was fountain
equally curious in the forest of Dodona.
1t was said to have had the power of
lighting torch. At noon it was dry; at
midnight full-from which time it
decreased until the following noon.
Philistratus mentions a fountain that
caused leprosy; Virtruvius speaks of
another, near Zama, in Numidia, that
gave unusual loudness to the voice; we
read of some that caused immediate
death; some. the loss of memory, and
some that restored it. Pliny speaks of
two fountains, one in Judea, the other
in Ethiopia. which, being impregnated
with sulphur, had the property of oil,
with respect to burning. Vitruvius i'm
putes the same peculiarities to river in
Cilicia, and fountain near Carthage.
Some writers mention a spring rising in
Mount Socrate, whose waters boiled
every morning at the rising Of the sun.
At Guilford, in Connecticut, there is Cor
was) fountain, the water of which will
evaporate if corked in bottle ever so
securely.
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PRESENCE OF MIND.

"Dora" was being enacted in a west
ern city where the choice of actors is not
great, and Mary Morrison, on making
her exit to bring on her little Willie of
four years, was shocked to find lubberly
boy of at least fourteen, who must go on,
as no other was to be had. The Farmer
Allen of the play was no doubt equally
shocked 10 see Mary coming upon the
stage with boy nearly as big as herself.
What was worse, the audience began 10
litter. But Farmer Allen was equal to
the emergency, and instead of asking
How old are you, my boy ?" said
How old are you, my strapping fellow?"
probably hoping that the boy would
have the good sense to give an age more
suitable to his size. The boy, however,
with painful fidelity to the book, and in
a sepulchral voice that made the answer
more preposterous, said: I" -Four TO five,
grandpapa." "Forty-five r' exclaimed
the other cheerfuIly; you look it, my
boy, you look it, There was lau Oh at
the moment, but the play was saved from
shipwreck.
From Fort Abraham Lincoln comes
the story of fresh discoveries of limitless
goldfelds in the Deadwood region of the
Black Hills, where the impecunious can
shovel up gold at the rate of several cart
loads day. In view of the existing
difficulty of pettino tn the Deadwood
country, it looks as if the parties who
communicate this intelligence were in
close partnership with the Indians i'm
the scalp business. The road 10 Dead
wood is watched very carefully by the
knife and and rife bearing Sioux Indians.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01

cultural gardens, in Honolulu, which
measured twenty-eight and a half inches
in circumference This rose bush blooms
only once year, and the blossoms are
nearly all of an equal size. The bush
was brought from England in early days,
and from it a greater portion of the
bushes in the island have been raised.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01
From the Toledo Blade.
Speciali1es In Medicine.

We publish on our eighth page lengthy
article describing the system of the noted
specialist, DIR. e. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y,
in which he sets forth with considerable force
and clearness his reasons for devoting his
whole time and attention to a single depart
ment of medicine-the treatment of lingering
chronic diseases. The same article also takes
up the subjects of diagnosis, methods of con-
'sultation and treatment, etc, and will be
found to contain many valuable hints to the
invalid. DIR. Pierce is the authoE of work
which has already attained a large circula-
ton" The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser" containing some nine hundred
numerously illustrated pages, and devoted to
medicine in all Its branches, work well cal
culated for the guidance and instruction of
the people at large, and which may be had
for 80 post paid) by addressing the author.
DIR. Pierce has now been before the general
public long enough to enable the formation
of a careful estimate of the efficiency of his
treatment and his medicines, and the ver-
dict, we are glad to know, has been univer-
sally favorable to both.
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4 HOME RECIPE FOR Orro OF ROSES

At this time of the year, when SO many
rose leaves fall 10 the ground and are
visited, every lady can, if she chooses,
manu- acture delicious perfume at a
cost of less than fifty cents. and in a few
minutes' time. Take two gallon glass
jar, and fill full of clean, freshly picked
rose leaves. Then cork it tight, and
take two ounce vial and fit the neck
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yESUTIUS NOTES BY GRACE GREEN
WOOD

Grace Greenwood writes from Rome
that those terrible reports of an eruption
of Vesuvius are canards-decoy ducks to
bring in visitors. Old Vesuvius smoked
prodigiously, and now and then seemed
about to spit fire, a streak of dull red
appearing in the columns of white and
gray but all his threatening came to
naught, though everybody, especially
hotel-keepers, swore that an eruption was
imminent. But an eruption is little
more thought of in Naples than the day
of judgment. These easy-going Neapoli-
tans do not anticipate trouble. Only a
few years ago many lives and houses
were destroyed by the lava floods that
poured over large tract of cultivated
mountain side, and devastated the town
of Tore del Greco, but the waste places
are already redeemed and rebuilt. No
sooner does the cruel, treacherous old
monster cease to growl and spit out
fame than these amiable peasants nestle
down against him-warm themselves
and plant vines in the ashes of his de-
structions and coax him to ripen the
grapes by the smoldering fires of his
seeuhing, plotting, wicked old heart. So
skeptical were the ladies of the party
about the threatened eruption they
climbed to the crater itself and gazed
into the mysterious, awful pit. After
the threatenings and the prophecies of
the winter, and the araa courier of an
earthquake, an hour or moment might
usher in the awful event, and the hot
heart of the mountain might leap out at
their feet in a fountain of fire and stones,
two thousand feet high. But is was not
the " fullness of time" The customary
egg was cooked in a jet of steam, few
fragments OF lava were gathered, and the
gay party that had toiled terribly in
climbing up, over a score of dead
eruptions, ran down the horrible steep
decl;vity like live lava streams to their
hotel.
The San Francisco Bulletin SAVE.
The mammoth Roses raised this spring
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01

A New York woman assails, through
the press, the Vermont jury which re-
Gently decided that lager beer is not in
toxicating. Her husband, when not full
of beer, is aquiet and inofiensivt man, but
after drinking beer he becomes "a de-
mon and a ma,Iiac," Notwithstanding
the decision of the twelve Vermontels.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01

One box of DR.. Turrs Pills will save you many
dollars in doctors bills. They will surely cure
Chill and Fever; Dyspepsia; Disordered Liver or
Bowels Sick Headache Jaundice; or Chronic Con-
situation Only % cents.
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WILHoFT's Tonic "A SAFE, SURE
AND SCIENTIFIC E!-The unprecedented
sale Of this world-renowned medicine proves
incontestably that no remedy has superseded
the use of this reliable Tonic. No spleen has,
been found so hard as not to yield to its
softening influence, and no liver SO hyper
trophied as not to give up its long-retained
bilious secretIons, and no Chill or Fever has
yet refused to fall into line. &. r. FINLAY
.& Co. Proprietors, New Orleans.
for SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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VEGETINE purifies the blood, renovates
and invigorates the whole system. Its medi-
cal properties are Alternative, tonic, solvent
and diuretic.
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II those who taking these medicines for euro
slow may be the feel better" and find their
era improving their esh and weight increasing
keeping its 1t is sign that the cure is
progressing In these diseases the patient either gets
better worsethe virus of the disease Is not inactive
arrested and driven from the blood 1t will spread
and continue to undermine the constitution As soon
rs the SARSAPARILLIAN makes the patient
crease in health. strength and flesh;
threaten death-as in Consumption of the Lungs and
Tuberculous Phthisis, Scrofua, Syphilod Diseases.
Wasting Degeneration and liberation of the Kidneys
Diabetes Stoppage of Water instantaneous relief at
have to be used thus Doing away
with painful operation of using these instrumental
dissolvng in tho bladder, and in all cases Of
hammntion of the Bladder and Kidneys, In Chronic
In tunors nodes hard Jumps and syphilod ulcers In
dropsy and throat and in tubercles
Of the lungs govt, dyspepsia, rheumatism, ricketts,
depOsits-it Is in these terrible forms of
disense, where the human body has become complete
and where hour of existence is torture,
great remedy challenges the establishment
admiration of the sick 1t s In such where
all the pleasures Of existence appear cut on from the
unfortunate and By its wonderful. almost suPen.tur.l
agency It restores the hopeless to life and new
where this great remedy stands alone in its
might and power.
In the ordinary skin diseases that every
few bottles In the aggravated forms, work per-
manent
Those afflicted with chronic diseases should purchase
a package CONTAINING one dozen bottles. Price $40
doztn or b half dozen bottles, u bot
tie. Sold by druggists.
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IF Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is
half as valuable as people say it is, no family
should be without it. Certainly no person,
be he lawyer, doctor, minister, or of any other
profession, should start on journey without
it. No sailor, fisherman, or woodsman should
be without it. In fact, it is needed wherever
there is an ache, sprain, cut, bruise, cough or
cold.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-01

CHAPPED hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, ialtrheum, and other cutaneous affec
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap Be care
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
Il Co., New York, as there are many imita-
tons made with common tar, all Of which
are worthless.
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If you have any form of ague, no mat
4er how obstinate, or how much other medi-
cine you have taken to no purpose, Shallen-
berger's Pills will cure you. Price one dollar.
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DIR. RAILWAYS
SarsapariIlian
Resoivent,
TIE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.

Good spirits, disappearance Of weakness, lsnguof
melancholy; increase and hardness of flesh and mus
cles ETC.
Strength increases. appetite improves. relish tor
gestion calm and undisturbed Sleep awaken fresh and
vigorous.
Disappearance spots blotches pimpes the skis
locks clear and healthy, the urine changed from its tuf
bid and cloudy appearances a clear sherry ambf
color passes freely from the bladder through II
urethra without pain scalding; LITTLE no sedmen
no pain weakness
Involuntary weakening discharges W Afflicted that wayl
exhibited the secretng glands and functional har-
Yellow tinso on the white Il the eyes, and the suar.
thy saffron appearance of the skin changed to clear
s. Those suffering from weak Or liberated lungs
freely the tough phlegm from the ungs air
cells bronchi wndpipe, throat head; diminishing
of the frequency of cough general OF strength
throughont the system stoppage of night sweats and
shoulders, etc. cessation of cold and chs sense OF
suocaton hard breathing and paroxyee of cough on
lying down arising in the morning. All these distress
ING sTad. d., and s1Esy d:sHR11
blood mpres in strength and purity disease will d.
tumors, hard Jumps resolved away and
the unsound made sound and healthy; ulcers fever
sores. syphic Sores chronic skin diseases gradually
disappear
Merry Quicksilver, Corrosive Submate (the princi
pal constituent in the advertised Sarsapaas assocat
ed in with Hyd of Potassa) have accumulat
cd and become deposited in the bones joints ETC..
contortions white swengs. varcose veins. etc, the
poss and the virus of the disease from the
system.
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AT our request, Cragin & Co., of Phil
adelphia, Pa, have promised to send any
of our readers gratis (on receipt of Is
cents to pay pc stage), sample of Dob
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The San Francisco Bulletin saws:
The mammoth r''ses raised this spring
in the west addition are eclipsed by
foreign production. On good authority
it is stated that a rose was recently
plucked from bush at the royal hort
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to herself, too. By and by they will
have to pay for an emperor, and then, in
due time, prepare to salary for half the
sons of Jove. Perhaps, after while, the
English people will find out the monar-
ehy is a magnificent institution-to get
rJd of
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The raising of money for what is
called ga skirmishing fund.-" with which
O'Donovan Rosa promises to secretly
harass England, proceeds more rapidly
than would be supposed possible. The
Irish World, in its last issue, acknowl-
edges the receipt of 81 300 within week,
and prints the names and residences of
the givers, who are mostly factory opera
tives and other laborers in the small
cities. Women and children are in
'cluded. Rosa is in California, making
speeches and soliciting subscriptions, and
the San Francisco papers denounce him
as fraud.