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$1,000 Dis, Col 3 65'. 72x 100 shs Chi 4 NV pf.,
COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON i: SPOT FIRM, AND l-l6c HIGHER
FUTURES l-32C TO l-SC. HIGHEH-FLoUR
DULL AND nEAvY-wHEAr DULL AND NoMI-
Malcolm QUIET BUT sTEADY--oATS QtIET-
wHIsKEY FIRM-PoRK DULL AND LOWER
LARD DULL AND LOWER - PErRoILuM
fIRMER-sPIRlTs TURPENTINE FIRM--RosIS
QUIET-oIIS srEADY--CorFEE FIRM-sUGAR
sTEONG-FREIGHTs IGgEGULAR.
TUESDAY. August 15-6P NJ.
The market remained very dali rs general rule ant
values were irregular. On Change -four was dull and
heavy. Wheat dull and entirely nominal Corn
was quiet but steady. Oats were quiet Whiskey was
armcr. Pork and lard were duh, unsettled and do
cdedly lower. Freights fairly active Cotton on the
spot was Lice higher. Futures were l-32c. &c
higher. Col hrm. sugar was strong oils were
steady. Petroleum frmer Rosn quiet and steady
Spirits turpentine firm.
quiet at 5Ac. 5>ac. for pots. Pearls were
entirely nominal, Mt exc n 7c
ASrlaoxY quiet at l5isc. l59lc., gold.
BNxswAx quiet. a3c. for Western and Sic. for
Southern
BRoou Com vas neglected and nominal quoted at 4tsc
Sc for red for red.pped aud 7ac SC for mediums
CANDLES quiet and steady We quote :-Sperm 2sc
rperm patent S3c steRrc scid Q6 oz), ale 23c ada
msntne az a. l6 oz), l2c lec paraine as, 6s and
l2's. l9c. n 2oc.
CorrRE.-Thc market for RIO quiet but firm; 235
bags Rio sold at Baltimore Cerene, lie Mid coffee
wa, quiet but steady We uuote Ordinary i4sc
i5c fair DO l61sc l634c good do i7c IKE prime
do. l7sc. 54c: extreme range ios lots. i4&c ls1lc
Santos good. l6ac l7c gold. ninety days Java
government bags 2oc BE; do, grass Zoe BE
Singapore. Isc 2oc.; Ceyon l6lsc. lsc.; Maracabo
l4lc I6llc Laguayra l61ac l7c Jamaica, l5c i7c ;
ST. Domingo l4Isc: Porto Rico 6tac Isc. Costa
Rica Ice 1915. Mexican l5i.c iot Manila. I51,c
n i6Hc. AnxosnrA, l5c. HIS Savsnilla. lie isc
Cnrscns. ! tc u iGIc.
CoopKRAGs srocK-The market steady. bI. un
cnanged quote -Moiasses shocks 32inch with heads
81 90 81 25 shocks with heads, 3sinch: 50 80
81 rs: do. do. 36.inch II % q: box Shocks Zoe.
n SOC rum do, 81: Pipe do.. $6 So 80: empty hogs
heads 81 -: hoops. IL feet. ordinary prime. s3o
xs7; hoops IL ioet do. $50 a S33 per NJ.
sales OF oOJOJJ lbs. Lake at l0ac.
I9isc market closing at lot
ConDAGE was unchanged. We QuOt0 Manila (arge and
small sixcJ per h.. i3c I4ac do cordage. bolt
yarns ltc i7c tarred Manila l4c. Ssa rope. loc
lie: New Zeaand, tkc I2i5c. Russia hemp tRrrod.
i4c American do. lIc.. Russia bolt rope l7c
corToS--rhc market for active and
tatons were marked IJc Future deliveries from
I-32c nc higher the market closing steady the i'm
provenien The closing to-day with Non
fnIln
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from philaaelphi. TO Autwerp or Bremen with 7.7o1

from Phladephia to Antwerp Bremen with 77o)
btls. refined petroleum at IS; British bark 90 arrive
Phade pima Continent lex Dutch with 0.OD bus
Is British ship 10 arrive from Phadeiphia ior
with tbO) hhls. do AT 5s Amsrcan snip
hence 10 Bremen Antwerp, with $500 bbls. do at
Ia ipsi Norwegian bark hence 10 Cork for orders with
tos do n I'd British bark hence Liverpool.
with 800 bbs naphths al rs 4lsd British brig from
Phiadei Uhia the Rsltc with 800 bo refined
6s. German bark and German brig 10 ar
hence the Battle with about 600 bbl do
each private terms. quoted az ds Sd, American
schooner hence London Liverpool with 5000
bbls. do. BE-: American brig hence to Duh
liu. with 1880 bhls do ~ IS: Norwegian bark
hence stockholm with 800 bLs do. os. (:
~ brig Palermo with 100 reiged
petroleum. a5c ana 5000 do to Glipoli 1T 32l,c.
Richmond the Baltic With
1000 bbis Us. German bark. hence G-non Tor
orders discharge there Leehorn Naples. with
500 bhls aud do Sd aud .6t,e
lively German bark hence to the German Battle with
1900 bbls do Us 81 British bark reported
Phlade phia direct Irish porwith soc qs gra
I'D Italian bark thence to Cork Tor ORDERS
with 4 90 qrs do It's British ship laid tho berth
for LONDON at market rates. schooner hence TO st.
Johns N r.. with 800 bL -four. at 81 American
brig 4O5 tons hence Cxdiz with aud back
port, North Hattras, with salt. at a lump sum.
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1nR AMERICAN MINING BOARD.

Al meeting OF tho Executive Committee Of tho
above Board, held to-day for tho first time sub-com
mitiec consisting of the President and Messrs Scott
Foster and Townsend was appointed TO make arrange
ments for permanent board and Offices. 1t was
also determined that the initiation fee. which Is
$780, shall not be changed ursi at least 200 members
have qualified The total number OF applicants at
present is 1877. Applications received from
Francisco to-day for placing some of the active shares
OF that city the list Of the American Board. Tho
Finance and Membership Committee meet again to-
morrow, when thirty new names. some Of them repre-
senting California houses will be posted for member
ship.
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.

GALVESTON. August Is. 1876.
good ordinary 9s4e Net receipts. 7s bales gross So
Nxw ORLEANS August i5 1876.
Cotton arm; midilns ii5sc. low middns ii,.c. good
800. stock, 35.0s5.
Cotton firm: rnidding. lIslc.; low middnr. ios.e, ;
~ss siss ss c 500 Ne; sJss & bale" AA'F'
CHARLESTON. August Is 1876.
io1.c ie good Ordinary s'4e Zoe Net receipts ."
sAvAx.Am August i5 1876.
Cotton steady; mlddlna. ila,, low midiling, lossc :;
aayo
s sar e s4caay n no. sp.es g sos. - 90 ssf "
%hss. QUIET Gii~snsse club. Vi Sla So. white
Corn meal unshsnsed Mqod unshasssd Canal freight,
a.e. es nn
road ,hpmenis-Fiour 800 bbls rain on the canal rom
i2s.oJo bushels. corn. $4,000 do. oats. $1,000 do
BuyFALo August 10. 1879
d oats Railroad
Flour 3 zoo bes wheat 10 ,oo bushels: corn l2op do
sn Tor a' sAss TO- s s%As ss
-4'sad 9 800 Sss wheat S
lGn ;, bushels esr '7olo d." oats laopo do barley
quiet sales 80 bois prices unchanged whc., dull ieh.
prices sales bushels White winter; soo DO No. hard
Corn G No. SSssGsn aoy % % n on
Western oa.s retailns only Rye negleeted Barley
Tor heavy mess Lard auiet A. ic ilighwnes nominal
TOLEDO. August Is. 1873
Flour quiet. Wheat dul No 2 white Wabash. new.
81 II; No do. 81 os No. white Michigan. 81 IL:
No do. 81 OF; extra do new ~ lJ amber Michigan.
spot and August ~ 90: September. 81 O5sa October,
81 o0ta. new. spot, 81 5.; 40 do, new, 81 U2 No =
rod winter 81 ~ No. red, II Ols rejected
red. new. soc No. Amber Illinois, new 81 Ia. Corn
quiet: high mixed, Septembo i91c offered low spot.
held At iec grade IGc damaged. ic Oats duh No.
= new. 3iat. Michig n BE Receipts-7Oo bbis -four,
uOO bushels wheat. $1,000 do. corn, 5000 do ship
ments-,.O Dbs aour, 10000 bushels wheat $4,000 DO
corn
CHICAGO. August Is. 1874
y Flour steady and unchanged Wheat quiet Ard lrmer
s'lse sep'ember; Sole s%se ocsober; No en- Cni.
lending dgwnwars 80 p itsc slo.' iic. ssptem,er be
hrmcr gle a 52e, ,pot Barley stronger; zoe 5sc
weak and lower si7 90 spot; Sl7 IL 81 80 sep'em
ber SO. ali The Lard heavy. unsettled but gem
orally lower; $40 75 spot september 81 37ts all the
Gle 6i.c short rib middles &c. oSc whiskey steady
lreghts unchanged kccciptsFlour. $500 bb!s wheat
1900 bushels. corn 3s7.Uoo DO oats III do rye.
1850 do barley. 80 do Shipments Flour IdOo bbis
wheat i6OpD bushels 63Up % 900 do.
rye. 800 barley. 1860 do the afternoon call Of
the Board Wheat steadier but unchanged Corn Nc n
&c, higher. Oats unchanged Pork heavy and lower
$l7 %. september $i5 90 all tho Lard heavy aud
lower; $40 80 September. 50 30 all the year.
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THE RIVERS DEAD.

An unknown man, ahou, forty years old fount
drowned Oh pier No. East River yesterday morning
He about Ave feet nne inches high. had dark
complexion, hair and mustache, and wore dark
striped pants, gray woollen and cotton undcrshi-A
laced shoes and cotton socks
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The following tho changes in closing prices CON-
pared with those OF yesterday

The following aro tho changes in closing prices COM
pared with those OF yesterday
ApvAxcx--Delaware and Lnokawanna, 1; Hannibal
and ST. Joseph Common, ID Michigan Central, !;
Jersey Central, 81 Land aod Petroleum, u; Rolk
Island u st. Paul, "a do. preferred, u.
DEcLrSE-union Pacific. y Pacific Mail, -; Ohio
and Mississippi, "a; Northwest common, y; do. pre-
ierred, y Lake Shore. 4; Illinois Central =: Erie,
s,s &; Now York Central a; Atlantic aud Pacific pre-
THR MONEY MARKET.
Money on call loans Is sui quoted at and ~ per
ems The following tho rates OF exchange on
New York at the aforementioned cities to-day -Sa-
vannah. y premium; Charleston, scarce, x y
premium Cincinnati, dull lilo discount; New Orleans
commercial, q bank, u Chicago, nomiuay. SO to 60
premium. and ST. Louis so premium. Foreign exchange
was steady for bankers sixty days sterling bills at
LsG4 al 81, and shade easier Tor demand at 4sS. q
1851 The nominal al follows:-
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MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.
MARRIED.

ssELL--BESygrT. On Monday August II, by the
Rev s Weston GEORGE T. BssELL to NELLIE
daughter OF John ". Bennett all OF tins city.
CAMrBKLL--MAIsAc. BY the Rev. Dr. Warner. on
Tuesday August l5 Mr. ROBERT CAxPBELL 10 Miss
MiILiE MARsAc, all of this city.
CoLLiSs-HAsKsLL- --ou Monday. August II, 1875, by
the Rev A. II. Partridge. CHARLES A COLLINS to JULIA
c. HAsSgLI, all OF Brooklyn No cards.
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POST OFFICE REVENUE.

The amounts daily deposited in the New York Posi-
Office during last week folows:-August
SIS 500; August s. 700; August o. S. 100; August TO-
s.. 500; August H. ss 500; August H. IS, 600 Tota
for week, sac 500 THIS desline from the rcceptl
OF the week preceding, which amounted TO $j3, 100
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THE LARUE MYSTERY.
TCONTINUED FROM EIGHTH PAGE. ]

OF poisoning. The Deputy Coroner then placed the
stomach and portions OF the nlostnes Of the deceased
IN stone r sealed and removed to the Coroners
ONCE who're they will be subjected to chemical
analysis few days permit OF burial then
gwen and the body will be taken back to Buffalo to-
night by the dcceased's brother Dir. George Y.
Wuckerman He said that his sister first became ac-
quaintcd with Mrs briggs last Christmas, while the
latter was Ia Buffalo.
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1ncmfnu. Alumni Il

si ,,o Dee S. is9 II i''o
;s ., sss H.s.a ii. 5i: 3 il i
,s,s sis xss Hs, is 8 "a i Z ls isa
SSs,. + s / lass ss.: issi.is
Quotation. are osed on American standard Of ciasaea
IN running II qu.y not more than
oa,a..v M 'gs"a. 1%s"'a. sp j. ,2 2,''a"a 5s Tssa'
81 :::a ::4a.'; lis |'s # i!
S'5;;i Sss'Ss is'i %'''": Il: f. f. F.
.siaiaed.tiocd ordinary. o,c: rrict sood ordinary
10 iide; low middling. 10 ii.iec middIios. II oiec
s''' '"''' "''' ' oay Last x,e"'"y Tas.,
Consumption.............. oi6 20 LAD
Speculation ............. 30 ~
Totals. s.-:...............s 1874 Ola 2.s5s
delivered on contract 500 psics e,
aner one s4i %@Hasass % st. :, l. issss oetersf sS5
@ ;J.sa.ty iSSs 81 ,.. tisss 800 !. s
Short nosire Il isi 300 At i lssie At iass
,:ss's %sas %ss E M ssss Is$:
.l @ II i asgse 80 SeSemssr, 900 a. il.s bsssms.f
i ~ se ,.naAry so !. sssis lnt !, Il
4 sss.s rS' 'o b.e. srand total sgn bales les
New Orieafs iuy Mobile is; savannah. 40 Charleston
nj SD:' 3 o,a sr ss. ss.' M rh 1,9 d.y 1 as woo @
. day ,;s . . s ao.sa .'s an s,s y
steam &c. compressed; TO Hamburs by steam. ysc com
pcc Sr s. ss ~ @ sd 20 Liver
DRUGS Ac.-rne market was generally quiet, bnt there
. sI colo IN bond Job To- LOT. we're selling a. y, 20 eur
quoted at sse. gold or D. O., ase a SOC. gold. Tor
second English and Css lots at 'qs e, ..sna s essn.y sns
There was qnte movement on The othsr sae ana ma
ssfs s i:':sd I q + 81 S % Yss'. s f'
c.msssi & va. .sssds a7e .';s rsnsd Cd
d. sad n ana
& 's 'ss isr and @ o'c ,oed ns iAs s,y "rr n
iI.s S?. .. %. S.nsrs. n..sn ss,a hsa =
Guarsna wa. entirely nominal a, 81 SO !. 80 Manns
:%. = .'i' 'sS f,ss i,s. * ''s'a @
= a' at go vos. ps. 'sa % ous cassh ss aas'
soaaaiiy s,ehroma,s posa'h was dali a. lae Sal am
Wsisc. ale Gambler qaet At 5.sc gold EPSON sa,s
we're ~ i., demand s &C. sos w .eeora"r 60 .sy
Gen,,an root was nrn at o,c Uass- ouds were quoted
ana si lie iar % po~ssree Gum nee Ssas. s. ss
SEE cr can.ry .u orange pee, o"s, =,
.S,sc. Venice tupen,ns was duii AZ he iye Castillo
rrvs. and aM.en's. pure notified :. ,os GOD so pnd
SS ana size ST. ar so. :s QUINN. is'ax
%ss Sue s.Tsi a:sas Isrsa,ss ,, "a, "a;
At - a. bulk and - 50 5. ! Alum-LumD wAs
bed atIkc 2Ac- Chlorhte potasn IN atr dc-
niand AL 4c gold and 22e for grccnbacks Tar
tarc acid quiet gold Tor crystal. and @Sc
syc. powdered Citrie acid firm At s')c. sic
from sc. TO i5c. currency tor selected
Lcoree paste talabria 3Ic.: spanish soIfd 2jc.
a 1sc gold; Pigast.h jf,.. small GuxAlinx
At 3sc large duxslnA at 81 3ylsc. Y. smai,
s5c Cuttlchsh bones ruled steady AZ SOC Baisaw
copsibA quoted 53c. aanron steady
at 22c tor American ana - Si2 for spanish Galan-
COD Co. 'Ss s.s oil
Iauaand 81 a g. % for vorwegian; Rnuoarb anst
at prlccs ranging xf % TO ~ Ij.
quoted a lie a Itc Tor Cape ,,ngcr
a, I--c. y lgc. for Jamaica beachec Ergot
easv 7sc. a SIC Quicksilver was quoted at Ole.
G2c. Leaves were quiet but steady quoted ~ 2Jc or
adonnn lie tor contum end aconits. 2Uc 2ss ior
hcnDane AM 81 iair and
3s.c god. tor white powdered and iJc l5sc.
ior rsdds. SssaA auleL We Quoss Austsrdle eow
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sECDyp B0ARD-l p
$500 pisCol 3.65's.sm

$3.50 rs 6'sr 'Si il9H sioo))o U 5'sc.' .'si.c III
1000 US $40. vi. ll9t 1900 vs. eur... l.t
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FIN ANCIALI.

1 LEX FRorrINGHNN CO.. BANKERS AND
"A Brokers II "ail dealers In first class Puts and
Calls. buy and stocks desired margin OF
8 to
Circulars and Weekly Reports sent free.
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$500 pisCol 3.65's.sm
400 Ca So LIST, with
Int GER. ....... b q
1000 In i-nc i.E list.
GOO do. b c
40 I'm fac sink ?. 4.
100 Mo, X 4 I si.As
:O0J Chi. RI 4 r ~.
3oD Pro Z l. x Z Co. TO
20) " est Un Tel. ID c
l 0 do ... bS
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c1n Nnn --PARrXER ~ THE AUCTION BUsT.
'DlO.OOV. ness; well established. responsible
party make good Investment Address A. H., usrsd
Uptown Branch OEles.
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Sunny Rooms and Sunny Lives.

Light, says Scribner's, is one of the
most active agencies in enlivening and
beautifying home. We all know the
value of sunlight as a health giving
agent to the physical constitution; and
it is not less SO to our moral and spir-
itual natures. We are more active un.
der its inhuence-can think better and
act more vigorously.
Let us take the airiest, choicest and
sunniest room in the Louise for our living.
room-the workshop where brain aud
body are built up and renewed. And
let us there have a bay window, no
matter how plain in structure, through
which the good twin-angels of nature
sunlight and pure air-can freely enter.
Dark rooms bring depression OF spir,
it's, imparting a sense Of confinement, Of
isolation, of powerlessness, which is
chilling to energy and vigor; but in light
rooms is good cheer,
Even in gloomy house, where walls
and furniture are dingy and brown, you
have but to take down the heavy cur
tains, open wide the window, hang
brackets on either side, set howerpots on
the brackets andl let the warm sun stream
freely in, to bring health to our bodies
and Joy to our souls.
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Wolves In Russia.

In 1878, in one government, that OF
Vologda, with an area of 3A, 900 square
versts, they killed Il, 900 head of large
cattle and $4,000 head of small; in the
Kazan government, in space of only
Sc, 900 square versts, they killed 5000
large and 1000 small, of an aggregate
value of 254,0 900 rubles, the population
OF this government being only 1,7l5,-
600. In the St. Petersburg government
the losses are smaller, but even there,
in the same year, property was destroyed
by wolves to the extent OF $4,000
rubles.
In forty-fve Russian governments, ex-
elusive of the Baltic provinces and Po-
and, TAI, 300 head Of cattle were de
stroyed in one year, making loss to the
country of over $500, 900 rubles (more
than Sc, ,0OO,O ,O00).
Russia is thinly populated country,
and, perhaps, the above loss appears
even more striking when considered in
reference to area. Putting aside eight
out of the forty-fve governments, the
loss on the remaining thirty y-eight
amounts to three copecks on every
deciatine of 2.7 acres.
The amount that wolves will eat is en-
ormous. In two or three hours pair
will eat the half OF horse weighing $50
kilogrammes, they themselves not weigh
ing more than fifty kiogrammes. A
dangerous popularity is their trick of
seeming to be dead. A peasant found a
wolf apparently dead on the ground,
beat him with cudgel, and took him
home on his sledge for the sake OF his
skin. In the night he heard noise,
and found the animal on the table. It
jumped at his throat, and bis wife, who
rushed for help, found him dead on her
return.
The number of wolves in Russia can
not be less than 170, 900, and they eat of
featbered game alone 200, 900 head.
In 1875 no les. than two hundred human
beings were destroyed by wolves. A
comparison is instituted between the
losses occasioned by cattle plaques and
fires as against those caused by wolves,
and, extraordinary as it may seem, the
proportion of damage done by wolves as
compared with cattle plagnes is as 200 to
240.
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excuse for not coming down to break

excuse for not coming down to break
fast, and had not since left her room.
There was at this time lying unopened
on my table note from Miss harper,
which had been brought by her father,
an hour before. asked Rachel to give
it to me, saying: "Now, let US see,
Rachel, whether any new light is thrown
upon the subject" I think her hand
trembled when she gave it to me. I
opened and read:
"MY DEAR Mr.. B1oxHAM Very
many thanks to you for your prompt
tude in returning the note, which,
stupid little bungler that I am" "Not
so very little, is she, Rachel" 7" I paused
to remark) 81 sent you by mistake-I
am very glad that I had not sent the
other to Capt. Oo1-for, although it
does not much matter if ones letters to
ones acquaintance falls into the hands
of ones friends, it is not at all pleasant
if ones letters to ones friends fall into
the hands of ones acquaintance. I
wrote to Capt. Cox only to tell him how
delighted I was to hear Of his engage
ment-for he is going to be married to 9
Miss Fitz Smythe-a very ladyike girl
who was spending some time here with
the Maurices, and was really quite a
friend o. my own."
I had not patience to read any more.
I knew it to be all lie. So 1 tossed the
letter into the middle of the room, and
said: "We have had enough Of that. l"
I was inefably Disguised. One thing,
however, was certain, that Julia Harper
was now to be had by me for the ask
ing. :.
I had other views for my humble self.
Ra,hel, I found, on inquiry, was the
daughter of Mrs. Ernshaw, the widow
of an officer. The widows means OF
subsistence were slight, and her daugh.
ter had obtained a situation as, what
people called, Miss Harper's maid.
My good fellow, T can hardly tell you
what happened after this. I have con-
fused re objection of having looked in
quiringly into Rachel's face; read whole
chapters of love in it; then threw my
arms round her waist, pressed her fondly
to my bosom, and, while I united her
bonnet strings and removed the obtru-
sive covering from her head, said to her
"We sailors have all been sworn never
to kiss the maid when we can kiss the
mistress-unless we like the maid better
than the mistress, and Heaven knows
how much I do
After the lapse of two or three weeks,
and very delightful weeks they were,
too, Rachel Ernshaw became Rachel
Bloxham, and T the happiest husband
in the world. I have got the very best
of little wives, and never, I assure you,
for one moment, though we have little
enough to live upon, and I cannot bear
these long separations, have I deplored
the loss of Miss Harper.
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An Awful Moment.

A man who had been playing for four
or five hours at a faro table in Virginia
City, New, said, in a quiet, determined
tone to the dealer, az he laid his last dol.
lars worth of checks on the tray and
Eve :"If lose that I'll blow my brains
out" There was hush in that small
room where souls are bartered nightly
for the chance of winning gold. Youths,
fevered with the excitement OF the haz,
ard, drew back at the awful threat, and
old gamesters cast an eye Of dread upon
the pale faced man who staked his lie
upon card. The gay murmur whlca
almost always rises from group OF
gamblers was hushed. The long, tnln
fingers of the dealer trembled. hs
eyes watched the cards intently as they
came out. The five lost! The payer
look at the card for a moment, tnen,
drawing a revolver, pointed it at hls
head and fred. The shot did not prove
fatal, and he was lifted up, by nis
friends and carried to doctor's'
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The Grasshopper Described.

A Western journal says: The grass,
hopper as champion multiplyist has no
equal. He lays (speaking generically
and not to put to fine a point upon it)
an egg which is about the size and shape
of O long primer 0. In fact, he lays
several Of them. From August until
winter he is actuated by reckless ambi-
tion to bore holes in the ground, of the
size OF a pipe stem, and to fill these
holes with cream colored 90. And
though he is small he attends to his biz,
and is q triumphant success. In stature
be is about match for sixpenny stub
nail, in form he is like unto lynchpin,
and he wears green sealing-wa1 head
on him and pair OF glass eyes, so that
with his long tailed duster on he looks
like an unsophisticated and near sighted
schoolmaster. But unsophisticated isn't
what's the matter with him. And nu-
meration is his best mathematical hold.
He will stand himself bolt upright like
a peg in one of those holes aforesaid,
and view the heavens with an air OF SUBJ
lime serenity and wooden headed un-
consciousness:
Don't you fool yourself-he knows
Just what he is about. He prefixes him
self like figure l in the business, and.
adopting the decimal system OF nots-
ton, calmly places 0 where it will DO
the most good. That stands for 10, and
before you can dot and carry one he has
added another cipher to that, and he
now reads 100. About this time you be-
gin to discover what sort of a rooster he
is, and you entertain degree OF awe tor
him not inspired by front view OF his
green goggles. Reasoning a posteraor'
You discover that he is dangerous
neighbor. But while you stand amazed
he rapidly sufixes fifteen or twenty
more 600, carrying his problem into the
million millions, and has sealed and
cemented it up ready to be fred at you
next spring. In two minutes and q
quarter he has given you problem that
with all your powers of multiplication
cannot be solved or equated. he COM
pounds his interest at 100 per cent. every
five seconds, puts snap judgment on
your cornfeld, and forecloses before you
can say Jack Robinson.