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CHAPTER,Iy
i GENER4rIoN on TIE March
Newark AdTntIser.


4 generation on the march from the
cradle TO the grave is an instructive spec
tacle, and we have it carefully presented
to Us in the report by DR.. Farr, an Eng
fish physician. Let US trace the physi-
cal fortune which any million of US may
reasonably expect. The number to be-
gin with, is made up of 81 ,745 boys and
4SS, 2j5 girls, disproportion which, by
and by, will be redressed by the undue
mortality of the boys, and will be reversed
before the close of the strange, eventfu
history More than quarter of these
children will die before they are FIVE
years old-in exact numbers, I41 1897
boys and l21 ,795 girls. The two sexes
are now nearly on aleyel. The next five
wears will be much less fatal. In the
succeeding FIVE ysars-from ten to fif-
teen the mortality will be still further
reduced. Indeed, for both sexes, this Is
the most healthy period of life +; the
death-rate, however, is lower for boys
than for girls There will be some ad-
vance in deaths in the next five years.
and still more in the five which follow.
but 634, O45 will certainly enter on their
twenty-sixth year. Before thenext ten
years are at an end, two thirds of the wo-
men will have married. The deaths dur
ing that period will be 62,052, and of
those no fewer than 81, 1874 will be caused
by consumption. Between thirty-five
and forty-fve still larger " death-toll -
will de paid, and little more than half
the original band-in exact numbers.
5O2, 915-will enter on their forty-sixth
year. Each succeeding decade, up to
seventy-fye, will now become more fatal
and the numbers will shrink terribly.
At seventy-five only Isl, l24 viii remain
to be struck down, and of these 122. $50
viii have persisted by the eighty-fifth
year of the march. The 80, $40 that re-
main will soon lay down their burdens :;
but 2,l53 of them will struggle on to be
ninety-five, and two hundred and TWEEN
ty-three to be one hundred years old
Finally, in the one hundred and eighth
year of the course, the last solitary life
will flicker out. Such, then, is the av-
erage lot ola million men and women.
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LIFE ON rnE P4cIrIc SLOPE

F. b. Thurlow's Letter to the American Grocer.
One of the noticeable things here is
climate. While you poor mortals are
perspiring on the Atlantic coast, here in
San Francisco we have an equable tenn
perature of from sixty to seventy degrees
throughout the entire summer. This Is
only, however, on the coast, where the
sea breeze tempers the heat of the SIN.
Back in the interior it is sometimes very
warm. ranging from one hundred to one
hundred and ten degrees in the shade,
but the heat is less oppressive than ninety
or ninety-five degrees in New York, Tor
the atmosphere here is less humid and it
takes much higher degree of heat to
/ induce perspiration. Sunstrokes here,
Notwithstanding the high range of the
thermometer in the interior, are almost
unknown. The people here are gener-
ally big-hearted, big-patterned set of
men, and there is general disregard of
small things such as are looked after
sharply In the east. Five cents is the
smallest coin we have, and there are no
nickels used on the coast everything is
computed by " bits" in the old-iashioned
western style; but, owing to the diff
Guilty in making change, bit may be
either ten or fifteen cents. For instance,
if you give boot-black quarter he
will return you only tents, but il you
happen to have dime about you he will
be perfectly satisfied. If, however, you
should happen to give him two five-eent
pieces he looks upon it as being small
and parsimonious on your part. Such is
one of the trade etiquettes of this coast.
At present, silver is at a discount here
of about six to seven per cent, and
trade dollars, which are esteemed more
inconvenient, are only worth ninety
cents on the dollar As you 60 along
California and Montgomery streets you
see placards in nearly all of the brokers
! windows: S2l % in silver halfdollars
given for $40 in gold" and quite q
lively trade Is done by them in this way
. many people carrying $50 in silver about
them TO make their own change instead
of paying out gold for small purchases
and receiving the balance i'll silver
, change. OF course everything is on q
specie basis here. | haven't seen a green
back or piece of fractional currency
, since / have been here. They don't &C
much on religion here, as John Hay
says, although there are plenty of the
most conscientious people in the world
!, out here The theatres are kept open OF
Sunday, very much as they are II
France the mines are worked on sun
, day where ii paws; and in the mining
districts the stores are kept open on
Sunday. As you leave the mining dis
tricts, however, this practice gradually
ceases, and in the agricultural district,
Sunday is observed almost in the same
degree "A at the east. At lake Lahoe
/ however, ! saw a sign displayed in the
window of a grocery store rs follows
20 This store vii, be closed at three p. IN
{ ~, G,rpJav
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The extraordinary downpour of solar
heat this summer has set the scientific
wondermongers to guessing anew as to
what burns to produce so much fire and
keep it up for thousands of years with.
out diminution. The difference of heat
from one summer and another has direct
ed attention of late to the earth's atmos-
phere as being responsiblein certain of its
states for great extremes Of heat. The
interior heat of the earth is also being
brought forward in fanciful theory of
interaction between it and the powerful
rays of the sun. Physical philosophy
is at present at loss as to the source OF
the suns fire, but it can demonstrate
that the heat generated in one hour by
the sun is equal to what would flow from
combustion of a layer Of solid coal ten
feet thick entirely surrounding that
mighty orb. The theory that the sun is
a hot globe, gradually cooling or burn
ing out, is now going out of fashion, since
it can be established that no heat gener-
ating substance, not even the most high
ly concentrated carbon, would be at all
competent to maintain the suns combus-
ton. 1.-THE sun, whose mass and diane
ter are known to us, were solid block OF
coal and had sufficient supply Of oxy-
gen 70 enable it to burn at the rate nee
essary to produce the effects we see, it
would be completely consumed in less
than 5000 years. There are several the
ories-that the suns surface is fed by
stream of meteors, thick as snowhakes,
such as occasionally stray through our
atmosphere, and are set on fire by fric-
ton, and the spectroscope's revelation OF
magnesium burning, and the theory of
tremendous attraction of gravitation OF
the SUMS mass toward its center, produc-
ing the immense condensation, fire and
Iadiation-all well argued.
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THE YOUTH OF SITTING BULL

Bya Scboolnate in the Minneapolis Tribune.
/ well remember the infantile days of
Sitting Bull, the guileless innocence of
his childhood, and how we used to give
him a truthful little hatchet and butcher
knife and the old yellow cat all for to
play with. should judge that he must
have scalped that old cat as much as six
teen or seventeen hundred times before
he was three years old. 1t was beautifully
touching TO observe what an interest that
child took in dumb neutrality-suspicious.
lv that cat And then to see him draw
rations and blankets and things just in
play Why, / have seen him walk around
the tepee hour after hour, and every
time he would come up and answer to a
different name and draw acorns for ra-
tions and burdock leaves for blanketsand
fishbones for scalping- knives You see
he would always set up a rotten bass
wood stick, with two clamshells for ewes
looking straight up to the sky, for an
agent. 1t used to bring tears to my eyes
to see him sometimes. IL reminded me
of his dear papa, who went out scalping
once in fun, and had something happen
10 him SO that he didn't come back again.
We named him Sitting Bull when he was
two years old, but when he grew up a
little and begun TO develop the peculiar
traits of his great great grandfather and
greater ancestor, John Smith, we were
sorry we hadn't called him Lying Bull
instead.
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THE ART OF GETTING RICH.
Philadelphia Led or.


Look well to your spending. No mat
ter what GENES in, if more goes out you
will be always poor. The art is not in
making money but in keeping it. Little
expenses, like mice in barn, when they
are many make great waste. Hair by hair
heads get bald straw by straw the
thatch goes off the cottage, and drop by
drop the rain GENES into the chamber.
A barrel is soon empty if the tap leaks
but drop minute. When you mean
to save begin with your mouth many
thieves pass down the red lane. The ale
jug is a great waste. In all other things
keep within compass. Never stretch
your legs further than your blankets
will reach or you will soon be cold. In
clothes choose suitable and lasting stuff,
and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is
the main thing, never mind the looks.
A fool may make money, but it needs a
wise man to spend it. Remember, it is
easier to build two chimneys than to
keep one going. If you give all to back
and board there is nothing left for the
savings bank. Fare hard and work hard
when you are young and you will have a
chance to rest when you are old.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

WILLIAM A. WHEELER, republican
candidate for vice-president, IS in favor
of demanding the south to military rule
RUTHERFORD =. HAYES is for keeping
a standing army in the south until every
southern state votes the republican
ticket.
The New England papers are giving
Kilpatrick's letter abundant emphasis.
They put it this way " A bloody-shirt
campaign with money"
ADvIcEs from Virginia indicate that
the Mother of states and statesmen
viii give Tilden sixty thousand MAORI
ty. The canvass thus far is all one way
for Tilden and reform.
THE fates are against the radical can
didates. Here is the light and shade OF
the two tickets:
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from The bill the appropriations tor these
purposes; and tie president signed the
hill as ergrossed, and thus the appropria-
ton. for the department of justice were
,st,enched. This is very sad. We do
not see very we'll how dear old Judge
Taft ia Going to write his war proclama-
tions against the south, or Opinions
about the duty of United States mar
shals to call in troops TO control cleo
,;ons etc. unless he is allowed fuel
| Baltimore Gazette.
NEW YORK sun: Among the many
reasons WHY the republicans intend to
use the bayonet in the southerneections
"a the determination to resort to the
most desperate expedients to preserve
the majority in the senante. There
are ten seats to be filed in eight
states. where, on some manufactured
and living pretext, troops may be used.
The states to which We refer are Arkan-
sas Louisiana, South Carolina and
Texas, the four present senators being re
publicans, and there being one vac mcy
in Louisiana; and Georgia, Tennessee
Virginia and West Virginia, the fouI
senators being democrats, and there being
one vacancy in West Virginia.
THE campaign has not opeHedyet il
Pennsylvania. \ correspondent writes
from that state: Ammunition is go
ing TO be dreadfully scarce this fall, anC
will have to be used very sparingly b!
both parties. The men who pass arOunC
the hat seldom find anything in IL bu
the lining. 4 thousand dollars wer,
raised in 1871 with fraction of the eff
fort it takes now TO get a hundred
Z Rich partisans who used to hand il
their checks with three ciphers and
digit in the corner can scarcely b
coaxed out of a tan dollar bill, and oftef
button up their pocket and chill the AP
plicant's ardor by saying that they don
take much interest in politics this year
while the noble army Of olficeholders
feeling the pinch of hard times, try Il
beg off by paying only half CT their as
sessments Without money the politica
mare can not be forced cut OF jog
trot"
THE destruction OF the color-lin
which Gov. Hayes so confidently assert
affords the only road to a return to per
manent peace and prosperity, seems L
have been accomplished in Alabama wit
thoroughness beyond his most arden
expectation DR. Redfeld, the rePubli
can correspondence of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, the strongest Hayes and Wheel
er organ in the west, in a review of tn
field after the late election in that state
furnishes some striking and gratifyin
figures bearing on this point, and cor
cludes that not only has the time passe
, when the republicans can WELD the ne
gro vote as a compact mass, but that th
democracy vii carry Alabama for Tide
and Hendricks by not less than 800
majority.
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ANGLING.E oR EYELEss rIsn.
Montgomerr lAl,-1n.1lein-

At the Dickinson place, is a ten-acre
field which is nothing more nor less than
subterranean lake covered with soil
about eighteen inches deep. On the
soil is cultivated field of corn which
viii produce thirty or forty bushels TO
the acre. If any one will take the
trouble to dig hole the depth of spade
handle they will find it to fill with water
and by using a hook and line fish four
and five inches long can be caught.
These fish are different from Others in
not having either scales or eyes, and are
perch-like in shape. The ground IS a
black mari, alluvial in its nature. and in
all probability at one time it was an open
body OF water, on which has accumulated
vegetable matter, which has been in
creased from time to time, until now it
has crust sufficiently strong and rich
to produce fine corn though it has to be
cultivated by hand, as il is not strong
enough to bear the weight of a horse.
While incoming, the field hands catch
great strings of delicate fish by merely
punching a hole through to the water. 4
person raising on hisheeIand coming down
suddenly can see the growing corn shake
all around him. Amy one having the
strength to drive rail through this
crust will find on releasing it that it will
disappear entirely. The whole section
of country surrounding this field gives
evidence of marshiness, and the least
shower of rain produces an abundance Of
mud. But the question comes up, ha.
not this body an outlet? Although
Grackish, the water tastes as if fresh ,and
we have no doubt but that it is anything
else than stagnant. Yet these fish ar,
eyeless and scaleless-similar to thost
found in caves. 1t is subject for study
and we would like to have some of oui
profound" citizens to investigate it.
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10 PARENTN.

If your child is suffering from worms,
use DIR. WIsHART's WORM SUGAR DROPS
an old and reliable remedy that neUe
6ails in thoroughly exterminating these
pests of childhood. Being made in the
form of Sugar Drops. having neither the
taste Or smell Of medicine, no trouble il
experienced in inducing children TO take
them. Sold by all Druggists at % cts. a
box, or sent by mail on receipt Of price,
at the Principal Depot, 9l6 Filberi
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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MIR. ADAMs,s CHOICE.
Dir. Charles Francis Adams has writ
en- the following, Latter.

Dir. Charles Francis Adams has writ
ten the following letter:
Quincy, August 5, 1876.
Dear Sri am one of the class now
denominated Independents, asking no
favors, and voting for the best men with
out regard to party lines. / propose to
retain my position. But as TO the choice
offered to me between Mr.. Tilden and
dr. Hayes, though having no proposes
ions against either, do not hesitate to
say that the former is far the most fitted
to met the emergency in our politics
my opinion, and ! intend to vote fol
him. Very truly yours,
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
;, II +. MDERMoTT, Esq, Jersey City
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oil running him for president this year,
put concluded to wait until next year,
when there wouldn't be so many opposi-
ton candidates in the field. He is very
wealthy, but is not proud; and when he
came over to the country in the May.
flower he sat at the table and talked with
the rest of the Pilgrim Fathers all the
same as though he had never owned di.
amond mine and horse that could shake
itself down to 2:172.
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a WESTERN NOTICE.

This is the way in which the Burling
ton Hawkeye notices . a prominent
Nebraskian: The great and good Z. H.
Smith, president of thestate bankof Lin
coin, Neb., is in the city, and the fast
freight men have taken him under the
shadow of their protecting wings, that
no harm may come to him. He is better
looking than our fancy painted him, ana
Worth, of Paris, makes his clothes, and
all his lingerie is hand-sewed and embrol'
dered. The freight men all love him as
a father, and they did think at one time
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4 BRAVE OLD SOLDIER.

He was quite an old man, and he had
quite bad limp, and he remarked as
he touched his hat, "All want is money
enough TO get to Savannah feel that
l have not long to live and / want to be
buried in that nice, cool graveyard just
outside of Savannah
The appeal did not open a single wallet.
He was talking to three men who had
found a shady spot under a grocery
awning, and he seemed a little disap-
pointed. Pulling new string, he re-
marked: Gentlemen, won you do
something for an old soldier p "Were
you soldier in the late war 2" asked one
of the group. 81 was was the prompt
reply. "What branch of the serviceT'
''The heavy artillery" "Where were
you stationed?'
"Well," slowly replied the stranger,
as if he hadn't expected such question,
eve were sometimes here and sometimes
there The fact was, our artillery was
50 heavy that we generally kept on a
hill. The confederate government
didn't seem to expect that us three or
four men were going to drag a big canon
all over the country and whip the Yam
KEGS to boot Yes was wounded in the
left leg"
GIn what action?" was asked.
al never knew what they named 1T
my business was to get up and hump
and knock thunder out of a whole Union
regiment TO once, and you just bet l
didn't fool around asking what they were
going to name the battle. / went into
the war to fight, and didn't just throw
myself, thought"
did you throw yourself under a
wagon?" quickly asked one of the three
Sometimes / did, and sometimes
didn't. They used to let me fight any
way to win I've fit from under wagon
and from top TO bottom of tree, and the
boys used to call me the wild cat"
1'They must have seen you 'clawing to
the rear" suggested another of the trio
every likely, gentlemen. Sometimes
I could fight better at the rear; and
went Ddck. linen L "a IudHSf anu AASA'
on the flank, and then I'd advance anc
NOW EN- down in front"
'sWhere did you say you were
wounded % "In the leg-iust abou
there. The surgeon said that three o.
four bullets hit me at once" "Be homes
now. old man, and tell Us if you didn'
get that leg hurt in a mill or aroun'
machinery ?" Great Godl do yoI
doubt my word ?" grasPed the old man
starting back:
1--WE do" they replied in chorus. II
closely scanned each face, and was IN
dulging in gestures to show how h
deplored such conduct toward one VIII
fought bravely, when one of them said
"Come, now speak the truth, am
we'll raise you thirty cents" The OLE
man turned to go, halted, hesitated, AM
then replied: 81 suppose, gentlemen
that.I fell off a building in Atlanta an
hurt my leg, but it happened 50 durne'
close after battle that could neye
really tell whether the fall or the figh
hurt me the most. So please pass Il
your ten centses Raleigh Sentinel.
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of YOU is the Grand river, covered with
timber, steamers and barges; around you
are immense piles of lumber. On the
" homestretch the crib slashes the
water around lively, and finally it takes
a plunge as it leaves the slides. Down
it goes, and you hear nothing but the
roar and rush of water, which seemingly
surrounds you. For a moment there
seems to be a struggle, when the crib
slowly an majestically rises again to
the surface of the water; when you know
that it will not be necessary for you to
take a bath with all your clothes on. On
examination you find that the water was
within an inch or two Of where you were
standing on the middle of the raft. This
ends the pleasant sensation of running
the slides"
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They sat together, hand In hand,
The sunset fiickered low
The tickle sea crept up the strand,
And caught the after-glow-
He sang song, alittle song,
No other poet knew;
And she looked up and thought MIN stLoDs
Looked down and drearnea him True.
The tickle sea crept up the strand,
And laughed a wanton laugh
look up the song the poet planned
And sang the other hall
Times change: the two went divers ways
The evening shades INCREASE
In him grown old in fame and praise,
And her in household peace.
The echo OF the false swset words
He spoke 50 long ago -.
Has passed as passed the summer oA"s
Before the winter snow
but as tonight the angels hand
IoOsens the silver chord,
And calls her 70 that other land,
OF loves supreme reward.
She hears but one sound. silent, long,
4 whisper soft and low
The echo of the false sweet song
He sang 50 long ago
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THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE DR.
WilhOft's Anti Periodic or Fever and Agut
Toniel No case of incurahle Chils has yet
presented itself where this fcientific and
safe medicine has been employed. No case
has been found 50 obstinate as to resist il.
prompt and mastery action. No man has
been so reduced by malarial influences, but
with its use has come up perfectly recon
structed. No pills or purgatiye required with
this medicine. 6. K. FINLAY & Co, Propri
etors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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called him an impostor, and accused
him of imposing upon an old and lonely
female. He showed her the load OF hay
in her back yard. she told him to take
it away, and remarked that darkies were
bigger fools now than ever The darkey
worked two hours, got his load back on
his cart, and soliloquized thusly: Mig
gers is called fools | b'lieve they are
in giner'l; but eff man or boy ever
catch dis hay goin' out'n dis cart before
de backabilities is put down, den dis
niger gwine 'vaporaten
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PDdrLEs on the face, rough skin, chap
ped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous az
fe items cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use Of Juniper 4. Soap.
That made by Caswell, Howard & C q, New
York, is the only kind that can be relied on,
as there are many limitations, made from
common tar, which are worthless.
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TIE most astonishing cure Of chronic
diar. hoa we ever heard Of is that OF VIM.
Clark, Frankfort Mills, Waldo CO., Maine
the facts are attested by Ezra Treat, Upton
Treat and NJ. A. Merrill, either Of whom
might be addressed for particulars. Mr.. Clark
vas cured by JohnsOn's Anodyne Liniment.
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SELLING HAY IN RIcHMoND.-The
worst boy is supposed to live in Rich
mond, Virginia. He directed colored
hay man to empty his two-ton in the
back yard of an old lady who was deaf.
He claimed that the old lady was his
mother-in-law. The load of hay was
emptied in the back yard, and when the
driver came to the front door to ask the
old lady for his pay she looked upon him
with visage like thunder cloud She
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HoN. JOSEPH FAREWELL, Mayor Of
Rockland, Ne, Isaac NJ. Bragg. Esq. Bangor,
and Messrs. Pope Bros, Ma ;hias Me-, lun-
Der merchants, fully endorsed the Sheridan
Cavalry Condition Powders, and have given
the proprietors liberty to use their names in
recommending them.