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PEDRO III.

DON Pedro, Emperor of Brazil is about
to pay us visit and give us an opportunity
to see how man looks who is invested
with the highest title known TO civil gov
ernments, and reigns over tWo-fifths OF the
entire continent Of South America. IS,
The descendant of a Portuguese royal
family, though born in Brazil, Don Pedro
is how about fifty years Of age, and is rep
resented as being man OF considerable
ability and fine literary attainmeLts. he
became emperor when but six years s0f age,
though not crowned till eight years after
wards, consequently he has had ample time
to test the weight and responsibility ofaa
crown. ~ sssFs "A ss54 sss
Keeping pace with the advance OF the
enlightened age In which he lives, he has
favored the enactment of laws emancipating
the slave population of his empire, and al
though in many respects his people are far.
behind those Of the civilized nations of the
world, they are making reasonable pro-
gress, and will bear favorable comparison
with the mass Of the subjects of the Car
Judging from the reception onr people
gase q drunken Bill, alias Kalakana, an
intelligent monarch like Don Pedro IL like
" to be the recipient Of many and distin-t
anished honors during his = centennial q
Visit
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CHARLES Cry. Iowa

CHARLES Cry, Iowa.
l. Why is the sound produced by the fl
ing OF saw or sounds of that kind so very
disagreeble to almost every person? 2.
Why can a screw be driven into wood so
much easier with 1ong-handled screw
driver than short one? 5. Can you give a
recipe for resilvering mirrors where the
same has been rubbed off in places, SO that
tt1as ttH1aasrer --:i1 --- - = go
Ans.-1. Because the vibrations of the
air produced are not uniform and are in
tense, rapid, and short, which strike the
ear drum SO rapidly and discordantly that
pain is produced. 2. Because greater
leverage is obtained with the long than the
short handle. 3. Clean the bare portion of
the glass by rubbing it gently with fine cot
ton, taking care to remove any trace OF
dust or grease. With the point of knife
cut upon the back of another piece of mir
ror around portion of the silvering of the
required form, but little larger. Upon it
place small drop of mercury Ga drop the
size of pins head will be sufficient for a
piece as large as the finger naIl). The mer-
curry Immediately spreads, penetrates the
amalgem to where it was cut around, and
the required piece may be lifted and re-
| moved to the place to be repaired. This is
the most difficult part of the operation.
Then press lightly the renewed portion
with cotton. 1t hardens almost immedi-
ately, and the glass presents the same ap-
pearance as a new one. =-- .= .-
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VAILED.

At old Egyptian festals, we are told,
Was aye guest,
Who through the feast sat rigid, silent, cold
Whom no one prest
To share the banquet, yet who still remained
Till the last song was sung, the last cup drained
The cup, the song, the jest and laugh went round
No cheek turned pale.
No guest am azed did query eer PROFOUND,
Or lift the vail
To learn the wherefore one alone sat mute,
With whom nor host, nor friend exchanged salute
Usance and rose crowned drapery did all;
The thing of bone,
That hideous skeleton in festive hall,
Evoked no groan;
No thrill of horror checked the flow of mirth,
Unseen, unfelt, that grsly type of earth
But did the host return when all were gone
The lights put out,
The unseen presence of that nameless one
Might put to rout
All the gay fancies born of wine and song
And speechless dread the 1eetIng night prolong.
At every hearth, in every human heart
There sits such guest.
We may not, cannot bid it thence depart,
Zen at the best,
We can but crown with roses vail and drape;
The thing exists, though we conceal its shape.
We shroud our skeletons from public gaze
And from our own;
Ignore their presence with life's lamps ablaze,
Till left alone
With festal fragments, wine stains, lights all dim
We feel them with us, icy. bloodless, grim.
Our nerves would quiver to unvail the bones
Of the dead past;
We lock them in our hearts with sighs and moans,
To keep them fast;
'Tis but in solitude we turn the key,
And dare to look upon them as they be.
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How Old Peter Bennett Won His Case

IL Alexander r. Stephens should be at
home and his mind not absorbed by public
affairs. the visitor will find in him one of
the best and most prolific anecdotists of the
day.
One story-alas that he cannot sit in the
types to tell it lis the Peter Bennett speech.
4. DIR. Royston, doubtless a most excellent
man, had sued Mr.. Bennett, a farmer, for
his bill. ssLittle Aleck," as Alexander is
minnified by his friends. told his client,
Peter B., that the case of service and it's
value were proved against him in legal
form and there was no real defence. But
the old farmer insisted that his lawyer
should "speak to the CASE" Mr.. Stephens
told him that he ought to speak himself II
he thought speech could be made, and
was surprised by the report, . aotH, II
Bobby Toombs won't be too hard on me-"
Mr.. Toombs promised and Peter Bennett
began
"Gentlemen of the jury, amt no law
yer and no doctor, and you amt nuther.
| And if we farmers don't stick together, these
| here LAWYERS and doctors will get the advan-
tage of us. I amt no objections to lawyers
| and doctors in their place, and some is
clever men, but they amt farmers gentle
| men of the jury. Now this DR.. Royston
| was new doctor, and | sent for him to
| doctor my Wife's sore leg. And he did, and
| put some salve truck on it and some rags,
| but never done it a bit of good, gentlemen
| of the jury. don't believe he's no doctor,
| no way. There's doctors as know Is doc
tors, sure enough. but this amt no doctor
at all.
This was evidently telling, and DR.. Roys-
ton put in with, Look at my diploma, and
see If am not doctor.
ellis diploma r said the new-fiedged
orator, with great contempt. That amt
nothin', for no piece of paper ever made a
doctor yet.
aAsk my patients" shouted the now
furious physician
This was the conventional straw that
seemed to break the back Of the orators
patience. g Ask your patients e he said,
In slow and mournful deliberation. Ask
aouY patieatss WHY, THEY'K RE ALL DEAD Z
i Then, i'm rapid defamation, he named case
after case, well known, but mostly among
negro servants of his neighbors, where his
| opponent had treated them and their owners
buried them, and continued: Ask yonr
patients Why, would have to seek them
j In the lonesome churchyard, and rap on the
silent tomb to get answer from the dead.
| You know they can't say nothin to this
case for you've killed them ali e The al !
plause closed the speech, and the defendant
4 won his case. III. w Cleueldnd, Harper !
for February.
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Marriage of Great Men.

| Byron married Miss Millbank to get
money to pay his debts. 1t turned out
| bad shift.
Robert Burns married a farm girl with
| whom he fell in love while they worked to-
gether in plowed field. He was irregular
| in his life, and committed the most serious
mistakes in conducting his domestic affairs
| Milton married the daughter of a country
squire, and lived with her but a short time.
| He was an austere literary recluse, while
she was rosy, romping country lass that
could not endure the restraint imposed
upon her, so they separated. subsequently
she returned, and they lived tolerably
happy. s7I gs.ias ge
| Queen Victoria and Albert were cousins
| and about the only example in the long
| line of English monarchs wherein the mar
ital vows were sacredly observed, and sin
cere affection existed. -*ss'
/ Shakespeare loved and welded farmers
daughter. She was faithful to her vows,
but we could hardly say the same OF the
bard himself. Like most of the great poets,
| he showed too little discrimination in bes-
| towing his affections on the other sex. sifg q
General Washington married a woman
| with two children. 1t is enough to say she
was worthy of him, and that they lived as
married folks should live, in perfect har-
mony. ~ 5IkS .ss3tt'z,fgtez ~
| John Adams married the daughter of
Presbyterian clergyman. Her father OBJ
/ iected On account of John being q lawyer.
He had bad opinion of the morals Of the
/ profession. - ia9S
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. She was altogether be-
meath him in social life and intellectual
capacity, and besides this was ffty-two
years old while he was but twenty-five. he
would not take ssNo" for an answer, and
they were married and lived happily togeth-
er until she died, which occurred two years
afterward. e e:
Peter the Great of Russia married q
1 peasant. She made an excellent wife and
sagaeious Empress.
/ Humboldt married poor girl because
he loved her. Of course they were happy;
It is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married lady whose husband was
still living. She was an uneducated but
4 able woman, and was most devotedly at
tached to the old warrior and statesman. "a;
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A comparison of the strength of the na-
yies of the United States and Germany
shows the following: Iron-elad fleet Of the
United States twenty iron-elads, OF
Is, III tons and sixty seven guns, and one
composite vessel, the Trenton, of eleven
guns. and Q. 800 tons III the iron-claa fleet
Of Germany there are three frigates, SIX
coryettes, one monitor and one easement
ship. of IN aggregate tonnage Of ;la, 225533 253,
and mounting a0g guns. OF wooden YES
sells in the United States navy there are
four frigates, seven heavy corvettes, eleven
light corvettes and sixteen gnnboats. The
German wooden fleet consists Of one frig-
ate. six heavy corVettes, seven light oois
vettes, fourteen gtInbeats, and one niiaF-
mored iron vessel The total strn myth of the
United States navy is sixfy-tlslse fighting
ships. OF t)s. 14a f1,ls and 567 gums; of the
German navy ii Il forty fighting ships, If
6S, 493 tons and 343 gums.
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BROOKLYN, Iowa.
Why does the earth where it is tramped
hard freeze SO much deeper than where it
is not tramped solid for instance. the road
freezing SO much deeper than the fields
alongside?
Ans-Loose earth is filled to a greater or
less degree with air, which is a poor con-
ductor of heat. When the earth is conf
pacted the air is forced out, and the parti-
cles constituting the soil are brought closer
together, forming better conductor of heat.
When the cold weather sets in the solid
earth easily conducts off it's heat to far
greater depth than the loose soil, and,
therefore, freezes deeper.
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Graves of the Presidents

{ 5
The remains Of three ex-Presidents rest
in Tennessee Andrew Jackson, James Il.
Polk and Andrew johnson. Five Wash
ington, jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Tyler-repose in Virginia. Two-John
Adams and John Quincy Adams-in Mass
achusetts. Two-Van Buren, and Fillmore
lin New York William Henry Harrison
in Ohio: Zachary Taylor in Kentucky
Pierce in New Hampshire; Buchanan in
Pennsylvania, and Abraham Lincoln in
Illinois. In all we have lad eighteen presi-
Dental terms of four years each, and Of
whom only the present incumbent survives.
/ At sume future day an effort viii be made
to gather mp the remains Of our presidents
and re-inter them at the seat Of govern
Hent. Whether their descendants and the
States which now hold their remains will
cons ent to their removal, il d question th 1t
it will be time enough to consider when
the proposition shall come mp in due form.
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MAnIsnN. Wisaons

MADISHM, " ISUOnsfH.
/. Can you approximate the number of
millionaires in the cities of Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia? 2. To what ex-
tent is the Hudson river affected by the
tide at Albanys 3. To what extent are
"copp rs" legal tender?
Aaas.-1, In the absence of all statistics
upon the subject, our reply is simply a
guess, based upon the best information at
hand, which is the statements Of old resi-
dents of those cities. We should estimate
the number of millionaires in Boston at
forty; in New York at one hundred, and i'll
Philadelphia at fifty to sixty. 2. The tide
reaches north as far as Troy. 8. Twenty
five cents at any one payment. ..9-
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applied to Nova Scotia, and during the
French war in 1855 this territory was occu-
pied by the English. The French inhabi-
tants refused to take the oath of allegiance
to the English, the territory having been
ceded to France by the treaty of Breda, and
the English troops were sent from New
England to remove the Acadians from their
country. In some of the villages the men
were assembled in the church to hear a
royal proclamation, where they were made
prisoners and marched to the shore. Seven
thousand people were thus sent from their
homes and scattered through the colonies.
10 prevent their returning their homes
were burned and their farms laid waste.
Upon this terrible story of oppression and
wrong LongfelloW's beautiful poem is
founded
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ST.LOUIS HOTEL
ENTRANCE FROM MAIN St JACKSON SITS.
Helena. Montana,
SCHWAB d. ZIMMERMAN,
Projectors.
THE LARGEST
First Class Hotel in the Territory.

Having secured lease for a long term OF
years of this large and commodious house,
have renovated. refurnished and embel-
lished its roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms. and no expense or pains will be
pared to continue to improve and keep il
On first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the very best the markets
afford and the delicacies of the season. At
tendance unexceptionable. Terms, reason
able. 522.
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New CASTLE. PENNSYLVANIA

1. How many children has Queen Victo-
ria? 2. How many the Prince of Wales ?
8. What Princes are the Queens daughters
married to? 4. What was the Queens
name before she was married? What is it
now?
Ans.-1. Nine. 2. Six. 8. Her eldest
is the wife of the Crown Prince of Prus-
sia the Princess Alice is the wife of Prince
Louis of HesserD rDarmstadt the Princess
Helena is the wife of Prince Christian of
Schleswig- Fl olstein; the Princess Louise
(the sixth clild) is the wife of the Marquis
of Lorne, and the Princess Beatrice is yet
unmarried. f. Alexandria Victoria Guelph.
She did not change hel name at marriage
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PnRTER Michinat,

URIEIt, NIICHIgaII.
1. What was the value of the tea thrown
overheard at Boston on the 10Th day of De-
cember, 1878? 2. Did General Lewis Cass
ever act as President of the United States
If t.. he s.. DID, when and how long? 8. What
Mississippi river being four miles higher
than its source are they? A. Was the
island of Mani attain ever called by the In
dians, The place where we all got
drunk ?''
Ans.-1. We can not give it's value.
There were $40 chests of it. 9. No. 8.
No. 4. We think not, although they may
have been drunk there.
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RAYMOND. Iowa.

hA1 hOND, iowa.
[ am informed that there is in the South
peculiar kind of snake, called the ''.joint
snake" which if struck with stick or
anything similar across the body will sep
arate where the blow occurs, and the part
with the head will crawl away rapidly and
that it will return when the cause of it's in
jury has removed and join itself again and
crawl off perfect snake. This has caused
considerable dispute here, and as I can find
no account of it in Herpetology' we
have concluded to leave the matter to you.
Ans.-There is in most of the Southern
States reptile bearing in some localities
the name of joint snake. It's peculiarities
are that its joints are SO weakly connected
that slight blow will snap off portion of
its tail. In Indiana species of the same
snake, called the glass snake, or swift, is
found, and it is noted for the same pecu-
liarity as its Southern brother. The fact
that it will come back and get the portion
of its body that has been broken off is too
well established to need proof but there is
no truth in the belief that it afterward
joins the dismembered piece on to it's body
again.
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Rock PRAIRIE. Wisconsi,

AsoSh hAihifi, w lSGOuSlQs
VIII you please answer the following
questions? What, according to statistics,
is the average length of human life, male
and female, after 20 years of age and in
good health
4Ans.-The following short rules for cal
culating the expectancy of life are laid
down in several insurance companies
books, which are sufficiently accurate for
ordinary purposes, although they do not
give exactly the same results:
From II to 25, inclusive, deduct the age
from 100; half the balance is the expect
ancy.
From 25 to 80, inclusive, deduct the age
from 9S half the balance is the expect
ancy.
From 81 to 40, inclusive, deduct the age
from 81; half the balance is the expect
ancys
From Al to so, inclusive, deduct the age
from so half the balance is the expect
ancy.
From 81 to go, inclusive, deduct the age
from 80; half the balance is the expect
ancy.
Or deduct the age of the party, whatever
it may be, from 80, and two-thirds of the
difference is the expectancy.
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VOLNEY, low

VVLNEY IOWA.
/. What is the correct photography of
the word "Mispah,' word often engraved
on rings and jewelry? Also, what does
the term signify9. 2. Who IS the author
of "Lucille ?''
Ans.-1. The word Mispah may he found
in the 31st chapter of Genesis, verse, the
last three lines of the verse fully explaining
it's Specification. 2. The poem is by Ed
ward Robert Bulwer Lytton, son of Bull
wer Lytton, the celebrated novelist, who
writes under the nom de plume of Owen
Meredith.
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on. Cry. Pennsylvania.

Oiit CIIf, IenuSyIFdula.
Please give short history of Mrs. Wash
ington before her marriage to Washing
ton.
Ans.-Martha cambridge was born in the
county of New Kent, Va, i'll May, 1882,
and received such education as was COM
mon at that time for the better classes, and
was noted FOR her amiability, beauty, and
fascinating manners. AT the age Of segen-
teen she married Colonel Daniel Parke Cur
t;s. q wealthy and successful planter of the
same county. The Colonel died within six
years of the marriage, leaving his young
wife with two children and the cares Of q
large fortune She passed an nneventful
wisIowhnsd of four years in caring for her
children and attention to business. and was
married to Washington on the 9th Of dam
,iary. 1883,
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BoNDvILLE, Illinois.
How did foolscap paper get it's name?

Ans.-It is said that this designation is
derived from the fact that Charles /. grant
ed to certain parties the monopoly Of the
manufacture of paper, which, at that time.
always bore in water marks the royal arms.
Parliament, under romwell, made jests of
this in every conceivable manner, and Or
dered that the rt,sal arms be removed from
the paper and the FOOLS cap and bells sub
stituted These we're also removed when
the Rump Parliament was prorogued, but
paper of the siz. of the Parliament jour-
nails still bears the name of foolscap
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FAIRFIELD. Nehrask.

Please inform me in answer to CORE
spondents the meaning Of ''Big Bonanza" :"
| have seen considerable about it, but do
not know what it means,
Ams.-The word is a Spanish one, and
means fair wind" AS q nautical express
sion it is used to mean sailing with fair
wind. In Spanish slang it is equivalent to
our sail right" The Spanish miners used
it as meaning a rich pocket Of ore, and it
now has become general in that sense.
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POETRY.
THE VOICE OF 1875.
BAYARD TAYLOR,

Waken, voice of the Lands Devotion
Spirit of Freedom, awaken all
Ring, ye shores to the Song of Ocean,
Rivers answer, and mountains sail!
The golden day has come;
Let every tongue be dumb,
That sounded its malice or murmured its fears!
She has won her story;
She wears her glory,
We crown her the land OF a Hundred Years
Ont of darkness and toll aud danger,
Into the light of Victory's day,
Belp TO the weak and home to the stranger;
Freedom to all she hath held her way,
Now Europes orphans rest,
Upon her mothers breast
The voice of nations are heard in the cheers
That shall cast upon her
Now love and honor,
And crown her the Queen of Hundred Years
North and South we are met as brothers;
East and West we are welded as one!
Right of each shall secure our mothers
Child of each is her faithful soni
We give Thee heart and hand,
Our glorious native Land
Tor battle has tried thee and Time endears:
Wen write thy story,
And keep thy glory,
AS pure as old for Thousand Years
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OssTAE. low

OSsTAE, Iowa.
Why does water freeze over in a pail, and
the water in dipper resting in The con-
gealed water of the pail remain unfrozen !?
A1as.-Such is not the case except under
circumstances when the water freezes slow
ly. In such case circulation of the wa
ter takes place, the warmer water at the
bottom of the pail rising as the surface be-
comes cooled. The result is that a slow
current of warm water from the bottom is
rising against the dipper, which keeps the
water in it above the freezing point.
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CLARTNDA. iowa

CLAR1NDA, Iowa.
Win you inform your readers through
your paper whether or not Senator Booth,
of California, is opposed to the specie or
resumption act, and is he in favor of a
greenback currency?
Ans.-Senator Booth, Of California, is an
anti-resumptionist, without. equivocation
He is in favor of a greenback currency.
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TENNESSEE, Illinois.

TENNESSEE, IIIlnOIS.
By what process are steel and iron
blued
Ans.-There are several processes. The
simplest is to place the steel in an iron box,
and cover it with sand subject to great
heat, and when the desired color is obtain
ed, immerse it in Oil. The dark blae is
produced at temperature of 5000, the full
blue at 5000, and the blue at $500.
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

Any one who takes paper regularly from the Pest.
oasce-whether directed to his name or anothers OF
whether he has subscribed nos responsible for The
payment. .q5 usH uu n
III person orders his paper discontinued he must
py all arrearages. the publisher viii continue to ssnd
until payment is made and collect the whole amount
whether the paper is taken from the Office or not.
s. The courts have decided that refrging to take the
newspapers periodicals from the Postoce or rernov.
Ing and leaving them uncaled for is primo tdca evidence
OF intentional fraud.
Papers ordered 70 address be changed to anot
er address at the option Of the subscriber
Remitances by draft check money order or registered
letter, may be sent at risk All PostmasteSs arc NJ
Guired to register letters on application. + ,.,.r
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
From the Chicago Inter-o Ocean.

LITTLE SIOUX, iowa.
How many sailed with Columbus ON his
first voyage?
Ans@er.-Three ships and sixty-six sea-
men.
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El4Ks IUWH-
Will ynu phase publish the facts on
which F4nngtallsssv poem I Esangeline I ID
fnnnltds Wlasae WAS Acadia Why were
the inhabitants of Grand Pre- banisle z
lar is the stnry d ms tli
.4ns -Acadia Was the name originally
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