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To Distinguish Cotton from Wool.

Ravel out the suspected cotton fiber from the wool and apply flame. Tho cotton will burn with flash, the wool will curl up, carbonize, and emit burnt, disagreeable smell. Even to the naked eye the cotton is noticeably different from tho flaments of wool, aud under the magniier this difference comes out strongly. The cotton is flattened, moro or less twisted band, having very striking resemblance to hair, which, ip reality, it is; since in the condition of elongated cells, it lines the inner sur face of the pod. The wool may be rec ognized at once by the zigzag transverse markings on its fibers. The surface of wool is covered with these furrowcd and twisted fine cross lines, ot which there are 2,OOO to 4,O00 in an inch. On this structure depends it's felting property. Finally, simple and very striking chemical test may be applied. The mixed goods are unraveled, little of the cotton fiber put into one dish and the woolen in another, and drop of strong nitric acid added. Tho cotton will be little or not at all affected; the wool, on the contrary, will be changed to bright yellow. The color is due to the development of Q picrate.
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A Christmas Hymn.

The air was still OCT Bethlehem's plain, As if the great night held it's breath, When life eternal came to reign
 Over world of death. The pagan at his midnight board
 Let fall his brimming cup of gold He felt the presence of his Lord
 Before His birth was told. The temples trembled to their base, The idols shudder as in pain; A priesthood in it's power of place Knels to ite gods in vain. All nature felt thrill divine
 When burst that meteor on tho night, Which, pointing to the Savior's shrine, ProNlaimed tue newborn light Light to the shepherds and the star Gilded their silent midnight fold Light to the wise men from afar,
 Bearing their gifts of gold Light to realm of sin and grief Light to world in all it's needs The light of life-a new belief
 Rising OCT fallen creeds- Light on tangled path of thornR,
 Though leading to martyrs throne A light to guide till Christ returns In glory to His own. There still it shines, while far abroad The Christmas choir sings now, as then: "Glory, glory unto God!
 Peace and good will to men!'
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bound, was across the room, standing beside superb pianoforte.
 "Oh, Henry, where did this come from9 What 8 perfect beauty Is it really for mel Oh, how can I ever thank you9"
 cone question at a time, my dear; but l will answer your last one first. You have no right to thank me for this Christmas present. Here is the giver, B replied Henry, going up to his mother, who had stood quiet spectator of Mary's pleasure, and putting his arm around her.
 Mother is it possible Oh, you darling9 how can ever thank you9'' cried Mary, throwing her arms, too, around Mrs. Grey, and giving her a rapturous hug.
 "I am we'll surrounded, see," said she, smiling on them proudly.
 "I am glad you are pleased with your piano, Mary, and you shall repay me by getting all the enjoyment from it that you can."
 It is something I have wanted ever since we were married," said Mary, "but Henry could not quite afford it.
 And now you have your hearts de- sire," said Henry, "but at the expense of little shining, I am afraid. Do you remember one evening, about two weeks ago, when you found the parlor door lockeds Mother and I were holding a consultation when you came, and I sent you after the cigar case to give her time to run away. I came very near telling a tib that night"
 "Yes," said his mother, "such plan ming and plotting as we have had. The other day, when the man came to make the final arrangements about bringing the piano, you were down town. and I was so afraid you would return unex- pectedly; and this afternoon they came and put it up while you were out driv- ing; but knew Henry would not bring you home too soon."
 Mary felt herself turning sick and faint. This, then, was the secret which had tormented her so; these innocent plots and plans prompted by loving hearts Y! What @ monster she was to have suspected this noble woman of any wrong She felt like humbling herself in the dust before her.
 "How white you are, child! The excitement has been too much for you, " said Mrs. Grey.
 But Mary knew better. Still, she kept her secret locked in her own breast; not by word would she let this gentle woman know how she had been tempted to doubt her.
 Mary has gradually dropped Miss Susan Skinner's acquaintance, and that worthy spinster often complains how dreadfully uppish some folks have grown" but Mary is only too glad to be able to keep out of the reach of her tongue; and finds her greatest comfort and delight in the society of her mother in-law, than whom she thinks there is no better woman on earth.
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PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,

Forming in fact new CyclopRdia, with the came plan and compass as it's predecessor, but with far gre at sr pecuniary expenditure, and with such impr )vements in it's composition as have been sue gested by longer experience and enlar0ad kn0V1edpa
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The New York Clerk.

Young men in the country imagine that if they could only manage to get clerkship in New York, or some other large city, their fortunes would be made. The New York clerk does not have so feat cry Q bed to lie in as many imagine. A correspondent writ ing on the subject says. Take, for in- stance, the dry goods clerks on Broad
 way. Some of the establishments like Stewards, Lord & Tay lor'ss Jaffray's, etc., have as many as two hundred clerks in their employ. They are ex- pected to dress we'll, to keep up with the fashions, so as to be in keeping with the general style of things about them. They must be at business prompts, 7, at eight in the morning, @ strict account being kept of any failure to do so, which is reported by the head of the de- partment to the general manager. All the day long they are kept on their feet, under watchful eyes, and with a multi tude of details to attend to; and at noon they must hurry out for nasty lunch and be back as soon as possible, flying the day through until seven or eight o'clock at night. In the busy season they are liable to be worked until eleven or twelve o'clock at night; and in the dull seasons, which come on the city often enough, they are just as liable to be discharged at a weeks notice, even though they have been years in the house, and been faithful in every way, and all this for from $8 to $15 per week. The head bookkeepo1' of prominent Broadway house gets @ salary of thir- teen thousand dollars. while under him are no less than six men, having the brunt of the work to do, who are paid three dollars day. There are men in other houses who enjoy princely in- comes, because they have drawn one of the prizes of trade; they have trade of their own which brings in large sums to their employer; they are paid for their work with unstinted hand. But all around them are men without this spe- cial advantage, though competent, who are barely getting living. A large tea house that employs sixty clerks has only five who receive over $10 per week.
 How city clerks live !-considering the meager condition of the salary mar ket. Living any way, in New York, is expensive, as living i'll a great city al- ways is. Ten, fifteen, twenty dollars a week in some places gives man all the comforts of modest expectation; nay, often gives one trif1e for the saving fund; or the luxurious. Not so here. Decent board will range up to ten and fifteen dollars; decent board-which means a narrow, close room, clean food very plain-and nothing more. And then you come down peg by peg to the horrors and misery and slack and dis comfort of New York boarding house life-the cheapest and meanest being five and six dollars a week.
 Clerks pack themselves away in these holes, making them just sleeping and eating places, cast out from all amuse- ment and society upon the town; or else they hire lodgings in some obscure quarter, and "live by the card" of cheap eating houses. They make all sorts of shifts to keep stylishly clothed.
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the fountains of charity that have been unsealed and the rich tide of benefac- tions that has already begun to flow so freely, and that is destined, we trust, to deepen and gladden. as it runs, until it shall give life and glsdness to many a destitute and darkened household-for these let us be grateful to the Giver of all mercies.
 God grant that our people may'do all they can to heal the hearts of the sor- rowing and the signing. And above all, may He, Himself, vouchsafe the conso- 1ations of His word and grace to all the bruised and broken hearted and lift them up out of their darkness into lis own marvellous light, calming the fear full, cheering the sad, protecting the helpless, and loving and blessing all. What an impressive lesson it'is that we are to take with us as we now go our re- spective ways Silent and still, these forms of the dead lie before us, and peaceful be their slumber while the wintry blasts shall sweep over their rest ing place, or summer breezes shall play over the consecrated spot. Yet with what impressiveness and eloquence and pathos do they preach to us the sermon we need. admonishing us as we go hence to live as knowing that our time is short, to forsake every evil way and cleave to that which is right, to dedicate ourselves to each others veal apd to the serviceof God in Christ Jesus our Lord. What shall turn us from our evil courses and seal us to the life Divine if it be not this tremendous voice that warns us to-day. Oh, by the thought of the holo caust, of the pride and beauty of hun dred homes, be it ours to retire from this scene only to enter more actively than ever before into the great work of life, to comfort the weary, to aid the poor, to heal the sick, to succor the tempted, and to save the young. You who are in the high places of power and trust-you who are n inisters of Christ, citizens of Brooklyn, one and all, hear, let us all hear, the loud and affecting summons of the hour to hasten to the young men who swarm our city, and to keep them from the evil that is in the world. Encompass them as with wall of fire that shall nb harm them, but that shall be effectual to guard and de- fend them against every foe of their purity and peace. What we have to do we must do quickly. In the grave whither We go there Is no work, nor knowledge, nor device, nor wisdom. Behind us is the solemn past; before us the vast eternities. "Be thou faithful unto death, and will give thee crown of ife."
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POLITICAL & HISTORICAL EVENTS.

The work has been begun after long and
 careful preliminary Iabor, and with the most ample resources for carrying it to 8 successful termination. None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has
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The American CycIop@dia.

Within the last ten years the progress Of dls- covery in every department of knowledge has made 8 new work of reference an imperative want The movement of political affairs has kept place with the discoveries of science and their fru tful application to the industrial and useful arts and the convenience and refue- ment of social life. Great wars and conse- quent revolutions have occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment The civil war of our own country, which was at it's height when the last volume of the old work appeared, has happily been ended, and new couree- of commercial and indus rial activity has been commenced. Large accessions to
Connecticut western news., 1876-12-22
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE

Have been made by the int efatigable explorers of Africa. The great political revoiutions of the last decade with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view 8 multitude of new men, whose names are in every ones mouth, and of whose lives every one is anxious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important sieges maintained, of which the details are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the transient publications Of the day, but which ought now to take their place in ...
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Men exist for the sake of one another Teach them, then, or bear with them.
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GEO. HARRISON, State Agent,
 HARTFORD, CONN. F APPLETON'S American CycIop@dia.

NEW REVISED EDITION.
 ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ABLEST
 WRITERS ON EVERY SUBJECT. Printed from Ne,o Type, and Illustrated acith
 Secerol Thousand Engrauings and Maps.
 The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPEDIA was completed in 1863, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in all parts of the United States, and the signal developments which have taken place i'll every branch of science literature and art, have induced the editors and publishers to submit it to an exact and thorough revision, and to issue new edi- tion, entitled the
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THE ILLUSTRATIONS,

Which ate introduced for the first time in the present edition have been added, not for the 1 sake of pictorial effect but to give greater lucidity and force to the explanations in the text They embrace all branches of science and natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery, architec- ture and art. as well as the various process of mechanics and manufactures. Although in tended for instruction rather than embellsh- ment, no pains have been spared to insure A
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-04-18
l., us Help One Another.

This little sentence should be writ.
ten on every heart and stamped on
every memory. IL should be the gold
EN- rule practiced not only in every
household, but throughout the world.
By helping one another We not only re-
move thorns from the pathway and
anxiety from the mind, but we feel n
sense Of pleasure in our own hearts,
knowing we are doing duty 10 fell
low creature. A helping hand, or an
encouraginf word, il no less 10 us, yet
il is beneiit TO others. Who has not
needed the encouragement and aid OF n
kind friend? How soothing, when
perllexed with some task that is mys-
terious and burdensome, 10 feel gen.
tie haud on the shoulder and to hear q
kind voice whispering: "Do not feel
discouraged j see your trouble-let
me help YOU" What strength is in-
spired, what hope created, what sweet
gratitude is felt. and the great difficult
" IL dissolved AZ dew beneath the sun
shine Yes let us help one another by
endeavoring 10 strengthen aud encour.
age the weak and lifting the burden oi
care from the weary aud oppressed,
that life may glide smoothly on and
the foupt Of bitterness yield sweet wa
ters: aud He, whose willing hand rs
ever ready TO aid us, will reward ouI
humble endeavors, and every good deed
will be as "bread cast upon the waters
20 return after many days, ~ uot 70
us, TO those we love.
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As SUMO ut Mn. sAsKkr.

There were ninety and nine that safely lay.
In the shelter OF the fold:
But one was out on the hills away.
Far on from the gates Of gold.
Away on the mountains Wild and bare,
Away from the shepherds tender care.
Lord, thou hast here the ninety and nlnei
As they not enough for theei"
But the shepherd made answer; This Of
mine
Has wandered away from me;
And. although the road be rough and steep,
Igo TO the desert TO fnd my sheep"
But none Of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord
passed through
Ere he found the sheep that was Lost
Out In the desert he heard its cry
Sick and helpless and ready TO die.
"Lord whence are those blood drops all the
way
That marx out the mountains track"
They were shed for one who had gone as
tray
Ere the Shepherd could bring his back"
Lord, whence are thy hands 80 rent aud
tornl"
They are pierced tonight by many thorn. +"
And all through the mountains thunder-rlyen.
And ny from the rocky steep
There rose cry TO the gate Of heaven;
''Rejoice! have found my sheep"
And the angels echoed around the throne:
Rejoice! For the Lord brings back his own
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why Children should Sign the
Pledge.

1t will lead them to impure what ar
dent spirits, beer and wine-drinking
does.
1t will lead them to resolve that theirs
shall not be the drunkard's end.
1t will teach them their moral and
free agency, and they are to be actors
for themselves in future life.
1t will cause them to feel as they
have never felt before, their own re-
sponsibility.
II will give them q new and perma-
nent interest in the temperance cause.
IL will preserve them most effectual-
ly from the enticements OF tie wine
cup.
1t will prevent them being urged to
drink by others.
II will make them good examples for
others.
II will bring them out and embody
them as temperance army-a Band Of
Hope.
Ii will make them active and bold to
gather in others, and extend the cause.
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STATE NEWS.

A year ago the city OF Niles had =
debt of J,2S7. IL is now all paid, and
there is about $500 in the treasury.
A large amount of poplar wood has
been cut and shipped to Three Rivers,
during the winter, for paper making.
Jerry Hopper. a saloon-keeper Of
Blissfeld, said TO be seven feet seven
inches tall, has thrown up his business,
avowing himself disgusted with il. He
is going 20 the centennial.
The private banking house of Mckin-
ley Brothers, Pontiac, has made an as
signment to Byron q. Stout and Will
lard Mcconnell. Liabilities $50, 900,
assets $4,000.
The Attorney General has delivered
the opinion that hereafter the inspec-
ton OF illuminating oils for this state
should be done in the state instead OF
Cleveland as heretofore.
A young man named Howe, OF Grat-
tan, Kent county, is accused OF break
ing open the trunk OF q visitor at the
house where he boarded and robbed il
OF $50, The officers are after him.
The Flint Globe says that all the
scientific manuscript readers in town
have been at work for week in vain
attempt TO decipher a letter received
by Postmaster ODonoughue from Don
Henderson OF the Allegsn Journal.
Why don't they call on clairvoyant?
Detroit has a case OF hydrophcb bia.
A German named Albert Kutruf was
taken into custody Friday afternoon
while biting telegraph poles and hitch
ing posts. Between his spasms he was
perfectly sane, and told the sfficers
that he had been bitten Ivy a maddox
the previous Tuesday. About 10 min.
utes after being locked in his cell he
had q srnstn, during which he seized
teeth, and with terrible yells shook tho
door so that it creaked and ratified as il
giving way.
The medical alumni at Ann Arbor
have elected DIR. Rose as their secreta-
~ for the ensuing year, and nt the
meeting OF the board OF regents OF the
university at Ann Arbor, after hearing
the report Of the committee end having
a long discussion on the Rose and
Douglass questions, passed n resolu-
tion rcinstating Dr. Rose in his former
position assistant professor. at his
former salary, including the months OF
his suspension. The conclusions
drawn by the regents from the report
Of the committee were, that a. DR..
Douglass had the sole management Of
the laboratory. he alone Is responsible
10 the board Of regents.
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NUMBER 1866.
spuys Den Duyvsi.

Between two hills, one wooded and
desolate, the other bare and inhabited,
just above Washington Heights, flows
narrow stream. Ii is Spuyt den Duy-
vel Greek, which with the Harlem
river, separates Manhattan Island from
the mainland. It's queer name often
puzzles the curious. who inquire for it's
origin. Diedrich Knickerbocker solves
the problem. He tells US that when
Anthony Van Corlear, Governor Stuy-
vesant's great trumpeter, was on mis-
sion to stir mp the country to war be-
yond the Harlem river, he came to this
stream. There was no ferry-boat there.
The wind was high aud the waters
were turbulent. Feeling the urgency
Of his errand, Anthony swore he would
cross the cross the creek en- spuyt den
duyrei Tin spite OF the deviD, and tax
ing a hearty embrace of his stone bot
tie, he plunged into the stream. When
half way over, he was seen to struggle
violently, and giving vehement blast
OF his trumpet, sunk forever to the
bottom. The changer of his trumpet
aroused the people far and near, who
hurried to the spot in amazement.
"Herc an old Dutch burgher," says
the chrsnicler. famed for his veracity,
and who had boen witness Of the fact,
related to them the melancholy affair,
with the fearful addition Ito which
am slow OF giving belief that he saw
the devil, in the shape OF huge moss
bunker, seize the sturdy Anthony by
the leg and drag him beneath the
waves" The stream and the wooded
point haye been called Spuyt den Duy-
vel ever since.
Splitting Devil" shouted the brake
man on Hudson river car one evening,
as the train "slowed" ut this spot.
"What gave this place so queer q
name?" young woman asked stran-
ger who sitting by her side. He told
her Irving's, story supposing she un-
derstood it to be a legend. Not SO.
Her womanly sympathies were aroused
by the recital Of the fate of the trump
eter, and she inquired, "Did he leave
family?" The gentleman modestly re.
ferred TO the chronicle. That chronicle
says: Though he was never married,
yet did he leave behind him some two
or three dozen children in different
parts OF the country, fine, chubby,
brawlipg. fatulent little urehins, from
whom. II legends speak true land they
are not apt to lie), did descend the in
Vulnerable race Of editors who people
bountifulIy paid by the people Tor Keep.
ing up constant alarm and making
them miserable. - Benson j. Losing,
in Harper's Magazine for April.
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The s'Local Cause'' Explanation.
From the Adrian Times.


"Local causes" seem TO have been
operating very generally throughout
this State at the late elections. The
strange thing is, that they all operated
in favor of the Republicans. OF course
there is no ''lesson" in this monoto-
nous feature Of the reports, "this 10
Republican gain of one, two, three or
more, on the Board OF Supervisors.
but then il looks funny-to Republi-
cans. "The Republican party is rot
ten," of course, and all "Redublican
officials are scoundrels," as every Dem
ocrat knows, and the "people are going
to denounce Republicanism," Of course
they are, but then one can't help Won
dering why it is that when the votes
come out Of the ballot-boxes the most
of them turn ont to be Republican
votes. The Bourbon intellect is puz-
zled to explain and understand why
this is so, and says it boldly, and says
il without fear Of successful contradic-
ton, that 'it won't happen so any
more" But then il does "happsn 80"
again and again, to the vexation of the
Democratic soul. If the Bourbon pol
ticians would reflect q moment, they
would understand that the whole trou-
BILE is, the people have got tendency"
and there don't seem to be any way of
stopping il.