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Sitting-Bull mathematics the Ameri-
cans.

A special from Fort Walsh, November
1, to the New York World, is as follows
Sitting Bulls home is to be on Deer
River. He and his band will be secure
ly guarded by police, but the most etfi-
Gent watch over him will be that of his
neighborS, the Blackfeet Plain Crees.
Red Deer River is much favored by buff
falo and smaller game, and Sltting-BuIl
will find a good market for skins at the
Hudson Bay Company. Three days
ago he was told by Col. Mcleod he was
to hold himself in readiness to move to
his new quarters; that the Queen had,
through her servant at Ottawa, provided
a good home for him where he could
live in peace. Sitting-Bull made an
eloquent reply, saying: 81 came to you,
in the first place, because | was being
hard driven by the Americans. They
broke their treaties with my people, and
when | rose up and fought, not against
them, but for our rights as the first peo-
pie on this part of the earth, they pur-
sued me like a dog, and would have
hung me to a tree. They are not just.
They drive US into war, and then seek
to punish us for fighting. That IS not
honest. The Queen would not do that. "
After thanking the Queen, he said:
"Tell her that L will be a good man;
that my people will be good. will
take my people to the Red Deer coun-
try, and now | declare before you that
l will not make any trouble or annoy
you, or give pain to the Queen; L win
be quiet l will never fight on your
soil unless you ask me to help you-
then will fight. Place me where you
like, [ will be at peace in Canada. But
YOU, who are brave soldiers and not
treaty breakers, thieves and murderers,
you would think me a coward if | did
not die fighting the Americans. There
fore, while | 90 to Red Deer now, to
live at peace (here the speaker almost
shrieked), | will come back when my
braves are strong, or if they will not
come with me | will come alone, and
fight the Americans until death. You
l love and respect, them | hate, and
your Queens soldiers would despise me
if | did not hate them. That is all. l
am ready TO go with you to the Red
Deer"
The Blackfeet Indians say they won't
stand any more nonsense from tie
Sioux. The Nez Perces, who fled here
before Joseph's surrender, have nearly
all returned. They attempted to squat
between this post and the Buttes. but
were warned off. Some of them crossed
the mountains into British Columbia,
probably with view of joining their
old allies, the Okanogans.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-15
Are We Becoming Indians!

The New York Tribune says: The
ease with which some ready writers can
spin theories is curiously illustrated IN
recent article in Reform, a journal
published at Hamburg, in which the
effect of climate on the people OF the
United States is discussed. The theory
assumes that we are beginning in this
country to resemble the North Ameri-
can Indians. The assumption IS hrst
made that our people are chiefly OF En-
glish descent. Our skins have become
dry. Our glandular system has shrunk
to a minimum. Our necks are long;
our heads small. Our cheekbOnes pro-
iect. Our eye cavities are deep. Our
undreiaws are full. In all these par
ticulars we are approximating the In
dian. Furthermore, the Englishman Is
heavily bearded, the American lightly,
the Indian not at all. Our hair is
Strengthening. Our extremities are
frightening, so that American gloves
have to be made with long, slender
fingers. But this is not all. The change
extends to our manners and customs;
for instance, the lynch law of the border
and the polygamy of Utah show the
proclivity toward the ways of the abo-
rhymes. Even the negroes here, we are
told, are yielding to the climate, and
bleaching gradually.
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INSTANTANEOUS.

Canada has decided that Sitting-Bull
shall remain where he is, during the coming
winter, and in spring shall go to the Red
Deer River, on a reservation there. This
latter is the region that Sitting Bull himself
applied for, as it is in a good hunting
ground .... .r. I.I-
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison, a well known cleo
trician OF Newark, n. j., claims to have in
vented (but not yet fully perfected an in
strument which he calls the Photograph,
bv means of which human speech can be
permanently registered andreproduced with
every tone exactly as uttered, at any future
time. The instrument used is not unlike
the telephone in construction, and
Mr.. Edison has so far experimental with 1t
as to feel confident of its practical utility.
The wonderful possibilities of this inven-
ton, by which the actual tones of great
orator or singer, OF of a dear parent or
friend, can be transmitted to posterity, rem
der it the browning discovery OF this age OF
scientific progress.
The meeting Of the French Parliament, on
the eth, was attended with considerable eX-
element, but every thing passed of quietly
| The Chamber elected NJ. Grevy, Republic
| can, Provisional President. The De Brog-
! lie Ministry, at the request of President Mac
/ Mahon, have Withdrawn their designations
The Moniteur says that President MacMa-
hon has no intention of resigning, as had
1 been previously rumored.
! The Pope has been stricken with paraly-
sis. His condition was such on the 18th THAI
his physicians stated that he might die a
any moment, and even if he rallied he could
not long survive.
Eleven persons were killed by the eXplo'
sion Of an Argentine tOrpedo-boat in the
harbor of Buenos Ayres on the 18th.
The October reports Of the various Cotton
Exchanges show that unfavorable rains have
prevailed during the month throughout a
large portion of the cotton growing region.
The average yield as compared with last
year shows an estimated deficiency of from
5 TO 20 per cent, although some favored To-
calitieS estimate an increase.
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The grape yield in Ohio has been
very satisfactory this year, although
there were serious apprehensions OF a
failure in the spring. From Put-ln-Bay
alone 10000 baskets were shipped.
They have fetched from p cents apound
for Concords to cents for choice Della
wares Catawbas have sold for 4 cents
and upwards.
California farmers are cultivahng
fig-trees for the sole purpose of raising
and fattening hogs. This fruit contains
large quantities of saccharine matter,
hence is very fattening. The fg-tree,
once well started, requires little atten-
ton, bears several crops year and Is
very prolific.
An engineer proposes to heat the
town of Virginia, Nevada, by means OF
the heat generated in the mines under
meath the place. He says there is
enough heat to warm every house, and
he proposes q system of pipes through
which the warm air will be distributed
Thus he will ventilate the mines also.
The palmetto has been considered
one of the most worthless trees of Florl-
4 da. A gentleman from Volusia now
comes forward with display of brushes
mattings and ropes made from the in
ner bark, and cOntemplates the build
ing of mandatory at Volusia. Th'
wild orange, also, has always been re
garded as worthless fruit, and millions
have rotted every year. An enterpris
ing Yankee has engaged in manufaetur
ing from them essences, sirups, AM
marmalades. He has met with consid
cradle success.
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Science and Industry.

Several girls in Flint, Mich, are
learning the cooper's trade. i..
Oysters are scarce and of an inferior
quality in England this season, whereas
on this side of the water they are unus-
ually abundant.
Australia is making extensive prep
arations to supply England with fresh
meat by similar methods now in use
here.
Switzerland is increasing her trade
in condensed milk, making available as
an article of export that which was
formerly wasted.
-Pindars, chufas and goober peas,
with hickory and walnuts, dried fruit,
the arrow and cassava root, with the
starch obtained from the two last men
toned products, were noteworthy dis
PLAYS at the late South Georgia Fair, at
Townsville.
The San Francisco AltG says that if
anv enterprise ever had fair trial in
California and resulted in failure, it has
been the business of trying to breed An
cora goats with the common stock for
the production of fine wool. The pure
Angora, it is thought, is profitable there.
Canada claims to have produced the
largest cheese on record. From the In
oersoll factory has been turned out a
cheese weighing 1000 pounds. 1t was
C feet 10 inches in diameter, feet in
height, and 81 feet in circumference. II
required one milking of 1000 COWS, or
S5 tons of milk, to produce it.
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PeremptOry.

"May it please the Court said a
Yankee lawyer before Il Dutch Judge in
New York State, "this is a ease OF the
greatest Importance. While the Amer
lean Eagle whose sleepless eye watches
the welfare of this mighty Republic, and
whose wings extend from the Allegha-
MES to the Rocky chain of the West,
rejoicing in his pride of place"
" ShtOp dare! Shtop l say! Vat
has dis suit to do NIT de Wild bird; it
ish Won sheep!"
"That is true, your Honor, but my
client has rights"
Your CLIENT has no right to de
eagle"
"Of course not; but the laws of Ian
guage-"
"Vot care for de laws of language,
Ell? understand de laws of de State,
and dat ish enough for me. Talk to de
case"
"Well, then, my client, the defend
ant, is charged with stealing a sheep
and"
"Dat viii do! Your glient is charged
nit stealing a sheep. Dat ish shust
nine shillins. De Court viii adjourn"
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Foreign Notes.

Mr.. Gladstone, in emulation of
Horace Greeley, has been photographed
in his shirt-sleeves, sitting among the
chips of fallen tree with an AK beside
him.
Prince Leopold, the youngest of
Queen Victoria's sons, now "a years old,
is about to make his appearance as an
author. The subject is g The Polariza-
ton of Light" The volume will be
published at about the opening of the
coming year.
The remains of the Emperor Louis
of Bavaria have been discovered in the
excavations now proceeding under the
ex-church of the Convent of the Au-
cuisines at Munich. The Emperor was
buried after embalmment, and now turns
up as first-class mummy.
The city authorities of Leipsic, in
Germany, have imposed fine of not
less than five nor more than ten marks
upon any woman who may wear trailing
dresses in the streets. The police have
orders to arrest them, and their names
are to be published each week in the
local papers.
The beatification of Joan of Arc,
which has been for some time applied
for by Bishop Dupanloup of Orleans,
has been refused at the Vatican. The
Committee on Ritual could not discover
in the merits or deeds of Joan sufficient
motive for beatifying her, and, more
over, had no documentary proofs OF her
chastity.
-Strasbourg Cathedral is now un-
dergoing complete reparation. A great
deal more has been added than was
knocked down in the Franco
Prussian war. The statues of the en-
perors are given prominent positions
without much regard as to the proba-
bility of their ever having stood before
in the place now assigned them.
The Housekeepers' Union of Ber-
lin, organized by Frau Morganstern,
now numbers 1000 members, who do
all their buying on the cooperative
plan. The clerks in the grocery are all
Girls and women, and the sales are made
at cost. The Union began with 200
members, who paid 81 apiece as capt.
tai. The members pay besides 81 a
year dues, and for this have the privi-
fege of buying all their stores at cost.
The English seek the sea when we
leave it. Brighton is crammed, and the
three mile drive with splendid mansions
on the one hand, and the waves on the
other, is as full as Hyde Park in June.
Handsome furnished houses rent In No
vember as high as $3.50 week. The
distance from London is 30 miles, but
the trains run it within 20 minutes, and |
many rich business men goup and down
thrice week, or even daily. Brighton
is much affected by the affiuent Hebrew.
George the ". IS Pavilion is now pub
lie pleasure haunt The town contains
SO, 600 inhabitants, and is parliament
arv borough.
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Hans and FIishaps.

"A Swear old girl named Clara Ne
Wis fell into an open cistern and was
drowned, at Crestline, o..
"A 5-year old daughter of John
Fisher, afarmer living near Rising Sun,
Ind, was fatally burned by her clothes
taking fire from stove.
-Coal-oil; A daughter of John Fan
OUGHT, of Eaton, o., was fatally burned
while lillinga lighted kerosene lamp
Miss Louisa Kennedy, aged II, of Park
ersburg, w. Va, was fatally burned
while kindling a fire with Kerosene
John Knee, of Pittsburg, Pa, caused the
explosion of a kerosene lamp by blow
into the chimney and he was fatally
burned. .fl'
Suicides: Miss Belle Zellers, aged
II, drowned herself in the Muskingum
River near her home below McConnells-
vile, O.-An unknown man jumped
from the suspension bridge at Cincin-
natl into the Ohio River, hundred feet
below.-Ashley Lampfreer, of Dexter,
Mich, shot himself.-John German, a
well-to-do farmer, of Manson, Mich
cut his throat from ear to ear.-JOhn
Parsons, aged Go and wealthy, drowned
himself at Lynn, Mass.-Mrs. August
Nolan, of Newport, r. L., cut her throat
Shotgun Jacob Musser, aged 30
a farmer residing five miles north OF
! Defiance, o., left his home Sunday
morning for a days hunting. Or
Wednesday morning his body was found
about two miles from home, his head
blown to pieces aud brains scattered
around, his gun beside him with botf
barrels discharged,-At Jacksonville
Ind, two boys, named Warner and
McDermott. aged 5 and Is
were scuilling for possession o
an old musket, heavily loaded
when the weapon was discharged, thu
contents striking young Warner in thu
left lower jaw, blowing the entire sid
of his face and head off. Death ensueC
immediately Swartz, of Mans
vile, Pa, had climbed into grapevine
and was gathering grapes when Mr.
CrOll came along with his gun. seeing
something move in the vine Croll sup
posed it to be a wild turkery or
/ pheasant, and discharged hi
piece at the object with fata
precision Charles Stiff, aged II, o
Newark, n. j., was hunting cartridges
and wounded one which tried to flutte1
away Young Stiff, Selling his gun
by the muzzle, struck ut the bird, dis
charging the piece, the load entering hi
stomach and killing him instantly.
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A Lucky Find.

A gentleman of Eureka ordered, some
three weeks ago, several books from
Harper Bros, New York, and among
others received an English translation
of 60 Cicero's OratiOns While turning
over the leaves yesterday, he was some
what surprised to find between the
leaves a twenty dollar note, issued by
the National Bank at Rutland, Vermont.
Astonished atthevalue of the book mark,
he instituted through search through
its pages and he was rewarded by the
further discovery of five and two
dollar note. making an aggregate OF S27.
Our friend is puzzled to account for the
presence of the calculating medium in
his volume of classics, especially as the
book was brand new, and forwarded
directfrom the publishing firm mentioned
above. 1t may be that it is scheme
on the part of some wealthy philanthro-
pist to encourage the pursuit of classical
knowledge, and if such is the case we
predict q wide circulation for the books,
and an eager pursuit of that requirement.
The fortunate recipient of the volume,
to prove that there was nothing mean
about him, filled out an order for $25
worth of the firms publications, and
sent the identical money found IN pay
ment for the same. If his next purchase
pans out as well as the last, he will re-
peat the order, and thinks that by
following up the system he will soon be
the owner of fine library Eureka
(NeU Sentinel.
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Sunshine as Force.

A good illustration of mans inability
for self-support, independently of sun
shine, is afforded by the following cal
culation. The mechanical equivalent
of the vertical sunshine received upon a
square mile of the earth's surface, is COM
puted to be 1928, 000, 900 pounds raised
q foot high in a second. Under the most
favorable circumstances, square mile
of terrestrial soil receiving this amount
of sunshine, if planted with bananas,
would yield according to the estimate of
Baron Humboldt $4,000 tons of nutri-
tious food yearly. This is the greatest
amount of food-producing power OF
which the earth appears to be capable.
But this quantity of food would suffice
for only 100000 men, whose united
mechanical force would not raise more
than 10000, 900 pounds foot high in
second. II would therefore not be pos
sible for any number of men, by their
mere mechanical force, TO produce any
thing like sufficient light and heat in
the absence of sunshine to raise from
the soil the food heedful for their own
support.
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The Steamer John +. Tolle, Capt. Brady,
Of the Countz Line, from St. Louis 10 New
Orleans laden with produce, was burned at
Grand Gulf on the night OF the 10Th.
Boat and cargo total loss. The steamer
was valued at $4,000, and carried small
insurance.
News is received from San Antonio 70 the
eiTec; that a party Of MeXicans, numbering
nearly 100, pursued party Of thieving In
dams across the border into Texas, over
took them near the Guadalupe Mountains,
killed six, captured others and recovered
the stolen stock. The Indians had left their
reservation in New Mexico and gone TO
depredating in the vicinity Of San Diego,
Mexico.
Ben. B. Groom, we'll known stock raiser
of Clark Comfy, Nv, has gone into bank
ruptey with liabilities exceeding a quarter
of million and assets worth about one-half
that sum.
Ex-United states Marshal shafenberger,
OF Colorado, who has been confined in the
Kansas Penitentiary for the past eight
months, where he was sent after being found
guilty of robbing the GovernmentO of $4,000,
Is announced that shatfenberger is going to
Europe.
A Galveston Neios special Of the 18th says
that Lieut.. Bulls, with small party OF
scouts, crossed the Rio Grande near the
mouth Of Pecos River, was attacked by 3
body of 500 Indians and compelled TO re-
treat. Loss not stated. Col. Young had lef
Fort Clark with 200 cavalry to reinforce
Bulls. t.
4 Memphis dispatch Of the 18th says thai
reign OF terror exists in the vicinity o.
Raleigh in that comfy, caused by the shoot
ing Of colored men by white desperadoes
chief among whom is Mack Williams. Law
abiding citizens are overawed by the ruff
ans, and eolOred men are fleeing for thei
/ lives.
The side-wheel steamer Tom Morgan, o
| Covington, Ky, was wrecked by the eXplo
sion of its boilers near Greenville, Miss, OF
/ the 10th. DR.. Powell, who was both own
4 er and captain, and the engineer were killed
The County Treasury of Clermon
County, @, at Batavia, has been mysterious
ly robbed Of S24 900.
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erating:
A is a speaking-tube provided

A is speakingtube provided with
mouth-piece, c.; Y is a metallic dia-
phragm which responds powerfully to
the vibrations of the voice. In the CEN
ter of the diaphragm is secured a small
chisel-shaped point. d is a drum re-
volved by clock-work, and serves to
carry forward a continuous fillet of pa
per, having throughout its length and
exactly in the center raised V-shaped
boss, such as would be made by passing
a fillet of paper through a Morse regis
ter with the lever constantly depressed.
The chisel-point attached to the dia-
phragm rests upon the sharp edge of
the raised boss. If now the paper be
drawn rapidly along, all the movements
of the diaphragm will be recorded
by the indentation of the
chisel-point into the delicate boss
it having no support underneath, Is
very easily Indicated; to do this, little or
no power is required to operate the
chisel. The tones of small amplitude
will be recorded by slight indentations,
and those of full amplitude by deep ones.
This fillet of paper thus receives the re-
cord of the vocal vibrations of air waves
from the movements of the diaphragm I;
and if it can be made to contribute the
same motion to Il second diaphragm,
we shall not only see that we have a
record of the words, but shall have
them respoken; and if that second dia-
phragm be that of the transmitter of a
! neutrality-suspicious., we shall have the
! still more marvellous performance OF
having them Tespoken and transmitted
| by wire at the same time to a distant
point. .-..
The Reproduction is very similar to the
indenting apparatus, except that more
delicate diaphgram is used. The re-
productor, B, has attached to its dia-
phragm a thread which in turn is at
tached to a hair-spring, Ii, upon the
end of which is aV-shaped point rest
! ing upon the indentations of the boss.
! The passage of the indented boss under
| meath this point causes it to rise and fall
1 with precision, thus contributing to the
diaphragm the motion of the original
one, and thereby rendering the words
again audible. OF course, Mr.. Edison,
at this stage of the invention, finds some
difficulty in reproducing the finer ar
ticulatiOns. But he is quite justified by
results obtained by his first crude efforts,
! in his prediction that he will have the
apparatus in practical operation within a
year. He has already applied the prin-
ciple to his neutrality-suspicious., thereby
causing an electromagnetic to operate the
indenting diaphragm, and will undoubt-
edly be able TO transmit a speech made
upon the floor of the Senate, from
Washington to New York, record the
same in New York automatically, and
by means of speaking telephones rede-
liver it in the editorial ear of every
newspaper in New York. In view OF
the practical inventions already con
tributed by Mr.. Edison, is there any one
who is prepared to gainsay this predic-
ton I, for one, am satisfied it will be
fulfilled, and that, too, at an early day,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-15
HumOrs OF the House.

At Judge Kelley's suggestion, the
House went into committee of the whole
for general debate upon the Presidents
message In this any member who gets
the floor can talk upon any subject he
likes. Mr.. Hunter, of Indiana, had
planted himself with a mass of manu-
script in one hand and a pair of eye
glasses in the other. There was some
thing so grotesque in the posture of Mr..
Hunter, who stood ready with his man
uscript-so threatening mass of dull
ness-that the garrulous chatters who,
when on end, can talk for weeks with
out an idea or pause, began to laugh,
and before Mr.. Hunter had said word
the general giggle broke out into Il
hoarse roar. When Hunter sOlemnly
began, 'Mr. Chairman, the condition
Of the country at the present time y
such a solemn sentence, so pOnderOuS
in its possibilities, kept the house yelling
with laughter The fun was kept up
by Mr.. Hunter absolutely refusing to BE-
put down He began this sentence a.
least dozen times with the same result
of being Jagged down. Mr.. Conger
then made a point of order against this
speech, saving that it referred to the
condition of the country, a subject not
mentioned in the Presidents message.
Mr.. Hunters first sentences were very
unfortunate, as a phrase. "We are
suffering" again created an uproar.
He was finally forced to make an ex-
tempore introduction, and only in this
way succeeded in getting the House to
let him proceed.