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Sage Maternal COunseIs.

Eliza" said a fond mother to her
offspring on Saturday, as that offspring
was about going forth in tow of a young
man who worships the very sidewalk she
walks, eliza, go to the bread box and
eat a good big crust of bread before you
go out" "Why, maw," replied the
blushing girl, 81 dont't feel the least bit
hungry. We've only just had tea"
81 know it, but you will be hungry be-
fore you get back, and when Adolphus
takes you into a restaurant you'll eat ice
cream, and sponge-cake and ham sand
witches, and oysters enough to scare him
out of a years growth. You silly girls
don't think OF this, but we experienced
women do. l was once young and giddy
myself, and but for sixty-five cents worth
of maccaroons-a cake for which | have
ever since entertained the most profound
contempt-your paw would have been a
congressman, with an aquiline nose and
Hyperion's curls. Beware how you sit
down on the budding flame of Cupid. Of
course, Adolphus will spend the money
you save him on Billiards and things, but
that makes no difference. When he asks
you to 60 in and have some oysters, even
if you are hungry, don't. Say you do not
approve of girls wasting the money of
their future husbands on idle trifes, when
it might be applied toward furnishing a
house. Point out that for the cost of an.
oyster stew you might purchase a couple
OF towels; now that toweling is so cheap,
and that a saddle-rock roast is the equiv.
alent of a silver ferk-plated, of course,
but not easily distinguished from solid
silver-or a glass sugar bow. This always
takes the young men; it sets them to
thinking o housekeeping and matrimony
it makes them believe that you are the
incarnation of economy, and would make
an excellent wife and so they often saw
things which give you a hold over them,
or are effective before a jury" Eliza
treasured up these ~sagacious counsels CT
the ~authoress of her being, and acted
upon them with such earnestness and
effect that when she came home she was
engaged woman.-U Chicago Tribune.
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WAkIuNGTON.


Both houses of congress are nearly
ready for occupancy. The ventilation Of
both has been materially improved.
There is not the slightest apprehension
felt by the department of state OF any serious
difficulty with the Diaz government, which
is only too anxious to maintain friendly
relations with US.
Thirty temporary clerks were dropped
from the treasury department last week, and
fifty more will be discharged at the end OF
this month.
The freedmen's bureau commissioners
say they have enough to pay 10 per cent.
divided to depositors, but not enough to pay
a dividend Of 20 per cent. II they could pay
a dividend of 20 per cent, they would imme.
diately declare it, but it is extremely doubt
full If the declaration OF a 10 per cent. divi.
dend would be judicious. This they say is
well known to all except the smaller de-
p~ositors.
The secretary of the interior has given
q decision that when q homestead claimants
land has become valueless for farming pur.
poses by reason of overflow or backwater of
a river, he will be allowed to make another
entry, with credit for fees and commissions.
In the event OF a new entry, he will be re-
quired to show compliance with the law, as
though he had made no previous entry.
Special revenue agents of the internal
revenue bureau have been engaged in ex-
aminations in various parts of the Union,
particularly in the southern states, to ascer.
tain and report as to the locality and condi-
ton OF titles, values, ETC., of the large amount
of real estate which has been acquired by
the government through violations of the
revenue laws by owners of the property.
The aggregate value of this real estate is set
at high figures, and the object of this inves.
t~igation is to enable the government to
tory to offering it for sale.
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MISCELLANEOUS w..

Experiments with electric lights lately
took place at Cronstadt The apparatus was
fixed on board the Peter the Great, and was
OF such intensity that small print could be
read on a vessel moored four cables of. 1t
is contemplated to furnish all the forts at
Cronstadt with this light.
Frank Leslie, the New York publisher,
has gone into bankruptcy. C~ause-unfor-
tunate real estate speculations.' HE various
publications will be continued without
change.
Sitting Bull is said to be encamped at
Point Horse Buttes, one hundred and twenty
miles from Fort Walsh, on British territory,
and has no intention Of going upon the war
path.
A California paper describes the
latest thing out" as a new horse shoe made
out of three thicknesses OF rawhide, COM
pressed together by heavy pressure. 1t is
said t.. last longer, weighs only one.fourth as
much as the common shoes, never splits the
hoof, and has no bad influence on the foot.
1t is so elastic that the horses step is never
uncertain.
Masked men boarded the U. and p.
train near Big Springs, and at the pistol
point got away with 100000. A reward of
$40. 900 is offered for the robbers. The pas.
sengerS III tne cOdcneS were also visited ana
relieved of their cash and valuables. TIT
plumber aiken from the passengers is stated
to be $1,000 in cash, four gold watches and
a ticket to Chicago.
James Newly, a negro newsboy, who
went abroad from New London, Conn, with
Moody and Sankey, studied for the church
of England ministry at London, passed an
examination before the bishops, which
prompted the bishop of London to say, al
would to God all our clergymen were like
this young man." Newly has since sailed
for Africa to be assistant to Bishop Crowther.
An a~rtesian well, sunk by d. b.
Lowell in Nevada, on Eel river island, at
the depth of one hundred and twenty feet,
struck a current of gas which, when ignited,
sent up a lame Jet thirty.six feet high. A
strong wind failed to blow it out, and an
eight hours's rain did not extinguish it. In
the night a newspaper could be read by its
light one hundred feet away.
American beef is seeking other chan
nels of transportation to Europe. A line of
steamers is now in operation between Mar.
settles, France, and the river Plata, in South
America, for the purpose of carrying frozen
fresh meat. There are two methods of re-
ducing the temperature on these steamers.
One by the evaporation Of ammonia, the
other by the ventilation of ether. BY the
former process the temperature can be made
so low that the meat becomes sheeted with
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THE GRAND
Details of the Grandeur and Capacity q
the Lost Steamer.

she Lost steamer.
The loss by fire of that pride and won
der of the western waters-the steamer
Grand Republic-the grandest craft that
ever piled the Mississippi, continues to
be a leading topic of interest among our
people.
The magnificent vessel will never be
likely to have her counterpart in point
of grandeur, size and elegance for a gen.
Grafton, and perhaps never again as long
as the western rivers are navigated. The
cause and incidents of her destruction
will, therefore, be a matter of interest
to the people here, where the fine vessel
may be considered to have partially be-
longed, as she was destined to be a New
Orleans and Memphis packet during the
cotton carrying season.
A man named John Prather, who was
the boats Waterman, reports that about
halt-past IL O'Clock, last Wednesday
night, he was on the lower deck of the
Grand Republic, and smelling smoke, he
went up stairs, and found that it was
rolling through the panels and flooring
of the bridal chamber in the ladies cabin,
from whence the flames speedily broke
through. In less than ten minutes the
whole cabin and upper works were one
mass of furious flames, and to keep from
being roasted alive he had to get ashore
as rapidly as possible, losing a trunk full
of clothes. The engineer and carpenter,
also, lost their baggage. The vessel was
totally destroyed, and the wreck sunk in
a very brief space of time. There had
been no fire on the boat, except under
the niger boiler, and this had all been
put out before dark. The Waterman
had no knowledge OF any fire being about
the ladies' cabin, and he could not give
any reason as to how it originated there.
The beats seven new steel boilers had
been tested during the day. She had
just come off the docks and wa to have
started south on the 9th day of October.
The gorgeous vessel was fitted out with
all modern Improvements and inventions,
fire alarms, soundings and speaking
trumpets, wire tiller ropes, wire bell
cords and complete steering outfit. 1t is
estimated by experts that this nonpareil
steamer could not be duplicated in even
these times of depression and c~heapness
for $250,000. The original cost of the
first boat was yer $500, 900, and the
various alterations to machinery and
hull. together with the new hull de-
was in all over half a million
dollars. To such a public spirited COM
mander as is Capt. Thorwegan, who
solely owned the splendid craft, the loss
falls heavily, and the sympathy of a large
number of friends is extended him.
Memphis Avalanche.
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A Singular Fact.

A correspondent of the London notes
and queries quotes from Burckharrdt a
curious fact in connection with Egyptian
art. The author says: Among the in
Vulnerable paintings and sculptures in
the temples and tombs of Egypt, / never
met with a single representation of a
camel. At Thebes, in the highest of the
tombs, on the side of the Djebil Habow,
called Add Ell Gorne, which has not, /
believe, been mentioned by former trav-
elers, or by the French in their great
work, [ found all the domestic animals
of the Egyptians represented together in
one large painting upon a wall, forming
the most interesting work of the kind
I saw in Egypt. A shepherd con-
ducts the whole herd into the presence
his master, who inspects them, while
a slave is noting them down. Yet even
here | looked in vain for the camel.
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A Remarkable Dream Story.

All the world loves to talk about
dreams. The streaks of insanity which
q French philosopher declares run
through every mans brain, show their
edges in sleeping, il not in working
hours, and as for the supernatural
element, who is wholly without super
stition in regard to dreams? Two
English ladies were recently in attend.
ance upon their brother, who was i'll of
common sore throat-severe and pro-
tracted, but not considered dangerous.
At the same time, one of them had
borrowed a watch from a female friend,
in consequence of her own being under
The watch was one to which
particular value was attached, on &C
count of family associations, and some
anxiety was expressed that it might not
meet with any injury. The sisters were
; eeping together, in a room communi-
with that Of their brother, when
the elder of them awoke in a STATE of
great agitation; and, having aroused the
told her that she had had a fright
iul dream. at dreamed" she said, Chat
watch stopped, and that when 1
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told you Of the circumstance, you re-
piled, "much worse than that has
happened, for James breath has stopped
also! meaning their brother who was
i'll. To quiet her agitation, the younger
sister Immediately got up and found the
brother sleeping quietly, and the watch,
which had been carefully put in a
drawer, going correctly. The following
night the very same dream occurred,
followed by similar agitation which was
again composed in the same manner; the
brother being again found in a quiet
sleep, and the watch going well. On
the following morning, soon after the
family breakfasted, one of the sisters
was sitting by her brother, while the
other was writing a note in the adjoining
room. When her note was ready for
sealing, she was proceeding to take out for
the purpose the watch which she had
put in her writing desk, when she was
astonisbed to find it had stopped; and
at the same instant she heard a scream
from her sister in the next room.
Their brother had been seized with a
fit of suffocation, and had just
breathed his last.-M. y. Tribune.
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THE WAR,

Chefvet Pasha, the leader in the Bull
garian massacres, has been sent to command
Osman Pasha's reserves at Orkanich. and
guard his communications; probably, also
with the view of keeping an eye on Servia,
The battle reported at Duborik, in
which the Russians were said to have been
defeated, must have been, if 1T all. at a vii.
lsge five miles northwest OF Vatza, on the
Rahova road. Reports say Osman Pasha has
a fortified position almost impregnable, nat
urslly, at Vatza. on which he will retire il
driven from Plevna. Anyhow, the Rouma.
MAN attempt to cut his communication seems
to nave failed.
The Daily News (~strong pro-Russian)
thus sums up the mornings intelligence:
Looking impartially at the facts presented
this morning, we are unable to form any
other conclusion than that the attack on
Plevna has not only failed, but has so failed
it can not be renewed under the conditions
in which the Russian commander finds him
self placed. He has attempted what the
great German commanders never attempted
in their French campaign, and has used up
his slight superiority of men with extraordi-
nary rapidity. He is liable to be attacked
It any given part of his front by a force
than any which he can assemble there.
N a word, he Is beaten"
The following is furnished by the
minister to the United States: A
telegram from the governor-general of Adri-
under date of August 81, reports that
Israelites of Kezanhk, massacred
~ the Russians and Bulgarians, have been
buried In the synagogue, with the exception
u one who was devoured by the dogs.
Among these victims were a woman and a
'iI, the latter fifteen years old, named Thodi
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Light VS.. Bacteria.

Messrs. Downes and Blunt have been
engaged for some time in Investigations
upon the influence of light upon the
development of bacteria, as bearing more
particularly upon the researches of the
late papers of Tyndall, Bastian, and
Others. Among the provisional conclu,
sions reached by them we're that light is
inimical to the development of bacteria.
and that, under favorable conditions, il
may prevent it entirely, or at least re-
tard it. The direct insulation, however,
is necessary for the production of the full
effect of the light. The conditions tend
ing to neutralize the action of light are
the same as are known to favor the pro-
cess of fermentation and putrefaction,
but the fitness of the solution to serve as
a indus is not destroyed by insulation.
The authors claim, as their discovery,
that light is absolutely inimical to the
production of bacteria. Hnrper's Teekiy.
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PERSONALITIES.

Theodore Thomas considers Beethoven
the boss composer.
James Gordon Bennett is on his way
home and may be expected shortly.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has at last
got tired of trying to compromise with the
holders of her property in New Orleans, and
is now going for them to the full extent of
the law.
Alexander II. Stephens is at Catoosa
Springs, Georgia, He will make the jour.
ney to Washington by easy stages, visiting
friends on the way. Jie will find the cars
easier than stages.
Edmund de Rothschiid is about to
marry Mile. Adelaide de Rothschild, the
daughter of Baron Willy de Rothschild, of
Frankfort. Edmund de Rothschild's father,
Baron James de Rothschild, married his own
niece, Bette, the daughter of Baron Solomon
de Rotaschild. Her brothers daughter mar.
ried Baron Willy de Rothrchild, and now her
son is going to marry Baron WHY'S daugh-
ter. This system of intermarriage is likely
to give the family more money than brains.
There is a tempest in a teapot at Salt
Lake city, caused by the public knowledge
OF the Tact That John w. Young intends to be
sealed to a Miss Cobb, q voluptuons looking
girl OF sixteen, a stepdaughter of his father,
and granddaughter of Mrs. Augustus L.Cobb,
one OF Brigham's mistresses, known in Nor
mondom as the woman who desired to be
sealed to Jesus Christ. The contemplated
ceremony has caused John w. Young's wife
to desert him and return to her father, a Mr..
Garfield, who is a railroad engineer, living
in Philadelphia.
1t would seem that the Nez Perces de-
mon is hardly of so somber a hue as he is gen.
orally painted: A letter from Montana gives
an unexpected example of their clemency.
A council of five debated for some time on
the question of the release of several prison
ers in their possession, and at last, by a ma.
jority of one, decided to let them 20. Fear.
ing that they would regret their decision
White Bird, the chief, said to the trembling
captives: "You go quick--go by this trail
don't stop to camp or eat or water YOU pos
nies-don't go up the ri%ver-hurryt to the Hot
Springs and join your people there-get
away-hurrv!" He then gave them some
bread and matches and guided them q mile
from the camp.
Ralph Waldo Emerson twenty years
ago addressed a literary society at Middle.
bury, vermont, during commencement, and
when he ended, the president called upon a
clergyman to conclude the service with
prayer. A Massachusetts, minister answered
the request as follows: awe beseech thee,
. Lord, to deliver us from ever hearing any
more such t~ranscendental nonsense as that
we have just listened to from this sacred
desk" After the benediotion Mr.. Emerson
asked his next neighbor the name of the
officiating clergyman, and, when falteringly |
answered, with gentle simplicity, remarked:
seemed a very conscientious, plain.
spoken man" ans went his peaceful way.
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SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.

Thirty Chinese merchants in San
Francisco have united in an appeal to the
board of education to have public schools
opened for the instruction of Chinese youth.
The American home missionary society
reports its treasury to be "behind" to the
extent of $4,000. About 400 missionaries are
dependent on the receipts for their support,
Bishop Simpsons long-promised Cyclic
pedia of Methodism has got on to the ex-
tent Of one hundred and sixty royal octave
pages in print, and the whole book, which
will have 1000 pages, will be ready next
sping.
There is to be a southern educational
convention in Atlanta on the seventh of No.
vember, for " the purpose of considering the
difficulties of the educational situation, and
OF d~evising the most effective means of sur
mounting them, and establishing in every
southern state a wise and efficient system of
public education"
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Temper.

A cheerful temper in a house is like
perpetual sunshine, gladdening and en-.
livening every one, in the presence of
which you forget your troubles and
would be ashamed to remember your
annoyance; but a bad temper spoils
everything. Ofense taken at airv moth
ings, impotence under unavoidable wor-
ries, small things made into great ones
by the magni ying powers Of suspicion,
sullenness, %irritability, ill-bumor-who
can say that all this has no influence?
You might as well deny the singing
power of a nudge or the penetrating
of dust as deny the depressing
effect Of ill-humer wherever it is found,
and the corresponding good influence of
sweet temper. Also, the imitation of
the n or the other, as it may
chance which rules, is very sure to break
put in the younger and weaker OF the
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assault. Madly they dashed Harvard,
but as heroically were they dashed back.
Again and again they sprang forward,
only to meet the same fate, u artillery
in the meantime, from its commanding
position, spreading death everywhere in
the Russisn batteries and ranks. Finally,
Suleiman reluctantly gave the order to
desist he found that the position was
unsuitable by storm, and therefore must
be taken or turned in some other way.
For this purpose he withdrew the in
iantry from the main valley to more
sheltered quarters in the r%avines, and
pushed his troops on the heights forward;
so as to pass by and overreach or outflank
the Russian position .-Boston Traceler
LETTER.
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PIevna.

A correspondent who was present y
the battle of Plevna, telegraphins from
Bucharest, Sept. II, Gays: ii
The Russian Roumanian army nn
abandoned now ever a pretence Of pOt
ecuting the attempt against Plevna, sM
fallen back into positions occupied beOn
the commencement of the bombardmenl
The field artillery still remains in s0Ts
of the positions of the bombardment' y
is announced that a third renewal sir
tended on the arrival of the imPera
guard in a fortnight, | have great dcua
whether another attempt will be nSS
and very much stronger doubt II 1t CIV
be made to succeed. The Turks are eF
ter soldiers individually than the kS'
slams. of that, after seeing not 9 fl
battles, i stand assured. The strategy
both, perhaps, is equally bad, but sE
CARDS both major and minor tactics, i'
Turks are simply immeasurably suF
rior. They are better armed than Wv
Russians, both in great and small arm
They have engineers who can de'is.
admirable defensive positions. RussIn
engineers seem incapable of repairing
a hole in a bridge. The Turks seem >
well provisioned as the Russians, andn
flushed with success. The Russians y,
depressed by failure after failure, "
is thi, all that impairs the hS
sian soldiers dash that is becoming W.
paired. My reluctant personal oosel%
ton of raj can testify that there y Il. %
drawer man than the Russian soldier
a brave soldier cannot continually TN TN
more than fair chances OF wal. II
is called on to face these IA
dangers in addition, which appeal
infinitely greater intensity OF norioi
his imagination. He knows IL ne
receives a bullet in the ankle JOINT, WE
ne is in front of an unsuccessful atsA
he chances are that he will die the uss
# torture, humiliation and muusJ
10 moral courage, no mental hala;"us
stand against this horrible coI' md.
less, and in the attack of the lltn b
distinctly observed his reiue'an"
egin the storming.
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WHEN THE MIsrs HAVE CLEARED
AWAY.

When the mists have rolled in splendor
From the beauty OF the hills,
And the sunshine, warm and tender,
Falls In kisses on the rills,
We may read loves shining letter
In the rainbow OF the spray
We shall know each other better
When the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more TO walk alone,
In the dawning Of the morning,
When the mists nave cleared away.
III we err In human blindness,
And forget that we are dust,
III we miss the law OF kindness,
When we struggle to be Just,
Snowy winds Of peace shall cover
All the pains that cloud our day,
When the weary watch is over,
And the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning Of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
When the silyery nisis have vetled us
From the faces OF our own
OFT we deem their love has failed us,
And we tread our path alone;
We should see them near and truly,
We would trust them day by day,
Neither love or blame unduly,
IL the mists have cleared away.
We shall know US we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning Of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
When the mists have risen above us,
As our Father knows His own,
Face to face with those that love us,
We shall know as we are known
Love beyond the orient meadows
Floats the golden fringe of day;
Heart to heart we blde the thadsws,
TIL the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are knows,
Never more to walk alone,
when the day oil light is %dawniDg,
And the mists have cleared away.