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Russian Tribes.

At time when Russia has summoned
all her tribes to arms, collection of the
different tribes who obey the command of
the "Autocrat Of all the Russias" may
not be uninteresting. And the following
is the result of the latest census of the
Russian Empire: g.
The extensive Empire of the Gar con-
tains the following nations: In Europe
(not including the Kingdom of Poland),
100000 Russians 5000 Poles, 10000
Bulgarians, 100000 Germans, $4,000
Creeks: $4,000 Moldavians, 2,34O,0OO
1ithuanians, 3,O35,OO0 Films, 100000
Jews, 800 Armenians, 1,313,OOO Tar
tars,, 1857 900 Baskirs, 10000 Kirgese,
100000 Calmucks, 1000 Samoyerdes, 49,
900 Gypsies, and 10000 of other nations
In all, the number of inhabitants of Euro
pean Russia is 81, 100000. The Kingdom
of Poland, according to the census of 1868,
numbered s,450,0O0 Poles, $4,000 Jews
(the largest per cent of Israelites in any
country, 10 per cent out of the entire
population), 100000 Russians, 100000
Germans, and 285,000 Lithuanians. In
the Government of Caucasus there dwell
925,O00 Russians, 852, 900 Grusians, $780,
900 Armenians, {, 500 Greeks; $500 Ger
mans, 81 900 Jews, $4,000 Tartars, and
$3.50 of different mountain tribes. Be-
sides, there were 10000 Calmucks.
There dwell in Siberia about 100000
Russians, inclusive Of those banished );
1000 Israelites, and 5000 Germans.
Viewed from relig ious standpoint, Russia
has over 81 ,000,0 900 Greek orthodox, 801,-
600 Raskolinks armenian Catholics),
-2,84O,0O0 Roman Catholics, 100000
Professionals, 100000 Jews, 100000
Pagans. In Caucasus and Siberia the
the christians in number are not much
superior to the Mohammedans. They
number in all z, 400, 900, while the Moham-
medans number 1856, 900, the Jews a.
600, and the Pagans 14,76O. That great
Empire, with its 66,o00,00o inhabitants,
has but tbirty-six towns of more than 3d.
600 population.
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Thirty years experience proves the Grafen-
berg Vegetable Pills to be the mildest and most
effective medicine ever known for the complete
cure of Headache, Biliousncss, Liver Com
plants, Nervousness, Fevers, and diseases of
Digestion. Sold everywhere; price Is cts. per
box. Send for almanacs. Noyes Bros. 4 Cut
Ter. st. Paul, Agents for Minnesota.
GRAEFENBERG Co., New York.
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Valuable Legal Adviser.

Judge Oscar Stephenson has resumed the
practice of law, at st. Paul. He will attend to
cases in the U. 8. and State courts, and devote
especial attention to probate cases in which
he has had large experience, and is considered
ly recommended to all persons having legal
business to be transacted in Minnesota and
Wisconsin, and particularly in all contested
cases of Wills, and other matters in the Probate
Courts. -. !. 81 -s.
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SsooA AoasWro,as tho Vvstchworu
of honest trade. When you buy DooLEY,s
YEAST POWDER, for sale by all grocers, you
get perfectly full weight, just rs marked on
the cans, and beside that m article made of
the very best and puyest material, so that the
strength can always be trusted.
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that we have ever sold, and from the time of
It's first introduction in this market we have
sold much larger quantities of it than any
other similar preparation. Yours truly,
SAWYER & LYON, Hornellsvillc, N. Y.
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INFORMATION worth thousands to those out
Of health Self-help for weak and nervous suf-
ferers. Facts for those who have been dosed,
drugged and quacked. The new Health Jour-
nal teaches all. Copies free. Address Electric
Quarterly, Cincinnati, @.
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GRAEFENBERG Co., New York.

MEssRs. d. w. HATCH s. Co.: We have been
selling your Universal Cough Syrup for about
eight years, and find it gives the best satisfac-
ton of any preparation for coughs and colds
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Ponds Extract

For over twenty-five years has been rccoS-
nized in medical writings as the great specific
or Pain, Concessions. Piles or any soreness.
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Piles
Dyspepsia

If VEGET1NE is taken regularly, according
directions, certain and speedy cure will follow
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1sheum a tlsun Quickly Cured.

1theum Atissa Quickly Cured.
"Durangs Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
81 bottle, six bottles, IS. Sold by all drug
gists Send for circular to Hclphenstine &
Bentley Druggists, Washington, D. c..
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Patentees and inventors should read adver-
tisement of Edison Bros. in another column.
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VEGET1NE does not a. to the
bowels, but cleanses all the organs enabling each to
perform the functions devolving upon them
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
Butter Exports.

The expectation of American butter has
hitherto been limited to the poor grades,
on account of the difficulty of preserving
the article. 1t has now received a great
impetus, like the expectation of fresh
meat, from the improved methods of pre-.
servation. 1t is stated that the New York
dealers are constructing immense refrigera
tor store-houses, where choice butter can be
kept for consumption or expectation. A
refrigerator recently completed is frame
building, 65 by As feet, and feet in height,
cooled by 200 tons of ice, and with a
capacity of 10000 packages. Another firm
makes use of the greater specific gravity of
cooled air. The second, third and fourth
stories of square are converted into a
refrigerator, with the ice in the fourth
story, the floor of which is in Stats, allow
ing the cool air to descend and flow
through the whole building.
According to late report of the National
Butter and Cheese Association the exports
of butter and cheese last year from New
York alone were more than lO4,OO0,OOO
pounds, the shipments of butter reaching
1O,500,000 pounds. The trade in both
products is rapidly increasing. 1t is es.
timated that by the use of properly re.
frigerated rooms in steamships saving OF
from five to three cents per pound would
be effected upon the exports of butter, thus
increasing the volume of business at the
same time that better profit would be
made by the shipper.
In this connection it may be of interest
to mention that the complaints of dairy
men in New York that the butter trade has
been interfered with and injured by the
manufacture of artificial butter led tc
action in the Legislature of that State
which passed bill to protect dairymen ir
the manufacture of butter. According tc
its provisions it is a misdemeanor punish
able with fine of 500 for a person to sci
or expose for sale in New York any article
or substance in resemblance of butter, no
the legitimate product of the dairy, anc
not made exclusively of milk or butter
Manufacturers of oleomargarine and othel
kindred articles are henceforth obliged tc
stamp every tub or package of this product
"Oleomargarine." The bill has Just beer
signed by the Governor.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20

CURIosITY.-A man was Yesterday push
ing an iron lawn-roller around ward on
Woodward avenue, when an old lady came
along, leaned up against the fence, and
watched him for while, and then called
out:
"Say, mister, what arc you pushing that
around for?'
q" To roll the lawn he answered.
"What do you want to roll the lava
for2"
{" To make it level
"What do you want to make it level
forY she continued.
That's what | was ordered to do" he
answered, as he wiped away the pcrspira-
ton.
"But what did they order you to do it
for?"
"Why they think smooth lawn looks
the best, I suppose"
"Why do they think a smooth lawn
looks the BEST" she persisted
81 haven't time to talk :" he said, as he
started up again.
"Why haven't you time to talk p She
shouted
"Go'n ask the boss!'' he cyelled.
"Why shall I go'n ask the boss?" she
screamed.
lie disappeared behind the house to gotrid
of her, and after waiting five minutes for
him to reappcar she slowly sauntcrcd off;
muttering:
Some folks are 50 smart and stuck up
that you can't get within a mile of en-
unless you blaze all over with diamonds e
Detroit Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
A Warning to Business Men.

In recent address over tho remains of
a middle-aged parishioner who had lost his
mind and his life by his close attention to
business, DIR. John Hall said
The strain upon the brain of our business
men during the past year has been tremen-
dous. Is it wise to allow ourselves to be so
given over to the absorbing interests of
business as to incur this great risk? Is it
wise to throw ourselves into business with
such force that the strain may snap the
thread of life? A mans real life is not
merely enshrouded in business. 1t is in
his relations to his family; to his imme-
date circle, and to his friends, so that he
has peace within, and a wellfounded hope
In God. Men of business, said he, keep
your business in hand; possess your bust.
ness and do not allow it to possess you, so
that you may, as far as possible, avoid the
causes which of late years have given us so
many struggles and heartaches. | have
not passed all my life with business men
without knowing the temptations by which
they are surrounded. l know we'll how
hard the pressure continues upon you, and
| ask you to take God with you, so that you
may be preserved in health and enabled
to feel that your real position and your
riches are incorrupti6le, may not be taken
away. Let there be feeling among us oi
how weak are we; how little we know
what is in the womb of the future. Let us
believe the words which the Lord speaks tc
us, and whether we be successful or not in
this world, let us believe together in God
let us be brethren together in the mystic
relations of his providence, and when we
are called, it may also be said of us, "BlesseG
are the dead who die in the Lord, for theil
works do follow them."
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
Effect of Imagination Upon Health.

To regain or to recover health, persons
should be relieved from all anxiety con-
cerning diseases. The mind has much
influence over the body. For person to
think that he has disease may produce
that disease. This we see effected when
the mind is intensely concentrated upon
the disease of another. 1t is found in the
hospitals that physicians who make a
specially of certain diseases are liable to
die of them themselves; and the mental
power is so great that sometimes people
die from disease which they only have
in Imagination. Persons have been known
who have become sea.sick in anticipation
of voyage, before reaching the vessel.
We have known person to die from i'm
agination that he had cancer in his
stomach, when he had no cancer nor any
other mortal disease. A blindfolded man,
slightly pricked in the arm, has tainted
and died from believing that he was
bleeding to death. Reading a medical
book containing descriptions of certain
diseases has often produced the symptoms
even among young medical students
while they at last got the disease unless it
was stopped by commonsense treatment.
Therefore well persons, to remain we'll
should be cheerful and happy; and sick
persons should have their attention drawn
as much as possible from themselves, and
directed upon subjects cheerful to con.
template. Notwithstanding the mind is a
product of the impressions upon the senses
with which the body is provided, and
therefore greatly under the influence OF
the bodily conditions, it has, in its turn,
some influence over the body and its
sanitary conditions-and this to greater
extent than is generally recognized. Every
one knows for instance, how the appetite
can be increased, diminished or even des
troyed, by thinking about certain things
or by joy or sorrow, surprise or fright
Above all, let every one avoid mental ex
citement. Nothing wears out the body
sooner. Therefore, if you wish healthy
body and long life, keep up moderate
activity of body and mind; but, above all
avoid anything that will cause excitement
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
How Kid Gloves are Made.

Gloves have been in use from very early
times, being mentioned by such ancient
writers as Homer and Xenophon. During
the middle ages they were worn by certain
officials as a mark of dignity. But as civili-
zation advanced they gradually became
In the early part of this century there was
no positive regularity in the cut and shape
of kid gloves, all being left to the judge
ment of the cutter, who had no systematic
pattern. In 1884 Xavier Jouvin invented
a new method of cutting out the kid, doing
it with geometrical precision. His system
is extremely elaborate, having thirty-two
sizes, and cutting ten widths to each size,
in all making 80 different numbers. Since
then other manufacturers have made nu-
merous improvements in shape, finish and
stitching, and now the best makes have
almost reached perfection, and merit the
growing demand, which is such that the
price of skins have advanced fifty per cent.
in the last fifteen years.
The term "l<id," however, is a mere
technicality, as the quantity consumed
annually of leather bearing this name is
largely in excess of what could be supplied
from the skins of the young goats that are
annually slaughtered, lamb and other thin
skins being extensively used. The value
of the kid gloves manufactured in France
is estimated at $1O,OOO,OOO, and there are
large quantities made in Italy, Germany
and England, and a comparatively small
amount in this country, at Gloversville,
New York city, and in Philadelphia.
AS the sewing of single pair of ladies'
kid gloves requires five thousand stitches
for which the continental manufacturers
pay about ten cents, it can readily be seen
that this industry cannot be carried or
extensively in this country. The seams are
sewed with perfect regularity by placing
the edges to be united in the jaws of a vice
which terminate in fine brass teeth like
those of q comb, but only one.twclfth of an
inch long, the stitches being held by a
knot to prevent ripping, which used to be
a frequent source of trouble. 1t is neces
sary that the animal should be killed
young, because as soon as it begins to feeC
on herbage its skin is impaired for this pur
pose. Eggs are very extensively used il
preparing the skins it is estimated tha
6O,00O,000 are annually used in England
and France alone. In coloring the kid
dye is applied to the outer skin with I
brush by hand if the skins were immersed
the inner portion would also receive thu
dye and stain the hand.
France excels all in the variety and rich
ness of her colors, which is attributed t.
her atmosphere and water, producing 2OC
different shades. Ladies' sizes run from s.
to 8; gents u to IL misses from to Gl
Gents are longer in the fingers and highe
in wrist than those of ladies' of like mum
Der, though they are alike in width, ant
the misses gloves are narrower.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20

REMEDIES FOR SPRING COMPLAINTs.-The
Scientific american refers to the complaints
of spring gfevers, so prevalent at this season
of the year, when the bodily machinery
seems to be clogged and out of gear, and
headache, dyspepsia, and other nameless
sensations of discomfort, which we charge
to variable weather, affiict poor humanity.
Among other remedies for those who say
they "always have bilious attack in the
spring." the american recommends on rising
light and quick sponging. of the body
with cold water, briskly toweling after.
wards, the more rapidly the better, with
sufficient friction to bring glow to the
skin, or, if sufficient time for this cannot
be secured, at least to make it point to
daily sponge the trunk of the body and the
arms. The clear juice of lemon in wine.
glass OF water, a0ithom sugar, is recommended
as the very best kind of morning bitters.
1t IS said that more potent solvent of bile
cannot be found in the materia medica. 1t
searches and dispels rheumatic tendency,
attacking the insidious foes that are storing
up anguish against the latter days-caleuli
-pervading the system, and rectifying in.
cipient error. 1t is considered needful,
perhaps, to begin with two lemons daily,
the second at night just before retiring. 1t
should be remembered, however, that the
juice must be taken in little water and
without sugar.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20

Modern progress is Chinese ancient
history. What is discovered nowadays was
forgotten in China thousand years ago.
There has been strife among medical men
over the discovery of anesthetics but
hundreds of years ago Celestial physician
named Hao-Tho was in the habit of admin.
istering to his patients a preparation of
mayo, or hemp, which rendered them
temporarily insensible to probing, cutting,
and miscellaneous hacking. An encyclo.
pedia would seem to be a triumph of
modern research, but the Chinese have had
encyclopedias time out of mind. A cor
respondent of the London Times states that
there is in Paris Chinese encyclopedia,
entitled the "Kou-Kin-i-tong," which dates
from period corresponding to 22O of the
Christian era.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20

In Newton County, Mo-, Jesse U. Lynch
has been sentenced to an Imprisonment Of
60 years, and his wife to one of 33 years.
Lynch was the founder and preacher of a
new religion, and pretended to cure the
sick by laying on of hands. The couple
travelled with child which was taken
sick. Lynch affirmed that it was possessed
by a devil, and to drive out this evil spirit
he and his wife pitched the child across
a room to each other. The poor thing
frequently fell, striking the floor, during
this performance. At last it struck joist,
which crushed its skull and so killed it.
The fanatics were arrested, and though a
plea of insanity was set up they were con-
victed. The woman is represented to be of
prepossessing appearance, and entirely
under the control of her husbands will.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
Daniel Webster's Experience Of Fame

After President Tyler's second veto Of a
every member of his cabinet, save Mr..
Webster, Indignantly resigned. The wings
tried their level best to loosen his grip on
the state department, but all their efforts
were unavailing Then they came down
on him like q thousand of brick. They
denounced him with the variations. About
this time an enthusiastic admirer called to
see him. Finding him in a gloomy mood,
he exclaimed: "Mr. Webster, you ought
not to be gloomy about anything; your
fame is made" FameI" replied Web,
ster, "and much for fame" Whereupon
he told the following story: He said he was
travelling in a railroad car on q certain
occasion, and it so happened that he was
seated by the side of a very old gentleman.
He soon found out that this old gentleman
was citizen of New Hampshire, and lived
in Mr.. Webster's native town. He asked
the old man if he knew the Webster family
up there. go, yes" responded the octo
| genarian. "0ld Mr.. Webstor and l were
bosom friends in his lifetime" "Well
what has become of his children?" inquired
Mr.. Webster. The old man answered
"Why, there's Ezekiel, he's the creates
lawyer in New Hampshire, and one of thu
greatest in the country" He then tool
up the daughters and told whom they
had married, and finished his account o
the family without mentioning the nam,
of Daniel. "Were those all the children? p
asked Mr.. Webster. The old man answered
in the affirmative. "Are you sure tha
there was not a boy named Daniel?" in
quired Mr.. Webster. "Daniel, Daniel
Daniel" soliloquized the old man for fey
minutes, and then broke out with the re
ply: 40, now do remember. There wa
one by the name of Daniel, but he wen
down to Boston, and have not heard Q
him since"
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
I Wish I Had Capital"

We do not know the author of the fol
lowing but he breaches a practical business
sermon.
You want capital, do you? And suppose
you had what you call capital, what would
you do withit You want capital? Haven't
you got hands and feet, and bone and
muscle and brains-and don'tyou call them
capital? What more did God give to any
body? "Oh but they are not money" say
you? But they are more than money, and
no one can take them from you. Take
hold of the first plow or hoe, or iackplane
or broad-axe that you can find, and 90 to
your work. Your capital will soon yield
you large interest. All, but there's the
rub. You don't want to work, YOU want
money on credit that you may play the
gentleman and speculate, and end by play
ing the vagabond. Or you want planta-
ton and negroes, that you may hire an
overseer to attend to them, while you run
over the country and dissipate; or you
want to marry to some rich girl who may
be foolish enough to marry you for your
good looks, that she may support you.
Shame upon you, young man Go to
work with the capital you have. If you
can't make money upon what capital you
have, you could not make it if you had q
million dollars in money. If you don't
know how to use bone and muscle and
brains, you would not know how to use
gold. you let the capital you have to be
idle and waste and run out, it would be the
same if you had gold you would only
know how to waste it.
Then don't stand about like great help
less child, waiting for some one to come il
and feed you, but go to work. But if yor
can't or won't manage the capital God ha.
given you, you will never have any moro
to manage.
Smyrna times., 1877-06-20
0 George! What a Damsel.

She was young and fair, and tear
glistened in her eyes as she laid her curly
head on his shoulder and exclaimed:
40 George! think if found you did
not love me should die"
"My darling" he answered, passing his
hand gently round her dimpled chin, "
will always love you. Do you think I
would marry you if did not feel sure of
it? In few days at the altar l shall vow
to love you all my life, and 1 will keep my
VOW"
A lovely kind of beautiful happiness
played for a moment like sunshine on her
lips, and then she whispered:
40 George like to hear you talk like
that; you have been SO good to me. You
have given me a diamond locket, and a
gold watch and chain, and rings that an
angel might wear outside her gloves and
not be ashamed; and if thought that one
day you'd be sorry you'd given me all these
nice things and want them back again il
would break my heart"
He held her gently against his manly
breast, and answered with quivering
voice: "Oh, my darling there is nothing
on earth that could happen that would
make me repent giving you few tokens O
my love, or make me want them bach
again"
She sprang from his arms like joyou
deer, she shook back her sunny curls, ant
with a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex
claimed:
80 George! you have taken a load from
my heart. I've come to say that l cam
marry you after all, because I've seen some
body | like better, and l was afraid you't
want your presents back again"