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Turkish DestructiyencSS.

A recent traveller in Asia writes: In
the latter days of the Greek domination,
Trebizond was the capital of an indie
pendent empire. Since it was taken by
the Turks, Notwithstanding the advan-
tages of it's situation, it's growth has
been arrested, and it has sunk from the
dignity of q political capital to third
rate town. As long as it belongs to Tur-
key it will be the miserable, tumble
down place that it now is, without a
sheltered port, and with an open road
stead only for anchorage, where vessels
lie a league from shore, exposed to tho
full power of the land and sea gales.
The Turks have great power for de-
structlon and none for construction. Put
them down in any given place, and let it
te as rich and prosperous rs it may, and
in short time they will let it fall into
decay. If it is seaport, its harbor will
be choked up with sand, its piers will
crumble to pieces, it's trade will dwindle
away, and its population will thin off as
ii it had been swept by pestilence.
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The Family.

The family is the educator of the race.
Here men and women are made. What
they arc in the world, that they were in
the family as children. The family is the
place where first the lessons of law are
received, and where the whole character,
in vi, W of law has n direction given it.
The citizen is made in the family long
before the time for voting or activity has
come. When Napoleon said, i'll answer
to Madam de Stael's question about
Frances greatest need, " Mothers" he
asserted the all-potent influence of q true
life. The family is the greatest means
for the development of character. What
a world does it present for the affections
to abide in! Where in all the earth
beside are sympathies so warm, love so
pure and fervent as here? All that gives
value or beauty to human character finds
in the family Mt once an atmosphere in
which to expanl and develop the elc-
mants which shall bring it to the highest
perfection,
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Dangers from the Dead.

That the dead should kill the living
seems paradox yet nothing is more
true. Indeed we venture to say that
every year in our land corpses murder
more people than assassins do. Not
only have intramural interments poison
ed whole blocks and quarters, not only
has drinking water contaminated by
grave yards yearly spread disease and
death through country hamlets, but be-
fore the process of decomposition COM
mences there is often great and press
ing danger from infectious disease. We
quote recent instance:
CDR. Goldie, the medical officer of
health for Leeds, England, in his report
to the local authority, states that every
one of thirty people who attended the
wake of an Irish girl who recently died
in that town from typhus fever were at
tackled by the disease and no fewer than
nine of the cases ended fatally"
So strongly have the needless dangers
of exposure at funerals impressed the
medical mind, that the health board of
New York have issued circular recon-
mending that no public or church fune-
rails should be given to persons dying, OF
either diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles
or whooping cough.
In Chicago also, where scarlet fever
and diphtheria have been severe this past
winter, the recommendation of one hun
dred medical men in council was in these
words:
"There should be no public funerals
of any patient who had died OF any In
fectious or contagious disease. Remem-
Der that the separation of the sick person
from the we'll is the most certain means
of preventing the spread OF the disease. "
A writer in the Baltimore Physician
and Surgeon, last December, went so
far as to advocate the passage of law
on the subject (the' average American
man looking upon claw" as a cure-all
on every occasion). He thought it
should embody the following provisions:
l. Whenever any one dies of contagious
disease, the publication announcing the
death should state cause of death.
Q. No person except the immediate
family should be permitted to attend the
funeral, and the handling and burying
the bod y should be intrusted to persons
who devote themselves to that business.
8. A sufficient number of carriages
should be kept for the special purpose
of attending these funerals, and the
hiring them for other purposes should
be prohibited, under the severest penal
ties.
These are good suggestions, but peo-
pie should learn and obey them out of a
natural sense of sanitary propriety, not
out of obligation to ute.-Medicat
md Surgical Reporter.
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Fashion Notes.

Sleeveless sacks and jackets are still
worn.
Light-colored shoes will be worn this
season.
The Tally-ho hat is broad brimmed
Panama.
There is IN effort to revive the pagoda
sleeve.
The modestie is the new name for
chemisette.
Japanese designs on note paper are
very fashionable.
Small sized Charlotte Corday shawls
are worn in Paris.
Bonncts composed entirely of flowers
are worn with very dressy toilets.
New garnitures of roses and leaves
have tiny shells hanging amid the foliage.
Black or white straws are prettler, in
better taste and more ladylike than those
in colors.
The edges of the newest linen collars
and ,cuffS are needle worked with red,
blue or gray.
Elderly ladies are adopting the long,
loose paletot of black silk, trimmed with
passementeries and lace.
Draperies are not tied back so tight,
but skirts are made narrower, so rs to
produce as. close all effect as ever. .
Rubber grasses are mingled with the
violets, roses, mignonette and forget.me-
note of oorsa oe houn1ets
Large cravats of white muslin, trim
med with fine lace, are worn knotted low
in the throat of summer toilets.
New linen collars are cut low in the
throat, but they have revers that fold
closely 80 as to conceal the throat
The gateuses, or dust cloaks, of this
season are long, loose princess paletots,
with two large back and two front
pockets.
Princess dresses are not appropriate
for confirmation toilets. They are un-
becoming to youthful figures, and re-
quire more garnitures than the occasion
demands or permits.
For Breton costumes our large houses
sell along with the material for the dress
all the trimming necessary for it; that
8, the embroidered bands and the
equisite number of buttons.
White dotted, barred or plain Swiss
dresses are to be worn this summer over
slips of pale blue or rose-colored lawn.
The dress is then trimmed with bows,
iabots, and "panel" trimmings of rib
bons to match the color Of the slip, OF
of contrasting color.
Confirmation toilets are most tasteful
when made up with rigid simplicity. A
plated corsage, q skirt trimmed with
simple folds or scant bias volantes, the
neck and wrists finished with n simple
ruche, and round the waist white rib
bon sash tied at the back, is the correct
style.
Partisan toilets of white muslin and
lace show several contrasting and har-
monizing scclors in the ribbons with
which they are trimmed; for example,
one has ribbon bows, cascades and "lad.
ders " of straw color, olive, brown and
pale blue another of pink, pale blue
and tilleul another, olive green, brown
and cream color and fourth Of Maza-
rim blue, canary color and opaine gray.
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The COSSack.

The Cossack is little Russian, about
five feet five, even on his high heels, but
at once sturdy and wiry. His weather.
beaten face is shrewd, knowing and
merry. His eyes are small, but keen;
his mouth large, and between it and his
pug nose-rather redder than the rest OF
his face-is tuft or wisp of straw col
ored mustache. His long, thick,
straight hair. matches his mustache IN
color, and is cut sheer round by the
nape of his neck. Below the neck the
Cossack is all boots and great coat. He
is more armed than any man OF his
inches in Europe, and could afford to
lose weapon or two and yet be an
average dangerous customer. Weapon
number one is the long, black, hagless
lance, with it's venomous head that
seems itching to make daylight through
somebody. He carries q carbine, slung
in an oilcloth cover, on his back, the
stock downward. In his belt is a long
and we'll made revolver in leather case,
and from the belt hangs a curved sword
with no guard over it's hilt. His whip
completes his personal appurtenances;
he wears no spurs. He rides, cooked up
on high saddle with O leathern band
strapped over it, wiry little rat Of a
pony.
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Needed Information.

At ten o'clock the other forenoon q
man wearing doubtful look appeared at
the stamp clerks window in the post
Office and asked for postal card and
facilities for writing. He was long
time getting ready to put his pen to the
card, and he had only made stroke or
two when he called out:
Glow do you spell Jim p"
"Why, Jim, of COURSE" answered
the clerk.
"Don't look as if it was right" said
the man, he held up the card and scru-
tinized the word: "Sure you haven't
made any mistake?"
"That's the way, of course" growled
by-stander. How else can you spell
the name?"
"That's so-how could I ?" smiled the
man, as he looked again. "Ill put
Jim against any other style of spelling
every time. Now, his other name ISIS
well, knock me down if I haven't for
gotten! Why, hang it, I have known
him for ten years, and now can't think
of his name! Jim-Jim-Jim-J-i-m
yum !"
He looked around in q helpless way,
and one of the small crowd finally said {:
"You can write the message, and
think of the name afterward.
$50 I can. I want to say to him that
his wife is sick abed, his landlord is
ilowling around for rent, and that he'd
better come home. How do you spell
it"
"I'll write it." answered the clerk.
"He couldn't read your shearograpy," "
said the stranger. "Jim isn't much on
education, and I have to write just us
poorly as I can or he couldn't make out
word. Less see! Do I want to start
off with P. S., or what?"
81 should say: You are wanted to
home to once if it was me, suggested
a car driver, who was after stamp.
"'Twouldn't d." sighed the man,
shaking his head, "I wouldn't dare
spring the thing on him suddenly, or
he'd make for Canada. The place to
tell him to come home is down here Mt
the bottom
"Where is he ?" some one asked.
"Why, in-in-in-why, blister my
ears-why p
"I'll bet you've forgotten the place p
shouted the car driver.
"J-i-m, Jim-J-i-m, Jim, and he's in
-in-J-i-m, Jimr' gaspei the man, rs
he looked around with an appeal in his
eyes.
The crowd mentioned twenty different
places, but he shook his head at each
one.
eff you can't think of his name, and
can't remember his address, how are
you going to send the card ?" asked the
clerk.
"Thats so-how am r." sighed the
man. eff you was me you wouldn't
send t. would you?"
"I don't think would"
"Then won't. If his wife can think
of his name and the place where he is
she'd better write it.
When he walked away he carried his
hat in one hand and scratched his head
with the other, and muttered:
"J-i-m with q great big 81, and
blister my ears with great big B.
and I oug ght to have written his name
down on the door or somewhere. Less
see Jim, and he's in in-in - md
he disappeared up Congress stree. -
Detroit Free Press.
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A Puzzled Letter.Carrier.

A letter-carrier had missive to de-
liver on Mount Ida, Troy, N. Y. He
rang the bell and waited for the door to
be opened, but no one came. He turned
to go away, but hearing the word "let-
ter-carrier" pronounced, went back and
rang the bell again. After gazing at the
windows and exhausting his patience he
knocked at the basement door, and going
around the house peeped through the
windows, but the only response to his
appeal for admittance was, letter-car-
rier," letter-carrier. At last he
espied parrot hanging high in air and
repeating the salutation, and he departed
with stealthy step--a wiser and more
contemplative letter-carrter.
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Items Of Interest.

There are six different ways Of spelling the
name Batoum, the Turkish port, but there II
only one way Of capturing it, and that Is Dy
fighting.
Rats are 30 thick around Bloomington, ILL.,,
that the weary tramp who lies down in fence
corner is soon made to feel what poor, mis-
erable creature he is.
The hey of Tunis is hard up, the khedive Of
Egypt can't pay his bills, and King Dahomey is
standing off his wash bills for sixty days. Let
laboring men he consoled.
The uncalled for baggage at hotel would
strike one as being full Of lonely romance ii
one didn't see the porter take out 80 many
brickbats and old boots.
When you "pop the question to lady, do
it with kind Of lau gh, as if you were jokirg.
If she accepts you, very well; II she does not,
you can say you were only in fun"
"Gone-faded into the dim mist which
hides the sunshine of life from the black pail
of DEATH" said an orator, when speaking OF
the first two captains who sailed on the Erie
canal
A man at restaurant had called for the bill,
paid it, and was leaving, when the waiter sug-
gested that the amount did not include the
waiter. "Ah," said the man, "but didn't eat
the waiter"
Deacon Jon es, Just deceased, had very red
nose. His widow thought it rather personal in
the minister to begin his funeral discourse
"Another shining light has been to ken from
our congregation"
A fashion report says that gentlemen's hats
are provided with new kind Of ventilator
which will last much longer than the hole style.
Anything that will outlast hole must be a
valuable addition to the resources OF people.
Comparisons are odious. The major, rock
ing Nelly on his knee for Aunt Mary's sake
I'll suppose that is what you like ?" Nelly.
"Yes, it's very nice. But rode on q real dom
key yesterday-I mean one with four legs, you
know"
Charles, playfully- much, really, did
"If you really want to inspect the bills for my
dry goods, Charles there is way to do it."
And what else could Charles do but propose on
the spot2
"Boys," said the teacher, holding up her
right fore finger to make the scholars atten.
tive, "what is Indian meal composed Of ?"
And little boy in the back seat, who wore
patched trousers, got up Ind said: "Please,
ma am, roast missionaries"
A. correspondent writes to ask why newly
married men are called Benedicts. The rea-
son, we believe, is that in entering on their
new state of life they are supposed to give up
all the bad bachelor habits to which they have
been bepedicted.-Sdn Francisco Netcs Letter.
After seeing two doctors hang around over a
man for four hours and use gallon Of mixed
chloroform and ether, trying, to get hin, to
sleep that they may saw his leg of, it grows
more and more mystery to us how robber
can come in, and slap little two-by-four
sponge saturated with chloroform over .
clerks nose and steal whole bank slick and
c1ooD in leaa than gaypn minutes.
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HThc Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet"

By CELIA TIIAXTER.
Upon the sadness Of the sea
The sunset broods rcgretfully
From the far, lonely spaces, slow
Withdraws the wistful afterglow.
SO out of life the splendor dies;
SO darken all the happy skies:
SO gathers twilight, cold and stern;
But overhead the planets burn.
And up IL" eat another day
Shall chaS, The bitter dark away
What thaaSh our eyes with tears be wet?
The sunrise never failed lis yet.
The blush Of dawn may yet restore
Our light and hope and joy once more.
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed US yet.
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A minute analysis of life at once de-
stroys the splendor which dazzles the
imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can
display or luxury enjoy is procured by
offices from which the mind shrinks from
the contemplation. All the delicacies of
the table may be traced back to the sham
bles and dunghill; NIL the magnifi :ence
of building was hewn from the quarry,
and all pomp ornament dug from among
the damps and darkness Of the mine.
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ENERGY AND HUMANITY.-A widow
about forty years of age, living on High
street, and having the reputation of
being one of the meekest and humblest
ladies in Detroit, pulled hair with the
servant girl before breakfast the other
morning, dubbed two boys from the
gate before eight o'clock, and had fuss
with a neighbor about a parrot ere the
clock struck nine, run peddler out of
the yard ut ten, "sassed two of the
sanitary police at eleven, and at high
noon she threw ashes over the valley
fence cn man who was swearing at o
balky l.orse. During the afternoon she
was engaged in working the motto a:
"Let t'ly light shine. ."-DetroH Free
PrCSS
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A Brooklyn Mans Mineral Spring.

A Brooklyn paper reports that one
Mr.. R, while excavating on the
shore of Newtown creek, struck spring
of mineral water. He took bottleful
of it to q German chemist for analysis,
telling him he should advertise the re.
suit, and convert the place into a regular
Baden Baden. The chemist, having been
favored with sight of the location of
the spring, remarked, dryly, that he
would send his analysis written out in
common language, which people would
understand better than such scientific
terms as chloride of sodium, oxide of
iron, etc. Mr.. R. soon received the
following:
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Agood story is told with regard to "daft :"
man and a somnolent congregation When
ever any of his hearers began to "nod," the
minister observed that "daft Jamie aroused
them somewhat sharply by shooting peas at
them. Catching the eye Of the delinquent at
last, he shook his finger at him reprovingly !;
lut "Jamie" responded, not bit ahashed :
"Just gang on wi your sermon, minister, and
Ill keep the beggars wahin'."
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Mira. Bczwacks is something of joker. When
her husband came home at noon and fell over
whitewash pail. barking his shin and fract,r-
ins ouc Of the commandments, to say nothing
of spelling his clothes, his wife told the next
door ncis shbor, otter dinner, that ahe had just
heard the latest swOre nowe
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A lady 10 Covington, Ky, held rabid black
and tan dog down by the throat for more than
two hours, until hor husband camo home and
dispatched him.
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"Yes.'
"Oh, indeed how interesting" Then, turn
ing to Maggie: "Will you be so good az to be-
gin waltz, NJ; 's Dunlop? This was to be our
dance, 1 Think" to Alic, and she sailed of
with him triumphantly.
He came up to her directly after the dance
was over.
II went down TO Porlock to try and find out
where you had gone to, he said, "but nobody
knew"
at didn't matter" she said, huskily, letting
her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to
make believe she wasn't very interested in what
he said.
eyes. it did-it mattered great deal. Why,
I've got box full of curiosties for you-clubs
to fight with, and little heather god or two,
and statue of Buddha, and all sorts of things.
told you should bring you them home. Do
YOU live here mean in this house?'
He said these last words under his breath,
:or the heiress came up and the next minute
he was carried off to dance with Mrs. Somebody
at the other end Of the room, but not before
Maggie had nodded reply to him. Soon after
this Miss Patterson came up to the piano, and,
saying she wished to play herself, and that
Maggie looked tired, dismissed her without her
being able to get even another look at Alic.
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ANALYSIS OF THE NEWLY DISCOVERED NEwTowN
nnrrx MINERAL SPRING WATER.

H.K-, analytical chemist.
Mr.. R has concluded to postpone
the spring.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-06
PUBLIC OPINION,
Comments OF the Press OF, the Address.

Comments OF the Press on the Address.
CHICAGO March 5.-The Journal says OF
President Hayes inaugural: The document is
emineDtly statesmanlike in every feature
The Post says: 1t is aboat what the country
expected, an open, honest declaration of man
who unquestionably intends to do his duty
NEW YORK, March 5.-The Express says:
The address deals more with generalites than
remedies, but its generalities will be accepted.
Social, self-government is now the promise of
Geo. Grants successor, and shall we have it is
the great problem of the future.
Inc brooklyn U MON says In the clear, hon
est and manly utterance of President Hayes in
bis inaugural address, honest men and good
citizens OF all shades Ut party feeling may find
common ground of satisfaction
The Herald of tomorrow saws: President
Hayes formal declaration of intentions is so
wise and satisfactory that it is difficult to point
out any particular in which it could be i'm prov
ed, either in substance or in temper. His ex-
cellent promises reflect the Just sentiment and
deliberate wishes of majority OF the Ameri.
can people OF both political parties.
The Sui calls large part of the address gen.
eralities not glittering, but dull and asserts
that on the Southern question Mr.. Hayes OBJ
servaticns are dreary aid unmeaning plati-
tades.
The Tribune says The address with which
President Hayes begins his official career will
strengthen the favorable impressions made bv
his selections for the Cabinet, aud give fresh
impulse to revival of hope and cheerfuIness
throughout the country. 1t contains no start
ling promises, unfolds no unexpected policy.
but itreviews with solemn emphasis the pledges
made by the Republican candidate before cleo
ton, and indicates in every line an honest de-
votion to duty.
Those who imagine he would feel bound to
sustain the present managers of the Republic
can organization in the South because thew
worked for his success in working for their own
will perhaps read with some surprise his decia
ration that the time has come when wise peace
alive necessity required by all the various m
terests, public and private, Of these states.
CHICAGO, March 5-The Inter- Ocean saws.
The inaugural gives promise of firmuess. pru-
dence and broad craftsmanship"
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-06
THE Address

Fellow Citizens:-We have assembled to re-
peat the public ceremonial began by Washing
ton, observed by all my predecessors, and now
t:me-honored custom, which marks the COM
mencement of a new term of the Presidential
office. Called to the duties of this great trust,
l proceed in compliance with usage, to an.
nonnce some of the leading principles in regard
70 tne subjects that now chiefly engage the pub
NJ at1en'i9n by which 1t is my desire to be
guioeu IN tne discharge of those duties. shall
NOT undertake to lay down irrevocable pripci-
pies or measures of administrator. Init rather
TO speak OF the motives which shouid animate
US, and to suggest certain important ends to he
attained in accordance with our insttntions o o
essential to the welfare of our country "nu
At the outset of the discussions which o
coded the recent Presidential election. if sepn
ed to me fitting that should fully make known
my sentiments in regard to several of the in,l
portant questions which then appeared to de-.
mand the consideration of the country. Fol
lowing the example and in part adopting the
language of one Of my predecessors wish
now, when every motive for Misrepresentation
ha passed away, to repeat what was said be-
fore the election, trusting that my countrymen
Will carefully weigh and understand il, and
that they will feel assured that the sentiments
declared in accepting the nomination for the
Presidency will be the standard of my conduct