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bond Of order and union among
them. The political condition of
the Bedouins may be styled pa
triarchial. One or two families,
the males of which bear the title of
sheik, form the core of a tribe, and
along with the marabouts, or
priests, constitute a kind of aristoc-
racy. Out of their number the SUI
perior sheik or kaid is elected, who
rules in patriarchial style over the
whole tribe. This general state
ment regarding the Bedouins ap-
plies chiefly to the true nomads, or
"dwellers in the desert;" it is sub
ject to several notifications in re-
spect to the tribes located in Bar
barry, Syria and Mesopotamia.
These dwell in houses and practice
agriculture.
The relations between the sexes
are much less constrained in Ara
bia than among the settled nations
of the East, and substitute for
polygamy is found in the frequent
interchange of wives. Their fa-
vorite pastimes are the chase, ball
play, dancing, songs, stories and
the dolce far niente of drinking
coffee and smoking nargilehs. Their
diet is principally derived from
their herds, but includes a few veg
etables, and even locusts and lizards.
Little animal food is used, and the
use Of wine or spirits is not COM
mon.
The Bedouins manufacture their
own wooden clothing, which con-
sists of a haik-a long wide gar
ment fastened on the head and
descending to the feet, and the
burnoose, a large mantle. The lat
ter is furnished with hood which
the wearer draws over the head.
The Arabs contempt for the usual
industries which occupy men does
not extend to horses. The Arabian
horse has long been the object ol
untiring care and attention, and to
this much of the peculiar excellence
that marks the breed must be as
cribed. The affection existing be-
tween master and steed has long
been famed in poetry and romance
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orOO OIO ALL PRIZES AND No
QIHH, I4O BLANKS. Greatest single
number PRIZE DRAWING that ever tock
place in the United States by authority of
an act of the Legislature, the next an prize
drawing will taEe place II public at Chey-
d avn the 10Th and Slth of each and every
month. G7Ss.24d TO BE IS 5fRIBUTED.
Each and every ticket will be entitled 20
prize Tickets % each, or o package (ton
tickets) for $40, and the balance TO he de-
Quoted only from tho prizes drawn. Inform
ton furnished. Orders filed. Also gents Cor
the Royal Havana Lottery and all legali2 4
lotteries throughout the world. orders ,0-
licited. Apply to or address EMORY co ..
Brokers, 81 Park Row. davis p
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RED AND BLACK.
a Gamblers InfaiIIble Receipt for
Winning Money.

winning Money.
London TRUTH
am glad to hear that Captain
Arthur Paget won $4,000 recently
at Monaco, and like wise man,
came away with the Spoil l used
at one time to "take the waters"
at Homburg, and l invariably paid
the expenses of my trip out of my
winnings at the gambling tables.
1t may have been luck or it may
have been system; but l give my
system for what it is worth. |
used to write the following figures
on piece of paper: 3, 4, 5, 6, Z.
Ny stake was always the top and
bottom figures added together. If
| won, | scratched out these figures;
if l lost, wrote down the stake at
the bottom of the figures, and !
went on playing until all the fig
ures on my piece Of paper were
erased. Thus my first stake land |
played indifferently on red or black
would be ten. If / won it, |
scratched out three and seven. Ny
next stake would be ten again, as
four and six make ten. If lost
it, | wrote down ten at the
bottom Of my list Of figures, and
played fourteen, being the addition
of the first and last figure on the
list, viz, fourteen. The basis of
the System" was this: Before
reaching the maximum, | could
play a series Of even chances for
about two hours, and if, during
these two hours l won one-quarter
as many times as the bank, plus
five, all my figures were erased.
During those two hours, an even
chance would be produced two
hundred times. If, therefore
won ffty-fve times, and the bank
won one hundred and forty-five
times, l was the winner Of twenty
five napoleons, forms, or whatever
was my unit. Now let any one
produce an even chance by tossing
up coin and always crying 'heads'
he will find that he may 90 on till
doomsday before the "tails" exceed
the "heads," or the heads exceed
the tails, by ninety-fve. l found
this system in a letter from Con
dorcet to friend, which l read in
a book that purchased at a stall
on the "Quai," at Paris. 1t may
have been, as l have said, only
luck; but all l can say is thai
whenever played it l invariably
won.
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Whn, IS 20 be Famous.

A London journal tells the fol-
lowing story:
At a Washington tea party, where
General Butler was recently a guest,
the hostess, glancing over the table,
perceived his cup unfinished with
an important implement of which
he was supposed to appreciate the
value. "Why, General Butler"
she exclaimed, in a little womanly
flutter of CONSERVATION, "haven't
Won a spoon ?" "No, indeed, mad.
am" quickly responded the general,
springing from his seat aud slap
ping his pockets one after the other,
upon my word, madam if you
don't believe me, madam, you may
search mel" The applause which
greeted this spontaneous sally may
be more easily imagined than dc.
scribed.
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THE BOOK OF BOOKS.
The Manner in which tt has been
Preserved, Transmitted, aud COP
les Multiplied.

The Manner in which tt has been
Preserved, Transmitted, and COP
les Multiplied.
From the Londen Times, Feb.7.
On Monday evening, DR.. Gins
burg, one of the members of the
committee engaged in the revision
Of the Scriptures, delivered a lee
ture at the Town Hall, Working
ham, on "The Bible-The Manner
in which it has been Preserved,
Transmitted and Copies Multi
Piled" The lecture was illustrated
by ancient manuscripts and old
editions of the Bibles. There was a
large attendance. Mr.. Walter, NJ.
p, presided, and introducing the
lecturer said no subject could be of
greater interest to an assembly of
Christian people than the history
of the ways and means by which
the contents OF that sacred volume
which was so precious in their eyes
had been handed down to them from
ancient times, and had been trans
mitted in their present form for
their use and comfort. DR.. Gins
burg in the course Of his lecture
explained that the earliest records
of scripture were written on stone,
and that previous to the existence
Of parchment manuscripts they
were inscribed upon the barks of
trees or upon rolls made from the
peel Of the papyrus. In many cases
the records consisted of pictures /;
for instance, in the book of Esther
the ten sons of Haman were repre-
sented as being hung up with their
father in the manner described in
the old testament or as in the Book
of Kings, where all the battles
recorded there were exhibited in
pictorial form. A tabulated state
ment was placed against every line
of the text in the old records, show
ing how many times a certain letter,
word or phrase occurred; this was
summarized at the end of every
page, again at the end of every
thirty-two pages, and afterward at
the end of the book, and at the end
of the whole bible the sum total
was given.
This would give some idea of the
care with which the bible had been
guarded and preserved, and such a
gigantic work as he had described
could not, he undertook to say, be
accomplished by dozen men if
they lived for five hundred years
The New Testament had not been
treated in this way at all. They
would not find anything of the
kind in the codex Alexandrinus,
which was presented to King
Charles, and was now in the British
Museum, or in the oodex Of Siniaia,
ticus, Of similar antiquity, which
Tlchendortf found at the convent
of Sanal. The latter was now at
St. Petersburg, and was the one
which the emperor of Russia had
published and circulated to public
libraries and scholars, Ho thought,
when they heard so much about
the emperor of Russia, it was only
due to render to him the greatest
honor for the reproduction Of thil
codex and its distribution; anC
although they could not compare
, the English with the Russian gov
ernment, because the former ha(
the reputation Of being one of tn,
most, if not the most, liberal gov
eroment in the world; yet the,
never found it doing anything 0
: this sort. Having referred to tn
' rapid advance made in the circula
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Drunkard StOD :!
LOTTERY

A sPLENDIR OPPORTURITY TO
"A WIN = FORTUNE !-Fourth Grand
Drawing. lS77. At New Orleans, Tuesday.
April Sd.
louisiana State Lottery Company,
This Institution was regularly incorporated
by the Legislature Of the State for Eduea-
tional purposes in 1858, with a Capital Of
sl,v0O.0UO, to which it has since added a re
serve fund ofs950,000. ITS GRAND SINGLE,
NUMBER DRAWINGS will take place
monthly. IT NEvER SCALES OR POsIPONEs.
Lock at the following scheme:
OAPGtAL Prize, $4,000.
OO,OOO Tickets III OnN BoNar Each,
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Attachment Notice.

Before &. D. Crockett. Justice Of Pence for
Shelby county, Tennessee-S. B. Dickens
u. Windlar, chm M. Lea, and W, W. Good
win VS.. Henry Mivelar
IN THESE CAUSES ESATTACHMENTSH HAV-
4 ing been sued out under section S455 Of the
Code of Tennessee. and returned by the proper
officer. levied upon the property OF the de-
fendant. and affidavit having been made that
the defendant is justly indebted to plain
tiffs S. b Dickens in the sum Of Sll.45, by
account; II. Windlar in the sum of sl2.6l. by
account; John NJ. Lea in the sum Of $50,
by note and account; W. W. Goodwin in the
sum of S25, by account, and that defendant
is nonresident OF the State Of Tennes-
see; II is therefore ordered that defendant
make his personal appearance before g. y.
Crockett, ]. p, on the 9th day Of April,
1877, at his office, No. 2S5 Main street. in the
city Of Memphis, Tenn, and defend said at
tachment suits within the time prescribed by
law or the same will be proceeded with ex
parte; aud that copy Of this order be pub
lished once week for four successive weeks
in the Public Ledger.
This Sd day Of March, 1S77.
S-9-l5.2l-T G. d. CROCKETT. ]. P.
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MEMPHIS g. LITTLE ROCK R.R.
ShrOt LING To Arkansas and Texss.
TIME CARD;

TINE CARDi
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily....:......5.OO 90 pm. u.lO pm
Freight train leaves Hope
field daily(ex. sunday)6. 50 am. T.l5 p m.
Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot Of the Louisville, Nash,
willie and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connsction at Argenta fer
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman alace Sleeping Cars on all night
trains
Offices o. and 2s7 Main street. and at depot
foot Of Washington street, OF at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depet,
or TO the undersigned
K. A. WILLIAMS. Pass Ag,t, Memphis.
M.S.JAY q. Pad 7. Ag't, Little Rock.
W e. SMITH, sup't, Memphis Tenn.
I23.t
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STOCKS.
SIOCNSs
---~-~-@--------s-s----s sa--4e.-e----.----a4.-
ber of the Stock Exchange

A Member Of the Stock Exchange
VIII execute orders for tho purchase or sale of
stocks. bonds and gold on noderste MARGINS.
Commissions S. per each 100 shares. Stock
privileges negotiated on responsible PARTIES
only. Correspondence solicited.
Henry Merriam, Member Am. Mlnigs aud
Stock Exchange, IS Wall st., n. ". heler-
euoe, D. Il. Mangam, Esq. President Aa-
tional Trust Co., N. Y. leod-dkw-ii-x1iY-il
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MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
MrxpHIs, TENN, March 8, 1877.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 8. 1917.
nNAND AFTER SUNDAY, MARCH 4TH,
" 1877, trains will ruA as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily ,.S:4O pm. 1910 pm
Sardis Ac'm dation, daily
(except Sunday ..........-ll:3O am. 45 am
eert cundayl .,........... $3.50 q. m. 5:3Op.m
Isl NJ. BURKE, Sup't.
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LEGAL.
[R. 22l7.l
ChRncery Sale of Real Estate

Chancery Court of Shelby County John
Gage VS.. Bartholemy Labesque ct al.
DY VIRTUE OF AN INTRkL0CUT0RY
ID decree for sale, entered in tho above cause
on the 23d day Of February, 1877, will sell.
at public auction, to the highest bidder, in
front OF the Clerk and Masters Office, Court
house Puilding, Main street, Memphis,
Tenn, on
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MEMPHIS g. CHARLESTON R.R.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE

CHANGE or SCHEDULE.
ENN AND AFTER MONDAY, MARCH 5TH,
VlS1:
MaiIdrAin, daily 30 am $50 pm
Express train, daily...... 81 am 4.oO Am
Somerville acoom' dation
Except Sunday ..r........ 5.2Op.m $40 am
Mail train will not stop at hag statiens be-
tween Grand junction and Memphis.
Mail and express trains make close connec-
ton at Chattanooga for Atlanta and all points
in the Southeast.
Express train makes C ose connection at
Chattanooga for all Eastern poins.
New q Magnificent Sle: ping Coaches
ARR RUN on
ALL NIG1T TRAINS
Time Twenty MINUTES Faster than
City Time.
BARNEY HuGHEs, Ticket AIT, 27s Main st.
G. JORDAN,
At Chief Engineer and General sup't.
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1857 Prizes amounting Go
Write for Circulars or send orders 70
NJ. A DAUpHlN,
P. 0. Box 6]2. New Orleans, L9.

FIFTH GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING,
Tuesday, May lst. Capital Prize. iS0.0Q.
Tickets, so each. li42s
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Saturday, March "a, 1877,

within legal hours. the following described
property. situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
to-Wit: A certain tract of land containing
81 acres, more or less, the same being the
northern half Of certain tract or parcel OF
land, containing acres, more or less, the
same being the southern portion Of 2035 acre
tract, conveyed to II. d Small by W. IL.
Glasscock and the identical 7 acres, more or
less, conveyed to Jacob Hanauer by ii. ID
Small by deed Of date the 7th day OF May,
1852, which is recorded in the Registers office
Of Shelby county. Tenn, Book No. 81, Pr.
29), ct seq, and the same seven C7) acres,
more OF less. conveyed by Jacob Hanauer to
Bartholomey Labesque By deed of date the
9th Of April, 1868, which is of record in the
Registers Office Of said county in Book No. ],
PIP. TIC and M, which said acre tract of
land is bounded as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the center Of the Horn Lake
road at its intersection with Kerr avenue. and
on the north line Of said avenue; thence east
with the north line Of said avenue TO what is
known as SmalPs and X. A Parkers' corner
the southeast corner Of the 201k. acre tract
conveyed by W. II. Glasscock to II. D. Small
and Of which the tract of land, acres mere
or less, conveyed by said Small to Jacob Han
auer, and BY said Hanauer TO Bartholomsy
Labesque, is a part; thence north with the
east line Of said 2J3s-acr0 tract to a stake. the
southeast corner of a tract sold 1y the said
Small TO one Robert W. Sanford; thence east
parallel with Kerr avenue and with Sanford 8
south line to o stake in the middle of the
Horn Lake road, and in S. Bailey's eastern
line; thence with said Bsiley's line and the
center Of said road south to the beginning,
containing acres more or less. said portion
of above containing about "a acres, including
improvements, etc will be sold.
Terms OF sale-cash.
This February IS. 1877.
EDMUND A. COLE. G. and NJ.
By X. J. BLACK. ID. O. and NJ.
James E. Temple, Solicitor. 155-2l
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NO. 25SS.l
KOn-Resident \ Notice.

In the Chancery Court of Shelby county,
Tennessee-GeO. Gillian, admir- Of John S.
Kerr, deceased, VS.. William Dabney Kerr
ct al.
TT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i in this cause that the defendants, W. Dab
ney Kerr, A. X. Martin, Andrew Kerr, oiti-
zens of Missouri; Harriet Garvin, Samuel
Garvin, Sarah Arthur, A. ii. Arthur, W. I.
Martin, Ellen Martin, of Mississippi; Joseph
Thompson, Of Georgia; HARRIET Cobb and
Daniel Cobb, OF Louisiana; Emily Kerr and
James Kerr, Of Arkansas; Harriet Mckee,
of Indiana; Converse Il Co., of Kentucky, are
all non-Iesidents Of the State of Tennessee ;
the residence of John Martin In unknown,
the names and residence Of the heirs of Sarah
Mckee are unknown, and ali the heirs at law
of b. l.. and j. s. Kerr. deceased; it is
therefore ordered that they make their ap-
pearance herein. at the courthouse in the
city Of Memphis, Tennessee, on or before the
first Monday in April. 1877, and plead,
answer or demur TO complainants' bill, OF
the same will be taken for confessed as 10
thin. and set for hearing ex parte; and that
copy Of this order be published once a
week for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This LIST day of March. 1877.
A c0py--Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, G. and NJ.
By r. J. BLACK, d. G. and Nj,
Geo. Gillham, Sol. for complainant.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
What Shall We Do With Our Daughters!

request place in your valuable pa
per for the following: "What shall we
do with our daughters?" Give them a
good, substantial, common education.
Teach them to cook a good meal of
victuals.
Teach them how to darn stockings and
sew on buttons. .l.
Teach them how to make shirts.
Teach them how to make bread.
Teach them all the mysteries of the
kitchen, the dinner-room and the parlor
Teach them the further one lives be.
yond his income the nearer he gets to the
poor-house.
Teach them to wear calico dresses, and
do it like queen.
Teach them that a rosy romp is worth
fifty delicate consumptives. ..et
Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them that God made them in
his own image, and that no amount of
tight lacing will improve the model.
Teach them everyday, hard, practical
common sense.
Teach them self-reliance.
Teach them that good, steady me-
chanic, without cent, is worth a dozen
oily pated loafers in broadcloth.
Teach them not to have anything to
do with Incorporate and dissolute young
men. ... r....
Teach them accomplishments, paint
ing, drawing, music-if you have the
time and money to do it with.
Teach them to say no, and stick to it;
yes. and stick to it.
Teach them not to naint and noMder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
How Vicious Horse Was subjugated.

THE horse is thoroughbred and i'm
ported Irish Harkaway, long famous as
the Galway " cross country horse" but
the virtues of which breed are slightly
vitiated by an uncomfortable desire to
eat a groom on the half-shell before
starting out. This horse had fits of
madness, and what rendered these fits
most undesirable was the fact that there
could be no authoritative computation
of the time of their return. On the oc-
casion of one of these fits his keeper was
seized by a happy thought. He had just
burned his mouth by trying to eat one
of the insufficient cooled potatoes which
he had roasted for his matutinal meal
He thought it would be better for the
horse, perhaps, and certainly for him
self, if he could fool his Harkaway
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
An Excellent Textbook.

A new school history of the United States,
by Prof. j. c. Ridpath, has awak ened fresh in
terest in the subject, even among those to
whom ordinary school-books with similar OBJ
ject have become distasteful. Teachers and
scholars speak of its prominent features with en-
thusiasm, and evidently believe that no measure
of commentator is too good for it. A hasty
examination demonstrates to us that it con-
tains more genuine and really desirable infor-
nation about the Country than any work of
the kind we have seen.
Its prominent characteristics are complete
ness of narrative, ready helps in maps dia-
grams, charts and illustrations, perspicuous
arrangement and terseness; features sufficient
to enchain the interest of youth, which many
school histories fail to do. A thoughtful ex-
animation will prove conclusively that we
have not oyerstated the merits Of the volume,
and it should therefore attract the prompt at
tention of all friends of our common school
system. JONES BROTHERS IL Co., Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
Attitudes in Sleep.

A writer says: "There are those who
believe that no man can sleep in salts
factory way unless the head of his bed
is turned to the north. Whether this
rule applies to women is doubtful, since
the alleged proneness of the sick to
sleep in a circular position renders it
always difficult to decide toward which
point of the compass the sleeping femi-
mines head actually points
1t is said that in well-regulated hos
pitfalls the patients are laid with the
head to the north and feet to the south,
and the doctors report they recover
fastest in this position. The reason as
signed is that the electric currents flow
from north to south. The men don't
seem to care, but women have immense
faith in physicians. But the husbands
and fathers report the feminine form
ever seeks the curled-up position. Even
in chairs when alone they take it. 1t is
their natural and favorite one. The
fair sex argue in a circle. Why, in cut
ting fabrics, they assume lines similar
to their own rounded forms.
Men take theirs straight. In bed
they stretch out full length to thor
oughly rest the frame Women, how
ever, adopt the curve of the sleeping
Venus of Titan. Again we must quote
fathers and husbands, who say women
prefer everything round, from dollar
to hounce, because their own forms
are charmingly rounded. They love to
sit on the floor in circles to talk Their
favorite position in slumber is a slight
curve, with both hands thrown over
their heads and frequently meeting in
circle over their tiny night-cap or pent-
up curls-decidedly more bewitching
way than the half circle of felinity.
Why this difference between man and
woman? some conumdrum propounder
may ask. The books don't tell, nor can
the fathers. 1t is developed from in
fancy. Why, one might as well ask
why woman sits on the floor to put on
her stockings, while man sits on a
chair to draw on his socks. We have
not given reasons, only facts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

exceptional conditions may proceed,
perhaps, in the higher range of study.
But so soon and so far as the distinctive
traits of manhood and womanhood be-
gin strongly to develop and assert them
selves, the physical, intellectual and
moral necessities of the case seem to
me to demand difference of method
and separateness of daily study, recita-
ton and intercourse.-Pr President Bartlett,
Of Dartmouth College,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
The Queen of the oven,

A breakfast-biscuit or tea-roll made with
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is certainly the
queen Of the oven-so light, white and delic-
ious. You lift it tenderly, break it open gent
ly, spread it daintily with fresh, sweet butter,
waiting to be gracious. After breakfasting on
biscuits made with DooLEY's YEAST POWDER,
what man would contemplate suicide, or grulm-
BILE because his wife asked him for money!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

THE Courier-JournaI says that can
honest Kansas City chambermaid re-
turned to their owner $500 worth of dia-
mond rings which she found" Evidently
the words d" to be paste" dropped out at
the end of the sentence.-PhiIadelphia
Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

IMPORTANT BUSINESS ENTERPRIsE.--Kings-
ford's Oswego Starch has become so popular
on account of its great strength and purity,
that another enlargement to the mammoth
factory has been made, containing, in its
completion, over 10 acres Of flooring, and
producing. over 80 tons daily of the best
starch made in the world.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
Graerenberg MarshaIl,s CathoIicon

Never fails to relieve and permanently cure
all those diseases commonly known as female
complaints. Sold by all druggists. Send for
almanac. Graefenberg Co., So Reade st., N. Y.