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suo"sn sney ino"'so ~ HI manner ol 'aFeu~
.non'e' inVas'ao1y Elna up o9 'mpusiag dis
honesty Is tne motive inspiring the demand
1or sene"a! OF s'lser coinage. VI !ate mn
'nolt aus oeen "aao 10 'aentny tAe sllser
"easufo ~"n .he eseenoaek taeofy, aud 70
coh1o'na Inc 1too coinage Oh Iegai-sender
ea1sef oo''afa WIN tue scheme OF illifnttable
ISSUE OF nesoF-to' oe'fodoemed paper dollars.
one ot sheso champions Of the exclusive
gola coinage 10 the Now YORK Ndsio",
paper ~h'oh SEEKS ny common 1naoloncc to
glso no" emphasis to arguments which have
become threadoaro among all intelligent per-
sons. That paper closes summary of the
question with sensence which rcatls:
In fact, there u thread Of lsaarcry running
satoosn 'ae @ ~aose movement, though ooaet!oss
TINT ,bay do moi ,hint Of nrx M ,tsnn",a ny ~
value, but a. a means Of paying debts. and by tho
fact that silver was = fcgal.tondcr until very
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Gen GnAEr docs not conceal biz admiration for tho
bin, wherever ho wanls to 70, ID Wales md Scot.
land a. well ~ in England lie must be Impressed
with tho contrast between this eonuct md that Of
iAc American railroad which once inslstcd that he.
and = patacs:ear load Of lts boon companions,
should pay their way like ordinary tfase1ers.s,
pretty good ttma with scry ittlo expense 10 taom.
selves. .-Hstr 1Drk SIM.
We hardly sec tho purpose Of this lIl-naturcd
sna.l. st was very rarely indeed thatany Amerf-
can railroad ever charged ucn. GnAsT for ft1s
on their cars. II such cases occurred ho paid hts
faro nnd said nothing abont II. Tha hospitality
shown tho great American General and or
President by the Engls', railway companies u
only In harmony with Tint rendered him by nll
classes Of people In Great Dr!taIn.
, 1877-06-26

=, It breaks the heart Of New Orleans man to
'scad anything complimentary to EAps' tcttfcs.
late statement to the effect that ship tlraw-
Ing twenty-onc feet ol water went through tho
1ctty canal baa drawn an acrimonious letter
from Louisiana man, who not only denies tho
story, but SAYS that currency to such run,ors ID
doing much damage to the shippfng interest,"
Thta Is with grace from city that almost ruined
the marinc Of New ORLEANS by opposing tic
tetty system from tho start.
, 1877-06-26

!; Groonbacks ut tho Now York Stock Ex.
.hango yesterday closed ut 9iI.
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!. I1nvcrtS'E Theatre.
Il Randolph ftftct, between Clark and IA9Alte.
= On Hand" Mcafr1. John Thonpson, J. ". Som.
;acrs, J. D. Ncrtou3 stlEues Fhosa McAlster. Doty
lla2lo.
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Ts2PBHt1IuH 1}N1IuIHEs
Lake shorc. foot Of Adama street. summer.NI9ht
.onceft by the Tho,nas Orehcat1a,
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4 Attetrh1 TAentro.
= Monroe street- eorner Of Dearborn. "Cnc1e Toms
''ahin." ht. georRe Kuntel, stisscs AnJ starIn,
:tlfy ChippendAle.
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will form a large, irregular wound, per-
haps as large as a crown piece Such a
bullet striking the thorax or abdomen is
likely to lodge and produce very speedily
fatal results, owing 70 the shock aud hem
Orrhage which it causes. In sporting
parlance, such a bullet has great Z" stop.
ping" qualities, but in military point
of view it has certain disadvantages. 1t
will not riCochet, for it bursts on striking
the ground; it would very rarely injure
more than one mar, as its onward move.
ment is checked by the explosion; it is
not suitable for long ranges, its flight not
being 50 steady as that of bullet Of
uniform composition and lastly, lis Use
involves certain amount OF danger.
Why it should be objected to on grounds
of humanity is somewhat difficult TO con.
ceive, The wounds inflicted by fragments
of shells fired from guns of larger calibre
are often much more extensive and hor>
rible than any that could possibly be
caused by explosive rifle. bullets. Ifa line
must be drawn somewhere, it surely
would be more logical and humane to ex-
clude the greater missiles, for the smaller
one has disadvantages of its own, such as
are likely to prevent it from ever being
brought into common use in warfare.-
~ Y Times,
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Nine.tenths of the houses in Kars arc
built Of mud.
Out of 3300O,OOO people in Great
Britain l5,O0O,C0O live upon imported food
BARRIERS in Denmark are compelled
to pass an examination in elementary sur,
gerry.
At the Krupp cannon works in Ger
many is n hundred.thousand.pound trip
hammer.
The prize OF 5000 roubles offered in
1874 by the Russian government for the best
book on the history OF cavalry has been
awarded to the work Of lieutenant colonel
George T. Dcnison, Of the British army.
The credulity of the British capitalist
is clearly, in the eyes of the Turk, unlathoma
bic. The Porte has entirely suspended pay
ment of dividends and Egypt is in almost as
had plight: yet three weeks ago the Alexan
dria branch of the Ottoman bank sent to
London number of documents signed by
the khediyc, with the authorization of the
Sultan, whereby the regular payment Of
G2S0,00O yearly is secured, this amount to
form the basis of a proposed Turkish loan Of
EJ0000O0
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RUSSIAN THEATRES.


AhfiE EecuiihtltieH.
"IhC arrangement of the audience in
Russian theatres is peculiar" said Miss
Gary. "The parquet is mostly occupied
by gentlemen. Those of the highest
rank sit in the first row. In the second
and third rows are diplomats, officers and
, other persons of consideration. No per
son of social standing sits further back
than the fifth row. So the parquet is
fairly ablaze with buttons, epaulots and
medallions. 1t frequently happens that
officers have boxes for their families, and
themselves occupy seats near the stage
where they can flirt with the girls. They
have theiriavorites among the danseuses,
and do not hesitate to show their prefer
ences. The ballet is composed of found
lings, who are brought up and educated
by the government. The guardianship
exercised over them is very strict up to
the moment when they are set at liberty,
after which they at once exercise the ut.
most license. and shortly after may be
seen parading the streets in the gaudiest
dresses and the most elegant diamonds.
The Russians are famous for their dia.
monds and for giving valuable presents,
or were 50 until the beginning of the
present war, The subscription for the
PattiOperaseasOn used to be 50, ,000rubles.
Two years ago it was 4, 900 rubles. Last
year it was 2,0H0 rubles in st. Peters
burg and 600 rubles in Moscow. Years
ago when Patti arriv, d, they used to
decorate the statiOn-hOuse with nswers in
her honor. The raising of money by
subscription is getting to be a regular
system of begging, and people are getting
tired. The war has made times hard,
and the great bank failure at Moscow has
impoverished thousands. For the last
two years there have been no court
concerts"
" Are the stories true that are told re-
specting the enthusiasm of Russian au-
dienCes?"
" 1t seems like an exaggeratiOn to say
that an artist was called before the cur.
tain 20 times. | was myself called out
% times on the night of my first appear
ance. The opera was II Trovatore.' |
was called out six or seven times after
every scene, and is times after my first
duet with Mancico. 1t takes a long
time for The recalls, and delays the per-
formance until it becomes tiresome. But
the time lost in this way is gained in the
short entr'actes. No wait longer than
fifteen minutes is ever allowed, and
when the czar and family are present we
are obliged to dress as quickly as a
variety performer who does what he calls
lightning changes. They call our artists
together and separately. 1t is Patti
sola ! and Cary sola" and then Patti
and Gary, and then all together. After
the people from the lower part of the
house are gone, the plebs, which includes
lot of noisy students, rush down and
gather at the footlights and howl for the
artists until all have appeared again and
again. 1t seems as if they never would
be satisfied "-,San Francisco Chronicle.
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To Gcntlemcn's Sons,

Rev. r. l., Dashiell lectured last
evening at the Allen sttret Methodist
church on "Wanted-A Situation for a
Gentleman's Son." DR.. Dashiell said
he believed that this country offered the
greatest field in the world for young
man, in spite of the evil things which
the class of crOakers were continually
saying about it. 1nevery other country
young man, no matter what his talents
were, was forced to live and die in what
ever station it had been his lot to be
born-a gentleman's son not excepted.
lie was doomed to die a gentleman's 5
son. In this country, however, not all
the wealth in New York could make an
idle young man rise, and nothing could
keep boy from rising to almost any
height, provided he be industrious and
have a certain amount of intelligence.
An idle, do-nothing young man was a
great evil. One reason why the prom
ised progress of the world rests was be-
cause there is a great deal of force which
does nothing, or pulls back instead of
helping to push on as it ought to. A
mischievous boys was not 50 bad after
all, for in his mischief he shows an energy
which will help him on when he is older
if rightly applied. The duty of the
nineteenth century was to direct all this
force so that there will be no waste.
Men like Franklin and Morse, who give
us new powers, are needed. If a young
man has will and power it is a grand
thing for him to be q gentleman's son.
If there is wanting in him everything
but the pedigree, his fathers shoes will
do as much as he will. The work for a
gentleman's son must be respectable and
light. There was no difficulty about the
Fl st qualification. Every honest work is
respectable, and is moreover of great
benefit to the character of the worker.
Preachers, perhaps, ought to be blamed
for sometimes talking of the curse of
labor. No one ought to be discouraged
with the character of his work, for in
grimy cellars sometimes a little golden
thread is spun to decorate the imperish-
able tapestry OF human life. Thus it
was easy for the work to be respectable,
but the other condition could not so
easily be complied with. 1t was said
that cheerful spirit lightens burden,
but young man cannot begin life with
a worse spirit than when he looks for
easy victories. Success demands life
of toll, sclf-denial and close attention to
business. There is a great demand for
young men who will work, whether they
are gentlemen's sons or not.--Nel0 York
World.
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year, if the future Of picking should be a,
favorable as that Of 1874.
The following is the full text of tn,
silver bill rs amended by the committee or
finance and reported to the senate. An ac
to authorize the free coinage of the silyel
dollar and to restore it to legal tender char
acter. BE it enacted, etc, that there shall h,
coined at the several mints of the United
States silver dollars of the weight of fou,
hundred and twelve aud half grains trov
OF standard silver, as provided in act o
january, 1887, on which shall be devices and
Superscriptons, provided by said act, which
coins, together with all silver dollars hereto
fore coined by the United States of Iik,
weight aud fneness, shall be legal tendel
at their nominal value for all debts and dues
public and private, except where otherwis,
provided by contract, and the secretary o.
the treasury is authorized and directed ON
ol any money in the treasury, not otherws,
appropriated to purchase from time to tim,
silver bullion, at the market price thereof
not less than $2,O000o0 per month, anc
cause the same to be coined into such dol
lars and any gain Of seignorage arising iron
'hs coinage shall be accounted lot and paid
into the treasury as provided under existing
laws relative to subsidiary coinage, provided
the amount OF money at any time invested
in such silver bullion, exceed $50OO,0O0.
Sec. :. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this bill are
hereby repealed.
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WAR NOTES.

A portion of the Russian army at Kars
will be detached to augment the forces
around Plevna.
Gen. MclikOf, when summoning
Mukhtar Pasha to evacuatc Erzeroum, in
formed him of the capture Of Kars, and that
il he resisted he would be attacked by 10000
men, with whClming artillery. Mukhtar
Pasha replied that he would hold Erzeroum
to the last.
A correspondent at Vienna says that
the success at Kars has greatly encouraged
the party at Russian headquarters who tavo,
dashing style adopted AZ the commence
ment of the war. This party urges that as
the Turks have stripped Roumania of troops
the Russians should make dash through
Shipka and the neghboring passes as soon
as Mehemet Ali commences movement to
raise the siege of Pleyna. The Russians have
from $1,000 10 $4,000 men concentrated in the
neighborhood of Tirnova available for such
operations.
The last call of the Sultan will give
him 226, 7e5 men. lie will then have $50, O0O
men in the field. The Cars last levies will
increase his Bulgarian army to 100000 men,
and it is possible for him TO put 100000 more
in the field. The war is now costing Russia
100000 roubes day about S75O,OO0l, and
the government is running on an exclusively
paper currency. The prodigious exertions OF
the czar Just now TO put a quletus on Plevnu
and Orchanie are, therefore, perfectly nat>
ural,
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"The MAR think ont the protounder
is my conviction that the strength o
human nature lies either in the highest
or lowest state Of lie. Characters IN
books should either be kings and princes
and mobiles, and on a level with them,
like heroes, or peasants, shepherds, iaTm-
ers and the like, includin' q orders
amaist O. our ain working population,
The intermediate class---that is leddies
and gentlemen in general-are no worth
the muses. while; for their life Is made
up chiefly O. manner; you Gamma see u 9
human cretures for their claes; and
should ane O them commit suicide IN
d, spair, in lookin' on the dead body yeu
are mair ta'en up wi its dress Than It's
disease.
These leddies and gentlemen in fash
ionable novels, as 10 fashionable life, are
aye NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Teddy wi
that ane's gentleman, and hisEcnLleman
with that ane's eddy-there's a duel, a
divorce and death, the perpetual Eepe-
tition O. which, ! confess, gets unco wea-
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p,oypa A Historical Stronghold.

A German paper says that Plevna ha,
long borne, both among the i%tGs ,ks anu a.,
the Bulgarians, the epitaph Of the I'M m =,
pregnable" The title dates back IGl, TO ,,,;e 1ne
line Of Baiazid the Great. When thl'
monarch drove the Bulgarian Emperor
from his throne the garrison of Plevna.
mUdort ,'Ol the command of Michael made such
an obstinate resistance that the INVADER
,,,o,o =" unable 70 possess themselves OF tht
Town. For six-and-sixty years-sO runs
tS""i ~" is0and-every effort made by the
S'"rts T,V 10 reduce Plevna was Intellectual
~ iuIit y wos not until after the death Of
S,lu aT,,hooI ~ III that thew succeeded and tile
Turks + gave him the title of "saaaI d; ,il O.
athe 0onquerer;" on account OF A'
bravery,
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without Note or Comment.

Two stories of suicide are in ali minds
to-day--One of them a story of lie in a
palace, the other a story OF life in a ten
ement house. The actors in The two ter
rible dramas Were socially as far removed
from each other as the poles. The one
was rich the other poor; the one refined
the other without culture. The one
lived in luxury with friends in abuud-
ance, with wealth and with all the con :
forts that wealth can provide; the other
lived in narrow quarters upon scanty
food and with little or no comfort. Ol G
thing only they had in common, and
that was intolelable wretchedness, and
the wretcheduess was wrought in both
cases by alcohol.
In one case it was poor workingmap,
who gave way to despair and killed mis-
children and himself becsuse MS wife
was drunken. In the other refined
cultured, sensitive woman, young wife
who had all that wealth and social coz.
nections could procure, who was account
ed particularly fortunate and happy, vol
unfairly went to her death to escape the
intolerable torture Of life with husband
who was victim ofstrong drink,
With these tragical stories for text il
would be easy 10 write aserm0n, but the
lessons that the story suggest are trite
and worn with much reiterati0n. The
stories themselves carry their moral with
them as similar stories told every day in
the newspapers do, and they who heed
them not weuld not heed even though
me should rise from the dead.-M }
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&. +. 4. in Court.

Mr.. George Francis Train appeared as
a witness in Philadelphia court room
the other day. George Francis Train,
the philosopher, atiirms, said the counsel
for the defense. "Tben must the witness
repeat?" said the crier, stepping back
dismayed "let him repeat, | do sol
emily" 81 don't solemnly," put in
Mr.. Train; "I have nothing to do with
solemnly." But the judge explained
the usages of the court, and, swapping his
fingers with an Indifferent twirl of his
right hand, the eccentric witness con.
formed. All eyes then followed him Ia
the stand. He sat bolt upright and
looked mildly around. His broad face
was brouzed to the hue OF copper. Hi.
shock OF iron.graY hair stood out from his
head in curs like so many little snakes,
In response to the question as to his resi-
dence, he said madison square" "Aud
what is your business, Mr.. TrainP" con
tinued the counsel for the defense. "
am l0afer ] have sat ten hours q day
for three v, ars, in Central park, feeding
sparrows and playing with children u
"You are a gentleman-at-large," sug'
gested the counsel. No; am large
gentleman. have been traveller, mer
ohant, banker, railroad builder, and &C
on" which was said very compOsedly
! and Mr.. Train frOWned at the taring
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To the youthful mind there is rare
fascination in gathering chestnuts. This
is due partly TO the meritorious qualities
of the chestnut itself, and partly TO the
fact that there is a spice of danger in the
act of gathering it. 1t is true that there
is rather more burr about a chestnut in
Its native state than seems really neces.
sary, and there is no doubtit the chestnuts
were to grow on one tree and the hurs
on another, it would be a more generally
satisfactory arrangement Still, the boy
who has climbed to the tOpmost branch
OF chestnut tree, and sees approaching in
Che distance the angry owner, accom-
panied by large club and savage dog,
will hastily fill the front of his Jacket
with unopened burs, and grind them
against bis body as he slides down the
tree, with fortitude surprising that of
the historical Spartan small boy who
stole an anise seed bag from the master
of the Argos county hunt, and allowed it
to blister the entire surface of his stomach
III preference to admitting his guilt and
undergoing the inevitable thrashing. 1t
is a curious provision of nature that
chestnuts must always be stolen. The
trees always belong to another man, and
there is no small boy living whose father
ever had chestnut tree on his own land.
Why this should be so is mystery which
is not the province Of moralists to solve,
aud which, therefore, needs 10 discussion
here.
ltis the opinion of MisB Anthony that
the tyrant man has committed one of his
worst Outrages in mOnopOlzing the sport
of chestnut gathering. 1t cannet be de-
MED that the female sex is virtually shut
out from this delightful pursuit. To
gather cheStnuts successfully involves
climbing trees, and the mature woman or
full-grown girl rarely cares TO incur the
risks which are inseparable from climbing
in the present fashion of female dress. Of
course DR.. Mary Walker could gather
chestnuts with impunity, but with women
who have not put on-that is to say, who
still wear skirts-there is a general feel
ing that stockings should not publicly
wave either from clothes lines or branches,
unless they have been previously and
carefully emptied.-Ney York Times.
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THE COMING MAN.

A pair Of very chubby legs,
EnCased IN scarlet hose
A pair OF liltle htuhhy boots
With ruther doubtful toes "
little kilt, little coat.
Cut Rs mother can
And lol before us strides, in state,
Inc Futures coming man.
His eyes, perrhance, will read tho sl1is
And search their unknown ways;
leichanCc the human heat ani soul
VIII open to their gaze;
Ferchance their keen and A shing glance
viii b' a nations light
Those eyes that now are Wistiu bent
On some t. big fellow'sn kite.
That brow, where mighty thoughts will dwell
n SOLEMN, sectet state
Where fierce Amh tiOu's restless strength
ohhl war with future fats;
Where Science from now hidden caves
New treasures shall ou'poor-
lis knit now with troubled doubt,
Are two, or three, cents mOre2
lhos2 lips that in the comiag years,
WIN plead, or pray, or tesch
Nho'h whispered words on lightning fash
From world to world may reach;
4h'i, 'erhy grave, may speak command
y ~ hl ling, win CDntr0l--
Are coaxing now for gingerbread
win all a baby's soul
Those hnnds--those little busy hands
SO sticky, small and 20 brown;
Those hands, "hose only missisn seems
To tear all order down
Who knows what hidden strength NAV lie
Within their future grasp,
Though now 'tis but taffy-stics
In sturdy hold they clasp21
All. blessings on those little hands
Whose wOrE is yet und0ne!
And blessings on those little feet
Whose race Is yet unrunl
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned To panl
Whate'er the future hold in store,
God bless the coming man.
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WHAT Is AN EXPLO SIVE BULLET


The war now raging in the east has as.
sumed so much the character of n war OF
determination that any question as to
the kind and quality of the missiles en-
ployed sinks into comparative insignifi
cancc; neverth less, from time to time
each CombatanJ has complained that the
other has used explosive bullets. These
missiles seem to be peculiarly objection.
able TO the military authorities, and il is
worth while TO enquire what an explosive
bullet really is, for though the term has
been freely used, the ideas connected
with it are probable somewhat vague.
The bullet in question has been used by
Sportsmen for many years, and their
effects on animals have been thoroughly
tested. They are, of course, made OF
lead, and are cast in a mold of such a
form that the bullets, instead of being
solid throus hOut, have a cylindrical hol-
low extending from the apex nearly to
the base. The hollow is filled with gun.
powder which is capped with sn explo.
sive mixture consisting of chlorste oil
potash, oxide of antimony and sulpher,
A plug of wax fills up the ori6ce and
forms tho apex OF the bullet, and little
spirit varnish over the wax MAKES tbs
shell" complete. This bullet is toler
ably safe 10 handle, though blow OF
the apex will, as matter of course
produce an explosion. When projected
from rifle, aud meeting with y re
sisting substance, the bullet exploIes anC
FERNS au i"e,ularlY-shaped, moro OF
lea, Jagged, pieces of lead, from which
portions may fly of. Ii it strikes The
soft parts, say of limb, it may pene
trate an inch or two before it bursts, and
in that case the aperture of entrance dit
fers in no respect from that of an ordinary
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