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9ARDEN OF EDEN.

Prince de Ligne, countryman and
contemporary Of Maria Theresa, wrote
an essay, "On the Location of the
Earthly Paradise aud, after some
reflections on the hygienic influence Of
different climates, calls attention to the
fact that "Paradise-traditions In loeat-
ing the Garden of Eden, differ only in
regard to longitude, but not To latitude.
The latitude keeps neal the snow.
boundary, a line just south of the
regions where snow may fall, but will
not stay on the ground. II passes
through Thibet, Cashmere, northern
Persia and Asia Minor, and reaches the
meridian Of Europe near the center of
the Mediterranean" The nations that
" celebrated life as d festival" have lived
along this line, and we may doubt if in
the most favored regions of the new
world human industry, with all the
aids of modern science, will ever reunite
the opportunities Of happiness which
nature once lavished on lands that now
entail only misery on their c~ultivators.
All over Spain and Portugal, southern
Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia
and western Afghanistan, and through.
out northern Africa, and from Morocco
to the valley of the Nile, the aridity of
the soil makes the struggle for existence
50 hard that to the vast majority of the
inhabitants life, from a blessing, has been
converted into a curse.
Southern Spain, from Gibraltar to the
head-waters Of the Tagus, maintains now
only about one-teuth Of its former pop
%ulation, Greece about one-twentieth. Al
late as A. D. $40, a good while after the
rise Of the Mohammedan power. the
country now known asTripoH, and distinct
from the Sahara only through the eIeva.
ton Of its mountains, was the seat of
eighty.fye Christian Bishops, and had !
population of ,000, 900, Of which number
thres-quarters Of n per cent. are now
left The climate which, according %
authentic description, must once have
resembled that Of our southern Allegha-
nies, is now 80 nearly intolerable that
aven the inhumanity of an African
6orbears to exact open-air labor
rom nine am, to FIVE pm. Steamboats,
hat pass near the Tripolitan coast in
ammer, on their way from Genoa to
1airo, have to keep up 4 continual
Of artificial rain to save their
from being overcome hy the /,
u~rnaceair that breathes from The barren j
ills Of the opposite coast. The rivers /
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sTEAmBOArs AND TIL MAILS.

It having come to the knowledge Of the
postofice department that large numbers
of letters are carried outside the mails,
in violation of law, upon steamboats, ply
ing the Mississippi river and its tribu-
%taries, the postmaster-general has caused
notice to be issued to owners and masters
of steamboats, and all other persons guilty
of such valuations Of the law, that The
penalties fixed therefor will hereafter be
rigidly enforced. Under the postal laws,
steamboats, are permitted only to carry
and deliver letters when covered by gov
ernmenment stamped envelopes of the
denomination sufficient for the postage
collectablo thereon provided, that such
envelopes shall be duly directed and
properly scaled, so that the letter cannot
be taken therefrom without defaCing the
envelope, and the date Of the letter or of
the transmission or receipt thereof shall
be written or stamped upon the envelope.
In conformity with this notice the post
master Of this city has been instructed to
report all violations of this law that may
come to his knowledge, to the end that
legal proceedings may be instituted
against the offenders. 1t is represented
that steamboat and other river men
havepracticed thisillegal carrying to such
an extent that many thousands of dollars
are lest to the government annually.
Whether this be true or not, we cannot
believe that our steamboat friends run
ming regular lines on the river would
Intentionally violate the law in this re-
gard. They must, nevertheless, thank us
for pointing out othem the danger which
threatens them. The remedy would seem
to lie with the steamboatmen themselves,
in simply refusing to carry letters except
in government envelopes, or in regular
mail pouches.-N. O. Picayune.
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of ONE of these countries have shrunk
to the size of their former tributaries,
and from Gibraltar to Samarcand the
annual rainfall has decreased till failure
of crops has become a chronic complaint.
And all this change IL due to the insane
destruction of forests. The great Cauca-
sian sylUania hat once adorned the birth
land of the white race from the western
Pyrenees to the foothills of the Hima-
layas has disappeared of the forest. area
of Italy and Spain, in the days of the
elder PIiny, about two acres in n hun
dred are left in Greece, hardly one.
But even the nakedness Of the most
fertile tracts of southern Europe is
exceeded by the utter desolation of the
Ottoman provinces.-PoPular Science
Monthly for august.
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There are three bodies, and only three,
that can be placed close together with
out leaving any interstices these are the
perfect square, the equilateral triangle,
and the hexahedron, six-sided figure.
No other forms can be placed together
without some interstices being left. And
the third, the ~hexahedron, is at once the
s~tF0pgeah and most ~capacious. Now,
heW arkable it Is that the bee has
hexahedron, and that every
hive of bees is that which con-
he greatest amount Of honey in
possible space, and leaves no
Kepler, the mathematician,
@lpHlas the angle that must be at the
bottom NJ the cell in order to ascertain
what would be the best to form the base
Of a hexahedron comb, the most capa.
eious and most fitted for juxtaposition
with others and the very demonstration
which mathematical calculation proved
is exactly realized in every comb we find
in the beehive. We baee, therefore, in
the bee and In the hive, aud all the ex
quiate adjustments by which they are
characterized, the traces of palpable
design-the evidence Of an existing and
a wise God.
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Don't PoiaoH Your Hxstes.

With such hurtful drugs as q%uinine, calomel
or blue pills, but take instead that safe
prompt and agreeable substitute, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, which, whether it is used 10
remedy or prevent malarial ~fevers, overcome
general debility, or to correct tOrpidity of the
liver and bowels, will in every case be found
fully adequate to the wants OF the sick and
feeble. 1t entirely remove d~yspeptic synp.
toms, and by stimulating the flow of gastric
conversion of food into blood, whereby the
system is efficiently nourishe1 and regains its
lost vigor. This great vegetable restorative
has received the enforcement of men of
science, the press has repeatedly borne volun.
tary testimony to its excellence, and the
public has long since given it a preference
to every medicine of its kind.
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UL-HARROWING.
Ptct'tse of the Results of the Fanstnc Eotp
Prevailing IN Tndta-Tho Roads
Stf'etc1s NTH the Dead
naf Duy7u

The Times's Bellary correspondent,
describing the awful efFectso the famine
in Southern India, says the great bulk
of the people are now emaciated their
ribs are sticking. @.out in painful promi.
nence, and their skins covered with a
dirty looking desquamation of cuticle,
described in the Irish famine OF 1867
by DR.. Donovan, as a peculiar famine
eruption. If we look at the thousands
OF people collected on the relief works,
these famine-marks are of almost uni
versal prevalence. The superintendent
Of the relief operation in Adoni reports
that the journey over one of his roads re-
sembled a path of the great battles in
numbers'of.. the dead and dying. If the
people had been ..smitten by local out
breaks Of cholera in ordinary times they
would have fed from the works and
never returned, but SO severe Is the
pressure for food that none could afford
to leave the works and lose their paw
even for a single day.
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preparInr soa Eana lor Corn.

An approved method of raising Indian
corn il to turn out a piece Of sed land
ploughing from six 10 seven inches in
depth, and IL clear of stone, it should be
turned over SO that not d spear Of grass
would be visible. This can be done with
q reversible plough. After ploughing it
needs to be narrowed thoroughly the
same way ii is ploughed and then across
the burrows. Then the chemical ferti-
lizer should be sown as evenly as possible
by broadcast %hand.sowing then It needs
TO be pushed with an ordinary bush, pre-
pared for covering grass and clover seed
after the grain had been narrowed In.
Then furrowed or marked out with A
shallow furrow-rows three and d half
feet apart--the anne way twas ploughed.
The next thing is to drop the corn in the
burrows, with the hills twenty inches
apart Ia the rows, with four kernels In q
hill, and covered with a horseshoe. The
more strictly This method Of preparing
the ground be followed, in every p%articu-
Ian, tho more likely will the farmer be to
get a good crop Of corn. He can hardly
fail Of this Ii he cuItivates or use The
horse-hoe faithfully and diligently. If
the land be free from stone, the hahd.hoe
win not be needed at all.
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A BABK WITH A HORSES FACE.

A male child, four months old, was
taken by its mother, Mrs. Margaret
0'Hara, to the eastern district hospital
ct Brooklyn, TO be operated on for d mai
formation of the face which gave itsome-
what the appearance of a horse. An
eiongation of the nasal bones, which
swelled out toward the chin and met the
lower lip, which was thus depressed, gave
the appearance of two large nostrils.
The appearance was increased by the
stertorous breathing of the child. DR..
Brady had the infant put under the in.
fuence of %chloroform, and In about half
an hour handed the child back to its
mother With a mouth, nose and nostril=
an ugly looking child, but still with a
child's face. The flesh was cut from the
protuberanee, and the bone was broken
off to the length Of an ordinary nose.
The cuticle and flesh so cut away were
formed into the base OF the nose, holes
being made for the nostrils. The large
.cavernous opening then seen was brideed
across 20 make an upper lip by joining
the TIVE cheeks. Mrs. O'Hars said the
cause Of the deformity was the |antenatal
shock, received through a neighbor who
was driving a horse. Her husband Is
laboring man, and they have four other
children frem two to nine wears Of
The deformed child is a hearty.
infant, and, il is thought. viii
the Operation.--N 7. Tribune.
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or4eia y III cattle Plaere.

MIR. Arnold, who has been travelling
between the Caspian and Persian Cults,
writes to the London Times, end among
other subjects, gives the following curl.
Y account Of the origin Of the cattle
plague There Is an infamous place on
the road between Teheren and Mashbad.
n the direction Of Herat, / remember,
at odessa and Bessarabia, to have heard
men who were deeply interested In the
matter express a confident opinion that
rinderpest or cattle plague had its origin
in the poisonous bite Of d black spider
common IN the marshes of Bessarabia,
where | have been told that ri~nderpest Is
ALWAYS raging.
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upper country, from the Dalles to Pc
louise, purchasing beef cattle to drive
east. One firm has purchased 1900 anc
was still buying, and Others were in the
field making large purchases. These
cattle are started eastward by way Of
Boise and Snake river, through Utah
and are driven all the way TO Kansas by
easy stages, reaching there, some of them,
early in the fall. Later in the season,
those that are in good order are shipped
east by rail, and the rest wintercd in
Kansas ready for shipment next spring as
soon as they are in good condition.
The business of driving cattle and
grazing them all the way from the rich
valley Of the Columbia river to the no
less fertile valley of the Mississippi has
been in operation in a small way for three
years, and il now developing into a large
industry,
These facts have great significance.
Cattle by the hundred or thousand cannot
be driven over a desert Of any considera-
BILE extent for they will starve. During
the war, we remember seeing drovos Of
fine stock from Lexington, Ky, driven
into Knoxville mere walking skeletons,
because the grass and other cattle feed
between the two cities had been con-
sumed. Mulel backing flour, meat and
Other 4u HYIges kt the Federal army, died
hy ilana III the same route from star
vatioi Hence, the driving of cattle by
thousands from Oregon and Washington
Territory to Kansas tells of grazing land
and water where a barren waste was sup.
posed to exist.
The agricultural resources Of this con-
tinent are neither studied nor appreciated
by our statesman. II is n good act to
plant the seed of Oregon salmon in all
our rivers and lakes that q capital fish
may abound but it would be n much
more important benefit TO plant grass seeds
and the seeds of forest trees where the
climate Is best adapted to their growth
across the t~reeless plains on either side Of
the Rocky Mountains. Timber and grass
secure and support population, wealth
and advanced civilization. We notice n
Kansas correspondent of the Rural World
inquiring about the seed of the red cedar.
We wish he had one hundred bushels of
such seed from Middle Tennessee where
it abounds.
Cattle raisers and all dealers in meat
horses, hogs and sheep, should
take an interest in extending green past
ures and lovely groves over the naked aud
barren places Of the United States. These
invaluable plants have the power to
draw rain and dew from an atmosphere
that would yield neither to man or beast
without their aid. The air over the
Desert Of Sahara has moisture which Il
not beyond the reach of science in ex-
tending the bounds of a fertile oasis on
all sides. Fertility grows as well as
babes, pigs, corn and wheat. Our next
lesson to learn is to draw woods, grass,
rain and g~rainout of a dry atmosphere.
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STARTING IN THE WORLD.

Many an unwise parent labors hard
and lives sparingly all his life, for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children q start in the world, as it is call
ed. Setting a young man adoat with
money left him by relatives is like tying
bladders under the arms Of one who al
not swim ten chances toOne he will lose
his bladders aud go to the bottom.
Teach him to swim and he will never
need the bladders, Give your child a
sound education, and you have done
enough for him, See to 1t that his NOR
ais are puae, his mind cultivated, and
his whole nature made subservient to
laws which govern man, and you have
given what will be more value than the
wealth of the Indies.
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THE FAMINE
IN HtdtG--TcrribIe Tidi1gs--N HIt0as n
Human BeiHOs. ReceivinO Public
GtaritB--4nd Tot Death Takes
STARRING Thousands En-
emu HnV.

cry BaB.
A dispatch from the viceroy of India,
dated August 10Th, states that the gen,
eral improvement in crop prospects in
Madras, Mysore, Bombay and the north
west was maintained the past week.
Rain Is still much needed in Pnniqb,
Raipootana and the western part of the
northwestern provinces. The prices of
grain continue exceedingly high through
out the famine districts; but in Madras
they are slightly easier than the week
preceding, and still are lower in every
part of that presidency than in the worst
parts of Bombay and Mysore. The
question of grain stocks and supplies
continues to cause anxiety. The grain
trade at Calcutta is exceedingly active /;
ninety thousand tons of shipping arc en-,
gagged. The condition of Mysore c~ontin-
ues critical. The governor of Bengal
telegraphs, concerning the condition OF
Bombay, that the prices of grain are
slightly easier, but are still very high.
The improvement Of the situation is re-
tarded by the want of a general rain;
the people are feeling still more the %
tinued pressure of high prices, The diff
iculty in Bombay is aggravated by the
state of Madras and Min, and by the
inability of the railroad to bring forward
grain sufficient for the grea5 demand.
There has been no further increase in
Madras OF the number relieved of Il
hundred and e~ighty-nine thousand, max
ing an increase of three hundred and
e~ighty-fve thousand in the last fortnight.
In Mysore the laborers on the works are
decreasing, and the charitably relieved
increasing in Bombay the reverse is oc-
curing, but there is a slight general in
crease in the totals received. In Madras
there are nine hundred and eighty-three
thousand laborers on the works, and n
million one thousand six hundred chart
tably relieved in Mysore there are forty
five thousand on the works, and n
hundred and sixty-tour thousand chart
tably relieved and in Bombay there are
two million six hundred thousand on the
works, and one hundred and nine thou
sand charitably relieved.
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We understand there are uuprincipled
grocerg and dealers whe palm of on unwary
purchasers Yeast Powder in bulk, or loose,
for the genuine DooLEY'S YEAST POWDER.
For the protection of housekeepers and the
public generally, we are authorized to state
that the genuine DooLEY's YEAST POWDER
is sold only in cans. Always refuse to take
it exceptin cans, securely labeled. The fac.
smile signature of Do0LEY d BROTHER, the
manufacturers, is plainly printed on each
abel
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wntte Fretd Labor IN the sgmth

The New Orleans Democrat, discu.
ssing the question of immigration to that
state, comes 10 the conclusion that
Louisiana ought to be the Hesperides
of the western hemisphere" 1t combats
the prevailing belief that white men are
unable 10 wsrk in the sugar fields of
Louisiana, and to establish its position
calls attention to the fact that "thous-
auds OF white men aided from the plant.
ing to the harvest in raising LOuisiana'S
last sugar crop, and that the large in
crease in that crop was due to the large
addition to the number of white laborers
in the sugar fields" Many Of the old
sugar plantations have been sold in
farms offrom forty to two hundred acres.
The improved processes of farming keep
tho land in better condition, aud crops
that are properly planted and cultivated
require no work upon them during July
aud August, the hottest months.
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Do not try to fatten your pig rapidly
until you have first grown him. You
cannot make a heavy hog unless you first
produce a lengthy pig, Weeds, clover,
meat, scraps, boiled potatoes, kitchen
refuse, any and all heterogeneous or flesh.
forming foods are preferable during the
early months Of the pigs existence, to
the meal and grain on fat-iorming food,
which are required for the finishing pro-
cess.
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RHEUMATISM On

RHEUMATISM QUICKLY CURED.-Du-
rang.s Rheumatic Remedy, the great Internal
Medicine, viii positively cure any ease of
rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price
rs bottle SIX bottles, So; sold by all Drug.
gigts. Send for circulars 20 Heinbsnstfas
4 Bentley, Druggists, Washington ii. q
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of these buildings dates from some centu-
ries before our era. The Councilof Vaud
has decided to have the site of the dwell
ings enclosed by Il jetty stretching from
the land, and to drain off the water, go
as to bring to light what promises to be
II of the most interesting archaeological
discoveries of our day.
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HAVE sold Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup since $40. It has had the leading sale
among all cough remedies, from its frst in.
PRODUCTION. My customers, as they get NO.
qusinted with 1t, become It's friends almost
without exception. After this trial of SIX
years can recommend its use to al In need
Of a cough remedy. A. B. ARMSTRONG.
Smethport, Pa.
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For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS

AFTER an experience of over twenty
five years, mary leading ph y~sicians ackpow.
edge that the ~ttraefen6erg MsyshaVs Uterine
Cathoiteon Is TIE only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject, The
GTpgenbeg Hegetabte Pills, the most popular
remedy Of the day for b~illiousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases Of digestion.
Sold by AT druggists. Send for almanacs.
GraefenbefH Co., New York.
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WnHoFr's ANTI PERIODIC OR FEVER
M AGuE ToEIe.-This invaluable and
standard family medicine il now a house.
hold word, and maintains its reputation un>
impaired. II is endorsed by the medical pro.
f%ession, and prescribed daily in the Charity
Hospital and other Hospitals in New Or.
leans, Wilhofts Tonic is thus highly recon-
mended by the leading medical men Of the
country, and is worthy Of such endorsement
g. Z. FINJAY u Co, Proprietors, New Or.
leans.
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The Royal Geographical Society of
England have taken in hand the project
of a thorough exploration of the Cont
nent of Africa, They 0 that
they intend to assist by agrant from their
own income and by other support n AZ.
rican exploration fund, to be devoted to
the scientific examination of Africa, the
physical features and resources, the best
routes to the interior, and 80 on. No less
than seven expeditions are to be organ
lied, which shall explore or examine seven
distinct routes, A rough calculation
estimates the expense at thirty shillings
a mile, though it is candidly admitted
that in some cases the expenses will be
just double. Mono of the distances
contemplated in these several routes is
less than 400 or more than 1000 miles,
and the total area to be traversed ia
1900. The cost, at the lower rate, would
be e11,500, but a fair estimate places it
at least G25, 5000.
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AGRICULTURAL Z.
&C.,. r,,t,,trs az Pea stra,g.

The Canada Farmer says: "The Eng
ligh farmer neither makes nor expects tc
make any profit on sheep over and above
the n which they furnish by con-
Stunning the roots and oil-cake on the
farm. If the sheep pay for the outgoings
and the interest on their purchase, and
leave the farmer the manure free, he
considers himself richly paid and 50 he
il. In Canada we do better than that,
30 far as buying and selling the sheep is
concerned but still the generality Of
farmers are content to keep but few
sheep, and only those they a winter
through on pea straw and somefe roots,
without difficulty"
In Canada, sheep have to be housed
through long, cold winters, and they
consume more than many suppose.