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A Qne-?a;l Read.

California has one-rail road in OPERA
tion at Norfolk, on Sonoma creek, three
and a half miles in length, and intended to
be extended up the valley. The track is
continued prism Of beveled boards, 81
inches wide and Is inches high, with a
single rail laid on top. The car which trav-
els on the line is supported by two wheels,
one at the front and one at the rear, sup
ported by independent revolving hanges.
The locomotive is the first of its kind con-
structed in the States. The visiting party
took their places on the seats, which were
ranged on each side of the car, the pas
sengers being face to face. The first i'm
preston suggested was that which ordina-
rily fills the bosom of the novice who makes
his maiden effort to ride the uncertain BIZ
cycle. A certain belief that the whole con-
Germ would topple over was the general
impression of the uninitia.ed. But when
the engineer sounded his whistle, the pas
sengers gave three tremulous cheers, and
the train moved off smoothly, and soon
the pace was COHSiuCkhOay aug
Wonderful to relate, says the San Francis
co Eran,iner, the oscillation was scarcely
perceptible, aud the locomotive and cars
rode along single rail as firmly as the
trains ON the broadest of English solidly
constructed broad gauges. The faster the
train proceeded the smaller in number and
extent became the lateral oscillations, beau
tifnlIy exemplifying the great principles
of the prlsmoidal system, that the greater
the speed the less the liability to oscillate;
principle clearly demonstrated by the
gyroscope and velocipede. To those ma
king their first trip on the new railroad,
the ease and comfort of this mode Of trav-
cling suggested itself strikingly. The train
was run out to the end OF the compieteo
line. where As men werc found continuing
the work OF building the prism, onward.
The construction Of the road has cost, foi
the present three miles and half, IN
cluding tie cost OF the road bed over che
marsh, nearly $4,000 q mile, ons-hali
the cost OF ihe narrow-gauge rail road,
the most economical OF the two-rail sys
| tenn
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Bur.ei fer Adultery.

The Reno Journal tells the sad fate of
a squaw named Mary, who left her hus-
band, Sam, to live with buck named
Jim. About fifty Piutes, accompanied
by several squaws, escorted her to the hills
back of Washoe Lake last Saturday even
ing, where safe from Caucasian intrusion,
they made huge pile of sage brush, and
after tying her in the middle oft, set it
on Gre. Then they commenced war
dance around the scene Of cremation. in
which all joined except Jim-Sam being
very fierce in his leaps and yells. The
screams of Mary added to the zest Of the
dance. Jim meantime sat quietly an indif-
ferent spectator to what was going on.
When the body of the unfortunate Mary
had been reduced to ashes, Sam expressed
himself as satisfied and they dispersed.
The warriors threaten their squaws with a
similar fate if they are not a little more
discreet in their conduct. Lyon County
Times,
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A Folding Beat

A few days ago a new and ingenionsly
constructed portable boat was launched and
tested on the Clyde. The boat, which is
eight feet in length, and two feet eight in
ches in breadth, is composed of hickory
wood and constructed in such way as per-
mits Of its being folded up till it assumes
the appearance of somewhat large travel
ing case. When packed it contains the
osrs, seats, canvas covering, with sufficient
space left for other necessaries, and as the
whole weighs but little over 56 pounds, it
can be easily carried about from place to
pace. Before being put into the water, the
frame Of the boat is drawn out to its full
length, and covered ON the bottom and
sides with strong waterproof canvas COW
ering. The process Of nnpacking and tit
ting the boat with its covering ready for
the water occupied Only the space Of three
minutes.
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A Young Telegraph Operator.

Mr.. Dolphin, agent of the West Chester
and Philadelphia Railroad Company at
Swarthmore station, Pa, has little girl
who is such curiosity in her way, that we
doubt il she has her equal in the country if
in the world. To the railroad officials
Sallie is well known as she is also to the
teachers and pupils at the famed
Swarthmore Coll. se, and it is to the public
at large we no~ seek to introduce her as
the most novel telegrapher of the age.
When about four years old she began to
notice the different sounds produced in
''calling' Offices on the telegraph wire,
and would ask her father what letter it was.
at the same time making the sound SIZE
head. After learning all the "calls % she
would catch an odd letter in messages pas.
sing over the wires, and would repeat the
sound until he would tell her the name of
When she was about four-and.a-half years
of age she knew the telegraphic alphabet
by sound. and yet she could not 60 over her
A C's without missing, being unable to
tell all the letters by sight. When she
would miss any Of them her father would
make the sound with his pencil, and as
she heard it she knew the letter instantly.
He has never taken any special pains to
teach b er, but now she can read any mes
sage passing over the wires, but when
copying (translating on paper) shc cannot
write as fast as she can read. During Mr..
Dolphin's absence at any time from the
Office, this child, now only nine years old,
takes entire charge at the key, he feeling
at ease, as she is cautious and attentive,
taking orders for the movement of. trains,
&C., accurately.
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LOADED wAINS.

From the broad fields, Their golden glory shorn,
And sunny uplands of their beauty reft,
Through the still sunlight of the Autumn morn
And hedgerows with their lingering jewels left
BY the brown river through the eafy lanes,
On to the farmstead move the loaded wains
The stalwart reaper bears his frightened scythe,
Or tracks the course the great machine ha:
made,
And bonnie lass and lad, sunburned and 1.-the,
Round whose straw hats woodbine and poppies
fade,
Wake all the meadow land with harvest strain.
Clustering and laughing round the loaded wains
'Tis soft September natures harvest yields,
But all through life our Ipening fruit we reap
Now storing violets from sweet April fields,
Now roses that bright July sunshines steep,
Now garnering gay October's sober gains.
Now Christmas holes pile our loaded wains.
All me! how fast the fair Spring flowers die.
How summer blossoms perish at the touch,
And Hope and Love in useless sympathy,
Weep for the Faith that gave and lost SO much
From half our sheayes drop out the golden grains
Small is our portion in the loaded wains.
Yet, ere the mighty Reaper takes itall,
Fling out the seed, and tend it ROOD by rood;
One ear is fall, though hundreds round it fall;
One acre mid mildewed upland good;
Eternity will rear on heavenly plains,
The Tailest treasure won from loaded Wains.
All the Year Round.
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PARIS EXPOSITION,
The Greatest Activity Noticeable The
Action of the Government,

Paris Correspondence N. Y. Evening Express.
The greatest activity reigns in the works
of the 1878 Exposition, some 1,10O work
men being employed upon the Trocadero
palace alone. This monumental building,
which it is intended to retain permanently
after the "show," will be a real addition to
the many imposing constructions of Paris.
The city has arranged to pay the State some
seven millions of francs for the palace,
which, like the Palace l'Industrie, in the
Champs Elysees, will be of fre quent utility
in the future, besides occupying site
which has, for years, been an oasis, though
charming one, at the west end of Paris.
AS for the immense payilions on the oppo-
site side Of the Seine, on the Champ de
Mars, they are advancing towards compile
tion with great rapidity. The principal
ones are now being rooted over, and there
can be no doubt but before the winter sets
in the entire buildings will be practically
complete, and the decoration of their inte-
rior in progress. Contracts have been
made by the government for the exposition
works to the amount offivo millions of dol
lars, and sum of about two millions in
cash has already been disbur ed. The
credit voted for the works was seven mil
lions of dollars, and it is supposed that a
much larger sum than that will be required.
The commercial interest in the enterprise
is some~hat calmed, in consequence, it
may be presumed, of the general stagnation
of business, but there can be no doubt of
the intention ofthe government to push the
enterprise to a successful point, and for
this the stimulating millions are not lack
ing.
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TERMS Payable invariably In advance.
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EVE-ANGELICAL CORNER.
A Paris hat is of cut ivory.

A Paris hat is of cut ivory.
Better to have loved short girl than
never to have loved a tall.
Judge Hilton's daughter is the belle of
Saratoga, by a large majority.
No material wears we'll when it is cut
the wrong way of the weaving.
A traveller says Russian babies are nev.
er washed during their first year.
DON Boucicault's advice. Never make
love to woman through an ink bottle.
San Francisco is to have woman's hotel
with a bar In every room-a musquito
bar.
The fiat rings of hair are in Paris called
frizons. Our ladies will probably freeze
on the fashions.
Fur trimmings will be extensively worn
this winter; silver fox, racoon and Russian
hare being the favorites.
Moorish mothers fatten their daughters
by compelling them to drink large bowl
ul of camePs milk every morning.
Circassian women are selling their gio-
rious hair in order to provide funds for
the wounded soldiers. Some of their hair,
tour feet two inches long, is sold in LON
don.
Mrs. Butler, who was Miss Thompson,
the recently famous painter, has gone from
Adrianople to the seat of war, to study
army scenes, and she has gone without her
husband.
Worth declares that the next change in
woman's attire shall be in the direction of
short petticoats, cofored clock stockings,
visible to the swell of the calf of the leg,
and low cut buckled shoes.
They were at a picnic, says the Lowell
Courier. On the ground was small
stand for the sale of watch charms. "Oh,
George" she said, "buy me charm.''
"Sarah," said he, "you have too many
already"
A st. Louis dispatch says: Sarah A.
Davis, who procured Utah divorce from
her first husband and married the second
time, was to-day fonnd guilty of bigamy,
in the circuit court of Campbell county,
Ky, and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary.
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Disraeli's First Speech.

The story of Mr.. Disraelfs maiden
speech at the House of Commons has of
ten been told, and his prediction Of his
own success when failure stared him in
the eyes il famous. A recently published
biography gives the following version OF
the concluding passage: Now, Mr..
Speaker, We see the philosophical preju-
dices of man. Laughter and cheers. ]
I respect cheers, even though they come
from the lips of political opponents. [Re-
newed Ianghter.1 I think, sir--[hear,
hear, and repeated cries of question: [ am
am not at all surprised. sir. at the recep-
tion have received. [Continued laugh
teri have begun many times several
things Laughter land have often sue
ceeded at last. fresh cries of question. /
Aye, sir, though sit down pow, the time
viii come when you will hear me. This
was received with cheers and laughter. but
certainly inspired few peopI, or none with
confidence IN the orators future greatness.
This incident occurred just forty years
ago.
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WOMEN IN INDIA.
Their Miserable Lives from the Cradle to the
Grave-An Appeal for Women Doctors.

A writer in Casseps Magazine (London)
draws dark picture of the social condition
of woman in India: "There can be no more
| interesting object of benevolent enterprise
than the improvement of the social condi-
tion of the women of India. The estima-
tion in which the native Indian woman is
held is we'll known by Englishmen-how
she is>compelled to undergo every kind of
manual work at the command of her hus-
band; while the lord and master enjoys his
life to the utmost, worked for, waited on,
and looked up to by his wife and slave.
The wretched existence of these women
has been described pretty clearly in sim
gle sentence: 'She is unwelcomed at her
birth, untaught in her childhood, enslaved
when married, accursed as o widow, and
often unlamented at her DEATH Lady
Anna Gore-Langton has been recently wis.,
iting India, and has taken much pains to
acquaint herself with the manners and GUS
toms of the natives, especially in the south
of India. Indian children, she informs us,
are married at eight years of age. Native
fathers consider it disgrace to have single
girls in the family, and endeavor to get
them married in child dhoood; but when mar
ried they do not always go at once to their
husbands homes. Although but little
money is laid out in clothes or education,
the marriages are very expensive, as there
is great deal of feasting; indeed many
families have been impoverished for years
by the expense of marriages. Infanticide
is not SO prevalent now as it was a few
years ago, and Government has done a
great deal to put it down. The marriages
are generally arranged by the old women,
who go from family to family to discover
suitable matches. The men in India are
to great extent ruled by the women, who
are very conservative, and have decided OBJ
jections to any improvement in their GUS
toms. The lower-class women work very
hard, pulling stone rollers, cutting grass,
and helping their husbands in bricklaying.
Widows are treated by the natives vely
badly; their clothes and jewels are taken
from them, and they are made as miserable
as possible. Nothing says Lady Anna
Gore-LangtoD, is more painful than to see
the vacant, hopeless, melancholy faces of
the adult women; and nothing is more
wanted than lady doctors, who might save
Indian women much suffering Sir Salar
Jung exerted himself some time back to
secure lady doctor for India. He had to
send to America for one, and she has now
large practice among the native women, ,,
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WHO osMAN PAsHA. Is.
Nore Other than the Famous Marshal Ba
zaine.

The Army and Macy Journal on Friday
published the following
ut is confidently asserted in England
from private information that Osman Pa
sha is none other than that celebrated fu-
gitive from French prisons, Marshal Fran
co.'s Ochiltre Bazaine. This intelligence is
by no means improbable. Bazaine was al
ways an active and stirring man, and the
circumstances Of his public trial in France
were such as to shut him out from career
in any army of Christian Europe. Like
most French officers of lank, he had serv-
edin Algeria, andin doing so acquired con-
siderable knowledge Of Arabic and of the
Arabs. Besides this, he served in the Cri-
mean war i'd command of the Foreign Le-
gion, and afterward as French Governor Of
Sebastopol. During that period he natu-
rally made many Turkish acquaintances,
and therefore there is nothing more natural
than that he should go to Turkey in the
ho1lI of his need. 1t is no secret that Ba-
zaine was strong Bonapartist, and that
his treason to France in the interest of the
late Emperor is indulgently looked on by
the Imperial Government.
"In Turkey, where Bazaine's master was
tie best friend of the Sultan, Bazaine
would be received with open arms by those
of his friends who knew his value in any
capacity of trained soldiers. That he should
have concealed his identity with the utmost
care is equally natural, and had not war
come it is possible he might have concealed
it till his death, but war with Russia, his
antagonist of twenty years ago, could not
fail to bring Osman Pasha in contact with
the people who knew Gen. Bazaine as Gov
ernor of Sebastopol. Whether the secret
leaked out through some Russian officer,
prisoner in his hands, or some English or
French attache who had served in the Cri-
mea and recognized Osman Pasha, is un-
certain, but the character of his fighting at
Plevna, stubborn. defensive battle, is Gu
nously like the first day at Gravelotte,
though the difference of force on the ene-
my's side led to happier ISSUE"
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A Gamssoms Capture.

The Idaho Statesman of Saturday
last. gives the account of the capture of
one George Butler, an escaped convict.
We make the following extract from the
narrative as an interesting story of a
gamesome tussle of the fugitlve's captor:
After securing the prisoner he was taken
to MIR. Ducan's and fed, and the next day
Captain Hill and Mr.. Miller started with
him for BOISE City. They stayed one night
at Dorsey's, ON Snake river, and on Tues
day they crossed the sage plain to Boise
valley. At midnight they reached the val
ley at Mr.. Miners place, where they passed
the remainder of the night. The next
day, while Captain Hill was at breakfast,
Butler, who had been allowed the free use
of his limbs, was standig in the same room.
A revolver had been left on bed near by.
when Butler, watching his opportunity,
siezed the pistol and cooked it, saying at
the same moment, Gentlemen, you are
my prisoners" Quick us thought, Capt.
Hill, who had been quietly engaged at
break fast, turned, and springing forward,
siezed the weapon from beneath with
Just force enough to prevent it from COM
ing down TO range with his forehead.
When Butler saw thas he was folled, he
struck Captain Hill severe blow with the
pistol, which, going off at the moment,
sent ball through the roof, inflictlng Sc
we're wound upon the forehead of Captain
Hill, filling his forehead with powder 1t
was a close call for the gallant Captain,
and no one but brave and determined
man would have attempted the feat. But
Ter says that he did not intend 60 kill any
body he thought he would play a bluff
and get away but he says Captain Hill
did not scare worth cent, and he is the
bravest man he ever saw.
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Australia Camel Coal.

A discovery has been made in Australia
which confirms with singular minuteness
the theory that assigns to cannel coal an
origin from leaves. 1t is difficult to under
stand how leaves cal. accumulate free from
dirt in sufficient quantity To form the beds
OF camel c,al, new several feet thick, and
resresenflng many times their mass in
leaves. But in Australia just such mass
completely, altered TO eaEnel. The APP
pearance and fracture Of fresh blocks are
the same assof this kind of coal found else
where, but after some years. exposure. it
can be separated with knife into thin
hminD, which shows that the mass is COM
posed principally of leayes. The bed is
six feet thick, AMI the government geolo-
gist calls it incipient Ignite. = Coal
Trade Journal.
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A PROFESSIONAL EPITAPH.

The Boston Advertiser digs up the following old
eptaph on matchmaker, referred to a churchyard in
Lydford, Devanshire, England
Here lice in a horizontal position
The outside case of
George Rontledge, Matchmaker
Integrity was the handspring and prudence the regu
lator of all the actions of his life;
Humane, generous and liberal,
His hand never stopped till he had relieved distress;
So nicely regulated his movements that he
went wrong,
Except when set agoing by people who did not know
his key;
Even then.he was easily setTight again.
He had the art Of disposing of his time SO well
That his hours gided away in one continued round of
pleasure,
Till in unlucky moment his pulse stopped beating
He ran down November IA, 1902 aged 81,
In hopes of being taken in hand by his Maker,
Thoroughly cleaned repaired, wound M and set
agoing
In the world to come, when time shall be no more"
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

We know shrewd farmer who made :
fortune cultivating weeds. They were ;
widow 's.-N. o. Times.
| First Black IIussar-" Dost see yon fos
advancing. comrade?'' Second Black Hus
sar-"T dost." And they both dusted.-
New Orleans Times.
Why should the statue of the Colossus oil
| Rhodes have been considered an equestrian
one? Because it bestrode noble bay
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ex-Treasurer Spinner has arrived in New
York from Florida. His health is unusu.
ally good, and his signature has been loan
sd to the Nea0 York Herald to be used as a
war map.-Norristop Herald
Rector" Those pigs of yours are in fine
condition, Jarvis.''
Jarvis" Yes, sur, they be. Ah, sur, il
We wos all on US on'y as fit to die as them
are, sur, we'd do.n'
The United States Army is being rapidly
put upon war footing. Two more SOL
diers have reported for duty, and man in
the hospital with sore leg will be ready
for business in less than a fortnight
Bridgeport Standard.
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but
the grist is sure, One of America s chrome
artists has been inveigled into position in
the Turkish army. Ofcourse it only one,
but that's something. g.-Danbury Neos.
Let us not dwell upon the future in store
for the tradesman who impregnates dozen
peaches with ipecac and gives one to each
small boy who will engage in foot race
ten times around the block. Worcester
Press.
The Beaumont 6 Fletcher partnership of
Harte d Twain, in the new play at the
Fifth Avenue theatre, was suggested by the
we'll known couplet:
1.-Two souls with but All Sin gle thought,
Twain-Hartes that beat as one"
Where is Gail Hamilton? Has she fled
to some verdant isle of far Cathay, where,
stretched upon the shining sands, her brow
barred to the spice-laden breeze and her
feet dabbling in the pellucid waters of the
auriferous rivulet, she toys with the sheeny
snakes that hide amid the clustering vines,
aud echoes back the call of the yariegated
paroquet9 Or is she up in the garret writ
ing another buster ?-Puck.
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P 0 2 7 r =
A STIR AMONG THE Daisies.

Pretty Lii of Lttetc sauntered through the grass,
The very birds and butterflies stopped to see her pass
All the daisies nodded to the maiden coming by,
And leaned across the pathway left behind her.
" Art hurt p they asked other. Each gayly laughed
Not /!
We bowed too low; but really we don't mind her.
To see so fair maiden pass has really quite unstrung
u.s.
Bnt well straighten up and ready be when next she
comes among u.s."
st. Nicholas for September.
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DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Authorized capital. ..'........ $500, 900.
Paid On CAPITAL .................... 1OO, 900.
Permanent Surplus Fund ............ $50,000G0
Dividend naid March a. 1S74........... 10000 90
Average Denosits proceeding six months 4S5 600 90
Invested in H. s. Bonds .,......... 214.00n00
We transact general Banking business. and buy, at
highest rates. Gold Dust Coin. Gold and Silver Bn
Bion and Local Securities; Sell Exchange and Tele
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States, the Canadas Great Britain Ireland and the
Continent. COLLECTIONS made and proceeds remitted
promptly Our facilities for handling
SILVER ORES are particularly good and this
branch Of our business will receive special attention
Cash advances made upon Ores, and same shipped for
account of owners. OR WE WILL BU Y. FOR
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