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Eosdy Mark.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
SAYS / met Mark Twain last week. He.
was in one Of his unhappy moods. This is
his normal condition. Beyond all compari-
son the king of American wit, he is one of
the gloomiest of men. Fun is frequently
on his face, and a waggish yarn frequently
on his lips, but he tells a story in company
;.s if it were perfunctory business of q
Scheherszade fictionizing to save his neck.
from the ak of some wicked executioner.
A quaint conceit full or absurd incongrui-
ties comes into his head, and he is for q
time silently happy, but he soon drifts back
into the valley of depression. This is
where he usually lives. Getting $500, 600
from his books and play, and as much more
with an agreeable and amiable wife, be talks
sconsta antly of his ill luck--the tiend which,.
he insists, never deserts him.. His London
lectures two years ago didn't succeed rs he
thought they ought, and he was plunged
into despair about it, "Just my blamed
luck!a he said; and his friends laughed at
him. He is full Of idiosyncrasies, and
sometimes is quite misanthropie. ..When
/ leave place." he exclaimed one day, 81
never want to see that town again as long
as live, or any of its people. " As Tom
Hood was ypochondriacal. and Swift acrid
and cynical, so Mark Twain. the beloved Of
melancholy ribs. and the agent of Menus
1ntaf
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EvE-ANaE1lcA1 CORNER.

Josephine, Queen Of Sweden, left 7,7OO
pounds of plate. 'a'z.- 5rs g1-1-1 7aa
The Kansas Legislature is served by lit
tie female pages, who chew gum. '-2
, According to the latest Paris verdict Ia
dies will carry little mirrors attached to q
chain from the waist. r.aa
Faerion, the novelist, who is said to be
q Hebrew, is announced as the future hus-
band Of Miss Jefferson, daughter of the cell
ebrated actor of " Rip Van Winkle.''
"A Frenchman isabout opening sly
meneal Academy. in Livingston, KY, in
which young ladies will be taught the mar
riags service. .1-ss.r e.-.r..-, ...'.f ...9,---s.
d A New Jersey boy was SO oyerioyed with
his sweetheart, that he wound his arms
nine times around her and said, You are
an angel, painted red.''
.t The Marshalltown, Iowa, Times publish.
es the following p,uor o... ... .....-..
Jan. 90, 1s77.-Nister editor I
forbid anyone marrying John Henry for I
was engaged to him the 1st of January, for
if he gets married he will hafto suffer the
penalty of the law. I remain as ever his in
tended wife. ~ ,.r - SorHA BAKER-
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y A Tigurative Trick.


The Magus who performs this trick Sc
lects a suitably melancholy victim, and pro-
poses to give the added total of five rows
of figures Of any size possible, after but one
OF those rows are placed on paper. The
victim puts down such q row, and the Ma
gus. Immediately writes the total. leaving
an intervening space for the other four rows
which ARE put down alternately by the
othertwo persons, apparently at hap-haz-
tzard, yet the total is always absolutely cor
rect. III Twill illustrate the. naodgs operaDdi
as follovss;i tASexhib1ts the trick, and B is
the unfortunate victim. B wrltas downl d
say, 3s277. scA cAimmediately states the added
total of. this with the four yet unknown
rows, as 23,275.s5R then sexsrts his massive
intellect, and. evolves from its depths the
figures f,365. and places them beneath his
frat row. 81 then adds as row No. g. 81
6s4 iRgagaiai writes down 5,s49, and A
;finishes the agony by putting down as the
last rev 45104-and the answer is correct.
The rows may contain any number Of fig
sures, provided each row has an equal NUM-
her with its predecessor. 5tti f.s94s sauls I'll
/ The explanation Of thistis simple. as roll
Ing OFF a four-story log To get the total,
simply deduct 2 from the last figure In the
line. and place il (she figure p before the
sflrst; and, to sfH up the intervening four
lines, put down figures large enough to
make O. for eaOh Of yeur opponents pre-
eeding figures in rows and 8. Patadown
the figures given asfan illustration, and q
little study win make it yeryseasy for the
reader to understand. not only sshow to do
it" but 'sthe reason why as well,
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Only very small portion of this amount
was Silver, the most being gold dust ranging
above 900 in fineness. The enormous pro-
duction of the years 1864 to 1868 was due
to,the rich placer diggings found in the
gulches of the Missouri head tributaries,
and when these were exhausted to such an
extent that it was necessary to combiEe the
small claims into large ones, and employ
capital to develop them on large scale, the
annual product decreased rapidly, and the
outlook appeared dismal for Montana.
This period of desertion and retrogression
invariably occurs in the history of all coun-
tries irst opened by the discovery of placer
gold, and where there is no other industry
to fall back Oh. Montana being farther
away from communication with the ciYil-
lied world than any other part of the Union
has suffered more severely, and for longer
time than any sister Territory; but the
few who have remained in her cafions and
valleys IN the belief that the land was good
and worth standing by, cannot DO far from
the day of their reward. Signs of new life
and new growth are everywhere visible.
Silver mixing has become one of the recog-
nized industries of the Territory; gold
quartz mining is on souad basis, and
many old and abandoned placer districts
are waking up under the stimulus of new
enterprises. Capital to moderate extent
has come in; IS being employed successful
ly, and already is reproducing itself. Mon
tana is no longer An unknown and unvisit-
ed section of the West, and those who have
taken the pains to examine its resources are
finding that it embraces as fine a field for
Investment as any part of the country.
The letters the Repiew is now publishing
from Montana will be found to cover the
details of each important mining camp. 1t
is intended in what follows to glance at the
condition of the mining industry in the
Territory as whole, and to offer the means
of comparing its status with that of older
parts of the West. - .5. s. a
To begin, the following is list Of the
larger working and producing mines Of all
kinds fa 4ess2 85l7# @a5eaa= a4 Il
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P 0 z TR z
THE RAINBow.
By AMELIA wELBY.


so,he'ines haYe thoughts, in my loncliest hours
-. nov i'e On my heart like the dew on the flowers.
vi ramble took one bright afternoon
| "nen my heart was as light as q blosso,, IN 1
Ahe green earth was moist with the late fallen eb-
efs, "
nc oreeze auttered down and blew omen the Aow.-.
:" Ane single white cloud to its haven of rest
vi the "hte wing of peace foated off in the ,vest
M, g" oack my tresses, to catch the cool breeze
sea''e.eo ehe rain-drops ana dimpled the seas
Far up the blue sky a fair rainbow rnroed
lts sott-tinted pinions of purple and gold.
twas born in moment vet onick 90 its h;r,h
IL mad stretched to the uttermost ends of tb oo.,
Aha ta1r as an angel, it ioated all free
win wing On the earth and a wing on the sea
no" calm was the ocean! how gentle its swell,
Like womans soft bosom it rose and it fell
"Ae .'' hsi' sparkling waves stealing laughingiy
men they saw the fair rainbow, knelt down On the
shore; ~ 'A0
~ " sweet hyhln ascended, no nurmur of prayer,
LET feit that the spirit Of worship was there
And bent my young head in devotion and ,oys
Neath the form of the angel that foated above
~" woe was the sweep of its beautiful wings,
now ooundiess its circle! how radiant its rinpss
- = iooAeu III the SKY twas suspended in air
II looked on the ocean the rainbow was there.
1 nus forming girdle as brilliant and whole /
AS the thoughts of the rainbow that circled my SOUL
Like the wings of the Deity, calmly unfurled,
IL Dent from the cloud and encrcled the world
mere are moments, think, when the spirit receives
W mole volumes of thought on its unwrtt en- leaves
" hen the folds Of the heart in moment unclose,
.Ae .ne ihhermost leaves from the heart of rose:
ana thus when the rainbow had passed from the shv
lne thoughts it aUoke were too deep to pass by;
t left my full soul like the wings of a dove
All huttering with pleasure, and futtering with low.
know that each moment of rapture or pain
'ut snortens the links in life's mystical chain:
know that nay form, like that bow from the wave
dust pass from the earth and lie cold in the grave
let, Oh! when deaths shadows my bosom encloud.
When shrink from the thought of the coffin and
shroud,
nay nope, like the rainbow. my spirit enfold
n her beautifalpinions of urple and gold.
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The Study Of Character IN a Newspaper Oh Oh

/. - il4 .Fshss @@al. 9IJ4-----sai!g5tq y Ef-~ 80
From Sermon bo Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage to Jour
nalsts. iii
One of the great trials of the newspaper
profession is that its members are compelled
to see more OF the shams Of the world than
any other profession. Through every news
paper Office, day after DAY.. 60 all the weak.
nesses of the world all the yanities that
wants to be pnfFsd, AL the revenses that
want to be reaped, all the mistakes that
want to be corrected, all the meanness that
wants to get its wares noticed gratis Id the
editorial columns, all the men who want TO-
be set right who never we're right, all the
cracked Drained philosophers with stories as
long as their hair. and as gloomy as their
finger nails In mourning, because bereft Of
soap, and the bores who come to stay fiye
but talk five hours. Through the
editorial and reportnrial rooms all the fol-
hes and .saams of the world are seen day
after day, and the temptation is to believe
mother In God, man nor.w0mans It is no
surprise to me that in your professions there
are some skeptical men-I only w0Lderthat
you believe anything.
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ri. reduction facilities Of the Territory


The reduction facilities Of the Territory
consist of eleven gold quartz mills carrying
an aggregate of 1S0 stamps; six silver re-
duction works (amalga with = total
capacity of 70 tons per day, and Acton.
Krom Concentration establishment. Ex-
ceuting the last (Which is just getting into
shape. all have been running during the
greater part of the year. AT Helena is a
4-stack lead smelling works which has been
fred up twics during the year, but with no
success at either time. At Jefferson, Kemp's
mill tWashoe process) ran for the, first half
Of tho yssr, snd was then burned down.
Besides these, there are dozens Of old
mills and arastras idla or dismantlcd in the
too hasty abandoned gulches of 1s65-'66.
which, as the veins in their vicinity are re-
opened, will, without doubt, spring into
life again. n g,4,s.. ss..s
Besides tia list Of mines given, there .lre
many hundred minor prospects All over the
Territory that deserve d more lengthy ref
ererce than can bs given to them here. The
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The joint convention thought so and sep
arated. The high joint commission went
to the room Of the Supreme Court, where
they were followed by the documents. The
House Immediately set to work to pass the
resolution declaring that the vote of Flori-
da shall be counted for Tilden and Hea-.
dricks, but finally agreed to let the minori-
ty have until Saturday to be heard in re-
port. '7.l'-1-- 3~' ~ --&-~ e
So ended the opening scene. The last.
scene May perhaps be given in subse-l
quent letter. By many it is thought that
the House has decided not to be bound by
the action of the commission if it is given
against their candidates. We hope not. /.
W. W. JOHNSON. /
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Shortening the o:saa voyage.

The New York Tribune says: A little
pamphlet, entitled "The Problem Solved
How to Shorten the Distance Between Eu-
rope and America" is a commercial curios-
ity. The author comes to New York to
obtain funds for building railroad in Nova
Scotia, the ultimate effect of which, in his
opinion, will be to concentrate all the Eu-
ropean trade of this continent, and the
shipping engaged therein, at Whitehaven,
Nova Scotia, at the expense of all other
Atlantic ports. The railway is seventy
miles long and is to connect Whitehaven
to New GLASGOW, where connection will
be made with the railway system Of the
continent. The idea of the author is that
it is necessary to. shorten the trip across the
ocean for the benefit of that "steady and
eyer-growing stream of wealthy and culti-
vated people which pours down to the
steamship wharves and diffuses itself
throughout the countries of the Old World"
annually, and Of the return tide of fashion
able European travel, and also for the
benefit of trade. To shorten the trip, he
purposes to have all the ships sail from
WhitehaveD, which is the most easterly
point of the continent, from which point
steamers can cross the ocean in five days.
Travellers and mails, by taking a train be-
tween Whitehaven and New York, would
still make the distance between Liverpool
and New York at saving of twenty-five
hours over the fastest time ever made.
The author Of the new scheme believes
that all the grain, coal, cotton and other
trad of the continent can be and win be
gathered at Whitehavsn. He call atten-
tion, therefore, to the grandeur of the
Whitehaven scheme, and urges that the
projected railway g would be a veritable
bonanza to Its owners, #s#3s5s-'- sJV
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4 QUICKsILvER FIRE ALARM.-As fire sig
nal, to indicate the breaking out Of . fire,
which has lately been patented in France
by Hugeiin, operates 40 follows When
Gre Temperature Of the apartment rises
above a predetermined point, = quicksilver
thermometer ia caused thereby TO break,
and the quicksilver runs into dish, where
by its weight it sets in motion aciock-work.
The last Is made to operate an alarm bell.
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MONTANA.
$4,675,OOO


According to Mr.. W. A. Clark, Centen-
nial Historian for the Territory, the bullion
yield of Montana since the first discovery
of mines in 1862 has been as follows
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HE WAS THAT sAME.-The Late Lord
'Tweeddale was a fine swordsman, and in
the Peninsula he had a special sabre made
for him Of extra length and. weight, where
with he slashed away in avery heroic fash
ion. .He was i great boxer, too. One day.
when ho was driving, 4 gigantic costrrd
mongef riding. as is their wont, upon a.
barrow behind the most dimfnutive dpns5
key possible, stopped III the way as il also
their wont. On being called upon TO move.
lie tiatly refused, and ieeringly offered 70
fight Cor the road. Lord TEeeddale. notas.
ing loath. got down. fought him there aud
then, and in Give minuts reduced him TO =
pitiahlej state The cestermopger hen
gave IN, and wlping the blood 5frem. bis.
face said: = Well. Pm blessed il 4 tlaaghEs
there vas anybody but Lord Twiddle a.
could lick melp fs Ah, !. replied his Isard-
ship, 4 4 am Lord Tweeddalc.' ss rhen.f
blow me, it's not fair! If you'd said so at
first, I'd a let you pass. !"
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The Place Where the Sun Jumps Day.

Chatham Island, lying off the coast of
New Zealand, in the South Pacific ocean, is
peculiarly situated, as il is one of the hab-
liable points Of the globe where the day of
the week changes. It is just in the line of
demarkation between dates. There high
twelve on Sunday or noon ceases, and in
stantly Monday meridian begins. Sunday
comes into a mans house on the east side,
and becomes Monday by the time it passes
out the western door. A man sits down to
MONDAY dinner on Sunday, and it is Mon
day noon before he finishes it. E.sAt' :
There Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday
is Monday, anu Monday becomes suddenly
transferred into Tuesday It is a good
place for people who have lost much time,
for by taking an early start they can always
get a day ahead on Chatham Island. It
took philosophers and geographers i long
time to settle the puzzle Of where Sunday
noon ceased and Monday noon began, with
q man travelling weat fifteen degrees an
hour, or with the sun. It is to be hoped
that the next English Arctic expedition
viii settle the othe other mooted question:
g Where will one stop who travels North
west continually ?".7-o-" i'''i~2.i1'ss'sS14t
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rapid growth and vitality of Butte and
Philipsburg indicate that silver mining has
become firmly established. Trapper, Silver
Lake and Vipond districts (silver) are ad-
vancing with rapid strides, while in the vi
cinity of Helena the Red Mountain and
Scratch gravel silver veins are receiving at
tsntion, and are likely to prove permanent
" va I'm blo
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TEENS Payable Invariably Ia .az.ns...
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS

q. %
Ola InoIltti6... 90
Three Months.... So
The daily gazette., 1877-11-17
STATE ITEMS:

The Court House in Georgetown Is nm
dergoing thorough repair. arl4F .
The Teachers Institute for Kent conn
~ will be held In Smyrna the first week
In December. r ~! n lemnnF gnfi
Harrington has five new buildings In
progress and carpenters are in demand.
1t Is a growing town. ''1"'fs
Rock fish and perch are plentiful along
the delaware shore, and our fishermen
are beginning to find it out.
Mr.. T. A. Polk, of Georgetown, Del,
has been appointed messenger for the
Old Dominion Steamship Company.
VIM. Reynolds of Milford, who fur
nishes ship timber to builders, is new
forwarding 100000 feet to j. w. Wander
man of New Jersey. ..H
Mr.. Burton, who was shot at Bulls
Mill near Laurel, is reported to be i'm
proving, and will probably recover. His
assaiiant is still in jail at Georgetown.
A boat-load of ship brokers' agents at
Lewes, capsized In the Breakwater har-
Dor on Sunday last, from too much brick
In the hat, and were nearly drowned.
There is some talk of another new NJ.
e. church in Milford. There are infiu-
ential Methodists in town ready to con-
tribute literally to erect such church in
South Milford. They believe that such
an enterprise would be successful and
popular. N
The trustees of the M. e. Church in
Milford have raised the money to pay
Oft the floating debt on the new building,
by giving a mortgage for $1,000, to run
five years. 1t is started that they had to
accept discount of eight per cent. on
the face of the mortgage.
The daily gazette., 1877-11-17

The Neeo Water Plpes.-The workmen
engaged in laying the new 8-inch water
pipes on West Third and West Fourth
streets, are certainly making rapid
progress, the trench diggers having
reached Jackson street. The pipe layers
are closely following the diggers, but at
y Jefferson street they met with serious
obstacle, which greatly retarded their
operations. 1he new pipe had to be run
through the 30-inch main ON Jefferson
street, but as the main was not provided,
at Third and Fourth, streets, with cross
pipes for the purpose of making connoc-
tlons, it had to be cut and the cross pipes
fitted in before the new pipes could be
connected with the large main and car
riSd across Jefferson street. To do this
two gangs of men worked all of last
night, and by morning had the work
done. The pipes had already been laid
and hauled between Jefferson and Madi-
son streets, and the water in that square,
which had been shut off for the past two
days, was turned on again this morning,
greatly to the relief of the people. ll.I
Lupih's Cdskmeres.-W. M. Kennard
81 Co., 621 Market street, purchased at
The great sale made yesterday in New
Yotk by the importer Of Lupin'S fabrics
to close their stock for the season, ercllt-
Siuely for cash, large line of Lupin's
cashmeres and have secured for Will
mington the greatest bargains offered for
sixteen years; and pursuing their usual
plan, now offer all the advantages to
their customers. They are now able to
sell the quality which they have sold
case of at 75c. for roc, and the qua lity
which they have sold so many of at S5c.
for 75c,, and 95c, for S5c.
Not SuStained.-John Williams, COL,
was before Esquire Frazer, last evening,
charged with breaking into the house of
Moses Bies, col. The charge, however,
was not sustained by the evidence, and
John was allowed to go free.
The daily gazette., 1877-11-17

PerSondt- REV. Herman Carter, for
merly of Henderson, Caroline county,
Nd, and we'll known in this city, is now
stationed at Erie, Neosho county, Kan
sas. Recently he officiated at the laying
of the corner stone of a new NJ E. church
near Erie, and in reporting the occur
renee the Erie Record says: TO Rev. III
Garter belongs the credit of first startin
the enterprise, ,and placing it upon its pre-
sent footing; and the same grit, together
with the liberal cooperation which is
promised by the brethern in the church,
an others, win carry it through.
Bishop Becker, of this city, will Off
ciate in the Catholic Church at Elkton
on Sunday, Nov. 25th, when the "Forty
Hours Devotion" will commence in that
church.
James Taylor, son of Emmor TAYLOR,
OF this city, who has been engaged in
business, near San Francisco, is on a
short visit to his home in this city. #
Charles Gilpin, of Middletown left
on Thursday morning last for Philadel-
phia, where he will attend the College of
Dentistry during the coming winter.
StNte Senator James FL. Ray is in town
to-day.
Co,trt.--The Court of General Ses-
sions of the Peace and Jail Delivery for
New Castle county will commence at
New Castle on Monday morning ct ten
O'Clock. 1t is expected that the term
will be an unusually long one, as the
criminal business is very heavy, while
the civil list is as large as usual. There
are two capital cases to be tried-those
of two negroes from Middletown who
knocked down tramp and outraged his
wife last summer. For these cases a
Court Of Oyer and Terminer will be
held. As usual, full reports of the pro-
ceedings will be published from day to
day in the DAILY GAZETTE. r
Robbery at Keanett Square. On
Thursday several stores and private resi-
dences in Kennett Square, Pa, were
ralded on by party of thieves, who
were poorly rewarded for their labors.
Among the places robbed was the store
of David Entriken, where number of
small articles were stolen. The private
residence of William Chandler was also
visited and quantity Of preserves car
ried off. Other places were visited but
the names could not be ascertained.
Training their Horses.-The Reliance
Fire Company are now engaged in train
ing their new horses. Last evening for
the second time the horses did remarka-
bly, well, coming up to the steamer in
about six seconds. The company intend
to make still better than that. Consider
ing that the horses are new at the busi-
ness the time already made is excellent.
The Work Of Thieves Some time dur
ing Thursday night or early Friday morn
ing, a thief or thieves broke into the sta
ton at Hockessin, on the Delaware West
ern r. R., and stole S1.5O in cash. The
parties also CARED away a number of
toilet articles belonging to Mr.. Walker,
the telegraph operator.
The daily gazette., 1877-11-17
STRAY wAIFS-
Market day.

Market day. ..
There are still a few autumn leaves left
Order your bill heads at the GAZETTE
job office.
McSorley and Turner at the Odd Eel
lows Hall tonight.
Married Life at the Opera House this
evening. Do not fail to go.
y If you want all the local news of the
day read the DAILY GAZETTE.
The cheapest stock of teas in the State
at Rigney's 218 W. Second street.
3D.. The tower of Babel has fallen, but the
demand for Kings Good Samaritan
Cough Syrup still goes up.
Why will you suffer with the tooth
ache, when DR.. Gallagher can relieve
you at his office, No. 8 E. Fifth street.
McCloskey has the New York "Dan-
ube" and other popular styles, at the
Opera House hat store ,812 Market street.
Wood burnt building lime, "a cents per
bushel bar sand, $1.75 per load deliv-
cred ; at Bright's coal yard, corner Water
and King streets. nov. 13, tt.