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TIRE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY LAW
- SCHOOL.
JAMES q. WILLING, LID,

PREsInENr
SAMUEL TYLER, LID
Professor 81 kquity lurisprudence. - Oommor
Law and Equity Pla aiding. IL the Law 81 Fv1dence
and "a e Law ~ parfDer-his
The Hon. WALTER COA.IL.
Professor q tho ! ~ 4 Real ard rer-, nal PROP
erty, 81 Contracts. and e Grimes aud Ni-de
meaIOfs
The Hon. WILLIAM y. LAWRENCE, IL. %.
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How stifingly hot the court room was
packed 10 its utmost with an Intensely ex-
cited audience, ard still they came along
after Hope was certain that there was not
room for another one. She had never seen
SO many people before, and looking around
uTOn the m from her seat in the upper part of
The room, saw Onl a sea of heads. Sne was
conscious of but one individu face, that OF
her father, pale, but calm, in front OF the
swayiDg mass. By and by the lawyers com
mel ced talking. She felt faint; IL all buZzsd
and hummed through her head; she could
not have told word that they were saying
After what sc emed to her q long while the
witnesses for the prosecution were called
and Big Bill took the stand. He related the
quarrel between the colonel and Squire May
at the polls, enlarging upon 1t and running
on In way that showed him entirely too
willing witness. Then the widow Antoine
was sworn. She trembled violently, and
nothing could be got from her except by
questions.
What time was it when your band left
Twelve o'clock" came In a frightened
gasp from behind the black vail.
"How do you know 1t was II o'clock"
the table"
"Do you always have dinner at exactly
nOon?'
whistle al Gatling's saw-mill"
Why did he leave the houss just as dinner
was ready"
"He was angry because the boys were not
at home, and said he would go dOwl TO the
bridge and call them"
THAT is sufficient" and the attorney next
called Master Gus Antoine" Gus came
forward reluctantly, with an appealing
glance toward Hope, as though he were ask
ing her forgiveness beforehand for what he
was about to say; then he look ID i'm the sam
way toward Squire May, who answ sr ii ais
glance by an encouraging nod OF the head
"Did you attend the picnic at the house OF
the prisoner"
Gus swallowed hard, pulled his Jacket
down strongly, and replied. Eyes, sir
Was the prisoner with you throughout tie
whole days.
mo, SIR"
CAT what time did he leave your"
"At II o'clock
GLOW do you know IL was IL O'clocI?''
81 heard the whistle at Sam Gatlinx's"
"Did you hear anything else remark able
soon after this and before the return of the
prisoner
The boys face d AIMED scarlet and white In
streaks and patches, as though he had been
struck with who OF thongs, but he an
swered bravely: Eyes, sir, 1 heard q pistol
shot"
"How do you know that it was not shot
from this caibine?'
Because know the poise that old shooter
makes, Squire May has leat it 10 me often 70
hunt paitTidges."
"You may sit down."
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MAESTRO ETToRE BARILT.
A'h PHOFESSOk OF VOCAL MUsIC.

VIII reeur1e his Lessof ON THURSDAY Sent n
la7; sicnoI viii be a. bis AGA my Thursday,
Friday ard Saturday.. sept ~, Il sLd =, from 4 10
u m aud fro.B TO . tue above DAYS, " here
he VIII Ice glad 20 receive his friends ard a wish
Ing u make srraDgemoi e fur the coming Season.
Circulars for t'rns % De tad at tbs Music Stores
Of Messrs. Kills and Metzerot' senls I'm
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John Smith.

Disguised the name may sometimes
be, but it is the commonest name
throughout all European countries. 1t
does sometimes affect a spelling above
the common, and appears as Smyth,
Smythe, or De Smythe. It also in Eng
land assumes q Latin guise (from fer
rum), and becomes Terrier and Ferrara,
one of the noble names of England,
associate also with a tragedy not noble
in its character or its consequences. In
Germany we have the Schmidt; in Italy
the Fabri, Fabricia, or Fabbroni; in
France the LIE Febres or Lefevres
Although most of the European langu-
ages adhere more closely to old Northern
names, even in Latin we have volumes in
our library by Johannes Smithus, and We
have seen in Italy Giovanni SMITH. The
Spaniard's version of John Smith is Juan
Smithus; the Dutchmen adopt it as
Hans Schmidt; the French soften it into
Jean Smects; the Russians roughen it
into Jouloff Smittowski. John Smith
goes into the tea trade with China, and
then he becomes Jahon Schimmit.
Among the Icelanders he is Jaime Smith
son; among the Tuscaroras he is Som
On Smittia; in Poland, Ivan Schmittia-
veiski; among the Welsh we are told
they talk of Jihom Schmidt; in Mexico
he is written down rs Joutlitf Smitri;
among the classical ruins of Greece he
becomes Ion Sinihton; in Turkey he is
Almost lost sight Of rs Yoe Sect.
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Turkish Cavalry in Armenia.

The Russian army in Armenia had a
force of Is, 900 regular cavalry covering
it's advance. Mukhtar Pasha, during the
first month of his campaign, could
scarcely conduct q respectable %reconnois-
sance to ascertain where the enemy was
massed, for he had no cavalry. A regi-
ment of 500 mounted Circassians and
fifty Kurd horsemen, under the command
OF Moussa Passha, were sent from Ere
rum to Soughanlu. A correspondent
describes their entry into camp. They
came filing two deep in o long column,
Owe the hill side, each of the five squad
rons having q crimson or parti-colored
red-and-white banner at its head, blaz-
oned with q white crescent and star. The
men wore the long Circassian tunic,
reaching to the middle calf, and confined
at the waist by m embroidered belt,
supporting the usual guardless cimeter
and long dagger with primitive leaf
shaped blade, beside the accustomed
supply of highly ornamented pistols,
pipes and silver mounted boxes. The
tunics were mostly black or dark olive,
though there was a s~prinkling Of bright
saffron, green and crimson, especially
among the chiefs and princes. They
wore the usual Circassian head-dress, a
red or white all cap surrounded by a
mop-like covering of black Dr. brown
Astrachan fur, concealing all but the top
Of the inner cap. Both sides of the breast
are covered by double horizontal rows Of
wooden or silver cartridge tubes, accord
ing to the socialposltion Of the Individual.
Each man carried at his back a sixteen
shooting Winchester rifle, and many,
10th to part with their ancestral weapons,
carried in addition the quaint-looking,
straight. stocked, silver-ringed, fint-lock
of his native mountains. Next day came
the Kurds, still more picturesque than
the Circassians, with their huge bright
tinted turbans, and crimson and blue
flowing garments showing through light
muslin and silk nantes. Extravagantly
wide trousers and red leather boots
turned up at the toe completed the attire.
The armament consisted Of the Winches-
ter rifle, curved cimeter, and long iced
like lance, which they shook and
branished till it quivered like vibrating
string. These troops were subsequently
defeated by the Russians, between: the
mountains and kars. .
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A Rraye Young Officer,

The Queen of England has conferred
the Albert medal of the second class on
Acting Su%b-lieutenant Arthur James
Archibald Montgomerie, r. n, OF her
majesty's ship Immortalite. On the
morning Of the 9Th of April, the Immor-
talite being under plain sail, making
four and a half knots, the lookout re-
ported O man overheard, who proved to
be Thomas Hocken. Nj. Montgomerie,
who was on the bridge, on hearing the
cry, jumped after him. He made for
Hocken, asking if he could swim, to
which Hocken answered: "Yes, sir"
but he did not seem to be moving vigor-
ously. Mr.. Montgomerie then got held
of him, hauled him on his back, and
towed him to where he, Montgomerie,
supposed the life buoy would be, but
seeing no relief he told Hocken to keep
himself ahoat while he took his clothes
off. While he was in the act of doing so,
Hocken, evidently sinking, caught hold
of him by the legs, and dragged him
down q considerable depth. Mr.. Mont
gonmerie, however, succeeded in getting
clear and swan to the surface, bringing
the drowning man with him. Hocken
was now insensible, and too great q
weight to support any longer ; and find
ing that his only chance of saving him
self YVES to leave Hocken, Mr.. Mont
gomerie reluctantly gave up the hope Of
saving him and struck out for the ship.
In the meantime the ships course was
! stopped, and two boats we're lowered, by
one of which Mr.. Montgomerie was
picked up. Had not Mr.. Montgomery
been a powerful swimmer, he would
have had little chance for life.
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Wars Strange Inventions.

The present war, slow though it is i'll
it's progress, will have the effect of
quickening inventive minds. 1t is very
clear that o most serious addition to the
perils of naval warfare has been made
by the invention of the torpedo, and it
has become essentially necessary for q
great maritime power to guard against
this invention. Several schemes have
been suggested, such as surrounding
iron-clals with nets, giving them q con-
voy of small gunboats, and SO forth. But
these would so cucumber the movements
of the vessels, and diminish their speed,
that they would be practically unavail-
able.
The latest proposal is to meet explo-
sive force by light. There are two sorts
of torpedoes, shallow-water mines laid
down for defense upon the ground in
depths varying from three to forty
fathoms, and the torpedo launch and
locomotive mine for deep sea attack. 1t
is the latter which is so formidable. 1t
is launched by skilled engineers, under
cover of darkness, and if successfully
laid may prove the destruction of the
most powerful monitor afcat. 1t is now
proposed to have a Gordon Of light
around ships, which, while the surround
ing water would be illuminated, would
keep the ships themselves in darkness.
It is stated that within the last few
weeks an adaptation of Holmes distress
signal has been invented, which will an
swer the required purpose. 1t is fired
from mortars ct ranges varying from five
hundred to two thousand five hundred
yards. 1t emits a very powerful white
light directly it comes into contact with
the water, and when once ignited is alb
solutely inextinguishable either by wind
or water, and burns with an extraordi-
nary p~ersistency for thirty or forty
minutes. Half a dozen of these shots
would surround a vessel with a zone of
light that would render it impossible for
an enemy to approach without the Ger,
tainty Of detection and destruction.
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A Bulldog Kills an Alligator.

The Georgetown Comet says: One
day last week an alligator was seer
swimming in the Sampit river, hear the
wharf. Capt. David Steelc's bulldog
was soon brought forward, and, upon
viewing tile enemy, plunged off the
wharf to.meet it. The gator saw what
was up, and made for the dog. While
they approached each other, not a sound
could be heard from the spectators, who
we're expecting, the moment they met,
to see the dog submerged, never to rise
again; but the dog got the first hold,
plunged his ugly teeth in the head of
the ferocious monster, and caused it to
sink. 1t soon reappeared, looking MS
fierce MS ever. The dog and the alliga.
tor were soon mouth and mouth, nip aid
tuck, until it was thought that the dog
had conquered, the alligator disappear
ing. The dog, being exhausted, was
then picked up by a boat. The gator,
however, soon appeared, and made for
the opposite shore. Several persons got
in boats and pursued him until he got
under the wharf, when II of the party
fired a pistol, and as oon rs the report
was heard the dog leaped from the boat
and under the wharf. 1t was nip and
tuck again for awhile, butithe dog, soon
gaining the advantage, brought out his
foe dead. The reptile measured five
feet and several inches.
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POetical LyncIlers in the Black Hills.

A correspondent sojourning in the
Black Hills writes as follows from Rapid
City, d. T.: When We came to this
town everything seemed quiet and peace
full, but upon the ridge, a mile west of
town, near a large pine tree, were the
bodies of three young men with ghastly
blackened faces turned upward toward
the clear blue sky, the ropes dangling
from the limbs of the pine tree, and the
deep cut in their necks showing but too
plainly how they died. During the day
two or three men went out northwest
from town to get some legs, and were
surprised, when about four miles out,
by people whom they supposed to be
Indians, Judging by the way they rode
their horses. Being with an OK team
the men left it and run for the woods,
and by taking a circuitous route came
into Rapid nearly scared to death. A
party of fifteen we'll armed men imme-
diately started out, and found, eve or
eight miles out, three white men asleep,
with four horses picketed near them.
They surrounded them, covered them
Will GuSlI IllltS, uLu i"OhC tliClu. lucy
were taken to town, and when examined
confessed that the horses were stolen at
Crook. They were, placed in a log
cabin for the night; but about three
o'clock in the'morning a band of twenty
vigilants. took them out, and when the
people .of the town arose there they
we're hanging dead, in plain sight of
town. They were buried in the evening.
The following is to be their epitaph:
A. J. Allen, Louis Curry, Jas. Hall,
Age IS years. Age 20 years. Age 10 years.
HORSE THIEVES BEWARE.
Here lies the body Of Curry, Allen and Hall,
Like other thieves, they had their rise, decline
and fall
On yon pine tree they hung till dead,
And here they found q lonely bed.
Then be a little cautioush how you gobble horses
up,
For every horse you pick up here adds sorrow
to your cup;
We're bound to stop this business, or hang you
to q man,
For we've hemp and hands enough in town to
swing the whole clan.
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Over niagara Falls.

One Sunday recently several of the
employees in tue Niagara Falls paper
mill formed q chowdcr party to enjoy
the day heal the mouth of Gill creek,
about two miles above the cataract.
The chowder was served on the main
land hear Parsons island, and during
the afternoon short trips were made by
several Of the party in q small boat to
Navy island. Three men pierce, Bell
niger and Flay) finally attempted the
passage when the wind was very fresh.
When they were half way across, the
boat, being in the trough of tho sea,
capsized. The three men endeavored to
get upon the boat, but owing to the vi
olence of the waves, failed, the boat roll
ing like a log in the water. Pierce and
Bellinger said they could swim ashore,
although Flay advised them not to at-
tempt it. Flay watched them a short
time, and then began to remove his
clothing. He did not see them SO down,
but thinks they did within half n dozen
rods of the boat. He remained grasping
the bow of the boat, his mind filed with
the direst apprehension, yet vaguely
hoping for q rescue. This happened
about five o'clock in the afternoon, and
in about one hour, three brothers,
named Anthony, William and Jack
Walker, who were in @ small boat below,
discovered him and went to his rescue.
He was nearly exhausted.
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new shapes, however, fall naturally into

new shapes, however, fall naturally into
classes.
First, come those designed to wear
with the princesse dress, which are much
smaller than wraps for general service.
The new dolman, Of which much has
been written, and the Charlotte Corday
fchu, round at the back, the fronts
crossed and knotted into graceful sash
ends, are particularly adapted to the
princesse, or even to The polonaise for
the street. They are pretty. of silk, drap
d'cte, or sicilienne, lace d grenadine, of
muslin, or crepe de chimes, made Of
black or cream color, or a tint to match
the costume.
French sacks are being worn close
over the tournure with double-breasted
fronts, that button their whole length.
A broad facing of silk is set on down the
front to make a substantial rest for but
tons and buttonholes.
Shawls, folded triangularly, are once
more fashionably worn.
Those who have lace mantillas some
times drape them rs an overdress tor full
toilet, or bunch them in the shoulders
to simulate a tichu, leaving the back to
fall into a graceful Arab and crossing the
tabs under a cluster of flowers in front.
Flowers of all kinds, both natural and
artificial constitutes a principle feature
in garnitures Us well ~ in millinery.
Fans, panires, brooches, pendants and
all sorts Of exquisite trifes arc made of
them. to say nothing of hats formed
entirely Of birds and blossoms of the
most striking contrasts Of color.
LATINA.
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A Severe Goat.

It seems goats are call the rage" at
Reading, Pa, and that goat owners are
daily arrested for violence done by these
animals. Under the caption 1.-THE Boss
Of All the Goats" the Reading Eagle
describes one who has had the hair
scalded off his hind parts. Says the
Eagle:
Among the number of men who were
before the mayor last night to answer
the charge of keeping disorderly and
maliciously inclined goats, was Thomas
McNara, residing in East Reading. Mr..
McNara owns an animal that he considers
one of the boss goats of the country.
When quite young the goat began the
habit Of roostjng on the housetops, and
this practice has been kept up ever since.
It goes by the name of Harmony"
Harmony does not like children, and a
few weeks ago a little girl was caught be-
hill about q half square. She was picked
up nearly frightened to death. Harmony
has butted three Of the neighbors' dogs
to death, and has shattered rs many
front doors. Mrs. McNara had several
pots of milk standing on a bench in the
yard, and the goat gave them "hoo doo'
and sent them to grass. When she tried
to bent him, he turned upon her and
butted her so hard that she raised from
her feet. She scalded him so badly that
considerable hair on the hind end of the
body dropped off. Mr.. McNara said he
tried several times to kill the animal, but
could not. Once he shot at him SO close
that he thought sure he'd drop, but the
goat held his own. "Thcn," said the
owner, 81 took pity on him. he has
made so many narrow escapes that l
determined never to offer him any more
harm. Once a big bulldog attacked him
and the bulldog dropped. He butted
down two policemen and escaped their
r~evolvers; in North Reading he was poi
soned, but the old woman gave him salt,
mustard and warm water, and he got
over it. 1t is hard to keep him penned
up, for he will tear down any kind of a
fence. If somebody gives us an iron-clad
cell We can hold him."
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Hospital Scenes.

Behind the Russian army there are
filty-four temporary hospitals, with over
600 beds in each. To each hospital
eleven surgeons are attached. Every
army division has its own field hospital,
with three surgeons in addition to the
regimental surgeon. These field hospi-
tails will first take charge Of the sufferer,
carrying him from the ground where he
has fought and fallen, on a stretcher, or
in an ambulance. His wounds will be
dressed AID he will then be sent to the
tempory hospital in the real to be cared
for and cured if cure can be found for
him. The Red Cross Society is more
luxurious in its arrangements, and lucky
will be the man who falls into it's hands
On June %, the Turkish batteries at
Rustchuk fired upon n hospital in Giur-
gevo over which the flag of the Red Cross
was flying. The shells dropped thick
and fast, and finally the hospital was
struck. A surgeon and several Sisters
of Charity were within at the time. but
there were few, if any, patients in the
wards.
Among the officers who were killed on
the heights opposite Galatz, when the
Russians crossed the river, was Capt.
~Piskiewitch, q descendant of the famous
commander whose brilliant campaign in
Caucasus is one of the greatest achieve
ments of the Russian army.
While the Turks were bomba1ding
Giurgevo, DR.. Garrick, physician to the
embassy at st. Petersburg, stood at the
window of q high tower in the market
place, and watched the shells as they
burst above and below him. When the
whole town was under fire andthe former
was a conspicuous mark for the Turkish
gunners, the reckless Scotch surgeon
insisted upon "seeing the thing out"
and his friends fairly had to drag him
away. At the bottom of the town, a
soldier was struck in tie head by a frag-
ment of a shell. The doctor ran up to
him and bandaged his wounds, working
as coolly and quietly, under the terrible
fire, as he would have done in q hospital,
miles in the rear.
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The Depths of Degradation.

A little girl six years old was found
lying on q stoop in Sullivan street, New
York. When they took her to the sta.
tion-house it was discovered that she had
been turned from her home and was
almost starved to death. few minutes
later n hopelessly intoxicated woman was
brought into the station. She was the
mother of the little one, but so drunk
that she could not recognize her own
child. A policeman was dispatched to
the residence of the unfortunates, where
the father was found insensible from in
toxication, and with another child, only
q little over two years of age, half starved
to death like her sister.
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Midgcs in the Sunshine.

If l could see with a midge's eye,
Or think with a midge's Lrain,
1 wonder what I'd say Of the world,
With all its JOY and pain?
Would my seven brief hours of mortal life
Seem long as seventy years,
As danced in the Pickering sunshine
Amid my tiny peers?
Should I feel the slightest hope or care
For the nudge yet to be,
Or think I died before my time
If 1 died at half-past three,
Instead Of living till set Of sun
On the breath Of the summer wind,
Or deem that the world was made for me
And all my little kind?
Perhaps if I did Id know as much
OF natures mighty plan,
And what is meant for good or i'll
As that larger nudge, a man!
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IEfF1VV TIC VTUUTIH- aIN Z -
When the physical energies droop,- revive
them with that safest and most active OF tones,
Hostetter's Stomach Bittcrs. By a timely use
of this ~suIutary and agreeable medicine you
will save yourself from positive disease for, be
assured that the lansuor and loss of strength
and appetite which troubles you is in fact the
precursor of some malady of, perhaps, n seri-
ous nature. Appetite, tranquility of the nervous
system, ard pristine vigor, will assuredly be re,
stored if the Bitters are used Systematically, and
the aiimentary disturbance, which in nine cases
out of ten gives rise to debility and nervous
ness, be entirely removed. Regularity OF the
bowels, active hillary secretion, the expulsion
of impurities from the blood through the kid
neys, arc also among the bencfcent effects OF
this admirable restorative.
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Physicians of high standing unhesitatingly
give their Endorsement to the use of the Graef-
enberg- Marshall's Catholicon for all female
| complaints. Tho weak and debilitated find Won
derful relief from a constant Use of this yalu-
able remedy. Sold by all druggists. $3.50 per
bottle. Send for almanacs, Graefenberg Co.,
Nev York.
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Ponds Extract for over twenty-five years has
been recognized in medical writings as the great
specific for pain, COMPOSITIONS, piles or any sore
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II You nre Bilious
tone up vour liver. Take Quirk's Irish Tea.
Sold by druggists at Is cts. q package.