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C0unterfeits.

A Washington correspondent tele-
graphs to the New York Tribune as fol-
lows The energies of the counterfeiters
during the last three years have been dl-
ected to the National Bank notes, no
less than seventeen counterfeits, twelve
on S5s, three on $40. and two on $50
having been issued. The Secret Service
force have captured all the plates OF
counterfeit bank notes, with the excep-
ton of those which have appeared within
the last two months. The following
plates have not been captured $5s on
the First National Bank, Of Tamaqua;
and s5Os on the Third National Hsnk, of
Buffalo, N. Y, ard the Central National
Bank Of New York city. The following
description of these notes is given by B.
G.. Underwood, receiving teller of the
national bank redemption agency:
All counterfeit fves on the First
National Bank, of Tamaqua, Penn, that
have been seen at the redemption
agency. have had the letter "B in the
upper left and lower right-hand corners
Of the note. None of these have had
the correct charter number, which Is
1,219, and is printed in large red figures
across the face of the note, and all notes
on this bank with another charter
number are counterfeit. On the back OF
counterfeit, to the right of the words,
"National currency, "the word lowing
is printed "ownig."
All Afty-dollar notes on the Third
National Bank, of Buffalo, n. T., bear
ing the signature of L. E. Chittenden as
register are counterfeit. All genuine
notes bear tie name of either Colby or
Allison as register. The correct charter
number is $50.
All fifty-dollar notes on the Central
National Bank, Of New York city, hav-
ing both the signature Of L. E. Chltten-
den as register and Ae words, Printed
at the Bureau of Engraving. United
States Treasury Department" in the the
upper left-hand corner Of the note, are
counterfeit, as MIR. Chittenden ceased to
be register long before the notes we're
printed in the Treasury.
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Japanese Wrestling.

In the center of the amphitheatre a
mound has been raised on which ring
has been formed by banking up the earth
to the height of a few inches. Two
grave-looking elderly men, apparently
the Judges, now seat themselves upon
mats on the mound, and unfurling their
paper umbrellas, light their pipes, and
commence smoking in dignifed COM
posure, while the two wrestlers doff
their kinaonos (robes) and enter the
ring. They are very far removed from
our idea of what an athlete ought to be,
for though muscular they have an un-
gainly heaviness of figure. Weight is
indeed thought of such Importance in
these contests that men are fattened for
them like prize cattle, under the mis-
taken belief that sach size is an advantage
to the fortunate. A tedious preliminary
performance has to be gone through be-
fore the actual business of wrestling
commences. Each men comes to the
center of the ring, and squatting down
in front of his antagonist, raises each leg
in turn, and then brings it down heavily
on the ground, at the same time striking
his body smartly with his open hand.
7 suppose this is meant as a sort of
challenge; but it has an extremely
ludicrous effect, at least to foreigners, to
see two very fat men 30 employing them
selves. Both men now quit the ring and
take draught of water and pinch OF
salt, while they rub their arms and
hands with mud, in order that they may
get q better hold of each others body.
At length they re-enter the ring, and
the real struggle now begins. They
squat in front of each other like two
huge frogs and strike their heads to-
gether, at the same time uttering curl
ous kissing noise, which gets louder and
louder, till they suddenly fly at each
other like angry cats. Heavy blows and
slaps are exchanged freely in the effort
to close, but umpires are behind each
shouting out cautions at any attempted
infringement of the rules on either side.
When they have fairly got hold of each
other many a cunning feint and twist is
shown, and the struggling bodies and
limbs entwine so rapidly that the pair
look like one gigantic octopus. At
length the bout is concluded by oneman
being hurled bodily out of the ring into
the crowd outside, and the cheering from
the excited spectators is absolutely deaf
ening. The victor stalks about the ring
for some time in great dignity, receiving
the congratulations of his friends, and
then repeats his former challenge, strik-
ing his body heavily and growing like o
bantam cock. Another wrestler, moth
ing daunted, at once comes forward 70
try his fortune while the vanquished
combatant, who has picked himself up
amid a running fire of chaff from the
unsympathizing crowd, resumes his
kinaono with an assumed air of indiher.
ence and vanishes behind the spectators.
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Fashion Notes.

Boas are round and two yards in
length. -....-.
Shetland seal is the finest and cost
LEST.
Alaska seal is the strongest and most
durable.
Bridal wells are worn under the bridal
helmet.
Bronze colors are preferred in feather
trimmings.
Mandarin feather trimming is an &C.
centric novelty. ......
Sealskin is still the favorite fur for
hats and bonnets.
Seal dolmans are shown at some of the
leading houses. .....
Squirrel lock lining retains it's popu-
larity for silk cloaks.
Fur borders will probably be very
fashionable this winter.
Sealskin sacques are made in small
sizes for little children.
ChinchilIa is the favorite dressy. fur
tor the coming season. ...
The Princess is the favorite style for
making up morning, dresses.
Muffs are of medium size, made up
softly, without stiff interinings.
The old rule of Grape collars and cuffs
for first mourning is discarded.
Long cloaks of fur seal are handsome
garments for driving and sleighing.
Plain jet is preferred to clair de Tune
or variegated jet by fashion purchasers.
Armure and Sicilienne silks are the
favorite materials for fur lined gar
ments.
Most of the artificial wreaths made
this season have the leaves Of velvet or
satin.
Artificial cut flowers are preferred to
natural ones for table or parlor orna-
ment. ..... .... .....
The long circular cloak with Rus
sian collar is the most popular fur lined
carriage wrap. ..a.. It..
The handsomest seal sacques are bor-
dered with some other fur, such as chin
chilla, otter or beaver.
The handsomest fur lined garments
have chinchills, sable, silver fox, ermine,
and blue fox Innings. H..
The novelty in bridal garniture is gar
lands composed of orange flowers, buds,
leaves, and small oranges.
Collars and cuffs of fine linen cambria,
finished with broad hem, are the cor
rect thing for first mourning.
Sea otter bands of dark brown shades,
with silver hairs inserted at intervals,
are seen among the handsomest high
priced fur trimmings.
A very handsome artificial wreath is
made of cardinal red satin Marguerites
and satin leaves of the same color, with
few black satin leaves interspersed.
Bridal helmets are now substituted for
bridal wreaths. They consist of tiers of
orange blossoms and buds, with two
very long, but narrow, streamers COM
posed of the same flower with it's buds.
New seal sacques are partly shaped to
the figure, are from thirty-two to thirty
five inches in depth, have shoulder
seams, high collars, with revers in front,
are double-breasted, and are fastened
with frog buttons Of seal, passing
through loops Of brown passementerie.
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THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION.
Figures Showing the Increase In the Popu.
Intion of the United States Since 1789.-
Result, Forty.sevcn Million People In
1850.

Figures Showing the Increase In the Popu.
lntion of the United States Since 1789..
Result, Forty-Sevcn Million People In
1880.
The New York Sun says: The specu-
lative American mind is already exer-
cised concerning the present population
of our beloved country, and is guessing
what that population will be in the year
18SO-if this weary old world lives long
enough to hail that year of enumeration.
Under ordinary and regular conditions
the merest tyro in mathematics could
forecast our increase. But the con-
ditions are not ordinary, and great allow
ances must be made for variations.
For instance, if we had certain ratio of
increase from 1910 to 1850, and from
1850 to 1850, it would naturally follow,
supposing conditions equal, that some
thing like similar ratio would prevail
for the next ten years. But the con-
ditions are radically changed; the cir
cumstances are not only different but
exceptional, and no formula of the past
can be made to apply. The war made
fearful inroads into the population of
the country. There was not only the
loss by battle and attending evils, but
the absence of half 6 million of young
and rniddle-aged men necessarily re-
duced the natural increase in times OF
peace. There was rapid decline in i'm
migration ; decline that has continued
to the present time, and bids fair to 60
still further. Between the arrival Of half
and less than hundred thousand in q
year, there is very material difference.
It should be noted. too. that the great
majority OF immigrants are men and
women in the beginning Of life, founders
of immediate families.
These hints are thrown out to prepare
the reader tor the estimates, to be made
further on, of the population of the
Union now, and the probable population
in 1880. Keep in view the tremendous
drain by actual loss in the war, the nat
ural retardatien of increase in conse.
uuence of the absence of heads Of fam
lies, and the sudden reduction of i'm
migration. .
Going back to the first census taken in
1870, we summarize the enumerations
up to 1870. Bear in mind, however,
that considerable fraction OF popula-
ton has been added by annexation, as in
the purchase of Louisiana and Florida,
the conquest of Texas, the partition OF
Mexico, and the forlorn outpost of Alas.
ka. Here is the summary:
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How Some Women Make a Living.

A Now York letter has this: The fern
mania is spreading so that one woman in
reach OF New York has fern farm, and
makes a good income, sending both
fresh and pressed ferns by mails. The
little baskets of leaves and grasses with
dead butterfly poised on the picture,
that ladies like to hang in their private
rooms, require both taste and some
knowledge of natural history to combine
the materials, and their sale is one Of
the ways by which some in reduced cir
cumstances try to earn few shillings.
It is hard work making a profit, for the
fashionable florist expects to buy them
for fifty cents apiece or less, even though
he sells them for So in holidays.
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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.
The Guest.
BY MARY CLEMMER

BY MARY CLEMMER.
From out the great worlds rush and din,
There came guest;
The inner court he entered in,
And sat at rest.
Slow on the wild tide Of affairs
The gates were closed;
Afar the hungry host Of cares
At last reposed.
Then through the dim doors Of the past,
All pure Of blame.
Came boyish memories floating past
His mothers name.
"Ah all this loud world calls the best
I'd give" he said,
"To feel her hand, on her dear breast
To lean my head.
~ cry within the crowned day,
That would be joy,
Could she but bear me far away,
Once more her boy"
Mans strength is weakness, after all
He stood confessed;
None quite can still the hearts wild call,
None quite are blsssed.
Across the face that knows no fear
A shade swept fast,
As if a following angel near
That moment passed.
ne sacred silence Of the room
Did softly stir;
A splendor grew within the gloom
OF her, OF her!
Out to the.great worlds rush and din,
Has gone my guest;
The battle blame, the praise mon win
Are his-not rest.
Far out amid the earth's turmoils
A strong man stands,
Upheld in triumph and in tolls
By unseen hands.
But who may lift with subtle wand
The masks We wear?
only know his mothers hand
Is on his hair.
only know through all Gfe'S harms,
Through sins alloy,
Somehow, somewhere that mothers arms
Will reach her boy.
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NOn.COmbustible Wood.

At recent meeting of the California
Academy of Science in San Francisco,
DR.. Behr called attention to eucalyptus
tree standing in the grounds of the old
German hospital, on Brannan street.
The tree had passed through the fire Of
August, 1876, and exhibited the pecu-
liarity of resisting the action OF the
Aame-a property well understood in
Australia. DR.. Kellogg stated that
eucalyptus shingles were in common Ut
in Australia, on account Of their being
fre-proof. 1t was impossible to fire 6
roof of this material. There were some
1872 species of eucalypti, but all seemed
topossess this non-combnstihle property
tn some extent,
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Totals. .......8,116,6il 1000

The Territories have not been taken
into consideration in any OF the above
calculations. One of them (Colorado)
has been admitted as State since 1870.
The native born population of ell the
Territories in 1870 was 348, $50. At the
rate they are growing this would mean
neatly q million in 1880. So we may
"gless" the entire populatisn at the
next centennial census at somewhere
near 100000.
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There is no funeral 80 sad to follow as
the funeral Of our own youth which we
have been pampering with fond desires,
ambitious hopes, and all the bright
berries that hang in poisonous clusters
over the path of life.
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A gentle heart is like ripe fruit
which bends so low that 1t ls at the
mercy of every one who chooses to pluck
it, while the harder fruit keeps out OF
reach.
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But the indignant collector snatched
the bill, and calculating" Why didn't
you tell me this before ?" started out
the door, leaving the entertaining trades
man to wonder what in the name of sense
allied the man, and if anybody was fool
ish enough to suppose that he was going
to pay all of Tom Marmot's old bills just
because he moved into his old stand.-
Burlington Ha,okeye.
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tn1nS seemed TO give my neaIG llSS,
just as if some coon had pulled string.
"Well, he's bout gone," I says ;
"and they can't hold bout three min
utes; then they'll all drown together,
and she can take old Hez his last babby
to nuss, 'cuss 'em I'm safe enough.
What's it got to do with me? I sha'n't
move"
took out my wet cake of 'bacca, aud
whitfield off bit, showed it in my cheek,
shut my knife with click, and sot thar
watchin' of 'em-father, and mother and
bairn.
"You've been too happy, you have,
I says out loud +; not as they could hear
it, for the noise of the waters. "Now
you'll be sorry for other people. Drown,
blame yer stock, and lock, and barrel ;
I'm safe."
Just then, as I sot and chawed, telling
myself as chap would be mad to try
and save his friends out of such flood,
let alone his enemies, blame me if Jael
didn't put that there little squealer's
hands together, and hold them up as if
she was making it say its prayers-a
born fool!-when that thar string seemed
to be pulled, inside me like, agin my
heart; and-I couldn't help it jumped
up. >,
"Say, Dab," I says to myself, "don't
you be fool. You hate that lot like
pison, you do. Don't you go and drown
yoursel >"
I was bout mad, you know, and
couldn't do as I liked, for, if I didn't
begin to rip off my things, wet and hang
to me. How they did stick but I
cleared half on 'em off, and then, like a
mad fool, made run and jump, and
was fighting hard with the water to get
across to Hez's wife and child.
1t was bit Of fight. Down went,
and up went, and the water twisted me
like a leaf but got out of the roar
and thunder, on to the bit Of shelf
where Jael knelt A.; whenif the silly thing
didn't begin to hold up to me her child,
and her lips, poor darling, said, dumbly:
"Save it oh, save it |"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
His Valentine.

Big English, the boot-black, is not
what might be called a boy of beauty,
but he is a good boy. His heart is To-
Gated just right, and it beats the right
number of times per minute. AS he
Yesterday stood in front of a window
filled with valentines he was heard to
muse:
"Two cents apiece, and comic at
that. Well, I'm the boy who has four
cents laid away for this occasion, and
here goes to make two souls happy"
He entered the store and looked over
a large number of valentines, and final
ly selected one for his mother
Il was printed in seven beautiful col
ors, and represented q woman holding
four children in her arms and rocking
three more in a cradle.
"That represents our happy family
in the days gone by, before any of US
were able to sell papers or black boots, "
explained the boy. "Mother and L
don't always agree on certain points,
and there are days when Idon't feel
like going home to dinner, but can
rise above partisanship on such an oc-
casion as this"
1t tool more time to select the next
ne. 1t was smaller and heater, and
represented a sad-faced girl sitting up
on the sad sea shore.
sis it for your sister," asked the
dealer as he put it in an envelope.
ell can't say a. it is," replied the
boy. "She's kind of a lame girl, you
know-father failed-mother COM
mitted elopement-family sort O. dis
organized, but she's A l, she is, and
I'm kinder lending her my influence
till the family comes up again"
"Case of love, l supposed" said the
dealer.
"P-purty near it" faltered the boot
black. 81 kinder hang out around her
house a good deal, and she kin.er APP
pears on the front steps, and | kinder
feel weak and shaky. 'Tain't nuthin'
to be ashamed of, and I know it, but
there comes little Pete, and | want you
to tell him that Pm gittin' these valen,
tines on speculation. He hain't got nc
wealth nor culture, and he'd be mean
enough to lacerate my feelings afore
hull crowd. "-Detroit Free Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
Curiosities Of the New York Aquarium.

Facing about, the visitor finds him
self at the portals of In enchanted high
way, a veritable lane in the sea, along
the sides of which are the so-called ia
BILE tanks. On the left are those de-
voted to the smaller fresh water varie-
ties whose forms would be lost in the
broader domains of the wall tanks,
while across the lane is a continuation
in miniature of the grand marine series.
Keeping to the right, we are halted at
the outset to inspect the troop of sea-
horses, tt whom, as BELTS their martial
bearing, the right of the line has been
assigned. Horses heads they surely
have, and those quivering fins will an
swer well for names, but here the SEM
blance ceases, as the tail is that of an
ape and the body that of a fish. The
fancy might Don be taught to believe
these hippocampi fresh from the we'll
groomed stables of some sea-nymph
who may yet be deploring the capture
of her favorite chargers. Possibly these
were the main-stay of a race of fairy
amazons, whose duty it was to serve as
~body-guards or couriers to their queen.
Ii this be so, then a rich reward is
promised by the manager to the lucky
fisherman who will capture the queen
herself Or any of her Company.
Before a second tank we could stand
for hours watching the cunning or vain
spider-crabs decorate their ugly shapes
with plumes of sea-weed, and then,
concealed in a grove of their own plant
ing, lie watching the angular antics of
the scollops, which in urn are seeking
to eyade the hungry jaws of a ravenous
crab.
Another advance brings US in front of
IN. alg8-carpeted cage-the home of the
beautiful winged gurnard and his hide
Gus prison comrade, the ugly toad-tl>h
Was it an artistic appreciation of the
force of contrast, or was it some almost
human decree of fate that made these
two opposite ~types-one of grace and
one of ugliness companions in cap
tigity?
We next come to a veritable sea-
garden, where anemones of all shades
and sizes grow and blossom. That
they are animals, science no longer
doubts, yet the precincts of a tropical
garden a not rival in the beauty of its
blossoms the display here given; rich
red, yellow, and purple blossoms in
streaks of deeper hue, delicate petals
surrounding a mass of softest velvet.
Flowers they seem to be, yet they are
conscious living organisms, az is proved
by the characteristic habit of one of the
class, who has taken his abode upon
the shell of a hermit crab. However,
the crab is only paying the penalty of
his robber propensity, since the she'll
in which he is housed is not of his own
making. So accustomed have these
combative maurauders become to their
living burden that when they see fit to
change from one shell to another that
they have been known carefully to de-
tach the m and transfer him to
the roof of the new domicile-a tender
attention which the recipient repays
by conveying to the crab an additional
supply of food through the agency of
its current producing tentacles.-Scrtb-
ser's for March.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
Husbands Trial for the Murder of
His Wife.

BELMONT, Allegany County, N. Y,
Feb. 13.-The conclusion of the trial of
Henry c.. Hendryx has not cleared ND
the mystery of the death of his wife.
He was accused of shooting her; but
the Jury have failed to agree, and q
new trial has been ordered.
For the past three years, Henry G.,
Hendryx has lived on a farm of three
hundred acres, within sight of the vii
lage of Cuba. Twelve years ago he
married Cynthia Amsden, daughter of
Isaac Amsden, a well-to-do farmer, who
lived four miles from Cuba. A year
ago last fall, Mrs. Mary Webber, a cous
in of Hendryx, a young and pretty wild
ow, of Angelica, took up her residence
in Cuba. She was often at Hendryx's,
and he frequently called upon her in
Cuba, where she was employed in the
house of a wealthy family. At length
the intamacy of Hendryx and his cousin
became the subject for gossips in the
neighborhood. Early last spring Mrs.
Weber took up her abode on Hen
dryx's farm, and Mrs. Hendryx protes'-
ed, but Intellectually, against the behav-
ior of her husband and Mrs. Weber.
In May last, Hendryx had his wife's
life insured for s $4,000, and took out an
accident policy for himself for the same
amount. On July z, following, at about
1880 O'Clock at night, as the story of
Hendryx goes, he was awakened by a
noise in his room. He was sleeping in
the back part of the bed. He sprang
up, and as he was stepping over his
wife, in front, a shot was fired by some
one in the room. He sprang out of bed,
and fancied that he saw q person in the
room. He hurried to a door opening
into the dining-room, and as he pulled
it open a second shot was fired. This
shot took effect in one of Hendryx's
legs. He ran back into another bed
room, into which his wife had gone,
and then he learned that his wife had
been shot in the body. He desired to
go for help, but his wife detained him
for fear that he might be killed.
No alarm was given until 4 o'clock,
when Hendryx's little boy was sent to
tell the neighbors. Hendryx followed
the boy to the road. Near a horseback
on the roadside he found a wallet that
was in his trousers pocket when ne
went to bed the night before. It's con-
IClIUoS CIV hLo bCSI ubhOh. 1hCGuL AlLS
to the house, he found his %pantaloons
in a room adjoining that in which he
had LETT them.
The neighbors, who hurried to the
house on receipt of the news, searched
in vain for a clew to the murderer. The
windows were all fastened. The ground
under the window in which Hendryx
and his wife had slept was loose and
soft, but'no tracks led to or from it.
No spent balls were discovered in the
room in which the shots were fired. A
revolver belonging to Hendryx was
shown by him. There was blood on
the barrel, and three of its chambers
were empty. He said that he discharged
the pistol to give the alarm at 4 O'Clock
in the morning.
Mrs. Hendryx was found by Drs
Willard, Young, and Allen to be fatally
wounded. They extracted a ball from
from her wound. 1t exactly fitted the
chamber of Hendryx's revolver. The
wife died on the 10th of July. The Jury
stood TN for conviction and two for &C
o~uittal.