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Testimonials.

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Messrs. Benziger Bro.hcrsi
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ment for Banner and Regalias. You have tho
thanks of our Society for filling our order so sails
iactorily. All who have seen our Banner declare
it a beauty;
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port StrDt& q q. 70. Suit 1876.
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CALUMET MICH, August 9, 1876.
Messrs. Benziger Brolhersi
Gentlemen-I take pleasure in notifying You
tLat the Badges ordered were received, and that
they gave good satisfaction 10 the Society. We
all appreciate the manner in which you have
dealt with us, and shall pay the bill soon.
Yours truly, j, p. FLYNN
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Gtn 9Uflteferont. 86atn:
WFetne Maeam' i&tdt Sbnen bic @lrfe
jurad, ls iast. bub fe tbr nt&t f&msden.
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Maoam stne Gr.rawurR ma&en. @ebr
gut! SD slouO'. nsnn's Der 5Uf frsI.u
fam. tUsrn's fur Sbre @adDtse aud nod
gut fsin.
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Hdtbfel.

Die erfsn fpri4t Der Srdse germ,
Die DIttts ltebf i'm Aug Du nt&t.
Dor netnss Ganseu @GGntsttslidt
erOludet istbf Der tetfe @teru,
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3GIlfret.
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ANTIQUITY or MAN.

4 correspondent writes to the Lon
don Times: Mr.. sydney 3. T..
Skertchly. Of her maiesty's geological
survey, who is stationed at Brandon,
suffolk. has recently discovered some
flint instruments in that neighbor-
hood. in beds formed before the close
Of the glacial period. One was picked
out Of the beds in pit at Clifford,
Suffolk, and two others were dug out
Of like beds in pit at Botany Bay
the Norfolk side of Brandon. 1t was
not till Mr.. Skertchly himself found
another implement at Clifford, and
saw the bonlder-clay above the bed
| from which he extracted. it. that the
| Importance of the discovery dawned
upon him. Alongside the Clifford i'm
plement he found deposit Of broken
and scraped mammalian bones and
some fresh-water shells. These bones
were all in circumscribed area. 4
| iawbone' containing teeth had been for
warded to London TO be examined
Underneath the bones the clay was
| found to be burned. Mr. Skertchly' I
explanation is that we have here pre-
served the one solitary instance in the
whole world of a camping-gronnd OF
paleolithic men. and this camping
ground occurred below the boulder
clay which belonged to the earliest
part of the glacial period. These re
mains were thus far older than any
thing previously discovered. Tracing
the boulder-clay and the beds beneath
across the country, he saw that thu
implements found at Botany Bay were
Of the same age. The men who llvet
before the boulder-clay appeared t
him to be more intimately connected
in time with the menofthe paleollthl'
gravels lying under the boulder-elal
than were the latter with the men o
the neolithlc age. who scooped GU
these ancient flint mines near Brandon
called '.Grimes Graves
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at different values according as an
affected comprador pretends TO have
found more or less bronze III their
composition--this is the ridiculous
coinage Of the coast. In Hong
Kong itself, when | took my letters TO
the post and gave a dollar to the clerk
to pay for stamps, had to wait while
he bit it. tried it with acid. weighed
it and gave me change. not as though
my dollars was dollar, but according
to it's weight, which was 9b-lOO OF
what it should have been. This was
no exceptional case, but was the prac-
tice gone through in every Instance.
Such is the repute of English coin,
that the Hong Kong mint would IN q
few years have introduced the use OF
it's dollars by the Chinese people
throughout the trading portions OF the
Empire. without continuing to impose
any charge whatever on the English
taxpayers. The history OF dollars
would be very curious one. The
Chinese look doubtfully upon all that
do not bear the name OF some wei
known Chinese firm stamped upon
| them, as we write names across the
| back Of bank-note. except they are
of one kind: Mexican pillar doliars,t the
two pillars of which are described II
their Chinese name. ''two-plecy can
neltick" dollars. 4 note in the history
of dollars that propose would have tt
record the fact that our eNpeditlonarl
force to Abyssinia had to be suppllet
with Maria Theresa dollars, OF which
none were TO be obtained in the marke
these being the only coins received
by the natives of that country. The
Austrian Government had to be ap
piled to by the British Government
and the coins had to be specially strucl
for us at the Vienna Mint.
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The BRAINS OF CRIMINALS.

SAYS the British Medical Journal:
In our last issue we published very
interesting letter from our Vienna
correspondent, in which a brief sum-
mary was given of Prof. Benedict S
researches on the brains and skulls OF
criminals. The subject is an impor-
tant one. both from physiological and
psychological point of view. 1t Is to
be hoped that more extended and
more precise inquiry will be made
upon it. for the results which DR..
Benedict has obtained, though very
important. are not sufficiently nnmer-
Gus to warrant any large induction.
Up to the present time DR.. Benedict
has examined the brains OF sixteen
criminals, on comparison with the
healthy brain, he finds to be abnor.
NAL. Not only has he found that
these brains deyiate from the normal
type, and approach toward that OF
lower animals, but he has been able tc
classify them, and with them the
skulls in which they are contained, III
three categories. These consist In
First. absence of symmetry between
the two halves of the brain second
an obliquity of the interior part of thu
brain or skull--in fact;a continuation
upward of what we term slopint
| forehead, third, distinct lessenins
of the posterior cerebral lobes,so that
as in the lower animals, they are no
large enough to hide the cerebulum
In all these peculiarities the crimi
mails brain and skull are distinctly Q
a lower type than those OF norma
men, and the interesting question
arises. how far are the evil acts Of tn
criminal to be attributed to this rel
rograde developments DR.. Watt
can pardon the vicious propensities 9
bears and lions" on the ground tina
God had made them So IT he ha
foreseen these new inquiries he migl
have felt less hopeful when he bad
his little readers not to let 'stheir al
CRY passions rise The results {
Dr. Benedict : researches, if confirm
ed BY further examinations, will d
much to shake many beliefs now firm
| " fixed.
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POCKET MICROSCOPE.

An ingenious English optical in
strument maker has just invented a
wonderful pocket microscope, upon
which scientific writer's are confer
ring much praise. The new lens con-
sist Of three lenses, the interior
grooves of which are almost transpar-
ent; they are lined by transparent
cement. which has a refracting index
corresponding very nearly with the
glass. In this way no light is lost by
refraction from the surfaces OF the
curves. The pecuHarities OF this re-
markable invention are that it focuses
three times. as far from the object
under examination as either the stan
hope or Codrington lenses. BY this
means scientists and others using the
microscope can examine Opaque OBJ
iects as well as transparent ones, as
the light can be conveniently allowed
to fall upon them at any required an.
gle, as the definition Is exceedingly
| sharp.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Fishes have no eyelids and neces-
sarily sleep with their eyes open; they
swallow their food whole, having no
dental machinery furnished them.
Frogs, toads and serpents never take
food but that which they are satisfied
is live. When a bee, wasp or hornet
stings it is nearly always at the eX.
pense Of its life. Serpents are Sc
tenacious of life that they will live
for six months or longer without food.
Seals can be trained to perform many
curious tricks. 1t is believed that
crocodiles live to be hundreds Of years
old. The Egyptians embalmed them
In South America there is prolific
honey bee which has not been fur
nished with sting. The head OF the
rattlesnake has been known to lnfilcl
fatal wound after being severed
from the body.
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YOU as an obSeryant traYeleT-aS a
writer for the presto record the
sentiments Of at least one American,
who knows his countrymen. that come
when that day willard it will come
in Heaven $ appointed time, and not
earlier-the United States. both OF the
North and of the South, Will set
glorious example to the world OF the
value of free institutions. They VIII
prove to the corrupt. rotten, eHete OLD
monarchies and empires OF Europe how
vastly superior the republican system
of government is to theirs: and that
two such brothers as the North and
South will act as brothers and not as
foes; that they will shake hands peacea-
hlv and part without bloodshed. The
Union compelled by force may suit
European ideas. It will never suit
the ideas Of America Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, noticed, smiled asif obviously
and said. If such be the wish Of the
North. 7 am sure it will he the wish OF
the South. The continent is big
enough for both of us. and though
separated from each other, as 1t is
certain we must be we shall still be
able to stand against Europe as one
power. in holy aud defensive alli-
auce.
Concerning this notable narrative,
most readers VIII make All obvious re-
mark on the advantages OF relating an
incident after all the persons present
are dead except the relator. ] have
not the slightest doubt that DR.. Mac
| kay tells the conversation rs lie
remembers il. buff. indeed, he and
I the British minister were not victims
Of CHASTITY conspiracy TO poke fun on
| the part of two men who found them
selves coerced into an unnatural com
partnership, iC would he pleasant II
seward and Breckenridge could man
age to materialize long enough to give
| their versions. There is evidence in
| this book that Mackay WAS at one time
ON intimate terms with Seward, and
he was his guide about London; but il
is equally plain that he harbors spite
against Seward S memory, else he
would never put it in print that II
was by the Americans request. and
il order to help him TO the presiden
cy, that he Mackayl had Seward
portrait and memoir inserted IN the
Illustrated London News.
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the gravel, the base Of the semi-circle
being formed by the earth and fOunda-
tions of the adjoining building. This
large pit has adjoining it a much small
Ter one, which probably served as the
entrance, and ia the poin of junction
between the two there is dence or
narrow platform. The opinion has
been expressed that these excavations
are merely old grayel-pits, but against
this suppOsitiOn must be adduced the
facts that they cover large extent OF
ground, and they are all at about six
feet below the surface; that each one
of the caves or pits, although circular
in shape. has level bottom; that the
walls in some cases are not more than
six inches in thickness; that the gravel
on top of the walls bears undOubted
traces of having been turned up from
lower level, and that in two Of the
pits have been found concrete floors
these being the only two that have
been at present carefully examined).
of what composed is not at present
known, but of such tenacity that it
was possible to remove the half of one
of them without fracture. At the
| bottom of another of these primitive
dwellings were found some pieces of
decayed wood. which may or may not
have been portions Of the original
roof. The remains have at present
most remarkable appearance. especial
| ~ when viewed from a height, as then
the circular form of each is more ap-
parent, and the regularity of construc-
ton, and all being upon the same level.
affords conclusive evidence to some
antiquarians that there has been found
some incontrovertible evidence that
Oxford can carry her antiquity back to
a far earlier date than the classic days
when King Alfred founded University
College. In removing the rubbish
and earth, several objects of great in
terest have been found, including a
and arrowhead. ETC.. and also a very
large number of bones, but these pos
sess no particular interest, as they are
principally of domestic animals in
general use. The discovery has caus-
ed considerable interest in University
circle, Profs. Rolleston, Westwood,
Prestwich, and others, having examin-.
ed the spot, but of course there is at
present conflict of opinion as to the
real nature Of the discovery which has
been made by the clerk of the works,
whose antiquarian knowledge is con-
siderable, and to whom great credit is
; is due for the careful manner in which
he has Neseryed every possible evil
dence that can lead to proper deter
mination of the question.
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SCIENCE.
THE WEB OF LIFE.

Like blind spinner, in the sun
tread my days;
know that all the threads will run
Appointed ways;
know each day will bring its task,
And, being blind, no more ask
do not know the use OF name
OF that | spin:
| only know that some one came
And laid within
NV hand the thread, and said '1since you
Are blind, but one thing you can do.
Sometimes the threads, so rough and las
And tangled fly,
know wild storms are sweeping past
And fear that |
Shall fall; but dare not try to find
4 safe place, since am blind
know not Why, but am sure
That tint and place,
In some great fabric to endure
Past time and race,
NV threads will have 50 from the first,
Though blind / never felt accursed.
think, perhaps, this trust has sprung
From one short word,
Said over me W hen | was young
So young | heard
1t. knowing not that Gods name sgne.
My brow and sealed me His, though bind
But whether this he seal or sign,
Within, without,
It matters not: the Lord divine
I never doubt.
know He sent me here and still
And glad, and blind wait His will,
But listen, listen, day by day,
To hear their tread
Who bear the finished web away
And cll- the thread,
And bring Gods message in the sun,
Thou poor, blind spinner, work is done
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ANCIENT BRITISH VILLAGE.
A Reported Discovery of Considerable In
tereSt.

4 most remarkable discovery has
been made during the last few daysi III
the course of preparing the ground for
the new University schools in the
High street. oxford. which are about
to be erected from the designs Or Mr..
Graham Jackson. NJ. A. In proceeding
with the excavations there has been
laid bare the site of what is considered
by some an undoubted British village
or settlement dating back perhaps for
more ahan 1000 years. The site chosen
for the erection Of the schools. and on
which this discovery has been made.
was occupied. as is well known, by the
Angel Hotel, and lies between High
street on the north, Merton street on
the south. University College on the
west, and King street OH the east, and
embraces an are OF about two acres,
nearly the whole of which. or at all
events all that has been already clear
ed ab0unds i'm evidence that OH this
spot originally existed British set
Element. The excavations have now
been made to depth Of about fifteen
feet. and the earth having been cleared
away has left standing number OF
mounds Of gravel. or at least 50 they
appear to the uninitiated. but on closer
| examination these mounds resolve
themselves into the wall which divide
the pits IN which our pregenitors
dwelt. In some cases the wall il not
more than six inches thick, while in
| others again the division Is of greater
thickness, but all the spaces are Of the
same shape namely circular, although
of course, they differ in size One
very perfect specimen, situated on the
west side, isof q remarkable character
1t is much larger than the others. and
being on the extreme edge OF the site
only one-half has been exposed The
appearance presented, therefore, il
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LITERARY
SEWARD AND BRECKENRIDGE IN 1853.

SEWARD AND BRECKENRIDGE IN 1888.
DR.. Mackey's account of his two
visits to America are unusually tull,
and some Of his disclosures curious:
lie relates the rsation at dim
ner given BY the British ambassador
in Washington QS57, or early IN
1851.
The persons present were but four
the ambassador. MIR. Seward, Mr..
Breckinrldue, the then Nice-President
and myself. Mr.. Breckenridge was
strongly Southern. Mr.. seward was as
strongly Northern; but their political
opinions did not make any difference
in the cordially of their intercourse.
During the whole evening the CONVEX
sation. led hy the two Americans, turn
ed upon the approaching disruption oil
the United States, the main difference
between the two senator's being as tt
the time when the great event could
no longer be either postponed or pre-
vented. Mr.. Seward Was CT the opinion
that the Union would break up into
Id least three sectlons-the Northern
the Southern. and the States to the
west Oh the Rocky mountains. ar
BRECKENRIDGE inclined 10 the helle-
that tile sections would amount G
four. inclusive Of the three alread.
mentioned. and the six little New Eng
land states. which would. he thought
separated themselves from the North
and either seek incorporation VIII
Canada o. endearor TO extend tnel
union at Canadian eNpenee. Mr.Sew
ard thought, in default Of the aboiitlel
9f slavery, CT which he saw no lmmt
late prospect, that the Union woul
lot last five years longer. Mr.. BrecklI
idge thought that the disruptio
would he more speedy. The tw
,nglishmen cidnot venture to expires
N opinion. However that may be
aid Mr.. Seward, turning tome, i as
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ONLY a HUSk.

Tom Darcy, yet q young man, nad
grown to be a very hard one. At heart
he might have been all right, if his
head and his viii had only been right;
but these being wrong the whole ma
chine was going to the bad very fast,
though there We're times when the
heart felt something of its old truthful
warnings. Tom had lost his place as
foreman in the great machine shop,
and what money he now earned came
from odd jobs of tinkering which he
was able TO do. here and there, at pri-
vate houses: for Tom was genius as
well as mechanic. and when his head
was steady enough he could mend q
clock. or clean watch, as well as he
could set up and regulate a steam en-
rlne-and this latter he could do better
than any man ever employed by the
Scott Falls Manufacturing Company.
One day Tom had job to mend a
broken moving machine and reaper
for which he received five dollars; and
on the following morning he started
ont for his old haunt the village tay-
ern. He knew that his wife sadly
needed the money. and that his two lit
/
from want OF clothing, and that morn
| ing he held debate with the better
part of himself; but the better part had
become very weak and shaky. ana the
demon OF appetite carried the day.
20 away to the tavern Tom went
where, for two or three hours. he felt
the exhilerating effects OF the alcoholic
draucht. and fancied himself happy
rs he could sing and laugh; but, a:
usual, stupefaction followed and tn.
man died out. He drank while III
could stand. and then lay down III
corner. where his companions left him
1t was laIeat night, almost midnigh
when the landlord S wife came into thu
bar-room TO see what kept her HUSBAND
up, and she quickly saw Tom.
Peter" said she. not In pleasan
mood, why don't you send that mis-
cradle Tom Darcy home! Hes beer
hanging around here long enough.
Toms stupefaetion was not soun'
sleep. The dead coma had left hi
brain and the calling of his name stun
his senses TO keen attention. He ha
an insane love of rum, but did not loE
; | the lanlord. In other years Pete
! Tindar and himself had loved the sam
! sweet maiden-Ellen Goss-and h
, won her. leaving Peter TO take up wit
the vinegar spinster who had brough
him the tavern, and he knew that latel
the tapster had gloated over the mi:
+ cry of the woman who had once discard
: Ell him,
D why don't You send him home
/ demanded Mrs. Tindar. with an In
: patient stamp Of the foot.
4 Hush. Betsy He's got none,
0 Let him be. and he'll he sure TO spen
{, ii before he goes home. I'll have tt
e kernel of the nut, and his wife ma
:. have the husk.
t With a sniff and snap aetsy tnrne
0 away, and shortly after Tom Daree
Y lifted himself upon his elbow.
: ~Ah. Tom. are You awake
s. " es
/. ~Then rouse up and have a war
h glass"
Il Tom got upon his feet and steadi'
: himself.
n No. Peter. won drink any mo
E tonight
Il ..Itwon hurt You Tom just q glass
n Il know it won'tl said Tom, bu
ii toning up his coat by the only solital
10 button left.
IS Il know it won
: And with this he went out into Il
X chill air of midnight When he 81
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An Irishman went to the theatre
for the first time Just as the cur
tain descended on the first act. a boil
er in the basement exploded, and he
was blown through the roof, coming
down in the next street. After COM
ing to his senses, he asked, "An'
what pace do We play nexts'
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Beecher, writes q country editor.
says million of dollars isavery poem.
We desire to state that this article OF
poem will be accepted, if we have to
crowd out advertisements to make
room for it,