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The Scientific American publishes an
illustrated description of admiral Por-
ter's system of torpedo warfare, as exhib-
lied on the torpedo steamer Alarm now
under command of Lieut.. Frederick d.
Paine, L. s. n. The Alarm is calcula-
ted not only to destroy its adversaries
but to put TO an end to all the poetry at
taching to naval warfare. The ',jolly
tars'' are, 10 great extent, replaced by
emotionless machinery, and the brave
commander and his assistants by eDgl-
neers and electricians, WHO fight with
steam engines and electrical buttons,
while comparatively secure from the shot
and shell of the enemy. Personal brave
ry no longer enters as determining fac
tor in the struggle; everything depends
on the intelligence which plans the yes
sci and guides it in its work of destruc-
ton. The Alarm is armed with an i'm
mense ram, and from his sides and bow
torpedo spars may be run out for a dis
lance of eighteen to thirty-two feet, and
the torpedo on the end exploded by cleo
tricity. In the bow fifteen-inch gun Is
carried. The vessel is built in water
tight compartments, and is sunk like a
monitor when in action. Almost the
only part exposed to the shot OF anenemy
is the steel-pIated deck, which must be
struck, if at all, at an angle, so that it
will escape the full force of any shot.
the Alarm is guided by the samsSSSps
ratus that propels berAs sse-ths.ff1 y
dle-wheel. and can be turned asNcA
pivot Having sighted an enemy her
engines drive her at the rate of fifteen
nots an hour to close quarters. Iftat
night, an electric light on her bow lights
up her path. A shot from tie fifteen
inch gun in the bow is followed quickly
by the explosion of the bow torpedo,
striking the enemy thirteen feet below
the water line. As soon as the Alarm
RECEIVERS from her recoil the ram is used
and as she swings broadside on, another
torpedo spar from her side is shot out.
the torpedo is exploded, and, if this does
not complete the work of destruction
she can be again swung round so rs to
repeat the operation. In the meantime
guns on her deck have kept up deadly
fire of a thousand bullets per minute,
sweeping her enemy's decks. Her own
protection lies chiefly in the fact that
bat small portions of her hull and upper
works are exposed to the enemy's fire,
and that she is built in compartments,
and has double shell, so that the entire
ship cannot be filled with water except
by rs many breaches as there are com
partments. She is expected to attack
much larger and more costly iron-clads,
and her method OF warfare contemplates
seIf-destruction, if necessary, in the eff
fort to destroy the enemy; for the utili-
tarisn in war argues, "if, by the sacrifice
of torpedo-b eat, costing 100000, we
sink a great iron-clad, worth million,
the life mission Of the former craft may
well be deemed fulfilled.
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Five Thousand Books Given Away for
the Asking.

While DR.. II. James was attached to the
British Medical Staff in the East Indies, his
high position enabled him to call about him
the best chemists, physicians, and scientists
of the day, and while experimenting with and
among the natives, he accidentally made the
discovery that CONSUMPTION can be positive
" and permanently CURED. During the
many years OF his sOjOurn there, he devoted
his time TO the treatment of Lung Diseases,
and upon his retirement he left with US books
and papers containing full particulars, show
ing that every one can be his own physician
and prepare his own medicine, ana such in
formation as We have received we now offer
to the public without price, only asking that
each remit thIee-eent stamp for postage.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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United States Nhil Contracts.

The business of letting the spring
United States mail contracts has closed
at the postofice department. Letters of
acceptance to all successful competitors
were transmitted by nail Some idea Of
this work may be formed as follows:
Maine has 22l routes and $500 bids;
New Hampshire has Il routes aud 1900
bids; Vermont, 40 routes and 200
bids: Massachusetts, l04 routz and ! $50
bids; Rhode Island, % routes and 800
bids; Connecticut, SO routes and 900
bids; New York, 4SS routes and $500
bids; New Jersey, 100 routes and / 200
bids; Delaware, % routes and 400 bids;
Pennsylvania, 64S routes and 1900 bids;
Maryland, 1879 routes and 1000 bids;
Virginia, 3S3 routes and 5000 bids;
West Virginia, 300 routes and 3, 700 bids.
The total number of routes is 1922 and
of bids over 81 900, beng nearly 1000
bids over the number asst year. 1t is
noticed that in some csses the very low
est bid could not be accepted because of
informality, such as the want of sigma
ture either by the person bidding or his
sureties, amount of sureties insufficient,
or COMMISSIONS Of seal pa the part of no
taries or justices. another cause OF
severe criticism by the department was
the alteration of amodnts for the service
by interlineation, which may have been
done in good faith by bona fde parties,
but in these times of sleepless vigilance,
ELECTED the strictest scrutiny before ac-
ton. Blanks for contracts viii be speed
lily forwarded to each and all accepted
bidders. and it is expressly required that
they be returned properly executed on
or before the first day of June next.
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breakfast the witnesses who have form
ed the welding party, but, no other
guests are invited to the repast. On the
fifteenth day after the marriage cards
are sent bearing the new address of the
married pair. A widow never makes
wedding calls after remarrying. Those
who receive the cards do the visiting.
There is month allowed for the return
of cards and the visits. When a single
lady marries after having passed the
usual age for marriage, the ceremony
should be simple and unobtrusive.
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"See two fellows with ulsters and re-
volvers come out?'
eyes; they was taIkin' about swappin'
guns, and they're over across the way
now, takin' drink"
The restaurant man went back to clear
up the dirty dishes and reflect on his
damphoolishness. - Virginia Chronicle.
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Capt. r. II. Young, L. 5. Army, says:
"Nh0Iy's rifles are the best in the World :" and
so say hundreds of thousands of others who
have used the " OLD RELIABLE" during the
past twenty-seyen years. Send TO Sharp's
Rifle CO., Bridgeport, Conn, for illustrated
nrice list. free.
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SINGS LIKEA BIRD

oINGS LIKE A BIRD. TIE delight
fal effects OF this new principle, Dr.. j. II.
McLean's Cough & Lung Healing Globules
As the saliva in the mouth acts on the Clio
bule gas is generated which soOthes and
heals irritation OF the throat and lungs
makes the voice clear rs a bird. cures Hoarse-
ness, Coughs, Colds and Consumption. Trial
Boxes, by mail, % cts. DR.. j. II. Mclean,
3I4 Chestnut. St. Louis.
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Coughs and Colds are often overlooked.
continuance for any length Of time causes
irritation of the Lungs or some chronic
Thread Disease. "Brotra'S bronchial TrOctes'
are an effectuaI COUGH REMEDY.
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The GREAT Eastern The steamer
Great Eastern is in the docks at Milford,
England, undergoing repairs. She Is
having two iron masts placed in her in
stead of wooden ones. The offers FOR the
use of the vessel are principally for bring
ing cattle from America, for which she
Is well adapted. If 100000 can be
raised TO fit her with modern engines and
boilers, she would be able. in the Attain
TIC at a lower price than any vessel
aHoat At the annual meeting of the
owning the vessel the accounts
showed balance of about forty thousand
dollars, but it was not thought advisable
of declare a dividend until the steamer
was chartered.
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EDITORIAL TRTsLS.

We have alluded to the editors trials
the strain upon his sympathies. Sup
pose we present a few of them. \ young
man with little experience in life, high
ambitions, great expectations, through in
dustry, sends a manuscript and accom-
panies it with letter, in which he says
that all the hopes of his life are hanging
upon the fate of his paper-that the
editor has a destiny in his hand-that
the writer is waiting to hear his fate
ETC., etc. a woman writes that the liv-
ing OF herself and her children, who have
been left without q protector and provi-
der, depends upon the editors decision,
and that If her manuscript is not &C
cepted, she and her little ones must be-
come beggars. A young girl, just from
school, wishes to earn her own living
and relieve q father who has failed in
business. Another girl desires bravely
to educate her brothers and sisters, who
have been left without the requisite
means. a woman is possessed by an
overmastering desire to do good with
her pen. Hundreds write that they are
poor, and that they have no recourse but
their power to write.
To a man who carries a heart, such
appeals are painful beyond expression.
He has TO right to yield the slightest
consideration to them, ard he must not
do it. They have no right to distress
him in this way. but they do not know
that. Their resort is so desperate that
they are really untitled by it TO- doing
their best work. The presumption always
is that the literary part OF the case is
consciously weak one. The urging Of
an Legitimate consideration would be
INDUCED in by one who felt strong in
his literary claim. When a MAJ is large
enough to write fer the public. he is
usually large enough to see that an lille
Ultimate claim to attention dcgrades
him indeed he is large enough to think
of making it.
Alter all, the mistake of the novice
begins in his incompetent idea OF litera-
Ire. No nam thinks of putting his
first picture in the exhibition; but the
mement man begins to write, he wants
to rrint, forgetting that there is no art
that demands more study and practice
than the literary, and that he has had no
special training fer it. Without ex-
perience in life, without training in art,
aud with only a natural facility for ex
preston, he has fancy that if he could
only get publisher he could succeed at
once. Our painters, our sculptors, our
singers, our architects, are obliged to go
through long courses of instruction and
practice but our essayists, our poets,
our novelists, seem to think that they
must fly when they tumble from their
nests, or it is all up--or down-with
them.-Ey. j. @. Holland, IN Scr'bRer
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MoraI--Texas is fine grazing country.
SYDNEY SMITH once went incognito Ia

SYDNEY SMITH once went incognito to
Deyille, the phrenOlogist, to have his
head examined. "This gentleman case, -
said Devile, sis clear enough. His
faculties are those ola naturalist, and /
see that he gratifes them. This gentle
man is always happy among his col
lections OF birds and fishes" Sir" said
Smith, turning around upon him
solemnly, with wideopen eyes, Il don't
know a fish from a bird"
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EriqUETTE FOR WIDows.-It is con-
trary to custom to invite guests 10 the
marriage of widow. If widower
mafries a young girl, the etiquette is
the same as that of first marriage. A
WIDOW must marry in the morning ear
~, without show, and has only her wit
nesses and those of her intended. Her
dress must be plain, Of quiet color
piack' however, Is not admissible. On
church the bride invites to
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hundred and fifty men. An extensive
catch is expected during the coming
season, and preparations are making to
enlarge the works.-M. Y. Tribune.
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JoHNsON's ANoDYNE LINIMENT may
be administered to children with perfect sue
cess. in cases of crOup, whoOping cough, in
fuenza and almost any of the diseases To
which they a-e liable.
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4 POSITIVE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
Duranc's Rheumatic Remedy. Send Tor eireu-
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OPPRESSION after eating, headache,
nervous debility, are the effects of indiges>
ton. One, or two at most Of Parsons Pur-
cative Pills will give immediate relief.
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BURNErT's FLAvoRING EXTRACTS are
used and Endorsed by the best hotels, CON
fectioners, grocers, and the first families in
fhe cnnntrY.
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GH1N4TOPSIS.

One of Bryant's most remarkable
poems is that entitled "The Poet" In
it he tells-about as well as can be told,
we should suppose-how to make
poem and not only how to make it, but
how to mend it after it is made:
Then, should thy verse appear
Hating and harsh, and all unaptly wrought,
Touch the Grade line with fenr,
Sive in the moment Of imprisoned thought;
Then summon back the original glow, and mend
The strain with rapture that with Gre was penncd.'
That Bvrant knows how to do this
himself may be discovered by a com
parison of his most celebrated poems as
first printed, with their form in the
latest edition. How many readers of
the present generation have ever seen
the following stanzas
% Not thft from lie and all its woes
The hand OF death shall set me free;
Not hat this head shall then rerose
Ia the low vale most peacefully.
All, when / touch Times iaIthest brink,
kinder sO'ace mus attend;
It chiils my very soul 10 think
On that dread hour when life must end.
In the hattering verse may breathe,
OF ease frOa4 PAIN and rest from strife,
There is a sacred dread OF DEATH
lcNoxen with the strings Of life.
This bitter cup al first was given
When angry justice frown'd severe.
Aud It's the eternal doom Of heaven
That man must view the grave with fear.
1t is often said to editors overburdened
with MSS: But, of course, you can
decide upon contributions merely by
reading the first few lines. If The edi-
tor who prepared for the press The
North American Review of September,
1917, had decided after reading only
these stanzas with regard TO the poem of
which they formed the introduction. ne
would probably have declined to publish
no less notable poem than Thana-
topsis." Since its first publication,
" Thanatopsis" has not only been shorn
of its introduction, but the first sixteen
and a half and the last fifteen and half
lines have been added, and the body of
the poem iteelf has been actually re-
written. Among other changes, the fol-
Loving now very familiar passage has
been inserted;
"And poured round all
Old Oseaa's gray and melancholy waste"
In the same number of the North
American" where Thanatopsis is
published, the well known d" Inscription
for the Entrance TO Wood, appears
under the title of " A Fragment" and
without the closing passage as now
printed. both poems were published
anonymously An emendation has been
made, also, in the Waterfowl" In the
second stanza, the line
As darkly painted on the crimson sky
Thy figure floats alonS.'
is Justly changed to
"As Iarkly seen against the crimsoa sky etc.
1t is not necessary to give further ex-
amples OF Byrant's corrections, although
the study is very interesting one
ScJiJHer.
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AFTER an experience of over twenty
Eve years, many leading physicians acknowl-
edge that the Groe1eRJerg HorAhaWs Uterine
CqfLofcion is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
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remedy of the day for biliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases Of digestion. Sold
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VEGETABLE Pulmonary Balsam, the great
New England cure for coughs, colds and con-
sumption. Cutler, Bros, Co.'S, Boston, only
genuine
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NATURES REMEDY
WENr TIIT AZ TNa
Y 6g Il llNN1
IHE CREkT BLOOD PURlHERs
recommend it Heartily.

Recommend ~ Heartily.
SOUrH BcsroS.
Mn. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-I have taken several bottles OF your WIG
FTISF and am Convinced il Is valuable remedy for
Dyspepsia Kidney Complaint, aud general debility Of
the system.
l can heartily recommend II TO all suffering from
the above compIaint. Yours respectfully.
MRS. AIUkROE PARKER.
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..nrown.s RronchiaI rrochc,."

DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY never
fails to cure rheumatism. Sold by all druggists
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FILES

Sth-ausprrS ran be found ia the Office Of Beals 4
rferI-tf rstk Eor-. Nov York partial ME -
<pfher with samples Of ali. may be found 80 800
Worth Street, New York M Hon-os street III
cago. H.: 2G5 East Water street. Milwaukee, Mis-'
"a Wabashaw Street. ST. Paul. Mimi; - Race
street Cincinnati. o.. 227 Second Street, Memphis
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RHEUMATISM cured at once by Durang 5
Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circular 10
Helphenstine * Bently. Washington, =. {.
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PILES!
THE ALBION MILL,
n. ". EELLEx, sapt.,,

AST KILLINGLY, CONN
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0neIs Two W hitin- L.Prers. twemty.sia
1aro English Speeders- two NnrPcrs-
sro"s rarper Beaus- two Dressers. MY
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CALCULATIONS.

The calculations given from the American
Sewsnaper Directory for ls76, and in hundreds Of
Eases are too small. For instance the Chicago Lef
nor which appears at 900 circulation actually L.
.ue- 10. 900 weekly.
This il the only list Of Cooperative Ncwspap ers
obicb has exhibited to tho advertiser the cir
ellation of the separate peers aud on this Us the
actual character Of each paper, whether the best OF
only paper in place l. plainly Indicated IN every
nd fDr f'af4forTge
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Price single, like cut, - frr hoih siars F-Trbis
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HO1SAND MIDDLE AGED MEN TRAINED
for success al start IN isiut IS lite at EASTMAN
CDiAEts p EsssEs Ia EGeP9sts ~ y The only Insi-
tuition ia this ntIy devoted 10 this specially anu
that gives ana Ctal Business Practice. Currency anu
merchandise use1 havc real value Each days trans
actions iu-ed on quotations OF New York markets.
low rates israduHtcS5 sisted situations AppHca-
tiYn~ rec,it ed ans week day. Beir 10 Patrons ana
Graduates ueuriy every city and town address ioF
particulars ardC fatigue of3 U0n Graduates IN bn-
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One of Bryant's most remarkable
poems is that entitled "The Poet" In
it he tells-about as well as can be told,
we should suppose-how to make
poem and not only how to make it, but
how to mend it after it is made:
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1850
N NEWSPAPERS.

To have advertisement set ND IN the form Of
.,ling matter. and inserted iu the nows columns Of
sna pers r. very efficient mode Of advertising.
Iese lets of newspapers offer advantages in this
.-nert which other new- apers lists Of news
,,ars po--css Manufacturer and me chants dcsir-
ING to publish description Of their wares or estab
Ishments viii ma thiS Plfh, very serylceahie- Hy
make the merits Of their goods familiar 10 the people
~ the regions in which thete papers are published
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Card Writing A EEs G MSnH.

1-r,,.sed dirort and reverse NOV elneITIti 49,
execution. equsi o. engraving. FpecllHeil -,
lar Tor acts stamp S.T JoHNsoN foukbheep e'ee.--
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R00KKeFPING 'ss DDS e".y g9 h. !. . e
Cotton! Cotton

DtANTEE= BEAD Mctarieys tclspfetsu y ', y,
prriifc cotton seed crfnfiv improved rnd soia a.
reduced Price. For rsriie ulars; ADDE'S ,,i..
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-24
Application for a Patent
TO THE
Champion Mill Site.
No o-n
30,
q. S. LAND OyFIcr.

Eureka. Nevada, February IL, 1877.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the Eureka Consolidated Mining Con-
pany, whose postolice address is Eureka.
Nevada, has this day filed it's application for
a patent or ) acres as a mill sire. situate. living
and being in Eureka Mining District. county Of
Eureka. and State of Nevada, and known md
designated by the field notes and official pIat
on file in this office rs lot number ia.
The exterior bouudaries Of said lot No. ia
being as follows, to wit: Variation 49,, deg.
east.
Commencing at a post marked No. |, u. s.,
Survey No ia, tho same being post No. Of
I: ). Survey No. ll3, Buckeye mill site;
whence tho flagstaff in the town of Eureka
buars N, ~ deg. y min. s.. 7,2l7 feet: tho
highest point Of Ruby Hin No l bears s., SO
deg. D min. W.. 3,0l7 feet; tao Low ION shaft
bears s., A deg. u min. W, 1883 feet: and
post No. | Of survey No. 80, Champion Lode.
bears So dos. 81 min. W, 2,573 feet; thence,
runni.g first course NJ, II deg. 50 min. W.,
l,02l 5-l0 + ct, to post marke cd No. 2, U. S.
Survey No. III; thence, second course 1874
deg. g., 800 feet, to post marked No. 3, Us
survey No. ia; and thence. third course S..
i6A deg. W, 4Si feet to post No / the place Of
beginning, containing 5 acres.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said piop mil site, said
ground as hereinbefore described, are re-
CURED to hls their ad Verse claim with the Reg
lister OF the United states Land Office at Eure-
ka, in the State of Nevada, during the sixty
days period of publication hereof, or they
will be barred by virtue of tho provisions Of
the statute.
fel3-60d D. b. IMMEL. Register.