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ARGUS CHANGES.

Chairs should not be covered with
silk, but satin.
The bravest in talk are often the
weakest in action.
A jump in mining stocks may be
called a mineral spring.
in very bad company-the man
who gets beside himself.
The melancholy mans favorite
tree--pine. The debtor's-WiIl
owe.
Mr.. G. NJ. Walker, the editor of
the indianapolis Journal" is writ
ing the biography Of Senator Nor
ton.
Adam was a stylish man in his
day, and was the first man to set the
fall fashions.
There's man in Connecticut try
ing to invent boomerang umbrella
--one that will always return from
whence it starts.
A little Bridgeport boy who lost
three fingers in drop press, only re.
marked, "rll bet mother will cry
when she sees chat"
What's the difference between a
man struck with amazement and a
lcopard's tail? One is rooted to the
spot and the other is spotted to the
root.
A sailor dropped in to pummel a
Maine newspaper man the other dav,
and the rural sheet came cut with an
account of the allray heading it " A
Salt on an Editor"
An old raiIsplitter in Indiana put
the quletus upon young man who
chatfed him upon his bald head, in
these words: Young man, when
my head gets as soft as yours can
raise hair to SELL"
While growing at her husband
the other day, New York woman
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. If you wish your wife to see
this paragraph, cut it out and paste
it on the looking glass.
In struggling to make a dull.
Drained boy understand what con.
science is, teacher finally asked;
" hat makes you feel uncomfort.
able after you have done wrong?"
My papa's bic leather strap feel
ingIy replied the boy.
A professor was expostulating
with student for his idIeness, when
the latter said, Its Of no use; ]
was cut out for a loafcr." Well"
declared the profession, surveying the
student critically, whoever cut you
out understood his business"
1t is signal fact that a girl who
when she is alone, can put her
hands on the top rail Of a fence
and skip over like lamb at play,
will, if her beau is along give him as
much trouble in helping her over as
though she was rheumatic locomo.
tive.
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u !, th" mu>t mumrutuu- question "a
women /, called uyou ~ d,,.i.lr. wlWrhcr
the fault. uf the mau .hc love, will dag
her down, or wlrthrr ~" i, competent To-
he hls earthly reit"mer.
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IF Two hi.t-Clsss sewing machine,.
WILSON airia Singer. NEw. lor sAlc,
Apply a. Ihr AEGU, office.
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MARKET REPORT.
MONEY MARKET.

MONEY MNKkET
PORTLAND. - Legal Tenders, 96& buying,
~ \ selling.
BrcNcrS are buying silver ut 3 ~ discount
selling l-2
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What Voices Indicate.

There are light, quick, surface voices
that involuntsrily seem to utter the
slang l wont DO to tie to. The mans
words may assure you of his strength of
purpose and reliability, yet his tone con.
tradicts his speech.
Then there are low, deep, strong
voices where the words seem grou nd out
as ii the man owed humanity q grudge,
and meant to pay it some day. That
mans opponent may tremble and his
friends may trust hi strength Of purpose
and ability to act.
There is,the coarse, ,boisetrous, ,dictatoIial
tone, invariably adopted by vulgar per.
sons who have not sufficient cultivation
to understand their own i1signifcance.
There is the incredulous tone, that is
full of a covert sneer, or secret "you-
can't-dupe-me. sir" information.
Then there is the whining, beseeching
voice, that says "sycophant" as plainly
as lift uttered the word. 1t caioles and
fatters you It's words say al love
you; | admire you; you are everything
that you should be"
Then there is the tender, musical, COM
passionate voice, that sometimes goes
with shsrp features (as they indicate
merely intensity of teeling) and some
times with blunt features, but alw ays
with genuine bevevolence.
If you are iull of atfectation and pre-.
tence, your voice proclaims it.
II you are full of honesty, strength
and purpose, your voice proclsims it.
If you are cold and calm aud firm and
consistent, or fckle aud foolish and de-
ceptious, your voice will be equally
truth.telling.
You cannot change your voice from q
natural to an unnatural tone without its
being known that you are doing so.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

California refuses TO permit women to
practice law.
The Canadians are sending fish to
London, packed in ice.
The earth, according to Prot. Loomis,
weighs 5,sS50O0,OOI pounds.
High,bred women in Europe do not
wear iewelry, save in full dress.
Only two life insurance companies are
authorized to take rsks in Texas,
Gen. Joe Il. Johnston dresses neatly,
has snort gray beard is Slight and erect
South Carolina has sent the bale Of
cotton which secured the first prize at the
centennial to the Paris Iposi!ion.
A number Of Chinese have hired a plat
ol three acres IN the outskirts of New Y0lk,
and are going into vegetable gardening.
Artificial ice is sold in New Orleans at
SlO per ton. Northern ice, which has ALWAYS
been held at $40 to $25 O ton, is entirely
driven from the market.
A tax of ten per cent. is levied in Paris
upon all tickets taken at theaters, public
balls, music halls, or any other place of
amusement for the benefit of the poor.
Australasia, and not the United States,
Is the favorite country of English and Irish
emigrants, Nearly eighty per cent. of those
emigrating last year chose Australasia for
their future home.
a German farmer disputed his tax.
bill. He says: 81 pays the state tax, the
county tax, qud the school tax but by tun.
der ! pays no total tax pgp got no total
and never had any"
Baron Linden has been sentenced by a
German court to six months Imprisonment
and two years and half detention for high
treason and defaming Prince Bismarck. The
printer OF the pamphlet got off with half that
punishment.
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The losy Norwegian colony on the east
coast ofGreenland is brought 10 mind by
the numerous expeditions now fitted out
for Arctic explorations. Over l,OOO years
ago Greenland was discovered by adven-
turous Norsemen, and the settlement of
the country dates back as lar as the year
9S7. Two hourishing colonies, one from
Denmark and the other from Norway,
occupied the east and west coasts respect
lively or a period OF five hundred years,
and though separated by eighty miles of
desert, they had no trouble in sustaining
themselves independently OF each other
by means OF fishing and cattle-raising,
the pasturage of the hills and valleys
being in those days llxuriant, The
western colony had at one time four
parish churches, and one hundred and
ten farm villages, while that on the east
coast, still larger, had two towns, one
hundred and ninety farm villages, eleven
parish churches and two monasteriss and
was the seat of bishopric. About 1870
the Danish colony, having been weakened
by pestilence, was extsrminated by Es'
QulmduA, anu early III tuO uoAV
its Norwegian neighbor disappeared sud
denly and mysteriously from human
knowledge. Numerous attempts TO learu
definitely of its fate were made, but the
only information ever obtained was con-
tanned in letter from Pope Nicholas V.
to the bishop Of Ireland, dated in l848,
which stated that the colony had been
attacked by a hostile fleet thirty years
before, and laid waste with fire aud
sword; this story, however, was not gen
orally credited. In 1922 Capt. Scoresby
discovered houses containing hunting
apparatus and household utensils, but no
inhabitants, and there is reason to believe
that the dwellings were relics Of the long
lost COLONY. Some people are stu OF the
opinion that beyond the ioe.tields rem
nant of these hardy Nonemen may yet,
be found, and an ex.ofdcer Of the United
States navy goes 50 tar As to say that
" the gfsudest undertaking OF thepresent
aye would be " stEive 70 reach that
isolated colony"
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How a Man Reduced His Size.

Banting, "Undertaker to the queen
and royal family" recently died at the
age of eightysfve He invented a sys-
TEN of diet which becam, az famous in
our age as that of Cornaro was three
centuries ago. In a curious pamphlet
which he wrote, and which had a cos
mopolitan circulation some ten years ago,
Mr., Banting related his sufferings from
his enormous obeisity in terms as moving
as those OF "Falstaff." For years he
had not tied his shoes, and he was OBJ
liged TO walk down stairs backwards, lest
the protuberant weight of his trunk
should pitch him down head foremost
He adopted regimen by which he
gradually shrunk himself within such
bounds that he became quitea nimble
pedestrian. The fact that he lived
through this process to die at the age of
eighty. five, may be taken to show that
abstinence from fsrinaceous and saccha-
rire food worked as we'll in his case Is
living on an egg day did in the case Of
Cornsro. But others who have adopted
his system have fared worse. Still bis
work has borPe good fruit il only in
making people think about what they
eat snd drink in its relations to their
vitality as well as to their appetites; and
the mau cannot be said to have lived iE
vain who enriched his native language
with a new verb, "to bant."
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The Father spaEe! In grand rcvsrberstions
oioush 5pace rolled on the mighty music. tide,
bile TO iti low majestic m0dulatiOus,
Ice clouds Of chaos slowly swept uside.
Tue Father spake-a dre0m that had been lying
flushed tfolu eternity in silence there
Heard the pure melody aud low replying,
Grew 70 that music in the wondering air
Grew to that music slowly, granlly waking,
TN, blthed IN beauty, it became world
Led by hi voice its spheIic pathway taking,
While glorious clouds their wings around it
iurled,
Nor yet has that sound cPased-hs love revealing.
Though, in response universe moves by
Throughout eternity, its echo pealing-
World alter world awakes in good reply,
And whosoeyer, in his rich creation,
sweet music bre3ths-in wave, or bird or soul
Ills but the faint and far leverberation
vi that great tune to which the planets roll.
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WHETHER merely foolish, or cunning
and avaricious, the men who are urging
the negroes TO leave this country and
cast themselves upon the savage coast of
Africa, are doing a cruel thing. There
is no good reason for any class of men
emigrating from this country, and none
have ever yet gone away in body who
did not heartily wish themselves back.
The Joppa colony, the settlers of Liberia
and the mechanics who went to England
last year are familiar illustrations in
point. Every negro who is entrapped
by this colonization scheme will make Il
grievous mistake, This country is wide.
1t stretches between two oceans, aud
from zone to zone; it presents every vas
riety Of climate and vegetation; its laws
are flexible, and its conditions adaptable
TO any race of men, however rich or poor,
high or humble. Every trampiselgible
to the governorship; every hod,carrier's
son is in the line OF the presidential sue
cession; any negro may aspire to be a
law maker in congress or the senate or
the founder of new state. Even two
hundred and fifty freedmen are too many
to be given over to the losses, suferings
aud disappointments which thisy visionary
scheme will be sure to entail. The Col.
onization society revealed its real animus
generation ago, when it stroye to exile
free negroes so that slavery might be
more firmly rooted, and it is high time
the nest of fraudulent philanthropists
was broken up Graphic.
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And sleep alter tasks that were we'll .bertIn
Then wander the world as have done.
And cry to the winds to come and say,
THE best way to write spring poetry is
to take an axe and chop wood.
SOME men are like chestnut burr,:
you must smooth them the right way or
you will get hurt.
COMMODORE VANDRRBILT'sw widow It'll,
said, is soon to marry southern gentle.
man, who, it is inferred is not seventy
six years old,
THERE will be a great chance for
American bonanza queens and the wives
of oil.struck husbands in Paris next June
or July. Tx Queen Isabella Of Spain is
to sell AT auction 100000 worth of
diamonds,
CHICAGO shopkeepers discharge their
employees If the employees read news
paper that the shOpkeepers don't like.
This is the refinement of bulliozing.
What is it in trade that makes so many
men so very small ?
The Burlington Hawkeve gives this
reciDe for the consolation OF poor. lone
females of Iowa: "Just pour gallon
OF whisky on the sitting room carpet,
and it smells as though there WA man
around all the time"
A LITTLE boy asked his mother to talk
to him, and say something funny.
How can I?' she asked, don't YOU
see | am busy baking these pies? p"
" Well, you might say, Charley, won't
you have pie ? That would be funny"
A MAN who loss his good character
some time ago was severely hauled over
by some Of his former friends ~ know
it, boys, know my character is gone,
lost entirely. And" he added, rather
pointedly, "it's too confounded bad, for
it was the only one in the town worth
saving"
A LADY whose cook went to q wake
was given notice a fortnight afterward
that she was going to be married. "To
whom ?" asked her mistress. Please
ma'am, to the husband Of the corpse"
Why, does he love you ?' was the next
question. Oh, yes, ma am he said l
WAS the light of the funeral
"FRIENDsHIPs are never completed
till men are bound to each other by the
common experience otsorrOw." Correct;
Men who never before exchanged more
than nod in passing, will become sworn
friends and allies in c0mmon cause in
two minutes after they meet at the back
door Of saloon on Sunday morning and
find it closed
The funny man Of tie Graphic must
be suppressed. lie says that Ellison has
invented q swalow.tail coat that can be
used as q boot jack. Bubbns read that
statement, and, on sunday evening, when
a Rochester truit.tree agent called on
Bubbins' daughter, the old man Thought
the youth wore that kind Of q coat, aud
the resul. was painful in the extreme to
the young man.
TIE family were discussing the play of
Buffalo Bill the other evening, when
Grandfather Lickshingle said: You
can talk as you please, brt let your grand
father tell you that it requires histrionic
talent till sou can rest Tor q successful
assumption OF the title role Of this finest
of all dramas in the English language.
Booth may do when an I'D played
out king il 10 be plugged in the
back with 2 cork kn'e, and then finished
Of with poison McCulluueh can shut
his eyes aud stab his Iitt'e sickly daugh-
ter Virginia but I tell YOU when ii
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stood IN toe eyes Of the gray,headed soldier
aad the tremor SO plainly heard in his voice
were more eloquent than the choicest words
could haYe heen.
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FACTS AND FANCIEs.



AFTER JOAQUIN Mn1Ea
What is the whole vide world to nae.
lsle OF the N0rthlsnd or vale Of no spns
what is the bretz3 that CONES up from tho vsa
The scarlet pJpplss that hunt on the la ~
What Is IL all 70 lie that Is done
For Il 1t liie when the heart Is lead
When II lies Ike bit Oi clay IN the brsast7
Isit life when at sFeet things are dead
When laughter, and song and music have fed
When IN all the world there is no rest7
In the land OF the SNOW. in the land OF the vine
have wandered ard wandered through ali the
farth;
1 have laycd 10 their torrents, and drank of their
wine.
have trodien the press Of pain divine
And sung IN th-ir songs Of love and mrth.
And yet, God there is nausht Of LIE
That can waken my heart from its living death
Nor c!ancr nor wsi.lng minor Of strife
Nor kiss Nf the ~ inner with blossom rife
Can waEen my murdered heart into breath
An! better 1t we're 10 sit down IN the sun
Better to toll and lahor all day,
And sleep alter tasks that were ell.bprun
Then wander the world "a have done
And cry 10 the winds 10 come and slay,
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VOLUME XVIII.

thinned ont the population, and that not
more than two native kings and a half to
the square yard will be found BY the
next Central African explorer New
York Timpa
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Ia be one distilIery for
.oos in the United States,
| for every l3,2OO OF the
/ i, estimated that each
lioporin the country sells
law, making an aggregate
5rinks per day. If each
soy | cent OF revenue, it
100000 per day, or $6,~
M, and $72,Ooo,oOo ger
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y Os ascertained from the
PerS, Mr., Stanley generally
battle before breakfast,
PidS, and cut three paths
sie't +, before noon, and then
IOp'tIo during the heat of
II to give his men a rest.
Ned that he had mentioned
/ al Africans he killed in
s. Probably thenumber
'"itv of the largest
aatad,
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ing American firm lately
consignment Of elegant
metro, but found, to their
and chagrin, that the
slnesa there was a govern
y SO that they could
give away a single coffin.
% seen that the under
ftaking the venture, made
e. Lord Timothy Dex>
consignment of warming
turned out well, they
ny utilized for molasses
can conceive of no ex.
. which coffins could be
put; 80 the enterprise
cad failure.
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he universally dangerous
The wild brood of Gods
lld, forest and flood, not
keep company with him.
Il sort Of universal senti-
4 lower tribes, it is that
/ snd unsocial creature.
hut out. Bugs run away
/ fly away worms crawl
] away. Man is the center
Ehat does he care? In
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Il IN sxi.t a bird on the
coast, provided with
4, the wings aud on his
fishes along the edge OF
|nisht by the light the
"a. him when no opens
1 . Gathers on h:s brea't.
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by intelligent observers
reage now sown to wheat
northwest exceeds that
d year. to the extent of
cent; and the prospect
Gather of the pext four
love favorable for plant
|Ecnty per cent. more of
Ces will be planted this
II before. With anything
bniitions, the year 1873
llye eof immense crops ofall
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\ S, c, has been experts
d artcsian well lately, in
lgmstely obtaining an in.
|lPly Of pure water for the
novel source, ana the
not quite up to the anti
% far encouraging. A
lnk one thousand eight
Rty'seyen feet, which dis.
hdred and fifty gallons a
hn ascertained head OF
Rnd a probable real head
|ndred feet.
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besides being the inven-
graph, is the originator
aotograpb, for which he
nth patent issued by the
p original discovery; and
Of the American district
messenger service), the
the automatic system,
order, the Roman letter
pb, the celebeated quad
on which the Western
a large royalty, a speak
be electric pen for dupli.
md circulars, of which
nd are now in use.
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,overnment has engaged
S.ors from the Pennsyl-
! oDen up the oil wells
n Keelung
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"'Thine in the hope of heaven

"HOw William received this intelf.
genee history does not inform us; but
before Father Pedro and Philip arrived
another sudden death startled the inhab-
itants. The old lawyer who drew up
the will and witnessed the signature was
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Of last month a French
|Inan, in passing along the
|IHawa. near its confluence
] Lawrence, discovered the
M seal close to the shore.
6ht of the water he found
i the seal was stuck fast
Of a large muskalonge,
Rye weighed about fifty
seal and fish, as 4 matter
ID dead, 1t is supposed
hltempted to capture the
ia WAS met with q fierce
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/ b society would be more
} I Is if ii were known how
ItEts friendships, and even
|lHeen those who would like
bth parties appeared in
q prs. To put on an air of
om, more or less religion,
J pave, destroys all power
Ne are conscious of our
-, but not always aware
b and thus, mistaken
fe are led sometimes to
d be coDgenial unions,
. make ill-assOrted ones.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-04-11
bills badly torn, anG there were blood
spots on others.
"Does this convict him?" / asked
of the trembling Parsons.

OF the tremhhng PARSONS.
But be nay have been waking III
his sleep he replied
He May have been, bat where did
he get this money!
1T was le!--it was!' he exclaim-
ed, sitting down.
We looked at each other for a long
time without speaking. and then ne
said, 'Let ME go home? l can't be
here when you make the arrest. /
have known that boy ever since he
was a child and though 1 hold him
guilty, I couldn't face him to save my
life."
/ let him 60, and had to brace my
nerves for what was to come. | said
nothing to the women; but taking
the money in one hand and the lamp
in the other 1 went up stairs, pushed
open Toms door, and found him
wide awake in bed, as / had expect
ed. He rose up as l set the lamp
down, and, taking a chair, 1 said:
'tMr. Parsons and l were both watch
ing you when you put the money in
the dovecot."
"I-yon-it couldn't"
"Tom," 1 answe red, i%nterrupting
him, 81 have known all day you kill
ed Miss Williams! There are a doz-
en- things to prove it besides these
torn and stained bills! You must go
with me to the county jail"
He held out for a reply, but when
he saw 1 had trapped him, and that it
was no use, he broke down, began to
cry and surrendered.
He rose and dressed, and we left
the house so silently that no one
knew of our going. He declared that
he would make no effort to escape,
and accompanied me to a livery sta
bic, and stood by while a horse and
chaise we've made ready for n trip to
the county prison.
On the way out he made a clean
breast Of it. He was III debt for bets,
cigars, liquors and ~iewelry, and his
aunt refused him except q small sum-.
He had at first planned to rob her of
part, but changed his mind and de
cided to kill her and take all. She
had been awakened, sprang out of
bed, seized and recognized him, and
he had struck her down and then put
the body on the bed, just as / had fig
ured it in my own mind. He be-
lieved himself secure from detection :,
but when | spoke about the bills hay
ing been numbered, he had left his
bed and changed them from one hid
ing place to another for fear that they
would be found.
He would have been tried, but he
committed suicide the second night
after being placed in Jail and to this
day there are people in Colvillc who
believe that Tom was innocent, and
o. ~u~~-Vunue oIAu-J -
nntN, Stale of Nilsson
lat my -anfounded suspicious and
nJ~ustifiable arrest drove him to his
cath. =
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-04-11

A man who always hangs up his
hat, puts the boot.jack away, hangs
his coat On one particular peg, anu
lays his socks on the back of a chair
on going to bed, is not a man who
will put in ten hours q day unless
watched.