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Ancient Roman Augurles.

Augury was a system Of divination
brought to perfection by the Romans,
and exercised considerable influence in
their religious and political life. Like
all primitive nations they believed that
every unusual event had a supernatural
Specification and that the will of the
gods was hidden therein. To interpret
this will was the prerogative OF the
augur, who obtained the desired revela-
ton from observing the flight OF birds
and other phenomena. Five modes Of
divination we're employed by the aug11rs.
The first related to heavenly phenom,
ena, such as lightning and thunder, and
was doubtless of Etruscan origin. The
second was the principal method, and
related to the noise and flight OF birds.
Not all birds, however, were considered
as sure messengers of the gods. Those
generally consulted were the eagle, owl,
culture, raven, crow and the domestic
hen. The eagle and vulture revealed
the will of the gods by their flight, the
others accomplished the same purpose
by their voice. The third mode referred
to the feeding of chickens. The fourth
related to the motions of four-footed
animals. Thus, for example, if a Roman
were startled by an unusual motion OF o
dog, hare, or cat that ran across his
path, he would mention the circumstance
to an augur. who would tell him its sig
MITIGATION and advise him what to do.
The fifth mode related to the triaing
accidents and occurrences of life, such
as stumbling, sneezing, breaking the
crockery, spilling the salt, and the num-
berless superstitions which, despite the
intelligence of the present age, are yet
believed in by thousands, even OF those
classes who cannot properly be regarded
as ignorant. At Rome the auguries
were taken on the Capitoline Hill, and
great was the Importance in which
they were held hat nothing of any con-
could take place without the
sanction and approval of the augurs.
Before the election of any national ruler,
civic officer, or religious functionary the
auguries we're held, and this, too, was
the case before any public act could be
considered valid, or any general law
engage in battle. The augur,
standing on the summit of the hill,
would take a wand and mark out a por-
ton OF the heavens in which his obser-
vations were to be made. This was di-
vided into right and left, and, according
as the birds flew in either of the divi-
the auspices were declared favor
able or otherwise. Besides this famous
method of divination, the sacrifice of
beasts, the observation of the constella-
and the casting of the Horoscope
were also modes by which the Romans
to discover the future. The be-
lief in divination, however, was not con-
exclusively to the Old World, for
the A%raucanians, q South American
placed implicit faith in the flight
of birds and practiced augury much in
the same way as the Romans.
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The Birds Of the Sea,

The birds that belong to the sea RI
very curious, and their number beyond
all calculation. every naked rock or
surf beaten cliff that rises W the i'm
measurable deserts of ocean, is the
refuge of myriads of sea-birds; every
coast, from the poles to the equator, is
covered with their legions, and far from
the land their swarms hover yer the
solitudes of the deep" The penguins
are, perhaps, of all others, the birds
that most widely depart from the ordi-
nary type Of their class. Their wings
are adapted exclusively for motion in
water, and they swim with such rapidity
and perseverance, with the head alone
ont Of water, that they frequently over
take fishes in fair pursuit. They live in
the sea, and have been met with a thou
sand miles from the nearest known land.
The larger birds of this kind sometimes
weigh IS much as eighty pounds, and in
their stomachs have been found two
pounds weight Of pebbles and large
stones, swallowed, no doubt, to assist
the gizzard to pound up the food spb-
mitted to it's action. The frigate bird,
the petrol, and the albatross, seem to
range through the air over the whole ex-
tent OF ocean from coast to coast Of the
Atlantic to the Pacific. The pelican,
also, and the cormorant, are far more
nearly dependent on water than land,
and strictly belong to our present sub
ject. They are all birds of powerful and
rapid fight, feeding on fishes, and rare
~ seen far inland, though often stretch
ing to great distances across wide
e1panses OF sea. Thanks to them, We
have those accumulated masses of guano
which help to fertilize our lands. Some
idea of the extent of these masses may
be obtained when it Is stated that, on the
island of Iquique alone, upwards of six
millions OF cabic feet of guano have been
removed within the last thirty years,
while in the year 1854, not less than half
n million of tons were exported from the
Chinoha Islands.
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The Highest Mountain In America.

According to recent geographical
surveys it seems that the Aconcagua
Peak is the loftiest of.the Andes range,
and the highest in America. It is 100
miles east of Valparaiso. Its actual
height is not positively and accurately
known, but the measurements made by
M. Pissis and subsequent scientists
make it certain that the elevation Is be-
tween %, 400 and %, 300 feet above the
waters of the sea. The French explorer
made it %, 422, or four miles and 1,3O2
feet over, which would be 1913 feet higher
than the. snowy summit of Chimborazo,
as Humboldt measured the latter, when
in 1902 the great German made his ia
nous ascent of that mountain with Bon
pland to q height of 49, 1856 feet. Aeon
cagua, seen from the Chilian seaport OF
Valparaiso, is shown only as a peak,
towering above the other heights of the
Andes at a distance of 100 miles or more
inland, toward the sunrise. From the
sea it presents, at a much longer range,
a grand spectacle; but it is only from
the east-from the upper country of La
Plata in the Argentine Confederation
that the vast height of this mountain
monarch, towering to the 'skies, is seen
to the fullest advantage. From the
town OF city of Medoza, fifty miles east
of the mountain, the view must be as
grand as that of any mountain on earth;
for, owing to %forbidding conditions, the
highest mountains of the globe Gin the
Himalaya range of the East Indies and
Thibet) are not seen to the best advan-
tage from any accessible point Of view
yet attained. Aconcagua has been
called an extinct volcano, but the best
examinations yet made of its summit do
not appear to bear out that idea.
At 10, 900 feet Humboldt found it hard
to breathe and his strength failing him.
Mr.. E. G.. Squier, the explorer of the
mountains of the old Peruvian Incas,
experienced similar sensations at an ele-
walton of 16, 900 feet, andhis native COM
panion dropped from his horse, bleeding
OF the nose, ears and eyes. From the
sea Chimborazo usually presents a finer
spectacle than Aconcagus. The eleva-
tion of Me1ico's highest mountain-Pop-
ocatepetl. or "smoking mountain lis
nearly 5000 feet less than that of the
CHILEAN peak, and Mount Shasta and
Mount Hood fall short to about the
same figure. Pixies Peak is about 5000
feet lower than Aconcagua.
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HoWgate's Polar Scheme.

Capt. Howgate is hopeful of reaching
the open Polar sea despite press and
personal opposition. he bases his faith
partially on the failure of the ship Dis.
covery. He believes that that ship failed
to reach the Pole only by a few minutes
time. Had she reached the point she
did reach only ''the fraction of an hour"
earlier, she might have got through the
ice in which she was caught. Howgate
is of the opinion that her failure was
due to an unusually bad year. There
are, therefore, milder and severer years,
and his project of a colony rests on the
theory that wintering through from year
to year it must come some time upon an
open year, a year of exceptionally fav-
orable weather, which will give ample
time for the exploration that is still
necessary to solve the great Polar
problem. This is the essential point in
the whole plan of the Polar colony.
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$1,000 900 Mormon Temple.

The new Mormon temple, now being
built of granite, will be an imposing
structure, and will cost, according to
estimates, S.. 0 600. The tabernacle
will be used for public services. This
temple is for the rites of the church. I
am not informed as to these rites, but
infer that, if one of the faithful men
desires to take a wife, he can do 80
properly in the temple. I must say,
after a hasty look at these Mormon
women, T think them the plainest, yea,
positively ugliest-looking females I have
ever seen. How any man a stand
more than one of them passes my COM
prehension, yet, strange to say, there
are men who live with from five to ten
wives.-SaH Lake Letter.
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who guaranteed prizes amounting to 81 $3.50:
TWO tracks were laid-one for Engishmen and
the other for foreigners-and Weston, the
American pedestrian was expected to compete,
but became sick q few days before the contest
began. Seventeen contestants started, but the
race gradually narrowed down to OLeary,
Vaughan and Brown, the first named being
about twenty miles ahead Of the second at the
finish and beating the best time on record:
Besides the champion belt, which is valued at
$500, O'Leary received a money prize Of g.
500. Immense crowds visited the scene Of con-
test, and the winner was enthusiastically
cheered at the close, the bands playing Ameri-
can national airs.
Advices from Europe indicate that the pro-
posed peace congress will be abandoned,
England refusing to participate.
The Emperor of Morocco is dead.
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The American export trade is assum-
ing larger proportions with each sue
ceeding month, and is destined to set
our financial matters all right in spite of
the Congressional wranglers. Among
the piano exports to Europe and the
South American States the popular firm
of Geo. Steck & Co., of New York, fig
ures largely, because their instruments
have gained the reputation of standing
the most severe climate better than those
of their competitors.
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The Discovery Of the q Ii DF.
Tobias celebrated Venetian Lniment! 30 cars before
the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea, Dysentery,
Colo, and spasms, taken internally and Group, Chronic
rheumatism, Sore Threats, Outs. Bruises, Old sores'
and Pains In the Limbs, Back, and Chest, externally.
It has never failed. No family will ever be without 1t
after once giving 1t q fair trial. Price. 40 cents. DE-.
TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE IMMINENT, in Pint
Bottles. at Ono Dollar, 10 warranted superior to any
other. or NO PAY, for the cure Of Colo, Outs, Bruises,
Old Sores, eto. Sold by all Druggists. Depot-1O Park
Place, New York.
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An Australian is trying to inven a ma
chine which shall reap, thrash, clean
and bag wheat as it moves along. When
he gets it done America will add an at
tachment which sells the wheat, grinds
it, puts it into barrels and stamps each
barrel with XXXX's.
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The Pest OF YuCatan.

Man alone, with the half-preternatural
aid of his artificial weapons, is a match
for this tyrant of the forest, says a writer
in Lippincott's Magazine in an article
on the jaguar or American lion, or would
be so if their struggle for mastery could
be decided on neutral ground-on a bar
rem hill or all open prairie-where
neither the four-legged king of beasts
nor his t~wo-legged rivals could take any
unfair advantages. For in the swamps,
where he can fight on his own ground,
the quadruped has proved himself able
to hold his own against human strata
gems as we'll as against the dynamic viz
tues of saltpeter. Mass-meetings, bat
tues and circle-hunts on a large scale the
Yucatan farmers have repeatedly tried
in the hope Of %abolishing, or at least re-
ducing, the acquaintance, but the tigron
declines to be either abolished or re-
duced !; nay, there is every reason to
believe that the jaguar population OF
Yucatan has increased rather than de-
creased during the last fifty years, for
the Spanish governors used to pay a
liberal reward for tiger, wolf and pan.
ther scalps, and even employed their
militia to scour the woods and dig pit
falls, while the Mexican government
leaves such things to private enterprise.
According to an estimate Of Senior Luiz
Valverde, the state surveyor of Yucatan,
not less than eight human lives have
fallen a prey to the rapacity of jaguars
for every jaguar that has persisted by
the hand Of man during the senor's
tenure of Office. e. during the last
fourteen years. In 1866, when the
French military authorities tried to con-
struct an overland route from Campeche
to Belize, they lost eleven soldiers and
twenty eight poems. or Indian laborers,
in the attempt, all of whom either came
by their deaths during a jaguar-hunt in
the presence of their companions, or
disappeared in the swamps in localities
that were VIGOROUSLY infested by
tigrons.
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Again, as I have already shown that
the total potato product of this country
is nearly certain to reach 200 million
bushels as the average for the next de-
cade, it will be seen that if the above
figures are extended so Is to meet this
case of the total product then it will be
found that the annual potato crop of
the United States is equivalent
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Mothers! Mothers!! Mothers!!! Don't
fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for all diseases incident to the period Of teeth
ing in children. It relieves the child from pain,
cures wind collie, regulates the bowels, and, by
giving relief andhealth to the child, gives rest to
the mother. It Is an old and well-tried remedy.
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: A Debatable Question.

While much has been written concerning the
use of "put up medicines, the question Is
still an open one, and demands Of the people q
careful consideration. The salient points may
be briefly stated, and answered as follows
1st-Are the sick capable Of determining their
real condition, the nature Of their malady, and
selecting the proper remedy or means Of cure?
2d-Can q physician, no matter how skillful,
prepare a universal remedy, adapted to the
peculiar ailments Of q large class Of people, re-
siding in different ATTITUDES, and subject to
first proposition, We would say, diseases are
named and known by certain " signs" or symp-
toms, and; as the mother does not need q
physician to tell her hat her child has the
whooping cough, or indicate q remedy, 80 peo-
pie when afflicted with many Of the symptoms
concomitant to "impure blood" torpid
liver" and bad digestion" require no other
knowledge of their condition, or the remedy
indicated, than they already possess. Second
proposition-Many physicians srgue that dis
eases are eectionally peculiar, and that treat
ment must therefore vary, and yet quinine,
morphine, podophyllin, and hundreds Of other
remedies are prescribed in all countries to over
come certain conditions. Is it not, therefore,
self evident that q physician whose large e1'
perience has made him familiar with the many
pAd6cb luClQoAg oA 0npoAAsAoo Va WV DAooe5
general and nervous debility, liver complaint,
dyspepsia, consumption, and.catarrh, can pre-
pare q series of remedies exactly adapted to
meet the conditionssmanifest, wherever, and
by whatever means,SiS smay have been engen-
dered?. The family medicines prepared BY B.
Y. Pierce, M. D., Of Buffalo, N: Y, fulhll the
above requirements. Many. physicians pre-
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Medical Discovery has no equal as q blood
p~urifyer and general tonic, while his Favorite
Prescription cures those weaknesses peculiar
to women after physicians have failed. Hill
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which ara sugar
coated and little larger than mustard seeds,
are a safe and certain cure for "torpid" liver
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It contains instruction concerning anatomy,
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What is the difference between q post
Office and the church that has the largest
clergyman? One has the postmaster
and the other has the most pastor.
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ENCOURAGEMENT for the Feeble.

encouragement Tor tho FeeDIe.
Debility, whether it be inherent, or caused
BY overta1ed strength, or protracted illness
his a most depressing influence upon the
mind, breeding an abject melancholy nearly
akin to despair, and enforcing the abandon
ment of cherished projects and high hopes.
Happily, 1.-THE enfeebled system, even in e..
IRENE cases, is susceptible Of inauguration. It
is proved by incontrovertible evidence that
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Is an 'unfaiang
strengthener Of the weak, and that, in addition
to vifalizing the physical organization, it
establishes regularity among those organs up
on whose efficient discharge Of the duties i'm.
posed on them by nature, continued vigor and
health depend. Thousands Of instances might
be cited to show the ~regenerating influence Of
this health-giving agent in cases Of debility,
liver disease, dyspepsia, nervous ailments, con-
situation, intermittent fever, urinary and utter
inc troubles, govt and rheumatism, and other
ma1adiea.
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The Potato.

Conrad Wilson recently read an arti-
Gle on the potato crop before the
American Institute Farmers Club,
giving much interesting information in
regard to that valuable food staple.
MI. Wilson says:
A bushel of potatoes when j%udicious-
ly fed to animals of a good breed will
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It is said by reliable persons that sheridan's
Cavalry Condition Powders fed sparingly to
laying hens will increase the quantity Of eggs
two fold. Try it. 1t won't cost much.
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More than three-quarters Of q century has
elapsed since Johnson's Anodyne Liniment
was invented, and it is to-day the most widely
known as well as the most valuable internal
and external remedy in the world. No family
should be without it q day.
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A Reliable Article.
It is 8 pleasure to commend an article OF q
thoroughly reliable character, and we do not
hesitate to do 80 in speaking Of Dooley's Yeast
Powder, which an experience OF over ten years
conyinces us is the best and most reliable bak-
inp poWdar in the market.
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The women of Alaska are noted for
the beauty and great lsugth Of their
hair, which often falls in glossy ringlets
below the waist.
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A Miserable BeinE :.
Is one that Is bilious. Get from your druggist
a package of Quirk's Irish Tea. Price Is cts.
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HAPPY REIIEf

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The patronage among the frstrclass hotels in
New York is constantly changing from one hotel
to the other. The GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL has
recently melted the direct wrath Of It's compe-
titors by Offering the same accommodations one
and two dollars per day less than the others.
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An acre of potatoes, when expressed
in the form Of other food staples is
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