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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Liberals will Retain the Balance of
Power in the German Parliament
Alfonso will not Abdicate-
The Gold Medals OF the
Paris Exhibition.
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THE POTTER
subcommittee, at Atlantic City, Take
Additional Testimony from Exon
gresham Sypher, of Louisiana,
who Tells Story Very
Damaging to

Hayes and the Visiting Statesmen he Com.
missioned 10 Negotiate for the De-
structiOn of the Packard Govern
ment, i'm which he is Sus-
tanned by Another Ex-
Congressman.
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THE DEMOCRACY

or Marshall County, Mississippi. I'm
Mass N Getting, I8dorse Colonel
Manning for Re- Election to
COngress-Unity and
Concord.
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New Orleans LabOring IntelllgentIy to
Stamp Out the Disease-No Cause
for the Scare which Prevailed
In Memphis Yesterday
Action OF Our Board
OF Health.
New Orleans.

Special to the Appeal
NEW ORLEANS, July $3.50 far we have
had within week thirty-six reported cases
o. yellow-fever and eighteen deaths The
type is virulent, but there is no apprehension
OF an epidemic. The use of carbolic acid
confines the disease. The John Porter cleared
here without any known case of fever.
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Associated Press DIsnatch.

NEW ORLEANS, July 26.-Mayor PiIlsbury,
IN view of the action of the ice ring in raising
the price to sixty dollars per ton, has nego.
tiated for supplies by rail, to he sold at cost
TO consumers.
20 to date thirty-six cases of yellow fever
have been officially reported to the board of
health, and eighteen deaths.
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CHRISTIAN BROTHERs' COLLEGE,
nOO ADAMS ST, MEMPHIS, TENN.-Thls ln-
20 = siitution affords ample means for thor
ough Classical Scientific and Commercial Education
TERMS PAYABLE QUARTERLY. IN ADVANCE:
Board and tuition. per quarter, 2ls months S5I o.
washing and mending. w
DAY STUDENTS.
Higher classes, per quarter OF 2Ia months 81 90
Intermediate classes, ~ W
Preparatory classes, ~ -
Primary class, w
Music and Linear Drawing form extra charges.
S'ts!ias will be resumed on Monday, September 2,
, - For further particulars apply to
BROTHER MAURELIAN, President
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Cecelian College,
RROrHERa, COLLEGE

"ARDIN COUNTY, KY.-REDUCED TERMS.
IL Board, etc, per 20 weeks, only ..--- SOU.
Sand for CATALOGUE.
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OBsERvATIONs YESTERDAY.

WAR DEP'r. SIGNAL SERVICE q. :. ARMY. (,
FRIDAY. July ~. 1878 IOdlS n m 4
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THE YELLOW FEVER scare.

w.M. M'ELRoY, Sergeant
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PARIS, July 26.-The Spanish embassy
denounces as false and malicious the report
that King Alfonso threatens to abdicate the
throne.
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Why Girls Marry Old Men.

"JeHHie June, in one of her gossipy
letters, undertakes to explain why it is
that so many young women marry elderly
men. She lookssway from mopey-which
has been so generally brought into the cal
culation of such alianees-for the princi-
pal reason. The young man of to-day,
she says, is not the desirable young man
of fifty years ago; he is not so thoughtful,
sober, painstaking, and concientious; he
lives at club, has no love for home life,
nor desire to build up character and rep
utation as a man aud citizen; his ideas Of
life are bounded by the theatre and the do
ings of his little set, and in too many cases his
ambition is to own a racer, and be on inti-
mate terms with the ballet. Naturally,
mothers shrink from iptrustipg their daugh-
ters to such you hs as these, even if they
have the opportunity, and are better pleas
ed to bestow them on older men-men
who have sown their wild oats-who know
how little of real value there is in the
temporary excitement of pleasure; Who
have, perhaps, been married once, and
have learned to value home and the guar
antee it affords for permanent happiness.
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NEST OF THE TARANTUIA.-The nest
ofthe tarantula, occasionally fouad, excites
the admiration of both old and young, and,
indeed, nothing could be more iugeniously
contrived. 1t is a subterranean house.
about the size and shape of a cocoanut of
medium growth, and Is mado of small
pebbles and grains of sand glued together
with some viscid matter Its interior is
lined with some silky material as fine and
white as satin. Just at the surface of the
ground is circular opening nearly an inch
in diameter. Into this fits little door or
lid made of sand aud fine gravel glued
together This lid IS lined with the same
silken stuff as the nest proper, and at one
side has hinge'made of many strands of
the same. This door the tarantula can
open and close at pleasure. When the lid
is closed it is almost impossible to find the
nest, as, owing TO the sand and gravel on
its upper side, it presents the same appear
ance as the surrounding ground, from
which we're gathered the materials of which
it was constructed Virginia City, Ner.
Enterprise
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The Bottom m Of the Sea.

2. The explorations of the British steamer
"Challenger, which have just been pub
lished on this side of the water, mark a
greatadyance in one department. of science.
Till within few years It was an accepted
theory that the bottom of the sea, below a
moderate depth at least, was entirely des-
tituteof animal aud vegetable life. Itwas
declared that this must be so, because it
was settled that an animal at depth of
one thousand fathoms would have to bear
a weight Of ton on the square inch, the
pressure increasing with the depth. But
the dredging Of the Challenger upsets this
notion as completely as the'regolving earth
ignores the Rev, John Jasper. From
depths varying from one thousand to two
Thousand fathoms, there were brought up
the most curious and delicate specimens of
deep sea fauna. The experiment was re-
peated in all the oceans In fact, the
conclusion was reached that the distribution
of the living animals has no depth limit.
Thesize, however, generally lydiminishes with
a certain limit of the depth. The mean
depth ofthe Atlantic was found to be a little
over two thousand fathOms with an eleva-
ted ridge nineteen hundred fathoms below
the surface, traversing the North and
South Atlantic. .'a'1'3'
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The Use of Fans.

p ~
III. Fans are the cheapest Injury of the day.
The Chinese have given US an article, well
made of bamboo and embellished paper,
that may be had for two -niekels. When
the cost Of importation is considered, the
pay Of labor in China is apparent. Fans
are said to have Ojgipstsd in China 5000
years ago. At u feast OF lanterus the
lovely Kansi found the heat so oppressive
that, contrary to all etiquette, she took off
her mask, Partly to hide her bushes,
and partly to cool her heated face, she ag-
itated the mask before her nose. The
thing became epidemic Ten thousand
hands at once held ten thousand masks,
and tanning became fact. The, fan was
used as a standard in war, and in peace
the fan assisted the priests in the temple,
both to raise cooling breeze and to guard
the sacred offerings from the contamina-
tion of noxious insects, In Egypt the
fan of the priest of Isis was made of feath-
ers of different lengths, spread out in the
form of a semieircle, bat pointed at the
top. It was waved by female slave.
Among the Romans, slaves cooled the
room and kept away the flies during meal
time with fans In the days of Louis
XIV, and Ky. fans glistened with gliding
and gems, and we're ornamented by Bouch
er and Matteau. These works Of art were
often sold atias high figure as s75. The
Chinese and French are great rivals in
fan making. To such degree of excel
lence has it arrived in France that fan
which is selling for one cent goes through
twenty different operations, performed byas
many pairs Of hands. = '.'5 @ II
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VOL. XIII.-NO. "a.

the fire Of 1866, Every element of,e,ror
was added to the raging of the tempes.
Many imagined they felt the earth Quake.
the ar was seen full of meteors and va
porous fires. and in some places both thuD.
deFlngs and unusual flashes of Lighting; :"
Waterspouts traversed several districts.
Hoods overspread the low-lyiug lands in the
south and west; and as the fatal 26th had
been proceeded By fourteen days 'terrible
weather. , so storm never ceased to sue.
eeed storm for week afterwards.
70 tempests are so sudden and so yio.
lent as the tornadOes of the Indies. ia.
malca was almost ruined by a hurricane
IN November, 1922. At Port Royal the
devastation was so great that one of the
sufferers wrote that the inhabitants had
mo other choice before us but that dismal
one of perishing in the waters if We fed
ont Of our houses or of being buried under
their ruins if we continued in them A
few hours longer continuanes and the is
land would have been s'ono general wreck
The channel of a river was laid bare bya
tyPhoOn at South Carolina in I76l and a
two hours hurricane at Cuba in October.
l7ss, destroyed 96 public edifces, inclu-
ding the cathedral, 4,O4s dwelling houses,
drove SO ships on shore, ruined the docks
at Havana, and killed some hundreds of
people, asr 80
but for fury the most terrible cyclone
on record is that of the 10th of October
1880. Its said to have torn the bark
from the trees, to have upturned the ocean
depths, to have demolished the strongest
works Of man, and.t to have whirled oan-
non IN the air like chaff Il swept over
the West Indies from Barbadoes by ST.
Lucia, Martinique, and st. Domingo, TO-
wards Bermuda. annihilating almost eyery-
thing in its path. Six thousand people
were buried in the ruins of the shattered
houses OF St. Lucia. An English feet
anchored before the island was DESTROYED.
and near Martinique the tempest overlook
and engulfed forty French transports with
1000 soldiers. At Martinique 5000
perished. OF 600 houses at Kingstown
st, Vincent, four only we've left intact; but
at Port Royal the cathedral, seven church.
es, and l. 400 houses were demolished.
The total loss of life on land exceeded
10000; at sea at least 10000 perished,
The violence of the wind exceeded anv.
thing known before or since. BUILDINGS
with walls yard thick were torn from
their foundations, forts were DESTROYED as
IT by eannouade, and II pounder gun is
said to have been carried 400 feet. The
details ara more like the rhapsody Of a
MGnchausen than the matter-of-fact state
ment of what actually occurred. Vessels
were not only driven ON shore hr above
the reach of the highest tides, but they
are said to have been fairly blown out of
the water and wrecked in the air, And
this terrible manifestation of windpower is
recorded to have been witnessed ON other
occasions. Nor is it really more wonder
ful than the manner in which in a moment
a hurricane viii cleave a path for miles
through the dense forests of Southern
America, levelling every tree over belt
of three or four hundred yards, and doing
no injury beyond that limit.
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Historical.

The trst iron furnace erected in North
America was by Gov SpOttswOod, in 1870,
in Spottsylyania county, Va.
The Great Eastern steamship was launch-
ed on the 3lst of January, 1858, efter four
fruitIess attempts. The cost of the launch
was between eco, 1000 and 10000.
The great fire of London originated in
November, 1866, in the time of Charles II.
The great plague occurred in the previous
year $685. when 6s, ,596persOns are said
to have perished.
Out of 2, $40 Emperors, Kings and royal
rulers over 81 nations, 299 were dethron-
ed, GA sbdicated, 2s committed suicide. IL
went mad, LOG died on the battlefield, l23
we're Baade prisoners in battle, % were
pronounced martyrs and saints, l5l we're
assassinated, 62 were poisoned, and 1Os
we're sentenced to death.
Babylon was a celebrated city on the
banks of the Euphrates, the capital of the
Assyrian empire. It was anciently the
most magnificent city in the world, and
became famous for the death of Alexander
the Great and for the new empire, which
was afterwards there under the Seleueide.
Its greatness was SO reduced in succeeding
ages that in the time of PliDy it was but
a desOlate Wilderness and at present the
place where it stood is unknown to travel
eTs. Its inhabitants, called Babylonii
were early acquainted with astrOlOey.
Henry jenkins, reputed centenarian,
was an inhabitant of the parish of Bolton.
in Yorkshire, England. The story is that
he was born about 1901, was II years old
at the battle of FlOdden. Field, which he
could rememheE aud lived 169 years, dy-
ing at Ellerton on Swale, Dec. 8, 1870.
lie was poor man, aud could neither
read nor write. He swore, once, on an
assizo trial, to a right of way existing for
14O years, and he retained his faculties ia
the last.
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Reverence for the White Elephant.

The Oldest of the white elephants, which
the Times OF India says, was born in 1870,
died in its temple of Bangkok in Novem-
Der last. Every one knows that this fam
GUS white elephant, before which whole
people bow the knee, is the emblem of the
Kingdom of Siam. 1t is honored with the
most beautiful presents, for the Indians, full
ofthe idea Of fmetamorphis, still believe that
so majestic an animal could be animated
by only the spirit Of god or of an en-
peror. Each white elephat possesse3 its
palace, vessel of gold, and harness re-
splendelt with jewels. Several mandarins
are attached to its service, and feed it
with cakes and sugar cane. The King of
Siam is the only parsonage before whom
it bows the knee, and similar salutation
is rendered it by the monarch. The de-
ceased idol was accorded magnificent
funeral. A hundred Buddhist priests Off
ciated at the ceremony. The three suryl
wing white elephants, preceded by trum-
pets, and followed by an immense eoncourse
of people, accompanied the funeral car to
the bank of the Menam, where the King
and his noble lords received the mortal
remains, which we're transported to the
opposite bank for burial. 4 procession of
thirty vessels figured at that curious cere-
mony. All the floating houses, ranged in
double file on the Menam to the number of
over $4,000, were adorned with flags and
symbolieal attributes.
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YEAST FROM GRAPE LEAvEs.-It has
been discovered that grape leaves make a
yeast in some respects superior to hops, as
the bread rises sooner and has not the pc
oqliar taste which many object to in that
made from hops. Use eight or ten leaves
for quart of yeast; boil them for about
ten minutes and then pour the hot liquor
on the -four, tho quantity of the latter
being determined by whether the yeast is
wanted thick or thin. Use hop yeast for
raising it to begin with, and afterward that
made of the grape leaves. Dried leaves
will be as good as fresh. If a dark film
appears upon the surface when rising, a
little stirring will obviate it.
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AMERICAN ANTIQUITIEs.-Th Smith
sOnian Institution, which has been engaged
for more than quarter Ofa century in re
searches into the antiquities Of America,
and has during that time published many
important memoirs on the subject, is about
to issue an exhaustive work on American
Archaeology with numerous illustrations
and maps. The Institution, therefore, Is
anxious to collect from every available
source whatever is..knOwn or can be ascer-
tanned by special investigation, of the an
tiquities of North America, and it invites
the cooperation of all interested in the
work.
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How TO SroP Runaway HoRsEs

How TO SToP RUNAWAY HoRsEs.-
The Mexicans have a methed of subduIng
fractions hopses such as are inclined to
run away, which might be introduced with
profit here, A hood or winker Is SO ar
ranged that the driver or rider can in an
instant draw it directly over the eyes of
the animal, effectualIy blindfolding him.
Whenever this is done the horse instantly
becomes quiet, and a repetition of the
blindfolding two or three times, gradually
results In his becoming quiet and dOcile.
Such an arrangement would be a valuable
appendage to the head-gear of horses dis
posed to run away.
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Unshod Horses.


A correspondent of the London Times
noticing complaint that horses fall on
asphalt pavements says they would not
do so if they were left unshod, and he re-
commends that the use of shoes for horses
be abandoned altogether. He declares
that he has owned at least two hundred
horses since 1852, used for all manner Of
purposes, draught, saddle and pack, and
not one of them was shod They did not
work oyer grass or sand, but "over theI
toughest roads imaginable, in places ex-
cessively hard, and in others as disagree
ably soft and heavy" He does not deny
that horse having his shoes taken off
and put to work on the city streets would
be lamed, but he declares that if the ua-
shod horse is used gently for fortnight
and gradually allowed to use his feet, keep
ing the edges ofthe hoofs slightly rounded
off with a rasp, he will grow hoof so
tough that there will be no danger of his
being lamed, even on the toughest roads.
There can be no doubt of the fact which
ho Oites in support Of his assertion that
men who go barefooted habitually grow
sole which, compared to shoe sole,
would be classed as double. A few years
ago there was a man in southern New
jersey who used to astonish visitors at
the glass works by walking barefooted
ever piles of broken glass. some of it hot
from the furnace. Tho correspondent of
the Times is certain that in spite Of the
conservatism of the English people they
viii some time adopt this practice of abOl-
ishing horse shoes.
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Mulca are the only beasts of burden
used in the south of Europe, and in Spain
and Portugal they are employed both for
the saddle aud in gentlemen's carriages
For the latter purpose they are bred of a
large size, and sell at much higher prices
than the horse, since they not only live
longer and are less subject to disease, but
are found to do more work, and to stand
it better In Lisbon a pair of carriage
mlles have been known to bring over
81 600
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Water forms three-fourths of the weight
of living animals and plants, and covers
about three-fourths of the earths surface.
Rather more than pound of water Is ex-
hailed daily by the breath, about Que and
three-iourths pounds by the skin, and two
aud thFee-fOurths pounds by tho kidneys,
making the daily emission Of water by the
body about five and half pounds.
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An artesian well $500 feet deep, has
been bored at Pesth, Hungary, from which
flows daily I75,OOO gallons of water, of
the temperature Of 46l0 which rises to
the height of 80 feet. The work will be
prosecuted until water of 1872 is obtained.
This amount of water not only supplies all
the wants of the city, but converts the
surrounding country into a tropical region.
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Sir William b., being at parish meet
ing, made some proposals which were OBJ
jected to bya farmer. Highly enraged,
"Sir," said lie to the farmer, "do you
know that l have been at two universities.
and at two colleges at each university ?''
"Wel, Sir" said the farmer, "what of
that? had calf that sucked two cows,
and the observation made was, the more
he sucked the greater calf he grew"
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Cheese, as met with in the market,
varies greatly in composition. Good kinds
contain from 80 to 80, and inferior kinds
IS to IA per cent. of water; rich sorts in
olude % to 80 per cent. Of fats and about
the same proportion of falbuminoids. Poor
theese often contains only per cent. of
fats and 40 to 60 per cent of water, The
amountOf ash varies from 3 to 0 per cent.
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a newspaper is a window through which
men look out upon the world. Without
newspaper man is shut up in a small
room, and knows little or nothing of what
is happening outside of himself In our
day the newspaper will keep a sensi-
bic man in sympathy with the wOrl6's
current history. 1t is an unfolding ency-
clopedia and unbound book, forever issuing
and never finished.
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The TELEPHONE AT SEA.-The tele-
phone has lately been successfully used in
France to communicate between a vessel
being tOWed and one towing. The wire was
carried along one Of the hawsers, and the
circuit was completed through the copper
on the bottoms of the ships and the water.
Conversation was carried on very dis
tinctly.
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The man who lives right, and is right,
has more power in his silence than another
has by his words. Character Ia like bells
which ring out sweet music, and which,
when touched accidentally even, resOund
with sweet music.
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If you are a farmer, be n good one.
Have a good orchard, good garden, good
stock, and an intelligent family. Be in
telligent yourself, and thus secure the re-
speet of all who know you.
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The total product of honey and wax is
worth at present in the United States
nearly s5,OOO,OOO.
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The American people are the fastest
eaters In the world, and consequently are
the greatest sufferers from Dyspepsia.
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Men, like books, have at each end a
blank leaf-childhoOd and old age.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in mar
bic.
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Selttt puttrp.
MY SUMMER WREATH.

Eoadon Socidy.
swfcafhe not1ny hrows with bas;
There is no need OF perfumed leaves and green
Where poetIins have sung to night OF day
some hailowed hymn whose very echoes pray,
To teli me world What melody has been:
wrcathe not my bruws with bay
Give me no crown Of vine; ~ y
For, 10. nighrs foverpleasurcs shah not please
Nor the red wine-god sign me with his sign.
Nor whltelimbed sienad press sweet lips to IaIne,
And lead me captive 10 her ThiKdes: aa
Give fne no crown Of vine. ea' ei pss
nE Weave me my wreath ofxosc t
This isthe crimson growth fair maidens ch0ose,
And this the one sweet bloom the poet knows h
Loves flower. and though love speed on wings 0
woes. -.sss.,,s,.s
shall never man refuse him when he woos;
Weave me my wreath Of rose 81 4saa